skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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.

Relativity overturned those Newtonian assumptions on which Kant depended, although he might say we nevertheless have to experience time as constant and space in three dimensions, regardless of how those things turn out to "really" work, since that's the only way we can do it.

So it's no longer obvious that time and space are just given absolutely, and due to that, they no longer make for a comfortable starting point for philosophical assumptions. If nature itself is different, then we might not even be experiencing it that way in the first place.

More tentatively, I think our advancing understanding of how brains and machines embody concepts, our understanding of the differences of biological creatures combined with new physics, is suggestive at a bare minimum that reality could be experienced differently, and/or that we can understand how we experience these things empirically with better knowledge about brains, instead of asserting that everything is governed at the outset by this or that philosophical assumption.
It looks all warpy and stretchy. That's not how skin and face muscles work. Looks fake to me.
Fossil fuels aren't yet in danger of being replaced. Their power density and EROI is hard to replicate.
> Assembly worker found pad hard to put on pedal in sub-assembly area and used a spray bottle with soapy water on the pad to slip it on.

TBH, something like this might even get approved by a foreman. "Thanks for coming up with a clever way to save a few seconds on assembly!"
The link is describing issues during car washes that damage the radar and other sensors and which will (probably) not brick the car but cause substantial damage and make the safety features worthless. Not just tearing off a mirror. They're in my Toyota manual too.
People in my circles have been saying this for a few years now, and we've yet to see it happen.

I've got my popcorn ready.

But you can rest easy. Everyone just votes for the candidate their party picked, anyway.
>because giving people the benefit of doubt is just a polite thing to do and even the Microsoft employees deserve it

This is just woefully naive when we have court documents from Microsoft's history of open source attacks. Microsoft lost the benefit of the doubt ages ago, nevermind that you should not be giving a legal entity who's only incentive is to extract more wealth from the world "the benefit of the doubt".
I much prefer to CKEditor to TinyMCE, but CKEditor has done a lot around licensing:

https://ckeditor.com/legal/ckeditor-oss-license/

They also modified their last CKEditor 4 open release to check the version and prompt the user to buy the LTS support.
Why would Asian-Americans be upset with this? If all of the EU suddenly went authoritarian and hostile toward the US, would people be upset to see similar laws against EU citizens?
Those are plugins you're describing.
> It’s possible some tiny and insignificant changes like moving a receptacle or data opening a couple inches aren’t properly documented on the as-builts, but major changes almost always are.

Based on these responses I should have been more clear. These small and inconsequential things are what I'm referring to. Yes, the projects I'm familiar with track the medium and big stuff, and most of the small stuff.
This point doesn't address warming
I'm afraid an afterlife would not leave Dennett in good humor.
"Morality and Evolutionary Biology" in https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-biology/
The runtime knows how to do that already. -[NSApplication run] sets up the runloop to drain events among other things.
For such a male-dominated industry creating a game for a largely male audience, it is impressive how well and positively women were portrayed in the MI games.

Elaine in particular is brave, smart, skillful, a leader, but also loving, kind. The character is not flattened to a single characteristic or narrative function. Even when she needs to be saved, when you get there, she already saved herself (in MI 1 or 2, I don’t remember).
I was not repeating someone else lies, i was discussing the topic posted with my understanding on what was posted here with the information i had at the time.

Your replies to him were posted much later then my comments and by the time you posted i could not edit or delete my post.

I did posted some other reply further down in this thread that while were posted after you replies i wrote then before i saw your replies, so also based solo on the information post by the OP.

If the information is incorrect then my apologies.

To anyone else looking at this please look at the OP posted here and at Eich replies and reach a conclusion by yourselves.

@dang if you see this fill free to delete my comments.

EDIT: just to add that i have sent an email requesting my comments to be deleted, although i do not know how long that might take.
Please help perform a security review of this Java library. It's free and open source, and needs a security review, like a security bug bounty program.
I think you have to be careful about looking at the diverse student body as "giving them an opportunity". For example, predatory for-profit universities specifically target low-income minority populations not to serve them but because they make for easy prey[1]. I'm not saying Lambda or any particular bootcamp is in this category, just that having a diverse student body isn't a feature unless you know for a fact that you're helping 100% of the students.[2]

Education has a couple of unique attributes that makes it difficult to assess:

1. the value cannot be perceived until much later after the service is rendered
2. alternatives are mutually exclusive; eg, people usually just attend one university or coding bootcamp, not all of them (or even two of them)

This is in contrast to, say, a restaurant where diners can immediately determine if they like the food and can compare it with competitors (because they dine at all the restaurants).

Those two attributes make it very easy to lead with hype and marketing and vulnerable people are particularly susceptible to it. imo it's not appropriate to deploy the standard startup playbook in edu, especially if you find yourself attracting vulnerable students.

Ok, now combine that with ISAs, which has some positive qualities but are not as incentive aligning as marketed. And then if you sell the ISA in bundles, then it becomes even less incentive aligning. Well, I guess it's now aligning with investors and loan brokers. But it's certainly not aligning more with student outcomes.

It all makes for a very delicate situation where you have vulnerable students biting on the ISA bait.

I know it seems like I'm just complaining but I've been thinking about these problems for a long time and I come with solutions. Or, particularly, a solution: imo the best thing an edu institution can do is allow students to leave easily.

Why do we never think of restaurants as predatory? The idea is ludicrous to even consider. There are of course terrible restaurants but we can just not dine there again and eat elsewhere. There are lots of restaurants around.

And here's the issue: there are also lots of edu institutions around but every single one of them deploy the marketing->entrapment playbook.[3]

How does marketing work when you have a bad school? Because of the time-lapse between value received and service rendered. The ISA is easily abused in this environment because it's both the marketing and the trap.

Anyway, I'm just riffing here... btw, huge fan of your books and work! Despite what I wrote above, I knew Lambda was making an honest attempt at their curriculum when they hired you.

[1] https://failstatemovie.com/
[2] imo, edu institutions need to be judged on how they treat their most vulnerable students, unlike startups who are judged on their best wins (https://twitter.com/cglee/status/1781129096250179640)
[3] https://medium.com/launch-school/educational-entrapment-f5cc0472051e
Strava art: World record pending for 2,000km Olympic rings
Ironically low effort deep fakes might increase trust in organizations that have had the budget to fake stuff since their inception. The losers are 'citizen journalist' broadcasting on Youtube etc.
That is so nice to hear; thanks for gifting me with a huge smile today :)

There have been some tough moments in the last year, especially with funding, but we are on a good path and I am having fun -> https://build.shepherd.com/p/shepherd-stress-path-forward

Super excited to ship reader features soon!
Downvote as much as you want, this is as stupid as GP's point.
Doesn't work anymore, especially because it doesn't support ARC.
Corporations are totally unsuited to handling unpredictability. In fact execs are trained to minimize or avoid dealing with anything unpredictable. So now we have this fantastic farce playing out, were all these people who are trained to deal with only the predictable and the controllable, are thrown into the front lines of dealing with the uncontrollable.

So like ants, when you throw something random at the ant hill, they all run around furiously acting as if this going to make some difference.

Work harder and we will control the path of the hurricane and the sun right?

Time for a Hammerstein-Equord quote - I distinguish four types of officers. There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next ones are stupid and lazy; they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the mental clarity and strength of nerve necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage
Wait until you see the NX* APIs ;)
In this case, replacing humans in service jobs. From the paper:

"Such technology holds the promise of enriching digital communication,
increasing accessibility for those with communicative impairments, transforming education methods with interactive AI tutoring, and providing therapeutic support and social interaction in healthcare."

A convincing simulacrum of empathy could plausibly be the most profitable product since oil.
The main roadblock for content creators is the distribution channels. Content creators require attention. Attention is the hardest thing to obtain. TikTok broke through and stole lots of attention away from YouTube. Content creators aren't able to grow a massive following of their own because of the discoverability crisis on the Internet. Google and many other platforms are putting up high wall prisons (I refuse to called them "walled gardens") to hold on to user attention as tightly as possible.
Thank God for us "blue haired liberals" who fight for the basic human rights of even those people who hold views and beliefs that we find deplorable.

Rest assured that once the 2000lb bombs stop falling on innocent civilians, and once they pick up whatever is left of their lives, we'll be sure to promptly censure them for their homophobic views.
I can read it, and I can also see the holes in it.
And it's only going to get faster, better, easier, cheaper.[a]

Meanwhile, yesterday my credit card company asked me if I wanted to use voice authentication for verifying my identity "more securely" on the phone. Surely the company spent many millions of dollars to enable this new security-theater feature.

It begs the question: Is every single executive and manager at my credit card company completely unaware that right now anyone can clone anyone else's voice by obtaining a short sample audio clip taken from any social network? If anyone is aware, why is the company acting like this?

Corporate America is so far behind the times it's not even funny.

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[a] With apologies to Daft Punk.
Philosophy is the birthplace of sciences, which is why most philosophers are dealing with some kind of metaphysics. Yes, there are some philosophers that continue their work after developing it from a metaphysics into a physics, but that's sort of besides the point. The point of philosophy is to create the framework for empirical research.

That you would deride Wittgenstein on a math/CS forum, when he is literally the person who thought up the concept of truth tables, seems quite egregious.

Yes, Wittgenstein is one of the most frustrating philosophers to read (I know, I took a class on his work), but his impact on the development of computer science, as one of the main people trying to harness the logic of thought/language, seems obvious to me.
> "In what way?"

They were last, but not late. SMP in the x86 world was miniscule in terms of multi-CPU setups. It didn't "happen" until the multi-core era, and OpenBSD was well in time for that.
Ask HN: Is Twitter's job board an alternative to LinkedIn?
I refer to this: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
Corporate disinformation and propaganda campaigns.

Personal disinformation and propaganda campaigns.

Oh Brave New World, that has such fake people in it!
I can do without "creators" at all, which I guess explains why my online time these days is mostly spent scurrying around the wainscoting of the web: HN, marginalia, etc.

"Away to the hills, to the caves, to the rocks

Ere I own an usurper, I'll couch with the fox"

These days you can even find some seriously deep cuts, like some hobbyist from the XII explaining how to calculate with the newfangled arabic numerals:
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84900936/f151.item
If you aren't getting your money back in endless salad and breadsticks while engorging on that fettucine, you are doing olive garden wrong. It is a restaurant best eaten by the heavy set and the stoned.
Propaganda, political manipulation, narrative nudging, regular scams and advertising.

Even though most of those things are illegal you could just have foreign cat's paw firms do it. Maybe you fire them for "going to far" after the damage is done, assuming some even manages to connect the dots.
I can see that. Without knowledge of cellular level biology, sponges appear to be plants or fungi.
App bundles have no fixed layout. How would rpaths work if you didn’t specify them yourself?
As a recent transplant to the SF Bay Area, I looked at sale prices and property taxes for the houses in my neighborhood. We are a dual six figure income family and are squeezed tight to live here, while neighbors that have been here a while have about 1/10th the housing cost for essentially identical housing. It takes 4-6x the income to move here and stay now as it did a few decades ago.

I don’t know what the solution is, because if policies were changed so I wasn’t effectively heavily subsidizing my poorer and older neighbors, they would be kicked out.

But it seems weird to make 4-6x what my neighbors do, and barely able to afford to live like they do, basically just because I’m younger. For millennials, my partner and I are the “lucky” ones, nobody else I know my age could even consider renting a low end single family home in the bay as we are just barely able to do. It’s weird that the people with kids are barely able to rent small apartments, while the 4 bedroom homes are mostly occupied by 1-2 retirees, with dusty bedrooms that nobody has entered since the grandkids last visited.
>> No car with paint you care about should ever be washed in the sun.

> Are you being serious?

Probably given "If you look around some detailer forums". I've seen the don't wash in the sun part, but it is about getting the "perfect" clean and not damage. The damage prevention parts usually involve reducing the amount of dirt and grit be rubbed against the paint like foam cannons, multiple buckets/clothes/mitts, grates, clay, etc.

> I have never heard of cars being washed in any other way.

I have a feeling you two are looking at it from vastly different perspectives. You seem to have a more utilitarian view of car washing. You know your car is going to receive damage as you use it. Minor scratches and fading that you have to inspect for are the least of your worries. The other person seems to view cars as important status symbols and any "easily" seen imperfection is a blemish.
Why would you want to manage your own runloop? It's both not interesting and possible to get wrong.
I'm not following; how does an onslaught of fake FOSS mean FOSS has won? If anything it sounds like it needs more defending than ever.
I love indie bookstores :). I "stole" the original idea from a fantastic indie bookstore that I stumbled into.

I walked into the bookstore, and they had little index cards to show off staff favorites and a little half-tweet on why: "Andy loves the characters in this outside-the-box fantasy series;- you will dig it."

It was this magical way to meet the books. I thought it would be fun to try to do that while helping authors meet readers.
Maybe an equallly interesting question to ask yourself is why you associated those with "babytalk".
I must be an oddball because working alone honestly feels much more preferred. People add complexity, which scales exponentially with more people. I honestly much more prefer AI workers vs. human workers for this reason. I feel like when I work alone I can focus on things that matter and actually get more and important things done, instead of managing people and their politics. It's also different relating to people as a founder vs. just another employee. If I don't want to engage with someone I can choose not to. Freedom not to talk to people I don't want to is worth every penny.
I don't see the extinction of trust through the introduction of garbage falsehoods to be a net good.

Believing that everything you eat is poisoned is no way to live. Believing that everything you see is a lie is also no way to live.
My understanding is that it was basically a condition enforced by the maintainers of the Linux TCP / networking subsystems. If you look at the initial upstreaming discussions[1], this was setup as a ground rule.

If you look at the older multipath TCP implementation, prior to the upstreaming, it was intended to be fully transparent to the application, which I think makes more sense for the intent of the protocol. Sure, in many cases MPTCP may be better with application-guided logic, but having a standard system approach (e.g. establish sub-flows on an LTE connection for automatic failover, but don't send any data along those sub-flows) would have worked for 95% of cases.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/alpine.OSX.2.21.1707181728570.11...
> Today a big ML model can do this

Not that big:

https://github.com/Zejun-Yang/AniPortrait

https://huggingface.co/ZJYang/AniPortrait/tree/main
Video games do not generate large streams of data, they generate individual values on demand. Your link says, to generate 8 bytes, chacha12 on modern hardware needs 24-45 cpb. That's 192-360 cycles to generate enough bits for a pseudorandom double-precision floating-point number. Xoshiro256+ [1], a relatively high-quality generator for this purpose, can do it with 11 single-cycle ALU ops. So unoptimized xoshiro256+ should be 17 times faster than optimized chacha12 on the best hardware. This is a classic latency vs. throughput issue.

Now, maybe you could optimize the use of a CSPRNG here by filling large buffer(s) and sampling values from them. Some warm-up time could go a long way. However, I fear that you would run into one or more of the following problems:

- stop-the-world pause to refill the buffer (e.g. single buffer, no threading)

- synchronization delays from mutex locks (e.g. ring buffer refilled from a background thread)

- high memory usage (e.g. rotating pool of buffers, atomically swapped)

Needless to say, none of these solutions is anywhere near as simple to implement as a non-cryptographic PRNG.

Now let's consider determinism. Video games generally use a lot of differently seeded instances of the same PRNG algorithm to provide random numbers in different parts of the simulation. Since each part may demand random numbers at different rates, it's hard to replace several independent PRNGs with a single PRNG without compromising determinism. In the 4096 bytes necessary to run one instance of chacha12 at its maximum efficiency, you can fit 128 instances of xoshiro256+ or 512 instances of splitmix64 [2].

[1] = https://prng.di.unimi.it/xoshiro256plus.c

[2] = https://github.com/svaarala/duktape/blob/master/misc/splitmi...
You can peek at his GitHub
I think he should have only used the ChatGPT to get an idea, but his response should have been in his own words.

Using an LLM in the way he did gives a signal that he does not really care.
I think it would.

Even if he was wrong about it, it's important to air the thinking around it regardless of belief.

The proposition, for example, that consciousness is basically an illusion without empirical basis, one would have to take up as belief, I guess (paradoxically), since to most of us, that would seem like gaslighting (i.e., "if your conclusion is that Descartes was wrong and that we can't even know we are conscious, then I beg to differ")
> it doesn't require weird special syntax

But to use that `Either` object ergonomically languages do add extra syntax. Rust with the `?` and Scala with the for-comprehension.

The interactions with HOFs are also subtle.

In Rust it requires a smart use of type params for `collect`.

In Scala (following the Haskell tradition) there's the pair of coloured functions `traverse` and `map`. But `traverse` is only available in third-party functional programming libraries (Cats or Scalaz). So out of the box there isn't a way to cleanly `map` a function that returns the `Either` type.

> now we're catching ALL exceptions, yay

Your example is not that different from upcasting.

val foo: Either<Exception, Foo> = // Either is covariant
myClass.getFoo() // returns Either<MyError, Foo>
Well now we're going around in circles:

1. External install scripts that put stuff in system directories are sloppy and we don't like them

2. External install scripts that put stuff clearly-named non-hidden directory in your $HOME are better than the above
This twitter user is the same guy who invented the Critical Race Theory conspiracy theory.
Love the fact that the known universe is much more smaller (10^-35) than it is bigger (10^27) from our chosen baseline.
Wouldn't the most obvious method of cheating be the site owner peeking at other player's hands and/or the deck? Which this doesn't (and cannot) prevent?

I guess I'm not sure what publicizing their PRNG is meant to prove. It shows they didn't cheat via a very specific type of cheating but there are several other potential cheating vectors.
Interesting idea. At first, I thought you could only lose money if you didn't accomplish your goals. But then I realized that money was being shared among the people who joined the same challenge. This mechanism not only disincentivizes not accomplishing your goals but also incentivizes accomplishing your goals.

Also curious about whether there is any form of verification of whether someone accomplished their goal. If not, this could result in bad actors trying to exploit the system by always checking their goals as completed. One potential way of getting rid of exploiters would be to remove the positive reward factor of the game, for example, the money lost by the participants could be sent into verified charity funds instead of being shared among the people who joined the pot.

I also have some doubts about the efficiency of mixing external motivations (in this case losing money or increasing a bit) with internal motivations (the goal itself). But this is another topic for discussion.

Anyway, this is a very interesting idea nonetheless. Good job! :)
DNA G-Quadruplex Is a Transcriptional Control Device That Regulates Memory