skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once upon a time, it was inconceivable that there could be any practical way to travel between continents.

I feel that making this assertion based on our current understanding of the universe is fundamentally flawed.
I can't wait to read it.

I live in Minnesota, the land of the great Anishinaabe tribes. I was surprised to learn that these Anishinaabe drove out the Lakota and sent them westward in 1750 in the aftermath of a bloody battle in the north of which Red Lake was named, because it ran with Lakota blood. It's a complex history and this is a tiny slice of it.
Is it really worth your time?
> Bill Gates' favorite book

I'm not that interested in what Gates thinks a good book is. Being famous/successful/rich/humanitarian isn't super relevant to being able to identify a good book.

> interviews with convicted murderers

Accumulation of anecdotes != non-anecdotal evidence. It's interesting, but just anecdotal.

> where people feel that they do not have access to the justice system

A statement that is very hard to prove. I don't think you did, and I'm not sure if it's really possible given the general replication crisis within psychology.

> improving trust in the police should reduce crime

I think your evidence is once again insufficient to make the point, but I will agree that the conclusion seems more-or-less valid.

> We should therefore predict that blacks should commit murder much more often than whites.

You don't have to predict that, because it's already well-known. As such, a) you made a trivial prediction, b) you have to show a causal link, c) you have to show that your posited cause is in fact the dominant cause of the effect you're looking at, and d) you have to demonstrate the direction of the causality. You haven't done b, c or d. IIRC, there are a lot of persuasive alternative explanations for the difference in the black/white murder ratio, all of which would have to be addressed. Since I think this explanation of that ratio is much less persuasive than other potential causes, I don't think this point is tenable.

> every socioeconomic group in Germany believe that poor people there are treated fairly by the justice system

That's a really good bit of evidence, and interesting to think about. I will agree with you that as far as "extrajudicial death penalty vs. law and order society" goes, Germany seems decently representative of the latter. However, as I mentioned above, the US side of the comparison is far less apparent: the critical piece of the logic puzzle doesn't work.

After my first reading of your comment, I didn't really expect to find holes in most of the points you made, when I made my response. Thought I'd be agreeing with you more. But here we are. It was definitely interesting. Thanks.
Given that serious interstellar travel really requires FTL transport, I suspect that the two are rather closely connected.
Website Published Every Face from Parler's Capitol Riot Videos
...or simply

switch(n % 4)
{
case 0: return n;
case 1: return 1;
case 2: return n + 1;
case 3: return 0;
}
In Big Tech We Trust.
Just Sweden does not eat an unreasonable amount of fish (see https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fish-and-seafood-consumpt...). According to press release by Arla (the largest Swedish milk products company by far) some years ago (see https://www.arla.se/om-arla/nyheter-press/2015/pressrelease/..., in Swedish), there was a national study done by the government organization that controls foodstuffs which identified a large risk for vitamin D deficiency in general population, perhaps despite fish eating and law was passed making enrichment mandatory. So they are enriching.

Edit: removed sidenote about cooperation between government and private companies, since it seems that there is an actual law governing this stuff. Almost all milk, milk-like and fatty products (such as margarine), except cheese, must be enriched (see https://kontrollwiki.livsmedelsverket.se/artikel/448/livsmed..., in Swedish).

Edit++: Apparently data from the national study about food habits is available via an API which I think is super cute, see https://www.livsmedelsverket.se/om-oss/psidata/apimatvanor (also in Swedish, but hey, Google Translate is your friend)
Sure, but it's not obvious to me what allowing rents to move more freely for more of the city does for the local economy. It could be the stability rent control provides allows for long term growth and prevents shocks of large population loss or gain, for another example model. I was wondering if you or gp had reasources that make the case for an unregulated rent market.
> This is very selfish thinking. What if the whole city was rent controlled? Economy and population would stagnate.

Imagine what would happen if the whole country was rent-controlled! You would apparently end up like Switzerland.
For clarification on the 23-1 vote:
"Since the W3C is based on a system of consensus, even a single “no” vote was enough to veto the proposal."
"BOMB" in this context is slang for graffiti tag, right?
Let me save you a few seconds:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
A badge of honour. China does not take too well on being called out on genocide, devastating COVID denial and Hong Kong. How they responded to Australian attempts to get to the truth surrounding COVID said it all for me, almost as bad as the WHO covering for them.
> Ridiculing scientists for plausible hypothesis seems very unscientific.

Your statement is self-referential. If a hypothesis is "plausible" than practically by definition it is above ridicule. But how do you decide which hypotheses are plausible?

Science, at its core, is a social system. One of the key goals of that system is prioritization. There are finite research resources and it's important to allocate them to the most promising areas. Ridicule is one of the more extreme tools scientists use in that social process to reach consensus about which hypotheses are plausible.
Bullshit. The vast majority of DNM transactions are in bitcoin (yes, I know WHM is trying to change this).. Same goes for huge card shops like jstash, which tend to only accept bitcoin. On various crime forums like exploit.in and verified.sc bitcoin is definitely the currency of choice. Most ransomware payments are in bitcoin too, even if a few have tried asking for monero recently.

It's very strange to see someone choose to come up with lies like this. I would prefer widespread monero adoption too, but we're far from that.
Web standards were great solution to break the undocumented IE6 monopoly, but now Apple can just do whatever it wants to compete with Google on privacy. Also the fun stuff is that it took over Chrome in the web speed race using better hardware.
Google and Facebook --- avoid whenever possible.

Posted using a de-Googled Moto G4 Play running e/OS.
> its most frequently the children who grew up in the neighborhood want to stay

If it’s “most frequently” that, how have/are their parents acting? Do they oppose or support the desires of their children?
That's what veto means generally.
That is a bizarre and incorrect assumption, but if you weren't trying to start a fight then you might have made the reasonable assumption that I think there are problems with the way adoptions work in the US as well, and if you want to adopt within the US you should still be prepared to put a lot of work in to identifying the ethical way to do so. Start with the assumption that you should absolutely not be planning to move the child to a different country or even state as soon as you've adopted.
Or a more privacy-focused and less politics-focused alternative: https://brave.com

EDIT: It's funny how the votes switch between +5 and -5 every minute. I wanted to add that I did not say Firefox is a bad browser. I was just presenting an alternative.
You can't really grow "on demand", since it takes at bare minimum 3 weeks (for lettuce) from seed to harvest.
I would love to see a site like HN but focused more on scientific discussion. The level of scientific literacy in the software startup community is definitely inconsistent and at times disappointing.

There are various science subreddits with large readerships but quality there is also mixed. Although you do see some high quality discussions.

I think you will have a challenge incentivizing high quality scientific discussion because the people with the acumen to have them are busy actually doing science.
> It would be a little more representative to say that computer graphics involved vectors and matrices.

"Linear Arithmetic", maybe?
Security is "S" in IOT.
That's not factoring in that the field in Salinas has to use much more water, use pesticides and fertilizer, and tilling and harvesting, which all require more energy than the local hydroponic garden.

Of course the environmental cost should be factored in. I'm still curious if hydroponics (or geoponics, in this article's case) actually winds up having a better carbon footprint than traditional agriculture.
Every field has it's own jargon and natural/comfortable modes of expression. Pretty interesting things can happen at the boundaries between fields, when you are trying to translate.
Yes, I have owned multiple Leap Motion devices before their acquisition and used multiple demonstrations of ultrasonic phased arrays at SIGGRAPH and GDC, including Ultraleap specifically. It's true that my experience is somewhat limited as I haven't owned an ultrasonic phased array to play around with it for longer periods of time.
I think this is a mistaken way of thinking in general, because you're omitting time. Your assuming that intelligent/thinking/conscious creatures would necessarily function on timelines that make sense to us. If that were true, then what you're saying makes sense - there are real bounds on how fast you can move chemical energy from A to B, for example.

But I see nothing preventing intelligent life from operating on massively longer timescales. This requires, of course, that you believe that intelligence (and maybe consciousness too) is substrate and timescale independent, which may or may not be a big ask depending on where you stand on these issues.
If the theme park industry can manage to stay in business and settle for posting some warnings, surely this is a hurdle that can be overcome.
I think a big factor is also a generation or two (Millennials and Gen Z) that only are willing to do certain jobs. This is in part because they attended college in great numbers, often studying degrees that have limited economic value, and now they want a desk job. There are plenty of jobs that pay well and provide great benefits - things you might not expect like working in manufacturing, or as a garbage truck driver, or in the oil industry, and so on.

We do have work available - the BLS data shows 6.5 million openings (https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.nr0.htm). Many of the cities and towns across America that are often ignored in our societal discourse and in discussions like this one have both available, affordable housing and economic opportunity. It is simply not the opportunity that this generation wants. And instead, they complain that they don't have the type of job, the pricing conditions, and the type of pay that enables them to live in some of the most desirable cities on the planet, like San Francisco.

I find it hard to see this as anything but entitlement and envy.
Yeah it's Samsung.
A NIMBY individual is a NIMBY individual regardless of party affiliation.

Also, there is so much land in the USA that if people want to live in solitude outside the cities, they should be free to do so, there is no reason to stigmatize these individuals. Not everybody wants to or needs to be surrounded by others to be happy or a contributing member of society.
To add, Fermi and Cern released a join statement

>CERN and Fermilab acknowledge the recent decision to shift focus from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream, and the sudden change of the end of life of the CentOS 8 release. This may entail significant consequences for the worldwide particle physics community. We are currently investigating together the best path forward. We will keep you informed about any developments in this area during Q1 2021.

https://news.fnal.gov/2020/12/joint-cern-fermilab-statement-...
Do refrigerated semis use more fuel? And if so, by what factor more?
The difference is that there are multiple different XEPs performing similar operations, and even with the compliance suite XEPs, it can be confusing to synchronise on whether different bug-free clients are speaking the same dialect.

Whereas Matrix ensures that there is only ever one way of doing a given operation at any point, and those operations are backwards compatible, because there's only one spec. Obviously the client and server you're talking to needs to have actually correctly implemented the bits of the spec that you're trying to use - but there's no openpgp v. OMEMO or rival file transfer mechanisms etc. It's only a difference in governance, but it's an important one.

Obviously, a single monolithic spec controlled by a committee like the matrix spec core team has its own problems (most importantly, the committee can become a bottleneck); and we still provide mechanisms to let people experiment via the equivalent of vendor prefixing, which can go horribly wrong (c.f. aggregations in Matrix) if not managed with discipline.

But, I'm not trying to spread FUD about XMPP - just try to explain that the approaches taken are different, and have different tradeoffs, and are not "exactly the same".
Isn't Brave the advertising-focused, privacy-friendly alternative?
For a company the loves to claim it supports democracy it seems to not really support it unless it gets its way
Google basically controls the "standards" now, and it has the resources to keep churning them endlessly while spreading propaganda about how much better the new features are and how everyone should use them --- because they're only implemented in its browser.

There are perfectly capable HTML4-level browsers like Dillo, NetSurf, etc. and a bunch of similar projects on GitHub (under elaborate yet non-browser descriptions such as "HTML viewer with CSS support".) If only people would stop drinking the Goog-aid and unnecessarily "app-ifying" sites, maybe we would have more browser diversity... after all, the majority of sites I use are from the "document web" and not the "application web".

Edit: downvoted for talking against Google, interesting...
I wonder if there's any bad blood between YC and a16z now based on the Zenefits story? I mean this article basically said Parker was thrown under the bus. This suggests that a16z is not founder friendly.

As much as the collective "we" rails against cancel culture it seems to me he was cancelled. I mean a regulatory fine would be expected... and others have done worse.
And generally begets clarification.
Having actually run through spantaleev's matrix-docker-ansible-deploy twice in the past, and run the Matrix bridge stack for a few months each time, this is interesting.

Eventually I would have some bridges get out of sync (ie I responded on mobile but the bridge doesn't show my message or messages would get lost) but overall, it worked really well.

The downside of having one error in relative isolation is not the bug itself but that it makes you distrust the stack entirely and you end up double checking the source messenger "just to make sure"

Having said that, it looks like you've done quite a bit of development on the bridges from a quick glimpse of the Gitlab repos.

How are those forks related to Tulir's bridges? Does he integrate any of your changes and vice versa or are they two unique development streams? In your comment, it sounds like Tulir is working with you?

Anyway, I'm looking forward to this very much because the multi-messenger thing has been the bane of my existence, I swear. I would gladly pay $10/month to fix this as I have online (and offline) friends all over the place.

Oh, for the unified inbox, is there any way to "group" by a person? For example, if I primarily chat with someone on Line but then occasionally talk through iMessage. I would expect them to render as two different "conversations" but logically, they're one person of course.

Lastly, I thought the line about shipping an iPhone was satire. You might want to put a note in there like "No really".
Living in SF made me realize just how close the west coast progressive rhetoric is to Trumpism. It's a strongly malthusian, always striking a tone of collective loss/victimization - helplessness in the defense of a birthright against some all invasive, malignant out-group based around a yearning for some rose tinted idea of the past.
What exactly am I supposed to read into “European descent”.

For something so prominently featured in the title, implying some significance to it, I cannot find any further explanation of it:

> We predominately used previously published and freely available data for this study. The study by Jiang et al 19 is a meta-analysis of GWAs of vitamin D levels carried out using participants of European descent. The COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative20 uses data from multiple cohort studies,21–26 including the UK Biobank (UKB).

Does it mean “U.K. residents”, “European residents”, or “persons whose ancestors had European residence, wherever they be located now.” and to how many generations back is this?
I have this book in my to read stack and another American history in there is “Fifth Sun” by Camilla Townsend. It is a history of the Aztecs, referenced from Aztec historians. It sounds like a wonderful book.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44244939-fifth-sun
Mmm...impartial curation is certainly difficult to find online. I also wonder how it is in today's political climate compared with 10 years ago - even with teachers. Probably the biggest challenge to the whole concept. I think any system needs to be designed without a reliance on such an authority. But then all you have is some kind of voting or reputation system. How do you develop a karma system optimized for impartiality - that's something for me to sleep on.

> people would be teamed up so as to collaboratively come up with the strongest argument against their own beliefs.

Awesome idea. Will definitely think on this!
FLG affiliated china tribunal / ETAC is propaganda on par with epochetimes / qanon in terms of credibility. They launder their claims via US NGOs to MSM - turducken of creating misinformation. Prior to current China/FVEY spat, formal government level investigations by AU/US have found FLG sponsored reports to be non-credible.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120205064042/http://www.usemba...

https://www.refworld.org/pdfid/4b6fe16df.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20090620050738/http://www.americ...

At this time, Chinese political structure was _thoroughly_ infiltrated by CIA assets. There's also orthogonal indicators like amount of immuno-suppressant drugs in Chinese market cannot support a vast shadow organ harvesting system like FLG claims. There's a reason no credible institutions without FLG sponsorship have ever endorsed these findings. Including Mike Pompeo, at the urging for US lawmakers no less, who got drunk on FLG/epochtime coolaid. There's a special tier of ridiculous claims when even Pompeo can't spin it against China. FLG organ harvesting / vivisection has always been atrocity porn for useful idiots. It shouldn't be surprising these narratives are finally gaining traction during a period where media landscape is generating loads of them, when epochetimes is the #1 news paper on the appstore.

I say this as someone with several FLG family members who was prosecuted in China, they are delusional cultists. Everything is peaceful and good intensions until they convince themselves not to seek medical advice and dies from completely preventable illnesses.
It seems to me that residents of a town or city should have more say in their town/city affairs than non-residents. If you and I live in different towns, I should have more say in mine and you in yours. At least that’s how I interpret “no skin in the game”.
IMHO phased arrays like this are too bulky and expensive, what you need for this to go mainstream is a Spatial Ultrasound Modulator like this https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18347-2

There are also MEMS piston based devices that could also work
I'm using firefox on macos right now and I can't see what the issue is. The the menus show up in the main top bar like every other app. Am I missing something?
I think patience is my problem. I've always heard start up folks preaching "move fast, and break things" so that's what I try to do, and ship an MVP as quick as possible. However I always feel I'm not moving quick enough and that gives me stress
I don't understand the issue.

There is nothing preventing any member from considering privacy issues as blocking. Since consensus is required, why require another round of review and approvals?

Unless members don't all have people on the PWG and are looking to offload review expenses on the organisations that are?
out of curiosity, how would he define himself?
how many hours per week did you spend on it while running it on the side?
I've had the first gen PinePhone and my view on it is that this is not really a mass market device yet.

The PinePhone is just too slow to use. It's frustratingly unresponsive.

I hoped the LibreM would be fast enough to make the phone usable.

And then after that, there need to be apps that work, but the Free Phone ecosystem is fractured. There's Android derivatives such as the Lineage or /e/ OS, there are pure Linux variants running Phosh, which was developed by Pureism, but also runs on Mobian and postmarketOS, and there is Plasma Mobile, and UBPorts, as well as GerdaOS, which is based on KaiOS, which is a fork of FirefoxOS.
If they were, google and FB could have colluded so that only one org needs to take the PR fallout. Does anyone have more information on where to find the text of the standard in question? There are no outside links on this page that show what exactly the proposal was.
They'll probably shift to 6nm (7nm++, basically) next.
The BAT system is opt-in
You don't really need VCs, you need Bezos to run you a tab. In fact I don't know why Amazon and AWS don't do this. The tab should have some leeway obviously with AWS taking on some risk but it seems like a no brainer.
Yep. Same.

Tired of posts like that being flagged, and then derided by the mods here as problematic for highlighting plain realities.

We cannot bend to the misinformation from China or any corrupt world government.
Newton's First Law and Self Improvement
> Why the need to defend this hot mess and everything it does as democratic, when technically it is not?

If we're arguing technicalities, the US is "technically" a type of democracy - specifically a representative democracy. If we go by your more exacting standards every government decision, ordinance, or law except those by referenda isn't democratic. Which is neither technically correct, nor is it correct as generally understood by laypeople. I agree with all the problems you pointed out but those are orthogonal to the question at hand.

DPRK is not a democracy because it fails several criteria. Russia is a de jure democracy but not a de facto one.
I wonder if this means there will finally be a way to use things like spotify and netflix on ARM linux machines.
wow, that looks awesome! did it require a lot of capital initially for manufacturing and sourcing?
I think "BOMB CONDOS NOT MURALS" is being presented as a "Left-NIMBY" phrase, not a YIMBY phrase.
TLB and Pagewalk Coherence in x86 Processors (2015)