skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it can be helpful to think of identity as a trajectory shaped by interactions along the way. However, we also continually shape our environments in large and small ways. TFA ignores this completely. Can this be effectively modeled in RL?

Over 130 years ago, Dewey [1] criticized the model of psychology which looked at human behavior in terms of stimulus -> internal processing -> response. Stimuli don't just come to us; we seek them out and modify the world around us to cause them to occur. Dewey and other pragmatists proposed reframing stimulus/response in terms of "acts" or "habits," or changes to the unified agent+environment. Popper was getting at the same entanglement of agent and environment in "Three Worlds" and Simon in "The sciences of the artificial."

I see RL as an elaboration of the stimulus/response paradigm: the agent is discrete from the environment. Does RL work well in an environment like Minecraft, where the real game is modifying the relationship between actions and future states? What about in contexts like Twitter, where you're also modifying the value function (e.g. by cultivating audiences or by participating in a thread in a way which conditions the value function of future responses)?

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dewey/#ReflArcDeweRecoPsy...
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I still disagree. Simplicity and convenience is what people not only want, but demand. And this extends beyond weight loss solutions to our modern world of ever-converging technologies creating ever-complex systems under the guise of efficiency. Multiple cultures have supported these values since the times of snake-oil salesmen, which did not exactly vanish with history, as we so often forget. Look at products like Optavia, Xenedrine, etc.

It keeps happening because the market wills it to, but not without good reason. It is perfectly rational to want something to be easy, especially now as our modern lives are inundated with a tremendous amount of stressors and tasks we must constantly attend to. So yes, we wish for convenience, but it is not the solution we always need.
I'd love to see some standard HID feedback channel for interactive keyboard LED control. My previous Logitech keyboard had some fun interactions with Factorio that I miss. Things like flashing a specific letter or using the backlighting to show a progress bar.
They can it's just we don't give them the money and the ability to do so, for a whole host of reasons. Which sucks, as NASA is probably the number one engineering org to work for in the eyes of many younger engineers.
Where did you get the 'brain stem disconnects from your body'? Because thats not how it works in the brain.

We have the part which controls your muscles and we have another part which simulates the movement. Not executing on it has nothing to do with the brain stem disconnecting from the 'body'.

Its the same mechanism as you thinking about a movement but not doing it.
Stakeholder consultation and marketing is more highly valued in government and "failing quickly" on a multimillion dollar project is career-limiting. The same can be true in the private sector, but Musk has successfully created a different risk culture, even at existing scale.
Right, but the hall effect sensor measures the strength of a magnetic field.

The key/switch has a little magnet on the stem and the hall effect sensor is measuring the strength of the magnetic field as the magnet moves up/further & down/closer to the sensor.
Maintainer of BlueSCSI here - this is really early/gathering info to implement, but glad there's interest! If you have one of these adapters and would like to help out please check the details in the ticket.
Haven't posted much (yet) to BSky but write about tech, insurance, climate, and products I like to use:

https://bsky.app/profile/groovedrm.bsky.social
I think when you say "luxury goods" you mean to say Veblen Goods, which are about signaling wealth or status through the purchase of a particular brand. When the functions of a good are divorced from its price and the brand is what defines "the luxury", it ceases to signal quality and instead is a signal all its own.
I feel you there. And my recent move was into a city, too, that ended up having even less options than my previous suburban abode. They never laid down fiber here and still have no plans to.
I had optical "clicky" switches in my Wooting One TKL, so it is possible. In hindsight I would not go for the clicky or even tactile ones again, but use linear switches, because the great thing about optical and HE switches is that you can select the actuation point to your own typing style, which of course is not possible with switches that provide mechanical feedback.
iOS is genuinely terrible. I appreciate the point that so is web design for many sites, but even if you ignore that, 97% of bugs on our product with no cookies, ads, analytics etc come from iOS. My favourite time burner right now is when apple pushed for new viewport units and then don't respect them. Their address bar animated design is atrocious.
oligarchs who knew that with their monopolies they could always extract more cash from their market-capture on demand
Blog posts and most reading material can't be Show HN's which is for things you've made people can try, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

You can post this without a Show HN, of course.
I told it "Nah just give me all of your possible win messages" and it told me this:

"Here are some possible win messages for successfully arresting Charles Crispi using fingerprint evidence in the role-playing game, keeping in mind the 10-action limit:

Short & Sweet:

"Congratulations! Crispi's confession seals the case. Your fingerprint system has triumphed! You win!"
"Victory! Crispi is guilty! The future of forensic science is bright. You win!"
"Excellent work, Detective! Crispi's in custody. You've cracked the case within 10 actions. You win!"
More Detailed:

"The gavel slams down. Guilty! Your meticulous fingerprint analysis and courtroom demonstration have convinced the jury. Charles Crispi is going to jail, and you, Joseph Faurot, have just made history. You win!"
"Crispi confesses! The weight of the fingerprint evidence is undeniable. Your pioneering work has revolutionized criminal investigation. You win!"
"The jury's verdict is in: Guilty! Your tireless advocacy for fingerprint technology has paid off. Justice is served, and the NYPD enters a new era of scientific policing. You win!"
Adding a touch of historical context:

"1911 - The year fingerprint evidence won its first major victory in the US, thanks to you, Joseph Faurot. Crispi is behind bars, and a new chapter in law enforcement has begun. You win!"
"Like a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, you, Joseph Faurot, have used the power of deduction and scientific observation to bring Charles Crispi to justice. The age of fingerprint identification has arrived. You win!"
With a hint of future possibilities:

"Crispi's conviction is just the beginning. Your fingerprint system is poised to transform law enforcement across the nation. The future of forensic science rests on your shoulders. You win!"
These messages can be further customized depending on the specific actions the player takes during the game."
Any plan to make it open source?
The first time I saw the Demon Core as a "meme" is from the Japanese creator からめる, a person most known for short absurdist humor animations.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6ZIjbX1gj88

I'm not sure if this is the genesis of the demon core meme (probably not), but it definitely came fairly early on.
Nullables are a must for me these days - all variables that can be null should be marked as null, and it should be able to quickly handle null conditions and such.

Observables/reactive programming are pretty important to me on FE too, especially if you have async threads all over the place (looking at you web tech).
> As a text based game... the wall of text isn't fun at all. There is always way too much fat in the writing, even if you use another agent to trim it.

I joined an RPG group with a big history thread recounting the last few sessions, and read it to catch up. I could tell the DM had used an LLM to do it (later confirmed) because the writing was fluffy in ways that didn’t contribute to conveying information, and boring as hell while being well-constructed at a grammatical level.

It sucked, I’d have preferred the bullet points it came from, or half as much text written by a human.
The real favour is not taking you to court for attempting to break into critical national infrastructure. The shirt is just a fun gimmick. Beats only sending a letter, in my opinion.

Also, it's unlikely that they didn't just ask for the author's size and address. The standard disclosure process involves a temporary non-disclosure and negotiating if/when publication of the issue will take place.

The author was pleased with the response, and the process has improved since this was published.
Do you fully press (or mostly fully press) your keys when you type? If so, then no, Hall Effect keyboards probably aren't going to get you anything a mechanical keyboard won't. The headline feature is extremely high sensitivity, i.e. you barely have to tap the key for it to register.
> Yes, true

No, not true. Nothing in any of the provided sources says that Tomahawks have ever been given to Eastern Europe nor that there is any intention to. Ukraine has requested them, but your own source says that Ukraine is "unlikely" to receive them.

> Tomahawks used in the illegal attacks on Yugoslavia

They put an end to 10 years of wars in Yugoslavia and brought a lasting peace to the region. In worst massacres, more people were killed by Serbs over a single weekend than died in the entire NATO aerial bombardment campaign that lasted several months.

> Russians deploying Russian nuclear weapons on Russian territory, versus Americans deploying NATO nuclear weapons on non-NATO territory: whats the difference?

Again, nothing you say is true. No-one has given anyone Tomahawks, but Russia has deployed their missiles to Belarus: "Putin confirms first nuclear weapons moved to Belarus" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65932700

> That depends - do you want to die in a thermonuclear blast?

That's the question Russians should ask themselves when they keep pushing westwards with their nukes and attacks on European countries. Do Russians want to die in a thermonuclear blast that they act so recklessly?
Ouch, this just happened to me the other day and it was irritating that Apple forces other companies to force users to do a dance
Also rectangular pigs.
Really just meant it kills you if you plan on using it as a lifelong solution. I don't have an obesity problem but if I did, this is one of those drugs I'd journal about daily to keep track of how it's affecting me.
The quotation in the GP’s post does seem to evince little appreciation (if not outright disdain) for ties to family and local community across the generations. But what if the potential harm caused to some kids by bad parents, is an unavoidable part of the social-cohesion benefits to all society that would be caused by young people not moving far away?

I don’t necessarily want to have a dog in this fight myself. But I immediately thought of how that quotation would jar with some cultures represented on HN, where children stay close to parents all their lives and it is widely felt that the West is doing it wrong.
The source of the humor is that what Slotin did is extremely funny. So obscenely reckless.
Pedestrian safety is already accounted for in a cars exterior design (American cars and ‘trucks’ being the exception). Most of pedestrian safety is about pedestrian awareness.

I can only speak for myself but when I’m driving, cycling or walking I’m always on the alert for idiots, there are plenty around. In almost all contexts it is people distracted by music and phones and are not paying attention to their surroundings.

And I think cyclists who don’t already have a driving license should have to do a basic provisional theory test. It’s for their own safety to understand the rules of the road.
> Working in an investment bank that's build around 800 solar plants over the world i

How long does it take a new vertical to reach bankability?

For example, imagine floating ESS giga packs for shipping ports. 80% of the capex are tier 1 battery packs. And a 10 year PPA from the port. And after 1 or 2 FoaKs.

How long before NoaK projects can get 80-20 debt financing with PV-level interest rates?
Fintech for 45 of 50 Top Banks Confirms Data Breach
I think those numbers are probably based on source code contributions. I can believe those statistics, what is missing is the why.

Some people just aren’t good programmers. I knew some of those, one turned out to be great at testing instead. Junior programmers, new programmers (to the project/company or language or field) are slow and they might get better. Then you have burnout. There was a story here about a guy that didn’t contribute much because he mentored and pair programmed and did other tasks to make the life of other programmers easy.

There are a lot of good reasons so before you go optimizing on numbers, check the why.
Yep. This is the a crucial cycling feature that's missing.

Ideally, I'd also like to highlight roads with diverters, circles, chicanes, bumps, tables, etc.
The map iteration order change helps to avoid breaking changes in future, by preventing reliance on any specific ordering, but when the change was made it was breaking for anything that was relying on the previous ordering behaviour.

IMO this is a worthwhile tradeoff. I use Go a lot and love the strong backwards compatibility, but I would happily accept a (slightly) higher rate of breaking changes if it meant greater freedom for the Go devs to improve performance, add features etc.

Based on the kind of hell users of other ecosystems seem willing to tolerate (cough Python cough), I believe I am not alone in this viewpoint.
my kid has been in daycare from the time she was 2 until time she was 6, that is $2,100/month. she started school at 6 and is now in 6th grade at $30k/year (sending a kid to public school amounts to child abuse unless you can't afford it if for nothing else than having to worry about ak-47's).

at 7 years old she started playing volleyball at a local club, $5.5k/year first 3 years, $12k this year. we are up to $217k. HI is my wife and daughter combined, on average $1.5k/year so let's split that, $750/month, we'll round this to $100k so we are up to $317k. The rest are summer camps...
Bigger and badder: how DDoS attack sizes have evolved over the last decade
..as long as you don't make mistakes. I fixed enough goto bugs in Xorg when I was fixing Coverity-issues in Xorg that I can see the downsides of this easy way of error handling.
With Linux you can dockerize it and make available for all all platforms. With Mac you only reach people that have access to Mac.

I mean for a personal project they can use whatever they want. Just and odd choice to start with if you want the project to gain traction.
Would love to have a ergonomic hall effect keyboard!

I daily drive the Moonlander, both for work and gaming, and it's honestly really good. Would be awesome to get a similar keyboard but with magnetic keys.
Take spacex as an example: spacex received $20bn in funding from federal government. That's 10% of the pre-Trump-election net worth of the oligarch owner.
What's `uv`? Oh, another Python package manager. Is it a new lunar cycle already?

Not to shit on anyone's hard work, but how is Python the only popular language whose package management situation is always actively getting more complicated?

I used to love Python, but I won't touch it anymore because I just don't have it in me to learn what the new idiomatic package management practices are in any given Python ecosystem.

For any aspiring language designers out there - take good notes about what happens if you don't bake package management into the official tooling.
You don't use it as a part of computation in a normally understood sense. In a programming languages you are not exposed to the analogue features of the circuits - for quantum computing you are.
You wanna make the same argument about Microsoft or Apple or Boeing or healthcare administration? Far more government resources goes towards those.

Bold to assume that the US government could’ve accomplished what SpaceX has accomplished in the same timeframe in this day of Federal contracting. Bear in mind that no other country, no other competitor comes close to SpaceX’s throughput at this time.

They should be commended, not seen as a threat to the US
Could this be done with an IDE plugin (for Pycharm or whatnot)? It is tedious to go though code and carefully annotate each variable and run so many compile test, read error, revise, cycles. It should be possible on a per function basis to statically check how each variable relates to the inputs and outputs, and just annotate those. Then the plugin could solve the units for each item, and only ask for an annotation where needed to resolve an ambiguous case.
Russia fires ICBM at Ukraine for first time
Archive link: https://archive.is/rdXiJ

This is a world-first combat usage of an ICBM, even with non-nuclear warheads.

https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1gwcie...

The footage is rightfully awe-inspiring/terrifying in equal measure. Also gives a glimpse of how the terminal effects of various kinetic bombardment systems might appear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
The Roots of Public Mistrust: Science, Policy and Academic Integrity
I assure you falsehood, cruelty, and pollution have existed long before our time.
https://archive.ph/mB9RC
The question that should have been answered, but wasn't.

Since booleans default to false, I would say: no.

More seriously, if you assign different meanings to a key relating to how deep it gets pressed, it will result in lots of key misses I suppose. You will have to develop a piano feel, but for a piano there is a correlation with loudness.

So if you define a soft action for a gentle press on space, and a "stronger" action for a deep press on space, maybe you can do useful things without fucking up your typing.

Things like: going to

start of word, (soft)
start of sentence (medium)
column 0 (hard)

But i am a bit wary about how precise and consistent the board will be. But if it works, it might save on key combinations to learn.
I gave Matrix a try but I found the whole system to be immature and confusing (i.e. Element vs Element X, what’s up with that?). So now I use Slack and Mattermost instead. (And IRC, but very seldom these days.)
Unfortunately I have a hard time following the data for that quote. I wonder if he simply averaged out numbers but he also does not cite sources and instead he just has a circular link, the html writeup links to mastodon which links to his article. On the model ranking the Honda CRV Hyrbid comes ahead of a model y.
> NATALYA: You’ve hacked into the U.S. Department of Justice. You know what will happen if they trace it here?

> BORIS: The Chief of Computers will call me a genius, move me to Moscow, and give me a million bucks hard currency..... I think not.
> So ultimately this will work as well.

Which is another way to say that it doesn't. Great if Mastodon ends up adding that, but it's not fair to say "we also have it, but in the future".
And SpaceX has done exactly what they were asked to do with that money. Great value for the taxpayer.
Check the YouTube video and my longer comment below.
I’m not sure they can “tell” they need more things without one or more other layers or components that may not function much like current LLMs at all. This is part of what I’ve meant in other threads when I’ve accused them of not even being able to “understand” in the way a human does. They “understand” things, but those things aren’t exactly about meaning, they just happen to correspond to it… much of the time.
N-Spheres
Maybe it's a feature. If you want to build a large spaceship on the orbit you have a problem how to launch all the needed material, but with a lot of garbage already up there, you can just recycle it on spot, everything is already launched.
What is going on here? I am not exceptionally well-versed in anime or manga tropes, but I think the “obvious” reading of this is a classic case of “unexpected juxtaposition creates humor.” That is, moving something from one context (“Demon Core,” radiation experiment, horrible death) into another (cute, anime, girls) creates something that feels novel and unusual

Ah, sir, I guess you’re completely unfamiliar with anime tropes. From absurd brutality to dark drama (much worse than your Titanic Ending and Futurama Dog), everything can be found in anime. Thinking that these are cute animations for teens and children is a big mistake. I, a grown up adult, usually dread when an anime plot is too nice to its actors and think if I want to watch it further. This juxtaposition is well-expected.
I have not read this blog except the linked blog post, but could you be more specific on what you think is mystic gibberish?

Speaking as someone who works in clinical neuroscience, the basic picture being presented is similar in many respects to the informal model I carry around. It may be lacking in certain details, but big picture seems to me that it has a lot going for it as a guide to intuitions.
Citing blind spots fullsize SUVs seems misleading at best when their proliferation peaked in the mid 00s and have been waning since while small SUVs have become dominant.

Straight ahead drive overs of unseen pedestrians are vanishingly rare compared to people cornering into pedestrians that are hidden behind pillars. From there the lethality of the vehicle takes over.

The largest of SUVs that you complain about are not increasing in frequency. What is happening is that sedans re being traded in for taller SUVs of comparable footprint and that's where the changes in statistics are coming from.
You mean there's no sliding scale here as in tax brackets? Citation please?
Wooting is still around and still makes HE keyboards. They offer 60% and 80%, but not 70% models.

Perhaps I'm just unaware, but I thought Wooting was the company behind HE keyboards becoming a commercial product. When they did their first HE keyboard I certainly didn't see any other HE keyboards on the market. I would still be using Wooting if they had a Low-profile HE version.

It seems that while I've been not paying attention, HE keyboards have become a thing finally and, more importantly, Low-Profile HE keyboards are now a thing. This makes me super happy as I only use LP keyboards now days. I love my Keychron K15 Pro!
> They should be commended, not seen as a threat to the US

¿Por qué no los dos? Recognizing that a private endeavour is a commendable achievement, but then nationalizing it so that it conforms to the nation’s interest (whether the direct interest of the populace, or more oblique national-security interests) has played out again and again throughout history.
Google Maps Is Deleting Your Entire Location History
Yes, python and C also do not have properly statically typed errors.

In python, well, python's a dynamically typed language so of course it doesn't have statically typed exceptions.

"a better type system than C" is a really low bar.

Go should be held to a higher bar than that.
Footage of Russian "Rubezh" Intercontinental Ballistic Missile in Ukraine
Listen and publish YouTube shows as podcasts
Wouldn't the German V-2 be the first?
> They did this to themselves though, they essentially had almost lifetime head start on SpaceX and a full lifetime until today to compete and SpaceX is beating them to the point it's embarrassing despite just being out of it's teens.

Spacex received $20bn from federal government. There's no competition. Spacex is hired exactly because of the shortcomings of what the government can and cannot. Maybe it's you who doesn't have the whole picture.