skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I paid $400 for it because the last time I had a tooth taken out was among the worst pains of my life. At one point they had to split my tooth apart and I perceived it as a light tapping, so I think it did the job. I did also get a few vicodin for after they were taken out, but I didn't have very much pain so I ended up not using them and actually cancelling the PTO I had scheduled for recovery.

So from my perspective, as a very acute surgical drug, it would seem to be a great innovation, but it's probably not something you want to use to relax after a tough day at the office.
That’s a phenomenal deal, especially for the bookkeeping.
Yeah this one is right - the only issue is it’s an understatement
We don't "receive them", we are them. Unless you, as another poster pointed out, believe in the Guf or similar.
I'm not buying the font size argument at all. When you zoom in or out on a webpage, your base font size isn't changed, the whole page is zoomed instead, making this whole discussion moot. I would wager many (most?) nontechnical users don't even know they can change the base font size.
Some time ago I switched to "PxPlus IBM VGA 8x16" for all my coding and editing. https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/font?ibm_vga_...

It's such a great font. Easy to read, attractive, nostalgic, and the thick letters reduce eye strain. I don't see myself switching away any time soon.

I made it the font on my webpage too. https://superjamie.github.io/2022/08/06/ncursesw if you'd like to see it in action.

If you try it, make sure you set it to 12pt/16px or a multiple of those.
When your code fails it's never the fault of the language. It's always ones own fault, a typo, some error in the logic, or something. Debugging always reveals that with a stone face. Always.

Except

> "It turns out, there was a bug in Set.intersection(_:), but it had only been discovered this past June, and the fix hasn’t made it into a public version of Swift yet. "
> The big idea in 20th century science, philosophy of science, and mathematics was that the truth is fundamentally unreachable. We got quantum mechanics as the foundation of reality. We got the idea that experiments can only rule out explanations but not establish the truth. We got used to probabilistic estimates based on data. We got all those uncomfortable results about the incompleteness and undecidability of formal systems.

I am not an experimental scientist or philosopher, but I am a mathematician, and I thoroughly reject the claim that the big idea of 20th-century mathematics is that the truth is fundamentally unreachable. To be sure, we found that one can speak meaningfully, and rigorously, of the limits of decidability; but only an algorithmic view of mathematics will lead one to conclude that this makes the truth unreachable. Perhaps one could advance the claim that certain truths are unreachable (I do not, and find the claim woolly), but that is quite different from saying that truth itself is unreachable.
I have to imagine it's got to be painful and challenging as a parent to go through that. Obviously this is not to be done lightly but it seems like it's ultimately the business of the child, their doctor, and their parents.

> The trans debate would be much less heated if it did not involve other people's children.

Oh really? What about bathrooms? I hear that trans people love to go to bathrooms and molest children.
Have you tried asking chatGPT?

EDIT: here's what it told me:

> As an AI assistant, I am not able to give permission for the use of my answers for commercial purposes. My responses are generated based on the information and knowledge that I have been trained on, and are not intended for commercial use. If you would like to use my responses for commercial purposes, I recommend obtaining permission from the appropriate parties. This could include seeking permission from the original creators of the information that I have used in my responses, as well as any relevant copyright holders.
Proposal: A controlled vocabulary for attitudes to PRs, forks and bug-reports
If got $29.xx that ftx owes
I don't think that ARM implementations are usually microcoded.
I don't think it's particularly bad per GWh of energy produced. You just don't need that much uranium. Compare coal (still being actively mined and burned for energy!), natural gas, exotics for batteries/solar.
> In Europe, some medical groups have discouraged or limited the use of puberty blockers.[17] Following the Bell v Tavistock decision by the High Court of Justice for England and Wales, in which the High Court ruled children under 16 were not competent to give informed consent to puberty blockers — overturned by the Court of Appeal in September 2021 — Sweden's Karolinska Institute, administrator of the second-largest hospital system in the country, announced in March 2021 that it would discontinue providing puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to children under 16. Additionally, the Karolinska Institute changed its policy to cease providing puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to teenagers 16–18, outside of approved clinical trials.[82] On 22 February 2022, Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare said that puberty blockers should only be used in "exceptional cases" and said that their use is backed by "uncertain science".[19] However, other providers in Sweden continue to provide puberty blockers and in Sweden, a clinician's professional judgment determines what treatments are recommended or not recommended. Youth are able to access gender-affirming care when doctors deem it medically necessary. The treatment is not banned in Sweden, unlike in Alabama and Arkansas, and is offered as part of its national healthcare service.[19][83][84]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puberty_blocker#Legal_and_poli...

Puberty blockers are not a settled matter in the medical community.

> It is also wrong to represent that level of uncertainty about puberty blockers, which have been and continue to be used by cis children for years without a peep or a poop from those currently in a panic about trans kids on puberty blockers.

the effects of blocking early puberty might be very different that those of blocking "in time" puberty

I wonder if it was me... If I was trans, would I be desperate, and pissed about people trying to dispassionately discuss issues that would greatly affect my life. Maybe... But it seems like a general rule: to get to a good decision, we always need dispassionate discussion. Usually for much a greater time than the passionate people would give us.
What? "Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see."
This is so condescending, as if the religious and right leaning conservatives are the only brave truth seekers.

Many on the left have painful experiences of accepting truths that cause them to cast aside deeply held traditions and cultures, or that tear apart relationships with friends and family.

Social conservatives are all about rejecting any truth that might disrupt old traditions or social hierarchies.
Is.
Fun fact, most of the type 1 diabetes looper scene (open source artificial pancreas) relies on an improperly secured insulin pump that allows third party software access via an exploit. The firmware has long been patched of course, but the pumps with the old firmware are still being sold among community members, for 4-5k.
>Maybe from the Enlightenment to the early 20th century. Back then, science was still understood as the pursuit of truth.

But, that was a period of material scarcity. Only a relatively small wealthy upper class had access to that kind of education. That was a period of time still rife with superstition... literal witch-hunts.

P.S. - Bravo for volunteering a reply.
More than a few times I’ve been on the train with someone who was genuinely crazy. Was I ever assaulted? No, but that’s a loooong ride to the next stop where maybe they’ll get off or you can get help.
To which views are you referring, exactly? TFA switches from a specific political hit (arguably irrelevant to secularism), to teaching creationism in science classes in the US (actually relevant), to a politically-charged and ignorance-fuelled hit piece on so-called "social justice police" and transgender people.

Humanist secularism is supposed to be about decrying and dismantling religious dogma, and keeping church and state separate -- and only one of the points above is relevant -- the others are simply personal views of the author, and not actually relevant to secularism or humanism at all.
I've gotten a lot of pushback (from two different companies) when I suggested openly that any PM should have an extensive if not intimate understanding of the projects they're managing. They should realistically be able to do the work they're delegating, because you routinely need that level of understanding if the ones you're managing expect to get useful information out of you. If the manager doesn't understand the project, it becomes a repetitive effort of "let me ask the client, I'll get back to you" and you end up wasting tremendous amounts of time.
I like how HN crowd falls all over for an article that caters to what they want to believe.

Where is Anecdotal vs Actual Usage Data rage?

Ah, that's right, it doesn't fit their narrative. So, everyone is happy to Fox-News this.
Using types that encode the units, as suggested in OP, is strictly better.
I appreciated BCD because the in-memory data represented in hex (as by an 80's era debugger) was exactly the decimal value. As I recall, debuggers of that time only understood two datatypes: ASCII characters and hex octets.

On consideration, I think my COBOL compiler's ability to define arbitrary-precision fixed-length numerical variables wasn't down to the use of BCD; you can do that with other binary encodings. But I worked for Burroughs at the time; their processors had hardware support for BCD arithmetic, so it was fast. The debugging convenience came with no great cost.
Yes, the state bar will generally refer you to a lawyer in good standing who is familiar with the practice area and is willing to do a 30 min to hour consultation for a flat rate.
Why your pace maker might be spying on you.

Slate.com

Checks out.
No, not Chicken Scheme, it's about Chicken[1].

1. https://youtu.be/yL_-1d9OSdk
Post-truth is a result of the truth no longer really being knowable. You can't know if science was bought and paid for, you can't know whether Russia actually did this or that, you can't really know if X or Y is good for you, or you're just being sold something or someone is trying to control you, whether an image or video is a deep fake. That's the real post-truth. A reality where any one "fact" could be true depending on what you believe. In this reality, who you are does matter. If you're someone who actually believes in the virtues of truth and honesty then I'm more inclined to believe you, whether or not you're actually truthful. This is the real origin of post-truth. If one cannot really know the truth without experiencing it first hand, one must delegate their belief to someone who they feel has values aligned to their own.
"Misinformation office" is dystopia sounding as hell. And would almost certainly end up just being "chief censor".

I'd rather just have a public website available to anyone to view but updated through the normal channels. Last thing we need is another bureaucracy.
Ask HN: Whats's the Purpose of Action-Items?

I chuckled. Thank you:D
I think you should not feel any worse. This is another good tool, what won't take your job any soon. Just embrace it and find out how it can help you!

In my opinion it creates great drafts what you need to validate and refine yourself in the end. Sometimes the code is total fake, but you get an idea.

If you have ever used google.. that's a very similar experience. :)
If a "truth era" did exist, it was definitely before the current era of "math and acronyms are racist" and "men can get pregnant".
>I won't answer for op, but that's a big offense you seem to have taken. All those questions but you aren't actually asking anything.

Offense? Not sure how you got from confusion about defining terms to "offense."

>It's possible that they are trying to communicate something you are demonstrating as a practice?

My concern here is a lack of clear definition of the term. Which is required in order to have a reasonable discussion.

What, exactly, do you believe I'm "demonstrating as a practice"? Critical thinking?

Edit: Fixed prose.
>> If the goal is to reduce car ownership

That's a pretty weird goal to have. For me the goal is freedom and the pursuit of happiness, part of that would be competitive markets where externalities are priced in, but having "reduce ownership of a certain thing" be a goal is just...strange to me.
> If you've got an experiment (either relativistic or quantum, or both) where two individuals can obtain different photon counts, I'd like to hear about it.

The experiment could simply be measuring photon counts at a pre-agreed location after a pre-agreed duration, where the elapsed time is measured by a local clock. (Probably it is reasonable to argue that this is not a "reasonable" experiment, but it's beyond me to make rigorous the sense in which it should be excluded.)
Sourcing for my "water is wet" claim? Just try writing a language parser in Rust and Haskell and you'll see the difference. Or, to be more on topic, write some database to HTML on Rust and note how you have to keep track of your templates' lifetimes.

The Rust developers are a bunch of very smart people working hard on creating a great language, but they can't do impossible things.
SpaceX unviels Starshield – secure Starlink for government
H1-B visas didn't even exist in the 1940s. I don't know what the immigration system was like back then, except that it was fairly racist (this is before the reforms in the 1960s).

Most of the foreign-born STEM graduates I've come across in the US are not from a hereditary caste. I'd even say most of them are from the first generation in their families to obtain such a high level of education.

Legacy is something very different. It pertains mostly to undergraduate admissions at elite universities, and almost by definition, foreign-born students are not the main beneficiaries.
Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT
Gossip is presented as gossip, fake news a news (or in this case facts).

(I read the article twice, the website being unknown to me I thought it was fake news, and it still seems weird to me that MSN uses AI generated content, otoh why not, the mess MSN forces on me in windows has been distopian for years, and the mentioned article appears on MSN. Sad times that these days I'm sceptical of anything. I honestly feel this is one of the biggest dangers of our times, the ease with which populations can be influenced and truth is just a matter of alternative facts, the common argument is that it is of all times but that neglects how much easier, more sophisticated, and larger the reach is)
Village green
This statement

"but Twitter is fat and everyone knows it"

Everyone knows it because it's what everyone on the right has been stating without evidence for weeks. You've heard it so much it's become like an obvious fact even though you can't point to any hard evidence. I say this because you make statements like that. As if you are saying "The capital of France is Paris".

You also said

"Twitter does not include 7500 employees, unless ~6000 of them are working on something other than Twitter."

How do you know how many employees it takes? How do you know 1500 is all they need? You just keep making statements without any backing them up nor do I think you can unless you're C level at Twitter

Also any company might be losing money with staff being the main reason but still need that level of staff.
So many great observations buried in so many needlessly wordy examples.
Like I said, rough analogy. The "lossy compression" here is in the implicit world models these networks learn, not necessarily in the generation space (though we certainly see deviations from reality there too). However, the bigger difference between learning from SEO-generated blogspam and human teaching is the lack of feedback mechanisms to correct errors in generated output that then get taken as ground truth.
Whoa. Jamming metadata in the address space before the string pointer is such a clever idea. I don’t know enough about C to know how many awkward bugs this might cause, but I know enough about programming to spot exceptional lateral thinking when I see it. Very neat.

I guess the SDS authors might ship a linter to spot all the times you mistakenly use free() instead of sdsfree()? That could make the cleverness more tolerable?
Breakthrough Starshot: a fleet of light sail interstellar probes
Its hard to have a plot in a utopia, so most of the books are about Contact between the Culture and other societies. Some of it is 30 years old now so perhaps my enthusiasm for the early ones is because I was 30 years younger when I read them. But still they stick in my head as a positive vision of future society. I can't think of that many other futures that have stuck with me in the same way.

You can read them in any order. The earliest one (Consider Phlebas) I never much liked. Use Of Weapons was my favourite. Player Of Games was good too. If you were only going to read one, probably Excession - it is the most sweeping, epic one. Some of the later ones are good. If you just want the overarching ideas, they are explained in an essay called A Few Notes On The Culture which he posted to newsgroup rec.arts.sf.written in 1994. Copied here: http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm
> Candy Crush Has Been Removed From Google Play (reuters.com)

The world is truly coming to an end.
Is it? You are supposing that people don't choose their environment.
So if you have one of those ridiculous ultrawide monitors, the text is very large, or if you have a vertically-mounted monitor, are using a smartphone held vertically, or just prefer to make your browser windows narrow, the text becomes very small?

That sure is an interesting trick, all right.
Wait, does SBF also have the disease now? Honestly curious if this too is a rumor or something known.
I get the intention, but a simple x = 2500 would satisfy both worlds.
Java Front-End Development in 2023
Java and JVM languages are poised for a front-end resurgence, as the pendulum of language typing swings back towards "strong". See the options and learn why TeaVM/Flavour Plus is the best.

https://frequal.com/java/JavaFrontEndDevelopment2023.html
Funny how these days everybody seems to think that the world should be run without anybody else.
While the article lauds El Faro's "fearless independent reporting", if you follow politics in El Salvador, they are aligned with El Salvador's left wing socialist party, the FMLN, as discussed in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flWa7ZMBZ2s
OK I get it now. Some of this stuff is more like major appliances or furniture. TIL
I appreciate your reply very much, it was incredibly thought-out and informative, especially for those unaware of the issues.

As I continued reading the article, it seemed less "secular humanist" and more "religious Conservative pearl-clutching," with all the ignorant bigoted claims of "think of the children!" Christians decrying the existence of trans people.

4 out of 4 start for your comment.
I never said that.

What do you mean by they don't know?

What are they going to do even if they did know?

It's not like they can (short of an armed rebellion) demand to have another political party or government.

It's like saying a thug is robbing me at gunpoint so I give him my wallet. You only observe that I give my wallet therefore giving that guy my wallet was good for me and fail to observe the gun.
Send you application to arkive.net: https://arkivedao.notion.site/Arkive-Job-Board-e1242a78aa4d4... I will make sure to fast track you to an interview.

You sound like a really good candidate. If you can develop and manage this type of optimisation in a startup with a teams of 3 that manages blockchain protocols, a web app, a mobile app, a multi modal service backend, and several integrations while also delivering on product faetures, then you are definitely the person we need!
My Birthday:)
>What had not been foreseen was the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the associated general energy crisis in Europe...

>Can't forsee covid though, nor the war in Ukraine...

Yes. Who could possibly have foreseen that announcing you're stopping imports of gas from Europe's biggest supplier, in the run up to winter, might lead to... er... a shortage of gas supplies.

No-one in the corridors of power in the EU or UK, apparently.
Natbot - Allow GPT-3 to control a browser
It's insane that this gets upvoted. Hacker News is turning truly monstrous.
At 2 billion a pop, they're too expensive to risk actually using them.
Nah, it's pretty clear the laptop is a weak sauce nothingburger argument that the GOP propaganda machine has projected themselves into. Imma stay out of that nonsense and note that internal Twitter disinformation moderation policy has no impact on my life and on the lives of everyone on this thread, unless the individuals are specifically employed by disinformation campaigners.

Keep calm and carry on.
Homelessness is declining in Washington, DC
Couple states I've lived in, missed payment penalties are 10% of what was owed. Parking, say, $3k at 3% for a few months to net ... $100 to then pay a $300 fine doesn't seem to make much sense.

I've missed payments, and paid the fines, and typically it's a small % of the total tax burden, so it's not hit me hard, but I wouldn't plan to explicitly withhold payments to try to pick up small % in savings.
The way we colloquially use words often contradicts their more precise definitions because one often inherits from the other in messy and unpredictable ways. For example, in botany the "fruit" of a plant is a ripened ovary containing the seeds but in everyday culinary usage, a "fruit" is generally something that has more sugar relative to nutritional value than a vegetable, which puts a lot of tomatoes, eggplants, and cucumbers in a position very vulnerable to faux-edgy semantic arguments.

In this case most people use the word "supernatural" as some vague stand in for ideas found outside of the scientific consensus [1]. Meanwhile, scientists and philosophers use it as a precise category that lets them wash their hands of the topic completely.

[1] Or whatever the speaker believes the consensus to be, which is its own messy topic
they run at full capacity, but the capacity of natural gas power plant is very limited

Nuclear power plants used to make up for the steady base consumption.
Natural gas power plants used to be the last ones to be solicited. They were just used to adjust to the marginal needs, not to produce most of the power.
Postmodernism is the reckoning with the problem, not the problem itself. It recognizes epistemological difficulties and how different power interests or ideological preferences are often tied up with claims of "the truth."

The people who dislike it the most tend to be either those who've been effectively manipulated by power interests, or those who find reckoning with the difficulty of finding the truth inconvenient.
Okay then write that. I was responding to your point about nude photos.
I can assure you that any discussion that involves other people's children is on another level of heat when compared to even the most heated debate about bathrooms.
The truth sucks. The truth is that you're going to die and probably nothing you did mattered at all and there's no god to judge you for any of it and you're not going onto an afterlife. I see why people want no part of that truth and I'll accept my downvotes as the messenger of that sad reality.