skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a little like saying the human body isn't a single organism because, say, the digestive tract operates with its own agency and intention outside of conscious control. It isn't correct; the politicians in the government have a very high level of agency around what ends up being fed into the institutions and what agendas and intentions are allowed to rise to power.

This isn't the step that gets us to a dystopian future, but it is so cheap and convenient for government to take programs like this and expand them every single time there is a crisis that it may as well be assumed to be coming if people don't kick up a stink each and every time.

We don't need perfect safety. We've can't have perfect safety. Having perfect, technologically enforced safety will create systems that will become corrupted and evil with a high, high likelihood. I don't want the government to have the ability figure out who I'm talking too at all; I'd rather we went in the exact opposite direction of this app and put legal barriers in place to them even asking. COVID-19 is horrible, but it will pass. This tracking strategy will not.
They don't, they fall down. Know why? Cause they are two tired!

I'll downvote myself
There's a few options. The easiest to understand and the least likely is that they like being the big fish in the small pond. They enjoy being in demand from everyone around them.

More commonly it's a lack of ambition and a comfort with where they are. They're happy with their environment, they don't want to to risk the change and they don't see why they would. They may have only worked in that sort of place (or only in that one place), and haven't seen how much greener the grass might be elsewhere.
A good percentage of new homes I've seen in the last 30 years here in America are barely a step above that in quality. Most of them aren't outright dangerous, but they certainly aren't top quality.
My daughter made a living (pre Covid-19) for five years a s a poet on the streets of a major city....
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I was surprised at the number of "RSS feed?" emails I got from blog readers when I started a new blog back in 2015-2016. Adding an RSS button to my blog long after the big blogging craze felt kind of weird but I use it myself now too.
"includes Python, Lua, JavaScript, C, C++ for programming and TeX (texlive 2019, including LuaTeX) for text processing."

I'm actually surprised it's only about 650 MB. TeX (Live) alone is huge.
On the other hand though, could you say that someone's interests are to a degree dictated by their capabilities? It seems to me like the distinguishing factor between someone who is interested in a challenging field vs. someone who is not, is that the person interested often understands the material to a degree that maybe the other person is unable to. For them studying and doing the work may take substantially less effort and thus their interest continues, even when things become difficult.

This is probably why many programmers are uninterested in your chosen field of teaching.

TLDR, isn't "disinterest" often a cognitive bias driven by some subconscious estimation that we're unable to do something?

I think this affects everyone, a lot.
The only FANG that doesn't do this is Google (annual review only, no Stack Ranking, Needs Improvement rating is only for 1-4% of the company). Also, Google is the only one without an "up or out" policy limiting your maximum time between promotions to four years (i.e. you get canned for not meeting your expectations for career growth). This forced attrition policy is why FANG companies are always rapidly hiring (even during COVID-19), have tons of open positions, and the average tenure for software engineers is only 2.5 years. The mentality is that these companies hire the best of the best, pay the best, and as a result, expect your very best performance in return.
That negative correlation exists only between social groups, not within social groups:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3449224/

If you look at only populations who were likely to go to college in the first place - say, white (formerly) middle-class two-parent households, which is what the bulk of my high-school friends were, there's a positive correlation between educational attainment and fertility. Simpson's Paradox strikes again...
Right.

No point at all.

A waste of time and a yawning security hole
What constitutes VR? Do Apple Animoji’s count? Does teleconferencing software with background removal count?
> Knoppix

Now that's a blast from the past.
Thunderbird allows the same as far as I understand your wokflow (and has done for the nearly two decades it exists), if you want to look at alternatives (or occasionally have to use Windows or Linux)
Yes, I've seen this numerous times as well. I call it "vanity hiring". "My department needs 12 new headcount because the other department is getting 10".

The sad thing is that you often have to play the game defensively -- I've seen semi-decent organizations end up consumed by the 80% overweight departments because bigger departments end up with all the advantages just as a function of their size, even if they're almost completely worthless. Have to keep pace with the useless hiring just so they can't say "well it's our smallest group, only 5 guys", etc.
>The top of a wing is curved, making it longer than the bottom of the wing. This means that air takes longer to go over it, meaning it has to spread out further to go the same distance as the air under the wing. As a result, the air going over the top of the wing is less dense, (aka lower pressure). The wing tries to equalize the pressure by moving in the direction of the low pressure, which is Up. We call this Lift.

100% completely false.

Imagine you have two particles of air, and they are immediately adjacent to each other. Suppose now that one goes above the wing, and one goes underneath. In your example, the particle going upward goes further in the same amount of time.

But ask yourself this: Why do the particles of air have to arrive at the same time? What mechanism from physics requires that they meet up again at the far end of the wing?

Then ask yourself this: If what you described is true, then how do aircraft fly upside down?
See also https://indieweb.org/
The Show, by Ze Frank. I hated weekends, because it meant no new episodes. Dirty space news has never been the same since.
This article is citing another article from the same source [1]

"The typical Tokyo metro area starter home would be an apartment (around 750 square feet) or detached wooden house (around 970 square feet) located in the outer suburbs. According to Zoe Ward of Japan Property Central, the average Tokyo office worker has about a one-hour commute by train each morning."

So part of the answer is that homes are tiny by American standards, and it's not actually in Tokyo proper.

[1] https://www.curbed.com/2016/6/21/11946606/starter-homes-swed...
The network is a boon and bane.

The network allows things to go viral, but I don't think a retweet or tweets are very consumable. Twitter has an atrocious UI. I think when people do these threads tweet storm things, it's way way less readable than essays people were writing a thousand of years ago. I close the page when I encounter those and shake my head at how redundant all the extra stuff is between each sentence. Who naturally writes like that? It's almost like we are going backwards.

The only reason Twitter is big and the network has the power it does it because by a chance of history it got celebs on it in the middle of the last decade. I think content creators, especially devs, should be aware that there are a lot of us (dozens of us!) that won't touch Twitter with a ten foot pole. I don't go out of my way to read Tweets and I never ever check out someone's Twitter feed because I can't stand the site and the narcissism it fuels.

It's like America Online keywords. Someday it will be a dead piece of history. Twitter, what's that, grandpa?

We're funneling our content through platforms that amplify those who talk the most and/or have the patience to comb through that. How many voices are excluded because people don't want that?
See https://indieweb.org/POSSE#PESOS
just once i would like to see the realistic animation though even if it's impossible to understand
I'd say that's a perfectly fine explanation. And in fact the light does get stretched. For sufficiently low frequencies, that's fine because there's enough time for new (unstretched) light to enter and exit the apparatus. At higher frequencies this causes the sensitivity of LIGO to fall.

Part of the popular confusion around how LIGO works is the freedom in coordinates: there are different, perfectly good definitions of space and time you can use, and the explanation sounds different in each one. So people can get them mixed up. For example, my previous paragraph makes sense in "transverse traceless gauge", but not in others.

I'm not sure what GP was referring to with "higher spatial dimensions".
The reason it isn't already a thing is because it would require a law on the books across all scales for business records with compliance costs - down to Billy Bob's Billboards where he takes cash for ad postings. The legal system is still based on assumptions of the government not having default access to all financial transactions as not only would it have been just useless abusable spam but it would have generated massive expenses for little gain and drawn considerable ire. Plus said proposal would trigger every Revelations literalist about "the number of the Beast" as well as privacy advocates and businessess upset at increased compliance costs and liability. Until the Fake News rise approaching moral panic absolutely nobody would be for it.

Hell if they were to try to codify such requirements it may not even survive the supreme court.
I did something similar - in fact looking at the add filter, very similar, where I add a label to certain mails by query and then delete - but the weirdest part was i could not auto-create one new filter - i have to re-create them all (so if I want to add a 21st filter with 20 still there my create filter routine needs to apply 21 filters. I just have it trying to reduce the spam and should spend some time trying to add new filters - one day.

But this is cool and love to know if there is a "add one" feature i missed.
I think this headline is misleading in 2 ways.

1. yes you might get a house at this price but it's either 1-2 hours out of the city center (which is fine, just saying Tokyo is large.) Or alternatively it's in bad neighborhoods.
(bad is relative if you are from the US)

2. your house will most likely look like this: https://www.ii-ie2.net/dat/5ba1164d.jpg

Sayonara sunlight, hello neighbor.

here are listings:
https://www.homes.co.jp/smp/kodate/shinchiku/tokyo/list/

there are nice ones in the list. I am just saying that this is the eastern country side of Tokyo (check the map) when the title probably makes everyone think something different.
I agree; that is one of the problems.

I don't know which problem is "worse", but that is certainly one of them. Queries don't work properly, due to that.
It would be a boring world if everyone just agreed with each other and had the same opinions.

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email us and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You can always subscribe to the many worlds interpretation and stop worrying about it.
Thank you! So in my opinion that is even more impressive, and actually somewhat hilarious. They sent out the tweet which was about prepping to short Burford Capital (which apparently had such non-existent governance as the CEO is married to the CFO), then the NMC traders all went "Oh shit, he must be talking about us!!"

It's like the old trope where the accuser says to a group of people "I know what you did!", and then everyone in the group confesses to various misdeeds even though the accuser was only talking about one of them.
I think you're vastly overestimating Apple's influence here. While certainly losing out on the quarter of the smartphone market that Apple holds, having no app on iOS is likely a smaller issue than how to incentivise people to install the app in the first place.
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I agree that you can usefully, formally specify certain behaviors by choosing to ignore, e.g., implementation details. There are a lot of implementation details: stack depth, instruction mix, power consumption, timing fluctuation, memory placement. Incorporate too many, and you lose clarity, even usability.

But implementation details are often what hackers rely on.

So, yes, formal modeling is useful, sometimes essential, but does not eliminate hackability. Overselling it does harm.
I suggest either using Nonguix [1], or installing Guix on top of Debian or any other binary distribution if the free software part or small ecosystem is going to prevent you from trying a very great piece of software.

[1] https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
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Carbon dating can't say anything about dinosaurs (in the colloquial definition) because dinosaurs went extinct >>50k years ago and CD doesn't work after such long time spans.
I do 90% of my shopping online usually. Right now, amazon (and Union coffee) are the only working online retailers in the UK as far as I can tell. Every other online store is shut except for takeaways.

Thank god for Amazon. If I relied to local stores I'd be sat here with no electricity in half the house.
So, these days, women are not expected to stay at home. Instead, they're expected to go to work, and invest in their careers, and raise their kids, and service their (often one-parent) family unit's debt, and also be content and well-balanced.

Not sure I'd want to go back to the 1970s, but - yes, it is definitely no party, and "privilege" is a skewed way to look at it.
> Germany as recently as Friday backed a centralised standard called Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT), which would have needed Apple in particular to change the settings on its iPhones.

The phones in question are not Apple’s phones. Those phones, and their settings, belong to the end user. They paid for them.
To be clear, I don't reject Many Worlds at all and in fact consider it a promising candidate due to it sort of "falling out" of the Schrodinger's equations taken literally unless you add complexity.

But the fact remains that it is impossible to prove and it is conveniently well equipped to handle this situation. I'd prefer an argument that presupposes the Copenhagen interpretation as that is when my intuition fails.
I played Catan in VR with the Oculus Go and it was amaaaaazing. It was so mind blowing that I wrote about it[1] at the time. It was just the most social interaction I've ever had playing a video game.

I got some friends into VR but unfortunately they have the Go and the battery sucks...

I have the Quest now, and it's an amazing platform that I recommend to all my friends (best buy has some in stock since yesterday) but unfortunately Catan is not available there yet :/

[1]: https://p1x3l.com/story/239/social-virtual-reality-and-the-o...
I’m not sure which BBS system had this, I think it was Wildcat or WWIV, but if you typed something like %pw in a post other users would see their own password leading to a situation like hunter2.
Thanks for the tip.

I gave it a try, and got something really basic to work. It took me several hours (part of it was my fault, part of it was the documentation and its defaults that expect the data in a particular format, and the error messages that weren't very helpful).

It's a complex tool, and it does a lot, but not what I need.
Things have to be measured in terms of outcomes.

You can produce outcomes through both processes. Depends fully on what problems you work on.
I think Zuckerberg is more right on this issue than Jack and twitter.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/17/zuckerb...

The hard part is who is deciding what is true and what is not. It’s important to verify authenticity of the message (who the message claims to come from is actually who it’s coming from), but deciding what to disallow based on truthiness is a lot more problematic.
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I guess, but it depends on how one parses the poster's setup. You're correct that for particles interacting under a 1/r^2 force, the energy turns out finite in quantum mechanics. My comment was referring to the fact that once you quantize the field that gives rise to that force, the infinities return, but for a different reason.
I don't see any reference to that in things about the German Economic Miracle.
+1. Depression affects 25% adults at some point. I am not talking about ‘sadness’ but a more profound condition whose symptoms are subtle at first, but pervasive and protean. And get a CT of your brain as well.
I don't know if blogs are the answer, but twitter is certainly the website equivalent of typing into WebMD "Bleeding from the anus".

There's just so little there of value amonst an absolutely swarm of careerists (see every journo) sociopaths (see anyone replying to a journo) and arseholes (see anyone replying to anyone they don't follow). This isn't a COVID-19 thing, this is essential to twitter as a platform. And the SV folks know it too- which is why their libertarian credentials went out the window the second it got serious.

There's absolutely a problem that there are experts on twitter, because it's preventing them from being somewhere they can be seen by anyone with an ounce of sense, but the replacement to twitter needs more connectivity than blogs (not as much as twitter) and the classical separation of author from consumer. That's the fundamental problem - you could be Fauci or Trump, you're still just a twit. Whereas in the past it would be Fauci writing an update on the HHS website, and Trump being ignored on Sean Hannity's comment section.
Anecdotally, exercising my executive function and 'saving' it both don't work.

I've always been mostly lazy except for my interest in computers, and it's dumb luck that I got a job where I get paid for the only thing I'm not lazy about.

I think it's ADHD, but I'm not diagnosed. Whatever it is, it makes me believe that nobody understands willpower and it might not exist. If I could choose to be better, why haven't I already done it?
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Yeah there are other reasons, from related insurance concerns to cultural/quasi-spiritual beliefs that old homes acquire the “fortunes” of their previous owners. Also, said lack of building code enforcement, makes new home construction cheaper, faster, and more plentiful.

But there are also A LOT of earthquakes, typhoons, and floods in Japan, so it’s not exactly a minor concern either, especially when houses are typically seen as something you buy for life.
I recommend Computerphile's videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzg3FkRs7fcRJLgCmpy3o....

I had the same "problem" as you. What finally made me feel I sort of cracked it was those videos. The way I think of it now is: They let you do matrix multiplication. The internal state of the computer is the matrix, and the input is a vector, where each element is represented by a qubit. The elements can have any value 0 to 1, but in the output vector of the multiplication, they are collapsed into 0 or 1. You then run it many times to get statistical data on the output to be able to pinpoint the output values more closely.
I had friends drop out of CS degree or IT career - they each went on to become successful at health & safety, physical education, statistics and formal project management. Theres limitless options but narrowing down your next move is the hard part... what aspects of work do you enjoy and perhaps go from there? dont kick yourself over choosing the wrong path, hindsight is 20:20
Make it "uncensorable and anonymous blogs" and I'm in.
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> I never really understood what happened really when the guy fell inside it in Interstellar and how come he started seeing all those photos. I just accepted it as Hollywood bs.

Coupled with people saying "but they had scientists on staff! they talked with scientists that makes it so cool and accurate, lets ignore that other part"
Just to nitpick for a second, you shouldn't feel compelled to believe something because "it's Einstein's point." Francis Bacon established the foundation of the scientific method when he argued that knowledge means the ability to predict or create some effect reliably. Now you probably do not have the ability to test special relativity experimentally, but you can read about the many successful predictions and applications derived from it. You shouldn't feel like you just "have to believe it," though.
It's OpenTrace [0]. OpenTrace is GPLv3, and is based on a published specification that's not too difficult understand. The fact that it is dervived from OpenTrace and they haven't published the source is the whole basis of this story.

To answer your direct questions:

- randomize Bluetooth addresses: I expect not, as that would screw any existing bluetooth connections, like headsets.

- does it use a separate randomised identifier: yes.

On Android at least you would be foolish to trust it without a verifiable chain of trust from the source to the binary you are running. It has two things that matter greatly: your true name, and your precise location. There is nothing physically preventing them from uploading your whereabouts every 10 minutes to a server - so you have to trust the binary doesn't do that. Right now we only have their word [1]. Whether you care enough above the sort of information it could leak to need to trust it is a different question. But if you do care, you would be a fool to do so without a verifiable chain.

A verifiable chain of trust means:

- source starts from a trusted origin. (It does: opentrace)

- there is a cryptographically signed audit trail showing how they change it to get to its current state. (The original is in github, so that's possible).

- they publish the source before deployment. (The two points above means someone inspecting the result only has to look at the changes, not the entire thing).

- they use a reproducible build.

[0] https://github.com/opentrace-community

[1] Right now I'm sure they are good for their word. Move on 24 months and if you still have it installed, then based on their past history I would not trust them as far as I could kick them.
> PostgreSQL (and maybe other SQL implementations; not sure!) has some smarts about detecting when an expression is used verbatim in a SQL query

I think this one is in the SQL 2016 spec. There's definitely a section about how to put the AST into a normal form to compare expressions for syntactic equality.

EDIT found it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22991487
It is misleading because basically every virus ever has produced some degree of immunity to reinfection.

And because saying "there is no evidence that.." is often a weazelish way that doctors with unproven prior beliefs push their personal theories.

WHO should say "there is no strong evidence either way, however based on our understanding of similar viruses there is likely to be at least some residual immunity post infection."

Tedros has apparently been on a hiring spree focused more on "representation and diversity" than competence and experience:
https://www.politico.eu/article/tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus-g...

And it's likely that the world is now paying the price for overemphasis on wokeness as well as pandering to the corrupt ccp.
KInd of what Oracle is doing with Java. Churn the language super-quickly. Oh you want security patches and support on the 18 month old language?

Pay us money.