skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>contrarian versus Establishment is a pretty poor indicator for truth

False. It's a pretty reliable proxy if the Establishment is known or plausibly suspected to benefit from falsehood and\or misrepresent truth. If you have a reliable predictor of falsehood, then something which always opposes it is a reliable predictor of truth. I don't know if the statistics Establishment is one such example (probably not), but the trans-activism and war-media Establishments certainly Are reliable predictors of falsehood, and have been shown to be on multiple occasions.

That's why I like the author's opinions on those topics more than on statistics, even if I'm not necessarily certain of their truth. He's going in the rough general direction of truth.

>hyperventilating culture warrior attitude. It speaks poorly of ability to humbly and dispassionately analyze topics, regardless of which side it comes from.

False Again. Plenty of smart people have this attitude, the notorious example off the top of my head is Nassim Nicholas Taleb, incredibly arrogant and quick to ungraciously fail into combat under criticism - yes - but do you actually want to take him one-on-one in statistics? For a more distant example, see Newton's hilarious pettiness in dealing with rivals. Your heuristic yellow flag would have lead you to dismiss him faster than you can say "Universal Gravitation", and we both know you would be utterly and irredeemably wrong.
Other than some sanitation woes in their factory, they produce a decent product. I use it heavily when traveling since it's easy to get some soylent at my destination. No need to prep food or have a kitchen, reasonably balanced, tasty enough.
Maybe consider https://github.com/Planimeter/game-engine-2d? We have multiplayer with client-side prediction out of the box. Example code is included to demonstrate the ease of networking entity fields, and there is an included payload abstraction for creating networked events.

You can set the tick rate for your game based on your needs as well. And prediction is robust, supporting exceptional packet loss and smoothing over latency concerns for player movement.

Even Godot doesn't support multiplayer networking out of the box: you have to write it yourself.
That might be true if "western values" (whatever that's supposed to mean) were a primary determining factor in what anime Westerners chose to watch, and if it were still the 1990s when things like cigarettes, guns and LGBT relationships were routinely cut out of anime for Western release. But looking at the MyAnimeList page for Summer 2022 anime[0] I don't see signs of the "hollywoodization" you're talking about. The selling point for these services is immediacy, not censorship.

[0]https://myanimelist.net/anime/season
Will this really improve the experience for the average developer, or will this be a way for those with deep pockets to blanket the platform with ads and drown out small-time indie devs even more?

It feels like a more lasting solution not based on being able to buy eyeballs would be making the search experience on the App Store more robust and modernized. To fix the solution with an UX upgrade. That feels more like an Apple solution, not by adding more ads into the mix.
Oh, i read your substack and find it brilliant!
You can't think of a reason? For example: You bring your friend there, they are from that country, they try their language, it doesn't work, embarrassing moment for everybody.

And about 1000 other reasons.
The Resume: has the patents link (not sure if that was your intention)
I've done my share of testing randomish prompts. Here's two examples that might change your mind slightly. The first example is "E sublimary widge fraus chronly becross yon corpti." I constructed this sentence to resemble the grammar, syllables and pacing of English, but it is complete nonsense. The output was both consistent and coherent. In the case of DallE, it generated church and saint related images. The second example was ".- / ... . -- .- .--. .... --- .-. . / .-.. .- -- .--. / .- -... --- ...- . / - .... . / -.-. .-.. .- ... ... --- -. / .- ...- . -. ..- . / ... ..- -... .-- .- -.-- / ... - .- - .. --- -." There are clearly not enough (any?) samples of morse code text in the training. The output was wholly unrelated to the prompt. The output is kind of like doodling. Its fairly random, fairly undirected without any real theme, but its not the same randomness as TV static. Its more like randomness from a distribution of things people would draw when bored.

So the interesting part is this, why did one random prompt fail in a consistent way and the other in a random way? Perhaps the encoding of meaning into vocabulary has patterns to it that we ourselves haven't noticed. Maybe your random string experiment works because there is some amount of meaning in the syllables that happened to be in your chosen string.
Mark Zuckerberg is minting an NFT of his Little League baseball card
Evolution got around that by birthing what are essentially still fetuses compared to most other non-marsupial mammalian newborns and then continuing the base development process of the brain after birth. See how a lot of other newborn animals are already walking around just minutes after being born.
What?

- The fill nozzles for hydrogen cars are insulated.

- Gas stations manage pressure tanks for propane already, with no problem.

- Automated pressure monitoring has been a solved problem since the steam engine.

- Hydrogen crackers don’t create superfund sites. If they leak, they leak water, hydrogen and oxygen.

A hydrogen cracker can just be plopped down wherever electricity and water are available. You probably need an attendant because of vandals, bathrooms, snacks, etc, like a current gas station. This is why current commercial crackers are often found at existing gas stations.
Blogger/RSS is all we/Google ever needed.
I think for most world religions, belief that spiritualism is isolated as a purely metaphysical affair is a minority, nearly fringe belief. If you isolate spiritualism to the purely philosophical realm then religion loses its potency, and Richard Dawkins will metaphorically laugh as he places some pasta god next to the sacred.

Spiritualism is as much about this world as it is about concepts of afterlife.
So why isn't it widely deployed in Europe where they do have electrified railways, etc?
We want private companies to be in the business of rule enforcement, IMO.

Some want to prevent monopolies from having too much influence over commerce but it's far from the majority (based on all available evidence).
> Nobody on this planet needs lawyers defining sex. But they would

That ship sailed the moment sex gained legal significance, which means in many jurisidictions it has always been a subject lawyers can argue over. It's not going to come up most of the time, but for that 0.1% of the population it has and will.

If you don't want lawyers arguing about sex, you would have to get rid of the concept of sex in law, including sex discrimination law.
> Now I interview tons of people for MLE roles.

I come from fintech, what suggestions do you give to a former dev re-entering tech via AI and ML and wants to focus on the Product Dev side of things?

I managed/collaborated with a team of 3-4 devs as a co-founder during it's peak and then did a dev and consultant stint at a mega corp after getting fed up with how bad PM can ruin everything and self-sabotaging itself.

I'm now studying a BSc in AI and ML to get back into tech and I've realized that my strengths won't be as a developer and would I'd prefer to focus on being a much better PM than what I had.
What's still missing, as the article mentions, is the correct relationship between objects. As in this post from a few months ago: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/i/57243633/the-tenth-vir... - it knows that Tycho Brahe was a bearded guy, and it knows what a telescope looks like, but when you ask for "Tycho Brahe looking through a telescope", the person sometimes looks at the telescope, or past it, sometimes the telescope just sits there, but the person never actually looks through it.
Will MacAskill of Effective Altruism Fame – The Value of Longtermism
I was wondering the same. Was 'pedant' at the time more like what we'd call 'peasant' today?
Another way to think about it: Who has various kinds of power? To set pay? To help get one promoted? To help the company succeed?

Treating people well tends to have good long-term results. There are exceptions, situations, and cases where you have to be more cautious. To put it nicely, there are some people who favor shorter-term strategies. We all should recognize there is a fraction of people lacking in awareness or empathy or ethics. Some of the folks, wittingly or unwittingly, will bring down the entire ship if you let them. Still, IMO, a wise, ethical person gives the benefit of the doubt and helps others to the extent possible, without overextending themselves. As time passes, a good strategy is to help relatively more people who (a) need the help; (b) reciprocate, to the degree they are able; (c) and let's face it, those who can help you get a foothold. The third point is based on this logic: if you are a conscientious person, it is your ethical responsibility to not be naive. You should carefully strive to use your power to help. Sometimes this means playing the game.

What I've said above leaves open all sorts of paradoxes, value judgments, and dilemmas. Such is life. I think it is useful to frame ethics as striving towards an ideal (not just a goal) despite all the complexities. I could use all the feedback you all have to offer... I have a long way to go.
EC2 involved substantial VM management and networking innovations that I respect. Ditto lambda and S3. I would not categorize any of these as OSS flips in nearly the way that I would categorize Athena as an OSS flip.
> 3. Most humans spend large amounts of time doing drudge, unrewarding work below their full developed potential

Imagine all humans working at their full potential. Would we have fewer people because we do not need that much potential?

Would this have caused world wars decades, centuries, or millennia earlier?

What will be the cost of making all humans work at their full potential?

Maybe a hard problem to solve.
Nobody grows out of your definition of bullshit - doing things that they think others want to see.

But that definition is ... well bullshit. Bullshitting is a deliberate deceptive act. Children aren't being deliberately deceptive when they come up with nonsense answers to questions they don't understand.
Excel never dies (2021)
I have read some photography equipment teardown articles, and the level of counterfeit effort might shock you.

Plenty of electronics get counterfeited. And where some of them are concerned, the consumer will never noticed. Perhaps it's an audio product where the "special sauce" is indistinguishable to the lay consumer. But it can also be the "apple" charger which starts a fire in your house randomly.

> the refund process at amazon takes at most 5minutes

Depends where you are. While the online return experience is very easy, I still have to adequately repackage it and take it by car 20 minutes away to a shipping drop point. It's not even the effort that's significant, it's the mental overhead AND the fact that what I thought I was getting is not what I got, so I have to try it all again (and possibly return it again).
Yes. If a delivery company continues to do business with known drug dealers, refuses to stop once faced with reasonable evidence, then it is perfectly reasonable for Visa and everyone else to walk away.
gRPC-web just isn't there yet but appreciate the work in the space. There's also an issue with a proliferation of transpilation (protoc) projects:

- grpc-web (the standard binary protocol) with the optional TS emit

- grpc-web-text with the optional TS emit

- gprc-ts

- ts-proto

Which to use when, why and the issues with interop between backend/frontend server implementations. Also the streaming story isn't great. Also the need for Envoy as another piece of infra to manage isn't great either.
Not too much to add, not a ‘political’ person I find it interesting how narrative shaping is explicitly spoken to in that link.

How much is deliberate? Hard to tell. Really sad we don’t have someone on china’s case early, before it really is too late.
why cocaine is illegal ? Seriously, f*ck this world.
I think many users just see they can execute a query on huge data cheaply and incredibly quickly and are delighted. That's certainly my experience.

It's one of the backends available in Splink, our FOSS record linkage software and it's revolutionary how it allows users to execute large scale probabilistic record linkage ridiculously cheaply. It wasn't long ago you needed very expensive proprietary software plus a big on prem cluster, costing in the hundreds of thousands, to achieve this.

A lot of the magic for me is on the infrastructure side: how they can read/write large datasets from s3 so quickly, so the value isn't just in the SQL engine.
These people are likely not maxing out their 401ks and are borrowing their current luxuries from their future selves.

Comparing finances to others without actually having all the information isn’t worthwhile.
Dang I just turned 30 and according to this graph, I will be looking to spend even more time alone each year although I have two kids and a partner.

I think this could also be related to our culture shaping around modern technology such as the internet and social media. We're more connected than ever, but even more alone.

This isn't to say we're "lonely" in terms of community, but rather we experience our respective communities "alone".

I think our culture needs more people who point out that their love can be misplaced. When you're desperately in love with someone, it's almost impossible to see their failings. When you get enough distance however, you can see how problematic something can be. I think that applies to family, friends, coworkers, and even the technology we use every day.

It's a sad realization, but a realization nonetheless.
This isn't really true. The heritability of IQ is pretty high. We know this from twin studies. Beyond this, adopted siblings, have a very low correlation coefficient of IQ by adulthood, but genetic siblings have a very high one.
The last time I needed to use fsck to repair a filesystem was less than six months ago. After running it I found that my entire directory hierarchy was garbage and lost+found had at least hundreds of files named by their inode numbers. It would have taken me forever to piece this back together if it was a filesystem that I cared about. This is consistent with my experience with fsck in decades past.

In 15 years of using zfs, I’ve never lost a pool when it was in a mirror or raidz layout.
Ok - I run a charity that makes is easier for illegal migrants to find housing and avoid deportation. This is illegal - should VISA cut me off?
Yep .. Jordan works on Trino and Starburst Galaxy. We got lots of other great engineers helping as well btw.

https://github.com/randgalt
I've seen a lot of offshored work over the years and it is always a disaster. It comes down to a combination of language barrier, quality of hiring and general ability to communicate (i.e. can you bring your point across even if the other party speaks the same language).

Folks have been saying "once companies figure it out" for a really long time (at least 30 years), and it hasn't materialised because it doesn't work.
Thanks for your post. I enjoyed it so much I almost up-voted it.
Hey, I've had my eye on your game for awhile! To be honest it's really similar to ideas I've had in the past. I've always like the idea of programming based games, but I've found I no longer have the energy for them outside of work.
I mostly use my electric leaf blower for my driveway, walkway, porch, and deck.

I can accomplish in a minute or two what would normally take 20+ minutes with a push broom.
Also it stains things almost as badly as beet juice (but it is kind of dramatic to have a dark greenish bowl of oatmeal...)
Yes, it's good to be platform king. We know. Low friction for you, high friction for everyone else.
I once had a sociology professor whose final was multiple choice and every answer (out of 50) was a B, except for the last, which was a C.
While I think this first-principle analysis is helpful, I fear it may be holding Quaise to too high a standard; their goal (AFAICT) is not to provide 100% of the energy needs of anywhere; it's a huge win if coal's 10-20% contribution of total power generation (or even just a substantial fraction of that) can be in-place replaced with a geothermal generator. Maybe this tech won't be cost-effective in 50 years as solar continues to get cheaper, but as a transitional bridge technology it could be incredibly impactful in the 10-20 year timeframe.

Also, you didn't specify a depth for your calculation; won't the flux be higher the deeper you go (i.e. be proportional to the delta-T)? They are talking about going to 20km which as I understand it is WAY deeper than most geothermal systems contemplate. Their whole bet is predicated on the idea that with the gyrotron they can drill deeper since they don't need to mess with high-temp drill bits.
Cool product, nice features, too important to rely on such a young company.

Sorry to be that guy, but I would never rely the business core on a company like that.
That's why I like Tooljet: https://www.tooljet.com (no affiliation) - they are open source. That mitigates the risk to a level that I'd personally accept.
A lot of comments seem as if they believe this to be a novel crossword type? I thought I'd seen the exact format in The Times (of London)?
"Reasonable evidence" according to whom?
Etymologically appears to be 'headmaster'. I imagine that this and the Cumaeans are just a "pick a specific because it's funny" joke. Partly this makes fun of a certain class intentionally, but partly just because it's specific.

For instance, there are also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardarji_joke
https://www.ft.com/content/762e4648-06d7-4abd-8d1e-ccefb74b3...
It depends on the rock formation the project is targeting. If one targets a steam reservoir or a sedimentary rock formation, generaly things are ok (save for this one case in Germany where Earth started to rise [0]). In case you target hot (dry) rock that you need to fracture to increase the heat exchange surface, then more often than not you are going to induce seismicity. It's been well studied in Alsace and some small induced earthquake was felt in Strasbourg and attributed to nearby geothermal developments [1].

[0] https://m.dw.com/en/green-good-intentions-cause-chaos-in-two...

[1] https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/geoscience/artic...
Another reason that we need a decentralised blockchain and a decentralised stable coin.
The carbon source is CO2 in the air. Digesting the food creates CO2, which completes the cycle of carbon neutrality.
I think you missed the jesting tone this was written in, but it's ok, I blame the font selection. It's too serious. ;-)
"Microsoft launched Excel in 1985 exclusively on the Macintosh. It was that counterintuitive decision to launch on its competitor’s computer while Lotus 1-2-3 was stuck on its own MS-DOS" - crazy that microsoft recognised its own deficiency (difficult UI) and took a big bet with their competitor. Microsoft and Apple's relationship has been complicated from the start
For managing difrerent workloads, check out this blogs and this videos from Shopify, Salesforce, Goldman Sachs, and Electronic Arts, respectively:

- https://engineering.salesforce.com/how-to-etl-at-petabyte-sc...
- https://shopify.engineering/faster-trino-query-execution-inf...
- https://trino.io/episodes/33.html
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5mlZGjt6H4

All use the Lyft "Presto but really Trino"-Gateway project to run different clusters to handle various workloads. They go into various details for how this is achieved.

https://github.com/lyft/presto-gateway

Regarding the Trino/Presto split. I recommend looking at this blog to better understand why these two communities aren't mergeing. TL;DR Presto is a Facebook-driven project that mainly considers running on the Facebook infrastructure. Trino is community-driven that works on running well with all clouds and common infasturcture in the Trino community which is why you see a higher velocity there.

https://trino.io/blog/2022/08/02/leaving-facebook-meta-best-...
https://trino.io/blog/2020/12/27/announcing-trino.html

Soon we anticipate that Trino will become the common name in the community space but we'll always love the origins of the Trino project being Presto.
I do respect people that say "I don't know how and don't want to learn how to solve this hard problem, so I'm letting it explicitly unsolved", as long as that "explicitly" is part is real.

And yeah, I would probably use vnc if the protocol was over a pipeline, like scp or rsync. As it is now, it's a program to avoid.

Defense in depth is only useful for vulnerabilities that you can't solve to a satisfactory level. You should be able to publish a high-quality access server on the internet without any loss of security.
One degree out people you trust.
> How can someone possibly report when they are not experiencing consciousness?

By an absence of reporting it. If I sit at a desk getting my neurons moderated by testing equipment and say "I am conscious" every subjective second that I am experiencing consciousness then I could at least help narrow down when consciousness is lost. If I am simply unable to speak or respond at all, but still conscious, I would report that fact later. Only in the case of locked-in conscious awareness without later memory of the experience would this kind of experimental setup fail, and this is where brain imaging could probably help determine that everything except motor or memory neurons were active.
Because the logistics never worked, and won't work for at least another 10 years.

1. How do you use it? First you need an electric truck, or a truck where at least 50% of its wheels are connected to electric motors. Either way you'd have to retrofit existing fleets of all shapes and sizes, so one or more companies would need to specialize in doing that, which would be very expensive initially. So you have to have an electric fleet to retrofit, or retrofit an ICE fleet (which makes zero economic sense).

2. How often is it used? The truck might actually only spend 1/2-2/3 of its time connected to the system, what with time waiting to load/unload at ports and depots, time before/after you're on highway, dealing with traffic on the highway itself.

3. How do you pay for the energy? You need a company to generate the energy, a company to charge users for the energy, a way to identify the truck as it's receiving the energy, tariff management software, etc.

4. Where are you going to install it? What roads will or won't work? How long will that take before you have enough roads that you'd stop losing money? Mostly long haul, so this has limited application, even in trucking.

If all the trucks were electric, all exactly the same size/type, the system were installed on all roads, all the companies needed to service it were in operation, and you trained enough service staff, and electricity was cheap enough that the portion of your ride would be offset by the amount of time you are charging that you could carry a smaller battery, then it would make sense.

But first we need to roll this system out on all highways, then everybody needs a BEV, then we retrofit them all, then shrink all their batteries, and then it will make economic sense. Before that all happens we need enough chargers, enough grid capacity, cheaper cleaner power, and enough BEVs rolled out, which will take 10 years at least.

Electric trams work in cities because they have short routes, a small identical fleet, need very little battery, and all the money comes from one pool (the city).
How? There's a long history of failure at raising people's IQs by environmental changes, and it doesn't seem to be for lack of trying.