skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jordan Petersen talks a lot about life being a struggle and how to get through it and make the most of it. A lot of that resonates strongly in many people, it isn't something you would find faults in after watching a few minutes. And that is within his field of expertise so it makes sense that those points are pretty good.

The problem is when Jordan Petersen starts to talk about other things than that, like politics, gender roles etc. There he repeats similar talking points I've seen on online forums for 20 years now, nothing new or interesting.

Edit: Sometimes downvotes amazes me. Did someone downvote this because I said Jordan Peterson said something good, or because I said he did something bad? Will never know. But I've noticed that balanced takes tend to get more downvoted since both sides downvotes them.
There have been many attempts over the years. There's Prevayler [0], in Java, and Madeleine [1], in Ruby. Neither of them became wildly popular.

I worked with Madeleine for a few years and while the performance was amazing, RDBM systems are ahead because of the many years of standardisation, tooling and capabilities (e.g. migrations)

The other very important thing is - DB latency is an issue only in the hands of a novice. In the real world, network latency is a couple of magnitudes higher.

[0]: https://github.com/prevayler/prevayler

[1]: https://github.com/ghostganz/madeleine
I don't think "Ads" is the right term. There's a lot of fraud, misinformation and and targeted political propaganda peddled by YT as "ads".

I do wonder what the right term for those videos are, but it ain't "ads".
The real problem is IPv4, and IPv6 overshoots.

The ports wont be opened ubiquitely.

UDP can only do (P2P) punch through and if one person uses the designated port on their IP, the next person to connect gets an elevated port number.

It's janky, and you cannot guarantee QoS.

Also scaling UDP server needs the same multicore cooperation as TCP.

UDP solves nothing interesting.

And now we are closing 25, 53 and 80 with ISP port blocks, anti-viruses and browser defaults.

Good job humanity, closing the working door before you open a new window trapping yourself forever in centralized root-certificate hell.

Flash and Applets got killed by locked down iOS and Android.

The browser is now dead.
Newton had horrible investments so his theories are bad.
Pixel is the fastest device to receive latest version by definition. IMO it's not good characteristic for average user because some apps (that haven't tested with Android beta or slow to fix) tend to have problem when latest OS launched. It will be fixed within month, so delaying upgrade works. Anyway Android upgrade is no longer fun.
Even if you can digitally recognize all the individual wedge-marks, it's a a multi-language multi-cultural thing with a couple thousand years of usage.

In other words, that might not be the bottleneck.
Plenty of other individuals have similar "buttons".
Choose wisely then.
A company's "give a shit" level is not confined to one area of development. If they cared about the gamer when it comes to graphics they probably cared about the gamer when it comes to gameplay.
> A simple switch "don't feed my actions to algorithm" would have solved that

Spotify has a private listening mode that does that
If you're not afraid of the vendor lock in, AWS Amplify is rather complete, and gets you up and running real fast at the expense of being all in on AWS. For a straightforward CRUD app you don't even need the hassle of an EC2 instance, just a lambda and an RDS.

Combine it with LLM-enhanced tools like gitwit.dev or vercel v0 writing react code for you, and you're there so much faster it's not even funny.

Speaking of Vercel, that's another stack to take a look at.
Newton didn’t pretend to be a master of predicting the future of market performance. I trust people like Warren Buffett a lot more than someone who has never proven any skin in the game whatsoever
Good luck for that "default" website to survive financially :)
Even prior to this change, as far back as a decade ago when Youtube (according to Google) was burning money, they still knew there was some perversely wealthy incentive to keep the platform around. Google has shut down far more useful products for far less. That leads me to believe that the value in Youtube goes far beyond ads. Right now it's merely trying to optimize and squeeze as much blood from stone as possible, up until they can measure the tipping point of maximum pain before users spend time on other platforms.
Indeed, I have never met a person in meatspace that cared about 4k, let alone having multiple running at once.
iCloud is simply not a replacement for onboard storage
Over the years, Jordan Peterson has gotten more and more aggressive and polarizing. I suspect that social media attention has been a huge influence, because the new Jordan Peterson (NJP) sounds like the old Jordan Peterson's (OJP's) loud aggressive clickbaity twin. Where OJP might have written an academic paper for other scientists, or delivered an hour-long carefully-thought-out lecture, NJP sends an angry tweet full of insults.

For example, after losing a court battle against the College of Psychologists of Ontario, he talked about it as such: "Don't bloody well lecture me ... some dimwit judge with a liberal bias did ... lecturing me about taking responsibility for what I say." I highly recommend watching the video. The tone is also part of the message: https://youtu.be/M5PESEbY_H0?t=74

Or when in December 2021, the Prime Minister of Canada tweeted this to encourage people to get a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine (keeping in mind that there were at no point any mandates for boosters, this was purely an attempt at advertising the fact that booster doses were available and recommended by the healthcare professionals):

> Justin Trudeau: "If you’re taking care of some last-minute Christmas shopping this week, here’s something else you can add to your list: a booster. If you’re eligible for one but haven’t gotten it yet, please, do so now. And if you don’t have your first or second dose, now’s the time to get it."

NJP replied to the tweet as such:

> NJP: "Up yours @JustinTrudeau. Seriously. You'd have to kill me first."

https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/14745955491774341...

I cannot imagine OJP saying any of these things with this tone and this level of imprudence. OJP was generally cerebral, intellectual, academic, deep, calm, polite. He was a well-respected academic through and through.

NJP, on the other hand, is irritable, imprudent, aggressive, abrasive, impulsive, rude. He is a sensationalist yelling pundit through and through.
He has been widely criticized by legal scholars for misrepresenting the Canadian Bill C-16, which extends the human rights act to cover transgendered people. Peterson, a clinical psychologist, claimed that it would compel speech.

This is probably what the article is referring to. Before the incident Peterson was a respected academic psychologist, but was widely criticized for his amateur legal analysis of C-16. He has since continued to ruin his reputation by making transphobic tweets about Elliot Page, body shaming the plus sized model Yumi Nu, climate change denial, and generally expressing right wing views on a range of issues.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37875695
This guide tells you to delete the JSON file that are crucial for both geotag info and in general EXIF.

I don’t recall the script I used last time, but GitHub is pretty full of good Samaritans, eg: https://github.com/mattwilson1024/google-photos-exif
I never understood black and white thinking such as OP.

“Your personal experiences make up maybe 0.00000001% of what’s happened in the world, but maybe 80% of how you think the world works.” - Morgan Housel

Its the same with dating. If you date toxic people, you start generalising that all men are abusive.

Same with PMs. If you are working within a company that accepts subpar talent, you'll start seeing things based on your benchmark of quality. Until you actually work with a great PM that makes your life easier.

There are good engineers and bad engineers.

This polarisation is IMO an incredible bias.
Basement Chronicles – browser-based throwback point-and-click game
That’s fair, but that is… what, 1% of all software engineer hires?
It's clearly an impassioned topic for you, but it's important to remember that your passion may be clouding your judgement.

While indeed methods exist, many problems remain, and it's useful to note that not all systems currently used may be appropriate for all creators.

Your suggestion that complaints about current solutions are invalid, implies a lack of empathy with those who aren't served by existing mechanisms. This view could come across as too one-sided, which might hamper its ability to be taken seriously.

Similarly, your comment seeks to curtaIl any critic of OSI licenses, and while it's true they provide many protections and benefits, it's also true that many new licenses and mechanisms are being used as a result of gaps in the current approach.

Failing to understand the concerns of other segments of the ecosystem with which you may not be acquainted, does not mean their complaints are without merit. You may take it as an opportunity to better grasp the realities facing creators to give you a clearer understanding of the issue overall.
Let me try in hope calculator enthusiasts are in the room: I have a need for a specific calculator for young teenager with ADHD.

It has to show input and output at the same time (or at least full input), be ergonomic (backlight, nice keys) and not looking childish.

Right now I’m borrowing my SwissMicro RPN which is awesome gadget but outside of complete overkill - its not backlighted display is hard to read.

Context is that the kid has very short working memory. Whereas they understand the concepts really well (I help with tutoring) due to frequent mistakes and forgetting numbers mid-flight the grades are awful which negatively impacts attitude etc.

I noticed positive impact with calculator because not only they start to memorize some basic calculations, they also start to feel general result correctness based on those visual inputs.

As mentioned before - SwissMicro works but maybe there’s something with backlight and not RPN based. It has to be calculator not an app because I hope to convince school to let them used daily.
Depends on what you mean by "Marxist", I guess. His anarchism is certainly way more Marxist than anarchism of Proudhon or Kropotkin.
Moderate super capacitor for interstitial periods?
This is cliched advice that I am slowly beginning to hate. I honestly can't imagine many things more pathetic than a couple going on a jog together. I'm dead serious. If you have a "shared interest" let it be something interesting. Bomb an NRA chapter or an abortion clinic. Yes, I'm a bit of a romantic.
They reliably exceed 99.99% inadequacy overachievement - there, made it less ambiguous for you.
Why would you post a link to reddit which is itself a link to Twitter?
Seen multiple comments about the O and 0 similarity making this unsuitable for programming, which seems like a big misstep.
I am talking about (theoretical) computer science, not (practical) software engineering.

This should've been clear in the context of my question:

"Are the formal sciences (logic/mathematics/computer science) not science?"
This is a bit ironic, but have you tried the Numworks simulator app or any of its forks.

I usually have excel sheets or python/matlab scripts. However, this simulator felt self-consistent enough to develop muscle memory for quick back-of-the-envelope work.

https://github.com/UpsilonNumworks/Upsilon

https://www.numworks.com/simulator/download/
You are confusing removable=repairable and hotswap. The latter indeed is "who cares", the former is important.
Same here. But I was distracted by the fact that I could not understand how they are being rendered. The js (https://thmsmlr.com/assets/app-76652943792d609207b149d2720cc...) seems to say that they are being drawn on canvas but the only canvas present in DOM can be deleted with the shapes still animated. Any clues as to how these are being rendered?
I’d use whatever scales best for the least cost.

Go backend. Single binary. Big performance. I’d use Go for as many things as possible until I actually had a need for distinct technologies (queues, redis, etc.). Throw embedded db into the mix and you shouldn’t have any problems for a long time.

React UI on cloudflare pages. Free. Easy.

Postgres. Single node goes far. Great plug n play extensions. Same as with Go I can push this pretty far until there is some serious requirement to do something else.

Deploy on either cheap bare metal or an affordable provider like DO.
Not in medical terminology, no. I certainly wouldn't call a pap smear an invasive procedure.
Sorry about that, here's the updated link!
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/s/Qib5jJBY6r
> And what are you saying about the fly connectome again? Do we have exact names for every neuron in the fly brain and its verified connectome for every neuron?

onus isn't on me to justify the existence of an entire field to you. the claim that neuroscience has not made great strides in the last 30 years is an extraordinary one, and that's all on you. but it especially doesn't help your case that if you had googled "fly connectome " you would have seen that the first result is a complete connectome of a larvae and the third result is the tour de force from Janelia that produced an adult connectome. With names and verified connections. there is even a wikipedia article for the drosophila connectome!

> I remember sauntering to the occasional neuroscience talk during my ut southwestern PhD and occasionally hearing some professor brag about how the majority of one of their PhD’s jobs was to segmenting a single neuron in the thousand EM images or something. Surely that’s a sign this field needs revision?

and if you had gone on to actually read the hemibrain connectome paper you would have gained some appreciation for the gargantuan achievement that it was. it took hundreds of person years to generate ground truth segmenting neurons by hand, to develop the ML techniques required to automatically segment the rest (extremely difficult problem) and to then validate the automatic segmentations. not to mention the insane effort it was to acquire a half petabyte EM image of a single fly at sub-synaptic resolution in the first place.

I gotta hand it to you though, the position of naivety you've delivered your middlebrow dismissal from is truly impressive in magnitude.
Fear mongering would be: you will no longer be able to eat red meat due to crop shortages.

What the poster you replied to wrote, is a true statement. No fear mongering required
I'd write it in Lazarus/Free Pascal, compile it to WASM[1], and do whatever hacks I had to do in order to push it through the internet into a web browser.

There's nothing even close to the productivity we had back in the days of VB6/Delphi to be had on the web, ever. The closest we're going to get is a pale imitation.

[1] https://wiki.freepascal.org/WebAssembly
> > Both of these are things you should be watching for

> Not sure what makes you think that isn't the case already.

Obviously I don't know you, but what made me think that is your assertion that you are having close calls with cars every week. Something needs to be done differently if you are almost getting hit by a car every week.
Most CEO have stock options so in theory they have skin in the game. This however does not make them rational or competent actors. Maybe skin in the game isn't all that it is being made out to be, it is probably necessary but not sufficient to be a effective business leader. Honestly this article feels strangely malicious, I would not call the execution of more then 300 soviet officers an example of skin in the game, but just cruel intimidation by Stalin.
Right. Had this argument years ago in Wikipedia.

The basic concept of Taleb's Empirica fund was to buy cheap options that were way out of the money in hopes of a "black swan" event. Most of those options expired un-exercised.
So the fund lost money most years, but made huge profits in a market crash year. The big question is whether this is a net win over a few business cycles.
The European approach to online disinformation
"Consequently, two opposing logics, securitization and self-regulation, coexist and compete when determining the focus and political actions of the EU against disinformation. This contrast between a vision of hard power, facing a cardinal threat, and another of soft law, based on voluntarism and minimal intervention in the digital media industry, generates dissonance. As a result, the EU is being accused at the same time of promoting a strong discourse linking disinformation to security, exceptionality and geopolitical strategies, and being lax with the obligations and responsibilities of the digital platform companies. This has led to a significant internal contradiction that the new DSA may only now be starting to address. Its resolution will be key to determining not only future EU policies on this topic, but also conditioning its chances of success in the face of an increasingly growing problem for European democracy."

Securitization is also something I've pointed out here many times.
> There are countless stories of people inheriting things and ruining them because they don't have the acumen of the original creator.

Some of my most "entertaining" work experiences have been a direct result of this. In the latest example, the son of the founder went so far as to create a motorcycle dealership on the property of his completely unrelated inherited business in the parking lot of their HQ location because he was more interested in motorcycles than the business he inherited. This is a relatively small family company ($250MM/year net) that also has multiple private jets for the C-Suite of friends of the inheritor to ride around in. One of the most moral crushing experiences is when everyone sees the direction a company is taking, but we all still go through the steps we all know will be futile regardless because the money all spends the same in the end.
The real question is whether the theoretical plan actually existed. He has never proven any of this. I can claim anything future or past but without receipts it’s just intellectual masturbation, not real skin in the game.
I've personally run servers for several businesses in the streaming education space. And one business that serves over 40,000 concurrent connections. The entire business fits into 1.5 racks at a local DC. The monthly cost is under $5,000 for the service, space, and cooling.
There is an initial cost to purchase some servers, switches, etc.
I'd be surprised if Khan academy had much more than that many active connections.
It's really just not that expensive, no matter how much AWS wants to sell you on that falsehood.
The other side of this argument is that if CEOs are exposed to high personal risks, they manage very conservatively. That's when companies get left behind change. Consider Kodak.
Why is it that we have so many fancy system monitors in Linux, but not a single one has a "network" column like in Windows's Task Manager?
Relatedly—I’ve been thinking on this—I’d like to introduce (if no one else has already?) a term in the spirit of “marginal utility of income”:

Marginal reality of risk.

Big shot CEO’s bad outcome if they get fired for doing a terrible job is they are still rich. Assuming they’re not outright criminals, and also happen to get caught and punished for that, anyway.

Is Musk doomed to get whatever normal 9-5 job he can land if things go so horribly with his investments and endeavors that he loses everything? No. No matter what, he’ll never again work a real job if he doesn’t want to. His fame/infamy is bankable enough he’ll never need a real job to make decent money. He’ll live well and his kids will go to fancy prep schools and all that. His worst likely case (short of, like, going to prison—talking pure risk to his finances) is better than the best likely outcome for nearly everyone else in the world.

The marginal reality of risk, above a certain level, approaches zero. The numbers are big, but the risk is a fantasy. The average poor immigrant is taking more real risk than any of these people do, sometimes in their whole lives, every day. Even the average pampered software developer does.
Would love to see a post about your prison situation and how you are getting back on your feet
Yes, but how many are doing the majority of the work, die heatmaps needed.
Some interesting information in that article about youtube blocking people with privacy plugins. So it seems you need to wave your state given privacy rights to to use youtube.

Even after disabling my only adblocker, Youtube seems to partally load, then break for long periods. I don't even have any extra privacy plugins installed, but I do use Brave browser, that does have some privacy settings built in. If I try to open in private mode, the video loads fine.
>I also mute my TV and pick up my phone when ads start playing.

This is fraud and immoral, according to some people here...
Good work reaching out to, and trying to get along with Australian government departments. As a fellow Australian, and one employed in government, I can very much say that many people in charge of operating these systems should not be.
I think a valid strategy is to watch what big personalities were saying or doing when they were still small. Look at what made them big instead of what they do when they are big.
Yeah he better be able to invert a binary tree, else how do we know he can code?

/s
idk i just came across it and thought it was funny
If his theories are about investments, yes, they are bed. Luckily they are about physics.
> the purpose of dropping the bombs was to display the capability to the USSR

Can you support that with a quote from before the bombing of H&N from the senior staff responsible for testing the weapons?

Here's a better than half decent resource to get tarted that points at most of the majr sources and opinions on the matter:

https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/03/08/the-decision-to-u...

Bear in mind that Truman was a late in the day President with no prior knowledge of the Manhatten Project until after he was read in and that many of the driving forces in the later stages came from justifying the single most expensive military R&D project undertaken to date in the face of a German threat that no longer existed.

Rudimentary bureaucracy theories might suggest that the primary driving force was to demostrate vast amounts of money hadn't been pissed up against a wall.

With the end of the war and the transition to a Cold War a great many justifications and motivations for dropping the bomb were created and transmorgified over the decades, few of these seem to have been in active play when making the actual decision in the month before.
YouTube is at the breaking point for me this week. Apparently I was tested with the optional popup that I needed to remove my adblocker or else. I refused now they don't bother with the popup and just display a message on the video itself and block me because of my adblocker. Literally a few minutes ago I tried to reply to a comment on my phone (that doesn't have adblockers) and every ad would cause what I typed to disappear while I was typing so I had to make sure to only comment after like 3 ads ran first. But I got so frustrated with it I left halfway through the video. Google is known for having bad service with useless customer support so why would I want to pay for service I know will continue to get worse no matter what? There is no reward for trying to maintain what I had. Are there no other means then a subscription to bring back what I once had for free? Why not invent something instead of ruining my feeds and forcing dumb shorts everywhere that are worse then tiktok? I am happy to pay it's competition for service.