skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people seem to fall back to some sort of centralized system like a scientific committee or centralized AI.

Maybe we should try to figure out how to create an AI "idea generator" that can probe idea space more freely and see if it can break us out of our thinking rut. IOW use the AI not to govern or control or have power over anything, but use it to inspire us and break us out of our boxes.
A bit off beam but I always thought it odd that Darth Vader used a meditation chamber to meditate in The Empire Strikes Back.

It just seemed so strange that the key villain was practising mindfulness, yet not being very mindful.
Longecity always has stuff, lots of miss, some hits. Just was looking at the mitochondria protocols that have been refined over the past few years, pretty cool stuff, but even if that works it's only one tiny aspect of aging and degenerative diseases.

A successful fission-fusion protocol should be able to bring the mitochondria population to a point where stem cell reserves are able to split in two perfect (nearly) copies, boosting stem cell reserves counts. Then you can use C60 (buckyballs, how it triggers this I do not know) to use stem cell reserves.

There's a lot of pros, cons, finicky, armchair theorists, desperate people, really smart people, and principled experimenters all in a mix. Absolutely fascinating reading. But one onramp seems to be mitochondrial in origin, and the fission-fusion protocol... turnbuckle, I think it is? Seems to be pretty darn successful in individuals, especially older ones.

Not sure if that helps at all obviously the classic well proven methods are best if you can, but if you're wanting to know down Aubrey DeGray's aging damage/etc list, this is a good onramp to cover a few of them. Very bleeding edge, and very cool stuff! The threads can take days to read but are worth every penny-second of that time.
I met someone like that yesterday while merely trying to trouble a package that wouldnt compile on windows. Found the devs and they go on a tirade about windows (and also turns out it wasnt compatible and WSL2 would have too much of a performance hit) but the project didnt say so
While Signal is good for encrypting messages, you can't be sure Signal.org isn't hiding messages from you or otherwise blocking communication, and for Whatsapp, you can't view message history without keeping a backup file. This seems to solve both problems.
Don't know the guy, but being silent about whatever acts of kindness you've done is fine. Bragging about your good deeds is not good form.
As common decency dilapidates, I wonder if we will just use technology to find and shame.

The ‘war on noise’ is probably just the beginning. Why wouldn’t you deploy this technology to stop littering, etc.?

The end result might be Singapore and beyond:)
That's a good point! The `15` check relies on 1) knowing it will stop after 15 rounds as written in the problem (though I explore that later) and 2) assuming that there must be a single answer after 15 rounds (which I also explore later).

And that's true, the `(i, j)` check is spurious - I blame it on it being throwaway blog post code :)
I wouldn't put this guy on a par with Jordan Peterson. JP appeals to masses of people because he explains his ideas -- he doesn't prove them.

You can state a big idea, but then you have to illustrate it. That can be with hard facts, or it can be poetic, but there needs to be something.
How about we don't try to "feed" people more garbage and just make a web site that is well-organized so that people can choose for themselves?
Wikipedia disagrees with that:

> Nevertheless, the situation like the stock market etc. is not a zero-sum game because investors could gain profit or loss from share price influences by profit forecasts or economic outlooks rather than gain profit from other investors' losses.
I think we saw the answer to that in February/March 2021. Apart from the USA where the situation was politicised by a rather special president, most advanced democracies moved remarkably quickly to institute unprecedented emergency measures in theface of the pandemic. Democratic processes were temporarily simplified with the executive taking more power for a short time.
While it is true that Spotify does recommendations, I'm sceptical that the majority of users value this part most. I'm happy to be corrected, but I'd guess it is simply the ability to stream music on demand that remains its main selling point. Put another way, the value of Spotify is its expansive collection, not its personalisation.

(Or so it seems to me)
Yeah, I've tried PowerToys a couple of times but always end up going to back to Autohotkey for this because it's just so much more consistent.
The sum of inverses of the first positive integers
wow! git too! with no warning that you might need to start a new terminal or command line session after install! truely 1984 /s
Oh, and there is some established stuff on Parkinson's, the destruction of dopaminergic neurons&etc, and other parts of the progression of the disease of Parkinson's out there. I'd recommend boning up on that too, if it's hereditary, it's good to know. Just get a DNA test that doesn't freaking sell your data cough cough. It's not terribly expensive for the potential upside and just worth knowing sooner rather than later whatcha got going on for that

There's also doctors that look at genetic stuff purely now, I think? Not necessarily integrative, just purely genetics stuff. I have no idea about that, maybe that's helpful a tad!
No one who was paying any attention to iPhone and iPad performance was surprised by that.
There has been heavy development from the initial signal fork. In fact signals code has been completely gutted because using it for a decentralised messenger came with a lot of issues.

In this case the blockchain is used to incentivise the people running the routers. If you force them to stake funds then you ensure you have enough good actors to prevent bad actors from spying on your messages
The if-statements didn't go your way today.
If you’re including Marvel in the scope of Disney movies, you might need to bump that runtime up to 120 minutes minimum, and all the way up to 150 minutes in many cases.

There was a post a little while back arguing that Avengers isn’t even a kids franchise anyway, so your observation still stands.
Yeah, I had to do a double take when I saw Signal included in that sentence.

I value privacy & security personally, and want Signal to succeed, but any compromise to UX in the name of privacy & security is going to make it impossible for Signal to compete as a mainstream messaging platform where network effects are paramount.
>>Let's be honest, the reason so many people are opposed to this view is because it has been wrongfully used in the past to justify very real oppression and inequality of opportunity. At the very least, it is a very dangerous mindset historically, and even now it's not very well understood.

And the denial of that view has historically been used to impose the most tyrannical societies that have ever existed, in the form of totalitarian communist states.
Wow that was incredibly satisfying to watch! The flipping sound made it all the better
On the other hand, people who don't have the "illusion of ultrasafety" seem to develop a habit of just accepting danger as part of life, to the point of actively speaking out against things like automatic detection for kids left in hot cars.

I think the "Blue pill" mindset is more useful overall. The red pill generally does nothing to build a safer world.
How is getting vaccinated and wearing a mask “absurd”?
> You have to remember the basic idea behind a lot of these word salads is that "We need to return to kings and aristocracy" and that "Of course I am a high iq intellectual who will be the nobility and not a feudal worker, why is there any doubt?". Everything starts making sense then.

A real king would probably slaughter people like Thiel and his hangers on and take whatever money they have.

The schadenfreude from seeing that would be one of the few up-sides of finding myself under a new monarch.
The poster I was replying to said they had a gluten sensitivity, which is why I was saying he would probably find it an unhealthy part of his diet. I did not mean to imply that I think eating bread every day is unhealthy :)
Seems in a lot of cases the limit is $2500! Even a very modest emergency fund is probably going to be double that...
I applaud everyone who makes their experience and salary public, I think it's super helpful. Based on that info, I am shocked that a "senior developer" with 5-6 years experience would get around 100k gbp total compensation, while in the bay area I personally know at least two people with this level of experience making around $250k usd. Seems hard to believe that immigration law, reluctance to immigrate and / or time zone difficulties are that significant so as to allow such a differential to exist without getting arbitraged away. What am I missing? Even if you assume that the UK jobs get 6 weeks vacation and the US (sf bay area) jobs get 2 weeks, that still only justifies around an 8% difference. And one of those two friends have "unlimited" vacation
I agree with you. That is why even after decades of digesting NIH studies, weeding out the epidemiological studies given that to your point most are highly conflated and confounded I have concluded that nobody is qualified to make statements on this topic. Either way time will tell who took the right path. My morbid goal is to outlive all the grandchildren of the people that are my age so that I can give talks on how science has been tainted. Sorry I know that is morbid.
My friends and I played a version of monopoly where every unowned property that is landed on goes up for general auction among all players. To speed up the process of auctioning all players write their bid down and then it is shown all at once. This reduces the luck of the game somewhat in regards to luck in being the first to land on a property tile, and adds a skill of being able to figure out what a property is worth in the context of the board situation. Every x-mas I try and usually fail to get my family to play it with me.
No, in fact, it does not. It supports my claim.

>Hamid only applies to those in custody. It is dictating what due process is required to those people who are already in custody.

No portion of the constitution requires that you capture enemies in a war, and neither does any norm of international law.

Al-Awlaki was not captured. It was not possible to capture Al-Awlaki. It is not required that Al-Awlaki be captured.
Horrific is a new one! Thanks for posting your solution :)
What’s your experience been in doing that?
I haven’t worked with Parkeon but have interacted with their competitors’ software.

It is just as ugly as you describe.

The rest of the whole parking enforcement/payment industry is probably full of really old incumbents like those two and an absolute shit show.
I think the government should really make a big deal out of satellite messengers being cheap and available for all hikers.

What if they subsidized them so that you could make emergency calls with no monthly fee? I wonder how many lives they would save if it was so readily available people didn't think of leaving cell range without one?
I hadn't heard about bitcask before. Its design looks like a great alternative to LSM trees or B+trees like lmdb. Are there any good benchmarks comparing the approaches?

The introductory whitepaper on bitcask's design is here: https://riak.com/assets/bitcask-intro.pdf
Samo Burja has been grinding the "were on the brink of collapse" narrative forever.
So does this mean every web site and app will no longer demand a mobile phone number for "security" or "verification" purposes?

(usually verifying that data brokers can identify you by phone number, and that you can be sent SMS spam with impunity)
I think https://www.codesee.io/ can do some of this.
This paper analyzes measurements of sound pressure levels on construction sites in Brazil to argue for better worker protection. The measurements provide valuable evidence to support better worker protection, but the manuscript would benefit from a more comprehensive discussion of the effectiveness of control measures.

For example, the authors suggest rearranging machinery to limit the number of workers exposed to their noise, but I would have liked to read at least a cursory analysis of how much such measures can reduce noise, and whether administrative or engineering solutions can sufficiently meet safe noise thresholds. If such analysis wasn't conducted within the scope of this work, then literature review could inform such discussion.

Edit: added lit. review recommendation
Why assume developers all come from cs programs and filter for only those candidates?

When I went to college I got to work on a mainframe. I'm not going to assume everyone did and start asking JCL questions.
>>> not being conscripted as a slave

Many Americans understand slavery through color, though this view is US-centric. European history indicates slavery was theft of people when the opportunity was available. See "From Baltimore to Barbary: the 1631 sack of Baltimore".
https://www.historyireland.com/from-baltimore-to-barbary-the...

>>> more of a class system now

That is a useful perspective on the current issues faced by poor in US.
Yeah, the neutral party needs to verify both ends of the transaction.

Good point about subtle defects. Hmm. That I do not have an answer for, especially if the seller is not aware.

Maybe it's just not possible to trust the Ferengixxx humans...
Recently, when I (in Australia) opened a US investment account, the US firm I was using wanted to see a utility bill to prove I actually lived at my home address. I ended up sending them a copy of my water bill, which they accepted.

However, if a person owns multiple residences, all that proves is that you own that residence, not that you actually live there at all. At least in my jurisdiction, landlords receive and pay water bills (and the tenant has to reimburse the landlord the usage portion of the bill), so a water bill could even be from an investment property one is renting out.
I don't have hard and fast numbers but with ~120TB of media I can tell you I'm pretty sure I've had it happen or I've suffered from raid issues, I have no way to tell which. I've seen multiple instances when media that I know played flawlessly suddenly has stopped working. Most this occurred when I was using UnRaid (I still am for a few things) and could have been 100% my fault (most likely reason). I now just use a Synology and it has a data integrity feature that I have enabled. Time will tell if I suffer from "bitrot" again.

Either way, bitrot or raid issues, a tool like this is interesting to me. I'd love something that watched my collection, stored the hashes, and altered me when they had changed (I know that's not what this tool does). I'm not sure I'd be willing to give up the space for something like par2 files but even a heads up other than "Oh, this isn't playing" would be nice.
What the Dickens were you thinking even getting involved with E-Bay?

Aren't they the company who mailed a severed pigs head [1] and made
death threats to people they don't like? [2] Did that story turn out
to be bogus? Or do people have really short memories? Or are people
afraid to even talk about it? Why is anyone even talking about them as
if they were a legitimate company instead of a bunch of gangsters who
have only escaped jail on some technicality?

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ebay-lawsuit-massachusetts-coup...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/lawsuit-ebay-tri...
They just want to sell ads. The site loads, the ads load, they get their cut.

Nobody seems to care that the ads are worthless and make nobody any money.
I think Sam Harris has talked about this, but I can’t find it now so maybe my memory is bad. I think he called them zen bums. It was people who want to do nothing else except meditate all day, every day.
I think addiction is perfect relevant for the majority of users. It's still a net win to have a phone, but they are addictive.

Any time you would like to stop doing something but are unable to because of a compulsion.... Is that not an addiction?

If you don't know what to do with your hands without a cigarette in them, almost anyone would call that a cigarette addiction.

Most people don't know what to do with their hands or mind without a phone. I sure don't.
In my experience most remote first companies also offer stipends / subsidies for co-working spaces for this reason. Sometimes you want to be around people or out of the house. It doesn't mean a centralized location though, and we can still be geographically distributed.
Yes, you are right I despise people like you.
You're missing that part where soft contribution is dropped. It's doing less work because the person aren't sharing skills and knowledge with the wider organization. That is valued work.
I've run into this too. It's worth noting that there are a few different types of vitamin D.

ergocalciferol

- vitamin d2 derived from plants

cholecalciferol

- vitamin d3 from sunlight

- vitamin d3 derived from lanolin washed from lambs wool

- vitamin d3 derived from lichen

I've tried a few different types, many don't seem to make me feel any different. Liquid vitamin d3 [0] seems to work well at doses above 5k IU.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Designs-Health-Emulsi-D3-Emulsified-V...
from my own experience, definitely a "tough guy" thing paired with lax safety oversight. OSHA training is near universal (here in the USA). even with the threat of being asked to immediately leave a job site for lack of proper PPE use, i've seen people cut asbestos cloth without wearing a respirator.
While it's not a good excuse, perhaps protective gear is not particularly comfortable?
TikTok is also famously good at personalization
This episode is crazy informative about how hackers target crypto holders and perform sim swapping. Strongly recommend anyone interested to check it out.
For me it is, I would find it deeply depressing to watch movies and be unable to discuss the experience with others because they got different characters and plot lines.
And for basically the same reasons. Utterly avoidable, but the residents don't want to avoid it, for some reason.
That's how you know you're playing it correctly!

As another comment posted, that is the point of the game. It doesn't always work out that way with house rules people use (knowingly or not).
I fucking hate generic crap that "resonates with everyone"

And to run counter to this article - people have been going after niches for centuries. To great success.
There is a net positive for the rule of majority instead of the individual rule. You can see it just now in russia.
All of these are crude generalizations. If marginalization can be definitively stated to exist in someone, then it can be measured, and if it can be measured, then it can be directly compensated for without resorting to generalizations.

I would prefer that the state treats every one equally, instead of trying to equalize something as elusive, hard to measure and outside of any sensible government mandate, as good fortune (or lack of bad fortune) in one's life.
Eggs can absolutely survive very far falls. You are making a lot of assumptions here. Like:

- This is a typical bird's egg. Most insect eggs for instance can survive any fall.

- This is a hard floor, not water, snow,...

- There is nothing to protect the egg.

- Floors are typical ~3m floors, not floors from a doll house.

- The experiment is done on earth

The point of maths is that it doesn't need to be grounded into the world. It is a "if A then B" machine. If A applies to a world then B will apply to that world too, and it will always be the case, it doesn't depend on experimental results.

It is great because scientists, engineers, etc... only have to show (with their experiments and measurements) that A applies to our world, and maths automatically tell them that B applies too, no need for extra experiments and measurements, except for verification.

So in this problem, if you use your "real world" experience with eggs, you only solve the problem for a limited set of preconditions. If you solve it properly, using maths, then it will work in any situation that matches the data of the problem, even for people of Pluto.

Also, if you want to talk "real life", I am not sure a 100 story building exists (there is 101, but exactly 100?). And if that building exists, does it have windows you can drop an egg from at every floor?
My understanding is Matrix uses the same crypto algorithm as Signal but a completely different architecture to support federation and not require phone numbers.

How does Session compare to Matrix? Why another encrypted chat app that doesn't federate?
The problem is more that there's a whole bunch of different programs that don't make sense together. The "right" thing to do would be to combine all of them and make it so that you lose say 35¢ of benefits per extra $1 of income, so that even after tax it's still always better to earn more. Unfortunately, everyone is afraid that any attempt to overhaul the welfare system would be co-opted by those looking to gut it instead. So we're stuck with a broken system
Russians didn’t think about Ukraine either twenty years ago. The ancient Slav connection mythology is manufactured by the Putinist project.

When a place is a void in the public’s mind, that’s the ideal target to fill it with nationalist fury. The people of Belgrade didn’t think very often about Bosnia in 1980; thirteen years later their leaders were running a genocide to cleanse Bosnia of the elements that supposedly threatened Serbian unity.
Why not focus on solving problems the smartphone hasn't solved yet?
How does encryption work? If it’s truly end to end encrypted then you can’t see your messages on multiple devices or recover your old messages from another device, right? If your encryption key is not in the cloud then it’s on the device right?
The end goal of mindfulness is to make you realize that you don’t exist, you have no free will, and there is no “you.” It can be an unpleasant place to be dropped off in.
Interviewers react either dumbfounded or almost offended somehow. Most respond by telling me that this is their standard process and they cannot make exceptions, to which I reply that if they want to know if my code is kosher, they can either call any of my former managers, or check my GitHub out.

It has worked out for me so far, though.

Besides, why would I take a job as a senior software engineer, if their threshold to assess my skills is some college level assignment? It just doesn’t make any sense.
Most of the people who hate Jordan Peterson never read his books or listened to his lectures.

They were told to hate him and that if they agreed with his positions they were bad people.

There is an effort to get people to rationalize their hate but when they try to rationalize it they realize it's complete cult ideology not based in reality. Ending up as fans of his.

It happened to me. I was told how bad he was. In fact he is super reasonable to the majority.

https://youtu.be/XQR6rDOCxM0
Thanks. That looks really interesting. One thing is that it looks like this requires the org that runs an open source repo to sign up? I wonder if there's something like CodeSee that allows anyone in the community to contribute.

Apparently CodeSee runs https://www.oss-port.com too, which is very cool. It looks like it also requires maintainers to do the work.