skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hunh. I think some people call this "testing their priors." In Pi (1998), there's a lot of "... restate my assumptions: One ..." as the narrator strives to correct his thought processes. I recollect a short horror story in which a man becomes obsessed with "doing away" with more and more of his life he deems truly unneeded (it may have been named "To the Bone," it has been a few decades). In the harder sciences, whatever is accepted as the "the truth" is only a working model, hopefully to be replaced by something better when experiments point toward some flaw.

It involves a lot of the ability to confront the Sunk Cost Fallacy and a bit of whatever it is where you see people unwilling to let go of something which inadvertently traps them.

I try to do this, frequently, as a kind of back-tracking when I am stuck, or simply when I suspect it. However, I think it's probably a bit dangerous to get into a habit of it, or to apply it very broadly. The dead and the unborn need nothing, and one is ever in a state of moving from the latter to the former, without a way to take anything with you when the journey is done. Perhaps an addendum to "nothing is true; all is permitted" might be another semicolon and "everything is unnecessary."
the point is the lack of control of your credentials if OIDC takes on instead of OID.

if you log in with your github credentials and elon musk buy github and ban all the red heads, you just lost your accounts on azure, ping, octa, etc.
For a modern system like Wayland or WDM, the display compositor gets rectangles of pixels from the applications, copies those into a big rectangle it sends to the rasterizer. Just before it does that, it draws on a mouse cursor. It also has to communicate with the applications about what image to draw so you have to deal with multiple threads no matter what.

(Unless you go back to the late 8-bit era where the cursor might be a just a hardware sprite that can be moved around by writing a few bytes.)
They should have bugged the house, but avoided the presence of a crew.

It would have been most interesting to add a group half boys half girls. I hear mixed groups display better natural behavior.

Pirates and all boys. Girls alone lead to Pussy Riot. Only a mixed group can evolve to civilisation! ;-)
Back in those days, I assume the population had no clue. But the conservative establishment in government certainly did. I was a Democrat in the 80's, 90's, and 00's. I'd like to think that I would have been one in the 50's given all that was going on.

Today, of course, I'm a committed independent because of the unfortunate path the Dems have taken.

> Because it seems that you are saying liberal activists and organizers of today are co-signing the FBI’s psychops for political gain. If true that seems fringe, not mainstream but I could be wrong.

Most of what I've seen from the political left since the Twitter files and the removal of Trump from Twitter has been justification for censorship and heavy handed actions from federal agencies. Doesn't seem fringe at all. The principled position of civil liberties, free speech, etc, is all but extinct among mainstream Democrats.

As for your last point, I agree. But that's very much not the argument GP was making.
> If you've ever been to a kid's recital and all the pieces sound awful, it's not because they can't play their instruments, it's because their teachers taught them the mental habit of stopping when they made a mistake

Professionally I’m a collaborative pianist. My job is accompanying pre-college instrumental students in auditions, recitals, master classes. Trust me, there’s a near infinite variety of ways to sound awful, only some of which relate to the mode of practice you describe. (Stopping on mistakes is not an inherently bad thing, but it does require that you consciously reintegrate it, which most students do not do.)

I do agree with the observation that some of these problems relate to playing in isolation. This is true of the vast majority of piano students, most of whom will never in the course of their training play in chamber music settings, or even accompany others. This is a very neglected area of piano pedagogy. It also relates to the great difficulty of most chamber works for piano. There’s practically nothing out there for piano trio (piano, vln, cello), quartet, quintet, etc that’s not a RCM grade 10++ difficulty. By the time students reach this level, the rhythmic/collaborative horse is out of the barn.
I feel for you. Let's hope you don't think the same thing six months from now because it can go a lot lower still. $124 right now and still dropping steadily.
This makes sense. And the game sounds really interesting! What is it called? I may try it out.
Does anyone have any experience integrating Inform into something like a C++ based game as a rules engine to add emergent complexity for objects/interactions/dialog?
The effect is certainly debatable but all the social media sites report regularly report shutting down foreign networks.
> A very simple distribution solution therefore is to stop privileging capital gains and tax all income equally. But of course this has been considered and hasn’t gained traction.

A reason why it hasn't gained traction though is that wealth doesn't just give you buying power but also political influence. So especially those who already have excessive wealth would be in a position to block such a measure.
Yea, I’m also confused, Azure/Microsoft has the multiple redirect URLs feature the author mentioned in addition to not having an arbitrary user limit.
Suit jobs are only highly regarded amongst a subset of the population. I think the more you understand the realities of those jobs, the less appeal they have. There's also certain personality types drawn to those roles which isn't attractive for everyone.

I used to look at engineers and think I missed out by not going down that road. Fast forward a few years and it turns out most engineers I talk to see the tech industry as being a much better draw (higher salaries, more jobs, etc).
Another solution is for the fed to stop pumping the stock market for the last 14 years like crazy and offering free money to the finance sector.

Frankly blaming actual entrepreneurs and business owners for the gains in the stock market is such a misguided target it’s insane. The only reason Musk, bezos and others have gotten so insanely rich recently is because the fed had increased its balance sheet by about $8trn. That money went somewhere.

But it’s not because of “rich people”.

It’s because a bunch of bankers destroyed the financial system in 2008, got bailed out, and never got criminally charged. It’s absolutely insane and it’s fuelling this completely misplaced neo Marxism.
I'll give you one further - a college professor/trans activist insisting biological sex doesn't exist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10fDRERJh4w
I choose to decline your offer.
> Given the prevalence in the real world of scams and fake ads - is there a danger that hiding them from people just means that they are more likely to fall for them when the inevitable happens.

Strong disagree. Once you've avoided ads for a while, the ads that do slip through seem bizarre and flagrantly manipulative. Ads work best on people who are accustomed to ads, to whom ads are normalized. Once you denormalize ads, they become less effective because their manipulative nature comes across plain as day.
The cost of hiring people to get around regulations so you don't have to waste your own time doing it is trivial to someone extremely wealthy. Those things really are not deterrents at all. They'd only work on the upper middle class, meaning we'd end up in the exact same situation we're in right now. If you can pay someone to make a problem go away then the very rich are going to do that almost 100% of the time.
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Lemeno itself I'm using for 2 years already. It's great to save your time daily. You should follow only accounts you really care.
This is a nice concept, but I owned more than one Android phone that would ignore the battery optimization settings and kill the applications anyway.
I'm open to any and all ideas when it comes to consciousness because I haven't heard a satisfactory explanation for it
Collectively held norms and expectations are commonplace across cultures, otherwise how would we effectively cooperate? They are kinda like protocols. There are many ways to raise people to uphold those sets of customs without falling into the domination and homogenization traps.
Not only was it very American in 1925 (perhaps Mencken wondered why a fish would write such cardboard about water?) but it still is.

Very few days go by when the HN Front Page does not remind me of Jay Gatz:

Gatz' schedule:

Rise from bed..................................6.00...........A.M.
Dumbell exercise and wall-scaling..............6.15 - 6.30...."
Study electricity, etc.........................7.15 - 8.15...."
Work...........................................8.30 - 4.30....P.M.
Baseball and sports............................4.30 - 5.00...."
Practice elocution, poise and how to attain it.5.00 - 6.00...."
Study needed inventions........................7.00 - 9.00...."

general resolves:

No wasting time at Shafters or [a name, indecipherable].
No more smoking or chewing.
Bath every other day.
Read one improving book or magazine per week.
Save $5.00 [crossed out] $3.00 per week.
Be better to parents.

Edit: and compare the reference made by the book Tom Buchanan was reading with our spate of anti-woke tweets or "replacement theory" videos, and you will have a good idea of the amount of technical and moral progress the US has made between the 1920s and the 2020s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rising_Tide_of_Color_Again...
- Human beings cannot change sex. This is a scientific fact.

- There is zero proof of such a thing as a male of female soul. The soul is without sex or gender.

- There is zero proof of the concept of a woman trapped in a mans body, or vice versa.

What we're dealing with, or failing to deal with, is the onslaught of autism within the homosexual community, mixed with internalized homophobia and largely male sexual predators.

Having a law that says otherwise will NOT solve the problem and will simply make it worse. Scotland is about to find that out.
Not many people with 500 dollars invest it because they probably need it for essential things. Not to mention that the money you can get at 40 years doesn’t really matter too much when right now you can’t buy a house, even can’t pay your bills…
I used to work in the VFX industry, specifically DI.

However I can't find any reference to it online. There are loads of "degrain" workflows for things like nuke and AE, but thats not really the kind of evidence I would accept if I were you!
If you are happy with your own life, you can CTRL+W on this and all other navel-gazing internet fare.
If you’ve done all the standard stuff, clapping out beats, playing drums, etc and it’s not clicking. The best tool I’ve ever found is dance. Try to get him to learn how to move his body in time to music. Doesn’t matter what he’s doing or what kind of dance. Rhythm is something you feel.
Humans can juggle more than one responsibility. If the thing you don’t want is insidious, you better be doing both.
Well, for very young Japanese children alone, there's a show:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Enough!
https://www.netflix.com/title/81506279
The book’s great value is in dissolving rigid views of “the” scientific method. Feyerabend‘s simple challenge is: if you claim you have a model of the scientific method, I can always find a historical example of someone (Galileo, Einstein, etc.) needing to break the rules of that method to make scientific progress. That’s it.

I think it could have been written in a less provocative and eccentric way. Feyerabend had a certain rhetorical style that tends to get some folks unnecessarily riled up. Rewrite the core argument in a plain and simple way and I agree most working scientists wouldn’t have a whole lot to object to (remember Feyerabend was writing against other Philosophers). Some working scientists have been inspired by the book, though. Here’s a great quote from physicist Lee Smolin:

> What Feyerabend's book said to me was: Look, kid, stop dreaming! Science is not philosophers sitting in clouds. It is a human activity, as complex and problematic as any other. There is no single method to science and no single criterion for who is a good scientist. Good science is whatever works at a particular moment of history to advance our knowledge. And don't bother me with how to define progress — define it any way you like and this is still true.

> From Feyerabend, I learned that progress sometimes requires deep philosophical thinking, but most often it does not. It is mostly furthered by opportunistic people who cut corners, exaggerating what they know and have accomplished. Galileo was one of these; many of his arguments were wrong, and his opponents — the well-educated, philosophically reflective Jesuit astronomers of the time — easily punched holes in his thinking. Nevertheless, he was right and they were wrong.

> What I also learned from Feyerabend is that no a priori argument can tell us what will work in all circumstances. What works to advance science at one moment will be wrong at another. And I learned one more thing from his stories of Galileo: You have to fight for what you believe.
I'm willing to bet that the "survivorship bias" of old products narrative is being pushed by modern planned obsolescence companies; back then people were still figuring out how to make a successful company, and many companies believed that if you made a product that lasted forever people will tell their friends and those friends would buy their product and so they would be rewarded for a job well done, now there is not a single company that believes that, the results came in and economically it makes much much more sense to make stuff that breaks after a few years, so no; I don't buy for a second is survivorship bias, at least not in most applications.
And with the bottom dropping out of Tesla his problems are far from over.
It's not just them. I used to work for att selling phones, internet, and cable. I had basically 0 ability to tell you what your bill every month would be, just a estimate plus or minus 5-15$ or so.
> What blew me away is the idea that there can be a bug in something that is used literally everywhere all the time.

We've become so accustomed to computers being generally unreliable that I guess people see something weird and just reboot. We checksum, run reductant servers, and just generally tolerate and work around way more failures and weirdness than we should.

It's funny because we're theoretically an industry that could be full of maths and proofs but ask anybody outside of it and you'll get "yeah computers just don't work sometimes I guess that's how it is"
FTA: However, I quickly hit limitations with Freeflow. For example, rotating images and objects is not available

On iPad, you can use the familiar gestures to do that. I don’t have a Mac running it, but I would guess holding down some modifier key while dragging a selection handle would rotates shapes.

An indeed. A quick Google gives me https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/freeform/frfm220e044a/...:

Press and hold the Command key while your pointer is over the item’s selection handle, then drag to rotate.

Tip: As you’re rotating an item, press and hold the Shift key to have the item snap in 45-degree increments.
The tragedy of the artistic intellect and artificial intellect
The intersection of Fitzgerald and Faulkner is in the latter's comment on leaving his post office job, when he said he reckoned he'd be at the beck and call of rich folk all his life, but at least now he would no longer be at the beck and call of any SOB who had the few cents to buy a stamp...
Facebook and Google are riddled with ex-CIA agents, many ex-FBI work at Twitter
agreed. the most detrimental aspect, i found, was the bandwagon mentality that turned off individual skepticism for so many (including my spouse), so folks march together off into injury. Mentioning that professional athletes (NFL etc) who are multi million dollar assets to corporations don't do those workouts...just ignored.
In retrospect there's no doubt the evacuation was an overreaction. Of course, in the moment, it's a harder decision since you have to act on incomplete information.
There are ways to anonymize production data and make it available in preview and testing environments. My company has been doing that for customers and it has been effective. You get privacy-safe data that is still very close to production data.

Depending on the application architecture, you can spin up database containers and seed them with replicas of the anonymized data.
Yes, I think it was.
This is a great chance to give a shout-out to the Trade Journal Cooperative https://www.tradejournalcooperative.com/ -- not web sites, but it actually delivers paper magazines from interesting industry verticals. Everything from bowling alleys to semiconductors. Also, the covering letter from the editor is wryly observed and usually witty.
Sure, here's the Goodreads page: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63250637-the-anshar-gamb...

I'll probably write a blog post at some point covering the things I've tried, which is admittedly not a lot. There are vanishingly few free marketing channels, and paid marketing typically only makes financial sense once you've got at least a few books to increase your revenue per reader. Otherwise your customer acquisition costs exceed your margins.

If you're writing fiction, the best freebie I've found is sending advance review copies through Voracious Readers Only. They limit you to twenty without paying, but that at least got me a pair of reviews on Goodreads (sadly nothing on Amazon).

If you have specific questions, I'll answer them to the best of my ability. Whether you want to take advice from the guy who only sold ten copies is up to you.
Wi-Fi Could Help Identify When You’re Struggling to Breathe
> And IIRC, each Intel SMT (hyper-thread) unit has its on instruction pointer and (non-SIMD?) register set.

I believe the SMTs share the register rename storage, which I'd say is the register set more than the 'architectural registers'

But I'd say the reason they're not real is because they don't increase the maximum instructions per clock. With many loads, they do increase the average instructions per clock, but they don't let you do anymore work if you've got a fully tuned load that uses all the computing resources.
> in particular, its historically limited support for structured data within fields

This is not particular to SQL though, and is the rationale behind the first normal form. Codd argued that any complex data structure could be represented in the form of relations, so adding non-relational structures would just complicate things for no additional power.
> Using some older/unfashionable languages or maintenance-only frameworks indicates a lack of investment or interest in technology.

Not necessarily. Although many would consider C an older language, it's often the right language for the right job (e.g. network packet processing).
It really depends what his temperament is like. If he's like I was when I was young and is really stubborn, resistant to practicing stuff that matters in favor of stuff that's fun, and doesn't listen to your advice, then you'll probably need to find a local talented adult musician that he latches onto and hero-worships to teach him rhythm. I don't know what they'd do so I can't predict anything there.

If he listens to you really well and wants to collaborate:

1) You can play a lot of rhythm games all the time. Here are a few starter videos with source material to improvise rhythm games off of:

Rhythm Yardstick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sw_trDFJw8

Counting Lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dALpbzL7xqo

Counting to Seven: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njy7pMVKJ8Q

As a game for when you're waiting around with him in line or in the car or whatever, I also recommend challenging him to try to keep time differently with different limbs--can he tap quarters with left foot, eighths with left hand, halfs with his right foot, and the melody with his right hand? Can he cycle these responsibilities randomly on his limbs?

You can also play songs and challenge him to identify the time signature and count along to it, or sing the songs and clap along at the same time.

2) Listen to a lot of music together, and dance/snap/tap/head nod to the music. Really rhythmic music is good in this case--Irish, Bluegrass, Gospel, R&B, and Motown are typically the most exciting and danceable.

3) Play "call and response" improv games. Sit at the piano with him, play a jazz backing track, and play and sing him simple rhythmic phrases to play back by ear alone. "Quarter Quarter Quarter Dotted-eigth-sixteenth!" etc.

4) Get him drum lessons.

5) If he's totally rhythmically deficient, let him have piano as just a fun random hobby and teach him to fight instead ;)

The most important thing to remember is that a good sense of rhythm can take 5-10 years to really develop. It's more important to attack the same thing every day until it's really mastered than it is to press forward for unearned progress.
It depends on the company.

For software companies, sure! Unless you're in DevOps or DevTools then you're a cost center again.

For an insurance company or restaurant, not as much. It depends on where the flow of money is.

Things are changing though, so this is less true over time as software continues to eat the world.
I think ultimately the biggest problem science has is the type of thinking that fuel's things like "Occam's razor". It's the same reason why things like Euclid's 5th Postulate (the Parallel postulate) puzzled so many mathematicians for so many years. It wasn't till the 19th century that non-Euclidean geometries were finally considered, but it seems pretty obvious in hindsight given how rare flat 2d planes actually are in nature

The common metaphor given for Occam's razor is a field with some random dots plotted. Those points are "evidence" and drawing a shape around them is a "theory" or hypothesis. Then a shape that encapsulates those dots is said to be the most preferred theory when compared to something like a rabbit or some other arbitrary shape

But there is an inherent assumption there about what the plane looks like. It's entirely possible that the geometry on which those points of evidence lie actually lends itself to where drawing a rabbit around all those points actually IS the "simplest" assumption

The are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns. But there's a fourth category: ideology. The unknown knowns

In my view, it's this 4th category that ultimately dooms science. Science is ultimately cultural and there's no way around that. Our institutional science is always looking at analyzing outwardly: gathering more and more data; but just as important is analyzing inwardly. Being self-critical about our invisible assumptions.

We can never fully absolve ourselves of unknown knowns, but I do believe in a "more perfect" mission. One in which we always accept we're imperfect but working towards a closer vision. But to work towards this, we need to not only analyze the dots, but also the geometries on which we place those dots
>How does one JOIN across not just tables but opaque services

One solution we use is to have an event queue from service A to which service B is subscribed. In the event handler, service B fills its own view table with data from service A. And then it can do joins on data from multiple services because everything is in the same DB. We require services to always emit "created" and "updated" events for its objects.
Film Grain Synthesis for AV1 Video Codec [pdf] [2018]