skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think any institution founded for a political agenda (vs. an educational one) would likely be seen as a boondoggle, yes. And I think that's the correct viewpoint.
This is the whole section 7 of the manpages of some unspecified systemd/linux distro. Not to be confused with the kernels man-pages project[1].

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/...
That’s insane. Domains are not owned by the same entity forever.
Do you have an alternate theory as to what the various pots were made for? The techniques and resources needed to gather "a little fat/oil" and use them to make pottery seem, to me, to have a good bit of overlap with cooking.
I also have the issue that Google Takeout just flat out fails every time I try it.

I tried getting support for it via my paid Google One subscription but I just got bounced around different teams and nobody knew what to do. Ultimately they just said it can’t be fixed.

For me, it was the last straw. I bought an iPhone and I’m degoogling now. I guess to get my data out I might need to submit an GDPR data portability request, if I can find where to submit it.
Same here, but my native language is French and words with latin or greek roots are perhaps more familiar to me ?
I have a question regarding this formatting style:

44100 AS sample_frequency
, number AS tick
, tick / sample_frequency AS time

I see this used a lot in Haskell, nix, and sometimes other languages (first time here with SQL)

. I personally find it very odd to read

. It feels like starting a sentence with a dot, instead of ending it with one, which feels quite jarring

. What is the primary motivation for employing this style, especially in languages (like SQL) where this doesn't seem to be the norm? And especially for the languages (Haskell, nix) where this is the standard (?) coding style, wouldn't it be preferable to use a different token as the separator, one that doesn't look as odd at the beginning of a line?
Kill Decision is OK, not a masterpiece but not bad either. Don't go in expecting another Daemon/Freedom and you'll probably enjoy it more (not as slight on Mr Suarez, its just that Daemon was really really good and not every book can be that).
I would love to know how compassion was used to cause the holocaust.

But I think I see. I think I see your mistaking compassion for the self as compassion for the other. It’s easy to cause a holocaust if you cause people to only have compassion for themselves or their own kind. It’s very hard to create a holocaust if you have a universal compassion for all humans.

So your answer is “well let’s get rid of all compassion” instead of making our compassion even greater.
> it's interesting how you not see any distinction between an autonomous
> creative impulse from the self outwards to the community and environment AND
> the enviroment prompting some person who was taught a conditioned response
> already to enact certain behavior.

Of course I see it, but, again, understanding this as a meaningful distinction is a cultural prejudice. Besides, in Confucian thought, moral behavior is the result of consciously cultivating moral feelings, in at least partial contrast to following spontaneous impulses. Some Confucian thinkers, like Mencius, do believe that humans have an innately good and moral inclination that precedes conscious learning, but even Mencius does not consider this to be a stable moral foundation to stand on. Van Norden, in his translation of Mencius, comments on a dialogue between Mencius and a student that although impulsive moral

> inclinations manifest themselves spontaneously in everyone to a certain
> degree, cultivation is necessary to fully develop them. Part of this
> cultivation is using one’s heart, whose function (literally, “office”) is
> “reflecting” [...]. What is the “it” the heart will “get” if it reflects?
> Zhu Xi says it is the Pattern of whatever things or affairs one
> encounters; to “get it” is to understand how things are and how they
> should be. [1]

This pattern (the Taiji, in Zhu Xi's parlance) is, of course, highly hierarchical. And it is, as I think becomes clear here, not just the correct and natural order of the cosmos, but also the fundamental requirement to correctly process one's own (social) impulses.

Without this moral cultivation, man is no better than an animal, slave to his own desires. To wit, it's not about "freedom with responsibility", it's about "freedom through responsibility": (consciously) conditioned responses are the very form liberation takes.

As an aside: I deliberately didn't say "Chinese" thought, as Daoism - without a doubt a Chinese philosophy - turns this idea on its head, advocating to free man not through, but from conviviality.

[1]: Van Norden 2008: Mengzi. With Selections from Traditional Commentaries. P. 156.
they are talking about "ditching a few mm², so I guess it is a lack of hardware
From the linked comment, it appears it's not on the chip.

> "In future we’ll have to do something, but for Pi 5 we feel the hardware encode is a mm^2 too far."

My interpretation of this is they felt the benefit did not outweigh the cons of the die space.
> The history of science has plenty of examples where more complex hypotheses turn out to be more correct. E.g Einsteins relativity is more complex than Newtonian mechanics, but nevertheless better matches observations.

Yes, but that's after people made observations that couldn't be explained by Newtonian mechanics. If you were living at the time the latter were formulated, and someone came to you with relativistic equations, showing that their result all line up perfectly with Newtonian ones, but otherwise offering no example of divergence, nor any explanation why the person chose these particular equations - you'd be right to call them a kook and ignore them. After all, there would be no way to distinguish between Newtonian formulation, Einstein's formulation, and an infinite amount of other formulations that also give the exact same results.

Ockham's razor makes sense only if some two models in question, which today make the same predictions, can also make divergent predictions that you expect to be testable in the future. The Razor tells you to stick with the simpler one, because it's most likely to remain the best model. The more complex model has more moving parts, requiring more bits of information to identify among many possible variations of same or greater complexity - bits you don't have, because if you had them, you could use them to disprove the simpler model.

In other words: the Razor worked for Newtonian mechanics despite Einstein, because a Newton's contemporary couldn't just randomly come up with the exact formulation of relativity we use today, given evidence available then. So whatever theory they would propose, it would overwhelmingly likely be wrong - as in, made bad predictions where Newtonian mechanics still made good ones.

> Occams razor applies if two models make the same predictions and therefore neither can be more correct than the other.

So to reiterate: Ockham's razor is future-facing; it applies to theories that can generate divergent predictions, but which you can't test just yet. If you expect the two models to always give the same predictions, now and in the future, then... they're literally the same thing, just expressed in different ways. There is no meaningful difference there, and you may just pick whichever one you like more, or whichever is easier to work with.
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Well, to quote Gordon Hollingworth on the original post:

"In future we’ll have to do something, but for Pi 5 we feel the hardware encode is a mm^2 too far."

Also, Raspberry Pi Foundation and Broadcom have been really working together on successors since the... BCM2787 in the Raspberry Pi 3, if I remember correctly? Broadcom still reserves the right to sell to anyone, but the Pi is still the primary customer for those specific chips now.
I feel like if you’re having enough incidents where you can accurately calculate a P95 for recovery then that isn’t the metric you’re going to be caring about. Instead you’re going to be focused on change failure rate.

Also for failures I would imagine they aren’t heavily skewed to small amounts.
so if I happened to say that Turkey isn't producing significant AI talent, then pointed to Hinton and Demis working in Canada/UK and point how well their students / associated schools are doing, would you respond in the same manner?

Do you actually believe education quality and teacher cohort is meaningless?
I keep hearing this meme repeated lately (most recently by the My Pillow guy), and I guess my brain is wired differently, but oh boy, would I hate that society.
The author has completely the wrong approach to absorbing wisdom from public intellectuals. Yes, of course every thinker is limited. They produce some beautiful work, some good work, and some mediocre work, some bad work. The trick is to consume the former and avoid the latter. Furthermore, we ought to evaluate writers based on their best work (use max(..) instead of average(..) as the aggregation operator). Of course Nassim Taleb, after getting famous, became cranky and overeager to engage in tawdry public insult-slinging. That does not detract from the beauty and depth of his best work. Of course George RR Martin's later books are not very good, and he will probably not finish the series. That does not reduce the magic of Tyrion Lannister's defense of King's Landing. I could produce an endless stream of examples like this.
I guess I find it kind of funny that the only possible explanation for medical groups refusing panels to the author is bias and groupthink, whereas her research is apparently fully objective and entirely free of such problems.
It will obviously go down in history as the lobotomy of the 21st century. However, it'll take many media cycles for that to be covered.
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> the modern economy have achieved remarkable, good things on a global scale.

There is no doubt about that. But it has also brought us into a mass extinction (that's happening right now), it brought climate change (it will add to the biodiversity issue), and it relies very heavily on fossil fuels which are not unlimited.

> to his solutionless critique.

I believe that we need to agree on the problem before we can find solutions. I strongly believe that we have an energy problem, and the biodiversity loss and climate problem are consequences of it. In my view, we need to do less with less (a.k.a. degrow). Doesn't mean we "go back to the Middle Age", just that we address different challenges (instead of "how do I get people to buy an iPhone every year?", maybe "how do I get people to keep the benefits of smartphones without overconsumption?).

The thing is that some people seem to believe that on the contrary, we should not care about our survival on Earth and start looking at other solar systems (which is, in my understanding of the current fundamental state of physics, absolutely impossible). Some even seem to believe that surviving on Mars would be better than "having less" on Earth...

Of course we as a species probably won't agree, and therefore we won't really control where it goes: we will just have to deal with whatever happens.
Well, the first example:

> But they resented the fact that after her marriage, she hadn’t done more to help their family business of exporting textiles to Anatolia.

Heir to an international textile import/export business sounds pretty upper class, yeah.
This is really fantastic work!
It might have been a reason, mathematicians wanting everything well defined etc. But here's a better way to think about it: On real number line, addition defines shifts and multiplication defines scaling. If you are in two dimensions, what is the equivalent? We define a 2 dimensional number such that multiplication defines scaling + rotation. The complex in complex number should not be read as complicated but like duplex or two things intertwined together.

The next question is why bother? What's the point? Turns out that important real life signals, like AC voltage and current, are sinusoidal. And real life electrical machines shift the phase of these signals. By using complex numbers to represent these signals, you can continue to use simple maths of DC circuits to analyze AC circuits. So you'd can still use V = IR, but R of a AC machine like motor will be impedance (generally called Z), represented by a complex number.

I found first few pages of MD Alder's complex analysis for Engineers indispensable in demystifying this complex stuff. Here's a quote from first paragraph "If Complex Numbers had been invented thirty years ago instead of over three hundred, they wouldn't have been called `Complex Numbers' at all. They'd have been called `Planar Numbers', or `Two-dimensional Numbers' or something similar, and there would have been none of this nonsense about `imaginary' numbers"
Yeah that always confused me. Still does. I need to research it more.
"This guy had something interesting to say" is not a good heuristic for finding people who you can trust on multiple subjects.

A little bit better heuristic is if the person can publicly admit they have been wrong about something and change their mind.

I have been more and more disappointed by analytical analysis, in other words "wiseacring" of all kinds of intellectuals, so I have started to believe the problem is more in the analytical approach itself, and less in the person doing the analysis.

I am gravitating towards people who talk from experience, not from analysis. I expect them also to not appear to be reactive, talking from fear. An example of a person talking from fear would be a kind of junior developer who can never admit they are wrong, and who tries to cover up their mistakes.
I haven’t read Illich, but I like both. Obviously the original from the article is more verbose, and if one doesn’t like that or finds it difficult or distracting, I am by no means going to hold it against them and in fact sympathise.

But there is a certain degree of imagery to the original text that I benefit from and enjoy.

Rending asunder is quite different from “disrupt”; the generality of “relational beings embedded…” is meaningful compared to the somewhat trite “social creatures” … etc.

Generally, many journalistic writers could really benefit from realising they are and probably never will be novelists or poets and that their job is to educate, edify and provide information and insight, which is often impeded by their insistence on exercising their literary rather than communication skills. But also, digging into the expressiveness one can muster with their language can work well for those willing and able to digest it when the topic or mood suits the language.

Personally, I got the feeling that this article falls more in the latter than the former, though I can see the friction some would have with the style.
My typical process of why I don't ultimately use sqlite.

Before any DB, you're trying to just do it all in memory.

Then we get to storing for persistence and going from memory -> pickle -> disk file is pretty quick; but we know a real DB is needed.

So you deploy sqlite3 and it'll work amazingly right up until the dreaded:

SQLITE_ERROR: "database table is locked"

and now you're not on sqlite3 anymore.
This is, IMHO, a serious problem for the markets and regular investors.

Microsoft went public for a valuation of around $300M and is trading over a $1T now. This means that regular investors had a chance at all this growth.

Newer companies like AirBNB and Uber went public at what could be their max market cap valuation of billions so investors wont' get much of a chance to make money from these companies.

In addition to this problem of private investors(VC's) taking most of the profits, we now have such concentration of wealth that the big PE firms can buy alot of what used to be small businesses and roll them up.

Vet clinics, medial practices, engineering firms, etc all use to to thrive on being 20 person shops are now routinely being bought up by PE firms and rolled into larger companies which means far fewer entrepreneurs or chances for up and coming employees to buy into the firm from the founders, which helps stall careers.

Heck you see it now with these firms buying up single family housing in US cities now and then renting them back to people, transforming regular middle class people from home owners to renters, and transferring the home appreciate from the middle and lower class to the PE limited partners ensuring the rich get richer and the middle class disappears even faster.
That is definitely going to be nice, but not enough for me to really care too much about it now vs things that actually affect me like software tools, languages, etc.
> What would everything smell like (smoke and B.O. I'm willing to bet)

Don't forget car exhaust! The air here is so clean now I can smell a classic car from several hundred meters away inside my car while driving. It's hard to imagine everything smelling like that all the time.
> microscopic seed crystals of the new polymorph.

"Microscopic" is also a mischaracterization. Apparently, just a few _hundred_ atoms can act as a seed. This is a "nanoscopic" quantity.
At the bottom of the article, it says

May 19, 2021

> why would you lie

Yeah that should perhaps suggest to you that the person you are addressing is not "lying".
Largely no, actually; modern z/Architecture is a strict superset of the System/360 ISA from the 70's. Every instruction that accesses memory has the original 24-bit address version, a 32-bit version, and a 64-bit version that also uses 64-bit registers. Thus there's no emulation involved; at least, not that's visible to the OS (but who knows what the microcode is doing underneath)
Yep. "Oh no, the investors don't get reliable information about private-equity companies and so investment is way too risky" — well, then investors probably would just stop invest in them? What's the problem?
Newp. DHTML as a term is way older, and referred to earlier things.
That's difference in knowledge vs intelligence though. We see repeatedly that people with expert knowledge are frequently wrong because they shape what they see to fit their knowledge. Intelligent people can give more insight on a variety of topics without having expert level knowledge just because they are smart and can put the puzzle together differently.

It's the adage of "when you only have a hammer everything looks like a nail."

Intelligent people have a full toolbox to analyze things with but domain experts tend to only have increasingly large hammers.
This. Just flying near a WiFi signal is enough to screw up my FPV video feed. You could also jam the 2.4GHz control signal and cause the drones to failsafe.
The beauty of Encarta and its printed predecessors is that they are unalterable snapshots of the knowledge and views of their time.

I inherited an encyclopedia from the 1930s and it is a constant source of surprise and wonder to me - both in what is different from today and in what I expect to be different but is not.

I think Encarta is the last of this generation.

Sure, I can download a snapshot from Wikipedia and I did and others did and do as well. It's still not the same, because all our snapshots are different. Anything surprising in there could just be fluke, an editing error, the temporary state of an edit war.

A Wikipedia snapshot proves nothing. My 30s encyclopedia on the other hand is a stable reference. If I doubted anything in my copy I could easily find another antiquated copy and compare. Same with Encarta, there are so many copies out there that this particular snapshot of human knowledge will never die.
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If the hackers are doing their jobs, there should be little evidence that there ever was a hack -- like if stuxnet had never made it into the wild presumably everyone might have thought the centrifuges were faulty.
Nearly every physical system implements every algorithm -- if you wanted to find what in a laptop was 'sorting numbers' that would every part.

The light emitted by the screen is being 'sorted' as it is scanned out, the heat air by the fan is being 'sorted' as it swirls around, etc.

You cannot ask, "what physical system implements this algorithm?" as an investigative question, the answer is: nearly all of them.

This is why computable functions, ie., pure algorithms, are explanatorily useless. They play only a (observer-relative) 'design role' in creating real programs.
Well, it's a "I know it when I see it" thing.

However, I'm also trying to remove the use of non-vulgar words where others would use swear words, such as just saying, "I hate that thing," instead of "I hate that bloomin' thing."

Benefits? Having a cleaner mouth gives me a perception advantage. Also, it forces me to be more creative with how I express myself, which increases my communication skills and wordsmithing in writing.
I would say that Apple has already won against Android. Android may have more units world-wide, but Apple owners spend more, are more desirable customers etc.
Node has a JIT by default, while Python is still fighting to get one that is widely accepted.

I still have hopes that Julia and Ruby competition makes it change.
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More effort has been made to argue that it's a bad approach than the actual effort it takes to go to archive.org, enter a URL, and see the first capture date. That all to say, it's not any appreciable amount of effort. It's really at worst a similar amount of effort to searching Wikipedia for an answer.
Germany doesn't even have them as a federal thing anymore. However I know that our village siren goes off to notify the firefighters that they have to hurry to the station. And I can also hear the sirens of the neighbouring town if its an especially big fire.
I see how that works for a case like Dell. I've also read about PE buying up smaller medical/dental practices and squeezing the price. Happened to my old dentist in Ballard, WA -- and dang, they pushed me for x-rays on every visit (turns out there is good margin on x-rays). Dell is still run by the OG -- these PE folks are just trying to squeeze margin.

And sure, they still have to follow some regulations -- but with much less oversight when you're not public. "expensive and onerous" is not a sufficient reason to not require a business to do something. Paying employees is expensive and onerous, should that stop?
The situation is even worse for cuneiform. With English, you're looking at approximately 70 glyphs including upper case, lower case, digits, and punctuation. Cuneiform throws you into the hundreds of glyphs. And their forms change over time, often drastically.

For 3D scanning, Reflectance Transformation Imaging is pretty cheap, easy, and popular for imaging tablets.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8503911/

Between 1% and 8%, depending on how detransition is defined. This article found 6.9% (12/175, 6 clearly detransitioning and 6 ambiguous) at one clinic, including anyone who sought and received care over a certain interval.
I have never seen a rewrite where there were no new features added to the software. Maybe the is part of the message, don't add features until you hhave replaced the old system. That sounds like a good idea but almost no one approaches it like that, which is one of the reasons rewrites often fail.