skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're both wrong. Many people subscribed to each belief.

The economists, globalists and industry people believed that it could never happen. The military, nationalist and political folks figured it would be inevitable, or at very least if it happened they had to win.

Many people subscribed to the argument of the economists and globalists in more democratic countries because it was a comforting illusion the people in the more militaristic autocracies, believed it was inevitable, and incidentally were the nations that hold the most culpability for WW1, Germany, Russia, Austro-Hungarian empire.

Wait a minute why is all of my description starting to sound terribly and horribly familiar to what is going on now?

Seriously those that will continue to posist that war will not come are foolish and don't realizing that the first steps are already in progress with the information war being waged right now through cyberspace.

Note I don't want a war to happen and think it will be horrible and terrible, but all the elements are in place for it to happen. A shifting balance of power into a multipolar world, multiple nations either facing decline or ascendancy, realpolitik becoming the norm in international relations, it all looks very grim unless some very wise, peace loving and capable leaders emerge on the world stage soon.
Why does my dog growl at my other dog when it tries to eat it's food? It seems to understand subtraction at a basic level.
Proposed Operator Overloading in JavaScript
>Isn't that "bittorrent ratio" easy to cheat?

Yes[0] but you have to be careful else you might get caught

0: https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/Ghostleech
The Covid-19 Baby Bump
The PRC doesn't "need" Taiwan, either in a geographic sense or in an industrial capacity. This is purely a regime legitimacy test; the presence of non-communist Chinese right off the coast is a rebuke of the PRC. It's a bit similar to how Cuba is viewed in some parts of the US.
I'm not asking whether it's worth it for the money. OP said "for a job with reasonable hours, hft pays a lot". That suggests they think 10 hours a day is reasonable, independently of the salary.
And you could do it with pencil and paper if you wanted. If you were very quick at maths.

The point is that it places a requirement on the user and interrupts their workflow when they just want to Get Stuff Done. And if it stops working then the burden is on the user to make it work again.
Good enough. There is nothing wrong with existing parts and so why spend money to design new ones. Inflation is bad enough without having to pay for new engineering as well
> Mathematics is most definitely a human endeavor, and so we can’t really make claims about its existence in the universe independent of humans.

I think the idea is that math is not created by humans, but documented by humans. Sure, the specific terminology may be our invention, but there are basic mathematical properties that seem (from our perspective) like they should be universal. For example, whatever names a being has for the numbers 1 and 2, if you take that 1 and add 1 more, you must get 2 (or the "local equivalent") as the result.

My guess is that, if what we call math isn't truly universal, it's probably at least universally true within the realm of physical life, and there's likely some massive causal chain from the root properties of physics itself to the mathematical properties that we call "math". When it comes to raw, untethered "consciousness" (or whatever one would prefer to call it), this may not hold true even in the slightest.

Yes, this comment steps slightly outside what could ever be determined purely by the scientific method at the end. I feel it is useful to do so in discussion, even when that cannot directly enter into research. There are some truths to the larger universe that I don't think the scientific method will ever truly be able to uncover, just due to it's rigor. Some aspects of the universe are just simply not falsifiable, but they're still worthy of discussion with an open mind.
> What would Copilot look like if it was not separate?

Maybe some type of hint shown inside your code when it’s shown at github.com. There is already a text editor.
This kind of bluster is a mainstay of Chinese geopolitics. The law was intentionally written in an open-ended way so that the party always gets the final say on what "completely exhausted" should mean. It serves as a propaganda tool internally and a point of leverage externally -- the party never needs to actually act on the threat for it to serve a valuable purpose.

With that being said, it's not that simple. Bluster isn't just a political tactic -- it also enables the military to slowly chip away at norms and edge closer towards a strategic advantage (e.g.: progressively violating more and more of Taiwan's sovereign airspace). If the party could have things their way, the military would merely continue pushing the envelope until one day a D-Day assault force seemingly randomly washes up on Taiwan's doorstep.
Did you read my justification for saying that it is also an ethnic identity. It was literally the next sentence.
FTC Wants to Add Right to Repair to Existing Energy Saving Rules
New MRI technique allows millisecond-scales noninvasive tracking brain signals
yes, exactly this. I thought for sure the radar unit was a gimmick and I'd be returning it, but after seeing so many positive reviews I ordered it to give it a shot. It consistantly tells me there is a car (and how many) well before I hear it.

With a mirror I'd have to be constantly checking which not only takes my eyes off the road ahead, it makes the ride much less enjoyable.
> This is the quality that you reward with hundreds of points?

Many read HN just for the comments, so will upvote a low-quality article with a discussion-driving headline (often without reading the article), purely to generate discussion on a topic they're interested in.

It's something of a pity as articles like this with absolute garbage takes do a disservice to those users who share the sentiment for valid reasons. But at least we get to read some of those more well-reasoned arguments in the comments here.
In theory. In practice, most just can't be bothered using private trackers because of this. Hard to get into, hard to keep up - you have to be a dedicated archivist just to use them. Which is the polar opposite of why people have been torrenting in the past - piracy had less friction than using licensed content.

Rutracker works differently, they aren't afraid of snatch-and-run. They managed to build a community out of those dedicated archivists. So the volunteers keep the rare content afloat, and the tracker can also be open and usable by ordinary people as well (which keeps popular content afloat). This approach also has its flaws, of course.
Web Incubator Community Group forum topic:
Browsers should clearly mark required fields

https://discourse.wicg.io/t/browsers-should-clearly-mark-req...
> I am sensitive to radiation and cannot use any radio device

Well to that one they could reply that you better not turn on a SDR to see what radio waves are passing through you at this and every moment. XD
Interesting statement from the author of megapixels https://git.sr.ht/~martijnbraam/megapixels
Ads companies getting rich off of AGI seems a bit sensational when they’re already getting rich off of the boring type of AI. They’ve already gotten rich indexing the web and all the data we have years ago.
That assumes that there is no law or legacy system that requires names to be collected in that way, which is not a solid assumption.
What makes you think it's not written by GPT3?
> If Occam's razor is presented as a truth (which is pretty subjective, as it depends on what we/someone considers "simple").

It doesn't though. Firstly, Occam's razor is not about simplicity but about "parsimony". Parsimony is calculated in information theory via Kolmogorov complexity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity

This then lets us describe how to do induction so it provably converges in the fastest way possible, Solomonoff Induction:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff%27s_theory_of_induc...

Arguably, this can be seen as a formalization of the scientific process.
> (wear masks, be vaccinated, test yourself before and after the event, etc.)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> The result was that precautions were largely ignored by everyone at the event.

You don't know if the attendees were vaccinated. You don't know if/how they tested. When I got vaccinated, and also when there wasn't a wave, I got more lax. It requires focus and attention span to follow the precautions. Except for vaccination. That's a shot, perhaps some side effects, and you're good to go for a while. Masks have more adverse side effects. And I say that as someone who has a needle phobia, got vaccinated multiple times, but also who wears glasses and prefers the fresh air over the mask (nausea).

I've also done self-tests which, in start turned out nothing, and then once it onset (I already felt ill) suddenly bingo.

> My personal take from this was a) FFP2 masks work

> I strictly wore one indoors and didn't get sick

N=1

Masks primary role is to ensure you don't spread COVID, not that you don't contract it.

The more plausible explanations that you don't got COVID is that you were a) lucky b) vaccinated c) used more precautions like social distancing / didn't frolic around the crazy 'social' people who YOLO.

With masks it requires cooperation in order for it to work. It doesn't work like a condom: put one on, be protected. Everyone puts one on (a good one, as you asserted, though even a mediocre one is 'Good Enough') and then the chance it gets spread is minimal.
I believe he means "the use of asterisks to mark required fields" was invented for the web. Otherwise, you'd have to be quite young and quite sheltered to not have seen asterisks in places older than the web.
And yet, they were caught off guard.
>China doesn't possess the capability to build their own competitive chips

The US doesn't either. ASML is the only supplier of cutting-edge lithography systems and they are Dutch, not from Taiwan or the US. Without them Intel and TSMC couldn't do what they do and US sanctions is why China can't currently build competitive chips. It is not because of some kind of US tech brilliance.
Do you validate pagination parameters? Or filter params? In this episode I'm showing the possible use case for doing exactly that using built-in ROM pagination support and dry-schema.
The US has no naval presence in Taiwan. USN ships might do port visits, but they have no basing rights. They will periodically transit the Straits on Freedom of Navigation (FON) exercises. The closest USN base is in Yokohama Japan.
There should be a right to a suitable medium of exchange with very low inflation or deflation and very low unemployment.

If the government doesn't provide such a thing that is ok but it must grant citizen's the right to issue their own medium of exchange with a regulatory path to pay taxes if it fulfills the inflation/deflation criteria.
Very cool. Thanks for digging in to this.
Good OKRs vs. Bad OKRs
Imagine you stop using OKRs today, what impact will this have on your North Star Metric?

If you don’t think it will significantly impact your business growth, you are doing OKRs wrong.

That would happen at Netflix, Google, LinkedIn, and hundreds of other companies who do OKRs right.

So what are you doing wrong?
>> "Like someone else said, there was a version of this where they asked people to opt-in and got community involvement. In true MS fashion, they just did it without asking and people are rightfully pissed."

I'm probably not the first person to say it through this whole debacle, but that might be me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33242619

>> "Copilot was Microsoft's first test of people's trust after the GitHub acquisition. It's going very, very, very poorly. There were ways to do this with consent and collaboration with the people and projects it takes code from, but they're acting like classic Microsoft here."
> A human being doesn't violate copyright in learning from a copyrighted work, including when that human being is later more able to produce other works based on that learning

You have to be very careful with this line of thinking. I remember SCO versus RedHat began on much smaller premises. I also remember it took years for ReactOS to audit their code after mere suspicions arose about code that seemed to be inspired by something like asm to C translation.

The GPL is clear: derived works must be under the GPL too. The license must be respected, it doesn't matter if it was copied "from inspiration because it was learned" by an algorithm or a person.
> It’s just a sweat shop.

Amazon engineer salaries are in the 90th+ percentile in the tech industry -- let's not bother comparing them to the typical American's income. They have almost unlimited mobility in their industry: They can find a job elsewhere anytime they want.

I remember you mentioning elsewhere that in 10 years of working at Amazon you're now financially independent. This isn't the outcome you usually see in a sweat shop.

I don't disagree that they have a culture of treating employees as expendable and are a harder place to work for than some other big tech companies but at some point a little perspective on your own privilege is healthy.
Another UI/UX "expert" who needs to reinvent the wheel to justify his existence.
I think this is one argument that leads to the idea that the structures could be relatable, if a being could count. But who knows? Our mathematics relies strongly on the logical and axiomatic systems used. Things can get weird real quick with small tweaks to these systems, so it doesn’t seem like a stretch that whatever mathematical analogs aliens may possess may be wildly different. And there’s a lot of developments that our perception of reality is shaped by our biology in ways we barely understand.

There are intelligent beings on Earth that don’t seem to even have analogs to human mathematics, at least that are apparent to us. We can barely communicate with a small subset of animals and plants on Earth. So I am just inherently skeptical of claims that alien thinking will bear any resemblance to human thinking.
> This isn't even a shared principle among humans. How many experiments does it take for you to have 50% belief in a hypothesis?. What is the number of experiments? It's literally impossible to answer. It's not even clear what "belief" is or what 50% means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff%27s_theory_of_induc...
First, every accountant I know has a lot of IT skills.

Second, why do accountants need to pay a yearly fee for such a basic utility?
People living longer is generally a proxy for people being healthier. A healthier society is more prosperous since people can work more and produce better output.
Counting implies the ability to perceive the discrete, but such discreteness may not be obvious to a shapeless creature living in a liquid or a gaseous substance.
Except I've seen the same on paper forms plenty of times in the past, they point at a footnote saying "Required".
Not just soldiers.
> marginal comment

> side note

I find that to be disturbingly rare on the web, i.e., asterisks with no footnote do seem to have been popularized by web forms specifically. Drupal, for example, is like this, leaving the site builder to get creative if they want to add this note somewhere.

I don't have a sampling of paper forms handy to see if they, too, suffer from this, though.
Firefox makes browsing more colorful with new ‘independent voices’
Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade
Once someone uses copilot they now have code fragments outside GH and stripped of attribution and license. Looks like GH is trying to say these users need to do their own IP vetting. Which seems very impractical for anyone, even the creators of GH copilot.
What makes functional languages so damn pleasant to use is the fact that closures are cleaned up automatically by the runtime system once you're done with them.
> They never say they liquidated all their CP holdings.

They do separately say that; https://tether.to/en/tether-slashes-commercial-paper-to-zero....

(They have, of course, repeatedly lied elsewhere on that website.)
No. Oktoberfest just happened.
I now identify as an AI-driven megacorp
At ~1% is this more “psy-ops” than an economic measure? In other words, no one is safe, stay on your toes. Don’t be complacent. Presumably these are/were productive people and could be reassigned and retained for when the economy recovers.
Personally I don't want fun names, but I wish people used unique, writable, pronounceable names. Try to search for "camera" and see if you find this project. On the other hand, v4l2 is pretty unique. If all text editors are called "TextEditor", maybe the name says what it is, but the name is useless. For a company, you just use the company name ("Microsoft Word", assuming that the company name is unique enough), but for an open source project...
The idea would be to prevent UK residents from purchasing ads or other products and services from Meta. There are various ways of enforcing that.
How can you communicate the axioms of Peano arithmetic to intelligent extra-terrestrials, in a way that they would recognize it?
Like posts have said, whether training is fair use is not a matter of opinion, it is a matter of law. You can't use an appeal to your authority to make grand statements like this.

Frankly, I don't care that ML/AI _needs_ this to work. That's not my problem. You don't get to circumvent existing agreements (and law) because you believe that ML learning is the same as a human reading a piece of code and then typing it up on the side. Tesla manages just fine by generating their own training data. Other businesses have found partners to acquire data from. The only reason this isn't being immediately addressed is because there is near-zero accountability for license violations in software companies, and ML further obfuscates that.
What did you find
I'm so glad I screwed a ski trip out of Amazon. Took me 3 hours of my life to pass the coding test, then the remote live coding interview. Then they paid the flight and hotel to meet and grill me in person. I asked for an extra hotel night "to look for houses". That day, I actually took a bus to $BIG_MOUNTAIN nearby and had the some of the best snowboard of my life. The interviews were shit, clearly designed not to know if I knew software but rather if was compliant and thick skinned enough to survive and perform in their shit culture. Fuck you Amazon. Thank you Amazon.
Which is an extremely different statement from

> until it was finally pulled off the market in Germany.
Solar and wind can never even approach a fraction of the baseline power requirements either.

Of course, it takes a significant amount diesel fuel, energy, and mining to make EV related equipment, too.
I think this is a lesson in product market fit in that there is not a market for this app and it will adjust (or go away) to find their fit.

It would be fascinating if there ended up being a market for this as it’s so counterintuitive for me.
We must not allow a GIF gap to develop.
Typescript and React project build times are easily in the same ballpark as Rust or C++ for similar code base sizes though, yet they are used in the frontend 'at scale' ;)
> And a war indefinitely delayed is a war avoided.

You spend the rest of the comment before this talking about how war will happen when they are stronger and probably can't be avoided, so I don't know how this last sentence follows.

If you know for sure that someone will wage war on you in future, and that they will get stronger faster than you will, then it could be in your interest to go to war against them sooner rather than later.
Taiwan as a piece of land has much more strategic importance than Ukraine. Ukraine's grain and terrain are the two things that are important about it from a utilitarian sense.
The thread started with "real name." The only way to verify that is government identity.

If you want to verify some other, "online" identity, that's fine, but I don't see how that would meaningfully affect anyones behavior. To be clear, I don't think verifying someone's real name will meaningfully improve online behavior either -- plenty of other threads explain why. In which case, what's the point of either?
I'll bite - I just googled this, and am having a struggle understanding.

Is an Algebraic Data Type (ADT) in rust an enum or tuple? I make heavy use of enums (along with structs) as my program foundations. Am I using ADTs?

The third type the query shows are unions, which I'm not familiar with.
Hasn’t heart disease been the top cause of death for years?
This is a normal cut for Microsoft. They do this every year around this time.
This has been going on since way before the internet--Texas used to have de facto veto power over public school textbooks, because the Texas Board of Education (or whatever it was named) was the single largest buyer of textbooks. If you're a big enough buyer, then you start to claim some amount of monopsony power.
I think alien analogs to mathematics are unlikely to match ours.

Almost certainly not, but they're probably isomorphic. And either way if we show them our axioms they will be able to validate our mathematics and vice versa.

The truths of mathematics are of the form 'if A then B'. Even if they don't start at A or even accept A as true, but will should still get B if they assume A.
Throwing shade is never a productive conversation. I never claimed to be omniscient, I offered my piece.

> logic (ternary) and epistemology

How do they relate to the problem of consciousness?
The killer for me is that it's a full-fledged operating system, not just a kernel.

Kernel and Userspace are developed, and packaged together, in the same repo.
> Even humans do not fully agree on mathematics. There is no “one” mathematics because mathematics is the human exploration of idealized objects using a variety of human logical systems.

Maybe not in its entirety, but I find it hard to imagine that any civilization as advanced as ours (let's say a civilization that manages to harness nuclear fission, just to set a baseline) will not come up with concepts such as prime numbers, real number, complex numbers, calculus, etc. If they do that, they will inevitably find the same structures we found using function theory. They will know about differential equations and prove similar theorems about them as we did. And the Pythagorean theorem is a universal truth that holds everywhere.
> After seeing Ukraine turning into a WW1 quagmire

Ukraine is nowhere near a WW1 quagmire. The lines are far from static, and we've seen one dramatic rout a month ago resulting from a competently-executed war of maneuver operation that was completely impossible in the WW1 situation.

It looks less like WW1 (a war that ultimately came down to bleeding men until one side ran out, at which point the war effort came flying off the rails extremely rapidly) and more like WW2 (a war of maneuver where applying sufficient overwhelming force in a narrow front could and did produce overwhelming breakthough--even if it took a very large stack of operational successes to ultimately prove victorious in the war).
That's not true. There are projects which are not maintained by RH. Also, anybody could have registered that name before RH... You could have done so.
The paper you linked is investigating whether the mRNA vaccine influenced 46 deaths among 122,164 recipients of the vaccine. That is not relevant to the change in life expectancy observed in the submitted article.
Isn't that the corporate dream though, to make all your competitors dependent on you?