skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is true, but why should I care what philosophers have to say about truth and existence? Math and science have plenty to say about truth and existence without philosophy's help.

> You might call that philosophy, but that's just a semantic argument--it can just as reasonably be called math or science. Calling it philosophy is just a way for philosophers to try to get people to listen to their baseless opinions about fields they haven't gained expertise in. If I want to know what truth or existence mean in math, I'll talk to a mathematician, not a philosopher.

Well think about this, is this really possible what you are saying?

I'll submit either truth is a definition, or it must be derived from something (like mathematics or science). I'll omit things like innate knowledge and messages from God as explanations for how we know the nature of truth as they're a bit sketchy from a scientific perspective.

If it is a definition, then the mathematicians and scientists are also spouting "baseless opinions" along with the philosophers, and trust me, everything the mathematicians and scientists said came out of a philosopher's mouth first, probably hundreds of not thousands of years ago.

If you somehow set out to derive the meaning of truth through mathematics (or science), then to avoid assuming what you're setting out to prove, your derivation must contain no truth.

> Is it? What are some other ways of interpreting results?

Sure. There's about as much basis for a material assumption as an idealistic one. The only difference is whether you're willing to assume, with ability to verify or falsify, the notion that an objective reality exists. This is of course a popular thing to believe, but it's ultimately an article of faith.
I also had some trouble with BIOS flashing on my Gigabyte X670 motherboard. I can't remember the specifics but at one point my display output stopped working so I tried to update with BIOS flashback since the update was supposed to improve memory stability. The first attempt failed. The flashback light stopped and I waited several minutes. A second flashback attempt worked. Pretty nerve-racking because they tell you to never ever ever interrupt the flashing process.

The X670 platform was a bit under-baked, in my opinion. There were a lot of strange issues, especially with memory reliability. It took until a BIOS update in January for me to be able to reliably run at DDR5-6000 CL30 with a memory kit that was on the QVL and was marketed as EXPO AMD Compatible. Yes, it's AMD's first iteration with a new socket and DDR5 but meanwhile Intel has been running reliably at DDR5 7200, and AMD still can't do that. Leaves a bad taste in the mouth especially when $250 is now "low-end" for AMD motherboards.
One of the best rock tunes ever written, "8675309 Jenny Jenny" was a blazing meteoric hit by a band that produced few others:

Rendition of the song (bet you can't play it just once):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boaJCrHNRMA

Story of the song (along with a history of problems/facts about the phone number itself before and after the song hit):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny

The band:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Tutone
At that point they might remember they have 20mm gatling cannons on the F16 and F22. Not as cool or long range as missiles, but I imagine significantly cheaper to fire in short bursts.
That is incredible. I guess PWA is getting closer to success.
TV detector vans are a myth
> Half the people took him credulously.

I get that the current US president is senile. But that sets a low bar. Why do we need to pretend something is good if it’s as shitty at facts as some people? People want something that’s better and more trustworthy.
Right, but that’s not definitionally distinct from an accused murderer who skips the country. No one would use the term “exiled” in that case, even if they believe the accusation unjust.

The only reason to use “exiled” is to imply that Snowden is in Russia (or at least outside of the US) by someone’s choice other than his own. That’s what’s misleading about it.
With root its possible.
Many most of your comments are dead, ahoya. Not sure why, didn't see anything wrong with them.
I recently came across an amusing connection [1] to Bernstein's piece and its highlighting of Joseph Alsop. The author of the following is Bernard Fall, who certainly is otherwise pro-West and anti-communist, later KIA while on patrol with American troops in Vietnam.

> [...] the American press gave a completely distorted picture of what happened in Laos in the summer of 1950, with the Washington Post and the New York Times being among the worst offenders. [...]

> Press dispatches bore such news as "Viet-Minh troops advanced to within 13 miles of Samneus city" (UPI), and even the staid British agency Reuters headlined on September 3 that "the Royal Laotian Army was today preparing to defend the capital of Vientiane"; while on September 5, an editorial of the Washington Post, citing the "splendid examples of alert on-the-spot reporting" of its columnist Joseph Alsop spoke of "full-scale, artillery-backed invasion from Communist North Viet-Nam." All this was just so much nonsense. [...]

> Two weeks later, the letdown began. Even the New York Times report in Laos, who, until then, had swallowed whole every press release circulating in Vientiane, noted on September 13 that "briefings have noticeably played down the activities of North Viet-Nam in the conflict. This led some observers to believe that Laotian political tacticians were creating a background that would soften the blow if the [United Nations] observer report on intervention by North Viet-Nam was negative." Indeed, the Security Council report of November 5, 1959, did fail to substantiate the theory of a Communist outside invasion of Laos. [...]

> There is, of course, not the slightest doubt that certainly North Viet-Nam and perhaps even Red China, gave military and political support to the Laotian rebellion. But their aid was in no way as overt as originally suggested in the alarming reports spread around the world by American press media, some of which went so far in their affirmations as to accuse almost anyone who doubted their stories as being either a blind fool or "soft" on Communism. Joseph Alsop's "Open Letter" to Henry Luce, the publisher of Time and Life (both of which refused to be stampeded by their less hard-headed colleagues) is a prime example of this attitude. [...]

> While the British and the French--whose sources of information in Laos already had proved more reliable the year before--awaited more hard facts to go on, Washington took up the cudgels in full, both officially and in the press. In a somber column, Mr. Joseph Alsop spoke of the "yawning drain" which Laos was likely to be engulfed in; compared the 1954 Geneva settlement to the Munich sell-out of 1938; and called our Canadian allies who had staunchly defended the Western viewpoint in the international cease-fire commission (the other members being India and Poland), "approximately neutral."

This was written in 1964, so over a decade before Bernstein's expose.

[1] Street Without Joy, pp. 331-337
If the changelog to my car's safety critical system was limited to "misc bug fixes", I would never touch it again. Either have extreme transparency into the system, or don't have the system.

I leverage this complaint against my own car. The AEB radar just stopped passing start up self tests for a while, and I had no idea why, and could not find out without going to the dealership. While waiting to be able to do that, it started working again. I don't consider it a backup, or a helper or anything. It's an independent roll of the dice for an upcoming crash that I already failed to prevent. If it does anything in that case then that's probably an improvement, but I don't exactly trust it to save my bacon.
This looks extremely useful! Thanks a ton.
> Space: + Brew. Both waste it with their poor package repository architecture, but with Brew you can at least delete the repo after the first install and use their API to download updates.

BTW, with this release the Homebrew uses the API by default and doesn't clone the repos unless necessary.
AI Search Is a Disaster
For sure. There's a lot of bad customer service out there that is functionally equivalent to modern AI in that it's poor pattern recognition plus no real understanding plus cobbling output together from existing text of varying relevance.

But sadly, that may be evidence that there's a market here. If Amazon can cut support costs by 80% and only moderately worsen their already bad quality, some execs would consider it a success, not a failure.
How to add two whole numbers is not a question of philosophy.
Iteration via adding more test cases... Sounds like hell, I'd find a new job.
Because having boot menu for stuff like older kernels, recovery mode, and access to kernel command line is pretty useful.
Tell HN: My Vercel costs are exploding due to an infinite loop
https://udayton.edu/udri/news/18-09-13-risk-in-the-sky.php

Thats just a 2lb drone and it rips into the leading edge of a small craft, imagine at 500+ mph.

Another good example is the Columbia disaster; it was just a piece of foam
Data Visualization with Plotly and Dash
In this Project I wanted to accomplish an added interactivity by using locations on choropleth map as Input to the call back function so that whenever a user clicks on a map the rest of the charts get updated accordingly, this is an extremely important feature in data visualization, we see in my Microsoft power bi, Business intelligence analysts need this feature the most , points on the map such as locations codes are used as an input to to the call back function in this way :
in this case we use map as input and the component property here ‘clickData’ and the output is the chosen data in a form of a children that will go into html.Div, the function uses these two to filter the data based on the clicked location
What's to stop a landlord from turning a floor in his apartment building into a chicken battery farm now?
Does being overweight make you feel fat already?

The biological imperative to eat so one can continue to survive is deeply rooted in the subconscious of most beings. On average, a tight-fitting garment will not be sufficient to offset the imperative any more than a chastity belt can quell sexual urges. With that said, for any single particular person it could have the desired effect depending on their unique characteristics and mentality.

We also live at a fortunate point in time where relatively safe prescription appetite suppressing medications exist for those blessed (or cursed) with excessively efficient digestive systems.
Yeah, well. Some of us are kind of fond of evidence and not just vibes.
You would have sentences like "a reflex agent reacts without thinking" and then an example of that might be "a human who puts their hand on a stove yanks it away without thinking about it" and this is rational because the decision problem doesn't call for correct cognition - it calls for minimization of response time such that the hand isn't burned.

We have to be specific about what we're discussing. The human reflex to pull away from a hot stove serves the human, the human gets a benefit from the reflex in the context of a world that has hot stoves but doesn't have, say, traps intended to harm people when they manifest the hot-stove reaction.

Some broad optimization algorithm, if it trained or designed actors, might add a heat reflex to the actors, in the hot-stove-world-context and these actors might also benefit from this. The action of the optimization algorithm would qualify as rational. A person who trained their reflexes could similarly be considered rational. However, the reflex itself is not "rational" or "good" but simply a method or tool.

Which is to say you seem to be implicitly stuck on a fallacious argument "since reflexes are 'good', any reflex reaction is 'good' and 'rational'". And that is certainly not the case. Especially, the modern world we both live in often presents people with communication intended to leverage their reflexes to benefit of the communicator and often against the interests of those targeted. Much of it is advertising and some of it is "social engineering". The social engineering example is something like a message from a Facebook friend saying "is this you? with a link", where if you click the link, it will hack your browser and use it to send more such links as well as other harmful-to-you actions.

It seems like your arguments suffer from failing to make "fine" distinctions between categories like "good", "rational", and "useful-in-a-situation". They are valid things but aren't the same. Analogies can be useful but they aren't automatically rational or good. You begin with me saying "this isn't inherently good or rational though it can be useful-in-a-situation and you think I'm saying analogies aren't good, are bad, which I'm not saying either".
Transmission outside of unlicensed bands requires a license, amateur radio has a license requirement to teach responsibility and proper clue, which isn't a bad thing per se
Our world is insane.
Relax.

AI assisted programming is brand new.

It's just the start. So if it gets things wrong, is missing features, annoys people, remain cool, gigantic leaps are coming far beyond your wildest dreams.

And there will be lots of people around right now showing how smart they are by making AI do wrong or silly things. Ignore them - none of these prove that AI is the wrong direction.

AI programming is the single most exciting thing to ever happen to programming - a permanent mentor and pair programmer at your side levels up every programmer in the world.

Even more exciting is innovations that are a direct outcome of AI assisted programming.

When the world wide web first came along, everyone made a website that was like a company brochure. That was Web 1.0 and that's all people had the imagination for. In time, the usages of the web started to arrive that leveraged the core values of the technology, such as interconnection between people. That's where AI programming is now.

We are at AI 1.0

Programming models will come out that are primarily oriented to the strengths of AI programming - but first someone needs to think them up. And they will not only be surprising but absolutely mind blowing. It's entirely possible that in the future the entire internet has an AI sublayer that does all the work of systems talking to systems and people simply don't have anything to do with it. It's possible that the nocode movement is the foundation of the next great innovations in programming. Existing programming models are like the company brochures of web 1.0 - our old, hard, human centric way of doing things.

Programming literally should be as easy as talking to the computer and telling it how to shapoe and change the software and it should happen right there in real time on your screen. It should be an iterative, interactive process that anyone can do. It should be more like painting and less like arcane wizardy that can be performed only by the programmer priests who have spent years learning. Even the most advanced software should be capable of being built this way.

In the 1980's I worked for a startup company run by a super smart guy Peter Dunai, who once said "a revolution in programming is coming". I thought I'd seen that revolution already with the Internet, modern programming languages and StackOverflow, but now I realise none of that many anything compared to what the true revolution is going to look like.

AI 2.0 will come and I can't wait.
Heh, I should develop a tools searches for the first SO response with code and then check to see how often that response contains a security flaw.
Especially infill. There are no endangered animals living in SOMA.
I am not saying that no marketing campaign works, I am saying that not all of it is effective, and that companies should be at least interested in finding out whether their own marketing department is helping the business.

I don't understand how anyone takes "email click rate is high" as a definite signal that the whole effort is beneficial and worth the money.

This is similar to hiring a cloud team and getting reports that "CPU utilization is high" across the VMs. Of course using the cloud makes sense for a variety of companies, but if this is the only metric you use to know whether your cloud team is beneficial to the business, you really have no idea.
Seems like it. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LILO
That wouldn't be it
One interesting bit from a different 3rd party study:

> Cambridge Mobile Telematics also found that people driving Teslas were 21% less likely to engage in distracted driving with their phone in their Tesla compared to when they drove their other car.

Maybe the software integration helps avoid this? Lots of other cars have much more complicated interfaces to hook up calls and reading texts. My mom struggled to figure out her car even supported Android Auto.

It might just be it's a higher end car, but they didn't see it for an EV Porsche

> These findings include an analysis of Tesla drivers who also operate another vehicle. These drivers are nearly 50% less likely to crash while driving their Tesla than any other vehicle they operate. We conducted the same analysis on individuals who operate a Porsche and another vehicle. In this case, we observed the opposite effect. Porsche drivers are 55% more likely to crash while driving their Porsche compared to their other vehicle.

The reduction in speed is likely influenced by automated driving, especially considering how fast a Tesla car can accelerate vs normal cars:

> They were 9% less likely to drive above the speed limit.

https://electrek.co/2022/05/27/tesla-owners-less-likely-cras...
It absolutely matters for cognitive ability. You might be reading the equivalent of children's books, but if you can't understand the deeper message, you're going to have a very hard time telling right from wrong.

The analogy I use for software developers is that the difference between a jr and sr developer is that a sr can evaluate 5 different database technologies and choose the right one based on the current use case. A jr developer chooses whatever is trending on hackernews.
What percentage of that trash is scientific experiments?
Yep, AI is crypto/DeFi/blockchain/NFT 2.0
What's the problem with that though?
The entirety of my knowledge about CTSS is from Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution which, being a book about a bunch of misfits that hated the cloistered culture of IBM computing, wasn't complementary. ITS (the Incompatible Timesharing system) was also developed with help from Project MAC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Compute...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompatible_Timesharing_Syste...
Google is 5$ per 1000 queries. I'll likely be switching. https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview
The GDPR applies to anything that collected PII about EU citizens.
It's interesting that Hillel, a huge formal methods and specification advocate, sees this as a proofreading problem and not a specification one. I can't say I agree.
And it’s transported as a liquid in rail cars, so that 20,000 gallons of liquid turns into many many more gallons (lol) of gas.

Why not use mass? The reportable quantity is 1 pound.
youtube has run its course. it's basically a medium for corporate (read: tv). everything can be disabled and, most importantly, dislikes are globally disabled.

It says Mohan launched 'youtube music' and 'shorts' et al. well, youtube music killed google play music, so not a fan; and shorts are the most recent annoying unfilterable addition to youtube.

ah well.
Totally agree, the people who think we're living in the matrix, all atomic minds plugged into a made up reality haven't thought about the problem enough.
> this should be an extremely rare occurrence

I think this dramatically overestimates the levels of perfection in airline IT.

> Customers won't be able to call Duffel but can get in touch with the merchant that sold them the flight.

Who can take what action to fix the problem?
By default, Homebrew requires world-writeable location in the PATH (doesn't matter if it's /opt/homebrew or /usr/local). In my opinion, this isn't a sensible choice.

Homebrew, as the name implies, was built for hobbists with little regards for security. Not a problem for many, but it does make it incompatible with a corporate environment.
Unless you are in the EU, where it's illegal thanks to GDPR.
I haven't had much luck using these AI's past surface level stuff.
When one becomes more focused on what to call something because that thing might be offensive or "exclusive", one has lost the entire point.
Youtube Vanced does a good job at blocking most ads, and the latest version has a feature that attempts to skip sponsored sections on videos. Well worth trying out.
If you want to put in the minimum effort you’re going to want to stay at big corps.

If you want to be a little IC cog in the machine and build what you’re told, stay at big corps.
Inaccuracy is inaccuracy no matter in which direction. If an outdated law made it easier for Tesla PR to spin something in a positive light, would you consider that an issue?
The remaining two ballons were from a birthday party in Sitka, AK.
You don’t need a boot manager for that except the one built into your motherboard.
I mean specifically the ability to prompt to install a site as a PWA. If they add such a prompt, then you no longer have to go to the trouble of having an app before bugging the user to install your "app". That barrier's the only thing that keeps the "THIS IS BETTER IN THE APP" spam to a tolerable level, as it is—and only barely.

> And there's honestly not a lot of reason for most apps to be native apps at all except that:

Battery life and performance. Except for the ones that shouldn't be apps of any kind, whatsoever, but just websites, which is admittedly a lot of them.
We prioritize other things, like military spending, over teacher salaries.
>Apple products are good but not unique. Plenty of alternatives exist.

It's less about Apple and more that I need to be able to stably/reliably run Adobe Premiere, FCPX, DaVinci Resolve, and more + plug-ins
There is no way to know what it is exactly until you shoot it down.
MTG got where she is because she's a representative from a small, hard red district. The whole country could absolutely hate a representative and it makes no difference because it's the populations of those small districts that vote.
> Google to understand my confusion and endless ads thrown my way,

Another reason why Google is terrified here. Search is per query cheap. GPT isn't.
It's easy, but before you leave, remember: there are very few things in life that matter less than adtech. You will find no shortage of stress and pressure in any field, including ones that pay much less.

First, make sure you don't have too many personal belongings in the office. There's always a chance they'll walk you out of the building on the spot.

Second, tell your manager that you think it's time for a change in your life, and you plan to move on from the company. Your manager probably has an "unregretted attrition" target, so they're unlikely to object to a 2-week notice period if they aren't spiteful.

You will take a big salary hit - make your peace with not owning a downtown penthouse by age 40 - but you probably have enough of a cushion to spend 6-12 months taking stock of your life and goals.

It's not so bad.
You mean other than practical, financial, and agricultural obstacles?
This is good new to people I know at work, for me since at work I use Linux it is a non-issue.

People on MACs need to have 1 proprietary application that is only partially works on MACs (& Linux). So that will make the MAC people happy. On Linux I have a Windows VM in case I need to use that feature.