skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I posted this exact poll this week, with proper ranges, but deleted it when I saw that HN had re-organised the items seemingly at random (just as it must have done here as well).
It’s not tricking people on purpose but it’s trying to distill information that can’t be distilled.

> true but grossly misleading statement said specifically to capitalize on the wrong conclusion people will make about it.
> - Every Politician

Fact Checker: “seems legit”
> The possibility of "someone" becoming wealthier than others has no value to me.

In a system of voluntary exchange ("capitalism") they can only become wealthier if they are freely given their wealth by someone, even if that someone's not you.

> I care much more about the possibility of people starving or living a terrible life due to lack of basic material needs.

I hold with Kropotkin, we are a social species. As long as there is sufficient wealth, people will be cared for. The best way to make sure that is the case is to maximize that wealth. That's what free, voluntary exchange does. It's not a zero-sum game but it's always win-win. Only the economically illiterate would claim otherwise.

> Capitalists thrived during Nazism and Fascism. An entire economy was born out of the extermination of the Jews, and capitalism made tons of profits out of it.

Nazism and Fascism both were self-avowedly anti-capitalist Ideologies. Insofar as neither cared for peace nor for property rights, this self-assessment must be judged entirely correct.

> There were also wealthy people during periods where only birth right could give you wealth, and those aristocrats would not hesitate to abuse of the population with violence.

Hence not capitalist. I argue for voluntary exchange and your counter-argument is "thugs, murderers and slave drivers existed, therefore capitalism bad"?

> It is clear that the existence of wealthy people does not guarantee free and voluntary exchanges. If nothing, it usually pushes for the opposite.

That was not the argument. You got it exactly backwards.
I'd say two things. Filter and predict. Both of these things are done to conserve energy and survive.
"Welcome to WOMP alpha" … and nothing happens (noscript ALLOWING hotjar, still…)

Anyways switching to chrome and disabling all security it worked.

Why do models take many seconds to load?

Interesting rendering algorithm: You see it converge from low res to high res within a few seconds after rotating:

https://alpha.womp3d.com/preview/45050

Pretty good end results I guess? No expert on ray tracing or whatever they use.
> Its value will be established sooner or later. It is too early to call any Twitter-related promise "empty".

By default I can't take any promise from Elon seriously, nor do I understand how anyone believes anything he says. He underestimates every problem and never has any plans until after he makes announcements. I can't believe how many "eventually" promises people will still believe from one guy who obviously makes them off the cuff with no thought whatsoever for what is involved. Half of HN seems to give way too much credit to hot air from this guy, he's announced (and taken money for!) many many things coming imminently years ago.
Artists aren't limited to possible futures though, I'd encourage more of them to imagine the impossible, as well.
This seems like a horrible notion of how to run a human society and is shocking if that is a foundational observation leading to his anarchist outlook. In a capitalist society, someone who refuses to share also fails to thrive as much as they could (natural consequence), possibly falling into poverty. But there is no need to violently rip them apart. In a society in which all is given freely, the only alternative for lack of cooperation would seem to be active punishment, either violence or some kind of exiling.

Even if one is okay with punishing those who refuse to work for the good of all, when does it get invoked? Who decides? What if there is a mistake in that notion?

And this is in the context in which work is generally simple to observe and equate. In a modern society, work is very unequal. How do you figure out appropriate levels of working across nursing, serving coffee, working in a sewage treatment plant, mining, farming, teaching, walking dogs, long-distance hauling, programming, managing, etc. Who would make those decisions? Do you have agreed upon shifts? If someone shows up late or doesn't show up, is there some consequence meted out by someone?

In an economic system, one has the price system where all of that gets figured out. If you think you are underpaid in such a system, you can seek to get paid more by doing something else. If you think someone is overpaid, you can undercut their prices. If you don't show up for work, you don't get paid. This creates the changing conditions that lead to better allocation of resources, including labor. It is unclear how this could work in a society where everyone just works for the betterment of society and the fruits of all labor are distributed "equally" (things are not equal, so someone has to decide some kind of price-equivalent system for this, I presume)?
From The Catcher in the Rye:

> If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn’t rub out even half the “Fuck you” signs in the world. It’s impossible.

> It was so nice and peaceful. Then, all of a sudden, you’d never guess what I saw on the wall. Another “Fuck you.” It was written with a red crayon or something, right under the glass part of the wall, under the stones. That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you’re not looking, somebody’ll sneak up and write “Fuck you” right under your nose.

I think that's also the point that J. D. Salinger may have been trying to make here.

Peace is a good, well constructed, true and correct data set. There is no peace. One must always correct for the lack of peace.
WhatsApp web doesn't support link preview from April
Link preview was not working for 6 months after whataspp web updated to multi device support. Any guess why it is technically challenging to fix?
SMIC?
I've started to adopt a hedging strategy (i.e. short plays) with IBM marketing...seems like everything they touch dies (horrendously).

ETA..in case anyone is interested, the author of the article is a theoretical physicist, which lends more credibility to the article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Hossenfelder
I dont really understand how Mastodon works. I tried to search for this guys profile (our of curiosity, I dont know who this is) and it doesnt come up in search results even if I search by his handle directly. Why is that? Do I need to be on the same server as him or something?
Ad hominens are always a delight, don't you think?

The answer to your question is - I never said it would be easy. That's fairly obvious. We cut emissions during the pandemic on a global scale. We survived. Possibly with the right social and political will we could do it again?

I don't have any answers to this, I'm just suggesting that we try the obvious before reaching for the crazy stuff.

No matter what happens, whether we squirt sulphur into the sky or not, we're going to have to reduce emissions. We can't keep pretending it doesn't matter.
Yep. Something like "We engage selected ethnic communities for feedback on our algorithms and practices, helping to improve Twitter's social culture" translates to "I meet my ethnic friend for lunch and we hate on internal Twitter politics".

I'm not saying that some of these people are not doing good work, but I think these people need far more criticism than they get.
Like a ton of existing C++ code out there? :P

I don't make the rules, sadly I've been forced to leave code to never be upgraded again. I imagine it happens to many others.
No, only if you are speaking about the first implementations of LISP until LISP 1.5 and similar timeframe.

By the time Xerox, MIT, TI started delving into Lisp machines, the language had already gotten support for stack allocation, value types, arrays, structures (records).

Same applies to its big brother Scheme.
I'd take a slight step back and say "Recycle things like soda bottles", they are generally PET plastic and a fair amount of infrastructure exists to recycle it. Almost any other kind of plastic goes in the trash.
Death in US gene therapy study sparks search for answers
> One year of age is objectively the same length whether you're 10 or 90.

A 20yo is 100% older than a 10yo. But a 90yo is only 12.5% older than an 80yo.

The older we get, the closer in age we become.
It's also something that some languages seriously screw up. Consider multiplying a time (which is typed in go) with a numerical value... suppose what I want is a user to input number of time intervals to wait. So the user wants 5, and the interval is 2500 milliseconds. The way you get 12500 milliseconds out of that made me want to throw my computer out the window.
For most people i see at work with their mugs that amounts to either 5 seconds in the sink, or no time at all since they will just slosh the new coffee into the dirty cup.
What's holding you back? Name a network and a channel and booya. Just wait for the folks to join, i guess?
I have to plug Ada's rich type system for explicitly encouraging this kind of design. With things like type predicates [1], you can do run-time enforcement or even prove at compile-time (to optimize away the runtime checks) that type constraints are met.

As an example of this, in a piece of code I'm working on there's a Base64_String type, where only RFC 4648 characters are permitted to be part of the string, the '=' padding character can only appear at the end of the string, and if the second-to-last padding byte is '=' then the last one must be as well. This is all enforced by the type system without having to call "validate()" or something every time its used.

1. https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/cont...
That doesn't work nearly as well as you'd expect.

Spammers have money. For them it's merely a cost of doing business and they'll spam as long as there's positive ROI. For something like politically-motivated disinfo on Twitter there are millions of dollars bankrolled.

OTOH any non-zero cost is off-putting for regular users and stifles growth of services. Twitter has upset its top users by trying to change $8!

Then there are flash loans that let you have any amount of wealth in the web3 world for only a tiny fraction of the price. It keeps popping "DeFi" services that naively assumed nobody would risk a fortune to attack them, but there's a fortune-for-hire service!

Anyway, the real-world web has used phone numbers as proof of small amount of money. There are CC checks for bigger amounts. Then there's web of trust which is a pre-web3 word for "staking", except using reputation instead of Monopoly money. Mastodon instances for example ban other instances from federation if they don't police spam/abuse enough, so every server admin is motivated to fight it locally, while the system as a whole remains decentralised.
Seems like true neuromorphoric computing has more of future than quantum computing. We assume processing power and iterations go together, but what happens when we get better at self-learning software like our wetware?
In Korea you are 1 when you are born, so 0 would apply?
> No, it really is not.

Forgive me, I live in Taiwan and in this region "democracy" can sometimes be colloquially equated with "free speech", perhaps because the two concepts seem distant to some stricter regimes.

You're right though, and now I can't edit the comment. If I could, I would rewrite it to say,

> Science may not be "democratic", however it does depend on the ability to conduct civil discourse, which depends on free speech and is central to the US implementation of democracy.

I agree with what you wrote. I think the rest of my comment illustrates that, but saying "science is inherently democratic" is clearly wrong outside of the colloquial definition I've given here which probably nobody else on this board uses. facepalm
And what is the gain from testing a single thing at a time?

On a specific case, what is the gain from not testing the pre and post-conditions of your important test?
I don’t mean he’s a tech neofeudalist, I mean he is an ancap small government libertarian. Like he wants to do away with government (except for enforcing property rights) and have crypto currency instead of a real currency with no taxation and everything privatised/user pays.
If you are new to this site, I recommend starting with the introduction. It explains a little about the theory and how I developed it.

The theory is then explained in three parts. It takes about 30 minutes to cover the whole theory, and is written very simply, so that anyone can understand. No advanced economics of the theory is needed.

That's as far as I got. Maybe OP can read it.
Plastic bags are like matches. If there was an increase in the number of fires in the city I live in one approach would be to ban matches. It'd be dumb but you could do that and who knows it might even work. Another approach would be to get people to use matches responsibly.

Same with plastic bags. Figure out why people aren't tossing them in a bin and how to get them to do it. Would it be better if there weren't landfills with metric tons of plastic bags in them? Sure but it's way worse if the streets and harbor are filled with plastic bags - from an aesthetic point of view if nothing else.
God forbid you get a drop of spit on another thing, in the coffee shop where everyone spews drops of spit everywhere when they order anything at all
1) There's also your body, in the arms and legs and torso sense, which is you, but it's not your brain. There's also your non conscious part (whether you want to include a Freud style subconscious, or autonomous functioning parts that reach a decision way before it has registered as a conscious though) which is your brain, but not exactly "you" as you think of you. Plus all kind of body-produced chemicals and hormones that influence you, despite not being "your brain" - they're still you, since you can't ever separate the two (the thoughts and behavior you have on them versus what you'd have without them. There is no second you to have a test, do a diff, and be able to tell exactly which behavior/thoughts come e.g. from an excess of those chemicals (e.g. due to exposure or diet or some condition in your body) and which from your regular brain without such influence.

2) "Nobody has ever experienced a crystal ball like this" Irellevant, as many do act at many points in life as such beliefs are 100% certainty (a plotting killer believing they will get away with it, for an extreme example). Doesn't matter whether they have a "crystal ball" guarantee of outcome X: their thinking making them see the future as having the same outcome X is enough.

As for (3) I sorta agree.

"MacAskill and others are concerned about what the discount rate should be because it is important for the decisions we make about the world—how much should we care about people who have not been born yet? One might be tempted to think that science could resolve this issue, but alas, it cannot."

Of course it cannot. It's an ethical decision, which rests on personal ethics (not totally unlike personal taste), which are influenced by cultural (society's) ethics.

If we want to think "rationally" about it, it would be based on "what kind of outcome we want for those future persons and how we can best achieve it". But even the choice of outcome would rest on ethics and cultural preferences - or something also non-rational like evolutionary urges.
This sounds epic! How did you handle powering the devices at night / rainy days? A battery presumably.. but seems like that would seriously up the maintenance cost.

You would have to replace the batteries fairly regularly and I have a feeling that without funding anything I cowboy rig would be super flaky.

2007 means that the network would probably have been an issue as well. Though, I’m less worried about that these days.
TSMC approaching 1 nm with 2D materials breakthrough
Austria. You get billed if you misuse the emergency services.
It's in the US
IMHO, anyone who enjoys entering text via speech already uses it as a feature of their operating system (I know android and iOS both have dictation buttons). Most people don't use these features however, for good reason.

I wanted to try it out, but unfortunately I don't even have a microphone on my current device.

I just want to see some example prompt/output combinations!
> If you’re smart, people say, you should work toward a good future, sacrificing fun and pleasure in the present.

Yeah, this is the conventional wisdom, but that doesn't make it right. Life is a tricky beast. You can do "all the right things" - and many of us do - and still have suboptimal outcomes.

Furthermore, thinking about the future is a luxury of leisure. That is, day to day, when the vast majority of your energy is focused on survival, the future is not a priority. It is literally the least of your worries. The future can't feed you, etc. Agreed, that's a cycle that is self-defeating. But breaking out of such a defensive shell is counter to how we're wired. Possible? Yes but extremely difficult under persistent pressure and immediate real life stress.

Even in the First World there are plenty living a defensive lifestyle. The future? That's someone else's.
I agree that alcohol can be just as destructive and life altering as opiates. But, there does seem to be a higher percentage of alcohol users that can remain at least somewhat responsible users, perhaps some biological or other factors.

I'm also confused by the categorization of beer->opium, wine->morphine, liquor->heroin. A dedicated alcoholic is able to get as drunk as they need to with any of the three. Sure, the alcohol content is higher as you move right, but beer is potent enough to do the job.
Makes sense for a height survey.
Only read the beginning of this screed, but its a unique and unlikely to be repeated situation until the next pandemic model. "Competitive industry" normally spends the big bucks to do Phase II and especially expensive Phase III trials. And as you note, manufacturing it. Which Pfizer did without Operation Warp Speed money until it started failing to deliver on its promises in December 2020. May have gotten some money from Germany through BioNTech which was the company that actually developed it.

The claim "By one estimate, the National Institutes of Health spent $17 billion on vaccine technologies fundamental to the Covid-19 vaccine." goes back to the mid-20th Century, is so broad as to be useless and is obviously disqualifying propaganda: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-04-covid-vaccine-built-b...
> Many people are opposed to the use of a tech forum to broadcast political messages.

'There are literally dozens of us!' Alas there probably are more maldeveloped, who insist on neutral spaces, that cannot handle basic decency & morality & solidarity for suffering people.

> And these asides have each been posted as-is, with no justification behind them and no hint that a justification is even necessary or wanted.

Solidarity for the suffering & basic humam rights are pretty obvious causes to most. ot having your nation invaded is a pretty obvious cause. Not being persecuted by religious morality police is pretty obvious cause.

> There’s a clear disconnect in the community: for some people, these messages are so self-evident that they shouldn’t even be considered political. For some people, they reflect a worldview that they don’t necessarily agree with, and when they don’t, still don’t want to be pushed without their input in the name of a community they’re participating in.

These absolutely are political messages, and thats not denied or suppressed. Its politics against dictatorial control, against authoritarian regimes, against use of excess force by governments against the people.

Open source communities are founded around a personal empowerment & right to explore, right to create, are created under conditions of peace not fear, personal growth & developmemt not suppression & regime. To find affinity between open source & these moral political causes against abominations is unsurprising.

> Also, let’s stop mincing words for a second: a big part of the issue is that these messages are progressive, and reflect a progressive agenda.

So is open source. It believes in progress, possibility, developmemt, furthering humanity. It shares liberally, believes strongly in the common good. Open source is political, and it's left. It's practically communist.

> A lot of people in the Rust community aren’t progressive, or not progressive of the specific US flavor that dominates western social media, and so feel extremely threatened when the Rust blog makes these political statements.

Write a shorter screed daying you disagree & collect some countersigners. That you are uncomfortable with a basic display of morality is, I generally feel, not a problem & ylI dont feel bad for you. But you have options (if you arent in Iran, if you arent in Russia, if you are not being persecuted by a local police force) & you can day so & if you really really cant stand morality happening in your presence you can fork & leave & vote eith your feet, because you are free to do so.
Minor correction:

Last generation and legacy support is for DDR4.

The new, more expensive stuff is DDR5.
I expected it to somehow fill the entire shirt, but apparently it just makes a rectangular patch of the image on a plain black/white shirt.
Also, the speech to text doesn't seem to do that well.
We need some DARPA-style investment and design competitions for reduce, reuse, recycle. Like the X-Prizes, Bill Gates' quest for a composting toilet, Project Warp. This is a proven strategy for goal directed innovation.

Local optimizations, relying on individual actors in a long and complicated lifecycle supply chain, will not result in a global optimum. (Cite theory of constraints.)

In 15 min, everyone here could imagine +100 solutions. Ceramic coatings, an engineered fiber that breaks down with a specific enzyme, thin clay disposable cups (tried in India?)...

And then we should try every idea, funding based on plausibility.
This can so easily be gamed...
seems more outline than database. I also find the colors to be overwhelming. The sidebar ToC feels novel but that is not a huge value add for me. The UX is woefully lacking in expressiveness, and there are no notable gains from not using files/folders/tags. Plus cue all the portability / dependence issues.

So... a miss for me on this helping with abstract thinking.

That said - keep iterating and challenging what is possible, and start talking to "customers".
A unit tests tests one unit. And integration tests covers more than one unit. I think everyone agrees with that, but nobody has defined unit.

The longer I program the more I am convinced that the larger your unit the better. The unit tests is a statement that you will never refactor across this line, and that eliminates a lot of flexibility that I want.

It turns out that debugging failed integration tests is easy,the bug is in the last thing you changed. Sure the test covers hundreds of lines, but you only changed one.
If you’re 105 and still taking internet polls you’ve gained age but not wisdom
A huge hack with the paper straw is to take it out or put it on the top of the cup when you aren't actively drinking. Then it will actually last the entire portion versus dissolving on you.
What is the rate per capita? How does that rate compare to other places?
If you have to do a binary search in a million elements you'll have cache misses anyways
What's the reason for the "everywhere except Europe" shipping? I'm guessing some legal/regulatory thing, but would be curious to know the details.
My favorite "easy win" find from learning Haskell last year was just the `newtype` keyword, which basically just let you alias primitive types with zero runtime impact.

`newtype Email = Email String` and `newtype Username = Username String` are just `String`s with guard rails.