skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s only a fallacy when dealing with logical relations under certainty.

Incorrect. Slippery slope is an informal fallacy, which applies to arguments based on evidence not logical relations under certainty. But it is a component of the slippery slope fallacy that the implicit premise (that the precondition that is the subject of the argument is likely to lead to the result that is the endpoint of the slippery slope) is inadequately justified, not merely that a slope from the precondition to the endpoint is presented.
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The movie is not really based on the book. It's supposedly a parody of it, but the director literally did not read the book, so it's actually a parody of what he assumed it was about.

(eg "service guarantees citizenship" is presented as a fascist idea the movie is parodying, but IIRC in the book you could get it by being a mailman.)
> Their product marketing is a huge mess, they keep changing the names of everything every few months. Nobody knows which Copilot does what anymore. It really feels like they're scrambling to be first to market. It all feels so incredibly rushed.

Product confusion, inconsistent marketing, unnecessary product renames, and rushing half-baked solutions has been the Microsoft way for dozens of products across multiple divisions for years.
The investments just move on to the next hot area. It would be a temporary disruption at most.
I got the data from official Municipal ArcGIS data hubs that are available for free online.

Thank you for pointing out the issue with the search bar. I'll make sure to fix it soon!
Throw a baby in water and it can swim, no naiveté anywhere.

1) Putting out a bet that a vulnerable person will take is immoral. But that’s not what we are discussing.

2) How would putting out such a bet, a call option, lead to hedging?

3) This can turn into a long ass discussion that I’m not sure you wanna go on.
I believe a big part of this phenomenon is the rise in public awareness of the efficacy of ADHD stimulants, specifically Adderall, Vyvanse, Ritalin, etc.

Eventually the genie left the bottle and people realized these medications make most (not all) people feel very good. Scott's written about this before, but they basically bump up your personal "productivity" metric. This effect is observed for those who suffer ADHD symptoms and those who don't.

Basically, these meds can allow a clinically unmotivated and lethargic person to clean their room and buy groceries and call the bank.

They can also allow a 'normal' person to work for 12h without a break then come home and continue writing their novel.

There are now online ADHD "clinics" which let you take an online assessment (!) before a 30min meeting with a doctor who'll then prescribe you amphetamines. If you're someone who knows to say, the process has been incredibly streamlined.
There's a create blog from the creator of RhymeBrain that talks about Succinct Tries: https://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=120

I'm pretty sure these were used to store the built in dictionaries on early mobile phones, especially for the implementation of T9 word and similar programs.
Buying a book doesn't give you any more rights or privileges that buying a dvd. Although I guess it's a lot easier to take a book and give all your favorite people a portion of it. You're paying for the physical object and have a license to read it or view it, but not to copy it (other than what fair use provides). Many books have an explicit statement of this on the copyright page.
This is very impressive and definitely fills a huge hole in the whole data frame ecosystem.

I've been quite impressed with the Polars team and after using Pandas for years, Polars feels like a much needed fresh wind. Very excited to give this a go sometime soon!
I'll fully willing to admit this is full conspiracy theory mode, but in these times it's felt more and more true:

Part of me worries that the plan here is a submarine "abolish the fed" plan from the crypto wealth, and another arm of demolishing US federal power in general.

* Run the economy and foreign trade so poorly that the USD tanks, which if you're 'lucky' and do it quickly enough also tanks all fiat that uses the USD as a reserve currency.

* Everyone switches away from fiat for reserve in exchange for a host of other stores of wealth, probably including crypto (that you ostensibly already own, and you cement your own power).

* You get rid of the fed, and the central bank idea in the US, cutting a major instrument of federal power. Or maybe you leave them around in name, but they're worthless to the point that they're almost a vestigial arm of the state.

* You're left with a major pillar of the end goal for a lot of the crypto wealth, which is an ultra balkanized world of a mesh of loosely federated city states.
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>Objective truth - where do you find that?

Outside, people might claim that Pepsi has microchips in it put there by Soros to control you. You can buy a pesi a microscope or some other clever device and check it then share your findings with your group.

Same with flat Earth, you can buy a balon, a camera and find the truth.

What if you think Putin is a saint? You can go in Ruzzia capital and test this out by saying something bad about Putin, if youget fucked you know you were wrong and your group will also know.

The issue is that propaganda made people deny the truth, like idiots would deny that there is a war in Ukraine and said it is fake news. Some big orange idiot still pushes the narrative that Ukraine started the war when we had live streams of the invazion happening, not sure if USA has the ability to fix the crisis and a civil war is probably IMO
He's gonna be the leader of the oldest continuously functioning organisation in the world, with 1.5b (nominal) members.

It's a big deal x)
Yes, as you say, an organized shutdown. That is my belief as well. I also believe that national security considerations were a factor and dominance of Ukraine was a policy goal of the West to permanently sever Russia from its Eastern European confederates. This was not secret strategy. It's what any sensible policy would include given the chaos. Power abhors a vacuum. I don't see the controversy. I suppose you would also claim that research at Wuhan has nothing whatsoever to do with bioweapons research. Or perhaps that its research program was independently funded, not by the US government.
> They also tend to exclude Clojure.

As a CL (sbcl, mainly) I'm not interested in discussion about whether a language is a "true" lisp or not. I don't think that is a useful measure.

Something I recommend keeping in mind in classifying lisp-like languages would be based on how much code they share. With CL and Clojure, it is pretty much zero. This can lead to a practical understanding of differences and strengths.

I have a friend who is a long-time lisp guy who recently has made a living programming Clojure.
By analyzing as much information as possible with as few preconceptions and little bias as possible. So the opposite of Prada.
I have lot of sympathy for resume-driven developers. They're just answering to the labor market. More power to them.

When companies do what the market expect we praise them. When it's workers, we scorn them. This attitude is seriously fucked up.

When companies start hiring based on experience, adaptability, curiosity, potential and curiosity then you get to complain. Until that, anyone doing it should be considered a fucking genius.
> I also avoid […] high-index lenses for computer work.

Yes! You're the first to mention this.

It's not refractive index itself that's the problem, it's dispersion (roughly, the degree to which refractive index varies across the visual spectrum, described by ‘Abbe number’). We've all seen pictures of a prism splitting a beam of white light into a rainbow — for visual purposes, the less split the better.

Higher-index materials tend to have poorer dispersion, but especially in the mid-range 1.6ish, there are wide variations in quality at the same index. Glass tends to be best, if your prescription is light enough that you can handle the weight. Polycarbonate and acrylic are awful. MR-8 is in the middle, and what I've settled on for recent computer glasses.
Texas is the wrong place to launch this thing from. Somewhere along the east coast would be safer/better but more expensive.
For me clean code means exactly two things:

* The total time it takes to perform a large refactor. This should take no more than 4 hours, 2 ideally, to code and qualify with high confidence using test automation.

* Speed of code style enforcement. If it takes more than 1 minute total effort to impose a code style evaluation (including human time) then it is wrong, even for a very long application.
French digital artist Yann van der Cruyssen curates obscure YouTube videos
This page is like a liminal digital space.
Not OP, but would like to try it. How much weaker? And should I weaken the cylinder strength as well?
Increasingly, a lot of those "legitimate technological improvements" are completely destroying interoperability. Google, in particular, has been making a lot of such annoying moves in the past couple years, on Android, GSuite, WearOS, and now Photos.
You need to understand some mathematics before learning quantum computing. I can recommend 'Essential Mathematics from Quantum Computing' by Leonard S. Woody III, which is short, easy to understand and covers the basics. If you want to go more in-depth into the mathematics involved, then you have 'Linear Algebra and its Applications', by Gilbert Strang, but this book is exclusively about linear algebra, the mathematics that you use with quantum computing, not about quantum computing itself.

There are a couple of popular books about quantum computing in a general sense that could be interesting to read to get an idea about the subject, for example Scott Aaronon's 'Quantum Computing Since Democritus' and Michael A. Nielsen and Isaac L Chuang's 'Quantum Computation an Quantum Information'. I do have the feeling, though, that these will be too deep for a general audience. Interesting and appealing, for sure, but perhaps difficult to understand for most people without a background in the matter.

Some lectures can be really interesting as well, but, again, probably at a level that is not approachable wihout some degree of academic knowledge on the matter. for example, Ronald de Wolf's quantum computing lecture notes from the University of Amsterdam, John Preskill's quantum information lecture notes from the California Institute of Technology, and Scott Aaronson's introduction to quantum science lecture notes. Probably all these lectures are available online.

Probably the best book to learn everything from the maths to the actual physical systems is 'Quantum Computing: From Linear Algebra to Physical Realizaitons', by Mikio Nakahara and Tetsuo Ohmi. This is a really complete book but also... a very expensive book! It's an academic book so not that approachable for the general public, but a great complement for those studying the subject as part of an academic course.

If you want to learn rudiments of how to program with Quiskit, and other topics, vendors like IBM provide excellent resources to get the basic ideas without the need to go too deep. If you want to know more, I would recommend perhaps to do a Masters or something like that. It's not a simple topic, it requires actual study to learn physics, mathematics, and other aspects of the technology.
You have to be awake to the fact that there is absolutely no comparison to be made here.
Can't say that I disagree, but there is Sector Lisp https://justine.lol/sectorlisp/ which I think is very remarkable.
>Between the unfairness of making an adult pay for a child who isn't theirs, and that of throwing an innocent child into financial distress

As others have stated above, this isn't really about protecting "family harmony" / "saving the child", it’s about cost.

If paternity tests were easily accessible, many men would easily contest child support and if successful, they would opt out. The state benefits from keeping paternity disputes out of court because it ensures that private individuals, rather than government welfare programs, remain responsible for child support.

If too many men successfully challenged paternity, the state would be forced to provide financial aid for more children, increasing costs. Restricting paternity tests shifts the burden away from taxpayers and onto unwitting fathers, all while claiming it’s about social stability.
Perhaps because many well funded, organized, and violent criminals really want to steal it?
You’re getting downvoted because when someone appears on a US centric message board with an argument that quacks like Russian whataboutism, it’s more likely that you’re a troll, bot, or duped.
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>stupid me thinking because it's a superior solution.

You think your snarky sarcasm fits, but it really doesn't. "Oh, everyone uses it, so it must not actually be bad?" That's not a good argument at all. :D
MLS Year 30: A league at a philosophical crossroads as World Cups loom
This is basically HTMX. Why don't they just integrate it natively into the browser?
Thanks, I'm working on it, so keep checking back for changes. The music should sound better, but I am refining it as I go with the goal of sounding like natural piano.

I will also work out the kinks with autoplay not working in some browsers (it should work with Chrome)
You’re right…nobody crafts TCP packets manually, and Lightning can absolutely offer similar abstraction.

But here’s the twist: TCP/IP was built open and insecure by default, forcing us into decades-long battles (SSL, VPNs, Tor) to claw back privacy.

Bitcoin risks repeating history if we treat transparency as a minor inconvenience rather than a systemic flaw.

The point isn’t whether Lightning is easy (or hard) to use. It’s whether privacy should ever be optional at all.

Privacy, like security, isn’t a feature you bolt on later; it must be foundational, invisible, and unavoidable from day one.

Otherwise, we’re just building a prettier front-end on a fundamentally flawed architecture.
Since it's all about buttons, it's a shame they missed the opportunity to call it butfor.
The official definition of AGI is a system that can generate at least $100 billion in profits. For comparison, this would be like if perceptrons in 1968 could generate $10 billion in profits, or if LISP machines in 1986 could generate $35 billion in profits, or if expert systems in 1995 could generate $50 billion in profits.
I don't like it either, but at least we can pave over it with a framework, unless you're allergic to those. It makes a good building block.
Speaker diarization is also still a tough problem for free models.
>Nussbaum is a reactionary hack

Perhaps. It would be nice to see some explanation for that statement (as someone unfamiliar with her). It's not very effective right now, in a thread and article full with praise for her.
I don't think its fair to say there are no reasons. Having a large balance sheet and a diverse pool of assets helps with national creditworthiness and interest rate negotiation. When people say that US Treasuries are backed by the full faith of the United States, that "faith" includes her assets; and while having the power to print as much cash as you want is a pretty powerful asset to have, a few hundred billion in Gold and Bitcoin helps more than we'd be helped by liquidating it and paying down like 0.5% of the national debt.
don't you think the rate of non-family births plays to the balance between acquired and inherited aspects of existence?
Forget Pro Life vs. Pro Choice, GOP is the Pro Crime party now.
A handful of states, including California, have a digital ID that can do this. It only sends the fact that you’re over a certain age.

There’s a video halfway down this page showing the process in Apple Wallet: https://learn.wallet.apple/id/ (notice “Age Over 21”)
> What? They're giving away cars just to cut in line? That seems a pointlessly costly deal. Maybe I'm not understanding the scam correctly.

You're not. As the article notes

> Under state law, the profits from sales of towed cars are supposed to belong to the vehicle owners. Towing companies have to hold onto the proceeds for a year and turn over any remaining money, after subtracting their fees, to the state.

This means D&L doesn't give a shit how much they sell the cars for as long as they get more than the towing and storage fees for them. Depending on how many cars they deal with, it might actually be more profitable to turn them over quickly for pennies on the dollar than let them sit in the yard and rack up higher fees.
Seized cryptocurrency is generally auctioned off after the legal case is resolved, just like any other seized asset.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/federal-government-just-got-g...
It's a very broad question.

Practically, if a PR comes in and it's either a one-shot script or something small, I wouldn't bother too much about anything as long as it works and doesn't smell really bad (e.g. every variable is of single character).

But it's another story if 1) the code is entangled with business logic, or 2) it's part of a medium-large project. In case of those I'd demand very detailed documentation and passing some linter at least.
The problem is that LLMs are being sold as Google and web replacements. The lesson of Deepseek is that your ability to obtain knowledge is fundamentally controlled by whomever controls the popular model or model your employer selects.
People who were looking for a TTRPG in the modern setting and ended up being deeply confused and converting their entire computer environment into a powerful runic device that requires complex incantations - though maybe those folks would have been better off looking for Mage the Ascension.
> You're making it sound like a "right" is something you "get".

No, she is making it sound that way, not me.

One of Nussbaum’s tenets is “It is the task of governments to provide citizens with capabilities to flourish.” She also wants to “establish the capabilities as rights to which citizens, in all nations, are entitled.” One of these capabilities/rights is “Bodily health (being able to have good health, including reproductive health, and adequate nourishment and shelter).” Some of the others are even more unrealistic, such as the right to a “normal human lifespan”.

I don’t know how to interpret that other than as the right to get stuff from the government.
Hmmm... I sort of inferred a "since 9/11" but I concede that's not actually spelled out in the comment I'm replying to, so fair enough.
I perpetually rub/touch my eyes. My big fear around these surgeries is weakening a structure such that damage is more likely.
ctrl-r in bash tops my list, even if it's not quite what you are thinking of as a unix tool.

Probably the pipe itself would be my favorite next.

Then in no particular order:
tail, cut, xargs, wc, tr, grep, sort, uniq.
I was rather hoping that a "Telegraph Simulator" simulated the electric and magnetic fields along a telegraph line. This is more of a Morse Code toy.
From Wikipedia:

> United States President Bill Clinton signed a bill ordering that Selective Availability be disabled on May 1, 2000; and, in 2007, the US government announced that the next generation of GPS satellites would not include the feature at all.

Also, SA just meant you couldnt resolve with an accuracy less than 100 meters. It didn't mean "turn off GPS in a part of a world".
Writing one that does exactly what you want is very satisfying. And with Python you can have named groups extracted into a dict and it just feels like magic.
A rational reference, but there are no hard and fast rules.

Perhaps more importantly, in well written English superfluous words are removed - thus 'private robotic spacecraft' becomes 'private spacecraft', since all spacecraft are by definition at least partly autonomous.
This is exactly what it's going to be. Free information is dead, we just don't know it yet. It's dead because why would someone produce free content, and then have all their page clicks hijacked by LLMs that just return the data directly? I think ad/search ecosystem is dead in less than 5 years. If it's not dead then OpenAI fucked up.
No, that's not why.

I found dimensions and a picture of IM-1 here:

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id...

The IM-1 lander was 1.57 meters wide and 4m tall, but based on the picture I think the width doesn't include the legs.

The Blue Ghost lander also launched on an F9; it's 2m high and 3.5m wide, and it landed without falling over. (dimensions from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ghost_Mission_1)

The F9 payload envelope dimensions can be found on page 79 of:

https://www.spacex.com/media/falcon-users-guide-2021-09.pdf

Dimensions shown appear to be <inches> [ <millimeters> ] - the bulk of the space is a cylinder with a radius of "180.020 [ 4572.5011 ]" which I read as just over 4.5 meters in diameter; the cylindrical part is just over 6.6 meters high (and then you get into the conical section at the nose).

The space inside the fairing is bigger than this but there is empty space between it and the payload to ensure they don't come into contact due to vibrations, etc., during launch.

So IM-1 could well have been wider and shorter and still fit on the F9.
Your original claim:

>Effects would be tiny over long term.

The experts I quoted:

>over a very long period, [...] we would be in…great difficulty

>over time we would be scrambling to keep it going

"great difficulty" and "scrambling to keep it going" isn't "almost" the same as "Effects would be tiny "
In this context, it’s not good or bad, it just is.
Rule 11 sanctions are supposed to hurt. This one needs to, as an example. It's not like it's hard to look up the cases you cite.
Most obese and very overweight people cannot sustain the output of 700 calories an hour, cardiovascularly (spelling) or with the state of their knees and muscles.

Also, it’s very easy to eat an extra 700 calories especially if you are in the “I worked out so I deserve a treat” camp.

Your lack of understanding comes across in your stance as well as the attitude.

Yes exercise is fantastic for your quality of life years and all cause mortality, but it’s not the whole story.
> Respectfully disagree. I had two pHD on a project and spent a total of 120k a year on them.

Does that include all overheads such as HR, payroll, etc?
Don't take my word for it.

The explicit stated goal of the USA government is to invade Canada.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/world/canada/trump-trudea...
that'd make sense
xAI does not have infra to sell the service and integrations of it to enterprises and such. It's an open question if "models" alone and simple consumer products that use them are profitable. So, probably hyperscale cloud platform infra is a moat yes. Microsoft has Semantic Kernel, Microsoft.Extensions.AI, various RAG and search services, and an entire ecosystem and platform around using LLM's to build with that xAI does not have. Just having a chat app as interface to one's model is part of the discussion here about models as commodities. xAI does have X/Twitter data which is a constantly updating source of information so in that aspect they themselves do have something unique.