skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't wait to have my retina scanned and associated with my OpenAI account for pre-mined cryptocurrency. Where do I camp out for this epic moment in history?
It's indeed relatively small, but what it may lack in numbers, it makes up for in quality. It's one of the most dedicated, helpful, and friendly communities I've come across.

I've personally been surprised by a pro of having a more intimate community: in my experience, this leads to a higher signal-to-noise ratio in discussions and resources. It feels like what I need to get online is more "condensed".
It’s not so much about accessibility, just quality of argument. As I said, basically no one that has read and thought significantly about religion thinks that Dawkins’ works are anything other than simple-minded polemics.

It’s the equivalent of watching a 5-hour YouTube video about programming and thinking you understand computer science, except that books by Dawkins et al are not even very good, impartial introductions to the topic. All I can say is: if the topic of religion is interesting to you, these are not good books to start with.

I also really don’t think Genealogy of Morality is all that complicated.

Edit: I just remembered this excellent book by Julian Young, Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Religion. I really recommend that if you’re looking for a more nuanced but modern take of what Nietzsche thought about religion.
Your parent said "akin to racism". You're not likely to win many people over, when you treat "akin" and "equivalent" as equivalent.
> ultimately leading to his resignation from the CEO position.

You sure about that? Pretty much everywhere else - it’s written and said - he was FIRED!
The challenge with books like The God Delusion is that it's barely one step above strawman arguments.

It attacks claims made by some simple lay people, based on their half-baked understanding of their own faiths (which they never really dug into). However, people well versed in the religion don't actually make any such claims.

The arguments being debunked are ones that religious scholars themselves would have disagreed with. Such misrepresentations don't guide anyone
I'm not missing the point, blowhard. I stated a verifiable fact: The description does not confirm that the Framework's USB-C modules support Thunderbolt. So you're bloviating on something that nobody brought up or is relevant.

Maybe you're replying to the wrong person. If you don't understand comment threading on Internet forums, you need some remedial instruction. I have no idea where you should turn for that. But step 1 is to stop lashing out against random people because you're frustrated.
Since the start of the century, many western democracies added freedom for marrying people of the same sex as you. Abortion laws also got more progressive in several countries in the last 20 years. There's been an erosion of privacy and other things but there's some areas with extra civil liberties.
Depends where you live and what kind of people you're around, but anecdotally, yes they are, it's really weird.
This is just terrible. I just feel sad as a lover of cats, big and small, that these beautiful animals are being used for political showboating. We should have kept them in a zoo or maybe in a large preserve, with a fewer number of animals brought in. Even though I am no animal expert, I have had experience with feeding and taking care of domestic/feral cats, and those guys can't stand one another. They used to fight each other for the small scraps of food I used to give them. The same thing was bound to happen for larger cats as well.
I know I shouldn’t question the wisdom of downvoters but… come on!
What apps would you recommend?
Admissions data at UC Berkeley shows that nonresident students have historically been ~35% of admits, with 2022 at 28%. UCLA historically has had ~40% nonresident admits, with 2022 at 34%[0]. UCLA’s freshman profile shows that GPA and SAT/ACT scores (from when they were still required) are higher for nonresidents as well[1]. It’s reasonable to argue that resident admit percentage should be higher, but the idea that nonresidents are preferred isn’t supposed by admissions data.

As for the nonresident tuition issue, it seems like a matter of having the state make up the difference between resident and nonresident tuition so that the university receives the same fee regardless of residency status.

[0] https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-us/information-...

[1] https://admission.ucla.edu/apply/freshman/freshman-profile/2...
There is a "Search all" button on the top-left, which allows to search icons across all collections.

This feature's results page lists icons without mentioning from which collection they are, so therefore without providing the licensing information...
Why not using the sun to evaporate it, then collect the salt?
Temperature have risen in the last 15 years, unless one wants to extract water only by desalination, it should be feasible, and could at least help less densely populated areas near the sea. Maintenance aside, energy costs would be negligible.
I don't think this is the right way to look at it. Without the 1st Amendment, where would be today? Many people on this site are not fans of the 2nd Amendment, but I think they would have to acknowledge that, without it, the situation of the armed citizenry today, while not really comparable to that of colonial times, would be much shabbier than it is -- we would have lost as much of the right to bear arms as the British have, or the Canadians.

One important function of laws is to delimit and codify the exercise of rights and freedoms. Another is to explicitly limit the government. We should probably be amending the Constitution to accomplish this more often, actually.
It's actually more accurate to say that it used to be that single-letter TLDs could be registered, however

> Only three of the 26 possible single-letter domains have ever been registered under the .com domain, all before 1992. The other 23 single-letter .com domain names were registered January 1, 1992 by Jon Postel, with the intention to avoid a single company commercially controlling a letter of the alphabet.

and

> On December 1, 1993, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) explicitly reserved the remaining single-letter and single-digit domain names. The few domains that were already assigned were grandfathered in and continued to exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_dom...
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-is-running-a-massive-...
Twitter was quite in the red before he said he was going to buy it, he found out it was quite in the red and tried to back out, the SEC forced him to buy it, and everything since is a desperate attempt to float a sinking ship that was doomed from the beginning like cutting expenses (the people maintaining twitter).
> why wouldn't the time of year of a person's birth have an effect on their development?

Because whether your parents can provide you with quality nutrition and good education (among 10000 other factors) has much bigger impact.
Thanks for the link, always curious to hear other experiences from India. Stateside we don’t get much perspective outside of what NRIs do and the mainstream media which leads to a bubble of sorts.
Harvard’s Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science
Ancient 'skywells' are keeping Chinese homes cool
No surprise there. Begs the question: Are those jobs good for an economy or are they just fluff.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/laus.pdf
CEOs never get fired. They always decide to spend more time with their family and resign.
A problem I see with direct democracy is that "the common man" doesn't have time to get educated in everything they'd have to vote for.

The swiss model where things can be raised to referendum seems pretty reasonable to me (Swede). I'd love it over here, so we can tell our government (including the party I voted for) to kindly shove it sometimes.
"Saving" a business isn't really a lifestyle thing, that's more of an investment really. Realistically, your life isn't meaningfully worse if you find a new restaurant to go to.

Paying for friends to vacation with you is a very good one though. But idk, I feel like you can extend that so far that it feels like a copout. For example, maybe you can afford a nice home on 300K, but you can't buy your mom a nice home as well. And you can't pay your brothers student loans. And you can't gift them a car every couple years.

That's not your quality of life, that's paying for someone else to live the same lifestyle as you. At that point I'd just argue for raising wages across the board so that you don't feel the need to pay your friends, they just want to go on vacation with you.
> I think I can say this, whether I'm right wing or left wing, and intelligent people will agree.

I wouldn't end any opinions like this if you want to be taken seriously.
Some stereotyping is racist, but not all.
"To get a sense of the language the practitioners use, and how they reason about things."

Isn't the article assuming you already are a practitioner?
I don’t think there’s a decline, it’s just social media makes the existence of such people more apparent.
I think it's because he was financially successful with PayPal and he wants to duplicate that success, so he's always been trying to break back into the money flows and this was too juicy of an idea to merge the two.
Slight forward tilt can be desired, eg. to help with dust accumulation.
Oracle does a very good job in ensurnig their software is used by as least users as possible. My company has recently issued a global e-mail requiring all employees to uninstall everything related to VirtualBox and switch to different solutions (vmware, parallels). It's a shame, because VirtualBox was one of my favorite virtualizers, but at this point I'm afraid that Oracle lawyers will get me for staring on an icon for too long without paying an extended icon license.
> When an LLM is suggesting what might come next in a piece of text... it doesn't know if it's supposed to guess a probable word from a Wikipedia article, an Onion article, a Project Gutenberg manuscript, or an Archive Of Our Own fanfic.

The obvious start seems to be having separate fiction and nonfiction LLMs and not training the nonfiction ones on Archive Of Our Own. People also end up confused about the truth when nobody points out the difference between fiction and nonfiction.
That’s because of the "truthy-ish" nonsense mess inherited from JavaScript.

You could say the same with 0, "", NaN.

That being said, I wonder what was the logic behind the decision to implement that.
Partitioning Made Easy in PostgreSQL
Partitions let us split the logically one large table into smaller physical ones. This can improve the queries performance by accessing fewer rows, optimizing random-access reads, and using very targeted indexes. Let’s see how it works in PostgreSQL and how Metis handles that.
And yet it had that exact effect. Add Reagan into the mix and you destroy things further & end up with the student loan debt crisis.
As another poster said, None is in the prelude. It’s been explicitly imported, just… implicitly so.
Other than that, Rust places strong emphasis on function signatures. They override everything else, such as inferred return types from the function body. This is to ease composition and reading (as far as I remember). That is to say, in Rust it is quite natural to refer back to the function definition, potentially to let it do inference heavy lifting, or work with the question mark operator. It doesn’t feel the wrong way.
Ironically, Palo Alto lists this domain as "Phishing" and blocks using it.
Correct. You can't use a single number to accurately measure something that takes more than a single number to express.

It's reductionist and impossible.

All kinds of animals are far better then us at specific core brain functions with way smaller brains.

Mantis shrimps are way better at vision than we are and lyre birds are way better at vocalization. (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y)

You can find all kinds of vastly superior aspects of systems in the animal world. Ants, termites and bees for instance, are probably better at socializing.

Some supercolonies span thousands of miles with hundreds of millions of ants - rivaling the size of human countries. Ants, 0.25mg brains. So brain size doesn't seem that important in organizing or building complex networks. We're certainly not 5.2 million times better (which is our difference in brain mass)

Ants even "farm" with things like aphids and keep those colonies alive. Look it up. It's fascinating what they can do with 0.25mg.

We're the only animals that have built rocketships and computers - so there's certainly something there but it's fleeting and complicated. Reducing it to a single measurement is inherently inaccurate in the same way you cannot describe the material, color, shape and volume of 3 dimensional objects with 1 number. Brain size alone cannot be a complete or useful metric.
I suspect that these are vastly different methodologies, as “heat-related” mortality is probably overwhelmingly existing conditions that are being exacerbated, whereas the 18 here are probably direct “heat-related” causes, e.g. suffering from heat stroke. But they probably aren’t counting the person who happened to have a heart attack (which may have happened because of additional stress on their system, or additional dehydration, etc.) which would be counted in the first case.
This would imply that wealthier Americans holder fewer such beliefs but my experience has been the opposite.
A16Z reached out to me once about Worldcoin. It was clear from our conversation they only cared about investor returns. I hope the SEC goes after them for the WLD token.

For anyone who actually cares about digital identity and isn't just trying to make a money-grab or monopoly, there are tons of great efforts out there. In my opinion, India did great with Aadhaar. Government-backed digital identity with a public-private partnership is the best path forward for stakeholders trying to implement digital identity.
> Both of those pursuits are worthy of curiosity and respect. And astrology itself is an ancient practice

Yeah well people tried to connect to divine since the day they got that big brain. But you’d expect the humanity to have better methods in 2023. And we do, it’s called philosophy and (other) science(s).
And we love it. It’s the best format for icons
> Be descriptive in your error responses

> Assume a human will read them

Yes, but... on the flip-side, make sure there's also some sort of code that the machines can read. Depending on the framework you started with, one or the other may be the more-obvious one to default to. But if you don't have both, you either have humans looking at cryptic codes (the point the article was making) or you have machines parsing through human-readable error messages with the risk of breaking backward-compatibility if you try to fix a typo in an error message or later decide to reword it or include more pointers.
> This story was produced with the assistance of Bloomberg Automation.
The cut was to benefit landlords, especially those who owned apartment complexes.
Doesn't this all go back to, sort of, "teach a man to fish"?

I never passed a math class after my second try at pre-calculus. Before that I never even had to look at a book. Looking back I think it was a failure for me to ask the right questions or a failure of the teachers to help me visualize how to work out the systems starting from basic principles. I couldn't solve anything without starting from scratch. Still can't. I get paid ludicrously well for making a marketable skill out of that form of reasoning, so I can't think it's either a mental flaw or laziness that prohibited me from grokking calculus in 12th grade. Somewhere in there was a failure to provide the reality handle that mapped to something I could reinvent if necessary.

[edit] fwiw I think I've reinvented trigonometry at least six times when I needed to for games. I never remember how it worked the last time.
Both of those are examples of group rights, not individual rights. That is, rights have been expanded for subsets of the population, not for everyone.

That's a very important distinction to make, though I grant you that pretending this distinction doesn't exist has been the MO of politics and media for a while now.
Because nothing really ever happens because of random chance. Everything has a reason, and to pretend it happened because of random chance is to say you don't care enough what the reason was to try to figure it out.
And the whole world will accept it, billionaire's extravaganza

No wonder more than half of the world wants to build an alternative with the BRICS
>A monarchy of genuinely good rulers is a better government than a democracy, but it's hard to ensure a good ruler because whoever gets chosen, there's always a risk they're corrupt. Democracy gives the people more of a chance to prevent bad laws than a monarchy, even if it's a small chance.

No, this isn't the problem with monarchies at all (or maybe I'm just disagreeing with your wording). The problem with monarchies is heredity: sure, you can get a great ruler like Marcus Aurelius, but the problem is the great ruler doesn't live forever, and eventually he dies (or is secretly murdered) and this his shitty son takes over. Then the Praetors have to murder him in his bathtub before he completely destroys the empire.
> people well versed in the religion don't actually make any such claims

What is a good example?
> Can you explain why that would be bad?

It bars experts from deliberation. It would require debating space policy while keeping anyone from NASA. For a good amount of policy space, that limits debate and discussion to the uninformed. While an oil lobbyist would love NOAA kept out of Congress during climate debates, I’m not sure who that helps apart from the blowhards.
Well this it's done in some parts of the world, I am not sure why they claim is not. My brother lives in Lanzarote an the water is extracted from the sea just like this. The energy comes from 2 huge wind turbines in the plant.
Universities are a peculiar place to talk about "equity".

Universities were originally created by motivated leaders whom are now generations gone. Their replacements became tax free corporations. This is accomplished by lying to young adults, crippling them with debt, and telling them its for their own good. Your institution and others like it is responsible for socioeconomic strife. They are the cause of a lack of equity. The political opinions they put out are just so - rhetoric to combat this fact so the lie can continue.

To illustrate the deep disconnect from reality; Outside of the top 0.1% of uni's - The research universities put out is already done by private R&D. With better standards, equipment, and teams of experts. It turns out that you have to have actually make money to make things happen. Universities don't do this because nobody is buying. Industry isn't interested, which signals that nobody else should be either. A degree is no longer much of a signal at all.
It also needs a section on the main page explaining the licensing and sources of the icons. I left the page immediately when I couldn't find it.
No, pretty obviously a capricorn
self "regulated" Wallstreet maffia would like a word with you.
I highly recommend visiting the museum next time you're in Paris.
https://musee-moreau.fr/en
They can if they’re canned.
Coincidentally, there is a similar law being out forward in the U.K.

Is this a contrived effort, or a happy accident for the government is pulled off?
Do you think it's possible also to create a trainer in pure C, instead of using python?
Please don’t dump untreated content marketing in the reading fountain.
>mason

A glorified mining labourer, actually. And is becoming soon obsolete by generative AI just like how mining was by nuclear/renewable energy.
https://sites.research.google/parti/
If the holdback rate is low enough that the data is "good enough for analytics", then you may as well not have a holdback rate at all.
Current finance laws are such that if PayPal stopped having this kind of fear of the government it would likely go under. It's just a loophole to get around the 4th amendment.
Everything is more meaningful, do you mean? In developed countries, agriculture is highly automated, and if you want a hobby garden in your leisure time, you can choose how much automation you want.
You're thinking of optimizing the code for a specific processor. Run-time codepaths that detect CPU features have existed since MMX and SSE
I think referring to a CEO's termination as 'resignation' is a somewhat diplomatic way of implying that they were actually dismissed from their position.
> Given all the attempts to fix version control between 1995 and 2010, the basic data model of git seems to be very hard to improve on, especially with additions such as git-lfs.

I wouldn't be surprised if some of the work and rigour being invested in OTs and CRDTs, and multi-user collaborative editing in general leads to some breakthrough improvements in the source control space too.
Microsoft IPO prospectus (1986) [pdf]
Agnostic isn't a consistent belief position though: if you claim you don't know if a higher power exists, the question is which one and how is the impact of this different to being an atheist.

So that bucket collecting random other beliefs isn't too surprising.
I've helped with giving a few talks and I guess I probably saw this page back in 2011, because "three things" has always been my guideline as well.

I've noticed that the tendency for most folks giving technical presentations is to want to advance to a new slide every 30 - 60 seconds for their entire speaking slot - usually 25 to 50 minutes. Not practical.

If, after its conclusion, most of the audience remembers just three important things then your talk will have been an unequivocal success!

Sometimes less really is more.
The main reason the Netherlands is going "back on this" is that due to cuts in law enforcement over the past decade the gangs running the trade and manufacture have had free reign. This is mostly meant for foreign markets and less of a drugs-at-home issue. The Netherlands is mostly a throughout country with respect to trade, and drugs are no exception (with mdma production being the exception, but this is also mostly meant for export).
Related: we're developing a free self-host Mailchimp alternative that we're using to send our company emails and newsletters at: https://servicestack.net/creatorkit/
Like any countermeasure, it depends greatly on your threat model.

For people retiring from a sedentary job, with poor eating habits and a history of heart disease or stroke, consistent mild cardiovascular exercise is probably best.

For nearly everyone else, strength training. Older people lose muscle mass and bone density. For a huge number of the elderly, the final spiral begins as a broken hip or spine fracture. Strength training counteracts that in two ways: hormonally and mechanically. The act of strength training increases production of growth hormones and testosterone. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15831061/ And if you have stronger muscles, your bones will take less of the brunt of life's stressors.

Regardless of which group, nicotine reduction/elimination is important. Not just smoking - vaping has a similar effect on bone density, meaning other non-tobacco nicotine sources probably do as well.
This is a decent book and the reviews highlight a few examples of what you’re looking for:

https://www.amazon.com/God-New-Atheism-Critical-Response/dp/...