skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is enormous, until I finally got a diagnosis and meds a few months ago, I thought everyone just lived in a constant state of frustration about getting knocked out of focus. It’s absolutely unreal the difference now, it feels like I can drop into focus completely at will, even after interruptions! Makes me wonder what I could have accomplished if I’d gotten a diagnosis decades ago
Interesting, what is the approach to kernel / managed language layers?
I find it a bit disingenuous to overlook any rules outside the thought experiment and then want to apply it to a real world discussion where the overlooked rules do apply. Like the Police question. It has nothing to do with the context of the questionary (internet moderation) as it is a real world law, not a moderation rule. In reality, the statistics at the end show who decided to do a white room thought experiment and who did not - nothing else. I see no big problems in moderation at all unless it is on a government made platform or some other state owned utility thing.
Here where I live, the latter is actually precisely how the traffic law enforcement works: emergency services get tickets in the post for traffic violations same as everyone else, and it is up to the officials to check their logs and respond with "the vehicle was responding to an incident", which is a valid defence and gets the violation dismissed; or not, as the case may be, if it turns out the crew ran a red light while on their way home or something.

In any case, the question of whether the rule was violated is entirely separate from the question of what, if anything, the consequences of this should be; and it is the former that I understood the game to be asking.

The fact that there is so much debate over the question of what the game was even asking the player to do, with both sides convinced that their interpretation is the obvious correct one, does as much to support the thesis that people have an enormous amount of trouble agreeing on the intent of a simple short piece of text as the rest of the game itself.
This is one of the rare cases where I hope that the CIA is behind it. Otherwise, this war could have resulted in destroying a stable, though insular, Russian regime and replacing it with a new maniac. Not that the CIA hasn't empowered people that it then had no control over.
I feel lucky to have gotten two's complement early.

Turns out that if you truly understand two's complement, you can implement signed math in C without UB if you use unsigned types because overflow on unsigned types is defined.

Side note: this is another reason I won't touch Zig; UB on unsigned overflow is too high of a price to pay.
IIRC you could make AD act as standard Kerberos+LDAP with one or two registry tweaks.
Google Maps Traffic data seems to be tracking the Wagner advance in Russia
Just.. Don't do daily updates?
I run updates once per month, works good enough
I clicked into the article with a general mindset of planning to agree with the author. And while I generally did, the article felt a bit esoteric and like another commenter mentioned, the examples weren't great for me. I think my big issue when people tell me they love to travel is that it frequently ends up being almost a checklist, where the person has a whole list of "what's next" already lined up, like it's just something to do because they're bored. Almost like they are dissatisfied with their day to day life and the travel is the antidote. The author touches this briefly, but I've found so much joy in treating my own city like a tourist, and I'm still finding interesting places to go or explore years later, especially by running or biking.

I've also had the fortune of traveling abroad 3 times in my life, and I do think because those were such unique events, it has changed me to some extent. One example would be seeing the train infrastructure across Europe and then Japan, and realizing how much I enjoyed that experience and how easy it was to traverse the cities themselves. I did also see the Mona Lisa, but quickly went back to just walking the streets of Paris at night, and enjoyed that experience much more!
True to some extent, but you usually don’t want to filter out all candidates who don’t have extensive experience in the exact domain you’re working in, otherwise you’d never hire anyone.
I think they have a lot of practice to do work without being seen.
When I was doing my PhD, I was really in love with such guides. There is also the book Bugs in Writing by Lyn Dupré.

Looking back I'm not so sure about the utility in scientific writing. Every research community has its own jargon. If don't stick to it, you're going to have a hard time.

Today, I very much enjoy these again because most writing happens in a blog.

I would add to that list (not original from me):

- Dangling comparison: if you use the comparative, you need to name both things. Counter example: "On Saturdays, it's better to stay in bed longer". Better than what? Longer than what?

- Adjectives: don't use them in technical writing unless they have a specific meaning (e.g., very likely was defined as a certain probability threshold before).
Could also be the fact that he has been pushing against the regime for months and he realised (or maybe even got intel) that kremlin will try to get rid of him. And if the choice is between a guaranteed fall from a window or a hail marry coup with a 10% chance of some kind of success it doesnt look as crazy.
Ukraine is no position to force Putin into a deal though. How's Ukraine going to help him when the Russian air force starts bombing every base Wagner has taken over?
Firstly, I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek, but secondly you seem to be saying that a "70's Damas-Milner type system" isn't already an extremely powerful type system. I would say that it is!
> an emergent phenomenon resulting from any sufficiently powerful cognitive system

This is a meme that gets thrown around a lot but if you think about it you’ll realise it’s meaningless.

Also it’s not possible to measure consciousness (in the ”hard“ sense, as in ”why do I have qualia”, obviously you can assert something respond to external stimuli easily), therefore the question won’t ever be answered.
Do we even have a sound definition of what consciousness is / looks like from the outside? How do we recognise it?
Undeleteable, publicly-stored surveillance tech seems problematic. Why bother with blockchain when you could e.g. stream (hopefully encrypted) data to a home server controlled by you? Then you can keep it for your own records and call upon it when needed. You could also add a feature to the product that gives trusted friends access to the files in case you are unable to for whatever reason.
What often happens is that you ask one set of devs to look at the GPL code and draw specifications of the functionality and have a second (non-intersecting) set of devs do the implementation without directly referring to the GPL code, but indirectly doing so by using the specification.
I've had quite a few issues with go version updates.

I've written up a couple over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29763324

There's more than that. What I really want is to be able to update the compiler without also updating the standard library since the compiler has been fairly solid, while the http, tls, and archive stdlib packages have been a constant source of breaking changes and bugs with each update.

I'd rather be able to update my compiler without also having to cross my fingers that they didn't decide to yet again delete support for some part of TLS I'm using that those on high at google have deemed is "insecure", even if it's in a test or over a local network.
That's correct, but it's still clear that the bet is lost. We do not understand in 2023 how neurons give rise to consciousness.

Maybe there will come a point where it's in the gray area but not today. We know that people act in ways that we cannot explain even a little bit.

Also, the bet is friendly. It's just a way to express their different underlying opinions. Neither one is put out by it. They will likely enjoy some of the wine together.
It's not made up. The things you mention are easy to do when you have a structure. You can update a test when the test framework and test suite is already defined. To create a new structure is a bigger undertaking.

You can add to existing understanding or analysis quickly if you have an overview. To create a new overview is a bigger undertaking.
Well, there is "casual mode" which makes Orb of Safety saves permanent, and also the "Orb strategy mode", where a single instance of carelessness of bad luck should no longer end the run (but it makes the game harder in some other aspects). People complain about the menus, although it seems that there are just too many options to make all of them easily discoverable...
It's treated in a very similar way to many other status-linked luxuries which used to be the preserve of the upper classes and then spread to the masses through commodification.

Theres probably a name for it. If there isnt there should be. Burberryfication?

A lot of people who do travel I don't think actually enjoy it much but feel compelled to engage in status games.

Meanwhile the upper classes and aspiring upper classes understand that it doesn't give them status any more. This becomes "a lack of meaning" because it's well understood among the upper classes that directly gatekeeping status is vulgar.
It could be double speak, but the obvious thing you understand from this formulation it that he won because he is a philosopher. Not that he won, and by the way he is a philosopher.
Just to share a different but sympathetic point of view, I grew up in white American suburban culture without particular awareness of Asians (till high school anyway), and the dynamic of “my child is better than you” was there (and unremarkable.) (We didn’t think of ourselves as Europeans but probably all were 100-200 years earlier). So I didn’t and still don’t really conceive of “my child is better than you” as a particularly Asian or even American trait, I consider it universal and associated with a mix of parental competitiveness, striving, and identity.

That said, I would acknowledge this dynamic does fit into particular other stereotypes of Asian (and Jewish) subcultures within the broader American context. You aren’t wrong that that could be in play. I’m just saying it’s not a “dog whistle” of Asian stereotyping without some additional Asian-signaling context. At least in my view/world.
The author buries the crux in the middle: travel is fun. It’s rarely if ever, meaningful or transformative. You can do it because it’s fun. You might even learn a thing or two and be awed by the people and sights, but that’s it. I’m yet to meet a well traveled person whom I truly admire for anything, quite the contrary. The vast majority of chronic travelers I’ve met are just collecting fridge magnets and checking things off some lists. In the end it’s likely not even worth having this discussion with them any more than trying to discuss the moral obligation or fulfillment of childbearing.
I still can't fathom that I feel that I feel what I feel.
I'm afraid that Russia could nuke Ukraine just to remove a front and focus all its attention on Wagner.
I don’t like to travel. I often say that I only want to travel when I have a purpose (study something, visit someone, etc). It does shock some people when I say I don’t like to travel, even when I complement that I don’t dislike either. The accepted answer is that everyone “love” to travel. But I didn’t feel represented in this article. I didn’t feel connected with any of the arguments. I think the author carefully worded each example to being the worst interpretation of it to make a point without considering or conceding what is good about “loving to travel”.

Take this part:

> ” If you think that this doesn’t apply to you—that your own travels are magical and profound, with effects that deepen your values, expand your horizons, render you a true citizen of the globe, and so on—note that this phenomenon can’t be assessed first-personally. Pessoa, Chesterton, Percy, and Emerson were all aware that travellers tell themselves they’ve changed, but you can’t rely on introspection to detect a delusion. So cast your mind, instead, to any friends who are soon to set off on summer adventures. In what condition do you expect to find them when they return? They may speak of their travel as though it were transformative, a “once in a lifetime” experience, but will you be able to notice a difference in their behavior, their beliefs, their moral compass? Will there be any difference at all?”

He puts the positive outcomes of traveling as utopian perspectives, while defining that you can’t disagree, and proposing a test that is obviously designed to fail. “Can you notice a profound transformation in your friends after asking them how the trip went?”. That’s silly.

I noticed profound transformation from traveling in myself and in friends before, but that’s during conversation about other stuff than the trip and that happen along the years, not right after the trip. People talking about their careers, their partners, their family, their expectations, their doubts, and then mentioning something that happened years ago in a touristy trip.

I read this whole text as someone making an effort to prove that they are right at being presumptuous about people who say “I love to travel”.
The whole point was that someone would have made it stringent by now. It's clear that didn't happen.
Thanks; I’ll take a look at those papers.
Large contingent of 'no politics, not my business' in here.
> Compiler design is no harder today than 20 years ago

Depends on how much one takes interactive compilers on environments like Energize C++, Visual Age for C++, Strongtalk, Dylan,Oberon,Cedar... into consideration.

While similar to modern compiler based IDEs, their language servers, compiling while typing, static analysis while typing,...,weren't as feature rich.
For me this article is not about content moderation, but about software requirements.

It turns out, no matter how hard I try to specify a piece of software, developers implementing them manage to sneak in their own interpretation into it and i find that, yes, this particular case wasn't specified or was a little ambiguous or contradicts the other part or something else.
Yeah but do you really learn anything. Listen to “common people” by Pulp and that is the gist of what I think of how most people travel myself included.

Rich westerners galavanting around poorer countries visiting a rice paddy or temple and doing a cooking lesson with the locals etc. You can be interesting and resilient through other means too. You could be a nurse for example! Or a cop. Or do a survival course down the road from where you live.
What do you mean by "weird combos of those"? AFAIK Hyperbolica only has H3 and S3 (and a bit of E3), no combos. (While HyperRogue has all eight Thurston geometries and some more.)
But if its a software, then how and where is it stored and where is the execution logic for it?
This is called cumulative layout shift (CLS for short) and there’s a push in web dev to work against and around this - it’s recently become part of the performance measurement of googles lighthouse scoring and server side rendering and static site generation metaframeworks like nextjs and Astro allow you to send out the entire static page HTML without having to lazy load any new data.
If 100 experienced C devs are asked to write strcpy, some of those implementations will be identical and that fact will not indicate any copyright infringement has occurred.
Methanol is a pretty decent storage medium for hydrogen, and can be made more efficiently than LH2. It actually stores more hydrogen than LH2 on a volumetric basis, and you can crack it at fairly low temperatures, so a hydrogen economy is probably going to happen regardless, it just won't be in the form of transporting gaseous hydrogen. We need methanol to make solvents and polymers, and to power cargo ships. We need ammonia for fertilizer. These two vectors will probably be the way we create and move hydrogen around. Methanol will probably pick up an additional use case as a fuel for trucks and cars, since alcohols are what you typically resort to for ICEs in the absence of fossil fuels, and methanol is both the simplest to make, and a very good fuel in its own right.

Hydrogen itself is more likely to be used to store energy in salt caverns, which is a proven technology for decades now. Aside from storage for the above use cases, it's a workable fuel for gas turbines for backup power.

This seems like the most likely outcome in my opinion.
I'd rather do the opposite. I'd start with the intuitive high-level idea and then introduce technical terms and formality to the prepared mind.

As they say every rule has its exceptions and I think all three variants can be suitable.
I remember mentioning a decade ago that going to Antarctica is cheap, while living in Helsinki is expensive.

Then I took an academic job in what later became one of the least affordable areas in the US. Now I think that travel is cheap, fancy tech gadgets are cheap, and living in Helsinki would have been cheap. Doing things at home, on the other hand, is now a way to show off your wealth, because it assumes that you have a larger home than you would strictly need.
> defect to Ukraine

I don't see that happening.
Jargon abstraction
The first sensation was probably chemical rather than light. Organisms long predate photosynthesis. The early earth had plenty of energetic molecules floating in the water.
I’d love to hear more about this and contribute if I can. I’m a web developer but maybe I have some skills that would be useful. I’m surprised this hasn’t blown up.
Do you really need to travel to China to get an appreciation for Chinese food? That’s kinda the point the author makes.
More likely he saw the writing on the wall (or an open window!), given PMCs like Wagner have a deadline of signing contracts to become more integrated in the Russian army command on 1st July, and with most of Wagner having just pulled out of Bakhmut, this was a small window of opportunity with most Russian forces otherwise engaged in Ukraine.

He was possibly thinking he was also being set up as a fall guy...
> Pessoa, Emerson, and Chesterton believed that travel, far from putting us in touch with humanity, divorced us from it.

And that's bad because hunanity is awesome?

I've travelled a little but never was I interested in people or culture. I liked experiencing natural beauty and land marks. Imagination has nothing on reality.

For example, my favorite part of going to vegas is leaving it during the day to check out nevada,the canyon, utah and east california.

Every single time I went exploring national parks or remote places, I am shocked and in awe more than before.

America is pretty, perhaps these people could use a trip down the pacific highway or a day at yosemite.

If they really did travel then kant,emerson and socrates are fools who in their intellectual pursuit found empty ego boosting thoughts and useless admiration from peope.

And for the record, I love touristy places just fine. I travel for me not to brag about it or for virtue signaling and I hardly think I am a rarity.
But if the answers were crystal-clear why didn't everyone answer them like you did?
Surely someone records this and translates it for western eyes. Do you have a source link or are we just playing Chinese whispers?
It's hard to take The New Yorker seriously in any capacity. I find it's just long, pointless essays that don't communicate any new information or original thought, but are designed to make someone who already has the same opinion as the author feel good about themselves. Opinions which are never explicitly made clear.

It's class entertainment sold as news. It make a certain societal class feel higher class than they actually are.
He needs to win the coup against Putin first by himself. I wouldn't consider that impossible.
That’s a cool idea, but I think a voice activated one would be better. Thanks for giving me this idea!
After nearly 4 years working on generating fake news, operating an army of fake accounts with a few dozen of more "real" like accounts, running an online newspaper that is the fifth most visited online newspaper in it's country (and I don't even speak it's language), let me tell you something that is the only thing you need to know when you are browsing the web - don't believe anything you are reading online.
If you're saying that a good definition of consciousness does not exist within medicine or biology, then that is (IMO) one way of stating the "hard problem"[1] of consciousness that Chalmers famously posited.

Another way of putting it might be that there is simply no coherent scientific framework within which consciousness is well defined. It seems to have no place in any science-based ontological scheme. It seems outside any established scientific categorization of what exists.

Which is of course what makes consciousness so interesting!

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
>Common sense says I should ignore such signs and assess each situation individually.

Does it? How is it different from Car A driving the speed limit and Car B driving 20 over because "I have a big SUV/racecar/motorcycle"?

Laws are normally made knowing there are situations where it will not always seem common sense, but if we follow your logic we would have hundred of thousands of rules, like a complete set for each type of car, bike, etc. I see it as common sense that of course the same rules apply to your tricycle, unless it is for a disabled person.
TL;DR: DRY

Nice read, though. Very approachable.
Et tu, Red Hat?
I find this, so far, to be the single most important event since Kiev-not-falling-within-48 hours after the Chinese winter games last year.

This is the riptide. And Wagner surprisingly still has 20k - 30k soldiers. Even if it fizzles, this is a landmark in the war.
I am no expert, but I don't think that is likely. It would isolate Russia from China and India. But even if the leadership only thinks short-term, Biden has made it pretty clear that that the use of nukes in Ukrain would not be acceptable and that there would be a non-nuclear response. The speculation is the US would wipe out the Russian black sea fleet. Putin would open a third front besides Ukraine and Prigozhin. That is probably the last thing he could use at this moment.

That said, in such unstable situations pretty much anything can happen. It depends on how rational the actors stay.
If a work meeting ruins your day by prompting rumination, I think that indicates a separate problem with how your workplace communicates.
Imagine you're doing your math on a car odometer that only goes up to 4 digits. When you reach 10k it wraps around. For any X it is easy to find the complement ~X because you can just map the digits independently (0,1,2,3,4 -> 9,8,7,6,5 and vice versa) then adding 1. By construction each digit in X + (~X-1) will be 9, then adding the 1 back in brings it to 10000, which in odometer math wraps around to 0. So ~X is the additive inverse of X meaning that adding ~X always brings you to the same number as subtracting -X.

Or think of a clock. Subtracting X hours is always the same as adding (12-X) hours. Or any circle, turning counterclockwise X degrees is always the same as turning clockwise (360-X) degrees. The trick is being able to take the compliment digit-wise in order to replace a subtraction with an addition. In binary this is just flipping 0 to 1 and vice versa. In base 10 you just need to remember 5 pairs of digits to switch out with each other.
These communities are lovely when they occur, but they tend to be small and ephemeral; it takes one single persistent troll who is good at gaming community mores and calmly wrapping complaints about any pushback in reasonable-sounding phrases to completely destroy such a space. I've seen this happen entirely too often :(