skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The scene with the mountains and the cloud was really cool. After that, there was some build up but kind of just went nowhere. "Here's some circles, now you can hallucinate the future" was overall a pretty underwhelming drift into fantasy.
I’ve been wondering the same thing. This is massively good news, and I’m amazed it seems to be getting such short shrift.

I went to Taco Bueno on the way home and didn’t wear a mask. Showed the teller the headline… then found out he couldn’t read.

So yeah that wasn’t awesome.

But this news is. First time I haven’t worn a mask in like a year.
SpaceX is saving the US government heaps of money. Sure you could argue about spending on things in the first place. Assuming though we are talking about who to award to contracts to though they have saved heaps on just giving the extra work to ULA/ Boeing and other traditional aerospace companies. They have also created a competitor that will drive down prices on all space contracts.
As per reports the ransomware had no effect in any of the physical pumping/operational systems required to pump/operate the pipeline, it only affected their billing system and they stopped pumping because later it would have difficult to reconcile the billing for it, not because the ransomware disabled the pumps.
The far more plausible story that I've heard: it had no effect on the control network because there's only one-way communication, but the one-way was only enforced at software level, so they weren't taking chances with leaving it up and having the control network compromised.
I don’t get this spin. In the old way, you had golden handcuffs because your stock had appreciated so much, it made financial sense to stick around until your options fully vested.

In the new way, all that potential upside comp is eliminated, so employees will earn less and feel better about leaving.

Seems like first option is far better for employees. Please give me those golden handcuffs.

This was also the best way for normal employees to “strike it rich”, which isn’t a bad thing.
Having been responsible for the shared local development environment system at a 100+ engineer company I can tell you exactly why: the amount of time and money wasted fixing individual developer environments is astronomical.

If someone's environment isn't working, having a button they can click to get a brand new working one in the cloud is an enormous time-saver.
Could also get weird and stuff it in the middle.

>Hyenas gathered, by eating them, 9 Neanderthal skeletons.

Which is even more awkward in actual use, but does make obvious the biggest problem with the sentence: you don't gather things by eating them.
Past experience suggests that many folks who are unhappy with Zulip's visuals are satisfied if they do the following things:

* Using the night theme, which some folks strongly prefer to day theme.

* Zooming to 110%, which makes Zulip's font size similar to Slack and its clones.

With any luck, this summer we'll migrate our default font size to match other modern webapps, ideally with a "Dense mode" that preserves the current size for folks who want to fit more content on their screen.

I've thought about changing the default theme to the day theme, but it seems a little sad to remove our current defaut (of automatically detecting the browser configuration via `prefers-color-scheme`).
Am I the only one who utterly loathes this tool?

Seriously, it maintains (among other things, yes) the mapping from filename extensions to the path of the binary that should be used to open them.

It's a map : extension -> path.

WhyTF does MIME have to get dragged into this? Why can't I just say "*.foo is opened with /usr/bin/foobalize"? Why must I suffer the agony of trawling the interwebs to find out that blartz.foo is actually a z-content-flavor/foobalized_v3?
(Yes, I understand why browsers need to start the lookup using a MIME type. I'm talking about everything else -- the galaxy of things that don't use HTTP).

And even once I've found the Magic MIME type, xdg-open still does whatever it wants, and there appears to be no way to troubleshoot it when it's being invoked by another application. Setting XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL=999 simply prints out a list of which files its reading (I can get that from strace, thanks), with no step-by-step rundown of its decision process:

$ XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL=999 xdg-open ftp://foo.com
Selected DE generic
Checking /home/user/.config/mimeapps.list
Checking /home/user/.local/share/applications/defaults.list and /home/user/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
Checking /home/user/.local/share/applications/defaults.list and /home/user/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
Checking /usr/local/share//applications/defaults.list and /usr/local/share//applications/mimeinfo.cache
Checking /usr/local/share//applications/defaults.list and /usr/local/share//applications/mimeinfo.cache
Checking /usr/share//applications/defaults.list and /usr/share//applications/mimeinfo.cache
Checking /usr/share//applications/defaults.list and /usr/share//applications/mimeinfo.cache

Okay, y'all can downvote me now, ranty time is over.
If Syncthing ever supported iOS, it would likely be as a “file provider” (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/fileprovider).
In high school debate, including policy, strategy usually involves reading a bunch of different responses to make your opponent have to frontline (respond to responses) all of them in a tighter speech. Generally, high school debate is not a great forum for legitimist investigation of issues, and should be treated more like an advanced game with a lot of strong and unintuitive meta-strategies.
Sapiens is a big "picture human history" book, which is a genre which is always going to have a number of weaknesses due to the problems of trying to squelch all of human history into a single readable book with a clear thesis. The quote about the French Revolution is indeed pretty bad as a literal description of what happened during the revolution, (though I understand what he is getting at when he says it.) However, I don't think that this analysis is quite fair to Harari.

His main criticism is of Harari's "shared fiction" concept and it seems to me that he misses the point of the concept. Harari is pointing out a category of thing that really does exist in the real world, but only exists because people agree on some level to recognize its existence. Corporations (to use Harari's example) are indeed real, but they exist only because people agree they exist. If people refused to believe in IBM, for example, it would cease to exist.

I don't know if Harari is correct that this ability to embrace social realities actually constitutes a "cognitive revolution" that allowed homo sapiens to surpass other human species in a dramatic way, but I do think that it is certainly different from our ability create a word for "rock" and thereby reify rocks into existence. There's a difference between being able to create arbitrary categories for material objects in the world and being able to recognize a new category of thing through shared acceptance. I don't think that the latter is simply a consequence of our ability to use language.

Also, it's important to note that that critique is being offered by a historian but the core of the critique is philosophical (or maybe linguistic) not historical. I think the best criticism I've seen of Sapiens is that the author is a historian trying to write anthropology, but this critique of that anthropology book is also by an historian so it has the same weakness.
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There is an axiom to never negotiate with terrorists. While we all know that isn’t always entirely true, let’s recognize that this payout will be considered a turning point.

Regardless whether or not you believe ransomware should be paid, my takeaway is that these ransomware attacks have done more for promoting “cyber security” than all the marketing budgets of every security vendor combined. If you’re employed as a security engineer or thinking about getting into the industry, there has never been a better time to ask for more money and more authority.
Right, and my point was that this is a specious distinction. It's not a knowable thing for any vehicle, anywhere. So the lack of data for one particular vehicle says basically nothing of any use.

Like it or not, we measure safety in vehicle travel by measuring accidents. Those are objectively identifiable and there are extensive bureaucracies both public and private designed to track them.

And quite frankly, Teslas on autopilot look pretty damn good.
I’m not hopeful they’ll release anytime soon considering how long the project has been in alpha.
I don't really understand how places looking to align their precautions with CDC guidelines can do this. We don't have any required vaccination "passport", so if a movie theatre says vaccinated customers don't have to wear masks, how can they possibly tell who is vaccinated without relying on a dubious honor system?
The best thing I can say about Syncthing is that after having set it up, I almost never have to think about it. It just works, and my files are always where I need them to be.
| Early startup tech employees not only invest their time but also lose out on real money they would have earned at another (bigger) company.

Isn't that by design? With greater risk comes the potential for greater reward. If someone doesn't want the startup risk, they can choose to pursue a job at FAANG. If your goal is to minimize risk, then choose a job as a schoolteacher or the post office. That's the nice thing about freedom of choice.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/charlie-ayers-made-millions-c...
Even this time too government was aware that Colonial paid the Ransom. The question was asked in the Whitehouse press breifing, it was told that this is essentially a private sector matter, Government will not advice Colonial in this regard. Also they said it was Colonial's prerogative to decide and act.

Transcript of Whitehouse Press Briefing: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/202...
AI Ethicists Clash over Real-World Aptness of the Controversial Trolley Problem
From https://tonsky.me/blog/syncthing/:

>It’s amazing how great computer products can be when they don’t need to deal with corporate bullshit, don’t have to promote a brand or to sell its users.
The issue is that now there's no way to tell whether the unmasked person next to you is vaccinated and safe or unvaccinated and dangerous.
Yes but if the 100% thrust exceeds the mass of the rocket you need to exactly offset your momentum so that you reach zero velocity exactly as you touch down, which requires very precise timing and doesn’t leave much margin for error. Time it too late and you RUD. Too early and you stop short, run out of fuel, and then also RUD.
I strongly prefer the dark theme. My 2 cents is that using that as a default will be a good idea.

FWIW I find the browser configuration check to be flakey in other contexts. Especially with non-technical people, who may never know to toggle dark mode.
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So when ML seems like a scam that means it's just not done right. And there are some successes that show that it does actually work, really. When it's done right. As determined by its ultimate success.

We are an industry as notorious for snake oil as we are for our lack of standards. And both have standard apologetics. The parent's comment is reminiscent of the refrains "Agile, you're doing it wrong" and "that's not the way to write microservices," among many similar others.

I don't think the problem with any of this is ML as such. ML is just software. But software has problems.
States will begin rescinding their mask mandates soon, if they calculate their health care system can handle an outbreak among the remaining unvaccinated. Minnesota is rescinding their mask mandate once 70% of adults have had their first shot, or July 1.

Edit: MN mask mandate goes away tomorrow.

If you’re vaccinated along with a decent majority of people, why would you want to wear a mask? The vaccines have been overwhelmingly good so far at preventing hospitalization and death, they’re more effective than influenza vaccines.
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The dubious honor system that we relied upon for all the other vaccines?
all experiments with onchain voting seem to have that problem, just like with voting in real life.

read up on the DAO exploit and carbon vote. Even in a drastic situation turnout was low.

It's a permissionless industry and I suppose people can try different things, but one thing that sets apart Bitcoin from everything else - it is not a democracry.

Democracy was designed for cities of 50-60k in size, where only rich landowners got to vote and everyone else was basically peons. It doesn't scale and is not particularly great.

PoS is just another string of boneheaded attempts to make democracy great again...by marrying it with plutocracy? idk.

Would you care to vote with your measly stake if you know the insiders have over 50% anyway?
The amount of open or almost open VNC servers out there alone is scary. Scan for a the default port and you can find hundreds to industrial machines.
but the rainwater's not already contaminated... unless you perhaps happen to live directly downstream from a factory farm, but even then, e.coli isn't airborne, so it wouldn't be in collected rainwater. there are certainly no factory farms in south LA to worry about.
I really want to be supportive of pipelines as a better option than trains or trucks, but it's really hard to do when things like this don't result in enormous payouts against these companies.

The US legal system is not capable enough to allow for large pipelines.

Also, this and coal are the sort of stuff that nuclear replaces...
It's genius. US should do a federal one.

I liked the idea of paying people to get vaccinated [1], but since that encountered public opposition, this is the next best thing.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/01/13/955594105/should-the-governme...
While I believe it - kinda hard to trust anything out of Wuhan at the moment.
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>Short shrift

It's been on the front page of CNN, Fox, Washington Post, Wallstreet Journal, Bloomberg...
I would love to beta test such a thing. My number one current frustration with programming languages is my inability to represent core language concepts / objects in a 2D space. There's constant overhead mapping from my internal spatial representation of a program to the linear 1D that text provides.

EDIT: Ahh, I see another comments that this is more of a block based no code kind of thing. I'm not looking to replace my program with purely visual constructs, I'm more interested in representing the file, object, and function layout on a 2D space. Nested folders of files seems so limiting when I want to put particular functions next to each other, and grouped over _here_, while another set of functions should be placed over _there_.

I don't think the greatest power comes from doing away with textual code, I would just prefer that the units which compose a program can be organized, described, and related to each other in a richer way.
Of course, apologies. Should have been clear I was talking about 2MB+ blocksize rather than segwit. Some great points!
Covid has shown many people, including myself, how powerless the government really is in enforcing policies imo. This includes both presidential administrations. It has also showed that a lot of people that trust words of scientists do so in dogmatic ways that are unwilling to change their stance after the scientists do, like Fauci saying there is no point to wearing a mask when people get vaccinated.

This "pro-science" dogmatism has become a religion for people to the point that you cannot refute it. They hold the keys to some arbitrary insight and unwillingly compromise. It's almost like it has become a unorganized paganistic belief system in the name of science, but not even partaking in the basic fundamental steps of the scientific method by readdressing your hypothesis when brought about with new information.
OP is new and posts only about ivermectin conspiracy theories. Nothing sus about that!
No. There is an opportunity cost for every action you take. Bathroom choices don't matter if the world is on fire and in danger of causing mass extinction and hardship due to global warming. There will be nobody around to mislabel or choose the wrong bathroom.

If you truly believed we were in actual peril, you wouldn't waste time on pronouns and bathrooms.. you'd be too busy trying to save the human race. Since that isn't what you're doing, you make all the hand wringing about climate look insincere.
DAVOS had the economic elites paranoid about a citizen uprising due to a rigged economy. The rigged economy would be fixed by congress (if they didn't sell out to lobbyists, to not fix it).

DoD doesn't do surveillance due to lobbying. They do it because they view a potential risk in citizen uprising due to the rigged economy. DoD and Davos attendees share a worry about a risk from the citizen base.
That sounds quite cumbersome and inflexible. Why can't they just have a .dropboxignore file?

Even so, Dropbox/OneDrive have other problems, such as only syncing a single folder and not syncing over the local network. Plus it's expensive.
Andy Samberg has a hilarious song along these lines, called YOLO. [1] I’m surprised it hasn’t been referenced more during the pandemic, especially when multiple-masking has been discussed.

It is also a hilarious and catchy song in its own right.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z5Otla5157c
No, a lot less likely than that. Birth control efficacy is around 91% in typical use per year for the mini-pill. The mRNA vaccines seem to perform better than that AND don't have the issue of perfect use
Zooming in, their map reports that vaccination rates in 94707 are now over 100% -- it's the gray region north of UC Berkeley. Perhaps folks are commuting in to 94707 to receive doses?
this should be the default behaviour imho - there should never really be a situation where a new window popup is going to be better than a tab.
Perhaps the Yankees, with 8 vaccinated team members positive with COVID. One of them had even been sick with it before. However it's worth pointing out that they did not get the more effective mRNA versions.
And prevent me from unlocking my iPhone!
A lot of companies stop issuing stock options when they get to a certain size. Part of the thinking is that the company is now a "safe bet" so there's no need to give employees a potentially large upside in exchange for staying around.

Another reason for doing this is that stock options don't work well when the stock price (and company valuation) is already high. You end up with a big tax bill betting on growth that often doesn't come for already-highly-valued companies.

You could spin this as being employee-friendly, but it's more about being pragmatic about the fact that the company probably won't be able to 10x its valuation like in the old days, and now views itself as "safer."
I will be on your wait list for the pro the moment I can order it with Linux preinstalled.
The UK has several “mainlines”, all built before WW2. All are fairly straight and have been smoothed and updated continuously since WW2. Anything destroyed in WW2 was repaired as quickly as possible at the time. Britain didn’t really “make use” of bomb damage to change the layout of London as it wasn’t really destroyed.

And then in the 1960s Dr Beeching’s cuts closed almost half the rail network.

The only new high speed railway in the UK opened in the 90s to connect London with the continent, I.e. Eurostar
Here's one way: The rules in NY already allow venues like baseball stadiums to ask for proof of full vaccination (i.e. 2 weeks after the second Pfizer/Moderna dose or 2 weeks after J&J) in exchange for giving those customers access to a seating section where the state's physical/social distancing and capacity limit rules are waived. There are other examples where the rules allow vaccination status to be checked in exchange for more permissive state rules. (And there's nothing in state law preventing businesses from requiring vaccination if they want to.)

For Yankee Stadium, as one example, here are their proof requirements: "(a) a CDC-approved COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card; (b) Excelsior Pass; (c) a government-issued photograph identification and proof of vaccination form; or (d) electronically stored versions of any of the foregoing."

[edit: This new system applies to Yankees games starting May 21 and later. Not sure about other venues.]

Details: https://www.mlb.com/yankees/ballpark/information/fully-vacci...

Excelsior Pass is the state's own vaccination passport app/website, which indeed isn't mandatory but which is available to anyone who gets their vaccine series in NY.

Yes, I agree this is not as practical for a small business of whatever kind.
>But it’s hard to read “the people” to mean “people in other countries.”

The Constitution makes it clear that these rights are universal by saying that the government may not make laws that infringe upon them. They aren't granting rights, they are declaring which rights they must abide by. And with that, the use of "the people" in the part about free assembly should rely more on the context there then the preamble, where it clearly means "the people assembling" not "the citizens assembling."

Further on your "persons" point, the relevant Fourth Amendment makes it clear the terms are interchangeable.

>The right of the people to be secure in their persons...
You're talking about "Arrival", not "The Arrival", which is a 1996 movie staring Charlie Sheen about an alien invasion.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115571/

Strangely enough the Charlie Sheen "The Arrival" is also a really good physics movie. I've yet to see a movie do the SETI/Astronomy/physics stuff better :-).

I love him building a radio telescope control in his attic, using local people's roof satellite dishes as the array !
> I'm honestly not sure what you mean by America's fascination with health

Might be referring to the tendency (of some) to track biomarkers in meticulous detail, pay not-insignificant sums for personalized "health plans", stress about exact quantities consumed of various substances, etc

This is not every American of course, only a relatively privileged minority, but I'm not surprised it seems a strange way of living to some, indeed it does to me (also an American)

Maybe it's a form of compensation: i.e., if one feels powerless regarding health-incident factors affecting the public at large (like plastic and chemical contamination in water supplies and household products, herbicides/pesticides and seed oils and antibiotics and excess fat/sodium/sugar/etc in food) one might micromanage personal health decisions to regain a sense of control
> He's just not playing the obvious game you think he's playing.

I think I would agree with that.

Take note of that last part of his tweet[0]:

> Tesla will not be selling any Bitcoin and we intend to use it for transactions as soon as mining transitions to more sustainable energy. We are also looking at other cryptocurrencies that use <1% of Bitcoin’s energy/transaction.

Here he posed a problem that is now on people's mind. Soon he will offer a solution and people will go nuts about it. He often does that kind of thing.

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/13926020410258432...
Saul Katz is the east coast Frank McCourt. Many years of mismanaging the Mets. Suspicious involvement with Bernie Madoff. All floated a long with generous debt finance. Sold the team last year for $2.4B
Yup. They start doing this kind of damage, and they can start to expect the wrong kind of attention -- a kinetic response, as in cruise missile into the upper left window, circular error probable = 50cm., or similar.

Unless Vlad starts frowning on this behavior, which persists at his pleasure, it may take that (or a seriously escalatory cyber response) to lower the threat to acceptable levels.