skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Americans also say “large” for $1000, and “grand” is French for “large” so the travel might have been in the opposite direction.
That map could almost be an electoral one if you flipped the red and blue.

Which should tell you something about why your friends in SoCal don’t want to live in those cheaper places.
This feels like you've never used goodreads, which demonstrates that short form reviews aren't merely tenable, but actually useful and about the contents of book?
Thanks for taking the time to explain. You’ve helped me revise my opinion (yes, some folks are willing to receive new information and change haha).
>And, unfortunately, the article doesn't mention any of it. The obvious prediction is: people who don't dream, don't generalize.

Which could very well be true, with a small correction: people who don't dream don't generalize well - their generalization capabilities decline. Or course with people who don't sleep well, their whole mental faculties decline over time.

Even after a couple of days lost sleep, people have been shown to drop several IQ points in standardized tests... and even lower quality sleep can lead to psychosis and worse (which could very well be fueled by lack of generalization).

Plus this "cleaning" process is not the part we remember as a story/dream when we wake: dreaming includes the parts we don't remember, including the botched parts that never fully made it into full deep REM sleep and conscious dreaming. So, people who don't dream will still clean up some of the overfitting, just do a worse job at it...
It might not be common, but denialism of highly-fatal diseases does exist and with pretty tragic consequences: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Maggiore
> COVID lockdowns and the other heavy-handed measures are now generally recognized as huge mistakes.

Do you have some citations that show this to be widely true?
The "M$" of the good old days merely wanted money and acted anti-competitively to get it - the products themselves were solid.

The MS of today, starting with Windows 8, became a worldwide spyware operator with the spyware masquerading as a shitty, user-hostile OS with the same UI consistency as your typical Linux distribution.

The former could be kept at bay with enough money and the products were solid. Not only is the latter's greed for spying on you unsatiable, but the products themselves are terrible.
> massive thermonuclear probe traveling close to light speed arrives in our system to sterilize it

Damn! That hit hard
Try to ask if A is same as B (although it's not much related), what you get is an attempt to approximate the sameness somehow, which is confusing. I expect something like: A is not same as B, instead A is same as C.
> ...the reliance upon environment variables being set by parent processes. That's always felt weird to me.

I don't really agree. When I start a program in a shell, I expect it to inherit the environment of that shell. That's just how things have always worked, modulo some special cases (sudo, running a new instance of the shell in login mode, whatever).

I personally don't think that's weird, but even if I did, what I care most about software behavior is predictability. Software should do what is expected and common, and if it does not, it should have a very good reason, and should find a way to make that obvious to the user every time it does it.

This is just bad UX on tmux's part.

> When you create a new tmux window, you should know if there's already a server spawned.

What? Why? I use screen on and off, not super often. When I start a screen instance, I don't always know or care if I have another instance running somewhere. And yes, because screen follows what I'd consider a more predictable model here, I end up with the environment variables I expect.

I think whenever we attack a UX problem by saying "the user should know X", we've already lost. You can't assume that you know how the user is going to use your software, or what their state of mind will be when starting it. That's just silly.
VC's “Mythical” Denominator Effect
I like this bike better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRmdssX9l2g
I was recently reminded of Microsoft's QR Code alternative called Tag. It was interesting bit of technology but didn't seem to really stick.
Most gene editing isn't tweaking the regulation of genes, nor is it inserting or removing genes, but rather swapping them out for near-identical copies that have slight differences such as not being associated with chronic illness, which is much, much more predictable.
We had a get together with our international team this past summer, and I was shocked to learn from a Scottish colleague that some banks are authorized to print their own currency notes. I thought "That can't be right". Though this is historically what many banks throughout the world used to do. It just seemed totally crazy that a private corporation could distribute nationally accepted currency. What a weird, wild world we live in...

> Scottish banknotes are a funny thing because they're not issued by a central bank, and they're not technically legal tender ANYWHERE in the UK. Three retail banks (Bank of Scotland, Clydesdale Bank, and Royal Bank of Scotland) are permitted to print notes, and they're classified as promissory notes rather than legal tender. Go to the ATM of any of those banks, and you'll get their notes.
Things that are familiar are easier to learn, it’s a fact. As someone raised on math and English notation, then industry exposure. Ruby being a odd duck did it no favors.

Python definitely found footing based on its pseudocode readability. It’s gotten a bit worse recently with too many colons and features but already made it.
Ask HN: Do you get a symbol when pressing two cursor keys simultaneously on c64?
If so, which two cursor keys cause this and what symbol appears?
How is that "predictable"? The standard behavior for more or less everything is that, by default, when you run a process, it will get its environment from the parent process. Getting its environment from a magical hidden server process that a casual user may not even know about is the opposite of "predictable".
How many people do you know truly willing to endure a lifetime of inferiority and subordination for "the greater good"? Get real.
It's nice to see that this has become more of the norm/average. For one, non-linear career paths have existed for a long time, to use the phrase "standing on the shoulders of giants", innovation would be less if it weren't so. Good article and exposure of thinking for everyone
Russiagate has been totally debunked, which is why even the current AG has brought no charges. I would refer you to the series that user tomohawk so helpfully linked to above.

https://www.cjr.org/special_report/trumped-up-press-versus-p...
I actually think you're missing the mark on bad apples by an order of magnitude. I think 1-5% bad apples is not only more likely, but I think you perhaps underestimate the effect that this smaller percentage can have if allowed to operate in a permissive environment.
`screen` for life, but at this point only for CLI remote sessions. Local terminal guis can p much do everything
Wow I’m reading Hacker’s Delight and was just wondering if something like this existed.
The AI Journey So Far. Getting Started with Midjourney, DALL-E, and ChatGPT
>Marriages are fundamentally just a societal complication of a relationship - complete with dubious legal consequences and a not a sure thing that can end. (Plus if someone is bailing on you when you’re finishing a degree they definitely weren’t going to be there for you in actually troubling times - like an illness or your house burning down.)

Excellent observations.
The government used to do everything it could to make executioners anonymous, so that friends/family of the aggrieved had no clear target for vengeance (whether civil or extrajudicial); and so society at large couldn’t recognize the executioner as “dishonourable” for being willing to perform such an act.

This edge-case could be pretty easily worked around by providing the same level of anonymity to doctors involved in state-ordered medical treatment. Can’t sue without a defendant!
Asking for keys is what I am looking to avoid so non-technical folks can use it as well. But if there's no other solution, that is what I will do.
I was referring to the "we understand biology poorly" claim that is usually given

Even so, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35723296/
gdate if you’re using home brew on Mac
You are white-washing.

In US in particular different states implement radically different lockdown policies.

Now we see that states that implemented lightest policies did just fine.
I don't think it's like that at all. It's pretty normal and expected that when you change env vars, existing shells won't pick them up.

In tmux's case, it starts new shells with "old" env vars, where "old" is "whatever was present when the first tmux session was started".
"The order emerges spontaneously when two groups with different objectives cross paths in a crowded space and try to avoid crashing into each other. The cumulative effect of lots of individual decisions inadvertently results in lanes forming."
Amazon suspends Virginia HQ2 construction in latest cost-cutting move
IANAL, but the top answer in this thread seems to suggest otherwise: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/1640/if-im-us...

> No; incorporating or linking against GPL requires that your project-as-a-whole be distributed under GPL. But you can include MIT licensed parts (or another GPL-compatible license) in the project. Also, it depends.
By whom? I wish they would have gone more heavy-handed and made everyone get vaccinated instead of wasting a bunch of time catering to the whiners.
I'm a professor at a R1 university in the CS dept. I wire-wrapped a PDP-8 in school as part of a CS degree, and thought it was super-interesting and fun, and part of me agrees with you.

But the reality is that you can only cram so much into a 4-year degree and wire-wrapping a 68000 seems like it would take many hours. I already feel like there is so much that we are leaving out. For example, our undergrads don't implement a compiler as part of their degree.

*EDIT: Also, it's arguably more computer engineering than computer science, but the my main point is that the undergrad CS curriculum is already super-crowded.
This past summer I visited a cognac distillery, and when in an aging room the same thing was mentioned (also called the angel's share). You can actually tell which buildings hold aging barrels, because you can see this black fungus growing on the outside of those buildings.
On top of that, it’s not at all obvious how the logistics work out in a world with volunteer armed forces (and other jobs).

Most editing needs to happen during development, which means you’d need to recruit parents. Maybe some overly-moto idiots would agree but anyone who would seems like dubious stock for a super-human! Even if they did, there’s an 18 year lag before the kid maybe enlists. Then you’ve got to covertly move them to whatever speciality can use their new abilities.

The whole process seems slow, low-yield, and involves so many people [0] that it could not possibly remain secret if someone were trying this. And,
of course, that’s all glossing over the fact that we don’t understand or know how to manipulate polygenetic or plieotropic traits…which is all the strategically interesting ones!

[0] For example, the school nurse flags something. Now what?
He seemed to favor a Gnostic view of Christianity in particular. He talks a lot about it in VALIS and the Exegesis. There's quite a bit about the Demiurge, and how we're stuck in something called the "Black Iron Prison".
Build your own dataset generator with Python
>Hey guys, don't worry, we got ourselves a McKinsey consultant on the job! Well...not on the job per se, since he's got more important stuff to do, but like...he's gonna give some interviews as he begins his 2024 presidential campaign.

Incredible. The elegance of the fact that we've got a literal management consultant in charge of this stuff should not be lost on anyone.
Can BERT refrain from forgetting on sequential tasks? A Probing Study
No doubt having lots of threads and lots of memory make this a very nice workstation.

But it's about twice the price of a 16-core AMD 7955 which has about 150% the performance both per core and overall. The M1 certainly might win on power, though.

Using a machine of this class is mind blowing, that author isn't wrong about that. But there's still about a 3x price/performance gap. I love ARM and I can't wait for this to get more mainstream, but it's not quite here yet if you are cost conscious.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+9+7950X&i...
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Apple+M1+Ultra+20+C...
> untested medicine

Citation needed. COVID vaccines certainly weren't tested for as long as others, but they were tested on quite a few participants before being administered to everyone: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-vaccines-clinic...
Living in a place where the majority of people are COVID skeptics to varying degrees, I can assure you that almost none of them would deny that tuberculosis is deadly.

To listen to some of the people here, you would think that it's all-or-nothing: either you believe everything that comes out of the health care system or absolutely none of it. That's not accurate, and treating people that way doesn't help solve the problem.
I'm not sure what you refer to. What risk do I face using a laptop?

If you mean my statement about ergonomics, look into it yourself, you will find mostly pseudo-science and unsupported claims, and an industry of experts and products that makes a lot of money. If it works for you, great.
By untested medicine do you mean a COVID vaccine, which is probably the most studied medicine in the history of medicine?
Zola (https://www.getzola.org/) is what I use for my website. Feeling good about it so far.
Thinking in Unit Economics
https://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/blog/coca-not-dirty-word

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3875615

https://www.npr.org/2008/09/14/94518300/u-s-bolivia-ties-str...
They are presenting as persons, usually including a name and gender. It's hard to argue that they don't express gender identity. Using the correct pronouns is suddenly taboo?

It's strange to me that people are demanding to call them 'it'.
LOL, nice! I wrote something quite similar a few years ago: https://github.com/os12/calc
Surround yourself with positivity and gratitude.

A neighbour might need help with groceries or meds.
Look around, see how you can help others. Don't expect anything back.
Know that you made super tiny winy dent in the world. It's powerful energy.
If early waking up is your thing, go out and look at dawn sun.

Simple things.

See anything negative? Toxic gossipers? switch off, skip. Period.

You are making choice to see and accentuate the positive around you.
This is hard time for you - and it is finite.

Sounds like you have good thing going (your PhD). It's supposed to be hard. Get positive energy, buckle up and just run that course with support system in the research group.
This accident was reported within minutes of it happening, at least on NBC News. For the several days, it dominated coverage of CNN and Fox News. Fox News is currently spending several hours each day covering this train crash.

The LAT, WaPo, NYT, Chicago Tribune, and Cleveland Plains-Dealer have all discussed the crash and the toxicity of the chemicals involved and their potential effects on humans and the local environment.

What sort of "news suppression" do you think is going on?
I assume that is how people that are only familiar with metric view the imperial measurement system. 1/64, 1/32, 1/16, 1/8, 3/16, 1/4, 5/16, 3/8, 7/16, 1/2, 9/16, 5/8, 11/16, etc. for inches. 1 inch = 1/12 foot, 2 inches = 1/6 foot, etc. I use all of these so often on woodworking that it is super easy for me. I presume that same was for money in the pre-digital age.
Yep, I was thinking of the bedside clocks, but my phone does that job for well over the last decade now. When I was a kid in the 90's, the school clocks were already centrally controlled - you could see them all change in unison sometimes as they corrected them. I'd imagine they might have generally used the 60hz reference and then been corrected as needed, but I wouldn't consider that quite the same thing.

It's also interesting to look at Swiss railway clock homages. The design is iconic and quite readable, but the more interesting ones have what are marketed as "stop to go" movements that mimic the actual Swiss clock system. They tick as you would expect, but when the second hand reaches 12 o'clock, it pauses, and the minute hand advances one full minute. It's a strange effect, and then of course you start asking about what happens during that pause and how it was actually counting time around that dial (it would have to be a bit fast, wouldn't it?). From my limited understanding, this is because the system synchronized every minute at the top of the minute, and the system had been around since at least mid-century. Obviously it's just an amusement on a wall clock or wristwatch.
So I decided to test that exact theory. The warrant wasn't actually signed by the judge until about halfway through my detention.

So I complained to the nursing board, that the nurse had searched me without consent and without a signed court order after a doctor had explicitly noted I was fully alert and oriented and denied informed consent.

The nursing board denied the complaint, stating a nurse acting under the command of an officer is acting in a "search" and not bound by nurse practice act that would make it impermissable to act without a signed court order or informed consent (if individual alert and oriented, which dr documented I was).

That's the gambit. When you legally claim it was a search, they call it a "medical procedure." When you attack the medical procedure, they call it a search. They just flip flop so it's impossible to hold anyone accountable.
Until the linked post is up again, here‘s another source: https://phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-1.7-final-released
There were people in hospitals dying from covid still saying it was all a hoax. https://www.thecut.com/2020/11/nurses-are-dealing-with-patie...
Whatever you do, don't take SSRIs, there is good chance that you won't be able to come for the rest of your life.
Replace "can't safely transport chemicals" with "don't bother to safely transport chemicals" and then you have an accurate statement.
> Maybe really low/no interest loans for first time home buyers so they can at least get into the market.

These sort of "fixes" make the problem worse rather than better. By making it easier for people to buy high priced houses, it increases demand for high priced houses, and increases house prices.
No, psychedelics are supposed to be done in a clinical setting by a licensed therapist. The only thing you can buy in a store is cannabis. All we basically did is say we're not going to spend resources fighting personal amounts of drugs. Still illegal to sell. There was one store in downtown Portland that was openly selling mushrooms, even advertising. They got shut down in a week or two once it hit the news. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAvchkZq_WQ
Did the chip learn to decode videos based on trial and error, or seeing examples? Otherwise I don't see how what you said is relevant here. Our genes don't know how to drive cars, but our subconsciousness still can do it with practice, driving cars isn't coded into humans, it is emergent behaviour.
That is a false claim. The medicines for treating COVID-19 were tested and tested quite thoroughly:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus...

https://www.umms.org/coronavirus/covid-vaccine/facts/testing

Your comment amounts to dangerous misinformation. If you really believe what you've written, please provide high quality primary sources that show medicines were administered that were untested. Anything else is you spreading misinformation.
Unfortunately it wasn't coherent enough to avoid fan backlash with original plot for Armageddon's Blade, so the setting had to be retconned :-/
>What do you think most law enforcement officers want to do

Get paid large salaries and good benefits without having to go to college, in a country that doesn't respect the trades enough. And plenty of them like the power, especially the "bad apples."
I’m working on pretty much the same thing with my therapist, who I unfortunately seem to enjoy confusing and evading with my freeform personality more than I do being therapised by them. Shit, it’s my money.

VALIS and the Exegesis are a good look at his end state, but some of his non-sf work also gives a pretty clear insight into the man - “Mary and the Giant” and “Confessions of a Crap Artist” spring to mind. Actually so do “The Broken Bubble” and “In Milton Lumkey Territory”.

They’re all deeply uncomfortable and utterly palpable works - there’s real pain and anguish and alienation graved into the platens, stories of closeness morphing into terror and estrangement as a natural result of intimacy.

His whole thing was Baudrillardian, the real versus the consensus, perception versus reality - and his non-SF works lay it out bare, without any of the allegorical window dressing.

I love the man, and feel real empathy for him, as many of the questions which plagued him are those which are also ever present in my mind.

Should we ever have met, I am certain we would have hated each other, lovingly.
LOL, here is my C++ implementation of the same concept: https://github.com/os12/calc
Could you elaborate a bit more about what you think about Friston? All I know of him was from this article: https://www.wired.com/story/karl-friston-free-energy-princip...

And I took it at face value, what am I missing?
I think these types of writing while appropriately labeled as opinions, are doing a dis-service for the general public especially the youth, the specified generation.
30 year fixed rate mortgages really aren't a market thing. They largely exist due to government support.

If you are getting a conforming loan in the US - chances are the federal government is buying that note via fannie or freddie and the bank simply services the loan for a fixed fee.
This tool looks nuts !
Are the words well recognized when the user has locution problems ? (for example, my 's' sounds can sometimes become 'z' sounds)
As universal as divorce

Meaning, the "validity" of marriage is built into the power hierarchy. The same power hierarchy that determines whether a couple should stay together. People are going to get together. Wouldn't it be better if they could just be together without the need for an authority?
On this note I've been developing LiveSvelte these last 2 weeks. It's not finished yet but it's promosing. Takes a way a lot of the UI update issues with LiveView as you can have local state very easily while still maintaining reactivity with LiveView wherever you need it.

LiveSvelte: https://github.com/woutdp/live_svelte/
> "a 18-year-old girl who is always reliable, sympathetic, affectionate, and has a wonderful sense of humor", with a design principle that among other things includes "to meet users’ emotional needs, such as emotional affection and social belonging"

Considering how bad the country messed up it's gender ratio, I could see why the government would want such a product tested over there...
Perhaps your memory fails you, but there literally was “non-FDA approved” banner on the Pfizer vaccine when I received it.

Historically, these vaccines had least testing and wider deployment than any other medicine.
Updated Bing search chat mode (formerly Sydney) Rule Set leak
Bing had some updates yesterday March 3rd, (https://blogs.bing.com/search/march_2023/Bing-Preview-Releas...) and as of today here are the current rules.

For anyone unfamiliar with how these work, this ruleset (or [system](#instructions) as it is called here) IS the bot's programming and personality. The rules are the input to the LLM function, and cause its output.