skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the term you are looking for is an "appeal to nature" which differs from the naturalistic fallacy. My comment was not appealing to nature, in that it made no judgement - good OR bad - in defining the synthesis and self-infusion of hormones as unnatural. It just is unnatural. By definition. In contrast with the OP's comment, I believe that's something we should all be able to accept without strife.

While it's true that everything we do is literally a part of nature (nature being the world around us), it makes sense to have a word to define biological substances or events that wouldn't otherwise occur without human intervention. E.g. artificial colors, artificial flavoring.
Moving from Opportunity: The High Cost of Restrictions on Land Use
Not the OP, but I think the same principle applies. Whenever you accuse an entire race of something (as opposed to isolating your criticism to individuals or even systems), you’re engaging in racism, and this is unfortunately common in DEI trainings and among “race activists”. I don’t think strict moderation is necessary in the general case (especially since a lot of the most credentialed people who would moderate are themselves the sort of race activists who agitate)—rather, I think we’ll work through it in time.

It is a shame though that we were on this path toward a post-race world and then some of us abruptly reversed course and dragged the whole nation with them, setting us back decades.
Your second to last paragraph rings true for me.

I follow some folks on YouTube for a variety of topics, they're highly skilled, give great advice / technical information (everything from games to coding) and are very professional / great speakers and presenters.

They get noticeably few donations compared to folks who emphasize acting out and a sort of wonky infotainment (where the information is sometimes dead wrong).

It's a bit disheartening.
> Plenty of Indians emigrate while leaving their caste identity

Caste is something most Indians grow up with, you dont really lose it just because you go to another country. Most kids of these Indians fortunately dont really care about caste.
Luajit using print and io.write

LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3

Using print is about 17 MiB/s

luajit -e "while true do print('x') end" | pv > /dev/null

Using io.write is about 111 MiB/s

luajit -e "while true do io.write('x') end" | pv > /dev/null
Played it for a few minutes and found it pretty fun!

I’ll return later to finish my run, but wanted to point out the opening quote character is wrong (it’s the same as the closing quote): it shows up as ”some dialog” instead of “some dialog”. Also, I’m on a phone and occasionally one of the options is highlighted. At first I thought it might mean something, but on closer inspection it may be a selection bug.

Both are minor issues which do not detract from the experience, but they may also be quick fixes.
America is so religious that a majority of agnostics and 20% of atheists believe in a higher power: https://www.pewforum.org/?attachment_id=29652

But you’re correct that there’s different definitions of “religion” at play. As a foreigner, my observation has been that even secular Americans have internalized much of the belief system of Christianity.
Not sure how the Sámi people are treated in Sweden, Finland, or Russia - but here in Norway there has indeed been a long history of discrimination against the Sámi.

But tbh, it's just half a century ago that pretty much all people from Northern Norway were discriminated against, in the southern parts. Which is why most people moving south were recommended to change accent - fast. More so if you wanted to work in any client/customer-facing job...

Back to the Sámi - unfortunately there are still shitty people out there that feel the need to voice their opinion if they see Sámi people wearing traditional clothing. But it should also be said that there's conflict within the Sámi community, which also comes down to what type Sámi you are (sea/coast Sámi vs hill/raindeer). Most of the real conflicts in any case revolve around land/areal usage.
Yes, because Amazon doesn't scan paper books, this route still works. But there aren't that many companies that can print books. It's a matter of time before they all scan the content before printing. At least, in the dystopian scenario.

Book printers should be an easier choke point than social media companies, given that they have far less content to screen. It's just that no western government or advocacy group has bother to do the choking, as they are too busy pressuring social media companies to moderate content.
BitBurner. Its an incremental game, which means you do some work, get to a point of diminishing returns, cash out with some upgrades and restart. Each time you restart you get a little further. Normally these types of games are super boring, but everything in BitBurner has an API.

Eventually the game gets super complex - stock markets, gangs, automations, combat systems, corporate espionage, etc. Its got a healthy open source community and discord as well

https://github.com/danielyxie/bitburner
Yes, so they take risk, and they should get a return. You will get your money no matter what, so your return is close to nothing. There's no greed or deception here – it's just market forces. If you want a higher return, buy a bond like the bank.
Podcast pricing is in it’s wildly crazy phase.

As an example, Sam Harris is charging $15 / month. Good for him that he’s able to pull it off, but man, that’s more than most streaming services.

Your supercast is charging $0.59 / month per sub going through your platform on top of stripe fees. So if you had a niche but interesting podcast you can’t just charge $1.00 / month and generate any revenue. These fees are a massive friction. Just the Stripe fees without additional markup is a lot of friction on small transactions.
It seems pretty clear to me at least for the Netflix case.

- Content providers care because they want to sell exclusive per-region licenses.

- Netflix doesn't really care, in fact the may benefit from more content available to their users.

The end result is that Netflix will do the bare minimum to keep the content providers satisfied.

Steam is more of a concern because they have different prices per region. But IIRC they use your billing address, not your IP location which is harder to spoof.
Well someone can ... "you" probably can't ;)
Yep...

I live in a country with two large-ish gypsy areas, and we have a lot of people who are very loud about their rights and discrimination against them...

...somehow none of those people actually live anywhere near them.

There really is discrimination against them, but on the other hand, the system (police, courts, politics) allows them to do all the shitty stuff they're stereotyped by.
As a data point: I'm european and my next car will have Carplay, no doubt.

On the other hand I currently use a phone holder because my car doesn't support Carplay and nobody in their right mind would get a new car just because of this missing feature. That's why the phone holder is such a popular solution. It's a slow process, but I have no doubt that most people will insist on Carplay / Android Auto whenever it's time to get a new car.
Oh my gosh I couldn’t disagree more! I have a friend who often plays games muted (on Switch, handheld) and it’s like a completely different experience without the dramatic music. The “decorative” aspects definitely make a game more immersive and add to the emotion of whatever it is you’re trying to accomplish.
Software Updates Strategies: A Quantitative Evaluation
How to stop psychopaths and narcissists from winning positions of power
The talk should have allowed to go through. The post I think said it right, people wanted to shut it down and the only way to do it is to discredit the speaker because they know there is truth to the arguments.

However we should step back and think about how important it in the American context. What purpose is that talk going to serve? I don’t know if it does anything other than satisfying esoteric learning needs of a few. It may be an issue in he US but the problem may be among single digit or double digit individuals at best. Is it worth spending cycles on it?
Designing a Data Model for Gender and Sexuality (Oh and Also, I’m Pansexual)
Your parent obviously knows the definition of "infinite", pedantry isn't helpful.

We ran out of $15 oil quite some time ago. That was not the same as running out of oil. "Economically viable" is not a static target.
Thank you for taking your time.

First, isn't it really obvious by now that Marlene Laruelle was, to put it mildly, completely wrong in her main assessment? Russia is a Fascist, or more precisely, Putin is. https://www.ponarseurasia.org/is-russia-really-fascist-a-com... (and I do not see here nothing more than her creating multiple strawmans and attacking them fiercely).

Of course Putin is not inspired by Hitler or Mussolini, there are just certain historical parallels that are very useful to communicate impact of certain contemporary developments. Putin is inspired by Ilyin and Stalin and to degree by others like Gumilev, that he can consume for his goals and there is no contradiction here.

Current Russia is a schizophrenic fusion of all imperialist ideas, where children put into Red Army uniform wear proudly St. George ribbons, a highest recognition by Russian Czar who was murdered along with his family by Red Army soldiers, while holding pictures of Stalin stylized as Orthodox icons.

The thing is, I'm afraid, I do not think that Ilyin even provides much original thought, he functions just as a good reference and manifestation. I knew about this Russian view of the world way before I was able to put his name behind these ideas.

Now about Ukraine. It looks like I included wrong link to Times of Israel. The original story is here https://www.timesofisrael.com/ukrainian-jews-push-back-again...

It is account of actual Ukrainian Jews who were working with Azov fighters.

The BBC article is a good reference to the claim that there were before indeed Jewish fighters among Azov ranks https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/features-russian-44110741 and this initially wrongly referenced article confirms that there were still Jewish fighters in the battalion https://www.timesofisrael.com/senior-zelensky-adviser-40-jew...

My observations confirm this assessment that there is strong anti-Semetic sentiment in Russia and it is not a problem in Ukraine.

I would be very careful with Western authors because they are prone to project their own fears as is evident from the quote you provide.

I referenced Snyder not because I take my understanding from him but because he represents my understanding (and can provide some additional valuable historical insights).

I would like to know what do you consider as ultra nationalist. To me Ilyin is ultra nationalist, Dugin is, but I have not seen anybody in Ukraine who is. Nobody in Ukraine thinks Ukrainians as superior race like Ilyin and Dugin think of Russians.
The central issue with discussions about Israel is a failure to differentiate Israel (the state and government) with Judaism (the religion) with Jew/Hebrew (the ethnicity).

(And yes, I realize Israel is a multi-ethnic, multi-religious state, but to a first order approximation and given current political dynamics... it's not)

Given that there are relatively few states with as intertwined religions and historical atrocities perpetrated against their people, it makes sense the ability to talk about this is underdeveloped.
The original Windows release runs in windowed mode, so you should be able to make it as large as you want.

I'm not sure if running it on a modern machine is a good idea, since it has issues with color depths over 256 colors, and the fastest simulation speed doesn't account for Moore's law. I last played SC2k on a retro PC (Win 98, Pentium 3).

https://theandrewbailey.com/article/122/SimCity-2000
Nowhere do I predict Amazon to become a monopoly. The prediction is that all other publishers will start following their model of screening content. Perhaps against some global blacklist, more or less following the model social media companies use.
The non buzzwordy way to express this is to use some basic concepts in probability to make accurate decisions in the face of randomness. Specifically when making a decision you should think about the expectation[1] of the outcomes overall and some properties of the distribution. This requires you to think through what all the outcomes are and what you think their probabilities are.

1)All other things being equal you should generally prefer a higher expectation decision to a lower-expectation one

2)But you have to avoid decisions which have outcome distribution properties you can't tolerate. Most obviously you should generally ensure that your risk of ruin is zero because even if the probability is very low, that outcome is close to impossible to recover from so must be avoided.

3)For two possible strategies with similar-ish expectations in real-life terms you may well want to choose the one with the lower standard deviation of payoffs. Like say you're choosing between an offer at medical school to train to be a dentist and pursuing your long-shot idea of going to Hollywood and trying to make it as an actor. Imagine that when you look at the outcomes you estimate that in acting you have an insanely low probability of making it but a huge payoff if you do and in dentistry most people do pretty well but no-one's partying on superyachts with Jay-Z and Beyonce. Well even if the expectation of acting works out slightly higher, if they are close enough you should probably pick dentistry because the variance of outcomes is just way lower. If you think about your future as a monte carlo simulation you want to end up "ok" on most of the paths in the simulation even if that means giving up on some "lights out" outcomes.

4)most people agonise the most about decisions where the expectation is really pretty similar so it just doesn't matter that much either way. So don't beat yourself up about whether you made the right decision - just try to learn from the decision and move forward

A huge mistake people make is to evaluate the quality of the decision based on the single possible outcome that crystalised into reality by actually happening rather than using the framework above. So resist that temptation and instead evaluate your decision based on whether you chose to maximise expectation while avoiding risk of ruin and excessive variance.

[1]In the sense of being the weighted average of all possible payoffs where the weights are the probabilities and the payoffs are the utility of each outcome (usually just in cash terms).
There's lots of things. Making chocolate mousse is seems to be a dark art to lots of people I know. One person was fascinated by the whipping of heavy cream in to whipped cream as if some voodoo power was being invoked. To then it only came in cans or tubs of fake cool whip. Lastly was when I had some dinner guests and made a banana pudding from scratch before their eyes. It was as if I summoned a demon to aid me in having a hot fresh dessert.
Google has a track record of pandering to the mob. Has nothing to do with middle management.
You suggest that I do not see the forest for the trees.

I say that words have meanings, and that extraordinary claims need evidence.

A material in which atoms (or molecules) are aligned is called a crystal. The process by which atoms align is called crystallisation. If we expand the concept of alignment we may consider atoms that are part of a polymer molecule to be "aligned". A material in which larger structures are aligned is a metamaterial. Beyond this level, referring to the alignment of atoms does not make sense.

Sound can affect the process of crystallisation of a liquid because the formation of crystals is influenced by pressure.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao2Jfm35XeE

But claiming that there is any crystallisation happening in a finished wooden stringed instrument requires evidence because it is implausible.

If we refer to polymers, wood and glue and lacquer all contain polymers. But claiming that those polymers are in any way affected by sound also requires evidence.

Also claiming that wooden instruments contain metamaterials and that the structure of those metamaterials can be altered by sound, similarly requires evidence.

What I am saying is that you not only claimed the existence of an unlikely phenomenon, but you also confidently asserted that it can be explained by physics that contradicts current knowledge. I am claiming that this is the Dunning-Kruger effect in action. I have read the page you link and find it unconvincing.

In my comment to Perenti ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31594035 ) I have proposed an experiment to measure such a phenomenon and proposed alternative explanations for the anecdata.
Tangentially related, but my family (kids are 7-10) enjoys the "Prime Climb" [1] board game which deals with prime numbers.

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/159375/prime-climb
I've spent many hours doing deep dives into the Hyperspec. I have no serious problem with it.
Why not 1? Just marry a rich fan/customer.

I'm kidding.
> It was not socially accepted to ask if someone died with Covid or from Covid.

Except this had nothing whatsoever to do with the estimation errors or the correction in the WHO study. Not to mention that there's nothing uniquely German about your complaint. Germany was revised downward. Sweden was revised upward. The rest of the countries remained the same.

What does "socially accepted" even mean? There seems to be literally nothing in society that isn't the subject of some debate.
You think he has a secret successful startup? Lol
> How dare we criticize another culture when we have our own problems?

Because there are now 4.6 million Indian Americans and they are one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the US.

So it's our own problem now too.
> list of obscure 'race'-isms

The word you need is “xenophobia” (hate of the others, of those who are different). Race is a limited, artificial concept and by focusing on it we miss the forest for the trees. Xenophobia is as old as humanity and can be based on anything: physical features; ideas, religions, languages, family ties, etc.
You're right; Java has ZGC, a best-in-class garbage collector with average pause times of 50 microseconds while still having great throughput. https://malloc.se/blog/zgc-jdk16#:~:text=With%20concurrent%2...
4. Farmers are historically a cossetted political class that politicians are rarely wont to cross.
Many incentives in gov align with compliance and paperwork quality at staff levels vs innovation or performance so mills get good at those things.

Every Biden executive order adds to this overhead. I once worked on funding with like 8 race / ethnicity/ national origin dimensions- none consistent but most with overlap- days of work and impact to all staff to code and untangle. By second time we had it down and the equal opportunity/ equity folks liked us
The Monty Hall problem is a study in requirements engineering
I think QA is inherently unpopular. "Oh God are you really going to make me document this before you sign off???"
According to people like Robin DiAngelo, white people are inherently racist, as she wrote in her book White Fragility.

It’s difficult to say that we can all agree to not be racist when some ideologues from whom’s political ideas companies base DEI initiatives on claim that racism is an immutable characteristic that many of us are born with.
Don't both sides, there's no groups, the only military group there Americans are joining is the IDF.
Results-oriented thinking is bad, but so is not updating your priors.
> Graphics is a bit better than 20 years but nothing "wow"

Maybe 10 years — in which case the answer is: graphics nowadays is mostly bound to the current console generation. GTA 5 was released almost 10 years ago for PS 4. Uncharted 4 was released 8 years ago. The Last of Us 2 was released 2 years ago.

Now we're entering the next generation — ray tracing, nicer global illumination, AI upscaling, and much more. The Unreal Engine 5 enables indie developers to produce an image almost as good as AAA titles of the previous generation.
Unfortunately, that's the state of much of digital journalism. The incentives (clicks) are simply not aligned with journalistic quality.
Global Poverty is a Crime Against Humanity – Although severe poverty lack (cont)
>>I think a much more sustainable model is a UBI that isn’t truly “unconditional” but a gated community where successful artists and their patrons voluntarily agree to redistribute some wealth to new artists that keep showing progress in their craft.

It seems like you're inferring that unconditional UBI is not sustainable and therefore immoral according to Kant's definition.

While that position may ruffle some feathers, you may have a point. How do you ensure that under conditional UBI that recipients are adequately redistributing their productivity/wealth?
They are effectively the same story, the dupes go by story sameyness rather than article identity.
Thank you!

For MarkovJunior, the recent projects that were impactful the most were Imagegram by Guilherme S. Tows [1] and Daniel Ritchie's dissertation [2] about PPLs for procgen. I took quite a different approach from Ritchie's though.

[1] https://zaratustra.itch.io/imagegram

[2] https://dritchie.github.io/pdf/thesis.pdf
Not OP.

I've seen many people getting a 3 year contract without having a clue of what they had to do, just buzz words.

Public sector
"Expected Value is complicated because a 50% chance for $100 is the same as a 10% chance at $1000"

Is it though?
I don't think the advice doesn't apply (they still claim Jane made a good decision, even though it led to a bad outcome: their point is that Jane should keep making good decisions, and not worry about bad outcomes because you can't control luck — if you mostly make good decisions, luck won't matter in the long run), it's just that it's pretty much useless because

> "Probability of getting it — you cannot know the exact probability, but estimate it the best way you can (remember the bet with a friend)"

is the hard part. Jane's case was clear (good decision), but what about Mike? Is there a proportion of his savings he should have invested that would have turned his "bad decision" into a "good one"? We have no signal to tell us what the probability of any cryptocurrency going up or down is over, say, 6 months (they've all gone up and down completely arbitrarily). Basically, finding the probability of any particular "success" (or actually, a failure) will easily tell you how much you should risk.

And that's what it's like with the most of life decisions as well: we don't know the probability — not even the ballpark range. Likelihood that any one person you meet is going to be your life-long partner is basically nil: but we still invest in building relationships before fully committing to either decide they are not, or increase the probability that they will be. But we still do that relationship building investment based on very few signals (appearance, short chats and potentially what social circle someone is from if from a shared acquaintance).