skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What’s “rigorous enough”? What does “rigorous” actually mean? You haven’t defined that at all in any way that can explain how to distinguish between social science and science. How does “rigor” separate biology from anthropology?

I’m just trying to get you to be even a little bit rigorous, but you haven’t been able to put any rigor behind your claim whatsoever, you seem unable to argue your claim, because you simply keep repeating it. You’ve resorted to ad-hominem instead of discussing the issue in most of your comments in this thread, and you’re doing it again.

The evidence you’ve provided of a so-called “debate” over whether social science is a science is incredibly weak. Most of it was irrelevant to your specific point because either you’re confused about the difference between humanities and social science or you read the click-bait headline but didn’t catch the conclusion. Most of what you brought so far was single obscure opinion pieces by one person that fail to show any significant disagreement about social science. The existence of someone who says something hyperbolic on the internet is not evidence of a lack of consensus.

Meanwhile, the single Wikipedia link stating without hesitation that social science is considered a science represents thousands of people who agree that social science is a science. Wikipedia is generally pretty good about acknowledging a lack of consensus. So if you think you’re right that there’s enough lack of consensus, then you should edit the Wikipedia page and get it to permanently state either a lack of consensus or permanently state that social science isn’t science.

Yes totally I think you should scour Puja Mondal’s “article” to pick out the sentences that are true among the many sentences that are untrue. Maybe doing that exercise would help you see how hopelessly terrible that article is. I’m stunned you’re doubling down on this particular point. What is the value of some true sentences in an opinion article that has many false statements, and is written by someone with no expertise?

BTW I didn’t define those papers as social science, the science journals nature, science and PNAS did. (For example https://www.nature.com/collections/ccjddcabab) Agriculture, being a human endeavor, is considered part social science, and any given paper can lean heavily into the social science. The paper you called CS is really computational social science, and obviously so since it’s trying to recognize human emotion. All the papers listed are multidisciplinary and all involve social science. You are further demonstrating that you don’t know what social science is.

So what’s your expertise? Why is your opinion on social science even relevant?
Of course there is nothing wrong with using a relational database. My concern was about storing passwords in it. There is a difference between storing passwords and storing hashes and/or salts.
You make a fair point, who in their right mind would want to live in a centralised command economy claiming to impose a dictatorship of the proletariat on some mythical road to an imagined communism.

Have there been any actual communist states?

For that matter, is the US a "capitalist state" or just something flawed in the vicinity of an ideal.

People can rightly complain of Citizens United and extreme wealth disparity without wanting some farcical wealth leveling via a Bolshevist revolution and a bunch of tossers rabbiting on about Marxism | Leninism while imprisoning millions.
Also, they may be opaque even to software engineers, it's not like we have magic powers to look at a physical computer and know what code is running.

Even if the code is released:

(1) Who can read and understand tens or hundreds of thousands of lines of probably not very comprehensible code? Not many people can and even fewer will.

(2) Is the code running on the machines the same as the published code?

I don't even know what code is running on my phone or laptop right now.
You encode the test condition in address `ea` and execute some quasi no-op like `test eax, [ea]`. The address space is setup such that `ea` is unmapped / unreadable if the test condition says the code should trap.
It's server admins making their choices for/against users, by blocking entire instances whose politics they don't like. There is a big difference between users making their own choices and admins making them for them.
This is a ridiculous breach of privacy and nothing will come of it. They claim to have removed the pixel after it came out.
Hollywood Studios’ WGA Strike Plan: Let Writers Go Broke, “Lose Apartments”
BLS.gov is, of course, an American bureau
> Also, Amazon doesn’t “clear” out their warehouses. They charge sellers to story inventory in their warehouses. The longer items sit unsold, the more amazon makes off of the seller in FBA fees.

Yes but 2 things can be true at the same time. Amazon can make money of stuff sitting in the warehouse and they/their clients can want to sell stuff so that they can make room for more stuff or just clear old inventory off the books. I'm not sure how you get "included" in Prime Day but I assume sellers do something to opt-in.
That still leaves the ram upgrade and thus 929€ at the current apple store price for 16gb ram, 256gb storage, 1 gbit ethernet. Which again, is an okay deal for a large sized nuc, but at $1000 that is about par for the course.
Shelter costs will likely drop more during the next two rate hikes

Home costs and rentals are already dropping in the pandemic boom areas.
You can also use const_cast to remove the const-ness. You could then mutate the value.

I believe that's undefined behavior territory (the mutation, at least in most cases), but I'm sure someone is doing it in the wild.
Of course it’s gamed. The government has motive, means, and opportunity. It would be shocking if it weren’t gamed.
Remember that when you're cumulating percentages to multiply rather than add. The official inflation since 2020 is 20%, not 15%.
I would love to know how!

I've never had success with local CAs and self-signed certs on iPhone, despite going through the whole rigamarole of creating and installing an MDM profile with the trust root. Even after doing that, apps and Safari behave as if the certificate was untrusted. Is there some documentation you've successfully used and wouldn't mind pointing to?
Waze is such a lost opportunity. Imagine if that crowdsourced data (accidents, traffic jams, obstacles, speed traps, etc) was integrated into the car itself instead of running in an offboard app.
Yeah, I guess that reiterates the "who would join" point. I've tried to get my friends to join me on SSB. No luck.

We may have to wait for the solar flare that knocks out the internet. Then point-to-point stuff like SSB will be the only thing that's working... between the seventeen people that were using it in the first place.
Not really. It's closer to the mouse right after a right click now than it used to be. Now it's the first, most immediate choice in the right click menu while on Windows 10 and most other older versions of Windows it's like the 4th option down.
Why do you think it's a gamed number? The official US inflation numbers correspond pretty well to outside efforts to measure them like the Billion Prices Project. Not perfectly with any one official price index but the US publishes a ton of them using different baskets of goods and different methodologies so that isn't surprising. But not systematically off in any particular direction either.
I absolutely hold to the scientific method.

But do you think you find that method in science? In science journals, academic departments?

I don't think you do, and I for one don't trust.

Science, like religion, like academia, like government - and all those individuals therein - are all in thrall to money, not truth. I don't think there is any doubt that the proclamations we receive from whichever institution are about providing us with information that is expedient for us to believe (not verify). The provided information is about control of minds. If whatever-it-is does have a relation to the underlying reality (and who checks?), that relationship is accidental/beneficial for whatever story we are currently being sold.
Did I make any argument about who had a bigger role? I just made an argument that because of the US's role, and the fact that right now they have the biggest army, that's what allows them to have this influence in laws in europe. Other people started making comparisons with USSR.
I think you might be missing the point.

The point is not arguing whether Nahel Merzouk was breaking the law, or whether he was a danger, or whether the shooting was legal.

The point is that the law that made the shooting legal may be sour. It puts a lot of power over life and death in the hands of law enforcement. It's also new for France; the authority to shoot drivers when the officers are in no imminent danger is only a power they have as of 2017.

The Bastille was stormed on the rumor that Louis the XVI was going to arrest the National Assembly, not on action taken. Just as these riots are fueled on the risk of what on-paper authority has been given to French police: if they decide you could be a risk to other people and you move your car one inch, your life is legally forfeit (their call, and you'll be too dead to offer counter-testimony). People believe that bargain of safety vs. their right to life is untenable, and don't believe the system is set up to allow them to change it legally. Hence, the riots.

Earlier, you said

> The people of France, and everywhere else, want the police to stop criminals from joyriding through their neighborhoods.

No disagreement, but I think the concern is the people of France don't want so much risk to their own right to life to protect the community's right to life. Letting the cops decide whether "You probably need killing; you look like a threat" is a huge power to hand to them, especially through the lens of out-groups vs. in-groups and subconscious assessments ("I have this power to protect the people from terrorists; this guy looks like a terrorist, therefore...").
Wait, why would Meta & Google even want your tax data??

Peeking at your credit cards purchase historic I can understand, as it tells them your shopping habits and helps them target you better. But tax data?? Why??
- Automate schema detection and reporting of discrepancies (to both the client and you), and make that 100% robust.

- get a good SLA in place (you can’t promise to load their data within an hour if they essentially can send random crap, for example)

- Add a zero to what you charge them.

Alternatively, walk away from that customer.
3% YoY vs 4% last month and 9% last year are excellent, not pretty bad.

For comparison yoy inflation in 1983/1984 (massive win for the incumbent president) was >3% and >4% respectively with a significantly higher unemployment rate
This is a broken user code written without any JMM understanding.
I can't believe I have to say this to people. Before you nit pick, expand your search parameters? See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17138877
Your experience is isolated to your own network of friends and the people you're following. It doesn't represent the platform itself.
Strawman (gameboy hasn’t been a thing for a decade) but looking past your fallacy I sure do: plenty of kids only get one or the other for Christmas.
I think about the pros and cons of a monoculture vs a polyculture every once in a while, and I suppose that this is an example of one of the benefits of a monoculture. That the existence of norms prevent/mitigate out of bounds behavior by individuals (although that of course could be a good or a bad thing depending on the bounds, and if the bounds are reasonably changeable)
China-based hackers breached US gov email accounts, say Microsoft, White House
I don't like the word "share" in this context: these financial companies didn't simply give away info, they got something in return and I would like more info about what they got.
There's lots of factors at play here, it could be brexit related because the beachs have become soiled so people go to Europe for a break, we dont know who is invested in Thames water, are these british pension funds or other types of investors. Is this a sexism thing, what with a female ceo, has she been wrongly advised, manipulated with data presented in a particular way.

There's so many factors potentially at play here and some of it we wont get to ever know about, but life has taught me there is manipulation in many guises.
There's a big long nerdy blog post about it (where I learned this technique) but basically many tools will throw away information and take you back to the start of a tricky merge. With the right settings, you can leave all the easy bits done and see exactly what caused the problem.

I think the guy was campaigning to make it the default so it may be in some tools now.

I'll see if I can Google it up.

edit, think this is it:

https://www.eseth.org/2020/mergetools.html
That's not true. I know of no social network which censors alt-left/woke activists. So they certainly don't just appease the normies.
In the US, our education system kind of sucks (:
If you leave a "country where a dangerous tyrannical dictator has set up shop" you will also almost certainly lose friends and acquaintances. And if you don't you won't. It's always heartbreaking for all kinds of refugees. But leaving, arguably, has more upsides, for example not getting brutalized by the internal security services.
> Mid-80s was more or less Peak Horrible Death-Based Public Safety Ad, wasn't it?

And also the 1970's. I remember we were treated to a steak and mince horror safety show designed to discourage us tearaways from playing on the new bypass being built around our village circa 1977. It was a proper video nasty, especially for 10-11 year olds.

"Scarred for Life" is a great book exploring these themes, many of which continued into the early 80's:

https://www.lulu.com/shop/stephen-brotherstone-dave-lawrence...

There's a second volume covering 1980's TV:

https://www.lulu.com/shop/dave-lawrence-and-stephen-brothers...
This is similar to how ZFS does it, and probably others, so hardly unique. In ZFS they call it "records" or "blocks" rather than "extents", and the default value record size is 128KiB.
What that statistic means is that nearly 40% of business card websites and similar sites use Wordpress. It’s nowhere near as significant as some people seem to think it is.

Personal blogs are a vanishingly small fraction of that. The only reason it might seem otherwise is due to social bubbles or interest bubbles.
I thought this was just a meme, but it isn’t.

I’m finding myself doing more deep reading and spending more time on my offline hobbies. Boredom is a gift.
How would one game the CPI? A price index is just an average of the prices of a bunch of different goods. We have pretty hard data on the prices of goods. People likely think inflation is higher because they purchase more of a particular good that has significantly increased. Used cars, for example, accounted for almost a third of the inflation measure in 2021.
Thank you for the correction, that was my mental math + my memory doing 1.12* 1.01*1.02.
Can you explain why YoY matters most?

It has always seemed like a very laggy indicator to me. Eg, if inflation is brought under control, the YoY numbers will make it look like there is still inflation on-going for the next 12 months. To me, that seems almost dangerous, as it will provoke inflation countermeasures from the government, and inflation reactions from business & labor (price/wage increases) that will in turn lead to even more inflation..
Prepare to be shocked, I guess
> Microsoft has committed in writing, in public, and in court to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation for 10 years on parity with Xbox.

Yeah, heard that one before.

> Oh but we promised Call of Duty and this is Duty Called, so we don't have to care about anything we have promised before.

I mean, this is Microsoft.
> why would Meta & Google even want your tax data??

The more they know the better of a profile they can build about you which is something they can sell. It's surveillance capitalism, plain and simple.
It is certainly gamed, but maybe not in the way you mean it.
The fundamental issue is that every agent in the economy has their own price index, condensing this into a single number is impossible without losing almost all the information.

Essentially, inflation is a field like air pressure (Eric Weinstein put it this way). Even if the weights and items baskets in the various categories were chosen with the best intentions it would not match anybody's experience. It would be like saying the weather in the US tomorrow will be 1056.

On top of that there is almost certainly a lot of "adjusting" of the weights and item baskets, the organizations producing the statistics have no incentives not to.
Why not buy a compatiple blu ray drive and dump them on your PC?
> The book's perspective on human condition is very cynical. My understanding, when I read it, is that by "unbearable lightness" what the author means is that we are absolutely irrelevant and the whole idea of "meaning of life" is just pathetic.

The novel contains various asides where the author says what the book is about and it's not this.

Heaviness and lightness are two different attitudes towards life. Lightness is not committing to anything, chasing experience, infidelity, pleasure, and so on. If anything, the novel comes down on the side of heaviness: tenderness, commitment, marriage, having a dog even though it will die, etc.
Shouldn't the title say, Chinese hackers breached Microsoft's email accounts again, and they just so happened to belong to the White House staff?
Website 100% AI Like
Looking for a model of website that integrate AI like model of navigation through the website
If I was evaluating your code for production standard, then no testing is automatic failure. I assume you didn't run python formatter like black. Some of the codes aren't my personal style, but I won't deduct any points for that.

Take-home exam is bullshit in my opinion. I've done total of 3 in my career, and nothing came out of it. Zero feedback other than you are not what we are looking for. I've long since declined about any take home exams. I rather leetcode than take home because leetcode can scale, while take home is just unpaid work.
Income level probably important
I haven't done much C++ in a few years but IIRC you can remove const as long as the "original" value isn't const. So `const_cast((*const Foo)foo)` is fine if foo is not const.
Pretty much everything you listed, plus games. All of that minus games is still usable on Qubes but there is a noticeable speed decrease.
Of course the Fed is going to raise rates. We’re still near 5% minus food and energy. It’s been going sideways for the last four months and note that this is not the seasonal rate and that in the winter when the energy prices rise, if food and energy stay at 4.8% then the rate of inflation will start to click up again.
I want AR that can overlay a screen inside the lens of my prescription glasses. Putting aside the impracticality of my desire, I can imagine it being more useful than my iPhone.

Then I imagine all of the corporations vying to build AR/VR headsets and remind myself that they will never be able to build a product that I want to buy. It will be ad-riddle junk, running on a closed software ecosystem, using proprietary hardware, that treats its users as a product to be controlled and monetized.

Someone please prove me wrong.
Am I the only one who disliked "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Sometimes if I just try to find more depth and meaning in a book just because of other people did, I stop to wonder, should I? Book with an uninteresting and shallow plot, with no depth in any way that pushed my thinking in some further direction, with a title I could not connect to anything in a book. Maybe it is just me and that slice of time in my life when I read it did not click. But I vividly remember the place I read it and how I wondered what am I missing haha

On a side note, I think some books just click very differently with people. For example I could not for a love of anything in the universe connect such praise Peter Handke got for some of his work to my experience reading it
The CPI isn't a made up number. It's an average of prices of goods. The government doesn't manipulate prices of goods, at least not directly. Sure, the economy might be gamed by the government and large corporations in general, but the Consumer Price Index isn't (and can't really be) directly manipulated, without changing its definition (what is included in the index).
If ZFS was re-licensed to be compatible with the GPL, then I'm sure that it would get accepted into the kernel (assuming the code is tidied up as necessary). Now it can be argued that CDDL and GPL are compatible, but that's a risk and Oracle have been known to be litigious whenever it suits them.

From: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/2094/are-cddl...

> The CDDL is a license that does not try to enforce restrictions that would not stand in court but disallows relicensing of code. The fact that on the other side, the CDDL explicitly limits its scope to the files that contain CDDL'd code, allows us make our first conclusion:

> Code under the CDDL and code under the GPL cannot be mixed in a single file.

>The GPL is a license that limits its scope to the so called "work" limit and forbids relicensing of code. This allows us to make the next conclusion:

> Code under the CDDL and code under the GPL cannot be mixed in a single work.

So, that would seem to leave two options - either re-license Linux under a CDDL-compatible license or re-license ZFS under a GPL-compatible license. Clearly re-licensing ZFS would be much easier as it's controlled by a single entity - Oracle.

My opinion is that Oracle are acting in bad faith (probably a default assumption with Oracle to be fair) and deliberately don't want the code to be in Linux.
Inform7 Actions and Rules system made me reconsider the centrality of the notion of Object when it comes to dispatching (note: Inform7 reads like english). Inform7 takes a verb-centric stance, then consider the subject (i.e. "this", in OOP), then the object (i.e. the arguments to a method). You can inject more specific behaviors in an action (i.e. something akin to a multimethod in CLOS), by adding an adjective to a verb/method complement/arguments. You can even use adjectives on the verb/sentence. All of this is gathered within a rulebook associated with the verb that exists aside of the actual source code: you can write code linearly, following the natural order of a given user story from the domain you model, using multiple verbs in succession, but can still display all a verb's rule, encompassing many user stories. Most importantly, it is truely extensible because you can't add code to an action's rulebook without doing so through a rule, which has the same role as a junction-point in aspect oriented programming or even subject-oriented-programming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject-oriented_programming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming

https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/book/WI_12_1.html

https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/book/WI_19_1.html
Isolated temporally aggregated pastiche is a medium some artists revel to work with, unfortunately the first adjective is often missing from the metaphor, and the blind keep pushing the clay further from the points of realization upon the artists fingers.
They'd do anything for a sniff of your 3rd grade report card. Of course they want your tax info
Ad targeting by income. It wouldn't make sense to advertise luxury vehicles to someone making $30k/year, for example.
Not always. We’ve seen a generation choose the door instead.
Religion is a black box. Science is FOSS.
Well, at least after that you knew why you couldn't sleep... probably the worst movie you could have picked.