skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it seems researchers have an incentive to make the most extreme climate change predictions as many view themselces also as climate change activists and feel policy makers will only take it seriously if they make the consequences seem extreme. in addition they are rewarded with press coverage and citations
I had two of those thoughts today, that would probably get me ostracized from society if I expressed them freely.

Earlier today I overheard a teen girl with a giant behind, talking with her friend how she wants to go home and do nothing, to her obese friend, on a Friday.
Sorry but this is not how teenagers acted in the past. And its not normal that so many young people are morbidly obese, stay at home do nothings.

People are stumbling along and nobody notices how fat everyone is around here, as if its all fine, but maybe they notice but too afraid to speak up. But really its not fine, its actually pretty horrible. And is probably an indication of some sort of toxicity. Maybe like lead poisoning from lead pipes.

I also draw a line, I don't think we should be wearing space suits to live on this planet. Sorry if that means people will die from exposure to disease. But thats not the path I want humanity to take.

Independent thinkers can often come off as lacking empathy. Expressing empathy is very important in communication, especially If you want to be liked by other people. But as society, I think its crutch too. Its not that I don't think we have too much empathy. I think we use empathy to cover up problems, which can be solved. A little temporary pain, can reduce suffering in the long run.
But is that negatively impacting their immune systems? Or just delaying the development of immunities?

In other words, is there something about developing immunity as a 4 year old that is preferred over developing that same immunity at age 5?
Thanks for that. It's always good to be mindful that this is hardly the first or the last time that this will happen to me or anyone else :-)
Climate change is akin to a religion at this point. To the rational mind, you can agree that the climate is changing, but disagree with the severity, individual studies, the rate of change, etc. But publicly if you express any opinion other than “we are totally fucked and we need to be scared 24/7 as heat apocalypse consumes us all” you are some sort of anti-science climate denier. Nuance doesn’t exist anymore in this subject and sadly many others.
Good point. I should have qualified.

ETH is an excellent school—I'd be happy to have an ETH degree! They produce tons of good research in computer science (especially geospatial), material science, and others. I think Google is especially there because of the geospatial workforce (and generally highly qualified technologists).

By "cutting technical edge", I specifically meant 1) large numbers of smart people solving important problems in startups and 2) large numbers of smart people pushing practical technology forward in novel ways. In general, most dev jobs in CH are C++ or Java. I know of a handful of good startups, but not too many. The mentality is generally quite conservative, so most companies do standard technology solutions for standard companies—nothing wrong with that, but I wouldn't say you can compare Zürich to Berlin, Barcelona, London, Tallinn, or any of the US startup hubs (and it's not just attributable to population size).
For shipping an MVP I would probably say this is much too fine grained detail, pick average and move on. Are we over-resourced on design at this phase?
yeah it’s unfortunate even at a finance startup that CX is so disregarded. Coinbase doesn’t exactly have a great CX reputation eg lots of horror stories plus it seems to go down every time there’s a big move up or down.
Similar, not identical. For example, the amount of goods sold by amazon or people employed might be a lot larger than many national sectors of many such-unionaised european nations. So similar, or much larger scale.

Not gonna look up the actual figures, but safe to assume that amazon US is bigger than all retail (certainly online retail) in the netherlands, belgium or whatnot.
Obviously they were talking about decisions regarding the treatment and complaints of black employees.

I mean honestly what is there to think about? What are the other stakeholders he’d need to consult, racists? What other considerations, what is the other side, what downside is there about being against harassment?

Every educated person could issue a quick decision: reprimand the people harassing your black employees! So surely you can see why it makes “the inability to quickly condemn and reprimand harassers” is bad.

He adopted some really fucking stupid, untested, non mainstream cultural policy. Of course there are going to be consequences. Am I the only person who sees he’s bad at this job? And that it is a complete and utter insult to people with actual social disabilities when he blames “being on the spectrum” for being bad at his job?
Potentially good article with an interesting perspective that is spoiled (for me) by inflammatory rhetoric. Making a good argument does not have to include calling people with alternate opinions "halfwits" and "boobs".
Sorry, even better the first 3:45 of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gG6JG_njDE
Why didn't she travel back before April ? Could have joined later and avoided this.
People have “auto accept” turned on and all sorts of weird behaviors.

That's bravery.
100%. I've gotten that impression about everything him and his protege Sam say since the first time I read anything they wrote. It's like their mantra. It's so tiring.

"Surround yourself with smart people, cut out anyone who doesn't inspire you to move fast and break things."

What about my fucking parents? What about the friends I grew up with who have ordinary jobs that aren't pushing the boundaries of human innovation? Should I ditch them all because they didn't found Airbnb?

The pretentiousness of it is really tiring, and it's the one aspect of the hacker news community that I dislike: this constant Kool-Aid drinking that unless you've somehow impacted the system we all live in, you aren't really worthwhile.
And having been like this for a few years, it even seems strange to me that fruit wouldn't be the first thing you would think of when it comes to getting sugar. And I'm not directing this at you. I'm just saying I used to drink soft drinks a lot too and now it doesn't even cross my mind. I do drink wine and beer and I know there's some sugar in those.
Good points. With respect to Mandela, it is also important to acknowledge all of the "anonymous" ANC members, students, SACP members, trade unionists, etc who worked independently and in coordination every day, and gave their last breath each of the years that Mandela and the senior leadership were imprisoned.

All that to say that the success of the South African liberation struggle and the success of this summer's BLM protests point to the need for and efficacy of organizations that can effectively execute with minimal leadership as the situation demands.
There is a fairly nuanced difference that doesn't really matter much unless you are a mathematician. Essentially in GA you'd do your differential geometry assuming a sort of ambient background space. In regular differential geometry the space of forms and vectors are abstracted and don't require a shared geometric embedding. I'm not a mathematician, so this is a very non-precise explanation, but that's how I understand it.
Nintendo Switch have been using ARM cpu for 3 years, before that Nintendo 3DS/DS used it too - but much more ancient version.

Also - smartphones use ARM cpus and those have been a mature gaming platform for years. I'd say that a mainstream gaming console based on ARM would not change much, just like Xbox 360, PS3, Wii and Wii U did not cause PowerPC to rise in general popularity,
They let anyone write papers about anything. Physicists regularly write papers on economics and linguistics. Both physicists and economists are probably busily writing crappy COVID papers right now. All we need now is for linguists to weigh in on quantum mechanics or something.
For example, the article talks extensively about Layllen Sawyerr's case. So I'd expect corroboration to look something like "we talked to suchandsuch other people who confirmed she was treated unfairly", "we read this email in which she was treated unfairly", or perhaps "we heard about this specific personnel decision which was unfair to her". A lack of corroboration doesn't mean her accusations are false, but a lack of attempt to corroborate is very troubling from a national newspaper, especially when the subject of the article is going on the record to say the accusations aren't true. Either Milosevich and Coinbase are lying about their investigation or Sawyerr's story is false - isn't the NYT curious to figure out which one?
I use zotero to manage literature reviews and citations. But it is frustrating how the web version (I won’t install the desktop version) sucks at importing content. The magic add works for many sites and papers, but not all. The fact that it can’t import a citation is so annoying that I’ll probably drop the tool and use endnote that sucks so much more, but at least works consistently.
Say, like the Nintendo Switch?
I mean say what you will about a article telling people how to think for themselves, but I think this framework from paul is pretty good:

independent-mindedness ...has three components: fastidiousness about truth, resistance to being told what to think, and curiosity.

Truth
Skepticsm
Curiosity
That doesn't work, because either you need to randomize which way you ask (and then all a bot needs to do is try a couple of times to get the question where it needs to answer correctly), or you always need to ask one way or the other, which also doesn't work, because then the bot will answer incorrectly on purpose.

It would be different if the captcha would look at the incorrectness. I.e. the bot would now have to make the same mistakes that humans would make, which might be a workable path for captchas, however its unclear what benefit this would bring compared to answering correctly.
Mods should probably merge with the other post with more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25229544
Far left politics is an extremist. For example, if you criticize BLM for looting, you will be labeled racists.

Looting small shop owners makes no sense. Many shop owners are even black. This happened in Seattle where many shop owners support BLM.

You might say, well, that was an exception. But Noah Trevor (an influential person) also justified looting because police breaks social contract first. Now why would you loot random shops because of that? The fact that Noah hasn't been canceled makes me think a lot of BLM supporters see looting as positive.

To sum up, you basically can't say anything bad about BLM. Otherwise, you would be labeled as racists and canceled.

This is a trend in the far-left politics. They would force you to personally sacrifice to better society. Another example is homeless people camping in front of your shop. If you try to make them go away, you will also be canceled. This far-left politics is just evil, IMO.
I am pretty sure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujitsu_A64FX beats the stuff out of M1 and has the numbers to prove it. The question if there will be a good deal for Fujitsu to even consider consumer segment. And of course how much work would it take to scale it down from 48 cores to 8 cores and keep the power efficiency (Fugaku has the first place in Green500 list).
> Nothing on the ARM, Qualcomm, or MediaTek roadmap is even close.

Don't count on the Mediateks of the world to spend any time on this market. Most of the licensees are focusing on high volume embedded cases where they an try to drag themselves above the commodity pricing floor by providing a package of SoC and (in my experience crappy) drivers and an android port. In fact "package" is the key word: they typically won't sell you the chip in a useful way (i.e. no data sheets) but instead want to sell you a reference board with ported software running on top.

Apple is unusual in that they have two value add products that matter and have managed to, over time, build the capability to handle it. The economic calculus for them is quite different from that of the merchant chip vendors.

There are a few possible alternatives like Qualcomm and Nvidia (!!) but the market dynamics aren't the same for them.

It is possible that an Nvidia/microsoft relationship could develop somewhat similar to the Intel/Mcrosoft partnership, but unlikely. The market is different and the regulatory environment may become different. Terminal devices (laptops, desktops, phones) aren't really where the money is any more (except for Apple, an exception on several dimensions) so the push for such a partnership is diminished.

More likely is a partnership addressing cloud datacenters between say MS or Amazon and Nvidia, but nobody is going to be willing to allow one chip vendor to have any say over their destiny. It would make sense for one of the top cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, IBM) to buy Nvidia but that would never be allowed.
Culture evolves slowly, often only changing dramatically across generations. Multiple generations in USA (which is a dominantly exported culture globally) have adopted the "drugs"-are-bad idea as a core belief (it's also worth noting that core beliefs tend not to be very nuanced or discerning, as in this case there's very little ability to discern between different types of "drug" substances).

Culture evolution slows further when large institutions (primarily "the state" here) adopt the same beliefs and make them concrete (by being codified in many laws in this case). This particular effect worsens when the core belief is that some thing is bad and can be outlawed/fought because you get droves of self-righteous politicians who want to make a name for themselves piling on against this Bad Thing.

Those processes need to be reversed and unwound to move past the erroneous core belief.

Bad ideas do die, but they almost always survive much longer than they "should" because of a litany of flaws in human nature/culture/information-flow.
RFC: Rust “Bang (Never) Type”
You look at a situation where non-climate scientists wrote a paper declaring "We're all doomed!", and climate scientists attack it for being too gloomy, and that's your take-away?
I think you mean re-implement the wheel, people often misuse the term re-invent the wheel.

You actually need to change things for it to be called an invention:

http://move.rupy.se/file/wheel.jpg

That said I always write everything from scratch, to me it's the meaning of life;

If you are only using things you don't understand, you cannot (re-)invent anything.

Today we also do not own anything, which makes the problem even worse.

Rules for a good life: 1) own 2) understand 3) change!
Puppeteer Recorder Feature in Chrome DevTools
Hossenfelder doesn't claim that all the experts are wrong. She has a reputation as a maverick because she published a book claiming that some experts were wasting time. In fact I think a term she used to describe it was, "not even wrong."
This is really just tired old wisdom handed down from the days of wide inflexible chains. Modern 8-speed+ chains can cover the whole cassette with ease. Additional wear from the dreaded cross chaining is never going to be significant when the cogs already have profiled teeth. It's always funny to read the hand wringing from MTB riders about this when they don't even bat an eye at the horrible inefficiencies of 20psi fat tires.
It's always going to be a tiny number of people that'll be the principal cause of progress, along with the rest of us being reasonable enough and simply go along with it.

Independent thinking is hard, that's why the majority of people will opt instead to adopt the common thinking of the group of their choice - a choice that comes principally from feelings.

One can be perfectly happy however, regardless on which category they belong, as long as they are comfortable with their choice.
I have always been curious about the concept of "digital nomadism" and remote working while traveling to many countries around the world. Most people I know living this lifestyle have a very lax viewpoint on the concept that remote working around the world incurs special tax liabilities/visa requirements. I'm not sure if that's actually true or if living in countries for 2 months at a time for the purpose of remote working does create tax & visa nightmares.

Do you have any advice for US citizens who might be interested in taking up that sort of lifestyle? In particular, are there countries that are trivially amenable to such arrangements or certain types of employment contracts / job arrangements that help provide legal cover for perpetually travelling employees?
That's when naming products.

This video only shows how to follow a recipe.
Part of why I'm sure is that I was prone to thinking like this as a teen. I was a smart kid from a family that valued smartness trying to get by in a world that generally didn't, and certainly didn't value the kid of weirdness that in retrospect made me well suited for what turned out to be hot career.

I made it to an environment better suited to me (SF, tech industry) and eventually got the fuck over myself. I used my newfound material and emotional safety to do the necessary work of self-examination that let me get a better handle on my self-justifying bullshit. To spot and manage my desire to be right, to be smart, to be without intellectual flaw. To write bombastic essay like this.

So yes, I think you have part of it. It is hypocritical. It doesn't model what it's talking about. But for me it's worse than that. One, it presenting an at-best-incomplete approach as the final word from on high, it's going to create a sad sort of blinded conformism of its own. Doing a tech startup has long become a cargo cult of its own, and this won't help.

Second, in his amateur psychologizing, I think he makes some elementary mistakes. E.g., valorizing the performative anti-caring about what people think. To me that's a sign of insecurity and/or a trauma reaction to some past person who was overbearing. For me, true independent thinking comes from listening to others without judgment and choosing for myself. Positive attachment and negative attachment are both attachment.

Third, this reads to me like it's a part of the political kick he's been on in recent years, where he's shitting on the US left. E.g., the footnote about how politics is boring because it's subject to intellectual fashion. He complains here about people who "think themselves nonconformists, but actually they're niche conformists". When honestly his opinions, which I once found fresh and interesting, seem to be the tiresome conventional wisdom in his niche, and easily predicted by his financial interests and social position.

I get that he's gone through a hard change. He used to be an underdog and would still like to see himself that way. But in reality, he's rich and powerful, a kingmaker in what has been the hottest segment of American industry for a generation. One that in my opinion has been vastly overfunded for the last decade or so. That is a challenge to anybody's self image. You can't be a genius underdog and at the top of the status quo. But given his money and his smarts, he's not doing a good job at all of meeting that challenge.
LavaRand in Production: The Nitty-Gritty Technical Details (2017)
I seem to remember Juan Maldacena wrote a paper explaining gauge theory using Argentinian monetary policy.
I ignore 100% of Medium, it's always low quality. As you say Substack is also heading in that direction. I like Atlas Obscura, even though it's just factoids and not information that I'll ever use.

Ignore most news outlets: NYT, Atlantic, Bloomberg, WSJ, Techcrunch, Vice, etc.

Will read: personal blogs, Substacks (for now), niche publications (e.g. Lapham's quarterly), twitter links.
XTAJIT, which is the x86(_64) application compatibility layer on Arm Windows is far from garbage, and got a ton of engineering work.

The problem is that having a 30% performance penalty on a Snapdragon 8cx (because Arm only started really caring about fast CPUs starting from the Cortex-A76, which is the first generation stemming from that effort, resulting in not-ideal perf characteristics for x86 emulation) results in not very good performance. This can only be fixed through better, smarter Arm hardware. (which is coming)
Why do you find Dalio's musings 'more compelling' ? To me, Ray is just another Capitalist who extols Capitalism. Is there more to it?
I quite often don't understand why this isn't the norm already, especially by people in this community.
I've been experimenting with a technique for string vectorization: create a "basis space" of N random strings. The vector of string S is

`[edist(S, b) for b in basis]`

Where edist is some Levenshtein edit distance. You can build feature vectors from these by analyzing adjacency within logical blocks. Take other known Go software, obfuscate it, and vectorize it on the same basis. Even though the obfuscation is random, similar code chunks should project to a similar "shape" manifold.
In my lifetime though, the median worker has had their productivity go up and their real-pay stagnate. With the trajectory we are on, the people who "can do other things instead" will get jobs that generate more profit for their employer for the same pay as their previous job.

The saying is "a rising tide lifts all boats" but at this point it seems that only a select few are granted boats.
Idk, interdisciplinary?
> Thinking for yourself in Silicon Valley is nigh impossible these days without becoming a disliked outcast.

Yes. The irony of Paul Graham’s fluff (apparently he was one of the founders of HN or something?) about thinking for yourself etc. versus the tendency of HN to downvote any comment that goes against the grain, like the one above. Hah
>And if it's like other forms of fastidiousness, it should also be possible to encourage in children. I certainly got a strong dose of it from my father.

>Perhaps the reason is that even the conventional-minded have to be curious in the beginning, in order to learn what the conventions are. Whereas the independent-minded are the gluttons of curiosity, who keep eating even after they're full.

The author doesn't try to answer where the greed for innovation comes from.

If those traits come from parents, how can this be reproduced? Isn't 'How to Think for Yourself' more like 'You are all individuals'?
It can make people behave in certain ways, but it cannot create individualism.

Coincidently, the author offers a service for founders to help them to be founders, to tell them, how to be founders. He most likely is looking for conforming non-conformists, because those are the people who need his services the most.

Then on the other hand, maybe he has realized that he cannot give them what they need the most? It's a bit like reddit. He gave the founders lisp and a non-conformist, but they ended up with a platform for submissions.

People think for themselves when the answers they get are not enough. Who wants to give people the gift of endless dissatisfaction?
Uh that's entirely wrong. If you don't even know the tools available to the state-of-the-art, then how can you begin to build new things?

For example, in cryptography, if you don't know know about basic things like elliptic curves and hash functions, how are you going to solve any big problem?
I'm not so sure either, but the Atlantic article referred to in the post is much better in my opinion, while covering the same topic. It includes more surveyed statistics about how public sentiment and wellbeing have changed over the decades.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/collapsing...