skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Roger Penrose supposedly wrote Emperor's New Mind as a direct rebuttal of GEB from a physics point of view. These two books, ironically, seem to form an undecidable dual. One of them is true, but neither managed to prove its point.

p.s.
GEB is ultimately arguing that mind arises from complexity in structure and algorithm. ENM counters that by noting (apparent) non-deterministic aspects of consciousness, proposing quantum effects as a possible source of consciousness. (That was my overall take on the these two books.)

p.s.s.
What is not convincing about GEB's argument is the lack of a reasonable explanation for meaning. What it does argue well is how meaning unfolds (self-reference, recursion, composition) but just as Cellular Automatas (CAs) deceptively look like natural phenomena but entirely ignore the extra-CA substrate that simulates the CA world, GEB too ignores the missing mind that is supposed to traverse these layers of abstraction based on self-reference, recursion, and composition. So it is ultimately a purely aesthetic argument (even though the machinery of logic and mathematics are thrown in,) just like certain branches of modern theoretical physics.
A few years ago I decided to move up from what I'd call "good consumer" receivers to something high(er)-end. So I shelled out $1400 for an NAD A/V receiver.

This thing is unmitigated trash. It's riddled with design defects and bugs that render it unfit for purpose, some of which are acknowledged by NAD but with no solution. For example: You can't watch 1080p content through it because it reports incorrect EDID info to the source player, saying that the max resolution of the display device is 720p.

Another: Dirac audio processing is well-regarded by many to fix room acoustics, so that was a major factor in the purchase. Welp, the NADs will simply "lose" or stop using your laboriously-sampled Dirac EQ curve at random. Another defect admitted by NAD, but "we don't know why it happens."

An authorized repair guy said NAD simply contracts out their designs, and the gear is often built by a hodgepodge of suppliers out of low-grade components. This was after driving two sets of speakers from one set of terminals apparently caused on over-current condition... which didn't throw a circuit breaker or blow a fuse, but rather destroyed the entire amplifier and rendered the receiver permanently inoperable unless the main board was replaced. Brilliant design.

I have replaced it with a Pioneer, which only suffers from one insufferably stupid design flaw that I've discovered so far (also shared by the NAD): You can't play digital sources through secondary zones ("zone 2" speakers). I mean... WTF.
It wasn't a chavvy name in the UK, but back in the 70s an 80's it was part of a collection of names that became associated with a certain working class archetype. It was Gary, Wayne and Kevin for men and Sharon and Tracy for girls. It was considered the height of "naffness" to give your children those names.
On the quote of Georges Pompidou: "[the building] was the only good thing those Commies have ever done".

That translation is a much less neutral than what he actually said. He said "c'est la seule bonne chose que les communistes aient faite", which is quite neutrally: "this is the only good thing that the Communists have done". No "Commies" (I'm not even sure that there's an equivalent in French) or "those Commies".
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is a Metroidvania (and the first Metroidvania in the Castlevania series, with almost every 2d Castlevania released after that also being a Metroidvania).

Castlevania 1 is not a Metroidvania. Metroid 1 is though.
> attempting to square-peg-round-hole something like this into AWS S3

I don't think it's like that. AWS already offers services like S3 Select[0] or Athena[1] that do something similar.

> the user is merely invited to retry

Another reason why I used s3fs instead of manually making requests.

> Why not just use the right tool for the job?

I certainly have multiple uses-cases where creating an SQLite database locally and distributing it via S3 (for read-only usage) is orders of magnitude more convenient than the alternatives. It's hard to beat the developer experience of a local SQLite database.

[0]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_SelectOb...

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/athena/
> Not only this, but people publish their papers months ahead on arxiv.

What's the difference between posting stuff on arxiv or uploading a pdf to your blog?

> Big labs have big publicity and thousands will read their papers.

Peer review is supposed to circumvent the problem of a marketing budget being a factor in whether your paper is deemed relevant or not.
Related:

What Gödel Discovered - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25115746 - Nov 2020 (259 comments)
I'm interested in Pijul and the theory I've read about the patches model makes sense but I'm still looking for an answer to my standard question on Pijul:

"What real world situation does git barf at that Pijul would handle better". I'm sure there is one, but I have yet to see it.
Because you are already acustomed to ssh?

I personaly use GPG. However, GPG looks complex and the ergonomics of GnuPG cli is horrible.
> "this is the only good thing that the Communists have done"

Is still a damnation of that death cult though. No neutrality about it.
Buyer definition, sales and marketing?
Bazel has a stateful server component that caches information about the build graph and source files in memory. As you said, this allows it to check mtimes first to avoid re-computing hashes for source files.

Bazel can also read source file hashes from the filesystem if the filesystem supports it.
I don't know if you are interested in this, but for anyone who wants the audio quality of wired headphones while also using bluetooth, I can highly recommend a bluetooth DAC, like the Qudelix 5k[1]. It has excellent audio quality and their app is quite nice and allows for some very in depth customization.

[1] https://www.qudelix.com/
The way Journal of Open Source (JOSS) - https://joss.theoj.org - does the reviewing process is good. Everything is out in the open, reviewers and authors names, reviews, responses, discussions etc. The whole process is out there for everyone to see.
>At ~140 chars on a browser, JS can do this

*a JS function, utilizing dwitter-specific functions, called in some other dwitter-specific function, included in some specifically designed frame

Wouldn't be surprised if the total JS code required nears the submitted game.
It's fixed in the master branch since 2020, and is therefore fixed in 4.0.
> Lesbians are bearing 90% of the brunt on this, of course, being shamed and guilted into having sex with men.

Yeah, I heard about that and it seemed super-strange. I mean, lesbian or not, I have the right to have sex with whoever I want, not the other way round, no? Forcing someone to have sex is sexual harassment and should be punished, not supported/endorsed by anyone.
And crucially, no adverts
Indeed.

It's very similar with tech startups. Once you've been around the washing machine loop a couple times you realize just how much of this stuff is arbitrary and luck dependent. Unicorns born upon butterfly's wings. Having a certain background lets you buy more chances at the luck part. It's not fair. It is.

Personally my read on this is we should have some humility about how unpredictable this all is.
"personally, I have a second hand denon HDMI decoder thing, with airplay [..] dsp filtering [..] calibration stage [...] decent flat reproduction"

These are certainly words, and everything else being the same I absolutely would rather have the "bit wooly" kind of review to read.
There is a substantive difference between "rarely" and "never".

The principle about trees, if you must use one -- they are very slow to walk -- is that you either use it, or mutate it, not both at the same time.

Generally, instead of pointers to nodes as native objects, it is much better to have all the nodes in a more array-like container, and represent edges with indices. Then none own any others, and you can visit all the nodes, if you must, without following any edges at all. (Graphs, likewise.)

You might keep all the nodes with one property in one vector, and the rest in a different one. If they have some unique identifier, that could be their index.

Doing whatever your freshman Data Structures class taught, forever, is no way to code for a multi-billion dollar company.
You would be careful because they are watch a show that increases their vocabulary?
Perhaps, surprisingly, it might go both ways: when I know who is on the PC, I think I can tell which person wrote which review, because I both know their work and met them personally. In fact, those people on the PC is why I am submitting to a venue in the first place, because I want reviewers who will easily understand my work.
In the spirit of "umm, ackshually", their username does start with "hombre"...
Near here is a state park with an interpretive natural history center. They have a photo from of a nearby intersection that always completely blows my mind.

The photo is from the very early 20th century, and the area at that time was original old growth forest. Huge trees everywhere in the photo, the road is just really a trail. It's a completely different landscape, and the only thing similar I've seen in person is maybe the redwood national park forests.

What's wild to me is the area is currently very rural. So there's forest in the area today, around that intersection. But it's still so different. The road now is so much bigger and the quality of the forest is so much different now — it just seems like succession forest by comparison.

The area was logged after the photo, which was the point of displaying it. But what's crazy is it's been 100 years and it still looks nowhere near the same.
I bought my current digital camera when one big-box electronics retailer had a special "we're paying your VAT" offer going on – over here, VAT is 19 %, and when the shop assistant entered the rebate, the POS system popped up a warning that the sale price was less than the shop's cost price.

I don't remember the exact price, but it does indeed mean that the margin must have been less than 16 %.
If your health doesn’t allow you to get the needed vaccines and you are putting other people in jeopardy who are already more susceptible to death, you are just as unqualified for a job in the healthcare industry as I am of being a brain surgeon with cerebral palsy (I do in fact have CP) that leaves me unable to use one hand.
Respectfully, I believe that your premise is flawed. The symptom may be qualified, good employees quitting and leaving the company unable to fulfill its obligations, but the root cause is the poor leadership that caused them to leave in the first place.
Of course you don't have a right to have sex with whomever you want, it needs to be a voluntary and consentual agreement between all parties involved.
> They could have added that feminism, far from being Rodger’s enemy, may well be the primary force resisting the very system that made him feel – as a short, clumsy, effeminate, interracial boy – inadequate.

Feminism generally sees itself as advocating for women's interests and from what we've seen from stats on dating sites, women generally don't want effeminate short clumsy men.
yeeeeeeuuuup :P
Those videos seemed a bit over-alarming to be honest.

It's about kids spending their bought ingame-currency for ingame things... which is the whole point of buying it. If you don't like it just don't buy the ingame currency for your kids.

And then it's about kids being used as unpaid game developpers because they had fun creating games.
AT&T Breaks Promise, Will Only Offer Fastest 5G Performance on Newest Phones
What kind of twit mods that down?
Frenchman here, and have a very close Kevin.

It's true there are stereotyped jokes about Kevins, especially in the IT word.

But it's nowhere near the the scale of what the article or the documentary suggests.

Kevin, working in IT, confirms that he hasn't heard the joke in years, and even in the 90, it was probably once a year. It never affected his life in any way. Honestly being a nerd in the 90' was the hard part.

It reminds me when we had a couple of cars burning in Paris and the US medias reported it as civil war. I had clients calling me, asking if I was OK.

At this stage, I'm assuming anything the medias are reporting is BS until proven otherwise. They destroyed the credibility of their own job.
When implemented correctly, it also helps local development. You can use remote cache with local execution for quick compiles locally.
What is the best way to group students to maximise learning?
I thought this was the result of front wheel drive.
Make sure you come back to mod this down too, crybaby.
Walled garden? Ha!

All bluetooth devices do this on all platforms when you use both sound + microphone. It has to split the available bandwidth between the two.

My Sony headphones will go into "headset mode" on Windows and Mac and sounds horrible in both, just have to make sure no programs are trying to use the headphones' microphone and then you get full bandwidth for audio.
Physics alone can't answer the big questions
With CP/M if you left the door open all your work was lost like tears in the rain.
Data science and tools are especially critical to oil and gas management. Including downstream: refineries are built for the qualities of available discovery and take as long to plan. Anticipating the availability, extraction costs and chemistry of a new deposit is a major advantage to anyone in the industry. I was given, cold, a six figure number of barrels of Kazakh crude to market, three years before the standard blend was assessed. That was fun...
I used to be a naive DIY hobbyist who was outraged by how much more expensive commercial products were compared to the parts cost.

But of course what you say is true. Electronic and software design, physical design, productisation, marketing, distribution, packaging, support, business premises, logistics, and backup business services (payroll, accounting) all cost money. Even a nominal markup of 40% may not be enough to cover those expenses.

Selling at scale - even at small scale - is completely different to buying a bag full of bits and assembling them with a soldering iron.

Having said that - audio and music are particularly susceptible to snake oil. Never mind all the cable nonsense, you can literally buy magic pebbles and boxes full of rocks to "improve" your audio.

The people in those markets are either delusional or knowingly scamming their customers.

At some point branding and market positioning become the biggest driver of perceived value, and spending $$$$$$ just to prove you can - under the pretext of "purer sound" - becomes an exercise in consumer narcissism. In the classic Veblen mode, the product being sold isn't the item, it's the consumer's perception of themselves. And some people will pay huge sums for that.

Which is you can buy magic hifi rocks, magic watches that don't tell the time very well, magic handbags, and all manner of other trinkets, for very silly prices.
Yep - "hurr durr I fit a two parameter exponential to three data points OMG guys we should panic now" is just about the weakest argument that has ever been made about any of this stuff.

At the very least, many of the things he's showing would be theoretically expected to follow logistic curves of some form, not pure exponentials.
They are definitely a thing, but not all walls need to be load bearing. This is the sort of thing they work out during one of the early stages when they make sure the architect has actually designed something that can be physically built, plenty of (most?) architects even do this themselves as part of initial design work and it’s not something you see as much in the modern era of with computers to help make “sanity check” calculations like this part of the design process, like a pre-commit hook linking your code they can check that they haven’t got major structural elements like load bearing columns or cantilevered spans that can’t be built with concrete and steel. It won’t necessarily ensure the design passes local building codes, but it will definitely help avoid embarrassment for an architect of having to redesign something because it literally could not be built as designed by them.
the modules are usbc, but the ports themselves are thunderbolt you can plug any thunderbolt adapter into the port directly rahter than use the "usbc" module (if you wish)

the main issue with plugging into the laptop is dimensions, because there is only so much clearence
The sq program is not stable yet. right?
Also, netbooks with Celeron N4020's and 4GB RAM soldered onto the motherboard without any ability to upgrade.
>hurting people

>sacrifice

There is no sacrifice. People in Poland still had food and shelter. Even North Korea gets humanitarian help, if their tyrant allows it to. I'm not against that. I'm against making them more powerful. Food does not change that, but transfer of technologies or means of production - which happened with Russia and China, and even Poland [1] in the 70s strengthened the regime, making the fall longer and more painful.

US, and any other country, has no obligation to prop up failing dictatorships technologically or economically - which they and also famously Germany - did.

>I also think that you don't know much about Reagan. He supported policies that were explicitly against education of the middle class (trying to made universities into a pay model) and pro-segregation (like hard stance on drug war). He almost started a 3rd world war. This is all on record.

Internal policies of Reagan, and a lot of external ones were bad. Still, he was right on that one, compared to failed policies of Nixon and Brandt.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polski_Fiat
You should post it in the next "idea" thread.
First, journals and conferences are different. I would expect more valuable feedback from journals than from conference reviews.

Second, journals are overloaded, the journal reviewers unpaid, and frankly, they are not doing a good job anymore in reviewing work. Feedback that amounts to "maybe submit first to a conference" is not that valuable. Effectively, you have to have the idea, then execute it perfectly, then do a major marketing effort to popularise your work, and why exactly would you at the end of this still submit to a journal? Given that the journal either wants the rights to your work, or charges you for the pleasure of publishing with them. At this point, a journal is just another marketing step, and for marketing you pay, I guess.
Another famous example of this "brand" re-use that I only recently found out about: AEG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEG
> although old Mozilla code seems similarly afflicted.

Mozilla invented a language to get around it.

In my opinion it managed to improve the field of programming in a huge way.

That said as long as C++ code relies on C code or programmer invalidates memory safety invariant somewhere you are just as safe as C code. I.e. not much.
I've joined rewrite projects towards the end a few times to try and steer them back on course, and the projects followed identical patterns - rewrite in shiny latest language/architecture and get 80% of the way there, then get bogged down with a bunch of missed edge cases and obscure business logic that the existing application also learnt the hard way.

Unless the existing system has terrible architecture and technical debt, or its written in some language where you can no longer find developers, be very weary of the "do it right this time" rewrite.

Be double weary if no long term staff are still around with broad and deep business knowledge.
> But once an offer is made and then it is accepted, I call that a contract

I also call that a contract. Musk should be held to it, or he should pay a multi-billion dollar exit penalty. But this isn't relevant to what we were discussing.

> But I think Musk must have expected the share price to climb past what he was offering, and whether his stating his plans to monkey with Twitter had any effect on the share price, it seems obvious that was his intention, to effect the price of Twitter shares. Clearly it either backfired, or it had no effect, or it had the intended effect.

This is the same conspiratorial misunderstanding of what happened that we've already gone through. There was no sneaky plan to pump TWTR shares by making a disingenuous acquisition offer. Such a scheme makes no logical sense. He didn't own enough of the TWTR float for the risk of such a grandstand to be anywhere near positive expectancy.

But there is a perfectly logical and simple explanation that you keep disregarding, which I've outlined twice. I will outline it a third time now.

He wanted to buy TWTR. Then the market crashed by surprise. Then he changed his mind, because doing so is logical after the market crashes. It's so simple, and it fits so well, it lines up with all the available circumstantial evidence, and it makes so much sense.
It is complete non-sense. Banks don’t have a good framework for detecting suspicious transactions. They also happen to not really care and rightfully so: it’s not their job and shouldn’t be their responsibility.

What happens is that banks are trying to cover their ass and please regulators so they don’t get fined.

Of course all regulation does is add complexity. You still have the most common way to launder money: know the top-banker and have connections inside the bank. With the right amount of money you can buy all the KYC you need.

Which means all this regulations is either malicious or plain ignorant. I think it’s malicious.
Other examples of capitals moving: Bonn to Berlin (Germany), Bursa to Ankara (Turkey)
>It's trivial to get perfect on-axis sound (ie, the tweeters are pointed at your ears) even with cheap speaker components if you add some active DSP

Common digital room correction systems can improve the time-invariant linear components of an audio system's distortion (phase and frequency response) by convolving with an impulse response. The best results are obtained at a single point listening position, not a whole line. This technique cannot restore frequencies that were cancelled out by destructive interference, and may increase noise to unacceptable levels at frequencies where it has to apply gain. It supplements room treatment, not replaces it. It does nothing to improve non-linear distortion, e.g. harmonic and intermodulation distortion from soft clipping or asymmetries in the speaker motor, or time-dependent distortion, e.g. dynamic range compression from the coil overheating, or so-called "Doppler distortion" (better named phase modulation distortion[0]) from significant excursion of the cone.

How much distortion matters depends on personal taste and listening material. Moderate harmonic distortion can be very difficult to hear in some sounds. And as the popularity of vinyl and tube amps show, some people prefer more distortion.

[0] https://sound-au.com/doppler.htm
It was not THAT hard to find?

The first result for "mudge whistleblower report pdf" was https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22186683/twitter-whis...

But not being able to verify the source I looked at articles and the WaPo one had the document linked in this article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/t...
Commit signing with S/MIME also works great. The downside is that you have to buy an "email" S/MIME cert from one of the usual cert gatekeepers for a couple dollars, but in return anyone can verify the signatures without exchanging public keys with me (or building a web of trust), and expiration and revocation are solved problems (including verifying signatures made with keys that are now expired, which seems not really supported with SSH keys)
You can’t make informed opinions on a lot of areas without the prerequisite training and context
>All css frameworks really should prefix their classes so you can mix them.

I don't believe that would work out.