skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> describing both the best aspects of an optimal religion

Nearly every major religion ever was primarily a function of community and culture. Religion mostly just brings people together and makes them talk. What they do afterwards is when things can go really well or really bad. It’s not “dishonest” to describe religion this way, it’s the main point of having a religion

By contrast astrology is all about you, your feelings, your life and your personal connection to some cosmic background, it has nothing to do with helping people or developing shared goals and everything to do with thinking the literal universe shifts and groans for you

> unworthy of HN

When was the last time you went outside? You sound like a 12 year old, or a basement-dweller.

And I say that as someone who believes neither in religion nor in astrology
I agree and I wonder what plan Threads has to fix it.
If the field makes testable predictions that prove true then it cannot be a pseudo science.

And indeed, one can predict with accuracy better than chance how well someone will perform in a software developer job (for example) from an IQ test.

This same test may do less well in predicting the ability to hunt an antelope across the serengeti, but that still wouldn't make psychometrics pseudoscience.

Also, if there wasn't a g factor that would be fairly weird, as there are numerous little slightly deleterious mutations one could have that can minorly affect neuronal functioning. You'd genuinely expect there to be a decent correlation here.
From the legal angle this is bad for a brand. If brand becomes a commonly used name, it can lose its trademark legal protection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericize...
I am unsure about the goals, but this is what the rule by the seld-elected judiciary was. When Israel's courts aligned themselves too far to the left and along the racial divide, they became incompatible with Israel's current demographics and majority-elected government. The catch is, the Israeli right wing may swing too far just as well.
Didnt Musk smoke drugs?
Yeah lol, Musk wants to call them xs now. Like "your x last night was pretty great" or "will you share your x with me again?"

Not even kidding. https://apnews.com/article/twitter-x-logo-blue-bird-musk-068...

> In response to questions about what tweets would be called when the rebranding is done, Musk said they would be called Xs.
> Suppose thats true.

A communist society would entail the absence of private property, social classes, money and the state. No stable, large scale "society without state" exists in the modern world.
Kubernetes :-)
But not 100% of your income goes to paying for labour in your local economy. You buy goods and services that are from elsewhere (food from France, entertainment from America) etc.
> They don't want to open a plant in the US, but are doing so because Apple, the US Gov, and maybe the threat of the CCP, are pushing them to.

Fair point. I guess I would just imagine that, if they are going to build the factory, whether it be by choice, or by burden, they would make a point of doing an adequate job at the feat. If the building is going up because of pressures from outside the company, it would seem to follow that they would want the money spent on that to be worthwhile, right? Or is the assumption that if they drag their feet long enough due to "no fault of their own" they can import people to do the work at a faction of the cost, under deplorable conditions?

Personally, I cringe at the idea of the idea of terrible working conditions essentially being imported into America, but I certainly wouldn't put it past a country trying to make a buck.

> Trying to reconcile that with US or EU working conditions may not be possible without entirely retooling their approach and management -- which is challenging to do even in a company that very much wants the change.

Very true! One of the hopes that I had had with this process was that, perhaps because TSMC would be under US working conditions that, perhaps new processes could be made/discovered, meeting both good conditions and whatever expectations they had in mind. Perhaps that was a bit (or very) naive on my part; I still want to believe that a better, more humane process can be found to meet the bottom line and make the work less grueling for the people on the factory floor.
> I've seen arguments that the encryption algorithm itself is speech and should be protected

Yeah, that's an interesting distinction for sure. I mean, this has gone back to PGP and the encryption wars in the 90s where it was illegal to export an electronic version of PGP from the US under... ITAR, I believe (secure encryption was considered a munition and thus export-restricted?). And it was worked around by publishing the source code in a book, which could be exported just fine. Where it gets a bit more complicated is publication-restriction vs. use-restriction though; I'm sure I could readily find bomb plans on and possess the plans freely, but the moment I follow the directions in those plans I am committing a criminal act (in Canada at least it'd be "possession of a prohibited device").

The Griswold and Dobbs thing is a really unfortunate situation :(.

Up here in Canada, we've got a kind of interesting situation that really favours E2E and I wish I had a citation handy... basically, law enforcement cannot search your cellphone for evidence without a warrant, as expected, and also can't get a wiretap without a warrant. The situation that arose, though, was that one of the major telecommunication companies was keeping short-term SMS logs for ostensibly system debugging and law enforcement realized they could request those logs warrant-free. Because it was voluntary third-party disclosure, no one was "compelled" to disclose these logs and there was no protection in place for either party of the communication.
Since z13 vector instructions are supported again. But I doubt anybody uses them.
If I have free will, then, when calling a flipped coin in the air, I am completely free to choose whether to uttering either the word "heads" or "tails". And, if somehow identical circumstances were to arise again, I would again have a free choice and could possibly choose to call out a different word, "this time around".

But my act of calling out a word isn't just mental, it is physical. It causes physical vibrations in the air, and choosing different words causes different physical vibrations. And according to physics we can trace back the events leading up to the vibration in the air, which are caused by vibrations in my larynx and the shape of my mouth, each pulled in turn by contractions of muscle fibres that are happen when they are bathed in acetylcholine released by neurons attached to those fibers. The neurons are in turn linked together by electrical and chemical connections, all in turn following the laws of electrical and chemical potentials though their interactions with each other, each in turn following the laws of physics.

If I had a free choice, then somewhere that free choice interacts with the physical environment. If the same situation were somehow to truly arise again, as in the state of my brain is the same, the wind touching my skin is identical, the radiation falling from the sun on my face is identical, and I have a free choice, then the evolution of the state of me and the entire worlds diverges at some point, the point at which I make a free choice.

Quantum mechanics does allow divergence similar to this. In the observation of measurements in quantum mechanics, quantum theory says that identically prepared experiments can yield different results in which the probability of each result following the Born rule. However these results are random, and not based on a free choice. If we try to use measurement as a way to cause the state of the world to diverge based on my free choice, then I could be using my free choice to violate the Born rule, which could then in turn let me freely violate the conservation of energy and conservation of momentum, etc.

I acknowledge that our understanding of quantum physics isn't complete. The so-called vacuum catastrophe remains unexplained as just one example. And what the heck is qualia anyways? So it may be possible that a later theory does, somehow, give an opening for free will.

But just as the theory of the earth being flat was refined to be a sphere and then later refined into an oblate spheroid, each refinement of physics theories cannot stray too far from the previous one, as all the previous experimental results have to be maintained. Thus any updated version of quantum physics will need to maintain something close to unitary evolution of quantum states and it will need something close to the Born rule to make quantum events that appear to follow a random distribution, and will want to at least nearly respect conservation of energy and momentum.

Thus I remain skeptical of any refinement of physics ever enabling free will. But yeah, maybe it isn't entirely impossible.
That's not religion.

That's just sociology playing out.
Here Come the Family EVs
https://archive.is/LTlrY
Seems like a considerable upgrade from PlanUML (https://plantuml.com/ - which is amazing, but sometimes you just can't seem to be able to align the stuff the way you want too).
In fact, it seems that the code is slightly less readable compared to PlantUML, I should try to recreate some tangled messes and see how the alignment options work!
I completely agree. I posted it in a moment of weakness.
Undoubtedly "inspired" by recently watching [0] :)

[0] https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/A_Flight_to_Remember
Ah Ok. Agree with the amended version!

FWIW I think it’s unlikely that being a founder has any impact on current terms - we’re now thirty years on and several new licenses on now. Being a huge high profile customer will have an impact so Apple can probably get better terms than if you or me tried to buy an architecture license!
The emperor has no clothes. Whether it's just his natural personality, or serious internet-poisoning, or some kind of substance problem, Musk has a habit of making rash decisions, and buying Twitter for way more than it was worth was one of those.

So he's scrambling. Trying to find any way to make it pencil out, using all the stunts he can think of. "X" is just another one he'd kept in his back pocket for decades. He'd obviously always liked the brand, since "X.com" was part of his PayPal story, and he named his space company "SpaceX", and one of his Tesla models, and his kid.
It's been running it on a Pi3 for my garage door controller for well over 3 years (probably closer to 4 now) and I don't think I've logged into it more than once since I set it up. Really no complaints here.
Grimes isn't her given name. It's a chosen name, which is common in performers.
Painting fantasies does not magically make them reality. Be careful, your indoctrination is showing.
A commitment is different from a goal – here’s why that matters
Not recent but legendary:
"Latency Lags Bandwidth"
David Patterson
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.115...

Recent:

"How to Hack the Simulation?"
Roman Yampolskiy
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364811408_How_to_Ha...

"On the Computational Practicality of Private Information Retrieval"
Radu Sion, Bogdan Carbunar
https://zxr.io/research/sion2007pir.pdf

(via "Explained from scratch: private information retrieval using homomorphic encryption," https://blintzbase.com/posts/pir-and-fhe-from-scratch/ )
> they're not comparing it with the cost of other goods and services (which is what CPI measures), but whether they can afford it, based on their parents' current/past income, or their own future expected income.

Going to university should be viewed in the same light as a financial investment, there is no guarantee it will improve your standard of living, except perhaps through networking, a case of who you know not what you know that matters, the old school tie network, that sort of thing.

For example, the police when charging people dont ask what your educational achievements are or where you studied. So are some university's going to increase your chances of ending up in prison or do they make you an untouchable Clarke in their field of knowledge? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk4wX4FPRzE&t=6s

In a way, the police are hiding the poor standards of the state educational system by not publishing this data, let alone capturing it for data analysis and they are also protecting the reputation of university's.

Likewise the course offered, is it relevant for today and the future or are they teaching courses on subject matter which is becoming irrelevant? Look at how quickly some things have changed over the last twenty years.

And the obvious elephant in the room, is how many people have studied a degree which is relevant to their current employment and past employment? In other words, does having a university degree show you can play nicely with others and evolve from academic speak to corporate speak?

Again backing up the impression the university's are selling knowledge on the subject matter you want to learn, but its not their job to find you employment pertaining to the subject matter you have studied. This applies to all universities.

So then the networking potential is relied upon and if you happen to work for a business which values university degrees highly, then there is a level of "obedience to authority" which can be applied as a factor to that business.

Take Goldman Sach's, AFAIK their policy is to recruit only graduates and to let a % go every 3 years irrespective of company performance, so this displays an unconscious bias towards university's and their reputation.

Some large companies like a drug company will actively sponsor some aspect of a university in order to influence what is taught on the course and lets them have first access to the students, who show potential, or obedience to the scientific theory of the day, which happens to be lucrative for the business. In biology there are lots of theories, mainly because there is still so much undiscovered potential in the body.

Some university courses will also likely land you a job in a quango, which if your aspirations are muted, will set you up for life because serving on a quango can be highly lucrative, if everyone tows the line.

In my time, none of this was explained to me, and I doubt it is now, but if you have a parent who has been through the uni process, especially one of the more prestigious uni's, you be made aware of what to look for, especially if you are the type that likes to name drop your university name. mic drop....
This must be an ID10T error...
> then Open-Sourced Firefox came along to challenge, but it was inherited from the same Netscape codebase and made minimal market progress at the time

No, this is not correct: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/worldwid...

Firefox very much made market progress. Chrome didn't catch Firefox until 2011: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/worldwid...

Android was already on version 4 by that time, so of course they were catching up as they were becoming dominant in that space, and Chrome was the default browser installed on every device.
> given a free pass for more nefarious actions than ms have committed.

Not to defend Apple or Google, as they are both toxic companies, but Microsoft literally supported SCO.
Circles were a near-exact lift of the same-named feature from Google Plus. You could (can still?) set up ring privilege layers of your followers or specific subgroupings and send tweets only visible to those in that group.
I have used Mermaid diagrams quite a bit lately because ChatGPT can generate them. It's been an easy way to get it to visualize things before I have access to the image generation stuff. It works really well, try it if you haven't!

I only wish the renderer could render "sketch" style like Excalidraw, I don't like the default appearance. Obviously a small detail, though.
I hated when textbooks/papers did this. Half the time you can't tell if they meant to use the bold letter or if the printer was just being generous on that character. Made legibility quite a bit more difficult. BB letters are unambiguous.
Indeed. I'm wondering if this guy avoids looking out windows too. God forbid you see something that changes your perspective...
Getting stupefying amounts of I/O on AWS is as simple as turning a knob and getting out your credit card. The kind of throughput quoted in the article—48GB/s—is achievable on AWS for $250k/year, list price.
I really like d2 a lot more than its alternatives.

However the big problem here being that d2 is still quite new and isn't as well supported as Mermaid JS
It doesn't matter. Now that you can't even see tweets without having an account, the platform is dead.
There’s also xAI that was announced a few days ago
Any other books you can recommend?

I am just getting into reading about this stuff.

It has made me realize that I am not as rational as I once thought I was.
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It's all regurgitated and repackaged into tweet-size aphorisms, too. It's a sort of junk-food version of philosophy.

I feel like "Sapiens" and Eckhart Tolle cover a large percentage of what he's saying (though admittedly I haven't checked out his latest musings). I wonder if anyone's crowd-sourced a "top 5" of what the underlying worthwhile books to read would be.

Some brief searching turned up this "reading list," [1] though it looks a lot like one of those book-lists people make to show how they smart they are.

[1]: https://www.kevinrooke.com/book-recommendations/naval-ravika...
The best take I've read on the situation in Israel was written by Yuval Noah Harari, author of "Sapiens"[a], for the Financial Times[b]:

"To understand events in Israel, there is just one question to ask: what limits the power of the government? Robust democracies rely on a whole system of checks and balances. But Israel lacks a constitution, an upper house in the parliament, a federal structure or any other check on government power except one — the Supreme Court. This Monday, the Netanyahu government plans to pass the first in a series of laws that will neutralise the Supreme Court. If it succeeds, it will gain unlimited power.

Members of the Netanyahu coalition have already disclosed their intention to pass laws and pursue policies that will discriminate against Arab people, women, LGBTQ people and secular people. Once the Supreme Court is out of the way, nothing will remain to stop them. In such a situation, the government could also rig future elections, for example by banning Arab parties from participating — a step previously proposed by coalition members."

A government whose power is not limited by checks and balances is called an authoritarian government.

Sigh.

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[a] https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/d...

[b] https://www.ft.com/content/b027a525-05b1-45fc-a2c2-f131d341b...
That's the trick. They need to stock these colleges with smart and interesting kids in order to attract the sheltered idiots with wealthy upper middle-class parents. A lot of very talented broke people I know got full rides to mediocre schools that normally cost twice as much to attend as actually good schools. The school was taking absolutely no risk with them, they were proven prodigies that didn't really need school (and didn't have great grades.)

Anyway, the best schools are free to attend (at least until the loan payments start.) You get showered with grants and loans if they accept you. It's the worthless ones that benefit from signalling their cost. Those are the schools paying smart (and culturally interesting) kids to attend, as atmosphere for the real customers.
> We’ve seen it in his prior reversals, when fortunes at his firms were down and he changed course savvily.

More like when he gets called out on his lies and abuse, he buries what he previously said. When was the last time he talked about Hyperloop? Did he ever apologize to the person he accused of being a pedo? Robotaxis?

He lies to pump his stock or ego, then hopes people forget what he said. That’s not “savvy”, it’s just sleazy.
Wage growth has more than exceeded CPI: https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-hourly-wages.... You're thinking of some other measure, such as so-called "productivity growth."
This falls under the "curse of dimensionality"[0]. There are so many tasks/patterns/parts of life that humans can develop specialized skills in that most humans (nearly every human?) are exceptional at something. It might be "identifying the best cardboard scraps and arranging it to make a bed on the sidewalk which is optimally comfortable", or "knowing how to make one specific family member smile" but it'll be something.

If you were to enumerate every skill that improves the life of at least one human, there are probably more than 10 billion such skills which require complex analysis, deep experience, and aptitude to execute at a high level. That's enough for everyone to have something they're "best" at.

One of my favorite quotes is: "If you judge a dolphin by its ability to fly, you are the idiot."

If you're speaking of "generalized intelligence", i.e. some metric which collapses the dimensionality to just a few axes, then obviously you start seeing a more classic distribution where many people are "dumber" than you. But you'd still lack many, many life skills necessary to comfortably take over their life were you to magically swap places with them.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality
Being pedantic here but "sentinel" means "signalling the end of a sequence" (such as a 0 byte for C strings, or visually when you close an array or a block of code with `}`)
How many of these tools are out there? This is like the 4th CDC to Data warehouse tool I've seen this year and I'm struggling to understand why they all exist in parallel.

I just found estuary with a colleague yesterday which didn't work and previously have seen at least two other tools promising the same CDC to Data Warehouse in-a-box pipelines. What makes this tool different?
I tend to think it's more internet-poisoning than yes-men. When he was sleeping in his office and living and breathing his companies, he didn't have time to get corrupted by social media.

Then he slowed down once his companies got big-enough and stable-enough to run themselves. His transphobia (combined with his hatred of the COVID policies that were hurting his bottom line) led him down the worst internet rabbit-holes and now he's off the deep end.
I really enjoy MermaidJS. I've been trying to shoehorn representing vlan flows over switches recently and haven't been very successful. My basic goal is to show [p1]switch1[p2] <------> [p9]switch3[p12] in a graphical manner (and more intermediate switches). MermaidJS kind of works. I'm tempted to use something like Visio or Google Drawings but they take too much manual work.
Too much debt? China’s foreign investments weigh heavy on borrowers
> Apple famously doesn't do any of this with your iPhone

You're arguing in favor of a product tour. iOS usability is garbage. There are no affordances. Nothing is discoverable. There are a million inputs (mostly gestures) that no one ever finds out about unless someone tells them or they Google it, and they're not consistent across apps, even first-party apps. Sometimes "swipe the row left" means "remove," sometimes it means "more actions". It's just a jumble of inconsistent nonsense.

Watch a non-tech person use their iPhone. They have no idea that they can do 50% of the things that they can do. Ever see anyone use "shake to undo" for example?
This whole Twitter saga is like what happens when a cat catches a bird and doesn't know what to do with it so just slowly tortures it to death for the hell of it
not OP, but I use tandoor to host my recipes and it generates a shopping list based on what I've picked to cook this week
I see this as why humans love stories so much. An explanation with a beginning, a middle, and an end. The human condition is facing the unknown.
dead trees, strained