skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"putting up polls where he’s already made the decision and knows the vote will just confirm it. Why do people keep falling for it? "

Except that he did comment those other staged polls with "Vox Populi Vox Dei" pretty much right away and put it into action vs. not commenting and no action on this one.

And he said many things, also that there will be no CEO on Twitter at all. But yes, he never intended to remain CEO - otherwise he would have never did the poll in the first place, but he definitely has no clear plan, he drives on sight. (And yes, in either case, he still owns Twitter.)

And "stepping down" translates to asking whether he was running Twitter well. And the people said "no".

Why would he want that?

What would be the benefit, if it was his plan, to make people wanting him go?
You really think there is a great plan behind it?

The only vague thing might be to create an image of an reasonable emperor who listen to the people, even if it is unpleasant. But so far he does not really show the grandeur fitting that role.
Well, Socrates would definitely hate ChatGPT:

"""Thamus, however, replied: “O most expert Theuth, one man can give birth to the elements of an art, but only another can judge how they can benefit or harm those who will use them. And now, since you are the father of writing, your affection for it has made you describe its effects as the opposite of what they really are. In fact, it will introduce forgetfulness into the soul of those who learn it: they will not practice using their memory because they will put their trust in writing, which is external and depends on signs that belong to others, instead of trying to remember from the inside, completely on their own. You have not discovered a potion for remembering, but for reminding; you provide your students with the appearance of wisdom, not with its reality. Your invention will enable them to hear many things without being properly taught, and they will imagine that they have come to know much while for the most part they will know nothing. And they will be difficult to get along with, since they will merely appear to be wise instead of really being so.”""" - https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/socrates-...

It would be an ironically Greek tragedy, if the end of human civilisation were to be caused by a (written) language model, especially given how many Κασσάνδρα-analogs we have had from (given this hypothetical outcome) Socrates to Yudkowsky.
They are however rapidly strengthening their navy and air force. Eventually the US navy in the area might be outgunned to a degree that forces their retreat.
What happens when your disability collides with the disability of another student?

What if a student with ADHD says that they find the clickity-clackity of your keyboard distracting?
Labor, both unskilled and skilled, drives all economic growth. Ideas have no value until labor creates the tangible embodiments of those ideas.

That laborers, both skilled and unskilled, tend to be fungible, is the reason that they typically have no individual leverage to earn their fair share of the value created by their efforts.

Laborers end up having to unionize to gain the leverage to claw some additional fraction of the true value of their efforts.

The value distribution pyramid is upside down. Ideas have no value until laborers produce a sellable product.

Management ought to be far more grateful and gracious to those who labor day after day to produce the goods we want and need.
If you create some new account on mobile, the workflow is messy. If you are on schedule like ordering a ticket, you just quickly try to get the job done.

You need to know the specific order how to create the password for a new site. Otherwise it was just easier to plow through with your favourite memorised combination.

At least I found it hard to do with Lastpass on mobile. Now I’ve tested it with Bitwarden and 1Password 8, they seem to do a better job with it.
It's a logical extrapolation from the 80-hour work weeks and huge number of people fired.

If they're not burning out yet they will be. You can't gut that much of an organisation in one go and expect it to still function.
> .. is to just drain the island of all its talent and ambition.

What an extremely callous and deeply cold-hearted thing to say about an ally. Imagine someone said that about the US?
This is really neat! My first thought when I read about Perry’s project was that it would be nice to have a macOS translation of the book, so thanks for doing this!
The bug report's thread's a fun glimpse into Google org politics on why that specific wording and that specific implementation happened.
Not to the point of going to the war with China.
The contemporary panic over young people being radicalized online sounds a lot like the tropes of video games making kids violent, or music videos making them promiscuous. Looking at the demographics of people, say, participating in the Capitol riot, young people don't seem to have much representation in extremist circles. Similar deal with the Michigan governor kidnapping plot. Most extremists groups seem to be filled with geriatrics, not youths.

And on a somewhat different note: "red pill" in my understanding doesn't seem to have overtly political connotations. I mostly see it's use in reference to influencers talking about dating and relationships. Some of the advice is pretty toxic, like encouraging men to pursue one ended open relationships. Some of it seems not only non-toxic but plainly obvious: such as the idea that being wealthy and good looking makes dating easier as a man (is this seriously considered extremism these days?). I can see how a lot of the red pill personalities would be unwelcome in progressive spheres, but the OP's reference to it in this post seems like a non sequitur.
> "I may not like what you have to say, but I support your right to say it"

The right to say “I disagree” and respond within the limits if the law is the other side of the free speech coin.

The first amendment gives Kickstarter the right to control what is on their private platform. There have never been “neutral platforms”. They’re a myth.

Kickstarter is doing what they think is best for them. Our legal and financial systems allow competitors to take advantage when miscalculations are made on the part of private parties.

Demanding “neutrality” on private platforms is a strictly anti-speech position.
In other words, you trust the cops to enforce drug laws only against the riff-raff.
I pray you are wrong
I have not found that to be true, maybe due to company culture. Both my manager and our best engineer left my current company and returned, one after 2 years and the other have just 3 months. Both have been subsequently promoted.

Our industry is not small but we all know people in rival companies (semi-conductor, EU) and a lot of management have left to work for competitors at one point and returned. Unless you work for a seriously petty manager or an unprofessional family size company that holds grudges, leaving and returning should not be a big deal.
Unfortunately, background scrubbing significantly increases power consumption and impacts performance as well.
Very true there is no free lunch
There aren’t many “spares” left, but there are many left overall. That being said, those aren’t the things Taiwan needs so it’s a bit moot.

Taiwan already has things like Patriot missiles and harpoons.
This is not mysterious. A preference for imagining improvements is evolutionary beneficial.
The funny thing is one of their LPs is this:

Strive to be Earth’s Best Employer
Leaders work every day to create a safer, more productive, higher performing, more diverse, and more just work environment. They lead with empathy, have fun at work, and make it easy for others to have fun.

Hey Amazon, I am having no fun!
You are a cog in the machine with a company that has over a 1 and a half million employees.

Andy Jassy is my skip x 7 manager and he doesn’t know me from Adam. I doubt my skip x 3 manager would know me if he ran into on the street.

How much bargaining power do you think you really have? If any of us got hit by a bus, they would have an open req out before our body’s were in the ground and only be remembered when our name came up during a git blame.
We already live in a ecosystem flooded with human "human level" spammers at a mass scale.

We are only grounded in systems of reputation & relationships. These systems will remain important as content becomes fully synthetic. I.e Linkedin, Google, Social networks already heavily depend on social and reputation graphs towards keeping spam at bay; if anything new ideas will be harder and harder to go viral as the social and reputational filters are forced to assume synthetic.

Maybe AI learns to leverage/buy endorsement "content" posts from your friends and colleagues like celebrity endorsements operate today (as personalized commercials/text become very low cost).

AI/people trying to drive value with AI will have to find ways to leverage social relationships to squeeze into relevance where content/ideas are very low cost.
Do not nerd snipe me!

There's tons of juice left on the CPU side. Again I recommend Metamath Zero (which is somewhat of an opposite direction as HoTT), as it's able to check the entire Metamath proof database in a few hundred milliseconds. This is orders of magnitude faster than most other proof systems.

If you did want to manipulate trees on the GPU, then my stack monoid work[1] might be a good basis for it.

Of course, a whole nother direction is to use AI to develop proofs, which is a fascinating and growing area (see Holophrasm[2] and DeepMind work[3]). That of course runs on the GPU.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11659

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.02644

[3]: https://www.deepmind.com/publications/proving-theorems-using...
I think that this article could have added the example of the smartphone market with Google and Apple duopoly.

It is not a monopoly as they are two, so I guess it is the main reason why no one has really acted so far, but both of them completely locked the market, resulting in a lot less freedom for users. Marketplace issues are a good example but there are a lot other low profile subjects.

Back in the days of "mobile phones", there used to be a lot more of choice of different makers/system/features.
Historians sometimes also argue that the constant wars between France and Britain played a role in the industrial revolution occurring there. Among other things, to finance the war Britain had to borrow money, and to get it they had to sign over more rights to individuals.
This guy has a story with a beginning, middle, and end. He started in a place of (relative) comfort, wanted more, went on a journey, and landed in a new equilibrium, having learned a lesson.

Then he wrote it down on substack. I don’t know how successful it will be but I read it because it used settings and characters I’m familiar with and I wanted to know how he got from point A to point B.

If you write down your story, maybe some people will find it interesting.
There's plenty of Republicans in California, they just rebrand as Libertarians (same thing) or move to OC.
What if a lot of programmers working at Squibbit are threatening to quit if the company doesn't ban the anti encryption group?

You know, just like they did when it was revealed Microsoft and Google wanted to sign contracts with the US military.
I love Linux but let's not kid ourselves. Isn't it a couple of decades now when Linux was supposed to kill Windows and it hasn't ? I say this is more of a wishful thinking.
another technique sometimes used is using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to create temporary "virtual lesions" to study how knocking out a particular region affects task peformance
Have you tried Kagi? I think you might find it appealing. Especially if you are a developer or someone who is regularly searching technical/code related things. It's really good for that, and allows you to weight/block sites as you please to further improve results.
I believe that in the end, people in desperation come up with all kinds of reasons to compromise their own values if it enables them to attack what they believe to be a great enough evil. I don't believe that all of these people are horrible and I don't believe they would all "report their neighbors to the KGB or Stasi" to be completely honest with you.

Recently, I came to realize that this is exactly what I dislike about the arguments, ironically, against encryption, as well as for increasingly draconian anti-money laundering laws. I think that everyone, even the law makers, do know deep down that what they are doing is a compromise of strongly held and long-cherished ordeals. But pushed up against a wall and with the easiest path to progress from their own PoV being lawmaking, lobbyists, government, etc. delude themselves into thinking that this time it's different. This time, the ends do justify the means. And then in 50 years or so, we can all go "haha, how naive of them; of COURSE they don't!" while we're busy writing the next cycle of similar mistakes... Yada yada, history doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes, etc.
Not all jobs in US are in SV,
Also in tech hubs like Dublin the prices are getting there
Also my bad not being clear initially.
Taiwan is very close to the ryukyus, which has a heavy American presence. They aren’t so isolated as far islands go, blockading Taiwan would be really hard for China with Japan and the Philippines not very friendly with China.
Nice break down and explanation!

How does 1P compare to built in keychain (Apple devices) when it comes to security? My guess is that there’s encryption key for the vault and private key for access?
I’ve been using 1P for family secrets for a while but I’m grieving more and more frustrated with frequent technical issues (unreliable sync, browser extension loses connection to 1P and has to be restarted). And I’m considering switching to OS built in keychain and maybe 1P personal for family shared secrets?
You’re welcome to disagree. But I think they are down to clown.
In Vim, I put the cursor on the start of the previous expression. Then hit % to jump to the matching closing parenthesis. Then type a to add material. The next keystroke after that will be Enter. If I expect to be adding more material in the same session, I may leave the stack of closing parentheses on their own line temporarily. Then cuddle them up to the previous line when done.
The blockade is a war act. If China starts the war then sure. Otherwise blockading China by "dropping naval mines near their ports" is sci-fi area.
> EU needs to do something about its stupidly car-centric economy

How do you expect anyone to take the rest of your comment serious when you state something like this?
> Using a telephoto to peer into someones window is also illegal as they typically have an expectation of privacy.

In the US, in NY at least, they do not. A case about exactly this (telephoto lens photography through someone else's window, later displayed as art) didn't survive a motion to dismiss. This was upheld on appeal. Foster v Svenson (2015).
House prices in like 90% of the US is also drastically lower than in Silicon Valley.
Housing prices everywhere have gone up, just not at the same rates. You can still find reasonable housing outside London, Dublin, etc.
Optogenetics is similar, and crazier.
1. Less is more. I keep around 10-15 passwords in paper and digitally (on my laptop and on a couple of external hard drives). These passwords correspond to my most important digital assets like main email account, banking, etc. It’s easy to keep track of this amount of passwords on paper. I don’t have them on the cloud/internet and I only need them on my main computer (I don’t really do anything serious on my phone/tablet)

2. The rest of my passwords: I don’t really care. I have a couple of dummy email accounts on protonmail and gmail and all my useless digital identities (reddit, youtube, hn, chatgpt, etc.) share more or less the same password format. I do keep a simple backup (in plain text) of these passwords on my harddrive, but I couldn’t care less if they get stolen or whatever.
Some quick Git (and zsh) workflow optimizations
Yet you don't really try to understand why Windows keeps winning with general users ? Until we change this attitude that Linux is superior and people don't know any better, windows will continue winning.
I think there's a point the author almost makes here that's pretty important.

> When there’s one rich guy in town and everybody else is starving, it doesn’t seem that crazy to go smash his windows and steal his food. But when there’s 50 rich guys in town, somehow the state of affairs seems fairer.

A major problem we've had in the last century is population explosion. Since the 50's but the world population and US population (and many country's populations) have nearly tripled. All the metrics being discussed here are percentile based. But if we see a higher percentile based level of inequality (e.g. compared to the 20's in the early part of the post) we would have a higher number of disproportionately rich people.

There's simply the possibility that with such a large population size that monopolies are more difficult than ever BUT the problems that monopolies exhibit (they aren't always bad, but they are bad because they leverage they are able to abuse) are also just as bad with oligopolies. It really comes down to a decentralization problem. They say money begets money, but that's true for almost every resource. Even Adam Smith was against these massive conglomerates. We've had a long history of monopoly busting (albeit often too late) but the problem at hand now is that it isn't so obvious anymore. There's no clear monopolies but we see collusion and all the effects as if monopolies existed. Do we really need to squabble when someone says "x is a monopoly" and there are other players in the field? People are just saying "x has a disproportionate amount of control over y industry and are abusing that power." I think we all need to think seriously about this because if we don't allow for a substantial amount of nuance in these conversations and don't work together (even if we disagree in part) then the problems we face will accelerate. A big reason this will accelerate is the Yard-Sale Model

https://pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-sale/
The chief beneficiary of Bretton Woods was the non-West but I think deglobalization will be seen as simply a disengagement with the non-West. There will continue to be brisk trade between Italy and South Korea. There will be less trade between China and the United States.
Interesting observation. There are some people who would have responded in the latter fashion. They're generally quite unpleasant to be around, and perhaps that points to another "cause" for this apparent positivity bias. Persistent negativity might be selected against in both cultural and genetic evolution.
Porn is clearly missing in the HN title to focus at this specific target. Porn is one of the obvious uses of these techniques. Like it or not. Porn is not illegal and having this discussion in 2022 seems "puritanism" is alive.

In the context of HN, it would be interesting to see how unstable diffusion will change the porn industry. I imagine anyone could contribute to the industry, if they want, modifying their identities. I think it was Axel Kuschevatzky [1] who said that the porn movie industry is the most conservative. Playing the same short scripts all the time.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1098024/
The bill's acronym is the ANTI-SOCIAL CCP act. Amazing name!
Dow vs. United States
current russia is a great example of this
"buying a book". You're not, though. Nor a film/movie. It is, at least in the US, treated as something along the lines of a temporary contract to view. And so... DRM is used to as a tool of enforcement of the contract term's expiration.
Quemoy & Matsu: an issue in the 1960 Presidential elections [1]

[1] https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-senator-...
Or use a ziploc bag. Works fine.
It's useful to inform users that they can easily sign up without having to go through a confusing account creation process and having to worry about the site's security
I wish Apple developed this more and made it completely driven by shortcuts.
Cancelling this campaign is Kickstarter working exactly as it was designed.

Kickstarter has always been about getting money to artists to make stuff. They also happen to be synonymous with "crowdfunding" because they were the first to make it work, once that took off as a concept and KS to see a lot of gadget campaigns they started cracking down on those because that wasn't what the people running Kickstarter wanted to bring into the world. Eventually Kickstarter came to a point where they decided to make this explicit in the rules of the company, rather than become a heartless corporate machine motivated solely by whatever increases shareholder profit in the coming financial quarter:

"Kickstarter’s mission is to help bring creative projects to life. We measure our success as a company by how well we achieve that mission, not by the size of our profits. That’s why we reincorporated Kickstarter as a Benefit Corporation in 2015." - https://www.kickstarter.com/charter

Deciding to kill this campaign is right in line with point 1D of their charter: "Kickstarter will engage beyond its walls with the greater issues and conversations affecting artists and creators." And with 4a: "Kickstarter will always support, serve, and champion artists and creators, especially those working in less commercial areas." Kickstarter's a machine made to fill the gap in public art funding left by the gutting of the NEA, not an "objective and neutral platform" that will happily help you build obviously evil things as long as they get their cut of the money.
Like I said, I am not really a follower of russian TV, I mainly just read various Speeches Putin gave. And there was never anything close of "we're going after every Ukrainian and their children", that I remember.

It was variations of "the NATO is coming closer to us everyday and we have to fight back". If you know more and different, pls share.
it is different yes, the implication is "worse" which is very much open to debate.
I wouldn't guess at or disparage Martin's motives, but with Knuth, one suspects that the motives are just what it says in the title: art, and computer science.

Like Orson Wells pitching the vinter, Knuth will "sell no wine before its time". https://youtu.be/PUunRgUkRjQ
Wow, this has definitely been a great year for Matrix! It's very encouraging to see that big names are adopting the standard within their software.
The larger the list it gets exponentially less likely that this occurs if the shuffling occurs at every iteration.

We have 2/(n!) probability that the shuffle sorts the list either way. The probability that it happens on the second level is 2/((n-1)!).

So the probability that it happens twice is 4/(1^2 * 2^2 … (n-1)^2 * n)

Which ends up being prod_{i=1} ^N i ^ i

It’s so astronomically unlikely, that it just never does.
Do not put words in my mouth.

TulliusCicero says >"Your comment is a great example of, 'well this is how it currently works in America..."<"

Yes, this is part of what I was saying. Another part (also implied) is "that is how it was when I went to college (in USA)...". There are many underlying unspoken implications in speech, I haven't the time to tell you all of them for this particular sentence nor do I think that you would be interested.

>"...therefore it must be this way universally for all time.'"*<

No, this is NOT what I was saying. YOU implied this and YOU said this.

You are more eloquent and communication speeds up when you speak for yourself. Do not speak for me.
Neutrality and objectivity have never existed in the corporate world.