skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the wars in the middle east, (I would say Iraq moreso than Afghanistan, as at least Afghanistan actually harbored Al Qaeda/Taliban), don't count as a textbook definition of conspiracy, I'm afraid nothing does. Indeed, I would even disagree with the statement about the DoS (a subsection of the government), their entire job is supposed to be diplomacy, not war, thats what DoD is for. This is why I strongly disagree with the now common knowledge among those in the realm, that intelligence agencies embed and use DoS as cover so frequently, as it undermines diplomatic initiatives heavily. As for dismissing something as "something Britta said on community", it isn't even worth addressing.

The Britta joke is entirely my point. I believe there's corrupt actors in the state department who hawk war for profit. You believe the same thing, but have added some specifics that you probably can't support any better than the general statement about corrupt actors. Maybe that's not true and you DO have more evidence for the specifics than the average conspiracy theory, I don't care much. But either way, you've assigned great importance to something that most people would agree with at a high level but doubt at the very low level. The fault with conspiracy theories is they vastly overindex on specifics they can't defend, which makes generic problems sound much more urgent than most people would interpret them
Those gaps immediately catch your eye, don't they? Seeing them and thinking "what if there's something we are missing" is exactly what many particle physicists also think. This is why the existence of particles and interactions addressing those gaps have been hypothesized to death and then some. Trying to compare some of these hypothesis with the experiment is a major part of fundamental physics today, second only to measuring the things we know exist more precisely. In many cases the comparison has been performed, and when it has been the conclusion was "if there is something there, then the parameters must be such that our instruments did not measure the effects yet". This is why particle physicists are pushing for better instruments.
Yeah the files were like html files that had image links inside them if I remember correctly. But even those links didn’t work right.

This is because of a change they made.

I was absolutely distraught tbh. The feeling of being at the mercy of google is a horrible feeling. Especially when there is zero support or assistance.
You can get a RTL8720DN that has Dual-Band WiFi for $4

https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/01/17/realtek-rtl8720dn-du...
https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/ilvepd/new_ag...

https://www.ghacks.net/2020/09/27/how-to-deal-with-googles-a...
Chernobyl is presumably what you're talking about. It was a high pressure steam explosion due a sudden introduction of energy into the system, which of course would cause an explosion and contaminate a wide area [0].

> The engineering and physics is well understood.

as are the safety issues which is why there what research there is for a modern nuclear reactor design would not repeat those mistakes (e.g. molten-salt).

Whether the region around Chernobyl is uninhabitable is debatable, given that animals have returned to it in abundance.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBMK
Hey, how'd you know exactly who I was thinking about?!
Nah, just "modern web". Tweeter always loads once in 10 times for me.
Your understanding is correct. Open source means nothing more than you can view the source. It's just typically open source software also comes with a license that allows you to use it free, either with MIT or similar.

OSS !== FOSS
I disagree—I think that math being so abstract rather than taught with extremely practical applications is why it feels so out of reach for many.
May be Chetan Bhagat is losing readership to the "internet" that's why it's concerning.
“Finished forever” isn’t really a thing. The parties realign. Texas was a Democratic stronghold until the 1990s. Beto ran close in a 2018 election against a Republican candidate supporting a historically unpopular Republican President, during the blue wave. But Greg Abbott won his election for Texas Governor that same year by a bigger margin than George W. Bush did in 1994. He won 42% of the Hispanic vote (Texas became majority-minority in 2011).
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This is like saying leaving home without your wallet is liberating. It’s true in a sense, but it’s also damned inconvenient depending on what you want to do.

Then again, if you truly feel anxious without your phone all the time, maybe it’s worth a shot ...
> Everything is addictive, what matters is when the addiction subverts your intrinsic goals.

Which is a hell of lot more prevalent when the addictive behavior is driven by a centralized market incentive.

Fentanyl - invented 1959 - didn't become a problem until the Sacklers' greed and fraudulent recommendations to doctors drove the opioid epidemic. Peace pipes and tobacco weren't a problem until the industrialized mass production of cancer sticks drove the manufacturers to reuse literally every ounce of waste through chemical reprocessing. I can't find the research right now but one paper I read on historical gambling mentioned that there is far less evidence of gambling as addictive behavior before urbanization because of a lack of opportunity and strong ties in small communities that kept both gamblers and bookies in line. It wasn't until the innovations in transportation in the 19th century that real estate speculators started building gambling enclaves like Atlantic City, Las Vegas, and the casinos along (and on) the Mississippi river.

Showing ads - aka manipulating human behavior - is now the most profitable. The same thing is going to happen now: the purveyors of the addiction will continue to drive the dystopia to its ultimate conclusion until it gets regulated into the ground (all of the above), loses the largest lawsuit in history and gets culturally sidelined (tobacco), and/or everything but the gains get dismantled (Sacklers).
I really like https://github.com/gitbucket/gitbucket for this.
You know... I read the Youtube license and I see this:

Licence to Other Users

You also grant each other user of the Service a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to access your Content through the Service, and to use that Content (including to reproduce, distribute, modify, display, and perform it) only as enabled by a feature of the Service.

I am a user of the Youtube service. I read and agreed with the terms, I have watched videos.
Thu I am allowed to reproduce its content. The RIAA explicitly agreed I can distribute it.
Not that I'm defending it, but:

The answer is for the same reason that practical skills in general aren't -- cooking, cleaning, how to purchase a car or home, how to review an apartment rental contract or put together a resume, how to raise children, how to mount shelves, how to do laundry.

Education is designed pretty much solely as a feeder system for professional skills, starting with reading and numbers and performance, and then in high school figuring out who will have what it takes to be able to go to college and major in math or English or violin (or professional finance), so they'll be able to eventually become engineers or lawyers or orchestra members (or accountants).

Combined with education as a citizen, which is why we also learn history and a little bit of literature.

For better or worse, it's assumed that you'll be able to pick up all the practical skills on your own, armed with your foundation of reading and math and "critical thinking".
SNS is intended for different use cases. Kinesis and other AWS products provide services in line with Kafka.
I use it and have no complaints. Its just become better over time.
Right, and I do that, but it's an obvious hack; it causes a separate sh process to spawn, you open yourself to shell injection issues if you're not careful, teeing the pipe is trickier than it should be, etc etc.
I am almost envious that you are dealing with worry, because I am often dealing with extreme sadness when looking at the whole situation. I have to accept that I am way more attached to life around me, and depending on it, than I would ever have admitted. And yet the civilization I belong to is destroying it.
I think to make the most of it you need to engage your imagination. Relating stories and context to the facts transforms it from ‘staring at flashcards for hours’ into more of a game and something to enjoy.

And the great thing is, because of the spaced repetition, you don’t need to spend hours on it at a time. You can learn a lot in 5/10 mins a day.
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So does Scientology.
Two comments from me:

1) From the comments of the blog post: "todays newspaper say it is 75k less surgeries in Sweden since Mar -20."

So one theory is that people are less likely to engage in risky behavior such as surgery this year. I am sure that people are driving less, flying less, working less, and in general, doing less that can increase the risk of death.

2) There are three types of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics. I am always wary of some totally random fact. "Least deadliest September on record." There's no implied causation there. Just a random fact. "Draw your own conclusions" is not helpful.
It really depends on what you're doing. Anki is the perfect tool for memorizing vocabulary in a new language, but it's not a replacement for practicing your writing or other creative endeavors. Each technique has its place.
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I've completed my Bachelor of Computer Science in just 3 months thanks to deliberate practice and memorization techniques (flashcards, Anki).

It shows how outdated our education system is and how much better it could be.
The entire point is that you don’t need a phone to do any of this, just like you don’t need a spike gun if you have a hammer when building a house. If you feel that liberates you, go ahead and do whatever you want, but when you’re preaching to others about how they’re somehow going against our innate human nature, that’s when I get a bit annoyed.

Don’t you think it’s pretty obvious that this exact line of reasoning could be made against the use of books on public transport if we were discussing this in the 1800s? Why are you fine with distracting yourself with a book, but reading the news on a smartphone is somehow different?
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>I see it as perhaps the corporations being very savvy in choosing what to attack and being willing to wait for ages for the perfect circumstances.

Yes, RIAA has all the savvy of a deranged stalker.
Not git, but I believe fossil[1] does this.

[1]: https://www.fossil-scm.org/
Well, Anki isn’t meant to be used on its own. You are supposed to be doing those other things and Anki assists. Like if you were using it in a college chemistry course you’d have numerous facts in Anki, but still doing labs and other homework and things to exercise the knowledge. Anki itself is meant to help you remember better, but other things are needed to fully exercise that knowledge in appropriate contexts.

I use it with Spanish, but without conversations with my wife and others or trying to read Spanish language content it would be a useless exercise on its own.
Indeed. I see the value of Anki for rote memorization, e.g. studying for a fact-based exam. But for more reasoning-based domains I'm skeptical.
Adulthood is already super delayed compared to 50-100 years ago. I'd rather see the trend reverse than further help it.
>Most people believe more Democrats are voting via mail

It's not necessary to "believe" anything when it comes to Florida. We have the actual hard number of ballots requested and returned, broken down by party registration. More Democrats are voting via mail. They're also voting in-person in equal numbers to Republicans, at least so far.
Well, clearly not having money is not comparable to not having a phone.

But you are just proving the OP original article. Why not just try something different rather than pointlessly arguing about the intricacies of it all on the internet
They need to ban in-flight use of CPAP now. I was shocked when I had to fly and the person next to me mid-flight, started using a machine that the CDC, the NIH and many others warn will aerosolize SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses and spread them far and wide.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7298691/
> Woah. That's a huge generalization.

What do you think the letter does?

But I will agree with fpip. India has so many fundamental problems that will require serious government and public change.

My state will not have enough drinking water for 30%+ of its population by 2030. Prices of food will go up as ground water becomes non existent. How do you think that will impact people?

Educated people are fleeing the country. They are willing to take any jobs to get out before it's too late.
I use Nextcloud, run it on a dedicated server at home running FreeBSD.

My wife and I use it exclusively to auto-backup our mobile photos.

With that in mind, I'd say that yes it works, but is it the right tool? Not really.

First, we don't use the web stuff at all, the app isn't great when it comes to choosing what, how and to which folders things should be synced. It is however useful that I can share my auto-upload folder with my wife's account so she can print the photos I take of our baby daughter, she's almost exclusively the subject of our mobile photographs these days.

Finally, you're almost guaranteed to break it every few updates. I've spent several evening over the past couple of years recovering from updates. Much of this is likely down to my lack of knowledge of FreeBSD, but honestly, it shouldn't be breaking in the first place.

I began writing something in something in Golang, that would use microservices to read out exit data, generate thumbnails and provide APIs to give family members custom photo frames we could push photos to. Unfortunately I haven't had the motivation to continue working on it.

I'll keep looking for something else with good Android apps, preferably written in Golang so it's lean and easy to update that'll do the backup/sharing.
>This is exactly the kind of absurd, completely surreal type of argumentation I’m talking about. You’re literally comparing a smartphone to one of the most dangerous and addictive opioids available, responsible for 15 000 overdose deaths annually in the US alone.

You've missed the whole point. I'm answering the crap argument "Phones have value. That’s why people use them." - showing that people use things that don't have value (and can even be hamrful) all the time.

It's not about the relative danger of phone vs heroin. It's about "people use it, thus it has value" is a crap argument.

In fact, I also included fast food (which people don't overdose from), on my counter-argument, which you conveniently ignored.

>And in case you perhaps didn’t actually read my comment, I pointed out the fact that I was one of those people who visited grocery stores in the 90s, which is why I know that doing it today is easier than it was back then. That’s the whole point.

No, the whole point is that it's only marginally easier, to the point of hardly being worth it just for those kind of conveniences, while creating its own problems, which can have a much worse impact in one's life than "I missed the grocery store open times"...

http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/dopamine-smartphones-...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171130090041.h...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235285321...
Piracy is something done at sea by pirates. Copyright infringement requires distribution, that is the core of the offense.
The code still in pypi, you can still get it from there

https://pypi.org/project/youtube-dlc/#files
Try something like this.
https://ophir.alwaysdata.net/dezoomify/dezoomify.html
I really liked Perelandra and the space trilogy books from C.S. Lewis. Recommend read if your interested in exploring the Christian worldview and thoughts on aliens.
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So, the wealthier you are, the more you pay, the greater your audience, and the less real people get seen.

Isn’t that where we are now with society and social media?

I don’t think this solves a problem, but it sure does create a few.
Congratulations!

My copy arrived yesterday!
You seem to be trying to describe the point of my own post to me, I don't get why you would do that. I know the point of my own post.

As I have just written to someone else above - you are just proving the OP original article. Why not just try something different rather than pointlessly arguing about the intricacies of it all on the internet..
I realize we're talking about music and google here, but i'm curious how people feel about Audible and Kindle? I made a fairly large bet on Audble+Kindle because we ran out of space in our home for books (as well as the portability.) Our entire library is now on Kindle with elaborate notes -- how big a risk do you think this is?

(to compare risks, btw, in the past my past home got majorly flooded (Hurricane Sandy) and we also lost all our books+music cassettes in 1992 during the Nor'Easter...so it isnt like any option is w/o risks though of course there are levels of risk and levels of damage)
That diffusion isn't efficient is not surprising as it's an almost purely entropy-generating process.

But does centrifuge enrichment not use still, in absolute terms, a large amount of energy?

Looking at the EROEI numbers of different enrichment levels:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EROEI#EROEI_and_payback_period...
And "making money" in the financial services sector generally isn't actively making anything real (be it physical or "intellectual" property), just rearranging speculation and layers of middlemen taking a percentage cut for their "work".
Semi unrelated, but I had never seen that webasembly site wapm, its pretty cool!
Pro tip: review flash cards while taking a bio break instead of social media, etc.
I thought a second preimage attach implied a collision attack?
Your memory is like a muscle. Most people don't use their memory very much in their daily lives and so their ability to remember things atrophies. You need to exercise it regularly.

Memory is also a skill. People have all kinds of techniques to remember things more easily, for instance med students use a lot of mneumonics. The key is to make memories stronger by building associations. Memories that are islands die faster. Associations with places are especially strong, which is the genesis of the "memory palace" technique where you imagine a palace with rooms containing the things that you want to remember. But any association will do. For instance, when I'm learning a language I like to make up a little story for each word. Using your episodic memory is a great way to increase strength of memories.
How does it work anyhow? It must do more than `wget` the mp4
I really don't think there is some general "common sense" that will teach people about money.

I'm damn near middle aged. Taxes and investment are a mystery to me. I have enough money for it to be relevant. My main problem is probably that I have a distrust of anyone who would want to give me money advice.
This is such unmerited speculation.

> Look all I'm saying is that if we let the free market do whatever it wanted with gene therapy, cancer would be cured already. The market innovates. Look at SpaceX.

You can't dismiss huge technical challenges and engineering problems with "uh the free market can probably innovate a solution." Likely what would happen is a dozen nuclear startups would spring up like mushrooms after rain, vacuum up hundreds of millions in VC funding, spin their wheels for five years, and then dry up, leaving us with nothing.

The market isn't there to innovate. It's there to generate revenue, and it only innovates insofar as it is easy and profitable to do so. It's not a magic wand you can wave at situations you dislike. Frankly, if you want someone to innovate for you, ask the government [1].

[1]: https://time.com/4089171/mariana-mazzucato/
Phones are useful when that predictability breaks down, especially when others are involved in the changing plans.
IMO it's not "smartphones" but the OSes built by apple and google that encourage unhealthy and addictive usage.

None of my pre "smartphone" PDAs did this, and I don't feel myself sucked into the mindless addictive patterns on my PinePhone (although that may be because Firefox can be sluggish on it.)
Created after the 9/11 plane hijackings, people were scared.

“Never let a good crisis go to waste“ comes to mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act#History
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Yes, but I've never considered it important enough to say

"I'd better be saddled with a device that can be addictive, that I spend hours on end each day on, that everybody I known can harass me at any time, any where on, that keeps tabs on all kinds of things including my every movement

-- lest I repeat this visited-a-closed-store blunder...

I'm not saying that a smartphone is not immesely useful -- I use mine for notes, video, photos (including pro work), phonecalls (duh), messaging, and so on.

I'm saying that "gives us things like grocery store times or gps routes" (or many combinations of such things) is hardly an argument for smartphones as "indispensable", nor a reason not to consider their, often serious, downsides (behavioral, cognitive, social, privacy, etc)
Asking in good faith: data to back you up? Just my anecdata, growing up living in apartments with 8 siblings at one point, many friends who grew up in foster homes and trailer parks - maybe 1 or 2 I could recall who were “doing everything right” but still poor, and that seemed primarily because they were on disability and elderly.

The rest? Spent every paycheck, griped about immigrants and how the govt takes too much, bought lottery tickets, tons of toys at Christmas. One couple even lost had his kids taken away by CPS, was told they’d get them back once they could move out of the hotel they were living in and demonstrate they could stick to a budget - they spent their tax refund on a used Mustang.

Perhaps there are plenty of people who save what they can, make smart financial decisions, and STILL struggle in poverty. That’s not the case in my experience, but I’d love to be wrong. The hardest part about escaping may just be having no clue how to, or just plain refusing to implement it.
CPAP is still allowed for use in-flight on commercial U.S. airlines. It shouldn't be.
Is it possible to do remote therapy?

Maybe you have already read these blog posts on lateral lisps, but they seem useful with try-at-home programs:

* https://www.grahamspeechtherapy.com/blog/the-secret-to-corre...

* https://www.speechandlanguagekids.com/speech-therapy-frontal...
I had the same error with contacts on Google Contacts disappearing repeatedly when I changed phones and tried to re-sync. Contact information is so important in business that once you lose it you dump the product forever. Google Contacts immediately stopped being my Master Copy, though I use it as a convenience.

I really wish I could set my own permissions, it seemed like it had some multi-master bug.
Got it, I'm a creator of comment-section content.
You aren’t as well informed as you think. Bubba Wallace didn’t notify the authorities of the noose, his crew members did. Also it wasn’t his place, it was in the garage at the track. He wasn’t aware of the situation until after his team/nascar notified him of what was going on. He wasn’t the one who contacted the FBI, nascar did. Get your facts right. Also what is a regular garage noose?