skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are by far the most dogmatic person on this comment section. Are you actually saying there's no genetic element to dig behavior? Not only does that go against scientific consensus, I'm not even aware of any debate or controversy on the subject at all. There's certainly a debate around which one is the dominant factor, but afaik it's pretty fringe to claim there's no genetic factor. I assume any amount of citations and proof won't convince you but there you go:

1. Serpell, James, ed. The domestic dog. Cambridge University Press, 2017. (start on page 70, available on Google books, too long to quote)

And

2. "We found that a large proportion of behavioural variance across breeds (among-breed heritability) is attributable to genetic factors (figure 1a). The mean among-breed heritability was 0.51 ± 0.12 (s.d.) across all 14 traits (range: h2 = 0.27–0.77), and significantly higher than the null expectation in all cases (permutation tests, p < 0.001). These estimates are also significantly higher than those in previous studies assessing heritability of the same traits in large within-breed samples (mean difference = 0.37, 95% CI = 0.44–0.30; t13 = −12.25, p < 0.001; [44], but see [45]). Incorporating among-breed variance thus yields h2 estimates that are on average, five times higher (range = 1.3–25.5 times higher) than traditional within-breed estimates, which could be due to limited genetic and phenotypic variation within breeds." (MacLean, Evan L et al. “Highly heritable and functionally relevant breed differences in dog behaviour.” Proceedings. Biological sciences vol. 286,1912 (2019): 20190716. doi:10.1098)
> to convert unconditional advice into contingent advice, by encoding a priority

This is one of the most important things I've learned as a developer, and one that I thought I invented myself, before I knew about agile, by keeping a whiteboard near my desk with yellow sticky notes ordered by property:

"Yes, I get that it's a must-have feature, but where do you place it in relation to these other features?"

The concept of prioritization of features, and of saying "if I stopped dead at some arbitrary point in this list, would you have been happy with your order?" seemed so eye-opening to people at the time.
> If smallpox-as-a-bioweapon is even a slight possibility why don’t we start vaccinating for it again?

Well this would not treat the problem, because smallpox is not the problem here. The fact that we're squishy fragile hosts/food, and bioweapons are getting easier and easier to make, is the problem.

If there was a smallpox vaccination campaign, unless completely secret, the bad actors would simply move on to a different virus/variant/fungus/bacteria.

The only real protection against any of this is to make sure the world has a similar vaccination regime, to ensure mutual destruction.
My approach to detecting fraud is to always assume the worst possible reason why someone did something or why something happened. Always be looking for the angle. You will detect fraud and manipulations and also a bunch of manipulations that aren’t there at all. In psychological circles this is called catastrophic thinking.

It is a hell of a way to live.
You can sort of do that now by buying a gas-powered car and a conversion kit. It just tends to be expensive, and the kits don't always include batteries and battery boxes.

Example: https://www.evwest.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=40&pro...

I wish EV tax credits applied to conversions and not just new vehicles. It would make conversions a lot more economical, and maybe we'd start seeing low-cost mass-produced conversion kits designed for popular vehicle models.
>I see pasabagi criticizing xtian’s specific comments and approach.

I see him implying that the comments/observations are not in good faith and that he might be paid for taking the positions he takes. This seems completely unnecessary and quite rude.

>Assuming any negative comment about China to be an attempt to scam us into a war also seems like a mistake.

You may not recognize the increased sinophobia in the west but it is part of a well funded centralized effort to demonize and increase the potential for kinetic warfare between western countries and China. The fact that HN acts like an echo chamber for state approved anti-Chinese perspectives doesn't help matters.

A close reading of sino-western historic/economic relations results in a very different perspective than the one which is promoted in western MSM by corrupted organizations.
> Wen didn’t have any money of his own. (This past January, he had a balance of negative sixteen dollars in his Royal Bank of Canada savings account.) But his mom had some bitcoin, which she’d bought a few months earlier after hearing about it from a friend on WeChat. She lent all of it to her son, and he then converted a hundred and fifty dollars’ worth of it to bitclout. His first move on the platform was to persuade some of his friends to join, and the group proceeded to buy shares in one another. Next, Wen invested in the TikTok stars Dom Brack and Jeremy Hutchins. Three days later, he had made around six thousand dollars. He started planning to buy a new MacBook and a pair of AirPods Pro. “Back then, it was a lot, right?” he told me, a month later, over Zoom. Wen has an undercut topped with a mop of floppy hair, which he constantly runs his fingers through. He smiles often, the left corner of his mouth slightly higher than the other, producing an impish effect. We spoke on April 30th. At that point, he owned multiple BitClout profiles, which he told me had reached a combined estimated value of half a million dollars. Today, he’s grown that figure to approximately $1.7 million, or nine thousand and four bitclout, or sixty-eight hundred pairs of AirPods Pro. “To me, it’s just numbers,” Wen said.

It's unfortunate that anecdotes like these will cause so many more people to lose their money, who don't understand that they're gambling, and with more than they can afford to lose.
This sounds like typical heavy industry stuff, but I guess a lot of the normal practices of heavy industry aren't as common in the ag sector.
> Would smallpox survive in a microscope slide? I remember my late grandpa had a microscope slide labeled smallpox in his basement. He was an old time doctor and had all sorts of neat things down there after he died. I don’t remember what happened but think the slide is still sitting in a storage shed or something. Always been curious about the risk of having such a slide.

Not sure, but I'd hazard that someone driven enough to break into one of the few remaining facilities holding live stock of smallpox would also probably be willing to infect themselves with it so as not to worry about preserving it.
> All employer / employee relationships have this dynamic

Wrong, no employer relies on a newly hired employee the way they rely on a senior knowledge silo'd engineer with a decade+ of domain knowledge which they are reluctant to share. In most jobs the employee is not in a position to have that kind of bargaining leverage. That leverage is only gained by an employee either intentionally and maliciously making the codebase as esoteric and unmaintainable as possible, or poor management not planning for these risks sufficiently e.g. not hiring more staff for a legacy COBOL system team as it's members leave until there's only one guy left who understands it.

> While I think blackmail isn't an accurate description of this

I'd argue it is. You know their business depends on you as a result of you actively working to make it depend on you, you use that knowledge to leverage your position in bargaining for higher pay or to never get fired from a low-effort "cruiser" job. Essentially blackmailing the business into continuing your employment under threat of losses caused by you leaving and nobody else being able to maintain the mess you created. This is not a normal employer / employee relationship dynamic at all.
In Tenet, the protagonist and his partner trigger a halon system in a building to force an evacuation as part of a heist.
Code Smell 78 – Callback Hell
Any highlights?
Anyhing like this for ios that is chromium based
Any way to do a Bluetooth proxy to use a remote Pi to relay Bluetooth to another network connected Pi?
Disputing the CC charge is a good option I didn't consider!
Gravitons [0] are the only particles that would be able to travel in higher dimensions, so yes if they do exist along with higher dimensions that you find yourself in need of communicating with then gravity would be pretty useful [1]. You do need to move around a planet or at least a moon to generate the signals though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graviton

[1] https://home.cern/science/physics/extra-dimensions-gravitons...
> Like, again, the consensus that smoking is bad for you, right?

As far as shoving some idea down my throat, the fact that society shoved bans on smoking down everyone's throat did not affect me personally at all, because I don't smoke and have never had any desire to. To the extent I saw any effect, it was less smoke in public areas, which of course was one of the stated reasons for it in the first place, and which of course I consider an improvement, taken in isolation and not considering any of the broader social effects.

However, as Miss Manners once pointed out, the fact that society ended up having to do this at all is more a reflection on lack of manners than anything else. Up until the early 20th century when cigarettes started to be mass produced, smokers did not impose their habits on non-smokers; they smoked in separate rooms (or entire separate buildings, such as clubs) to avoid disturbing non-smokers with the smell, and wore special clothes, such as smoking jackets, so they wouldn't carry the smell back with them to non-smokers. In exchange, non-smokers agreed to allow smokers to have those separate places and not complain as long as smoking was confined to them. In other words, smokers and non-smokers both exercised reasonable manners when dealing with each other.

At some point, though, the manners went away on both sides. Smokers got more and more insistent on smoking wherever they went, with no regard for non-smokers, and non-smokers got more and more insistent on pointing out how unhealthy smoking was, and since the unhealthiness was now being imposed on non-smokers through things like second-hand smoke, the non-smokers' case got a lot stronger and harder to ignore. Finally, society said enough is enough, and used the studies on the health impacts of smoking as the rationale to bring in the power of government.

In other words, this example is actually not a good one as an argument for "consensus" being a good basis for forcing people to accept something, because even though the medical "consensus" was used as the excuse, it wasn't the real reason society accepted smoking bans. The real reason was that the implicit agreement, based on manners, between smokers and non-smokers had broken down, and once it became a matter of open conflict, the non-smokers simply outnumbered the smokers. In other words, it was a case of might makes right. The side of might happens to have been the "right" side in this particular case, as far as the medical aspect goes, but when that happens, it's just luck; it's not something you can depend on.
> Maybe they’re implying 7 year old geniuses who could read by the age of 3 and speak 4 languages by the age of 4.

Speaking four languages by the age of 4 is just ordinary development, assuming you're in an area where all four are spoken. You should be speaking them before the age of 2.
It has been demonstrated that repeated infections are possible and may be common. And there are a large number of variants in the wild that are not hindered by immune systems previously exposed to other variants. Allowing the virus to spread in populations causes even more variants to emerge.

Even vaccines provide reduced protection from new variants. I read today that most effective vaccine only provides a ~70% chance or so of protection from the Delta variant in the UK. Hence the talk of booster shots before the initial vaccines were rolled out.

Herd immunity comes from vaccination. It's not really feasible for it to occur naturally because the virus will continue to mutate and reinfect people indefinitely.
First comes drought, then comes famine...food can be weaponized, and so can water...be prepared.
Farmers were granted fantastically huge water rights a long time ago. Before society understood any reasonable idea of necessity.

Many people seem to want to argue that, if society wants water, it should negotiate whatever rate it can to buy back water rights from the descendants of those who were bequeathed colossal, perpetual rights to water.

I personally think some collectivism is necessary & warranted. We are facing true cataclysm. To mediate this exchange via capitalism, to tell society that some ridiculous grant made long long long ago, at no cost, must be upheld, is to me to spit in the face of society. It is injust & tyrannical. We must live in a more open society that can renew it's law, that can re-establish basis, where the future is not pre-determined by some ancient sale.

I see similar challenges afoot with, for example, FCC's spectrum auction bonanzas. FCC has proudly announced early this year that they've sold $81B in licenses in the 3.7 GHz area. My understanding is that, like water rights, we are seemingly divying up our limited natural resources today in perpetuity (did some digging; sort of true: 15 year license with expectation of a seemingly non-competitive renewal process), granting gigantic mega-corporations colossal fantastically huge troves of resources that they can use for lifetimes and lifetimes and lifetimes. Kings have been decided: farmers, wireless carriers: the future has been sold off to one time bidders, to whomever was around back then.

Everything about these things stinks to high heavens. This is not decent or correct. This is tyranny. This is illegitimate.

This atemporal form of decision making, this anti-future decision making basis, must never ever be permitted. Sustainability (admit ongoing shifts in context), ongoing cost, an ability for new entrants to begin, to compete, having an ability to purchase fairly & not from those who already hold all the rights, must be established. It is necessary for society to not have stale, ossified systems of power that we are stuck with, that own the water, that own the air, that own all the systems about us. Society must be more open than that. To simply say it is a necessity to be more resourceful is not sufficient: there must be ongoing cause for renewal, for reassessment. When we make a sale of resources, once, for perpetuity, that party holds all the power, they have all the bargaining rights to make as much profit as they might dream by holding that limited resource tight until finally they favor change. This is tyranny. This is ill governance. This is against society. By necessity, we may not permit such forms of governance, such vile deal makings as this.

There must be some way to acknowledge the evident necessity we find ourselves in. Presently it feels like there is nothing to correct the situation. Entitlement rules the land.
Absolutely not. It would be a great move for both.
This works especially well when you set and own those priorities, or if your management supports those priorities. Everyone who wants their feature will need to justify to you that their feature deserves a better placement on your roadmap.

It does not work if you can not defend your priorities.
Yeah :/.

It should be "this person bought a vacuum cleaner today, so let's wait two months and start showing them ads for vacuum cleaner bags" or "maybe they are buying equipment for a new apartment, so maybe they would also like a toaster oven and a lamp".

Like, imagine you had an actual salesman--a good one, as opposed to the "targeted salesman" from the video--who you bought all your stuff through and who was excited to make commissions off of you. They would never waste your time or attention or trust asking you to buy a second vacuum cleaner.

If someone buys a treadmill, they probably don't want a second one, but maybe they now want some free weights. The current algorithms are just so stupid... like, I almost appreciate the premise that if you had an "actual AI" helping find you stuff to buy that could be fun, but what we have is just wasting everyone's time.
Maybe I'm just a dirty socialist, but I don't really want to die in a preventable industrial accident, all because my employer didn't want to invest in workplace health and safety.
I understand most of your point, but the end of your comment shows a real lack of interest in and understanding of what people managers are paid to do. The job is to align a large groups of people on tasks while maintaining coordination with other large groups and keeping morale high.

All of that requires tremendous amounts of communication, and communication over Slack and even Zoom is very low bandwidth compared to communication in person.

Consider this: if your home had only a 56k dialup modem and your office had gigabit fiber, would you still prefer to work from home? Because that’s kind of what covid-remote had been like as a people manager in a larger org.

To make remote management work you need to not just “learn how to use Slack and Zoom,” you need to fundamentally redesign your entire org for extremely low social cohesion and low bandwidth communication. It can be done, as evidenced by many successful remote-only companies, but it’s not simple or easy, and it’s brutal to be a people manager in an org that was designed around office work and leading through the conversion to remote-only.
The Lancet had a series of articles in the early 1980s about smallpox in Egyptian mummies, and the risk to Egyptologists. As far as I remember, at least some mummy bodies were preserved in cool, non-dry surroundings which are the best conditions for maintaining viability of the virus. There were also letters about people finding envelopes in old desks containing saved smallpox scabs, and there was concern about the viability of organisms in those. Bottom line: no one really knows. (Always a good answer in medicine.)
Clearly not true. The safest thing you can do on a worksite is leave. But people still work there.
For these who prefer non-PDF arxiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.02734
People do what gets rewarded. People stop doing what gets punished.
After watching Battlefield 2042 trailer I am interested whether they have a new version of Frostbite.
Won't AirBnB just ban you for life if you dispute the charge?
Would it? My naive guess is that the immune response is an anti-ACE2 match. So it would bind to COVID spike protein, not the ACE2 receptor.
Sweet Jesus thank you. Whomever thought this was a good idea needs to have their hands removed from any production database. There has got to be a better way to help people realize they're on the right domain than removing information for everyone.

This reeks of mobile browser features creeping into desktop software. The use cases are entirely different. And the form informs the function -- you can't usually display a full URL on a mobile browser -- that is why you don't see it on mobile browsers.
If Mozilla enables it by default but "offers a way to turn it off", this would still count as enabling FLoC.

Google could enable FLoC in Chromium by default and then, correct me if I am wrong, the browsers based on Chromium would have to disable it.

Mozilla of course is not based on Chromium.

However, Mozilla does try to match Chrome feature for feature and Google also is the hand that feeds Mozilla.
Just like what happened with Nazi Germany, nobody will do anything until it starts impacting them.

China is too smart to directly attack the US and its allies. At least currently. In twenty years, things may be different.

It's worth noting that the US' history of interventionism hasn't been great. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan... But that's probably not the strategy it would choose to take.
If manually managing memory is like wielding a gun, the borrow checker is an automatic safety that prevents you from pulling the trigger when you're roughly pointing it at yourself. But it's coarse-grained and errs on the side of caution; it simulates your foot as as the rectangular box that would contain it, not as a detailed 3D mesh. If you really think you can aim it between your toes and avoid hitting yourself (for example, "the value returned by this function must remain alive for no more than 15 successive invocations of this function"), unsafe will let you try, but the borrow checker's built-in rules isn't granular enough to help you, though it will still stop you if you accidentally put your hand in front without declaring it.

C is like a laser gun in a room full of oddly-shaped mirrors with no safety at all. Good luck.
The vaccine is safer than Covid, by your own metric. How many people did the vaccines kill so far? How many people died of Covid?

Same goes for supposed long-term effects. The vaccines might have some, but it's less likely than the virus itself having long-term effects (it even has a name already: "long covid"). If you're young, covid is also much more dangerous than the flu.
Huh, TIL. Will have to look into that. Do you have any blog posts handy that explain this?
Tesla Model S Plaid Delivery Event
Why do we have to design for the lowest capacity users? Are they the largest demographic, or doesn't that matter?
It doesn’t even have to be somewhere notable, beware of the engineer trying to recreate their previous environment (and in yourself too).
This is certainly true in some jurisdictions (including Canada where my home country bias lies), but I don't think it's generally true everywhere in the US.
The Brits of that era were equal-opportunity smallpox infectors. They captured some of George Washington's slaves, infected them with smallpox, and then released them on the battlefield at Yorktown, hoping to spread disease back to GW. They also brought smallpox into the American camp before the battle of Quebec, and there was an epidemic.
Have you ever, in your life, considered that you may sometimes be wrong?
(Technical) Infosec Core Competencies
10% CO2 (> 40000ppm) is lethal. Have I been brainwashed to ignore the people dropping dead on the streets?
Most 7-year olds can barely conceptualize fractions

When my oldest was having trouble with this at about that age, I pulled a pie out of the fridge and began cutting it up.

"This is one pie cut into two pieces. This is half of the pie. You write this as 1/2.

This is one pie cut into four pieces. This is one fourth or one quarter of the pie. You write this as 1/4. Notice how the pieces are smaller than when it was 1/2.

This is one pie cut into eight pieces. These are eighths. You write this as 1/8. Notice how the pieces keep getting smaller as the number on the bottom gets bigger."

He never had a problem conceptualizing it again. It made complete and perfect sense why a larger number on the bottom meant it was a smaller amount.
The summary of the article is certain people will get embarrassed when someone makes a deep fake of them. Some people will be upset because their copyrighted content will be stolen. Thus the double exploitation.

The article treats these problems like they're new and dangerous but embarrassing people with their likeness and reproducing other's work has been around for millennia.
After this are you ever going to want to stay in an unlicensed hotel again?
I booked an airbnb in Tijuana for a month. I show up, it's a complete warzone. The picture was accurate but just super cropped. A pack of wild dogs literally chased me down the street trying to bite me. There were sketchy people hanging out in burnt out buildings. Everything was collapsed and covered with grafitti. AirBNB didn't refund me. Thinking back I should have made a video and sold it to the news stations.
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