skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I was not referring to arbitrary high paying jobs, but specifically the highest paying and possibly highest reach jobs, like ethical AI at the biggest tech company. The sociopath term may have seemed a little dramatic, but really, if you feel like there's more than just petty politics problems and you don't feel conflicted, that's concerning.

Also was flippantly disregarding the tech as sufficiently compelling to ignore what you feel is really damaging if such a thing exists. I personally would have a high bar for technical work being sufficiently interesting, and a medium bar for keeping quiet.

The immediate example I think of is that I'd have a hard time accepting FB money to write JS there, because of ultimately how they make money maybe or not respecting the ceo. Granted, I have no idea what it's like on the inside.
Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1996)
In 1996, Jonah Peretti, one of the original founders of BuzzFeed, wrote a paper that foretold the site’s entire business model, and the business model of much of the internet.
Sometimes. Not all major breakthroughs involve rocking the boat. Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem springs to mind. As far as I know, it was celebrated by everyone in the field.
What are these L levels? Is there a resource to understand them?
As someone who spent five minutes writing a pinboard client for my own personal use [1], it was frustrating that there was no way of testing these kinds of cases since even a test account would require extra payment. If pinboard were to pivot to a more api-friendly service, having some kind of test account(s) would be high on my wishlist.

[1] Almost the only feature is to prefill things like title, description, etc. because I wasted so much time, when using pinboard, viewing source and copying these manually.
Microsoft Office 2021
A good introduction to categorical logic is [0], introducing the simply-typed lambda calculus along with the categorical semantics for each construction (cartesian closed categories). The later sections include topics mentioned in this article such as hyperdoctrines, categorifying quantifiers, and dependent types.

[0] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~amp12/papers/catl/catl.pdf
Lol. we'll see how much BJP or India/heck any political party bashing/crictic stays there
They are releasing 2021, although with reduced support time. Clearly they want to move everyone on to 365. Interesting set of comments.
I wonder what the possibilities would be if using jruby to interoperate with clojure.
Oh yea, couldn't possibly be people hate fb and advertising.

When we see ads, it's like nails on a chalkboard (or in the eyes).

We understand you don't care what we say/think as long as you're making money just like the other 90% of advertisers who infest HN.
Or in Math or some engineering field. CS wasn't a thing in German universities until the 70s, I think. So for someone in a senior position in 1990 it seems quite likely to be around 50, too old to have finished a PhD program around 1980.
The "artificial intelligence" we should worry about at the moment are not computers, but corporations. And i believe they should sink money/energy into ethics the same way humans sink food/energy into ethics and i truly hope their environment does not favor the most ruthless and unethical one, in the same way i hope ours does not. Now as a species we are working on computer AI and, unsurprisingly, i would say those should use resources on ethics, too.

But i agree that many of the people who have such job titles, and make it into the media, seem to be wingnuts
> their ludicrously-titled "Comment is Free" section and others ban discussions

It’s a reference to a landmark essay by a previous editor, CP Scott, and it’s more about sticking to the truth than publishing other people’s opinions:

> A newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free, but facts are sacred.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/sustainability/cp-scott-centenar...
Well obviously I meant I live IN A place in Europe. And yes decriminialized is the correct term but my point still stands.
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Warm bloodedness (endothermy) would not be possible without countercurrent exchange in nasal passages. We have intricate bones there that capture heat and humidity in exhaled gas, then transfer it back to incoming air on the next breath. Without this the energy cost would be prohibitive. Structures like these in fossils are used as markers of the evolution of endothermy in ancestors of mammals and birds.
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I'm not sure that the reason why some (e.g. official) health information sources keep repeating that isn't just a combination of having an easy explanation and making a (benign) attempt to induce a placebo effect in unknowledgeable patients.

If you either get massively technical about complex things that would make most laymen's heads spin, or shrugged your shoulders and said that we don't really know, you might miss on the potential psychological effects that you can get by projecting some kind of confidence.
Titbit: the section name comes from the quote "Comment is free, but facts are sacred" by C. P. Scott, past editor of the Manchester Guardian.

> In a 1921 essay marking the Manchester Guardian's centenary (at which time he had served nearly fifty years as editor), Scott put down his opinions on the role of the newspaper. He argued that the "primary office" of a newspaper is accurate news reporting, saying "comment is free, but facts are sacred". Even editorial comment has its responsibilities: "It is well to be frank; it is even better to be fair".
If anyone is wondering what the original Diablo II battle.net experience looks like in 2020 (yep, it's apparently still working, hows that for legacy support?), Carbot recently did an episode on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYIyQMVzUnI

Also the Diablol 2 series does cause some flashbacks, especially the soundscape... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ru-UM1nYJQ&list=PL0QrZvg7QI...
Those that aren't curved/concave miss a major comfort factor in my opinion.

My personal must-haves for a split keyboard:

- Concave/curved design.

- Thumb clusters.

- Vertical arranged key columns.

- Palm support.

- Fully customizable layout.

- Mechanical switches or anything similar with proper feedback for better typing, and also decent travel distance so it doesn't feel that you're knocking your fingertips on hard plastic all the time.
This problem of limited funding is due to the unnatural influence of Capitalism and unnatural existence of too many billionaires absorbing the majority of what would be disposable income and tax revenues that would otherwise fund any nation's infrastructure, including federal science initiates. We're learning now the entire Texas power grid failure dates back to G.W. Bush's state government dismantling Texas power upon the council of Enron's financial advisers. The majority of our problems in society is due to overt greed and it's influence on key infrastructure - power, education, law, law enforcement, food safety... it goes on and on. This is the reason we have regulations, because without them the greedy would have us eating Plutonium Pops for breakfast, and washing it down with Petro-plastic Orange Drink.
It's always seemed to me that it might be an idea to reduce weapons of deterrence down to what is needed to do the job. What do we need to actually stop Russia or China launching a nuclear attack? Maybe 5 bombs that could take out Moscow, St Petersburg, Vladivostok and couple of bases would probably be adequate to put them off. Apart from the extra cost of a super dooper vapourise everything system, it increases the risks if a Dr Stangelove situation goes down.
I followed this until the part just slightly after "see how natural it is?" Then it's suddenly How to Draw an Owl. I don't follow the monoid part. Anyone can help elaborate?
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I don't generally recommend the Intelligent Investor. I think it's almost always a mistake for ... 99% of new investors to bother with Benjamin Graham. His material is far too dense and often advanced for anyone that isn't quite an experienced investor. I'm sure there are exceptions, however I've found it's a huge turn-off for most new or newish investors, it delays / stunts their learning process, it's an obnoxious book to try digest if you're starting out. It'll make you hate investing or think that value investing is difficult (it's not, it's simultaneously the best approach for generating consistently high returns over time and very easy to learn).

Here is what I point new investors to:

- Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist, by Roger Lowenstein.

- Margin of Safety, by Seth Klarman

- The Little Book That Still Beats the Market, by Joel Greenblatt

- Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, by Philip Fisher

- Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street, by John Brooks

- This article from 1984 by Warren Buffett: https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/articles/columbia-business/sup...

- Peter Lynch also has a couple of optional books that are decent and very easy to digest for a new investor, very common sense oriented.

- Also optionally, Buffett's various writings are often excellent, however they're all over the place in focus, so it's hard to pick one. His annual letters for example can be acquired on the Kindle or from Berkshire's website and many are worth reading (if somewhat boring for most people I suspect).

The single most important thought in investing, in my opinion, is to always be cognizant of price vs value. What you're paying, what you're getting in return. Then always be aware of, always estimate as best you can, what your moat is for the investment at the price you're paying (what Klarman and others have called a margin of safety). How much can go wrong with your investment before you drown? How much room for error is there in the price that you paid? I like the Buffett book I reference above, because it pounds home that concept while introducing how Buffett came up, how he thinks (I don't particularly like his book, The Snowball, for that).

Also, Margin of Safety is out of print. However, there is a certain Archive site with a time machine, that if you were to put this url into it:

https://files.leopolds.com/books/Margin.of.Safety.1st.Editio...

You'll find an archived copy of the book in PDF format. Alternatively you can put that file name into Google and find some other copies of it floating about still (Klarman refuses to put it back into print and had been having the PDF copies taken down).
They rejected her proposal to discuss an end date and imposed immediate termination. You can argue it was justified. You can argue California law should be different. But the title states a legal fact.
I don't think the comparison holds. Juul's business is that of selling nicotine pods, as many as possible- there doesn't seem to be much wiggle space there. Google's business is not that of selling AIs, much less that of selling unethical AIs. It seems there's plenty of space for constructive research on how to improve, or at least monitor, Google products for better results.

It seems that the issue here is that Google didn't hire dispassionate ethical researchers able to deal with a wide range of ethical issues; instead it hired activists with a precise, narrow agenda. People who think that the world itself is biased (including the company they work for and their own management) and that Google should change its products to enact a change upon it. Once these activists have found themselves cuddled the most powerful company in the world and showered with praise and money, it seems their egos just started inflating until they burst.
If you install Karabiner Elements[1] on macOS, all modifier keys suddenly work across all keyboards.

I'm using one "TKL" Apple USB keyboard per hand when I feel like opening my shoulders a bit. Took me all of two minutes to get used to, at a fraction of the cost for enthusiast keyboards. I wonder if there are any ergonomic advantages I'm missing out on.

(Karabiner Elements is a great tool, anyway; I've been using it for a long time to map Caps Lock to something useful for programming.)

[1] https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org
Calling it firing isn't acting like it was out of the blue.
Gains are already taxed. This bill would hurt everyone but the government. It’d especially hurt small investors.
There is no single answer, but the general idea is to make your infra resilient and self healing.

That means healthchecks with auto restarts at every level of abstraction, stateless services...

And yeah on top of all that we have monitoring setup with a few alerts.

With that said, we only had one severe outage since we setup our infra as described above.
Never heard of this alternative video platform before, interesting.
I loved Surface Detail. It has my favorite Ship Mind and Class in it :)
Legal counsel is a common exception to NDAs. Different jurisdictions have different specific rules.
When Covid-19 and guns meet: A rise in shootings
How crippled is it without wifi? Let's say using just the USB port for reading/annotating pdfs?
Unofficial Clubhouse app for Android
Kim Kardashian ‘files to divorce Kanye West’
By admin, I assume you mean mods who have "full permissions" right? Some of the popular subreddits do have have a lot mods with such rights.
OpenRent[1] founder here. I was the only technical person at our company until we hit 1m users (certainly only person who could restart/switch servers).

I guess the question is, what happens if the server goes down whilst you're at work? The answer is that if you're constantly fighting fires 9-6, your software is probably severely broken. I'd suggest this is pretty unusual, or at least, I've never heard of software being held together like that at a company that still exists.

You wouldn't want the servers to go down whilst you're at work, in a meeting, or out to dinner with friends. So you design things to be as redundant as reasonably possible.

Then when you make a mistake, you fix it so it never happens again.

Server fear should be the least of your worries. As a founder, lots of things can go wrong that will interrupt a holiday or downtime. In my experience, it's rarely, if ever, software or hardware issues.

[1] - https://www.openrent.co.uk
People keep saying functional languages are easier to verify but most practical verification tools (model checkers and the like) are built on top of imperative languages.
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You could give this somewhat of a horror ending by having the characters realise, after figuring out the implication of turning the simulation off, that the top level would not have had the black sphere appear and as such would have no reason to keep their simulation running and were about to turn it off.
I can understand that, but have you considered a pay-per-use / tiered business model?

It's clear from this thread that there are users who have thousands of bookmarks, using dozens of GB of storage, and those who use it much less and whose storage costs are negligible. Having either group pay a flat rate doesn't make sense to me, and you end up losing revenue either way.

A tiered model could allow you to offset the cloud storage costs, maybe migrate things into the cloud and ease some of the maintenance burden on yourself.
The line "Oh boy, I saw my fair share of lunatics and fanatics, I spend nights in haunted houses, with children whose parents claim they have telekinesis capabilities etc." suggests that much seeking was done.
Not sure how and why they are creating them, but it's definitely a fertile breeding ground. Look what happened to Stallman - no corporation could bring him down, but the activists did.
> The only programming language where exceptions are such a problem is C++.

I'm not sure what you mean here, neither article is about the low-level issues that arise in C++. The second article only discusses C#. Chen's point is more about the way every call can surprise you by causing your code to return early.
So without any further knowledge about how icebergs should orient and how scientists draw them:

Icebergs in 3D will generally have different mass distributions than the corresponding 2D projections that we are drawing here. For example, there will generally be higher "2D mass density" in the center.

Consequently, it is possible that the scientists "drawing icebergs wrong" are actually right and it just looks/"behaves" wrong in 2D. And even if they're doing it wrong, it's also possible to learn the wrong lessons regarding floating stability from this 2D playground.
Off topic, but personally I enjoy written blogs to vlogs, since you can then easily skim through and see if there is any real content.

I'd love read the tldr
Was there some blog post or podcast or tweet about this recently telling people to improve the experience? I have replied to two very similar Ask HN posts yesterday and the day before it.

Three Ask HN about the same problem in a tight time interval. I wonder what's triggering these.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26181362

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26173158
That hasn’t been seen in practice though. Apple has been making changes from surveying with their own vehicles, not out of date imagery. Amazon makes updates from delivery drivers reporting issues making deliveries.
How does product management work at ubuntu? I mean, is there someone (or a group) with a coordinated plan or is it just random little steps in mostly right directions wherever someone finds the time to patch something?

I just can't get warm with linux, even though I'd love to and it's still mostly drivers, what apps are available and how badly they run holding me back.
Feature request: multiple icebergs, even better if they can collide
Same here, but you can just skip through the video and look at the slides. There's not that many and they summarize his points quite succinctly.
I had a solo SaaS I ran from '06 to '15, operating on a 17 server cluster at, of all places, the former Enron data center in Los Angeles. In addition to the "traditional" 3 tiers of Dev, Staging, and Production, we (the startup was 2, me and another) had production setup with redundancy. If some hardware failed, other portions of the cluster would re-route and/or assume the failed hardware's duties. The only single point of failure we had was a Federal Reserve quality hardware firewall - that was the best investment I made, as it sustained massive DDOS attacks and more without breaking a sweat.
Linux might suck sometimes, but IMHO it sucks much less than Windows (MacOS I can't say because I never really used it). I'm running Kubuntu 20.04 right now on a Thinkpad T490, and everything except the fingerprint sensor (which I never use anyway) just works out of the box. I find the UI looks absolutely great and more polished than Windows 10, everything is really snappy and responsive and there are a ton of great open-source productivity apps I can choose from (Krita, Dolphin, Konsole, ...). I'm still blown away of how good an operating system can be that is being developed mostly by volunteers without any central authority. 10 years ago Windows might have been on top of desktop Linux, but the progress that window managers like Gnome and KDE have made since then is significant, while Windows seems to be stuck in 2010 design-wise.
Yes. I see that very often with tech-minded people when they take the kind of pointed logical reasoning that works best when discussing a technical solution in an issue tracker, to other media. With responses that start like "I strongly disagree..", bringing the other immediately in a position of defense.
Does that put it into the category of "didn't need to be a vlog" or should I watch anyway?
Another good (and recurring[0]) resource for a model of depression can be Robert Sapolsky's Stanford lecture on it[1]

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc
Expanded version of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25245057
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Confirm: 67.0.3396.99 (Official Build) - 88.0.4324.182 (Official Build)
tl;dw:

- rms and esr are ousted

- no community events due to COVID

- IBM bought Red Hat

- More companies are contributing to Linux than ever

- Google is developing Fuchsia

- Other OSes didn't last forever either

Yea, there is really not much to it.
Well, I would like to agree with you, but "moustache-twirlingnes" is in all of us; it is called greed and lust for power and money.

Our political and economic systems in the state of the things they are right now have not created on their own. All our systems are the human product - created through many iterations with a very similar theme and always done by similar actors - an elite that can influence those policies and the elite that have the right to invent and pass new policies, which is, to say the least, very corruption-prone process.

For instance, policies created after 1973 created a mismatch between productivity and salaries; basically, the working force become constant losers and elite winners.
https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/
https://files.epi.org/2013/ib388-figurea.jpg

At this point, who is to blame for those policies?
And more importantly, when it becomes evident knowledge, who is to be blamed for keeping the state of things as it is?

Treadmill and the rules it runs on - are built by humans, and if we did built it, we could change it too.
I refuse to be told I'm complicit in evil without a clear and definite example.
Kubernetes cron jobs: a hands-on guide to optimally configured crons
I worked at a ~smallish startup. While we had around 20 devs employed we shared oncall between 3 people.

We invested a lot into availability - especially DBs. Most of our issues were internal DNS related which we at one point automated into hosts files that updated every hour.

Oncall was shared between 3 of us with all 3 paged at once and us getting on WhatsApp to 1. diagnose and 2. fix. Most of the time only 1 of us was close to a laptop but all 3 of us would assist as best we could.

One of us wasn't tethered at any point in time but for the most part we were able to get to a laptop within 30 minutes at most. I now work at FAAMG and find oncall especially stressful but it's once every ~6 weeks.
I don't really understand the ending. Turning the simulation off could in a way be the morally right decision. Depends on how you think about suffering in the simulation. Some will suffer and what about them? That's why I think it's better to shut off the simulation.
This actually raises questions regarding validity of whole delivery economy. In this article they say about bad working conditions, no insurance, no work hours or vacations. Should the delivery companies be regulated? https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/world/amp-stori...
Should have a button: "add polar bear"
I listened for five and a half minutes before he said anything of any substance. When the substance arrived it was rather thin. This would have been far better for me as a blog post.
Yeah it gives off some nice first impressions! These popped out immediately:

- Keyboard controls to skip forward/reverse with arrow keys, pause with space

- Video speed adjustment

- Threaded comments

Edit: Critique for the infinite scrolling for comments. Makes it insanely annoying to reach the footer for some information about the site.
His argument on Fuschia is worth listening to tho. But the rest, yeah, pretty meh