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Fine tuning for the earth might be able to be explained away most easily, like you said. Fine tuning for the universe, though...

Firstly, we have zero evidence for multiverse. Some scientists even argue that the idea is untestable and unfalsifiable.

When you said:

> there must be a graveyard of universes where the parameters just didn't work out for life

You just committed inverse gambler's fallacy. It's like:

> You wake up with amnesia, with no clue as to how you got where you are. In front of you is a monkey bashing away on a typewriter, writing perfect English. This clearly requires explanation. You might think: “Maybe I’m dreaming … maybe this is a trained monkey … maybe it’s a robot.” What you would not think is “There must be lots of other monkeys around here, mostly writing nonsense.” You wouldn’t think this because what needs explaining is why this monkey—the only one you’ve actually observed—is writing English, and postulating other monkeys doesn’t explain what this monkey is doing.

— https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/our-improbable-ex...
> After my blood tests came back as abnormal I was sent to Glasgow’s New Victoria Hospital, where I had an ultrasound, and finally a fibroscan. All this took place over the course of about a year. A fibroscan is a type of non-invasive ultrasound which measures liver stiffness. A reading of seven kPA (a unit used to measure the level of oxygen in the blood) or below is considered normal. My reading was 10.2.

> Several months after my diagnosis, I went back for a repeat fibroscan to see if there had been any improvement. I was relieved to see that my fibroscan reading had gone from 10.2 to 4.7 - back in the normal and healthy range.

That's a pretty dramatic recovery. Reassuring for those who are thinking about quitting alcohol.
Try it again! I added 'pixel perfect' camera & player position snapping, as well as interpolated player movement between the tick rate and your monitor's refresh rate.
Just've bought one. Will tell you in 2 weeks :->
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I have used CTEs with dynamic query stitching to solve this problem (specifically my business operates over two very similar but distinct domains which we keep in separate buckets). If you build the majority of your logic into a CTE that processes named columns coming out of a prior chunk you can swap out what actual columns in the DB are mapped into the columns coming out of that earlier CTE with its definition. It may be possible to make this more magical using pl/pgsql but I've found that dynamic query stitching at the CTE resolution is a level of fiddly-ness I'm comfortable building into resilient products.

I work with complex data models and keeping all that structure in my brain takes enough effort that I want to keep my queries as simple as possible because when it's time to debug one there's no way I'm carrying over _any_ memory from when I originally wrote it.
Only if gun manufacturers are liable for murders.
Generally speaking women are not killed and eaten by men, so generally speaking this is just an opinion.

"Predated" can mean too much things. Both, women and men are perfectly capable to destroy other's lives in many ways.
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i'd trade the predictable rumble of a train a couple of hours a day over the unpredictable roar and rumble of trucks and muscle cars.
What about the cases where the human speaking is actually using nonsense words during a meandering off topic bit of "weaving"? Replacing those nonsense words would be a disservice as it would totally change the tone of the speech.
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Holy fuck, hope I never come to depend on your company's products.
I had assumed stack ranking was specifically designed to force managers to fire low performers, without relying on their individual judgment. Since nobody likes to fire, this overcomes the inertia, and since relying on personal judgment exposed you to legal risk and principle agent problems, a simple rule was substituted. The author’s proposal to go back to managerial discretion would of course be incompatible with that intention.

I do wonder whether those implementing stack ranking are really that committed to a particular statistical model of employee productivity, or if they’re trying to solve a human and legal problem with an algorithm.
I feel like "AI taking programming jobs" is just yet another in a long list of hyped up things that so many people seem convinced about, but then never ends up happening.

In X years from now are the people that pushed this idea going to reflect and change their approach to things? I doubt it, they'll just have moved on to hyping up the next thing.

Off the top of my head, hyped up things that everyone "knew" that have yet to happen:

- Driverless cars. 10-20 years ago they were all the hype, my friends thought that in a year or two they'd have a driverless car, and now it's 10-20 years later and they can still not buy a driverless car.

- Bitcoin hype. All the people that were so convinced that bitcoin would take over, and people would be paying for groceries with bitcoin, and everyone would switch to bitcoin for everything and it'd be a huge revolution .. and it has yet to happen.

- NFT stuff. I feel like I don't need to explain this one.

- Another current one is "just keep scaling LLMs and AGI will magically happen, we're really close". Related to AI programming I guess. Check back in in 10 years on this one, it ain't going to happen.

- Various short-lived hypes where a bank closes down and everyone on HN and elsewhere is spreading doom about how it'll be a chain reaction and the whole economy will crash and .. it never happens, and everyone just forgets what was said.

It's just hype after hype after hype, it's exhausting.
In its entire history it has never invaded outside its traditional borders

Vietnam, 1979.

Support for North Korea's invasion of South Korea 1950-1953.

Invasion of Indian-held areas in 1962 based on extremely dubious claims.

Not an invasion, but its support for the genocidal Khmer Rouge in the 1970s (who ended up invading Vietnam with Chinese arms) was quite significant.

Its current menacing of the Phillipines.

Claims about "traditional borders" are almost invariably nonsense.
That's ridiculous. If you can't afford actual education, settle for a scam? Wtf?
A long right tail Gaussian fits the Elo ratings of active chess players very well, as I discussed in adjacent comments here.
I get that. There are two distinctions between "any other job" and military service, which I think matter, and I'll get to.

But, you're also not wrong. If I say you're not old enough to sign up for the service, I'm also saying you're also not old enough to say get a loan for $40,000 of tuition without so much as a credit check. I'm less appalled at military recruiters on high school campuses, and more appalled at the weird magic we all believe happens at 12am on everyone's 18th birthday. Like, yesterday, you were too immature to sign a lease, or buy a rifle, or vote, and you should 100% listen to people in authority, because they know what's best, but today, you're more than mature enough to take on every shred of responsibility for all the things you are legally entitled to, and if any of those people in authority take advantage of you for their own selfish ends, it's at least 50% your fault for what happens to you.

I do draw a distinction between serving in the military and any other job for 2 reasons. First is the obvious. There are very few, vanishingly few, civilian jobs where you may be asked to take a life. Most police departments require that police be over 21, even. Second, there are very few, vanishingly few, civilian jobs where if you just up and decide one day that the job is not for you and quit, no-call-no-show, you go to jail, and permanently damage your ability to get any other job and certain kinds of government assistance, for the rest of your life. Its weird to me that we're just a-ok with (again) 18 year olds making that decision, given that we don't let them buy handguns or alcohol, or rent cars. We obviously, as a society, decided they lack the good judgement to make those kinds of decisions, and accept those kinds of responsibilities on their own.

What I'm saying is that buck privates getting ludicrous financing terms on a Dodge Charger from the dealer nearest the barracks is such a meme for a reason.
So what would that mean in practice? ISP's would buy into some stupid "great firewall" thing built by, say, McKinsey, that works in the most obvious cases, so they can claim "they're doing their part"?
I’ve gone looking for services like this but couldn’t find much, any chance you can link to a few platforms?
So there's a video of him addressing this - he doesn't hate the tech. He mentions that it's wildly expensive for cars. But, they use it heavily for SpaceX
And the disruption to the failed candidate presumably ranges from “my old job’s gone” to “I’m now attending my own funeral”.
These documentaries are nice but I feel they're missing something by being commissioned. Obviously they don't contain any criticism about Valve, but is it still documentary or just marketing material?
> they have no business lording over anyone and will sink whatever function they have oversight of.

Be sure to tell them that too!
The sentence is badly written, which is why it feels like a truism. But there is content in it.

> Sound, an omnipresent sensory stimulator, ...

Sounds are always being heard by your senses: ears + bass that you feel in your body.

> Sound ... continually engages our auditory and mental faculties.

The continuous usage of our senses then lets sounds force our brains to think in particular ways. This is distinct from above - brain vs ears.

> Sound ... holds significant relevance in the human experience ...

The continuous engagement results in sound being important to what being human means. Note that human experience is larger than what you think. So this is also distinct from above.
Despite the title saying "summary" and the date, this is a complete (and new) video
We can control what we do, but not what other parties do. Anyone who has been following along is well aware that the other side has already been doing. We can choose to be prepared, or to be unprepared. We are watching the consequences of being unprepared play out on social media, in politics, and economically. In reality, there is no choice and we've already been far, far too willing to defer preparation to "avoid escalation", and yet the escalation has occurred all the same. The hesitancy has been interpreted as validation that we will not respond to escalation. This is history rhyming.
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“Elderly Chinese people are different from elderly people elsewhere because they’re hardier” doesn’t feel like the extraordinary proof the earlier extraordinary claims required. Are they that different from people in other middle income countries like Thailand?
> I guess that's where we disagree. I think you don't have an order by default, you need to explicitly define it, and transmit it, and store it somehow.

It's files on a computer. Those always have an order. Acting like there isn't an order takes active work.

> Which is after all, why it's not true compression. When you account for that metadata, the "compressed" data is not smaller than the original.

Yeah sure, I have never disagreed on this.

> In the OP, the cheat was using filenames to store that data.

Let me make my argument extra clear, and you can tell me if you disagree with either point, and exactly how you disagree with that point:

A) OP did not do anything untoward with filenames. They did a simple loop and even threw away the actual contents of the filename. Even code that wasn't cheating would have a similar use of filenames.

B) OP's trick is not "based on" filenames, it's based on having an order. There are many ways to have an order, and their choice of using filenames is very shallowly integrated into their code.
I don’t even mention any of that.
What a ridiculous comment. You must still be holding long on IBM?
Hmmm. Some stuff to like, but I do feel like this should have a big, noticeable cautionary note that it does not wait if you end early (e.g. via Err). Any pending actions continue running and draining in background goroutines, and are potentially VERY delayed if internal/core.Delay is ever exposed or your funcs sleep.

I've seen that kind of pattern lead to TONS of surprise race conditions in user-code, because everyone always thinks that "it returned" means "it's done". Which is reasonable, nothing else is measurable on the caller side - changing that won't be noticeable by callers and may violate their expectations and cause crashes.
As a Korean, I second this assessment. The "Cia-cia" project is widely viewed as a misguided attempt to sell an unusual writing system to a tribe living in a sea of other tribes, all using Latin alphabets. Just imagine how much technical issues these poor people would face, should they actually adopt Hangul, when the entire remainder of Indonesia uses Latin alphabets.
> Still, what happens if you do that with a big object graph?

The only thing that really matters here is how deep the graph is. Any unchanged object can just be reused as-is.
Are they crappy though? Most of the time it gets things right, even if they aren't as accurate as a human. And sure, they probably have better techniques for this, but are they cost-effective to run at YouTube-scale? I think their current solution is good enough for most purposes, even if it isn't perfect
Alcohol
Is poison.
Ok I’ll bite… how do we do this (get rid of them)?
Incorrect.

It is absolutely an assumption. The "evidence" in the footnotes is about national salary data. Not the distribution for any individual position at a company.

And it is entirely possible (and probable) that performance at each position is distributed as a Gaussian, and all those Gaussians add up to a Pareto at a population level.

But you simply cannot take national-level data and assume it applies at the micro level. That's not how statistics works.
Agreed. As an avid hunter/angler I've been trying to make things more difficult the last few years instead of easier. At some point the trail cams start making people look more like butchers IMO. Similarly in the fishing world, tools like Livescope are becoming deeply embedded in the community.

For me, the draw of the woods and rivers is the chance to disconnect from technology and reconnect to nature.
> by definition, my alcohol consumption from my late teens to late 20s would be considered binge drinking.

“I’m a social drinker”
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I have frequently used sites listed on my new tab, and use those to quickly navigate without typing.

Besides that, I don't use or care about anything on the "new tab" tab. Backgrounds, sounds, weather, news - that's all junk/noise to me. There seems to be no value for me in having them on the empty tab, when they're a click (or, in case of the weather, a glance on my phone or watch) away.

Just how it works for me, of course. Other's mileage may vary.
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It is integer factors better overall total BW than ddr5 spr; I think they went for minimal investment + time to market for the spr w/ hbm product rather than heavy investment to hit full bw utilization. Which may have made sense for intel overall given business context etc
This is either for the greater good of the whole JavaScript community or a PR stunt to just get in the news. Or both.
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If you had to pick one country that is invasion happy it's not China.

Its regime is somewhat conservative in this regard, but happily orders of invasions of other countries when it sees the need.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42240482
Good points. But it does feel like people have made the "available attention" grow in recent years by not doing other things (offline). Perhaps we are now hitting the true limits. Overproduction should adjust in a market...
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No, it seems worse to me.

I happen to like a particular women's sport. I coach and my kids play at the national level. I watch a lot of videos of plays, coaching, games, player highlights for this sport.

YouTube takes this to mean I am a voyeur who wants to watch women's diving, high jump and beach volleyball. Basically anything with women and bikinis. I constantly have to flag thumbnails as "not interested" and "do not recommend this channel". If I don't I get offered continually more extreme content such as duct tape bikini and see through garment modelling and "try-ons".

I understand that perhaps some people who watch one sport also go on to watch YouTube soft porn but I can't imagine it is a frequent as the way their algorithms push it. I have the same viewing patterns on Facebook and they don't flood my feed with softcore porn. All in all I would say YouTube is worse than others.
> and it is a universal encoding of all human writing

It isn't (and never can be).

> Could you replace it with something better designed? No. No, you cannot. You can in principle design something better,

Something that some people fail to consider, is that one character set is not suitable for all purposes. Unicode is not very good for most purposes though. I think Extended TRON Code has many advantages, although trying to use Extended TRON Code (or some other alternative) for everything would be almost as bad as using Unicode for everything, but in different ways.

> Also, if your game plan for Unicode-D includes removing the most beloved and consistently demanded feature, emoji

I think that colourful emoji should not belong in the character set for text. I also do not want colourful emoji on my computer.
Here's an interesting "lidar gem" from Hacker News a few years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33554679

Lidar obstacle detection algorithm from a Git repo leaked onto Tor

This is a drivable region mapping (obstacle detection) algorithm found in what appears to be a git repo leaked from an autonomous vehicle company in 2017. The repo was available through one or more Tor hidden services for several years.

The lidar code appears to be written for the Velodyne HDL-32E. It operates in a series of stages, each stage refining the output of the previous stage. This algorithm is in the second stage. It is the primary obstacle detection method, with the other methods making only small improvements.

The leaked code uses a column-major matrix of points and it explicitly handles NaNs (the no-return points). We've rewritten it to use a much more cache-efficient row-major matrix layout and a conditional that will ignore the NaN points without explicit testing.

This is an amazingly effective method of obstacle detection, considering its simplicity.
> A professional author would never write a book's dialogue like that.

That's a bit too far. Ever read Huck Finn?
Tried to add a product but nothing happens when I submit.

Domain isn't the easiest to remember IMO.
Really nice!
I'd really like to see more than one todo list option on the main page, personally, so I can get my entire task list (or at least a large number of tasks) shown to me every time I open a new tab. Would be nice as an option, at least
There weren't housing shortages in most Northern cities in the 1980s. Significant deindustrialisation had hollowed them out and they were in economic decline. The population in Manchester dropped continuously from 766,311 in 1931 to 392,819 in 2001 before starting to recover[0].

This was also before the sell-off of council housing, so it was still possible for the authority to guarantee housing. So conservation of unloved but historically important buildings was probably a more pressing problem than finding some vacant land to build flats.

https://www.manchester.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/25393/a2...
I had no idea gio could do all those things. I've been using it to mount my smartphone from the CLI.
I pretty much stopped drinking after getting a Garmin and working out regularly (zwift).

Even a single bottle of beer completely wrecks all of my stats for the next 24 hrs. Sleep quality nosedives, heart rate shoots up and I'm sweating like an idiot on very moderate cycling efforts. No surprise this is bad for your health, 3 evenings a week mean, you'll spend close to half your time in this hungover state.
This is just bad law. It opens up culpability in all manner of supply lines. Are water companies required to detect and report leaks? No, that responsibility falls to the consumer. The water company does profit, (as does Cox but not disproportionately) yet the water company still has no responsibility to detect or report leaks.
Also available on the media.ccc.de YouTube page:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7UKYUTke58
Social binge-drinking is the norm. Amongst my peers, I’d define this as drinking to the point of severe drunkenness on a roughly biweekly basis.

I think it’s genuinely frightening how normalized this is.
The paper uses two definitions of Academic Merit, one of them being "does the student end up being admitted" which is oddly circular. And they also use another one related to test scores.

All of the ones related to test scores DO show statistically significant improvement with race-blind admissions. See page 8 of the pdf.

Clearly they didn't get the result they wanted so they decided to use some unusual definitions of "Academic Merit" so they could get the headline and abstract they want. "Trust the science" clowns.
Great to see you're making progress!

A few posts ago you were alluding to heritability in the 0.7-0.8 range, as a reason to dismiss the writings of Einstein, Newton, Descartes and Grothendieck.

Now you're at 0.44. If you discount for a mild EEA violation correction, you'd easily get to 0.3 or below — a figure which I personally find believable.

Just FYI, I don't belong to any "camp". These aren't camps but techniques and models. Intra-family GWAS provide underestimated lower bounds, twin studies provide wildly overestimated upper bounds. I don't care about the exact value, as long at it doesn't serve as a distraction from the (much more interesting!) story of how one can develop one's ability for mathematics.

In any case, IQ is a pretty boring construct, especially on the higher end where it's clearly uncalibrated. And it's a deep misunderstanding of mathematics to overestimate the role of "computational ability / short term memory / whatever" vs the particular psychological attitude and mental actions that are key to becoming better at math.

Now that the smoke screen has evaporated, can we please return to the main topic?
Yeah, I have a bar and weights but no racks so I'm limited to front squats and only what I can power clean. I feel though that this has forced me to work on the power clean which is a very satisfying exercise to do well. I've been power cleaning/squatting about once per week for a year and think this is a pretty good approach since it is almost impossible for me to try and lift too much so injury risk is low. The downside is perhaps slower development than if I could easily overload, but I'm in no hurry.