skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> cishet

Isn't a new word. It's just the sort of most prolific, "default" position of human so we don't really use it because it isn't relevant.

Heterosexual is a word, cisgender is a word, and both are 100% accurate descriptions of MOST people. Since MOST people are both of those things, we have cishet.

"Why does this exist?" you may ask.

Because sometimes we need to refer to the minority - as in, people who ARE NOT both cisgender and heterosexual. Or sometimes we need to refer to people who don't face societal challenges around their gender/sexuality - those people are cishet.

I think the fact you think gays don't have the authority to "create" words is weird. Um, why not? Why don't you want to use them? Will something... bad happen to you or is it more so an out of spite thing?

Also neither cisgender or heterosexual were created by the gays. Both created by cishet people. People just put them together, boom, cishet, easy. Not a new thing or cause for concern IMO.
If we are going to bring cost into it, then digital pianos are superior in term of tuning (one might argue about other aspects of sound and feel). Same tuning every time, no adjustment needed.
>I do think this problem will escalate in the next 10 years

I think low/declining birth rate is a self-solving problem (assuming it is a problem) that isn't worth crying bloody murder about.

Why? Simple: The world will always be inherited by children, childless people literally have no equity in the future.

Childless people cannot affect future birth rates, people with children can and the children will. The birth rate decline will eventually level out because life selects for people who have children.
I don’t disagree with that and I’m no fan of the current situation.
>the idea of paying for a subscription to ride a stationary bike

You're not. Like was said above, you can ride it as a stationary bike for free. You're paying for the video content put out by Peloton which is added to daily, like a tv station. I can't help sounding like a sales person at this point but I'd also point out you get access to all their old content plus the fact that all this content is tied directly to your bike and the social network of other peloton riders.
Cheap housing too. You can spend 20 years apprenticing how to make the tamago or whatever when you're not worried about rent.
Which Stradivarius? He made many, some better than others. Also, which modern violin - there are many makers who make theirs sound different, and of course each violin from the same maker will have their own sound.
I type rather quickly and feel better having fresh knowledge of the actual commands I use.
We don't know how different, and how good, things can be until we try.

Until some of us invest in discernment, invest in the art of it, and the rest of us give it a listen or a look.

Some cultures end up adopting the new level of discernment wholesale.

And in some cultures, the refinement slowly slips away and things revert back to the sloppy, lazy, easier-to-sustain base level.

As others have noted, our time and attention are finite. Both as producers and consumers of culture. I care about some things and ignore others, both as a producer and a consumer. We individually and collectively choose which aspects of life get the attention and the love.

These are the aesthetics of life.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.willeypian...
Well, one solution could be for Western economies to irreversibly contract under the strain of a high dependency ratio, leading to the cessation of industrial fertiliser production. At that point, I expect a large fraction of the population would return to subsistence farming, and rediscover the traditional incentive that children can work as farm-hands, the more the better (esp. in case some of them die to cholera, typhus, etc.).

Nothing more than a modest proposal to spur discussion...!
If you setup a new line, it sounds like you'd be charged that fee. Perhaps I was unclear, but that was my point, similar to Peloton.
I feel similarly that some such learning opportunities are just going to be larger rabbit holes than the thing is worth, but in those cases I'll just prefer to do it a different way that I do know or is worth learning.

E.g. maybe it would be very 'elegant' or rather concise awk if I could overcome the learning opportunity, but like you I would probably decide not to; I'll do it with the sed I do know even if it means some additional piping and cutting or grepping or whatever that awk could've done in one, because I already know it and it's going to be clearer to me and probably anyone else I'm working with.

I think we're saying quite similar things, but my point is I wouldn't be deleting it, dismissing the idea, and disappointing the colleague ready to teach me about it - because I never would've been willing to blindly try broken AI generated (or however sourced) code that I didn't understand in the first place.
I'm guessing that the text interface is nicer if your use case is reading mostly text-based emails from newsletters or forums. But yeah, for general email use I don't see this as a plus unless you really like TUIs.
> mass immigration would effectively mean the end of Japanese society.

Meh, in the same sense the country being forced to open up to European merchants, the Meiji Restoration, or the two atomic bombs and the Emperor's fall from a godlike being to a symbolic leader "destroyed" Japan.

It's not like Japanese ancestors from 1800s would recognize today's Japan, anyway. Women leading men? People getting married in Christian churches? Unthinkable!
To be honest, Macy's a century ago of course wanted data on conversions from newspaper ads. They could ask some customers whether they had seen the ad prior to going to shop. They could print coupons that you need to physically bring in to get a deal. They could pay agencies like Gallup to run more comprehensive customer research.

Shooting in the dark is a so-so strategy, and every business strives to do things in a more cost-efficient way.

(Corollary: if you want businesses to stop building dossiers on you, you have to make it unprofitable.)
Yeah, but how far away the person one gets it from may still vary.
I am told that <https://old.reddit.com/r/HFY/> may be for you.
That's not the same as OP'a claim, which asserts three letter agencies have access to the private keys.
The Compounding Loophole
some states sell ethanol-free gas (ours in LA are blue pump heads, diesel green, e85 is yellow, and regular gas is either red or black depending on the service station.

One of my neighbors has a shadetree business repairing small motors and he taught me to always use ethanol free, and instead of draining it (since it's got ethanol in it) to use the fuel shutoff valve and let it run the bowl dry itself.
I don't have too much small gasoline stuff left that i care about (a weedeater and a couple of honda generators i never use), my tractor is diesel, and my whole-house generator is propane (from a small tank, haven't needed to upgrade since i got the generator shortly after Hurricane Laura.)
Obviously it's political, it's not linguistics. It's not that the word "chairman" didn't work, it's that some people feel that it is wrong for a gender neutral term to be based on a male form. That's clearly ideology, not a practical question.

But that is not the question here, I am merely pointing out that it's very easy to understand why some people may object to ideologically invented words, without have any issues with words that appear organically, like "mousepad". Pretending to not understand the difference is just a bad faith argument.
I'd refer you to a comment I made a few weeks ago on an HN post, to the same effect, which drew the further comment from gwern here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40922090

LSS: metaprogramming tests is not trivial but straightforward, given that you can see the code, the AST, and associated metadata, such as generating test input. I've done it myself, more than a decade ago.

I've referred to this as a mix of literate programming (noting the traps you referred to and the anachronistic quality of them relative to both the generated tests and their generated tested code) wrapped up in human-computer sensemaking given the fact that what the AI sees is often at best a lack in its symbolic representation that is imaginary, not real; thus, requiring iterative correction to hit its user's target, just like a real test team interacting with a dev team.

In my estimation, it's actually harder to explain than it is to do.
So what's the alternative then? Because when developers uncheck this box I have to go through the trouble of decrypting the IPA and sideloading it, and I usually just end up not bothering to use the app at all.
Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions
Mathematicians (with books in hand) tend to have the ability to disambiguate when confusion arises. But they rarely do, instead relying on context and the intelligence of the reader to derive meaning.
FT was a rehash of a 1963 US hotel comedy featuring Jonathan Harris and Don Adams. (which used the lines "Oh, the pain" and "Missed it by that much")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bill_Dana_Show
These ideas are cool but I wonder how security works. Do you do like rate limiting and stuff like that?
I'd argue that burning energy for bitcoin is far more frivolous than for air conditioning.
Yep. Which climbs have you attempted, at what grades.

My gym uses griptonite, but it's so slow I feel like it'd be quicker overall to create my own app for logging things. I decided to use instantdb as a backend database and it's working nicely so far.
> because that will make it less useful and more of a hassle down the road

You can't just say "it is this because it is this". Clearly the sole user of DNS finds it useful to block through DNS.

What sort of hassles do you even have in mind?
Is it different than CRDTs?
Doesn't the frame and qualification problem discredit the latter?

FWIW, most physics professionals I know, who aren't just popular personalities are not in the scientific realism camps.

They realize that all models are wrong and that some are useful.

I do think that the limits of induction and deduction are often ignored in the CS world, and as abduction is only practical in local cases is also ignored.

But the quants have always been pseudoscientific.

We are restricted to induction, deduction, and laplacian determination not because they are ideals, but because they make problems practical with computers.

There are lots of problems that we can find solutions for, many more that we can approximate, but we are still producing models.

More and more data is an attempt to get around the frame and qualification problems.

Same problem that John McCarthy is trying to get around in this 1986 paper.

http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/circumscription/circumscrip...

Note that local bi-abduction is the STOA even for code.

Without solving the frame and qualification problems, everything that isn't markovian and ergotic can be 'lied' with.
Gross. Let it be a lesson to anyone who thinks it is a good idea to have a judiciary system that is packed to the brim with self-serving, partisan goons who are loyal only to their party.
Instead of carrying multiple camera lenses, this one lets you swap optics
Try it on the demo, let us know how it goes!
I would very sincerely ask what places and what quality?
I agree with you. I was just pointing out that the idea of advertisement funding a free Internet is already a lie in the first place.

I am 100% anti advertisement, for the record. It is disgusting and non-consensual, and nobody should tolerate it.
They didn't have enough bikes. That's why they got in trouble: they made huge investments in bike manufacturing, which turned out to be far more than the demand they ended up with.
> Childless people cannot affect future birth rates

That's not true. Maybe in a vacuum it's true, but those children don't exist in a vacuum, and as such, are human beings with agency which is influenced by people around them, including the childless people. If a childless person convinces the child to also not have kids, the child won't have kids, affecting future birth rates.

If childless people make the world a bleak place, with climate change and politics, such that children who have grown into adults don't want to bring a child into the world, then they've affected future birth rates.
The specific mechanism of action here needs a drill-down. Did "The AI Scientist" (ugh) generate a patch to its code and prompt a user to apply it, as the screenshots would seem to indicate? If so I don't find this worrying at all: people write all kinds of stupid code all the time--often, impressively, without any help from "AI"! ;)

Did it apply the patch itself, then reset the session to whatever extent necessary to have the new code take effect? TBH I'm not really worried about this either, as long as the execution environment doesn't grant it the ability to bring unlimited additional hardware to bear. Even in that case, presumably some human would be paying attention to the AWS bills, or the moral equivalent.
Yeah, but I don’t have to learn new shortcuts since I can configure Aerc exactly like I want (and how my mental VIM shortcut model works).
DNS is highly distributed.

I doubt the current infra would have any problem handle the load even if all individual devices had a local resolver.
> You don't program your computer with LISP or Smalltalk. Your computer runs a separate LISP or Smalltalk computer that you can then program on its own terms and in its own world.

That’s not really true of all Lisps! Common Lisp may be compiled straight down to assembly (that’s what SBCL does). It can call straight out to the host OS, just like a C program. Now, due to things like garbage collection you have to manage things a bit at the edges, but that’s no different from a language like Go, and I think that no-one would say that Go is its own machine.

It’s true of some Lisps, such as Emacs Lisp. Emacs is really a virtual Lisp machine with an editor as a shell.

I think that it’s also true of Smalltalk.
It's an argument that hasn't borne out in practice.

Texas medical costs are lock-step with the lest of the country.

Texas malpractice rates are leading the country.
In addition to children making you poorer, our workplaces are filled with people who deeply and visibly detest people who have children for their distraction from Everimportant Work. Everyone sees that, and it shapes their life choices.

I find it VERY amusing when I see high profile elites who create these workaholic atmospheres bemoan the dropping birth rate.
>It obviously was segmented into translation units when it was originally compiled, but nothing really cares about those boundaries at the linking stage. (Of course, you probably want to try to figure it out if possible, since it will probably be very hard to do a matching decompilation if your object boundaries are incorrect.)

Can you expound on this? Why are the boundaries not important at the linking stage - aren't you linking the wrong code then? Or did I not understand the point here?
I’m not 100% sure but I read that part as a little bit of a joke? Like in the context of the story, the author had just describe the fact that the piano sounded only a little better, they thought, during the concert. Possibly the difference was imperceptible to most of the crowd.

So I think chucking the Earth into the sun is intentionally being over-dramatic.

Actually I think ending it on a joke was not the best move, because it does muddle things a bit. The stakes are not so high but it does matter. The piano was not bad enough for the audience to notice, but it was bad enough for the player to notice. If it is bad enough to bother the person using it, it is bad enough to matter.

I mean, if the player is self-criticizing like most elite people do, they probably play better if they know everything, even the little stuff that the audience barely notices, is going right.
> If I have Jacob’s syndrome and a penis am I biologically male

Yes, of course. It's a condition that only affects males.
Thanks!

I should get back to this project one of these days. I did one version tracking session too many in a row and had to take a break, plus that delinking side-quest keeps snowballing out of control.
Technically the British Iron and Bronze Ages are prehistoric since British recorded history begins with the Roman conquest in 43 AC.
I don't understand... what is a lens if not the optics? What gets excluded in this case? The plastic rim, screw thread, autofocus electronics, etc.?
Yacht (https://yacht.sh/) is good too if anything about Portainer upsets you.
Don’t make me hunt for pricing! Looks great.
I'm going to be honest it seems like a lot of the "data" obsession that has been all the rage among mid-level managers is really basically just a modern dressed up version of augury, or reading pig entrails to predict the future.

These enterprises spend a large amount of time and effort trying to collect data, often the wrong data, toa address a problem they don't understand and then hope if they do enough "data science" on it then it will magically tell them what to do. All without understanding or reasoning behind it, or any real connection to reality just "the data says X".

This results in ideas like "We did A/B testing and it runs out people stay on the page 38% longer if we use design B". Ignoeing the fact that the reason that happened was that design B involved the exit button randomly dancing around the page.

That is of course limiting ourselves to situations where people are actually trying to use data to get answers when much more often it is "I have already made a decision make the data say it was the right one." Which is a whole other can of worms.
I love the attention to detail. As another commenter pointed out, while this is perhaps true for Boulder, you'll have to acknowledge not only that Boulder experiences a rather distinct climate from the rest of Colorado, and that Boulder is hydrologically disconnected from the Colorado river basin, which is the subject of this discussion.

Furthermore, as the OP's article alludes to, snow _amount_ is only one component that contributes to water availability, particularly its timing. Larger amounts of snow that melt very fast in the spring create a novel regime that our current systems aren't well-suited to support, for example.
I wonder how long Apple will play this game until we get true sideloading (clicking an IPA and press install).
There was a youtube video I came across a few weeks ago which took Usain Bolt's world record and did a bio-mechanical analysis to see how far off he was from his absolute theoretical best. It was... surprisingly close. I think they had him at like an 8.9s 100m if he did everything perfectly.
Sure. But there are many things that science has come to a pretty good idea about. Nutrition is miles away from that. The only truly established theories we have in nutrition are how to cire vitamin deficiencies.

Everything beyond how to avoid scurvy and the like is currently just noise. For every paper that finds an effect in nutrition, there is another paper that finds the exact opposite: so, there is no actionable advice to take from this. Maybe in 50 years when things have settled.

Edit: I don't mean to say that this isn't part of science. It's a normal part of the process. But when we're just starting to experiment scientifically in such a complex field, it's normal that we just don't know a lot and our theories are just bad at the moment. They will get better, but there's no point whatsoever in following a theory that is not yet well confirmed by experiment.
A guide to modern Kubernetes network policies
In the world of Kubernetes, network policies are essential for controlling traffic within your cluster. But what are they really? And why, when and how should you implement them?
I'm not arguing, but again, nuance. I don't know that it is human instinct, my understanding is that diseases like malaria and the heat (no A/C) meant European colonizers avoided a lot of the warmer places and moved inland to the mountains where it was cooler.

It might, instead, be a cultural influence?

I feel like I am being pedantic, though. Apologies for that.
Are we about to have the year of the Linux desktop?
Application-specific metrics are the way to go. For ML training this is one example:
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/g...
There was a german-language Monty Python special, the Fliegender Zirkus:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xmWN9fwmOKM - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Fliegender_Zi...
I don't see an explanation anywhere what "TUI" is. I'm going to go with "text user interface".
When understanding the performance of your model it's very helpful to look at a roofline plot [1]. The roofline plot will show you the floating-point performance as a function of arithmetic intensity for the various ops in your model. The plot has two regimes: a memory-bound regime on the left and a compute-bound regime on the right. This can help to identify memory-bound ops that are taking a significant fraction of compute time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roofline_model
For when eww doesn't work, this snippet will let you type "c v" in a notmuch mail buffer to render the html content of an email in an external browser:

(defun btv/notmuch-browse-html ()
(interactive "")
(let ((html-part (seq-find
(lambda (elt)
(pcase-let ((`(,begin ,end ,props) elt))
(let* ((part (plist-get props :notmuch-part))
(type
(or (plist-get part :computed-type)
(plist-get part :content-type))))
(and (equal type "text/html")
begin))))
(object-intervals (current-buffer)))))
(when html-part
(save-excursion
(goto-char (1+ (car html-part)))
(notmuch-show-view-part)))))

(add-hook 'notmuch-show-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(define-key notmuch-show-stash-map "v" 'btv/notmuch-browse-html)))
Apple is still standing in the way of Epic's app store
For the wine nerds – Wines and grapes of Southwest Michigan
The problem is that avoiding microplastics in food is really hard. Lots of food that is not packaged in plastic is full of microplastics. These are leaking into food during processing or from the environment. Car tires are full of plastic and continuously shedding it. For example, lots of plant roots have been shown to uptake microplastics from soil.

IMHO, EPA and EU environmental agencies should mandate testing microplastic levels in food. Otherwise, we are blind. Alternatively, some independent organization should come up with a microplastic level test and award badges.
Reciting “time is of the essence” reflects the materiality of timely performance. Materiality is important when considering breach and fraud.

I’m concerned but not surprised that you are drafting legal documents.
Have you been following the news on this topic lately? Antitrust enforcement has had a huge resurgence under Biden, and it's actually looking like Google may get broken up soon. See: https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/11/24216760/google-trial-mon...
I would really love to try a terminal email client with html email parsing.

I miss pine.
The internet has worsened this phenomenon. I, like many other people, have gotten into the habit of appending site:reddit.com to Google searches as search quality declines. This gives better results from actual humans (usually), but it also skews toward people who are invested enough in the topic to post about it on niche subreddits. This leads to, for example, product recommendations that are way out of alignment with what most people need, even if the information about them is true.
ha nooo i think he said: “i am looking for something more flexible” than the immutable REST payload POC we were playing with at the time (this was 8 years ago). He was right!