skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A thread very frequently strays in topic,

I think you mean that you started making outrageous claims that you can't back up.

My thinking was that parents would typically keep installing tracking software on the child’s phone whenever they get the opportunity to do so, provided they have acquired the habit of always doing that.

So in this made up scenario, a parent is stealing their 30 year old child's phone and installing tracking software on it?

Where are you even getting these ideas? You keep repeating them, what even made you think this stuff in the first place?

We don’t have any hard evidence either way.

You're the one making the claim and you don't have any evidence at all, hard, or soft. You can't even explain how it would happen.

I mean, either parents who track their children’s location do mostly stop doing that when the children become adults,

Now the backpeddling finally begins because you keep replying without evidence.

Both are observable phenomena

So observe it and show me evidence.

Here's some actual evidence. Most people replace their phone every 3.5 years on average. Not every 20 years while using the toy watch they got when they were 10.

https://www.sellcell.com/blog/how-often-do-people-upgrade-th...
No mention of setting the :sensitive process flag to true. Been a while since I've done Elixir, but I think sensitive: true disables additional things, possibly to the point of being a little too much in some cases.
This is why I feel that, going forward, one of the most important things we can teach the younger generations (and each other) is the importance of 'real', human relationships. As the author says, they're messy, but that's part of it, and they're far more rewarding than those with AI companions, or relationships with humans filtered through AI.
On a side note: Those who went from a typed language to Elixir, how was your experience? Every time I read Elixir code such as the one in this link, I get worried and stressed due to the lack of type annotations. I guess my mindset is "write code that never crashes", but then BEAM apparently instills the mindset of "let it crash", which gives me anxiety tbh.

Lately I've been thinking that a dynamic language is fine as long as it gives me tools to recover my program in case things go down (and they will!). Common Lisp's restarts are interesting for this purpose. On the contrary, if my Python program goes wrong, it will crash, end of story.

I guess the benefit of Elixir/Erlang/Gleam is that they run on BEAM, so even though they're dynamic (except Gleam), the cost of crash is not that much as your main BEAM VM never crashes and you can literally login to your running VM like an OS and fix things (like changing the code while the rest of the program is still running!)

I think maybe this will alleviate my fear of no-types in Elixir, but I'm interested in hearing your experience.
Ya that would be my ideal next place, unfortunately it's also an economic downtown in Canada, so I'm sort of doing the latter part of your comment and throwing DMs and my resume out whenever something comes up. Honestly I'm thankful that I've had the time off, and because I expect any given job won't last long, I save my money quite aggressively.

Eventually something turns up.
Matrix has so-called spaces, which group rooms together. Chaos Computer Club used this for 37C3, it was quite neat.
I'm not sure this is as clever as you think. the other people in your stories almost certainly notice what you're doing. decent people tend to look for ways to help out their less fortunate companions. in this situation, it is totally normal (though not necessarily expected) for the recipient to offer something of token (ie, lesser) value in exchange. it helps everyone avoid overtly acknowledging the disparity in means.

what they may not realize is that you are being intentionally manipulative. I'm sure they would be very disappointed to learn that you perceive this as winning some sort of game while they are being intentionally generous with you.
> the oatmeal problem

That’s why you add golden syrup (or maple if you’re Canadian/American). I’m not sure what the AI equivalent is.
So now we’re talking about business ethics, not financial feasibility? You’re just moving the goalposts. Has big data proven itself financially useful? The answer is an indisputable yes.
Nothing to maintain because all the overengineered projects got canceled.
The Silver Line is fantastic. I visit the DC area several times a year to see family. Used to rent a car or pay $$$ for Uber into the city from Dulles. Last time I paid $2 on a Sunday for me and my daughter to get into the city.

When I lived in Northern Virginia however I experienced many disrupted or very slow trips due to issues with the DC Metro.
Haha, yes. My confidence dancing was terrible for years because of similar advice. Turns out all the girls and boys who were good had been practicing! Who would have thought.
It also lacks intrinsic value. A gold jewel is not really 'better' than one made from aluminum, except for the fact that gold is rare and thus expensive and signals somebody invested a significant amount of resources into acquiring it.

A hand written email used to signal the same - that somebody took the time and effort to craft a thoughtful email to you, and holds you in high enough regard to make an investment like that.

Nowadays its utterly impossible to tell.
They are seeing that Apple, Samsung etc. are releasing yearly upgrades and they want to do the same.
Yet there is no point to buy a second hand one because of the PS5 backwards compatibility. You can
play the PS4 games and they run better and ofc all the new games as well.
I don't think you need to understand a concept deeply to use it. The "do..." syntax in Haskell is something that comes naturally to many programmers. It is introduced only at the end of a Haskell course since it uses monads, but many iterative-style programmers switch to that syntax exclusively afterwards. And it actually takes a while to construct the desugared monad syntax.

For a common example of this phenomenon- I took a look into the innards of printf to see how printf("%f",...) and printf("%g",...) works. I am still clueless how it actually works. Does not prevent even beginners from using these.

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Also for what it is worth, I think the most useful analogy of monads is "monads are pipes with types", even though it does not give a full understanding of bind.
> sometimes people are not used to receiving gifts and they might be “overgenerous” in return because they got flustered…”

This is something I had not considered to be honest, but is a great point and something I shall take on board.
> what is using a game controller ... but augmentation

Yes.

After 30 years of exclusively "joystick must be inverted Y" I got tired of being able to help other people play a tough spot of a game using their controller, and switched cold turkey. It took 2 - 3 weeks before I didn't randomly aim the wrong way, and 2 months to regain full accuracy.

Similar on the inverted scroll switch that Apple did when they married up scroll on iPad and Magic Trackpad. For several OS versions I stayed with the old way, then too many new users were a direction I couldn't handle, so switched. That switch took maybe 3 days to grok.

One of the weirder tricks you can do is hang upside from jungle gym or over the edge of a top bunk bed and "toss" a ball to your friend, which means you have to throw the ball "down" to them instead of toss it up. You can invert gravity much faster than you'd think!
Wait so you are a particle physicist, a statesman, a mountain man, a mob boss, and an astronaut?

Stop thinking global maxima (everyone in the world) and start thinking local maxima (you) and I promise there is someone that beats every local (you) metric you have.
> Smart fridges, smart lightbulbs, and smart toothbrushes are also about precision: you gotta be a smart human to operate anything more complex than a can opener these days.

As someone who tinkered unsuccessfully with zigbee stuff this weekend i feel attacked
I've been running GolangSyd for about 8 years now, and previously Sydney Python for about the same amount of time. I found finding sponsors to be one of the hardest things. One of the last Sydney Pythons in which I gave a talk on machine learning had ~250 people attending (PyConAU at that time had roughly as many people I think). So large that the pizza bill was way more than the host (who was the sponsor as well) had anticipated, so we were no longer welcome at that venue. And said host is a well known billion dollar Aussie company.

Thankfully for GolangSyd, my cohosts have been extremely talented with finding sponsors. This gives us a lot more opportunity to do weirder things like https://gogogogogo.casa .

Running meetups are hard work, full stop. On the other hand, I've gotten to know some people very well and some of my best collabs have been thru these meetups. Running a meetup was a way for me to overcome my own reluctance to socialize.
Then one day you realize that you probably won’t ever get to see India after all, and the chance you’ll swim off the coast of Australia is shrinking year by year. There are only so many trips remaining that will fit your budget and the time span over which that budget must stretch.

On the other hand is the realisation that you've saved and invested all your life 'for that rainy day', and all of a sudden there is a tipping point. The realisation that money is no longer important because the money you have available will be more than enough to cover all of your remaining needs.

(You might calculate that you have 10 years of normal spending levels on hand or available in some way and you can only expect to live another five.)

The approach of death has a marvellous way of clearing the mind. It certainly moves those priorities around.
Chaining implies sticking one function to another, with the implication that some data is being threaded through them.
Whatever extra semantics go on top of that are gravy, it's a vague term for a vague concept. I even gave examples where the function might be invoked zero times (Maybe) or multiple times (List). And in some languages (I specifically mention one) flatmap is a function on all monads, not just lists.
Looks like riehwvfbk (below) hit the nail on the head. I don't know that I can add anything to their explanation, except that the blackouts are an analogy for what is basically object/obligation permanence issues.

For example, I might get in the shower with enough time to make it to my zoom call or an actual in-person job, and then start thinking about something or realize the hair has grown in on my shoulder, and literally forget that I had somewhere to be, or wildly misjudge how long I've been in there, and it can kick off a series of additional delays, like I might then miss the bus.

In one-off or irregular situations, this rarely happens, but given enough time, I'm bound to do something like this that doesn't fit into what my manager considers suitable conduct, and once they get this in their head, it's tough to recover from.
Not really on topic but that article from March doesn’t even mention UTM.app? Boo
A friend of mine was a rafting tour guide for a summer and one day Warren Buffet and family rode on his raft. Mr. Buffet did not leave a tip.

I’m in a well off place, maybe similar to you, but I think that some ultra rich people fundamentally view money differently than us. It seems that saving money or making money is more of a game to them than the actual utility provided by the money. Somewhat like how even rich celebrities are caught shoplifting.

I’m not sure if (lots of) money does that to people or people who have those impulses are more likely to have money due to being willing to use cut-throat tactics. Maybe if everyone here chips in a few hundred-thousand for a science (me) we can find out.
When GPT-3 was still new, a friend brought up the idea of using it to keep correspondence with his personal relationships in a brainstorming session. After discussing the idea for about a minute we decided it was missing the entire point of the correspondence, and then continued to brainstorm another 20 ideas about how to use the new technology.

I'm not surprised someone tried it, and I'm not surprised it wasn't well received. I think maybe it will go over better in a world where all incoming emails are read and summarized by AI it won't be offensive. Until then there is a large time investment asymmetry where you used a tool to quickly generate a lot of text that I have to read it at a much slower rate. This is actually the opposite of current correspondence where the writer invests more time than the reader.
His mastery of millennial style memes is so rich. You can tell he just believes he is right and everyone else is dumb but he’s just “in it for the lols”.
> A typical Calculus class expects students to memorize and use things like trig function integrals which are presented without proof; not so different from memorizing and using statistical tests presented without proof, in my opinion.

You can see the derivatives based on their shapes, it is very intuitive that way unlike statistics. Calculus tries to show the intuitive explanations for the different parts, and it works very well it is how we get engineers and those engineers has built almost everything we see in modern society.

Intuition is much more useful than formalism unless you need to prove things, and calculus is one of the most intuitive subjects in math once it clicks. That intuition then stays with students for their entire lives, often they don't understand they got it from calculus class. Humans has very poor intuition for things like velocity and acceleration until after they take calculus, but people forget that since those things feels so extremely obvious after you have taken the class. That just shows how great the class is, that it helps solidify such important concepts that people don't even realize they used to have trouble with them.

> Unfortunately intro stats classes often fail on this count as well

Because unlike calculus statistics is very unintuitive. The only ways to teach it is either via extreme formalism or by showing people what numbers to put where, there is no intuitive way to teach statistics as far as we know. That makes statistics classes and knowledge you learn there churn much faster than the intuition built in calculus, making the class inherently less useful.

All the useful things I know about statistics I learned in middle school, stuff like confidence intervals, sampling bias etc. Everyone learns that in middle school, later stats classes just focus on churning numbers, I learned nothing in later stats classes I was forced to take in college.
It reminds me of a book by Seth Godin where after reading 3 quarters of the book he goes:

"I didn’t write this book.

What I mean is that Seth Godin didn’t write this book. It was written by a freelancer for hire named Mo Samuels. Godin hired me to write it based on a skimpy three-page outline.
Does that bum you out? Does it change the way you feel about the ideas in this book? Does the fact that Seth paid me $10,000 and kept the rest of the advance money make the book less valuable?
Why should it matter who wrote a book? The words don’t change, after all. Yet I’m betting that you care a lot that someone named Mo wrote this book instead of the guy on the dust jacket. In fact, you’re probably pretty angry.
Well, if you’ve made it this far, you realize that there is no Mo Samuels and in fact, I was pulling your leg. I (Seth Godin) wrote every word of this book."

Oh yes, I was pretty Angry.

[0]: The book is All marketers are liars
For a game based on semantic vectors: https://semantle.com/
See what devices you have attached to your account.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3067630?hl=en
Love this. Truly. I have spent the better part of the past decade thinking about this problem and am also working to address the space between spreadsheet and coding... but sort of the other way around? For non-programmers to do programmy things (particularly data manipulation) in a spreadsheet in a reproducible, robust way
Probably more social - seeing real deep poverty. Rattled me more than I care to admit
Because the internet told them to.
Sophomore year of high school, riding the bus to school, I realized I was weak, too weak to stand up for what I knew what right, but didn't because of peer pressure. I hated myself for it; the realization fuucked me up for weeks.

During my sophomore year, a girl moved into my neighborhood. She was from Vietnam, presumably part of some refugee relocation program. She seemed nice, and she was very pretty, but in St. Louis County (Missouri) during the early 80's, she stood out. A lot. None of the kids in the neighborhood, including myself, had ever met an Asian person before - just Bruce Lee movies, that was it. Also, there was still bitterness left-over from the Vietnam War. But like I said, she seemed nice. Heck, I kinda had a crush on her. Anyway, one day riding the bus to school, a couple of dudes starting yelling racial insults at her - you know the word I'm talking about. And they were throwing stuff at her, pretending they were bombs, like dropping bombs from an airplane. This went on for a few minutes, and no one did anything about it. People just laughed, including the bus driver. I was sitting close to her and I could see it affected her, like she wanted to start crying, but she was holding it in. I wanted to do something. I wanted to stand up to the instigators and tell them to knock it off. I knew these guys; we all grew up together. I knew I should do something. But I didn't. My body - everything, was frozen. I did nothing.

Afterwords, I initially told myself that I wasn't one of the instigators, I didn't actively participate, so I shouldn't feel bad. But I quickly came to realize that was bullshiit. It actually made me feel worse. I just sat there. I knew it was wrong. But I did nothing.

I moved to California just a few weeks after this incident, so I don't know what ever happened to the girl. I hope she went on to live a happy, successful life. If so, it had nothing to do with me, because I was too weak to help her when she needed it.

Anyway, that realization - that I was a weak person, provoked a lot of self-reflection. It's one of my most vivid memories, and I hope it made me a better person. But, even if I did become a better person from it, it still haunts me that a poor girl had to suffer just so I could, maybe, become a better person.
As far as I recall the most expensive two purchases a family makes are the house and car. So while nobody needs a truck, that statistic might reflect the relatively lower disposable incomes in the EU. Trucks could plausibly be the better mode of human transport but the EU doesn't quite have the finances to make it happen.

I don't think we can be confident that social signalling is the major factor here.
I know why I'm hating Nickelback's sound.. aaaarrrhggt it's the earworm each time hearing "this is how you remind..". ARGH now 3 days long ... again
Anyone who is not explicitly privy to a fully bespoke, end to end encrypted data transmission and retrieval system has no way to determine the function or purpose of that system.

It could be text, audio, video, raw signal bitstream from an IoT sensor, or a full duplex async combination of anyone of those.

It wouldn't be a "chat service" to an outside observer, it would just be seemingly random, opaque bits between two endpoints.
What does it look like when the inside space is illuminated but it's dark outside? (i.e. night time)

This is why a window tint probably isn't a good idea for your home.. outside observers can see right in at night when a light is on.
As a good friend of mine often says: We work in a field of people who envision themselves as artists, when all that is wanted are painters.
it's turtles... all the way down?
I mean, I guess OP is just making a comment on men specifically there. Why isn’t that ok?
Yeah maybe I should just say I don’t need to meet. Doing so feels like a faux pa or a failing of my duties somehow. Maybe it’s just in my head.
NGO is a specific type of organization (such as a 501(c)(3) in the US), which would exclude 'a random person registering a domain': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-governmental_organization
i'm always getting humbled, but most recently, i read the intro to an important academic book in the field that i studied in undergrad and i realized that didn't know much in the field, and don't fully understand the book's argument.

or whenever i plant trees or vegetables and they die or get a pest.
> In fairness, if anyone is worth a pay package of that size it is probably Musk. Tesla’s share price rose from $1.40 back in 2010 to more than $400 at their peak.

How is that fair to the hundreds of employees who worked very hard to get the company where it is? Pretty sure Musk couldn't have done it all on his own.

Not to mention that it's worth less than half of those $400 now.

> He is, without question, one of the great entrepreneurs of the century so far.

If abusing people and firing random teams counts as "great", I guess? Anyway I would question it.

> Perhaps most significantly, the company is clearly losing its edge.

Wait... didn't you just say that Musk was so great the company had to go well under his management?

> And Tesla seems unable to make up its mind whether it wants to move into the mass market with cheap EVs or to stay in the luxury market, turning itself into an electric BMW or Mercedes. The price for that kind of strategic confusion is typically a high one, and companies that can’t settle on a clear strategy rarely prosper.

But still he's worth 56bn because he is great at... what was it again?
‘Costly signalling’, to give it its technical name.

Now that GenAI has devalued (alternatively, read: ‘democratised’) prose, the best costly signal will be to go to great lengths to show you haven’t used AI. Whatever it can’t do will become by-definition more valuable.
I remember seeing you at GolandSyd meetups before you took over running them. Nice job!
cool, you should make one also and then we can get an old school webring to link to all of them.
I wouldn't be surprised if _mm_rsqrt_ps is actually implemented using the same bit level trick.

Same as Carmack's, we did a single step of Newton's method and it was definitely good enough.
This is a wonderful response, both non-judgmental and wise.
Maybe they just like it. The assumption seems to be that if they didn't have anyone to impress they would buy a Honda Fit because it is better (by some definition of better). Even if they are just buying it to impress people, who cares? Let them do what they want.
Saying “AI writing lacks character” is like saying typewriters can’t produce an authentic letter, only a handwritten letter can be authentic. I’m sure people were having this debate when typewriters became commonplace.

AI can take on any writing style of any character you desire. It can be extremely vibrant. It can be cold and calculating. It can produce beautiful prose. You can train it on your texts or emails and have it produce something indistinguishable from your own writing style. It’s completely up to the prompting (And the tuning of the model) what output it’s going to produce. The fact that someone was lazy with their use of AI isn’t the AI’s fault.
Thanks for your response. I'm reminded of the old adage that the quickest way to learn something online is to say something controversial and wrong, because someone wiser than you will quickly jump in to correct you.