skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>what to do about simulations and models posing for reality?

It is or will become indistinguishable from thinking. We can ask the same question about our thoughts.

The science trick is that it requires models that can be falsified in reality. If you make predictions about simulations, then you don't make science but math.

The problem about simulations is that they make verification equally or more expensive than the simulation itself. It's the end of 'scientific cooperation'. Why verify a simulation when you can make your own?

>>It all depends on what the participants want to know.
>Can you expand on this?

I wouldn't call it poignant, but here you are: As you wrote "Very often, it is real information indeed that is most able to misdirect attention." - there is a process that makes choices. Truth is a tool to reach the goals of that process. We don't care about the scientific method in itself.

Most people don't need truths to reach their goals because there is kind of a market of facts. Some facts are just known, without scientific backing, and people can just choose to use them.

When there is deception there is also cooperation. The misdirecting information is only there because somebody else wants to achieve something. Maybe it's easier to cooperate with them about their goals than handling the misinformation?
That's the blurb localized for European region.
> What would be today's equivalent preparation for logistics?

Read "Moving Mountains", by Gen. Patronis, who was in charge of logistics for the Gulf War.
>And that’s fine, we’re all amateurs, and sometimes we can be wrong.

I'm not an amateur. Or if I am than everyone is too since I have written software for project that would kill tens of thousands if it fails.

Other than that the vocal minority was always my opinion on Rust. A small core of true believers who decided that convincing people they should change the world is worth more than actually doing any work in Rust.
Don't ever fly with WizzAir, my experience this summer:

flight cancelled 3.5 hours prior departure on our way to airport (I booked accommodation with free cancellation 24h prior checkin anticipating this, but didn't expect they are such aholes they won't give me at least 1 day notice, so would lose all paid accommodation money for 2.5 weeks if didn't arrived), no replacement flight offered (unless you call flight 7 days later replacement), because they offer only own replacement flights (when you reach their Russian/Hungarian barely English speaking hotline after one hour waiting on call) and won't help you get another flight, immediately same day applied for EC compensation (while buying pricey ticket for next day with different airline, luckily I was prepared forthe worst case scenario so still chose the cheaper one and not the one which should be actually covered by EC compensation).

After 30 days EC compensation request (4*250=1000EUR) denied because "extraordinary circumstance", though there was no strike, no bad weather, just their own issues, which is not extraordinary circumstance they don't have plans in case they have issues with airplanes, just their own incompetence.

After their rejection now passed my claim to Czech Civil aviation authority (CAA.cz), as last resort will try some claims company (they take ~30% cut if successful, nothing if no success), worst case losing ~400EUR thanks to Wizzair incompetence, which just cost me lot of money and trouble.

They refused to provide me replacement flight within reasonable time (7 days later is not reasonable time), they refunded me not even half of the ticket I didn't use because of their cancellation (like 180EUR instead 230EUR), they refused to refund me EC compensation I am entitled to and because of more expensive flight to different city I arrived to my destination one day later combined with 6.5 hours bus drive instead direct flight.

Don't EVER give money to these cheaters, I wished they would get their license removed at least in Czechia.

Don't think EC compensation system will help you in any way with scummy airlines.
SLS is also pretty good at what it does and it is ready to fly.

o "better" alternative would have gotten there cheaper faster, at least not with much certainty.
Hmm but what about the early 1100s? I don't think there was a middle class at the time, there was the upper class the King or the queenn, their lords, ministers, nobles and knights. Then there was the worker class like peasants, smiths etc.
Tilling is a routine farm technique. You mix up the top few inches of soil, so whatever vegetation becomes mixed into the top soil restoring it.
I think you were the one to introduce a target that functionally represents eliminating unintentional OD deaths. It seems we agree on that being folly.
Let's not forget about the time when SethBling successfully executed enough arbitrary code in Super Mario World to run a game of Flappy Bird.

https://www.engadget.com/2016-03-29-flappy-bird-super-mario-...
> mythology

maybe that's why? Do we know if it's actually created in AD 230?
This tries a little too hard to be contrarian.

Drip irrigation won't help, because the boost in productivity means because farmers will just use more water?

Flood irrigation isn't wasteful, it's just polluting?

Farmer's are 'forced' to flood irrigate because they're not allowed to sell all their water rights to cities and ship it out.

Farmer's don't use all the water, the river and fish do?

We can't tell farmers what to do (because they'd sue us).

We can't limit farmers water, because they'll just pump out groundwater instead.

Put it all together and it's still the agriculture industry to blame because they're not regulated enough (though California has tried and made some progress).

Maybe that's too "top down and centralized", but maybe it's just a fact?
for legal reasons, no idea why. vpn needed to read it.(I am in europe) Maybe this works too:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220822132303/https://datebook....
Its been tried... I actually had a watch with it built into it once.

everyone I tried to convert to it used to look at me funny and back away:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
It seems a bit of a community has formed here, with a couple of places for chat without the need of backoff algorithms:

https://pad.riseup.net/p/1_prWgNWMqs-Hu_bIi3I

https://app.kosmi.io/room/m4gsd4

“users, uh, find a way”

There's a couple ways of opening multiple windows, which enables title bar controls on every window. Minimizing and closing them softlocks to a black screen until the instance resets.
Clojure also prunes the excessive parentheses whenever the structure is obvious from context. E.g. "(let ((a 1) (b 2)) ...)" becomes "(let [a 1 b 2] ...)" and Clojure just requires an even number of elements so that the pairing can be inferred.
Ask HN: Why are front end developers (esp React) in such high demand in 2022?
What's made frontend developers be in such high demand in 2022? And particularly React developers?

Rates are up and companies are finding it difficult to hire people. Why this year?
How I Read Nonfiction Books
The bigger tragedy would be if they would never be used again. You wouldn't reuse them in anything designed from scratch, they are too inefficient. There isn't going to be a new space shuttle, especially not in the next decades. The shuttle had its run, but it's mostly a failed concept.

It smacks, but it's the right decision.
If the beta they introduced briefly for a few days was SD, I had to add that it always, 100% of the time, procuded much inferior results compared to the MJ "v3".

It was so bad that if they'd replaced v3 with it (good that they didn't) I'd probably have stopped using MJ and had cancelled my subscription.
I think Elon Musk is not in a juvenile competition but rather hopes everything goes well so the lunar lander contract stays on track.

NASA is his best customer.
This looks great, exactly what I meant. I'm not in US, and I've never seen any similar warnings on any medication unfortunately.
Soupault 4.1.0: asset processors, post-save hook, and more
To my understanding, energy scarcity is the future, not only in Europe, but across all countries. For me the present moment is a moment of reckoning, of realizing that we can actually live our lives with less (fossil) energy. To me this is also the only practical way to reduce CO2 emissions and this mitigate climate change and environmental degradation.

Edit: I'm lucky enough to work (as an independent developer) for a company in an net energy-exporting country, so I'm not really worried about the near future for my work situation. I am taking steps to make our home more autonomous, first in drinking water, which is the most pressing need IMO (we live in France), then energy, and most of all achieving some level of food autonomy.
Depends on how big the quality difference is, if it is big enough then your product will grow exponentially via word of mouth, like Google did for example. That is just simple math, if you are good enough that people want to tell others about it then it will grow.

Problem is that today most technological needs are already filled by good programs so adding significant new value to peoples lives is extremely hard, so it is very unlikely that you can make naturally growing programs today on a tiny budget.
> The “silent majority” was used by President Richard Nixon during his presidency and his campaign against the Vietnam war.

Excuse me? The "silent majority" was the set of Americans who were for the war, not (loudly) protesting against it. Nixon was all for continuing the war.
Can we please stop supporting political operations like BLM, MAGA, and political parties in software. I am tired of every open source project asking for donations to BLM. Uyghurs matter too.
What I don't understand is where the advantage of macros over functions lies in your example. In essence, what can't I do with the following?

var position = new Position();

var newPositions = GetLegalMoves(position)
.Select(move => position.Clone().Perform(move));

Moreover, besides this "sending remote commands example" portrayed in the article, when would I ever want to pass around unevaluated code?

Perhaps I should pick up lisp.
> Usually, the comments on HN/Reddit are polarised by a single group of people who have the same opinion,

Can't speak for Reddit, but that's not at all the case here. For example, I often speak of my hatred of microservices here. I'll get some upvotes and agreement, some people telling me it's a dumb opinion, and some people telling me we're doing it wrong and explain their right way. Believe it or not, I learn a lot from different people and their experiences.

I can't think of a single topic that seems to be prevelant here that doesn't have a sizeable amount of disagreement, in fact. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
They're being hyperbolic. There are illegal grow operations in southern Oregon, but not on the scale he's implying, and there absolutely is enforcement. The illegal grow ops also don't use any form of large scale irrigation that would impact other water users substantially. They grow in natural areas with an attempt to conceal the patch of plants from airborne surveys. Reading that comment you'd think southern Oregon was like Sinaloa Mexico where mass scale plantations operate openly. That's a totally incorrect portrayal.
> Any crap, old, weak gpu with 4gb memory would run circles around a cpu

Not really.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32635086

I’m not even sure it works well - if at all - with 4Gb.

In any case, it’s impressive even if it takes minutes. And it’s not like you need to be there to make it work. You can create a list of prompts, let it do its thing and check the results later.
There's nothing quite like an author getting basic history completely wrong at the very beginning. Really builds confidence.
What does SLS add "to the existing panoply of launchers"?

It can lift almost 100 effing tons into LEO... and is human rated.

It's the only rocket currently capable of putting Humans near the moon. And now its about to prove itself or not...
Not a huge surprise. The EV business is growing rapidly and will keep growing, so it will receive huge resources for all kinds of R&D. Gasoline cars already feel very much like a 1900s technology, but the difference will get a lot steeper in the next 3 years.
That’s essentially what Rust does: it makes using handles to get temporary access to memory that are owned in a single place very attractive because otherwise the borrow checker will yell at you.
> The “silent majority” was used by President Richard Nixon during his presidency and his campaign against the Vietnam war. He spoke to the people who were not actively voicing their opinions and who were overshadowed by the vocal few who were supporting the war.

This is a shocking misunderstanding of history. The “silent majority” Nixon spoke of were folks opposed to anti-war protests. Nixon intentionally prolonged the war for political gain- killing additional thousands of people.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nixon-prolonged-vi...

If you ever find yourself about to say that Nixon did something that a non-evil person would do, you’d better triple check your facts.
You are being upvoted, but I think that when looking at your proposal seriously, it has flaws.

Let's try with an example.

Until now: government pays $100 to build a rocket to go to the Moon, say $50 now and $50 at launch. Rocket explodes? No problem, you still get your $50.

Your proposal: government pays $100 to build a rocket to go to the Moon. $50 now, $50 if it lands. Ops. No one shows up. Err... Let's try $60 now, $40 if it lands? Nope... Still nobody around to get this contract...

Why? Because a company would charge you (simplifying a bit) $150, of which $100 now, and $50 if the rocket lands.

Congratulations. You have contributed to ballooning the Space budget. Taxpayers are thankful.
also known as the "one percent rule" - 90% of people passively view content, 9% comment on content, 1% create

(i've written on it here and how it does favor creators https://www.swyx.io/puwtpd#why-does-this-work-on-them )
I've always said that Cryptonomicon is either 300 pages too long - or 600 pages too short.

As a riposte, I have been informed that Quicksilver supposedly contains those missing 600 pages that complete the second storyline. Haven't verified personally.
GuessThe.Game
Vaguely Wordle-ish game where you are given screenshots of a game, one by one, and must guess the title of the game that the screenshots are from.
I am currently in Thailand, will stay in Asia for the foreseeable future. I am thinking of starting a family in the new few years and I consider Western Europe to be too unsafe for that (and I don't believe the statistics that says the number of crimes in France is pretty much the same as in Thailand)

I consider my country (France) to have an absurd amount of tax for the quality of services provided, not worth the price
It feels like this is already true. Most (recent) EVs will charge to 80% in 30 mins or less. Isn't that faster than an iPhone?
Nonsense, any attacks on V1 sites were performed by completely different ground attack aircraft, and not the strategic bomber force. While the British might have allocated some resources to their destruction, to say it interrupted their nighttime bombing campaign is ridculous.
The relevant part was at the timecode the OP linked to: authenticity is overrated, to succeed as an entrepreneur you need to be able to put a positive face on events.
Well it ought to be able to be trained for a number of scenarios and then on generation be told to generate based on certain cultural sensibilities. It's not going to be perfect but probably good enough?

Isn't this part of the AI alignment problem? To be able to understand what kinds of output is unacceptable for a certain audience? To be polite?
Don’t impute all missing data: Missing Data Patterns
Fundamental R&D by the government is always about the long term. Longer than any business can stay solvent - that’s why the government does it.

Think of this scenario. We give up on space exploration. 20 years from now China or some other county did not give up, they created economic ways to reach, build and sustain outposts on the Moon and Mars.

They are now able to perform R&D in low gravity and environments with low EM interference. Possibly advancements in manufacturing, biotechnology, weapons, chemistry and physics. Those advancements give their industries an economic advantage on Earth.

Maybe, maybe not, that’s the gamble we take when we stop pushing things forward in one sector and allow others to catch up and surpass us. We may not see the net return for 100 years but if it’s out there you probably want to get it first.
But you can do composition, like this:

[Racket]

(~> thing
quux->baz
baz->foo
foo->bar)
> I think you'd really like the Aubrey/Maturin books by Patrick O'Brian. Surprising amount of history-of-science in his historical fiction.

Oh yes, I've read the entire Aubrey-Maturin series. I loved it! Good catch! ;)
Such a reusable system would have to be built from scratch. It would delay the return to the moon by a decade or more. It may not even be cheaper. And it would be frought with massive engineering insecurity.

Also you could say NASA is supporting SpaceX and others in doing something similar, which is better than having one single program in-house.

SLS is the safest bet for a soonish return to the moon. Anything else is just speculation.
At 200+ full time, I found being 100% transparent extremely difficult when lacking context (especially around cash in bank) because some took it as company was in bad shape, start looking for another job.

However due to the recent downturn, I found being transparent about the company's cash position, why/how we were making cuts, and my (founder) decision to take on debt instead of attempt to fundraise (equity) in this environment a rallying force because most of my staff have significant stock options and being effectively bootstrapped while surviving (almost thriving) right now is really exciting.

It also tamped down the seemingly endless requests for comp increases from earlier in the year as everyone shifted their priority to job preservation while realizing they have solid wfh careers.
My pick is yadm - clean way to setup working environment on any host any *nix-like OS and bootstrap it in seconds. password-store (plus yubikey) organically complements it with simple and effective way to access secrets on any host. However I'm using private gitea instance to store repos for both. Just because. :)
If this fails, it will basically kill any interest the US has in space exploration past LEO. You think they'll keep throwing more money at space if 23 billion goes down the drain? Lmao.

I have no idea how you or anybody else can say with a straight face that they're a space fan. What a laughable idea.
Oldest written song perhaps. Or even oldest written document of a song, there maybe very well be later writings of a older song

For the title of oldest known song, Wouldn't the Vedas(Rig Veda in particular) predate this time frame ?
They are also hymns and their oral intonations were specifically preserved in transmission .
The phrase "HN/Reddit" is weird by itself. This place feels so different from Reddit.
The Greenest Cities in the World
Fair point, even though IMHO it's not that hard to apply the concepts from these books to a FP context.

Nowadays there are even resources about DDD specific to the FP world, such as Domain Modeling Made Functional by Scott Wlaschin [0].

[0] https://pragprog.com/titles/swdddf/domain-modeling-made-func...
Yes I agree, in Haskell it is derived, for example.
The rocket is the harder part in this case though. SLS was hard enough as it was, recycling existing parts. Any alternative wouldn't have been easier.
How do you set up the model? Instructions only say "Download the model checkpoint. (e.g. from huggingface)", but I can't find instructions there on how to find a ckpt file, nor exactly what file should I look for.
This is a very reasonable article, not cut for front-page drama.
Oh please. All the comments I've seen are incredibly closed-minded and short-sighted with a bunch of wishful thinking. Nothing but Schadenfreude with no concept of the consequences. It's not like I'm a big SLS fan either. If SpaceX had a rocket going to the moon today, I'd be excited too.
So what’s the point of the article? Because I see a lot discussions and appreciation for the unpopular langs that author mentioned.
Sycamore v0.8 – reactive web apps in Rust and WebAssembly
> makes the design of large-scale system simpler by hiding away the complexity behind the facade of objects exchanging messages.

This Kay-esque focus on _messages_ has fudded the OO space for too long now. The so called "magical view" of OO - "it's all about messages".

The actual original inventors saw an object as a representation of a phenomena, real or imagined. They (particularly Kristen Nygaard) sought a way to model phenomena, concepts and the interactions between them. Consider that this is the design viewpoint that Bjarne Stroustrup actually sought to add to the C language. Step back from a focus on state machines, message protocols and a technical plumbing viewpoint.

FP has its place, particularly where the focus is on the transformation of data. But don't extrapolate that as applicable to all types of computing application.

As I mentioned elsewhere, the predominant design paradigm for large complex projects outside of computing and the data sciences for over a decade was Structured Analysis. That involved data modeling and typically separately modeling the functional processes that modified that data. Did we learn anything?
Nothing SpaceX currently has can bring Humans to the moon. Yes, SLS is expensive and inefficient, but it is ready to fly.
I don't think that 10% comments, the numbers I remember are 10% votes and 1% comments. And looking at some random topics it seems to be roughly there, 10% comments is way too high.
We've been hearing this for years now, though. And we've seen SwiftUI takedowns on here before, a year or more ago, and even then SwiftUI wasn't exactly new.

Meanwhile, my team has built an entire cross-platform desktop app in Qt with QML, which has been around for years and works refreshingly well. You're telling us that Apple, starting fresh and with several years under its belt now, still hasn't gotten its shit together with SwiftUI?

And the word is that nobody at Apple even understands how Xcode works at this point. It's a patched-together shitshow that desperately needs a ground-up rewrite... but we all know how those go. Remember the "ground-up rewrite" of Finder we were promised several major OS releases ago? Still waiting.
Looking at the sun-colored place where the people who write these books are often found writing things not for a computer but about computers.

I think they have lots of money but are never happy.

Do the books have problems? Yeah. But that is why the people who write these books always have a job.
> The way is see ValueObjects is as the most convenient tool when working with a very well-defined space.

My main problem with OOP in general is that people try to write programs in ill-defined spaces without defining them first. OOP promises it will be fine: just hide everything behind black boxes and nobody needs to know what actually happens on zeroes and ones level. But it's a lie - somebody needs to make a conscious decision on what happens on data level. It needs to be well defined or you'll get a huge object-oriented ball of spaghetti code. Which if you ask me is even worse than procedural spaghetti code (cause it's harder to refactor).

So once you define your data space well - value objects are usually a good idea, even for complex types with variable-length containers inside.

The main exception is when you need in-place modification for performance reasons, but it's rare in business code.
In such a situation, the expectation about the content moderation would remain the same. Specifically, such a network should still disallow hate speech, actively seek it, remove it and ban users who repeatedly spread it.