skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, "the same kind of mathematics" rings dismissive.

That's on you if you read it that way;

There are other sources, but sticking with the wikipedia article already linked (which references other sources):

* The Babylonian astronomers kept detailed records of the rising and setting of stars, the motion of the planets, and the solar and lunar eclipses, all of which required familiarity with angular distances measured on the celestial sphere.

"angular distances measured on spheres" is the domain of trigonometry, how deep is a matter of debate but trigonometry it is.

* They also used a form of Fourier analysis to compute an ephemeris (table of astronomical positions), which was discovered in the 1950s by Otto Neugebauer.

That seems reasonably advanced.

* Tablets kept in the British Museum provide evidence that the Babylonians even went so far as to have a concept of objects in an abstract mathematical space. The tablets date from between 350 and 50 B.C.E., revealing that the Babylonians understood and used geometry even earlier than previously thought. The Babylonians used a method for estimating the area under a curve by drawing a trapezoid underneath, a technique previously believed to have originated in 14th century Europe.

This is proto-integration, pre-caclulus, etc.
You use touchscreens to turn on your headlights because it is cheaper, touchscreens and embedded SoCs are so cheap these days that adding one to your car (as long as it is rectangular) is tons cheaper than wiring multiple buttons on your dashboard.

The cost of programming those displays is relatively small and fixed, it doesn't get more expensive if you sell 1 million cars or 10. But these companies still haven't managed to have proper processes for the software platforms for their cars so the software ends up sucking.

They treat their cars like video game developers, once done and released there might be a few patches. But the next car is mostly rebuilding the software from scratch.

On an aside as more people are becoming aware that buttons and knobs are actually nice you will likely see them coming back, but only on the more expensive vehicles.
My oldest son JUST signed up for steam.

I was just lamenting having to login to his computer with my login to share. Problem solved!
I've seen a movie where a cop gives a warning to one of the character and actually enters the warning into the system so that warnings are tracked. The guy is a bad dude that does not want to leave a trace so ends up killing the cop.

I don't know if it's an actual thing.

Edit: I remember now, it was Jack Reacher season 2.
The best one would be:

total = sum(map(f, data))

Not only does it take less resources as it only has to loop once because map creates a generator. This is absolutly the use case of map, if you want to apply the same function, which is already defined, to all members of a list/iterator, map is the correct tool for the job. Now if you wanted to apply a transformation that is not in a function there would be an argument to use a comprehension as it would be better than using an inline lambda in a map. But if you already have the method you want to apply, just use map() and then pass that to sum()
I'm wondering how you're proposing to power cars with nuclear energy, if not electric cars? Are you proposing synfuels? These are very expensive. Hydrogen cars are notably for how much of a failure they've been, even in places like Japan that have been heavily pushing them.
Not sure why you resort to making the only alternative "sweeping chimneys or making matchsticks". There were plenty of other jobs back then that weren't menial.
I know a retired NYPD officer who would hand them out to non-family as Christmas gifts every year.
I agree, but that removes the authors creativity and agency - which is why I opt to leave diff comments.
And my mind with to The Diamond Age (the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer that used human actors to give AI-generated stories a veneer of humanity).
Every Leader Knows AI Is the Future, but They Don't Know Where to Start
Artificial: made by people, often as a copy of something natural.

To manufacture: to produce goods in large numbers, usually in a factory using machines.

Seems pretty synonymous to me. Heck, Collins dictionary [0] straight up states they're synonyms.

[0] https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/artific...
> Just that the "version" of capitalism we're running now produces inequalities that allow people to pull up that kind of stunts.

This "stunt" was a major achievement for humankind, maybe this "version" of capitalism isn't that bad after all
Randomize recipes etc, then put them in hints throughout the game

Been enjoying Zelda randomizers lately, it needs a bit of a wiki to understand mechanics etc. But a game designed for randomization could include difficulty curve & then have higher difficulty levels where that hand holding backs off like how many modern roguelites have difficulty level mechanics
This has been obvious for quite some time, and is a key criticism of the "climate deniers".

The poor and middle class pay and suffer from climate change initiatives while the rich and powerful fly around on private jets to climate conferences. Clearly there is something going on here.
That’s what a global market does: global competition from both Tesla and other imports.

Companies come and go: c’est la vie.

Yet, it might be too soon to write down VW.
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Thank you for the suggestion. I went and checked it, but this is not it.

I see several answers in this post that don't understand what Edge or Arc do when it comes to tab/workspace syncing.

It's all seamless. When I move from one computer to the other one, without having to do absolutely any step, everything is open and in the correct workspace in the other computer.
Not ours, yours.

Most primitive gauge of morality: we do not harm the innocent.

Every valid moral rule involves protecting a person from destructive interference that they are not culpable for (by will or neglect.) Every one. The times gauge how the value systems of a time change (willing to harm your neighbor for your own gain? Hammurabi brings us law.)

I'd like to throw in "objective morality" however a wall of text would be required to satisfy your every unfamiliarity with how I use these words.

Good is the conservation of the potential of being.

Bad is the waste of the potential of being.

Evil is the corruption and perversion of the potential of being.

Love is the emergence of the potential of being (have some babies, you'll see what that means.)

The problem is not with morals, the problems are with the cultures of people and their seasons.

You don't need philosophy to explain all of this, you and yours are corrupt.
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> As long as there's any amount of leeway in enforcement of the law, things like courtesy cards will exist

Do they exist somewhere else?

The police have wide discretion to issue a warning instead of a fine in most countries as far as I know. But these cards seem to be unique to NYPD. I don't mean that corruption doesn't exist elsewhere but usually it's a little less obvious!
Yes, generative AI. But machine learning and neural networks were the precursors to this sort of research, so I prefer to put AI into one pile, whose ultimate aim is to make a machine work more like a human.
Per-account bans would also be easily exploited by those who do want to cheat - buy a game once, make five smurf accounts, add them all to a family, and get six fresh starts for the price of one. Any loophole like that absolutely would be abused.
This is exactly the Volvo / Polestar philosophy. There is a Decoder podcast with their CEO about just this sentiment.
That's a solution for handling the manufacturing/productivity side, though doesn't necessarily address the part of the labor force that may become redundant. Growth is always possible as long as a technological edge exists over the cheaper labor regions, but when that goes away it's down to UBI or (idealized) communist style redistribution. I don't know how compatible the market economies are with this kind of policy. Interesting times indeed
Such a setup can be more efficient - but only if everything is tuned perfectly. ICE engines are generally most efficient at low RPM and high throttle settings (last time I saw the graphs it was 1950RPM at 87% throttle peaked at 43% efficient, but that was one particular engine: yours will be different) - so you the entire system tuned around this, mistakes mean you either are running lower throttle or spinning extra mass not needed. Very few companies have the ability to design an engine around their exact needs - only the large automakers can really pull it off and they typically trade engines with other auto makers so they can offer more engine options in their cars than they have designed.
That's Nissan e-POWER system. Alas, Toyota THS is cheaper, probably lighter, and slightly more efficient.
> But a code base that is stylistically inconsistent is itself a source of unmaintainability

Can you elaborate? The context here is a few lines of code that iterate over a list. I don’t know any developer who understands one that can’t understand the other.
In what context does "who I'm related to" have a non-corrupt genuine bearing on whether I've broken a law and deserve citation for my (in)actions?
Pretty much every single child thinks cheats are the greatest things ever when they first discover them. Usually you discover how boring and easy they make the game fairly soon after, but you still try them out.
I feel like you don’t try. You don’t own the audience. Make a game that rewards discovery and encourage that, but don’t try to lock out those who don’t want it.
Please check in with the developer --- probably best to create an issue at Github:

https://github.com/gsohler/openscad/issues
Is the date on this piece correct?

The section about Rust as a first class citizen seems to contain references to its potential use in Linux that are a few years out of date; with nothing more current than 2021.

> As of March 2021, work on a prototype for writing Linux drivers in Rust is happening in the linux-next tree.
“Greece, Rome’s captive, took Rome captive.”

The languages of engineering-aligned communities may appear to have won the race, though they have been adopting significant ideas from Haskell and related languages in their victories.
That's a really interesting idea.

It makes me wonder how it would affect salaries if companies were required to make the salary distribution public for all their roles. So you knew both the range where you were applying, as well as at other companies.

And also how that would interact with unionization. E.g. would it make collective wage bargaining less necessary to some degree? If workers felt they had the data to know they could bargain individually for more money?
Between the non-creepy people who are kinda obsessed with IQ, the creepy people obsessed with IQ, and checkered history of IQ testing, I'd definitely avoid it.

Testing specific, useful, and uncontroversial mental abilities - such as working memory - would be reasonable.
If feel like it is completely normal for any kind of sharing to have these kind of rules.

It keeps people from using "don't blame me, family member did it" as an excuse / cover for cheating. I used to moderate a busy gaming forum, that excuse is baked into that community sadly.
We have slowed down the acceleration of Co2, so that's proof we can do something. Maybe also dirt cheap solar will at some point make a dent. A huge problem is fertilizer made from fossil fuels.
"The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe." - Douglas Adams.
Code review has become a bad joke. Nothing in TFA should be blocking feedback. Depending on seniority and politics it will be ignored in the best case, and waste someone's time in the worst case.

The single most important thing to discuss during code review is whether the new code does what the author thinks it does. And whether what the author thinks it does is part of what the team wants to accomplish. Typically there is some sort of plan, either strewn across a ticket tracker, or in a design doc, or unfortunately stuck in someones head. Make sure the new code is in service to that plan--the real goal.
Vivaldi is the only browser that comes a bit close to what Arc and Edge do. But it doesn't really do it.

I still have to go to the sync windows and choose which tabs from the other device to open in the present devices. If you try Edge or Arc you will see the difference and how it's totally seamless there.
> I understand why, obviously, but this is going to get acrimonious quickly.

Nah, I agree with it. It's sort of like private trackers invites, if an invitee is misbehaving, both the invitee and the inviter will be punished for it.

It's enforcing an honor system between peers.
For that matter, PASCAL has had variant records (i.e. sum types) since the 1970s.
There's a bunch more companies, Sierra Space with Dreamchaser, a space plane that will dock with ISS or whatever replaces it. But there's Gravity, Rocket Lab, Astra, Relativity, Stoke etc. It's never been such a vibrant sector.
Looked at doing this on a moderate sized yacht, before decent chartplotters were reasonably priced. We wanted to have a decent spec PC drive a chartplotter at the helm, nav table, TV in the living area. To build a PC that would survive was near impossible for a performant system. We were looking at fanless sealed industrial machines.
Right. The more polished a rendering is, the more people are emotionally attached to it. Keeping it rough enables brainstorming, whatifs, etc.

Ages ago, when CAD was new, architects would show customers tracings (of plots). For all the same reasons.

The practice was so common that my buddy (also an architect) created a "hand plot" driver for AutoCAD. "Messy" hand drawn look instead of precise line work. The driver was huge popular.
From the fountain pen side, Carbon pigmented inks seem to survive anything you can do without destroying the paper itself. I use Platinum Carbon Black in my lab notebooks.
So much for "Secure Future Initiative".

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-cloud/resources/se...
It’s an article about communication styles and how they differ between open source software development and the corporate world.

And quite an interesting article at that!
I'm still new to LoRA/fine tunes, but: I can't just dump in 1gb of data, correct?
I need to structure it in Question/Answer or the like?

So it would seem the cost really becomes converting/curating the data into a usable format first.
Could this be the next Data Lake or Lakehouse architecture?
My advice, give it some time.

Like the cheating ban, there could be more restrictions/actions in place on accounts once they have figured out and addressed all the ways someone can abuse or take advantage of this.

Once the dust settles, you can take a call based on that.
I find myself looking up walkthroughs for two reasons:

1) I have no idea what I'm supposed to do or where I'm supposed to go next. There have been lots of times when I've not know where to go next or seem trapped in an area with no enemies and had to go look up how to get out.

2) I want to make sure what I'm trying is even possible. I remember one game where a boss would come out of a room and attack. I tried a dozen times to shut the door to trap the boss before I looked it up and found out I was supposed to run away and you couldn't close the door.
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> The people who say that consciousness is completely explained by physical laws are failing to acknowledge that consciousness is not physical.

There's a confusion here between "explained by physical laws" and "physical". The problem of qualia, I claim, shows that physics is not exhaustive when it comes to matter. Its methods are necessarily and entirely quantitative, which means anything that doesn't satisfy this presumption of quantifiability is either ignored, or given some frankly bad pseudo-reduction to the quantifiable (and even then, it relies on a tacit Cartesian sort of dualism to work, which is usually unacknowledged).

I make the initial distinction between "physical law" and "physical" because an Aristotle or an Aquinas would not deny that, say, dogs and cats and myriad animals are conscious (they would find the notion absurd), even as they hold that, of the animals, only human beings possess intellects, which, owing to their capacity for abstraction, must be immaterial. What does that mean? It means that just because physics cannot account for consciousness, either today or at all by virtue of its methods and scope, it does not follow that consciousness cannot be material. It may not be exclusively material perhaps, and perhaps consciousness, like "being", is analogical in meaning, and our use of the term suffers from a fallacy of univocity that it has only one meaning.

> my personal preference for an idea about this is that there is no physical world, it's all information and computation, it's all abstract; our intuition about the physcial world is an artifice; thus, the mind being abstract makes perfect sense, what else could it be.

While I reject mechanistic metaphysics, the notion that everything is "information" or "computation" is incoherent, or at the very least, stands in for something else, like idealism, which has its own set of problems. "Computation" comes from the Latin "computare", i.e., "com" ("with, together") and "putare" ("to reckon"). That is to say, computation is semiotic, so to speak. It is intentional, about something else. So it makes no sense to speak of computation as the ground of reality, because it is an operation that presupposes reality. Information suffers from analogous problems. You would only be passing the buck by appealing to them.
In my city 21 KM / 13 Miles cost about 2 billion euro. So SF pays about 40 times of what is probably already a jacked up price. Even with rampant corruption (lets say 50% of the 13 Billion go towards corruption) I have no idea how that is possible
> If your value of Y is predicated on receiving an X

We didn't assume it is. Say you have a function of type (String -> String|Null). Further assume that you realize you don't necessarily need a String as input, and that you in fact are able to always output a string, no matter what. This means you can rewrite (improve!) the function such that it now has the type (String|Null -> String). Relaxing the type requirements for your inputs, or strengthening the guarantees for the type of your output, or both, is always an improvement. And there is no logical reason why you would need to change any external code for that. But many type systems are not able to automatically recognize and take advantage of this logical fact.

> > Several other null-safe languages [...] returning Y implies returning Y or Null.

> I have trouble seeing how the language is null-safe in that situation.

If you always assign a value of type Y to a variable of type Y|Null, the compiler will enforce a check for Null if you access the value of the variable, which is unnecessary (as the type of the variable could be changed to Y), but it can't result in a null pointer exception.
This is great. Let you know that your blog seems that doesn't support RSS. I will like to follow the project there.

https://konty.app/blog/
I think some of it is just age related. Massive, older companies accumulate older employees, who tend to be less performant and more expensive. When technologies shift their accumulated experience, which may have been keeping them viable, loses value.

I know tech workers don't like to hear about this, but it's something you all need to keep in mind as you plan your careers.
Don't know what police officers make, but perhaps it gives a long enough runway?
Agreed. One of the researchers quoted has a good take on this:

> “There are definitely groups out there who would like to push the responsibility of reducing carbon emissions away from corporations and onto individuals, which is problematic,” said co-author Dr Ramit Debnath, Assistant Professor and Cambridge Zero Fellow at the University of Cambridge. “However, personal carbon footprints can illustrate the profound inequality within and between countries and help people identify how to live in a more climate-friendly way.”
Yes, I think all browsers now-a-days have some form of tab synching. But the tabs don't really sync between devices, you just get a list of the tabs open in 1 device and can open them on the other device if you click on them.

Arc and Edge go a lot further than that. They effectively keep the open tabs in sync between devices.
So basically VINs for Mustangs in the wild.
I agree. Imagine if we had tried to tackle ozone depletion by saying "thou shall not buy CFCs nor use products or services which make use of CFC" and had created a "CFC personal footprint" and set about finding those individuals whose choices seemed to create the worst measure of CFC footprint.

It's just madness! Instead we regulated them and the problem resolved.
Equality Act 2010
21 KM / 13 Miles cost about 2 billion euro in Europe
> I like games where this kind of information is easily available. I won't look up how to complete a quest or something unless I'm completely stuck on it, but I will look up numbers so I can make informed decisions instead of just guessing what might be good.

Isn't that even more immersion- and game-breaking? Figuring out what kind of attacks have what kind of effect on what kind of enemy is generally part of the game.
In addition, I've started writing failing (or empty, in the framework I'm using empty fails) tests as a todo for the next time I pick it up, so by generally keeping the tests passing I know what I was intending my next step to be when I last worked on it a week ago.
If you aren't scared of the NYPD you aren't paying attention. A worldwide(1) force that often blurs lines between law enforcement and "cartel" behavior.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/nyregion/terrorism-nypd-i...

Speaking of, this just broke: "The NYPD Is Tossing Out Hundreds of Misconduct Cases — Including Stop-and-Frisks — Without Even Looking at Them"
https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-tossed-out-police-mi...
I was just thinking how I wish that was the case on reddit, but for submissions.

Some magic where if you submit some article that is BS, deceptive rage bait, or just not up to whatever the subs standards are ... you as the submitter take the hit somehow.

It wouldn't be foolproof, but forums sometimes are inundated by users who love to post / submit stories and it chances the atmosphere of the forum from thoughtful to ... whatever low effort tweet is out there getting attention.
though, sqlite will not be used for the websocket broadcasting
nm, I read the postscript. The RFD was from 2021. I wonder how correct it was, and whether decisions made, based on it, were good ones or bad ones.
Why do you need to pick consistently list comprehension vs. for loop at all? What are you achieving with this consistency, except, well, consistency?
It's not solely waste, though. Advertising works.

If you can figure out how to separate the waste advertising from the effective advertising, and only spend money on the second segment, The System will reward you with fabulous cash and prizes (in theory).
> The interview I just had (with the YC founder that inspired this post) also asked "Do you have kids?" point blank as one of his first questions - seconds after I met him on the video call.

I believe this would be considered hiring discrimination and is illegal.
Mobility in the suits seems a bit limited. They look a lot more rigid than the IVA ones.