skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going through the piece, he builds upon things that make sense but then just completely goes off the rails at the end. I don’t even know what the point of the article is.

It comes across as science/intellectual shaming.

> Possibly illiterate dilettantes on the internet might see and bring to attention legitimate theoretical flaws.

And if the flaws are legitimate, no matter how much work a scientist has done, then he has to take these into account now. Science is incremental and self-correcting. Is it a flaw if someone points out something wrong?

> All the years you spend in graduate school counting angels on pinheads in your respective theoretical framework is mostly a waste of time.

What is the point of saying this? There are dead ends to science and some of these dead ends may seem like wastes of time but it’s all about incremental knowledge and discoveries. If something revolutionary comes along that disproves years of work, then that for science is a success.

> Most of the scientific work is not meaningful outside of the theoretical framework that gave rise to it.

What does this mean? Isn’t this “theoretical framework” based on our observations? Sure there is this chance that it might be wrong but if most of our data and observations show that this is true, then it is until proven otherwise.

If someone tells you that the earth might be flat and what we can see with our eyes and what we currently know might not be true, is that sufficient evidence to make you think, “oh the earth might be flat after all”?
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> In Against Method, Paul Feyerabend, in what an unreflective mind might misinterpret as a "troll," says that it is important for science that people have biases, financial interests, interfering religious and political doctrines and the like in science.

Also dying, and new generations coming along is in the interest of science. quite ironically the development of eternal life would kill scientific progress, which might be the great filter after all.
If you don't mind, I'll plug a little innovation of my own: mixing ordered and error diffusion dithering. The idea behind it is actually pretty simple: technically all forms of dithering use a threshold map, we just don't tend to think of it when it's one flat threshold for the entire image. So there is nothing stopping us from decoupling the threshold map from the rest of the dithering algorithm, meaning it's trivial to combine error diffusion with more complex threshold maps:

https://observablehq.com/@jobleonard/ordered-error-diffusion...

(For the record, I picked a default example that highlighted a "hybrid" dither with a very dramatic difference from its "parents" instead of the prettiest result)

Interestingly, and perhaps not surprisingly, a variable threshold map interacts with the error diffusion itself, making it amplify local contrast and recover some fine detail in shadows and highlights (although also possibly overdoing it and crushing the image again).

What's also somewhat interesting (to me at least) that this is really simple to implement: take any error diffusion dithering kernel and make it use the threshold map from ordered dithering. In principle it should have been possible to use them on any old hardware that can handle error diffusion dithering.
for telegram you need a phone number as well, which is bad if not for security, then for privacy reasons
Huh, interesting that he got such a breakdown from his ISP. I wonder how difficult it is to get that data without his kind of circumstance. Can I ask my ISP for it? Would they bother?
"This information is very important."

Years != Experience

...but thanks for confirming the shallowness of the recruiting processes we've all experienced.
my bad, should be fixed now!
We need another panda update.
> (There are other ways we can then cross validate that.)

Tell me more, I'm interested.

> by positing that the virus became more deadly.

I posit that inappropriate treatments make the virus more deadly than it has to be.
Yes. Google should have an office in the capital of every state/country and maybe every city of over 1 million people where you can go and get things fixed when you really need to. Charge $50 to cover cost an I would be happy to pay it if needed (although the PR hit for doing that would be high).

I really need to transition more things off of the Google ecosystem.
I am literally old enough to remember the arguments for Section 230 when it was voted into law. And they basically boiled down to "this internet thing is too new, let's protect these tiny new companies now that they are starting up by removing liability".

Totally made sense at the time. A quarter of a century later, these are now the largest companies in the history of humanity. We should at least be able to discuss what kind of liability we should be able to put on them.
Anyone else thought that they would be annoyed if the ISP was able to tell me this data? I don't want them tracking which services I communicate with...

Maybe I should start self-hosted VPN if I actually cared...
Oh come on you can just build more commercial real estate. Who cares about the workers? They can just live on the street.

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I think that the >70% number is misleading. It's 70% of cases for which we have data where the transmission happened. For a good majority of cases the transmission happened at an unknown place. It's just that for those where it is known, most are happening at home (as opposed to e.g. at work). Those unknown transmissions are what you want to attack with a mass testing regime. That seems entirely doable, given cheap and simple testing at home.
Any examples of what is supposed to work this way? It sounds like a rant against quantum measurement by someone who thinks everyone just forgot to consider hidden variable theories.
According to some EMT on reddit, in LA County they sometimes are but in most of California they aren't. This document is really just bringing LA County in line with the rest of the state and codifying the common practices/exceptions.
Suggest retitle: guy who agreed to a half-million-dollar cash transaction, with people he met on the internet, in their car, got mugged.
Sure it is valid, but in reality most scientists don’t religiously stick to Ockham’s razor and oppose alternative theories that give correct predictions.

If hard sticking to Ockham’s razor was true, Quantum loop Gravity, String Theory and many other theories wouldn’t be intensively studied for past 50 years. Or development and studying interpretations of quantum mechanics (which btw yielded results in Quantum Information Theory).

It’s just that constructing something correct and new IS really hard.
They mean google does not have access to the password, as that is done via a one-way hash.

They can do a password reset, however would need sufficient proof of account ownership. Having access to the account is unfortunately not enough proof to show ownership, as that could be achieved with access to someone else’s device.
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It's similar in India. In Mumbai, I have a fiber-to-home 150 Mbps up/down connection. I pay the equivalent of $9 per month. FUP is 3.3 TB per month.

For mobile data, I have a plan that gives 2 GB per day for the cost of <$3 per month.
The real issue IMO was that the lockdown wasn't strict enough, or enforced. Many, many stores were open, many workplaces were deemed essential, masks were not generally worn in the first phase of the lockdowns, and while indoor dining at restaurants was closed, indoor dining at your friend's house was wide open.

The three places that I know of that have gotten cases to zero are China, New Zealand, and Australia, and they all used lockdowns that were far stricter than in the U.S.

The problem is that a soft lockdown doesn't bring R low enough to eradicate the virus quickly, and people won't stomach it dragging on for months. I also don't believe that it can be done on the honor system. There must be police writing tickets or worse for violations, or there is a segment of the population that will ignore whatever measures that are enacted. Unfortunately sometimes these are even identifiable groups of people that all socialize together in violation of health orders, so the virus will spread within these communities regardless of whatever the governor puts on a piece of paper and makes a speech about.
> You've neglected to argue as to why these needs should be artificially subsidized by the issuance of state-enforced monopolies for certain concepts.

... What? Avicebron argued that "financial reciprocation" should not be a priority of a creator, I countered that idealism won't keep you alive for long, and that creators need to make money to be able to create. Your post is completely beside the point.
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Charles Proxy is great. I think it’s a good idea to advocate NOT connecting your phone to corp wifi, email, or slack.
There are a lot of comments that are kind of close to right but missing context here. This is extremely common, and like all of prehospital care is heavily protocol driven. Dead people encountered by EMS / public safety are a much larger superset than those typically "saved" in a hospital setting, and those that meet the criteria to either stop, or not begin resuscitation really have no reason to be transported.

The link below is an example of EMS protocols that would cover this. Here's a snippet.

"Discontinuation of Prehospital Resuscitation"

1. Discontinuation of CPR and ALS intervention may be implemented prior to contact with
Medical Control if ALL of the following criteria have been met:
Patient must be 18 years of age or older, or family of a minor is agreeable after
consultation with the APP or District Chief.
Adequate CPR has been administered.
Airway has been successfully managed with verification of device placement.
Acceptable management techniques include orotracheal intubation, nasotracheal
intubation, Blind Insertion Airway Device (BIAD) placement, or cricothyrotomy.
IV or IO access has been achieved.
Rhythm appropriate medications and defibrillation have been administered according
to protocol.
Persistent asystole or agonal rhythm is present and no reversible causes are identified
after a minimum of 25 minutes of resuscitation.
Failure to establish sustained palpable pulses or to establish persistent/recurring
ventricular fibrillation/tachycardia or lack of any continued neurological activity such as eye
opening or motor responses
All EMS paramedic personnel involved in the patient’s care agree that discontinuation
of the resuscitation is appropriate
2. If all of the above criteria are not met and discontinuation of pre-hospital resuscitation is
possibly indicated or desired, contact Medical Control.
3. The Deceased Subjects Policy should be followed.

http://www.wakegov.com/ems/medical/Documents/WCEMSS%20Standa...
There is person who put their 5c about Signal in every post about Telegram. Signal have terrible UI. And doesn't provide any additional value since your friends doesn't use it.
There is also Mattermost which is literally like Slack, but self-hosted.
I just moved to LA from New York State in December, and it seems to me that the number one problem here is noncompliance.

Agreed. I see far too many people out without masks. It's scary.
"Physicists are “stuck” with existing theories not because they like them, but because they work so well it’s hard to invent something that even works equally well"

Yes, but hundred years ago we were "stuck" with another worldview that was explaining everything fine, and i assume ther was a big resistance from estabilishment to addopt new ideas. But then old scientist died, and resistance got weaker. So we might look back at today after 100 yaers and see similar situation. No one says that ideas of 100 yaers ago were all wrong, just not so true as current.
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I'm guessing if the numbers are accurate, it might have to do with the supply of Zen 2 and earlier drying up for some reason. I've been looking at parts for customer builds and the market is a barren desert.
I am sure it is Mbps not MBPS. Same here with Jio Fiber [1]. Get 100 Mbps with 400GB data per month at at 699₹ (approx 10$) per month.

[1]: https://www.jio.com/fiber/en-in/plans
The author's argues that the 50-50 model of chess is less true and a dead-end.

If this is a matter of which model to use then fair enough, you may wish to use a more exact model than the 50-50 model; but the author is not arguing about which model to use, they are arguing about which model to pursue building upon.

Building upon any model of interest is not a dead end (because it is being built upon!). Even if the underlying principles of the model of interest need to be changed to accomplish something else in the future, it is still useful to develop the model. Approximate truths can also have deep meaning and are sometimes even more generalizable to multiple areas of reality than exact answers. Approximations are no less true than trying to be exact, they are just saying a different thing. Neither is inferior to the other, or at least if exactness really is better than approximation, this is not a good argument for it.

Another commenter pointed out that some models need to be thrown out in order to make room for the new (e.g. the earth-centric view of the solar system had to go at some point), and I think that's valid and hard to argue against; and it seems to align with what the author is saying. But the work done upon the old models was certainly not worth nothing. For one thing, the work done upon the old models is what made the new work possible. I think perhaps the author's issue is that they do not acknowledge that the 50-50 model of chess has value.

p.s. to the author if they read the comments: I actually enjoyed reading your thoughts even if I disagree with them.
I love how we let ISPs get away with advertising speeds to consumers in bits per second when all data, like file size, is displayed to those consumers in bytes. Everyone basically thinks their speed is 8x faster than it is.

I am still regularly fooled by it.
Hold up. That's a bit of a strawman argument. He didn't say "country full of white people", he specifically mentioned socioeconomic status. Socioeconomic status generally correlates negatively with criminality. There's nothing inherently racist about that statement, it's just stating that:

- desperate people will do desperate things to survive

- oppressed people are bound to lash out

- the poor are powerless against authority

- people in poorer neighbourhoods are prone to overpolicing

- destitute people are more likely to succumb to substance abuse

If he said recidivism or crime rates were higher because the population was black/hispanic/etc, that would obviously be racist.
Since we’re interested in security features, an even better comparison would be with SSL, which has had many exploits.

But Bitcoin also has a primary implementation which is software and that hasn’t had any major heists either.
thats not how i read the OP
I thought it was impressively clear.

Thanks Quanta, again
The trend looks good for AMD in that case. Intel can't compete on performance or efficiency for mobile chips, so it's just a matter of time before companies start shifting to AMD laptops in greater numbers. Especially since Intel still hasn't been able to demonstrate anything matching AMD.
You are using your ISP to contact those websites. Even with encryption you would still need to tell your isp which ip you want to connect to.

Tor is your friend if you care about hiding this kind of info.
I suspect the metaphor is inspired by Feynman's one about gods playing chess [1]. As it's almost always the case, Feynman manages to immediately inspire and illuminate.

On the other hand, the present article seems to me to get some important things wrong. For one, it's not the case that overall white and black win 50% of the time each. More importantly though, if somebody is interested in investigating chess, they will supposedly understand that it's some activity that other (somewhat) intelligent beings are undertaking.

Even if everything seems like a blur, an alien scientist should not be content with dismissing it as uninteresting randomness. More so, if somebody actually starts investigating seriously, they will immediately obtain useful results about the game, results that should almost certainly provide useful predictions about the game outcome (at least better than "it's all random").

I might find, however, some agreement with the spirit of the article. It seems to me that, even though the author doesn't articulate it properly, the idea is that scientists should pursue more fringe theories even if immediate confirmation is lacking. I think there's quite a bit of value in this, as long as your predictions are always checked against reality.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1dgrvlWML4
> I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here

That the judge is making a novel argument that there is no longer any barrier to extraditing people from the UK to the US for political offenses, despite what it clearly says in the treaty. As I understand it, this is a contentious issue, and most commentators had previously expected the political offenses exception to hold. The argument that the judge made - that the terms set out in extradition treaties are irrelevant in extradition hearings - does not appear to be as straightforwardly accepted as you're claiming. My understanding is that the Extradition Act of 2003 itself, without the treaty, is not sufficient to extradite Assange. If the treaty with the US did not also exist, there would be no extradition to the US. So to argue that the defendant derives no protections from the text of the treaty is quite a strange argument.

If people can now be extradited from the UK to the US for political offenses, that is a major development with extremely worrying consequences. Now that the US is treating national security reporting as espionage, if UK journalists are no longer protected by the traditional political offenses exception, they are open to prosecution in the US.
Missing features:
- your friends doesn't use it
- there is no public channels you like
- there is no bots you use every day
- your code have no integration with messenger API
Singapore allows police to use data from mandatory Covid-19 tracing app
> On the other hand, BTC lacks all these attributes. Its value is largely based on common perception of value.

The same can be said for gold. Why would being pretty, durable and impossible to manufacture justify an intrinsic value?
MK14? You were lucky!

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Dint do much, but were still t'envy o t'village. Computer clubs'd come from Scarborough and Bridlington, even Durham, to look a' it.

But you tell your young people now what it were like then and they don't believe you.
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This would be the case only in those countries where everyone is a donor by default (unless explicitly you opt out).

I don't think most countries have laws like that though.
Oh man I need this so badly, will try it out soon!
It is an interesting approach to physics and good luck to them. But the video isn't promising. The reason a physicist models a thing as a random variable is because they don't know of a way to distinguish the thing from a random variable.

Dr. Deutsch spent far too much time talking about the fact that at a high level there are a lot of things we are certain about. That is very weak evidence of what is happening at the quantum level. The important part isn't conceiving of something as deterministic. That is easy to do. Proving it experimentally will be the hard part.

There is nothing to report until there is an experiment that people can hold up saying "see! we found it! This part is deterministic not probabilistic!".
Deserves to be on the front page. This is crazy fire.
Asking without irony: What place in Canada today would be equal to Toronto in the 1990s?
LA County sends FD paramedics to pretty much every 911 call
1000 lines... + nginx.

This looks really interesting, but I think I'd sell it as "using nginx as a key-value store" rather than a key value store in less than 1000 lines.
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