skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was looking for this answer and found it at the bottom downvoted. I wonder how many people actually know what Peterson says as opposed to what the NYT says about him.

To sum it up: do what is at the limit of your competence and what you feel very drawn too (as in very interested in it). That’s where you’ll find a balance of your existing knowledge and pressure to expand your horizons, plus you are following your passion. That gives meaning.

It’s certainly worked for me recently. It’s very good advice.
>"When it comes to Linux things work differently than on other platforms: most of our users do not install our builds, they install the Firefox version that comes packaged for their favourite distribution.

This posed a significant problem when dealing with stability issues on Linux: for the majority of our crash reports, we couldn’t produce high-quality stack traces because we didn’t have the required symbol information. The Firefox builds that submitted the reports weren’t done by us. To make matters worse, Firefox depends on a number of third-party packages (such as GTK, Mesa, FFmpeg, SQLite, etc.). We wouldn’t get good stack traces if a crash occurred in one of these packages instead of Firefox itself because we didn’t have symbols for them either.

To address this issue, we started scraping debug information for Firefox builds and their dependencies from the package repositories of multiple distributions: Arch, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu. Since every distribution does things a little bit differently, we had to write distro-specific scripts that would go through the list of packages in their repositories and find the associated debug information"

This is why I'm glad that a lot of Linux software is moving towards distro agnostic containerized applications maintained by developers. Linux already does not have a large market share and if you have to deal with a dozen distro-specific quirks it seems hardly economical.
The bill is providing more funding to prevention measures and resources for victims.
It's definitely a cool experiment, but missing a reasonable amount of info for a conference site.
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> If I want to rent a car to go on relaxing drives up and down the interstate, what business do they have to stop me

This is fine. If you use your rental car to drag race and off-road, it’s reasonable for them to ban you from doing business with them.
Reading the Wikipedia entry about Hilbert's axioms [1], I think spherical geometry is not absolute, because two opposing points lie on many lines connecting the two (think north and south pole, connected by all the meridians).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_axioms
I think the point is it lowers security by a factor of 2 in the exponent. Going from 2^64 to 2^63 lowers the amount of time to bruteforce a key by half.
I think it's his shirt.
His books are definitely repetitive (and somewhat unorganized), but I find that saying the same thing a hundred times in slightly different ways helps drive home the message.

People may "nod their head yes" when you give the one sentence descriptions, and think they understand it. But then they ACT in a different way, especially when they have "skin in the game".

Taleb actually has a name for that: "domain dependence". That is, you can nod your head in agreement while reading a book, but then when confronted with the exact same situation in real life, you act as if you don't have that knowledge, or you act contrary to it.

I've noticed this in programming vs. computer science. In a test or interview situation, someone might say they'll do things one way. But then their production code they do it a different way, just because that's the common way they've seen it done, in that particular situation.

This can be good or bad -- sometimes the textbook way is actually better; sometimes not. You can also flip it around -- it also applies to the person asking the question. They might expect a certain answer of the interviewee, but when they have skin in the game, they do something else.

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I also don't agree with the one sentence description of the Black Swan. I'd say the most important idea is that outliers are often ignored, but they're precisely what drives history. [1] And also that they're more likely than naive mathematics would suggest, i.e. "fat tails".

To use an example that's HN friendly, every successful company is an outlier. And we always seem to be talking about the biggest outliers of them all (e.g. FAANG, none of which existed when I started using computers.) Making statements about the average new company isn't informative, because the average one fails and doesn't matter.

[1] Thiel has a similar sentiment, something like "every big moment in business happens exactly once. The next Google isn't making a search engine, etc."
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A quick google in German turns up a legal site that says a contract for ongoing services can't be altered unless there is a clause and they must be notified. I can confirm people were not notified as I'm a customer.

A translation

> In the case of current contracts (so-called "continuing obligations"), e. B. Rental contracts, be it for apartments, web servers, software or the use of a social network, GTC may not be changed during the term.

> In the case of continuing obligations, the contractual partners can either voluntarily agree to the new terms and conditions. However, it is also possible to include an amendment clause that allows tacit change. Then the contracting parties must be informed of the changes and that the changes will come into force if they do not contradict them.

Germany has pretty strict laws about Terms and Conditions since they assume no one reads the things anyways or are able to properly understand them if they did.
> For YouTube, the _right_ thing to do is to pay for the premium option which removes ads.

Even if you pay for premium, you'll still get sponsored ads in the content.
>Where is the line between allowed and banned?

Uh, in the contract (here the Terms and Conditions) the customer agreed to? That's kind of how business transactions work. Hence why they updated the T&C. This isn't some abstract question of philosophy, it's their hardware that they rent under their T&C which they can revise at will (and customers may then go elsewhere, or not).

In the case of rental in general, it often includes some expectations around non-abusive usage. Part of the entire freaking model of "rental" is that a customer of some property can cease usage at will on a rapid time frame, dealing with no capital expenditure/depreciation/maintenance issues, and then the property can be rented to new customer. If one customer destroys said property or massive degrades it such that it can no longer be used for future customers, that completely changes the entire equation. And most rental businesses outside of special (and extremely expensive) situations don't want to deal with that. There isn't anything unreasonable about that. If people want to use hardware to the absolute max with absolutely zero control except the law and contracts for their energy/bandwidth, that's what colo is for.
yes, decentralized. That's why you were using Github? (i'm going to completely leave out issues such timings of updates in the repo, failed nodes, etc)

the groundbreaking innovation when it comes to blockchain is distributed trust. you don't have one entity that decides what happens in case there is disagreement. Everyone, following the same rules, reach the same conclusion.

try doing that with pull requests.
Sounds so great, what can I get for my rapidly depreciating Turkish Lira nobody wants to take?

BTC seems a lot more accessible than the great and amazing US or EU banks, who have nearly failed and had to be bailed out barely a decade ago. Doesn't inspire confidence, tbh.
This is also why Skepticoin cannot be cloned: the clones (cynicalcoin, sarcastocoin etc) are simililar, but they're not "the skepticoin". In this way, the supply of skepticoin is still limited.
Are you calling Nassim depressed or his reviewers?
First of all, blockchain isn't the only technology that prevents alteration. any regular database can be run in append-only mode and can be published.

The only difference between blockchain and any other database in append-only mode is that there is no access controls or identity verification on the blockchain, so fraud is way easier (and that's why over $1 billion in crypto is stolen every year)
The situation here is that when we set up the SCT we deliberately picked a 50/50 mix of core Matrix team and community members. What we didn't anticipate is that the community members then were sufficiently sucked into Matrix that they were prepared to work on it fulltime, and a bunch joined Element as the only viable way to do so. Given the team is functioning pretty well and we're improving Matrix, it feels nuts to penalise people based on who they work for, hence the current blend.
> Putting adverts on the website, apparently.

Where is this motive made apparent?
I think it's fair. That's what temp disability is for, workers comp, etc? If I strain my back and I'm bedridden for a few days I think I'm pretty disabled. Similarly, if a vaccine knocks me flat on my butt for a day, people get it, I'm disabled for that day and I need accomodation.
thank you for sharing, I am removing elixir from my resume after reading all these comments haha
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> I feel a 45% cut to YouTube is too big. Compare that to Patreon, which takes 5%. Granted YouTube offers a lot more for their cut, but the difference feels too big, especially given point 2 below.

Agreed. If we look at the Bandcamp model, they only take 10% to 15%, and that's still high compared to Patreon.
its true for me.

I have trouble focusing on speech, so i often end up responding with "what?" then a few seconds later, it makes sense and i can respond. Writing is easy to injest at the rate your brain wants it.
The problem isn't Firefox updating itself; it occurs when the distro update, or other external process, replaces running Firefox.

A workaround would be to use Firefox directly from upstream instead of the distro packaged version (I understand some people are not happy with this tradeoff).
> 20 employees as of today with revenue in 100K MRR

That's an interesting pair of statistics. Part time employees? Outside the US? A business that is heavy on inexpensive support personnel and light on engineering?
You want a right to repair things you have rented?
The next question is how long will "IE mode" continue to be maintained?
Robinhood did not have an "outage" as many people are saying in relation to the GameStop manipulation.

I don't recall the specific date, but I and x number of people put purchase orders in during the overnight that were not executed when the market opened.

Calling this an outage is disingenuous. Especially considering purchase orders for other stocks on that specific date/time were executed.
My current employer will be devastated. The user interface of our currently in development program requires IE + Java applets.
>in the healthcare space where IE11 is the preferred browser

Do you know why that is?

I noticed that there are prominent links to a Korean and Japanese version, presumably because Internet Explorer is still used to a large extend in those two countries. Korea had some crypto stuff that only worked in IE, but that was years ago. Why haven't those markets moved on more modern browsers?
Tulips bulbs are more-or-less fungible; but I guess you're thinking of tulips because of the speculative nature of these assets?
Bit torrent still works, but I also wonder if some of these newer networks like IPFS are ready for things like this, for example: https://ipfs.io
Here's a link to the OpenLaw documentation https://docs.openlaw.io/getting-started-overview/#javascript...
Have you tried the "Auto Tab Discard" addon?
> The idea is to have something that locally, if you look only at the surrounding nodes, always looks like a neat n-dimensional grid. But the global topology can be totally whacky.

That sounds similar to the mathematical definition of a manifold: something that locally looks like an Euclidean space, but globally isn't.
In one of his books Taleb pointed out that “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” is dangerous bullshit.
What Taylor Swift did is an imitation of what Prince did long before her.

See https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/cover-story/7348551/... for more.
This sounds like the stuff I worked on 15 years ago in the oil and gas sector (in fairness, IE + applets _were_ the best choice at the time).
This helped me understand the dimensions better:

http://profs.etsmtl.ca/mmcguffin/research/zigzag/
Perhaps it was for the best. Humanity might not have survived his next invention.
> Tbf I wouldn’t like to think they’d even know what I’m doing. Privacy should be ok.

that would be my biggest concern. how are they deciding what i'm doing, and what happens when my usage pattern triggers their magical detection?

am i booted immediately? do i get a useful number of business days to say "nope, i'm actually doing something else entirely!" and they leave it at that? or do i have to somehow "prove" what computations i'm going to run before i do so?

it's well and good to let them have whatever ToS they want, and that's certainly the direction i lean in, but enforcement of some ToS can imply concerning things.
“Why waste people's time with your vacuous comments?”

Because my opinions are not vacuous to me.
undercapitalized exchanges? you think they are running on fractional reserve?
I'm trying to thing of cases where it gets quieter when there's more danger but the only one I can think of is The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. When you enter the boss chamber in a dungeon the music is stopped until you perform an action to trigger the boss appearance.
No, that's not the RAI I'm talking about. This is https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/rai
Well, you seem to be tacitly assuming that those individuals have more interesting thoughts to contribute, but the market is somehow corrupting them, or misguiding them. It's also possible that each person only has so much to give, and is thereafter a spent force; tenure/patreon/other wouldn't change that.
Would migrating to the modern Safari extension API, which permits JavaScript injection into pages, be a better path forward here for this website modification tool?
Suspect the down-votes aren't related to the factualness of the statement, but the perceived value of Peterson as a recommendation for books worth reading in this context (i.e. what GP asked for).
I'm not interested in taking the counter party in this bet, but if you were to take a bet in the form "The highest sale price of a NFT in calendar year 20X0 will be no more Y0% of the highest sale price of a postage stamp in that same year.", what would you fill in for X & Y?
I agree. I once spoke with a statistics professor in charge of the undergraduate program at my university. I asked him tons of questions about the cursus, and swiftly replied "Yes the program is far from perfect. However understand that statistics is still a new field compared to calculus. I do not think that we know how to teach all of this correctly...". I wish Taleb could write a book about it!
Are we about to come full circle to Mt Gox?
Snap, Flatpak and AppImage all suck! Fix this first.
They were OK with me running Ethereum testnet on their servers, but I have a 12+ year business relationship with them.

That said, Hetzner will wield the banhammer whenever you do things that interfere with their network infrastructure, so port scanning or connecting to many potentially unroutable IPs is a sure way to get your server taken offline. And I believe most if not all cryptocurrency networks run decentralized with P2P connectivity, which means they would cause a high rate of unroutable connection requests.

Also, they can't really offer a beefy server and free HDD replacements for €50 monthly if too many people abuse it and run Chia. So as a current customer, I'm quite happy that they keep the noisy neighbors out ;)
I hate to be that guy, but this isn't Quora my guy.
The merge is expected to happen Q3 2021 or Q1 2022, and the withdrawal/unstake functionality will be implemented afterwards, so most likely 2022.
YouTube subscription views are worth far more to the creator (some 10x (I've even heard 100x from some creators) more) than full ad views within the same video.

So, regardless of YouTube's cut, it's much more valuable to the creator, and valuable to you (no embedded ads). Win win, at least until an alternative arises.
Please explain how exactly a constrained monetary supply keeps politicians honest? Seems to me that is pretty much entirely dependent on an informed and participatory electorate.

I think a constrained monetary supply just means the politicians we elect have less influence over the economy than the people with the most wealth. In either scenario, there will be untrustworthy politicians who need to be out voted or voted out.
That's on the creator, and no ad blocker will stop sponsored content.
Haha! I had a similar reaction when I started reading Taleb. You might checkout Antifragile, which offers a more positive view of randomness. It's easy to get a dire impression from Taleb, but to use his words, "don't read it *too* well." If you really dig into Taleb, specifically Skin in the Game, he is a proponent of risk-taking: his closing statements in Skin in the Game include "Start a business."
I took one of his twitter polls where he asked a mathematical question. And the little Nasim shouting 'imbecile' worked in perfect symbiosis with the little Kahneman to engage System 2 and think about my answer.
Are you using https://replicache.dev/ ? It looks very cool.
VAAPI requires DMABuf, which requires EGL. We want to ship hardware acceleration using EGL instead of GLX, but CI issues have held it up (we are otherwise pretty much there for testing on nightly).
It was more like a curtain than a lock.
A friend who can only see degrees of light turned me onto text-to-speech for listening to epubs. Android’s default was good enough, and Librera, for example, allows for custom pronunciation. Listening by TTS is a way to keep reading while walking to work, for example, and be able to stop and highlight or make notes (which can be done by voice, I just haven’t switched from using my eyes and hands for that).
Actually, IIRC the very first versions of Windows Update were an ActiveX control. You had to use IE to run it, so from a certain point of view, that was IE updating itself.
All the other animals just take things way too seriously
I remember being kid and other kids telling back then, when the card game was released, that a charizard was worth 500 francs (around 75€) and I didn’t really believed them. Funny how it raised to even crazier prices.

Someone gave me a free Ponyta, which I traded against other cards, growing my collection without buying any pack. One day I was with only three cards remaining but managed to trade again them for a bigger collection. My brother did the same, also with a free starting Ponyta. A year or so later, I bough two packs of the Fossils extension. A guy stole my whole collection in junior high school and I wasn’t able to bring it back. I still hate him to this day.
Ansible 4.0.0 final has been released
Does that stuff work in Wolfram Alpha?
You are underestimating the stupidity of most interview processes...

The Interview (By Doug Milford)
https://youtu.be/9fvyAqWfPtk
It is not nice to say such things about children. To me looks like it's designed by a lobotomized lobster.
I recommend 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces' by Joseph Campbell as it also deals with pre-history but focuses on mythology and the universality of a story of the hero across cultures.
By moving to Microsoft Edge, you get everything described above plus you’ll be able to extend the life of your legacy websites and apps well beyond the Internet Explorer 11 desktop application retirement date using IE mode. Internet Explorer mode in Microsoft Edge will be supported through at least 2029.

While IE11 as an independent program is going away, the rendering engine is still around for 8+y.

Here's hoping that this deprecation removes the expectation that things support IE11, however!
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The difference is that you're renting a server but you're buying the GPU. You should be able to do whatever you want with the hardware you own. When you're renting you have to agree to the restrictions the owner puts on your rental.
That's around when my project was started.
I can't really see any down side, besides maybe a little bit of developer time, to allowing users to see a preview of the crop and optionally override. It's done all the time in other places.
You have to understand that he probably mostly reads books he enjoy and is statistically and factually correct. The 1 star reviews is when finds lots of statistical fallacies and misuse or they're factually incorrect. He doesn't take lightly on these kinds of things. Personally I think it's great when people finds mistakes in book and publish them for others.
What a great game, my only comment is I would love to be able to pay to remove the ads. Although from my own experience I know that this is probably more trouble than it's worth since the vast majority of people will never pay
Because some crypto mining wears out the SSDs, or because it doesn't do enough network access to incur bandwidth charges?
I understand the decentralized nature of the blockchain, but couldnt I mint the same painting on multiple blockchains?

I'm not an expert, but I can see the value on cryptocurrencies and ETH and all the smart contract tech. But I can't see the same value on NFTs, as more than speculation.
It was not a site wide outage. Only a small handful of stocks could not be ordered.

If that's not putting ones finger on the scale I don't know what is.
Here's a video of Ted Nelson describing the idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n22A-Say7do
In what way is "these papers signed by these people in person, countersigned by notaries, postmarked on this date, after a thorough identity and title verification process conducted by these people, copied and hand delivered to bank, realtor, broker, seller, buyer, city, and state" blind faith

But "I found a message on the internet with a secret number attached" is not blind faith?
Some people don’t like being labeled as “disabled”, because that may have the connotation that they’re not able to do as much as an “abled” person.
I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the law of frequency of error. The law would have been personified by the Greeks if they had known of it. It reigns with serenity and complete self-effacement amidst the wildest confusion. The larger the mob, the greater the apparent anarchy, the more perfect is its sway. It is the supreme law of unreason.

- Sir Francis Galton, on the Central Limit Theorem

Two interactive demos...

http://mfviz.com/central-limit/

http://www.ltcconline.net/greenl/java/Statistics/clt/cltsimu...
I don't think there would be that spontaneous of heart rate change due to clenching a fist but I would expect the sensors to get a large jump from baseline due to skin, veins, etc. deforming from clenching.
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Now give me a bit of slack here, because I'm arguing a position I don't necessarily 100% believe in, and I don't pay for youtube red myself. But your argument sounds a bit to me like someone saying "I think this supermarket takes a too big cut on these apples, maybe if they split the price 50-50 with the growers I'd be happy to pay, but as it is I think I'll just take them for free"
this was how things worked before supermarkets in general - you'd ask the general store clerk for x units of y good, think the deli counter or auto parts store model.