skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We build gigantic machines costing millions and billions of dollars and decades of work, like the the large hadron collider, the LIGO and VIRGO gravitational wave observatories… all in search of exactly the kind of “weak effect” you are dismissing … these are things so far below our normal day to day experience of the universe that the results may never be of anything but theoretical or academic value in my entire lifetime. No future car or bike or computer or microwave oven, is likely to benefit from us knowing more about the Higgs boson or from our enhanced understanding of collisions between neutron stars and black holes in the far away cosmos.

This particular minuscule effect, while eventually proven to be measurement error had the potential to deliver significant practical effects on human life today, even if only by way of significant improvements in the cost of maintaining spacecraft orbits, which has knock on effects in the cost of building and operating services that rely on satellite communications and data, from weather forecasts to the new iPhone emergency satellite messaging and networks like Starlink.

Not only that but the effort to nail down the measurements has direct applications to the metrology of powered RF systems where the RF power and system thermal loading are dominant components of the sum of forces, which has potential future impacts on measurement and calibration of tiny sensors and micro-electromechanical systems in general, with potential applications to lab methods regarding macro scale quantum mechanical effect research in future decades …

Because good science is built one brick at a time pilled higher and high on all the previous good science we have collectively done.

My point was actually to highlight that by simply reducing the argument to “this contradicts what we know to be true therefore it cannot work, and anyone who says otherwise is a liar/stupid/misinformed/misguided/etc” they are not doing bad science, but simply not doing science at all in the first place!

Choosing to reject a contrary result is cherry picking the data, rejecting the possibility of such data having worth is doubling down on your cherry picking to squash your error bars.

If the data doesn’t fit past theoretical predictions you are either measuring it wrong because you have more to learn about measurement or you may have just discovered something amazing that will change physics. Anything else isn’t scientific… it’s arguing over economic value allocation of time and money.
> Why are they nerfing all the most interesting prompts…

Because wast masses cry blody murder that this kind of style imitation is somehow stealing from artists?

They prefer to colour inside the lines and not get legislated into oblivion.
quite literally, T Mobile will introduce a new price tier iirc next week where bundling any postpaid voice line with home Internet will mean your home Internet will be USD 25 a month, down from USD 50 a month. Existing home Internet customers are excepted.

I am not a big fan of cable but I have since signed up for time warner spectrum for Internet just in case...

These companies assume we are too lazy, misinformed, and stupid to do anything.

Edit: charter, not time warner (?)
In order for a gift to serve its social function, it must be specifically matched to its recipient. Cash is not specifically matched to its recipient.

(The exception is if there's some other social expectation that specifically says that the gift should be cash, like Jewish wedding gifts).
> How much would people pay to not be underwater?

Huh? Can I pay some (smaller) amount to the bank to have them lower my loan? Why would people pay anything but their normal loan payment?

> That's a measure on how bad it is to be underwater.

Not everything has to be spun into a free-market money-quantifies-everything definition.
Please, as stated, he had a significant lack of sleep and a lung infection treating it with antibiotics. If you don't take care of your self and continue the high stress work he was doing you put your self at a very high risk.

Same thing happened to Jim Henson.

If you are unwell don't overdo it even if medication masks some of the symptoms you are having.
Sure, that makes sense in the short-term, but is overly reductive and does not take into account second-order effects that may matter in the long-term.

Calorie deficit will surely make you lose weight, but should only be taken as a guiding star when the goal is to lose weight and maintain it over the long-term.
The main binary has to be able to call into libc somehow, and thus it's typically easy to get a libc pointer if you have an existing method of code execution.

I don't know how it works on OpenBSD, but on Linux there's a section of memory called the PLT that contains pointers for all the functions from dynamic libraries, including those from libc. Also, there's typically libc pointers all over the stack.
I still get cheque payments from various government departments for rebates. My most recent one was a £3 cheque for an overpayment when renewing my driver's license by postal order... That was an arcane transaction.
There is something holding them back.

Check this out

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/bcre...

The Board's stress tests help ensure that large banks can support the economy during economic downturns. The tests evaluate the resilience of large banks by estimating their capital levels, losses, revenue and expenses under hypothetical scenarios over nine future quarters.

Banks that lend with abandon would fail this test. This automatically means they can”t distribute dividends or do share buy-backs. Which in turn makes shareholders unhappy. They either vote the CEO out, or sell their shares to buy shares of banks that give dividends. That”s called “voting with your feet”. Results in stock tanking, then CEO out.
> will be life destroying for many people, even if they never have to sell

Why?
Yes there are multiple learning styles, but two fundamental truths about learning are almost universal:

* Retention requires repetition
* Understanding requires interaction

That's one of the reasons why learning by reading is so powerful: Reading is an active involvement, it's an interaction.

Videos CAN deliver that, but it's a lot harder, because a video is not something I conciously need to interact with; I press play and it plays, whether my mind wanders to something else or no.

Videos can deliver repetition, but the format in which social media present them (with the next clickbait always only a small flick of the cursor way) doesn't exactly help.

IMHO, Videos can excel at explaining topics with laser focus on a small, complex topic, that is then explained in detail with multiple examples. When trying to teach broad topics reading wins out most of the time.
bought a flat for 120k€ in city center, spent 60k€ to make it nice and cosy and split into 4 rooms.

renting out for 1800€/month now.
I will never understand how people would think artificial sweeteners even taste like sugar. Particularly as it relates to soda, it always tastes distinctly ... chalky or at least an under-taste of bitterness. Can't people taste that? I associate that taste also with the feeling I get, like drinking tea on an empty stomach, a touch nauseated. When younger in the 80s-90s, my sister and mother would gulp down Diet sodas, but I would never touch it - they were nasty tasting. My wife experiences the same sort of feelings also.

Here in Norway (I grew up in the US), Pepsi Max or Coca-Cola "uten sukker" (without sugar) is heavily marketed. Regular Pepsi and Coca-Cola or local/generic brands are much better (and much more moderate tasting than the American counterparts, with hyper-sweet corn syrup), but cost a few kroner more because of the sugar tax. The sugar-frees are equally terrible tasting, like as if there was no real progress in actually making "sugar-free" satisfying. I don't drink much soda anyway, and if it is, it will just be the store brand - it's a treat more than diet staple. Even too much sugared soda will catch up to me.

Like alcohol, I have never deliberately moderated myself, but just have. It's not a point of pride, just something that happened. Because of this, I am not as tolerant to either alcohol or any type of sodas. I get buzzed too fast and I start feeling the soda after a little too much that I get a bit scared of both. Just like alcohol, I feel like people will rationalize sugar-free soda consumption based on some values that they have. The article mentioned that "diet" soda is a "guilt-free" treat - whether that's an value alignment to sell more or this is a genuine response from the consuming public, it is something I will not understand.

I mean, in the end, TANSTAAFL ... despite my sweet tooth, knowing I can get carried away (and my body lets me know!), I'd rather just eat sugar than chemical concoctions.
It's relevant as a red flag alongside other information that should raise one's level of suspicion.
bought a flat for 120k€ in city center, spent 60k€ to make it nice and cosy and split into 4 rooms.

renting out for 1800€/month now (4 individual rooms)
spell checkers cant even get things right half of the time, not too confident AI will be able to change that
> This post seem to blame victims for the problem, and that is not fair.

Guilt is not zero-sum. A killer gets 20 years, but a group of 10 people conspiring to a murder get 20 years each, not 2 years each.

It's perfectly possible the scammers are culpable to the maximum extent, while at the same time there is a smaller but consistent culpability on the part of the victim.
The information on rates for many people is freely available. I'm more than happy to share my expected salary in the first interview, as the worst case scenario for both of us is if it comes out after an onsite that there's a disparity.

Levels.fyi, salary ranges on a large number of employer websites, even glassdoor, will give you a reasonable indication of rates.
It's ironic that they call it "Nintendo hard". Because Nintendo were early to realize that hey, people aren't actually putting pennies per play into our consoles, we can give players stuff like codes to save their progress, maybe we'll even win over some kids who don't enjoy doing the same thing over and over.
IIRC the trending topics on Twitter are a mixture of automated and manually-selected. Not manually selecting him would be "not promoting", but putting him on a blacklist means he was prevented from naturally showing up - that's censoring.
Kids has the benefit of the brain being in active learning phase. They notice the things (often subconsciously) what the adult brain misses or need more repetition or just shown slowly.
It's already in place. You just need to use a slightly different filler from the one you use to fill gas bottles.
Fed up of the actor model? Wait till you tried this game!
I had great success using scrum in central government. It freed us from the whole "get a document approved by lots of external parties before you can do anything" mentality. .

It helped that because it was such a different process, they largely left us alone. They loved the regular retrospectives. They were awed to see feedback from the previous retrospective made real by the next one.

By the end we delivered more for less and it actually did what the stakeholders cared about (not what people thought they wanted when we started and didn't understand it).
> Real professionals do not make spelling and grammar errors

I've worked with lots of professionals, including founders and c-suite people, who appear barely literate in emails and online chat. They're often very good talkers and very bad writers.
Thanks, I converted it into a Tampermonkey userscript to use on all the sites.

// ==UserScript==
// @name Underline links
// @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version 0.1
// @description Underline all the links!
// @author mdaniel
// @match https://*/*
// @match http://*/*
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==

(() => {
document.querySelectorAll('a[href]').forEach(it => it.style.textDecoration='underline');
})();
I've watched about 40 minutes of that debate -- does it improve at all? The pro side seemed content to provide compelling anecdotes almost exclusively. The con side was also presenting anecdotes, but Gladwell at least made the crucial point that the mainstream media at least has a process for discovering and reporting the truth.

The "both sides" game from the pro team was excruciating.

As an aside, even when it comes to the anecdotes, Matt Taibbi was incredibly disingenuous about the one thing I fact-checked: his reporting on ivermectin. Sure, he might not have said "everyone should take ivermectin." But in the very first interview I hit with him about it his statements can be summarized as:

"Ivermectin is a miracle drug for treating parasites." -- this sets up a kind of expert opinion fallacy: if Ivermectin is so good at fighting parasites, and viruses are sort of like parasites, right? So Ivermectin might be good for Covid.

Then he says, "Some studies have given weak evidence supporting the use of Ivermectin for Covid." This elides so much about those early studies.

Then he says, "And no one can talk about it [those positive studies]."

It boils down to "tell me you think Ivermectin is good for Covid without saying the words 'Ivermectin is good for Covid'" and it makes me doubt anything Taibbi says. And the fact that he can have said that and then claim that he never supported Ivermectin tells me he will lie to prove a point.
There is SO MUCH empty land on the roof of our buildings - and electricity using devices within said buildings.
The personalized content creator for each individual
> don't underestimate the number of organizations willing to pay $3K/year ... it's an "easy" $30K every year.

So 10 then :)
So you have to be a beneficiary to file? I can't imagine that happening more than two or three times in your life... are you helping others with their cases?
Burning propane in car engines produces carbon dioxide and water, no sulphur oxides (because there's no sulphur in the fuel, or such a tiny amount that it is negligible) and no nitrogen oxides.

You can actually measure this.

It burns leaner than petrol resulting in complete combustion so there's no CO or HC in the exhaust, either. Indeed, if there's enough CO and HC in the environment from other vehicles you'll actually be burning that too giving it (in a sense) negative emissions figures.
How does MidJourney v4 do illustrations. The early versions we saw seemed a little too artistic and also had this distinct "looks like midjourney" signature. Any links you can point me to? Thanks!
This argument is too broad. Why set the number at 40? Maybe if we all worked 80 hour weeks devising new algorithms to target people with ads and bussing tables in fast food chains, we'd all be immortal by now! Time spent in labor does not linearly correlate with production, especially in high cognitive demand fields like research. Not only that, labor unions and the like had to fight to get work weeks reduced to just 40 hours. Why not ask if we don't need it to be so high? The number is arbitrary, after all.
Always wondered how these actually work.

What's up with the writing? Its written like a children's book, I had to pause reading to scan around a few times feeling a bit self conscious that I was on a kids explainer website.
Notes on 'On the Measure of Intelligence'
In the context of the discussion, I considered "function" to be referring to the body shape. The points you name are a different discussion. But most Teslas don't have a yoke. That is so far limited to the Model S.
Recreating the Sounds of the ’90s with a YM3812 Synthesizer
You're implying that Diet Coke is not meant to have a distinct (aspartame) taste. Coke Zero is the one meant to be an imitation, and it is much closer.
Would an automatically translated article helpful here, provided the translation is okayish?
If you've managed to map shellcode at all, you necessarily already know where a valid syscall instruction is since otherwise you would not have been able to trigger the mmap syscall to map the shellcode. In any event, mapping shellcode is entirely optional anyways since to even get to that point you must already have full control through ROP, at which point you could do everything the program could (albeit in a significantly more annoying way).
You're right and the wording can lead for some to evoke existing implicit (or explicit!) biases one might have (like I do! But I didn't need research to tell me the stuff tastes nasty :D)
> How can profits drive inflation

If every business decides to arbitrarily double their profit margin, then prices will rise, but none of that price rise goes to salaries, nor cost of materials, or anything else but a corporate bank account.

This effectively drains money from consumers, without returning anything to them via salaries.
A very good thing to read to realize that when one hears this kind of complaining today there is nothing new in it and it is not a signal of the apocalypse coming or of a unique new age. Well, the apocalypse or a new age might be coming, but this is not an indication that it is. It always was the case that one should pay attention to from whom one is buying.
I imagine it's primarily driven by battery size.
Lisp Programmable Star
"An Apology for Idlers" by R.L. Stevenson is also worth reading for the beautiful way it is written if for no other reason.
> In order for a gift to serve its social function, it must be specifically matched to its recipient.

That's tricky though. Often enough, people really don't know or think enough to match properly, which causes the gift to end up being offloaded somewhere else later, and/or breeds silent resentment.

It's not just when people don't know what the recipient is interested in, but importantly, when they think they know, but don't understand that you shouldn't buy something related to someone's interest/hobby if you yourself aren't comparably proficient in it.

> Cash is not specifically matched to its recipient.

In some sense, it's maximally matched to every recipient, by virtue of being universal. Question is, is the gift supposed to be about recipient, or about the gift-giver? Super specific gifts are often about the latter.
Yeah that’s how I’d do it. Or perhaps an x86 emu? Maybe get qemu to run.
In a way they are, the difference is that they have the issuer network and banks' reputation behind it and so the number of shops that accept it is not a singleton set.
Not directly related to the article, but I just wanted to share my experience with using artificial sweeteners to overcome a sugar addiction. Based on the recommendation from my fitness coach, I found that aspartame-based sweeteners were really helpful in reducing and eventually eliminating added sugars from my diet. I used a FreeStyle Libre 3 sensor to monitor my glucose levels and was surprised to find that the Monster drinks I drank whenever a craving kicked in didn't have any effect on my glucose levels.

It took me about three weeks to get rid of the sugar habit, and now I only consume small amounts of sugar through an apple a day and protein powder in my morning porridge. I'm also back to water only. I figured I'd share in case it could help anyone else out there struggling with strong sugar cravings.
The example is actually 2500 screenshots of a 3D rendered environment. An artist didn’t actually draw every single frame. Kinda misleading imo.
> There is a deeper point to that - that people tend to be free with money as long as it doesn't cost themselves. People behave very differently w.r.t. what is "worth" spending money on when it is their money, as opposed to someone else's.

This is typically where people drop in their Milton Friedman video/meme: "With my own money... with someone else's..."

Which has a grain of truth to it, just no nuance.

> How do you propose to determine that amount?

Certainly the answer isn't "whatever the machine spits out". Which at the bottom of it is what free market fanatics are saying. At least we should work on the machine so that the inputs are something sensible.
Of course. Still creepy.
> use iOS’s built in Translate app

Thank you so much for this tip, it is honestly astounding how well this works and I can instantly see how useful it's going to be!
In some areas, the water use just from cleaning solar panels becomes a serious issue (let alone using more water to cool them). It's not much water to spray on some panels you are experimenting with, but for a large installation it seems like it would be a lot of water.
From a purely selfish human point of view, how important are desert ecosystems to the overall health of the planet and the planet's ability to support human life?

I feel like sacrificing the deserts to save the rainforests is a trade worth making - but is such a trade even possible, or is it not that simple?
What does it do exactly?

E.g. is it only changing the text’s color / font style? Or is it also doing something more, like positioning or spacing?
Consuming a lot of media do count as immersion.
Great course, I took it a few years ago while working full time and loved it. I recommend this right alongside SICP for the engineer who wants to dig deeper.
I have been promoted in just about every company I worked at up to C-suite where obviously promotion isn’t really relevant any more. The common factor in each case is I always (no matter what my theoretical job title) try to do two things:

1) Understand as much as I can about the actual mission of the company. What is it trying to do, why does this make money, what is the impact it has on the broader society, how does my team/department contribute to this mission, etc? This helps to align my activities as much as possible with the companies actual mission because often bosses will give you tasks which are about furthering their career rather than doing this. If you try to make your work line up with the mission you avoid a lot of that sort of nonsense. Even if you don’t succeed, you will learn a lot by doing this and that will help to keep your work interesting.

2) Strive to increase my personal impact. Don’t try to get promoted, don’t try to get influence don’t try to increase salary etc. Try to figure out ways you can have a greater impact. All the other things will flow from that if you succeed.
I vaguely remember in the past there was suggestions in advertising that Diet Coke was like regular Coke. By naming it the same thing, it does suggest an affinity, particularly on the dimension of taste. I am probably wrong, but this can be my own "consumer" expectation, giving the naming.

Coke Zero or the local variant still doesn't taste like Coke, but bitter fizzy water, to me :)
Yeah OK but then there are 100s of other general principles you need to know in life. Calling someone stupid every time someone doesn't follow one of the things that's obvious to you is not constructive. We need things like this to go public to avoid them from happening, and shaming victims doesn't help here. The author is already extremely apologetic in this post, and still there are people saying he's stupid for almost falling for it. I am usually quite rational, but I've done some pretty stupid and embarassing things at times where I was not thinking everything through. I imagine most people have.

Imagine you go to vacation to Paris, take an evening walk and get mugged. Your attitude is like the local saying "what an idiot for walking around in that neighborhood at night".