skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like that outcomes over outputs is called out. I think this is important whenever programming / development meets The Real World(tm) _ESPECIALLY_ with internal tooling work.
if you're quoting Ferriss non-ironically, you have a lot of research to do on someone who is a very successful charlatan.
Underpins is the correct word. There is no comparison of observations of any behaviour to a theory or hypothesis about any behaviour outside of an epistemological framework that makes certain assumptions, even if it is unwittingly. Neither those assumptions nor the framework itself can be derived from science itself.

> Is a philosophy of science similar? Or does it have a practical effect on scientific work?

Absolutely, what a p value is depends on your philosophy of science. Whether your statistical analysis even involves p values also depends on it.

> Also, perhaps different scientists might learn different philosophies without practical effect.

Yes, if you stumble upon some simple causal relationship of such massive effect size it is undeniably present beyond a reasonable doubt, it may not matter if a Bayesian or frequentist practitioner came across it. However it certainly can matter what framework evidence gets analysed, considered and aggregated when the observable data themselves are essentially the same.
The experiment has been run long enough to know that these trust and safety teams get filled with radical leftist extremists pushing their agenda. Anyone advocating for them now is being deliberately dishonest and just agrees with the outcomes.
I think it depends on the kind of travel. I think if I'm taking a risk where I could die, or something very bad could happen to me, then its usually a life changing experience (mountaineering, dangerous/unstable countries, general stupidity). But if I'm insulated from all that, and just bumbling around the touristy parts, then its exactly that, a tour. I don't learn anything about myself. Making love, making new friends, finding strange corners of the world, and having the time to be alone and think about yourself and where you're at: that is life-changing.
Oils 0.16.0 – Breaking Renames and YSH
To paraphrase Hank Green, you cease to be a biological organism and become physics.
I despise this buzzword.
If you're content with the current orthodox view / approach(es) then just browse around Github and find one of those "Awesome X" lists like "Awesome Machine Learning"[1], "Awesome Deep Learning"[2], "Awesome Artificial Intelligence"[3] and so on, and go to town.

If you want to go deeper, including taking a step back in time and retracing the path(s) taken, to explore whether or not you might want to choose a different fork... well, that's doable, but it's a slog. I should probably write up a reading list for this approach and put it up on Github. It leads to some weird places though... like right before jumping over to HN and noticing this post, I'd been spending the last hour or so trying to track down two obscure Russian books on neural nets from back in the 1980's / 1990's... where print copies do not appear to be available in the US (and definitely not translated to English) and the nearest library to me with a copy of the one is the Library of Congress in D.C.

Do you need to go down that particular rabbit-hole? Probably not. I'm just particularly interested in revisiting some earlier techniques / theorizing about NN's, that have fallen out of favor and aren't really taught much anymore.

[1]: https://github.com/josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning

[2]: https://github.com/ChristosChristofidis/awesome-deep-learnin...

[3]: https://github.com/owainlewis/awesome-artificial-intelligenc...
Not condoning what the author did, but it’s amazing how little the questions answered in the paper have to do with real life software engineering.

Yes, it shows fortitude to pass MIT’s exam, but beyond that, a lot of stress for a test that will soon be forgotten after their undergraduate degree.
Glorious.

I followed SOME of the math there.

Like Nolan's movies have, is there an "explainer" or a for dummies narration of what's going on here?
Very brave of you. I'm so sorry you were censored for your courageous take.
> So the equilibrium is letting Prigozhin go, with his force

He's letting him go but not with his force. They will try to take advantage and integrate Utkin's PMC into the MoD forces where this is possible.
I’m using Zotero + Obsidian for my academic work and PhD.

If anyone is trying to work out a Zotero to Obsidian to Word/Libre Office workflow, give it a look.

I’ve created a GitHub repo README with instructions on linking everything together.

Hopefully someone finds this useful, happy for more contributions also (hence why used a repo to do this)

https://github.com/evolve2k/obsidian-pandoc-academic-word-do...
I could use Sql Server But, JS World has many different options to choose from, I want to try something new, that's why I asked this one. anyways, thank you for the response.
Science is not an observable thing in itself like ant behavior is. Science (especially the scientific method) is a framework/pattern of thought that can be used to state/observe things about the universe.

Why that pattern of thought is correct in stating anything is absolutely part of philosophy.
Yeah, I expected to see these listed with supabase, firebase. Thank you.
Isn't this stating the obvious? It also does not solve the problem or explains why people have gotten obese over the last few years.
Ah yes. Don't try because it can't be perfect. Better to just leave it up to vague chance. Do y'all even consider what it is you're actually saying? Ever?
"Always think critically"?

"Simply read the textbook" would be a more practical instruction, and also what I did in university anyway.

Critical thinking is a useful description but not a good prescription. It's like telling someone to always be orange. If you want that to happen you have to eat carrots. It won't just happen by fiat or willpower.
> we similarly can't keep making sleep-sort faster by scaling the sleeps down.

Technically, we can, at least to a certain limit - as long as the total time needed to schedule the sleeps is less than the shortest sleep duration, sleepsort will still work. Though we're just offloading the sorting to the scheduler, which has to implement the sorting algorithm anyway...
Personally it is more tiring IRL than online, since in online you have time to construct what you gonna say and you can correct it before sending your thought. While IRL, I need to think hard on what to say or say nothing at all.
Last time I checked, there are more than two C++ compilers.
It could be a sink-or-swim kind of thing: Saying you trusted the AI isn't accepted as a reason for bad work, so anyone who trusts the AI and gets burned learns a lesson.

Maybe I'm imputing too much intelligence to Harvard's administration.
Sleeping on error is a valid pattern when combined with retries.

Agreed. Just note that it can sometimes (often?) be a good idea to add a small stochastic element to the sleep time, and/or do something similar to the exponential back-off[1] approach that Ethernet (among other things) uses.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_backoff
Connectivity and freedom don't pay salaries or cloud bills, unfortunately. Any rational actor has to focus on maintaining profitability.
Saw a thorough debunking of this on twitter by a crop scientist:
https://twitter.com/sarahtaber_bww/status/142301601013164851...
Doesn’t thinking critical require enough basic knowledge about a topic to be critical of information? How does that even work if you’re there specifically to learn? Education requires an information source you can (mostly) trust blindly. How else do you learn?

If they think ChatGPT is ready to teach, they should offer an electrical course using it and force the administration to take it.
Linden Lab had enough money from SL to fund and abandon several large projects (see: Sansar), and still not tank the company. SL at least at one point was a cash machine, and is still self sufficient.
Does it? how do you even price a gallon milk of organic raw unpasteurized fresh from the grass-fed cow that the billionaire has on the estate comapred to a gallon of milk a poor person would buy from something as pedestrian as a supermarket?
CS50 was a gigantic intro class designed to whet non-comp-sci students appetite for coding and computer science, generally. (I took it when it was C/PHP, so they may have changed things.) While the lectures are very straightforward, the smaller 'sections' lectures with the dozen-or-so teaching fellows were more intensive, and p-sets were pretty challenging for newbies. The weekly help sessions ended up being a million lost students in a giant hall waiting to see one of a few dozen TAs offering uneven pedagogical quality. The assignments were often automatically graded upon submission and you often have some equivalent of a unit test to see if you got it right before submission, so you know if you got it wrong, but not how wrong. Just having a resource for sanity checks and walkthroughs of lesson concepts without trudging to the hall-o-TAs is prolly really useful.

Totally legit philosophical debates aside, I think this is a great use of the technology. It's a very, very well-funded class (bigger dedicated full-time year-round staff than some entire departments,) so I'm sure it's not a half-assed effort.

Malan is a great lecturer and his CS50 classes are all on YouTube. I sometimes send new coders to them but they're a fun watch, in general.
Spyware in Europe: EU to allow intrusive surveillance of journalists
Thanks, just started watching it. Interesting.
This it? First result for me for “Mankato Hot Springs:” http://city-mankato.us/sibley.html

Second was an article about the page.
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Please give feedback and some comment to improve this.
Another link:

https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news/detail/category/press-...

> The Council reached an agreement on 21 June 2023 on the much-needed European Media Freedom Act, a legislation proposed by the European Commission on 16 September 2022 with the intention to introduce safeguards against political interference, media concentration, and to protect journalists and their sources against surveillance. Since then, the IFJ and EFJ have been advocating for strong and effective regulation to respond to the numerous threats posed to media freedom in the EU.

> However, earlier this month, France introduced a new exception to the general ban on deploying spyware against journalists. It reads that the provisions on effective protection of journalistic sources “is without prejudice to the Member States’ responsibility for safeguarding national security”.
One way it’s closer to the prisoner’s dilemma than an arms race is that everyone would be safer (the ostensible point of larger vehicles) whereas in an arms race if your goal is victory you don’t care that everyone is safer if you all give up your guns — the point is exactly to harm your enemy without them harming you.
Towards a “PCB Drone” – Making a PCB Motor which reaches 30k RPM [video]
It can be justified in a deterministic universe because it makes criminals less likely to commit crime in future.

As a recipient of punitive justice myself, being punished had a tangible effect on how I thought about crime and thus how I behaved post-punishment. Whether you believe that was deterministic or due to my own free will doesn’t change the outcome.
In that case, you should also mention that you're neurotypical, have all 4 limbs, are not gay, do not suffer from bad digestion, weren't raped when you're a kid, etc. - since you haven't had the struggles of someone who has had all those problems.

It wouldn't be fair to only pander to transgender community, would it?

> "Low effort social grift", sorry I thought we were in a place of normal conversions with like minded nerds, I didn't realise this was actually twitter.

It is a part of normal conversation to call out empty virtue signalling when observed. Ironically, deflecting discussion by labeling it as "X-like" (where, in this case, X=Twitter) instead of providing real arguments is exactly what a typical Twitter shitposter would do.
Fabian Giesen has a decent rant on AVX512. https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@rygorous/110572829749524388

Tldr it is not that it isn't useful, but the 512 bit part makes implementation prohibitively expensive.
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Coral reef restoration:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_reef_restoration

"Coral restoration – A systematic review of current methods, successes, failures and future directions" (2020) https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... ;
citations of
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=5,47&sciodt=...

Sunscreen > Environmental effects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunscreen#Environmental_effect... :

> Additionally, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has indicated that coral decline is associated with effects from climate change (warming oceans, rising water levels, acidification), overfishing, and pollution from agriculture, wastewater, and urban run-off.[155]

Oxybenzone > Environmental effects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxybenzone#Environmental_effec... :

> [Oxybenzone-containing sunscreen is now banned] in many areas [45] such as Palau, [46] Hawaii, [5] nature reserves in Mexico, Bonaire, the Marshall Islands, the United States Virgin Islands, Thailand's marine natural parks, [47] the Northern Mariana Islands, [48] and Aruba. [49]
How do they do cross border micro transactions ?
I think that biology does limit these questions down — it is entirely likely that the answer to that is as simple as “there is a biological structure for that, and we only have one of those”.

Or even if it’s not such a hard limit, there are still likely similar bottlenecks that prefer a single one from arising, etc.
Not quite as common or popular but similar.
I ended up writing a function that would sleep and retry according to the Fibonacci sequence up to a given total elapsed time, so you could set it to a max timeout of 60s, for example, but if the system came up in 8 seconds, you'd be waiting not much longer than that (11 seconds, technically).
@prakhar897
The question is based on wrong premise.
Developing countries like India don't have engineering talent and that's the reason why US startups do not want to hire any unskilled employee.
They are giving these lame responses to these unskilled candidates because they don't want be seen as rude.
Yes you can, you can use the https://github.com/mssun/passforios app which as of over a year ago supports Yubikeys.

The UX of having to grab your Yubikey every time is a bit clunky though (although that is limitation of the security key medium itself rather than the app).
Heh, it's like when there are Ok, Apply, cancel options and cancel absolutely does not undo or negate having pressed Apply.
The OPs workflow is entirely possible with https://github.com/mssun/passforios since over a year ago.
> Show me any evidence for AI risk today beyond people's theories and beliefs?

Deduction. Empirical evidence isn't the only source of insight. You don't have to conduct experiments in order to reasonably conclude that an entity that

1. outperforms humans at mental tasks

2. shares no evolutionary commonality with humans

3. does not necessarily have any goals that align with those of humans

is a potential threat to humans. This follows from very basic deductive analysis.

> There are no AGI experts or AI risk experts, because we don't have any of these systems to study and analyze.

Indeed. Which increases the risk. Unless you are claiming that AGI is actually impossible, the fact that its properties and behavior cannot be studied should make people even more worried.

Uncertainty and lack of knowledge are what risk is. How little we know about potential AGI is exactly why AGI represents such a big risk. If we completely understood it and were able to make reliable predictions, there would be zero risk by definition.
And yet people do it. Repeatedly. They don’t seem to find it pointless.
It’s just time sharing, we can’t really do parallel thought. But signal processing does happen in parallel obviously, often times not even having to “interrupt” the CPU (e.g. reflexes can react before the signal reaches the brain, but the brain itself also has different parts, so coordinating walking won’t disallow thought)
The free will "debate", as most consider it, is an utter joke. A tumor or large amount of kinetic energy to the right parts of your, or anybody else's, brain can turn them into an unredeemable monster.
I really dislike the co-opting of the phrase "Platform Engineering" as a replacement for DevOps.
Yea I don't disagree, just wanted to point out that the hidden variable would not mean that matter actually behaves like a classical mechanics machine.
I feel that I should note the obvious missed pun given Prigozhin’s career in cooking:

“Russian Paramilitary Chef.”
How much are they paying for that experience?
You have to be careful with SSL confections, the SWEET32 ones might leave a bad taste in your mouth.
There is an intellectual horsepower that is needed that not everyone has. The position that I'm stating is that not everyone is smart enough to learn to do, say, Calculus. It's not a matter of motivation and discipline, some people simply are smarter than others. There are other kinds of smarts than logic and spacial reasoning though, and people that are good in one area aren't always good in all the others.

But you're absolutely right - don't gatekeep writing software. It's not that hard and everyone should have access to that realm, even if they don't use it.
> It's a value judgment based on behavior observed.

So it's exactly what I said in the first comment - "lazy" just means "one who doesn't do what they ought to". So it's completely meaningless, except for the part of describing behavior, and cannot be used as an explanation - i.e. "he didn't do his homework because he's lazy" is a circular statement.
This raises two interesting points.

1) These models will lie to obfuscate their incompetence.

Rather than say “I am unable to do this because my training data clearly lacked enough INTERCAL code to imitate”, the model waxed poetic about the odds stacked against it(i). Strange messaging.

The author’s implementation was less than 50 sparse lines of code that I am unable to speak to the complexity of, because my neural history lacks sufficient INTERCAL training.

I thought quick solutions to complex problems was the pitch?

What is the intended message of the models response? “I only provide solutions to superuncomplex problems”?

2) These models always highroad veiled communication.

Although I disagree with the author’s hypothesis that “spurring”(ii) is constructive, I do think it was intended merely as a quippy reference to “nerd sniping”.

Which presents its own interesting question: can these models be manipulated using reverse psychology?

Is mimicry of our vulnerabilities the imitation game?

(i) “however it would be quite complex and not straightforward”

(ii) “responds so politely to the type of shade that might have spurred a more human programmer into action.“
That’s not necessarily true. The government grants the right to a free public education, for example.

So-called positive rights are not something you’re born with, as opposed to negative rights, which are things you’re protected from the government taking away.
Seems pretty similar to Joplin, but Joplin has tons of sync options and an Android version
"Our own hope is that, through AI, we can eventually approximate a 1:1 teacher:student ratio for every student in CS50"

Would this not be a 0:1 ratio? Not against LLM's for some coding assistance, I use it daily.
, but equating a teacher with an LLM solution feels like calling a youtube video a 1 on 1 tutoring session.

Well at least a semester at Harvard isn't costing you much ...
> on a serious of...benefactors...

Auto-correct is cancer
My jobs revolve around Java, .NET, JavaScript and C++ for the last 25 years.

This only counting the professional time, as I have been coding since 1986, and used most Borland products already in high school.

I never been that impressed with InteliJ versus other IDEs.
Second Life isn't about violence. It's about property rights. There are parcel boundaries, rent, property taxes, landlords, evictions, and neighbor disputes. It's very realistic.

Each property owner can eject anyone from their land. They can keep them out by banning them. They can even keep others from seeing avatars on their land, to get privacy. Communications from specific users can be blocked.

Being a jerk is local. It's difficult to be annoying for more than a 100m radius. The world is the size of Los Angeles. Space keeps everything from being in the same place. Jerks tend to get frustrated after a while, because the big world is ignoring them.

The combination of those two features means that the world mostly runs itself. There's no need for the army of low-wage goons armed with ban hammers both Meta and Roblox have to employ. The Second Life "governance" department is about half a dozen people. Mostly it deals with such land issues as oversize advertising signs.

This is what the much-touted "metaverse" of 2021-2022 was supposed to have, but nobody making metaverse noises ever got enough users to have those problems.

Now, there's another, completely different model. Improbable is, as of two days ago, demoing their metaverse system, MSquared. It seems sort of like Second Life, in that you can log in and build stuff. But the business model is totally different. Improbable has made the world work in a browser, with "cloud rendering". They support big crowds at low avatar resolution. They're thinking in terms of big performances, with big-name acts performing and users paying big prices to watch them.

The Improbable system is very expensive to run. The five games that tried to use it a few years ago all went broke. ("Worlds Adrift" was pretty good.) There's a connect charge, and a charge for every internal event. The rendering back end runs on NVidia GeForce Now, the service back end runs on Google Cloud, and there's a CDN involved, too. So the business model is that it's only turned on for special events. It's been used for Otherside, the Bored Ape Yacht Club's virtual world, which they turn on for demos for a few hours maybe twice a year. (Arguably they're just cooling out the marks who paid a total of US $400,000,000 for land in their virtual world.) It's not clear this is a viable business model. It's funded by Softbank. (Who else?) Maybe they can do Taylor Swift concerts with it.
Yeah. This article feels just a step away from saying "To live a happier life, just tell your parents to increase your allowance to 10k a week.".
I do this too occasionally — Fibonacci is easy to implement, and it's an exponential backoff (with a lower exponent than 2, which is also easy to implement ;) )
Nope. I never saw it sleeping, let alone dreaming.
Reinstall every other week. Haven't done that since Windows 98.
I don't think Great Depression - a time when there were a lot of idle people - was particularly notable in terms of insurrections, conspiracy theories, or going postal.

As a baseline, consider the bombings from the 1910s (The 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing up to the Wall Street bombing in 1920.). I can't think of anything comparable during the 1930s and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_terrorist_attacks_... lists nothing.

Work is only one way of not being idle. If it were, we would expect retired people to be insurrectionists, conspiracy theorists, and instigators of random attacks.

Students and stay-at-home parents also busy, while not being idle, nor being included in this definition of "labor force".