skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I strongly prefer hyperrational risk calculators

My problem with this take is that humans are very poor risk estimators, and it gets worse as the probability of risk gets lower. I'm willing to bet that even if he made the "right" decision to stay with the craft, he wouldn't have been able to accurately calculate the risk in an after-action-report, even with the benefit of lower stress and an abundance of time.
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That doesn't mean anyone is thrilled with it.
Sweden nixed new wind farms for fear of missing Russian missiles
Impressive photo.

I imagine many more are even less familiar with the massive operations from the Eastern Front, simultaneously more important and lesser known in the West (at least in pop culture; historians of course know them). E.g. Operation Bagration.
It’s not a bandaid, it’s working on two features which should be done on two separate clones. Worktrees avoid having to fully clone the repository, which is cool, but I’d use multiple clones if this did not exist.
fwiw, a news search with keywords 電漿 發動機 doesn't pull up anything recent
Chinese folk music does often tend towards higher pitches than western folk music. Some of it is related to influence of the ranges of traditional instruments (e.g., the erhu and pipa), some of it is perceptual relating to the pentatonic scale, and a big part of it is cultural.
Rrrrrright, because observing that something is offensive to 330 million people is "imperialist" and "forcing language standards".

Nobody is forcing anything, it's just that if you want people in the US to use this software, you should call it something else.

That's beside the point that "gimp suits" aren't offensive, they're a perfectly fine kink and an element of BDSM. Just very much NSFW.

And GIMP's avatar very alluding to the gimp suit isn't helping either.
I think it's the perfect way to answer what it is to be human. It's reversing the question. Moving the question from some abstract weird philosophical or absurd religious argument into a concrete test. It defines what an answer to "can you create a human?" must be. Can an algorithm convince a panel of humans that it is an (to the panel unknown) human, given text communication and 30 minutes?

For me, that's the definition of 30 minutes of being human. And yes, it illustrates why being human for 60 minutes, never mind a year, is a more difficult problem than 30 minutes. But it's the same a real human would perform.

Would there be extra value in dropping these requirements? Dropping the text-only requirement, do it for a week or two, and maybe even imitate a human known to the panel? Yes, absolutely.
I don't think it was meant as satire. I didn't like to read it, but it resonates with my experience working at big companies, like many others here.
>What is the issue with disabled persons ?

If you missed the offensive part, look up "gimp suit" for many more interesting results.
Damn that is very sad, I have donated in the past. Sounds like there is a chance they could find a new funder though.

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At the end of the day the engineer has a valuable skill and you're the one telling them they need to be more replaceable. You're the enemy. Of course you're going to think the tools that let you dehumanise your employees at scale are good things.
This should be objectively true, but the limitations on vinyl prevent some of the abuses in the production processes (the loudness wars). Often vinyl is better anyway just because the engineers had to go back to make a good mix (mostly this is mastering not mixing) for vinyl - if the vinyl mix had been put on CD the CD would be objectively better.

Vinyl does theoretically have a better s/n ratio, but you can only see this in perfect setups, including a new needle in your player. Even then after just a handful of plays and vinyl is worn enough to be worse (I've heard of laser based vinyl plays which don't wear the media - I have no idea if they are real or how they compare to CDs, but I need to acknowledge them because they might be different enough to matter)
You missed the point. The analogy was: Git has more choice and like having access to exotic Ketchups that can be nice. But jj can do anything that git can, so in the metaphor, git gives you a ton of choice but jj gives you all the same flavors.

Now if jj makes you assemble several pieces and makes it more difficult to get the flavors, while with git you could just grab the correct bottle, you could argue that the choice git offers is not meaningless. But that's a hard sell.

I think by now, there is pretty good evidence that the complexity of operating git is incidental. It's the result of badly designed primitives the user has to interact with (index, stash, commits, branches). As always, once you have internalized the primitives and their interactions, the complexity (mostly) disappears. But if you frequently train new students in using git, you stay painfully aware of it.
As someone who has gone over a ton of different fonts, finding the right font is very difficult. I think a bad font can be distracting, and worsens my ability to code. When you have just the right font, no extra distractions, just code and music, I find myself writing code way better. I dont want ligatures or fancy 'next generation' font features that makes the letters line up oh so perfectly or whatever bullshit, I just need a font that looks good, is ligature-less and stays out of my way, when you're redrawing every single character on a single modification and causing my code to look like its doing the fucking cha cha slide I find it very difficult to do anything.
The selfish / selfless binary is a bit simplistic to explain corruption.

If your brother killed someone, would you turn him over to the authorities? You can't answer this question by checking how selfish someone is - both options can be considered selfless acts.

If I remember correctly (can't find a source), places that answer yes to that question tend to have higher trust in institutions and lower rates of corruption
Actual article: https://www.codastory.com/stayonthestory/nursing-ai-hospital...
there is no "off grid", and even then those homesteaders aren't building houses themselves with tools they crafted themselves -- they're 100% dependent on tools and skills they learned in society.

even remote and rural they're often still trucking into town weekly for gas and groceries.

source: in laws in rural AB tried homesteading off the grid. all it meant was that their kid was homeschooled and can't do multiplication and they learned how difficult farming is.
> I find it rather concerning their vision of a better search involves deciding what is good and bad

the entire purpose of a search engine is to do this, you've been grossly confused about the entire space if you think this isn't exactly what everyone is trying to do.
> Can’t confirm

Try this link https://tidal.com/browse/track/18835695/u, for me it shows a list of links to other services: https://imgur.com/a/MEsaIZw
Similar to this, I still install irfanview via wine in my linux desktop. There's just nothing close to it. I tried some suggestions like nomacs but they are just not there.
I like it a lot too, and my feed is pretty good. Unfortunately adoption is really slow and few of the really famous people I'd like to follow seem to care about it.

The network effects of Twitter/X are just incredibly powerful. Even many people who ostensibly dislike the fact that it has become a right wing propaganda tool seem reluctant to actually leave.
Its interesting. Something is going on, obviously, yet you have Brandon Sanderson publishing 400k+ word books that are quite popular. So maybe it is partially a motivational issue?
Now, that responsibility has been dumped on Tech Leads, who have neither the power of the Project Manager, nor the responsibility of the Product Manager.

And depending on how your company selects Tech Leads, they might not have the technical ability of an Architect, or hell, even a senior engineer.
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Here is a graph where someone actually measured the engagement across the two platforms, and it backs your suspicion that engagement level per follower is much higher on BlueSky than on Twitter:

https://bsky.app/profile/andrewdessler.com/post/3laphnufp222...
`_` in a lot of languages is called a discard or wildcard. It comes from Rust's ML heritage, and that's essentially what it does in ML too. C# has something similar. It's not unexpected at all, especially given how the syntactic feature is described.
Apparently he’s already overstaying his welcome at Mar a Lago
>with the backup instruments functioning

Tbf, the article describes them as "basically functioning". As someone with avionics experience, there's a lot of wiggle room in the word "basically" and I'd want to know the details about the remaining functionality before drawing any hard conclusions.
Thanks for the info. It’s reassuring to hear that I’m not making a mistake and missing out. I’m curious if you can say where you’ve heard this negative feedback? I hadn’t heard of the browser before yesterday.
I am going to say something straightforward and possibly hurtful. I mean it seriously and respectfully.

Just because you have been damaged emotionally, does not invalidate other people's emotions. They are quite possibly feeling the lowest lows of their lives -- even if that low is a mountain pass versus your death valley. They still deserve respect in grief, even if overall they have had a wonderful life.
Thanks for sharing this. I forgot to add the link in the original post.

I also highly recommend the TV show Halt and Catch Fire. It's not related to the book but very similar spiritually.
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Credibility level UNRA
Addiction-based exploitation. Perhaps the word "garbage" applies well to it. Or in a good reality, "criminal".
I did that for a while, but all the tools seem to have been unmaintained for the last decade. The command line ones still work, but the GUIs to make them easy still depend on qt3 or other such obsolete things. (streaming servers like jellyfin do this on the fly easy, but other workflows for offline use don't work anymore even though they are still sometimes useful)
That seems like a very narrow-minded view of the role of engineers in society. At the end of the day we aspire to solve problems that make the world better—I'm certainly not going to fault individuals for following the money, but to dismiss the ethical dimension completely is unreasonable in my opinion.
As a French speaker, what is quite surprising is how close the use of "fuck" mirrors the use of "foutre" in French. However, in French, the word has become pretty weak as an expletive. Nobody would be shocked if you say: "je m'en fous", which could be translated either as "I don't give a fuck" or "I don't give a damn". The original sexual meaning of the word is lost on most people now, except when it is used as a noun. For instances, in French movies in the 1930, people would use the verb in a pretty casual way, without any real problems, which means that it had already lost its vulgar side.
I guess "fuck" is following the same parallel trend.
While postgres is indeed case sensitive usually writing queries with keywords in all caps is an effort to increase legibility for visual pattern matching. It absolutely isn't needed but if I'm debugging a query of yours I will send it through my prettifier so that I can breeze through your definitions without getting hung up on minor weird syntax things.

It's like prettification in any other language - visual structures that we can quickly recognize (like consistent indentation levels) make us waste less time on comprehension of the obvious so we can focus on what's important.

The only thing I really object to is "actuallyUsingCaseInIdentifiers" I never want to see columns that require double quotes for me to inspect on cli.
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I've got the opposite problem... Too much implementing not enough architecting
True, but only because we haven't got enough (error corrected) qubits. In principle they could, whereas the dwave device will never be able to.
Almost every hardware have known vulnerabilities, you can't just take things off shelves once one is found, they don't have a money printer.
Rather systems have become bigger and more complex to the extent that most cannot be understood fully in both dimensions of breadth and depth.
Do you mean this: https://archive.org/details/worldalmanacbook0000unse_z4q3?

(Unfortunately only borrowable)
Nice article! One thing I'd add is that almost all of it applies to other MVCC databases like MySQL too. While some details might be different, it too suffers from lon transactions, holds metadata locks during ALTERs, etc, all the good stuff :).
Who could have predicted this...

I still remember the discussion on this very forum years ago when these cheap DNA services opened and it was about 50/50 between people saying there was no risks and people saying we were opening pandora's box.
> Project managers stereotypically use Gantt charts to focus on timelines and contingencies and processes

...and dependencies between teams/stakeholders. :)
"You can't stop it with upbringing."

You're right; we all have the choice to be saints or demons, or anywhere in between! We can be one on one day and the other on others.

What is important is to teach empathy as the antidote to bullying, and then have those individuals construct their society's laws to prevent and/or punish bullying of all kinds. Same with govt corruption, of course.

"any other human, would fall into the pattern of engaging in corruption."

I wouldn't, because I honor my sense of honor, of truth. I can raise my voice and say, without hesitation, that I am incorruptible, because I choose to be this way, because it strengthens my inner peace and happiness. I was not always like this, but I have learned to be this way and appreciate feeling the joy of having self-evolved myself in this direction.

It is each person's choice. That most are choosing poorly is academic, if one sees what the world is becoming, and knows what the world could be, if only our design was based upon selfless, compassionate cooperation instead of selfish, callous competition.
That's because you're a civilian and you don't understand how Naval Aviation works. Reading straight from the NATOPS manual for my old aircraft: "It provides the best available operating instructions for most circumstances, but no manual is a substitute for sound judgement. Operational necessity may require modification of the procedures contained herein."

Aviators are not expected to be checklist-executing drones who "follow protocol." They are expected to have an encyclopedic knowledge of their aircraft's systems so that they know when to follow procedure, what the procedures are designed to do, and what to do when they have a situation where the existing procedures don't apply or conflict with each other.

In my old community, it was a commonplace occurrence when requalifying in the simulator for instructors to deliberately insert situations involving multiple malfunctions whose emergency procedures conflicted with each other, such that blindly "following protocol" would cause you to die.
Why can't Sweden install a new radar system on the Kaliningrad side of the wind farms?
I hope so.

No doubt would create a temporary recession. However, returning to a small federal government, no matter which side of the aisle you sit on, is a good thing. Power concentration is a bad thing. The USA was never set up to be ran as a supreme leadership, but every year we keep taking power from the states and give it to the federal government, and we have already increased taxes to beyond reasonable levels. The sheer amount of tax revenue wasted and channeled into the pockets of Sallie Mae executives, Boeing executives, etc is unbelievable.

Unfortunately, they've also codified nearly all of this into law. And the voter base has been scared shitless into thinking if the channels are removed, their very well being will be threatened, which is silly.
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The full length version is a really good read
Thanks for the reply!

There is a bit to dig in here. Mind reposting this on a discussion so i get notifications and it easier to find again in the future?
YouTube now has a new feature to replace copyrighted background soundtracks with free ones automatically, using some AI magic to edit the movie while preserving views, links, likes, etc.

Very nice feature, though I haven’t used it myself to say if it works as labeled. It should be an option now when you get a violation warning.
How is it an echo chamber, when everyone is allowed to post?

It's the opposite.

BS is the echo-chamber by design.
I agree 100% with the values you espouse here, but I think it's a mistake to say the world has been trending negative for a long time. The values you've expressed here have been gaining ground for generations. (See Steven Pinker's ''The Better Angels of our Nature'' for an in-depth data-backed defense of this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur...). Your statement "Just systems of law, enforced fairly, are the bedrock of such a society" is almost exactly the thesis of that book.
> Google Maps has more detail than you need

I'd happily pay for a version of Google Maps where you can hide the streets and highlight the borders between countries, states, provinces and so on.
Sure, if you manage to assassinate the entire command chain, things will go pear shaped.

I dare say you could likely assassinate half the command chain, and the military will still managed to get where they need to be, when they need to be there. Military command chains have levels of redundancy that civilian organisations wouldn't dream of.

As a concrete example, it's estimated that the British lost ~40% of their officers in the Battle of Albuera, and they still managed to repel Napolean's forces.
Does this also hold for rogue planets? I was under the impression that some rogue planets could form outside of any star's accretion disk.
That’s a really weird way to view code review.

Everywhere I’ve been part of development, code review is part of ensuring code quality, catching bugs, and avoiding silos.
Just tried your tweaks in Spotify. Can't adjust at those exact frequencies, but after one A-B test, flat is simply unlistenable now. What the heck!
I have literally not heard anyone stop talking about the billion dollars spent on Harris’ campaign, partially evidenced by your articles mentioning it.
While far from perfect, Halt and Catch Fire definitely captured a lot of the spirit of the early PC industry at about the same time (early 80s).
I mean, if by "customers" you mean "the important people at your company".

> Concretely, that means that a project is shipped when the important people at your company believe it is shipped. If you deploy your system, but your manager or VP or CEO is very unhappy with it, you did not ship.

> If you ship something users hate and makes no money, but your leadership team is happy, you still shipped. You can feel any way you like about that, but it’s true. If you don’t like it, you should probably go work for companies that really care how happy their users are.
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Songwhip allowed artists to claim and customize their page for a fee. Back then I looked into why Songwhip closed but couldn't find a definitive answer. I found a Reddit post where the original creator shared their site many years ago, so it looks like Songwhip started as a personal project. When it closed down though that decision was made by Sony. So it seems like the original creator got bought out by Sony and then Sony decided to close the service. Just speculation though.
Wait, hol'up, GATTACA was suppose to be a work of fiction, not a model to implement IRL. Stop the planet, I wish to get off.
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I love the fact that an early digital format for sound recordings is used here for early sound recordings. Fun fact - RealNetworks is still around.
A "rural pedestrian" vector map schema and style
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Context: https://bsky.app/profile/sadvil.bsky.social/post/3laq3zqvli2...

The feed was made less than 8 hours later and has almost 400 likes.
Bash is funny with the -gt, -lt etc. operators and the [[ ]] builtin -- bash treats them as arithmetic operators like it does with math in $(( )), and so you provide them the variable name, not the value.

$ TEST=3
$ if [[ TEST -gt 2 ]]; then echo "honk"; fi
honk
$ TEST=1
$ if [[ TEST -gt 2 ]]; then echo "honk"; fi
$

That lets you do things like

$ if [[ TEST*3 -gt 6 ]]; ...

without having to nest even more double parentheses.

You're correct about having to export DELTA_FEATURES at least once. (I export it outside of the function, but no harm in doing so whenever it's set -- but it's not required to re-export it when you change the value.) Thanks for catching that!
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I read the OP differently. I think there can be many angles to a person's identity makeup and they don't always cohere perfectly. A person can have their identity in "entrepreneurial libertarian" while also having it as "someone who comes from a family valuing military service". Humans aren't always perfectly rational when it comes to their different values/tribal identities.

There are a lot of people who join the military while simultaneously "hate authority" for example.
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Interesting changes.
looks like they are shooting themselves in the foot with so much conservation red tape. Those things will double and double till you got nothing left
Artificial not-intelligence would be an actual intelligence pretending not to be.

Like a cuttlefish disguised as a rock.
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A summary can also be considered opinionated and a conversation starter.