skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently discovered Sam Harris, and started going down a bit of a rabbit hole that is his body of work. He has his critics, and I haven't spent enough time in his materials to have a fully formed opinion of my own, but I found that following his work unearths some interesting insights about these culture wars.

His arguments about religion and society's collective unwillingness to have an honest conversation about it are compelling. But what's fascinating to me is that he manages to piss off both the religious right and the SJW left, and I think he's onto something important.

The reason he pisses them off is that his fundamental position boils down to: dogmatism is the problem. And no one wants to admit they are dogmatic.

The same instinct in a right-wing pro-life person to shut down any consideration whatsoever that their position is suspect is the same instinct in the SJW who can only see the world as an unjust manifestation of the patriarchy, or systemic racism, etc. This is not to say that those things don't exist or have no impact, but it seems those things have been used to harness the same base behavior we're all capable of, to effectively form what resembles an entirely new religious dogma.

This dogmatism shuts down substantive dialog, and perpetuates the same kinds of problems one finds with folks who insist Jesus is coming back to earth in the next 50 years.

A mindset that removes willingness to engage in conversation - even if the person holding the mindset happens to be right (or at least closer to right than some others) - is a mindset every bit as dangerous and problematic as the mindset held by right-wing extremists.

I'm not trying to just parrot Sam's message here, but he's saying things that I've long believed, and didn't know how to articulate, and the basic takeaway is this: dialogue is the only thing that can change the collective consciousness.

The current trends around identity politics, cancelling people for the things they say, creating taboos so strong that people don't feel comfortable even touching on some topics is the antithesis of liberalism, and I'll repeat what you and GGP said - anti-human. If dialogue is the only path forward, and our current path involves the complete demonization of certain dialogue to the point that you are no longer allowed to participate in the conversation, we are at what can only be called an impasse as a culture.

We should properly put bad ideas to bed, absolutely. We should address systemic issues where they exist, absolutely. We should learn from our major mistakes, absolutely.

But the current climate is somewhat terrifying. One need only try to make the argument I just made on Twitter, Facebook or Reddit to see what I'm talking about. You'll quickly be branded a right-wing or alt-right sympathizer (despite the fact that in terms of policy, I'm about as liberal as they come, identity politics notwithstanding). People will manufacture a version of you that they believe to be true, and then abuse you for it, while feeling righteous and justified in the process.

It's a sad state of affairs.
I give an incredibly similar warning every time a company I'm working for starts trying to dip their toe into A/B testing. I have a lot of experience with it at scale (one at a fortune 100 company) and I've even built an a la carte testing framework in aws for a company that didn't like Target or Optimizely.

Every single time I warn them about how the bill of goods they've been sold with A/B testing is almost completely unattainable, especially in the way that they want to go about it. They won't magically start getting more conversions by changing a button color. Even if they start getting more clicks, they rarely start getting more complete conversions, because the increased numbers is usually from people who weren't good leads in the first place.

On top of that every company I've worked with has no idea what the real methodology for good tests is, no matter how many times I explain it or put it in a slide deck. I would constantly get requests to use A/B testing for feature rollout.

Them: "Hey, could you do an A/B test of our existing site design and our upcoming redesign?"

Me: "if the old design performs better are you going to toss out the redesign?"

Them: "No we're going with the redesign but we want metrics on how it'll affect traffic"

Me: "Those metrics are useless if you aren't going to listen to them, and if the results come back and the old design performs better, you're not even going to put it in a presentation because it's counter to your planned actions. There's literally no point in running this test"

Them: "Run it anyway"
And now I see several "app" companies are trying to push realtors out of their business entirely by using "algorithms" for private equity to buy up any and all housing. And I guaran-damn-tee they don't give a shit.
Sometimes firmware updates make the system worse or even completely bricked. If the machine already working and stable, I've learned it's a risky / bad idea to eagerly apply firmware updates.
+1 for Runbox. I’ve been a client for over ten years, no problems.
Question for anyone who happens to be an expert: Is there any way to quantify how much better Webb is independently of the amount of time used to take the exposures? Like, could Hubble achieve the same quality of images as Webb if it was given 100x (or whatever) more time exposure?

I'm trying to understand how much the improvement is "speed of convergence" vs. "quality of asymptotic result". (Though... is that even a valid way of trying to understand things?)
Cats also look very weird if you drench them in water. Much more rat-like. Same with owls, bears, etc.
Twitter will be worth about $5bn by 2026. It's a nonsense platform with no intrinsic value.
At the risk of being flippant, I hope you learned about space complexity and the lessons behind how the algorithms and data structures you use impact performance via the cache.
There’s No US Recession Until an Obscure Panel of ‘Eggheads’ Says It Is So
I love the concept of luck surface, and I believe it's a great mental model. However

> FOR EVERY SNARKY COMMENT, THERE ARE 10X AS MANY PEOPLE ADMIRING YOUR WORK.

This is the opposite of my modest experience. Negativity has outweighed positivity in most of my online interactions. For every encouraging or promising interaction you have, you'll receive more nasty ones that will sap the motivation out of you.

I think it's still worth it, but not for the faint of hearth. Putting up with online toxicity to find those diamonds requires a thick skin and mental fortitude I haven't achieved quite yet. Or maybe it gets easier down the line.
First it will be required for playing online games[0], then governments will require ISPs to enforce it for anyone who goes online.

Once people start side-loading to get around future bans on E2EE messaging apps, I expect governments will require OS vendors to implement blacklisting of such software even on desktops, using something like Apple's Gatekeeper service[1].

[0] https://www.pcgamesn.com/valorant/windows-11

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/11/15/big-sur-telling-a...
You really can't.

For example, what if those functions are in different modules or libraries? Tail calls are still supposed to work.
Corporations are pushing Buddhist mindfulness to calm employees down, get them to pay attention to their job and thus increase productivity and their bottom line. It's a win win!
Squirrels around here are super annoying. They love to play dodge wheel. I hate it because I don't want puncture a tire because of one of those little shits.

Edit: Relevant - http://toddmitchellbooks.com/twelve-things-about-squirrels-t...
It's a losing battle - people are wise not to jump in. I'm even restraining myself from providing my own reasoning.

"eppur si muove"
Career Portraits in Data Visualization
But if they do get in the attic it's a nightmare. I would take 100 mice over one squirrel.
That we know of! Since timing attacks like this probably needs a bit of machine specific tuning it's probably not that much of an interest to regular mass-market attackers.

But for APT groups that might need a wedge on particular machines it might be worthwhile, remember the length NSO group went with Pegasus.
Then the question is completed flawed, because the actual question then is "what are some examples of companies being acquired with the same corporate culture".

Because a # of the examples given are parent companies just leaving the acquired company alone in isolation.

How is that good for either the acquirer or the consumers.

No synergies can be had if the two companies are operating independently.
If I asked my doctor about using a CGM as a runner that likes to eat fruits and vegetables he would look at me like I'm an idiot.

I imagine he would say, "So you aren't having any health issues and bought this $100 device anyway?"

People who get pre-diabetes or diabetes (type 2), well, it's usually because they are overweight or obese. There's just not a lot of people getting diabetes in a mysterious way.

Also, saturated fat is linked to diabetes. And cutting that out improves heart health anyway.
Cause of homelessness? Not drugs or mental illness, study says
This will never happen, but I think there's a solid business in selling a mirrorless which adapts solidly to all the dSLR mounts.

A-mount is big here. Sony dropped support here first, and the LA-EA adapters all have significant issues. Even today, in many cases, Sony mirrorless adapts better to Canon than to Sony A-mount.

Eating up other mounts would be big too. K-mount customers wanting to go mirrorless. Nikon and Canon would be big too, obviously.

That would open several markets:

- People looking to switch

- People wanting to use esoteric lenses (e.g. Minolta's 500mm f/8 reflex, STF lenses, some of the neater tilt-shifts, etc.)

- Less profitable, people wanting to use cheaper used lenses

In the long term, most people will switch to native lenses, eventually, as lens technology moves on too.
Keeping your mouth shut maintains your own status quo. People advance in their careers by being good at knowing when to keep their mouths shut, and when to speak up.
NOAA satellite downlink is unencrypted, at least: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9949278 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24129162
We already have that. It’s just we are in denial as a society about it.

Globalization is over. The post Berlin wall fall consensus undermined and ruined.

The last to realize, loses.
I've been working with startups for awhile and I never got the chance to give a shit. Not even when I was CTO. So many external pressures, deadlines, hacky releases to demo to whatever investors. Responding to A | B testing. Firefighting. And the list can go on.

The only time in my life I had the possibility to give a shit was when I was working for shit money contracting for the government. I've never been in that situation again where I could spend as much time as I needed until I delivered to the quality I desired. Architecture diagrams, properly planned executions, testing etc etc. Much slower moving than startups but I trust the systems I wrote to continue saving lifes as they have done until now. Most of the code I delivered for startups, I don't even trust at release, what can I say about decades down the line...
Youtube only existed publicly for around a year before being acquired. I don't think it supported comments on videos. Whether or not YT's community was better early on (which like, I'm not even sure is true) is independent from whether its acquisition by Google affected that community, because YT was acquired basically before there was any chance for a community to develop.
Predict the following, higher inflation will cause central banks to raise interest rates to fight inflation. Higher interest rates will stop easy central bank and founder exit money flow to fund capital for startups. Startups without easy access to new rounds of capital will have to lay of staff.

Engineers from previous startups will cause a resurge in opensource projects. Stable companies with solid profit track records will become popular to work for. As will working as own consultants freelancers writing open source.

Patent free standards, open source and open hardware will become very popular. Trends being driven by more environmentally aware consumers and credit access.
Rats fleeing the sinking ship the impression I have of this.

Am I wrong and in fact Medium is doing well and Ev decided to get off whilst the going is good?
finding: lack of affordable housing.
Ask HN: Have you encountered this “please don’t let me die” ads on YouTube?
How does YouTube approve this scam?
I real life example of this for web dev is cypress.io which offers enables parallel testing and access to a dashboard of test runs.

then https://sorry-cypress.dev/ came which is a self-hosted version for free. Then came a commercial offering that directly competes with cypress' official version
Tron led me to code a 2D version of the lightcycle game on the C64, but it was super slow because I didn’t know assembly :). I then added random obstacles to the playing field to make it more interesting. A good friend later wrote Armagetron.
I don't see either of you providing any evidence for your claims.

I think it's unlikely that no person who uses an ad blocker wouldn't occasionally click an ad and buy something. But what's the percentage? Is it something small, like 5%, or more like 25%? The grandparent's point about all of this being dehumanizing really resonated with me. At what percentage does it become justified to dehumanize people for revenue?

My opinion is that advertising is emotional manipulation, and is by its very nature unethical. No, that doesn't mean that no one ever has benefited from buying a product that they wouldn't have known about without advertising, but my belief is that the overwhelming majority of ads serve the purpose of causing people to buy things that a) they would have bought anyway (so the ad just wasted their time), or b) they would have gotten along without just fine (so the ad manipulated them into spending money they didn't need to spend).

I ad block at several levels on my laptop and network. I will never, ever click on an ad and buy something. My situation may not be universal among ad-blocking users, but I doubt I'm part of a small minority either.
"Free speech" isn't a business model, unless the business plan is to sell a story to VCs and get paid a percentage of the term sheet.

Substack has to pay the "I'm being cancelled" blowhards huge sums to get them on the platform to begin with. They earn nothing from eyeball traffic; people want to be outraged, but they don't want to pay for outrage. And even if they did, Substack would earn a tiny pittance from their fraction of subscription fees from that demographic.
I think they're referring to a compiler that is targeting WASM, not a WASM-to-machine-code compiler.
> this person has not reported any results.

Ironic since you are the one making the claim and have not produced any references. I can’t prove they don’t exist but you could easily counter if one did.

Furthermore I linked to one peer reviewed review article, again https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4078442/

that is chock full of balanced references if anyone is so inclined to peruse them and takes a critical examination at the various publications and the arguments can be evaluated solely on merits alone. There is continued research in this area but so far no smoking gun as to causality.

There are no meta-analyses I know of on your specific claim as there is a lack of primary research in human subjects to even substantiate it.

> Most likely they don't actually know any endocrinologists

I’m a practicing academic internist. I know endocrinologists both personally and professionally. This is absolutely irrelevant though as the literature is available for you.

> Some people just feel compelled to jump up and defend sugar

I did nothing of the sort. I treat diabetes and hyperlipidemia on the daily - that would be ridiculous.

Edit: oh and I missed your edit - a reference to Perlmutter? A celebrity neurologist who has widely been debunked for making wildly unsubstantiated claims. You are not arguing in good faith. You have the entirety of PubMed and Google scholar on which to reference peer reviewed literature - some of it is also crap - but you aren’t even doing that - you are sticking to the lowest quality unsubstantiated celebrity bilge.
I think it's a fair deal and nobody is under any obligation to work as an Uber driver other than because they think it's worth their time and a fair deal. This is not slavery or exploitation.

Apparently, lots of drivers seem to think it's not such a bad deal. I sure am not going to shed any crocodile tears for the lost business for the taxi drivers that have had the privilege to rip me off in the past. Happened a little too often for me to do that.

There's a lot of sentiment around jobs, job security (which is an illusion), and people paying into social insurances. I'd say that's all fine and something to sort out by different countries. Meanwhile, it seems plenty of people make decent money driving around as Uber drivers and this is not really Uber's problem to sort out. The gig economy certainly challenges some established values. But fundamentally, there seem to be plenty of people willing to take those gigs. That's why that works.

Either way, that doesn't invalidate the value proposition of offering passengers a fair price for a ride before they enter the car. Whether it's Uber or somebody else offering that deal, it sure beats haggling with some shady characters in the middle of the night about a ride from A to B. Been there done that & no thanks. Not going back to that. Uber sure looks like magic when you use it in situations like that. Wnip out phone, ride shows up, and teleports you home. Great value. Anything less is a rip off deal, frankly. I've probably paid too much for that service on some occasions but I like it none the less.

Instead of going all socialist on Uber, maybe hold your local politicians accountable to be more competent. This is happening on their watch after all. There seem to be lots of people that have issues with Uber but not a lot of them seem to be able to do anything about that legally. Why is that? What's blocking that after all these years of scrutiny, court cases, lobbying, rule changes, etc.? If Uber is doing something illegal here, by all means drag them into court and fix it. But if not, maybe change the legal situation to normalize what they and other business do? Apparently, the problem is that Uber is still around after years of legal proceedings in many countries. Maybe, that's because they aren't actually doing that much wrong at all and are providing a decent service to customers via an army of drivers willing to earn some money that way?
Most people won’t try a new product unless they can try it for free (especially in a B2C market). Freemium creates more signups, that’s a fact. The challenge, now, is to convert those free users into paying customers. But that’s much easier to do than converting someone who hasn’t interacted with your product at all.
Understood!

What I was asking is: Is the target's normally-visible light redshifted into the same bands that JWST is measuring, higher? or lower frequency?

That doesn't have anything to do with why JWST uses IR.
Umatrix from the author of ublock origin can do this. Not with a single click (it'll take two, one to enable and one to tell it to remember) but it's very close.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/
Swagger (OpenAPI 2) and OpenAPI 3 never supported JSON Schema. They support a subset of the draft 4 with custom additions. OpenAPI 3.1 added support for additional schemas where you can use whichever draft you want.
TRON was technologically notable because it was the first wide-release film to extensively use high-res CGI. Getting high-res electronic images transferred cleanly to film was still being figured out. I remember reading in an effects magazine about how they cobbled together a workflow to get images from the 4096 line frame buffer onto film.
the 6809 was better
Reality has a known liberal bias, yes, only in that liberals tend to believe in science - the one discipline that helps us understand what is objectively real.

I would be careful not to confer this to issues of culture, where dogma currently reigns supreme, and liberals are no less susceptible than conservatives to the kind of thinking that leads absolutely nowhere productive.
The article didn't go into it I think, but I recall in many satellite missions of this type, there are not only data storage and transmission issues (normal issues you would expect), but also considerations that the antennas and transmission hardware themselves have a certain duty cycle or lifetime that is finite. As in transmission of data consumes that margin.

So you have to quite deliberate in considering how much data to be sending, which data, etc. because every GB eats a chunk of the satellite's expected life. (Again, I believe.)
If you’re both using Apple devices it works like this:

Guest: “What’s your wifi network?”

Me: “It’s XXXX”

Guest: selects network

Me: Prompt on my device “Would you like to share your wifi password with Guest” . Selects Yes

Guest: “oh wow I’m connected. Thanks!”

Now that only works if I am present. But it works wonderfully. It should be standardised across platforms.
ESA got your back:

quintet:
https://esawebb.org/images/weic2208a/zoomable/

https://esawebb.org/images/weic2208b/zoomable/

carina:
https://esawebb.org/images/weic2205a/zoomable/

https://esawebb.org/images/weic2205b/zoomable/

Southern ring
https://esawebb.org/images/weic2207a/zoomable/

https://esawebb.org/images/weic2207b/zoomable/

https://esawebb.org/images/weic2207c/zoomable/

Deep field
https://esawebb.org/images/weic2209a/zoomable/

https://esawebb.org/images/weic2209b/zoomable/
I can't speak to anything newer than comet lake, but between my various HP elite books, elite desks, Dell optiplexes, latitudes, and Lenovo thinkpads, very few of them have shipped with bitlocker enabled by default.
> fallout from such a high-profile court case wouldn't be very good PR

In what sense? Will advertisers or users flee because of a court case? If anything, it keeps Twitter in the news. Their CEO could make any announcement today and have it reverberate across America as he could never have done before.
Then say that?

Rest pedants don’t care if you don’t use rest, as long as you don’t call it rest. It’s hardly a difficult concept.
They are very similar publications, but I'm not sure which one is "dumbed down" relative to the other. Instead, there is a lot of variation within each magazine. Some articles are brilliant examples of "long form" journalism which sometimes later get expanded into entire books, others are puff pieces, and yet others (like this article) are somewhere in between.
Agree for wedding photographers regarding the f/1.4 lenses. For all other purposes so... Tge second card slot was fixed so, and I don't know of anyone who actually lost shots due a failing memory card. I do see the need for redundancy for stuff like weddings and events so.
Still worth it. Unlike 2750 GBP + VAT.
I quit your platform because you didn't have Partner Program in India.

I do not want to monetize my writings anymore, but there was one day, when I did.

But your behavior made that impossible. You said once Stripe start working in India, you'd start MPP in India, then they started in Beta. Then you said when Stripe comes out of Beta, you will have MPP in India.

Then when Stripe started full-fledged service in India, you stopped mentioning India.

This behavior really frustrated me and made me stopped considering Medium seriously for anything.

I made good money on Quora in the past. They could send money to India- no problem, but not you guys.

I don't want money for my writings now. I want all of them to be free. But I am angry at Medium, and would never be returning.
...and doesn't run the battery down in a couple of months