skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Right the baby boomers who could work flipping burgers and put themselves through college and buy a house at 22 really did poorly

Yes! You, living in the modern world, would never tolerate the quality of housing, automobiles, education, and essentially everything else that was "in reach" of someone flipping burgers at 22 in this fabled period of history.

What they had was shit, and you'd quickly be backpedaling on this opinion if you ever had to live with it yourself.

You are immeasurably better off than your parents. The array of amenities, options & opportunity in front at this very moment is something people in this mythical period
you're describing could not even fathom.

> "But the stock market is great!" - for the top 10% of us with stocks, awesome. We left a shitload of people in the dust. Millennials have what 1/3 of the wealth boomers did by the same age? But if we all gave more... Trust us it's better...

"Top 10% of us with stocks" - really? Anyone with any kind of retirement plan is exposed to the stock market. But the kicker is I wasn't even talking about the stock market when I say the US economy is booming & dynamic!

I'm not sure what you mean by "if we all gave more". Honestly your(and the other person's) replies reek of young, terminally online talking points, not anything based on data or empirical study.
Agreed, I've read other plausible claims of ~evidence suggesting the Wuhan origin theory is incorrect.

Generally speaking, I think the whole world would be better off if we aligned our perceptions of our knowledge more closely with its likely true quality: very often, we think we know things, but we are actually just estimating if not outright guessing, and then declaring it to be true. Unfortunately, very few people seem to be comfortable with this idea regardless of their political orientation or education level. But as I see it, it is simply applying the discipline and methodology of science to the real world, so it's kind of weird how unpopular it is with educated people who are otherwise enthusiastic promoters of Scientific Thinking.
One interesting question of this is if science changes once the other galaxy groups disappear. By that I mean if a human was to redo all previous experiments have we lost any data that would result in us building a different model of the universe than what we've built with the other galaxy groups present. Sure, we will have records of evidence from the past, but records of evidence from experiments that can no longer be repeated is no longer reliable data. This is ignoring the whole development of humanity and science in the intervening 150 billion years which may change what options are available to use then.

I'm also not sure if this is the most up to date model of the universe. I've recently dived deep into quantum field theory and theoretical physics (well as deep as one can without understanding a field of spinors) and I've watched a number of lectures given over the last decade that include alternate takes on expansion. I could be completely misunderstanding what was being spoken about, but it appears one possible model of reality is a sort of bubble in hyperexpanding space that gives rise to a big bang event that eventually leads to the bubble becoming hyper expanding space itself that can give rise to further bubbles.

Here is one talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhnKBKZvb_U

I recommend the whole thing if you aren't familiar with Boltzmann brains and boxes, but if you want to see the issue with the current model presented in this article go to 41 minute mark and to see a possible alternate model go to about 44:50.
Florida's Roundtable Discussion on Public Health Censored by YouTube
>The U.S. delegation was *led* by Jamison Fouss, the consule general in Wuhan, and Rick Switzer, the embassy’s counselor of environment, science, technology and health.

The first article lists the “leaders” of the delegation only. Diplomatic business always needs diplomatic leaders, so it doesn’t tell us anything of the Doctors who were with them. Reading the rest of it, there’s a very convincing case that China is hiding something. The doctors that have “disappeared” are especially troubling as well as the information lockdown they imposed.
It’s because they have been trained to think: corona leaked from a lab is tin foil hat conspiracy theory.
No, it's not. It's about as tyrannical as a chef deciding what meals she serves in her own restaurant. While we're on the topic of Western civilization, people deciding what they do with their own property in their private businesses is actually the basis of Western civilization, in contrast to the apparently now mainstream take that they ought to be compelled to host something they don't want to host.

A tyrant is someone who puts dissidents up against the wall and puts a bullet in their head, not a streaming platform deciding what they want to stream.
I’d like to emphasize a major aspect that makes the switch a non-brainer: SECURITY.

The “good old days” of unencrypted Internet, where everyone could see your cookies, are no longer acceptable; the same is true of X11.

With X11, if you copy a password from your manager, you must assume all running apps now know it and transmitted it to a malicious server. There’s no way to tell.

With Wayland, it is only transmitted upon pasting, and only done directly from the copier app to the paster app.

With X11, everything displayed on the screen is compromised. Also, all inputs, keyboard and otherwise.

With Wayland, each app only sees their own pixels.

With X11, screen locking is pure hackery that doesn’t always protect the locked pixels and… login password.

Traditionally, you are meant to trust that process boundaries on Linux are sacredly secure, which is why Spectre was a big deal. But in practice, that is only true under Wayland.
As a white American in Beijing during the 9/11 attacks, I experienced lots of not-so-surprising behavior from my Chinese hosts. Many Chinese felt that America deserved what they got. Tensions were still high from the "Hainan Island Incident" only a few months earlier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident
> Einstein saw the whole forest, while Heaviside and Thomson were looking through a magnifying glass at the bark on a single tree.

That's an incorrect characterization.

Heaviside is pre-Michelson-Morley. Einstein is post.

The fact that "Ether doesn't exist. Electromagnetic waves simply transmit without a medium." is a VERY VERY VERY big change in the fundamentals of physics.

That opened the door for the hypothesis that "all physical laws look the same in all inertial frames" because without "Ether" you cannot anoint a preferred inertial frame. The Michelson-Morley experiment was the first test of that hypothesis.

And, to be fair, the kind of fields interpretation that Einstein championed has weaknesses:

1) It's an absolute bear to compute--the Heaviside-Hertz formulations lend themselves to engineering much better pre-computers.

2) It had severe experimental holes--at the time.

For example, the Einstein fields interpretation makes the prediction that an an excited electron in an atom will never decay. That, of course, was nonsense--excited atoms always decay to ground state. Except--now that we can isolate single atoms we absolutely see that single atoms don't decay--only the ensemble interactions cause them to decay.
Are you referring to the lactic acid bacteria species Lactobacillus sanfranciscensis [1] that commonly occurs in sourdough? In that case: This species, while initially named after its historical occurence in sourdough bread around San Francisco, really occurs all over the world.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactobacillus_sanfranciscensis
Using a condom that leaks repeatedly results in MORE pregnancies.

Because the biological agent is never disposed of.

And it keeps being applied over and over day after day.

It's why you wouldn't want your surgeon to walk in to your operation with the mask he just used from the previous operation.

It's also basic medical hygiene theory. The same reason that washing hands is effective because germs are transmissable via numerous vectors.
I do not irrationally hate cars - I just have the perspective that we should design our shared spaces in a manner that leads to the least amount of deaths.
The following seems to be missed by many anons:

* spacetime itself literally “creates itself out of nothingness”. We say it “stretches”, but don't picture a string of cheese “thinning out” but rather something of constant density being continuously expanded.

* local groups (of galaxies) are gravitationally bound i.e they won’t scatter around and they attract each other with gravity so they will stay together even though more spacetime is created inside of them.

* in the empty “space” between local groups something (dark matter? Dark energy? ) causes this steady continuous creation of new spacetime

* this creation of spacetime is itself accelerating, but this is not speed, so distant local groups are not “moving away from us” but are being “displaced away from us”. Hence the displacement rate is allowed to be faster than the speed of light (since it’s not a speed)

* every single object in the universe moves at exactly and precisely the speed of light c through spacetime. Objects at rest (a completely stationary astronaut stranded in the empty space between local groups) is also moving at the speed of light in spacetime: he is moving only through time.

* A photon is moving only through space and has no time

Sources: The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene, ScienceClic YouTube, and my memory of these
After 'Surgical Reading'[1] I started loving book indexes. They're like Code Surfing on paper.

One of the most thoroughly organized books I know, I've bought today: "A Table for Friends: The Art of Cooking for Two or Twenty". It has 3 indexes in the back (by season, by time, by alphabet). It uses left margins and page color for grouping by method (no cooking, on stove, in oven), and right margins for grouping by course. It is so rigorously organized. Almost a shame I'll never read it all. But that's the cost of really understanding the contents: cooking, eating, and repeating to get better at the same. Looking at words is auxiliary to living.

[1]: https://every.to/superorganizers/surgical-reading-how-to-rea...
I don't understand how and where I can download nvidia grid vgpu driver. Anyone can help me?
As a German, I think this is a myth. Black bread/pumpernickel are only to be found in some regions of Germany, and even there, it’s not very popular among people younger than retirement age.
Noticeably faster on subsequent page loads compared to the first one, sure. But many SPA take longer, in general, to get to the usable point than this netscape page.
Does Netflix not work in Firefox for you? Mozilla and Netflix have worked together a lot to make sure it does work.
96% is strongly resembles?
Procreate is awesome! I don’t even paint but use it often enough for quick sketching of diagrams or simple image editing. I have the Adobe subscription and use Lightroom a lot, but Photoshop feels like a heavy machinery better fit for the PC when you want complex editing.

Aside, I’ve learned Photoshop around 7th version (not CS), and was really impressed by modern capabilities — they support nondestructive editing workflow for almost everything!
Are Uber and Lyft drivers being exploited?
Has anyone here tired any culinary experiments with the California Bay leaves that are pervasive in much of California?
Squeak was started at Apple. But when Steve Jobs came back to Apple and decided to kill research, they had to move elsewhere. They were able to convince Apple to release Squeak as open source (their very first attempt to do so) so they wouldn't have to start over at their new home.
> I'm a grown adult, I can decide what I want to listen to

I'm also a grown adult. I can stop paying money to those that host content with Alex Jones (and indirectly basically pay Alex Jones). Not sure I'm representative or part of a larger group than those that want to pay Spotify to hear Alex Jones. Hard to say.

> If they find so much of the show unpalatable, why did they make the deal in the first place?

Completely agree. That said, this is 2% of the content. There is some fraction of the content that makes sense to cut out. It could be zero or one episode, or 2% or half of them. But there is a point where the trouble they get into on some level is just larger than the gain. And I think they just played it safe here.

Also, when other outlets (Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, whatever) ban something or someone, it becomes even less comfortable to keep them on. So it's pretty understandable I think.
This article delves into the spike protein and its furin cleavage site which some have argued looks engineered: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-esca...

Incidentally (or perhaps not?), there is some evidence that the furin-cleavage site is what makes the virus resistant to hydroxychloroquine, which can be countered by combining it with a TMPRSS2 inhibitor: https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...
Wearing a cloth mask in a community setting is like leaving your pants on while dry humping someone. It will reduce the chance of pregnancy :)
It's effective marketing for the "developer tool" app, since the content of this kind of blog post is technical.
One of the major political parties in the United States denies that it lost the last election, sent goons to storm the seat of government, and is actively trying to deny people the ability to vote.

But the real problem is "woke people" bumming you out by being all self-righteous.
> Putting something in a spec somewhere doesn't make it mandatory or guarantee it will be implemented. They could have put the weston screenshoot protocol that was created in 2008 in the spec, but they didn't do it, probably because the other implementors said it wasn't good enough and they didn't want to implement it.

Amazing how nothing is ever the fault of the people leading the Wayland project.

> Any implementor always has permission to do their own thing, that's the point of making a second implementation. Putting something in a spec somewhere doesn't make it mandatory or guarantee it will be implemented.

Ahh, now I've got it!

So what you're saying is that, in essence, since your claim is no one follows it, one must conclude that in fact there is no spec!

And given that everyone I've come across who's involved with Wayland has said "Wayland is just a protocol", and given protocols are defined by specs, if the spec doesn't exist, then neither does Wayland!

Neo would be proud.

> I'm being serious here, I legitimately don't understand what you're pointing out.

I can't think of anything that more succinctly describes what's wrong with how Wayland has been developed over the last 13 years.

Well, except there is no spec, so I guess nothing was developed at all? I dunno...
Yes, except elderly need care. And we didn't have the vaccine available until not that long ago.

Your suggestion that you can safely just quarantine and not be a risk to others is flat out wrong because you are at your most contagious 24-48 hours before you have symptoms.

Also you may not have immunity after you sheltered and recovered.

I'll agree with you that the response was pretty terrible though.
> Your arguments are entirely theoretical while ignoring the fact that payday loan businesses are regularly shut down for fraud

I alluded to empirical evidence of their usefulness. Here's a study from the FDIC[1]. It's dated, but there are structural conclusions about the way payday loans work and why their rates are so high.

I don't see the relevance of specific payday lenders being shut down for fraud. Individual cases of fraud should be cracked down upon, and its widespread prevalence in an industry suggests that regulation is potentially a good idea. But neither of these automatically negate the usefulness of a service, just as the bad behavior of the banking industry doesn't make a bank account useless.

> Likewise, just because I post one extreme example of payday loan businesses being a fraud doesn't invalidate the entire industry.

Yes, this is my point. The comment I responded to and that I quoted from said:

> I debated reaching out to one of those payday loan places, despite the fact that I knew they were scams

The point of my comment is that they can be useful, and the GP's shame at considering an option he "knew" was a scam is unwarranted and down to midwit elites who are quick to fuck the poor over in the name of paternalistic, performative virtue, but never bother to understand them as agents making decisions that are sometimes unintuitively rational.

[1] https://www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/cfr/2005/wp2005/2005-09...
AbeBooks does have independent sellers, but for anyone who was unaware, it was acquired by Amazon in 2008.
Don't know why Joe Rogan is treated like some free-speech messiah and Spotify the villain. If he was really that adamant on getting his message out there he would have kept his podcast free. Instead he chose a $100M payday (and the associated censorship terms), and here we are.
The usual place those permission dialogs have gone is the flatpak portal, which is separate from Wayland. Someone would have to implement it there.
How the Soviets Put Out Oil Well Fires by Using Nuclear Bombs
Heh when can we start discussing the "lab intentional release" hypothesis?
Wow, multiple personal attacks in this thread, all for disagreeing, for saying "...I see him as a wealthy old man from a very influential family who should have done better", speaking about the colonial past in his lifetime".
Ugh! Some things never change.
Firefox has an additional app called Firefox Focus which installs a content blocker for both Safari and Firefox.

Also for Safari, Magic Lasso AdBlocker does a very good job.
The other side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsViVc2-3Jo
Your cloth mask doesn't protect you from others. It protects others from you.
> Spotify exists to make investors money by creating value for the listeners.

Okay, sure.

> [...the rest of the post...]

I don't see how this connects.

> your opinions and the opinions of the employees don't matter

But your opinion does? It must matter to you, since you spent a few paragraphs on it.
Jupyter notebooks are great but they don't have the physical immediacy of HC. Maybe we should build that in, there are some physical widgets that can be put on the notebook to interact with the user code, so the mechanism is there.

On the Amiga we had a system called CanDo that was very similar to Hypercard in how it enabled end users to make multimedia applications. The interview below has some excellent insight into CanDo and the relationship it had with HyperCard.

http://www.rcfinch.com/Amiga/INOVAtronicsInterview.pdf

And I was reminded of these other application building tools, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_programming_languages#Ap... the 3d construction kit kind of occupied the same place as minecraft for a lot of kids in the 90s.

*edit, his is fascinating https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOsPKjbMvxY
Alina Chan, also not a virologist.

She's a geneticst or biochemist. She just uses some viruses in her research sometimes, like basically all biochemists.

Calling her qualified in virus biosafety is like saying someone with a PhD in Visual Arts is qualified as an expert in ballpoint pens because they've used them to draw. Sure they know some things about using ballpoint pens and which ones they prefer, but would you trust them to tell you how to design one from scratch? Or how to fix pens?

Not as much as some guy with a PhD in engineering and design at Mont Blanc, get what I'm saying?

I have also responded to her criticisms substance elsewhere, but she makes some big leaps in judgment that show she hasn't ever worked in a BSL4 lab before. Or studied the nitty gritty of virus genetics in nature before.
Were they "butt-hurt" or were they feigning outrage to point out the hypocrisy of their opponents? I feel the later happens a lot on the internet (and some people even loose sight of the original intent).

It's like "censorship is OK if a private company does it". This makes a bit of sense if you're attacking a Libertarian, but for left wingers to earnestly think that private companies should have the right to shut down discussion they don't like is very odd.

Sometimes I worry that large portions of online debate has been overrun by people making claims they don't really believe because they're a bad slippery slope take on the views of the people they disagree with; and sometimes people have even started to buy the deliberately bad arguments their side has created.
Look, this is simple: the lab leak theory shouldn't be discounted until the WHO or some independent body does their due diligence on, at an absolute minimum, these points:

1. Account for what coronaviruses Wuhan labs actually have. The Chinese authorities have been circumspect on this; and

2. Examine the virus database that was taken offline right before all this started.

To be clear: I'm not insinuating that this is true or that China has covered something up here. I consider it more likely that no one simply knows (including in China) but for China there's little upside in being open about this so we can explore these avenues of inquiry. This "not wanting to know" isn't uniquely a China problem either.

The WHO simply hasn't done the due diligence warranted to eliminate this theory. That's all.
What songs have caused a problem? I've been hearing how music is dangerous my whole life, Eminem, Marilyn Manson even Britney spears yet society hasn't fallen. People are unable to think critically about misleading arguments put out by manipulative internet talkers
Also, as an individual having your work locked behind a subscription fee is more than a little scary. For a company it's no big deal to have subscription autorenew in perpetuity, but individuals sometimes need to cut costs, and because of that subscription fees start to look like a ball and chain.
I'm not sure that aggressive drivers actually cause other drivers to drive more safely.

Of course, you didn't believe that either when you wrote that comment.
Absolutely. Lots of issues that are just way too high-emotion right now for rational and objective discussion.

One other reason it's way too hot to discuss right now: it would suggest that scientists were at least partly to blame for the pandemic. Even if you're not Chinese, you might not want to be discussing that idea if you were a scientist yourself.
Give an example? You yourself are putting forth what amounts to a conspiracy theory.
I work for a large MSP, one of our partners announced recently that effective basically immediately they are no longer supporting any zoom integrations due to the China connection.
> Furin cleavage sites very similar if not largely identical to this one have also been found in nature

I don't believe this is correct.

There are no other examples of a CoV within the sub-genera Sarbecovirus of a species/strain that shows evidence of insertion of a polybasic furin cleavage site.
YouTube Purges Ron DeSantis Video over Claims Children Don’t Need to Wear Masks
> That SARS-COV-2 was cooked up in a lab

This is a straw man argument. No one is seriously claiming that this is a "cooked up" (artificially created) virus. It could be a natural virus that escaped the lab.