skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find these kinds of analyses to be hopelessly oversimplified.

First of all, we are talking about predicting the actions of superintelligent aliens. We aren't talking about slime molds or a bacterial infection, but beings with more intelligence than us, like orders of magnitude more complicated reasoning processes. They are effectively unpredictable, because if they weren't, wouldn't we be just as smart as they are? That level of intelligence comes with new levels of reflectiveness that are frankly not accessible to our weak brains. Like, maybe after reaching the next level of enlightenment, they decide that expansion throughout the universe like a worm is not actually what they want or that is what is good for the universe? Maybe they decide to rather study the universe and not interfere, the way biologists study, say, apes, without wanting to disrupt their natural behavior with their presence? Or maybe superintelligent beings find a way out of our universe, and pass into another dimension (cyberspace? black holes? disappearing through quantum foam? heaven?). Or maybe something else insane happens, like being superintelligent inevitably makes you completely terrified of everything, because you realize how powerful other aliens are and your calculations unequivocally show it's safer to stay at home and fart around doing the super-intelligent analog of baking chocolate-chip cookies? Not being superintelligent, we are like ants trying to contemplate human civilization. We have no context or experience, and we simply don't have the mental capacity to even imagine what we don't know.

Second, these probabilistic models are so fundamentally stupid. It's impossible for us to reliably estimate the probability of any event that's happened only once (without reasoning about the process that gave rise to that event), as we cannot estimate posterior probabilities without lots of samples. And humans on Earth have a massive chain of single-occurrence events that all seem to be absurdly improbable. Besides that, and perhaps even because of that, it's not even a foregone conclusion that our universe even selects from the middle of the distribution (i.e. is not biased). We could perfectly estimate the shape of a probability curve and yet live in a universe that stubbornly selects from the end of the distribution, all the time. All of our math could be totally right, but crazy shit just keeps happening.

Third, the anthropic principle is a total bitch. It means that we will never be able to estimate probabilities of events that were required to create us, because no matter how improbable they were, if they didn't happen, we're not even here to argue about it. If there are infinite universes (a multiverse, see Tegmark), then forget this whole mathematical sophistry, because then there is no need to live in some "average" universe; we can easily live in some stupidly improbably snowflake universe that has the 90 trillion improbable things that make apes possible; infinity doesn't care.
so in the context of TFA, what really needs to be asked is not "are some people massively better coders than others?", but rather "how difficult is it to progress from the equivalent of a 3:30 marathoner to a 2:00, as a coder?"

I don't know the answer, TBH. I've been a programmer for nearly 35 years now, and at times along that journey I've been the 10x coder. But I'm not anymore (just like I can't go sub-3h for a marathon at this point), despite knowing a lot more and being better by some metrics than I was during my 10x periods.
I would not use the phrase "modern journalism" to refer to sites like theverge.com. Instead, I would call them "modern media" which is a stream of opinion pieces that might be better described as commentary on some public event combined with a much larger group of stories that are really press releases or advertisements. Take a look at the "stories" on their main page:

* "Kids who grew up with search engines could change STEM education forever" - Now ask yourself -- is this a "news" peice? Is it journalism, or is it opinion?

* "Apple won’t let Fortnite back on iOS until the Epic v. Apple verdict is final" -- What the hell is this? Isn't it normal that verdicts take effect when they are final? What exactly is the story here? There is no story, there is outrage commentary.

Then we have intermixed with the above opinion pieces various P.R. stories and product reviews, none of them labelled as advertisements, all mixing PR with what was traditionally the role of a reviewer:

* "Microsoft’s fall Surface event: the 7 biggest announcements"

* "MICROSOFT SURFACE LAPTOP STUDIO HANDS-ON: ONE WEIRD, POWERFUL COMPUTER"

* "How to preorder all of the new Surface hardware"

* "The Surface Go 3 gets new Intel processors"

* "Microsoft announces Surface Pro 8 with bigger 13-inch 120Hz display and Thunderbolt"

* "Microsoft’s new mouse has a shell that’s 20 percent recycled ocean plastic"

* "How to watch Microsoft’s Surface event today"

* "Gitamini is a cute, compact, cargo-carrying robot that will follow you around like a dog"

* "HP’s new 11-inch tablet has a flipping webcam"

Whatever this is, it's not journalism.
Probably pretty expensive to get that to the moon from earth
True most buildings aren't designed for it, and they are already covered with antennas and AC units and such.

But weight is not an issue for light aircraft. For example, the Robinson R44 (4 place heli) is only 660kg empty. The Airbus taxi will be made as light as possible, so I wouldn't expect it to be much heavier.

As long as the supports for the landing pad are placed appropriately with the building structure, it shouldn't be any problem. More likely there would be the concern of accidents and the significant collateral damage they could cause.
High productivity enables high wages, but does not necessarily result in high wages.

Wages are determined by supply and demand of that position in the labor market.

Productivity boosts profits, which will permit an employer to pay higher wages if there is a shortage of a particular position in the labor market. But without the shortage, there's no impetus to pay more.
It happened to me with speakers/headphones. I used to listen to all kinds of music on cheapos before I found a nice pair of cans with good balance across the frequency range. After that I couldn't help noticing all the distortions from the cheapos and how they degraded the entire mood of the music. When the nice ones broke I pretty much stopped playing music. Sometimes I would get the urge and start up a playlist but it would usually feel flat. After it was over I didn't have the motivation to put on anything else and would rather just be in silence. The music was so much nicer in my head that playing it through the cheapos was just too disappointing.
Exactly, the Macintosh used files! Sorry, that sentence was ambiguous—what I meant was, the adults who bought Macs in the 80s and 90s hadn't used files previously, because computers by-and-large didn't exist. They still got the hang of it on their Macs.

(If you meant something else with your example, and I'm still misunderstanding you, sorry!)
It's interesting, I've been planning to move onto a sailing yacht for a while and part of the planning process has involved figuring out an energy budget which will inform what batteries and charging equipment (solar panels etc) are required to run a WFH (WFB?) setup. I bought a simple plug-in power meter and I was very surprised by the power usage of some things in my life!
> The way it is implemented in Europe gives two terrible results:

You mean EU parliament or european countries in general? Because there are some(e.g. germany) where you have two votes, one for a direct candidate im your district which can get elected independently, and one for a party, to also give smaller parties a chance, which is a neat compromise. On the other hand, if you have e.g. 2 big parties and several small ones, the small ones can still make a difference when creating a coalition with one of the larger ones. Of course, there will be small parties only "receiving salaries", but tbh there will be people like that in the bigger parties, too.
It is true, and was quite the scandal a couple of years ago. If you can read Spanish, here's a piece explaining what happened

(Michelin-starred chefs defend unpaid internships)
https://www.elconfidencial.com/espana/2017-05-01/michelin-ar...
That is old information. In the US, your deductible and copay have to be the in-network price in emergencies, and balance bills from the provider will not be allowed in emergencies starting next year (and you can already usually get the balance waived with sliding scale charity etc.)
Well, I don't live in the US, but that's not the point.

Recent times were very weird in that all the important information was about the same single subject. You don't know if that trend will continue until tomorrow (literally), and historically the world has almost never behaved like this.
And women pay a higher price at work on, everything else. 18 cents to the dollar actually.

Cry me a river wsj. Sheesh.
You can still find a few Quick Burger but they're going away.

They got bought by Burger King and all Quick restaurant are slowing changing into Burger King.
I think it was Michael Crichton who said something like, "An equation whose variables can mean anything, means nothing."
That doesn’t mean there can’t be a policy. Drug safety is based on science, after all.
When someone posts something on topic X people are reminded of another story on topic X and post that. X could be Ruby, Woodworking, Bitcoin, or McDonalds it’s just associative.
Verification of parity in compensation encourages equality only if there is a clear mechanism to equalize levels. In general there will be mismatches in market forces, budgets, and the like (as well as seniority, the difference between people's opinions of themselves and their opinions of others, etc...).
Having some ambiguity about such levels is also an effective social mechanism that allows us to see each other as equals without needing to get out a ruler. Again, having an anonymous reporting scheme like levels.fyi strikes me as a very good idea, but open and interpersonal salary discussions strike me as a potentially bad idea.
Masten Aerospace keeps doing super cool stuff with really elegant designs.

I hope they keep winning (and keep their mojo) in the growing space race.
> If the operation is truly irreversible then you actually can't do much beyond OK/Cancel, think of some operation like "Empty The Trash".

I disagree, you can make the operation difficult to perform accidentally. Imagine you had nuclear missile silo, but instead of requiring a code and two people to turn keys at opposite ends of the room, you just had a "really end the world?" prompt. You even see this in UIs pretty frequently now, for instance having to enter the name of the thing you're deleting to confirm.

> The rest of your criticism is referring to outdated or unrelated concepts, or doesn't make sense to me. Drag and drop isn't done on mobile, and the concept of "load and save" is also obsolete there.

I can see why if you think I was talking about mobile. I'm not, I'm talking about desktop personal computing.

> If you want to load a file you just browse to it in the file browser

I am not aware of a single mobile OS that comes with a file browser. Instead all applications are siloed and storage is an abstracted black box. Is it on my device? On the SD card? In the cloud?

> Requiring a user to press an unknown hotkey or open some other application to pipe sound into it in order to access the camera is even worse than a dialog, that will guarantee you get bug reports from users saying that the application is broken because they get no sound by default.

Le sigh... only because that's the expectation they've been trained to have. It doesn't mean it isn't better to do things differently. It's the equivalent of saying "no, we can't make mobile OSs because people will file bug reports when they can't run IE and play Flash games".

> Even if you had that, you would still want to pop open a dialog informing the user of the hotkey, or you would want to pop open the "GUI composition tool" automatically within a dialog.

Dear god why would I want to do that automatically? Does Office throw up a dialog telling users how to save a file when they first start it up? Or how to copy and paste? No, they're expected to understand some basic concepts of how to use the computing environment they're working in already. Treating all users like illiterate idiots is a practice that continues to prevent us from having nice things.
You don't pay up front in an emergency, so people can consult the information and ask questions before they do pay. They can call their insurance company and ask why they pay more than average. And so on.
I use my work laptop, a dell latitude 7390 for most things. It's a great machine.

Other than that my personal laptop is a ThinkPad t440.

I like both, but frankly if the dell had the TrackPoint I'd throw my ThinkPad in the trash can and I would get an exactly equal machine for private use.
Isn't the better solution to this is to stop any activities relating to the Xiaomi phones?
You can try talks from this guy, he's a french energy and climate expert. I found that he explained very well the root of the issue between growth, energy and climate impact.

Here is a talk he did for the MIT media lab in english: https://youtu.be/s254IPHXgVA
File a complaint with Health and Human Services [1]. It is clear they are not acting in good faith. Take snapshots of the URL with the Internet Archive for notarization [2].

[1] https://www.cms.gov/hospital-price-transparency/contact-us

[2] https://web.archive.org/save
None on ARM. Google never offered widevine to Firefox on ARM64.
A recent federal regulation which implements the No Surprises Act of 2021 should reduce some of those abuses by hospitals.

https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/hhs-announces-ru...
On 20 Years of Drupal – An Interview with Josh Koenig
I wish I could setup waydroid on Raspberry Pi so that I can finally use hotstar/primevideo and netflix on my dumb tv.

I had bought firestick in past that is now stuck on boot loop for over a year. I have decided not buy these sticks or smart TV where I have little to no control over Software.
So no different than this thread, then.
To start a call, there is a requirement that you are

1) Using the Brave Browser

2) Have Brave Rewards (their crypto-and-ads service) turned on.

Not loving that.

Edit: the first one is fine (although a little strange that it is a requirement here but not for their other products, like Brave Search). I'm irked by the second one.
Yeah, that's actually a key thing I miss from my previous bigcorp job many years ago.

Pay was tied to numerical career grades. Everyone's numerical career grade was public information. Salary ranges (fairly broad and overlapping for each grade) for each were published each cycle. While there was a ton of griping along the lines "seriously, X got promoted to 23!? They just suck up!", it was at least consistent across disciplines and clearly tied listed job responsibilities to a pay range to make justifications for a promotion easier.

I know it's a very common system, but my current company doesn't have that, and I quite miss it.

We somewhat do via titles. E.g. I know the 25 year old engineers who have the title "principle staff engineer" despite not being trusted to do anything directly are absurdly overpaid, but it's really murky and not consistent. E.g. If your title says "software engineer" you're on a completely different scale than someone who's title says "data engineer". And if you have actual experience in the field, you'll be considered a "scientist" or a "technician" instead of an "engineer" depending on the exact role you're hired into.

At any rate, it's really, really, really unclear how anything relates, and going from a "staff X" position to a "junior Y" position is often a pay raise.
Helsinki.

- Public transit is excellent (costs 50-100€ / month).
- Studio apartments unfurnished go for about 800-900€ / month.

If you do your research well you can definitely do it for around 2k / month.
It appears Epic asked to be back to get Fortnite on the Mac App Store but wasn’t going to release an iOS version of Fortnite. The Mac App Store has different terms but uses the same developer account. I think epic may just be trying to prove a point with this action and didn’t expect to be reinstated.
It won't come for free, though.

As anyone that has ever had to work with sandblasters will tell you, running powder through things has its own challenges.
I'm wondering if the issue is similar to having GPS and never having to learn the streets of the city you live in. If you can simply type the name of the file you need into the Start menu/Spotlight, why bother going through folders?
There are factions within crypto, some think the "end of history" looks like crypto replacing centralized systems. others (like myself) think those systems are complements and simply alternatives in the marketplace.

As to being adversarial... ICANN was allocated 1.2% of the total HNS supply, and all existing TLD owners (at the time of the snapshot) can claim their TLDs on chain. The icann allocation is 5.8% of the current circulating supply.

i suppose there could have been a way to give ICANN a blank check to modify the handshake namespace in perpetuity, but i suspect that might either be technically unworkable or just made the whole venture pointless.
It'll be pretty expensive no matter what the construction material is if you have to ship it from Earth, since transportation costs will dwarf any costs for the actual materials.
"You cannot always look at a service in isolation because..."

The medical industry is adept at excuse making and impeding change. If we wrap ourselves around every conceivable axle then nothing will be achieved. As it is providers and payers already employ elaborate coding systems to represent work and ascribe costs. Step one is to kick open that door and make this transparent. Should the result prove inadequate to sufficiently represent every imaginable nuance then the medical industry can engage in the necessary rework under that pressure.
Real world use case: geocaching.com uses it to hide hints, so you don't read and spoil yourself by accident. It's pretty much accepted and adopted by the users. I also would ban words like "dumb" or, for another example "easy" in IT and CS contexts.
Good short clip that discusses the history of helicopter transit in NYC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nbz5VFilxY
Wow, that is the actual conservative party's channel. I thought Will Smith[0] joining the meme was as sold out as this was going to get, and I was wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA56B4JyTgI
I always have great success doing anomaly detection with basic standard deviation in some SQL queries...
The other big conflict here is that I'm not an expert and I'm not about to turn down services if recommended to me by an expert in a field which I have no experience.

I get the whole "do your research", but often it's in areas in-which I have no real capability - especially with healthcare.

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> And with US health care, it just takes one accident that sends you to the ER and where someone that's out of network performed a procedure to end up with a bill that's tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Agree. And to add, all it takes is one procedure that your insurance company doesn't want to cover to put you into literal billing hell for months on end. My point being, even with price transparency they can just chose not to pay even if they're obligated (and they do this). If there's any way they can weasel out of paying they will.

I'm still 100% in support of price transparency in healthcare however... there's just so much broken with it and I've lived through the hell.
As if we needed yet another reason to avoid Chrome and friends…
> My original comment on the Agile Manifesto, which seems to have attracted most of the responses I’ve read here today, was only intended to make the point that without knowing what you’re trying to build, you have no way to define whether or not you have succeeded. I therefore don’t think it makes much sense to talk about valuing working software over comprehensive documentation in general terms as the Manifesto does. You can only know your software is working to the extent that you know how it’s supposed to work in the first place.

The Manifesto is pretty explicit that “over” in the “over” statements means exactly what it says, and isn't a misspelling of “instead of”; the Manifesto very much does not claim that there isn't some degree of documentation that serves an essential role in defining and achieving correctly-functioning software and that that isn't instrumentally important.

I do wish, though, that rather than “over” statements with an explanation that “over” means “over” and not something else the manifesto had used something like “is/are served by” in place of “over” (with some light editing of the items on the sides to fit that structure):

Individuals and interactions *are served by* processes and tools.

Working software *is served by* appropriate documentation.

Customer collaboration *is served by* contract structure.

Ability to respond to change *is served by* planning.

They are about subordination, not exclusion, of the things on the right in favor of those on the left.
I have to turn off caching because it doesn't play well with our JFrog cache.

JFrog gets the artifacts on premises, but causes issues trying to get them to the build agent. The opportunity costs of having false negatives and positives from CI builds are simply not worth it.
Or Chicken Scheme, or Gambit Scheme, which can be used standalone, embedded, or as glue with their great C interop.

I love seeing Scheme(or Lisp) implementations, they are kind of a Rosetta Stone of programming languages. We can study them and learn the target languages.

They seldom become implementations in widespread usage on their own, though.
Ah so you gaslighted them, nice.
There's SCOTUSBlog for the Supreme Court. People often mistake it for being from the court, but it's independent. Legal Eagle on YouTube is good if you don't mind video.
Technically capable person can easily protect himself. It's not that hard. At least from ordinary threats. Use dedicated firewall device, use software firewalls, periodically check out running services.

Issue is with rest 99.9% of people who will share whatever you say, because their phone happened to be nearby and you can't really do anything about it.
It’s also super helpful when the error code is negative as this excludes it from search results when you copy paste

/s
(As the GP) I really appreciate and generally agree with your perspective, but:

> the idea that there's some kind of widespread anti-Republican medical discrimination or corruption going on

is a total mischaracterization of what I was saying. In fact, it's essentially pulled from thin air.

The corruption of the news media is in their choice to mock and literally laugh at people sick from veterinary iver because kicking the out-group is popular with their audience (read $$). They do this instead of explaining (in a meaningful way) how we got here, and what steps we can take to make the situation better.
Nice that there are no time limits. Not great that passwords are only for Premium customers. But if you're just doing 1-on-1 calls it's pretty easy to notice if an uninvited guest has appeared.

Does this offer scheduling, or just initiating calls in real time?
That hasn't been my experience. In two different companies I worked at (none of them companies I ran myself), the company settled quickly over claims, at least one of which was candidly pretty frivolous. It's annoying to have to find and retain an attorney to get this done, but my expectation is that if you had an attorney bring a credible claim, you'd likely get some degree of satisfaction.
Facebook rebuts criticism by using its algorithm to promote itself