skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. Has anyone ever surveyed successful people at large on their views on rationalism? I wouldn't guess that most successful people are rationalists but I would definitely bet that a very significantly higher number of successful people are rationalist then the population in general, even if it's still a small number.

Then again, having a stated preference for philosophical camp at all probably corresponds highly with success against the population who is totally uninterested or hasn't gotten enough education to be exposed.

Either way I don't buy the premise.
Developers or property owners will just wait out a recession/depression. They won't rent below a certain amount. They may just demolish their building.
I'm a fan of Jira (don't judge), but yeah, this is a death sentence for Jira as a company.

In your (and my) shoes I'd be researching alternatives ASAP.
Windows tried manual updates for years, and even after switching to automated updates still received lots of bad press for security holes that were fixed years earlier. Home Edition taking away the ability not to update is the logical conclusion.

Also Microsoft controls the code they push on your computer, they paid the people who wrote it and they take liability for it. Browsers are automatically pushing other people's code to your computer
Taxes are not the problem, the astronomical cost of housing is. The problem is arguably that property taxes are comically low, and thus there is no penalty for the older anti-growth population that has worked so hard to pull the ladder up behind them, and instead they become rich by destroying the poor and leeching off the tech industry via its workers rents.
Medication exists that can prevent HIV from causing AIDS and from passing the infection to others and also medication exists that can prevent the user from becoming infected.

Practically speaking HIV is a solved problem.
If you are interested in medical devices, at least in the US there are hospital-based postdoc positions which will hire some engineering PhDs even w/out specifically medical thesis focus (as you are coming from ferroelectrics: potentially MRI or robotics research). In such a position there is a lot of opportunity to attend medical lectures, and also ideally to shadow MDs in clinic, observe procedures, and sit in on case reviews.

There are also various 1-2 year MS degree programs, often called "MS in biomedical sciences", which can function as a bridge into medical careers. Some are designed to prepare for MD or other professional school, while others have a focus on broader background (variety of subjects like anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology).
Just defer updates and do them when it suits you
In communication circles, people differentiate between requests and demands. The key differentiator: Turning down a request does not lead to anything negative. In particular, the requestor is not displeased or upset. If he/she is, then it was likely a demand disguised as a request.

On the other hand, fulfilling a request can, and often will, lead to a positive. It's still a request.

If you're going to be upset about it, don't phrase it as a request. A big chunk of the population will be annoyed by it.

Soapbox aside, getting to your comment: If someone is giving me that money unsolicited, I may or may not give a thank you. Context is extremely relevant. I did not give a "Thank you" to the recent stimulus check, for example. And I've definitely had fights with people voluntarily giving me stuff over and over and complaining about my not saying "thank you" (or even worse, not reciprocating). I've had to forbid them from giving me gifts in the future. I'm not saying my attitude is the norm, but it is "one of the norms".

The book Influence covers this topic in a lot of detail, and this is commonly discussed in Negotiations books. The bottom line: Be wary of gifts, and either reject if you suspect reciprocation is desired (which could mean "Thank you"), or make the understanding explicit and keep the reciprocity in mind. Of course, this goes at odds with several cultures.

As much as we like to talk about "open source" culture, it doesn't exist. It gets argued to death every time it comes up, which is a good sign it doesn't exist. A big chunk of the SW world, if not the majority, do not feel a need to reciprocate - even with a thank you. (Most of that chunk are OK giving a "Thank you", and this is not a contradiction).
> there is no circumstances where it is beneficial

Do we really need to be this hyperbolic? And Steam can auto update games just fine (I even remember it being the default, but not sure.)
Some funky JS scroll stuff is going on. Really not smooth on iPhone 6. Just letting you know!
Not just Jira, but everything. We've been running on the Atlassian suite for a decade and strongly prefer to self-host. This is, to put it mildly, very disappointing.
Google instead thinks they are above the law and offers a pop-up that can only be dismissed by accepting. Forced consent is not consent so that’s against the law.

It’s probably not against the law and the situation you have described is a valid method to establishing lawful basis under the GDPR. It’s really not all about “consent” - we hear that too much.
Would anyone be surprised if we found out that hunter - gatherers played some kind of ball games?
> HN's exposure to liability for libel would be rather minimal.

I don't understand how you reached that conclusion. They could be sued over any comment that appears for any amount of time. There are definitely comments that have appeared on HN that are libelous.

Moreover even if they pre-screened every comment before it was posted with a team of lawyers who never make any mistakes, they'd STILL have to worry about defending against frivolous lawsuits. Would it even be possible to buy liability insurance for a forum in this world? It would cost a fortune.

And this is for a site that has the resources to have full time moderators. Smaller sites are even worse off.

I don't see how anyone could practically operate any forum or discussion board or comments section that allowed people to post messages in real time.

>Even the internet was around for decades prior to Section 230.

Sure and sometimes your ISP got successfully sued because someone didn't like a comment posted on a message board they hosted.
Not gibberish at all, in my opinion. They were carefully and creatively chosen, and derived in many cases from logical linguistic sources. I think it's just that we are used to milli- and micro- and nano-, but actual usage of "zepto" has been basically nil until now. But that will change.

On the other side, we're all very used to mega- and giga- and tera-, and for data center folks, peta- as well, and we'll adapt to the higher-order prefixes as they enter more common use.
I'm really curious about this pattern of making rules and then not following them. It seems rampant and somehow fundamentally everything seems so dysfunctional.
I can't read the name "Jodie" without hearing the song "Jody" by Tatsuro Yamashita, the eminent inventor of Japanese City Pop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J-SNMOcB5M

My apologies for not actually engaging with your ideas. I mostly agree with you, and have no major criticism or connections to add. I just thought you might like the song.
Boeing Max Judged Safe to Fly by Europe’s Aviation Regulator
So you see no problem whatsoever with large, nigh-monopolistic interests having absolute authority over how politics is discussed?

This is not a strawman, I simply see no other way to interpret this comment.
>TURNAROUND, TRAGEDY: Harvey Hill’s life was on track, his family said, before his trespassing arrest. REUTERS/Hill family handout

Makes his criminal activity sound like an inconvenience to himself.

Simplest way to avoid dying in jail is to not be a criminal because the reality is you will not be treated like a human being. But that should be implied because society has deemed your life better spent locked away in a cage out of sight out of mind.

Source I found states ~2.3million currently incarcerated, 700,000 of those for violent crimes. .2% mortality rate actually quite impressive to me considering the circumstances and I would guess of those 5000 the one the article references is an outlier considering the events leading to the death seem a bit suspicious - enough to write a story I guess.
I'm not impressed so far. I understand that it can't possibly cover every niche but it's not even recognizing things like Beethoven's 5th.
The whole team needs to work together to create an environment that incentivizes the desired behaviors while being an enjoyable experience.

Setting in place and maintaining a system like that is hard. Telling people what to do is easy.
I worked at a place that had a cube farm with white noise generators to suppress background noise. These things triggered the small amount of tinnitus I have, also some co-workers complained. The frequencies they put out definitely matters- ones with no high pitch output are definitely better.

(pretty sure my Tinnitus was from a certain Metallica concert..)
The whole thing is based on anecdotal numbers. We have no idea how often false positives happen or at what rate. And even in those that are apparently false positives and complain, it's not always 100% clear if they're saying the truth.
They don't release the data because if they did, then the gov fears the jail would then start mis-reporting their data or obfuscating the actual data. By doing so, they kind of give a pass to the jails in order to get them to report more accurate numbers.

But don't worry, Reuters did their own data analysis:

Because the government won’t release jail-by-jail death data, Reuters compiled its own. The news organization tracked jail deaths over the dozen years from 2008 to 2019 to create the largest such database outside of the Justice Department. Reporters filed more than 1,500 records requests to obtain information about deaths in 523 U.S. jails – every jail with an average population of 750 or more inmates, and the 10 largest jails or jail systems in nearly every state. Together, those jails hold an average of some 450,000 inmates a day, or about three out of every five nationwide.

The results were predictable:

Reuters is making the full data it gathered available to the public.

One finding: Since the last Justice Department report, for 2016, the death rate in big jails has continued to climb, leaving it up 8% in 2019, the highest point in the 12-year period of 2008-2019 examined by Reuters. In that time, the suicide rate declined as many facilities launched suicide awareness and response initiatives. But the death rate from drug and alcohol overdoses rose about 72% amid the opioid epidemic.

So alcohol and opioid OD's accounted for most of the deaths. Not mishandling by the staff or as the first story in the article highlighted, an inmate who was beat to death by the prison guards.

Which begs the question, how are drug addicts ODing while they are being incarcerated? Don't they have resources to get these people help with their withdrawal and treatment??
I'm not disagreeing with your point in anyway, but just a point of reference: the article is talking about American jails, as opposed to American prisons. If I understand it correctly, once convicted, most people would be sent to a prison.

I don't think such a distinction is made elsewhere (at least not in the UK).
not just the profits of a closed-source licence, but far beyond the profits of a closed-source licence. an amazon developer salary is well into the six figures annually, for presumably multiple years, which is easily more in one year than it would cost to outright acquire this product.
Agreed and made a similar comment. Story is pushing an agenda 100% but will be eaten up by YC crowd.
>Are they basically franchises? Is there some uber-partner at the global hq collecting massive commissions?

Yes and no. In practice, each "country firm" (such as the PwC US firm) operate as individual companies with their own leadership team that, while they don't have the typical CxO titles, they have the same roles. Tim Ryan is basically the CEO of PwC US, for example, and PwC UK is a different company with a different CEO.

Internationally there is also an umbrella organization that helps coordinate really high level stuff like branding (since all the country organizations share the same branding), internal IT strategy (such as getting everyone to use the same productivity tools to make it easier for cross-firm collaboration), etc.

The individual companies reap benefits from this coordination because of the singular, strengthened brand, culture, methodology etc. So in that way it sort of is like a franchise. But that international organization doesn't have much to do with the day-to-day in-country operations or decisions about specific audits/projects. That would be the responsibility of the local partners/leadership team.
By all means, keep the vaccine research, incentive people to wear masks when sick, stop the worst hygienic practices (like hand pushers on public restroom doors), keep WFH where it works, etc.

But nobody will accept a full quarantine, commerce restrictions, or any of the other heavy actions for fighting a normal cold. And with a lot of reason. It's best if people don't even propose carrying those practices after the disease gets less lethal, because even proposing them can bring bad consequences right now.
> It protects literally everyone on the internet in the USA.

I think this is the kind of knee-jerk hyperbole I want people to really think deeply about.

> Thanks to this law you can't be held liable if you have a blog with a comment section.

Maybe that should not be protected. If I am unable/unwilling to moderate the comment section of a blog I host then maybe I should't have one. I do not believe a completely open free-speech comment section is a requirement of a good or successful blog. Also, there is a business opportunity for those who want comment sections to pay for moderation services.

> I must inform you that you are very, very wrong.

This kind of patronizing is neither useful nor conducive to mature discussion. Aggregate user-generated-content sites aren't some kind of holy thing, forums, comment sections or otherwise. I want people to consider the fact that we may all be fine without them at all. Nothing stops people from posting whatever content they want on their own site. It just discourages aggregation of other people's content.
Nano Defender was open source prior to the sale, with 150 stars on github

https://github.com/NanoAdblocker
To clean your ears yourself you need something like this: https://www.japantrendshop.com/coden-ear-scope-13000-standar...

I thought it was ridiculous when I first saw it but I took a chance on it and it is actually a great product. You can clearly see everything and clean without damaging your ear. If you've ever had to go to the doctor to clear a blocked ear, you need one of these. With occasional use (~once/month) your ears will never be blocked again.
Nope, I used to when I was an active reddit user but I stopped using RES when I nuked my reddit accounts.
I did the math on my taxes somewhat recently and between federal income taxes, social security, and medicare mine was about 27% on 221k income as a single person with no kids in washington state and I'm including the employer payroll costs and taxes as part of that because it's basically the same thing as income taxes. Long term cap gains is 15-23%. For California, you'd probably add like 10% to both income tax and cap gains as it is a high income tax state whereas washington has no income tax.
Sorry to hear about your girlfriend. I have heard those feelings as well. They are not uncommon.
The probability of success changes as you move further in the development. Below there is a link for a booklet that talks about the general pharma odds in page 53.

In our particular case, we took a known chemotherapeutic agent called doxorubicin. It has been used for the last 40 years in about a dozen types of tumors (include certain types of breast cancer).

The problem is that 3 out of every 4 patients end up major side effects to their immune system (e.g. neutropenia), but even worse, you can only take about 6 doses in your whole life, otherwise your risk for cardiac damage increases very rapidly. It is known colloquially as red death and red devil, because of its red color.

Using that drug as the starting block for our approach improves our probability of success and helps us know what to expect in terms of side effects.
You say "I broke up with my girlfriend of 9 years because I figured it just wasn't making me any happier." Now do you think that was a wise decision?

(It's also hard to tell what subtle distinction the verb "figured" is meant to convey in your sentence, if any, beyond say a neutral verb like "concluded".)
It is "a science" insofar as it draws relations between observed phenomenon. Do not confuse this with "the scientific method" which is a particular technique of drawing these relations that has a particular history in the Western world.
FYI, HCQ was being used/tracked/published by many in the industry WELL before March 17th.
I have no idea what this guy is talking about to be honest. I can't really discern even what claim they are trying to disprove in this 10 year old blog post by another author referencing another discussion that I don't have background on.
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I'm going to do a little bit of a shameless plug as a way to show off just what Nim is capable of. If you've ever played one of the many IO games, it might seem familiar to you. Basically I have used Nim to create a multiplayer game that can be played in the browser[1].

I'm planning to write up a more detailed post outlining the architecture of this. But suffice it to say, Stardust is written 100% in Nim. Both the servers and the client running in your browser is written in Nim. The client uses Nim's JS backend and the server Nim's C backend. The two share code to ensure the game simulation is the same across both. Communication happens over websockets.

It's been a lot of fun working on this and I cannot imagine another language being as flexible as Nim to make something like this possible. I already have an Android client up and running too, it also is built from the same code and I plan to release it soon.

1 - https://stardust.dev/play
There's literally a picture of him with a crack pipe in his mouth. He's factually a crackhead.

Also, you might want to avoid such categorical statements, because one of Devon Archer's business associates has recently flipped and provided his emails as well. Those corroborate the "China" arc of the story. Note that the story you linked is a repost of a WaPo story, which itself has no on-the-record corroboration from ODNI, FBI or DOJ. So I'm pretty sure it's fake news.
The handegg even greater though, at least in the US.
It's an easy trap to fall into. Reading and thinking about how you'll think when you need to solve that hard problem is waaaay easier than actually solving the hard problem. Plus, you get this little bonus of still feeling like your doing something productive -- "I'm just sharpening the axe really quick." Meanwhile, no actual work is done.
There is absolutely zero chance of a housing glut in California. The regulatory environment is so violently opposed to housing that the vast majority of people who live there could never afford to move. When the end comes, I think it is more likely to be because some thing finally tips such that people leave the area and (because houses are priced at the margins) prices begin to actually drop. Once that happens there could easily be a rush for the exits, as nobody wants to be upside down on a $2 million loan.
It sounds like candidate vaccines were designed within weeks, or small few months. It is the testing that take a long time.

It would be cool if we could test a method, rather than a vaccine, and next time just whip up a vaccine with the tested method and apply it quickly.
Where are the successful philosophers in general? His opening complaint is that the most successful rationalist philosophers are stuck in academic philosophy and then goes on to name the only modern philosophers I've ever heard of.

Academic philosophy has long been a circle jerk that occasionally in a moment of triumphant success becomes useful as a side note to something in AI research or whatever.

I mean, when was the last time that an academic philosophy paper made it to the front page of HN?( which is probably the most receptive mainstream audience that is ever going to exist for something like that)
You want to encode as much context into the name as possible without breaking abstraction. Meaning that the definition of the function should not be part of the name. Only the API of the function and context should be encoded into the name.

So for example:

areaOfTwoDimensionalBox

is better than:

area

is better than:

widthOfBox_times_heightOfBox
Monty Hall strikes again!
Of course prolonged exposure to loud sounds which are not explicitly painful can still cause hearing damage.
"Extraordinary evidence" is usually interpreted, nowadays, as unobtainable evidence, with the effect that any discovery incompatible with current consensus is reflexively discounted.

This is less often harmful in cases where the current consensus is based more on actual evidence than on groupthink and conformity. So, in physics, there is actual evidence for most things observable.

But there are plenty of fields where fashion prevails. Without citing current problem children, geology until quite recently forbade mention of catastrophic events like bolide strikes, and psychology filtered all hypotheses through behaviorism.
No, it isn't doing dump UA filtering, it tests whether the WebMIDI interface works and if it does then it proceeds to work.

So that must be something else.

You can check the code if you don't believe me, it's plain JS.
Absolutely! A manager can either be an umbrella to shelter under, or they can be a shit funnel.

Great work gets done when you can give your engineers a hard problem (or a long list of easy problems) and let them put their nose to the grindstone to get it done, while deflecting the rabble of inane ideas for new features, shifting deadlines, office politics, customer/supplier relations, etc. etc. etc. If a manager sidesteps all those, and passes them to the engineer, there will be have no time or energy for the actual work. If they are a single point of contact where an engineer can pull in a prioritized task list and push out questions and results, that's an ideal environment to get things done.

Unfortunately, other managers which interact with these EMs can sometimes have a hard time telling the former from the latter, and have a hard time evaluating the quality of the work/difficulty of the problems being solved, so the only visible difference is the happiness of the engineering team and the accomplishments that were made.
I think you are missing the point; perhaps there are bunch of kids just fiddling with their ECU on an otherwise stock car where you live.

In my experience though, tuning is mostly done in conjunction with changing other parts (headers, ports, cams, add a turbo, fuel kit etc.) so the manufacturers long consideration of the best balance for the stock engine is no longer relevant. You have to retune to get proper performance; fair that tuners are rarely considering emissions like the manufacturer would, but changing the airflow characteristics without changing the tune is a bad idea...