skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you really arguing for mass rollout of an untested vaccine?

Most of the CoVID-19 deaths around the world have been avoidable, even without a vaccine. Countries that reacted properly (mostly in East Asia and Oceania) have had orders of magnitude fewer deaths per capita. Rather than rushing out a vaccine before doing any safety or efficacy testing, I'd rather that countries had controlled the virus with non-pharmaceutical interventions early on.
> But without a first cause, then (necessarily) there could be no subsequent effects.

This is where there seems to be a somewhat subtle implied premise, as the most one can say about necessity here is that without a first cause, then either there could be no subsequent effects or there is an infinite causal regress.

And regardless of that, this argument tells us nothing about what sort of first cause there might be, so when Aquinas says “to which everyone gives the name God”, he's just winging it, in that just about everyone's notion of God has some specific characteristics.

The use of "manifestly", and appeals to plausibility, intuition or convention such as "to which everyone..." are something of a tell: when philosophers resort to such language, we know they cannot prove that they have a sound argument.

These sort of arguments are quite entertaining to discuss, but Alvin Plantinga, for one, is under no illusion that they actually prove the existence of God.
Bitcoin is a perpetual motion machine
Russia Reports First Cases of H5N8 Bird Flu in Humans
> This argument, whenever it shows up, is usually a thinly veiled attack on affirmative action, which is aimed increasing the equality of opportunity - university education being far more an opportunity than an outcome.

First of all, I’m not sure it’s “thinly veiled”; being opposed to affirmative action is a legitimate position with its own set of arguments. The confidence with which you declare your opinion about affirmative action as though it is some settled fact makes discussing these issues extremely difficult. Ultimately, you’re entitled to your opinions, but they’re still opinions.

“University education being an opportunity than an outcome” is extremely debatable. Is your first job out of college also an opportunity rather than an outcome? Where we draw the line is something society needs to litigate, and it’s by no means a settled issue. For example, one might argue that while attending university is an opportunity that everyone ought to have, attending Harvard University (or other selective institutions) isn’t. The reality is that adolescents are rewarded for their academic achievements by being accepted to prestigious institutions (and yes “legacy admissions” are anathema to this); that can be considered an outcome rather than some random opportunity. In fact, you lose all of the nuances, edge cases, and asterisks associated with the messiness of reality when you make blithe declarations like “university education is an opportunity not an outcome”. It’s like lossy compression; we lose information and the discourse is worse off for it.

> The thrust of current civil rights efforts: ending disproportionate police violence against POC, bolstering public education in poor neighborhoods, healthcare as a right, these are all about the equality of opportunity.

Sure, and in any grab-bag of policy positions, you’re bound to find positions that most of society would agree fall under the “equality of opportunity” bucket. There are disagreements as to how best to achieve all of those things, but by and large most people agree that “everyone having access to better education” is the goal or “everyone having access to better and cheap healthcare” as a goal. If you’ll notice, I never said “public education” or “x is a right” because those declarations start to become more prescriptive as to what the solution should be — and I encourage you to try to understand the steel-man arguments against those specific prescriptions.
Brain waves in REM are similar to the awakening stage, from a daytime perspective tries to sort out what was during the day and maybe offer solutions by morning.

Have a good read from ‘When Brains Dream’ (Zadra & Stickgold 2021)
This is more about how Jira is configured.

For example, there is no reason why each transition in the workflow couldn't simply have a corresponding counter-transition: "Start development" / "Abort development"; "Move to test" / "Return to development" (not the same as "Test failed"); "Test OK" / "Test again"; "Close" / "Reopen". And the excessive fields almost certainly can be removed from the form, so you could reduce the entire thing to Title + Description + State + Assigned To.

You are right that most companies don't do this. That's because in most companies the management decides how Jira should be configured... and their preference is for "more data" because it gives them the illusion of control, and they don't really care how much extra paperwork this means for the developers.

Well, we could perhaps blame Jira for having the wrong defaults. But even where Jira has the right defaults, the management often decides to override them.

For example, Jira allows to split tasks to subtasks, but by default this functionality is disabled, and the documentation argues strongly against it. (The recommended way to use Jira is that the tasks are atomic, and you have a database of tasks. To relate tasks to each other, use links or tags or epics; all of them optional.) Yet, most managers insist that tasks must be divided to subtasks. And then you get the usual "one subtask per each task" or "analysis, development, and testing are subtasks, instead of steps in workflow", because that's how the management wanted it.

Then underlying reason is that developers and managers have different needs. Developers need a database of bugs, and a short list of tasks to be done. Managers want as much information as possible (no matter whether the information makes sense or not, because they don't understand half of it anyway), plus time tracking (to push people to work faster), plus something that would reduce their need to plan and check how the plan progresses... and if they can outsource all this work to developers, that makes their own work more convenient. Which is why the Jira is configured the way it usually is. But the same thing will happen with any other tool... and if the tool would not allow such abuse, then the management would not allow the tool.
Real-time dialogue with a dreaming person is possible
Agreed. If I remember correctly, the infighting because of the 2 vs 3 debacle didn't help much.
Let anyone have your content removed for any reason!

-- problem solved!

- youtube
Everyone is assuming it’s email, but you don’t need “a script” to search your own email, and you don’t need to risk getting fired sending emails to your lawyer, you just print them out. Or wait to get fired and get them during discovery. Google isn’t going to go into conspiracy mode and risk hundreds of millions over a line manager getting fired, that’s absurd.

It wouldn’t surprise me if this “script” was trying to pull documents from manager or HR only sources and that they were related to Gebru’s employment—hence the need for a script to do a search. Which would imply she was looking for ‘dirt’ outside of her normal access and responsibilities.

That scenario would explain a lot of what’s going on here.
It’s unclear how this is better than OLED, which doesn’t involve backlighting at all.
Samsung also just announced memory/ram with processing Ai cores to speed read write access
https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-develops-industrys-f...
Here is an idea of how much you'll need invested into a rarer stock or your typical retail brokerage account:

Fidelity: "*You must have at least $250,000 in your Fidelity brokerage account(s) to apply."

Schwab depends on the stock, but it seems many people get an email when they have over $100k of an eligible, especially rarer, security.

TDAmeritrade does not offer it, but they were bought out by Schwab so that will likely change as your account is transferred over.

"Interactive Brokers earns 15% annualized income from lending shares with a value of $10,000 and it posts $10,000 cash collateral to a participant's account"
I mean, I'm sure the lack of public parks, poor education system, and some other regulatory failures on par with ERCOT are at least as attractive as a week without electricity or water.
I think we need to prepare ourselves for a longer fight with the coronavirus. RNA-vaccines can be quickly adapted and interesting vaccines are currently in studies (e.g. the CureVac one, which does not need to get refrigerated in very low temperatures like the Pfizer).

We should invest again in expanding production to guard against new mutants, so that if a shot to update our immunity is needed again, sufficiently large quantities can be produced very quickly. This may be tricky for companies, maybe another governmental aid would be necessary?

I think people are getting very weary of the pandemic, I certainly notice it. In germany it would be very hard to survive a summer or next winter in lockdown without people going craz in my opinion. I hope politicians are planning ahead.
Could you maybe give a short explanation to how Scandinavian schools answer the bullying problem? I can't find anything that directly answers that question.
> And this also will lead to further divides where the wealthy get batteries and generators while everyone else is literally left out in the cold.

On the other hand, if the wealthy get batteries and generators then that would turn wealthy neighborhoods into neighborhoods where it is safe for the power company to cut power when they need to shed load.
You may have missed the joke.
I could swear Ted Chiang also used to have a website with some of his stories, but I can't find it now by Googling, and Wikipedia doesn't provide much except Internet Archive'd versions of his stories appearing in different places. Did I imagine the Chiang archive?
I sympathize with the anti-management sentiment overall, but I’ve yet to see anyone address alternatives to designating someone, new hire or otherwise, as a “manager”.

This article doesn’t really touch on it other than to say “do a bunch of things right and folks can self-manage”, which is a retort to a narrow use-case for management. Not all managers are intended to be people managers, nor do they want to be.

I can’t help but think the management vs non-management paradigm is 50% due to anti-management stereotype, and 50% due to actually toxic management practices. And I imagine half or less of that latter 50% are toxic because of a bad manager. Everything else is likely due to overbearing leadership, poor company goals, a bad process that management would too like to change but can’t, etc etc.

Generally, I agree with the article’s sentiment. Don’t force a process, find what works for your employees. Get company buy-in. Set clear rules and goals. Hold folks accountable, and tell them to hold you accountable too.
Perhaps we need to reach people differently: movies, ads, and spectacles to shove undeniable consequences, testimonials from around-the-world, and plans/hope in their faces to change sentiments sooner.

Another, parallel option is subtly: Crowdfund massively to buy-out the advertising industry to alter beliefs?
Some but that’s what I mean by almost nobody. Even within that group I would say their concern about animals most likely takes human existence for granted.
Modern macOS doesn't give access to specific home subfolders to apps.
I feel that Google Search results in most cases display the results of the companies that have invested in gaming the search engine. It is not always the best results that I am looking for.

For past year or so I have been using reddit as a search engine when looking for suggestions on products, services etc.

Google - mostly for google maps local results.

And DuckDuckGo for anything else.
Good news: you don't need to anymore.

I used DDG for a couple of years and I was recurrently reverting to Google. Since I changed to Qwant, I only use Google when looking for images. (I'm in Portugal, in other locations might be different).
The Agile training and consulting (not software development consulting, but those management consultings) industry sold so much snake oil that they killed an entire industry. The funny thing is that there is nothing either agile (small "a") or Agile (large "A") on anything they sold.
"Science" in this case is the best knowledge we have. Just because it's not perfect doesn't mean it's not the best thing we have.
Maybe not banned but they could do a carbon tax like they do with motor vehicles. Or maybe like with appliances where you have an energy rating, with stickers telling you how much electricity it will use per year, possibly with tax incentives to pick the most efficient.

Problem is: how to test that? Even with the most straightforward tests, there are cheaters. Appliances have a special "eco" mode to meet the specs that most people won't use because it barely does the job. And for cars, well, VW have shown us how far companies are ready to go.
For the past 40+ years there was an non-stop ongoing attack on nuclear energy. See "china syndrome" for more info.

Fear-mongering is _the reason_ for the absence of progress and rising prices, not some technical obstacles.
I think the term is pedantic.
Well, it's that line of thought that prompted my question. It is, of course, a well-known source of problems in C that it will uncomplainingly dereference an invalid pointer.
MD5 is not broken in a way where that would be possible. The best that could be done by such a prankster would be to create two pieces of malware with the same MD5. I guess that could be confusing or something...
A really great app for this is Suspicious Package:

https://www.mothersruin.com/software/SuspiciousPackage/
The last time I used Google those "top notch" results meant at least 5 links to pinterest and various other sites that are basically unusable to unregistered users.

With DuckDuckGo I don't get results tailored to my profile, but with a bit of time I got a pretty decent intuition what keywords have good chances for quality results. In the beginning I jumped back to Google for some tricky searches, nowadays I don't even bother because I know the results will most likely be even worse.
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Could you please explain why this specific use of MD5 is inappropriate?

I don't really see how the weaknesses of MD5 are applicable here but I'd like to learn if I'm wrong.
A false hope, indeed. It may be worth mentioning that this was not only the local affluent district, but among the top 5 in the state, ranked by wealth or academic performance. All that cash in the district, and they still couldn't vet teachers well.
I've started using Bing. It's actually pretty good, but I do go back to Google for some stuff, usually looking up locations/stores etc.

Also pays in Tesco Supermarket vouchers (£5) every month or so for doing their little quizzes and then combined desktop/mobile searches which is nice.
> If you have a sophisticated attacker using spear fishing using company information then it's even more effective.

I work for a large company with a common email address format, and I'm constantly getting personalised emails, complete with my name and vaguely related to my work, advertising training and seminars (although I'm yet to be targeted by a spear phishing attack).

I assume they just trawled LinkedIn to find people working at the company and their role. Our email addresses follow a standard format, so it's trivial to guess what my email address is.

We also get monthly simulated phishing emails from our security team.

I've just gotten into the habit of not reading emails. Everything important comes through Slack, my email inbox is mostly automated emails from a dozen different services and company announcements that I don't bother reading.
> We can expect the marginal cost to mine a coin to scale with price.

This feels correct but I don’t think it is. For example gold has decreased by $200/oz recently - it definitely didn’t just get cheaper to mine. I know mining is different and it’s not a great comparison, but costs don’t scale immediately, miners don’t make decisions entirely based on the price of btc now, etc.

Economic principles like supply and demand meeting on an agreed price are very muddy.
Did you get permission from SemiEngineering to reprint their article in full on your site?
Thanks this is a very useful tip, the folder actions in general seem pretty useful
If you have to repeatedly do this, sure. I guess everyone has a different threshold. People with customer facing jobs have a lot of practice with this.
One of the benefits of Montessori is you have kids with two years age difference in the same classroom. If you’re in the 8th grade then you’re in a class with 9th and 7th graders.
So it's my damned writing style to start paragraphs with spaces that's biting me in the rear!
I tend to do that to format a bit the content, but it seems to collide with the markdown.
Thanks for the heads up, will make sure I won't be doing that on HN comments.
Getting API access to stuff like that costs a surprising amount of money for what it is. I guess they’ve worked out that the cost isn’t worth it.
I don't know why people pretend that LN is decentralized. Just own the fact that it's federated. Lightning was always about adding a little trust in exchange for efficiency.
> Its a kind of "vm" It has something morally akin to pickle.

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Your comments here on HN hardly ever make any sense and they show a complete lack of understanding of both how coordinating conjunctions and punctuation work. They look like some keywords sorta related to the article but pieced together using a Markov chain or something like that.

I'm not a native english speaker but when I post in english I try to make at least semi-coherent sentences and I try to pay attention to punctuation.

Your comments are all so weird that I don't even need to read your username when I stumble upon one of them: I know it's you.

Your answers to people asking you why you are acting so weird also don't make any sense: it's more of the same nonsense.

I don't usually complain much here but it'd be nice if you stopped acting full on crazy.

Basically everything you post is so weird I'm wondering if I'm not talking to a bot and if that bot is not going to spout of the same non-sense in response. And if that's the case, well, I feel like HN would be a better place without that kind of pollution...
Ha, never knew this one. This is so much easier!
Qwant is awful for spanish, and I contacted them about some issues and they just ignore you, despite being a rather small company.

I'm using DDG now.
Think about it this way: There is 7bn people on the planet. $170bn works out an average of $24/person. Or $2/month. Even poor people in poor countries can afford that. It might actually be cheaper for them, many poor countries (think Africa, Argentina, Brazil, etc...) are going through hyperinflation that it is safer and less volatile to hold Bitcoin.
Nano introduction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAk2ou6EFMY
Here are my thoughts on the issue. (To be clear, my thoughts have no input from my workplace.)

A) Why wasn't proper usage reporting built in from the start? If you are limiting a user by a usage metric, then you should be giving them a way to manage that usage intelligently. It does sound like Drive is a complicated structure, but, well, that's no excuse for not supporting your users properly.

B) I'm not surprised by Google ending the unlimited plan. But I still consider it bait and switch. Promising "unlimited" in the first place is impossible. It's false advertising. All the companies that do, or did, that, really should be fined. At very least we should hit them with a class action.

C) Google's method of ending the unlimited plan is not very good. They really should have done something like:

"We are ending the unlimited plan. New users will receive 100TB. Current users with more than 100TB of data will be granted a perpetual 120% of their current data usage as of last night at midnight UTC. Current users with less than 100TB, will have a 120TB limit."

That would have been far more fair, and much less of a bait and switch.

Anyway, thanks to everyone who replied. The tips about rclone really helped out.
Indeed. I think that is to allow them to stretch. If you take something like a shirt, for example, it'll be all merino wool.

EDIT: Also I see that the proportions differ based on the type of socks.
Stunningly Surreal Bookstore in China
A customer buys from a restaurant on a platform, gets the food served cold, and instead of blaming the platform for bad coordination, blames the restaurant for serving it cold, or blames the driver for serving it cold, often by publicly posting on the same platform which screwed their order, hence deflecting blame from the platform onto the driver or the restaurant.
Open Representative Voting is just a proprietary term for Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPoS) consensus [1]. Basically transaction validator nodes are elected by votes weighted by the sum of the amount of tokens in the voters' wallet.
Apparently Nano wanted to highlight the fact that anyone can become a validator instead of a preselected list by coining a new term.

While better than most DPoS chains there is still a higher risk of centralisation than with PoW. [2]

1. https://link.medium.com/Jj7lG1ng2db

2. https://vitalik.ca/general/2018/03/28/plutocracy.html
Yes it’s true the media has an incentive to play up threats, but does that mean there are no threats, or that all the threats they report can be discounted?

Mutated virus strains that are dramatically more virulent and possibly more deadly are scary. This is the virus evolving to better target its host. There’s nothing irrational about being concerned by that.

It’s true fewer people are dying right now, but it’s still thousands of people per day in the US and still hundreds a day here in the UK. Those are not good numbers. I’d love to know how the relatives of those thousands of people who died today would react to you saying they were not at significant risk.

If some of the current vaccines offer reduced protection against some of the new strains that’s a big deal that people need to be informed about.
I think other Western nations are better comparisons for a number of reasons. I don't think discussing China's approach is a productive conversation.

>The reason for the large number of deaths in the US is not that Americans have suppressed immune systems, are stressed, or are otherwise unhealthy.

I disagree. And even if we were to stop COVID from killing so many, it's reckless to consider this as not a significant contributor to any unnecessary deaths. New variants of existing diseases are inevitable.
The story itself says they need to be careful not to turn it off. Also a database isn't conscous but the simulated entities seem to be.
Maybe you're confused about what they're trying to do. I'm pretty sure they're trying to get rich and nothing else.
Streamer CDNThe3rd saw this coming live and played with it. https://mobile.twitter.com/CDNThe3rd/status/1362928445353787...
Requires strange matter to exist in the first place, and currently the evidence does not support the hypothesis.
Parents alerted to NurseryCam security breach
Events in the physical world cannot do anything that was not determined by the laws of physics, and yet they affect the rest of the physical world.
Tobacco giant bets £1bn on influencers to boost 'lung-friendlier' sales
The Evolution of the Boogaloo Movement
I don't think it's a problem at all: There have already been blocks in the past where the transaction fee portion of the miner reward was higher than the block reward.
The trick is to append !g to almost every search.

Sorry, but I have to agree with you. I don't understand how people treat ddg as a viable alternative to google, and I'm surprised by this community's enthusiasm for a search engine whose first result for 'hacker news' is thehackernews.com.