skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think my choice of words "scientific concerns" was poor. And to steel-man McGilchrist's position is difficult since he writes voluminous books that I honestly don't have the patience to read in their entirety. So I kind of have to piece together his ideas from the 3 or 4 podcasts I've seen him on. I also don't entirely agree with his framing.

As I understand it, his principle complaint is that analytical thinking has become the default mechanism for decision making. For example, if we were to have a discussion on whether people should live in cities or suburbs/rural areas, some people would immediately go to quantities and metrics. Maybe questions about carbon footprints or the cost of transportation or the ability to distribute food. In fact, given the demographic of HN, the vast majority here would probably think that was the correct approach. McGilchrist argues that is the result of indoctrination.

As a counter example, consider yourself feeling hungry and looking in the fridge to decide what to eat. You are unlikely to make that decision primarily based on some kind of analytical process involving calories or costs. You might take those into account (e.g. by avoiding eating cake for breakfast or something) but you would also use your intuition and preference. The same is true when you choose where to vacation, or what music to listen to, or who to marry.

Yet applying the same kind of preference to most other societal decisions is frowned upon these days. We are taught to think critically, to follow the data, to use logic as our primary means. We are trained to silence the non-analytic parts of our decision making process as if allowing them to influence our decisions is almost evil. We are taught to be objective and to break down complex questions into smaller pieces that we can quantify.

This leads to a mismatch between the kind of decision making process that is natural in most areas of life and the decision making processes we champion in modern education and policy making. If you are to believe him, half of our brain is dedicated to an intuitive decision making process - so we are advocating for throwing out half of our wisdom. In his view, if an entire half of our brain is dedicated to that kind of reasoning then we should consider that it has sufficient usefulness that we ought not to completely ignore it or work so hard to suppress it.

Again, I'm poorly steel-manning his position and I don't entirely agree with him. But there is something to be said about his position and its effects. It is hard not to see the general trend to use science to answer all questions, even those that you point out ought to remain free from its dominance.
Their reductive view of humans as manipulable minds in a mechanical sack of flesh has led us to nothing but isolation and disconnect.

I couldn't agree more with this, it's the most stupid way of looking at living beings possible. As a separate, disconnected piece of "hardware" running "software"

Walk outside without shoes on, in the grass, breathe the air and take a swim in the ocean and you'll soon realize that you might be made of "meat", but you're also made of everything around you and you're part of it, just like everything else.

When people describe themselves or others in that way, they're describing their value in the context of this horrible economic machine we have built and they're trying their best to understand how they fit into this system.
As was pointed out earlier in other comments, Google generally uses a 1:1 convention for USD->GBP for pricing. (This 1:1 generally accounts for minor f/x fluctuations and for customs duties for importing goods into the U.K.)

GBP 500 x 120% = GBP 600 (rounded)
1. The gas stove ban is for new buildings. He could open his restaurant in any of the thousands of other spaces available in the area. SF is badly under-leased for commercial space anyway.

2. If this is the worst thing we can find about the ban (a wealthy celebrity chef deciding not to open a chain restaurant in a shopping center) then it has no bearing on my opinion of the ban. We don't complain about bank regulations because they're forced to deny loans to people like this, do we?
> "Tell me something that's true, that almost nobody agrees with you on."

> You won't find this on HN because signal to noise ratio is low in such discussions and you will get downvoted.

Over the years I've had several comments that I consider "something that's true, that almost nobody agrees with [me] on" that attracted many upvotes, good replies, and emails from people interested to know more.

It took quite a bit of practice to learn how to phrase things in a way that could meet people where they're at and take them on the same kind of journey of realisation that I'd been through. The requirement to do that applies to any topic that almost nobody agrees with you on; that is not a particular aspect of HN's culture, it is inherent to the way broader society functions.

If you want to change people's minds about something on a topic where almost everyone holds a particular belief or assumption, it's going to take some effort and care.

The OP's comment that they’re complaining about isn't about something that "almost nobody agrees with [them] on", it's a pretty standard talking point right now and throughout the history of technologies that displace human labor.

It's fine to post comments like that, and I agree with them that the discussion it initiated is worthwhile, but if people downvote that kind of comment, it's probably because they find the point repetitive and would prefer to see comments that introduce new ideas.

That said, if anyone ever sees a comment that's really solid but that they think has been unfairly downvoted, they can always email hn@ycombinator.com and ask for it to be reviewed.
8 years in now.
I kind of feel this way sometimes, but some business or even non-business logic will require some inherent minimum amount of cyclomatic complexity. And there is only so much you can do to hide it or spread it around; depending on the specifics it may actually be better to put the whole ugliness in one place

I guess that is why it’s a smell and not an anti pattern, but I work in a codebase with a lot of this kinda stuff and as much as I hate the complexity required to read it, I’ve been around long enough to know why all those ifs are there and even added a few myself.
Actually, it's just a fill word. That doesn't actually have the passive-aggressive import that some people like to write attention-grabbing articles (and to conduct seminars on "violence-free communication" no less) claiming that it has.

But I agree that the topic is open to further interpretation and exploration.
Just old probs
They are a discount buyer, so it is generally a bad deal to use them and you basically shouldn't unless you have no other option. It is similar to getting a pay day loan, or selling stuff to pawn shop or keeping a balance on your VISA. You are going to get a bad deal.

I don't really know what to do about it. How can you ensure people are educated enough to know that a discount buyer is a buyer who will under pay for your house? I guess you legislate away discount buyers completely?

In Canada, they have regulated severely the amount of interest pay day loan companies can charge. This has led to a shrinkage in the number of pay day loan companies. So I guess some similar type of consumer protection laws could be enacted in this space.
I'm like, why would any, like, president, be like, using this Los Angeles lingo in like formal gatherings.
Nobody was really talking about this ARM problem when it was happening. At least not on HN. I am always hearing these things after the fact. How do you stay on top of these things?
Chatbot Arena: a crowd-sourced LLM leaderboard
leaderboard link: https://chat.lmsys.org/?leaderboard
Yes, like in the thing that they practically give away (Home Mini for $50)
This is just another lie. Costs increased very nearly monotonically during the peak of construction in the late 70s and 80s. And during every other country's peak of construction including china right now.
It can't be an issue of reading comprehension -- the parent post actually quotes the grandparent, but then pretends the grandparent wrote of an "era before human greed and narcissism" instead of a time "when culture wasn't just about greed, [and] narcissism" (emphasis mine).

I get that it's easier to engage with what one wants someone to have said, rather than what they actually said, but why quote the relevant part just to ignore it? Fiendish!
Google: AI
Not the OP, but I've been in tech in Australia for over 20 years. When I was young and stupid I worked 80hr weeks, 24/7 on-call for a couple of years and it destroyed me. After that it has been 40hr weeks unless I feel like working longer.
> current trend of people just doing extreme stuff to try to get views. A few people have been killed

This is just natural selection at work.
You can get on the order of 10-30x speedup over NumPy by reducing the allocation of temporaries and fusing across operations. See:

Weld: A Common Runtime for High Performance Data Analytics

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/137425/cidr_w...
This IMHO very important information is buried near the bottom of the page:

The HP-42S represents numbers with a 12-digit decimal mantissa, and an exponent from 10^−499 to 10^499; Free42 Decimal uses a 34-digit decimal mantissa, and an exponent from 10^−6143 to 10^6144; and Free42 Binary uses native binary floating-point, which on all currently supported platforms is IEEE-754 double precision, with a 53-bit binary mantissa which is roughly equivalent to 16 decimal digits, with an exponent from 10^−308 to 10^308.

In other words, results will not be exactly the same as a real HP-42S. For a more authentic HP-42S experience, there's Emu42.

Also, just about every dedicated calculator uses decimal floating point for several reasons, such as simpler circuitry in the ASIC and keeping the human intuition that 0.1 + 0.1 is actually 0.2.
Pollock: A Data Loading Benchmark [pdf]
Maybe for teenagers. I have yet to meet anyone over the age of 16 who cares what color their "bubble" is. iMessage is good, but I would never pick my phone based on it.

My work issued phone is an iPhone 11, which was released in 2019. It is running the latest version of iOS and it is still buttery smooth and a joy to use. The equivalent Android phones released in 2019 would be a Samsung Galaxy S10 (last update was to Android 12) or a Pixel 4 (last update was Android 13).
I really am not sure whether CoAP is helping or hurting. Http is already so simple. I really worry this is distinction without cause & that it makes what should be normal-ish mundane computing special.
I'm in the same place -- I can't understand what is the case for buying this instead of an ipad. If anyone can make a case, I'm curious.
I’m not sure what you mean.

In the OP, the examples involve closures that capture an induction variable. I don’t think Goroutines per se are involved. (Although, again, in C++ you had better not capture a reference and then have the closure in question outlive the referent, and you need to literally type & to get a closure to capture by reference. In Rust, references created by closure follow the same rules as any other reference.) And the earlier proposal:

https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/56010

gives an explicit reference (with an &) as its motivating example.

So I still believe that the whole issue being addressed is bizarre from the perspective of a C, C++ or Rust programmer.

(I’m having trouble thinking of another language that promotes a local variable to be a heap-allocated slot when one explicitly takes a reference to it. Most GC’d languages have local variables that are, themselves, references to the heap such that the referent (the heap slot / box / whatever you want to call it) will outlive the variable if the reference is copied. Pure languages may not strongly distinguish between a value and a reference to a value because the referent can’t change, so a copy is as good as the original. I think that Go is rather odd here, but I could easily be missing something.)

(P.S. C++ also has extends the lifetime of temporaries if a const reference is taken, but only to the end of the scope. This is too magical for my taste. At least the heap isn’t involved.)
If you were looking for a bottom you might have missed it by a year. I'm mostly in to funds and a few low risk tech stocks and I'm up 7.8% over the last year and 10% year to date.

Trying to time the bottom means you're losing out. There's lots of under valued stocks right now if you're looking too buy and hold for a year or more. Most airline stocks are still way undervalued. Even if you missed covid dip they still are going to go up another 30-40% over the next few years.

It might be worth it to wait on the debt default stuff, but I would still say there's many good choices no matter how that plays out... Unless you're in to day trading. Are you investing for long term gains or looking for short term gambles?
I've found "Big Clive" to be very informative. Lots of small devices torn down and reverse engineered, complete with a circuit diagram and a fairly in depth explanation of what is going on and what any given part is doing. Helps to have some basic circuits knowledge, but otherwise very good.
Legislating away discount buyers would be like legislating away payday lenders. The only thing accomplished would be to leave a hole in the market which will be filled by shady loan sharks.
I feel like I'm missing some sort of inside joke ...
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But we stepped in at the wrong time with this AI-Powered buzzword. Any tips to change the title to something more fitting?
It's a great idea, the only issue is, politicians would be bought and it would be reversed.

You'd need some good old fashioned real world statesmen to make something like that happen.
You're right. Add the cost of storage or overprovision for demand fluctuation, add rapid dispatch, then planned and unplanned downtime to nuclear and the $150-200/MWh balloons even further.
It for sure can create dependency.
That's a damn good point!
When I was leaving the UK a couple of years back, I was tempted by some of the marketing blurb from some similar organisations there.

We had a house to sell, and were hoping to get it wrapped up before leaving, so "we buy all houses, we can close the deal in a few weeks, great prices offered!" sounded interesting.

But then you look up people's experiences and the shady practices start to show. They give slightly low-ball offers, but nothing outrageous, 5-10% under market to hook you in. Most people who use them have some sort of extra motivation to sell and these arseholes know it, so at the last minute* they drop their offer significantly, in the region of 20-30%, and try to really screw you.

So we stayed well clear!

(*and there are a lot of last minutes in UK house sales, in fact several last months sometimes... our eventual sales process took about 4 months from acceptance to completion, and either party can drop out with no penalty up to roughly the last two weeks. It's a terrible system)

(The above does not apply to Scotland, who have sorted this out long ago!)
it's tricky because the kind of situations where goto is helpful are usually frowned upon, but sometimes they are unavoidable. like large nested state machines that you need to jump around in or skip parts of. this was more common with C.

when used properly it should be really obvious what it's doing, where it's going, and shouldn't produce any weird side effects. jumping into another function or module or file isn't good.
This is a Progressive Web App [1]? Terrible reading experience. The home page is just the book "cover", with no way to scroll down to the table of contents because it's convinced it has to behave as a real "book".

Each page is a tiny snippet of text. This entire website would be better served as
a table of contents at the top and use anchor links to jump to specific headers (and back). Performs 1000% faster too.

And to top it off these are incredibly opinionated thoughts of a single person masquerading as life advice.

[1] https://www.onedayyoullfindyourself.com/how-to-read-this-boo...
There’s a lot of truth in this comment.

I left my job last year to go on sabbatical because of burnout. Only after I left did it fully hit me how major a factor the challenges in my personal life had become, and how impossible it had been to give myself space to heal from what had been happening while still working a high stress PM job.

A long term relationship on the rocks, nurtured through COVID only to end anyway. The passing of a grandparent, and another grandparent, and a dear pet. A car accident (not my fault), and on the list goes.

I’m in a much better place now, but when I was in the middle of these things, my brain tried to convince me I just wasn’t handling the stress at work. It told me I should be able to keep my personal and work lives separate. In retrospect this was all nonsense, but it’s hard to see until you’re able to catch your breath.

Take a break.
>Seriously?

Yes, seriously.

>I have a relative who lives in CA and bought a pair of AR-15s a few years ago, just because...

No you don't. AR-15s are illegal (felony) in California.
The Financial Times
A 4 day workweek makes a lot of sense.

1. It’s not losing as many hours as one would think. Add 1 more hour to the 4 days and you only lose 4 hours in a 40 hour workweek.

2. One of the big issues facing employees in the workplace in the US, for example, is scheduling errands that are only available during the work week. This includes doctor appointments, banking related stuff, govt related work, etc. The 3rd day off is a perfect opportunity to attain these tasks.

3. Weekends tend to be busy. That’s when you have parties, have to attend weddings, have to attend birthdays, etc. A 3rd day off actually allows people a day to relax.

I think a 4 day work week will be inevitable in the US very soon. The only concern I have is that for it to be actually useful, it shouldn’t just become a 3rd weekend day. So maybe having a floating 3rd day off, which is a different day for employees, or is in the middle of the week on a Wednesday, would be far more effective than just giving everyone a longer weekend.
You make an excellent point. When I was in jail there were many people who were charged only with obstruction of justice or resisting arrest. Often what would happen is law enforcement would try to arrest someone or search their property and the suspect would interfere with the process. Later, whatever caused the police to take action in the first place was nullified, either by reason of being illegal or having no factual basis, but the suspect was now still in jail for potentially years based on their (possibly) rightful action in trying to stop the police from whatever they were not supposed to be doing.

Sometimes it can just be a lose/lose scenario once you come to the attention of law enforcement. If at all possible, never put yourself in a situation, or associate with those who are going to bring heat upon you from the police.
most non-trivial numpy operations require temporaries that require new allocations and copies. Eigen3's design lets you avoid these through clever compilation tricks while remaining high-level.

sometimes numpy can elide those (e.g. why a+=b is faster than a=a+b) but this it not possible in general. Sometimes people use monstrosities like einsum... but I find it more intuitive to just write in C or C++...

In addition to the time spent in allocation / gc / needless copying, the memory footprint can be higher by a factor of a few (or more...).
I think you read the comment as a lot harsher than it actually was.
I would be willing to bet $10 that this whole article was written primarily in order to give substance to its perfectly excellent headline pun.
The Deluge is one of the best devices I have ever owned. I used to play with individual software synthesizers for a while and also tried to connect them to DAWs but it never clicked. Playing with a synth was always really fun but not so putting it all together.

The Deluge freed me from my desktop, from endless screen time and it allows me to create. It may not be perfect and it may not be perfectly DAWless solution for many because of some missing features like mastering and compression. But for me as a hobby where I just waste time on making crappy electronic music of which 95% will never reach the ears of anyone else (besides my poor wife) it is perfect.

Of course it can also be used by more serious musicians. But for my it enables a unique way of playing with music which I have never experienced anywhere else. And it finally is a DAW which I can (almost) 100% understand.
SMS here is used for spam and 2FA. Even the government and utilities companies use viber for many things.
Kinda procrastinating until there's an update stating the contest is over, will share when that happens!
Alas, poor CORBA, I knew him well.
This fucking sucks, no thanks!
Cicada 3301 First Puzzle Walkthrough
> but they're not nearly as good as cgpt

Would the average English teacher know?
That page says the HP-42S was "widely regarded as one of the most desired calculators ever made". Was it more "desired" than the HP-41C, with all the accessories that you could get for it?
In general I think there’s something to be said for sticking with languages that match your model of approaching a problem. DHH gave a good, albeit a bit rambly, keynote on this topic once. He compared some of the tools selection conversations to the equivalent of people comparing gaming consoles purely by specs when in reality, picking a console mostly boiled down to what you subjectively enjoyed more. I like that idea as a rule of thumb and encourage people to start there and go with what feels right for them before making deeper choices. (Lots of nuance here, don’t want to delve too deep so please view from that context :) )
32-bit recording is so superior to 24-bit recording that no sound system is modern without it. The TP-7 is outdated on release.
With Linux, you can get into those "tweaks" tools to separately set lower scaling (I go with 125%), but slightly larger fonts: less real-estate lost, still readable.

On Mac, as it has no subpixel rendering, going with anything less than 4K results in lack of smooth lines and jaggy fonts.

If there's one drawback, it's that rendering 4K can tax your hardware (eg even full screen 4K Google Meet on pre-Iris Xe laptop will keep your CPU pegged at 80%).
That and prefixing something -- anything! -- "unpopular opinion".
Enterprise, because reasons.
Just buy tech used, save money and reduce dependence on slave labor. Swappa has been good for me.
Unless you don't need to change your code.
I have not increased dosage beyond the 30mg they gave me at the start. Every month I try to take 3 days off. I make sure to always take it at the same time every day and I try to sleep as best I can and eat at the same time every day.
Seems like literally everyone on HN tonight is right there with you.

Reading all these comments, I’m feeling equally lonely as a fan (but admittedly seldom a customer) of basically everything TE does.
Really addictive! I got to level four pretty quickly, but getting throttled on most attempts now.
Exchanges of over some amount of money should be supervised by a third party just to check it's not a scam - how hard could it be? I can't believe there are no safeguards for people...I can't believe it wouldn't be worth it socially