skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's definitely hard to change people, but I also think to some extent it's extremely easy if you know what you're doing and you're specific about the context. As the author notes: cults are really good at it. Another example is any entertainment performer, or even just a DJ: getting a crowd from one state ("cold") to another state ("hot") is well-understood game.

On the other hand scientists seem to be very bad at it (if the last few decades of quantitative social science research are any indicator). My pet hypothesis is that this is because an experimental environment is actually a very bad way to reason about human behavior. When you're dealing with basic material phenomena (particles, energy, chemical reactions, even biological reactions to a certain extent) the behavior is 'isolatable'. It will happen in a predictable way under controlled conditions, and removing outside influences makes that behavior easier to observe. Human behavior is the exact opposite of 'isolatable' though: so much of what makes us act the way we do is the influence of outside factors. In a general sense I don't even think it really makes sense to imagine a 'single person' or 'isolated behavior', our mind exists in mutual definition with the social world around us. Indeed the successful examples I listed above are successful precisely because they take control of your environment: a secluded meditation area or a sweaty club are critical tools for changing the way someone is.

As a result I think scientists often have a really skewed understanding of what motivates people, because anything they do in a controlled environment basically can never generalize by definition. Want to get kids to stop smoking? Don't treat the kids, treat the media environment they live in. But this isn't something that can be replicated in a generic/engineering/scientific manner; there's no magic recipe it's just common sense and coalition building (getting buy-in from the people who make media). But because these tools don't fit cleanly into an experimental framework they kind of get sidelined. Instead we get endless variations on nudge theory and little cognitive games to try and induce the behavior we want. Shockingly this fails time and time again. Preventing sexual harassment in the workplace simply cannot come from a PowerPoint deck or training, it will only follow from a massive overhaul in the cultural milleu. Look at any successful grassroots political movement: find people who are primed to receive your message; convince them to support you; use their support and evangelism to widen the circle to the next group of slightly less-primed people; repeat until massive; force structural/cultural change through a crush of bodies. Simple as.

edit: hm okay I clicked one link in the OP and it seems this point is not very original https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/its-hard-to-change-peo...
Yeah, I grew up in the 80's.

I also have a lot of fond memories of getting on my bike and going pretty much anywhere I wanted to.
Glad to see the settings controls are getting an adjustment. That's been a minor pain point for me.
It refers to your wallet, right?
I'm not expecting anything of this person.

Was merely remarking that the public domains are incredibly rude areas and the reality of the difficulty of existing within them.
Pascal worked that way all the time, and it was hated. You could have "inch" and "meter" version of integer, and they were not interchangeable. This was sometimes called "strong typing"

It's interesting that in Rust, "type" does not work that way. I kind of expected that it would. But no, "type" in Rust is just an alternate name, like "typedef" in C.
I think it is perfectly valid to be able to develop iOS apps on Windows or Linux. Android studio runs on both these platforms. There is no reason to restrict it other than Apple wants to sell more hardware. Every developer and CI machine has to be bought from Apple.
So, what's the GDPR say about the backend keeping photos or voicemails that the user "deleted" years ago— And doing so inaccessibly and in secret from the user?
100% legal if you delete within 24 hours.
Why are you so sure it's not a subtype? I'm not going to say that's always how the "<descriptor> <noun>" structure works, but you have to admit it's pretty common. (Ed: compare to "healthy adult", "terrestrial vertebrate", "clean socks", etc)

You're literally the first person I've ever encountered with this idea, after reading/watching dozens of articles/talks about genre from people in the field. You're also the first person I've seen to mention the term "fish vegetarian", which is indeed stupid; that's probably why those people are usually called "pescatarians".
Sounds like a minor lobotomy
Illuminate: Turn academic papers into AI-generated audio discussions
> You can’t actually trust ai systems

For a lot of (very profitable) use cases, hallucinations and 80/20 are actually more than good enough. Especially when they are replacing solutions that are even worse.
Prostate cancer also came to my mind first. Doctors generally stop screening for prostate cancer after a certain age (70 and older is the recommended cutoff from the US Preventative Services Task Force), because, if the cancer wasn't causing symptoms, it's unlikely to impact quality of life or cause death before something else.

The USPSTF references a lot of meta-analyses dealing with screening outcomes. They make decisions by whether a specific screening practice decreases mortality rates. They explicitly don't even include the financial cost of a screening practice.
Unfortunately HN is no longer a place where you can assume good faith observations when something like that is said. OP's words play into toxic narratives that need to be called out for the sake of other people reading the comments. I might be wrong about OP's intentions when giving my reply, but I am pushing back against a narrative, not against a specific person.
This is kind of fun.

A random nit as we like:

> I needed to somehow create a function that performs a single step of the algorithm, then gives back control to the main loop (which ironically sounds just like an OS' preemptive scheduling)

That sounds more like cooperative scheduling, no?
Sorry, I really should have said, there's no duty to maximise/provide a dividend. And I didn't provide a reference because I consideree it well known /fundamental (in the UK only, perhaps). I'm glad the supreme court allows "modern" corporate law in the US to offer the same sensible position. If I understand the reference, it was originally driven by companies with a religious aim, but extends beyond that.
I look forward to the resurgence of the Amazon Basin with those extra CO2.
> Classes exist at runtime

Not necessarily, depending on the language. Functional languages and system languages such as OCaml, Haskell, Rust, but also C (painfully) and C++ can represent wrapper types within a nominal type system at no runtime cost.
I agree, it was boneheaded.

In:
https://www.minnpost.com/business/2016/08/rise-and-fall-goph...

> “That socially killed Gopher,” [Bob] Alberti says of the licensing fiasco.

I knew Bob (via Scepter of Goth) and feel sad that the University made such bad choices.
for now - it is naive to think this is safe
That reminds me of xobni, which MS acquired years ago. It was pretty awesome, when it first came out.
There are also Xylitol-containing toothpastes (e.g. Epic; be aware that they also make a flouride-free version that you likely want to avoid!), although I suspect the dosage of Xylitol is below the effective level.
> ETF just passively buys shares

FWIW: ETFs also passively sell, too.

We may all ignore that bit when stock markets just seem to keep on rising, but if (when) they start falling the ETFs will be following the crowd too.
What are the economics of buying into a stock that has a 51% stakeholder, and doesn't pay dividends, outside of "line goes up"?

I know this is kind of a standard in tech, but it still eludes me where the value of the stock is.
> Yeah, I get that files aren't truly "deleted" until they're overwritten but these pictures didn't have their data messed with over 5+ years?

While the data may technically remain, unless the storage medium explicitly specifies otherwise (like E.G. snapshotting filesystems), "deleting" does often imply immediately overwriting enough metadata that it probably shouldn't be possible for the files to be trivially/accidentally resurfaced by a bug.
> Wheel manufacturers have been pushing wider rims because it helps them sell another set of wheels to everyone.

I think the push to wider tires and lower pressures on road setups is actually because hookless carbon rims are much easier to manufacture than clinchers, and hookless tires can't handle 80+ psi.

Clincher carbon wheels are basically considered a niche product by big manufacturers
They keep announcing these bombastic accessibility features while simple things like tabbing remain frustratingly broken. The macOS “allow this app to access that” dialog supports shift+tab, but not tab.
Walmart's Reign as America's Biggest Retailer Is Under Threat [to Amazon]
Simultaneous Many-Row Activation in Off-the-Shelf DRAM Chips
Perhaps I replied to the wrong comment then. Sorry for being confrontational.
Happy user of the Airthings Wave Plus (same as View but without a display). Major feature requirement was being able to fetch the sensor values with just a Bluetooth connection.
If real inflation were 10% higher than the government is reporting, then real GDP reported to be growing say 3% would be shrinking 7% per year. (We have fairly accurate numbers on nominal GDP from retail sales, sales taxes, corporate accounting etc.) Over 10 years people's standard of living would drop by 1/2. It's safe to say that has not been happening.
But your parent comment's point is that the harm from lack of competition among exchanges is a possible future thing, while the harm from being domiciled in a business-unfriendly jurisdiction is far greater and happens right now.
We are not evidence that aliens capable of colonizing gas giants exist.
Feels like any game that requires a third party account for whatever technical reasons ought to have a "just do it" button that creates an account you can login to via Steam with no further interaction required, which must work in all regions the game is sold in.

For example, games using EOS for cross platform play can do this. Why couldn't PSN do the same?
> 1. Have we detected such lobes in the milky way? why not?

Sag A* (our black hole in the center of the Milky Way) isn't considered "active" right now. We don't notice it gobbling up stars and gasses, which would be necessary for the jets to be possible. I remember back in 2020 or 2021 there was an article that we're noticing a jet from Sag A*, which we're still trying to understand why because we don't expect Sag A* to be active. It's also super difficult to monitor Sag A* since there is so much dense dust, gas, etc in the way between us and the SMBH.

> 2. If those particles are going near the speed of light yet have no reason to slow down unless captured, unlikely outside of their original galaxy, they are still going for billions of years?

Generally speaking, yeah, they are! If we're looking at photons though, they will eventually get red-shifted so much that they'll become infrared (invisible to us), until their energy is so low that it'll be near impossible to see without telescopes more powerful than anything we have right now.

> 3. If some of those jets from other galaxies are pointed at Earth and contain physical particles with mass near the speed of light, why don't they do measurable damage?

Space is a vacuum, but there are still things that can slow these particles down (loss of energy like photons, gravity wells from other massive objects, running into a spec of space dust, etc. Also, space is very empty, and statistically, it's incredibly improbable that one of these jets could be aimed directly at us, while also being close enough to us, to cause damage. We do notice them though! They're powerful enough to get picked up by scientific instruments, but are not concentrated enough or powerful enough to cause damage to us or Earth.
Are there perhaps still “uncertainties” around global warming, or will you call people “dipshits” 20 years later when we all not only survive and do OK, but add another couple billion to the planet’s population? That’s the point of my OP. I’ve seen this doomsday bullshit a few times now. They should tone down the rhetoric and look for solutions that do not send us back to preindustrial times, and do not involve “paying more taxes and eating bugs”
The one "normal" people actually use is buying a house; this hedges against inflation in the cost of shelter.

We could buy options on oil, wheat, pork bellies, and such, but normal people don't.
> Yeah, about that. It turns out that Fedora CoreOS is very much on the side of "cattle, not pets" when it comes to datacenter management. The Fedora CoreOS view is that any time you need to change out the Ignition config, you should reimage the machine.

> I'm not sure what the ideal Fedora CoreOS strategy for handling disk-based application state is. Maybe it's "don't fuck around with prod enough that this is an issue", which is reasonable enough. I remember that with normal CoreOS the advice was "please avoid relying on local storage as much as you can", but they probably solved that by this point, either with a blessed state partition or by continuing the advice to avoid local storage as much as you can. Further research would be required.

The Fedora CoreOS docs show mounting a persistent /var as an example,

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/storage/

Totally in love with this excerpt, as a decent standalone pitch for systemd and as one of the few examples I've seen of "then I changed my mind about my systemd hate",

> Fleet was glorious. It was what made me decide to actually learn how to use systemd in earnest. Before I had just been a "bloat bad so systemd bad" pleb, but once I really dug into the inner workings I ended up really liking it. Everything being composable units that let you build up to what you want instead of having to be an expert in all the ways shell script messes with you is just such a better place to operate from. Not to mention being able to restart multiple units with the same command, define ulimits, and easily create "oneshot" jobs. If you're a "systemd hater", please actually give it a chance before you decry it as "complicated bad lol". Shit's complicated because life is complicated.

Having a structured composable way to manage complexity has been great for me. Love love love being able to drop in constraints and tunings, in a predictable way.
How to Cook Cicadas
cdparanoia used to use ASCII emoticons as status indicators -- :-) for when things were going well for instance.
This isn't specifically tuned for tables (more for general pdf to markdown), but it's worked for some people with similar use-cases - https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker
This is a bit of a nitpick because strings often aren't the most appropriate type for hashes... but in some cases I can see using strings as the best choice. It's probably the fastest option for one.

In any case it still demonstrates the usefulness of branded types.
It's not haggling to pretend. In haggling the goal of each person is clear and there's only dimension, price, and each participant wants an outcome to maximize in a specific direction out of 2 possible ones (price up, price down).

What I mean are social situations that are way more complex like if you tell me I need to let you pass me in some queue because your grandma is dying, but turns out you just wanted to get home quicker to relax. At work there's a lot of this stuff when people exaggerate in a malicious way assuming everyone is doing it, and I can't stand it.

If we're haggling I know what we're doing and I'll also haggle.
Getting my Nest thermostat to work with Home Assistant was a lot of work. I had to register a developer account and authorize obscure permissions deep inside some Google permissions structure. I suppose if it's all straightforward you habitually develop on Google's infrastructure, but as an outsider none of it was clear.

Still, better than nothing. Hoping that Google actually stays committed this time.
I'm covered, I live on a topological local maxima of 100 feet above the "major" local minima of "800ft" on essentually solid rock, assuming it doesn't become the next sahara, I should be able to collect plenty of rain water for personal needs and have methods to filter it. Currently have enough solar for off grid and backup generators as secondary. Hopefully well armed enough to stave off interlopers if it becomes that desperate. I doubt if my house would survive a tornado though, but should be covered from other natural disasters.
Very interesting.

From that paper, the brand they used as example of stannous fluoride was "oral-B pro expert all-around protection" Do you know of any other brands?

I wonder if we can conclude it was the stannous fluoride that made the difference and one of the other ingredients.
> and most of those SMBH have relativistic jets with lobes throwing out particles near light speed

This is not correct. Most SMBH do not have relativistic jets. The jets only form when the black hole is actively consuming a large quantity of matter.

The Milky Way's SMBH Saggitarius A* is not actively eating anything, so it is not producing a jet.
For #3, I think I remember reading that the Sun’s heliosphere (which contains the entirety of the familiar Solar System) also plays a role in cutting down what gets to Earth, but I may be misremembering.
Many US trucks are of a design which has barely changed since the 1960s. I can't find any good references but I'd bet that the DAF CF of early 2000s design has a better survival rate than a similar vintage Peterbuilt 379.
You're really hanging on to the word 'fault', but 'fault' is not the main point I was trying to convey with my comment.

My point was: I don't think this post will serve as a reminder to be nice to OSS maintainers (as the original comment I replied to was saying), because the majority of comments I see are some variation of "toughen up" directed at the maintainers.
Alarm interconnect has to be local; I don't think it would code-compliant anywhere otherwise.

(Even wireless interconnect has only become code-compliant relatively recently - e.g. in my jurisdiction, code has only allowed wireless interconnect since 2019.)
I disagree. I don’t face any copyright issues from writing code that resembles something in Windows. I never had access to its source code, so any similarities have to be purely coincidental.

A BSL project could say, hey, look at this guy stealing our code!, even if I’ve never seen it. I could have, and that opens a plausible risk I wish I didn’t have.
Yes, I remember Live Picture! It was slick. I actually spent more time in that and Fractal Design Painter, than Photoshop back then.
Not since a couple of years ago, unfortunately. Now I have to use a separate app for SMS and often miss messages.
Please stop your strawmen. My arguments were to the comment on why Japan has a very low crime rate, not how and why it treats 5 year olds.
Except that non-calculus, non-physics people don't know what jerk is. If you try to explain, they'll decide that it's you ;-)
> Looking through that list, most of the big projects (OpenJDK, Mysql, Opengrok) were inherited as part of acquisitions.

I see this argument a lot, but I'm not sure how it detracts from their continued development. Oracle funds many engineers working on OSS and, despite having CLAs in place, retain the permissive license for most of them. In some cases they've acquired closed source software and made it open source (e.g., JRockit stuff). They're a major contributor to OSS.
LOL you act like the entire market isn't "line goes up" regardless of 51% or not.

And no its not just tech
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https://archive.ph/2024.05.15-170802/https://www.wired.com/s...
I'm leaving OpenAI after 3½ yrs
Individual who sent that mail has trollish name, trollish email account and s/he is talking gibberish. My conclusion was, give it a pass and move on.

>I would not be surprised if this person misused the library, got called out for it in code-review (calling the iterator multiple times is a huge code-smell), and now they are soothing their ego by shifting blame onto the library author for making "such a bad API."

It could be that but then again it's his or her fault not the maintainer's. At the end of the day, s/he has some serious anger control issues if that's true.

>The other reason I don't think it's an LLM is simpler: most commercial LLMs wouldn't be "aligned" to be that rude, and the smaller LLMs I've seen wouldn't be able to inject relevant code snippets from a relatively unpopular library into the output.

You can modify some open source LLM to talk trash, meaning teach it to hate and disrespect.
Did they edit their post? The > syntax indicates a verbatim quote here.
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The string literal doesn't exist at runtime.
doing my best to cover those too. I try to stay physically fit and eat a diet that is anti-inflammatory
Clearly there is still confusion since we don't agree (as does other the aforementioned poster).

I could have also belittled your comment as "bunch of possibly-irrelevant content" since most of the content was and still is unnecessary snark.

But then it would have said more about my own etiquette and capability to debate objectively than about the topic at hand.

Our definition of data race seems to differ, and because you don't seem to be able to separate objective discussion from personal attacks, I'll stop here.
This is a very contentious topic, you can see my initial take on this in

https://blog.jak-linux.org/2023/10/10/a-case-for-different-u...

The problem is that's not really true. i.e. consider you get postfixed pulled in by postfix | mail-transport-agent and the new distro release changes it to exim4 | mail-transport-agent as we picked a new default MTA.

Does this mean we should, by default, replace your MTA and require you to have to configure a different one?

You will be able to do this (pick the same automatically installed packages given the same set of manually installed ones; installing missing Recommends, etc, by using --fix-policy and some more options perhaps).

As for configuration this is worse, files managed by ucf have 3-way merging but it's not automatic and most configuration isn't managed by ucf but by dpkg.
I went on a cruise, and had significant (for me) motion sickness that only got better once I ate --- of course, I was avoiding eating because I didn't feel well, so that seems like the wrong choice.
Why would they not pay dividends?
No snark, please. It seems that you are not getting what I wrote:

Regarding per capita figure the thing to keep in mind is that China used to be very poor and has been developing. Per capita figures therefore started very low and have been increasing rapidly with development, and are still much lower than the US's. This is also why India's figures are quite low.

Regading overall figures, obviously then what is relevant is the overall population, as explained.

Can't repeat the same thing over and over if you refuse to engage, so good night and good luck.
Those lobes have been detected in our galaxy, yes. There’s a page from 2012 by NASA talking about it: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10918

As I understand it, recent research suggests the last time our SMBH consumed enough matter to erupt was millions of years ago, so the lobes have cooled down and are difficult to detect.