skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"An ideal society of the future would allow all information to be freely available."

Total surveillance?

Or only all technical information?

But transparency of all the organisations, so all the police information as well?

So the murder suspects knows, where the police is looking for them? (Or won't there be a need for a police like organisations because murder is also somehow solved?)

My point is, devil is in the details. And Marx is not someone I would go for inspiration. Marxist organisations are not so known for their transparency btw.

Also, I really don't believe that the problem is a human flaw. I don't want to change humans. (It happens naturally anyway).

But I do believe, that we can create better societies, that serves us better, the way we are.

It is just hard, to create them from scratch for various reasons, but many people are trying and some quite succesful.
Yes, it is broad, and probably a bad rule. That said, there is more than enough than that simple rule in this case that points toward intentional academic dishonesty. If he was my son, getting off on a technicality isn’t exoneration in my house.
in some states (e.g. Virginia) you don’t get to own a car. you have to pay for the right to own a car each year in October via 4+% tax on your car’s current value. ‘merica at its finest :)
Israel does regularly bomb Syria.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/12/how-can-israel-att...
You might be confusing it with Lebanon, but Syria has been bombed by Israel and is pretty unstable in general so it's impressive they were able to do this research regardless. People shouldn't be downvoting you for asking a question.
Still if the government doesn't spend it, maybe other people will find better things to do with it.
Syria also regularly bombs Syria.

It's worth mentioning the ongoing civil war in Syria that so far result in around 700k dead.
Isreal is regularly bombing targets in Syria as well. But the targets seem to be mostly military installations, so the civilian life is not nearly as much disrupted as it is in Lebanon.
The part where students were given explicit guidance on the use of AI resources and told how to cite it appropriately. Besides, even aside from the use of technology it’s still a blatant case of plagiarism as he passed off work he did not write as his own.
Intel SR-IOV: Mainlining?
If you go to most hospitals at 2AM and need a specialist of some kind
(say a specific type of surgeon), there’s going to be someone in that specialty on call whose going to get paged to wake up, come in, and see you.

Even in family practice, it’s not uncommon to be able to get a call back from the on call doctor at the
practice on weekends or off hours — if you’ve got a situation that maybe doesn’t warrant the ER, but you’re not sure if it can wait until Monday.
Semi-related rant: Boulder's 20mph residential speed limit is so annoying. I have a stick, and it likes to be in 3rd gear at 25mph. At 20mph, it's reving high in 2nd and annoys the hell out of me. The same is mostly true for my automatic, but slightly less.

Like, I can get behind the law change for safety reasons, but all the signs say it's for emission reasons. And I can tell you that my gas usage is higher at 20pmh than at 25mph. Sure, yeah, there's some study out there that ... blah blah blah.

Look, Boulder City Council is just crazy with their roads, I hate it.
I think the best feedback is pointing out problems (and then trusting the other party to act or at least explain why things are that way). You never have the full context so just telling someone they need to behave differently may not even be ideal given the information they have.
I believe we're not at the productivity level that UBI requires, and those "pseudo-jobs" are a waste that could be redirected to some more constructive endeavor.

Even if you oppose consumerism and building stuff or whatnot, that wasted effort could be directed towards making products more sustainable or making better recycling supply chains or building nuclear power plants or whatnot.
I think UBI will actually lead to the mass adoption of pseudo jobs, at least for a while.
> I think what the speedometer is capable of displaying, what the car is actually capable of reaching, and what the governor should be set to are 3 separate items.

I agree, but I think there was at one point more coherency between those 3 items and it made more sense to just have the speedos go up to 155 or thereabouts, because that was basically the highest speed that any reasonably consumer-accessible car would reach (so not the ones tuned up to go really fast, but maybe something like a muscle car which could on a good day maybe get close to those numbers.)

These days, you're right. No sane manufacturer is going to overprovision their cars to be able to do 2x the speed limit of their target market without an expectation that the car will be extremely niche if they do.
Cardo means thistle in Spanish. Some thistles are very likely a purple table microphone (the original icon was like that, then I simplified it to better integration with screens).
What if I first asked ChatGPT what should I say? And what's the difference from just copy pasting it?
If bluesky continues to grow, the porn and bots will arrive shortly and presumably it will have less resources to combat them than the much better funded X. Or does something in the design help here?

Regardless, I think this is more the new home effect. When you move into a new house, it is clean and you design it with intention. Over the years, it gets dirty and you start to hate the art you liked (people you followed) years ago.
Oh great to hear, thanks for the kind words :)
I'd be interested in hearing what, if any, danger to society spinny hubcaps present
I didn't say you were generalizing, I said that some (esp. ex post, sympathetic) resistance to removal seems to come from generalizing the removal proponents' desire to remove _these_ dams to a desire to remove _other_ dams. Resisting the removal out of concerns about irrigation (in which these dams play ~no role) or hydroelectricity (of which these dams' contribution was minimal) makes sense if the resistors assume that future efforts will move more directly against their interests. I don't think this is far off - see all the stuff in the article about Agenda21, everything being a pretext for removing the current residents, etc.

However, I hold that assumption is incorrect. I believe whole multi-decade process of local consensus-building and compromise that got to removal on the Klamath is a model for future efforts, which will be at least as sensitive to completing interests as these were. Your initial point about the shallowness of objections in TFA is testament to that process. The 'storming' episode you mention happened in ~2003. The failed deliveries from the Klamath were in 2001, and were the result of competing federal priorities (prior-appropriation private water rights, the endangered species act) coming to a head. The farmers seem to have had their concerns addressed since then - all the relevant local irrigation districts were signatories to both the (failed) Restoration Agreement and the (successful) Settlement Agreement.

I think TFA treats the most serious and well-founded objection very sensitively, toward the end:

> I find myself holding two realities in mind that seem hardly able, these days, to share the same space. The first is that the dams have amounted to an ongoing assault on Indigenous communities and rights, and on the many fish that move between fresh water and the sea; removing the barriers will right historical wrongs. The second is that the identities of many people here—their memories, ways of life, worldviews, sense of purpose, idea of home—are bound up in the dammed landscape and even the dams themselves.

This is the tension - once the competing economic and ecological interests are satisfied, the emotional interests remain. A landscape has to change, and a life-way it's supported will no long be possible in that place. That's unambiguously awful for people and families than enjoyed that landscape and life-way in the ~century since the dams were built. But their right to enjoy that landscape unchanged is not absolute; their loss has to be situated within the larger balance of costs and benefits of the project.
Putin went to Mongolia, which is a signatory to the Rome statute establishing the ICC, without being arrested.

President Orbán of Hungary also extended an open invitation to Netanyahu despite the ICC arrest warrant, but he isnt' exactly known for being a stickler for the rule of law.
http://www.apollo-core.com/index.htm?page=performance seems more interesting.

Even more interesting would be the comparison with that vs. most modern version of UAE running on some contemporary ARM, 'crappy' Intel N100, or Apple Mx-whatever.

Ansonsten gilt: "Das Balkenspiel ist schlechter Stil!" Kapiert?
This is true. Construction has had millennia to work out how to best organise its different disciplines, though -- I hope that it won't take software that long, nor that it'll need to be quite as stratified.

Software Engineers are usually quite capable programmers, while construction needs a lot more people _doing_ the construction than working as Civil Engineers, even if Civil Engineers wanted to join in.

That's not quite my point, though: we don't expect physicists to be good at Civil Engineering or construction, and we ought not expect Computer Scientists to be good at Software Engineering or programming. Having some understanding of physics makes a Civil Engineer better at their job, similarly for Computer Science and Software Engineering. And both construction and programming can be undertaken in isolation, but you're unlikely to be successful in your larger project unless you have Civil Engineering or Software Engineering expertise.
I mean technically any company with a legal department accepts written communication, and if they're out of state you can serve them through your state's department of state

they fact that they have invented a byzantine system for complaining to them doesn't mean you have to make more than a token effort to comply with that system
On call even if you aren’t actually called is still a burden. No drinking or other impairing substances. Need to be available and ready to help on weekends. So unable to disconnect and go on a hike or some other activity without internet and your laptop.

75% on call even if I was never called would be profoundly unhealthy for me. So I wouldn’t dismiss the toll of just being available 24/7.

EDIT: I forgot to mention I am on an on call rotation but it is 1week on and 7 weeks off. So, not too horrible.
> But having a toddler is a wonderful thing, it gives you hope and a good reason to expect many joy from the future

For sure. The lack of sleep is more than made up by the fact he's incredibly happy, cheerful, fun, and learns things everyday, all the time. And there is definitely more focus in my life knowing I need to provide a future for him... We're optimistic about the future.
> Early retirement is nice, and earlier retirement is even nicer, but given a choice between retiring when my kid is 20 and being home with him every day throughout his whole childhood, there's no contest.

Agreed. I took 3 years off to be with my child every day in elementary school, priceless! It certainly did delay my retirement by a lot more than 3 years but totally worth it.
That is easy to say in hindsight when given the example. It is not so easy to see in advance. After all, OOP’s proponents say that OOP makes everything better. You never hear them saying “don’t use OOP here”.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=oop+inheritance+behavior

I doubt you would find a single result in the top 10 saying not to do this and many will seem to encourage it. One of the results says:

> Inheritance is frequently used to integrate your code with library code

A much younger version of myself said: Daemonizing should be a library function. Let’s use inheritance to do that.

Saying it is not really taught properly is avoiding the reality that you just can’t teach it properly. Knowing for certain when it will not cause problems requires knowing the future.
My experience with LUKS robustness is less so, but I've uncleanly powered off many a laptop with BitLocker, FileVault, and commercial encryption with no ill effects.
Interactions on Twitter are like 50-80% bots, it's not a resources problem
You're not considering the opportunity cost to get that wealth. Sometimes you may be lucky enough that there is very little opportunity cost. But most of the time it's considerable.

> be the weird rich lady you can go to with your problems

that's great; but unfortunately in society at large, the people with wealth and the people who you can approach with your problems make a Venn diagram with little overlap

I've found that in most cases, people tend to become more selfish as they get more money, not less selfish. (Not talking about you, just commenting on society.)
The private school system (absent vouchers) is not subject to the legal entanglements and requirements of a public education system.
Nah Israel is heavily assaulting Syria too, these days, at this moment, continuously. Special ops raids for targeted killing, blowing up some stuff or the other, bombing places. They don't even try to hide it, videos from chopper pilots, drones and helmet cams from soldiers are all over internet.

It may have some good reasons behind given war they wage on Lebanon, or just settling decades old political grudges, don't know.
I absolutely hate having to say stuff in between the lines or trying to interpret veiled intentions. There's def no need to be pointlessly rude when giving criticism, but to me, beating around the bush is exhausting and often frustratingly ineffective.
This seems cool, and probably aimed at a specific use case. Maybe if you're just starting out on joining a team?

My question is if there's something I'm not seeing. How often do people have to do this for it to be a tool? Why couldn't I just check the package.json myself?

Or is this aimed at LLM's, so you can run a program instead of letting an LLM guess the tech?
Building NTFS-3g on macOS to write to NTFS devices
According to Israel's Dahiya doctrine, civilian targets are legitimate targets in order to put pressure on opposing governments.
C preprocessing is token-based. The input is decomposed into preprocessor tokens, sequences of which are then manipulated.

There are issues with using stand-alone implementations of C preprocessing like GNU cpp with languages that deviate from C in their token syntax.
Mozilla: DOJ's Plan for Chrome Risks Hurting Smaller Browsers
I'm surprised it's not higher. Are the results unusual for an Western country?
Sounds like a great argument for someone with a special interest to make private schools more appealing (not that I think you have that. Just people who can tell public schools not to be too good).
Mackenzie Scott is a wonderful, but extremely rare, example.
I get what you are pointing at: you are focusing with some strictness on the post from Stavros, which states that "people pseudo-rationalize with plausible explanatory theories their not-at-the-time-rational behaviour".

But I was instead focusing at the general problem in the root post from Foundry27, and to a loose interpretation of the post from Stavros: the opposition between the faculty of generating convincing fantasies vs the faculty of critical thinking. (Such focus being there because more general and pressing in current AI than the contextual problem of "explanation", which is sort of a "perversion" when compared to the same in classical AI, where the steps are recorded procedurally owing to transparency, instead of the paradox of asking an obscure unreliable engine "what it did".)

What I meant is that a general scheme of bullshitting to oneself and pseudo-rationalizing it is not the only way. Please see the other sub-branch in which we talked about mathematics. In important cases, the fantasies are then consciously checked as thoroughly as constraints allow.

So I stated «/Some/ people bullshit themselves stating the plausible; others check their hypotheses ... Some people will output a pre-given answer; some people check» - as a crucial discriminator in the natural and artificial. Please note that the trend in the past two years has generated a believe in some that the at most preliminary part is all that there is.

Also note that Katskul wrote «only occasionally do we deviate to check ourselves» - so the reply is "No: the more one is educated and intellectually trained, the more one's thoughts are vetted - the thought process is disciplined to check its objects".

But I see re-checking the branch that the post from Stavros was strongly specific towards the "smaller" area of "pseudo-rationalizing", so I see why my posts may have looked odd-fitting.
Wow, he is prolific!

How safe is it to download and view one of his fonts from a non-https site[1]? I feel like I should create windows VM just to view the fonts.

[1] http://fonts.tom7.com/
I believe if businesses want to stop piracy, they need to start making superior products and platforms. If we put away cost completely for a service, allowing it to be any exorbitant amount, the final question is: Is this a better experience than I could have gotten for free?

It makes zero economical sense why you would pay for an inferior experience, such as being geo-locked. Netflix apparently throttles your bitrate/resolution if you're not watching from a smart TV. Sony can revoke at will media that you "bought".

Steam is a great example of what to do. Could I have pirated all my games? Absolutely, but having them on Steam--crucially--makes life easier. I get automatic updates, social integration, achievements, steam cloud saves, remote play, centralized screenshots, easy linux support via proton, etc.

I have no interest in having to buying something that might want me to pay extra premium on top just for a 4K version, or a streaming service that cycles films in and out that leaves me unable to watch a great title I saw 2 years ago. The biggest sin of all is not letting you download titles. F** me I guess if I want to download & watch a movie offline while sitting in transit. F** me if I want to download a title on WiFi to watch later when I'm out and about as to not use cellular data.
I have seen this happen countless of times at companies large and small. The article is brilliant in humorously highlighting the denial (usually) or the lack of knowledge (sometimes) that leads engineers down this path again and again.
I understand the desire to make things more logical like the German driving system. I wish we had an autobahn and autobah rules and highly trained drivers too, but this law always struck me as half-baked and frustratingly ambiguous.

Near where I live, we have multiple 3-digit interstates. That is, they are sections of interstate that defy the usual convention of odd-numbered north-south routes and east-west even-numbered routes. 3-digit interstate combine highways or circle around cities or take you to tunnels, etc. The result is lots of sections where traffic merges from the left, you have to exit from the left, or the interstate divides into two other interstates and the former left lane is now the right lane. In those very same sections, you have signs reminding you that the left lane is for passing, not cruising. The problem with this is that everyone takes the left lane as a license to go 80+ mph.

What if I my left exit is coming up in a mile? Do I "go with the flow of traffic" and risk being the rare car that gets a speed infraction that day, do I wait until the the very last few yards to get in the left and take my exit, do I get on the left and go at a speed I'm more comfortable doing within a mile of my exit(speed limit + only 15). It's all nonsense and feels arbitrarily enforced based on the whims of the state troopers that week.
I'm sorry, it sounds like you had a really negative childhood, at least in regards to your relationships with some of your peers.

I would argue that you, as the intellectual elite, are only leaning into and confirming their bias, and that perhaps a good way to begin to help reform the anti-intellectualism of America would be to try to have compassion for the people far beneath you, like the security guard. Otherwise, those people could have even greater anti-intellectual mindsets.

It's also a little odd to me to be willing to persecute or punish through inaction adults for their actions as children.
One of my favorite passages in one of my all time favorite books
In 2024 doing AI @home is clearly a new exciting thing but it require a good budget to be pleasant to use.
Very well put, and yes, again: Not advocating against WFH, just trying to be aware that as we are fighting for it, there are those who will never have it.
rpi is >10x faster
Am I reading it wrong? It looks like 1400 engineers (Y axis) are closer to 0 commits/month (X axis.)
It was quite a bit harder back then to set up CVS. You had to have a cvs server running, there was no way to just “git init” and commit as you go and worry about pushing later. (At least not that I knew about then, I was pretty green.) Public hosting services were hard to come by, so it meant setting up a real server on the internet for your colleagues to use, figuring out auth, etc.

Nowadays version control is just so easy it’s easy to forget how good we have it. Not just in getting started locally but pushing to a public service that everyone can share (even private repos are free on GitHub nowadays, it’s a complete no brainer.)
It was closer to a "regime change" proxy war with thousands of imported fighters, rather than a "civil war".
Ask HN: What is your RP 2040 development environment?
There are a ton of RP2040 boards out there and I expect a new wave of the RP2350 boards any day now. My current favorite board is this https://minifigboards.com/product/fig-pi/ since it has JST/SH connectors to add things vs a protoboard.

What are your development environments? I work with students ages 12 and under, so I try to keep things simple.

I do Circuit Python since I bought into that ecosystem with Adafruit awhile ago. Micropython is also a good environment.

I recently stumbled across the MaxiMite Basic. I had these boards a long time ago, and it was cool to see the port to the RP2040. https://geoffg.net/picomite.html There is a neat editor that made MixMite basic easy to write that also works with the RP2040 port.

I'm also a Lua fan, there is a nice port of Lua, https://github.com/MicroLua/MicroLua

Lastly, Forth was one of the early languages I learned for the 8008/8080 family. The Mecrisp-Stellaris Port is nice, it's got lots of great "words" to use with the RP2040. I like how they have displays for the GPIO pins that make it easy to look at all of them to be able to debug complex interfaces. https://mecrisp.sourceforge.net/

What are you using for RP2040 development? Thanks!
It's definitely snowballing now. Other than chatgpt, it's been years since the last time that's happened?
I guess they also knew organic chemistry back then!