skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Positive testing, in this case, is matching a sample to a pre-existing pattern

Negative testing is trying to invalidate the sample

The hunting of the snark is written in a way that reads like "normal English" from a distance. The sentences flow fine, the words look about right if you squint. So it passes a lot of "positive tests", in that it matches our expectations for what language looks like.

You have to "negative test" the story to realize you don't know the definitions for any of the words, and that the plot is uninterpretable.

Same idea as Kahneman's system 1 that comes up with instant answers, or ChatGPT hallucinating facts by association that "look right".
This is the kind of stuff I do for my parents (early 70s):

- They both have the same phone: iPhone 13, so we all have a shared context for how phones work.

- Maintain Google Family/iCloud family subscriptions so they don't worry about storage or losing data. I do yearly in-person hard backups of their computers and phones (mostly photos).

- Create them synthetic iCloud accounts with email addresses that are just aliases for my email.

- Password managers + adblocking on everything. They don't know how to create passwords really but at least it autofills easily.

- They use Eero router and I am the admin - so I can remotely check network status, restart it, etc (this is REALLY nifty - "internet is messed up" questions dropped 100% when I switched this over from a NetGear router).

- Similarly, I set their router to NextDNS and block ads + threats for them.
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Fantastic link, thanks for that, I actually hadn't seen that before. Thank god that Apple is protecting their users. Me not collecting any data, not using advertising ID, or even knowing anything about anyone using the app is suspiciously uncommon, so surely, I can only be scheming for greater evil here. Luckily, the forced IAPs I had to add now allow me to pay them back for having to remind me of it all. Sigh.
C is Lindy. People will be writing C code in 2072.
The time I worked the hardest was actually when I was the most energetic, second half of college.
You can make plenty of profit in 7 years or 20 years or something reasonable like that.
Conway's Game of Life (GoL) provides a clear demonstration that simple rules can lead to complex behavior. The complex behavior is deep in the sense that Conway's GoL is Turing Complete [0].

The local update rules provide an analogy to our universe with a kind of built in "speed of light" of how fast information can propagate in the system. Further, since there is a system clock of sorts, the system is massively parallel with further analogies to our universe.

The game looks like a toy but note that many profound models are also "toy-like". Ising systems, precolation models, Bethe lattices, self avoiding walks, etc. all provide seeding grounds for deep insights into our physical world. Just as an aside, I heard a quote, which I can't find anywhere, about how Maxwell playing with magnets could have been considered him playing with frivolous toys but his setup was critical to him figuring out the underlying mechanics of electromagnetism.

On one hand, I sort of agree that there's a lot of uninteresting exploration but on the other hand, taking a step back, GoL research is exploring the more general space of cellular automata and how it could potentially map to real world simulation. For example, how small can a system be before it can do arbitrary computation? Can all patterns emerge eventually (no, garden of eden style patterns)? What do rotationally invariant patterns looks like? Can you "copy" arbitrary patterns from some setup? If so, how fast? Is it dependent on how big it is, or how complex it is? etc. GoL provides a sandbox in order to answer these questions and potentially give insight into other systems as well.

In my opinion, one of the reasons for the popularity of GoL is because it was created right when computers became commodities, allowing hackers, amateur mathematicians and others to program something simple, that could be heavily optimized for limited hardware, and create intricate and complex behavior. There was a quote somewhere, that I'm also having trouble finding, about how, at one point, GoL simulations accounted for a significant portion of wasted compute.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life#Undeci...
I have been told by a friend of a student from Louisiana who was an avid water skier. Her friends at UC Berkeley discussed going to the lake to ski. She joined and was quite confused by the snow on the ground.
It does that regularly for any numeric values in other languages too, especially also those that use different decimal symbols than standard English.

You really have to check the numbers yourself.
Gödel's incompleteness theorems are what you're thinking of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...

That said, if you have a system X, it can't prove it's own consistency, but a stronger system Y can prove its consistency (and perhaps some other stronger system can prove Y's consistency. This gives us a chain of systems, each proving the consistency of some weaker system).

That doesn't absolutely prove that the system is consistent--if Y was inconsistent, it could prove X is consistent (and also could prove that X is inconsistent). Nonetheless, it is still valuable. After all, part of our use of Y is the fact that we know of no inconsistency in it. And since formal systems often are subtly inconsistent, "consistent assuming some other system is consistent" is a lot better than "we have no proof whatsoever of consistency".
As the chart shows, the real spike in grade inflation is when the US government effectively used GPA as a measure for whether or not young men were sent off to patrol villages next to rice paddies in Vietnam.
Specifications can change over time. It sounds to me as though the developer who made the change to the system that invalidated the invariant of the original specification wasn't aware of the spec in the first place. Maybe they should have worked on the specification first before proceeding.

Sounds like a communication issue to me.
My dad's 82 has an IPP 12.9, iPhone 12 Pro Max, and a Macbook Air. Over time, the MBA usage has dropped off, and is mainly used for financial sites that don't play well with Safari/iPadOS.

The only real issue he has is printing. His MBA is basically an AirPrint bridge at this point. One day we'll get him an AirPrint compatible printer.
I felt the same way at first, but it's ten levels, so you'd be done in one session if you could redo every level infinitely. This extends the fun a bit.
Could the Game of Life run Doom, since it's Turing-complete ? I remember seeing an excerpt of a video where you could run the Goal inside the GoL.
While there are a few fringe pockets where GOP influence isn't helping anyone, by and large, the "conspiracy theorists" and MAGA folks are attacking major news outlets, scientific journals, etc. strictly because they have been corrupted and influenced by highly partisan partnerships from the left, to bend narratives or outright lie about controversial issues and current events in their favor.

When citizen journalists on X (and other places) are putting corporate media to shame because they're willing to faithfully report what the corporates aren't, that's a clear sign there's something amiss. Breaking free of this one-sided media conglomerate is essential for critical thinking, because journalists have no place in thinking for people, which is unfortunately true on all sides, in practice.

Worse, corporate media sources use their powerful positions not just as a beacon of authority, but as a way to enforce false narratives through their close partnerships with their preferred political partners, who are working to manipulate those narratives in their favor for political gain, like winning elections at nearly any cost. Additionally, shaming and declaring citizen & independent journalists as "misinformants" for questioning mainstream narratives that have been identified as patently false/twisted, either by lying or by omission, evidenced by whistleblowers calling out these issues in interviews with independent sources, knowing their stories won't be edited for political purposes.

Similarly on X, now that it isn't captured by a political side that openly believes censorship is acceptable to elevate their own preferred narratives, information can flow freely and users on X can think for themselves (scary, I know... imagine if YOU could think freely and post your own convictions! How will humanity survive?). Since the previous "community guidelines" enforcers at Twitter have been fired, faithful counter-reporting is no longer being policed (the "now" true Hunter Biden report comes to mind conveniently after the 2020 election was over). Now Conservatives can have an equal and prominent voice there, given that Twitter/X has always been a premier source of real-time news and reporting.

If something cannot be questioned, speculating on the motives around it is essential. The 20th century saw too many tyrants dictating the flow of information for us to conveniently forget its devastating impacts on their respective societies. Not a single politician, media outlet, scientist, or "expert" is above being questioned, for any reason whatsoever. It is the only path to healthy, inclusive dialogue.
> The American's expect a work environment similar to in American companies

American culture resulted in chip-making moving from the US to Taiwan. That is why the foreigners are building this plant - they do things better than the locals. I hope the Arizona employees are expecting some level of change to happen. Chinese culture has resulted in substantially more prosperity being created than the US has managed over the last 50 years and it is obvious they are doing something better.

Although I'm not sure how much to read in to these sort of articles that are awash with confident anonymous sources. It is hard to get a grip on how much is disgruntled employee chatter and how much is serious.
Terrible take. Libraries provide enormous value to communities.

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2013/12/11/libraries-in...
You just had a big Show HN with this. Reposts are fine after a year or so but every few days is to soon, take a look at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
This doesn't make any sense. A full-time student spends at least 2.4 hours in class per day by definition. Most universities consider a student full-time if they take more than 12 credit-hours per semester, and a credit-hour is one hour of in-class instruction per week. That works out to 2.4 hours per weekday. In practice most students take 15 credit-hours, which means they spend three hours in class per day.

The chart is from The Heritage Foundation, so it's a lie but I assume not fabricated from whole cloth. Did they count weekends and holidays in the denominator, perhaps?
I haven't studied CS or bio. Do I understand correctly that what makes cellular automata special is they're approachable and demonstrate how complexity can emerge from simple rules (e.g. analogously to how life may have come to be)?

Do other games (or simulations) demonstrate similar ideas, or are cellular automata a rare case?
Tiny11builder – build a trimmed-down Windows 11 image with PowerShell
Also available on ollama: https://ollama.com/library/phi3
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It's great they're doing this. I've been nudging everyone involved with this since last year. The Chrome guys are the furthest behind (no support). FF has flag support.

I've been testing it since last year on FF and Safari and have no complaints about their implementations. I know some people are sniffling about the placement and naming of the properties. You have to be pragmatic about it, though, and realize there probably isn't a perfect solution and just implement it.

I refuse to use JavaScript for the fallback, so the fallback is a lot of ugly CSS that doesn't order things in the right way, but it doesn't make a big deal of trouble for the project I'm working on. Most people will fallback to JavaScript right now, though, and when JavaScript is your solution to layout then you're already on a loser.
Hmm, maybe my explanation above was too ELI5, you'll have to accept my apologies if so, and you may need to explain in more detail what you're asking exactly there.

Meanwhile can you expand on your take on Naive Realism here? What's the specific issue with Naive Realism you're pointing out? (am aware there's issues)
I don't know if it's the algorithm but for the past few months i've been seeing bits and pieces in random places about ada. Is there a reason the language is seeing more traction lately? I would assume the whole White House "approved" languages had something to do with it
We see people doing insane things nowadays with Conway's Life, such as simulating CPUs.

Two questions:

1) How are people building things this complex? Are there open source libraries and toolkits for this - building blocks for chunks of functionality that can be assembled?

2) For you, what are the most interesting, impressive and varied things that you've seen with Life? Is it just these increasing levels of complexity, or maybe something else?
I’m not defending the choice, but there are some alternatives:

* Press ⌥ while hovering over the green circle. The icon changes to a + sign and clicking it uses the maximise behaviour.

* Double-clicking the title bar.

* From the menubar: Window > Zoom.
A large percentage of city sales tax income comes from car dealerships. In addition, the big dealers themselves are often extremely active politically at the local and state level. This often means that small competitors are squeezed out by city planners who are accepting huge campaign contributions from various dealers.

California has a really big corruption problem at the local level.
I think SmoothLife and Lenia are great fun -- lots of highly watchable "eye candy" tends to get produced by those types of experiments. The better you get at running experiments, the more new behavior you can turn up:

https://www.youtube.com/c/Slackermanz

There's a channel on the ConwayLife Lounge on Discord called "#exotic-ca" that's devoted to these kinds of explorations. I just simply haven't had time to dig into those topics much, but if I could clone myself I'd definitely assign one copy to playing around with that kind of thing.
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So interesting to read about weird cultures. I'm not a New Yorker, so the world described in this article is so foreign it might as well be a different planet. I would never drop $600 on a restaurant bill, let alone just to reserve a table. If I'm spending that kind of money, I want something tangible in return, not just some vague cachet of having sat down on some "exclusive" restaurant seats. It's so weird that a cottage industry has sprung up to monetize and trade these reservations. People really care about this stuff. SMH
Works like a charm on my Pixel 7.
Yes, you'd just need to have a way to provide input (probably easiest as a demo file), and a machine big enough to simulate the pattern.
You'd definitely be waiting for a while to see any action, though :P
Using "optional" is not really enough for struct type extensions. You really want something more akin to ASN.1's extensibility markers, or typed-holes, or class derivation, etc.
I found Apple’s approval process to be hit or miss. Most of the time everything was approved without a problem, sometimes you get a nasty reviewer and all you had to do was just resubmit and it would usually go through.
Because being a good person means giving a shit about literally anyone else.

Sorry, but you're a bad person. "I got mine, fuck you" makes you a bad person.

A normal, functioning society uses its excess resources to help everyone, including assholes who think they're the most important person on the planet.

One tenth of one percent of your taxes went to teaching a toddler how to read, or teaching a teenager how to fix their bike. Someone who can't afford otherwise rented a DVD to watch with their family and you're mad about that.

You're the worst kind of person, and the entire reason that our society is so sick.
MIT-licensed out of the gate, too.
I did my PhD on (malicious) visual impersonation of domain names using many of the techniques described here. There are many references to other visual doppelganger techniques included in my paper here: https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10256904

My research focused solely on the .com domain name space, so our character set was limited.
Because functionality isn’t the only thing everyone cares about, I use Forgejo for ideological reasons and so do probably most people since it’s mainly an ideological fork.

Why would it not be worth mentioning? The question is quite strange.
The problem isn't the cost of college, it's the chronic underpayment of a proper wage post graduation. College costs accurately reflect the impact of inflation. It's wages that are depressed. We can thank our corporate masters for that.
I don’t think I get this. How can a supervisor guard against the Linux side locking up? What does it do if it notices a problem, and how can whatever it does not affect the behavior of the system for periods of time that are noticeable or dangerous while traveling at high speed?
I'm honestly surprised Apple didn't spin their Fleetsmith acquisition into a free, privacy friendly parental/caretaker oriented MDM for home users. Instead, they decided to wade into the crowded waters of "cheap MDM for basic business needs that requires a business license".
"sick" - slang for "fantastic, amazing"

(for the sake of non-native English speakers)
Nice interpretation of parental controls, with the older parent being the one controlled!
I’ve never done the math, but in college I had a coop and an additional job (or two) for most of it. I have been told it was “impossible” before though.

I worked enough I rented a whole apartment with my now wife, and we both graduated with about 3K in loans each. Prices are different at a Canadian college than an American university though.

I rode my bike to work and school.

It was busy but I never felt overwhelmed. Maybe I was too focused on getting it done, I’m not sure.

I agree that having a family is way worse in the personal time sense. Kids are a huge emotional/energy suck too. Way different than being busy at work.
The main issue is that we're lacking one of the four fundamental circuit components: the memristor [0].

If we had a simple, throw it in a box for five years, stable memristor, we'd have everything we'd need for brain modeling. Being as a memristor is effectively a synapse.

With that, we would want to do everything in the analog domain anyways.

[0] the other three are the resistor, the capacitor, and the inductor.
Going through this with the client app now, hoping it will eventually pass. Did not work at all with the free app, they kept on ignoring anything I replied with and just copy/pasted the same response. Disheartening.
Books are too expensive to buy every week in any quantity greater than 1.

I read 7-12 new books a week to my son, I'd go bankrupt if it wasn't for libraries.

(We typically read 5-10 books a day, ur the 12 books we get from the library each week have an uneven distribution of what gets read again and again).

Presumably as my son gets older we'll move to books that take longer to read and the absolute # will go down.

Back when I was single and didn't have a kid, I'd go through 2 or 3 long form fiction books a week. At that point in life, Half Priced Books (the book store chain with that name) was my financial savior.

Books are expensive. A kids picture book is easily $15-$20, with outliers costing even more. Whenever I do go book shopping with my son we end up spending almost $200.
I totally agree with you in that regard, "readable" and "performant" often go hand in hand. My gripe is with the "Clean" adjective, that often indicates code that actually isn't readable and is also low performant.
I actually think 16 is good enough. They at least have a general idea of which area they are interested in, and then they can either move into a career path or a research path first, and then if they find they want something else they at least get some skills and money. It's a lot better than wandering around with money.

Damn I wish someone helped me select something when I was 16. I spend the following 15 years wandering around, confused. I only got into IT when I reached 35...

Young people don't need to wait until they make up their mind to move into a career. I'm going to tell my son, if he is confused and not sure what to do when he grows up, the best way is to make some money and figure out how to make more. Making more money is always right when you are confused.
In handwriting there is a difference between European and American. In Europe we don't really have problem with 1 vs 7 or g vs 9. But our nines and ones do look like gs and sevens to Americans.

I heard an American making a joke that

"I have gg problems but European handwriting ain't 7 of them."
At some point in the future, it's likely that invading Taiwan militarily will not longer be part of the Chinese agenda. There are multiple ways for this to happen:

1) China could have a regime change. This could either lead to voluntary reunification or at least to military action becoming irrelevant.

2) Xi could die, and the successor might have other priorities.

3) China could lose the ability or confidence to invade, for instance if their economy is destroyed by corruption or they stop investing in their armed forces.

4) Taiwan could develop their own nukes in secret, and be too scary to invade.

5) The threat could become reality (and thus no longer a threat). China may proceed to either win or lose such a war. In such a scenario, it's hard to say what remains of TSMC's capacity after.
The syllabus reminds me of HyperCard
"How does your company do performance reviews?"

Like most do them - poorly.

Managers just pick out some sample behaviors from your year and fit them to whatever rating they feel you deserve. Pretty much the same everywhere, but just dressed up differently from one place tl the next.
> I really don't like how disingenuous, propagandistic and patronising Simmons is being in this article. Ending each section saying "all this will be impossible if not done the way I like"

This is a very uncharitable way of reading this, and that's a polite way of describing this view.

She shows what is possible, and how existing grid mechanisms can be leveraged for masonry layout. It's implicit that coming up with a proposal outside the grid would need to accommodate the same capabilities somehow.

How is it patronising or disingenuous? They (and Firefox) literally implemented this and are showing what is possible. And are asking you for input. If you think you're incorrect, you can join and show them the error of their ways:

--- start quote ---

Our hope is that web designers and developers chime in (post to social media, write blog posts) with your thoughts about which direction CSS should take.

Some people, including those of us at Apple, like having “Masonry” be part of CSS Grid. We believe this functionality is a mechanism to expand CSS Grid — allowing it to finally create columnar grids as well as modular grids. And we want this functionality to be mixed with all the other features of Grid, including the powerful options for defining a columns, track spanning, explicit placement, and subgrid.

Other people instead believe Masonry should be its own separate display type. At first glance, defining Masonry with a new display type might make a lot of sense. You do get a tidy separation between layout types.

--- end quote ---