skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd say the public needs to develop some rational impulse, it already has plenty of skepitism to the point where people no longer trust science the methodology.

Methodologies are inanimate - I may trust that a methodology is fine, but once Humans become involved I do not trust.

> Instead, they genuinely believe there is some alternative to finding the truth

There are several alternate means, the field of philosophy (that birthed science) has been working on such problems for ages, and has all sorts of utility, just sitting there waiting to be used by Humanity.

> and now simply believe the same old superstitions and bunk that people have prior to the scientific revolution.

Not possible for you to know, unless there are indeed forms of supernatural (beyond current scientific knowledge) forms of perception.

> Rather, when people stop believing in democracy, things will degenerate into authoritarianism.

Once again, not possible for you to know.

> It's generally pretty hard to use science the methodology to implement an authoritarian government

COVID demonstrated that to be incorrect.

> as the scientific method by definition will follow the evidence, not the will of a dictator.

Incorrect. Something defined to be true necessarily being true only works in metaphysics, such as linguistics.

And again, the scientific method is inanimate.

> However, something that looks like science but isn't could be used, especially if the public doesn't understand science and thus can't spot things that claim to be science but don't actually follow the scientific method.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how comprehensively and accurately do you believe you understand science?
Agreed, it's about the degree of regulation.

And not sure where you sit on this, but for me personally, gambling ads cross a line as gambling has major negative effects to public well-being, especially to those who are the most financially in need.
Obsessed with Cuttle: Parametric CAD for prototyping, producing, and procrastin
Never could I have imagined users wanting apps to have more control of them, but here we are with a pretty compelling use case for not letting them remove an app. Neat
I listened to the Slay the Spire episode of a game design podcast, and when he mentioned that they were testing things with pencil and paper to “play” the game I was like “wow that’s so simple and so smart”
even just proof-of-work where the work isn't completely fake and worthless would be a huge improvement, but even that obvious layup is beyond the reach of web3 geniuses
As a kid I remember - swimming pools and any museum that had buttons you could press to make the displays do something.

also parents have gotten rid of BB guns and fireworks!
So do you believe the author of the OP could honestly omit from their article the things you (and many others here) talk about? Could they be naive?
i can say that observationally, this just-do-the-crime reasoning is real.

over the past couple decades, many american activists have realized that demonstrating certain political positions is dangerous, even if the demonstration itself and each individual participant is lawful.

so now there's a broad activist culture that encourages independent militant action against productive capital, general infrastructure, administrative facilities, retail outlets, and personal homes!
there was a bad time in the 1960s, when this article was published, but the pubs that are managing to survive nowadays (non-survival for a variety of reasons - covid, taxation to name two) are much better than suggested.
Always reminded of this, and that I always forget about alternative orgs like "Vegan Outreach" : https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage...

I think this oversimplifies things because one is a younger organization, and there are a ton of similarly named ones. People can't think of very many international charities, but the ones that come to mind aren't known for being notorious and off-putting (e.g. Unicef, Red Cross). Possibly PETA cannibalizes here as without them another more appealing replacement would get similar recognition? I'm not sure.

personally it's rationalist adjacent writing that got me interested in avoiding some conventional factory farmed products
Here's a more recent (1950) example that I think makes parent's point quite well:

> I assume that the reader is familiar with the idea of extra-sensory perception, and the meaning of the four items of it, viz. telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and psycho-kinesis. These disturbing phenomena seem to deny all our usual scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming. It is very difficult to rearrange one's ideas so as to fit these new facts in. Once one has accepted them it does not seem a very big step to believe in ghosts and bogies. The idea that our bodies move simply according to the known laws of physics, together with some others not yet discovered but somewhat similar, would be one of the first to go.

Anyone on this site who doesn't know what this is from should feel a bit of shame in the current era of hype around machine intelligence, so I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader if you aren't already familiar with this paper.
Can you explain how you would like fine tuning to be improved?
But after they plug in the GPUs and run the cables, Large Language Models will give everyone personal robot servants and jetpacks while allowing {your generous investment nation here} to conquer all the economies. /s
For example LLMs for NPC dialogs

I've been thinking about this for a while; like how feasible it might be.

What's cool about this is that (unlike so much generative AI) is that a game based around this would not be cutting writers out of the loop.

I'm imagining a game where the writer(s) produce backstories for the characters, and all sorts of dialogue they might possibly say. And then the LLM is sort of remixing that stuff in real time to produce novel dialogue and behaviors.

Done well, I think it could be pretty seamless and compelling...
There is no such clause because that would be unlawful, but there is certainly the "unwritten clause" of whether the NGO likes your work or not.
Also, considering they just got a 68 billion dollar budget approved [1] over the next 5 years, even a small monetary reward would be nice for this. It doesn't need to be a ton of money, but something other than "here's a piece of empty and memorabilia and we'll write a blog post" would be a good incentive

[1] https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2024/09/25/mta-board-a...
I think her character Prof. McGonagall in the Harry Potter movies drew heavily on her much earlier role as that other Scottish school teacher, Jean Brodie.
Yes basically that’s why learning AWS has a steep learning curve because the implementation details leak heavily to the API surface.
“60% of the time, it’s true every time!”
Bought PayPal because he couldn't do it, was the CEO for four months in early 2000 before being fired by the board the morning after he left for his honeymoon because he'd spent most of that four months trying to throw away a working Java build because he didn't understand Solaris or Java, so felt that it should be re-written in Classic ASP because he understood that.

"Responsible" indeed.
Wanting a holiday in Italy is a compelling reason (for consumers). My point is that it's more rational to fly somewhere than to spend much longer traveling by slower methods. If you want to take a vacation on a different continent, trying to go there and back by ship will consume all your available time.

The existence of air travel is its own incentive; every time someone looks up and sees a plane in the sky, it's a reminder that they could fly somewhere. Flight advertising is just about market share, ie which airline will you choose for the flight you already want to take.
This is pretty funny. I usually hear this kind of language when a religious person is so devastated when their priest or pastor does something wrong that it causes them to leave their religion altogether. Are you going to do the same thing for scientism?
Sure but he’s not technical and he’s lost a lot of the top technical guys. So what is he building?

A machine that makes VC money into AI products?
I didn't mean it to be tasteless, and it wasn't personal against Finland.

My point was that "internal spending" and "external spending " are not (economically the same thing. Obviously, Finland wants to export - tests a given - but the price tag of a Finnish ship and a US ship are not the same unit.
Interesting that TigerBeetle uses Viewstamp Replication over Paxos/Raft. TB says viewstamp replication lends itself to a more performant implementation and doesn't rely on disk storage as much. I'm surprised I'm not seeing this brought up more in Paxos/Raft discussions.
Plus you should be able to sell it to someone else.
I’ve implemented platformer collision dozens of times now and the only way I’ve found it to be genuinely smooth is to do it one pixel at a time, just like the author suggests.

But something always bugs me about that - we know the closest edge of the closest obstacle, we know the vector of the player’s motion, by all accounts we should be able to calculate the point of contact in one go without doing any substeps.

And yet, doing it in one pass always seems to result in a myriad of edge cases (literal!) that break the whole thing, unless you do heavy preprocessing, converting your tiles to a graph of lined surfaces, etc etc.
I'm tired of LLMs.

Enough billions of dollars have been spent on LLMs that a reasonably good picture of what they can and can't do has emerged. They're really good at some things, terrible at others, and prone to doing something totally wrong some fraction of the time. That last limits their usefulness. They can't safely be in charge of anything important.

If someone doesn't soon figure out how to get a confidence metric out of an LLM, we're headed for another "AI Winter".
Although at a much higher level than last time. It will still be a billion dollar industry, but not a trillion dollar one.

At some point, the market for LLM-generated blithering should be saturated. Somebody has to read the stuff. Although you can task another system to summarize and rank it. How much of "AI" is generating content to be read by Google's search engine? This may be a bigger energy drain than Bitcoin mining.
This ignores the progress of technology and available options.
We live in a walkable part of city. In a park 1 block from our apartment, there are "baby trains" (small electric trains, on rubber wheels). They cost ~$2 for 5 minutes, plus 10 minutes of your kid screaming "want more". Subway in Almaty is $0.2 (for adult), unlimited time. So when my son was almost 2 y.o. and walked well, I decided to take him to the real subway instead of enduring that vulgarity (granted the station is just 2 blocks away). He loved it a lot. Shouted "too-too" when the train was departing. Wanted more and more. He couldn't speak then, so he was turning my head with his hands, to make me see the approaching train. Also, it was a hot sunny day of +35°C, but in subway, it was 10 degrees cooler. The first time, we travelled 1,5 hours strait, 2-3 stations back and forth. I sweated because I had to carry a rucksack and a 6 kg of folded stroller. But that was unforgettable.
This is exactly what personal integrity is about. You make the right choices specifically and only because they are right. And they are hard choices because you are forgoing immediate gain.

Time favors integrity, and a lack of integrity is usually punished. Sometimes at the individual level, as you age and see the error of your ways. Sometimes at the group level, as you watch your community suffer.

"You reap what you sow."
> you'd have a very hard time arguing that making OSB illegal would only marginally impact the amount of sports gambling taking place.

"Offshore sportsbooks" are another thing to consider. These companies are not regulated in the US market, but still take online bets from people in the US. The ease of placing bets online does not go away with making OSB illegal. Just eliminates any consumer protection we could have had.
Good luck with that sentiment here.

People just went through the last five years and will go to their graves defending what they saw first hand. To admit that maybe those moves and omissions weren’t helpful would be to admit their ideology was wrong. And that can not be.
This will be the second time it's been entirely scrapped and restarted ;)
It will be interesting to see this challenged in court, because it's a clear violation of the first sale doctrine.

In any event you are within both your moral and legal rights, in the USA at least, to backup any software you have purchased and you should do so if you care about it.

And nobody is going to be able to stop you from leaving those backups to your kids.

It is interesting though how the software business has managed to, via the courts, meme software licenses into existence. The simple fact is that under written US law no license is required to run software you have acquired a lawful copy of. The law explicitly gives you the right to make additional copies as necessary to execute the program. Case law of course is another matter. And lawfare is another matter on top of that. Who wants to spend the rest of their life being sued by Adobe because they want to sell a copy of photoshop they no longer use?
GPT will be masters at make-believe. The project will last 15 years and cost a billion before the government finds that its a big bag of nothing.
so tired of all this AI hype and CEO stuff. just do your thing and let peopel buy it or not, no need to try to be the next henry ford or something
"we're hiring people that really love programming and aren't just in it for the money"
This is a weird take, assuming the average researcher cannot be an average Joe, and also that average people aren't also worried about their livelihood...you might want to revisit your view of the world.
Overall harm minimization is more than just helping a lot of people. Prohibition of alcohol helped a lot of people but hurt even more. Same with the war on drugs.

Combatting vices with prohibition fails over and over, badly, and yet people can’t get past the “common sense” idea that it’s an overall harm reduction no matter how many times they see proof that it isn’t.

A much more surgical approach is called for.
The station has so many fans for cooling equipment and circulation to keep the air fresh I doubt that'd show results fast enough that the station could be kept half shut down for. Anything that's air cooled up there requires circulation remember because convection requires gravity for density to drive movement.
> Don't hate the player hate the game.

When the game is designed by the most succesful players you absolutely should hate the players for creating a shitty game.
Every syndicated story had a byline indicating syndication.
Based Mr. Zhao, showing us crime pays while we’re all cheering “and how!”
Rest in peace to one of the true greats.

My favorite line from Downtown Abby: "What's a week end?"
Every zero sum game has some side effects people try to focus on.. When I look at the number of children who have been abused for the Olympics, I think there are better ways to have an international convention and to push a healthier level of fitness.
Stallman isn't allowed to be in the same room as an iPhone
Yes, and Reuters, and this predates the internet.
Do I understand correctly: you seem to be saying that the original (NYT) article is "more insightful about the complexity and reality of making chips", and "covers more of the complexities", while the summary (Tom's Hardware) article "focuses more on personality clashes, losing some of the nuanced details" — and therefore you prefer the TH article (less insightful about the complexity and nuance), because "it sets a clearer tone"?
He wasn't there from the beginning. PayPal was trademarked and was at MVP stage when they merged. He was the biggest shareholder, absolutely. His operational input to PayPal was four months in 2000, before being fired. Since then his involvement was "collecting shareholder dividends".

He wasn't the marketing guy. He was the guy who got fired because his tenure as CEO was "I don't understand this Java stuff, and I want to contribute to the codebase, so we really need to rewrite it in Classic ASP", problematic on so many levels.
And foreign deals are often set up this way.... if this can be arranged. It's seldom that straightforward though.
They're called "native ads" designed to flow inline with their actual news but they're also labeled as sponsored content if you just look carefully.
The Useless Button
I think what developers need to understand is that these large frameworks aren't there for them. Developers are not the primary audience or the primary benefactor. The primary benefactor of these frameworks are employers.

The large challenge employers face is where to find developer talent then how to select it. Developers then become a replaceable commodity selected on the basis not of capabilities or potential but solely on the basis of current compatibility on a bell curve. That devalues the better half of developers. It ultimately costs the employers more by allowing employment for people who otherwise are not capable at interference to future cost saving ventures from creative solutions. Also consider that employers are still reliant on recruiters to find potential developer candidates, so frameworks don't even help with identifying talent.
I try to distinguish between "the scientific process" and building scientific consensus. As rigorous as the scientific process may be, building consensus is always a messy and human thing.
Eyes rolling so hard right now
> The Rust async book mentions three more methods: […]

Hah, I wrote this section and was deeply aware of these problems at the time. Let’s just say it didn’t fit in the introduction. In fact, a lot of the understanding of this issue has been expressed later, blog post by blog post, largely without coordination. It’s almost eerie to see again and again people encountering the same issue, and spending huge effort to address it (this one takes the prize though - making your own language).

Let me try a to narrativize it: we have a fundamental problem with unrestricted concurrent control flow (very similar to how we used to have unrestricted sequential control flow when we had goto). This problem exists in most programming languages, but we mostly pretend it’s not there (and live with the subtle bugs instead). However, with Rust’s unique ownership- and safety model, the lack of structured concurrency was an unavoidable problem, at collision course with Rust itself. In the Rust we have today (without structured concurrency), a bunch of expected and reasonable behaviors cannot be achieved (such as borrowing from a parent task).
Sorry, I’m pretty dumb.
Microsoft re-launches 'privacy nightmare' AI screenshot tool
Among other things my physics career taught me: anyone who is listed as an author on more than 200 papers is almost definitely a plagiarist, in the sense of a manager who adds his or her name to the papers of the underlings in his or her lab. When I was still bothering to go to conferences I would sometimes have fun with them (the male variety is easy to spot: look for the necktie) by asking detailed questions about the methodology of the research. They never have any idea how the work was actually done.
I actually specialize in harmonic analysis and completely agree!
The State of Htmx (2024)
Just to add, Go was inspired by Hoare's CSP paper [1]. Hoare came up with the ideas of CSP separately from Milner [2] even though they have some cross over concepts. The two collaborated later on, but really had somewhat independent approaches to concurrency.

To respond to the OP. Go's concurrency model absolutely has multiple blogs written about it and explaining how it works. It's actually a little funny OP was thinking Go was based on pi calculus when it was actually based on CSP. That goes to my original disagreement. Good features need explanation and they don't become "bad" just because they require blog posts.

[1] https://go.dev/blog/codelab-share

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model_and_process_calcul...
Sounds like regulation to me ;)

I totally agree with you
Verifiable computing and data lineage are important mitigation to be developed here.
The problem is that the competition (our current von neumann architecture) has billions of dollars of R&D per year invested.

Better architectures without the yearly investment train will no longer be better quite quickly.

You would need to be 100x to 1000x better in order to pull the investment train onto your tracks.

Don’t has been impossible for decades.

Even so, I think we will see such a change in my lifetime.

AI could be that use case that has a strong enough demand pull to make it happen.

We will see.
Setting off bombs frequently results in non-combatant casualties no matter where it happens. Hezbollah has no "military bases" so I don't know what you expect.

The existence of non-combatant casualties doesn't make the strike illegal.
IDEs are great if your refactorings fit in the predefined refactorings
> First-class symbols (incl. uninterned symbols)?

Yes.

> Classes and functions can be redefined at runtime?

No.

> User-available parsing (read) and runtime compilation (compile)?

Yes, though runtime compilation is not implemented yet.

> Restarts?

Yes, though they are only implemented in the runtime; the keywords don't exist yet.

> CLOS and MOP?

No, the object system will be more recognizable to non-Lispers.

> Communication with the compiler (declarations and ClTl2 *-information)?

I wasn't able to find info on these. I will keep looking, and I would appreciate pointers, but the answer is probably no.

Edit: after skimming [1], the answer on declarations is probably yes, for the most part. Still searching for *-information stuff.

Edit 2: After skimming [2], Yao originally didn't have any concept of stuff like the *-information functions, but those are good ideas, and I will add them.

[1]: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node105.html

[2]: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node102.html
A large media organization on two tech stacks for the web presence is not really evidence of anything. Any large organization struggles to maintain cohesive infrastructure. Especially if they've acquired sub brands. Or just because different editorial teams have different requirements. That's not to say CNN money isn't shady but this isn't proof of anything.
Argentina's poverty rate soars above 50% under Javier Milei
They could send up a few cartons of cigarettes to detect the cracks. /s

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/05/27/The-recently-imposed...
And with a wave of a hand and a reading of the tea leaves, the future has been foretold.
Replications are not very scientifically useful. If there were flaws in the design of the original experiment, replicating the experiment will also replicate the flaws.

What we should aim for is confirmation: a different experiment that tests the underlying phenomenon that was the subject of the first paper.
Which makes it even more clear that the pagers shouldn't be classified as "civilian objects", yes.
It sounds like the most common way to do these things is to have one company operate one gambling and one non-gambling site and just tell people they operate the other site on each. No money's changing hands, so that's not advertising. Then you can advertise to go to your non-gambling site, and they can organically navigate to the gambling site which was disclosed, not advertised. You would almost have to ban companies which have any interest in a gambling product from advertising anything at all.
It's like taking the data-science notebook model (eg. Jupyter Notebook) and using spreadsheets instead.
The issue is that in order to optimize for human readability you'll need a huge number of human evaluations of graphs?