skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I do not see where he did that. He argued simply that context matters. (And yes a "bad" tool can be the right tool, if it is the only tool avaiable.)

Well I see it. If you don't see it, I urge you to reread what he said.

A bad tool can be the right tool but some tools are so bad that it is never the right tool.

>And diving deeper into philosophy here, can you name one example?

Running is better then walking for short distances when optimizing for shorter time. In this case walking is definitively "bad." No argument by anyone.

Please don't take this into a pedantic segway with your counter here.
> there is absolutely no evidence

I often wonder whether the neurological algorithm that underlies this got into so many minds purely organically or if it was put there somehow.
Hi Elon.
Statistics from European countries from September 2022:

"The 2021–2022 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) epidemic season is the largest HPAI epidemic so far observed in Europe, with a total of 2,467 outbreaks in poultry, 47.7 million birds culled in the affected establishments"

Source: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA): https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2903/j.efsa.2022...
Is the misuse because often people use that descriptor for someone who is aware they're expressing negative feelings indirectly?
> ...and really, CPS does need to investigate.

Why does CPS need to restrict parental rights while investigating a report which even if confirmed as true (as it was in this case) does not violate family law and warrant further action.

This would be like saying that, had the law which addressed the family law aspects also (as it should have) made the same changes to criminal law, the police should still have arrested her, even when their information was only of an act that would be a non-crime if true.
"Tänker" sometimes means "think" but it also means "plan". The Wikipedia article states that it was illegal to make formal preparations to build a power plant, but even that was not enforced.
How could CPS possibly know that before they investigate?
Or put your own space noise in the message to frame a coworker.
> It's not the problem, but it is a problem. There's no reason we shouldn't try to work on both.

There's one reason: that overreaction is retrospective, and that if you can't cure cop overreaction (when you have complete control over training and livelihood), and you can't cure the entire system's overreaction when they have all the time in the world to think about what they're doing, you have no business dictating to individuals whether they're overreacting or not.

Blaming CPS overreactions on nosy neighbors is just like blaming SWATting on SWATters: an excuse for law enforcement failure, and in that an encouragement to law enforcement to continue to fail in exactly the same way.
To my admittedly shallow understanding SBF was gambling with his clients' money and lost. I wouldn't say any charitable work he did would justify the theft, but I also have no qualms about Binance crashing his token so he'd be caught in the act.

To put it in point form, I'd say
-SBF had bad judgement and bad morals
-SBF's clients had bad judgement and bad luck
-Binance had good judgement and good luck, and if the people who make it up do a lot of charity work, they have good morals as well. That doesn't help SBF's clients of course, but I do think they consented to a game where a reasonable person would have known this was a possible outcome. I would think most EA folks would tend to agree with how I've characterized it, but maybe someone more versed in that subculture's overton window can clarify.
How to articulate work against business objectives
Hello,

This might sound simple, but I think it’s harder than it seems to effectively articulate how your work is aligned to the business objectives or OKRs. Are there any frameworks, methodologies or otherwise advice on how to do this.

This is to effectively put forward a clear answer when being questioned c by management on how your work supports the business outcomes.
Bleep. https://www.bleep.is
I don't think he is suggesting patching individual programs PPC for example simply faults and traps to the OS for any number of illegal instruction or invalid alignment situations (which may vary based on core implementation). Then the kernel looks at the faulting instruction, emulates it, and resumes the program. Its absolutely terrible for perf because all the internal state has to be serialized to the architecturally visible state in order to update it, and resumes.
They're well known for having one of the lowest hiring bars of the major tech corporations, certainly out of the traditional "FAANG" they are by far the easiest to get hired at.

N > F = G > Apple > Amazon in terms of hiring difficulty, from my impression.

Until recently, their pay was also not as competitive and they had massive turnover rates.
Weizenbaum says the list must be there, but may be empty: "Finally, the script writer must begin his script with a list, i.e., a message enclosed in parentheses, which contains the statement he wishes ELIZA to type when the system is first loaded. This list may be empty." page 42 of the 1966 CACM ELIZA paper.

And the MEMORY keyword "must be an ordinary keyword as well." So you'd need a (XYZZY ...) rule.

Also, the START symbol appears in the DOCTOR script, but is never mentioned in the body of the paper.

Another thing Weizenbaum doesn't mention in his description is the final empty list in the DOCTOR script. This does seem to be expected by the code.
https://archive.ph/g4zAW
As an American I can also say this is completely balls to the walls nuts, AND NOT SURPRISING IN THE LEAST.
that is awesome thanks!
Could have been the dealer stripping the accessory, I do not buy cars often enough to know.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 brings Wi-Fi 7, sticks with some 32-bit support
But rain has no brain, it goes down the drain.

Planning for nature and planning for failure aren’t exactly the same. And too much planning for failure when there are missed opportunities to plan for success, well, it leads to failure.

If you drove it off the lot, an unrelated point is made.
Crazy Eddie really was criminally insane!!!

80s Commercial | Crazy Eddie | 1985 | 1986 | 1987

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml6S2yiuSWE

The Biggest Retail Fraud In American History - Masterminds - Crazy Eddie - Eddie Antar Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws9PGROHZzg
I bit and was curious to try Warp. Downloaded it and it immediately made a request to a Google domain and then forced a sign-up window on me. I clicked their "why do we require an account" FAQ and the answer is "we think there are features that are better with a login."

Absolute no from me, even if their terminal truly is better and innovative.
100% agree.

The editing process is a lot harder to build around than the more straightforward "continue this text for me". Partially because the models are really suited to do the latter out of the box, and partially because there's more nuance and subjectivity on the latter and it's harder to make it work well today.

That said, totally doable. (We put most of our effort into AI for human editing and control with Sudowrite.)
I can't explain it other than the media creating moral panics for decades because that's what gets people's attention. At one point the fantasy becomes reality and shapes law enforcement. When it gets really sad is when grownups do things to protect kids that are actually more dangerous. The classic example being driving them everywhere when the number one danger for any child is a car crash.
The good ones will leave, the ones who fear they can't find anything else will stay.
I use SQLite for smaller things (Think desktop applications) and MySQL for anything else
context is a part of language! pragmatics is essentially context as it relates to language, and pragmatics is a part of linguistics. languages gaining case complexity largely happens by affixation of prepositions - i can't think of any examples off the top of my head but you'll have to take my word on it occurring.
I’m also using vim mode in zsh with simply "bindkey -v". I’m interested by your "v" as full vim session shortcut. Do you mind sharing the config?
Twitter before this wasn't doing great, but they had cash on hand to last for years. Since taking over Musk has slashed costs by getting rid of benefits and laying people off, but also slashed income by alienating advertisers. Along with doing things like saying in a court hearing that the FTC consent decree on Twitter isn't binding which is opening them up to legal liability. The company is overall in far worse shape now then it was when he took over.
While I don't agree with the person you're replying to exactly on tactics, I think they have a point.

The #1 priority should not be the kid.

The #1 priority should be the benefit of all kids.

In this example risk is introduced to the custodial relationship of the immediate child for the hopeful benefit of all children. It's possible this could be a rational risk. Whether it would be effective I have my doubts.

If we use some arbitrary numbers perhaps it would be just to risk 1/1000 chance your own kid gets tossed in foster care by CPS if it means 10 unknown kids end up with 10% longer lifespan because they built healthy habits by being able to play alone outside because a threatening old lady got put in her place.
> the fact that already running systems impose constraints that are not true for green-field efforts

Maybe I'm doing it wrong but I often find that doing a new greenfield project sounds easier but by the time you deal with all of the non-functional stuff (connectivity, resilience, logging, build tools, documentation etc) you might have been quicker holding your nose and bodging it in somewhere vaguely appropriate in an existing system.
“Modern B-Tree techniques” by Dmitrii Dolgov (Strange Loop 2022) [video]
I was Six Sigma trained in a former job. It's a lot of statistical process control, defect reduction, and process redesign. You could certainly use it to create a dystopia for your workforce, but it's not in any way intrinsic to the method. Where I was trained it was mostly used in a Toyota-like way to get relatively junior employees engaged in making things work better. Empowering rather than the other way around, I'd say.
If it were so obvious, I am wondering why you need to worry about doing it wrong.
You talk about trade-offs as if they are fixed in time. That is not the case at all in anything but toy systems. Maybe you need to find someone who can design a quality micro-service?

You have no idea what I do and what my competencies are, yet, you are assuming you know a lot more about system design than I do and I am missing something simple.

Here is another take from Bryan Cantrill [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30jNsCVLpAE&t=1413s]. Very likely, he does not know anything about services either, I guess.
Depends on what was reported but if the report said child walked alone on the sidewalk the really do not need to investigate. That is my daughters regular activity when they go to school and come back. If someone reports me as having had dinner, why does the police need to come to my house? Where is the potential crime?
I have one question about terminal input that I cannot work out how to work out.

The setup: I'm on a Mac, I use iTerm for my terminal, Fish for my shell, and most often I'm inside a docker container also running Fish and using iPython.

The question: When I Ctrl+W to delete a word in a Fish prompt, what counts as a word is different to what counts as a word in iPython. For instance, Ctrl+w at the end of this string `test.func('param1', 'param2')` produces...

Fish: test.func('param1', 'param2'

iPython: test.func('param1',

Hit Ctrl+w again, and you get...

Fish: test.func('param1', '

iPython: all gone.

This causes me to over delete in iPython many, many times per day. I'm guessing that the rough flow of the delete word signal is iTerm -> Fish -> iPython and that iPython is the thing that's being overzealous?
but they had no suspicion that any abuse was occurring?
> The problem is the person calling will lie or exaggerate instead of saying no.

The person calling is likely not "lying" about anything. If they believe it is dangerous for a kid to walk in the street, then the answer is a truthful "yes".

These people simply have different worldviews.
That sort of thinking enables all sorts of abuse, though. Knowing this, a neighbor with a beef with parent-neighbors could cause them a lot of grief by manufacturing a false report to the police or CPS, in such a way that they won't get in trouble themselves.

I get that sometimes pro-active measures are prudent, but "hey, police, I saw my neighbor's kid walking outside unattended" is not one of those times.

And even if we did agree that these parents were in the wrong, and that the kid shouldn't have been walking alone, the "safety plan" CPS came up with was still a huge unnecessary overreaction. That kind of plan should be reserved for situations when CPS is investigating reports of active abuse.
I have no idea about how relevant it is, but every few months I see a website which seem to be tested in Chrome only, because it blatantly don't load in Firefox or Safari. Like, at all, blank page. Or have some buttons like "Purchase" not working.
Raising rates to an appropriate level, keeping them there and firmly resisting Wall St's pressures to lower them.

Somehow, people have been conditioned to believe that low interest rates == economic growth and that high, or reasonable interest rates (say, 5-10%) means a recession.....which is absurd if you think about it.

The cost of a bank loan or mortgage isn't, nor shouldn't be, the bellwether for effectively measuring the state or health of a given country's economy.

If a business has a need for an employee, that business will still have that need regardless if rates are 0.1%, 5%, 10% or 50%. Businesses of all sizes will just need to front more of their own money to grow, rather than using the bank's money to grow.
There is a more or less fine line between unconscious and subconscious (its slightly hysterical cousin). The term might be somewhat outdated but it's still in use and also cognitive scientists make respective assertions - even though they might call it differently when talking about human consciousness.
> The only way to get into the union is to be nominated by someone who is already in.

About 10 seconds of googling would have told you that is wrong.
>If real rates are still well in the negatives, why all the panic?

That's the panic.

Basically what happened is the boomers who are a large # of people have been moving their investments into the safe options. Namely bonds, mortgages, real estate. The governments, most likely due to selfish reasons, have signaled they will never let real estate crash. Many of the WW2 countries have gone to negative rates at least briefly to avoid the crash. The USA even went to 0% reserve ratio and tremendous money printing along the same as many other countries. They really won't let it happen it seems.

Add on top of this the set-in-stone reality of the 2030 worker shortage. There's only 1 way to prevent this, extreme mass migration of people. The USA's plan is to simply open the borders and let anyone in. That's the easiest solution I guess.

What the high inflation and negative real rates mean is those who are still working wont be able to retire soon but should benefit by still working. It's a sign of a new era, a new turning of the page. This is a panic to those who are on the verge of retirement and realizing they still can't for quite some time.
What makes you think that isn't step two? Step one is finding the people and their stories then following up with the most promising/compelling ones.
Perhaps OP is a man. I wouldn't approach a strange child outside my house, either, unless they were on my property doing something destructive. Better to let my wife handle such situations.
skissane, after re-reading your comment, I realize I did mis-understand your point, but in a different way than the other commenter suggested.

I don't think MWI is assuming the global (multiverse-wide) probability distribution is similar to the local (this universe) one, but rather than local probabilities directly arise from the global probability distribution, they are the same. If you do an experiment (e.g. wavefunction collapse) the outcomes we observe in a given experiment are each a single sample from the global distribution. Some outcomes can be highly unlikely and give a skewed view of the global distribution, but a larger number of experiments will always converge to the global distribution.
Dang contacted me out of band regaridng this comment and I'll say here what I said there:

I stand by my comments. It kind of looks like you're sympathetic to Musk here.

What Musk is doing is abnormal and needs to be condemned in the most effective way possible. I have determined that occasionally making short statements that are entirely technically correct is the most effective way to do so. I do so in good faith with the goal of this site having high quality comments. This sort of policing seems quite wrong to an experienced Internet user- some of my one-liner comments on the net from the 1980s and 90s can still be found.
> RTFM or even WTFYV (watch the f**g youtube video)

For anyone wondering, a great FV if you feel like you are using git without understanding the fundamentals is Git For Ages 4 and Up [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m7BgIvC-uQ
> How could CPS possibly know that before they investigate?

The same way they knew when the investigation confirmed the initial report, and it wasn't a violation.
Ive thought about this in the past, my idea was to go get part time jobs as research in places i wouldn't normally run into.
I can easily identify whether or not I'm hungry... and probably whether or not I'm smart.

I can't easily identify whether or not I'm neurodivergent, because I'm not sure what it means or what the opposite would look like. Does anybody know?
Counterpoint - mindfully reviewing and examining your thoughts and speech is an effective way to improve clarity and to identify unexamined (and perhaps unfounded) assumptions.
Yes. Surgicals are not meant for protection against airborne contaminants.
Aks HN: Can additional processor core be emulated on SSD for more compute power?
I am thinking how to buy a ThinkPad on a budget and it may come with only 2 i5 processor cores, but with 480GB or 980GB SSDs. Is 2 core (with 8GB RAM) enough for beginner-to-intermediate programming?

(How) Can an additional processor core be emulated on a free SSD space if more computational power is needed (similar to a swap partition for RAM)?

When I was curious about defi, I remember there was a cryptocurrency ~chia, which used hard disks for computing/hashing, but this wears them out quicker. I'd like to have some type of CPU core emulation on an SSD to turn on temporarily if using some compute intensive ML etc (given that compute time may not be of top priority).
I never knew that TI's DS-990[1] series of minicomputers was created for Ramada Inns. It was one of the first computers I used intensively and I thought it was great. I think I wrote code in almost every language they supported. Good times, and the TI documentation was quite good, in my view.

Hit me with your WP (Workspace Pointer) register, baby!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-990
We Should Terraform the Galaxy
Git repo with md files.
If this is parody, bravo. If this is OP’s subjective fact, what a terrifying and sad world to live in.
I've used git for a decade, 8 years in CLI and the last 2 in JetBrains. It's night and day, and mountains above even GitHub's own desktop client.
I consult, frequently jumping between web application codebases. Very often, I bring cross-browser testing with me by sheer nature of using Firefox when _everyone_ has been using Chrome exclusively for years. I end up finding issues; about half the time, clients don't care, because all their customers use Chrome.

This direction worries me (we did this with MSIE and it took a decade+ to heal those wounds).
Telegram Saved Messages, no joke.

I can send any file up to 2GB, any number of times. Can even set reminder messages. It's great because I don't have to go anywhere else to put things to remember.
Or since it's big enough it can be part of the CS department and the CS department can have programs that lean toward either the academic and theoretical side (like pure math) and programs that lean towards the practical side (like applied math and statistics).
None of these are a problem for the workload discussed.

When I am working with sqlite I am more likely accessing it from a single machine.

And in this case of ML, most likely from 1 process and by running multiple times in serial.
And better if this is business feature, not some pure technical.

Sure, could be exceptions, where tech perfection equal to business value, but not many.
There is actually a potential trace of an ergative system in Latin. A fundamental rule of Latin is that neuter nouns have the same endings in the nominative and accusative cases. For example, bellum is nominative and accusative singular, bella is nominative and accusative plural.

This can be explained as a continuation of an old rule that said that only living beings (marked by endings such as -us, -a; -i, -ae) could be "active" subjects.

A "thing" doesn't have agency; it can't "do" anything to something or someone else – in other words, it can't be the subject of a transitive verb. It can only be either the subject of an intransitive verb, or the object of a transitive verb – and thus in Latin takes the endings -um, -a in either event.

Bonus amat bonum: The good (man) loves what is good. (Meaning 1)

Bonus amat bonum: The good (man) loves the good (man). (Meaning 2)

Bonum est bonum: What is (a) good (thing) is good.

This is exactly the same pattern as in ergative grammar: the object of a transitive verb has the same case as a thing that is the subject of an intransitive verb.
Should someone get a ticket for going 66 mph in a 65 zone? I don't really think officer discretion is avoidable to a certain degree. Laws can never be written perfectly. There are always going to be ridiculous edge cases like this where a reasonable person would know the law shouldn't be applied. This is why so much legal precedent is based on what a reasonable person would do or what a reasonable person would assume given a certain situation.

I do agree that the neighbor should not be let off on this, nor am I trying to excuse their behavior. But there are always going to be Karens that call the cops for no reason and the system has to be able to deal with that.
Windows has a native ssh command now, works great and requires less resources than WSL.
Again, if the police worked correctly this would not be a problem. We don't hear the neighbor's side of the story - it could be anything and it could completely justify her actions. Calling the police on a walking child is unnecessary, and, while it could be motivated by malice, seems more likely to be motivated by an over abundance of caution and concern for the child. Making an unnecessary police call is bad, but only slightly, and it isn't anywhere near the badness of the other actions in the article.

Complaining about the neighbor is like complaining that the child was misbehaving which caused the child to walk home. Yes, it's true that misbehaving is bad, but only very slightly and we expect children to do that sometimes. Making unnecessary police calls is slightly bad and we expect some overly cautious people to do that sometimes.
The main filter I'm missing is whether one can actually buy a board or if it's out of stock.
They really should, it's miles better than any standalone I've used.