skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead of going into any specific rebuttals you say generic stuff. I pointed to specific things Peterson has done and does. You didn’t do anything except do a bunch of assumptions and passive aggressive stuff like “I find it extremely disturbing” or “less whatever this is”.

Here’s another recent Peterson tidbit of being a bad person and not improving people’s lives. In one of his recent Daily Wire stuff, he said Russia is attacking Ukraine for trying to be more woke like America. Which is incredibly wrong when Ukraine has lots of non-woke stuff and is not “woke” haha. Secondly, what an awful thing to say to defend Putin’s evil invasion of Ukraine and the deaths of innocent people.

Even Peterson’s fans on his subreddit and on the YouTube video and other comment sections were upset at his callous and wrong take on the Ukrainian invasion. Just like many of his fans are upset with his joining Daily Wire and being so completely mask off these days.

Some more issues of when he is saying stuff that doesn’t appear to improve lives: what about when he insults women who wear make up. Or insults women he finds unattractive? Or when he hypocritically doesn’t call out his own daughter for wearing make up.

What about when he insulted a dead patient (RIP) of his for using up his money on drugs and then dying from them? Meanwhile he went ahead and spent a lot of money to go to Russia to be put into coma. He blames people for getting addicted to drugs, but when it is him, there is an excuse.

how is his bigotry against lgbtq people helping them? Is this stuff not “evil”? Since you claimed I am saying evil things —- without any specific backing of how.

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I can keep giving actual examples of Peterson not being a good person. No need to resort to personal attacks, gaslighting, and making narratives up.

If you aren’t satire and aren’t acting in bad faith, please give some actual info on how I’m being evil with the specifics of what I’ve said. Or specifics of my slandering. Also please respond to any times you believe I’ve said the truth about Peterson. Of course that won’t happen, much less a response at all.

I at the very least had my first response to you include me being happy for you getting better even if it’s from Peterson. You on the other hand have shown no semblance of good faith in this last response.

Finally. Just because I find Peterson to be a bigoted hate filled individual, doesn’t mean I think that about you. An attack on Peterson is not an attack on you. So there’s no need for you to push such harsh attacks on me.
A note on that twitter thread's author, have another twitter thread* about them failing to address severe flaws in their pet theory (lithium): https://twitter.com/natalia__coelho/status/15419003170416271...

* I know too; but it's not like the actual replication-crisis-suffering capital S Science reviews are that much better than twitter randos on certain topics... It's useful to reserve judgement and be skeptical about a lot of things. And demand base rates in addition to risk factors.
The Equifax breach was worse.
Lucifer is the only casting so far that hasn’t resonated with me. She felt more like a corporate CEO than fallen angel. And the stereotypical bat wings… meh

The rest have done really well, even Death (who I didn’t get good vibes from in the lead up).

EDIT: Despair didn’t do much for me either. More emo teen than avatar of suffering.
> In any case, Dr. Hoffman's theories are mathematically rigorous. I think it's worth listening to the podcast before dismissing.

I can't really comment on that as 1) I only skimmed a couple sections of the paper and 2) my field is more applied math than pure. I'm not attacking or dismissing anything, just asking how the claims made are substantiated.

> However, since it's able to model experiments in the Large Hadron Collider, I would assume that it makes predictions about the positions and velocities of high energy particles.

Do those models cover experiments which have yet to be run, and more importantly are they predictions which differ from those of the standard model?

There are a lot of neat theories which model experimental work we already have results for, the problem is using said theories to make falsifiable predictions which are both realistic in terms of actually finding a way to do experimental verification and are different from predictions made by the standard model. Nobody really loves the state of physics as-is, but moving on to something else requires meeting those two conditions which has been an insurmountable hurdle as of yet.
If we’re going down this rabbit hole, Exxon or Philip Morris or DuPont or Chiquita is probably way higher up the list than Boeing, as Boeing has only killed a thousand or so people via mismanagement (this is not counting their warplanes which kill deliberately).

Exxon knew definitively in 1977, in writing, that we were going to incinerate the planet.
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I'm currently living single, and I definitely found that only using natural light helps immensely. I don't even turn on the lights after 9pm ish and just see by street light barely coming in the windows. It actually works great. Makes me feel more connected to the physical world also.
Growing up I do not remember political associations to be so strong in folks. Twenty years ago, when 9/11 hit, we put aside our differences in a remarkable display of national unity. (Granted, not all good came out of this; a number of racial groups saw a ton of negative attention at the time. But even with that, the climate felt like one of unity, at least for me.) Comedians like Trey Parker/Matt Stone, Dave Chapelle, even Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert would regularly poke the bear on a wide range of social issues without constantly sparking nationwide outrages.

Now, we have... this: an endless cacophony of unqualified and undeserving voices spouting off whatever they want, for every purpose other than advancing productive debate. Where all get to be heard regardless of merit, yet original ideas suppressed because of pedantry (like "citation needed") and not having the backing of the melange of different social issues and media idols that we suffer under today. I don't think the political climate has been so stifling since at least McCarthyism, and for this I blame Twitter and social media.

I don't understand how you think such flowery, subjective language constitutes an objective statement of reality; all of my input into this matter is pretty clearly stated as opinion and observations outlined serve to reinforce it.

Besides, sitting there banging out "Citation Needed" like this was fucking Wikipedia is a crass, petulant move, and wholly inappropriate for something as counterfactual as a comment board. You can save the nitpicking for r/AskHistorians, where the rules clearly require it.
The first thing that came to mind reading this was that broadly it does not seem "novel", rather it reminds me of the many agents theory that makes the "Society of the Mind" [1] as published by Marvin Minsky in the 80s. Perhaps is the focus on the neocortex that is novel? I recall reading what looks like the same neocortex-focused theory in Jeff Hawkins earlier book "On Intelligence". I'll have to read the book to see what new insights are developed.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind

2.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Intelligence
So you’re going with victim blaming as your defense here?
If you are not willing to work outside 9-5, if you are not willing to sacrifice your scarce free time, then you must produce perfect bugfree code. Is that?

I have to give it to the companies and to the whole devops/agile movement. They have truly convinced us that being oncall is the right thing somehow. And that non oncall engineers are a somewhat inferior race.
What’s the rationale to use stuff by a smaller organization?
Get people to think? What are they supposed to think about?

Honestly, it irks me a bit when people repeat the mantra "think for yourself" without thinking. To "think for yourself" about a topic requires a foundation of knowledge -- hopefully based on facts -- about that topic.

When I read an article about the trouble drilling holes through certain types of rocks, no amount of "thinking for myself" will help me discern the accuracy of the article. When I read an article about the impact of Russian military culture on political decision making, no amount of "thinking" will help me determine how biased it is. When I see a tweet about a star with an image, no amount of "thinking" will help me determine if it's real or not.

I simply lack the expertise to "think" about these fields. I guess I could fool myself into believing that with a few hours of browsing around, I could make an informed assessment. But I stopped thinking that way as I grew older (and hopefully at least a tiny bit wiser).
Why is this hard to believe?

Not for nothing but there are solar bitcoin farms that are popping up for precisely this reason.

In the region where I live (upstate New York, USA), there are solar panel fields where just five years ago there was nothing.
Your comment is so self aware, it's almost an AI. :D
Because that’s who they are. The lottery doesn’t change your character it reveals.
Definitely not GC. This was K&R C on BSD Unix around 1984.
I see some logic in what you said. But that’s definitely not something I’ve felt before.
I hear that it can work w/good senior engineers at the helm - I’d prefer the scheme you described as well.

But how did the senior engineer learn to handle those situations in the first place?
That is not true at all. I have active retainer contracts with several companies providing security engineering and support. All of them understand I am only reachable when I am physically in my home office.

I get back to clients typically within one business day or I will show up to any meetings scheduled a week in advance. This has never been an issue.

I do not carry a cell phone and I make sure every client knows this. If I am outside my office I am living my life.
What a strange feeling to see street corners you know so well, from a much more wild youth when they were just a little bit more grimy but admittedly not as grimy as the generations before me who can grumble even further- what a strange feeling to see them turn into branded vehicles for the wealthy to pat themselves on the back and feel like they are contributing to culture.
Looks great! Please add an unambiguous timestamp type :-)
What about growing three or four organs at a time that mutually depend on each other?
Nothing Phone (1) – Nothing US
I don't understand why article recommends board without amplifier, I tried using CSR8675 board without one and it was waaay too quiet.

It depends on the drivers; if they're low impedance, the result may be deafeningly loud. Yours seem to be available in 32, 80, and 250 ohms, the ones in the article are 32.
For the purposes of the story it's a "vaccination against death", keeping an unconscious person in cardiac arrest alive. But why are they unconscious in the first place? Because the brain ran out of oxygen! If it worked, you would be awake and mobile through asystole. Cardiac arrest would be a medical emergency-- solved by the patient getting in a car and driving to the ER. (Maybe not a good idea, though: the big locomotor muscles would run out of oxygen first, so you'd probably lose the ability to steer or press the brake pedal halfway there...)

Even more boring of a nitpick: if the molecule provided oxygen without binding to the resulting CO2, then loss of blood flow would result in rapid carbolic acid buildup and ischemic injury from pH imbalance. You'd die from metabolic acidosis before you would die from lack of oxygen. The "respirocyte" artificial blood cell concept from 1998 had two internal tanks for that purpose, one metering out O2 and one collecting CO2: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.3109/1073119980911768...
I preordered this when it first came up months ago and it arrived a couple of days ago - fun to know I got a copy before Charles did :).

The first edition was really great. Excited to see the updates.
Thanks. I still see multi-second pauses moving data over Samba to an encrypted ZFS pool. I’m using a 10Gbps network card, so the drives are the bottleneck (or so I thought, until seeing these delays).

I’m on 13-RELEASE.
these are the worst, or when they are on a button like my monitor
He worked his way from the bottom and climbed up as an immigrant. As a company man he seems legitimate.
> naively, I assumed that installing it from the official channel would do the job.

Years ago, I submitted a PR that added this exact behavior. But it depended on interpolating a Nix-internal variable into a config file in the Fish package which at the time was undocumented (@NIX_STATE_DIR@) and upon the layout of profiles within it, so there was concern that it might break on future Nix releases. There were a few other issues, too, and at the time I don't think there was a great way to add tests, either. (That's important because if you screw this up, you can break login for Nix users— I know because I did it once, and that was awful.) Anyway, I felt discouraged and didn't know where to go with it next, so I got lazy and dropped the PR.

At any rate, I don't think your expectation there was unreasonable. I think that would be a good and sensible UX, and your intuition was reasonable.

> After yesterday's post about Nix I tried to install it on my Arch+fish machine. I couldn't.

So the problem is this: the official Nix installer leverages an initialization script, to be sourced at shell init time, which is written in POSIX shell. Fish can't just source it because it's not compatible with POSIX shell.

> I then searched the Internet and found a very "creative" workaround for Arch users that didn't work either.

Arch users shouldn't need anything special here.

You can use fenv¹ to source it, you can translate it to bash using babelfish, or you can exec into fish after running bash to log in (make sure to set $SHELL after if you choose that option). Just make sure you do it as early as possible if you want to use things installed by Nix in your other Fish config snippets.

I think Home Manager will also take care of this for you. (The other module systems, Nix-Darwin and NixOS, both do.)

If you wanna do it like NixOS does, you can install Fish via Nix and then create your own preinit environment script in /etc/fish. This has the advantage of setting up your Nix environment variables before any other config is sourced. You can take a look at it here, which also explains some of the Fish initialization process: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/p...

and here's where the hooks go in the Fish package, where the comments describe the Fish initialization process in detail as well as why things are done this way on NixOS: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/shells/fis...

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1: https://github.com/oh-my-fish/plugin-foreign-env

2: https://github.com/bouk/babelfish
Daily driver: Threadripper 3970X with 128GB ECC RAM. It runs FreeBSD releases.

Laptop: Thinkpad X260 with i7 and 16GB RAM.

I also use an iPad Air M1 for whiteboarding and sketching.
BTW, you might also want to check out Tumult Hype, I used it for some projects that were similar.

https://tumult.com/hype/
How light can a punishment be before it's no longer discouraging the crime?
Evenings and weekends usually. I think it depends on time available to you, which varies with the kind of commitments you have (eg children, SO, pets).

I do it on my own time, and get no income from it, nor am I looking to. That allows me to keep an erratic schedule in case I'm busy with something else.
Sure but "my personal experiences match up with the expert consensus from the past decade" (and really longer, the 2005 food pyramid was for slightly more grains than veggies, not double) isn't a particularly strong argument for disagreeing with the expert consensus.

If what you're saying is "I disagree with expert consensus from the 80s", well then sure, but so does the expert consensus! That's how the scientific process works (slowly).
That makes no sense.

A home burglary where no one's present is non violent. Do you think that should be punished lightly? It causes orders of magnitude less damage than a lot of financial crime.
> People should be a little smarter and not fall for Ponzi schemes

Blaming the victims is not a solution.

This logic can be applied to justify stopping punishing any crime (“well, they should have stayed at home if they did not want to get mugged”, “they should know better than leave their house for the week if they did not want to get burglarised”, etc).
A better person, no. A better engineer, yes.

My point in posting this here is not to brag, but to point out that a college education doesn't have to consist of memorizing formulas. If a particular college program requires that, there are better choices.
Are there any forums entirely dedicated to this book or at least 1st ed of this book? Where users could answer each other's technical questions, ask them, get help from other users or smth? If there are none, it would be cool to create something like it. I believe that the information contained in this book is almost unparalleled, the author has done a tremendous job.
I'm sure this new edition will have the same early chapters, just extend further. This is not a 2nd volume but a 2nd edition
Just to be pedantic: the demon is actually there, he just chooses Lucifer as his champion, which makes sense from a show perspective as it gives Lucifer (a major character later) more to do in that episode.

I don't believe the battle is much shorter (having recently re-read the comics), but I agree the pep talk from Matthew was unnecessary.
>I take slight issue with this one. To me, there is no difference between “internet slang” and just “slang”. The internet is ubiquitous and the language we use online and offline is largely the same now.

Some yes, otherwise you'd be surprised... In many circles and communities it's not the same at all - and even developments the 'social media'-inmates take for well known, are not a thing discussed at all...

It's like the "silent majority" of working programmers, who don't give a duck about HN, Rust, the latest trends in web and backend, and so on...
./Concord.sh: UEFI Secure Boot the Right Way
This would be a list by many buyers, especially in the enterprise, of companies to avoid. If you want to help the indie startup it is probably better to remove their revenue numbers. Most buyers are concerned if the product they invested in will be around in a couple of years.
Neither is true;

While sociological data in a dictatorship is to be taken with a grain of salt, the data shows that most Russians support the "special military operation": https://www.levada.ru/en/ Worse, there are a lot of people on Russian social media that are aware of war-crimes and support them, I hope their numbers are small, but unfortunately rulers known for cruelty like Ivan the Terrible, Peter I or Stalin are quite revered, and Putin has drawn parallels between himself and them (most recently Peter the First).

Russia lost the war in the sense that the original intent was to occupy all or most of the country. But Ukraine still has lost 20% of the area and much of the population is under occupation, refugees or mobilized. This is far from victory for Ukraine and the country needs to be helped to win. Ukrainian victory is in everyone's interest because otherwise wars of conquest will become the norm again.
Quick note that as an employer you may be subject to local employment laws in this space. Particularly true in the US.
420 Years of Teletext by AttentionWhore [video]
> I should be the user, it should be the tool, not the other way around.

> A good operating system: Mac OS. Windows has become so user-hostile that I refuse to get near it. Linux breaks the rule above: a person's primary task should not be computing, but being human.

That's certainly understandable, although it can also be contradictory with your goal of having quiet technology that leaves the user alone.

MacOS can be opaque and annoying at times, especially when there are no settings for something you want or need, but piles of "social" settings junk you don't need.
Recently macOS wasted my time to find a way to map the begin and end keys of my K380 keyboard, which wasn't even an issue with Linux. No settings for that, it's still getting in my way.

It also takes some effort to silence it; I routinely get popups about my screen time, suggestions and whatsnot. All those are distractions and wastes of time I don't have with Linux.

Otherwise I use a slim stable distribution (Debian stable) with a tiling WM and mate-settings-daemon: few processes running, few updates, and I feel in actual control of the machine. It's really leaving me alone, wastes little of my time and feels quieter to me than macOS.

Anyway, you're posting this on HN so I guess you assumed that kind of answer.
That's basically equivalent to saying, by the church-turring thesis computers can solve any solvable problem, therefore it can probably solve the problem at hand.

Which is technically true, but as a pragmatic matter doesn't really tell us much about if, when, or how the problem will be solved.
"Poverty and childhood obesity: a 21st century role reversal" :
https://foodactive.org.uk/poverty-and-childhood-obesity-a-21...
The Constantine of the series isn't the Constantine of the book; the Constantine of the book is the protagonist of Hellblazer, and he isn't hundreds of years old. The Constantine of the series has a thru-line going back to Hob Gadling; she's entirely contained in the Sandman story.
Obligatory Feynman quote:

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

When someone says, “Science teaches such and such,” he is using the word incorrectly. Science doesn’t teach anything; experience teaches it. If they say to you, “Science has shown such and such,” you might ask, “How does science show it? How did the scientists find out? How? What? Where?”

It should not be “science has shown” but “this experiment, this effect, has shown.” And you have as much right as anyone else, upon hearing about the experiments–but be patient and listen to all the evidence–to judge whether a sensible conclusion has been arrived at.”
> Being on call is super stressful

Absolutely. Being on call means we have to be ready to respond. Can't ever fully relax, can't make plans that compromise that readiness. People need to be compensated for that. Where I live doctors get paid when they're on call.
What do they mean by sublinear here?
Perhaps that was the case for him, because he was already in the situation discussed by the author.
Is this https://projectnaptha.com/ ? I see the cool video and not a link to the software.
+1. There should be a forum for this book.
Not convicted yet, and apparently he does want to be tried just in France and not in Japan.

A lot of the accusations are for standard rich people crimes which is some amount of tax avoidance. You can basically pick and choose who you want to target because as panama papers shows pretty much all rich people are dodging taxes to some degree.
> Isn’t that still circular though? Knowledge of the mainstream research isn’t the same as “knowledge of what’s correct”; the person who holds the non-consensus view may have equal or higher levels of knowledge about the path that got them to non-consensus.

No, because the things they're asking about are middle school level science stuff.

The list of questions are in the supplemental PDF, or in my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32379920