skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am away from my home in the state of Nebraska now because my mother-in-law was one of the small number of people to experience a highly adverse event from her second Pfizer shot.

She went into cardiac arrest 3 hours after getting her shot. It's been over a week now and they will be taking her off life support shortly because she is now brain dead. It should be noted that this is a rare event and I do recommend to my loved ones especially my father and her to get vaccinated.

That being said no media organizations are going to report what happened to my mother-in-law. They know if they do so it will create vaccine hesitancy in many people. I understand and empathize with this but it does raise ethical questions.

The corporate media are perfectly happy to stay silent on this because they no longer view their role as informing the public, but rather as getting the public to do what they think is right.

They are happy to report on statistically improbable events as long as they are part of their overall political narrative. For every person that reflexively responds to me that what happened to my mother-in-law is a rare event, the same people won't hesitate to talk about the George Floyd murder as if it's a typical occurrence in police interactions with black men. The data shows this to be not true at all but they don't care because their narrative is all they care about.

My point is that this vaccine technology is definitely new and it's probably going to be revolutionary and saving tremendous numbers of lives especially in Africa with malaria. However because it's so new there are going to be bad things happening from it as well and folks who deny this are making problems worse.

What happened to my mother-in-law is now being used as fuel by various people my family who are Alex Jones followers. The reaction from the medical establishment and the complete lack of coverage in the media has further added ammunition to this idiot in my family. Suppressing information always creates a backlash every time.
Yes, in many subtle ways. For example, Hendrik Lenstra created a very clever algorithm (called ECM) using elliptic curves that finds “medium size” factors of integers.
Indeed, especially in cities that are still riddled with cars but you can manage without if your job is not in a remonte location or doesn't require a car. In the countryside cars are still mandatory. Trains once were reachable from many small villages but many stations have sadly been removed.

I hope the train network will improve, or at least not degrade.

I like being able to go to work by train every day, and I also like being able to finish my day job in the south east of France and be able to reach north west by 11 PM, doing my stuff or sleeping during the trip, and planning to do this only a few days before.
Like Freenode in the skies :-)
This is truly awesome. Been using hacky scripts for this purpose for a while – seeing a more formal solution is very exciting. Kudos. Also, would definitely pay for this, FWIW
Heat pumps are cheaper than propane at least, though I'm not sure if they are enough cheaper as to be worth the cost.
>Carrier group will be operating with an AWACS or similar expanding radar range

e.g. the E-2 Hawkeye, which is carrier-embarked, launches from the catapult, and (in modern variants) includes a surveillance radar that will detects threats out to 300 nautical miles and beyond.
> - login required to view content, no search engine spidering

Why do you think this is a good thing?

> - servers and legally based in a country the US and EU cannot control

I see two ways that could go: either somewhere that China and/or Russia have control over, or in an unstable third-world dictatorship. Do you have any specific countries where none of the above would apply, or do you prefer one of the latter two to the US and EU?
Keep a travel journal!

I've been doing this for ten years now and you often need to go back and figure out where you were, when and why. It's insane. I have a physical book, that I periodically scan into my evernote. It's awesome, high quality paper and Its stood the test of time. Still not completely full.

Arrival data, travel purpose, when you decide to become a "resident" of said country, when visa's/passport/PR card were renewed. After each trip, count the number of days abroad, and attach a note for travel purpose. Keep an index of those at the back.
I was expecting to disagree with this, but it brought me around by the end of it. It's an opinion piece only, but certainly relevant to pretty much every country, not just India.
It's an American Media outlet's article posted on an American website during prime American working hours. Unless you are Canadian you really have no place to complain...
> Once the energy requirement is lowered, the space–time signatures of positive-energy solitons may be studied in a laboratory setting using existing or novel methods. ... The highly magnetized energetic and diffuse atmospheric plasma of magnetars may also bea natural place to look for signatures of positive-energy soliton geometries even prior to advances in energy reduction.
Would you like to replace a C program written by djb with a Rust program written by Uncle Bob?
This is exactly the right question.

And the answer is yes, if they are legally obliged to do so (i.e. enforcing a court order).

But there doesn’t seem to be an easy answer here. It’s not a simple technology or moral issue, it seems to be a somewhat complicated legal dispute, in case GitHub has a legal case to defend their stance (which I can’t judge).

That aside I wonder why exactly they’re going after GitHub instead of just going after the company directly, which should also be legally obliged to provide the code, i.e. why go after the bank if you have legal leverage over the guy with the key?
I don't mind interruptions, unless I've been working on something for a couple hours and I can't figure out what could be going wrong with it - then I'm a real jerk!
Not many hobby projects of any kind for that matter. IMO he gets this kind of support not just because of the value added by SerenityOS itself, but because of the value he adds by making YouTube streams and other content. People feel like they can learn a lot about programming from him.
> It was a dark matter hypothesis until they found out it wasn't actually matter.

If you mean that nobody considered modifying the theory of gravity to explain the precession until Einstein and General Relativity, that is not correct. By the 1890s pretty much everyone had given up on finding another planet and a number of astronomers were considering modifications to the law of gravity.

In any case, you are shifting your ground from the comments you have made elsewhere in this thread. Elsewhere in this thread, you have been claiming that "dark matter hypothesis" includes the hypothesis that we should change the laws of gravity instead of changing the matter distribution in our models. Now you are admitting that those are two different things, which is the point I have been trying to make all along.

> suppose we find out in 35 years that some non-lambda-cdm, non-particle theory is correct? It would be revisionist to say we didn't believe in dark matter today.

"Believe in" is the wrong term. Dark matter is a hypothesis (just as suggesting there was another planet causing Mercury's excess orbital precession was a hypothesis), which appears to be the one most cosmologists currently think will end up being the right one. But that does not mean anyone claims that it is the only hypothesis, or that that hypothesis includes the hypothesis that we should modify the laws of gravity. The latter is understood by all cosmologists to be a separate hypothesis. Just as modifying the laws of gravity to explain Mercury's excess orbital precession was understood by all at the time to be a separate hypothesis.
They don't have a cap yet because it was part of their merger requirements. That requirement expires in 2023 and they've been pressuring the government to expire it sooner[0]. I let them know this was the reason I cancelled and switched to the local municipal fiber as soon as it was available.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/charter-seeks-fc...
Surviving the Enterprise “Go-Live”
When you tried it, we've probably had it already closed. We have removed the sign-up to waitlist option yesterday evening.
It's difficult to distill a complicated topic into a comment, even a somewhat lengthy one. I don't like respond to a question with a link (after all, a reading list is not an argument), but in this case, it probably would be best for me to provide the RAND study rather than try to summarize it.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/issue_papers/IP241.html

I do need to mention something here - I've argued with people about this for a long time, and I've provided this link, but it is old now, from 2003. I believe that prospects for STEM graduate degrees have increased dramatically in the last 20 years relative to other professional degree programs. So while I do think the arguments in th RAND study still hold (especially around reform for doctoral program), I suspect that the argument that an aversion to STEM graduate degrees in favor of professional degrees (for people who are free to choose other fields and are not restricted by immigration or citizenship status) is not as strong as it was nearly 20 years ago. I believe this is probably due to (among other things) a huge increase in global demand for STEM workers and the disruption of the wage collusion going on between large tech employers.
I like the idea very much. First question that comes to mind though is: how gameable is this system?
Im amazed Twitter doesn't have a report option for misinformation like Facebook has. But whats worse is if you report someone for making violent threats you get an instantly email, and I mean instant, saying they found nothing wrong.

As for elected officials, I wish they'd just disable replies altogether for them. Nothing good comes from it.
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Out of curiosity, any particular concerns with RTK? Also interested in hearing any specifics about how MobX is "easier to reason about" for you.
I'm sure students will do a cost/benefit analysis to what exams to study for vs. the perceived difficulty. But a lot of students already take AP physics, AP calculus, AP chemistry, etc. and submit those scores with their college application, which is factored into their admission. So I don't think there will be a mass exodus of students away from those subjects.

You're right that some classes are just participation/presentation. But I still think subject tests are a lot closer to "real" high school/college/job than a general intelligence test.
But I've been told by Hacker News multiple times that developing an independent browser is impossible without the means of a multi-million dollar corporation.
I don't see why this would preferred over using something like vvv [0] to develop locally and then pull changes from a repository to a production site. That's how I've been doing it for my personal site and it works like a charm.

[0]: https://varyingvagrantvagrants.org/
Hard Pass.
That energy is all turned into heat. Waste from the point of view of a bitcoin mining attempt. However heat is a useful byproduct in this case when the local temperature is lower than the inhabitant would desire.
You're ignoring my point. I can group religions together, it's not fallacy. You obviously don't understand what a fallacy is. I'm just grouping based on a common trait, to make an over-arching point.

> We don't claim that we know everything in Islam

Did I say this? Who said religions claim to know everything? Not me.

> Once he accepts them (and subsequently accepts Islam), it doesn't make sense to doubt them once more does it?

You are dancing around my point. "Once he accepts them" = not doubting.

Please read my arguments carefully. They are subtle, and it seems you think I am attacking religion, when I'm not.

> My point is that the false dichotomy that some people try to claim between "science and religion" totally depends on which religion is being discussed.

My argument does not depend on a specific religion, they all share things in common. If you deny that they all share SOME things in common, then I don't know what to tell you. Why are they called "religions" if they are so different? Why do they share the same label since before both of us were born.
Have you ever tried just not showing up.

Or pitting two managers against each other? I would love to attend your meeting but this other team needs this. Let them schedule it out for you?
Seems like a lot of risk in the system but where to invest? So I'm buying a farm in Iowa. Prices haven't appreciated very much in 10 years, and the Fed can't print farmland
> What is Twitter but a reflection of our own society? These people really exist and they really have these views

This is a little shallow of a view, as in it is much more complicated than that. At its simplest, sure you can say Twitter is merely an outlet with no interference on the platform itself. But if you actually use it for any period of time or just follow the various ridiculous outrages it produces, you will quickly see that, just as we shape Twitter with our tweets, it itself shapes us and how we articulate ourselves, the level of discourse we expect. To be specific, Twitter favors short, “smoking gun” style arguments, that can be compressed into 240 characters or divided up into those segments for a thread. This necessarily “compresses” discourse into a series of dramatic accusations as evidence. It is not enough to say that someone made a offensive statement years ago. Instead, it becomes that that person themselves is bad or x-ist. This I think is the net negative to society and I doubt we would arrive at quite this point with Twitter’s “help.”
When there are two options, and one seems a little more obvious, but then there is a seemingly coordinated stigmatization of that option and undue consensus on the other option, then that starts to feel like a pretty strong data point in its own right.
In the same sense that a smartphone is just a small computer and dropbox is just a file folder.

If you strip all the interesting parts of a concept (here curation, the dj personality, easy instant access, centralization, community, ...) it's going to sound lackluster.

Though personally I'd enforce synchronous listening if I ran that kind of service myself. Lots of radios have talk shows and listeners do just fine joining in the middle of a conversation.
Its an extremely hard problem to solve. How do you hire the moderators and how to you track if they're doing a good job? You will need to hire experts in multiple fields. Things get especially tricky when you go into super specialized fields and only a person working in that field can smell the BS.

I work in biotech, and lets pretend I'm an expert on a topic- say immunology. When I get home from work, what would motivate me to sift through countless posts about misinformation and flag them? No amount of money is going to persuade me - but that's just me ofcource.
It seems to me like you’d be doing a lot more good if you used that excess power for something like carbon capture.

Bitcoin is surely pretty far down the list of useful applications of that excess power.
Now long showers aren't just relaxing but profitable too. Awesome.
You almost have to follow politicians or news if you wanted to keep up on the vaccine and re-opening front. Following news outlets is about the same in terms of replies.
Wow, what a throwback. Haven't played it in 30+ years but was surprised to find myself trying old tactics immediately. (Too bad "ceiling" bouncing doesn't work, or maybe it's just the lag.)
PoW isn’t useless, in fact, the energy cost of PoW is proportional to its demand.
I have a dream that one day, there will be no political parties, only nuanced, informed debate on stand-alone issues. Tribal groupthink is one of my pet peeves (isn't that the tao of flat-earthers?) because it often places loyalty over honesty. Elections are almost as bad because they've devolved into celebrity popularity contests.

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party, and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt — until recently - and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.

Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back in the 1890s. "We have a single system," he wrote, and "in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses.

― Gore Vidal

Maybe it's me, but I don't think about participants' gender or if there's enough/too much of any particular attribute group. I infer your point is that HN extends well-beyond the stereotypical academic, software engineer, or tech entrepreneur: male, Caucasian/Asian/Indian subcontinental, high-income or college student, SF to Milpitas.
> Everyone everywhere on the internet thinks that the "other side" lacks critical thinking skills.

It's not even about critical thinking skills. The 'other side' is often starting with a completely different set of facts. The only difference being which ones were highlighted and which were omitted.

This doesn't even touch on straight up falsities yet.

Until the sides can agree on some base first principles, it's going to be a hard problem to solve.
It's unlikely that this evidence exists, and if the 'clone everything to get past the borrow checker' attitude is commonplace then we get stuck on what 'high quality' means.
No one is behind Monero in the sense of someone who "operates" a mixer: no one receives the money and then chooses to forget who you are and in exchange hands you someone else's money.
Charlie Bit Me won’t be leaving YouTube after all
Russell's paradox?
I Am Guilty. Are You?
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I don't get that analogy, poker players aren't trained to use cards, or to do movements with their hands. Hell, a friend of mine is semi-pro poker player and sucks at shuffling.

And you'll say: you're just nitpicking the idea is that pros aren't pros at everything.

I'm not, I'll even fix that analogy for you: a croupier gets impressed by card trick.

Now the problem is, pilots are trained observers, and they get to see a lot of things from their jets. Cars, trucks, houses, rivers, trees, ships, helicopters, drones, different types of planes - not only because they do recon, they also have to target some of those things, and they train a lot for it. Distances, sizes, cost of maneuvers, etc.

With that said: what other type of people are best trained to take a guess at what things are from up above? Drone operators? Balloon operators? Weather balloon folks? Aerospace engineers?

Can they be fooled still? Probably - but if you can fool 4 pilots at the same time, their tens of million of dollars jets with sensors, and the most advanced radar systems, all at the same time, then you're not a magician - you simply have tech way superior to what those guys have.

That's the thing, it doesn't even need to be an actual craft. If it's something that can create optical illusions on jet pilots and jam radars, how are they supposed to do anything if their senses and systems fail?
Superluminal Motion
The thing is that wallet is digital. If I hand you an USB stick with the wallet, that doesn't mean I no longer have it. The USB could be a copy of it and I could still withdraw the money. To be sure that doesn't happen the new owner would need to transfer money to another wallet. Unless there's a high trust that this won't be done.
HN doesn't "request scientific rigour". If you imagine something like that, of course you're going to find reams of counterexamples. That's not because other people are being inconsistent, it's because you imagined something untrue.
Unless anyone can name a counter example it's probably the most advanced open source browser engine except for the WebKit family, the Gecko family, and NetSurf. Never mind the whole OS - that alone is worthy of Andreas being able to work full time on the project!
I mean, it kind of is. You can make a basic browser, sure, but you'll have a hard time implementing video playback, canvas, JavaScript and everything else, while also delivering good performance and rendering everything accurately. Yes, I know his browser has JS support, but the performance is likely at least an order of magnitude slower than V8 or Firefox... And then there's CSS, and the fact that HTML, JS and CSS keep growing and having more functionality added every month. That's not to minimize his accomplishments, browsers are just immensely complex pieces of software. Complex enough that Opera killed their own browser engine because they didn't have the manpower to maintain it anymore, and are now using WebKit.

All of that being said, it all depends on your expectations. You can totally make a browser that is capable of going to web forums and posting on Hacker News, browsing the SerenityOS website and maybe even Wikipedia for instance. If you want to build something that supports pre-2005 HTML/JS, that's probably quite feasible.
Sure, but it's still your own LLVM IR that's being compiled, just on their end and not yours.
Twitter should be shut down. Jack Dorsey should be arrested.
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Ah, thanks, the simplest explanation didn't occur to me: all articles from domain start as dead and a few are vouched. So it seems like a normal outcome for an article a dozen of HN users would submit from such a domain.
> What seems natural to me - grab your passport, book an AirBnB and a plane ticket - is for many people an emotionally overwhelming roadblock.

I too find those 3 steps are pretty easy. The problem is that what comes next - "step out of AirBnB and go to a local restaurant" - is total mindkiller for me.
Ask people if they would prefer to work or win the lotto.

It's impractical for everyone to win the lotto.
That's a massive inflammatory generalization about large groups of people. Those are flamebait. Please don't post flamebait to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

If you want to post something nuanced and relevant about your own experience, that's great. But whatever your experience has been, inflating it into grandiose claims on classic flamewar territory is not going to end well—and is also much less interesting. We don't want gender war here. It's tawdry, repetitive, and boring.
This would sharply contrast with me being fine with a service being provided without competition as long as it is good (and then yes, you probably need it to be public or heavily regulated)
When will people stop getting offended so easily...
What a great little project! Each bit adds to what came before.

Just don't be reluctant to delete code when its time has come, and it can continue improving indefinitely.
Is that even technically feasible?
Eh, it kinda is. The Serenity browser has seen a huge amount of grassroots development work that most projects couldn't dream of and it's still quite a way off usable for what most people consider every-day browsing tasks.
As well as the Amodei siblings in charge, various other ex-OpenAI people are involved (Chris Olah, Amanda Askell, Jack Clark).
Nuance, the other thing missing on Twitter.
I haven't looked too deeply into corcel [0] but it does give you some kind of interaction between Eloquent ORM and WordPress.

[0]: https://github.com/corcel/corcel
> there isn't anything original about them

Cool, so let's say we're using this to track financial transactions.

Server A has an Immudb at some state x and server B has an Immudb at some state y. Which one is correct, how do I decide?