skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I was referring to the phenomenon of people denying what is obvious and beyond scientific dispute."

The problem is that this is the religious position, not the other one. If you go investigate this properly you'll find there's tons of scientific dispute about even very basic things like what the temperature actually was 5 years ago in specific places, let alone more complex topics like what the climate would do in response to an immediate doubling of CO2 levels (so called ECS).

And the impact of global warming itself isn't at all obvious. All the effects so far are so small you can't directly detect them with your own senses, you have to use sensitive monitoring equipment and/or accept a lot of conjecture about chance and probability. In turn that requires you to have absolute confidence in the people doing the measurements and processing the data, but plenty of people don't have that confidence for various legitimate reasons (e.g. the Climategate emails). So it's pretty much by definition not obvious.

"Believing nothing should be done about climate change does not make one an extremist"

Doing nothing is the default position in any debate so arguing for it by definition makes one not an extremist. You can't be a "nothing extremist", that's a contradiction.

Extremism takes the form of positing extreme scenarios like the end of the world, and demanding extreme solutions like massive changes to everyone's ways of life. The people who say "let's not do that" are the ones pushing back on extremism.

This is at the root of a lot of the fighting over climate change: it creates enormous cognitive dissonance in people. Those who decide they want to fight it want to see themselves as rational devotees of science, but find themselves being the guy in the sandwich board yelling "The End Is Nigh" and demanding extreme policies. And just like sandwich board guy they struggle to explain the details of how the world is meant to end. Very few people who have tied their identity to climate extremism can actually handle a debate about the details which is why they instantly retreat into screaming that it's all "settled science" (which is a lie).
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Can you elaborate what you mean by "programming inputs" because the only thing you did in your example is be more descriptive in your prompt...
Yeah, we don't know the first thing about consciousness really. But I imagine with enough time we will be able to build an artificial neuron that's smaller. And induct from there.
False. The whole premise of asymptotic complexity is that the constant factor must be finite as n goes to infinity.
as I've gotten older, I've learned that it matters where you invest your "extra capacity". If you invest it in leisure, it's often good for a time - but depressing in the long term, if you invest it in work - you can risk burnout. I'd argue that investing it in any particular area all the time will lead to some form of burnout.

The key is to look for where you get the most return on invested energy. There are times where work is a thankless grind that doesn't care if you put in 20 hours or 80. There are times where putting in an extra 5 hours leads to a promotion/accomplishment of note. When you have 40 hours of spare capacity, binging netflix is not going to make you happy in the long term.

At the office, expecting everyone to want and be able to put in 60 hours a week is going to be a problem. I did this for my first 3 jobs, and it caused friction with those who are putting in their 30/35. Ultimately, it lead to me burning out and changing jobs rapidly for 5 years - because I wasn't getting out of my job something commensurate with the extra investment I was putting in.
when you burn coal, the residual is also quite radioactive, and the amount is not nothing either.
I think "six" proved more useful than 2to3. This made it easier to support both Python 2 and Python 3 in the same code base, which (IMO) resulted in a smoother migration path.
No. I believe they may be required to ask for a name on activation, but definitely not to verify it.

Individual retailers and service providers may have different policies, of course.
It has been communicated to Elon by Twitter. Repeatedly. It's in the SEC filings, it's in their annual reports. Here's a really long twitter thread by the CEO explicitly pointing out that they are measuring spam accounts as % of MDAUs - literally putting that in asterisks for emphasis: https://twitter.com/paraga/status/1526237578843672576

Here is Elon Musk responding to that thread with a poop emoji: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1526246899606601730

The problem isn't that no one has bridged this divide, it's that Elon Musk is acting in bad faith to derail the deal that he fucked up by signing. There's no point talking about spam accounts because that's literally not the issue. The issue is that Musk signed a deal valuing Twitter at a premium at the peak of the market with no real escape clauses, and since there are no legitimate ways for him to renegotiate he needs to come up with a pretense.
Well, maybe I should have re-phrased it to "Capitalism with maximizing shareholder value characteristics". Toss human nature on top of that, and you're biased towards "late stage capitalism".
I thought the “10x developer” was a joke about how people associate being a jerk with being productive / success / having no time to work as an appropriate human / teammate.

I was more than a little horrified when I found people were serious…
And for a real world example of this see BIMI logo images.
Great blog post.

It doesn't sound like something FreeBSD would do, but I wonder how much more traction Jails would get, if it was renamed to "FreeBSD Containers."

The name Jails always struck me as a more appropriate name for RBAC or similar.

It's sometimes easy for those of us who've been here several decades to forget that a vast percentage of people in the industry now were too young to remember, let alone be aware of the FreeBSD <=4.6 days.
I've always been confused by this, as most studies show around 5~ hours a day is the maximum your brain can do work that requires deep focus (programming etc). So what are these people doing where they can work 10+ hours days? You will see seriously diminishing (and often negative) results when overworking. You'll end up waking up the next morning cleaning up and fixing bugs from your overworked brain.
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> They don’t say that working on a meaningful mission will make you more fulfilled in life. That doesn’t sell. The idea that you should pursue something you genuinely care about, which has nothing to do with getting up at 4 AM in the morning, going to the gym, and working until 11 PM, is not so glamorous.

I’m so freaking glad to be out of the rat race.

For the record, I spend a significant amount of time, “working.”

I use the quotes, because what I do, doesn’t really feel like “work.” It’s a joy. It’s what I always wanted to do.

I also get up at 5AM, walk three miles, and “work” until bedtime, seven days a week. No one pays me, and I’m fine with that.

There is always a “grind” phase of my “work”; particularly when I approach release (I am in that phase, now, on my main project), but you always need to do that, when you ship anything. I still get great joy from shipping, so the “grind” is worth it.

I had to be forced into this position. No one would hire me, so I had to retreat.

Thank Cthulhu.
"I can solve FSD! This year!"

"I can solve Twitter's bot problem!"

"Oh wait, they have 10%* bots, not 5% bots? Oohh, that's a bridge too far, too hard."

*Arbitrary number chosen
Do you really not see any difference? Given that HN readers are pretty bright, it's hard not to think you're making the argument in bad faith.
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Maybe intelligent dinosaurs had a very strong "no littering" policy.
How does this sentence for example:

>Well for one, we would attribute behavior we don't want in society to genes and/or the expression of those genes in a particular environment. Future treatment would be to note this, remove it from our genome, and see if said behavior is gone.

show empathy? It means not giving people chance to live or murdering them in cold blood because they genes that aren't deemed perfect. We already had this in our civilisation and remember it as one of the most terrifying events in our past.
The author does explicitly mention "getting up at 4 AM in the morning, going to the gym, and working until 11 PM" so I think he might be on the same page as you.
Those statistics are for acute exposure. There are noticeable effects to cognition even under 1000ppm
At the extreme ends, there are two kinds of slow computations.

1. A small computation that you perform many, many times.

2. A very, very large computation.

For #2, big-O can still generally tell most of the story. (Example: 100 insertions in the middle of a list with a billion elements.) For #1, big-O almost irrelevant, and benchmarking is key. (Example: a billion insertions into the middle of length-100 lists.) So knowing which situation you're in is important.
This reminds me of an old paper [1] that discuss the performance characteristics of different array layouts for searching in particular. The conclusion is heavily based on the number of cache misses and branch predictor misses that binary search has for different array layouts.

Doesn't have much practical application unfortunately since there is almost zero support for things like eytzinger layout in most standard libraries and sorting an array with a eytzinger layout is a bit harder than a non-decreasing layout.

[1] "ARRAY LAYOUTS FOR COMPARISON-BASED SEARCHING", Paul-Virak Khuong
and Pat Morin, https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1509/1509.05053.pdf
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Was it ever particularly alive in the mainstream? Can't say I ever encountered anybody other than marketers/talking heads/influencers who were into it.
This reminds me of an article where the writer seems to be marketing themselves to sell their marketing skills.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/02/24-year-old-who-makes-8000-a...
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Media loves dirty laundry. Don Henley's song 'Dirty Laundry' captures it quite well.
This is a pattern of discussion I see a lot on HN:

"People who believe in X are wrong because A, B, C."

"No, X is actually right, because if you know about these obscure parts of X-theory which laypersons never hear about, you will see that it addresses A, B and C."

Of course, both these comments are right, because in addition to the fact that X-theory does in fullness address those issues, few people know how it does.
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Their loss. Better luck next time!
It's not an assumption, it was in the example I responded to:

> When he was asked what the device would cost, he cheerily replied "whatever the market will bear."

I also do not need to assume that companies undertaking research are doing it for profit as that is their reason for being companies, and even in the case of research being not directly undertaken for profit, that research - if useful - will go into drugs that are then sold with the intention of making a profit. Not solely, whether cynically or altruistically, the hope will be that the drug is effective.
Because of the ‘08 blow up caused massive restrictions in underwriting standards and willingness of lenders to pipe that easy fed cash through mortgages, which restricted the flow of cash in the following years. It caught up a couple years later though.

They had started to raise rates in late ‘06 and ‘07, which ‘pulled the string’ and led to the explosion. (The tide went out, and it turns out a great many people were swimming naked, to abuse a Buffett quote).

[https://images.app.goo.gl/RXGY22drR2pfCXX68]

Real estate is highly illiquid and often highly leveraged. It often takes years for market changes to be visible in the data, and sometimes pricing signals get hidden entirely in many markets (you’ll see a backlog that can be years long, but no price drops - just no sales).

It’s also market dependent, but influenced by the larger market (so think of each specific market as a ship, floating on the overall tide which is ‘cost of money/debt’).

Agents tend to always be selling, and tend to hide bad numbers. The Economists working for realtors are especially bad for this.

Sellers tend to not want to admit they’re desperate, and can often hold out for years. Buyers always complain that things aren’t cheap enough, but

It makes for noisy data and sudden surprises.

The short sale I bought in ‘09 for instance, closed for 50% less than the initial offer AT THE BANKS INSISTENCE because of steady shifts in underwriting and appraisal standards in the approx. 5 months it took to close. It took another 6 months before that price signal got disclosed publicly.
Dozens of open source volunteers who are interested in volunteering their free time to do software development using the format.

In addition to the innumerable developers in Facebook, Apple, and other corporations who are paid to do the data processing and actually bring the data to those billions of users.
All Bolts sold now have new battery packs that have been verified to not have the manufacturing defect that affected the early batches of batteries and results in a total of 12 fires. The batteries were all sourced from LG who has agreed to pay $2billion to pay for this. After this, I’m sure that LG is being very very careful in their manufacture to avoid similar problems.
True, it often comes across as if non-Russian speakers are an afterthought to them. I wish they did more to appeal to the 'westerners miffed by western search engine censorship' demo.
> In collection insertion algorithms on some underlying data structure, it's counting some not-very-clearly-defined atomic operations that are being executed when inserting an element.

Nailed it. My frustration is that those words are rarely mentioned, and that atomic isn’t really atomic except in the context of the problem statement and solution.
This is cool. I could see myself adding support for this in Tentacle Typer. It's a text editor with a similar just-save-plain-text philosophy, main difference is that it has more tentacles. Giving a tentacle a paint brush for mid text doodling would be fun.

Bookmarking for later.
It looks amazing. What's your experience working with Nim?
Please explain which part of my post led you to believe that?

That is not my belief nor the point of my post. I am only stating that the way the NewYorker looks at this is not the same how some other people look at it.

Also I'm not from the US nor do I really care about US politics, I do love pointing out obvious things like these :).
That's Marcan, all right.
> You can take text from any plaintext editor and paste it into a markdown input and it will render as HTML or XHTML that very much resembles what you copied.

This is very, very, very far from the truth. People get tripped up by accidentally invoking markup and thereby destroying their text all the time. You ever see unintended italic text and missing asterisks here? I sure do. Or on sites that do Markdown, ever talked about a generic type Foo<T> and had the <T> disappear? Or talked about __init__.py and got 𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁.py? Or taken text where you used a single newline character for paragraph breaks, and had everything end up as one paragraph?

> Plaintext input is completely valid markdown though.

Only inasmuch as there’s literally nothing that’s invalid Markdown. If you take text that you wrote as plain, unformatted text, Markdown will routinely destroy it.

—⁂—

To address the chain of comments that brought us here:

• I spoke of Markdown because the author spoke of Markdown, and used Markdown syntax.

• Markdown is plain text? Depends on what you mean by plain text. Under stricter definitions, absolutely not. Under weaker definitions, only mostly, unless you want to say that HTML is plain text too, in which case sure.

• Plaintext is not Markdown? Certainly true. Most plain text won’t be too badly damaged by reinterpretation as Markdown, but a lot will.
In markdown blog posts I occasionally just write an inline SVG for simple line drawings.

Example: https://andrew.kvalhe.im/2020-01-29
A fair point, and many early adopters are perfectly willing modify their behavior in these small ways to make an electric workable. There's another segment of the market that will likely only open up once fast electric charging networks are ubiquitous enough to exist off of (nearly) every major highway exit.
2 dupes in the past 2 days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31630737

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31627168

This strikes me as more corporate propaganda spamming campaign, like the 4 reposts of the "tires cause more pollution than car exhaust" The Guardian article over the last few days.
It kind of is, though. Markdown did not start out as a markup language, but as a tool for displaying what was then considered to be plain text which used certain popular style conventions. That is, people wrote "plain text" in markdown style for many years, on mailing lists, in newsgroups, and in doc files, long before the introduction of markdown.pl.
Some kids got trapped in a cave in Thailand. Elon said Tesla would build a small submarine to get them out. A local cave expert who was advising the Thai government on how to handle the rescue operation said the Tesla idea was a pipedream and suggested a more practical solution. He called the Tesla proposal a "PR Stunt." Elon got upset and started bad mouthing the guy on twitter, eventually calling him a pedophile. Elon's rationale seemed to be that because the guy was an older, white male living in Thailand, he must be into pedophilia... The guy sued for defamation and Elon ended up winning because his defense argued Elon didn't really mean it. I'm serious...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695593
And we don't know why tus666 wants to print to stderr, nor what the issue was with Python, so this digression seems built on sand.
I would really hope that people who make security tools would have the best-of-breed electronic engineers but clearly not. The crack was pretty rudimentary and would take an experienced electronics test technician about an hour by the looks of it.

"No response". Understandable when you don't have any way to easily put it right, although I suppose they could have at least asked OP to keep it a secret until they could rectify it.
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That's a good way to put it.
> The NSA and CIA are probably more interested in feeding Wall Street insider information on foreign economic activity so they can obtain advantages than anything else

Wall Street has pretty much shied away since Clarence Beeks blew the orange juice corner in 1983.
You say this as though creativity is the exclusive attribute of a billionaire who got really lucky during the dot-bomb era (and has since had to rely on government assistance for both of his “successes”).

There are thousands of people smarter than Musk in tech but who didn’t have his money and connections. Give his billions to those people and you’ll get a thousand Teslas.
Apple didn't use the IEC power symbol on their keyboards until the iMac-- prior keyboards used a left-pointing triangle on the power button.

But most of these machines shipped in an era where there wasn't necessarily any standardization of how to turn the machine on in the PC-compatible world either-- the now-standard momentary electronic switch on the front of the case came with the ATX spec in 1995. Before that, you'd usually have a flip switch or latching power button somewhere on the case. (Macs were unusual for the era in having power on the keyboard from the ADB keyboard on.)
The Science Fiction work "Altered Carbon" takes this to its logical conclusions. Highly recommended (warning: despite the weird sex stuff)
What if someone makes a change to the pattern because they are maintaining the code but don't understand it? What if a future version of Python stops accepting that as valid syntax?

It's too clever by half.
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> Let's have abundance instead of austerity

Others in this thread have, in so many words, said that being a parent should be paid by tax payers as a full time job.

It's a waste of resources and society's investments to pay doctors and lawyers to quit and instead be paid to be full time takers.

So that lessens abundance, creating a poorer world.

It's like the conversation about UBI. If it's actually U and (as often stated by proponents) enough for a middle class lifestyle I would quit today. No way I'd be a sucker paying taxes to support government funded FIRE, without doing it myself.

And so would most of the population.

On a small scale I've soon this in friends' relationships. "Can I stay home with kids and video games, and you just support us?".
If they have the ability to send notifications, it's irrelevant how exactly that works: they can let a third party do that through them.
I think we're gonna want to explore the cosmos though. I could imagine doing that via sensors that travel while we sit here, but you could just say that's an extension of our artificial body.
I've been curious about this since I first learned about lists- my first "real data structure" (not provided by C). It took me a long time to wrap my head around them, but once i did... I was armed for a whole range of other more complicated data structures. That said, throughout my career, the number of times I've used an actual linked list (always double-linked and mutable) is quite small, as I had already found that vector was much faster for small operations (lists under 100 integral items), because, well, Intel optimized for people like me.
50 is closer to a threshold dose than a micro dose.
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reminds me of this funny video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U