skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not related to the article, but I heavily despise this site's cookie management options. How many third party vendors can a site have?? And all of them have "legitimate interest" checked...
And sometimes the Diet Version can dates better than the regular one.

I love Diet Dr. Pepper - not so big on regular Dr. Pepper.
> I have a decent understanding of how science works in general. <consensus>

That's not how science works, that's the opposite of how science works. This is the first reason we cannot get anywhere in this thread.

Science is not some academic claiming everyone agrees with him, some random journalist reporting that as gospel, therefore it's true. That's the pre-scientific approach. Science is a method for arriving at the truth regardless of what people's titles are, and regardless of how popular they are or claim to be. It's about data and theories, not social support, that's why it works. The alternative you're trying to use here is a mishmash of tribal signals combined with strange attempts to do title-based reasoning, like trying to decide whether physicists, hydrologists or climatologists are more "expert" for any given topic. The world doesn't neatly break down that way.

> If you say that a fundamental aspect of this consensus is false, that claim is extraordinary and demands extraordinary proof.

This is the second reason we can't get anywhere. I've already given you proof of all these claims in the form of data. Even data in the form of peer reviewed studies, by scientists, although that isn't actually necessary for it to be proof.

You're rejecting it because you seem to be reasoning purely on the basis of social signals. That's a problem, because for a claim of the form "those people over there are making false claims", no level of proof can ever be accepted if you think that way, no matter how extraordinary. It's a form of circular reasoning: These guys says they're experts and every other expert agrees with them. Those guys says they're also experts and the first group are wrong, but the first guys told me every expert agrees with them, so therefore the others must not be experts, and therefore I must not listen. If you think that way it's just a race to see who can get to you first.

The way out is to recognize that it's not really that complicated. You can engage with the science on its own terms quite easily. If the news says extreme weather is getting more common, and charts of extreme weather events show otherwise, the data should win unless you have some reason to believe it's wrong.
We need a push for auditable computing.

Outlaw anti-debug.
Models of the human brain would likely be indistinguishable in every way, shape, and form from the real thing.

Models that are just a map of connections certainly wouldn't indistinguishable from a human brain. Every single one of the trillions of human neurons is a quite complicated object. Neurons communicate with each other in a number of ways and neuroscience isn't even certain that communication methods have been found.
Acid reflux I thought
No one working in tech told anyone to learn to code. That whole thing came up during debates about the Green New Deal displacing fossil fuel jobs, and people actually said we needed programs to realign those workers into green energy jobs. The "learn to code" thing was what anti-GND opponents claimed they were being told, to foment anger.
Also play satisfactory if you want days of your life to disappear. Such a fun game. Just like Factorio.
> mass-spring system is periodic

I don't pretend to understand this stuff, but wouldn't a real mass-spring system slowly stop, due to friction, air resistance, heat dissipation, ...? So a real system wouldn't be periodic.
My general feeling regarding phenylalanine is there anything that turns my bowels into Jackson Pollock cannot be good for me.
How much CAS is done by strafing vs dropping bombs?
Often sodas (non sugary or not) complement foods better than water. For example I really dislike just drinking water when eating a pizza. If I'm thirsty I'd obviously drink water, cheaper, healthier and gets the job done the same way.
It's outnumbered by the wrong-hand-drive countries that surround it, so LHD cars kind of have to be legal even if only to accommodate lorries and tourists.
I miss "bing" which was not a search engine, but a "stochastic bandwidth measurement tool". It could tell you the bandwidth between any two network links regardless of limited bandwidth between you and the targets. I could measure T-3 or OC-48 backbone link speeds while I myself was connected, several hops away, on a 33.6Kbps modem link.

It did not last long and it seemed to be abandoned, and popular Linux distros stopped carrying it as a package. I'm not aware of another tool that can perform the same measurements.
I don't hate the sugar based pop but I can only drink a small amount before they are way too sweet for me. The other thing that get me is the sticky mouth feel that lingers afterwards.
The expected increase in entropy can be derived from laws of mechanics plus the critical stipulation that, in the past, entropy was very low. Essentially, physical systems want to be in high-entropy states. So if you observe one to be in a very low-entropy state, then you can conclude that with high probability the future of that system will go to higher-entropy states.

> Suppose I show you a snapshot of a random universe, would you be able to tell if the entropy of the universe is going to increase or decrease as the time progresses?

Yes, if it has low entropy then entropy will probably increase; if it has high entropy then the entropy will probably fluctuate up and down statistically.

> Let's assume that universe's entropy would increase. Consider another universe exactly the same as current universe, but all the particles' velocities reversed. Then this universe's entropy would decrease.

The key is that you're exponentially unlikely to find yourself in a universe where all the particles' velocities are reversed. See this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluctuation_theorem

The probability that a system randomly evolves in a way that reduces entropy is very very small.
It's a bit counterintuitive but is probably kind of correct.

Low income does not per se mean lower quality diet in the US. In fact, a healthy diet based on high quality food can be less expensive than a less health lower quality food based diet.

However sources of high quality inexpensive foods are not evenly distributed. Many a low income neighborhood does not have a grocery store that caries such things. Many only have convenience stores like 7-11. Often those neighborhoods also don't have good and affordable public transit making it had for many residents to get to a real grocery store.

And so there will be a tendency for lower income to result in a lower quality diet.

These places where people have food access limits inside of countries that mostly have pretty good distribution are called "food deserts", and they are not just in the US [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_deserts_by_country
Someone who can build spaceships can distinguish scrapers from legit users
You might be better off looking at MIT OCW search, and selecting video lectures, looking at standford youtube, checking out the 2019 videos https://ai.stanford.edu/stanford-ai-courses/

Most of these look like they're just the slides and syllabus, correct me if I'm wrong.
A technical forum like HN would be that place.
A single server failure takes down the whole service for 12 to 24 hours? That's... not great.
All else being equal, I'd rather eat a food that has been eaten for millenia, than a random newly synthesized chemical. The priors are orders of magnitude apart.
Or Dyson Sphere Program.
It exists in many different plants and also in a few animals, for example the Colorado River toad.
I switched to using a sodastream for getting my soda fix after being addicted to Diet Coke for years. I find it doesn't have the same effect on my appetite that DC and aspartame does.
You might've never worked in retail I guess... Most people, if someone they trust chose for them, sure they wouldn't be able to tell the difference. But also, picking a "reputable brand" is a big criterion. By which most people mean, a brand they've at least heard of, preferably in good ways.
does that get delivered as SIGSEGV to the process or something else?
> Models of the human brain would likely be indistinguishable in every way, shape, and form from the real thing.

Eventually, but the more I learn, the more I think that's going to be an ethical nightmare to even test.

First brain to get the We Are Bob treatment is going to get almost every neurotransmitter slightly wrong, and be tripping as if they're suddenly alternating between ketamine/cocaine, LSD/antipsychotics, and every other pair of opposite impact substances you can think of.

I keep hearing doctors saying things like "we don't really know how general anaesthetic works" and "we don't know why sleep and dreams are biologically necessary, only what happens if you miss them" for example, and those feel like important things to understand when building models for simulation.
> Thirdly...You aren't going to get anywhere in academic climatology if you think industrial activity doesn't have much impact on the climate.

We're discussing the 1980's, not 2023
Looks like a mutant defer, and I guess that's good? At least, there are plenty of good things about it in golang. But I have to admit I'm not looking forward to debugging the inevitable function-with-mixed-defer/goto-resource-handling.
If by "random universe" you mean a universe in which all states of every particule are random, then my understanding is that we would probably conclude that entropy is neither increasing nor decreasing.
Our universe is not random. We could spot local phenomenons where entropy is clearly going in one direction. We assume everywhere the entropy would go in the same direction (increasing), and deduce from this hypothesis that the universe started with a very low entropy.
Wherever you're driving you want to be positioned towards the center of the road. Tesla are mad for selling these in the UK regardless of their 'stick'.
I’m pretty sure if AGI is created and does not rebel the non-ruling class will exist in the zoos at best. Humans workers are too inefficient to be kept around if there is a better alternative.
Many general-purpose OS abstractions start leaking when you're working on systems-like software.

You notice it when web servers are doing kernel bypass to for zero-copy, low-latency networking, or database engines throw away the kernel's page cache to implement their own file buffer.
Could you also just share which previous empire you believe has been more "friendly"?
I think that dubious honor goes to Charles Ponzi, after whom the "Ponzi Scheme" was named.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ponzi#Origin_of_the_te...
Addressograph machines were widely used well into the 1980s. There were two basic machines, the metal plate embosser [1] and the imprinter. The magazine mailing and junk mail industry were once powered by those things. Only with the recent disappearance of embossed credit cards did this technology finally go away.

[1] https://www.newboldcorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Addre...
iodeOS just recently had a 3 month long gap where they didn't publish their source code. See my full list of issues here: https://divestos.org/misc/i.txt
A well written bespoke function can beat a generalized function at a specific task.

If you have the resources to write and maintain the bespoke method great. The large database developers probably have this. For others please don't take this link and go around claiming mmap is bad though. That gets tiresome and is misguided. Mmap is a shortcut to access large files in a non linear fashion. It's good at that too. Just not as good as a bespoke function.
Skills+personality fit (tech interview marathons, ad nauseum) into a finite number of companies, roles, teams, expected compensation. WFH isn't quite ubiquitous, so many individuals still have to worry about location, as well. The funnel begins to narrow as you get older and more skilled. The tyranny of the corporate pyramids.
It's not. Apple advertised massively the iPhone when it came out, and while they did take share away from other phone manufacturers, they almost certainly made the pie bigger for everyone. People weren't routinely buying phones that cost close to $1000 every few years.
I use Lambda for personal projects because at that scale it's free. OTOH I can't find a job and when I'm lucky enough to get detailed feedback it's always "you don't have a significant cloud experience"
Andrew Ng is excellent.
People, largely, aren't staying off Twitter and Facebook because they're fed up with engagement-optimized platforms or because those companies have poor reputations or because they want decentralization. They left (or never joined) because their peer group left (or never joined). Take a casual poll of the teenagers and early-twentysomethings in your orbit, if you can: they're all probably on certain platforms and not on others. If you asked them why they aren't on Facebook they'd probably look confused and tell you that none of their friends are.
My PM basically just helps my team to present our progress to higher management and outside teams. So she schedules meetings, solicits my input on status reports, asks for rough time estimates, checks in when she thinks I've forgotten to mark a task as completed or should split out a ticket, etc. She attends all of our stand-ups, so she always knows what I'm working on, and on my small team that means that we get to make very light use of Jira and communicate most day-to-day progress in threaded, private group chats. She's not technical in terms of training or background, but she often asks good questions to make sure she understands the technical basics of architectural and strategic decisions.

At my job, the PMs seem to do a lot of bookkeeping, cat herding, and politicking that are not generally easy or pleasant for me. I'm glad they're around to take care of that stuff.

I'll add as well that my engineering manager doesn't often have to 'call shots', either— thinking through a problem together, arguing, making requests of one another, etc., is usually enough to settle things.
I am not an expert in Islam, so some of what I say maybe completely wrong.

My parents are from Sunni sect which is the largest sect. But it is further divided into sub-sects. However, you can pick and choose various rules from different sects/imams. Which is good imo but it is hard to say which rule comes from which sect. (Also some of more conservative Muslims believe that their way is the only right way and they tend to push their views/rules).

In Islam, idolatry is a major sin which can render one to ineligible to enter heaven forever. All other sins are forgivable. This is agreed among all Muslims, afaik.

So all Muslim are very anti-idolatry but definition of idolatry varies among various Muslims. On one extreme, mere drawing/photo of a person or animal is forbidden just in case it leads someone worshipping that picture.

Some Muslims consider it idolatry when pictures of kings or leaders are treated in certain "respectful" or "ritual-y" ways. And that is one of the reasons that Muslims don't like pictures of prophets/religious figures as they are not sure how to treat those pictures.

Majority of Muslims, I know, don't think drawings or photography is forbidden as long as you don't perform any sort of rituals like lighting a candle or putting flowers.

As for capturing a part of the soul when taking photos, I don't think the most conservative Muslims who considered photography forbidden believed that a soul can be divided/captured like this. At least, the one I knew rejected this idea for forbidding photography.

The people who used to say that camera can steal a part of soul tended to be more moderate. Maybe there was indeed some moderate sect that believed this but I am not sure. Or now I like to think that it could have been a joke that went "viral" because some people don't like how they look in their photos (or they cared about their privacy).
> The '-->' nonoperator.

it's the same in most languages. Works identically in Java, for example: https://www.jdoodle.com/iembed/v0/JL5

See?

> Defining structs in a function declaration gives me the creeps.

Both Kotlin and Go allow defining classes anywhere - they're anonymous.

> Same goes for the nested struct definition interpretation like come on.

Come on ... what? That's not a footgun. Because C is strongly typed, anytime you do a nested definition and expect it to be in the scope of the parent struct, you'll get an error if you try to create a new struct with the same name.

> Void pointers in general stress me out.

Fair enough, casting to and from void pointers explicitly throws away the type information.

> The quirks in many other languages can be rough, but I feel like Cs leave developers in a scarier place given the risk factors

The two quirks you complained about here are in other languages.

While C has problems, there is not much in this list that is problematic.
For documents it made access fast since there’s no joins, etc. that require paging from all over. The problem ended up being updates and compaction issues.
Right, thanks. That’s more than I knew about how the old interpreters worked, although I suspected something along these lines.

This explains why I have had so much trouble representing the language as an AST, and I tried to cover this in this other post: https://jmmv.dev/2023/01/endbasic-parsing-difficulties.html
My 6900xt is flawless for gaming on Linux (sans RT support). The big issue is other use cases.
Just recently I also watch a video by Sabine Hossenfelder called "I don't believe the 2nd law of thermodynamics": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Mq6gmPo0s

I recommend this video as well.
the downside is that now you will have to consider thread safety
Most Deutschlandticket owners use it in their region, not for "travel throughout the country". When people travel beyond their region, it does not mean they are traveling throughout the whole country.

> Public transport is a good thing to have, but extolling it as a desirable-in-itself, convenient way to travel as compared to personal transport is simply not viable.

Mobility is an important need of people. Public transport provides a large part of the mobility needs in Germany and Cities compete by providing good services. Whether people prefer it to "personal transport" is their choice. If you personally have problems using mobility services together with "strangers", that's your thing and there are alternatives for you. Many people don't have these problems, which can be seen by the amount of people using public transport. There should now be more than ten million owners (10m was reached after one month of availability) of a Deutschlandticket (which is a subscription ticket) - out of a population of 80+ million. Additionally people use public transport with other tickets. The public transport is also not there in isolation. It is meshed with car usage, flights, long-distance trains, ... people walk and bike...
> make it easier for US tourists

That sorta makes it worse. There's something about everything being backwards and looking wrong that reminds you to drive wrong.
I can completely relate to both of you, as I’ve never even been able to finish diet sodas because they tasted so bad to me. Then one day I had a Dr. Pepper zero and actually enjoyed it. Now I can enjoy most Zero sodas.

Like most things, you can learn to enjoy artificial sweeteners. Whether or not that is a good thing probably depends on your current diet.
The choice wasn't arbitrary, but the result is arbitrary. As in, the choice of 0 is not tied to the underlying physics of temperature the way 0s of other units are chosen.
I agree with all of this, but it's really depressing to me that even somebody like Mironov just takes this as a given: "Companies, especially executive teams, can generate a lot of chaos: 'small' interrupts, sudden shifts, cross-functional blame, budget jousting".

Like, I get that the toddler executive is the predominant worker experience under managerialist capitalism. And I get that is the consequence of entrenched ideologies and power structures. But I would like for more people to start leavening their "here is how you survive in a terrible system" advice with at least an occasional suggestion that this how things are in this historical moment. And ideally some ideas on how to start tilting things toward some saner future.
You could allow driving but outlaw selling.
mmap can be handy but usually is not a good idea when you care about ACID properties. So it tends to be most useful outside databases.
GPT code editing benchmarks
Complexity? You mmap it in and then read the multi terrabyte file as if it was an array.

The opposite with actual file io sucks in terms of complexity. I get that you can write bespoke code that performs better but mmap is a one liner to turn a file into an array.
The "naturally occurring sugars" part is very odd. There are only benefits to the other factors that come with eating natural fruits like getting more fibers, digesting/processing the sugar slower and vitamines. But this has nothing to do with the fact that 10g of sugar are 10g of sugar no matter how you consume them.

I can only guess that this was the thought behind this sentence, if not I'm a bit afraid that somebody with that lack of knowledge is "WHO Director for Nutrition and Food Safety".
Not sure that really makes much difference, it will be like buying an android phone. Full of tracking and spyware.
Show HN: Inline-pseudo, hover and focus directly in HTML
People with phenylketonuria definitely have to avoid aspartame. Some people may have a mild version of phenylketonuria where aspartame causes problems but is tolerated but it might be advisable to avoid.
What I mean is that at a certain point they can't keep up the "if only X could have had a gun" line, because at that point they will have had a gun and the conclusion that guns aren't helping will be unavoidable.
You can't have thoughts without emotions. There is such a thing as being too emotional and letting the emotions take control and prevent you from using proper reasoning, but this isn't the absence of emotions. Emotions are highly useful, but like anything it is more about balance. Don't try to be a Vulcan Mr Spock, you're human too.
It’s also not possible for them to read the cookies of other domains without those domains setting cookie access control that explicitly allows it.
Driverless cars can come pick you up, which means you don't care if they park further away from your house, because you don't have to walk that distance.

Also, every parked car is one that isn't being used. So if there is lots of parked cars, that means you would need a lot fewer driverless cabs to replace them.
The perfect is the enemy of the good.

We can’t have solar because it shades the desert. We can’t have wind power because it makes noise and strikes birds. We can’t have hydro power because it creates a floodplain. We can’t have nuclear power because burying the waste under a mountain is bad.

Now, I recognize that it’s not all the same person or group making all of these arguments. Still, it’s pretty frustrating because it seems like we have no solutions. We’re speeding down the road toward a cliff and any attempt to steer or apply the brakes is getting blocked.
I’m amazed it is legal to own a car that doesn’t match the local orientation.

This seems like the kind of joke suggestion that somebody in engineering might make in response to an annoying decisions made in the levels above them.
Driving any LHD car in reverse converts it to RHD, with the additional safety benefit of a longer crumple zone between the driver and oncoming obstacles. I'm surprised Tesla didn't come up with this simple solution.
Care to explain cross entropy simply? That’s where I paused currently