skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if it’s not kids it’ll be something else. My mom passed away a few years ago and she commented how she regretted spending so much time doing “outdoorsy” stuff with my stepdad, and wish she’d had spent more time shopping.
When you know it’s the end and your options are gone, you’ll always lament what could have been.
It is a bit of a moral crime in my opinion. Pining for an authority to give you purpose and direction is rather damning as an individual or at the very least reveals something about yourself that isn’t respectable.
It is sad that english doesn't have a way to express "we" as the speaker and others, vs "we" as the speaker and the listener (and maybe others).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clusivity
Was she unable to roll down the windows or open the door?

In a normal car wouldn’t you be able to open the door once the interior fills with water or before the car is fully submerged?
Fill the 5x increase in your free time with all the books, movies, and video games you missed in the prior 20ish years?
Okay, that makes sense. As the author I intentionally write beginner material with some slop to convey the intuition rather than exact lemmas. This is not what you're looking for and that's fine.

I still will keep your criticism at the back of my head and be more wary about sweeping generalisations going forward. Thanks.

It would be nice if someone thought of all edge cases and wrote a formally correct treatment, though! (The statistician's version rather than the practitioner's version, I suppose.)
Academia: the only winning move is not to play
The core issue of academic misconduct is the 1:1 relationship between PhD candidate and mentor. The near absolute power asymmetry makes the PhD candidate near totally dependent on the mentor. If the mentor is abusive there is almost no recourse without the PhD candidate losing everything.

It is very sad that Huixiang lost his life over a paternalistic, archaic system. And he isn't the only one who was badly impacted.
Apple's stock dip is mostly unrelated to the EU - it is primarily related to Apple losing double digit percentages of sales to Huawei in China, after they had disappointing numbers in the prior fiscal quarter reporting.

2 bil € is a fair bit of change but also something that will be in appeals for years.
Finding free time undirected by an authority figure as distressing, should in my opinion should be seen as a mental health failure. It is however beneficial to our society, so generally encouraged.
It’s indeed such an (seemingly) easy fix ; marriage not good; get kids, bored with life; kids, seeking meaning: kids. I had friends and family do it for some or all of these reasons and indeed, at the start it helped somewhat; there was pink cloud. In the end it didn’t help and there was no meaning; divorce, depression (including suicide as there indeed was no meaning it turned out) and boredom moved back in after the kids left the house. There is no meaning, the universe doesn’t care; kids is the same as whatever else you can occupy yourself with that makes yourself feel worthy, making babies is just easier for most and it’s a ‘together activity’ that takes 25-30% of your life.
Who cares whether you respect their ability to discern or conclude?

Did you get the argument or not, and did it make sense to you in the situation? That's all that matters.
I'm glad you're finding ways of getting into music inexpensively. But my advice is: haptics are super important in music interfaces! Spend the extra effort to make something that you can satisfyingly press and which can give your fingers some mechanical feedback. Your playing will be sooooo much more rewarding.
Another standardized XML language that the article doesn't mention is RDF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework
Basically, this article invents an elaborate fantasy whose primary factual anchor is Tolkien writing that he very much didn’t like Dune with no further elaboration. That Tolkien was of a deontological philosophical bent and that this is reflected in his writings is a fairly reasonable statement. That Herbert was a consequentialist might be (based on other things), but that this was clearly indicated in, much less a focal message of, Dune, either the novel or the broader series, is, I feel, a quite strained reading, and seems to come from a place of excessive desire to read a simplistic moral argument into Dune.

While Mauldin notes that Herbert, “saw religion as an inherently mutable, utilitarian institution”, he seems to have failed to realize the centrality of mutability of perceived religious and moral truth, especially as it comes with distance from the facts on the ground, in Herbert’s writing, and that Dune (in the small or large sense) isn’t a fable with a pat moral lesson. I think its usually a mistake to argue that any but the most simplistic fiction is “about” some message that can fit on a fortune cookie, but I think it is less inaccurate to say that Dune is a challenge to simplistic narratives about the present, past, and morality (whether framed in consequentialist or deontological terms) than it is about any thesis as to what the correct framing of morality is.

Mauldin points out the Golden Path of God Emperor of Dune, but I think he mistakes the eponymous character’s voice for the authorial voice. Leto II Atreides clearly sees his vision of the future and what is necessary to save humanity as warranting any horrors done in its name, but is Herbert saying that? Or is Herbert framing it in a way that the reader while recoil at it even framed with Leto II’s prescience, and from that question acts that seem on their own repugnant done with mere human confidence, and not science fiction prescience, of their distant consequences?
> the actual experiments failed to build trust in the experimentees

Psychological experiments involve trickery very often, because they need test subjects to be unaware of what experiments is trying to measure. I expect the most of subjects of psychological experiments to know this because they heard of other experiments. So I wouldn't expect that the trust building will change anything.

This particular experiment with a strange proposition to switch cups probably forces subjects to think what is happening, they inevitably form some hypotheses and run with them. I wouldn't believe that the results has something with a regret before I've read the research paper and have found there what researches did to ensure that they measured regret avoidance and not the ability of a subject to simulate their immunity to manipulations (if they thought that experiment tried to measure their resolve by coercing them to switch...).

Normally there is a post-experiment interview where researcher could try to learn the reasoning behind decisions of a test subject, but in this case a direct answer probably will not do. Though if "untrustworthy" researchers tricked test subject so they would get a reward in any case, then subjects would be happy and proud, and probably they would love to explain their "winning logic", even (or maybe especially) if they were mistaken about goals of experiment. It would be like researchers were too smart by half when devising the game and so they lost $5. I personally would feel an urge to brag about my "superior" thought process.

But in any case we need the original paper to learn how it was done and could we believe the interpretation of the experimental data.
You are begging the question and reasoning circularly.

There is absolutely no evidence that there are "ample opportunities" for aliens to exist. Default assumption is that there aren't.
2006, well into the era of XML being the trendy fad that every piece of Serious Business software was supposed to use.

Now 18 years later, JSON seems to have displaced it.

Personally, I've never found text-based formats to be a good choice for data that humans will rarely need to read or write; I much prefer simple and efficient binary formats, which can be just as extensible without the additional inefficiency and needlessly-introduced-failures of string handling.
It also paints the past in I think a more mean spirited light than it actually was. Like I think male scientists a long time ago found the idea of women being in the field absurd, like a dog using a computer. If a dog is trying to use a computer you might not help them and you might laugh at them, but it’s not like you would bury the evidence of a dog successfully using a computer, you would probably find it amazing!
The question particle is 吗, not 妈. 妈妈 is mama, as in baby's first word meaning mother, shared with many other languages.
> most

Ha, which ones do you know of?
That's one way of reading it - although I find it's at odds with the heading "Idempotency in one line of code."

If it's the case that the idempotency wrapper is only for operations that are already idempotent, it makes me wonder that the docs couldn't do a better job of communicating the purpose and function. Decorate your idempotent operations.. to make them more idempotent?
> ...you'd need extra reasoning to explain why earth is unique among thousands of trillions of planets

It is unique by definition, because we happen to live on it. There is no need to reason or explain anything, because it is a simple fact.
I have not seen one that is pure glass. The oldest I have seen has a gasket. Every source I see indicates a rubber gasket was used in the first versions.
Experience: I own nearly 3k VHS tapes of Titanic
If you forcefully confiscated every single penny of net worth every single billionaire citizen has, every single last penny, and distributed it across the population, it would amount to a one time payment of something like 2,000 to everyone else. Simply pushing your "just tax the rich" line just doesn't remotely match up with reality. It requires an elementary level of math to see that taxing the rich more will not fund UBI. (And ignores all the negative consequences of doing so).
They aren't banned from the App Store. The agreement that Epic's Swedish subsidiary is the standard developer agreement, and they can publish whatever they like in the App Store as long as they follow Apple's guidelines.

Apple has said as much for the main developer account in the past.

It is highly unlikely Epic would publish anything in the App Store, however, even ignoring the bad blood.

Part of operating an App Marketplace is that you are agreeing to the EU rules which include a core technology fee. So even an app with no in-app purchasing on the Apple App Store would cost them a substantial amount to publish.
In my naïve early years as a phd student (doing experimental organic chemistry), I tried to replicate some promising results.

I'm a poor experimentalist (so poor I later switched to computational chemistry), but these procedures were absolutely impossible to follow once you got down to the details.

My advisor told me "yeah. we don't try to replicate anything that comes out of that lab." and left it at that.

Sobered me up real quick to the realities of how widespread these bullshit cheating practices are.
I think being too tired is just a small part of it. A much bigger one is that children give you an enormous sense of mission: to protect them, educate them, shape them. To foster the world around you so that when they grow up, it's not as messed up as it could otherwise be. To be a better person all round, so you can be a better parent to them. You learn things so you can teach them, you learn things from them, you pick up hobbies together to learn alongside.

Whether it's all worth the effort is a separate question, but oh boy it's a boost to existential anxiety for sure.
I’m also not sure with this method if tje LLM can exactly cite its source, which is another great benefit of RAG
Side question: when did XML start to loose favour to JSON? Did this happen because of something in particular or was it a gradual transition?
It isn’t indeed. Thank you! :-)
Or maybe intelligence only exists here on earth. Any explanation for its uniqueness would be as evidence-free and tortuous as evidence for it's non-uniqueness. (Given that we have zero evidence one way or the other.)
Just go work in the industry, this obsession with staying forever in the ivory tower is perplexing
It sounds to me like there are scenarios where calls to, and certainly effects of, "idempotent" functions can take place twice.

I haven't looked at Redlock for a while, but I'm assuming you're all across the historical objections to it from distributed systems researchers: https://martin.kleppmann.com/2016/02/08/how-to-do-distribute...
While I don't think we'll have a Terminator 2 style Judgment Day in the future because of AI, I do think there's a great deal of misconduct in many areas that's going to be exposed due to massive abilities to cross-correlate data at nuanced levels.

People who have been up to shifty things should be very nervous, and those entertaining doing shifty things should consider that it's very likely it will be exposed in the next decade.
>Competition is fierce in the academia, because many people find academic research inherently interesting

Why do we keep telling ourselves that profit is the only way to motivate competition? It is a lie.

>there is only money to employ a small fraction of them

But there is plenty of money for profit? The dictates of our society are beginning to sound like a bunk academic paper.
What does it have to do with “paternalism”?
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So much to unpack here but as a parent that just got my kid over the worried about sids stage, it’s easily the most overrated worry once you unpack things and figure out what’s generally going on.

Most important piece of the discussion is that most parents conflate suffocation with SIDS. They are totally different things.

Suffocation risks can be mitigated. Avoid sleeping with little ones on the couch, don’t put too many blankets in a crib, etc etc.

Actual SIDS is a real thing, and it’s not certain that SIDS risks can actually be mitigated. Theres a genetic factor, birth related factors, and smoking factors.

The SIDS survey is wholly unsatisfying because it doesn’t control for stuff like loose blankets in cribs.
Apple really didn’t make this easy for themselves.
In addition to all the legal stuff, they literally gave “the finger” to every EU developer and customer of theirs.
Where's Waldo? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldo_(short_story)
Can you make it work automatically once you turn on your computer, without opening by yourself the app?
check to see what aluminum cans and even the cans of canned food are lined with... It doesnt look so good to me. Without that sealant, metal leeches into the product.
You username suggests you find value only in monetary gain, so it's no shock your other ideas are equally bad.
When I was younger I used to think I need to have children in order to understand parents and belong socially when almost everyone else has had children.

I think there is some truth to that, parents don't become non-parents even after their children are adults, but I think not having the same parenthood experience can be also a good thing. People don't just befriend people who are exactly like them.
Honestly, I'm doing something like that right now, just not in a position to show.

All I want is a simple way to specify a tree of jobs to run to do things like checkout a git branch, build it, run the tests, then install the artifacts.

Or push a new static website to some site. Or periodically do something.

My grug brain simply doesn't want to deal with modern way of doing $SHIT. I don't need to manage a million different tasks per hour, so scaling vertically is acceptable to me, and the benefits of scaling horizontally simply don't appear in my use cases.
Why is humanity important?
I could be wrong, but I recall that during the early AJAX days, there was a bit of a XML v JSON war that ended up with JSON winning. Some stated cases for JSON was that it was less verbose and therefore cheaper to send over the wire, among other stated advantages.

I'm sure there were plenty of other sources of fatigue like XHTML Schemas etc...
Just show him the comments in this thread.
Is "more right" even possible? I don't want to be "more right"!

Static charge emerges from the process of disagreement on these and other crisis subjects. Calm diplomacy is main goal but occasionally something unexpectedly ferocious latches to your ankle, and calmly ushering the threat from your ankle becomes the lesser option of a more animated response.
This is hardly out of the blue. Epic's CEO testified how they not only premeditated breaking their contract with Apple, but arranged a PR campaign around it and orchestrated a 'grass roots' effort at the same time.

Blocking Fortnite updates on iOS devices was an inconvenience for users compared to terminating the use of an entire gaming marketplace due to the next round of vigilante contract violation by Epic.
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> Without these folks, it's not clear to me that humanity ratchets forward in progress.

I think the part you're missing is all the brilliant ideas from brilliant people we missed out on over that 2,000+ year from people we never heard of due to science and art being funded only haphazardly by random wealthy patrons.

For almost all of history it was simply not an option to make a living simply by writing or researching. That's still the case in much of the world.

But once we started to systematize it properly, and governments recognized that technology was a strategic necessity, bam, within a century or two we went from playing with primitive batteries, to nuclear fission, the internet, and now AI.

Somebody was paying for Stallman to sit in an MIT lab and write a free compiler. Maybe we don't talk enough about who or why, or how to replicate that kind of success.
This was 3 years ago - I wonder what the investigation concluded.

I only found this petition demanding the disclosure of investigation - https://www.change.org/p/demand-that-uf-release-the-investig...
> Is Dune (as a series) really an endorsement of consequentialism?

God Emperor of Dune consists largely of a lengthy and emphatic in-universe endorsement of a kind of consequentialism by the eponymous character.

While I think that it is a naive view to do so, its pretty easy to see how a reader might take it as an endorsement of that view by the author.

(OTOH, I think prescience, as featured in the series, really also challenges the idea of deontology and consequentialism as even being different in substance rather than different framings of the same considerations; the idea of a polar divide is, even without it, pretty clearly somewhat artificial – real deontological frameworks tend to incorporate context including known, intended, and reasonably foreseeable consequences in their understanding of what is part of the nature of the act itself, while any real consequentialist framework most adopt some rules as to which a priori outcomes that are viewed as positive or negative, and so the two somewhat blend; when all, or nearly all, outcomes become foreseeable…)
The thinking-about-meaning is a distraction, too. A rather poor one, I increasingly believe, as I stare down the back side of middle age. That I’d end up flirting with that attitude would have really surprised me at age 20. Or 30, for that matter.

It’s all distractions. Pick a good distraction.
I’m sure it’s down to use case and circumstances but I frequently find it useful to be able to read and edit text based data formats (JSON/YAML/TOML). If you are concerned about data size you can easily use on-the-fly compression at little cost nowadays.
I can’t say I agree with this assessment. There’s good Thai food in NYC, but probably less so in rural New York. In the same way, there’s amazing Thai food in Berlin, but probably not in rural Bavaria.

Also, in your average Italian city, the average meal will still be healthier than the average American meal. The idea of food deserts is what doesn’t exist in Europe, at least not Western Europe. The local mom and pop shops still have veggies and fruits, and I was amazed to find none within biking distance when I was in the US.

I don’t want to have to need to shop at Trader Joes, Whole Foods, or live in a posh city to avoid having to eat over-processed food and be constipated all of the time.
If you find yourself explaining the intricacies of CNN algorithms in your suicide note, consider that you are too "dug into" a bespoke topic. In 2 years, none of these math problems would be his mind at all.
> The entire Dune series is an examination of consequentialism. There are good consequences for all of humanity.

Mighty big asterisk on the “all” there.
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I imagine as pervasive as it is generally. People lie abundantly on resumes, skip payment on their taxes, about 1 in 10 admit to shoplifting when polled, etc. Cheating is pretty openly present at universities nowadays.

Warren Buffett is pretty open that some kind of fraud is probably occurring at every one of his companies.
So are you saying that Apple is not providing the same API to third party marketplaces as they leverage in their own App Store?
So my critique here isn't whether back sleeping is necessary or co-sleeping should be avoided. I have my own thoughts on those, but I'm also aware that you have to balance risks.

My critique is that the appeal to tradition and the appeal to, I don't know what to call it, "not American" by someone who isn't trained in this area is not the right approach for making that calculation.
In my experience people read the JSON output of things more often than anything else in both development and in maintenance. You can certainly make a point about that being stupid, and it certainly also is stupid. It just seems to be what happens when you have a gazillion APIs and even more business processes and a lot of people who should know what they are doing, who don’t.

I recently had the joy of reverse engineering a terrible piece of JavaScript which created a vast and ridiculously complicated JSON delivery for one of our most important frontends. It was so full of any assumptions that the original author had several functions which were still doing various things with “unknown” because the data which had once been there wasn’t. Anyway, since I had to reverse engineer it from terrible code and no documentation I figured I’d just talk with the people who worked the data inputs and outputs and maybe learn something about the process from their business processes. Turns out they couldn’t help, what was even worse was how the frontend partner we were delivering the JSON to couldn’t even explain why they needed it the way it arrived. Those were some “fun” sessions trying to Sherlock Holmes out of the mess. This was a bad story, but it’s just one out of a thousand such stories in enterprise and non-tech IT.

I think the reason JSON “won” over XML was the ”same” human reason. I’ve seen a lot of XML, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen some that didn’t break its own standards. Like you’d get all XML with data between ><‘s and then suddenly a single field would have the data inside the <… value=“”>… because duck you, or whatever else. Often they wouldn’t bother supplying you with schemas, or if they did, their auto-generated schemas wouldn’t have been updated in five years because apparently someone forgot that. Then once you “progress” beyond the technical funzies you’ll still have to deal with using the XML to find out what the hell is going on, and since it’s much harder to read (not entirely sure why) you’ll have to first convert it into JSON anyway, before whatever business process person has to read it.
They joined a company, owned by a not-for-profit with specific goals.
They then held it hostage unless it could continue to veer off-course, all in the pursuit of more money.
It is literally the definition of greed, selfish desire for money to the detriment of the foundations goals. Whether the foundation would've actually survived thereafter is besides the point. Obviously they're entitled to do that though from a different perspective, its just a job.