skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are not versed in the benefits of electoral reform, you along with the majority of the population, are living in a delusion that politicians and political parties are the central problem. It's the voting system that is the central problem.

First-Past-The-Post, or any winner takes all election deeply distorts election results and worse, it prevents many people from even running in the first place because of the accusations of vote splitting.

There are better systems of voting used all around the world that create less divisive governments.

The challenge is how to make electoral reform happen. Those who are elected with FPTP are in a conflict of interest with electoral reform, and referendums are often divisive and can be hijacked by people looking to maintain the status quo. Electoral reform is complicated and every system has its flaws, so ideally you convene a Citizens' Assembly (https://nationalcitizensassembly.ca/) to have an informed and deliberative process to make the recommendations on electoral reform. This process works for local, state/provincial, and federal levels.

If you wanted this in your city, you could get people to call on your city councillors to make this happen locally, and eventually once people have more experience with things like Single Transferable Vote, or whatever variant works best for your constituency, then people will want it for other levels of government.

BTW, this also works for other small elections like condo boards, school council, etc. Anything is better than First-Past-The-Post.
The warning is there because some people decided to self-medicate and bought veterinary doses and ODed.
I feel like, in the near term, this has created a bit of a ‘buy a v8 while you can’ mentality with negative environmental effect. It’s part of why I just bought a 500hp SUV that averages 9 mpg when my foot gets heavy. (I do feel a little guilty.)
> I would very much like to know your take on why the Navy has this knack.

I think the obvious answer is that they have to. The Navy has a lot of technology that needs maintenance at sea. Problem diagnosis requires understanding. We didn't rely on black box replacement.

I had nearly two years of engineering math when I was drafted and joined the Navy. The Navy skipped all of the derivations and went straight to the concepts of limits, derivatives, and integrals. Even some differential equations that describe reactor dynamics. Calculations were limited to algebra. Testing focused on calculus concepts rather than numerical answers.

This produced technicians with the ability to understand how the power plant worked but without the formal math and physics need for power plant design.

The only thing I can offer about how the Navy selects people is that it presents the various training programs early, starting with the recruiters. Certain programs are presented as being most difficult and are described in glowing terms. The challenge was definitely an attraction for me.
It's more or less impossible to express recursion (in the same ways you can with js) with pure css/html.

If you want to be overly reductionist then you can argue nothing matters because your just staring at a box with lights in it.
Pretty sure it means Xbox Series X|S - basically cloud streaming games to the Xbox One from X|S data centres
By "controversial books" they likely mean CRT - it's the number 1 battleground in education facilities today. But banning the books is silly. We shouldn't ban knowledge, even if it's the infamous MeinCampf or CRT - only practicing of certain knowledge should be banned.
I like Burry, but we really need a prediction market or some sort of tracker for these crash predictions. Really for “moon” predictions too.

I’ve been seeing this prediction form Burry for a while.
If I go into a hospital waiting room and start telling people there they shouldn't get vaccinated because it will give them autism, you can bet I've opened myself up to much greater consequences than just getting kicked out of the hospital.
It's really too early to tell regarding the standard being applied to EB1A petitions under the Biden Administration but based on our relatively limited anecdotal data, it still seems to be very high. And yes, Canadians in TN status can apply for green cards and green card applications can be pursued even if the individual is not in the country.
>We should definitely be able to crank out i7's on our continent

Agreed. I'd add that the export of dollars is related to central bank policy.
In Canada it's more like the former -- you aren't allowed to even call yourself an engineer unless you have a P. Eng.
you may not like it now, but a future you will be craving it https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/smell-and-taste
To me the rigidity seems biological, not because people aren’t “living with their decisions”. That explains why old people become more conservative as they age. The “I do it for ma kids” argument feels weak because the behavior would be very different if that were actually the case.

Preserving the status quo is the valuable piece. To me this is an evolutionary behavior. If you’re old, the status quo has likely been good to you and your offspring. Change risks that. When you’re young, your fear of death is non-existent and you’ve had fewer life scars (whether literal or figurative). If you add protection against death, you’re just increasing the risk-averse population whereas traditionally we’ve used death to weed that out over the long-term. In other words humans are naturally biased towards balancing generating change (youth) and resisting change (aging) since change often has risks or harm and you’re less able to weather it well and adapt in old age (at a minimum your brain’s elasticity helps you significantly while you’re young). Keeping people alive will distort that balance.

The question will be whether society can adapt fast enough relative to how quickly life extends. On its face a medical breakthrough that radically shifts aging for everyone would be pretty bad. A similar breakthrough that shifts it for wealthy people would also be bad on any number of fronts. Our legal and tax systems are designed around existing mortality and as you can see, at least in the US, it can take a long time for any changes in reality to be reflected there nor do those changes typically risk upsetting current power and wealth balances.
Different and intentionally so, comment edited with more reasoning.
Andreessen Horowitz and the 'Future' of Media
Yes, very unfortunate.
>> Yeah, but at least he puts his money where his mouth is.

I'd argue one could also interpret this as "putting his mouth where his money is."
I see Burry as a financial pen-tester. He researches very deeply into the mechanics of how the market works. He's looking into the code. Once he finds a bug, he finds what effects would occur if the bug occurs. Once he has found something with a big enough impact, then he asks what would trigger it to occur.

In 2006 he found excessive margin being applied to housing. He saw that the Fed was raising their rates. He knew that it was inevitable that this would cause foreclosures. There were massive bets bigger than anything the system could bear, and in fact his bets were a piece of it. Was he early? Yes. Had he been later, would he have got a bigger return? Perhaps not. It was only that he was so early that no one else had a clue that he was given such amazing odds.

Now he sees the bubble is happening because passive investing into the stock market through our 401k's has driven the smart money of the money into front-running that passive investment[0]. He's saying the massive 30% increase in the money supply after CO-VID is going straight into the stock market and that flow is drying up. Every stock is now far above their value, with their 'value' being their net future risk adjusted returns.

Burry sees that this is unsustainable, and he sees that this bubble is now two times of magnitude as large as any other bubble ever created. When a small percentage of people pull their money from the being invested in passive funds, they will quickly overpower the buy pressure and the markets will drop, causing others to pull until they go to 0. His expectation is that once this starts to burst, the Fed is going to have no other choice than to do the same exact thing they did last time, and they have to react faster than last time with no way to think about it. They will print beyond ever thought possible or the system will fundamentally collapse. This is why he mentions Weimar Republic inflation. If 2008 was the previous largest bubble and that costs us 4T, two magnitude is a 400T problem.

So he's asking what the economy will do when 400T is created in the blink of en eye. He's got his money where his mouth is. And particularly importantly, nothing he is saying now can affect the future. Either we are the Titanic, and we already hit the Iceburg, or he's wrong this time. Maybe he's early. But is he wrong?

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-rJciYZmi0
Universities are supposed to be the place where you are introduced and exposed to controversial ideas. At least, that’s what I was told when I enrolled.

But maybe that sentiment has outlived its purpose now that higher education is so ideologically tilted towards one side.
Agreed. Also in their thinking, they have time on their side, for every year, for every decade, mainland China grows bigger in relative economic terms.
Way too late to edit this, but please note that I erroneously referred to macOS 14 and 15...not sure how I didn't notice that before, but it should be macOS 11(.4?) and 12. My mind was thinking of iOS 14 and 15.

Alas, don't want anyone perpetuating that mistake. Cheers!
Interesting!

This seems a good article on the developments in JVM autovectorization: https://inside.java/2021/01/27/extending-c2-autovectorizatio...
> We need to continue to push for urgent action on climate change

The other scientists echoed that thought.

The problem is that there's little consensus on what that "urgent action" entails.

Fossil fuel overconsumption and the culture/economics of waste are deeply engrained behaviors for a lot of the world.

There's this widespread sense that technology and/or legislation will somehow be able to roll back increases in CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions. I think that's baloney.

The last year offered a window into the future. Many industrial economies were taken offline to an unprecedented degree. And the result was... a new record high in atmospheric CO2.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/07/carbon-d...

Assuming that the underlying hypothesis is correct (that the CO2 increase is in fact what's driving temperature increases and that humans are responsible for it), the only thing that seems capable of addressing the problem in a meaningful way within the time we have left is immediate, large-scale cutbacks in consumption across the board, with industrial economies bearing the highest burden.

And this is the one thing that never seems to be on the table.
Taxes Are for the Little People
I tried it recently and was irritated that it doesn't play nicely with a existing LetsEncrypt instance on the host. Docker doesn't like mounting symlinks, and LetsEncrypt uses symlinks to point to the latest live certificate and key. I could configure Certbot (LetsEncrypt) on deployment of a new certificate to copy it to the Docker instance and tell it to load it, but at this point I just fished out my old Postfix and Dovecot configurations and notes and did it myself; at least this way I'm in complete control.

I do approve of such a project existing though, and if I wasn't running other things on the host I would probably use it.
Hey browser vendors, GIVE US BACK THE CONTROL!

I swear it was possible in the past to drag and drop all UI elements, including the tab bar, by right-clicking the chrome and dropping into edit mode, do you remember?
People think package manager as a package downloader only and for that yes, PIP is more than enough.

The main problem for me is pipenv and pip doesn't solve dependencies version issues when you want to upgrade one or several packages. Poetry in the other hand never had an issue.
Here, try this video

https://youtu.be/kSWjl-JOIqs
> it's the number 1 battleground in education facilities today

In a university in Frankfurt, Germany?
Has the MPAA ever been particularly prone to acting ethically? Throwing in some slurs to throw people off their trail seems very much like something they would do.

The MPAA itself has been accused of copyright infringement on multiple occasions. In 2007, the creator of a blogging platform called Forest Blog accused the MPAA of violating the license for the platform, which required that users link back to the Forest Blog website. The MPAA had used the platform for its own blog, but without linking back to the Forest Blog website. The MPAA subsequently took the blog offline, and explained that the software had been used on a test basis and the blog had never been publicized.[121][122]

Also in 2007, the MPAA released a software toolkit for universities to help identify cases of file sharing on campus. The software used parts of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, released under the General Public License, which stipulates that the source code of any projects using the distribution be made available to third parties. The source code for the MPAA's toolkit, however, was not made available. When the MPAA was made aware of the violation, the software toolkit was removed from their website.[123]

In 2006, the MPAA admitted having made illegal copies of This Film Is Not Yet Rated (a documentary exploring the MPAA itself and the history of its rating system)[124] — an act which Ars Technica explicitly described as hypocrisy[125] and which Roger Ebert called "rich irony".[126]
You mean it's implausible that Big Pharma might do reprehensible things for profit?
Is that true also when the package is 100 GB?
Also last month I ran update on raspberry pi, and the kernel header package took an hour with no indication of progress except for heavy disk activity.
Your viewpoint is fairly well contradicted by recent experience with corporate tax cuts that were not reinvested back into the company and were instead used for massive stock buy backs that gave the money to investors and upper management with their own shares to sell back into the rising prices, which is what I said happens with zero tax rates. Do you think if they went even lower that would change?

The use taxes you're referring to are mostly going to state-level entities and state infrastructure. They're not going to pay for the federal resources, and I mentioned services, not just infrastructure. Heck, the amount of resources they use in government legal services, courts etc alone are significant costs that companies pay practically nothing but miniscule filing fees to use. Further, even those state level taxes are often minimal in the race to the bottom of states giving massive tax cuts that negate much of the revenue for the sources you mention.

As for annual spending on infrastructure: yes, that is at least partially right and is exactly why we have an infrastructure crisis in the country with aging facilities, bridges, etc and no money to pay for it. Whatever companies are paying in use taxes, it's certainly not enough to keep pace with our needs. Are you an advocate for use taxes, or was that just a rhetorical device? Because if you really believe they are appropriately paying use tax, and given the infrastructure crisis, you should be all for increases to those use taxes.
Nice. I've been thinking of switching to the KDE spin. My bad experience is with dnfdragora that comes with the default Gnome and XFCE spins.
Please (not you in specific, but the general you), can everyone at least try to read the abstract before commenting (preferably the article).

It's in Germany, and has nothing to do with CRT.
Amusing that while there's proposed legislation to punitively tax tech companies and break them up, there's also proposed legislation to have huge tax credits for tech companies.
Gladly.

1: Only 8% of students understand that slavery was the cause of the Civil War.

2: Here is a book that destroys the myth of the Alamo, and points out that the white people in Texas went to war twice to keep the institution of slavery.

3: There are lots results for problems with the way native history is taught in the US. I grabbed an interesting read as an example. As further evidence, until a few years ago, the Washington NFL team used a racist slur as its name

1: https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2018-02-...

2: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623832/forget-the-a...

3: http://alaskool.org/native_ed/articles/g_lincoln.htm
You don’t even need networked storage for that, just attach a slow spiny disk and it’ll grind every app accessing the filesystem (even if those files are on a super fast internal SSD!) to a halt at random points.
People called the lab leak theory a conspiracy theory (because it was associated with Trump and “racism”).

Now we have blue-chip liberal celebrities like Jon Stewart coming out in favor of the lab leak hypothesis.
>Are you claiming that some non-trivial number of patients in India were treated with this

Yes, example from two states.

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/lucknow/uttar-prade...

https://www.news18.com/news/india/mortality-rate-much-lower-...

The testimony video in this page cites examples in many other countries https://covid19criticalcare.com/
notion is slick and is one of the reasons why note taking has come into the spot light as of late (the other being that information is overwhelming and we, as humans, still don't know what the best way of managing it at scale is)

shameless plug: i'm the founder of a yc backed open source note taking tool. for notion users, we describe ourselves as basically notion but made for developers - local first, open source and super fast.

https://wiki.dendron.so/
It's worth noting that GPT-f already gets a big performance boost from pretraining on Arxiv etc (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.03393.pdf#page=7) despite those sources containing next to no Metamath or anything that looks like a raw Metamath proof, just regular natural language & LaTeX discussing math...
I would say that most drugs have different effects at different doses.
It's usually not the drug that is the problems, it's the dosage.

To answer the rapamycin question: the normal dose that is given in case of an organ transplant is 6mg on day one and after that 2mg per day. That makes for 14-18mg/week.
For longevity what I've heard is 3-5mg once per week.

Now take your normal OTC drug, let's say Tylenol and take 3-4 times the recommended dose. Liver injury or even liver failure follows.
I have spinal issues, and chairs were a serious issue. I tried and rejected Ikea Markus and several hi-techy beefy chairs, because sitting in a soft & comfortable chair always ended in spinal aches.

I figured out I felt better in chairs that made you sit straight and not lean at all, neither sideways, nor backwards, plus swaying and moving a bit, changing posture every couple minutes is a benefit. (Markus chair has thick seat, which gets in the way of legs when you try to turn left/right.)

For now, I chose Bleckberget, a similar model to the one in the comment above.

US: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/bleckberget-swivel-chair-idekul...
RU: https://www.ikea.com/ru/ru/p/bleckberget-blekberget-rabochiy...

In the office, this type of chair also worked, but at home it didn't (probably, at home I tend to lean more and sit in a more "relaxed" way): https://office-gr.ru/image/cache/catalog/byurokrat/444/333/8...
I edited my previous to be more on-topic, but oh geez, this is a whole different thing and I'll take the bait.

Are you referring to Donald Trump? (There, invoked.) He's a moron and there's plenty to criticize him on. Which is why it's bizarre to see this particular false[0][1] narrative thrown around so much even to this day. If you watch (TDS trigger warning; transcripts in [0][1]) what he actually said[2] and the immediate followup and clarification[3], we can definitely agree that he's not a great communicator, but I think that whole thing got taken out of context in a very dishonest way.

[0] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/11/joe-biden/...
[1] https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/apr/24/context-what-...
[2] https://youtu.be/PsQnfpfIa_o?t=26m20s (1 min)
[3] https://youtu.be/PsQnfpfIa_o?t=30m35s (30 sec)
Wonder if that includes books about burning books, struggle sessions, or psychoanalysis within political sociology, and ...

how radicalized progressive movements develop — likely not a part of any curriculum anyway vs redefining them as new modern progressive study or hashtag.
The major military conflict scenarios sounds unlikely to me, whereas the cost allies South Korea and Taiwan seems quite real.
>China will expand its semiconductor sector, regardless whether it is economical feasible, because it is a matter of national security.

Isn't that the same justification for U.S. re-shoring of semiconductor manufacturing? Tighter control over security and not being vulnerable to some conflict in the pacific endangering everything from automobiles to cloud services. Today, everything relies on some chip so domestic production reduces vulnerability to fragile global supply chains. Covid-19 highlighted that vulnerability so I think both the private and public sectors in the US are looking to do more of all sorts of production at home.
Source for the EUA stuff? Source that HCQ and zinc are viable treatments? The problem isn't that some of these things might be viable, the problem is we don't know which of the literally hundreds of treatments are actually going to be viable when going through the proper testing and approval process. You can't just scream conspiracy when there much better explanations
Well, the summary is of course extremely condensed, and it helps a lot to read the paper. Some very quick observations:

- These are data from social science students in Frankfurt, Germany. The city and university is traditionally left-leaning, so not at all representative for anything (not for students, not for Germany, not internationally)

- The total population is ~6600, and the sample is N=501, which is further reduced by some missing values. Note that very few people actually identify as political leanings, espeically hardly anyone on the conservative spectrum. So I would argue that this study has not enough power to draw any serious conclusion (power in the statistical sense as sensitivity to reject a H0 given it is false)

- The measured variables were many more than merely banning books. Some restrictive attitudes were not supported.

Finally, it is immensenly important to remember that countries must pick one of roughly three approaches to dealing with harmful political attitudes (see Ziblatt's "How Democracies Die" for a longer review of this):

- Have all attitudes compete equally (this is the US model of free speech)

- Contain bad attitudes by shunning them and rendering them a taboo

- Exclude bad attitudes by prohibiting them legally (this is the German model, which criminalizes expression of some opinions such as denial of the Holocaust).
idk about this, my anecdotal experience suggests otherwise - irrelevant things (i.e., monitor resolutions, mouse acceleration curves, and I think DNS settings at one point) can be thrown around by updates a bit too frequently in my experience.
> 500hp SUV

Environmental issues aside, this sounds like a comically impractical vehicle.
People want their websites to load fast, though.
That's quite a badly written headline and article - are they saying they won't sell new gas cars by 2026 (but still resell 2nd hand ones) or they won't create new gas models by 2026 - I guess the latter.
It’s also been used to treat river blindness in humans, with billions of doses administered over several decades