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by dash2 5mo ago
Right, but if you smack your child on the wrist, is it violence? You can't really answer these things by throwing definitions around. (Imprisoning children is wrong, I'm sure we can agree. So, if you ground your child, is that imp
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by dash2 5mo ago
Just to state what I hope is obvious - every serious person, on any side of the smacking debate, agrees that physical abuse of children is wicked and wrong. The disagreement is about smacking; some people think that it is physical abuse by
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by dash2 5mo ago
I've played it a bit. * The move ratio for cruisers/aircraft carrier feels low. Maybe have it 2 vs 3 instead of 1 vs 2? Actually in general I think more moves would make it more fun and dynamic. * Why can I only move in a straight
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by dash2 5mo ago
If you're saying we should pretend that spanking is worse than (we currently know) it is, then I don't agree. I haven't said anything about corporal punishment for criminals, and I don't know of any evidence for or again
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by dash2 5mo ago
The point isn't just that we can do RCTs. The point is that the methods used are not even adequate on their own terms. Just as one example, the standard method with longitudinal data would be to throw in individual fixed effects. But t
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by dash2 5mo ago
One point is that "the best available evidence" is of very poor quality, with known obvious confounds and mishandling of longitudinal data. (For example, Robert Larzelere argues that by the methods used, grounding children, and g
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by dash2 5mo ago
I've read a lot of this literature. I don't believe there is any research that shows this with a credible research design . But I'm happy to be challenged on this, so go ahead.
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by dash2 5mo ago
This seems a good place to point out that the evidence for the harmful effects of corporal punishment is very low quality: https://wyclif.substack.com/p/the-academic-literature-on-sma...
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by dash2 5mo ago
>We have overwhelming evidence that corporal punishment is harmful in general, and very harmful for kids. This is false. The evidence is not overwhelming; it's actually extremely poor quality. And the research question is one of the
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by dash2 5mo ago
Nah, I ain't reading that. If they can't be bothered to get a human to write it, it can't be that important. I'm glad for them though. Or sorry that happened.
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by dash2 5mo ago
I don't know much about that case, but isn't it stretching the boundary between "corporation" and "government"?
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by dash2 5mo ago
I wrote an R library doing some simple regressions using the GPU, with Claude. I asked it to provide the same API as lm, glm and some other base R functions. It copied their code wholesale without mentioning it to me. So, now my library is
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by dash2 6mo ago
It’s a plausible take that the best government in human history (say Sweden) is worse than the worst corporation. Sweden had an active eugenics program.
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by dash2 6mo ago
Commonmark ( https://commonmark.org ) is a specification designed to address this issue.
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Mypaintr: Plot R graphics like a human(hughjonesd.github.io)
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by dash2 6mo ago
Is that true? I would have guessed research breakthroughs might be a more plausible way to win.
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by dash2 6mo ago
Sounds easy to generalize to R packages which would be a wider audience!
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by dash2 6mo ago
Why would you expect technological improvements to only shift supply curves right under perfect competition? I'd also expect it under oligopoly or even monopoly. You also might think there'd be more tech improvement under oligopol
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by dash2 6mo ago
I changed to it for car navigation. It's a less cluttered interface and integrates better with voice control than Google maps. I still use Google to find out what's around me in a city, which is probably where the money is.
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by dash2 6mo ago
I think it might be the opposite. You make cheap products for everybody because you are going to make money off subscriptions. Personally, I think it's a reasonable strategy, but it might mean they lose their focus on high-end craftsma
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by dash2 6mo ago
I've been thinking about an R package, or maybe a more general treesitter-based package, to reorganize functions in a project. Something like a tui which shows you functions in files in folders and lets you copy and paste them around;
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by dash2 6mo ago
I've skimmed the thread here and I am now seriously considering leaving HN for the first time in about 15 years. Here are some quotes from what used to be a pretty interesting and thoughtful community: > Ah, the Elon manoeuvre: tryi
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by dash2 6mo ago
This is an argument against the grandparent's points (1) and (2), not their point (3).
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by dash2 6mo ago
So the time series are provided with no context? It's just trained on lots of sets of numbers? Then you give it a new set of numbers and it guesses the rest, again with no context? My guess as to how this would work: the machine will f
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by dash2 6mo ago
> If a major model provider were to just halt progress on developing new and improved models, the open weight alternatives would catch up in a couple years. That's why it would be bad strategy.
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by dash2 6mo ago
Is that right? I think that you can serve tokens without training the next models. It would be bad strategy, but it would work. So it's an important question, are they covering their operating expenditure? If they are the business has
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by dash2 7mo ago
What are the equivalents to "you're absolutely right" or "it's not X. It's Y." for vibe-coded apps? I think: verbose design with lots of subtitles; lots of boasting; and a particular visual style.
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by dash2 7mo ago
So for example "shows signs of someone that has had at least one stroke so far" sounds like the kind of "information" that has not yet made it into a mainstream news outlet, probably for good reason. And indeed when I se
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by dash2 7mo ago
Surely a big point of sport is to get young people to do healthy, character-building team activities. That requires sporting heroes they can look up to, rather than cheats who will throw a game for money.
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by dash2 7mo ago
An argument not mentioned here and which I didn’t appreciate until I actually took part in these markets myself, is that you need a supply of stupid/uninformed people to take the other side of the informed people’s bets.(In economic

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