skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think intelligence play into it, at least not the kind of intelligence I respect. Smart people are bullied all the time. Smart people had 10K years to fix the massive clusterfuck that is hierarchical societies or toss them into the dirstiest toilet, and they couldn't. It would be the height of hubris to assume you can succeed where billions failed.

I disagree. We have had parts of society dominate other parts, using them as workforce and such, since humanity historically had A) insufficient resources and capabilities to improve general well-being, and B) insufficient ethical standards to care to do so.

Ethics have been evolving (abolition of slavery, etc.), so clearly (B) is not static. And now, with automation and strong renewable energy sources, we may (or should) be rapidly approaching post-scarcity, addressing (A). The result of it all is a qualitatively new state for humanity.

In such a state, the dog eat dog calculus you describe is thinking in the past, I’d expect better from a technologically progressive mind.

Regarding biological need for competition, I’ll need to think about it but immediately it strikes me that there should be enough ways left to compete fairly.

Regarding bullying, I suffered from being bullied in early years, and I have grown to see my bullies for what they are: mentally traumatized people. The same trauma carries over to people seeking personal security at the expense of others or the environment, resulting in unethical or malicious behavior. Thus the need to improve baseline well-being (and especially mental health) across the board, to stop people being traumatized and passing it on by traumatizing their peers and children.
It’s confusing until you use it, then it’s capabilities and limitations become clear. So I don’t see this as a reason to pull it.
I would think they'd be happier to have enough water.
Number 3 is interesting , it’s a twin study. I still have to read more, but their best fit model has the same p value as storks delivering babies, if that helps you.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227763292_Storks_De...

Edit: I do wonder how some recent studies on myopia fit in with these other findings:

“ The decrease in heritability and the increased myopia prevalence in our sample may not be related to the age of the sample, but with the year of birth and the changes in the environment in what these subjects developed during the last two decades. Due to the higher academic skills of our study population, it can be considered that they have been highly exposed to one of the myopia risks factors related to abuse of near work and large periods exposed to low luminance environments11,19,20. Many studies showed an increasing trend of myopia incidence as we are approaching the era of modern industrialization along with increasing education level3,11,19,20. The older twin sample34 had in average a lower education level and possibly less prolonged near task. This may signify the connection of these trends with our obtained results with greater environmental influence on refractive error variance among studied millennials. The change in myopia prevalence is happening across the last few decades, where the increased offset cannot be explained by a change on genetic factors, as genetic evolution cannot take place in such short time span. On the other hand, less than 10% of the variance of refraction could be accounted for Genome-wide studies, where studies have identified, so far, more than 150 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with myopia44. Alternatively, the high heritability of refractive error observed in most of the twin studies can be a result of heritability overestimation by the classical twin study model. From any perspective, we must understand that heritability is the combined result of genotype and environment on a certain phenotypic trait. Hence, it appears that the sudden increase in myopia prevalence is a result of higher interaction with the environment.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-65130-w
Luckily, contrary to what the Microsoft hoard will tell you, there are countless respectful alternatives that were around before and will be around long after Microsoft turns it into some kind of pay to win thing with achievements.
Welcome to the CRC-enforced blockchain!
now THIS is good website design :D
Back then getting off the farm meant college. All my siblings took that route. We have an Intel VP, an IT professional, a state Environmental Impact statement researcher, a bonemarrow transplant nurse, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley and fortune-500 industrial VP (several companies)

Not the same landscape any more; different routes are available now.
My reaction was also along these lines. They might be better called "domestic violence ballads". Perhaps the focus is on the perspective of the man because he's the one left alive in the end to lament his fate.
I started using vim 13 years ago. Editors come. Editors go. Vim remains.
days? Surely, you jest, dear Sir. Proud emacs user for 21 years, still have to get some overlay function going just the way I like it. One of these days, I am going to get it just right.
Astronomers may have detected a 'dark' free-floating black hole
What do you suggest then? Without regulation we'll allow companies to ban people via algorithms without an option to appeal the decision and talk to actual human being.

We can keep saying "uninstall WhatsApp/Messenger/WeChat!" but for a lot of people this it not viable, because it means cutting social connections or losing clients. There are countries like Spain where WhatsApp is the way to communicate on-line and few people use other IMs.

There are a few things that can change it - either a technology shift (e.g. mobile revolution ended Windows dominance), black swan event (like pandemic that moved everyone to hybrid/remote work), or government regulation. If we don't want the government to intervene, we need to accept that we might be randomly banned by an algorithm and there's nothing we can do about it.
Nitpick: s/hoard/horde/g
VS Codium has tried, and not succeeded, to disable all telemetry[0][1]. This is with direct access to and patches to source code and all the knobs set to off.

If the direction of upstream is diametrically opposed to downstream, it is nearly impossible to prevent these issues.

[0] https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues/623

[1] https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues/631
The sf Union Square Apple store stairs are also cracked. Or we'll last time I was there years ago.
Sometimes, the glass ceiling isn’t a metaphor.
It really depends. How many of the 6000+ had other major health issues? What are my chances as a healthy 20 something from dying or having a serious complications? VS the unknowns of the vaccine for short term and long term issues? If I had other issues I'd think harder about it. But especially since I already had covid this spring, I'm really see no need in getting the shot.
What I find truly bizarre is how many software engineers, who are aware of how much they earn and how long it really takes to make software, are so resistant to paying anything for tools that make their job easier and faster. It blows my mind.

Take the Jetbrains IDEs. I don't mean to offend any VSC fans out there but the Jetbrains IDEs are simply better and more mature in every single way. For individual use, most of them are <$100/year.

In years past I saw this same struggle with IntelliJ vs Eclipse or even vim/emacs. The amount of time I saw people spend on tuning, fixing, tinkering, debugging and otherwise modifying their .vim or .emacs files or their various incompatible Eclipse plugins (eg famously there were 2 big big plugins for Eclipse at one point and neither of them completely worked). At least with vim/emacs it works over an SSH connection but Eclipse?

Why are so many resistant so other people earning a living particularly when the payoff (ie time-saved) is so easily quantifiable? And why do people who generally earn so much value their time so little?
You do know there are far worse things than death, right? Permanent disability. Heart/lung conditions. Mental illness. Chronic fatigue. All from a young age. This simple focus on death rates misses the mark entirely and it acts like these consequences don't exist or increase the more times you are reinfected. It's sad, really.

The burden of proof is on those who are arguing for a specific action or inaction to cause a specific result. So let be the weight of the clear and convincing evidence against the other - all of it.
No, you're not the only one. Sure, maybe I have some kind of misophonia, but mainly I just find the sudden bursts of loud typing on mechanical keyboards to be somewhat distracting when I'm trying to focus on something myself. Or those really clicky types get on my nerves after a while. At least I've found that good noise cancelling headphones help, but home office has been great from this perspective and in general.

However, I don't think I'd mind working in some kind of old-fashioned newsroom with a steady click-clack-cacophony of typewriters. Go figure.

For sure other people have their limits too. Almost nobody else thought they were that bothersome until the Model M made a short-lived appearance at the office.
Think about the waste streams they were embedded in. Any typical household would probably not emit more than one unwanted computer a year, even into the 90s. So you'd expect that the density of C64s or Atari 800s or whatever to be very low in the landfills. I.e. each one would likely be surrounded by a whole lot of utter crap, all of it moist and probably not pH neutral, and 30 years in that environment .. "it ain't gonna be pretty"

OTOH, it was extremely common for people to discard them by yard sales, or give them to an nephew etc, donate them to others. Even ones put on the curb for the trash collection sometimes got scavenged. So a lot of these things had 2nd lives. Point of this being that over time there were instances of collectors who would amass piles of these things, and when such an individual decided to declutter, maybe, just maybe you'd find a whole lot of hardware buried together. But such concentrations would be the exception, and the state of preservation would still be abysmal.

Personally, I think the time and effort would be better spent recreating new hardware per the old specs.
Google engineer thinks artificial intelligence bot has become sentient
msk wanted to know thethe guy’s prescription
> Original Barbie’s Toilet Seat iBook

Wut.
I think the very project is devoted to promoting leftist ideas though, which is itself a people problem. For example, the authors of the project has been adamant on having a hard-coded "slur" filter (until recently, it appears) because they want to stop those with a different opinion/language from using the software.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/622
Fwiw, as a Java fanboy, I do think Kotlin/Compose is way better for creating GUI’s than what Java currently has to offer. I recently went and tried some swing again and it wasn’t enjoyable, but like you said it’s like this for a reason.
The victim is described, sure. But their memory? Not so much - they get a line maybe. Then a dozen stanzas about the murderer. These ballads are dated, tone-deaf and disturbing.
I understand your distrust. I also agree that for most of the reasonable requests you should not need to email any service provider, including us. We're working of fixing that. The reason why it's not that straightforward (not just a simple delete operation) is that data about you might not be data that only you have control over. That's not something I agree with, it's just the law. So "deletion" is actually a very complex task to get right.

One of the reasons 3rd parties like us hold your data is because apparently private sector is often more capable of iterating and implementing working systems at lower cost than governments. I am also often torn on what should be publicly owned and what should not, but the governments' track records show that it is not trivial to run engineering teams under direct state control.
Yup, even with a code sample that addresses this situation:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/n...

So the whole article is sort of "I reverse engineered software for fun instead of reading the docs"

It's a fun read about the quirks of the Windows API though.
Actually, I recently had to switch from CLion to VSC b/c I could not figure out how to enable rust-analyzer in the latest version of CLion. Also platform.io support is better in VSC. I love UX of interllij tho. I should say that I do agree with your main point.
If you already have Go libraries compiling to wasm working then you could just embed a Go interpreter like yaegi [0].

[0] https://github.com/traefik/yaegi
Joking aside, I think that’s one of the great things about emacs: years will go by and i won’t touch my config. Then a new project or something will inspire me to get back into it. But since switching about a decade ago, i’ve never had the itch to move to a different “editor”
I've heard that story before, but never seen any data that substantiates it. I'm interested in it. Where did you come by this opinion?
NHTSA formally investigated Tesla Autopilot after incidents in 2016, 2017 and 2018. There was also a formal NHTSA investigation into Tesla battery fires in 2013. These investigations span 3 presidencies under both parties.
The market responds to newness, and if you can sweep issues under the rug you get two very lucrative demographics:

1) Customers who barely do anything with their devices and therefore never have issues

2) Fans who experience issues, but accept them as a bump in the road towards the dream they’ve been sold

And this is at a cost-savings: less in R&D (because you can patch in-field), less in maintenance hours, and less opportunity cost for having “10x” devs do that maintenance.

There’s also a fear-based reason for companies to chase features: they worry that the market will see them as stagnant and see the competitors as exciting.
Thank you for sharing! I used their music and art AIs with great success for new suggestions! :)
The throughput is given by the frequency of the radioactive events. This can easily made bigger with a more radioactive source. The limit in this is how fast is the underlying reference timer. If you could have a fast enough timer, you could raise the radioactivity of the source and get a bigger throughput.
No. The west is very reluctant to depend on Chinese IP.

Few western countries are moving ahead with Huawei. As soon as it became dominant Western governments started cracking down.
I think GP is mistaken about two physical lenses being needed (until it's the future and we're all wearing expensive smart glasses, in which case you do want an additional interchangeable lens for this purpose). When designing the system, it can be thought of as a lens that corrects for refractive error of the relaxed eye (moving the eye's far point to infinity) stacked on top of another lens that makes light coming from an object parallel (producing an image of the object at infinity for the first lens and eye to receive); to implement it, you only need one lens with the combined power of the two.

Edit: GP might also be talking about eyeglasses with adjustable focus, which apparently are already available.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjustable-focus_eyeglasses
I think that the article you pasted supports my perspective, here.

My reference to D&K here is specifically for this conclusion, from your article: "One relevant point, I guess, is that even if the observed effect is entirely a product of regression to the mean, it’s still a meaningful thing to know that people with low abilities in these settings are overestimating their <overstrike>true abilities</overstrike> how well they’ll do."

I also think that you have inaccurately characterized the article, which author specifically divorces their self from judgement of "real" and "not real" in the introduction.
Thanks for making this. Maybe add an option that also exposes additional template functions from sprig: https://github.com/Masterminds/sprig
I drink maybe 3 cups a day. If I have zero coffee, I have a constant headache in the afternoon which continues for over a week. In the evenings I actually kinda feel good, as I just go to sleep. During the day it feels like my brain is trying its hardest to maintain alertness but it is running on fumes. In the evening I just kinda slip into unconsciousness. It's been a multi year goal for me to lower this dependency. Step one was buying worse quality coffee which has less caffiene (inflation and getting laid off during the pandemic helped here). I think step 2 should be 1 cup of coffee and then tea in the mornings, then a cup of decaf and tea, then just tea, then we are clear?

Mostly I just want to do this just to see how it affects my life because my dependency is pretty massive.
I spent all my childhood (and continuing into adulthood) staring at a computer screen and I've 20/20 vision.
> I wonder if black coffee, which is objectively worse tasting and harder to drink

This is quite literally a matter of personal taste. There's nothing "objective" about it.
I'm not sure it is "well-intended, poorly-executed". They are well conscious of what they are doing -- sacrificing flexibility to make a political point.
Be honest - milk does a lot more than that. Changes the drink entirely.
Wait staff at restaurant asking "would you like change?" is normal.

Gas station clerk asking "can I keep your change?" is so random and unexpected it makes the story confusing.
I like that AC1D1C is red but BA51C is green. Hex code litmus paper.
So great art can’t be made about trying to understand or illustrate the motives of murderers?
Some of them are collecting dust in attics and garages; I know my parents still have a Pentium 166 from 1997.
> I don't mean to offend any VSC fans out there but the Jetbrains IDEs are simply better and more mature in every single way.

Yeah, no. Don't get me wrong, Jetbrains IDEs are great. But they're not as easy to extend, its proprietary nature makes it hard to debug when writing extensions.

I use neovim primarily, but I've got licenses for a bunch of other editors (Nova, Sublime, used to have IntelliJ). I do sincerely try them, but I keep going back to open source, extensible editors like vim, emacs, vscode... because I invariably need to tweak something in the editor, and doing so in the proprietary editors can be so damn painful.

Now, you do make a solid point though. I guess I probably should donate to neovim. Guess I'll go do that!
One thing that still confuses be is the idea of pedestrian avoidance. Sure, a sensor can identify a person in the road quickly and brake. I just don't see how cars are ever going to be good at the question of when you aren't sure whether a pedestrian will dart into the road or not. The car could detect that there's limited visibility on the side of the road but it's very situational to realize you're in a city or a neighborhood with kids so you need to drive especially slow.
Doesn't apply in case. He didn't gradually upgrade components, but swapped every part except for the case.

Correct title should be: building a modern PC inside an IBM Aptiva case.
The standard operation for FSM to compose knowledge sources is composition. You can compose different level graphs and differentiate them too. Awni's paper talks about that https://openreview.net/pdf?id=MpStQoD73Mj. The problem is that you need to differentiate graph structure, not just weights. This is a problem since the weights are inherently non-continuous.
Have you worked in a regulated environment? It can be a regulatory and legal requirement to do this, since it's part of the software development lifecycle processes which are required to be followed.

At its core, this is about ensuring that the software is not changed without a documented requirement to do so in the form of a formal change request. The PR alone does not do that. The PR is the software change. It is not the request to do the change in the first place.

Some projects and company processes can be sufficiently lax to permit developers to open PRs and change things without any additional accountability or oversight. In these cases, you don't need that extra level of work. But many projects do need this, and it can provide value even outside a regulated environment. Many open source projects require a corresponding ticket for every change as well.

You might also need to make sure that the work meets the "definition of done". In a stricter environment, that can mean making sure that every change ties back to the design documentation and the system requirements, as well as having all of the necessary test and documentation coverage to match, and more. That gets tracked on the ticket, not the PR, because the PR is only about the software change, not the higher-level stuff.

Another factor is that the ticket is what has the visibility. Not everyone in the company is necessarily directly involved with the nuts and bolts of the version control system. When it comes to the higher-level aspects of project management, particularly on large projects with multiple teams, you aren't going to be doing that with GitHub, but you do need to coordinate activity and account for where the development effort is going for planning and resourcing purposes, even if the metrics are only used within the team.

None of this means being hidebound by process. For a trivial documentation change or bugfix, there's nothing to prevent keeping this overhead to the bare minimum. It takes 30 seconds to create a new ticket before opening the pull request, with a title and possibly a sentence or two description. That can greatly help the other people in the company see what is being worked on, what's been fixed, what's in the backlog and where effort is being spent. Ultimately, we aren't writing software just for our own amusement, we're doing it for others, and the tickets are part of communicating and coordinating our activities with other people, even if it appears superficially onerous.
Apologies, I do not mean to be rude. No insults intended. I get a bit... passionate at times.
> Imagine if surgeons were hired like this.

The gauntlet your American doctors have survived to become doctors is at least as awful as the referral system you partly documented.
Sorry, but in Australian English, those with myopia are always referred to as being short-sighted. The metaphor, having lack of foresight, is also referred to by the same expression.
computers do what they're told. If it's oppressive, then the influencers are oppressive
I think the trick is that Haskel is lazily evaluated. The Y combinator has a different formulation on strict languages.
Decreased myopia is very common in middle-aged people. Mine went from -2 to 0 in my 40s. I did not move to New Zealand.
I find the distinction between “semantic memories” (of facts), “procedural memories” (how to do something) and “autobiographical memories” (stories from the past) very helpful when thinking about memories.
Absolutely.

On a tangential note, "Your problem with vim is that you don't grok vi" continues to be a favourite read:
https://gist.github.com/nifl/1178878
I use and pay a subscription for entire jetbrains suite. That said - vscode is miles better for JS/TS development IMO. In that world I don't want the full fat IDE experience because :

- it's slower - even some basic things like terminal rendering feels better/faster in vscode

- ecosystem is developing independently and so fast that IDE support can't keep up

- everyone else is using CLI centric workflows so it's maintained and tested
I agree with this…

I don’t think other studies on myopia fit this same narrative.
(However I may be wrong!)

Example:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-65130-w
And here I am thinking my perfect eyesight at 45 is a good thing :(
fix :: (a -> a) -> a
fix f = f (fix f)

f :: [Int] -> [Int]
f xs = 1 : map (*2) xs

take 7 (fix f) ==> [1,2,4,8,16,32,64]

Looks right to me.
Is that tweet protected from everyone now or did I just end up on some list?