skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is in the original statement.

There's an important difference between "The sky will be red tomorrow" and "Based on {data}, I think that the sky will be red tomorrow." even if the reasoning from {data} to "sky red tomorrow" is flawed.

If someone arrives at a conclusion via a process that I can analyse, I expect that they'll arrive at a different conclusion if the data turns out different.

When someone says "{whatever} is true", it's on them, and should be, when {whatever} turns out to be false.

Here's another way to look at it.

Folks who arrive at conclusion in a openly disinterested way can switch conclusions without losing credibility.

People who seem to be interested in a given conclusion lose credibility, and should, when they're wrong. Same for folks who don't show their work.

If you make it about you, you can't complain when it's about you.
I think that substantially underweights the role of luck.

But, I will admit, these conversations often strike me with what I see as two clearly different mental models. The first is what I might call the Bayesian (or perhaps "Rawlsian", or "anthropic") model, where the thinker assumes, "I am unlikely to be much different from anyone else", and thus takes overall success rates to be a sort of guidance: "Most startups fail; the expected value of a startup is negative; therefore I won't start a startup."

The alternative mentality I see here seems to be more of an egocentric one: "I'm special, I believe in my ideas, and I can make it."

It seems to me the egocentric view is certainly a necessary condition for wild success, but obviously an insufficient one: people who are special need to identify their specialness to avoid a fate of what might be called "elite mediocrity". But plenty of people who aren't special think they are, and achieve worse outcomes as a result of their unrealistic goals.

Unfortunately, the prescription here seems to be to simply "be clear-eyed", which is easier said than done.
> What else should we call them?

a person who returned stolen items.
They did, but then the FOSS movement took them away without proper replacements.

For those that pay, or have their employers pay, for their tooling,

https://www.outsystems.com

https://webflow.com

https://playcanvas.com

https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html
Well, Taiwan, Korea, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, of course China had Wuhan in full lockdown. By March Canada, a handful of the south americas, uk had all started some form of restrictions.
https://www.maurits.ch

Everyday slice of life pictures, walking around with a small compact.

Badly needs a new backend, so open for suggestions. The self-hosted picture-a-day thing seems to be completely outdated with the rise of instagram.
It has a couple, one for writing shaders and another for manipulating geometry.

You can even combine them - outputting values from the geometry nodes to be used by the shaders.
- we don't.

- because if we had those tools we would not call them "compkex nonlinear phenomena".

- maybe, but what makes you think this one is the one?
I dont see how it is easier. Maybe it is motivating for someone, but I never found it easier to deal with complex problems first and only then moving to simple one. For me, it was easier to learn simple things first. And "do simple thing first" also seems to work much better at my kids, no matter what I am teaching them.
Right. Such as, extras in movies. Because, "350 million public faces" does not seem "cognitively digestible", but it could just be «350 million images» including large variations of the same faces, consistently with the "frames of video" idea.
> Mexican cuisine is also a derivative cuisine

Yes, and just as it would be ridiculous to call items that originated through culinary fusion in Mexico “authentic” cuisine of the cultures from whence the various influences came, it is ridiculous to try to call American fusion dishes whose influences include, among others, Mexican cuisine authentic Mexican cuisine.
Unit Testing is Overrated (2020)
Is this a joke? Throttling gas plants is much easier than throttling coal plants. If the wind blows you consume less gas. With coal you have to turn the wind plant off.

Also, fossil fuels appear to be highly unreliable. The moment there’s no gas you have no electricity, it’s not a good energy source.
yeah, he is

https://twitter.com/JimMFelton/status/1511743376441413640
https://redskyforge.com/
I bet there are a couple of talks on the subject at GDC Vault, so they are relatively easy to find out.
> You dont loose credibility by acknowledging you were wrong

Maybe that's how you think, but lots of people don't think that way. To a large part of the masses, experts have to be right the first time around, otherwise people lose trust in them. Many people don't understand the scientific method or that science is not about certainty but about constantly learning and adjusting. Many treat science and expertise as authoritative, and when they fail, or even if they say "we don't know", many lost faith in the entire concept of science, jumping to... less science-y approaches that feel more emotionally gratifying.

Is this just a failure of education? I don't know.
5. Is true for British people as well. (I am British and I have realised that I only speak a little French)
https://intellectronica.net/ (mostly just aggregates stuff I post elsewhere, also some local posts). Hugo and a bunch of Python scripts for scrapping, GH actions and deploying to Azure Static Web Apps.
https://thelastpointer.github.io/

I'm kinda proud how lean and lightweight it is. I'm not satisfied with the js galleries though, maybe I should just open images in a new tab.
> Mexican cuisine in the USA is wayy past the point where people can criticize it for being inauthentic.

American-origin Mexican-inspired food is authentic American-origin Mexican-inspired food (or, simply, authentic American food.)

Its not authentic Mexican food. (Tex-Mex and Cal-Mex encompass some things that are Mexican in origin and some things that are not, just as Mexican food includes some things that are of Aztec origin and some things that are not.)
Some years back, when npm itself didn't do deduplication of modules, it was impossible to work with some projects on windows due to OS path length limit.
https://blog.zespre.com

This is my blog about tech stuff, which runs on K8s cluster and published with GitOps workflow (yeah it’s overkilled!)
http://postbits.de

Notes of my findings in linux software development (C++, bash, vim, git) and math.
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I found that difficult to believe. There were refrigerated ships [2] but I don't think flash freezing methods had been invented. The pie would be mushy, and how would it be transported from the port to the front line?

The New York Tribune (18 May 1918, page 3 [1]) has an article describing a much more likely process: send the ingredients to the front line, and send cooks. Apples, flour, butter and sugar transport very easily. Eggs are fragile, but maybe they used dried egg, or maybe that wasn't a problem.

> "When we got our affairs in tip top shape two American girls could cook 3,000 doughnuts a day and 150 pies."

[1] https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1918-05-18/ed-1/?sp=...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_ship#Timeline
The public health institutions in the USA have really failed us.

Covid was more of a public health blunder than a medical one. Not having a cohesive strategy, conflicting and often political messaging around gatherings, and worst of all lying to people repeatedly bc they couldn’t “handle” the truth is insane. On top of that there was and still are plenty of plans for locking down etc that have no actual metrics around them. They’re literally just feeling based.

At least the medical companies came up with a good enough vaccine to get us out of this mess.

It really feels like the public health officials and politicians to some extent view the public with contempt.
The last sentence is irony, right? And you're trying to imply that sanctions should bother F1 racing and Abramovich, and they should not bother people's vacations.

Both effects seem totally irrelevant AFAICT. Haas losing access to spare parts or not doesn't matter. The factories that build vehicles used for the invasion (directly or indirectly) should lose access to the parts they need. If the same rules also affect F1 racing, fine, if not, also fine, because the sanctions aren't intended to either protect or harm F1.

And if people's vacations are ruined, that's also just an irrelevant detail. The sanctions are designed to stop the war, not to protect people's vacations.
If only Julia didn't index arrays starting from 1, rather than the more natural 0.
Visual is good for prototyping for production I'll go for traditional approach
> I don't really understand the animosity toward Stephen Wolfram on HN - has he done something evil or been super rude to someone?

He's super rude to pretty much the entire scientific community, by essentially pretending to have invented cellular automata and ignoring everyone else's contributions - even to the point of suppressing them by wielding the legal axe of copyright law:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30941559
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Seems highly subjective and not in line with the experiences a lot of the rest of us have. Stuff just suddenly breaking in old code with new compiler?!

No, that is not a common thing post Julia v1.0.

A lot of newer libraries are not well documented in Julia, but the core stuff is much better documented than Python IMHO. So his view on Julia documentation lacks nuance. It is both good and bad depending on what you look at.

The post talks about the complexity if importing stuff with using and include. Yes, if you start from scratch it is more complex, but the benefit is that it scales better. I have helped compete beginners with Julia who had totally given up on Python due to the complexity of package management, modules and environments. Julia has a beautiful solution to this which is far easier to get right and manage.

A novice will find it easier to import packages they want to use with Julia compared to Python. But very often people evaluating this stuff are experienced Python developers and they don’t see the Python hassle easily. If you take somebody who is a beginner in both languages then experienced will be quite different.

The “multi paradigm” comment makes zero sense. Sure Julia is multi paradigm but it is far more streamlined than the common OOP-functional mess you see in other mainstream languages today such as Python , Java, C#, Swift.

In Julia it is all functions. You don’t distinguish between free functions and methods. For a beginner this is much easier to deal with.
I actually thought it was a serious article at first, as it resonated pretty strongly with me. Haha. But then I definitely got a satire feel from reading it.
> For IRC, logging is outside the scope of the IRC protocol.

Nope, the community has understood that server-side logging (and making it available to clients who missed stuff happening) is a useful thing. https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/chathistory
Abandoned Villa Gorbachev on the Black Sea
No, I think he means that the product of visual programming is often slow and buggy. Which I can agree with to a point - there is a price to pay for all these abstractions. From my own experience - the closer to the metal a product, the more performant and stable it is.

In the past I was sure that game engines were an impossible tool in the field of engineering where the performance matters so much. Clearly, I was wrong (in large part because of the hardware improvements).
Operation Mass Appeal
While not a single C file, Fossil SCM also uses C with HTML inside it (it uses a custom preprocessor[0] for it), e.g. check the chat.c file[1]. The entire program ends up in a single binary file too.

[0] https://fossil-scm.org/home/file?name=tools/translate.c&ci=t...

[1] https://fossil-scm.org/home/file?name=src/chat.c&ci=trunk
I know what you mean. For me, it was the facts that the incubation period was 10 days and the virus was asymptomatic yet infectious during that time. Of course, now we have learned that it's infectious only about the last two days.
https://www.andrewmao.net

Academic turned startup founder (https://twitter.com/mizzao/status/1505529213612609536), so the content that was once academic self-promotion doesn't really know what it should do.

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this site is the resume that I used to generate using CSS and Jekyll's build process (https://www.andrewmao.net/resume): when someone would ask me for a PDF I'd just do "save as PDF" in Chrome and twiddle the margins a bit. I got tired of using LaTeX.

(I say "used to" because as a founder the resume doesn't matter anymore)
https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Gossiping/M.1577730263.A.177.html

> Every report on the timeline of Covid-19 marks Dec 31 2019 as the start, because that's when news about it breached China's wall. Obviously the virus itself existed prior to that. The question is, what was known when, and who knew it. Elements of China knew prior to Dec 31 2019. It only became public after that as a result of Taiwan informing the WHO.

So you don't believe it's possible, at all, for rumours to have been running around prior to the 31st, that there was a possible sars outbreak, prior to Taiwan getting some sort of evidence to submit to the WHO to request information about what's going on.
To add to the pile: http://www.drusepth.com

It's a wordpress site with a few hundred short stories, serials, and poems that I go back to every time I try a new platform and ultimately decide no writing platform is actually good (yet). Maybe one day I'll build a good one and write there; until then, wordpress suffices.

Bonus poem about leaving Amazon: http://www.drusepth.com/poetry/thing-a-week-36-a-quest-for-r...
I've come across this before. I call it ineffable knowledge.

The expert may know that they know something, yet isn't always able to
articulate it. In creative areas like music, cinema and sound design
people are able to make extraordinary connections and skilfully master
tools (virtuosity) without necessarily being able to explain. With
music the skill resides in motor circuits and the nervous system
itself which may not be amenable to introspection except in dreams. [1]

I first encountered this via analytical knowledge elicitation for
making "blackboard" expert systems - the most "talented" experts (who
we were trying to learn from) would always say "let me just show you".

That's when I realised that the oft repeated phrase "Those who can do,
those who can't teach" is possibly the most ill-informed sentiment
ever expressed. To teach one needs to be an expert, know that one is
an expert, and communicate the nuances to others. It specifically
requires that you understand the ways in which your students are not
expert in N different ways, for M individual students.

As the author describes, there's a point where vocabulary and 'vista'
means you see and think about things in a qualitatively different
way. Someone in the top 1000 is playing a different game than someone
in the top 10,000. And each of these is unique because expertise
individuates past a certain point. In some sense PhD's are all unique
experts in a field of one.

This is frustrating if encountering people, say in interviews or
debates, and you realise that they are not actually able to grasp what
it is you know within some "test/frame" they are trying to apply to
you. Whose 'fault' is that? Surely ones own. So the next milestone is
learning to see that gap and be a good communicator,

A take-away I get from the article is that recruiters are poor at
their job because they are not expert enough. Cookie-cutter HR is a
bane for business.

[1] Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. Damasio
Yeah, not much you can do on a grand scale unless you devote you career/life to it I guess. Due to recent events/war I wanted to do something, not sure what, as I realized I’ve been focused on my own little life for too long. Except I see there’s not much I can do, as you said, except talking with family and friends. It feels like the boat is slowly sinking, nobody really cares, and there’s nothing I can do about it.
The entry point is here: https://ovalerio.net

It basically contains a blog and a few pages about other content that I publicly share.
If you’re looking for 3D modelling in real programming languages, I’ve very much enjoyed IceSL, which embeds Lua: https://icesl.loria.fr/

I used it to design this piece for use with Gravitrax, for example: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0b2yeTGdLftZV17btg-KTEYog
«Small data /ai/» is not "impossible", it is actually necessary: AI, opposed to this ML, implies perfectioned digestion of the input data.

Only, the article seemed to show a very conservative Ng about the algorithms, a focus on data management - so it's still ML.
I've just tried to play minesweeper on this windows93 and it is very hard to say the least...
Even that would prove nothing. Wolfram himself makes a pretty big deal about how cellular automata, being Turing-complete, can model anything. I can give you any number of cellular automata that model our current understanding of quantum physics right now, no problem. It only becomes interesting if it can make different, better predictions than our existing theories.
Yeah I tried some searches like that, and couldn't find any silver bullets that were actually be made to be fired from a gun. What I saw was many chunks of silver shaped to look like cartridges, nice for display or as conversational novelties, but not usable as projectiles. I didn't look at every single search hit, so if you have a link to any silver bullet being sold as usable in ammo, I'd certainly look at it.
I write stories to teach Japanese without relying on translation (like the lingua latina per se illustrata). I have been working on it almost every day for the past 3 years. I am so proud of the result. Every page solves the tiny problem of introducing a few new words in context. That's not hard per se but the accumulation of these makes the result unique.

https://drdru.github.io/
HPC administrator, researcher and scientific software developer here.

Inertia is not a bad thing, but a long living code evolves in strange ways, because of us, humans. First of all, programming languages and software design has a symbiotic relationship. They feed each other. Support for required patterns and new technology is added to languages, and designs are made in confines of language capabilities.

Moreover, technology changes with every generation. Hardware change, capabilities change, requirements change, designs and languages change. More importantly mindset change. So you're bolting modern designs over "vintage" designs. Inevitable shims get coded (sometimes implicitly), and thing get complicated, even with best documented designs and developers with well intentions. The code pushed down solidifies, knowledge fades, and documentation get lost unless it's bundled with the code repository.

As a result, legacy code becomes something of a monster, where developers don't want to see, touch, or work with.

My research was coded with C++11 in the beginning. If I want to modernize with C++14 or add new parts with C++14, these parts will probably look so different that it'll look like two different languages glued together with black magic. It's the same thing with long living FORTRAN code. Only with longer legacy.

The culture and dynamics around scientific and academic programming is different from both FOSS and commercial software. This needs to be taken into account.
I think a lot of people on this thread are missing that this is a humor piece
It's what we might call "self-observational humor" or poking fun at one's self. It came out a couple of years ago and I had a good chuckle when I read it.
Great news. BeeWare is one those projects I've been following for years, hoping that it would get just a bit more 'done' so that I could really start using it.
Spell checkers are often terrible, and are just as capable of introducing errors as fixing them, and don't always catch grammar errors like lets vs let's.

Look, I care a great deal about proper spelling and grammar, and put a lot of effort into it, but errors can still happen (I've noticed I've been making more spelling errors in recent years than I used to, which worries me). Your comment just sounds needlessly dismissive of people with dyslexia. You could also put effort into proper spelling without trying to come off as a dick (which frankly is probably worse than bad spelling).
It shouldn't matter how you think, or how a change of opinion is viewed.

The idea is that science should be continuous discovery process - scientists are meant to be acting in good faith, not hiding or 'managing' information. If we are genuinely seeking understanding (not attempting to sell people on a particular viewpoint), why shouldn't new information be widely disseminated?

Whatever has been going on, it is clear that from the start this has been a massively politicised process directing the world's governments. That it is so politicised means that I personally have very little faith in the scientific proclamations that are handed down.
I think a lot of people are relating and finding it anything but funny.
can someone TL;DR this?
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