skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You cant use “hubris” as a pejorative and go on to claim that Linus is the good guy. There’s clearly hubris on both sides, and only one of the sides made a big deal about it.

Developers change things for parsers all the time. That’s, like, coding.
On YouTube I think maybe 50% are scams and 98% are just plain irrelevant - I've come to the conclusion its really just a way of harassing me to sign up for YouTube Premium.
Autres Unix, Autres Moeurs
Fascinating glimpse into this. Who knew that criminal phishers were have the same kind of 3 tier sign up flow common with many startups!
How is that relevant in this context, though? Why is it bad faith when we're talking about grid-supplied electricity generation? We need electricity generation, and most of France's is nuclear. It seems uncontroversial.
I recently reported an ad for an obvious "get rich quick scheme", apparently advertising scams is okay with Google though...
> There is no meaningful question to ask about "Black IQ"

Yep, exactly my point.

> Is that actually what happened though?

I'm not saying that you can only consider a group as a outgroup if they have different skin color. What I'm saying is that foreigners (whatever skin color they have) are considered as a outgroup, and then, people associate easy characteristics of these outgroup as "being foreigner". This is for example why black-skin people who live in white-skin-dominated countries for generations are still strongly associated as being "foreigner" even if they are less foreigner than the white-skin person who was born 500 kilometers away and grew up in a totally different culture.

And this is why people are so interested in Black IQ, not because they are interested in science, but because they are interested in easy ways to confirm or rationalize their prejudice on people they associate with their outgroup.

> I think human genetic diversity and the heritability of intelligence is an interesting topic

It is. But it is very very strange that people who, according to them, are just "interested in the subject" are focalising in the most useless and stupid approach of it. I cannot find the quote, I think it was from Gould, saying that genetic of intelligence is an interesting topic but people who are approaching it with this particular aspect are not contributing anything to science.

> But my impression is a lot of people want to approach that topic primarily through the lens of contemporary and historical inter-group dynamics within one specific country

Yes, I agree with that: what you call "the lens of contemporary and historical inter-group dynamics within one specific country" is what I call "confirming or rationalizing their prejudice on people they associate with their outgroup".
Oh, yeah you're right!
Maybe it should be the grocer's' apostrophe, since there are many offending grocer's.
Here's how you do it, make everything so poorly in terms of fit and finish that it becomes hard to find things that are perfect (or even good). Embrace the aesthetic.
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Yeah, I've been using it quite a lot actually and it's so satisfying and fast to develop with.
Or you can just ditch flex-direction... It’s not like it serves any great purpose
Reads like a typical get-rich-quick scheme.
Same reason I multiply all my integers by 4 in the setter and divide by 4 in the getter.
actually, what we want is code management tools that work with tokenized code and do not depend on formatting. i want a diff tool that shows me exactly which tokens have changed, and which haven't, regardless of how they are laid out. when we get that, then we should get even less merge conflicts.
Who gets to decide what's "evil"? You? Why?
So, if you work for a company, any company, you can't express concern or protest in any way, because having your income depend on things like ad revenue invalidates you to protest against things like a genocide.

Sounds like a healthy mentality /s
Unfortunately for me it does not crash. I have to kill this monster myself.
How is the surprising at all? You work for a company which provides IT services to the Israeli government. Of course protesting that project will get you fired.
That’s what ignored revisions are for.
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"These kind of people" are being taken advantage of, it doesn't benefit anyone to blame them. You don't know under what kind of pressure they made these choices, so don't rush to judge.
I've worked on ML, and AI before, and there's no real reason not to call it AI for convenience imo. "AI" is the hype word, so why not :)
97% of people don't use a shift key for capitals now it seems
The early Google was a small place where the brightest minds applied themselves to the most mundane problems, and the result was awesome. The company had a motto of "don't be evil" when the competition - Micro$oft and Oracle etc - were the epitome of evil, out to crush developers. That was the narrative back then, and the Googlers people knew believed it as much as the masses.

There was a steady erosion of the moral high ground in the second decade of Google, especially around China and the purchasing of Doubleclick.
Awww did your 3rd party tool bump it's widdle nose on a tab? There there, mommy will make it all better...FIREHOSE OF TABS
> Sure, who cares, nobody targets w3m in 2024.

I care. There's still w3m users out there - and I am one of them.

I don't care if the website looks like shit, but at least keep it usable for us.
https://qntm.org/responsibility

Wondering if this from GGP was a reference to that:

> The interesting part is what happens in the first fork.
You align by the space between cap-height and baseline. Always. It always looks good. Even for lowercase. You don’t need to think further. That’s it. That’s the solution
Hopefully nothing to do with Andromeda Strain https://i.imgflip.com/1led1b.gif
Alcohol abuse predates Alchemy, alcohol regularly makes "most addictive substances" lists.

Elephants get drunk on alchol w/out the intervention of a chemist, just plain old natural fermentation.

I understand your point, but there is that one blindingly obvious screaming exception that's a, ahh, elephant in the room.
Project Nimbus
I am disappointed by the really harsh criticism of what seems to me a product researching new ideas. I see so many tech articles where writers give lame business ideas too much praise and exposure. The attacks on Humane AI seem weird, comparing other product reviews.

I actually was tempted to pre-order one of these devices many months ago but decided my Apple Watch was a practical solution to the problems this device is meant to solve.

Anyway, I guess we will never get to see what version 2 of this product would have been.
I would probably do it via raycasting. You don't need to calculate all of the information sent just one ray per entity (ship, missile). project those rays through the battlefield and see if they collide at the correct time.
No.

People can and should. Even hypocrites like these people should be able to expresses concern.

We should not put much value for their expression of concern, because their standing is shaky.

It's like working for tobacco firm and voicing concern about
working with oil firms, but staying silent about tobacco.
How significant is this change? Are there utilities in the server world which do the same but with extra steps instead of having it as an os builtin?
Well the company is not a monolithic entity, it is after all a group of people. Is it unreasonable to expect them to change a particular policy, in this case supporting genocide , could be changed from within? After all it was decided to pursue by some execs, and it is jot that hard to withdrawfrom it. It is not the core business of Google. We are not talking about Googlers protesting about the Google Ads.
Wow 5.5 inches did a number on them. In my part of Los Angeles we got 12 inches in 24 hours* a few weeks back. It was pretty bad but thanks to our hideous concrete river we didn’t have the Dubai experience.

* https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-09/climate-...
May as well mandate a specific font and color scheme if the goal is to control how other people view code.

Tabs are self-consistent, which is usually all that matters. If for some reason you need greater control (E.G. ASCII-art spanning multiple indentation levels), then that should be documented instead.
>I’ve noticed these things all my life.

I was about to write: As someone late-diagnosed[1] with ADHD[2] and discovering they're autistic, ... -

>Once I was diagnosed with autism, this tendency of mine made a lot more sense.

...yup. This is what I was a about to write.

>I’m curious if other people detect interrupted or irregular patterns so readily. It’s like there’s a part of my brain just looking for anomalies and I can’t turn it off.

The answers to that are no and yes, that's the blessing and the curse of autism.

Seeking and recognizing patterns is one of the defining traits.

_____

[1] https://romankogan.net/adhd#Diagnosis

[2] https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Awfully%20Described%20Human%20D...
Those cutesy names were also a barrier to getting girls and young women involved in this stuff too. Changing it to modwiggler was absolutely the right thing to do.
Apprenticeships also take 3-4 years on average.
Unnecessary lines are trivially avoided by the proposed min/max optimisation.
I hate it. Every year I would curse my ancestors because they couldn't wait 5 minutes for the bread to rise.

I warn every person that is running away from war or slavery - prepare your food well!! Don't create some future stupid obligatory traditions for your offspring!!
They did center everything correctly for decades, do you think it was a mistake? https://grumpy.website/938
"CSS" (not sure what you're referring to here, the standards bodies?). Endless articles from the mid 2000s kept saying tables bad, here's how you layout without tables. All of them used floats for layout, not display:table. Partly I suppose this was because IE didn't support it until 2009, I think.

Nearly all layouts people actually want are table-like, and I think CSS really was misguided in its text-flow as layout approach.
I don't understand this, aren't pedophiles specifically interested by (non-sexually mature) children, rather than (sexually mature-ish) teenagers ?

There seems to be a lot of (new?) confusion between pedophiles and adults being interested in sexually mature teenagers, which, sure, can cause it's own issues, but is neither a sickness nor a one-way street, and that's what the different majorities of consent and authority and being able to interact with adult industries are for.

And the cutoff for turning fully major and being able to still interact with your slightly younger peers has to be dealt with anyway, ideally in a progressive way.
Exactly. I've stopped improving it, since I don't even know if people need something like this or not. No point in improving something, if they won't.
You could use ‘display:table’ in CSS if you wanted a tabular layout without using the table-tags. This has been part of CSS for 25 years.

Grid is newer and more powerful.
Absolutely cringe worthy. The painful thing is it’s just a simple conversation factor but I couldn’t take the article seriously after that.

Speaking of reinventing, the article rediscovered the concept of bakers percentage, which is how bakers always describe recipes! Except baker’s percentage is unit agnostic and not susceptible to variations in volumetric measurement, ingredient density, and non-universal cup sizes.
For an abbreviation, it's the first letter's pronunciation. You could easily make a list of those 26.

For an acronym, it's the word's pronunciation, and is (almost?) always the same as the standard rule: Vowels vs consonants.
I’m curious if other people detect interrupted or irregular patterns so readily

All the time, and I learned to not care a lot, even like some; for instance there's a lot of (mostly abstract, surrealism) art which does all the things wrong on that front but which is extremely enjoyable to me. Same weird way with music: exact 4/4 stuff is mostly boring, often even annoying, but give me funky off-beat stuff, chaos and noise and it brings a smile to my face.

There's only one thing which I can't shake off and that's lines which are meant to be, but aren't eaxcatly, parallel or right angles. Can keep staring at those. Especially when they are like very close to being correct but look like they're off (for like 1mm over 1m). Not the first time I actually get up and take a ruler to verify.
Ask HN: Why do news websites think this is a good idea?
So many journalist/news websites require an account/subscription. It didnt used to be that way. With the volume of news sites on the web, do they really expect it to be productive to ask users to make an account? People are actively seeking to reduce the number of accounts they have to create on the web, because they dont want to keep track of them all, or risk their data being leaked. Sure, they will get die-hard readers/fans to make an account or subscribe, but how can they expect to gain new readers or fans if most of them throw up a full-screen "Create an account to continue reading"? Like the user cant even deduce if its a good article, they have no incentive to create an account. Just an incentive to mark your publication in their mind on a mental blacklist because you deny them content. Is this bigger than what I can see? Would love to hear different viewpoints.
A great explanation.
Huge Terry
What a well-written story. I don't have much to add, but I can say her humour or writing talent seems to be quite sharp for someone that feels she has not completely regained her mental faculties.

Also the joke about opening a spa where she whacks stressed people with a bat so they find respite from our busy world: we already do that ourselves when we reach mental burnout. I did, and in some ways, I feel that years later, my mental sharpness is still not what it used to be. Perhaps burnout is as traumatic to the brain as a massive brain injury; certainly takes as long to heal from.
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but it seems it's for CTEs, I was asking aboyt materialized views where their result is physically stored all the time
You are right, but only if you believe Israel is doing good to the world.
You don't need 10Mbps to download a 30kB font file.

And if you're really targeting people that have trouble loading such a font file, then you have much, much bigger problems than centering things (you basically cannot put any image on your website).
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It’s also to prevent moisture issues. If you plaster right down to the floor then the plaster slowly soaks up moisture over time. Instead an unsightly gap is left to prevent this bridging. Skirting / baseboard covers the gap.

So much of what happens in house construction is about water management and without understanding it, it’s common for people to create issues. Regularly see patios that cover airbricks, causing suspended timber floors to rot.
Incorrect. It's only hubris on one side.

It's both Linus's plain arbitrary right, and his plain job, his defined role and office, to make exactly such decisions for this project. That's not hubris. It's just a role that affects a lot of people.

What makes it hubris on one side is "Who do you think you are making such a change to the Linux kernel that everyone else will have to accept?"

The reason things like that are phrased as questions is to allow for the possibility that there might be an answer.

For one of these parties, the question is rhetorical.

For one of these parties, the question is not rhetorical.
I assume the problem with symbolic inference is that from a single inconsistent premise logic can produce any statement possible.

If that is so then symbolic AI does not easily scale because you cannot feed inconsistent information into it. Compare this to how humans and LLMs learn, they both have no problem with inconsistent information. Yet statistically speaking humans can easily produce "useful" information.
The funny thing is that anyone thinks that the concepts of rule of law, sanctity of truth, and right over might concretely exist anywhere, and aren't just notional components of a legitimizing narrative. We have all lived through 2020 here.
Do it the way the database wants you to do it. Don’t use HTTP. Instead use TCP sockets (WebSockets when in the browser). Then put a tigger on the tables you care about.

Every time the table changes the DB sends a message to the browser in real time. Super simple.
>supplying technology to Israel’s government

And we all know what this means.
Who is saying that Bostrom is racist because his vibe was off?

The fact is that Bostrom gave credit to science quackery just because he wanted to be cool and rebel. I personally don't think Bostrom is "racist", more that he is an idiot with edgelord tendencies (and I think this alone justifies to not consider him for intellectual jobs: in a similar way, it is sometimes funny how some people are arguing that they are not racist or sexist, they just are a dick to other people regardless of their skin color or gender, as if it does not mean that society would be better without them too)
>Is that autism thing? My therapist suspect I'm autistic, and I have always noticed things like this - or trying to align everything in my mind when I look at things, or trying to split the into two halves of equal volume.

Very much in line with being neurodivergent.

Sounds more like autism than ADHD, but it's hard for me to tell, 'cause I'm both[1].

[1] https://romankogan.net/adhd
You’re clearly saying this from a position of privilege. A whole lot of “should” not any “this is how it is in reality”.
Hnrss.org and filter in your favorite way?
The GPU requirements for realtime video generation are very minimal in the grand scheme of things. Assault on reality itself.
In the other hand that ad business model allows them to provide services without charging money to the entire world, and that means a lot of people which otherwise wouldn't have a chance to access. Google made the web a much better place without any doubt, at least for a long time. But of course sometimes they also deserve valid criticism.
I like to leave my phone at home, and I load all sorts of content on to my Apple Watch. For me it is practical to have a lot of my favorite music permanently on my watch, then podcast and audio books are transient. If you have an Apple Watch, give it a try.
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Do you need to do some special maintenance on landing gear that has been submerged in water?
That style of question was notorious long before Google existed. It has never been associated with Google.
M1/2/3 mac minis could have been very well cooled passively. MBA's are.
Cool idea dude! Nice!
If you have latin american ancestry there are people known as conversos.
There were other places besides Spain, in middle ages Europe where people hid their Jewish backgrounds, attended church and blended in to protect their families but some traditions persist. There may be a family secret in your background.
Mazel tov!
If you're working for a company that does something bad, let's say 50% bad, and now the company participates in something 90% bad, you're an hypocrite for raising concern?

People have to balance their morality, their personal goals and their income. It's obvious that a shift in the company morality raises concerns.

This pretends that no gray areas exists, and that participating any slightly unethical activity invalidates your opinion about greater problems.
We should be going after all fraudsters.

Happiness with a degree is unrelated to fraudulent advertising and sketchy/deceptive contacts.

Most universities don't lie so blatantly about services provided to students or graduate job placement percentages.
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Isn't Pharmacology a different degree from a Pharmacy degree?

Can be (and is) very confusing because some countries don't even give Pharmacology degrees, only Pharmacy ones. But afaik UK does both.
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If smart people made language,yea, youd be right. But most people speaking english dont have the capacity, so no, "all but" means the "completely", for no logical reason.
Whoever discovered alcohol was the first chemist. Whoever got drunk on it, the first addict. They could be the same.
It's because the "if it hasn't been done, it can't be done" argument applies to nuclear displacing fossil fuels. Remember, the decarbonization goal has to be all uses of fossil fuels, not just their use for the grid.
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I've been maintaining my own mail server for almost 20 years. The thing though, I found that sometimes I end up needing to use one of the bigger email providers like gmail, apple mail, etc because otherwise my mail is classified as spam.
Hi I heard you might like to learn about keming.
> but open source won in many places in the end.

The biggest companies in the world are running closed-source software for profit that uses open source foundation while barely contributing back, so it's really not the counter-argument you think it is. And that's no wonder we're seeing open source companies going for source-available licenses now (Redis, HashiCorp) or other kinds of restrictions (RedHat), because they were helpless regarding the parasitic behavior of the big bad wolfs.
This heavily depends on the kind of experiments, especially the possible sources of error. Calibration can reduce most errors in physical chemistry where the measurements themselves are the usually the main part in the experiment. From my point of view, calibration of the devices should be part of the teaching lab – but equipment is often very old, so you don't calibrate the equipment itself, but rather try to measure some kind of error and clean up you data (theoretically, this is a calibration as well).
If you the teaching lab was about synthesis, calibration of pipettes, scales etc. will reduce the error as well, but having a more precise stop watch doesn't make you a better runner: the result can still be influenced by non-calibratable things like the cleanliness of your flasks, the consistency of your heating device, the purity of your reactants, the speed with which you can perform certain working steps etc. – also, synthesis can involve quite some luck.
Are there any jobs where you can publicly accuse your employer of "genocide for profit", hold a protest on company property and keep your job?

I mean, I'm all for workers' right to protest about things like Andy Rubin's $128 million golden parachute when he was fired for sexism - that sort of thing directly impacts working conditions. Problems which might have to be aired publicly, lest they be swept under the rug.

And I'm all for workers' right to engage in politics publicly outside of work, on their own time - I don't think anyone should face firing because their presence at a protest 'might reflect badly on the company' when they haven't brought the company into it.

And I'm in favour of employees being allowed to move between projects when they object to certain work and there's other work available. If an engineer at Boeing wants to work on passenger planes and space rockets but not fighter jets or ICBMs I think that's reasonable. If a Muslim working at a supermarket doesn't want to stock the alcohol shelves, and there's enough shelf-stocking work they can just swap with someone else, accommodating them is only reasonable.

But accusing your employer of genocide for profit? In public?

That's several steps beyond what I'd expect to get away with.