skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure, as long as it doesn't assume the other 90% is the same as the first 10%.

Is the author writing badly just for fun, then? Is this potboiler going to turn into something thought-provoking after the first chapter of cardboard characters and cliché exposition? That wouldn't be a bad idea, like an updating of "If On A Winter's Night A Traveler" with riffs on modern fiction styles, but I doubt "The <Greek Letter> <Ominous Noun>" ("The Omega Directive" "The Alpha Sanction") is going to turn into into a parody of airline novels after starting out as merely a poor example of same.
We should correctly refer him as CryptoBro Sam Altman, since he doesn't have any monetary interest in OpenAI but just WorldCoin
>It’s an activity that selects for kids who often go on to have important careers in politics.

I actually like the "Kritik meta" because it just reveals what debate culture is, a posh hobby. I think the real frustration about this just stems from the fact that the kritiks have sort of hacked the game and revealed the silliness and stilted character of debate (unintentionally or not) by taking it to the next level.

>High school debate has become an activity that incentivizes students to advocate for nihilist accelerationism in order to win rounds.

Nolen Gertz in his book on Nihilism points out that the reason people dislike nihilists is because nihilists have the tendency to reveal the nihilism of others when they are being confronted. The author seems to dislike the Kritiks simply for revealing what debate was already about, "winning rounds" by playing the game the best way possible, an activity for affluent kids who are supposed to go on and make a career out of rhetoric.
This exists in the US too, it’s called Coors Light (4%). It just tastes like donkey piss.
At least in our country everyone knows that cigarettes causes cancer. Even 50% of the packet required to have warning that says cigarettes causes death. Who cares.
And that has nothing to do with residuals.

They could just as easily negotiate for no increase in pay for larger residuals that most people here are focused on.
Wow that was a great read, thank you
Nobody Ever Read American Literature the Way This Guy Did
His greatest hit was back in 1969, and it was good work:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BDm2SGcAAAAJ&hl=en

He's published most recently in 2021 but to date nothing on atmosphere | earth sciences | climate:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=BDm2SGcAAAAJ...

The issue for many is that he has joined the CO2 Coalition

nonprofit advocacy organization in the United States founded in 2015. Its claims conflict with the scientific consensus on climate change and it spreads misinformation about climate change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CO2_Coalition

His introductory speech at Quantum Korea 2023 was 13 minutes long and was intended to inspire young scientists.

He spent 8 minutes talking about the dangers of psuedo science (which were points largely well made) and then pivoted to state that the IPCC was all based on psuedo science (with no concrete reason given).

He asserted that he can prove that key critical parts of IPCC climate science are wrong by a factor of 200 (but did not indicate what these parts were, nor indicate his reasoning for this)

Full speech here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGrMvlxEQGk

wikipedia bio here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Clauser
well, yes, obviously, but that is not in the power of those who have to make due with the resources currently available.

of course we should put more resources into education. worldwide, education is the primary tool to improve everyones life. and with that i don't mean just science and general knowledge, but also moral education that teaches us how to care for each other and for the world.

we need to learn not only how to make the world a better place, but also why. and we need to understand that it takes the contribution of everyone to achieve that. not just the gifted ones, which is why i believe that helping strugglers is more important right now, in order to reach a critical mass of people that understand this and sway public opinion towards more resouces in education, at which point we will be able to help everyone, gifted or not, to develop their full potential
For context: "the phantom of ___(幻の___)" is a common clickbait phrase in Japanese media, used in similar manners to "legendary", "forbidden" or "hidden" in English. I would guess "A Forgotten 1953 Film 'Hiroshima'" would be a less accurate but more understandable translation.
Cost has been the challenge for the past 30-40 years at least.

Many semiconductor manufacturers have folded, dropped out, or merged over the years due to costs putting development of the next node out of their reach. If the remaining 3 drop out of the race, they will be following the same pattern as many before.
The reader reads the file into a string. You then access or modify the string. The file is a thing on disk being read by a file reader, an implementation of the reader interface, which reads the file.
> Brouwer’s fixed point theorem. The theorem says that for any continuous function, there is guaranteed to be one point that the function leaves unchanged — a fixed point, as it’s known. This is true in daily life. If you stir a glass of water, the theorem guarantees that there absolutely must be one particle of water that will end up in the same place it started from.

Wait. What if by stirring I shook the glass and at the end set it back down a foot away from its initial location. Is this author claiming that Brouwer’s theorem guarantees a particle floating somewhere where the glass used to be? Unchanged?

I can imagine an unlimited number of scenarios where I can guarantee the water particles are displaced.

This seems like a bad application of the theorem, right?
Calico Acts
What evidence would it take to convince you Threads is a failure?
You had me in the first half, not gonna lie... :P
Me: Which non-equity jobs have a significantly higher [emphasis added] base pay

You: third party boutique consulting firms that pay the same if not more in cash

The "same", or even a little more, is not the same as "significantly higher". To give up all recurring revenue in return for "the same if not more in cash" is a bad deal, and I suspect that's why you don't take it, unless you're deliberately screwing yourself financially, which seems unlikely. So I don't understand why you allow yourself the better deal while chastising the writers and actors for also wanting the better deal.
I'm of the impression paper bags are not meant to be carried. As long as I've been alive, they always break.

I suspect they're simply supposed to be a bundling device so you can stack them for loading in one of those foldable vertical bring-your-own-grocery-cart like old ladies in urban areas use. They certainly can't carry all that crap in-hand either, but this is the only way I've seen paper-bagged groceries make it more than a block without drama.
Don't be ridiculous. It's a common need, it's easily satisfied, and so it is commonly done. Compare the concept of the "inverse element" of a value given by an invertible function with the "inverse image" of a value given by a non-invertible function. Of course the function that gives you inverse images is nothing more than an inverse function that is allowed to give multiple values. Why do we do that? Because our need to invert functions has nothing to do with whether those functions are one-to-one, and because in most contexts it isn't actually important that functions yield a single value. It's a formalism.

There is no high principle that says "collecting multiple values and giving them a collective name that implies they are a single value is metaphysically superior to collecting multiple values and admitting that they are multiple values".
Really? I've never used an autoformatter for anything ever, much less had one required. Which companies are these?
Yes, it's ridiculous to suggest abstaining from a thing that all known living entities on Earth require for sustenance. I'll give you a hint: that thing is not ethanol. And besides, nobody's saying, by saying "I don't do alcohol anymore", that YOU can't down all the Everclear you want, so I have no idea where this overly-defensive comment came from.
Yeah, the “ew, yucky gay people!” asides are both very revealing about the author and fundamentally undermine his argument for the value of libraries.
Agree 100%.

In an ideal world, the cost of everything we buy would include the real costs of pollution (including greenhouse gases), depletion of common resources such as water, and recycling or otherwise accounting for the environmental impact after use.

As you say, suddenly those 5 year old phones and computers would be economically attractive again. With a knock-on effect that websites and software would cater more for older devices.

But we don't live in an ideal world. We live in a literal Tragedy Of The Commons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons).

Note that I'm not at all saying that we shouldn't have companies like ASML researching processes like this - more efficient chips are good for the environment and the economy.
> no, I am not making a commit just to diff the working directory.

OK, you do you. I say it depends on the situation: if this is a throwaway clone (especially an in-memory one), creating a commit is harmless. I mean it's certainly not an ideal solution, but at the end of the day it solves the problem at hand.

> would you tell someone to do that with the command line tool as well?

It's not my library, I didn't design it, I'm just trying to provide a solution to the problem you posed. If you don't like that solution then, well, OK? Shell out to `git` and call it a day, or write your own `git` implementation for scratch, or send go-git a PR. Any of these would be more productive than complaining about how a free open source library doesn't provide a solution to your use-case.

> I am not writing to anything

Clearly you've written to the files in the working directory, otherwise your diff would be blank.

Again, it's a read-path oriented library. If you're writing to working directory files, your use-case may not be aligned with that of the package authors.
I fully agree that physical aspects of libraries cannot be fully replicated with databases and searches.

Discovery indeed comes in many forms, sometimes by proximity, other times by serendipity, size of the book, even what sits on the recently returned racks.

In a similar sense, I mourn the death of printed phone books and yellow pages. And printed encyclopedia, dictionaries and atlases.

The loss of the physical formats removed forever, extremely interesting aspects of browsing and learning from these sources.
> Also it's the weekend and I'm just bitching

You prefer and in a better mood during the working week ? Interesting
I don't know if your questions are rhetorical, but have you ever been in the car with an exec? They very much do work in the car and take meetings from the car.
it's not normal in the base-line average manner of speech, but it's common. 17 percent of American men have binge-drank in their past year.[0]

another point : a single anecdote about someone binge drinking is by no means the single qualified indicator for alcoholism. alcoholism is a specific set of mental and physical traits which all orbit the most common traits of uncontrollability and preoccupation/addiction.

a single binge drinking episode isn't smart or healthy; and it may indicate something as part of a broader trend, but it's not a good indicator of whether or not someone is an alcoholic.

[0]: https://magazine.medlineplus.gov/article/how-much-is-too-muc...
Yes, I agree, I feel the term "code" potentially misleading. But even "programming" can look as a triviality when presented in schools with no context and simplistic exercises.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3571785.3574125
Have you ever had a difficult goal?

It's learning a craft, constant refinement, iteration, failure, and eventual success. And then luck, that which is out of your control, gets you over the line.

I am more likely to believe that the group to get room temperature superconductivity first (if anyone ever does) will have been learning the hard way about how to maximise that within their control so all that is left to succeed is that outside their control.

I am not saying that I am 100% sold on this being it. It's not 20 years of failure. It's 20 years of refinement.
That's an essential point. At the same time the interpretation isn't completely random or unpredictable; we're all humans, with the same emotions, the same physiological expressions of them, and the same internal responses to others' emotions. If you yell at someone anywhere, you can expect a certain range of emotional responses.
"working on superconducting materials again, and finally, succeeded in synthesizing a room temperature and atmospheric pressure superconductor (RTAP-SC) … named LK99 (first discovered as a trace by Dr. Lee and Dr. Kim in 1999)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LK-99#cite_note-kim-linkedin-9
As much nostalgia as I have for my Power Mac, Open Firmware doesn't solve anything in 2023. It doesn't natively boot any OS and it doesn't solve the blob "problem".
Animal Rescuers, e.g. https://bemagazine.org/direct-action-everywhere-trial-finall...
Thank you, I was aware of this but looking at my initial comment I did not make this clear and they do deserve credit for communicating honestly and clearly, especially when so many others do not.
Climatologist here, basically everything is unsustainable if you use coal power. If we’re lucky we can keep steel production and that’s about it.
I thought minecraft made this up.
Mmm, Tomacco.

https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Tomacco
Just a note to say thank you for this detailed reply! I did not know these things, and am getting a Mac Studio of similar spec for work soon (for reasons unrelated to AI) and it's helpful to know what to expect about its ML capabilities.

(Still, how much would you have to spend to get 192GB of GPU RAM available to you, fully purchased? The 192GB Mac Studio M2 Ultra is around $5800. Is that the difference between sort-of-GPU speeds and falling down to CPU speeds, if you want to run e.g. the best, largest open source models available?

I suppose even "falling down to CPU speeds" isn't really plausible -- I think you'd find it hard to put 192GB DDR5 (at least without falling to speeds below DDR4) in any fast, modern desktop because they all have two channels of DDR5.
I can't tell what you mean by your emphasis on the word "consistently". Functions are not stochastic; f(y) is f(y) regardless of how many times you ask what f(y) is.

The formal definition guarantees that whenever a = b, f(a) = f(b). You use it when you need that guarantee.

An ordered pair drawn from ℝ² is in some sense a single value. In another sense, it is two values. Which way you want to think about it depends on what you're going to do with it; if you're thinking about square roots of real numbers, it will be more useful to think of it as two values.

> It seems the parent has just mixed up the domain and codomain, because under that assumption he would be right about both the definition and bijectivity

He still wouldn't be right about bijectivity; you also need the assumption that a function is defined over its entire domain.
The standard solution to this problem is a so called "interface smuggling".

You can implement more advanced interface types of the initial interface does not provide the required abstraction, and then do type switch at runtime and gradually switch your code to use the newer interface.

The name of this technique is from https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoInter...
I am not doubting you, it just is really weird that they would bother to replace the parts at all. my guess would be to try and sell the chopped unit as a real iphone? but why leave it behind?
Many https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Destroyed_cities though admittedly that's a broad list, and includes many that were devasted, but not lost, such has Hiroshima. But still, many.
All the exceptional people I have met have all thrived from positive social interactions with others with shared or overlapping interests. IOW, I don’t believe at all that genius thrives in isolation.

Unfortunately, we tend to bury intellectual curiosity (“play”) in burdens like coursework, or endless distractions (curse of the Internet)
You might already know this but a lot of no-alcohol beers are also low or no carb and they contain artificial sweetener to make them test better.

I been having no-alcohol beer with some sugar in it (93 cals a bottle). It's way way more tasty.
Ah, broken in Safari. Makes sense now.
Muonic generator, ofc.
> premise is open to debate

Again, nobody disagrees. But if you ask me if I want red or white wine, and I, instead, launch into a diatribe in Marxist-Leninism, that’s not a valid argument and it’s very annoying. Outside these debate circuits, it could come across as debilitating.
https://twitter.com/iris_igb/status/1685341730902577153
I did the trifecta in the past year of cutting alcohol (still on an indefinite break from that), caffeine (my 7 months sans-caffeine has now ended due to lack of many positive changes; may as well allow myself a Coke every so often if I want), and meat (3mos and counting), so yeah, I definitely get it. I've had inquisitive eyebrow-raises at all three, though fewer of them the more things I changed (folks just started assuming I was in a Trying New Things time, thankfully)
It seems to be a convention that means "this comment contains Markdown and should be rendered in the generated documentation" as opposed to commenting out unused code or whatever.
It feels like something out of a William Gibson novel. Not the main plot, one of the throwaway side plots and weird characters, like The Finn.
OpenAI's Sam Altman Has a $850M Nuclear SPAC
Yeah it's insanely impractical, but the question is whether or not it's worth it. As a thought experiment, I think it leads towards using LLMs as an interface/OS for fallout shelters. Survivalgotchi sounds cool too though.
I thought the same thing, the hangover is a major deterrent for me. If that is taken away I think people are just going to drink much more and make themselves sicker.
Muons are also electrically charged - how would that help anything?
That army metaphor is used by the late PATRICK WINSTON -0:19: The Uniform Code of Military Justice specifies court martial for any officer who sends a soldier into battle without a weapon. There ought to be a similar protection for students because students shouldn't go out into life without the ability to communicate, .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY&t=520s
Walking to the store is great when it’s a habit to do so every day, so you’re just picking up some fresh meat and produce for whatever dinner you’re making that night. It’s a very pleasant (and healthy) lifestyle. For trips where you need to make larger and heavier purchases, it’s also very enjoyable to bike.
You're not wrong. On the officer side, service academy seats and ROTC scholarships are competitive to get (like getting into any top-tier college), and then there's a decent amount of attrition along the path to commissioning, followed by more rounds of competitive selection and attrition for certain military communities (aviation, special operations, etc.), followed by the brutal up-or-out promotion and assignment system. So the people who are left standing after a while are usually fairly impressive.
https://archive.is/JF57h
It's wanted by people who want linux to become mainstream and think forcing everybody to use their personal DE of choice would be a step towards that goal. It's fine though, it's never going to happen because the whole point is that users are free to use what they want how they want. And if somehow that freedom was taken away, mainstream adoption of linux would be a pyrrhic victory anyway.
https://archive.is/ohbXr
> Rule 22. Any wound sufficient to agitate the nerves and necessarily make the hand shake, must end the business for that day.

Time to retire to the drawing room to play cards, smoke cigars, and drink some port to calm the nerves.
High School Debate at 350 wpm [video]
I highly doubt anyone is misleading themselves
Blocks Game
You had no cultural studies departments? No people who do cultural analysis in the literature department? No one in the sociology department who works in the tradition of the conflict theory? No one in the geography department who does critical geography? No one in the anthropological departments who does critical anthropology? In the US? In the 21st century? Weird. Which university is that?
> creating a commit is harmless. I mean it's certainly not an ideal solution, but at the end of the day it solves the problem at hand.

youre making my arguments for me here. youre essentially saying the library is so poorly designed that the "easiest" solution is to create a commit, rather than actually just diffing the worktree directly.

> Shell out to `git` and call it a day, or write your own `git` implementation for scratch

again, making my arguments for me. youre essentially saying the library is so poor, that is cant support simple use cases and it would be easier to shell out to Git than to write a program that diffs the worktree.

> a solution to your use-case.

I would say its a solution to essentially every command line user. how many people DONT use git diff?

> Clearly you've written to the files in the working directory, otherwise your diff would be blank.

the diff it not writing anything. the issue is not "how do I write to a file", that can already be done with the standard library.

> If you're writing to working directory files

writing to files it done outside the scope of the Git package. the Git package is only needed to handle diffs that were done with some other tool.

> your use-case may not be aligned with that of the package authors.

git diff?
My point is that there's no magical massive upfront pay increase forthcoming that would make up for lost residuals. That was never on the table at any time. There's no way for actors and writers to avoid getting screwed if they don't get residuals. And it's pretty clear why that's not on the table: big upfront payments are a big risk to the studios, even more so than the risks they already take, so it's not good for them either. There's a good reason this system has existed for a long time.

The status quo favors the studios, because they're finding new ways to avoid paying the residuals, while not offering anything else to take their place.
Underwater robots could usher in a high-tech future for deep sea mining
They do though. It's one of those things you'll get cited for if you're already being cited for something else, or they need a reason to pull you over to begin with (seatbelt law). See how many people complain about this on tuner forums, especially in hot/sunny places like Arizona and California.

Sometimes they'll let you tear off the tint and avoid the citation.

Technically they should be ticketing everyone that doesn't use turn signals either but there are only so many cops, so many hours in the day, and more-pressing issues to deal with (accident reports, domestic disputes, etc.).
Anti-corporate licenses would be the Peer Production License, Anti-Capitalist Software License, etc. whereas GPL/MIT/Apache etc. are all extremely corporate-friendly as can be plainly seen by the companies that have adopted them.

However GPL software being corporate-friendly can be a good thing if it leads to "exvestments" into public goods that create alternatives to corporate software (such as with Linux) in ways that are not direct investments into corporate aims
he didn't say gohesive either. do you want to propose CDE then? i understand it's free software now.