skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The report you link is not a meta-analysis (at least not one I recognize). Also, meta-analysis is a freaking minefield: garbage in, garbage out rules the day - i.e. the quality of any conclusions is limited by how honestly and competently it was performed, and even then, errors in the underlying papers can cause significant undetected problems - and worst of all, because a meta-analysis is a big blender, it makes it harder to find real problems distorting the conclusions; there's just more to slog through. If you're really scrupulous and there's no other way, I get that it's a nice way to eke out a bit more statistical margin, but it's such a easily misused tool - if the topic is at all controversial, I personally wouldn't trust em for pretty much anything. But hey, this report doesn't seem to be such an analysis.

That lockdown report makes exactly the same kind of errors your earlier reasoning did (i.e. attribute costs to lockdowns, rather than the pandemic, and ignoring possible benefits); I think the author is biased and decided not to follow the evidence, but rather to collect whatever arguments he can to arrive at his forgone conclusion. Notably, he spends lots of time trying to argue that the benefits of lockdowns were actually due to voluntary social distancing, but fails to do the same for the costs. The article smells like motivated reasoning - and given a topic that's so utterly impossible to study in isolation of course you can always find legions of reasonable sounding arguments either way. Also, the author is fairly blase in dismissing epidemiologists, which he is notably not - probably because expert opinion doesn't agree with him. And of course - if you define away the benefits to zero and assign all the costs to this account - hey, then the cost/benefit looks bad. But the devil in is the details, an that report makes no case as to why his particular way of accounting is any better than anybody else's.

I meant to leave it at that, but that paper is so bad, I can't help myself: Like, what's up with Table 2: that's a classic case is intentionally confusing correlation and causation (and it's so egregious the paper's author tries to come up with some flimsy excuse for it) - countries that have worse outbreaks will choose to have greater stringency, but of course he literally makes the argument that because this is true, lockdowns don't work. Say what? What a hack. If the author were honestly trying to tease out subtle causes and effects rather than merely ranting along his preconceived lines, he would never have included BS like that as part of his argument.

And if you google the guy - he's clearly been willing to lie with statistics before, including in a court case about same-sex marriages. This paper: same old, same old.
The shame machine has created a disequillibrium, and personally I won't miss it when societies correct. More gravely, I think there is a coming generation of young men who will also wake up one day and say, "I don't need your redemption, it has no value." And like that, they will no longer avoid or deny shame, or be governed by it because redemption is a hustle, the carrot to shame's stick.

When they see that they have been raised and kept in an extended nursery of deceptions produced by subtly fabricated narratives, designed to subjugate their identities and replace the cognitive tools they have for experiencing and understanding themselves with constructions of a simulation, they will also likely discover the power of force. Iterating down that timeline gets really grim, really fast.

We've accumulated a reality-debt, suspended by academia and tech, leaking into appendent institutions like media and government, and the most interesting problem now is how ot unwind it without triggering a chain reaction, imo.
The more likely AGI risk is indifference in pursuit of optimizing a reward function with values not aligned with us.

Like the anthill destroyed by the construction of a dam. The humans don’t hate the ants, aren’t putting them in zoos, they just don’t think of them in pursuit of their goals. In the AGI case it’s even possible for those goals to be “dumb” or pointless if we mess up the reward function or some unanticipated thing fits it (paper clips).

The risk with a self-improving AGI is that it is way smarter than us and it can think way faster. In my experience people have a hard time really visualizing this.

Imagine a human trying to trick a chimp (or an ant) into doing something so the human can pursue its goal. The gap between a human and an AGI would be even larger than that.

Imagine scaling up a regular human brain’s operations per second a billion times so it’s the same architecture but thinks that much faster (no longer constrained by bio energy or head size). Humans wouldn’t be able to respond because to the machine it’d be nearly like interacting with a static object, it’d be trivially able to think/act around you.

That’s why the research around AGI is about the goal alignment problem. Which is hard because humans are not perfectly aligned either. It’s also why “just unplug it” is dumb.

The optimistic outcome if the alignment problem is solved is enormous intellectual capacity to solve any problem we might have.
Pyinstaller can be a nightmare depending on what dependencies you have. I believe it doesn't copy data files by default, so you have to either write a spec file for the library or include those files yourself in your program spec.

After everything is set up, though, things usually work smoothly.
No other social network lets users send a “dislike signal.
I'm a satisfied user of cx_Freeze in combination with Qt, but I only build Windows installers, so YMMV.
Yes - genius is a differential, not a scalar. It's not about absolute popularity, it's about cultural leverage.

Beyond his music, Beethoven changed the idea of what a composer did. It was as much a social and cultural shift as a musical change.

The Beach Boys - and especially The Beatles - changed the idea of what pop music could be. There's been an endless stream of imitators copying the tropes that defined the music of The Beatles, but copying a trope makes you an imitator, not an innovator. No one since has had the same cultural impact.

Genius is not a technical exercise. It doesn't even matter if you're unusually competent. (Art and music schools turn out hundreds of unusually competent people every year.)

The real medium is culture itself - concentrating and distilling existing tropes, and inventing completely new tropes that have lasting cultural impact.

Being a novelty isn't enough. Being clever isn't enough. Technical mastery of the medium isn't enough. You only clear the bar by transforming the techniques and systems that other creatives use in a way that matters to audiences for generations afterwards.

Not many people get there.
I very rarely use Windows, but when I wanted to do a screen recording I heard about the X-Box gamebar thing. IIRC, it required a version of Windows other than the base license level and you had to sign into a Microsoft account just to use it.

Instead, I opened up a Windows VM in Parallels on my MBA and did a quick screen recording with Quicktime. No Microsoft (or other) logins needed.
Even if it simultaneity is relative, I still don't quite understand why it is a problem. Every local causality is observed. Take this [1] laborous attempt to explain this issue. They explain that 'you can see the message before it was sent'. NO! You can see the message before light from a distant star system delivers you info about it being sent! Like, a bullet arrives to target's head before he has a chance to hear the gunshot. Never a problem for snipers, shouldn't be a problem for FTL messaging either.

[1]: http://www.physicsmatt.com/blog/2016/8/25/why-ftl-implies-ti...
Isn't 99% optimal good enough?
```Technical indicators: 'macd', 'boll_ub', 'boll_lb', 'rsi_30', 'dx_30', 'close_30_sma', 'close_60_sma'.``` lulz
Wipeout (PSX and Windows Source)
Some previous discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23078725
This sort of approach breaks down as soon as any non-renewable resource, notably land, is involved. You would likely consider a house you have just built on a piece of land as value-added with respect to the land; other people may regard your work as having negative value with respect to the land itself, which is a natural resource, and thus not true private property. And even regardless of the value judgement, because the land is a limited resource, your control over it is necessarily exclusive to others.

The same is true of your use of metal to forge an axe. While that may appear to be value-added to you, others may not share your assessment. However, the metal you used has now been removed from its natural condition (presumably in-ground ore) and is no longer available for anyone else to bring their own value-added use to, and thus your action has the potential to be a net negative to the rest of the population. It's not clear what rationale they might have for respecting your claim to have added value.

There's no clear reason for land ownership given the notion that you should only own value added, but libertarian conceptions of society would be fairly lost without such ownership. Nevertheless, for most of human history, the concept that anyone could own land in perpetuity would have been quite strange. Likewise, the concept that one could has also been the source of many of the most bitter conflicts in human history. This doesn't make the idea of owning land particularly compelling, when looked at over the long arc of human history.
> Isn't the US opiod crisis (not heroin specifically) massively driven by the fact that it is fairly easy to get lavish subscription on legal pain killers?

No. You can get lavish amounts of food and yet not every country is filled with obese people. Maybe life is a little more complicated than a one liner.

> but they still OD, and that's still a drug problem.

People burn themselves with kettles, that's still a kettle problem.

So, what?
I use a single 65" 8k monitor about 4ft away (behind my actual desk). While this affords quite a bit of space, text rendering at small sizes (even with the ridiculous resolution), is simply not ideal. If I were only getting a screen for productivity / dev purposes, I would definitely seek a large monitor instead of a giant TV.
I love Ted Chiang’s scifi but he’s just not well informed on the AGI stuff. I think if he ramped up on it his writing about it would better.
Isn’t Metamask opensource? Why don’t people maintain a fork without the censorship?
SD just sucked.

I want a time machine to go back and prevent the US decision makers to not fret about keeping a color system backwards compatible with B&W. I don't care to use the time machine to prevent war, making stock picks or sports bets. I just want to make my future career a little less insane by stopping this idiotic (in hindsight) decision. If there's enough time, I'd try to convince them to keep working on progressive scan and avoid more complications to my future career by not needing to deal with interlacing issues.
People say Pet Sounds is good because it invented modern studio recording. That's interesting but Birth of a Nation invented feature films and it's unwatchable.

I really like Pet Sounds. It's The Beach Boys, who sing songs about beaches and girls and surfing, but the whole album is suffused with melancholy. Every song is sad. It's an interesting juxtaposition.

The article references A Love Supreme, which is also great. But in some sense what The Beach Boys are doing is harder than what Coltrane is doing. They're taking a subject matter and art form that are broad, trashy, often associated with kitsch, taking them really seriously, and producing something that avoids all the usual pitfalls when someone writes pop songs about their feelings.
The biggest challenge with a setup like this would seem to be mapping the user’s focus to the UI focus. Traditional pointing devices and window selection highlighting would be suboptimal.

But I expect these problems will be solved via gesture or eye tracking + new modes of interaction for AR/VR. In particular, curious what Apple’s going to end up doing for their headset.
I think the mistake listening to Pet Sounds is to expect audio pyrotechnics, some sort of forcefulness or "wow" factor that separates it from the rest of the albums of its time. It's almost the exact opposite.

Instead of musical forcefulness or bombast, Brian Wilson doubled down on an almost shocking emotional honesty and tenderness. Nobody can deny the majesty of the 1812 Orchestra or Flight of the Valkyries, but Pet Sounds is the gentle sound of a summer romance blowing away in the breeze as the leaves change color. The instrumentation and production draws more on the soundtracks of the '60s than straight-ahead rock; it's filmic but quiet and understated. In the right state of mind, it puts you in touch with yearning and loss at the same time it's as light and lush as a sunny weekend drive down the coast.

This, of course, was a terrible mistake commercially - few in 1966 who were fans of "Surfin' Safari" or "California Girls" wanted an album of sweet romantic yearning with a light but heavily orchestrated sound. In fact, many today still don't want that. But that's what's there; an emotional and orchestral complexity missing from other works of the time made at the expense of AM-radio stomp.
You are correct about Putin.
In school, I used to be very shy to the point that I would almost never initiate a conversation with anyone who wasn't my friend. It was awkward but the shyness became my identity and I later became afraid to break that social image, even though it was mostly negative.
I felt like everyone else was part of one cohesive hivemind and that they all understood and could relate to each other - I felt different; I didn't feel like I was a part of this hivemind and I couldn't connect with others in that way.

Later in college, I met more like-minded people and one of my friends used to say that the best way to overcome shyness is to intentionally try to humiliate yourself. I tied that out for myself and it helped a lot.
I became a lot less shy over a few years but I still had the problem that I tried to please others. Also, I still didn't feel like I was part of the hivemind. I couldn't connect and interact with others with the same ease as they connected and interacted with each other.

10 years after finishing university, I had some very difficult career experiences. I encountered some really nasty people. Realizing how evil some people are helped me to get rid of my people-pleasing tendencies.
Also, for some reason, nowadays it seems to have become impossible for me to humiliate myself by saying whatever comes to my mind. At work, I could share some really outlandish theories and ideas and it only made my colleagues treat me better and respect me more;
this created a positive reinforcement which made me appear extroverted.

My personality did a full 180. I feel zero anxiety when talking to other people now, including large groups.
I no longer have negative thoughts about myself like "I'm so dumb for having said that, it was so awkward" now I only judge other people, never myself. My self-confidence is very high now and I embrace any awkwardness.

My problem now is that people are sometimes intimidated by me because I always say what I think and I never follow any social convention or fear awkwardness.
His voice has been doubled, I watched it in French (original language) some years ago

survival points:

- know what you can eat/drink and where to have a shelter or build one

- good gloves are maybe as useful as a knife, injuries are your worst enemy there
The entire universe is holestuff and is already there by default. You add in the paper to tell the reader where the holes AREN'T.
I had the exact same experience. I wouldn't mind if they would be sued for this. It's audacious, a dark pattern, user hostile, lazy.
I use a 4k 49" tv on my desk as a monitor. Let's me snap 4 screens to the corners. The neck strain isn't great, though sometimes I will underscan the screen and that fixes the neck strain.
How about you see if you can sell some of them yourself first before raising capital to try and outsource sales.

You’ll be selling the idea that someone else may be able to sell these domains vs. just selling some of the domains yourself.

Also, since there is no real downside, why don’t you just post the list of them here to see if folks have ideas or want to buy them.
Yeah. It should be obvious that recommendations to work somehow you need to track what you like. Or other alternative is to just recommend the most popular mainstream thing at the moment... Which then get also attacked for various reasons.
This is only an issue if the pixel density of the screens is small (forcing you to blow windows up larger, which forces you to crank your neck around more to see an entire screen).

If the pixel density is high enough, you can compress tons of genuine screens together within your eye-gazing FOV, and even sit close to the screens.
Half of genius is the willingness to obsess. To dive into your beautiful subject, plumb its ecstatic occult depths, and leave everything else in your world to rot.

The other half is this amazing phenomenon. When you focus upon a thing, a sight, sound, thought or whatever, for a time, when you concentrate, that thing becomes transparent. The original form dissolves, revealing deeper, realer, form. And then it keeps happening. Deeper and deeper. Funny you don't see much talk of this outside occult circles.
To where? The chips only started existing with M1. No one has actually had an attractive processor unless you either count Itanium being good on some workloads or maybe some RISC machines a very very long time ago.
The priors say humans should not in fact be given more credit.
I guess it depends on what you do with it but the cognitive load of the potential situation that would need all that realestate... unsettles me.
Everything Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) – The Missing Manual – Smallstep Blog
I haven't used fbs, but fman is great. Thank you for your work.
You obviously make an exception for yourself. Why is that?
Indeed.

As I said in another comment thread about this event, I’ve been watching my leadership team’s response to this as we have deep Okta integration, therefore so do several of our customers using our platform.

Said response has been pretty interesting and amounted to: “it’s working isn’t it?” when shown this event and the disclosures. Both executive and functional Security leadership teams practically shrugged.

Very glad I’m not the one making that call.
I think these outliers demonstrate an inherent flaw in capitalism (among others) where power imbalances dictate capital accumulation. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer because the rich are in a better negotiating position so the poor must take what they're given. The obvious example being that workers must sell their labour while capitalists can buy labour and retain profit, leading to capital growth. Marx documented the tendencies of capitalism pretty well to be honest.

You don't seem to be engaging with the implications of what I'm saying, rather just engaging with the specific examples, so I'm not sure you're really willing to engage with the arguments.
IMO Fleet¹ from JetBrains is their answer to VSC, and hence it doesn't make sense for them to invest in VSC. What people are arguing for is the difference between the interests of JetBrains vs the interests of Kotlin, very similar to the kinds of conversations that went on for early Rust governance.

[1]: https://www.jetbrains.com/fleet/
Accept yourself. What helped me to accept myself was the book https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet:_The_Power_of_Introver...
If you can accept your awkward and shy self you can on occasion also make fun of yourself. And if you have fun with yourself others might have fun with you, too. If you accept yourself others will also do ( independent of your quirks ).
I’ve found that a 32” QHD monitor is the highest PPI my eyes can comfortably read. I tried to use a 4K TV as my monitor, but I needed something like 55” up close to read it comfortably. It was simply too large and I had to move my neck too much. Also, that was the day I learned some pixels are chevrons!
First thing I do is cleaning up the code base. I'm deleting unused code, fix class and method visibility according to usage, do the occasional rename if naming is inconsistent, check error handling and logging for inconsistencies, write the occasional unit test... This gives me a broad overview over the code base, improves my chances to find anything by text search and enables me to better assess the impact of changes.
How is this different from having smaller monitors, closer to the user?

Does it come down to the distances at which the user can comfortably focus their eyes?
It catches on pretty fast to what you like.
"Caesar's wife must be above suspicion" - Caesar (apocryphal?)

In a neutral world, this would be easy grounds for removal.

There are only 9 lifetime positions on the Supreme Court, an institution dedicated to impartiality, fairness and justice. There's simply no room for this impropriety. Replace him with a conservative even! It's not about his judicial philosophy at all.

The Supreme Court needs every quiver in its pack to seem immune to modern day political realities. This is literally about as far from that as you can possibly get.
Jony Ive would talk about the fragility of ideas. I didn’t realize that Wardle started the idea for Wordle years ago, and let it sit and stew for a few years and came back to it and refined it further.

However, the most interesting new thing I learned was that he built custom tooling to curate the word list. Along with the single word per day and the shareable block emoji (which wasn’t his idea), I think the curation was central to its success.
That's why I bought and played Breath of the Wild. It sure beats an experience like GTA V's single player where I can't seem to go five minutes without some NPC talking. I dreaded everytime I opened a car door.
I mean, if you're relying on enumerating every user why reverse anything? Just generate all of their identicons.
Wow this is so well written. I've been struggling with finding a method of organizing code and things. Coming from a rails environment I struggled finding a layout that wouldn't easily turn to spaghetti.

Thank you for taking the time and writing this!
not to be rude... It seems that china would benefit from ancient history appearing in their land that changes what we know about human migration. I recall hearing that the Chinese government for example is convinced humans migrated out of china rather than Africa.

So how can we know what is true vs. what is dubious or outright planted and falsified?
I don't have much to say here that I didn't already say above about the meta-mathematical issues. However, about object-level mathematical issues, you write: "It is a work in progress and might take some time before bearing substantive fruit, but note that the current alternative is that any student learning higher level mathematics at the level of Lurie's books has to go through a huge amount of foundational material while the ideas themselves may not be intrinsically complicated. Instead, this complexity is an artifact of embedding the theory in current foundations like the SDG example mentioned above."

Higher category theory is not the same thing as homotopy type theory. One does not need to learn anything about the foundations of mathematics to read and understand Lurie's work. As far as I know, issues of ZFC vs type theory simply do not arise. You can just pick up Higher Topos Theory and start reading, assuming you have a strong background in algebraic topology.

The linked article is only about higher category theory and making sure all of its claims are written down in a clear and rigorous fashion to be maximally useful to workers in the field. It has nothing to do with the foundations of mathematics as a whole.