skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or put another way: there have always been sexual instincts throughout the animal world (sex). But at a specific point in time, humans attached meaning to these instincts (sexuality). When humans talk about heterosexuality, we’re talking about the second thing.

I think when talking about the term itself, it's more accurate to say that we labeled the phenomenon of heterosexuality (either in the alleged original form of "morbid passion for the opposite sex", or the modern meaning of simply attraction to the opposite sex). This is the exact same process used to label sex, instincts, animals, humans, and virtually every other term used in the article.

There is a strange fascination with rediscovering that words are labels with socially-agreed-upon meanings, that imperfectly describe the underlying reality, but which terms it gets applied to is very selective, even tactical.

> “Prior to 1868, there were no heterosexuals,” writes Blank. Neither were there homosexuals. It hadn’t yet occurred to humans that they might be “differentiated from one another by the kinds of love or sexual desire they experienced.” Sexual behaviours, of course, were identified and catalogued, and often times, forbidden. But the emphasis was always on the act, not the agent.

Nor were there any thieves or farmers or lepers, only the acts of stealing, farming, and being afflicted by leprosy...

> When most people today think of heterosexuality, they might think of something like this: Billy understands from a very young age he is erotically attracted to girls. One day he focuses that erotic energy on Suzy, and he woos her. The pair fall in love, and give physical sexual expression to their erotic desire. And they live happily ever after. Without Krafft-Ebing’s work, this narrative might not have ever become thought of as “normal.”

Before Krafft-Ebing's work, people thought there was a 50/50 chance Billy might go for a boy instead? They were just completely blind to patterns in sexual attraction? Maybe we could check - in how many stories, songs, stage plays, fables, etc. before Krafft-Ebing's 1886 Psychopathia Sexualis is a similar narrative represented, compared to alternative, non-heterosexual narratives? Not just in English in the West, but in Russia, in the Islamic world, in Africa, in China, India, Mongolia... Heterosexuality must have been "invented" much later there as Krafft-Ebing's theories were translated from German, to English, to other languages.
I guess I'll be honest with myself and say I'm probably the equivalent of the B lane swimmer in a certain area. Some might say I'm A but maybe there's always an A lane where you're B? I guess it depends on your goals; most of life isn't reduced to a single clear metric like speed.

One of the things I find frustrating in this particular area — and maybe not all areas are like this — is how much things like luck and questionable ethics separates A from B. I don't mean to suggest all of it is like that, or that A people are all unethical people who stumbled on their fortune by chance, but a lot of the differences between A and B that I see are due to things like B people being especially unlucky at where they landed their first job, or A people being especially lucky, or A people in fact being pretty ethically sketchy or outright corrupt about certain things. So I tend to get especially angry when I see these relatively big consequences from differences that don't really matter, or the differences aren't actually present, or people in the area professionally pretend all this stuff isn't going even though everyone wholly acknowledges in private it is.

So the more I think about it, the more I'm not really sure the swimming analogy is entirely apt. There you have a pretty clear criterion, and it's all about what lane you're in. In life, the criteria might differ from person to person, the lanes come with major consequences, and there's plenty of chances to game the criteria where they do exist. It's like if which lane you were in was determined by a lifeguard with a timer, but the swimming time differences between lanes were smaller than the error tolerance of the timing devices, and a majority of swimmers (but not all) were bribing the lifeguards for lanes.

The way in which the comparison is apt is that as you get "up" the lanes, the more and more stressful it gets, until you cash out or get a secure position or whatever, when it becomes worth it, whatever "it" is. So you're sensitive to BS until it doesn't matter because you've already got yours. As you go down, you're surrounded by people who don't really give a damn about trying to go up, it's just not a concern of theirs. So superficially the pattern of stress is probably similar. But in general, I'm not sure it's really the same processes causing that stress.
Domain expert, not tech expert
Nifty! Look forward to checking this out. What kind of hardware do you roughly need to run this, though I’m guessing there’s a range depending on what you’re doing?
The arithmetic issues are well documented and understood; it's a problem of sub-token manipulation, which has nothing to do with reasoning. (Similar to calling blind people unintelligent because they can't read the iq test.)

And the better llms can easily write code to do the attention that they suck at...
I had some similar experiences with few self taught junior devs.

I didn't look down on them, but was heavily surprised to see how much they could teach me about software or work or life.
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When you say "Toronto & Vancouver", that's on-site? Or can you do remote anywhere in Canada?
Y’all even have bridges for boats

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontcysyllte_Aqueduct
Wish this was coming sooner. Maybe one day I'll have one!
Is it me or Shazam keep degrading in actual recognition performance?
Similar to what Anthony De Mello espouses about dropping your labels for everything, including yourself: https://youtu.be/TxXQwMOxglk
Databases don’t have to use a file-system

I didn't say they did.

consider /dev/null or /proc - those are certainly in the file-system but they aren’t tied to persistent storage.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here.
Discord won't let you use a VOIP number so I can't even get on it
That's what memory is. Whether sensory information (what you remember for a place) or the points from a meeting (where we only remember the big picture items, not what was said minute to minute) it's all summarized/compressed.
A/K/A "Maslow's Smartphone": <https://web.archive.org/web/20230603005201/https://old.reddi...>.
Ever looked at the ingredients list in a Beyond Burger? Gotta wonder what half of those things even are…
>No one knows how the brain works and how it is connected with the body

Yes, but we have some informed theories.

Nobody knew how physics works at Newton's time either, but they did know enough to model to satisifcation lots of phenomena like ballistics...

>Did you know your gut is directly connected with cognition?

Well, it is widely reported even in pop-science articles for several decades!

>No one has any clue how to make computers intelligent

For not having "any clue", sure the LLM guys did quite well in getting some of the way to the goalposts...
The notes are so good and so amusing that the article is worth reading just to enjoy the notes. Don't miss this rabbit-from-hat moment:

Believe it or not, I was specifically trained by the military as a geo-spatial analyst to identify bridges in black and white aerial photographs taken in the 1960s.

Also... @tylervigen, the note after "Peter Wilson of the Bridges Division got back to me very quickly" doesn't work for me in either of the browsers I tried. I want to know what about Peter Wilson of the Bridges Division getting back to you quickly merited a note!
Calibre always had some update. It was annoying.
"I wouldn't think any parent has ever been prosecuted for that sort of thing."

It's worse to have an unenforced law on the books than no law at all.
"But in the United States, filing taxes is painful by design. The tax-collection system as we know it is the outcome of three forces: corporate lobbying, a stubborn resistance to borrowing good ideas from other Western nations, and the Republican Party’s decades-long campaign against taxation itself."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/american-t...
Bookmarked for a later watch. Appreciate the lead, thank you.
Then the status has to be tracked in two places. It’s certainly not impossible, but as a programmer I’m allergic to unnecessary busywork.
I once created a website to catalog all of the out of copyright books in the Library of Congress and randomized selections so one could replicate the serendipity of browsing (locserendipity.com). In the process of doing this, Jessamyn West identified stickers or stamps on some of the books (https://twitter.com/jessamyn/status/1114333025716854784). Some of the staff at the LOC knew what they were—-stamps marking which books to take offsite in the the unlikely event the Nazis invaded the United States.
> Do you understand how the US legislative process works?

Do you?

> Only for a short time during the Obama administration did they actually “have control” and they used that time and political capital passing the ACA.

Why are you arbitrarily limiting the time frame to recent history? A simplified tax filing method could have been introduced at any time in say, the last 50 years. During which time Democrats have had house and senate control many times [0] and the basic reality of the IRS having all your tax info ahead of time has been unchanged (read: simplified tax filing was possible). That they never seized the opportunity to do so is just evidence that they didn’t really care to, not that some shadow cabal of Republicans had held them back.

0: https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/jun/25/control-house-...
I read most of it during college and it taught me recursion and first class functions pretty well. The former helped me in my college classes and the latter in both college classes and at work. I picked up functional code faster than colleagues of the same age as me.

I don't think it "blew my mind" or opened up a new world to me though, but learning how to solve problems with basic tools was fun.
I imagine I'd spend the next few minutes quietly pondering what sort of poor choices I made in life that lead me here and try my hardest to embrace an absurd ending to an absurd journey.
You are right! I mean, isn't the following good news?

> Since interest was not charged during the pause, it has effectively canceled $240 billion worth of student debt. That’s more than half the amount that would have been canceled through President Biden’s one-time loan-forgiveness scheme, had the Supreme Court not intervened.

If the author wanted people to sympathize with the lenders, they did a really poor job at that.
Yeah you get a lot of internet philosophers on these issues who for some reason insist on failing to understand the dark side. Most people would be horrified constantly having sex with strangers they aren't attracted to.

I've also seen this on the issue of assisted suicide. It's shocking how many people go on reddit with some "enlightened" idea about how anyone should be able to kill themselves. Who are you to say their life is not worth living? Well it turns out that there are countless people in programs that both want to kill themselves and to live. If we just let everyone immediately kill themselves, as these people advocated, it would be a bloodbath of incomprehensible proportions.

So in either case you have tens to hundreds of people being hurt for every one that legitimately fits the profile of needing to die, or genuinely enjoying sex work. Yet we're supposed to focus on that one unicorn, and ignore all the needless suffering.
Definitely different, but feels reminiscent of SonicPi. (Declarative audio with live update)

The fact that it can run directly in the web is huge for accessibility.

Out of curiosity, any insight into its roadmap? It's labeled as highly experimental, though looks like it hasn't been updated in a few months and there's (at least one) dead link in the readme.
one thing people haven't mentioned is habits. if there's something you want to do, and it takes a lot of discipline to do, how can you adjust your life so that it takes less discipline to do it?

One way to reduce the amount of discipline you need to do a thing is to start doing it according to a rhythm that you do the thing daily/weekly/whatever, so that it becomes a habit. Initially it is hard and will require more discipline and effort but after a while it will just become the thing that you do by default, or (perhaps at times) a thing you even enjoy doing. Are there one-off changes to your environment or situation that you can make, that will make it easier for you to regularly practice the thing you want to practice?

you mentioned technical interviews. the software engineering technical interview game is a mix of skill + preparation + interview technique + sheer luck. don't neglect the latter "sheer luck" component --- a lot of the outcome will be based on which interviewer you get assigned on the day, how much sleep they got, if the role is being advertised as a formality but they've already decided to promote someone internally, etc. you overcome this luck component by applying for a large number of roles with different companies.

Maybe another thing is to lower your expectations. it isn't necessary to "work extremely hard sustained over a long period" to have a good career or good life.

Maybe yet another thing is starting to think about the longer term, and what your longer term goals mean you need to start doing in the short term. I didn't start to think about long term goals until my late 20s.
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I have a pretty sizable library of e-books (comics, magazines, regular books, PDFs, papers, etc.). The way I manage, organize, and read them is very personal to my workflows and interests. As a result I've pulled together a hodge-podge of different tools to accomplish what I want, and it works very well for me.

Calibre is not one of those tools.

However, to be fair, I have the feeling that Calibre is mostly the result of Kovid Goyal's version of what I do, but he decided to write some software to do it back when there were fewer choices. As a result, it's highly personal to his interests and workflow, and lots of the complaints about it are really just a result of other people wanting to do things their own highly personal way and running into an impedance mismatch with Goyal's way, just like they'd run into one with how I do things.

It's clear that there's huge demand for ebook management software, but there's no comprehensive "Plex" for ebooks, and as a result you end up having to strap together your own stuff to get it working.
>Every time I see a business inviting me to a Discord, I feel like I'm putting myself in a position to be mistreated either by the platform or by the company inviting me. I feel like they don't quite understand sound business principles like Platform Risk.

>If keeping up the business afloat is your mission as a business owner, why'd you base your business off a platform you don't control? [...]

Why is discord any different than other platforms like office365 or AWS? Do you feel the same about companies using those platforms as well?
I looked at the type A&B page and it said this:

>Type A and B plugs have two flat prongs with (often, but not always) a hole near the tip. These holes aren’t there without a reason.

I'm given to understand that isn't true. That "Technology Connections" YouTube guy has a video on this and it conclusively debunks this assertion.

If I find what's essentially an urban myth in my first look at details, I'm inclined to ignore everything else it says.
Respect your feelings, but I also consider this as motivation to make sure not to leave items in library books. I hold them up and page side down and fan the pages to make sure I didn't leave a bookmark in there.

Of course, the physical book will soon be a thing of the past at the public library (-_-) so I suppose these considerations will soon be moot.
If you're basing this on the animation used when revealing the answer, that's a fake effect. The source code[0] reveals that there's a typewriter effect that plays out when you select to answer the question.

Also, the commentary on the answers refers to specific parts of the answers. For it to be as in-depth as it is, it would have to be either pre-written or the commentary also generated by GPT on the fly. (And of course it wouldn't make sense to do that given the nature of the quiz.)

[0] https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/llm-forecast/static/que...
"As Ronald Reagan once put it, “Taxes should hurt.” He meant that when paying the taxes you owe is a painful process, you are very aware that government is taking your money. Then the governor of California, he was resisting the introduction of state-tax withholding, which, he felt, made it too easy for government to take money and too easy for taxpayers to miss what was happening."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/american-t...
Interesting way to prevent your awesome colleague from being poached by competitors.
Read the article, he has been sick for two weeks before dying. This looks a lot like regular shroom poisoning, he wasn't too young either, and I guess that, at >70 years old in Russia, you start to be more vulnerable.

I guess that political murder could be an easy explanation, in which case it's really, really subtle, which - huh - isn't really what the FSB is known for ?
I think Miro would be a few steps closer to "your whole digital world", but of course it's still not that close.
The "log(n) * number of searches" page lookups, that the kernel could clean up at any time after a search, instead of all n items that it would have had to load and keep in memory?

Yes, they did.
> Do they let non-Chinese people use WeChat or Alipay’s payment services these days?

Both Alipay and WeChat allow that now. I had no issues using my Visa with Alipay, and while WeChat was a bit confusing, it worked in the end.

I recommend setting it up 2-3 days before you're going to need it because especially WeChat may want to do some manual verification.
I understand the usage of miasma, but flippant is just not a normal modifier for that noun.
the stories are inconvenient not necessarily the reality

that and most Americans dont have the budget to pay or hire someone to challenge if theyre worried about how to do additional filings
I submitted a related article about Jai yesterday, and just realized it got a bit of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37357408
Unfortunately it is the sort of meaningless SLO that's being competed on by various delivery companies in India. Nobody needs anything these folks can deliver within 10 minutes, but it sounds impressive on the ad.
I'm saying that at least GCP has supported VM migration for a while and it's generally not something people are currently worried too much about these days given they have attempted to mitigate issues like you've pointed out.
I think the point is that LLM is not right tool for deep reasoning, and isabelle and others are much better such tools, even community trying to apply LLM in this area following current wave of hype.
I've thought of doing one of these for my favourite 8-bit computer, though never actually got round to actually trying it.

How wide is a bank number? Even if it's the full 8 bits, that's only 24 bits, which is nothing these days. 64 MB for the full table, assuming 32 bits is enough to cover every offset into the JIT buffer. (Assuming max 4 GB of JIT'd code. If that isn't, perhaps 40 bits would be? 128 MB table, max 1 TByte of JIT'd code.) Would you need a hash table rather than an array?
I switched to Kitty terminal across all platforms about a year ago, a fantastic decision for me (initially I just wanted tmux-style windowing with no tmux) and Kovid built Kitty as well
I'll admit I don't use it all too much, but it has picked up almost every song I've tried it on over the last couple of months (14) - from video game soundtracks to a song echoing through a stadium.
Sign up for GPT-4 ($20/mo). Seriously. It will be the best Linux teacher you can hope for.
It’s a pre built widget because Microsoft wrote it for WordPad though.
I think it's worth tracking how many people view a thing at least just to have a reasonable idea so things like "how many DNS requests should I be able to handle" are less of a shot in the dark.

But it was nice to read something with no distracting ads, or complicated popups asking my consent for a range of mysterious cookies.

I was also very much liked your inline notes system! I avoided the early notes as I'm so used to them either taking me to a new site or scrolling me to the bottom of a page and losing my place. Your inline notes were almost perfect, letting me read only extras I wanted, without losing the main thread, brilliant!

Have you explored the possibility of sticking a new plaque on it calling it Bloomfield bridge?
Paris the city is the city, if you're building a new city you build the city and the unincorporated areas around you grow on their own.

If they're going to just build another The Woodlands (x2, they have twice this much land too) this isn't a very ambitious and transformative project, it's just a big fancy housing development with a Mayor and City Council instead of an HOA.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woodlands,_Texas
Regulation is not the same as nudges towards personal health and discouragment-taxation towards "what's good for you".

>It's infantalizing for you to claim that they aren't consciously choosing that.

The "majority of people" aren't even asked about things like this, and they're constantly lied to and betrayed on the subject of electoral promises of all kinds, even on way more major issues. Not to mention being treated like cattle that needs to be "told what to want" and to be whipped into shape by technocrats and policy advisors.

So, invoking what the government does as a proxy of "what people wants" is very shaky grounds...
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Yes, and it can be simpler to calculate it, but it tends to have worse theoretical properties. In particular, with log likelihood we can sum the scores for a sequence of conditional probability estimates and we get the same score as if it were a single estimate for a single compound random variable.

Brier score not only lacks this property, but you don't even necessarily maintain the ordering of such scores.
The kerning in the prompt between the @ and the j is really unfortunate
This is why the Turing Test tried to abstract away everything other than the text of a conversation. Because ultimately the mechanism is going to be inscrutable, and it’s the output that counts.
> Is Silicon Valley plunging humanity into misery?

Well if you think of streaming services and the video/DVD rental store, popping around a mates house with a takeaway and video/dvd to chill out for the evening, to cheer them up, or just to get out of the house.

That ritual has gone for ever, which is miserable.
I've never seen these kind of people (Tim). Almost always, it is someone who knows absolutely nothing, meanders from desk to desk, wasting productive people's time, picking their brains. They are usually never given any work, because someone else has to undo the damage and do the work!

Then then socialize with managers outside of the team, bragging about how much 'value' they're adding and they can talk as if they helped others. They move around a lot, getting promoted each, adding no value other than just talk with no clue on how to do things.
Lemur: The SOTA Open Pretrained LLMs Balancing Text and Code
It's bizarre how inconsistent they are with this. I signed up with a shady anonymous email, only use it through a VPN and have given them no phone number, but they're still happy to let me use this account. I'm half convinced these companies inconsistently apply these sort of policies to sow doubt and get the users gaslighting each other about what the actual policies and rules are.