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HN nerds will justify anything if they can write words that appear logically sound.

American presidents used to be smart.

"dried precipitate of liquified soft tissue...and condensation". Yeah - mud.

For some reason "turn your messiest data into documents" makes more sense.

Knife skills are a necessary but not sufficient condition for being a good chef.

I believe it's a reference to some of the old terminal RPG games, like Arabela (or something like that).

Why are there so many guides to git?

"The country is going to have to learn critical thinking. That may be an impossible challenge for the US." (ts 30:57)

"Impossible" is a bold qualifier. Maybe he was exaggerating - maybe not. Will critical thinking necessarily become more difficult - to learn, teach, exercise - with AI? It's possible it will help people become better thinkers, but I don't think that's a guarantee.

The American mind cannot understand this.

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Do you ever get more processors after going into the second phase of the game?

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In some c-section cases they’ll perform “vaginal seeding”, wherein the microbiome from the mother’s vaginal canal is swabbed onto the face, mouth, etc. of the newborn.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/22096-vagin...

How do/would we know it doesn’t?

Hello, HN!

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I think intuitively I would've guessed the body of an electric has much less to do with the sound than the body of an acoustic, but it was super cool to see this tested with the air guitar. I never would've attempted to build that so I'm glad he did.

Hello, HN!

Location: Nashville, TN

Remote: remote and hybrid OK

Willing to relocate: yes (in a few months and depending on location)

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Email: peterdavid@duck.com

Thanks for your consideration! I’m looking for my first paid job as a developer. My work experience has been in operations and support, with management roles here and there, but my knowledge and interests go way beyond that. I’ve been coding on side/personal projects for several years now, and I’m ready to join a team and apply my skills in the real world. I love the craft and I’m eager to learn, contribute, and do great things!

This is correct, and without the hyphens it reads like a garden-path sentence[1], which is one with an ambiguous structure that normal readers tend to parse incorrectly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence

The ambiguous effect of the silhouette dancer is real, but some of the sandwiches really are rotating in a different direction from the others.

> So we have a conclusion: 'lab leak most likely cause,' and a confidence score: 'low'.

These qualifications seem to me to be in conflict. If there's low confidence about the most likely cause, then does that imply that there's low confidence about every possible cause? Could there be high confidence in the least likely cause? That, too, seems contradictory to me.

No, it turns out that ChatGPT writes that it’s a difficult time.

Socrates’s “all I know is that I know nothing” and “know thyself” more and more reveal to me something new about life, philosophy, and the nature of being.

Maybe they could provide a kind of base documentation to GPT-3 and then have it generate lots of tutorials in different styles - “cutesy”, “advanced”, “continued education”, etc. (I meant this to be funny but I’d bet someone has considered it even more seriously.)

Cool! I’ve had some ideas that would involve physical, printed cards, so I’d be curious to know how you went about sourcing card makers and choosing one. Thanks, and good luck to ya.

My field of study (what I really like to think and learn about) isn't my field of work, but I like the question so I'll spill some thoughts.

I spend a lot of time thinking about philosophical-ish stuff, so here are some books that have had the strongest residual effects (whether that's changing how I think, changing what I think about, changing my values, or simply getting the thought ball rolling faster):

Ishmael (Daniel Quinn)

1984 (George Orwell)

Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

Godel, Escher, Bach (Douglas Hofstadter)

The Republic [imp. "the allegory of the cave"] (Plato)

The Genealogy of Morals (Friedrich Nietzsche)

The Social Construction of Reality (Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann)

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (L. Wittgenstein)

Dissemination [imp. "The Pharmakon"] (Jacques Derrida)

The Quest for Reality (Barry Stroud)

Languages of Art (Nelson Goodman)

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas Kuhn)

Concepts (Jerry Fodor)

The Web of Life (Fritjof Capra)

Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)

Naming and Necessity (Saul Kripke)

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig)

There are others, and a lot of essays (by thinkers like Bertrand Russell, Carl Hempel, Hilary Putnam, WVO Quine, Karl Popper, Alfred Tarski, Gottlob Frege, David Chalmers, Daniel Dennett, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Mikhail Bakunin, CS Peirce, and David Hume, among many others), but these seem apropos as they most readily came to mind.

Fair enough!

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> a search engine backend for our rock climbing database

Sounds cool! I code (hobby/fun/learning/career prep) but am really more interested in the world outside of computers (inc. some climbing). I'd love to talk if there are any opportunities with UKC! (I should mention I'm US based and have experience mainly with Python but some Javascript, too.)

Fair enough! I'll admit, there are a number of somewhat unwieldy idioms in philosophy, but I think in a lot of cases they do serve to pick out a distinct notion.

For what it's worth, in the expression "to think that p", "p" is meant to designate any arbitrary proposition; e.g., if p is the proposition "it is raining", then "to think that p" expands to "to think that it is raining". (Likewise q is some other arbitrary proposition.) "There's something it's like to X" is a conventional way of saying that (under normal circumstances) X causes or corresponds with a conscious experience. In the quoted sentence "consciously" is a little superfluous, but the paper is dealing with phenomenology (the study of first person conscious experience), so I'm assuming the author added it for emphasis.

It's a pretty technical paper and there's a lot of terminology and assumptions of background knowledge. I definitely find myself reading sentences over and over, but I tend to assume that those issues are more the result of my lack of understanding than of clarity of writing.

You’ve probably noticed this effect in the real world.

Suppose you’re at a restaurant waiting for your meal to arrive. You don’t know exactly how long it will take, but you have some reasonable bounds (say, more than 10 minutes but less than 30). Suppose you’ve been waiting ~20 minutes. It’s reasonable then to expect that the meal should be arriving soon. Suppose now that it’s been ~25 minutes. Then you expect that it should be arriving very soon. At ~30 minutes, you’d think that it must be on its way out of the kitchen or will be very, very soon. At ~35 minutes you’re convinced it must be there any moment.

As the time continues to increase, you find yourself in a sort of paradox—because you have a frame of reference for how long it takes a meal to arrive to a table, you expect that, as the time elapsed increases, the time remaining should decrease; on the other hand, at some point (some t+n significantly greater than you’d expect to wait), you find it just as reasonable that there’s a problem and that perhaps you should be expecting the remaining time to increase!

You may experience something similar at a red light. After waiting 2 minutes, you think surely the light will change very soon, but after 10 minutes you think perhaps the light will never change.

These are slightly different formulations of the Lindy effect but I think they’re equivalent or at least analogous and you can witness them all over the place if you look.