skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The irony of claiming that the fundamental principle of my argument is a straw man and then presenting a new straw man directly after. Who said anything about morals? We're talking about ethics. Do you know the difference? Society does not have moral demands, it has one or more ethical consensus. Please learn the difference between the two before trying to argue with authority on them.

Your argument IS a straw man. You literally put words in my mouth. Try learning what a straw man is before using the expression.

>Society does not have moral demands, it has one or more ethical consensus. Please learn the difference between the two before trying to argue with authority on them.

You should try using a dictionary. The first definition of "moral" on dictionary.com is this:

> of, relating to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical:

If you go to 'ethic' then all two of the definitions are here:

> the body of moral principles or values governing or distinctive of a particular culture or group:

> a complex of moral precepts held or rules of conduct followed by an individual:

So you're wrong, plain and simple. I don't care about some philosophy class attempt to split hairs here. The distinction is really a red herring that you're getting obnoxious about.

>What are you talking about?

You said that the state would retaliate against dissidents, in response to me saying that the state will not tolerate acts of revenge in general even in the face of popular support for the offender. Again, it will not suffer people who are following the law to be murdered. You brought up the dissident thing presumably to relate Mangione to a dissident. But dissidents don't murder people. MLK, Malcolm X, all the dissidents most people admire, are not murderers.

>This sentence does a lot of hand-waving. Vaguely, indeed. I think, if you look for it, you will find the quantification you're looking for.

Perhaps I would find it, but the real numbers are discovered through trial and error and are not at all straightforward to interpret. You really want to get people in a frenzy over some unintentional policy mistakes with outcomes that can only be understood with advanced statistics and a mountain of data?

>The difference is one act of direct violence vs tens of millions of every day acts of indirect violence, in a system where the class perpetrating the latter acts of violence continually gain the upper hand incrementally over time, like a political ratchet.

Apparently you don't understand the definition of "violence" either. Unfortunately the word has been so abused that the dictionary now has totally wrong definitions in it.

>Our forefathers would have revolted over much, much less than we put up with today.

This much I agree with. I don't think they would tolerate income tax or gun laws. As for health insurance I think they'd just say, nobody is forcing you to buy it, so you don't get to just go on a murder spree as revenge against the industry.
It would be easily fixable if CommandlineToArgvA was obtaining the command line itself. Then instead of converting to ANSI and then parsing that, it could parse args in Unicode, and then convert argument by argument to ANSI. The output would be ANSI compatible, but split and unescaped in the true form.

Unfortunately, the parsing is a two-step operation, with the application calling GetCommandLineA itself first and passing that to the parser, so a fix would need a hack to correlate the versions of the command line input without breaking when it's given a different string.
HOAs do not confer private ownership of land among members of a group.

They impose a mutually agreed upon set of rules on everyone who owns land that is covered by the HOA (with one of the rules preventing severance of the property from the HOA).
I am not sure we need to have a submission for every Wine release, let alone release candidate. Many of these end up on the front page.

Wine appears to do an annual major bump in January and a biweekly minor release through the year.
“if it can be said on the floor of Congress, it should be able to be said on social media” - great quote from Mark Zuckerberg here.
I love quickwit, unfortunately datadog has a history of murdering open source (e.g. vector.io halting development and never fixing gross bugs)
Can't current math be be built equally well on set theory, type theory, or category theory?

Coq, Agda, and Lean use Type Theory.
> I think there's like a couple of major areas where it concerns me I guess. The first is when we use these types of technologies to fool people, especially (recently) politically.

While I share the concern over the use of tech to fool people, I think my example shows that using it to fool people politically is nearly as old as the tech itself. And realistically, it's the fooling thats the problem. The fraud of claiming this thing represents truth when it does not. But not only is that as old as the tech of photography itself, it can be done even without manipulating the photo. Don't have a massive crowd to your political rally? Just tighten the angles you take the photo from and don't show the empty arena in its entirety. Or maybe you want to convey a sense of wild recklessness and a breakdown of civility, just get a few closeups of a single trash can on fire and imply its representative of the larger scene.

As for the art, I feel like this is just the same discussion about art we always have. What is art? The tech is new so people are throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks, but eventually it will fall into its place as a tool in the tool belt, just like every other technology before. A lot of people I'm sure felt the same way about CGI in movies, but does the fact that you didn't have to shoot everything for real and wire RDJ to a plane 20k feet in the air in an Iron Man suit make the Avengers any less "art" than any other film is? We'll probably see the same sort of people making entire careers out of the skills necessary to get the most out of an AI system just like they do for getting the most out of CGI systems today. Heck, we can probably look forward to the trend of "AI free" art in 20-30 years, just like we're seeing the trend of "CGI free" movies today.
The constitution allows that they be used for slave labor, and many are.
People who argue for formal methods are well aware that theorems change over time [1], the point is that with formal methods the theorems become simpler and in turn result in simpler proofs. With ad hocery or communal wisdom, unless you are a genius artist, the theorem only becomes more complex.

[1] You can see Lakatos in Dijstrak's library for example https://dijkstrascry.com/inventory#box4
I was simply pointing out an Indian deserve no more advantages than a Turkish or a Portuguese, while a descendent of slave might, since his family was wronged by the initial american invaders and they contributed, sometimes via back-breaking work, to the current state of the country.

Indians can go through totally normal immigration and hiring procedures, just like me: they're brown just because of the sun, just like Im white because the weather is shit in Normandy.
I think we’re talking about different things now. I’m saying that emissions should be measured one absolute levels per country since a) absolute pollution is what matters and) countries are the political blocks that dictate international laws and cooperations.

You seem to be talking about the groupings by unions and regions. I am unconvinced that people have a stronger affiliation for those than their country. Further, measuring emissions levels for the country as a whole. On a practical level, getting emission levels for a specific region or a specific union, must less particular individuals, is going to be much harder.
> operative power networks are things like being a Brahmin

eh, what? Why would US corporate culture give a shit about Hindu castes? Google and Microsoft boards appointed Sundar and Satya, but I don't think those boards could tell a Brahmin from a non-Brahmin.
>And you're not going to change hearts and minds by silencing dissent and enforcing speech codes, as progressives are wont to do these days.

This is just demonstrably untrue. For nearly a century the Soviet Union succeeded by doing exactly that. They had international support from the progressive types too.
> I should mention that I've seen fairly convincing cross-sectional evidence that homelessness is more related to the housing market than mental illness

This is absolutely the right diagnosis. For instance, SROs used to be very affordable.[1] Placing someone into housing was well within the means of local governments and non-profits.

In Coppola's 1974 movie The Conversation, a large portion of the titular dialogue is about a homeless person Williams' character spots while walking around a crowded Union Square. That's how much homelessness stood out back then.

[1] https://ccsroc.net/s-r-o-hotels-in-san-francisco/
Good move. Ideal move would be - not just reactions to whatever daily provocation, but doing actual useful things that pull Global Attention away from such people.
are you a woman of color? if you are not, you absolutely do not know for a fact.

Ask a "woman of color" how much of this perceived advantage they actually enjoy in real life, especially from their perspective. You will be shocked the gap between what you presume and what the reality is.
This is so cool. I love this so much. I read the article on my RSS, and then immediately hopped over to HN just so I could upvote.

> Fortunately though, over the course of Bauble’s development, I had produced a comprehensive suite of test scripts with reference images that demonstrated all of the edge cases and problems that I had faced and already fixed and… No, of course not. I can’t even type that with straight fingers. There were no tests.

Intensely relatable.
It's not 1% of the population hoarding the empty houses. It's your elderly relatives.
As usual, this doesn't work for me because I don't have stereoscopic vision.
Do you have an example of such account? Most of the thing I saw is engagement bait.
A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper
But are they slaves by virtue of being in prison?
That would be only the third time she is involved in potential bribe scandal https://www.politico.eu/article/the-scandal-hanging-over-urs... https://www.politico.eu/article/pfizergate-covid-vaccine-sca...
Thank you! I'm very interested in that.
No, these aren't criminals. Finland doesn't think mad people have somehow committed a crime, it just won't let them leave. They're detained against their will until the doctors decide they've fixed the problem.

Compare the decision not to let your five year old have pudding because she hit her brother and refused to apologise, versus the decision not to let her jump into the tiger pit because she might die. These are both restraints on this kids' freedom, but they come from very different places.
You seem to misunderstand the Wikipedia page.

You took initially took issue with the following snippet from the HN article:

> “ Two and a half millennia ago, the Pythagoreans held as a core belief that every number is the ratio of two whole numbers. They were shocked when a member of their school proved that the square root of 2 is not. Legend has it that as punishment, the offender was drowned.”

So I reference a Wikipedia page stating ancient / quasicontemporary sources describe such an event, but those ancient sources didn't attribute it to Hippasus by name. In the centuries after the supposed event authors start attributing this to Hippasus, which is under historical contention, since we don't find this attribution in writings from the same era as the event.

The HN article (just check your own snippet) describe the person as "a member of their school", which is in line with the hermeneutic interpretation of ancient texts (who said what and when).

Perhaps some day newfound libraries will be uncovered, or burnt scrolls deciphered, possibly finding contemporary (in the same lifetime) attributions of this discovery of the irrationality of sqrt(2) to Hippapus.

Basically: oldest sources already describe the events without naming the "offender" that was killed. Currently the oldest sources attributing this "offense" to Hippapus are lifetimes separated from the supposed events, casting doubt on the identity of the victim.
Exactly. The history is filled with injustices directed by everyone at everyone if we go back generations.

Are there injustices being perpetrated by the institutions today? Lets call them out.

Injustices perpetrated generations ago belong in history books. We cant forget about them but Im not going to be held responsible for them.
> It does require lowering standards and quality, by definition

It does not require it. My second point refers to the fact that people often talk about evaluating candidates/choices as if there’s a single, objectively measurable metric by which we can rank them. I argue that’s not how people really make decisions, but even if they did, who’s to say that the top three choices of suppliers are not all owned by minorities or women? You can both fulfill a mission to engage with more diverse suppliers and not lower your standards.

I’ve personally never been a fan of stringent DEI requirements, especially those that came from companies that were clearly in it just for the optics, and I do think it can result in lower quality. It’s the way that some people almost take lower quality as a given if diversity is involved that doesn’t sit well with me.
That's exactly it. You have to bring the "copy" of the left side to overlap with the "original" right side. Then move forward/backward until the overlapped 2 come into focus. The shimmering should stick out, was so shocking when it finally clicked for me.
could you say more about this or provide resources for learning more?
Nepotism is a kind of corruption. It might be quite legal in some cases - private parties I think.

In some cases not as much.

It represents the appearance or actuality of kick backs and favoritism for "other" non-business reasons.

Put your mistress on the payroll? Why not! Put your 'can't get a job' brother on the payroll? Why not?!

The "princeling" hire is a classic form of quid pro quo hire - you hire Bidens coke&hookers son, his dad says hi to you on the golf course.

Nothing to see here.
> Many of these end up on the front page.

Personally, I'm on your side, but this is a defacto representation that a mechanically relevant number of people disagree.
It sounds like you mock, but: you can do this, or near enough, and you can do it already, and it works really well!

0. Pick suitable tool. Firefox works. Notepad++ works. GIMP works. Emacs, not so much, but if you use Emacs, you know that you can fix this

1. Load file A into a tab

2. Load file B into a tab

3. Close all other tabs

4. Hold down the tab switch shortcut key and note the result

For images this is actually pretty decent and I've used it a lot. Good for figuring out what the differences actually are when your image-based tests fail, and similarly after making a speculative change. Let your eyes do the difference operation for you. That's what they're there for.

For text: you'd be better served by some other kind of tool. But text is just an image with letters in it, so the same principle applies. It does work!

(I've previously read a blog post, link to which I of course now can't find, about how old-style Photoshop undo was designed with this sort of thing in mind. Instead of working through the operation queue like normal people, it simply switched repeatedly between previous state and current state - the idea being that you'd make a change that you weren't certain of, then press the key repeatedly to see before and after. No need to think. Thinking isn't appropriate here anyway. Just let your eyes look at what they're seeing.)
So so cool to see Cuttle on Hacker News! Cuttle is my favorite game; I’ve been playing it for about 12 years and it never gets old.

Back around 2015 I was shocked that there wasn’t a place to play online. It’s the kind of game where the appeal is immediate if you’re into this sort of thing. I was like, where the hell has this game been all my life? How had I grown up playing card games and never known about this gem?

So I did what anyone would do: I learned web development to create a site for playing Cuttle online: https://cuttle.cards

I’ve made it my mission to make it so anyone can play Cuttle anytime they want. We still have some growing to do in order to reach that point, but we have a vibrant community with weekly play sessions, a ranked leaderboard, and 5 invitational championship tournaments every year. Check it out!

Some resources for anyone who’d like to learn more:
We have open play sessions on the site every Wednesday at 8:30pm EST and every Thursday at 12pm EST. Beginners are always welcome and it’s the best time to find games.

We have an active discord (https://discord.gg/tPWm6kpbmb) where you can chat with other players, find games, and dive into strategy.

Here is a printable cheat sheet you can use to make learning (and teaching) the rules easier: https://www.cuttle.cards/img/cuttle_rules.pdf

We also live stream the Cuttle tournaments on twitch: https://twitch.tv/cuttle_cards

And then upload the VODs to YouTube: https://youtube.com/@cuttle-cards2245?si=lHbXNsQX54KjLtxk

Lastly as someone else mentioned, the whole project is open source, so if you’re interested in the technical side of things, you can check out the repo here: https://github.com/cuttle-cards/cuttle

It’s very much under active development and we’re always happy to work with new contributors, so if you’re interested in contributing to a full stack pvp card game, I’ve got just the thing for you. The app is a nodejs backend built with the sailsjs backend framework and a Vue 3 SPA frontend. We use cypress for e2e testing and vitest for unit testing. The test setup is something I’m particularly proud of and I’ve found the card game context to be an enormously fruitful one for testing automation since it saves so much time developing for multi user flows.

All that is to say that Cuttle is a blast and that if playing the game or contributing to the open source application interests you, I’d be happy to answer any questions about either. I hope y’all enjoy!
I uploaded our fixed versions to https://huggingface.co/spaces/open-llm-leaderboard/open_llm_... which show the difference in scores.

I agree it's not super convincing, so I provided anecdotal evidence as well - I'll work with the Phi-4 team to upstream these fixes!

PS for further credibility, we also fixed 8 bugs in Gemma 1 - see https://x.com/danielhanchen/status/1765446273661075609 , multiple bugs in Llama, Mistral, Qwen and other models
in the US, schools in poor counties have less resources and less high quality teachers, and the children have much less of an education-focused environment in which they can flourish because of the parent's lack of resources

raise the economic level of the community, and education rises with it
Ask HN: What AI tool can watch the market of used cars for ones of interest?
I'm in the market for a used car of a certain make/model with a particular set of features. This particular combination infrequently arrives on the market via lease returns at dealers, and sometimes on other marketplaces. Buying one requires identifying candidates quickly. Searching for these manually is time-consuming, and doing it daily is even more so.

What tool could I use to build an AI agent that can essentially watch these websites for new inventory becoming available, searching the listing or Monroney sticker for features of interest, and then sending daily notifications of any cars that fit the criteria?
Wait, in finland, homeless means death most of the time. This is creepy.
Kimchi is so important in Korean culture they sent it with their astronauts

"If a Korean goes to space, kimchi must go there, too"

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/world/asia/22iht-kimchi.1...
This has been demonstrably proven to make discrimination worse, not better.

Apparently, people like to discriminate. Where there are overt markers, there is still a chance that people fear the legality of their discrimination. And when you remove overt markers of discrimination, people look for subtle markers, and those exist, and then still end up discriminating.

End result, even fewer qualified members of the discriminated class gets hired.
Robin Marantz Henig: Monk in the Garden: Life of Gregor Mendel

An amazing biography. The perseverance and meticulousness with Mendel performed the experiments is very inspiring. He was not the typical gifted/talented student either. He would face many difficulties at school as well as while trying to be a priest.
It's not a bug. You're seeing the difference between "this is how you're taught to access arrays" and "this is how array access actually works".
I think Build used some form of portals as well... primarily for water/underwater transitions, but there was at least one level in Duke3d that used it for some non-euclidian geometry.
Yes they would. It’s a beautiful part of the country. And I know great teachers that live there.
IDK my karma took a hit from that, lol
I agree, but I think the constant division of people across vague color lines make people counter react in unproductive ways. Like (random example) talking about Obama as a black person hides so much nuances about who he truly is (and who his ancestors are) that it gives his opponents the impression that s all he is and his defenders not much else to defend him with.

I just find the american casual racism, both sides of the political spectrum, very ... american :D

In France we sort of pretend to ignore there s skin color. I d never describe someone as black, or no more than I d describe someone as blonde and I would almost never use a French word to describe it. It makes me nervous to reduce someone to this random attribute, when maybe his family came from Mali, or Martinique or the US and that's so much more interesting than the effect of the sun on his skin.
Hey there /u/blacktechnology, could you email me a few seconds of your voice so I can upload it to this site and see how the cloning goes? I'd love to see what I could do with a copy of your voice. Kthxbye.
Warren Buffett is no longer donating his money at death to the Gates Foundation
Dunno, I should have a look though. But I have recollection of some garbage collector, wrong/right ?
I'm going to speculate a bit on why these silly things are in C.

C was developed on a PDP-11 that had 64Kb of memory. That's not much of any at all. Therefore, the compiler must be extremely tightly coded.

The fundamental rules of the C language are pretty simple. But articles like these expose consequences of such simple rules. Fixing them requires adding more code. Adding more code means less room for the code being compiled.

Therefore, if the intended use of the language works, the pragmatic approach would be to simply not worry about the quirky consequences.

A more interesting question would be "why do these characteristics persist in modern C compilers?"

The stock answer is "backwards compatibility", "Obfuscated C Code contests" and "gotcha job interview questions". My argument would be that there is no reason for the persistence of such "junk DNA" and it should be deprecated and removed.

I've done my part. D doesn't support that stuff, even though the basic use of the language is easily confused with C.

For example:

#include <stdio.h>
void main()
{
int i;
for (i = 0; i < 10; ++i);
printf("%d\n", i);
}

I've died on that hill. I know others who lost an entire day staring at it wondering what's wrong with it. I saw it on X recently as "99% of C programmers will not be able to find the bug."

The equivalent D code:

import core.stdc.stdio;
void main()
{
int i;
for (i = 0; i < 10; ++i);
printf("%d\n", i);
}

gets you:

test.d(5): Error: use `{ }` for an empty statement, not `;`

C'mon, Standard C! Fix that!