skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"nearly all scientists working at the edge of astrophysics and quantum theory know what they have is a model"

That is a good distinction to make, singling out the people who are truly at the frontier of understanding. As you say, they are far less likely to be certain of their findings.

However, I would say it makes sense to draw a similar distinction in terms of religious thinkers, because they're certainly not all the same. If one were to ask those at the religious frontier of understanding, one might well find an analogous lack of certainty as to what is going on.
That's the point of the bidding process for government contracts. If your boycott makes your services more expensive, then you're less likely to receive the contract, but it would still be your choice.

And it doesn't apply at all to e.g. Teachers who are being forced to sign waivers like this
Sure, I understand your point; it's a perfectly reasonable. My gripe was with the "that's delusional".
Jobs programs are good when they are intentionally designed as jobs programs to get productive use out of the employees.

Tossing half a trillion dollars into whatever the hell is a very bad way to spend government money.
The piece starts off with

>I remember having a discussion with a more tenured coworker, with the subject being the impending departure of another coworker. I said, “man, it’s going to be rough when he leaves, considering how much he’s done for us over the last several years.”

After list of what these supposedly overrated people do, the piece ends with

> If you’re thinking of doing these things, don’t. If you’re currently doing them, stop. I’m not saying this because you’ll be insufferable (though you will be) and I want to defend humanity from this sort of thing. I’m offering this as advice. Seriously. These things are a whole lot more transparent than the people who do them think they are, and acting like this is a guaranteed way to have a moment in life where you wonder why you’ve bounced around so much, having so much trouble with the people you work with.

Which isn't a very convincing plea, given that the author himself initially held the exact opposite opinion of a coworker engaging in these behaviors.
Oh, dear, I hope that was ironic?

There are so many interactions at work outside of politics, which I would define as the advancement of your personal agenda before that of the organization and of anybody else.

I have such rich interactions with my colleagues. Sometimes we work together on a project. Sometimes it's purely social, like the first few minutes of a meeting with someone I haven't talked to in a long time. Sometimes they need my support or I need theirs. And sometimes (rarely) it's about having an uncomfortable conversation because something didn't go well. But none of these is about politics. I love where I work, in big parts because of the lack of politics.

(Edit: Typo)
I had no idea there were follow-ups to Dercuano. Good to know!
This is curious as China has strict control over the internet. If they didn't want to allow these posts to be up in China then they wouldn't be up (any western archives will of course stick around). Either Xi is losing control of the government or he's letting this happen for some purpose.
Gaming is objectively worse on everything past w7 because of forced dwm triple buffering...
I get the same thing. I think that's the issue, Google is confusing the two. If you click the arrow on the infobox next to 'Movies and TV shows' it searches with the keywords 'patrick schwarzenegger movies and tv shows' but if you change it to 'arnold schwarzenegger movies and tv shows' you still get movies and TV shows for Patrick.

I think it's because Patrick Schwarzenegger has been in some stuff recently. Google Search tries to predicatively rank content based on recent popularity but just screws it up most of the time. I run into this same issue frequently with Google Search now which is one of the many reasons why I switched to DDG as my primary search engine. Google search results have just become unusably poor.
> the systemic theft of western IP to build the Chinese economy

As I said, you're hugely exaggerating the scale and significance of IP theft. IP theft was not important to the development of the Chinese economy. There is weak IP protection in practically every developing economy, and China was not unusual in this regard. China now has relatively strong IP protections, which are better than what most countries at its developmental stage have.

> It's no secret that China wants to replace the western/liberal rules based system of international order with one of their own design.

The phrase "rules-based international order" has become a buzzword at the State Department over the last few years. China buys into the international system, centered on the UN, but also including the WTO and other multilateral organizations. The US has a very bad record of respecting these organizations, particularly since the late 1990s. Just two examples: the illegal invasion of Iraq (the US knew the UNSC would reject any war authorization, so the Bush administration declared the UN irrelevant and went ahead with the invasion anyways), and Trump's trade wars (which obviously went against WTO rules, though the US also purposely lamed the WTO by blocking the appointment of appeals judges). I suspect that the reason the State Department likes the term "rules-based international order" is that it doesn't explicitly refer to the actual, established international system (the UN), and is vague enough that it can refer to really whatever the US wants to.

> It seems China seeks to return to pre-WWII conditions, where great powers have the opportunity to pursue their ambitions in absence of any group uniting to keep them in check.

China is one of the most vocal supporters of the UN as the central organization for regulating international affairs, and of the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of sovereign countries. I don't see where you're getting the idea that China wants to overturn the international system.
All meta software uninstalled
Probably a Bill Wurtz's YouTube channel
My workplace has standardised on en-GB, which unfortunately does put me at an advantage. But it’s realistically the only way it can work: there’s no chance that globally every employee will learn sv-SE.

So what can you do? Encourage your native speakers to simplify their language is a good first step. Stop using so many idioms that don’t directly translate, and pick more common words when more common words will do.

Then make sure that English is a skill assessed in hiring. And as it’s a business requirement for reasonable English, make sure that training is available to those that want / need it.

It doesn’t have to be English of course, the same advice would apply the other way around if you pick a different language. But you’ll probably find long-term hiring easier if you stick to a lingua franca.
I've found this video rather illustrative on why. https://nebula.tv/videos/polymatter-why-china-wont-abandon-z...
At the risk of sounding cynical, what we have to show for it is a military with actual fighting experience. It’s a big part of why we and the UK are able to outfit and train soldiers in Ukraine, and why we have nothing to fear from rivals like China or Russia for decades to come.
I don't have a dog in this fight but as a biochemist, your frustration is exactly what I've felt for the last few years.
The flip side of this will be if you are an outsider (immigrant or born into an unlucky family), you will feel more lonely because people are not gonna be as eager to find new bonds?
I think the point of that argument is that citizens generally can't predict what will happen well enough. Before the US entered WWII, I expect most Americans thought of it as "that far away European war that won't hurt us". Leaders in the US may have understood that the stakes were much higher, and allowing Nazism to take over Europe would be devastating for the US, but I figure regular Americans may not have gotten that, at least not in large enough numbers.

But I think it's fair to say that the US really did need to enter WWII. What if the US military needed more recruits, but no one wanted to enlist?

At least, I think that's what the argument is. I'm still not sure I buy it though, because, still, it's up to government leaders to convince people that there's actually a huge threat to the country, that war is necessary, and that people should put their lives on the line. If they can't do that, then maybe they don't deserve to be able to go to war. And if that does end up being disastrous for the country (or even the world) and its people, maybe that's just how things have to go down.
Gave up on PAAS and decided to switch to a VPS. I enjoy the comfort of a persistent storage.
I would bet the majority (or maybe even the vast majority) of HN readers work for companies that do some business with the DoD. The amount of money the DoD invests in virtually every US industry can't be underestimated.
Elon has been interacting a lot with guys like Andy Ngo and Ian Miles Cheong. I refuse to believe he's unaware of who they are.

https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1596344634443431937
> Why do you explain to me how to decide when you don't know my objectives and constraints?

You asked a question. You didn't provide any context. I took the initiative to answer the question based on the mere statement of "Nim vs Rust".

My intial feedback still holds true. Does your job require you to learn anything specific or do you want to learn anything just because?

> I take Go off because I don't like it. I also can't stand modern C++.

You are giving your personal opinion and without context. Why do you not like Go.... never mind. It is the weekend, try Nim and Rust both, see what you like.
Are you, though? Until very recently, women couldn't even leave Saudi Arabia without their (male) guardian's approval.
> It has its upsides though. My parents were abusive and our relationship is very limited today. Limiting contact with them is the best decision I’ve made in my life

Same here. My mother is a narcissist who lives in denial and makes the rest of her family miserable through her emotional abuse. As a young adult, possibly due to not being able to recognize any red flags, I ended up engaged to a woman who also was a narcissist and abuser, and eventually things led to her holding a chef's knife to my face telling me she was going to kill me and then herself because she thought I didn't spend enough time with her.

I much prefer loneliness to enduring that kind of stuff. I'm grateful to the loneliness, in a sense. I have no master to answer to but my own generosity and patience, and I'd gladly trade anything to never be in a situation like that again.
The cures for homelessness in Seattle fail because homelessness is a consequence of drug addiction, and the city government will not recognize that.
In the fix in the original Netflix blogpost, shouldn't they pad with 56 instead of 64 bytes? Otherwise they are wasting some cache space.

I would also expect the fix to reflect the platform it is applicable for, but maybe they simplified it for the blog post...
I can understand the time-poor argument made by another commenter, but otherwise you're right - there are loads of social options that are inexpensive. Have a couple of drinks while watching TV/movie/sport at home, meet up and go for a walk, cook together, meet at a pub for the lunch special, etc.
They wanted to go into Cloud if you read the press release, it must have been a pure diversification play albeit poorly thought out. Heroku caters to hobbyists/students/small business, it would've taken massive effort to turn it into the next AWS.

There is almost zero overlap with their main CRM product and PaaS, totally different stakeholders. Whats worse is that they served different segments. Enterprise buyers spending 6 digits on Salesforce are not going to host on Heroku. Hobbyists/indie projects are not going to have sales teams that even need a cheap CRM let alone SFDC. There's almost no cross sell potential.

Heroku probably turned into a black hole on their balance sheet. Post M&A Integration wise there are many accounts of Heroku first employees resisting the corporatisation of the organization, I believe all the founders eventually left a few years after.

It was ultimately probably a value destructive acquisition, left alone imagine what Heroku could have been. Thinking about this is pretty sad. The product is still after all these year almost like 'magic' vis a vis upcoming competitors (Render/Fly). Beyond its products, Heroku was THE gateway for students and learners to spin up an app almost immediately, helping them become professional developers
> If unitary evolution is all that exists those states should propagate to macroscopic objects.

They don't just propagate to macroscopic objects, they propagate to reality as a whole. Decoherence is why you can't talk about a cat being 3/5i |dead> + 4/5 |alive> , but you can talk about two practically separate realities or universes, in which the cat has apparently "collapsed" (by entangling w/ the surrounding environment) into either of these states.
Even with religion it's entirely possible to be a good religious person without ever really interacting with anyone. Suit up, go to Mass/Worship/Synagogue/Whatever, do the prayers, etc, smile at people, leave. (The joke is "doing something religiously" means for only an hour on Sunday, after all.)

You have to work at it (though to be fair, it seems every religious group will have the person who will start conversations with anyone) - but you have to work at it anywhere.

One recommendations I'd make is don't look for "age group" things - because this will often overlap with people looking for dating partners, and that can be all sorts of confusing and messy. Be open to joining or working with groups that contain people older, younger, or of all ages.
War is a racket - Smedley Butler Major General US Marine Corps https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket#:~:text=War%....
While I agree that being somewhat physically close can help, I disagree that high-density cities are a solution.

I live in an apartment in such a European city. I wouldn't be able to recognize my next-door neighbor in a crowd. I've never made any friends because they lived close to me. It's always been through places where people would get together anyway: school (lived in the suburbs at the time), work, other activities.

Density brings its own issues. When there are so many people around, a sense of anonymity sets in. No one cares about any one given person when you cross paths with thousands every day. People rarely, if ever, randomly strike up conversations in the metro.

> it feels good to know that humans are within 10 meters rather than 40.

No, it does not. Because people are not only positive, many are extremely annoying. It's horrible when you can't get away from it even for five minutes of respite.

They are noisy. I hate with a passion my upstairs neighbor who thinks it's fine to blast his TV 24/7. Yes, even at 3 in the morning. Yes, I can go complain. No, he doesn't bother opening the door to listen to me (although I wouldn't bet he can actually hear the doorbell).

They don't care about other people's things (try parking a car on the streets of Paris for two days – and I'm not even talking about theft or willful vandalism, though that's an issue, of course).

In some places, they really don't care about public cleanliness.

And with the point above about anonymity, social pressure works much less well to force people into behaving properly.

The places where I've seen the most "community spirit" is where people were not overly densely packed together, just "close enough".`
The group that wrote this is not exactly a reputable source in the first place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Institute_for_Responsib...
> Or software engineer in a 3rd world country.

Actually, software engineers in 2nd and 3rd world countries can afford to save a lot.
I'm not an accountant, but for the US in 2021, that was Form 1040, Schedule 1: Additional Income and Adjustments to Income, Part 1: Additional Income, line 8: Other income, sub-line i: Activity not engaged in for profit income. You would just put $40 on that sub-line and add it to your adjusted gross income. If you made only $40 on it, I don't it can reasonably be called self-employment income, per Publication 535.

[0] https://www.irs.gov/instructions/i1040gi#en_US_2021_publink1...

[1] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p535.pdf
What Does Meta AI’s Diplomacy-Winning Cicero Mean for AI?
I don't mean this in a dismissive way, because I appreciate your comment and you carefully set out a distinction, but it very much underlines what I'm worried about: that Americans are totally a-ok with corruption as long as it's done on a high enough level, to the point that it's openly discussed in the media and on internet forums and people do effort to explain to one another that it's not really real corruption at all.
The aggressive and passive/aggressive styles are commonly used because they work. The author goes to lengths to claim that they make the practitioner unhappy in the long run, but that sounds like “crime never pays” wishful thinking to me.

You can be honest and ethical with aggressive and passive/aggressive styles. It depends how you deploy them.

For instance, deliberately doing a task badly is totally ethical, unless you made a promise (implied or explicit) to do it to the best of your ability. In many casual life situations it communicates your lack of commitment without forcing the other party to experience a direct conflict with you. It’s not necessarily an attempt to escape any consequences.
> not possible in a normal slicer because slicers limit you to planar layers and moves

That might change, I saw this about 'conical slicing' recently:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1i-1TEdByZY
I agree the Church-Turing thesis is why we care about Turing machines, but to say that the study of Turing machines is a science because of the Church-Turing thesis is like saying “it’s a science because it has applications.”

Anyway, bringing this back to QC. It is believed that algorithms exist that can be computed by a QC that cannot feasibly be done by a classical computer, so QC also meets the ”deductive mathematical definition with applicable characteristics” bar as well.
> Is the author suggesting screwing over the companies you buy services from by not paying them?

In a bankruptcy or restructuring someone is going to get screwed. That’s sort of the definition of it.
While any such system can be changed or dismantled by popular will, it certainly can't happen by voting. Look at how slavery was dismantled - it took decades of organizing to create any wide-spread negative sentiment against it to even begin to make it possible to have candidates who would oppose it.

Who do you imagine could suddenly unite the whole country behind them as presodent strongly enough that they would actually be able to dismantle something like the defense budget? Do you even know how much of the economy is currently financed by that, and would have to go through a painful re-org if that money would stop, or even if the way it was being received changes?
Heisenberg did a lot of important work obviously, but that doesn't excuse him from making a real argument. Does he have anything to justify his assertion beyond personal feeling and intuition?
I experienced this at a previous company. Yocto/bitbake wanted to do a lot of git clones over SSH very quickly, but a firewall interpreted this as a brute force because it couldn’t tell that each SSH connection was actually successfully authenticating.
He’s going to be real miffed when he finds out what an NFT is and how much people were paying for them
Thank you. Downloaded everything.
I am always awestruck by Kens post, and felt severely underqualified to comment on anything, even as a regular if basic 'elektor' reader.

But the previous post, about the bootstrap drivers gave me a chance. I had an hour to spare, the size of the circuit was small enough, so I just stared at it on my cell phone, scrolling back and forth, back and forth. It took a while, but slowly I started picking up some basic understanding. Big shoutout to Ken, BTW, he did everything to make it easy for mortals to follow along.

I am still clearly at the beginner level, and surely can't redo that post on my own, but there is a path forward to learn this.

If I'd redo that post, I'd advise to have pen and paper ready, and print out the circuit a few times to doodle upon them. And have lots of time to focus.
> 3. The examples they gave are missing read/write barriers, which are rather important. #2 will only happen during read/write barriers. That is to say: your code is memory-unsafe by default. If order and cache-invalidation matters, you actually need a barrier instruction (!!!) to make sure all these messages are passed to the right place at the right time.

Wait... wait what? Am to understand that if I have code like this:

struct {
int foo;
int bar;
} foobar;

mutex io_mutex;

void baz(int* x, int n) {
*x = 0;
for (int i = 0; i <= n; i++)
*x += i;
lock io_mutex;
print *x;
unlock io_mutex;
}

thread t1 {
baz(&foobar.foo, 10000);
};

thread t2 {
baz(&foobar.bar, 10000);
};

You're saying this code is memory-unsafe without adding barrier instructions? (as opposed to just having terrible performance) (let's also assume the compiler isn't smart enough to just compile that down to `x = n (n-1) / 2;` and actually reads/writes the value in the pointer.)
C++17 has std::hardware_destructive_interference_size which you can use in conjunction with alignas to get this behavior, see https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread/hardware_destructiv...

I’m not sure whether a single target architecture can (either in theory or in practice) map to hardware with different line sizes. If so, another problem is that the compiler’s idea of the cache line size might not match the hardware’s.
Looks like it's based on the established and mature standard XMPP. Not disappointing to me.
I guess Erlang/OTP helped a lot here;)
spend many hours each week fine tuning PowerPoint slides, reporting, over communicating, team building, teaching people to communicate differently

I’m in a process of leaving a company where I work at for way too many years (cause I liked the job and its tech samurai format, not even the money), because there is no person like you and the “management” actively refuses to hire one, while steadily degrading into communicating through incomplete, false and illiterate streams of consciousness and providing organizational help through lowest common denominator roles who basically return to you in a couple of days asking you to do their heavily miscommunicated job for them. Sometimes I helped people doing my own request not even realizing it, so perverted it became. Any issue harder than “we’re out of paper” isn’t worth reporting. Any new module or a process is a brainstorm between me and other roles on what “they” meant and how their words most likely correlate. The tragedy is that the team is actually good, just has no clue what we do and what the plan is.
There's "Feedback" link for both the search results and the Knowledge Panel. I doubt that a large volume of similarly targeted feedback would go unnoticed (why would they keep this feature then?).
This has triggered a memory, whereby I had spent probably a similar amount of time getting a custom template done - then, by the time my book was finished, there was an upgrade and the template vanished/became unusable - and then the whole templating system seemed to have changed dramatically, and I didn’t have the energy to burn another 2-3 days re-learning it all… Anyway.