skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Erdős said of his own mathematical ability (no doubt with some humility) that it was very much a 'bag of tricks' he would apply to the problems his multitudinous collaborators were working on. I think a lot of philosophers use this approach too.

I think the value of polymaths is more 'synthetic', not necessarily 'analytic'. Many useful discoveries or insights are the result of an almost magical use of what C.S. Peirce called abduction: the process of generating hypotheses.

Knowledge in many domains, connected to the right problem, can lead to profoundly effective abduction. Sometimes this transfer can take the form of a persistent metaphor, or maybe an experience that makes itself known to you while you're thinking about something else, or simply your attention is guided to look at something in a particular light.

I feel like the post does a great job critiquing those high-status polymaths who emit an irresponsible amount of certainty. But there are plenty who use their wide learnings in a less concrete way, looking to add to their bag of tricks, and to put things together in interesting ways.
> ...within a couple of days the extremely negative review had been taken down, and I was grateful to them for taking it down.

They literally just took your (in this case company's) side. To stay the very least way balanced, I would expect them to keep the rating/stars the user gave, while perhaps removing the detailed review that you were insisting had been inaccurate. After all the user indeed was a real former employee, thus that "rating" should still be counted no matter how "disgruntled".

Isn't Glassdoor and similar review sites are among other serve as safe outlets for mundane discontent?

Sure, most of readers in less emotional state of mind likely could properly discount those over-the-top devices of fiction...
I doubt it’s anything mysterious. A once in a century pandemic is not a good representation of a broader time horizon.

The whole “pivot” sounds like uninformed heresay.
Finally, a way to give Google my voice-print without having to buy Google Home!
Don't impute principles to the market. Those companies wouldn't touch gay rights with a 10 foot pole until one day all of a sudden they're beating their way to the front of the line at the pride parade. They'll follow what's popular, and if that's liquidating jews, they'll do it (some of them did!).

In this particular case, where there's a common carrier for information, we figured out the market failures and how to handle them long ago, the answer is neutrality to the message. There are some people in the thread making the case that it's different now, and maybe it is, maybe we need a different approach, but "just trust the market" is the dumbest idea ever.

The market is paper-clip-optimizing gray goo. Harness it, but don't anthropomorphize it and certainly don't "trust" it.
I hummed it very roughly and got "Las Mañanitas" followed by "Happy Birthday to You."
> Not true, someone running a small blog can read every single comment that gets submitted.

But they then have to choose between allowing every racial epithet, porn link and scam, and risking a lawsuit because a commenter says something that’s construed as defamatory.

> Not true, even pre-internet the world had functional real-time public communication. We called them telephones.

Telephones are not public communication.

> An internet where 3 weeks out from an election, the major providers of information ban information that hurts their political candidate is not a functional internet, it's an Orwellian dystopia.

It’s interesting to me that the same people who are up in arms about the response to the NY Post story — the veracity of which has been questioned by several prominent publications — had nothing to say when Twitter announced that they would suspend accounts of users wishing the President would die of COVID. If I had to label one of those an “Orwellian dystopia”, it would not be the suppression of pro–ruling party agitprop.
Do you really believe that BS?
Wow that was rather grim... I can't tell if the problem is more with algorithmic curation (and the big tech middleman squeezing margins) or with consumer behavior (expecting everything to be effectively free)? I will keep this in mind because this space, monetizing content creators online, is very interesting to me.

Great read, thanks for sharing.
Do you think I need to be an HN mod to downvote you? I don't.
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Still does: https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/drivers/
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It is sort of funny to say, "America has never been about quality," while referencing a poem about immigrants who moved here for a better quality of life. I think you've missed something rather obvious.
This is absolutely not true under federal law (18 U.S. Code § 2511.) (also apparently CA PC 631).

It doesn't matter who owns the facilities. Except for certain narrow exceptions (warrants, government officers, jails, incidental operations necessary for maintenance) any unauthorized third party interception of a private communication is unlawful. Common carrier status is relevant for liability but is irrelevant for § 2511.
Thanks for the quote! Definitely resonates.
It does. Upstream kubeadm - authentic kubernetes - can even run on a single node. Not sure why people choose k3s or microk8s when you can just as easily deploy the real thing.
My MC, issued by a US credit union, does require PINs. Most checkouts in the US or Canada require me to enter a PIN when using this card, though this somewhat seems to also be a function of the purchase amount.
I'm confused, are they over policing to the detriment of users, or they don't police because they're not responsible for what users post? You can't have it both ways or switch positions just because you ended your paragraph.

Did you ever consider that all of this shit is free and you're just an entitled idiot spouting contradicting rhetorics backed by cherry picked examples/data and strawman arguments?

You can't sue the news stand that sold you a news paper that turned out to contain liablous statements about you because they didn't write. You also can't expect a company providing free services to hire enough support staff to cater to the individual problems of 2 billion people. And finally, the fact that you like the average consumer only used one or two major online communities is why you don't have alternatives when it comes to accessing original content. In short, people have behaved like people and your oxymoronic tiraid is neither insightful or helpful.
It is written on a piece of paper so I guess that guarantees that it is both authentic and legally enforceable.

Even so, it only mentions the equipment. Would owning the equipment grant the store ownership over all the information on the computer? Does the store gain legal authority to share that information with a third party that is neither a government official nor a journalist like Giuliani?
> How long until someone claims one of these images designed to cause trouble for AIs is free speech? And are they right?

They are not, any more running someone through a printing press to kill them is “free press”. Regulating intentional harm without reference to the particular means is not a violation of free speech or other expressive rights just because someone uses a tool that could instead be used as an expressive medium as a mechanism of inflicting the harm.
It's a wonderful tune -- I was an instant fan hearing it in the movie Inherent Vice.
Election meddling is an egregious crime against democracy. If Trump's dirty laundry get aired Biden's must also.
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> Whenever competitors show up, China floods the market to push down prices to bankrupt them.

Maybe governments should take the opportunity to stockpile at that moment. Either the price rises keeping the competitors afloat or you have a nice stockpile. Either way you become immune to shenanigans.
>Not true, even pre-internet the world had functional real-time public communication. We called them telephones.

Telephone calls are private; not public. There are two parties. It's literally against the law for other parties to attempt to become privy to those communications under most circumstances (wiretapping).

Please explain how something like HN works on the telephone.

>Not true, user generated content exists in print and it should be cheaper on the internet than in print.

User generated content does indeed exist in print, where the cost of printing and shipping that content are incumbent on the party that wishes to make their opinion known. When unsolicited or tiresome, we refer to this as junk mail or chain-letters.
bad posting deserves this downvoting it has. but i think we are in denial too, i think we are too quiet, too unwilling to talk about & discuss the challenges & tensions that exist, around how & where we steer & how & where investment happens, about what disposition we set each other forth on when we go to work. most of us do bend very easily into conformity with our environment & job, work to accept "practical" as our tool for sensemaking. i for one think radical, extremist, uncompromising has a lot of unspoken role. that moderation is not due, is rarely rewarding. i don't know how to communicate this well, but this topic, of enabling powers within each of us, it fascinates me so.
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For-profit dev programs, or for-profit trade schools? There are some good programs that teach dev and can go online with minimal hiccups, but that's a tiny, tiny subset of technical/trade schools.

I don't mean to paint with a broad brush, but there is some really sketchy stuff going on in this space. I can't sum it up better than the California DOJ.

"Be careful and do your homework before enrolling in a “for-profit” college or career training college. The for-profit college and career training industry is not part of the public school system; they operate schools to maximize profits for their investors. For-profit schools have been accused of fraud, abuse, and predatory practices targeting the poor, veterans and minorities by offering expensive degrees that often fail to deliver promised skills and jobs. Students have complained about aggressive recruiting practices, misleading graduation and employment rates, and illegal debt collection practices—their complaints suggest that many graduates can’t get jobs or afford to repay their loans. If you are not careful, enrolling in a for-profit school may leave you under a mountain of debt, but not help you get a job."

https://oag.ca.gov/consumers/general/for-profit-schools

Brookings did a whole long thing on it:

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/The-Fai...

"CRL’s focus group research shows that students that enroll in for-profit online programs
are attracted by easy enrollment and assistance in procuring student financial aid, but
are subsequently disappointed with the poor quality of education provided. Their hopes
of improved financial stability through the pursuit of higher education meet head on
with disappointing labor market outcomes and unsustainable levels of student debt"

Anything that hits community colleges hard is absolutely tragic, since they're an affordable, non-predatory path to the middle class for a lot of people. There's no community college pressuring people to take out student loans, or misrepresenting career paths to cash in on GI bill money. They offer absolutely incredible value compared to a for-profit college, or even the first two years of a public university.
https://twitter.com/LeoLabs_Space/status/1316919600160903168

No collision
Online only. $10/month for unlimited access to lectures. No schedule, monitored testing, fully accredited. The ivory tower would come crashing down.
Interesting read, but one thing that always strikes me reading this kind of story is how invested founders are in things that -- I'm sorry to say -- are not exactly earth shattering. I'd never heard of CircleUp before this, and their slogan "Creating a transparent and efficient market to drive innovation for consumer brands" still doesn't tell me what exactly it is that they do. Obviously they have investors and customers who found it worthwhile, but is it really worth sacrificing your health & family on this altar?

That said, I do wonder how Elon Musk, who's simultaneously trying to send humanity to Mars, convert the world to electric cars and solar panels, and create direct neural uplinks doesn't crack from the pressure though.
> But no-one is going to tick the box

Completely disagree. I would absolutely tick that box, as would many other people, specifically because we don't necessarily automatically trust whatever authority is "deciding" what is misinformation or not.

Instead, I would prefer to research an issue, by looking at multiple sides, and make a judgement, as opposed to having some minister of truth controlling what I am or am not allowed to read.

> is being applied and the biases at play there.

But the point is, that if you don't trust a certain group or source's opinion on what "misinformation" is, then you could choose a different authority on that.

IE, the tags for what is or is not "misinformation", would be community controlled, and you could pick which community or group to use as the "source" for this tag.
The specialists that I've met have never been any less capable of understanding context outside their domains, or motivating problems, filtering out details than similarly intelligent people who don't have any specialist domain knowledge. I think we're talking about several separate characteristics:
1. General intelligence and articulateness
2. Deep knowledge of and skill in a specific domain
3. Willingness to bullshit

A "specialist" is somebody who has 2, a "generalist" is somebody who has 3
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Shouting fire in a movie theater is not a good example of unprotected speech, and as such it's not a good place to start reasoning from in deciding of other speech is unprotected. Otherwise, you start banning core political speech like advocacy against the draft, just like the since-overturned case that bad example comes from.
“ Leadership is increasingly immigrant driven who often do not understand full implication of their policies and decisions.”

As an immigrant myself... spot on. It’s taken me a decade to understand a bit of the US, appreciate it’s branches, and I’m from Canada!
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> It's 100% inline with free speech to let a given website decide what they want to publish.

Imagine I make a website where I censor everything except pro Trump memes. Is that a bastion of free speech, compared to a website where I allow, y'know, actual free speech and discourse?

I can't stand when people try to conflate the first amendment with freedom of speech. Nobody is (seriously) arguing that websites shouldn't have the legal freedom under our government to limit speech to whatever they desire. What we're arguing is that these platforms ought to value free speech as a principle and act impartially. Of course they have, and should have, the freedom to censor whatever they want for whatever reasons they want. But they should have the integrity not to.
There's a lot of construction in our neighborhood right now which made me start thinking about that possibility. It kind of sounds like something out of a heist movie (or taken to the extreme, Die Hard With a Vengance?), but really, who would know and care enough to ask the questions to notice something like that?
First, if you're going to use an initialism and the term, parenthesize the initialism, not the term, on the first occurrence.

Next, I think you're way over-applying the concept of IYI. Also, the concept smells. If it's true, then why doesn't it apply to Taleb himself? And if it does, how can we trust the concept?

He also tells you not to trust him. His life is basically giving advice. That's what his books are at their core level.

Also, anyone who idolizes Ron Paul needs to be met with a certain level of skepticism.

I don't think you should trust anyone who tells you to not trust expertise or intelligence. They're usually selling something they don't want you to think about.

Finally, "No" and "Yes" aren't rebuttals, they're refusals to engage.
So, what experience has the author to talk about casual polymaths? is that his area of study?
I'm also interested in automated exports performed locally.

For my credit union, I "reverse engineered" the API and export multiple times throughout the day.

I wrote an extension that exports the data for CapitalOne, but I haven't gotten around to trying it either headless or even just in any automated fashion.

Easy automated export of user data, even beyond financials, is something I'd like to see more of. Feels like it could be a workaround while there's so little decentralization.
There is no shortage of Republican operatives that will risk jail time to further their cause. See [1] for example.

And regarding the FBI, they were hoping that the FBI would open some sort of investigation, which would give the issue much more credibility. But that failed, so plan b was to just hand it over to NY Post.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/1/21497823/jacob-wohl-jack-...
A lot of things are blamed on the most visibly present race that shouldn't be.
> An internet where 3 weeks out from an election, the major providers of information ban information that hurts their political candidate is not a functional internet, it's an Orwellian dystopia.

Or it's a sign that Twitter and FB shouldn't be "major providers of information".
I don't consider that dangerous to me.
I just tried it as well and haven't had luck. Tried doing this:

- installing the linked 'imaging edge webcam' software.

- restarting

- hooking up my sony camera (it's compatible per the list) over usb

- opening Quicktime Player, going to "new movie recording", selecting "Sony Camera (Imaging Edge)"

- Instead see a logo for the software (instead of the camera output) but no connection. Tried futzing with opening camera in Movie mode, AUTO, with/without SD card, etc.

Dear Sony, if you're reading this please take your time and do the approach the parent commenter suggested of updating the camera firmware so it can act as a true USB webcam. I expect the experience to be more along the lines of:

- Plug in USB

- See mode selection screen on camera (you already have this).

- Select 'Webcam'

- Things just work.
Azure was down in Australia one night and I randomly sent a tweet to microsoft. To my pleasant surprise they acted on it and resolved it in few minutes. this is the same microsoft that was the villain around 10 years ago
> My MC, issued by a US credit union, does require PINs. Most checkouts in the US or Canada require me to enter a PIN when using this card

If you can checkout some places without it, the card does not require a PIN, it provides it as an option.
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You're not society, though, are you?
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humming is a hit or miss sometimes, but if i played tunes on short videos of skits from social media apps it brings the matching title, a tough competition for /r/NameThatSong/ and /r/tipofmytongue/ :)
Not MDMA, but MDA. I had a magical time, but felt depressed for about 3 months after.
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Like a railroad?

(Only 50% joking.)
I've day-dreamed about doing this exact same thing. Moving down to Costa Rica, drinking out of a coconut and working on the beach indefinitely. How do you like it? How long have you been doing it?
I’ll admit to bias. My foundational experience was eating at one on the way back from a track meet in high school. It was the only option available in a small town. The curly fries were good; the sandwich... let’s just say it was a long ride home on the bus.

In the pantheon of fast food as defined by me, only a New Jersey Turnpike Roy Rogers (may no longer exist) rates lower!
> I think OP was surprised that this was on medium.com/cruise/ rather than blog.cruise.com or blog.gm.com or some such.

It’s probably easier to use medium than to go through all the red tape & endless delays involved in getting a blog set up at most enterprises.
My mother edited four or five academic books on Word Perfect 5.1, and the easiest way to generate offset copy for them would be to boot it up and print them again on an HP LaserJet 4000, just like last time.

These will most likely never see another printing, granted. But generalizing across all books published this way, I'm sure this situation will actually arise in the future.
Great book on this topic:

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Having been in the industry, you have no idea.

I never rode in our vehicles... for a reason.
I use to hate police when I was younger. I think the advent of the body camera has been a game changer. I've also seen police do incredible heroically things they did not need to do. I wrote this a few weeks ago:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/why-i-no-longer-hate-the-...
There’s some printer-specific factors that affect ideal temperature settings. Hot end geometry varies by printer and can affect ideal print temperature. Also they used to often have inaccurate temperature sensing, though that is fixable and perhaps things have improved there. I don’t know how much these factors would affect things, but if the variance across products is too great, filament manufacturers couldn’t solve the problem with pre defined settings.

Other factors that affect print quality are: filament diameter consistency (must be very precise), absolute filament diameter (must be known), nozzle wear (changes over time), environmental humidity and air temperature, and air flow. Michigan, Florida, and Arizona might require different settings. And then part geometry matters a lot. Someone up the comment thread mentioned curling. This can happen even with perfect temperature settings if part geometry is not ideal. Once I was totally unable to print a large rectangular part without curling until I replaced the 0.4mm nozzle with a 0.8mm nozzle. The thicker layers eliminated layer delamination that allowed the curling.

It really takes a bit of learning and experimentation to get things working sometimes. It’s not a perfect process by any means.
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We already have a word for this, "dilettante".
If I were a spammer I would very much not appreciate the notion that you will allow them to remove my content, but not your "political content".

Why is your content okay, but mine isn't?
> Ivermectin is not approved for the treatment of any viral infection, including SARS-CoV-2 infection. The FDA issued a warning in April 2020 that ivermectin intended for use in animals should not be used to treat COVID-19 in humans.

https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/antiviral-the...
There are two kinds of C programmers.

- folks who haven't seen Duff's device
- folks who understand Duff's device

Seriously, I was waiting for this article to do something evil but... maybe I'm a horrible person but none of the examples were too bad.
I would assume he was referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair, where the "unchecked misinformation" was heliocentrism.