skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

Great quote.

I've always liked this one:

"I substitute your view of reality for my own."

This is true in so many ways. The world as I see it, is not what it is: at most, it is reality, as perceived by my senses, processed by my brain. Which are different from someone else's.

So even if that underlying reality is the same (the simplest assumption), then your view & my view of it are different.

This holds even in science: if 2 scientists take a measurement from the same object, using 2 different instruments, what they're recording is not the object's state, but its effect on the instrument measuring it. Worse: not even that, but the state of that instrument, as perceived by the scientist's senses & processed by their brain. Worse: that processing converted back into words, or writings, and perceived by someone else hearing or reading those.

Now of course science is extremely good at making such measurements match. 2 Scientists may read the same instrument, or each other's. One may take the scientist out of the equation by having the instrument record directly. But in this case it's 'the instrument's view of reality' that it records. You have replaced a scientist + their instrument with an instrument alone. An experiment may be set up such, that [whatever is measured] & instrument measuring it, are considered to be the same. But it doesn't do away with the fundamental problem: reality passing through layers & layers of filtering and perception.

That is: if underlying reality is the same for all of us. Occam's razor would say so, and it seems very likely, but again this is fundamentally an assumption.

That said: what most of us can agree on after objective measurements using well designed instruments, photographs, comparing notes etc, is good enough for me. When I walk through a forest & smell the air, feel free to perceive that forest in whatever is your view of reality. Just don't try to convince me that forest isn't there or doesn't have a smell. I'll see a doctor when I think my eyes, nose or brain isn't working properly, thank you very much!
It's surprising how much you discount something you don't take the time to understand. Clearly your single set of experiences is superior to the century of work by thousands of professionals, probably all with far more knowledge in this area.

You should start your One True CPI and license it; you'd be rich.

I took a few seconds to understand why the 6th riot was used; it's clearly correct and if you took a moment to understand instead of discounting it, youd learn. Hint: it's 6 things multiplied together - ever hear of geometric means? Similarly I looked at the paper you discounted because the degrees of freedom somehow offended you. It too is a good model. And, as credentials go, I have a PhD and decades of modeling experience. Even so, I'd expect someone with your claimed expertise to be able to understand these.

If there were some vastly better method, traders could make money on the difference. They look at it, and cannot. There's lots of papers and research on this.

Multiple other actors,like the MIT Billion Prices project started, and others followed, measure it, and get equivalent numbers.

So, if you're so sure the BLS is stupid and wrong, there should be some group getting it right. Care to find them?

Another simple experiment you can do (and I've done) is to take a reasonable set of monthly purchases, weight costs like that, go back 40 - 50 years, and pull up ads for those goods. Pop it all in excel, and compute compound inflation over that time. Do it honestly. Then check BLS over that time. TADA! Guess what? It's pretty good. I've even gotten several friends to do this when they claim all this nonsense. They've all been surprised how well it works.

So simply check it. It's easy.
A better acronym for that process would be VOFU.
Yes. But having local polititians whine against EU regulation and then vote for it is a common pattern to get easy wins with easily led people like the original posters here.
To my utter disappointment, the Apple store is not better in that regard.

I went for an Apple device to move away from Google-the-nosy-company, but I was happy to leave Google-the-advertising-company too. Yesterday I was searching for "microsoft authenticator" in the app store, and the top result is... another "sponsored" authenticator. WTF, Apple?
For me, perhaps pleasure is more important than what we aim for.
>I get there is an important reason to have choice, but bragging about how you don't use systemd is just meme-y and comes from a place of (misplaced) elitism usually.

I think you're projecting. No one bragged about such a thing, they just merely mentioned their specific situation.

It's not all text-editor-wars and squabbles, as stated and even acknowledged before : there exist reasons aside from nerd elitism to choose something other than systemd.
What are your thoughts on Open Source Software?
What is this? 4chan?

I will not engage in much of this angry diatribe because if you use words like "charity" and "hand outs", you're placing yourself on a level of discourse reserved for redpilled /pol/ commenters and angry incels. Please reflect on the high emotional content, and where these emotions flow from. It's not pretty imo.

The one comment I want to make is that you're missing my point, out of your own malice or out of my lack of clarity, so here goes.

I tell my coworkers (I'm male) that I'll be gone for three months after the birth of our daughter: "but isoprophlex, you don't breastfeed, why stay at home at all?". Out of ~15 weeks leave, only one is fully paid. As long as societies, and expectations, are structured in such a way that women are pressured into leaving the workforce (relatively compared to men), the divide will keep existing.

This was my point.

No need for frothing about how you'd "never promote a 4d/wk resource over one who's 100% dedicated."
I actually do support handouts for women or men raising kids. This social labor goes unpaid but it’s extremely valuable for society. Instead we are following the economic arrow pointing us towards an arrangement where childcare is farmed out to chaotic day cares.
Your country is almost certanly supporting this measure and will continue to have the law enacted even after you leave.

Are you SURE your own are not part of the support?
Taco bell is the most ridiculous now. If I eat there I will only order a $2-$3 "value" burrito. The moment you order any kind of combo, you are out $10+.
Do you believe that 100% remote companies are something like a perpetual motion machine, or a fraud?
Use of Weapons is probably the most extreme example of that in the Culture series, for what it's worth (Surface Detail _may_ be worse, at least in implication).
Welcome to the Era of Transhuman Beauty
What's different is that for a hallucination, the AI gets it wrong, and for a non-hallucination, the AI got it right.
Queuing could be easily handled with a generic inbox/outbox pattern. Background job as well. Sounds like low hanging fruits in this architecture.
Don't include it in headers = only include it in a .cpp file.
I am not a citizen of the UK nor from the US, if this system is enough for you, then by all means feel free to disagree.

In my book an elected official is someone who was voted in office. If you are not elected then you are appointed. If you are appointed you do not need to be accountable because the people cannot revoke your mandate nor can they vote you out.

To me it seems inconceivable that someone who was appointed can decide to bring forward such a law and not have to defend it.
It's complex, they can be sued or funding can get cut but EU is not like the USA.

It's more like a club where the countries come together to decide how to do things and then they implement local laws to do it. They are not hostile countries brought together by force, the hostilities are usually between neighbours and EU acts as a way to resolve them. For example, countries close to the borders see large refugee influx and the countries further away don't want to have anything to do with that and EU tries to find a way to ease the pressure on the border countries(so far, not very successfully but managed to create a mechanism of keeping refugees outside of EU by paying the host countries like Turkey). Or let's say a country wants to join EU, an EU country might have long standing disputes and EU tries to find a common ground to mediate it(Bulgaria & Northern Macedonia is a vivid recent example). Or let's say there's ethnic issues causing wars and other tragedies, EU creates a law to guarantee the rights of the minorities so that the ethnic issues are no longer relevant those resolved.
I believe what they’re talking about is being able to pass something like a struct of key-value pairs, which correspond to column names in the inserted table. This would let us pass straight records/maps/whatever you want to call them to the db, and have the correct insert performed, instead of the genuinely horrible string-interpolation-hope-you-got-the-right-number-of-params-in-the-right-order-and-too-bad-if-you-didn’t dance that we currently have.

The interface we have with databases could be so much better.
Regarding backreading (and fowrard too, honestly)... you can store files in .zip (ie not compressed at all). Some of those files could be a pretty valid .zip files too. *grin*
If the implementation of a poor algorithm is robust and bug-free, that would be something that is well-made, despite being bad.

Consider a chair that is sturdy and load-bearing, while still being lightweight, but it wildly uncomfortable to sit on.
I've wanted to see a movie of Consider Phlebas ever since I read the book in one sitting (literally) in May 1988... :-)

Edit: I remember it vividly as I took one day off between handing in my final year project on the CS degree I was doing and starting the final round of revision for the exams that were starting soon.

Wandered down to Bauermeister Books on the George IV bridge and picked up a copy and spent the rest of the day (until the wee small hours) reading it.
Do you need to power it through the casing? I thought all modern phones come pre-charged from the factory.
> The average person simply has no hope of understanding

If Mastercard used a private detective to follow you when shopping, and he wrote everything you bought and where you bought it into a notebook, which he later delivers to Mastercard, the average person would understand very quickly.
Yes. That's why I agonised a bit about how I should formulate my sentence. I settled with 'most data' instead of 'best data' for this very reason.
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Usually games with deep development issues have those issues show up everywhere. Not so in Diablo 4.

The art direction is great, they produced a massive amount of assets at a very high quality, the story is great by Diablo standards, the marketing was good, the tech is pretty good.

The player experience is still very good and very high quality. I usually find the only people who complain are the hardcore players. It makes sense because once you've run out of campaign content, you really have to rely on those core mechanics to keep the game going.

A lot of the people involved are competent and have a good track record. I just don't understand why the foundations are shaky. They're not even innovating so much on what an ARPG is supposed to be.
Coca-Cola trial to make bottle tops from CO2 emissions
There is a chart in there that disproves your point
Doesn’t work on Safari (iOS), scroll is broken so only see the top 6 or so jobs
It’s not gonna pass against Germany.
Maybe that attacked it from two different sides at the same time?
162 comments in 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27925393
Well,a dumb phone without any app capabilities would not have the client-side scanning software running unless I am mistaken.
I googled around a bit for legal cases and for advice aimed at Dutch companies, but because the law is so recent there's not much. My hunch (as someone who is perfectly clueless about legal matters) is that a restaurant or a shop might find it hard to argue that replacing one full-time worker with two part-time workers is impossible (given that the work is already organized into shifts) but perhaps companies that employ knowledge workers could successfully argue that you can't hire two part-time coders to do the work of one full-timer because the additional coordination costs in terms of additional meetings, additional equipment (i.e. laptop), perhaps the need for additional management personnel, and so on, are an unreasonable demand on the company. I could also see demands to reduce work to 4/5 be rejected when few people at work share your job description, because finding another employee willing to work 1/5 is really hard.

There's also the power dynamic to think of: are you really going to ask your boss to change your hours if you think that he/she will react badly and only grudgingly allow it?

Or maybe I'm completely off base... but anyhow, I guess I just wanted to point out that it's not clear to me whether this law has teeth.
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There is a large strain of "research" that tells public health authorities whatever they want to hear.

Raw case rates normalized by pop size from the UK: vaccinated people were getting COVID at 3x-4x the rate of the unvaccinated by the time they stopped reporting the figures. Natural immunity was actually much better than the vaccine because it developed whole-virus protection to all the proteins not just the spike, so you don't get Hoskin's Effect and variants find it harder to evade.
The absence of Today puts the subs on high alert, but it is when Lynda Snell stops being a condescending cow that they know that Blighty is gone and it's time to open up the firing orders ...
Yes, Sweden is pushing for this but the Parliament will again block it. Swedish politicians can't force it, that is not within their powers.
MOND can most easily explain a certain fixed value of what you call m. It has a much harder time explaining lots of different m at the same time.

> If all previously known galaxies had dark matter in that range, why would every galaxy have roughly the same amount of dark matter except the one that doesn't have any?

They don't all have the same amount of dark matter. There's a distribution.

You were right, that a weird distribution would invite investigation.
Do you live in a slow real estate market? In the area I'm in, rent is basically equal or slightly higher than a 30 year mortgage with 20% down - if you can find a house to buy in the first place.
Lots of important jobs aren't elected. But got the job by being elected repeatedly for other things.

Many important EU figures have been elected repeatedly for national parliaments, as national ministers or for leadership positions in major national political parties, and only after that got an EU job.

I think it's by design: The jobs are put together as a nationally/politically balanced team, picked from from a large set of candidates who have generally been accepted by national voters over a period of time.
A theory of everyone: who we are, how we got here, and where we're going [video]
Fascinating talk - it is only by understanding and applying the laws of life—the need for energy, innovation, cooperation, and evolution—that we can solve the practical and existential challenges we face as a species.
It’s impossible to make everyone happy when drawing a boundary. If enough people share the author’s frustrations, it won’t matter that the initial rules are “too specific and not specific enough” because they can evolve as the community evolves.

After all the same thing could have been said about the initial rules of Craigslist, Facebook, and many other projects that started narrow.
well read it. Now you know.
If you want to try the MemGPT Discord chatbot, join the Discord server (linked above), then check out the #memgpt channel to start messaging the bot.

If you want to run the chatbot or API docs examples locally, you can follow the instructions here: https://github.com/cpacker/MemGPT/tree/main#quick-setup.
Not to even mention the heat death of the universe!
I think a good approach is mastering at least one discipline, but having a foundational knowledge of all the other disciplines in your field.

I know a lot of people who have almost zero understanding of what their colleagues are doing and that creates a lot of unneccesary friction during collaboration.
More black and white thinking.
> They are appointed by the elected

The more indirect the method is, the more control shifts from voters to lobbyists and insiders versed in the system.
> think it's interesting that even the majority of educated people and journalists outside of tech don't seem to realize that the best model is at least 10x smarter than the free version of ChatGPT

I mean... the content-free drivel they generate is more _polished_, possibly, though I'm not sure this is actually an improvement. What do you mean by 'smarter', here?
Then don't engage. Go away.

I gave my opinion in good faith and you turned around and spewed vile personal insults. We're done.
>Maintaining a healthy work/life balance is in no way 'quitting'.

Hence the new term.
Maybe I missed it in the article, but

> the central directory might not reference all the files in the zip file because otherwise this statement about files being added, replaced, or delete has no point to be in the spec

I think the author missed one optimization that I have observed from various archiving utilities. Suppose you want to compress deeply/nested/folders/with/one-file into an archive. Many archivers will not bother creating dedicated entries for deeply, nested, folders, etc. They will simply have a single entry with that path, and it is assumed that the intermediate folders exist. This threw me off at $DAYJOB when I needed to generate a flat list of "valid paths" in a ZIP archive, "valid" in the sense that the path exists after decompressing the archive.

Note: I don't think this is good design of a file format, and although I've never been able to find documentation explicitly mentioning this behavior, I do believe this is the primary reason the central directory does not have to contain entries for each file/directory in an archive.
Yes, of course there is a trade-off. The specialists are likely much better at executing their particular functions. However, they still compete for the same market, sometimes surprisingly well. AAA games constantly feel like an art gallery where you are there to appreciate the beauty, while indie games have this soul and cohesion that is likely boosted by generalists as described in the article.
As I said, EC members are appointed by the elected governments and EP and the EP members are directly elected. If you don't like it you can start or join a political movement to change it or political movement to exit the EU.

However it's not O.K. to go around claim that those people are appointees of 3rd parties and are agents of companies and rule with impunity and the EU citizens can't do anything about it. It's a misrepresentation of the reality.

It's like claiming that British PM and the US president are not elected. While technically true, it misrepresent the democratic system.
This type of internet forum reply is so commmon there is a name for it and even a Wikipedia page [1].

"A straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction"

I did not ask that they don't have ads, not track their readers, and so on. I asked why there is no link whatsoever besides the usual big tech traps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
Inflation isn't a scalar, which is the main point of the article. The problem is that capturing all prices at all times in all locations is effectively impossible, so it's generally oversimplified out of necessity.

On the other hand, the value of a Dollar...

The Morgan Silver Dollar from 1901 that I keep with me as a reminder, is worth about $17.50 in melt value.[1] The folks my age and younger generally don't appreciate the value of hard money.[2] It's almost always bought about 4 gallons of gasoline, or a meal for one. Say what you will about the inefficiency of a commodity backed currency, it won't shrink to zero value over time.

[1] https://www.coinflation.com/coins/1878-1921-Silver-Morgan-Do...

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hardmoney.asp
What are you going on about? Pretty much all European banks issue Visa/Mastercard credit and debit cards (sometimes under their subbrands Maestro and VPay) by default to pretty much all customers.

Most in-store payment processing goes directly over those two companies still.
Because Google's index is much larger.

According to estimates[1], Google indexes ~60 billions pages and Bing is only ~4 billions. If these numbers are close to reality, Bing index is 7% of Google's.

IMHO, this leads to all the problems people complain about Bing. The algorithm is shit because they have less data to fine tune it, people use it less because the algorithm is shit or the results don't show up, so they cannot collect data to fine tune the algorithm more, ...

[1] https://www.worldwidewebsize.com/
As Apple was to Windows.
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It's even worse in defense consulting.

- I've seen people billed at 2x salary because overhead includes work area cost, management chain cost, passthrough percentage, etc.). None of that overhead is likely to be at 80%.

- Defense consulting often involves combined staffing from different companies. For example, if BigCorp partners with ThreePhdsInABox on a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project, then the rules are often interpreted to mean 51% or more of the staffing has to come from the small business (usually). This is measured in terms of number of people on a project, not total cost of each person.

- For classified efforts, the cost of a clearance can run up to $50,000 per person, depending on the clearance. This is the same whether the person is 10%, 80%, or 100%. If they are already cleared at the needed level then this isn't an issue.

I don't see this happening in defense consulting until/unless the government goes to a mandatory 32 hour work week. That said many government projects have a mandatory 40 hour week, and some defense companies have an unwritten expectation of 50 hours per week, so the new unwritten will likely be a 40 hour week.
They do not primarily maintain free softwares, they primarily maintain softwares to better control their business models.

And it is "free" because it does not impact their business models, on the contrary
> Also, it must be ensured that user data is accessible to all competitors.

This doesn't sound like a good idea. The collection of user data and the underlying advertising business model is a problem to be removed, not a playing field for more competition and "improvement".
> without any app capabilities

So you'd use e-mail and SMS?
Why don’t you tell us what they’re doing then?
I find native application SDKs like Cocoa on macOS certainly less complex for the same functionality.

E.g. supporting printers there is just no issue. But maybe I misunderstood what you meant.
I agree 80%, but it isn't logically inconsistent. Google can't arrest you, the odds of Google employees shooting anyone in their day-to-day work is extremely low, and Google (all capitalist enterprises, really) managers are heavily incentivised to ignore any beliefs I hold that aren't strictly impacting their ability to do business.

Any data that Google has is available to law enforcement, and that is a major problem, but in the abstract someone can object to government invasion of privacy without objecting to Google's dragnet.