skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last time I was at university we stored hydrogen in pure lead bottles(70kg bottle for just 1L of hydrogen!) and it would leak all of it naturally over about 4-6 weeks. And the bottles had to be replaced every now and then because hydrogen makes them brittle while permeating through them.

Has that changed? Do we now have some exotic materials that can hold it better than pure lead?
I post big ideas on Twitter and see if anyone bites.
Social-democrats are socialists though. They are one of the many subgroups.
The value that an independent thinker is able to create is usually predicated on a large amount of more conventional thinkers. No need to pit the two against eachother, or glorify the one any more than the other.
As the Spanish royals found out, problems tend to arise when your family "tree" is actually a circle.

* https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/inbreeding-and...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_Spain
After getting some evidence, I hope.
My first job was in tech support and we had similar metrics although nothing as drastic. I took really hard escalations and had a low case count. My manager pointed it out and so next period I also did 100 remote password changes in addition to my hard cases and had like 3x the next closest case count.

I did this to show him how stupid his metrics are but he just said “great job, this is amazing.”

So I just made sure to min max stupid metrics and do what I thought was right as it was easier than trying to fix the metrics.

I definitely don’t think it’s worth being fired out of principle if I know I’m measured for case count.

Generally, I try to set up policies where these metrics are not allowed for performance, but are visible.

And then whenever someone tries to enact them I try to say “this is a really stupid idea and here’s why” in front of as many senior, fancy pants people as possible.
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Are there only a few paths for independent thinkers?

> Independent-mindedness seems to be more a matter of nature than nurture. Which means if you pick the wrong type of work, you're going to be unhappy. If you're naturally independent-minded, you're going to find it frustrating to be a middle manager. And if you're naturally conventional-minded, you're going to be sailing into a headwind if you try to do original research.

I'm asking this seriously. I'm a fairly unconventional thinker. (I'm not sure that's always or even mostly a good thing.) So I do find it frustrating to be in middle management, as I have been numerous times. It's also usually frustrating to report to middle management. I much prefer to figure out solutions and pursue them independently.

HOWEVER, I've also thus far found nothing but greater frustrations as an organizational leader or solo entrepreneur. (Good thing I'm currently neither.)

What are the options for the independent thinker who doesn't want to follow orders, doesn't care to lead others, but also wants to be a part of a team? Someone who knows they need others with complementary skills? Surely I'm not the only nerd who fits this bill.

Is there a work model for a team of independent thinkers who wish to neither lead nor follow, but simply cooperate? My gut says there is, that it's probably pretty obvious, and I'm just blind to it. Or maybe that they exist, but tend to fail. The only thing that comes to mind is to be a co-founder in the early stages of a startup, but if that succeeds you'll end up in a leadership role pretty quickly. Not everyone gets to be Woz.

Anyone?
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Thanks for pointing that out, I see where you're coming from, but GP's other comments make it seem like a serious statement to me.
Yes. I spent a month in lockdown not able to access the things I'd left in my car's boot (trunk) which can only be opened when the battery-powered central locking is available.

Anecdotally, once some modern car batteries die in this way, they fail to hold a charge at all, so classic jump-starting doesn't work. So I only replaced the battery when lockdown was over, to avoid the same problem happening to a new battery.
Machine learning models that act on encrypted data
If computers stop getting faster then larger investments in software development become reasonable.

As we are not limited to a single i7 today, the C64 was hardly the most powerful machine of that time. A Cray X-MP released just after the C64 might take hours to run that same compression, which would have been expensive but hardly impossible.
I've heard lots of Trump supporters saying Biden is Communist; he seems just right of center to me. But it's about "othering", and USA have had a decades long programme making Communists into evil bogey men, so it's understandable from that perspective.
Probably too stop automated abuse and reduce unnecessary searches. Search can be expensive.
The Commission Code Review, Legit or a Scam?
Can't imagine why Australian wine needs protection... Who would try to copy it?
Cyclists ride. They do not drive. Drive implies you aren't the prime mover in the mechanism (i.e., an engine is doing the work, and you're merely performing the task of executive signaling and control to that set of movers and systems carrying you along do so. The inflection point is actually legal in nature; in that once you slap a motor on it, you require licensure, because you're driving now. This is also why I disagree with driving being a privilege granted by the State; I'm not big on large edifi telling me I can only utilize mechanical devices at their whim, but such is life, yes, I've had the argument before, no I'm not going into it now).

A cyclist, however is the mechanism. You can make the argument that it's silly, but I'll bet you more people will look at you funny for saying cyclists drive than for saying the operator of a motor vehicle rides especially given the legal baggage that comes with driving.

Aside from that, they're quite easy to identify. They're usually the ones either breaking traffic laws, or being ignored/cursed at because their mere existance increases the volatility of motor vehicle traffic patterns in urban environments.
Not trying to change your mind, just to answer your question.
My Pentium 60 I bought in 1995 for $2200 came with 4 mb of RAM. I later upgraded it to 8 mb. 540 MB hard drive, 2x CD ROM drive. It ran just about everything I had until I built my next computer in ‘98
And? This sounds like the usual socialist argument of “tear it all down”—they’d rather all the money went to China than to wealthy locals which, let’s not forget, employ thousands.
I fear that another BBC favorite of mine, How Buildings Learn [0], is too modern (90ies) to have been produced on film...

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvEqfg2sIH0
> What is the best way to organize a liberal democracy of >100M citizens?

Start by defining "best".
That's not right. 1 is different to half the sum of 0 and infinity. Another way to look at it is that infinity minus one is larger than one minus zero (which can be easily proven using the basic definitions used to define the surreals). Moreover, what is at the right side of {0|} is not infinity, but the empty set.
Punching Holes
You’re describing the consumer layer of Microsoft Office products that they sell to individual who work in enterprise Office environments.
Scale variance of complex systems: a solution that works for 20 people rarely works for 200k or 20M people.
This is one of the central thesis of the book:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Henrich

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51710349-the-weirdest-pe...
When confronted with this question:

> What is the best way to organize a liberal democracy of >100M citizens?

Ask yourself this: Can you reformulate the question into questions that make more sense?

Who can/should organize a liberal democracy of >100M citizens? What are relevant criteria to assert that a liberal democracy has been organized in "the best way"? Is it possible to agree on a fixed set of criteria? Is it possible to draw a model that matches reality? What game rules are you going to feed your model? Can you discern first principles that you're going to agree on and keep to build on top of?

The more questions and follow up questions you ask, the more concrete/tangible your answers will become.

Also, ask questions about yourself too. For instance, which biases can you identify with yourself? Are you able to avoid them?

In this case: how do you want to answer "best way"? If you are seeking an answer in absolute terms, then you may risk ending up in a logical tarpit discussing the existence of objective truth. Here you have a red flag: Is this question even a complete or answerable question?

So, it helps to question the question itself too. Maybe you need to bend the question before it can yield a worthwhile answer?
That's not true. Champagne became protected in USA in 2006, though existing makers were grandfathered.
Agreed, but be sure to check you the applicable laws in your jurisdiction to make sure it's legal. Or, even if it's not legal, be sure to know what consequences you may be facing.
I don't have an MBA but I think you're vastly overestimating the information density of these essays. Or maybe MBAs are really just that vacuous, I don't know.

PG has wrote some really great essays (the Submarine Article, anyone?). I've read all of them, some of them many times. But if I'm being completely honest, lately it feels like he's writing to write instead of writing because he has something genuinely new and insightful to say.

PG does have a good, prescriptive insight here: you should constantly question what the truth is in a manner of detached concern. You could more concisely call it dispassionate skepticism.

But take away all the dressing about conventionality and thinking in ways others don't, and drill down into that one idea. That would be a great essay.
Hopefully retrospective
Anywhere with electricity can charge a battery.

You only need H2 if you need to go where batteries can't, or if you're doing actual chemistry.
Are Americans no longer humans?
Not to China, but why not to Guillermo who also lives in the Po Valley region? Why should he not be allowed to also make it?
Being fullstack: The libraries I use to start a React project
CBS Last.fm leaked admin creds via Symfony Profiler logs
I've seen some interesting Hydrogen generation using aluminium and gallium, the alloy they make oxidisers so well that it will pull the O2 out of water and release hydrogen. Now how much energy is used to reclaim the aluminium/gallium alloy and rid of the extra oxygen is something I'm not sure of. But certainly pulling hydrogen from water efficiently is one area of interest.
Hi, I'm the author of the extension. You can find more installation options in the GitHub description. Make sure to also install the client app to simulate user interactions. Open the extension's options to get started and download the client app, then follow the guide linked below to finish the installation. I'm happy to chat on GitHub if you need further help.

https://github.com/dessant/buster#readme

https://github.com/dessant/buster/wiki/Installing-the-client...
I predict that Microsoft will rename that "Productivity Score" to something boring like "Product Feature Granular Usage Report" and do nothing else, and press will stop covering it.
Putting the name of the cheese (style) he's making in the thumbnails is his usual format. I've watched a dozen or more of his cheese-making videos. I don't think his Grana Padano thumbnail differs in any significant way.
Carbon fiber? That's what cars like the Toyota Mirai are storing it in.
Northern Europe haven't had significantly more unemployment even though the labour costs and regulations are much better than in the US. How would you explain that?
Johns Hopkins published a study saying corona is nbd. They then deleted it.
Whenever I want to know a Unix command (and I’m not at a terminal), I just DDG “man <command>” and it shows me the manual page for this command.

That might help you from using the search engine that will not be named.
There is a large socialist/anti-capitalist/woke movement on Twitter and a somewhat in the real world as well. I assume PG would like to call all those people out directly. But he cannot because in the current media and social climate the news summary will read:

"Older White SV Billionaire living in England tells poor American minorities to stop complaining because their politics would lead to an economy with less innovation."

I don't think he is wrong. Some of these very progressive goals can have unintended consequence, but he isn't in a position where he can say those things due to his professional and personal expectations which he has to conform to.
Closed - Won't Fix
Everyone likes to be an "independent thinker", nobody likes to be a "weirdo"
There is good abstractions and bad abstractions.
Three years isn't that long, I built my next computer in 2002... You could barely move the mouse before swapping started.
"pretty unintuitive" is an understatement...

In [1]: import dis

In [2]: def a():
...: return (1 in [1,2,3] is True)

In [3]: def b():
..: return ((1 in [1,2,3]) is True)

In [4]: a()
Out[4]: False

In [5]: b()
Out[5]: True

In [6]: dis.dis(a)
2 0 LOAD_CONST 1 (1)
2 LOAD_CONST 1 (1)
4 LOAD_CONST 2 (2)
6 LOAD_CONST 3 (3)
8 BUILD_LIST 3
10 DUP_TOP
12 ROT_THREE
14 COMPARE_OP 6 (in)
16 JUMP_IF_FALSE_OR_POP 24
18 LOAD_CONST 4 (True)
20 COMPARE_OP 8 (is)
22 RETURN_VALUE
>> 24 ROT_TWO
26 POP_TOP
28 RETURN_VALUE

In [7]: dis.dis(b)
2 0 LOAD_CONST 1 (1)
2 LOAD_CONST 5 ((1, 2, 3))
4 COMPARE_OP 6 (in)
6 LOAD_CONST 4 (True)
8 COMPARE_OP 8 (is)
10 RETURN_VALUE

Why?!
I agree nobody should have to know this, but on the other hand what harm does it do to learn it? In the US in elementary school I studied world capitals, major cities, history, etc. and came away with a pretty decent primer on things overseas, which I really value. Later in life I’ve come to know a fair bit about European football, about daily life in Taiwan, about the systems of government in Australia and New Zealand. The list goes on.

I’m not offended to learn about that stuff, I think it’s really interesting.

I agree that knowing the names of time zones shouldn’t be required, but I’ve only ever seen them displayed with their UTC offset beside them. When I get calendar invites for “AEST” I just look for that offset.

Just seems to me there are far worse things in the world to get worked up about /shrug.
You can use the ReMemorize add-on to distribute the cards you missed over the next X days. Here's a good video explaining how to manage it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXgck-g0nQA&t=1189s . If I get home too late and don't have time to do all my cards, that's what I do.
There are better alternatives to an old Surface.
He's not selling cheese and claiming that it's "Grana Padano." He's saying, "hey, follow my instructions and you can make a cheese that is very much like Grana Padano." That's perfectly legal.

In fact, it would also be legal to sell "Grana Padano Style" cheese in the supermarket.
Good God, this is dystopic!
I can't help but note the irony of a highly influential technologist disseminating an essay titled "how to think for yourself"
Black Friday (But Different)
Infinitesimals and infinities are nice if you're doing some sort of bucketing logic.

tiny = infinitesimal
huge = infinity
N = number to be bucketed

tiny <= N < 10 --> bucket 1
10 <= N < 20 --> bucket 2
...
X <= N < huge --> last bucket

This removes edge cases you need to test for if you're trying to bucket positive values. This may not be something you've had to do, but I've had reason to want this before on a few occasions.
I’d hate that so much. People are already abusing CC and BCC in corporate email chains, having to simply @ someone to send them a notification or a copy of the email would make that problem even worse. MS always comes up with things that make working so much harder on the business/office/windows side.
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One of the consequences of thinking for yourself is that you’re often going to find that the majority of other people disagree with you. So you’re always going to be having disagreements where it’s an unfair fight; you’re outnumbered and easy to ignore. It’s exhausting, and people generally cope in two ways: keep their thoughts private, which looks like conformity from the outside, or find like minded people, which puts them back in the majority, arguably making them a conformist again. Either way something feels off about claiming oneself to be a consistent nonconformist.

Edit: the other aspect of this to consider is the power relationships involved. If you’re the boss you probably feel free to express your opinions to anyone of equal or lower status: employees and other founders. But if you’re the employee, doing so to the boss might involve personal risk. So for pg to paint his employees as conformists leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
>What does an amazon union even look like?

There are already Amazon unions across Europe, so I don’t understand the speculative framing here. They fight for better wages, working conditions, etc for their members. All of these are better than their American counterparts because of their present and others historical organizing efforts.

> How do unions operate legally/practically in global firms?

They don’t? They operate locally based on the unionization laws for a given country. In Europe, many are part of sector-wide bargaining systems that provide a floor for treatment and wages. The US, by contrast, specifically enshrined shop-level organization as the legal means for unionizing to make it more adversarial, limit its political influence and spread.

>What "package" would they want to negotiate for. One union? Many unions? Structure. Strategy. Tactics. Etc.

Again, these are locally determined by workers through democratic processes. The formation of these unions is to give workers back the power that’s stripped from them by the asymmetries of authoritian corporate structures and wage labor more generally.
I was in a major wreck last winter. Hit a tree head-on due to black ice on the road. I was not braking or turning at the time of the slide. My car had snow tires and was in 4-wheel drive.

How exactly is that my fault?

You make no men to on of environmental factors causing wrecks.

You also make no mention of multi-car wrecks.

Clearly you live in some part of the world with perfect weather?
This is basically what the book discussed in the article also argues: specifically the (Catholic) Church's “Marriage and Family Program” (MFP) forced a move away from tribal/clan thinking that most human societies start with and continue with.

It's why there are very few "honour killings" in more Westernized societies: non-WEIRD cultures need to restore the family's reputation from the actions of an individual. While in WEIRD cultures it is only the individual's reputation that suffers, not the parents'/relatives'.
We are heading to New era of communism. We are walking with masks on our face to believe, that these masonic one world order leaders gonna save us. Left or Right, it doesn't matter both playing same end game.

As good obedient citizen we are, we judge people who dare to questioning the direction of our world.

Believe in Google twitter and Facebook, they censoring opinions to protect you from anybody who is not aligned with the agenda.

HN shadow ban again my account. So much of been innovative and open for ideas.
I can have a web browser with hundreds of non trivial tabs and yet it "only" needs 2GB of RAM. Firefox used to be lean and only need 1GB but then everyone insisted on multi process browsing and it doubled the memory usage.
Social media companies all starting to look the same
I guess I never realized that tiny homes were supposed to fix the housing crisis? I'm not sure this article really said that they were either. Anyways, I think this is the main idea of the article:

"The imagined owners of tiny homes, in other words, are likely childless and able-bodied, and they likely have at least ten grand to spare (plus, perhaps, the time or resources to build a home) and minimal familial responsibilities. If housing justice is truly our goal, then tiny living leaves a large contingent of people behind."
Cemetery of Soviet Computers
The Egg Men (2005)
Off topic but I think we are at the point of no return. Plastic pollution is at its highest with production and use of plastic to increase in significant magnitude by 2050. The main generators of green house gases (US, China) have yet to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels. We are constantly over-fishing, over-grazing, deforesting and plunging this earth of its precious resources with reckless abandon to feed our decadence.

World War III won’t be a fight over “values” but rather a constant fight over who controls water, energy, and clean air.
I meant to add finance as a good example of what I meant, including HFT. basically just saying that while individually people benefit from working in these schemes, the broader economy arguably benefits little to even negatively
I just use fossil for that as kb, code snippet and documentation tool.
I don't see the point of the essay as how brilliant of an independent thinker he is, or even that being an independent thinker makes you a better person.

The essay is useful because has specific tactical points on how to think better: questioning whether a statement you hear is true, or watching how other people find their beliefs.

What do you think people should be doing more in the world? Or mental habits people should have?
Same here. Good memories. And the companion book is still on my shelf. So interesting to see how modern inventions depend on a network of connected ideas.
The Democratic Party in California is quite cozy and takes a lot of money from the people who wrote it, so I find this claim of opposition unconvincing.
It's funny because no matter how people react, he can spin it to confirm his world view. If people reacted with a "firestorm of rage" like he expected, then it's because he really angered those conventional-minded losers, and he's doing something right! And if they didn't, then it was because they're too stupid to refute his trenchant critique.
What a narcissist, holy shit
> that means less independent thinking, paradoxically.

This is indeed the paradox of our times. An accelerated technology shift (the global computer network) has generated large amounts of people who are rationally self-reliant to a fault, since they are either the only ones in their social circles who understand the new tech or the only ones who can spend a lot of time reading stuff from the internet. This cult of "independent thinking" leads them down dark alleys for which they simply don't have the necessary preparation (conspiracies, flat earth, etc), but from which they cannot get out (because admitting your own reasoning is wrong is extremely difficult).

How do you get out of flat-earth on your own, without re-living centuries of astronomic research? How do you get out of moonlanding negationism, without personally examining all the retrieved moon rocks? How do you get out of antivaxxing, without personally living through pestilence? (well, at least Covid19 should help with that...)

I guess it's a balance. Society simply would not hold if we all were radical independent thinkers, since we'd be constantly questioning everything that we cannot individually and immediately determine as true. A degree of conformism is actually necessary for progress of any sort.
(Reply since I can't edit anymore) The only catch is that with that approach, you can't poll on the fd like you can with the real thing.
People on the federal minimum wage are already struggling very hard to make ends meet. What makes you think that they'll be able to afford food on an even lower wage?
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