skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This from John Ganz is a rejoinder to this piece: https://johnganz.substack.com/p/the-enigma-of-peter-thiel.

Jon makes a narrow argument, but it’s persuasive to me. I’ve said before that Thiel is the most interesting billionaire, but his high-minded thinking is right now cashing out in the campaigns of two low-brow, bog-standard Trumpist senate candidates: Masters and Vance.
Calling Russia and China the worst threats to international security in times where the USA and NATO not only exist, but are a as active as ever, could be explained only by the complete unawareness of any major event of the post WW2 history.
Seems so unfortunately. Esp for Customer obsessed and Earn Trust.
See my response to your other post.
https://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2018/10/02/no-its-not-the-in...

Humans are not incentive-following automata, though we have incentive-following tendencies.
Very much true but not really recognized by management in general.
> dead tree book

I bet it takes more trees to manufacture a single nook (resources) than 100s books.
Make sure they are searchable, and favor more recent notes over older notes.

In most cases, make sure each note are self-contained and can be reviewed without the original text or other notes. Referencing is okay, but usually, you don't want to keep an idea contained in a million places.

If needed, add a diagram or tree or nested tags to show where each note fits in the scheme of a grander picture on a topic.

Looking for a set of notes in a helpful sequence is usually not going to be as effective, aside from chronologic notes of what happened in what sequence.
That's great. I wouldn't want to rely on something proprietary (especially SaaS) for something so important.
Chess robot grabs and breaks finger of seven-year-old opponent
> I wonder if LLVM is more open for keeping support for ancient systems like this in-tree than gcc.

Maybe things have changed, but I got the opposite impression from previous discussions, around Rust portability.
To be frank: my line of work its hard to count time for projects.but those which did it was self accounting.
By far the most effective preventer of dementia appears to be vaccinations, with 40% effect size. It doesn't seem to matter what against. Second might be antivirals against herpes.

These people need to be formally immediately banned from any NIH activity, and criminally charged. We have known for years that their crap work was useless.
Then we fundamentally disagree in how human psychology works: I believe that if authorities (be they government officials, parents or others) habitually lie and cheat, then that behavior becomes socially sanctioned as a way to get ahead. Thus you end up with more “shitty people” (and a worse society)
What the heck? Do you somehow only watch the super opinionated stuff on both Fox and CNN, giving you polar opposite trash talk from both sides of the aisle? Lol

If anything The first one wasn’t a white supremacist because “he had alot of Mexican friends” and the other isn’t cozying up to a dictator because our gas supply offset wasn’t shifty to Saudi backed oil supplies, not to mention all his work his son has done with sketchy characters that he tries to distance himself from.
LFP Also has much more cycle life and can be cycled 0-100% with much less degradation than NMC meaning a much longer lasting battery. The LFP Tesla it is recommended to charge to 100% always rather than only doing 80% except on long trips on the NMC Teslas.

LFP is also safer with much less chance for thermal runaway. So safer, cheaper, longer lasting, easier material sourcing, only downside is lower energy density (about 20% hit for same weight) but there is a huge effort to improve that.

You can LFP's pretty cheap now for home backup or RV use. I replaced my RV house batteries with LFP for 4 times the usable capacity in half the weight of my old lead acid for about 3 times the cost. You can get 48v 19" rack batteries very cheap for power backup uses. I think LFP's are going to take over most uses in including cheap commuter automobiles.
Those two opinions are orthogonal. One might believe that Mickey Mouse should not dictate copyright law and think these tools are exploitative.

I use them, I do not think they are evil. I can also appreciate the asymmetry of using code with restrictive licenses or private to train an ML vs the consumer visibility over, for instance, windows source code. In the case of DallE I find it fascinating and useful, and can likewise appreciate the asymmetry of having the compute power and placing restrictions on which prompts are allowed,

It is not difficult to see how those asymmetries can be seen as exploitative. I don’t have a side but the thought is easy to entertain.

Edit: grammar
> Working in an office as a developer for Amazon =/= Amazon warehouse worker.

Definitely a good point!

> The latter are effectively treated like shit.

That said, based on almost everyone’s feedback who I know that’s been a software engineer, they are effectively treated like shit too, just better paid than the warehouse staff.
Are the PDFs accessible to screen readers? Even the Maths, and tables?
If I'm not mistaken, essentially the conclusion is shit we already knew: Unless you change your eating habits (decrease volume of calories and increase quality of food), you're probably going to be stuck where you're at.

Drinking 24x cans of diet soda every day isn't going to you there.
Reading this article and the comments here is like group therapy. This feels like a nearly-universal experience; the shared trauma of pouring everything into a project only to see success destroyed by incompetent management.

I've been writing code for a living for 20 years and I swear it wasn't always this bad. There were fulfilling software jobs at one point. What changed?
Why would calling 1/4 of extremely unhealthy consumption "highly unhealthy" that strange?
The reliable reference I can give you is the legal team from the company I was working for, who had to deal with all this shit and in the end said that session logs with IP addresses did not count as user data and therefore need not to be listed as part of "user collected data" in our privacy policy.

Another way that I can argue for this interpretation is simple: if you want connect to a hotspot in Germany, no one asks you if you opt-in to sharing your IP addresses. These, by itself, are considered "required information to appropriate service" (or something equivalent in legalese).

The third argument I can give is a bit circular: if GDPR had any way to rule this illegal, it would already have been met by huge outcry from the proper privacy NGOs. If it has gotten to the point where the companies are announcing tryouts, it means that the networks are confident enough that they are (at least in regards to GDPR) legally in the clear.

All in all, I hope that people crying for regulations and government intervention could understand once and for all that the laws that get approved are never going to do what they wished it did. I already got into plenty of arguments here with people that believe that GDPR is effective to protect users, but this is just yet-another example of regulatory capture.
Charitable read: OP probably didn't mean "minimize collaboration" but "minimize the need for collaboration."

Or phrased differently: design your teams so that the most common tasks can be done by a single team.

If support needs to talk to the developers for every single support request, there isn't much need for a separate support team. If, on the other hand, the support team gets all the tools and training to address the 99% most common support cases, support gets faster and developers get fewer interruptions.
This isn't really how contract law works. There may be minor details that are not specified in the contract but unless it can be proven in court that those details were actually within the contemplation of one of the parties and connected to his or her decision to enter into the contract, their absence would not be sufficient to nullify the contract.

A contract is an agreement, so it stands to reason that if the parties do not, in fact, agree, there is no contract. The piece of paper we call a contract is, in fact, only a (strong) evidential tool to help the court figure out what the parties agreed.

> Far stronger reasoning (for example) is that a contract must spell out time, which is a special property of contracts because (for example) 1000000 years is virtually never an acceptable period for which to fulfill on your end of a contract.

How is this "far stronger reasoning"? It isn't even reasoning at all, because there is no existing rule that a contract must spell out time, so it's simply an untruth. Unless you were suggesting that the court create a new rule out of nowhere that all contracts must spell out the time for performance or else become void. A court would obviously never do that in light of the huge disruption it would cause.
Capitalism? Do you think it was all way better in Soviet Russia?

Blaming “capitalism” is just the “old man yelling at cloud” if you are 20.
Key West, Florida is what peak unliveability looks like:

https://www.keywestislandnews.com/2022/02/can-real-people-li...

Comment from "SixGenFam:"

>As a conch family, with generations buried in the local graveyard and my whole life here, we have to leave kw. There’s no potential for security anymore. The only other average conchs my age I know who are planning to stay have housing assistance. They can only stay because of govt assistance that I’ll never qualify for. And the number of homes available to people with housing assistance is very limited. The only others I know that can stay are inheritors. Kids who’s parents owned nice homes or businesses on Duval etc and they were blessed with the hand me downs.

>Thing is we have way too many tourists on average here now and nobody will be here to serve them. And beyond the frivolous ways of serving them, (drinks, food and clean rooms) what of the safety and community? Nurses, teachers, cops.. None of them qualify for the affordable housing income restrictions. They never fit the bracket, but they barely make enough to pay market rents. Without a properly staffed hospital, how is it safe to host thousands of tourists?
We always say “well now who’s going to clean your rooms??” as if only housecleaning are being run out of town. But no, it’s the entire foundation of what makes a city run, and it’s crumbling, rapidly.
Building wind and solar to 500% overcapacity sounds like a great waste of resources and space though.
> This was balanced by the rapid development of symptom treatments such as steroids and posture when using ventilators, the appearance of vaccines well-tailored to the initial presentation and a reduction in social interaction caused by a mixture of public health and fear.

It was also balanced by the fact that COVID-19 is without major health consequence to the vast majority of the population.
You're both correct, depending on locale.
I feel like capitalism is a natural phenomenon of specialization.

Imagine if the human body didn’t have a dozen different organs each producing a specialized product for your body and instead had one organ that tried to do everything?
> the password manager which I'm unable to read in any other way than keep ass

I've never read it this way but now I can't unsee it.
I didn't mention it there, but I was actually responsible for some pax format related work many years back and reached out to him with a question pertaining to his star implementation.

He had strong feelings about his star being the star and an unrelated star archiving tool needing to be renamed. Something I was in no position to do or advocate for. I no longer remember if we actually discussed the technical matter or not at any point.

I was wondering if mention of him would pop up in the comments since he wrote a tar (and possibly pax, I no longer remember) implementation.
> Price & usecase wise your machine should be compared to a Mac Studio, no?

Also weight: over 7lbs, and it doesn't even look like that counts the power brick necessary to use the full performance of that machine. It's not a laptop by any reasonable definition; it's a luggable. It's desktop parts squeezed into a form factor that resembles a laptop until you put it next to a real human for scale.
The reparations were not for independence, but for the genocide the revolting slaves committed against every white person they could find in Haiti.
How else will we justify the military grade, globally distributed, multi-planetary federated, immediately consistent Kafka cluster that the CIO just purchased? I’m still not sure how to get all the servers to synchronize when Mars is on the opposite side of the sun.
Any links to Part II
This is the problem with big companies and big software projects. Your security is as weak as your dumbest/least trained dev team. This was probably thought of as a secondary priority project so the B team of C team got assigned to it.
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*These days I don't see why we don't just build lots more regular old LWR fission reactors.*

Because they lose money. Nobody, not the USA, Russia, China, France, Japan, Korea has ever made them profitable. They are always subsidized. The CCP bought Westinghouse AP1000s so they could steal their design and they still couldn't make it work. And you can't blame the environmentalists when it's in China.

Full disclosure: I'm not an accountant, but since I started taking an interest in this subject several years ago I've learned about wishing away decomissioning costs by claiming the plants will last 60 or 100 years. Ask the taxpayers of Oregon what 'stranded costs' are. Making 150 square km of Japan uninhabitable is also a bit spendy. IIRC almost all of the Dept of Energy's budget goes to nuclear.

But, nothing will change because military nuclear is a national security issue and that always trumps every other issue.

Back to fusion: Fusion power plants will be at least as big and complicated as fission plants, so it's never going to be 'too cheap to meter' electricity. I do hold out hope for it to be a drive for space craft though.
A better example would be the scientists warning that Covid was airborne and cloth face masks were not sufficient to stop the spread of an airborne virus.
Hey, there's no need to be so homophobic here /s
Wrong. They killed every white person they could possibly find.
Compromising your products and services for profit is a slippery slope under normal circumstances, but streaming is a rather competitive market. What Netflix is doing is baffling, they are in the middle of a race for dominance.

I think Netflix was too late to realize that they need to become an entertainment company like Disney or HBO and not a tech company, because that's Amazon and the world is too small for another Amazon, just as it is too small for another Google. It doesn't matter how good their CDN is or how good they are at writing JavaScript libraries, they will keep losing subscribers if there is nothing to subscribe for.
This is pure fantasy. Markets have never been efficient and actors have never been rational.
Also see Tailscale SSH:

https://tailscale.com/tailscale-ssh/
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Capitalism has produced more science and technology than any other system. It’s not a coincidence that the Industrial Revolution didn’t happen until capitalism was the prevalent Western system.
Out of curiosity, what is the infamous Dropbox comment?
On gcloud Identity Aware Proxy is a built in similar service.
Self-censorship is a pretty good idea if you're putting your words in the hands of someone else.
... To balance your point, which tbf has some truth in it, 99% of coverage on that topic from so called respected sources was manipulative bullshit.

Dissenting opinions were censored by the millions across social media.

Meanwhile, anyone who felt the lab leak theory was at least worth investigating was accused of being a Russian, Trumpist, anti-science piece of shit.

Daszak's paper was obvious bullshit. Not in hindsight, not on close reading, but on immediate reading by anyone with basic experience and logic. Yet across government, media and academia it was cited as the definitive scientific position on the matter, case closed, stfu.

... So if you're going to blame people for mixing their discussion with corporate news and political stunts, then you're going to have to share that blame with all responsible parties. They've fully earned the ire and distrust which many across the political spectrum now hold them in.

And we still haven't had a proper investigation in Wuhan, there's been no accountability for Daszak's conflict of interest, there's been no one held to account for the unprecedented censorship across Twitter and FB. No corporate media have been held responsible for their bullying and their bullshit.

If you want people to have smarter discussions about this, I'd remember the above before accusing everyone of just 'getting their info from politicians and FB'.
Crystal 1.5
Investors are making solar farms be sited in deserts, are pouring money into fusion startups, and bid up fraudulent Energy Vault (NRGV) to $2B. Investors canonically do not understand.
The corona vaccine was tested with more scrutiny and larger cohort sizes than other vaccines before. Are you putting doubt on other vaccines as well?
In the US the fission people promised a nuclear renaissance with the AP1000. They asked for and received additional subsidies in the form of loan guarantees.

The two projects that resulted were unmitigated financial disasters. All AP1000 projects in the development pipeline were cancelled and no utility in their right mind will order one.

This is entirely the fission people's fault.
Nobody ever got fired for ...

Giving stuff to students/Universities for a low price is a tried principle, I can see them trying that out.
How could you make project management plans that imply deadlines if you don't have deadlines?

Yeah, maybe it's not such a smart idea to start with commitments that imply dates. But that's how it is. If you want to work in your own way then start your own company, I guess. Maybe it's time to do that.
It still baffles me that folks would install a third party solution when OpenSSH has supported certificates - both for the client and server - for a while.
I am sorry, but no, that's not coming from the conservative media.

See for example "sex assigned at birth" https://service-manual.nhs.uk/content/inclusive-content/sex-... as an example from a mainstream medical institution, the British National Health Service.

And transition is not "the cochlear implant", the implant would be "an implant that makes you not dysphoric". Transition is "learning how to live as a deaf person".
Nobody asked for walls in an exit interview? All of the engineers you spoke to enjoyed debugging while listening to sales calls?
What everyone here that focuses on the French debt is missing is the other part of the equation - what Haiti gained from the deal and why they signed it. France wanted compensation in exchange for recognition, and Haiti (correctly) presumed that others will follow in recognising Haiti's independence (nobody had recognised them years after independence). Basically, Haiti paid for recognition and normalisation of trade and diplomatic relations with most of the world. Did they overpay for that? Maybe, but i think the lost economic growth and opportunities from not being recognised and not being able to do normal trade would have been far higher than the payments to France. Should France have been nicer and recognised them for free? Of course, but it had every incentive not to.
I strongly agree that managers do not need to be technical or understand dev work. However, I don't have much sympathy for managers who are "misunderstood" by engineers. Companies that have issues with disgruntled engineers grumbling about management and process are mismanaged almost by definition.
The problem isn't really to what extent nuclear is load-following, but that the economics of nuclear look even worse than they already do if we want to follow the cheapest generator.

To be blunt: if the sun is shining and it's windy, no-one really wants to buy a nuclear plant's output. Not at an agreed fixed price, or possibly at any price.

The idea of nuclear getting paid the same price - or worse, an index-linked price - for the lifetime of the plant, regardless of what the future holds, and even on those sunny and windy days, just seems horrendously anticompetitive.

If nuclear is as necessary, competitive and flexible as some make out, then go right ahead and build your plant(s). Just don't expect taxpayers to underwrite anything.
"Reasonable" is doing a lot of work there.

There were and are plenty of scientists critical of the CDC. Immediately after officials lied about masks being ineffective, prominent scientists voiced harsh criticisms. They were not harangued for being anti-science or conspiracy theorists.

On the other hand, people who fundamentally did not grasp what mRNA is, or who believed that COVID caused no more deaths than a flu, or who touted "medicines" that had no demonstrated efficacy—they were deservedly criticized. Unfortunately, the criticism wasn't enough to prevent many of them from making quite a bit of money peddling their beliefs.
I have a friend with degree and Ivy, got phd, and did post doc.

He said something exactly the same, and his conscious wouldn't allow him to work in the field of science.

He left the field many years ago. He delivers mails now.
The visceral discomfort you feel about having a surgery to change your body, how uncomfortable and wrong that feels, and how unhappy you would be if someone did that to you?

The feeling that you're having, is gender dysphoria. That's what trans people feel all the time, every single fucking minute of their lives, every time they look down getting a painful reminder that their body isn't Right; until they fix it - which is a capital-C Cure. Problem solved, forever.

That sounds pretty fucking great to me. Why wouldn't you let people live how they want to?
I recommend reading the comments on AlzForum [1]. From the discussions, it sounds like this fraud is significant in terms of Dr. Sylvain Lesné's work, but that the news has been vastly blown out of proportion.

These comments are written by real Alzheimer's researchers. They all disagree with the notion that Lesné's papers have been important to the field, and therefore undermine the idea that this has any bearing on "two decades of Alzheimer's research". (Karen Ashe, co-author of the main paper referenced here, also stops by the thread.)

[1] https://www.alzforum.org/news/community-news/sylvain-lesne-w...
I was talking about the materials aspect, not the environmental impact aspect.

Though if you do bring it up, I bet it takes more trees to manufacture my entire book collection if it were on a shelf, than the single Ereader that can store them all )) Truth is my book collection is a mixture of both.
Yes, economic systems are completely binary. Just like political ones. Either everybody votes on everything or absolute monarchy. Wait...
Those things aren't mutually exclusive. Did you take from what I said to mean that the entire country turned into a desert?

Haiti has become more desertic in some parts due to the deforestation and that causes a number of things to happen that affect soil quality including floods.