skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article reminder me of this classic from 1994 by Steven Jay Gould, "Evolution as a fact and theory". [1]

I adore SJG but this is one essay where I disagreed. Actually started the first day of a research design course in a pretty heated debate with the dead wood professor where this essay was the topic of discussion, he couldn't wrap his head around taking epistemological or practical issue with the label of scientific fact and accused me of being a creationist. But I digress:

I don't see what use the word fact is except in a contextual sense. We have scientific observations, which are pretty close to facts, but they can still change when we later discover measurement error or similar. Everything beyond those observations is a matter of inference and I can't see how calling them a fact is useful beyond a term of convenience in the context of a dialogue where all parties are informed on the subject and can agree on something akin to the Gould definition:

> In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent."

Because you won't be convincing the unconvinced by calling something a fact, especially not in the post-truth era, so it's not going to turn creationists and will have limited use for public health messaging or similar.

[1] https://wise.fau.edu/~tunick/courses/knowing/gould_fact-and-...
How is the cantillon effect supposed to cause an exponentially and constantly increasing inequality? If I take you at your word inequality would be constant and never increase.

Also, proponents of the cantillon effect forget that people with money can do an inverse cantillon effect by withholding their money from the markets and then they can do a regular cantillon effect by putting their money on the market.

If we assume a positive return on capital aka a positive interest rate then inequality would rise simply because the wealthy have most of their consumption needs fulfilled already and then in the late stages of capitalism they would be the ones manipulating the cantillon effect because they act as a quasi central bank.
The American people of 70s didn't face violence, torture, and over a decade of prison for protesting.

It is not a fair comparison, the ship has long sailed for Russian protest movement, when rest of the world was turning the blind eye for the past decade.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1608419325706391554.html
> We still have sanctions against Cuba since 1962. No one even cares about Cuba anymore

That's not true. The sanctions against Cuba remain in place because a small but significant number of Cuban exiles care very much and they happen to be mostly concentrated in a swing state
Maybe the militant single domain focus posture is not driven only by personal values but has something to do with how organization pressures and rewards people? Chastising people for doing things out of the scope of their responsibility is a thing I hear.
I've found ChatGPT sober and neutral in politics, it you conduct the AI to an unbiased point of view through your questions. I've presented my ideas of building a multidimensional political model with many dimensions instead of a single axis political spectrum. It not only gave me answers out of the mainstream thinking, but it helps me to refine the model using some mathematical and philosophical concepts.
I am quite happy with my core i7 Thinkpad E580 maxed out at 32GB of ram on Fedora. Keyboard is nice, battery life is decent, screen is mat and availability of spare parts and I am quite confident on the availability of spare parts and batteries in the future. Lots of space with the nvme + ssd drives.
The issue with most personality tests is not their objectivity per se. It’s that most have provably none despite being extremely prescriptive, asserting they do state truth and being used by other to make decision about you as if they were truthful. It’s even more infuriating because actually valid personality tests exist but are not used because they are marketed less and are more nuanced in what they state.

There is a famous precedent for a divination tool becoming a major piece of philosophy through being commented. It’s the I Ching. If you read it, you will see that the predictions it makes are always very vague. The value is in the large body of interpretations which extract from the text and its symbolism some always applicable precepts.
It would be fascinating if we could get an AI that can only reply with conclusions based on empirical evidence. I feel that it would probably be called leftist, since more leftist viewpoints seem to be science based than rightist ones (especially in the US).

It would also confuse the heck out of people, because it will change its answers based on new evidence.
...and when you're intubated with an NG tube.
They bet on whether a horse or no horse has more legs, guy says a horse duh, other guy says haha but a horse has 4 legs and no horse has 5. This means horses don't have 5 legs so no horse has 5, but also taken very literally "no horse has 5" means no horse has more than a horse, 5 vs 4, so they win the bet.
I love postgrest, for a read only API it is saving me entirely from writing any backend code.

Today PRQL is on the frontpage, I wonder if postgrest could support it?

edit: PRQL compiles down to SQL, so it should be possible to use it for postgrest, it just adds an extra step
Thanks for sharing this!

I've had a quick look and it looks great for identifying where improvements can be made to content in your codebase.

I don't think it's suitable for my use case as the content will be in a database or localStorage, and it seems to only be able to recommend changes rather than dynamically make them. Unless I have misinterpreted things.
it was meant to be > 1, indicating that it’s multiple, ie more than 1.
Same for EN to DE - something about energy. Completely wrong, but with pictures!
Then they should ship those solutions with their products and provide support for it to end users instead of pawning them off to the curl team for support.
Note that clang's arm64 backend is faster, presumably because it has less optimizations than the x86-64 one. So even comparing clang on an intel mac and clang on arm64 mac would be skewed. You'd want to cross-compile on one of them for a better comparison relevant to CPU performance. There is still value on comparing native compilation, though.
> So, Apple recently stopped supporting the last version of OS X that would run on a 2012 15" retina MacBook Pro.

You probably can still run the latest version of macos on that model using OpenCore Legacy Patcher [1]. My only issue is while GPU works for UI, macos video decoding service (VTDecoderXPCService) seem to stop supporting the gpu on my model and do all video decoding with software decoder, which leads to increased cpu load whenever any app display any video (e.g. when the settings app show some video preview in the trackpad section).

[1] https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/
Thank you :)

The reason I don;t have that feature is because I only want us to feed right information to our brain. But I will marinate over your feedback :)

I will also keep adding different levels and words. Keep an eye :)
Inequality is actually highly inefficient because inequality allocates production away from the poor who have human basic needs and toward the rich who basically only have superfluous consumption left. You can't argue that these rich people invest in better things than feeding children or educating them.
Check your contracts with the publisher of your book.
How do you enforce the 1:1 relationship at the database level?
So, zoning laws and greed have negative consequences and someone is writing an article pretending remote work is something bad.

Got it, the writers have an agenda.
Agreed, I have a XPS 17 for work and don't like it.

The screen is very vibrant and the build feels solid but that's all the good things I can say about it.

Every two months it randomly reboots, which breaks the virtualbox install. The keyboard sucks, the touchpad is too big and 4x usb-c is not enough for serious computer users (welcome to dongle/dock hell), and what in the world was the thinking behind the flaky carbon fiber...
FancyGPT
Have you used any recent Lenovo?
You exchange work for money.
Some MBA thought.. why should experts just do what they're an expert in? They should do everything!

Why should generalists be so broad.. they should be an expert in some things!
And yet we’re remarkably good at it
Why are you using the electron app while you certainly already have a browser running ?
Which private payment methods does Kagi allow as a self-proclaimed "100% privacy-respecting search engine"?
Have you tried BritBox? Some of those shows are available legally on there.
Optimal inequality has a limit but people advocating for inequality don't think there is any limit. A single person owning everything due to a gene that increases economic performance by 0.01% above all other humans would be fair game.
Unfortunately I only know of one for my interests and that's because it's sport related so it doesn't need to be "intelligent".
That was a great read
>This isn't the final word on the subject, but it overturns the conventional wisdom that colonoscopy is an obvious win and worth all of the money, time, effort and pain we spend on it.

I'd posit that the one in 455 people who would die without a colonoscopy would disagree that colonoscopy isn't worth "all the money, time, effort and pain we spend on it."

I would suggest that you ask my uncle about it, as he didn't have a colonoscopy and was eventually diagnosed with stage IV colorectal cancer.

But I won't make that suggestion, as it wouldn't be worthwhile -- because he's dead. From colorectal cancer.

I guess that what one person considers a waste of money, time, effort and pain, another might consider a worthy investment.

Currently, colonoscopy is the only way to confirm whether or not colorectal cancer (and/or pre-malignant polyps) is present.

I expect that eventually, we'll have a test for colon cancer, similar to the (PSA[0]) blood test that helps diagnose prostate cancer. But until then, colonoscopy is the only way to identify colorectal cancers.

For your part, I hope you never get cancer and live a long, healthy, happy life. But if you do end up with colorectal cancer, I hope you've disabused yourself of the ideas you've expressed and get yourself tested.

Good luck!

[0] https://www.cancer.gov/types/prostate/psa-fact-sheet
We know that by 300bc at the latest that they had abacuses, so I imagine they used these
They do?

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ne...

But it's a big company, so presumably some team used curl for some project, leaked that in an error message, and whoever runs the Apple Support social media account apparently didn't know about that after someone contacted them about the error message. Or something like that, it's hard to figure out what was going on without more context.
I’ve hired plenty. They were sometimes the best engineers at my company, specifically at executing tasks that were very difficult but they were experts at, and others would have had to take time to spin up and learn the art.

The drawback was that they were pretty much only interested in that specialty. They might be curious about other things, but they were genuinely happiest doing what they loved.
"democracy"
"I couldn't accept it"

Why not?
Log4j would also be an interesting one there
Do you have some specific archaeological evidence in mind (that disproves the [Biblical/Torah?] accounts)?
Thanks for sharing! Checking out the links from your profile, cool stuff. Relevant to where I live, far inland from fresh seafood and in a similar climate zone. With YouTube's auto-translation I can even understand much of what is said in Swedish in the Johannas farm videos. Impressive operation.

One question about this video— at 1:46 the speaker says, "fish provide all the nutrients [for] our vegetables, which means we don't have to add anything artificial." Is this accurate? My impression was that aquaponics mitigates, but does not completely eliminate, the need for industrial fertilizers/nutrient solution additives:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGmJETrqzN4&t=1m46s

Another question— with aquaponics, how do you incorporate food waste into the circularity? Do you feed it to the fish, extract nutrients via an external physical/chemical process, or just dump it in the water and let it decompose? I've heard the latter approach described as "fermented plant juice", and its apparent simplicity is certainly appealing:

https://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc/freepubs/pdf/sa-7.pdf
Retailers Embrace “Inclusive Sizing”
> "from" should come first to help auto-complete

I may be in a minority, but I like the projection list being first in simple queries. To help with auto-complete just type the other parts first then fill in the select list after? This falls apart with CTEs though as they have to come first syntactically, so now they exist maybe at the end is the best place for the output list so it is easy to find in a complex statement.

> Many developers end up writing huge SQL statements

Compossibility can definitely be a significant problem with SQL. There are structures that can help significantly, views, CTEs, etc, but they all have either potential maintainability issues or potential performance issues.

Partly, from a performance PoV, this is an issue with the query optimisers. On the maintainability matter I think the syntax for CTEs and sub-queries generally could have been much better thought out – I've seen a few attempts to beautify (or replace) SQL that essentially amount to moving parts around so you can make CTEs & sub-queries look more like functions/procedures in imperative languages (transpiling the result back to SQL for submission to the database after).

> Regular programming languages don't require "query optimizers".

Because regular programming languages are “lower level” in that regard and require you to do that optimisation yourself. The point of a language like SQL is that you describe the shape and content of what you want and don't have to worry about the most efficient way to retrieve that information.

And come to think of it, many regular languages do have optimisers. Think of all the work a compiler is doing or the JIT compiler in JS engines and their ilk – they don't just blindly interpret each line of C/other into a distinct selection of CPU instructions. Consider declarative frameworks for those languages too, like many used for SPAs which deal with DOM manipulation optimisation for you, and the many attempts at no-code or low-code development solutions which seek to abstract such concerns away from the solving of problems that require programming (by doing what SQL attempts: trying to translate what you want, stated as simply as possible, into what is needed to do that efficiently).
I went for the T15 lenovo thinkpad. Great compatibility. Everything works using Ubuntu or arch Linux. Even finger print reader.
Furthermore, some wrong things are wrong in ways that are more interesting than others.

An excellent example is "Ancient Aliens"*. The show is wrong, to be sure, but very careful to make wrong implications with non-wrong claims. IMO it ought to be required viewing in all elementary schools.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm#Pa...

> Take the statement: "Harry said to me, he said, 'I never told anybody that Al's wife was a retired strip-teaser.' Mind you, I don't pretend to believe Harry, but that's what he said, all right." What are the possible true sources for the statement of fact or libel concerning Al's unnamed wife? What are the alternatives on ostensible sources? First use? Second use? The common sense needed to analyze this statement is of the same order as the process involved in analyzing the statement: "Reliable sources in Paris state that the visit of the American labor delegation has produced sensational repercussions in Moscow, and that Moscow, upon the basis of the American attitude, is determined to press for unification of the entire German labor movement."

* for those who have not seen it, each episode is a work of art, starting out with the uncontroversial, and ending with some wild hypothesis, with the "documentary format" hosts couching everything in impeccable language. A typical statement: "Ancient astronaut theorists believe X. What if it were true?"
You just have to be very careful with the algorithms in that paper, they had some serious problems (apart from their basic inability to deal with faster links). I like this old but fairly damning analysis from an early Linux TCP developer:

https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/tux/net/ip-routing/README.rto
Were the computers programmed in Forth?
I had an M1 and I know my current workstation is faster, but I didn't expect it to be that much faster. I have a 7950X TDP-limited to 105 watts (it hits it only when all cores are utilised), and it's 3-4x faster in curl compilation than what's on the site.
As long as it would be possible to send very small amounts of data, it would still be quite a big achievement.
Red and blue mostly I think, hence purple lights, and why plants look green and not black.

As I understand the variation in green light and it’s intensity mucks up photosynthesis, now if photosynthesis could be tuned to use green light too that would be handy, it’s just that evolution has a head start of billions of years.

Of course though eukaryotic cells run on mitochondria, if energy could be sourced to the cell to replace the chloroplasts directly that could be one way around. But denaturing food like that could have unforeseen consequences.

There was a Tommorow’s World item about making food from petrochemicals, I’m still aghast.
I was working a corporate job a few years back and I guess our boss heard about the benefits of "T-shaped" people / teams.

Anyway to improve productivity it was decided the whole dev team would participate in a half day training course about "T-shaped" people. It was your typical corporate training nonsense, a hour of watching videos, weird team activities including making animal noises with blindfolds on, playing with lego, etc.

The training was concluded by explaining we should no longer pigeon-hole ourselves to duties that fit our job description and if we have capacity in our sprint to pick up other duties.

The whole thing was a disaster. We had backend devs doing frontend development with jQuery when we were using Vue. Frontend devs started doing UX design and things looked like trash. QA was done by basically anyone so as you can imagine bugs started appearing everywhere.

I think this is one of those things that makes sense in theory, but is kinda hard to implement within a corporate structure. As a generalist and someone who came from a startup back ground, I used to find the way corporates pigeon-hole individuals into specific roles quite constraining, but I've come to appreciate that having experts and very explicit duties does make a lot of sense from a quality and accountability perspective. Smaller companies and teams can probably benefit from having their employees wear different hats, but in larger teams I think it's good to exploit the specific expertise of individuals as much as possible.
'climate denial'? what does that mean?

This large cohort of scientist are stating climate modelling data is deeply suspect.

'To believe the outcome of a climate model is
to believe what the model makers have put
in. This is precisely the problem of today’s
climate discussion to which climate models
are central. Climate science has degenerated
into a discussion based on beliefs, not
on sound self-critical science. Should not
we free ourselves from the naive belief in
immature climate models?'
> Speculation is an additional 50% or more will be resigning in light of the Twitter 2.0 ultimatum

what ultimatum ?
" Perhaps that group of human raters was not representative of the wider society and inadvertently embedded their own biases in their ratings of the model's responses. In which case, those biases might have percolated into the model parameters.".. Perhaps? Lol, I think its pretty clear the bias from American academics, and its sponsors like Microsoft, right?
Why is http linked? https is available.
> Seems I fork over two grand, wait a year to even get it

You are mixing Librem 5 USA ($2000, shipped within 10 days) and Librem 5 ($1300, long queue due to missing CPUs).

> and then instead of having any of the apps I want

All apps I want are there. My daily driver now. Which ones are you missing? Android apps can also work with Waydroid.

Apart from that, there is Pinephone, slower and cheaper.
That is not a normal reaction.
>One way you could get around this issue (although still not 100% foolproof) is browser fingerprinting. Your identity is the hash of your browser fingerprint.

Congratulations. You just conflated the user-agent for the user.

Stop. Doing. That.

People are flesh and blood.

Browser fingerprints are bundles of configuration and hardware quirks, that if we actually implemented browsers correctly, would not even allow you access to half the API's that are otherwise exposed without actively notifying the user and asking the user for permission while making it clear that most of said activity is essentially a way to offload computation burden for the "developer's" benefit.
> The [fMRI imaging] results showed more brain activation and connection during nasal breathing than during oral breathing.

That doesn't prove anything. Apart from the problems in imaging connections, there's no reason to assume "more brain activation" means better cognitive functioning. Perhaps less is better, since a faster processing leads to a smaller BOLD response. There are more useful statistics in the article: the error rate and the response time. It looks as if "oral" was a bit faster, and had more errors. That might be enough to explain any imaging difference.

Does it mean impaired cognitive function? Well, that would depend on how strong your a prioris are. Is there any reason to assume it does? If not, then this most likely is a chance result. Perhaps oral breathing slightly impaired vision in the scanner or interferes with motor skills. Or perhaps it's the plug in the subjects' noses. This study needs a lot of additional support.
I agree with the notion that technology should be used appropriately, but the issue seems to be corruption and that people buy into hypes and misallocate technology, not that the technology itself is useless. I am sure that some corrupt officials manage to overpay for sand in Sahara.
> then there is a moral duty to help out (not a legal or license duty).

May I invite you to descend off that hobby horse for a moment ?

Let us perhaps replace the word "Apple" with a variable parameter, say, $VERY_LARGE_CORPORATION

Lets say you turn up at said $VERY_LARGE_CORPORATION and start talking to them about something wishy-washy, intangible and wholly subjective such as a "moral duty".

You will be laughed out of the room.

Once a company grows to a size where employees are measured in the tens or hundreds of thousands then it is simply impossible to get involved in edge-cases and subjective matters. Everything has to be defined and measurable because otherwise the whole caboodle descends into utter chaos very quickly.
a.k.a. "extremely hardcore" Twitter[1]

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/17/23465274/hundreds-of-twi...
https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1592801188277538818
Why these vertical farms can not use a sunlight daily and a LEDlight nightly?
Even if the application is making 50 byte sends why aren't these getting coalesced once the socket's buffer is full? I understand that Nagle's algorithm will send the first couple packets "eagerly" but I would have expected that onced the transmit window is full they start getting coalesced since they are being buffered anyways.

Disabling Nagle's algorithm should be trading network usage for latency. But it shouldn't reduce throughput.