skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feels like some cartoon villain stereotype of a libertarian. Actual libertarians are big into contracts and contract law. They aren't against agreements, let alone politeness or manners. Heck one of the reasons I eventually became a libertarian (UK sense) myself was due to noticing how unfailingly polite and unassuming they all of were despite often being faced with the most vile hatred.

Consider how nonsensical your comparison really is. The problem in question appears in Russia, a place where the largest official political alternative to Putin is the former Communist party. It's the opposite of a libertarian country. Places like New Hampshire or even relatively non libertarian places like the UK on the other hand, simply can't imagine behaviour like that. It's the whole reason it's an interesting anecdote to begin with.
Yeah, it came preinstalled on my Surface laptop.
It was a survivorship bias point but I didn’t make that clear.

I meant if you meet X people at a random point in their career then on average more than half will make it to the end because some of the original sample died before you sampled the population. Basically older people would have a lower chance of their luck running out even if they where all equally incompetent.

At least assuming the original population isn’t dying of something else vastly more often etc.
What's with these "throwaway" accounts saying stuff is "laughable" without an opinion to back it up?

Can you explain what is laughable here?
I first rejected your claim that “Most politicians are exasperatingly dumb” (etc.), and you called me a “bootlicker to power” for it. Now you’re retreating to “not everyone who is popular on twitter or Instagram is a master manipulator”. Sure, probably not. But that was not the claim which I rejected.

> They didn't rise to the top of a traditional competitive scene like a college exam or a race to a technology

Not every competitive scene is your preferred kind. The political scene is just as competitive, and I would imagine that it takes just as much work and skill to rise to the top there as in what I would assume to be your field. It might not be the skills you personally desire, but that does not make these people “dumb”, and anyone who believes this (as claimed by various propaganda) is being gullible and falling for simple lies created to make them feel good about themselves. It is often proclaimed, by feel-good rage-inducing propaganda from your own side, that your opposing side is stupid, or evil for its own sake. One should never fall for this; one should never assume or believe that your opposition is stupid or even evil. People have their own (albeit sometimes alien) motivations and skills, which will be hidden, either by the ones reporting it, or by the people themselves. But people aren’t, on the whole, stupid and malevolent, nor do those few who are rise to power.
You could put that into a VBA formula, although it wouldn't be as fast unfortunately (as I learned when I tried simplifying excel formulae - which are _compiled_ whereas VBA I think is interpreted? - in any case, excel was like 50x faster for me).

I assume you have tried the '$' signs to see if they will help?
To be honest, I have yet to see a company where internal things are not mostly stuck together with duct tape.
Why Stoicism isn’t just about you
“Heritable” doesn’t mean innate or genetic. Shared environment is a reason something is heritable. You are created inside your mother.

Also, if you’re hanging out with people who talk about genetic IQ all the time you should really get a better hobby.
> This includes daily calls with dozens of video participants

The real question is, are you one of the video participants too? Or are you just watching others but not sending any video of your own?
Your problem isn't that you're old. It's that you don't understand how little you know in this space and this renders you too arrogant to learn anything new. New to you, that is, because the concept of pattern matching is actually many decades old. You encounter it in undergraduate PLT coursework, famous comp sci textbooks like SICP, and virtually any language outside the imperative/OO lineage.

Thinking you have an I-told-you-so moment with static typing and dynamic languages only shows you don't understand the details and tradeoffs in the design space. For example TypeScript's approach to static typing is very different to Java's and these differences reflect consideration of the problems being solved, JavaScript's specific use cases, its history and the path dependence of its design. Because these details are invisible to you the whole thing is simplified in your mind to "everyone is switching to static typing just like I said they should!" In fact this type of prognostication was never useful or meaningful. The hard part wasn't deciding to build static typing onto JavaScript. The hard part was determining specifically what that should look like, how it would fit nicely with the language and then doing the work of building it and driving adoption.

TypeScript is successful not because it is static typing but because it is a form of static typing that's exceptionally well suited to JavaScript and its use cases. If people like you had their way it would have been a failed attempt to bolt a Java style type system onto JavaScript, worsening the design debt in a language and ecosystem that is already loaded with it. This already happened on a smaller scale with classes in ES6 which were driven by Java devs writing JavaScript and wanting something familiar instead of trying to understand the language.

You might be right that adding pattern matching to Java isn't a great idea but at the moment your disagreement is based in ignorance. You've been given ample explanations of pattern matching in this thread. Put down the ego and take some time to learn on your own.
maybe the thing to do would have been to just have two different buttons instead
Sure technically, given the existence of time every philosopher is aging.

Satre was 41 in 1946.
Fancy words, but would it even be...an open, accessible web making differences in the lives of billions?

All mobile carriers in my country (or any, I'm guessing) go to great lengths to extract every last penny from my call plans. Should we go back to letters then?
> Almost all modern tanks have reactive-armor on top.

Well it's good for Ukraine then that Russia doesn't really have a lot of modern tanks.

> Let alone lol Javelin with top-down, 900mm+ penetration, and tandem charge.

A Javelin can engage tanks directly if they're obscured from above of if the distance to target is insufficient for flying on a top-down trajectory, and for those situations it needs the 900mm+ penetration (otherwise the direct attack mode would be unusable and would not be provided as a feature). So you can't make the inference that because Javelin has 900mm+ penetration, top-down attacks require 900mm+ penetration.
Python and Pandas > Excel for anything outside of exploratory spreadsheet-y like calculations (I work frequently with 200k rows + of data, I _had_ to learn Python as Excel was too slow eventually and broke...now having a programming language to do formulae, I can't go back for any of my production processes, using excel now mostly for pivot tables and exploratory analysis (Excel is pretty awesome at that)
Userbenchmark.com is worse than useless. It’s straight up lies.
> There is a very good chance that someone is writing a reply with some suggestion as to how I should eat so that I'm not hungry.

I will write about a personal experience that has nothing to do with selecting different foods - intermittent fasting.

First I thought this was a torture people put themselves up to. Then a few friends tried it, said you get used to it, and this made me curious. I used to say black coffee was torture, until I stuck with it for a week and now I hate sugar in it - an eye opener that what I thought was an absolute truth about my preferences could be turned around with so easily.

So I tried intermittent fasting. The first few days sucked, I was uncomfortable and moody in the morning, and starving by the time of lunch. Then I got used to it, didn't feel hungry anymore and stuck with it for a year - lost 10 kgs whike barely* thinking about it.

* I didn't lose weight for the first month, then I realized I was over compensating with big meals and eating more junk (believing the fasting would compensate it - it didn't). After I got back to my regular habits when eating, the diet was a breeze.
I have to get up and walk to the window, so looking it up in the terminal is much faster. But I agree that it feels somewhat detached from nature. Also the thermometer at the window varies a lot with direct sunlight or wind, so i find these weather services give a better estimate to what i should be wearing when i go outside.
We have very many of these in Belgium. Their purpose seems to be mostly to refrain cyclists from using their right to cycle side by side in the urban areas, and cheaply prop up the political numbers for 'cycling infrastructure' while avoiding diehard motorist backlash.

Even after decades of use, they still confuse the road users. Cyclists that think of them as bicycle lanes (wrong), and most motorists that think of them as just a part of their normal car lane (right).

My heuristic has always been 'if you can create it with a bucket of paint and a brush it is not a bicycle path'.
In what circumstances would a ‘try_push’ fail on an unbounded queue?
On a bounded queue it would fail when the queue is full.

The size of the queue can be read from a config file, and is tuned to the capability of the machine.
I just posted it. Probably half a dozen if it's anything like any of my others.

> Hersheys is indeed marked as a fancy import in Europe (as are most American snacks).

Then you don't have to imagine?
You can believe the information coming out of the war zone is too corrupted to draw conclusions without being motivated by wanting to disagree with the New York Times.

There have been several major, heavily hyped stories about the war so far that just weeks later were admitted to be deliberate lies to booster Ukrainian morale. The Ghost of Kiev and his many kills: never existed. The "fuck you Russian battleship" guy who turned out to be captured, not heroically self sacrificed. Etc. These events weren't mere exaggerations, they were entirely made up.

Given this it's pretty reasonable for rational people to assume we have no idea how the war is going. After all, for every made up Russian kill that gets detected there must be many more that don't. And the same in the opposite direction with Russian state media of course.
Video encode is also hardware-accelerated these days. J5005 may be Nehalem performance but unlike Nehalem it has a hardware video encoder onboard. Intel has had it for a long time, I think maybe back to Sandy or Ivy days so it’s basically in everything at this point. It’s not archival quality but it’s more than fine for videoconferencing starting from around Haswell. Goldmont actually has a fairly modern media block (newer than skylake - it has full hevc main10 decode and hdmi 2.0b support) that is backported from the Ice Lake architecture during the years Intel stalled out on 10nm.

I’m just using Nehalem and Conroe as a touchstone that people understand in terms of cpu performance. That is what you get in general cpu performance, but it’s also got better media support and crypto acceleration and so on, so it’s more usable today. Actually a closer look at the numbers puts it just below Sandy Bridge i5 actually.

AMD cpu users (non-apu) and RX 6500/6400 owners obviously need to look elsewhere however. NVIDIA’s 1030 chips are ancient pascal based crap but AMD dropping encoder support on a chip designed during the pandemic era of work-from-home is a bit tone-deaf.

(Yes, 6500 and 6400 were designed during the pandemic, the architecture took longer to develop but 6500 wasn’t the lead ship in its architecture, and taping out a new chip configuration takes much less time than designing a whole architecture from scratch… AMD definitely knew it would be used as a desktop chip too. It was a deliberate space-saving move in the face of their wafer shortages, not something they got blindsided by.)
This is a nice story but this:

> Bankruptcies in the US ensued

Never happened. What happened is that the US voluntarily shutdown their oil production out of concerns for the environment.

So however this idea of the Russians and Saudis would surely make for a good plan, it's more suited for the plot of a new TV series.
I have friends who are non-science PhDs and absolutely believe anything published in a science journal must be absolutely sound.

Before I started reading I thought, "alas, its going to be pseudo-science again right?".... and as far as I can see, yes, basically it is.

1. Logical bits are not thermodynamic bits, so a thermodynamic analysis of the brain can only be compared to a thermodynamic analysis of CPUs (if one wishes to compare at all)

2. Every phrase which begins "suppose, assume, conjecture" introduces fatal assuptions into the whole project, extremely few are defensible. The idea that a single neurone is "computing" whilst its "communication" with others is non-computational in a logical sense is clearly false. One can make a thermodynmic distinction between energy "of the neurone" and "of thier 'communication'" this distinction has no relevance to a computational-logical model of the brain as a computational system.

3. The frequent reference to thermodynamic limits of "computation" (in a logical sense) as a baseline for comparison with (abitary) parts of the brain, is meaningless. The thermodynamic efficiency of the brain is interesting only insofar as any possible logical model of the brain seems to imply vastly more "computational resources". And vastly more thermodynamic resources than CPUs have. Physical limits on theoretical computation pertain, if they are even themsevles coherent (which is disputed), to the absolute minimal possible "piece" of reality, not even, i'd say, to any measurable phenomenon. As soon as a system has to engage in measurement, i'd say it would be millions+ times less "efficient" than 'physical limit's would suggest.

One "trick" to see through the pseudoscience of computational neurobiology is simply to apply its methods to actual CPUs and computers. With the above assumptions, this paper would conclude that only one operation in a transistor is "computing" anything, the energy required to do that is "the energy of computation"... and the rest of the energy used across CPU(-RAM-etc.) was "merely communication".

As-if all algorithms were logically specified as a purely parallel series of switch-flips. No, algorithms (in a computation-logic) sense have nothing to do with switch flips. And their implementation on digital computers requires many, serial and parallel and "thermodynamic communication" between them to perform the computation in question.
> In what circumstances would a ‘try_push’ fail on an unbounded queue?

When you have an out-of-memory situation.

The thing you are trying to express is that you want a queue that stops working only when it physically can't work. Putting arbitrary large numbers in config files is not the way to express it.
Portal Demake for Nintendo 64
It can happen by accident, eg. https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/04/12

Archived version of the linked commit: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/revision/b80bedc... (which removes the feature entirely)
Back in college, I used to sell niche stuff to make some extra money. Did that for some years after college too - as I had built up a pretty decent number of customers.

Free shipping from larger companies started to change the mentality of many buyers. It was now expected that you too could / should offer free shipping, while maintaining low prices. Of course, small sellers like me don't have the economy of scale to offer such things, without jacking the price considerably.

My second observation was that dealing with the "free" demographics was such a hassle, it is almost never worth it. People that are bargain hunters tend to be more demanding, and for some reason have higher expectations. The only disputes I EVER had, were with those kind of buyers - on extremely cheap items (think under $5). I even got into disputes with people over freebies - i.e. I sent them some free stuff, and they didn't like those.

So on quitting this all together, I figured out that if you're gonna be a small-volume seller, you're better off focusing on the premium / quality segment. It's extremely difficult to compete against amazon on price and shipping.
How long do those thoughts last? I used to eat a lot of snacks past dinner, and then tried intermittent fasting - after an (annoying) week without that habit, my body just got used to it and stopped craving for them.
- project on GitHub: https://github.com/lambertjamesd/portal64

Check out as well:

- Nintendo 64 Architecture -- a practical analysis: https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/nintendo-64/)

- Awesome N64 Development: https://n64.dev/
Doesn't the brain, too? It's blood-cooled. Being too hot makes it hard to think.
> British pound has enjoyed a long history and was used as a currency for international trade until early 20st century. Then dollar took over.

The British Pound is still worth about the same proportionately to the dollar as it always was, and no-one would look at you funny for paying for stuff in pounds.
Absolutely, Casey didn't really care about attribution, but he was angry that the devs have dismissed this simple approach as being too complex even if it was the most obvious design decision to do.
Containers do not sanitize what programs send to the terminal emulator
I think the idea is that we wouldn't need piracy if media would enter the public domain after a sensible amount of time. Now that disney + sony are essentially legislative branches of the us government we can be sure that nothing of value will enter the public domain ever again.
Hipsters gonna hipster
In simplified terms, IQ tests test "logical thinking ability". It has nothing to do with reading or higher education.
On another note, it also has nothing to do with empathy, ethical responsibility etc. so the glorification of someone with a high IQ sometimes baffles me a little. One could be a high IQ tyrant.
What??? I don't think so.
I’m reminded of the old discussion of which clock program for X11 consumed the least resources and screen size. It concluded with something like: “Of course, the clock which consumes no resources, and does not take any screen space, is the clock which hangs on your wall.”.
Fun to see that we share some very similar ideas with Replibyte - an open source tool to seed a dev database with real data. https://github.com/Qovery/replibyte
Engineers are not UX designers, so their opinion on UX has little value imo.
Actually the opposite. Pharma making people addicted: Opioid epidemic and all.
I was listening to a podcast recently where a left-wing host had a right-wing guest. The guest said it was strange that in the right there are so many subgroups that are all infighting and disparate, but the left sees them as a monolithic whole. And the host said that they was very funny, because his impression is that broadly opposite: the left is fractured and the right, despite the cliques and subgroups, generally sticks together. Which is what has been phrased as "the right falls in line, the left falls in love".

So it seems that everyone (or at least many) have an inherent bias to view the "other" as much less nuanced then they are themselves. The thought that a left-winger might oppose Pfizer in some ways while supporting the vaccine[1] is as unexpected as a left-winger opposing Obama's drone policies to someone who doesn't see the detail of the other side.

And the same goes in reverse, I hasten to add. And the same goes for every other A Vs B situation: the other side are all humans too and humans are complicated.

[1]: how is this even a left-right thing?
Right - it’s why I said “in the abstract.” You could do it and still have a log-linear format. Base 10 works great for real-world distributions.

Thanks for making and ossing circllhist. I’ve been close by to the whole “what’s the OTel histogram going to be” discussion for the last many months and learned a lot from that. That discussion is what introduced me to circllhist and got me using them.
Well, they could host it in some eastern Ukraine city. Granted they ask the Ukrainian armed forces to stop the bombing that have been going on since 2014 ;)
Yes, Phones Can Reveal If Someone Gets an Abortion
> It’s a simpler hypothesis than there being rampant, apparently undetectable fraud.

Undetectable? I know 7 people that were targeted and defrauded, and unless you live under a rock, you probably know someone too.

I get 2 scam robocalls a week, 5 scam emails a week, where do you think all of them are getting my nyumber, name and address?

Now, how do I prove where these fraudsters get their data so that I cna file a lawsuit?
I think there are two approaches for that:

1. Count your calories and pick food that let's you stay within your goals.

2. Do intermittent fasting. After a few days, (some?) people's body just adapt and stop craving for food during the fasting hours - I was a late-night snacker but after doing it for a week, the cravings diminished a lot, so much that I stuck with it for a year.
they say there are only slight differences between each group
Geohot is a good example of a smart guy falling for the good old map and territory fallacy.

We all use simplified models, even outside of Science/Engineering. But the models are, unfortunately, always exhibiting pathological edge cases.

I am always a bit disappointed/sad when I see people like him making such gross oversimplifications leading to grandiose claims with almost nothing to back them up.
Seemed great, until I installed it and tried to use it. Apparently, you need to keep the app in the foreground to work, making it relatively useless for now.

Looking forward to it getting a proper MVP/beta release in the future :)
It’s a bad hypothesis to argue that someone born in 1985 scored lower in IQ in 2003, than someone born in 1975 scored in 1993, due to a category of devices, for which the first widely adopted was released in 2007.
I don't disagree, money is just one dimension of the whole edifice. I guess I'd distinguish between depreciating and appreciating assets: youthful beauty is fleeting, so in terms of long-term payoff a man's better off cultivating the 'hot dad' look, so that their attractiveness peaks between 30-50. Confidence, humour, are good things to build up that stick around- I'd wrap that all up in 'your personality', which I agree is good to cultivate. I'd guess it's roughly equally important as your financial situation (and the two are intertwined/interdependent to some degree).

Lastly, fitness is a red queen's race, kind of like aging; time works against you, and the worse your body gets the harder it is to get fit (fitness protects against a lot of chronic problems that make exercise harder) so there's never a better time to get/stay fit than now.

TL:DR; I agree that everything you mentioned is inherently valuable and will also help you get women, so long as we don't forget money and competence!
Thanks for reply. Yes, if it was just for Excel I'd make a user defined function that returned a text value. I wanted the formula to work the same on Libre/Open office and on Google sheets so I went for an actual spreadsheet formula. Actually, the ';' separator came from the LibreOffice version.

'$' signs for A1? I'd still need to search and replace for A1 each time I needed to convert an angle in a different cell but I take your point that I could move the output around more easily. Speed does not seem to be an issue (the rest of the spreadsheet has calls to trig functions by the score)
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