skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're technically correct, the most common farm is small, but the large farms are so much larger that the average acre is on a large farm. Not sure I explained that clearly - it's similar to how if there was a group of people consisting of 99 minimum wage workers and a billionaire, the average person is poor, but the average dollar is held by the billionaire. Accidents are more closely correlated per bushel, not per farm.
IME, if you get enough people together someone is going to abuse the system. If it's an exception, then making a rule is the wrong play.

Now again IME, if it's the culture across the board, then that's a leadership problem and likely an organization with no direction.

As an outsider looking in, I know Paul Otellini got a lot of good press for his time at Intel even though he passed on making chips for the iPhone and missed mobile completely.

So I can't say if Intel during that period fits with my statements above.
I know a PhD in intelligence community that argued with me not to get the vaccine. He's not a biologist and stupid people work for intelligence agencies, but to wash away all criticisms of mRNA vaccines as misinformed lies is false.

And it only serves to divide people more.

I love DARPA but they are the ones who invented the mRNA vaccine approximately 10 years ago. No one knows the long-term effects. Plus we live in a society where they openly lie to us over meaningless things, then you question them and they say, "Questioning me is questioning science."

There's a lot of problems here that have nothing to do with politics. It has to do with power and the influence of the state when it feels justified to manage its population.

https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2017-02-06a
Safari was always garbage; Chrome used to fight for the users and now it's fighting for Master Control.
Mobile Hacker Lab Tour
Really? I was under the impression from a Danish person that fast food and other leisure type activities were quite expensive like they are in Norway.
Not sure how I forgot un/read status syncs via IMAP. Thanks.
Destroying the welfare state doesn't imply the end of governments.

In my opinion, it would be good if we could focus on taxing the things that actually should be taxed: land property and pollution, and stop taxing transactions.

And it would still be egalitarian, since people who own tons of land are not poor.
> the Spanish Flu, the morbidity was not from the flu, per se, but the immune response to it

Sorry for being pedantic, but it’s the same as “you don’t die from being shot, but from the resulting blood loss”.

Also, we did absolutely have clinical trials — only some aspect of it was allowed to begin sooner than it otherwise would have due to the urgency. Also, the mRNA tech was in development for a decade now.
And free every one in prison for income tax evasion or for acting as a money transmitter without a money transmitter license, and then abolish the income tax, the inheritance tax, the sales tax, lockdowns, and all regulatory restrictions on voluntary interactions between consenting adults, including those imposed by the OSHA, CPSC, EEOC, NLRB, SEC, FinCEN, FDA, and USDA.
But what if I don't want to? I'd call the idea that people's decision not to is predicated on an anti vax worldview similar in substance to a frivolous conspiracy theory.
Anything to corroborate what you said that we can look at publicly? You've mentioned this story on a number of threads, so would be helpful to have a story to point to that was reported someplace when talking about this rather than saying "some guy on the internet said X".
Billions of people go about their day in a country dominated by artificial social credit system, I don't see how this live of argument proves or disproves anything is artificial. Why are 'natural' things suppose to be more stable, we had 'natural' tulip mania? Are mortgage backed securities artificial? Is lending based on Experian's credit rating 'natural'? Is bitcoin natural? I am not seeing how this line of inquiry leads to tangiable information.

I don't think we are overspending at all acutely, I think we should be spending a lot more on the real economy instead of inflating unproductive asset bubbles, life we've been since the 70s.

I think currency is just an institution, it's no different from parliament or the catholic church, it runs only on faith. If tomorrow everyone looses faith in it, it disappears.
'Wind Catcher': A 1,000-Feet Tall Multi-Rotor Offshore Turbine
He is wrong to make such a claim without data.

However, absense of evidence is not evidence of absense, either.

The simple truth is that there hasnt been enough time to really understand the long term effects of covid, or the vaccine.

Anyone claiming otherwise is simply lying.
Imagine not knowing the word "tizzy"
Ah, depends on the audience.

A good portion of the workplace population seem, to managers, to be unmanageable. Another good portion seem, to workers, to be unable to manage. It will take real skill to ameliorate that remotely.

Perhaps "remote leadership" is a new skill, a growth area to be exploited by the talented?
It’s not surprising considering that employees and founders of ad funded companies hang out here. In this case, jedberg (correct me if I’m wrong) was an early employee at Reddit, which is almost entirely ad funded.

I’m not saying he’s being malicious - he probably genuinely believes he likes personalized ads. The “self” or “ego” is a very tricky thing. It can rationalize almost anything to maintain its world view. Everyone likes to think they’re doing good in the world. When faced with the fact that may not be the case, it’s natural to rationalize it away. It takes an extreme level of awareness to be objectively neutral whenever your “self” is involved.
This is fantastic, how did I not know about this before!
I don't know why you're being downvoted, but I suspect it proves your point.
You are all good! I feel like such a fool :D
Unsure why we did that with keystone xl.
Will we ever find out what this actually means in our lifetime?
In the US, nurses (at least RNs) and firefighters are well paid, but military are not. I imagine the well-paid jobs vary quite a lot per nation.
But he’s not saying he doesn’t like working with people in general, or even that he doesn’t like the people he currently works with. Only that the previously enforced method of interaction isn’t his cup of tea. And for all you know his co-workers feel the same.
Uh, I didn't know it. Apparently it means "a state of nervous excitement or agitation".
NYT: Trump DOJ seized records from Apple for metadata of House Intel members
It would them in a tizzy…
Regarding ivermectin, this twitter thread does a good job summarizing other studies and links to them all.

https://twitter.com/AbdenurFlavio/status/1398717229366235141
Thanks, that's one of the best critiques I've ever heard of my paper.

One minor correction first: you're absolutely right that AGI is about comprehending the environment, not about perfectly solving all environments (the latter is mathematically impossible even with strong noncomputable oracles etc). I'm not sure why people so often come away from my paper thinking I'm saying AGI is supposed to solve all those environments, I never say anything like that. If I could go back in time, I'd make that clearer in the paper. No, it's about the AGI simply being able to comprehend the environments, like you say. And the thesis in the paper is that shoehorning general environments into real-valued-reward environments is a lossy process.

For the rest of your argument, you make a lot of good points. I would ask, what do you say in response to, e.g., Alan Turing who asks us to imagine Turing machines having infinite tape and running for all eternity? Obviously that too is impossible in the finite universe we live in. That's sort of the divide we disagree on. I'm talking about idealized AGI. If we consider human beings, humans have finite lifetimes so any particular human being's entire lifetime of actions could simply be recorded in a finite tape recording. But does that mean said finite tape recording is intelligent? In the idealized world, I would want to say it's a basic axiom that no finite tape recording of a human can be intelligent. But now we're deep in philosophical woods.

I like your point about musicians etc creating further and further derivatives of known successful work as opposed to starting anew :) I guess in terms of my paper, the real question is, if you confronted these derivative musicians with the grand new work that transcends them all, would they recognize it as such, or would they (like an AGI confused by rewards shoe-horned into real numbers) mistake it for something mediocre? Now we are deep in psychological woods!
I don’t have much trust in American institutions, luckily the vaccines are scrutinized globally, as this link actually shows findings from Israel.
If the new feature is incompatible with the old library, it's a different library. It should get a different name. If you're all out of names, just append a 2, as in jinja2 or psycopg2. No need to break existing software or to make it impossible to install the new library alongside the existing library.
I remember finding this setting before, for myself and at least half a dozen other people in my life. Not seeing the full URL is something that Mozilla should have fucking understood was something their users want. Firefox is supposed to be the "Good Browser™", which includes technical users configuring the browser for other people in their lives.

Every single goddamn time Firefox tries to bring themselves to being the bottom of the barrel, where "naive users need apply", they alienate their user base and all the other people associated to those users. I know that trying to grab market share seems like an "appease more people in the population", but Mozilla repeatedly seems to forget how much we are evangelical for those who don't even know that Firefox exists. The more they try to dumb down their browser, the more market share they lose. They still haven't learned this, and it completely boggles the mind.

Over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again… Mozilla makes the wrong choice in trying to dumb down their browser. I could repeat "over and over" another few dozen times. They need a change in management at some level, because we're back to this dumb crap… again, "over and over again".
Per https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index, in December 2020, “A Big Mac costs DKr30.00 in Denmark and US$5.66 in the United States.” Using the listed exchange rate of DKr 6.12/US$, that’s $4.90 in Denmark, so in fact somewhat less. Which implies that the DKr is undervalued vs. the US$, at least for this particular one-item basket of goods.
Constant factors, heuristics, memory usage, etc...

There was a discussion on array programming languages here recently where someone proudly showed off a K language solution to a simple problem, stating that the K solution was efficient because it could solve it in 1.2 microseconds. I used Rust to solve it in 5.5 nanoseconds, which is nearly 200x faster. Both used "brute force" with no cleverness, but there's "bad" brute force and "good" brute force.

I've had a similar experience at university while using Haskell. It's a very elegant lazy pure functional language, but it's glacially slow. The natural, low-friction path is very inefficient. The efficient path is unidiomatic and verbose.

I hear people making similar observations about F# also. It's fast to program in, but if you also need performance then it is no better than more mainstream languages -- in fact worse in some ways because you're "going against the grain".
Dude, you're my hero, I'm currently at 3 jobs at once (used to be 4 but the contract ended) and this is 100% true, I like some jobs more than others and it really boosts up income and learning, can you share more secrets? It's been a hell of a ride for me
every molecule has different effects. Change the wrong amino acid residue in insulin and you get something that hyperactivates IGF-1 pathway and causes cancer, which you won't see in the short term. You can't be sure that any given vaccine won't accidentally activate an oncogene, until you do the study, and such a study would necessarily take years, or decades.
workflow may be something like
1. Free music
2. required signup for band newsletter
3. Why am I receiving this newsletter?
4. Mark as spam
I started my Elixir journey with Dave Thomas, too, and I agree with your commentary. I think most of Dave Thomas' style is highly organized and readable.

One of my favorite Dave Thomas tidbits was writing private functions like this:

defp _private_function(params) do
# Do something
end

Whenever I see a function that starts with an underscore, I KNOW it is a private function in the current module. I don't have to go looking for it or wonder where it came from. I know at a glance that it is a private function.

Readability and organization are so important in code and I felt that Dave Thomas helped me get off to a great start in this regard.
The vaxx protects you from a severe outcome, not from getting or transmitting it. Half the country won’t get vaxxed. For the vaxxed it shouldn’t make a difference if someone else is not vaxxed. So I suggest you start working on your tolerance.
Transglutaminase (Meat Glue)
While medicine doesn’t work like this, but what is the proposed mechanism from any sort of side effect from the minuscule amount of lipids, probably largely derived from already known substances?
After being told once, "As an executive we expect 100% mindshare," I changed my entire philosophy out of rebellion and it has worked extremely well.

1. NO ONE owns your time, especially your "mindshare". This goes for everyone in the organization.

2. The organization should view time as something they are borrowing you from your real life, your family, your recreation, your mental stability.

3. The organization should invest in your time so there is no arguments from your real life when the organization needs extra effort.

4. Invest interest in your employees external projects as the vast majority of your technical breakthroughs will be informed by those projects.

5. Presence does not equate to productivity. It only equates to physical presence.

6. Invest time in understanding the problems your team finds interesting or challenging.

7. Encourage an environment of collaboration where each employee is excited to help their team members even if it costs them extra hours.

8. Give them back the hours from 7 when you can.

9. Realize your job is to make their job fulfilling and challenging.

10. Don't be an A-hat.
The Personal Pandemic
Why is this anymore relevant than Banksy’s opinion on Rust in the Linux kernel?

It’s really annoying how many people think that because they are competent at a limited subset of discrete mathematics that people should care what they think about subjects where they are basically ignorant.
As an IC and an extrovert, I also never want to return to the office. I crushed a ton of hard work this year that I would have been incredibly distracted from by in-office activities otherwise.
You're assuming your own hypothesis. In this thread, the "believe the science" people are elevating the opinion of some unqualified celebrity because he has the "correct" opinion, and ignoring/suppressing the opinion of a highly qualified expert because he was the "wrong" opinion.
After reading your comment I want searching around the nets - and discovered this: https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index . Hilarious yet insightful.
No matter how much education anyone has, humans are still humans. We all make more decisions based on gut and what we want the truth to be than through logic.
Did you know that seatbelts save lives besides those of the people wearing them? That in even minor collisions being untethered to a seat can injure others?

The justification for mandatory seatbelt laws is the same as the justification for covid mitigations: you’re protecting more than yourself.
It is a measurement problem.

Android users are more likely to use Gmail which proxies the images so you can't tell what device it was opened on.
I agree, but the reply to my PSA said otherwise.
Quibble: Git does not have pull requests
Aren’t these just quasars? Not necessarily anything that special. Are people thinking this is extra terrestrial communication of some sort?
> I am just waiting untill I need to go to the hospital and a warning pops up: "this destination is not included in basic plan, do you want to upgrade to premium for $999" and then have it reject my card or crash or glitch out and leave me high and dry.

If you are unable to drive due to an emergency medical condition, shouldn't you call an ambulance instead? Otherwise, if can't afford the self-driving service, can't you just drive the car yourself?
Google to build new undersea cable to connect Latin America and the U.S.
Thanks, there's lots of useful info there.
and are inedible
Imagine getting in a "tizzy" about journalists using the word "tizzy"... that's irony for ya.
Computer scientists are phenomenal at understanding human-created systems. They are remarkably worse at understanding non-human created systems, from what I can tell (as a structural biologist). "Tech" (whatever that nebulous word means - basically the people lampooned in 'Silicon Valley) are perhaps one of the most gullible groups of people ever, maybe because they are so focused on a combination disruption (thinking outside the box) and marketing.
Interesting. I really like(d) to be included in the bigger picture. What goods there are and how they are advertised is part of our culture (as is the quality part of advertising in it self). Being cut from most of it (to see the same over and over again, things I usually made up my mind on long ago) hurts.
There's not really any way to do efficacy testing.

(safety testing in uninfected people should yield some information of course)
Self-Driving Bicycle Is Something to Marvel At
My understanding is that pixels will work but sender will not know device type, IP, etc. Am I correct?

If I’m correct then how this is going to hurt newsletter publishers?
and are a damned eye-sore
No. It's the same. If you have a function with a large if statement in it, you'd want to test all conditions within that if statement to make sure it was working, right?

You'd do the exact same thing if you were testing a series of pattern-matched functions. The tests would be unchanged either way.
What’s the libertarian solution to healthcare? Let people die in the street in front of the hospital if their credit card can’t handle an $18k charge?
Ask HN: Will Google include privacy features like iOS in Android?
For example, the option to ask the apps not to track.
IIUC, it still only has one clock (oscillator), but the mouse card has a seperate timer (counter) in it's VIA, which needs to be synchronized with the video hardware because the VIA is not initialized (with the same number-of-clock-ticks-per-(vblank)-interrupt as the video hardware runs at) at power-on.
How many of those households are on Medicare?
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter
99.97% survival rate for our demographic. When we can sue should we suffer an adverse reaction, then the cost-benefit analysis may even out. Right now, it’s all but downside.
No, that’s not the same review process. You can take your tinfoil hat off.
"Instead of using the word "idiot", I think it's probably better to describe people ..."

Please re-read - I said:

"Most of the people I know who handle tasks like this are not idiots."

I was disputing my parents assertion that "... (things like this are) not a dangerous task to them." I think my parent is incorrect.
Don't Feed the Thought Leaders
Probably with their guts.
This is not true. Not only is the Big Mac in Denmark nominally more expensive, but so is almost everything else. Actual purchasing power after taxes is not necessarily higher, but it also varies with the city.

For example: Seattle vs Copenhagen

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
> Great guys, intelligent and generally good to be around.

"Great" and "intelligent" only to the extent that you have actually tested their civic maturity and intelligence, you mean. Democracy is in trouble because education has become a narrowing of the understanding, not an expansion of reason and civic principles.

Meanwhile, the pandemic of ignorance is a lucrative resource for ludicrous discourse.
I just looked at each of the papers you cite, and none of them support the claim of mRNA transfer between species. They talk about reverse transcription of RNAs in the same cell. (Which kingdoms - there are only three - are using mRNA for gene transfer?)

The last paper you cite shows that if you reverse transcribe a virus, you can get it to integrate into the genome, which is not very surprising, but it there is no evidence that this has happened in nature. And I have no doubt that people are checking - running PCR on genomic DNA of infected individuals.
Doctors are just as capable of being idiots as anyone else.
You are assuming that your injuries in a crash w/o a seatbelt would only affect you, if you chose not to wear a seatbelt.
Maybe the fact that they break the stereotype tells you more about the flaws in your worldview than theirs. They're smart and great people, maybe they're on to something, or at the very least, their decision on this particular issue isn't really that big of a deal.

I remember when anti-vax meant multi level marketing, crystal healing yuppies or home schooling ruby ridge bible thumpers refusing to get their kids the MMR shot. The definition has significantly relaxed, to the point where just saying "yeah I'm not really worried about this one, I don't think I want to do it" is anti-vax. Lots of people would like to continue making their own medical decisions using their own risk assessment.
/me looks up, see a full URL in Safari's address bar, looks down, reads comment, looks up...

I might have set that as a preference, I can't remember.
Because you can still transmit it, this isn't hard, just read a little.
I think you are conflating a person and people.

In this case, Linus is responding specifically to Enrico Weigelt, who is making the claim that the COVID vaccines are a "generic human experiment that basically creates a new humanoid race (people who generate and exhaust the toxic spike proteine, whose gene sequence doesn't look quote natural)."

Linus' email is directed wholly towards Enrico.

If you don't want to, then you don't want to. I understand that not everyone will want to. My work understands that, as does the hospital near work, and both have contingency plans for when someone who works there does not want to get vaccinated (and no, it's not "fire them").

Enrico didn't say "I don't want to", he effectively said "I don't want to, and here's why…" and then put forward a reason that Linux (and I, and I imagine many others) believe wholeheartedly to be untrue.
Most of such conversions are safe and should not panic (just like the type assertions).
Brilliant trolling sir.

I hope it works. I've done some similar on reddit comments. It's hard not to want to hit them over the head though...
A lot of ex-Stripe companies are destined for success
Correct, and it is pretty special to learn that (while still rare), they're far more common than we initially thought
The paper you link to is overexpressing LINE1 on plasmid in HEK293 cells and coinfecting w. sars-cov-2 - not exactly a natural setup! They see some nucleocapsid fragment integration and limited expression, but it's a pretty forced experiment, honestly. Also the whole virus is very different from the mRNA payload of the vaccines. Having a random chunk snagged by an overexpressed retrotransposon is a far cry from a meaningful integration event. Though LINE/Alu transposon integrations are an interesting driver of evolution on million-year timescales.

(and: not a hobby. I was at UCSF, Stanford, and helped start several biotechs. You would have more traction here if you acted a little more thoughtful with those trying to talk to you.)