skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a LOT of rich towns full of money in Europe - where this sort of thing has been going on for a LOT longer than the 100 years or so of California-in-the-US history - where the rich folks live that don't feature booming innovation economies.

When even the current crop of tech workers get priced out of California by the continual influx of wealthy folks seeking out the climate you won't see SF turn into Detroit, but it's not gonna be the SF of the nineties->now.
Then I'd love for them to get some more attention, discussion and scrutiny in the community, because I think that's the only chance new licenses have at gaining wider adoption.
Nearly 100 days in the NBA's bubble took a toll on players and coaches
You know, you are really opening my eyes right now. I never really thought about this aspect.
With "engage them" you mean that you rather talk to them, right?
I assumed the comment above meant that if they don't save any for a slower eater, they're bad friends (likely at least partially a joke).
Err, because it's the job of the package manager to prevent this exact situation from happening...

Packages are not permitted to overwrite data files or configuration files (conffiles) from other packages. dpkg would abort the installation or upgrade of any package which tried to usurp a file owned by another package. At least, not without an explicit Replaces dependency to allow adoption of them. Enforcing consistency and ownership with a central database is the entire point of managing the system with a package manager.

This isn't even new. This is 25+ year old technology at this point.
The Scunthorpe Problem (Clbuttic)
Can anyone recommend a good intro to debugging network problems assuming competent knowledge of most Linux sysadmin tasks?
What services are costing more now outside of healthcare?

All services when the buyer is the government.
Haha, an exception to the exception. The rule more clearly applies to `ch`, and I think the prefix `des` is why the `sh` rule doesn't apply. That said, I'm not an expert here.
There's a big difference between Detroit and SF (or California in general).

Weatherwise it's one of the best places to live in the USA. The smoke issue is new but it's unlikely to be this bad most years. Detroit is unfriendly a much greater portion of the year

It's likely the craziness in the Bay will subside but I would be extremely shocked if it began to resemble Ddetroit. Some of the more remote suburbs that haven't historically been places people would commute from might fare badly though.
Funny typo: 'The LSD has an estimated $5B in annual revenue". :)
Growth is the greatest result of pain. I would especially listen to someone who learned lessons after having been burned themselves. I would take that over an armchair who was paid to write an article. Authenticity is an extremely valuable human resource.
I think that Twitter and Facebook are a lot closer to the United States Postal Service than they are to McDonald's. Imagine getting banned from sending/receiving mail and having your home or business address "delisted" by a private company, and then you get closer to what is going on.
False. "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher..."

The whole point is that the provider of the interactive computer service (ie "the platform") is not to be treated as the publisher of anything anybody says on the platform.
There's a book that came out some years ago, Proust and the Squid, by Maryanne Wolf, on the subject of reading and the brain. Part of the book discusses dyslexia. Now, I read it years ago, the book is fairly dense at times, and neuroscience is not my field. With those disclaimers in mind, let me offer a guess.

Paraphrasing wildly, Wolf said that writing as a technology is something we built by repurposing different areas of our brain that evolved in response to our pre-literate environment. Our brains didn't evolve to read. Reading is one of those marvelous things that we hairless apes have managed by pushing ourselves. It's what we do.

Dyslexia is, essentially, to put it in computer terms, the result of slow throughput in the cognitive system we've built from our (spoken) language part of the brain and our visual-spatial part (which probably evolved in response to recognizing details on the landscape, etc). In most people, when they learn to read, the brain "wires up" this system in an efficient way. It's wired up cleanly. In people with dyslexia, the wiring is more like a rat's nest — or maybe "spaghetti" would be a better way of putting it. (Again, I'm paraphrasing!)

Dyslexia is more prevalent among left-handed people. It seems like (if I remember left and right sides of the brain correctly), language is on one side of the brain, and visual-spatial is on the other. Now, left-handed people are right-brain dominant. And, if I remember correctly, left-brain dominant people are better at wiring up their brains, when the "wiring" needs to cross over from one side of the brain to the other. In general, right-handed people do a better job at building a "system" than left-handed.

Regarding Chinese and Japanese, the article talked about the way these writing systems are taught: namely, students are made to sound out what they're writing, over and over. So, if I were to guess, this slow and deliberate practice recruits all the parts of the brain involved more energetically, and as a result helps the individual compensate for any innate, relative deficiency in building a cognitive system that coordinates left and right sides of the brain: meaning, wiring up a brain that can read.

That's my best guess. Speaking out loud while learning to write may be the critical difference.
To whit, Ayn Rand's novels are massive best-sellers, and many other Rand acolytes like Nathaniel Branden also published massive best-sellers. Out of their readers, there are many, many, many total losers and mediocrities. That list is cherry picking given that most of the names on that list do not even pay dues to the Ayn Rand Institute and could not be considered card carrying Objectivists. There have been many successful card carrying Objectivists, but claiming that everyone who read "The Fountainhead" derived their success from Ayn Rand in some way is just silly.
Maybe he is writing from the near future where Starlink is fully operational :-)

Joking aside, globally available broadband from space would be a huge game changer.
@Proven, your comment is dead, but I am going to respond regardless:

> Almost all power belongs to the States. The Congress cannot do anything not in Article 1, Section 8 (https://www.senate.gov/civics/constitution_item/constitution...).

> The CDC is in fact unconstitutional and should be terminated.

I do not disagree with where you're coming from in principle (as I alluded to at the end of my comment). But if that's the change we want, how we go about it is important. Right now the US is highly dependent on the federal CDC - equivalent local institutions generally do not exist to a significant extent, due to much lower tax rates and inability to print money. If we wish to move towards more local control, then we need to make sure our local institutions are functional before getting rid of the federal ones, lest we be left without anything as we have been for this pandemic.

Furthermore, to the extent that the federal bloat needs to be downsized, there are more pressing federal agencies that need to be reigned in first. It's foolish to want to sabotage agencies that provide us actual services (CDC, NPS, SSA) while overtly freedom-hostile agencies (NSA, CIA, DEA) continue on unimpeded.
That would be great if true, we'd be able to scale down the social distancing, among other things. That said I'm not nearly as confident that the effect will be that great, do you have any references you're basing this on?
Also, they'll totally get flak if they systematically hire part timers. See current Uber/Lyft woes regarding contractors/employees. If the government gets its way, and it may, these companies will eventually go "you're only worth your benefits if you work 40 hours".
MUNI expects to lose majority of its bus lines as financial devastation mounts
Yes, it does sound like something many racists say. You treat "racist" like it only means someone who uses racial epithets. That's the tip of the iceberg. Looking at how people empower and disempower those of other races is the far more substantial and important measure.

I am laughing at your dismissal as "not a specific example". I linked to a very recent one upthread, and many many more are easily available and uncontroverted. He talked up a Muslim ban and campaigned on building a wall. You are being willfully blind on this one.

It absolutely is the responsibility of the president. He leads and sets the tone. He has influence over, for example, Daniel Cameron, and used it to encourage a lack of police accountability. He can control grant programs and discretionary spending in the area of policing. The DoJ can investigate police departments as part of their public integrity work, and has done historically little of that under this administration. And instead of calling Black Lives Matter a "symbol of hate" for reacting to a problem that his own Attorney General acknowledges (that there is systemic bias against black people in policing) he could press Congress and state leaders to address the issue.
It's written in Arc (Lisp dialect):

http://arclanguage.org/

Some tidbits bout moderation here:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...
yah, if the author wants to assert a (perhaps deceptive) pedantic logical conclusion about others, then they should be particularly keen to avoid making pedantic logical errors themselves.
yes you can, thats what 230 protects. a private companies ability to censor reach does not turn it into a speaker. you can selectively choose what to allow and what to deny on your platform. like a spam filter, but for anything.
Even with multiple networks, how would it be meaningfully different from our current scenario?

1) Network issue: Social Media depends on network effects. Advertisers go to the largest network. The new networks will eventually recreate another singular network which has the majority of consumers.

2) Content is always under selection pressure to be engaging. The most engaging, (not the most factual) content/formats survive.
If you tried to enforce a "neutrality" requirement, you'd slam face-first into the First Amendment. It would be government mandated viewpoint discrimination.
I didn't say that it was the only part of the job, just that it was the most important thing. Hopefully you have some knobs you can turn. At my current company if people can't deliver you try to hook them up with more mentors and if they still can't deliver, you stop giving them direct labor to work on and eventual force them out because they don't have any work and they stop getting pay raises (or you fire them usually they push them out).
"Explain the English Reformation in one sentence" is a pretty tall order, but it seems reasonable to wonder whether Clement VII would have allowed the annulment if Catherine of Aragon's nephew hadn't just sacked Rome and taken Clement prisoner.
I agree with this. From a libertarian stand point, the gov stepped in to help (rightfully, sometimes we need it) but it was originally written in a way that is now being abused. I don't see a problem changing it so that if you a companies gets to decide what they want to show and not show, they should be liable just like news sites.

I'm open to hearing the opposite side if anyone has any arguments on why it shouldn't change
Not just Jira. It's all Server products.

Here is their blog post: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/journey-to-clou...
Can I ask what your niche is?
Not that @ddragon exactly said you could not, but you can also use Nim for data science, such as https://mratsim.github.io/Arraymancer/ or https://github.com/Vindaar/nimhdf5 or many others and there is a REPL INim mentioned in another comment here. If you want everything "done for you already", Julia has more libraries and it is (for better or worse) more fundamentally dynamic.
No it's not. Public firms are audited by public accounting companies such as E&Y.
You could easily keep the democratic nature of English use but standardise (and more importantly rationalise) the spelling.
The issue I have with 'ghoti' is that it doesn't make the sense they claim it to. The digraph <gh>, for instance, is never /f/ at the beginning of words, so it'd make no sense for it to be /f/ here. These graphs only have their set sounds in certain places in the words, and they can't be divorced from that. It's precisely why nobody would say 'fish' as 'ghoti'.
I'm not aware of a single working Covid-19 vaccine, which ones would that be? There are promising candidates, sure, but I don't think any have already been shown to be both effective and safe, which I'd say is required for one to be working, on the timescales that are needed, and I wouldn't know how one might do that so quickly. The current forerunners might well not work out, though I hope at least one of them will work, but my understanding is that anything immunity-related is fiendishly hard.
I can by no means claim to be as knowledgeable on any of this stuff as the post's author is, but my take on this has always been that rationalism is a philosophical view, and thus, it's really not clear why you'd think it should lead to great material success given that philosophers in the modern world tend not to achieve said great success. I am personally enthralled by philosophy and I'd also consider myself a rationalist (and have spent a decent amount of time reading SSC), but I'm unable to draw any sort of putative causal connection between that and being very successful. Indeed, delving into this stuff is what I do to screw around, so pretty much exactly the opposite.
If you get banned from Twitter, you can go to Facebook, just like if you get banned from McDonald's you can go to Burger King.

If you make a habit of shitting in the dining rooms, you'll likely find yourself banned from all the restaurants eventually.
I experience the same, just did it in fact! My ears popped (without yawning) and I didn't realize they needed to equalize but damn if I don't feel more alert now that that's done.
On the other hand, maybe some people are interested in a type of reading/writing but that doesn't mean they could do it themselves.

Like last night I watched the writer Jia Tolentino interview Chanel Miller (the woman who was raped by Brock Turner, if you're familiar with the case.) Watching Jia think in real time is magical to me. Her writing, too, is at times incisive, at others deeply personal, sometimes indignant or marveling or both, and can still pull back to culture/society level relevance.

I would say that the best of Jia's longform writing is among the best narrative non-fiction being written today.

Is there a part of me that wants to be able to do that? i.e. am I a wannabe? I mean, kind of, but I also really enjoy it and that's more the point. I enjoy Ren Hang's photography but am not trying to be a photographer. I enjoy helping founders but don't have much desire to found another company.

We don't _have_ to assume that everyone who enjoys something only says that they do because they are status-obsessed and lazy.

EDIT:

Another example I would give is Daniel Day Lewis. Good god the length he goes to to method act; the almost terrifying commitment. And it fucking pays off. But do I want that life? Hell no. Because I'm lazy? Maybe if I wanted that life then work ethic would be a question, but what disqualifies my trying to be Daniel Day Lewis in the first place is that I don't want to make the trade-offs he does — even if I could.
I don't believe a replaceable battery needs to make a phone any thicker or heavier. Just take anything that's glued now and secure it with machine screws instead. "Replaceable battery" isn't the same as "swappable in the field with no tools", and while that's nice to have, it's not necessary in order to forestall device obsolescence.
My thoughts exactly. Location Sharing in Google Maps is a totally different use case.

Commercially it was probably a tough sell. Engagement metrics were probably abysmal - since you only need it in exceptional circumstances.

It's really sad though. This was one of the products that really stood out for me. Not just a gimmick, but something that can really make a difference. I wish Google had shown a bit more idealism and kept it around.
Neutral is very much in the eye of the beholder. To start considering this scenario, we'd have to ask "Who will be the arbiter of whether a site's content is 'neutral?'"
I usually have a r/o rootfs as squashfs with overlayfs for changes. It makes it easy to wipe things back to factory defaults.
I was very involved with the Less Wrong community starting when it was the joint Overcoming Bias blog between Yudkowski and Hanson through the splinter off and into the formation of MIRI (fmr: Singularity institute) around 2008-2011 or so.

I think it comes down to a few factors.

1. Deep Learning took off and took the narrative as the "right path" to "General AI." Back in its heyday all the LW folks (including myself) were really focused on approaching AI from the perspective of Pearl's Causality and the work of Ray Solomonoff

2. There were no practical products, tools, frameworks or research that came out of that group that could either be easily applied to existing business or demonstrated SOTA on any computing domain.

3. AGI/GAI/HLAI/etc... is generally still (unfairly IMO) seen as the domain for cranks and zealots - which was the primary end-goal of the LW crowd, where "rationality" was the practical middle-step.

4. It kind of turned into a mini-cult around Yudkowski, which IMO turned people off

[0] https://intelligence.org/
Do you think conservatives are being censored by the big tech platforms? Would your answer pass the veil of ignorance?
A model-based evaluation of the efficacy of Covid-19 social distancing
I know this going to sound shocking but half of the population has below average intelligence (yeah, below mean, but shush:)

I think what happens is that everybody needs to have a job and source of income and people try to do the best for themselves. But, of course, they don't get more intelligent.

As the technology progresses, more and more jobs are high skill or abstract tasks and both require intelligence.

What this means is decreasing availability of intelligent people for the jobs and necessary incompetence of people who perform them (or the positions would not be filled).
SoundJack – Tech from the 1990s Is Helping Musicians Play in Time While Apart
That's me to a T. I was a "militant rationalist" as it were, back in high school. Anyone remember talk.origins?
The auditors are doing by far the bulk of the work, with the government essentially just signing off on it. This has directly lead to scandals such as Enron and possibly Wirecard.
Interesting treatment thread on Reddit using the tongue to deliver sound. https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/jc5m6y/new_researc...
Decoding the Peloton
flappychord
Scientist.

Humanitarianism.

Orthodontist.

Egalitarianism.

Industrialist.

Magnetism.

Psychologist.

Stoicism.

Virologist.

Capitalism.

Neurologist.

Formalism.

I could list dozens more.
HOW DO WE THROW MONEY AT JAY for this epic write-up?
"my point being, given the chances I heard of the only man going deaf being minuscule, the most likely explanation is there must be(many) others -- but given the current focus, lack of treatment and difficulty in linking the covid with ear problems, there is limited research going on."

It's not that there isn't research going on -- it's that good research takes time, and since people aren't willing to wait for that, they're substituting rumor and speculation and treating it as fact.

Medical doctors are humans who tend not to be trained in statistics, and therefore often fall victim to the same sorts of logical fallacies that affect everyone else. But at least they see a lot more patients and have a lot more experience seeing diseases in the wild, which can at least temper their intuition for risk.
Inaugural eBPF Summit for users and developers
There was a post [1] here a few months ago that mentioned a medical device built for motion sickness iirc, but patients reported that it also reduced or eliminated their tinnitus.

My tinnitus is fairly minimal but I'd love to try both of these devices.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21572827
That would be robust decentralization, yes. They would coordinate with one another and a downsized federal agency to fund shared projects. By retaining control of their own budget and authority, states would become resistant to federal whims.

Take the recent spat about the federal government not helping California pay for the fires. Ideally federal taxes would be slightly lower, California taxes would be slightly higher, and there would be no need to rely on federal money. So much federal control has been created by taking extra money from the states and then distributing it back to us with strings attached.
Wait what about smartphones, tablets, IoT, etc? I know that they started earlier than 2010 but I feel like the huge improvements and democratization of cloud computing, machine learning, etc (available via the "open source platforms" I believe the parent is referring to) made the 2010s the era of ubiquitous smart devices. Alexa, smart TVs, drones, misc tracking/monitoring technologies are the new normal, not to mention the sharing economy tech of the Ubers and AirBnBs, and digital payment tech like Square/Venmo + cryptocurrency in general.

Am I, like, way off?
Maybe this is presented badly, but of the strengths some of the companies have if you click on them and view their scores it doesn't seem to properly reflect that?

e.g. one of them has Integrity as very low as rated by internal employees (unsure how it is relatively) and yet is listed as a core strength.
Well the risk is you have to move to the US to get that kind of salary in a software job.
I might be wrong, but I think the "sh" combination in Spanish words exists exclusively in prefix-stem contexts (deshacer, transhumanismo).
This tidbit from a WSJ story is rather revealing of the actual issue going on here[1]:

> In late 2017, when Facebook tweaked its newsfeed algorithm to minimize the presence of political news, policy executives were concerned about the outsize impact of the changes on the right, including the Daily Wire, people familiar with the matter said. Engineers redesigned their intended changes so that left-leaning sites like Mother Jones were affected more than previously planned, the people said. Mr. Zuckerberg approved the plans.

That is: Facebook decided to intervene to benefit the right. I don't think this is just because of right-wingers at Facebook: surely a large part of it is bad-faith attacks from people like Ted Cruz.

The idea that Twitter and Facebook are conspiring to suppress legitimate criticism of Biden and thereby defeat Trump is plain ridiculous.

[1] Story is here: https://t.co/sjOYrLQdc3?amp=1 but I got the blurb from this tweet: https://twitter.com/patcaldwell/status/1317140564169625600
The plan is not to repeal Section 230. The plan is to make protection contingent on appeasing political appointees at the FTC.

Whoever controls the FTC will be able to (and will) pressure the major social media networks into acting as a propaganda arm for their political party.

As dystopian as FB and Twitter are today, in this case, the medicine is poison.

See https://www.hawley.senate.gov/senator-hawley-introduces-legi...
Full title is

"A model-based evaluation of the efficacy of COVID-19 social distancing, testing and hospital triage policies"

Code is at

https://github.com/ckadelka/COVID19-network-model
> they aren’t confined to rigid rules

Ok, but let’s just assume for a second that there was some standard.

Your statement would still be true.

Nobody is “confined to rigid rules” unless we also make the Grammar Police a real thing.