skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People on hackernews especially suffer from this because a lot of programmers tie their identity to being smart. Its the worst place to ask for advice against this because the people answering you are likely the most confidently biased people.

The happier and more confident someone is the more biased they tend to be.

The less confident someone is the less biased they tend to be.

Because you use the word "scared" I'm thinking you're not a confident person and therefore you're highly highly unbiased.

As a human, to live a happy life, we are evolved to be more biased then not. It is the cruel irony in life that your quest to seek the unbiased truth leads to less happiness.

I'm too lazy to cite this but there is actual research showing this. People who lie to themselves tend to be happier and more successful and people who are more honest with themselves... Tend to suffer from depression.

If you don't believe a word I say, then great, you're doing well. And you're really smart! Leave me a snappy reply showing how you disagree then go on and live your life.

If you agree with this post, then I'm sorry.
What does level 0 mean? Do you mean running WASM without any hardware isolation? Such protection that an operating system would provide as part of its process abstraction.
I think the fact that the oddest approaches work aren't exactly a measure of how the particles actually work in physics. I think it proves that math isn't the language of the universe no matter how much mathematicians and physicists want to say it is. It just proves we're good at modeling but not good enough to actually know what we're seeing/measuring (a natural limit to our knowledge). I don't know why this position is considered controversial or out of the mainstream when it seems to be the logical answer.
True, but not all selection biases are intentional
Biden walks through Kyiv to show resolve ahead of war's anniversary
I don’t get all this criticism. It’s a rant, I personally enjoy a good rant so thanks! Now everyone saying you don’t understand the role? Hogwash, most companies and their management are incompetent and don’t understand the role either, they simply hobble along on their “chaos is a process” BS. I read this as one of those. It happens, a lot.
The article says that such a URL database should never be used in the first place. You don't have to pay anybody to preserve the history of your data, if you just maintain control of your data in the first place. It's just 30 more bytes to store, I think we all can afford the cost.
I don’t actually know if we have stuff because of commercial motivations. The guys who discovered insulin didn’t do so out of commercial desire. Neither did the people who figured out vaccinations. There are inventors who make money off of their inventions, but they are often poor salespeople and are mostly tinkerers.
You do not necessarily have to inherit the debt, even if you don't know about it beforehand. Where I live that is called 'accepting an inheritance beneficially', it may have a different legal term where you live. The essence is that you only accept the inheritance if, and only if it brings you a net benefit and otherwise you reject it. Usually this costs a few units of your local currency to arrange.

Note that all this stuff can get very complex in a hurry especially when taxes are involved (and they usually are) so you should definitely hire the help of a professional when dealing with this for anything exceeding a few thousand.
The useful checklist is itself a product of higher than average intelligence. It’s entirely possible to diligently follow a useless or even harmful process.
I think the problem isn't with astronauts missing a limb if they're otherwise suitable candidates. They claim the disability isn't a hindrance and the astronaut has to fulfill the same requirements as other astronauts, apart from the physical requirements where they make an an exception for people with limb deficiencies or those who're extremely short.

Ok, but if that works, why not make that part of the regular requirements then? Why discriminate in the first place and then pat themselves on the back for being so progressive as to make exceptions? Calling him a "parastronaut", making big announcements about it and all. Everyone can see this is political, they're sending a token to space.

It's typical for our times, the administrators are almost more concerned with that sort of stuff than the research they're supposed to oversee.
Thanks for informing me that my understanding of the word differs from yours. Unfortunately, that information on its own is not very useful to me.

Would you care to also tell me your understanding of the word, so I can figure out whether I need to change my understanding or not?
Having spent some time working for the city there are very few difficult jobs at a technical level. It’s almost the definition of the job existing as the city level. Everything that is hard is outsourced and paid accordingly.
What's a two car lifestyle? Seems like it's important to your argument but I don't know what it is.
The Brutal Truth About Owning a Tesla
https://archive.is/PaapM
GmailFS was another early implementation.
> - Authors like Roald Dahl are having their work retroactively edited to "meet modern norms".

This was done by his estate, as a way to sell more books and/or to get it made as a netflix series. Capitalism drove this decision, not 'wokeness'
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DMCA could be scrapped without too much hassle and it might damage content creators far less than with the system in place.

Without DMCA the wrong people might benefit from the creativity of others, sure. That isn't just the case here and a solution would be nice. But as it stands DMCA affected content very negatively.

The overall parasitic behavior of lawyers is very likely larger than that of those that steal content. It is very rarely being done out of malice and mostly fans anyway.
Macros provide abstractions that often make programs easier to understand. I myself have dozens of the usepackage macro in my Emacs configuration, they hide and standardize the boilerplate that I could use instead. Nevertheless, I have serious reservations about macros in programming.

Taking a code base and expanding the macros to see whether that is more or less readable is a bit like expanding a C++ class hierarchy into assembly language and concluding that this program’s object oriented design is great because it is more readable than the resulting assembly language.

The real question is whether or not there are better alternatives than macros or metaprogramming in the first place. Functions, especially as found in modern languages[1], have proven to be very useful abstraction mechanisms and can often mitigate the lack of fancy macros.

I don’t want macros banned from Lisp, but I don’t miss them in other programming languages. Over exuberant use of fancy macros in Knuth’s brilliant TeX, in my opinion, contributes to the glacial pace of LaTeX development.

[1] By this I mean functions with circumscribed access to non local variables, provisions for choices of ownership of parameters, static scoping, first class functions, closures, and recursion.
What gets me is that it's really a software thing. You can get rocm working on RDNA 2 consumer cards. It's just a pain, only works linux and when you set it up on linux it's fiddly and can't just use the built in amd stuff in the kernel/mesa.
The block size should honestly be tuned for the codec in use, chiefly to determine the best block size to fit with the codec's macroblock size. That's usually either 8x8, or with newer codecs 16x16. I feel like something like maybe 8x2 would be smart, and I like the idea of monochrome for resiliency, since chroma is downsampled. The fewer possible pixel combinations you have within a macroblock, the better the compression will probably end up being as well. And 8x2 would somewhat evoke the look of the old video backup systems as well, for the fun of the nostalgia of that.
Here we go again…

“Intellectual” coaches language model to say things that would be sensational, it only it weren’t for the fact that said “intellectual” coached the language model in this very direction, knowingly or not.

Perhaps the scandalous statements of the LLM should be attributed to the “prompt engineer” that wants clicks. It might make it less appealing to indulge in these fantasies publicly.
There is an anti-pattern I’ve seen at many companies I’ve worked for over the years: I’ll call it the “No-longer-in-touch customer proxy”.

Sometimes this is a Product Manager, but just as often it’s a VP, or someone in Sales, or someone in Customer Support. It can even be multiple people, who all echo and amplify each other’s description of what the customer really wants.

It’s a very easy pit to fall into once a company has some success: Everyone’s busy, the product has a clear direction, and the customers are paying. There’s a lot of unglamorous work to be done, but it’s much more fun to go off into a room and work on “design” or “vision” for weeks and months. Any attempt to bring reality into the is met with “This is what the customer wants.”

This can go on for years, especially at profitable companies.
But there's not necessarily an advantage to breaking the rotation. The point is that the currently allowed drugs stay effective the whole time. There's a coordination problem, sure, but I don't see the incentive to hire a "rogue lab".
I'm an immigrant to the US. My parents had a network of people from the same country (European). It was a good resource of friends and babysitting for my parents, but i never heard of anyone giving large interest free loans to a poor stranger just because they came from the same country. But maybe that's the norm for asian communities.

Btw i wouldn't discount free childcare and is honestly worth more than an interest free loan. If you can help share childcare you can work many more hours
Creating Personal Blog with Hugo and Netlify
Blog website using a static site generator Hugo and deploying it to Netlify
AMD GPUs performances on Blender3D are atrocious. 7900xtx (61 tflops) beaten by the 3060ti (16 tflops). AMD apologists have been saying "it will change next version" for years now but nothing has changed so far.

https://techgage.com/article/blender-3-4-performance-deep-di...
Well, that seems vague, but here are some of the things about quantum physics that people find odd:

1) We intuitively think of the past as certain and the future as unwritten. You seem to be suggesting that both are written. But quantum physics says that both are unwritten. So it's exactly the opposite. Just as there are many possible futures from this point, there are also many pasts leading to this point, and that's why you get interference patterns and so forth.

So, it's not that there is one past and many futures, nor is it the case that there is one past and one future. There are many pasts and many futures, and they are all mathematically, measurably, equally real. (But not all equally probable)

2) Probabilities in quantum physics have a phase angle, which is why they can sum or they can cancel out.
My Surprising Lessons from Buying a Little Gold Ring as a Young Boy
Why would I want to be me online when the AI impersonators can provide me an off-ramp from internet addiction?
I would put it as "Fuck the subsidising of car ownership" - as that's what strong towns really comes down to - the fact that car-focused infrastructure cannot pay for itself and so has to be subsidised
Isn't this what raw html was designed for? What is easier than following simple conventions and FTP'ing some files?

What is it that people are trying to automate?
I never said to stop working at it. I’m merely pointing out that the knowledge that one is a personally unsolveably flawed human being doesn’t have to cause uneasiness.
I bit tongue in cheek, but this post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34847678
Seconding the book "The Righteous Mind". Was hard to accept the point that landed against “my” usual political side, but his point are valid, and only more applicable since it was published ten (?) years ago.
The whole article seems really juvenile and poorly written.
I don't think being able to hold opposing viewpoints in my head is ever dangerous. Understanding the chain of logic that leads from, for example, some religious fundamentalism to misogyny does not imply I'm going to keep my girls out of school, it just means I get why they have that fucked up opinion: they grew up around it, it feels natural to them, their elders support it with scripture so it becomes sacred, etc etc.

It just helps understand how deep it goes, and therefore how challenging it might be to persuade someone out of it. It doesn't change my own beliefs on the matter.
> My family came to the US in the early 90's with zero dollars, but now we're doing well.

May I ask what was the path to financial well being ?

Coming to US with zero dollars is pretty common and doesn't really tell the whole picture. You might come with things that can be converted to money later like an education, family connections ect.

I came to us with no money but I had education for in demand jobs. Lots of patels from india come to usa with zero dollars but they have family connections that get them started on a path to setting up a business. We are close to a patel family that came to usa with zero dollars but grinded for years to finally become business owners. They are insane hardworkers but having that family connection that set them up on the path was critical imo.
Yes, that's called 'hidden upside'. You can of course also disclose this before DD. As a rule, surprises during the DD process are to be avoided if you can, even positive ones (because you may lose out on a bid from a party that would have bid if they had been aware of it).

source: yaddp.
Yeah it will at the minimum take another 5-6 years before raytracing of current gen highend cards reaches med teir cards and maybe consoles as well. Then only will we get games made for and properly use ray tracing. Today it is great for the wow factor but most people disable it to get better fps while playing.
Yeah but not really. In a lot of places if you can pay market rates landlords couldn’t care less about your language, especially if both of you are fluent in English. Important to note perhaps that this language thing is more for common/shared accommodations, not standalone units.

Also by on a budget I mean a budget that’ll get me a very decent place even in for example Germany. The prices and costs of accommodation in the Netherlands is hilarious, ask anyone living here. One of my professors literally moved to Belgium to save on rent, despite needing to make a multi-hour journey when commuting multiple times a week.
Ensuring that you can retrieve the data from the viewable video means that this is also be a way of file transfer, one that other people won't be able to download the original video for.
RDNA2 is still used on PS5 and Xbox Series X, so it's still very relevant.
Related to this: I started reading the Dutch author Rutger Bregman who iterates the point that poor people are just that: Poor. What they need is usually not help but money.

If one believes that this is a well intended effort that, however, is nothing more that a publicity stunt.

This appears to be a private initiative, and the only potential harm done here is iterating a point that is wrong (if one puts themselves in the Rousseau camp).
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> printed URLs

True, but I still think users would trust "uber.com/xmas-sale" over "tinyurl.com/FgL82" or whatever. It's not that much extra typing.

> Also, why is Twitter’s URL shortener exempt from this concern?

Twitter's character limit means that some URLs can't fit in a tweet due to length limits. So some form of shortening is required, but it's still definitely not ideal. Because everything is owned by the same company, they are controlling their own data (without a blockchain), in a roundabout way. I would never use a t.co link outside of Twitter.
> If the underworld only crime is to sell weed then what's the problem?

Well it doesn't exist in a vacuum, crime = money, money = competition, competition = violence [0]

And it's not only weed, they're one of the main point of entry for coke in Europe [1]

Some even start to talk about a narco state given how widespread drug related gang violence and corruption is [2][3]

But yeah I guess it's easier to see it as a western progressive paradise

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/oct/06/cartel-journali...

[1] https://www.euractiv.com/section/justice-home-affairs/news/e...

[2] https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/narco-state-neth...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50821542
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Does seem odd to expect to share code early and a risk to share it with any interested party.

I mean, it's someone else's code, your engineers are going to say it's rubbish, it needs a full rewrite and throwing away, warn us up front before you even think about acquiring such terrible code, etc. But if it's a built a company to the point of raising sufficient revenue/profit it's surely good enough.
To the contrary, I think your approach leads to, rather than understanding, identifying. In my opinion, it can be a little degrading to have one’s system of beliefs broken down to “this person believes X therefore Y”; there is probably a lot more going on in some people’s minds.

The best approach is probably somewhere in the middle. I can think of instances in people i know where they have deeply held beliefs that they don’t challenge that lead them to all sorts of conclusions. But I also know people who have deliberated on topics in depth to reach the conclusions they have. That is not to say that they are without bias, but their viewpoints are consequences of more than just deeply held beliefs.
There are more ways to contribute to human health and the environment than just global warming. But in this particular case, where exactly the sulfur oxides are released makes a lot of difference. Burning it in the middle of a bustling port city has radically different effects than releasing it at 30 km altitude.
> The Minerva tracks are from September

The Minerva tracks are from two weeks before the explosion (it left the area on Sep 13th and the explosions came on the 26th) . That timing seems to implicate rather than exonerate..

> Possibly the Russians had a tip-off or spies informing that the pipes were mined.

The Minerva is a Greek tanker that often transports Russia oil, it's not a Russian ship.. if they had a tip about the pipelines being mined, surely Russia would investigate it themselves or with a ship that's equipped to examine the sea floor instead of a random tanker with no such capabilities?
Yes, it seems like it was meant to be a reply to a comment in the Facebook Meta verification thread.
Germany tested 29 electric vehicles in winter to see which car went furthest
Sean Carrol has a great paper on this too showing emergent spacetime from entangled states in hilbert space:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.08444

Here's a more conceptual introduction to that concept:

https://web.stanford.edu/~oas/SI/QM/papers/SpaceFromQMCarrol...
Okay, that makes one of you? I am exactly the person GP is describing — I ended up reading a lot of their tutorials and when I needed a VPS, I decided to go with DigitalOcean because I already trusted the brand.
Would you rather pay 5-10% less in taxes by cutting military spending?
For the combination of Hugo and GitHub Pages, images are pretty effortless as well. For example, for a post with a path of `content/posts/post-title.md`:

1. Add the image at `content/posts/post-title/image-name.png`

2. Add markdown that references it, like `![alt-text](image-name.png)`

3. Build and push to main, and then the image is available in minutes at `https://<host>/posts/post-title/image-name.png`

Part of the reason I use Hugo is because it's so low friction — the hard part is the writing (and writing consistently), and keeping everything else easy is key.
Yes, one of the paridoxical aspects of climate change is that due to different aspects of coal pollution side effects, coal use is a short term decline and then a long term rise in heat. So phasing out coal can give opposite signals to what you expect.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/12/031210074720.h...

> More aerosols emitted into the atmosphere may lead to cooling," Allen continued. "But if these aerosols are able to combine with other compounds and ultimately form clouds, it could have a warming effect. There's a complex balance between warming and cooling."
> how society is structured to reward some choices and punish others

Who is gong to punish you for spending more time with your kids, introducing them to interesting people, maybe hiring tutors, even home schooling? People in our society today do all of those things. Nobody punishes them. The discourse around this is veering into the fantastical. We’re human beings in free societies. We get to choose.

It’s as though a lot of the commenters here, members of some of freest and most prosperous societies that have ever existed, have somehow managed to completely abandon the concept of individual responsibility.
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The dark economy in the NL also now have enough cash at hand to bribe and threaten officials of all sorts.
But you don’t have to do it that way? You can still manually instantiate your Parser in your test and have DI
How far can you take it? Can you talk about implementing eugenics? Because scientifically it's not a completely invalid idea.

Preventing people with genetic defects and recessive carriers of genetic defects from reproducing whether through execution or restriction does definitively eliminate the defect if such policies were implemented well.

The short period of suffering during the culling has the reward of completely eliminating the targeted genetic diseases.

I find that it is rare to find someone who is able to think rationally about the topic above. A lot of people have to rearrange the logic of potential solutions such that it fits within a moral framework. They cannot disentangle the logic and keep their analysis completely separate from their own ethics.

Executing someone with a genetic defects is logically speaking the most definitive way to stop that genetic defect from spreading. Restriction costs resources and has the potential for failure.

You see what I'm saying? Being completely unbiased is a form of psychopathy. But it does let you see truths others are unable to see. Eugenics targeted at actual known genetic defects in both sufferers and recessive carriers does logically lead to a better outcome then the moral path. If you just let natural selection play out the defect could just stick around causing suffering across many many generations of people.

But this is the extreme example. The extreme example triggers moral reactions which in turn becomes a mirror to your biases.

A more realistic example is: "do I eliminate the jobs of everyone whose livelihood depends on success in the oil industry to stave off the impending catastrophe of global warming?"
Yep. It's no longer a rant when a recognizable pattern emerges.

(and I don't think they are personnally incompetent - quite the contrary; but in my experience, it's the managerial process that is often designed to generate incompetency as a side-product)
Elon Musk was the one claiming to do it