skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're committing an extremely common mis-representation of what Popper wrote about his paradox.

As Popper wrote, his conception of 'intolerance' was not "sexism, racism, homophobia, and transphobia". In fact, none of these words had even been invented when he was writing!

Popper was very clear that he conceptualized 'intolerance' as people who will use violence and force and power to silence others. This he was specifically referring to intolerance of other beliefs, whether religious or political. This is exactly the kind of intolerance you are committing.

Please read what Popper actually wrote about the paradox before misrepresenting it - I see this error all the time.

>you're making assertions about opinions that I hold, not based on opinions that I've stated, but upon those of "people like [me]."

No, just about opinions you plainly stated - that you think cancel culture is cool because only people on your list are getting cancelled.
Microsoft Edge to Introduce 'Kids Mode'
Millions Lack Power
There are two ways to look at the Wind numbers. Texas was expecting 6 gigawatts from wind, and only got 1.5-2.5 gigawatts. So wind generation dropped 60-75%. That's a much bigger failure in percentage terms than from gas powered production. Gas was a majority of energy production, so it was much bigger in absolute numbers, but by no means did wind perform well.
> Why is it white supremacy and not Japanese supremacy, since Japanese have the highest average IQ in studies I've seen?

Because its not about the specific issue, its about demonizing people who are willing to consider dangerous ideas.

> racial supremacist for exposing data that puts his race squarely in the middle of the pack.

He’s Jewish but you wouldn’t know that from all the people accusing him of being a nazi.
Sometimes, maybe even most times, one is more interested in the interviewee than the intervier, not matter how brave and righteous the interviewer might believe himself to be.
I was making a moral argument on whether the state has a monopoly. Of course the state holds a legal monopoly on the punishment.
Weird solution (or upselling by gas company) is co-generation system (power and bath warm water) at home. That's Available in Japan for a decade, it even use fuel cell.
Recent and related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26159680 - "What went wrong with the Texas power grid?", 2021-02-16, 1010 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26146945 - "Texas’ power grid crumples under the cold", 2021-02-15, 35 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26137893 - "Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid", 2021-02-15, 568 comments
There’s a company called GitStart (previously known as Murcul). They’re from YC S19. I think they mostly hire people to work remotely.

They provide software development service. I’m using their service right now. They seem to provide good mentorship to junior devs, they also have project/product manager positions, and customer success positions. I’ve talked to their founder and CEO, Hamza Zia. He’s a nice guy. In general, they are pleasant people to work with, which means you’ll also find pleasant (remote) colleagues there.
It depends on where you land really. Assuming you read the whole article, take the account of the survivor who crashed in the Amazon rain forest for example. If she'd stayed put, she'd have died.

Secondary comment RE: that particular crash story. We got Reader's Digest when I was a kid, and that story was a "Drama in Real Life" story in an early 70's issue.
Did you read Pinker's reply to Fodor, the "some guy at MIT"?

https://stevenpinker.com/files/pinker/files/so_how_does_the_...

Seems like a solid retort, however this field is not specialty.
Water is wet, who would have thought!!
Not sure how to reconcile those numbers with the OP and other sources.
That should not exist. The freedom of speech doesn't mean anyone else has to respect your opinion.
Apple is following in the footsteps of fallen titans. It should come as no surprise when the law comes down hard on the worlds most valuable company.
Of course, this was never in doubt. The right wing of the USA has become increasingly un-tethered from reality in the past decade or so and the gap between their beliefs and reality has been repeatedly shown to be false.

https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1362140199644495874

"We've gone from Big Mistake to Big Lie. The official GOP response to the power outage is now in the same moral and intellectual universe as Stop the Steal and Jan 6 was a false-flag antifa operation. No acceptance of reality, let alone responsibility."
Romantic love is definitely transactional, just like everything else. We are animals in a physical world, after all. Anyone who says that they love someone truly without conditions just hasn't had enough of their conditions broken to know that they have them. I say this as a happily married person going on fifteen years. Our marriage is romantic, sure, but it's also a deal, and you're both putting stuff into the deal and getting stuff out of it to make it work. The romance wouldn't work without the rest of it.
> Cool, if you wanna get downtown from the Mission.

Awesome, if we're calling that route good, let's close it down to non-professional car traffic. That's where people are dying https://i.imgur.com/NW3w0OF.png
Facebook blocks the sharing of news content in Australia
Took 5 seconds to look up on Wikipedia:

"With the highly publicized Army–McCarthy hearings of 1954, and following the suicide of Wyoming Senator Lester C. Hunt that same year,[12] McCarthy's support and popularity faded. On December 2, 1954, the Senate voted to censure Senator McCarthy by a vote of 67–22, making him one of the few senators ever to be disciplined in this fashion."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy#Censure_and_th...
Plenti – the Svelte SSG taking advantage of the JAMstack
Piecing Together the Next Pandemic
It will likely bring down the price by suggesting alternative payment options.
So because google.com is hard to read, HTML is not text?
You hit the nail on the head. It takes time and effort to cultivate the QA mindset, and to shift into it from a developer mindset. Doing both simultaneously is often difficult in practice because it increases the lead time to produce the end-product, something that Project Managers don't seem to grok. You can successfully do both if you alternate between them, spending substantial chunks of time immersed in one role or the other at any given time.

Developers can be reasonably objective when it comes to writing small, self-contained unit tests and some amount of test automation, but beyond that, where serious QA begins, developers are generally too much in love with their creations to distance themselves from them and view them objectively.

You can see this pattern with authors who become (commercially) successful. The publisher, whose most valuable service is editing the author's work, starts becoming too deferential, causing the author's work to become muddled and flabby. A good editor is often the only one standing between mediocrity and greatness...
Powerful families who changed the food industry
The cold knocked out a nuclear plant too: https://twitter.com/nuclearkatie/status/1361776682252730372
We have had low interest rates and massive QE even before this. We did not come close to hyper inflation. Why will this time be different ?
there is some merit to your argument, by giving up some privacy we have created huge amounts of wealth for ourselves. But we can still fear a dystopian reality where ai and cameras will be used to create files on everyone.
We could have used this a year ago to accelerate vaccine approvals/research. But why now?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26169969
> Google Search is inextricably intertwined with news and publishers do not voluntarily provide their content. On the other hand, publishers willingly choose to post news on Facebook, as it allows them to sell more subscriptions, grow their audiences and increase advertising revenue.

This is technically not correct. Publishers can opt out from Google Search if they want to, so one may also argue that they willingly choose to be on Google as well.
Why do you want all ecosystems to conform to your beliefs and implement your vision of how choice need to be made?

Librem 5 or Pinephone is a thing as well.
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Balls out actually refers to engine govenors. Additionally if a person AMAB is transitioning you may well not call them men, but if you asked I guess I would take your word for it.
E-Ink seems to spend all their time filing new patents: https://patents.justia.com/assignee/e-ink-holdings-inc

Because there's no real market, the only company "innovating" on the original technology is E-Ink. With a 20-year head start locking down iterative improvements, the technology may never get out of the tarpit.
(Assuming all of this is a matter of Google and Facebook not "playing fair")

I think it's very likely Facebook would still find profit in this arrangement, just less profit than before, but since they do business with other countries as well they don't want to give in. "OK we'll start playing fair and reduce profit in your market" = "OK we'll start playing fair and reduce profit in all markets"
What an amazing story! Thanks for sharing.
Rendering engine is not the issue. It's the JIT - firefox could publish a browser, it would just need to have interpreted javascript and it'd be useless.
https://archive.is/AxlQ1
Then test and see for yourself, if you want to know for yourself. We aren't making these things up.
It's also that movies are just in a deadlock because there are genres/pots/movie flavours that are considered "safe". Movies that are the same old cinematography, the same old story, probably won't be a huge success, but still almost guaranteed to create a profit. This school of thought goes down even to very cheap productions.
1. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/cf8f/f7d8b5cb3f8c279b2d877a...

The first article you link is a review of Allergic Contact Dermatitis (ACD). This is for substances that stick to skin cells and then trigger an allergic reaction. I searched through that article for reports of allergy to airborne fragrance and found only one:

> In 1 driver and 4 passengers, airborne ACD to such scents was diagnosed in Miami, FL [72].

It's from a short report from a hospital [0]. Five separate patients reported ACD related to driving or riding in separate Uber cars. The patients had positive patch tests for a fragrance (balsam of Peru). They did not analyze the substances in the driver's fragrance diffuser or the fragrances of the other cars. There are many possible explanations for the symptoms. Driving for Uber is a stressful job. And riding in Uber can be stressful, too, especially when the car has a bad smell that requires a powerful fragrance to cover up. So an equally plausible explanation of the five peoples' dermatitis is stress-induced dermatitis.

All other reports in that article of airborne ACD are for industrial substances affecting people working in factories and labs which use the substances. A worker in an addiction treatment facility became allergic to airborne heroin and morphine. Somebody became allergic to airborne sawdust.

2. https://link.springer.com/article/10.2165/00128071-200304110...

The second article is titled "Fragrance Contact Allergy". You can read it at [1]. It studies fragrance substances that people apply to their skin. It contains this statement, with no references or further information:

> Air-borne exposure to perfumes may elicit an allergic reaction in very sensitive individuals, but this is an extremely rare phenomenon.

3. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1600-0536....

The third article you listed is titled "Fragrance contact allergy: a 4‐year retrospective study". You can read it at [2]. The article does not contain the word 'air' or 'airborne'. It studies fragrance substances that are applied to the skin. It does not talk about allergic reaction to airborne fragrances.

I may be wrong. It's certainly possible that somebody somewhere has been allergic to airborne fragrances. But I found no credible evidence of that when I reviewed the scientific literature 4 years ago. And these three articles you linked also do not provide any evidence of it. If you find something concrete, or I missed something in the articles, please let me know.

[0] https://sci-hub.do/https://doi.org/10.1111/cod.12804

[1] https://sci-hub.do/https://doi.org/10.2165/00128071-20030411...

[2] https://sci-hub.do/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0536.2010....
Maybe that means war can become just a national competitive pass-time like video games or e-sports on a much bigger level. It's the carnage and damage to life that is the ugly part of competition or sport or combat - if we can save the lives but still allow nations to challenge themselves in competition with others, so be it. Let's sanction the next version of the Olympics and end the concept of war as it has existed until now.
The article is about the EU and 'monopoly' is not relevant for anti-competitive practices.
You can side load an Epic on to a Android app, that is true, but that is not the same as being able to buy it from a store on an Android device.

Amazon and other vendors have forked Android so that they can put there own store on it. Google does not open up its API enough that you can have the same functionality as the Google Play Store. I think you understand what I am saying, but just in case, it's really different than what you can do on Windows, Linux, MacOS.

I agree you can't have a monopoly by "customers". That's why I don't think Valve has a monopoly. PC users can can and do install games other ways. On the other hand, by my logic, Nintendo does have a monopoly on Switch users and PlayStation does have a monopoly on PlayStation owners. I think it matters a lot less in those cases because they aren't as ubiquitous as phones. In the US, Apple is 60% of the market, which is way past what the US used to define as a monopoly.

I am guessing you don't agree and don't think that is a problem. But I think I understand your point and respect the different point of view.
Not sure about the interaction aspect of the device, but it reminds me of the "Pico Siblings" required by the (now discontinued?) Pico project by my old lecturer which aimed to get rid of passwords[1].

[1]: http://mypico.org/
You're still (intentionally?) missing the point. There is no such thing as an "accurate descriptor of political leanings". There are words useful to describe groups of people from the outside, words useful for groups of people use to describe themselves, and sometimes they overlap.
Why all the competing narratives? We can actually measure power produced and where the gaps occurred. Seems to me like this is a simple case where facts can be verified and corrective actions deployed. Political spin will not keep anyone warm.
Launch and iterate :-)
I found it interesting scrolling around the globe with the "cursor" set to the zoom level where it contains all of Tasmania.

That gives me 160k entered over Sydney (Canberra up to Tamworth approximately), 124k over Melbourne, and places/areas of single digits are easy to find in the outback. It also gives me 300k entered over San Francisco, and 1.2million over London. (with easy to find spaces of zero in north Africa).

I'd like to see these figures compensated for population numbers. There's probably 7 million people in my "Sydney" footprint, I'd bet there's 10+ million in the SF/Bay Area footprint, and probably 30million in that "London and the entire south of the UK" footprint.
They've just run up so much this year. The Russell 2000 has a negative p/e ratio.
I see what you're saying. Personally, I think that hyperinflation would mean a fire sale on assets for gold and silver -- and that's a really good way to describe a liquidity crunch. But I concede the point.
Let's hope clearink[1] and other competitors get funding and push their tech forward. Clearink seems to be targeting educational emerging markets fisrt though[2].

[1] https://www.clearinkdisplays.com/

[2] https://youtu.be/zjJ2-cdhwMQ?t=15
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>losses worse than what they saved

I'm sure "we saved a few bucks" will be comforting to the families of people who froze to death or died of carbon monoxide poisoning from this entirely avoidable disaster.
Initiative and enthusiasm are pretty big factors that personal projects demonstrate, even if the actual outcome isn't anything to phone home about. If you're genuinely interested in the type of thing a job requires, you'll naturally pick it up faster.
Does VMS do anything better than Unix today? Anything besides asynchronous is?
No.

I agree that Facebook and Google need reigning in on their data and privacy invasiveness, as well as their offshore business structures that avoid Australian taxes. But this law is not that.

This law is sponsored by dying dinosaur media company News Corp because they have lots of mates in, and power over, Australian Government.

There's also a danger that, if this fight ends up being essentially lost by the Australian Government, it will vaporise any and all political will to go after Facebook and Google for anything else (eg. Data privacy, tax avoidance).

Don't support stupid laws that don't do the thing you want it to. Just because you (and I) don't like Facebook and Google doesn't mean they're wrong (in this particular case).

Edited to add: News Corp has fucked Australia throughout its history, if you support this Government action then you're tacitly supporting News Corp.

There are no good guys in this fight, so all that's left is the logic (or lack thereof) of the proposed laws. That's the key issue in this case.
Funny enough if you read the article, it helps explain how people can survive that stuff - or at least increase the odds of survival to be above zero.
when I looked into this for my house I found that gas was more like 10x cheaper than electricity. So a 3-4x efficiency advantage for a heat pump still made no economic sense
The market has decided on Standard Oil! What's the problem?
I was going to suggest the same thing: While continuing to look for steady work, see if you can get freelance jobs through any of the online boards. I started out as a freelancer thirty-five years ago (in another industry) and I’m happy I did: though I now work for a salary, that freelancing experience laid the foundation for my current career. And freelancing remotely is much easier now than it was thirty-five years ago.

A couple of years ago, I farmed out some small web design, programming, and proofreading jobs through Fiverr. The price competition among the people who bid for the jobs was brutal—people were bidding from some of the lowest-income countries in the world and seemed desperate for work—but it soon became clear that I would just be wasting my time if I went with the lowest bidders. Your writing skills will do a lot to attract jobs at decent pay. Good luck!
Never connected to Fellini. Just watched the circus ring finale on your recommendation and was about to use the term overdone but you beat me to it referring to "La Città Delle Donne". So I guess I have to say it feels stagey & self-conscious. I do like the fact that these people are nicely dressed and merely good looking, as opposed to the distractingly perfect Hollywood stars of today.

My feeling about today's mainstream A movies is that the directing is top-notch, the acting is unprecedentedly good on average, the stars are charismatic in the extreme, visuals/set design etc. are better than ever, and scripts are steaming piles of shit.

Anyway, not trying to be rude, seriously--may I learn more about the appeal of Fellini to you? Just feels dated to me, even though I'm a decade older than you. I have literally been trying to like Fellini since I was in college in 1978.
So, almost every possible ngram ever used is a 'input'?

Can someone describe what the lexical reality of 3.5T inputs actually means?

I feel like this is 'Deep Memorization' instead of 'Deep Learning'.

Like a Doctor who passes everything merely by memorizing the textbook with absolutely no ability beyond that.
>if you dislike uPlay and Origin, you should probably side with Apple on this.

Can you provide some reasoning behind that. What should I like, so I can dislike uPlay in the first place?
> If the market wants this kind of experience, then surely it will continue to exist no?

That is the battle Epic is currently fighting, to remove the ability for anyone on the market to offer this option.

By requiring everyone to allow third-party app stores, you effectively remove the option for a fully curated experience. Because as mentioned, once a few popular apps start demanding usage of the third-party app store, consumers will no longer be able to choose a fully-curated experience without foregoing those services. And that will lead down an inevitable loss of privacy, increased demanding of permissions for marketing, etc - all of which Apple has fairly successfully fought back solely through their centrally-moderated experience. We all lived through the early days of Android before the built-in flashlight when you had flashlight apps demanding full permissions to monitor everything you do.

It is, in a sense, another "paradox of tolerance" - you have to restrict user freedoms in one area (what users are allowed to install) to protect them in another area (predatory developers). Apple's walled garden is the only thing keeping those marketing departments at bay, their restrictions on app-developer (and ultimately end-user) freedom are what protects your privacy. Similar perhaps to how GNU and BSD regard "freedoms" differently - BSD regards developer freedom as paramount, while GNU regards user freedom as paramount, and these are not quite the same things. While BSD protects developer freedom to release proprietary code on top of BSD code, GNU restricts developer freedom and forces that to be released under GNU license as well. And ultimately that translates into a loss of user freedom in some sense - surely users would like the ability to have ZFS distributed alongside the Linux kernel, but GNU restricts that freedom in furtherance of the big-picture.

Ironic as it is, the Apple Store is the GNU of this situation. They are willing to burn some specific cases of application developers who are not willing to accept the licensing terms, in order to protect the big-picture of user freedoms (privacy). Android is the "BSD", where they are more concerned about developer freedom than user freedom. And the loss of specific apps is analogous to the friction between mixing source under copyleft license with other open-source licenses.

If you want third-party app stores, Android exists. This is about Epic fighting to take away the option to have a moderated, quality-controlled experience and eroding the ability of users to maintain their privacy.
I think you should read the book and get back to me. He makes quite a solid argument. And it's not about the century but more about long-term cycles.