skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This 100%. Psychoanalysis would have us believe that morality and strategy are basically the same thing: we think we have these moral codes, but in actuality what we have is an internalized version of our parents. As someone who’s almost the age of his parents when they had him, I know by now that most of what i was taught as a moral code (don’t eat too much candy, do your homework, don’t hit people) was actually just a strategy that was too long-term for young, infant me to genuinely understand: Don’t eat too much candy because it’s important to be healthy, Do your homework for good education and social recognition, don’t hit people because no one will like you if you do and that will cause all kinds of problems.

The modern media would have us believe that strategy and morality are opposed to each other, but seems to me like that’s just the exact opposite of the truth
I'm guessing you haven't worked in custom support where people send you their "CSV" files. Even the field delimiter varies (many Europeans use semi-colons).
Same here. But, I'd like to wait until iOS 18 so that text messages from various contacts are less painful.
> Apple needs developers

Yet they are constantly making the case that third-party developers are value sponges that use “their” platform and access “their” customers for free, and give back nothing in return. They said the same towards Spotify in response to the recent ruling about anti-competitiveness in music apps.

What Apple conveniently fails to acknowledge is that they make an obscene amount of money from selling hardware, and their motivation for investing in the platform and SDKs is that more and better software leads to higher sales of hardware. (I am aware that iPhone sales have effectively peaked, which is likely exactly why they have decided that they are the sole enabler of all digital commerce on the iPhone)
Some people like having the choice of a curated system, and that requires a walled garden. You're removing choices, not adding them.
I've also heard - but don't remember why - that there's some reason why primes of form 4n+1 would be preferred to primes of form 4n-1, which is why you don't see 11-year or 19-year cicadas.
When we complain about the "committee" we're not complaining about some amorphous entity but rather the people that make it up and the things they choose to propose and vote for.
There are various categories of paradoxes and different ways people have categorized them.

Quine calls this one a “veridical paradox”, where it seems false but is true.

Example of a different types of paradox are: any proof that 1=0, Russell’s Paradox, and Zeno’s paradox. These are either false in some sense or used to illustrate fallacious reasoning.
No, I think they're tied to their devices like the rest of us. But the apps and places they visit might be different. While we might prefer typing and blogging, Deaf might post a video of themselves signing at full speed, without captions or transcript, which only another sign user might be able to follow. So you can see how the cultures might diverge a little.
And no one is forcing them.
Why not just use Go?
Covid-19: a comprehensive analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
Hot damn, you're not kidding. I was struggling a bit with it from reading the article text, but that animation clarified it for me in seconds!
> These legitimate questions about their non-profit status ARE his core arguments.

Except for the portion where he advocated for a capped-profit arm which he would run under Tesla. You know that part that is shown in the OpenAI emails. It seemed he was ok with it when HE would stand to benefit.

You can't believe that Elon is "a great businessman" while also believing that he is totally altruistic and ignores all of the self serving impulses that have gotten him to where he is.
"...copyright law is the only functional internet law"

- Nilay Patel [0]

[0] https://x.com/reckless/status/1558065621925072901?s=20
"did you write frontend or backend in rust?"

"??? No. The browser"
Does USV supports nested fields? While reading the USV GitHub's README I did not clearly understand the purpose of the "group separator"
Tuta/Tutanota Launches Post Quantum Cryptography for Email
Is it happening? Is there anybody who would claim that Google and Facebook are showing them better-targeted content now than before?

Google and Facebook care only about shoving monetizable garbage in your face, be it through tainted search results, mindless "recommended" IG Reels/YT Shorts or FB Pages. That has driven people away from these platforms. Maybe not at the levels where their bottom line is being hit, but that is a lagging indicator anyway.
Wow that was something...
Abstracting Denotational Interpreters
Abstracting Denotational Interpreters | Sebastian Graf, Simon Peyton Jones, Sven Keidel

Abstract

> We explore denotational interpreters: denotational semantics that produce coinductive traces of a corresponding small-step operational semantics. By parameterising our denotational interpreter over the semantic domain and then varying it, we recover dynamic semantics with different evaluation strategies as well as summary-based static analyses such as type analysis, all from the same generic interpreter. Among our contributions is the first provably adequate denotational semantics for call-by-need. The generated traces lend themselves well to describe operational properties such as evaluation cardinality, and hence to static analyses abstracting these operational properties. Since static analysis and dynamic semantics share the same generic interpreter definition, soundness proofs via abstract interpretation decompose into showing small abstraction laws about the abstract domain, thus obviating complicated ad-hoc preservation-style proof frameworks.
Ironically AT&T is bigger now than it was when it was broken apart.
Most Patreons also offer per-episode payment, which zeroes out the risk that you'll pay a non-producing creator anything at all.
> But it is definitely not true that source code would have any use to most computer users (smart phone users, really) today. They simply would not have the ability to do anything with it.

It seems like GitHub and other sources of open source software offer an opportunity to test your hypothesis empirically. I am biased to think that its existence demonstrates that source code is of use to at least many users.
What regulations are you referring to wrt AT&T? Are you saying that UNIX and C were a result of regulations? If so do you have a source?
Definitely enjoy the overall point of the article. But something interesting that's happened in my life is that I've started creating more because I've started consuming more (as some other folks are pointing out in this thread). Maybe it's because I've changed my form of consumption. I've spent 10 or so extra minutes per day reading each night that I had applied to social media consumption. One of those books inspired a thought that became another habit I started, and now I built a whole iOS app I'm launching soon just because of that bit of inspiration I consumed. What's the whole point of this, I dunno, maybe it's not even "consume better". But more like constantly diversify your consumption. "consume different => create more" Don't get into ruts. Keep your consumption fresh. Social media your jam, at least read some different people etc.
> before the big bang the whole observable universe was contained in a small sphere and then it started to expand

We have no evidence of any time when the universe was not expanding. At the earliest times we have evidence of, the universe was already expanding (extremely rapidly--much, much, much more rapidly than it is now). At those times, our observable universe was indeed contained in a very small volume.

> suppose I point a laser beam to the space and by chance this laser beam never finds any kind of matter in its way, where is this laser going to?

Since the universe is spatially infinite in our best current model, the laser beam will just keep on going forever.

> To an infinite void?

According to our best current model, no, the laser beam will never stop passing by matter, of approximately the same average density as the matter we can see.

> Is it correct to say that stars radiate energy to the infinite then?

Yes, as long as you recognize that "the infinite" never becomes a "void".
It feels bizarre to an American perspective. How is a company supposed to follow rules that are open to interpretation? Or does the EU think it can legislate outcomes (even if they're uneconomic) ?
Sourcehut is really targeting users who want an email-centric workflow, which it excels at. It's not trying to be(at) GitHub.

You want it to be something that it isn't.
Mostly Unity3D. I've amassed a huge list of assets, shaders, plugins, vfx, and tools that have aided in my workflow. It's hard to think of all the tools I use within Unity at the top of my head. I might make a blog post one day about my workflow but for now this is a pretty good starter list to get you started:

https://github.com/michidk/Unity-Script-Collection

and if you need free assets, I made a blog post about creative commons resources.

https://itch.io/blog/478317/life-as-a-creative-commons-indie...
Yep yep. A better analogy might be that the door has to eliminate quick, quiet entry to the house since that would deter a huge majority of would-be burglars just due to the vastly increased danger of getting noticed.

We have locks on windows, but rarely bars. We have alarms that trigger sirens, but rarely indoor locks. Eliminate quick and quiet, usually good enough.
There's an ASCII character for escaping, too, if you need it.

The advantage of ASV is not that you can't have invalid or insecure data, it's that valid data will almost never contain ASCII control characters in the record fields themselves. Commas, quotation marks, and backslashes, meanwhile, are everywhere.
Well I'm not entirely sure why they did that, Adobe is the original creators of the PDF format [1] as given by this Wikipedia article on PDFs which might mean they meant something more like a viewer for *Adobe's PDF format* rather than *Adobe's viewer* for PDFs.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF
Nobody argues it wouldn't be nice. Physics argues we can't ever know. It's a rather significant difference and if this gets proven wrong, you'll find that physicists are the ones partying the hardest.
There’s something very alien about dying on an inhospitable, dead, cold world millions of miles away from all that humanity has ever known.

I find it hard to believe that we’d be able to find a sizable group of people who wanted this to be their fate and who were actually otherwise qualified for the mission.

Imagine the nightmare scenario of someone changing their mind partway through the mission. Talk about a disaster (PR and otherwise) that could be significant enough to chill the entire push for manned missions beyond the moon.
Another perspective is that planning is a breadth-first traversal of the solution space, and coming up with a path to the solution. When reality hits and the path is often wrong, one can switch to other paths quickly since the graph was created ahead of time. It's writing the table of contents for a book before fleshing it out.

Without planning, a depth first traversal is a high risk endeavor in the likelihood that the that path is wrong but backtracking and creating the graph is comparatively expensive and susceptible to sunk cost fallacy. Depth-first traversal is writing the book a chapter at a time without a table of contents in mind.
Member Plugin Flaw Exposes 100k WordPress Sites to Attacks
Ah, yes I may have mis-remembered or misunderstood when looking at the training data and model definition, it would have been about a decade ago now. Or perhaps I was thinking of an unrelated experiment to use chosen analogies during training but yeah that isn't part of the original paper.

The training process from the original Mikolov et al. paper only uses the analogy examples (questions-words.txt and questions-phrases.txt) to measure accuracy after training:
https://github.com/tmikolov/word2vec/blob/20c129af10659f7c50...
I think the problem with this analogy for me is that while you might not care to have your home be 100% impossible to break into, you _do_ want to aim for it to be broken into zero times a year. If my house got broken into 60 times a year for five years, and my neighbors got broken into 6 times a year for the same period, I still think my long-term goal would be to have my home _never_ broken into, even if it meant moving to a different neighborhood.
The hummus with score of 1 has only 28 calories per 100g vs 214 calories per 100g for the "ultra processed." Almost no fat (0.9g) in a food comprised mostly of chickpeas and tahini, both of which are high fat foods. There has to be an error here.

Guar gum is definitely an ultra-processed ingredient from what I can tell. It goes through multiple stages of industrial processing, and is used in everything from food products to cosmetics to hydraulic fracking.

It is also associated with esophageal and gastro-intestinal swelling, including to the point of causing obstruction. It is high in galactose and mannose, and subtly alters composition of the microbiome. People with GI disorders are very often advised to avoid it (note that although partially hydrolyzed guar gum was previously recommended for IBS to increase motility, in more recent years experts are increasingly saying to avoid it). It is categorized as "generally recognize safe" food additive in the US and EU.
It is incredibly condescending that when I try to explain why I chose something that you try to tell me it isn't why I chose it.

It is also incredibly hypocritical that here we are complaining about being at the mercy of the choices that Apple makes and you are trying to tell me how I actually feel.

This boils down to the platforms being different. The way that many apps are monetized on Mac (and Windows) is different to how things are monetized on mobile devices.

So please stop telling me how I feel and why I made certain decisions. I think I know why I chose something and not you.
Ah yes, a rival nation would want a whistleblower that brings bad press on their rival to be silenced right before further hearings. Funny how that works out in Boeing's favor more than anyone else.
Fun experiment reveals just how incredibly backward compatible Windows can be
Why would it only have been invented once? Various spelling/phone alphabets are and have been in use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_alphabet
Are protocol buffers not considered "modern" or "fast" anymore? How time flies...
>All the reason more to honor those few brave souls who do it, I know I propably wouldn't. And claiming this particular one was killed is absolutely not doing that.

What greater honor than to have Justice ultimately done, and the Truth be set free? My wager: Boeing council did everything they could to try to turn things around on him, and the poor bastard in that moment, exhausted, at mental wits end, believed them. My guess is the answer will be in the transcripts as long as Boeing doesn't get them redacted/sealed.

As long as our court system is tilted in the direction of those that can afford to more effectively fund gaslighting the populace, we'll continue to see tragedies like this.
Deep-sea hiatus record shows orbital pacing by 2.4M yr eccentricity grand cycle
I think making plans/planning needs training to be good at - which in turn reduces "overplanning". Knowing what to include, discuss in which forum, what task or deliverable granularity, etc. is useful doesn't come naturally to most.
Nuke v1.3.0 – A memory arena implementation for Go
Your readers will have picked a web-browser that supports scrolling the way they like it. The less you try to interfere with the way people choose to visit your webpage the better.
It's not a semantic issue, in practice the comment you responded to is more correct than not. The "in 101" etc comment is condescending, and more wrong than right.

There are two fairly distinct realities - economists are in fact calling the shots at central banks, usually, and the analysis is more complex. But the rest of policy setting is not, and it's the majority.
There's no space for larger letters diagonally unless I waste screen estate by increasing the font size, which I categorically will not do. So I'd need to replace a font I'm happy with and find one with other symbols that are readable enough. In which case it's just as easy and less invasive for me to adjust my editor to display them using different glyphs. In which case I can just as well do that with the actually ASCII control characters.

The point is that their stated "advantage" does not exist for me. I still need to make changes to my setup to handle them. In which case why should I pick this option? (as you can see elsewhere, especially as this isn't the only issue I have with their format choices).

> And the main benefit isn't anything to do with the editor, I have no idea what you meant by that.

The main benefit relative to using the actual control characters is only the tool support. Where this does not work for me without making changes anyway to how the symbols are displayed anyway. Hence that "advantage" does not actually buy me anything.
Easy Introduction to Real-Time RAG Using Apache Pinot
The example given here is a different interpretation of a statement.

The source would stay the same for correct and incorrect use,there is no way for the compiler to catch this and send an error message.
>As for including commas in your data, it could just have been managed with a simple escape character like a \, for when there's actually a comma in your data. That's it.

Not quite. What if there is a \ in your data? Then you have to escape that.
99% of Android users never install an app from outside the app store either, Apple just does a better job filtering scams etc. out of their app store. If Google did a better job of curation it would be a comparable experience for the overwhelming majority of users.

The ability to install 3rd party apps has effectively zero effect on how well Apple curates their official app store.
FWIW, my idea of a perfectly reasonable piece of space infrastructure in the multi-planet era has a mass of around 10^11 kilograms. Fortunately, the infrastructure itself can bootstrap in a way that reduced the launch costs to, it is claimed, 9 kWh/kg: https://web.archive.org/web/20120306175303/http://www.paulbi...
> They basically undo all the progress on collaboration since the 90s to get rid of the modern problems that these changes cause, without realizing that the way forward is to solve these problems, not just revert to a time when they didn't exist.

Saying they are "reverting to a time when they didn't exist" is missing the point. It's about improving the problems that caused people to switch away from the collaboration tools in the 90s; e.g. [1]. So it's more of a fork of the 90s than a rollback.

Also, it's not like the people at SH (and their users) haven't tried new collaboration tools. I (at least) have tried them and found them wanting in important ways. The conclusion that it's better to fix the older tools than the newer tools could be debated with[2], but nobody's sticking their heads in the sand here.

1: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2022-07-06-sourcehut-and-irc/ Note also that even without SH, e-mail, IRC, &c. are all greatly improved in both small and large ways in the time between the 90s and now.

2: I mean everybody involved with SH already prefers the older tools for one reason or another, so fixing the older tools is going to be the obvious path forward for them.
Right, the embedding is contrived to give euclidean distance and cosine similarity the usual meaning.
> It's just an interpretation

No, it's not, it's our best current model's description of the actual physical reality of our universe.

> nobody can prove than a model is correct

That's true, but it's also true that we can show models to be incorrect, as in, falsified by the data. For example:

> Photon will hit something, or will travel until it will be redshifted to obvilion, or will travel until end of the medium

For the scenario that was posed, a laser beam that never hits anything, none of your statements here are true. The first is ruled out by the scenario; the second is known to be false because there is no "gravitational redshift" of light in the universe as a whole (because models in which there would be such a redshift are known not to correctly model our data on the universe as a whole), and there is no "end of the medium" (again, models in which there would be an "end of the medium", i.e., where the universe stopped containing matter and started being just vacuum, are known not to correctly model our data).

I have described what actually happens in my own response to the GP upthread.

> (photon is a wave, so it waves something).

Light is an electromagnetic wave; what "waves" is the electromagnetic field. (If you use a "photon" model, you are using the quantum electromagnetic field as opposed to its classical approximation.) There doesn't have to be any other "medium"; the electromagnetic field is present everywhere.
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> Microsoft would have preferred having 100% control instead of sharing OS/2 with IBM.

You seem to forget a few important points.

1. MS willingly entered into the OS/2 partnership with IBM. It even had its own multitasking MS-DOS, the original MS-DOS 4, which it never released.

2. MS wasn't always as rich and powerful as it became much later.

3. It was IBM's PC that made MS rich. That and the success of the PC clones.

> Windows 3.0 was the technical foundation that allowed things to go the way they went

I did not dispute that. The point of the article is that Microsoft's own version of 32-bit OS/2 was nearly ready when Windows 3.0 was released.

> its technical capabilities were known, even if it needed time to prove itself in the market

Hardly. Windows was a flop and an industry laughing stock before Windows 3.0.

I used Windows 2 on my work PC. It was not good. I told my boss that Windows 3.0 was going to be a big hit and that he should get as many copies as he could, and allow me to train all the company's staff on what would very soon be the top-selling product.

He laughed at me.

A couple of months later, the company's 17 copies of Windows 3.0 sold before the office opened for the day, they were on back-order with a waiting time of weeks to months, all our customers wanted Windows 3.0 and he apologised to me saying that he had been wrong and I was right.

It was too late.
Something that isn't falling with us? The night sky.
> Can you find a link that substantiates your claim? You're throwing out some heavy accusations here that don't seem to match reality at all.

Relevant piece of the standard: http://eel.is/c++draft/fs.race.behavior#1.sentence-2

Officially it's undefined behavior.

And here's a comment from the maintainer of the STL in MSVC regarding this: https://old.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/151cnlc/a_safety_cultu...