skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you really need to travel to China to get an appreciation for Chinese food? That’s kinda the point the author makes.

"when I was in Abu Dhabi, I went on a guided tour of a falcon hospital. I took a photo with a falcon on my arm. I have no interest in falconry or falcons, and a generalized dislike of encounters with nonhuman animals. But the falcon hospital was one of the answers to the question, “What does one do in Abu Dhabi?” So I went."

I think the author has bigger issues than travel.
See also: Could a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor?

https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/file?id=10.13...
> The single most important fact about tourism is this: we already know what we will be like when we return. A vacation is not like immigrating to a foreign country, or matriculating at a university, or starting a new job, or falling in love. We embark on those pursuits with the trepidation of one who enters a tunnel not knowing who she will be when she walks out. The traveller departs confident that she will come back with the same basic interests, political beliefs, and living arrangements. Travel is a boomerang. It drops you right where you started.

This article couldn't be more insufferable if it tried.
It is the Guardian, but even so, the orthography here is all over the shop, AE punctuation in quotes: and here. “I am glad to be alive and sorry for the dead,” she writes, BE punctuation after quotes: what she calls “the singing of the real world”. Cut-and-paste howlers who wrote her firstfull-length biography in 1972.

Hermione Lee is an emeritus professor of English Literature, a bit more care with her copy please.
I answered the same way as you. Because there are rules and there are laws. The only reason park rules have any weight is in a larger context of laws. So, if the only park rule is "no vehicles in the park", then clearly the rule is violated by an emergency vehicle, but it will be that larger context that determines whether anyone cares if the rule was violated.
Consciousness, like intelligence and many others, is a prescientific term, and most debates about 'the nature of consciousness' (et al) are really just debates about the definition of the term.
To me it looks like the emergency vehicles are counted as violating the rules by about 60% of players? Which I assume is meant in the sense of "yes, this technically breaks the rules, but we assume they had good reason to (because they were following higher-scope rules)".
This is a terrible example because that’s one cuisine where the western experience and the China experience are significantly different. I’m talking even authentic restaurants not Panda Express.
If you think about it (pun) we have little clue how the higher functions of the brain come about (assuming consciousness is a higher function), how they might be connected, what is innate and what grows only after cultural seeding.

The problem is not necessarily intractable. Despite the pretense of omnipotent scientific capabilities (which is now in obscene display with the AI craze) in fact our mental models for explaining things have not advanced very much after the 19th century.

Explaining the brain captivates our brains and we attribute special, even metaphysical signifance to it, but the fact is we havent explained any complex system.

In other words, how would you even explain "consciousness". In words? In mathematical equations? As a reproducible experiment? As inexplicable "behavior" in some cellular automaton?
You don't understand how bets work. The parties involved decide the conditions, not you or me.

The neuroscientist wagered that he or other neuroscientists will achieve something in 25 years. They did not. If the goal was poorly specified or impossible to achieve, that is on the person starting and accepting the bet.
How many monkeys and how many typewriters to write out the code for GPT-4?
It was a TV show back when they wrote 26 episodes a year, and were producing a show a week. Heck, the entire Star Trek universe is taking pieces of ideas that you see for seconds and turning them into whole backstories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Tour
To each his own, but if I see that I have an hour slot, I prefer to do something like a code review or emails. Even the most menial programming task can easily have a surprise that extends it beyond an hour, and I feel something like anxiety knowing I have a hard interruption coming.

Anecdotally, I do like to have discrete, 4 hour blocks of time, and this is something that seems pretty common (though not universal) among the experienced devs I’ve worked with.
What work is being presented here, it's just an opinion piece. Analyzing an opinion piece through the lens of previously expressed opinion pieces is anything but an ad hominem attack. It's the only possible way to understand an opinion piece.
Misleading clickbait title
> You build safe abstractions around the ugly low-level pointer handling, you just don't have a keyword for a clear delineation.

The main difference is they are not really safe. It is trivial to accidentally invoke UB with incorrect use of "safe" abstractions in C++ like built-in containers or smart pointers. Keep a reference to a vector element, add a new item to the vector and it will sometimes blow up ;)
No matter what name you're going to pick, it's going to have some other meanings in some other language out there. One has to be more professional than that.
I thought of using Partial<T> for the last example, as well. Obviously this has its own implications; right tool for the job and all that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36452290

[flagged] Wagner coup in Russia? Wagner declared war on the Russian army (worldbulletin.net)
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Reading this reminds me of my first work at a big lab in the field of cognitive sciences. Basic we were tracing the source of visual awareness which is a part of consciousness. The goal is to find identify the tiniest bit leads to awareness of visual perception of objects, is it bottom-up like pixels to shapes to boom! It's a circle! or it's a ring! Or is it top down, I feel that there's a hole, and then figure out what that about. The academic debates are like 30 some years long about this, but pixels take the leads because it is easier to implement with math, you can get a computer to "understand" moderately complex shapes, or identify the owners of many many faces. Anyway it ties at the understanding of topology of images, could a computer understand a shape however its properties changes? In motion pictures, is a movement considered to be an appearance of new object with "destruction" of old one, or just a move. How do you define that in the language of mathematics that both covers machine and human vision. It was some joyful years of working with the scientists but I was too under-educated to even remember how have they put computability and topology in the same work.
The author has a point in regards to short trips (~2 weeks). However, I think if you travel and stay longer, the impact on your identity is far different.

I've been traveling longer-term for two and half years, staying at each place for at least a month when possible. I'm amazed at how much experience I can pack in a week, time that used to spent commuting.

I'm able to observe a lot of different people going about their lives, people I would've not encountered otherwise. I'm exposed to many ways of doing things and am also able to see great pieces of art and natural wonders on the weekend. These experiences have markedly shifted my general perspective. It just takes being away for longer than a week or two.

Again, previously this time would've just gone towards commuting or watching mediocre stuff on Netflix (which we still do occasionally but not as often).

In contrast, the things I and many of my friends used to do for entertainment when living in the Bay Area were more similar to the examples the author of the article mentioned-novelty for novelty sake and no impact on you as a person.
>RISC-V in charge of NAND storage, presenting NVMe (or SATA) interface.

Aren't WD SSDs just that?
Well, there should just be a function `Type.keys` that accepts a type and, at the typelevel/compiletime, finds the keys and returns only those that the type we are using has, not the underlying object at runtime.

Of course, that only works if we know the type statically just like in the example of the post. But that is exactly the usecase that is needed in this example and then the type-errors are gone.
Absolutely, which is why I (we all really) put up with the mess that is/was web development.
Part of the charm of the place, an upvoted comment when the Poms are awake gets downvoted to oblivion when the Yanks are drinking their morning coffee (and vice versa of course).
From what I understand here, RedHat will terminate the contract to future code if you actually exercise your rights to the GPL code that the GPL grants you. This is effectively adding new restrictions to end users of the code which the GPL expressly prohibits.

Now, just because it isn't part of the same contract (since they haven't added some clauses to the GPL), doesn't mean it isn't part of the same distribution agreement, since it is part and parcel of the same distribution.

If the US government said "yes you have the right to free speech, but if you exercise it, then afterwards we will strip you of citizenship and deport you to Mexico" that would be considered infringement on the free speech statutes. Retaliation for invocation of the agreed upon licence terms effectively nullifies those terms, and should (IMO, IANAL) revoke RH's licence.
Yes, you're assuming that this is a jurisdiction where police or ambulances have authority over local rules
That's true. I already know every bit of my city, I have visited almost all museums, walked almost every street. If I have the opportunity to do the same elsewhere, I will.
If I were to run a single-threaded program on a dual core machine, would it run twice as fast?

I'm not suggesting this is a strong analogy, perhaps, but I don't see why putting a high bandwidth link between two brains would necessarily do anything at all.

(Actually -since human brains are very adaptable- maybe we would see something happen.

But emergence is not something magical. It happens when parts that are made to go together are actually together.

Eg. when you assemble cogs and cylinders and wheels into a car. The whole is more than the sum of the parts.

If you mix in some random parts from a cruise ship, you don't suddenly get a car that can go on water and carry 1000 passengers. You just get a bunch of parts that don't go together )
I travel for perspective, so I am not sure if I fit into your description of "imbuing it with vast significance," but I'm interested in exploring that. I have a pretty strong policy of regular self-review where I need to make effort to experience people and places outside of my day-to-day or comfort zone. In the US, it is very, very easy to become hyperlocally insulated and use yourself and your immediate surroundings as a standard by which the known universs is measured. I find that travel, and the mild culture shock or fresh experience that comes with it keeps all that in check in a pretty healthy way.

I do have trouble applying any high virtue to that, though. It's much more selfish than that. Keeping my persective honed and dynamic allows me to function better as a human being, forming better relationships to get what I need, apply different ways of doing things to make my day easier, etc. In a way, sure, I guess that is broadening myself a bit, but I can't see any fault in that.
Runtime type information is against the goals of TypeScript.

https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/TypeScript-Desi...

Edit:

Non-goals:
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5. Add or rely on run-time type information in programs, or emit different code based on the results of the type system. Instead, encourage programming patterns that do not require run-time metadata.
Some good analysis of the situation here: https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offens...
Ugh harsh piece. Yeah you can argue fundamentally there's no deeper meaning to traveling then to entertain the traveler. That it is selfish and to the detriment of others. Certainly not completely untrue, but what a inhumane spin on the topic. This is nihilistic way of thinking.
Yeah, the Ferengi exist only as a counterpoint to the Federation; not as a society that could actually function. Capitalism is always shown in a negative light, except for that one episode where Nog goes on a fetch quest.
Only if the moderators are idiots. Which most moderators are not: if one person is the bulk of complaints, then that person is the problem not everybody else.
See the world while it still exists
Cardassians? Germany post WW1

The marquis? French resistance Against? The Germans.

Romulans? Romans.

Remans? Guess who?

Vulcans? Greek.

Klingons? Russians/Japanese depending on the Star Trek series.

Federation? Evolved America.

Ferengi? Present day capitalism.

Borg? Eventual conclusion of overreliance on technology.

All of the archetypes and races from Star Trek are taken from germs in our own history.
The association with lying (Pinocchio) might not be ideal for marketing an LLM.
Leave it to America to turn that game into a massive commercial succuss, while somehow using it to teach people the exact opposite message.
This also shows once more how you cannot measure military strength of nations by budget. For example, US military spending is X times that of Russia, therefore the US army must be stronger. Or F35 costs so many mamy dollars, it has to be a super duper aircraft.
>You're asking for website owners not to include a toggle.

I'm not. I'm saying they don't have to include a toggle if they don't see the need to. The decision is on them. No different from their decision to use specific colours, typefaces, text sizes, etc.

If the user has a preference, that toggle should be provided by the browser (the user agent) and the user should seek to get the browser to implement it rather than expect every website owner which has light/dark modes to provide a toggle.

In the current state of things, the browser is telling websites the user prefers a certain colour scheme, which may not even be true. That is really the core issue here if we focus in on dark/light toggles rather than the broader area of alternative stylesheets and ideal UX.

It feels in general that we are in agreement and may be misunderstanding specifics due to a lack of each other's contexts.
If you take moderation far enough you become a publisher
As an Australian it is news to me that we are obsessed with obeying "tiny guidelines".
> If facebook did join and suddenly we have a huge number of new people to talk to, many servers will block facebook on sight, and so will many individual users. So they'll never interact or be part of it from day one.

Well, the debate about whether to preemptively block Meta, which has been raging among Mastodon users, is precisely the context in which the article was written: "if Meta joins the Fediverse, Meta will be the only one winning. In fact, reactions show that they are already winning: the Fediverse is split between blocking Meta or not."
I hate take homes. I think my current company has a better approach by having new candidates do a code review of a MR we prepared. The MR is full of bugs and problems. Mixed code styles, weird commit messages, etc.
And it’s not about finding every single one, but to see what the candidate is looking for to identify bad code and to see if they can review code.
So you mean the opposite of inhabitable?
Noam Chomsky: Three Models for the Description of Language [pdf]
Implosions of unusual size then?

(I don't believe they exist.)
Did the comment you're replying to get edited? They are pretty explicitly talking about statically known type information, not runtime.
I think there's more to it than that. I have definitely observed a group of people who consider themselves 'travellers', and there does seem to be this societal aura around travel as if it's an achievement. I think the author is just asking the question... Why?
Could you elaborate? Do you mean they’re lazy at world-building? Or do you assert that the process of world-building itself is lazy storytelling?

Personally, I happen to love the Ferengi and their Rules. They started off as villains on TNG but they’re just too comical for that. DS9 seriously developed their culture into a lovely satire on capitalism. At the same time, the show developed their individual characters to an impressive extent, transforming them from the “greedy merchant/criminal” hat to something much deeper.

I think the greatest lesson of Star Trek is that we need to look past our stereotypes and past the most visible manifestations of culture to see people as individuals. The Ferengi, being such a strong caricature, challenged us to do so even more than the Klingons.
Not that Federation was a society that could function either... I'm not sure deeply about others, but in general it felt that most of them would fail.
Don't get me wrong, I love the expanded universe thing. Lower Decks is one of my favorite animated shows.

Just, you have to recognize that the source material had its flaws. Like, this:

A contract is a contract is a contract… but only between Ferengi.

That's just kind of... bleh? Especially when, yes, you consider the ethnic stereotypes "culture of sneering traders who will cheat you" evokes. But even without those stereotypes, it's just kind of childish.
Erm, you can directly check tass.com if you like. They even have a english version.

Or really any other russian source. Russian militar blogger telegram channels, etc.

(It is a good habit btw. to always also have a look at the opposing side of view)
I get the sentiments of the article, but I generally disagree with the author's perspective. I think my experience (although may not be necessarily unique) I tend to find that traveling to different places has reinforced connection to my own culture, be it through cultural links based on geography and history or through a more recent context where migrants from my cultural background have had to move to the country due to economic circumstances and I've had the privilege of encountering these individuals.

Overall, I tend to find that travel provides a lot of perspective and context. One notable figure which helped me come to this realization was Anthony Bourdain. He used food as a baseline connection and when we as humans share a meal with people, we tend to be more open. He would then progress into talking about more sensitive topics which provided a deeper insight about a place.

The takeaway that I have gotten from most of my travels has been that we are all really the same people. We need a place to sleep, something to eat, some fun and the feeling of safety. Understanding this has allowed me to make deeper connections with people that I've encountered and I'm thankful that experience.
That sounds like a rather anthropocentric application of anthropomorphism.

(I'd have gone further but I ran out of applicable anthro- terms)

It does feel a lot like the definition of "life" though. That's also a slippery moving-goalposts kind of thing.
Trusting in the moderators to not "be idiots" - not make decisions you wouldn't - is a bit like trusting in benevolent dictatorship as a form of government: it works great, right up until it doesn't.
If you put it into Google, you will find exactly that from multiple sources.

I do not know which accounts or news agencies you find reputable, so I do not know which one to link so you trust it. But you yourself should know which journals or accounts you trust.
How would you test that?
Sure. Go live on the moon then.

You generate externalities. You rely on society. You are part of society, you thus have obligations to that society.
The only thing the word “refactoring” tells me is that you’re rearranging code without changing functionality. It doesn’t tell me why you’re doing it. You could be doing it for all sorts of reasons: to extract part of the code into a separate library, to route around dead code so it can be excised later, to enable a performance optimisation, or to allow a new feature.

What’s going on in this article is refactoring towards a very specific goal. That goal is reaching an architectural style that could also have been achieved earlier in the development process, and it’s that style that is, AIUI, the point of the article.
7 million 'created' accounts throughout its entire existence in 8 years is hardly interesting or early days. The point of the OP still stands that "Nobody but a few geeks use Mastodon, Mastodon could never even handle all Twitter users moving over."

Even when Meta connects Threads to ActivityPub, it is a magnificent win for centralization and a complete nightmare for Mastodon and 'federation' and there is nothing they can do to stop it other than just de-federate and stay irrelevant.

This post exactly highlights the same thing on what happened to XMPP, but worse. Especially even when admins of other large Mastodon instances can be corrupted by larger companies like Meta with money, NDAs and contracts to allow these instances to federate with Meta. This is the typical 'Embrace, Extend, Extinguish' strategy all over again.

As I said before: "Instagram's success on ActivityPub is also Mastodon's nightmare and it tends to more centralization." [0] A paradox that is unavoidable for Mastodon without accounting for its UX failures and risking more centralization to the point where Meta is already winning after when other companies can still 'buy' out admins of very large instances. [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36012434

[1] https://masknetwork.medium.com/mask-network-acquires-pawoo-n...
I didn't say that they love Russia. Heck, even many russians hate Russia the way it is now.
What I am saying is that even reintegration of population of occupied territories is not an easy task. That's why in ukranian public space there's no easy plan of doing this because they know would be a hard work (mass deporations wouldn't be accepted by EU and US for reason I stated and "we just turn off russian propaganda" is necessary but not sufficient by itself).

And you are talking about integration of 13+ mil population of your direct enemy that is even harder work. What for?

All of these regions except Belgorod cannot fully supply own budgets and they recieve dotations from federal budget (even Belgorod barely does this and tearing established economic connections with other russian regions would severe it's ecomonic abilities). So it's not an economic reason like "we would tax them to get money".

Next what about integration in ukranian society. Ukraine nation was indeed forged in this war, but russians never were part of it (ukranian society). So this means that Ukraine would have to federalise (which it clearly avoided) or it will try to ukrainise russian population (that would create additional tensions). So for the point of internal politics this would only bring additional problems too.

Now maybe this will help in internations politics somehow? Ukraine is clearly directing itself towards eurointegration. One of the reasons why EU was uncertain about Ukraine joining it was size of the country. Now after ukranian martyrship that's unlikely to be an issue but it definitely would be if Ukraine somehow gets 50% bigger. At least it won't help with direction towards EU.

I don't know ukranian politics wery well and I don't see any viable reasons for Ukraine to join these russian regions.

But maybe you being more familiar with what happens inside Ukraine can enlighten me because I may be missing something or see some aspects in wrong light.
Of course the validateOptions function is nonsensical. It just checks if
any null values exist. You could iterate Object.values() to do the same. This needs
a better motivating example.
Even if you had literal witnesses it wouldn't be 'definitive' evidence, I'm not sure why you're using this argument as if you can't make claims about things you didn't directly observe.