skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you think the mindset that everyone should be replaceable is wrong / leads to disasters?

I agree completely that it's not trivial and comes with its own trade-offs and side-effects, but when you achieve a good chunk of it, it brings a lot of flexibility, stability and peace of mind for everyone involved.

You can put more people on some task because it's not something only one person can do. You won't nose-dive when somebody leaves. And developers know that they can go on vacation and don't need to worry about what's going to happen to the rest of the team (I know that not everyone thinks like that, but in my experience enough people do).
> Hostility towards anyone who criticizes anything that could be considered diverse. You see a lot of that

So if the game is woke, the game is inherently hostile to your criticism? You, the consumer, are being attacked by the game? How can a game be made in a way that is hostile to your criticism without fourth-wall breaking finger wagging?

Hating on Concord right now is the literal safest opinion you could have about it. This makes it not Woke by your definition.

> That is what the critics means with woke

This is not what most people mean by woke. It's nice that you have a sunnier definition of it that criticizes surface-level diversity in place of substance, but anything with women or black people in it is considered woke nowadays, regardless of quality.

You will often see people change their minds about something being woke once it sells well because it goes against the narrative that if something is "woke" nobody wants it. We've seen this with Barbie, Baldurs Gates 3, and even Life is Strange. A game that is the closest thing to "woke" anyone could mean.

It's just a dog whistle for people that want to keep things white.
> The reality is that a large subset of the voting population believes it is safer to kill a few innocent individuals rather than accidentally let a guilty person go free.

This is a strange sentence to read, as if the one has anything to do with the other. Abolishing the death penalty won't cause guilty people to go free.
It's plausible that they're saying they'd accept the twitter.com domain in compensation, not the X platform.

Soon enough, if X.com doesn't restart using it, "Twitter" will be considered abandoned as a trademark, and someone owning the twitter.com domain could do whatever they wanted with it.
I don’t think it’s pure curiosity. Maybe physicists are driven by passion, but everybody understands that new physics has historically unlocked a lot of new technology.

I also don’t think that the public really has much of a say in what gets tax payer funding. Governments are just bureaucratic behemoths and once they start paying for something, they can almost never find an acceptable way to stop. Additionally I’ve never met a tax funding recipient that was grateful to be getting it, if anything the perspective that they should be entitled to even more is a lot more common.
But aren't there artisanal attorney's?

There are some in specialized areas, perhaps even inside a specialized area there are a few firms that are known to be at the top, and find creative solutions to problems. They aren't all Law-and-Order.

Same with accountants. Sure, it's all number crunching. But then why do some become the top business leaders, the CEO's. Maybe because in that field, being a top artisan and able to play with financial instruments, allows you to build a business. (and I'm playing devils advocate for the small percentage of accountants/business that are actually trying to build something, not just playing with money to bilk people)
New England has no death penalty. California does. What is the crap you are referring to that makes California stink?
>the telemetry of VSCode is non-personal metrics

But I don't want it. I want my software to work for me, not against me.

>and some of the most popular extensions are only available with VSCode, not with Codium.

I'll manage without them. What's especially annoying is that this restriction is completely artificial.

Having said that, MS did a great job with VsCode and I applaud them for that. I guess nothing is perfect, and I bet these decisions were made by suits against engineer wishes.
https://www.vox.com/world/2015/12/13/9989250/japan-crime-con...
Quite a lot of people run across the Trachtenberg system at one point or another and think its rather novel; along with the story behind it.

When working with it, it is actually rather limited compared to other systems that were around the same time.

There is a far better and more robust system that has been reprinted several times, which was aggregated in a book more recently, called "The Cosmic Calculator", this is a three volume series for teaching mental math to kids, based on the ancient Vedas teachings, also called Vedic Mathematics.

It is at least 20 years old, I still have my copies that I received in 2001 as a gift, Amazon says it was published in 2019 which is incorrect; it is far older.

It was often used alongside activities where you would memorize (via flashcards) the common complements for 9 and 10 to the point of instant recall/association.

The digit sums are somewhat lacking, although understandable considering that the fundamentals of abstract math and group theory were still being explored at the time of publication. (i.e. digit sums <> cyclic groups).

You can find a link here. For reference, the copies I received in 2001 are identical to the displayed version below. There is also a Instructors Manual (a 4th book) which came with the set.

https://www.amazon.com/Cosmic-Calculator-Course-Mathematics-...
I am willing to pay for curiosity, I'm however, not willing to pay for thousands of bureaucrats of the system who are only employed because they somehow got hired into an unnecessary position.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41588750
This is how MS-DOS and early Windows won. But the first version of MS Excel was written for MacOS. And it's MSO what's holding businesses on Windows, not the other way around.
What am I meant to be getting out of that link? I don't care about vitamin A/D and I don't see any point where they're adding third-party omega 3s back in.

It also seems pretty low-quality. "Our oil uses some mysterious process labelled 'oil released in 15 minutes' so it's good! Their process uses a grinder and a centrifuge, and look, we added bloodstains and made the centrifuge brown to show how bad that is!"
Is that median value, or median price of recent home sales? And then what metric does the article use exaxtly?
lxd supports containers and virtual machines
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41604080
Voice Control also works perfectly fine, I just tested it myself on their provided sample. Say "select your name" on this page: https://a11ysupport.io/tests/html/html_label_element_implici...
I wish there was a TL;DW bot to summarize a videos like this. I’m curious but not in a place i could easily watch a video.
Could she just get a friend using AT&T put their sim in her phone to have it updated?
> Never heard of Qlot

> no notion of version dependencies exist (not even lockfiles exist

I think that’s the point of Qlot
C2/HotSpot uses a MemBarrier / MemFence node type for these. Serializes the memory ops as needed. Used to implement the Java memory model on all hardware. Sometimes (x86) the ops encode as (empty), sometimes its a Real Fence op.
Who is OP here then?
IMO, this article isn't even really about the death penalty, or shouldn't be.

> In Texas they’re getting ready to kill Robert Roberson next month. Roberson was convicted of killing his 2-year-old child in 2002 [...] In the days before the child’s death, she was running a fever, and an emergency room doctor prescribed an antihistamine that can cause fatal respiratory distress in young children.

> When Roberson brought her back to the ER, law enforcement officials didn’t like the way he was acting — unemotional and detached — and concluded it was evidence of guilt. It was likely evidence of his autism.

> The detective who testified against him now realizes that and is urging clemency so that Roberson is not put to death for a crime that he did not commit and that did not even occur, because evidence suggests the child died from pneumonia and septic shock. But Roberson is scheduled to be put to death for shaking her to death anyway.

If the author's description of the case is accurate, it really doesn't matter how you feel about the death penalty—you can replace "put to death" with "life in prison" and you're still left with an extreme miscarriage of justice. This person is very very obviously not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, and he should be awarded his full freedom.
Looks fine, but it does not look like there is a automatic full function entry/exit trace, just sampling. The real benefit is when you do not even need to insert manual instrumentation points, you just hit run and you get a full system trace.

How well does the visualizer handle multi-TB traces? Usually pretty uncommon, but a 10-100 GB is not that hard to produce when doing full tracing.
You joke but I’ve lived in the US for so long that I’m immune to bullets.
It stops working nicely like that once you go to slightly more complicated than measuring two photons with spin up and spin down. Then you find correlations that make no sense at all if you assume that each photon has a definite state before you measure them (for example, it's as if some events have negative probabilities).
I could not have picked a worse example
> Opioids won't kill you if you take them as your doctor prescribes.

The whole point is that Purdue recklessly lied about the effectiveness of Oxycontin and the duration of action, leading people to seek out street drugs when they had breakthrough pain, and doubled down by saying "just prescribe more oxy" when it became obvious that it only lasted 8 hours, not 12, because all of their profits were based on a 12 hour extended duration of effect. Even if taken as prescribed, they were basically selling a recipe for a heroin OD. They're responsible for a lot more than 27 deaths.
Why wouldn’t you use something like this instead?

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> this is an engineering discipline

oh, well. I just checked all 7 old and new wonders of the world and all of them needed engineers. I don't think being an engineering discipline limits software in any way related to what can be achieved with it.
I was gonna say, the same thing that happened to all the western PC platforms that weren't Microsoft or Apple. Commodore and Atari and Acorn and Sinclair and Dragon and probably dozens of others I've never heard of. As computers became more powerful and development costs rose, small-market architectures and OSes simply became unsustainable. You had to either reach sustained global success or die.

I'm sure there were some unique challenges for architectures that mainly served Japan, but I doubt they were that much worse than the ones facing the ones that mainly served, say, Britain. All of them lost the race in the end.

The same thing happened again with graphical cellphones! In the flip-phone era there were a zillion different OSes with their own app libraries. For a while it looked like Blackberry was set to be the Microsoft of the upcoming smartphone era, and then Apple stole their thunder, and no one could compete except Android and Windows Phone, and then Windows Phone dropped out too, and now we're back to two basic architectures with no meaningful competitors, just like the home PC market by 1996.

> By 1994 though, they had a problem: the 32-bit consoles were out, which could do 2D games just as well as the FM Towns and X68000, and the consoles could also do 3D that blew away anything those computers could handle.

This line from the article caught my eye in particular, because it's similar to what happened to Commodore's Amiga, one of the last real Microsoft competitors in the West. Essentially, Doom killed it. There's a rather tragic list of Amiga games that struggled valiantly to be Doom on that platform, and some of them were pretty good but none of them could really match what Id could with a tricked-out DOS machine in 1993, and that was more or less that.
Have you seen Suvorov Crossing the Alps [1]?

[1] https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%85...
"Humans existed for a long time without [...]" is an exceptionally bad argument when you consider that humans have existed for a long time without many unquestionably good modern things, too.
Is Binet's formula really that practical a way to calculate the Fibonacci numbers (except asymptotically)? The problem is, you have this nice clean expression, but you'd still have to implement a bunch of fancy arbitrary-precision arithmetic to approximate the golden ratio through Newton's method. In other words, the formula gives much more information about the structure of the Fibonacci numbers than their actual values.

For evaluating the Fibonacci numbers (as with any other integer linear recurrence), I'd generally prefer the matrix-exponentiation-by-squaring approach, or one of the simplified formulas based on it. Those don't need anything more complicated than bigint multiplication. [And from there, taking the ratio between two values gives you a quick way to approximate the golden ratio!]
For one thing, the contemporary architecture of today sucks and the contemporary architecture of that day was actually good. It's very unlikely you would get a good result if you rebuilt the roof today.
Yes, nearly impossible as I said before. The "nearly" qualifier acknowledges that this does sometimes nonetheless happen
It’s an important insight that the state space for UI is very large and that is why intuition is especially useful — it’s rarely feasible to account for all possibilities analytically. This is true to some extent in all areas of software development, but I think for UI dev moreso than most.
question: we are using kysely.dev as postgresql query builder and porsager's postgres.js for high performance.. is this something that can complement our stack or something to replace it entirely?
It is not a simple story

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2021/07/09/organic-vs-con...

The most important advantage traditional agriculture has is that it uses less land and frees up space for nature.
> plumbing confidential information through a network isn't an option

So do you think government doesn't use networks?
Personally I can’t imagine not understanding that the defence funding is one of the most essential factors in enabling our modern way of life. It’s been so effective at providing the security needed to produce globalisation and highly democratic societies, that a lot of people have forgotten the reason we need it in the first place. Certainly worth the minuscule portion of GDP we allocate to it.
The question on my mind: how do you figure out what the functions do without reverse engineering?

If I were to guess, you're saying that you reverse engineer the API boundary without reverse engineering the implementation. But then figuring out what the API contact is without documentation seems intractable for most API boundaries.
This is only tangentially related, but the Safari address bar already does not always indicate the current state, specifically when pages take time loading and when going back and forth in history. There is some kind of broken synchronization between page display and address bar, in conjunction with page loading timeouts.

That being said, I would be fine with an "address bar has been edited but not commited yet" state. It's how most other (desktop?) browsers work and it's not an issue.
> People of integrity with utilitarian leaning are often labeled amoral or unemotional.

That's because utilitarianism [1] is just one of the three major recognized moral systems -- virtue ethics [2] and deontology [3] being the other two.

In real life, we tend to balance the three. Anyone who adhered strictly to one while ignoring the other two would rightly be labeled a kind of amoral monster.

And utilitarianism is generally applied more at the governmental/societal level than at the individual level. At the society level, you want the greatest good for the greatest number. While at the individual level, you want to give a vastly greater good to your young children, and your spouse, rather than treating your children and strangers' children as equals, or your spouse and other adults.

Someone who, in their personal life, uses utilitarianism as their primary guide is going to rightly be called amoral and unemotional. They'd be a monster, truly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_ethics

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deontology
Or as Newton more eloquently put it hypothesis non fingo.
I try to keep fairly up to date. Selling old stuff to offset the cost of the new thing, while it still has some decent value in it. That said, my upgrade intervals have increased over the past several years. I still need to feel like I'm getting something out of the upgrade.

I did find out the other day one of my Apple TVs is obsolete according to Apple's website. But it still does everything I need and seems to still get updates (which makes me question its obsolete status). I don't see the newer model doing anything I can't do on my current one, so I'm not going to bother upgrading until that changes somehow.
I don’t disagree that there’s room for improvement, but I’m hesitant to accept as gospel the misconviction rates we hear about. Japan’s system that you mention, for instance, also boasts a ~99.9% conviction rate [0] and isn’t adversarial in quite the same sense as the US. It seems plausible that, with such powerful norms against acquittal, the justice system may be less than motivated to revisit their judgments regardless of what might come to light later.

Maybe confidence in judgments is a good proxy for quality in judgments, but history seems to offer examples to the contrary.

I worry that we’re quick to assume that all truths are knowable, and it’s just a matter of trying hard to find them out. As amply demonstrated by the endless flow of “true crime” media, sometimes situations are ambiguous, memories unreliable, evidence scant, and reasons mysterious. Sometimes people get away with stuff, sometimes you just have to decide who you believe. Some uncertainty is irreducible: I worry that even a spectacularly well-“fixed” justice system will always have to take decisions on incomplete information.

[0] https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/c05401/order-in-the-c...
Also moving data to and from the GPU takes MUCH more time than between CPU cores (though combined chips drastically lower this difference).
How about the US and MS ruining everything as usual?

"In April 1989 the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative issued a preliminary report accusing BTRON of being a trade barrier, as it only functioned in Japan, and asked the Japanese government not to make it standard in schools. TRON was included along with rice, semiconductors, and telecommunications equipment in a list of items targeted by Super-301 (complete stop of import based on section 301 of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988). It was removed from the list after the USTR inspection team visited the TRON Association in May. In June the Japanese government expressed their regret at U.S. intervention but accepted this request not to make it standard in schools, thus ending the BTRON project. Callon opines that the project had nevertheless run into such difficulties that the U.S. intervention allowed the government to save face from cancelling the project.

According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, in 1989 US officials feared that TRON could undercut American dominance in computers, but that in the end PC software and chips based on the TRON technology proved no match for Windows and Intel's processors as a global standard. In the 1980s Microsoft had at least once lobbied Washington about TRON until backing off, but Ken Sakamura himself believed Microsoft wasn't the impetus behind the Super-301 listing in 1989. Known for his off the cuff remarks, in 2004 governor of Tokyo Shintaro Ishihara mentioned in his column post concerning international trade policy that TRON was dropped because Carla Anderson Hills had threatened Ryutaro Hashimoto over it."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_Project
> When tested later on their memories of the event, the person who verbally described the incident will be worse at later remembering or recognizing what actually happened. This is verbal overshadowing. Putting an experience into words can result in failures of memory about that experience, whether it be the memory of a person’s face, the color of an object, or the speed that a car was going.

> The idea that describing something in words can have a detrimental effect on our memory of it makes sense given that we use words to categorize.

I find this a little backwards. Describing something in words is a way to demonstrate our understanding of that thing. The fact that our memory is made worse by engaging in verbal description I feel like indicates that our memory and understanding of the experience was incomplete or incorrect in the first place. This seems completely antithetical to the Feynman technique.
"Don't be snarky. [...] Omit internet tropes."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Vineyard Haven, Mass., Jackson, Wyo., and Breckenridge, Colo., are the towns with the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

These are resort towns. Rich people buying larger (than typical for the area) 2nd, 3rd or more homes. If such activity is the majority of the sales then numbers are going to skew up.

That doesn't mean there aren't more reasonably priced homes. It just means those transactions aren't happening as often, that those people aren't leaving, that similarly income'd people are moving in.

Best I can tell the data being used is biased in a sense and perhaps not reflective of the whole of those markets.
I have no PTSD, but I recently lost my job, and while I am looking for another one I decided to use the time off in order to stop smoking, so far it's been a bit more than 3 weeks, and I think it's been the period I've been playing the most videogames since high school, it is really useful to overcome temporary cravings by doing something that doesn't require much mental efforts but still keeps the mind busy to don't think about smoking, every day I am suffering less and less, and I think without videogames it would have been much harder.

Keep in mind, I'm 37 years old and have smoked since I was 13
You should never completely trust any LLM. They all get things wrong, make things up, and have blind spots. They're any good if they help you for some of your particular uses (but may still fail badly for other uses).
You would fork first on POSIX systems.
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