skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "It feels like we are applying a Total War mentality to our political discourse"

That's a pretty good way of describing it save that I would add that one side is failing to realize that they might lose and get hoist by their own petard of suppressing speech someday.
thanks for linking the transcript. if true, that certainly changes the narrative, but I don't think it weakens my main point: dumping the tea in the harbor made sense given their objective, both symbolically and practically. and to the extent that it weakens the narrative of noble freedom fighters, it makes the comparison even weirder.
This is why we need strong encryption. Our First Amendment is under attack. These days you cannot have a right to peacefully assemble and protest without having strong encryption available to plan.
The way you are firing yourself up to commit homicide over a hypothetical situation is scary. Please seek help.
That is a different debate entirely. To what degree people need to alter behavior to "fit in" varies widely.

To be an executive in corporate America, you need to learn corporate speak and use it, for example. No one running a Fortune 500 company speaks like they are from the Ozarks.

Society needs some conformity to function, there will never be a utopia where this doesn't happen.
Paradox Interactive to Sign Collective Bargaining Agreement with Labor Unions
Anecdote: I once was able to board a high speed train going back to my home country while carrying a license plate from the country of departure and I only got a slight frown from the train officer(?) when I handed out my first class ticket (for a really long travel).
Do you think this study would have been published if Trump had loudly proclaimed that Hydroxychlorine was dangerous and should be avoided?
>That's (fortunately) illegal in the EU country I live in, as it creates artificial barriers in the job "market", i.e. it is illegal to limit people's access to work. Still, cartel practices like not hiring from "friendly companies" abound.

Interesting. I've heard of EU countries where leaving a job requires giving 2+ months of notice or paying a large financial penalty.
What if we fix the politics and forget about the technology, then the politics later become broken again? We won't be able to take back those private unencrypted conversations that could be used to retroactively incriminate us.

I actually believe that technologies such as strong encryption are creating important checks and balances that make our democracy stronger. They are not subverting it like you are implying.
changing sympathies helps, but nothing actually changes without the protesters. people with varying degrees of relative privilege to persecuted black folks won't jilt themselves out of complacency and share power and esteem spontaneously. there's not enough ambient incentive or imperative for that.

being aware is simply not enough. we've been aware of our collective racism for at least the last 150 years and no change to that has happened top-down. it's all bottom-up. it's all people fighting for their rights and dignity. power isn't acquiesced so much as chipped away. awareness weakens the stone so the chipping is easier, but the chips don't just fall off on their own.

that's why the (white) awareness is "marginal", not because it's not helpful, or possibly even necessary, but because it's not causative. there's nothing wrong with marginal, it's good, better than irrelevant, but it's not the catalyst of change in racial power dynamics.
I'd have more confidence an 11-year-old could learn it than a 30-year-old. It's amazing thinking back at how quickly and absolutely I could immerse myself in things back then.
I don't know what it is, but people want other people to be like them.

You can substitute anything in the place of "laptops" - programming languages, methodologies, coffee, barbecue sauce, diets, exercise etc.
> Some US states have blocked pharmacies from filling doctor prescriptions for HCQ...

Good. Patients with lupus and other diseases were experiencing shortages of what for them is demonstrably life-saving medication. There's not an infinite supply, and there are folks who need it for more than speculation and self-administered home prophylaxis.

https://jamanetwork.com/channels/health-forum/fullarticle/27...
> and interpreting code in Metascala interpreted by Metascala

It's JVMs all the way down
Correction (where are you folks learning math? $400/hour, do you even have common sense?):

0.009 BTC/PH/day to buy from NiceHash (https://www.nicehash.com/algorithm/sha256)

100,000 PH/day total hashrate of BTC network (https://www.blockchain.com/charts/hash-rate)

That's 450 BTC/day to buy 50% of the hash rate (as if you even could, that in itself is a ridiculous notion - NiceHash says they have only 300 PH).

Or 18.75 BTC/hour. Or $185,000/hour.

Of course, you're not going to buy 50% of the network's currently running hash power. You'd likely need closer to 100% of the network's current hash power to gain 51%.
No this property of light has been known for ages, it's commonly known as circularly polarized light. There is a bit of fuckery here with trying to coin the term vortex laser to make it more marketable/sexier, but researchers have been playing with circularly polarized light for decades.
What do you think that the future of AI (ML/DL) will be? borderless & open-source? or something different?
>...the experimental hBN devices scored 129 terahertz.

> Although the research device was demonstrated using gold electrodes on a diamond substrate, Akinwande says the process for making these RF switches is compatible with the CMOS processes used in foundries. He points to research done at several universities and TSMC showing the integration of hBN with silicon.

Good stuff. This can even be useful for new particle accelerators. There is so much stuff in the THz tech tree.
Not nearly as active as HN but for design—https://www.designernews.co/
Why is a politician endorsing an unproven drug?

Oh it's because he's "getting great calls about it" from Fox News personas who are not doctors themselves, and instead fell for bad studies from a questionable French doctor.
It was interesting to see Facui so quickly endorse remdesivir but perhaps he did so because it's safer than choloroquine. It is convienent that remdesivir costs $1000 to 4000 per patient, whereas choloroquine is basically free compared to that.

And this: "Before the Covid outbreak, remdesivir was a drug for which Gilead had failed to find a use." (Barrons 6/2/2020)
Thanks for identifying that issue. I'll try to find a solution for folks who are using iOS + increased font sizes. It's going to be a little tricky, so if anyone has found a solution let me know - I haven't been able to find a way to reliably detect text size adjustments on iOS and the truncation behavior is desired at smaller font sizes. Definitely will try and find a way to make it work.
> Does it need to be acknowledged? I consider it to be a priori knowledge.

I think you have a good point. The reason I'd like to see it acknowledged is because the two sides of the argument often talk past each other. Police power should not be unlimited, and it's clear that our constitution intended for the power of the state to be limited, with the intent of maximizing liberty.

However, for years people made the claim that the "liberty vs. security" argument was a false premise. ie, that ultimate liberty and ultimate security are both possible. I don't believe this is correct. (Broadly I think liberty is more important than security, but everyone has their set of exceptions to this rule) I might just be dating myself. People had this debate constantly in the years after 9/11. Maybe this argument is not getting made any longer?

In either case, I often hear these two sides talking past each other. I wish instead that both sides were more overt. Digital information can make police work more broad and effective, but we should treat it with quite a bit of cautious. We don't want police effectiveness to encroach on liberty in most cases.
I see, yes, that might be an issue.
It's irrelevant if the west's hands are clean, we are talking about a decision that effects western nations themselves.

Even if they preformed economic espionage, why in the world would they allow themselves to be put into a position where it can easily be done to them?
Yeah, who even knows. I think it's all petty to be honest.
another one i'm using for my site [1] is tacit[2] it's pretty basic but it works well - although i've been trying to find a well structured, well designed css framework with no classes - I haven't found one of my liking, I think the best way would be to use something very minimal like tailwindcss [3] which i still have to try

[1] https://golang.cafe
[2] https://github.com/yegor256/tacit
[3] https://tailwindcss.com
The LDS church teaches that all spirits await the resurrection in a 'spirit world,' which is divided into different conditions for the just and the wicked, that heaven is divided into three 'degrees of glory,' and that baptism is a precondition for attaining the highest degree of glory. In this system, nearly all spirits go to heaven after the resurrection. Those who do not accept Christ as their savior receive some punishment / hell in the spirit world, but eventually end up in the lowest kingdom of heaven (so not 'eternal' torture).

> What good is an act of faith when you're literally experiencing the truth of the claims at that very moment?

I don't know what kind of information spirits in the spirit world have, but the LDS church teaches that there's some teaching of the gospel still going on in the spirit world, so presumably spirits don't automatically have complete information. The LDS teaching is that baptism is prerequisite for attaining the highest degree of glory, and all spirits have the opportunity in the spirit world to accept baptism by proxy if they did not have an opportunity during their life to be baptized or chose not to be.

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate_of_the_unlearned#Latter-d...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_world_(Latter_Day_Saint...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_of_salvation_(Latter_Day_...
Interestingly, there is this article in the same publication: "Core progress in AI has stalled in some fields"

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6494/927
It is exactly such kinds of ignorants of basic statistics, the faulty generalizations of the effectiveness of established journals, have failed the humanity.
This went way over my head but just wanted to thank you for taking the time to make this interesting post
There’s gigabytes of video of every cop in the US? And every one of them is a racist brutality piece of trash? Can you show me this archive?

Or are you saying that there’s hundreds of videos of piece of trash cops and you’re projecting that to all cops?
Indeed, peaceful protests are good for the status quo because they're easy to ignore. They want you to sit down and be quiet so they can ignore you. Once you start to inconvenience rich people, or god forbid cause the stock market to go down, real change will begin to happen.
One thought: US centric.
Yes I think that would work. Except then I've lost the sound track. Much better than nothing. I'll use it as a last resort if I can't find a better solution within the next 3 days.
Actual text from the authorization memo:

"...to enforce federal criminal laws in the wake of protests..."

So not protestors, but criminals taking advantage of protests.
They all just say "POLICE" with no actual license plate number. It's unnerving.
I would like to know more about how the different options are selected. How do we know how to tune something like "fur color" in styleGAN? Can arbitrary options be added?

I'm very interested in all this, but still pretty new to machine learning in general.
I’m sure it’s not that they think software isn’t worthy, but simply that it’s not their traditional area of competence. It took a monumental effort for a lot of them just to make the film to digital transition, and they were only competing with each other. Now they have to compete against a whole different industry that’s faster moving and more software centric. Plus great software engineers don’t come cheap, and we’re talking about a market size that’s a few orders of magnitude smaller. So if they made the necessary investment in software, how much would the cameras end up costing? Maybe 2x to 10x their current prices, and thus further shrinking an already shrinking market? It’s a no-win situation.
It's still hard to challenge stereotypes.

You're not white, where are you from? Michigan? But where are you really from?

You've lost weight, how did you do it? Eat less? No, you must have found some magical shortcut, you just don't want to reveal your secret.
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I know a few rich people. They basically want Trump to just shoot all the protesters. I don't see any message being received.
> To think that all of a sudden it became more dangerous was silly and unreasonable.

This is a dangerous view and not a fair take. Drugs CAN become more dangerous when used in a different context. The sheer permutation of prior/current medical conditions, interacting drugs, demographics, genetics, medical procedures, and a bunch of other factors all play into the equation that determines a drug's safety and efficacy profile. This is why we continue to do research. This is why guidelines are constantly shifting. This is why medicine requires years of study.

> The media was so quick to champion it everywhere though.

I definitely agree with this point. The media has caused harm to the population by taking the results of a single observational study, and parading it around like it was some new concrete medical certainty. This is not how professionals operate. We don't flip our practice on the whims of a single OBSERVATIONAL study.

And I emphasize OBSERVATIONAL because most people here don't understand what that entails. Most people here who comment on clinical trials are not even trained to interpret them. Is it randomized/non-randomized? Double-blinded? What did data collection look like? How were results analyzed? What was the patient population? Timelines? Control arm? Placebos? Previous findings? Primary/secondary endpoint? Do you know the difference between a meta-analysis and a systematic review? NNT? Hazards ratios? Odds ratios?

Too many people outside of medicine think they know how to interpret a study, when in reality they have no idea what they're looking at and cherry-pick the interesting sentences that they're looking for.

> I know I'm not going to trust the Lancet or the NEJM ever again.

This is not a fair take. The journals are responsible for reviewing and publishing the most influential clinical research in the world. Occasionally a bad study makes its way in due to falsified data or other illegitimate factors. Health care professionals are well-aware of this, which is why we are trained to interpret studies, and be conservative in the face of radical findings like this.

If anyone has a problem with the Lancet or NEJM, they should see some of the mess found in lower-impact journals.
IIRC Facebook uses IPv6 addresses that have face:b00c in them
I like the Illy [1] book on the subject. It is mainly about Italian espresso though and less representative of 3rd wave brewing.

[1] https://www.elsevier.com/books/espresso-coffee/illy/978-0-12...
Traditional non-professional espresso knowledge will often tell you that the espresso has to be packed super tight.

These results showed me that I could keep it loose and use less grounds and it's fine. Probably saving a decent amount of money at home not blowing through Illy grounds as fast.
About Smalltalk
Singapore. I'm still a software developer. Just not there.

It's ironic that the country had a serious case of silicon Valley envy and would try literally anything to clone some of that valley magic. They threw a lot of money around in pursuit of this goal.

They'd try anything, that is, other than decent, internationally competitive pay and working conditions.
It does.

The administrative tools of my local school district block the official community instance https://meet.jit.si/ on school-issued Chromebooks (as well as probably millions of other sites, at one point they even blocked a subdomain of the school district's own website), but the same service hosted at the other official instance https://8x8.vc/ works wonderfully.

Edit: detail
According to 'Devs', you just need a few quantum computers and lots of gold tinfoil.
I have seen these containers firsthand and didn't give them much notice -- it's amazing the sort of thing that can be right there below the surface when you begin to look deeper.

It was an awesome sight though, the containers all lined up in perfect rows.
Reality vs Your Perception of Reality
Absolutely.

Equipment may pose constraints on what you can feasibly do (though fewer than people think).

How and what you then do within these constraints is largely up to you.

Will AI increasingly get better and better framing, colours, processing, etc? Most definitely. For the immediate future though, the emotion and ideas of talented, innovative photographers will still stand above.
“ how can we design new systemic incentives to avoid repeating such mistakes?”

I don’t think you’ll like the answer here.

Financial incentives have been known to cause perverse outcomes where moral hazards occur more often than not. I think financial incentives work well in a lot of cases, but healthcare and media have been so perverted by financial interests it’s become untenable.
Agreed, I (unfortunately) know many of these people. They simply don't understand the problem, and do not want to empathize with "the other side".

It's worth trying to help others understand why people are angry. People need real help, police need to be held accountable, and we can't just keep shoveling cash into the pockets of the rich.
It's much easier to throw your arms up and say "Conspiracy" than actually assess things on a case by case basis.

Peer Review gone wrong -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLlA1w4OZWQ
Even non-Sikh Punjabis tend to be extroverts :)
Things change. Yes, it is weird, but I see your case as somewhat different. People distance from you because they don't want to be judged as weird themselves for doing drugs. They fear that they be misunderstood. Some may also be afraid you may disclose it to others outside the group. Some may indeed judge you for maybe being close minded or not open to new experiences.

Do you get the "Have you ever tried {insert recreational drug here}?? You're missing out, etc."
But they were smoking it mixed with dung. Sounds just right for a death cult of a mad god to me... :)
Check this: https://pharo.org/features
> I’ve met and talked with plenty of folk who confuse their identity with their political party.

What do you mean by "confuse"? What if their political party/orientation is an important part of their identity?
> "ok... you can chose to not take a stance on grey areas and act on clear cut cases."

Eating meat is considered unethical by many and the fact that animals are often treated poorly by factory farming is not deniable. That's pretty clear cut. What ruling would you make?
I think its situational.

When I shot portraits I like to shoot more open and blur the background. (I typically used about 100mm).

I have a series of artists in their work spaces. When I shoot those I don't blur the background and shoot wide to get as much of the space.
Just launched a (very) new generalist instance of Lemmy, a federated and decentralized alternative to Reddit/HN, on https://dixeet.com.

It's not about a specific field, but you can create your own community and it was just born so you can shape it and contribute as you feel.
in the US, that number is 42%. 20% of Swedes are over 65 and only 15% of Americans are. So it's reasonable to assume a third more Swedes (per capita) are in nursing homes. That only about 20% more of the deaths come from that population makes me think Sweden is doing better than the US.
For sure, the difference even on a DSLR between a kit lens and a nice L-series is night and day. Would the sensor on a phone be able to take advantage of the lens though?
A counter example of an unintelligent washing machine:

My Whirlpool emitted a diagnostic puddle of water underneath it. I Googled the seal, ordered it from an independent supplier, and installed it myself.

It is now on its 25th year of use with us, and cost less than $400 when new.
When silence is better for white people
I never understood the hate for what Sweden did during the pandemic both here and in media. It's like there was a whole misinformation campaign to frame Sweden's approach as irresponsible and deadly. Article after article in the news, all the comments here back in April, the list goes on. Yet the data shows Sweden pretty much as stable as any other country.

http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/
Not exactly. They know, but don't care. They believe they are disconnected from the consequences.
You jumped real hard from "we prematurely cancelled studies (meant to show if it works)" to "WE STOPPED A TREATMENT THAT SAVES PEOPLE FROM DYING!"
Is google infinite scrolling for you now? I still have the old "Gooooooogle" thing at the bottom
I was just the opposite. It just sounded so bizarre to me, that when the rumors started flying in my area of certain group's activities at certain locations, my friends and I would sneak off to investigate. It wasn't that we were interested in said activities, or that we were necessarily investigating the validity of the rumors. We were just curious. It turns out, it was all false and made up. Put serious doubts in my mind at an early age about "believing everything you hear", but also seriously lowered the credibility of the people repeating the information in my mind. Had it not been for my interest in computers, I might have turned into some sort of investigator.
>Here are my top takeaways from the roughly 85-minute recording

Is that recording publicly available?