skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have phasers with enough power to boil the oceans of a planet, and torpedoes that can travel faster than light. Yet every conflict takes place at extremely close proximity, often on the same plane, as if they were ships in the age of sail.

They have force fields with a critical flaw (harmonic resonance means any energy weapon using the same frequency as the shields can just shoot right through them) but whenever this is even mentioned, the shields have to be re-adjusted manually.

Unauthorized people can appear on the ship, and crew can vanish from the ship, and the computer either doesn't notice, or does and never alerts anyone or activates any sort of countermeasures. The first officer can be sucked into a pocket universe and have his organs rearranged by non-Euclidean bug monsters and no one will ever know unless they happen to ask the computer where Riker is at the moment.

It's been established that transporter buffers can be used to "back up" a person, even long term (in the TNG episode "Relics," Scotty is discovered having stored himself in a transporter buffer for decades with no ill effect.)

Replicators can't do latinum and living tissue, but they work by literally converting energy into matter and assembling it into something atom by atom. At that resolution, there's no difference between anything and anything else, so there's no reason why replicators shouldn't be able to replicate anything.

The former two items, along with the holodeck (which can create sentient life on request, BTW) should guarantee that no Federation citizen ever truly ages or dies, or even ever has to exist in a physical body. The Federation should be a post-human, post-singularity society. Yet for "plot reasons," none of these glitches (like the transporters being able to clone people simply by refracting the transporter beam) are ever harnessed for their real potential.
In a world of perfect information things would be different. If a consumer knew before purchase that a car was going to die shortly after the warranty ends, they wouldn’t have much of a case.

But if Tesla cheaps out on critical items, thus dooming a car to that scenario, and a consumer can’t know that, it introduces a different legal dynamic.

(Disclaimer: IANAL.)
Great discussion. My favorite definition of energy is that it is a replacement for the labor and time of human beings. Energy gives us freedom to choose how to live our lives because it does stuff for us that we don't want to do. This is why so few of us are farmers. Energy leads very directly to high quality of life.

As such, per capita energy usage isn't just linked to GDP, but also to Human Development Index (a composite index to quantify quality of life that includes GDP).

Here's what HDI vs. per capital electricity usage looks like: https://i.imgur.com/8otdGxP.jpg

Bubble size is proportional to population. While correlation does not imply causation, it's quite clear that as quality of life improves, so does energy usage, to a point.

The striking thing is the knee. The knee is mentioned in the parent article from a GDP point of view but I think that's only part of the story. On the low-energy side, you can see that a little bit of energy can dramatically improve your quality of life. At the very low end is where people are cooking with indoor stoves and dying to the tune of 3.8 million per year from indoor air pollution.

Then you see for places like the USA, we could cut our per capita energy usage in half and probably not be affected from a quality of life standpoint. We're saturated.

There is a worldwide moral imperative to increase per capita energy usage of people at the low end of this curve for quality of life reasons. They deserve the ability to choose how they spend their time. Doing so requires about a 2-4x increase in total world energy production.

Energy sources that can enable that kind of gain without causing more air pollution deaths and without causing climate change are well-known. Here they are as a function of carbon emissions (equivalent) per kWh generated: https://i.imgur.com/8LQFVMO.png
cojones* "cajones" means "drawers"

Entirely depends on your field and location. You could make 80k in google france or 200k+ in SV for the same position.
Also his whole course on climate change on youtube. I'd never imagined JMJ linked here.
There's no legal basis for the shareholders to insist on maximizing ROI: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/06/26/the-shareholder-v...
Parent is probably referring to "shrinkflation": rather than charge 10% more for a box of cereal, make it 10% smaller for the same price. Or otherwise reduce the cost of inputs.

> volatility

Definitely worth having a discussion on this, although we need to define the reference period - volatility was high in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Arguably it was only low in the ""end of history"" period between the fall of the Berlin wall and the 2008 crisis.
I think this is an important point. I am reposting it here since it is at the bottom of the page and we don’t always get there.

> And so, maybe the majority of people wouldn’t even want SafeBrowsing-style blacklists of fake news sites or verification badges on legitimate journalist-vetted news articles, because they’re not reading the news to learn the truth - they’re reading the news to validate and spread their existing worldviews.

>Effectively this means that any technological solution to the information apocalypse depends on a social/behavioral solution: people need to welcome cognitive dissonance into their online spaces instead of shunning it. But it sounds almost ridiculous to suggest that shares/likes/retweets should be based on factual accuracy, not emotions. That’s not how social media works.
I'm truly not trying to be dense, but the "Big Lie" (according to Hitler) is something allegedly perpetrated by the Jews against Germany's military, by "blaming" it for the downfall of the nation. "The lie" to what you seem to be referring to doesn't seem to be the the "Big Lie" itself but simply antisemitism ("the Jews are to blame"). These are separate things. It requires antisemitism to believe the Big Lie exists and is perpetrated by "the Jews".

From Wikipedia:

> "Hitler believed the technique [i.e. the Big Lie] was used by Jews to blame Germany's loss in World War I on German general Erich Ludendorff, who was a prominent nationalist and antisemitic political leader in the Weimar Republic."

Maybe we're in violent agreement and I simply misunderstood what you're saying :)

edit: to clarify what I'm saying, there are two uses of "Big Lie" at play:

1- The narrative of "The Big Lie", the alleged lie "denounced" by Hitler. This was of course not a real thing, and Hitler made it up while looking for scapegoats and using antisemitism to blame the Jews.

2- The creation of the "Big Lie" itself by Hitler. This is a real thing, but we have a simple word for it: an antisemitic lie.
Yoast has always been one of the most nagging distributors/creators. They have always been obtrusive to the max, but this really tops it.
> a digital ledger that can be instantly and transparently updated.

If it's "instantly" it means PoW is useless, and this thing is just a marketing stunt. Who would have thought.
The companies that do exhibit social and environmental responsibility rarely make it into the news, since they don’t support the daily need for outrage or the narrative that Corporations Are Evil. It’s mere selection bias.
Running the Guix System on an ARM Board
Be aware that repository has 0 (zero) contributors on Github.
I think "everyone must pay" is even more politically infeasible than setting the tax at 5%, sadly.
To some extent, I'm no longer curious about "leadership" ideas about organisational culture.

I understand that culture counts for a lot, but modern organisational cultures are getting complaints that "leadership" is not going to solve at scale.

Maybe motivation/attitudes can be improved and a naval hierarchy can work better, but this is not the typical issue in corporate culture.

I'm curious about structural answers. A lot of culture comes down to how success and failure work. If a company culture is bad at risk-taking and internal entrepreneurship, a "culture of openness" can't fix it.

To get genuinely failure tolerant and opportunity seeking, organisations need to structure for successes and failures.

How are resources really allocated in the company? How are successes and failures really determined and what are the real ramifications.

So... (a) organisations need some formal/mechanical processes governing the pertinent decisions: resources and goals. Formal processes can be examined more honestly and biased to (or against) risk.

(b) If you really opportunity-seeking, risk taking culture... then you need "money-where-mouth-is" mechanics. It doesn't need to be fully "market-based," but someone needs to be throwing themselves behind opportunities because they think that they'll be successful.

The problem that runs through both Google (eg) and the naval ship is a culture of "do enough, and no more." The solution is usually to raise the "enough" bar somehow... motivation, discipline. That works when what you want from employ/organisations is "enough."

If you want more than enough, I think the structure needs to change.
Most people won’t get jobs using Excel — the impetus seemed to be personal use, like budgeting or organizing a project. If you can use one spreadsheet app you’ll probably have an easier time figuring out another.
I'm sorry, but this a debunked myth – you need to take into account all the material flows, not just import of goods. There's actually no decoupling going on. See the following article: https://www.pnas.org/content/112/20/6271
Guix and Elm
Maybe explain how it fits. All the books I mentioned were written about these people running or being placed at a high level in these organizations and making decisions which had a substantial impact on them.

Does Scott Adams cover this in his book or did he largely work solo?
> On the other hand, they quickly responded by removing the ad and apologizing publicly.

I hate this. It's about testing the waters, seeing with what you can get away and how loud the users will cry. Nothing about this was happened without a reason.

Automattic should just outright ban plugins that are using dark UI patterns like this.
Canada, New Zealand, Singapore
For me AoC was perfect while learning a bit of Rust last year, but tread carefully if you want to have 2 mutable references to the same value like a circular or doubly linked list.

Good luck and have fun with it!
They will still earn the same number of Galleons each year though, so GDP stays the same.
Daimler to ax 10k jobs in latest industry cuts
Perhaps this can be rationalized from a Bayesian context. Unless your prior is that you're 100% sure of something (which no one is) and you don't completely ignore what other people say, your posterior will eventually shift to the opposite side.
There is already free course materials https://www.bootstrapworld.org and no access to a computer needed, which is usually impossible for schools to spend money on/have decent internet. Bootstrap does things like secretly teach calculus when students have to keep track of events in a game, and it's backed by statistical research so has proven results instead of just winging it and discovering your curriculum has failed half the students.

Brian Kernighan also has a book https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691176543/un... which covers all modern communications tech from the ground up he teaches at Princeton in a class that any highschool kid could follow but then you'd need to buy the books, unless you can work out some kind of educator's deal with Princeton to hand out copies.

Edit: this is what the course looks like https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall18/cos109/ and if you want a book sample see the library genesis pdf, it's probably exactly what you're looking for just not nearly as rigorous as Bootstrap curriculum.
> you’d all be waiting for your promotion at the power plant when someone dies and frees up a position for you.

I already am.

I've been at my job for 13 and a half years, I"ve moved up exactly 0 times. Someone has to quit/retire, get fired or die to free up positions and even then you only have 2 jumps until you're manager, from there you only move up to senior manager and then you're into corporate level positions. My senior manager has been here for the better part of 30 years and probably has another 15-20 in her at which time she'll almost certainly be replaced by someone from another office in another state as her boss's position was when she retired a few years ago (her direct reports were just given to someone already in a similar position in another state).
> However, after reading this, it is unclear to me whether mathematical correctness is regarded in the Rust project as an explicit goal, an explicit non-goal or an unessential nice-to-have. (I do not mean to insinuate anything with the word "unclear", as I believe all three options are valid and appeal to different use cases.)

It's a balance. We cannot drop everything, nor stop all development, in order to get proofs. However, we are actively working toward formalizing the language itself, because we do see value in it.
Output stored with input is precisely the problem for version control. Not only committing generated content but generated content mixed with source code.
Nice summary of Malcolm Gladwell's work. Weirdly uncredited.
> NNs are currently at a similar point as where physics was before Newton and before calculus.

I'm more inclined to compare with the era after Newton and Leibniz, but prior to the development of rigorous analysis. If you look at this time period, the analogy fits a bit better IMO -- you have a proliferation of people using calculus techniques to great advantage for solving practical problems, but no real foundations propping the whole thing up (e.g., no definition of a limit, continuity, notions of how to deal with infinite series, etc.).
This results in a dragon vs. RAF Tornado dogfight. He got an ex-RAF chap to consult on the technical detail too.
I doubt they're doing the interview because the FTC made them.
reader mode in firefox works and has the advantage of getting rid of lots of other crap as well. (Its the little "page" icon at the right of the address bar).
Since we're not compiling Ruby into JS (I think Opal/Hyperstack does this) debugging can be done using the Vue Dev Tools in the browser, so you're not worse off there.

Most basic use cases (show/hide/rerender on event, deferred loading, onclick...) are part of the Matestack core and have good test coverage. For special use cases there's a guide on creating custom dynamic components, but yeah we could add some more info on debugging I guess.
Not sure if my comment helped?
BountySource campaign to modernize the AVR back end in GCC
That will probably mean some industries would disappear, if they can't innovate their way out of their externalities.
This is a BountySource campaign I created that aims at funding the work on the AVR backend in GCC so it can be converted from the cc0 to the MODE_CC register representation similar to the m68k backend.

Without this conversion work, the AVR backend would be removed in the GCC-11 development cycle.

Relevant links:

* m68k campaign: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/80706251-m68k-convert-th...

* GCC bug report: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=92729

* GCC wiki on cc0 transition: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CC0Transition

* Deprecation notice for cc0: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2019-09/msg01256.html

If you are interested in keeping the AVR backend in GCC-11 and beyond, please consider supporting this campaign with a one-time donation.
> Most people working in offices today effectively wouldn't have to commute but they still do because employers require them to do so, basically because "that's the way it's always been".

It is not just the employers — I’ve worked with many people that think nothing of commuting an hour to work ONE WAY (in their pickup trucks and SUVs no less), even when living closer to work is a perfectly valid option (this is particularly true in the large Texas cities that have a huge amount of suburban sprawl).
When the job is actively hurting you, that may well be the best thing to do. A middle road might be to take some vacation. (Though assuming this is even an option might be very European of me.) Or call in sick. (But again, European.)
I like Mac OS, and get really frustrated when doing development on Windows machines. All the toolsets that are available on Linux are also available on Mac, which is a huge convenience when switching environments (e.g. from a mac terminal session to a linux one). Mac OS gui is pretty slick (e.g. its file-rename is pretty slick), and for their laptops, their trackpad is best in class, still; but I get pretty irritated at (1) the cost of Mac products (2) the constant OS churn which makes my old applications no longer work and which inevitably slow older machines to a crawl. What has prevented me, among other things, from just going fully Linux, is the ability to install certain common consumer products with minimal hassle.
Typesafe bitcoind RPC client written in and to be used with Scala 2.12
This book explained a lot about a boss of mine. Ex-military, tried to run our department like a battalion, took pride in "battlefield repairs" of code, never let anyone think for themselves or contribute.

Only communicating through superiors...Micromanaging at its best, it was an all-out terrible way of doing things.
Totally reasonable stance, in my opinion, since Rust moves quickly and formalizing things takes time. But what is the stance on soundness bugs? Are they sometimes acceptable as permanent parts of the language, or is it a goal to eventually fix any soundness bugs that show up?
Go by community. Home assistant is absolutely fantastic.
> and send them to "censored" people you will be caught immediately and possibly punished.

Nope! There are many people that are censored which have broken no laws, have not been charged with any crimes, and yet the banking system tries to block their payments anyway.

By making the transaction on the blockchain, PayPal, who whoever, can't just decide, on a whim to block your transactions arbitrarily, even though no law has been broken.

An example that comes to mind is WikiLeaks. There was a time when donations to WikiLeaks were blocked, through the credit card system, even though they were not charged with any crimes.

Yet the Bitcoin transactions succeeded, and nobody was sent to jail for donating to WikiLeaks.

Financial censorship is something that is often done even though people have broken no laws, and the act of the financial censorship itself is actually the illegal action.

This has nothing to do with people breaking laws. The most common financial censorship is done, arbitrarily, to people who have not broken any laws, have not been charged with any crime, and who will never been able to defend themselves in a court.

Stopping this kind of financial censorship, is extremely valuable.
Do you need the data to be anonymized or just de-identified?

I know this won't sit well with privacy minded folks, but if you just need the data de-identified and not anonymized, you could pick the fields that might contain sensitive data and do a character for character swap. This way you retain the information without storing the personal information in a raw form.
They are friendlies: the Witch King thinks the ghosts are reinforcements because they are flying Mordor flags. When they disembark the ruse is revealed too late.
I use "she" when I don't know the gender or "preferred pronoun" of a person in question. Is that bad? It was suggested to me as "polite" by some Cambridge graduates.
Machine learning vs. deep learning- 5 major differences
yeah we traded analog wear for bit rot. There's hope though, maybe computer-like standardization will emerge, making part and diagnosis cost lower.
I do too, but after the text pops up and I start reading it, I'm in some kind of (non-paywall) photo album about the people involved, I haven't clicked on anything, I'm just trying to read.
Maybe "black and white thinking" is what's being described.
Absolutely, that is the job of journalists.

But if we face an information apocalypse, it's because many people can't distinguish between good and bad journalism. If the data journalists base their work on was open, I believe we could do better.

> If I read something from a source I don't know anything about, I must keep in mind that what I'm reading just might not be true.

Indeed, that's what you should do, given current constraints. You shouldn't verify by repeating the work the journalist did, because you'd never have time for anything else. But you shouldn't have to repeat it -- it could be available. They already did the work; all they'd need to do is encode it in a readable, searchable way.

Moreover such a system would let us leverage far more peoples' input. While the barriers for entry have fallen sharply, it's still hard to build a readership, because it takes a while to convince people to trust you. If it were easier to evaluate the output of budding bloggers, they wouldn't have to waste a decade shouting into the void before making a difference. (The death of local news is a big problem. This might help, among other problems, that one.)

And, hopefully, through the same mechanism, it would become harder for a propoganda outlet to establish themselves.
For Intel, one part of the UEFI BIOS is the MRC- Memory Reference Code. There are POST codes related to this that you can find. This code performs the DDR3 / DDR4 initial calibration described in the article. There is "rank margin test" mode for it, to determine the eye width for each pin. To validate a population of DIMMs, this code should be run over temperature.
Isn't all fiat money magic in that way?
It does say at the top "originally written in 1998" and it was basically amended over time, but regardless I still love learning about "historical" views.

Example: A textbook from '95 had a pretty large section on "the future" of ECC and "current" trends in research. It was interesting seeing what came true, or what was still being worked on.
It'll compete with the failed central banks first, and considering the technology is young and shit right now, it's doing pretty good in places like Venezuela.
> "It is not a specific big lie, but a class of lies that exploit a certain mass naïveté."

At face value, yes. In practice the term is exclusively tied to Hitler's meaning, who coined the term. I'm not even sure if "Big Lie" has ever been used in another context, possibly because the term is a Nazi invention. To be clear, the "mass naïveté" of "The Big Lie" is (alleged by Hitler to be) the populace's, who "believed the Jews" when they claimed (always according to Hitler) that Germany's loss in WWI was to be blamed on Ludendorff. There is no other real-world usage of the term. And we know this Big Lie was itself a lie coined by Hitler, and this alleged conspiracy to exploit the mass naïveté of the people didn't actually exist.

From Wikipedia:

> "The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book Mein Kampf, about the use of a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously". Hitler believed the technique was used by Jews to blame Germany's loss in World War I on German general Erich Ludendorff, who was a prominent nationalist and antisemitic political leader in the Weimar Republic."

and

> "Jeffrey Herf maintains that Goebbels and the Nazis used the big lie to turn long-standing anti-semitism into mass murder. Herf argues that the big lie was a narrative of an innocent, besieged Germany striking back at an "international Jewry", which it said started World War I."

So Big Lie, as a term, is irrevocably linked to the Nazis as its main meaning, is not a "general fallacy", and in fact it could be argued it doesn't describe a fallacy at all, but is itself a fallacy devised by Hitler.