skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’d only be true if the study population was a random sample of the general population.

If they’re only testing people with symptoms, the causality could easily go either way.
Have you ever wondered whether these long form articles give you ANY substantial knowledge or only the illusion that you gained something...
Still true after 40 years.
I think its because animals are many interconnected systems or models which are made to create "intelligent" behavior, like one for speak one for movement and alike. LLMs are trained purely off text, so they are more similar to a very simple animal that only has one type of inputs and outputs like a worm that only knows where its body is and then where it wants to be. LLMs are also only trained for a short period of time, and thats when something interesting is going on and its able to learn and change. We then take a snapshot of it and give it different inputs to get some result instead of to teach it something. I would say that a crow brain that has been frozen and can only get a certain amount of inputs and then only produce a certain amount of outputs is not intelligent.
Intel stock jumps on report it may break up the company or cancel new factories
I guess that I was taught basic mental arithmetic differently. Multiply by 8 and divide by 5, or (it's inverse) is two single instruction cycle opcodes (or whatever my brains equivalent is).

Regularly needing to translate between sane units and US (and occasional British) idiosyncrasies keeps these mental muscles worked enough that it's mostly subconscious now.

I didn't enjoy rote repetition of times tables and drills as a kid, but it's frustrating seeing my daughter being taught to understand multiplication, and learning "strategies", but struggling with mental arithmetic (I mean she tests above grade level, so I'm not worried, it's just a _get off my lawn_ reflex)
And “almost” as guide systems for bombs! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
I tried to understand those numbers but failed.

They come from https://nida.nih.gov/research/research-data-measures-resourc... which shows a clear rise.

However, they are taken from 'cannabis products distributed in the illegal marijuana marketplace in the United States', as submitted by the DEA and police agencies, and I can't help but wonder about possible sample biases.

Like, if the cops find "ditchweed" - low-potency hemp plants - did they used to send that in for testing, while nowadays they don't? If so, that would result in the observed trend, but not reflect what people actually used to get high.

I tried to figure that out, but quickly gave up, since the part I quoted 'unclear whether this hurts or helps the health of the typical smoker' was more relevant.

Fundamentally it doesn't matter since, as The Atlantic piece mentioned, you can buy products with higher THC levels ("better living, through chemistry!"), and are not limited to what the plant can make.
Worked out very well for the peasants who survived or were born after the Black Plague (their labour became much more valuable).

Plus, that demographic deficit helped kick off the Industrial Revolution.
Maybe it’s more intentional than people realize. Everyone assumes it’s just a personality flaw but what if instead it’s a way to purge all collaborators who have ego issues themselves.

I find him incredibly fascinating and personally suspect he is so crazy intelligent than it won’t be until decades later that people realize to what degree. It doesn’t bother me at all how he talks, yet I can understand how it does for others.

What I do know for sure after skimming this post from him, just like others of his the past. Is I need setup a Mathematica/Wolfram/his tools trial and spend at least a few weeks reading deeply what he writes. It’s probably a gold mine for anyone who can actually do it. I’m sure part of what he is doing has some marketing component as it has generated this reaction from me.
There's the intellectual dishonesty - I literally described the evidence in the exact same sentence, that you cut off in your citation because it was inconvenient for you:

> because the vast majority of the files were completely unrelated to domestic surveillance programs, and instead concerned foreign surveillance programs.

It is exactly because the common response to the evidence is this kind of deceptiveness that I have to point it out.
“Nothing in the language of the due process clause itself requires the state to protect the life, liberty and property of its citizens against invasion by private actors.”

From the article, quoting the Supreme Court. I’ll admit that the police may still have a “duty” (whatever that is defined as), but it is certainly true that they aren’t required to protect the public
Here is my long thought:

People have been trying to talk to animals for thousands (tens of thousands?) of years, and no "animal myths" were discovered. Some researchers have dedicated their live trying to understand the animals (story mentions one of them), but still got nothing useful. I think it's fair to assume there is nothing to find there at all.

And alien life is not special in that regard - if we are able to successfully contact aliens, and then many thousands of people spend a century or two interchanging the messages with them, and all this would yield same artifacts that most Earth's 5-year-old kids can produce... then people would lose interest in aliens as well, and stop building things like Arecibo.
I think it wouldn't be a crime, but you could still be sued to get you to stop distributing it.
> would have been in clover to have just those problems

off-topic but this is the first time i've seen the idiom "in clover" before and had to look it up... interesting

[1] https://grammarist.com/idiom/in-clover/
Wait up, are async closures in stable now?

Would certainly help with the wild return and type signatures I've had to write involving combinations of `Pin` `Box` & `Future<Output = Result<...>>`.

I think Rust futures are really awesome as they expose the lower level details of how async behavior works, giving the developer the flexibility to adapt it to their use case - but the standard library really dropped the ball on standardized usage/types.

For instance, can we please just have `AsyncRead` and `AsyncWrite` traits? Can they also be easy to implement (are just `async read()`)?

Right now you have to use adapters between Tokio types and the Futures crate and they both offer their own non-interoperable read/write traits.
Nevertheless, it’s going to be hard to tease out causality. In addition to covid, there was the lockdown, and the tripledemic.

For example, I had two extremely mild cases of covid, but also long-not-covid symptoms from something worse (probably rsv, flu, or ???).

Similarly, there are a ton of psychological/developmental issues among covid-generation kids. For many, the lockdown and school closures were probably the main cause, but some probably have issues from covid itself.
I think that's the most solid example.
It still looks weird to me at I'm not used to it, but the bottom is kinda better as it's easier to reach on a sizeable phone without resting the phone on some surface or using an additional hand.
I couldn't get it to do anything. It just seems to be checking for cached/archive copies of the article. The BPC browser extension still blows this out of the water.

Firefox:
https://github.com/bpc-clone/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

Chrome:
https://github.com/bpc-clone/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean/

uBO filter list (only works for some sites):
https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clea...
Thank you very much for taking the time to comment. One of the motivations for mine was to spur someone else who is much more knowledgeable to provide their thoughts. Thank you.
Spider and Web is a particularly neat bit of storytelling, and I'd highly recommend it.

"Don't be absurd," he says. "You're no more a sightseer than the Old Tree in
Capitol Square; and if you'd had enough sense to walk away from that door, you
wouldn't be here. You don't and you didn't and are; we caught you. And you're
going to start by telling me how you got through that door. Do you understand
me?"

Without spoiling too much: it's a story about a spy infiltrating a military complex, told from the perspective of that man being interrogated after being captured. It's an unconventional narrative approach which does a nice job of giving the player some direction.
Lifetime subtyping is normally not much necessary to ensure the correctness, provided that you are working at the sufficiently high level (so, say, std is available) and do have some freedom in the design. It often indicates that you are excessively avoiding heap allocations.
It's a bit silly & over the top, but I do think there's a huge danger to this planet with lots and lots and lots of jurisdictions all over the planet who have all kinds of incentives to self deal, to try to bend the internet & computing to their whims.

And the Internet & computing can't have such extreme veto power over how we think & connect. Europe for example has granted itself a right to be forgotten, where even if you do awful awful things you can ask to have yourself removed from the Internet. And so far that's been respected... In European search results. But as much as they insist, we don't censor the rest of the world of those results, just because one group of people says so.

Whether vpns are available isn't exactly the same. But its still horseshit. It's still casting a gigantic net because you are a petulant shitty power-mad rule-maker. It doesn't seem representative of the nation either; it seems like some hyper-political over-reacrion horseshit.

There's just so many people who will be trying to control how we think, how we connect, control what the internet is. And I feel like there's a long running crisis of what we do and what we don't do to match nations. We maybe aren't at full Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace. But we've had a number of services get to the brink fo bas again and again, only for someone to blink. And it seemed inevitable that this system of never testingimots was going to break, and when it did, rather than break reasonably & part ways, Brazil has just gone scorched earth, has drastically drastically upped the brinkmanship & blast zone, in extremely harmful ways. This is just my judgement call, but fuck yeah I think this shit deserves a colossal colossal colossal middle finger, and if Brazil wants to escalate, well, have fun doing something other than the internet that everyone else uses. You'll have to build that path yourself, and I don't think we should support & enable that schism.
Designing handles: hand sizes are different
it's clear. nobody needs more than 5GB. they won't exist if they need more and this ensures the statement is true.

maybe this is a trend and should be used for all websites.

make small data great again?
In the time it took me to learn a new programming language, my kid learned how to be a whole entire human being. Including free thought and autocorrect mode. I don’t know what makes us special in the animal kingdom, but watching that happen certainly feels special. Do whales feel the same way about their young?
> France's cost of generation is super low

Source? The real TCO isn't. Fact: EDF gobbled during decades public money and various advantages, and is now crushing under a >50 billions € debt

> the carbon intensity of generation is 10 times lower than Germany's

In the 1960's France coal reserves were vanishing (France switched to nuclear) while Germany's were massive (in RDA it was huge). This is the root cause.

In Germany nuclear-produced electricity peaked at 30% (around 1999), electricity being there around 12% of the consumed energy. Far, from the huge deal sometimes touted. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Energy_mix_in_Germany.svg )

> Wind turbines are the size of football fields

So? The facts remain: they don't use any land and offer sanctuaries to exhausted seas.

> and they basically can't be recycled

Nope, they can be recycled and in more and more nations this is even mandatory. In France: https://factuel.afp.com/le-socle-des-eoliennes-resteront-dan...

> after their useful lifespan of 20 years

Nope, even with such a young industry there are many counter-examples of big (industrial) old wind turbines. https://www.tvindkraft.dk/stories/a-new-nacelle-back-end/

> They have to be buried

Nope. This is now illegal in most nations. Even recyclable blades now exist, and old ones are more and more burnt in cement killns.

> uranium
> spent fuel can be recycled (and a lot of if is even today!)

Nope. Source? Even France doesn't recycle (MOX) more than a few percent, and it only is recyclable once. Industrial real 'eternal' recycling (possible with renewables, as most components such as copper or aluminium are 'infinitely' recyclable at human timescale) of uranium isn't achieved anywhere. If it is, please state where and how.

> we know how to extract it from seawater

This is nothing more than an old dream. Please state (source) where it is, at industrial stage. It simply isn't, anywhere, and all attempts (since the 1970's) failed, and this is a well-know fact. Quote: "pumping the seawater to extract this uranium would need more energy than what could be produced with the recuperated uranium". Source: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2017/ph241/jones-j2/docs/e...

> ore grades

Is playing with words your best counter-argument? I quoted a source, everyone may check my assertion: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222817608_Life_cycl...

Sheer facts happening since the advent of industrial renewables indicate that many believe that the 'renewable sources' path is the best one:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/nuclear-renewables-electr...
Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
> My goal is to create a general book—and course—that’s an introduction to computational thinking at a level suitable for typical first-year college students. Lots of college students these days say they want to study “computer science”. But really it’s computational X for some field X that they’re ultimately interested in. And neither the theoretical nor the engineering aspects of typical “computer science” are what’s most relevant to them. What they need to know is computational thinking as it might be applied to computational X—not “CS” but what one might call “CX”.

Sounds fun!
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Given how anti free speech Cloudflare is I don't think it'd be wise for Twitter to migrate there
A lot of times the questions I ask are literally about the job, since interviewers are so focused on trying to ask candidates things that they forget that it's a matching game, and the job has to be explained too.

I'll try to "turn the table" early on in the interview. Ask what they are building, ask questions, say how you might design it (or have designed it in the past). All the fluffy stuff people can lie about, but getting into a good technical discussion can I think prove that both people are on the same level and can work well together.

The other question I like to ask is "why are you hiring for this job?" This can be a real teller. Is it a group expanding due to new responsibilities? Did the last person leave in a huff? Figuring that out can really help explain the org you're about to go into.
This is the site I went to (65 days ago), saw the swastikas, clicked back, mentioned that fact on HN, got downvoted to -4 and told I was "pearl clutching". But it also kicked off an interesting thread[0] about how sites handle users being able to draw anything. I wonder what it's like now. Oh. It's 1,000,000 solid checks because he disabled unchecking in order to end the site.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40802456
He has also shown narcissistic tendencies, which is consistent with the US government's statements that he did this for publicity and personal recognition/profit.

"Narcisstic tendencies" is a very common smear / throwaway labelling we hear a lot -- about bosses, exes, manipulative relatives and what not. In some cases it's valid, but in most it's simply not. Unless you can point to specifics, we'll have to include this labelling of Snowden in that category as well.

But even if it did apply -- it would also be perfectly consistent with the possibly that he simply considers himself a fearless do-gooder. I don't rule out your alternatives, but Occam's Razor (combined with the fact that there's no visible evidence of him having profited in any way; and his general bearing and demeanor do not correspond to those of the publicity whore type) does favor the former.

(Not to say that he is or is not a fearless do-gooder; just that it's not at all unlikely that that's what he considers himself to be).
Are we talking the same Facebook that literally MITM'ed their competitor apps', and hasn't been punished yet?
Smd: Minimalistic Markdown Renderer for the Terminal
Seriously? Governments' legitimacy is pinned to their ability to provide food and medical attention to their citizenry. It doesn't make any difference whether or not twitter exists or who has access to it.
I disagree. There is already a project for a Rust OS, and its been around for years and I don't even know if it'll actually function on real hardware or just in VMs.[1] Or even enough to matter. There is already a project, where are the hundreds, if not thousands, of developers?

[1] https://www.redox-os.org/
I once saw a REST API built with bidirectional queues. There was a “REST” server that converted HTTP to some weird custom format and an “app” server with “business logic”, with tons of queues in between. It was massively over complicated and never made it to production. I won’t even describe what the database looked like.
Every species, including worms and ants? Because they are surely smarter than 1-week old human baby, they can eat and move.

We don't treat children well because of their intelligence - otherwise, no one would care about newborns. We care about them because they are of the same species as us.

As for "dignity", I am not 100% sure what you mean, but in humans it comes directly with being able to function as a member of the society. For example, someone who cannot navigate city (be it because they are young or because of their developmental difficulties) will not be free to wander wherever they want.
It's why I prefer working in startups. Less money but the amount of crippling BS you deal with is vastly less. Basically, you are the only thing on the critical path to delivering anything. A lot of what I do in startups is ruthlessly getting rid of anything that blocks me that I can't control.

I do some consultancy on the side with bigger companies that are stuck in exactly the way you describe. Because the elephant in the room is usually that product managers vary widely in quality and I've seen them be a bottleneck in quite a few places. There's this weird dynamic where you get non technical product managers act more like a CTO and CTOs act more like a VP of engineering in some companies.

Since I come in and advice at that level, I get to see this dynamic up close. Good ideas don't stand a chance in such companies and they actually end up paying me to tell them to stop doing stupid things that they already know they shouldn't be doing to begin with. A lot of companies are not long term sustainable because they fight themselves into corners like that. That's why consulting can be so lucrative. You just relay what engineers in the company are saying anyway to their managers. All you need to do is listen and talk authoritatively.

A good company would have a culture of being open to sound engineering and be empowering people to make things better. Steve Jobs famously encouraged that in his people and got rid of people that tried to prevent that. Elon Musk apparently does similar things. Neither are/were particularly pleasant people to report to but there's a pattern in their behavior that they encourage and insist on creative and critical thinking around them. A weak manager does the opposite. Weak managers are the reason consultants like me get lucrative gigs to tell them what they should already know.
Scientists need evidence, rather than just assume intelligence because 'it is obvious', or that other species think the way we do. So just because we see a crow using tools, we should not assume that they learn from their parents and experiment and play and refine just like a human. Because it turns out they don't, and we have learned new things about them, and because of these differences, ourselves. So I don't think it that these silly scientists are surprised animals are intelligent. Why waste your life researching animal intelligence if you think your efforts will be pointless? Who in this century actually believes that all animals are unintelligent? The only arguments are to what degree and which species, and maybe quibbling about what that word actually means. But I don't think anyone has demonstrated equivalent to human child levels of cognition yet, with any species. We can teach a child words and grammar and communicate complex and abstract and even imaginary thoughts, and that is just the very beginning. A human child is so incredibly smart it can develop into a human adult. Other species are very different, and claiming equivalence is comparing apples to oranges. We see intelligence in such alien organisms as an octopus or a hive of bees, and the more we learn, in many ways we are understanding that we actually are alone and special. It seems more and more likely that if we are ever going to interact with another species as peers, the first is going to be a species of our own creation, and not dolphins or cockatoos.
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Package checksums can be specified per-platform in requirements.txt and Pipfile.lock files. Is it advisable to only list package names, in TOML that can't be parsed from source comments with the AST parser?

.ipynb nbformat inlines binary data outputs from e.g. _repr_png_() as base64 data, rather than delimiting code and binary data in .py files.

One file zipapp PEX Python Executables are buildable with Twitter Pants build, Buck, and Bazel. PEX files are executable ZIP files with a Python header.

There's a GitHub issue about a Markdown format for notebooks because percent format (`# %%`) and myst-nb formats don't include outputs.

There's also GitHub issue about Jupytext storing outputs

Containers are sandboxes. repo2docker with repo2podman sandboxes a git repo with notebooks by creating a container with a recent version of the notebook software on top.

How does your solution differ from ipyflow and rxpy, for example? Are ipywidgets supported or supportable?
Maybe because really good drivers will gravitate to NASCAR as they can make more $ there. Same reason the US doesn't have hardly any good soccer players but the best basketball and football players.
I don't care what anybody says, ColdFusion was a beautiful mess and fun to write.
Multicomputation: A fourth paradigm for theoretical science
It's a curiosity, a rabbit hole, and not likely to have practical applications. It's one of the math things I toy with from time to time, like factoring large coprimes.
Right. This "competition" isn't, because most of it is run by the same folks that determine whether or not Netflix exists as an ongoing concern.

It's a HUGE fuckin shame that American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. v. Aereo, Inc. was decided the way it was. Otherwise, Netflix could get out of the stranglehold that the movie studios surely have it in by buying DVDs and either mailing them or streaming their contents to subscribers. [0]

[0] The implication here is that the movie studios are threatening to refuse to renew streaming licenses for their movies if Netflix goes back to mailing DVDs at scale. If Netflix could format-shift those DVDs in real time with a one-customer-per-DVD setup, not only would Netflix have some leverage, they wouldn't be beholden to arbitrary and capricious licensing agreements at all.