skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that I disagree, but it's not just a danger of AI, it's a danger of complex self-optimizing systems in general.

We've got a pretty robust complex self-optimizing system already, which goes by names like "society" and "the free market". You point it at bad data and it will reinforce that data. If demographic A is poorer than demographic B, market forces will determine that giving loans to demographic B will get you better risk-adjusted returns, causing demographic B to become even more relatively prosperous, justifying future decisions to prefer giving loans to demographic B.

Which is to say that, while I think it's good for folks thinking about AI alignment to worry about this problem, all of us should worry about this problem.
Might still work. All DoH requests go to the same IP from the "major" proviers.
Many non-office jobs have a results-oriented aspect to them that should result in employers and customers preferring shorter, more effective workweeks in the long run. Programming had to go through this transition and is still not there yet in many companies.

It may seem strange to think of a nurse or driver being more useful when contributing 30 hours a week instead of 40, but that’s because we don’t appreciate the potential range of their decision making quality, error rate, and so on.

In the long run, too, any job we don’t want to see become higher paid and more effective, we will want to see be eliminated or automated. So the effective pay increase would not uniformly drag on GDP across many industries.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 3 (HTTP/3)
Oh please. It's 2021. There is an entire internet full of video clips of actual fights, and none of them go down the way you say. All this waflling about 'groin strikes' and 'head butts' is just that - arm chair waffling. Reality (as in, documented facts) has shown the people theorizing like this wrong .
If you want to feed animals, make sure you have plenty of insects around. They're the bottom of the food chain and if you have lots of insects around then the birds will come for them.

The other night we had a bunch of seagulls hunting butterflies and moths above us. At first we thought they were attacking us, but after a few times we noticed they were simply hunting. Their prey, in their turn, are mostly busy devouring a patch of nettles on a slope at the end of our property, and so they're keeping the nettles in check AND the birds fed.

As a bonus, I don't have to mow the lawn either.
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> Wouldn't a switch to four-day working week just mean a 25% pay increase for those employees?

No, those are the same industries and jobs in which people are paid by the hour. And even if they weren't, it's naive to assume that employers wouldn't adjust compensation down when hours go down by 20%.

Personally, I'd rather work 5 days a week than work 4 and get my pay decreased.
"this is good"

It means others cannot earn an income, therefore they cannot demand output, therefore it is not produced therefore there is no job for them.

Aggregate demand = Aggregate Supply, and there is no such thing as a 'market for loanable funds' because saving is just the accounting record of investment. A historic record, nothing more.

Once you start at loans as the starting point and follow the geometric progression of spending and earning you find that saving reduces transaction numbers.
Sainsbury's stops selling CDs and DVDs
Wait there are sooo many more edge cases of percentages! When this article finished I think it should be half way through or even one third of 100% weirdness.

Examples: with flexbox and/or tables, 100% behaves differently. What about 100% vs 100vh/vw? This would be very nice to show here as well. As others note, background-position or background-size. Collapsing margins might be interesting, but probably not the best fit for this example. How other types of `display` interact with the 100% (e.g. `inline` just ignores it). As it's just very briefly touched, but how box-sizing affects the height/width. SVGs viewBox, canvas, hiding navbars on mobile, body's default width/height, the trick of `width: 100%; max-width: 1200px; margin: 0 auto;`, etc. there's such a vast amount of topics relating/breaking the concept of 100% in CSS that it's mind-numbing.
I hear you. I really think this is the way forward. A friend of mine started to do a 4x9 schedule and he wouldn’t want it any different now.
> bellweather

For anyone wondering, that words makes a whole lot more sense when written correctly(?) as: bellwether (the sheep carrying the bell).
but... joe rogan left?
I think you've kind of proven the op's point, these all have different patterns and are in different places.
> why do they get paid so little for that?

What follows isn't necessarily right, but I believe It's why they're paid little.

Because they're all easily replaceable, companies doesn't have to invest more than maybe a week of salary into replacing them if they ask for higher pay. At my company we're having a hard time finding people, so sometimes even questionable talent gets hired and trained because we need people. But in low-skill work people will always be paid what is regulated. If we increase their salary enough, then I wouldn't want my job, even though I enjoy what I do, because of the mental burden of never having my head to myself.

The best job I've ever had was when backpacking Australia, was taking care of gardens, hedges and stairwells. It paid shit, but every day I felt gratification because I worked with my body and actually finished something (even though It had to be done again in a week or 2 since things grow like crazy in Brisbane).

What I do now is an endless struggle of never being finished, so my brain keeps computing solutions to these problems even once I'm off the clock, so if a bus driver all of a sudden has my salary, why on earth would I want a job that requires more of me. As in, I'm not just the current meatbag at this place.

I bet we could even stretch this into that it would reduce output of society greatly, since people that otherwise would pursue "high skill" work (Idk, somehow i feel like anyone could be taught my job in a week, but this is more Imposter Syndrome than anything i guess) could be just as happy or happier doing something that doesn't increase human efficency.

I will argue for this "to death" (since It's really one of my core beliefs), but i would also love someone to be able to change my mind as it could potentially increase my mental well-being. I'm sadly looking "down" on "simple work", I think as a means to justify wtf I'm doing.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
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Will Bitcoin go to 1 mill or zero
SimTower started as elevator simulator, and was then turned into a game.

Also, this is a great talk if you want to know more about elevators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUvGfuLlZus
Is it me or the site navigation makes it really annoying to go through the comics?

Comic sites (e.g. xkcd) usually allow users to navigate sequentially without having to go back a page after each comic.
Not that I'm aware of but there were certainly 486 and 586 motherboards with PCI [0]. Support tended to be spotty though, to this dsay I haven't been able to find a 100MBps PCI NIC that'll work in a 486 PCI slot.

[0] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=486+with+pci+slots&hl=en&s...
> Immigrants face unique constraints in their choice of where to live.

What you are saying is that California and New York are where the jobs are - hence the immigration. An H1B is equally valid in California and Tennessee.

You can flip this argument for those leaving California as well. Out migration out of California should be discounted because the folks moving out are the ones who are no longer productive or competitive in states with higher productivity. The out migration is simply a form of semi-retirement to a cheaper location with low economic activity. Just as expats retiring to Colombia doesn't make Colombia "better" than USA, migration out of California to other states can be discounted.

This comment also privileges the choices and constraints faced by 2nd generation immigrants over the choices and constraints of 1st generation immigrants, which is unnecessary. 2nd generation immigrants also face constraints , primarily monetary. Most folks moving to Texas are moving to find a cheaper home, not because they love the politics or the electricity grid or the weather.

IMHO, it is best to not add any nuance when numbers give u a fairly unbiased picture.
Exactly, I do this at least once a year, enough that I don't need to search anymore for the actual CSS (I just need to try two variations when I mix `padding-top: ratio%` or `padding-top 1/ratio%`)
Java code does this with coiled headphones. I liked the idea of the pi build out and have it in a cigar box. I ran the Java and it works. It's easy to coil the headphones lead around a watch too.
Mirror : https://archive.ph/nW0eS
The James Webb Space Telescope may launch this century
So Bezos thinks anti vaxxers are right?
That's an interesting experiment, but exceptions are pretty central to how Python works.

For example, `for` loops are implemented by throwing a `StopIteration` exception when they're finished.
I believe my lease is 3 months + concessions. It's definitely at least 2 months + concessions. This is in downtown Seattle.
Yes! List/Dictionary/Generator comprehension is one big plus for Python, it probably came from the functional world. I use it whenever I can.

> But even the lambda keyword isn't so bad, you can create a dictionary of expressions to call by name, a lot more compact them declaring them the usual way imo: https://github.com/jazzyjackson/py-validate/blob/master/pyva...

lambda keyword is better than nothing, it definitely can be improved. Just imaging using javascript syntax in your example.

> To your point, I only recently learned there's a Map function in Python, while in JS I'm .map(x=>y).filter(x=>y).reduce(x=>y)ing left and right.

I think with the introduction of list comprehension Guido saw map function was no longer needed, that was why he wanted it removed. I don't deny it, but using map and filter sometimes are just easier to read. Say [foo(v) for v in a] vs map(foo, a).
Tired of working from home? Put the office on wheels
Thanks for the reply Wilfred! I was not familiar with Autochrome, I will certainly have a look!

That's interesting, I like the idea of not worrying about patching nor merging, giving you a tool that is focused on "communicating the differences to a human", and indeed, it means you don't have to worry about a whole bag of problems.

One insight that I came across (more info on Chap 5 of my thesis) is that not considering or handling duplication means you incur a quadratic slowdown in your search algorithm. For example, say you're diffing `A` against `Bin A A`. If you can't understand that `A` was duplicated, which `A` do you copy? You have to evaluate both options even though it really doesn't matter which one you copy.

One good middle ground for speeding up your algorithm while not having to worry about displaying duplications is to have an intermediate step where first you diff with duplication detection, but then you just go over the result and make arbitrary choices about which duplicate to copy and which to insert/delete.
One needs to keep that approach in mind when judging people who are within a system that one as an outsider critizises. There may be people in there who try to change it for the better.

A historical example is the French Revolution. Many people who tried to reform from within still got their heads chopped off. In fact, everybody but the most radical did, and even those ended up paranoid about one another.

Other examples are former socialist eastern countries. Just because somebody was state employed with decision making authority does not mean they were pro-dictatorship. Many realized that to improve things they'd need to work within the system instead of openly opposing and ending up in jail.
Yes playing with regulations might help some renters to the detriment of others, but on average landlords will probably make the same.
All economists predicted that productivity increasing and life quality improving, people will need to work less and less hours. Now (for selected countries) productivity does indeed increase, quality does indeed improve but this consequence is not only not visible, not only difficult to imagine in many job types, but even raises hefty resistance whenever discussed. There's a disconnection, somewhere.
Yeah I know. It's not as quick and reliable as pushing a button.
This doesn’t seem like a likely problem. However moving my install off a Synology and into a vm on a nuc (keeping it in docker) made a massive difference to response times and performance. It’s hard to beat the combo of more ram, more cpu and nvme.
I run it the forbidden way, via NixOS, and I do have to run the cycle of adding an integration, checking logs and then declaring which dependencies it needs and trying again. But once it works, it just works.
Amazon's Lumberyard game engine is now open source
Amazon’s move here is a boon for anyone interested in developing open-source tools for 3D game engines (that can then be used by game developers), but a bust for anyone financially invested in Lumberyard becoming a competitor to Unity or Unreal Engine
LightSail Energy Storage and the Failure of the Founder Narrative
Tables can be set to display: block/flex/grid like anything else. Not that I recommend.
I can answer this, since I have a friend who's been doing this for years: you boil the frog.

He started by taking the second half of each Friday off, because it was easy to sell his superiors on it.

During the next performance review he asked to have the whole Friday off, and was granted permission to do so.

A while after that he moved his day off to Monday.
Yeah, but I think that would be a good think. A lot of the people you mention, are underpaid strained workers that do jobs with high level of responsibility (The bus driver that pick up your kids, the nurses) and the ones in services industries that, are straight exhausted and overloaded.

BUT while I think that the 4-day week would be awesome, more days to rest, more consumption and other stuff. This measure, by itself would have a minimal impact. Needs to be in conjunction with others, like Universal income, taxes to the corporations and wealthy.

We are in a world where AI is here to stay and it will only get better. Self-driving cars, Store free-clerks, hell AI can now co-write code. A lot of jobs will be reduced within a few short years, and I think that we are not prepared to absorb all that people and inequalities are going to explode all around the world.
> Recent film program graduates of Columbia University who took out federal student loans had a median debt of $181,000.

> Yet two years after earning their master’s degrees, half of the borrowers were making less than $30,000 a year.

"elite masters degree" - lol. (I think the article is confusing undergrad and grad school fees, since it's hard to believe the typical 2-year film master's degree could cost that much.)

Berklee College of Music (Boston) undergrad costs about the same, with similar earnings. And you have to carry around an instrument to all your gigs.

https://www.berklee.edu/

The worst I've heard is music production grads. Most of the recording studios closed after streaming started (label revenue is down 90%), and some unpaid interns work 5 years for free, before getting a job at 7-11, etc.

Actually some of the programs mentioned in the article, like family therapy, are lucrative if your credentials allow you to open your own office in California since there's a shortage. But that requires ambition. (Banks will loan money to newly-graduated health professionals.)
>I'm proposing we could build other worlds, such as ring worlds, so that the population and industry of the human race can be moved off-world.

>That means we'd be able to treat the Earth as a great big park, with little-to-no human inhabitants.

That's a nice idea, however the resources required to move enough people off the Earth just to keep the population from rising, let alone moving the bulk of the population off the planet, would be astronomical and definitely impractical.

Consider the data:

1. Population: ~7.75 billion.

2. Deaths per year: ~60 million

3. Births per year: ~140 million

4. Annual population growth: ~80 million

Let's start with the idea of keeping the population the same, rather than moving 7 billion humans off the planet.

In order to move 80 million people just into orbit, let alone have some place for them to go would require that we launch (rockets? catapults? space elevators?) about 220,000 people, along with whatever cargo is required (we'll ignore the cargo here) every. single. day.

How many rockets/space elevator cars/catapult ships or whatever would we need just to move that 80 million off the planet?

Let's use space elevators (SE) here since we can (theoretically at least) make space elevator platforms arbitrarily large.

Let's say we use an SE car that can carry 1,000 people and can travel up the elevator at 1000 km/hour.

In order to just keep the population from growing, we'd need to launch 220 SE cars a day.

Unfortunately, a round trip to/from geostationary orbit[1] (yes, rockets/catapults could deliver payloads in much less time to low Earth orbit. But such payloads would likely be an order of magnitude less than a space elevator) at 1000 km/hour would take ~70 hours.

Which means we'd need ~650 SE cars in service at any given moment.

Loading and launching 220 SE cars a day would require enormous logistical effort:

We'd need to launch ~10 cars per hour (220 per day).

How can we load and launch 1000 people times 10 in an hour, every hour?

I suppose we could build ten space elevators, then each site could just load and launch one an hour. Which seems doable.

But where will people stay while waiting to board a car?

Just expending the resources to build (and maintain) the infrastructure for such an enterprise would be enormous. And without some serious energy (commercial fusion on a massive scale), just running these elevators would quite possibly dwarf the total power output of the planet.

And that's just to keep the population flat. Attempting to remove the bulk of Earth's population would require raw materials, manufacturing, construction and maintenance several orders of magnitude larger than the example above.

So no. We're not going to solve any population issues, let alone removing the bulk of the population, by sending folks off-world.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/births-and-deaths

[1] https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ty...
You don't encrypt your data before uploading to backblaze?
How would that look in your opinion?
What is interesting is that instead of TCP, HTTP/3 uses a new protocol, QUIC, developed by Google in 2012. QUIC runs over UDP, the User Datagram Protocol.
CIGNA expat policy worked for me.
Oh yes, what is 100% VH on mobile phones with these native sticky menúes on the bottom or top, some activated by swiping screen, they behave kinda like amp pages, but even worse imo.
California and Texas are the two most populous states. It’s not an exodus, just numbers.

I left Denver last summer after 7 years; honestly don’t miss it as much as I thought I would. Best of luck!
A promotion isn't always good. It comes with responsibilities and you might suddenly spend a lot more time at the company. And not all work is high reaching technical work, much of it is pure interpersonal shit, adhering to formal processes that drive you crazy and justifying yourself against your superiors.

If you like to face hard technical problems, don't rise too high...
Debt to GDP is the normal ration to watch

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/households-debt-t...

But I wonder if it is still a good measure as much of that new GDP is flowing to the 1%.
Planting trees isn't the problem. Trees can plant themselves pretty well already, just leave them space that you won't cut and plow every year.

My late grandpa had a small plot of land where he grew tomatoes and other vegetables. Since he died 12 years ago nobody does anything to that land cause he lived far from the rest of the family. It's a small forest now.

Not cutting trees for new farming land and leaving the space is the problematic part. And more kids is kinda at odds with this.

BTW what you're actually doing by planting a tree is burning carbon to move an already existing plant from one place to another.
In Europe the broker/agency usually takes a flat fee at the contract signature. It's not a recurring payment.
As someone who is always doing side projects or at least thinking about them I do wonder if for certain part of the population having more free time would also mean more creativity and a net improvement for all of society. I know I'm biased and it's wishful thinking but it could be true.
Nit: it's "bellwether". Nothing to do with the weather.
> workspaces are specifically _not_ intended to be used as environment replacements.

From Terraform's "An Overview of Our Recommended Workflow"[1]:

"The best approach is to use one workspace for each environment of a given infrastructure component. Or in other words, Terraform configurations * environments = workspaces."

So 1 workspace != 1 environment but workspaces are indeed intended to handle multiple environments.

I've personally struggled with managing multiple environments using Terraform so I'm interested in what the best practices are.

[1]: https://www.terraform.io/docs/cloud/guides/recommended-pract...
Haha oops! I forgot to link to https://talkjs.com/jobs in the ad, my bad.

Thanks for the heads-up! Best way forward is for you to find your favourite vacancy on that page and send us a mail as described. Thanks for your interest!
Only when having to write code manually do I fully appreciate the awesomeness of autocomplete.
The Rise of DAOs
Agree with everything you said, especially on the challenge of recommendations and feel this is where those designing the recommendation engines have at least the same moral responsibility as a bio-engineer doing gain of function research on viruses.

IMHO the core problem is the recommendation engines are optimizing the wrong metrics and this leads to destabilizing feedback loops.

The problem is likely AI complete, but it should be possible to tune recommendations so they don't create self strengthening conspiracy theories. I suspect a reinforcement learning environment that mimics users interacting with a recommender system would be the best way of tuning the larger system behavior so the longer term properties aren't catastrophic for society.

OTOH if the platform was setup so "good faith" arguments were somehow incentivized, there might not be any need to optimize for any other metric than engagement.
Right to repair would be massively improved by a full repeal of the DMCA. Tragically it will never happen.
I see you haven't been a victim of a shitty third party repair shop. Yet. I have stories to tell.

I don't mind us demanding Apple to be more flexible in authorizing and training third-party technicians, providing them with parts.

But I don't need every idiot to have a repair shop. I don't need this to be a "right". You still need to meet some minimum bar of competence in my book.
You're top 1% in the world working in a SF McDonald. You're in the top 1% in the US when you're about L7-8 in Google, according to https://www.investopedia.com/personal-finance/how-much-incom... and levels.fyi.
It's pretty clearly intentionally hobbled for various reasons (e.g. privacy, obscenity, etc). It used to work a lot better.