skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regardless of interpretation, I'm pretty sure deciding whether a kid is fit for the elite/intellectual track or the physical labor track at the tender age of 10 based on whether they can do some tests is not in the spirit of "all men are created equal"

And I would agree. But your earlier comment seemed to imply a much more absolute stance. That's what I would disagree with.
I have had exposure to multiple different switch types over the years, not as many as enthusiasts however.

Personal preference being expressed here, while I can and have used buckling springs at length, they are not my favourite for two reasons. One, they click twice. Once when actuating and once again on the way back up so they are 2x as noisy. Two, they have a fair bit of resistance. Really, likely the best way to type on a buckling is to push down and let the key push your finger back up. It can be tiring, especially if you're not imprinted on this way of typing.

My favourites are complicated ALPS. Yes, I know they are no longer made with the exception of simplified whites (from Matias), but I have a lot of exposure to ALPS and am actually typing this on complicated orange ALPS right now. You can look at force curve graphs, but the typing experience is very different compared to buckling. When you press the key (the travel needed to actuate is not as far either compared to buckling), you get one click not two. The key does not need to push your finger back up because it's lower force, so when you hear or feel the click your finger can already be swinging away to another key.

MX is not as good as ALPS, but it has a large market share. Just like VHS wasn't better than Beta, but won anyway.
Pretty cool. Tried to launch Warcraft though and it had a lot of graphical glitches (this is on Firefox/Windows)
In mountain biking (to use a sport where often the cost of failure is high) you must quickly identify the oncoming obstacles e.g. a rock. The thing is not to focus on the rock or else you will end up running into it.

Pessimism is a trap because, on the surface it seems very logical, but having a pessimistic mindset will insidiously influence your behavior towards negative outcomes.
> GR and QM also appear to be consistent with idealism (Berkeley-style) – all that exists are minds and their experiences, and the physical universe (including physical laws such as GR and QM) are simply patterns in those experiences.

I don't understand how idealism can be a complete theory of the world. What are the minds made of? What are the physical laws that govern their working? How do we know there are more kinds not just one, my own (and arrive at solipsism)?

The Standard Model at least posits a simple world, made of a relative handful of basic elements that follow some simple laws. Minds are extremely complex objects, and it seems very hard to accept them as irreducible - especially if you chose to believe that other people and their minds exist as well.

Edit: Having read a bit about Berkeley's idealism from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [0], to me it seems that it is simply a re-stating of mind-matter dualism with other terms. He posits that the world is made up of spirits and ideas. Ideas are perceived by the spirit, but they are not caused by it, as the spirit cannot choose not to perceive them. But then what is causing the ideas? According to him, a special spirit called God. Why are ideas regular and casually linked at all, and why is a dream different from an apple? Because God has willed it so. So basically "ideas" for all intents and purposes behave like matter (because God willed it so), and spirits are the minds that perceive this matter.

Honestly I don't know how anyone can find such arguments convincing.

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/berkeley/#3.2.2
I read this as "people are too dumb to know whats right and wrong". If you don't agree with something that is said, use your speech to argue against it, sorry you won't be able to shutdown others you disagree with.
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The FTC's current priority under Lina Khan is data privacy regulation, which is already a huge topic. One can of worms at a time.
You don't know the counterfactual, though: how many Americans' talent is wasted because they are forced to sit through watered-down school until age 18 before they can begin serious studies?
The self-fulfilling prophecy, in other words.
Article says that gurus think you need 4000 sq ft per person but then article changes tunes and, without citation, it says you need only 200 sq ft per person.

Let’s calculate ourselves. Currently 50M km^2 of land is used for agriculture. Divide that by world population and we get 76000 sq ft per person.
This is what you sometimes see for best-before dates in Canada. Even better, because our dates are “supposed to” be like 22/2 but I don’t think anyone here does that, except Quebec perhaps. Sometimes you just have no clue
how much do you expect a high-school student to research if that information is not provided by career counseling?

i did a film project in high school, and i am involved in one now. if i were to go to college now i might think, hey this is fun. i would not even consider the idea that film-school would not help me get a job in the film industry. that's totally counter intuitive.

the only way to address that is to put picking a career onto the high school curriculum, and make the necessary research a class assignment. and once the students have made some potential choices bring in veterans from those industries to talk to the students about their choices.
it’s not about being better than him. it’s about the theoretical possibility of being better + the virtue signaling that comes with the theoretical possibility
Rails does not have to be written as a monolith. Typically, junior programmers who are trying to move very fast do that. Most of the places where I have talked to people who have a monolith are looking for ways to split it into services.

If you wrote a system in Go as a monolith, it would be hard to trim down, too. Architecture matters MUCH more than the implementation language.
Can you open an issue with more details? I don't think this has been reported before. So that's why it hasn't been fixed yet. But we'd like to look into it.
Wait.....actual face to face contact with people earning 3.75. This is revolutionary???

Sure, we are sometimes told there are people living on as little as 10 cents per hour. We might even see a picture at times. It's easy to emotionally distance yourself from. Sure, we might donate sometimes and some part of our donation might actually end up with people in need. We sort of have to imagine our good deed had any effect.... why is the CEO earning 300 k?....woah so much spending on advertisement?... O well, what do I know, it might be required.

On the other end, one would much rather work and take care of themselves than depend on hand outs. Hand outs are humiliating. Who wants to depend on hand outs?
Yeah I heard we tried to end the slavery part somewhere along the way and have been somewhat successful, but we definitely kept the first one.
Most of the positive studies I've read had the intervention sooner.

This study didn't begin treatment until patients had been symptomatic for upto 7 days.
The root comment in this thread is about browser marketshare in terms of monopoly terms. Hardware marketshare is actually a tangent to the actual discussion in the first place.

Browser monoculture is the problem that - if you'll read back to the OP - this comment thread is supposed to be about. Forcing iOS to open up is a short-term benefit for user freedom and a long-term downside for user freedom due to the monoculture that will result when that 87% marketshare becomes 100% and we see a return to "this browser is not supported, please view this page using Chrome" and having captchas that are impossible to bypass unless you're feeding Google your personal information.

Furthermore, even then, we're only at most talking about a 60-40 split even in the most cherrypicked markets... a 60-40 split is not monopoly power really. And in contrast, in the big picture Android already has an 87-13 majority, which is getting into the territory where monopoly is a concern (hence the concern over monoculture and privacy intrusions), and again that's hardware, looking at software the picture is even more bleak and Chrome/Chromium are over 90% marketshare.

Anyway, you may not care about the market as a whole, but you still are affected by it regardless, so it matters, even if a few niches do remain majority (but not monopoly) apple.
I find cross-references to be a big win. I've taken to using `@@{subject}` syntax as anchors and `^^{subject}` as references, anywhere in comments, docs, etc, within a single repository. Then I set up tooling that checks that every reference has a (single) corresponding anchor, and tooling that surfaces in github PRs the other relevant bits when an anchor or reference shows up in the (changed or context) lines of a diff.
The harmonica explains all of Western music
> A coup? Seriously? Have you seen what a coup looks like?

Yeah, lots.

> They usually involve armies and mass executions

Military coups are one kind, but even they often involve only a fairly small group of officers, and a few trusted henchmen to execute the coup. Often, key military leaders don't use the military, they just prevent security services from intervening to stop the coup attempt. (Which executive branch officials did for some time during the 1/6 attempt.)

But not all attempted coups are military coups, and the class known as “autocoups”—attempts to extend the domain or time of the current leaders power beyond it's lawful parameters—often look different anyway, since they aren't centered on displacing the existing leader but either disrupting and/or providing an excuse for cancelling a regular change in power or forcibly pressuring some other government body (often by incapacitating or removing key opponents) to acquiesce in a change of terms.
Blender was one of the first if not first multimedia development tool to ever follow the path of proprietary -> donations to limit -> FOSS. Long before ie. Kickstarter was a thing.
Harvard does have a large Memorial Chapel, if you're looking for that monument. (Or it did when Henry James wrote The Bostonians.)
Applying security patches to something that doesn't even do verified boot seems...hmmm
yes and no. the old nature vs nurture + not all people are genetically gifted and a small generic advantage can mean a huge difference in capabilities.
Youre correct. perhaps a more salient example is in order.

https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/tesla-fires-hundreds-of-wo...

Tesla arguably chose to fire 1200 people to avoid paying their severances.

https://electrek.co/2019/05/24/tesla-cost-cutting-effort-toi...

Teslas 2019 cost cutting effort included basic hygene products like toilet paper, arguably an inconsequential operating expense. Employees had to bring their own to work.
Such ridiculous, delusional devotion is for the clergy. The whip is for the slaves.
You know how the date looked strange to you? It’s the same for your correction, but for other people
There's also McFly[1] that does interactive history search.
[1]: https://github.com/cantino/mcfly
It's cool that it loads every page through a proxy that strips out most of the extraneous nonsense. I was expecting the search results page to be "vintage" appropriate, but then every subsequent page to just be normal.

That said, I don't know that I'd call any computer running a web browser "vintage".
I guess the scorpion must have been on the wall.
There's some ... but I think it misses two really important ones (and this is just off the top of my head):

1. The Romans had an eight day "week"; and,

2. The mesoamericans had a 260 day "week" (or, at best, interlocking 13 and 20 day "weeks").

I think the 7-day week is more of a statement about how effective the Judeo-Christian culture has imposed a modern week on the rest of the world.
Imposter Syndrome: Why You Feel Like a Fraud
People have reported unusual fluctuations in follower numbers since yesterday:

https://twitter.com/cbouzy/status/1518953731961802752

https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/151900201165147751...

https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1518946715407106048
Right. “Unfortunately” doesn’t mean we should not continue to rely on immigration for high tech. It means it’s unfortunate we’re not providing the a similar pipeline of people domestically.
I don't know. Have you observed multiple kids in the same family? Same parents. Same "privilege". Same pressure. Same education down to the same teachers, tutors, books, and parent temperament. And you know what, some of the kids simply beat their siblings who can be years older, in STEM or writing or reading or leadership without even trying. Have you observed your classmates? Some are driven, ambitious, self-disciplined, had access to all the education they needed, and got perfect grades before grade 8 or whatever. Then just one day, he simply couldn't understand maths or physics or chemistry or computer science, and they simply got left behind and couldn't even study STEM in college because they couldn't pass the placement test. In the meantime, their classmates, less privileged, didn't really understand everything taught in elementary school, didn't have nor need tutoring or even challenging text books, simply became the best students at anything STEM in high school and in college, and again, without much trying.

Or, do you really think every 2-year old kid can teach their neighbor kids maths and then explained what groups are when he was 7-year old like Terence Tao did? I tried my own kids. Needless to say, I failed, miserably.
Obviously parent is not claiming that Nim invented the concept of reference counting. They're saying that it's a recent addition to Nim, and Nim's other memory management strategies have been part of the compiler for longer.
Found another greybeard Mac user! I learned this trick under System 6 and used it religiously until just recently. (My clock keeps perfect time, but seconds don't update, under MATE Compiz. Go figure.)
Problem being an extremely significant portion of that blank slate is written before the child even enters school, let alone makes it to middle and high school, and even during those times it is impossible for a school to make up for a horrible home life. We single out and spread stories about people who raised themselves up because it's not the norm. The vast majority of people whose parents don't talk to them as infants, don't read to them as toddlers, don't listen to them as children, and don't keep from hitting them as teenagers will radically underperform both as students and as adults. Mucking about with the education of students who haven't been sabotaged by their parents is governmental thumb-twiddling.
Google does this yearly, with different scenarios - it is called DiRT and you can read a little here: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/management-tools/shri...
I don't have anything public right now but the setup is pretty simple (although I use Gradle with the Kotlin DSL instead of Maven). It's your standard kotlin or java setup that can build a jar with dependencies included, and 1 extra build step to invoke `native-image` from the Graal SDK.

https://github.com/pvorb/graalvm-kotlin-native-image-sample
We do agree though that almost all political discussions are flame wars, we just think the other guy is the problem. I think just adding cool down periods when two people are rapidly responding would go a long way, as well as giving users a timeout from one another if this happens often.
They already have significant marketshare on iOS. But there's only so much you can get without official first party control or favoritism, e.g. Google being the default search engine on browsers. An advertising campaign will pick up some more new users, sure, but this EU mandate doesn't really ramp things up unless an iOS Blink-based Chrome offers substantially better experience than the current WebKit-based Chrome.
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Github, Airbnb, Stripe, and Gitlab all use Ruby (on Rails) to a significant extend. Compelling things, if you ask me. Stripe is even developing Sorbet [0], a Ruby type checker.

Not that those are reason enough to use it. But I wouldn't call it the wrong decision either.

0 - https://sorbet.org/
I wonder if that's because they were unclean by association, or did they just have to do practical stuff like cook / go to the market / make hot water bottles?
My high school didn't offer calculus, and now thirty years later I'm posting on the hacker news forums.
Two primary reasons:

1. Ruby is a very flexible language, and that has its ups and downs. While it makes it a very pleasurable easily modifiable syntax, it also leaves a lot of room for bad patterns. Ruby won't judge someone for taking an ill-advised approach to a problem, so it's easy for newcomers or novices to lay foundations that cause trouble later on.

2. Ruby is very prominent in startups, which are the companies most interested in immediate results. This often leads to favoring short-term advantages such as getting a feature out today to secure a deal rather than long-term advantages such as taking the time to keep a maintainable code base. Some startups with strict budgets will also hire people with less experience early on, leading this to pair with point 1 more often than we'd like.

That said, I'm a Ruby dev and have no interest in working in any other language (other than JS on the frontend). It's a beautiful tool to those who treat it well and I'll happily use it for just about any project.
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Alien: Hey.

HNer: Hey.

Alien: Our mutual research shows that we have roughly the same IQ.

HNer: My brother!
I never understood why people try to make “blank slate” into a binary thing.

Can people not have varying degrees of physical and neural plasticity? Perhaps some people are more like blank slates and can adapt more readily than others? Maybe plasticity changes with age?
The perception of math by the public has led to a cognitive predisposition that math (especially calculus) is beyond the ordinary person. I wish pop culture would transform this.
How about, turn off the icloud and telemetry daemons I don't want?! Can't be done, boot volume is read-only!

Little snitch is a thing thankfully, but it is still nagging me for $49 dollars and will probably have to give them my PII to pay for it.
Exactly. Problematic when "lurking variables" with strong correlated effects (like vasopressin activity in this study) are of scope.
This is so obviously false that I'm always amazed there are people who actually believe this.

In _every_ activity I've ever participated in where I can observe many people's performance and progression - including powerlifting, bodybuilding, various ball sports, mathematics, chess, theoretical CS, software engineering, etc - it is transparently obvious that people's natural abilities vary dramatically.

Although it's not the most common scenario (training and experience do matter), I have seen many situations where someone with, say, 6 months' haphazard and lazy experience will absolutely crush the performance of someone with 3 years of serious and dedicated training.

Talent is real.
That’s generally very false. You don’t need to beat the bully. You just need to establish that you will respond violently. A credible threat of violence is a strong deterrent.
IPoCP can experience a very high jitter rate.
Always start here: https://source.android.com/security/

From another subthread:

> They ship userdebug builds as production releases, pretend to support devices past their vendor EOL (which is impossible since Lineage can't provide security updates for firmware etc.), ship the F-Droid Privileged Extension (which uses an incorrect approach to implementing unattended updates), don't support locking the bootloader to enable verified boot on many supported devices, etc..
As I recall from when this came up a few years ago, the "cult of calculus" was because in the post-war era 'the end-users of mathematics studies [were] mostly in the physical sciences and engineering; and they expected manipulative skill in calculus.' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math .

One way to see how curriculum has changed over the last 70 years is in Sheldon Glashow's autobiography. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1950. Quoting https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1979/glashow/biogr... , "High-school mathematics then terminated with solid geometry."
> Please, calling it a coup is a joke. France has larger demonstrations almost monthly

Coup attempts are not defined by crowd size.
There is no way to indicate login consent with biometric authentication; when you are asleep, your finger/face can be used without your consent. Really it should be called biometric identification, not authentication.
A lot of the impossibilites are relative to the current state of the art.

"X is impossible with current metalurgy". "Y is impossible with current best integer factorization algorithms".

Absolute impossibilities do exist too, but you basically need to prove that that particular thing goes against laws of physics/maths.
I do love the Marathon watches - they are truly a tool of timetelling. I just happen to like my Tudor more :D
Just as a heads up -

I went to go create a new project in Think Pascal, and when I tried to enter a name all my keystrokes came out as boxes.

Using Chrome 100 on macOS Big Sur. English (Canadian) key layout.
I was at a place in the very early 2000s, and ran into our 'music server.' Everyone seemingly brought in and ripped all their CDs to this folder, and it was basically Spotify or something. Several terabytes - we were a re-seller of computers, so had the room for it.

This may have been during the iPod times, I recall having all the music I'd ever need. Knowing who was there, I have no doubt that's where a lot of Spotify came from.
Yup, just gotta model your threats.

I use finger print scanners at home because it's less keystrokes.

But not on my phone. Both because my (trusted) friends sometimes need to borrow a phone, and also for the very rare chance police detain me and try to break into my phone without a warrant.

Legally, you don't have to tell a cop your password, but they can physically force you to use your finger/face to unlock your phone.
I feel like in this case fundamental attribution error would go the other way, no? The explanation you offer is that there aren't circumstantial factors dominating the decision (the beliefs on this particular issue), but a fundamental flaw in how committees work. To be clear, I agree that this is an inevitable result of the decision-making structure, I've just only ever seen fundamental attribution error referring to mistakes in the other direction.
I bet many at The Washington Post had similar fears when Jeff Bezos took over.
Spot-testing usually gives you a representative picture of what the ML model will produce in general. Of course there can always be outliers (and usually there are), but they are just that, outliers, and they can’t be systematically exploited by an attacker with normal-looking inputs. The present paper however basically shows that those outliers can be systematically and deliberately spread throughout input space in such a way that any given input can be slightly tweaked by the attacker (in ways that the input still looks unsuspicious) to get the desired “lying” output, without that fact being detectable either by spot-checking or any other practically feasible analysis on the model. The fact that this is possible to do in such a general fashion (any given model can be modified to contain such a backdoor) is a new finding.