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Nice writeups. While most of your reasoning/logic are valid i think you are missing a few crucial viewpoints which should be incorporated into your "HN filtration and decision-making" process.

I presume you know of Nassim Taleb's "The Minority Rule", if not see his article The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority - https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict... and video explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwlW2aamDFc Any system can be gamed by an intransigent group by applying this rule under the guise of victimhood/false equivalence/even-handedness/appeal to authority/religion/PC/DEI/etc. Various language techniques like phrasing/tone/insinuation/instigation/support/oppose/etc. can be used to lead/sway/hint/push towards the group's viewpoint irrespective of Truth/Reality. In today's world all Human topics involve Politics/Propaganda/Manipulation/Spin/Gaslighting/etc. whether we like it or not. The effects of "events" (eg. HN comments) in these domains are non-linear (pareto/power law/etc.) and hence a single outlier can ruin everything i.e. you don't need an actual "shady misinformation group".

I am not sure how HN does its moderation but i can guarantee that the above is happening in one form or another. I have seen this in threads to do with Russia-Ukraine war, Israel-Palestine issue, Boeing issues etc.

As an example, you say; "These are difficult historical topics that there's no consensus on." which is factually incorrect given the wikipedia links i had posted. You have been manipulated to disregard Truth in the guise of even-handedness :-)
The trouble is many people will opt out but still expect a handout when they find themselves destitute. Personally I like having a mix as the state pension has a different risk profile compared to other investments.
>What is academic history other than repeated attempts at revision?

I remember a historian answering a similar question once when an ancient list civilization nut accused historians of rejecting information that runs contrary to their narrative. History and archaeology, like the rest of science, builds upon the body of work. Every historian would love to make a discovery that overturns previous knowledge because its career defining. But almost all new work doesn't do that. What it does do is improve and refine our current understanding. It's rare that all new understandings developed.

Revisionist history does not have the connotation of improving and refining. If it did then it wouldn't need its own name because that's the normal state of things. Revisionist history is revising the record to a different understanding or narrative. And that is generally problematic because the burden of proof is very very high. Most of it doesn't live up to that standard.
This is no different than the high performance culture that comes at top-notch firms or startups. The main difference between working for MrBeast and working at a startup is that at least what "high performance" means is codified in this 40-page manual. There's a lot of value in this document regardless of what you think of Youtube, MrBeast videos and the general place these videos have in our cultural zeitgeist.
The 'ramp' setting made me panic and felt like a couldn't breathe. We go from zero to full force now, and it works just fine. I use a nose adapter.
I'm not into the Marvel universe (obviously) but it seemed to me they had been doing multiversey stuff for a long time, so I looked it up. They've done it since the 60s. They have also done endless reboots and endless retcons.

In short, they've milked every bit of nostalgia you may have for their characters, I mean their properties, as long as humanly possible and then some.

I don't even have any nostalgia for these characters. They were a really fringe phenomenon in my country. But do you think that means we don't get the 20+ Marvel movies shoved down our throats? Oooh, no. We'll eat what we're served, or not go to the movies at all (that's the option I choose). If you wanted to make a parody of hamfisted, audience-contemptous cultural imperialism, you couldn't do better than Marvelwood.
Does it really matter what Greenpeace does?
The consequence of renouncing non-profit status is that the $130.5m in donations is characterized as taxable income to the corporation, and the IRS can impose penalties and interest dating back to the formation of the corporation (i.e., it can pierce the non-profit veil).

So, not a loophole in the sense that the entity will be subject to tax. And saavy donors will usually have a conversion clause that either converts their donation to a capital contribution in the event that non-profit status is lost, or rescinds their donation. But that would require having donors that don't believe they know everything about everything and poo-poo safeguards like that...
EASE and/or MMA

https://sleepapneasurgery.com/about-dr-kasey-li/
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I am looking for a passionate intern to help validate, confirm product market fit, and launch a small ecommerce startup in the cycling/ebike space.

Suggestions for best place to find a passionate intern either in the bay area (stanford or berkeley) or remote?
I agree. When we fall asleep we lose muscle tone, which makes apneas more likely -- that is why we have trouble breathing when we sleep, not when we are awake.

GP needs to find out how to set up the pressure in their CPAP device. YouTube has tons of videos on that subject.
I'd challenge you to be a CISO :)

You don't want to be in a situation where you're taken hostage and asked hundred mills ransomeware just because you're too slow to mitigate the situation.
Oracle's claims to be making "use in commerce" of Javascript are listed here: [1]

There's a link to the non-Oracle page for node.js download, and to Oracle Javascript Extension Toolkit. Weak, but arguable.

[1] https://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn75026640&docI...
Fair point! I think that's a recentish pivot though (past 2-3 years). I vaguely remember that in the late 2010s they were building and testing DGX Cloud as it's own standalone offering, but I might be wrong and confusing some other offerings they were working on.
>> detecting sleep apnea in flight crews to aid aeromedical certification.

24/7 medical monitoring via a wristwatch? Monitoring that may cost you your career? I can think of nothing pilots would resist more.
Two def'ns (both, I think, more useful) from Linebarger's Pyschological Warfare (1958):

...propaganda may be defined as follows: Propaganda consists of the planned use of any form of communication designed to affect the minds, emotions, and action of a given group for a specific purpose.

This may be called the broad definition, since it would include an appeal to buy Antident toothpaste, to believe in the theological principle of complete immersion, to buy flowers for Uncles on Uncles' Day, to slap the Japs, to fight fascism at home, or to smell nice under the arms. All of this is propaganda, by the broad definition. Since War and Navy Department usage never put the Corps of Chaplains, the PX system, the safety campaigns, or the anti-VD announcements under the rubric of propaganda, it might be desirable to narrow down the definition to exclude those forms of propaganda designed to effect private or nonpolitical purposes, and make the definition read:

Propaganda consists of the planned use of any form of public or mass-produced communication designed to affect the minds and emotions of a given group for a specific public purpose, whether military, economic, or political.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm#Pa...
Rate limiters are used to protect servers from overload and to prevent attackers--or even legitimate but unintentionally greedy tenants--from starving other tenants of resources. They are a key component of a resilient distributed system.

See, e.g., https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/framework...

This project, however, looks like a concurrency limiter, not a rate limiter. I'm also not sure how it works across a load-balanced cluster.
Related: Juice is the non-essential visual, audio and haptic effects that enhance the player's experience.

https://garden.bradwoods.io/notes/design/juice
I think both can be true. Most liberal western economies are highly individualistic in terms of form and law, but large firms naturally come into being and thrive. I guess one could argue that this isn't due to the need for "bureaucracy" but instead "labor" and that the bureaucracy is an unavoidable side-effect, but there is undeniably large-scale organization.

Context seems like the most interesting thing to consider. I suspect the attitude and outlook of the individuals toward the organization is the key component (and their capacity to undermine the organization in some manner). All of this is to say that I don't believe organization is inherently against the human sentiment, it just needs to be seen as justified, sensible, and a net-positive to those involved.
I developed an iOS app which detects your sleeping position and starts buzzing if you’re on your back. Similar to the tennis-ball-sewn-into-pyjama’s hack.
Apple kept refusing to approve stating medical reasons.
Still use it myself though, works great.
pretty sure they were actually trying to change this plant without any need to change farming methods, so I think your intuition is on point.
European Map Changes Over 2,400 Years [video]
LSP and tree-sitter solve different problems and aren't interchangeable, it sounds like you were trying to pound a square peg into a round hole.

LSP doesn't (nor can it) specify anything that would make your life easier to use a language server in the browser. There are editors that provide clients and language servers written in JS, though.
> The only real solution to the threat of militarization of AI and robotics might be to create a more unified global government and culture. The first challenge is for people to see that as a worthy goal.

That’s naive. Even if a global government were possible, cypherpunks, "AI terrorists" or other actors (many HN users) would easily find ways to bypass those controls. It's unrealistic to assume that centralization could prevent exploitation of AI.
I understand these kind of concerns but it's comes from ignorance of context.

Direct genetic modification is an improvement of the previous method of forced mutation by exposing seeds to UV and hoping for positive mutations. That method does not count as GMO.

The major concerns of agriculture are still the same, monocultures and disease vulnerability.
> Taleb’s arguments about limited upside with unlikely, but massive downside of these organisms if they have unexpected outcomes

When did Taleb become an expert on bioengineering?

Nassim Taleb is the Malcom Gladwell of popular finance. He had to shutter his fund in 2005 after three consecutive years of losses [1]. (In fairness, after a 50+ percent gain in 2000. Nobody lost money on him. But a 4% CAGR over four years isn't hedge fund stuff, nor qualification to speak authoritatively on finance much less bioengineering.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirica_Capital
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Use foot notes or margin note. I don’t mind links, but I open them in the backgroumd for further exploration, not while I’m reading the article. But foot notes work great for contextualization.
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I think there exists a point, where AI stops making sense in a cost equation. Currently we are well accustomed that machines are cheap and humans are expensive, and anything that can be done by machine instead of by a human means a cost reduction. At some point that probably stops, because the amount of compute you need to run larger and larger models means that humans can become cost competitive. It's a bit like in manufacturing, where cost of robotization is sometimes more than just the cost of employing humans.

And in the end, this long term predictions based on where we are now and how fast we are moving are always a bit iffy. Nobody really know what challenges must current AI overcome to become AGI (if that even means anything).
I disagree.

It's true that Markov chain generators have existed for years. But historically their output was usually just this cute thing that gave you a chuckle; they were seldomly as useful in a general sense like LLMs currently are. I think that the increase you mention in compute power and data is itself a huge step forward.

But also transformers have been super important. Transformer-based LLMs are orders of magnitude more powerful, smarter, trained on more data, etc. than previous types of models because of how they can scale. The attention mechanism also allows them to pay attention to way more of the input, not just the few preceding tokens.
So like a waterfall, but the day to day is connected by little bits of agile? You end up at the bottom of the waterfall, but by taking a bunch of much smaller falls instead?

Have you considered calling it Rapids development? You will sell a million books or whatever, just on the name.
100% aggree. Flooding is the single costliest natural disaster.

But it's non-trivial to scale these new techniques into the field. A major factor is the scale of interest. FEMA's FIRMaps are typically at a 10m resolution not 11km.
The equivalent is the EMA.
Sure, when they're pursuing lawsuits to block people from using it. E.g. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/25/...
GLP-1s significantly improve the symptoms of sleep apnea, with tirzepatide reducing incidence by 2/3. Probably just stick to Lilly and Novo for a broader exposure ;)

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/glp-1-drugs-like-zepb...
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Some food for thought: More than half of all medical costs are accrued in the last 2 years of someone's life. That means the vast majority of the medical system, including billing and insurance is geared around elderly people with extremely complex medical bills. Young, healthy people who occasionally need to visit the doctor is an afterthought. Which is why you still get a person over a phone.

That said - yes, the system is incredibly dumb. Not only is it insanely regulated, but there is a constant 3-way game being played - not just between insurance and hospitals, but also between hospitals and Medicare/Medicaid. Medicare and Medicaid only pay out a percentage of the list price for any procedure, but unlike private insurance, the payout is non-negotiable. So providers play around with billing codes to cover their costs. They are also cagey about publishing prices because that's ammunition for insurers to negotiate harder.

Some providers try to offer transparent/straightforward "cash" prices (shout out to Zoomcare in the PNW). But this gets them in trouble with insurance providers for some reason.
> why depend on Intel when they're lagging behind?

Tbf, Apple transitioned to Samsung by the early 2010s for their SoCs. The MacBook on Apple Silicon was a recent transition after the kinks in the iPad Pro (which is laptop specced) were ironed out.

> Amazon recognizing it as an opportunity to stand out from the competition in the cloud services market by offering its own chips

Exactly, and evangelizing earlier than other cloud providers.
The general public can't infringe a trademark unless they're selling a competing product ;) Interestingly, Aspirin becoming a generic term in many countries was more of a result of WW1 as the allied powers seized various things from German companies (like Bayer) for war reparations, including intellectual property like trademarks. It was technically purchased by an American company for use in the US after the war, but I guess they didn't defend the mark very well and it quickly fell into genericism.
My most successful project management experience ever worked like this: we had a massive Gantt chart showing all of the work we had planned. I added and removed rows daily, updated expected completion dates, and generally rearranged the whole thing. The one thing that never changed was anticipated delivery date. Every week I sent the CTO a report with a snapshot and an explanation of what changed and why. I expected to get yelled at more than once, but he was happy with the sense of control, and the developers enjoyed the flexibility.

It was exhausting and I’m glad I’m not doing project management in my current role.
Also places where record keeping was interrupted or inadequate. It seems that the whole science of longevity needs to be thrown out or at least held in the purgatory of probably false pending proof it’s not.
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> Prepare for Greenpeace et al to shoot this down

At least in America, Greenpeace is on the verge of bankruptcy after they allegedly "incited the Dakota Access protests, funded attacks to damage the pipeline, and spread misinformation about the company and" the Dakota Access Pipeline [1].

[1] https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/the-texas-billionair...
> The consequence of renouncing non-profit status is that the $130.5m in donations is characterized as taxable income to the corporation

Or can they convert to equity, then it's not income.
Link to the simulation code: https://github.com/jasmcole/Blog

And if you haven't read Seveneves yet, it's definitely a Neal Stephenson book and will not disappoint.
In the GitHub [1] and TIOBE [2] language stats, Javascript is NOT the most popular language.

[1] https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2024/1

[2] https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
D&D was inspired by Sword & Sorcery novels, not history. And I wouldn't call it the "American Dream" - maybe the Wild West, which was a very short period in the history of the USA.
No, I am saying don't complain about something only because its an abstraction when likely the person making that comment cannot program without vanity abstractions. Clearly, this is about bias and preference. At the very least people could be consistent in their reasoning.
When I arrived at the sleep clinic with a BMI of 22, the first thing they told me was: there are lots of people with sleep apnea who have a healthy weight, including children.

The notion that sleep apnea is generally caused by weight needs to die. People also conveniently forget that being woken up multiple times every hour causes weight gain, so often times being overweight is the consequence of sleep apnea rather than the cause.
You can reduce the oxalate content by boiling, steaming, and apparently even blanching the sweet potatoes, but not that boiling will reduce the beta carotene content by a lot.

Alternatively, consuming calcium (milk, cheese, etc) with your oxalate-rich food will minimize absorption of the oxalate.
Question: were the "medical reasons" specific or a generic "no because it's medical related" reason?

As in, did their refusal say "no because the way you're tracking if the user is on their back is not accurate enough?" or did they say "we don't allow people to write watch apps related to medical diagnoses / treatments / etc?"
Apple’s Secure Enclave Processor?
Not sure if more people have that but I hate sounds. I turn off all system sounds on my OS. I turn off all notifications on the phone.

It is not like I get called often but still had bad memories from former work where everyone had the same phone and the same sounds and I was often working 24/7 support. Hated that work and hated my morning wake up alarm that I had to change every couple months because each one I hated more and more the longer I used it.

I love melodic music and also any sounds not aligning to melody or rhythm are super annoying for me especially if I get into the flow.
I went through the same thing.

- #1 - switch to Nasal pillows.

- I had to learn to breathe through my nose

- I had to learn to sleep on my back with a pillow that cradled my head without raising it

- I had to make sure the level of distilled water in the humidifier was not too high.

- make sure the tubes are not higher than your nose (otherwise condensation water drips into your nose)
The industry? Meh, not so much, as other sibling comments elaborate on. But the work? Oh, I do/did love the work. I retired in May, after like 35 years in software. I've been programming computing machinery since I got my Atari 800 back in, what, 1981? I still enjoy even in retirement, as just this morning I was wondering how to automate around a limitation of Square's offering for a non-profit I help out with. And as I was pondering that, I found myself looking forward to doing the work, 'cuz puzzle-solving, amirite?

But the industry? I'd bet one of my old paychecks that there are plenty of doctors and lawyers that will say the same thing: "love the work, hate the industry". Because MBAs didn't just ruin software development, you know.
Cui bono? is a question traditionally used to solve criminal cases, so of course it would be unwise to attempt to apply it for sociological issues.

(as The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism points out, many early revolutionaries are interested in publicising answers to that question, but very few late ones)
They are complementary solutions, not substitutes. Load balancers distribute traffic among servers and are a key component to enable horizontal scalability. Throttling is a prophylactic feature that prevents attackers or greedy consumers from overutilizing capacity and depriving it from other legitimate users. This library relates to the latter.

Unfortunately the title of the GitHub repo ("A Go library for serving resources fairly") is misleading. This is not a server; it's a library that a server can utilize to determine whether a request has exceeded fairness bounds and should be rejected with an HTTP 429 (too many requests) response.
>> change out plants instead of trying to change our farming practices.

Because investors. Because new plants can be copyrighted/trademarked/patented/owned and then sold. New farming practices must be taught and cannot generally be owned by their inventors.
I intentionally said "understanding the customer", rather than "being customer-facing".

I was kinda acknowledging a relatively uncontroversial point on which the article was predicated, before moving on responding to the parent comment with my interpretation of the more novel contribution of the article.

Agreed about a lot of things having value, diversity of viewpoints and skillsets also having value and being a reality, that not everyone wants to be customer-facing, and the importance of not emphasizing one bit of folk wisdom to the exclusion of other wisdom.
Sam doesn't get paid on the money OpenAI makes, I suspect he gets paid on the money OpenAI spends.