skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a difference between an algorithm maximizing engagement even if it means pushing you to read outrage articles and folks on a subreddit saying negative things about politicians you like.
The number one thing for me (and most of these are a part of it but it's never mentioned in the article) is:

Create a situation that the software is impossible to run and test from a single development machine.

Nothing kills productivity like forcing developers to deploy to some kind of personal staging environment every time they want to test the code.

My second one is "Make them write YAML". I hate YAML.
>> Firstly, the simplest problem to fix with typescript would be to remove the "any" type, with that in the language, it lets lazy developers be lazy and negates the fact that you have typing in the first place.

I remember when TypeScript was first introduced. 'any' is what allowed it to become the player it is today, because you could use the entire JS ecosystem with very little rework. If you'd of had to redevelop everything up the stack to primitive types it never would have gotten traction.

How is this any different from strongly typed languages that ultimately resolve to 'object'?

Your arguments sound a lot like letting better be the enemy of perfect. TS doesn't have to have runtime type checking (I'd argue it should not) to be a huge productivity gain.
Interesting, that would imply merge-able schema (and the ability to resolve merge conflicts in data too).
I don't think it makes sense to lump a whole group of people into a single categorization this way. You're right that being seen as good helps drive deal flow, but, again, most of the people I've worked with are actually pretty "good" in the moral/ethical sense.

Where and how personal ethics, business ethics, business needs, financial incentives come together and produce results is immensely complicated.
Universities. The incentives are well aligned and there are plenty of labs doing research in this space.
I don't think it's the same. Huge corporations already shift their profits around to avoid taxes. This is only going to affect small businesses and independent creators that can't take advantage of the same corporate structure as a huge tech company.
Hmm, maybe it's an American thing but when I say 'travel' it really doesn't include a beach holiday. That would be called 'vacation' or 'a trip'. 'Travel', to me at least, implies some sort of cultural/sightseeing intent, even if it's just going to Paris for a visit to the Louvre and a few nice meals but talking to nobody.
This looks like yet another aluminium composite panel fire...
This is a literal kubectl delete pod
"(and how about computer viruses?)"

They don't metabolize energy.
Love the focus on casual specifically, I feel apps like Clubhouse really emphasize the "on stage" vs. "off stage" dynamic which can lead to some really frustrating status seeking behavior (e.g. chiming in to show off vs. out of genuine interest or care). Excited to see where this goes!
Russia slows down Twitter over 'banned content'
You should try a 4chan /pol "you rage you loose" thread.
How does keeping the weight on the vehicle affect is km/l ratio?

Edit: full this device is only 6% of the max (80000lb) weight, maybe 15% weight on just the tractor.
Well, I'm pretty sure Bitcoin does not have livestock waste, air pollution and similar impact compared to the energy use of Argentina. So comparing Argentina and Bitcoin with just energy use is a bit odd to me too.
When you want an off-the-shelf component that you don't have to tweak or maintain, Docker containers are fantastic. Most projects that publish a container also integrate features so you almost never have to build a custom image.
It looks like they delegate (or have formerly delegated) this type of intention, to paying customers. That of course doesn't mean the userbase: you'd call it 'advertisers' but Facebook got in some trouble over selling off extremely granular access to targeted advertising, to state actors, foreign governments etc: basically whoever's willing to pay enough.

So, if you're trying to create domestic terrorists, it's extremely valuable to be fed information just like your example represents, to sell off access to that demographic.

Facebook doesn't have to consider it 'provocative content', they see it as 'feeding a demographic to a paying customer'. If you're smart enough about your targeting, you can turn it to 'provoke susceptible people into committing acts of terrorism at rates substantially higher than the baseline likelihood of this'. So it's the foreign intelligence agency that is thinking of 'provoking', and Facebook sort of shrugs and fills the order for targeted demographics, without itself thinking much about whether anything is 'provocative'.
It's not the overthinking part of this essay that reflects poorly on the field of philosophy. It's the complete lack of interest in evidence.

> For one thing, the status of the (so-called) hindsight bias is contested

Why? Were some seminal studies in hindsight bias overturned? This sounds interesting!

...Oh. No, some other guy thought really hard and decided it doesn't make sense. This must be a philosophy paper.
No. Why would it be?
sound is too low.
See: Analog vs Digital[1].

I said there were differences. A lot of people putting words into my mouth.

I was actually alive and aware listening to pre-1980s vinyls, 8-tracks, cassettes, CDs, etc. unlike some of you. CDs added additional frequencies into the high range, which people thought sounded crisp and new, but it never had the warmth of cassettes and vinyl.

The waveform thing is true but I never said that it was the reason for the difference in warmth.

[1]- https://innersense-inc.com/analog-versus-digital/
> A conscious entity has data about “what it is like to have consciousness.” A p-zombie doesn’t. A p-zombie’s mind lacks the data that enables it to comprehend the very idea of solipsism.

What about a computer that can pass the Turing Test and can make you believe it knows all about experiencing consciousness?

I can tell you whatever you might want to hear about my experience of consciousness, but how do you know I'm actually conscious? What if it is just an elaborate ruse?
The article is pretty light on how these platforms do so.

Do they not simply bubble up popular posts: ones with likes, retweets, and comments? That might mean a politicized post, but it also could be a positive one about the kindness of a stranger or some cute picture of your kids.

These platforms may well be incentivizing enraging posts. I just don't know how they're doing it, and this article did not help me understand it.
The Right Way to Learn to Program
It's a pool, not a cache per se, but the Hikari database connection pool subtracts up to a random amount up to a few percent from each connection's lifetime to avoid a similar problem. If you have a 30 minute lifetime, you spread the expirations (and recreations) over half a minute or so.
The powerful Maserati MC20 super sports car undergos cold weather testing
Maybe, but Mac APIs don't use them, so you can't mod your games with ResEdit anymore.

NTFS also has multiple forks, and also has many of the same fancy attributes capabilities that made the BeOS filesystem (in)famous, but they're not used in the same way, so it's kind of moot.

What really what made BeOS and Mac OS good was not so much the technical underpinnings, but the way they exposed these in the APIs and standard applications.

The power of Unix isn't just from the presence of the standard I/O routines, but the fact that most programmes are written to adhere to a specific paradigm that allow them to work together.
you're comparing a PaaS with a piece of hardware. It's absolutely not comparable.

Yann, CEO at Scalingo
1) it's not a right

2) it's yet another tax on all those who prefer cheaper products that aren't DIY serviceable
> In fact, I wish Tesla would just introduce a touch interface into the wheel so it knew your hands were on it, but not require constantly resisting the wheel to trigger the sensor.

We recently rolled out capacitive steering wheels in several Mercedes-Benz models for that reason. It's pleasant.
That says powered but it's actually owned, not an innocent MVNO
I certainly wasn't claiming most people remember the war of 1812 -- I was just stating that it's not as if the events are glossed over or not taught in school. It is well covered in early American history curriculum; it just gets taught during the peak of puberty, which is pretty unfortunate.

In my experience, most people remember a few fragments like you do, and particularly famous events from the war (old ironsides, burning of the white house, carrying out the portrait of Washington to save it) might not even be associated with that war in people's minds. Most people seem to erroneously associate many of those events with the revolutionary war, similar to how they often associate the Constitution with the revolutionary war even though it came later.
Small cheap 10Gbps switches have come onto the market in the last couple of years. You can go 10 gig for a fraction of the $1000 NUC cost now.

Though I suspect local 1Gbps would be more than fine here and that’s extremely cheap and commonplace.
What part of typescript requires a 9000 iq to understand?

Some of the special types are tricky and make my head hurt but most people will just consume them through autocomplete.

The only thing I miss from transitioning our frontend from React to Blazor is the typescript type system which I always thought was a joy.
A few years ago I worked on the British Telecom Worldwide intranet team and we had a matrix mapping various countries encryption laws.

This was so we remained legal in all of the countries BT worked in which required a lot of behind the scenes work to make sure we didn't serve "illegaly encypted" Data.
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The big problem with typescript friction. It imposes another layer if you write in typescript. In most cases (Deno excepted?) you then convert your code into JavaScript. In order to use all the current JavaScript (libraries and frameworks) you still need to know JavaScript.

And if you write code in typescript the number of people who can easily understand your code is dramatically reduced. The pool of people you can hire is now dramatically reduced.

In my opinion the cost/benefit analysis to too high at this point.
are your domains at ovh too ? If yes, I'd consider changing this: this morning the manager was quite flooded and the DNS service was down for some time...
I think TerminusDB is interesting in this space. https://terminusdb.com/
It's a follow up to the second part and covered in the first minute of the video as review anyways.
I find it very cool that you were there for something like this.

How was it funded? Seems very expensive.

Were regular people excited about it? Was there a meaningful change in day to day life after it was completed?
I've been reading some pop-psy books recently (Stumbling on Happiness and Thinking, Fast and Slow) and a recurring theme is that we remember many things in a different way than we experience them in the moment. This can cause weird biases, e.g. where we choose to repeat experiences that are more painful than other options, because we remember pain inaccurately. But one point the books both make is that this is not necessarily irrational per se - we often remember things much more times than we experience them, so optimizing for the memory of them can make sense.
And you can play it back!

See "info scriptreplay"
Tech companies are dem and shape the public opinion?
Reddit doesn't make any money. Nobody wants to advertise to that user base, hence the endless redesigns.
Funnily enough, in the Soviet Union a mathematician was working towards the opposite conclusion: only through making all quantities fungible could everything be treated as a gigantic linear programming problem in order to optimize the economy.

(See Red Plenty, and a discussion here https://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimiz... )
18 wheelers get about 5 to 6 mpg, with a us gallon being 3.785 liters (corrected) . Each mile thus is 0.63 or more liters of diesel.

A truck can do at least 100k to 120k miles per year.

So 63k to ~76k liters per year per truck. 63k * 2.6kg equals about 163.6 metric tons per year on the low end.
Not disagreeing, but they can evolve into training meccas for specific winter sports. Lake Placid is a good example - they hosted the winter olympics in 1932 and 1980 (the "Miracle on Ice" year). Currently the town subsists on winter sports athletes traveling there to train, with all the other services to support it.
It was a posting on Facebook not FB itself that made up the fake language.
There are quite a few VC firms that model what you're talking about - for instance I think this describes what Garry's doing at Initialized.

But raising money is a choice that some founders will make because their businesses require it. If you don't need it, don't raise it. If you do need it, go into the process and decision with as much information as you can get.
Pronounceable passwords now default in 1Password
I have definitely seen folks use the id created by the auth system but nothing else. Everything else keys off the GUID, which should be immutable, and is stored in application specific tables.

The password and username are in the auth system, but everything else stays in control of the application, in one database.

I don't see why you couldn't use that pattern no matter which external auth provider you are using. You'd just give up things like self service registration, but that may be the right choice for your app.
Down thread it's explained that the device weighs 1000+ lbs more when full, after 600 miles.

600 miles isn't the full tank of combustion. Sound like driver is swapping tanks or something at one of their stops.
I have often felt that if everyone were rate-limited to two or three upvotes/likes per day, the world might be a more-meaningful place.
That's why I mentioned surgery at the end of my comparison with blade cuts. Much like cutting into a body is traumatic for it, but is sometimes require to save it, sometimes the ethical benefits of a lie far outweigh the costs. Yours is a very good example.

There are also more fuzzy ones. Since I mentioned medicine: there's an ongoing discussion in the medical community as to if and when lies by omission are OK - is there a point to informing the patient about something they can do nothing about, when if they learn about it, it would cause them great amount of emotional distress? Caring for health doesn't mean just servicing the body like a mechanic, but also catering for person's emotional well-being.

The point I was trying to make is that lies, by default, are bad things (much like being cut by a blade). Intent, care and consequences are what can make lies very bad, or - sometimes - good.
I'm a bit lost. I don't see how this is relevant to the discussion at all.

Manufacturers already pay $ proportional to the amount of fossil fuels spent, and this doesn't cause them to consider future consequences on the consumer. They still think vendor lock-in and planned obsolescence are to their advantage.
Not mentioned in the article, but this reminded me that although Wittgenstein's family was extremely wealthy he gave away the fortune he inherited and become a primary school teacher.
If I had to list one thing it would be this:

People everywhere, regardless of their race, religion, politics, or wealth are generally decent and primarily interested in making a better living for themselves and their family.

Some may see this as an obvious fact about human nature. However, for someone like me who grew up viewing the world through the lens of the US media, I used to think otherwise. Travel fundamentally changed my views in this regard.
I just can't get behind a sentiment that amounts to, "Hey guys, stop trying to innovate."
Thanks for sharing your experience!

Just to understood, the team you joined was at what stage when they hired the agency? Like was it completely new startup that had capital but not enough man-power?

How big the MVP was? From what I understand it seems more like full blown product that the company wanted to develop?
Anyone? Or any account? Let's not forget all the sock puppets that can amplify sources at first, after which a few million political enthusiasts can take up the mantle.
“Actually, you know what, I think this is not a great match”
This seems like a higher order definition.

Bees and Humans fit the definition. Therefor, aggregations of bees and humans, like hives and countries, also fit the definition.

"Countries" seem more of a stretch, as replicating would technically mean creating other countries like itself. Not just sustaining itself into the future.

Do hives seed other hives? I suppose they would, so they better fit the definition.
We need not only look to the dead to uncover our deepest values. We can look to mystics, and other masters of the world's religions who spent their entire lives inquiring directly into these questions, armed with their own masters' guidance and millennia of roadmaps painstakingly drawn out by countless others who attempted this before them.

Here in America we often think of Religion as dogma, or as a philosophy, when in reality there are many through-lines that are more adequately characterized as a process of intense questioning and exploration carried on continuously since the beginning of civilization.

After so much effort, the conclusions are quite stable, and you will find them most accessibly in the Indian, Tibetan, and Chinese canons.
Even just the ability to parse and run TS (without type necking it) would be spectacular. I hope you're right.
I kind of disagree, Reddit has its own problems (nation states run by warlords) but the downvote button and anonymity solves some of the “outrage for likes” stuff that plagues Twitter and Facebook. I haven’t seen the frontpage you’re talking about in years and I doubt many users do.

I really don’t know why FB and Twitter don’t add an anonymous “dislike” feature. Maybe they tried it and it caused other problems, who knows. More likely though they see that outrage increases engagement even if the toxic environment chases people away eventually.
Well that last sentence took quite a turn haha. Thanks for the insights.
I completely forgot about information agent technology. It was supposed to be the Next Really Big Thing but seemed to fizzle out completely once the hype died down. Was it ever used for anything significant?
You mentioned "any time in history", and for most of its history, the US was explicitly a white supremacist state. Legal segregation only ended in the 1960s.

Yes, other places in the world were like this, but that's irrelevant, isn't it?
"I should not have worked as hard" is an attempt to make people who work too much now to engage more at home. I honestly doubt this is a thing dying people say all that much. Frankly, if they valued their family, they would spend more time with them years before.
Where did you find places to sleep? Hotels are not guaranteed, and camping is not allowed everywhere. Without having a pre-planned journey, it seems a bit risky.
isn't it like most countries? there's always some kind of work permit you need to have
I, for one, am glad that Whistler is more accessible to those who could not afford the high prices of Whistler hotels.

For most of my life skiing at Whistler was totally out of reach. The one or two of my peers who went yearly were among the wealthiest.

Glad it's no longer an exclusive playground for Vancouver's wealthy.
> Downside there could be that db lock-in becomes a concern

Lock-in is often mentioned as a downside to tech, but in my experience the budget never exists to change tech past a certain point anyways.

Honestly it always seems like an argument for better upfront planning, to me. Start out by assuming you're going to be locked-in to your choices forever, and make those choices with care.
One simple thing twitter can do to reduce enraging behavior and harassment:

De-prioritize "reply guys" that always reply to a a popular account with an incendiary comment.

They get a ton of comments and few likes/RTs (ratio'd) yet reply guys are usually the top response to a popular tweet.

Seriously twitter, why set reply guys as the top response to every tweet? It encourages hostility, and this is but one example.
>offer some kind of refund to people who bought their first house in the last year

I think we run into real problems in America trying to protect people from the consequences of their own bad decision making. In addition to being deeply patronising, it eliminates so many of the normal incentives to be responsible and pushes up risk appetite across the board.

If individuals make poor investments (whether on a house or gamestop otm call options) they'll learn their lesson and move on. There's enough of a safety net in America to ensure no one truly goes hungry from bad luck (and before you point to homelessness- that's a complicated issue intertwined with drug addiction, mental illness and in some cases a free lifestyle choice)
I didn't "furiously google" anything I "calmly referenced" some of the MANY notes I have from following articles, podcasts, and journals in this field, which I have spent most of my career in.

In fact, I didn't see ANY links from you supporting your nonsense about renewables not working, despite them working in many places across the globe.

>literally none of these are currently capable of replacing baseload nuclear and fossil fuel energy generation.

Literally STORAGE will never replace GENERATION, they are two different concepts which most people understand but you apparently don't. STORAGE can supplement INTERMITTENT GENERATION to create DISPATCHABLE GENERATION for far cheaper than nuclear plants.
I'm not qualified to judge the paper or its contributions, but this particular paragraph in the press release quoting the author smells of way, way too much faith on part of the author himself:

> “This work has moved the problem of faster-than-light travel one step away from theoretical research in fundamental physics and closer to engineering. The next step is to figure out how to bring down the astronomical amount of energy needed to within the range of today's technologies, such as a large modern nuclear fission power plant. Then we can talk about building the first prototypes," says Lentz.

While I'm not a physicist, calling anything in the paper's area even a single step towards engineering rather than belonging firmly in the realm of theoretical speculation is an astronomically huge claim. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and so on. (FWIW, I'm totally fine with research producing only theoretical speculation as long as it's sound.)

While I (again) cannot judge the paper, that kind of a blurb by itself makes me automatically feel much more skeptical about anything in the study.

I know it's from a press release, and press releases are a kind of marketing, but they should still be somewhat proportional.
This is so real it's painful.
I see a lot of highly upvoted comments that amount to something like: travel won't change you or fix you. In general, I disagree. I think most people don't have the self-awareness to even know when they are being changed. We are all products of our past environment and our current surroundings define our behavior much more strongly than most are even capable of admitting. We're talking deeply-held ego-protective defense mechanisms here. Strong stuff.

To walk outside of your native environment is to walk outside yourself. Do that long enough and often enough and you will become a new self. You can carefully bring along a bubble of your comfort zone while traveling and insulate yourself from change. With the internet that's easier than ever and I have done it. On the other hand, the longer I get immersed, the more reverse culture shock I feel when I get home and that's the feeling of having changed more than you realized.