skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I argue helping people live better lives through education, robust family planning options and availability, and direct cash payments is not eugenics, but feel free to call me whatever you'd like. I'm comfortable with my position based on a foundation of empathy and pragmatism. I believe all human beings should be treated with dignity and respect.
In the UK at least and especially UK politics it seemed for years like 2020 was going to be awesome - everything will be done in/by 2020!
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the deeper point about the mask is that AFAICT, the people are not really opposing the mask, but the government that is directing those mandates, and the real root cause is the lack of trust in the government.

it is also coinciding with a period of extreme distrust of the media, wherein, if some thing is spreading outside of the media, the position being taken is that it must be true, whereas one would expect the opposite to happen.

The media and the government must introspect their roles in leading to this situation.

Many lump twitter as being part of the media itself, because of its proactive actions.
Yeah I think thats exactly whats going to happen. I've been watching old episodes of Star Trek Voyager and laughing to myself the model they used for computers then. Still thinking that a piece of digital data had to be put on a pad and given to someone. I don't think people realize how much in the future we live in right now with tech. A.I. now will train future A.I. and it will get faster and faster.
The link doesn't point to anything about the title.
The mindsets and practices of excellent CEOs
The humble pencil is truly an amazing invention. The Gutenberg press of writing instruments.
Those are interesting, although they do not help your original statement.

> https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33909660/

This in essence states that given a immune population (either vaccine or natural), virus will evolve strains to escape anti-bodies... which is logical... if one such variant evolves, it will have a huge potential for multiplication.

It then states that strategies for viral elimination should be diversified... I would argue vaccinating everyone will lead to viral elimination... Otherwise virus is free to mutate in non-immune people.

> https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33688681/

It's a study on the viruses natural mutation potential... and it's worrying... nothing regarding vaccines and so on... it's basically a warning that it can evolve to bypass vaccines and we'll be back to square one...

Again... nothing to help your argument about 'leaky' vaccines...

Have you read them yourself?
Yeah I dunno why people on HN seem to struggle with Twitter so much. You choose who to follow! It's entirely under your control.

If someone starts being annoying, unfollow them. It's really simple.
It was a mobile app only feature
Hedonist is the proper name for the philosophy. Maybe I read too much philosophy because I was merely saying the proper term in the dichotomy between virtue ethics and pleasure ethics.

Maybe I should stick to talking sportsball.
I briefly had a flashback to Windows 386, then saw the Cloud PC part.
That’s exactly my point, I should still be able to hear what someone I disagree with says and even agree or understand their thinking on occasion. Blocking seems like an extremely blunt tool.
Exactly the same thing was being said about Java (the first of the C++ killers) back in 1990s. And yet C++ is still around. It is not that easy to kill it seems.
> pulling for better design.

That doesn't sound idiomatic to me, as someone in the UK.
"C++ is the New Python"... in the finance world. Note that this is an article from efinancialcareers.com - and this article is about how it's popular for high speed trading systems.
You don't strictly even need a `shell.nix`, you can just name packages verbatim on the command line a la `nix-shell -p python39.pkgs.ipython -p python39.pkgs.numpy --pure` and you're away.
What's the process for recycling an aluminum-air battery? And is it cost/energy effective to do so?

(If you think about it, closed-loop recycling of energy storage is just another form of recharging, but with extra steps.)
> 3 billion people can't afford to get enough nutrition

Depending on the country, 1/3rd to 1/2 of all produced food goes to waste - and a lot of that is due to customers expecting that every supermarket has to have their particular brand of generic, short shelf-life goods (e.g. yogurt, salads and other vegetables, baked goods) on stock 24/7 and similar absurdities. And any suggestion to curb that shit, either by limiting the amount of different brands available in stores or to limit the time slots in which customers can expect fresh goods, gets quickly shot down by outrage mobs fearing the advent of socialism (which is associated with empty shelves).

As for the "can't afford" part: we need to get global wealth disparity under control, and especially us Europeans and Americans have to stop killing African textile and food industry by "donating" our excesses.

> Many countries still offer funds to people to have children and have pro-natalist policies

Anti-natalist politics are by definition always walking on the cliff of eugenics. Any attempt of restricting who is allowed to reproduce or how much will always lead into selection questions - China for example now suffers from a vast lack of women, as parents aborted or murdered female newborns, and I don't want to get started with the horrors that the Nazi regime committed.

The best and especially humane solution to curb overpopulation is to reduce poverty and increase healthcare - it has been shown that once people from a population get lifted in wealth so they don't need to have ten kids to have three survive to adulthood and one to take over their care in old age, child birth rate automatically drops!
That’s already more effort than not needing to do anything, because the terminal isn’t a weirdo text input relative to my IDE/editor.
Yes, maybe we should.
They're certainly picking it up more recently with Fleets and Spaces. My point was I was quite happy with the status quo before.
> If you're doing the few simple errors in judgment, time will expose you, no matter how well you appear to be doing right now.

Like smoking pot. I love smoking pot, but wow can it cascade errors in judgment (only realized upon looking back)
What makes it unachievable? The process is very straightforward. Every friend of mine that wanted to work at FAANG has been able to and you really just need to spend a couple weeks/months practicing.
I didn't mean this to be one sided. It just happens that my parents were right wingers. Yes, it's happening on both sides.
i disagree , government is prone to corruption when it envolves contractors, also a private company has way more interest in running things as efficiently as possible , that being said there should be very nicely tailored rules and regulations in which companies participate or at least make suggestions.
> nuclear projects tend to be magnets for corruption, huge boondoggles, and don’t account for, much less pay, their full long term costs

This is the point for me. Capital intensive projects with massive safety concerns and massive environmental liabilities are a recipe for regulatory capture and corruption, because they need to work hand-in-glove with the state to succeed. This is the formula that has led to accident after accident at chemical plants all over the world, some of which have been far more deadly than even the worst nuclear accidents. Civil servants need to be on board, or the project fails, and once they're on board, they tend to overlook malpractice.
> Windows 365 provides an instant-on boot experience

Unless they mean it'll instantly show a loading screen, I'll bet it doesn't.

I've used various VDI implementations over the years, and they've all been pretty slow to get to a working desktop.

I also wonder about latency. I have a 100/20 FTTC connection at home, which I find to be fast. Most recent VDI I used was Citrix, where I was expected to code in a VDI hosted in Netherlands (I'm in the UK) - the latency when typing drove me fucking NUTS! It was mostly just long enough to be intensely irritating and distracting, but occasionally latency would increase to a few seconds too.
Elm is generally known to be a simpler Haskell. It's only useful for frontend apps right now but worth a try
What is the Axiom of Choice?
You're probably talking about different level of details.

What's the isotope composition of waste? What are the half-life periods for them? What are the possibilities of remaining radioisotopes to contaminate water/air/soil? I'm watching nuclear arguments quite a bit and don't see this level of details, which would allow making a decision. I've studied physics, yet I should admit I can't see the rational argument for nuclear industry - not yet, I only see declarations "it's safe".

How can those waste products be processed? How they can be stored? What are the supposed difficulties? Costs? What we have learned so far? All of this matter is nowhere to be seen in discussions about waste. Those 83,000 tons you mention - what's that? Can we use it somehow? Can we separate it into less problematic and, say, more energetic material? Can we put it into reactors? What have been tried?
Pretty strict. You don't get direct db access unless in a very specific team/role. You have to request access to tables on a per-table basis.

I believe this is similar to how Google does it.
> It is a costly model

Have you looked into what taxpayers pay per student for public schools? There's nothing inexpensive about them.

My high school did have a competition grade swimming pool, which was only used for the diving team consisting of maybe 8 people.

> does a public high school diploma command more pay than no high school diploma?

Yes, I agree that's the question.

> the answer is a resounding yes

Are you sure about that? Don't include people who have more advanced degrees.
Any provider offering this kind of service is exceptionally unlikely to offboard any financial services firm without serious forethought- any outsourcing of critical processes like this would need pre-approval from the FCA and for a bank the PRA would take a hard look too.
The best part is that he does very little editing, so you see him screw up and make modifications on the fly - nearly all other cooking shows/videos don't show that and so you feel like everyone can cook perfectly. Kenji will forget to add things, or burn things, or do things out of order, but he keeps rolling with it. To add to the videos, he has the best articles on seriouseats.com that explain how and why everything is done in the recipe.
> I swear the last 4 years drove the vast majority of everyone insane, in a very literal sense.

TDS is very, very real and when paired with this whole covid thing it only got worse. Peoples deep issues with the last 4 years joined forces with media fear mongering to create a perfect storm resulting in what will be someday be looked back upon as a massive "social engineering" failure.
Huh? I see a lot of parts that can fail. What do you mean?
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Both. I am naturally a very "torrent of work" kind of person, but I've learned that one approach isn't enough. Some problems require a bit every day, some torrents.
> Here's the thing though. If you hit me with your car, it doesn't matter whether it was an accident or whether you intended to.

It matters a lot! First of all, it matters legally. An entirely different set of laws and procedures will be invoked depending on which it was. But, second, it matters because it tells me something about what to expect from you in the future. It tells me something about how you feel towards me. It tells me something about your character, about your capacity for violence.
Some counterexamples that I've dealt in the recent years include LLVM, Abseil and Windows COM APIs.
Does YouTube pay content creators beyond the revenue they generate?
Macron: “The unvaccinated will bear the brunt of the restrictions”
Why would you think that censorship of Trump was purely voluntary decision by the big tech?
BTW, the most ridiculous instance of this that I've met is when a game fiddled with the OS-global volume when I adjusted the volume in the game's options.
A lot higher than 9 billion

https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/population

"No science agrees with this"

Sources?

Using your wolves example, people can move to locations that are more developed and have the infrastructure for more food distribution. The main problem is that most people are so far removed from their food sources that they don't really think about whether there will be enough for their kids. You could have people starving to death, or something wolves dont have - global conflict.
To answer your question, I recommend actually taking traditional investing advice. But assets that make money, so a farm or rental property. These increase in value and you can lease them for revenue. It’s common to invest in stocks, but due to financing rules & policy since 2008, I think there’s a decent risk of a massive bubble bursting. Land is always valuable (baring pollutants) and it’s a limited commodity.

Diversity is key though. I have a farm, rental property, stock, bonds, crypto, gold/silver, etc.

Regarding the sentiment, It feels like there is a cult of self-destruction (note, these may be true, but sensationalized):

- global warming is going to kill us all

- covid19 will kill is all

- inflation is soaring, better learn to eat bugs

- normalizing abortions

- mass shootings regularly on TV (though rare)

- highly addictive opioids prescribed wildly and having FDA approval (claiming they aren’t addictive)

- Castration of children without parental consent

- etc etc

I wrote this back in 2015 and it seems relevant: https://austingwalters.com/an-essay-on-wealth-and-freedom/

Freedom is only obtained through owning land. Without owning the means of production, you’re nothing more than a slave. To your point, owning land you can live off of is a protection against all form of “dooms-day” scenarios.
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Then please allow the late Hans Rosling to put you at ease :) https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_global_population_gro...
True, but if I'm a publisher my liability would arise from publishing false stories like 'shkkmo distributes ransomware' or incitement like 'push shkkmo into traffic.' On the other hand, if I am the editor/publisher of Dweeb Aficionado I am under no obligation to give you editorial space or sell you advertising, except (in US law) if you can show that I am systematically excluding advertising from a class of people like you which enjoys some sort of legal protection.
Lake Mead is receding rapidly. California is in constant drought and wildfire state. O&G continues to destroy the planet with minimal repercussions. Unsustainable deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest. Unprecedented heat waves across the country/world. Increasing plastic pollution. Decreasing biodiversity. It’s only a matter of time until we have resource constraints (water, energy, clean air) and countries start wars over these scarce resources.

Sounds about right. I’ll see you all in hell soon!
Agreed. I'm going on strike.
My guess (or I guess hope?) also as a 30 year old is the system is going to limp along until after I'm dead. Things will get much worse but the US economy won't collapse to the point where it's better for me to try subsistence farming. I don't live on the coast or in the more deserty regions of the US so I'm pretty isolated from the direct effects.
Well, yeah, but entire towns had to be evacuated and interdicted.

How do you figure THAT external cost?
Longer term, I'd say Julia is more likely to compete with Python than C++:

* Julia is now at the point that it can be used for interactive development and experimentation without time-to-compile issues;

* the Julia ecosystem is coming along nicely; and

* Julia has always provided near-C performance in production.
While its possible that climate change may slow or reverse this trend, the number of people globally experiencing malnutrition has actually been falling over time.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-undernourished-regi...
The iPad finally became a useable computer!
I strongly disagree.

Go is an improved C that includes garbage collection (as is needed to make bug-free concurrent programming easier).
Waste of time. At least comparatively speaking.

Plus these get boring, I climb up the hedonic treadmill. Movies and video games get boring.
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At some point in your career, you gain enough confidence to say no, I can't commit to that. If they fire you for not making unreasonable commitments, that's net benefit to you.

Dev shops don't have to operate like that, and all it takes is one person to have the fortitude to say no.
I too think that dividing people into arbitrary groups is a productive way to ~~fuck people over~~ shorten the collapse.
TBH, the only reason I switched from C to Python was because I didn't know how to implement std::vector<type> and std::hash_map<type, type> in C at the time (1995), and GNU C++ didn't support templates.
"There's a consistent track record of being wrong, we should learn from it" is not garbage, it's the bare minimum for engaging with the topic intellectually and honestly.
Java did replace C++ in many domains, but not all simply because the JVM requires more overhead than C++.

The trade-off was more overhead, but faster development and fewer errors due to not needing to manage memory or other low-level details.

Java is easier to write than C++ and is more portable than C++, but needs more time to get fast and more memory to work with.

By way of comparison, Rust offers all of the speed of C++ and similar low overhead with practically none of the footguns that C++ is known for.
Ha, yes. With all of the unrest in the US, I've found myself wishing the "other side" would at least reintroduce leaded gas so we'd raise kids unafraid to throw bricks again.
This also seems to support the idea that as fertility tolerates drop, per capita resource consumption rises to meet a more modern lifestyle.
Got stuff to do, so naturally I stopped reading a lot sooner.
What is Fleets?
Interesting, I wonder if it's an American idiom, then? I'm not the commenter, but for me it sounds fine.
I looked it up. The main reason that I'm excluded from the audience is not due to Borland but rather that I don't have Microsoft Windows as my operating system.
Ultimately, isn't it the owner of the server who's targeted by the laws? Where the server is really doesn't matter that much.
What about a book or resources for someone who already knows C++? I haven't used it in 10 years and even then, where I worked at the time, using C++11 features was "off-limits". Just from a cursory glance, a lot seems to have changed since then?
I can't believe I'm taking the time to write this, but that's not a valid analogy. The predictions of civilization collapse by all manner of people and orgs using vastly differing methods, skills, and assumptions at varying times is on a different level of complexity than a well-understood celestial cycle used to keep time for millennia.

In short: past performance predicts future performance if the thing that's performing is predictable.
It sounds like you don't think AWS is the most secure place to host an application. That's not the argument being made here; the argument stipulates AWS.
Perhaps people are anxious about tweeting because a single tweet can ruin your life?
The 2009 collapse was a shake down by the most wealthy that profiteer off of the debasement of the US currency, they figured out the game and knew they were too big to fail. There was never any risk to society collapsing imminently, that was propaganda by Paulson and Obama to make them seem like innocent little sweethearts. Our monetary and capital control policy is a slow moving train wreck that started way before 2009. Maybe Nixon?

Either way, fear mongering about what could’ve happened ignores what did happen and how it was predictable by those in power.
Nope, per the article: collapse “does not mean that humanity will cease to exist,” but rather that “economic and industrial growth will stop, and then decline, which will hurt food production and standards of living

Economic decline that hurts standard of living is very far from a societal collapse, if the analysis is even accurate. It seems like the best selling book that put this out in the 70's traded on fear mongering, and now this article is just repeating it.
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You can rest assured that the true doom will come from a place you didn't plan for. The traditional pf knowledge is to diversify so that any number of events wont adversely affect your financial future. I think the future will present more channels of diversification from the traditional stock and bonds but the principles remain the same.
Before, he was a supporter:
https://nassimtaleb.org/2013/03/nassim-taleb-on-bitcoin/

Recently, he said it is worth exactly $0, in the form of a paper no less:
https://nassimtaleb.org/2021/06/bitcoin-currencies-bubbles/

I will address one of his comments:

> Comment 1: Why BTC is worth exactly 0

> Gold and other precious metals are largely maintenance
free, do not degrade over an historical horizon, and
do not require maintenance to refresh their physical
properties over time.

> Cryptocurrencies require a sustained amount of inter-
est in them.

I believe it's a good argument looking from afar. But Bitcoin's incentives are designed so that when it has low popularity, it requires fewer resources to get rewarded.

This was crucial in the beginning. Initially, the block reward was great, but now it is smaller.

However, the difficulty adjustment mechanism has not changed.

A drop in mining difficulty will lead to more Bitcoin block rewards per kWh spent mining, making it more advantageous to mine and therefore cheaper to transact.
It's not clear that the government is legally able to censor all types of spam. If the spam is commercial, the Central Hudson four-pronged test on commercial speech restrictions applies,[1] which requires, among other things, that the restrictions be "no more extensive than necessary to serve [the government's] interest". Non-commercial forms of spam would probably be protected from removal by the First Amendment, unless, perhaps, they overloaded the government's servers.

Trolling categorised as "obscene" would be removable, but otherwise may be protected by the First Amendment. Also, the fact that every content moderation decision may be subject to litigation would make it extremely difficult for the government to meaningfully moderate content.

Private platforms, not bound by the First Amendment, and allowed to moderate without assuming liability by Section 230, wouldn't suffer these problems

[1]: Via White Buffalo v. UT Austin
Ok... Now what if what people actually care about is not being censored?

To give an example, if there are two situations, situation 1 is that the government comes to my house, and threatens me for speech that I made, and situation 2, is that the mob comes to my house, and threatens me for my speech, the thing that is on my mind is not "Well, situation 1 is a violation of my speech rights, and situation 2 isnt!".

Like, literally that does not matter. Nobody cares about that technically that you keep talking about. What matters is that I don't want someone coming to my house and threatening me, regardless if it is the government, or the mob.
Bang on target! It's gonna take more than a decade if you count from flipping burgers era because there a downstream ongoing. Upstream will take more.