skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That works for me, but I feel it is like Dijkstra's aphorism in the sense that neither seems likely to change the minds of many people who are not already aligned with it.

Then there are those, like Searle and Penrose, who agree but insist that thinking is beyond the abilities of any merely Turing-equivalent device.
I haven’t yet read GEB, it’s sitting on my shelf but I can’t ever find the time to read it. How relevant is it in todays environment? Are any other books a good alternative?
> extremely bloated messages

Please read a few commit messages for the git project itself.

That is how git was designed to be used. Maybe that provides some perspective of just how bloated commit messages can be, but also how useful they then become.
David Wallace Wells isn’t really sensationalizing beyond the title. A lot of the corresponding book (written after the article) is just a sober look at our best guess of the range of things that could happen with different emissions reductions hit - if no action is taken (and so far very little meaningful action has been taken), most of the Earth will be uninhabitable.

If a full scale society wide mobilization happens now, it will be very different, but even under the best case scenario climate related conflicts will dominate domestic and geopolitics by the late 2030s and into the rest of the century, and it will be very difficult for economic growth to exceed annual losses in infrastructure, housing, etc.
Hardly a secret.

Le Carre's bleak masterpiece "A Perfect Spy" was essentially about his father's impact on his life.
How long were you in labour? My niece was in labour for about 35 hours. Coworkers wife was in labour for over 40 hours before resorting to C-section. Most people I know who went natural had a horrible horrible experience. When you hear stories like that, and the complications, etc. natural sounds crazy scary.

For my wife she was scared of natural birth so we elected for C-section and that was far less scary for her and she smashed through it without complaint. But her friend living in France was forced to do natural. If they have a second she’s flying back to Taiwan for the 2nd because the whole experience of natural and the horrible experience of staff at the hospital put her off wanting to do it there again.

In asia, woman are doled on from the moment they enter the hospital. Natural or surgery they stay for 3-5 days in the hospital. Unlike a lot of the west where people are sent home the next day.
James Lindsay has a lot to say on this. The guy is probably the most intellectual commentator in conservatism. Here's the first part of his three part series on the death of the university.

https://newdiscourses.com/2022/10/strange-death-university-p...

He says that the decline of universities was all started by Herbert Marcuse in the 60s. James reads all of Marcuse's old books and deconstructs them and shows how all the crazy stuff going on today in universities and soft sciences makes perfect sense from the perspective of these leftist theoreticians and their goals. Their goals are not to improve scientific understanding, but to turn absolutely everything in higher education into a political weapon to transform society.
Space elevators and Lofstrom loops also do not have Isp (or have very, very poor Isp, if you're treating the Earth as reaction mass...).
So Kayne West (Ye) is not a serious musician?

To what extent is a desire for more classical music 'classist' itself?
Lomborg made a lot of a well known science trope: you can dash to the door with the current technology, or wait for the 2nd to market and use less of them, more cheaply, for greater effect. The problem is he didn't consider a couple of things. Firstly, it takes competitive tension to derive a second to market and the full tenor of his proposal removed it. Secondly, it assumed there was no accelleration in the problem. You can arrive late at the 2nd to market, in a worse world than the one you could have been fire-fighting in.

Leslie Groves said it best, about choices of how to proceed in the Manhatten project: "do both" -And in fact, this turned out to be key because using thermal diffusion as a feed stock enrichment to the calutrons turned out to be critical for time dependent delivery: Massive improvement in delivery because they didn't cheapen the investment.

I personally would have had no problem with CCS, BioChar and Solar/Wind being pursued aggressively at broadly equal levels of funding, and then looking back to decide which one had the best bang for buck. Instead, CCS was massively over funded against evidence of fugitive gas leak problems, Biochar was sold to the idea of "not having to do the others" and as a bribe to farmers, and both CCS and Biochar backers howled down funding for wind and solar claiming it was green nonsense.
Show HN: GPT3 SMS bot starter kit
Created for the Assembly ai hackathon!
Science fiction is influenced by science fact.

BUT

Popular science fiction also influences future science fact by "seeding" cool ideas to use science for.

This is why all the "dystopian future" stories are concerning. We need solarpunk. But solarpunk needs to be interesting in more than a utopian sense before it will spread amongst the mainstream. I love the idea of solarpunk but I find it boring.
We Turned Pigeons into Pests
AFAICT: Just "false" would be a regular boolean value. The question mark turns it into a logic value so it can be used in conditionals.
Manhwa have definitely had more of a strict formula to them than most other contemporary comics, at least the ones I've viewed. Most of the stories seem to be copy-pastes of a "weak guy becomes tough guy" power fantasy, with characterizations falling along class and gender stereotypes. Illustrations are likewise industrial in nature, using the same posable doll figures to churn out basic talking head + fighting panels. I can't recall one that did good establishing shots or worked the vertical layout for interesting composition.

That said, I still read the stuff on occasion. It's still comics, and not far in the adherence to formula.
It's usually always possible to just illuminate the room unless you are out programming at a bus stop at night I guess.
> so-called 'lenient' evaluation strategy which is neither strict nor lazy, but somewhere in-between

Sounds like we are still clinging on to laziness in some regard, I wish we could get shod of it entirely. Although laziness makes doing Leetcode problems in Haskell really fun, Idris got it right when they opted for strict evaluation for predictable memory performance.
They used to say it was bad for your eyes to watch TV without having a lamp on in the room. Looking it up now, it sounds like it causes eye fatigue but not damage.
No offense, but did you use ChatGPT to write this? It has a very ChatGPT structure.
$79 in incognito, $85 when logged in, just like you. Interesting.
Am I the only person that was disappointed that there wasn't actually an architecture diagram on a napkin?

The final diagram [1] is also much less "readable" than the original figures from the paper.

[1] https://dugas.ch/artificial_curiosity/img/GPT_architecture/f...
It’s only “unavoidable” because of the profit motive - Diablo is hugely profitable for its owners and investors, and that is accomplished by maximizing margins including with the labor market (through constrained teams, as low wages as the market will bear, and demanding crunch periods)
> A nice dark screen with light text is easier to read, right? Well, according to multiple studies, that’s wrong apparently

In this sentence, I feel like I witnessed the author ascend straight up his own ass. Author is basically saying:

“Objective studies show that [subjective topic] is actually…”

> This post is day 04 of my #100DaysToOffload challenge. If you want to get involved, you can get more info from https://100daystooffload.com.

Ah, so it’s trendy yuppycore bs. That explains it.
The recent UN "gap report" concludes that we are on track for 2.7 degrees of warming by end of century, even assuming the recent commitments made by countries at COP26. So far too little is being done, and 2.7 degrees of warming is quite catastrophic.

Considering most climate models even from 30 years ago have been reasonably accurate (within 10%) there isnt much chance that the predictions are totally incorrect.

[1] https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2021
See also: https://github.com/RomanHotsiy/commitgpt
The world is never short of ignorant idiots.
Just Enough Linux Operating System
There's nothing inherently wrong writing it Kiev in foreign languages. Of course, during todays Russian war of agression against Kiev and the Ukraine, it's a good show of support to write it Kyiv. But out of old habit I write Kiev most of the time.
I had similar thoughts (I do JS/TS dev daily but I’m very interested in a lot of what this language appears to offer). But I’d caution trying this with JS for anything more than exploring the ideas presented by the pattern. The reality is that even adding a type checker like TypeScript, and as many lint rules as you can throw at a project, it’s still too easy to end up putting nullish values into your null-safe arrays.

And I similarly wondered why I don’t use this sort of pattern more often, but that wondering is what led me to add this caution. It’s a really compelling idea, but probably extremely hard to debug when it goes wrong in a language and idiomatic ecosystem designed for it to go wrong at any time.
I've read places, that because of the actions we've been taking, such as the Inflation Reduction Act, and others, that we've taken ourselves away from the super fucked category and placed into a more reasonable one. When these alarmists pieces came out they were accurate, however, because of all the alarm, we've legitimately changed the future outcome we were facing. It's still important we keep at it and reduce our GHG emissions, but I don't think we are as royally fucked as we once were. I hope this offers some(?) clarity.
no, if you look at relevance today Signal is not relevant.

The technical excellency is lost on most users.

The demography which cares about that excellency also has a large degree of people which don't want a future with a western variant of WeChat. Because it's basically only working with monopolization.

And the fact that signal pushed some crypto is not helping it either. Firstly to many non technical people have lost too much money by either crypto scams or crashes. Then their crypto currency had some questionable technical details AFIK, but I forgot the details. Then regulatory capture of crypto currencies is guaranteed incoming in the coming years (to many scams, market manipulation, hidden high risk investment and usage for crimes especially money laundering) and as far I can tell their coin will likely not get a pass.
Research links common sweetener with anxiety
need to make sure it's not one of the 7 sanctioned recepient banks. So e.g. Sber obviously won't work, but e.g. Raiffeisen works well for me.
Quick reply with no links to hand, but I keep up to date with climate science (at a layperson's level).

In short - I haven't read the compressed article, but I did read Wells' book and followed up most of the refs in detail. Yes, parts of it were exaggerated. Little outright false, but he tended to take worst-case scenarios, particularly regarding the chance of vast methane burps from tundra, etc. It was a reasonable if tendentious summary of what could happen, but it didn't describe the most likely trajectory. It was more like a possible black swan warning.

But much has changed since. Somewhat to our advantage on the basic science - temperature sensitivity to CO2 increases seems to be towards the lower end of earlier IPCC estimates. It also seems that earth's systems are more responsive to reductions in CO2 emissions, so there's a better payoff to actions we do take. Renewable energy costs have reduced much faster than earlier projections suggested.

One significant factor is worse - extreme weather events are worsening much faster than climate models had prevously suggested. The on-the-ground effects of climate change are worse per degree of increase than we thought. The higher-end temp rises once talked about (4 degrees plus) are now all but ruled out.

So, no, we're not technically fucked. But 30 years wasted since we understood climate change dangers at least in outline have taken their toll. We have made it much harder to keep the globe's temperature within limits that our societies can deal with than if we had just thrown a few fossil fuel suits in prison 3 decades ago (semi-joking).

Our political chances of staying within the 1.5C (which isn't a magic number, just an estimate of the temp rise whose costs we can reasonably deal with) are in my estimation miniscule. But political guesses aren't worth much.

No-one is really confident that our political systems can deal with the vast numbers of refugees and disasters resulting from a likely 3C end-of-century rise. Our best projection isn't anything silly like human extinction or complete global collapse. More a sort of increasing dystopia: more wars, more disposessed, more hunger. And ever fewer nonhumans.
Sounds like the Raspberry Pi has just become the new Raspberry Sigh.
I can absolutely see how a tool like this could provide a useful hook, to reject any commit messages that do not provide information above what GPT3 can do.
Can someone link me a webtoon so I can see the difference? Googling wasn’t great.

Edit: Nevermind, found one with English translation.

https://m.webtoons.com/en/romance/truebeauty/spin-off-4/view...

Yes seems perfectly suited for mobile consumption.
"dark mode" is nice in theory, but the effect is completely broken as soon as anything non-dark slips through.

for instance (on windows at least) the program "OBS" uses a dark theme; in a recent version, when you open up any settings window, the window is drawn for a few milliseconds as a bright white square, before the dark window 'renders' [0]. this sudden strobe of white light, without warning, is worse than if the interface was just bright all the time (imo)

this flashing light issue has also plagued chromium off and on for over 10 years. [1]

[0] https://i.imgur.com/P9rM5A3.gif

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=21798
It's like people have muddled the division line between subjective and objective, and if the latter can't really be grasped epistemologically, then it opens the door to activist pressure in the area of knowledge. The argument often heard by the latest generation in academic social science is: there is no escape from ideology / all is influenced by power dynamics / objectivity cannot exist, it's a relic of an old-school set of ideas that, by the way, oppressed people. Even (especially) hard science can't be objective, because it will always 'serve a purpose', in a power dynamic or social context.

Maybe less political is just the fact that social science can't be hard science, because it isn't existentially against making claims that can be neither proven nor disproven. That's not its fault, since a lot of fields in social science have value to society (psychology, economics, sociology, etc.). But it's overstepping its bounds, I think is your point.

What I don't like is how we're trying to establish some sort of priesthood, where people with (certain) degrees feel righteous in areas that probably they're being a little over-confident. I've had many conversations with people from this background where, they take what I've said and do not address the claim or rebuttal as a logician would, but instead, "Oh, you're wrong because you're misinformed, you didn't read this paper, you are such-and-such and such groups don't understand this fact I am stating, [or some other claim that isn't a rebuttal]." Without really tackling my point or defending their position. If only they could be that self-aware to state it like that...
I'd expect debt instruments to be sold to debtors. Don't count on this.
For me having Dark Mode is actually better accessibility-wise. Since I've had cataracts (and the surgery fixing them) years ago my eyes are really sensitive to glare and generally bright lights (especially sun light and lightning flashes¹), meaning reading on screens in light mode makes my eyes and head hurt within minutes.

¹: which ever since having my natural lenses replaced by synthetic ones appear violet to me instead of the bluish-white before
We have to agree that either “modern Ukraine” was created in 1920s from Russians and Russian territories or there were different people on that land long before that.

If you are leaning towards the former then this could be extended even further: Soviet Union only ever harassed itself. There were no occupied Baltic states, there was no Ukraine, etc etc - just one big happy family called USSR.
> Not going to university or dropping out of it is the most expensive countersignal of all

I think this was the worst mistake I’ve made to date.
Just out of curiosity (as the website suggests lol), which distro were you using? I long left Nvidia as it's really a no-go on Linux but I noticed different distros had VASTLY different experiences with it.
For instance Mint was very stable and simple to install drivers, but they were ofter outdated. Fedora was more work through rpm fusion but I also got a better experience and even managed to use Wayland. Some distros didn't even work with my setup.

In my opinion the biggest advantage and problem of Linux is the fragmentation. Linux is a word that encompasses too many variations of many systems on top of different versions with different build options of a kernel. This is why I always choose to talk about a distribution instead of Linux itself, since the kernel is just a part of the system (insert GNU/Linux copypasta here).

edit by ChatGPT, which apparently does not know about the copypasta): "Linux is actually GNU/Linux, or as I like to call it, the dynamic duo of the operating system world. The Linux kernel is like Batman, all tough and powerful, while the GNU tools and libraries are like Robin, always there to support and help out. Together, they make a unstoppable team that can take on any challenge.

But, let's be real here, without the GNU tools and libraries, the Linux kernel would just be a confused and frustrated little kernel, wondering why it can't do anything useful. So, it's important to give credit where it's due and call the whole operating system GNU/Linux.

Now, I know some of you might be thinking, "But wait, isn't Linux just for nerdy hackers and command line wizards?" Well, to those people I say, "Hold my beer, I'll show you how wrong you are." Because, these days, there are plenty of user-friendly Linux distributions that are perfect for everyday users. And, even better, most of them are free and open-source, so you can customize and tweak them to your heart's content.

But, let's not forget about the elephant in the room: NVIDIA. Yes, I'm talking about that greedy, selfish, proprietary-loving company that just can't seem to get its act together when it comes to Linux support. I mean, come on guys, we're not asking for much, just some stable drivers that don't crash all the time and support the latest features. Is that too much to ask? Apparently it is, because NVIDIA just keeps letting Linux users down.

So, in conclusion, if you want to join the awesome world of GNU/Linux, go for it! You won't regret it. And if you're already using GNU/Linux, give yourself a pat on the back and keep spreading the word. And, if you're using NVIDIA on Linux, well, good luck to you my friend, you're going to need it."
Yep. I honestly think that if you loved Linux 10 or 20 years ago you're better off with FreeBSD these days.
Need to also test prime vs not prime. Prime might have shipping in price
It is made more complex than it needs to be. I feel you're just not able to accept that. Shoehorning all abstractions into a file, making a distributed system, these are examples of over-engineering.

It doesn't have to be "bloated", or particularly bigger than a previous system or competitors, you're fixating on that part of the second system syndrome too much. But if you're really fixated on that vs Unix then take a look at the original unix for something far smaller and more elegant.
https://archive.vn/aesfl
Worth reading: The Games Outcomes Project was a 5-part series analyzing the results of a 2014 survey of hundreds of game developers to determine how teamwork, culture, leadership, and project management contribute to game project success or failure.

> Our results clearly demonstrate that crunch doesn't lead to extraordinary results. In fact, on the whole, crunch makes games LESS successful wherever it is used, and when projects try to dig themselves out of a hole by crunching, it only digs the hole deeper.

The survey results showed project crunch was negatively correlated with both a game’s financial return on investment and MetaCritic score.

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the-game-outcomes-pro...
Agism, not cool.
> I cannot fathom ignoring it.

I can see why it they wouldn't have recalled it in the first 40s of that situation. However they got the situation stabilized to a point where they could've kept going for a while and maybe came up with a better plan of action before attempting to correct the trim again (which is what ultimately doomed the flight).

> Having the trim start running again every few seconds is EXACTLY WHY there's a trim cutout switch. A few seconds is enough time to hit the thumb trim switches right on the column under your thumb, and the then hit the cutoff switch which is right there on the center console.

Which is kind of leaving the territory of the AD. The way I'm reading it, it advises to leave the switch set to cutout for the remainder of the flight. They'd have had to come up with that approach (or an approach that would have enabled manual trim) on their own once they had the aircraft flying somewhat straight without immediate danger. Their main mistake may have been to not take more time to assess their situation when they had the chance and not fully grasping the danger of leaving that switch on normal for even the 5s it took the plane to become unrecoverable at the end.

But all those factors pale in the face of inadequate training and the fact that there could hardly be a more dangerous problem with an aircraft than it - out of nowhere - entering an uncontrollable nosedive if the pilots don't properly respond within seconds. I'd maybe rate complete loss of control/"wings fell off" higher.

I still have trouble blaming the pilots because - with the benefit of hindsight - I would have expected such crashes to happen as much as they did, maybe more. The aviation industry generally avoids expected mistakes that result in loss of life and someone was bound to make this one.