skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The fact is, generally, anyone in the US who has a capable brain and really tries can excel.

This is a great populist message but not sure it can be backed up with enough data at any meaningful enough scale to enact policies. Just like if I posited, "Generally, there are a lot of smart, capable and hardworking people who are just surviving check to check." It feels good and there are plenty of anecdotes to back it up, but it's too vague to make policy decisions upon. Raj Chetty's research [0] on social mobility dives into the complexity of it all.

[0] https://rajchetty.com/publications/

Edit:

> But it's only a disadvantage, not a roadblock.

You really nailed the crux of it here in terms of equality of opportunity vs. equity in opportunity. The unhappy compromise to avoid irreparable divisions in U.S. society lies somewhere between removing roadblocks vs. addressing disadvantages.
I've been donating to the EFF for years now. Sadly the ACLU is anti-civil liberties these days.
>I’d suggest some strong psychedelics to crack the ego and take a look at what’s inside.

I'd submit that his use of psychedelics is precisely the issue. There was a really odd "/r/Im14AndThisIsDeep" talk he did a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESXOAJRdcwQ

It's been a pretty steady decline into run of the mill schizo "demons and angels" talk from him since then.
Namedropping Peterson when he has 0 relevance to the conversation at hand is just juvenile flamebait and a pretty easy tell that the GP isn't really acting in good faith. I don't think @matl is interested in a serious conversation about the historical relevancy of the Bible, nor are they equipped to have one.
I really liked Atom One Dark. After trying many color schemes for VSCode, I found Plastic to be my favorite. I never knew there was a connection!
I'm getting tired of hearing people complain about the governance of GPL projects. If you don't want to cut through the red tape of a globally-sponsored, stable product, then don't use it. The code is GPL, nobody will arrest you for forking it.

> Like dude, if you aren't going to step into my world and actually understand what I'm trying to do here, just suck it up and ack my patch.

That's literally the opposite of what we should be doing for the Linux kernel! If someone doesn't understand what they're merging, they shouldn't +1 it. That's how we end up with garbage NTFS drivers polluting the kernel, or "University of Minnesota" attacks. Protracted discussions about architecture is how Linux has been maintained for the past 3 decades, if you need to move fast and break things Linux is not a good choice.
I suggest adding firecracker to the list of supported virtualization stacks.
I would have guessed motorcycles are more deadly.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gender_identities
>The problem with this line of reasoning is that Meta’s capital expenditures are directly focused on both of the two main reasons for alarm: TikTok and ATT. That is because the answer to both challenges is more AI, and building up AI capacity requires a lot of capital investment.

>In the long run, though, this investment should pay off. First, there are the benefits to better targeting and better recommendations I just described, which should restart revenue growth. Second, once these AI data centers are built out the cost to maintain and upgrade them should be significantly less than the initial cost of building them the first time. Third, this massive investment is one no other company can make, except for Google (and, not coincidentally, Google’s capital expenditures are set to rise as well).
Define talent.
Yes, though I can hardly blame people for doing it. They should be used in bike infrastructure instead, but at least in the states there's almost no safe bike infrastructure except in a handful of cities.

Choosing between the sidewalk with pedestrians and the road with cars, I mean it's obvious right?
> I think George made it very clear that the architecture is what these companies spending billions are getting wrong. Tech debt is more expensive than you think at the cutting edge.

And yet the architectures he disapproves are the only ones who have shown fully autonomous driving is possible. There are driverless robotaxis running now, albeit in small areas but expanding.

> You know what is total fluff? Tesla FSD. Disgusting. At least comma is honest about their hardware, and that's about all it comes down to.

I fully agree.
> However as a junior engineer you should learn these things and come to this realization (or not) yourself!

This is such great advice. Wonder if theres even something in there about how learning through experience why something doesn't work being as useful as learning it in the first place.

I do think we throw the baby out with the bath water with many ideas. Despite us learning useful skills subconsciously.
Make safety regulations standards (hopefully multiple ones, so there is competition) OPT IN.

This works for food safety or kids toys.

If you make a thing or provide a service, you get the option of picking a certification. Let's say you sell food. You can pick a highly regulated and strict food certification, and that may be a selling feature for some customers, but it probably has a cost. Or you can pick zero regulation and no cost and rely on selling your product based on low price and product.

The regulating bodies (if there is competition) have an incentive to maintain the standard, more than the current you must comply or else single standard system.
Your comment is opaque. As far as I know, a successful surgical operation is generally pretty cut and dry. No redefining here.
> I think part of that (specifically Catholic) stems from the fact that it's one of the few religions that is compatible with a scientific understanding of the world,

I went to Catholic school growing up, and I did not see anything in religion classes that involved updating models of the world that conflicted with data. In fact, it was the exact opposite.
Optimization gets treated a lot like AI: When we find a concrete use for some facility of it, we give it is own name and disassociate it with the source.

What once was Optimization gets called Information Architecture, Capacity Planning, and so on, and all of these things should be done as soon in the project as possible.

> IMHO, a big thing for junior programmers to unlearn is that one should begin by putting a sloppy version of the program in production

This is the closest we've gotten to a Just Do It mantra but we have a lot of space for improvement. An instructor can't help you get better at public speaking if you won't speak at all until you can speak well. However once you can speak well you shouldn't rush important speeches because you can't walk some things back once they're out there.

We will always have a steady stream of brand new developers who need simple rules of thumb, but some senior developers never grow out of it. What I see is a lot of these aphorisms being used as a way to censor others who might be suggesting work in the "hard but valuable" quadrant of cost vs value.

At some point in my career I got so fed up with coworkers trying to go against business needs (customers are complaining about responsiveness) by shaming coworkers into not touching performance and essentially running a work slowdown, that I began identifying types of code refactoring that improve clarity and speed. Sometimes what confuses the developer confuses the compiler. Particularly in the realm of strength reduction.
> I generally dislike dark themes anyway. Dark themes are less legible (I make more reading errors while reading code; there are studies that show that light text on dark backgrounds is less readable).

You and me both

> The best themes IMO are:
> - light, but not white background (something yellow-tinted)
> - a restricted, bold color palate for text
> - no primary or RGB colors, only muted/darkened to take the edge off; the colors must stand out from the background without searing your eyeballs

That mostly define Solarized

> Solarized light is a step in the right direction, but the background is too warm and the text shades are too light in relation to the background color and resemble a disorienting fruit salad or a bowl of tropical Skittles

Totally agreed. I make my own derivatives, with a lighter yellow (bone, a bit like the HN background) and pure OLED black.

For my code editing I prefer to use bold/italic/underline more than colors. It play very well with eink, especially color eink.

> Now imagine that departures from the baseline can occur according to a few properties (boldness, emphasis

YES!

> A good start is the color scheme in the Acme editor in Plan9,

YES!

I think we have very similar tastes, and it's the first time I've seen them explained so well.

You've inspired me to prepare a release of my VIM theme along a "basic" set of utilities for Android (themed bash with a SQLite history etc)
They have an economic incentive just the same way they have the economic incentive to build better cellular infrastructure. Something they already invest in.
From the article, it seems he's focusing on the raw performance side of Machine Learning á la tinygrad[0].

[0]: https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad
Not everyone wants to own a car either, and everyone owning a car is not exactly environmentally sustainable. Replacing Uber & Lyft with robots would add a ton of value and be practical for a very large percentage of the population.

> And I personally don't think the industry is mature enough to accept the realities and limitations of the technology we work with to just say, "Hey, actually, we can let attentive drivers basically be hands-free for 80+% of their drives."

Uh isn't this what Tesla, GM, Mobileye, Comma, and many others are doing? Basically every player in "the industry" wants this & is working on it -- FWIW I think L2 is fine, but there need to be more safety features because the number of folks who've slept while their flawed L2 system drove them is truly alarming. I'm less worried about their safety and more worried about the folks they might crash into.
Yes, the speed governors would be GPS-based, like they are for e-scooters. You'd be limited to going the speed limit of whatever road you're currently on.
Because no one has ever worked for cash and lied about it?

Do you suspect that someone who launders dirty money for a living did their taxes and listed "money launderer" as occupation and reported their income?

Assets like this are often hidden behind shell companies to prevent law enforcement from taking them under "proceeds of crime" charges.
> I was horrified to find mine and my neighbours networks had coalesced.

Is there a physical filter that could "firewall" local AC wiring powerline communication from the neighbor's AC wiring?
Did we always had such incompetent, dishonest bureaucrats? Or, in times of crisis incompetence is so much harder to conceal?
“The long-term solution to ATT, though, is to build probabilistic models that not only figure out who should be targeted, but also understanding which ads converted and which didn’t.”

What does this even mean? Is it really possible to build models where the conversion label itself is not deterministic due to ATT and has to be predicted by another probabilistic model?
Driving in cities is a real problem that will really need to be solved.
Are you conflating liberal and libertarian?

MLK, of course, coined the phrase "content of character not color of skin" and he was very much in favor of affirmative action.
All Ripe assigned AS, IP and routing in Russia should be disabled until Russia has removed its forces from Ukraine.
Although I'd usually hate to side with a corporation like IKEA, it seems that in this case the Indie Dev got into this issue themselves: their game is clearly based on SCP-3008[1][2], which is quite literally based on an IKEA store:

* "SCP-3008 is a large retail unit previously owned by and branded as IKEA, a popular furniture retail chain."

* "SCP-3008-1 is a space resembling the inside of an IKEA furniture store, extending far beyond the limits of what could physically be contained within the dimensions of the retail unit."

* "SCP-3008-2 are humanoid entities that exist within SCP-3008-1. [...] They possess no facial features and in all observed cases wear a yellow shirt and blue trousers consistent with the IKEA employee uniform."

And although the SCP Lore and all it's content is licensed under the "Creative Commons Sharealike 3.0", the copyrighted/trademarked material within it is not, such as the IKEA brand.

[1] https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3008
[2] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ziggygamedev/the-store-...
geohot was in many ways a portal for me—watching him code changed my life. Got me in the habit of always looking for ways to move faster.

I think he puts a little too much pressure on himself. George Washington didn't write the constitution and pass it himself—he was just one player in a team effort of many sovereign geohot like figures.
There’s no reason a pass through GPU configuration in a vm would have lower graphical fidelity.
> All federal and most state justices only move up through political appointments.

Federal justices have either 0 or 1 steps they can move up, and of the ones that can move up, there is only 1 position for them to move into, that of Chief Justice.

Judges, OTOH...
Is this one of those ‘Kanye west is breaking up with Kanye west’ memes?
Not even geohot is asserting that "SAE Level 2 is the most practical self-driving we are ever going to get", his assertion is that he thinks nobody is going to get there in the next 10 years.

He may be right that we won't get there broadly for 10 years, but I think that's a rationalization of how things have gone for him, and the fact that the methods he has worked on don't have a chance of getting there, rather than the thesis he had when he started comma. Because if this was your thesis, there was really no reason to get into the space when he did.

In particular, Waymo One is already an L4 driver. It operates completely autonomously and passengers do not have the option of taking over. I don't know how often they get stuck and have to call someone to do roadside service, etc, but clearly in some areas it is already feasible. So the question is whether this is possible in dense urban areas or not.

And if you're just looking at SAE 2, the main competitors in this space, Mobileye and Tesla are doing way better than comma.

I definitely thought progress would be faster here, but I don't think we're anywhere near as far away from useful systems as geohot argues.
I disagree with you about the guy as a person, I think he's great, but I was considering working there and his requirement that you have to move to SV and work in the office was a deal breaker. The guy seems to understand how our kind of work can be done from anywhere, he seems interested in developing technology to enable self sovereignty, yet it seems he has blinders on on that one issue. I'm sure he has some reasoning for it and I'd love to hear it, I doubt it's convincing but if it's him at the very least it will be novel or interesting (I hope).
Put the cheap dumb repeaters in vehicles, turned on only when in motion, or in backbacks, so the telcos have a hard time tracking them down.

Where possible, manipulate timing too.

Would this cause total chaos? Yes. Promise telcos the chaos ends when they agree to allow IEMI randomization like most WiFi devices do with MAC addresses today.

We will need some new forms of protest to get our rights to privacy back.
Yeah, it's pretty crazy how desensitized we collectively are to cars constantly killing people.

Yes scooters blocking sidewalks is a problem, but cars straight up killing people is clearly like 1000x worse.
It's not a "counterexample" because I didn't give an example.

In any case, it's never a simple answer: vertical integration has advantages and disadvantages.
Some would call that "machine learning". I know it's hard to make a distinction, but the term "AI" is too ill-defined to argue about what constitues "real AI" and what is mere machine learning. Are those examples "thinking machines" (~= "artificial _intelligence_"? I'd say no, they are very good statistical pattern matchers without any understanding of the subject matter for the most part.

GPT-3 and image generators that have somewhat of a world-model are, imo, closer.
Only to their own riders, not to others. Plus motorcycles are a tiny share of overall motor vehicles on the road.
Not sure if I'm stuffing so much as removing the bluster
More likely in 10 to 20 years.
The problem with "meritocracy" has always been that so many of its proponents never define "merit". Often they don't even have a specific definition in mind; they just know it as a term that's aligned with other parts of their favorite ideology. Sometimes they do have a definition, but also know that it's too obviously tied to legacies of inequity and discrimination. Nobody likes to admit that they're a neo-feudalist.

True merit is hard to define and even harder to measure. As another commenter has already pointed out, that measurement has to include challenges and circumstances overcome. Unfortunately, those don't easily reduce to numbers. Sure, we can measure income or wealth, but how do we measure the impact of being denied opportunities to prove oneself? Of being dragged down by family and friends who need help because of the discrimination they also face? Of living in a place with poor schools, poor food, poor health care, for the same reasons? Note that some of these can apply to (especially rural) white people as well as others, but they remain hard to measure.

All we're left with is statistical measures and proportions, which will inevitably result in some errors. No matter what policy is enacted, those errors make it easy to complain about quotas and tokenism. Responses are possible, but less compelling. So we end up back to the fake meritocracy of grades and test scores. "What can we do" say the people who have already benefited and will continue to benefit from a system that ignores systemic inequality.
Even if SCOTUS does end affirmative action with this case, how are we going to undo the decades of damage that this policy has caused?
It is funny to read top comment and then your comment. The thing you are admiring about him is the same thing top commentor is criticizing.
> Am I still considered a DAU?

No.
You are still missing the point. Trans people living their real gender don't masquerade, it's the opposite.
Thanks for posting this! With the mornings being darker I'm really noticing this. On the way to work today I played a game of looking at the types of oncoming cars with high beams on. In a 30 minute commute, it was 14 Teslas, two giant pickups (couldn't tell make), one lowered Subaru, one Jeep.

I was wondering "is it the drivers, the UI, or the cars?". Maybe if we all start flashing brights at them it will drive service appointments and some kind of fix?
Do you know literally anyone who is running a business that is reliant on sr.ht and cannot be moved? sourcehut is small, and they go out of their way to help you migrate data away from their service. If this kills you, move to github and digitalocean like a normal person.
US its not typically an issue but try getting a waiter's attention in Latin America or Europe and you'll start to understand
First, I agree that using Perl today feels like using something from a different era. Having sigils at all feels so antiquated to me now.

But the mechanics of the sigil thing never confused me. Either because it was explained to me very well, or possibly -- Larry Wall is a linguist, after all -- because there's an analogy to grammatical cases, which English largely doesn't have anymore, but my native language does.

The sigil depends on what you want to get out of the expression, not what you put in. So @foo would name the whole array, while $foo[2] would name a single element from it.

> If you just need to go one level in you can do either $foo[2] or $foo->[2] depending on your whims. It's kind of madness.

You misremember, but I don't blame you, it's a very unorthodox rule. These are very different expressions.

$foo[2] accesses the second (third depending on how you count) element of @foo. @foo is a "value array", whenever possible, I tended to use those because I found them more convenient and intuitive.

For programmers coming from JavaScript or Python, and people building more complex data structures, using a reference array might be more intuitive. Those are stored in scalar variables, like $foo, but to disambiguate with the syntax for accessing @foo, you have to explicitly dereference it with $foo->[2].
Motorcycles are more deadly for the rider.

Cars cause more danger for everyone else.
It exists now because you live in a place with good weather and regulators who are willing to put the live of other road users at risk for the sake of your toy.
Musk seems to have a reality-distortion field like Jobs did. I absolutely know people who heard him talk about "The X App" and would quickly jump ship to work for him. I don't understand it at all, but he does seem to command this sort of following.
Reminds me of advice that a small business I worked at got from a really good lawyer ~20 years ago - if the ownership of the small business changes, then it should close down all bank accounts (& merchant accounts, lines of credit, etc.), and replace those with new accounts (& etc.) at new banks. Why - he said that all banks were Complete Crap at correctly doing changes of ownership & control of small businesses.
This is super interesting, I think this is in fact my new favorite explanation.

(It's down right now but I found it at https://web.archive.org/web/20221001025812/https://thelawdog... )
Please read the details of Howard Hughes's test flights (also Winston Churchill) and realize that perhaps it's people like that who are required to make anything work.

If planes were designed by safety committees we would have never figured out how to make them light enough to fly.
What is the opportunity being equalized? To physically occupy the same buildings as high achieving individuals?

Lower performing applicants aren't going to be taking the same classes and are not going to be achieving the same scores.

I wasn't a high performing student either. Where was my equal opportunity to attend an Ivy League?
I just gave it a try, and it seems like it could be useful for the side project I'm working on.
I started exactly 30 years ago, in 1992. Honestly, I remember it being pretty much the same as it is now - management gave you vague descriptions of what they wanted, demanded precise "estimates" (but they didn't want estimation, they wanted unbreakable promises), changed their minds about everything but still insisted that you were constantly behind schedule. People were constantly quitting in frustration and you were constantly inheriting their work. You were expected to work unpaid overtime constantly to meet your "estimates". If your estimated was longer than they wanted it to be, they changed your estimates and told you to meet them anyway. They were always complaining about how hard it was to find and retain people.

We did it on 386 or 486 machines in DOS with no internet, though. So that was different.
How I Made a Smart Package Delivery Box (2020)
There was a time when CGI was state of the art.

Seeing VR and AR as any kind of substitute for analog interactions shows the culture/lifestyle divide in plain english.

I enjoy entertainment, but the 21st century has so many options that do not require any flavor of fiction.

I agree with the authors capitalistic view that if facebook disappeared, there would be another to replace it (if there was a market there).

With the ratio of illiteracy, i can't say that much of social media was anything except a time suck of filtering inferior and/or obsolete gibberish.

I worked on my golf swing instead. And by chance, it has stayed 100% analog, without adding any technology to it.

I'm a technology native too and was introduced to golf about 8 years after technology.