skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These dynamics play out everywhere when you stop sharing fundamental beliefs about a system.

There are numerous of cases of financiers, academics, etc. who have been expelled because they have corrected their beliefs in contrary to the groups.

I see a lot of general social dynamics being presented negatively depending on the case: We need inclusion in primary school but celebrate exclusion in other communities (like the conspirators).

I guess the world is just a bunch in incoherent emotional babbling with no hope for a consistent model.
Mathematician wins Turing award for harnessing randomness
You can replace the controller board all together, the electrical interface should not be that hard. You have to spin the spindle, jiggle the heads and send/receive the data. The main problem I see here is that modern hard drives have enormous, unimaginable information density. There must be so many tricks how they achieve that (and do that reliably!). You have to re-trace the steps the hard drive industry has made in the last 50 years.
Understood, yeah. (And thanks for your site, I've consulted it several times!) The rules I was asking about were the EU Blue Card rules and the rules for getting into public health insurance (GKV) without previously having such coverage within the EU.

My impression is that working for a company one substantially owns or controls, regardless of where it is registered, can lead to them deciding that it's self-employment and disqualifying a third-country national from using that work as the basis for an EU Blue Card or GKV.

Also, the rules for obtaining an EU Blue Card (or a skilled worker permit) require the employer to have a place of business in Germany, and that might be hard to demonstrate when the only tie to Germany is the location of the applicant. No idea if just renting a German office address for the business would suffice. At least Americans, Canadians, and other §41 AufenthV Abs 1 nationalities can bypass this obstacle with the §26 BeschV permit instead, with some extra approval and priority check paperwork. But this doesn't help with the issues in the previous paragraph of potentially being viewed as self-employment for immigration and insurance purposes.
Ethanol Intoxication in Drosophila
No.

We have historical precedence in ALGOL. From its Wikipedia page, it "was the standard method for algorithm description used by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in textbooks and academic sources for more than thirty years."

When was the last time you saw ALGOL?

In parallel, we can also look to APL, which arose out of a mathematical notation for arrays. From https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/162254/generate... the Walsh matrix in APL (Dyalog Unicode) is (⍪⍨,⊢⍪-)⍣⎕⍪1. For those who think in APL, I suppose that makes obvious sense.

ALGOL users and APL users would never agree on a single language.

You will not get C and Mathematica users to agree in a single language.

You will not get Python and Rust users to agree on a single language.

People doing computer assisted proofs use tools like the Coq Theorem, which has its own language.
Nowadays I have rarely seen it if ever
This is already better than some humans, such as
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sJUDx7iEJw
Nice one, but seems to be replaced with https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9457
Saudi Arabia would do better with same logical projects
This has more or less been my experience too. Things like UI toolkits or game engine primitives are often solved nicely with inheritance.

I've been doing a lot with LeafletJS lately, and it has some light inheritance around its drawing primitives (things like boxes, circles and lines you draw on top of maps). It works well.

For 3D engines you still need to be quite careful with where you apply it though. It's possible to get into a huge mess if you use it too much.
Most conspiracy theories come from the internet. Internet is a place full of crooks.

Every power tried to meddle. Russia, Germany, America. Each power has their own cyber army that tries to control media, or influence it.

Conspiracy theories. You do not even know if it is just another disinformation campaign from your government. Maybe it is just another disinformation campaign to add new layers of control disguised as user protection.

Why not make better tools for moderation? Naaah they will always decide to create more oversight boards.
Especially in games, inheritance doesn't work all that great and had been replaced by composition via components a long time ago where each component implements one specific aspect or feature of a game object and can be (more or less) freely combined with other components.
Apart from speed, what advantages does ripgrep offer over git grep when searching git repos?
Actually it seems like a feature to me (to be able to exchange encrypted emails so easily between different providers), and a quite nice one actually.
The only thing the Gulf states have going for them is oil money and a good hub location on the Europe–Southeast Asia airline routes.

Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Bahrain, Qatar, they all remind me of that quote from King of the Hill—they are monuments to man's arrogance. Desert cities hitting 50+ °C air temperature at midday which means air conditioning everywhere; vapid luxury in the form of expensive garish cars, shopping malls, and weird buildings and monuments, all while local chiefs who oppose stupid and unrealistic white elephant vanity projects are executed in the back alley.

This is one reason why I would like more nuclear power: it'll take some of the money away from the Gulf.
At the current rate of progress maybe it'll be months. I did a song for my company just to have fun around an event and the quality of the song was astounding, better than this one I think also using v3. I didn't even write the lyrics, I just described what I want in the prompt. Also I used one of poems I wrote as a teenager (not a lot of them) to create a song... the AI would notice the emphasis in the feelings of the lyrics, exactly in the same way I felt them, so it made pauses and chorus accordingly.
Of course I do, who doesn't? Can you pick 1 thing I need to focus on most so I can get some value out of this comment? :D
Even the "theory" that pharmaceutical companies suppress a cancer cure could be argued for, since it's very common to write patents that are just used to "cover the market", not to guarantee a time of monopoly on innovations. And I've met people there that get enthusiastic about cancer being a incurable but manageable and the fact that that is a nice thing for the company.

I even think it is unhealthy that the word "conspiracy theory" is so negative. Because people do conspire, to all sorts of degrees. People that put their phones in a fridge when they were talking about secrets were once conspiracy theorists. Now they suddenly aren't. Like they were uplifted from a disgraceful state to a better one.

Some level of "conspiracy" thinking is no more than healthy. Although to be fair, the article doesn't suggest it isn't, not directly.

People should keep an open mind, think like a Bayesian. Some things are unlikely (like how nobody would notice a chip in your blood with all those MRI scans every day). Some things aren't (like a drug cancelled that worked but wouldn't make enough money).
There’s literal anti-semetism in the Old Testament, which predates anything that can vaguely be called Europe.
Is this page really the entirety of your privacy policy? https://keys.openpgp.org/about/privacy Because it's missing a ton of information, like who you actually are, how long you intend to keep the data, etc. I'm sorry to say, but this is really concerning.
I don't have the impression I'm writing too much boilerplate, but I am curious about this as I have heard it multiple times: are there more examples of boiler plate that an LLM is better/faster at generating than a couple of copy/paste? If it's more than a couple than copy/paste and it's time for a rewrite, do you leverage AI for this? how do you usually introduce the abstraction?
> IIUC isn't the lab leak hypothesis still one valid possibility?

Lab leak and intentional bioweapon, one whose patient zero was in China, are totally different.

> Couldn't this be confused with (a) planes pollute and (b) contrails are bad for the environment too?

No, becuase of the "part of a secret government program" part.

There are reasonable hypotheses proximate to these conspiracy theories. There always are. But the claim per se is stupid. Incredibly stupid. They focussed on people who believed the claim as presented, without caveats.
I don't think I can endure much more AI slop seeping its way into my life.
Yes, this is true.

I never felt comfortable having my private key on my phone, so I can't read encrypted email on the go.

I get one or two encrypted emails on a good year, and they are rarely important (or require encryption really).
Yeah, this too.

I kind of feel like Elon was actually right that Twitter has become the "public square", but I disagree violently that he should be the one to control and steward it. We need a non-government controlled, non-corporate/profit-driven Twitter. The fediverse is okay but the UX needs to be completely frictionless so everyone can use it (also my mum).
Smugglers were caught with $10M of gold painted and disguised as machinery
How do Parquet, Lance, and Nimble compare?

lancedb/lance: https://github.com/lancedb/lance :

> Modern columnar data format for ML. Convert from Parquet in 2-lines of code for 100x faster random access, a vector index, data versioning, and more.
Compatible with pandas, DuckDB, Polars, and pyarrow

Can the optimizations in lance be ported to other formats without significant redesign?
To be fair, to me HTTP looks like:

- The first line of an HTTP request has its own format (space-separated-ish), and mixes method and URL path.

- The URL path in that first line has its own format and weird escaping, and mixes one path with zero-or-more key value pairs.

- The headers have their own format.

- The body has its own format.

Most (all?) HTTP libraries for clients and servers abstract all that mess away into a neat object that could be easily represented in JSON (or bencode if you want something simple-ish while supporting binary data), but it's like using a nice program while knowing it's written in C[1].

Of course, JSON has its own problems, but in that case at least we only need to deal with the problems of one format that supports with proper nesting, not 4 different weird formats masquerading as one.

[1]: Disclaimer, I don't like Rust, so don't take this as a RIIR thing.

EDIT: To be clear, I don't agree with how Bob misuses HTTP in your example. I just find it sad that we're locked into this weirdly complex protocol.
The real and possible lab leak theory was never about any bio weapons or bio weapons research. We still have no strong evidence for or against an accidental lab leak of non-bioweapon. But experts (including one of my friends who was tasked with looking into this long before mainstream media even thought of lab leak as a possibility) who have looked at it have seen no evidence of anything indicating that the virus was intentionally altered.

And, nope, chemtrails are not bad for the environment. It is just the wings which cause cloud formation.
What is false? That people were killed and run of their land so that it can be given to private ownership?

Also, what is natural in me owning a factory on the other side of the world when I never left the city I live in?
Smalltalk having a more or less revolutionary developer experience was likely quite important. A graphical interface to your system where you can traverse a tree and inspect _everything_, and more importantly, change it.

In Smalltalks as I know them, which is sporadically and shallowly, inheritance seems to be used as a factoring tool, when you break down functions into smaller functions there's a structure in which to place them with the implicit incentive to put them as high up as possible.

To me it seems to work pretty well, but it's also a rather weird environment where even classes themselves are objects.

In Java one can get around inheritance by using injection into an attribute in a wrapper class that extends or changes an object API. This leads to a similar decoupling as more functional composition, but you pay by having more objects swimming around in the VM during execution. Extending on the class level (i.e. in declarations of classes, interfaces, traits and the like) instead of the object level might have effects on performance and resource management.

Usually that likely doesn't matter, but it might. In Java-like languages I tend to use inheritance as a quick way to abstract over or extend functionality in a library class, I get the public methods 'for free' in my own class without having to write the wrappers myself. And that's usually where I stop, one level of inheritance, since Java isn't as inspectable and moldable as, say, Pharo, and doesn't give the same runtime ergonomics with large class/object trees.
> Are you confusing me with someone else? I never said land was the ‘primary cost’?

The premise of the post you replied to is that land isn't the primary cost. For a building that puts 500 units on an acre, the cost attributable to land is only $20,000/unit even when the land is $10 million/acre.

You replied trying to add in construction costs and regulatory requirements, which was the point -- that's where most of the cost is, because regulations make construction bureaucratic and labor-intensive, where they don't prohibit it outright.

> “Saleable square footage” means net of elevator shafts, hallways, etc….

Which is why I only allocated half of the footprint of the lot to livable area to begin with. If you could allocate the entire acre of footprint to living space, one acre of land could have more than 20 units of 2000 sq ft per floor and a 50 story building would have 1000+ units instead of 500+.
I work on a very large codebase. We use inheritance and composition. I totally agree that inheritance should be used carefully. However, there are times when composition requires a lot more code and downstream maintenance.

Let's stay I have a base class A.
Let's say I have 70 classes that inherit from A.

These classes must serialize/deserialize from disk.

My choice here is that I can add a new data member to A and then update the read/write method in one place, or I add a new data member to all the classes that are derived from A, meaning that I get to update 70 classes. Seriously? Who would think this is a good idea? You'll have to write 70 times as much code... there will be times when that's definitely a very bad idea.

Maybe don't use inheritance. Then give every class its own "Name" data member like std::string c_nName. Every class can have its own function to set the name, or we could use an unencapsulated free function and do things like C. Except then the experts will say things like "well, now you're doing C with classes". Then you get a ticket that the user can enter bad names. You can then figure out some way to validate the names, right? That could be a free function, or maybe write some class called NameValidator. Except now the experts say you're writing C++ like Java. Too many classes, too few classes, too many objects, too few objects, too may free functions, too few free functions.

C++ expert of the month may say X, Y, Z, but look at Microsoft's APIs.

Inheritance is everywhere.

Look at any open source C++ project.

Inheritance is everywhere.

Does that mean that you should make something like:

A

--B : public A

----C : public B

------D : public C

--------E : public D

----------F : public E

Or this:

A B
\ /
C

Not unless you have a damn good reason. But the point is that inheritance is a valid tool and it can reduce bugs, code duplication, maintenance.

Right tool for the job, yeah? I once read something in the C++ FAQ that said something like "Don't take advice from people who don't understand your business problems."
I enjoyed this article about the Gulf of Tonkin incident: https://allthatsinteresting.com/gulf-of-tonkin
It must be your app/lang/prompt/grandma/dog/... lol. LLMs are the future, and they will replaces Allllllll the coders in the woooorld (TM), and did you know "it" can create websites??? Wooo, let's go, baby!

Nah these things are all stupid as hell. Any back and forth between a human and an LLM in terms of problem solving coding tasks is an absolute disaster.

People here and certainly in the mainstream population see some knowledge and just naturally expect intelligence to go with it. But it doesn't. Wikipedia has knowledge. Books have knowledge. LLMs are just the latest iteration of how humans store knowledge. That's about it, everything else is a hyped up bubble. There's nothing in physics that stops us from creating an artificial, generally intelligent being, but it's NEVER going to be with auto-regressive next-token prediction.
Super - thanks! Please consider adding an option to remove the flag emojis and arrows; had to remove the volume, battery, and Bluetooth icons before I could see Wunderbar on a 13.6" M2 MacBook Air. It just disappeared again, and even removing the WiFi icon did not help until it cycled through to another word pair.
Yes, this is very annoying.
I will make a short list of some of the reasons:

1. I already have an ebook library in Calibre that I access on other devices, the sync feature allows me to seamlessly integrate into my other devices.

2. It's highly customization, almost every aspect of how books are displayed is able to be modified.

3. Progress can be synced across many devices without having to rely on some proprietary provider like Kindle.

4. Along with #3, you can get KOReader on many platforms to have the same experience anywhere (Android, Desktop, E-Reader). If I wanted I could push progress from my e-reader and then continue on my phone.

5. Easy shell access allows hacking and general tomfoolery. I don't use this much, but having this available makes me happy.

I could probably list more, but I'd need to refresh my memory on the core software (I've been using KOReader so long I've forgotten much of the original kobo interace).

Edit: Some relevant info in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39999476
I do not need IPv4, BUT I need IPv6 with a global per host, without tricks to avoid my free use of hosts, just to keep the users "a bit out of internet"...
Pragmatists used inheritance because it gave a quick benefit now, and the longer-term costs were ignored. Some pragmatists became successful because they moved quickly, so the "Programmers from the Church of Purity" used inheritance because successful companies used inheritance. When inheritance was no longer the quickest way to move quickly, the pragmatists moved on. The Church of Purity now bangs on about Functional Programming in the same way for the same reasons.
The RO industry is such a snake oil mess that instead I went for a high quality activated charcoal filter that can easily be changed after half a year for 30$, and combine it with water distillation.
And we all owe a great debt to Microsoft for preventing the appification of E-Mail.
Also the trails are not the pollution.
I RDP quite often to a headless windows 11 PC (no display connected at all) and I have GP's experience. Everything works perfectly except for random animations on websites. Fortunately, I basically never use the browser when I'm connected remotely.

My local display is 4K and I don't use scaling on either side. This experience is while using both a win 11 client and Remmina/FreeRDP on Linux. The remote machine is running a 10th gen i5 with the iGPU.
Call me a caveman but the lack of an option to use AI tools offline is a massive downside to me. I am connected to the internet most of the time but I take comfort in knowing that, for most of my work, I could lose my connection and not even notice
Beats Eurovision!
Does this mean I might finally stop seeing adverts for it? Can we stop pretending it was ever even remotely viable?
Is Brondell just selling a white-labeled Coway product with their Circle RO system?
Interestingly, in the German-speaking scientific literature and science communicators, there is a movement to call it "conspiracy ideologies", "conspiracy myth" or "conspiracy narratives" (they have not found a consensus yet), because they're not theories according to Karl Popper and generally lack any properties that we would usually expect a scientific theory to have.

Personally, I disagree. No one feels flattered being called a "conspiracy theorist" and I don't really see the need to differentiate, especially if a general audience is being addressed.
So, some countries have protections for squatting.

Squatting is legal.

In the USA property rights are very strong. Read the article I posted earlier. Basically in Amsterdam a lot of companies were colluding to keep apartments empty which inflated the price. In response people were legally allowed to squat the apartments provided they were unoccupied.

This fixes the problem of empty apartments.

Comparing the rights of squatters in the USA to the rights of squatters in other countries is a non-starter. I'm saying if citizens in the USA had the same rights to squat as they had in the Netherlands in the 70's and 80's the problem would be fixed.
We can now replace more humans for shareholder value.
Edit: Remember 1984 where Orwell described machines composing music for the masses?
Given that mom isn't going to understand any of the prompt, and presumably has no pressing care or need for encrypting an email, the sensible default would be to send email unencrypted unless she expressly asks otherwise.

It is pretty interesting seeing the various different design philosophies for computer UIs compete in this thread:

the typical Linux approach (ask the user a convoluted question, expect them to understand it and expect an informed response - if/when the user selects wrong, tough shit)

the Windows approach (ask a convoluted question but give an out for the 99% of people who don't understand it - if the user still selects wrong, tough shit)

the Apple approach (don't ask the question at all and choose a sensible default, because 99% won't care - 99% of users get the exact result they wanted to begin with)
> just the wings which cause cloud formation

It's more usually the exhaust condensing [1], though pressure changes around the lifting body also contribute to it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrail
This website doesn't do much to tell me why I would want to use it. Can anyone explain?
This particular human is orders of magnitude better than AI
Thank you, It's nice advice, I will think about it.
Why? With music there isn't such danger for misinformation
Legal Curiosities: Fact or Fable? (2013) [pdf]
> the trails are not the pollution

They're mostly water, though they can also contain impurities, e.g. "sulfur compounds (0.05% by weight in jet fuel)" [1].

More to the point: someone suspecting they're trails of pollution isn't unreasonable at first glance. Believing they're a secret government program to put toxic chemicals in the air is stupid. (I'm not ruling out governments poisoning their populations. Just that this particular way of going about it is incredibly stupid and obviously discoverable.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrail
The site is full of gems. I like capybara: https://suno.com/song/b27c29f6-8ab4-47eb-81fd-efb85c848ada/
Building PostgreSQL Extensions: Dropping Extensions and Cleanup
Maudslay's Methods of Originating Screws (1856)
Listen to the book as this topic is discussed at great length.
It strikes me as bad reasoning to look at a system that is designed to be very complex and stochastic as a way to get some creativity out of it ("generative AI" so to speak) and try to bolt down added apparatus to get deterministic behavior out of it.

We have deterministic programming systems. They're called compilers.
> Can we stop pretending it was ever even remotely viable?

Not sure who this “we” is who ever started, which is a requirement for stopping.