skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't take very good notes but if you want to point me to the archive and posts you think are good I will be happy to go through them and outline what associations are being made and why.

I stopped reading SSC after I noticed certain patterns and decided I did not want those ideas rattling around in my head. So I gave you a high level impression / outline of what conclusions I reached without providing the actual trail of evidence that lead to it. If you want more precision then you will need to point me to specific posts of his so we can argue about them because even the people defending him are not providing any actual arguments for why his writing was good. They're providing very high level impressions shaped by an echo chamber.
Power pioneer Hideaki Horie invents new battery 90% cheaper than lithium-ion
Back in the days when electronics records were not the norm there were a lot of these things especially in less-developed provinces. Nowadays it's better but I'd suspect there are still things similar going on.

In the less developed areas of China the so called "Cheng Guan Wu Ju Tou" (The five masters of the town, usually includes the party secretary, the town mayor, vice mayors and maybe a couple of other important officials e.g. the head of the finance bureau) holds a lot of power over the general populace. Their family members also hold other important positions and they have been living in the same areas for maybe centuries.

Historically the central government had to rely on these local masters but nowadays it's getting the upper hand and a lot of these things are being reported publicly. It's kind of difficult to do the same thing (as in the BBC report) nowadays as electronic records are everywhere.
Land that is privately owned will not be affected. The tribes often manage large amounts of reservation land in trusts, but fee simple/patent land (land privately owned outright) is protected by the constitutions of the states and federal government. Reservations are managed by the federal government via the Bureau of Indian Affairs. However, the tribes can establish many zoning rules, but they can be successfully challenged by private owners.

Here is a recent significant case about this matter where the courts sided with the non-Indian private land owner regarding a permit he received from the county even though he refused to also go through the Reservation's own permit process: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1651530.html
Repeating myself here: I believe the solution to this will be iterated, and will require work both on the supply and on the demand side; it's in part a coordination problem. Industry will need to put in a big lift without immediate significant returns, because otherwise there's little incentive for the pipeline to correct itself. Correcting generations of obstacles to participation isn't easy.
I'm not sure why YeGoblynQueenne thinks this is such a mystery. (This is not the first time I've been puzzled by their pessimism on HN.) There is no mystery here: AlphaZero shows that you can get superhuman performance by searching only a few ply by sufficiently good pattern recognition in a highly parameterized and well-trained value function, and MuZero makes this point even more emphatically by doing away with the formal search entirely in favor of an more abstract recurrent pondering. What more is there to say?
text/terminal user interface.
Also see more information at this Japan Times article https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/09/business/tech/h...
VPN service providers can expect a pretty good future for them (not only with this, but also the new EU copyright guidelines).
Ask HN: Are there any other broadband providers I can use in the east bay?
specifically in livermore, CA. I mean besides the two douopolys.
At least in chess, if it is not the search, then it is probably the evaluation function.

Expert players have likely a very well-tuned evaluation function of how strong a board "feels". Some of it is explainable easily: center domination, diagonal bishop, connected pawn structure, rook supporting pawn from behind, others are more elaborate, come with experience and harder to verbalize.

When expert players play against computers, the limitation of their evaluation function becomes visible. Some board may feel strong, but you are missing some corner case that the minmax search observes and exploits.
Well, we have displaced people from different wars right now, but only some predictions on the possible effects of climate change, and I believe consensus among them is not even favoring the "civilization collapse" side.

Human civilization is just not at the point when it can afford to worry about pretty much unpredictable long term global environmental risks.
A surprising amount of that content is still out there if you have the patience to dig for it. AVSForum used to be my primary reason for internet usage for about 2 years of my life. The DIY community is still extremely strong (probably stronger than it was a decade ago).

If you have a few weekends, basic electronic & woodworking skills, and a $2000 budget to burn through, you can easily put together a 2.1 channel audio reproduction solution far more impressive than you could ever hope to buy off the shelf at any cost. I built a 800 liter subwoofer that plays flat to 13Hz back in 2008 for ~$600. Still works flawlessly to this day. The key is to be inventive with materials and design, and to always be aware of the space in which you will use the equipment. The room is always the most important part of the audio reproduction equation.
What are a bunch of angry nerds gonna do?
It is tempting to agree with you, but a lot of Americans live there that don't deserve to be kicked in the teeth by the FYGM parade.
Something similar applies to the UK, at least when I went to university there. Almost everything comes down to exam results on a particular day with (essentially) four years of prep work leading up to that day.

Each university publishes the grades they will accept at a minimum for each major so you essentially choose your major at 17, or really 15 as mentioned above, because you need certain subjects with an “A” result to enroll at the university.

At uni itself, almost all classes are mandatory for a given major with only one or two chances to take an elective. Failing a class at any point usually means either dropping out completely or being moved to a less prestigious major (e.g. “general science” instead of a CS degree).

It’s definitely stressful.
Microsoft adds updates to Visual Studio Git integration
I love the Jetson -- we have a bunch of them here -- but that's a SBC. What I want is an NVIDIA 2080Ti or 3080Ti card with some ARM cores that I can run apps that use CUDA+ARM directly on!
> a mixture of deception, racism, genocide, breach of trust, and thievery.

Were there rules against that? And if so, who would enforce them?
TikTok Takes on Crypto
The article isn't about this, but in my experience, a lot of unit testing is driven by loosely typed languages, and tests for things that would be a compile time error in something stricter. Rust in particular has a way of making many unit tests redundant.
You certainly leave some big shoes to fill, as shown in the quick stats below:

https://imgur.com/QUPER9q

https://imgur.com/RnlzECa

but like you say, these aren't nobodies. However, I am curious to see how the pace will change (if at all), with you no longer doing the lion share of work.
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In my example above i specifically cited someone who makes guns or nuclear weapons.

Those people make bombs and guns knowing full well that these weapons will kill less people than cars even though the base intention of the weapon is to kill.
I think this a result of survivorship bias by design, not that anything is broken. If a case had little effect, it wouldn't be worth the court's time. If a case were easy to resolve, a lower court would have done so. So that only leaves important yet difficult and complex cases.
You announced that below some percentage of the population, people don't matter and shouldn't be accommodated. By your logic, I showed that Portland doesn't matter.

I hope we can all agree that this is a very stupid conclusion, and therefore you should rethink your argument.

We accommodate disability because it is the right thing to do. We require businesses to spend extra money, lowering their profits, in order to put in ramps and openable doors, in the name of our common humanity. Not everything is done for a profit motive; not everything should be done for profit motives. In conclusion, Ayn Rand can spin in her grave but it would still be wrong to wrap her in wires and use her to generate electricity.
I follow court news pretty closely and was genuinely curious about this decision. Here is a brief description of what I understand the decision to mean (I am not an expert by any means). Under the federal "Major Crimes Act" (MCA) members of various Native American tribes are not subject to state prosecution for crimes committed in "Indian territory". This case was brought by McGirt, a member of the Creek Nation, who challenged his conviction based on the original treaty establishing the Creek reservation in eastern Oklahoma. The headline is a bit misleading: for purposes of the MCA, eastern OK is now considered a part of the Creek Nation. This means McGirt must be convicted with the reservation's justice system or in federal court. It also has the consequence (discussed extensively in Roberts' dissent) that many existing convictions could potentially be vacated. It will be interesting to see how the Creek nation works with Oklahoma to address these changes.
Well either those advising the legislature, who actually carry out the hacks for the security services in Germany, are idiots; or they're very clever people and know exactly what they're doing.

Or I guess it could be security theatre, or a diversion, but neither of those seems compelling here.

My vote is that, whilst I can't understand how it's accomplished as it seems contrary to technical possibility, that the people with billions of funding to make these things possible (Five Eyes, etc.) are probably capable of many things that look like magic.

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They're wrong - it's state, not federal.
No, the fact that you're not welcome to speak in my house does not enjoin you against speaking ill of me outside of my house. I can't even comprehend the argument you're trying to make. The norms of HN don't bind on the whole world.
I agree Temporal is an odd name for the object representing an Instant. But it shouldn't be Date either. A Date does not have a time associated with it.

Java really did a good job here: Instant, LocalDate, LocalDateTime, ZonedDateTime. (If they hadn't already had java.util.Date, they probably could've replaced LocalDate/LocalDateTime with Date/DateTime, but that ship sailed).
Jokes are supposed to be funny, our health care and education are tragedies
Not all certifications are bad. Some are quite good. For example, the Google Cloud certifications (associate cloud engineer, professional cloud architect, professional data engineer, professional cloud developer etc) give you a good technical understanding of GCP services and to use them to achieve business objectives.
For example, in some cases (I won't specify for the fear of being cancelled) your chance of becoming rich by your skills is exactly zero, and you know it. Chance of winning the lottery is small, but higher than zero.
Can you elaborate on why this article drives you to think that?

As someone with no stake in the issue (aware of LessWrong but not much else) I found it very interesting and well written and it made me want to immerse myself more in the rationalist community which I found appealing. There was definitely an angle to this piece, like any piece, but I found it only slightly unbalanced.

The unbalance was situated at the judgement of SSC's action of deleting the blog which clearly the reporter didn't view favorably.

Further thinking about it, I would not be surprised if the NewYorker writer collaborated with the NYT reporter on the piece. Taking in account when the blog deletion happened I don't see how the reporter could have done his research on the nature of the blog to such detail without the NYT reporter's material.
Think of "brand values" as words that describe the product "simple to use" or "powerful" or "elegant" or "photoshop" or "vim like".

Those all result in very different UX/UI.
Rome also had decades of civil war where a majority of the ruling class was either a) killed in said wars or b) killed after the wars in proscriptions by the victor. The only people left in the Senate were either weak-willed or allied to the "winner". The proscriptions by Marc Antony basically wiped out whatever resistance was left after the death of Julius Caesar. Couple this with the fact that the populace by-and-large just wanted peace, you can see why Octavian was able to rise.

In relation to the parent point, Octavian also went through great lengths to _appear_ to be acting at the will of the Senate. He was "first citizen" and all rights and protections granted to him here "granted" by the Senate. Whether this was under duress or just abdication for the sake of peace is debated.

There are some parallels between the current situation and the fall of the Republic, but there are for more differences. We are more at the Gracchi stage than the Caesar stage at this point. So there is hope!
"Over coffee, John Saito once mentioned to us that the product of Dropbox itself had more words than a Harry Potter novel!"

Wow that is actually super cool to think about. I wonder what they mean by this (i.e. is it the product itself or does it include things like T&C)? I wonder what a comparison looks like for a more documentation heavy company (ex. Stripe)
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Why do you believe that a website would want the Internet Archive to archive it? There is clear evidence that some do not want to be archived (the existence of opt out option). What data shows that most do?
Interesting, when I create a repo with my profile name, it shows this text:

> You found a secret! philshem/philshem is a special repository that you can use to add a README.md to your GitHub profile. Make sure it’s public and initialize it with a README to get started.

Edit: HN stripped some emojis
Prohibition didn’t require a constitutional amendment. The proponents wanted an amendment to make it more difficult for a future congress to reverse the decision. If alcohol was prohibited through legislative action, it could have also been restored just as easily. In retrospect, this strategy turned out to be pretty effective.
I think it's plausible that many technological advances follow a similar. Something like the steam engine is a step-improvement, but many of the subsequent improvements are basically the obvious next step, implemented once steel is strong enough, or machining precise enough, or fuel is refined enough. How many times has the world changed qualitatively, simply in the pursuit of making things quantitatively bigger or faster or stronger?

I can certainly see how it could be considered disappointing that pure intellect and creativity doesn't always win out, but I, personally, don't think it's bitter.

I also have a pet theory that the first AGI will actually be 10,000 very simple algorithms/sensors/APIs duct-taped together running on ridiculously powerful equipment rather than any sort of elegant Theory of Everything, and this wild conjecture may make me less likely to think this a bitter lesson...
I thought this unlikely but doing a quick look

This:

https://reductress.com/post/the-best-haircuts-for-what-youve...

is very close to the person (Sonya) on get bright's testimonials.

https://getbright.app/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/testimonial...

It could be the same Sonya just doing other things (hair shots etc) of course so not certain they are fake testimonial photos but certainly weird.
If I was /u/Maxwellhill, I'd just stop posting to troll all these people
But then they still get a factor of 8.8 more revenue from digital advertising than digital subscriptions.

edit: Compare digital advertising to digital subscriptions, not overall subscriptions
You're right, those docs are a lot better than the last time I looked.

I forgot why exactly I didn't use ansible-relayor last time I setup relays but I had a reason. I'll try to use it next time I deploy a batch of relays.
This is the inevitable outcome of a two-party system. A multi-party system would need to create coalitions to remain in power (and thus collaborate).
"Keeping the status quo" sometimes is the worst thing, because it leads to tyranny of the majority. The majority has configured the laws to its benefit, and as the margin of its majority reduces, fights harder and harder to prevent minorities from seeking justice through the legislature.

It doesn't even require a majority: we've so predisposed the system to inaction that a small number of people can block it. To pass legislation you need the consent of the House and the President and a supermajority of the Senate. Any of those can stop a law in its tracks.

It's easy to say that we should favor not changing things, and there are definitely ways that we should force people to seek consensus. But when the current setup works against you, you can suffer for decades without getting relief, and it's not a good look to just shrug our shoulders and say, "Well, it's working for me".
I'm not sure how to best capture it, but I think there is some irony to be found in the way you state that his last name is "easy to find" and "he lives in Michigan". The first paragraph of the linked article introduces him (correctly, I believe) as "Scott Alexander, the pseudonym of a Bay Area psychiatrist". He once lived in Michigan, but no longer does. One wonders if there is another psychiatrist named "Scott Alexander [something]" who currently lives in Michigan who has been having a really bad few weeks.
That might well be true, but right now it's great for many of us. If in a decade VSCode becomes a subscription-only thing, or it requires usage of sharepoint, or something similarly horrible, it'll still have been a wonderful editor to me at this moment in time.

But yeah, considering Microsoft's history it's probably good to stay vigilant.
And Tor.
That's fine, just pay a fair price for the service.
An incredibly tiny percentage of cases presenting to the ER are unique and necessitate a friend or family's help in diagnosis - let alone treatment.
Love this! Our company had been looking for a way to discuss social justice and equality issues and I'm going to bring this up to the manager.
Unfortunately I haven't developed the ability to read minds just yet.
Fantastic write-up. It's great to see this level of information sharing, complete with a walkthrough of the author's thought process and strategy for confirming the exploit. It's also interesting that this was a regression of a previously-fixed bug rather than a new exploit.

As a side note, it's disappointing to see so much unfounded criticism here in the comments. Apple was going to find and fix this bug quickly, regardless of the author's efforts. In this case we get a peek into the inner workings of the exploit discovery process that would otherwise remain secret. The author and Apple both clearly noted that unc0ver was the source of the exploit, and the author made no attempts to hide that fact. Calling the author of this blog post "lazy" or an "informant" is out of touch and uncalled for.
> Early reddit was a really fun place.

Yup. I've had a reddit account since r/politics was relatively balanced! It was fun and awesome.

And now I am seriously thinking of deleting my account altogether. It is just not worth it any longer.
Somehow other countries with federal systems manage to implement “modern governance.”

This chart shows government spending by various levels of government: https://images.app.goo.gl/iVpyyr2Ftzo6m7PB6

In the US, about half of all spending happens at the federal level. Germany, which also has a federal system as a matter of its constitution, also has the central government spending about half of all government dollars. Canada is even more federalist. The vast majority, about 3/4 of 4/5 of government spending happens at the provincial level. Denmark also has the majority of spending at the local level. Belgium, Spain, Sweden, Chile, and Mexico are about the same as the US in pushing about half of all spending down to the local governments.
por que no los dos?

It sounds like we agree, ignoring qualifiers like subconclusion: the lanuage was directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining, the definition of ad hominem is "(of an argument or reaction) directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining." QED.
Presumably, Germany would have little trouble compelling at least one root CA to sign any TLS certificates they wanted. Just a cursory search shows that Google Chrome, on Linux, trusts, e.g.

> CN = D-TRUST Root CA 3 2013
> O = D-Trust GmbH
> C = DE

There is certificate transparency and pinning and so on, and they would be caught (probably, maybe) if they abused this carelessly and at scale, but in practice, for a small number of targets, it would be trivial to wait for users to connect to a less secured TLS site or even a plain-HTTP site (plenty still exist), and then use a browser exploit as the stage 1, followed by whatever escalation of privilege exploit and rootkit is needed. TLS is really good at preventing always-on dragnet surveillance of everyone's internet traffic, but not a counter measure against targeted nation state level attacks.
I'll take the side that you are right based on the argument in the article but there are better arguments to make. Right now other factors are driving inflation down like lack of consumer spending, consumers outright not paying rent, and that the US dollar is spread across billions of people outside the US where the dollar underpins their economy or USD reserves back their currency. These factors offset the on paper inflation of injecting $5 trillion into the US/world economy but if this was, say, 2017 then they would definitely not.

Our current economic situation is more like 2008/2009 than a boom year where the velocity of money, not technically perhaps but the idea more or less, is very high. Even the decade since the 2008 crash has seen low inflation, at least in the US, and we've seen double digit drops in revenue and sales volumes for several months let alone numbers for the rest of 2020.

For a relevant example here, would WeWork/Uber/Tesla have raised billions in private funding in late 2009 or early 2020? Did the last decade boom in private equity cash on hand drive ability to gain investment ex. increase velocity of money in private investing? None of those companies are critical day to day for US citizens or the economy, at least compared to major banks or grocery stores and maybe they did actually see huge investments during difficult times, but I think the thought experiment stands.
Oh, I hadn't thought of that: woofers are huge because they are quite a distance from the listener's ear and have to move all the air in the room, vs a tiny earhole. Makes sense, thanks.