skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree he's probably a self-entitled know-it-all, but I think at least his conclusion for COVID was spot on. By 2020-01-26 Wuhan (a major Chinese city) was already under lock down, so it was pretty clear CoVID19 was serious. I live in Asia, so I'm not in a position to understand the sentiment in (for example) the US, so the "let's wait until we have more data" attitude is really perplexing to me.

Sure, there was no public data on r0 and no proof that COVID19 was similar to the other SARS viruses. But given only the info of "Wuhan was under lockdown", wouldn't it be indicative of the seriousness and the contagiousness of the virus, at least in the eyes of Chinese government officials?

I always thought the "West" misinterpreted the events in China at their detriment. Perhaps they assumed that it merely reflected the inability of the Chinese government to control a pandemic instead of actual seriousness of the disease?

Anyway I started wearing a surgical mask regularly and made sure I washed hands thoroughly after the Wuhan lockdown was announced. I hate wearing masks but it was less than $1/day and some inconvenience compared with an unknown but potentially scary disease. Not sure how anyone would come to a conclusion that taking precautions could be a bad bet (on a personal level at least).
Wasnt this link posted not too long ago?
How many surgeons do you know?
Hi, my name is -0.0f, I'm trans-integer, my pronouns are nan/inf and I'm nullsexual.
Most of my projects are built around interfacing microcontrollers with I2C sensors. I've never had too many problems getting I2C communications working. I think a lot of it is psychological. Without a logic analyzer you can feel a bit helpless when you're not succeeding in connecting to an I2C peripheral. However, there's only a few things that plausibly can be going wrong with something as simple as I2C. (You have the wrong address, you have it wired up wrong, or you're misusing the uc's I2C peripheral.) It's quite feasible just to work through that list of possibilities until you find what's wrong. It does require a certain amount of faith, as you generally see no indication of progress at all until you get it working.

I'm not denying at all that a logic analyzer can be helpful. I'd just encourage people who can't justify the expense to have a try without one.

Edit: That said, I see that low-end logic analyzers are actually pretty cheap. I should probably get one!
Also, LFP weigh less than lead-acid.
Note Intel GVT-g is only available on <=Gen9 GPU's. Gen11 and 12 are not supported.
Agreed - Uber is amazing and I’m glad they pushed through all of the regulatory bullshit to defeat cabs.

I can call a car from almost anywhere in the world and have a ride in a few minutes for a reasonable price - that’s a huge shift.
A better explanation why Zillow is pumping the brakes:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t25qOEhPDFA&feature=youtu.be
I think you missed the point. It wasn’t to have peace with my friends. It is unifying on the common ground of caring for the earth and taking action.

As far as soil goes, there is a lot going on there. Soil is living and dirt is not. Having soil means having plants, fungi, microbes all participating. Bare dirt strips away the ecosystem’s ability to regulate water and temperature. Living soil with at least polycropping (in cultivated land) changes the microclimate — making it cooler or warmer, wetter, less wind erosion.

Monocropped agriculture using fertilizers, herbicides, fungalcides, and pesticides is why every year, we see upticks on temperature on the satallites correlating to planting and harvesting cycles.

It is connected to poor water management. Poor soil does not hold water very well and now you keep adding more to get less. Monocropping doesn’t just mean our food supply chain is one year of failed crops from shortages, it also means the thin, depleted soil is unable to sequester carbon.
> They treat employees well

Are you including drivers in that?
I expect Intuit, and every other company where responsibility is sufficiently large that nobody feels personally responsible for the company's actions, to do heinous things to make a buck if the option presents itself.

Whereas the IRS, and every other government agency, is supposedly trying to help society or at least not hurt it.
> -Spend most of my time dealing with tooling issues.

I just spent 3 days debugging a bizarre frontend issue. Turns out I just didn't understand how webpack works and was loading it wrong.

And once I fixed that, I had to fix my postcss config because something somewhere had a breaking change at some point.

I feel like almost everything I learn these days is how to deal with the idiosyncrasies of dozens of versions of dozens of tools. My actual programming ability is stagnant. That's what's burning me out.
This is a hypothetical person, so no, I am not speaking to the hypothetical person.

My point is that IF uncle bob's belief system segued into beliefs about masks and vax, then it becomes more visible and causes conflict with family members who didn't give a shit about the previous belief system; not that all conspiracies will necessarily turn into beliefs about masks and vax.
Berlin is special in many ways. It has a national reputation for being dysfunctional and ramshackle (but also quirky and sexy and vibrant). This is often broadcasted dismissively, but of course has complex historical reasons. Just from the top of my head:

- During the West/East divide, West Germany was financially kept alive through major subsidy from the outside, which created political and organizational structures not designed for self-sufficiency. After the unification those subsidies from the national state were all but halted, plunging the city into debt

- A ruthless debt management approach has kept the city from spending ever since, which has resulted in a lot of administrative functions stagnating or slowly deteriorating by e.g. not hiring

Things are improving now, slowly, due to the Capital City effect and the startup boom, but it's important that Berlin is special within in Germany in many ways. In most European countries, if you make a GDP-per-person stat, it falls considerably if you remove the capital city from the equation (say almost 20% in France). Germany is perhaps the only industrial country in the world where it goes up instead.

Note: The Tesla factory, despite being called "Giga Berlin" by Tesla, is being built in the state of Brandenburg, which is not the state of Berlin. Brandenburg has a different complex situation.
Whiteboard/blackboard or penboard/chalkboard, make up your minds please.
For anyone who comes to look at these conversations at a later date, the most recent information about work by Peter Daszak has shifted my opinion. I find it to be significantly more likely that it was a lab leak following the new evidence.
I also don't see how those are two separate opinions. Having a low opinion of someone based on the color of their skin isn't racism?
> I swore off taxis years ago after I realized that every time I walked out of an LAX terminal toward the taxi line, my neck and shoulders began to tense. I was bracing for a fight.

Same thing with the "Grab" app in Asia, its just not worth fighting the cab drivers in Manila or Bangkok, when you can get a Grab driver they will give you zero drama but the cab drivers in those cities will haggle you, not use the meters, try to get you to go to some tourist trap, etc. Its not like that across those entire countries (Davao City notably has absolutely amazing taxi drivers) but the big cities are terrible.

South Korea, Japan, and Singapore have such amazing public transpiration options there's little need for taxis most of the time (though its worth noting that when I have used them I had zero issues in those countries, even in Seoul and Tokyo.)
Intelligence is cultural and I think many people don’t realize that. If I were to be dropped off in a random place on Earth I would encounter people, most likely, I wouldn’t be able to communicate with and even if they did understand me based upon who they are I may seem very stupid. In the wilderness I don’t have a lot of real survival skills and if someone discovered what I was doing to survive I may come off as very stupid in that context as well. Lots of examples and scenarios for this. For myself I have to consider things like just because someone hasn’t read history or literature and doesn’t understand the references I’m making does that make them stupid? Does their culture even concern itself with these things? Who am I to judge ultimately what makes someone stupid or not?
Is there a privacy/surveillance aspect to the argument? Or is the data that the IRS will collect the same either way?
I don't know about correlation between average IQ and a country/state performance (e.g. GPD performance capita) but there is plenty of research that show correlation between a person's IQ and expected income/wealth.

It's also intuitive. The whole path to college, at least for hard sciences, partially select for IQ. And college education correlates with higher income.
States love independence until their power grid fails or they get hit by a hurricane or an international pandemic.
(disclosure: long $NET)

You think the giants will just sit there dormant?
"middle managers" are not negotiating these partnership deals.

I don't really buy the compression algorithm thing either - surely they make more off of ads than the savings that would be generated from better compression.

pretty sure this is just hardball over revenue sharing, data sharing, and technical requirements...
I was hoping that it was an article by a third party as I have actually been interested in the rate at which they have been releasing new products and tech.

The comment about eating their own dogfood and the development of Workers makes me wonder if anyone at AWS uses AWS
'Speed friending' events
Rust 1.56.0 and Rust 2021
That's what I personally feel too -- some few necessary components combine to give the illusion of self. I would add to this, though, the ability to perceive input from our senses and becoming an "observer", thus creating the separation of oneself from the universe: the self is who observes, everything else is the universe.

This distinction of self from the universe is also talked about in Buddhism as being a massive flaw of human understanding. In reality, all of us are one with the universe and arise from it.
I believe the link to the actual report announcement is https://oversightboard.com/news/215139350722703-oversight-bo... and the actual report is at https://oversightboard.com/attachment/987339525145573/
I think the triple dipping is the main issue. If they want a cut from content providers they need to provide something more then just we will have your app.
"unreasonable" would then be editorializing, then it wouldnt be a news article but an opinion piece.
As someone who was a long time user of 4chan and that believed this once before, I now adamantly disagree that total anonymity leads to better discussion and believe that 4chan and the like are ultimately failed experiments.

With total anonymity you end up with trolls or people who are just seriously misinformed arguing vigorously.

You can spend the time and present arguments to possibly convince an actual reasonable person. It gets tiresome over time posting the same basic information. Most of the boards on there end up with a good baseline of information for their topics over years, but for anyone slightly knowledgeable it is tiresome to move topics to that eventual baseline and especially to move them past it. That same information can usually be collected from less toxic sources in a few months as opposed to years that the collective takes.

Every once in a while you'll get a fresh expert that hasn't gotten tired of posting the same information, but I stopped years ago bothering to share any information I had. It's always an up hill battle and the posts will be gone in a few hours or, at best, days

But trolls end up dominating. If you waste your time writing informed sourced posts about anything (slavery is bad, the Holocaust happened, Earth isn't flat, etc) all that will happen is the person will eventually just criticize basic grammar mistakes, insult you, and post the same garbage in a new thread.

If you make the mistake of arguing with organized trolls, you'll get link bombed with shit sources and barely tangentially related long sources that suck up your time before you realize that they don't present any facts that are actually relevant to the discussion.

Even 4chan knows this. The business board has measures in place to inform readers when a poster is the same person.

Real names are not needed online to have good discussion. But it's absolutely needed for posters to have repercussions for past posts. True anonymity leads to shallow discussion and trolls.
This is a good, well-explained article. I'm quite curious about the Ps4 and ps5's architecture. I'm quite wondering if it's complex than this.
Yes and it feels like the older I get the more I have to be the one that plays this role to ask these basic questions as younger professionals are fearful to look dumb in front of others
There is honestly only one good media box left and it's the Apple TV. The only ads it has is for the stupid Apple TV+ program but beyond that it supports every streaming service. I've dumped all my "it just works" rokus for Apple TVs. The nvidia shield was doing good but google got their hands on it and it's full of ads now too. The new AppleTV remote is much better and so far has passed all wife tests.
Well, he was executed because when asked what punishment seemed just to Socrates, he said he should be given free meals (like the Olympic champions), rather than suggesting a fine of 50 minas. So Hemlock it was.
This is much more confusing to me than just using a goto. From your example, it's not immediately clear at all to me if you're breaking out of outer, or if you're breaking TO outer. You can figure it out with this simple example, but it's way more confusing than it needs to be. And importantly: way more confusing than just using goto.

Given that break and continue are just gussied up gotos anyway, just put the label where you wanna go and goto it. I think it's one of the few perfectly valid uses goto.
Using cars of any form instead of the tube in London is a really bad way to get around it, FYI.
>Forget Twitter Threads; Write a Blog Post Instead

Exactly my thinking too.
"The two companies had a December deadline for a renegotiation, but sources say it hasn’t been met, and as a result, new Roku devices will continue to be unable to download YouTube or YouTube TV apps."
The Mystery of the Cosmos: What Are We Looking For?
US didn’t ‘engage’ China to make it rich and free; it profited off it
Regarding water and the Tesla plant, mind that the plant is located in a dedicated protected area, serving an area with about 100K inhabitants. So concerns are not totally unreasonable.
1. Conflating any criticism of the current system of neoliberal capitalism with "ah! then you must prefer to live in north korea!" is a classical tactic of misdirection.

2. "Communism is an outright religion - there is no experimentalism, outcomes are preordained" is a case of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong. I don't even know what I'm supposed to say to this other than "pick up a book".

3. "If anybody pays X for a product and sells it for X + Y where Y is greater than zero it is automatically exploitation by their conveniently loaded definitions." Again, this is the idea of "communizm" I had when I was 12 or 13. As you can imagine, either everyone who is a socialist or anarchist or left-libertarian or whatever is a complety drooling idiot, or this is a stupid straw-man designed to fool people with zero critical thinking skills.

4. "If it provides no value is ridiculous in even a preindustrial economy - let alone an industrialized one where economies of scale and large capex are why markets wind up dominated by big players." Again, this is circular reasoning: in the current system providing capital is a valuable service, therefore the system is good since in the system the system is good... do you see what I mean? You cannot justify a thing by reasons internal to the thing itself.

5. "Those are the mechanisms by which it works" See above. I'll also add: capitalism (and specifically our current flavour thereof) is not a Law of Nature: it is the result of a very specific course that history took over the past 300 years. Alternatives are possible. Criticism is legitimate. Ambition to improve is a good thing.

Shall I go on? I learned it's not useful to talk with people who are not in good faith from the get go. Why bother?
You forgot to mention peak-hype, when the original investors sell their shares and laugh their way to the bank, while the subsequent buyers are left with a company of questionable value.

This is what keeps these cycles going.
The fintech company SimCorp was built on APL and their backend still has tons of APL.
Credit Karma was really disappointing for me... their tax service is quite good for simple filing.
the infrastructure bill working its way through the US includes a few $billion in subsidies for hydrogen fuel, too.

there’s a couple takes on why, but the most charitable one is that solar/wind/batteries have enough momentum that they don’t need subsidies, and govt views energy diversity as a valuable thing and is subsidizing hydrogen to achieve that.
Mort Zuckerman
The traffic analogy is a good explanation. Here you go: https://scoutapm.com/blog/understanding-load-averages
Yes, every example is "I sounded stupid but I was actually correct". From the title I thought the article was going to be about not being afraid to learn new things.
It's because of inequality. California and New York have a higher GINI coefficient than most countries. If high net worth people from those states moved to other states, the transfer payments you are talking about wouldn't happen.
Passion verses Money – a different story

When I graduated university, with CS, I had a number of friends who were biology majors. Myself I had a passion for CS so I was fortunate in that way.

My friends who were biology majors all had a passion for biology. To them their choice was as obvious as mine.

We all obtained jobs after university. Mine was a 50 to 60 hours a week doing SW development, which I loved. The biology majors, at that time and location, could only find a job at the waste processing plant. Sadly their pay was just above minimum wage. All of them lamented to me how they regretted their degree and wish they had been like me and had a degree in something that paid well.

Roll forward a few years and I am working at another company and I, and half the other software engineers get laid off. Went from 200 to about 100. Of the 100 of us let go, about 30 of the people, who had been in SW development for a number of years, all cried, “Thank GOD! I have always hated this”. This surprised me. I naively assumed everyone would do what they loved.

End result (TL;DR):

Step 1 – what will make you enough money to make you happy – (need to really analyze what you need to be happy, the answer of a 6 figure salary is too flippant to be accurate).

Step 2 - List those jobs that pay enough.

Step 3 - Of those jobs trim out jobs you would hate or are incapable of.

Step 4 - With the remaining apply a financial delta based on how much it is worth to you to do a job you love verses a job you are willing to do.

Having said all of that I am looking to taking a lesser job soon as I do not enjoy my current type of work as much as I thought I would.
Oregon and Washington have already passed bills to change, but the bills require California to also pass one, and they have not. Oregon signed their bill in 2019.
Oh the USA does do automated taxes, they just don't tell you what number they came up with until after you file.
What do people want in a co-founder?
I interpreted GP as saying being jacked is a sufficient, but not necessary, condition to people not condescending you

And sure they might think you’re a meathead, but they sure won’t tell you that.
I agree with the mocking and immediately understood the reference. I was saying it's unfortunate because as a headline on HN, it lacks what I would call critical info to get people interested in clicking and reading.

I think it could get real traction on HN if there were a blog post on Brave summarizing the paper in a few paragraphs with a title something closer to:

Goggles: User Generated Search Rankings and Filters that you can subscribe to.
Imagine the productivity boost if an automated system handled the W2 + light investing case for "a lot of people"
You kinda get what you pay for, or more, actually. It may be crammed and slow, but there are some overnight routes just not comparable with train offerings.
The best thing is don't join social network or unjoin the ones you are on if you find them toxic. if you find a person toxic, almost every social platform has a way of blocking them. i use it all the time. life doesn't have to be stressful.
I just flashed my pixel 2 to lineage 18 now that it's not receiving updates, and I was disappointed to discover that because of SafetyNet, I can't use Google pay in stores or install the Netflix app. So to me it's still less than ideal.
Better yet - I actually am vegan and went to Harvard :)

So I guess Harvard wins out! In real life, veganism definitely does though :)
The Chinese Room argument is tendentious because scaling a Chinese Room metaphor to a human brain's neurons and connections is hard to imagine. It is still hard-ish to imagine because, currently, it would take a large data center and 4-6 orders of magnitude the power consumption.

The other side of the coin is that we are asked to believe that what happens in an animal brain turns into magic when the animal is human. That is even harder to imagine.
4Privacy App
I've been restoring a closely related DX11 recently - one interesting tidbit of over-engineering, the keyboard matrix for the tact switches on the front panel (not just the musical keys) has a diode for every switch, to apparently allow "chords" of 3 or more programming buttons to be held and scanned at once. Can't see why it's needed during programming of the patches, but I might be missing something. Maybe someone had a kickback deal with the diode vendor to ship an extra 40 of them per unit :).
That blog doesn't address the statements made by Roku.

The Roku blog doesn't load for me because I have javascript disabled. But the axios article states:

> asking Roku to create a dedicated search results row for YouTube within the Roku smart TV interface

The YouTube blog hasn't denied that at all. In fact it practically confirms it:

> Our agreements with partners have technical requirements to ensure a high quality experience on YouTube.

Hah, a "high quality" experience indeed. Except, it's not quite "on youtube" since it's more "on Roku".

The youtube blog also states:

> Roku requested exceptions that would break the YouTube experience and limit our ability to update YouTube in order to fix issues or add new features.

Let users update their YouTube app through Roku app store instead of some shitty auto-update crap that lets Google shovel shit down Roku users.
This is just another example of politicians using a tragedy to push an existing agenda. As noted in the article and in the comments here, most people don't have a problem posting hate under their own names.

Who does like anonymity? Government dissidents. Reporters. Human rights workers and investigators.
Yeah, someone wrote a CRUD app to do ride sharing and now somehow their worth is in the same ballpark as a semiconductor superpower.