skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sweden has had far more deaths than it's neighbors, and per capita far more than the US -- we'd have like 50% more deaths if we had per capita what Sweden has had. While Sweden has had pretty much as much economic disruption as it's neighbors.

If you want to consider that a successful outcome, I guess that is your perogative.

I am not about arguing it has to be a "rule" enforced by the police rather than a "recommendation". I don't think enforced by the police with penalties is what makes the difference between succesful control or not, that's not what I'm arguing for.

But arguing that not only no international coordination is required but no coordination of any kind, just people acting as their own personal epidimiologists based on what they read on social media... well, let's check back in a couple years and see how we think it's working out.
This can also be reformulated as "rural counties are empty" and point to a lot of the agita around much of the current political climate, 'cause land having as much of a vote as it does is pretty odd.
The filibuster doesn't help the situation and seems like a mechanism designed to encourage obstruction. Until we do away with it, I fear we'll be stuck with the status quo.
It sounds like "controlling the whole package" is already a foregone conclusion, given the requirement for a fairly non-standard amplifier.
It does indicate a consensus is not met, and merely that; the GP claimed the this lack of specific consensus on action is actually a form of broad consensus on inaction, a leap in logic that is unfounded because it ignores the political game theory that is employed in obstructionism.

It also ignores the fundamental brokenness of the system through a sort of circular logic: things didn’t change since they didn’t need to be changed.
Agreed, although I suspect things would have turned out poorly for the author if they had not.
Why should the rights of stolen property be respected?

If I buy a TV that "fell off the truck", I wouldn't expect the manufacturer to buy it back from me. I wouldn't expect the manufacturer to buy it back from my grandkids either.
I’ve heard the same thing about other topics ranging from Fishing, Tech, WWW, Coffeeshops (rise of Starbucks), to Skateboarding when I was a kid. Mainstream killed my niche, it used to be so much better!
Ah ok, gotcha. Yeah I misunderstood. Re: records of pre-colonial civilisations, I don’t know much about this area.
My background is in NLP - I suspect we'll see similar in language processing models as we've seen in vision models. Consider this[1] article ("NLP's ImageNet moment has arrived"), comparing AlexNet in 2012 to the first GPT model 6 years later: we're just a few years behind.

True, GPT-2 and -3, RoBERTa, T5 etc. are all increasingly data- and compute-hungry. That's the 'tick' your second article mentions.

We simultaneously have people doing research in the 'tock' - reducing the compute needed. ICLR 2020 was full of alternative training schema that required less compute for similar performance (e.g. ELECTRA[2]). Model distillation is another interesting idea that reduces the amount of inference-time compute needed.

[1] https://thegradient.pub/nlp-imagenet/

[2] https://openreview.net/pdf?id=r1xMH1BtvB
Sometimes it’s really hard to do this though. I recently wanted to order from a sushi place and I couldn’t find the paper menu with their number so I searched DDG. The first three or four things I clicked on weren’t the direct website of the restaurant. And only one was an ad.

I get that for some of these small local restaurant owners the margins are tight and I’ll do my best to make sure my money goes directly to them and not GrubHub/Yelp/Uber but I also understand that most of these places aren’t run by front-end developers and SEO experts. I’m not sure what the answer is but I also don’t think it’s always quite as simple as you’re making it out to be.
I think what Khaneman was getting at is that it's hopeless futile to try and recognize your own biases in a meaningful. So why I understand your statement, I'm skeptical that's it's possible if someone at the forefront of cognitive science admits he can't do it. I'm still enough of an optimist to try and use mindfulness myself to accomplish that though.

Of course, maybe he's just really bad at being mindful ;-)
-20dB is a multiplication by 10%. Not difficult to implement, but usually not available on manually controlled EQs unless you stack two bands.

I haven't actually confirmed this with testing yet, but won't those resonances still increase decay time at those frequencies after equalization? I'd like to see post-EQ waterfall plots.
> the entire African American community

Claiming that every single black person in America thinks that ever single police office in America is bad discredits whatever point you're trying to make. You must spend your entire life in a bubble if you truly believe that.
>Because we systematically killed the majority of their race

Vast majority of Native Americans, and estimated 90% died to disease. It was no more systemic killing than the plague in Europe, or coronavirus today.

>You can go as far back as you want and it’s still native Americans / native North Americans.

Go far enough back and you have empty land and Asian settlers.
I find that the Java 8 java.time API [1] easier to understand than Joda Time [2] when working with timezones. In particular, the OffsetDateTime and ZonedDateTime classes in java.time seem well-designed and easy to use. The equivalents in Joda Time are harder for me.

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/package-...

[2] https://www.joda.org/joda-time/apidocs/index.html
> "Unlawful acts, performed long enough and with sufficient vigor, are never enough to amend the law."

Yeah, ok then. I guess that means we can start dunking Karens in rivers again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desuetude#United_States_law
pretty cool!
did you guys (or anyone) posted anything somewhere so we can check out about the usability/deploy/etc...?
In my experience, CSS is more consistently supported between rendering engines. SVG is a shitshow once you start adding filters.
This is part of writing a specification so I would just call this Software Design. The author of such a requirement better have a firm grasp at the technical side of things.
For a detailed version of this argument, I recommend Edward J. Watts' Mortal Republic: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39088591-mortal-republic
Intel and Apple designed it. From Wikipedia :

"Thunderbolt is the brand name of a hardware interface developed by Intel (in collaboration with Apple) that allows the connection of external peripherals to a computer."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)
Yeah the lower the dollars saved per ticket, the less valuable the free entries. You're 100% right on that point
> The real name of anyone posting anonymously or under a pseudonym has always been the gold standard of doxxing.

Bronze at best if the pseudonymous person has already told you most of their name, their profession, and where they work.
In typical fashion the press takes something that a few people are doing and makes like it's a movement or represented of most of the people. Focus on 1000 people protesting in (say) NYC vs. 18 million who aren't.

Separately - Why stop here why not ostracize anybody who works for any company that has ever had any relationship past or present to anything bad in the world. Point is where is the line drawn? This is all quite ridiculous.
> his intention in much of his writing was coded. He would consistently use certain keywords and phrases to make certain associations and when you follow through the logic it becomes very sinister.

You mean I've been reading SSC wrong all this time and missed out on secret messages encoded in kabbalistic puzzles?
The trick here is preventing the proxy from caching the image. The request is then still proxied but has a 1:1 correspondence to requests for the image. But now that it's public knowledge that this works, I agree that GitHub will close the hole.
I get what you're saying and it makes sense to me.

> unit tests depending on change-prone internal APIs

This in particular is worth highlighting. I tend to now write unit tests for things that are getting data from one place and passing it another, unless the code is complex enough that I'm worried it might not work or will be hard to maintain. And generally, I try to break out the testable part to a separate function (so it's get data + manipulate (testable) + pass data).
You can't use open source in an enterprise. All you can do is rewrite from scratch or hire external service. Everyone knows that.
Oops. Pretend I said BackBlaze instead of CrashPlan.
I think he put in the contact information because he very much did want people to contact the NYT, and for them to make clear their displeasure with the policies of the organization. I think his genuine hope was that this would cause them to change their policies in the future, both for him and for others. So yes, he wants to "pressure the editor", but in a manner that is applicable to their job rather than as any sort of personal attack.

> If you really wanted a civil discussion, would you have used the type of language that he did?

Maybe, it depends on how aware I was of my audience. If my intended audience was the primary public posters on SSC, I can see saying just what he said. If I remembered in my fluster that 98% of the readers who never post might react differently, then probably not. If you picture Scott (as I do) as a really bright semi-autist who communicates online primarily with self-declared "rationalists", it doesn't seem impossible that he might forget in the heat of the moment (this had to be a stressful decision for him) that some percentage of his audience is going to interpret his words counter to his stated intent, even if that intent is real.

(I appreciate your response, by the way. I don't think you needed to delete your earlier comments. Yeah, they'll be flagged and downvoted, then we'll vouch for them to recover them and vote them back up. As long as you try to phrase things politely, there are enough people here who'll stand up for you even if we disagree with your conclusion.)
Without eliminating the filibuster the Senate can only pass bills with a simple majority by the extremely limited reconciliation process.
Whether or not they knew they were transporting disease at the time really doesn't excuse the end result: mass genocide. And of course this doesn't authorize taking land.
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No, "are supposed to" is less strict than "must". If the law passes, then they must allow the intelligence services to do this. Or "will have to" if they want to continue to be in the business.
I have worked on a DoD program that dealt with time precision. It is not a trivial task let me assure you.
There is always subtext. There is no need for mystical allusions. You are welcome to go back and re-read his writing with a more critical eye and decide for yourself what you notice.
Madison thought it highly unlikely that people who held immense power would not choose to use it. The Framers' model (and fear) was Rome, and much of our Constitutional design is intended to prevent an American Caesar. (One of the reasons Washington was universally revered was because he acted so contrary to what everyone thought was human nature.)

"Ambition must be made to counteract ambition" he tells us in Federalist 10. The idea of a legislator who would derive self-worth not from actually doing things (good or bad) but rather by approbation from their faction solely for making the other side mad was not something they thought possible.
I'm saying there exist, in some communities, cultural norms that we treat ideas we disagree with with respect. We interpret them charitably. We don't make personal attacks on those who hold them. We assume good faith.

If you understand why someone might defend those cultural norms on Hacker News, then perhaps you can understand why someone would defend those same norms in, say, academia, or journalism, or publishing, or the arts.
I think this is a really important topic with people working from home now- and really worth periodically reminding people of. No longer are there the social barriers to staying at work until midnight and then getting up at 6am.

I would not say I suffer from burnout, but I would say that I sometimes work too hard. The difference is that I'm not sleep-walking into an unhealthy situation, I'm making a pro-active decision to sacrifice some parts of my personal life for career progression(well, not really career progression, but doing a good job and getting rewarded for it). Sometimes the difference is being concious of what you're doing, and setting boundaries in terms of how long you commit and how much you work. I'll admit, it may be easier for me to do that than others, it's often difficult to take a step back and really realise whether what you're doing is life or death.
Oh. Flash quite literally changed my life.

VKontakte, the most popular Russian social network, launched a game/app platform, along with the first version of its API, in 2008. At the time, the only kind of apps available was Flash (iframe apps were added later). I did make some, the most popular one being a card game "durak"[1], not really known outside ex-USSR. It worked in real time through sockets with a server I wrote in Java, but I knew little about multithreading, defensive programming, and network protocol design, so the thing bugged out fairly often. Nevertheless, it had hundreds of thousands of installs. There also were tiny ads that you could get from VK through an API call, that's how I made my first money.

The interesting part was that the barrier to entry was extremely low thanks to Flash, and growing the user base of your app required no effort whatsoever if the app is good enough. People "installed" apps on their pages, which meant simply adding it to one's own list of apps and granting it permissions. These lists were public — you could open friend's profile and see what they have installed. This meant that you'd get explosive growth by just making something interesting enough so many people would click on it.

There was a community of Flash app developers that I was a somewhat prominent part of. I made many friends there, some of them being my close friends to this day.

VK team itself organized contests where you had to recreate some part of the website in Flash as closely as possible — I took 2nd place in two of those. That's how I got their attention. There then were other contests that I took part in, to eventually get a job at VK, but that's another story...

Fun times.

I miss all that tbh.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durak
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It's a democratic republic. This means that the individuals holding the positions of authority in the republic have more concentrated power than the citizens in the democracy. For example, SCOTUS has the power to turn down appeals, even when the circuit decisions are split. Logically, this means that they are denying the rights of one of those two (or more) plaintiffs.
I agree with this sentiment, but I'd take it a step further.

I personally think, the fact that we're shoehorning so much app-like stuff into the web highlights the need for a good web-based app delivery mechanism. If we provide a solid app delivery mechanism, then people can create their own document publishing apps/mechanisms using that.

I know this might lead to fragmentation of document formats, but hopefully there'll be one clear winner in terms of popularity and ubiquity (similar to WhatsApp or PDFs).
The court has never ruled the president can't unilaterally tear up treaties too though, so it may not require Congress. When Bush unilaterally ended the ballistic missile treaty the court refused to hear the case.
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> The Supreme Court of Canada is in essence directly appointed by the Prime Minister

And that's the crucial difference: if a Supreme Court judge in Canada starts misbehaving I guess Prime Minister can dismiss them just as easily. In the US judges are appointed for life, so if the wrong person gets appointed that choice will haunt us for a few decades.
When it comes to games, exploitation (of tendencies, weaknesses), misdirection, subterfuge and yomi play a far bigger role in winning than actual skill. Humans are much better than computers at all of those. Perhaps a dubious honour, but an advantage nonetheless. We're only really in trouble when the machine learns to reliably replicate the same tactics.
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That is a problem that has not been thoroughly explored. What has been motivational historically, and what is necessary to motivate in the future, do not have to be the same.

And even looking at history, the motivations of scientific development seems quite varied. War has been a key promoter of many fields of science, which has in turn lifted may people out of poverty. So we should have more world wars?
Possibly, but it's much harder to intercept and mitm specific traffic at that level. On the ISP-side, that's different: they can with high certainty say that some traffic is coming from/to a specific suspect, much like a phone surveillance. This might also apply to individual service, e.g. an email provider.
Something I've heard from Chinese people online about the difference between the US and China is that in America, you could be a plumber/auto mechanic/skilled trades and still have a middle-income lifestyle and a decent amount of societal respect. In China, working with your hands puts you on the lower rungs in society, hence everyone wants to get into college.
Your comment actually strikes me as less about environmentalism and more about jealousy or some type of use of inequality as a guise for just wanting others to have less.

For example, I think it borders on possibly immoral / unethical to vaguely associate or connote that leisure airplane travel or pool ownership for generic working class people is somehow responsible for climate change and needs to be radically adjusted away from social expectations.

The reason I have no choice but to suspect an ulterior motive is that there simply is zero basis in fact to claim that certain patterns of consumption are problems like this. It’s purely a value judgment, and in this case largely disconnected from any citable statistics that expose wide impact for the class involved.

My opinion is that working class people should fly to foreign destinations for vacation if they prefer to, and making this access cheaper is an amazingly enriching and productive aspect of humanity.

It reminds me of a cliche quote from Dead Poets Society:

> Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”

We shouldn’t seek to ban the pursuit of beautiful memories and experiences of travel, nor criticize that as a selfish goal. That’s ridiculous. We should acknowledge how obviously desirable it is and develop ways to do it that don’t have the negative environmental side effects.
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The emphasis on "integrating development environment" is better experienced than what YouTube can render.

I would add to your list:

- acme is complemented by the plumber, which acts according to user defined rules when receiving a text selection (and context)

- anything in acme is text, which is editable. Menu bar, buffers, shell window... the editable dumb terminal is great.

- acme features a 9p fs "api" to access its state, and modify it, with any program. Go is first class citizen.

Acme cannot be used though ssh in a terminal nor on a iPad though :)
I appreciate your response as well. I deleted the original comments not because of the downvotes but because I noticed I was attracting discussions I did not want to participate in.

I think your interpretation is valid but I still think his writing caused harm even if it was inadvertent and someone should have pointed these things out to him much sooner but the SSC echo chamber did not allow for dissenting opinions so it had to be NYT journalist to make these things obvious to him and he did not respond well.
>the "UX people" you describe were doing important work right? Maybe stuff like testing/QA, building domain knowledge, analyzing feedback, building trust with clients/users, writing specs, mockups, documentation, designing UI components etc.

I think the frustration with "UX people" is that they aren't necessarily doing any of those well-defined things that are all part of UX, but instead doing some nebulous stuff because nobody really knows what UX means.

Calling some people on the team "UX people" carries the implication that everybody else on the team (testers, customer service, documentation, ui designers, backend devs, SREs) are somehow not working on UX. Everybody on a product team is a UX person, so for somebody to only be a UX person essentially means they have no role.
> Immigrants generally work very hard and accept minimal wages.

Not if they are eligible for social programs without working hard, then you get a different kind of immigration than US gets. US gets hard working people since immigrating there as a non hard working person is just dumb. However when Europe takes refugees who are eligible for social programs as soon as they arrive then they don't really get hard working people, those are the kind of people you would get more of if you opened your border and gave everyone the same social security nets.
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