skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a democratic system, civilians take responsibility for the actions of their military, and if the military conscripts are being used for stupid foreign war games, the civilians step in to change the political leadership that authorized that idiocy via the democratic process. Of course, America is no longer a democracy, it's a kleptocratic oligarchy in which the politicians are little more than puppets of their billionaire donors, so that system has been short-circuited.
I’m fairly certain I saw a startup a few years ago with this exact idea, but I can’t find it after quite a bit of searching. No idea if they’re still around.

They also supported transactions with one side having an agent, but in that case it wasn’t free. I don’t recall how they made money (or maybe they didn’t, and that’s why I can’t find them).
I'm not a fan of "data is the plural of anecdotes".

But if we're talking about deciding whether a bad outcome can happen:

A few credible anecdotes are sufficiently convincing on this question.
> Reddit may be sitting in an actual gold mine

A pretty depressing thought to imagine our societies run by a bunch of ai redditors.
Maybe ‘productive’ is mot the best word on which to focus. Insurance doesn’t eliminate risk but it can still be very useful.
Agreed. This is mostly just geopolitical propaganda because China allied with Russia. And maybe COVID fallout. It's all prep to get the population onboard for more military bullying of China.
>that was no small amount of work.

It definitely shows, thank you for publishing it freely

>The purpose of financial markets, sometimes but not always wholly achieved, is to transfer risks to those best able to hold them.

This makes a sense to me, thanks for explaining. I can definitely understand how insurance collectivizes and smooths individual risks, and from this and other examples I can see why a lending institution might seek something similar to enable them to keep cash moving. It does seem a little epicyclic to me that a farmer faces a glut as a result of organizing food production through a market economy, and then we resort to like a second-order market trick to resolve that problem. Presumably it would be simpler to just dump all the food in the middle of the table and then hand it out evenly, but I've heard this runs into its own set of difficulties.

>Let me also mention that I am the author of the definitive reference book on old Vintage Port: Port Vintages

Very welcomed, I may not buy the book but I will definitely go buy some port. TGIF!
Great question, Multiplayer. There is a huge difference. I believe the largest difference is that the companies you mentioned client's are real estate agents. PropBox clients are the customer. We work for the buyer and the seller. But there are many more differences, those companies have no control over what the agents do with those leads. PropBox builds many features into the platform that is very helpful for both customers. PropBox takes all the pain points and friction out of the process. I believe our marketing is faster, transparent, simple, safer, and a lot cheaper. We are a new alternative the FSBO and the agent, and we are hoping a lot of people will try it, and if they do they will never go back. It is a good question, and I appreciate you for asking it. Richard
Right so the ISP should saw AWS like it does for other streamers on Kick, except for XQC (checked like 2-3 other streams). How come it says Twitch on XQC's stream and AWS for the other streams?
> But now this is yet another PR cycle for the "Google kills everything" meme.

I mean, they earned their reputation, and then some.
There were rumours ~10 years ago that a planned repurposing of a Nortel complex to government offices was cancelled because the buildings were found to be riddled with (presumably Huawei) bugs.
Groundwater reservoirs have a recharge rate. That is the rate that surface, or I suppose even deeper, water is sequestered in the layer in question. We are extracting faster than that recharge rate.
For me, the takeaway is that training state of the art models may become cost prohibitive even for large companies. There may be a practical limit to how complex models can become. This is at least plausibly interesting to know.
I encounter daily young people who are so stricken by anxiety about productivity, because they can't explain how they will actually benefit from the outcomes. Being productive is really hard when any value produced immediately and only goes towards lining the pockets of the wealthy.
More Americans than Canadians live north of the southernmost point of Canada. 15% of Americans live north of Windsor, Ontario. <https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/6pgby8/til_th...>
Those reactions seem to work for me in Aus., on Android.

And as for group chats, you should understand that if you start one on iMessage, you shouldn't be surprised that it doesn't work cross-platform. It could, but Apple deliberately doesn't want to make an iMessage app for Android.

Understand the implications of using a proprietary system.
Now you have me wanting David Attenborough to narrate fuckedcompany.com
Yes. We are mining water. While notionally replenishable, we are withdrawing from the water table in many areas (I'm familiar with California) so much faster than the replenishment rate that the aquifer is collapsing, meaning it will never be able to hold the water it used to anymore.
> memory layout, algorithms, data structures, logic, base conversions, and tons of self-guided study and projects.

The current AP CS (A) curriculum removed most of the algorithms and data structures that used to be in the old (AB) course... which I assume is what you recall. It died in 2009.

The language is now Java so memory layout is completely ignored. Not that I would consider that an appropriate topic for beginners at any rate.
The AI business: Commercial uses of artificial intelligence (1986)
I would be extremely interested in a Google Takeout viewer if you ever end up releasing one.

I dealt with Google Takeout, trying to export my photos to Apple Photos (when Google was planning to charge money for old Google Workspace accounts), and I found it extremely difficult to deal with the file format. The script I wrote (https://github.com/citelao/google_photos_takeout_to_apple_ph...) ended up being decently reliable, but there were a ton of weird mismatches between the EXIF data in Google Photos metadata and the EXIF data in the photos themselves. Although some of that wonkiness was Apple Photos, not Google.

I'd love to see software that could wrangle the mess :)
Seeing a lot of conflation of a) TRT dosages of T, b) bodybuilding dosages of TRT, and c) T-related PEDs in these comments.

I think the key things to remember here are:

*Monitoring your own response to the therapy is key, whether you're a middle-aged man getting shots of Sustanon at your doctor's office or a professional bodybuilder running over a gram of androgens every week. There is no substitute for regular bloodwork. Some people's livers handle this shit better than others'.

*Contra some of the posts on this thread, not all PEDs are going to permanently shut down your HPTA. In fact, basically nothing is. People decide that they're "permanently damaged" because they expect PCT to fully take care of the shutdown and then can't ride out a few weeks of cold turkey. The testes restart, but they're like a diesel engine; it takes a while to get them going again.

*On a similar note, not all PEDs are going to automatically kill you. Some, like methenolone, are if anything beneficial to overall health and longevity. Others, like halotestin, are probably going to take years off your life. Do your own research and, again, get bloodwork done regularly.

*Finally, it's interesting to hear comments from people saying the "wanted to punch everyone", etc, when they started TRT. At TRT doses, most men experience a sense of calm and confidence, rather than irascibility.
$1300/mo is cheap! Try $2300 in Vancouver.
Canada's two biggest English speaking cities have rents amongst the highest in the world.
The policy still allows criticism of people, just not in everyday discussion - which is correct, because it doesn't belong there. A person can be criticized (i.e. critically evaluated) by their manager, or perhaps by the person's peers privately telling their manager.

But "criticize the idea, not the person" is a ground rule of any healthy intellectual culture. Criticizing people in a discussion about ideas immediately shits up the atmosphere. It's uncivilized.

If someone consistently generates poor ideas, figure out some way to tell them respectfully after the fact or get their manager to do it. Either the person needs to fix their process somehow or they're not suitable for the environment. These both sound like things a manager should be judging because they are.
The data for training seems not super well supported given that Reddit is still wide open to indexing even without authentication. Why bother with an API when you can crawl the site without issues?
He does not have a monopoly on being highly productive.

And I know he is not making a scientific claim because he is not done any research or has any background in this field. So his opinion does have weight. The same weight as literally any other random person on this planet.
And journalists who cheer "Yeah, we hate Nixon too!" but don't truly hold anyone to account for the truth.
The thing that I’ve always found wild is that the money people make on markets seems to be so much higher than the money people who actually make goods/services.

Why has the global economy put such a high benefit from investment bankers compared to, for example, family doctors?
Only true if your earnings kept up with inflation
So you didn’t read the article? Because it goes ahead to describe exactly what the original texts say, which (a) do not talk about projectiles etc. and anyways, the different effects described as a result of the “nuclear strike” are actually not part of the same chapter and are spread throughout the book and refer to consequences of different events.
Maybe focus launch in a single market first to iron out some bugs quickly
I agree with pretty much your entire post, but do want to disagree with a part.

> The fact that Reddit seemingly refuses to even consider this option really confirms that this is being done purely out of spite over both not being able to monetize OpenAI’s training data collection plus spite over most of the third-party apps being more financially stable than Reddit currently is.

I think it's a combination of spite for the LLMs (which IMO is short sighted, they will just turn to scraping HTML), but also they assume that they can make more off the data vacuum and ads serving to those users than even Reddit Gold would pay them every month.
The email I got says that Album Archive is shutting down, that I accessed it yesterday, and that I should use Google Takeout to export a single photo that I can't access (?). So I got to Google Takeout and I'm told that I have one export remaining. None of this makes any sense. I have never heard of any of these.

I'm really surprised at how bad Google is at making products given how much money they have and the level of skill the people have there. There are so many problem across all of their business and consumer products that I've seen. I can't see what the draw is to keep using their stuff, especially since they are so good at killing stuff off.
An Analytical Engine in UE would be more fun. Here's one that runs in a browser, but without the graphics.[1] There are incomplete 3D models. Nobody seems to have made a full working 3D model, though.

Colossus wasn't a general-purpose computer. It was a key-tester, like a Bitcoin miner, running through a sequence of patterns and testing for a match.

[1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/emulator.html
No hedge fund owns enough Alphabet shares to be able to order the company around.
Yeah. China. The difference with China is that it's a deliberate coordinated plan from a single entity; the Chinese government. Essentially they're one mega-monopoly with incredible power without even a whiff of altruism.
I don’t think it’s one size fits all. Carmack mentions some people just have 7 good hours in them a day. But you can’t just think in terms of day by day, even for the same person:

Sometimes I have 60 good hours a week in me, some days more or less than average to get there. I’m obsessed with an idea, driven to complete it.

And sometime I’ve barely got a solid 15 hours in me for the week, maybe for multiple weeks at a time. No simple answer for what leads me there, but the rest of my time is spent working on the absolutely more urgent things that can’t wait and then just trying to fill the other hours with things that aren’t completely useless, learning about current tech trends, trying to find something “shiny” to strike my interest that has at least minimal relevance to my field, etc.

I’m sure that averaged out my workplaces have received the value they paid for in my salary, but there’s peaks and valleys. And sometimes that even includes having a “screw it” day where nothing critical has to get done and I need a mental breather, time to clear my head from the day to day.

But that’s just me. Everyone will be different. Trying to make a universal paradigm of optimized productivity is a waste of effort. The best you might get are some general guidelines and enlightened flexibility.
The point still stands that doing 16+ hour days leaves little left for yourself and family.
Good luck!

Just FYI: There’s a style issue with the site on an iPad Mini.

When viewing vertically, the About and Sign In buttons overlap.
I was about to make some joke about how this explained climate changed and meant we, in the end, need not worry about greenhouse gases.

But then I tried to look up what the actual impact of our planet’s tilt slightly shifting could be.

While I could not come up with anything meaningful, it appears glaciers melting also contributes to this [1].

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/23/climate-...
The flashes fell upon them; some lay down

And hid their eyes and wept; and some did rest

Their chins upon their clenched hands, and smil'd;

And others hurried to and fro, and fed

Their funeral piles with fuel, and look'd up

With mad disquietude on the dull sky,
The pall of a past world [1]

That is a cherry picked qoute from Byron's Darkness, it would be very easy given a few centuries, the fact that it is a poem, the loss of historical context, several changes to linguistics followed by selective editing to interpret Byron was talking about the ancient astronaut nuke of 1816 and not the eruption of Mount Tambora. [2]

In fact there is only a single instance of the word volcano in the entire poem, drop that and it reads like fallout because basically it was.

[1] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43825/darkness-56d222...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkness_(poem)

Edit: formatting & typo, duplicate link
I don't think commenting on your own post in this way shortly after posting it is going to be effective. You posted the question. Let it sit.
That’s true. I meant (almost) everyone can understand the ‘statement’ of Olympiad-level counting problems, but of course solving them is another issue.
Maybe they are just more self aware and intellectually honest.

Rather than pretending that their latest open source project which is 99% the same as a dozen others is some extraordinary contribution to society.
Your "how likely are you to recommend" prompt from helps out pops up on the first field of selling a home flow. Not relevant at all at that time.
Why change the title?
This seems right, at least for the next decade.

Recently, I really enjoy running containerized apps locally and accessing the GUI as a website on localhost. It feels like there’s a lot of room to build on that model.
Sorry Dan, you're right. I'll avoid that in the future.
People blindly parroting memes don't exhibit discernment or intelligence? Whoah.
No it’s both.

The EU is ensuring the cell phone companies start by fixing at least one issue. They can then move on to the other.
Do you also dislike questioning whether pushing the limits of existence accomplishes anything? What questions do you think should be permitted?
What about supplements like KSM-66 or other T “boosters.” Do these decrease your baseline production if you stop taking them?
the history is often overlooked: when digg imploded/shot itself in the foot, reddit was in the right place at the right time and got lucky. Somewhere for the exodus to go to. Reddit itself was failing fast and on its last legs at the time held afloat by its core users and that's it. They didn't know what they were going to do and I resent that some of its founders/execs from that time are heralded as some sort of visionaries when they just got lucky running what's not much more than a forum hosting site with a slew of very standard web 2.0 features.
If these are normal times, then we really must question what the hell the EU is doing as part of its normal operations (hint: see the headline at the top of this web page). There are a lot of urgent problems to deal with and political bandwidth is being spent on an obsession by politicians and/or bureaucrats who think they have better design chops than Apple, world's premier category-defining phone designer.

It'd be stupid in the good times. It is still stupid in the current times. Let Apple do what they want and focus on keeping people warm, safe and with a roof over their head - all things that are at risk right now. Spend some time on diplomacy trying to calm the re-arming armies down. In Germany the AfD has gone from nothing to nearly 20% in the polls over the last decade; something is really badly wrong with "normal" in Europe to get that sort of political realignment.

Exchangeable batteries are not going to help.
"PropBox is a company of humans" in the about me is quite convincing that this company is, indeed, not a company of humans
That resonates a lot with me.

Some silly takes, like the one about the bathroom, but overall this pretty much describes me during some periods of my work life - and I think the advice here is pretty good.

I also believe a lot of it has to do with the profession - there is a million ways to do something, it can be hard to evaluate if something is good enough or not, and there is usually no blueprint.

When you build a house, you can see the progress being made, and you also have a clear path on what steps need to be done. In software / research it's very different - you can spend hours or days working hard on something that's not moving the project forward in a meaningful way.
FFS is it to much to ask for a primary source?

Drift of Earth's Pole Confirms Groundwater Depletion as a Significant Contributor to Global Sea Level Rise 1993–2010

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/202...

or even the official press release?

https://news.agu.org/press-release/weve-pumped-so-much-groun...
AI algorithms find drugs that could combat ageing
And used every resource he had available at the time to discredit him.
People telling the truth are anathema to people trying to take advantage of them.
Niall Ferguson had a more balanced view of Kissinger than Christopher Hitchens.
He was not an honorable man.
why? there's nothing date sensitive in it
Are there ways of boosting endogenous production?
What T level is required to have a good life?
Because people in high executive positions usually have no intrinsic aversion to lying, and in this case, from a cold rationality perspective, lying is obviously more effective than admitting guilt.

(Expanding: people who know the details hate him anyway, and it’s better for people who don’t know the details to hear confusing accusations from both sides than an admission of guilt. Admissions of guilt are very rarely unilaterally effective.)
The absolutely psychotic nature of what the American government was up to in the 1950s and 1960s was only touched on in the Pentagon Papers. Daniel Ellsberg certainly deserves a historical memorial for what he exposed to the public about the idiocies of the Vietnam War, but it was just the tip of the iceberg. For example, experimental biological warfare was a feature of the US attack on North Korea, and that program was originated in 1942 (*Merck Report) and expanded via information from Shiro Ishii (captured war criminal who turned over records of Unit 731, the Japanese biological warfare unit active in China, to US spies and hence to Fort Detrick.) The US biological warfare program was actively connected to the CIA's MK-ULTRA brainwashing/torture program which operated domestically during the 1960s, involving use of LSD and similar drugs to manipulate people (likely involved in the Charles Manson debacle). Biological warfare and chemical warfare testing exploded during the 1960s under JFK and Johnson, and was only (publicly) shut down by Nixon after the disastrous 5,000 sheep kill outside Dugway Utah via a VX gas oopsie.

They were all insane back then, and they still are trying to hide a lot of what they got up to back then from public scrutiny. Of course it didn't end there, the 9/18 and 10/8 anthrax attacks walked out of US government programs aimed at replicating the Soviet biowarfare programs of the 1970s/1980s, and out of those attacks came Project Bioshield... I think that gave Anthony Fauci's career a boost, and led to financing of gain of function research in North Carolina and Wuhan, China, and of course chimeric virus recombination was a long-standing dream of the biological warfare establishment, though the methods they were trying to use to accomplish that in the 1980s were pretty sloppy compared to today's CRISPR approaches.

Everything is connected, at some level. Keep leaking their dirty secrets, I'm going to go toast Ellsberg now.
40% of Federal MPs own rental property. Now you know why boosting the population is big with politicians.
I mean, I get it, I probably complained in the past about a bunch of Guardian articles on the front page. But eventually I realized that mostly it's just the effect where you notice things that bug you and then forget about them when they're not there. A bunch of Guardian articles show up, I get annoyed, then some amount of time goes by while I don't think about it, and then randomly some more appear and I remember again.
A printed copy of every single script from Frasier with a small handful of phrases changed.

An empty thumb drive.
Any siginificant movement of mass, particularly mass far from the axis of rotation, changes the dynamic balance and induces pole shift.
> And if I'm really productive in the morning and afternoon and feel like I can go home at 4pm with a clean conscience, I do that too, so I don't burn out.

This is the part that is difficult for me. Clean conscience? Because your upbringing or your employer has instilled some limit where you have to push hard before you feel like you deserve a break?

For years I worked too hard, too long, and in my zeal, too often on the wrong things. I burned out hard and even now have to psyche myself up to do all but the most interesting tasks. Everything is hard these days, and so I can no longer rely on my inner Protestant to tell when I’ve done “a good days work”. I have to do the hard work and evaluate it against everything else on my never ending backlog before I feel like I can go home.
I’m really curious how much all our aquifer draining has added to sea level. I have no idea what the scale is. But I suspect it is enough to show up in measurements.