skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A little cheer for Russian Ark. I liked it. Done as said, in one take.

Spot the bit well into the film where the guy nearly drops the book, you can feel the oncoming-but-narrowly-averted pain.
That's, funnily enough, one of the arguments he makes, sort of.
The article is talking about this rationalism: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/LessWrong
I'm not generally into whatever scene this article is all about, but this seems like a sort of a down the philosophical rabbit hole that maybe has too little data or not a lot to do with 'success'?

Maybe there's not enough rationalists to decide or maybe we don't know how many folks are rationalists or not so we can't answer the question?

Or success has nothing to do with being a rationalist or not? Or 'success' isn't easily defined / observed?

This seems like measuring something that I'm not sure you can measure, or tell if it matters or not.
On the reidentifiability of credit card metadata
Draw three independent random variables a,b,c~U[0,1].
In the first experiment, let the baby pick between a and b: of course E[a|chosen]>1/2; E[b|unchosen]<1/2. Since a,b,c are independent, E[c]=1/2.

Why are they (journalist/researcher (?)) surprised that in the 2nd round the baby chooses c over b?
[Of course, if you force the baby to pick either b or a in the first round, she will be equally likely to pick c or not in the second round]
That's really cool. I read about notched sound therapy years ago, but it required expensive tests in an audio lab and proprietary white noise device. AudioNotch is a mobile app that lets you tune your notch parameters on your phone and then apply your filter to your own music.

I usually listen to broadband white or brown noise while a work. My favorite is this simulation of spaceship engine hum https://youtu.be/TvUHt54Ucrg but I'm going to check out AudioNotch since it can be tuned to my particular tinnitus frequency.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. It's my wife's essay, and it helped me make sense of the randomness of what happened.
Meh, it's downvotes due to blind Electron hate. I'm not too surprised nor bothered by it.
> With the only improvement being quicker recovery the value proposition of the treatment isn't that great.

It's $3k a patient. The five days difference in hospital stay that was implied costs a lot more than that, even if there is no mortality/morbidity benefit, and that's ignoring that we were worried about running out of hospital capacity.
You're right on the money, economic incentives drives spam in phone calls. As IoT expands, so will spam. Collectively, we can all sit behind refundable MicroPayWalls. Contacts call free. Non-contacts are ignored unless they deposit $0.05. They get a refund if the call time is more than 25s. If the call time is less than 25s, you keep their deposit. [1]

This RoboCash app does exactly that, and it pays you for each call you block as an added bonus. [2]

STIR/SHAKEN is a partial solution that doesn't go far enough to solve the problem.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c1GyiVVZFDiUuxWkBCQ63qLdJgP...

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fyncom.rob...

Disclaimer: I made the app and wrote the white paper.
What to do when people dont deliver ?
In my current company mgrs say “we did our best”, when in fact I see ppl slacking as hell (days of doing nothing).
I think maybe you are reading something into my statement that wasn't there, as people I do care about were in that 15%.The point is that this is a problem across the entire country - in red states and blue states, in states with Republican governors and with Democratic governors. America as a whole is experiencing this problem in a way no other country is, and I don't think it's Andrew Cuomo's fault.
> There is apparently no way to get sound working in the Mac client, meaning that it might as well not exist.

FWIW, it works fine for a team in our company who regularly posts audio content for review. Many of us use macOS.
And yet he was ahead of almost everyone in doing that - no other politicians or agencies were calling for it, most were denouncing it.

I personally know someone coming here from China who was disallowed end of January.

That he didn’t go all the way and ban US nationals is only because that would have probably been untenable politically and legally.

Travel restrictions absolutely prevent spread to argue against that shows fundamentally you’re willing to make silly arguments to win, I won’t engage further.
You say there are no commandments, but these two concepts pass the duck test for commandments.

> YAMA – Moral disciplines

> NIYAMA – Positive duties

You also say there's no creed, and then talk about "bliss in after life". That's a creed.

I get into this with Catholics sometimes where they think having special vocabulary and a big bag of trivia makes one thing not another. They tell you they don't worship Mary, but if it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck...

Viewed from the outside, Hinduism is just as much a religion as any of the Abrahamic ones.
> The case study of the ADHD trend in general population is Mission Impossible IV. It is filmed by shoulder cameras and the mounter is just playing piano on the console: there isn’t a shot longer than 4s in the entire movie, and the average of changing camera angle is 0,7s.

Seems like hyperbole. I just looked at Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol (aka Mission Impossible IV).

In the first two minutes there were multiple shots of over 10 seconds.

And at the 0:14:44 mark there is a 24 second shot.
Management isn't math. It's not a science, and there are successful managers who push as much crap onto their directs as they can, and there are successful managers who take as much of that crap as they can to prevent it from reaching their teams.
Seems like hyperbole. I just looked at Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol (aka Mission Impossible IV).

In the first two minutes there were multiple shots of over 10 seconds.

And at the 0:14:44 mark there is a 24 second shot.
> It never really worked in those instances. What you see in the books and what you hear in real life are often two quite different things.

You are basing your assumption on languages using Roman writing system which actually isn't capable of expressing all sounds used within the language. All language systems doesn't suffer this. For example most Indian languages have accurate sound to letter mapping even to the level of defining short and long sounds of same alphabet differently. In order to speak correctly you just have to say the individual sounds together. There is no weirdness involved.
I absolutely believe picky eating is a learned behavior. The wide varying cultural differences in food already tells us there's nothing biologically innate about the preferences.

Toddlers will observe their parents facial expressions and behaviors even as they're being served. If you scrunch your nose when giving them broccoli, they won't like it. If you incentivize eating it, they learn they're not "supposed" to like it. At the other extreme, if the parents fight for the last piece of broccoli the kid will happily join in, in my direct experience. Somehow we have convinced our toddler that broccoli is the best thing ever and lollipops will break her teeth and should be avoided :D Your reaction to hearing about this kind of "conditioning" is also no doubt a product of your own environment.

For things like sour or spicy which may be unpleasant at first, repeated and consistent small exposure over time changes their preferences almost without fail. Millions of Korean kids loves Kimchi as a staple, if you could replicate that environment your kid would too.
Curious how you define a team’s success?
It looks like the answer is in the question; you want to be an entrepreneur. It is very realistic for most people, though also probably _very_ difficult. For you, my guess is it is more than just "realistic", it's what you're going to do. But it's still very difficult.

As for resources, http://theleanstartup.com is a great one. This method is all about getting something (valuable) into users' hands ASAP so that they can give you the only feedback that actually matters.
That 'eventually' means several lifetimes in practice so it's effectively non-existant.
Nit: It's not quite the same. If need for hospitalization is growing quickly, cycling out people 20% quicker might not affect overload dramatically.

Steady-state, sure, you can treat 25% more.
If platforms are going to start acting like publishers, they should no longer get special treatment when compared to other publishers.

Remember, if the info platform monopolies help the democrats today, they can help the republicans tomorrow.
> I get that its hard to find great talent

It's not. It just cost a lot.
Maybe the crime and poverty are direct results of centuries of racist oppressions. Slavery, segregation, denial of voting rights, economic opportunities... and maybe, the solution to racism isn’t more racism? How do you think we got here? And how do you propose we address the issues? You yell “look at the crime” and smugly pretend that the other side is blind to it; well, what’s your solution?
My hypothesis:

Rationalists are the opposite of visionaries.

A job at Google making $200-400k, having good work life balance and enough time to pursue your hobbies is success. It is also more reliably achievable. A rationalist thrives in the absence of uncertainty. Becoming a decent engineer is a far more reliable way to be successful than starting the next billion dollar company. That is practically leaving everything up to luck.

The truth is, we only see two kinds of successful people in media. The lucky, the pig-headed visionary and those who fall in line. Rationalists are by ideology averse to luck, stubbornness and compliance. Go figure, why they do not feature in cohorts so opposed to their core ideology.

Now militant rationalists are rarely rationalists. If anything, acknowledging the virtue of gut feeling/intuition in presence of uncertainty and the the prevalence of uncertainty in everything we do, are the 2 most evident facts of our universe. To make a strong claim of correctness in the presence of massive uncertainty, is innately irrational.

That being said, a lot of the most successful people I've met, use various tools of rationalism quite frequently.
This is a very good point. Rationalism is inherently flawed in that it lacks a value system, and all value systems are inherently irrational. It manifests in philopshy as the "is-ought" problem.
I disagree that ending trials early is solid science, or at least not _as_ solid as running them to completion. It makes it hard to know whether results are due to a treatment effect or just random fluctuations over time. Essentially, it allows for cherry-picking of significant results in a way that bypasses family-wise error correction.
"Leading candidate" still doesn't mean it's not going to be a flop. If you look at what the press and medical experts were saying about Remdesivir throughout this period, it was lukewarm at best. But they were saying it so loudly and repetitively that it makes me wonder if the point wasn't to sell Remdesivir per se but just to drown out other news.

Even if HCQ is useless, that doesn't preclude the notion that it was seen as a threat to Big Pharma's bottom line in mid-March. Of course it was. Like I said earlier, it's cheap and out-of-patent.

I think all of us in this thread are circling around the same understanding when it comes to the facts of the matter. But where we differ is that I'm much more open to the idea that the authorities could have self-serving motives in play besides keeping us safe. The idea that policymakers and even scientists may be corrupt is not far-fetched. We have to try to keep an eye on them. Have a great day and thanks for the debate.
I think in general most companies, especially large ones, reward managers who push crap onto their directs. Anecdotally, the best manager I've ever had viciously protected us from executive nonsense, and he's also the most successful by far (and he was before I started). I don't think that's the norm, though.
Help me to chose my next thinkpad (t-series vs. x-series)
I have an x230, it's showing its limits. It's taking a long time on some algorithms for NP-complete problems (like dynamic programming algorithms and local search algorithms). So I am considering buying a new thinkpad.

Potential future use: Maybe, I will launch a youtube channel so I will need to do video editing as well. But my primer use will always be programming.

What I love about the X230:

* The keyword. It's amazing. Period.

* It's silent. It always have a decent temperature.

* No problems with linux.

* Several USB ports (I am always using a mouse)

What I don't like:

* It's not performant for what I am doing.

* Although the screen is an IPS, it's REALLY small. I am always scrolling when programming and I hate that.

* The batterylife is poor.

* It has a strong plastic feel

* No hdmi port

I don't want to make some fashion-driven decisions. Any suggestions from long-term users?
I'd argue that the issue is the fundamentally incompatible model of news and competition. We didn't know this before the internet, but now that we can actually measure engagement for crazy content vs real content, I'll make the argument.

In essence, FB/Twit have the same issue as old school cable networks.

Markets drive competition which drives optimization. In the case of news and media, the optimization force is engagement. The market rewards engagement over "truth".

People will rather watch sports or reality TV than watch boring news. You can see it in media studies of headlines, and we now have empirical data on submissions to reddit and engagement being related to sentiment/modification of headlines.

So news talks about the most sensational content it can find (Man bites dog). As sensational news gets boring, you get more "breaking news" to cut through the ennui.

I hope its not too much of a stretch to argue that barring any upper limit, this system will optimize itself to self mockery. At least I don't see how publicly owned firms can afford to optimize differently.
Yeah it would probably be the easiest way to get started. Their ToS[0] just seems so convoluted it's hard to know if you're following it or not, so I don't want to tie myself to it with no recourse.

[0]: https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/api-services-ter...
If you want fundamental new technological innovations, startups are a better place to look.

Altough, for example, the work Google did in the 2010's in machine learning does seem fundamental.
Yes, he was ahead of everyone in proposing the thing that didn't work, while to this day casting doubt on things like masking.

Saying "The WHO did things similarly shockingly bad three times or so during the pandemic" and then pivoting to praise Trump on his COVID handling is pretty hilarious.
Whatever your age, you already have enough money to start investing, today
Whatever little I could gather from Google translate sounds very interesting.

I wish someone did a deep dive (in English) on what this is and how to use it (with focus on disk space and runtime performance characteristics).
Review of the algorithms and data, in a public and ongoing work of research to make sure we know how and what these systems are doing/
The "something you do for your employer as part of work" was a strawman and doesn't relate to what we're talking about. We're talking about whether it meets social norms to take open source work, launch it as the core piece of a product, and do the absolute minimum legally required acknowledgment.
IAAL. Sure, they are cited, but their influential power is pretty weak at best.

Imagine you're a judge. If you come to a legal conclusion that directly contradicts a Supreme Court holding by quoting a dissent attached to the opinion instead of the Court's opinion, you're at grave risk of committing legal error and having your decision reversed by a higher court. So no judge in his/her right mind is going to do that.
I find searching chat history much more useful than what people used to do, which is throw anything that might be important into a wiki that never gets updated. At least in Slack you get some context around a piece of information rather than a hasty summary.
"I'm banking on the most upvoted posts being somewhat entertaining to me, nothing more." - i do the same and i get stupider everytime it seems. i just watched for the first time on youtube "judge calls" which is basically video snippets of us american tv of judges sentencing ppl - i never knew such things existed before and i find its allowance on tv first and on youtube second pretty disgusting and inhumane.
We have built better pyramids with modern technology. Luxor LV has comparable size but provide much more utility.
Transamerica Pyramid and The Shard dwarf Egyptian pyramids.
Seattle / Portland / Vancouver do have notably better air quality
But what if not owning a car meant you saved an additional $400 per month, and reclaimed 1-1.5 more hours per day?

Personally, I think a lot of people would take that trade. I would.

Yes, there are people who like lugging everything but the kitchen sink with them around. For a lot of people in the world though "things you always want to have with you" fits in a handbag or backpack.
Basically any language has that many dialects - or many more. English has a ton of unintelligible dialects but you won't hear them on CNN/Hollywood and speakers of those dialects will adjust to a more standardized form of the language to talk to outsiders. Remember that the Caribbean, Africa, etc. all speak English and it's not American/British that they speak. Even traveling in (super-small and birthplace of the language) Great Britain will expose you to a lot of dialects even if locals will swap to a regularized language to talk to you...
I think that's what makes it so special. If a particular culture has a way of saying something, they aren't confined to rigid rules. They can take the base concepts and modify them in a way that suits them while also maintaining a common vernacular with the "motherland."
The Gumroad product everybody have been waiting for
Nonsense. Airplanes can do 99.9% of their flying without human intervention, but we don't hear about planes slamming into mountain sides because a pilot was texting or browsing the internet.

The problem is any idiot can get a drivers license that let's them pilot around a 5000lb steel cube for about $200 and 20 hours of training time. And punishments are extremely lax for when mistakes are made.
Are you talking about Tesla AutoPilot?

This system is meant for cars without level 2 driver assist, so not for Teslas.

Further, the system has no control over what "disengages" in the car itself - it is sending bogus sensor inputs to elicit a reaction according to level 2 driver assistance. Thus, if it sends such bogus inputs and fails at doing this "reliably", it will result in misbehaving steering, breaking, etc. which it does not control itself.

Further, if it was in control, my argument would stay: If your controlling device has left the building (crashed), it can also not disengage anything any more reliably.
Perhaps we're talking past each other. In my opinion, they are not censoring this to prevent incriminating pictures of Hunter Biden from spreading, they are censoring this to prevent unverified emails that could potentially sway the election from spreading
https://pasteboard.co/JvX72mI.png Chicago Institute of Art, here I come! Seriously though, with zero sculpting experience I was able to immediately grasp the interface and make something. I am impressed.
This is one take, but another take is what Section 230 should be, putting aside legal technicalities. We have expectations on how big tech companies should operate, and they are not being met. Facebook is bigger than any country. Twitter is bigger than most. They are the digital public square.

Even if US law permits them to act as they will, it is dangerous for our society to have organizations that are essentially utilities provide a non-neutral platform. It doesn't make a difference if a private company is censoring you - the distinction is just cosmetic. The impact is as real as a government censoring you, since any alternative avenue of speech is significantly less effective and for most intents and purposes, simply doesn't exist.
A Massively Parallel and Scalable  Multi-GPU Material Point Method
Maybe I'm just extremely lucky, but I think in 20 years of working at multiple companies (as an IC), I've never really even had contact with HR besides my first and last days. I don't think I could even name a single HR person I've ever met. They tend to be there to hand me the benefits literature, then at the end I give my badge back to them, and that's it. What on earth is happening in companies where HR is part of the daily life of a standard "3rd engineer from the left" employee?
The solution to pollution is dilution.
> Anything that isn't well understood or known in advance of someone engaging in an activity, and then later faces unfair retribution because apparently they didn't do what wasn't told to them that needed be done, or did something that wasn't told to them shouldn't be done.

Your argument self-contradicts. You assert, broadly, if it's legal it's OK. The "unfair retribution" of people getting annoyed about it and complaining is also legal, so that should be OK, too. :P

> Now, yes I understand that maybe when you said hey this is open source with Apache license, you had in mind an audience of students, or one man startups, or hobbyist, or amateurs, and hadn't really thought if it applied to big corps.

Nah, when I said "Apache License", I meant that legal license. But that doesn't mean doing some things that effectively cost nothing, that exceed the license requirements, aren't socially customary.

There's no law that says you have to say "thank you" when someone renders you a service or has made something that makes your life easier or lets you make a bunch of money, but if you stand on legal grounds to avoid saying "thanks" you might be a dick, and people might call you out for being a dick.
That's exactly the example I had in mind when I wrote the sentence you quoted.

Pharma grants have their own issues. Our current mixed system with both private investment and public investment allows us to leverage the strengths and weaknesses of both allocation schemes.
I'd suggest reading through some of the resources linked in the article. The idea that Section 230 gives special treatment to "platforms" as opposed to "publishers" is common but false. The Techdirt one (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...) in particular I think helps clear up the confusion.
Keeping it simple until it is needed to expand is the best way forward, and have a little bit of resistance to the expansion.

One issue that comes up is the function arguments can evolve to be a mess over time with this method.

I like to always use a prop object as function arguments, even when it is simple.

function calculateArea({x, y}) rather than (x, y).

This makes it so things can be added, and be optional, and the calling function clearly can see what those values are being assigned to.

This means that the 100 times you called that function don't need to be rewritten with a new parameter added, and you don't have to have a bunch of null values set for unused cases.
I tried something like this once. For me, it just made the tinnitus pitch change. That was pretty frustrating. It can be quite persistent.
"How to Solve It" by Polya is a great book about general techniques for solving hard math problems. It also contains a warning: "[...]if we're not careful, the next generation of students will be able to talk the hind leg off a donkey about the thought-processes involving in solving problems but will be able to operate only at a very low level in terms of content."

My (admittedly untestable or at least hard to test) hypothesis is that people who identify themselves as rationalists fell into this trap.