skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fundamental thing that is promised by fiat money is the ability to pay your taxes with it. The government issues money, and levies taxes, and the money is used to pay the taxes. It turns out to be really convenient for everyone else to use this same money, but it doesn't really matter what everyone else uses as long as it can be converted to the fiat money (so you can pay your taxes).
That's like paying say £2.50 for the fried eggs, and £6.25 for the omelette today.

That seems fine to me? I'd probably expect some toast with the eggs too.

(The steak in the middle does seem more of an outlier, but you called out the omelette so am I. :))
Even more motivation to give it a shot! Certainly you can’t do any worse ;)
Companies with shitty media algorithms designed to maximize ad revenues while keeping consumer hooked on their platform through content curated to exploit their tendencies and vulnerabilities.
No worries at all. I agree that in most of Europe, cars are to be avoided considering density and robust existing connectivity. With that said, it makes sense to consider the New Future when making capex plans.
And it doesn't seem like it'd be easy to get netlify to fix this type of behavior unfortunately: https://answers.netlify.com/t/add-unpacked-content-length-he...
what specifically is happening? I use Facebook a lot in a "container" in firefox without any issues. The only one I have noticed is when I scroll way way way way down the feed it kind of starts chugging in a way that chrome doesn't. That's the only fail that I've seen.
"Progress" is a Western myth. Perhaps "progress" is The Western Myth. Things simply change.

TIL from my Classical Archaeology professor.
A weekend is 10 days, right? (I'll show myself out...)
I feel these sorts of arguments are just excuses to be inefficient.

In many office kitchens, I see so many people using the hot water to wash when the cold would suffice. Using massive amounts of washing liquid when you only need a little. Keeping the faucet on while they scrub their dishes.

And depending on your household situation, you can do dishes for a family of 4 in under 30 mins. Cleaning a single plate during the day takes seconds. Or even just learn to pack your dishwasher properly. Let’s not pretend that doing a few menial tasks everyday is what’s stopping you from being that extra bit more efficient.
That’s funny! I was just talking to my wife about how I was frustrated that they don’t combine shipments here as I stared at 4 stupid Amazon envelopes on my porch! How can Amazon be so different from fulfillment center to fulfillment center!
For those new to the comma.ai strategy:

Autopilot is iOS. Openpilot is Android.

Far more devices running Android than iOS in the world. And unlike consumer tech, the average car on the road is over 12 years old.

So there's a long window of opportunity where we might see more people choose to upgrade their current vehicles to self-driving, versus those choosing to buy new vehicles with inbuilt self-driving hardware.
Calling Alex Berenson a "science writer" is like calling Alex Jones a journalist.
I think your graph is a good illustration of the loss of productivity. Compare the gains between 1900 and 1920 and 2000 and 2020. The earlier period saw an 11% gain in life expectancy, compared to a 2% gain in the latter period. Just looking at the line in your graph you can tell progress is slowing down.

Why did we make more progress before and less later? We have better tools, computers, and software. We have more people, both in the US and coming in from worldwide along with a greater portion of the population being college educated and free to work on scientific and engineering problems. We have better developed theories of biological, chemical, and physical systems. And yet, when we knew very little, had little resources, and few people working on the problem - we made huge strides. Now, not so much.

Maybe this issue is that we've already plucked the low hanging fruit. That doesn't seem quite right to me though. Even if we have, we should be equipped, via the advantages I referenced earlier, to pick higher fruits.
That’s all well and good but it assumes studies get published independent of their results, even if they fly in the face of established fact. In reality, hundreds of thousands of studies are conducted, the author realizes they screwed up immensely and will be laughed out of the room if they publish saying they found, say, seeing a zebra once in your life is enough to account for dying twenty years younger on average, or that lead exposure is actually good for you, and won’t publish the study. This’ll even happen mid-study once discouraging results are found. That self-censorship/sanity checking is probably more than enough to account for the statistical “anomaly” you are observing, no?
I like this the most, but you can also generate things, which isn’t implied by optimization strongly.
This is the problem with the GDPR - we are ALREADY flooded with the damn cookie walls, now we are going to have to click through another 20 separate screens? It's ridiculous.

It's crazy being a generally big govt / left supporter - this is the absolute crap that gives govt / the left a bad name. 95% of people DO NOT CARE about their cookies etc and are annoyed by this endless crap.
That's a good point, but amount of training data these neural networks take doesn't seem compatible to me.

If I read all day everyday from the moment I was born until now, I couldn't have read 45 terabytes of text.
We are paying for the incredible bamboozle that is the phrase "Machine Learning." If we used computerized statistical inference instead and the phrase "machine learning" did not exist the attitude to people from investors to regulators, from customers, vendors, doom sayers and boosters alike would be vastly better taken as whole.

Nearly everyone here knows mostly when seeing AI written or hearing it that it's a total crock. Nearly everyone here knows ML is applied statistics done with a computer but this not common knowledge and it really should be.
> Really, it’s the same sort of problem that is described in The Goal and The Phoenix Project, but on a personal level.

Can you say more about this?
In the USA, “inner-city” is where the “slums” are, but in many places around the world, it’s the opposite. For example, France is famous for having undesirable suburbs and safer/cleaner/richer “inner city.”
No, the real name for this is corruption. There are several ways for the government to create jobs without relying on the war industry. And this without talking about the forever war mongering caused by this war industry lobby, that has costed millions of innocent lives around the world.
I like lemon.io's blog, but I haven't used them so take my reco with a pillar of salt. I get his newsletter and he seems like a swell fellow. I'd hire him myself if I had the fundage....
Me and my friends are very consistently called racists for supporting eliminating the test. Not specifically against south and east asians. TFA is doing the same thing, insisting that any analysis of racial equity is a priori racist.

"Achievement" is also not the same as "did well on the test". It remains to be seen whether the new class will "achieve" at the same rate as prior classes. I don't think that everybody would agree that the new policy does decrease opportunity for "higher achieving groups".
Part of the reason for this is that US military is shifting focus from the Persian Gulf where littoral combat was a thing, to great power competition in more open waters, both Atlantic and Pacific.

Even if these ships performed as promised, there's a reasonable chance they'd still be cancelled as the force structure changes.

Also, the US Air Force has been experimenting with digital design, where they not only use CAD and similar tools to design the aircraft, but also the entire manufacturing process [1][2]. i wonder if the Navy can adopt that methodology for ships and subs too.

[1]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24491337

[2]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24505184
> and blast a load of spray paint at their face

To borrow a phrase from infosec: that is not the threat model. In other words, this is not what people in a school/workplace/etc are subjected to from other sneezers, which is where these plexiglass barriers are being installed. As such it is protecting against a non-threat.
Generally they combine them the same as if you'd ordered together.

Conversely a single order can be split into separate shipments.

Amazon already figures out how to get orders to you most efficiently. If it can pack items together because they're in the same warehouse, it will. If items are necessarily coming from different locations it won't.

(And if you opt for slower shipping it will sometimes be able to combine items it wouldn't otherwise.)
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I would guess the BBC would have/will argue(d) that the locals speak with an accent, and that their way to say it is received pronunciation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation)
But you're only getting two out of three.

The US is falling behind in military tech designed to fight a Cold War. There doesn't seem to be widespread understanding that WWIII is an info/cyber-war, the primary ops are covert and subversive, and Russia and China already have dangerous levels of access to civilian, military, and political infrastructure.

Even if that wasn't true, Russia and China have both been modernising their civil defense and weapons systems. The US has been packing pork into barrels with limited effect. There are some world-leading R&D projects, but not so much in the way of effective weapons systems.

I am honestly concerned that there is unrealistic complacency about the state of readiness, and there's a non-negligible prospect of an attack on (say) Taiwan happening at the same time as some kind of cyber Pearl Harbor event at home.
Careful not to conflate this with management.

Even individual engineers will get tasked with solving problems, start to finish. And even if not, you were part of a team that did it. Talk about the process of how you contributed to some meaningful unit of work.

I don’t care about what tools you know. I can teach everyone how to program. Everyone. Programming is really not hard.

I can’t teach everyone how to be an adept problem solver or how to work in a team (in any role) to actually ship things reasonably bug free and on time. I can’t teach everyone how to work in harmony with others. I can’t teach everyone how to gracefully handle all the business realities that throw wrenches into software purity.

To add a bit: what I’m trying frantically to figure out in the hiring process is if you’re an asshole or not. I can’t fix that. If you don’t know some language or tool, that doesn’t even register as a problem to me. But if you seem stubborn and too opinionated, especially on trivial things, I don’t care if you’re a programming wizard.
2 eggs is indeed a small omelette. Cooking for myself I'd usually have 3 (large) eggs, and probably a slice of toast. I realise that's pretty meaningless without putting a face (/body) to the comment, but I don't think that's unusual/a lot at all.

I mean if you imagine putting one fried egg on another, a two egg omelette's going to be smaller than that (losing some to the fold).
This reminds me of Simpson's Paradox in the sense that it may be true that life is better for a single mother because modern appliances make life easier but it is also true that society has greatly increased the number of single mothers. In 1980 18% of births were to single mothers compared to 40% in 2020[1].

It's possible that the amount of single mother suffering has increased even though the suffering per single mother may have decreased. (No change, I expect, in the children's suffering)

1 - https://www.statista.com/statistics/276025/us-percentage-of-...
How the Tyrannosaurs Ruled the World with David Hone (55min)

https://youtu.be/f-jD7kQvyPs
You must be kidding. Viacom is one of the world's largest entertainment companies.
There’s no real evidence to believe that the difference between COVID-19 and other coronaviruses is anything other than a matter of magnitude/degrees (more infectious, more lethal, more resistant) rather than “super mysterious disease with never-before-seen implications.” There is a huge incentive to try to find and publish studies suggesting otherwise, but take them with considerable skepticism.
4chan and it's black sheep twin 8chan aren't really very important in the grand scheme of browser wars I would warrant.
I left my job recently, which has allowed me to launch and work on Plotapi (https://plotapi.com) full-time.

I was spending 16+ hours a day on the project up until the launch. I organised myself with a local Gitea (https://gitea.com) installation and creating issues that I assigned to myself. I started off using Kanban within Gitea too, but as it was just me, I ended up preferring to use issues directly. Each day was focussed on making progress on the current issue!

I only launched Plotapi 3 days ago, so time will tell how I end up planning the days/weeks!
Where I’m from spread betting and CFDs have been fairly big for decades and options fall into that - strikingly similar to Robinhood in how they’re used.

RH style option trading has obviously gotten a lot of press because of its popularity but away from that investors have been using the buy-write strategy for decades and the options strategy etfs are a big business too.
A highly subjective view that could be expanded to any number of mainstream and fringe media outlets.
I think for the examples of skills you mentioned, taking notes would be key. Use one of the tag-based or tree-based note-taking search-friendly apps that often gets mentioned in HN. The act of organizing your thoughts and information in order to take notes would help internalize that skill. In all likelihood you might never look at your notes again, except once or twice, and that's fine - it was worth it from the beginning.

You could even write blog posts about these things you are learning, that would go a step deeper into helping you internalize these skills.
> Sure the market will probably eventually sort it out, but that seems neither a quick nor an efficient way of doing things in this case, where this was widely predicted years previous + is now critically required

Isn’t the whole idea behind the benefit a free/freeish market provides that it is the most efficient system for allocating resources?

Mind you efficient != resilient
Yea given Netflix accounts for a double digit percentage of internet traffic the 90% figure is dubious.
The article's statement is completely wrong because you, in your own self-perception, deviate from a demographic observation? Honestly your post gives me the impression the article is right.

Also as a side-note, while Marx diagnosis of capitalism is controversial, a lot of Communists were actual admirers of entrepreneurs, Stalin used to describe the essence of Leninism as "the combination of the Russian revolutionary sweep with American efficiency"
very little of it is actual weapons thar sboot at people. most is detterence, and thr actual killing things are cheap like drones.
Yes I’m talking international. The impact varies depending on land use, so the forestry piece is vastly different depending on where you look.

https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/wood-products#.VxfvaJMrJZ1

On paper recycling:

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-00624-z

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2020/oct/paper-recycling-must-be-...
Never (definitively) ascribe to (high-level) malice what can credibly be ascribed to (low-level) incompetence. Words risk analysts live by every day.
For anyone looking for the "why" in this thread, here it is ^.

These ships are useful, but only during _acutal_ combat. For force projection, not so much.
Unfortunately fixed price contracts don't work for new cutting edge defense systems. No major defense contractor would ever take on that level of risk so there would be zero bids. Fixed price contracts only become practical after the R&D work is complete.

But you're right that concurrency has largely been a failure.
I personally use Vi(m?) mode in a JetBrains IDE and I consider it to be the best of both worlds.
0b10 is the best 10
Tesla Megapack caught on fire at giant battery project in Australia
Why doesn't the absence of "lead is good" data simply mean that your model is flawed?
Not all lies are conspiracy theories. And not all conspiracy theories are lies.

It wasn't too long ago that mentioning a lab leak got you the boot.
I come away from from this article with two thoughts.

1) Regarding the example of qualitative data via drunk students attending eye-licking parties. The author doesn't explain how this is qualitative. To my mind it's a gap in the model. The modelers could have included parameters to account for students behaving impulsively or irrationally, but they didn't.

2) Considering the nebulous nature of terms like consciousness and comprehension and the ensuing challenges of measurement, can it be proven that the structures that can potentially underpin behavior, etc., that would generally be recognized as conscious or comprehending do not exist as an emergent but undetected property of the Internet? Is it reasonable to suppose that if such a structure existed and if it possessed or embodied consciousness or comprehension that it might work toward remaining unknown?
They mean the media companies who actually product content. The users (and the media companies the OP refers to) are the ones who do that on the platforms that you mentioned.
> For the consumer devices, cheap = disposable, as opposed to consumer devices you bought and could use for decades.

How nicely should a consumer device be made? I feel like technological improvements make the device obsolete and disposable, so making the build quality higher just artificially slows down iteration time. (Why will 5G be widely adopted? Because eventually everyone will drop their 4G phone down the stairs or the battery will be uneconomical to replace.)

If you go back and look at old appliances, they basically have no value despite being well built. They don't solve the problem they were designed to solve anymore. A shitty laptop from Amazon is a whole different piece of technology compared to a hand-crafted Apple 1 from 1976, enabling you to do things that people wouldn't have even dreamed of when the Apple 1 came out. So making it "survive the test of time" is futile -- that computer isn't garbage because it was put together sloppily, it's garbage because technology advanced past it. (Probably a bad example, I think the Apple 1 was just a circuit board cobbled together in a garage.)

I feel like even consumer appliances have changed. Clothes washers use significantly less water. Stoves use precise electronic control instead of burning flammable gas that gets piped into your home. TVs display content on-demand, with 8.3 million individually-colored pixels and 6 channels of sound. Computers connect to a library where you can read pretty much any book ever written, right in your home. Technology changes so people discard their old devices and replace them with new ones. It's not just some scam to make companies that can't innovate some cheap money. Everything has a lifetime, and sometimes it's shorter than the lifetime of the physical materials that the device is built from.

Maybe you don't need any of that, and just want to read novels from the 1950s with your dog in a log cabin. That's totally legit, but where you think people excited about 4k TVs are weird, they probably think you're weird.

Honestly, I think phones are something people hate the most for being a little too breakable, but thinking about it more deeply, I think the right tradeoffs were made. They last as long as they need to on average. 10 years ago, the technology (hardware, software, connectivity, design, everything) was immature. So they broke more and cost less, because you were going to need to upgrade. Now we have $1200 phones, and they are a little nicer, and the technology isn't changing enough to make them obsolete every 6 months. This all sounds about right to me. I have a $1000 phone and thoughts about upgrading it haven't crossed my mind in the ~3 years I've had it. That is very different from the phones I had before that, where I felt like they were compromises on the day they came out. (And hey, I only paid $300 for them.)

TL;DR: maybe everything isn't awful all the time.
The replication crisis suggests to me that we'd probably benefit from lots of repeated work.
That's not even close to the main reason. Chrome has a much much higher share of the market. So much so that web developers can basically ignore firefox users without much uproar. They can justify their lack of testing in firefox as a budgetary trade off.
I remember 39 cent cheeseburgers one day a week (maybe Wednesday?) and 29 cent hamburgers another (Sunday) during the 90s.
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Govt spending creates inflation which is a tax on everyone. Sometimes its obvious, like Quantirative Easing, and sometimes it's subtle, like wasting human labor and natural resources on worthless stuff/activity instead of value creation.
Formal taxation just redistributes the pain.
You might want to consider seeing if there is any work on using the skill your username claims to have to help with knowledge acquisition and retention, by the way.
I suppose that's better than 2 political parties controlling 99% of Congress.
This is a broken windows fallacy that is often repeated on reddit and HN. It makes about as much sense as all of us buying solar panels and leaving our refrigerators open all day.
Should we be concerned about them using their media properties to push narratives designed to consolidate their influence, or ask whether some of the things we believe might be artifacts of that influence, or maybe what the sources and motives of those narratives might be?

Kidding. This isn't the 90's. The only people who worry about an axis of collaboration between corporations and government to create a surveillance distopia are conspiracy theorists pushing misinformation now. Plus, big tech is finally being responsible and working on the right side of history, so we can all get aligned on fighting climate change, and finally force the assholes to pay everyone back for their empty status symbols like all the air they polluted with their SUVs, unpaid emotional labor, meat, and tax breaks they took from us, and finally give it to people who deserve it. We can even replace small thinking regional governments with better international collaboration and cooperation so that everyone will be equal no matter where they live, and we can end the privileged western lifestyle once and for all.

Kidding, not kidding. We should really look at what these companies are pushing.
Brad Stone's newest book about Amazon goes into it. In short, Bezos hired leadership poorly. Those hires led to a culture akin to a legacy rocket company like ULA.

You know the meme about devs going to Google to rest and vest? That's the reputation Blue Origin has in the space industry according to Stone.
There's another way to frame that argument. The spike in window repairs and glass demand will incentivize glass factories to invest in technological advancements to make cheaper and better glass. Investments they would not have made otherwise because there wasn't enough demand to spread the fixed investment cost across and make it profitable. After all the windows are repaired, the glass factories still retain their capital investment and technical knowledge, are producing glass cheaper than before, out-competing their counterparts abroad, and maintaining a global technological lead in glass production.

Bastiat's parable doesn't account for the sticky effects of capital investment. The glass makers in his stories only replace windows with old techniques and never use the spike in demand as an opportunity for technological development.
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