skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are numerous people that I’ve tried to get them comprehend statistics, important medical statistics for doctors so you would assume they’re smart enough to understand. There just seems to be a sufficient subset of the population that are blind to statistics and nothing can be done about it. Even sitting down and carefully going through the math with them doesn’t work. No matter how deep into visualization rabbit hole you go there will still be a subset that will not get it.
These look like products aimed at teenagers these days. They've got attention span problems too. YouTube and craigslist (information overload) appeal to oldsters, TikTok (simple) appeals to the young.
Every single thread where he's the topic, without exception, focuses at least in part on attempting to strip Musk of any accomplishment. He is allowed to have accomplished absolutely nothing. There must be zero redeeming value to his existence.

The extreme nature of the focused attacks on him today are fascinating to watch in terms of how angry, irrational mobs form on targets and attack until there's nothing left (and then they keep attacking, because some people are late to the party).

They attack his parenting.

They attack his business successes.

They attack his mental capabilities and rationality.

They attack his character.

They attack his family and background.

They lie about all of the above to whatever extent is necessary.

This goes on here, on Reddit, Twitter, wherever a discussion about Musk arises. The only difference between HN and Reddit on this topic is that HN is slightly more highbrow, although the same general attacks get repeated here as they do on Reddit.

Someone on Reddit yesterday was proclaiming that he "attached" himself to the SpaceX success and deserved zero credit for it. That rather nicely encompasses what's going on.

It's one of the biggest shit shows in the history of the Internet. It's embarrassing - as a human - to watch so many people desperately rolling around in the muck to participate.
I think there are at least two problems with this argument.

The first is a classic —- if your tax base requires money made from a vice, you’ve got a stream of money which either requires that the vice continues to exist, or else a stream of money which you hope to lose in the in future.

The second is a bit more basic. Who gets to decide what he vices are?
All the browser chrome etc are written in Swift. They are working on a port to Windows but it is not ready yet.
I don't agree with that premise. I don't know that it can't work, that'd suggest something like no matter what it's worse than a coin flip. I don't think it's that bad or at least nobody showed me anything of it being that bad. You'd have to show me that it can't work and that seems to me a pretty big ask I know
Seattle has such a tax. It has done nothing to stop people from purchasing that foul stuff, however. They simply go to a neighbouring city and purchase it there - for less.
What are the clinically significant differences between long covid and things like fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome that have been around for quite a while?

I don't appear to be the only one asking these questions.

https://www.jwatch.org/na56219/2023/06/15/long-covid-and-chr...

https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/news/long-covid-really...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10117846/
You personally get protected from low frequency massive impact risks.

Website owners get protected from an ever increasing amount of malicious content. Now nearly impossible to detect thanks to LLMs. In theory you should be able to see the appeal that has.
I've always thought of this as being like proof by induction: start with the basis case.
> People who ask for this should be ignored in a free society. Please move to some place where authoritarian leadership tells you what to think daily and allow is independent people with self-discipline to thrive.

> Edited because it did not convey my actual feelings on the topic, just a heated rant I corrected

I don't know what this looked like before the edit, but it's still just a heated rant.
A tool that gives incorrect and inconsistent results shouldn’t have any part of a decision making process. There is no way to know when it’s wrong so you’ll either use it to help justify what you want, or ignore it.

Edit: this tool is as reliable as a magic 8-ball
There's a time and a place for hackathon-style coding.

But I find that I take a similar approach to Chen. Maybe not quite so rigorous.

- Start with a console app (actually I always keep a console app in the solution for isolating bits of code I want to debug)

- Scaffold the part where said code needs to go

- Once the code from step 1 is ready, stick it in the scaffold and debug until it looks good

- Work on further tests (load test, code coverage, variety of inputs)
This is all I see on Ubuntu
Because Long Covid is not a scientific term in the way most people use it.

I've had many family members refer to having long covid because they had a persistent stuffy nose for a few months. Prob virus related to some degree but the looseness of the language makes invites skepticism.

Also some people also love being very vocal about any possible pathology they might have as a political position. Just invites more skepticism.
There are some research teams that have done European demos, but honestly, no. The European automakers have the technical ability, but have repeatedly failed at organizational competence and understanding the right design mindset.

The EU regulatory environment has also been very different than the US on this subject. NHTSA and the various DMVs have been very laissez-faire about robotaxis, not banning them and allowing some level of (frankly unsafe) testing. The EU has taken a more traditional approach, where public road deployments will require type classification, which necessitates a whole bunch of legislation exist. For L2/L3 vehicles, that only recently came into existence. That framework doesn't exist for L4+ vehicles, so they cannot currently be deployed in Europe regardless of development status.
Agreed. I don't use a Mac anymore, but I've been hearing about this browser and how excellent it is, but their website does such an awful job of conveying anything that I'm surprised anyone ever started using it. Actually, to give them some credit, they seem to have redone the site somewhat, and it now actually has screenshots. Last time I visited it barely had a description of the product, so I guess they're headed in the right direction.
None of us is as smart as all of us.
Still suffering from this myself. I used to train for hours a day nearly every day (BJJ/Calisthenics/KettleBells.) Totally obliterated my exercise capacity after I got Covid twice, first time acute symptoms lasted for 6 weeks, second time was shorter at 3 weeks. Years later and I'm still not the same. It hit hard.
You'll need to read the book -- if you're looking for a soundbite you're doing yourself a disservice -- it's short anyway. But note that he's talking specifically about argumentation.

The book is a response to Plato, who generally opposed free speech for the masses. In general, Popper strongly disagrees with Plato. And it's important to note that he described of the paradox as he understood it from Plato, but does not necessarily endorse it.

The people suddenly fond of this one footnote might take a moment and read his work anyway, as they may be surprised to read his views on socialism and Marx specifically.
It's akin to Rudy Giuliani [1]. Musk was always this way but it wasn't the fore-front when everybody was enthusiastic about electric cars.

It's similar to the quote "If Jeffrey Dahmer ran a 4.3, we'd call it an 'eating disorder.'".

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=mXQuto1fMp4
Yeah good point, lets just give up and let Apple, Google and Microsoft spread their propaganda instead. Which is just going to be US propaganda for everyone with zero chance for me to change how US controlled corporations behave.

At least I have some say who is screwing me when my government is democratically elected (to whichever degree of democracy you have).
People are hopelessly confused in this area, which is intentional FUD by the "intellectual property" advocates. People, even tech enthusiasts on a platform like this have no idea what the origin and purpose of 1) copyright, 2) trademarks and 3) patents are, even though they are very distinct from each other and even more distinct from the oft-imagined purpose of protecting the company's creative whatever. The overall original purpose of all these laws pointed towards the interests of the public, not the interests of some "intellectual property" owner, similar to protecting actual ownership rights.

The original purpose of trademarks is to prevent consumer confusion. That's it. It's not to protect the profits of a company. It's not to reward creativity and hard design work.

The original purpose of patents is to encourage disclosing new innovative ideas in order that others can build on top of the invention after having read the patent text (and in exchange for revealing how the innovation works, the inventor gets exclusive rights for a set time, but this is an instrument in achieving the former main purpose). Similarly, copyright incentivizes creative output. (But it only protects the actual expression, not the underlying general ideas etc.)
> One interesting application of this kind of technology was to remove the 'analog hole'. When playing protected content, even the video stream from your PC to your monitor is actually encrypted in a manner that ostensibly prevents anyone from interecepting it.

And yet, despite these fucking morons in the standard committees wasting (probably) millions of dollars in implementing CSS, HDCP and whatnot, and often enough bricked existing devices by revoking keys, HDCP strippers remain available for a dozen dollars or so on ebay, or AnyDVD so you don't have to bother with any copy protection at all.
> The low prices are CREATING demand, so they can't respond to it.

Well, go back to Econ 101. There’s an equilibrium point in every market where supply meets demand. My point is that prices are far, far below the equilibrium point. Amtrak should be raising prices until the quantity demanded just matches the quantity that can be supplied.

I just find it insane that Amtrak is simultaneously losing money on long distance routes and also unable to satisfy demand. Like, the solution to both these problems is trivial.

> We could have spent decades upgrading and expanding routes and things would have been great today.

Not if it was run like Amtrak is today, and there’s little reason to think that it wouldn’t be. Conrail lost money until it was privatized, too.

> This leads to huge amounts of pollution compared to what a modern electric train system would produce.

I’m very skeptical of this argument, except for routes like the Northeast corridor which are both short and heavily trafficked.

Here’s some homework (because you probably won’t believe me until you do it yourself): calculate the embedded CO2 in the steel and concrete needed to build a railroad between your favorite city pair. If you’re going with electric trains, you also need to add in the copper for the overhead lines. Then look up the CO2 emitted by a flight between the same.

Now calculate how many flights per day you need to pay back the embedded CO2, and remember that rails and OHV lines have finite lifetimes.

To get you started, each meter of rail has about 50kg of steel (and you need two rails per track).

Before you wave your hands and say “green steel”, remember that liquid bio fuels other than ethanol (and jets don’t run on ethanol) are generally carbon neutral too.
Oh no, I thought of that. As a matter of fact I'm currently developing a VR game that would work just fine without controllers.

Still, sometimes you need buttons. While mobile gaming is obviously huge there are certain types of games that just don't work all that well on it. In the gaming space Apple will be directly competing against other VR headsets designed for gaming. Mobile games don't really directly compete with consoles or PCs.
Isn't Japan like this as well? They have among the best rail systems in the world, so it's obviously possible to succeed with this model.

I don't know the details so I could be wrong, I just remember there being separate rail companies in different regions and cities.
I don't think there's a "killer app" coming soon, but it'll be a thousand cuts. One awesome thing here, one slightly less awesome but still useful thing over there. Take Copilot. Cool stuff and one of the early products. Doesn't change the game in any fundamental way, but it does have its impact on the work of a substantial fraction of developers.

This is not unlike the computer revolution itself. When the PC came on the scene it was easy - for some types - to imagine The Future and they proclaimed it loudly. They forgot that the rest of the world take their time and regularly take decades to get used to very minor changes in their routine.
MapSwitcher
This!!! I've struggled with impostor syndrome A LOT but coming here and seeing a lot of supposedly well paid, successful, highly educated people say the things they sometimes do... I don't mean to say I'm smarter, I'm just saying, it's comforting.
Lots of stories on Reddit about school teachers unfairly accusing students of using ChatGPT for assignments too
All that has to be shown is that the tool is as bad as or worse than random today, in order to remove it today.
is this really fully remote work, or companies tagging hybrid (required to come to office at least once a week) as remote?
This is really useful as it is for a small business starting out - before they get to the stage where they need this complexity
You don't think the governments will force Apple, Google, etc to attest their things? I mean, they made them provide access to their firehose of data so they could mine it for metadata...
I spend only $60/mo on one server. I do all the engineering myself.
The "Coming in Winter 2023" is the Windows release. The macOS/iOS is generally available now.
tarantino hates asian men and has an asian female fetish. look through the history of his movies. he's the typical 80s/90s hollywood producer type that relentlessly trashed on asians in every fucking way/every chance possible.
The difference is that none of the corporations you listed have products that are effectively mandatory to use for one to exist in modern society.

Helpful, yes. But mandatory? No.

In China, it's borderline impossible to do anything if you don't have WeChat. It centralizes everything related to personal and professional life in China.

Your rideshare app is not sharing data with your fitness app, or with your laundry service app. In China, there's 1 app. It centralizes everything.
> The guy is surrounded by yes men.

Or maybe he just doesn't care when people tell him "no".
Ask HN: How to learn typed Python and algebraic data types?
I've been looking for a book on this subject but can't find anything other than some blog posts. I want to be able to utilize the full power of dataclasses, newtypes, etc. and use algebraic data types in my programs. Are there resources you can recommend for this?
Some kind of Voigt-Kampff Test, perhaps.
The "black triangle moment": https://web.archive.org/web/20050306071700/http://www.rampan...
Statement of retraction and apologies

On jul-25 at 11am pdt, charles_f was standing out to comment on an interesting aviation story. Seeing in passing a reference to issues regarding imperial and metric systems confusion, and given the popularity of this kind of debates on the internet, they decided to set course on a "joke".

The joke was thusly constructed: the metric system is commonly used across the world and much more sensical than outdated imperial system, and people commonly announce their discontent for the latter and ask to discontinue its use. Therefore commenting using the opposite point of view as if it were an evidence, and in a serious tone, had a chance to trigger surprise and interrogation in the reader's mind, quickly resolved by the idea that the author wasn't being serious and making fun of this debate, and triggering a chuckle. This type of jokes is commonly referenced as "sarcasm" in the professional jokers world.

But before the joke took flight, the joke funniness sensor wasn't working, as well as the joke and sarcasm announcement systems. The author sent Robert, their left moustachioed fat finger, to dip in the joky tank, and check if it was fun. Robert answered "yo bro yain't starting to finish all your jokes by 'just kidding' like a brainless soccer dad".

Based on this manual reading the author was reinforced in their certainty that the joke would work and maybe make someone else's life a little brighter for a half second (500 time thaus, for those using imperial), and decided to take off.

We all know the result. The joke worked, as some people understood it, but not all detected that it was one.

The author would like to apologize for, and retract the "<joke/>" that they added as a comment to their original comment, since adding a revelation that a joke is, indeed, a joke, undercuts the element of doubt and surprise necessary to maximize its effect and duration. The same goes for lengthy, rational discussions about said joke and should be avoided. (It turns out that this particular type of joke can be delivered in their lengthier form, which get ruined if its actual, underlying agenda is revealed in plain text). As such the author would like to also immediately retract this statement and apologize for it.
Yes, there's a Windows waitlist, and possibly Linux far, far down the line?

Not sure how interested I am in a browser where I need to sign in to use. An insane decision, imo.
But they said we're all going back to offices? \s
Maybe it's because I remember when ISPs where fly-by-night operations with a bunch of modems spread on office tables.

You say it can't happen again, but IMHO that's not true.
If you can't (or don't want to) avoid shopping there, maybe carry a post-it note to cover the camera while you're using those machines?
I remember as a kid trying to get into D3D to do basic 3D rendering of a scene, stumbling and failing, and then trying to do the same thing with OpenGL, and it being simple and sane. I wonder where all of that unnecessary incidental complexity came from; was it from trying to make D3D sufficiently interconnected with other MSFT Windows APIs and the surrounding ecosystem?
"You vill eat ze bugs and you vill like zem!"

I'm all for a sugar tax, but I am fully aware that drawing lines is going to be difficult, you should be too, and it seems like a weird problem to gloss over because it's clearly the big problem here. What do we do with artificial sweeteners? I'm sure there will be vocal contingents saying we obviously should/shouldn't sin tax them. What about LaCroix? Same. I think the answer is obviously shouldn't/shouldn't, but I know people who get shouty because their fad micronutrient of the month isn't aggressively marketed by the FDA. It is possible to go too far: I grew up in a house that omitted salt from its cooking to a degree that I would now say constitutes a food crime, even though I'd fully agree that most prepared food errs on the side of too much salt. In any case, I fully expect that unless we exercise extreme restraint on this road, it won't be very long at all before someone will try to twist my arm into a dietary choice that I consider gross, insane, and completely detached from evidence-based reality.
SVG Gradients: Solving Curved Challenges
In the world of programming, seemingly straightforward tasks can unravel into complex challenges.
There's a field called Interpretability (sometimes "Mechanistic Interpretability") which researches how weights inside of a neural network function. From what I can tell, Anthropic has the largest team working on this [0]. OpenAI has a small team inside their SuperAlignment org working on this. Alphabet has at least one team on this (not sure if this is Deepmind or Deepmind-Google or just Google). There are a handful of professors, PhD students, and independent researchers working on this (myself included); also, there are a few small labs working on this.

At least half of this interest overlaps with Effective Altruism's fears that AI could one day cause considerable harm to the human race. Some researchers and labs are funded by EA charities such as Long Term Future Fund and Open Philanthropy.

There is the occasional hackathon on Interpretability [1].

Here's an overview talk about it by one of the most-known researchers in the field [2].

[0] https://transformer-circuits.pub/2021/framework/index.html
[1] https://alignmentjam.com/jam/interpretability
[2] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hwjAK3lWnDRBtbk3yLFL2DCK1Dg...
Yep. Because in the EU air did manage to lobby tax breaks and offloading externalities much more than rail. If all costs were internalized air travel would not exist.
There's a lot more evidence for God than astrology.
> In what way does it make the web a better place?

Less (LLM-generated) spam.
What are you talking about? Adding random noise to your random thing do not make it "more random". It remains the same.
I responded to a question on SO once where I elaborated on the accepted answer - my solution was more functional as it provided assignment operator override.

Some hot shot user with an absurd amount of badges told me, in a condescending tone, that my solution did not answer the question and linked me to some TOS article or something about staying on topic. This was the first time I had ever answered a question on SO.

My takeaway from the situation is that SO is full of accounts that farm badges/rep. To what end, I do not know - perhaps they reference it on their resume or portfolios.

I called the guy out, seems he has since deleted the comment.
I have all of my running data on Garmin that shows pre and post COVID (at least 3 bouts).

I'm now 90 seconds/km slower, doing the same volume and all other things being equal (except age). My diet hasn't changed, I walk the same distances, climb the same number of stairs, steps per day, weight is the same, etc.

I just cannot get going. Laboured breathing, occasional randomly high heart rate at what would previously have been a LSR (long slow run) pace, where I'd been firmly in zone 3, now randomly hitting zone 5 for bit.
I think it's safe to safe you're the kind of guy bsamuels above is talking about :)
Notably the system was almost entirely built by these private companies, and basically no progress occurred after the unification.

Instead, the system has decayed.

A demonstration of how competition fuels progress in infrastructure.
While there are private railway networks doing their own thing, the overall national network is operated by the JR group, which was formerly the unified JNR until it was privatized.

The companies do jointly operate though, in something that they call ‘mutual direct operation’ where they basically each agree to run trains on each others line as one continuous (to the customer) operation and split the fares.