skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like but I'd want a stance/definitions that also encompass what the newcomers are to experience as they onboard. Will the software quality be as high for the next person as it is now? How are they going to climb these steps?
To add to that: don't ever sit or stand on any covers, you might fall down a chimney
If the group of agencies is relatively small, this can be done just fine by having all the entities sign each change in state, no need for blockchain.

(And if one of the agencies has the ability to acquire more computing power than the others are currently contributing to the blockchain - which is almost always true in this era of cloud computing - they can attack the blockchain just fine. Yes, it will be "obvious" in that it won't match anyone else's records, but the whole point here is that you're not trusting the majority's records, you're trusting the blockchain, right? Who is to say the majority are not lying?)
I think there are a few things going on here:

a) The spread of contagion before measures where imposed. Sweden was a few days later than the other Nordics in taking action, and may have been in a further advanced state to begin with.
b) Safety equipment. Sweden had no functioning central reserves for health care gear.
c) Failure to protect the vulnerable. The nursing homes are a mix of private and public, but all are administered at the municipal level. Proper care was not taken to protect the elderly, largely due to lack of local know how and incompetent central response.

I’ve been a staunch defender of the Swedish strategy, but it seems like there’s no avoiding the conclusion that the path taken by the other nordics may have been smarter in that it contained the spread until adequate supplies could be secured, good routines established and treatment options better understood. (To be fair to FHM that devised the strategy, b and c are certainly on other authorities.)

Significantly, although all the nordics now have a climbing number of cases, none has seen a sharp rise in the number of deaths. Mean time from hospitilization to death is around 18 days, so the resurgence has been ongoing for long enough that it’d have been noticeable by now.

It seems like the Swedish path may have two main benefits left:

1) Fewer vulnerable children were hurt by being sent home. Fewer women locked in with abusive partners. Nordic lock downs were less drastic, and may have avoided some of it, but at the global level it’s numbing to think of the suffering of children this year.
2) In terms of GDP growth, the indication is that Sweden didn’t do much better than the other nordics, but I think it’s still to early to gauge the long term economic benefits of a soft strategy. Maybe Sweden ended up taking on less debt per capita, for instance? I haven’t seen numbers on that, but school closings in particular are expensive, and so seems like reasonable speculation. Time will tell.

The economic benefits are probably not going to turn out to be compelling enough to justify the potentially avoidable deaths. From a utilitarian perspective, I think the first point may be though. The deaths have largely been people towards the end of their life. I think the constructive way to view it is that we should consider all years of a humans life equal. Is it worth sacrifying an 80 year old to save a 10 year old from being beaten up at home? If it hurts that kid for life in a tangible way, then yeah, that grim calculus may just work out.
That is how Amazon is growing. I fear it. They have managed to push into lots of vertical markets and even critical infrastructure now.
Real people are seldom seen on traditional social media.

People say whatever they want when the product is free, and especially behind a keyboard.

But when your voice and a price is attached to what you have to say, you might be more cognitive about the value of your social contribution and time spent.

My two cents.
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I think the confusion comes from the colloquial use of "wolves"

Dogs most likely evolved from a species of wolf , with an intermediary proto dog like a dingo or pariah dog in between. https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2014/0117/Did-dogs-really-...

However when most people say "evolved from wolves", there's a weird association with modern grey wolves without an intermediary step.

So in effect you're both right, but depending on what your respective perceptions of wolf is.
Incidentally...

> The Ø in ZeroMQ is all about tradeoffs. On the one hand this strange name lowers ZeroMQ’s visibility on Google and Twitter. On the other hand it annoys the heck out of some Danish folk who write us things like “ØMG røtfl”, and “Ø is not a funny looking zero!” and “Rødgrød med fløde!”, which is apparently an insult that means “may your neighbours be the direct descendants of Grendel!” Seems like a fair trade.

https://zguide.zeromq.org/docs/preface/
This. People keep wanting to strip the money from the technology in blockchain but, like many have stated: blockchain as a append only log is of little innovation or value if you have to rely on courts, lawyers and other humans outside of the technology to make it work
hallucinogens in general indeed forcefully show one things like this.

but it's really about realizing and acknowledging a separation between what we are, our language, and the way in which the elements of language (symbols-vocabulary) are representations distinct from what they represent, with this, one can realize that life and death, while distinct concepts within language, are in fact aspects of a whole which cannot be logically fitted into languages such as ours.
You need a mechanism to make sure that a particular vehicle is being trustworthy about what it adds to the blockchain. A malicious entity could just report that other vehicles were at fault.

One straightforward way to solve that is to say that only known car manufacturers may upload results and it must be signed by something that chains to the manufacturer's key - but at that point, you don't need a blockchain for this.
You say that: “Broadly speaking blockchain only solves a singular problem: Trust.” but there is another equally significant contribution that deserves to be acknowledged: scarcity.

Bits & bytes can be cloned effortlessly by computers which is why a version of Photoshop ripped from a DVD is indistinguishable from the same version downloaded from a CDN as an iso. As long as the hashes match, you wont be able to tell apart the master copy from its 1000th copy.

For money to be valuable, in addition to trust, it also needs to be scarce in the physical sense. Blockchains allow us to engender that illusion of scarcity in the digital world, otherwise it would be impossible to tell apart the binary representation of a $10,000 currency note in one computer node from counterfeits held by other nodes in a network.
The ∅ symbol (U+2205 in Unicode), even though it's inspired by, is not the same as the letter Ø (U+00D8 in Unicode), and has been, for almost a century already, the "correct" way to represent an empty set in mathematical notation (alongside {}).

That is the meaning everyone that does not primarily use the Northern European alphabet (aka most people in the world) assume it has.

Maybe suppress your instinctive outrage next time, or if you really need to be angry at something, at least direct it at the right place: the dead mathematician who proposed it [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Weil
> I am also told that judging people's physical appearance is immoral or even shaming.

Those who told you that will also claim, on other contexts, that we have a right to our affectional preferences.
Most likely a little bit of both.
Think harder, and maybe you'll come up with an alternate hypothesis.
Maybe they were high earners who had any number of setbacks. There are plenty of ways anyone can stumble financially.

Most people also make financial mistakes. The people who had help, or enough slack to recover shouldn't look down on the ones who don't.
We are using 0mq for monitoring of electric vehicles fleet. Millions of messages every day (hundreds of GB), zero problems with bad internet connection (common in moving vehicles). Every sent message is received regardless of connectivity issues. Just a little implementation annoyances here and there but it is serving us well since 2015.
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I a not a specialist in Data science / ML.
But maybe you can have a look at :
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They're right though. It's the same with the human, Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens are both related to Homo Erectus but not each other, like the modern dog and modern wolves do not relate to each other.
Sampling bias? Start with the premises that:

a) “needy” women prefer a man with a dog, since that signals that the man likes a needy pet and is more likely to be after a needy partner,

b) there are many more needy woman on dating websites (I can think of many reasons that could be true!)
You might find this an interesting read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helmet
Safeguarding nuclear parts blueprints. https://www.coindesk.com/how-the-bitcoin-blockchain-is-being...
Also if you have a not-tiny puppy, the first year means a lot of damage. You will have to replace a few things you did not expect. I'm pretty sure I spent ~$1k, although this will scale with the worth of your possessions.

Edit: jinxed myself, just went out to see a throw pillow gutted and spread around.
I don't think that's changed.
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I have always thought that he was on to something.

I think it's actually quite impressive that he saw something incoming which only now (20 years later) is becoming feasable.

then again, a lot of people think I am also crazy, so there's that
"Our sample is a very specific population – heterosexual, primarily white women, aged 18 to 24 years and living in the United States."

I did not even start dating until I was older than that.
JPMorgan turns bullish on Bitcoin citing ‘potential long-term upside’
> No, I did not say anything at all about Article 13. Please re-read what I said.

What? You very clearly stated that the content of Article 13 makes it easy to predict that the EU will attempt to make ad blocking illegal in the foreseeable future. (Granted, the response to that didn't make much sense - the current law doesn't have to directly affect end users for us to make a reasonable prediction based on it that laws proposed in the future would attempt to do just that.)

> Wrong. Copying something, without distribution, is still violating copyright.

That really depends on the jurisdiction and context. For example, in the US, making backup copies of materials licensed in perpetuity (ex a movie on VHS) is (always, AFAIK) permitted. Another example is recording broadcast TV for the purpose of time shifting it (ie watching it later), which has been explicitly permitted by the courts here. Yet another example is ripping CDs for personal use, which falls under fair use in the US and is therefore not a violation.
This article was previously published in Nature (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24857199) and hasn't gotten any better since then.

An opinion piece published in Nature is still just an opinion piece. As usual, this one talks about "untold death and suffering" potentially caused by Covid without comparing it to the death and suffering caused by avoiding infections at all costs. It downplays the damage lockdowns and social isolation cause and compares them to the worst-case estimates for the damage Covid might cause. This is not how you make rational decisions.

> In the US, probably one to two million people would die

For context: That's 0.3-0.6% of the population. The usual death rate is 0.86% per year.[1] Calling this "untold death and suffering" is disingenuous.

> But models that calculate numbers at the lower end of that range rely on assumptions about how people interact in social networks that might not hold true, Scarpino says.

So do the models that calculate more pessimistic numbers. Relying on assumptions that might not hold true is what models do. However:

> Low-end estimates imagine that people with many contacts will get infected first, and that because they have a large number of contacts, they will spread the virus to more people.

How could this possibly not hold true?
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We lived under that model, and it sucks for a lot of people.

Barons also provided for the common defense. An unlocked software architecture and untrusted code leaves people at the mercy of hackers, it doesn't empower the average user.

We can do that defense of users better than we're doing right now, by divorcing the trust model from the paid vendor model, but it's worth noting how we got here in the first place and why where we are now is better for a lot of people than where we were. If we can't recognize that, it's hard to make a value proposition that people will actually sign on to.
The way I read it, it's about as ready as it was a year ago, or more...
I was too young in the 90's to know about him, but in the early 00's people definitely didn't think him crazy. Linux was doing well and his contributions to its success were recognised, even if he didn't get as much credit as he wanted (should've got?). I feel it's the past ten years that he's become more notorious for his quirks and his gaffes.

For someone who was such a large philosophical influence on our industry he had some basic sociological lessons to learn, which in the past ten years have been a more dominant topic in the industry than software freedom. Both are important topics, and it's unfortunate that software freedom has taken a backseat recently.

Even though we have Linux, I would love to see more dominant GPL projects out there. It is an excellent license when used strategically and I think it's dismissed as too extreme too often.
The fact that it just works, and very easy to add endpoints, made it a no-brainer. I might not leave it alone with my kids but it works great as an RPC pipe.
The micro:bit doesn't have enough buttons or pixels, but you can maybe go the other direction: the "meowbit" appears to be compatible with both MakeCode Arcade and micro:bit accessories—although maybe you have to use MicroPython instead of micro:bit MakeCode to do microcontroller stuff? It would definitely be cool to have something that is perfectly compatible with both.
This article isn't about the virus at all. It's about lockdowns causing insomnia and mental illness.
I did skim some Jordan Peterson a few years ago, though I find him a to be a bit too much of a rambler. I don't know who any of these other people are, though I'm happy to inform myself better.

My ideas on that are mostly shaped... Well if I think about it, probably significantly by reading Hacker News, over the years. As well as matching them with with the way I perceived reality around me and different cultures. I was fortunate enough to grow up in between three massively different cultural landscapes divided in two continents (my parents had a strong migration background on both sides), eventually move to a fourth cultural area in a third country where I met my wife and had a child, and I now live in yet another country, in a third continent (where she's from) in a country where the culture is completely unlike any of these four other cultural landscapes.

From your links it seems like Testosterone Rex and The Gendered Brain are the books I could use to approach another perspective on this subject? Along with I guess The Essencial Difference as well, in order to contextualize better what they're refuting? I'll add these three to my reading list.

I'm happy to get other recommendations.

> instead of just repeating the misogynist lens and false research you've mentioned here

Please refrain from accusations of misogyny without substantiating evidence. You're better than that. We're all adults here and free to disagree. Describing research as "false", in the way you did, ascribes to either it or me ill intent; within the scientific process, ideas can and will turn out to be wrong sometimes and that's ok. A core tenet of Hacker News is that we assume positive intent when engaging our interlocutor and their ideas.
RISC-V is the future of computing
People don't want to listen to Stallman because he talks about motivations. The number of times I've had people downvote me for pointing out all organizations will act to maximize profit regardless the cost to others is extraordinary.

It doesn't matter if it's google, mozilla, microsoft or the fsf.
The point bring that your original comparison is a bad analogy.

It should be obvious to you that something that effects millions of people is much worse than the CIA thing that only effected a couple hundred.
You can resort to name calling if you want but the fact remains that none of the countries we've sanctioned for human rights abuses have stopped them. Which becomes continued justification for maintaining sanctions. At what point do we admit that sanctions are pointless?
ok i will read your 1990s chinese language military philosophy book
I use blockchain to pay people to block phone spam.[1] It's also the subject of my patented algorithm on killing phone spam by requiring a refundable cash deposit for non-contacts phone calls. [2]
I wrote a short white paper on this theory too. [3]

[1] https://myrobocash.com/
[2] https://uspto.report/patent/app/20200304647
[3] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c1GyiVVZFDiUuxWkBCQ63qLdJgP...
Your comment made me think of the anti-apartheid boycotts against South Africa; I am not sure exactly how those worked, but it would seem that we should at least consider how that worked.
There's plenty of chart, but far more hubris. In my experience, everybody writes in charts, but the rare doctor who reads them is a saint.
Yes you don't use Anki for understanding.

First you understand something, then you convert that understanding into flashcards so it sticks in your long-term memory.
I don’t see it as an overhead, I see using shell syntax as just another DSL like regex.

There are many different use cases related to running processes—it is natural that different solutions may be preferred for different cases (check_{call,output}, with/out shell, run, Popen, pty/PIPE, threads/Asunción—all may be useful. And it is just stdlib ).
Relevant blog post: https://pineapplemonacle.blogspot.com/2014/10/dig-dug-vs-mr-...
It actually is impossible for most people for a lot of products. It would be much better to pass something like the PRIME Act[1].

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/220...
> I am also told that judging people's physical appearance is immoral or even shaming.

I think it's weird that we dance around the idea that looks aren't important when we all know otherwise.

It's why men fib about their height and are insecure about showing photos without hair, and why some women take photos that hide their true figure, and why both take very flattering angles that are unlike day-to-day appearances. There's also a plethora of data from dating websites that show being a certain ethnicity and gender have very different outcomes.

There might be some outliers but the data I've seen from online dating websites show handsome looking men get matched up a substantially higher rate than not-so-handsome guys.
> if you’re doing it intentionally, it’s probably because you believe that 432 is somehow better

Or cool in this specific case, or just different and fun. You can intentionally do 13ET as well because you want to, but without claiming it's somehow better. Or use many other choices...
> If you've ever used JSON between processes, then QSN is the exact same idea. JSON strings are also encoded (but they can't represent byte strings).

I don't see how they are anything like the same idea. JSON is an object serialization format. These objects may contain strings, and the encoding of those strings unfortunately is not binary-complete. But most importantly objects have structure. QSN is a binary string encoding format, and has no structure outside of the sequence of bytes. In any case I'm not sure why you keep bringing up JSON.

On the other hand, if it wasn't for the fact that JSON is so strongly tied to JavaScript QSN might've been a good string encoding format for it.

> There are probably people who never use JSON, and that's fine, but there are a lot more who do! The goal is absolutely for tools like grep to adopt QSN support. [1]

I know what the words mean (and I've been using JSON and grep for years), but I don't understand what that sentence means.

> Another argument is that in networking framing, you have a few choices:

I don't know what "networking framing" is. If you mean actual network packet structure, I don't expect you'll be able to convince a single network engineer that QSN is a better choice than netstrings.

In any case, I'm going to have to shut down this thread now. I don't expect anyone else is reading this, I'm not learning anything new, and I can't convince you that QSN is a bad idea for IPC.
So?

The legal system isn't boolean.
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A question to physicists:

These three quark colors and the leptops are the four vertices of one of the two tetrahedra of the 3d model at the end of the article.

All three colors of quarks come with 3 generations and 2 different charges (+2/3, -1/3).

On the other hand, for the right-handed leptons, which also come in 3 generations (electron, muon, tau), this is not the case: they all have a charge of -1.

What is the reason for this difference?
I was immediately wondering how Joe Exotic fit into this picture. He's an outlier though, and gay (not sure if relevant). Are tigers masculine, like dogs and unlike cats? Or feminine due to their relation to cats?

Also, say you are male and a cat person. Am I to believe you should lie about your fondness of dogs? I actually dislike dogs. I'm not into the dating scene as it is, but a love for dogs (with or without owning a dog) is a big minus for me. I am a cat person.