skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My teenager brings up the A&W 1/3lb burger failure when I rant how people are choosing “math ignorance.” Kid’s point being that “fast food lovers[] would never let math intentionally get between them and greater amounts of fast food by choice, and that people simply that dumb.” I’ve dubbed it Hanlon’s Burger.

[] rephrased as their wording was a bit unfair to those that consume large amounts of fast food.
"The algorithm was often misattributed to John Carmack, but in fact the code is based on an unpublished paper by William Kahan and K.C. Ng circulated in May 1986"
They can , just not on the level you expect them to be. But these systems are improving.
I wanted to be (?) an old man sometimes as a kid, and would walk around pretending to have arthritic joints.
And runs on .NET

One of the only well known sites to do so, I think?
So what steps does HN take to prevent actual whataboutism? It's a common and known disinformation campaign tactic and can't be left unaddressed.
> Because they had evidence that made the wet market theory the one most likely to be true

sorry but what was evidence supporting wet market theory when this article was published

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/19/health/coronavirus-animal...

> The new virus seems to have leapt from wildlife to humans in a seafood and meat market in Wuhan, China, where live animals were slaughtered and sold as food.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/science/pangolin-coronavi...

None of these qualify as evidence that you say the claim was based on.
What would this "split" entail exactly?

The codepoints obviously still need to be kept distinct if they are to inter-operate.

Emoji's are already segregated in their own codepoint ranges. If emojis are what you are annoyed by?

You're just suggesting that, like, entirely different personnel be involved (they may already be), or we give a different name to the emojis, just to, like, register your political displeasure with them?
Calling it a specific insanely high generation when it’s a repeating cycle just rubs me up the wrong way. Very cool algorithm though!
You aren't going to get any confirmation or material evidence until the chinese government allows it to happen, and with their initial reaction to the situation before the rest of the world kenw what was happening and their reaction to the WHO inquiries, odds are we'll never get anything aside from "low confidence".

Science isn't a magic wand, its a process, and honestly assuming we do get access an investigation like this most likely wouldn't even involve the scientific method at all. If science was enough to determine the origin given current available knowledge it probably would've been solved already.
That may be true but it does not mean that it should be banned.
I thought that the isolation of "causal islands" would clearly affect performance.

But the Wason selection task[1] has hard numbers. This is an example:

You are shown a set of four cards placed on a table, each of which has a number on one side and a colored patch on the other side. The visible faces of the cards show 3, 8, red and brown. Which card(s) must you turn over in order to test the truth of the proposition that if a card shows an even number on one face, then its opposite face is red?

In Wason's study, not even 10% of subjects found the correct solution.[5] This result was replicated in 1993.

"if.. then" is logical deduction but also causal reasoning of course.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wason_selection_task
Education education education. The silver bullet.

I know silver bullets don't exist, but educating just doesn't seem to get the societal positive attention it so thoroughly needs and deserves.

Where the silver bullet fails is the "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it realise its thirsty" analogy.

School and education have been conflated in a detrimental way, and the reputation of schooling needs urgent repair. During Covid it seemed as if teaching was on the brink of earning more respect, but it was very quickly forgotten and probably only got the attention for reasons of childcare as opposed to education.

All implications of the above are a sad indictment of where society has found itself.

Additionally, if we follow the path of assuming everyone is a moron, we very quickly reach The Nanny State. This is the current pendulum swing.
> Trump was demanding that "China pay" and people were beating up random Asians who were just walking down the street

Unfortunately, random Asian people getting brutalized when they're going about their daily business has been a long-standing problem in a number of cities. Is there any evidence to suggest that the people perpetrating these crimes were even aware of Trump's words, let alone motivated by them, rather than this just fitting the usual pattern of criminality combined with a generalized ethnic resentment?
Problem was you weren't even allowed to speculate about this and consider that the possibility warranted more investigation without being written off as a "Trumper."

I've seen huge family fights over this very issue and not one person involved was a Trump supporter or a conspiracy theorist but then the names get thrown around because somebody didn't toe somebody else's ideological line.
It's perfectly reasonable for the government to support one theory based on non-conclusive evidence that they have and reasonable for the public to support another based on the non-conclusive evidence available to them.

It makes it a lot more likely that public support for the non-lab leak theories will change once we get the chance to see the government's new evidence though.
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You’re anthropomorphizing these chat bots. They may associate those words in specific contexts, but they don’t have that kind of abstract understanding.

The best way to understand them isn’t to look at what they do well but where they fail. A great example is how ChatGPT can initially make a few chess moves that seem reasonable, but very quickly it stops making valid moves. It’s not operating from some model of the game but rather imitating sequences of moves it’s seen before. The best analogy isn’t cognition but someone trying to make a better version of “lorem ipsum” for whatever promo you’re giving it.
It's there for illustration, that's all. I don't actually write code like that, but I want to make sure that you understand the condition in the code snippet.
DMCA Takedown of iptv-org/iptv on GitHub
Man, I hate doing this, but im going to use identity politics because its fun to use it against the people pushing this shenanigans.

So as someone who is Asian, who thought that claiming the lab leak theory to be racist against Asians to be incredibly stupid, and as someone who has been on the receiving end of multiple insults related to COVID and possibly one violent interaction, I am still a Free Speech Absolutist.

My family knows what its like to live in a world where speech is censored, not by the government, but by everyone you know for saying something out of line with the official narrative. I despise the fact that the current left seems to be all ok with living in a authoritative world where everyone is expected to socially push the current narrative and suppress dissent. The worst part is that since its not directly coming from the Govt, its used as an excuse to continue to push these anti-liberal agendas.

I don't care if I'm on the receiving end of threats or actual violence because of free speech. Giving up your rights due to being scared is cowardice and allows actual authoritarians to take over your mind.
Okay, as a human I would answer "white". This is what Bing Chat (smarter than ChatGPT) had to say:

Me: "Imagine the following process: Step 1: cover your table in blue paint. Step 2: empty a bag of confetti on the table, spreading it evenly in a thin layer, one confetto thick. Step 3: dip a bowling ball in neon green glue. Step 4: roll the bowling ball over the confetti until it is fully covered. Step 5: leave to dry. Step 6: coat with a layer of varnish. Step 7: leave to dry. Step 8: visit a 10-pin bowling alley with white bowling pins. Step 9: use your confetti-coated bowling ball to get a strike. Question: what colour are the first, fifth and ninth bowling pins after you have got a strike?"

Bing Chat: "That’s an interesting process. I’m not sure what the purpose of it is, but I’ll try to answer your question. Assuming that the confetti-coated bowling ball transfers some of its colour to the bowling pins when it hits them, and that the confetti colours are randomly distributed on the ball, then the first, fifth and ninth bowling pins could be any colour that is present in the confetti. However, since neon green glue is also used to coat the ball, there is a higher chance that those pins will have some neon green on them as well. So a possible answer is: neon green with some other confetti colours mixed in. Is this what you were looking for?"
The magnetic pole is in Canada, so you don't need to be anywhere near as for north.
That's a problem for humans too.
> The whole point of accepting the complexity of Unicode is to be able to take a document which stands on its own without external references.

What makes you think this is the whole point? I don't believe that "whole point" is actually possible with global human languagues as actually used, nor do I think those behind unicode historically or presently have considered this the "whole point".

Do you have any reference suggesting this was meant to be the "whole point" of unicode?

I think it's actually a pretty amazing success that unicode does give us algorithms for manipulating text in various ways, that actually work pretty darn well... but yes, they sometimes require locale parameters.
The submitted article discusses software pricing extensively.
Does no one else on earth remember the initial videos out of China of people laying dead on the streets? Does no one else remeber the WHO refusing to acknowledge Taiwan is its own state?

I really struggle that anyone is seriously buying a single “truth” that is coming out of China.

I don’t know it was a lab leak, but I agree, if you are at all reasonable you can just see that China thinks it was.
Does this "criticism" or bullying or what not related to Androids exist among other age groups such as millennials? Or is it predominantly Gen Z?
"The medium is the message" wins again.
I think most things Microsoft run on .net incl. parts of bing and office online.
the ads make this unreadable on a phone.

yes i use safari reader mode but whenever i do it think "wow i shouldn't need to do this; here i am curious and our first interaction is so adversarial".

Surely there's a "post SEO" world imminent, im curious if we think it'll be better or worse.
> Some people may believe hate speech but I think that's a reflection of who they are, ie. they will probably believe it with or without the convincing. I personally believe that most people are smarter than this

The genocides of recent history debunk the idea that people are "smart" enough to dismiss hate propagandists. Also, it doesn't have anything to do with being smart, because lots of "smart" people also join hate-motivated movements. They do it because hate serves their inner needs, the same reason that so-called "not-smart" people do it.

Believing in people's better angels is great and all, but outside of contexts where they feel safe, humans don't instinctively love or even tolerate their fellow humans, especially when their fears and insecurities are targeted.

Fear, intolerance, and hate are unfortunately much simpler and more default than nuance and tolerance. That is why hate speech is inordinately effective compared to tolerance-speech.
Back in the 80s and 90s, we laughed at the KKK. Anyone remember Bustin' Loose with Richard Pryor? Or when Michael Moore got gay black cheerleaders to cheer on a KKK march in some town?

At some point, people decided that we should fear the KKK and white supremacists, and that gave the racists an enormous amount of power even though their numbers are dwindling. I think the world was better when we mocked them and belittled them.

But now the strategy is to call anyone a racist, which is self-defeating and something I vehemently disagree with.
Trump was... not an ordinary president. In particular, he didn't pay very much attention to his briefings. He may have had access to the information, but there's less indication that he used that access, and plenty of indication that he frequently shot his mouth of contrary to the facts. Whether he did so in this case is not proven, but the parent's argument doesn't work for the particular president in question.
Not in the north east, where it’s cloudy as usual.
A is before C and B. A is between C and B.
> The headline is absolutely, literally true

It absolutely, literally isn't.

The headline says the lab leak is the most likely origin. The lab theory being the least shitty theory absolutely doesn't make it a likely origin: it is purely a statement about the information we have (rather lack thereof) on origins, not on the likelihood of any of those. Likelihood of origin doesn't even come into it given the current state of theories.
> If this is true, then they should also face liability for that speech. As it is "platforms" are given the rights of free speech with none of the responsibility.

It is not true, we don’t live in a free speech absolutist world. I’m pointing out that free speech absolutism doesn’t obviously point in the direction of maximum free speech for the individual. In a free speech absolutist world, there’s no liability to worry about in the first place.

> Personally, I don't think that platforms are people and thus don't have the same rights to speech which is why we allow them to escape some of the responsibility.

Platforms aren’t people, but they are owned and operated by people, who have the same free speech rights as everybody else. It seems like this ought to include the owner’s right to selectively publish content they’ve been sent.

I’m not a free speech absolutist, and so I resolve this issue by saying, yeah, free speech absolutism is dumb, it is fine if we protect some types of speech, and selectively acknowledge the right of platform-owners to not broadcast some types of speech. There are competing interests and navigating them requires getting into the weeds. Unfortunately, this doesn’t have quite the moral certainty of “free speech absolutism.”
It had to adopt the .NET object model to do so. At which point you get a language that's mostly C# with Pascal-like syntax. So existing code is not necessarily portable, existing devs still have to relearn, and meanwhile you have reduced your hiring pool even further (as Oxygene is even more exotic than Delphi).
Just a side question.. Did the floppy disk version also call it a CD key?
Well balls are not strictly spherical, including soccer balls. I also have to question to motives of the handegg crowd by what they are willing to overlook in their favored sport. Surely if they were impartial the wanton blatant fraud of calling headfacechestbackstomachpelvisthighkneeshinfootalsoshoulderarmandhandifyouaregoalieorpenaltythrowroundedtruncatedicosahedronwithseams football would be among their top priority.
The way this worked was there's a very large amount of keys accepted by the installer and a very tiny fraction of them are actually issued / valid for online play.

There wasn't that much value in having the installer keys be that narrow; if you have a legal cd it'll have the key printed right on the case (and there's no way to stop sharing). If it's a burned cd either the person who ripped it can just include the key or they can edit the installer itself to accept any key.
Lazarus/FreePascal are AMAZING, so much better than all the subpar web/GUI development tools we have nowadays that require thousand of employees to have a chat app running (slack, twitter, etc) because humanity have a tendency to forget the past and reinvent the wheel every 60 years. Every young dev think they are smarter and can do better tan those who preceeded him and that's how you end up with thousand of unnecessary text editors and the mess of web dev tooling and frameworks.
In fact is a business advantage I much rather keep it niche and not poisoned by hype machine. Keep thinking is a dead language.

Learned Delphi in 2003...it never clicked for me and went to C/C++, python, fortran, web (HTML, CSS, JS, frameworks) you name it, instead. And after many years, in 2022 I've rediscovered Lazarus/FPC and is like a revelation to me. Instant click, instant match to my development style and made me a 10X developer overnight in it. I feel the joy of programming again.
But what does it matter? If you're blocking it anyway, what difference does it make whether the site has it or not? I genuinely don't know why knowing this in advance is helpful and want to know what I'm missing
This has been called the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_power, and it’s a good way to make legible what you’re doing and especially to exclude what you aren’t doing.
Wool is great as an outdoor adventure fabric. My big complaint is that wool and velcro (the hook side specifically) are _mortal enemies_ and wool will not survive even the most brief encounter with the other. It's seriously like matter and anti-matter meeting, the wool gets shredded and rips apart in an instant. Be super careful with wool around hook and loop fastener!
They went from "undecided" to "Low Confidence". That is a shift in a particular direction.

I would go on to talk about how the US invaded countries with zero confidence but...
various cloud services

This question does not appear to be about programming, Closed.

hyped-up technologies

subjective, Closed

problems caused by over-engineering

Opinion-based, Closed.
Co-sleeping with infants often ends with the mother smothering the infant.
nah. GDP growth can continue even with a fixed number of people. it'll just need more energy and more capital goods.
Again you're speaking for "Most people" with no empirical evidence or polling.

Let me take a turn though: "Most people" aren't reading a Jacobin article at all. The only relevant audience is the readers of this article.
Isn’t that mixing causation with correlation. The lab is there because there are lots of virus sources there.
ah yes, of course
At the very least, no tools were ever made widely available, and don't seem to be even to this day.

That's because discussions around them have been heavily censored by Big Tech in general; but that algorithm has been cracked, purely out of curiosity, in the late 2010s.
What about "People in the USA are grieving because of China virus created to kill us, but we won't do anything against China because the first step of grief is denial"?

How does this sound?

It's completely normal to me to answer: well my friend, first of all a leak is a mistake, it's not intentional since, you know, the first who paid where the Chinese themselves, it would be pretty stupid to do it intentionally.
But if you really think things go that way because people do not understand who's their enemy (the Chinese who want to kill you by engineering a virus), what about all the countries that the USA has relationships to, to their advantage only, after killing their citizen, without even apologizing?

Should they cut the links too?

What about what the USA and UK did to Chinese people?

There's a reason why they made a cultural revolution and chose communism, and no, being a "democracy" doesn't make your country automatically better.

Spoiler alert: American people have lost many relatives because of their government.

So maybe it's toward them that they should be angry and ask for a change.

Even if it was a lab leak, the right solution would be cooperation, so that it doesn't happen again (because next time could happen to the US...)
I exercise a fair amount (run 80km a week). When I first started, I noticed I was more tired and slept better, now after doing it 10+ years I'd say I'm adapted and it has no effect. There's probably some better way of mixing exercises to reduce adaptation and keep getting tired (as well as the calorie burn, etc)

Also, I read that when doing more demanding training, in particular very long distances, it's possible to get into a "hypermetabolic" state where one doesn't sleep as well. Anecdotally I've felt this way after doing what for me are longer runs, say > 30 km.

I haven't experienced inability to think hard, even when I was doing more intense running. The more plodding kind I do these days I find is great for brain work as it lets me clear my mind of distractions and think about problems I'm working on. But it sounds like you are training harder than me
> So it’s something bad from the undergrad past

I was writing laser projector video games that played on the side of skyscrapers in undergrad. Speak for yourself.
They’re also adding coal plants faster than many of us realize.
> If the idea of throwing away a secondary exception makes you uncomfortable, then another possible solution might have been to allow secondary exceptions to be "attached" to the primary exception, like `std::exception::secondary()` could return an array of secondary exceptions that were caught.

Java has that for its pseudo-RAII "try-with-resources" statement: when an exception happens during cleanup of a try-with-resources statement, and the cleanup was because of an exception (instead of normally leaving the block), the inner exception is added to a "suppressed" list in the outer exception. Java exceptions have, since Java 7 (which added try-with-resources), both a "cause" field (for the exception which caused that exception, this exists since Java 4) and a "suppressed" field (which records the exceptions suppressed while cleaning up that exception).
Is it hosted on the cloud?
Yeah but that’s always been the case. If whatever window of updates I’ve purchased for a bit of software has expired and work is required to support a new OS release, I don’t think it’s unreasonable for that to require a new purchase.

I have the option of running it in a VM or simply not updating the OS if it’s really that important. The issue there is really OS vendors breaking stuff between versions (of which Apple is usually the main culprit).
> comment lines before subroutines would help.

That code looks normal to me. I have a ton of BASIC books and magazines. You're talking about a time period before full screen text editors were a thing. It's almost impossible to explain to anyone that didn't have to work with TI-99 BASIC, C64 BASIC, GW-BASIC/BASICA, etc. what it was like. Once you got to QBASIC/QuickBASIC it was done. Life was easy. A few years before that, and you're printing out pages on a dot matrix printer and going line-by-line to debug. You'll notice a distinct lack of white space between lines and that comments start with "REM" and a line number. You didn't even get labels for lines. The code looks like that because those were technology limits on really rudimentary devices. You were editing code inside the BASIC interpreter, often using some command like "LIST <line#>". It was awful.

We take so much for granted today. Dual monitors. Color. More than 80x25 character display. Multiple screens and multitasking. Just getting to Linux in '95 and having F1/F2/F3/etc. switching terminals was a huge deal.
> I’m thinking more along the lines of irreversibility.

Puberty blockers are not, generally, irreversible (or even permanent-but-reversible, simply stopping taking them usually results in puberty), a fact widely recognized and documented in coverage of their use in delaying precocious puberty, long before ideological activists started attacking them based on a mix of anecdote and fiction because they were also used in treatment of trans kids.