skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For this theory to be correct you’d need the total work hours being provided to employers to have doubled accordingly.
It is ignorant to not plan on methods of habilitating more people. There is an unsolved problem of space constraints and transportation costs of essentials and optional resources. Reducing life expectancy and population will not solve these fundamental issues. If these two constraints are able to be solved sufficiently enough, then people will be able to live in larger swaths of land or in outer/near orbit space or within the oceans. It all depends on how we progress from here. Right now we are having the same issues that plagued the neolithic era. Our increase in population and life expectancy will end up hurting us because of the unsolved logistical issues.
The material in this post is made with perorated graphene wetted with aliphatic hydrocarbon (somewhat something like gasoline, if there is no a chemist around to complain). It has a lot of structure in the graphene and in the material that support the grahene. So it is very different from the LK-99 discussed this week.

Other materials somewhat similar to LK-99 have shown superconductivity, but not at room temperature and pressure. I don't remember something similar from graphene mixes. And this has filled two years ago and nobody noticed. Pain me very skeptical.
No offense to everybody upvoting this type of thing, but claims like this seem to outweigh any actual tangible result by 100 or 1000 to 1.

I think it's a better use of everybody time to say "Well, let's just wait until it's replicated in humans until we share articles"
That quote is misleading having read the link. The guy claiming to be Satoshi has to win an explicit judgment from the court that he actually is first, then the others can no longer imply he isn't (since in that scenario, the court would have found he is, they have to treat it as a fact). That has not happened as of the date of the document.
Honestly, it's its geography.

Only friendly neighbours on the same continent, vast swaths of some of the most fertile land in the world, water access to Europe AND Asia, etc.

Regardless of the difference between Chinese and US citizens / culture / government, geography will always remain an advantage
OpenAI does not provide access to GPT-4 32K tokens model via API. Also they have weird restriction that you don't get access to even weaker GPT-4 model unless you had paid them at least 1$ before for API usage. They API prices are quite cheap, so I have to artificially generate lot of requests to them against GPT-3, so that I can pay them 1$, so that I get access to GPT-4. As far as I understand, this is the way to go currently.
It does feel like academic outsiders hacking/taking on the brand of serious academic research to give themselves authority.

> Baseless empirical result that probably was p hacked

This to me seems like the biggest regression in science. It's all heresy which is very hard to re-produce or learn general lessons from. It feels like disparate social science methodologies are being used to study math.

Nobody is going to look back and benefit from these papers. I often bring up to ML folks limitations proven in the book Perceptrons and wonder how their models differ. I have never gotten a response.
Ads are even more unattractive, both intellectually and ethically. Yet somehow there's still a ridiculous amount of intellect being completely wasted on ads, likely due to the dull motivator called currency. I'm not sure what the factor is, but there are plenty of intellectually unattractive and societally useless careers that suck up capable people's entire lives.
>>This is simplistic and fails to cover all the arrangements that one might one to call a government.

This would then imply that all collective social arrangements of people must be called "government" and that any definition of "government" that does not include every possible social arrangement of people is flawed

I reject this over broad assertion, when we attempt to broaden the definition of words to that degree they lose all value in meaningful conversation as the word now means anything. These seems to be common in modern times something that should be resisted
“Losers” according to that, I think, as it calls “losers” “happiness seekers.” But still taking joy in one’s work seems orthogonal to the link presented, which is more about corporate lifecycles.

To expand slightly on my situation (and the anecdotal others I’m talking about): I’m happy with my job because it gives me an opportunity to have a real impact on the world, helping real people, and seeing the direct results of my labor. It’s energizing.
> You basically need time, money, power and education to revolt

> You find professionals like lawyers leading revolutionary movements, not farm hands

Yes, but also students (who have the time and education, but not money nor power).
Why put feminist between quotes?
You print more money because you have to give out more money, whether if it's in the form of handouts or in the form of extra wages.
This is absurdly incorrect in the context of the article. As just one example - the US shuttered more than half of its ship building capacity after the Soviet Union fell. You cannot convert a foreign owned Toyota auto assembly plant into a shipyard. And, it would be nice if US economic stats made a distinction between manufacturing and assembly. A lot of what you call manufacturing is simply the low skilled combining of parts made overseas.
Arguably, yes. You can only use the DOM in contexts where you need exactly that DOM.

That said, "weak" is a poor descriptor for this property.
I'm asking because I am curious about what these sites do, but I'm not going to visit them. Why would you assume there is malice in my asking?

It seems pertinent in that it has attracted a copycat so at some level they are doing something interesting.
For me, I noticed the 'X' on the Playstation controllers is located right where my right hand thumb naturally wants to come to rest when holding the controller. And, when starting a game and selecting 'Yes' many times in a row to get going (as usually happens at some point when going thru options and menus and setup, etc), it feels natural to just go straight for that button, the X, rather than the O, to me; the O button being just a slight up-and-to-the-right movement from where my thumb is naturally sitting.

Now, I never played a lot of Playstation. But maybe my short amount of time playing had already contrived muscle memory for my thumb to hover over 'X' instead of 'O', and I'm swapping the cause of the natural feel.

It would be interesting then, if Japanese games all use the 'O' as the yes/confirm/next style button in games, do Japanese gamers have a 'naturally' different thumb resting-hover position when picking up a Playstation controller?

If not, I'm surprised Sony did not have the X and O reversed on the earliest design of the controller.
Monsoon Malabar, it's like you died and woke up in heaven: https://algeriancoffeestores.com/products/indian-monsoon-mal...
The problem is cultural rot as much as it is economic. If your only objective in life is to advance your career, buy things, eat takeout, and watch Netflix, then why bother? It’s just a slow suicide while you keep capitalism going.

The collapse of family formation and any sense of duty, community, or really any human relationship beyond a transactional one has made it mostly not worth succeeding.

And it probably doesn’t help that basically everyone is placed into 1 of 2 categories and told that either their merit shouldn’t count because they have an advantage due to being an “oppressor” or that they’ll never get ahead because everyone is out to get them and discriminating against them.

Working people are becoming increasingly demoralized, and letting them spend half their time pretending to work from home and giving them a raise isn’t going to change any of that.
How to Lose Money in Derivatives (2014) [pdf]
If someone isn’t successful in making money on that work, though, it means it isn’t very good. I know it’s not a 1:1 result, but in reality, if you put in the hours and you make things people want, you will be successful.

The problem is everyone who works on something they’re passionate about (even if they suck at it) thinks they ought to be compensated, even if their contributions amount to exactly Jack shit.

Meanwhile, I do decent carpentry on the side and am hit up _regularly_ for it, simply because I’m willing to show up. And I make as much per hour as I do in my day job.

The work is out there to be passionate and make things and be successful, but you 1) have to show up and work and 2) have to not suck at it.
While I don't believe "everyone should be in therapy" (nor have I encountered this attitude even as someone who believes in the value of therapy), the dating context is an interesting one with its own set of issues.

The reality for women on dating apps is pretty terrible, and therapy is a signal for "focused on self-improvement". In a dating pool filled with emotionally immature people, it can be useful to find other people who are similarly committed to self discovery/improvement.

And if you're dating in your mid 30s, a time when people are probably back in the dating pool because of a failed relationship, everyone is looking for evidence that a budding relationship isn't doomed to the same kinds of failure as the last one.

There aren't may ways to socially signal "I'm focused on (internal) self improvement and I'm serious about it".
Difficult to prove, but I suspect this complaint is one business owners make when they realize their business is going to fail. They know they could get more workers if they paid more, but they also know they can't afford that.

It's always easier to blame the people below you.
I am so thankful for Steve Brunton's content. Had I been able to access his content a decade ago during my M.Sc, I would have probably pursued a PhD out of the passion and quality he brings to this domain - instead I just felt done with academia, strugglign to find grants, reading yet again terse books all alone, and just moved on.

Solid YouTube educators are creating immense future opportunities and we'll all benefit from that. Control theory connects the dots between all sorts of things and can be a joy for those of us who love seeing patterns and structures everywhere (iirc Steve has a recent video about control theory for social models also).
When push comes to shove, the bigger stick wins. You can’t win a war today on just the cyber front, either. The military isn't blind, they have cyber offense and defense programs, bio programs, even a freaking space force. I don’t think the puck has really moved much at all and we haven’t had a war to “skate to” anyway so nothing you say comes from any experience with war. I think the article is simply arguing that we need to get back in shape, and we have to do that based on the programs and exercises that we know work.
I have implemented a Distributed lock using DynamooDB and the timeout for the lock release needs to be slightly greater than the time taken to process the thing under lock. Else things like what you mention will happen.
The mental and financial toll of long commutes was (and still is, to a reduced extent) consistently underestimated. Doubly so if that commute is driven, where one must remain focused on driving and deal with associated frustrations the whole time.
> In the past, a working man could support a family of five, buy a house, a car and afford vacation once or twice a year, plus save enough to retire comfortably.

I think this is a bit of a rose-colored rear-view mirror, and to the extent it's true it's a pretty brief period of time historically. Most people in most times had to work pretty hard. If you were a farmer, you worked pretty much all the daylight hours every day. Immigrants in the early part of the 20th century worked very hard, often the man running a small business or doing factory work and the woman cleaning, sewing, cooking, bookkeeping, etc. for hire. And all of that is when the men weren't off fighting a war as a conscripted soldier.

The "working man" who could support a family on his income alone was a product of the post-WWII economy. And he didn't really have to save for retirement, he had a defined-benefit pension (the kind that bankrupted many of their employers in subsequent years).

The fact that today, people can feel pretty picky about the terms of the work they do is a sign that times are pretty good, despite what people may think and say.
Yes. What is going on with people here?
>Do you think they should have to embrace austerity because they’ve asked for donations?

"Not embracing austerity" is one thing, "asking for donations" is another thing, "what Wikimedia currently does" is something completely different from these two things.

When you get a banner featuring Jimmy Wales with the words "Please read: A personal appeal from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales" and then something like this:

>To all our readers in the UK,

>Please don’t scroll past this. This Friday, for the 1st time recently, we interrupt your reading to humbly ask you to support Wikipedia’s independence. Only 2% of our readers give. Many think they’ll give later, but then forget. If you donate just £2, or whatever you can this Friday, Wikipedia could keep thriving for years.

The impression is that Wikipedia (NOT Wikimedia) is in need of money to keep operating, which is simply not true.

Wikipedia has got more than enough money to keep operating, if Wikipedia, ever in our lifetimes, goes under, it won't be because they weren't given enough money but because they mishandled it.

It's like having a beggar come to you saying that he needs to eat, then seeing him 20 minutes later driving a porsche. I consider this to be abhorrent behavior. I donated once and will NEVER. EVER do it again and I advise nobody does it. If you want to do a good deed donate to the Internet Archive.
@dang Does this need to be flagged? Increased defense spending or changing defense spending priorities is an interesting topic that dovetails with both entrepreneurship and emerging technologies.
A low of people get jealous when you work smarter. They think that results don’t matter as much as self inflicted sacrifices. Many of them work in the C suites
This classical Marxist definition of socialism is one I agree and identify with, but it's not what 99% of people mean by it, socialist or not.

I am not sure the word & associated baggage can be rescued from the 20th century at this point.
"It's almost like" suggests to to me the author thinks homeschooling is the obvious and best answer, perhaps that folks are afraid to admit.

My experience has been that homeschooling has been worse than public schooling, even where parents have been professional teachers.

No doubt it can be better for some and in some areas may be the only sane choice. Some stats even indicate better academic outcomes.

Yet I've personally seen it bring a lot of strife, unreasonable expectations, and pain into the home. And the outcomes I've seen don't inspire confidence. As a group, at least where I've lived, homeschooling parents: don't give the kids a choice, do it for their own selfish reasons, produce kids without enough socializing among peers, and often indoctrinate the kids with religious 'teachings' that undermine critical thinking skills.
Your point is correct, but because this is HN, I'm going to be ridiculously pedantic and correct 2 statements in your example.

> The Chinese of Thailand often cannot speak any Chinese (they speak Thai)

That was because of forced assimilation in the 1930s-50s by their proto-Fascist dictator.

> Yiddish is a Germanic language spoken by a non-Germanic people

Because there was plenty of intermarriage and the community was in Central Europe since Roman times
I would dare to say that the person your consider your best engineer probably only had ass on chair 4 hours a day and your don't even realize it.
>The inventors will absolutely be well compensated

Who owns the patent? It wouldn't be out of the ordinary to assume the company they are working for owns it. Maybe they'll do OK, but I don't think it is a forgone conclusion that the discoverers/inventors will be suddenly wealthy.
The minute you said custom built from components you went off the rails of my argument. There is nothing standard or common about that. Very few people build their own computers from components, nor should they. It also ignores the fact that most people buy laptops.

I am talking about the memory and storage configuration of the "typical" computer that an average consumer will buy from a big box store or a website. This has been 8GB/256GB SSD for a long time now. That is my source of complaint. Growing up in the 80s and 90s there would be absolute leaps in memory and storage every time you would upgrade your computer. That is no longer the case. We are just now starting to see some 16GB/512GB configurations appear on consumer default configurations after what, almost a decade?
bpm140's comment is extremely unsubstantive. It contains just vague insinuations. I clicked through to Aporia's contents page and couldn't figure out what bpm140's concern was.

The topic of the article is divisive, so according to the guideline you came up with, comments should get more thoughtful and substantive.

I am sure you can see why I reached the conclusion that bpm140 was not familiar with the guideline.

There's a chance I'm missing something here and, if so, I would love you to help me out by pointing it out.
“The calculation that predicts how much energy you will use is an estimate based on driving style (predicted speed, etc.) and environmental factors (elevation changes, wind speed and direction, ambient and forecasted temperatures, air density and humidity, etc.). As you drive, Model 3 continuously learns how much energy it uses, resulting in improved accuracy over time. It is important to note that Model 3 predicts energy usage based on the driving style of the individual vehicle. For example, if you drive aggressively for a period of time, future range predictions will assume higher consumption.”

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_gb/GUID-01F1A58...

Also if you open the Energy app in the car it will show you which of these factor(s) are contributing to higher or lower consumption than the navigation’s estimated range as you go.
How does cow's milk contain so much calcium when they only eat plants?
After some time of happily using Input Sans Narrow, I switched to Recursive for programming. Recursive is a variable typeface with five axes, notably monospacedness and casuality. It is the only typeface with continuously adjustable monospacedness AFAIK. There is also a configuration tool which freezes the axes on specified values for every font (normal, italic, bold, bold italic) and may add programming ligatures.

https://www.recursive.design/

https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive-code-config
You can let the parts be replaced by authorized repair shops. You can't do it yourself, you have to pay a hefty markup. This makes the replacement uneconomic for many older devices, thus creating e-waste.
> they don't even provide their own backup utility

They do for Windows: https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/windows_backup_agent.h...
Exactly. You know Bill Burr's joke about how every racist conversation begins with "I'm not racist, but..."?

I feel like these "labor shortage" statements should preface themselves with "I don't believe in forced labor, but..." There's no acknowledgement of the rights and agency of the workers themselves.
Pay = hour expectations isn't reality, and we only pretend it is when we want to abuse juniors. Effort and time are not strongly connected to pay, in office jobs. It's not even clear that they should be (but if so, and we made effective reform that direction, oh boy, it's not the juniors who are gonna feel the most pain).

These juniors are savvy if they've realized this without having to experience work getting easier, more pleasant, and more laid-back the more money they make, directly.

[EDIT] Oh, your pay may actually be connected to this, now that I think about it. If you're leetcoding and such (guessing, based on $200k+ for juniors) you're selecting for a certain culture and set of expectations. "Play the game, get the fat paycheck". Effort not connected to playing said game is just wasted, with the way rewards are dolled out in that world. Not laziness, just rational behavior based on hiring & such being batshit crazy and favoring a rather "prep for the test, the most efficient way possible—the score is all that matters" mindset—which isn't the fault of these folks, they're looking at the system and doing exactly what it demands they do for maximum reward. If they're coming up through prestigious universities, they may well have lived their whole life like that. Check the box, get the reward, prep for checking the next box, and you'll go absolutely nuts from over-work if you don't optimize each step (if you try to do it all in the spirit of the thing, rather than the minimum required by the rules, explicit or implicit). Results focused, just not the results you want... but the ones you're accidentally asking for!

If they're smart, they're doing as much as they need to keep the job, while planning their next, career- and comp-advancing move. Try framing things in terms of the "impact" they'll get to claim if they complete steps X, Y, and Z, and see what happens, LOL. I bet they'll jump at it—that's exactly what they want to be able to talk about when they're looking for the next job in 18-24 months. May be hard to frame, say, maintenance work and minor bugfixes and such that way, though. You probably need to change how you're hiring, if you want people who'll be happy to do those things.

If you're seeing these folks leave for better (higher paid, if nothing else) roles, after a short time, and shaking your head in confusion because you thought they were bad at their jobs—I'd say the above is exactly what's happening. You're getting what you're selecting for. Worth considering, perhaps.

[EDIT EDIT] Above section most-relevant if they're also underperforming according to what you expect. If they're actually getting stuff done but just taking walks... then there's no real problem.
I’m surprised that that the Ukraine war wasn’t talked about more. Not only did we go through a significant number of shells, but it also shows that the traditional warfare that large countries like the USA and Russia are geared for is out of touch. It’s like bringing a knife to a metaverse fight. Drones, portable missiles, and small groups have proven incredibly effective. Ukraine doesn’t even have a navy and Russian ships are wary of coming within a few dozen miles of the shore. Not only do we need to refactor our military for productivity, but we need to rethink what we want to build.
An easy bet to make, given that WeChat is Chinese.
C-Dogs 1.5.0 Released
I'd like to see more studying on this. I thought all sweet tasting things impacted your body's release of insulin in some regard because of your taste buds in your intestine? There is a lot of conflicting information on this topic overall. Also they told us aspartame was safe because it's just two amino acids, but look at what they're saying now. The production process and purity of the final product matters in some cases more than the actual chemical at hand.
I once gave a presentation to a group of Senior Department of Defense managers on the role that management must play in the transition to modern software engineering. After I introduced risk-driven iterative development and it's ability to reduce waste and improve predictability by identifying and resolving big risks before making large investments, one of them suddenly rose and exclaimed

"If I had a nickel for every time we flushed $50M down the toilet, I'd be a rich man!"

There is enormous waste in the Department of Defense. Eliminating it would provide all of the funding needed - and then some.