skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What’s your point?

Well, let's go back to my original post in this thread, replying to one where you concluded with "until we know much more about the insides of minds, the 'all observable properties' is a fuzzy indirect set of second-order human behaviors." This statement, like your comments generally, is obviously made under the assumption that other people have minds, and my observation is that, as far as I know, there is no basis for that assumption other than what you call "a fuzzy indirect set of second-order human behaviors." Therefore, each of us individually is faced with a quadrilemma (or whatever the proper term is:) 1) Reject this fuzzy evidence, embrace solipsism, and cease assuming other people are conscious until we have a justification that avoids these alleged flaws; 2) Contingently accept, at least until we know more, the fuzzy evidence from human behaviors as grounds for thinking other people are conscious; 3) Inconsistently reject the fuzzy evidence without realizing that this currently leaves us with no basis for rejecting the solipsistic stance; 4) Like grandpa, don't pursue the question, at least until someone else has figured out more than can be learned from fuzzy observations of human behaviors.

You have suggested that our theory of mind is innate. This is not an unreasonable hypothesis, but I would like to raise two responses to that view, the first suggesting that it is implausible, and the second showing that it would not help your case anyway.

The first is the aforementioned evidence from false belief experiments, which strongly (though not conclusively) suggest that a theory of mind is learned (though ethical considerations limit how far such studies can be taken on human infants.) The existence of an innate fear of snakes would not refute this view.

The second is the question of how we acquire innate phobias. I am not aware of any plausible mechanism other than by natural selection, which is a multi-generational process of learning from what would be, at least in the case of a theory of mind, a fuzzy indirect set of second-order observables. Natural selection is, of course, a process that is explicitly modeled in our most successful machine-learning strategies.
Why a throwaway for this? Is this a gpt response?

Also it's not right. You need to do something like image.img <cat> /dev/sda
All biologists are shown photos of exploded ultracentrifuges. It makes them care for centrifuge rotors, the consequences when limits are exceeded are spectacular.
The partial case-insensitivity thing is not new, it's been part of Nim for a long time, maybe since its very beginning but I'm not sure about that.

https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#lexical-analysis-ident...
That summary ignores all the relevant context. Since the 1980s, TJ has been a highly selective public high school. The average test scores there are comparable to several Ivy League colleges. As is common all over the world, TJ’s admissions process was based on standardized testing and grades. This was completely uncontroversial for decades.

The National Merit Scholarship is based on a standardized test called the PSAT. It’s not the most important thing in the world, but important enough that every year the Washington Post would publish the list of students from the DC area who were selected. This was great marketing for the school, because TJ students were like 2/3s of all the students recognized out of dozens of high schools in the area. There was no pizza party, but the school would go to some effort to publicize the result because they felt it reflected very positively on the school.

Two years ago, there was a huge fight over TJ’s admissions process. The school had become 70% Asian, and had very few black students. In that fight, progressives attacked standardized testing as racist. The progressive school board then changed the admissions process to a lottery system. A federal judge found that the change was motivated by anti-Asian racism: https://www.baconsrebellion.com/wp/we-won-coalition-for-tj-w.... Then an appellate court overturned that decision, and now the Supreme Court is deciding whether to hear the case.

In that context, what the article is about is the TJ administration downplaying the National Merit Scholarship results, which until recently they had publicized and pointed to as a source of pride. The story is thus about a deliberate decision by the administration to downplay a certain kind of educational metric, based on progressive ideas, that until very recently the school had embraced as an important metric.

Frankly it’s bizarre for someone from outside the US to say conservatives are waging a frivolous “culture war” here. What the conservatives want to do is keep the system that TJ had until two years ago, which is still the system most of Europe and Asia has.
I assumed it was related to campaign finance because that is noticeably absent but it’s possible she/Alameda weren’t involved in that aspect of the grift.
the lucrative parts (screen, camera arrays) are serialized and will not work on phones other than the one they were built for

almost everything else is soldered onto the logic board and is futile to transfer

so i think that stolen iphones with activation lock are 100% paperweights.
(With apologies to Louis Rossmann)

1. If you were near retirement age when the 2020 lockdowns hit (or if you were overdue for retirement), then suddenly you're effectively retired for a couple of months, and you might as well just make it official once the retirement ends.
2. Most people who retire have gotten a few promotions over the decades, so when someone is promoted into the spot of the retiring person, you now have one less unskilled worker as an indirect result.
3. Some people were only working their job because they thought it was a more reliable income compared to starting their own business. If they're laid off without warning, then they start their own business or freelance. Some of them will be successful and earn more than they were being employed for, so they're gone.
4. They were forced to spend time with their families and other non-work stuff, which reminded them of the stuff they actually care about, and shifted their priorities.
5. If any industries are affected by the above, then the higher wages attract workers and the effect ripples through to every industry with unskilled labor. Or at least most of them.

Those are some of the causes.
geez what insurance company is that
I suspect she had some involvement with the campaign contributions which SBF is facing charges. My guess is it details some facts about her involvement, and then says she won’t be charged assuming major new facts don’t emerge.
Replace "2+2" with "2-2" and the answer is still the same. It does not read expressions, it does not see divisions by zero. It just outputs the training data, associated with parenthesis.

It will still hallucinate "division by zero" fallacies when asked questions like:

Given that a - b > 0, can we simplify?
a / (a - b) = 1 / (a - b)
a = 1
The stereotypical housekeeping staff is the trifecta of minority, older, and low income.
Or it’s just a correction following a long boom. Full service, discount pricing, ubiquitous availability, and 10% CAGR in new locations can’t go on forever.
The point is about a snowballing larger societal collapse, led by the US and UK. (But it will reach everywhere eventually.)

If you and your friends are rich and dull enough, you can ostrich-hole it for a while yet.

If you want to see the canary in the coal mine, try befriending someone who works in the service industry.
The Burning Man guy was probably embarrassed and had a bruised ego by being called out for such an obviously stupid mistake and lashed out at you. However my understanding as told to me from a longtime burner is that safety is "third" at Burning Man so who knows.
Manitoba Unix User Group
If we ignore the low pay, physically demanding work, bad benefits and and unpredictable work schedule, then yeah I guess these jobs sound great for moms.
Stack traces. The information required to build a stack trace is deliberately kept off the critical path so it doesn't impact performance during normal operation, but that means that building a stack trace requires going out and fetching the debug symbols and correlating them.

Without stack traces, exceptions are just a type of goto.
https://nim-lang.org/docs/nimgrep.html

If you use choosenim to install Nim several executables get built/downloaded along with the compiler:

$ pwd && ls
/Users/me/.nimble/bin
choosenim nim nim-gdb nimble nimgrep nimpretty nimsuggest testament

https://github.com/dom96/choosenim#readme
You can want whatever you want. 2 years ago, I'd have agreed with you. But I remember the blogosphere now, and: it was better than what we had 2 months ago. I wrote off Mastodon, but this is a better situation than Twitter. I'm psyched. The tooling isn't perfect yet, but it'll be better than Twitter's tooling within 12 months --- not least because there won't be a giant public company doing its level best to make sure the tooling doesn't get too good.
HPPD: Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen_persisting_percep...

Total tangent here, but in my opinion, most HPPD are optical/perceptual defects that everyone experiences all the time, but normally our minds block, filter, or compensate for. Taking psychedelics makes people aware of these defects, and once you notice them, you can't "unsee" them.

My personal experience with this is that very mild astigmatism causes diffracted halos around light sources. I never noticed these until taking psychedelics. Now I always notice them, but they're certainly caused by defects in my eyes' lenses and not by some permanent direct effect of psychedelics. Similar with floaters, visual snow, POV effects and so on.

Many of these effects/defects become exaggerated whilst tripping and hence get noticed, then when people sober up and still notice them, they think it's something new, rather than realizing it's something that's been going on unnoticed the whole time.
I mean there's food-grade paraffin and beeswax wax can act as a polymer that addition of heat will reform. I can remember thinking as a kid, "why can't we just melt all this crap down?"

I guess call it indoctrination since reuse, conservation, recycling is something taught to kindergarteners, but even at face value the lifecycle obviously a cost -- trash management, elegance (due to litter, and bad packaging), the risks of petroleum mining/hydraulic fracturing, presumably greenhouse gas emissions, microplastic contamination, risks of sloppy chemical engineering/benzene contamination... all costs centered on crap that mostly sucks as a product to begin with... an idiotic matryoska doll of nested garbage.

The requirements get tough at those scales, for the full life cycle I suppose, iterating on any component effectively is a lifetime of work. Oh you can melt it, what about nonremovable contaminants? how much energy input did that cost? I don't see any clear-cut solution except to eliminate subsidies at a solution-dependent rate.
That performance was so heavily tied to screen resolution was funny to see. It could crunch a reasonable amount of vector information, but the rasterisation would burn through processor cycles.

There were some projects when I was running on a G3 iMac where I would drop the render screen down really small to see how it would perform on a more powerful machine. It felt like if they even managed to get decent GPU acceleration possible then they could have solved a lot of these issues.
I think while the casting of SBF character would be hilarious, the casting of the Caroline Ellison character would take it over the top.
`Template literals ie- multiline strings without needing escape or newline characters is a signficant advantage of JS object over JSON`

some will argue that scripting would thus be possible if the config was simply JS but that is a rabbit hole both on the debate itself and then the potential compexlity of config; there are trade-offs for/against but not a settled matter IMO as there are major projects like neovim that support full fledged config scripting (in the case of neovim they allow use of Lua)
Is it worth giving them a little as an individual when they have funding from many large companies?
There was a lot of substitution of goods purchases in lieu of services.
I have a feeling she took this course:

MIT 15.025 | Spring | Graduate
Game Theory For Strategic Advantage
Inventing an Ugly Programming Language
Of course it is. For example:

If you comment in r/conservative, even as someone who isn't subscribed and just happened to end up on the post due to r/all or a crosspost, odds are you'll get hit with a number of bans on other subreddits.

This is for the same reason that mastodon's federation works the way it does: those other groups do not want to associate with or interact with accounts that talk on or interact with these certain communities.

If you interact with a toxic subreddit that has a habit for harassing other communities, those other subreddits likely will ban you just to save themself the trouble of dealing with someone who might bring them more stress or hassle.

Likewise if you federate with a toxic instance or are hosted by a toxic instance, other instances will block yours and you'll be cut off.

The only extension to this is that your instance can do the same to others. But that's really not that massive of a concern as you can pretty easily just move to a new instance or better yet, host your own instance and not have to worry with it at all.
The Dalles settles lawsuit after seeking to hide Google’s water use
The one rule I learned while traveling over the years for work is to only ever book with the hotel directly. You open yourself up to much more annoying problems when dealing with third party booking regarding any sort of problem resolution with the reservation.
Passenger vehicles from this century come with airbags that significantly reduce head trauma. Three point seatbelts have been mandatory in all seating positions for longer, IIRC, and significantly reduce the likelyhood of head vs pavement collisions.

But, if absolute safety is paramount, you do want a five point harness, flameresistant coveralls, neck support, and a helmet, sure.
That’s part of “the deal” they struck.
'Type A' personalities invented by the tobacco industry (2016)
Titanium can have problems with oils I've been told. Seeping into crystal defects and propagating. Typically I've been told they use polymer coatings to prevent the ingress. But with scratches and lubricants I think this would be much more common if it was a real thing.

I've always thought a spring bronze/brass frame would be fun. Even better modulus of elasticity, but the strength to weight is much worse.

Also keep waiting to see flash bainite frames.
There are a lot of interpretations of that "safety third" thing. One I'm a fan of is that safety of the audience first, environment second, and self third.
"I went from thinking who am I to try to do a thesis—an original contribution to research—to having it being done in such a short period of time, literally six months total. And it essentially took a few hours. In hindsight, there was this one critical breakthrough."
> But how is it better to sit at home making $0 than working and having an income?

In one of the young couples in my extended family, the mom recently stopped working because daycare cost more than what she was bringing in. I’ve heard this isn’t uncommon. This doesn’t explain the worker shortage at a macro level, but it’s one example where staying at home might make more sense than working.
Italians may use mozz made from water buffalo milk. I guess I spelled it wrong: two f's:

https://www.delightedcooking.com/what-is-buffalo-mozzarella....

I don't think it's very often used in the US.
Looks like compliance might actually solve this ? We already have laws that kick in over a certain amount of users. Seems to be a pretty big incentive for instances to limit the number of users to accept, which would result in a lot of mid-sized instances, rather than your usual power law distribution ?
You can learn TypeScript really gradually, adding it to important things like parameters and props at first, for the simplest primitive types, then gradually expand complexity to include objects and inheritance and generics and such later.

It's really useful for providing good code hints and autocomplete, and for avoiding runtime crash bugs due to uncoerced types.

Give it a shot, a little at a time.
Another thing to toss into the mix... the immigrant housekeeper in the US on a visa would be working on a H-2B visa.

https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary...

These are temporary and are at most 3 years. There is similar "if you don't have a job, you leave."

Add in the 2016 through 2020 was less favorable to immigration.

While past years, we haven't hit the visa cap for H-2B (like we do for H-1B), in 2022, applicants hit the cap ( https://www.dhs.gov/news/2022/10/12/dhs-supplement-h-2b-cap-... https://www.marketplace.org/2022/12/14/the-u-s-is-nearly-dou... https://www.npr.org/2022/11/04/1134417921/could-foreign-work... )

This means that in the past it was possible to reliably get people to work on the H-2B visa, and now you can't. Additionally, those "out of work" meant that people had to leave and start over reducing the pool of H-2B visa workers.
work two consecutive days from home. Then spend one or two nights in your car or fine a cheap room/deal in a house where you work (or sleep in your office - "I was working late..."). If you can work two ten hr days the day you pull an overnighter, maybe you can work three days from home?
Java17 is fast... _very_ fast. CDI is a the killer framework.
I can't wait for the Hambini analysis of this one.
You were right to warn him. Tool injuries are very unforgiving. I'll bet he has thought about what you said and will change his way of working. I certainly hope so.

One never knows the skill level of someone. And even a skilled person occasionally slips, loses his grip or falters with damaging consequences.

As a person gets older too, the familiarity of tools may tempt one to take shortcuts. I saw this in my father as he grew older: he skipped safety precautions sometimes. He was surprised when I would warn him. But when I was a child he gave me all the warnings (more like prohibitions) so I felt justified in returning the favor. Just b/c he was 85 year old didn't mean that he would miss a finger or two any less than a child might.
The Tragedy of CharacterAI
I didn't say greater mass changes drag, I said it resists drag better. As you say, the force remains constant, so with constant force and greater mass, acceleration gets a lesser absolute value.
Because there is an administration in power that is more willing to prioritize prosecuting financial crimes.
Musk’s Twitter is ‘stirring up’ polarisation
Are you familiar with the history and why they did it? SLC is a grid of squares, which seems somewhat unusual for American grid-based cities.

But then, I went and zoomed in on Nauvoo, IL and it has the exact same squared grid, quite possibly even the same size squares. But if you look at the 3 cities on the Iowa side of the river - Burlington, Fort Madison and Keokuk - they also have pretty close to that same grid. Did the church pick it up there and take it with them? Because if I’m not mistaken, those cities predate the church presence.

As an aside, generally all of the Iowa cities along the Mississippi have astonishingly good grids and urbanity despite giving the feeling that they are part of America from long ago (the Illinois side too - go visit Quincy IL sometime). Burlington even has their own crooked-road-on-steep-hill, built 30 years before Lombard Street

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_Alley_(Burlington,_Iow...
Have you giving your writing to people to see if they want to read it?
https://archive.ph/gQdUD
After the Las Vegas massacre, a lot of hotels will enter even if house keeping is always declined.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/las-vegas-shooting-hotels-revis...
I don't see how that's a Lightroom alternative. It would take forever to process a batch of RAW photos that way if it is more than a couple of photos. I'm also confused how Apple Photos would know what adjustments you made to the RAW in an external program, or how you would go about exporting non-RAW files in this scenario.

Something like Capture One is much better suited as a replacement for Lightroom. I wish that Apple had a Lightroom alternative, but they got rid of Aperture, so... they're probably not interested in competing in this space again any time soon.
Spring sorta became what it was trying to replace: Heavyweight Mainframe-like app servers.

CDI took the good ideas created in Spring framework and distilled them. Plenty of CDI based options these days; Quarkus being the frontrunner.
Well she’s agreed to plead guilty so she definitely wasn’t granted immunity...
I was trying to find some way to explain to people why google results used to be good (back in the days when signal to noise ratio was much better) and now are crap (combination of endless social media, marketing blogs, etc, and of course google's own need to generate money and hence pushing sites/advertisements to the top). I think you've captured it very succinctly. SEO'd to death, stealing this, thanks!
Status makes heavy use of Nim in production:

https://github.com/orgs/status-im/repositories?q=&type=all&l...
I remember programming in Ada in my undergrad years and using exceptions for control flow was a common idiom. It was only later and in other languages that exceptions were treated purely as error conditions. Using exceptions allows you to separate corner cases from the normal logic. This was very clean -- not ugly as the author infers. His example is ugly, but is a straw man example.
given some of her tweets and blog posts it seems chronic stimulant abuse is what did their thinking for them.
>I am, in fact, polyamorous.

Sometimes life imitates memes.

>Do you find that funny?

Damn, three jokes!
It is a funny thing. This was during the big push for everything Smart phones, apps and viable streaming changing tastes and the domination of social media. That combo simply knocked it off its pedestal in no time.

The technical legacy of Flash made it a poor fit for touch screens. Apps filled that void with astounding speed.

This part is just a vague opinion I am riffing with - With mass available video, a ocean of video content may have changed tastes enough that the demand for interactive content diminished somewhat. Social media also killed of the dedicated website for a lot of places that used this technology and thus the demand for this stuff.

Once Google via Chrome closed the Flash hole, I do wonder if they will ever let anyone else to try and get in on that space? Time will tell.
I’m one of these newbies, who want to learn vim but already have experience with other IDEs. Having a project with sensible defaults like lvim is a great starting point for me. I just can’t go through learning/configuring everything from scratch in my daily business. With lvim I already have the features I depend on in other IDEs ready to go. So I “only” need to learn vim core editing syntax.

Reading the help does not help all the time when starting from scratch even more for non native English speakers
Thus we're a long way from the "most of them" I was replying to. Unless you're claiming that a majority of people hold a significant amount of Pfizer stock, I don't think we're disagreeing here?
Never said they were independent, I said the conversation was about curriculum and not church scandals.

Additionally, although I don’t have the statistics, it would not surprise me one bit if pound for pound, Catholic schools were indeed safer school options for the students than a public schools despite the scandals in the Catholic Church.
Same. I'd love to ditch my old ass copy of Photoshop CS6. It doesn't really support high DPI scaling anymore so it's really a pain to use sometimes.