skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, there's Galileo, again. A lot of that stuff is mostly myth. If you actually read about what happened instead of the bigoted Enlightment-era pamphlet pulp that's been absorbed by our textbook writers (horrifying to ask how much of that stuff is actually credible), you'll find that, first, he was a promoter of heliocentrism, a view that did not originate with him but one which he embraced following Copernicus and which goes back to at least Aristarchus. Second, at the time, heliocentrism was not better supported than geocentrism or one for which there was extraordinary incentive or pressure to adopt or address, nor was it some idea people (typically supposed to be Church prelates) were somehow afraid of, though FWIW, Copernicus was afraid of academic opinion, not the reaction of the Church (he himself was a member of the clergy and had corresponded with one or two popes, bishops, etc, about his work). The so-called Galileo affair spanned decades during which Galileo insulted and harassed political and Church authorities which, frankly, give the impression of being rather slow to anger. One contention that Galileo (who died a Catholic, btw) had concerned the language in the Bible that spoke of the rising or setting Sun. If heliocentrism is correct, then why is the Bible speaking of the rising and setting Sun? I don't know about you, but that strikes me as a pretty stupid question. To this day, we speak of the rising and setting of the Sun. It's descriptive language, not a scientific description, and the Bible is no scientific textbook. Maybe monomania is to blame for thinking that it is.

W.r.t. Semmelweis, I don't know how this played out, so you'll have to fill me in. I would make an initial distinction, though. The first is that once a theory achieves widespread acceptance, it's not surprising that honest people will be slow to absorb something that they can't account for. It takes time to process evidence. Think how absurd it would be to just throw away something that's made sense up until now. You have to reconcile new observations and do the work of accounting for everything accounted for by the previous theory plus the new thing. Throwing it away just like that leaves you with nothing to work with. The second distinction is that a lot of people build their egos out of knowing something and the feeling of dominance they get from it. "I'm hot shit and superior to you because I know X." Then you get these little cliques and cults of affirmation which adds another barrier because now you face the Lomanesque risk of no longer being liked.The coward cannot bear that possibility so he "defends" his tribe to protect himself. Of course, he isn't really acting for his own good or the good of others, just his own comfort.

But in general, yes, academic fads and prejudices do exist. Try being a conservative at a major university today, especially in a humanities department.
Yes - I felt it went into a lot of conjecture about certain events and Scott's responsibility/involvement (and very polarising interpretation of these events). I found that less useful and it would have probably been better to separate arguments.
Vassalagem Legislativa
Regarding your edit: I learned in school to hide my ability in order to avoid the problems you faced. I think a lot of kids did (most?). It’s what leads to that stereotype of a teacher asking an obvious question but nobody raises their hand. What a messed up situation for an education system to punish performance and teach people to not engage and hide ability.

Then there’s the nasty ego side effect of us all thinking we’re smarter than everyone else because we assume we’re the only ones hiding our abilities.
That's a good idea. I can look into it.
Throw out all the people and all the existing code/infrastructure, and completely change the business model.
Discard the data hoards. For good measure, also change the name and brand.

Establish in no uncertain terms that the new company culture is to above all try to act in the users' best interest and shun lies and manipulation as modus operandi.

If they'd do that I think it'd worthy of another chance, despite their track record.
No, but it's the consequence of equating a dollar in a database with a real dollar and the subsequent ownership of that dollar. A deposited dollar in your bank account is a low yield investment. You don't own the dollars, you own the promise that you will get your dollars back.
It doesn't really make sense to measure this in USD if one of the major hypothesis driving Bitcoin is that USD is being hyper inflated. Yeah, it might cost $1.7 trillion dollars but at that point a 3bd house might cost $5M. If you're going to pin BTC to USD, you need to use inflation adjusted numbers.
I went looking for OLED displays I could use to replace 9" CRTs, but, so far, no luck

Flexible OLED would be great for mimicking the Trinitron look, but it's hard to make it look like a cheaper CRT.

And making new CRTs for these formats would be prohibitively expensive.
> Does anything straightforwardly emerge from these examples? Do they reveal anything about the nature of tolerance?

No, Alexander's point is precisely that tolerance might be more complex then it appears. This is what happens when someone who is used to pieces with ten straightforward examples of the outgroup being bad encounters an actual attempt to understand and think about something.
Check back the predictions of 2 years ago and compare to the reality of today.
The issue is more with the specific pot of money. One could totally build what you’re describing, just not with Passenger Facility Charges.

Given the general poor state of public transit funding in the US not using that money means not building a train at all.
nilered, fire and explosions, northernlion, and bigclidom
> Third, as we saw with the last bull run of Bitcoin everything with blockchain in the name had a halo effect so there is definitely upward momentum.

We did, but blockchain tech rallying on the bitcoin price is a little like paper producers rallying on a baseball card fad. But markets are irrational, so...
Ask HN: Why use VPN? Are you always on VPN?
Well it’s a stupid question,

- found there’re huge downloads on VPN* app. just wondering
You aren’t a Mel Brooks fan? “The lord has given me these fifteen *trip* these ten commandments..”
Because it’s there to filter random non-technical users from technical users/experts.
> What I’d be interested to know is how it compares relative to energy costs for transacting with and securing fiat currencies.

Very hard to compare. One thing I’m unsure of for bitcoin: do costs go up if there are more transactions or does mining difficulty adjust so that costs don’t rise no matter how many transactions bitcoin does? I realize this is a major gap in my understanding.

The finance and currency system does much that bitcoin doesn’t currently do. So comparing as a whole isn’t adequate unless bitcoin network costs don’t scale up with numbers of transactions because mining gets easier.

Actually how do miners make money once there are no more coins to mine?

> In a world where bitcoin is $1million, it means the world has agreed on the benefits, and we will see innovations to address the tradeoffs that come from this. For example, we could see significant investment into renewable energy as a means to support the energy consumption of bitcoin.

That actually doesn’t follow. All that follows is that the world has decided to move $170 billion in capital into bitcoin per year.

The world is presently set to move about $20 billion of capital into bitcoin per year, and there’s no real consensus above usefulness.

The world could be putting $170 billion in because there is value, or it could be a massive waste of resources. The world has certainly misallocated resources before.

And yeah I was restricting my own comments to bitcoin. Ethereum et al I know much less about.
Android only comes bundled with Google apps by phone manufacturers. Cyanogen/LineageOS and Replicant are mostly OSS/FS.
> It’s not just about the cost, but about what science could be done

I'd argue that's not the issue either. We can keep a probe on Mars or in any orbit for years and gather data over that time. Anything that we land on Venus can only ever operate for a few minutes. Maybe there's stuff we could learn on Venus if we could stay there long term, but we can't. Any other target (Mars, Mercury, gas giant satellites, asteroids, dwarf planets ...) will have a better ROI, by several orders of magnitude.
I suggest you read what you wrote in reply to me, and what I replied to.
I have not been saying that in the past. I am saying it now. I also use Windows increasingly more and more, and experience significantly less bugs, even in old Win32 APIs which still “just work”, unlike Apple’s many many frameworks (new and old) which are broken in different ways. Or its system software, which keeps getting rewritten in half-assed ways with missing feature, and then never revisited or fixed.
I got to know about mindsdb when it was a university (Berkeley) project and Amie mailed me to try it out after finding out my blog posts. I was thrilled to know that it was kind of a black box system where one just feed data and system will pick model itself based on data. I found it interesting because I am not an ML guy and as a mere developer I wanted something that do some ML magic without going in depth. Glad to know project is evolved. I will try it again. Congrats!
An idea for Twitch:

1) Allow you to link your Amazon Music/Spotify/whatever account to your Twitch account to prove that you are licensed to stream songs from a given platform.
2) Allow a streamer to provide a 2nd audio channel in their bitstream, from their choice of service. You then only deliver this 2nd audio channel to people that have a link in place to said service

Simples.

Probably needs rights geolocation checking adding
Consider the difference between a Bitcoin and dollars in your bank account. You can own Bitcoin but your bank account just shows how much dollars your bank owes you, you don't own any of the dollars yourself.
Fair point - I suppose that, for example, a simulation runner could make a note of something that occurred in her simulation, and that would count as a causal effect on the simulating world from the simulated one.

I still feel, however, that the story's requirement, that the simulated world mirrors the simulating world (except when the latter is the real world), depends on the physics of the real world (and its simulations) being maximally deterministic (in that everything that is possible happens with probability 1) or else the butterfly effect will cause them all to diverge quite rapidly. But with that level of determinancy, there is no need for a feedback mechanism to achieve "midpoint stability" - there is no possibility of divergence from the already-determined future.
What is the on call like? Why is it stressful?

How many days/hours every 6 weeks? Is it 24 hours when you are at it, or only during the day time in your time zone?
There’s a balance because people really seem to like ? as null coalescing, => for lambdas =~ for regex match, etc..

I think <> as a fancy readline and _ as a default/throwaway variable does really improve readability and lowers the mental load of understanding programs.
I always thought upvar was kind of a cool feature, and allowed laser-specific targeting in places where you'd use a global otherwise in C. Is there any specific way that it's caused problems?
Ask HN: How do you handle marketing and sales as a founder?
Those of you working on one or two people SaaS business, how do you handle marketing and sales?

Curious to see where can I learn marketing and sales for my business?
Honestly I do it too. We get conditioned to assume every disagreement or question is in bad faith, because most of the time it is... Then we pounce and it becomes a self- fulfilling prophecy. In this case I didn’t read the original material carefully enough and made a fool of myself, so can’t blame anyone for assuming I was asking in bad faith.

By the way I agree with you that this topic is over-propagandized, by both sides. It makes it extra difficult to have good faith debates over it.
Yeah this is why I always end up reverting back to Google. It's just much better for finding answers to coding questions
A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago
How exactly does what happened here -- hundreds of streams, including the official Twitch stream, muting themselves to avoid losing their careers or getting sued for absurd amounts of money -- contribute to bands getting paid?
It's probably North Korea trying to extract some Bitcoin. All their computer science resources are now focused on this 24/7. So be careful.
That explanation is way too complicated. People start taking stuff serious when

a) they see the immediate benefit
b) it fits into their belief system
c) it is socially validated

Original stuff usually violates all three points.
Canadian Town Derails Diesel Train to Provide Emergency Power (1998)
markets exist to connect buyers and sellers.
The grayscale products come pretty close.
> How did things progress so far backwards in stability?

Not a software engineer then?
Blu-ray Disc Construction and Manufacturing
“30 years later, I recreated my text editor on Amiga”
For those who is struggling with booting and putting M1 Mac even in DFU mode, this explanation works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5xmA3lDz3g

Well almost. To make it really work in my case I had to restart Apple Configurator, because otherwise it would not see the other Mac. You can imagine how many boots and attempts you need to discover this.

When I think about it now it could be I accidentally have entered to the second boot option and only this way it managed to put it in DFU. Hard to say now.
Bank bailouts will become very unattractive since there is a less risky alternative. It's like building a nice bridge that can collapse vs an ugly bridge that will never collapse.
I am mostly speaking about OS bugs, not hardware. The hardware side of Apple is still of high quality. It’s the software that is becoming increasing terrible.

1/2000 is still a big number, considering the Apple numbers. I doubt their hardware has so many issues.
> Organic growth isn't even scoped here.

Other things current AI's are lacking besides growth: embodiment + the social and physical environment, ability to make interventions in the environment, self reproduction, learning from reward signals, autonomy, adaptation, radical open-endedness.

"Patterns of electrical signals in neurons" are just part of the picture. Yes, learning happens there, but learning is fed by signals from the body and environment. It would be silly to focus on the neurons while ignoring the actual content, then start wondering where meaning comes from, and if syntax is enough. Meaning doesn't come from mere neurons, it comes from being an embodied agent.
I got one for just comfort and I'm happy with it. Did take a while to get used to the thumb button group placements, but not too bad.
Cheerful. I wonder when this kind of art project crosses the line into terrorist conspiracy.
That’s implying you’re conversing with rational person, but fear of cancel-culture is being canceled even for rational thinking, thus people false preferences and/or are dishonest.
no, that comparison doesn't really work.

If your buisness model requires large scale censorship of the internet to remain profitable, then your buisness model is broken. This was true in the 90s where downloading a few thousand mp3s was the most you could get out of your modem and it's true today for complete 4k blueray rips.

Spotify and co have obliterated music piracy on the internet. It's hard to find torrents for music these days and even the best private trackers can't compete with Spotifys ever growing catalog. Add to that the availability of Spotify on linux, android and basically every other device that has a DAC in my household and i wouldn't even bother trying to pirate music anymore. There was a time, when this was true for netflix, or at least it felt true to a degree. But the movie and tv industry chose to split their catalog between an ever growing number of competing offers, thus movie piracy is alive and well. The same is true for most games these days. Why bother pirating a game, requiring complicated installation, slow download speeds and a lack of updates when i can buy it on steam and get the convenience of fast downloads, automatic updates, reliable only gameplay etc.?

The reality is that copying bits of data has become so trivial, it's impossible to monetize it. That's why everything's a SaaS in the cloud these days. Trying to restrict that is a fools errand at best. For piracy to die, it has to become inconvenient and the legal alternatives have to be priced reasonable.
I suppose the T1, T2 and Touch Bar are, and with the M1 those parts are integrated on the SoC. But the runtime OS is still macOS and like on x86 that is not very iOS. The best description would be 'both', as the embedded platform is added instead of displacing the existing 'computer' platform. On M1 it is closer, and much more integrated, but still very distinct.
I hope this helps, with respect to ideas.

While I can technically create my own scripts using AI, I tend to utilize others' scripts, as programming this stuff is not the best use of my time. This sort of stuff is almost always exclusively posted on GitHub. I do not use a ton of packages. I do have to keep this concise (check my profile for my email, which I will keep available for a couple of days).

-Video: It should be noted that all video hosted in the cloud can usually be downloaded, one way or another, using scripts. I have an ongoing, organized, paper list of video types/genres that interest me and keep me happy, which I try to stick to. I frequently update it though. I know when to give myself neurochemical "hits", from the stuff I accumulate online, from reading books like "The Molecule of More" and "HØY PÅ DEG SJÆL: ENDORFIN SOM MEDISIN" (HIGH ON YOUR SOUL: ENDORPHINS AS MEDICINE) [I used a cloud service to translate it into English...I find out about various books in different languages via deep searches using foreign language keywords via DuckDuckGo.]. For video searches I use DuckDuckGo video search: https://duckduckgo.com/video?ia=web# (with "site:youtube.com" [without quotes] in the query box)

Here are some scripts I use. I really do not use many scripts.

YouTube: https://github.com/aksharbarchha/Only-for-Youtubers

IMDB Movie Reviews: https://github.com/RubixML/Sentiment

I have Plex (and other database/recommendation engines) on my computer, Synology NAS, and Nvidia Shield TV Pro. I transfer the videos typically to my NAS and stream them on the Shield via Plex. I can also access all of this via my NAS and stream on mobile data via Plex, for example, on my phone/tablet, as there is also a Plex app.

-Nvidia Jetson: I use an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier Developer Kit (32GB). Likewise, I do not use many scripts. I just started using it. I generally use an Intel Realsense camera as a webcam. However, sometimes I do use a standard Logitech webcam.

AI pose and facial emotion analysis: https://github.com/raymondlo84/nvidia-jetson-ai-monitor

Sentiment analysis for web browsing: https://github.com/nickbild/browzen [I have to VNC into the Jetson when using my laptop and have the webcam pointed at me: https://github.com/Aravindseenu/Nvidia-jetson-VNC-remote-acc... ]

Intel Realsense Emotion Analysis: https://github.com/intel/ros_openvino_toolkit

Driving-DBSE Monitor: Drowsiness, Blind Spot and Emotions monitor: https://github.com/altaga/DBSE-monitor/tree/master/Jetson
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> the problem I have with it is that it has the wrong numerus.

Not really:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/singular-nonbi...
I disagree. The most important part of a car is the brakes. Likewise, the most important part of a complex programmable device is the capability to slick and reinstall to restore a known good working state.

Shipping something that cannot uninstall/reinstall cleanly is shipping a not even half functional base device. Ubiquity of Internet access is not a crutch that can be counted on at all times. The fact that modern hardware vendors are starting to assume that is disturbing, and likely another symptom of companies slowly trying to acclimate users to not really "owning" what it is they bought.
It sounds like you're pre-idea, so one suggestion is to avoid building a "mission critical" type of idea if your desire is to stay solo and not be chained to your laptop...

I run a small SaaS where I had a decision early on to pursue a live chat-based approach to the UX versus an asynchronous approach. A big reason I chose the latter was to avoid the need for 24/7 "real-time" support in favor of a better lifestyle, even though the live version likely would have garnered more customers.
(IMHO) Apple Sucks
I'm sorry, he doesn't mention climate or the IPCC?

Edit: And I just scanned the last week of posts and can't see mention of anything like that. You're confusing with user koolba.
Revenue Acceleration Manifesto
Last night I was talking to a mechanical engineer friend who worked at JPL and he didn't know about the Venera program!

I like to bring up Venus whenever Mars is in the news. It's so much more interesting to me than the tiny, dark dust bowl we keep probing.
"Modern," huh?
Bill Gates: Tradeoffs in Texas Lead to Deaths
Reminded me of:

> After 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, a Nyancat was drawn on this RIPE

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14621347
Apple Platform Security Guide Reveals Focus on Vertical Integration – TidBITS
They do a lot of things differently. This doesn't prevent problems from happening, but it does create a likelihood that the problems will be different.

Google/YouTube does demonetization, but keeps the video streaming as is. That makes sense for their platform, but it creates a host of other problems.
It's not use-after-free - the object is in the process of being destroyed, the memory hasn't been released yet. This just has to do with the value of the "this" pointer.
> Fourth, there is no Bitcoin tracking security on public markets.

Bitcoin futures are available since 2017 on CME and CBOE.
>"It is interesting to note that laser light from the player, drive or recorder does not travel through the BD substrate to access information on the disc.

Thus it may be possible to employ materials other than the optical-grade polycarbonate plastic as used in CD, DVD and other disc construction.

Indeed, polycarbonate is currently employed, but

manufacturers have demonstrated that various resins (polyphenylene oxide/PPO and others) and even paper may be possibilities for the future."

PDS: Interesting indeed!
Right, no need to encrypt anything, just don't set any read permissions. Problem solved!
Regarding your last line: futures trade nearly 24 hours, 6 days/week. It's also several times bigger than the ETF market, in terms of average daily dollar volume, so you get the liquidity and smaller spreads as well. [1]

[1]: https://www.cmegroup.com/education/courses/futures-vs-etfs/w...
I find it useful when I need to circumvent regional restrictions, and perhaps when torrenting the odd "linux ISO".

For anonymity it's not worth it, imo. Tor is free and has more protections for that kind of thing provided the speed bump is something you can stomach.

As for always on VPN, if you configure VPN on your router or have it start and always stay on from the very beginning, that's a good way to never expose your physical IP to anyone. But I've found this rarely happens in practice, there are always slip ups and so on. I'm not doing it at the moment.
Breakthrough?

I've successfully done this in my own lucid dreaming sessions. Solving math problems, composing poetry and music, conversing with people while in between. Maybe I should reach out...
Coca-Cola Forcing Employees to Complete Training ‘To Be Less White’
I'm not sure how to interpret your sentiment
FreeSync is VRR, which was already mentioned. Same goes for G-Sync.
It took them about three major OS updates to fix this problem.