skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The instability and detail-injection has been a fairly big question-mark for me as well. I can completely believe people "see" things at will, and many I've run across claim it's "as real as real-life", but then they immediately fail to answer any simple questions about it. Like if the seat on their visualized bicycle is in front of or behind the rear wheel. Even ignoring if their answer makes physical sense, most of the time there's a significant pause while they try to decide, and something like half of the time they change their mind later.

I suspect it's more like dreaming of a thing than a photograph-like construct, at least in a significant number of cases. It'd also explain why it seems so dream-like when you get into specifics, where the pieces may make sense but they do not even remotely add up to a coherent whole - context or something is lost each time it's visualized. The main important part is that it feels like seeing a thing, which is both 1) something not everyone can do/achieve, and 2) more than sufficient for individual use or broad concepts.

And it can probably be trained to be more stable and detailed, and there are rare outliers where it's significantly better - there do seem to be people capable of maintaining a stable "thing" from inception through real-world construction.
Peter Zeihan argues that we already started with deglobalizing the world. His arguments are quite convincing.

Life After Globalization (Peter Zeihan) - 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kch4Z1GpNOQ
> sellers need to innovate to beat their competition

they would still need to innovate to beat the competition. But if there is no planned obsolescence, then their competition includes their old products as well, so it guarantees that there's at least one competitive option.

Therefore, i argue that planned obsolescence is removing competition.
I'd love to have lived in a world where Nullsoft never sold to AOL, but it's absolutely okay they did at the time they did.
> Who said anything about bullet proof hosting? You just need to host in a country who isn't going to do anything about it.

Everybody hates child pornography. Random internet trolls will autonomously DDoS you into oblivion and no one will come to your defense when they do, because it's child pornography.

> If the solution is to just arrest people doing it then how do you stop the spread by people who didn't get caught?

If it's being hosted in another country, how is your government going to stop it? By violating another nation's sovereignty?

> I don't know, but this does feel like a thing for the government to be involved in. If the government hacks a server to bring it down is it really different than a more official way?

That seems like a bad precedent. You do it for child pornography, now somebody else wants to do it for blasphemy or lèse-majesté or "misinformation" as defined by a corrupt foreign government, and then what are you going to say? Those things are illegal in their country.

> Who is doing this voluntary blocking? The average person couldn't handle it so it would have to be ISPs or the government. Many people don't have choices in their ISP so they could be stuck with an ISP not doing blocking.

It doesn't need to be the ISP, it could be your own internet router. There is plenty of competition there.
Don’t think of it as leaving Twitter. Jack Dorsey’s going all in on crypto
I've also self published a Go & Python book and it has been the most rewarding thing in my life. Every now and then I get tagged on a tweet about how someone really liked the way the Go book was written.
> Of course, in practice, this doesn't seem to happen very often. I'm not sure why.

It is probably twofold.

One is that you might simply don’t know what you don’t know. Maybe what the author really needs is a developmental editor (one who goes through with them the big structure of the work) but if the author thinks of editors as glorified spellcheckers that is what they are going to seek and pay for. The editor might have an opinion about the structure, but if they are not paid for that they won’t get into the details enough to help.

And that leads to the second problem. In a self-publishing context the author has all the money and therefore all the power. They decide when the editing process is done, and every extra week they spend editing comes out of their own rapidly dwindling funds. In a traditional publishing context failure is an option. Many books don’t get published. If the pitch is not good enough, it gets dropped. If the first few chapters is not good enough it gets dropped. If they can’t polish it to satisfaction with an editor the work gets dropped. I’m not saying that quality is the only rubric the publishers use to judge when to drop a book vs when to publish, but it is heavily judged at every step of the way at multiple gates. In contrast the main and only selection force on self-publishing is if the author has the funds and the gumption.

Is it possible that someone has the time to write a book and the talent to be good at it? Furthermore is it possible that the same person also has enough money to not skimp on the editing? And furthermore that they find the right editor for the right job and has the wisdom to give enough time to the process? Certainly. But of course more often than not one or the other is going to go awry from this. And i believe that is the answer to your question. This is why well edited self-published books don’t happen as often as well edited traditionally published ones.
See, "influencers" are not new.
How do you distinguish that from normal memory recall?
Also coincides with the rise of TikTok and people telling everyone else that in order to retire, all you need to do is own property and extract capital for it to create a neverending cycle of mortgage refinancing.
But in some ways, it's worse than that, because these evaluations aren't based on the top 1%, they're based on some proxy, and that proxy is assumed to be static.

So, to simplify things, you have some placement exam. You're only allowed to take it once, twice, or a few times at a critical point in your life. We know that exam is only correlated like 0.30 at best with actual aptitude, which fluctuates over time. And yet that exam is treated as if it is correlated 0.90 or greater with aptitude, and that aptitude cannot change.

This is part of the problem too.

Some (much?) of this winner-takes-all phenomenon is due to societal structures around these occupations, nothing inherent to the occupations or activities themselves. It's rent-seeking and protectionism. My guess is at some level it's not a whole lot different from economic dynamics pre-world-wars era, but justified through different means, where society is blind for whatever reason to the errors in economic assumptions that the world works around, and the serious consequences those errors bring.

Increases in scale from technology undoubtedly play a role, but I doubt that's all of it. The NY Times once published an article about income distributions across fields, and you could see this winner-takes all phenomenon in all sorts of places. To me, it seems to have something to do with salary and benefits distributions more than anything else.

If you take medicine just as one example (which could be an entire book into itself), it's true that there have been technological advances that scale all sorts of things. But there's also little natural competition, due to overregulation. So you have a hierarchy, with medical administrators on top, physicians below, nurses below that, and then everyone else at increasing degrees of separation. This occurs in part because of the tendency for the administrators to control cash flows toward themselves, but also because the regulations make it impossible for cost structures to exist in any way but one where physicians get paid the most.

There's lots of examples of this. In my mind, the problem really is income distribution. It's not a matter of equality in the stereotypical communist sense, but more about fair or rational evaluation in an economic sense.

Everyone can point to bubbles in markets and say "this is way too overvaluated." That's something that has a clear meaning, even if it's hard to define at times. To me this overvaluation is everywhere. We live in an era of monopolies, and we rationalize it everywhere.
I’m a manager of managers at my current big tech employer and here we are still required to be quite technical. I’d think that a startup 1/25 the size would benefit from this approach, hence my surprise. I don’t know how to do pivot tables though.
That's true. They have been gone from Firefox for Android for some time now.

Keyword removal totally dumbed down my browsing experience on mobile. I fear the moment the same will happen on the Desktop version.
Everyone who uses Twitter has seen the little ! triangle saying a tweet has "misinformation". Or read about people suspended for discussing

- Possible therapies for COVID like ivermectin or HCQ

- Claims that the 2020 U.S. presidential election was swung via fraud

- Hunter Biden's laptop [edit: had D. Trump here but that's covered by above]

I'm fairly confident that you have, yet have decided to be obtuse. If you haven't then maybe you aren't the right person to opine about censorship on Twitter.
They pretty much have already, haven't they? Everything they do is to minimize the friction in the typical online ordering process: simple website with decent search, 'free'/fast shipping, relatively easy returns/support, decent/numerous reviews, low if not lowest prices, and a huge inventory. I can put an asterisks next to each of those items where it isn't completely true, and I can easily find competitors that do some of those better, but nobody does all of them better.

Amazon gets a lot of hate, mostly deserved, but if you told me 20 years ago that I would be able to sit at a computer, quickly search for and find a huge number of products, find a price that often beats regular stores, and have the item show up same day or next day, I would've never believed it. It seems like every move they make is insane at first, but it turns out to be a brilliant method of capturing more of the market. Paying a 'membership fee'? Insane. Running your own fleet of delivery vehicles? Insane. Yet, here we are. I see more Amazon vans in suburbia than Fedex and UPS combined.
You betcha! Guy and I were in grad school together (Planetary Science) and have leaned on each other across the decades. Every now and then, we get to do a talk together....
You have to correct the pharmaceutical industry for that to be effective. Capitalism works but we need to discover the rules at scale, similar to Physics. Seems like everyone agrees that the rules we know tend to break at scale.
make sure you read the first half, where Alexander explains the experiences he and his group had on all the chemicals he made.
Even if I grant you are completely correct about your assertions about togas (I contest it), it seems whatever was said of the toga could apply to a tunic/chiton, himation, or whatever else people were wearing.
I don't know.

Is it possible to do better than we are? Probably. How much better? I don't know.

We could repudiate NAFTA and close off trade with China. This could bring back local manufacturing, and the possibility of a working-class job being a reasonable life. This could also lead to us falling behind the rest of the world, as they create economies of scale that we can't match. Is that better or worse than the current state of affairs? I don't know.
It would be really hard to pin the causality of something like this... some of the most 'entrepreneurial' places in the US are some of the 'bluest' areas
I sound pretty far down a different path - my dreams are nearly always entirely audio-free in any form, but I can read just fine in them, which I've heard described as "impossible" many, many times.
you think that x86 pages are marked executable by the arm processor? probably not.

maybe arm pages with an arm wrapper that calls the jit for big literals filled with x86 code are, or arm pages loaded with stubs that jump into the jit to compile x86 code sitting in data pages are... but if the arm processor cannot execute x86 pages directly, then it wouldn't make a lot of sense for them to be marked executable, would it?
While looking for a longer TOSLINK cable today I ran across some gold plated ones on Amazon. I guess nothing sounds better than thinking it's the best.
That's a weird conclusion to come to. There is a ton of alt-right, extremist content on Twitter. Not just in English, mind you.
My take is that there is a whole culture side of things to consider. Some cultures will have a higher general opinion of entrepreneurs than others.

In Quebec, Canada you still see a lot of that mindset where a successful entrepreneur is more associated with a slimy businessman than a smart person. It's slowly changing however.
> Do we see a greater percentage of entrepreneurs from Canada or Europe than from the US?

Yes, if one uses self-employment as a proxy for entrepreneurship. The US trails Canada and Western European countries in self employment as a percentage of the labour force.

https://data.oecd.org/chart/6xG6

Edit: the US has the lowest rate in this OECD dataset.
I think if we don't know the answer, I'd rather try than assume it can't be done.
Socialized healthcare might be much more amenable if it were single-payer but without subsidies. You pay for insurance just like you do now, except there's only 1 provider and it's the government. The primary benefit most M4A people tout is that costs would be lower under a single payer system. This makes that happen without the welfare leeching.

I and I'm sure many others are opposed to subsidizing people who decided to play video games and smoke weed all day with our tax dollars. If you're an entrepreneur, you're not harmed by this, you can afford to pay for it. If you're a small business owner, this should save you money. If you're disabled or old, you already get subsidized and would continue to get subsidized. Everyone else - pay for the services you receive.
A laser short throw projector with an Ambient light reflecting screen can be used in a well lit room. There seems to be a lil boom happening in projection screen tech.
Yep regarding (1), the article focuses on the stakers having much lower expenses, while disregarding their much lower revenue. Stakers and miners can both reinvest their profits, and stakers don't have a big advantage here.
I quit Oracle a few months ago. The good part is that I get spend more time on fun blog posts and projects like datastation [0]. The bad part is it's still challenging to find contract work that is enjoyable and pays well.

Most of all though I miss having teammates/peers. That may be the thing that drives me fastest back to full time employment.

[0] https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation
Right, you'd have to back this up with numbers, but if startups are considered, the US outstrips everyone else, certainly in the West.

The story is going to be more complicated. Ethos is an important factor. Some countries have cultures that are prohibitive or discouraging for entrepreneurs or encourage safety and comfort over risky pursuits, and working for a large corp is going to be more compatible with that than risking your neck to run your own business. I suspect countries that have national health care are going to correlate strongly with those which are risk averse and therefore less entrepreneurial.
Great point.

Similarly, we didn't actually abolish slavery. We in the west are still benefiting from literal chattel slavery. It's just not happening in our backyard, so we don't have to see it, even if we're still benefiting from it.
This is a common problem with language models in general, and the reason is not that well understood.

This paper A Theoretical Analysis of the Repetition Problem in Text Generation (https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14660) seems to offer a principled answer. Basically the probability maximizing search procedure for text generation can get stuck in loops where the most likely next statement is similar or same to before. I'm no NLP researcher so I don't have easy intuition on it, but that paper seems like a good read.
Some will probably bail out of FI when the market slows/crashes in the short term, but some will definitely stick with it! People have been doing the same thing for 50 years, there’s just a community aspect with a name now.
Aggression as a word is socially context dependent. People can be competing aggressively at a donation drive about who can donate the highest amount of money to charity.

The distinction between innate vs socialized becomes a bit muddy when dealing with humans.
Having done this myself, I don't really see it. Yes, health insurance is expensive, but I can also bill substantially more than my non-US counterparts can in their respective countries. Even with paying for health insurance myself, I don't see how I'd come out ahead in any other country right now unless I relocated and kept my working hours / client base in the US.
This global pandemic is highly inconvenient to me, so I demand to be able to take actions which are likely to worsen and prolong it.
In my own area, as an American, I increasingly feel that way.
> Do we see a greater percentage of entrepreneurs from Canada or Europe than from the US?

Don't know about Canada, but in my neck of Europe (Slovenia) it seems everyone who is ambitious defaults to entrepreneurship. Because it's the only way to advance or get anywhere interesting at all. And almost everyone has a sidehustle or two.

To the point that a while back the government had to crack down on sidehustling and associated grey economy. Laws like not being allowed to "help your neighbors" build a house.

Now I live in San Francisco and the entrepreneurship spirit is much less. Tech just pays far too well for most people to faff around starting their own thing. To quote a friend of mine "Dude, I'd be stupid to start a company right now! Have you seen how much companies will pay for my skills? wow"
I recently got a new job after around 6 months of searching and I was appalled by the practices of many well-known tech companies. Ghosted by multiple places, bait-and-switched multiple times (I was in secops/SRE and trying to move to appsec/offsec), you name it. It’s wild how unprofessional recruiters can be.

I did have some great experiences though; in particular Box, Airbnb, and Datadog.
Do you have to do the make clean all, or equivalent, every time? Chrome has a ton of bits and bobs built in, right? Not all of which need to be updated every time (I guess?).

I wonder how it compares to the build time of something with equivalent functionality, like firefox.
Local playback is fine, but greatly restricts your options for media boxes. The top end Apple TV 4K for example only has 64GB of storage, and the Nvidia Shield TV caps out at a paltry 16GB. The Apple TV would fit a few shows if you were willing to rotate them out, but wouldn’t be able to provide a “library” experience. The Shield supports external storage, but who wants an external HD or NAS taking up space on their TV stand?

So local playback implies something more like a mini-ITX PC or SBC running some flavor of Linux. That’s fine, but it’s not going to be terribly couch-friendly since it’s going to have a bog standard desktop UI.

So the most popular option is to put all your media on a server in the closet (usually an old laptop or raspi or something), with a client on your streaming box like Plex, Kodi, Infuse, etc connecting to your server.
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100%

Music is embodied, more so than speech. The real relationship between communication and some axiomatic irreducible form of human expression flows the other way.

Good literature is close to poetry, good poetry is close to music, good music is close to dance. And dance is the sublimation of sex or combat.

Communication as an artful expression, the closest thing to conveying Truth, comes from within, it precedes consciousness. Music is much closer to that than speech. We are much less human when without music, than we are when without speech.
Well, it seems revealing that we're discussing togas and not sponges on sticks. I'd wager that's because earlier statements made in this thread regarding the universal, unequivocal truth that no one used shared sponges on sticks may not necessarily be so easy to defend.

Judgements of competence and honesty are subjective; we can all fail to distribute them fairly (especially when it comes to ourselves).

Rarely, when it comes to a history of an entire culture that spans hundreds of years and thousands of miles, can we find one perspective that describes a universal "truth."

All we have are shades of approximation.

That doesn't mean that there's no value in that approximation, it just means that we have to be a little patient with each other while each of our generalizations don't necessarily conform to the ineffable complexity of such a large group of people over such a large area over such a large timespan.

"Perfect is the enemy of good."
TikTok is good at figuring out what demographic you are interested in. I have never seen FIRE stuff on TikTok. This may say something about what it thinks your interests are.
An essay on the theme "compare and contrast SK/JP/CN educational cutthroatism with 21st century woke culture." Good enough if that's the question assigned but.. why? Aoparently to push the zero sum narrative of elite overproduction, and pretending we all wanna go to Harvard when state schools are still perfectly adequate, then additionally pretending that you have to be a multi-intersectional individual to get into Harvard... seems like this guy just wants to have his culture war.
I think there really is something in American culture that fuels entrepreneurship. Maybe it's the puritan and "prosperity gospel" roots.

It would be interesting to see a comparison of entrepreneurship between US and Canada in the early 1900s before health care and especially job sponsored health care were so common.