skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The application of the term 'science' to the social 'sciences' was a terrible mistake. How does the author justify this statement:

> "A global study ... finds that economic inequality on a social level cannot be explained by bad choices among the poor nor by good decisions among the rich."

...when their article quotes the first author as saying:

"Our research does not reject the notion that individual behavior and decision-making may directly relate to upward economic mobility... *we narrowly conclude that biased decision-making does not alone explain a significant proportion of population-level economic inequality.*" ??

How do they bring themselves to make the statement:

> "Poor decisions were the same across all income groups, including for people who have overcome poverty."

... when the study didn't look at any real-world decisions whatsoever, but merely at performance on a battery of academic tests, (whose relationship with real-world decision-making we're expected to take on faith)?
I'm not a moderator, just a fellow user.
> * multi-character constants (yay implementation-defined behavier)

Isn't all of reference-implementation language like Rust and Python all implementation-defined?

> * the fact that the --> operator works

I pointed out elsewhere (with a link) that that specific construct works in most popular languages, like Java.

> * the fact that you need a dirty hack with enums to check something at compile time

It's not a check, its an assert. The alternative, for languages like Java and C#, is not having compile-time asserts at all.

> * the fact that X-Macros are needed

They are not needed, and indeed, equivalent functionality isn't in most popular languages (or anything but, Go, I think).

Since many of your complaints are applicable to other languages, it seems, to me anyway, that what you know of C is what you've read online in popular forums.
Exactly. I saw this and my only reaction was “eh, I’d just use Notion”.
Insurance is another cost you'll have to pay yourself. I don't really know what's available for contractors, but consider health insurance, life insurance, accidental disability insurance, etc. (Dental insurance isn't really a thing. Budget $400 for your two checkups and don't get any cavities.)

Also consider your retirement savings and what you're missing out on from employer 401k matches.

Finally, keep an eye on cost of living and adjust your rate accordingly. The dollar is worth at least 20% less than it was 3 years ago. Charge 20% more.
It's a shame AMD doesn't really have working acceleration or GPU compute. I guess they're cheaper than NVidia for a reason, but it would be nice to have an alternative. Likewise, though, I guess all the video editing and VFX pipelines use Linux and NVidia for an equally good reason.
We may be using different definitions of 'intelligence'. To me there is no AI that currently exists but I'm aware the companies market it as such of course.

>have already been scraping every publicly available bit of data possible

Data scraping is limited by economics just like anything else in the world. Storage costs money, someone has to pay for it. Researchers do not have unlimited funds. Some select few governments like the US may have most of the publicly accessible web archived. Keep in mind it's dynamic and requires massive data infrastructure to pull this off, there's tons of new data coming in daily. Private startups getting in on the action in a big way is a relatively new phenomenon, this used to be limited to enterprises with a specific purpose. Now everyone and their 4chan cousin are experimenting with their own deep learning models.
They clearly are, take this article, for example.

Literally zero scientists outside this researcher’s circle of 10 related labs care about the political intrigue and name calling around this.

Outline if I wrote the article:

What are the implications of the claims?

What has this lab reported before, what were the technical mistakes they made?

Survey of state of the art in peer reviewed publications.

Technical critique of patent from world experts (“they probably incorrectly hooked up the volt ohm meter again” is in the article, but that belongs in the prior work section, not in the analysis of the patent)
(HNers are welcome to visit my profile and decide if I'm legit after 30 years, google, inktomi and numerous startups)

Many startups sell and work closely with partners earlier in their lifecycle before their platforms are ready for the mainstream. OP was asking about access to lots of low cost CPUs for an application that could be a good fit, so I posted a casual one-liner. Massive is akin to SETI@Home but with a slightly more general SDK, and which complies with privacy, security and opt-in requirements from the major AV companies.

I personally think it's awesome to have another way to monetize that isn't ads or subscriptions, both of which have downsides to users and don't fit every type of application.

You don't have to agree, but I'd *kindly* ask to be afforded the same respect I'd give you, and which frankly I personally deserve.
You will likely not get a perfect syntax right away. So you will need to iterate on it until you are happy with how it looks and feels, and doing it while developing the compiler yourself will naturally lead to a lot of unnecessary bugs and tech debt.

Alternatively, you iterate using a cheaper method and once you reach a point in which you are content with the syntax, you can consider writing a compiler for it.

You can also avoid iterating on the syntax so you can ship a compiler as fast as possible, but users won't like the syntax and won't use your language.
The intersection of technically apt people and value conscious gamers looking to squeeze more fps out of limited dollars picks the value brand with a rep for friendliness with open source.
It seems you need to reread my comment and the well known book I referred to. Based on your answer It seems you don't have idea about what I am talking about.
Linux(+ChomeOS) Is Now 7% of the Desktop Operating System Market Share Worldwide
Last month, after about 10 years, I decided to write a small package for emacs [1]. I decided to use chatgpt to help me do it, as I had completely forgotten common functions and what not. While, it got the syntax always right, it kept hallucinating function names, or was completely wrong about function arguments.

Quite annoying, because all I was asking for it was to move the point around or search backward or forward for specific strings. Eventually, I had to reference stackoverflow and rewrite most of what chatgpt produced to get something working. Some of these resources would have been quite useful last month.

The package itself is a markdown-notebook minor mode. If you trying to write a readme for your github python package, the mode allows you to add codeblocks, execute them and put the results just below them in the document. Works well for text right now, but need to figure out how to make it put images.

[1] https://gist.github.com/abdullahkhalids/83055b1abbd2cdf2416a...
CPU, not GPU...
DAUs is probably a more meaningful measurement.
I'm already full-up on hobbies, jobs, and callings, thankyouverymuch!
I agree Factorio does not look the greatest. It looks like a giant smear of muddy washed out colors. I've tried to watch some content on YT and its so hard to tell whats going on or to see anything as a newcomer.
“more [additional] information is necessary to fully describe this thing” = “more missing information [in the incomplete description of the thing]”
What about the uneducated parents or brainwashed who let their kids watch disney?

It sounds like we are willing to sacrifice the lower class and children of brainwashed parents.
That was my first thought, too: "Steam Deck uses AMD; that probably could singlehandedly drive it"
Cool. What is the relevance of buying half the animal at a time, is this an economic incentive for the rancher? I don’t eat meat but would assume butchers would sell grass fed cuts in smaller portions.
> Even if everyone in the world got free entry to Harvard (no jokes please)

It's not a joke, because some students do get "free" entry to Harvard, due to their parents paying for it.
I don't really think of yacc as having much more abstraction than a regex engine -- like in an (NFA-based) regex engine, you're building a big data structure a human wouldn't want to hand-engineer from a declarative specification. (And, like in regexes, you've got good theory backing it.)
what is going on in Oregon county?

Complete amateur hour
This is about CPU, son AMD vs Intel, not GPU for which AMD is competing against Nvidia
Based on experience, I suggesting finding your local missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist) and ask them to put you in contact with your current local ward bishop, wherever you are now, who has access to resources (including an employment agency, depending on whether it is set up in your area), and good, practical advice for your specific situation.

(Thoughtful comments appreciated with the downvotes; thank you.)
Vulkan compute?
The latter. Source is at https://github.com/gallizoltan/usercount which states:

> A bot which counts users from all instances listed at https://instances.social then posts statistics to Mastodon.

> User Count Bot for all known Mastodon instances
This is about CPU, not GPU. Also dealing with AMD GPU drivers is just as difficult.
from the other side: 50F? is that cold or really hot? whats 100? will 0 kill me? i have no idea the numbers are random. 50C? oh that is halfway from frozen to boiling. 5C? water is nearly freezing. 0C its frozen better watch out for ice on the road (because you do realize you can't easily see blackice on roads?) what temp in F does water even freeze at? i have no idea. boil? ditto some random numbers.

Fahrenheit gives you nothing over Celsius and makes literally no sense unless you grew up with it. it does not "align with human senses" in any real meaningful way - the numbers are random and only feel right to you as its what you are used to, just like anyone who grew up with Celsius has adjusted to those numbers, while also getting all the benefits of a logical scale.

Celsius is logical, easy to grasp, provides a number of benefits in many applications, and used by 95% of the people on this planet.
Sure, it is now, but why did it have to be? I don't remember them hurting for many or anything before the VC money came in, but nobody ever accused me of being too astute.
Fast XML to JSON using xpath templates in node
What? AMD develop their open source drivers and submit them to the kernel and they have their own set of Linux specific closed source drivers.
Do you game on a laptop? The only thing you do with Nvidia on desktop is $install-cmd nvidia
If an American did the US State Department might want a word or two with them.

Satellites are considered munitions… working on a foreign power’s weapons programs is… discouraged.
From what I found on teeth development:

>The first stage begins in the fetus at about 6 weeks of age. This is when the basic substance of the tooth forms.

>Next, the hard tissue that surrounds the teeth is formed, around 3 to 4 months of gestation.[0]

[0] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-preventi...
These are the sorts of questions historians address, yes. The answers to them aren't simple or settled even now within that discipline.
If you need to do work in order to revert to the previous state, does it imply you can extract work when going to the first to the second state?

Given the scenario you just laid out it seems no work can be extracted just by letting mix two substances that are at the same temperature and pressure. But there is something about it that doesn't quite add up to my intuition of symmetry and conservation laws. Could you please elaborate more on that?
My aunt died of plague and she didn't even plagiarise
It doesn’t help that financial education is nonexistent in this country, and the laws around investment advice make it so schools can’t really teach it. I took a budget class in college in effort to get more financially savvy, but they basically said they can’t really legally give advice for things like tax or investment or retirement planning, only really gave basic budget rules of thumbs that full time college students can’t really follow anyhow for lack of income.

The rich kids on the other hand, just ask mom or dad what to do and they are well informed by their own family financial planner.
how many people who are mods also are top 20 percent of contributors on Reddit? what happens when they all leave the platform?
I've been in big tech. They rarely use anything from OSS and usually have their own internal version long before OSS has an offering. Big tech will have no problem thriving without OSS. Their business models and execution aren't reliant on it at all. They only use it for recruiting
I wouldn't go so far as to say its a sufficient condition right? Is it perhaps necessary? Maybe. Ideally I think we would not force "improvement" on other countries. But if we are, at least set them up for success. I'm not going to comment on whether USA has made good on this in the last 100 years, its worthy goal for any country I suppose. I think people are lazy and if they can do nothing and a country is taken advantage of for their benefit, well they will do nothin.
UCAVs have worked pretty well for CAS in low-intensity, counter insurgency type conflicts but they are totally dependent on satellites for control and navigation. Potential near-peer adversaries are investing heavily in as anti-satellite weapons so in any future high end conflict those satellites will probably be the first casualties.

The US military and allies have been working to develop "loyal wingman" type UCAVs that can operate under the control of a crewed aircraft. Those show promise, but still require the controller to get fairly close in order to allow for reliable communications in a hostile EW environment.

Autonomous flight control software is nowhere near being able to perform CAS. That's probably decades away.
> I think there may be a disconnect between what Musk says and the reality on the ground.

Which runs against every good piece of advice that has ever been uttered about leadership. Musk far overpaid for twitter because he wanted to be the center of attention and what better way to do that than to buy the network which gets the most attention from "important" people?

He then took the Michael Jordan trope of "I never asked anyone to do anything I was unwilling to do" and tried to turn that into reality by sleeping in his office every once in a while. The problem with this sentiment is that the only employees who are going to stick around long-term in such a ridiculous working arrangement are those who either can't find jobs elsewhere or are terrified that they won't be able to find jobs elsewhere.

So now you've got a highly toxic work environment full of people who are unconfident in their own abilities to get the work done, and Elon constantly pretend like he's some sort of business genius from the movies who just walks into a meeting, throws a bunch of turds on top of the agenda without having a firm grasp of anything, and storms off to light the next fire.

It's fucking insane.
Self-hosting the styx-lang compiler 18 months after
Self-hosting a compiler is an important step when you create a language. With git, one might think that there's no reason you cant do it again, even 18 months after.
Correct!

Just like JavaScript was made to run in a browser, but additional runtimes have been created.
Yes, buying in bulk is just cheaper. The rancher makes about two phone calls per cow to round up his customers, then delivers it straight to the processor. I drive about 250 miles to the processor to pick it up. There are no grocers or transporters in the middle.

And I get to tell the processor exactly how I like it hung and cut.
I use DuckDuckGo now almost exclusively for search. It's the default in all my browsers. A few years ago Google still did better for some searches but now I don't feel that to be the case.
Younger people on here may not realize what a mindbending experience it was to see a GUI for the first time. The user experience of most pre-Mac computers was "black screen with glowing green bracket". If you typed something, the computer would respond "SYNTAX ERROR", which was even more intimidating. You in your ignorance had committed not just an error, but a syntax error, whatever that was.

Seeing a Mac for the first time, from the smiling icon at bootup to the way the pointer moved over things, and the way you could click to make things appear on the screen, was a transformative moment similar to the first time people a generation later encountered an image-capable web browser. It was one of those moments (like seeing VisiCalc in action) that made large numbers of people realize that a world was coming when computers might be usable by, and useful to, regular mortals.

I was nine years old when I saw my first Mac in 1984, and my only previous experience with computers was teaching an IBM PC to print 'BUTT' in an infinite loop using BASIC. I'd love to hear the impressions people older than me got the first time they used a GUI.
I've got some Nest cameras, the actual quality isn't much better than a shitty old D-Link camera I have. The Nest cameras have decent sensors but tiny primary lenses so there's a lot of pre-filtering before the video is even encoded. Fine details get blurred to shit if you actually try zooming on something like a license plate or logos.

The main difference I've noticed with the Nests vs older shittier cameras is their lenses have wider fields of view. So while the sensors have more pixels they're just picking up more background details vs more subject details. It lets them to have less precise positioning/aiming to cover a target area but they do t give you necessarily more detail on any individual part of the frame.
Yes. And once you are done learning every aspect of it, one day you will look yourself in the mirror and you will be 60 years old.
A Lab Experiment Replicated One of Evolution’s Biggest Moments
Gotta RTFM.
The moment I saw the term "SEO" it was like a stopwatch ticked on until search was dead. It used to be frowned upon to do little tricks, like keywords in a tiny, transparent font picked up by crawlers, but not seen by users.

When gaming search engines became a profession, the end of search appeared on the horizon. Guess we're headed back to web rings and link indexes (which will be consolidated, heavily monetized, and abandoned). If we're lucky, we'll be back to dialup BBSes by the 2040s.
https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-dow...

https://github.com/mhucka/taupe

From there you just need to write some code to re-publish them. Ideally just post them up to Mastodon?
Thanks for the reply. Yes, I agree that some execs can occasionally do better. I have even sometimes been that executive. I also agree with this as stated:

> Depending on ICs to push cultural change up through the org isn't IMHO a reasonable strategy.

But I think the world is bigger than that. My point is there are more possibilities than "hope for an exec who works in contradiction to the dominant paradigm" and "expect lone ICs to change things". Just as an example, those weren't big factors in getting us the 40-hour work week.
https://archive.is/nWUjA
> Nvidia is actively hostile to Linux users

Actually, Nvidia is what allowed many Linux users to enjoy high quality 3D graphics on Linux for more than 20 years. You remember fglrx and that stuff? Well, Nvidia worked.
Seems Twitter has had a culture of rolling out changes straight into production without incremental testing, at least since well before Musk took over. Mudge was hired there in 2020 and what he found was a complete mess.
There is an ActivityPub Plugin for Wordpress; I believe the author has recently been hired by Auttomatic.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

The Indieweb Crew of course did this first. The principle POSSE – Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere – was coined by them and is the guiding principle behind the Indieweb movement and it is exactly what you’re trying to do. You should click around a little bit in their wiki:

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

Most of the time the Indieweblings are doing their own “protocol“ by receiving and reacting to webmentions with rich data structures in Microformats syntax in their HTML. Some parts of Indieweb a rather opinionated about technologies. But a lot of them also interact with different federation services, for example see:

https://indieweb.org/ActivityPub
Sounds like the Cash for Ash scandal, which took down the Northern Irish government: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_Heat_Incentive_sca...
It's not an unreasonable guess. Instagram did the same thing and never turned back.
Create visual programming interfaces in Svelte using Rete.js
Rete.js has officially added support for integrating with Svelte, enabling you to build visual programming interfaces using Svelte components alongside other existing functionalities
Estimation and story points are a planning tool. You use them as a way to plot out your road map and prioritize initiatives. The minute you tie them to employee performance, you've obviated them for that purpose. Now the only thing people will care about (including your TL's) is making sure they keep their "score" inflated. Like I said, perverse incentive structure.
> CMIIW, but when baby teeth is already grown (appear), the other adult set is actually kept hidden inside, not that it grow.

Yup. See this skull of a child with the adult teeth ready to come out and push the baby teeth out of the way (warning, some people find the image very repulsive, even though it's basically a textbook picture of a skull):

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/9541/is-this-im...
completely tangential, but this thread triggered a wave of nostalgia reminiscing how good the few years around 2010 were (or rather seemed to be through rose-tinted glasses) in tech. Among all else it was an era when it really felt that google did just great on almost all fronts, search included. Web in general was lot less app- and mobile-centric because those things were still pretty new things comparatively.
(In reaally small letters below)

Consumer warning: might cause drowsiness, or anxiety. Teeth growth is guaranteed, but the location of newly grown teeth is not. Consult your doctor if you have high blood pressure, pregnant, or breastfeeding. Do not take with alcohol.
You've been posting about Onion v3 and "human people" for years at this point, nothing is going to happen. v2 onion addresses are not secure, plain HTTP is not secure unless you run it over Wireguard or IPSec with path filtering and use DNSSEC, and almost no one ever does that.
Next it will be hunting Sarah Conner
My Dad (physicist, member of the national academy) was familiar with David Bohm (maybe from the Institute for Advanced Study?). After enjoying several YouTube conversations between Bohm and Krishnamurti, I researched Bohm, and it sounded like he got a raw deal, then left the US. My Dad who is very conventional didn’t seem to like Bohm when I brought him up in conversation a few years ago. All that said, Bohm seemed like such a cool guy when he was talking with Krishnamurti.
Ah, thanks. That's helpful. Amazingly, the talk was even worse. Which suggests to me that there are a bunch of people in the editorial chain who are propping him up.