skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just anecdata, but I've been using Mac laptops since the mid 90s, have never bought AppleCare, and have never regretted that. I've never had an out of warranty repair. On a couple I have replaced the battery myself after several years, at a cost much lower than what AppleCare would have been on that one machine. Yes, it's possible that some day I will end up with a lemon that needs a ton of work. But I think that over 20 years of savings on not buying AppleCare more than covers it (I would have bought a new machine before sinking in anywhere near $10k in repairs).
Even if it is right, it is still predicated on a massive "critical mass" of knowledge and insight about reality that such an AI would have to spend a long time accumulating. It also doesn't propose solutions to performance scaling limitations.
> I think you know on its face that’s not even remotely equivalent to what we’re talking about here

I did not know. The phrase "complete control over monetary policy" has a very specific meaning and I stand by my response as a counterexample to that meaning.

And I don't think this is an unreasonable misunderstanding! People do worry about Bitcoin w.r.t monetary policy, a future of "hyperbitcoinization" where the world runs off a deflationary currency seems undesirable, to say the least.

If that is not what you intended then even given your clarification here I'm still not sure what you meant to say with that phrase.
He had good production for a free podcast, and managed to interview interesting subject experts on trending undercurrent of various online communities, and he did so at a time where podcast were taking off, and people already knew his name.

It's that simple I think.
It might prove to be bad too. There have been adverse reactions to the vaccine. Is that likely to happen to me? Probably less likely than a person chosen at random given prior exposure to the virus, but why risk it?

My Covid experience was not life threatening, but it was no walk in the park either. I've had more than enough of that crap in my body, thank you very much. (Yes, I understand the difference between the virus and the vaccine, in fact that's why the real deal is thought to offer better immunity.)

There really is no argument in favor of getting it at this time, just peoples cognitive bias.
That's the way it reads, but my guess is it would fall under the discovery rule, maybe not but if not it seems crazy.

https://statelaws.findlaw.com/colorado-law/colorado-civil-st...
You don't think the agents that arrested Al Capone for tax fraud were armed?
Often, especially common in politics, these sums are also "up to" caps on programs that folks can apply to with proposals. Often the bars are so high that nobody can pass them, or applying is extremely complicated, so only a fraction is actually paid out in the end. But it makes good headlines.

E.g. the German federal government subsidizing last mile internet infrastructure construction. The program runs since 2015 and contains 11 billion EUR. Of which only 570 million have been paid out.

https://netzpolitik.org/2020/immer-noch-bleiben-viele-foerde...
not available in USA...
For the examples I listed, the fact that they’re serviced by Amazon is an implementation detail. People are not buying it to communicate with Amazon, they are buying it to get something done. Many would probably be just as happy “to communicate with Google” instead. The point I’m trying to make is that Amazon is not the motivating factor.
This is really some sorry Rogan/envy ad hominem.

Some really petty schoolyard grimes here.

(EDIT: I mean there are link to reddit caricature / joke lists etc. since when do we do this here?)

I don't think Joe Rogan is very interesting ... but the 'haters' say more about themselves than anything, it's a bad look on them.

Rogan is what is he is. He has a variety of guests, he entertains them and let's them speak, he popularized a fairly new format where people can come on and actually make their case for as long as they like. Turns out it's very refreshing and frankly 'important' thing.

All of these podcast/celebrity etc. people take themselves probably a tad to seriously, but I don't think Rogan lacks the self awareness to not recgonise he's not an intellect, that seems apparent.

For those screaming about his subtle wavering on vaccines, first, he hasn't really, and second, our beloved Lex Friedman has gone a bit into the weeds on that one as well so you'll have to throw him into the cauldron as well.

The possibility of a 'dude bro' who's broken the mould and is more influential, and in most ways legitimately so, than many others who are supposed to be more deserving ... seems to bother a lot of people. I don't care that much one way the other about Joe, but I'm annoyed by those people.

Some of the criticisms of Rogan are legit, a lot of it seems to me like something else going on under the surface.
Same MacBook, same SSD upgrade. I haven't replaced the battery, I tend to stay near an outlet anyway. Debian and Ubuntu work great on it, so I moved off OSX.
Love to see where this goes! Immediately reminded me of ractives from The Diamond Age.
Google hasn't _really_ committed to a 3p cookie deprecation plan. They just kicked the deadline forward another year or two while they test out alternatives.
And you're skipping the part where I never said it was a better system, just that it is your recourse if you live in a completely unorganized (or unjust) society.
In the countries that you think of as having 'strong, fair, and just judicial systems' governments typically control only the fiscal policy. Monetary policy is left to some independent entity. For countries with fixed exchange rates it is also impossible to have autonomous monetary policy without imposing restrictions on capital mobility. This also applies to blocks of countries, e.g., none of the individual governments of euro countries have control over the bloc's monetary policy.
You have to wonder though, is this because of a genuine gap in the market where people are yet to realize there is money to be made, or is there something else that these stories are leaving out. Is everyone in the industry making this much money? If you joined the industry today, how long would it take to start making good money?
Is there something like reader mode as a service (with TLS > 1.3 support)? It’d allow me to relatively comfortably read web articles on my Kindle Touch, which has a software stack that was already outdated when it came out a decade ago.
Yes, those are valid use cases. I listed alternative use cases for which communication with Amazon is irrelevant. Besides, I would imagine that “purchasing things with voice” is used much less frequently than the functions I listed.
I love HGST hard disks. They don't die as much as WD and Seagate ones do.
Just put you tabs into bookmark folders for later use. For dev work I understand how one could need a lot of tabs but I just bookmark them into a folder.
Can someone post the leaked atatsz since BI are paywalling me
Viral meme with involuntary transmission.
It is really weird actually. Not every episode comes with adds. Seems like Spotify is dark launching ab testing
This paper presents new evidence that in the past, rapid increases in atmospheric CO2 concentrations resulted in ocean acidification, which resulted in large numbers of marine species going extinct, which resulted in large numbers of land species going extinct. This shouldn't really come as a surprise to anyone. The only question is at what level of CO2 this happened in the past, and how this compares to the present day. That information, unfortunately, is not in the abstract, and I don't have access to the full article.
Who told you that?

Whoever didn't hire you wasn't looking for a software developer, they were looking for a devops guy. Its nice to know devops as a programmer, and I wish more programmers did, but most programmers I know actually flunk on anything sysadmin related.

If their criteria is devops, but they're looking for a programmer, they're going to get some dude that only knows Javascript and footguns the entire company into an early grave.
Sam Harris: 'Social Media Has Been Bad for Society in Almost Every Respect'
Thank you! We’re committed and excited. You’re the second person to reference The Diamond Age today! :)
> Perhaps even a single example of "armed agents" showing up to the residence or workplace of someone who has failed to pay those taxes?

Here ya go: https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/30/us/3-businessmen-testify-...

“Three businessmen told the Senate Finance Committee today of Internal Revenue Service agents who, with guns drawn, broke down doors, terrified workers and forced teen-age girls to change clothes in front of male agents in raids at the men's homes and businesses that they said were unnecessary.

These aggressive paramilitary tactics were denounced as intolerable and ‘’fascist’’ by Democratic and Republican senators as the panel heard testimony for a second day in its second round of hearings on I.R.S. abuses of taxpayers.”
the simplest interpretation of Occhams Razor is often the accurate assumption, pessimism or no. the fact that Google hasnt abandoned SMS 2FA alone should suffice as evidence enough they are pursuing this as a purely financial strategy.
> A government that doesn’t control its own monetary policy isn’t a government at all.

This statement is best characterized as "not historically aware".
Yes, the point is that most people don't want such a world. With very few exceptions, even hardcore libertarians don't want that world. That's why they're arguing that some sort of court system isn't necessarily incompatible with libertarian values.

It's pointing out the issue with the "how can you consider yourself a libertarian but support people using a government system, like a judicial system, when they're wronged? isn't that hypocritical?" argument. It leads to the conclusion "if they're really true libertarians, they'd either let themselves be victims or just take justice into their own hands", and neither of those would be desirable outcomes.

The argument would make more sense if, say, the victim had gotten taxpayer-funded federal law enforcement to find and apprehend the perpetrators. But in this case they hired a private investigator, sent a request to the parents of the alleged perpetrators, and filed a lawsuit when the request wasn't responded to.
Tesla’s Autobidder is scaring Germany’s utility providers
For "nothing to do with cardinality", the Cantor set has the same cardinality as the reals, and yet has measure zero.

For arbitrarily small size, let's start with an enumeration of the rationals. Now pick ε > 0. Let's put an open interval of size ε/2 around the first rational, ε/4 around the second, ε/8 around the third and so on. The union of those intervals is an open set of length bounded above by ε/2 + ε/4 + ε/8 + ... = ε. (Note, it is actually smaller than this because some of the intervals overlap...)

That constructs an open set, which includes every rational, of size as small as we like.

So "cardinality" and "the measure of a set" have no particular relationship, other than that the measure of a countable set is always 0.
I would love nineties Debian, with modern hardware support and security patches.
Yeah. If nothing else, imagine how it would feel to have damaged an heirloom samurai sword by hacking into a cheap movie prop sword and chips the metal.
That’s kind of a sad statement. Your company doesn’t really care about you personally…if they could replace you with someone better and cheaper, they would. Why should you care so much about them? Why care more about a job than your own life?
Is it that far from being equivalent though? Greece's financial crisis shows you exactly how far they were from controlling monetary policy.
>The part you're missing here is where those hypotheses are tested.

There is no rule that every science paper needs to do testing and cover the whole scientific method from start to finish. Some can just be building blocks; data, hypothesis, ect.

>A field that consistently makes accurate predictions is more scientific than one which rarely does

I couldn't disagree more. That just means the field is more predictable
Dedekind cuts (which are necessary for epsilon-delta proofs) or alternatively Bolzano Weierstrass theorem (if you use sequential convergence definition) imply multiple sizes of infinity, so the logical arrow is in the other direction, roughly: "real analysis implies assigning different sizes to sets", not "assigning different sizes to sets implies real analysis".

It's been a while but iirc there are other constructions (such as p-adic numbers) which create multiple sizes of infinities out of the rationals which aren't real analysis.
Seems related: Microsoft just said they'll put in $20 billion.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-commits-to-spend-20...
Being serious, think of the mental toll it must be growing up as the naked baby on that cover
You do not have a "duty to your job". Employers love it when they can get their workers to think that way because it raises the threshold amount they can overwork and over-stress you before you've had enough and quit. You have to protect your personal time and your mental and emotional health. (I have had to learn this lesson a couple of times in 40+ years as a software dev.)
Its literally 1% of the balance they're discussing in the post. That's just a goodwill play.
Lol the same way we control everything else? Through treaties and legislation. Look I'm not saying it's easy and tbh it's not the path I'd take (I'm more for print money give everyone a living wage rather than act using scarcity). I'm just saying given the way economic theory exists atm it's one of the two glaring options for leveling out and fixing the shit levels of inequality that exist at the moment.

Or do you think the current situation is acceptable and should be allowed to continue?
I think because the human world is made for humans there’s a lot of value in an AI with similar failure modes to humans. Right now AI can do a good job of learning to classify images, but fails in ways that are entirely foreign to us
He can speak with legitimate authority on diet, exercise, martial arts, and other similar topics. He knows more about those things than 99% of people. The point is he doesn't claim authority on topics related to politics and science where he's out of his depth, or at least does it a lot less often than typical partisan commentators.

You seem to be reading a different definition than I am, but ok /shrug.
Microsoft commits to spend $20B to cybersecurity over five years
Canonical Log Lines 2.0
I haven't watched in a while, what "quack pseudoscience" has he entertained recently?
AMP Wordpress theme with 2 sidebars
Just because I could not find a Wordpress theme that:
1. Was AMP or could be converted to AMP with the official plugin
2. And that had 2 sidebars
3. And that was conforming to Google's Core Web vitals and Page experience.

It's free and perfect for blogging.
Enjoy
>Having a few will flag your account for human review.

This is not correct. Having a few will put those photos through a second, blind hashing algorithm. It wouldn't be flagged for human review unless the images in question passed the second stage and, even then, you wouldn't have any of the information for those hashes to match.
the ending is also very thought-provoking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TNAz1HYg18&list=PLH2l6uzC4U...
Fun fact: in the past, when La Vuelta a España rode into Toledo, the winner of that stage was gifted a sword. I don't know if this happens every time, but it definitely happened to David Millar, a British rider who won the time trial there in 2009: https://pezcyclingnews.com/vuelta09/vuelta09-st-20-millar-pu.... It could very well still happen.

Visiting Toledo is on my todo list, as is working out how to get a sword through customs on the way home :)
You're 100% correct that without a government, vigilante justice is the option that people will take.

But we don't live in that thought experiment. In our current society, let's say Joe tricked Bob into sending him all of his bitcoin.

Option A: the government recognizes crypto as property, and the government intervenes to get Bob his property back. Of course, this also means that crypto is subject to taxes and regulations.

Option B: the government does not recognize crypto as property, and does nothing because no "crime" has been committed. Bob is out of luck. But, there are no taxes or regulations on crypto, so if you don't get robbed you can get rich and evade taxes.

Option B is the logical outcome of the scenario that many crypto anarchists originally wanted for crypto. No government oversight, which means no taxes or regulations, but also means you're shit outta luck if someone robs you. That's what I was commenting on.

Maybe those crypto anarchists also want a world with no government, so they can take Option C and be their own vigilantes. But it's even more ludicrous to desire that kind of world.
> companies care more about you being able to pack your code in a Docker image using GitLab CI/CD pipeline and write yaml files to describe the state of your K8s cluster.

I can do that and more. ... However, a lot of companies that are dealing with deployment at this level are probably doing it wrong. It is also not that hard to learn how things should work. Difficulties arise in situations where they don't :-)

When I was vetting resumes for a senior position, I was astonished by how few of them knew any of the basics whether it's actual development or deployment pipeline automation. They just knew how to go through a standard set of steps.

That's neither here nor there, but with your skills, it is not hard for you to buttress your knowledge in those areas if you care (and, you'd benefit from your foundations) or find a position which focuses more on development than pipeline building.
As William Shakespeare more eloquently put it; "Let's kill all the lawyers".
-- and just in case anyone reading this likes to take things out of context, that's not a threat, it's a historical quote critical of how lawyers maintain the privilege of the wealthy and powerful.

Spoken, unfortunately for the author, by a villain named Dick The Butcher, and can just as easily be praise for a society of laws not men as a check against the mob.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_kill_all_the_lawyers
This works about 75% of the time, about 25% of the time it restarts the podcast and I have to go through the ads again. This is on android.

There is also a bug I experience pretty regularly where the podcast will restart when I resume it so I lose my spot.

Such a buggy piece of crap app.
Ironic-not-ironic maybe. Back then, Apple wanted content to exist. Podcasts were content.

Also, 15 20 years ago, smart people (me being the smartest of all) genuinely believed that "information wanted to be free." The explosive success of WWW demonstrated that open platforms and protocols are far more powerful than companies. Trying to control a medium was a recipe for failure.

That was before reality cracked her whip, and the borders separating one media from another became defined by the monopoly owning it.
One can define an order relation using cardinality. Cardinality does capture a notion of size of sets that corresponds to intuition for finite sets and captures the idea of one infinite set being “smaller” or the same size as another.

In general sets don’t have a measure on them in the sense of measure theory. Indeed, assuming the Axiom of Choice there are non measurable sets of the real numbers. But every set has a cardinality. And there is a well defined linear order of the hierarchy of cardinal numbers. I’m assuming the axiom of choice.
I don't believe he does comedy anymore. He's pretty much a full-on podcast host now.
For an employer to find an employee that aligns with their values (at least 8-5, 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year) is easy.

For an employee to find an employer that aligns with values like above is a very diffuclt thing to do. It will take years of hard work, interviews, trials, etc. etc.

Without a doubt it will change your life for the better and will likely have as big an impact as other "big rocks" in your life (house, partner, kids).

That means it's very worthwhile putting in the effort.
Part of it is just demographics- there are just massively more people getting trained in CS/programming then they are old timers out there. I graduated a decade and a half ago and the size of the computer science department has tripled.

Then there really is a tendancy of software engineers to exit the profession in the 35-45 time frame. I actually ran data from the bureau of labor statistics and found that effect to be true- the number of 35-45 year old programmers/software engineers in 2010 was noticeable large than the number of 45-55 year old programmers in 2020.*

Those things combined make software developers still trend very young.

* Yes, they may be dropping out due to ageism, but I also suspect that many burn out and move to adjacent roles. Ageism and barriers to entry are more interesting in explaining on why we don't see more older people entering the profession
I remember installing it in 92 or 93 when I was in grad school via a big pile of floppies. It was liberating to turn an otherwise useless PC into something more or less equivalent to a sparcstation. I was a huge linux fan and evangelized for it everywhere.

A few years later, I was acting as a sysadmin, and wanted to replace some aging DECstations with PCs running Linux. The prototype machine was great, except for how terrible NFS performance was. The kicker was xdvi would take minutes to render a page of a document. The DECstations would take seconds, even though they were ~10% as fast as the PC running Linux. I realized the problem was that Linux NFS didn't do any client side caching, and xdvi walked around byte-by-byte in the font files.

I met Linus at the '94 Boston USENIX and asked about NFS file caching. He told me he didn't care about NFS, and didn't think it would ever get fixed. The interaction was unpleasant and left a very bad taste in my mouth.

I then went to the FreeBSD BOF, where they were professional (Justin Gibbs was wearing a button down shirt and giving a power-point presentation). They assured me that FreeBSD cached NFS just like any other filesystem.

When I returned from the conference, I installed FreeBSD on the test PC and sure enough, it rendered the xdvi pages instantly.

Its amazing how that one experience shaped my life. I used and hacked on FreeBSD for years later when I worked on OS research. I helped port FreeBSD to the DEC Alpha and became a committer in the late 90s, and have contributed ever since. These days I get paid by my employer to make FreeBSD as fast as possible for our workloads, and get to do cool stuff like building what I suspect is the world's fastest web server in terms of absolute bandwidth.
I think I've lost the thread here, I am aware that each of the member countries have some control.

However, for example, my understanding is that Greece was _forced_ by the ECB and others to undertake some wildly unpopular austerity measures. It doesn't sound like they had a lot of control. If Germany were to go through a similar crisis my understanding is that it could also be forced to take measures Germans do not approve of.

I'm not passing any judgement here! But surely we can both agree that Greece (and Germany) do not have full control over their monetary policies and still exist as independent countries, that's the only point I wanted to make.
Ah yes, the standard "js is evil and should never run" comment

Read the article?
I think that the drive of youth is very common. It's part of the main reason why so many companies prefer to hire the young: they can and will work insane hours and don't have enough experience to know what their time is really worth.