jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> You'd like to keep your job, so cognitive dissonance induces you to conclude - without much evidence - that this status quo is The Best of All Worlds.

No, I'm just unhappy working from home, and greatly miss the office. You don't need to invent a conspiracy theory.

> It is not at all necessary in our modern world

I never said it was. I said that many employees find it preferable. I agree some do not. But you're solution seems to be to ban offices.

> Overall, onsite office work binds you to exactly one option, remote work allows you a huge freedom of choice - and that is categorically a positive thing.

But you're proposing not the option of remote work, but remote only. That does remove choice, the choice to work from my company's office in proximity to my coworkers. I value that.

> However, there are so many other options available, and I dare suggest you shouldn't declare them all inferior before trying them.

I don't think I have. Please stop putting words in my mouth and getting defensive about other people's preferences.
You are a public figure if you are a public figure.

Star Codex guy is not a public figure.

The press does not write about certain groups (informants) for specific reasons, they shouldn't write about others.

If Star Codex guy had lawfully committed a crime, then fine.

If he was some overwhelmingly influential guy, then fine.

But he's just some blogger that the NYT is bullying for ideological reasons.
Believe me I've tried. :(
I generally just assume it means “I can’t afford this”.
What I don't like about this is that people really aren't A players or B players in practice. It's not a video game, real life is messy. In some situations, a B player can be an A player, and vice versa. Past performance does not indicate future results, and in my experience usually the best worker is the one who has simply been given a chance and the freedom to self optimize their job for some months, and rarely are they the most qualified applicant. No one is good at their job on day one nor should they be expected to be.

There are too many confounding variables involved with the very abstract concept of 'work effort,' for it to be reliably used. Instead, set a price for the role, and if someone is exceeding their anticipated productivity and putting more work on their back, give them a raise.
Every time another post comes up about this I hate to the bearer of bad (good?) news, but the entire concept is predicated on the fact that it increases risk of colorectal cancer by 18%.

That doesn't mean your chance of cancer is 18%, that means your chance of that type of cancer goes from below 5% (4.3% for men, and 4% for women)[1] to <5.07%. A change of at the most .9% difference risk. Colorectal is also one of most treatable, and curable cancers there are.

And this isn't just bacon, this is for all processed meats, to reduce your chance you would have to eliminate all processed meat for a reduction of less than 1% in your chance at that specific type of cancer. I hate to compare anything to tobacco, but smoking tobacco increases your risk of cancer not by 18%, but 2,500%.

To quote a Wired article on this very topic that keeps getting rehashed [2]:

> The IARC is an organization of scientists, not policy makers. It publishes monographs to identify hazards and sift them into five piles: group 1 (carcinogenic), group 2A (probably carcinogenic), group 2B (possibly carcinogenic), group 3 (not classifiable), and group 4 (probably not carcinogenic.) Group 1 includes processed meat, and also asbestos. Also alcohol (boo!) and sunlight (yup!). Identifying hazards involves looking at existing data—lots and lots of it—to do essentially a meta-analysis of studies already out there. And it’s relatively objective. “Hazard identification is the process that is the closest to the generation of scientific data,” say Paolo Boffetta, a cancer epidemiologist at Mount Sinai who has served on similar WHO panels. In other words, IARC studies the studies and generates numbers.

> What the IARC doesn’t do—and where things get a lot fuzzier—is risk assessment, or figuring out the danger to humans in the real world.

[1] https://www.cancer.org/cancer/colon-rectal-cancer/about/key-...

[2] https://www.wired.com/2015/10/who-does-bacon-cause-cancer-so...

Edit: Added source for cancer risk and fixed my rounding mistake (5.9% -> 5.07%)
2021:

Clubhouse: $100 million to $1 Billion valuation

Agora: $4 Billion to $10 Billion valuation

What does Agora offer that is better than its alternatives?
https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-coronavirus-h...

"For now, the industry says it has plenty of horseshoe crab blood to screen coronavirus vaccines. Pharmaceutical companies test a sample from a batch of vaccines, not every dose. And that sample size, say three vials, doesn’t change whether the batch contains 100,000 doses or 1 million, says Allen Burgenson of Lonza.

In fact, Burgenson says, the industry produces enough tests in one day to screen 5 billion doses of coronavirus vaccine."

(I think this is unduly optimistic, because mfrs are likely to screen at multiple steps during production, since the latency of batches is ~100 days, and because lot sizes aren't so large yet. So divide 5 billion by a small integer).
If bitcoin had been designed as a stablecoin, simply as a hedge against inflation with no hope of growth, with zero chance of getting rich, how many of today's holders would have still bought in?

I'm guessing it's in the low single digit percentages.
My rinky-dink little ISP has peering connections with Netflix, Apple and AWS. The operate in 2 midwestern cities with maybe 50,000 total customers, so it seems like the Netflix vs ISP issue only exists with the Comcasts and Xfinities of the world. Everyone else is really happy to work with Netflix; it costs them nearly nothing.

https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/peering/
Yeah, no one from up top has brought it up. There's no enforcement. It's just cheap talk.
Ha, I'm learning Hindi, I'd love a 'Hindi Stack Overflow', I imagine the technical bits would be English anyway so it'd be a great way to familiarise/practice. (Easier than news, say, I imagine, since I'd have more context and it wouldn't be as formal/pure Hindi.)

I could try to contribute too: My cache is full of eels, how do I set the death timer for the evictings of my tenants?
There might not be an official Oracle JRE(TM) anymore but JREs in the sense of independently distributed runtimes clearly still exist (and the acronym seems like a reasonable one).

I can completely understand why Oracle might want to shift the Java world towards the jlink/embedded runtimes model.

I can also completely understand why folks who've been shipping .JARs out to other folks who want to run them using runtimes obtained and distributed separately, which they call JREs, and have been doing so for the past 25 years would find this claim that "JREs no longer exist" as a concept, confusing at best and disingenuous at worst.
Venezuela is struggling because of a focus on the collective, not because of sactions, blockades, and coup attepts... none of that has any real effect.
There's only regulatory friction if a company is dragging their heels with regards to compliance and putting in extra effort to comply only with the letter of the law rather than the spirit of the law. For example, once you've implemented Click to Cancel for one state, it is less work to provide that capability to all of your customers than to keep track of who you are required to offer it to.

So when a company chooses the more complicated route to minimal compliance, that's strong evidence that the regulation in question is effective at reducing their illicit gains and would be effective elsewhere.
> The pandemic literally invalidates the entire idea logical foundation of the CCP.

This is nonsense. PRC zero covid = lowest deaths, highest economic growth rate during covid for major economy. Even now most of PRC is SUPPORTIVE of SH lockdown, most of country i.e. (95% living basically covid free for last 2 years) blame privileged, coddled tier1 entitlement for experimenting with dynamic zero for short term profits that put rest of country in danger... most provinces contained omicron fine, including large omicron outbreaks like Jilin and Shenzhen. CCP is flexing its legitimacy more than ever. Especially when rest of the world systemically incapable of covid zero and has to resign to living with virus because their system is "weak".
Mostly Youtube.

There are some good channels about gear, like Loopop, BoBeats, Gabe Miller. I spent too much time there. Regarding making music I got more out of Andrew Huang, Red Means Recording, Adam Neely, David Bennett and Underdog Electronic Music School.

I watched Music Theory videos for a while because I wanted to understand it. That one Synth Seeker video in my previous post is the one where it clicked for me.

If you are lacking inspiration as a beginner, not knowing what to do sitting in front of your gear, you might want to recreate songs you like. Makes you listen and analyse what the creator did and train how to achive this on you own gear.
I mean a lazy google search shows this https://www.clubindustry.com/commercial-clubs/ihrsa-adds-lob...

Clearly there is plenty of big gym money bouncing around. Exceptions in laws don’t write themselves. I’m cynical but I’m also right.
It is possible the river moved. Bends in rivers tend to slowly shift the path of water over time.
Privacy isn't a one-size-fits-all type of thing. I think there is an inherit difference between reading license plates that are publicly visible on the roadway versus tracking license plates over time and storing that data for a long enough period that someone can deduce even more personal information from it.

If you were to say "is it okay to read license plates and check a stolen vehicle registry" I don't think many people would complain. But if you were to ask, "Is it okay that i know where you live and work and hang out on a regular basis by just reading your license plate," that's a different story.

If they just erased the data after a few days that would take care of most privacy concerns that people have.
It's a different thing entirely when the government has data, particularly when that data traces your life.

The guy standing on the corner waving a "We buy gold" sign seeing my car/plate is unlikely to be able to do anything with that data. But the government recording my whereabouts can draw me into any sort of investigation they like, based on correlated but not necessarily cause-related data. It's very different.

At the least, the government is our servant, not our adversary, and we're supposed to be able to limit and direct what they do. Just because the can do something does not automatically give them the right, particularly if we've told them they can't.

Unfortunately they do see themselves as our adversary, and so the question of whether we actually have given them the right to do something is often arguable.
Those chopsticks and communal sauces do get 'dirty', but hey, a few germs keep your immune system on its toes! There may well be an aspect of group bonding there in saliva-exchange.

If you have to cut food, that's someone else's failing before it gets to the table - tough cheap meat, cut too big, or cooked badly. But yes, I've often had to cut meat with a blunt china spoon too!

Yes, the spoon - glad to hear you're one of the few non-Chinese (I presume, from your name) who uses it. Always amusing to watch people eating rice 2 grains at a time with chopsticks...
Oh, good question - there is a link in the email to confirm that I want it posted. There is also a dashboard that lets me see all of the attempts and either approve or delete them.
I haven't used it for your type of application, but I've used Potrace to convert some scanned hand-drawn graphics to SVG. The results were quite satisfactory.

http://potrace.sourceforge.net/

As I recall, I ended up using it via the front end Rasterbater 1.0 (linked on the above page; and as for the name, I know... but it's legit; have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiled_printing ) because it was the best/quickest compromise at the time. I also recall reading that people have used Potrace with Inkscape (a very good cross-platform SVG editor) in order to convert color images to SVG; I recall that workflow as something like using Inkscape (well, that doesn't quite make sense? I dont' remember, I guess) to produce color separations and then running Potrace against each separation.
LON.BP * 187.87M = NYSE.BP * 3.13B * $/£

The LHS represent the market cap of BP at the LSE, the RHS the market of BP at the NYSE. Both sides should be approximately equal because 40% of BP shares are listed in London and 39% in New York.
Could it be that the market intelligence RescueTime is gathering is more valuable than what individual users are getting? I can really see the big guys (MS,Google et al) providing similar tools just to be able to see this info. Specially MS since they can just put it in their O.S.
Can anyone point me in the right direction as to the current thinking on how to create backwards compatible HTML 5 pages? I'd like to take advantage where possible, but not leave older browsers in the dark...
I was reading about this the other day, and the Arabic word for "electricity" (kahraba, apparently) is also based on the Arabic word for amber.

Chinese, on the other hand, just uses the word for "lightning". This might be a more logical choice, but it indicates that the Chinese didn't have a word for electricity until after it was discovered that lightning and electricity were actually the same thing, whereas Europeans had been using the word "electricity" since 1600ish and didn't prove the connection to lightning until the 1750s (though I assume it must have been suspected).
Looking at this from a networking scenario, will this create a mesh network of relationships, where a balanced trust is generated through each node, sharing information through the network replicating over each node... Okay now picture 1984, where everybody is equal, people can't have relationships, the government regulates everything... I don't know, something about this disturbs me.
I have 3 friends I'd trust my life with, who'm I was best buds with in the respective areas/schools I went to (I went to different districts moving around alot).
I haven't been diagnosed with anything other then to lose my college beer gut.
Words of someone who's never been a target.
Network effects prevent that from being an individual decision, and government regulation is actually a viable solution to the populance at large being trapped, regardless of some individuals trying to make their own way.
> (a camera plus film goes where the guns would otherwise fit in the plane)

I don't think that is necessarily true. I think the guns and ammunition were very heavy so removing them allowed you to fly faster and further. I don't think say a PR spitfire had cameras in the wings where the guns normally were, I think it was in the fuselage behind the pilots seat so always looking down at the ground.
> What's the current UK scandal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partygate
But the population is too dumb to do a lot of things, "self governance" by believing what Rudy Giuliani lies about on Twitter isn't a valid source.

The same way that there are large pockets of disease outbreak in rich areas of the country because moms with accounting degrees think they're smart enough to be immunologists because they have an internet connection.

We're literally watching democracy die in real time and its directly due to social media and internet disinformation, on top of the already existing radio/tv disinformation.
At least thousands of armchair revolutionaries will finally have their pet theories on the efficacy of the Second Amendment put to the test.
> and as far as I can tell we are no closer to definitively finding it

Perhaps it has been found but not distributed, or accepted. If we found it, would we even know? Would we be willing to acknowledge it, and practice it?

> But it seems to me that the best way to find the truth (with a small T) is by rationality; the alternative is irrationality which seems unlikely to be effective.

This seems like a bit of a false dichotomy to me.

Reality is rarely exactly as it seems.

> My hope is that, by collaborating using the tools of reason combined with our own personal Truths, humanity could do our best by everyone involved.

Perhaps, assuming (at least) we have no major flaws in our premises, or our systems (democracy theatre). I do share your hope though.

> I don’t know for certain that it will work, but it seems like the best way we’ve got.

It may be the best we've got now, but have we put any serious effort into finding alternatives? The horse and buggy was the best we had until someone invented the car; NASA was the best we had until Elon Musk started SpaceX, and so forth and so on.

As we sow, so shall we reap.
Can't believe after 12 months this argument is still being made.

You say shutting down the economy so casually, as if it has no impact on an infectious disease spreading during a pandemic.

If there hadn't been any shutdown, it would lead to a tenfold increase in infections and an even higher than tenfold increase in death as hospitals will be completely overwhelmed and unable to provide normal healthcare.

But if you think a 20x death rate from the nr 1 cause of death (heart disease), preventable by a lockdown for a few more months as a vaccine is rolled out, is no big deal, then there really is no arguing with you.
You are downplaying this event which is natural considering it's literally the worst look possible but the reality of the BLM protests in DC which turned violent is in no way comparable to what we've seen today in broad daylight. You want to rush the capitol building with a mob during the certification of our next sitting President? This isn't a gas station in Wisconsin. It isn't a sound idea regardless of your politics. I'm honestly surprised they weren't squashed by police sooner.
Agreed. Anyone who studied any subject deeply should recognize the concept of Gell-Mann Amnesia; I think anyone who tried to verify anything outside of their domain will quickly confirm that this phenomenon is, in fact, very true.
Ito dropped out of college.
I was disconnected for going over a few months in a row. They put me on a one-year blacklist for that. But it turns out that only the "residential" access has caps, and the lowest "business" tier was about the same speed for not much more money. By my reckoning, I'm now pushing almost 40 TB/mo (mostly bittorrent, all legal) and no complaints from Comcast.
No standard for this use case, so it's going to need a driver of some sort or another. Also, be ready for it to be CPU hungry, as you're going to be without the benefit of any sort of graphics acceleration.
We're kind of on the edge of this with algorithmically-optimised clickbait headlines. There's still a human in the loop at the moment, but the more metrics-driven the process is the more likely parts of it are to be automated.
We hugged it out, all is good. Apologies for the derail; the "artiste" is hypersensitive about his children.
That shouldn't matter, they can just name the local tradition something else, like "Christmas."
I didn't say anything about how the quality of a standard was affected by whether it was developed by committee or not.

Google claims that VP8 is "open", yet they are in full control of it. This is unlike H.264 which is not controlled by any single person. libvpx is the main reference for the standard that is VP8 including bugs. An open standard would have allowed these bugs to be corrected before launch.
Apple supported porting a Linux variant to PPC Macs.

https://www.mklinux.org/info/aboutfr.html

During the early years, most MkLinux development occurred either at Apple or at The Open Group Research Institute in Grenoble, France. MkLinux Developer Release 1 (DR1) was released in early 1996.
I would not say that it was purposeful.

Intel at the time was shipping P4 Netburst CPUs. They had all the features, like multiple cores and 64-bit support, but also one huge disadvantage: they were power hungry, and it dissipated all that heat. Definitely not something you could put into laptops.

So the next generation, Core Solo/Duo, was not continuation of Netburst, but Pentium M, their mobile line which itself forked off P6 (Pentium Pro). They were released in January 2006, and were indeed 32-bit. The reason was time to market, they were basically throwing away their current arch and forking from an older branch; for the majority it was not a problem, most people were running 32-bit XP anyway, with PAE if you happened to have more than 3,5 GB of RAM (pre-SP2 XP supported that). Then, the 64-bit Core 2 Duo was released in July 2006.

The unfortunate part is, that Apple announced transition to Intel in mid-2005, and shipped the products across all lines in January-August 2006, i.e. hitting the window when only the 32-bit version was available. That means, that they had to define and maintain i386 ABI for their OS just because they ever shipped Core Solo or Duo machines. If they were able to ship C2D from the beginning, they could have skipped i386 and just use amd64 ABI from the start.
The ballots are counted by machine too right? I would not say that is a good idea but the hand recounts would have shown any fraud from those if there were any fraud.
Well sure. But I expect we’ll have problems getting anyone to turn up to our “get attacked by a bear” meetings... :)
I think the tick-tock strategy[0] was still salvageable when these vulnerabilities were discovered, and it would be reasonable to assume that the next tock would fix these. Isn't Intel's 10 nm mass production five years late?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick-tock_model
And yet you need to be in the Google or Apple ecosystems to connect to their network.
We're only a week into the new year, and the price has gone up like crazy. Personally, this seems like an unsustainable rise to me, but at the same time all assets (stocks in particular) are rising, so I'm probably wrong.
Well I don't measure success in market cap, and despite my initial excitement about the crypto space, I almost universally see it as a tool for fraud, speculation, money laundering, and corruption.

I see very few cases where bitcoin has done any good in the world besides transferring wealth from the uninformed to the technically savvy and/or those uninhibited by ethics.

Bitcoin was created with these libertarian utopic ideals in mind, but I think it has shown that the landscape of anarcho-capitalism in practice is a nasty, brutish place.
Right, but the question wasn't whether imperialism implies authoritarianism but whether authoritarianism implies imperialism.

Most/all imperialists are authoritarian but many authoritarians aren't imperialists. It's true that Trump doesn't appear to be as imperialistic or hawkish as many previous presidents, but that doesn't imply one way or another anything about potential authoritarianism.

You made an argument that accusations of Trump being an authoritarian are unfounded, but as evidence you cited examples of him not being an imperialist, rather than examples of him not being an authoritarian. Your examples don't preclude the possibility of him potentially being a non-imperialistic authoritarian.
For Meltdown, they aren't. It was silly to do lazy validation of memory accesses and Intel fixed that.

For Spectre, you can't really have a high performance chip that isn't vulnerable to it in theory. A processor can't read your mind and know which code within a process should be able to communicate with which data within the process unless you tell it. You could just go to strict in order but that's taking a huge performance hit. Programmers cominging secure information and JITs running untrusted code within the same process will have to work to make sure they're not vulnerable to Spectre going forward.
Success to you. Failure to the investors.
Put any preferred tweaks in a user.js file in the profile directory, // commented with meanings and reasons,
and save wetware memory.