skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A series of causal events requires network reccurance for time to be calculable. If it's not calculable it can't be said to exist in any mathematical sense. So, a series of non-reccurent causal events at the fundamental level processes causally without the existence of time.

The same is true of "space" for the same reason. A causal network without reccurence (a tree) has no way to compare objects since there are no horizontal relations and it cannot "look" at backwards relations.

A non-reccurent causal tree has multiple instances of "here" and "now." But without anything to compare a given here/now to the concepts are internally meaningless.
After medicine, education is the most labor intensive industry. Both are very high for the same reason. Whereas in most industries improving technology allows the same number of people to be more productive, or the same amount of productivity to be achieved with fewer people, in med/ed people are specifically paying to keep the labor efficiency as low as possible.

When people pay extra to go to a school with a student-faculty ratio of 12 instead of 15, the labor cost is going up by about 20% (you need both more faculty and more support staff for those faculty). Does a 20% reduction in the number of people in a classroom allow the teacher to produce a 20% better education in the remaining students? Probably not. Especially for large intro lectures where there is little meaningful interaction between an individual student and the faculty and the lectures are generally recorded already (even pre-covid), you could easily distribute the costs over thousands of students instead of dozens without lowering quality.

While the value of small class sizes would be critically evaluated if people were paying for them on the spot and out of pocket, subsidized debt financing allows for the price to grow quickly - a person with no money who can take out a 100k student loan can now afford to go to a 25k school, and the person who could afford that 25k school can now afford to go to a 50k school, and suddenly the person with no money needs 200k to get the same education. The same happens with medicine and real estate and any other market where conventional wisdom is that you should get as much as you can afford and what you can afford is not limited by the amount of money you actually have.

Once people stop viewing class size or tuition price as useful proxies for education quality, the rapid tuition price inflation will stop and the labor costs will go down dramatically.
I've been spending quite a bit of time interacting with the young-earth creationist community on Reddit and YouTube. It is closely related to flat-earth, though there is one significant difference: YEC is overtly religious, and specifically Christian. Other than that many of the forms of argument are the same. From that experience I have made two observations:

1. These people are not idiots (at least the YECs aren't, I can't speak for the flat-earthers) and to dismiss them as idiots who will just go away is a serious mistake. They are very good at presenting convincing-sounding arguments, and refuting them can actually be quite challenging.

2. The root of their reasoning is a tacit acceptance of teleology, which cannot be logically refuted. They approach existential questions with the assumption that there has to be some kind of point to existence, some transcendent meaning or purpose. If you accept this premise, then there is actually a logically defensible line of reasoning that leads you to Christianity and thence to the inerrancy of the Bible, and thence to YEC (and even a flat earth if you're really being intellectually honest!) A failure to appreciate this is IMHO one of the reasons that the secular world is having such a hard time effectively resisting these movements. A life without purpose makes no sense to these people, just as a theory at odds with the data makes no sense to someone with a scientific mindset. So if science leads you to the conclusion that life has no transcendent purpose (and it does) then, on their world-view, science must be wrong, full stop. No amount of data is going to persuade them otherwise.
Of course they have an effect on herd immunity. If behaviour changes then the replication rate changes and hence the herd immunity threshold changes.
You can actually turn off video tracking in YouTube. And the experience completely sucks. It doesn't remember what you have and haven't watched. You can't even resume a video on a different day or device.
No, they have a client now. https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/114964/1passwor...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24054112
Most malaria victims are children, 57% of deaths are children under 5 years old https://ourworldindata.org/malaria
I can't wait for the open source store that has less than 5% fees.
Yes, to produce enough electricity that everyone can have their tesla/candela is impossible because we are running out of cheap dead trees.

Electricity is not an energy source.

EROEI is already below 10 on the dead trees we use today (down from 100 a century ago, that's 10x or 1000% down).

And you need dead-trees to build nuclear and hydro. Solar and wind are useless.

A weight ratio of equal between transport (including energy storage) and transported is the only solution.

Personally I find the half weight of lithium to not compensate for the complexity/price, so I recommend lead-acid.
>I haven't seen any compelling evidence that they form any vital component of ecosystems

https://mosquitoreviews.com/learn/mosquitoes-purpose

>As part of their useful role, the larvae of mosquitoes live in water and provide food for fish and other wildlife, including larger larvae of other species such as dragonflies. The larvae themselves eat microscopic organic matter in the water, helping to recycle it. Adult mosquitoes make up part of the diet of some insect-eating animals, such as birds, bats, adult dragonflies and spiders. They also help pollinate some flowers, when they consume nectar.
> Why is "be a hero and go to a US prison" not an option?

It is, but who wants that? When someone from a drug cartel becomes a witness, we don't say "okay, thanks, now go back there to get tortured & murdered, show that you accept the consequences of your actions", we say "thanks, now we make you disappear and get you a new identity so you can live a normal life".

The motives of Russia aren't my concern. My concern is that the governments who call themselves liberal democracies are not willing to stand up for somebody blowing the whistle on war crimes, dystopian hyper-authoritarian surveillance state programs etc.

"Snowden should have accepted being sent to Gitmo and be tortured for revealing that the US government routinely shits on the US constitution" is, to me, an infantile response. To keep at the line of "he shouldn't have gone to Russia", the question becomes: what's the alternative?
Sorry, I just came across the site. The creator's Twitter is
https://twitter.com/mayfer
This is a bit sad to read, but very well written. I can't help but think of schizophrenia after reading through some of the conversations.
It's pretty widely known, tbh.

Perhaps not as widely as his involvement in 5G and vaccinations, however (jk)
It’s amazing how many intelligent people believe 5G will give you <whatever condition is trending>.
There are network-wide adblockers for that. Pi-Hole, AdGuard VPN, NextDNS, etc.
Money came from Citi bank which is just facilitating the transfer and an employee made a mistake a used bank money instead of the entities money.

It's like you payback the loan but the bank accidentally uses its own money and not your money. You'd get hauled off to jail if you didn't return the money.
Using State Machines with React to Make a Confirmation Dialog (2020)
> But not all parents love their children as much as this dad did; the reason most families stay poor forever is the guardian (usually the father) of the family is indulged in cigarette, tobacco or alcohol consumption.

This is not limited to India. I've seen it in other developing countries in Asia
>Manning has done nothing to hold anyone accountable. She stole classified data, haphazardly, and did nothing to ensure its release wouldn't get people killed. Then, she dumped it all to WikiLeaks. She didn't do it to protect anyone or as a whistleblower.

I'm unclear why the challenges with the Manning release begin with the 22yo w/o enough experience to make better judgments and not the scores of military and political careerists who created, enabled and hid the atrocities.
True, and also IPv4 and mass-NATing everything by default was an other factor IMO. If you've been coding some network application over the past 3 decades you basically have to assume that most of your users are going to run it behind a NAT. That creates a world of issues for anything p2p.

I wonder if the situation would've been different had something like IPv6 been adopted much earlier. Then even end users might have integrated the idea that their devices would remain accessible remotely once connected to the internet. That would have made it harder for ISPs to sell these connections where basically nothing but HTTP(S) makes it through.
I highly recommend Software Foundations Volume 1: Logical Foundations as an introduction to theorem proving in Coq. Try working through the first few chapters and see what you think: https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/lf-current/toc.htm...
How do I install a Python command line tool or script? (hint: pipx)
That Tweet is a misquote though. He said "he may be responsible for many more deaths" rather than "he may have killed". Very big difference. And he certainly never said that "Trump is literally worse than Hitler". Considering he brings up climate change immediately afterwards it seems he mostly means Trump's persistent war on anything that will slow this down, which will (and already is) causing major problems. A comparison with Mao's incompetence isn't complete inaccurate actually. I do agree it's not helpful, and comparisons to Hitler and Stalin are certainly wildly inappropriate.

But some random guy saying something silly and offensive in one (live?) interview is still not the same as a set of very specific completely baseless allegations in the right-wing conspiracies theories.
Being censorship-proof is INFINITELY more important than "Multimillion dollar businesses" done on censorable platforms which invariably will become evil (not if but when).
We aggregate guesses and combine them with our model to produce the ranges we show in the app. No one will see an individual guess and no one knows who has guessed who.
It's cute but really frustrating. I wish they'd just use the version number or force everyone to use

"<version #>-<stupidname>".

but I'm a FreeBSD user so what do I know?
Families are moving from Finland to avoid their world leading education system? I'm doubtful.
> I'd even filter them out for manufacturing or fast food work.

Would shoveling manure be a fitting enough means for them to earn their living in your eyes or is there something even lower that you think would be appropriate?
To your first point, even creationists believe in empirical science and I doubt you'll find any meaningful disagreement between a die hard creationist and an evolutionary biologist on the empirical data. The line between empirical and circumstantial or interpretive evidence is often very blurry, however.
To be fair, “anti-Trump” can mean (and probably means) bias against Trump supporters, not his accounts.
The core equation of special relativity that couples space with time is (assuming the speed of light is 1):

ds^2 = dx^2 + dy^2 + dz^2 - dt^2

Different observerse disagree on what each individual term of the right hand side of the equation are; but every observers agrees on what ds^2 is.

Thinking in terms of 3 dimensional euclidean space, this makes sense. If you fix your 3 dimensional coordinate system and pick 2 points in space, you can have:

ds^2 = dx^2 + dy^2 + dz^2

Another observer could pick a different orientation for their coordinate system, and arrive at different values for dx, dy, and dz; but they would still have the same ds. This is just the pythagorean theorem. The distance between two points is the same regardless of how you define your axis. This also means that your 3 spatial dimensions are inherently coupled; because there was no particular reason to pick your axis the way you did.

Simmilarly, in the 4 dimensional spacetime defined by the metric:

ds^2 = dx^2 + dy^2 + dz^2 - dt^2

There is no particular reason to pick the particular time axis that you happened to pick. It is coupled with the other 3 dimensions in exactly the same way that the 3 dimensions are coupled in euclidean space.

The only complication here is that rotating your axis under the Lorentzian metric require the Lorentz transform; whereas rotating them under the Euclidean metric requires the Galilean transform.

The coupling described here involves no notion of causality. Nothing in the metric prevents a path from traveling in both directions along the time axis.
It's believed that it'll persist through what's known as T-cell immunity, where your body doesn't have antibodies just hanging around but can produce them much more quickly in response to an infection. So the vaccine should still be effective in the long term at reducing the impact of the disease.

If you're thinking of the vaccine as a tool to ensure people can't get infected at all, then yeah, it won't be useful for that purpose. The goal isn't to eradicate the virus, just to get it under control so it's not such a huge public health concern.
Video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UHGiateK6s
Because children make life enjoyable with your partner half the time, so you're in a dilemma : stay for the good half or quit for the bad half. Then you stay because maybe you can fix the bad half, and why not try getting help from someone. It's worth it. Even getting from good 50%/50% bad to 55%/45% is worth it.
The comment to which I was replying listed several things: “hit his parents, hit his brother, broke things, and spat a cup of juice all over my laptop.”

By “outburst”, I specifically mean “showing outward signs of intense emotion that they are unable to handle appropriately”.
Are there any turnkey websites for fundraising/investor relations?
Does anyone know of any platforms or website generators that are geared towards fundraising/investor relations? I need a place to host investor/dd document with a unique user/pass combo for each investor. (So Squarespace doesn't work.)
...trying to avoid a dedicated wordpress setup just for hosting a few docs.
I used to be a flat earther. No, I didn't actually believe the earth was flat, but I loved the outrage it provoked and the attention I got when I told people I was a flat earther. I also enjoyed trying to defend my position and call out (valid) logical fallacies round earthers were making. It really forces you to improve your debate skills when you have to defend an impossible position. Lastly, there was a social aspect of it, a camaraderie with other flat earthers that made me feel like I belonged to a "secret" organization that was fun and influential. I eventually outgrew that hobby.

I'm sure there are many "genuine" flat earthers, but I suspect there are a lot of flat earthers like me as well. Of course, part of the "game" is pretending you really believe it, so good luck proving it.
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It was actually a reference to the TV show Psych, whose character Burton Guster (and his many aliases) drove a bright blue Toyota Matrix hatchback affectionately referred to as "The Blueberry".
>part of the diet

>help polinate

It all seems optional to me.
> Turns out it's really just software for self hosting your own videos.

Not exactly, since you can join a node and upload there and it's also like Mastadon in that it's federated.
Obama is far from the most absurd example. The notorious war criminal Henry Kissinger got it years before Obama did.
The A320 production line is booked out years in advance. The other option is the C919, but that is an unproven aircraft from an unproven manufacturer, and it hasn't yet entered full production. Despite the faults of the 737MAX, the 737 is the most popular commercial aircraft in the world, and the MCAS problem appears fixable.
I don't equate p2p with insecure but what's the point of turning it off? If you do that aren't you better off just hosting some basic HTML/CSS/JS to serve your videos directly from your self-hosted website without bothering with PeerTube?

Maybe I'm missing the point but I though the advantage of PeerTube was using P2P file sharing to cut down on the huge amount of bandwidth necessary for video streaming.
Our currently public school system was designed to produce factory workers and conscripts, no happy, healthy kids. And at the time, and given the level of resources then, that made sense.
Yes, that's the next feature we're working on.
You'll be able to filter by license, maintenance level, and type (commandline, service,...). Jakub is currently restructuring the YAML source to allow for that (https://github.com/analysis-tools-dev/static-analysis/pull/4...).
We wanted to launch early to gauge if we're heading in the right direction. Thanks for the feedback.
Launch HN: How to help the remote community while building a startup
That‘s why you plug your twitter and maybe other socials (mailing list as well I guess, though less usual) at every possible opportunity. It‘s incredibly important to cultivate the relationship with your audience.

In the event that you have to change platform for whatever reason, you still have a line of communication.
Good read with some really interesting information, but I don't know that I agree with the way it implies that there's a single, defining reason for failure. All of these things are intertwined - you can't get raise money if you don't have product market fit, and you can't bootstrap things if you aren't bringing in money. Team problems are tied into everything happening in the company. Tech problems are very much related to product market fit.

Like I said - good information, but I guess it's really the pie chart that made me feel like they were oversimplifying things.
Sometimes this type of long form journalism is nice because it lets you marinate in a different world. Here I can't help but feel like I just want them to get to the point because I don't really want to marinate in the Flat Earth world.

If a super intelligent AI came to me and said, "I'm going to take over the world and destroy humanity, but first I wanted to see if there was anything you needed." One of the things that I would ask it to do in order to buy time would be to annotate all the background details of every movie. For example, in Jurassic Park when Hammond is trying to get Dr. Grant to come to the park, the trailer they are in has a bunch of newspapers on the walls. What do those say? Who are all the extras that are hanging out at the dig site? Like who are the actors and can we give their characters any backstories that are consistent with the world of Jurassic Park.

I can't help but want the same thing from a story about a Flat Earth conference. How many other people went there just to see what was up. Who is there as a joke. Occasionally people send fake articles to journals to see if they can get them published. Does the same thing happen to Flat Earth conferences? People try to see how much of an outlandish presentation they can get away with? And finally, how many people go there, have a good time, pretend to buy into the whole Flat Earth business, but then when they get back and are cornered indicate that they only went because their friend went / to see what it was like / because they make fun of them later / etc.

Finally, this whole business feels very similar to me as the whole Evolution in education stuff. Sure people believe in the wrong thing, but at the end of the day very few people actually understand how the right thing works and even if they get that far they don't see what any of the implications are. Yeah, I would prefer people believe things that are true, but they don't understand it either way and they refuse to think about the implications.

I greatly appreciate the world building in things like Lord of the Rings or Avatar the last airbender. Everything works together in great detail to create a holistic world where actions have consequences that echo through the centuries. It feels like most people are just as happy to watch Michael Bay's Transformers. Maybe they like Avatar as well, but they don't understand why the shyamalan movie "adaptation" is bad. So I have a hard time caring that they agree with me that the cartoon was good as well.
From the page

> In 2017, there were 219 million malaria cases that led to 435,000 deaths. Of these 61 per cent (266,000) were children under 5 years of age.
The factory of the future, batteries not included
Last year Fortnite had an estimated 1.8 billion in revenue, and roughly 450 million of that was from apple/ios.

They are making lots of money.
Mosquitoes are not the killer. The might be the messenger but they are not the killer.
IDK, it doesn't seem ironic to me. Being the only store that sells something is pretty different from being the only store allowed in town.
I think maybe it can be taught. Certainly it can be at least modeled. My wife had parents that do this; I think she may have learned it by example.

In my case, it may be because I'm borderline aspy. I care more about the idea than with the person (or camp/side/school) that said it. But that doesn't leave me knowing how to teach yourself to do that, since it came rather naturally to me.
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It’s still not a good explanation to say “humans must have some purpose, therefore this one very specific made-up thing must be true.” What about all the other made-up things which also purport to explain the purpose of humans?

Explanations of this form are extremely easy to vary, which is why they are not good explanations.
I judge people (not solely) based on who they choose to associate with, so for me ya it is bad. To put it more bluntly, if you surround yourself with shitty people, I'll assume you're a shitty person.
Google fixes major Gmail bug seven hours after exploit details go public
I think finance and product-market fit go hand in hand, and it's a question of the founder's perception of which is more important. If you don't have a good product, you won't make any money, so for those startups it really depends whether the founder saw running out of money as the final blow or the fact that the product didn't find its market to be the overarching cause of things.
AFAICT, the more serious proposals to eliminate mosquitoes target the individual mosquito species that spread disease in areas where there are several other mosquito species that would quickly expand to fill the ecological gap.
If there's going to be hyperinflation in the US, there's going to be hyperinflation elsewhere. The US sets the baseline for global macroeconomic health. You mention why bonds are bad, I'll concede that, but you could have enumerated other asset classes in more detail. US Stocks are bad, because the US is doing bad... what about foreign stocks? What about gold? You don't have to hold cash.