skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is your clear and measurable points don't actually point to a god. If you see some meaning in them that enriches your life that's great but they don't really count as evidence to those outside your religion (except perhaps when they also claim it as 'evidence' of their flavour of goddess).

1. Your brain/body evolved to interpret this richness in a universe that is unintelligible to us a conscious brain that evolved in that universe would almost certainly view those unintelligible to us rules as intelligible lest there be no purpose to that consciousness. Our brains also quite demonstrably processes unintelligible (to us) things as intelligible when they are not.

2. This is true in any universe where someone is around to point out that something exists and is a priori with or without creator beings.

3. Our will is either deterministic (happens with a cause) or it is not. In the case that it is deterministic we can ignore this example (which personally is my view). In the case it is not then the non deterministic part is reduced to the result of quantum coin flips altering the result in the larger scale world. Assuming so there are two possibilities either everything else is also happening at that level without a cause (which is counter to your point that it is only will that behaves this way) or the quantum coin flips are in some way deterministic which means so is will.
> What percentage of meat or dairy comes from pasture animals?

Meat and dairy are separate considerations. Even in industrial farming, meat
animals and dairy animals are raised separately and often belong to different
breeds. They are certainly treated differently.

So for example, where I'm staying, about 80% of the dairy products are made with
the milk of sheep and goats in small farms where the animals range freely, in
the summer, and eat stored wild grassses as hay in the winter. On the other
hand, most of the meat consumed is chicken and pork and of those animals, at
least the chicken are kept in large battery operations. I don't know about pig
farming. Also, where I stay there are very few cows, most of them raised for
dairy, and the country has one of the smallest, if not the smallest number of
cattle in Europe. It's in South Europe, but I don't want to say exactly where.

Anyway when you ask questions like the one above, please consider that the
conditions you know from the Americas are not the same in all of the rest of
the world, and that most of the rest of the world simply does not eat as much
meat, of all kids, as Americans (and by "Americans" I mean people in the US,
Argentina and Brazil).

> You can't fulfill a country like the US's meat and dairy demand with pasture
raised animals.

"Demand", maybe not. But "need"? It seems to me that this can be done
perfectly well simply because the amount currently consumed is extravagant.
People in the US eat way too much meat, per capita, compared to almost
everyone else in the world, including most industrialised nations. My
selection below:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/meat-supply-per-person?ta...

Nobody needs to eat that much meat. If there is "demand" for it, that is the
matter that should be addressed. Why do people want to eat so much meat? There
is something incredibly wrong in the data above, when you look at how the US,
Argentina, Spain and Brazil eat, compared to the other industrialised
countries in the chart.
> re-use reduce recycle

I believe the ideal order is "Refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, rot."

Refuse: Just say no to stuff. You don't have to worry about dealing with the waste from things that you don't take in the first place. This can be taken to not-helpful extremes, but in general, this is the best option. It's always depressing to see just how much trash (of the "actual trash" variety) one of our very rare take-out meals produces. If we all (4 of us) have something from a drivethrough, the amount of trash generated by that one meal is very close to a week's worth of kitchen trash for us with other meals. The paper is often too greasy to recycle, waxed paper cups are good for firestarters but little else, etc.

Reduce: All other things being equal, "less crap to dispose of" beats "more." I'll point to standard blister packaging as the sort of thing one ought avoid, if at all possible. Not only is it a very real health hazard during the opening process, it's almost entirely impossible to do anything with it after the fact. This is where bringing your own bags to the grocery store fit in, or for things like loose vegetables and such... just don't use a bag! You get some weird looks in the checkout lane when you dump half a dozen onions on the conveyer, but I remove the outer skins anyway when I work on them, and I don't have a plastic bag to deal with as a result.

Reuse: Anyone with small children (and lacking weird quirks about "You're playing with a box!") is probably an expert at this. I cannot tell you how many times a box something came in has turned into a good play toy for a week or two. Random kitchen boxes can be taped up and turned into blocks, corrugated cardboard is just awesome for everything, waste paper from address labels or such is useful for drawing, etc. Lots of options here. I've considered getting a setup to smash glass up and embed it in concrete I pour for various things, though I'm not sure this really gains me an awful lot in terms of mass.

Recycle: This is the standard first response, and depressingly often, "Recycle" actually translates to, "Oh, yeah, totally buy this thing, it can be recycled!" It's just an excuse to consume more. If you want to be quite upset by this, look at the state of plastic recycling in developed nations. It tends to consist heavily of "We loaded it into a shipping container, sent it to a third world country, and counted it as recycled, we don't care what they actually do with it." "What they actually do with it," often enough, is open burning, or just letting it wander down the river into the ocean. If you're concerned about the environment (as opposed to purely carbon emissions and GHGs), plastics should be a huge, huge problem. Unfortunately, literally everything comes in them.

Rot: Compost. If it's organic, or nearly so, compost it. Hot piles work best.
You mention microseconds and micometers. Those are on the scale of the edge of our various human senses.

Now, your quantum thingies happen on the scale of the Planck constant. I've just asked Google what h is and I got this beast:

6.62607004 × 10^-34 m^2 kg / s

Note the mixed suffixes and the silly precision for a web search result. I'm not a mathematician. If I was a physicist or chemist or whatever doing calcs for real, I probably wouldn't use Google to look up the latest result. I'd quote a paper. So 6.63 is more than enough for the number in a search result.

Units: metres squared kilograms per second. The notation for the number is different to the notation for the unit, so we can conclude that Mr Google is a bit slack. The number is given with negative exponent notation and the units with slash notation.

OK, so Google is a bit crap.

Back to my thesis: Your trippy self needs to really get to grips with the fabric of reality. That fabric is far more fantastic and granular than you have experienced so far on LSD.

You carved things up into 10^-3 (micro) when you stuffed some pretty funky drugs into your bloodstream. Mr Planck has shown that you need to worry about 10^-34 if you are going to really get to grips with the fabric of reality. You'll need quite a large lab and some decent funding .... or a bit more imagination.

Good luck.
This is HN, full of as many ideologues as anywhere else, perhaps on average of higher intellect - though as Jordan Peterson mentions in Beyond Order - intelligent ideologues are the most dangerous.
WarGames Movie Clip – Hacking the School (1983)
How would it do that? It’s not like Amazon is going to go “oh, well, if we can’t be an abusive monopoly we’ll just close down”. They (or their fragments) will presumably still need employees, who they’ll have to pay market rates to.
Obviously many people disagree.

Just to pick on one issue, carbon emission is negligible (unless you talk about bitcoin).

Many people also rely on transfers of cryptocurrency. Just not you or your entourage.
> Depersoning people by age is no different than depersoning by race or gender.

Those aren't really comparable. If I have a "no black people" rule or a "no men" rule, some people are permanently excluded and some people are permanently included. Those rules each filter everybody into two permanent classes each that they can never leave.

A "no people under age X" or "no people over age X" rule does not do this. Yes, it does filter everyone in to one of two classes, but any given individual starts in one class and then after a set time switches to the other class.
>This missionary program was so successful that much of the Talmud was written by the children of new converts, in new communities all over the Roman Empire

Demonstrably nonsense. They were clearly written in Israel and Persia (latterly). Little is mentioned of communities elsewhere.
I've noticed ... changes to existing facts in reality that shouldn't change. No, it wasn't bad memory. I have a bad memory, but when it's something I'm hyper (adhd) obsessively focused on, and then it changes within 3 days, that is different than a mis-remembered childhood spelling like Berenstein/Berenstain Bears.

I'm agnostic (exmormon), I think God(s) are narcissistic man-king-modeled control structures. However after experience reality shift -- all without any drug use... I've become somewhat "spiritual" in a sense, in that I feel there's a lot more to everything than I ever imagined.

Simulation theory is my strongest belief, but secondary would be entropic multiverses colliding when they have no more room to split into new universes.

Scientifically, I find the Cosmological Axis of Evil quite odd that it puts our solar system somehow "central" to the universe (on one axis), from a simulation perspective you could argue the simulation renders what's needed and started here on out.

Anyhow, i've been going down rabbit holes on "occult" wisdom trying to see if there's a way to actually change reality by one's accord. So far dead ends (or I haven't gone far enough yet to reach "enlightenment"), most promising idea is meditation (silencing brain completely) might open some "conduit" to learn from the universe or make changes, or both.

Looking at toltec (/r/castaneda), spiritual subs, buddhist, hindu, etc... that's the one common thread: quiet the mind. Learn to meditate. Lucid dreams may help. Astral Projections could help. I guess in other words train your brain to find some of the same things LSD brings organically without the need for drugs. Probably healthier that way, but it's a long process.

There is a big benefit though in working on meditation practices: anxiety goes way down. That's nice after last year. I've had panic attacks, etc. So, I guess if I figure shit out or not, there's at least a benefit for trying.
What you are implicitly proposing is that whenever there is disagreement within the scientific community, that disagreement should be kept behind closed doors and hidden from the public until some Institution (CDC/WHO/etc) decides on a Consensus of Truth, and that this Consensus of Truth is the only narrative that can be communicated to the public.

This raises a lot of questions. For instance, what happens when the Consensus of Truth changes, as we’ve seen with the lab leak hypothesis and the efficacy of wearing masks? The “mass media” goes back and ninja edits their historical news coverage so it fits the new narrative.

As for YouTube being “mass media”, come on—it’s filled with random crap uploaded by members of the public. It’s not the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.
Can you really lay blame on the kernel though? All of this stuff with secrets is happening in userspace and mostly at the shell. If anything, systemd would probably be the place you'd want to build a secret storage system--perhaps build something API driven similar to Hashicorp's vault.

edit: Apparently systemd now has an option to pass secrets/credentials to a service through a more secure by default (i.e. only stored in memory) file option: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exe...
Science is an incremental march. Behind every revolutionary discovery are a thousand necessary results that are the result of a standard process.
...the paper was also released on April 1st, which further boosts it being a joke.
I don't think it is sad because it provides so much more value to the whole world.

Keeping it as a toy for selected ones would be really selfish.

There is still a lot of place for "not real world" in here.
So? Consumption CO2 per capita is what really matters.

https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$model$markers$line$data$fi...
The link clarifies that this is satire. Upvoted.
I completely agree. If getting emails from a recruiter is your biggest problem then you’re doing just fine.
Everyone is pretty expensive when they have to live in Silicon Valley - even if not, anyone who interacts with engineers becomes nearly as expensive due to cost disease.

There are other factors preventing improving it, because documenting a new project is effectively adding more people to the project team (even if they're "just" writers) and they still need to learn it by talking to the developers, who might not have the time, so it's not scalable. Third-party documentation scales by not being able to talk to those people and instead reverse engineering everything, but that would lead to embarrassing incorrectness if it was the first-party approach.
We decide whether those grounds exist or not.
Having a standard process is different from only espousing standard stances.

How can you ever falsify anything if you only take the standard stance.
Not only that, he was previously rejected by another Rabbi.
Please read the article and study the underlying technology. Most of your statement is incorrect and lacks insight and facts.

Solana uses proof of stake and does not have the energy consumption issue, or does not use graphics card. It is cost and energy efficient alternative for Bitcoin and other proof of work public blockchains.

More about the history of proof of stake here:

https://capitalgram.com/posts/history-of-cryptocurrencies/
Also, erotic electro-stimulation (e-stim) is a thing. It doesn't surprise me at all that some people just be curious about shocks in general, considering there are people out there that do it for fun/pleasure.
This is a strange take on how issues should be discussed in a free society.

Rather than have ideological gate keeping at every level, I believe we in tech should advocate for a plurality of viewpoints discussed in the open. Probing, reasonable discourse is the best antidote to propaganda and confusion.
Obviously people who have money to launder don’t like the idea of stopping money laundering. The same for people doing drug trade, avoiding international sanctions, tax evasion, etc.
Somewhat tangential but anytime I see Eniac mentioned I think of this short story:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPICAC_(short_story)

The computer’s name (EPICAC) is a parody of Eniac but a homonym of a syrup used to induce vomiting lol
Interesting. This seems to complement the recent $100M Arrington XRP investment into Algorand

https://www.algorand.com/resources/news/arrington-algo-growt...

You know the game's getting serious when the sharky VC's smell their new blood money in the water and start tossing around 9 figure stacks.
Covid-19 may not have appeared first in China, suggests new genomic study
You can subscribe to articles posted by a user as an RSS feed: https://hnrss.org/submitted?id=bengtan

The problem though is that it is hard to find users you want to subscribe to. You need to inspect their past submissions to see if the signal-to-noise ratio of that user is high enough for you. If you oversubscribe to too many users then your subscriptions will be full of noise.

In my hobby project https://linklonk.com I want to solve this problem of discovering users and feeds that have a high signal-to-noise ratio for you.

It works similar to HN - users submit links and upvote/downvote them. But the way your ratings are used is different.

When you upvote something - you get connected to other users that upvoted the same article/post. The more shared upvotes you have with someone => the stronger you are connected to them => the more weight their other upvotes have for you.

If you downvote something - your connections to those who upvoted that item become weaker, their other upvoted have less weight for you.

Your connections to other users capture how useful their previous recommendations have been for you. And over time you get connected to the best content curators for you. All this done automatically as you rate content. You do not need to manually manage who to subscribe to/unsubscribe from.

The above mechanism works not only for users but also for RSS feeds that posted the content you upvoted. This way LinkLonk works as an RSS reader that prioritizes based on your content ratings.
This sounds exactly like Ethereum. What makes this so unique.

Also:

> biggest crypto hackathon

100, instead of 50 participants I’m sure.
> it also implies a huge problem for the US to fulfill the Paris goal.

There is simply no political consensus in the US to fulfill these goals, so it's not really a problem at all for most people.

It's been strange how many people just assume that the climate debate is over and that they have convinced the population that serious efforts must be made. Then when this stuff is put to a vote, they are always shocked that people remain unconvinced. That usually results in some sort of tantrum being thrown about the world ending and how humanity will suffer untold grief, when most of the population remains unconvinced and is not willing to spend more than a dollar or so a month on this project. Of course the US isn't going to be carbon neutral by 2050. No country will. That is not even on the table for discussion as there is no support for that type of radical change.
You never saw a media blackout?
The Swiss seem to be doing remarkably well as a country, and also on the specific point concerning matter of "government expenses financed by taxes". According to Wikipedia's table [1], the Swiss have a better debt-to-GDP ratio than the UK, US, or most of the EU.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_de...
So we'd be left with the other 60% and then we'd have to increase the production to make up for the decrase in production of meat. That's a very slim margin of improvement.

The other thing we could do of course is to avoid feeding animals with crops like soy and corn, and instead let them browse freely and eat the wild grasses and shrubs that they would eat normally, if humans didn't feed them more "efficient" feeds.

Obviously that would mean a significantly reduced number of farmed animals, but that's a feature, not a bug. Perhaps we can all agree on this: the true plague is industrial meat production.
This was a good way to pass some time :)

I look forward to sharing this with others on my team.
The author is a federal employee which does help a lot
> operate within their borders

That can be a problematic concept for online businesses with no local presence.

You can try and apply tariffs on imports, but policing imports, especially of services, is hard.
So the solution is to censor what information is ok for the plebs to see and what is too ideologically harmful for them?

This is a very condescending and authoritarian position that I would hope those of us who care about free discourse would eschew.
Apple's comment system has existed for much longer than Swift.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeaderDoc
I didn't say it had nothing to do with luck, I said that the effort plays a larger role than "extreme luck".
A more recent Speer quote:

> In the letter to Jeanty, written on December 23 1971, Speer wrote: "There is no doubt - I was present as Himmler announced on October 6 1943 that all Jews would be killed".

Not much plausible deniability there. He lied at the time to avoid being executed.
The Taming of Reddit and the National Security State Plant Tabbed to Do It
Not quite, I do care about consensus , I find it ironic that often these referendums end up with such a pithy divide yet there is little discussion about how to find a consensus from such a half/half vote ..for those not Swiss it might come as a surprise that often a big difference is between the Swiss french and the Swiss german part as well as more conventionally, between the rural and urban...

Btw, what was the proportion of voters voting..? also why not bring in the said measures in the cantons that voted for them..or on a voluntary basis.. I am also curious how much the opposing sides spent on media..

Edit to answer my own question..60% of those who could, voted...so to add to my suggestions why not make it count when say 80-90% have voted...maybe thereby giving people a taste of "every voice matters"

Here is a link to some maps...(in French)
https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/12258425-les-cartes-des-resul...
In fact you'd still need a prescription for Ivermectin from a physician, and that's where the curation/filter layer should be occurring - distributed amongst thousands of doctors vs. dictated by YouTube et al.
Congrats to Solana. Does someone understand how their consensus protocol works? I heard it’s quite efficient.
Tracebility has been hideable for long time with coin join transactions and Ethereum bridges. However ransomware gangs have not utilized them, so it is a sign that they do not care.
Much work has been done since this article came out to remove stale filters, see:

https://twitter.com/fanboynz/status/1344796683612299265
In the UK, I calculated I paid roughly 22% on a similar employee salary by putting enough money in pension contributions (+ employer match and government match).
I also have a limited company where I do occasional work (without having to increase my income taxed at 40%) and that I use to draw dividends from (up to free allowance) yearly and get some other advantages, which was a decent way to get extra untaxed income. These days the allowance is 2k so there is not much to get.

The disadvantage of using a pension is that I won't get that money until I'm 60 (and they keep increasing the age where you can withdraw money). I'm kinda forced to do that and maximise
I'd rather invest the money in buy-to-lets than the weird ETF a pension is, but then I would lose 40% of my money to the government.

Being employed in the UK is not very convenient over 50-70k (and it becomes especially painful at 100-120). You are always better as a contractor outside of IR35 with your own limited company, unless some of the benefits make it worth it (eg. long paid m/paternity leave, stock options you really care about).

Unfortunately being outside IR35 is getting more complicated, corporate tax rate is increasing and buy-to-lets lost some of the tax advantages they had.

Overall if I had to pick a country with bad weather to make money in, I'd go with Switzerland instead of the UK.
Yes, the people who disagree are those pumping and dumping and the bag holders.

And cryptocurrency mining consumes as much electricity annually as the country of Argentina. Country scale emissions is not at all negligible, particularly in light of catastrophic global warming.
We're well past peak NFT
The “Patterns and Practices” stuff on MS’ site was mostly written in the mid-2000s (when SOAP was a thing). A lot of other content came from MSDN Magazine contributing authors, but that’s discontinued now - I’m curious what drives their whitepapers now.