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+1, wasn’t aware of this, curious to learn more

oh my god, today I learned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVX-PrBRtTY

Someone also set up a bunch of Graphana dashboards with European electricity data at https://energygraph.info/

The map portal of the Swiss government also has a bunch of old map layers available. For example, here's Zurich in 1883.

https://map.geo.admin.ch/#/map?lang=en&center=2682327.37,124...

Doctors listing themselves in mail-order bride catalogues seems at least as unlikely to me, but admittedly I know nothing about the usual demographics of this phenomenon

Detail, but I think this part here is slightly off:

> Fast forward to March 1998. Saint Petersburg. A cafe next to a canal. Hans is meeting a woman. Nina Sharanova. A mail-order bride.

According to his Wikipedia entry, Nina was the interpreter involved when he arranged to meet a mail-order bride:

> In 1998, while working in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Reiser reportedly arranged to meet a Russian woman he selected from a mail-order bride catalog.[15] Five months later, he married the pair's interpreter, Nina Sharanova (Russian: Нина Шаранова).[16]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser

I wish they did this experiment with two slits to see if cats behaved (almost) like particles and/or (almost) like waves

I don't know, but I have to say I was surprised how quickly this one took off, esp. given it's the middle of the night across the U.S. :)

> You may have noticed that the page URL gets substituted into ${url}, and so to prevent this from messing up the command, we can simply put it behind a # which makes it a comment

Is there some validation logic or something on this policy that the URL must be passed to the "alternative browser" somewhere in the AlternativeBrowserParameters?

I bought the slightly cheaper version with ads years ago and asked support to remove them because they „weren‘t relevant to me given where I am living“. I found out about this option on reddit or in the product reviews on some local retailer‘s site, so I assume it is/was a bit of an open secret.

I'm not sure most people would claim their success comes down to the intellectual stuff. It's just that a certain type of nerd who is also very competent at what they do likes hanging out around other nerds of a similar type. If you read the descriptions of the actual work, at least among the FDEs, it seems striking how much it sounds like a relatively normal consulting engagement — we're not really talking developing foundational new algorithms or infrastructure here. But the kind of person who enjoys working at and does well in places like Palantir probably wouldn't enjoy Accenture. I agree it can veer pretentious, but I think it's more about clustering a certain kind of person together, similar to what you hear about e.g. places like Jane Street.

Location: Zurich, CH

Remote: Open to it

Willing to relocate: If it's a really great fit & location maybe

Technologies: Mostly PM/PO type roles. Do have hands-on experience with RoR, .NET, Python, JS/React. Some data analysis/stats in SQL, R, Stata. Some UX design. Would prefer roles bridging business <-> dev, with option of being a bit of a generalist and getting my hands dirty occasionally if need be etc.

Resume/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cGesbRmWqPC9cyhJ_6n8oqnn...

Email: mail@benjaminschneider.ch

I think a relative of mine once almost signed up for another market research thing that would have done essentially this, redirecting all their phone's internet traffic through a VPN & proxy controlled by the market research company, including installing their Cert. They would have received some small compensation for it, and of course consented to having it installed. I don't recall the company being misleading about anything, exactly. That being said, while I generally am not in favor of overly paternalistic policies, I wonder how meaningful the consent of someone with relatively little technical knowledge for something like this really is. They were not misleading about things, but also didn't fully spell things in a way that would really drive home what was going on for someone unaware.

I'm not familiar but curious: If you entirely self-publish, is there a benefit to having an ISBN number over... Just publishing w/o one? Or is there a legal requirement to do so?

Shouldn't the required cache size be dependent on throughput more so than disk size? It does not necessarily seem like you'd need a bigger write cache if the disk is bigger, people who have a 2TB drive don't read/write 2x as much in a given time as those with a 1TB drive. Or am I missing something?

I love humans and the internet :)

someone raised this point in another discussion about it, but I wonder if that's the main aim why you need the obscure algorithm in the first place, couldn't you just have these laws about maps of any standard?

I was talking about GHG emissions, directly and embedded in consumption, as that seems to mostly have been the thing at issue in this case.

Again, I think it would be great if we were doing more in terms of innovation and expertise too! But in other human rights law issues, this line of argument wouldn't fly either, I don't think you could e.g. sue Switzerland for not making a stronger diplomatic effort to prevent some human rights abuse committed by another government, or anything like that.

Sure, again, I think we should do better! I am merely wondering about the legal viewpoint on this because of causal connections between Swiss actions and the outcome for Swiss citizens, which are a lot more murky here than if e.g. our government would randomly imprison dissenters or something like that.

I am Swiss, and I think we should contribute as much as we possibly can, despite being a relatively small country without too much direct global impact.

But I'm curious about the legal technicalities here (because IANAL): You can surely argue for a country having to better protect its own citizens through e.g. adaptations, but no matter how you look at it I don't think Swiss emissions can reasonably be viewed as a proximal cause of any substantial climate-related harm to Swiss citizens. Comparing consumption-based emissions from OWID [1] shows CH is responsible for 118.68 million / 37.15 billion ≈ 0.3% of global emissions, so even going net-zero instantly would hardly make a dent. Under this perspective, even the most ambitious climate policy we implement would hardly protect our citizens from adverse impacts by a meaningful amount?

Does anyone who understands human rights law better than me have thoughts on this?

1. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-emissions

That's their whole thing — they deliberately save on capex by accepting lower efficiency, because that in turn allows running it intermittently on cheap solar without extra costs like batteries or having to run on more expensive power in the night etc.

I have no idea how realistic their end game is, but the general approach seems like a smart idea.

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2023/08/16/how-to-produce...

> Our DAC capex costs <$600/T-year-CO2

For comparison, cdr.fyi currently lists DAC spot prices at $690/T, and if I'm reading correctly most if not all of those selling are specialized and only working on DAC. Though I don't have good intuition if this is currently being sold below cost to finance scale-up in expectation of later progress or something.

> Cloud definitely has downsides, and isn’t a fit for all scenarios but in my experience it’s great for situations like this.

At least as I read it, this contains the assumption that that‘s not how you deploy your applications

One-dimensional ranking is one aspect of how it breaks in real-world hiring, but I think almost the bigger might be that the secretary problem assumes you need to decide immediately and can't just wait around until you've seen the whole batch of applicants.

This is the secretary problem [1] from optimal stopping theory, but it doesn't apply to hiring because you can wait until the end to make a decision once you've seen everyone.

The main problem here indicated by OP isn't explore/exploit, it's that the ordering of candidates seemingly distorts their rating of them.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem

(how) do you (try to) correct for this with interviews?

Here’s Time — https://time.com/6898967/ai-extinction-national-security-ris...

I agree that’s a bit of a weird move, especially considering I got it in an email within minutes of requesting it (and I’m in no way prominent, influential, government-associated, or in any other category that seems like it might matter if they want to limit dissemination)