skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say I start an IRCCloud clone called IRCWorld. People start using it, and it becomes very popular. It's very convenient. Lots and lots of people are now using it to connect to EFNet. People sometimes use IRCWorld to abuse EFnet, but I try really hard to make it easy for EFnet to work with me to handle problems. One day, EFNet is like, F** IRCWorld, this is just too much of a hassle - we don't owe them anything - we've GLINE'd entire networks before, this is no different, and IRCWorld is now banned. Do you have sympathy for my little pet project "IRCWorld" getting blocked off EFnet? Or do you sympathize with EFNet for being tired of it?

Personally, I think the IRCCloud's branding and marketing makes it seem like they are more of an "authority" than they really are. No IRC Network owes them anything. Yes, Fewer people might connect to their IRC Network if they can't use IRCCloud, but that seems to be a part of a calculated decision on the part of the IRC network. At the end of the day, just imagine IRCCloud is just some random site like Mibbit, or even my fake "IRCWorld" example - and it's easier to realize the entire debacle is melodramatic and absurd. It reminds me of when Twitter made the grandiose statement saying "We are deeply concerned by the blocking of Twitter in Nigeria. Access to the free and #OpenInternet is an essential human right in modern society." - It's self-important and self-serving drivel. They want to keep the $$$ rolling in, and this is a rain cloud on their parade.

As an aside, IRCCloud's tweet suggesting that users "switch to a network that is secure" is absurd if someone is going to be using IRCCloud in the first place. You're willfully engaging with what is technically a man in the middle service - you have to TRUST IRCCloud is a safe actor. 'Security' is not a priority here, but convenience is.
>Btw the emergency authorization can only be granted by the FDA if there are no alternatives. [2]

Bingo. If there was a treatment for covid they couldn't administer the vaccines anymore. There are a lot of entrenched positions and people in power who stand to lose lots of dollars.
Mid-2015 iMac 5K, the 2015 MacBook. Maybe others. The 2014 Mac Mini is probably being dragged along since it was sold until 2018.
Wandering around in nature.

Goal-directed work involves lots of decisions of path-duration-outcome. To recharge, do aimless physical activity around plants.
This is due to AML/KYC. The only reason you can do that with crypto is it's got the safety off.
It would be interesting to see how much pollution is "externalised"... besides public transport and living density is a lot higher than most of the US, AUS or Canada...

also how much pollution is caused by corporations from Switzerland...
Why not the opposite?

"Hey, I've seen everything!"

vs

"Hey, that's what I was told on TV!"
They're the primary consumers of it, but I don't think it follows that they're the intended audience for it; ATT&CK is expansive.
Thanks for this answer - I respect your opinion and it's made me rethink my statement a bit.
Really where? Certainly not in the United States and I don’t see any reason it should be illegal. Your an employee not a citizen.
Do you get more people to do it by saying like and smash that subscribe button vs just saying like and subscribe?
It may be difficult to predict exactly what that scenario entails. Sure we have models etc but it’s still uncharted territory. Plus it’s not like there’s 1 magic threshold we can pass and then it doesn’t matter anymore — the main means of mitigation long term would still be the same as what is already being advocated for.

Regarding something like trying to do something to reduce the average global temperature…the risks of getting something wrong attempting that likely outweigh the benefits.
Refugees tend to cost a metric ton of money. If you're a tax payer it will cost you money. Go woke go broke.
R&D for marine layer cloud brightening— perhaps using engines to loft salt water behind containerships could efficiently seed low clouds at a massive scale.
Tbf your income is also very not normal. The article is a much more typically family income - their combined income is still less than your individual income by 50k! Because they are two people, they’re doubling up on things like the 401k deduction.

You make far, far more than them.

The “average” American would be able to get pretty close to what the article is doing.

But probably shouldn’t and won’t because you can also see they’re leaving a pitiful amount for themselves to live on in the moment.
I hope this is satire. I can assure you that the Python project moved to Libera.
the states just found a new way, summary:
"oh no, you wont give us money? you hate our planet!"
I used to have a detached screen with irssi sitting on a server for a very long time after I actually had stopped checking in on it.

The only reason it's not still running is because eventually the server that I had the detached screen sitting on was decommissioned.

(Ok, admittedly it was probably rebooted a couple of times between that I stopped attaching my screen session and when it was decommissioned. But the server used to be up for hundreds of days at a time without reboots so the point still stands that I "was" on IRC for a long while even after I had stopped "being" on IRC. I don't even remember anymore if I was connected to freenode or IRCnet or both though.)
to be fair, that does mean it doesn't add an additional party who can spy on all communication
Won't you need medical attention now that your tongue has pierced through your cheek?
Cuda.jl v3.3: union types, debug info, graph APIs
The subject of discussion is the video that was taken down but almost half the replies are about Eric Weinstein's credibility as if that's relevant somehow.
Not everything is a common carrier and I don't think it should be.
The Fate of the World’s Largest ETF Is Tied to 11 Random Millennials
I think if you can afford to show by example , you should... any penalty you incur makes you better prepared and more competitive for later...
The app, dont blame me if you break your phone...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.carrotpop....
> > Protocols have been developed to ensure that we actually gain knowledge, and not at the expense of the patients.
> If medicine could be reduced to protocols, we wouldn't need the doctors.

They are called protocols and not algorithms for a reason.

> You can rest assured right now many MDs are prescribing off-label meds, diagnostics tests, making non-protocol judgement calls etc all around the world.

Sure, sometimes for good reasons, others for less so. Every patient is different and the doctor has incomplete knowledge, and the protocols are in the end just that: Guidelines.

I would be happy, if I get a doctor, which is critical of guidelines in the sense of being aware of their limitations and won't follow them like they are written in stone (on a case by case basis).

However, as I understand it, we are talking here about deviating from the guidelines without good evidence or without a procedure to gain knowledge from it in a structured manner, not a case-by-case basis, but on principle.
Quite frankly, I would stay the hell away from such doctor, which thinks that is a good idea.

>It is special in that everything about it has been very high profile, and in this day and age of hyper-connectedness, when expert institutions mess things up it is harder to cover up and their authority is at a greater risk.

>Let's be honest that is why they are being very iron fisted about out-of-band covid treatments, not because of a proportional threat to life.

I had limited contact with the expert institutions, but do have direct contact to people who did work in an ICU with Covid-19, (and a below average mortality rate).

Whenever the topic of, as you call them "out-of-band" treatments arose, the look on their faces would silence the topic.
So, if you feel adventurous, I would suggest to cross-check your opinion with someone in the field.
>car fuel levy, tax on air tickets.

Non of which would have done anything but raise prices for the aforementioned, it was just a swiss politicians hustle to try and tax citizens masqueraded as "climate measures".
Claiming a home office which you do not use exclusively for business purposes as a business expense is tax fraud. If you have a fake "business" which you spend an hour a month on then this is only useful if you have an extra room in your house that you're fine with effectively just boarding up.
It's kind of funny to think of those users that reconnect to their bouncers in a few years from now, see that everyone else left the channel and think: "WTF has happened?"
I believe this is a wildly underappreciated fact: Most folks are miserable, and most of us don't realize it due to a kind of "fish don't notice water" effect.

> Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. We have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. We have never seen a totally sane human being.

~Robert Anton Wilson
> free will, which is, by any interesting definition, a supernatural entity

How so? I can think of at least one interesting definition by which free will is a perfectly good physical process going on in human brains, not supernatural at all.
With a domain having "node" in it, that idea sounds lovely.
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Nothing. China emits more greenhouse gas than the entire developed world combined, a new report has claimed. The research by Rhodium Group says China emitted 27% of the world's greenhouse gases in 2019. Any version of a "green new deal" changes nothing globally until China and several other major polluting nations join the fight.
> mRNA vaccines, which have not been around for decades and only got the emergency authorization

This is mostly true, but mRNA vaccines have gone through human trials before covid.
This is a really wonderful comment and i find it very thought-provoking.

I haven't had much in the way of trips, but it resonates a ton with my own emerging understanding of base-reality, if i can call it that
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Okay. Now do Swiss voters on migrants, refugees, and participation in science programmes of the EU.

What you’ll find is that the Swiss are an insular myopic bunch.
If you have or are planning to have a family, you should likely be thinking about just this already on a personal and family level. Do what you can to reduce your footprint, but also do your long-term planning based on expectations of climate change.

Among other things, don't buy property within anything considered 100-year or possibly even 500-year flood zones - climate change may mean that 100-year zones start getting flooded every 10 years or less, and that's not only going to impact you directly but the economics of recovery because you and all your never-expected-to-flood neighbors will be trying to recover.

Also consider how the climate is expected to change over the next 50 years where you're considering settling - and what impact it'll have if it changes faster than that.
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The crate linked to from the comment you replied to uses RUSTC_BOOTSTRAP for a non-SIMD reason: To allow Firefox to be built with somewhat old rustc.

Firefox no longer updates its MSRV in sync with Rust release trains. I’d be happy to remove this particular RUSTC_BOOTSTRAP if we decided to increase Firefox’s MSRV (currently stuck at 1.47.0).
This man was really smart...
> The US supported Israel to keep Iran/Russia in check in the region and frighten the rest.

This is an excuse that Jewish in America and Evangelicals use to rationalize broader support from Americans. It is almost as weak as the 2000 year old land claim arguments from some Jewish Nationalists, and weaker than the doomsday prophecies that Evangelicals feel obligated to accelerate at the expense of everyone else so they can ride away on a cloud with Jesus while the planet descends into chaos.

The US has bases in almost every surrounding country of Israel, and literally invaded all the countries that border Iran. It can lob missiles and strike at nuclear facilities in Iran if it wanted to from anywhere. It has the rest of NATO on the European subcontinent to keep Russia in check.

The US can easily tell Israel to pound sand and make good on the supposed idea of aligning with Russia. Nothing of value would be lost.

If it sounds absurd to imagine the fiction where Peru is paying for Israel's defense budget, then it is absurd for the US to be involved too.
One might want to study the impacts of initiative voting in the western US. There are times when bypassing the legislative process is perhaps essential (term-limits for legislators?), but mostly it bypasses the compromises often made in representative democracies.

Initiatives can impose new law without handling externalities well. It is possible to vote for "no new taxes" and "properly fund schools!" without balancing the tension between the two.

It is my feeling that initiatives are good, at least in theory, but the requirement for passage ought to be greater than 50%.
Can you say more about how it works?

Does nocode mean it was made without code? How does that work?

Hope I don`t sound toxic. I think this is really cool.
What's stopping me from spoofing sensor inputs in an emulator?
> EU

Europe, not the EU

From a ballpark look, your numbers look to be production-based accounting. If you look at Switzerland with consumption-based accounting[0], it looks pretty bad with higher per-capita emissions, and an upward trend while other comparably rich European countries have a downward trend.

[0]: https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/switzerland#consumpti...
on $209k salary or £148k, here in UK the total tax is £46,632 and £6,838 for National Insurance. So about 36% which is almost the same as California. Source: https://www.thesalarycalculator.co.uk/salary.php
> Neither of those have even half the creators as Youtube.

> Youtube is a monopoly and needs to be regulated as such.

I don't think this is the right argument against big tech in general. "They are more popular" when it comes to entertainment and when there are other ways to share content that people willingly refuse to use just doesn't demonstrate a clear abuse in my opinion.

The most convincing I have seen is when public officials are using them to communicate directly with their constituents (have you seen a government ad on BitChute, Parler, Minds or Gab?) and when they coordinate to ban competitors, collude directly with government officials (wink wink Fauci wink wink Zuckerberg) and when they suppress information and people that are not in line with the main institutional narratives.

And personally billionaires with a messianic complex just creeps me out.
Don't turn this into a diversity argument.
We need more diversity in software from more diverse backgrounds. We just need less people in software in general.
Especially less mediocre ones.

Guess who drives out female talent? Mediocre male white nerds who think they know it all and who don't have the open mindedness to learn tools like observable.

ObservableHQ is one of the most impactfull diversity pushing companies I've seen, but you accuse them of some ulterior motives for having the audacity of writing and hosting amazing D3 docs.
An Omega-3 that’s poison for cancer tumors
That was about two decades ago. Anything worse is going to be pushing humanity towards extinction.
I think arguing that supportive care is grossly suboptimal is going to be a pretty difficult take to sustain, given that a huge majority of the infected manage a full recovery from SARS-CoV-2 with no treatment at all. This complicates the cost-benefit outlook for any early treatment; it would be entirely wasted on those patients, while the potential for severe side effects (as seen also, e.g. from HCQ) would remain.
That's a false equivalence. Literally every share of a business is supposed to be backed by a business. Zero coins entitle the bearer to any right or interest whatsoever. Even those stable coins don't give you any claim on the backing instruments. Certainly not in Tether town. Says so right in their T&Cs.
On a related note I wonder if many people ended up migrating to Discord instead of to another IRC network.

For example the SerenityOS project used to advertise on their site that they had a channel on freenode but now they link a Discord instead.

http://serenityos.org/
What were the Weinsteins saying about ivermectin, which YouTube cited in the ban?
I'm currently using KDE Plasma. I used to use XFCE, but it appeared that XFCE was having trouble getting enough developers such their release cycle seemed to be very slow, and in particular, at the time there was no indication that Wayland support was going to happen. I have no particular interest in Wayland on its own merits, but given that the X server support seems to also be not particularly sustainable in the long term[1], it seems like the rest of the world seems to be converging on Wayland, for better or for worse.

[1] https://ajaxnwnk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-abandoning-x-server...

So given that GNOME is unacceptable to me (it doesn't support 2-D workspaces as a core feature, and extensions which support 2-D workspaces regularly break because the extensions API is not stable), and while I'm very happy with Xfce, but I was concerned about its long-term maintainability since it's tied to X, and its developer community's ability to move to Wayland seemed questionable, I decided to give KDE a try.

To my surprise (I go back long enough to the days when KDE was highly opinionated and GNOME was the DE that had a lot more flexibility), KDE had support for everything that I needed (which is not a lot; I just want a decent, configurable window manager, and a decent terminal) and so spent the investment to move over to KDE.

I see that the Xfce folks are now starting to think about adding Wayland support, and that's great. My main priorities is that I not be left high and dry when there is a major release, and whether I get messed up because GNOME has broken some extension which I depend upon, or some future desktop hardware no longer works with xfree86, and only Wayland, it looked like KDE was the best bet for me as a user who just wants a window manager, decent terminal support, and a 2-D workspace. You'd think that is a simple ask, but unfortunately, these days, it's not something I can count upon --- but KDE seemed to be my best bet.
Still got a stack of Zip disks somewhere, full of Uni coursework and old design projects. The drive, in translucent plastic (to match the iMac), died long ago.

Back in the day, 100mb was a breathtakingly large amount of storage - more than 80 floppy disks!
Is it common because it's some sort of profound mystic realization, or just an expected replicable biochemical reaction?

One can experience fractal sensations from a strong cannabis high, are psychedelic ones any qualitatively different? Maybe that's just the way our minds are supposed to bend.
But 49% voted for it...of course elsewhere is "more broken" ..however it doesn't take away that often change is held back because of ...1-2%...
Maybe it "sounds like" that to you, but as far as I can see, the physics community considered Weinstein's theory, and disagreed because they thought it was wrong: See [1].

Does everything have to be seen through this left-right lens? I'm highly sceptical that an important discovery in physics would be written off by any academic because its author didn't appear left-wing enough.

1: https://timothynguyen.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/geometric_...
> In a single state the Israeli right gets to "keep" those lands

In a single state jews become a minority, their army is democratically dismantled and what happens next is anyone's guess...looking at surrounding countries there's no reason to be too optimistic.
Governance tokens are just a glorified twitter poll.
The left axis* has the online user count scale of freenode (46k - 56k), currently at 48k.

The right axis* has the scale for libera (20k-36k) currently at 31.2k.

It's a really confusing graph so maybe another kind of graph could represent this data better.

* fixed!
What did Bret say about ivermectin?
> Gaining access to elite social circles is not the same thing as being trained for those circles.

Sure but this is pedantic and both are aspects of a finishing school or elite university...
I'm not anti-migration, but it's also not ridiculous. The inadequacy of there being enough construction means rents go up, especially with the recent past being so much cheaper due to white flight it's a hard bar to meet.

Without enough construction we can even ignore rents/prices, and say if people arrive (a smaller number of) people also need to leave.

If NYC doesn't want this quasi-0-sum dynamic, it needs to build a lot more than it has.

Back to the original sentiment, being gentrified by people who are themselves going to leave after a few years has a certain extra sting to it, I can only imagine.
You are a lazy piece of shit!!! I hope you all quit so you don’t get unemployment. I have never herd of such stupid words come out of a persons mouth. Lose your cars and home then live in the streets I will laugh my ass off. Oh but you would want welfare because you are entitled, the only thing you are entitled to is get off your ass and go back to work like the people who have been on the front line this entire pandemic. There are plenty of qualified people to do your jobs, people like you are why the world is having a shortage on about everything that is a commodity. Let’s talk about wasted time like every time your lazy fat ass gets hungry you stay logged on and go fix a snack which takes 20-30 minutes and then you have to shit for the third time in the am and don’t forget you tend to your kids for another 20-30 minutes because your husband who is supposed to be working from home is out mowing the lawn, because you want to get a early start to the weekend and you don’t want to use your personal time to mow and clean the house. You are a piece of work!!!! Then let’s talk about the amount of work accomplished, you can’t complete the task because it takes approval or some kind of input from someone else but your not going to the office until Monday ,oh did I mentioned it was Tuesday and the person who has to sigh off on your task won’t be in until Thursday and then again you won’t get it until the following Monday now two weeks ave gone by for something that you could have walked over to there cubicle and had them sign off in 15 minutes or less. You and everyone like you is why we are in the state we are in. I hope you do quit and take your lazy friends with you. The average person working from home is working less than 50% of the time and accomplishing even less so quit we will hire people who want a job and are willing to show up to work for it. Thank you to all those who have continued to put there self out there, so lazy pieces of shit could either wfh (lmfao) or collect unemployment good luck to you and your family I fill sorry for your pitiful children who will suffer because of your laziness and take a shower I can smell you from here. I know you will also do that while you are on the clock.
Maybe not, but the people are still clustering, and reality has a crack: different groups of people have disjoint mutually inconsistent but internally consistent narratives about events in the world, generated and sustained by their online clustering.
I'm glad, but this is one experience.

Many people, if not most, have more potential to connect better when more senses are engaged and more experiences are shared. These relationships sustain over time, with some degradation of course.
Good for them. Ultimately they view their positions on these issues as best for the well being of their nation and its people. Who are you to say otherwise, should they pursue policies that go against their interests to satisfy foreigners? Why would they want refugees and migrants to come into their country? How would it benefit them?