skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Wuhan they tested about 10 Million people and concluded "There were no positive tests amongst 1,174 close contacts of asymptomatic cases".

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w
From the Wikipedia article:

>At the time of the drug's development, scientists did not believe any drug taken by a pregnant woman could pass across the placental barrier and harm the developing fetus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide

Wtf?
"most" - so which one's aren't? Which ones are? You seem surprisingly confident in declaring the argument wrong yet oddly lethargic to actually explain why.
If Tesla doesn't come up with a diplomatic way of allowing third-party repair they will be the company that forces regulators to add regulation. It's one thing to be out of a personal computing device due to vendor policy but when enough people get burned by a bricked car then all hell will break loose.
A female friend of mine who worked at a psychiatric clinic for a while told me years ago that most suicide attempts are really just attempts of getting attention / cries for help. Choosing a less effective method is likely pretty deliberate.
German City Builds Solar Power Sleeping Pods to Keep Its Homeless Warm
The question is, why should I believe those numebrs? "Unemployment" is a pretty technical measurement (the number of people who have not been employed for some amount of time X < T < Y but are still looking for a job) that is estimated through a pretty complex process (surveys and all of the statistical analysis that has to be done on those), so I can easily question:

1. The competency (are they measuring correctly?) or truth-fullness of the institutions (are they cooking the numbers?)

2. The relevance of the number (why not just look at people older than X who don't have a job?)

3. The relative importance - maybe unemployment has gone down, but underemployment has gone up, which some would claim is more relevant

These are not even hypothetical concerns, these are all real complaints reasonable people have about the unemployment numbers in various places.
No peer reviewed evidence of that.
https://academic.oup.com/ej/advance-article-abstract/doi/10....
That's sort of a different situation. Thalidomide did what it was supposed to, but ended up having horrible unknown (at the time) side effects. The FDA correctly didn't approve it based on the lack of safety data.

Opiates also do what they're supposed to, but the fact that they're addictive wasn't a mystery. They're safe if taken and prescribed as instructed. The failure is more on the DEA and other enforcement bodies for not dealing with the obvious prescription abuse. The FDA doesn't make controlled substance decisions.
Exactly like with plant based meat, soy milk and veggie burger, right?
That's fantastic!

Starred.
I appreciate your views otherwise, but I did not use or imply "fraud" in my comment(s).
So-called emergent properties are just categorical abstractions that we've created in our mind to cognitively handle the complexity of the macroscopic world around us. These are evolved mental heuristics.

There's nothing beyond fundamental physics that's required, in principle, to explain these emergent properties, so in this sense I'm a philosophical reductionist. Emergence is just an illusion created by our brain's inability to deal with the true nature of fundamental reality.
That's rough but on the scale of company bad practices that leans more towards being an oversight than truly malicious. I'm not saying it's an oversight but it's not on the same level as making cancellation take 10 clicks or having only phone support or turning off features when you turn off auto-renew.
Using Nixos as a Router
‘Cheating’ Fortnite Kid Settles Copyright Lawsuit with Epic Games
Sure! These are either on my list or already here:

[1] - https://gumroad.com/l/staff-engineer

[2] - https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/graphic_design/al...

[3] - https://gumroad.com/dvassallo#PBkrO

[4] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55614257-this-is-a-swedi...
I think the answer requires more epistemic humility. You can't anticipate the behavior of a hyperintelligent entity (almost by definition) even if you build it right in your own lab. And about the only thing we know about aliens is that they'll be alien. So right there you have two dimensions of "unknown unknowns" that this analysis sweeps aside.

The pattern that I find distasteful in this kind of thinking is deducing universal rules of complex behavior from a few first principles. A good analogue of this is the Cold War era infatuation with game theory, as it would pertain to nuclear war, or many simple models of economics.

We know that in reality, human beings are quite complex, and their actual behavior bears no relationship to such "first principles" models, no matter how persuasive their authors find them. Yet we have the advantage of being human and understanding our own thinking. The idea that we could be more successful making such inferences from first principles about non-human, hyperintelligent entities, when we can't do it for ourselves, is laughable.

Even such basic questions like "does life always arise from Darwinian evolution" or "what is the physical basis of consciousness" are open. So in a strong sense we know nothing at all about the nature of intelligent life in the Universe, except that it happened at least once, and caused everyone no end of trouble.
Just image if this happens on the new Model S Plaid and Model X. Both are suppose to have the gear selector on the touch screen with the car guessing weather you are in drive, park, or reverse based on your surroundings. If you screen dies and it guesses wrong they you are stuck.

- https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1354680585139187713
Those cool epaper demos are almost always full of lies and half truths. A lot of them are actually just an lcd with an extra matte layer. I'd only trust what you can easily buy today to actually exist.
Great idea. Step two is to get several billion people to act against their own self interest.
I never heard him say it was a mistake, I heard him say it was a necessary lie to protect supplies of masks. Do you have a link to where he said it was a mistake? Maybe I just missed it?

And a quick google shows this:

https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-doesnt-regret-advising...
The way we create meat today has nothing to do with natural are you serious? Dosing cows with hormones and antibiotics to make them grow at multiples of their natural rate and feeding them with soy and grains while they live in small concrete and metal cages.
yeah the whole sustainability issue arises because of our excessive consumption. Just limit your intake by at least 50% or more and then slowly raise it by eating more vegetables.

The whole narrative around sustainability of meat has been completely hijacked by corporate interests who wants to push non-meat as meat.

Their whole goal is to enmesh it at a cultural level so that they can increase sales, not really concerned about the real problem which is cruelty, indifference to the treatment of animals by the bovine industrial complex.

We are simply seeing the usurpation of the latter group by a new commerce-first-pseudo-sustainability industrial complex. It's even more dangerous now because of the misinformation and groupthink by self appointed morality police.
Enter the signed parts requiring a factory diagnostic box with Tesla private keys a la iPhone parts and you're out of luck
There are worse outcomes but it is a poor outcome. It is best viewed as the best worst-case exit strategy.
The biggest lesson I took away from this experience in my own life was learning to leave tasks in a resumable state. If I did get to work on something, I would do my utmost to leave it in a state where I could come back to it and dig in right away. For code at work, I might break the code where I wanted to jump back in (uncommitted change) so a build would show me what line of code I was editing when someone threw up or doorbell rang causing the baby to wake, the dog up freak out, and my train of thought to be derailed for the next hour. That, and learning how to survive on what is essentially polyphasic sleep.
> Or they’ll say “why have a fake burger, can’t you just enjoy vegetarian food, why does it have to be a burger? If you want burger just eat one and stop trying to copy meat, innovate on your own”.

It's hilarious, because there's one comment just like that below yours now.

> The high high majority of meat consumption is not high quality product, but the absolutely lowest quality possible.

Yes, this. A lot of people, myself included, eat a lot of meat dishes simply out of habit. Switching those dishes to vegetarian dishes is simply not going to happen, because the force of habit is so strong. If I want a spaghetti bolognese, a spaghetti marinara isn't the same thing! But if I can make my bolognese with a plant-based meat alternative so that it gets the same taste and texture as the real thing, that's a win, and that's something I, and a lot of people, will be willing to do.

I suspect that all the people arguing for vegetarian dishes are people who would always choose the marinara over the bolognese, and therefore don't see the big deal.

> It’s so easy to swap out they meh hamburger patty you have at a bbq with a plant based one, be healthier, and have less impact on the environment.

Even better, have McDonalds and Burger King and every other fast food joint swap out their meat! The Impossible Whopper is almost there now. It just needs to get a couple of notches better, and be the same price as a meat Whopper and there'd zero reason to choose the meat Whopper anymore. And if you can get the Impossible one cheaper than the meat one, it will be the default choice, and you'd have eliminated an absolutely massive amount of habitual meat consumption. Win-win-win.
Over here, we simply don't put cat food into the fridge. The very concept of that is just alien to me.
What do you think the meat machines / cows are fed with? Even more of the same crops but with a high percentage of loss of calories since they only transform a small part of it into edible meat
This might be the case when it comes to the accounting practices but my experience has been that the smaller companies are more likely to pull a fast one on me.

I've had "small businesses" be more than happy to do work that I don't need under the excuse that something is failing. Or run the charges because my insurance will pay. I had one or 2 electronic stores try to do a bait and switch. I've found that small businesses are more hungry to make a sale and are therefore more likely to be a bit more shady than the bigger companies.

If I have a choice I always pick the bigger company that has a reputation to protect over a small business that I don't really know.
Tesla has a history of being somewhat hostile to third party repairs, so I worry there will be a long between-period when this becomes obviously needed, and when legislation and/or market forces create a third party ecosystem despite Tesla’s attitude.
We seem to be a self selecting group of mostly men here.. I would be interested in hearing from someone who had been a teenaged girl to hear the other side of this. It’s at the very least plausible that much of the conflict comes from the expectations that society places on young women.
I came here expecting ASCII diagrams of buildings, but this is much more useful.
The EU consists of democratic nations.

The nations contributing with the most money have the most power.

The largest economies have the most money.

Quite often the largest economies will be the ones with the most people.

>>EU is undemocratic.

Are you going to start making statements to support this complaint anytime soon?
Well, and perhaps the most ambitious quote:

"Libre-SOC can do the same tricks that IBM POWER10 and
Apple M1 can. Intel (x86) literally cannot keep up."
Wait, how are they able to do this? Do they selectively abort on sex determination? I suppose sex determination isn't illegal in North America like it is in South Asia.
I think this is fair. More broadly I'd add that we've become quick to accuse the speaker of bad intent and too rarely consider if the listener could have been more charitable. And god help you if there's someone in the room intent of hearing you uncharitably, regardless of the feelings of the person you're actually addressing. The most uncharitable interpretation will usually prevail.
It is precisely my point that these 'external' sources of change are nowadays one of the main problems and entirely foreseeable in advance.

For example, if one or both of them prioritize their careers over their marriage, and spend no more than an hour or two a day even in the other's presence, let alone quality time, for years on end, because they're busy at work or with something else...it's entirely predictable that they grow apart. That was the failure. They chose economics or the corporate ladder or an app that's changing the world or...over their marriage.
No, the ability to completely disable GPS and location has been in every mobile OS since the beginning, as far as I can recall.
Baby had a tongue-tie and didn't properly develop the motion for nursing. The tongue-tie was corrected on day 2, but nursing never worked. Latching went OK, but drawing the milk out didn't and the baby would give up and wail. One or two missed pumpings and the milk dried up, because it never fully came in.

We tried for three months. My wife was reaching the end of her rope, emotionally (PPD is a horrifying thing). Formula that worked was a godsend.

This was our first child. We took the classes, even selected a hospital based on their success rate with natural childbirth. We had intended for no drugs, breastfeeding, all the ideals of caring for an infant...

The baby was a few days late. We went in for an ultrasound, as we had to do daily at that point. As the ultrasound completed, the nurse told us we'd have to stay. When the baby is getting ready to come out, it drinks the amniotic fluid, so there's much less of it. That should have coincided with the beginning of labor, but it didn't. We had to induce.

I went home to get our bags for the hospital stay. When I came back, they began to induce labor with pitosin. It was an agonizingly slow process, and it was failing. After 60+ hours of labor, with the back of the baby's head pushing against my wife's spine ("back labor") my wife chose an epidural for the pain.

It didn't work. At 72 hours of inducing, at maximum recommended doses of pitosin, the baby's heart rate was indicating distress, and dilation was still insufficient.

We had a C-section. Later, the baby couldn't nurse properly. We used formula.

We'd wanted to do what was natural, had planned to do it. If that had been all we had, we'd have lost both mother and child in childbirth. If, in another age, we'd not had the means to hire a wet nurse, we'd have lost the child even if it had been born properly.

I'm so glad that we were able to get all the care we needed.
> https://github.com/uav4geo/LibreTranslate/issues/33

That issue is about emojis, which confused me a bit, but I see that the linked commit is about replacing <unk> by the corresponding source token. https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-translate/commit/6a0f...

That's definitely an improvement, but what I was actually wondering about was why the model was copying the input verbatim in the first place.

Looking through the en-zh data in Opus, it looks like a bit of a mixed bag. This sample from OpenSubtitles v1 contains an ad for MyDVDrip in the Chinese version only: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles/v1/en-zh_sample.html Filtering the data with some heuristics might be a good idea.
On “The GPL is hypocritical”:

> At the same time the GNU project and FSF endorses and make heavy use of the GPL, which by its very nature is "nonfree" because it restricts what you can do with the software.

Freedom isn’t about being able to act without restrictions, it’s about not living under oppression. Freedom itself is codified in laws that guarantee the right to free speech, free assembly etc. and these laws necessarily restrict the actions of the people. Free speech doesn’t mean anything if it doesn’t trump a police officer’s right to arrest you for speaking freely.

You can’t effectively build a walled garden with GPL code. You can’t effectively build spyware or adware with GPL code. You can’t effectively build black-box IoT products with GPL code. All these dark patterns aren’t possible with GPL code because the GPL places restrictions on what you can and can’t do with it. And by licensing your library as GPL, you’re also ensuring that it’s not (legally) going to be used in any of these dark pattern scenarios.

So yeah, the GPL places more restrictions on derivative works but ultimately gives users more freedom than the BSD-style licenses.
So remember some "encouraging" studies saying Hydrochloroquine worked? Yeah.

People aren't getting banned for talking about studies, they're getting banned because the video they make opens with "the secret cure THEY don't want you to know about". They're not starting from a point of view grounded in facts about the actual scientific process of data.
Every one of my examples comes from prominent government officials, or media personalities.

Congressman Dan Burton implying Vince Foster was murdered. See also: Commerce Secretary Ron Brown’s death, and most recently Seth Rich’s.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/hillary-clinton...

Senator Tom Cotton said Covid was Chinese bioweapon. (I’m sorry, “just asking questions”)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/11/republican-t...

Over a hundred elected congressional representatives saying Biden stole the election
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-lawmakers-speci...

Qanon we’ve got multiple media officials, but let’s just stick with former national security advisor Michael Flynn, and the embracement of the conspiracy theory by both the Arizona GOP, and the Texas GOP

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/202...

https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-gop-denies-new-slogan-...

The space lasers, have already been linked.
...unlike the animal industry which is just full of fluffy, happy, loved cows who proudly line themselves up to be turned into tasty beef for your pleasure...

Have you seen the animal industry? It's absolutely disgusting. Getting rid of that would be an enormous net win, both ethical and environmental.
I'd venture that certain [generally skeptical?] people find it easy to spot. So, disinfo is easy to spot for someone who makes it their business to spot it. I don't know the ratio of skeptical to credulous in the population, but from recent events it is apparently not great.

Ever wonder what kind of person responds to spam, such that there's an incentive to send spam? I have a friend who regularly asks me, "Hey, what do you think about [insert conspiracy theory]? Pretty crazy world, huh?" Then I ask, "Where did you hear that?" They say, "It's in the news!" I ask, "In the regular news? Or like, InfoWars." They say, "The regular news!" I Google it. The only result is a site even worse than InfoWars. I tell them that site is pure garbage, that the story appears nowhere in mainstream news, and if I can find a debunking I send it to them. This happens, like, biweekly.

This person is a highly educated, extremely intelligent, experienced professional. Not a rube. What's the difference between us? It's not that I'm smart and they're dumb.
This can't end up well. The Tesla's get a lot of stuff right but trying to get everything into that touch screen is a mistake in my eyes.
I came to the comment section to compliment the choice of Garamond.

The web would look much more beautiful with proper justification. It's a pity technology is not there yet. TeX solved the problem for DVI/PDFs long ago, so maybe we should start blogging on PDFs!
I'm not sure you can say anything is a mistake if you then release a statement saying "why I did it". it just comes off as an accidental card tip to what's really going on
Comparing this to IBM Watson and Google Translate:

Chinese Input: 古荡塘苗路华星现代产业园E座正门

LibreTranslate: Ordinary gate of the modern industrial plant of the Hyong Chung Chung

IBM Watson: Ancient Slut Pond Miao Luhua Star Modern Industrial Park E Zhengmen

Google Translate: Main entrance of Block E, Huaxing Modern Industrial Park, Miao Road, Gudangtang

None is accurate, but it is nice to have options.
There absolutely isn't a scientific consensus. If anything, several cases have come up recently to counter the wild acceptance that anyone can live vegan just fine, and further investigation is still necessary. Just recently, the carnivore diet has taken off for multiple people, and even just significantly reducing plant-based foods in favor of animal-based foods is showing to help many people. There's also the theory of anti-nutrients and the importance of genetics which we still don't understand.

If there is one field that's an absolute mess, its nutritional sciences. The only thing one can trust is their own experience with any particular diet, their overall well-being and regular health check-ups. What works for one person can be absolutely disastrous for another.
QAnon wasn't created an popularized by some institution repeating a lie. It isn't even propaganda per se, it's a grass roots conspiracy theory, fanned by propaganda on certain particular facts (such as election fraud). It's the result of decades of bigger and smaller lies and truths being spun by various forces until they coalesced into this mess. There isn't some central Big Lie that QAnon believers have been fed, except perhaps the oldest lie - it's Us vs Them, and We are righteous while They are evil.

"Q" wrote his initial lies once, and people ate it up and spun it around among themselves. This is folklore, not propaganda.
No, systemwide location stays off. It transmits your ip+location mapping to Apple or Google whenever it's on (via the WiFi triangulation lookup), even if you've granted no apps location permission. Any subsequent requests from that IP for the next while can be assumed to be in the same location, precisely geolocating requests from your other devices on the same connection as well.

I would prefer Apple and Google not receive my 24/7 tracklog. I don't believe that I need to have anything to hide to say that I don't think it's reasonable for an advertising company to know where I am 24/7/365.
Well you didn't sign an NDA so which forum was it? So we all can know what to expect?
> Culture doesn’t enjoy a special force field against criticism and scrutiny.

Never said it did. I'm simply not interested in hearing uninformed "criticism" from someone who knows absolutely nothing about what they're criticizing, made with ulterior motives.
I'm really curious to see how Tesla's reputation will change over time. As they scale and have to provide cheaper cars (assuming they want to go after a larger market anyway, which they've publicly stated for over a decade), and have to deal with more customers who are less forgiving than early adopters, and also have to deal with legacy decisions from their early years of cars failing and all of the weird service issues and NDAs and bricking cars that are resold and have to make good on their FSD promise and (I could go on - my point is not to hate Tesla but merely to point out they are still in the early stages of being an adored consumer company because most consumers currently cannot afford them) well, I think Tesla is going to earn a similar reputation as other car manufacturers as time goes on.

Yeah, I know Tesla sells things besides cars. But I think their reputation will be based on things they sell to the public, and I think most people will judge them on their cars.
If it's expected to fail around 6 years, it should be in the scheduled maintenance list, too.
TFA says that education increases risk. Shrug.