skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Source is Die Zeit as written here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39504716

You could also find it in other sources like Science Busters etc. Most of it will be German, because Germany and Austria does have a real problem with some (dis-)believes in the medical system.

Pretty sure other sources of human halicunations could be given (WMD in Iraq, lot of bad things because of religon, ... ). Point is not the strawman itself, but rather that any message needs evaluation. AI or not.
It may be true that Linux on the desktop is finally here, but I used to read about that on /. in the late '90s and early '00s, and people talk about it occasionally on HN.

Just because it hasn't happened doesn't mean it won't, but like 25 / 0 of the last "Linux is taking over the desktop" moments have been predicted.
I really agree with this article- I used Windows as my primary OS (not counting work machines) until about 2 years ago, the mess of non coherent design and CONSTANTLY resetting my user preferences every update (like shoving new buttons [see: ads] onto my taskbar) ultimately lead me to buying the first m1 mbp as my new personal machine.

Never looked back. I only boot up windows for occasional games now, and even then, old games started to stop working. Linux at this point has better backwards compatibility using Proton/Wine/etc.
The only connection between threads and coroutines is that some single-threaded language runtimes only have coroutines, so you might occasionally use them where threads would be a better choice.

Coroutines are a way of structuring single-threaded execution, and a useful one. The example in the Fine Article of a producer-consumer pattern is a good one, attaching a stream to a parser isn't a parallel algorithm so threads are useless for writing it.

Naturally, using a single-threaded paradigm for work which could be performed in parallel is inefficient, but coroutines aren't a poor man's parallelism, they're a control structure which functions on its own terms. They can be combined productively with threads, such as using an event loop in a web server to thread (as in needle) coroutines through various blocking events with a dispatcher, and the runtime can spin up a thread per core to parallelize this, which reduces per-thread coordination to checking the depth of each thread's work queue and farming the request to the least congested one.
As a gay person, this seems fundamentally wrong to me. There was even more distance among the parties on most LGBT issues 25 years ago, but the ability of the parties to compromise on anything is much, much worse now than it was then.

I also think there is much more "crossover" on LGBT issues than one may believe. Tons of Republicans are pro-gay marriage, and tons of Democrats have real concerns about allowing trans women to compete in women's divisions in sports.
Adhesion of Impure Ice on Surfaces
> I felt old when I heard Gangsta's Paradise being played in a grocery store about 10 years ago.

What store was it?
"Thinking, Fast and Slow" was written before the replication crisis was found. I wouldn't call it "debunked", but some of the research it used didn't replicate. For example, see https://replicationindex.com/2020/12/30/a-meta-scientific-pe... :

> It is likely that Kahneman’s book, or at least some of his chapters, would be very different from the actual book, if it had been written just a few years later. However, in 2011 most psychologists believed that most published results in their journals can be trusted. [...]

> Kahneman also started to wonder whether some of the results that he used in his book were real. A major concern was that implicit priming results might not be replicable. [...]

Anyways, just google "thinking fast and slow replication crisis" to get a bunch of information about this topic.
According to at least one store manager interviewed in Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America, the employees at the store are responsible for selecting music because they're the ones who have to listen to it all day. There isn't a lot of deeper thought going into it.
Not OP but Apple TV is pretty good these days. Solid little set top box.
"I surmise that if the Shirky Principle were to stop acting, say 80% of projects/institutions may just go away and should."

This describes almost all government institutions.
There is no benefit to public transport when EV companies gets our tax money to build their charger network, or offering thousands of dollars of tax credit to rich folks to buy EVs.

>In the end people will buy EVs because they are cheaper and better.

I'm hoping people switch from EVs to public transit. Personally, I'm more interested in how the government can expand public transit in general so that the need for EV cars is eliminated or substantially reduced in the first place.
Drawing and illustrating in the pre-digital time (2019)
Yes, because as we all remember there were no countries allied with Germany for any duration of the war.
I begrudge no one their medication.

I have been blessed with some very dear friends over my life. My first brush with the ills of psychopharmacology was with a woman I knew whose mother had just passed. I went to visit her a few days after the funeral and she was rather spry. I, being a man of little regard for my own well being asked the probing question "You seem rather upbeat". It was met with a resounding "I know, and I can't even cry". She removed prozac from her life shortly after, went through a bought of horrid depression (putting off processing things means you pay later). Today she's happy, bright and successful...

I have a current friend who is "suffering from anxiety and depression". Her life is hard, for a number of reasons. Medication makes her "happy" and she does not address the structural issues in her life. You can't help those who wont help themselves, I get that. But if you dont feel the pain how do you know to pull back from the fire.
I feel the same. At least, author has been transparent about the infra-project-gone-off-the-rails vibe, see https://without.boats/blog/a-four-year-plan/ :

> For those who don’t know, there was a big debate whether the await operator in Rust should be a prefix operator (as it is in other languages) or a postfix operator (as it ultimately was). This attracted an inordinate amount of attention - over 1000 comments. The way it played out was that almost everyone on the language team had reached a consensus that the operator should be postfix, but I was the lone hold out. At this point, it was clear that no new argument was going to appear, and no one was going to change their mind. I allowed this state of affairs to linger for several months. I regret this decision of mine. It was clear that there was no way to ship except for me to yield to the majority, and yet I didn’t for some time. In doing so, I allowed the situation to spiral with more and more “community feedback” reiterating the same points that had already been made, burning everyone out but especially me.
I can't tell if that's better or worse :-)
This is how you sound, to me:

"Sometimes, I wonder if it took the collective organs to defeat one pathogen perhaps they were superior to all other organisms."

If we must, there are other rubrics by which to judge "superiority" than capacity for destruction and domination.
On the other hand, maybe it would have been better to devote more effort to pleasure.

In a few years from when it was written, Germany would be devoting the full power of a modern industrial economy, not to pleasure but to wipe out undesirable people.

They would is the newly developing field of electronic data processing, not for pleasure to to better target people for death.

Planes would be built not for people to travel on vacation, but to drop bombs.

Factories would work around the clock, not producing goods for pleasure, but weapons of death.

The greatest group of geniuses ever assembled, would be given an unlimited budget not to develop new forms of pleasure but to develop a weapon that could vaporize an entire city in a few seconds.
It’s a blog post by the same company. What makes you think the author didn’t read it? The whole post is about how you can spend a few minutes to have a measurable carbon impact.
I can't get Ubuntu working well on my Zephyrus G14 4090. They seem to have dropped the ball...
>To someone just jumping in fresh from school or boot camp or whatever, it's quite overwhelming.

That would have been just as true in 1996. Programming is hard, that's why not everyone is doing it. You can't get someone to code just by dumbing down programming, many people will fail and just don't have the focus, perseverance, or aptitude for it, and that's okay. I can't ride a skateboard without coming close to killing myself, but many people can.

But people coming into it now actually have it easier because all the wonky stuff and been fixed, there are new ways to do thing that are actually much easier than it was in CSS1 or CSS2, or even CSS as it was 2 years ago. The new people learn "best practices" that didn't exist even 5 years ago. And just because a layout or programming language has lots of features doesn't mean you need to use all of them or feel like it's too difficult to know how to use all of it.

>There is nothing magical about CSS that makes it uniquely suited for responsive layouts, especially compared to print layout software

I also have to take issue with this. CSS has evolved quite a bit specifically for responsive layouts. Flexbox is easily the best example of why your argument is wrong. It's been around for 15 years. And quite a bit more has been added to CSS since then specifically to make responsive layouts easier. Media queries for example. And citing Illustrator and Word and InDesign are just kind of nonsensical, because the output from those programs are not designed to be resized at will by the person holding a piece of paper (printed page). I'm not even sure how you can use that as an example except if you're trolling?

>or bespoke UIs like game UIs that have had to support different monitor and window sizes since the Everquest and WoW days and before.

These aren't tools to use for layout, they are hard-coded programs that adapt as far as they can to specific screen sizes. I seriously doubt they would resize correctly for a portrait display.

>Hacking together a bunch of pixel measurements and percentage calculations and virtual pixels to do responsive layout is just so... unnecessary

I'm sorry if you think that's the only way to do responsive layout.

>, different levels of specificity and overrides, etc. It's a lot of unnecessary complexity that only exists because of history and backward compatibility, not because it was the best design choice overall.

You don't need to have different levels of specificity or overrides or anything complicated to use CSS and get a simple page working. These advanced things exist because there are absolutely a million valid use cases for specificity and overrides that don't fit into your narrow view of what web browser should do.
No, I wasn't referring to Kagi (which is done by a hard-working guy btw), just in general to the trend that the internet is now completely different if seen from a perspective of 2006.

Storage was expensive, and data wasn't seen as a goldmine as now, so most long-term logs went to /dev/null.

That the normality now is to ask users to create an account, have data-scientists (whose goal is precisely to find needles in haystacks), etc.
How many of those people are 16 or younger?
I would still carry my phone into a place I already know to not have reception. I would want to check my messages when the phone does get signal and someone may have been trying to contact me. Also, it is reasonably secure on my person. Leaving it in a car or locker increases the chance it will get lost or stolen.

People still carry their phones on airplanes, even though we're not even allowed to turn on the cell antenna. Although now we have onboard wifi.
It really was just an HTML form plus a template that I could drop the results into that printed a bunch of opt-outs onto one page. I don't have the source any more but I think it took all of an hour to get it going. Mailing wasn't too time-consuming either because I sent them in batches.
Thank you, that's inspiring as hell. I guess that's the way it is.
"Google's founders knew this, wrote it into their paper, then ignored it and made it their business model anyway."

https://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf
That's awesome, thanks!

I am aware of Inform 7, I think it is awesome. A few months ago I made a quick demo using Inklescript[1], which I found simpler and more suitable to my project (a Star Trek adventure). Inform 7 remains something I wish to explore in the future when I need something more complex.

Thanks! ;)

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[1] https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/
Scale is all we need for transformers (so far). It might also be all we need for ape brains. It’s not all we need for whatever elephant or dolphin brains evolved from.

When this stops being the case for transformers, we will need something else. I’m just pointing out it’s not the case yet.
If the "transgender experience" is males insisting that they have the right to impose themselves on any female-only space simply because they imagine themselves to be women, disregarding the boundaries and consent of actual women, then this experience should indeed be eliminated. If you are behaving in this way, please stop it.
Truly we live in an age of marvels.
> but it will be nonetheless false.

Only if you're assuming all questions have binary answers.

For example in the traveling salesman problem you don't have to compute all answers to start converging on an average. A random sampling of solutions can start setting a bounds for average, and your grizzled salesmans guesses would fall somewhere on that plot. If they are statistically better than average then they are far more than good enough. Unless of course you think burning up the observable universe in finding the best solution is the only way to solve the problem of which trip uses the least gas?
Why was it removed when the Snowden archive of classified documents is stil up?

https://github.com/iamcryptoki/snowden-archive
I think all markets are currently saturated. What market do you think is easily available for solo hustlers?
I don't know the answer. But I just want to say that you're not alone. One of the things that motivates me to study ML is I want to help create a world where everyone can be free to pursue their passions, to be... the most human they can be. (I also really love studying mathematics and intelligence, so it aligns well) There are so many things that frustrate me about the area I work in, but I think these things will always exist. I think it is best to just focus on your passion and not others. But it is also difficult to focus on your passions when you have to worry about living. I don't want to say that the answer is to go back and get a traditional job. It may be the answer due to environmental constraints, but I hope not.

So the little advice I have is to remember what made you passionate in the first place. Don't think about others and how you compare, think about yourself. I think the motivation dies when you lose that passion or that passion gets tainted. If it means taking other work, then do that. If it doesn't, then that's great! But no matter what, make sure there is something in your life that you can find passion and joy in doing. If you don't have this thing, all other things fall apart.
Yeah its suspicious that there are not more well known individuals who got wealthy in this way.

Actually my biggest conspiracy theory is that there are far more very wealthy people in the world than is let on. Government statistics on wealth distribution are completely blind to all sorts of capital income and internationally hidden money.
That's a neat idea. Do something simple, easy to understand. Can't go wrong, right? No chance of complexity sneaking in all sorts of ways.

I wonder if someone had this idea before.
Nobody gets a good performance review for keeping a time-tested design. Rewriting everything is the key to career progress
Something to think about. Thank you.
I wrote a blog post* about this from a more "marketing" point of view. I can really feel like an uphill battle but I think the trick is to learn to love the journey more than the end goal.

Do things that don't scale so you don't invest too much money in it, find ways of doing it cheap. Balance your time working on startup projects as a hobby with another fulltime job and family life. Be ok if it doesn't go anywhere. Change ideas if the one you're working on does not pan out. Be happy you work on something you love working on - even if it is a slow process.

And in the end, one of your ideas will probably take off!

*briefmix.com/startup/trough-of-sorrow
My connect-4 page [1] also links to this comprehensive explanation.

[1] https://tromp.github.io/c4/c4.html
Self-Publishing Thoughts
I would bet the reason was women did not have an option to say no to having 14 kids.

Although, in this supposed gardener’s culture, one guy had multiple wives, and that is obviously not a dynamic that leads to a steady, peaceful society based on all the prevailing customs around the world.
> In place of the old pleasures demanding intelligence and personal initiative, we have vast organizations that provide us with ready-made distractions - distractions which demand from pleasure-seekers no personal participation and no intellectual effort of any sort

This feels true in some sense for every generation; bemoaning the insolence of the current youth feels like a rite of passage. However, it also seems true that the youth of today have a lower barrier of access to “pleasure” than any other humans in history.
Government agencies are usually the worst of all for the Shirky problem. At least nonprofits and for profits have competition. Government agencies are impossible to get rid of once created.
The problem with JavaScript was never that it isn’t a proper language. The internet is best as a document sharing platform, and the fact that the funny little scripting language to sprinkle into the documents has grown into a fully featured programming language made it worse, not better.

Now only a couple companies can make a safe web browser (apparently, so they claim).
I agree with what you and your brother comment say, however you are both missing my 2 main points :) Which are that being a fundamental right it is easier to do and also the right is misused in my opinion, we should consolidate forces instead of striking in turn each year.
If only, the worst thing about Windows was that its control panels were inconsistent. Leaving aside "predictably treacherous" MSFT behavior. </weyoun>
Try Pop_OS. I had a lot of issues with Ubuntu as a daily driver, however Pop seems to have cracked the code.

Fedora has also worked OK for me in the past.
An interesting functional distinction between the unix filesystem hierarchy and the DNS hierarchy. is that in the unix filesystem directories are distinct named entities and in DNS there is no such concept(closest you get are glue records)
> Sorry but complaining about things like this and calling it fascism

Complaining about the president trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power by getting his vice president to block the results "looks like a joke" to you???

I really hope that you can only say that because his plan failed.
I and a friend also got these. However months in they became unusable, they would constantly disconnect, and miss keystrokes completely.

Ive been using a used Kinesis Advantage 360 from ebay and its been perfect
"Interesting article. Maybe taxes on (some) capitals/property is (quite) equivalent to expiration. Money (value) accumulated that not contribute to development (probably) must be taxed, to enter it in the development cycle. But made it expiring seems a waste of value, decreasing it's value with time maybe is better, to avoid it, must be invested in something productive.."

Things (like) this set off (my) suspicion radar.
I mean, learning Haskell has made me a better programmer even if I've never used it at work.

Perl I have used. I wouldn't say the same about that...
I’m left-handed too, and I’ve always felt that I struggled with handwriting partly because of that.

Though after smearing my hands with ink for the past 12 months, I can say that with some practice cursive has turned out to be fine. These days even the dip pen I’m using dries faster than I’m writing.
I think that Windows was kind of usable till Windows 7. Windows 10 was not that bad from a performance point of view, an improvement over Windows 7, but it had a ton of bloatware that you had to clean up with third party applications, after it it was kind of ok.

Anyway, I use Linux and to me Windows is so far behind, for example only in recent years they introduced features such as virtual desktops that in Linux DE are present till the 90s... the user experience of windows is kind of bad, and still misses some (to me) basic features, such as the possibility to keep a window always on top, not to mention the mess that is installing and updating software (you still have to download programs from the internet because not even all Microsoft software is distributed trough the Microsoft store, or use third-party package managers), or the Windows updates themself (possible that in 2024 Microsoft or Apple still haven't found out a way to update the system without rebooting it and wasting a ton of time? I mean, come on...).
Early Covid-19 research is riddled with poor methods and low-quality results
Do you believe that what you are working on will really help free people to work on their passions? Every other efficiency increase has gone to line the pockets of the already-rich. I have lost hope for a brighter world. I can find happiness in my own life, but I find a bitter rage grows in me each day against the owners of the means of production.

“We are trapped in the belly of this horrible machine, and the machine is bleeding to death.”
More sophisticated design allows you to richly represent a certain problem and offer idiomatic way of solving it rather than having you do extra 200 LOC of boilerplate like open-coded loops and if err != nils. Not even mentioning a dozen DSLs people keep inventing in Go ecosystem - something that is usually a sign of language weakness, similar to Ruby.
I haven't found seniority to matter. People who are self-directed tend to be early on. In the corporate world these people are rare though.
Texas Instruments signing key controversy (2009)
He bought a PC with a windows license. He can choose to install a new OS if he wishes. I also do think the account creation step is bullshit.
Noise generation is the only answer the common person has against the giant corporate machine.

You need a personal "AI" that just does random searches unconnected with your life, constantly, in the background, and then injects this data into all the portals that are watching you.

Ultimately, their data will become dominated by noise, and ultimately useless to the point of severely destroying the value of the entire enterprise and data collection mechanisms in the first place.

No matter how many tools you make "local only" you're only a forgotten "send telemetry back to the mothership" checkbox away from being right where you started.
Also I think due to COPPA, no under 13s are on Instagram or others with independent accounts. So this bill only targets 13, 14 and 15 year olds.