skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Where did that logic come from?

I find this to be a really funny assertion by the author. It requires assuming that either all brain matter is completely fungible or that people claiming we use only 10% of our brains mean we use a very specific 10% of the brain and simply don't use the remaining 90%.
I guess total collapse is something I don’t particularly worry about, since I won’t be here to worry.

I think partial collapse is more likely scenario (of the two).
"Many students, especially those who are poor, intuitively know what the schools do for them. They school them to confuse process and substance. Once these become blurred, a new logic is assumed: the more treatment there is, the better are the results; or, escalation leads to success. The pupil is thereby "schooled" to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. His imagination is "schooled" to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work. Health, learning, dignity, independence, and creative endeavor are defined as little more than the performance of the institutions which claim to serve these ends, and their improvement is made to depend on allocating more resources to the management of hospitals, schools, and other agencies in question.

In these essays, I will show that the institutionalization of values leads inevitably to physical pollution, social polarization, and psychological impotence: three dimensions in a process of global degradation and modernized misery."
Money quote:

> Personally, I've long idolized Steve Jobs and Elon Musk. But most of our heroes got to where they are by being unlikeable, not likable.

I fundamentally disagree with that view of being an asshole as an important part of success, but I also feel it has been rehashed an incredible amount of times already.

A slightly different take on this is the "don't rock the boat" mentality. This is usually a counter productive advice for anyone in a creative field, and pushing against settled ideas, trying things that people are not comfortable exploring is a valuable trait.

It can mean confrontation, refutal from a majority of people, and pushing these ideas requires a strong character. But I think there is a fine line between being firm and strong on ones opinion and being a jerk.
You must not know of Amitabh and the Shahrukh -- they're not some smalltime actors that need to get a leg up. This would be like Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt offering to be servers at Jeff Bezos' daughters wedding. It's absurdly subservient.
Ok if we're using "universal healthcare" as a minimum definition of "left wing" (for what it's worth I wouldn't accept that, since even Bismarck's right wing authoritarian Prussia had a universal system) that just supports my argument. Universal healthcare is off the table by both parties in the coming federal election. Biden is against it, so is he left wing? (No, sorry, the "public option" tack onto Obamacare doesn't count)

The reason this matters is because as long as Americans accept this false polarity they are missing choice. Not just because they're a two party system, but because their two parties are defined along an ideological axis that misses entire policy choices. And Americans have been mistakenly educated to believe that "socialism" = "government involvement", and that it is an extreme 'left' pole of the political spectrum, and as such they are increasingly ending up with dysfunctional state systems that do not serve the populace.

That and being able to speak to the rest of the world about politics is why clarity of terms here is, I think, important
This is why I am only using torrents in I2P.
Or the markets are just assuming the Florida strategy is the one that wins out. Let people die and carry on.
> Taxes are killer in the Great White North.

Fortunately this pays for an extensive social security network including health care (though sadly not dental!)
> Intel execs know they missed the Smartphone 2.0 revolution because of culture blindness. They couldn’t bear to part with the high margins generated by the x86 cash cow; they couldn’t see that lower margins could be supported by unimaginable volume

Clayton Christensen‘S Innovators Dilemma at work.

It’s amazing how Apple with just 7% of market share can/could change the entire industry. They did the same with Flash(for the better) and this time with the PC. Interesting times ahead
Everything is being forced further out on the risk curve. Everything.

This also explains wacky basketcase unicorns like WeWork, perpetually unprofitable companies raising round after round, the continued existence of the cryptocurrency world in spite of it being like 90%+ scams, real estate going up in cities where >25% of people are behind on their mortgages, etc. There's no "alpha" anywhere. Money is chasing its tail.

All this QE is just going to give us is more asset bubbles. The financial economy is completely detaching from the real economy and becoming a pure fantasy LARP for the rich and of course governments.
How to Handle Eventual Consistency
handling eventual consistency

https://medium.com/swlh/handling-eventual-consistency-11324324aec4
Is https://primo.af generated by primo?
Metric for determining quantitative product market fit
> So if you enable this, do you want to be punished and fined every time you quote a sentence from a movie or book somewhere?

If I was the 800 pound search engine throwing my weight around to quote a sentence from a movie or book, then yes, maybe I should be fined--or at least required to offer compensation.

I think there's a difference between a company with billions in revenue doing it versus "you".

> Google helps you by actually giving you information you search without having to go through a SEOd webpage feeding tracking advertisers.

You say this as if Google.com itself isn't the ultimate tracked web property for an advertising giant.
Rather: fake youtube followers have a negative ROI.

Perhaps because they don't matter, but perhaps because they are more difficult to create or Google is better at spotting fakes.
That's not accurate. TFSA contributions are only made with post tax income, the real benefit comes when you take the money out since any gains made with the invested money will be tax free when withdrawn.
I managed to get the article to load - it is content-free. It's just the headline, with a very weak argument attached (the old "difficult people make stuff happen").
I think the difference here is that you're taking this from the perspective of an actual engineer, and I'm a hobbyist (and I assumed the same of OP; I hope Real Engineers aren't getting parts off eBay). Which means that, yeah, I'm happy to handwave a lot. By software analogy, I write a lot of shell scripts and python, which is passable but hardly rigorous; if I wanted it to be Correct, I'd break out coq or write in Ada or something, but I just want something that usually works because the stakes are so low. Of course counterfeit parts aren't reliable, but if failure is an option then they're good enough.
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Direct sunlight quickly (in a matter of a few weeks) affects both the color and taste of whisky. The outer packaging serves a functional role.
>Do you think newsreaders are as evil as Google? I use NetNewsWire on my tablet and very few of the feeds I subscribe to show any ads and I rarely click through to the source.

I haven't used an RSS reader in a while, so I may be wrong on this but:

1) Last I remembered content creators could still place ads that are displayed through the reader, so it's not a complete loss if you don't click through.

2) NetNewsWire is not operating at nearly the same scale as Google, and isn't coming close to the anti-competitive, monopolistic effects that Google has.

There are clearly some benefits to users in the short term, but in the long term it just entrenches Google further and hurts competition, which is bad for users in the long term.
If things have gone to shit so badly that people are trading food for gold, I hope you bought guns too because very unfair people are going to be coming for your gold.
From what I understand, it is the size of the droplets. The ones leaving the wearer's mouth are much larger, therefore higher chances of the mask stopping them. The ones that are lingering in the air are smaller, which most face coverings (ie, not proper fitted masks) have lower chances of stopping from entering a wearer's mask.
Publisher deadlines are both a blessing and a curse. I did the last book I wrote through a publisher. It was a concept I'd had bouncing around in my head for a while but hadn't made much progress on beyond a rough mental headline. When a publisher wanted to run with it, it forced me to focus on it--fortunately during a period when doing so wasn't too onerous.

On the other hand, I've had other periods when it would have been difficult.

The other thing with publishers is that you're now tied into publishing industry economics. So you can't typically write, say, 100 page book even if that's what you think is the best match for you and the subject. (This is probably the thing that would be most likely to keep me from using a publisher the next time.)
Mind expanding the acronyms and explaining what exactly you've done? I'm still an investing novice.
Thanks for the info, I figured as much but good to know more details. "Alright guys, you have the entire world's money, let's do it".
This is the part of the cycle where all the printed money goes into financial assets (rather than poor people's hands) and we inflate our asset bubble as a way to feel bad about the fact the real economy is a shit show.
This feels like an absolutely crucial distinction, across decades there is no positive feedback strong enough to keep individual beauty going up.
It was indeed "diddle," not "twiddle." At BAML, it's a "tweak." Beacon Platform is another implementation by the same team (but with support for the public cloud, and many more advanced features, I believe, including tighter web integration). I think it uses the terminology "bind."

[Disclosure: I was part of the Quartz Core team in 2011/2012.]
Is that project front page an IDE?
That's an excellent point. How intelligent would a human seem after years of abuse and solitary confinement? Solitary confinement alone can reduce humans to near catatonia.
Lehman Brothers didn't ruin the country? At least there were competitors that could take up the slack, oh wait they all made the same mistakes and basically ruined the entire world.

A CEO can outsource labor and materials procurement to countries where armed men are coercing employees/slaves. It's quite likely a company is outsourcing human rights violations. They can also put out marketing campaigns during pandemics worshipping "heroes" while putting their employees in harms way for no extra pay. There has also been a rash of hostile environments involving sexual harassment and racist behavior. Coercion doesn't always require a gun in your face.
But it is different this time. Productivity growth is slowing [1], people are aging rapidly (in the US, baby boomers are retiring at a pace of 10,000 people per day, 5,000 of them die per day) [2], and secular stagnation is taking hold in most first world countries [3]. Sort of strange to expect today or the next 50 years to look like the last 50 years.

[1] https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/ernestliu/...

[2] https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/economic-synops...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20200629061702/https://larrysumm...
Not to underestimate OP’s effort but this calculator is much better and has more options

https://simpletax.ca/calculator
Wow, didn't except a downvote for that comment. This isn't reddit folks. Having seen a demo of digital voice on HF by Bruce Perns K6BP, I'm sold that digital voice is a good addition to Amateur Radio.
Why the A.I. debate is failing
Demographics are a curse for India like it is for China due to their sheer scale. The reason why China has trouble transitioning into consumption economy is because after 30 years of incredible growth, 600M people still subsist on poverty level income. Why? Because at it's peak, manufacturing "only" employed about 1/3 of the country since 1/3 essentially maxed global demand. This is despite massively exploiting the model that made Japan, South Korea, Taiwan rich, and basically surpassing these countries in pretty much every industry except semiconductors. Populous countries has to do proportionally more to to meet it's peoples needs. Sometimes seemingly impossibly more^.

The next 20-30 years is going to be India's peak demographic dividend phase assuming population stabilizes. While there's going to many positive developments, much of it will be squandered simply because India will take ~30 years of incremental growth to get to where China is today, unless it can execute central planning better than the CCP. Otherwise they're left with a bunch of discontent and destructive youth which is much more dangerous than China's curse of unproductive elderly. Growth will also be undermined by automation, which has eliminated entire high employment manufacturing opportunities, while increase in industrial robots is helping existing manufacturing countries retain their base, i.e. China is installing 150k industrial robots per year (3x more than 2nd place) and rapidly climbing the robots per 10k employee metric (Korean leads with 700, China 100, India 5). Further China has massive influence on where manufacturing logistics, they are in a position to pick winners and losers if they ever want to weaponize export controls. And western companies will think twice about repeating practices that allowed China to grew that big in the first place. Development is going to be spread across South Asia, ASEAN, India will not be in a place to capture as much of the pies as China did. I do think it's about time India shapes up and make an concerted effort to develop, but she has accrued so many nerfs for simply waiting too long. It's overdue, but in many ways it's already too late.

^Keep in mind development, especially for a massive potential powers like India is much more involved. There's a reason US pivoted to undermine China after Made in China 2025 was announced. These are industries essential to self-sufficiency AND climbing out of middle income trap, but simultaneously erode US/Western lead. India will face the same resistance if she ever reaches that far, otherwise all she'll ever be is farmers and widget makers. Hegemony will always cap the ambition of potential rivals. It's different for smaller countries are allowed to grow rich, often with support, because they will never be threats. It's why India & China has their own nuclear and space program. Why China expends vast resources for indigenous military. Once India grows too fast, it will be kneecapped by US and China. Like US kneecapped Japan and China. That's the way it goes.
You can use prioritize_files() combined with the sequential_download flag to "stream" a track (and prioritize_pieces() if you need the last chunk for an m4a file).

Schedule your fetches intelligently and it shouldn't be hard to keep a music player fed. 320kbps is only 40KB/s.
I mean, in world where you’re trying to trade gold for food gold is a “fiat” currency as well. It has no intrinsic value and if we’re struggling to get food and water I’m not going to want to accept anything for my food except strict bartering.

If you’re buying gold for the end of the world you’d be better off buying cigarettes and tiny bottles of booze.
Sure, my evidence is that there are multiple friends in this situation that were cured by [X] homeopathy treatment. Your scientific papers are simply the result of expert's ignorance because they're not willing to examine homeopathy with a non-critical eye.

Disregard your examples, replace them with my own. That's how these sorts of arguments work and they can use faux-science in the same way you use proven science. They can link to 'experts' in homeopathy which have done studies on their own proving the vaunted benefits of crystal empowerment. It's your truth against theirs. You can't fight things like homeopathy with evidence because ultimately they don't care about your evidence, only theirs. And if you catch them in one spot, it's easy to lie and force you to search for more evidence to disprove it. Forever.
I believe when a 'bottle' is made out of paper, it's properly called a 'carton'. e.g. a 'carton of milk'
There are still plenty of places where this can apply, though. Any organization that owns an AS is susceptible to this especially. Consider universities, which might own one, where each IP corresponds to a student. Universities also just happen to be a hotbed of torrent traffic.
See my other comment. You are correct. Nowadays they usually don't but there are frameworks that can give you javascript-free web applications, albiet with less functionality.
“Fine” but not the same, likely not as smart, and the gwern link debunks the 95% case pretty soundly.
in some limited cases it seems like maybe we can be pretty confident that retail investors "caused" a price move. even if professionals magnify it, the core thing would not happen without retail investors. Like the Hertz thing, or "Long Blockchain Corp", or when people get confused over ticker symbols.

but I agree it does seem sort of unanswerable in general. very odd, then, to see people making these public assertions with total confidence.

I am curious: based on your experience, do you think that, in principle, an omniscient observer of all transactions on stock exchanges and who made them could answer questions like this in many cases? If so, what concrete things would they hypothetically want to look at to figure it out?
If this were true, Zimbabwe would have a lucrative stockmarket. It's not true though. A high enough inflation rate damages investor confidence and makes business operations more complex. I means constantly needing to minimize cash on hand in the local currency, or having to price contracts in inflation adjusted dollars increasing risk and mental overhead of doing business. At extremis, it means many market participants refusing to do business in the currency at all. Large economies like Germany have gone to the printers before and it doesn't end well.
You will need both. Cloud is for on boarding, enterprise is on prem. So build your cloud where ever and how ever, don't expect it to make money, prepare to deploy in all major clouds, and then take in the EE dollars.

Kubernetes is a great choice here.
Sorry, let me clarify what I'm saying, because I agree that message was too brief.

In the first sentence, I was talking about my preconceptions, not yours. The fundamental premise of changing 'master' to 'main', as I understand it, is that this supposed to make Linux "more inclusive" by preventing black people from being exposed to a term that has slavery connotations. However, I hold the preconception that the actual point is that certain people in the "left-progressive-online/idpol" cluster want to feel good by exercising power to make other people do things that will, as an added benefit, piss off the right (basically the left equivalent of "own the libs") which is not as beneficial a purpose as making Linux more inclusive for minorities. Then your comment, being a plain description of the latter sentiment, confirmed this preconception outright, which amused me. The quote wasn't meant to be attributed to you but rather the general claimed motivation for this change and changes like it.
Saying you missed out on Bitcoin is like saying you missed out on a giant ponzi scheme.
Unfortunately the people that are unemployed because of all this aren’t (in general) that important to the economy. This will only further push class disparity.
The site FilterGrade appears to resell the work of outside authors, taking a cut off the top instead of directing traffic to the original authors' own sites, which do exist.

As usual, whenever you actually dig into these complaints it always turns out that the complainer is a galactic-scale leach doing something way sleazier than what they accuse search engines of doing.
might be a smart move. I'm not going all in, but I am dollar cost averaging my buys and accumulating bitcoin.
To make matters worse, the 10% figure can actually be a bit on the high side based on experience.
I want the social graph. I post, only the people I added as "friends" get to see my post, not everyone who signed up for the discord/slack. I also only want to see posts from my friends. But of course, we all have different lists of friends. Discord/Slack don't seem to be about that. But thank you for the recommendation. I'll still take a look
Yes, fair point - I misread. My second point stands though, it's certainly talked about, but maybe not as much as it should be.
Pension funds aren't required to achieve a certain return. If returns over a long period are below the assumed rate, then the employer simply needs to increase contributions. This is less than ideal but not a requirement in any reasonable sense.
> Mental math is so difficult for me that it’s embarrassing! The numbers just don’t stay in my head long enough. I used to feel anxiety if math came up in conversation because I simply can’t calculate in my head like others do, and it makes me feel like a fool.

This is a huge problem for me too, but I take solace in the observation that that isn't _math_, that's _arithmetic_.
Great project Will definatly haver a look.
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I just compared those numbers with the tax calculator from https://simpletax.ca/calculator and they are roughly the same. However, my numbers line up with that when you factor in tax deductible expenses on things like RRSP. If you remove the RRSP line from the expenses table, you should see that 100k in base salary lines up to the articles claimed $27.7k. The numbers arent exact, but they are pretty close. I will look further into the discrepancy.
India probably has a rather small startup scene, that is not much of an argument.
Had to try it, surprisingly zero porn?!?

Actually...for a free wireguard server there wasn't a whole lot of bittorrent traffic at all.
Imma have to disagree with you hard on the first paragraph haha. Rock became oversaturated and stagnated as a genre, I'm not sure the clothes had much to do with it.
Doesn't that make it much worse? Only a certain amount of the tether is real, making it a tiny chunk, that's propping up a small chunk, that's propping up the large chunk.

If the tiny chunk goes, it all goes tumbling down?
Fair points. I've made a few refinements already on paper, switching to an ODE model rather than a difference equation and changing the knowledge production rate to vary. If there are diminishing returns then we would expect c2 to decrease as k increases at large k. As you're aware, perhaps this is offset by increases in population.

As you've indicated, heterogeneity in various parts of the problem make this sort of modeling questionable. It's a crude model not meant to make precise predictions, just show that knowledge loss can be a major factor at long times.
Apparently Blindspot, Warrior, Hanna and the Twilight zone is pretty popular for my ip address. I've never downloaded any of these and Twilight zone is the only one i've even heard of. I also can't torrent things through my service provider, they throttle them, so i've never actually used a torrent program at all from this IP. So, that I guess...
Great project, Will have a look.