skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Narrative acceptability changes over time, partly due to narratives being debated here

Circular logic. What cannot be debated in the first place can never change to become an acceptable narrative at least not here.
At my current job between the CEO and me the reporting chain had one SVP and three VPs.
The Chinese room experiment is less absurd than the existence of consciousness though.
Thanks for the hug of death HN :-)

Unfortunately the folks taking care of the hosting aren’t yet aware of the problem as it is sleepy time here in EU.

In the mid 2000s I built the majority of what you see now but it has generally been out of my hands for a number of years after Scenesat demoscene radio took on the hosting keeping it alive with their love and the generous public’s donations, so that I could pursue other interests.

After keeping the fires going for the better part of 20 years it is tradition to pass the baton.

It was nice to see it posted here- The former modarchive.com that I helped support until it’s admin moved on was slashdotted back in the day with similar effects. I’m personally pleased to see my incarnation also get the hugs.

There’s an awful Easter egg site re-theme on an ancient test page located https://modarchive.org/?mp3
You know the saying "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead" (Mark Twain, maybe). Ya, that's what I did, your version is just better.
You’ll find no shortage of regulation in Indonesia. And no shortage of bribery.
Do you think they would've been able to independently solve a problem/design a program after just one session? Genuinely curious. I've had limited experience teaching people to program, but my experience has been that people teach themselves to program and you can only really be a resource for them. You can teach syntax easily but design and problem solving seem impossible to transfer; you can make the process easier but they have to teach it to themselves.
The restaurant owners chose to rent a property with knowledge that they were going to operate a restaurant on the property, and they also knew or should have known the accessibility requirements for restaurants. Why shouldn't they be liable.
Jeffrey Mishlove has interviewed quite a few people directly involved with remote viewing programs and other parapsychological topics. Worth a listen if you are intrigued by that sort of thing.
‘Wellness Month’ at Twitter Turns Frantic as Musk Deal Looms
>Was it serendipity or loving compassion?

Yes.

Or, more accurately, it's historical inertia. Macs are "computers", iPhones and iPads are "devices".

The arguments that Cupertino used to defend against Epic in court were roughly that Macs were inherently less secure than their locked-down devices, and that this was a deliberate security trade-off that they were not willing to allow iOS users to make. In other words, something you carry around in your pocket is such a potent malware and spyware vector that users cannot be trusted to decide for themselves.

I personally think this is a half-truth. If Apple had started with portable devices first and then scaled up to the Mac, rather than them starting with PCs[0], they absolutely would have tried to sell it locked-down. Both the tech and the impetus to lock down the iPhone did not exist when the Mac was first made, and the iPad is evidence of this. While there are legitimate user-interface reasons for iPads not running macOS, there is no argument for why they can't have the same security policy as a Mac[1]. But it was borne from iOS[2] and intended to displace personal computers, and thus inherits all of the iPhone's baggage, including the App Store lockout with no owner override.

Since Macs were always open, Apple's management can't insist on locking the system down without pushback both internal and external. Software developers expect to be able to ship their own software ecosystems and users expect to be able to have full control over their Macs. Locking down the Mac makes it a worse Mac, because the product is defined by it's openness.

[0] The Mac and everything that came before it.

[1] Nor is there an argument for why Apple TV can't have an owner override, either. It's even less capable of spying on you than your Mac!

[2] This is actually backwards; the iPad came first as a tablet tech demo and then it's tech lifted to make the iPod Phone work. But then Apple backported the finished phone OS onto the iPad, which is where all the iPhone-isms come from.
Thanks for mentioning hurl. I just started looking into it and Insomnia (with the cli) as potential replacements for ci testing tools.

hurl looks pretty simple to use, and way easier to get started with than what we're using at work currently.
Feel free to email me if you want to talk more! Email in bio
Why are they always so eccentric? Are there normal geniuses or is that just how it works out?
Also see: https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/ which can search the mod archive. You can find modarchive under <from> in the file menu.
The exact model? That seems like a higher standard than other computer companies are expected to meet. It sounds like you ought to build your own PC if you care about every single component.
I'm so thankful Journey to the Microcosmos exists. Keep up the great work, James Weiss, Hank Green, and the rest of the team.
Fair number of ICT6… would you say more than 250 out of what, 25K engineers?
Same here, lots of vaccinated people complaining and falling ill. Do not believe some of the 'official' versions of un-vaccinated people falling more ill ( in one version - people who had just one shot were consider un-vaccinated because they did not have the full dose of 2 shots). When the 'data' contradicts anecdotes, believe the anecdote. The emperor has no clothes, etc...
So memristors are almost here, is that what you're saying?
Primary source (translated to English by the US military, because of course it was):

https://web.archive.org/web/20180728054156/http://www.dtic.m...

Edit: There are some gems in this summary (the text matches, but the page numbers do not):

https://techpeterburg.wixsite.com/mysite/post/biological-rad...
This sounds really neat, from the layman’s perspective. Are they saying that the neighboring non coding genes are acting as a kind of entropy source for the coding genes? If so, are there other known examples?
Problem is that we know for certain that it happens and we know dang runs some kind of heuristics to try to identify it, so that creates a weird situation where we know it positively happens, but we can't talk about the ones that we suspect slip through.

And the title article is all about astroturfing and foreign agents and the like, so it seems like if you don't want to read that discussion you shouldn't really be reading this comment section. It should be pretty obvious what the content is going to be like from the title. Flag the post if you don't like it and want it all gone.
I hope that you read this with a scientific attitude, i.e., critical, but open to the fact that not only your position is wrong, but also the unproductive enterprise of solving "the measurement problem" is wrong.

What I'm trying to explain to you is that:
1) The wavefunction is only the DESCRIPTION of the underlying phenomena.
2) Within this description everything, and I mean ::everything::, evolves unitarily. No exceptions ever.
3) Whenever you decide to measure, i.e., probe the microscopic system with an object that is not within your quantum description, that is you know that it's huge, but have no details about all the phase/amplitude information you're destined to average/trace over the unknown states. This can be done symbolically (as in my first post here) and shown to always give probabilities in the reduced density matrix. That's always what we're left with in case of a large system outside of our description interacting with a small system within our description.
On the other hand if you put a small quantum system, with another small quantum system (say two particles), there's no need to trace/average/apply the born rule immediately because your description can be complete both in principle and in practice. You can just unitarily evolve the system for as long as you wish/can compute for. However sooner or later you'll want to measure, because ultimately that's what physics is all about - verifying your predictions with experiment - and you go back again to small vs big, because that's the only way we, humans, can perceive this microscopic reality - through probing. The result will be completely analogous to the one before, the only change being that you'll now be able to predict probabilities of a two-particle system.

If you're familiar with electrodynamics it's quite similar there, but here it's brought to another level with the probabilistic interpretation. What are the similarities?
You can have your complete description with the four-potential, about which you know, from the Aharonov-Bohm effect, carries more information than electric/magnetic fields alone although we only measure fields not the electric/magnetic potentials.
The potentials were the side product of the formalism that turned out to have real consequences. Similarly as we learned the importance of the wavefunction/phases in the description, even though we only measure probabilities.

About the curse of dimensionality, the only thing I have to add is, that's true. We have a precise way to describe what is going down there but it's insanely expensive to simulate in all detail. That's still a lot to be happy with in my opinion.

Also, if you feel uneasy with wavefunctions which have the status of descriptions of reality,
go and study classical field theory in which the fields are to be thought of as real physical entities,
go step deeper and you're in quantum field theory in which you deal with descriptions again.
Would a theory in which we deal with "real physical entities" be better than that of "descriptions"?
I'd say, the hell with it. Go with whatever works best, not whatever fits your preconceived notions of reality.
Binary search is also helpful in code that doesn’t reliably produce useful stack traces (side eyes Promise.then). Comment out half of the potentially implicated code. If you get the same error, you very likely haven’t found a stack frame. If you get a different error or no error at all, keep halving until you either isolate the thing or know where to look.
I think attributing it all to the circumstances of Eich's tenure as mozilla ceo is probably missing a large part of the story.

Don't get me wrong, i am sure there exists people who are motivated by that, but except in the early days of brave, i have not really seen brave evangelists talk about that at all. The talking points mostly seem to be anti-google, anti-big advertisers, anti-chrome monoply and pro-privacy stuff. And i think the amount of people motivated by those talking points far eclipse the other drama, which at this point feels like a historical footnote. Especially because as far as i know Eich hasn't continued to publicly express these views.
> In a lot of places, mortgage payments are around the same as rent, so if you can "buy" (qualify for a good mortgage) you'll be paying less AND your net worth will be growing

sure you'll be paying less, but you'll also be buying a lot of risk. You don't own anything until it's fully paid, and if the interest rates skyrocket good luck with bankruptcy
My forever-lost Myspace content begs to differ (I am somewhat kidding, and very salty about it)
Why is there no oversight?
Pitfalls of Debounced Functions
Cube-V cores on a KCU116 = 1024 dynamically interleaved threads = ~30 GIPS
I was happy with my two S76s but the keyboard wore out on both.
This isn’t magic, we can feel what each other are feeling even at some distance. The only reason it feels at all mystifying is because our dogmas about the nature of thought separate feelings into a separate category of triviality, rather than taking them seriously as phenomena produced by our body and environment in concert.
A truly invaluable resource. Many years ago I was searching for the music used in this ancient Tom's Hardware video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1hg1zf7rrY after finding out that many previous Tom's Hardware video soundtracks were featured modules from the archive. However, this one remained elusive until I realized that the entire archive to ~2007 was available as a torrent and that even a single laptop could run the "shazaam" algorithm fast enough to search it given a few days of time ;) https://github.com/eqy/molasses

And the song is silent running by dragonfly : http://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&que...
In online discussions it seems like the threshold to accept an idea as true is much lower if one is to reach that conclusion themselves than if it has been reached by another regardless of one's awareness of the other party's threshold for accepting something as true.
This is a great writeup, but it's the simplified view. The hard part comes when you need to consider pixels that aren't 100% opaque.
It’s a great show, I wholehaertedly agree.
I just had NixOS break in a weird way for me. Ok, it was more that Gnome 42.4 broke the wsmatrix extension, which caused Gnome to shit itself[1] on login.

It's a little bit of a double edged sword. NixOS lets me use pretty much straight upstream packages, which sometimes break due to not having thorough integration testing like a traditional distro would. On the other hand, I was able to just boot up an older configuration to get back to functional, and that let me figure out wtf was wrong.

[1]: https://github.com/mzur/gnome-shell-wsmatrix/issues/236
Can you elaborate on what exactly happened with C++ since 2011 that it no longer emphasizes class abstractions?
No snaps is good but

1. Slack is a snap. Do you have to run it in the browser? I don't know if desktop sharing works well there, it's been years since I only used their app (Electron?)

2. Is flatpack optional or are there some mandatory flatpack apps that are part of the system? I'd like a deb only system.

3. Contrary to some of us I don't want to use a tiling window manager. Can I keep using my heavily customized Gnome Shell or do I have to use whatever System 76 created for Pop_OS?
> It is objectively bad, and scummy lawyers are able to abuse the system in part because in the U.S., exactly what is accessible isn't actually written in the law.

No it isn't. It's just evidence that the world isn't perfect. Those "scummy" lawyers are performing an important function, and if not for them things probably wouldn't be anywhere near as accessible for disabled people as they are now.

It's kind of ironic that the libertarian-types who are often the loudest ones condemning stuff like this are also the first to defend people similarly motivated by greed as performing important functions, such as price gougers and the like.
That's only a small part of the available blend modes. I've always wondered how the digital versions of dodge and burn compare to the darkroom versions.
The best presentation is the most suspect, particularly if the presenter has little focus and follows on to trending topics (you start to notice a topic does the rounds in several information entertainment venues and presenters in a short time).

Popular science presentations whether it be books, podcasters, or videos are quite low signal to noise.
Elon says at lot of things when the day is long
Coincidentally, the System76 blog RSS feed started 404-ing about midnight CST last night.

https://blog.system76.com/rss

They don't seem to have a replacement URL up.
Is derived information not distinct from the input? I mean, tagged information tells you about the tagging system in addition to the tagged information.

Specifically, it tells you how the tagging system interacts with the tagged information.

In this case, from a physicalist perspective, seeing red tells Mary how her specific brain (or whatever physical system explains color sight experiences) interacts with the experienceable subject "red", be it red light or whatever choice you make for the "true" subject for the sake of the thought experiment.

The ordinary discussion of the thought experiment simply assumes she can somehow already know this without experiencing it, and hand-waves away concerns about whether she could obtain that knowledge without having the experience (she is a brilliant neuroscientist, after all).

My position is that this is precisely the new information she obtains from seeing the apple.

The minimum value from a finite list of integers is derived from the list, but until you compute it (the analog of "seeing the apple"), you don't know the minimum. Even if you "know all the integers in the list" otherwise.

Edit: typo
Republican party sues Google over spam policies
Yeah I’m sure my girlfriend losing her hair after getting Covid is also a funny coincidence.
Related: http://www.ciscv.com/arduissimo.html
I wonder what the demoscene could do with modern CPUs and their AVX multisymmetric parallel whatchacallit and what not. As in, getting the most amount of stuff done with the least amount of instructions.

Does anybody know any examples?
Honest question. Do people consider css a programming language?
Looks like it's back online! I reckon it's a good reminder to donate a few bucks to them. I've used Wikipedia so much and I can never thank them enough!
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> Interestingly, I just looked at my Win11 taskbar. The only text there is "type here to search".

I try as hard as I can to keep something as close to a Win 95-style taskbar as possible. I don't use Win11, I know I can do it on Win10.
Most wealth tax proposals are to take a percentage of a person's accumulated wealth annually.

A property tax isn't what people are talking about for a wealth tax.

I do believe that you should be able to keep accumulated wealth. We are all equals under the law. Once there is a wealth tax the definition of wealthy will be continually decreased so the government can take more. The government has an insatiable appetite for spending other people's money. It will always demand more.
Appreciate the engagement with the idea, but you’re missing the mechanics of all this.

There are a few scenarios:

- landlord rents to belfuscian because that’s the market. Then a Lilliputian makes a popular tv show that depicts the neighborhood as cool and affordable. Landlord starts getting interest, so they force out the belfuscian so they can get the Lilliputians.

- landlord just wants to run a building and make a living. They get an offer too good to pass up and sell the building. New owner plans to make the money back by forcing our existing tenants and jacking the rent.

- the tenant believes that they have a right to an apartment without roaches and mice. The landlord feels like that’s not reasonable because it’s NYC, and there are roaches and mice. The landlord decides to get rid of these tenants and hope to raise the rent.

And yes, sure, there are bad tenants who landlords want to kick out. But let’s talk about who is more likely to end up in a bad situation- the low income tenant trying to get by, or the landlord who owns a building they want to maximize revenue from?
From the article:

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They reached the trillion-dollar sum by multiplying the state law’s up-to $5,000 per-violation fine by the 550 million social media exposures Jones’s audience received on his Facebook, YouTube and Twitter accounts in the three years following a school shooting that claimed the lives

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So if you argue that each post to each person is an instance of aa violation as it's an attempted sale of his products, then they multiply out that way.

It's the lawyers role to advocate for a particular reading of the law.

You could argue it other ways too, eg. every actual sale, or every post is a single instance of an attempted sale (but in aggregate, rather than per individual).

But, I'm not a lawyer, and I'm interpreting the law as written in that except from the Bloomberg article, not the statute, so, don't put much legal weight on the above.
The problem isn't classification, as much as undoing the effect of a generation of academic and pop-sci publishing, which popularized the term "junk DNA" - and groups that perpetuate this term today, e.g. creationist/anti-evolution groups that use it to argue biologists are full of hubris (and thus wrong about evolution), and inadvertently keep the term itself alive.
COVID was on nobody's radar

Pandemics have absolutely been on the radar. We already had plenty of hints: SARS, swine flu, heck the great influenza pandemics of the past. Increasing total population, increasing population density, and increased travel have been obvious risk factors for as long as anybody has talked about this stuff.

one of the striking features is that every 10 years or so

There are multiple things every decade. In the past 10 years we've had the pandemic, something resembling a coup in America, war in Europe, a nuclear disaster, accelerated global warming, and so on.

Trying to fit it into a shallow truism like "every 10 years, it's something!" is some kind of magical lazy thinking, right up with "it takes 10,000 hours to master a thing!" and "celebrities always die in threes!"
many glowies there
It would've been nice if the article could have even shown a single image of how knocking out a certain sequence caused some wing pattern to disappear. But I guess that's hidden behind a paywall.
I think you have the effects of this backwards. It's predominantly the mom-and-pop restaurants that go out of business, and the "mcchains" that install the ramps.
System 7 came out in 1991 while Windows 3.1 wasn't even released until 1992. Apple had a huge lead but they squandered it on failed rewrites.
That's nothing new.

My father had 'radium needles' inserted into his neck for several days to fight his cancer. And that was way back in 1954, nearly 70 years ago. It worked for him too, at least for about 15 years till his cancer returned.

A few years after his treatment, I had 'radium needles' taped to my large toe to kill off a plantar wart. I remember having to sit in the doctor's waiting room for 3 hours while they 'worked'. I wasn't allowed to do anything else, in case they were lost. I was told they were very, very expensive.

They looked like plain silvery rods about 2-3 mm in diameter and about 1 cm long. I remember thinking they just looked like somebody had cut short bits off some nails.

IIRC the doctor said they were hollow stainless steel containers and the radium was filled into the cavity. I suppose my dad's were pretty similar in appearance to mine.
PDVL – Transaction Oriented Programming, Design and Verification Language (2018)
How much of the $1.7m is going to PG&E? Especially since their profit margin is set by the state it seems weird that they'd be able to gouge the cost of running a few light bulbs by over a million dollars. If PG&E is such a problem why not just use some cheap solar lights?
For our use-cases if you think about a recruiting team who are just using:

- GSuite for email, calendar, etc
- Zoom for candidate meetings
- Greenhouse as an ATS

Then those all have dedicated iPad apps which are very usable.

Same story for office admin teams, EAs, etc.
Some couples in love have uncanny synchrony.
The Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst Ever Recorded Rattled Earth’s Atmosphere
For me it has been mostly ruined by the exploitation of privacy, planned obsolescence, leasing vs owning strategies, and snubs to right to repair.
my impression was that apple initiated contact based on an assumption that i was running a keylogger or other information that could be used for identity theft. they quickly learned it was an art project but decided to apply force via the secret service to keep it from gaining too much publicity. after that caused a bit of a streisand effect, they decided not pursue a civil case. i would guess that the judge decided not to pursue a criminal case because it would have been an obvious waste of resources.
I think there's better causes to donate to. Wikipedia has loads of cash [0] and could probably manage quite easily with gains from investments.

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[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12...