skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin/status/128266896430954496...

I object to using the notion of a "6X difference in murderer density" among Black men as a reason why police are justified in racial profiling.

But I also object to the extremely smug and faux-engineer-rationality of "This does not appear to be racism [...] It looks more like math."

If we're expecting Uncle Bob to be just some guy on Twitter I would write him off as a simple fool. If we're expecting Uncle Bob to be a thought leader in a consequential professional field requiring deep analysis and sound judgement, that's something else.
" It's an open secret that ARM was (and still is) selling the CPU design at a discount if you integrated their Mali (GPU)."

Why is that bad? Not only it's common business practice (the more you buy from us, the cheaper we sell), it also makes sense from the support perspective. Support the integration between their cores and a different GPU would be more work for them than integration of their cores with their own GPUs.

That's why companies expand to adjacent markets: efficiency.

A completely different thing would be to say: "if you want our latest AXX core, you have to buy our latest Mali GPU". That's bundling, and that's illegal.
“ it's really tough to prevent cellular senescence without also increasing the risk of malignancy. ”

For sure it is. But even the very language you use gives me hope. Our understanding of disease and aging is very much advanced compared to 100 years ago. We are making progress, that’s for sure. Our understanding of exactly why extreme life extension is difficult is becoming more sophisticated.
“What-if” speculation about history is often a fun and interesting. But it is not history.
> That makes it less of a sale and more of a glorified hosting deal. It lets Trump say he’s solved the problem but doesn’t do much else. [from the article]

Trump is in every way no different than a 3rd world dictator. And this is just yet one more way.
I started building a side project in Swift/SwiftUI for the first time a few months back. It has quite simply been the most painful development experience to date (I've been a professional developer 16 years - front/back/many languages). I've wasted a huge number of days trying to get the damn thing to build reliably, or getting preview to work without hanging the machine or any number of random issues that generally go away if you just rebuild the project enough times... On a side project it's been a real motivation killer, instead of building my app I spend my time trawling through bug reports and trying to find workarounds for broken features. At this point I'm considering starting from scratch with Flutter. /rant
Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers explores this topic and concludes that lots of deliberate practice — which includes making mistakes and recognizing them — leads to expertise and mastery. He says 10,000 hours, but the amount of practice required varies by person and skill. I don’t think there’s any way around lots of deliberate practice, though. That much work requires interest, passion, introspection, diligence, and feedback from mentors.

I don’t think anyone can read their way to expertise. There’s no secret technique or knowledge hidden behind paywalls.

Rather than thinking about “becoming an expert” reframe it as “mastering a skill or domain.” No on is an expert, that’s a shorthand to describe someone who achieved mastery or deep understanding through deliberate practice.
MS own LinkedIn ... I think you'd be surprised.
Also from the area, I get the sense that the Boston area is generally increasing in carbon efficiency (at least pre covid). There simply isn't space to build more/bigger highways into Boston, the only feasible way to expand capacity is increasing density and more transit/biking.
I hacked up a quick implementation of your writeup in go just now, as I said at the time your summary was wonderfully direct and "obvious".

https://github.com/skx/foth

Thanks again, four years later!

I'll get the compilation phase done tomorrow, barring surprises.
A few that spring to mind, all plant blazed:

Aspirin occurs naturally in Willow bark; morphine and codeine from opium poppies; ephedrine and amphetamine is derived from Ephedra sinica (Ma Huang); quinine and it's derivatives from Cinchona calisaya; digoxin from foxglove (Digitalis lanata).

And botox from the bacterium Clostridium botulinum and related species has medical uses primarily for muscle spasticity conditions and migraines.
> Particles do not come tagged with UUIDs.

They do though. Particles have a unique path through time and space that cannot be replicated.

I don't care who "thinks" they are me--that has no effect on their me-ness.

> Perhaps some people overrate this near-magical concept of consciousness?

This is the point I should assume I'm actually debating with GPT-3 or an NPC.

Hypothetically, if a gunman has you, and a clone of you in a room and is going to kill one of you, are you saying you have no preference which dies? If these things are the same, how is it he could kill the clone in a different room and you wouldn't know? Doesn't that mean they aren't "the same" and really you are an instance of an object, not a class.

I think if you consider the Ship of Theseus from the point of view of a passenger, it becomes clear that it is the "same" ship in a more meaningful sense even though it changed while you were on it. Similarly, I still arrive if ships identical to the original state sank while I am en route.
No, it's way worse than that.

At the location of the hvac it puts 130% of the source heat into the environment.

But 30% of that heat put into the environment came from electricity generated in a power plant. Power plants are typically less than 50% efficient, so it put's out as much heat into the environment at the source of the electricity. Bumping the value to 160% (130% + 30%).

However waste heat is a small fraction of the heating that electricity generation produces. Very roughly 10 times as much heat is trapped via the CO2 released than heat is released by the power plant. Bumping that value up to 460% (160% + 30% * 10).

I.e. 4.6 units of heat are put into the environment for every unit of heat removed from a closed system.

(Obviously the details of this depend dramatically on the environment. Heat pump efficiency depends on the degree of temperature gradient, CO2 release and power plant efficiency depends dramatically on where the power is coming from, which changes with where you are located.)
query-json --kind=inline would support reading from stdin, I didn't spend time on the Cmdliner enough!
Ban apps that do that.
but indeed, it's a nice workaround!
There's no such thing as a "gaming account." They're the same account.
Fast growing industries tend to hire like there is no tomorrow. Eventually they hit a growth barrier. After a while the age structure of the company is a problem. Could not happen in the social media industry...
so, pgadmin?
Fellow Swedes, change is coming in the form of the new national e-identity ID-card[1]. With this you would only need a smart card reader and a compliant browser in order to use eID and electronic signatures. As opposed to BankID this can be used to create derivative e-identities.

[1]: https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2019/03/utredning...
How does one set that on netflix?
> You also have to use the web-based editor/uploader if you're not on the paid plan

You can use their CLI for uploads. It's based on Ruby and can be invoked via a git hook.

https://neocities.org/cli
Amazon doesn't belong on the list because it's a limited trial one year. Plus if you go over the limits you are charged.

You can game some free resources over the trial period if you are careful. Not the best for set and forget.
I fell to a (now) very obvious scam on Instagram. It seems to me that it's really easy to bypass their checks. It was a fake ad for a real product. They accepted PayPal and it took forever to get PayPal to refund me. Worst yet, even after multiple escalations PayPal continued to be on the website. Instagram continued to show me ads for the exact same product from different domains. I realized that PayPal is next to useless if you're a victim of fraud. It's much better to use a credit card directly (esp Amex or Discover) and challenge fraud than PayPal.
> It feels like user hostility and it surprises me that this behavior doesn't drive more people wild.

It does. The issue is that the alternative brings its own set of user hostile behaviour. At least this devil I already know.
That's sort of the opposite of my experience.

There are obvious cons, like (previously) having to learn a new language, Objective-C, which has it's quirks. Documentation may not be very good in some instances. Tooling (Xcode/Interface Builder) may not be as good, or as complete, as tools like Visual Studio.

But of the pros, AppKit/UIKit do A LOT of work for you once you understand things. Things may not be consistent between UIKit/AppKit due to some ability to start over a bit with UIKit plus just different form factors and things, but they are consistent amongst each other and the UI components are all very high quality and flexible. The support libraries are also incredibly good.

SwiftUI should probably be labeled beta given it's not able to do everything UIKit can do, but they've made big strides with the OS releases coming this fall.
As long as we have culture of refusing to hear viewpoints or watch videos from the other side of the table, that's what you'll get.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBWbSU2vDvc
>The account-less app alone tracks way more than what microsoft could ever track with all their account systems.

I'm using TikTok lite.

TikTok only requested STORAGE permission when I wanted to save a video. That's all.

Tubemate - one of those youtube apps requires: Read phone state and location permissions. Won't launch without it.
I'm really trying to find somewhere to agree with you...but it sounds like they are taking issue with your "blade runner 2049" strategy, like I'm fairly decent at robotics, I got to the point where I make them out of organic molecules now...but we ain't there chief.

I don't care how many hours you've logged on "ML SAAS" it's not where you think it is
These should be built into the outflow of hydro stations to counteract the unnatural cooling of the downstream river water.
Everyone who paid for Google music for moved over to YouTube music. I don't think they've lost much yet. I hate the YouTube music app but the music and playlists are still there.
Recent lengthy New Yorker article on the same topic, Simulmatics in the JFK presidential campaign: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/how-the-simulm...

And a couple subsequent letters from readers on the article:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/07/letters-from-t...

The New Yorker article was odd to me for a New Yorker article, it had a lot of historical context without a lot of details of what Simulmatics actually did for the Kennedy campaign. Perhaps there isn't a lot of historical record/people who want to talk about it. I was left feeing like I had learned that the Simulmatics founders had an idea, and successfully sold it to the Kennedy campaign and made some money, but not sure to what extent it actually provided value in that actual campaign.

With some people suggesting the same might be true of Cambridge Analytica.... the more things change? (I have no opinion on what value either CA or Simulmatics actually provided, I don't know enough).

I haven't listened to/read the NPR piece yet.
Hi Wesam! What a great comment! It should be its own HN article; it's information-rich, and you make a lot of good points!

Hey, why not connect with me on LinkedIn:

www.linkedin.com/in/peter-sherman-a6107a5
Chunk of Greenland's largest glacier crashes into sea
Can you copy and paste an image into org mode? In many of my document/notes I find that I to copy and paste images into my documents like I take a screenshot and then paste..
I think we do not throw money at the problem because of the same reason we do not throw money at anti-gravity: we probably do not have a promising idea how to attack the problem. And you need a promising idea, since you cannot throw random substances at random people and see if aging slows down, i believe since aging takes long you can test too few substances.
They don't. They just gain expertise on subjects through trial-and-error and first-hand experience.

Anyone who tries to convince you that your should pay for advice on "how to become an expert" has expertise at only one thing: lying.

PS: I can teach you how to be an expert at spotting liars. For 5 dollars I'll tell you the secret.

Behind paywall 1: First lesson - don't pay for lessons on expertise. For 5 more dollars, I'll let you read chapter 2

Behind paywall 2: You are almost there! So close! You should be getting familiar with the trick by now. There was a secret lesson in part one. I'll tell the secret behind the trick for just 5 more dollars.

Behind paywall 3: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, and now we are here! Wanna know how I fooled you three times? Only 5 more dollars!

Now you are 15 dollars into spending 5 dollars on how to spot a liar. Just 5 more dollars!

Once you figure out the trick, you can consider yourself an expert.
I don't mean this as a counterpoint to your argument, which I think is a valid one, or as any kind of sarcasm. But even as a relative layperson as far as these things go (1 college semester each of bio and o-chem, which I didn't do all that well in) I would be extremely interested in learning about any bacteria that could a) survive on Earth at a large enough scale to find its way onto a Soviet spacecraft; b) survive a trip through space; c) not only survive but thrive on Venus so much so that it reproduces enough for us to pick it up now.

Hopefully if they can get a probe out there they would be able to tell definitively if it was Soviet contamination or not, although I'm not sure how they would be able to do that. I could see them ruling it out (some entirely different DNA structure or something) but not sure how they'd say 100% that it was Soviet in origin.
Thank you for sharing. This is hilarious!
Tripod.com too
Been writing an macOS app from scratch in SwiftUI (VM manager) and I can echo much of these concerns. Especially the random crashes and performance. Some other random issues I’ve ran into:

* Different Betas changing the layout and style and meaning of different attributes. The change isn’t so bad as the documentation. Most of the functionality is sparely documented so it’s impossible to tell if something “broke” or was “fixed” in a new beta. Stuff like .overlay() vs ZStack and how they appear. Stuff like how .padding() is calculated with the default args. Stuff like what the default list modifier does.

* Last beta forgot to ship some symbols in SwiftUI.framework and .toolbar (a modifier to draw a toolbar) was missing. The fact that it slipped notice and nobody talked about makes me suspect nobody is actually using it.

* Common functionality like creating a new window with a different layout is missing. In fact it seems to revolve iOS where new window means same view in a new window.

* Weird quirks like if you dismiss a modal sheet before falling a background task would cause layout issues and random state changes. But if you dismiss the sheet after calling GCD it doesn’t happen. It’s likely a race condition somewhere. Another example https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58404725/why-does-my-swi...

* Missing components like the activity indicator and the new settings tab design for TabView

* You either have no control over the layout or so much control it overwhelms you. For example if you wrap a View with Form it generates a right justified label and left justified field. It works for checkboxes and pickers but it doesn’t work for every component. If you want the same alignment for everything you have to throw away the work done by Form and completely define your own layout rules for everything.

* If you look up how to do anything, the “accepted” answer always feels hacked together and nobody can explain why it works. For example, if you look up how to force center alignment on any object there’s a blog post that’s about 20 pages that propose some solution that’s 200 LOC.

* Day to day, I feel very limited by the framework. At almost every point, I had to compromise the design vision with “what’s possible” in SwiftUI. And note this is a very “simple” app that manages VMs and allows you to change settings. Everything uses basic controls and there’s nothing exotic.

All this aside I still enjoyed using SwiftUI on most days. When it works, it feels like the future. Unfortunately v1/v2 is still very early and it’s filled with bugs. But people need to use it to find and report the bugs. I hope, like Swift, we’ll eventually be at a point where everyone uses it because it’s an upgrade from the previous technology without any compromises.
org mode for vim would be great
Starting from £57,500, relatively closer to buying an actual car? https://www.caranddriver.com/aston-martin
... and which will never succeed again. "Arbitrarily-prohibited" was a jab at everything else they've seen fit to condemn by extension, for example pliers. It's not just knives that you have to be concerned about, but anything remotely non-basic that you otherwise keep in your backpack.
Provide some evidence for that statement, please.
Let me just quote what I originally responded to:

> A 25% gain over a horizon of four years is not bad for your average investment -- but this isn't an average investment.

> First, compared to the SP500, this underperforms over the same horizon (even compared to end of 2019 rather than the inflated prices right now).

> Second, ARM's sector (semiconductors) has performed far, far better in that time. The PHOX (Philadelphia Semiconductor Index) doubled in the same time period.

> And looking at AMD and NVIDIA, it feels as if ARM would have been in a position to benefit from the surrounding euphoria.

That's the "valuation drops" - relatively to the market, ARM has significantly underperformed, despite the business being actually healthy and on the rise.
I'll take, what is internet cookie for 1000 alex
I don't like the idea since raising water temperatures affects life in the ocean like coral reefs.
> Some may ask why the outlets are installed upside-down, its common in commercial settings to do this as it means if the cord sags down, only the ground prong will be exposed. Things can also get lodged between the two hot prongs if the outlet is the normal way up, like this from an image I stole from reddit

This is very insightful. I've seen outlets installed upside-down to designate them as switched, but never heard any other justification.

This actually makes sense and the charred measurement tape further demonstrates what can and has happened.

Dug up the Reddit link for those also curious: https://www.reddit.com/r/OSHA/comments/ilb7wq/please_unplug_... and maybe original post was to Twitter: https://twitter.com/meyerweb/status/1289302216826925057
Maybe we sneak some LSD into this covid vaccine.
Good advice!

An aside, for beginner python programmers, here is a very nice talk from Ned (among many others from him).

Ned Batchelder - Facts and Myths about Python names and values - PyCon 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AEJHKGk9ns
ARM co-founder starts ‘Save Arm’ campaign to keep independence
Putting Our Core Values to Work: A Letter to Our Community
In 1991 - 1994? The technology might have existed in some cutting-edge research labs, but certainly not in a day care center in South Africa.
Don't forget to also learn from those mistakes! :)

I agree though, expertise comes from trying all the configurations in a space and learning which work and which don't. After a while you start to see the patterns.
Aren't you able to see people outside of USA today in TikTok?
80,000 Hours would associate themselves with "Effective Altruism"

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

https://80000hours.org/about/#how-are-you-funded

The principles of effective altruism are largely consequentialist, utilitarian, cosmopolitan, and humanist, although none of those fit exactly right.
I feel like pointing out that the fediverse isn't really growing at any significant rate. Looking through some pretty-rudimentary-but-best-we-can-get stats (https://the-federation.info/), the number of users active in the last month hasn't really changed compared to a year ago, remaining steadily at 400k-500k.

I personally find that slightly demoralising, but as someone already pointed out, there are fediverse platforms that are inches away from being usable (Lemmy, Mobilizon, Zap, Epicyon).
It appears that the OP, @bzg, is Bastien Guerry, the current maintainer of org-mode — Bravo Zulu, Bastien! (By a happy coincidence, "Bravo Zulu" or just "BZ" is a U.S. Navy expression for "well done," defined in the publication ATP-1. [0].)

[0] https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Bravo_Zulu
I like the idea of being realistic with a timeline and start with a 3 year goal. I think the most important part of getting quick feedback for me is setting up my environment for tiny iterations (for a web dev side project), but the balance is tricky between getting more efficient and endless "yak shaving"!!

I would love to do some electronics design but I find it much harder to have smaller sessions, it takes me a least an hour or two to get into a flow where I have my mental model of the complete circuit, mechanical layout, etc.

I also want to balance being a good parent with side projects as well! Currently my kids are too small to participate in engineering, but you can bet that I am totally going to build a robot with them some day :)
Yeah, scale and speed are maybe the worst part compared to other periods of the past. Ways to manipulate the masses have always made some extremely powerful. Religion and church in medieval Europe for example.

Ultimately, we will figure it out. We found ways to cope, as societies, with mass media, radio, TV and so on. We will with social media as well. I'm just a tad worried about the way we have to pass to figure it out and what might go horribly wrong along that way.

EDIT: They lost me a little bit on the AI scare part. Up to now, we talking about ultra-complex algorithms. The kind of algorithms that screwed up Wall Street. Hard to understand, sure. But still "stupid" algorithms. Difference between Wall Street and Social Media? Wall Street has a public, closely monitored, public real time KPI to measure, indirectly, what the algorithms do. Social Media has no such thing.

Oh, and we should read up on Goebbels theories on propaganda. The principles still apply, just the scale is so much bigger. The algorithms have no intentions yet. People using these algorithms do. And we have to find a way, as societies, to cope with that.
Interesting that I don't know of this story. For those that want some quick gratification: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SbK6oDBeco.

As far as I know, this story is not as well known in South Africa as one would perhaps expect.
The author’s takeaway here is “If your target platform is iOS 14, you’re now good to go with hobby projects or individual screens in SwiftUI.”

I think that’s generally pretty reasonable but in my experience you won’t even be able to reach the end of your hobby app without hitting some wall where a feature you want is simple in UIKit and not supported at all yet in SwiftUI. SwiftUI is great, the paradigm is refreshing but unfortunately it just isn’t ready yet.
Two thoughts beyond what’s already been mentioned. Experts tend to have strong networks of people with similar interests and high intelligence. When they don’t know how to approach something they know who to ask.

Experts historically tended to write prolifically. They’re known as experts because others are familiar with their work. The modern equivalent of writing is more broad but the part about communication of ideas broadly still applies.