skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My question does indeed assume the existence of space, and was meant to investigate your own thinking, because that is what interests me (you're obviously smart, but our backgrounds are very different), rather than some thoroughly-specified model.

Are you going to stand firm on the claim that your disembodied's friend's answer to the question "where are your memories held?" is only ever going to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative) ?

I don't buy your claim that an educated (implying literate) person would not understand the idea of storage of information. Indeed, even less educated humans scratched out what we now call graffiti, or counting marks, on surfaces that have endured for millennia, or even longer (paleolithic cave art, petroglyphs, and so on). How do you help yourself remember some number of items that you need to account for? You write it down. Ancient Egyptians did that.

> heavily influenced by materialist/physicalist/computationalist assumptions

Guilty/guilty/guilty, sure. But I also have the dubious advantage of -- for abstruse reasons -- having worked with metric signature (++++...+), 1+1, and n+2 spacetimes, and know just how weird they are compared to the one we inhabit. So here I am stuck thinking of a brain that has some spatial extent but does not realize it, while avoiding pressing a claim that no remotely brain-like process can exist without at least two spatial dimensions.

Brains that have some feature but don't realize it pop up in cosmology (and real life) with some aplomb. The most popular example from cosmology is Boltzmann brains, which exist only extremely momentarily, but have encoded within them false memories and perceptions. Keeping BBs from appearing practically everywhere in the universe turns out to strongly limit a number of features of the not-full-of-false-brains universe we appear to inhabit, if we also want to keep thermodynamics.

Amusingly, Boltzmann brains are the opposite of what you are proposing: they have extent (and spatial structure) but vanishingly short duration. They can "remember" having an extensive dialogue with you in which they answer in great detail where their memories are kept, but the memory is false.
Seems a bit unnecessary. You could easily use the opportunity to build a better relationship through kindness. In an exclusively self-interest-maximizing sense, doing this yields better long-term outcomes for a short term cost of one-week float of some insignificant cash and the discomfort of asking.

You're entitled to it. It just seems irrational from a self-interest-maximizing sense, and definitely irrational to me who just feels pretty good about letting people undo a perfectly undoable error.
Why would you possibly sell at this time? It's a solid quarter given the circumstances.
I tried it again and was able to use it this time!
When I say "the runtime", I'm referring to everything that would be bundled into a published .NET program. The base class libraries, the bootstrapper, etc. There is no telemetry here.

Yes, if you download a .NET Runtime distribution, it will include the `dotnet` command from the SDK so that basic commands like `dotnet --list-runtimes` and `dotnet --list-sdks` are available. These commands may send telemetry. But as you probably saw on https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/telemetry , using `dotnet path/to/program.dll` to run an unbundled .NET program will never send telemetry.
I've been using Linux for more than 20 years. For many years it was my primary computer platform, until I moved to the Mac.

I recently put the latest Ubuntu LTS Linux on a spare laptop, as I needed a laptop. Sure, it was fun configuring everything for a day or so. But then it started to grind me down, as Linux always seem to do (for a personal computer - it's fantastic on servers).

Then I had a new, big project come in and bought a new MacBook Pro 13" with the M1 chip.

Wow.

I have never had a computer anywhere near as nice as this. Very fast. Light. Days of battery. Screen is fantastic. Best keyboard I've ever used. Best trackpad I've ever used by far. Never gets hot, barely warm, fan rarely comes on. I can do things like extend my screen to my iPad Pro 12.9" OR use Universal Control to control both from either keyboard/mouse/trackpad.

It has the Touchpad, which I'm undecided about but mostly like.

I work on Linux servers all the time, and the free/open source iTerm2 is a really really good terminal app.

It's BSD Unix under the hood, so most Linux commands also work here, and there's Homebrew to install whatever you like.

And the productivity apps are fantastic, many of which only exist on the Apple platforms, like Omnifocus.

So yes, I like Linux, but I'm so much more productive using a Mac these days.

So I don't really get where the OP is coming from.

Like window tracking - yes, I've used that on Linux but I actually find it equally annoying. If it's on, I don't like it. If it's off, I sometimes miss it ;-)
Thank so much! I hope you enjoy
Who pees that close to a wall though? Yikes
Writing a good commit message within those constraints is kind of like writing a haiku. It's kind of entertaining sometimes, though I think it should be a suggestion rather than a rule.
Dirk :/
I think the GP is implying an "even if" between their two lines of argument.

On a side note, given enough time, they presumably could reverse-engineer plenty of bomb design secrets even if the permissive action links couldn't be circumvented. Permissive action links are insurance against maniac generals, rogue commanders, wealthy terrorists, etc., not against a decade or two of nation-state-funded reverse-engineering.

My understanding is that some of the PALs for two-point nuclear weapons will result in the wrong timing of the two initiations if the wrong code is used... resulting in a small dirty bomb instead of a thermonuclear blast. I presume reverse-engineering the correct timings for the two detonators is significantly easier than designing the weapon in the first place.
Can you explain how metaprogramming is not "simple and straightforward"?
Yeah! Totally agree. I thought you were saying they were trying to max revenue pee user. My mistake.
> github's naive view of history where it shows things in a bafflingly obtuse linear

This hits home, it pretty much describes how I visualize logs in my head (compared to the visualizations I see that are more 2-D, branching off and merging together, etc.). I have a hard time working with some of the more advanced features because of this, and it'll probably always be an uphill battle to shift my thinking from linear to not-so-linear ...
I was thinking about the same recently…

The solution I came up with was to do something that would have nothing to do with what I do professionally. So I decided to learn LISP (Janet in particular), improve the tool I use to manage my finances with language and whatever else comes.

So far I’ve been having tons of fun tweaking lite-xl editor to work exactly the way I want it to with that language, and I haven’t even started the toy project I set out to build to begin with!

IMHO it has to do with intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation, and anything that can improve my career, land me a new job or anything along those lines turn into “work” and without $$ to give it meaning I find no interest in it. Thus LISP, obscure languages and text editors!

Edit: I might end up using it in haiku, react or serenity OS for the same reason :)
On Marble, Texture and Networks
Well it’s a bit of both right? Stress makes it harder to be nice, especially existential stress. But lack of stress doesn’t automatically make you a good person. You still have to consciously decide to do the right/nice/polite thing.

There’s a lot of not-well-off people who are super nice because it’s faster than being confrontational. And there’s plenty of entitled assholes who think being well-off means they can shit on people.
So, European in the US, here. I switch my dates stubbornly to DD-MM-YYYY, 'cause that's the only way. Of course I would. But then there's so many US applications that don't adhere to my settings and use MM-DD-YYYY. So then I am still deciphering 05-07-2020-kind of stuff. All. The. Freakin'. Time.

:)
Amen to scrollbar not right -- although the folder contents do scroll, the "thumb" never moves from the top position. It should reflect how far you have scrolled, and be draggable.
Algorithmic justice requires mathematical compassion and scientific courage.
That's the startup tech company way though. You get in and make stupid amounts of money on the understanding it could vanish at any moment but your skills are valuable so you can get a job somewhere else quickly.

I feel much worse for the casual employees who can have their hours reduced to unlivable amounts silently with no press release.
Seems to me the good news is that your compiler told you this doesn't work.

In languages where you can't tell the compiler you think this is constant, there's a risk you delude yourself, especially because computers are very fast, and you think you've got O(1) when it's actually O(N) or even O(N^2) and one day N gets big enough and you're in real trouble.
Since Norway became independent from Sweden as late as 1905, they voted on whether the country should be a monarchy or not that year (80% voted for monarchy). But as you say, the process of limiting the power of the Swedish king was quite important during the 1800's.

Today, 80% are still supporting monarchy [1], also among the young [2]

[1] https://www.nrk.no/norge/8-av-10-vil-beholde-kongehuset_-sto...

[2] https://www.nrk.no/norge/3-av-4-unge-stottar-opp-om-monarkie...
Nope, its literally recalling the times tables that I choke on. There were timed segments, and I couldn't keep up
I write it in that order some of the time… But when I do, I spell out the month because when I say “I was born on June 14th, 1962,” I don’t say I was born on 6/14/62. I also never say 14/6/62. In fact, I almost never say a month’s number in conversation.

If you want to write it out the way it’s spoken, write it out the way its spoken. Mixing the computer’s numbers and the spoken word’s grammar make for misunderstandings, and as a programmer, eliminating misunderstandings is one of my goals.
> I think they truly believe they are doing the right thing.

The alternative would be awful, no?
Just cos they were technically paid don't mean they weren't de facto slaves
Brewing beer and making remedies may may not be mutually exclusive as ancient beer had natural antibiotics like tetracycline: https://www.wired.com/2010/09/antibiotic-beer/
I can say with certainty this isn't strictly true. The failures should be relatively rare; when I say relatively I mean on the level of natural node failure. If natural node failure isn't survivable without special systems to quickly replace downed nodes you don't actually have an N+1 redundancy system. Thus, the pools aren't large enough :) Or, in this case, if they really are failing this much then having them always lose their cache is a major reliability hole.

It's a subtle difference. I think many operators get used to node failures being extremely common when they don't necessarily have to be. I suspect the note on "if they come back on their own ensure they're flushed" meaning they have something unusual causing ephemeral failures. If that's just "cloud networking" there isn't much they can do but it's almost always fixable.
There's bad and then there is traitorous - completely untrustworthy.

Robert E. Lee might be seen as a traitor, but only if everyone citizen of the CSA is.

I'm not aware of David Duke being a traitor.
U.S. Most common male names:

Rank=642. ADOLPH 0.01% 35,717
Rank=1124. BENEDICT 0.00% 12,988

https://namecensus.com/first-names/common-male-first-names/?...
I don't think that this is an absolute truth. This would depend on the genetic distance between the parents (and if parents and their childrens would procreate again).
Thanks for sharing -- this has been eye opening for me. I do a lot of infrastructure for myself and others. Great to know that rewards for competence and skill like this is out there for ICs.

You've inspired me -- I'll be looking to try and make some more contracts like this in the future.

> This isn't software engineering, it's infrastructure, which means I'm not on the hook to work on new product features sprint to sprint. There are times when I only have to do an hour or so worth of work for a client.

Great, and I think it's honestly a very high ROI improvement as well, enabling a team of 5 developers to commit, deploy and generate value faster is absolutely worth it.

The only things I've considered in that space that could be as lucrative as you're doing now has been reducing cloud costs (and taking % of cost saved over 6mo).
I know the articles calls it a rule, but really it's more a guideline. It's so that `git log --oneline` and `git shortlog` produce succinct output. It's also the email subject when using `git format-patch`. With all of these, the idea is to have a quick-to-read summary of the commit. That's all, really.
That whole site has a weird vibe ...

That's because it is.
There are a lot of interesting points about this. One thing that struck me is

> applying to homes built after 1960

I wonder if that's just because they are more uniform and easy to underwrite? My experience is that older houses are generally better built, and e.g. a house in north America from before 1900 is liable to be in a better location and in better shape than something from 1970.

Also, I recently had (minor) trouble buying a new car for cash. Everyone wants you to sign up for financing, I assume because there is so much money chasing returns there are big incentives to push loans. This service is actually a very smart way of getting (presumably subprime) loan signups - it's basically a value add over getting a traditional mortgage. And in the current climate of lots of cash chasing returns, I can see their angle as a good bet.
SQL: One of the Most Valuable Skills
Shrinking float and lowering the cost of capital is still better than sitting on a pile of excess cash.

Buybacks are a valid tactic in corporate finance.
The Teaching of Arithmetic I: The Story of an Experiment (1935) [pdf]
I can say from my current experience on medical leave the following websites start with a dialog saying that they work best in chrome:

* my doctors office
* my specialists office
* the hospitals website

I also recall encountering such a dialog on at least one other site I had to use, but can’t recall what?

These are facilities that people must be able to use.

I agree with you, I honestly don’t know why people are thinking about App Store exodus - my experience with web apps in Chrome has been decidedly meh. Maybe that will change as it becomes more viable? Who knows.

The problem is people thinking that opening up to different browser will do anything other than secure a chrome monopoly. Google has already demonstrated a willingness to use their dominance in many part of the web to kill off other browsers.

On desktops they aggressively push chrome on every user that is not already using chrome.

Currently they can’t do that mobile. So currently they can’t just drop everyone else.
I love this, and my first legitimate thought after using the word 5.1 app (my favorite of all time) is that this might make it possible to create a workflow where I compose documents in word 5.1 and could find an intermediate emulator would allow me to export them and translate them into a modern format.
The article uses the phrase “objective fact” in the introduction which, to me, is a huge red flag, and it ultimately served as an accurate predictor of what was to follow. There are plenty of things to criticize in macOS, but the complaints in this piece were inane, inaccurate or overwhelmingly nit-picky.
MTP is used by basically every single Android phone and tablet. It's also used by some other devices like MP3 players. Because of the first point it's actually extremely widespread...
I also believe that maths and STEM is something that all people do. Well, maybe not all, but at least not just a few geniuses. For that matter, I believe the progressives prescribed the wrong solution. The ordinary people, those who are are not the top X% in schools, need the push from their teachers, need the challenges in course work to push themselves to truly learn, and need a certain repetitiveness to truly grasp the fundamental concepts and skills.

How do I know that? I was one of such students. I made it because my teachers pushed me. They used carefully designed homework to show me that I didn't really have the deep understanding of math as I thought. They used homework to show me that my understanding of Newton physics was inadequate. They used midterms to show me that I didn't really intuitively grasp algorithm analysis (I didn't know how to rigorously and succinctly argue that two pivots and one pivot are really the same in quicksort). I grew to enjoy STEM and CS precisely because I was lucky to have tough yet encouraging schools. Dumbing down courses would have taken away the push I needed, and I would likely have a lot more failures in my life.
Bayesian probabilities are different from frequentist probabilities. An abridged summary:

Frequentist probability is about the limit that something approaches after many repetitions. e.g. rolling a dice. It works well in a casino and some quantum physics applications but mostly fails outside of that. e.g. we want to know what the probability of a team winning the next superbowl is, or what is the probability of life on Mars. A frequentist would say that question doesn't make sense, there's either life on mars or there isn't, there's going to only be one result of the next superbowl.

Bayesian probability is about the degree of belief. It is about how to update the degree of belief based on prior knowledge and observations. e.g. If we thought there was life on mars, we should see some evidence of it, we don't see evidence so we should adjust our prior belief of the probability of life on mars downward. It answers the questions we want to ask, but those answers frequently depend on what priors you choose, and if those priors can sometimes dominate the analysis.
The euphemism treadmill is what I've heard most often, as well.
> people for hundreds of years have been saying "March second, nineteen sixty two"

In many other English-speaking countries people usually say "the second of March, nineteen sixty two."
> Looking at the popularity of VSCode, I don't think Microsoft hatred blocks its adoption.

In-apt comparison. The people using VS Code are more likely to be migrating from proprietary tools like PyCharm, Sublime Text, etc or bloated offerings like NetBeans or roughly equivalent offerings like Atom.

The people that would use PowerShell would be migrating from the likes of Zsh, Bash, Fish, and other “hard core free” software.
The best are engineering marvels and last generations. Art with a practical purpose.
I think the last couple of years have demonstrated that ~nowhere on earth really protects civil liberties in any meaningful fashion.
It's a bit of a negative comment but I sure wish these communities would rediscover forums. They're not all perfect but I am convinced that Discord and Slack are where valuable information goes to get mixed with gifs and memes then die.

I guess that won't happen until someone starts hosting discourse for free.

Awesome that Linen is trying to build a different future though.
Statistics is the only reason I was able to get over my math struggles in college.
The articles are also available here if you don't want to read a PDF. (I prefer the PDF because of the formatting.)

http://www.inference.org.uk/sanjoy/benezet/1.html
Yeah, someone else suggested a class action, but as you said, retaliation is likely, and I've heard of Google banning entire businesses because an ex-employee's account got flagged, and I just don't want to risk that.

Also, given that you can get a used pixel 2 for under $100, I doubt it'd be worth the trouble in the first place.
Can something be impossible to understand?
Many people here will remember what they learned or heard, and instinctively downvote because they believe Arnold was a traitor through and through, and that it's not worth considering anything otherwise.

But as I recall he was a relatively successful officer in the US army in the war of independence. But he'd been overlooked within the US military (and incurred financial losses to boot) which make his decision to work with the British a bit more understandable. Looking back in hindsight with the USA as a distinct and separate nation, it looks like he's betrayed the nation of his birth ... but in the context of a civil war where there are two factions broadly of the same "nationality" fighting for independence it's a little more complex than that
Do they not have SIPC Insurance?
Maybe I shouldn't just before reading but the way philosophy has to be prefaced by "How to read X" makes me so glad we have mathematics in physics.

Physics is concise, but more importantly can be wrong. I don't mind reading a bit of philosophy every now and again but at some point I just have to put it down because it's so long winded. Even ignoring the somewhat revealing tendency to borrow terminology from other subjects, there's no sense of urgency in the writing.

Perhaps it's best transmitted orally instead.
Obsolete is probably an overstatement but its in decline IMO. The last few companies I have worked at have moved away from SSR which seems to reflect a wider industry trend. I have worked mostly in enterprise web apps which client side rendering suits better which might have some bias.
I really wish that a jq type program was included in coreutils (or similar). I have wanted to to use it a few times but could never be sure it was going to be installed.
Yeah, I mean my comment more as a criticism of universally squash-merging as a policy since, not so much an endorsement of it in general. I run into cases like you describe pretty often, and I doubt I'm alone. Switching to squash-merging has some benefits but it's also brought out a fresh form of hell when too many changes are happening in too many branches at once.
How does Ukraine keep intercepting Russian military communications?
Rectangle is fully open source, so rather than working with the community to fix the problem you're having (about 1/10th the effort you went into debugging the problem), you instead opt for a paid app? What you do if you were using Linux?

https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle
To be honest I'm not sure off the top of my head, lambda/dynamo/s3/iot scale quite a bit. Opensearch is one of the most costly services but I have it behind apigateway cache.
As someone who actually has a disabity I would much prefer if people just called me a cripple, honestly.

Or you know, just call me by my name? That works too I guess.
You could, and in fact there has been Erlang implementations on top of the JVM[1][2], however you will never be able to get the same runtime characteristics of Erlang running on BEAM due to the fundamental differences in memory management: BEAM is first and foremost designed for reliability, predictability and soft real-time behaviour.

[1] https://github.com/trifork/erjang/
[2] https://github.com/jerlang/jerlang
I would take this kind of analysis with a very healthy grain of salt due to the following factor: political donations beyond trivial amounts are public record. Conservatives, centrists, or libertarians within many companies fear retaliation if their actual beliefs become publicly known in some circles.

I find it hard to believe that the nation is roughly evenly divided politically (give or take a bit), but you can find extremely large companies that genuinely skews on the order of 99% towards one political party. It seems reasonable that there's more than one interpretation of these facts.

What this data might actually be showing is if some companies like Twitter and Netflix have donations in the ~99% Democrat range, there might be an increased perception of consequences towards peoples' career within that company if they get outed as anti-leftist.