skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I currently own the stupidest cat I've ever seen, but I previously had a very clever cat that I got from my in-laws. It could obey commands, figure out patterns, etc.

However, my dog is orders of magnitude smarter, and has taught herself:

- Lying. She barks "at the mailman" about 10 minutes before he arrives, so I'll put her out when he's in the area

- Mirrors. She understands that her reflection is only a reflection, and will look at herself to see if her fur is ruffled on her hindquarters

- Language. Dogs are often taught to communicate with buttons that trigger a word. The conventional wisdom is that it takes a dog about a week to learn to use them. She taught herself 5 separate buttons in 20 minutes, and uses them to this day, chaining them together to express her thoughts remarkably clearly. For example, she used "no" + "time for bed" in the morning when I hadn't refilled her water yet.

But that's why dogs are so popular: they're calibrated to our psyche. They understand human gestures incredibly well.
Can you explain what it means to "deny the existence" of someone? I see this expression often, but I'm genuinely puzzled by what it means in practice.

I agree with you that "purposely misgendering one's colleagues" should lead to firing, but I think this article isn't about that. It's about people who are tolerant of others and in general try to be nice people, but just disagree about certain things - for example, how criminal transgenders should be incarcerated, or whether affirmative action is a good way to help disadvantaged people.
It is a copyright block by the BBC. This video contains material created by BBC Studios that an individual then uploaded into their channel.
We live in New Middleages. Just substitute religion for ideology and suddenly it all makes sense.
Literally nothing in any of our documentation mentioned it all, and it wasn't everyone. Always just makes as generic things like fees. They were lying or new
> reducing oil consumption

Without singling you out, why is the suggestion always to reduce consumption as opposed to producing energy in less hostile locales? Current geopolitical events (and associated suffering) are occurring precisely because efforts to produce fossil fuels in the West have been undermined by activists pushing anti-consumption ideology.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-algorithms-third...
Just read the comments in here. This is a whole lot of words to say: "I wish I could say things without facing consequences."

As somebody else said in this thread, it's really rich to see Paul write about "implicitly ending the discussion" when he instablocks anybody on Twitter so easily.
This comment is not just intellectually dishonest, it's also a basic example of the core problem of our society: demonization of "others".

You can have a problem with cancel culture and not be anti CRT. Who would have thought, right?
This article talks about a regular protest. No overthrow attempts were made
Graham didn't say it's a "recent" rebirth in the sense that we often use that word in the technology sector. It's "recent" in the sense that historians use it, i.e. sometime in the last generation or two. In TFA he places the cultural shift somewhere in the late 80s, long before his 2004 essay on the matter.

I've read both essays and it seems that Graham's opinion on the topic hasn't changed much over the last 18 years. We can probably all guess which "recent" event prompted him to revisit the topic, whether we agree with him or not.
But other people get to demand positive affirmation? This doesn't sit right.
wow, pg banned from his own webbed side
That's not "crafting". And, additionally, the vast majority of people will never use (or even know) about this "crafting".
I'm really wondering why this is a problem.

Sure, that might insulate him and put him in an echo chamber, but blocking is entirely his right, and he's the one who'll get the consequences from that.

I also tend to do a similar thing in spaces I curate, and it's honestly better for mental health. Someone comes out from nowhere with something completely 180 degrees from what I say? That's not reality TV, that's my private [social network page]. I'm not gonna be baited.

Saying someone "can't block" is an asshole move. Nobody should be forced to talk and see messages by anyone.
I'm not really sure what the difference is. The best defense is a good offense, no? I'm only about 600 puzzles in, on lichess. Sometimes you must out-attack (race to checkmate), other times you just want to get ahead before you disable their attack.

Maybe you like the Quiet Move type puzzles? Those are a weak spot for me.
certainly not my thing, i think it's waste of time

apps won't replace a therapist

i'm saying this as a paying Headspace user :D
This feels like a clickbait post (exploit the “curiosity gap” to make people click and read quasi-related content)
Site peddles paper authorship in reputable journals for up to $5000 a pop
You should check out Medito - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=meditofoundati.... It's free & non-profit with daily sessions. No need to pay for anything like this imo, but I have donated to Medito because they offer a good service, for free, and for the right reasons.

Fwiw, the benefit I've found is just in a more general mindfulness, and meditation can be part of that. Notice yourself tensing or clenching your jaw, and make a conscious effort to reduce that. Pay attention when something feels good, or hurts to think about. It has given me some modicum of clarity and engagement I didn't before.
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Same shit, different name
Saudi Arabia: political islam in power => MBS somehow Tudoring it away at an unexpected pace

Turkey: Erdogan is effectively a muslim brother => On the decline, projected to be ousted next year

The Gulf states don't really have political parties as far as I understand. They are absolute monarchies.

> the steady rise of islamism across the muslim world is real

It waxes and wanes. May have peaked several places. Syria, Egypt and Iraq used to be quesi-socialist dictatorships for example.

Here is some black and white footage of Nasser from 1958 laughing at the ridiculousness of somebody from the Muslim Brotherhood complaining about hijabs not being enforced:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZIqdrFeFBk

Iran was a very different place before the revolution.

Turkey was originally pivoting towards secularism with Ataturk.

Morocco, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, and Jordan were/are primarily monarchies engaged in a game of thrones type battle royale etc.

> common goal of imposing the Sharia as the rule of law

Well, only kinda sorta. There's also the regional competition for supremacy between Shia and Sunni to consider. And all of this is overlaid untop of feudal tribal society dynamics.

> But its influence seems to have been completely ignored by the cookie cutter response that any problem of the world should be attributed to the West, one way or another.

Not only has it been ignored out of political correctness. In many cases the West for some reason likes to empower religious nutjobs whom they somehow find more palatable in the moment than whatever strongman is barely holding the place together - reliably causing untold amounts of misery, death, and destruction as some semblance of order is replaced with chaos for no coherent reason and with no plan for what comes next.

But yeah Islamism is one of several impossible problems that region is facing.
The adfontesmedia.com link profiling stripes.com is here to provide context to those (especially outside of the United States) who do not have context for the source. Specifically that it is a credible, unbiased source.

Please see my comment in reply to the question below the link here.
He himself says in that thread I posted he was banned in 2009. Maybe he appealed, it was temp, he confused an automatic shadowban and enough people vouched his good elisp stuff that it was undone (was that even a thing at the start?) or he just imagined the whole thing for some other reason. I forgot my account from that time and then browsed for years before remaking a new one, and I can't really remember anymore what moderation was like under pg. Xah's stated reason makes no sense and there is nothing objectionable in his comments but there it is.

>"“Hacker News” website, at http://news.ycombinator.com/, banned me
around 2009-02 or earlier."

¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Anyway, no deep meaning there on my part and this is all kind of a sidetrack from folks who want to talk elisp. it was just seeing the name again after so long made me think back and reflect a bit on how human society remixes old and new as technology changes. A number of communities from the old era can probably think of colorful characters like that, not trolls seemingly but genuinely neurodivergent, not necessarily welcome yet not exactly out of hand rejected either. And with pearls amongst everything else. Also echoes of different civilizations than classic western.
What exactly is impressive and inspiring about the drone video?

Aside from the nifty drone work, it looks no different from the Toyota and Corvette plants I toured 20+ years ago as a child.
Agreed, it even runs on OpenBSD! It's as close as we'll ever get to a spiritual successor to the original two games. Deadly Shadows (the third game) was terrible compared to the first two, and we don't speak of the 2014 reboot.
AI is the best at chess but you would not pay to see two AI play chess while its still interesting to watch Magnus win or lose.

So, likely just because you can make AI works of art, it doesn't mean people will value them equally.
I really liked how the article focuses on Salvadorans and not the technology. It reminded me of "Humans of New York".

Where other articles would show only a picture of a food stall, the writer and photographer actually went to talk to the people and hear their opinion and perspectives.

Not often you can read about taxi drivers, hotel workers, Salvadorans who studied abroad in Switzerland, Chivo ATM workers, 76 year old small business owners, the guys administering the family's 100 year old bar, 'tienda' grocery store owners, the food stall guy, the small scale crypto traders or a family from rural La Unión.
I have heard a scant few stories of people having their due process taken away.

There is some controversy though about whether the concept of due process as per law should be extended to a general principle that guides the operation of privately-owned websites. That isn't how the internet used to work so the jury's still out.
For the specific case of the Capitol Corridor (Sacramento - San Jose), the government should just sieze the line from the freight companies, and use imminent domain to run freight lines from the port of Oakland out to less densely populated areas. As it is, freight trains run through the pedestrian areas of Jack London Square.

The should also straighten the lines in the areas near Fremont so the train could run at at least 180mph.

Then, they should run the Amtrak every 15 minutes within metro areas.

Instead, they did the BART extension.
Carl Icahn: “I Fired 12 Floors of People”
Today, most professional games of standard chess are draws because of the power of defensive moves.
>"but I would expect things to stabilize at a technology level of maybe the late 19th/early 20th century and start back up"

"Stabilize" and "back up"? What an idiot. How about constant state of war for resources that are no longer available for one or another reason and further degradation because of it.
You can't have it all. No new areas for housing and no higher buildings and keep real estate prices and rents at a certain level and more people move into the city. That's impossible. Something must give.

Ideally it's a compromise, everything gives a little. A few more areas for housing, a little higher buildings, a bit higher prices, a bit more attractive rural areas.

Manhatten is one of the densest populated urban centers in the world. Nearly no other green areas, even street trees are a rare sight. Everything is concrete. Berlin on the other hand is very green. Parks, trees on the street, Tiergarten, Grunewald, and yes, Tempelhofer Feld. You could build housing for tens of thousands of people while still keeping the area green with lots of trees and parks for people to relax in.

Just keeping it a huge empty space and at the same time complain about high rents is ridiculous. This is not solved by complaining about money hungry investors. It's the supply-vs-demand ratio that's the problem. Not greed. (It may play a role, but would not have much of a chance without the underlying issue.) Of course you can keep it "for climate reasons". But that comes with a price and you need to live with those consequences. "Mietpreisbremse" is not going to solve any of those.
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I do... Can I have mine with a caesar dressing this time, please?
I can’t think of a twitter feed that deserves attention on HN less.
> It was a disappointing turn from someone who could lead with vision to a billionaire troll that shows signs of what looks like depression to me

Are these mutually exclusive? My model is that he's picked up trolling as a hobby, but I don't understand the impulse to assume that it's changed his job performance.
The 2014 one was basically an association agreement with EU fell through, in part because they / the IMF were unwilling to extend a line of credit without massive cuts to government subsidized gas / energy and Russia threatened to cancel the Tarif agreements between Ukraine / Russia (as they otherwise would have given unrestricted access to EU goods to Russia. Russia instead gave a ~15 billion credit. Various NGOs then followed a typical playbook, occupy a central square, agent provocateurs showed up and created violent incidents, the Kiev mayor ordered a violent removal of protestors in order to install christmas decorations. Some protestor was shot, turned into a martyr, the investigation who was responsible has been inconclusive afaik. Various neo nazi groups (right sector) started arming themselves and attacking security forces, trying to storm government buildings. In total I think roughly ~120 protestors and ~20-40 security forces were killed. Janukovitch narrowly escaped the storming of his residence. Orange Revolution I don’t really remember any details.
Or do the mixed set. Really, ChessTempo is great.
Florida education law, and this law, and education law in general, all have some real problems.

It's somewhat unfortunate that misinformational memes of this sort travel much faster than reasonable understandings of its problems (this is but one example.) I believe it impairs the resolution of the nation's problems. Yeah, it galvanizes some support, but also hardens the opposition, and impairs the ability to make any sort of incremental progress, leaving achievable reforms stalled for years or even decades.

Moreover, as a matter of principle, I don't really want to be part of a political movement which values spinning a story to its advantage more than it cares about informing the public. Build your movement on something solid.
So let’s say there’s a bug, and an einsum statement is a suspect. Assume I’m not familiar with einsum notation, but I know dot products and reshapes. How do I debug it?
thank you for the thoughtful reply. gives me something to think about.
When considering whether to run 4 or 20 round trips per day, it seems like the fundamental economics ought to come into play at some point. Otherwise, you eventually run out of other people’s money.

As a reference, there are only 7 Acela trains per day (or at least on Monday 4/25) from Boston to New York, two cities with substantially higher population and apparent demand (as evidenced by the 59 non-stop flights from BOS to any of the NYC-3 airports on Monday 4/25)
Have you considered that your system might not be communicative to others?
I use Headspace daily and it changed my life. Daily guided meditation has gotten me through some really rough time and PTSD. The app has so much in it with exercises, sleep assistance and daily videos. I’ve paid for it for years and will likely continue.
Calling it anti-grooming only is ignoring its ability to chill free speech (people will avoid talking about things that might get them sued, even if they're permitted) and be weaponized to suppress speech ("It would be a shame if someone took that thing that you said wrong..." even if it's permitted).

Same with CRT banning. The existence of a law, even an ineffective one, on the books provides opportunity for abuse.

(Said as someone who thinks the parts of both parties who are loudest over these issues are childish demagogues who ignore historical peril)
the question is how you go about it.

what do you do when you are asked to respect someone else's choice of gender identity? do you go along with it, while quietly keeping your own opinion? or do you complain and purposefully ignore their request? or maybe do something else entirely? how do you keep a friendly work environment when the mere questioning of someones gender identity can be considered hostile?

you ask that your rejection of the idea is considered not hostile, yet you consider the enforcement of rules of interaction as something hostile.
I think there’s some benefits to guided meditation in general. Different techniques (body scanning, breath counting, etc) aren’t necessarily obvious to people looking to meditate.

People also come to meditation for different reasons. Some want to chill out, others want to be more present in every day life.

I assume you’re well practiced so you’ll know that ultimately apps aren’t what you need for “real” meditation. I think they’re a good starting point for many though.
They have tried it out before but most, if not all, industrial oil and gas drilling activities are performed with Rotary drilling or a Coiled Tubing rig (which still drills via a rotating cutting bit). I do not work at a drilling technology center, so I cannot speak to what innovations are currently being examined next, but if it was proved cheaper or better petrochemical companies would be using it.
Small nit, it was by Raymond Briggs
It's interesting how the American view of transport (other than private cars) has to make a profit. Other countries fund transport to various degrees as it increases economic output and provides social needs.

It's a similar distance as Penzance-Exeter in the UK which has 22 trains in each direction on a weekday
10 years ago I was homeless and broke, please don't take offence on my behalf.
Woo boy. Generally liked the concept for the essay, but this piece jumps out as problematic (or just poorly written):

> The clearest evidence of this is that whether a statement is considered x-ist often depends on who said it. Truth doesn't work that way. The same statement can't be true when one person says it, but x-ist, and therefore false, when another person does.

Really? He can’t think of a statement that is racist when a white person says it and not a black person?

Many (most?) statements embed some of the speakers attributes, either explicitly or implicitly. At a trivial level, saying “I am hungry” can be true when one person says it and false when another does.

Obviously “I” statements are not what Graham is talking about, but the idea that your lived experience cannot qualify or disqualify you for passing certain judgements seems suspect.
You have ingested too much propaganda (no insult, just a cheery consideration): living in France, if the government change from the actual cleptocratic one to a democratic one perhaps re-nationalizing EDF and pushin nuclear enough a small cohort of people who live in homes insulated enough to been able to cool and heat with electricity, owning EVs, can survive without much more issues than a big rise in expenses for anything, food and goods in particular.

BUT those who live in classic badly/non insulated homes (vast majority of the population, and vast majority of those who can afford new homes and EVs, have no choice than revolt in a new French Revolution, hoping to do better than the first witch means avoiding putting a new élite in chief like the old one, or exactly the old one with different puppets/public face or starve to death. That not counting a "small" fact like the industry energy needs, since even with nuclear not everything is electric and not everything can be electric in a short time period.

The strike of sanctions actually is AGAINST EU interest, far less against Russian interest. The USA/UK want to destroy EU since they know EU was approaching Russia, since that's our best interest [1], and they know the next war in Asia will impede them to keep EU under their boots. A small suggestion: read Klaus Schwab, Mark Carney books for knowing their agenda and Antony Sutton's books to know a bit of history. You'll discovering that you fight/cheering for your own enemy, even if you are from USA. I'm not joking, really.

[1] we have the tech but not space nor natural resources, Russia have natural resources, space and a solid enough country to be a fair partner not a dictatorial one like the USA/UK (together since these days are not two countries but a similar élite that act with equal targets against any population, their one included) and a near partner, Europe by nature till the Urals.
Does the right have hold of corporate culture however?

I think the issue is the consequences of speech which are permissible themselves -- I think being shunned by a friendship group seems always permissible. Being marginalized in one's workplace, shunned by one's colleges, and so on -- this seems far less permissible.

I dont think this is a strictly left/right issue; and what today is called "left" is rather a kinda of corporate politics --- "corporate correctness" rather than "political correctness". This is about embracing "diversity and equality" of your workplace identities (vs., diversity of skills; and equality of treatment, for example).

I'd imagine if work/life were better seperated, and the workplace better managed, these issues would be felt less seriously.

The question of "free speech" is a massive red-hearing. Everyone accepts some concequences to some speech in some situtations. The only useful conversation to have is: what concequences are permissible, and when.

Presumably, likewise, no one believes abitary ones, whenever -- yet this seems to be the implied position of many who think you can just stop the argument at the point where some "anarchism of speech" is shown to fail. Nope.
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I guess I'm confused on what they're gaining from general military training. I doubt they have a course on toppling foreign governments outright.

If there is anything to be gained, I feel like they're benefiting from advancements in tactics that defeat conventional and guerilla militaries. All that to say, if there is a connection I'm curious to see what it is.
Unfortunately we're forced into this obnoxious situation where people have to spend a fair amount of time and energy parsing out these "jokes" because they're made by someone with an extreme amount of wealth and power. This, at least, is why I find him exhausting. And despite all of the chatter about his brilliance, this is not good leadership behavior.
Me neither. I think he’s politically similar to his critics, but he doesn’t identify with their tribe which appears to be unforgivable. I don’t think in our current political system it matters what you support, but rather who you side with.
99.99999999% of the public is not writing toy OS’s. They’re using human oriented OS’s and like the simplicity from the user perspective of things like USB-C.
You've picked the worst interpretation of the above. Addressing people how they'd like to be addressed is basic decency. Demands for affirmation beyond this is how I read the comment you're replying to.