skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who dressed up as Žižek at a Halloween party in my early twenties, I must say the man remains a puzzle to me. Or rather, it remains puzzling to me how he doesn't see the connections between the facets of culture that he criticizes (as in this piece) and the legacy that he defends. He is certainly intelligent enough, but perhaps lacks the courage to dismiss centuries of revolutionary legacy as ultimately vain. This, I think, is the hardest step most secularists have to make in their journey toward Truth.
Its not circular because its different drivers of price.

If gas prices rise the purchasing power of my dollar remains the same for most items.

If inflation goes up, my dollar buys less of everything.
> In that video, Adams expressed outrage at a Rasmussen poll that found 26 percent of Black Americans disagreed with the statement “It’s okay to be white,” compared with 12 percent of the general population. Another 21 percent of Black respondents said they were “not sure” about the statement.

Other findings of that poll, if cns news is to be believed: By race, 81% of Whites, 53% of Blacks and 58% of other races at least somewhat agreed it’s alright to be white

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/poll-72-us-adul...
Nobody asked, but that person is Donald Knuth
I feel like it can be simplified, but it’s basically there :)
Are you getting confused with a VPN? Those words in that order are a bad thing for a VPN, not so much a CDN.

These are all reasons I use Cloudflare lmao. Yes I need them to decrypt the traffic because they do various rules and caching for me. That DDoS protection would be pretty naff if they couldn't see the traffic! In one case I really wish they did log, I had to write my own Worker to log the info I needed.

If we were talking outbound proxy then fair enough but it's not like Cloudflare have strongarmed me into using them.. it was me that updated the NS records!

A lot of the list from that site just seem to describe what Cloudflare does, they don't seem to say why each thing is actually a bad thing.

Really does feel like someone's got a hate rod on for Cloudflare and tried to crowbar in as many VPN criticisms without understanding the difference between a VPN/proxy and a CDN.
I think this is the problem. Many are claiming a lab leak is the most likely / probable simply because of the proximity of the lab. We should investigate absolutely, but just saying the lab is there so a leak is the most likely doesn’t make sense.
> It's better when the lexical structure of the source code maps to the execution structure.

Sure, but that has nothing to do with whether the GOTO statement should be used. The semantics of GOTO are arguably quite clear; they amount to setting a different continuation for the running program. (Semantically, this implies that the precondition of the GOTO statement is made a possible precondition for the label that the statement jumps to; and execution simply does not proceed to the next statement.)

There are even "relooper" algorithms to reconstruct a structured program from patterns in the idiomatic use of GOTO statements: they are used in compiling to structured object languages such as WASM code. Using GOTOs in an idiomatically sensible way (avoiding spaghetti code) may be less readable than writing actual structured blocks, but only slightly so.
We could start by shunning people who shun people. If they’re fine with doing it they should be fine with receiving it.
The liberality of "abortion" and of "gender identity" fundamentally follow from the same misconceptions about sex, so the equivocation is quite warranted.
> Lab leak and bio weapon are two completely different theories, and conflating them means you don't actually bother to learn the argument of the opposing side(s), before dismissing them as "crazies".

I never said they were the same thing. They are different, but they were both BS conspiracy theories because they were pushed without sufficient evidence to support them and while ignoring stronger evidence for other theories.

> I'm not sure what group you mean here, but that was certainly not mainstream media,

the mainstream media acknowledged that the science was still primarily, and that there were a lot of questions, but they mostly reported on our best understanding of the facts that we have and not on conspiracy theories that ignored our best understanding of the facts that we had.

> "The Experts (TM)" and the medical-political establishment. Those spent 100% of the effort on suppressing any possibility of the lab leak theory being seriously considered and investigated and declaring anybody who disagreed "crazies", and 0% of the effort investigating anything.

Who exactly is the ""The Experts (TM)" and the medical-political establishment"?
As you yourself acknowledge scientists and governments continued to investigate the origins of the virus including the possibility of a lab leak to find evidence.

> I think mentioning people who considered lab leak theory a viable possibility together with people who beat up Asian people on the street, or even suggesting that there's a connection between the two, they have a common cause, and the former bear any responsibility on the latter - is an extremely dishonest move and you should apologize for making such connection.

I clearly made a distinction between the people who believed a BS conspiracy theory and acted on it (in some cases by beating asian people) and those who accepted it was possible, and investigated that, but followed the available evidence and supported the theory that best fit the facts that we had.

> By the time the "bat soup" theory was declared the only truth possible

Declared by who? When? There was constant questioning of the origin and acknowledgement that there were multiple conflicting theories in mainstream media. I don't know where you were getting your information from, but it sounds like you weren't paying much attention to what mainstream media was actually saying.
I think there are lots of laudable things to say about Delphi, but like.. developer availability is not one of those things ;-)
Seems to be testing from just one location, as far as I can tell?

Randomly, packets time out on the internet, I would take this random dashboard with a grain of salt, we cannot be sure SO had a outage just because one request happen to fail.
Machine wash hot or cold is fine for merino. It’s the drying on anything but low heat that ruins it.
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It's not just here, we created it, out of the sheer, unmitigated, unrelented politeness we exude.

Also sorry for being too polite.
> `dig ds $domain`

Amusingly for this method to work the resolver must understand DNSSEC. This is because DS records exist solely at the parent side of a delegation. A resolver that is not aware of DNSSEC will look to the child as it would for any other kind of record type.
Right. But curiously enough, advertising, broadly speaking, tries to either 1) make you lust for something the advertised good/service claims to provide, or 2) makes you fear something the advertised good/service claims to mitigate. I'm yet to see any advertisement try to get you to buy something under threat of repercussions, or threat of being dehumanized. This last category is what GP is asking about, so advertising can serve at best as weak evidence that it doesn't work (or else it would be used in ads).
That defies the laws of physics. How can they be web scale without cloud and microservices?
> The case was about what sort of speech is a type of criminal conduct.

the case was decided by the state on basis of "what sort of speech threatens the laws created by the state"

I'm pointing out the difference because science requires questioning, and free speech allows it, but the state and the mob may prefer you to not question state mandates on, oh let's say for example, covid's origins or the hastily prepared novel vaccines or whimsical ever changing masking policies and any measures of their effectiveness
RemObjects is still making and releasing a pascal compiler (https://www.remobjects.com/elements/) that’s now part of a suite of language support.

They originally licensed their compiler to Embarcadero back in the day.

They’ve modernised the language a lot.

RO also still make and support various components and tooling for Delphi.

I ‘grew up’ on Delphi but somehow ended up in .NET land eventually and now mostly do that and/or React but I do miss it from time to time.
I’d pay $6 but I keep getting redirected to the other service.
I think that I'd have said this claim about C (being closer to the metal) was wrong even 10-15 years ago when I was mostly writing C for a living. Ignore the Rust stuff entirely if you prefer.

What you can learn about in C is the C abstract machine, but the abstract machine is not any modern computer. It starts as a greatly simplified model of the PDP-11, a computer which hasn't been commercially relevant in decades.

So, on the one hand it's not much like the machines we own today, yet on the other hand it's also not like any real machine ever because all the complexities the C designers didn't express in their language are absent from the abstract machine. Sometimes this is an intentional deviation to make C simpler than a PDP-11, which is understandable but not so useful. Much worse though are places where they just didn't know.

The actual PDP-11 has specific semantics because it was a real thing, you could try stuff and find out. You could experiment. However the abstract machine is imaginary, and so where its properties were under-specified you can't just experiment there actually is no answer. WG14 (the C language committee) has tried, since it came into existence, to straight out some of this and choose definite answers, but it's a long way from finished.

So on the one hand, C is bad theoretically because it ignores much of what theoretical CS discovered in subsequent decades, but then on the other hand C is bad practically because its abstract machine models how somebody in the 1970s thought a 1970s computer worked, so it's wrong and it's 50 years old.

And again, I write these things as, IMNSHO an expert C programmer. I'm somebody who has found bugs in GNU libc and who wrote their own debugging tools so they could live debug problems which only happened in a production service. I'm not speaking out of ignorance, but out of understanding.
I feel like this is because it’s the first time any signs of age start to show.

I’m 35 and my body just doesn’t like the things I did with it even 10 years ago. Half of my beard is gray. I feel like this is something that should happen to other ‘older’ people.
Martin Luther King preferred it to "black" for like the first 2/3 of things he wrote and said. Contemporaneous with when these books were written.
This is neat. Can you explain neural cellular automata? I’m familiar with neural networks and cellular automata. I’ve been interested in DNNs to analyze CAs but is this the other way around?
Mito co-founder here - thanks for the mention! OP you can check out Mito here [1].

Tldr: Mito is a spreadsheet that you can use to edit pandas dataframes, from directly within a Jupyter notebook. For every edit you make, Mito generates the equivalent python code, allowing you to perform some tricky pandas operations with the ease of a spreadsheet.

In practice, most of our most active users _are_ in the financial industry. They turn to Mito because they’re transitioning from spreadsheets to a programming language (for one of many reasonsg, but doing so while not knowing how to program is challenging. For most people, the hard part of writing code is the actually process of writing code - so we give these folks a spreadsheet interface they already know.

Happy to answer any questions / hear any feedback!

P.S. We’re open core + source available. Check it out if that’s your thing [2]

[1] https://trymito.io
[2] https://GitHub.com/mito-ds/monorepo
They have not found the origin of the virus after testing every animal they could possibly test.. what was being done in the lab is still hidden => most likely it came from the lab.

So the deadliest epidemic since Spanish flu has been caused by gain of function research supported in part by US, with people responsible in control of fighting the pandemic when it started. Said people then labeled leak theory a conspiracy theory and tried to suppress it. If there is any justice in the world they should all be dragged in front of the judge and spend rest of their life in a cell. But there isn't and they attached themselves to useful political masters who will protect them.
The headline is literally true in a certain, non-colloquial usage of the term "most likely". It's is also true to claim that Covid-19 was more likely not because of a lab leak. That's what "low confidence" means. If you could bet at even odds that it was a lab leak, and the bet could be settled by some omniscient force, you'd be a fool to take the bet.

The fact the chances of it being a lab leak are so high does mean something, and I'd like to see those odds be lower for any future scenario, but to think that implies we can say with confidence "that's what happened" is, as was clearly stated, wrong.
How moderate of you!
I would include C# too. Most developers I meet don't even know C# supports GOTO.
Probably psychopathy crossed with afluenza
We've banned this account for breaking the site guidelines and ignoring our request to stop. You can't abuse HN like this, regardless of how stupid someone else's theory is or you feel it is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is correct. The arguments for taboo-ing the word "no" seem to be rooted in conflict aversion. Powerless people fear pushback and powerful people fear taking a stand.
I'd love to see something like Relic able to operate over capnproto/arrow/parquet/avro/hdf5 etc along with a DAG based recomputation engine.
More likely this is simply a function of housing cost. Median home price is much greater in Portland and Denver than any major city in Florida.

It's tempting to see homelessness as an individual problem, but cost of housing is a much stronger correlation than addiction/mental illness.
Legislation against the visibility of gay people is sweeping the south right now.
The Uniqueness of Human Recursive Thinking
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Thanks, I should have stressed that mounting bulky equipment is not an option. The challenge for this is that device should be relatively small (something you can easily carry in a backback) and work from batteries. The place where it'll be used is not a place you can control over (i.e. ask for electricity plug or mount something on the ceiling or the wall etc).
>you will have to live with the consequences of the legal system.

Doesn't that mean that type of speech is forbidden?
> Mozart/Oz [...] a bit of a tragedy it has been mostly abandoned

Agreed. But wow the documentation was a mess. So much language progress these last decades has been around increasing minimum expectations for ecosystem.

Poplog (integrated CommonLisp, prolog, ML, an a C-like; 1980's) is another on my list of roads regrettably not taken. Killed by commercialization. Which also zombied CL.
Tangentially, what's truly the difference between banning speech and cancellation culture, I wonder?

If you can lose your job and thus your ability to provide food and shelter for yourself and your family for daring to speak up against the prevailing group think, is that much different from being sent to jail for saying the same?

Political correctnes people and "minority" interest groups have turned into the biggest bullies, it's so darned scary - I for one fear this slippery slope to a very totalitarian society.
Sort of? I felt like I always hung out with people older than me, but recently it’s inverted.
> but I object to people spreading objectively false information

UFOs, MKUltra, involvement in various coups, PRISM, etc. used to be "objectively false information"... until it wasn't.

> This isn’t a new problem, it’s been illegal to pretend to be a doctor for decades. The difference is simply the reach we are giving charlatans.

Thalidomide is the famous counterexample. Just to be clear, I don't like people who give bad medical advice. But I am much more tempered when it comes to the rights of ordinary citizens to hold and discuss their personal views about industrialized medicine.
> The first program listing is on page 24 of the PDF. Try to follow the logic of the program. Why does line 400 go to 280? What paths can lead to line 400? Who knows!

Without looking at the post-program material, this isn't exactly a difficult question to answer.

Line 400 is preceded by some print statements:

370 PRINT "PRESS 'E' TO END, SPACE TO CONTINUE"
380 GET R$:IF R$="" THEN [goto] 380
390 IF R$="E" THEN [goto] 120
400 L=0:GOTO 280

So we have a prompt that says "press E to end, space to continue", and then branches one of three ways: if you provide no input, the prompt is shown again; if you provide an E, the entire program restarts from scratch, and if you do anything other than that, the count of lines drawn on screen is reset to 0 and the next 18 lines of the chart are drawn.

We can assume that line 400 will be hit whenever a piece of chart is drawn to the screen.

The program's structure here is a nested loop: there is a loop between lines 280 and 400 (displaying the chart indefinitely, 18 lines at a time) containing another loop between lines 300 and 360 (displaying 18 lines of a chart, one line at a time).

Why is this supposed to be an example of spaghetti code?
Then how are you differentiating banning from consequences of the legal system?
The reason is because the audience is likely majority US-based, US-adjacent, or their work focuses on compliance with US laws and customers more than other laws.

Unless you mean the source piece by Ken White itself, which is a specifically about the first amendment and not human rights in general.
"If people come to a different conclusion than me, it's because they are confused. Here's what I tell myself they do wrong, so that I can pity them without challenging my own certainty."

- Stephan Shahinian

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15 years isn't quick
A revolution in apartment buildings and renting: https://andrewarrow.substack.com/p/understanding-adam-neuman...
Empathy. Our team already had a great culture of empathy and mutual respect. People just tried to see things from other's POV, or if they couldn't, they'd at least be respectful. To behave differently would have just seemed weird. I think that our manager and the founding members of the team set the tone early, and as the team grew, it just became the norm. When we lost that manager, things declined. The worst part is that when I look back at my own behavior, I lost my empathy. I felt like a rat in a cage and I behaved accordingly.

If you already have that kind of empathic culture, then I think it's just about starting a "good enough" process and refining it as you go. If you don't, then you have to build empathy into the team. I found the book Practical Empathy to be helpful. But basically, if you treat someone with empathy, they can't help but start to feel empathy for you. I think we're wired that way. If your team doesn't have a high level of empathy, be the first.
First, baked into your reasoning is an assumption of strong rationality and plenty of information. Even if levels are acceptable on average, an informed person will recognize there is considerable variation.

No rational person can blame an individual for not knowing something due to circumstances beyond their control. Not every qualified student in subject X has a parent / education / life experience that will give them an upbringing and background knowledge that will give them a good preparation for asking questions and preparing for industry Y. This realization quickly dispenses with any notion of people as perfect rational decision makers. It also dispenses with blaming or punishing people who don't have such advantages. It should also reduce the "halo" effect of prestigious schools and workplaces. Since luck and circumstances play such a high role in, say, admissions to top universities, people should act accordingly and stop elevating themselves.

People make mistakes-- this is statistically inevitable. Making harsher laws, reducing the safety net, and making insurance policies extremely strict to reduce moral hazard would make people more cautious and responsible, so the argument goes. But that argument often gets taken as dogma, and it not checked against reality.

In my view, consistent with philosophers such as John Rawls, optimizing for strictness is rarely the best technique to build a good society.
Tangentially-related to the article, but if you tend to get insomnia like I do, I can't recommend cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-i) enough.

It's really simple (sleep during a fixed window at the same time everyday; use the bed for sleeping and sex; challenge negative thoughts associated with "getting bad sleep") but has completely changed my worldview on sleep and is, so far, making my insomnia extremely manageable.

I used to take some form of sleep aid (melatonin, zzzquil, benadryl) for years before discovering this. I don't need anything to sleep now.
"Paper, it turns out, is a very reliable backup medium for information."

finally my backup strategy of tens of thousands of pages of dot matrix printing on continuous feed paper has been validated
No writeup. Sad!
To be clear, the grads in this article are not computer science college graduates.

The article states that Launch school is one of the “anti bootcamp coding schools,”. Ok school it is, but it's a school that's more of a vocational type training than a college degree seeking program. I'm not sure you can compare college graduates with Launch School graduates directly.
Thanks! I loved that video of Steve, and tried to find how can I actually design such lens like olympic rings myself, but ended nowhere atm.
It's not on the same plane of complexity.
I think it's the opposite. It's the people who are at the greatest risk of violence who have the most to fear from censorship. If you are anywhere near powerful enough to commit genocide, you are also powerful enough to ensure that it's your opponents and not you who are censored.

Consider what kind of books are being banned from American libraries. It's books portraying trans and gender-nonconforming people in a positive or neutral light, not books calling them "groomer pedophiles". It's books telling American history from the perspective of America's exploited minorities, not books calling for ethnic genocide or pretending the US actually upheld the principles of freedom and equality it was allegedly founded on.

To support censorship, especially state censorship, is to support the powerful in imposing their version of the truth on everyone else.
I believe that you have missed the potential significance of Xi's use of massive authoritarian control. Not using vaccines could have been a test to see whether his control would give him a critical advantage over other countries lacking his control. Were a weapon so powerful that the rest of the world could not control it with vaccines, China might come out the most powerful country in the world. If so, then he has learned that the strategy would not work.

Regarding your other arguments, Xi controls what the rest of the world knows about China. He could hide whatever he wanted to.

You seem to be implying that I am "bloody stupid." You are wrong.
OpenAI writes smart contracts in Odra Framework (Rust)
I asked Bing Chat the task (altered from your example), without telling it its name. What did it do? It searched the Web for "Wason selection task"(!) and then proceeded to give the wrong solution, based on Internet references.

Apparently it got confused because the web examples differed from mine, and what was correct in the web examples was incorrect in mine. Sigh. I guess GPT-4 or 5 will handle it?
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