skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Older people knowing better than younger people is one of those heuristics that's almost always right [1]. It's hard to tell the difference between a stupid kid and a stupid parent, because stupid parents are rare. Yet people keep searching for stupid parents, because it's really important to find them when they exist. There's a constant rate of kids pulling false alarms on their parents, but you don't want to ignore them, because if one of them is for real, you don't want to be the asshole that ignored all the warning signs.

[1]: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/heuristics-that-almost...
Actually it’s fairly easy, they can conduct Balkanization[0]

They will find appropriate politicians or in some cases warlords for each region, in most cases they will fight among each other to gain power.

This is not WW2 where you need a soldier to stand around every other corner, we’re much more sophisticated now.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkanization
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You changed the subject and made it about me. This isn't personal it is a matter if principle. Everyone that can give consent must do so before you perform medical or behavioral analysis if the person. No exceptions. That was my point initially, using ends and emotions to get around this is absolute b.s.
Every time I try to do something slightly beyond the ordinary with my bank, I get reminded that it’s mainframes all the way down underneath. Mainframes that IT leaders are afraid to change, update or reboot. Yet they still figure out a way to chisel you every which way.
In ancient times, all final exams would be oral ones in front of a panel of teachers. I'd guess that this technique would be pretty successful today too.
Following the cooking time on the bag for "al dente" pasta has given us pretty consistent results. Some brands more accurate than others.

But yeah, at this point I can tell when it's ready by stirring too. There's been plenty of moments where I've forgotten to set the timer and then have to guestimate the time left and feel readiness by stirring. Do it often enough and you just know when it's done. I used to taste it til ready when younger, but haven't had to bother in ages.
How do we know that this is not another Afghanistan/Chechen-1 for Russia? They lost both of those, and I don't think those got off to the same troubled start (for Russia) as this one did.

Think flight from the country, brain drain, economic meltdown, loss of 3 generals in one fortnight, Ukraine being flooded with weapons, equipment loss, major logistical failures, the loss of the information war...

An outright defeat is now a possibility.

> unipolar world

What does that mean in the context of Fukuyama's thesis?
It’s a fun crack at the problem. I’ll say (very annoyingly) that I have a hunch that the formalization is fundamentally wrong somehow that I can’t quite put my finger on, even though branch factor does seem like a really great candidate for the relevant measure.
I love Werner Herzog - but he’s never been an optimist. As for the content of the complaint: habitable planets are too far away, Mars is very much not a nice place to live, and we must protect the earth instead of abandoning it: well - of course. Does anyone disagree?

Just because mars isn’t great and the stars are far doesn’t mean inevitable failure. And as for “moving on like locusts” - there will most likely never be the means to get more than even a tiny fraction of a fraction of the human population off the planet.

Becoming multi planetary isn’t some economic frontier - it isn’t a new world to colonize - it’s a required backup for the survival of life itself. Deer and trees stand little chance to reproduce if the early is destroyed (by us or by something else). We do have some chance - it’s our responsibility to life itself to not perish. Forget humanity - let’s save the penguins.

Anyways - I can’t believe someone as clearly intelligent is Herzog does the “but we can’t just abandon earth!” Argument. No one is abandoning earth - we’re all stuck here - as if we’re all one mind and decided “eh, fuck it”. Thank god humanity takes thousands of different courses simultaneously. I hope one of those courses doesn’t go extinct.

Let’s fix earth and get some folks off it just in case. If it’s testosterone that saves humanity - so be it - what’s so wrong with testosterone anyways?
It's surprising the large amount of people I have found who are incapable of conceiving the notion of what this post calls "structural error" in modern file systems such as ZFS. They have this idea that checksums and scrubbing make ZFS invulnerable to corruption, and thus that the notion of a fsck does not make sense in ZFS. It probably makes sense for many because it fits with the fact that ZFS does not have a fsck, but that does not make that kind of corruption less real.
...You realize you're telling someone else that a group of people wielding disproportionate power at the behest of a potentially authoritarian government is going to somehow protect the end user against actual authoritarian government overreach, where the capability to dissolve or otherwise threaten such banks is entirely in play by definition?

Just wanted to make sure you realized what you seem to be doing.
I ran my class like a job (senior level interactive media). We had assignments with deadlines and I did PR reviews.

Deadlines are deadlines. Cut scope, features, etc but absolutely no late work.

You can guess how it went.
As someone who doesn't care about the markets, I see sudden/sharp price increases for food, fuel, gas, wood, metals, paint, and a few other things. A real mess.
I was fired "without cause" a little over a year ago. I know it wasn't workforce reduction because the company was hiring for my team at the same time. There's a chance I even was part of an interview for my replacement.

Weird to me that I was trusted with interviewing around the same time, but cut loose. No warnings about performance or anything else of the sort. And since it was "without cause", no reasoning was given.

I suspect I was just unpopular with my managers, and I was maybe too vocal about my issues with the codebase.

Anyways, I got a new job and got promoted to team lead 5 months after starting there. My managers and even the VP of my department have given me great reviews.

Sometimes it really just is your environment.
It's a silly exaggerated example. Point still stands, at least from my experience. Even with a rubric, people still (intentionally or unintentionally) find ways to do things that circumvent the learning goals/outcomes of the assignment
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> the rest of the world has moved on.

(Looking at thousands of deaths per day in the US alone)

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And this is why the system really should be reverse. The riders provide all details and then drivers provide the price. Forming binding contract on both sides for agreed upon price. And there should be absolute no limit on the price. Be it 1 dollar or 1 million. And the company offering this should take action to enforce any contract in court.
Surprisingly, I had managed to avoid any sort of layoff, firing for most of my career except that whole dotbomb era.

Then COVID came and I had my first RIF, ever. I was told weeks in advance so I could prepare my documentation and handoff. Even though I really liked that job promotions were limited and I was getting restless.
As a nation, what’s stopping us from saying the following?

“Ok, you say this is about defending Russia’s security interests. Fine - let us move out as many Ukrainians as wish to leave, and in return we will sign a treaty saying that there will be no EU or NATO expansion into Ukraine, and we will lift all sanctions. Furthermore, we will supply Russia with the technology required to decarbonize and save Earth from the looming methane clathrate die-off.”
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But is it really so different if we replace race with religion? Israel doesn't recognize people who join the religion- it's effectively based on birth just as much as race.

We have a government over a people that determines the rights of each person based on who their parents were. That's the core concept that I, for one, am opposed to.
Btrfs does report most of this, tracked per device, and stored in the device tree. `btrfs decice stats`. The counter can be reset. It is a cumulative counter so if you have one defect and the affected file is read three times, the respective counter increments by three, assuming a persistent error.

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/btrfs-device.8.htm...

Man page includes definitions of the 5 kinds of errors tracked.

The article mentions structural errors. Sounds like this is the detection of an inconsistency. These aren't counted on btrfs, but are logged. Anytime the read or write time tree checker finds a problem, it results in the filesystem going read-only to prevent (further) confusion from ending up on disk. These are exceptionally rare, I've never seen one on any of my filesystems; but have seen it catch things like bitflips due to bad RAM, i.e. the checksum was computed correctly on already corrupted (meta)data.
You're missing my point.

LLVM's design is fundamentally superior in this context - LLVM can "fork" itself inside an LLVM compiler whereas the way GCC is designed basically means all the hooks don't really like having multiple backends connected to the same frontend. It's probably possible, but it's something where GCC's baggage does actually hold it back even if the basic algorithms are exactly the same (and better implemented sometimes, GCC is still king across the whole benchmark suite even if LLVM is increasingly good on a few).

GCC forks, I am aware are nothing new, but the future of programming is not multiple monolithic compilers but rather (say) C++ (or D, e.g. DCompute would be a real hack if implemented on GCC) with shader and WASM bytecode output as part of one compiler.

GCC can and does do the stuff above but it's just a bit hacky and "please scroll through our mailing list" whereas LLVM is much more welcoming and is a proper library to be consumed.
I am thinking more and more that gig work is taking a huge toll on society and will contribute more and more to increasing inequality. It splits the economy into the people who run the services and can have traditional careers where you move up the ladder. And the other larger group are the gig workers that develop almost no marketable skills, have no bargaining power and never can move up in the company. They are pure commodities. The capitalists like and it has some short term benefits for some gig workers but in the long run it's are really bad deal.
I agree, honestly something like public key auth built into the browser seems great to me! I use a single ssh key to login into multiple servers, I don't have to rely on a central authority to identify me and anyone can remove my access by just removing my public key.
The contract isn't working each job though, is it? It's a higher level contract allowing them access to a pool of jobs, one of the requirements for which is that you don't get to see certain details about a job before accepting it. If that's not something a person is willing to do they can choose not to accept the contract allowing them access to the job pool.
So significant amount of nuclear waste has been produced for what, 50 years? We know it's very dangerous and we now need to make sure it's safely contained on a time scale which if it ended today would start during stone age. And this is no problem because during the last 50 years no one has been harmed?

That reasoning sounds incredible stupid to me.
For your first claim I think you'll find what von Neumann claimed is a lot more limited than you think, and even then what exactly was interpreted is still up for debate, see from last year:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.00242

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10701-021-00474-5

https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.13996

Likewise, for your second claim I think you'll find von Neumann said that the collapse of the wavefunction can be placed anywhere in a measurement chain, from the first measuring device to the observer's conscious perception of the measurement result. The stronger claims about human consciousness specifically causing the collapse of wave functions come from London and Bauer's book "The Theory of Observation in Quantum Mechanics" and Wigner's "Remarks on the Mind-Body Question". Again, this viewpoint is reflected in the literature too:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.02314
I won ours using a very similar design: we were given a couple of sheets of paper and some tape. I rolled one of the sheets of paper into a tube the diameter of the egg, and placed the egg snugly near the bottom end of the tube so that it would have a low center of mass. I softly crumpled the other piece of paper into a small cylinder the diameter of the tube, and placed it under the egg in the tube to be used as cushioning.

I was honestly surprised to see that such little cushioning helped it survive three 2 m drops, although it did get a hairline crack after the third drop!
A large source of CCP elite's wealth comes from Evergrande, Sunac, Country Garden.

A large chunk of Chinese savings is tied to it. If they allowed people to sell or liquidate their shares, it would cause real instability.
Sidenote : i've heard foundationDB was used for cloudkit, but is it also used for iMessage ?

It seems like its transactionnal properties would be quite well suited to something like a messenger service (where order of messages matter, especially with e2e encryption)
I like myself.
Then offer to pay more. There is always a price point where someone is ready to provide the service. This should be in the system, maybe provide all details up front and then include extra payment which the rider can agree to pay to get their service, free market.
The neutral position is one that is presented without bias.

Making excuses for this kind of bias, which is motivated by a major undisclosed financial conflict of interest, and which completely undermines journalistic integrity, is the irresponsible attitude that has allowed the culture of professionalism and ethics to degrade to this point.
Maybe I was just unlucky, but that isn't my retroactive judgement on my childhood at all. My experience was one of mostly adults making me do something that is really down to subjective preference because that was their preference. And now that I'm an adult and can make my own choices I'm much happier about it.
Nuclear fuels such as U235 are radioactive but very slightly so, U235 specifically having a half life of roughly 700 million years. The various fission products produced by splitting these atoms in a reactor may have much shorter half lives and as such are more radioactive. In the operation of a reactor, some atoms inevitably absorb neutrons as well, which increases their mass number. Through subsequent beta decay whereby a neutron is converted into a proton, their atomic numbers may also increase, producing transuranic elements such as plutonium which account for some of the nastiest nuclear waste products.
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The difference between a good web developer (80th percentile?) and a median one is much greater than the difference between a good driver and a median one. And the inputs and outputs can be fuzzier. And bad output in tech lasts longer than the negative effects of a bad ride. That’s why it’s harder to hire anonymously like via an app.
Have you seen the feminist reading of Mad Max: Fury Road?

You might find it interesting. YouTube is not loading for me, but it's called "The avenging feminine": https://www.reddit.com/r/GamerGhazi/comments/9jzuci/bringing...

My favorite part is something the essayist points out about the mothers [1] in Fury Road: They help in every fight. They shoot, they reload guns, they operate bolt cutters, they deny guns to enemies, they assist with _any_ light work that the buff action hero and heroine are too busy to do. And if there's nothing to do, they take cover without being asked.

The mothers don't start weak and become strong, the movie isn't about that. In fact I don't think anyone in the movie gains strength. Nux has a heel-face turn, but that's all I remember for character change.

Just because they're _side_ characters doesn't mean they _aren't_ characters. There's no scene (that I recall) where you have to ask, "What are the non-combatants doing right now? Standing and watching?"

And even though they're still physically weak at the end of the movie, their actions still matter. The movie doesn't imply there's anything wrong with weakness. Even if they are like pawns on a chessboard, every pawn still matters. I think that's very empowering.

[1] I think only one of them is pregnant, but they are all escaped slaves, so they're not in shape for direct combat.
I agree now that you've pointed it out. Too close to how people apparently think to immediately click for me.
Deliberately so, because if it the numbers are still wildly far from plausible with an easy model of perfect efficiency, there's no point making a more complex model of heat loss and equipment purchase and install and maintenance costs.
Or the ride-sharing company should match customer to providers. On provider based pricing. Let them to evaluate the case and bid on it what they feel is reasonable. At right price there is always someone providing a service.
> dirty free societies have everyone immunized by infections

They don't, they really don't, they just stopped caring about people dying
Gotta admit I read this one expecting to find some extremely libertarian critique of libraries per se, something about how "intellectual property" is being violated, etc etc etc.

Instead, I found all the talking points to refute such extremist critiques, and a thoughtful expansion to problems afflicting western liberal democracies. Good read, very thoughtful.
so you want to ban Vladimir Sorokin also, who only writes how stupid Putinism is, and all of his latest books are to make fun of this insanity.
The difference is that afghans and Chechnyans won’t surrender even if you turn their country into rubble around their feet. They’re accustomed to a brutally hard existence. I’m not sure Ukrainians are in the same situation.
The most recent version targets the beaglebone black and the intel Galileo (now obsolete, although you can still pick them up.) I’ve encountered raspi repos on GitHub as well. I’ve found it to be a great book since it gets you working with hardware very early on.
Have a look at this: https://futurism.com/diamond-batteries-made-of-nuclear-waste...
Too big to fail combined with an autocratic government ostensibly built upon stability. Who dares push it into bankruptcy and risk the certain wrath of that government?
Reminds me of 'turtles all the way down', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
>I’m not positive but I think you owe state income tax in the state that you are physically in even if it is only for a couple of weeks or a month or so.

The details vary by state. In some it's as short as one day but there may also be some minimum dollar cutoff--the laws are basically aimed at pro athletes and entertainers. I know I didn't have to file out of state taxes this year for some short business travel; all our expense reports are now audited for out of state working days.

Of course, you can usually get off with a certain amount of personal digital nomadism if you're not filing expense reports. But working for extended periods of time is getting into tax fraud territory. And you're absolutely right that a lot of people have been doing it, often without really thinking about it.
Right. Thanks for the correction.
Outsourcing has existed for a long time already but it has shown its limitations. But a lot of developers need to understand the company and its processes really well. You can't just hire somebody and expect them to contribute much. It takes time. I am in a regulated industry and it takes people years to really understand the processes.
So living on Mars would suck, and Alpha Centauri is too far away to be a real option. What's the point? So we can mine some asteroids? That seems so limited compared to the vision of people like Elon Musk and gang promoting the idea the survival of humanity depends on leaving Earth.
One thing that really needs to start taking hold in the public consciousness is that credit unions are far superior to banks in almost every way.

They usually offer 100% of the same services but with lower (or no) fees, and with far less bullshit. I've been a member of multiple CUs and every time I've had a problem, I just walked in, described the situation, and they just fixed it. If I call, I don't get bounced around to 3 departments, at worst I end up being transferred to a manager who actually has the power to fix the problem.

Every time I decided to try a bank instead of a credit union, I have regretted it.
The fuel going into the reactor is also radioactive. It isn’t radioactive waste, but that’s because it isn’t waste. The stuff in a reactor is orders of magnitude more concentrated than what we pull out of the ground.

Also yes many of the byproducts are more radioactive than the fuel. The stuff in the dirt tends to be comparatively stable - the unstable stuff decayed long ago. Stuff coming out of a reactor is like a year old.
I find it pretty annoying that the product info isn’t in the receipts, shipment notification, or delivery notification. A less charitable interpretation of Amazon’s motivation is that it forces you to click back to Amazon where they are trying to sell more to you.
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Except “the end of history” isn’t the article linked. Maybe you’d know that if you read it.
space colonization?

we are still acting and living like apes, and you think we ready to go explore space?

we'll begin space exploration the day capitalism will die, it'll be about scientific research, well being, preservation and ascending humankind, something the market doesn't give two shit about
It's memorization insofar as you can do all of that practice and become proficient at solving math problems without really knowing what they mean or why the steps work. You're regurgitating what you were taught, not making connections and using your understanding.

You used math as an example of a subject where tests are used to check understanding. I disagree, because most people that I know who did well in math did so by being good human computers, not by understanding anything.

I expect that doesn't continue to be true at the grad level, but most people don't get that far.
> "This is an extremely bad thing for the people who have to leave, who in most cases do not even get much warning that it will happen."

If this is the culture then the person being cut loose is the winner. Not much warning is bad management / leadership.
Then you're describing a normal job. A contract which allows me to access to a pool of company work, I don't get to see individual task details in advance, cannot pick and choose it except for an overall option to leave the job.
That's very interesting! I see numbers as... The actual numbers along a line which is a bit more like stairs. The number 8 is higher up than the number 5. My own Rainman visualisation is that when I write a text I can _feel_ what others will feel when they read what I've written. Whether it's funny, sad or boring (or clever!) I can just read the passage and at the same time feel what my readers will feel.