skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calling someone racist will never solve any problems. no one will ever be receptive after that statement. Let’s just agree calling people racist doesn’t affect someone who actually is and only hurts people that are sincere.
> You’re welcome not to think so! I’m just pointing out the relevant context.

It isn’t, though. The argument is not “lol Newtonian physics are dumb” and you’ll see nothing of the sort in the Norton argument. The argument is instead “Newtonian physics can be non-deterministic”, which is something we can demonstrate regardless of the validity range of Newtonian physics.

> This isn’t an argument in a vacuum, there’s an academic discipline that has thoroughly engaged with it.

Sure. How is that linked to your point?

> But the dome is rather boring. P1, this math describes a deterministic system; P2, here is a non-deterministic result; QED, P1 is false.

Indeed.

> Since we know that P1 doesn’t describe the universe, it should be hard to have a strong opinion unless you’re invested in a philosophical position about pre-modern scientific practice.

That’s a strange position to take from a philosophical point of view. Why things are wrong matters more than whether they are because, again, everything is wrong to some extent. So, of course in some abstract epistemological sense anything that can be formulated within Newtonian mechanics is wrong. But then nothing is right, so who cares?

The initial question is much more interesting from a philosophical point of view: does the old Newtonian mechanics, which is still the closest to our daily experience, contains seeds of non-determinism? But then the logic is flawed: the issue is not that Newtonian mechanics are wrong, it is that, in your formalism, P2 does not follow from P1 and is actually wrong.
US announces $450M to increase access to rooftop solar power in Puerto Rico
One issue here is the term AGI never had a specific meaning and has become even more fuzzy in it's use.

Obviously, LLMs are a specific type of AI that do not emulate many of the characteristics and capabilities of animals like humans.

However, they absolutely do have general-purpose applications and the leading edge ones can reason, although in some ways not quite as robustly as some humans at this time.

But one core aspect of "AGI" used to be distinguishing general purpose versus narrow AI. GPT-4 clearly has general purpose utility.

So part of what has happened has just been goal post moving. The other aspect of it is a failure to recognize that there are a variety of cognitive abilities or characteristics that go into animal (human) cognition rather than just one thing.

LLMs simulate some of the language abilities but not other things like stream of subjective experience tied to high bandwidth sensory experience, emotions, certain types of very fast adaptation, properties of life, self-preservation and reproduction, advanced spatial and motion systems, etc. There are a number of cognitive characteristics that animals and/or humans have which are entirely missing from LLMs.

However, again, it's clear that LLMs, multimodal LLMs, and similar systems, do have general purpose application in a way that many may have previously assumed only a more complete emulation of a human would require.

Within a decade or two, when we have hyperspeed superintelligent AI, we may find out the hard way (and maybe too late) that not having all of those animal characteristics in AI systems was a _good_ thing.
Reddit is far worse than human nature, I believe. The upvote and downvote system favours people that are authoritarian (as a personality trait). There is this sect like wibe nowadays on Reddit.
Alternatively people who suffered acute heart conditions while a cardiologist was not available were simply not hospitalized, they're dead.
I’ll do it for you, I’d be interested in reading that blog.
Lots of places have the trees on the sidewalk. We could also get rid of the ridiculous street parking and put trees there.
You can definitely hate stuff and be more productive when it occurs.

Imagine how high productivity would be if managers were allowed to literally crack the whip at engineers who slow down after working for 10 hours a day.

We don’t allow that because it’s inhumane. I think a similar principle applies to WFH. Even if it’s less productive it’s still better for society.
I was just trying to think how to say the same thing but wasn't sure how to say it. Since first discovering Vim back in the 1990s it's been something I've used almost every working day.

It's probably my favourite piece of software. Where ever I go, whatever platform I use, whatever I write, I use Vim.

Bram's work has made my life better. This is sad news indeed. :(
Hah, yep. And further, sometimes a logging statement can cause a few ms of delay that causes whatever you're debugging to just magically start working again (yay, race conditions). A breakpoint has a better chance of catching it in the act than a logging statement does. At least in my experience.
Who the hell cares what the kids who can’t even balance their checkbook care about? That’s our problem guys. When do we stop letting the kids drive the car?
> operating systems

https://qubes-os.org, a reasonably secure operating system.

Smartphones:

Librem 5 running desktop GNU/Linux and desktop apps.
No place in the world has solved this
https://zed.brimdata.io

Reinventing data storage

Fully typed, no schemas.
It is a scale, not a pigeonhole. It seems that Mistborn is veering towards sci-fi, so I guess it will become fantasy-ish sci-fi compared to the more pure fantasy of the first book. I didn't read the latter books, but I guess it will never be pure, since it involves a magic system that is taken as an axiom, and I don't think there is any intention to tie it to the real world.
I am personally also not using debuggers much -- I think within the two last years it was only the backtrace functionality of gdb twice for a crashing C program :)

I still wonder whether it would make sense to learn more about using them, though. My reasons for not using a debugger often are primarily:

* I work with different kinds of systems. Printf or some equivalent is always available, Debuggers always require a system- and programming-language dependent setup and incur an additional learning curve.

* The hardest bugs I have encountered so far were timing-dependent and could not be reproduced when running under a debugger.

Instead I prefer to work with the printfs and some tools which work non-interactively like strace and valgrind. To me, it makes a lot of sense to look at the code when there is a problem and consider the problem in my mind, although I would not go as far as saying that this is in any way fundamentally superior to stepping through the code interactively?
The condition imposed by the construction of the problem and the laws of motion is that f''(t) = sqrt(t), and that f''(t) = 0 => F(t) = 0. The function given as an example in the article, f(t) = {(1/144) (t-T)^4, t >= T | 0, t < T}, obeys both laws, just as much as f(t) = 0 does.

I'm not sure what the fourth derivative has to do with this argument.
It seems that behind that bare prompt and message lies a whole era where things were simpler in many dimensions. A bunch of help text, a charity suggestion, a cursor ... it was as simple as mysterious and capable.
I can see revert to be confusing in a tech environment
Another aspect of this is when you only know about the failure after it has happened (such as with segfaults that can't be reproduced with tools like valgrind). Being able to use something like `rr` to record the entire runtime and then rewind it to the point where the program explodes can be a life saver.

I'm not big on using a debugger but when all else fails, having access to one can be the difference between a swiftly identified and resolved bug and weeks or months of hair pulling and stress.
Handling lead tends to result on lead being on your hands, which has a nasty tendency to result in lead being on your lunch if you are not careful.
I'm not very happy with my 2375. It somehow lost the wifi connection (pc doesn't see it but printer display shows online) and no amount of resetting got it back. Thank god for the USB cable...

And the drivers were acting weird even before that
"Prestige Biotech Inc., a company whose owners live in China, was using the building near Reedley’s downtown for storing and shipping an array of diagnostic test kits for COVID-19, pregnancy, drugs and more after apparently being booted out of their Fresno location in late 2022. The inventory of biological agents in the refrigerators include coronavirus and other exotic contagions, such as malaria, Hepatitis B and C, chlamydia, human herpes, and rubella, among others, used in the production of various test kits...

"According to experts assisting the city, the lab looked like it was set up for shipping already-assembled test kits and for storage of components, chemicals, and biological agents used to develop test kits..."
It's kind of ludicrous how complex the blood vessels are.

Considering their role, whoever or whatever created the "blueprints" for them must have been very inteligent.
> Like, are there devs using debuggers when they don't make sense? I don't often drop into a debugger just for fun.

Yes. Older developers tend to debug with console/echo/print etc. Somewhere along the line this was deemed “bad practice” and now there are devs who will exclusively use the debugger for everything because they were taught it’s the “correct” way.

People will do what they’re taught. I grew up with console/echo/print so that’s how I roll. I never use the debugger, to my detriment. Conversely, people who grew up exclusively using the debugger will use the debugger for everything even when it would be way faster to just dump some data.
I'll be glad if I never have to see PIMPL ever again. It makes tracking down the actual implementation of some functionality so much harder than it has to be.
Honestly, I'm just tired of /new being loaded with stories about a platform I don't use. It's like if you logged onto Twitter and your entire feed was exclusively Instagram drama or whatever.

These stories have long since left the realm of gratifying my curiosity and entered the "pratfalls" section, in my opinion. It's tiring and seems to be rallying me for a flamewar I have zero interest in hearing about.
That's true and one great advantage. But I don't get how to apply this advantage to personal computing. I have a laptop and I never ever wanted to randomly "log into my cloud workstation" from some other place. I can just open the lid of my laptop and continue working. What advantage does the requirement of a persistent network connection offer me? Seems like working on a train is not doable.

I could see a use case where people don't want / can spend to much money on hardware. But even then, hardware is still required and I can't see where a subscription would help here.
Interesting. This probably varies by tech stack, but in my experience debugging concurrent/async stuff is where I will actually lean away from the debugger for fear of that kind of timing skew.
Where I am, diversion wouldn’t help. The system is nationalised so all the hospitals would strike.
No. We are fundamentally a racist society, not a classist society. It was all blacks who were deemd 3/5th of a person. Not poor blacks. It was all native americans who were exterminated, not the poor natives. Our immigration bans throughout history have been along racial lines - Chinese Exlusion Act, Asian Exclusion Act, etc. Not poor chinese or asian exclusion act. Wealthy and poor jews were discriminated against by colleges around the country. So on and so forth.

When's the last time you asked yourself 'What class person X belongs to.'?
We think in terms of race and to a lesser extent religion.

Besides, it's not an either-or situation. Why can't we address both racial and class issues?
The Eccentric Genius of Trammell Crow and the history of real estate
People that write on the internet are probably just on the average less sane. There are prevalent types on the interwebs that I just never meet outside.
The exchanges would have favorable terms for rates on the intercontinental lines and such, no?

While I don't doubt Disney could get into the business (and may, they're ever-growing), I'm not sure it makes a lot of sense.

It may, but that's kind of what I was getting at RE: anticipation. I don't know the business well, and have never had Disney Money to play with!

They're the sole owners of their material, they could much more easily pass the costs along - perhaps arrange partnerships with local businesses, ala 'bundling'
I don't use the qwerty layout, I use colemak. Likely this mitigates this for myself.
https://rubygems.org/gems/raskell does it in ruby. A similar technique would work in JavaScript, but I don't know of any other libraries that have attempted it yet.
Kinda related I’ve used https://domainr.com/ for years
I'm really surprised that JavaScript is not one of the most dreaded.
By human choice, though. We could be using N different thresholds of electrical charge or current, but instead we define ranges as "0-enough" and "1-enough".
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Lots of food in my state is taxed. I’m not sure how they determine what is taxed and isn’t as the cashier does it all for you automatically. But I think things like fruit and diapers are not taxed, but processed foods are.

But I think the important part is that poor people spend a larger percent of their income on things with sales tax than wealthy so sales tax impacts them more significantly. Thats what I meant t saying it’s regressive [0].

[0] https://www.accuratetax.com/blog/regressive-sales-tax-infogr...
Please give a good definition of 'on their own' and what that entails.

And conversely to the spontaneousness of current AI, your body has a constant set of inputs from reality. That is you never stop feeling, hearing, seeing, sensing, etc. Your brain can consciously turn lower the sensitivity on these things (sleeping). Now, if we subject a multimodal AI this continuous stream, how will it behave?

AI is currently compute and power limited. Very little research has gone into continuous powerhungry AI that goes off and does its own thing at this point. And I would counter that it might be really dumb to design such a device without understanding the risks it entails.
Space is extremely dope and we are nerds.
Thanks for sharing! I had a brand new one of these displays in 1999 when they first came out and it developed the same problem a year later. The replacement from MacMall’s warranty company (which was graphite instead of blue) also eventually developed the issue too. Good to know there’s a solution if I ever decide to fix it.

I think Apple should have recalled these.
This issue is easy to understand as long as you're familiar with the concept of the 'phatic expression'[0]. It is perfectly possible for these folks to say 'kill the Boer' without actually meaning it to be a call for genocide, instead meaning something along the lines of "fuck the Boer".

On the other hand, it's easy to understand why folks who don't have a history of singing this song would hear the actual meaning, rather than the 'phatic' meaning, of the words. And given that the singers are on the record advocating for the seizure of Boer land, it seems kind of silly to just take their word for it when they claim that this line of the song has a 'phatic' meaning rather than a literal one.

Regardless, it seems clear that the party use the term to instill and stoke racial hatred:

> Nomalanga Mkhize, a historian at Nelson Mandela University, said of the chant: “Young people feel that it rouses them up when they sing it today. I don’t think that they intend it to mean any harm.”

We don't actually want to kill you, but the kids sure do love singing about it!

Also, is anyone else worried about the Times? Is their spin machine mis-calibrated? I know they're left-leaning, but carrying water for racist communists seems a bit much, even for them.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGnH0KAXhCw
I'm pretty confident that statistical analysis would give away your layout (assuming there's enough data), I wouldn't be so sure.
Is 'per capita' a useful metric other than to give the largest emitters some sort of retort?

One person living alone on a private island who cooks food on a fire several times a day might have a really high 'per capita' score, but in the grand scheme of things it's utterly irrelevant.
Human scientists don't spontaneously grow on trees, they're being taught to ask such questions. LLMs could be too.
I went to see my podlatrist and his treatment made everything worse.
That's the bullshit part of the article. Cement in an uncontrolled environment is not going to work as a capacitor, even if it works in a controlled environment. Some water will get in. There's expansion and contraction as temperature changes, which causes cracking. The road battery idea belongs in the same category as the road and sidewalk generator idea [1][2], which, in the end, was just an advertising stunt.[3]

The paper jumps directly from showing a tiny effect in a tiny sample to changing the world. This seems to be a disease of battery-related articles.

Also, cement is not the same as concrete. Concrete contains cement as a binder, but is mostly sand and rock. It also absorbs water, which is kind of a problem for a capacitor.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03062...

[2] https://cait.rutgers.edu/generating-power-every-time-you-hit...

[3] https://www.archdaily.com/911965/sidewalks-that-generate-ene...
IMO, debuggers, logging, metrics, tracing and the other tools focus on different things and are good at different things.

Debuggers are extremely powerful in the correct situation. If you can reproduce an issue in a controlled fashion, debuggers are nuts. In many cases, you drop a breakpoint where the exception/panic/segfault occurs, trigger your reproduction, and the current context + variable view just throws the problem in your face. If that fails, you breakpoint earlier and that's usually it. I've very much changed my opinion there: If you have a reproducible problem, and the source code, use a debugger. It's better.

On the other hand, good logging and tracing are better in other cases. If we call a debugger spear fishing - targeting a concrete target specifically - good logging and tracing are more of a drag net. Like, in my last job, we had a bug that effectively nulled user accounts, which possibly voided thousands of euros of investment. Except, it occured about once or twice a week, across billions and trillions of interactions with the service. This turned out to be a very, very specific synchronization issue in a rarely used and rarely contested component, but very active players were more likely to be affected by it. Very messy.

We couldn't have caught that error without just dumping all errors and a lot more events into a central bucket and then analyzing from there.

But, in a similar way, this kind of event collection in turn allows analysis like: How critical is this thing? An error occuring 20 times a day on a production system for the last 30 days probably isn't that important, else we'd have had a ticket 20 days ago. Not something a debugger can tell.
Title is not what the article is about, but the article reads sensible enough to me and agrees with what I’ve heard about hedging against risks.

And to be frank, the response from the expert shouldn’t be as hugely surprising to the author as he implies because this is pretty common advice even from regular bank staff. It’s pretty well known that your best weapon in riding out even black swan events is to have time on your hands, and if you haven’t got that (where “time” depends on the risk profiles of your savings) you should already not be in the market.

It’s easy to get emotional and do reactionary things though! Even pros fall for it! Investors have killed themselves in financial crises! To calm myself, I use to look back. It felt like the sky was falling at some points in 2008 with structural collapses so that’s when I use to look at those historical charts and what happened after the crisis.
Call support, get the URLs and logins for all their internal apps. Ouch!
It's been years since I dealt with C/C++. But, from what I remember the debuggers and their integration with the IDEs wasn't great. In particular, it seemed like embedded dev with debuggers was really painful.

I've found that higher level languages (Java/javascript/python/etc) tend to have a much better integration and experience with debuggers than C/C++ did.
This is just security through obscurity. For real security, you need a cryptographically rolling keyboard layout.
This is pretty neat. There used to be free secondary (slave) DNS and it was good. Nowadays not so much and I'm still looking for some way to have secondary ns on a separate network because that's how it's supposed to work.
Same boat. My blood pressure increased just reading your comment. The web is run by a bunch of amateurs who don’t know the single core concept of the web: links.
This is, however, not an issue in the large majority of the civilized world where the police typically don’t even have helicopters, never mind having the problem of suspects hiding under urban trees!!
Is this a joke?

My roast is done at 650 degrees, butter wouldn’t last 5 seconds.

I’ve seen people add butter to coffee though.
Certainly if credit needs to be given for the design of blood vessels, I'll take all that credit, thank you!

/s

Let us not assume creation and intelligent design with biological evolution does fine. Too many malicious people claim moral superiority/right to rule when you mix in a claim to a creator of life with evolution. Parismony!
I was introduced to vim at university around 2001. I wasn't great with it, but back then I occasionally was doing some basic sysadmining, and also sometimes hand-editing websites live over SSH and it was the best tool for me. I've started using it again in 2022 and am enjoying the experience!

Thank you Bram.
Is there some way to induce a cytokine storm of sorts so that this weakening is essentially reduced
That’s a valid complaint and I’m tired of hearing about Twitter too. But I just had to say something when the first comment I saw here was essentially mocking the original handle owner for thinking something they had for almost two decades belonged to them. It’s a sentiment I’ve seen in other threads about this.
lol You seem like the last person I’d ask for help. You would lecture the person needing help the entire time.

Apple doesn’t sell phones that “need” to be fixed. You just don’t like how they work, and that’s fine. Doesn’t mean you have to show your ass any time anyone says the word “Apple”.
Only 3 out of 10 open jobs are Remote and 2 of them happen to be Account Executive responsibile for specific regions, so is it still "Remote First"?
Longtime user ‘super pissed’ after Elon’s ‘X’ takes over his music handle
I don’t think so.

Can you tell the shape of a vase by looking at it?

Would you say “yes” or would you infer that the speaker was asking if you could distinguish all unique vases from one another by looking at them?
So it was a warehouse for forwarding already assembled test kits that it could use as an excuse to have the pathogens already on hand.