skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're getting dangerously close to suggesting that people should actually have agency in deciding which problems they care more about, and put their resources towards solving those problems. Surely the article couldn't be wrong; are you saying there are people other than a few wealthy easily demonized individuals who have priorities that society as a whole isn't paying attention to yet?

In all seriousness: yes, it ought to be sufficient to accept that different people have different utility functions, and that there are options other than "solve a problem collectively as a society" and "don't do anything about this problem at all". There needs to be a path to solve problems before those problems rise to broader attention.

For some reason, the article seems to be attempting to lump EA/x-risk/etc thinking together with those ignoring or downplaying climate-change. In practice, I've seen many folks who care about existential risks speaking very actively about needing to do something about climate change sooner rather than later.
The public persona is that he's good at engineering.

When in actuality, all of these stories seem to indicate that he's incompetent at it. People were willing to put up with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates (other egotistical jackasses) because they made good engineering decisions.

But Elon Musk's decisions are "Lets have an automated factory line, and I'm planning the factory will only have 30,000 workers". Then suddenly 40,000 need to be hired instead (because there's no automation technology to do the things he wanted), and now his financials are a mess and he has to build a Tent in the parking lot to house all of the extra production lines. And now people wonder why their Model 3 / Model Y have paint issues or other quality-control defects (Wompy Wheels)
This article just attempts to discredit the idea of longtermism by ridiculing it, instead of presenting any actual counterarguments. It just writes about the implications of its strawman over and over in a sardonic tone. The only thing it wants to get across is “some rich people and philosophy weirdos like this idea, therefore it is bad”.

Where are the actual counter-arguments in the article?

I suppose it relies on the readers already agreeing with the author that these conclusions are appalling. It works in that case. It doesn’t do much for the reader otherwise.
Also CDN providers will hopefully have good pearing. My company uses OpenVPN TCP on port 443 for maximum compatibility. When around the globe the VPN is pretty slow, so I proxy the tcp connection via a cheap VPS, and speed goes from maybe 500kbit/s to 10Mbit/s, just because the VPS provider pearing is way better than my company "business internet". (The VPS is in the same country as the VPN server).
> Notably, this is not a situation where the business and risk personnel engaged in fraudulent or illegal conduct or acted with ill intent. Nor is it one where the architecture of risk controls and processes was lacking or the existing risk systems failed to operate sufficiently to identify critical risks and related concerns. The Archegos risks were identified and were conspicuous. The persistent failure of he business and risk to manage and remediate the risks, and pervasive issues of business competence and resourcing adequacy, described in detail in this Report, require CS’s urgent attention.

wow. this reads like 'culprits have been found and let go with their bonus packages'.
What’s magically?

I was under the impression that fly.io today (though they are working on it) doesn’t do anything unique to make hosting elixir/Phoenix app easier.

See this comment by the fly.io team.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27704852
An alternative, more direct route for spreading misinformation:

1) Be infamous

2) Have a Twitter account

3) Lie
For anyone interested in these - their consumer chargers are here:

https://www.myinnergie.com/us

Unfortunately, their "buy now" button links to Amazon; I don't trust Amazon not to sell me a counterfeit that will burn my house down.
I’ve primarily listened to him interviewed and while he uses big words there, it doesn’t seem as much as in his writing. And he seems to me, in these interviews, as surprisingly normal considering everything.
>Inflation is also the reason that half of Americans don't have savings. What little is earned buys less each year.

Wages grow more than prices rise. It would be a better outcome for lower income ranges.
Isn’t this a bit similar to FAANG?
Here [1] is a 2016 video [12:22] summary of the attempts by Hillary Clinton trying to start a war with Russia and Iran, in her own words, on camera.

[1] Hillary Clinton Is A Threat To All Of Humanity
https://www.corbettreport.com/hillary-clinton-is-a-threat-to...
AlphaFold2: Are attention and symmetries all you need? [pdf]
I am thinking if this will open up the possibilities of having more Mac in Enterprise since they will all be running Windows 365? ( It used to be one of my dream to see Mac as revenge on PC, but that is no longer the case given how Apple has acted lately )

There are around 750M PC in business sector, and I would not be surprised if around half of those are "enterprise". That is ~300M market. Or would those goes to Chromebook?

Many of these big Enterprise hate CapEx with a passion and loves OpEx. ( I assume there are additional benefits in accounting as well ). This Windows as a Services is also something Microsoft has been looking forward to for decades. I remember there were already talks about Windows as Services in Windows 2000 era. Although the Windows 365 isn't anything similar to what they had visioned, the end result of a monthly payment is still the same.

I am also wondering if this opens up enough incentive for Windows on ARM, where Microsoft finally owns the whole stack on windows 365 and can do better testing and optimisation for further cost saving. Although the CPU cost in TCO is still relatively small.
Because it's equivalent to reading text off the surface of a light bulb all day. Why would you want to do that?
Sparse Array Beamforming with a Phase Coherent 21-Channel RTL-SDR Array
I'm right-handed, but top left corner of the keyboard would also be better than where it is now, to me at least. I keep my laptop to the left of my keyboard and monitor when I'm docked (like I am now) and reaching with my left hand to the corner of the Macbook keyboard is also pretty natural.

> There are no position they could pick that will make everyone happy.

Seems that way!
The original title mentions with Apple silicon. Wish that was here, since many only read the titles and easy to miss that this only works with new M1 Macs.
> Also, in my experience Korea was way more ready to handle English speakers than Japan was.

In Seoul yes, but not necessarily other places, in my experience. I had really confusing experience trying to sleep over in a spa in Busan. The only English phrase we got out of them was "Robot steal your phone". Admittedly this is not a place tourists would generally go though. We got recommended doing it by Korean friends and our hostel host in Seoul helped us find the place.

In Japan I experienced a few times that a Japanese person that could speak english would come over to help me if I was staring at something (map, ATM machine) in confusion for a while. Didn't experience that in South Korea even though I stayed there longer.

I agree that South Korea feels extremely modern.. but not much less than Japan. I wonder if it has something to do with how recently the infrastructure was built. Maybe South Korea is just at that perfect stage now where nothing is too old, and yet they've managed to improve/refurbish almost everything. I've noticed Taiwan is a mixed bag. Some places feels insanely modern, while there's still big areas with a lot of old construction. But then those areas tends to be the ones with the most charm and the best night markets.
It's definitely user related. My Apple cables last indefinitely—unless my wife gets ahold of them. Then? Look out.

I'm just careful not to twist them or sharply bend them. If I pack them I usually just very-loosely wad them up and put them in a not-too-full part of a bag. That's the extent of my "care".

[EDIT] However! This does not mean Apple shouldn't make their cables better so they survive whatever people are doing to them to wreck them, since it's evidently very common.
Musk said he was going to automate the factory and he is going to automate the factory, no matter what.

Musk is a visionary, he lives in the future. For him the future is as real as the present, and has a clear pathway for it. He is going to make mistakes and some pathways are impossible to transit, but the goal remains the same and he will find a new way to go there. No matter if it takes five years and it is not possible now, but he will do it.

Field is a different kind of person. Things are the way they are, if nobody has done something before, it is impossible. For him not being able to automate things at first is a proof that he is right and Musk is wrong and things are impossible to automate further, forever.

Obviously both personalities are going to clash, only one can prevail. It happens in every single company out there. If two co founders have different values and ideas of what the company should do, there is a clash.

Being the most shorted company in Human history, there has always been a huge economic interest in portraying Musk badly and making shares go down.

If what the article says is the most serious thing they could find, I don't see the problems.

I have worked in the industry as an engineer in Europe and we had way more serious problems every single week.
Well, IT pushes a lot for this crap so i feel no remorse.
MS knows who to bribe to eat the market. IT does not help by promoting MS products.
Is there a way to hack this thing?
There you go. I haven't missed the fingerprint sensor after the Apple Watch, since the laptop sits most of the time in clamshell configuration.

Pricey button, but it has other uses.
> even though an entire culture can technically be transmitted memetically, that's practically not the case except in cases of early childhood adoption.

The excellent blog ACOUP has just had a five-part series, "The Queen's Latin", in part describing mass cultural transmission from Rome to various ethnic groups in Europe. TLDR: it helps to have a culture that readily accommodates different religions and other regional variations.

Cultures are not fixed for all time; they change all the time.
The way you describe and the way this process actually works, in my experience, are two different things.

I'll take the "reason I only buy razor blades online" as an example. I knew my Gillette was really dull and that I'd been out for going on a week, but kept forgetting to pick some up until I stopped at Walgreen's on the way home. I went to the aisle with the blades and was met with a card, instead of a set of blades. I took said card to the register. Walgreens is so slow; I swear the operate on one employee except when the Pharmacy is open. I get to the front, have the card and a now-annoyed cashier.

Three people behind me, she gets on the speaker and calls for assistance, has me step aside and starts ringing up the person behind me. Three people go through the register when Mr. Break comes up to the front to retrieve my item. He grabs the card, looks dubiously at it, says something quiet to the cashier and disappears. Two more customers later, he's back.

"We're out of this one."

"There were several cards there."

"We're supposed to get more in, today."

So I left. About a week later I remembered to order a few hundred dollars' worth online.

In defense of your post, I've seen it work. Except this last holiday season -- mostly due to the restrictions placed on them by the state I live in -- my local Microcenter usually handles this well. If I've happened upon a sales-person, the item I want is taken to the front/locked up before I get there so at least when I'm checking out, I'm not also waiting on someone to find the thing[0].

[0] That ... on one occasion ... ended up being purchased by someone else since I was visiting the store with my boss from out of town and we ended up spending a solid 5 hours there one afternoon.
Many facts that cannot be proven or documented are most likely fabricated to fit in a biography that sounds too artificial to be real.
It's not a static multiplier; I thought I was clear that it's very much a context-sensitive multiplier, which depends on risk tolerance (which you get, straightforwardly, from how far you integrate the tail of the distribution).
if you think missing self-imposed deadlines is "many lies"
I can't help but wonder why, now, someone has chosen to highlight what is still far too small a movement and treat it as though it were a dangerous threat, and then demonize it by associating it with a few of its wealthier proponents.

Things like Effective Altruism and looking at existential risk are hardly drawing a substantial amount of attention right now; they should be, but they could get ten times the attention and funding and still only have a miniscule fraction of the people and funding going towards more popular causes.

And the set of people who think climate change isn't an important problem has almost no overlap with anyone thinking about existential risk. At most, I've seen a very small number of people suggesting that there are other high-risk issues that also deserve attention and aren't getting it.
This is smart. I left GS right around the time they were starting such an (similar?) initiative. It also makes employees more fungible, on average, which is nice.
Is it? The fundamental reason the war on drugs failed is that drugs have relatively inelastic demand. Someone addicted to meth will find a way to get meth if it costs $10 or $500. Software exploits aren't like that at all. They are a tool used by gangs and governments that are only useful if they cost less than they're worth.
How so? Those did not require forced vaccinations.
You're right it does seem like a small thing to pick on in this context.

I think it stood out to me because like you said it's not a common term. It gets used in specific communities and areas (academia) but it's a term that the group it is describing doesn't actually use, it's an outgroup indicator, and it's more negative than similar terms like poc, bipoc. It's a culture war signal, even when not intended.

Do I care about it? Not really, but it is a really small thing that would go a long ways towards inclusion as weird as that sounds.
MS, which advanced UI more than anyone else in the '90s, is now out wandering in the weeds.

Sad.
Technically if you are willing to go overkill you could potentially use huge passive radiators but that would probably be a bit of a niche application.
I'm using the cable that came with my 6s on my 12. There was an intermediate XR as well.

The only unarguable thing is the disparity between what we're doing.
You could live in the same real estate 10 years ago, when its price was 3 times lower. So 1/3 of real estate price comes from utility, and 2/3 is pure fiction. More precisely, 2/3 of real estate price represents its utility as a storage of wealth.
Three Chinese Threat Actors Targeting Major Telcos
Matt Levine did a pretty good writeup on this: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-07-29/archeg...
> and its stark contrast with his public persona

Isn't that just... human?

Do you "act" like shit in public? Don't most of us put on a show in public (social media, etc)?
There are also plenty of people with relatively calm demeanors that achieved similar success leading companies. Google's founders, Buffett, etc.
If you need millisecond accuracy then you definitely don't want UT and so you'd want to avoid leapseconds, not add "leap milliseconds".

TAI is very smooth. TAI gives the sort of predictable monotonic clock you might appreciate if you care about milliseconds. One second after another, with a perfect 1000 milliseconds between them, forever.

UT is based on a large rock (the planet Earth) spinning. It varies a bunch 'cos the rock is a weird shape and is seismically active so it spins differently over time. If you care about "millisecond accuracy" then you do not want to base that on the spinning of a big rock when you can get a perfectly nice atomic clock and use TAI.

If your thought is "But I need millisecond accuracy for my astronomical observations" what you've got there is a big misunderstanding of your context. While UT might seem convenient for figuring out where and when to point telescopes at thing, it's useless for actual time. You need TAI.
I do not expect this to be a popular opinion, but I am slightly entertained reading this from more of a Marxist perspective.

> We used to make things. Now we have meetings.

Well, of course. This is what happens when the purpose of a corporation isn't production but profit, and if the workers, the people who by definition exist in the company to make things, were to own their means of production, this would look very differently. But anyway, I digress.
At this point, seeing the TrustArc dialogue evokes a visceral urge to exit whatever page I'm on ASAP. I can't believe they're able to get away with this kind of behaviour.
Oh yes exactly - my ex wife could fuck up a cable or some earpods in about 3 months. I lost count of the amount of earpods that went down the toilet.
I read his tweets. He posts memes and technical stuff (Tesla, SpaceX news). Most of his tweets about crypto are uninformed. You've got to cherry-pick to find actual lies
They make at least 200 million of those a year and they can use the same design easily for 5 years. 1 billion devices. 1 cent per device would allow them to spend 10 million on the development.

Development cost is neglible for this kind of stuff.
Depends on which stage of drowning they are in. If they've just fallen in, they might still be flailing away. If they've been flailing for a minute already, then, yeah, thy might be tired. Plus, it's hard to shout when your lungs are full of water. I can't do it with a mouthful of water let alone lungs. My ventriloquist dummy on the other hand won't shut up while I'm drinking water.
> That's one conclusion. Could also be your attitude / way you expressed your opinion too. ;)

Maybe, but I'm generally not a jerk around here, I just really don't like this design and expressed it. It really does hit me as shockingly bad. Like "why did they do that?" bad. That others like it as much as I hate it is a real surprise to me, but that's life.
So, GPS involves a few things: precise clocks that can be used to triangulate position; a model of where the satellites containing the clocks are in space; and a model of where the earth is in space.

UTC has basically the same inputs (the clocks are on the surface instead of in orbit, but one of the main time labs [NIST] is in Colorado and its altitude needs to be taken into account), but the calculations and logistics, the timebase of the model, are all very different.

So you can’t derive UTC from the GPS ephemeris, because there’s a human in the loop who decides when leap seconds happen. So GPS needs to include UTC as a separate signal, alongside the ephemeris and everything else.

(In fact, if I remember correctly, GPS includes nanosecond-level corrections between GPS time and UTC, because atomic clocks are not completely perfect.)
Certainly. My point was more that the basics are pretty readily covered in intro electronics courses. Heck, throw in a low pass filter or two and you end up with a lot of the same required knowledge to make a switching power supply.

I agree you won't be able to make an apple quality device, it'd just be enough info to understand how one is working (Without taking into account things like line noise impact on wiring).
Well, I exist to entertain the haters. I'm glad you find it astounding. It makes my day!
> If your services are servicing typical user requests, and expect responses in O(<1s), then eventing architectures are exactly the opposite of what you want. Using message brokers (Kafka) as an ersatz network layer is the path to sadness -- you want backpressure, RPC semantics, etc.

Correct. Most cases you need to see what the current stored state is. Processing can happen in the background and update that state without being requested.

I'm assuming that you're architecture your system as having an ingest service that brings everything into the topic, multiple apps that'll refine/enhance, the data, and then an app that sends it out to a more permanent storage. Your service endpoint should look at the premant storage to make a response. (Or read and post out updates via a websocket if you want frequent updates to an existing page)

Kafka is not a network technology.
For me I can restore it in my blog. At the beginning of 2019 a first article about how Amazon might not be the best option to buy everything anymore, citing the bad quality of user reviews, the potential problem with fakes and the subpar experience with the website (specifically: The search evidently being skewed towards sponsored and not towards good offers, and missing filters to find products by their properties). Then summer 2019 a report on a disastrous support experience (in a case that included a received obvious fake) and the decision to not buy there anymore.

That was very fast, in retrospective. I liked Amazon quite a bit before that, the early 2019 articles even clearly reads like that. No criticism before that. Instead a few positive support experiences.

But that's just me, and not necessarily a US perspective. The fake problem for example I thought to be more prominent outside of Europe. On the other hand, that amazon seemed to fight against unions had been reported here before, to boycott the site because of that was a fairly common position.

Also, I wonder how it would have been if I had been more invested into the ecosystem - there is no Kindle in my home, no Echo, and I started to buy there relatively late. Though a site of mine used their affiliate marketing program even back in 2011...
Sandy Munro, by now, is a Tesla shill who can't be taken seriously. Andrej works at Tesla and understandably says nothing bad about his boss.

If I thought my boss was technically clueless and needed to say something nice about him, I would probably phrase it the same way:
"He's obviously a pretty incredible person in many ways. I'm still trying to really map out his superpowers. He has incredibly well developed intuition in many aspects where he makes the right judgement calls in what I perceive to be a lack of information. Because he's not in detail about all the things but his judgement is extremely good. I still haven't fully understood how that happens."
Some of the things they miss in the post are Cloudflare uses a customised version or Nginx, same with Fastly for Varnish
(don't know about Netlify and ATS)

Out of the box nginx doesn't support HTTP/2 prioritisation so building a CDN with nginx doesn’t mean you're going ti be delivering as good service as Cloudflare

Another major challenge with CDNs is peering and private backhaul, if you're not pushing major traffic then your customers aren't going to get the best peering with other carriers / ISPs…
Only difference would be, that in current company it is more easy to get an understanding if new project management sucks.

> People hire at companies, bbut leave their boss.

In my anecdata thus rings true.
I think Libreoffice Calc supports python integration. Maybe that way one could have the best of both worlds. Unfortunately I suppose most users are stuck in the MS garden.
Strictly if they aren't pro-actively paying competitively, they either won't honestly match and or if they belatedly do, you shouldn't trust them because they will repeat it again.

This isn't just for programmers or engineers - it's any job.