skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't say this is a strange argument, because it is not intuitive to many.

Entropy is mostly boring noise. What's really interesting is Chaos (the mathematical concept).

Things such as Turing machines, Cellular Automata (such as Conway's Game Of Life) and Actual Life are chaotic.

While Chaotic systems can be highly unpredictable, they are -in fact- deterministic.

For example -given the same seed- a Pseudo Random Number Generator will always give you the same sequence of pseudo-random numbers. But (for a good PRNG) if you give it some novel seed, you can't predict the sequence ahead of time; you have to actually run the PRNG to find out.

In real life, for a chaotic system like say -the weather on earth- , you're also going to have a hard time working backwards to find the original seed(s). Given a hurricane in the Carribean, good luck finding the original proverbial butterfly out of all the butterflies in China.

So in order to have an intelligent machine it actually needs to be highly deterministic. At the same time it will by necessity become rather unpredictable.
This is not immediately intuitive. But that's basically what all the hullabaloo about Chaos Theory was actually about in a nutshell.
Assault, camera or no, is deserving of a self-defense response. What if was a knife or gun, not a camera? They look similar. I'm not going to wait until I'm bleeding out to find out.
Anyone remember this? https://agilemanifesto.org/
I think this is copied from his 2021 Quora answer: https://www.quora.com/Should-web-browsers-have-stuck-to-bein...
I'm one of the 1.8 million.

I mean, yes, if loads of people are doing thing X, and suddenly a problem with thing X causes a bunch of them to do thing Y instead, then you would ordinarily expect some of the people who move from doing thing X to thing Y to go "actually, thing Y isn't for me" and either go back to thing X, or do something else entirely. This is normal! It would be _extremely_ weird if this was not the case; it's very normal for people to drop off a new thing.

However, the net effect has been that (a) Mastodon has gotten a lot better (it really didn't have enough people before) and (b) Twitter has gotten a lot worse (my Twitter account's now fairly dormant, but if I log in, the linear feed is pretty quiet, and the algorithmic feed is just _nonsense_).

It'll very much depend on how you use Twitter, of course, but, well, for some of us Mastodon is a big improvement; it's a lot more like how Twitter was in the noughties than Twitter is today.

The article in general has kind of a weird spin on it; the interesting bit, IMO, is the movement from under half a million active users (and note that that was _after_ a big influx in early 2022 when the whole Musk-Twitter thing got started) to nearly 2 million.
I would hardly call Rust slow especially for the kind of things you’d use a scripting language for, though.
Creative Commons also made the same change at about the same time. I wish I knew more about why exactly everyone did this -- I haven't been able to find contemporary discussions that are clear, although I suspect I just haven't looked hard enough.
Unfortunately, the current edition of Vampire kind of sucks because of severe mismanagement by Paradox Interactive (the current rightsholders).

By all accounts Vampire 20th Anniversary Edition by Onyx Path (a licensee of Paradox) is quite good, though, as is Vampire the Requiem (a reboot/variant gameline by Onyx Path, now mostly shut down by Paradox, designed around more modern gothic horror/mystery and less of VtM's 90s Blade vibes).
without evidence, the 30x30 initiative may in fact be a land grab by the militarily well-connected around the world. Public forests or public wetlands have never been "pure" conservationalist. It is too tempting once the doors close on the back room dealing.
When it comes to value systems that have stood the test of time and have well-understood failure modes vs. whatever hot new theory was cooked up on Twitter or Tumblr last week (the main vectors for recent moral changes in my country), I generally prefer the former.
That's different. That's one side of a trial practicing - presenting a case to a mock jury to see what flies and what doesn't.

What GP is asking for is a way to get an actual decision from an actual court, before it's needed.
> I don’t think Native Americans go by red or East Asian people yellow as well honestly.

You're wrong about that; the Chinese do refer to themselves as yellow. (It's not a native tradition there - it's taken from the old Western taxonomy. But it's still current.)
The text under the first chart says "Note: Renewables include all sources of wind and solar and excludes other forms of zero-emissions generation."
> Also, Dancey didn't issue the license, WotC did. Intent matters, so the WotC FAQ is relevant IMO, but Dancey's personal intent is irrelevant.

Dancey was the VP in charge of the product at WotC at the time. Obviously what he says is relevant because he wasn’t talking strictly in his name but in the name of the company.
Agree. The Audible versions of The Power Broker and the LBJ books have excellent narration.
Just for those curious about it:

$ ssh whoami.filippo.io

+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
| _o/ Hello! |
| |
| |
| Did you know that ssh sends all your public keys to any server |
| it tries to authenticate to? You can see yours echoed below. |
| |
| We tried to use them to lookup your GitHub account, |
| but got no match :( |
| |
| -- Filippo (https://filippo.io) |
| |
| |
| P.S. The source of this server is at |
| https://github.com/FiloSottile/whoami.filippo.io |
| |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+

Of course, this happens because the day I learned about the default behavior of SSH (to send all your keys in hope that one works), I went ahead to disable it to stop remote servers from being able to inspect all my keys. I feel this can be abused in a similar way that sites abuse browser information to fingerprint users. So I put this at the bottom of ~/.ssh/config:

Host *
IdentitiesOnly yes

And then I explicitly indicate what key to use for each server, either with the "-i" argument, or adding entries above the previous lines:

Host example.com
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/example.com.pem

Other commenter mentioned that something similar can be achieved with "PubkeyAuthentication no", but I've been using "IdentitiesOnly yes" for years without issue.
But equally you don't burn on for months in the wrong direction
Thanks for your answer, I appreciate it.

> In vajarayana, a monk could have sex with his student as a means of helping them. ... According to the historical Buddha, that person is immediately no longer a monk.

I don't think a monk would be able to if they're ordained and would similarly lose their status in most Tibetan lineages, but a ngagpa could. Doesn't mean it doesn't happen of course and there's definitely a lot of abuse happening. A teacher I took some karmamudra training from wrote a book about these topics that I found very interesting [1].

I'd love to read more about the atman/anatman contradictions, I'll have to do some searching -- thanks!

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40000465-karmamudra
That makes sense, but I'm pretty sure jwz was whining about his blog getting DDoSed not a mastodon server.
the insanity of US vs THEM blinding all other details
Yes, that's where the first link points, to where the discussion started on Quora, but it continued in the comments (which require a whole lot of scrolling and pointing and clicking to discover and read on Quora), over email, and on David Rosenthal's blog, so I thought it was worth putting the whole thread in one place, and updating the links.
Search unlocked the web and made it discoverable and navigable for most. For new federated services to be relevant, there needs to be some (hopefully a bunch of) ways to discover those piles of standards-based stuff.
TIL Google Search will OR up to 10 site:s.
That's what my mind also went to first upon seeing the title.
>I do very little on the web where I actually want there to be code running on my document.

Just some random examples, but how do you do your tax, pay your bills, buy/sell stuff online, make appointments etc?
If the film goes viral and that person has that is being filmed has to endure doxing, swatting and other forms of online abuse, then yes the cost could be too high... Frankly the person doing the filming should be asking permission before even filming... They are not treating the other person with any respect.
Fixing Python's “Cachetools”
Fixing Python's "Cachetools"

"Cachetools" has become a cornerstone of Python cacheing libraries, but it has a few issues:

1) LFUCache - Mountingly slow insertion times when the cache is full. When the cache is full and a new item is inserted, the cache automatically handles eviction of the least frequently used item. Under the hood, cachetools uses a
`Collections.Counter` object as it's interface to track item usage frequencies. When an item is evicted, Cachetools calls the `Counter.most_common()` API to retrieve the least frequently used item. This method creates a copy of the original underlying dictionary and sorts it by-key. Python uses `Timsort`, so this is a O(n*logn) operation plus copy overhead. When the cache is large, this results in concerningly slow insertion times. With a cache size of 16384, median insertion times are ~0.6 microseconds (1e-6). When the cache is full, P90 and P99 insertion times are 540 and 600 microseconds (1e-6), a ~90,000% and ~100,000% increase from the median, respectively.

To solve this, `cacheing` implements an LFUCache API with O(1) insertions, deletions, and gets using a doubly linked list in the backend. This reduced P90 and P99 insertion times by ~45,000% and ~50,000%, respectively.

2) TTLCache - This is a great time aware cache implementation. The issue is that it exclusively offers a global time-to-live binding for each item in the cache. If you have a use case requiring variable, per-key time-to-lives, this API will not work for you.

By using a sorted linked list and binary search insertions, the `cacheing.VTTLCache` provides variable, per-key time-to-lives.

The full project can be viewed here, along with relevant benchmark statistics: https://github.com/breid48/cacheing
I wonder how this works in the case of identical twins, in which a person could independently contract to distribute a likeness that was indistinguishable from that of the other person.
Because there are more than three collection types (Sets, Arrays, Maps) in rich static languages.

The ugly Kotlin syntax is of course just there to look different to Scala, where you would have:

Array(1, 2, 3)
Array.empty
Map("key" -> "value")
Maybe there will be a W3C spec for perf profiles. No js, no dynamic css, PDF life interactions. Maybe that is stupid, but with that information your browser can go into a different, near zero power, mode.
In regard to quiet quitting, the term is insincere and probably doesn't reflect changes that have landed at many companies, where basically the top management have decided if they are paying x dollars a day, they want to get every last cent worths out and rather than engage with the work force directly, have headed down a path by applying a formula some bean counter or consultancy firm has helped them forge. Of course having someone constantly busy might seem smart, but if the worker feels they are treated no better than a robot, no time for creative breaks, then pretty soon there's a highly dissatisfied workforce, only those who are working towards (with plans to) the top of the pile are really engaging.

It's rare (well for me) to walk into a shop and pay for milk and leave with an extra bonus flavoured milk as well ... or anything else, I get what I pay for. Sometimes people are nice and don't mind if they have time, to thrown in a little extra.

As for HR reaching out ... some people don't really express themselves well or have any idea what "normal" should be. There's a big risk bosses like to paint a entirely different normal. The young may not know any better, any one struggling and overwhelmed, couldn't or wouldn't really communicate this.

Sadly I was expecting the article to be a POV on those people who quit without fuss or reason.
FWIW, SDL has a geometry API now too. It's basic (and only good for 2D) but you can push triangles and textured quads without OpenGL.
> The problem is when housing prices are at an all time high and it's almost impossible to find somewhere to rent, even with money in your pocket (...)

I have to call bullshit on this one. A few years ago I moved to a different country and I had an awful time trying to find an apartment to rent. Between awfully expensive flats and squalors, I was forced to extend my stay at an hotel for an additional month. This all ended when I managed to land a flat in a airbnb-like service. It was cheaper than half the apartments I visited at the time, and right in the city center. I spent over a month in that apartment and eventually landed a decent long-term rental, but if it wasn't for the airbnb-like service either I would be forced to burn through cash to stay at hotels or settle with being exploited by abusive landlords. Midway through I even considered just sticking with the airbnb-like service even though I'd risk being out-booked.

Perhaps people like you could spend a minute thinking things through and consider why there is demand for offers somewhere between hotels and long-term rentals, which frequently are completely out of reach of those who have to move to a new city in a short notice.
There’s an obvious difference between “save two easy clicks” (node graph) and “save dozens to hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of awkward taps” (iOS copy/paste).

If you think this feedback is genuinely helpful and valuable that’s cool. All I can say is yikes.
As more applications migrate to xdg, I have simply taken to having my .config directory be a git repository.

Inside that directory I have a “dotfiles” subdirectory that has managed versions of my home directory dotfiles which I symlink in.
> but don't pretend the people engaging with the world are the problem.

They are not the problem, in my opinion, but they are also entitled to nothing that I do not choose to give of my own volition. Expecting a response, particularly a polite one, to an unsolicited interaction is on the same level of telling someone that "you'd look better if you smiled."

People are free to be in public but must also be aware of the consequences of their actions. One of those consequences may be that they are brusquely ignored.

If they want to be out in the world, go for it, but don't pretend the people engaging in their own activities are the problem.
As I recall, tons of this background on the geology and ecology of the Texas Hill Country is still in the book.
So what would your market look like?

What can Apple make? What must Apple buy from other suppliers? How much are investors allowed to punish Apple's stock price (like they are currently encountering https://www.forbes.com/sites/qai/2023/01/08/why-is-apple-sto... ) or can they buy everything a company produces? Are others allowed to buy a company that only has Apple as a client and raise the prices?

Can Amazon work at improving distribution center efficiency with technology that they create? Or must they buy it from someone else?

Must Google create a business unit to sell its highly customized routers?
Does it need to have a fancy name and can’t be some frankenstein process you set as you look at the team and address the part where they needs structure ?
That's the glory of web browsers: 1-click sandboxed installation of programs on demand.

This is incredible!

> enough maturity to implement essentially an entire operating system / virtual machine AS the browser

Yes, an operating system-- but one without user-facing persistence! Only per-application, networked, silo'd persistence, where the user sees a rendered form of data but not the data itself.

IMHO these two facts, that

a) Web browsers are BETTER than Linux, Windows, etc as an OS in a very important way, package management

and

b) They're missing one of the primary features of an OS, persistence

overshadow any other facts about them. What a strange tool they are.
Yes, there is consensus among major Christian denominations today - but is it in consensus with the teachings and the attitudes of proto-Christians? When you start reading up on early Church history, it's hard not to notice just how late many of the crucial doctrines show up, and how controversial they have been at the time they were introduced.
The technology already existed with the JVM, .Net, Flash, Silverlight, etc. It would just be a different runtime than the browser. Mobile app stores are that.
Chaosium's Basic Roleplaying uses their own rewrite of the OGL, which has a less trap-doored section on license updates: https://www.chaosium.com/brp-system-reference-document/
>don't commit for every comma

You think that lots of tiny commits, each providing an incremental, working improvement to the code is bad practice?
You won't believe this, but I was neither attacking you first time, nor "passive-aggressive" the second time. I asked a question I didn't know the answer of, and I wanted to read what you think I copied. I'll live without the answer.
What would be a more data-driven software development process, that’s backed by scientific evidence and is statistically proven?
Woah woah woah.

Hold up.

You mean to tell me that someone just pulled stories, story points, point poker, scrum, and the master of the scrum, burn down charts, spikes, iterations, sprints, and retrospectives ... all out of their ass?
I would suggest something similar. Read about permanent portfolios, i.e. investment strategies that balance different things that exhibit low correlation (e.g. stocks, bonds and real estate).

For stocks, an index fund is a fine choice, but I would invest progressively to avoid getting screwed up by wrong timing.

Another idea is to allocate a small part of your portfolio for a fund that has similar ideas to Universa Investments & Taleb, i.e. buys you insurance for tail events.
What’s your logic here? Negative real interest rates are artificially inflating the market?
Mastodon isn't a platform, it's a protocol, and all reputable instances block that sort of content.
The researchers did go through the proper channels, and were ignored.
Another example is Google Wave, which was also open sourced after it was shut down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave

https://incubator.apache.org/projects/wave.html

Apache Wave was retired in 2018, but the source remains at least.
You gotta be kidding me. President Bolsonaro opens his mouth and offends the entire nation by being an ignorant idiot, isolating himself politically in the process. President Lula opens his mouth and defends literal socialism, causing economic meltdown as a result. Stock exchange gets shorted to oblivion every time he makes a speech. USD-BRL exchange rates increase every time he opens his mouth, giving instant raises to any remote worker here getting paid in USD, at least until he regulates the software developer profession like he promised he would. Bolsonaro removed taxes on fuels to get prices under control, Lula added those taxes back in the very first days of his government, fucking over the very same brazilians who elected him. Of course the salary of brazilians has not increased to match, meanwhile these authorities give themselves 18% raises on taxpayer dime. The very first thing he did was revoke our right to own and bear arms. The government barely has any money to pursue its own social policies even after they voted to increase spending by 200+ billion over the budget, yet they created 10+ government agencies whose purpose is essentially to give positions and high salaries to their own political allies.

I wouldn't be surprised if we suffer hyperinflation in the next few years. We went through many failed government currencies last century, coins that literally inflated to zero, and I have to listen to some government economist telling the population he doesn't "believe" in non-governmental currencies like bitcoin. If you search "brazil" on HN, you'll find the top post is about the creation of the real which was nothing but yet another currency created to combat hyperinflation. Now they're talking about creating a south american currency like the euro because what we absolutely need right now is to conflate our currency with other south american nations in even worse economic states.

The only reason I'm still in this shithole is I don't have the heart to leave my family behind.
Hardly seems like it'd save any time if they would.
I blame the day that Mozilla trashed the end user principle and removed the ability to shut off Javascript from the preferences screen.
He's a major participant in the group that has 30 trillion reasons for you to keep focusing your frustration elsewhere.
If it's the epub passed around different corners of the web, then it's not worth sharing. The formatting is garbage. One is better off reading the book in print.
The full title is "Alan Kay on “Should web browsers have stuck to being document viewers?” and a discussion of Smalltalk, NeWS and HyperCard"

The first sentence is Alan Kay answered: “Actually quite the opposite..."

Looking past the poorly edited title this whole thing is clickbait answered with one question. No one really thinks all the interactivity we have in web pages is bad and implying that someone does for clicks is dishonest.
Young Portuguese have been emigrating for the last 50 years. The country is full of second residences, bought by people who took advantage of cheap real estate until recently.
Blaming today's inflation and cost of living on a few digital nomads or crypto people doesn't make much sense.

What also chocked me when visiting Lisbon or Porto is the number of old abandoned buildings in what I would consider nice areas. I have always wondered what was the reason for that...
I tried Amazon and Google Assistant devices, and I was unable to find a way to integrate my 20+ year old digital music library into either of them for free. What the fuck is the point of these assistants if they can only play popular music? Is this shit for the most boring people in the world?
Have you actually read any climate science, as opposed to political prattle about climate?

Do you really think climate change is intangible? Serious, detailed, empirical work done by tens of thousands of scientists, converging across 10s of different fields of endeavour, in hundreds of research institutions (private, public, profit, non-profit), in dozens of nations from communist to capitalist (many of whom consider each other adversaries, some of whom are literally at war with each other). All these people are conspiring to work on intangibles for profit? It's a miracle (quite literally, and I mean literally in the English sense of the word - 'actually the case', rather than the Internet sense of 'not literally').

Re your daft reference to the 'ozone hole'. The underlying cause of the was fixed by the Montreal protocol. It didn't 'evolve' to climate change. They are scarcely related. Do you know anything about any of this at all? There are books! There are articles! There is sci-hub if you want to check sources. It's all in the open for you to explore if you have the will.

Did y2k 'evolve' into React. What does all this nonsense even mean?

> al gore predicted we'd be already dead

Al Gore is a politician and businessman. What has he got to do with anything? Would you quote Michael Bloomberg if he said something silly about quantum physics as evidence? What on earth are you talking about.

Honestly climate change brings out the ridiculous in so many people. It turns grey matter to gruel. No wonder ecosystems are collapsing all over our one and only common home.