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I don't agree that this is the case; it's possible to make predictions about physics over the SM in the language of group theory without understanding how they map to experimental results in physics.
If Bezos had sold all his shares 6 months ago and bought Bitcoins, what would your argument be about him getting much richer this year? And what did he do wrong in not doing this and keeping his shares instead?
Being homeless or sleeping rough is likely to lead to worse health outcomes than not working out.
For those interested, the specific breakdown is on this page [1].

I don’t know what good will come of this discussion, unless all countries are willing to discontinue gain-of-function research if this claim is found to be true. However that’s a lot of “ifs” and there is too much opportunity to simply place blame, which won’t help anyone.

[1] https://www.rootclaim.com/analysis/what-is-the-source-of-cov...
I created an online typing training site: https://typefast.dev

Granted, it launched at the beginning of this month and I'm only spending minimal amounts advertising it. 200 signups, only a fraction actually bother using the site after signing up.

I created it after using another online typing site, which charged quite a lot, and said to myself: "I can do this, and charge a fraction of what they do". So I did, pretty much my only more-or-less complete project after probably a dozen good-hearted attempts that I gave up on eventually.
Then you don't understand how things work.

No company would be willing to fast track a vaccine and rush it out the door if they are going to be held liable.

Normally vaccines are tested more, this isn't the case with the covid vaccine and that's why its not a good idea to rush out and get it unless you are high risk and are old or have other health conditions like diabetes. The exception would be medical professionals that are high risk and not always old
I didn't say people should do what I want. I said that a random focus group's opinion does not necessarily override objective reasoning about what will save lives. Would you use this approach to decide whether the 737 should fly again, or what is the appropriate price of carbon, or how strictly to restrict activities during the Covid pandemic?
Yeah, you add a sharp between the 5th and 6th scale degrees, making for 8 notes in total. Then if your harmonize that scale by playing every other note, you end up with alternating inversions of the root maj6 and the diminished chord.
It's an equivocation between two senses: science as the brave "belief in the ignorance of experts", "you yourself are the easiest to fool" idea on the one hand and what we should rather call academia or academic science community and the associated rituals, connections, rules, prestige etc. on the other. And third, the consensus body of knowledge in textbooks and schools.

Much of the 3 was created using approx 1, before 2 really. 3 is the original source of respect for the masses, the landmark results, the household names, Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, Darwin, Einstein etc. But then come along 2 with their little games and citations and positions and visa requirements and recommendations, CVs, conferences, journals, publish or perish, the push for sexy results for PR announcements and the next grant, p hacking, tyrant supervisors who only care about having a paper at any cost, massaging the data, not speaking up because if funding dries up for the institute, the newly birthed PhD student may lose her job and be deported, the big name prof must be worshipped etc. They co-opt the reputation accrued by the giants, and then if anyone has any criticism, they are scolded for being against the ideal 1, the noble endeavor and ethos and upright honest methodology. In many cases people good at playing game 2 need quite different skillsets than people who'd be good at 1.

But who will produce the next big item for category 3?

Is 2 a good mechanism to encourage practicing 1 to get to 3? I don't think so.
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Had to get a driver license, then register the car. I went like 5 times to register the car, gave up 3 times because the lane was too long (once after waiting for a very long time) and twice after because we were missing some papers the first time. The DMV is really a horrible thing. They yell at you for no reason, treat you like shit, are just useless when you have questions, etc.
Looking at college applications now and the struggles of students I'm talking to about it, plus the college admissions scandal, I really don't know if education is the silver bullet claimed. Graduating even with a STEM PhD from a mediocre state school means less than graduating from an Ivy league with a bachelors in literature. In order to get into a prestigious school you have to play an incredibly bullshit game- apparently one significantly influential university this year wanted to know how students would eat a raw potato.

To me, the relationship between education and class is a bit more insidious and doesn't necessarily flow the way that benefits society.
When there's a $740B defense package on the table, this is not the grift I'm worried about. $36B is a drop in the bucket compared to the wealth transfer upward that occurred in the last year. Lettem have it. What's the worst that can happen?
Wrong Kontorovich, moron.
You can still drastically cut defense spending without touching a single servicemember's pay or benefits. For instance: Instead of buying 7000 missiles, we could have saved 600 million dollars.
Yes, of "static". Which just reuses the signal from space plot-hook from the start of the film. Presumably that static, either in raw data or a display encoded form, could also contain a similar bit of vital data that will eventually be useful.
As a google engineer, I would appreciate it if you did not spurt nonsense. Unless you have some clear evidence of your claims.
> There is no systematic fraud.
> It appears as a mess because of the messaging of the President.

We have GOP observers being thrown out of all of the critical election sites during the counting. We have tons of unsolicited ballots with no chain of custody. We have tons of confirmed cases of dead people voting, and women having votes case under maiden names. There is unmistakable, wide spread, voting irregularity. This isn't just the messaging of the president, this is a corrupt media that is on the side of establishment Democrats and Republicans that is clearly feeding a pure bullshit narrative to anyone willing to dull their senses, turn off all sources except the official industry standard media (Which got weapons of mass destruction wrong, which got Syria wrong, and which has a historic record of getting nearly everything wrong).

If you stop listening to the various Ministries of Truth (both private and government) the entire idea there was "no election fraud" falls apart. The voting machines were/are a red haring. The real issue has always been the massive amounts of ballots with no chain of custody.
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That is a matter of great debate. Although most people's brains wind up settling on basically identical structure over time, case studies with injured or disabled people often display incredible adaptability (ie the occipital lobe in a blind person). If indeed the brain learns most of what it knows from experience, than its (comparatively) low energy consumption would come from greater efficiency. That definitely seems possible; as a basic unit of machine learning the neuron is much more specialized than the transistor, and far slower.
It could end up like Whole Foods. As long as the original owner was around, it was always a highly rated place to work. He even wrote a book about how a business could be profitable if employees, customers and suppliers were respected. Since Mackey sold to Bezos, not so much.
But that person would be learning tons of other things as well. It’s not equivalent.
They new it since January

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25334140
Thanks! There are still new ARGs out there, though IMO not as focused on narrative or worldbuilding (especially through websites) as those in the 2000s. You're right about the fractured community, and I think to some extent ARGs are getting less accessible because they're hyper-targeted to specific communities that might be harder to discover or join.

Six to Start is doing well and we still play around with ARG-like ideas in Zombies, Run! for our seasonal virtual races :)
I find it insane that Google can't be held legally liable for their buggy-ass software. If they wanted their software to work, a browser seems like a poor place to start.
I work on WebGL in Chrome. It's my job to fix bugs like these. I'm hoping to learn what specific bugs people are hitting.
One reason folks may not push for it is that they worry their career progress will stall if they opt for reduced hours. Whether that’s actually true or not, I’m not sure, but I’ve first hand seen the perception influence someone’s decision.
If you save a reference to a game object in the scripting language, then if the object is removed from the scene by another system, the object pooling system will re-use the old object resulting in your script holding a reference to the wrong object! Will not be fixed to version 4.

Example, I was building a tower defense game and each tower would hold a reference to the enemy they were shooting at. When the enemy took damaged and died it was removed from the scene. The towers reference to the enemy would sometimes point to some new random object in the scene. There are workarounds, but wtf.

There is also some cyclic reference bug in the scripting language that is impossible to predict or work around.

And then there are little things, like there is no selection outline around objects in the scene, makes it almost impassible to build a complex scene. Not a bug, but a weird choice.
Hey, I understand how activating internet threads can be, and I get from your comment upthread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25564255) that you have a personal connection to this topic which most commenters don't. I respect that a lot, and the fact that you were willing to share some of your experience in your GP comment was a really positive contribution. I know that's not easy, and you're under no obligation to do it, but FWIW, we badly need more of that.

Please don't post like this comment here, though. It only hurts and makes things even worse.

The thing that helps is to share some of what you know and some of your experience, so others can learn. A small minority of commenters is going to react badly, repeat stock objections, downvote etc., and respond with flamebait. But most of those comments will eventually get downvoted, flagged, and/or moderated. That's the best we can hope for on a public forum where anyone can easily create an account.

More importantly, the rest of us are genuinely interested. If you would please follow the site guidelines by ignoring the flamebait (other than to flag or downvote it, and email us at hn@ycombinator.com in egregious cases), and by sharing information with curious readers when you're so inclined, we'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Plenty of humans are already raised, and can do other things machines can’t.
Note that it calls for the DNI to say what they know to congressional intelligence and armed services committees. They have the requisite structures (cleared staff, etc.) in place to view classified information.

The public will get an UNCLASS summary that almost certainly says nothing we already didn't know. I'm not sure what Rubio aims to achieve here.
They're probably receiving >$100k worth of attention by making this claim so... I'd like to see more zeroes in the wager.
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IIRC (having trouble finding my source), MAS*H was shot on film but in 4:3 AR. It's been released in HD/Blu-ray now by being re-digitized but each scene has been cropped to be 16:9.

There's going to be a dead spot of TV/Movies where things were shot in SD on Video where they will be forever SD but older things, shot on film, can be brought to HD and newer things are either shot on Film or HD video.

I'm curious to see how quickly the things shot in HD Video become outdated by superior resolutions of 4k, 8k and whatever comes after and if there's a plateau of consumer/home resolution.
CP was written by Kenton Varda, who spent many years working on protobuf at Google.

One massive advantage of protobuf for mainstream Google languages (C++, Java) is that Google has used them extremely heavily for many years, and you can trust that they've been extensively battle tested in Google's enormous high-traffic services, and scrutinized by Google's vast army of engineers. Kenton's experience notwithstanding, the same cannot be said of CP.

This argument doesn't apply for languages other than the ones that Google uses for production services.
That person would probably be one of a billion. The AI is singular. This should cancel out.
No worries. I'll be over at /r/techtakes.
In general, yes, but not on the whole. This article goes into some detail about recent votes related to the Patriot act. https://inthesetimes.com/article/bernie-sanders-patriot-act-...

Interestingly, there was a three-month exten­sion of the three Patri­ot Act pro­vi­sions, includ­ed in a House res­o­lution to pre­vent a gov­ern­ment shut­down. It's bad that these things are linked in the same resolution to begin with, and it leads to an unnecessarily hard choice for politicians. Even someone wary of mass surveillance can't just say no to keeping the government open. Often, this is how a lot of this stuff gets passed.

Why are the two disparate things so often tied together in the first place? Similarly today, we see Republicans tying together the repeal of section 230 with the extra stimulus money demanded by the president. It really makes no logical sense why these things are bundled together as one bill, either.
Probably all this "security" nonsense. What could possibly go wrong with implementing a binary serialisation protocol your self...
Oh wow, I have always considered this scene a blight on an otherwise perfect movie. I have often speculated over the years that it wasn't in the original script and was a pickup after test screenings or inserted because a producer was scared audiences couldn't handle the ambiguity.

One way of reading the film is as an epistemological exploration of modern society and how one character evolves their belief systems in the face of both ordinary and extraordinary events. I love the movie far more than the book because it doesn't neatly resolve the "truth" of what Ellie experiences, and it leaves the audience, minus this scene, in the same place as the protagonist.
There may be good reasons for the approach the article suggests, but this is not one of them. Nobody takes any lives, and there is no question here about experimentation. This is not a trolley experiment. It is a choice of two regulatory regimes. Under both of them, some people will die. If we choose the regime "ban self-driving cars until they are five times safer", then more people will die.
> Is it too much to ask for a government that both governs and is actually competent?

This is the question put to the voters at every election, and at every election the voters vote no to this type of government. So it isn't too much to ask, but it isn't what the people want.
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Interesting so commands are sent to other players async? Doesn’t that mean that some players will see things different than others? I my friend A stabs a monster and my other friend B also stabs a monster but they come in different order I would see A killing monster, but others might see B killing it instead?

Edit: probably the order of commands is kept in order via the chat room server no? But then what is it using WebRTC for? Perhaps the “host” is e source of truth for the order... meaning that all the commands speed and delay depend on the host network bandwidth.
Makes sense! I think I probably won't use it much yet, as the example you mentioned (messaging apps for link sharing) works pretty well, and often they also have a view where you can just look at all of the links sent. Some ideas of what would make it more likely for me to use:

* The ability to integrate with those messaging apps so I could use SeeLink, but then send out those links to friends via different messaging apps. I often send out the same links to multiple people on different platforms, it'd be neat to be able to track who I sent it to and catalogue them that way

* A feature like related links, or some form of automatic categorization of links based on tags.

I think Pinterest is great for discovery, so if this is more about link categorization and social sharing, you could take it in either of those directions
It sounds like you agree that 1.0001 is a no-brainer, but that democracies may be tricked into rejecting it.
Don’t wineries need to apply pesticides to their orchards?

I would gather that some of the pesticide-applying-drones, from a few Chinese drone manufacturers, might be useful to them.

Is this something you can pivot to?
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I worked 30-hour weeks (nominally) for a while several years ago. That extra time was invaluable. If we wanted to go on a weekend ski trip, for example, it meant that we could leave early to beat the after-school rush and I could be all caught up on everything around the house so my conscience was clear. It was a much bigger difference than it might seem, lifestyle-wise.

The reason I nominally worked 30 hours/week might also be interesting. It was supposed to be less, but it turns out that none of the systems at work - payroll, insurance, PTO, stock vesting - were set up for a permanent salaried employee working less. I get the impression that many companies in the US are like that. You're either salaried, full time (or close to it), full benefits, or you're hourly with no benefits at all. We need to get better at supporting work arrangements other than those standardized in the early industrial era.
>I'm well aware of the common cognitive dissonance whereby a system which you are not familiar with seems like it should be trivial.

I build these sorts of things and while it's not trivial it's also really not that hard. It's just insane the amount of money the government will spend on crap.

The field I work in is pretty small and I know a decent amount of the developers that use it. One project I worked on for the government, I showed up on day one and ran into a few people that had either no desire or no ability to do development work. And they were in team lead/senior roles.

Then, come to find out that you can't do anything for the project until you have a background check. And, by anything, I mean anything. No meetings, e-mails, or anything with an armed guard enforcing it. So there was an office full of people billing out at $200+ an hour for months doing literally nothing.

Then, come to find out that the way they wanted the software couldn't do. Like within an hour of hearing the requirements and what they were building I knew that it (1) wasn't possible and (2) the design they chose had fundamental flaws. Several years of effort and 10s of millions of dollars later they gave up on it.

The government is just a big whale too dumb, corrupt, and/or lazy to defend itself while a gigantic swarm of consultants/vendors are ripping off hunks of its flesh like the sharks they are.
They didn't say "don't work" - which believe me, plenty of people especially in COVID have gotten away with - they said "Don't take calls". And like the parent, my department has a similar take on it. The majority of the team avoids meetings and calls if their role at all allows it.
Indeed. I realized some years ago that when trying to figure out how much my time is worth to scale everything with respect to the amount of discretionary free time I will have. If a new job will cut that free time by half then I expect double the pay.

And then I realized there are second order effects. Double my pay actually means much more than double my savings per year as my costs are more or less fixed.

So then I changed the formula to scale with respect to the amount I am saving versus the discretionary free time. Maybe a 30% raise would actually double my savings.

And by discretionary free time I am subtracting time spent doing chores. I live very close to work and even getting a job that requires a 1 hour commute each way makes a huge difference in my discretionary free time and should be compensated accordingly.

And then I took it one step further. I decided to take an Excel sheet and map out all the discretionary free time I think I will have for the rest of my life. And then I evaluated job offers based on which one will maximize that free time. So maybe cutting short free time right now is okay if it is more than compensated by having me retire a lot earlier. Of course then you may want to factor that free time while young is perhaps worth more than free time when your body is not that healthy.

And of course you may not live long enough to retire and you do want to take that into account as well and not put all your joy off towards the end.

It's a bit of a rabbit hole.
It's a very low bar. The original, unfiltered ones were Chernobyl + WW1 trenches. Now they've just manure.
I wonder if that's why they're making the bet.
That this is a thing makes me feel like way less of a crank. I've been telling anyone who will listen that we need randomness in our politics for like 7 years now. People often do not respond well.
The Chinese sure acted like it was a possibility that it came from their own lab - their initial reaction was to downplay and cover up.
As an intern you're already part of a chosen elite (top school or top companies on your resume) so this isn't great evidence imho.
> Japan and Korea have collectivist cultures and made that leap in the past 50 years. Singapore has an authoritarian government and also managed the leap.

Japan and South Korea are both democratic republics. South Korea's economic seemed to transform overnight, once they transitioned from a dictatorship into a democratic republic. Like it or not, the lack of free speech has an economic cost.

> Singapore has an authoritarian government and also managed the leap.

Isn't Singapore more or less a democratic republic now? Singapore is also able to mitigate their own lack of creativity with immigration. I do not believe China has the same views regarding foreigners. I view Singapore more as an Asian Switzerland than a tech leader anyways. I also do not believe that Singapore's leaders believe in Mao style centralist control (of the economy at least)

> Has China gotten to that point yet for planes? No, they clearly just started.

They've been copying Russian aircraft for a while now. They haven't "just started".

Before Xi, China was slowly moving in the right direction for global dominance. China under Xi is moving backwards.
I’m also convinced that that is the case.
Sure I didn't mean that they are not part of my duties but that they hid my "bad" endurance at coding.

Regarding meetings maybe half the time in meetings is of no use for me and I am of no use for the others at the meeting but I still need to be there is the topic changes. The single biggest productivity improvement in WFH is that I can just work during uninteresting parts of meetings without being rude.
Why does that matter? You could block literally anything if all you need to show is that it can be used again a judge or city official.
I liked that part quite a bit, it made _sense_ to have a backup for such an important thing, and it felt refreshing compared to a lot of "we only have one chance" plots.
Not really, battery life for non-Apple laptops is terrible.