skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the thourough estimations!

However I strongly advise against buying lead batteries, which are very dangerous for the health and environment (arguably not while they have not yet reached their end-of-life, but once expended a lot of them end up being dumped into the wild, and I am not even confident in their recycling).
> the KKK was entirely aligned with democrat party

You might be interested to look a bit more at the history of the parties and how their conservative/progressive tendencies wax and wane over time. Saying the KKK was aligned with Democrats as not helpful without context of time.

Kevin Kruse (https://mobile.twitter.com/KevinMKruse) writes a lot about this, which is how I learned that in days gone by, I would have despised the state of the Democrats and embraced the Republicans - their policies were almost the total opposite of what you'd expect.
NIST have updated their password advice but it's still not flowed through to other places like PCI, Australian ISM or tons of other standards.

If you're setting an org-wide policy it should (at least in theory) comply with the intersection of all the other crappy standards you're stuck with.... which means password complexity and pointless expiration requirements for at least a few more years :-/

The paperwork/compliance lag issue mainly affects internal systems and directory, but can flow on to public sites as well.
The work culture in Germany is also quite different I imagine. My impression is Germans take their work very seriously. There is simply no room for the crybaby BS that has become all too commonplace in the American workplace where people have deluded themselves into thinking they are there for activism first and work second.
> In the end, the answer is approximately the same: the father of the first modern human would have been a different hominid species.

The question was not about the father if the first human (regardless of how you define human, as long as you use a sharp definition). I had already told my daughter that the mother (and implicitly father) of the the first human were belonging to the prior species in the chain. (For me "human" was used as Genus Homo, but it doesn't matter if one uses homo sapiens sapiens instead)

The difficulty of the question came from my daughter asking who would be the father of the CHILDREN of the first human (assuming the first human was female). Either that male would have to still belong to the previous species, or have been born independently of her as human, somewhat after.

Given that the second option is very unlikely. If we set sharp enough criteria for qualifying as human to be able to separate different members of the tribe these individuals lived into either human or non-human, the probability of the first two who qualified would arrive so close in time and independently, is probably near zero.

In other words, we must assume that if we insist on splitting indivuals into the categoris of "human" and "not human" at that specific point in time, most likely the father of the children of the first human must have ben non-human. Also, it would be very likely that even the children may have been non-human (or it may be tha the first "human" didn't have any children at all). In fact, it could be a 100 or a 1000 years before another individual was born that qualified according to whatever definition of "human" we pick.

And this is when I realized that:

> the biggest problem here is that "species" don't actually exist.

Not only is any definition of "human" in some way arbitrary, the very act of creating such a definition leads strange contradictions such as above.

Intuitively, all members of the tribe that brought us the first humans, would have appeared to us as all being EQUALLY human, had we had some way to observe them directly. To draw some red line between individuals of that group makes no sense. (In fact, being in the same tribe, these individuals would be closely related, and so much more similar to each other than two randomly selected modern humans living today would be.)

Also, it doesn't help to just create a new category, since the problems at the boundaries will be precisely the same.

In other words, the only thing that makes sense, is to not assign categories of human vs non-human to these individuals at all. The closest thing that would make sense would be to assign some "degree of human-ness".

Let's say that the first individual with such human-ness would have a human-ness score of more than 50% would have a score of 50.1%, while the average for the tribe would be 49.7% at the time. By thinking of this transition as a real (as in floating point) number, instead of as a boolean, the problem goes away.
I think there have been better examples of Apple wrecking startups over the years.

Specifically it’s an issue with startups that only target Apple’s ecosystem.

None of the businesses in these examples depend on Apple solely. And this is just as likely to validate their use cases and increase interest in their products as it is to hurt them.
Well that might put grants off the table. I'm not starting an NGO. There are better ways for corporations to support our work.
Civil war? That’s ridiculous. Please turn off Fox/CNN.
I have a really dim view of people who hold a dim view of health and safety, especially around stuff like this. This sort of old-school machismo is encouraged by industry because doing things with a higher margin of safety is slower and more expensive. Often not by much, especially compared to the volume of money being made overall, which is what makes it even more reprehensible.

Falls from heights are a huge cause of workplace deaths in construction: https://www.osha.gov/fall-protection

It doesn't take much height to do so: https://cdn1.hardhattraining.com/wp-content/uploads/how-high...

Any time an employer or company encourages you to take risks or pressures you to not observe safety regulations, find another job, fast. Your life is not less important than profits or productivity. Ever.

Edit: not impressed at all. This guy is an asshole - aside from the fact that multiple clips show him picking something off chimneys or towers, giggling, and throwing them casually off - here he is laughing about how he and a coworker purposefully dumped a bucket of cement water off the top of a tower and came down to found they'd damaged a guy's nice sports car. Which he thinks his hilarious: https://youtu.be/ezX_o0H5FuE?t=217
> For example, intentionally visit websites (manually or automated) that you don't believe it. This will trip up their algorithm. How are they supposed to know what you actually think or believe in?

Imo the claim "We can suggest what you should do next, what you care about. Imagine: We know where you are, we know what you like." is just a sales pitch to the data industry in disguise.

They know what we do, but it isn't possible to know what we think without making a bunch of assumptions
well you don't actually have to allocate memory to keep it blocked do you? you can just have a page that isn't present and isn't actually backed by physical memory
Some analysis from the 'aviation forums':

> But let's say you can climb the thing at 1000FPM and 100KIAS. That takes you an hour (covering roughly 250 nm?) to hit 65,000. If you spend an hour at cruise and then come down at 2000 fpm again covering 150nm ... you've just taken 2:30 block to go 900nm. What market does that make sense in? Might make a great autonomous cargo bird for Fedex.

--

> People spending 5 million on an airplane do not care about $180 of fuel difference per flight, and also that is only at altitude. If the climb rate of that airplane is 1,000fpm, which seems optimistic, it would take nearly an hour to get up there. If you are going on a 2 or 3 hour leg, fuel burn could be the same or worse.

https://www.beechtalk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=174467...

Longer analysis video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E38cc-4TvX8
My point is log analysis is noise to the signal. A poor way to discern what went wrong or to proactively monitor to avoid an incident in the first place. There are loads of tools out there, some of which have been mentioned in this thread, that monitor from network to user to app layer and are superior for triage. If someone is down in the bowels of logs, it's gonna be a bad time. I spent a decade triaging high-profile incidents around the world and teaching organizations how to do this stuff.
Haha, I very much doubt his behavior changed in the slightest. He knew how the universe works at a deep level, and was so excited to have others learn about it too.
With the imminent crypto implosion there will be a lot of people with any kind of exposure to crypto (as workers, investors or something) looking for a job. A short stint in the warehouse would do them good.
Very well. Criminally, presume they are innocent. Professionally, these employees have refused to answer to their boss, the public, therefore they should all be fired for insubordination. If no one in the entire police/school board are willing to release records then simply fire everyone from the top down.
In politics, “progressive” has completely lost its meaning
Nice useless car analogy. Signal to noise.
The Future Isn’t Female Anymore
Reminds me of this famous "Juice it or lose it" conference talk - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy0aCDmgnxg
> share it with AirDrop

Can you SEE wifi password on iOS yet?
How does one end up reading topology at age 7? Were your parents math professors or something? Or were you just a very mathematically curious 7 year old?
In a sense, yes; however, in a federated service, your choice of "walled garden" can (and usually does) talk to the other "walled gardens" that use the same communication protocol, giving you access to a wider range of content than your one instance provides on its own. Also, with federated services, you can typically stand up your own self-hosted instance and fully own your "walls" yourself.
Erm, because one might hypothetically get paid a small amount for taking a short term loan, and everyone would do that you mean?
Zersetsung
Came here to post this <3

It’s funny, the impact this had internally. It’s like we all believed in what we were doing even more when we felt that magic. I hadn’t watched this again since it happened, still gave me chills.
Of course that's what a giant robot would want us to believe...

But seriously great writeup, thanks. I think the two convincing pieces that are also missing is the economic theory of unequal exchange which shows that even when one party is better than the other by every metric (technology, population, resources, etc.), there's still advantage to trade. And the other is the extreme waste of natural resources the dark forest species permits to occur under its watch. All those trillions of stars bleeding negentropy into the wastes...
They’ve been giving their devices away to every electronics YouTuber, you really see them everywhere plus the sponsored ads. I’m not really sure how many hobbyists really need a scope like what they make, though.
This is helpful. Thanks. I will try this today. BTW, Two weeks is quite good.
And I think that a small group of employees attempting to impose their own chosen morality whatever that morality may be and proselytizing their morality to the point where it was disruptive to productivity and harmful to company morale and culture (and this is what got them fired BTW, not the opinion of Musk’s behavior itself) is wrong. An organization will not survive if it kowtows to every special interest employee group that throws a tantrum.

If you don’t like what Musk who owns the controlling interest in your company is doing, buy him out. If you can’t buy him out, move on and work someplace else. Acting in a disruptive manner because you are butthurt about your CEO/company owner is just ridiculous.
Funny enough, the person who replied to you was wrong. I didn't get health insurance. They were dues. The benefits I mentioned were guaranteed raises that I knew I wouldn't get because I didn't plan to work there for more than a summer.
GitHub actions are facing problems
You are absolutely 100% correct. It was a sad typo on my part from typing too quickly for my own good. I hope what I wrote is now more cogent. Thank you.
It contains caffeine.
To the end of their lives? This "whole idea" is an abomination. And whose idea is it anyways, fucking slave owner's?
Insubordination is more than refusal to obey a direct order, at least in America. See, for instance, the uniform code of military justice article 91.
"No castle should be built on shifting sands. Arcade City is building on Bitcoin."

A very stable currency indeed. It only dropped 30% relative to USD in the past week.
Niantic’s pet game Peridot is too cute for words
>“There are folk who have domain expertise and have time on hand and are hungry to contribute.”

There are great people willing to share who do exist, though there is a selection bias where experts with certain values and beliefs are far more likely to post than experts with minority views about technical subjects.

From the article on popular beliefs in online communities at the time: “Just because looking down your nose at C++ or Perl is the popular opinion doesn't mean that those languages aren't being used by very smart folks to build amazing, finely crafted software. An appealing theory that gets frantically upvoted may have well-understood but non-obvious drawbacks.”

The view expressed in the article, which I agree with, is that there are experts with minority views on technical topics, who are difficult to find on forums.

>“You have provided examples of domains where charlatans are most likely to operate.”

I agree that you’re unlikely to find these kinds of life advice on technical niche subreddits (like on r/compilers).

However, let’s say a user is a young person looking for life advice. This subject would typically be off-topic on r/compilers and similar forums, so it’s off to more lifestyle-oriented forums (like r/decidingtobebetter or r/selfimprovement).

>“a subreddit that discusses supplements is by it's very nature going to be populated with snake oilsmen selling remedies or doofuses who believe them. Similarly self-help books.”

This isn’t wrong, and there has since been more awareness of paid marketing on subreddit. However, it’s non-obvious to new users, especially young people. If legitimately useful comments get lots of upvotes, there’s an effect where the ones promoting self-help books and supplements seem credible too.

For lifestyle advice in particular, sticking to smaller technical communities may not yield useful discussion. Going to other online communities leads to the problem you’ve described. By process of elimination, it’s viable to start observing and talking with people in real life.
Ask HN: Ignoring popularity and packages, which programming language is best?
Packages and popularity aside, what programming language do you personally think has the best balance of brevity, expressiveness, and readability
The file selection dialog looks like a Finder window. It could be more discoverable. But trying what works in Finder isn't random key combinations.
probably because they already have a pretty robust social system in place, so it can weather issues like covid and employment issues better
If San Antonio can maintain a symphony a new one will emerge. If not, it won’t.
FWIW, I've been exploring ideas of what bird songs really are. One idea I came up with is "birdglyph" - a distinctive hieroglyph-like picture produced by a birdsong. A few examples:

https://github.com/soundshader/soundshader.github.io/tree/ma...
Erm, I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but they certainly are not giving these away to youtubers. This is a >$1 million instrument that isn't even very useful for hobbyist electronics. The ones they give away are from their new EDU line that does around 100 MHz sampling.
> Why does it matter whether his actions are in the context of SpaceX?

Well it does matter, because these people consciously came to work at HIS company.

It's like people that move into a noisy neighbourhood and then start to complain about the noise.

Elon is eccentric, yes he tweets some things that people don't like, but he's also built friggin SpaceX...

Unless he's specifically done something to the people at SpaceX then I really don't think they've got anything to complain about... it smells of entitlement and the outrage culture that's appeared in recent years.
This thread illustrates the problem where reporters rely on sources on one side of an issue. If it isn’t pushing an agenda, it’s extremely lazy journalism: https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1533168009140916225
Then by even some very conservative assumptions they could extract all the obtainable resources of the entire galaxy within a few tens of millions of years. We should expect to see nothing--not stars, not galaxies. Nothing but a soft infrared background radiation from the back side of Dyson swarms.
> Privacy is not something that can be controlled at the individual level when you're up against billion dollar budgets.

But the billion dollar budgets are spread across an incredibly broad scale and have to handle a ridiculous amount of data. Certain patterns scale very well for the companies, e.g. using google chrome while logged into the google account

If we just avoid the big players and use a bunch of different, unaffiliated services, it makes mass surveillance more expensive and less likely to yield a strong ROI

Defeatism just gives these companies a better ROI with respect to surveillance, and it also makes us more susceptible to pushes to erode privacy, like the current one to replace passwords with biometric data
How to install Cargo - https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/getting-started/installation...
Builders Are Slashing Prices to Sell Homes in Fast-Cooling US Markets
I've never seen such an ad. I wonder if they don't show outside of America?
I assumed it was the same everywhere because it doesn't make sense for a company to keep all kind of scaffolding equipment when any given site will only need a small subset of it.

Ah least in France and Belgium, scaffolding is also generally erected by a specialised company (except very large public construction companies which do everything themselves, but then it's still separate services inside the company).
Because it is physically impossible on physical and information theory grounds.
What’s interesting is that NeXT and Apple dropped the ball on essentially all of that stuff. IB was never as nice to use for UIKit as it originally was for AppKit. Bits of EOF made it into macOS (I think this was the origin of KVO?) but as I understand it, most of it went into WebObjects, which got ported to Java and eventually end-of-lifed.

If IB had kept up with UIKit/CoreAnimation/Autolayout — or the frameworks had made sure to make IB an integrated part of those features, I’m convinced that SwiftUI wouldn’t exist because there would have been no need.
Nicely done.

I'm looking forward to going through your code and design. It's a great addition to the set of games that help us get our head around these things.

Simple models have existed for a while that show the horizontal circuit can be stable.

Here's my correction of Steve Keen's initial horizontal circuit from 2010[0]

What you'll find is that the unemployment buffer stock that is disciplining inflation, not the interest rate. You can see this by setting the interest rate to zero permanently.

You don't need wonks in central banks - just very effective automatic stabilisers based around the labour buffer stock.

To that end if you hire the unemployed at a fixed wage paid by the central bank at an orchard that is slightly less productive at producing apples and sells its output at a fixed markup price you'll find that you get more overall output because the less productive buffer stock ends up being smaller than a completely unproductive buffer stock for the same price anchoring effect.

I explored that in my baseline economy model, a derivative of a mainstream model, which is still online.[1]. Code on Github [2].

What I also found is that when you introduce 'shops' rather than the mythical central auctioneer market, and people just go to the current cheapest shop near them things broke big time. [3]

Tap me up on Discord or Github if any of this is of interest.

[0]: https://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2012/01/11/guest-post-a-...
[1]: https://new-wayland.com/blog/how-the-job-guarantee-fixes-mai...
[2]: https://github.com/newwayland/baseline-economy
[3]: https://new-wayland.com/blog/revealed-the-simple-change-that...
The comment itself states upfront that it's very much a TLDR, not a thorough explanation of everything or even anything they did:

Without getting too far into it, here's the stuff that finally worked
What is wrong with SVN?
Hint: pumped hydro is, exactly, a gravity battery. A gravity "flow battery", if you like.

It is #1, just now, because a lot already existed. They cost a great deal to build, back when. New ones would cost as much, but a small variation is much cheaper, not needing a dam or a watershed.

A small variation on a bad idea can be a very good idea.
Reminds me of Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently Holistic Detective Agency.
Also want to add that in the coming years they will start pushing biometric logins (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/may/11/techscape...) in the coming years. This will tie all accounts to the same biometric data and identity, which will make blanket data harvesting and profiling much easier and more economically feasible.

> As early as 2010, Facebook’s marketing director argued that “online anonymity has to go away.”

These companies have a financial incentive to destroy online anonymity to the detriment of the rest of society, and biometrics are the latest attack
I just meant they are giving their devices away to lots of streamers. It’s hard to find any electronics channel not sponsored by them, or where the host doesn’t have and is giving more devices away to viewers.
Pepsi is number 1, because it's the choice of a new generation!
> back then it seems work was work

Back then, the amount of workers dying from work accidents was also an order of magnitude higher than it is today.

Individual surviving workers might have good memories of their job, but I'm not sure if it was actually better from a more general point of view.
TLDR;

This subject is very important so OP took time to write a really long intro, please subscribe to his blog to get the answer next week.

In the meantime feel free to read the discussion in HN because it's probably more interesting until the part 2 eventually comes out.
Could you clarify the preference for stocks over gold assuming returns are the same?
I had a look at alpha and beta returns, but aren't those considerations irrelevant if returns are the same?
Thanks in advance, and apologies for naivety on my part.
I barely made any changes and resulted in 430K
and Honnold calls it light scrambling.
How can I print infinite money to fund pointless social programs with this app?
They make a separate ide for each language. Why is rust a plugin?
Am I the only person who has never even heard of half these products, let alone used them? If Apple can do something better than they can or their products weren't compelling enough for Apple (or similar) to buy them up, well... that's how the world spins.
It might be turning negative or it might be the info bubble we are in.
70% is plenty, nowadays.

If the railroad is already built, and disused, that drives down cost.

Cost is what matters most.