skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look up what Deutsch actually did, I think you'll find that he worked on quantum algorithms, making him more of a mathematician than a scientist since he never actually did any experimental work that I can see. But it's sort of irrelevant unless you're trying to make an appeal to Deutsch's authority as a scientist. You wouldn't commit such a logical fallacy, would you?

If you insist on calling Deutsch a scientist, fine, go ahead. That doesn't change my argument in any way, but you'll have to actually read the post you're responding to to know that.

> Am I correct in assuming you will now account for the above mistake and change your opinion to "Bullshit like this is exactly why I think philosophers are better philosophers than scientists are"?

Probably the better thing to do would be to simply remove that paragraph since people like you don't read past the first thing you can find to disagree with. The rest of the post stands on its own fine, but I can't edit it now.
Using Apple Screentime on my phone I’m blocking Reddit, limiting HN use to about 10 minutes/day, and limiting Safari to I think 30. Someone else has the PIN for screentime so I can’t circumvent. On my MacBook I don’t have those restrictions because it’s not a temptation for whatever reason. But I do lock it down at 9pm

I am using ScreenZen to lock my MacBook from 11:35-1:35 every weekday to force myself to workout, spend time with family, do misc errands/chores that are best done during the day, eat healthy, etc.

This system isn’t perfect but it’s very good progress
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Well, yeah, but that seems like a vacuous observation to me. In order to find solutions to the SE you have to know the initial conditions. How are you going to obtain those for an isolated system? You haven't solved the problem, you have just pushed it backwards in time.
> someone else should

Isn't that kinda what you're suggesting here? Most piles of trash aren't caused by homeless, its residents, so why should they need to be responsible? Residents could just buy their own cans as its their own problem
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He's a theoretical physicist whose most notable is in quantum computing, philosophizing about experimental physics. Essentially his work has more to do with math/logic than science, and as far as I can tell you're simply incorrect that he's done any work in astrophysics at all.

Ctrl+F "astro" finds nothing on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Deutsch
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> The company has to reciprocate

OP was promoted. Question is now whether OP makes the company regret their decision or not.
> I am afraid that I might "overwrite/destroy" the good memories I have of the "feeling" of reading his books.

I recently re-read Jurassic Park. What I recalled as a gripping scientifically plausible thriller when I read it as a teenager, read today as a screechy anti-science polemic nestled behind a monster movie plot.

That said, I still enjoyed reading it! It’s definitely a page-turner.

And I found that my new reaction to the book did not lessen my memory of enjoying it as a kid. In fact it led me to some contemplation of my life and how I’ve changed over time.

The book didn’t change at all, in fact it was the exact same hardcover copy I got as a gift when it came out. I came to think of it as a sort of intellectual mirror that just reflected me back at myself. I’ve gone back and read some other science fiction books I enjoyed as a kid now as well, to see what I think today.
Really? That's one of the things I like about Python: how its for loops consistently consume an iterator, and that's it. Anything that looks like an iterator can be looped across or used in a comprehension without special casing.
Is this supposed to be better than python? "Every string is an f-string, make sure you don't accidentally miss some interpolation." sounds like a step down, not like an improvement to me!
Should you still learn to code in 2025?
Like any city most of these would happen in easily avoidable areas and there's no reason to live in fear about it unless you're one of those people for whom it's a hobby.
Not really. I’m probably overthinking it like most developers do and holding back more than I should
and like you said it's not that deep. pick something light.

a candidate that pulls the religious thing now is one that's going to drag their crazy shit into the office later. or complete misread the room / culture now, and in the future.

like it's a technical job interview, talk about something vague technical, even if it's just how the convection settings work in your oven.
There's a one time fee of $25 and then you can publish as many as you like. That number probably covers only a few thousand accounts.
Sure, right now it's only available to $200/mo subscribers. It won't stay like that forever...
I think that just covers maybe the first dip of the toe into a niche being commodified. For a skateboarder there are signs that kind of show if you really are a hardcore skateboarder or have just bought a board at zumies and don’t really ride it much. Is the board graphic damaged from rails? Are the shoes torn apart? The skaters I see hitting a waxed public cement bench without a shirt on during the work day probably don’t give a shit about thrasher and all that.

Kind of like bluejeans. You can buy them predistressed but the wear patterns are different than if you made them yourself. Maybe most people can’t tell but the true in group of the subculture can.
> I've never seen official baby Jesus merch with him crying

You might have been distracted attending more immediate matters, Mr. Anal_Reactor.
Why does the number of Total Cycles increase for the faster version?
Wow. That shows how much wildlife we've killed off.

Whales, buffalo, elephants, and the list goes on. In a balanced world, I feel like we shouldn't have more mass than the total of all these massive creatures.

I wonder in what year human biomass passed wild mammal biomass.
OpenAI reasoning models: Advice on prompting
> What is the old fashioned way?

Looking in a resource written by someone with sufficient ethos that they can be considered trustworthy .

> What is real?

I'm not arguing ontology about systems that can't do arithmetic. you're not arguing in good faith at all
one of my buddies was a navy psychologist assistant. was a corpsman (navy medic) who moved that way.

dude maintained a "me wall" of achievements, commendation medals, etc. plus a file full of other crap. he mentioned he got a lot of promotions because you have a section to fill out where you describe all the shit you did over the least year, and he always came with examples...
Without a law that says USAID can be shut down or reorganized (or not funded) it seems that this is pretty much by definition entirely illegal regardless of one's opinions about USAID.
As per the article, the reference point for the whole concept traces back to Switzerland in 1947. The gorillas & chickens came later.
When your bitcoiner friend told you something that's not true, that's a human who hallucinated, not an LLM.

Maybe we're already at AGI and just don't know it because we overestimate the capabilities of most humans.
everyone should learn to code including blue collar workers that's what i was told before
> Seems pretty clear that if you want someone to do work for you

Yup, thats clear for everyone.

Whats not clear to me is how you got what parent was writing into saying that people shouldnt get paid for their work?

It is obviously true that the problem of massive amounts of shitty media being sold to consumers is capitalism.

You do understand that critizising capitalism is not the same as saying ”lets all be communists”, right?
Not available for Mac?
If there's a map, and a sidebar with overflow, please don't have a page-level scrollbar, put the scrollbar on the sidebar that needs scroll functionality =(
Tangentially-related is the use of oysters to clean waterways: https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/eutrophication-oyste...
The grandfather of protobuf. Lost in the tales of time.
I've had a lot of fun with tracing decorators in python, but the limitation of data dependent control flow (e.g. an if statement, a for loop) always ends up being more painful that I'd hope. It's a shame since it's such a great pattern otherwise.

Can anyone think of a way to get a nice smooth gradation of tracing based transformations based on effort required or something. I'd love to say, 'okay, in this case i'm willing to put in a bit more effort' and somehow get data dependent if statements working, but not support data dependent loops. All I know of now is either tracing with zero data dependent control flow, or going all the way to writing a python compiler with whatever set of semantics you want to support and full failure on what you don't.

On a different note, some easy decorator DSL based pdb integration would be an incredible enabler for these kinds of things. My coworkers are always trying to write little 'engine' DSLs for one thing or another, and it sucks that whenever you implement your own execution engine, you completely lose all language tooling. As I understand it, in compiler tooling, you always have some burden of shepherding around maps of what part of the source a given thing corresponds to. Ditto for python decorator DSLs, except nobody bothers, meaning you get the equivalent of a 1960's developer experience in that DSL.
I don’t think you’re comparing the right things here. This feature is more like Google’s Deep Research, which basically goes off and does a whole lot of search and compute to produce something more like a full research report. This has nothing to do with open weight models like DeepSeek (note: DeepSeek, Llama, etc are NOT open source). This feature doesn’t just require the research on the model but also enormous compute. Plus anyone using such a feature for real work is not going to be using DeepSeek or whatever, but a product with trustworthy practices and guarantees.
No, I'm very familiar with rats, but I can say for a fact that my friend's heavy duty plastic wheeled bins (the common ones) have been on the street 24/7 in NY and haven't been chewed into in the past 4 years. Probably how smooth that plastic is.

Fwiw the pilot program isn't using metal cans either, and apparently is working.

Edit: fun side note, I've seen a squirrel eat a hole through a 2" oak door to escape a basement, so Im not discounting a motivated rat :)
Nope, straight from him
Subcultures only stay subcultures by gatekeeping. Otherwise their ideas and fashions spread out and it merely becomes culture. The internet made it easier than ever to gatecrash, so it's no surprise there's no subcultures left. And of course capitalism and consumerism responds to what culture wants
i mean when mirroring the macbook screen looks bad, the tv looks fine. the image on the macbook screen gets squished to match the resolution of the tv.
no, and they don't need to. a list is fine, you can include the name of the language (localized), a specifier if there are variants of the language, and even the language name and variant localized in itself. Sure, "Español (República Dominicana) - Spanish (Dominican Republic)" might be a bit long but it's still way easier fitting it into a picker than trying to come up with an icon for it.
We rarely get 3-10 identical orders, so there’s no calculator for it. For 10+, people contact us directly, and we offer custom options like branding and photo covers. But maybe we could add a page specifically for bulk orders, with some pricing adjustment visualisations. thanks for suggesting it!
TBC, I agree with you. I was pointing out how important even small variations in grading can be.
Historically, the mussels harvested for eating have mostly lived very near the shoreline, and in areas with higher-density human populations. So their diets contained enormously higher concentrations of civilization's myriad water pollutants, compared to big deep-water fish.
Microsoft Paint is getting a Copilot button
In the age of AI and LLMs, programming is something like matches in the world of lighter!
Yeah it’s not really career choices. The code should be properly done so that it can hit multiple automated test targets.

It’s a symptom less of the career choice and more of poor coding practices.
> Limit additional context in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG): When providing additional context or documents, include only the most relevant information to prevent the model from overcomplicating its response.

This databricks blog/paper seemingly contradicts this:

> OpenAI o1 models show a consistent improvement over Anthropic and Google models on our long context RAG Benchmark up to 128k tokens.

https://www.databricks.com/blog/long-context-rag-capabilitie...
I think as these things get more integrated into customer service workflows - especially for things like insurance claims - there's gonna start being a lot more buyer's remorse on everyone's part.

We've tried for decades to turn people into reliable robots, now many companies are running to replace people robots with (maybe less reliable?) robot-robots. What could go wrong? What are the escalation paths going to be? Who's going to be watching them?
> no thesis represents more than 1 year's worth of work. The reason it takes most Ph.D.s 5-10 years (8 in my case) to graduate is that you have to fail, and fail, and fail again for 4-9 years before you find your thesis project.

This exactly describes my own experience - 9 years for me. It was a miserable experience, but trying a lot of things that don't work, and then admitting to yourself that they won't work, is honestly great emotional endurance training to be a scientist.
it was very good. But there was a win only if one can avoid the overhead of function-calls, which is slowest thing in python - magnitude+ more than anything else (well, apart of exception throwing which is even slower, but.. rare). In my case, the speedup in calculations was lost in slowdown because of funccals.. so i ended up grouping and jamming most calculations in one-big-func(TM).. and then that was psyco-assembly-zed.

btw funccalls are still slowest thing. somedict.get(x) is almost 2x slower than (x in somedict and somedict[x]). In my last-year attempt to optimizing transit-protocol lib [0], bundling / copying few one-line calls in one 5-line func was the biggest win - and of course, not-doing some things at all.

[0] https://github.com/svilendobrev/transit-python3/blob/master/...
Yup, those were the exact complaints actually! A bit wild to my stupid brain, but it is what it is.
> in the 1960's it was ... a simpler time and the outcasts looked like normal kids having fun compared to today

Seems like some sort of gatekeeping and old-man shaking his fist at youth to me. The overwhelming majority of people skateboarding today are regular kids and young adults who are just in it to have fun. If their techniques are more advanced, its probably because technology has improved and also because they're emulating the things they see professional or otherwise experienced skaters do, but what's the problem with that? They're still having fun, aren't they? That's the point of it all, isn't it?

And buying a shirt means you don't have personality? Is personality all about happening to know a guy who does custom T-shirt printing? What makes one more authentic than the other? Seems like nonsense.
That's not how this works. The stock can't be sold due to vesting.
Seems odd that nobody has mentioned "canary in coal mine", or the general case:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel_species
iMessage uses a very strange amalgamation of typedstream (message content), keyed archives (app messages, sticker data), and protobufs (Digital Touch, handwriting) for different features. I wonder what motivated all of those design decisions.
Related:

Tesla Sales Are Tanking in Europe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42698077
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Thermalization (excluding systems which exhibit many body localization and the like) will occur regardless of initial conditions.
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Can you elaborate on what's exactly wrong with Guacamole in your scenario?
Hmmm... maybe I need to make an AI bot service that repeatedly has agents making 24/7 argumentative chat and voice complaints to customer service about services you use to reach the optimal low price. And THEN have another company selling a chatbot that expertly stonewalls bot complaints more effectively than current CS bots. And eventually, everything would be so clogged up with bots arguing with each other that the only way to actually reach customer service for any company would be through my platform.

Not so much a value-added strategy, but value-partially-un-removed strategy.

Looks like enshittif.ai is available!
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Fun idea!

Building on that: there's a common children's magic trick involving a flip book that magically "colors" its pages (https://www.magicinc.net/products/fun-magic-coloring-book?va...)

It works by moving your thumb to a different position while flipping the pages -- every Xth page is cut at slightly different lengths, so when you move your thumb to the next position, different pages become visible during the flip

Using this trick you could show multiple different video clips in the flipbook just by moving your thumb to a different spot
Agree. I would recommend either a) take the money and disengage from the drama, or b) gtfo.
I've probably not tried hard enough, but I always got zero joy from writing Ruby. Way too much magic.
> What, to your knowledge, has Haskell similarly done ?

Haskell also has significant usage in "building dynamic websites" and "certain slices of finance/banking".
Better AI Is a Matter of Timing
Agree! The 'clean commit' is an ideal, not a reality. I just know that looking back on some of my own repo's that I should've included a little more reasoning context, if only intermittently..
Yeah, it almost feels like you are talking to somebody with OCD. The frustrating part is, output tokens are usually a lot more expensive than input tokens, so they are wasting energy and money :-). Also, the more they generate, the greater the chance it will create attention issues as the conversation progresses.

This is why I built my chat app to let me manipulate LLM responses. If I feel it is not worth knowing, I'll just erase parts of it to ensure the conversation doesn't get side tracked. Or I will go back to the original user message and modify it to say

### IMPORTANT

- Do not generate more code than required.

The nice thing about LLM conversations are, every time you chat, the LLM treats it as a first time conversation, so this trick will work if the model is smart enough.