skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. I found this article a poor rebuttal.

As a lefty who is pretty clumsy on the right, there are many implicit design decisions that favor whatever right handed people do for the simple reason that most people are right handed.

There was accommodations for lefty’s in some ancient battle formations, so while it may be a myth, it may be one with a kernel of truth as conventions for things like castle construction are probably ancient and lost to modern people.
I agree 100%. So much so, that I think every professional language should have it. Every tab, newline and space one has to do manually is lost effort.

It still amazes me that C# doesn't have good opinionated formatter. It has lot of non-opinionated formatters, but I found one: Csharpier [1], check it out. It's slow, but at least the author is trying.

[1]: https://github.com/belav/csharpier
Of course art has value... to society. That isn't the same thing as it being "worth $x", a statement that only makes sense in the context of scarcity economics.

In that sense yes, only physical[0] art has a dollar value determined by supply and demand because the supply is infinite when we're talking about information. An NFT's supposed "value" comes from the perversion of a post-scarcity space by artificially introducing scarcity in the form of cryptographic certificates. NFT proponents tell you that cryptographic certificate is somehow related to the art, but it isn't. That's an illusion. I can create an NFT that also points to the same art your NFT points to and we'd need non-cryptographically-secure non-decentralized context to know which one is legit, so even the point of selling to status-wankers doesn't make sense to me.

[0] if we ever get some kind of replicator technology that can perfectly duplicate a physical object, then that all goes away. Hell, I don't even personally really believe in it because I've spent a lot of time thinking about the Ship of Theseus and what it means.
> But the idea that intellectual capacity is an essential difference between racial groups is /the/ white supremacist argument.

Why do you believe that genetic differences suddenly stop at the brain stem?

Most people who accept that genetic differences between subpopulations exist, also acknowledge that south-east Asians and Ashkenazi Jews are on average more skilled in STEM fields than "white" people. So much for white supremacy.
This is a simple implementation of a one way mirror.

Metamaterials have a chance at at: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2014/07/new-nist-metam...
A company doing similar work that I shared a startup incubator with for a while is Accion. They use a liquid salt so their propellant is sort of pre-ionized.

https://accion-systems.com/our-technology/
Are you suggesting that women are too incompetent to kill themselves?

The less sexist explanation is that women generally use suicide attempts as a way of asking for help while men generally use suicide attempts as a way of escape.

Stated in those terms, both groups are very competent at achieving the end goal.
It's still in dev, unfortunately. Have started a co-op to build this, and other SaaS apps, so it's to basically manage what we're doing but also help others do the same. We should start a page to gather subs for people interested in using it.
You see this phenomenon in policy development too.

My current favorite example is the AI ethics/policy space. A lot is being written by policy people about the "whiteness" of AI and those developing it. But most real world technical and research teams are actually remarkably diverse along many lines (I'm not saying there isn't still work to be done though).

Then you take a look at the AI policy/ethics space... for example, here's the team behind the Council of Europe's Ad-Hoc Committee on AI (CAHAI): https://www.coe.int/en/web/artificial-intelligence/cahai A couple hundred people, all but one who are from the same general demographic and rough age range. Yet it's these people who feel that their energy is best spent criticizing tech teams.
I suggest you guys cover all your houses with wood planks. :D
> But ignoring that, the double taxation applies to income not spent. It is irrelevant to this discussion, in which Bezos borrows to spend.

It's not irrelevant if Bezos spends his borrowed money on real estate and generally vacuuming up other assets that are likely to appreciate in value faster than his loans. It's not like he consumes all of it (or even most? I don't know, but I doubt it. How on Earth do you consume a billion dollars?).

> Thus there is no double taxation for you or for Bezos(2).

As I already explained there is for me if I don't consume all of my taxed gains before I die, or if I use it to purchase assets that outlive me.

> Bezos is not doing this to evade paying taxes, he is doing it to take advantage of spreads.

He's clearly doing it for both reasons. At least to avoid, not evade. I accept that he's legally not required to pay tax in this situation, but the whole point is I'm saying that should probably change!

> So here, too, this is just complaining about things that aren't actually happening in order to get a justification for complaints about "injustice". It's a lot of very angry people applying who/whom logic rather than getting the details right about how much is paid.

Dismissing this as "just complaining" is really missing the wider point. That is that "buy, borrow, die" is a well documented strategy that the ultra-wealthy use to avoid paying tax and that is widely considered a tax loophole (even by those familiar with basic accounting and tax economics). Whether it's a loophole or not isn't even really the point, rather that we should change things such that people who "buy, borrow, die" actually pay something like CGT.
Unfortunately, I don't see what this study adds to the microdosing literature. We already know from plenty of surveys that people will self-report a lot of benefits; and we also already know that adding in randomization, longitudinal tracking, or blinding makes most or all of the effects go away. The simplest explanation is that most or all of it is placebo/demand effect, and running yet another self-selected cross-sectional survey on unblinded participants doesn't help.
This is does not quite fit the general "left-leaning" belief that I have heard.

I would rephrase it as "it's popular to deny that there's an underlying preference at play when jobs which used to be female dominated, like programming, became male dominated shortly after they became lucrative."

Bringing it back to the subject of the article, this entire discussion is really about tribalism. Humans tend to look favorably on their group and askance at other groups. Where people get into trouble with this is assuming you know from the outside what groups someone thinks they belong to (e.g. do you see yourself as a man who happens to be a programmer or a programmer who happens to be a man).
Previous year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23276456.
I refuse to believe that as much as 30% of the volume is legitimate
Is there somewhere to read a quick summary of the regulation of crypto exchanges, I don't know they'd become specifically regulated?
Contractors might have their own individual preferences too.

"This is my contractor John Mason, who likes to build right handed stairs."
"And this is his son Mason Johnson, who hates his dad so he builds left handed stairs"
This is featured in the Doctor Strange movie, in fact. IIRC the good doctor is presented with a patient whose case is so difficult that he's one of the only people in the world with a chance at successfully performing the procedure they need—but he turns it down because he thinks the odds would still be too low, and it might hurt his record. I think there might also be a karmic turn with that when his hands get messed up—I wanna say there's a scene or short sequence of the same thing happening to him, at least implicitly.
Tried opening it in Photoshop and got this error:

Could not complete your request because reading arithmetic coded JPEG files is not implemented.

I find it interesting that they wrote an error message this specific.
You wrote: <<They take egregious fees, often up to 20% on the exchange rate.>>

I find this hard to believe. Can you please demonstrate a single transaction with this fee?
Amazon is a rational company and acts in its own interest. The politicians we elect act in Amazons interest. So we are to fault for this. No hiding the truth. If we to change (a big if) we have to not vote for the corporate politicians. Till then it is just whining and dining.

From the article:

The architect of this under-the-radar campaign to smother privacy protections has been Jay Carney, who previously served as communications director for Joe Biden, when Biden was vice president, and as press secretary for President Barack Obama. Hired by Amazon in 2015, Carney reported to founder Jeff Bezos and built a lobbying and public-policy juggernaut that has grown from two dozen employees to about 250, according to Amazon documents and two former employees with knowledge of recent staffing.
That was what happened with Brian Wilson.
This is textbook fearmongering: handpicking bad outcomes to paint the wrong picture. I bet the risk of losing mind after shrooms is much lower than dying in a car accident.
I have a pretty even split of customers in cloud providers and hosting on rented servers in a data center. Using something like Hivelocity kind of splits the difference--they provide the machine for a low premium and you do all the management. They'll handle all hardware swaps and physical poking/prodding. The price beats the pants off of hosting in AWS/DO, but its pricier than just outright buying the hardware. All things have tradeoffs.
I think (as with any job) people have different tolerance levels for environmental issues, company ethics, etc.

Personally I'd consider working for a crypto company depending on the salary, job responsibilities, and title. I don't necessarily agree with most crypto companies with respect to environmental impacts or ethics. However, if the job were to give me valuable tech experience and had a salary that was significantly higher than other offers, that may outweigh the previously mentioned concerns.

I suspect that crypto companies like the ones you've mentioned may soon have to overpay for qualified developers if the developer community as a whole shares similar sentiments to you. Depending on the amount of overpay, I have to imagine many new developers will find the offers appealing, especially as a stepping stone to other positions.
> That's not a scam

It's a scam. Tesla FSD/Autopilot or whatever they call it is the same thing as Theranos blood test.

On top of that you have some other 10-15 avenues of crime, including the creative accounting , the constant lying , the securities fraud, the violent threats to whistleblowers, the rampant drug usage on the factory floor..shall I continue?
TBM 25/53: Persistent Models vs. Point-in-Time Goals
Sorry if my post came across as a personal attack, it was just an observation by me that your sources did not seem to back up your claim and seemed to be more included to give your post immediate impact than to actually support it. If you actually read and picked these article in good faith I apologize (except for citing and anecdote, unless you did that for comedic effect).

Yes, I believe that affirmative action is not only moral, but also necessary for optimal functioning of modern democracy with many disparate cultures under it's governance. Do you think we would be better off with maintaining the status quo from the 50's?

I can see how affirmative action can breed resentment, I myself was resentful while getting my engineering degree to seeing the high rate of female students getting internships when I never was able to get one. It really sucks when you are working hard towards a goal and see someone else pass you up just because of circumstance (not all of which are as pure as affirmative action, such as students coming from a wealthy well-connected family, or organized cheating cough fraternities cough to get good grades). But maybe it would be better if we directed our anger towards those that are getting ahead by cheating, rather than those that are getting ahead due to society deciding that they need a boost because they come from a place in society that has been traditionally discriminated against?
Alphabet is putting its robots to work cleaning up around Google’s offices
Fauci spotted maskless indoors at DC book party: report
> but when you added them all up they mostly canceled out,

Except they don't cancel when one party goes bankrupt and a bankruptcy court decides how the assets should be divided.
> "...the best source...has been, and remains, their public health authorities."

a contradictory conclusion, and somehow both falling for and denying the appeal to authority fallacy at the same time. you discount doctors being 'experts' but then claim another group of 'experts' being the right ones (with no justification, no less).

there is no shortcut when it comes to triangulating reality. all the data must be considered, not just your favored sources. otherwise, you will be biased and very likely incorrect (you shouldn't even have favored sources). note that the original article literally points out a bias/fallacy that public health officials have fallen prey to.
It's perfectly OK to "gatekeep" against falsehoods and those who spread those falsehoods. In fact, a functioning society depends on weeding out falsehoods, otherwise everything goes down the toilet.
58% of Voters Agree: Media Are ‘Enemy of the People’ – Rasmussen Reports
What’s the threshold for “pay with Bitcoin almost anywhere”? 95%? 90%?

Surely the fact that articles are written about individual retailers who are now (then) taking Bitcoin is evidence against the acceptance of BTC being pervasive as a payment instrument rather than evidence in support of it.
Man Plans, God Laughs: The Planning Fallacy
It is a balancing act, to be sure, regarding "feeling better" vs "less sick". Hospice care is indeed very important. It can go too far in this direction, however, and I have real sympathy for docs that get it "wrong" in either direction (too much "comfort" or too much "let's give you more years").

Notably: the prescription opioid epidemic is a great example of how this can go wrong in the opposite direction of healthcare providers valuing "relative" benefit vs "absolute" benefit.

My spouse is a primary care provider, and there was a period a couple decades ago where the prevailing wisdom was "if a patient says they are in pain, they are in pain, and you treat that pain. We are experts in medicine, but the patient is the expert of their own perception." This is still a complicated issue today, but there are clearly outcomes where we can make people "feel better" all the way to an early grave.

For the terminally ill, it seems absolutely appropriate to me to let the patient guide whether they wish to accelerate their death in exchange for quality of life. But "terminally ill" is often not such a black and white issue...we are all eventually mortal.

If things like heroin don't inspire a sense of horror or dread, then we just aren't speaking the same language. I, for one, don't want to live in a world where the human priority-at-large is everyone defining "living" as maximizing pleasure until their death. For the hedonists, I get why this makes a certain nihilistic sense, but I think the horror of the reality of it outweighs any momentary benefit.

In the very abstract, maybe it doesn't really matter one way or the other. In the concrete day-to-day reality of it, it's absolutely awful to see anyone struggling with any kind of addiction, out of control of their own lives...sometimes because they got on a treadmill-to-death on the _expert_ advice of someone trying to "help them out."
I've watched several hours of conversation with Eric Weinstein. He talked at length about the academic cabal to keep him out of the "in group". I imagine Weinstein will repay Nguyen's efforts by attacking him as a monster from the old cabal.

I think I know what you mean about the "grift"; I've wondered if Eric wasn't hurt by his little brother having more notoriety. Given Nguyen's remarks on Eric's reluctance to actually produce a paper (despite talking up the idea in popular venues) and his indecision about whether Eric is an academic or an entertainer probably belies a similar suspicion. Of course, if the paper were solid, we probably wouldn't be wondering about this at all (assuming, of course, that Nguyen isn't a nasty monster from the cabal).
The code is on GitHub: https://github.com/cloudflare/production-saas
> but they don't touch the stuff that the neighborhood patrolman would tackle (in the Robert Peel view of policing).

Nor should they.

But this doesn't stop a bunch of Karens in some gated community in LA from getting their panties in a knot over what some wackos in da yoop are up to and thanks to the internet the former has plenty of stuff streamed right to their iphones in 1080p to get pissed off about.

Norms don't generalize to a national level except for very broad norms and very small nations.
Any manufacturing moving out of China is a good thing, even if it isn’t to a green country. If Vietnam, Phillipines, et al, then those are countries that can be strong-armed / sweet-talked into getting greener. If the West, well, then it’s even more in our hands.

If we take this far enough, and we will, it also takes power out of China’s hands, meaning we don’t really need them to have the warm and fuzzies when we ask them nicely not to pollute. We tell them to stop polluting or we pull a boycott, divest, and sanctions on them.

WW2 was a last resort to stop a very nearly unstoppable madman, but we pulled together and we did it. The insane tradeoffs made was only needed because it was during wartime. Pressuring China need not lead to WW3 (perish the thought) nor need it involve death on a large scale. What’s needed is an intelligent 5-10 decade economic strategy. We did this to scuttle the USSR and it worked, with minimal total deaths.

Regarding the Uyghurs: a million-person concetration camp isn’t about “saving face”. Human civilization isn’t worth saving if we just let this slide because it’s easy and convenient to do so.
> Clearly these issues don't impact FPS games

On the contrary. One of the most common multiplayer bugs is the multiplayer-desync due to different settings of floating-point arithmetic.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1948929/keeping-sync-in-...

This stuff happens in pretty much every video game. You "solve" it by...

1. In FPS games, most _clients_ serve as the source of truth. This means that in most FPS games, you allow the client to "hack" the location data for clipping, speed-hacks, and the like. (Server calculated you at point X. Client claims to be at point X+.05. Well, client wins the argument).

2. In games like Factorio, an extraordinary amount of effort is placed upon finding all sources of desync (https://wiki.factorio.com/Desynchronization) and squashing them. Protocols communicate with integers as much as possible, avoiding any floating point issues.

> but do they start becoming problems in weather forecasting or particle simulations? What kind of applications are impacted?

I'm no supercomputer expert. But for reliability, a lot of supercomputer simulations step through twice to "verify" the results. That means both simulations must be setup with the same settings, so that your floats all line up.

In my undergraduate studies, my professor for numeric computing stressed the importance of sorting numbers: not only to avoid floating-point cancellation error, but also to have a precisely defined ordering for supercomputer applications.

You want to do things like add / subtract numbers from smallest to biggest, and all the positive numbers add together, then all the negative numbers add together and only do one subtraction. Cancellation error is serious business!!
I am as pro-nuclear as they come, but I find the tone of this article a bit too inflammatory. I used to think the NRC's licensing process is so complex only because of, you know, stupid bureaucracy. But I looked into the actual documents posted for the safety evaluation of the NuScale SMR, which you can find at [1]. I am not specialist, but there are plenty of topics that do appear to me to require serious consideration.

Here's an example from the final report [2] , something about "boron dilution"

We are concerned especially about boron dilution in the downcomer by steam condensation from the steam generators or the vessel wall because it may provide a source of unborated coolant that can migrate to the core following a perturbation.
This could lead to a rapid return to power event (reactivity insertion accident) with the possibility of core damage.

Now, it probably depends on pronunciation, but to me "core damage" rhymes a little with Chernobyl. I am glad that the NRC took their time to evaluate this risk, and numerous other like that.

[1] https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/smr/nuscale/ser-op...

[2] https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2021/ML20212L586.pdf
Self defense is one thing. Pretending to be an "EMT" and Meddling/Vigilantism at 17, driven by his mom there, with a bloody AR-15, is just criminal regardless of the verdict. America has truly lost its way and its soul.
How is QE even remotely wash trading?
> I used to call a cab by phone, and now I call it with an app. Not a huge difference.

And maybe you have lived places where this wouldn't mean anything to you, but you couldn't do this in most of the US before Uber.

Even in some well-known cities, your chances of getting a cab in < 30 min (if you could get one at all) were close to zero. There wasn't a single number to call -- you had to call many numbers and hope someone actually showed up. You couldn't track progress.

Where I grew up, my parents couldn't even get to the airport without asking a relative (and this is the biggest city in our home state).

A functioning, 24/7, predictable taxi system was absolutely not available in most of the US before Uber.
What a fun read! Was the bug fixed as as a result of this investigation or was the fix already in a patch that these machines didn't have. I wasn't able to figure that out by reading the article.
"It only triggered a warning on the display about not opening the door that way because it could cause damage."

That makes me think worse of the design, not better, that it is so common but they chose to patch around it with a user nag instead of fixing the design.
It doesn't really matter if it's exact or not. People know that some NFT that cost $$$ can be copied, they don't care.

I don't think he meant is as a justification, just that the phenomenon is similar.
Surely somewhere beyond the wall street grifters, the silicon valley data slurpers and the cryptomaniacs there is a fintech community that is actually worth being part of?
This is why I didn't get a desk job where I had to show up by 8am...seemed like a cyclical ponzi scheme.
https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/how-long-does-a...

> On the Bitcoin network, the average confirmation time for a BTC payment is about 10 minutes. However, transaction times can vary wildly.

This is because it is affected by factors such as the total network activity, hashrate and transaction fees. If the Bitcoin network is congested, there will be a backlog of transactions in the mempool.
This would result users paying more in transaction fees to get transactions to go through faster. This occured in April 2021, where average Bitcoin transaction fees reached $59.