skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We have one reality R

For the record, physics takes this on desperate faith.
It's an assumption in the face of a perceived to be hopeless alternative.
Special Relativity itself, Quantum Physics and this new modified MOND that is based on gravity not being universally constant are all pairing down the whole "there is one consensus reality" notion.

This isn't to say that there isn't consensus reality, only that the consensus bit keeps getting smaller and smaller as we learn more.
More to do with women becoming more educated, not men and women.
They enforce intentionally anti-competitive policies. Referencing third party mobile platforms (Android) is not allowed in iOS apps. See 2.3.10 https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#acc...
Advertisers can choose to advertise to customers that fall into various buckets.

Income, gender, location, recent history of viewing specific types of pages, etc.

This is what I mean by limited form of access. Advertisers do not receive user information, but are granted the ability to use it when setting up ad campaigns.
This is as nonsensical as complaining about Disney having a monopoly in Disneyland.
That gave me flashbacks to using a dreadful ORM years ago that was incredibly bad at doing updates. Combine that with code generated from UML diagrams resulting in tables with hundreds of columns and every time you updated a single field every column got written out.....
Women joining the workforce is the real issue here. Society has not adjusted since that event.

To be clear, this is not a criticism of women working or their ability, but a fundamental change in human behavior.

It will take some time for society to figure this out.
Look, I don't know what the disconnect is here.

I have a genetic disorder. My son has a genetic disorder. We use diet to mitigate health issues regularly.

I do know for an absolute fact what I have stated as clearly as I can figure out how to state: that increased zinc consumption mitigated the unusual problems we were having that aren't typical for us and which we firmly believe were due to Covid-19.

I have stated clearly that we were never tested, so, no, I can't prove we had it. I can still believe we had it and I don't think it should be anywhere near this much drama to say I believe we had it when I've stated clearly that this is a belief unverified by testing, so I certainly cannot prove it.

I have stated clearly -- and repeatedly -- that my anecdote isn't a recommendation for treatment.

I think it did mitigate symptoms from Covid-19. I admit I can't prove it was Covid-19. I've stated that repeatedly.

And whatever was wrong with us, zinc helped.

You are entirely free to think it's worthless data because we were never tested. I've done everything in my power to distinguish as clearly as I can my opinion from verifiable fact. I am telling you "zinc helped" is in the category of fact in my mind and what it helped with was "probably Covid-19" is my opinion.

I'm planning to walk away at this point. It never ceases to amaze me how much other people have some big problem with me having opinions about my own health status like me thinking about my own health is some kind of serious crime on the order of impersonating a surgeon.
Phase 3 requires monitoring how many people get sick from the environment. That takes a LOT of test subjects and a decent amount of time -- even in major hot spots covid isn't THAT prevalent. The overwhelming majority of people at any moment, after all, aren't getting sick.

If you have well-informed volunteers like this willing to break with conventional rules, you can do a challenge trial where you deliberately expose them to live virus. That can work very fast indeed.
It’s easy to think it’s fair because the cost to Apple is low. But in principle, let’s assume that it costs Apple a significant amount of money and effort to make the transaction happen, for which they charge you that 30%. Seems unfair then that Apple has to be held responsible for refunding a service they provided when it was not their fault the customer wanted the money back for your product.
It's not the same at all. Payment processing is work, regardless of direction. Marketing fees for non-sales is payment for nothing.
isn't transmission bandwidth a bigger concern?
Competitive? It is an oligopoly with tacit collusion on price fixing. This is the exact reason why anti-trust legislation exists.

A competitive market would be one in which the platform providers were forced to divest from the app markets, and support competing app markets which meet requirements, and which actively compete on features and price.

If cars only supported gasoline from manufacturer gas stations, and 95% of the market was controlled by cars from GM and Ford, and once you bought a GM car you could only buy gasoline from a GM gas station, would you call the gasoline market competitive?

To extend the metaphor, let's say it was technically possible to use third-party gas stations, but the manufacturers had hidden this ability, and it required a small amount of mechanical knowledge to enable, and maybe voided your warranty, would you then consider the market competitive?
This is the core question I'm focusing on in the learning curriculum of my screencasts https://www.semicolonandsons.com/about

I'm betting on

- unix-like systems

- SQL-like systems

- vim

- "core" aspects of programming languages (data types, algorithms, operator precedence, etc.)

- HTTP protocol

- program design

- security
> The break finally came last week, when a tip came in naming “Umbrella Man” and said he is a member of the Hells Angels, a motorcycle gang made up of mostly white men who ride Harley-Davidson bikes. Christensen wrote that “Umbrella Man” is also a “known associate” of the Aryan Cowboys, a group described by the Anti-Defamation League as a white supremacist prison gang based mainly out of Minnesota and Kentucky.

> Christensen also wrote that just before smashing the windows to the AutoZone, “Umbrella Man” spray-painted in white, “free s--- for everyone zone,” on the red doors of the store.

> He was also involved in an incident in Stillwater, Minn., where a group of motorcycle gang members wearing Aryan Cowboys leather vests accosted a Muslim woman, according to the affidavit.

Original title was too long. It was:

'Umbrella Man' who broke windows at George Floyd protest in Minneapolis, is a white supremacist, police say

For those who have trouble with the link:

https://archive.is/sA7hs
Not really, at least not in a sense that different products and stores compete.

When I buy a phone I can choose from multiple models, then once I choose a model I can choose a store where I want to buy it. These 2 examples are competitive. Then I can choose what app I want to buy, but I can't choose anymore where I buy it (at least on IOS). There's no competition between stores. There's just competition between phone manufacturers that ends the moment you choose the phone, from then onwards is a monopoly (or near monopoly in case of Android)
I remember when we didn’t have app stores. All we really need is decentralized app publisher trust. Centralized app publishing will always be abused by the publisher in the long run. It’s just too powerful and tempting to not stack the deck in your favor as the app store owner.
The argument wasn't that they were equal, but that the ARM chip appeared _more_ performant than the x64 one. It's a legit point that refresh rate could make it appear so even if the actual performance is roughly the same.
Yes but recommendations will be limited to what's generally popular at my perceived geolocation instead of personalized to search history.
Also cost, they are mass printed, you can get a solid albiet boring AR for 500$. I think you'd be hard pressed to get a higher powered rifle without spending 800$+.
> And sometimes they are free to punch you.

Not if your speech is protected, that's the point. And that's also what cancel culture, doxxing etc is about. They're not going after people announcing plans to kill the President or shoot up a school.

Free speech without the government enforcing the physical integrity of the speaker is meaningless.
I guess when I look for inspiration about exponential growth my goto would be Dyson from 1960. I did get a degree in physics and like the blog post though, so I'm with you there.

http://www.islandone.org/LEOBiblio/SETI1.HTM

"The reader may well ask in what sense can anyone speak of the mass of Jupiter or the total radiation from the sun as being accessible to exploitation. The following argument is intended to show that an exploitation of this magnitude is not absurd. First of all, the time required for an expansion of population and industry by a factor of 10^12 is quite short, say 3000 years if an average growth rate of 1 percent per year is maintained. Second, the energy required to disassemble and rearrange a planet the size of Jupiter is about 10^44 ergs, equal to the energy radiated by the sun in 800 years. Third, the mass of Jupiter, if distributed in a spherical shell revolving around the sun at twice the Earth's distance from it, would have a thickness such that the mass is 200 grams per square centimeter of surface area (2 to 3 meters, depending on the density). A shell of this thickness could be made comfortably habitable, and could contain all the machinery required for exploiting the solar radiation falling onto it from the inside.

It is remarkable that the time scale of industrial expansion, the mass of Jupiter, the energy output of the sun, and the thickness of a habitable biosphere all have consistent orders of magnitude. It seems, then a reasonable expectation that, barring accidents, Malthusian pressures will ultimately drive an intelligent species to adopt some such efficient exploitation of its available resources. One should expect that, within a few thousand years of its entering the stage of industrial development, any intelligent species should be found occupying an artificial biosphere which completely surrounds its parent star."
At least when the approach works, I think the goal is to not have to have the teams aligned, instead giving them independent mandates that lead to the emergent behavior being what the business needs.
The thing is, rent rises faster than income. There are numerous emotional and social costs to having children, too. I should know, we have two of them.

Even making low six figures doesn't seem like enough in my low to mid CoL area. It's incredibly taxing to invest yourself into the lives of two small humans while still maintaining your own life.

So yeah, people could live like pilgrims and have kids, but why? That's not the main obstacle in 2020. Societal, cultural, and economic uncertainty is far and away more of an obstacle than budgeting.
Those stats are in the article (cited, in fact)
> all do a 30/70 split on digital sales.

Consistency which is only possible in an environment of collusion.
Is leisure part of your productivity routine?
I recently read the book Do Nothing: How To Break Away From Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving. Despite the title, it wasn't about actually doing nothing. It was about being intentional with your work time and your leisure time and scheduling both.

Placing a conscious value on leisure time has helped me to be more creative and energized with my work. It also helps me make sure that when I am working, I'm working towards something worthwhile and productive.

Is leisure part of your routine? What works for you?
App Stores are doing to software developers what supermarkets did to food producers and most other manufacturers: moving all power and profit to distributors.

It is somewhat ironic that so many people who helped so many other sectors disintermediate again (by building websites), are now busy actually intermediating their own.
I only mentioned the Moon-Starship, because illustrations show nicely how far away from the surface the cargo bay is.

I don't suppose the Mars version will be all that different in that regard, but we'll see.
What if you have a big Twitter following and ask them to do it?
And I think that’s great! I just don’t think they need to be forced to do it. If I were Apple I would definitely refund. But I don’t agree that it should be an obligation for them to do it.
They didn't deliver a customer. They delivered a non-customer.
This is really cool. Well done.

There seems to be an interest in generative are on Hacker News lately. Another one I saw that didn't make it to the front page was No Paint:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23934292
How is it a strawman? That's literally his argument. He writes: "This is something that is cheap and could save hundreds of thousands of lives." in the context of covid while providing nothing but his anecdotal experience with a different disease. How could I possibly interpret the argument any other way?
By luxuries you mean healthcare, good education and financial stability. Even comment you respond to qualified it as "life is challenging" which does not mean "they miss golden handles on door", but rather "it is a lot of work and stress to fit into budget".

Plus, being stay at home with three small kids is more isolating then corona lockdown, so there is significant "dealing with frustration and routine without loosing your mind" challenge too.
I also like/had this idea, and if someone else doesn't make it first, or wants to help on it, I'm iterating with the name Wait24News.
>trying to be diplomatic if the message may not be politically correct

Not exactly; whether my message is politically correct depends on how you generalize it and what groups you apply it to.

You could use it selectively in other contexts and demonstrate either a left or right wing allegiance, but right here and now, I'm talking about people suited to whiteboarding vs. take home tests as the groups.

>that kind of stratification of the market sounds horrible

It's what we've got though, and always have. In your words, "the underlying...reality". Of course we agree things can be improved somehow. I think hiring should be more inclusive, and I think most people would at least give lip service to that.

But if different people are always going to be different, then a hypothetical convergence on a single "fair" standard means telling some fraction of the population they have no place in society at all.

Eliminating whiteboarding, strictly speaking, seems reasonable to object to. It would be unfairly discriminatory. But wanting that to be the only standard also is an extremist position.

If you want to draw a more general opinion out of what I wrote, one of the things on my mind is the general scourge of optimization by tech people who assume the solution to anything is to find the one best answer based on some metric.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27507778/
> If you look inside any modern laptop or smartphone you'll find that most it was manufactured in Asia, and that the software and hardware design was split between many different countries and continents, and that the actual people doing the work are even more diverse.

Indeed. It takes a civilisation to make an iPhone. Many US multinationals have EU development divisions of one sort or another. Dublin is doing very well out of FAANG at the moment.

Where are the owners? Well, if it's a publicly quoted company, they're all over the world.

Where are the corporate taxes paid? Staff salaries and sales taxes are paid locally. But profits can be routed to the cheapest jurisdiction, so Apple is technically an Irish company when it comes to profit accounting, on which they pay almost no tax (see Ireland v European Commission (Apple Sales International) (Cases T-778/16 and T-892/16) (15 July 2020))

Perhaps the real question is, "When the nationalists come for you for displaying insufficient loyalty, which jurisdiction do you end up in?" The barrier between US and China is gradually being raised again.
Tiktok CEO, management and employees are all Americans. Their office is in California. There are now a few hundreds American employees at tiktok. If Chinese government control them or forcing them to hand over American data, they would have came out by then. You think that no one would have said anything? No one in China office can touch tiktok's code and user data. How is that ccp or government controlled?
What a product-placement kind of post; this won't go down well. No harm meant to OP poster of course.
I didn't know either but I like the 3-hour relaxing music video that was recommended to them. After a few minutes of that I thought, "How bad could they be?"
You might be interested in Invidious. It's a lightweight youtube frontend that runs in the browser.

https://invidio.us/

https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

You can host it yourself or use one of the many public installations: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/wiki/Invidious-Instances
How much value is provided for a refund?
Their liberal persona is actually fairly mainstream, probably to the right of the average Bernie Sanders supporter.
Thanks! I think this helps clarify it quite a lot. The use of the word "observed" was a critical part of my misunderstanding, as to me it felt like it was saying that by not being observed it was "made up" instead, when really it's more accurate to say that it's part of the model and we know it exists but have a hard time describing it?
The only heavy regulation I need is the device is fully mine after I buy it. I'll take care of the rest.
Now that I've had a chance to click through each of the sections and browse different days I want to follow up.

First, a lot of the videos are pretty old, multiple years old. That seems weird but idk maybe that's how YouTube works I guess.

There's not a lot of variety in the channels on each section. This is likely due to what subscriptions are setup.

Most of the videos are pretty tame. I've seen a lot worse casually browsing YT so I think being able to crank it up to 11 would be a fun feature of the site.

Observations based solely on what I saw,

Fruitarians seem to be about eating healthy and working out.

Preppers are about diy living off the grid and less about stockpiling guns.

Liberals watch a lot of comedy news type shows and music reviews. Most of their focus is what Republicans are doing

Conservatives have a show featuring Tito Ortiz who is famous for taking a lot of brain damage in the UFC which I thought was funny. More to their category tho, it featured a lot of videos doing "gotchas" on liberals.

Conspiracists watch a lot of videos by some guy named Shane and unsolved mysteries videos.

Climate Deniers I think this channel wasn't tuned right or maybe they really do watch a lot of videos put out by the oil industry (they aren't obfuscating this)
Phones are not the private property of Apple and Google.
I'd bet that more than 95% of the US population would equate those two terms.
I remember when we were expecting our first child, we went through a 'parenting school' - a course where all kinds of doctors, psychologists, nurses, nutritionists, etc. came to teach us, future parents, about parenthood. Since it's not maths, a lot of them had different views on different things, which confused people. Until one day, one future mother, all anxious (if you're a parent, you'll understand the psychological state of expecting a first baby in the next month or two) asked almost angrily: "You people give us conflicting advises, what should we do? How do we do good when even you don't agree what's good between each other???" The answer was simple: "We give you all views, all options. It's up to you which one you think is right and good for your kid. That's what parenting is. That's why we are all different people."

Same thing works for companies. Leadership shapes the company. There is no one-size-fit-all strategy. What works for one company, doesn't work for another. Two pizza team size can work somewhere. Somewhere else something else will. People tend to look for manuals, instructions on how to do things, expecting that someone will write it all down and they just need to do what's written. From time to time, we get to hypes about something (check under microservices for example), everyone use it because it's popular, fancy, buzz word. Without thinking - do we really need this? It's like an epidemic (or pandemic?) of paper pushers, no one wants to take responsibility. To take action. And there is no responsibility if you do things as it's written in the manual, right?

Best methodology is - work with your team. Talk to the team. Know how they breathe. And they will tell you what to do, how to organise them, which methodology to use.

"Take care of your people and they will take care of your business."
I have another argument that might be more convincing for you: automation makes things cheaper, so by definition it creates wealth for society. Now, you can argue that said wealth is unfairly distributed - and indeed wealth distribution itself is a thorny subject. But it is also a completely orthogonal one! I don't think we should stop from creating wealth until we find a "satisfactory" way to distribute it.... That feels like it would be a very bad idea to me.
Apple is not giving a 70% refund when you refund an app. They are giving a full refund and charging the seller for the 30%.

In your analogy, it would be like giving the toll back and charging a portion of it to the bridge builder.
Read "not just twice" as "not only twice".

Then you can read "it's twice squared" as (the first use of twice) + ("twice squared")

The 'it' reference can change. The first 'it' is referencing the difficulty. The second 'it' is referencing the first 'twice', creating the option that 'it' is further "twice squared". Not the most elegant interpretation but a possible interpretation.

Learning to avoiding this vague language is why math majors should still take the occasional poetry class.
Consoles are also harder to pirate games on which I'm guessing is why rockstar games always releases first on consoles.
What type of annotations do you offer?
Depends how you're measuring risk. Microdeaths per megawatt-year?

The thing about a fusion plant is that there likely won't be that many people on site. Failure modes for the most part ought to look like conventional explosions, which we largely know how to mitigate where they're likely.

What worries me, with the sequence of plants, starting with ITER and DEMO, is that because of the scaling laws that seem to be involved, we're heading towards very few gigantic generators, where they're each responsible for such a large proportion of the power supply that we couldn't cope with any one of them going offline. The immediate power loss itself could be responsible for loss of life.
Would 1% risk of death be enough for you to isolate yourself from society 2-3 years until we have widespread vaccine adoption?

Preparing for the end of civilization is perhaps a bit paranoid (I hope), or at least somewhat pointless :)

Side note: that said there is probably many reasonable DIY outdoor enthusiasts who gets categorized as preppers.
Oh, really? Which competitors to Apple are there on iOS?
Hmm, in my circles usually goes {1 cheese}, {1 cheese, 1 meat}, {1 cheese, 1 meat, 1 veggie}, {2 cheese, 1 meat, 1 veggie}...
Totally false. This isn't that easy to read, is it?

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