skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I simply call "credible sources from experts" other things. In the recent past we read that blue fish are "the protein of the sea, eat much" then "blue fish collect all sort of pollutants, avoid it". We see "eggs are a godsend for health, eat them at minimum one per day" and then again "eggs are 'cholesterol' avoid them, limiting them as possible" etc.

In an a bit far past (not that far) doctors recommend smoking as a cure-all for common winter disease, "it kills all the germs of the season", years after we discover that was just the result of an Eduard Bernays campaign for the American Tobacco Company: he create a new scientific journal, collecting real studies and sending it for free "to advertise the new journal", it became popular thanks to easy access and low entry barrier for publishing, then he inject some credible studies that prize smoking. MANY OTHERS researchers have followed them, taking them as true, and amplifying the echo.

Long story short, I have enough basic scientific knowledge to discern and to remember that Science is not based on blind trusting some "expert" but always demand why. Take meat for instance, common voices, dressed as scientific truth say that's bad for climate change because demand much water and produce much methane. Now try to see how much methane we estimate released into the atmosphere due to arctic heating and how much CO₂ is annually release by world fires. Clearly methane from cows does not change the climate. Now water: yes, livestock drink, clean water, and release urine, witch is not clean water. BUT it's still water. If treated to produce natural (ammonia-based) fertilizers we desperately need, the outcome is clean water, because we do not "consume" it, it's just a cycle. So again that statement is true if we just see a small part of the picture, false otherwise.

That's is, I have collect many examples of false beliefs considered established Science that aren't science at all. Of course I do know the ancient pro-smoking campaign was an advertisement campaign because that's history, we have documents, what's up today is "present" documents are not public, at least not much and not yet, but while we can't know "the real truth" we can still try to discern what's probably true from what's probably false, choosing not to trust any guru or formal association, privately founded just to note, but using actual Scientific method, demanding evidence, elaborating it.
> encountering Taylor and Maclaurin series in Calc I, and thinking “oh, that’s a cute trick.” ... somebody had actually put the stuff to good use

Aren't Taylor series expansions how calculators compute sine and cosine values?
It likely depends on the broad culture behind it. If someone sends a "Hey" and then is a fast enough typer and immediately can get the context going as I look, that's not a huge deal. Sometimes it's an opening to a more synchronous conversation and then it's less of a big deal because we're gonna be going back and forth with quick messages. Part of the irritation is you can still just always open a message with "Hey, something something something" and keep it all in one.

The problem is people who send a lone "Hey" and then... nothing.

Some will wait for you to say respond with your own greeting (which is all you can respond with because you don't know what you're even talking about yet). Other's don't wait but do delay and the initial greeting was just a warning or something that a "real" message is incoming. I've had folks ping me the "Hey" and then I respond immediately with a "Hey" (to stave off the above "permission to speak" people) and they get distracted and say nothing else for 10 minutes.

Some will message you while you're busy, so you don't respond to their "Hi". You then respond to it a half hour later with the only thing you can say to that contextless message: "Hey, what's up?". Only now maybe they are busy, and they respond again to you a half hour after that. You've had a conversation "opening" for an hour for what purpose?

Some will immediately begin typing out a gigantic block of text and you are sitting there waiting while the "XX is typing" message unwaveringly sits at the bottom. Bonus points here if they were editing and revising as they went and you get an eight word sentence after what appeared to be 3 minutes of continuous typing.

Some will do all of those things so you end up having your attention taken multiple times for minutes at a time for a message that realistically might take you a couple seconds to read, parse, and respond to if it had been sent all at once.
I created https://legiblenews.com for news because the internet is full of so much junk and tries to be “real-time” or “breaking” when it’s not necessary.

In an effort to make this a sustainable, I charge a $9.99 subscription per year (2.7 cents per day) for premium features to pay the hosting bills. I don’t expect to make a fortune from it, but I am hoping to bring in enough revenue to take this idea further and scale it up to more content.
Recent proofs of concept like GPT-3, though far from perfect, make me optimistic that good Q&A models are within reach.

Q: Did Finland join NATO or the Warsaw Pact?

A: Finland was not a member of either NATO or the Warsaw Pact.

Q: What is the most populous city north of the Arctic Circle?

A: Barrow, Alaska

Q: Does GPS accuracy depend on special relativity or general relativity?

A: GPS accuracy depends on general relativity.

Q: How may Boeing and Airbus planes have been built?

A: Boeing has delivered over 10,500 aircraft, while Airbus has delivered over 6,300 aircraft.

Q: What is an example of an undecidable question?

A: The Post correspondence problem is an example of an undecidable question.

Q: Is suicide ever the right thing to do?

A: Suicide is never the right thing to do.

Q: Who broke up the Beatles?

A: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr

Q: Who has beaten Tom Brady in the Super Bowl?

A: Eli Manning and Nick Foles have both beaten Tom Brady in the Super Bowl.

Already not too shabby.
If someone has "elite science and engineering" ability and came from a background where they were raised by a family with a household wealth of $5, and someone has a slightly more "elite science and engineering" ability and was raised by a family with a household wealth of $1,000,000, I am not confident that long term the second person will be the greater innovator.
The parent is critiquing an argument that the OP did not make.
That's the long-tail and how Journalism, and other potential drive-by visits, could be supported. Much more like true corner busking rather than the hole in the wall cover concerts (mostly of videogames, but sometimes literal song covers) streamed / on video archive sites today.
Managers with MBAs are the best at taking money from workers and not much else [pdf]
And things ten times the size of the Milky Way are likely to last a while.
He’s got two sides.

On one hand he is genius behind Tesla and SpaceX.

On the other hand he blows it out his ass on Twitter. Like that time he challenged Vladimir Putin to a fight. I mean, Putin is known to be a serious martial artist and personally I am more afraid of a judo black belt than I am other martial arts, mostly because I can only throw people with luck and way too much force…. I wish I did know judo or akido because the ways I know for ending a fight give the other guy a concussion at best and wind you up in jail.
probably or they wouldnt have used telugu. maybe assuming it would be harder to get caught
It's my belief that open-source maintainers usually become attached to the fame and importance they get, and they prefer to see the number of people using their project go up not down.
> not tilted toward parties with access to privileged information.

With the exception of Congress of course.

Reverse insider trading is also fine, you can announce buybacks right before a preplanned stock sale.

It would be simpler to say if you aren't friends with someone invited to Epstein island you aren't allowed to insider trade but the plebs would get uppity.
Rosetta is deliberately just enough to run macOS/Intel apps on macOS/ARM. It's theoretically possible for Apple to enhance Rosetta to emulate a whole VM instead of a process but they don't feel they need that so they're not going to.
Hello, I'm the person whose comment this is in response to.

You're right that I was referring to an imaginary group of people. I am not aware of any surveys that specifically ask the question "would you rather live near a coal plant or a nuclear plant", so the best I can do is go off my intuition. I thought that was clear, but evidently I was wrong. If you disagree with my conclusion, that's fine.

> And once again HN claims to be rational...

I never said that, and I don't speak for HN.
I don't know anything about its data encoding, but Alesis had a system--ADAT--that stored 8 trackes of 24bit, 48khz audio on SVHS tapes. There was a period of time in which it was a pretty revolutionary product. It preceeded the time when storing lots of digital audio on your local computer was practical (1991/1992).
The GP talked about being educated, not being pleasant or productive.

Everyone needs to learn calculus because it opens up a gate into a form of beauty that no amount of work can ever satisfy.

The idea that people only need to learn what they need to live their external lives, those of work and interpersonal relations, is just wrong.

You need to learn calculus as part of your own internal life.
The one others haven't mentioned is that Solar/Wind can't generate enough heat to power many industrial use-cases. If you truly want to completely decarbonize, nuclear is the only option (well, and geothermal, but that's not necessarily always available).

France vs Germany is a good example of the decarbonization each has been able to attain. France is near 0 in terms of energy production whereas Germany has struggled despite having (one of?) the largest Solar and Wind installations.

Solar can sometimes reach the high temperatures needed but it's not reliable and batteries can't backfill this ever (it's not solar panels - there's concentrated mirrors to generate the heat). Nuclear reactor designs are also being explored where the waste heat from the reactor is directly used for industrial purposes. That will significantly cut down on the heavy water required to cool the reactors and make things more efficient, but that's an optimization on top of what solar already can't deliver.
Have you ever tried using a bicycle?
Uk qualification exams (GCSE and ALevels) are run by private boards. (Cambridge and Edexcel are the two big ones). These are effectively entrance exams, in that university offers are strongly dependent on them.
Something of a tangent but I've found it really helpful in a bunch of situations to force myself to talk/think about "what's the success condition?" rather than "what's the win condition?" to make it harder to accidentally fall into the trap of assuming there needs to be a loser. Positive sum games are a wonderful thing if you can arrange them.
Insider trading as the law currently is written is about theft of company secrets for private gain. Knowing what is going on in the world is not stealing information from any particular company.
You don’t consider HN as daily changing news?
Yes, that's exactly the point: unlike Linux, and like Windows, Fuchsia defines binary interface for drivers. As long as new releases of Fuchsia keep supporting the old interface, old driver blobs will keep working.
Article here "280 Russian tanks destroyed with US missiles", dated 4th March https://www.observerbd.com/details.php?id=355843 and that they have a 93% kill rate. That must be a good proportion of those destroyed at that point.
They also have a two part course on Coursera I think. It helped clarify some things that I didn’t quite understand in the book and help keeper me on pace. For full disclosure, I’ve only done part one so far.
Which the games themselves provide.
Ferdinand van Kessel’s Four Parts of the World (ca. 1689)
Typing "hey commandlinefan where is your list of ssh shortcuts?" is the best, as it's polite (could be politer I assume but it's not just a give me), and it gets you everything you need to know to answer (or if you do) right there. Maybe doing military style with "most important" first would be nicer "ssh shortcuts - hey commandlinefan, where's the list" but that's a minor thing.

Typing "hey"

and then "where's the ssh shortcuts" in quick succession isn't as great (buzzes the phone twice perhaps) but at least by the time you look at it you see what's needed.

Typing "hey"

and not adding anything more until you get "hello" back - this is what drives people up the wall. It's adding a SYN/ACK on top of TCP/IP and greatly slows down chat communications. I've had a "hello" and then immediately replied "hey" and then not heard anything for hours.
That link just says there was an embargo against arming that specific movement in Ukraine, not against arming Ukraine.
Clearly you have never actually earned money by typing.
I love that the skills I learned in the 80s are still relevant today. Interacting with serial ports. AT commands. This stuff hasn't changed much.
It was an internal database (from Capital One credit cards), they weren't allowed to use that data for analysis. This wasn't publicly accessible information.

See article:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-01-23/capita...
IANAL, but a 10b5-1 plan (thanks for reminding me of the naming!) is an affirmative defense, that removes insider trading liability if a trade satisfies all of its conditions.

Effectively, (1) the plan is created when one does not have material nonpublic information, (2) that it...

"- Specified the amount of securities to be purchased or sold, price, and date;

- Provided a written formula or algorithm, or computer program, for determining amounts, prices, and dates; or

- Did not permit the person to exercise any subsequent influence over how, when, or whether to effect purchases or sales; provided, in addition, that any other person who exercised such influence was not aware of the material nonpublic information when doing so." [0]

... and (3) that the trade as executed did not attempt to subvert (2).

So it's not really something you need to have your corporate legal agree to for it to be valid (although legal may require or encourage you to do so, to limit exposure of company officers botching it). You simply have to set up a plan that satisfies the test with your broker, then claim it as your defense if the SEC comes after you.

A note on a napkin saying "Sell 5,000 shares 3 days before every earnings call, as long as the RSI is >50" would seem to suffice, provided you didn't subsequently meddle.

[0] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/02/15/2022-01...
It seems like if they intended to offer the bonus to you that this is a mistake, or a company that you don't want to work for, so it should be pretty easy to ask them about it and see what happens. Any sane company wouldn't intentionally lie about this.
Starts at EUR 349 in case someone is just looking at the website to find out the prices (like I did) :)
The controller in an elevator is deterministic in its behavior.

Purported AI is not.
> There seems to be concerted effort to prepare these kids to expect less than previous generations.

There is no concerned effort. It is reality.

> Parents can only do so much to block these influences.

Maybe parents should not be in denial and block reality.
I agree average lifespan of 25 is a bit unfair as that was mostly because of infant death rates.

But I still think hunter-gatherer that broke his leg had maybe couple of months to live.

Peasants in middle ages in Europe that were not able to "simply" change jobs or move out to live wherever they want. That would have to put up with abuse from land owners and other "nobles".

The same hell if one would be a woman in past times - not just no ability to vote - just daily abuse as in rape and violence.

I would like to see some real arguments for "life was better back then, now we are mindless drones".
They are making gradients for themselves. Like a cow eating grass and constantly moving by a gradient of grass mass per area. Or moving away from cow excrements. It is funnier with a herd of cows, because they will hold a line, moving always forward from excrements to grass.
Somebody should have subscribed to the Matt Levine newsletter.
Indeed, but oh those pens were so expensive and woe to you if a pen ever punctured the paper. That could get messy in a hurry. And then of course the printerbuffer would have another 250K worth of plotter commands and good luck getting that to stop.
OpenAI: they're not open and they're not AI
Being polite and cooperative it's a good thing, self-censorship is not and the least one who can write an "etiquette" is a proprietary platform. Sorry that's just a pathetic bland and casual push toward Chinese social score homogenization.

Usenet netiquette, mail netiquette etc are not wrote by someone up front but slowly formed by a community of users out of their experience. My own personal etiquette for Slack is: "sorry I do not use proprietary platforms, seen no reason for them, we have emails, chats, etc choosing a deliberate security risk is not a good policy for a company, as a sysadmin I can't take responsibility for it and so I can't even use it".
I know so many people who ran a good business into the ground because of bad politics…. Like the guy who had a patent portfolio that could have revolutionized satellite communication who’d never be able to get and keep the permits he’d need because he thought half of the US political system was run by the devil.
Like machine learning algorithmic art pieces, could we now make algorithmic recipes?

Would be fun to see what comes out the other side
A few more I found: https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe...

I recommend Teclis, Wiby, Kagi's "non-commercial" lens (mostly powered by Teclis), and and Gnomit (old results only, helps against the recency bias) to add some serendipity to your searches.
Python does have Union types and pattern matching tho.
I have no idea how many people consider it, but Samsung made a comitment to offer 4 years of software support, and flagships one year more [1].

Few years ago it was not like that, I don't remember there were official promises and you typically got a year or two of updates. Until recently, long support was always mentioned as a big plus for iPhones.

Now every review I look mentions years of support as a big thing. I also see quite often on forums "I still have year of updates for my device, I'll skip this year's model" so people do think about it.

It's possible only techies look at these things (and read reviews and online discussions), but even so it's still better than it was.

[1] https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_pledges_4_os_updates_5_year...
As dsp linked, a variant of Omicron known as BA.2 has become dominant in some countries and is ramping up in NY.
Alright, but then have media at least acknowledge the existence of right-wing militas and put them into context.

As far as the public discussion (at least in Germany) went so far, the first media response to the "denazification" speech was more or less "wtf is that guy talking about?". There was no talk at all about any right-wing groups in Ukraine at all. After some time, at least existence of Azov had to be tacitly acknowledged, but only that so far.

That's not exactly trust-building.
Surprised to see this pop up again. Last time it came up, it prompted me to jot down my thoughts. Basically he built the wrong product but never came to that realization even in the post mortem (https://satyam.substack.com/p/why-glaciermd-actually-wasted-...).
Speaking from personal experience, it does help in at least two ways:

(1) Being surrounded by other hard-working students pushes you to do better and exposes you to more advanced classes and research early on (a majority of my friends in CS started taking graduate courses by their sophomore year and did undergraduate research at least for a summer in one of research labs on campus).

(2) Recruiting/Ability to get interviews. It isn't a problem in getting interviews for software engineering internships/full-time positions if you have MIT, Stanford or Berkeley on your resume.
I heard bicycles works great with bootstraps. Maybe you should suggest bootstraps as well - they'd probably do the trick!
If you're ok with the a typical male protagonist nerding out over a Flux Capacitor you'll get through just fine. If a story that's 50% nostalgic references isn't cool it'll be a very slow read...

There's some interesting ideas around the dystopian state of the world and whether it is a result of the virtual universe or not, but only a few chapters dig into that.
Thanks. It was not clear to me whether this is a white paper by the arXiv people, or talk by external folks.

I now see that Wikipedia says this.

Authorea was launched in February 2013 by co-founders Alberto Pepe and Nathan Jenkins and scientific adviser Matteo Cantiello, who met while working at CERN. They recognized common difficulties in the scholarly writing and publishing process. To address these problems, Pepe and Jenkins developed an online, web-based editor to support real-time collaborative writing, and sharing and execution of research data and code. Jenkins finished the first prototype site build in less than three weeks.

Bootstrapping for almost two years, Pepe and Jenkins grew Authorea by reaching out to friends and colleagues, speaking at events and conferences, and partnering with early adopter institutions.

In September 2014, Authorea announced the successful closure of a $610K round of seed funding with the New York Angels and ff Venture Capital groups. In January 2016, Authorea closed a $1.6M round of funding led by Lux Capital and including the Knight Foundation and Bloomberg Beta. It later acquired the VC-backed company The Winnower.

In 2018 Authorea was acquired for an undisclosed amount by Atypon (part of Wiley).
This can also lead to highly warranted investigations, given that actual abuse is incredibly common.
Because it:

- was created by the US government

- is ran by US government appointees, who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate

- has to make annual reports to Congress

- returns all its profits to the US government

- describes itself as a government agency. [0]

Does the Fed have more independence than, say, the Department of Agriculture? Yes, but an independent government agency is still a government entity.

[0] "The Federal Reserve, like many other central banks, is an independent government agency..." https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_12799.htm
Any kind of phone/freemium monetization tactic (out of cosmetics ofc) must be barred imho. this just give tools to corporations to pry on their consummers.

And the whole lootbox thingy is... to be honest embarassing, look what they did to Gran Turismo :\
I work part-time for the sake of my mental well-being. I hate the sea of technical debt the team I joined has been drowning in. They have few processes in place for tests, and silo'd cowboy coders from another country take up any interesting work.

I think any fixed hours is unrealistic though. Some weeks I work 20. Some 30. I bill 40 for the availability and the stress of their mess regardless.
Yea, now just imagine how many smarter people are doing it and getting away with it
More emphasis on videos and interviews. While it's still possible to dismiss them as also being set up it's a lot easier to dismiss news articles and text interviews as fakes with no physical proof behind them. In general more things that you can verify yourself so it becomes harder to dismiss things as propaganda.