skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others have pointed out, the FTX team donated to politicians of both parties in a very calculated way. There's a great diagram in this article that shows how the money flowed [1].

But as gross as all this is (and I think our political system's legalization of bribery is extremely gross) I tend to think that political cynics are also being insufficiently cynical about the current dynamics:

If the FTX donors were a potential future source of funds, I have no doubt that there might be some political soft-touching going on. But that's not the case. SBF et al. are never going to be a significant source of political donations in the future. (Even if they somehow manage to recover some personal wealth, they're all politically radioactive.) There's no percentage for any politician to do them political favors at this point, and a huge amount of political downside. I think what you're seeing in the Bahamas right now is mostly to be expected: a whole bunch of agencies competing to figure out who will get jurisdiction and access to any remaining funds. This requires forensic acounting and some cooperation from the principles. SBF et al. being in jail (as opposed to being free but closely watched) will just make this early process much harder.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/428c7800-c72d-4c59-9940-4376fea6e...
It's sort of like getting a computer's performance.

All sorts of things goes into a measure.

Central processing speed, memory, memory access speed, cache size, software optimization and cache build up.

I think some people really WANT IQ to be only about central processing speed, but since that's not measurable we're trying to tease out what it is from the end performance metric. But really everything is important to intelligence, and something like software optimization and cache build up is really just education.

IQ measures things that are useful to other people when thinking about a person's as-is work-value, but is fundamentally flawed and useless when applied to a person's potential value or moral value.

But since the former is true it will continue to be a thing that people care about.
How do they come up with so many gifs is mainly what I want to know...
Could you clarify what you might expect from a similar analysis performed on neuralatypicals? For example, would eye contact play little to no role in shared attention between two autistic people? I ask in part because I don't think I know that much about the autistic experience.
This came really handy, as I was in need for a way to run sandboxed user code in a coding game!

Another cool thing with WebWorkers is that the code is run in a separate thread and allows you to terminate it if it runs into an infinite loop, for instance.
Sounds similar to /r/subredditsimulator.

>this is a fully-automated subreddit that generates random submissions and comments using markov chains (see below for more info), with each bot account creating text based on comments from a different subreddit.

Quite fun to read.
I've also seen a new title called "Applied Scientist." I think at a particualar FAANG company (I don't remember which one), Data Scientist = Insights+Reports, Applied Scientist = Building Data Pipelines+Models, and ML Engineer = Take data pipelines+models built by others and put it in production, meeting SLAs, costs, etc.

For good reason, most companies don't specialize to that degree. As you've pointed out, the titles vary across company and/or geography, so the best thing to do is ask the recruiter or hiring manger what is expected of the role.
I use a markdown readme until the project is mature enough. It can be stored along the codebase and provisioned through git. It’s easy to order in terms of priority, and works flawlessly offline.
I, for one, appreciate Homebrew. It’s the first thing I install on a fresh OS. Thanks for keeping it alive.
There's graph.

QE went from 445bn before Covid to 895bn at end of 2020

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/quantitative...

EDIT: also https://neweconomics.org/2021/10/99-5-of-government-covid-de...
I was searching for this to reference in my post, lost inside my bookmarks. Thank you.
As I mentioned in another comment, the House Financial Services Committee -- currently chaired by Maxine Walters (D) -- has already announced hearings.

I don't mean this as an attack, but I find it's useful to occasionally examine my own bubble.
Well, I'm obviously not an expert, but can't the (illegal lab) producers just deliver fentanyl in low concentrations? Just like Vitamin D? I imagine the dealers don't want their customers to die. Why do they need to have pure Fentanyl anywhere? Why don't labs just mix Fentanyl with starch, let's say, in a 1:1000 ratio? My guess is that actually that's exactly what they do, it would be really a rookie mistake to not do that. And all those fentanyl deaths are not because fentanyl is 50 times more potent than heroin, they are just old fashioned overdoses - people who used to shoot often, took a break, lost their tolerance, and then used again at the dose they couldn't tolerate anymore.
I've been very pleased with my experience at a Direct Primary Care (DPC) practice.

They limit the amount of patients that they take, don't deal with insurance companies, charge a flat fee monthly (no payment required for most procedures/visits), prescribe and fill most generic medications at cost, and most scans/tests are heavily discounted.

Appointments aren't rushed, they are usually scheduled same-day or next-day, and they really take the time to figure out how I'm actually doing. They just recently hired a receptionist at the practice that I go to, but pretty much all of the staff they have present are just nurses/assistants. They don't need a bunch of people present to deal with insurance companies, which reduces overhead.

This differs from Concierge practices, which usually charge monthly/yearly in order to see them; but still bill insurance/have co-pays for regular office visits/tests/etc. AFAIK. Overall, it seems like their rates are much higher in general and they usually don't offer reduced price prescriptions/tests. But DPC practices and Concierge practices are similar in the fact that they reduce the amount of patients that they have.

As a patient, I truly don't think doctors can practice medicine well when they are rushing around all day. Doesn't matter how good a doctor's memory is.
One could argue that Echo/Alexa was the first mass-market home automation system, in terms of the number of controllable devices. It was certainly bigger than anything that came before. But that doesn't cover niche devices, for which open interfaces are the most likely path to gaining support, e.g. HomeAssistant integrates with 1000 devices. It's not about the general ability of devices to solve your household problems, it's about whether all of your favorite devices (which you already have) can be controlled by your chosen voice platform. Same issue with "universal" remotes.
No taxing India for opium to force sell to China to bail them out this time.
Actually, the comment does not talk about that. It just says:

> There's this strange perception that anything new must be good and right. Perhaps OPs language isn't keeping up with the times, or maybe the times are just...incorrect.

This asserts that newness does not equate with correctness. This implicitly recognizes that there are multiple uses.
Republicans support undocumented immigration, as long as the immigrants are white. They are racists, not nationalists.
>You would have thought that the people that most want to leave the site would welcome an alternative model that is specifically un-Twitter like.

I don't think this part is right though. Most of the people looking for Twitter alternatives at this particular moment aren't looking because they're unhappy with Twitter the product. They just want Twitter Exactly But With No Elon -- that's why half the word count of this post about social media is a rant about how the author dislikes Elon's version of futurism.

You're right about Twitter's addictive design, but that's what the people complaining want: to indulge their Twitter addiction without using Twitter.
Dude it is plainly obvious that the government isn’t making a big stink of it because a ton of people in the government benefited from FTX’s political donations, and a real investigation will expose that. That is why the donations are important.
Just fraud & crime.
This likely applies to most countries - there are two versions of the UK, a media-controlled whiny, everything is terrible version and another version where most people go out in the morning and just get on with it.

I have lived in countries that are so corrupt and incompetent where I wonder how anything ever works at all and yet I never read how terrible these places are in the media?
Even if we follow your chain of logic uncritically, then we still arrive at the same conclusion because mentally ill people are oppressed.
The core is twofold. Recognize power is an important thing. For good reasons, embrace and seek power.
Someone did something similar before, but unfortunately it's now offline. The HN link is still up, though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19694578
Isn't the de-industrialisation of the UK normally attributed to Thatcher?
You leave them once you're an adult with a job/kids/etc. Kids are having good old days right now. And when they grow up, they will look back fondly at them.

The good old days are not about the times, its about not having many responsibilities, being able to do whatever the hell you want, and being surrounded by friends in a similar situation.
Crafting arguments of the form "predicting the future is hard, as shown by this past attempt failing" can be challenging. Understanding the past, guessing at the contingency of development paths, etc.

I recall such a talk by someone respected which, IIRC, included dissing the Ladies's Home Journal 1901 "What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years"'s[1] prediction "The horse will have become practically extinct." with a dismissive "The aren't!". Seeming underappreciating the time's massive horse footprint and diversity, now vanished and diminished.

> But the costs are prohibitive, [...] even when you get to the airport it takes a couple of hours to actually get into the air.

I wonder how predictions might deal with the diversity of timelines? And thus include the fork two decades back, where 9/11 didn't happen, the airline industry remained competitive, and I can still do a Boston-to-NYC short sprint from curb, across a narrow terminal, down the ramp, and squeeze through a closing airliner door, with no staff interaction beyond their shouting "run faster!". And everyone pays cash to stewardesses. And no ids (after all, showing papers to travel is an un-American Soviet thing). There's a lot of timeline diversity.

> [it] isn't that technology isn't advanced enough [...] the airports are often far from the city center

I wonder if there's a timeline where Robert Moses loved rail, smashed a straight network of lines across Long Island, and now NYC-anywhere to JFK is minutes. In contrast, there's the timeline where the massive and competitive subway construction of Edison's life, stalled out shortly after his death, and remained dead for a century. Perhaps the medieval warrens of European cities, persisting but for revolutions until aerial mass bombardment, might have been a hint. But new york was still doing massive "tear down and build new". Perhaps there's a timeline where a cold war nuclear strike on nyc cleared the way for greater development, as with the city fires of old. It does emphasize the contingency of history and thus progress, but it doesn't seem unreasonable that Edison didn't expect the trip from still-existing 1910-ish apartments in Manhattan, out to a "opened a generation after his death" Idlewild airport, to remain largely unchanged for a century. If you travel around Xmass, the train you catch might have a just-after-his-death 1932 vintage car. Current US journalism about China repeatedly reminds me of European writing from warrens about Edison's America.

Perhaps we need some expanded conceptual vocabulary for sketching possible futures?

[1] https://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/t/w/twa101/whatmayhappen.... https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/58851/fact-check-26-ladi...
>The benefit is really minor, it's a bit of profit for the gas industry

Not at all really. We've mostly had peace since WW2 on the basis that countries can get on with their thing in peace without being invaded and if someone tries to invade the neighbours the UN/US will try to stop it. We now have Russia trying to break that mostly using the money it got from selling gas/oil. In the early days of the war Germany was sending 200m euro a day to Russia for gas which was using it to fund stuff. The US wants to stop Russia but doesn't want to get into a nuclear war so it's doing things like sanctions and quite likely this. Biden announced if Putin sent tanks into Ukraine they US would "end" Nord Stream 2. So if they didn't do it it would be a sign of weakness.

So it's a world peace thing rather than a bit of profit for gas companies.
Women who can get pregnant is not a vanishingly small subset of women. Moreover, it can be derived from context in pregnancy literature that this is the subset of interest. Using a different word here carries no additional information, unlike specifying a square.

Wrt bad faith, are you really curious about how language works? Or are you just looking for short arguments with long counterarguments. Aka technical knockouts on twitter. It seems like making spurious analogies to mathematical language, or just generally arguing that english words are complicated intersections of unions of properties, and therefore no argument about what words mean can ever be valid, are just intrinsically arguments made in bad faith, and with no regard to what these additional assumptions would do to your own arguments.
Derek Sivers' essay is a good one here:

https://sive.rs/donkey
i don't think this attack is really as sophisticated as you seem to; the pipeline was about 80-100m underwater -- the ukrainians have (or had) oil platforms in the black sea which would require divers capable of operating at such depths. getting away with it is definitely impressive though.
This readme file reads like an infomercial / sales pitch. Further increasing my scepticism.
I've seen reports that the Bahamian government is in negotiations with the US on this. It's certainly doable.
Proposed Scottish independence is 12 months away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_second_Scottish_indep...

> In July 2022, the Scottish Greens announced that, if a referendum were blocked, they would fight the next general election as a referendum instead

General elections are 25 months away. Labour is up 30 points in the polls or something like that. Brexit probably didn't help the UK economy but the economical ramifications of the Ukraine war haven't even begun to unfurl yet. Hard to take polls two years out seriously no matter how huge the margin is and yet if these things don't somehow resolve that will be a general election for the history books. The UK will simply never be the same again.

I don't have a horse in this race but it is pretty clear that Labour surfing such a populistic wave, given their current rhetoric, will turn the place into an actual banana republic. (People no doubt will get bent out of shape about this because of political ideologies but the observation is simply about populism)

Much as it pains me to say it, the French will become the new UK. And England will become like Italy.
> There was also the issue that some EU countries(i.e Italy) were giving italian/EU citizenship to fresh immigrants from Africa so that they can travel to the UK.

Source for this please? As far as I understood it is extremely difficult for such people to get Italian citizenship and had never heard of this as an issue
Intelligence itself is not a perfect proxy for effectiveness, which is what people assume IQ eventually implies
>I wish I could use Alexa as a personal assistant, but it never really materialized.

And neither did Siri. Neither did Google Home. I guess neither did Nuance if you want to go further back.

It's like autonomous driving. A partial solution isn't exactly useless. But it's a long way from opening up the possibilities of, in this case, a computer that could do the tasks that even a very subpar human secretary could.
The abstract oversells it, as usual. The effects are small, and the modelling is loose. Other studies have shown that gestures can play a role in turn taking, and that we are capable of predicting when the speaker is going to finish simply by listening. Eye contact may be just one more factor weighing in.
> Paris has even overtaken London in finance

citation please?

in terms of financial centres: NYC is first, followed by London (and they swap places every so often)

down at number 15 or so is Paris
> It's only a very rough measure and shouldn't be treated as a goal itself

Lighthouse is a synthetic testing tool. It can be incredibly useful when you connect it to your CI build process and track scores over time – revealing how code changes affect (some) front-end performance metrics.[0] Of course, some scores are non-deterministic so you'll need to run it multiple times.[1] And you should be tracking real user data as well to validate it.

Using PageSpeed Insights to benchmark a site is akin to loading your website a single time on a single device and saying "wow, my site is slow"

Using Lighthouse in your browser to benchmark a site is akin to wasting your time.

[0] https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse-ci

[1] https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/variabili...
So does the "PHP4" book on the shelf.
I am only suggesting the first few hours are in a simulator. Just enough to get basic familiarity with the controls, road positioning etc. Certainly I don't think this would make the young me overconfident on their first real driving session.
Nobel winner James Heckman did a lot of work on this [1].

The takeaway is that IQ doesn't matter as much as other attributes (character, learned skills, etc.) in life outcomes.

HN style crows way overvalue IQ style skills when intelligence has multiple dimensions, many of which matter more than IQ.

IQ is effectively just a measure of test-taking skills. That's useful in some areas, but you could see someone like Gengis Khan or Nikola Tesla be incredibly intelligent and a poor test taker.

[1] https://heckmanequation.org/resource/i-q-isnt-everything/
I am not gonna lie, I don’t look at people in the eyes because I can sometimes see that they’re lying to my face. You don’t need to make such a personal connection every single time you engage in a conversation with people. Most people are not worth that type of attention.
Even in all online FPS games, due to the client predicting movement - there's still peeker's advantage due to your player being slightly behind on other's screens, so you see enemies before they see you.

This doesn't matter for the majority of players but that's why high skilled CSGO and other shooters must still use LAN for high level play. There's no entirely defeating peeker's advantage and other artifacts from latency.

Valorant, league of legends, and CSGO have their own CDN to try to help with connections. Can't really comment on other game's netcodes because they vary so much. For example, BF1 devs removed lag compensation entirely. League has no lag compensation since it's not a shooter. CSGO lag compensates a fixed amount so consistent ping is more important than fixed ping.
Precisely my point. Holding on to the antiquated manual transmission makes the easier form of driving more expensive.
I felt like I could never find the docs for what I wanted to do. I had a constant feeling that I was doing stupid stuff that's not considered best practices. I've also tried to use it to manage my home dir with some third party tool recommended by the community, but it felt very hacksish compared to the rest of NixOS.
Changing culture to stop seeing intelligence as some unchangeable fixed thing is probably better than having a bad measure of "intelligence".
FWIW, nix (the package manager) can do this right now, and without all the crypto BS attached.

https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/quick-start.html

For example, here's the config to set up development environment for headscale:

https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/blob/6a311f4ab68a4d856...
UTM does "already" if you enable "Use Hypervisor"
That website is wild. Thats cool as hell.
It's a legacy of both Toryism and Blairism which are marginally different versions of the same ideology. Since the 80s UK labor productivity has declined to a level 30% lower than in France or Germany.

Blaming the decline of industrial capacity is correct, blaming globalism is wrong-headed. Continental European economies that have buckled the trend of deindustrialization have done so precisely because they are competitive on global markets.
> Proposed Scottish independence is 12 months away.

the SNP have been saying this since the first vote in 2014
I took karate and was instructed to look at the eyes. I'd stare into the eyes while sparring.

Didn't work well because I'd feel somewhat hypnotized by the eye contact and could never react in time to block strikes.

The blocking method was ridiculous as well but that's a separate point. Looking back I think a high percentage of that karate training was counter productive or just useless.
I'm not familiar with the topic so I don't know, but it seems reasonable that the question at a minimum needs to be asked.

That said, if they've transitioned they (I think) need to stop taking testosterone, which points out that hormone stuff could perhaps be different. There's also the social aspect of a man attending/needing typically women only support.
To me this is like saying that if you were lost in Boston and someone gave you a map of Chicago that it's better than nothing.
I'm someone who clearly didn't read the article, because I raise several points which were directly addressed by the author, but I do not refer to them at all in my very angry comment. It's possible the only thing I know about this article is the title, which it's also possible I misread in my eagerness to have my thoughts known by the internet.
Exactly. And seeming different has a huge impact on how people interact with it. Behavioral response is one category where perception matters most. I don't see how Musk loses the chaos monger robber baron perception. He literally bought it.
I believe this is reference to the fact that the French stock exchange is now larger than the London Stock exchange.
That would be great. In response to your previous comment I'd updated my profile with an email. Please contact me, then I'll give you the proper one.
Impact of Covid was likely specific though, since it’s my understanding per capita that UK spent significantly more money on Covid than other European countries in part because they have spent significantly less per capita on healthcare for at least the last decade.

Source:

https://www.ft.com/content/f752a1ad-4a23-408f-a549-4909974c6...
Most of them would have benefited from a few lines of CSS that wouldn't have pushed them over 10KB!
Hm. Not sure how it could be the case that not learning something takes the same amount of time as learning something. Can you think of any more examples of this? It would be great if I could learn those things; even if never have a use for it, it’s literally free.
Brexit has removed one way for ambitious young people to escape an island which takes the entire economic output of workers, taxes it more than any other group, funnels that tax money to pensioners and funnels what's left to landlords

You can't simply up sticks and go to work in Paris or Amsterdam or Vienna anymore. That birthright was stolen.
There are effectively no non-American corporations competing with FAANGs on salary. Not at any real scale.