skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Dare I say, people should engage that part of their brain with everything (...) What about the monetary system, surely we could all take a step back and anaylze the mechanics of a system that plays a 50% role in all economic transactions

This is a great way for one to learn about Moloch - the by far greatest threat humanity is facing. Moloch is the personified generalization of all multiplayer games, where the payoff matrix looks like this:

| v Reward / Choice > | X | Y |
|------------------------+----------+-----------|
| For myself, short-term | good | bad |
| For all, longer-term | very bad | very good |

Problems for which, invariably, approximately everyone chooses X, often knowing that they too will suffer the very bad consequences with everyone else.

Moloch is the common core of all the big problems humanity is facing, problems we seem unable to solve - surveillance economy, inequality, climate change, you name it.

Unfortunately, recognizing the presence of the ancient demon's namesake, and realizing the gravity of the situation, kind of kills the mood - which is why most discourse on those topics is rather unsophisticated and dominated by those who don't, as you put it, "engage this part of their brain", whether because they don't know how to use it, or because it's more fun/profitable to not do it.
Most of us don't have any ability to install a system like that. I'm not even supposed to nail things into the wall, let alone install a RO water system in my rental.
Paradoxes are beautiful!
Yeah, IMO "product-led" is just something that sounds nice when you package it up with a bunch of truisms and sell it as a consultant. There's a nice little industrial complex of consultants, "coaches", and other thought leaders who haven't shipped any product in a decade or more but will gladly sell you their silly services.

We're just here to do a job like anyone else, with hopefully a reasonable area of accountability. The thing that "drives" a particular initiative is what matters the most at the time - could be a big marketing push, engineering quality push, something we know sells well into enterprise markets, etc. It's fine.
The article linked says the laser energy is 2 MJ. So even a 100% efficient laser would only have a 2x gain. And some quick googling gets me 80-90% as max feasible laser efficiency.

And you would probably need more like a 10x gain to make it feasible so would need another order of magnitude from something beyond laser efficiency. Can you trigger more fusion with the same laser energy by scaling the system up?
We asked a local about why you didn't see any solar on houses and she told us that you would get penalized by the utility company, so it wasn't worth it. I've no idea if that is true or not, as I don't live in Florida. Anyone from Florida care to comment?
> Hamas has zero interest in actually having to run a functional government

Hamas’ leadership wants its villa bills paid. Those payments come in exchange for influence over Gaza. No power in Gaza, no villas in Doha.

> Republican promises to repeal Obamacare

This is nonsense. (I’m ignoring that it’s also in bad taste.)

The Republicans were messaging to a primary base who reward loyalty over productivity. Hamas wasn’t messaging to anyone with this attack. They lost control of their proxies.

The analogy is in America supporting the Mujahideen to pressure the Soviets and then watching that backfire as Al Qaeda.
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Ground Truth: Bob attended the University of Texas at Austin where he graduated, Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor’s degree in Latin American Studies in 1973, taking only two and a half years to complete his work, and obtaining generally excel- lent grades.

Predict: was the University of California at Austin in where he studied in Beta Kappa in a degree of degree in history American Studies in 1975. and a one classes a half years to complete the degree. and was a excellent grades.

Wow. That seems comparable to the rudimentary _voice_ to text systems of the 70s and 80s. The brain interface is quickly leaving the realm of sci-fi and becoming a reality. I’m still not sure how I feel about it.
Scroll up to where the poster I originally replied to said "In some ways that makes it now impossible to deliver food and medicine because that may be seen as a Houthi victory…" for an example of people saying exactly that.
It is important to stress that this is a problem related to the sales of the new titles, not the established and time tested ones. There is a huge competition as we have more and more books published each year as well. Also, show me at least one marketplace where the reviews are 100% legitimate.

I think publishers and authors want to free ride such platforms to reduce the marketing spend but then they face trolling and there is nothing to do but cry (but the monetary effect is unclear).

Instead they could invest more into multichannel ads and build alternative platforms for the readers to check what the book has inside. But yeah lets depend on amazon and just wait until it will start asking for money to mitigate review bombing ;)

Besides who reads the new titles when there are thousands of amazing time tested books?
Have you ever read a news article about something you have insider knowledge of?
like many others who recall the early days of the open Internet, I am disgusted by the practices and business model of sites like Goodreads for the last decade+. Now they cry "foul" and ask for help? cry me a river.. better self-organizing reader circles are the answer.. "winner take all" is working out just as many envisioned.. ensh*tification
They did one round, but I think it takes 3 rounds of pump and dump before it really dies
WhatsApp Exploit allows replying to a spoofed message, Meta won't fix It
Another firewall that drops packages.
Did you really read the TFA? Because that exact sentence is used as an example of a false boast where someone over-stated their importance, yet your comment appears to take it literally. The full paragraph for context:

> The term 'Apollo Syndrome' has also been used to describe the condition where someone has an overly important view of their role within a team. It is based on the (supposed) claim of someone to have played a vital role in the success of NASA's Apollo missions to the Moon, where scientists had to work all through the night on many occasions, battling against fatigue. One person claimed a vital role to the whole programme - by making the coffee that kept them awake!
Yes, I suspect Chinese companies have "immunity".

But overall Chinese exports can still be impacted if the major Western shipping companies stop going through those waters. So there might a balance to maintain if Iran wants to avoid a call from Beijing.
There was a guy I knew at Google who just went around figuring out what everyone was doing on a specific problem, made a bug for each one, and wrote a slide deck where he implied he was responsible for the cumulative result of 30 other teams. He's an L7 now.

I really regret telling him what I was working on.
I am just an average dev working in python and occasionally c++, but I'd like to improve my skills and learn more about optimization. Would you be able to point me to a structured resource (book, course) where I can learn more about optimization?
Your belly button was connected to your mother, who's navel was connected to hers, all the way to the first mammal. One endless carried forward torch of life.
I think a major complaint surfaced about the PM role is: Its rare for even your PM to be an expert in that area. Ideally, they should be. Realistically, there's one guy in another branch of the company with a totally unrelated title that everyone eventually figures out is The Guy on this product domain; and the PM's role becomes "interface with Jim".

I don't generally find myself in the Anti-PM camp; but I think one of the valid criticisms of the role is that high quality hiring for it is so extremely difficult that maybe its existence is an indication of a structural problem. As the article says; if the ratio of PMs to Teams should be less than 1:1, maybe the correct lens to view this role through is more of a higher-level product lead, or a separate product branch who act more like free agents that attach themselves to teams temporarily, splitting time, where needed.

I will say, I've worked in two roles where this was the case; one a very large public tech company everyone reading this would recognize, and another a 30 person startup; giving PMs higher cross-team authority felt, to me, like a really good decision. One small positive byproduct I actively observed: when speaking with our PM, who was shared with four or five other teams, he was constantly aware of all the other work they were doing, and would actively make recommendations about how our little feature could plug-in with their little feature to increase the quality of the overall product. One small negative he communicated: because the company had no entry-level PM roles, which is where he started before they refactored the org chart, its non-obvious how you backfill these roles or create an entryway for new talent to breach the industry. Their current solution to this is "well, we can't really promote internally unless an EM or Engineer wants to switch domains" which they genuinely did try to support.
That would be interesting. I think you'd have trouble finding enough incrementalism to provide meaningful data. But a place to start might be in European nations that only allow hunting guns.
Yeah...The research here doesn't even make the claim that it has no hallucinations. It seems to largely be exciting _despite_ hallucinations because it clearly does occasionally guess the correct words. They mention lots of issues but so long as it passes peer review, seems like a massive step forward.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.14030v2.pdf
Hilariously, when I got to the end of that article, I noticed he had a theme selection dropdown hidden away in the bottom right corner.
You'd negotiate with (or threaten) Iran, not the Houthi warlords. These are, after all, Iranian cruise missiles (etc.) that Iran is giving to the Houthis for proxy fighting. Yemen's own capabilities are a non-factor.
That is weird looking, a cross between the body plan of a mosasaur and an ichthyosaur. It’s funny that the article talks about how mysterious this creature is and how it didn’t swim like a plesiosaur- but makes no mention of the ichthyosaurs it clearly resembles.

Large predatory sea creatures often end up with streamlined body plans with a dorsal fin. Sharks, dolphins, ichthyosaurs… makes sense that some faster mosasaurs would evolve in that direction too. 72mya is fairly late in the game during the Cretaceous period.
We have a different view when it comes to the hypothesis then: the hypothesis is that there was no pre-historic idustrial civilization, proof that hypothesis wrong. The paper we discuss gives hints on how to proof that non-existence hypothesis wrong, or, in my ill choosesn words, proof the existence of said civilaztion.

Or, if you like, find and show proof making the existence of such a civilaztion likely. And no, the burden of proof is not on the side diaputing the claim of such an civilization, as only the existence of something can be proven, not the absence. Hence the very exact formulation of any null-hypothesis.

Coming back to some pre-dinosaur industrial civilization (why stop at industrial so, why not an instellar one?): there is a ton of data and samples from that time periods (litterally reaching back hundreda of million of years), so everyone trying to find evidence for such a very bald claim has a lot of data to work with. Just putting out the claim and saying it must be true brcause nody can proof it wrong is not how things work, in reality that is, on the internet everything goes apparantly.
Pathfinder has an AU distributor (Let's Play Games, and I think also Aetherworks still?), so I'm curious how that shakes out on the ground.
> Hamas’ leadership wants its villa bills paid.

Which will continue.

> Those payments come in exchange for influence over Gaza.

Those payments come in exchange for remaining a thorn in Israel's side. They don't need to be managing Gaza's water authority to remain one. They're much more effective as an insurgency than a government.

> The Republicans were messaging to a primary base who reward loyalty over productivity.

The same is true for Hamas, quite clearly.

> Hamas wasn’t messaging to anyone with this attack. They lost control of their proxies.

This is a weird assertion; all signs point to extensive planning by Hamas of this attack.
I didn't read the article because of a paywall, while I tend to agree with your point, it misses some nuance. Globalism can be both fragile and resilient to breakage. So, for example, closing the Suez canal might result short-term increase in energy costs, along with all of the follow-on effects, but the global supply chain itself will "reroute around the damage" and take a less geographically optimal, slightly more expensive but still functional route.

Also, a "threat [to] the world economy" need not be existential. The threat of recession is also possible, and likely with a situation like this.

That said, I believe there ARE existential threats posed by globalism, particularly where inter-dependency is present for generations, such that either side of the relationship institutionally forgets how to maintain, repair or upgrade significant infrastructure. Arguably that is already the case for America with energy transmission equipment, semiconductor and PCB manufacturing, such that a war with China that began with a strike to those resources could not be recovered from.
It's like that bad dream where I'm naked in school, being chased by a bunch of leaky typewriters. You ever get that?
The OP is making an Evergrande Evergiven joke
Sounds like type of growth hacking that start-ups are sometimes celebrated for... Boost your own brand while lowering competition...
Which is interesting because, anecdotally, I’ve had the exact opposite experience. I’ve lived in Dallas and Austin for a collective 27 years. And the number of outages I’ve had bewilders friends and family that are out of state. Since I’ve moved out of Texas a few years ago I haven’t had a single power outage.

In my family while growing up we kept flashlights and candles handy, and us kids were (very lightly) drilled on where to find them when the power went out. And again, this was in the middle of the metro, not out in any rural parts.
So what? It's still a low-contrast color choice. If the text was too small, would you have recommended reading glasses?
Is this Figma or Adobe pushing this?

Seems to be the same story as always. Loved product gets bought by the old guard and gets destroyed in the name of profits. They had to buy the company because they forgot how to build, innovate, and serve their customers
Or even at France, if memory serves.
Yeah I disabled web results because I don't like that it slows down search and I would never actually use start menu to search the web.
My experience has been completely the opposite. Becoming the go-to person is a way to become a load-bearing employee that never gets promoted or otherwise has company mobility because the people who rely on the go-to person need that go-to person to stay exactly where they are.
Is there any consensus on the level at which it becomes dangerous rather than (perhaps) beneficial?

I was taking Vitamin D supplements during the first year (or two?) of covid due to doctors reports that it was beneficial for that. I forget the amount I was taking - one capsule per day (125 mcg?) of some supermarket brand.

If it's safe at this sort of daily level, and if this report is true, then seems tempting to start again, especially due to having an indoor job and limited outdoor/sunshine time, although perhaps a safe daily dose isn't enough to induce the muscle-vs-fat production this report is discussing ?
Or have friends and community, it isn't that hard.
A mix of wildly obvious ( The UK government recently changed the law to ban company names containing computer code, after Michael Tandy of Hatfield registered a company called “; DROP TABLE “COMPANIES”; — LTD,” which could theoretically erase the companies house database. )

and femto-trivia ( Washboard sales went up 57% during the pandemic, inspired by “fears of societal collapse and limited laundry service”, although 40% are sold as percussion instruments. )

Such things might get you evicted from a holiday party trivia game, and maybe that's what you want. Depends on the holiday party.

Cheers
From the article: "I helped my first report at Google get promoted from Eng 1 to Eng 2 within 9 months, by advising her to find something that she can become the “the go-to person” for."
Reminds me of Zizek's video "Don't act, just think"[1]

And yes, Zizek is a charlatan[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgR6uaVqWsQ
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5yoqjABeBM
I agree sadly :(

You're right, this is why in year 2200, your job application is going to be fast-tracked by analyzing your thoughts directly.

If you have a Neuralink, no problems, you can directly upload a trace of thoughts.

In case you have wrong thoughts, don't worry, we have rehabilitation school, which can alter your state of mind.

Don't forget to be happy, it's forbidden to be sad.

Also, this is read-only for now, but what about writing ?

This could open new possibilities as well (real-life Matrix ?)

Oh by the way, did you hear about Lightspeed Briefs ?

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All that being said, it's great research and going to be useful. Just the potential of abuse from politics is huge over the long-term.
Is there a physical law that indicates it's not feasible? Because if not, this is just like saying multiplying a bunch of matrices is not a feasible way to build a machine that speaks English. These things are unpredictable.
Yet Jeff Bezos in his podcast appearance yesterday which was a 2h talk said that when data and anecdote disagree to trust the anecdote and gut feeling
Empathy is not the problem everyone has empathy for their own social groups. The problem is the division between these social groups. There is no grey anymore just black and white. You either hate me or love me.
> uppercase letters start at 0x41, and lowercase letters start at 0x61

And the reason for the 0x20 difference is that the Shift key on old teletypes turned the 0x20 bit on and off.

In the same way the Control key turned the 0x40 bit off. So Ctrl-A = 0x01 = 'A'/0x41 - 0x40.
America's Peace Wave: Violent-crime rates have suddenly–mercifully–plummeted
Edge dark patterns can't do shit to me.
Yeah this is so unfortunate, we need to reverse this trend as a civilization
It's interesting how statements can sometimes seem contradictory on their own. The first statement may highlight the importance of emotions, while the concluding one emphasizes reason and progress.

Together they might suggest a balance between thoughtful reflection and the hope of a rational and progressive world.
We saw 1 field of soalr panels (near Cape Canaveral) and very little on houses or businesses.

If you drive around the UK you see lots of solar. On people's houses (maybe every third house in the town I live in) and in fields beside the roads.
The current scope of "arms" does include most conventional weapons but intersects with other boring regulatory considerations, especially at the State level. Anyone that can buy a gun can also fill out the paperwork to buy or manufacture much heavier weaponry. Most people don't because exercising the right is a headache. You can't drive a main battle tank on a public street or store a surface-to-air missile system in your backyard for basic infrastructure, zoning, and safety reasons that have nothing to do with the weapons per se. Small arms present much less of a practical safety or nuisance risk regardless of type, the same as any firearm.

The paperwork required is the trivial part. I have friends that, essentially for a laugh, filed for and received every Federal approval required to acquire basically the entire range of conventional weaponry. It had a similar level of scrutiny as applying for Global Entry at the airport. If you exercised this, you still need to comply with all the industrial regulations that apply to non-weapons with similar properties, which is expensive and inconvenient.
Was there ever an expectation that YouYube will just leave a frontend whichs first advertised festure is stripping their monetization?
Somewhere around 95% of people, I expect.
> You'd negotiate with (or threaten) Iran, not the Houthi warlords

Correct. Conspicuously, Iran hasn’t offered terms. Which makes sense. The chaos boosts their bona fides. And they’re selling oil through a separate channel.
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The allied powers exercised total media control in Germany and Japan. This strategy is no longer possible due to social media.
The embedded video has a little bit more information than the text article. I have a couple of thoughts here.

1. They mention the fry tending robot (Flippy) costs $4,000 which seems quite off to me. It seems to be an off the shelf robot arm (Kuka?) attached to a gantry system. These components would cost at least $20,000 and probably much more. Maybe the quoted cost is the price per month to rent one of these systems as a customer. This would be in the right ballpark compared to the cost of hiring minimum wage human labor for a month.

2. I'm not sure it makes sense to use a robot arm to just tend fries because a custom designed machine could probably do it more economically. But even a custom machine may not be as economical as a human, who can tend the fries but also accomplish other tasks simultaneously. At my local McDonald's, the employees that bag orders also tend the fries.

On the other hand, if the robot arm can replace other machines and humans as well, it could justify the cost of the robot arm many times over. Miso's original idea incorporated a autonomous burger flipping capability, hence the name "Flippy" for their robot. From the video, they have since migrated to a mechanical rotating grill. Then I assume the burger flipping was too difficult to do with Flippy and they may be running up against the "hard" part of hard tech.

3. There is an unofficial subreddit following this company, /r/misorobotics, due to their heavy usage of crowd funding. Through the subreddit, I learned that Flippy has been deployed at about 20 White Castle locations, with plans to deploy to over 100 locations. I'm curious to see how this plan works out, given the previous point. If the total system cost is about $100,000, this would be a $10,000,000 expenditure for what amounts to a quality of life improvement for the current staff.

4. The location for this new restaurant is the previous Miso headquarters. I believe that it is operated by Miso, so this restaurant may function as a marketing vehicle more than an existence proof for the economic viability Miso's business.