skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends entirely on what you share publicly. GPT's training data involves only publicly crawlable dataset.

We should be more concerned about mitigating GPT-like systems because one thing is for sure, we can't stop these models. The genie is out of the bottle and I'm sure multiple actors are working on similar systems.
Except my question was based on having access to an mRNA vaccine...
If you want you can replace the word "pretext" with "reasoning," the rest of it is a matter of fact and public record. Although I'm not sure how one justifies any kind of read other than a "cynical" one after this year.
> Asymptomatic transmission might be not very high, but presymptomatic transmission is very high.

Actually if you read the meta-analysis I linked, 0.7% secondary attack rate covers both presymptomatic and asymptomatic.
BVLOS is tricky in the age of FPV. Flying behind a large tree is illegal as it is BVLOS. Same with night time flying even on a huge field with no property or people in sight. Basically you are at the mercy of regulators because most of the stuff is illegal or available with some kind of permits.
Is there a whistleblower's playbook? Case studies and legal stuff.

Imagine some day I decide to expose something. What steps should I take? How should I proceed? What's the calculus for deciding? I imagine it'd resemble spy craft.

Also, I'd like some philanthropic group to become a resource for whistleblowers. Pretty much like outreach programs for victims of domestic violence. Anonymous, no strings, coaching. Plus a mountain of cash for legal stuff. I imagine your case worker would help you assess the merits of your case. They'd plug in some numbers and predict the enormity of the undying hell you're about to unleash.

I looked a bit after the Sibel Edwards event. The whistleblower NGOs I found seemed little more than a support group with other survivors.

I keep thinking of that group of lawyers that's made huge money suing pharmaceutical (or maybe it was pharmacists) under the whistleblower statutes. Surely more such groups could pop up, each with their own expertise.
Baremetrics has the "call-us-to-cancel" policy since 2015.
I only have only 8 years of experience, these are not apparent for me yet! :)
That's a little nitpick-y. Institutional investors, that make up the bulk of the market, allocate their investments based on a chosen strategy. So even index funds jump "in and out" of markets to balance their portfolios.

Stock trading is speculative by default--no one knows the future.
This reads like a crisp summary of a subset of John Gall's "Systemantics":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics
changelog.com used to be WordPress, then became a Phoenix app because it needed features that were hacky to implement & then manage in WP. It's more of a podcasting platform these days rather than a CMS.

The code in this repo tells the truth about what it is, and even shows how it works: https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com
This is surely going to happen. It's going to take decades but sure it will. And when this will be the norm current structure will not make any sense to that generation.
In future, TVs will have custom SIM cards (e-sim?) that'll connect to 5G/4G networks by themselves. No escaping
If you look at the article I linked, you can clearly see that the satellites are visible from the ground (the photo from Germany). If you search for "starlink" on Flickr you can see more examples.

This is light pollution.
DJI drones (the post popular consumer drones) have software that clearly displays flight restrictions and won’t let you take off if you’re too close to an airport. You can put in your code from the FAA to unlock an area if you get your approval.

The problem with flying low near an airport isn’t that you might collide with a plane flying at 50 feet AGL, it’s that you’ll have an uncontrolled flyaway incident.
Unless you're planning on retiring soon, same thing as always: don't touch your stuff. The same mindset you have right now would've made you stop buying your monthly N stocks this March, and then you would've missed out on all the gains this year. Every month, invest some portion of your income in a low-fee broad market index fund and don't think about it. In a few short decades, chances are you'll come out fairly ahead.
Or, “I never got mine so why should you get yours.”

Either way, definitely an “FU” mindset.
This is moving the discussion into "whataboutism" territory. It's certainly true that there are problems with other social media platforms, but that doesn't really detract from GP's point.
Phrazor – AI-Powered data stories
Sure, my intention was to give more context, not suggest that you omitted it deliberately or maliciously.
Agreed in general on the printing of free money, but there is a phase-lag.

The big difference in Caracas is that the price of a cheeseburger may have risen by the same amount when priced in the same currency. That isn't nearly as much the case in the US of 2020.
How does that square with the need to improve systems so the same problems don't happen again? I get not wanting to put blame on a particular person, group, or cause when it's multi-factorial, but how can you improve if you don't figure out why the failure occurred?
It was not the manpower cost that was the limit. Steam ships had huge crews managing the engines. Titanic had 25 engineers, 170 firemen, 73 coal trimmers and 33 greasers.

It was the size. Sail ships had practical upper limit for their size and weight. Size of the mast and sails could not just grow.

Square–cube law: (drag) surface area is proportional to the square while the volume is proportional to the cube. Bigger the ship, more efficient it becomes.
The "macros" bit is obviously too vague, but of course even the best possible macros introduce barriers to reading the code, which is often very expensive.

I would generalize to the following: Everything that increases the time required to read the code is bad if it does not reduce the amount of code by a larger fraction.

So, refactoring code into a simple function that occurs once or twice is Ok, as long as that function can be found quickly in the same context (file, class, etc.). If the context is elsewhere, though, it is bad.

Similar for anything implicit (operator overloading, conversions, fancy type classes): If you need to switch context or even know about a completely different language feature or library to understand this code, that additional effort better saves a lot of code here.
Good one! Need a CyanogenMod for TVs !!
I've been on the receiving end of such gratitude, and it always brightens my day. It's easy to think your hard work isn't noticed, until you realize how seldom you acknowledge other people's work.

Unfortunately, explicit gratitude is very rare. Donations are even rarer. The "ask a question" and "support this site" buttons on my website are next to each other. I get 15 questions for every donation. About 30€ per 100 000 visitors, from 1-3 visitors. Those who email me with questions never donate. I'm not complaining about any of this, just illustrating my point: you can't use gratitude as a metric for the value of your work.

Critics, on the other hand, are disproportionately loud. As a community moderator, I learned that for every complainer, there are dozens of quietly happy users. You can only tell by the votes. No one will create a thread to say "everything is fine, keep it up".

If someone made your day easier, or if they created something good, take a minute to thank them. If they saved you a ton of work, consider a small donation. A lot of people are tirelessly, thanklessly creating things that benefit you. It costs nothing to acknowledge it. Never let a compliment go unused.

In the last few years, I became better at expressing my gratitude to creators, maintainers, colleagues and friends.
Are you confident you can find the next downtown?
I agree it's unlikely anything will happen.

This is deeper than partisanship, one party rule, pay for play.

Robert Caro's The Power Broker is one primer for how true power works in our system of government.

I'm still clueless what the remedies are, indeed if there are any.
Inflation has already taken hold in some areas of the markets, eg commodities and consumer goods (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL). That's why the world govt/banks (as if the govt's understand much of this) have enacted deflationary forces of 0% interest rates and bonds of sub 1% and it will fall until the bond market drops out and starts the cascade of defaults. That just manages to slow the current debt bubble and until the debt defaults start, inflation doesn't shrink it. The equity prices have never changed into an increase in consumer liquidity (people are still getting paid the same) while the purchasing power of the dollar has been halved since 2010. Eventually the equities will default or mature (depending on structure) and who has the cash to cover that? Institutions will continue to become insolvent as they are unable to collect on debt, to pay back debt. It's possible (like in Venezuela) the biggest and baddest will survive to remove a couple zeros and declare "the big reset" making it all reasonable again.
It is not as hard as it sounds in spite of billions of users. Image recognition and other automatized systems help greatly in filtering stuff out.
I developed a website that I dont know why users would use it
Free will is a cultural concept, not a biological one. Consciousness may be driven by a biological machine, but development of our ego is influenced a lot by culture.

Free will is faith in the sense that we learn the concept from our culture as our sense of self develops. The assumption of having it shapes our thinking such that we can say we actually have it.

A person who took their inner voice as voice from the gods would have a restricted free will in this view.
Not just working, I'm quite sure they keep gathering traffic just as a curiosity. The site works on phones, though differently. And the site's team gave technical talks on how they maintain that madness.
Buy some canned food and store it in the basement. I’m half joking, but I knew an old fellow in my grandmother’s village that almost starved during WW2, who developed a habit of storing non-perishable food, so that no matter how low the chance of that kind of event happening again, he never has too pass through that kind of ordeal again.
Who would have eaten at a place like this? e.g. wealthy tourists, middle class, laborers? I’m trying to contextualize this in the cost of living in the region in those times. This is the best source I found, but there’s no entry for takeout food, and it’s not clear what all these wages mean in terms of, say, monthly income:

http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/edict/
>Also, proportional voting introduces all kinds of unnecessary problems like not having districts and thereby constituents having their votes diluted and not having a specific representative.

I'd rather phrase it, the proportional systems have quite large districts (or alternatively, much more of representatives per district) to achieve the proportional allocation. But I get what you mean.

However, it is very well possible to design variations to any traditional party list proportional system where (at least nominally) one representative is identified with each current-sized and located district.

For example, take a classic proportional system, and use it to select the number of representatives per party list. In proportional methods, usually the list is either preordered by the party or order within the list depends on the individual total popularity of candidates in all districts. So, to achieve nominal geographic representation, one can assign a district to each selected representative. E.G. each district is nominally represented by the one of those elected who had the largest share of votes in that district and is not yet assigned to some other district by the same rule (if one complains that one may have their representative elected by people out of one's district, this implicitly happens in such proportional systems anyway).

Alternatively, one could achieve remarkable amount of geographic identification by relaxing the "one representative <-> one district" requirement. For example, require that each party list can put forward only one candidate per (equally populous) district; a candidate gets personal votes only in that district, but the number of seats given to list is allocated proportionally over all districts, as usual in proportional systems. Then the order within list is assigned by the personal votes of each candidate. (This has the added complication -- or benefit -- that districts with low overall turnout may be left without a specifically named representative and the district with high turnout for all candidates standing there may get them all elected; nevertheless, all votes count towards the party list total sum, no matter the district.)
I wonder if there's a market for a financial product that looked at your ETF holdings and allowed you to cancel out a particular instrument. I don't have the appetite to be net short, but there are stocks I'd like to negate my ownership of.
Can you get your act together and build this? I'd like to see the end result, and the process.
> Composer, and its database, originally started their lives in Guardian Cloud – a data centre in the basement of our office near Kings Cross

yes
Not maintaining a foreign bank account is a non-trivial thing, equivalent to saying "just pay for everything in cash". In many European countries pretty much all routine bill payments are handled by direct bank transfer between local banks. The US banking system doesn't interface with this system.
Its always been like that, though admittedly Robin Hood has made the link even more transparent. I do not think that is the whole story or even the main story though. If you have a bit of savings today, there simply is no other place to put it in and if you just keep it in cash you are 100% guaranteed a negative return.
Wealth is not zero-sum, but when you artficially create liquidity it steals value from the labour class - note how the price of the mcchicken, which at $1.00 was a staple for laborers, went to $1.37.

The labor class is not generally directly seeing the fruits of this liquidity. Even when progressives channel these funds to say low income housing, it's still trickle-down, much of it winds up in the pockets of, e.g. construction firm contracted to build it, politically connected solar panel company because these projects must fulfill green bona fides, etc.
Forbes states that his fines are, among other things, because he operated his drone in "Philadelphia’s Class B airspace (KPHL)" without authorization on several occasions.

The FAA website is quite clear about what Philadelphia’s Class B airspace is about: "The primary purpose of a Class B airspace area is to reduce the potential for midair collisions in the airspace surrounding airports with high density airtraffic operations."
> scientific studies are not the same as an interview

Sure. Only one family's livelihood depends on the outcome of an interview. That is little weight on one's shoulders compared to stalling the response to a global pandemic.

> You have time to reflect on your observations and you also have sizeable teams to discuss those observations with, including the wider scientific community.

I would be interested to know what actual social dynamics looked like to the participants in this edge case.

> Everyone understands pressure does funny things to people

In theory, yes -- it is "common sense".

In practice, no. Sadly, people generally scoff at "excuses" and look to place blame rather than understand contributing causes.
Those who claim they understand the Dunning-Kruger effect are typically less competent than those who don’t.
I don't get it. You live in the city, but somehow don't have power? Is it because of infrastructure reasons (eg. down power line), or administrative reasons (eg. failure to pay bill)? Also, smartphones have "talk times" of tens of hours[1]. I find it difficult to believe that you're being put on hold for that long. Even if for some reason you're being put on hold for days, you can still use a $20 power bank to get you through.

[1] https://www.verizon.com/support/knowledge-base-177479/
So this is why some whales will jump out of water and fall backwards on to kayakers, killing them with their gross tonnage.
Bees Are Now Considered the Most Important Living Thing on Earth
There are tools like Habinator to change your long term behavior. You just need to know what you want, which is the tricky part.
Airpods made the anxiety around self-talk-in-public so much easier. Finally, I feel seen.
WOW. The colors on the menu pictures are somewhat preserved. It's not hard to imagine things much more vibrant like you have to do for most paint from the period. It looks like an antiquity-era version of the food-trucks you see at carnivals even down to the yellow-ish background color.
Yes, the wikipedia quote seems incomplete "The miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, [...]"

The source of miscalibration is from the estimation of the subject area and the assessment of how much of that has been learned. I suspect that the error in the estimation of the subject space is the much larger source of error.
Is it a Twitter clone website?
Are you incentivizing them properly to not slack off? Do you recognize their contributions in a tangible way? These slackers may have rationally evaluated that working hard for your company has no benefit to them. Would you prefer dumb but hard-working slaves?
Numeric is also a good sanity check. If they claim e.g. 3 standard deviations of risk-taking increase on typical doses of paracetamol, then there's something wrong with the study, because we would have noticed that already.
That may have been the justification used to pass the system, but the result is still everything I've said and it's hard to believe that wasn't intended.
I'm learning how to write mathematical proofs now, and just today I wrote in my notes: "talk things through out loud".

It really is amazing the clarifying effect it can have. We think we have a good idea of what some concept entails, but once we speak it (or write it down), it finally starts to take a more defined "shape".
Commenting Code:School vs. Industry
Back in school, teachers and TAs made commenting your code seem like a necessity that everyone constantly does as a software engineer. Without comments, you shouldn't consider your code complete. However, since working in industry I find it much different in practice. This post outlines my own observations on when software engineers actually comment their code and when it's important.
More so than the art and tools/homeware (which are very modern - often better than utensils I own now!), the Pompeii graffiti really changed how I think about the past.

When you're growing up, it seems like the older generation is so different, and the generation before that is unrecognizable. I assumed that modern day life would be absolutely foreign to someone from 2000 years ago.

Then you read the graffiti and realize, nothing has changed! https://kashgar.com.au/blogs/history/the-bawdy-graffiti-of-p...
> whether process and conformity oriented central functions like talent, culture, and most management can be done away with, in favour of individual accountability and a focus on results

Absolutely agreed. Look at how effective Valve has been with a non-hierarchical culture!
I would agree. Delivery services aside from Amazon weren't doing great before the pandemic and it's not clear it's a great business to be in at anytime.
We’re all getting rich. Only we aren’t.
I think it would be most accurate to say its a backtracking algorithm, since you presumably would be exploring a certain path continually until it becomes unsatisfactory.
Uber is very convenient. Going down to the Enterprise office and filling out paperwork to take a drive out of state, not so much.

Obviously I'm not actually claiming any particular percentage, since that varies by person.
Everyone has an opinion.
you would think that the hate that mongodb (and mongodb inc) gets right now that the stock should be shorted to oblivion by now.

long overdue.
I'm not trying to morally justify anything by saying 'everyone does it', but just to mention the inconsistency with the blame solely being on Facebook itself, when as far as I can tell they are spending vast resources on moderating their platform (which remember, is absurdly difficult to moderate with billions of users) already. To improve the situation the problem has to be properly identified, and I think we can agree that if Facebook disappeared, the Internet wouldn't suddenly become free of hate, nor of malicious profit models.
The U.S. has been losing ground in pretty much every single metric that can possibly be measured for success of a country. I don’t see their treatment of the Internet being any different and it’s only a matter of time before another country fills the void.
Depends too. If you’ve moved around a bunch already then your friends are probably scattered around and you don’t get to see them much. If you’re RVing around maybe you’ll see them more
That is because it is his opinion. Most people that complain about something, don't fully understand it. I have 35 years of experience, and see nothing wrong with them.
One application I don't see discussed much is how this is useful for personal learning. Knowing the effect exists is useful when learning about a totally new topic: you know you need to hit that first peak, so to speak, to figure out (roughly) the scope of what there is to know. This helps avoid actually having that false confidence early on.

One of the most memorable examples of this for me was early on doing calculus in high school. There was a time where I was like "ok, yeah, I understand all the maths stuff now," then I hit that first peak and suddenly realized "oh wow, I know only a tiny, tiny fraction of what there is to know!" When I later learned about Dunning-Kruger it resonated because it described what I had experienced years earlier and had being thinking about since.
Universal Paperclip Simulator
The animation in the article is too fast to see what's happening. The impulse pallet misses the stationary escapement tooth in both directions. During the short period the escapement wheel is moving, it pushes the pallet, giving the balance wheel a push.

Here's a working model in slow motion.[1] Notice the escapement wheel pushing the impulse pallet. Not the other way round.

[1] https://youtu.be/JSNDjuKPdng?t=102
Wow, you could even see the jars where they kept ingredients warm so people could build up their meal like if they were at a Chipotle.
Sure, Facebook and the conventional media both compete for the same eyeballs and ad dollars. The conventional media is critical of the upstart Facebook in part because of legitimate complaints (spread of fake news, triviality, etc.) and in part because they are jealous.

What does the Girardian analysis add? Is mimetic competition different than regular competition? Is a Girardian scapegoat different than a normal scapegoat?
I just want Docker containers for Windows with a reasonable size. They do have a Server Core (at about 1.5Gb) and a much slimmer NanoServer (100Mb), but the NanoServer is not capable of running the Visual C++ compiler for example.

Just look at something like this which tries to compile C++ for VcPkg: https://hub.docker.com/r/hripko/vcpkg/tags?page=1&ordering=l... (the Linux images are all < 300Mb, but the Windows one is 5Gb compressed).
Your math is wrong. The one thousandth of percent is for whole US population. For these who experience problems abroad the percentage must be much higher because, frankly, most of these with problems do not live in US and their count is much smaller.