skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scott Alexander of Slatestarcodex provided some anecdotal evidence of this issue last year:

> Last month I moved into a small cottage behind a big group house. The cottage is lovely. The big group house is also lovely, but the people in it started suffering mysterious minor ailments. Headaches, fatigue, poor sleep – all the things that will make your local family doctor say “Take two placebo and call me in the morning”. Using my years of medical training and expertise, I was able to…remain completely unaware of the problem while my housemates solved it themselves.

> Aware of this research, my housemates tested their air quality and got levels between 1000 and 3000 ppm, around the level of the worst high-CO2 conditions in the studies. They started leaving their windows open and buying industrial quantities of succulent plants, and the problems mostly disappeared. Since then they’ve spread the word to other people we know afflicted with mysterious fatigue, some of whom have also noticed positive results.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/08/23/carbon-dioxide-an-open...
From the perspective of a potential employee, taking a job in a lower paid part of the country seems like a bad idea. You would generally be giving up some quality of life and neither debt nor savings care about cost of living.

Although maybe it would work if some of the second tier cities agreed to pay off the debt and contribute to the savings of people that agree to work there.
To all of you worried that it will work and that China will take the lead: it doesn't matter. What matters is that once someone shows it can be done there will be a race on to copy the feat and that race won't be too long without other winners. The same thing has happened with every other key technology that might give a nation a head start in the military domain, and this definitely is one like that.

Simply knowing that something is possible is often enough to remove the political and mental roadblocks required to see it through.
The problem is getting paid in common stock.
A pay cut is money that, instead of making, the employee is investing in the early-stage startup. That's no different than the money the investor is putting in.

Employees should get preferred stock in the amount of their pay cut.
> It's not only ok to commit to beliefs that cannot be proven scientifically, it is necessary.

Exactly, most people never realize this because they're so used to nonsense like gods and such. There is an infinite number of assertions that cannot be proved or disproved, it doesn't mean that I have any reason to be agnostic about them.
“ We’re not going to give the whole game away” so security through obscurity. Trust us, if we say crypto three times it must be secure, crypto, crypto, crypto!
> Moreover, at a time when our world, the real world, faces serious problems, dwelling on multiverses strikes me as escapism—akin to billionaires fantasizing about colonizing Mars. Shouldn’t scientists do something more productive with their time?

Couldn't you say the same about the author of the article himself? Why is he whining about scientists investigating the multiverse theory rather than doing something more productive with his time? What real world problem was solved with his article? If multiverse theory is escapism, then what the author is doing is a worse form of escapism.
Local populations AND the underclass. It's not like the entire population of the United Kingdom benefited from the largess of the Empire — the benefits accrued to the wealthy and the Monarchy.

What happens when you move there and some local strongman with the most weapons decides he needs slaves? Government exists because the majority of people got tired of being hassled by warlords, and they got banded together to create and enforce laws they could all abide by or one warlord was able to create a stable coalition for a time by taking responsibility for the justice of the land.

Why would anyone in their right mind, other than a warlord-wannabe billionaire, assent to this idea?
I've been looking for similar tools for Windows and found that combination of voidtools' Everything + Wox works nicely for me.
I don't really understand what the problem is if it's not testable.

Many of the greatest scientific discoveries were not testable until decades later.

Would you also have viewed Einstein as just a medieval philosopher back in his day ?
Even if they do you can also vote in someone next time to restore your benefits. I'd rather have an option on an indefinite benefit vs a fixed one.
I never liked the magnifying glass method. I don’t need to zoom in, I just need to put my finger somewhere other than directly on top of the text I’m trying to edit (the “pick up” method does succeed at this, although it’s not immediately intuitive). So from my perspective, I lost one subpar method and gained two slightly less subpar methods.
It would be nice if their API provided endpoints for Spotify for Artists. There is a lot of opportunity there to make apps that support musicians and labels.
This can't be true.

I just went through a 2 day required training as a new manager. This is required training that has to be done within the first 6 months of you becoming a manager.

This has been a requirement for many years.

Source: I'm a googler

Edit: just to add, the same training is required for TLMs. The moment you get a direct report the training becomes mandatory. I suspect there must be some miscommunication from the folks you spoke with.
> Unless I am going crazy, the (2015) wasn’t there originally.

Quite possibly, it's often added later.
I do actually wait for a little smoke. It's a very consistent measurement of pan temperature.

If I choose a 450F smoke point fat, like canola oil, I know that the pan is 450F when it starts to smoke.

I got the reaction wrong earlier, mallard is 300F or so. Caramelization is 400F
I use them in design of safety critical code in industry.

Surprisingly, they only recently start gaining more popularity in this field, that I see.
Please do. I honestly want to hear. I am debating whether to join a startup again for my next job or just crank Leetcode and go FAANG and stay for the rest of my life there.
I'm curious, when you say AI, what do you mean?

To me AI is machine learning. And the US is leading in that area, the forefront of which seems to be self driving technology.

Are there specific examples of cutting edge machine learning where China excels?

My understanding is they have IMPLEMENTED machine learning in an authoritarian type of way. But this implementation isn't innovative. There's no underlying tech improvement. Just the application of existing technology in a terrible way. We have the same face tracking, gait tracking tech. We just don't apply it en mass because of pesky human rights and such.
Hmmm. Now where have I heard that kind of talk before?

Oh yeah. "Safe, clean, too cheap to meter."
This looks pretty awesome, Boris and Crispin! I know this is a space with a lot of movement right now. How do you compare to a service like Tupal?
> ...should be absolutely riddled with errors.

Same applies to code in an interview; it should have syntax, efficiency, correctness errors and more.
Hyperbole BSD ?
Trivially fixable even in that fairly inexcusable case: add an override button.

"by overriding you accept that this photo may ultimately be rejected for passport use."
I think databricks and Apache Spark are probably the most successful at this. An open-source project, whose maintainers offer a hosted/managed version.
Albert, maybe?

https://albertlauncher.github.io/
> China seems to be much less luddite in this field

If by "luddite" you mean "not building more reactors due to worries about cost and safety", then not really.

"though reactors begun several years ago are still coming online, the industry has not broken ground on a new plant in China since late 2016, according to a recent World Nuclear Industry Status Report."

"The 2011 meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant shocked Chinese officials and made a strong impression on many Chinese citizens. A government survey in August 2017 found that only 40% of the public supported nuclear power development."

"Within days of Fukushima, nuclear reactor construction in China was frozen. When building resumed months later, after a wave of inspections, Beijing insisted that future nuclear power projects adopt more advanced designs with extra safety features."

"The bigger problem is financial. Reactors built with extra safety features and more robust cooling systems to avoid a Fukushima-like disaster are expensive, while the costs of wind and solar power continue to plummet: they are now 20% cheaper than electricity from new nuclear plants in China, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Moreover, high construction costs make nuclear a risky investment."

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612564/chinas-losing-its-...
Wow, you're principled.
i had thought of using simulated annealing for a meme-based social sharing platform around 2014.the idea was after "cooling" to a point it would be removed from the stack. honestly i never developed it past that line of thought.
The other side of this coin is it not good enough to just identify problems.

There is also the need for an organisation wide culture built on processes, procedures and channels that then enables the company to quickly and efficiently find solutions to these kind of problems.

When a company for a long time has being building a culture of ignoring problems, the effort required to rebuild that problem solving culture is massive.

It is not helped by the fact that the individuals holding the power at the different levels within the organisation tend to be the ones who oversaw the demise of that engineering culture in the first place.
> I sure dislike authoritarianism, but on this one I think everyone's interest are aligned

This is a dangerous misreading. In environments without rule of law, you end up with constant redistribution of common goods based on personal political favor, leading to various roads fo nowhere.

It relies on the top person having a good sense for what to do, instead of institution building so that we can continue moving forward after the current generation of leaders has passed.

The main thing is resources are made available because everyone wants a great works project associated to their name. It’s good for large research projects like this, but it’s not a permanent interest alignment.
having nuclear fusion available will be good in the long term because it's a clean source of energy, it won't magically give China superpowers. We already have very simple means to give anyone access to abundant energy, ordinary coal and gas plants work just fine in that regard.
What does the idea of the multiverse bring to the table?
That is a fair comment, I may have been a bit too broad in my usage of the term journalism.

I mean the industry rather than the individual journalists - which would included whoever came up with the headline - but I appreciate I may have used the wrong term to do so.
I use dmenu: https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/
Wind and solar don't deal with peak energy use.

See Germany vs France as an example.
> Also, UHT milk has a long shelf life and is not unhealthy, although it tastes awful.

Sure you're not getting it confused with evaporated milk? UHT milk doesn't taste much different at all, maybe the slightest caramel flavor.

I swapped to it when I got tired of running out of milk at random, now I can just stock the pantry and always grab a spare when I kick the one in the fridge.
Congrats dude! All salary or salary and equity?
Incorrect, phenomena that cannot be explained by current theories is already a kind of experiment. Relativity was developed to explain unexplained, observed phenomena. It was not a purely speculative endeavor.
First off, you are overestimating the extent to which the Chinese government 'screens' the publications and communications of its scientists greatly. A lot of papers have been published during development of this particular reactor for instance.

Research tends to be so international these days that the chances of any country keeping significant breakthroughs to themselves are pretty slim. Scientists from countless nations are working on ITER and pooling their knowledge.

The only way to keep these things under wraps is if you were running it as some kind of top secret project from the start and poured billions into it. And then you'd still be operating at a disadvantage because you can't bring in outside expertise. Considering the scale needed for serious Tokamaks (and not just small research models) and also the history of the field, I have a hard time imagining a scenario where such a thing would be kept under wraps.

Fusion research is really an international community. There's not much "they" to point your finger at.
Strictly speaking, an acronym (in Russian).
> I will view discussions of the multiverse as akin to medieval philosophers discussing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

Interestingly, this is almost certainly anti-catholic protestant agitprop that lost context.

As such, the question never seems to have been asked; similar questions of extreme minutae were widely parodied but were probably never a matter of actual debate or discussion by scholastics.
The paper:

"The Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations Project. I. USNO Objects Missing in Modern Sky Surveys and Follow-up Observations of a "Missing Star"" Beatriz Villarroel et al 2019 December 12,
The Astronomical Journal, Volume 159, Number 1

https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab570f
This - although easier said than done in a liberal democracy.
I'm not dismissing the other points, I'm just discussing this one. I don't even use redis.
Design System teams need to stay busy after they exhausted the 17 different ways to redesign a toast notification that still only serves 10% of the product needs, and management needs a roadmap for next year.
Or GGC:

https://panampost.com/adriana-peralta/2014/09/04/galts-gulch...
Because it hasn't historically worked that way.

This isn't a first to market huge advantage. Developing the plants is slow (many years) and the lag between super powers in cracking tech is generally only a couple of years (see space programs/nuclear energy programs)

It's playing into divisive tribal thinking, when this is literally objectively good for everyone on the planet.
Yeah but it's a discussion about the public seeing spooky strange aircraft and calling in UFO reports, so considering pre-production aircraft seems obvious.
Let's say you get sick. So you get in your car and drive to what Google maps says is the nearest hospital. You arrive, and people dressed as nurses and doctors are bustling about. They check you in, perform some tests, give you some medicine, and you pay before you leave. The medicine sort of works you think, and with time you get better.

A week later you find out that the hospital was actually run by people that had little formal training as doctors. Some took a few classes on Coursera or first aid training, but none really devoted themselves to the profession beyond a cursory level. But they seemed so professional you think, but then again without medical knowledge how would you know? On top of that you find they've been using their position to influence medical opinions behind the hospital, gain fame, and earn large sums of money from desperate people looking to be healed. Sure, they inadvertently cure some people, and others just got better due to time.

To me this is like Ram Dass and so many other gurus. Their lies are layered under the façade they present and under the ideas they explain, most often poorly and without context. They may inadvertently help people, but just as much they are preying on those desperate for answers and help. They are unqualified scam artists who know just enough to be dangerous. The lie is embodied in who they purport to be and in the help they try to provide.
> That's a bit of an overstatement.

After reading few books from the period and later ones by Nathaniel Hawthorne, I don't think so.

> I expect if that were true, people wouldn't have kept on coming.

The people coming could have incomplete or incorrect information. Communication was slow back then. Separating fact from falsehoods about the New World would have been a crapshoot at best.

Even an entirely country got it wrong. Scotland bankrupted itself on the Darien scheme.
Lizard-Like Fossil May Represent 306M-Year-Old Evidence of Parenting
The New, Self-Appointed MOOC Accreditors: Google and Instagram (2015)
Briefly to begin, I'm going to read the above extremely uncharitably, not in an effort to besmirch aeternum but instead to try and tear down some terrible guidelines about life choices that I've seen going around.

Here follows my translation of the advice above:

> Yes you will probably make more at an established company, but your rate of growth can be much higher at a startup.

You'd personally benefit more from working at an established company, but if you work for a startup you'll be trained on the cheap and then an established company can reap more profits from you.

> I worked at a large tech company for 3 years before joining a startup, and learned more in the first month at the startup than the full 3 years at the large tech company.

The comfort of a large tech company is nothing compared to the stress filled life of working at a startup, having to constantly innovate on your toes and learn your own ways will push you to develop faster - but if you hit a wall you're truly hooped.

> I was able to design and implement a service in a matter of days, whereas at the large tech company those 3 days would easily spent convincing people that the service is needed in the first place.

I saw a need and dedicated some days of labour to filling that need, because it was a valid need I was praised, if it hadn't sold I'd be chewed out for wasting time - and there is no guidance on which needs might be helpful or not... Within a startup you'll be expected to do user surveys and then market your new product even though no time is formally afforded for either.

> Direct exposure to customers also is really interesting and changes you as an engineer.

I assume when you decided to become a software dev you really meant UX designer? If your perfect world is being given a task to do and doing it accurately to a high level of perfection then have fun trying to quickly adapt your highly designed system to literally contradictory client requests coming from the same customer.

> It's definitely a no guardrail environment, in the early days we had a bug that directly cost us a large customer pilot. No better teacher than experience, we did not make that mistake twice.

Losing your shirt trying to make your day job not collapse and then being excluded from any of the benefits when your company goes public is character building.
No disrespect but I think what the people use the product for should be mentioned ... in addition to the number of people using the product. The world has a lot of problems right now. I know there’s some VC in those areas but, well, look at what we talk about.

Touch 20 lives as a teacher and enrich those individuals, or 20 million lives by helping them order groceries over the internet.
Nice! The documentation looks thorough and I appreciate how you've designed the module. Great example of what a good NPM module should look like. :-)
Interesting that Google don't see this as fixable.

I'm surprised it can't be addressed. Is being able to modify the referrer location that difficult to lock in various ways?
Must've been a lot of work. I considered writing a library for the Web API in Swift, but there's just too much maintenance. There were also some weird bugs I encountered when parsing JSON like the time stamps being in the wrong format.
Salt is one of those weird things. The salt studies were years ago, mostly, and haven't fully been redone with modern standards.

It isn't that they were fully wrong, but it doesn't always have the ills one is warned about and the amounts of "healthy" salt might vary. Some of those folks with high blood pressure will be helped by a lower salt diet: Some will not and I'm not sure if there are consistent links saying it causes high blood pressure in healthy folks with normal blood pressure. The rest of the folks with high blood pressure aren't always helped - probably because there is more than one path to high blood pressure. Genetics, medicines, smoking, diet, lack of exercise, weight, and so on.

Even in this subset, these meats aren't universally bad. If your salted meat is a smallish portion of your diet and you use comparatively little salt in the rest of your food, you might be just fine. It isn't that one thing is salty, but that the overall diet isn't too high in salt.
I have been starting on the road to putting all of my transactions into beancount, pulled ofx data for chase and scraped pdfs for another bank account.

The idea of keeping records of everything is satisfying, but still need to do it.

Could you give me some details about how you started? I've glossed over the docs once, but hopefully I can just import everything, name it properly, and view it on Fava.

Is it possible to automatically generate tax documents?
Good to know. Hopefully it works now.
Maybe keep an eye on the The Open Book Project [1] which is attempting to create an open-hardware eBook reader.

[1] https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book
>First, be smart. Very very smart. And be able to demonstrate your smartness at the drop of a hat under stressful conditions.

Sounds like this is not possible without years of exposure to events that force you to this situation. How else would you learn to act like that?

Regarding being "smart": How do you define this? For example, I got a CS degree from a second tier Engineering school. But I was a B-/C+ student. Do I meet the criteria for being "smart" or just lazy?

>Second, attend a top tier "name" university like MIT, Stanford or Carnegie Mellon and major in a related discipline.

Is this a hard requirement? What do these schools do that others don't? Is the exposure to other top tier people a necessary requirement from a skills perspective?

>Third, do some side work in your chosen field that can be shown off to prospective employers.

How do you choose a field that leads to the original goal: "the very good engineers, the ones who could truly help build a tech company from the ground up from day 1, were getting offers so exorbitant they could not possibly fathom to turn them down."

Tech is such a diverse field. There are so many paths to take, none of which guarantee I will reach this outcome. I could become a rock star developer having developed tons of apps, but is that the right path? Or will it lead me to a cubicle job?

>Fourth, learn how to present yourself well (for interviews and such).

This seems like just a lot of practice. Maybe even requiring growing up in a very socially active lifestyle. The opposite for people who sacrifice everything to become great at something eg. programming.

Its looking as if you need to be in a narrowly defined path that needs to either be decided when you are born or you adopt very quickly at a young age in order to accomplish all your steps.
$220k cash, $200k equity (or whatever it’s worth in 12 months!)
I think jqbx.fm is what you’re looking for. Only works with Spotify Premium from what I’m aware though.
> The real substance is — how the fuck did he meet Peter Thiel at 23, and how can somebody recreate that?

He kinda answers that fairly early on:

"I'd just graduated in 2003, and my friends were starting a company with Peter Thiel. They flew me down to have dinner with Peter."

So to get rich, all you need to do is come from enough privilege that you graduate well connected with rich friends...

Sounds like your story supports that too - if you didn't connect with rich people in school, meeting (and becoming friends with them) at startups is a reasonable second alternative.