skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is, there isn't a paper trail - now TJ Watson wasn't a big leaver of paper either. He learned at working at NCR - but this was an era when international phone calling was prohibitive.
Finnish startup begins making food 'from air and solar power'
they used the scientific method to develop techniques to cause personality dissociation disorder. they were probably trying to make "better spies" ended up creating sexual slaves (if you subscribe to some conspiracies)

my point is twofold: this kind of evidence just puts wind in the sails of such kinds of conspiracies. if they are willing to do that...

the cherry on top (in cynical thinking) is once they're satisfied with the reliability of their techniques, they proceed to make them unethical so that other subgroups cannot develop such kinds of techniques

finally, an unrelated perspective. notice how I'm now subscribing and/or unsubscribing from this or that 'truth' or theory... it is truly a post-truth world at the moment
Maybe Discovering Modern C++ 2nd edition. But check the table of content before buying, it may be too beginner level for you.
> Everything is soldered in these days.

[...insert sound of old timers laughing at newbies who declared T480/T490 overhyped for no reason because "no one care about upgradability anymore"...]

:)
And finally I've seen the (variation of the) argument usually applied to the Russians, about their slavish nature ("During the Stalin's reign, half of the country was in jail and the other half was the jailers" etc.) leading to the impossibility for them to form a civilized and liberal society, which is usually retorted with an example of the Australians... being applied to the Australians itself.

No, one doesn't need to be of good breed to be freely able to speak multisyllabic words.
So if a process produces a device such as a bicycle without agency, that process is simply not invention, correct?
> Kant used Newtonian assumptions about the time and space, treating them as absolute, and treating them not as properties of physics but necessary preconditions for us being able to experience anything.

Ok... this is non sequitur. It really doesn't matter that time moves at different speeds for any of Kant's philosophical positions. 2 people could be traveling at 0.5c and 0.00000001c and that makes no difference in Kant morals on how they should behave.

And, practically speaking, unless there's a drastic development in propulsion the only bearing relativity has on day to day life is making sure the GPS works correctly. It is, otherwise, completely non-impactful to anyone beyond astrophysicists.
[dupe]

Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40071858
Sorry, did not see you responded, responding late.

>Gorbachev's devolution worked about 15 times better than Mountbatten's.

Oh, I'm not arguing about that. I was making more of an objective case, sorry if it wasn't clear, I think the British decolonialization was handled horribly. But Gorbachev already had the benefit of hindsight and he was kind of the initiator of a whole lot of it, whereas Mounbatten was basically handed a hot potato by Atlee(and here Churchill escapes criticism even though some of his behavior throughout his carrier made the Labor rapid decolonization inevitable).

>US and USSR would have converged on something closer to a western european social democratic model
There is a very interesting book kind of related to this, The Affirmative Action Empire by Terry Martin. A lot of parallels between the US and USSR in terms of what actually happened.

>current Tsar might lack for Cossacks without Chechens?
The unfortunate reality of the Ukraine War seems to be(according to Russians I keep in contact with) that the Varangian Guard/Swiss Mercenary thesis for Chechens, which was sold and shilled by pro-Putin mouthpieces for the last 20 years as part of the reconciliation, is completely destroyed for the ordinary russian. Akhmat and all other "commandos" are viewed as tiktokers by the majority of russians, it seems. There will be a lot of ethnic tension due to that, I think.

>I'd say that the USSR owed its existence to the German Empire and the British Empire
The classic Russian historiographical view(i.e most Russian historians) is that some sort of civil war was basically inevitable in some capacity after the loss in the Russo-Japanese War(and the absolutely horrible way it was conducted), but it could've maybe ended up in a highly depowered monarchic system without WW1, instead of outright communism.

>Did Yeltsin really get handed a bad situation, or did he grab one?
Yeltsin did grab it with both his hands, the comment was more about how pathetic Gorbachev's behavior was during that time. As soon as he left office he basically set up shop doing historical revisionism with the Gorbachev foundation about how "actually here is why perestroika was awesome" whilst everything went to shit around him(on the basis largely of his own policies and his dilapidation of the Soviet state).
Such an underrated game. I wish they would remaster it in high res. The art style is stunning and holds up.

And let's not forget it introduced Murray the Skull to the world!
The current state of affairs are the direct result of government policy and investment, starting with mid-century "urban renewal" (which demolished existing dense and close-in housing and infrastructure), continuing with government bias towards suburbanization through municipal bonds and auto infrastructure spending, and most recently with the high tax and subsidy benefits that go to homeowners, and particularly first-time purchasers. Zoning and "character" codes factor in as well. Private interests were certainly involved (particularly with the realty industry's contribution to white flight and the banking industry's mortgage financing schemes), but much of this very much "society's" fault. I go to the "The Devil Wear's Prada" theory of decision-making: if you picked it off the rack or see a lot of other people doing the same thing, question who made the decision for you.
This is true, It was absolutely ridiculous to see even UN articles getting flagged to death. All the while absolute propaganda were still actively get promoted. An argument can be made that HN has to not keep discussions going to flamewar. I would acknowledge that I have learned much kore about the issues through HN. And it is much more clear to me that the responsibility almost completely lies on the west, both colonial and neo colonial entities there.

What is even more surprising is that US under Reagan, of all people, had cut off aid and stabilised Israel aggression much more than the current government. Yet, we have bipartisan support for the apartheid genocide machine when they commit even more cruel crimes against humanity.
AI-Driven Power Demand Is Set to Jump 900% in Chicago Area, Exelon CEO Says
https://archive.ph/Zrhf5
see this is why "startup" is so much harder than running a "business"

a "business" already works on what is built or established, refining processes to branch off beaten paths to sales/marketing

a "startup" operates with too many unknowns for the average person, 99% failure means only 1% of the people figure out the unknowns to become a "business"

I just don't understand why people just default to "startup". You should be focused on running a business and make a 15 cents out of a dollar spent, not spend a dollar to make 15 cents in hopes that someone will "buy you out" or you "ipo"

such are pipe dreams
Although formal logicians are quite isolated in philosophy departments -- while their colleagues are debating whether Plato or Kant had a better idea of what it meant to be "good", the logicians are basically doing math with symbols rather than numbers.
Battery tech is going to double in two years… every year since 1992 (and possibly before).

Still hasn’t happened yet.
I've never quite seen eye to eye with Daniel Dennett. His tendency to reduce the inexplicable to what he's confident he understands has always made me wonder if a challenging childhood might have fostered his distrust of the mysterious. Whenever I admire Nobel Prize laureates like Roger Penrose, who argue that consciousness isn't just software running on the brain's hardware, I can't help but feel a twinge of pity for Dennett and his like-minded peers. I can almost hear him reflecting, 'Wow, that was a wild ride, but boy, was I cranky! I wish I could have another go at it.
> Do you think Ukraine's demographics are doing any better?

How is that relevant to the discussion? I only brought it up in the context of Russia not being able to compensate for sanctions with their internal economic output.
Even if Tesla's rosiest projections for CT were true, it'd be less than 20% of unit volume. Reality might be under 15%.

It doesn't really move the needle either way.
For hobby programming, Python is the best (unless you want to do web development in which case JavaScript is what you want). For Python, a really good book for beginners is Python Crash Course.
That's impressive. I asked to summarise an article in 5 bullet points, and the output was 812.81 T/s on Llama 3 8B.
I wonder if we'll ever invent a kind of artificial chemical thymus that constantly generates chemical variations and runs them through a gauntlet of things they should/shouldn't affect.

... Well, I guess we have that in a way, they're just called "pharmaceutical companies."
O*Net Occupation Code Labeler
The Will Pirkle books are good.
I’m not sure where those places are, I assume it’s not the part of the Bay Area I’m in. But I’m okay with making it legal to build affordable and high density housing in currently low density areas.
Peer review was broken back then too. It is just too perverse and dismissive. Peer reviewers have a bias to discredit novel results that are true. I feel terribly for Callendar not being recognized.
I hope you don't take part in any modern medicine because almost every modern procedure was built upon a long history of extremely risky experiments that probably should have never been allowed.
https://htwins.net/scale2/
Malconcurrency: A Proposed New Term
> made me wonder if a challenging childhood might have fostered his distrust of the mysterious

Why this, and not simply an urge to understand things?
>But if photons couldn't decay due to not experiencing time, they couldn't do anything else either.

I mean we are jumping way out of the classical behavior that objects like you and I exist in. To the photon itself is a timeless object. It 'moves' in a null geodesic where t=0. Attempting to apply any classical behavior that occurs in time-like objects just isn't going to work when applying them to massless light-like objects.
I definitely was not. "Courageous", "adventurous", "risk-taking", "reckless", "impudent", "bold", "daring", but with something that would mean "...almost and even to a fault or own peril", but without an inherent negative moral connotation is what I was looking for.
> Key Messages: Although the available evidence lacked robust clinical studies, tooth brushing using fluoridated products immediately after an erosive challenge does not increase the risk of [erosive tooth wear] and can be recommended, which is in line with recommendations for dental caries prevention.

So to TLDR it even further, don't be afraid to brush your teeth right away.
Wow, so many. Had no idea there were so many, and recent.

I'm surprised they still happen, since they seem to not have the same impact anymore. For so many happening, not many make the news.
I think it's interesting as there is a common beetle ancestor.

Usually, when we find something like this, the answer is because "taxonomy is more art than science". Like trees or fish. Both exist all over their respective branches of the evolutionary tree. You have fish species that do not have a common ancestor that does not also include "not fish".

Same with trees. Two "trees" can exist in groups with "not trees"

Although, I guess the picture could also be incomplete. It could just be showing the beetle lineage and not anything else that may branch from those branches.

In which case, this could be another case of cancerification. As much as nature loves a crab, it loves to start from a beetle.
> You are simply wrong about that. Ethics are instincts produced by evolution. Like all instincts, they exist because they have survival value

That sounds like a rather cheap version of evolution (and - not wanting to offend you, but in my view you sound rather too convinced that you have figured it all out for your own good).

The way you map moral values on survival smells like Skinner's cheap way to explain language in terms of behavioral stimulus-response pairs: not an adequate explanation. Beware that for every Skinner, there may a Chomsky around the corner to give his views a run for his money.
Does ASI mean artificial super intelligence or something else?
That's been a problem in the auto industry in general, not just with Musk.

Honda's shipped a whole generation of Accord with a bad transmission. Civic clear coat failures were horrible for a while. Nissan has had huge issues with CVTs.

Chevy or Ford would be treated much worse for similar situations. There are patterns, and real disconnects between the reputational damage that is done and underlying vehicle reliability.
Yes, that is perfectly safe. And obviously so.

It may be upsetting, or disruptive to work, or a firing offense, but per your description nobody was in danger.
Yea, I mean I do this too, including hosting my own home games. Our local club even hires dealers to help keep the games moving.

My fear is that there's no great way to outlaw predatory casinos that pick the pockets of the poor, that still allows responsible home games and private clubs. A lot of US states try/tried various ways, with rules about who can take a rake and so on, but it's difficult to make them ironclad and casinos are highly motivated to find loopholes and operate a millimeter from the edge of the law. And if you get too strict, suddenly you've criminalized grandma's $0.25 bingo game with the ladies.
Yes it still is, but there was a measure that passed to provide some route for retirees to transfer low property taxes to a smaller place. In practice that probably helps to even make the smaller places inaccessible to young families, while the big houses get bought as investments by big firms… and often left to sit vacant. Lots of large vacant houses with mysterious ownership in my neighborhood, some dilapidated, and others kept up by commercial crews.
OSI is from 1998 so it’s much younger than the open source movement. BSD was approaching 20 and Linux was what 7 years old at that point?
You do realize you are doing philosophy at this moment, right?
Heh, nice to stumble on this here; I wrote the post – happy to answer any questions!
Then the article title should probably be "mimicking biological brains"!

Oh well.
>> mystical nonsense such as the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics

> It's not mystical nonsense, it's a logical consequence of the mathematics of quantum mechanics

you're both wrong. What the many-worlds interpretation is, is philosophy. It's thinking about what could be that would be explanatory, in the absence of being able to test it; just as atomic theory was philosophy before it was experimentally shown... and it's still philosophy to think about what has actually been shown, since it was not long after it was "shown" that indivisible atoms became divisible into fundamental particles, that they in turn turned out not to be fundamental either.
I have not encountered them. Are they public?
Cool! Now we can expect to see an endless stream of dead president's speeches "LIVE" from the White House.

This should end well.
the longer we wait, the more power these entities will have.
I "knew" enough calculus to get good grades in math courses through high school and college as an engineer.

But I didn't really "know" calculus until I read a book not too dissimilar from this one, "A Course of Pure Mathematics" from 1908 (!), which constructs calculus up from number theory (I think the fundamental theorem of calculus comes halfway through the book?). From that point it's impossible to forget.

As for why it's not taught this way today, I'd blame our testing regime and large classrooms, which incentivizes temporary memorization of key formulae and knowing where to mindlessly apply them, over deep/lasting/semantic understanding. I'd also blame the fact that we have a different maths teacher every year, so students come in with heterogenous understandings of the pre-requisites for the next year's material, so the first part of a section is spent reviewing + consolidating.

It takes maybe 10-20% more time to get a rich understanding of the subject that lasts a lifetime. But we value compression and instantly-measurable results more than actual learning. :/

Encountering material like this makes you really happy, but it's kind of bittersweet because it makes you realize that the modal state of modern pedagogy is pretty abysmal.
I recently watched the HBO show Enlightened (co-created/written by Mike White, of White Lotus fame), which is largely about an overly idealistic employee trying to steer her big evil corporate employer towards social change. Lots of parallels here re: naivety/surprise/outrage when this doesn't work out quite how she envisioned.

Interestingly, that show is from 2011!

While the whole "activist employee during business hours" thing feels like a far more recent phenomenon to me, apparently it's been happening for a while? Maybe it's just becoming more widespread lately.
Oh good!
For anyone who enjoyed the titles of those links but found that there was just, something in the way of really digging into them, try:

NY Times interview with him: https://archive.ph/knd9C

NYer Profile: https://archive.ph/Snm8g
It’s also Florida, you stomp your foot and you almost hit water, so building low/high rises everywhere is mostly out of the question. Anyway, give it 20 to 30 years and it will all be under water anyway.
Affirming that I have even less in common with the likes of Kim Kardashian and Steve Aoki than previously understood is perhaps the nicest compliment you could have given me. Thank you!
Adding pig DNA to Soybeans to make vegetables meatier? What could go wrong. Life finds a way, all the gene modifications will get into the wild somehow.
Something more descriptive in the title would be helpful like "Daniel Dennett, philosopher and cognitive scientist, has died"
> what's the English word for someone who gets way too excited from the thrill of gambling and forgoes the caution? "Hasardeux" is French for it, but I don't think "hazardous" has that sense in English?

The best I can come up with is "adrenaline junky", but that isn't specific to gambling; I feel like people use that to refer to people who like base jumping or something.
People should never, ever write letters? You're kidding me. What is going to happen over the mail?

When I was a kid I wrote letters all the time to anyone I met and kept up some good correspondences. I felt it really enhanced me as a character and grew my literary skills.

Anyways the point -- I'm sure -- is moot as no one does that anymore, I'll bet.
In here though the skeptic is providing a useful service in which they educate the user about edge cases (or properties) that the user might not be aware of.

You know, being well informed beyond marketing materials.

The user then might demand action from the service provider thereby improving the service.

Instead of you know, yolo.
I just thought it was amusing that Beoing had also found techs inappropriately using dish soap to fit seals on doors during the plug fiasco[0].

0: https://www.businessinsider.com/faa-boeing-spirit-aerosystem...
You’re right, it’s fake! A pretty good fake until I found 2 identical tiles.
I use Johnny.Decimal [0] for my folder organisation needs. I'm not strict with it but it works for me.

[0] https://johnnydecimal.com/
Here's one source.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2022.11.001

Epigenetic alterations such as DNA methylation are only one hallmark of aging, and not the most useful one in most cases. Interventions to reduce those epigenetic alternations have generally not proven effective in extending lifespans or improving health outcomes.
Years ago I worked for a bank who would often do UI research and focus groups.

Users, mortals, normal people would come in for a gift card and lunch.

Small business owners, C levels, non bank VP's had to be given (and im going to date myself) a palm V or something of equal value to come in....

Short of putting money on the table your response rates are HUGE. The question is are you getting the responses from the right/best segment of the industry. Remember your competing for their "attention" with every medical sales person out there, drugs, devices, marketing... "golf" is still a thing.

If you feel the need to add something into the mix: Build a News letter (head start on marketing. Run ad campaign (very targeted and expensive) and sign up form or survey (exclude all non dr's you capture).
https://archive.ph/C2cL2
It's relevant to your comment I replied to because you brought up demographics as being not in Russia's favor.
Kia's $15,000 EV2 caught in the wild as affordable EV offensive kicks off
> Quynh, an old friend who runs a publishing house in Vietnam, believes that there are three big problems in life: career, family, and finance. It usually takes people a decade to figure each out.

I have a really hard time relating to this (except if you frame problem as "something to be solved somehow"). I'm much more focused on solving the problems of: finding activities that are worth living for (programming, drawing, music, reading, writing, sports, nature) and friendships and intellectual exchange.

I find myself growing as I am able to focus my attention on these topics and feel that I am doing so in a sustainable way, and feel content (almost) every day.
jhbadger: But logicism, the idea that all of math can be reduced to logic, is itself a controversial philosophical thesis!
...until one day it hallucinates or has existential crisis and does something funny with "dd" or "fdisk/sfdisk"... :)
> Even if intelligent life were rare enough to only appear once per knowable universe, there could be 10^23 different intelligent species

The search space of complex organic molecules grows exponentially with size. All that difference creates is some marginal space between molecules with hundreds of monomers and hundreds of monomers + some 4 or 8 where life could fit that.

Your revision of 10^70 makes it a little bit more believable. But I wouldn't expect at all that to happen.
> Unless the search engine aggressively curates it's target pages, I can't see how it wouldn't end up falling down the same trap as search engines of the past.

What it would have to do is have staff actively investigating current SEO tactics and thwarting them. This is like manual curation, except that when you see some results are bad, you investigate what caused the results to be like that, and change the algorithm so it stops working in general.

For example, pick some of the known scummer sites and have automatic alerts if your current algorithm ever starts ranking them highly so you can have your engineers immediately investigate what's going on and fix it. It's like statistical sampling; even if you only have alerts for 2% of the scummy sites, you very quickly discover when there is an effective new tactic, and then very quickly shut it down for 100% of scummy sites.

> Much like all social media sites end up overran by grandmas.

I think this is specific to Facebook, possibly because of the real-name policy.

Is TikTok or Twitter overrun by grandmas?
WebRTC actually feels exceptionally tinkerable to me, with human(-ish) readable SDP offers, public RFCs, various implementations, and importantly it being accessible from JavaScript playgrounds right within the browser!

I've learned a lot about it over the years by following https://webrtchacks.com/, which does just that, i.e. taking apart various open and closed VoIP implementations (WebRTC or otherwise) and seeing how they work.