skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> although it strikes me that it'd be people specialising in the philosophy of science who'd use it, rather than people doing actual scientific research

I think this might to some degree demonstrate the point (lack of self-awareness/criticality among practicing scientists).

> Also, I'm not entirely sure why I should care about what philosophy majors think about the scientific method.

Cross-domain perspectives can offer valuable insight into complex problems is one reason, but there are surely many others.

> That said, if you have blogs etc. from scientists or scholars of the philosophy of science I can read discussing "scientism" (FYI, my spellcheck is insistent that's not a word) , then I'll happily read them.

Is constraining one's information sources to only the ideas of those who are being critiqued a logically, epistemically, and scientifically sound approach?

> Can I make the usual philosophy major joke about how I don't interact with them "other than when I'm ordering my burger at the drivethrough"? Heyoo, please, take my wife, I can't get no respect.

You can, and I encourage it - the more information you reveal about the manner in which you think, the more data it gives others to model the style and quality of your cognitive abilities (and luckily, this opportunity exists at the individual level, and collective level). Observing people describing how "science" appears to them (aka: "is", circa 2022) is one of my hobbies, and there seems to be substantial clustering of very common logical, categorical & epistemic errors in people's thinking across different dimensions. Ironically, this seems like the type of thing that science would/"should" be very interested in, considering the causal importance of human cognition in the end state of the world we live in. But alas, hyper-complex non-deterministic environments seem to have a repulsive affect on the curiosity of Scientific Materialists. Since this seems to be the predominant (and increasingly so) metaphysical framework in advanced western nations in this era of human history, I do not expect things to get better anytime soon, assuming something unusual does not occur to change the path we are currently on.
That seems less "anti-AI" and more anti our current economic systems, the inequality they produce, and their increasing incompatibility with the present and future. The "incompatibility" being between our values and the resulting outcomes. Our values tell us that AI and automation freeing up immense amounts of human labour/effort so that it can be directed to new (creative) ends should be wonderful and celebrated, but the reality is that it's bringing about a frightening future where an increasingly small few control the vast majority of the power in the world, and direct it towards "profitable" ends which are largely divorced from human values.
> But I don't get why people are fundamentally against "prisoners should work to provide for themselves, just like the rest of us."

If we treat prison as a service to society it makes sense that we should pay for the service through taxes. Prison obviously isn't intended to be a service for the convicted individual so it doesn't make any sense to charge them.

If this cost is considered too high we should consider reducing the number of people we send to prison. If we can offload the cost to prisoners, those least capable of fighting back (they can't even vote!), then the sky's the limit!

> Hell, it would probably be great for rehabilitation. You could teach people how to show up for a job and manage money.

Sure, if and only if they're paid the local minimum wage and services in the prison are reasonably priced (no $25 brief phone calls, etc). Otherwise we're not teaching them to manage anything, we're just exploiting them.
> (probably exists somewhere on archive.org)

Yep!

https://web.archive.org/web/20091121080804/http://blog.okcup...

God I love archive.org
It would make even more sense to sell that power back to the grid, and then spend the $$$ earned on gas, which would work out cheaper overall.

Obviously in many parts of the world, market distortion means the buy price and sell price for electricity is very different, and in that case a heat pump might make sense to combine with PV.
Roe Jogan interviews Jeeve Stobs.
Yeah, really the only reason a lot of people upgraded was the fear of supply chain issues and AMD CPUs got good. Performance finally came up to justify the expense, and now there is nothing significantly more performant. Either prices need to come down, or new tech needs to come out to make it work it. I'm still on a 2012 Xeon system, No Change Needed.
You can't go everywhere by train. I can't do Santiago -> Barcelona for example, I have to go through Madrid.
> IPv6 is going to be de facto replaced with SNI routing

Maybe server side, but client side addition is up to 40% now. IoT is only going to drive it higher.
New dialogues aren't so hard. They are rehashes of old dialogues. New ideas are hard.
GP here, I gave up on keto after one year because it required eating a special diet which is difficult to prepare and store while traveling. 4 hour TRF worked for me long term.
Thought it might be cool to take a pass on 12 Factor application and how its evolved since it first came out!
Here's an interesting probable side effect of the spread of dating apps:

> "According to Rhode Island's Department of Health, the numbers for STDs rose drastically between 2013 and 2014. Syphilis cases increased by 79 percent, newly identified HIV infections increased by 33 percent, gonorrhea cases increased by 30 percent — and it's mostly young adults (along with African-Americans and Hispanics) who are becoming infected at these higher rates."

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/55888/20150527/tinder-dat...

Now if we look at the majority shareholder ownership of say, Gilead Sciences (a major provider of STD pharmaceuticals) and Match Group (owner of Tinder) on Yahoo Finance, the overlap is fairly large. (This of course is true for most corporations in the USA, so it's perhaps not as much of a plot as it might seem).

But still... it makes one wonder about investment capitalism. It's always finding a way to create value and improve people's lives. A nice square deal. Make money promoting risky sexual behavior when they come in the front door, make more money treating the resulting STDs when they leave via the back door. Rather similar to pushing the soft drinks and junk food on the kids, and then reaping profits from the high hospital bills a few decades later. Gifts that keep on giving, right?
I'm not trying to be glib but it sounds like you agree with everything I said.

You haven't looked at any studies and have based your opinion on conversations you've had with people around you. You haven't had decades to talk about this either because weed was only legalized a couple years ago.

You claim that people are stupid and don't look at studies but that includes you by your own admission. If you're ok with that I guess that's fine but I would think you'd try to do something about it.

For what it's worth I agree with you about casinos, don't agree with you about weed.
I really don't understand why they don't just stuff the rest of the computer in there at this point.
I don't get it. Why does no government anywhere run a non-profit dating site from tax-payer money when this is becoming the most popular way people are meeting?

All the options people have are using toxic apps which entire business model is to undermine the self-esteem of young men and scamming them out of their money. And then people wonder where the mental health problems and mass shootings come from.

I really don't understand how this stuff is still not regulated anywhere, it's a dangerous scam.
If you are saying that the profile photos on dating sites seem a lot less staged, than you are right. Good quality cameras on cell phones were not nearly as ubiquitous in 2010 as they are now. I think it was better back then because you could get a good sense of the person's personality from their photos than you can now.
> It took until 1980 for incarceration rates to start their upward climb. Ten years is a remarkably long time for a doubling of murder rates to take to show up in imprisonment.

This is extremely dubious. The vast majority of people in prison are not there for murder. From a search, 15% of people in prison have a murder on their record. It's not TV.
I listened to Annie Graces This Naked Mind and it helped me make a rational argument for why I shouldnt drink. I wanted to stop when I started the book mostly because hangovers started getting bad and I was spending too much on booze.

I told myself I was going to quit for 90 days. That turned into 6 months. Which turned into about 2 years now. At this point I dont get urges anymore. The first 90 days were the worst. The following 6 months were kinda bad. After a year it got a lot easier.

A HUGE help is having supportive people in your life. My wife still drinks but she was never a big drinker. My friends still drink but they are also really into doing things that drinking doesnt help, like sports where drinking doesnt really fly, or outdoor activities where drinking doesnt need to be involved.

I was pretty much drinking every night when I quit and it was my main social outing. The hardest part was retraining my brain to do things I liked without drinking. A big one for me was drinking while watching movies or tv. I could get drunk and watch shitty lifetime movies because when youre hammered enough those shits are fun. But without booze even great movies were boring for a while. It just takes time. It does get easier.

Check that book out. It helped a lot with building up enough arguments that I couldnt easily break them down when I wanted a drink.
Not really.

Given a fixed amount of review time per day, the largest deck you can maintain grows asymptotically over time, not exponentially.
I was a regular reader of their blog. It was great. They had a bunch of data on how we data and they weren't afraid to let the data speak. This resulted in some ppl getting upset b/c they had to hear something that didn't fit their worldview.
NVIDIA has effectively changed the naming scheme for their cards this year.

Now there are two 4080 cards, with wildly different specifications. Basically, one of them is actually a 4080 and the other is what they used to call a 4070.

This is reflected in their name and price here[1].

[1]: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/40-serie...
The problem in Europe for freight trains is that Europe generally doesn't have as long routes as the US and on long routes in Europe you cross different countries, which have incompatible voltages and power systems, different signaling systems, etc. which makes it complicated to run trains across. Not to mention countries outside the customs union, where extra processing is needed.

On short distances a railway is simply less efficient than trucks.

Also companies have optimised their storage and logistic chain to expect for example one truck each day instead of a train each week and thus are using the road as storage facility.
Isn't that exactly how Tinder also works, or at least used to work? I remember Tinder being heavily criticised for using Elo ranking.
It is a relative bargain, but I missed the time when I can build entire PC for $1,599 and play most games well.
“Nearly two-thirds of all prisoners in the US, which imprisons more of its population than any other country in the world, have jobs in state and federal prisons. That figure amounts to roughly 800,000 people”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/us-prison-wo...
Funnily enough they did use windmill pumps instead of steam for this exact purpose.

The thing with steam is that it clearly beats mechanical systems only at very high heat and pressure.

I would expect steam to have been used like in Korea - for heating efficiency.
sounds very interesting, never heard of it, thank you!
People with low muscle mass definitely don't need 440 calories of protein shake a day to gain muscle.

I was getting great results with about 110 calories worth 30 minutes after exercising (25-30g? "1 scoop" at any rate) plus creatine. I simultaneously lost a lot of fat according to the fat percentage scale at the supplement store.
Exactly. Also, the top commenter noted that only electricity was available and currently was relying on massively inefficient baseboard heaters. Solar panels and heat pumps also have great rebate programs and eventually gas will be phased out. Some US cities are now banning gas on new construction in the near future.

The point is that custom solar/geothermal installs seem neat and efficient —- waste not, want not — but probably have a hard time competing with the economies of scale and low maintenance of PV panels and air source heat pumps.
How to Detect Faces Using Python
good solution, thanks!
I agree in a sense. As far as US military expansionism - I think the overall security architecture is sound (NATO, AUSUKNZ, Four Eyes and Japan/South Korea means that the US effectively surrounds all of its major challengers on all sides). It’s kept US dominance in place for almost a century now. And I believe that’s a good thing.

But it’s on the implementation that things went haywire.

Because pre-fracking the US was so dependent on foreign energy, adventurism was encouraged in Iraq which led to a major geopolitical disaster (and a huge sink for the country’s resources). In that respect, yes the expansionist policy went totally overboard, due to poor leadership and planning and unrealistic political objectives.

Overall I think:
- the overall architecture is sound. The US dominates and reaps benefits for it, while in my opinion maintaining peace through strength
- but Europe should be spending enormous amounts more in military power - something like 5% of GDP at least - so it has a realistic chance to defeat Russia on the battlefield on its own
- if that happened then the US could probably reduce its military spending (im not even sure they would because of the issues you listed though).
Not sure why you're being downvoted for asking this, editing blog posts ought to be very easily traceable using archive.org.
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I am happy for you but I think if you met your wife in a car crash (I knew a person this happened to for real!) I don't think you would say a great way to meet people is car crashes. Also, maybe OKC was better than some.

I think dating apps would be creepy, but to be fair I am a person who married before they were that popular. I have a college age son who is in a committed relationship with someone he met through friends so I believe IRL meeting is still possible. The important thing is to build strong relationships so do what works for you.
This is why I think they created RTX, they knew hardware was already good enough for most players playing at 1440p or even 4k ( I run AAA games non-rtx at high 144fps ). It's the same thing with iphones, it's been diminishing returns for a couple of generations already that they are now focusing on creating new software features to justify better cameras, soc, displays...
Brave. Does what I need and has nice features like background YouTube playback and Chromium niceties like PWAs. Looking forward to vertical tabs, which they seem to be working on.
Article from 2010. Instagram was created on October 6, 2010. I bet it's related.
thanks, will have a look!
The TRE approach is closer to a natural pattern, as our ancestors - generally - also had a limited window of time in which to eat [when they did]. A notable difference between ancestral and modern habits is that eating was, as a rule, a physical activity in itself [walking and overcoming obstacles in gathering or running - and overcoming obstacles - in hunting].
Forget Madden. The Hottest Game in the NFL Is Chess
DLSS was adopted quite rapidly. I suspect every newer game is going to launch with DLSS3 support, or will soon receive a patch for it. And it's the newer games that you're going to want DLSS for anyway, older games will perform just fine without it.

NVIDIA also announced toolkits that allow moders to apply DLSS to older games that aren't receiving updates anymore.
Agreed. This is aligned with what I was throwing on another thread. Your behaviors were not aligned with your identity so one of them had to go. Sounds like you picked the one you really cared about. Kudos
Something is a little off here. Having experienced trying to deploy services in China I know for a fact they do not "ask" someone to not do something. They dictate what shall and shall not be done. Starlink would very likely have to hand over encryption keys to register in China. I know of only one company that shall not be named that has permission to entirely bypass the CCP's great firewall and that is only because they are more strict than the CCP in the management of their networks. There must be more context that is missing.
Not going to get hyped for this. Price gouging is insane.
How has it not aged well? It documents what happened when GM killed the EV1 by interviewing the former people involved with the program. (Some of which went on to Tesla.)
Thermally insulated password gloves?
That's a difficult question to answer correctly. Not only because of the multitude of hardware differences between GPUs, but also because GPUs have a different strategy of latency-hiding than CPUs.

... And if you can successfully "hide the latency", then you kind of don't care about the latency...

I'd estimate CPU RAM latency to be 50ns to 100ns and GPU vRAM latency to be 100ns to 500ns, depending on architecture. (There's many more GPU architectures out there, and they all have very different latency characteristics)

But again, GPUs "don't care" about the latency to some extent due to their massive number of concurrent wavefronts/blocks. While CPUs also "don't care" because of L1/L2/L3 cache and out-of-order execution.

Its probably more important to understand the different strategies of latency-hiding between CPU vs GPU, rather than knowing the actual latency figure.
Top speed of "up to 80mph" (assuming that's very dependant on the wind).

Compared to a passenger jet at ~500.

So a 1h journey by jet is now a 6h journey?

Maybe that works for low-weight cargo?
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People let a bunch of the AMD twitter bros work them into a froth over power efficiency. Everyone knew it was basically a 2-node leap (Samsung 8nm is a 10+ node, it's about on par with TSMC 10nm, so there's 2 generations of improvement there), the bullshit from the twitter gang was utterly unfounded since day 1.

Everyone who wasn't in the tank was telling you god's own truth: NVIDIA is going to leap two nodes, it was always gonna be a huge leap, bigger than Pascal. They were drowned out by the AMD hypetrain crowd as usual who desperately wanted a flop and were trying to will it into existence.

It does go to show just how far NVIDIA is ahead on architecture... they could fight RDNA2 to a standstill with basically a whole node of disadvantage, and they did the same thing with Turing vs RDNA1 where they were using TSMC 12FFN (which is literally 16FF with the "your mom-sized" reticle - there is no optical shrink in 12FFN) and managed to fight 7nm cards to a draw on both performance and efficiency.
You mean current set of laptops, the 6000 series with RDNA2 graphics has been available for a while now. It provides 1080p/medium tier of performance.
Yeah I suppose, it's like, multiple epochs have passed since then.
Unfortunately I don't know of any legal theory that would actually cause a judge to rule this as fraud. Unlike trademarks for instance, there's no requirement for you to actively defend a patent to have it be valid.
Misbeliefs in programming career or how to survive as a newcomer
Really? I'm in the U.S. and the only place bikes are explicitly illegal is on the highways. Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought bikes could take city streets and follow the rules of the road like everyone else. If there's a bike lane, use it, but otherwise behave mostly like a car (maybe giving cars a wide berth to pass you).
> People who are not in prison have to work to afford their housing, food, clothing, and other necessities.

No, people need money to afford their housing, food, clothing, etc. Most people acquire that money through labor, but they can select between a variety of employers and quit whenever they want.
Oh, GPL2, nice!
uMatrix can't do cosmetic filtering.
This sounds a bit backwards to me. Exercise and proper nutrition shouldn't be seen as hardship you take on because the alternative is worse, but the path to understanding the potential of your body and the joy of physical activity and good food. It's a hedonic activity at its root.

The same goes for book reading, except this time it's about the joy of using your mind and being exposed to different modes of thought. In fact, I'm not sure how you gain wisdom and inspiration if reading the book is boring to you.
> On the other side, inventors are going to invent anyway for the sake of it and to have something to sell.

Are they? Inventors need to eat and sleep, and that's hard to do if someone else with a higher marketing budget and fewer qualms about lying to make a sale rips off your invention a day after launch day.

For example the situation between AWS and many open source server-side tools. Recently several companies based around open sourced software with auxiliary monetization plans have chosen to abandon open source in favor of more restrictive licenses that prevent cloud providers from re-branding their software and selling it as their own.

> They could be outspent and out marketed by established companies and end up working for them.

Or they could decide inventing isn't worth the hassle and they'd rather be a Dentist or something that pays well.
I have worked with a few people who later joined Google. They were OK but not the best people I have ever worked with. So don’t believe that “the best people work for FAANG’s”. It’s BS hype.
I take it to mean people so different in socio economic status that they would never be in the same building in real life.
And it will only cost them 1% per transaction.

This may be less than credit cards fees which probably run about 1.5% for large customers like Google working directly with the credit card exchanges. But more than debit card rates which average less than 0.65% according to the Fed.

But add to this the crypto exchange fees the customer has to pay just to buy and use Bitcoin. These are typically 1-3% depending on where you start from versus 0% to use a credit or debit card.

Bottom line: Overall, crypto offers little to no real world advantage for payments --- certainly not from an end user perspective.
Any risk of WTO lawsuits? I know the Korean and Japanese auto companies are considering suing due to some advantages that the incumbent auto manufacturers have in the bill. I suspect there will be carve outs for every foreign company that complains.
> I was always wondering why there are no systems converting the unused electricity in potential energy by moving water to a higher ground

There are a bunch of pumped storage facilities around [1]. But they work best at massive scale, so suitable locations are somewhat limited. Plus they are expensive to build and often face environmental protests (similar to building dams). Still, it's a solution I'm a fan of.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pumped-storage_hydroel...
I’ve seen this one before, but I haven’t yet come up with an excuse to use it.
It's a good point. Do any of his dialogues include the other side of the debate?

Did Plato ever speak about how we wants to communicate ideas to later generations? Maybe he didn't want to, and he trusted his students to preserve and improve his important ideas?
How did he expect people far away in time and space to study philosophy without access to great thinkers? Did he not care? Did he expect every niche to reinvent philosophy from scratch?

Thomas Jefferson wanted the US Constitution to be rewritten by 1810, but we are still stuck with it today (with amendments, granted).