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>"Once there are 1000 published articles, studied this way and that way by so many different people, we can trust that it's actually happening", but this is an ought belief.

You are misunderstanding what it means for something to be an "ought" belief. Your example is actually an "is" belief: it's a claim that across all cases where 1000s of published articles exist, most of the time the contents are true. The "ought" version of that would be, "you have moral duty to believe anything that enough literature has been published in support of," but that's absurd, nobody thinks that's a moral rule.

The Humean is-ought idea is specifically about distinguishing ethical problems of value from empirical problems of evaluation.
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Righteousness lies in the eyes of the beholder. And often nowadays, the disconnect is in how much righteousness-attention is placed on specific topics in relation to others, dependent on what's in-vogue politically.
> "Animal species are being driven extinct" is an "is" belief.

This is stating a prediction of the future not as speculation, but as fact. Now it's almost certainly at least partially true (at least one species will likely become extinct in the future, at least as far as we are able to measure such things, which is often not entirely accurate), but nonetheless, it is unknown.

I'd like to see HN try some variation of @derefr's "I would be highly interested in watching (or maybe participating) in a forum where the rule is..." idea [1] on occasional appropriate HN threads, and see what happens. With the advent of the internet (and some other things), a very serious problem (of literally "existential risk" magnitude in my opinion) seems to have arisen in the sphere of human communication, both domestic and international. I do not know of all that many people or organizations who are studying this problem even in theory or with small trials, and not one single organization who is studying it in practice, with real people, at scale. I believe HN is an ideal place to do something like this, because most everyone here could easily understand the details, and why [2] we are doing it. If no one steps up to the plate and this phenomenon gets completely out of control (I'd say that happened long ago) leading to a major fundamental breakdown in society, what might be the ultimate consequences?

Obviously, going forward with some sort of initiative like this is the choice of HN & @dang, but I really wish we could have a discussion on the matter. Do few people see the potential value in this idea (speaking of Orthodox Privilege)?

With respect to:

> B: "Global warming is not real." A: "It is real. Here are peer-reviewed articles, etc. etc."

...what seems to not be apparent to many people is that there is a major but unrealized disagreement on the definition of the term "Global warming", in numerous ways. It is a very semantically overloaded [3] term.

[1] I'd approach it by group brainstorming a set of various "rules" that should be considered, and then these rules could be A/B tested in designated threads to see what happens. I can think of several ideas for rules, and I imagine others could come up with many that never crossed my mind.

[2] Just some of the many reasons are included in the LW article @derefr posted: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Mc6QcrsbH5NRXbCRX/dissolving...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_overload
I use Google photos to store, organise and back-up my photos. My camera does not have geotagging. And they do infer the geolocation (city/region) based on the GPS data from my phone at the time the photo was taken. If I change the metadata, the location changes.

I have mixed feelings about sharing my location with Google at all times, but this one feature is actually very useful to me, and provides real value.
Yeah - totally biased Study - Toyota and Merecedes on the bottom of the List and Buick at the top? Dodge? Kia? This study is a joke.
I think it's more that reliability only really comes with maturity as a car company. In the same way that the reliability of a code base increases with maturity. A car is like a code base in that no one person ever fully understands the entire thing.
It's convenient because you don't need the battery and other related for smart phone capabilities. This keeps the device in a nice form factor and the price down. Devices like this and the HoloLens 2 are the future, we just need a couple more generations of hardware.
Thank you, and likewise - I hope your wife continues to recover and it doesn’t impact your family too much.

I think the reality of sickness is often a revelation once it happens. It’s hard to believe what an impact it can have, seemingly arbitrarily. But with the right support and the right state of mind, recovery is often possible despite being difficult. After a point it just doesn’t happen on its own. It’s another part of life, something to learn from I suppose.
One thing that's not on here: Proofread your resume. Have a friend look over it for you. Spell things correctly. I don't care if you use "JavaScript" or "Javascript" but pick one and stick with it. If you're a software engineer, the ability to type and attention to detail are important so show it in your resume. The number of resumes I've seen with glaring mistakes is too damn high.
Money and/or power tend to be the causes for these things, unless it's personal.
And after that reflection what? Just give away your privilege as some sort of sacrifice?

Btw, this might be impossible from the wokies perspective, what is more inherently tied to identity than your own personal skin color. Can't change that, so maybe it just boils down to money.
Even counting for the whole life cycle, nuclear is a very small greenhouse gas emitter. One plant lasts decades and a very small amount of ore needs to be mined, because uranium is very energy-dense.

I think your point is valid, but lacks generality. Almost nothing we do is carbon neutral. Our energy production certainly isn't.
Playing devil's advocate, PV and wind turbines also need to be built, transported, installed, disassembled, and disposed of, all of which emits greenhouse gases.
review consumer reports reviews of FCA and GM cars. They are crap. JD Power looks at the first 3 months. That's before the first oil change! The reality is that high-reliability cars require no mechanical repairs in the first 100k miles.

anecdotal evidence:
1989 Honda Civic only needed a/c compressor from 100-180k miles.
1991 Honda Civic only needed a/c compressor from 98-140k miles.
2007 Toyota Camry required a CV joint and a sun visor in the first 100k miles. It needed a Power steering hose at 120k.
2010 Honda Pilot required a Fuel Tank Vacuum Valve in the first 100k miles, and a a/c compressor, power steering pump and rack at 190k.
2012 Chevy Sonic needed a new turbo in first 50k miles.
2003 Chevy Cavalier went through alternators like underpants, and would quit running if you turned off the a/c while stopped.

I won't by GM or FCA vehicles with the exception of Dodge RAM diesels. I do maintenance myself and always use OEM parts when I sub work out.
It's very different at smaller companies where the whole interview might be waived (or just no leetcode) if you worked with one of the technical leaders or founders before.
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This is the apt system that's losing the statistics system. Ubuntu is likely collecting data from the closed source proprietary snap system that they push users toward.
Their survey results indicated that a domestic model deserved to be highly ranked? Outrageous!

Do you think masks are a part of a vast dem conspiracy also?
There have been so many accidents. Does anyone else remember when a satellite launch in the 90's from Scandinavia followed exactly the trajectory of a "blinding" shot to Russian radar and only their willingness to wait and see prevented retaliation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_rocket_incident

If America was not a military empire, we could try downsizing our nuclear forces to a so called minimal deterrent of a few hundred nukes and then negotiate with other countries to progressively downsize. We won't though because nuclear diplomacy is how we convince other countries to submit. It's not outright threats, but the quiet knowledge that we could incinerate them if we wanted. Plans were laid for doing so during the Vietnam War. To our planners, the non-offensive use of nuclear weapons is not absolute like we would like to imagine it is. America still has a first strike policy.
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Of course I understand why the research has N=48, my question is whether it is adequate to fully support the claim in the title. I really don't know. I'm not a scientist or sociologist. My intuition tells me that it seems small, and using a population of college students intuitively feels like it wouldn't adequately capture the diversity of professional software developers, but maybe it does in this case.
not directly from the debian project no, you can put a generic ARM64 debian rootfs on it, but you'll need the kernel and u-boot specifically built for it. There is pinephone support in mainline linux but it'll probably 5.8 or 5.9 before you can really use it on the phone.
A lot of people don't seem to like to use the web for what it was invented for -- hyperlinking. The beauty of writing an article online is that if there is something that requires a lot of background, you can give a one sentence summary and then link to a whole page with details if the person needs that.
"...as the Elon Musk-founded firm reportedly wouldn’t allow its customers to be surveyed in 15 of America’s 50 states..."

Sigh. This again? Tesla has joined the list of producers of quality products like Oracle?
I don’t think anyone actually supports the idea of “overpolicing and imprisoning [black people in particular] for nonviolent crime”.

I think your understanding of the situation is that black people are “overpoliced” and disproportionately imprisoned for nonviolent crimes. This is why you want to change the situation, which is a logical conclusion.

I think people who disagree with you about the conclusion you reach didn’t get there by sharing your understanding of the situation, shrugging their shoulders, and saying it was fine. I think they perceive the underlying situation itself differently than you do. It’s not a difference in values. They might be wrong, but people are wrong about things all the time.
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The only good way to assess a candidate is to hire them. It's sad, but true. Some of the brightest and best will not even be able to code with someone else even paying the remotest attention to them. Interviews used to take account of this 15 years ago. Google came along and destroyed this.

I remember talking to a Google interviewer and I came up with a better solution than they expected. Since my solution was non-standard for online median finding-they wanted a unbalanced binary tree where I wanted a tree with the values at the leaves and using a fixed height, in this manner you could easily find successor and predecessor and I'd have actually found a better solution than their expected solution. They wanted the standard binary tree solution with predecessor and insertion, where I failed.

Everything will still jovial, until I mentioned that I consider the tools I use and how to operate them as part of my skill-set. Apparently this is false.

This was me interviewing at Google for a potential job using computer graphics or computer vision. I wouldn't even be working with problems anywhere close to this.

I've found that everyone is just copying Google's process because of all of Google's cash and success, but don't realize that most of Google's success is not due to any investment but rather just one solid team doing search well.

Anyways, I'm glad I didn't get hired, I have a better job (pay and work). Both of the projects I would have worked on have already failed or nearing failure already, it's been like 3 months.
Comprehension. Ironically, I just started writing a blog post about it 10 minutes ago.

To summarize, I try and get the candidate to discuss tradeoffs between different approaches to common situations that the candidate should be familiar with.

For example:

Should GetUserById(int userId) return a null, or throw an exception, when there is no user with the ID? Explain the tradeoffs; or explain why each approach is better in different situations.

Should you deserialize (xml or JSON) to a dictionary or a strongly-typed object? What if you need to manipulate the document while preserving fields that you didn't know about at compile time?

Assuming you have the experience I'm screening for, you either know the tradeoffs or you don't.
This is one of the more damning articles for me. It includes nuggets I used to say as joke about what would happen if MS made a car including:

“I have tried a reset but the glove compartment will not open after pressing the button…any ideas?” One response asked if the car was in Valet mode. When told it wasn’t, they followed with: “ok. That’s the ‘normal’ cause of random glove locking. Try putting it on and turning it off?”

The fact that it is normal is amazing to me.

I love what Tesla did to the industry in terms of advancing battery tech to force other players to move, but talk about Stockholm syndrome.
It's a slippery slope from deplatforming someone to oppression. Might be good for you to read some history on it.
How do I know if I have this problem?
> You don't have much freedom if your lungs don't work.

Freedom and safety may not be polar opposites, but there's certainly tension between them. Many believe that you should have the freedom to decide what to do with your own lungs. The idea that you lose freedom because your lungs don't work seems to be a willful misinterpretation of the idea of freedom from government.
Why? Because we're used to software bugs?
Never seen that happening. Have interviewed with a few FANG companies. There are hundreds of things they can ask and is not reasonable to study for them all
Probably overheating because Amazon "accidentally" leaves the mic on thruout the day.
You're right, and I suppose that's why Twitter doesn't add it. But when you write a thread and then spot a typo right in the middle, it's a disaster. You don't have to deal with clunky Twitter UI but also have to recreate the content (images, text).

Chirr does not update the content but removes the edited part of the thread and republishes it, so it's impossible to abuse.

Another thing I working on is delayed publishing ala Gmail.
Why not go with old severs? I've seen old IBM servers (~2014) with that amount of RAM go for 2000-3000€; of course you'd lack energy efficiency and some compute power, but, unless you really need the power, an order of magnitude less might be a good argument.
I think you're assuming the infographic is saying "non-white people can't share these values". I see it as saying "non-white people are punished if they don't share these values" or "non-white people are punished by saying they don't share these values".

The easiest bullet point to see this distinction for is "Christianity is the norm". It's not saying that being Christian makes you white, but that white people in the US made Christianity the norm. For example, people tried to cast Obama as un-American by claiming he was Muslim.

A longer bullet point to explain is the Scientific Method, but I'll take a shot at that one too. Science is a way to seek truth and reduce bias. However, the people who practice science are not fully objective actors free from bias. For example, evolution is absolutely true, but social darwinism is how many people understood evolution. A scientific truth was used to support a political position. People who would complain about inequalities could be said to be anti-scientific because they were arguing against the natural social order. Science itself isn't the issue, it's people using science to reject individual stories or support their priors.
There will be unsuccessful projects, which while we should learn from them, shouldn't be the anecdotes to condemn a technology

Here's a retrospective, ie an attempt at looking at how things have actually played out compared to projections we're often fed, https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/downloads/retrospective-be... (Chapter 5 of pdf is what looks into your question)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source also aggregates information to try answer your question
I was on the other side - I flew out to FB during a vacation earlier this year. I got there, could explain the solution but something was off and I kept losing the thread when I went to convert it to actual code.

The interviewers didn’t know I’d gotten a call from my cat sitter that morning and one of my cats had to go in for an emergency check up. (He ended up being fine but didn’t know that at the time).

Later that week I got the rejection from FB and then, 15 minutes later the positive response from Google. Really made me realize how much impact the day has on an interview outcome.
> HR tells me that's not feasible for reasons I don't understand

You are asking them to do some work.
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Because omgubuntu is almost entirely clickbait. That I fell for. Again.
> That and debate gave me the ability to just start a sentence without knowing where it will end and then talk my way to a conclusion that sounds like it makes sense

That sounds like a good skill to have in marketing, sales or politics. It sounds like a bad skill to have for engineering.
Here are some numbers to back this statement:

https://www.energy-charts.de/energy.htm?source=all-sources&p...

It's true that in the first 3 years after the decision to speed-up the closure of nuclear in Germany in 2011, coal use increased. But more recently it went down drastically and was replaced mostly by wind and solar on a yearly basis.

Here is similar data but not just Germany (using the data from the 2020 BP statistical review):

https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/ogrisel/energy_charts/bl...
Totally. Spelling mistakes and grammatical errors are the easiest way to destroy an otherwise good resume.
This is a great idea. I'm going to give this a try. Thank you.
It's definitely worth the torrent, especially to see how slow many LE agencies are with keeping up with the technical times.
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P64 Sysadmin here: We are using heavy caching, on WP and also browser-side. It's still not enough.

We previously used Cloudflare, which obviously fixes most of these problems, but people in these types of circles tend to get pissy about CF.
Racists didn't co-op this symbol, trolls convinced the mainstream that it is now a racist symbol just for laughs.
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Some companies even go further. I invited for McKinsey as an experienced hire. They not only sent me study materials, but also setup phone calls with McKinsey alums to practice for the interview and gave me the flexibility to speed up or slow down the process based on how prepared I felt for their interview process.
They also refer to his startup as "Gorkada" multiple times. If they managed to screw that up, I don't have a lot if faith in the rest of the article.
> In the short period of time we have had access to nuclear weapons, we have come very close to nuclear war between superpowers:

And yet virtually every scenario is resolved in the same way: there's no reason that the other side would declare a surprise nuclear war, so the evidence I have of this fact is probably misinterpreted. That's not exactly luck, but people interpreting (and making) policy rationally. Which is why irrational political leaders are so god-damn terrifying.
This survey is garbage. Survey design is an art. And unfortunately, this survey does not differentiate between a big problem like "brakes are shot" and a small one like "My spotify playlist doesn't show up like I want". Dig a bit deeper, for Tesla,

> Infotainment is the source of more than a quarter of all problems

Another thing to point out is that J.D. Power’s IQS does not differentiate between a problem that is the result of a physical fault or a design issue in which everything works as intended but the learning curve might be too steep.

No doubt Tesla has production issues like any other car maker in the world. But to truly compare them, a more credible source of information is necessary.
Because it makes us a lot of money.
Probably much higher for those living in the UK with its insane housing prices (10x the hours worked per square meter of Chicago!)
Sam Harris recently did a podcast about the dangers of nuclear weapons that I found really interesting:

https://samharris.org/podcasts/210-logic-doomsday/

and there was one back in February that was really interesting, including all the accidents that almost led us into nuclear war:

https://samharris.org/podcasts/186-the-bomb/

One interesting story is that of Lt Col. Stanislav Petrov, who questioned a US nuclear launch (which ended up being a false alarm) and may have been one of many people who have prevented am accidental nuclear war.
If I was interviewing a python programmer, I would also know python. I would ask them about a project they’ve done in detail, see if they are bsing, gauge their ability and experience from that
The scrutiny of the actual value added by middle managers during the remote work era gets a minor respite.

Boss: "Why didn't you get any work done?"

Middle manager: "The dog (Microsoft Outlook) ate my homework (email)"
Real Name -> Address is already public information, due to the combination of real estate deeds, campaign finance reports, etc.

Real Name -> Phone number is nearly public information, being easily looked up in commercial surveillance databases. I've gotten phone calls from businesses on a associated numbers that I don't even consider mine due to this.

Framing a list of public servants as "doxing" is just a thinly-veiled power play to prevent accountability over the rest of the contents.
There is certainly less of a threat. But imagine what a small fraction, say a few dozen thermonuclear bombs, a couple SLBM's worth, would do to major population centers and the economies they power. That and the after effects would be enough to call the continued viability of modern civilization into question.

Nuclear weapons remain the surest way to end civilization on this planet, and the chances of that happening are far higher than, for example, a meteor strike.
This comment sounds a bit like you feel attacked by the idea he lays out and are going for an offense. "I'm not saying that pg holds any particular views, racist or otherwise" while quoting a tweet implying just that does smell a little bit.

I don't know whether he holds any problematic opinions. Those essays sounded more like PSAs to me, essentially "hey, Robespierre, before you start going after those people, remember that you might not be right on everything, so having an opinion that differs from your own doesn't really mean that somebody is an evil agent of the reactionary forces".
If you want a good career, working on your interviewing skills is the most important thing. Networking and resume fluff are close seconds. Job skill is almost irrelevant. It's an ugly truth.