skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an awful take, and I hope other readers ignore it, and give the podcast a listen/read.

It's a long podcast, and if you skim the transcript you can see that the discussion doesn't start until much later.

I'm a pretty strong Bayesian, and have heard more than my fair share of vague, hand wavy, and stubborn frequentist arguments against Bayesian statistics. When I see an "Against Bayesianism" rant, I'm already biased against it from seeing so many awful arguments thrown out there, mostly to troll Bayesians.

This is absolutely not one of those. This is a very thoughtful and clearly articulated discussion of the applications of, what Deutsch easily agrees, is a correct statistical methodology to larger epistemological questions.

It is long, so I only had a chance to skim this but it is incredibly obvious that David Deutsch is not "seeking attention", but has very legitimate concerns with the mindless application of Bayesian reasoning to larger epistemological problems in science. I'll certainly be revisiting this later for a closer listen.
It’s a symbol that goes by many names: the tombstone, end-of-proof, or Q.E.D.

"∎"
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IQ tests measure something, but it sure isn't intelligence it is measuring
The value of compilers/OS classes to a generic software developer isn't because you're going to spend a lot of time writing compilers or operating systems, it's because they help you understand what actually happens when your program executes.
That doesn't really happen in D because basically everything is "constexpr" unless it does something like inline ASM or unions with pointers in them
Egypt: Ruins of ancient temple for Zeus unearthed in Sinai
Congratulations on the launch! It looks helpful and easy to use.

Two bits of feedback:

1. The threading seems off in places. I looked at the linked osquery site, and there were some top-level items that seemed like replies. Maybe that's just a result of people replying in a channel instead of a thread, though.

2. I see character entities in code sections, instead of their corresponding characters. For example, an XML snippet has tag names surrounded by &lt; and &gt; instead of < and > (example: https://osquery.fleetdm.com/t/5378/Anyone-can-point-me-to-so...).
I disagree. SimCity 4 was a game created for the masses, not just HN. It used to have the same nonsense loading screens, like "Creating Llama oxygenation". These are honestly more common than we imagine. Never seen anyone confused about it.
Yeah, I was completely surprised when I moved from Ubuntu 20.04 to MacBook Pro 14 on the very same Dell U3219Q: MacOS made text editing completely unpleasant.

Then I upgraded my son's laptop to Ubuntu 22.04 RC, and I was greeted with the same fuzziness. I hope that's only due to Wayland, I haven't tried out the X desktop when docked.
It’s the French translation
I went to two high schools, one very poor and one moderately wealthy.

Both had audition programs in art for “advanced” classes (both music and drawing), where students were matched with more serious training and where their bands went to competitions and drawings were entered in regional shows.

I think you’re confusing “good, on track for professional” with “absolute top tier” — many students from regular schools go on to, eg, be animators at a studio or choir directors.

The same split exists in math:

- advanced classes you have to place into exist at most schools, eg AP calculus

- but to be the “absolute top tier”, you’re talking about STEM schools and private mentoring programs

You need the first for engineers, scientists, etc — even if they’re not going to be Terry Tao.
Cool, but what's the advantage of this process? All the downsides of SLS plus more complex optics and chemistry so there must be some reason they are working on this.
Swatting has gotten people murdered, yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting#Injuries_or_deaths_du...
I'm not sure that would be worse than the current system where the richer American is smarter, better looking, and more physically able
I'd love to improve this, but without knowing what makes it a misfeature in Python I don't have any guidance.

Maybe the choice of keyword is bad because of the association but it's also not quite the same as in Python. You don't have to "nonlocal x" up front in your function to access a nonlocal variable, which is a pretty huge difference IMO.

My purpose for "nonlocal" was to have a visual highlight of whenever a nonlocal variable is getting modified, because that's the exact point where assignment becomes a side-effect. So you only ever use it when assigning.
“Extreme Enemy of Free Speech”
Microsoft earnings beat across the board
Have you looked into the various builds on r/ergomechkeyboards? A lot of custom layouts/pcbs, most all with hotswap switches and running QMK, which should let you keep your custom keys on device and not needing any software at runtime. (You'll have to program the firmware at some point though.) I went with one that had a build service as I didn't feel comfortable soldering just yet. Only downside is that cases can be a little unrefined and it's easy to get expensive quickly as they are more niche builds.
we do have collective memory that outlives us. It is called culture
It’s pretty strict and won’t authenticate if I look too tired, so I think you’d have to be pretty careful about how you tape the unconscious victim’s eyes (a conscious victim would just look away from the screen) to fool it.

And if someone has full physical control over you such that they can open your eyes without consent, do you really care if they can unlock your phone? Your life is in their hands at that point anyway.

You have to assume a persistent attacker with physical access will be able to crack the device regardless.
Winging it :D
"Just move" is what humans have done since time immemorial. There are folks who complain and those who act.
I’d rather linear algebra and discrete math be the goal. Calculus is greatly overrated. I mean, sure you should take it, but IMO linear algebra is considerably more useful in the real world and most people never take it. Knowing how to integrate and differentiate in continuous space isn’t nearly as useful as learning how to count in discrete space. Most people operate in a discrete world.
He only started talking about Bayesianism about 29 minutes in to the podcast.

Don't blame him for that... the interviewer asked him all sorts of tangential questions before finally asking him about Bayesianism directly.

But even some of the earlier things he talks about (particularly Popper's objections to inductivism) are actually relevant to his critique of "Bayesian epistemology", which he claims is "a species of inductivism" (which, to his mind, Popper demolished).
For me it's more a matter of "use what you know". The initial idea for this sprouted in 2015 and it took awhile to even figure out how to build it.
Understanding the Rust toolchain when you come from the C/C++ world
I agree with most points here but surprised by "Musk is not a coder and has never worked for a company that develops code as a core business function". He was a part of x.com / PayPal
https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-what-if-we-had-loca...

Local first software can still be synced with CRDTs
It's 404 today.
Youtube is hoping their premium model becomes as ubiquitous as Amazon Prime. At which point, ads will start appearing in their service. Because there is a captive market. A similar thing happened to cable TV and even Netflix is heading that way. You'll also never escape in-content advertising. Subway and KFC ads appearing in Korean dramas, etc. Content providers are going to maximize their revenue as long as they don't shed subscribers. Once enough people are paying for premium, the danger of inserting ads will vanish. Because everyone has premium and everyone else is inserting ads.
The medium has to change chemically to cure. But it is the blue light that triggers that. They had to add stuff to absorb the blue so it does not cure too much around the spot.
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There aren’t offering anything new and even frontrun their customers. And with the GameStop fiasco, I think a lot of people realizes it was a bad business model. I don’t think they will be able to recover. It will drop even more if a recession ever hits.
I've seen many debates about whether or not a given Python code snippet was "best" or "Pythonic" but nowhere near the level of discourse (compared to C++) about whether or not it's correct. Perfect forwarding, anyone?
There's a difference between identifying things that you will need to overcome, mitigate, or work around in order to be successful (which is useful) and insisting that the existence of these things means the task is impossible or not worth trying (which is not useful).
No, that's he's no more qualified to "fix" Twitter than any other shmoe out there.
Nothing can be said to be certain except death, taxes, and advertising.
Ad revenue up 23% YoY
UK: Manchester to London rail ticket more expensive than flying to India
> hard time

With which you mean the process causes discomfort? Probably less so than being asthmatic and/or a host of other things, but yes.

Other than that there can be some psychological issues that make self-controlled treatment subjectively hard or impossible. But then we'd have found another condition that would need to be treated first, getting us back to where we started: Somebody running a study on the efficacy of a diet probably would want to preclude people psychologically unable to stick to it...
Google docs gets you 99% of the way there so long as you are doing a simple task, like a simple data table or a simple letter. For simple tasks it’s very user friendly and efficient. But it lacks features to do anything more complicated than that.
Goals of Care
Thanks, I'll make it more of a priority to explore an alternate name. Someone else also suggested Bastet so its on my mind.

Mau is cool too but for a lot of people I'd suspect it would be a meaningless word.
> Similarly I don't see why thermal calculations would require a particular geometry

I imagine a curve could have more error, or require more time, with an FTDT simulation, compared to something grid like.
It pushed me to read more and use NewPipe. If they block NewPipe or youtube-dl I'm done. More time to read. I was fine with a few ads and now it just feels insulting.
Contiki on an Apple II is not vintage for you?
While this implements FizzBuzz it does not actually end up doing the work at compile time.

You annotate get_fizzbuzz_equivalent() with const, so Rust would evaluate that on constant inputs at compile time, but that's not very interesting since it's basically a switch.

The use of const here does not oblige Rust to somehow figure out everywhere you can use this function and do the work at compile time since the inputs might be (and are here) variables. Sure enough if you try in Godbolt you will see that eliding const makes no real difference.

Rust's const today is far less powerful than something like C++ constexpr, I suspect that you can't really do what Nim did in a reasonable way with Rust. You could I'm sure get there with build.rs and/or proc macros, but that's not really in the spirit of this exercise.
I'm reminded of a recent survey I saw, discussing if NATO expansion post-soviet collapse was a mistake or not.

The Americans were all over the board. Some agreed strongly, some disagreed strongly.

The eastern Europeans were united - NATO expansion was vital to keeping eastern Europe independent.
Polish doesn't use those names, but a different system:

Poniedziałek (lit. After not working)
Wtorek (not sure)
Środa (also not sure)
Czwartek (lit. the fourth)
Piątek (possibly means drinking day?)
Sobota (not sure)
Niedziela (Not working)
I guess what mastodon (read as: the fediverse or activitypub) would need is a better visualization of community and interest discovery.

Every time some instance gets popular it's basically locked down afterwards and people tend to forget about it.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/category...

is what firefox points me to if I click on find more search engines from the settings
Crying because the person taking over is pushing for complete freedom of speech. That tells you everything you need to know about these people. You are the author and each tweet is a paragraph in your own digital book. At what point did book burning become an accepted practice?
Pharmacies Struggle to Use Up Supply of Paxlovid Covid Pills
Visual Studio 2022 macOS
Calm down. It's just a PMS joke.
Microsoft notches slight Q3 earnings beat as cloud revenue rises 26%
It depends in the issue, but IMAO on academia is not uncommon to spend about ten years studying a theme to became an expert on it. Plus university years. Plus school years. And there is a lot of inertia to not change your study subject.

Researchers in some parts of Europe spend around 25 years of their life (if I remember correctly the article) just trying to have a stable job, and this is criminal.

If you put an upper limit, the interval that remains is just too small to be profitable for the society and specially for the scientist. Nobody would want to do science.

Academics also spend a lot of time teaching, doing bureaucracy, and finding funds. So you have a highly trained people spending most of their expensive time not doing research.
And not only is Slack harder to search, free Slack instances limit history to 10,000 messages, so older messages effectively disappear.
A simple serverless WebAssembly hashing function
Agreed. (Although, for now, you can run caddy adapt on your Caddyfile to get the JSON you're looking for.)
I think this a really interesting take on social chat/collaboration!

The main reason I closed it was I felt disoriented when I opened the threads. Since it brought me to the end of the chat I had to scroll to the top to catch up (which has some loading lag) so it felt like I had to do too much work to get engaged. Perhaps the opening post could be pinned at least?

The other part I got kind of lost with was the lack of a back button to return to the topics. Using the browser isn’t an issue, but the way the UI is presented it seemed like it would be there but I didn’t see it.

Congrats on a cool project! It’s nice to see some fresh takes on social.
> Where does this mind store its memories and thoughts?

Why do memories and thoughts require "storage"? Why would such a being think that they do? Even for us humans, if that question seems natural to us, it may be because our ideas about the mind have been heavily influenced by materialist/physicalist/computationalist assumptions, which people at other times in human history (and even people in radically different cultures today) would not necessarily share. If you asked an educated person in mediaeval Europe or classical antiquity "where are memories and thoughts stored", the majority would probably have objected that your question makes no sense: "Memories and thoughts are immaterial, only material objects can be 'stored' in containers"

> If you were to ask this mind to answer that question (or it were to spontaneously put the question to itself, whether the auditory qualia is "your" voice or its own), what do you expect its answer would be?

Since it has no idea of "space", why would it have any idea of "storage", or that memories and thoughts are or ought to be stored "somewhere"? Your question assumes the idea of space, when that is an idea it lacks.
Also note the King of Denmark's role in opposing the Nazi occupation.

And even in England, in A Man Called Intrepid, William Stevenson notes that it was important that the secret services swore their oath to the king rather than the prime minister. That way, if Germany had conquered England and replaced the prime minister, the secret services could have continued fighting without feeling like traitors.
So why not get some Matias switches (3 to choose from), or a keyboard then? You can buy a switch tester from them and see if you like the feel of this implementation of it. It's too bad they don't send it out with some random keys attached as an option. https://matias.store/

If you don't want to bother with the tester, the grey quiet-click are roughly equivalent to cream dampeneds and are good for use in an office environment so that neighbours don't burst into tears at your acoustic assault in the open-concept floor plan. If this isn't an issue and noisier/bouncier is more fun, then white is what you want.

Tai-Hao also sometimes makes ALPS keycaps.
And memory safety! No C at the edge.
The wiki version may have more readable formatting: https://help.supermemo.org/index.php?title=Incremental_learn...
I assume it's the Pi day.
I love the diagrams of the cache<->DB cycle in normal vs. degenerate states. Those illustrate the problem very clearly and succinctly, and I hope they make it into a textbook some day. Kudos.
Ask HN: How to handle stress related diseases
Hi guys,

I have been suffering from CSCR, (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_serous_chorioretinopathy) for a few weeks now.
This is a disease that affects the vision in one eye. I am pretty sure it is related to stress at work.

Honestly I was very surprised because I always felt like I could take stress quite well. For now I try to reduce stress as much as possible but I'm scared to fall back in the future (I'm 27).

Has anyone similar issues? How did you handle it? Any ideas how to find the "right" balance of stress?
Find me 1 Finance professional that doesn't have Excel installed and ergo have Word and PowerPoint installed as part of office. These file formats (.pptx, .docx, and .xlsx) are first-class standards.

You don't even need to have office installed or paid for to view the files...see office.com
Small correction to the article - Alexander Karađorđević is not crown Prince of Serbia, but of Yugoslavia. I went to school with his sons, we were in the same house, same year - they went by “Prince” rather than Karađorđević - quite a few kids had fictitious surnames to avoid attention. They were regular and likeable dudes, liked skating, cars, hip-hop, bad 80’s movies, games. Nobody cared that they were princes, or treated them differently, as it wasn’t all that unusual at the school, and typically, the higher your rank, the less airs and graces and nobbery you bothered with.

Me, I’m a baronet - not that I ever use the title, or even tell anyone (these days - as a kid rubbing shoulders with outranking aristos it mattered far more to me) - I’ve grown to think the whole thing bloody stupid, as my politics careened wildly off to the left after a tumultuous start to adulthood - and as I realised I really didn’t want all the perceived responsibilities and expectations of an aristo - there are only so many balls and parties and royal enclosures you can go to before you’re sick to the eye teeth of it.

I guess the main thing that I saw among those heirs who were expected to actually take a throne, or were the primogeniture of a non-ruling family, was an overwhelming sense of obligation, the anticipation of a life run on rails, the desire to live absolutely wild here and now because later is a gilded cage. It’s hard to be an isolated and aloof aristo in the modern world - nobody is raised in court any more.

I can tell you that the millennial heirs of several European thrones are seriously sitting on the fence over whether they’ll take the baton - one, I know, definitely won’t - another probably will, but intends to fundamentally reshape the monarchy.
Yea it works but I wonder when they will slowly start to deter uBlock because they are losing hundreds of millions of dollars on both Google and YouTube.
Does that block ads that the YouTubers put right in their videos?
That's what I thought as well, though I would expect that'd appear in higher frequency - unless the bosses sent people to check.
Of course it can, but the question is what this sort of termination represents. Hopefully, it represents a serious showstopper bug that gets fixed immediately! If your program is built such that call stacks don't have reasonably deterministic behavior, it's essentially impossible to build a usable model of the program as a maintainer.
Being in the tech sector (embedded electronics), I find most people are negative / pessimistic on wild new ideas, and generally positive on incremental improvements. I think that's because we get exposed to a lot of 'new tech' that rarely lives up to it's proclaimed expectations. A few decades of that and it's a bit hard to not be pessimistic (or even cynical) about every new announcement of world changing technology.

I find that non-tech people, outside of a given area of expertise, tend to be the most positive on a _new thing_. Whether it's battery technologies, IoT, AI, whatever, there's a general hype-esque belief that the new technology is a _good thing_, but they can rarely articulate why or how it will be good. Then they ask engineers to start developing on it, with never telling anyone _why_ this is a good idea or what problem it's actually solving or how it's solving it in a good way.

I had a conversation with a mechanical engineer in our lunch room, who upon seeing Github Co-pilot, proclaimed that it would replace all of the embedded engineers on his team. I suppose this is optimism (significant technological progress), but also reeks of ignorance on what engineers actually do. The embedded guys see it as a useful tool though to help them code better by being exposed to other means of achieving very specific tasks.

So I'm negative on the idea of Github Co-pilot-esque services replacing engineers, even in the long run, but am positive on it (and other tools) evolving into something very helpful.

So with that said, I think I agree with some of the comments in this thread. If you come from a financially secure position, and have a strong financial safety net, then it's OK and good to be wildly optimistic - go try that new thing that may very well fail, because you're not destroying your lively hood in the process.

And beyond that, being optimistic or pessimistic about things in general has no real bearing on their outcomes, barring your own happiness - so just do what makes you feel OK at the end of the day.
And much higher write latency, assuming write consistency is important to you.
Is this built on existing standards for messaging like XMPP or ActivityPub?
My fear with any sort of passive standby approach is that when the disaster comes, that standby won't work, or the mechanism used to fail over to it won't work. I prefer schemes where the "failover" is happening all the time hence I can be confident it works.
True, that's one reason we haven't prioritized scripting too. Writing a plugin that is natively compiled in is just as easy and can perform even better.
500 maps to a set of business logic errors, sure. Why not?