skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So where is gHeadphone on this? I'd like to read why they shared this.

The writer though may actually be less egotistical than it seems. By the end of post they are saying that their ability to not believe a good sounding argument is exactly the same approach an uneducated person has... Saving them both from believing the wrong things. The funny thing is he gives up trying help the reader discern just what the right thing might be.
The laid-off email job corporate worker isn't going to take a job for $15/hr at the Flying J unclogging toilets. You can't use the total national average unemployment rate, which has issues of its own, to say the economy is healthy. In the same way, the stock market indices aren't helpful either beyond catastrophic values.
Unemployment is historically low, but costs are historically high. In 2008 we saw that the state change from good to bad can happen rapidly and contagiously between industries.

> They can also downsize and/or move to an area with lower cost of living.

No, not really. There are simply no housing units available in the US to do that. All new housing is huge 2000sq/ft +. In addition housing prices are just off the charts for small houses. Your low cost of living places (I have family that lives in places like that) still want $250,000+ for a house that was around or under $100,000 less than a decade ago.
What is a "leftist space"? I go wherever I want and stay however long I choose.

If you're spending a lot of time with those people and finding value in what they're saying then keep doing it. Do whatever makes you happy.
I am strongly reminded of https://thingofthings.substack.com/p/rationalists-and-the-cu..., which concluded that the kind of person who believes complex irrational arguments is also the kind of person who falls for conspiracy theories, weird cults, and various kinds of whacky beliefs.

That said, I would advocate a more systematic version of the article's conclusion that we should accept that we can't think. Instead borrow an idea from Superforecasting. One way to get better at predictions is to start by constructing an outside view, and an inside view.

Suppose we want to predict the odds of a thing happening. First we make a tally of roughly comparable situations. In how many did the comparable thing happen?

The inside view is a detailed analysis of how the thing could happen this time. You can analyze this to a Bayesian analysis.

The problem with the inside view is that, confronted with a way something could have happened, we overestimate all of the probabilities. We wind up too certain that it did. Conversely if we don't think of a way that it could happen, we wind up being too certain that it could not.

So the inside view has too much variance. We fix that by adjusting the inside view towards the outside view. How much you should do this takes some practice to figure out. But actually doing this makes your predictions more accurate.

Instead of calling this epistemic learned helplessness, I would call the need to adjust to the outside view as estimated epistemic uncertainty. And yes, people who practice doing this really do become a lot better at predicting what will prove to be true in uncertain circumstances.
Even if that were true, how would it work practically? For anyone who might be interested in identifying or tracking you, how would they "use Tor" to look up your identity? Over 200 countries, across all government agencies, and then including non-governmental actors? Maybe a Tor user isn't trying to protect from "the NSA" (or whoever you think is "running the Tor network")?

And, again assuming this is true, how would any other technology protect you better?

Especially people working at "a security firm" should know that security is not black and white, but has many dimensions to it.

And then, here we are talking about diversifying relay operations, so even if you believe the rest of the network to be totally compromised, it would still add some net benefit, no?
Other airlines have switched from exclusively Boeing to exclusively Airbus - eg Easyjet did in the early 2000s, and operated a mixed fleet for about a decade.

https://simpleflying.com/easyjet-boeing-to-airbus/

Obviously it's more of a challenge, but it's not insurmountable.
> Is that because they pretend to like it when no sane person would, or just that they don't like it.

Depends on the filter:

"The most interesting pleb filters are those that lie exactly on the line between being a troll pleb filter and a real pleb filter"
Wonder how long it'll be until we find out they're being used for warrant-less wiretapping (or equivalent thing) of people's comms outside the US?
They’re the only mega bank with both a 2% cash back card and a competitive HYSA
We chose them because their international operations are better than the others (we do https://trinpod.us and https://trinpod.eu )
Agree 100%. Wind turbines killing birds is a disingenuous argument when it comes to climate change.

> Birds of prey in Africa experiencing population collapse, study finds
> new research used road surveys to find that nearly 90% of the 42 raptor species studied had experienced declines, with more than two-thirds showing evidence of being globally threatened.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/04/birds-of...
Molossia has had lots of success, and even grants foreign aid to the highly indebted nation of Usa.
Take a mortgage. You get severance. Then if you fail to make payments it’ll take 3-6 months before foreclosure starts. Most can get a job within that time frame.
Scientists Scramble to Keep Dog Aging Project Alive
Interesting how in hindsight, this interview basically foreshadowed this exact thing happening. At one point, the CEO says this:

> And we made that decision very early on in Substack — that you’re going to be able to leave at any time, you take your relationships, you take your payment relationships even, and that put us under a lot of pressure.

Later on, this exchange happens:

> [Reporter]: You can leave and you take your set of subscribers and you get all their emails. Is that why you can’t follow someone? When I asked my team what questions they have, the feature requests came in fast and furious, and one of them was, “Can I just follow someone without subscribing to the newsletter?” And you’ve consciously connected those two things.

> [CEO] I think Casey [Newton] put this as, “I wish I could flirt with people before I had to make a commitment.”

> [Reporter]: Casey Newton.

> [CEO]: Yes. Casey’s substack is Platformer.news. It’s a good Substack. You should subscribe.

Casey's quote is linked from the article. Clicking it now, it shows up saying "this note is not available": https://substack.com/profile/241262-casey-newton/note/c-1446...
Looks like it's an performance/cost upgrade:

> boasting optimized peripherals, improved connectivity, as well as expanded memory options.

You're right it does sound almost identical though.
> In the original video the the individual countered the first two by pointing out the fact their manager's communications to them were all positive.

Did she?

She literally says herself she hasn't closed a single sale since being hired there.
They gave a reason. That doesn't mean the facts supported that reason. The employee didn't believe they did.

Not closing a deal in your first month of sales is not exactly unheard of or even uncommon.

Either way, WT lawsuits don't generally "win or lose". They settle.
I've been playing with homeassistant voice integration and it's pretty darn good

There are some gpt and llama experiments you can run there, but it's finally getting to the point where a local assistant you host yourself might be viable soon

Getting audio into it and having a little speaker so it can talk back is both the easiest and the hardest part. I need to play around more with some esp32s and microphone modules
This looks like an anti competitive action that should be investigated.
I'm surprised more people are not calling out

"enqueue() happily overwrites current_tail->next even if it is not null (which may happen if some other producer has enqueued something since we read current_tail)."

Its probably one of the bigger problems of this queue, basically negates the whole structure with this bug.
Fortran would have been a great programming language for embedded if the real-time extensions of the seventies had caught on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Real-Time_Fortran
Any of those responses (or non-response) by Bob would justify the asker in their skepticism of the falsified results. Giving somebody a chance to respond is not the same as relaxing your standards of evidence, it's just an acknowledgement that there might be explanations you haven't thought of and giving an opportunity for those to be brought up.
It works surprisingly well most of the time.

There is an extremely annoying bug though where sometimes a random tweet will just disappear from the timeline. You'll get a brief glimpse and it suddenly disappears. And you may or may not come across it later. As though it jumped further down the line.

Anyone else notice that? What in the world might be happening there? This has been an issue for at least a couple years now.
We just simply don't need that much brine for useful minerals -- it's a huge cost and you'll be left with massive piles of mostly useless salt.

On one of my hard drives, I've got an engineering / construction plan for a moderately sized intake + discharge for a small RO facility that would've passed muster in Australia, which has pretty reasonable environmental protections. Round numbers - the intake would have cost $25 million and the discharge more like $75 million. You need a massive structure to be able to emit that brine back into the environment in a way that doesn't just nuke the surrounding marine life. Huge pipes + check valves + cascading discharges, all either on the ocean floor if there aren't reefs and other sensitive areas or even worse from a cost perspective, tunneled out to a depth that can handle the amount of salt.

Seawater is ~35g/L of TDS - the author is talking about 5 million acre feet of desal - what's that, 20 million tons of salt annually?
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/08/02/a-chemical-hunger-p...

This guy claims that Lithium may be partially responsible for some weight gain in our population, but also, that desalination plants cause extra lithium as well.

If it was mined out, that would be viable, but if not...
And Los Angeles. And Phoenix.

Not saying it doesn't work. Clearly it does, at least for a time or up to a certain level of population (Phoenix is banning new development because it's literally out of water, California is poster-child for water wars).

I guess it's something about spending that much effort and human capital to force something so inherently unsustainable that just seems... wasteful? Full of hubris? I don't know, maybe it's just a general sadness that this much ingenuity isn't being spent elsewhere where it could amplify existing natural forces instead of fighting a never-ending battle against entropy for something that doesn't want to exist.

Or maybe I'm just an internet sourpuss without enough vision. I just can't shake the "why are we doing this" melancholy about this.
Nice tech but 500w/m2 is… not too much in the limit. If you operate a few thousand multiple dozen TW fusion plants, these won’t matter much unless you plaster Sahara with them. Maybe.
Pro-AI?
> I highly recommend reading Private Eye's special report

Agreed. For those more audio inclined, I linked to these in another comment but I originally discovered their reporting on this via their "Page 94" podcast:

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast/49

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast/95
Yeah, I read some of his essays. I like some of the ones where he stayed in his area of expertise, like "Ontology Of Psychiatric Conditions: Taxometrics" (
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/ontology-of-psychiatric-con...). The other ones I've read are big fancy word salad unfortunately. Can you recommend others like the series I linked above?
One good robot arm that a below minimum wage gig worker carries around.

edit: he can also turn the crank to keep it powered maybe
While there is a rational basis for only focusing on the things you can control, in practice, I've observed that people who adhere to Stoicism as a core part of their philosophy toward life end up using it as a crutch to intellectualize disengagement and shy away from confrontation of all forms.

There is a healthy and rational way to engage in conflict resolution and ignoring the problem, refusing to have difficult conversations, burying one's head in the sand, none of these things accomplish anything other than to result in a gradual surrender to people who have no such qualms.
Pretty sure that's because of flaring excess gas.
I don’t think making less immersive games is some how more important than more immersive ones. The more important problems aren’t gated by lack of talent but lack of money and or political will. Throwing talent at it (if you could) doesn’t magically add money or political will to solve them.
The model is fine for explaining how some bakeries work; not now the overall economy works. I bet you could have figured this out on your own.
He's doing it wrong.

I don't mean some grander point about environmentalism or development, I mean that I have specifically examined solar desalination for the Imperial Valley and he's missed a much simpler way to get the water from point A to point B.

See, there's this other basin in nearby Mexico called Laguna de Salada which is basically an empty salt flat about ten meters below sea level. If you flood that by dredging a canal (about 10-20 km and not very high), you only have to transport the desalinated water about five kilometers to get it into the Imperial Valley drainage basin.

There's no need to back up the Colorado and mess up what's left of the delta, plus you can put the rejected brine back into the now Golfo de Salada where it will mix more slowly and (hopefully) less destructively with the seawater to the south. The area will still be something of a dead zone, but it would only replace an existing dead zone.
Pascal is definitely somewhat alive, but way far from its heyday on DOS and Macintosh. For dead languages in the class, Modula-2 is mostly dead and Modula-3 is definitely dead. Forte TOOL is dead.

Pascal has its niceties, especially enabling one-pass compilation and pretty clear code. It's neither overcomplicated like Ada nor relatively unknown like Modula-3.
> turning money-printing machines into dust overnight.

What are you referring to? I just looked at the 5 Star Wars movies she has producer credits on, via Wikipedia, and not one of them demonstrates losses. The profits are in the billions and only one of the 5 movies, Solo, did less than a billion at the box office.

And why are you conveniently forgetting Jar Jar Binks and blaming someone else? Lucas was making trash long before Disney got involved. I thought Force Awakens was better done than most of the franchise up to that point.
Sounds like Google's making a bunch of anti-competitive moves by stripping out loads of third party support from Assistant.

Makes you think.
it doesn't, full stop, but the FSF has been pushing its maximalist theories which would not survive a second in court for decades now.

what may be more relevant is that the use of the GPL is evidence that the author (possibly) believes in maximalist FSF theories. and therefore might not be someone whose libraries you want anywhere near your work, for avoidance of potential disputes.
damn think of the pwn possibilities there -- kernel level right from boot, and updated regularly, without having to obfuscate. red team wet dream.
Disney and Pixar animation are about to get 10,000x - 100,000x cheaper and accessible to nearly anyone.

When applied to the correct domains, AI is incredible.
So perhaps it's a good day to call for contributors to add more actions to https://github.com/Stypox/dicio-android ? If Google wants to remove features, they can be replaced by something that doesn't have that problem.
No.

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/06/1140998674/hertz-false-accusa...
In the US the police are specifically allowed to lie to suspects, whereas British cops are not. If you can prove the police lied in a recorded interview or something used in evidence in court that's going to be a big problem for prosecutors in the UK but not in the US where it's expected.
And then there's the problem of removing all that pesky lithium, 3400 kilotons, enough to support over 375 million electric vehicle batteries, which fortunately, is not very important towards reaching net-zero emissions by 2050. [0]

https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/us-department-energy-an...
Agreed; in fact, I've wondered how they managed to make it work so well previously. (But, haven't used Twitter lately, so maybe it broke.)
That’s also what corporations were like in the U.S. up until the 1980s. Being lifers and having stability was commonplace.
The site has misspelled co-pilot. :)
AFAICT, restoring the Salton Sea and capturing the land appreciation is the mechanism for funding the project, not the goal. The goal is to restore the Colorado river.
I'm not sure that the physical embodiment needs to be robotic in nature. I'm a physically abled home owner and need to repair my hvac or plumbing. Instead of paying for someone in the trades to come out and do the work for me why can't I just put on a pair of augmented reality glasses and have the AGI use me? The camera and my voice inputs should allow the AGI to diagnose the issue, order needed parts, and then instruct me using visual overlays and audio prompts on completing the repair.
Medical advice from the Wall Street Journal... It. just. seems. off.
Military service is mandatory in Israel, so if that was where you were born, you would not have a choice.
> It is usually the opposite if I check known colleagues: null performers and phonies have outstanding profiles, the good or super programmer somtimes an awkward or does-not-care profile.

I don't think you're interpreting these things right, and I'll tell you why.

I know superb software engineers who don't update their online presence and didn't even bothered to update their LinkedIn profile to change their profile photo uploaded over a decade ago. I also know newly graduated software engineers who have a well polished CV complete with profile photo taken by a pro photographer.

The key difference in both cases is that the newly graduated software engineer had to go through recruitment processes very recently, while the superb veters software engineer climbed the corporate ladder and eventually landed a CTO role in the very same company he joined over a decade ago, and during this time he had zero need to even look at job boards.

Most people don't update their CV if they aren't applying for jobs, let alone update profiles in job boards if they are not applying to jobs ads.

Failing to update your profile in a job board does not correlate with expertise. It correlates with the need to seek a new job. Whether you're a lazy incompetent fool or a software engineering wizard, you won't update your LinkedIn profile unless you feel you need to switch jobs.
No, such argument is whataboutism. Bigger problems do not invalidate smaller ones.

The only case where your point would matter is if we could only fix one or the other - human- or cat-induced damage - but that is not the case. They can be addressed independently and in parallel.

I like cats though...
Why are we ending our questions with full stops!
That contract was first awarded to Airbus' A330-MRTT tanker aircraft (which is currently in service with other air forces). Boeing was so upset by losing a Pentagon contract that they lobbied the US government hard into voiding the original contract award and re-opening the tender. Subsequently, Boeing placed an unreasonably low bid and Airbus walked away saying they can't make it happen at that price.

So, this was an entirely predictable own goal by Boeing.
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The new generation has largely switched to exclusively using thier phones. I figure this will have some pretty negative consequences for computing, but was also inevitable given the state of things
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Glad they're making changes because it couldn't possibly be worse.

It is one of the few products I use daily that gets noticeably worse over time. Shopping lists, calendars, reminders, timers, etc use to work pretty well, but now they're absolute trash. There's a running joke in our house that one of us will ask the Google Home speaker something, it responds with either "I don't know", "I can't do that", or some bizarre non-sequitur and then we say, "just ask ChatGPT".
Can’t we pipe the seawater inland and then deposit the salt on land?
This article talks about learned helplessness in a learning context. I talked about it in a work context, and the two could be linked. I think social media is training people for everything to be quick, but learning + work aren't necessarily quick.

> This insistence on constant availability disrupts the essence of focused work. Rather than encouraging employees to tackle complex problems independently, there’s a trend, especially among junior staff, to quickly seek help upon encountering any obstacle. The fear is that being “blocked” under-utilizes an expensive team member. However, the nature of knowledge work is solving ambiguous, complicated problems - so the expectation of constant availability can lead to a culture of learned helplessness, which shunts professional development.

https://www.contraption.co/essays/digital-quiet/
You should be using a phase diagram rather than a venn diagram here. It depends on persistence or tenacity of the adversary. Legal and administrative measures is the first phase. If that fails to deter adversary, non-traditional and perhaps extrajudicial measures can be employed.
Yeah by that definition we already eliminated 95% of economically valuable work from 1700s. Very few people do farm work nowadays.
How much (less) in profit each year would Google have to make for you to consider them in survival mode? And also, what qualifies you to be the expert on their financial status and needs?
There's a bigger difference, as I understand it, which is where airbus generally considers the pilot as managing a complex machine with a lot of automation (even without autopilots), and the inputs and controls reflect that, being a bit more abstract. Boeing basically tries to make every plane they make fly like a cessna, using the same basic controls but always adapting the interface to the same thing, even if that abstraction is leaky. There's upsides and downsides to it, but MCAS is one example of boeing's philosophy going wrong (in part exacerbated by trying to conserve the type rating and avoiding pilot retraining).
I'm having a hard time seeing your take on this. As far as what the two off-screen folks said in this recorded video, this seemed pretty textbook. It's as humane as it can be while maintaining both correct amounts of information compartmentalization, privacy and not leaving any openings for legal comebacks.

It's less direct than it would be in a perfect world, but I can't fault anything they said.

In contrast, the employee who made the recording has recorded a company meeting while they were an employee of that company, and revealed it online. I know nothing else of this employee but already can see why Cloudflare, a company for whom security and privacy must be internal values if they are going to use them to define their external products, might not be a good fit for them.
They hire expensive lawyers who are experts in making black look white.