skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, thanks for putting your math where your mouth is, but I'm sorry to admit that I just hear "spherical cow in a vacuum" in what you describe. I mean it, I really do appreciate you trying, but what you're describing sounds ridiculous to me.

Sorry for relying on investopedia again but, uh:

> Weak Axiom of Revealed Preference (WARP): This axiom states that given incomes and prices, if one product or service is purchased instead of another, then, as consumers, we will always make the same choice. The weak axiom also states that if we buy one particular product, then we will never buy a different product or brand unless it is cheaper, offers increased convenience, or is of better quality (i.e. unless it provides more benefits). As consumers, we will buy what we prefer and our choices will be consistent, so suggests the weak axiom.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/revealed-preference.asp

The word "axiom" is inappropriate here. This isn't science, it's a "just so" story. It's cereal box psychology. It's an attempt to dress up in big kids' clothes and I've got no respect for it.

> It sounds as if you imagine measuring utility as something that might need a brain scanner. We haven't thought that way since about World War II.

That's a shame, disdaining the source of real data. Of course brain scanners weren't that good back then, eh? But you don't need them. Pupil dilation, changes in pulse and respiration, capillary response, there are all sorts of signals that let you see "inside" the brain w/o fancy technology.

> I do expect you to know it if you intend to pontificate about it.

First, I'm not pontificating, I'm decrying. Second, I don't need to know details about the nature of the BS, I can tell from the smell alone. Economics is in the same epistemological boat as Numerology and Astrology. Just as I don't need to study those in depth to know they're BS, I don't need to know much about economics to see that it's barren and, frankly, ridiculous.

> I know nothing about Ohm's Law

You might want to learn. Not only would learning electrical engineering give you a great working example of how to use math to reason about real world phenomenon, and unlike economics you can actually use it reliably to build useful devices.

> I find this basic commitment to intellectual humility helpful.

It would have been most welcome and helpful a couple of comments ago.

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See, the thing about Ohm's law is you don't have to take my word for it, or anyone's, not even Ohm's. You can build the circuit, apply the meter, and measure it for yourself.
Humility or arrogance doesn't enter into it.

The problem isn't that economists want to study the economy and are doing it badly, the problem is that they want to be treated as if they are physicists, and we want to treat them that way because of politics and psychology. And even that's isn't a problem until we make mistakes and our blind following of the not-physicists' "science" prevents us from stopping or fixing the errors. Next thing you know, the Aral Sea is gone!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea
> Any meditation practise that involves mindfulness and concentration done for more than 15 or 20 mins a day carries this risk.

Looks like mindfulness to 15 or 20 minutes a day is a sensible choice then.

> Steve Jobs was a devout Zen Buddhist, so he sat many thousands of hours of zazen

Steve Jobs was a powerful and a very influential man. He didn't have a boss urging him to be productive 24/7 like a field employee has. Investors expected his company to deliver working products. And it delivered all of that.

> I do find it funny though when companies train their employees in mindfulness. It’s almost like they want workers who have less emotional connection with their work. As I said elsewhere, it’s all a matter of whether you follow the instructions. If you do, it will have adverse effects.

IMHO they want their employees to become stoic productivity machines that make no demands and cope with whatever shitty working condition they set up.
Gotta love "Haste (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach)"
> Probably heretical on HN as it flies in the face of the whole tech start-up dream, which is for a couple tech bros to get massively rich at exit after overworking and under-rewarding a few employees

I feel like a substantial portion of HN is basically College Republicans who majored in CS.
Sony dude. The screen ratio makes it feel small in the hand.
It's the same thing with stack overflow/exchange, in which good questions and answers not uncommonly get downvoted and or removed. I think there is an epidemic of petty academic tyrants. These are people who are objectively quite smart but maybe not as accomplished as they wished or hoped so they take out their frustrations on others in the only way they can have control in a world in which they are otherwise irrelevant and powerless. Universities , graduate departments churn out so many students relative to the supply of good paying jobs annually that not everyone will be able to achieve their idealization of career success. What I do know: the TED talk stuff will not work on these people.
It has become politicized over the years and has a pro business, libertarian or conservative viewpoint for the most part. And, of course. There are tech fanboys en masse.

There is still a bunch of technical stuff but that always dilutes with popularity.
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>>Women also pick up a huge amount of work in the form of chores, childcare, emotional labor, and general running of the house<<

It seems implicit in this statement. I'm also the cook (my wife doesn't know how), we split laundry, handle child care together when possible (with my mother coming over to help). My wife is in school and doesn't earn an income ATM and we aren't sure what happens when she graduates, but even with me working full time chores are split as I work from home. Different people have different strengths. We have a son and there are some things I like that he does that she doesn't.
Sourcegraph CTO (and author of the post) here. There's no part of our product that seeks to track software productivity?

We do have a feature (https://about.sourcegraph.com/code-insights) built around code search that lets devs define their own metrics around things like progress of big migrations and anti-patterns + code smells. This tweet is a good summary of my philosophy around code-related metrics: https://twitter.com/beyang/status/1524259425451577344.

Insights from treating code as data are best discovered by the people who know the dataset through and through—i.e., developers. Another project we've released in this vein is https://codestat.dev, built on top of Comby (incidentally also on the HN front page right now), which was created by a member of our team, Rijnard, as part of his PhD thesis on automatic program transformation.

We're developers by trade and by heart, and are motivated by making tools and mental models that devs actually find useful and that boost the creative spark of coding. If there's something we can improve about our product or message to further this mission, I'd love to hear your feedback!
I think you are mostly right, but I'd rank it like this (from best to worst combo of quality for time + cost):

1) "high end" webcam (~$200)

2) DSLR + capture card you already own

3) Any Webcam

[...]

10) Buying a DSLR and capture card only for this

You miss out on most of the benefits of a nice still camera when you use it this way - 90% of people will have less trouble and cost by just buying a better dedicated webcam. That said, some people need a nice webcam and need to produce video content - they SHOULD use this setup (or at least try it). Purpose-made webcams are "bad" as general purpose cameras but good at what they are sold to do - deliver good enough video that you expect to get murdered by compression.
And if you don't go that route, please make sure to turn off your camera.

From what I've seen people being late is more often a problem of the people and not the hardware.

And if after three years of remote work, you weren't capable of getting a working microphone, camera and stable internet connection, I'd con that as a people problem, too. Working meaning you can actually hear the other person and not only their fan.
I’m not sure why is this needed, given we already have a proper international body for precisely this?

(Also, one thing that would make a difference would be a mechanism to try war crimes if the perpetrators _are_ American; right now it’s not possible due to Hague Invasion Law, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_...)
My apologies, I was not referring to that post but rather to the (inferred on my part) concept that popular vote on something should be the deciding factor for something becoming law. If I misinterpreted, my bad.
As the article states:

> being compatible only with ANSI-capable terminals is a feature, not a bug

Driving old hardware terminals (as opposed to terminal emulators) is a fun stunt, not something of actual modern value. Every modern terminal emulator supports ANSI escape sequences. Some features are supported by a subset of terminals, but you can either 1) probe for those features by asking the terminal, which some terminals support, or 2) try them and have graceful degradation if they're not supported, or 3) have configuration options to use them, or 4) don't use them.

For every one case in which terminfo allows you to support some obscure non-ANSI terminal, there are many many more cases where terminfo won't happen to have a definition of the user's terminal (or won't know all the capabilities of the user's terminal) and you'll have less functionality than if you just used ANSI escapes. This is especially true over SSH and similar.
That kind of error would apply all the time.

But the blog post states: "a calculation error that only manifested in scenarios where the actual ping was significantly lower than the target latency".
I think the video game "Dead Cells" was created by a co-op
This makes me sad. This is not because you dislike Picasso. It is because you're making art an issue of classism.

If we just ignore the aesthetic of Picasso's art, you can categorize Picasso as a genius purely on his influence of other artists that follow him. It's possible to dismiss his influence by saying those other artists are fools or deranged. However, Picasso's influence is undisputed and absolute. Purely on that metric, he is classified as a genius. My hope is that anyone who is reading this will ask "Why is Picasso influential?" instead of "Why would anyone like this?"

It is possible to dislike Picasso and appreciate his influence on art.
It was a 1-bit processor. But "1 bit commands" is probably a mistake on my part. Perhaps it'd be more accurate to say "commands over 1-bit registers", or something along those lines.
>but it's more of a language that an intelligent agent may operate in, opposed to the self-sufficient structure

yes, this kind of functional intelligence seems distinct from an actual living entity, which is the thing that uses subordinate functions to pursue goals and has some interior state, motivations and some sort of architecture. To reduce intelligence to tokens predicting more tokens is kind of like saying f(x), just solve for intelligence. When prediction itself is only partially what intelligent systems are about.

Agent is a very important word because it's accurate ("a means or instrument by which a guiding intelligence achieves a result") And it's the latter I think we ought to be after when talking about 'general ai'.
I understand the cynicism about Substack thoughtbois. I send my emails to a very small group of people I’ve met in real life, and we chat and discuss many of these topics in person.

Question away! If I don’t stick the landing on the follow-up email (which I’m still working on - original email got too long hence the truncation), you can say that you were right ;)
> I truly do not believe even 50% of people who claim to like Picasso actually like Picasso's paintings. I'm very confident the majority are people who say they do to fit into a group.

What happened to "assume good faith"? People assume everything others do now is for clout, or virtue signaling, or somehow disingenuous. It's fine not to like popular things without assuming everyone else is lying about liking it.
This is the standard argument as to why no government regulation is necessary -- "because you can just walk away/change jobs!"

You are lucky because you have the privilege of being able to do this. Not everyone does. A lot of people need they job they have to continue, and their boss will fire them for not responding to an email at 9pm.

Those are the people that need government protection and regulation, or a union, or both. Because their employer won't do it unless forced to and they don't have to privilege to ignore it like you do.
I don't think so. I'd imagine that stuff was lost to the ages.

Today's compilers that generate a similar set of code are OpenCL, CUDA, DirectX / HLSL, Opengl's GLSL, Apple Metal, AMD HIP, and Intel ISPC.

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Today's computers (or really, GPUs), aren't 4096x wide devices or 65536x wide devices. GPUs are 32-wide or 64-wide natively, and then MIMD'd into parallel parts after that. (AKA: CUDA has the Grid -> Block -> Thread model. I'm pretty sure that Star-Lisp was only Grid -> Thread, with no "intermediate" block in between).

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You probably can get a similar effect as the original CM-2 by compiling into AND/OR/XOR and shift-instructions for AVX512 though?

Or maybe AND/OR/XOR + shift instructions on AMD's CDNA2+ processor (64x wide and 64-bit, for 4096-wide SIMD per core). It'd be pretty terrible, all else considered, because modern GPUs have a slight MIMD factor there.
EDH less so though due to the bigger deck size and 1 copy per card limitation. This means you end up with bigger groups of cards with common synergies vs specific sets of cards you need to draw in regular 60-card.
has a pro business. libertarian or conservative viewpoint for the most part.

I can't help but find that statement absolutely hilarious. I would say HN used to have a libertarian, pro-business viewpoint, but not so much anymore. From my perspective, the prevailing zeitgeist here has absolutely drifted to a somewhat anti-business, "woke mob", left-ish wing mindset.

So maybe the site is really an online version of Rorschach blob, where what you see is determined more by your own inner psyche than anything else? Dunno.
eff merc news. I hate them.
I would love a good replacement for Tree. I've never found another app that does what it does.
The job market is a marketplace. Workers have a right to say no, employers have a right to hire someone else... so ask your employer in plain english what is expected from you and should they deviate from that, go somewhere else. If someone is willing to work under those conditions, that's their prerogative. This nation is at full employment, hiring good people is increasingly difficult, it's hard to make the case workers don't have options. They do and so do you. Salaries are increasing at an incredible rate, seems reasonable to me that expectations are changing along with them. Maybe the compromise is taking a lower salary or changing companies. Compromises have to be made...
The "movie" example music had me laughing at the similarity to Bob's Burger Patty Cake scene. https://youtu.be/GfCkzqJZAR0?t=145
I mean sure, as long as this doesn't become corrupt.

Maybe we should have an international transparency court instead. Much harder to get away with corruption if certain things are done out in the open.
> It is nowhere near Standard/Caltech/MIT in competition

Source?
Look like non twin brothers to me.
It was cheaper to disable video and change my profile pic to "SEELE 01 SOUND ONLY SELECTED".
I use a Mokose 4k USB webcam with a 5-50mm zoom lens that cost under $100 for the set.

I experimented with a huge variety of mounting options before settling on a SmallRig adjustable arm clamped to the top of my monitor mount, so it peeks over the top of my monitor, basically where a built-in webcam would be.

To me it’s the best compromise between control, quality, and price. Having physical control of zoom, focus, and exposure is amazing. Meetings start up instantly, no software to mess with.

To be fair I spent another $150ish trying various mounting options, but those are shared between the camera, mic (Rode NT-USB), and lighting. Eventually I gave up on the camera light and fixed my room lighting. A more frugal person could get a similar setup for $250 all in.
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> but surely you can see that experienced software developers have somewhat more basis to make claims about type systems

But experienced software developers, more than "random people", should know that if they make a conjecture, it's tested and isn't verified, they should reconsider their conjecture.

> You mentioned the TypeScript study, it’s not like there’s no evidence for believing this like there is with homeopathy.

There is no evidence for believing this. If you believe the evidence for TS vs JS in particular, then you should also believe the failure to find a more general effect.

> I mean, how could they not?

That's an interesting question and there are many answers; I've been interested in the complex subject of software correctness for years, and have written a bit about it (https://pron.github.io/). The more you study software correctness, the more you learn how complicated it is and that there are no easy answers. In particular, you learn that it's not true that more soundness is always a good path toward more correctness. But if you accept your preconceived notions over empirical study, then there's little hope for making actual progress.

> Where are those bugs in a statically typed program, if they haven’t been eliminated?

I gave you an example of where they are. If you want to go down the path of thinking about the theory of software correctness, start by convincing yourself that for every JavaScript program there is a Haskell program (perhaps living entirely inside an Either monad) that behaves the same way.
https://www.ecma-international.org/publications-and-standard...
> I've worked in environments where they pay tens of thousands of dollars per room to set them up with professional cameras

Me too. The value isn't so much in the quality of video, its things like PTZ control of the camera and preset control of the position of the camera. For example, in a larger room you can click a button 'whiteboard' on the control panel and it will pan up and zoom in to the whiteboard.
A lot of any kind of popularity might work in this way, not just Art! Did people truly think that 70s hair looked incredible? You might enjoy the work of Pierre Bourdieu, who writes about these issues in depth. There is a reason mass media works.

On the other hand, there is a social context to style and taste - we grow up in a certain aesthetic environment, and may feel true attachment to that, although a large part of it because we grew up with it! So the two factors of authentic enjoyment and social influence don't necessarily need to be in conflict.

Finally, a lot of things are popular for the straightforward reason that large groups of people actually like them. It doesn't even mean they're good. I can't stand most of the best-seller novels personally, but enough people buy and read them. A "Live Laugh Love" piece is probably more popular household item than a given print from Picasso..

Edit: You might also be interested in checking out Rene Girard, with his theory of desire and mimicry. Why people might imitate high-brow tastes etc.
Turkey, NATO, Ukraine: Why Erdogan’s grievance is more than Sweden and Finland
Agreed, tastes like a mix between beef & chicken. Sadly barely any restaurants serve kangaroo.

I would much prefer a variety of meats that are more sustainably farmed with choices varying by season and availability limited by ecological factors with open-market pricing (with a fairly heavy tax) to naturally introduce a premium on delicacies.
Oh no! I clearly have a bug. I develop in dark mode and apparently broke something during this post and didn't verify light mode. I will look into it now!
Author of the post here. This really resonates with me. One of the best pieces of advice I've received in my life as a programmer, from my first manager actually, was "focus on getting an end-to-end system up and running first, no matter how janky, and then refine from there".
What to do when one player is lagging is a design choice. You can instead keep the game going and feed in their delayed inputs.
I'm certainly no expert on Argentina, but I'm talking about dollars backed by the US government, not pesos that the Argentine government was pretending were worth a dollar. I'm sure even when the hard peg was in effect it would have been impossible to actually convert the bulk of the pesos to dollars - I'm sure no foreign bank would cooperate. This was no different than some crypto coin pretending to be worth a dollar.
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Amen. Can confirm this 100% - I just spent the past two years doing robust physical tech product presentations with multi-cam setups and many different video streaming configurations. It always takes quite a bit of effort to set up and something doesn’t work right randomly all-the-fucking-time.
Enjoy Technology went SPAC IPO recently is now running out of cash in a month
A lot of immature comments regarding Windows vs. Linux in the readme... kind of a turnoff to be honest.
That small punk bands are a sensible target for data hoarding isn't surprising, but you know one I found out that's surprising?

Riverdance. Yeah, the Eurovision pause show from 1994 which became a huge hit and started a decade-long fad of various rhytmic dance ensembles touring the world and actually doing really well. Fantastic commercial success, of course. They did many CD releases, and there are a lot of differences between the recordings: the cast of performers, whether they have stepping noises mixed in, even the track listing. But you can only get the last of them on streaming services.
yes, which is why the rest of my comment was about BOINC
There's a way to multi-boot: https://xnux.eu/p-boot-demo/ (using a Pinephone bootloader)

You can also multi-boot using kexec (using Linux to boot other Linux image) or just by booting into initramfs that has a GUI program for selecting how to continue boot (which root filesystem to start from), etc.
> You will be very, very hard pressed to source a pre-existing, high quality, non-exclusive 5.4" display with a hole punch

How about getting one of those foldable screens in the larger standard size, and then just... tucking away the excess inside the phone body?

Y'know, like the marketing material for the iPhone X claimed it was doing: https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-0fd6daf2b9b742bf5dbf10... (though it actually wasn't.)
IIUC he is also the main developer. He has like 20x times the number of commits of the other contributors but only 2x the number of LOC of the other contributors.

> Should clarify that Mark does NOT own the project

Is the github repo just a mirror? Is it an old project migrated to github?
The CM-2 also had hardware floating-point units (off-the-shelf chips from Weitek, paired with groups of 32 bit-serial processors, via custom chips with "transposers", which would transpose 32-bit floats read bit-serially out of 32 bit-processors memories, into 32-bit floats presented in parallel to the FPU chips).
Careful there, using the term "replacement" is fraught at the moment in this context.
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> you can categorize Picasso as a genius purely on his influence of other artists that follow him.

That's a dangerous game. You can surely think of plenty of counter examples here in history and modern times.
No worries.

I agree with you in opposition to the notion that we should even have direct democracy for most, if not all, issues.