skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly - probability (and by extension, statements such as "more likely") only make sense when we have a reference class of similar events for which we have iterated trials (frequentism), or iterated trials we can reasonably hypothesize about (hypothetical frequentism).

Statistics and probability was not designed for one-off events with specious reference classes. The more speculative the reference class, the more we should doubt any claim of "more likely".

In the case of the Boltzmann brain, given we have no evidence of this ever occurring thus far, we can at very least claim it does not have a clear reference class that we can identify empirically.
The flip side of the coin is that women overwhelmingly prefer higher-paid, more successful, higher-status, equally-or-more-educated men as partners. Then the choice of who should stay at home is pretty obvious (or no choice but necessity brought to you by brutal economic reality).
They literally do this. Not with much precision but you just squeeze them and you can talk to the shop assistant or whoever and have a chat. Another squeeze and it’s all so calm again. I commute on London every day and I tell you I feel so much more relaxed with the noise cancelling on.
I don't think housing prices fit easily into generic-Democrats fault somehow. Which seems to be the main reason most people are moving out of the very expensive cities. Based on Bay Area vs Seattle vs Houston it seems to be mostly about do you build new buildings according to demand or not.
A lot of people can't tell the difference between fakes and the real thing. Sometimes it is obvious, heavy cotton shirts that feel thin to the touch. Other times it is not. Some overseas manufacturers will put corn starch in a shirt to make it feel thicker then it is. Wash it several times and the shirt feels thin.

Allowing counterfeits destroys the incentive for people to make quality products.

Why build a brand when someone will sell a fake for half the price and people will complain about it on your website?

Allowing a giant marketplace to willfully infringe products harms the market as a whole.
Wow, things are pretty bad when people are slinging bootleg toothpaste
Oo that's very good to know, thank you! I give it a 50% chance I try it out and hate it but very glad it's an option.
I've known a few women who had kids very young, and didn't get serious professionally until their kids were in school.

But the problem is that they ended up being single parents, at least for a while.
I like the direction .Net is attempting to go here: there is a foundation and if you want your project to be taken seriously, you should join it. You still get to maintain your project (mostly) the way you want to, but if you stop maintaining the project, the foundation will take over.

(.Net is probably not unique in this regard, but it's what I'm familiar with.)
> I can honestly say that one of the reasons people hop onto DO is due to those amazing tutorials and documentations.

Seconded.
> This "it's free so you get what you paid for, and if it's shit don't complain because it was free" really rubs me the wrong way. It's a very capitalist mindset that measures everything in money.

I mean like... yeah.

If I'm maintaining an open source project as a side gig or for fun, I might be able to review and merge some patches. But if the corporations that use my project submit a busload of PRs (or worse, just issues with no solutions) and I end up spending so much time on them that I have no time to work on my dayjob and make rent... that's not gonna work.

Now if those corporations each chuck a hundred bucks a month (less than the cost of a single Developer's Enterprise MSDN subscription) my way, then sure! I'll scale back my freelance web dev work and spend half my workweek dedicated to maintaining this project!

So yeah, I think the corporations who make money off open source projects should be kicking back a bit of money to those projects if they want an expectation of reliability. It doesn't have to be a ton of money either:

- If we're talking about a tiny header parsing library that needs occasional security patches, maybe expense a few bucks at the maintainer's Patreon so they can spend 10 hours a year on those patches.

- If we're talking about the web framework that underlies your big newspaper's CMS, maybe have a developer spend 20 hours a month pushing well made PRs to fix the problems you care about.

- If we're talking about an OS like Debian and you're AWS, maybe hire a 3 person team to work solely on keeping it secure.
Watching Ben Eater's videos renewed my interest in making some simple computers out of old hardware, mainly because the older hardware is simple enough that you can work with it on a breadboard.

The interest eventually morphed into doing something with all of the old parts I've hoarded. Going through the bins of parts, I've found things like 8051 microcontrollers (P80C550) and UARTs (AM85C30) and some old RTC units (MC146818). I ended up picking up a few 68010's (among other things) off of eBay with the hope of building a breadboard Linux computer, as slow as that may be. I believe the 68010 may be the only CPU in a DIP package still supported in some capacity by Linux (as long as you provide an MMU).

Hopefully this will actually get me back into writing/making videos about my projects.
Welp.

Time to close up shop folks, we didn't personally perform a deep security audit of every single open source project we depend on!
Not my experience, either. Not a large account by any means, and support is excellent, both from a technical and business point of view.

> people get wrongly banned from Google Cloud with no recourse all the time

[citation needed]

There have been a few isolated cases that generated a lot of bad PR. From what I've heard, there were significant changes in how abuse is handled to address the root cause.
This article argues that segregation is prevalent in Houston.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/...
How does your theory account for the 98% of men who are not top 2%?
I don't think there are any binary blobs in the normal atf+uboot+kernel boot path. The display will run without the mali, so. AFAIK it can be run entirely open source. There could be some additional hidden burned in place firmware to handle the early SPI/etc boot flow, but they actually document the cortex M0 mgmt processor as well. So that puts them ahead of basically everyone.

Not all the documentation is "good" the DDR controller registers are in the docs AFAIK, but lack a theory of operation section.

OTOH, there is example code in TFA for that, https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a.git/...

So, really as far as I know this is literally the most open A72 platform out there when it comes to docs you can get via google. The MALI being the problem, which means that one could consider one of the reverse engineered QC chips or the rpi better understood (because of the Adreno or vp9 efforts) but even then the documentation quality is worse.
It's right there in the article. You can't take a break from academia. Well, you can, but your career prospects suffer horribly. A quote: "Taking a year off during that critical 5 or 6 year period often means that the research “goes bad” ... You wind up needing to rebuild much more than just a year’s worth of effort."

Compare it with e.g. big tech - a hypothetical female PM who has just completed a big project can go off on a maternity leave and return to the memories of her success slightly faded, her contacts gone slightly cold, but otherwise she can start more or less where she left.
You’ve never met a doctor in his/her prime? Doctors are extremely overworked in their late 20s.
> Or we move 3,000 miles away to somewhere more economically prosperous (and also, more expensive) so the grandparent's couldn't financially make it viable to come with

Judging from my neighborhood at least, the answer to that seems to be the grandparents get a class A RV [1] or a large travel trailer [2] and move to their kid's lawn for a few months to help with the grandkids.

Probably only can reasonably work, though, if the kids wait until they have a home and decent sizes lawn to have kids of their own.

[1] https://www.fleetwoodrv.com/models/pace-arrow-1

[2] https://www.rvusa.com/rv-guide/specs-by-model-2019-heartland...
Is it possible to buy in bulk for education purposes?
>The cells that Tesla users for their battery packs are commodity products

Not in the volumes Tesla will require over the next decade. I have a hunch that every EV manufacturer that tries to get serious about volume production (> 1 million vehicles per year, say) will hit a brick wall of supply shortage. There either won't be enough cell production capacity available, or competing manufacturers will bid it up enough to seriously impact the profitability of the vehicles.

Until EVs are established as the obviously best alternative for most vehicles, global production capacity will lag to the degree that in-house battery cell production is a necessary strategic advantage.

Add that to the fact that the ~90% efficiency of electric drivetrains makes single-digit improvements in component properties hugely impactful on the economics of the final product, and battery cells seems like something that should mainly not be outsourced.
Yes, there are echoes of solipsism here, although the phrase 'quantum solipsism' has already been applied to something rather different.
Nothing on the front page either, maybe the post was deleted?
There is only 1 PCIe lane and it goes to the USB3 controller. Running from a SSD on USB3 isn't that bad, but they still haven't made default booting from USB possible yet.

I don't think RAM is an issue though. Performance seems to scale pretty much linearly with clockspeed improvements which indicates either the RAM timing is tied to the clockspeeds (seems unlikely) so bandwidth is increasing or it already has more than it can use. That said, rk3399 designs tend to get about 20% better performance (or around 1gb/s) on synthetics.

I'm surprised better IO doesn't exist on the chip if Broadcomm planned on selling it to other customers. I don't think a single SATA port would greatly increase costs, but would have a huge impact on performance.

As a final thought, they really need to consider mounting the RAM and CPU on the other side of the PCB. That would allow good cooling solutions that don't compromise the other board functionality.
It's specifically the fact that I can no longer consume whatever content I want.

By restricting subreddits to the app, I'm left to only engage with the front page which is a dumpster fire of political trolling and click bait. There are a few subreddits I'd still engage with but now that that is restricted I'm walking away.
Remember "The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21774299

This one, I saw also today ..

Institutions in the country introduced gender quotas for internal committees and boards in an effort to reduce bias during hiring and other inequalities, but such measures themselves are now being labelled potential hindrances to female progression because the roles cost women career-crucial research time.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/germany-mulls-extr...
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO

This is part of the MIT license. Many other open source and free software licenses contain the same thing. It's simple, people provide software they write in their free time or "sponsored" by their company, in return they get nothing and you should expect nothing more than the piece of code that gets published.

People have started assuming that free and open source software is not "true" open source if you don't build a community around your project, gain a following and can take advantage in it professionally somehow.

It's a shame, as it puts a lot of pressure on people, instead of all of us just sharing code because we love coding and want to share it with everyone who also loves it.
Not reading carefully the title might make one think that you are doing ML with Go which by the content of the article you are obviously not. This is almost click-bait.
I don't think I am "equivocating between disgust and lack of interest".

My motivating concern is universally dropping fertility and whether the reasons are disgust and disinterest, they both cash out the same way. No babies.

So, yes, they exist as two distinct categories, both inside a larger category. I'm talking about that larger category.

Let's imagine that people want to have sex, but they can't find the time in their busy lives. I would lump that in with disinterest. Now, whether you would or not is a discussion about your language preferences. You are entitled to language preferences, but I'm more interested in the slow suicide of everyone around me.

I find this slow suicide fascinating.

Maybe everyone is too busy arguing on the internet about what words mean to have children. That's weird and bad. That's a future we should avoid.
What is bizarre is pretending to understand what you read better than other people, while supporting your argument by directly contradicting what it actually says right there in black and white.
You are out of your mind for buying a carabiner from amazon (or any huge online retailer). Don't risk your life like this, please. The only big retailer I would buy from is REI, and probably in person. Most likely I'd go to an actual local climbing shop.
Sheesh.

This makes me happy about two things. One, that it's actually pretty hard to find much information about me on the net, and two, that I'm really, really happy that I don't use Airbnb.
Good point, this seems like a case of survivorship bias. However, I think it does seem to show some sort of upper bound on the
level and pervasiveness of sexism? That it's at least _possible_ for women to achieve at the highest level in these fields means sexism didn't stop everyone.
The way is see it is like the famous quote about cameras - the best one is the one you have with you.

I can always have my AirPods with me with no effort. They’re in my pocket with the same certainty as my keys, wallet and phone. Unlike headphones where I need to have a bag to carry them, and there’s enough power in the case to get me through most of the week.

That’s what I mean by all day long, not literally every hour of the day but whenever I want them, I’ve got them ready to go.
> The problem here was "too many people were jerks" not "you are too sensitive".

So what a solution would you suggest for such a problem? I believe it is more correct to say both are the problems. I have no idea what is possible to do with the jerks themselves but I know it is possible to become immune.

When there is a disease outbreak obviously the problem is the virus but we can't just make it disappear magically so we choose to address it's couple problem - our immunity weakness, we take a vaccine, teach our immune systems to detect the virus, become immune and keep on going.

I have never meant judging the Actix author for "being a pussy", I have proposed the only solution I could come up with.

In fact I have already met some people with alike problems personally, explained them the idea and in some days they thanked me for showing them another perspective which couldn't come to their minds. They didn't know they could just observe the others' behavior (as well as their own feelings) and consciously choose what to feel. Perhaps this might seem like bragging again but I prefer to take a risk of being judged this way for the chance of actually helping at least a portion of people who reads this.

When you have come through some problems successfully and developed a skill necessary, telling about that inevitably sounds like bragging, but IMHO keeping it for yourself (when it could help others) just because of being afraid of being shamed would be selfish.

Your mind is entirely yours, it's the only really private place and you don't have let anybody in to spread chaos there. Trolls want just that and you don't have to obey. It's a magical space free from the limitations of the material world, entirely under your own power, your intention alone is enough to do whatever you want there. If somebody attacks you physically you can't just ignore that, they will damage you anyway. If somebody attacks you verbally you can react by feeling something or nothing at all, all you need is to know you can (and be mindful of what's going on at the moment in the first place), much like Neo in the Matrix.
It doesn't need to actually be beneficial to be a reason people do it. As you can see from the replies, there's certainly a perceived benefit.
First and foremost, this is your time and you should use it how you see fit.

Here are some random suggestions:

- Solve algorithmic problems on Codewars or HackerRank

- Build an app on Python Anywhere (cloud9.io was a more convenient and versatile remote coding sandbox, but its UX has become much worse after they were acquired by AWS)

- Try to answer some questions on Stack Overflow

- Take a coding course on Codecademy

- Take a ML (or any other) course on Coursera

- Take a language course on Duolingo (you won't be able to do speaking exercises, but you'll still be able to learn)

- Write for your blog (on any platform that you can access - starting a site on your own domain is a good option because it will most likely not be blocked by your filters)

Some of these sites can be blocked on your machine, so choose what is available.
There's no reason to expect that your decisions would affect the next Boltzmann brain in the sequence, so there's still no need to put value of the Boltzmann brains' decisions. I don't think it makes sense to put more weight on the specific series of Boltzmann brains where the decisions seem to be followed by a subsequent Boltzmann brain than on the much more likely series of Boltzmann brains that just resemble your mental state but don't have any seemingly-causal relationships between each other.

If you're allowed to put more weight on specific extremely-improbable sequences of Boltzmann brains, then you can propose all sorts of nonsense scenarios like "Imagine the series of Boltzmann brains where if one thinks of a purple elephant, then the next Boltzmann brain experiences the subsequent thought but also a lot of pain. Should you avoid thinking of purple elephants because of the fact this unordered sequence will happen eventually in an infinite universe?".

I think in order to really reason about this sort of thing, you need to start considering theories of the universe like UDASSA (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20119513, http://fennetic.net/irc/finney.org/~hal/udassa/), which provides a framework for how we should expect to anticipate different events, and Boltzmann brains and especially specifically-selected sequences of Boltzmann brains have so little measure compared to other things including our human selves that they're not worth considering, even if their decisions actually did have a causal effect on some part of a world (which would also have minuscule measure compared to ours).
Quantity Time is Quality Time. Being there means a hell of a lot when it come to building deep-seated trust and understanding.
Not too sure about that.

From the articles I've read, it seems that the scale of this year's fire is partly due to the lack of controlled fires and clearing of accumulated dead plants over the recent past.

If so, this year's fires might actually be closer to what bushfires used to be before humans arrived in Australia. Though perhaps they occurred less often (many of the current fires probably have an human origin).

Regarding the risk of extinction of animal species, I think this is also because the range of these vulnerable species vastly shrunk because of humans, not necessarily because of the fires per se.
None of these things that people are saying are the feature I want. I want a volume slider.
Maintainer is a term of art that just means you’re the person in charge of the project.
IIRC Flipboard once tried this approach, rendering everything to a <canvas>. As it stands right now, that will never be a viable solution for the reasons you mentioned, along with the fact you throw literally all accessibility features out the window.
I feel like this is tangentially related: https://wiki.c2.com/?TheFiveMonkeys
Why is it not a Boltzmann rock, or a Boltzmann commemorative coin, or something else inanimate like that?

I thought the whole point was to give a simple metaphor for a measuring the probability that a mundane object came into being based on the widely accepted history of the universe that modern physics predicts. As opposed to just coming into its current state instantaneously based on extremely unlikely random events among its constituent atoms.

Or put differently (based on the Wikipedia article), if the math behind a modern physics theory means that it's more likely the given object's existence was due to random fluctuations then that's a strike against adoption of that theory.

But if you make the object of interest a brain you get all this bikeshedding about consciousness and how do the regular brains know they're not Boltzmann brains, etc.

It'd be like introducing me to your new programming language's syntax by showing me the code for a quine instead of "hello world." What is the value in doing such a thing?
> I say it this way because you talk about rationality "breaking down" as if it's some sort of default.

I'm sorry, can you please explain how you come to this conclusion based on what I wrote:

"however the part of it that has "rational debates" is not an intrinsic behavior. that part is based on cognitive skill which will perform to a greater or lesser extent based on current brain state."

I'm not really arguing with you, as your first point seemed to be some kind of "but what about...!" that didn't really negate what I was trying to say. However if you think I was saying something completely different, that would make more sense for whatever it is you're attempting to "argue".
Interesting, so is it immoral to sue someone who is blatantly copying your product and providing a much cheaper knock off with much poorer quality?

I'm not sure how I feel about this. Maybe it's just a bad idea to copy someone else's product unless you really plan on improving upon it.

I don't imagine pop socket has a limitless budget for lawsuits either. They may really think they are doing the right thing here.

I guess this is the gray market that he's talking about. All these companies that are just copying products and creating cheaper versions with worse quality.

And amazon is facilitating that. Interesting and certainly worth shouting about.
I think here is the best alternative.

Something that mixed topic specific subs with the moderation and user base of HN would be ideal.

For now I'm redirecting to https://slatestarcodex.com/ which has a lot of content I want to get through and I always get something out of lurking around there.
Anyone have any experience with cheaper Anker noise cancelling earbuds? I'm experiencing the slight nausea mentioned above with my Bose QC20s and am looking for an alternative, but not at the Airpod price point.
> I was certainly irrational on a few occasions where someone called out things that I did wrong and I refused to see it.

I don't think that's a problem with the emotion itself, so much as which specific events trigger that emotion and how you chose to process them and react.

Having fear does not make you lash out at users. We all have fear, often about similar things. It's having fear associating with a person calling you out, and then failing to process that fear in a healthy way that caused you problems.

Very rational people still have lots and lots of emotions. They are not robots. They can just handle their emotions in a mature, mindful way.