skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is, we could be doing so much better as a species, but our best minds are either selling ads or working in finance. Neither of which creates real progress for the masses.

Not to mention that the government and the military have all but scrapped their research programs - a lot of the progress of the last decades has fundamental roots there (most notably the Internet). Instead, we let private companies like SpaceX and the whims of billionaires decide on where and how to progress.

This is wrong on so many levels. We need to tax billionaires of everything above 10 billion dollars, and use the seized money to improve the lives of everyone.
That's my old gmail account that I've since abandoned because I moved to yuriy@znovyak.com (my first name @ my last name). My google apps account (znovyak.com) doesn't have youtube enabled, so I uploaded this to youtube channel associated with my old (since high school) gmail.
One of my favorite books in my collection is a decades old Thesaurus of Quotations which is organized by topic.
Yes. Ignore the issue and move on
Sorry, but you are wrong. They are to be blamed with their vetos on 14 [1] UN resolutions since October 2011, covering human rights violations, indiscriminate aerial bombing, the use of force against civilians, toxic chemical weapons, and calls for a meaningful ceasefire, which if had been applied, this debate might not even exist.

[1] https://research.un.org/en/docs/sc/quick
There's space between "punishing" and "rewarding". In my book, giving someone free housing when they came somewhere to steal as a career, is "rewarding". That is why e.g. immigration systems in Canada and Australia have point systems where they want to encourage good workers to come to them - keeping them out would not be "punishing" - letting them in is "rewarding" them for planning to do useful work in e.g. Canada.

Also "humane treatment is an end in itself, not a reward we give people for being “good.” It’s not earned, it’s due." this is a deeply naive and childish view of the world. The humane treatment is not "earned", yes - it's the default. But it can be "unearned" - if someone doesn't give others the "humane" treatment, they don't deserve one either. Social contract, sorta.
You're absolutely right, although on a completely different topic: I'd argue that most of the things you mentioned might not be good for society, especially when combined with the view that most technological development takes place in publicly traded companies whose primary obligation is to maximize quarterly profits. I guess it is innovation when a personalized recommender system is able to pick exactly the right conspiracy video to HD stream to someone's phone that will get them to keep watching videos on an ad-supported platform. But not exactly society "blooming" in my view.

Edit: Obligatory "I saw the greatest minds of my generation destroyed by advertising KPIs" reference
I thought it was supposed to be out in December? Either way I have owned an Advantage and an Advantage 2 and they're the best non-gaming keyboards I've worked with, by a significant margin, so yeah I'm excited to get the 360.
Given that international law was broken and civilians are dying, facing civil disputes over contract interpretation seems trivial. As with McDonalds, companies can have Russian (and probably Chinese) customers at the moment or customers elsewhere in the world. Their call.

As I've typed before, choices have consequences.
in this context it means "to give up".

> Varje meddelande att motsåndet ska uppges är falskt.

a more direct translation: "Every message that resistence should be given up is false"
Spoiler alert: 3 has the widest interval and * has the smallest. Time to write a phone-inspired composition.
I tend to be a little more extreme: we need to vacate Earth, leave it as a natural biosphere reserve, and try out all our environmental compromises and even wilder things (synthetic life?) in lush habitats out of planet.
Companies have started doing weird "mind games" and "tests" lately, watch out
> The point is having a system that can react fast enough to remove the spam from most systems once it is identified.

Then you need a system for distributing filter updates, and preventing the spammers from distributing bogus filter updates. Isn't this basically just the same problem as before?
Are we really seeing a lot of innovation? The last technological breakthrough was the smartphone.

We still don't have space stations that can accommodate more than a half dozen people (spoiler: I want to live on Cloud City). We don't have Moon colonies. We don't have 3D holograms (not the ones that rely on spinning a stick really fast and using a projector). We still don't have a cure for any type of cancer. No warp drives. No anti-grav. No 200 year life expectancy. No human cloning. No $25 000 flying cars. No mass produced technology or consumer products using graphene.

We make smaller chips, miniaturized computers, made fancier looking user interfaces, made rocket boosters reusable, and video game graphics are approaching photorealism. Great.
This is an interesting analysis. I see a number of factors in play:

1. Population size: the more people you have, the more likely you are to make "geniuses". The genius chart late in the piece maps with this hypothesis;

2. Baseline education: the idea here is that geniuses are less of a gap if the normal level of education and competency is higher;

3. Low-hanging fruit: things seem obvious in hindsight of course but it's also true that some of the big jumps in certain fields come down to what were fairly simple ideas. Those who come up with them are typically labelled "geniuses". That may or may not be the case. But the point is that progress in fields isn't smooth. We've now been in a period in physics where for decades now we've simply confirmed what we already suspected. Useful of course. As is disproving various theories (which is constantly happening).

But the 20th century had 2 massive jumps forward in physics: namely relativity (obviously) and the various quantum mechanics related fields (QFT, QCD, etc). This isn't my area of expertise but my understanding is that a big part of this was realizing just how deeply tied physics and certain areas of mathematics are.

Oh and for the record, I'm really talking about fundamental physics here. Other fields like condensed matter physics are a completely different beast.

But is the 20th century typical? It's hard to say. I suspect it isn't. I once heard research described as spending years of your life working on a problem and your reward is you get to throw a few pebbles on a pile. Eventually that pebble pile becomes a mountain. Someone throwing more than a few pebbles on is realtively inrequent.

I'm not sure how much "aristocratic teaching" really has to do with it.
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The default OpenSSH settings are safe. You have to explicitly whitelist servers or domains in `.ssh/config`, but if you were to blatantly blast:

Host *
ForwardAgent yes

The scenario you talk about is certainly possible, especially since OpenSSH does not require a "tap" for each authorization once the agent is unlocked. (Side note: this is one thing hardware u2f keys absolutely got correct).
Or just adjust the second to 0.864 old-seconds so that there are 100 seconds per minute, 100 minutes per hour and 10 hours per day.

But we can't manage to agree on DST/STD time so that isn't happening!
It is reversible! The reversibility is largely provided by the PCB edge connector as you've identified. More details here [0]

[0] - https://microsoft.github.io/jacdac-docs/ddk/design/#pcb-edge...
Yes, in fact I frequently make that argument about JSON and XML. I'm definitely being consistent on that one.
As opposed to my state attempting to ban CRT from being taught in high school (a non-issue, since it isn’t)? I have lived in liberal parts of the country, for most of my life. They have a different set of problems, but I never once had my property vandalized for having the wrong sign or flag out front. People mostly left me alone.
Yes, in reference to different things. A free will to choose one’s career path, and changing ideas which are contrary to that.
There are adapters to use flash cards in real 3½" floppy drives.

I had a nice metal one made by Sony years ago. Flash card slides in one side, and there's a place for a button cell to power it. Then you just stick the whole thing into the floppy drive like a regular disk.
> The problem is, we could be doing so much better as a species, but our best minds are either selling ads or working in finance. Neither of which creates real progress for the masses.

So what does create real progress to the masses?
A bit of an aside:

> "Clean-room design" was an underhanded way to legally reverse engineer and clone a competitor's product. It works like this: engineer A produces a specification after studying the competing product, a lawyer signs off on the spec not including copyrighted material, and engineer B re-implements the product from the spec A created. A and B have the same employer, but since they're not the same person there's technically no copyright infringement. This technique was used during the fiercely-competitive market rush of early personal computing.

What a weird way to position this.

There's nothing "underhanded" about it. There is literally no copyright infringement in this case. It's pure reverse engineering as is done in many other industries and fields.

And the outcome is increased interoperability and improved competition by eliminating artificial barriers of entry in the market. Without it, the computing world would be a very different place, and I doubt anyone would like it.

In fact, the market was far from "fiercely competitive" prior to the IBM BIOS being reverse engineered. Before that work was done, IBM basically had a lock on the PC market. It wasn't until the clone rush of the 80s that prices came down and computing became accessible to everyone. Hell, IBM valued that near-monopoly so much they introduced the MCA bus in the hopes of locking the PC back down. Fortunately their competitors succeeded in establishing open alternatives, including PCI and so forth, and the rest is history.

I wonder how this author feels about the Google v Oracle lawsuit regarding Google's reimplementation of a bunch of core Java APIs...
I agree. It's just that there is so much innovation everywhere, that those geniuses of old are not THAT outstanding. There are many geniuses, who make big contributions, but they don't work by themselves, so their contributions are not seen as advancing a field by one big leap. The same with music. You just need to search more. Youtube and spotify made this easier, I discover totally new astounding music authors and songs almost every month. Yeah, not everyone likes my music taste, but I see that many people also find new music they love. We just have so much variety now, that there is no single commonly recognisable genius.
IMO it's lot easier to just write a native app. Or if you're going to learn a new language, just learn Flutter.

"Write once" may actually be more work. You're supporting multiple operating systems, multiple devices/manufacturers on Android. So you're maintaining the same code but it's being polluted by code on different operating systems. At best, you're writing for Chrome and Safari, where the behaviour is different, and often needs a lot of redundant lines of CSS.

A HTML5 camera may perform differently on different devices, on certain edge cases. Storage definitely acts differently on say, Samsung. If you want an Instagram Lite style gallery, that could be a lot of work to support and maintain.

Native mobile gives you more power over layouts. You have fine control over dialog boxes, pop ups, scoping across different pages and dialogs are handled better, tablet support is built in. None of that SPA stuff where something several pages in affects a previous page because of ID conflicts.

Something with the complexity of a card may take a week to get right on CSS, a couple days on native mobile. There's a reason PWAs feel so janky.

And then there's lifecycles - what happens when someone changes apps, your device runs out of memory, or a phone call interrupts. People say native is hard, but most of the hard architecture work is lifecycle management. With a PWA, you basically get none. That means someone might be deep into your app, switch screens, then lose all progress.
We don't have Einsteins because the brightest people don't work on astrophysics because there's no money in it. Instead, they're figuring out how to use AI to sell more dick pills and artfully distressed furniture to people devoid of erections and taste on the goddamn Internet, for more money in a year than Einstein saw in a decade.
> - Largely inactive since 2019 until ~15 days ago.

I'm a lurker, sorry for that.

> - Ukrainian with ML background[1]

Thanks. I did finish Yandex's school of data science (2015-2018). I've been to Moscow in 2018 for their graduation ceremony.

Edit: My remark about me visiting Moscow is to demonstrate that I did not harbor any anti-Russia sentiments.
I am not unsympathetic. I am personally not unlike you, in that my natural rising time is around 7:00AM, and my body really, really wants to be asleep in the hours just before dawn. And, I spent years working an international job that had me in meetings as early as 5:00AM regularly; and then took a position in which my commute had to start at 5:00AM. I didn't like it, but unlike you (evidently) I wasn't actually dysfunctional in the pre-dawn hours, and the work was good and what I wanted to be doing, so I made it go.

But for all that, I don't think the fact there are some people in your situation due to their natural clocks and the latitude at which they live, is a good, or even relevant, reason, to not eliminate time switches and move to permanent DST. Some folks that are a couple of sigma from the mean are going to be inconvenienced by anything universal that is optimized for the mean. There aren't going to be airline seats that are comfortable for both 7 foot, 250lb men, and 4'11" 90lb women either.
I'd argue that the low-hanging fruit of science has been picked. That's why we're not seeing "Einsteins" everywhere.

In fact, there's an Asimov short story (I can't recall the name) where certain members of society exist only to make connections between unrelated fields because the knowledge of humanity has become so vast. In fact, I'd say we're not far from that now, as there are more and more stories along the lines of "an obscure corner of maths has been found to explain 'X' in physics".
Everyone who can please go find the bug report where users were outraged about the page visibility API and comment. If Firefox can block popups for the user's benefit, it can mess with the page visibility for the user's benefit.
All media is biased. Some more, some less, but being unbiased is impossible by definition. Autocratic media is biased in a compulsory way. The problem is when Democratic media becomes activist and start to sell opinions as facts (they learnt that drama and toxicity sells), becoming unshamefully biased and almost matching its counterpart. I'm not sure this is helping at all Ukraine or the world.
Sorry to hear about the weight struggle. My personal experience is that it's a very habit dependent and hard to conquer thing.

And yes, we can’t possibly convince everyone. We shouldn't try. Long term thinking is really hard.
We need top down public policies informed by science. Heavy tax incentives and disincentives.

We should definitively try seeding the oceans, but planet scale engineering is some scary shit. The stakes are as high as can be and calculating all possible outcomes is next to impossible. It's also hard to start small and scale. So, very much needed and terribly dangerous.
Technology is not a linear or even guaranteed path.

Asking "why don't we have more Einstein's?" ignores that Einstein's great contributions could only have been made at the point in history he existed: without the Michelson-Morley experiment, a fixed speed of light was not a known problem in physics.

Today in particle physics though we lack such an experiment - there are no substantial inconsistent results which can form the basis of new theory: no results which conclusively point to any of the myriad new theoretical approaches being right.

If such a result is found, then it's likely a theoretical basis which has already been written will prove successful in helping explain and develop a new theory to extend our understanding, and some Nobel prizes will be given. Is it's developer an accomplished scientist? Yes. But were there peers and competitors somehow not as talented? Maybe, but more likely they simply weren't first - and weren't lucky enough.
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There is still room for genius in the most controversial areas of philosophy. There's room for great, era-defining theories in politics and in genetic engineering of humans.
Some food for thought, for the people interested in this:

Yes, there is a wholly different educational quality from one-on-one tutoring compared to mass produced standardized 20+ on 1 textbook curricular politicized 'education'.

However there are other areas that I suspect have a hand in any broad genius decline.

I would look to declining nutritional quality, for a number of reasons:

* depleted soil

* pesticide residue

* fertiliser residue

* contaminated water

* dodgy preservatives

* corn and sugar subsidies

* poorly understood food additives

* selection for looks over nutritional quality

* ocean pollution - mercury in fish, for example

* Over-processing

There's environmental factors to consider:

* air pollution

* water pollution

* forever chemicals

* lingering lead and the like

* noise pollution

* distractions - ie; porn, gaming, porn, movies, porn, TV, tinder, phones, porn, etc.

Cultural and societal factors:

* All the money is in the worst shit. Math whizzes become quants, or help out big data. Artistic geniuses become marketing and advertising shitlords. Storytellers get churned up into the latest mega franchise, or become formulaic parodies of themselves to satisfy publishers.

* Lack of holistic thinking. Specialization is strongly emphasized in many ways.

* Fierce and relentless, scientifically designed, soul-crushing propaganda, twisting hearts and minds into a constant state of fear.

* Politicized and weaponized anti-intellectualism.

* Scientism

* Media priorities

All that said, I think figuring out how to make tutoring better and more wide-spread is our way out of a lot of this stuff... Which is probably why it will be viciously attacked by the usual profiteers and their paid defenders of the status quo.
That's because that's not what GDP tries to capture. Might as well complain the # of songs played on the radio doesn't capture the quality of music composition..
On the other hand, it's usually best to lead by example and "put your money where your mouth is".
If you can afford to hold onto something, the value is what others want to do with it.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/07/31/book-review-raise-a-ge... is about essentially a very similar style of intensive individualized tutoring. (This SSC review links to a new English translation iof this work.)

I'm not sure that intensive tutoring ever "went out of style" though, so much as gradually becoming infeasible because of (1) the amount of high-skill effort involved, which became more and more costly due to the expanding alternate employments of similarly skilled work; and (2) general progress meaning that even with intensive tutoring you could not reach the research frontier any more effectively than others, so making "genius"-level contributions would still be hard.

It's an interesting argument regardless, and intensive "tiger mom/dad" parenting, while generally less effective, still derives much of its general orientation from these 'aristocratic' norms.
I had that exact BIOS Interface Technical Reference manual, which (along with one describing the FAT, I think) were the only technical books that came with my PCjr. I spent the 10 hour drive home after purchasing it reading them, assuming that was the stuff I needed to know.

I subsequently had a quite granular mental map of how higher-level software interacts with the hardware through BIOS and DOS interrupts, and knew a lot more than I generally needed to about where the MBR is stored, disk cluster size, etc.

It was difficult times to learn about computers - no friends used them, there was no internet, so any knowledge acquired was hard-earned, and tended to really stick.
Neither writer nor reader needs to block. The writer does CAS on the generation counter to ensure it is safe against other writer threads. The reader just spins until it reads the same generation counter value before and after the read.
While scientific and engineering approaches are fine, I prefer an empirical approach to spaghetti termination conditions - I sample it while cooking. When it won't really bend or is crunchy when tasted, it's not done. If it tastes like porridge, it's over done. Otherwise, the level of al dente-ness is chosen that best reflects the target audience.
Geniuses are hidden under the noise of that infinite information access we have now.
How many OS assumptions does it break to have a massively oversized capacity on a floppy drive?

Or is it just using 1.44mb of a multi-GB SD card?
Yeah, Ukraine has the same issue every other post-Soviet country has, even the EU ones, like corruption and poverty. But after the 2014 revolution the people of Ukraine proved that they prefer western values more than being Putin's puppet state.
One reason Einstein seems like such a genius was that this happened in his lifetime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_experiment

We have a much bigger physics community today but the closest thing to the above happening are these two events

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_and_Z_bosons#Discovery

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_for_the_Higgs_boson#Dis...

with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_oscillation#Observati...

as a distant third that has played out very slowly which is attributed to a very strange theorist character

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Pontecorvo

There is public fascination with Steven Hawking, but Hawking's work has been confined to questions where the answers are unobservable (what's inside a black hole? what do you see in 10⁶⁴ years when stellar origin black holes start to pop?)
“After years of typing on thin Apple keyboards, my fingers started to hurt. First a little, then badly. ”

Patient: “Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do this”

Doctor: “Then don’t do that”

I’ve been reading RSI stories for almost 30 years.

http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/emacs_hand_pain_celebrity.htm...

Yes, coders will never type 180 wpm with most other solutions but isn’t it about time we found other ways to let people enter information with computers.

This solution from 7 years ago is memorable:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8805053
That law does indeed exist, but nonetheless you still have numerous streets in Romania named after Antonescu. They can be trivially found on Google Maps. For example, Strada Mareșal Ion Antonescu in Constanța [0] — and it was given that name in 2000!

Of course, nobody should judge all Romanians, nor even the political leaders who were not directly involved in the naming decision, for that. Countries are not a homogenous unit.

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Strada+Mareșal+Ion+Antones...
> No offense but

then proceeds to tell OP that they're brainwashed. You were deliberately trying to offend, let's not mince words ok?
From the top of my head: SPI, I2C, 1-wire, UART/RS232, RS485, CAN and a bunch more I'm not remembering
> And now thanks to this poor deepfake they are aware of deepfakes and are primed to question future videos, even if they seem real.

They may also be primed to question real videos. Aka “flood the zone with shit”.
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