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Mandating safety is not new or draconian. We do this all the time with regulations and laws because people can't always be trusted to make decisions that aren't selfish. Vaccines fit into a category of things that seem to be personal decisions but negative impacts are communal. I'm all for personal freedoms, until yours damage mine. I know many immuno compromised people and the antivax crowd is their second biggest medical problem, after the diseases themselves. Vaccines aren't to protect you anywhere near as much as they are to protect us from you.

I'm 100% in favor of requiring vaccines and keeping the antivax crows in a silo, away from the general population. (That includes my family members who are antivax.)
Great video. And thank you so much for your continuing work measuring power consumption!

So, this board takes 90mA in full-speed run mode. That's not better than Raspberry Pi Zero (despite pico having 2000 times less RAM, and 10-20 times slower CPU). So why would one use this over Zero? Am I missing something?
So far, this thread seems surprisingly concerned about whether a giant government can get its message out about how great its genocide is. I would like to suggest, humbly, that they examine their hearts and determine whether advocating genocide is the type of thing they would want to restrict in their own terms of service. If not, please avoid criticizing Facebook for their role in spreading the propaganda used to justify the genocide in Myanmar. And if it is, please ease up on Twitter for enforcing that policy.

Personally, while I think you should be able to set up a personal webpage saying whatever you like, I find this stuff extremely distasteful and did report the Chinese embassy for advocating violence towards specific ethnic groups. It is a violation of Twitter's terms and tremendously odious.
https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/29028/20210110/covid-1...
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My roommate works for a hospital in non-clinical setting and she is required to get the flu shot in order to hinder transmission.
> Has a non-zero price, so uptake is embarrassingly low. Embarrassing for humanity that is. I've struggled to get well paid professionals to cough up the €4.

What's really weird is that people park their car somewhere and pay 8 Euro parking fee without thinking about it. But when an app (which sure lasts a lot longer then a couple of hours of parking space) costs any amount more then zero people it suddenly becomes a mental barrier for people...
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>Aldi this week became the latest grocery chain to offer employees compensation for getting vaccinated, saying it would provide workers with two hours of pay for each of the two vaccine doses.

so $100 for potentially serious consequences . sounds like a poor deal.
This. Plus, who says those ETs are of biological form anyway? Even we are thinking about AI doing most of the work, transhumanism and uploading our minds to machines, and finally, integrating with technology. Why think that a 10 million year old civilization still has flesh bodies, needs, and curiosities?

Another comment also mentioned that ETs don't necessarily share the same interests and thought process as we do, and I agree. For an insanely sophisticated civilization, mental representations and the abstract concepts they can think about are just unimaginable for us.
Maybe there's a much more interesting colony of ants nearby and we're just boring?
The reality is newtonian physics is still taught in college because for the vast majority of what people need physics for it is close enough to correct as to not matter.

I come back to this: even if we are wrong, whatever is correct still needs to fit all the observations that we have done to date. I don't know what we will know in 1000 years. Euclidean geometry is over 2000 years old and still considered correct (though we have expanded on it a lot - see in particular non-euclidean geometry)
It only takes one.

If you assume that the real hurdle is there being any aliens, such that many advanced alien species are almost as likely to exist as one, then indeed the majority may not want to study us 'ants'... but it only takes one.

A similar argument applies to many other things, like nuclear weapons, or any other future superweapons.

It also applies to worries around AGI or artificial general intelligence. The majority of research facilities may sign on to and implement very good ethics around releasing the software, or halting it if X happens. But it only takes one.
How is "break everyone's ridiculous dependency on a handful of platforms" meaningfully different from GPs version, "take power back from big tech"?

Doesn't big tech have power because so many people depend on this small set of platforms?
Yup, very annoying. Definite anti-pattern.
Or poor and highly populated countries. If only a small chunk of a country like India downloads a movie, it'll hit the top 10 downloads easily.
And the US built a global network of microphones to track them called SOSUS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOSUS
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There's a fundamental difference between storing value and investment.

You're right that it's good to invest in productive assets. That said, there is still a need to store and represent value, and to be able to transfer it, divide it, etc.

If you look up the history of money, it actually shows that using something with tangible value (e.g. salt) is a bad idea for multiple reasons. This is why the U.S. dollar is not backed by oil, corn, salt, shares of Berkshire Hathaway, etc. This is what made gold historically a good money as well, as it historically had more use as a status symbol/symbol of wealth than actual industrial uses (this may not hold for the future).
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What do you mean by "something like covid"? Covid-19 has resulted in over 2 million deaths, 400k of which are in the US. It has brought the US life expectancy down by a full year. The death rate varies by age, but is roughly equivalent to a full year's worth of mortality risk, concentrated into a single event. And we fundamentally do not know what other long-term risks there are from it. The vaccine carries less risk than the disease.

"Something like Covid" is exactly the sort of disease that should be vaccinated against. The only reason why this is being done at an employer level rather than at a government level is because the federal government under the previous administration plugged its ears and refused to acknowledge the severity of the disease.
> Why was Netflix putting effort in to supporting a device that the vendor clearly didn't care about?

Because they supported a device USERS care about. They were focusing on their customers and user. Why would they punish users for something some random other corpo did?
Omg I just watched it... that, that shouldn't exist. A lot of production quality went into that.. and yet if I tried to convince anyone to use Threema based off that vid they'd balk.
like linux app return codes.
The USSR had the same issues that large companies do because central planning was modeled on a corporate model.

Internally, corporations function like centrally planned economies.
It’s been expected from the phase 3 trials, probably because your immune system reacts much more quickly and overshoots: https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/12/18/vaccine-side-effects-what-to-...
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The textbook example is when they wanted to reduce the rat population somewhere and paid people for (catching and) bringing in dead rats. Instead, people started to breed them and "sell" the dead specimens to the city.
Not for individuals. No idea what rules there are for developers, but an individual can buy land anywhere and is not required to have any of those things when they build their home. The only things almost universally regulated is sewage. Some states allow composting toilets, but most require a septic tank inspected by the county. Some counties in some states have rules about types of septic systems.
This link might be a good starting point.

https://www.amacad.org/humanities-indicators/higher-educatio...

Women more or less dominate almost every field, sometimes to an incredible amount. Only engineering is heavily male dominated, with slight male leads in business, philosophy, history, and religion. But they are a majority in everything else otherwise, sometimes even more than men in engineering.

I'd argue that this is the problem. There has been a weird conservatism about education, with "men are from mars and must go to STEM (but we want girls too) and humanities as well as everything else is for venus." The whole "durr hurr basket weaving major" posturing has kind of dissuaded men who aren't into STEM (and there are a LOT of them, the stereotype that all men are STEM or greasemonkey types is one of the most obnoxious ones out there) to probably not go into those fields.
It really sucks that we can't go back in time to the days chat apps looked like AIM, ICQ, etc... The current model of making giant React based Electron apps for a chat app is idiotic IMO. Maybe that's the price we pay for corporatizing chat?

I liked breaking my chats out into different tiny windows I could see everything happening at once.
HN is full of silicon valley brainwashed drones, but the website itself is so nice. So functional and nice to use.

I like that restofworld.org aims to give a broader view to a broader audience, but man the website itself is just barf compared to HN.
I don't think these people can afford to take that week off. Most of these people are paid by the hour. If you aren't working, you aren't making money to pay bills and get groceries.

I am making some assumptions here, but I would venture to guess a lot of these people just fake it and grind through it just to stay employed.
I don't mind if people downvote me, I don't really post to get internet points but I'd like to see an argument. Where am I wrong? What am I missing?
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You had nothing to say in the first place, let alone more.

The management by metrics piece doesn't try to say that the concept of counting is pointless.

How does that very piece itself conclude that anything is "astray" except by assessing a result and concluding it is less desirable than another? That's a metric.
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How to be in the other half? The answer is precise project estimation.
Why is the last point a problem? If you take "Chinese" to mean the Chinese government, I am anti-chinese.
Hmm while very cool, the question has to be asked why this cover is still present in the mainstream builds of xterm.

This is the kind of forgotten code that leads to security issues because nobody looks at it or tests it anymore.
Abuses the anchor tag/url....ugh
I disagree with this sentiment. People go to a music venue for the music, they go to a bar for the drinks and a resturant for the food.

If the bar had no drinks, it could hardly be called a bar. Similarly, a resturant with no food is hardly a resturant.

In that meantime, where the reason to go there is missing, these are all just rooms with the potential to be something later. The same goes for the music venue; it's just a big room that could be a music venue if there were actual musicians there.
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Depends on the state/area. Southern California is still healthcare and 75+ from what I've looked at.
Whereas Europeans generally pronounce his name the right way ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call him by name, but Americans call him by value.
Wasn't WhatsApp both a pay-once and privacy first messaging app?

It then changed at the sound of dollar signs.

What's different here?
>There are, literally, millions of planets that can sustain life as we know it.

There are probably x amount of planets that can sustain life as we know it. We haven't even verified the existence of millions of planets.

https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/counts_detail... shows only 4331 confirmed exoplanets, of those we've visited 0 and are still largely guessing as to their atmospheres, weather, temperatures, seismic activity, etc. Not to mention some we've found in the "goldilocks" zone are likely regularly sterilized due to the conditions of their orbit and their stars.
>lest people make the mistake of building stuff on top of it.

This is the kind of hyperbole I'm talking about... As with any open source, you don't have to use the parts you don't want. GNOME as a whole is a pretty big project, and like most projects, some of its parts are stable and up-to-date, and some aren't. Lots of other desktops build on pieces of GNOME technologies because they work, and replace the parts they're unhappy with. So I'm sorry if you feel a particular component made a mistake, but it really does not have to be a mistake that affects you, if you handle things the right way.

Can you be more specific about what kind of citation you're looking for?
Chickpea (Chana) Saag! Most of the chicken I've had in Indian food has not been very satisfying so finding a good veggie option was a game changer.

I will try Sicilian Arancini!
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I consider the idea of doctors deciding who lives and who dies to be applied eugenics.

"First, do no harm."

Maybe that's not how the situation really looked on the ground, but that's what the author of the piece presents to us, and it wouldn't be strange for that time, either.
Ip Man films, what are those?
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And if they are to be found there what criteria it, if any uses to determine “with European ancestry” then I'm sure you can produce it, because I searched and couldn't.

And I find that in practice if research include a vague criterion in it's very title, it tends to come with far clearer definitions of that criterion in it's body than this.
I will give it a try!
John Varley's Eight Worlds series has an alien species called the Invaders. They invaded Earth to protect cetaceans from the effects of human civilization.

The Invaders divide sentient life into three tiers - species like themselves that evolve in gas giants, cetaceans, and vermin; we're in the third category.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Worlds
People mostly post junk (or nothing) on Facebook.

Having used Sundayy for a few months with friends and family the quality of content is much higher, I believe this is because it encourages you to keep a much smaller and intentional list of buddies. It also doesn’t require you to keep your Facebook account.
Circa 2000 I worked remote from the US for Mauricio Roman, a man from Colombia, who wanted to build an e-commerce site to sell cell phones in Brazil. We went down to to Sao Paulo to talk with an accelerator to get funding, it did not go good, I went home and picked up the Wall Street Journal and found the accelerator had gone bankrupt.

We reskinned a chat application for Portugese speakers and we got upwards of 300,000 members while I was still involved -- ultimately he sold the company, not for an astonishing amount of money, but for something.

Mauricio did many of the 'right things', including going to one of the business schools in Boston (I think MIT) and working for the McKinsey group and developing a network so he knew people who had a chat application ready to skin.

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Something else is that I have encountered so many brilliant people from Argentina; my short list of firms that could succeed at outsourced NLP work is heavy on Argentina -- between being in a good time zone to work from New York and the depth of talent I am a believer.

I don't think they are as close knit as they could be however: many of these good firms aren't aware of the others.
Chances are ETs have transformed into a physical form that is undistinguishable from, say, planets, energy, even stars. After all, the ultimate level of technology design and sophistication is when it is not distinguishable from its surroundings.
An example would have been nice. It's old technology now, but here's an example of listening across the Atlantic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOSUS

https://youtu.be/R462zEQ6RQA
The Discord bridge you are talking about here is a Bot which is officially allowed by Discord, however the Bot APIs have serious limitations that make it unsuitable for full bridging (which is basically making a Discord client). For example it can only be used in "channels" and needs to be added to each "server" by an admin. This means that it is hard to use in servers where you are a guest and you can't use it in DMs and non-channel group chats.

I assume they are offering a "puppeting bridge" which means it acts as you, however this means that it is using unsupported APIs and Discord has been known to ban accounts for this.

I think it is pretty disingenuous to put the Discord logo on the homepage without pointing out those caveats.
LWhat bothers me quite a bit, both in more-or-less scientific conversations and in Science Fiction, is that we virtually always assume a human-like psychology for aliens, and we judge what they may want or not based on our thinking. Even when we think about potentially highly advanced aliens, we still assume they'll have a psychology similar to ours, and they'll just be more advanced technologically (ie. the aliens and ants analogy).”

Very true. A lot of our behaviors and instincts are based on how we procreate and the environment we live in. For example if you live forever or don’t have the pressure to procreate you will have a totally different perspective on the universe.

Lifeforms that have developed differently most likely would have motivations we can’t even fathom to understand.
If you tell us a bit about your idea and your skills, maybe you'll find a co-founder here?
One of my cats didn't care for it at all his first 5 or so years of life, but now loves the stuff. I've also read that something like 30% of cats don't like catnip at all.
> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence to establish them as true. But that doesn't mean extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence to investigate.

Even your former claim might not be necessarily true. What constitutes "an extraordinary evidence" exactly?

Example: imagine aliens are freely living among us but our eyes are blind to certain light frequencies (they are in fact blind to most wavelengths) and that's how aliens utilize camouflage.

Would revealing this fact be an extraordinary evidence for aliens? It's IMO extremely subjective. People might get very excited with such a discovery, sure, but the explanation does sound rather bland and super obvious (as all things in hindsight).

So this whole "extraordinary" stuff reads more like popular old men bickering in front of the media for the goals of PR coverage and, who knows, maybe that increases their odds for scientific funding. I'd always look for the financial incentive and potential conflict of interest first.
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> I'm starting to think that the degeneration of society into a 1984-style dystopia may now be unavoidable. We need to take power back from big tech and we need to do it now.

Look, lying is bad, and there is no nobility in defending lies. It's pretty clear that something's broken with how people think about free speech when they make hysterical 1984 comparisons when someone makes it slightly less easy for a massively powerful authoritarian country to spread its lies. It's not just you, I see this all over.

I mean, 1984 was all about a massively powerful authoritarian government making it impossible for the little guy to spread truth. Comparing this to that literally turns the novel on its head.
Aren’t personal attacks like this a ban-able offence on HN?

Edit: twas a joke, guys...
If there are aliens as advanced compared to us as we are to ants, that would imply to me that life is actually fairly abundant in the universe. However just as not every anthill gets studied by entomologists, perhaps there are simply too many planets with life for a galaxy-traversing civilization to study.
to second this, I have a recurring shoulder tendonitis from weak scapular mobility so I would also hope to find similar exercises. The site is a great concept though!
Depends. If you decide it is not possible for you to spill on your laptop or the loss of your laptop is worth less than half a day of your time and keeping two bottles one of clean water and one of clean alcohol, then sure, just ignore this.

On the other hand if you own an expensive machine that can be reasonably disassembled (ie. almost anything else than a Mac) and you plan to use it for a long time and you don't have any other insurance against spill, then you might be able to save a lot of money with a very small amount of effort.

My laptop was fully beefed up Lenovo T440s and I live in Poland. In Poland, this laptop represented about 3-4 average monthly salaries. Not much compared to half a day of effort to disassemble, clean and reassemble again.

Half a day assumes you have no idea what you are doing and you are need extra time to figure out what to do, find videos on Internet, figure out why you can't pull a part and what still keeps it in place, etc.

For a person that knows what they are doing this is half an hour of effort.
The phrase "take back power", especially when it comes in the context of "they're blocking people and must be stopped!", seems to boil down to not letting tech companies block who they want to block. I just want competition.
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Orange and brown both fit comfortably in the red-yellow span. It only becomes non-obvious that they're closely related when you do conceive of them as distinct basic colours.
It's great that they took the time to write this up even though the conclusion is that it doesn't work.

Too much valuable information is lost because people don't value negative results enough.
I think HN should require either a comment explaining or upvote on a refutation before a downvote.

Considering the rigour displayed in many technology threads it's a little disappointing when you get downvoted without explanation - there seems to be a silent caucus of Trump fans who really don't like seeing their guy criticised but won't actually formulate an argument why, for example.
Sporadically, yes. They're in a small apartment in San Diego. The dog is dead (old age).
I really like the concept and execution but working out single muscle groups is dangerous and unproductive. I have studied strength training and single muscle workouts are just not something that professionals do or recommend. Kudos on the implementation and intent.
I'm usually annoyed by dubbed movies but the two trailers I watched (Attraction 2: Invasion and Son of a Rich) look really good and now I want to see them
Yes, that logic makes a bit more sense. However, if an employer can control an employee's personal decision to maximize their work hours, why stop at vaccines? Require everyone stop smoking, drinking, drug use, work out consistently, eat healthily, etc. Vaccines, even against covid-19, are the least likely to impact work hours.
Bobby Kennedy was right: GDP is a poor measure of a nation's health
Quite popular in Switzerland - it's featured in a few banking scandals: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-creditsuisse-spying-finma...
Reminds me of Arthur C. Clarke's first published short story Travel by Wire!
It's even worse than that - it makes me less able to trust Mozilla because Mozilla wants to make sure they can help me decide what is true or not. That is definitely not Mozilla's job nor do they have that ability. It just tells me they're looking to help control the internet for corporations.
Sooo, more like DMT for cats?