skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Solar installations change the albedo of the planet

They do. And so does every single thing we build that's exposed to the outside - bulding, cars, even you when you are out and about.

The effect is minuscule unless we are turning the planet into Coruscant or this is a gray goo scenario.
> The Great Filter isn't a thing! There is no Fermi paradox!

Just spent the time to read this whole paper, I think you're misstating some of the claims. A lot of people seem to be confused as to what is stated by the Great Filter/Fermi paradox/Drake equation.

First, let's define some terms (from wikipedia!): "The Great Filter, in the context of the Fermi paradox, is whatever prevents non-living matter from undergoing abiogenesis."

To be clear, the Great Filter is a solution to the Fermi paradox. If the Great Filter is true, then there is no paradox. The statement that there is no Fermi paradox is not the same as saying there is no Great Filter.

This paper suggests that there is a huge amount of uncertainty in $f_l$ and it actually can be quite small, meaning that it is not unlikely that we would see no alien life. (I won't comment on their choice of log-uniform priors, which does not seem intrinsically justified and lets them get much smaller results than if they had just picked uniform)

But that is the Great Filter argument! If there is a great filter, that would be a reason why $f_l$ would be lower and the fermi paradox doesn't occur. The paper never suggests that there is no great filter.

Now contextualizing to this discovery. If there is life on Venus, that changes our estimate of $f_l$, reducing our uncertainty and increasing the posterior probability mass towards life developing, which means that the fact that we haven't seen life must push the probability of development beyond that stage down or our current state of affairs is more unlikely than it was before.

Does that make sense?
A bug in Joe Biden’s campaign app gave anyone access to millions of voter files
Seems like the kind of item where if you're even concerned about what it costs then you're likely not the target audience. I can't imagine they're going to make that many of them.
> Which is why I'm not sure why I see so much US negative comments around here and this smug EU stance

Because not only the (relatively) rich matter.
I'm an avid tt user but frankly their algo is little more than "show them videos from their area". They used to allow you to ignore videos from certain users but the feature was retired. Their recommendation engine is on the same level as youtube's and probablt not as good as spotify's algo.

As I've said before: try using tiktok and tapping "not interested" on any food video that comes up. After a month of doing this they will still show you food videos in the fyp.

Their feed is extremely edited by their moderators and AI has very little to do with it.
But in practice, this list of questions reflects less the principles of Effective Altruism and more the overlap between people calling themselves Effective Altruists and other personal and career preoccupations. That's how you get four of the six "most impactful" questions in politics and international relations being about AI and one of the others involving representation for 'sentient nonhumans'. (Suffice to say this is not a list a political scientist, or even your average consequentialist utilitarian cosmopolitan humanist who read more newspapers than AI papers would propose as research priorities in politics and IR. Probably great research questions to get you a popular blog and a job in a Silicon Valley research institute though)
As a psychologist/cognitive scientist (my identity depends on my mood/day), I was equally disappointed with the sections on psychology and neuroscience. Some of the questions have been answered (at least partially, such as the importance of domain knowledge versus "processing power").

Overall, it was a very odd look into a discipline that I am familiar with, which leads me to think that the ideas are not very promising for any of the fields I don't have expertise in.
Still, one needs to consider the demographics of programmers in general. Even ignoring issues like moving to management, health, etc, there simply weren't many programmers that started in the 1980's.
How are the wildly successful and impressive accomplishments of SpaceX comparable to the cave submarine or nonexistent level5 self-driving? One of these things is not like the others.
With postgress it doesn't matter. Chars are just varcars under the hood, so you should always use the latter.
Income levels wise, Numbeo is just a mish-mash full of noise and can't be taken seriously to judge salaries of skilled professionals(that's what we're talking about right?)

Sure, poor people have it better in Vienna because it's cheaper and has better social services than London but skilled professionals(developers and engineers) have it worse as underpaying is rampant in the tech industry there.

Sources: me living there and my friends living in the UK
Like Tesla's full self driving. It doesn't exist and will not exist for a long time.
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What is the "real cost" of a loaf of bread? It doesn't make sense to talk of things as if they have an absolute inherent dollar value, as both the cost to produce these things and the relative utility of dollars both change. The asymptotic bound assumes current technology and current dollar values, which are both going to change in the tens of years involved.
The wrong assumptions behind those defined benefit pension liabilities ended up being quite costly, this zero interest rate environment for the previous decade and foreseeable future will wreak havoc on them. I'm surprised they didn't freeze and terminate the plan years ago.
I'm struggling to think who would buy this.

Home simracers would buy their own wheel, pedals, shifter and VR headset, and pull a real seat from a junk car, for a total cost of a couple thousand (including PC).

Professionals would probably build custom rigs.
That's a helpful way to frame it.

Am I responding or reacting?

Thanks!
This is a horrible press release. Horrible. The allegations Hinderburg made are substantial, but a rebuttal as poor as this one is even worse than just staying silent.

It would be somewhat understandable if they'd be trying to weasel out of one or two issues.

But when all but a few of your rebuttals are "oh but in a strict technical sense, we didn't make the claims that Hingerburg is challenging", like "we never said the truck was under its own propulsion, the video was just called "in motion", or "the contract that we claimed was worth 250 million had an option that made it potentially worth 250 million", then that just underlines how much bullshit they have been spewing.
Sounds like the story with Volvo Cars. Ford sold it to Geely, but it was like it was sold to a foreign owner in the first place.
Inked in this YouTube video description, is another channel https://www.youtube.com/c/RetroGameMechanicsExplained

Just spent an hour watching, great stuff on both channels
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I disagree with you on certain things.

I read you blog on
"Lack of Feedback: The Main Reason You Quit".

Only certain things need feedback, not all things. If you are building an app which you want to sell in that case it need not have all features, only essentials first, see if it works and extend it.

Blogs, articles, posts or even sometimes app, if you ask for feedback, when you get it, you might start to work on the feedback rather than completing the things you planned, some feedbacks can be negative, it can get under your skin and can be depressing or uninspiring. So sometimes to do a lot, don't put that comment box on every post, just have a common feedback or put your email somewhere in "aboutme".

Lack of feedback is sometimes good.

Commitment, Say no and adjust doesn't match up.

I am doing a side project for 3 years, it's a bit of analysis work and a web project. No word to anyone on that subject. To get more time to work on my project, I moved closer to my office to save time on travelling but rents bit high, not changing my work even if other offers are good, why ? Fine with work life balance at current work, which I might not get in another company ( previous experience ). I am a moviebuff, stopped watching so many movies and TV series, now I just read spoilers and learn oh that's the story. I know movies will be available online now always, I can watch it anytime I want later.

I sort of believe, the concepts, the ideas which you get in the head, if you have time you should work on them or should put efforts actually, sometimes, till you action that idea another one might not come or that idea could be trigger for something else(like a seed).

Ads are there to get more people to visit, if you are product based.

www.bobbydreamer.com

Is my site, consistently i get 41 users per month(guessing those are all bots).

I just pretend, my site is like a ninja, no one knows it exists but it does.

Persistence is the key.

There are lot of people who do 100 days of coding challenge like 100 posts, Today I Learned, I cannot definitely keep up with them. That's fine. I just know, I have to do atleast one thing in my side project per day. On a very tiresome workday, I will just update comments.

Keep reading your to-do list and check things off. Write things in paper rather than a app. Later one day, your scribbles will look funny.

Keep pushing yourself.
Accessibility? Consistency? Performance?
I’ve seen articles online of up to 60% of repairs in some countries being fraudulent. A bit more than a minority sadly.
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I've taken a cut each time I sign on vs contracting. Only done it when equity or length of engagement make it attractive.
Also, it is far easier to pay young folks in lottery tickets. Most of us older folks understand the actual value of stock options having been through the process a few times.
It's Postgres under the hood. The key-value service itself is Go and we run it on GKE alongside some of our other services.

Yep, that's the idea. If you had a user with ID 1, one scheme to get all her info could be storing attributes in keys such as:

user:1:name
user:1:email
user:1:city

Then a prefix search for "user:1:" would get you the relevant keys for that user.

But you could also go another way and drop a JSON-encoded object in a single key and work with it inside your app, since that might be the fastest way to get something off the ground!
This is something I have wondered about and had no idea they basically had some sort of perpetual license. Is this normal for ARM to give out such a license? Or are all ARM licenses basically typically under those conditions? I know ARM mostly just licenses specs to their chips.
But to quote the article:
Softbank [...] agreed to legally binding commitments to increase investment, headcount and preserve its headquarters in the UK.
I hadn’t thought about it like this before, but that’s like a twisted version of Kahneman & Tversky’s “losses loom larger than gains.” I wonder if the psychological weighting mechanism is the same.
This was an interesting read, but I have to admit there were a couple of things that made it a bit difficult to get through.

* Treating subjective matters (Paul Graham is one of the most prolific writers in his field) as objective facts leads the reader to believe there's an inherent bias.

* Providing a concrete example for one side of the argument (Paul Graham's take) with no concrete example for the other makes the argument feel skewed

Like I said, it's definitely interesting, but I could see this frankly coming off as a bit under-researched to a more discerning / skeptical audience.
...for 14yo drivers...
It would be even more interesting if they found C3PO IMO.
They built a nice setup on Linus Tech Tips a little while ago. Pricing is mentioned in the vid. I think the motion thing was about $3k USD.

The video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJkPtX4rXug

The motion thing for the seat
https://www.nextlevelracing.com/products/next-level-racing-m...

I expect the entire build, with PC and monitor, wheel, etc, was around $10k
I used to be annoyed with getting (various European formats) of plugs out of recessed sockets.

I'm not so annoyed now that I'm aware that the recessed nature is actually really helpful to avoid that failure mode.
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They probably can sell calls against those shares, basically getting risk-free money regardless of NKLA price in future.
Funny, I thought all of the video chat meetings being put on my calendar were basically the same thing as spying on me to make sure I was doing my work, or at least thinking about doing it...
Sounds like Verizon just wants the subscriber count.

Tracfone already uses the Verizon network (early in the article) and nothing mention later makes it sound like Tracfone would not be able to use the Verizon network to do the same thing.
Technically yes, but as I've been trying to get across; violating the conservation of momentum isn't just 'new physics' it shakes the whole foundation of modern physics. The very definition of momentum ensures it is conserved by the (classical) equations of motion, to be otherwise is patently absurd.
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Yeah I mention the nice guy part because it wasn't like he was a raving asshole day-in-day out. In fact he really was (outwardly anyway) a 'nice guy' pretty much always and didn't view his behavior as wrong at all (it was his 'property', etc).

Even guys that are seemingly nice have very odd beliefs. It really opened my eyes as to what to talk about at work, even if the topic didn't seem 'fringe' to me. Older dudes out west/here in Colorado in particular grew up with a sort of cavalier notion of what freedom and America means to them, and telling them what they can or cannot do on their own property is the heart of the matter.
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Who needs ARM when you have solid investments in companies like OneWeb
The UK consumes more electricity now than in the 1970s.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/550592/uk-electricity-co...

Consumption in 1970: 192 TWh

Consumption in 2019: 295 TWh
https://archive.vn/MWwkH
Ah, but we are also judging Newton’s future and value where he would still act as a person with a short lifespan. Living for hundreds of years would have a profound effect on the psyche. I’m prone to think he would be a little bit cooler than we are giving him credit for regardless. I’m not demanding calculus part two or off with his head. Also, would Newton really be a tyrant? A lot of this has a particularly precrime vibe to it. But I’ll accept your point about Newton. He was a bit of a dick.

Joyce on the other hand: a saint.
Why is it always a misconfigured ElasticSearch cluster?
Cutthroat usually means something like unprincipled or ruthless competition. When 3DFX and now Nvidia were on top, there was no assailing them. You exist in a position they allow you to exist.

Perhaps the competition between 3DFX and ATi or Nvidia and AMD could be described as cutthroat but the other "competitiors" in the space couldn't even compete and eventually they all just pivoted into other things without anyone noticing or caring.

It's not unlike the x86 processor market. Companies like Via and Transmeta existed but they never were any serious competition to Intel or AMD.
AMDs answer to Ampere won't be shabby based on info about next generation consoles. They're also widening the gap on CPUs with Zen to where ARM won't have an easy time making inroads on server/workstation.

On the Intel side, the process obstacles have been tragic, but they have plenty of hot products and plenty of x86 market share to lose, or in other words, plenty of time to recover CPU performance dominance.
Same with postgres. I never use specific lengths for text on postgres.
Once again we see that the short side is absolutely necessary to keep companies in check. A company that whines about short sellers is broadcasting its intention to act dishonestly. If you are long a company that puts out press releases about a short conspiracy, run for the exits.
The descriptions are behind the link, driven by the DOAP files each project maintain.

But I agree, it would have been nice to have a version of this page with first para of the description inlined in the listing itself.
> It sends these Von Neumann probes out into the universe in all directions. The chances of any one of them ever encountering anything larger than a grain of dust before the heat death of the universe is practically zero.

Haha okay. I think most would view this as a pretty uncharitable assumption (appears contingent on these civilizations not having telescopes or AI), but if that's your view I can understand why we disagree.
Question: I’ve previously read that recycling is economically viable in some EU countries (Germany, Austria, Netherlands). Some countries like Finland have figured out ways to recycle components that go into landfills in the US. How did they manage to do this?

Was it through regulation on the type of plastics that are sold to consumers? Was it through government subsidies? Through a better sorting process? Something else?
Such as?

Picking some features I like entirely at random: libdispatch, Core Data, comprehensive accessibility support, SpriteKit, Core Video, ARKit… basically, there are lot of powerful and reasonably consistent APIs (with good performance) that really make a bunch of development much more tractable. Some of these can be replicated on the web platform; others can't.

In any case, I'd assume those miles are only gained on iOS where Apple has gimped the newer web APIs.

I'm sure you appreciate why that kind of attitude is a bit silly and serves to demonstrate the exact effect I was initially talking about.
NEC 400.7(A) Flexible Cords point 11 would seem to allow it so long as it was 1-to-1 inlet to outlet.

Flexible cords and cables shall be used only for the following...(11) Between an existing receptacle outlet and an inlet, where the inlet provides power to an additional single receptacle outlet. The wiring interconnecting [...] shall be a Chapter 3 wiring method. [...]

I don't know what Chapter 3 is though, and in the below study guide link it seems to show a double outlet in the graphic.

https://www.electricallicenserenewal.com/Electrical-Continui...
Do you work in the US or UK?

I read your original post as working in the UK for an American company, but now I'm not so sure
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You are looking for meaning. That is a normal human instinct.
I am talking about power structures. They should be examined. Most people here are not willing to do that, because they figure they will soon be the top dogs. They are wrong, and this expectation is being exploiting by less naive actors.
There were no goalposts.
If you develop proprietary technology and then sell it, you should not be suprised when your technology eventually ends up being used in a way that you do not like, or that you cannot license it back.
That's just silly. Once ONLY-TRAIT-THAT-MATTERS is satisfied, by more than one solution, then NEXT-TRAIT-THATS-IMPORTANT suddenly starts mattering.
How does this differ from something like Stitch (other than being open source)? We are in the planning stages of a data warehouse upgrade and Stitch seems to fit our needs, but your product looks great. I'm curious how it compares.
The authors of the paper estimated that at least 200 times more volcanic activity than what’s present on the Earth would be required to release that much phosphine into the atmosphere. It’s almost certain that there are active volcanos on Venus, but that much activity is unlikely to have gone unnoticed.
Fairly sure that's not anywhere near the whole picture of what CA was accused of? I thought CA ran surveys and from that data could make implications based on the friends and friends if friends of the person who took the survey?
I hope so. And when AMD's graphics cards and Intel's processors become good again, they're welcome to reclaim a top spot. But, until then, they are woefully behind.
People die from doxxing, by getting "swotted".

I have a friend who had death threats sent to her parents. These people are vicious and relentless.
> journalistic malpractice of not linking

That disease is very prevalent, and I don't understand why.

My less-cynical guess is that the industry is stuck in the past, and journalists need better training and tools.

My more-cynical guess is that they are afraid of irrelevance, so they are defensively trying to keep you in their walled garden of information instead of encouraging you to get into the habit of getting info more directly.
Postgres also has a TEXT type like this.

Edit: I see mpolun left a similar comment here, but it looks like he has been mostly shadowbanned for about 8 years.
Please do provide a more recent survey of comparable experts if it’s possible.
That’s a hurdle everyone crosses and usually doesn’t go backwards. It sounds like it just happens to be less than 3 years in your rear view.

I don’t know anything about you. But I know being young and having disposable time to dive into everything is a common trap. Using myself as an example, I got married, had a kid, work a lot, and still try to have a bit of a social life. This means I scrutinize heavily how my time is utilized on side projects. I pretty much know when I can build something. Or know i could fill necessary gaps. So I skip that and go straight to “then what?” Is it for hobby? Can I sell this? Do I want to find someone who can? Am I wanting to spend years focused on this? The fact is, I have a lot of ideas that are just-for-fun projects that I would have dived right into in my younger days. Now I rarely do that. I occasionally have an idea that I’ll push forward. I read a lot and like to learn without doing if you will. I also assemble teams to do the labor intensive parts and act as a project manager when I want to build something these days. I find it just as enjoyable and usually learn a lot along the way.
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On the bright side. The brakes must be working.
I said this story is encouraging. For all of us who go through daily chores could feel better knowing there is worst that could happen to us and we are lucky to live through with our basic necessities fulfilled. This kind of stories should make us empathetic/(more human) to others knowing what we have.
How does that prove your point. I didn't say I'd rather they stayed in China.

I stated that if they came to America via your suggested path, they'd be locked up for doing something illegal.
It depends on what you mean by new tech.

If you mean having a deep understanding of how this stuff works and an ability to solve very hard problems, older programmers are usually better.

If you mean knowing the latest fad language or framework, then no. That's because older programmers have seen fads come and go and have learned to recognize one, and they don't waste their time learning or using them.
Just use TEXT in other databases as well. It really shouldn't matter much in modern dbs
There's a (very) limited market already for contracted sim racing builds, much like there's a (very) limited market already for contracted real-life racing setups. Think Ferrari/Porsche Cup type teams which straddle the middle ground between amateur motorsport (i.e. I built a track Miata) and professionals who are sponsored or pay for a full team seat (who would be getting bespoke rigs). The target audience is probably the same too: wealthy individuals looking to dabble without the commitment of a full-motion room or actually needing to build something on one's own.
Customer service calls are rarely quick.
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I would bet they just used SSDs and made sure that the workload they were giving these servers wouldn’t tend to hit the rewrite limit over that time period. (Even then, I’d bet the expected writes-per-time was the source of the “five year” figure.)
The "graying out comments I don't like" effect on HN is getting really bad lately.