skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder how the people in power form their opinions about what actions are necessary, and how the people making these decisions climb higher and higher into positions of power and decision making when the results all seem so awful. I suppose I'm only hearing about the bad outcomes, not the successes.

Maybe paying more attention to geopolitics would yield this answer to you. The base of most conflicts is usually a resource war or outright coups to enable imperialism.

With your example of Ukraine, the finding of large oil and gas fields under the east, west and Crimean regions in 2012 sealed it's fate. The Maidan revolution 2 years later was nothing more than a coup setup by Jonn McCain and Lindsey Graham. Then Shell moved in to look at how to extract said resources.

Then it would have been likely Ukraine would be used as a base to cut off Russia's access to the middle east through the Volgograd Gap in order to more easily topple Assad, allowing the Qatar-Turkey pipeline to complete it's route through Syria, thus giving Europe an out from the Russian gas monopoly.

Of course the Russians couldn't stand for any of that, so they formed their own opinions about what actions were necessary. The action they chose ended up hurting them with Germany being forced into, (not even forming their own opinions), the necessary actions of dropping the Nord Stream pipelines, adding $100bn to their military budget and signing a deal with Qatari's for access to the yet to be completed Qatar-Turkey pipeline.

Of course all of this benefits the respective populations and corporations allowing them to climb into higher positions of power.

We like to think that politicians don't think further than the next election cycle and it's mostly true. But the deeper structures in the respective state, the states needs, and corporate profit ARE in fact playing the long game, causing the politicians to almost stumble upwards in some twisted version of natural selection.

When you take into account that US war corps get to test new weapons systems against a near peer adversary without having to sacrifice US lives, it's a perfect storm.

Like that old Bill Hicks bit... "Bring up G12 Tommy; says here it destroys everything but the fillings in their teeth!"
Bots can also be clickfarms (for example iOS ratings). While they are not boys, they a definitely not actual users.
Exactly. By making the insurance company responsible for both the security and the payout, this would turn into a direct war between the insurance companies and the attackers. The incentives would now be on the insurance company to take the measures necessary to protect against the ransomware in the first place.

Now, if society feels that too many ransoms are being paid (due to externalities, such as loss of confidential information, service quality, etc) , this might also make it easier to implement additional countermeasures. In particular, I think it would make sense to demand a fine or tax any time a company pays such a ransom.

Lets say, if the government would demand a tax equal to the size of each ransom paid, the insurance/security company would either have an increased incentive to protect against ransomware, or alternatively, the attackers would understand that the break-even size of the ransom, where it would be preferable for the target to not pay, would be not much higher than half as high.
Aw, thank you :)

And I see the confusion about my previous response.
Pleasure is not the right goal. Homeostasis, balance, equanimity, peace are much better.

Learn to appreciate beauty. Learn to create beauty. Learn how to get better at both.
Environmental and energy policies are both down wind of politics. I view electric cars as a complete miss - that is to say that they aim to solve the wrong problem. Now I am not advocating that we abandon electric car development, rather I mean that they will not solve the underlying political issues that dictate our solutions in the environmental and energy realms. Take for example how we approach the design of cities, neighborhoods, where we place food growth centers, etc. A different design could render car transportation greatly reduced such that electric vs ICE would be inconsequential. Changing where we live and how supply chains work would have a much larger impact than a change to how cars get from one place to another, and by a massive magnitude. But such a change would require the necessary political will.
Why not the CPU?

(Intel put a garbage collector in hardware in the iAPX 432)
> The path out of polarization needs to be a political one

Forgive my guffaw. Politics are the way towards unity? Yeah right, and another drink is the way towards sobriety.

> The only way to resolve this conundrum is through the democratic process itself: that is, through a decisive electoral victory by one party that seeks to promote serious change, and is able to enact it.

Oh my gosh you can't be serious. Just elect a strong party that ramrods change through? That will solve our division?

What a terrifying article.
That's my thought too. I don't think this person has done much hiring so they don't understand the problem set. I haven't solved how to tell if someone can code without some kind of coding exercise. If I could, I wouldn't do it.

I've at least gotten rid of l33tcode, 8 hour technical interviews, whiteboard BS, in-person high-pressure timed coding exercises, brain teasers, etc.. All the worst stuff. I thought that was good enough. Apparently asking for an hour of someone's time to get a great job is too much these days.
That could be your ego talking? Always re-interpreting reality to put yourself on a pedestal? It is a bit silly talking in circles with people that have theory of mind deficits. You just have to avoid the "correctness conversation" and try to point them in the right direction, but it's honestly like pulling teeth.
Also, Adam Ondra routinely climbs using this tie-in method for the reasons you mention.
Could you be more specific about who you don’t trust, and how you determine truth?
Crystal is only superficially similar to Ruby and doesn't seem to get you very far if you're a Ruby shop. It's not a bad language, but it is different, and there's probably more value to be had not trying to adhere to some similar-ish syntax and adopting something more mainstream.
"5160 came with a harddisk as standard"

This was true at release but the 5160 was eventually available in a configuration with no hard drive and dual floppies.
Is aeroponics yet possible? Any good resources for it?
Consumer adoption is gradual (s-curve), enterprise tends to order large batches - fleets of taxis, cargo, delivery and service vehicles - so adoption in steps.

As the night falls, they all start charging at 00:00 with a huuge load spike on the grid. My bet is soon after, night time will cease to be the cheapest time to charge. And EV companies will be required to pay taxes to cover infrastructure costs , in turn hiking EV price.
I didn’t read it as egocentric. The author cares a lot about correctness and delivering high quality work, but the definition of quality or good is very limited in scope.

I don’t doubt the veracity of what the author wrote, but I would guess that if we spoke to the counter-parties, their recollection of certain things would be very different.

How people perceive the world and express themselves vary, and some people don’t jive well. I have a developer on my team who is very literal person, if I say “I could kill that guy”, he doesn’t capture the nuance. But he is brilliant, a friend and trusted colleague. A good leader should get that and adjust.
> That first link shows fake results. 3 of the ~20 results for my IP are real and something I've torrented. The vast majority are mistakes. I assume this holds true for the entire database.

Yeah same for me, 3 out of 19. Strange how it would get false results like that, I wonder how they end up there...
> But Apple can adopt RCS—the modern industry standard—for these threads instead.

Ah, yes, the “industry standard” which relies on proprietary extensions made by Google which are only implemented in one of Google’s applications, and whose carrier adoption figures are based on Google hosting the servers.

RCS is better, but don’t oversell this as more than Google’s attempt to pressure Apple into helping them recover from repeated self-inflicted damage. If they hadn’t screwed up their messaging strategy so many times since the 2000s nobody would care about iMessage. We could be using an open cross-platform system if they hadn’t killed that concept trying to force people to use Google+.
I read the outlined scenarios differently. They each speak to me as the other party engaging in black or white thinking while the author is attempting to maintain an open mind.

This causes the allistic person to perceive pushback. Neurotypicals expect tribemates to follow along, few questions asked. Every question an autistic mind asks to understand the scenario when the other party is looking for political alliance is a reminder to that other party: the autistic person is OTHER -- or at least more OTHER than Fred in Shipping & Receiving.
Well, yes - this is the dilemma which is not resolved with empty platitudes, even though "you can't prove a negative."

In the US and elsewhere, there are already some penalties for covering up a problem, and they should be expanded commensurately with the potential harm.
Facebook handing over a teen's messaging history to law enforcement so they could prosecute her for seeking an abortion is more likely to end Facebook.
Sometimes people call it wisdom. A concept which has largely fallen out of fashion.
I think you might be confusing autistism with high intelligence. The two are very different. I'm not sure it's even remotely comparable. Most autistic truly autistic people have a severe deficit to the point they have a problem with basic navigation of the world. Not just inconvencies. There's a tendency to turn every difficulty into a syndrome.

While reading the article, I had the distinct feeling the author was not, in fact, autistic, but merely had a lack of social practice.
Seeing how Reddit’s frontpage is becoming more and more left to the point even moderate leftists think it is ridiculous, I don’t have much faith in depolarization.
Not the person you responded to, but the quantity for which half are below and half are above (+-1) is called "median".
Medical epidemiologist here. This has such a Theranos ring to it. No response to the questions about the evidence base for claims of new predictive insights - only references to studies that provide prediction and guidance based on currently available routine blood workups and common dietary interventions. Everything "new" appears to be speculative and to come (perhaps) from insights based on longitudinal data collection.

As I read this it is hoped that the technology will provide new predictive disease insights but these are not established yet. So many metabolic/biochemical screens have poor prediction at the individual level.

If I have misunderstood can you cite one NEW predictive insight your technology provides with some kind of performance parameter - predictive value positive, 10 year incidence, or receiver operating curve performance?

Couple of years ago I was part of a pre-accelerator group assessing the product market fit for independent assessment of new medical technologies. The consultation revealed that most investors in new medical technologies had no idea how to evaluate the technology, didn't know they they didn't know how to assess the technology, and didn't want to pay someone else to do it.
It is arrogance though. For example, let's say you're smarter than someone who has authority over you, i.e. their social status is higher than yours. In that case it wouldn't be smart to make that person feel inferior. Since if you were truly smart you'd think of a way to be right in a way that makes people like you.
Thanks, those blocks are exactly what I'm looking for.
> If the truth was good, that we lived in a wonderful society with wonderful people in a universe that cares about us, smart people would be so happy.

Relative to 200 years ago, we do. People aren't any happier. That's not how happiness works.

See: Hedonistic adaptation.
Where is the boundry then?

You cannot "outsource" the "core"?
It's a classic whataboutism distraction attack on the conversation.

whataboutisms aren't bad because they're wrong - they are bad because they are a distraction. Either the commenter is trying to turn the conversation to a different topic they prefer to advocate for, satisfy their ego that they know more, or they are simply attempting to disrupt discourse.

In reality, the focus should be placed on solutions that have the greatest net positive impact. The size of the problems can guide, but some problems are more fundamentally difficult to solve (which makes them useful whataboutisms).

Of course, if we also added the criteria of "We should only debate things on a forum that the members of the forum actually have the ability to effect change on", then 90% of political posts would disappear.
Yes, my first thought on reading the title was "Hey, can I get those to replace my normal synapses? kappa"
It is in the spirit of the article.

I have my dev domain on Cloudfront with my origin server being my very own laptop. I have Certbot working great and the only permissible traffic to my home router is from the CDN.

CDNs still have advantages when sending everything through uncached in how it cuts down on the handshaking needed to deliver static content.

This arrangement enables me to develop on a range of devices without having to do anything complicated with DHCP so my phone can see a dev domain on my laptop. It just works.

Having got this far and it working so well, I now wonder if I even need a properly hosted website if I can just patch through to an old PC under the stairs for that to manage the content the CDN can't just render. It would be a lot cheaper that way. CDNs are brilliant even if people in marketing tout their benefits without knowing how to set one up.
> 1. The allistic (non-autistic) person is not hearing what I'm saying.

It's possible that they're not smart enough, literally. I find ease of communication is uncorrelated with whether they're on the spectrum or otherwise. It's their raw intelligence level. Somehow the bandwidth between our brains is really high. They often know what I'm saying before I've finished my sentence, because they've already figured it out and have predicted what I'm going to say. But if you're talking to someone with 110-120 IQ, you really have to slow down and spell things out for them, and some things they will actually just never grok unless you have 30 minutes to explain the abstract foundational concepts behind what you're saying.
Those insurance companies would then go out of business quickly, and be replaced by organizations that were able to handle this.

This is a benefit of having actual security be core business for such a company. While for many companies, security is a small part of their business, and not critical for their long term performance, a dedicated insurance/security company would HAVE to be good at both to stay competitive.
> I’m probably somewhere on the spectrum (aren’t we all?)

there are useful distinctions, and this is not one of them.

there are socially inept people that miss a requisite threshold of social cues.
My initial reaction was nah, but on second thought, I'm not so sure. Most indie devs will produce nothing and generate no revenue / buy no seats. But they may purchase stuff on the unity asset store. I could see ads finding their way into the editor that way.

Not that this has anything to do with applovin though
Okay, I’ll assume you’re right, which considerably worsens the case for RCS:

Google could have given us device-signed messaging with RCS, so that users and carriers could block devices for spamming regardless of the source address.

Google didn’t. They had the power to do so in RCS using their own APIs, and yet they chose not to offer an effective protection.

How is this failure by Google a selling point for RCS? Why would anyone consider RCS at all without device attestation? We don’t need yet another abuse-laden, unidentifiable-source chat protocol. We need a material improvement in quality of life for users, not a veneer of fancy bells and whistles on top of the same plague of spam as today.
In my opinion, much of the farming in Southern California needs to end. Or at least we should revisit the now 100-year-old agreement on how the Colorado River water is used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Compact
Your thought experiment incorrectly assumes trucks, cars, and motorbikes have the same number and size of tires. Trucks have more, larger tires to
allow for more wear between replacements.
> OMG You must be very smart!

You must be very angry.
>> An uncomfortable truth we all pretend to ignore is that more than half the population is below average intelligence.[1]

>> [1] If you don't know why more than half, well... umm... I have some bad news for you about which half you might be in.

I don't know why more than half. Can you explain?
AAG and Microsoft are incredibly influential and powerful.
> How can I make a simple edit to /etc/hosts? Who knows?

In case somebody else needs to do this, you actually can:

https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/network/customize-hosts-fil...

But as you said, you are "not supposed to". I'd say that if you need to do that, most of the time there's an underlaying issue that needs to be fixed instead and consider editing the hosts file a workaround.
Zero correlation is a strong claim. Would you actually predict that a randomly chosen American (whose opinion you distrust) would be all-around more competent than half our actual presidents? Not just the current or last one depending on your affiliation.
That's the median, and depend on the distribution, average and median could be different.

That said, the GP is just being obtuse. I'm not sure if he meant intelligence is non bell-shaped or some other reasons and I'm dumb too :-).
Depends on many details, and how you use k8s.

I mainly use it to save money as I can pay for less cloud resources.
Also a common trope, playing out the "manager" or "business person" as an idiot when in fact often times there are bigger things at play. Looking down on people who aren't like you is not generally a positive. Understanding them is the source of empathy.
Hi larve,

It can be a bit on the nose, though, larve, to use this book.

Best,

bigDinosaur

--

Seriously, it's very easy to go wrong with How to win friends. IMO a lot of its advice probably worked better back in the day when formality was somewhat more appreciated and knowing when to avoid it more of a skill.
The author explicitly states that "When these conflicts arise, here are some things that might be happening."

I think that's pretty important. This is not an article that says "I'm always right, people are just too stupid to notice that, here are mistakes they're making."

It says, or at least it reads to me as, "People often think I'm stubborn and can't acknowledge when I make a mistake. Sometimes, not always, that is a result of miscommunication, because my brain works differently from many others. Here are some of the ways it does that, and how it leads to that wrong perception."
Here's the fraction of 1s for each bit position output by MD5 and SHA-256 using the first million integers as inputs: https://pastebin.com/aVR3u8Vv
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene is a good place to start. Even if you don't want to turn to the dark side, this book will at least reveal to you how some of your competition is thinking and maneuvering.
Yes but it has its own ecosystem. It can't use gems from Ruby. The main selling point for this is because they use the Erlang VM and that thing is uncrashable. Thought from the start to be fault-tolerant and distributed.

So boosting the speed of Ruby itself is always a good news for everybody using it.
The alternative to choosing leaders by voting isn’t choosing them some other way – it’s not getting to choose at all.
> In democratic countries, it can be argued that the voter base is at fault for electing these corrupt politicians.

Like the batteries, it's not like I can choose the ones that aren't corrupt. The alternatives don't exist. In the rare event that they do, they get blocked out by the parties or rendered ineffective by their colleagues. At least it's that way here in the US -- which may or may not fit your definition of democracy. The major job requirement for an American politician is how well you can fundraise. And that's just to get a foot in the door of one of the entrenched parties -- they can still just decide to back someone else.
Rust is overkill for projects that don't need very high scale, also because of the paradigm shift of the frameworks. Golang is a more conventional choice, for the opposite reason.

Crystal is not ready for large scale deployment, which includes the fact that is not well supported as more widespread languages (e.g. on AWS).
There's a great and very comprehensive chart by "Our World in Data" about the breakdown of emissions / environmental impact for different foods:

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2020/02/Environmental-imp...

As you can see, it specifically points out that the transport aspect pales across the board in comparison with other more important factors.
I'm sure you can save another line while checking for mückenstiche in your dictionary.
> both gravity and electromagnetic forces drop off with increasing distance. Anyone familiar with the theoretical basis for this?

Gauss's law (which is purely mathematical). Or basically, the area the force "sees" as it gets farther or closer.
On [1], you are assuming there is no such thing as negative intelligence!
I have a 3m piece of 550 next to my desk. I use that to practice knots while in meetings (that I'm not participating directly in) or pondering a challenging problem.
It’s not a luxury in terms of money, for the developed world. Fish is much more expensive than vegetables, soy, and other proteins.

Availability is an issue in poorer locales, but unless you’re a fisherman yourself fish is also quite expensive.
As someone that has built and maintained a few scraper tools in my career: hand-written logic and patience because your scraper will break any time upstream changes their HTML. It's an infinite game of whack-a-mole outside your control.

Scrapers are very simple, effective and probably one of the least fun things to build.
It's 1:24PM now. Scrolling back in office chat:

> But yes Person X / Fund Y is wrong size for us. (11:52 AM)

So based on a sample size of one, they acknowledged they were wrong about 90 minutes ago.
It's hard to take that trailer for Seaspiracy seriously.

> "We've all heard about blood diamonds. This is blood shrimp." ... "The solution is to leave the sea alone."

It's like a high school teenager wrote this.
These are good. Possibly the strongest competition with happiness is satisfaction. Happiness itself all on its own tends to be stupid and boring.
I signed up for twitter a couple weeks ago to follow some ukraine folks. They didn't require a phone number and just double checking my account doesn't have one.
‘I’d Never Been Involved in Anything as Secret as This’ (2021)
You don’t need long-haul trucking to get goods to the supermarket, you use rail and then smaller trucks from rail depot to supermarket.
I agree. I am pretty good at being social and suave in the workplace (so well I never would have thought I was autistic until age 40), but of course I can be in a bad mood or phrase something wrong. But even if that is the case, shutting down a business conversation because you think your engineer sounds patronizing is just… not great business/tech crossover, to be honest.