skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" Do you trust a man experiencing a high or a "powerful experience" to drive? If such a man cannot be trusted to drive why should we trust anything that comes out of his mouth."

Imagine there was some alien civilization that chose to transfer some enormous amount of information to you, flooding your senses and completely overwhelming you with information, visions, schematics, sounds, voices, and the emotional impact from having that sort of experience happen to you in a short amount of time.

You would not be fit to drive, because your experience would be completely overwhelming to you, or at the very least you'd be greatly distracted.

That says absolutely nothing about the value of the information you received and whether you should be believed.

Another example: dreams. Clearly you're not fit to drive while dreaming, yet significant discoveries (most famously Kekule's discovery of the ring-structure of beneze) have been inspired by dreams.

Creative, non-scientific output is yet another realm where psychedelic experience has value. You don't have to "believe" a song that someone composed or was inspired to make due to a psychedelic experience for that song to have value. Here [1] is a great example (it starts at about 49 minutes in to the video).

Artwork inspired by psychedelics is incredibly common, and its value is not a matter of belief but of aesthetic appreciation.

"For all intents and purposes physical evidence points to a brain that is compromised and intoxicated."

Compromised or enhanced? Research in psychedelics has clearly shown their healing potential -- quite the opposite of compromising people, they can greatly help them. Enhancing creativity, as mentioned above, is yet another potential benefit. There are many others, such as increasing emotional openness, enhancing empathy, and so on.

You should definitely not drive while on psychedelics.. just as you shouldn't drive while having sex. But it's ridiculous to judge the value of these experiences by whether you can drive safely while having them.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm5p9w63QN0
Honest question - I'm after good articles to read about this:

Why is it that we have been able to eliminate things like Polio and Smallpox, yet there's doubt about COVID? They were both viruses, must have mutated, were fairly easily spread and it must have taken longer to vaccinate enough people given the advances in logistics and vaccine tech we now have. What's the fundamental difference?
>This is really poor, positive vaccine sentiment in the UK has increased to 94% (late March) since December 2020 and actual take-up in my area isn't far off (about 91%). That's almost 1 in 3 people in the US who are reluctant to get vaccinated.

Blame the media and hypocritical politicians who talk out both sides of their mouths. You can't expect the citizens to want the vaccine while simultaneously doing sensationalist stories on very rare side effects.

Even Fauci and the CDC to be promoting the idea that the vaccine isn't that effective. Get the vaccine! You still have to wear masks, social distance, and effectively stay locked down! That's not making it sound like you think the vaccine is effective at all.... On top of that they seem to double down on more authoritarian rhetoric which just causes more distrust. News flash: vaccine passports and forced contact tracing don't make people think your intentions are altruistic.
> "Only Russia has the sophistication to create such a poison that we can't tell what exactly is, therefore it must be Russia"

If somebody dropped a nuke on North Korea in 50s it would be pretty obvious who did it, wouldn't it?

There was only a few countries that had nukes and only 1 of them had the incentive.

It's very much like that with Novichok.
How about:

5. I've already had COVID, and nothing thus far has indicated antibodies being that much less effective than a vaccine. If antibodies are claimed to wear off effectiveness, why wouldn't the vaccine just as much? Isn't the vaccine just an intentionally stimulated antibody response?
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Could we possibly tag posts like this as something like "US Only" - there are no municipal broadband networks in (for example) the UK. Unless perhaps in Hull?
I suspect the major considerations for choosing a service provider are price, availability, and service quality. Potential customers are more likely to consider municipal broadband if they are either unhappy with their current service or that service is less than gigabit speed.

I also suspect the incumbents aren't troubled by competition in areas where they provide gigabit service with strong reliability but they will fight to the death to keep municipal broadband out of areas they hope to expand into.

Both of those assumptions, if accurate, would suggest network access is, at least secretly, perceived as a utility by both the providers and customers.
It's possible! Adolf Galland (Luftwaffe fighter ace) used to greet pilots with "Hals- und Beinbruch", the equivalent of "break a leg", which descends from the Hebrew -> Yiddish blessing "hatslokhe u brokhe".
> Nvm is macos only

Half true; NVM also works on Linux and *BSD OS types.
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I would saying getting acquired by a PE firm is the opposite of "still hanging on." Verizon just let them flop around as their pond dried up. Now they're about to be eviscerated by professionals.
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He is talking about the pattern the website is using to increase the cookie acceptance.
There were many technological advancement that allowed the release of the vaccine faster than ever. Often the long pole and vaccine development is the testing period. The thing is, when a non-trivial percentage of the population is actively infected, you can test really quickly. At this point the vaccines have made their way the tens or hundreds of millions of people, where the usual phase 3 clinical trial lasts a long time, yes, but only involves 3 to 30,000 people.

It’s a question of risk management. We have to weigh the cost of action against the cost of inaction.

I have no basis on which to form an opinion on your wife :-) but everyone’s been reacting differently to this situation. I’m encouraging people to follow the vast quantities of data.
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Why would it be necessary to send a message that it was you who poisoned your most public critic? It seems unlikely that anyone would point the finger anywhere other than the FSB. While I personally do believe the Russian government is responsible, the timing of the poisoning, being so close to the completion of the Nord Stream II pipeline to Germany, and the connections between Bellingcat and western intelligence[1], should give one pause when looking into this specific case.

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This is a needlessly inflammatory take on the situation.
One of the dumbest laws on the books.
I cannot confirm this.
Actually, looks like I under-estimated by half. One of the random VMs I run has a command-line 1361 bytes long. Here it is sanitized:

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> How it is possible we'll _never_ reach herd immunity?

It does not circulate sufficiently but neither is a critical mass of vaccinated people reached due to vaccine reluctance.
Oh, this sounds like fun. It depends on how you define 'rural', but off the top of my head:

Parks & Recreation, Schitt's Creek, Breaking Bad, Ozark, Sons of Anarchy, Dallas, and that's without even looking at the Discovery Channel.

IMO we need to talk to each other more if we want to understand each other better, though. Not through dehumanizing screens, but in person and in good faith. When was the last time you had a meaningful conversation with a stranger in a train, airport, store etc?
Its also hard to discount how much American's distrust the government. "Send all your data through a government owned server" is going to have a negative knee-jerk reaction from many/most people.
They could... Google it.
Google is doing that (particularly with YouTube), as is everyone else. I don't think they break down the search vs. other ad business any more, but at last check it was still the biggest single source of revenue for the company (admittedly, I believe YouTube and adsense collectively generate more revenue for them now, but both of these are primarily showing ads on other people's content).
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http://harelba.github.io/q/

q "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ./clicks_file.csv WHERE c3 > 32.3"

It uses sqlite under the hood.
I think it depends on why you want to avoid junk mail.

There's a lot of human effort and natural resources consumed in growing timber, cutting it down, shipping it, pulping it, printing it, mailing it, delivering it, recycling it, and pulping it again but into lower-quality product.

Whereas my only wasted labor is to skim through the mail as I walk from the mailbox to the house and then drop the junk into the bin by the door. In the grand scheme of things that part doesn't bother me except insofar as it reminds me of the useless waste of the rest of the lifecycle.
> NASA

Which proves my point. Look at the innovation that SpaceX has created with VTOL rockets. If it was left purely up to nationalized bodies this would have never happened (or maybe, it would have taken 50-100 years). The incentives and desire for economic efficiency just simply aren't there. Government wants flashy one-off wins that generate publicity and votes, if it wastes a few billion and doesn't scale there isn't any consternation. The entire mindset top to bottom is completely inconsistent with VTOL rockets.

> roads, railroads, airports, ports, GPS,

The argument for these being nationalized is that these are goods that are prone to natural monopoly and some of those are largely non-excludable in the case of roads.

None of those arguments apply to Amazon. eBay is a substitute for marketplace, Azure is a substitute for AWS, etc.

These are also much simpler than Amazon. Could a government have created AWS? Could a government create an iPhone? It's a rhetorical question because all know that the answer is no. Even if they could in terms of capability, they won't because the incentives aren't right. And if they tried, they'd do it incredibly inefficiently and be outcompeted in am embarrassing fashion by a private alternative (e.g. eBay), with the difference being subsidized by the taxpayer.

> nuclear weapons

In the case of nukes, the argument is that the government has a monopoly on force (which is also why the army should be nationalized).

And I already conceded that the army was well-run, although at a ridiculous level of cost (which is another byproduct of nationalization).

> weather satellites

Built by a private company.
... and there are half a dozen ways to get around that too. You could proxy everything through a function that base64 encodes everything. It's an arms race.

Besides, I was talking about my server directly sending data to Google Analytics without JavaScript on the client side. GA has strong adherence to GDPR so there's no legal or privacy issues I can see with that.
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The American media certainly spun it as an act of deliberate sabotage, but that has nothing to do with whether it actually was - they spun almost everything done by the Trump administration as one regardless of the actual evidence (plus a few things which had nothing to do with Trump, his administration, or even in some cases the federal government at all, if they could convince people otherwise).

In this case, it would 100% have been a non-story if it happened under any other president - the USPS were just reducing their letter sorting capacity because they've seen a massive, long-running reduction in letter volume, and I believe they'd been doing this under the previous administration too. Hell, if it wasn't in aid of the side the mainstream press supported, there'd probably be endless headlines about how these claims were endangering democracy by undermining trust in the election. (Especially the really ludicrous claims, like taking a pile of postboxes outside a company with a long-running contract to refurbish them and claiming it was part of an attempt to sabotage the election by stopping people voting by post...) Remember all the headlines after Trump lost?
Yeah, conceptually the setting is intended to be closer to a lockfile than a semantic version.

Additionally, even with semantic versions, `engines` is often specified as something like `12 || 14 || >= 16`, so they span multiple major versions, which is where breaking changes can (and do) show up.
Store brand products are not new and not the issue. Let's pretend that Costco didn't currently sell vodka at all. If Costco wants to know if they should start selling vodka or bottling their own vodka and selling that they don't have access to the sales data from the liquor store next door to Costco. Amazon is letting other businesses take the risks and using sales data from those businesses to outcompete them.
Foreign students?
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As per your link, Yahoo has about 4 Billion monthly visitors.

Average Click-Through-Rate for web ads is about 0.5%.

That translates to about 20 million ad clicks per month.

Average Cost-Per-Click is about 0.5 USD, meaning Yahoo earns about 10 Million dollars from ad clicks.

Lets triple it, considering exclusive deals, ad deals, etc. So thats 30 M USD per month, or about 360 M USD per year.

Still is it worth about 5 B USD?

Also note that this is current rates. Internet is a finicky business where if you drop off the radar of the most active users, you will lose revenue very quick.

So the risk adjustment factors for companies like Yahoo will likely be very high.
Because the teachers, who often feel that they are not paid enough for the regular job, don’t feel safe? I don’t get why this is so controversial - they don’t want to risk their health to teach your kids.
Congrats on the beta and everything, but honestly who isn’t using k8s at this point in time?

Even running your own on prem is simple as with things like rancher these days.
Some of the selling points are also it's greatest problems...

Be your own bank!

Now you have to deal with all sorts of security issues that you never thought of. One wrong move and you loose your coins.

Decentralized!

You forgot your password or deleted your wallet? Too bad. There is nobody to call, no way to recover it, and it's gone completely. Forever.

Anonymous!

Not really, but you'll never be able to track down that person who cheated you. No court can help you. It's the wild west, and it's your fault you lost your coins.

It's a cool idea!

Everyone in the space is trying to convince you it's the next big thing, but at the end of the day people just want to be able to buy things, and converting to crypto is an extra step in the payment flow for most people, and one that is unnecessary.

Buy the dip! Hold!

It's crowded with institutional investors. Yes you could have gotten rich if you bought a bunch, but you also could have lost your shirt. Bitcoin is the coyote, the only reason it doesn't fall is because it's not looking down.

It could crash to zero and everyone would just say "it was always just a proof of concept" and "You thought it was real? LoL Rekt!"

I'm good without it.

I want to live in a future where we don't have to keep track of who has what because everyone has enough.
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