skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple is being obtuse as always with their massive NIH syndrome

For every step forward they take, they take 2 back
Thanks for replying. I don't think we'll "agree" but I appreciate being heard out at least.

The most glaring example of his circular logic starts around 29min mark in the podcast I linked to (#83). He is discussing lab leak hypothesis and the logic is this:

* if we assume there was a lab leak, then that's good news: the means novel viruses in nature are much rarer than expected.

* based on that we should stop gain of function research because natural gain of function is much rarer than lab leaks from man made gain of function research

* since we now agree lab leaks are much more likely than natural novel viruses, it makes no sense to believe covid 19 was anything other than a lab leak.

He jumps from "IF it was a lab leak" to "the rot in our science society is so bad" in 1 sentence. His wife takes over and repeats the assumption that all science is totally corrupt (where did that come from?) and that we should believe its a lab leak because then we can just close all the labs and never have another zoonotic virus. Wtf, where did that come from?

See the problem?

I felt sorry for him over the Evergreen stuff. He was right to object. I don't think anyone should be banned from YouTube short of calls for violence (or CP). I also think YT have a terrible approach to the censorship they do (it's arbitrary, it's often wrong, it's unappealable etc).

Im just saying this isn't a hill worth dying on. He is not making much sense as far as I can see.

Fyi, I also replied on the other thread.
I don't understand the problem either. If they're worried someone in the EU is going to clone their database, moving there just means someone in the UK can now do it. And Americans have apparently been free to do it from the start.
Probably related https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57302806

Always was kinda baffled by apparent massive interest in controlling undersea cables and things like that, surely there are ungodly amounts of encrypted data which is of no real use to anyone? Apparently not.
Discussion of the original paper (107 comments) from two weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27529768
Designing Data-Intensive Applications has taught me more than 90% of what I know about scalability. I can't recommend that book enough.
They are not stupid. They don't want to mess with computers. Like they don't want to mess with their cars or appliances. There is too much things to mess with and not everyone is good at messing with things and this detracts them from things they want to do in their life. So they pay a little more money and can in exchange spend more time on what they are doing better. That's called specialisation. I agree that too much specialisation is not optimal, but neither is doing many different things badly.
> training ML systems on public data is fair use

So, to be clear, I am allowed to take leaked Windows source code and train an ML model on it?
Reminds me of the excellent book "Ignition!" by John D. Clark:
https://archive.org/details/ignition_201612
I don't think extroversion has much to do with it. I am very much an introvert but am totally fine with doing lectures to hundreds of people.
Who can be good in a position of power? Arguably, "power corrupts" as the saying goes. I believe you could take the 500 best person on Earth to try and form the perfect parliament, and you'd still have an unjust system.

Abolishing the structures of domination/exploitation is the only way to have a good outcome, because it's the only way to ensure citizens will behave as decent neighbors, and not try to control and manipulate their peers. At least, that's what we anarchists believe and practice on a daily basis.
Ahhh... unfortunately there's no kindle version. (I'm too inundated with paper books that I tend to stick with digital for new purchases).

Out of interest, is it publishing companies that make digital versions of books, or is it up to the author themselves to do that?

(And if it's the latter this is a small request to Clifford to consider it if it's not too much of an arduous task. And provided their relationship with amazon isn't too soured by the current situation, which I could understand if it is).
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As shown by Greece, the European Union in fact seizes wages from minimum salary workers. I don't care if a mall where I shop is owned by a French Corporation or a Chinese Corporation. But I do care if a foreigner entity comes and seizes part of my salary.
If you think new home construction is $150 / sq ft. (in the US), you haven't been keeping up with the times. It was $220 / sq ft. before COVID, now its $300+ for stick built. Modulars are $200-$250. When material prices tripled, the cost got offloaded to the customer, and given the demand hasn't changed.. it probably isn't going to regress to the mean anytime soon.
English is an official language in the EU only in Ireland and Malta though, so if Ireland is out and English is a requirement, it shouldn't be difficult to decide which country to move to.
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Its a fair policy argument, but then I look at the stupid, ignorant, batshit takes republicans make on much more important issues like climate change and I realize I'd never vote for them regardless.
As I remember it, the protests were incredibly downplayed or ignored in the media, in ways I think would be impossible now.

Cellphone footage of the protests would emerge now. I don't know if this would have changed anything, but I often wonder.

I felt alone and only later learned there had been large protests basically everywhere.
Public knowledge and widely known are two different things.

There are things that everyone could know (A), things that everyone knows (B), and things that everyone knows that everyone knows[3] (C). These are distinct sets.

The fact that direct access to FAANG servers[2] is granted without a warrant to the US government was widely publicized, yet most people still don't realize that the NSA is regularly looking at naked pictures of Americans stored in cloud services[1]. You might even be aware of this, but have missed the (reported at the same time) fact that this is the #1 source, the most-often used, in US intelligence reports. It's where they do most of their spying.

People haven't moved on to C about the non-privacy of gmail, for instance. Everyone savvy knows that gmail is compromised, yet because not everyone knows that everyone knows that, it's still pretended that your email box is private.

Publicity is helpful. Most people are too busy to realize what is being done by their military in their name. Repetition helps.

[1]: https://youtu.be/XEVlyP4_11M?t=1495

[2]: FISA Amendments Act Section 702, internal codename PRISM, reported in FAANG transparency reports as FISA orders

[3]: https://www.epsilontheory.com/harvey-weinstein-common-knowle... and https://www.epsilontheory.com/sheep-logic/
Would you think the big car companies would scramble for electric cars if not for Tesla?

I feel some people give Tesla too much credit on this one. When I arrived in the UK (3 years ago), there were Nissan Leafs and Renault Zoes everywhere. It was rare that I saw a Tesla. Tesla's are much more common, now, but so are many other models. I would not say that Tesla has driven the market at all, here.
Uh, came here to make essentially the same remark, but as criticism. A mere world model, however perfect, is a really hollow definition of intelligence IMHO. It's the definition of a tool, at best. It's only with the introduction of goals that we get to things like taking action, planning, etc., which bring the whole thing to life.

So while I'd agree that a world model is necessary, I seriously doubt it's sufficient for anything that I'd call intelligence.
Because open source is only used as a publicity tool by Signal. That's why their server code was abruptly closed sourced without announcement for a year (purportedly to add a scam cryptocurrency that Moxie has a conflict of interest in).

It's hard to trust a project with a divisive, evasive and concealing leader.
Building my own web analytics tool
It's hard to untangle causality for these complex society-wide changes.

It's hard to organize a protest if there's not already a societal development for that cause.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/13/does-reality-drive-str...

There's also the dynamic systems viewpoint: between two "attractor states" the tipping point sits on a locally almost flat region. So a transition from one "stable" potential well to an other goes through these confusing no one's lands. Sure, the speed of transition is unknown, and obviously depends on a lot of things like how strong the attractors are (how deep the wells are), and how strong is the societal push - to push society uphill.

But just as there are no protests in North Korea, there is no need to protest for free speech in the US. (That's a crude analogy, yes. I know that free speech is a hot topic nowadays, but the point I'd like to make is that the "political speech against the state is protected by the state" is absolutely unquestioned, the debate is about how tolerant folks ought to be of racists/homophobes/xenophobes.) And between these two extremes there's a lot of countries. And somewhere in the middle it seems that protests happen, but it doesn't matter. (Eg. in Russia. Protests happen, but Putin is still king. Similarly in China [0] ... but in both cases it seems that the authoritarianism is getting stronger. But we don't know what society thinks. Are they getting completely brainwashed, like in NK? [1] In Russia and Belarus people seem to be aware that it could be better, but the current power structure is very efficient in crushing opposition, so people instead drink a lot and die early.)

[0] https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/college-merger-protes...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9rLqYXTaFI&t=6m40s
That data explicitly says it is not to be used directly for causal analysis of health effects after vaccination.

> What is VEARS? [0][1]

> VAERS is not designed to determine if a vaccine caused a health problem

> Limitations of VAERS: [2]

> * It is generally not possible to find out from VAERS data if a vaccine caused the adverse event

> Are all adverse events reported to VAERS caused by vaccines? [2]

> No. Some adverse events might be caused by vaccination and others might be coincidental and not related to vaccination. Just because an adverse event happened after a person received a vaccine does not mean the vaccine caused the adverse event.

> VAERS accepts reports of adverse events following vaccination without judging the cause or seriousness of the event. VAERS is not designed to determine if a vaccine caused an adverse event, but it is good at detecting unusual or unexpected patterns of reporting that might indicate possible safety problems that need a closer look.

[0] https://www.openvaers.com/f-a-q

[1] https://vaers.hhs.gov/about.html

[2] https://vaers.hhs.gov/faq.html
Understanding the User Journey
"Mobs don't win, organized political factions win" also characterizes the outcomes of peaceable protest, so what's your point?
It's a Unicode trick https://lingojam.com/GlitchTextGenerator
Singapore’s new plan to ‘live with Covid’
I suffer from chronic migraine, but vitamins made no difference. I take magnesium and vitamin D anyway, but have tried adding CoQ10 etc, to no avail.

Sumatriptan works if I'm awake when the migraine is starting. I recently started taking Erenumab, which also seems to be working to some extent (Severity of migraines is reduced).
Well... this doesn't look good.
A bit scary that everyone starts to accept this as a normal thing
No and here is some reasons.

There is something political but not scientific in situation with vaccines. For example, if I'll make and public a video of why I do not want to take this vaccine, I'll get a ban on Youtube and Facebook. Another example, Russian vaccines are not counting as vaccines in Europe, wat? Btw I do not like travelling so I do not need a special permission to travel.

Also, there is no evidence that vaccine save me from any mutation of coronavirus. Would be stupid to take a vac and to catch a covid soon. So, my choice is to wait.

Btw, I am young and do not afraid this disease that much. Several of my neighbours have died from it, but all of them are 50+ and drunk driving has taken more lives of my friends for the last year and a half. Also I am so elusive that have managed to not catch a covid even when all of my roommates were sick :)

Last but not least is that I think I am ready to face all the outcomes of not being vacced. Bored waiting for fourth wave and miss to see a crowd in sometimes really goureous masks.
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Confession of an Economic Hitman is an older, slightly conspiratorial semi autobiography that presents quite a few cases that have since played out due to the age of the text and projects, and many of the claims and examples have been corroborated.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_H...

Its a fun read, if you can make it past the slight BS at the start of the book. Once the author gets in to how the projects are set up and work, and you reflect on the bigger points, it becomes fairly clear that what is being suggested has played out as described.
And your Docker/k8s image provider is not bound by security policies to actually enable the firewall and/or have a default password at all for your database.
> Noam Chomsky presents lots of evidence about outrageous acts of American government in his books, and he always claimed that it all comes from official and open government sources. Yet most people are either unaware or refuse to believe it anyway.

Such is the power of the brand and the "good guys" narrative that facts often have little to do with it. You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason their way in to.

It's easy to love the USA when it's not your neighborhood they're bombing[1], or your friends they're hiding forever in torture prisons without trial[2], or your children they're kidnapping and raping[3].

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/27/us/politics/us-airstrikes...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/10/cia-senate-i...

[3]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/us/immigrant-children-sex...
When allowed to do the job well, yes. The UK’s Government Digital Service led the way in this, and have massively improved the online experience of everything from finding information about the current Parliament to booking vaccinations. Their entire approach is focused on “what does the user need” as opposed to “what does the thousand page spec doc say”. The USDS was founded on the same basis and from what I’ve heard are similarly impressive.
It sounds like they've reimplemented either Microsoft's old HLP/CHM, or epub, but badly.
$225M
I'll take the bet they will. 45 °C is a point where the reasonable person is not wondering if climate change is real or worth doing something about any more.
It's the stated compensation policy and confirmed by my experience as both an individual contributor and a manager of a team in the same organization.
The content of the rant is stupid, in fact, if you read this post, DocC is "unusable," with "github" and the specific workflow of the author, not specifically with "open source" projects.

But, that being said, there are countless documentation from code formatter, I don't really see what particularity DocC has to be considered as excellent.
Rust's documentation uses javascript for search but it uses no js framework at all. IIRC the normal experience works without any JS. In fact it doesn't even use any traditional js tooling, allowing people to contribute to rustdoc without having to install npm.
Better then the market?
I can't imagine this is much more than a set of paper work exercises. It would have no meaningful effect on anyone who uses or works for OpenStreetMap, other than perhaps if someone had a dastardly plan to copy their database and sell it for their own purposes.
If you're willing to call men trans women then you're already subscribing to their framework. Why bother with worrying about the other details? They won't stop until you're forced to fully comply with their demands. You're not going to be permitted to go half-in on it so either don't go along with it at all or don't try to figure out how you can get around full compliance.
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Profit is a small part of costs. See https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...

I'm not so sure about incentives. The incentives aren't necessarily great in either situation. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice
Did you have any other symptoms, such as dry mouth and eyes?
ArkScript 3.1.0 is here with macro and UTF-8 support
This is not about licensing.

The problem is that DocC is incompatible with the current tools that many Open Source projects use.

Sure, you could use DocC for an OS project and set up your own server to host it. It's probably pretty cheap to do that on a VM. It would require just a little bit of learning about web hosting and would require minimal maintenance.

But why would anyone do that when Github pages is completely free, requires zero maintenance, and everyone knows how to use it already?

A lot of small Open Source projects currently use Github + Github pages for hosting docs because it is such a convenient offering. If you want to use DocC, you have to look for something else.
How JetBrains Is Similar to Apple
Believe it or not, the Space Shuttle was an even worse disaster in terms of bang for buck.
So in 2015 [1] you said you ordered enough bottles for about 10 years, but you're already running out? That's quite the success story you have there!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU
> I'm still convinced that these are generally older people who want to enjoy their lives as it is and don't give a single fuck about the future of humanity and future generations.

I personally met somebody who, after whittling down his climate arguments, told me as much... :(
Writing is great to spread information. Talking is great to call to action. Different use cases.
That is indeed a well known tactic. In the same way as critics of mass vaccinating a global population with an experimental vaccine are lumped together with anti-vaxxers who believe in a nanobot spiked mRNA vaccine by Bill Gates.
I do sympathise where you coming from and faced a similar issue when a previous company installed monitoring software on the dev machines. I noted the difference in feedback loop times (from a few sec's to well over a minute) and how often I would compile/transpile in an hour. I used those stats to let the company know how much of an impact it was on my workflow. I also provided a script for IT to run so they could test fixes.

Recently I blew a laptop while travelling and ended up using one of the new Raspberry pi 4's. While not Java with IntelliJ, it didn't impact my workflow significantly and I found it quite easy to work with.

Creating a small set of test scripts could allow you to test your options. I also like the PI idea as you may be able to include it as part of the admission fees to your bootcamp.

Overall your issue impacts the amount of time students have to learn in the classroom. Unfortunately they don't necessarily know any better. If you can prove this impacts being able to cover the course content sufficiently that may be more understandable to a non-tech.
There is no way you could meaningfully control CO2 emissions of companies as an individual. If you will try to do it, then the companies will optimize for misleading you.

There are systemic solutions:

European Union Emissions Trading System is quite good system. It sets a limit on emissions and auctions rights to emissions that can be traded later. The limit will go down according to the IPCC recommendations. The current price is ~50 euro per metric tone of CO2 emissions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Emissions_Tradi...

https://ember-climate.org/data/carbon-price-viewer/
As someone who has done business on Malta I would not recommend it. Even opening a bank account is a pain on that island. I wouls not want to operate a nob-profit there.
Not gonna lie, I went for the sticker. Haven't been given a sticker since junior school sports days.
I have hacked "URL rewriting" on Github, bu having a custom 404 page, that rewrites the URL as a query parameter. And then in the app just use the history api to take that query paramenter and replace history without an actual reload.
That's heart-warming to hear, but alas cherry-picking examples won't sway anyone much?

Have a look at eg the outsourced Danish firefighters. Seems to work just fine, but would be unthinkable in most countries, including the US. (Btw, Americans have more firefighters per capita than about anywhere else.)
I think that’s an arbitrary line you’re drawing. Every webserver does some URL rewriting, otherwise you wouldn’t be able to to use /docs, /docs/ and /docs/index.html. The difference is just that this requires some more custom rewriting rules to facilitate being a single page app.

I personally even disagree with that architecture, I think it’d be better to pretender the content for all pages (like, e.g., Gatsby does) but I wouldn’t call it not a static page.
I think the world model is one step towards intelligence or one half of it. I've come to believe that the ability to _change_ your world model as new information comes into play is the other half.
Browser Compat Data is a gold mine of information
I wouldn't call running random Docker images from the Internet a "zero trust" environment.
Netherlands or Sweden would be obvious options.
> In general political regimes hardly matter. The US are best friends with some of the most backward and repressive regimes on the planet

I think the contemporary US does have a political preference for democratic regimes all else being equal. When the US gets cozy with non-democratic regimes – for example, Middle Eastern states such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States – there is usually some other motivation which is felt as more pressing than the desire for democracy – oil, containment of Iran, keeping Israel safe and secure, fears of religious radicalism and terrorism, the fear that if the general populace were allowed to vote for whatever government they want, they'd elect Hamas or the Muslim Brotherhood, etc. It is not that the US doesn't care about democracy at all, it is just that sometimes it cares about other things more.

> India is much weaker than China and is not assertive as a global power

The Chinese government has attempted to interfere with Australian domestic politics [0]. Obviously that upsets the Australian government (and many people in Australia), and sustaining the US-Australia alliance requires that the US take Australian upset seriously. Some Australians find it particularly offensive given China's hypocritical preaching about "non-interference". The Indian government doesn't make any comparable attempts to interfere with the domestic affairs of US allies, which is part of why the US and its allies have much better relations with India than with China.

[0] see e.g https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Dastyari#Chinese_influence... https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/beijing-controls-chi... https://www.csis.org/analysis/countering-chinas-influence-op...
A Natural Death
There's a "In my opinion" in front of that sentence. You don't need citations for opinions.
You judge websites based on how expensive they are?
> within a few hundred miles of the sound blast
With a sonar? That's incredible, do you have a source/name/something I can look up?
Thays the equivalent of defaulting on an international monetary loan. So either:
Contractual penalty clauses are activated
Credit rating is dinged and the country cannot secure international finance
Trade sanctions among financiers allies
Reputation damage