skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's a tendency of certain Westerners to consider the myths of others are being more legitimate

I've always considered this is a subtle form of othering in which the cultural left indulges.[1] It's really unfortunate and no less alienating than more obvious forms of othering.

A related phenomenon is the left (as well as non-religious more generally, not all firmly steeped in the leftist milieu) feeling entitled to criticize or diminish otherwise similar religious practices found within the dominant culture they were raised. Standing alone it would fit into a millennia-long vein of intellectual discourse in the West[2], however in contrast to the noble savage gloss given non-Western cultures it becomes intolerably hypocritical.

[1] Relatedly, for years I've considered figurative use of words like "legitimate" and, especially, "authentic" as signaling and reflecting dubious modern cultural value judgments. These modern cultural concepts have been internalized across the political and cultural spectrum in the West, especially the rich West. Learning to spot this language is a good way to identify B.S. in politics, philosophy, business, marketing, and almost every other area of life. (Conversely, when you're feeling evil you can use these words to great profit in rhetoric.) In this case I understand you're deliberately echoing others' verbiage.

[2] See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian, but such religious skepticism and satire goes back much further.
> Going through a formal CS program will give you an intimate understanding of CPUs

I did an undergrad in CS, where I did well. I don't feel like I understand CPUs very well. Certainly not anywhere in the realm of "intimate."
As I said in the previous thread I thought one of the idea behind the killing of the 3rd party apps was to force everyone to use the official app > it has the crypto wallet so Reddit can promote it. Yet 2 months later they kill that too. Very strange (guess it didn't fit the IPO plans)
> ...shouldn't there also be a push to stop cellular service providers from selling your location data?

Yes

There should be rules stopping the collection of that data

There should be rules against locking down devices people "own" that prevent countermeasures

Private use of this data is as worrying as government use. More so. States are often democratically accountable
Yes.

The underlying purpose of public libraries is to support an informed citizenry and society. They provide an opportunity to acquire knowledge to anyone who wants it, irrespective of their economic standing.

Removing them would have the effect of further reducing social mobility.

Even if we took steps to ensure that every person has a digital device, there will still be value in having a physical sanctuary dedicated to that purpose for people who need to share their living space.

Compared to a university, libraries lie on the extreme DIY side of the spectrum. It’s free, but they’re less labor-intensive.

If I were to rework the library system for the 21st century, I’d focus on making it more useful for people retraining because of AI altering supply/demand for careers.

The only constraint I’d put on it would be to keep it universally accessible. Charging and screening enrollment is for public colleges and universities that additionally provide a service to assist in acquiring knowledge.

Actually, I’ll go one step further and suggest that a hackerspace / makerspace like TechShop or Hacker Dojo could enrich the surrounding community in much the same way as a library does. They’re just focused around loaning access to modern tools and technology rather than books.
If you do something even slightly unusual you can quickly get into a situation where you spend more time debugging your toolchain than writing code.

I really hate the state of modern software. We have so many layers of utterly unknowable abstractions that it isn't even possible to understand what your code actually ends up doing.

And that's how we ended up with Electron, which I think is the pinnacle of shitty software driven by the unsustainable paradigm of libraries on abstractions on libraries.
Considering that Alexandra the creator of sci-hub is a target for the FBI. I have little faith that what you are saying will ever occur in the US.
The Ur subject of philosophy is not the writing and reading of philosophy, but to exercise the mind in coming to grips with that which we have no conception of yet. Language is it's medium, and the IO is those texts. However the nugget at the center is figuring out that magic blackbox that lets you take all the dead ends in those texts and divine a reasonable guiding principle or recognition of an end to the space of tread discourse.

To that end, you have to approach philosophical reading with a degree of hypothetical detachment that not everyone is immediately comfortable with.
First time Cherenkov radiation is seen in a fusion reaction
Thank you. I just posted an angry response to the original link without scrolling for this, but my guess was that the co² footprint for this needless bullshit would be huge. Anyway, good ole HN always has some smart Alec who "done the maths". Credit to credit_guy.
[The net migration shows a remarkably negative trend.](https://assets.site-static.com/userFiles/1102/image/Californ...)
I'm having a hard time imagining who they dumped it on. Like, who bought all of those tokens? Imagine buying Reddit coins, it reminds me of the "bingus token" meme.
It's a good thing crypto is a totally unregulated securities market with ultimate freedom, so that these folks won't suffer any consequences for acting on their insider information, as it should be. /s

Sarcasm aside, this is a great example of why a partially regulated market is a good thing.
Haha I didn’t notice that before
Sounds like pre–Civil War U.S. currency.
No, it works immediately upon selection in Putty: https://documentation.help/PuTTY/using-selection.html

Also in Mintty: https://mintty.github.io/mintty.1.html#%03Text%20selection,%...
Odd timing. I just come across this story (in a mainstream newspaper in my country):

Tsingtao Brewery factory worker caught peeing in malt container

https://www.shine.cn/news/nation/2310213869/
You could change that? They deserve the history be known.
But it's buggy in a way that doesn't destroy the meaning of the whole program.

The Sledgehammer Principle is not enough; UB is a nuclear holocaust for a program.

So I'll take the buggy behavior that slows my code and only uses a sledgehammer over the buggy behavior that treats my program as a suggestion.
Refactoring is generally not about the code style, or changing the design for its own sake.

Refactoring happens because the model of the world that the software works with has changed since the software has been implemented. Maybe the way users and roles are represented was kinda OK 5 years ago, but the world (== business environment, understanding, requirements) has changed since. So the code that has been OK 5 years ago is painfully mismatched with the present.

That's when refactoring is needed.

Also. Tech debt is usually (not always) the marginal cost of the next feature. If new features cost X, and engineers are convinced that features could cost much less if the software was organised differently, then it might be useful to calculate the cost of a refactor.
>Gas stations make very little money on gas, most of their income is from people buying cigarette, lotteries, lotto, beer, beverages, and some trinkets in the store.

This omits a significant factor, which is that it used to be many gas stations also had several repair bays, employing a mechanic or two.

Anecdata: between mid-1980s and 2000, four such gas station/repair businesses within a mile of my house closed, leaving three gas/convenience store businesses remaining within that same radius, some of which used to have repair service as well.

This used to be a solid small business opportunity for a solo or partnership owner/worker. I suspect that as cars became more computerized the repair business became too specialized, and also some of the stations which were leased from large oil companies were sold out from under the operator.
It’s a good article, but I have the following criticism (i’m not the biggest expert, but I’m a biochemist):

- many of these myths are things I’ve never heard before. I’m wondering how prevalent some of these really are.

- some of these seem to be targeted towards uncharitable interpretations of ideas that could be explained more carefully

- there are much more prevalent popular myths that are not mentioned.

- I disagree about their take on how new of a field of research this is. I think they’re not taking big enough of a step back. I would say without hesitation that the field of nutrition, as a science, is VERY young. And yet it predates the study of the microbiome by a generous margin. I think this is a matter of perspective.
Oh I’m severely allergic to cults too.

What I’m more allergic to is people bashing other over the head with their personal interpretations.

So in a way my allergy is to righteousness.

Say you or I believe something is a cult. It might even be true. But still it’s one’s personal interpretation on what a cult is, and if something is a cult and furthermore you may be trying trying to externally validate your world viewpoint about religion at the expense of others, which can be another form of evangelism, and might be a remnant of said cult.

There’s lots of ways to bring up about cults. Righteousness ain’t it.

To help anyone read in between the lines, there’s no need to let religion trigger you.

If religion is a dominant world viewpoint on god, to some Atheism is a god centric view too (god doesn’t existing) is too. Then people will wiggle into spirituality and agnosticism, and that too can be seen as being subjective and a deeply personal interpretation.

So most of the world could probably agree that no belief owns the exclusive path to kindness or goodness. At the same time if something is working for someone and something else works for you it seems plausible something else might work for someone else. Righteousness is an issue tho.
No, they're saying the EV can act like a powerwall, a free bonus capability.
MLK was also a target of the FBI and look how that turned out. Culture evolves. The arc of the moral universe is long.
> Next time, when someone starts a conversation about your team's estimate, pushing for a lower estimate without any new insights that will lower the effort, ask them: do you ever tell the meteorologist it isn't going to be this bad weather tomorrow?

I'm more direct. I ask them why. As in "why do you think it's less work / time / effort?". Every single time they've realised it's not less, they just _want_ it to be less.
If it’s not in the legend, it’s not there.
Unfortunately these statistical physics models help about as much as statistical physics models would help in deciphering the x86 instruction set architecture from the activity of the microchip - very little. Too much averaging. Computation is entropy 0 phenomena.
Interesting, but talking to the clients isn't the bottleneck for big-world systems. It's deciding who needs to know about what, and how often. If you tell everybody about everything that's happening, you have O(N^2) traffic. For large N, that dominates the O(N) load imposed by clients doing things. So there needs to be something that only tells some users what other users are doing, based on where they are and maybe which direction they are looking.

Second Life has 50,552 users connected right now. Typical Saturday. They're all in the same world. But they're not near each other. The biggest crowds are about 130 users. There are a lot of filters. Each client is connected to the server for the region it is in, plus a few nearby regions, so it can see past region boundaries. Within a region, the server sends updates to each user as objects move. Updates are frequent, up to 45Hz, for nearby objects in the viewing frustrum. Lower for distant objects, and much lower outside the viewing frustrum. That avoids the O(N^2) load problem.

The clients overload before the servers do, incidentally. The classic clients are single-thread and do too much CPU work per visible avatar.
> Aren't Chinese immigrants Americans?

Depending on the exact sense of "immigrant" in use, the answer is either an unqualified "no" (if looking at the status of being present on an immigrant visa) or "in some but not all case" (if looking at "people who have immigrated", in which case some are naturalized US citizens, but many are not.)
> You rage against unaccountable bureaucracies as if they are new. They're not, and they're more accountable than those of the past. The Roman Empire certainly had a great deal of power over its citizens, and I find it hard to take you seriously when you imply that the EU is less accountable to its citizens than literally any government of similar size that has ever existed...

Where have I suggested anything remotely similar. I have compared the EU to USSR because of the similarly unaccountable bureaucracy. I could however be brought to argue that the Roman bureaucracy was superior to the EU bureaucracy. At least the Romans had sense enough to let many new laws expire after a set period. (Usually a year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_provision)

> Countries and nation states are different things. Prior to the development of the nation state and national identity, cultural changes were much smoother across Europe. That doesn't mean that the cultural differences between regions weren't larger than they are today, but the change was more gradual. It was only with the development of national ideas that it became important for people living on one end of the country to identify with people on the other end.

This has to be the main confusion of our time. Just because every border is not exactly perfect, it must mean that every border that has ever been drawn is completely arbitrary.

This is just a modern liberal pipe dream. The fact is that European countries are roughly placed where the linguistic, ethnical and religious borders were. . E.g Germany may be a new country, but the German language, was definitely a thing long before Germany. (Clearly, with more dialects than are spoken today, but still languages clearly identifiable as being german). You can still today in Germany, see a clear split between the catholic and protestant parts.

Just because something was not called a nation state, does not mean that it wasn't something very, very close to that. A nation state, when it's not an empire, is just the modern version of a tribe. And many places you see tribes struggling to found their corresponding nation state: see e.g. the Basques, the Kurds and the Irish. (First two having failed, third succeeded). You don't seriously claim that there are no Kurds, do you?
the notebookcheck.net article states:
"In a highly unusual move, it has been revealed that Google has blocked reviewers of the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro from installing popular benchmarks including Geekbench and 3D Mark."

there's an embedded URL linking to a YouTube video, which shows that the Google Play store won't allow the user to install Geekbench or 3dMark on the pre-released Pixel 8 review devices.

see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk4ZUmKqRm0&t=330
How Hard Candy Is Made [video]
> Someone on the Beancount thread explained his workflow using tags link transactions to IRS form entries. I would like to try the same on GnuCash, but haven't yet figured out whether tags even exist (haven't had the time to check since)

I don't use tags, but GnuCash does have some built-in reporting features for tax forms.

1. You have to have assigned an account to a tax field (Edit -> Tax Report Options). It's what controls the "tax-related" checkbox when you edit an account.

2. Then you can go to Reports -> Tax Schedule Report & TXF Export to generate a report for the last tax year.

Hopefully this helps!
We also have public records laws where we can hold gov agencies accountable to their abuse of, eg information. Doesn't really exist in private orgs, and it's one of the reasons gov agencies love third party vendors.
You can't just "get a warrant"

They need some kind of probable cause that leads them (and a judge) to believe the landowner might be in violation of the agreement

"We just want to make sure" is not probable cause
New Clojure Library: Simple Router
I see what you are saying, but also, Japan can do things to reverse a number of those restrictions, some of which are functionally self-imposed, can't it?

And even for the ones that exist as a matter of international agreement and treaty, it's hardly like the US is going to seek compliance via force. If anything, at this point, there must be a non-negligible amount of support in American foreign policy circles for Japan's resuming a more independent and militarily capable stature to help deter China.

If this was like 1950 and you said Japan was a vassal, that would seem reasonable, but I think at this point the situation is too complicated to put in those terms. For example, you could also say America is playing some kind of mercenary role and Japan is kind of in the very civilized and posh position of being able to pay another country for bodyguard services. That probably never worked out for a country or state in the long-run, but that's not really the point; one might call such a country weak, but not really a "vassal".
> We don't live in a theoretical universe...

You're absolutely right, we live in an objective reality where the basis of an idea can be analyzed and tested against said reality, and not invalidated because we don't like the person who said them.

> Ideas are instrumental, they're advanced to achieve a specific purpose and their truth and falsity is important to the extent that they affect the instrumentality.
> ...why are we paying attention to this one, right now, towards what ends?

Absolutely, and Andreessen makes it clear he thinks his set of ideas would benefit the conditions of humanity as a whole, there's no ambiguity there.

> You simply cannot separate out an idea from the person advancing the idea...

You absolutely can, and it would be of enormous benefit to assess an idea independently of inflammatory rhetoric surrounding the speaker.

You as well as the author seem to be of the mind that Andreessen's holding of these ideas are wrong based solely on the fact that he himself is wildly successful, not because of any thoughtful critique of the ideas themselves. Intellectual default isn't a virtue; either address the claims themselves, or stop pretending that conspiratorial meta-analysis is an honest addressment.
It is true that the damage is more unbounded when you trigger undefined behavior. I mentioned this in my comment. It is real, but I believe that people largely overstate the degree with which these two things are different (nasal demons).
One thing I didn't see in this. Probiotics. So you have an active culture yoghurt, for example, that has one or a small number of bacterial species in it. This is claimed to benefit your gut biome. But how? Surely [re]introducing these few species hardly matters, given the overall diversity?
Show HN: A Terminal Interface to ChatGPT
I was going through my ChatGPT conversations a few days ago and was disappointed that there wasn't a readily searchable interface for everything I've asked and everything its said to me. My initial inspiration was making something that allowed me to save my chats offline, preferably in plaintext, so I could grep through the history if I ever needed it again. A day and half later here we are.

Chat-CLI is a simple terminal front end for ChatGPT that feels like using the web interface. Chats are saved in offline in JSON format. I don't have much time for working on this but more features will be added if I find them useful. Feedback is appreciated.
In 100yrs what will the most shocking thing about today be?
I have a hard time following your logic here.

It's not cruel to kill an animal, chop it up, and eat it's burnt dead body, as long as it eats something you don't want to, or can't eat?

I'm pretty sure to the animal, there's no difference in being killed for one reason versus another.

I will agree with you, on something I think you're trying to say: it's less cruel to kill a wild animal that has lived in it's own environment, birthed and raised it's own young, and been predated by a human.

It's more cruel to artificially enseminate and raise animals in pens to be fed through an industrial scale meat grinder without ever having lived it's own life.

In general all of the arguments for eating other animals rest on "other animals do it". Which is not a completely vacuous argument, but it also has to be taken with the agreement that we haven't really progressed beyond the behavour of other mammals. It's a tacit agreement that we're still an unevolved violent primate species. Which is undoubetly the case.

I also eat some dead animals, I also drive a petro fueled car. I consider both of these things primitive and unevolved. I continue to try to correct both of these at every opportunity.

Acknoledging the problem is the first step to correcting it. Otherwise, we're just offering excuses for our bad behaviour.
It’s different in that the content can change after you selected it.

Invisible text can add to what you selected, but it can’t replace it.

There’s also an argument to be made that invisible text shouldn’t be copied, though that’s harder to define precisely (you don’t want to copy “display: none”, but you want to copy scrolled-out content).
> You can insult anyone in the free world except Xi from China and MSB from Saudi Arabia.

You can insult anyone in the free world if they don't control enough wealth and have enough vindictiveness to make that costly for your employer. MSB and Xi just have power ludicrous amounts of wealth through their positions, and are extremely thin-skinned, to the point that it would be comical except for the manner in which they are able to express their insecurities.
Well, I use UB to let the compiler check for overflow. Works for me.

https://godbolt.org/z/h3rvaz5Gn
What S.F. can learn from Seattle, the U.S.'s fastest-growing big city
> Computation is entropy 0 phenomena.

How do you reconcile that with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle ?
Those are opt in hate groups whereas Palestinians are a nationality and an ethnicity. Most of those who reside there were born in the region 47% are under 18.

Most of the female half of the population isn't really consulted.

The "beheaders" number in the thousands the normal folks number in the millions.
"Create an account to read the full story"
The idea is that racist remarks against, say, black people carry an implicit threat of harm, whereas racist remarks against whites do not because white people hold the reins of power. Hence, verbal racism against black people threatens their safety whereas verbal racism against white people only threatens their comfort. Implicit in this is the notion that maybe white people should feel uncomfortable, as their comfort is based largely on a system that discriminated (historically to the point of atrocity) against nonwhites.
There are GResources for the GTK/GObject ecosystem:

https://docs.gtk.org/gio/struct.Resource.html
Where Religion is communicated as as a proxy for cult, it seems to be based on an experience and/or assumption that all religions are the same because an individuals person experience of one religion obviously represents the totality of all religions and the only experiences that are possible.

It’s accidental righteousness to carry on this evangelical view even when dissociating from one particular experience or thread

But, let’s do yoga.
https://archive.ph/AYSro
Logically, a coding test is relevant to the job or profession at hand.

Practically, it can be LeetCode. I enjoyed studying LC questions and answers, until I realized it was useless. In 20+ years of Software Engineering and DevOps jobs, I've never used any LC techniques. And if I did, I could research them.

Knowing about different techniques, that they're available, is very useful. But the code, not so much.