skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fantastic book. Kaneko Fumiko lived a tragic life and was a remarkable writer considering her informal education. Her views on Anarchism (IMO) were vastly ahead of her time.
Steam link is not the best example as they’ve made it available on standard hardware like raspberry pi and it’s baked into the OS of many smart TVs now. They just pivoted from selling their own hardware for it. They also continue to update the controller features, including adding in Bluetooth support long after release.
There were at least a dozen stories on this stuff that made the frontpage: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ivermectin, including such gems as “wonder drug continues to surprise and exceed expectations” (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27778458) and “No bigger story in the world: why are journalists not covering Ivermectin” (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27329461).

The comments on the top story, getting 300+ votes, are also a sight to behold: ‘I truly hope in the coming years the censorship of this topic will be the catalyst for allowing free speech to prevail on social media.“ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27562412). Also: “Please do not spread fake news. All current vaccines are less than 1% effective.”

Let’s see if the people who read those stories get a chance to see the correction, as well.
None other then Elon musk says they need $20-30B in investments to stay afloat recently. They are nowhere near where it needs to be for the terminal cost. The launches can be free and the business will still sink without more government subsidies.
For one, now mistruths can be made much more quickly than truths - hello GPT-3 - and can be delivered in a far more convincing way than any other time. I have a hard time telling AI generated video apart sometimes, which will only improve as time goes on.

Nor was there an existence of platforms that not only enable but encourage the creation of echo chambers that reinforce preexisting views and actively attempt to intervene for our attention. There is no practical limit to mistruth "content" that can be made, whereas proper information takes time and effort; I think we're nearing a point where genuine information will simply be crowded out and buried.
> the resulting system is unsound (in the sense of Tarski) because it asserts the existence of natural numbers that have no "written form" (i.e. the existance of natural numbers that are larger than any term you can write to denote a natural number).

Isn't this a straightforward implication of nonstandard analysis?
Sure. That’s like playing the lottery: if you win you will make lots of money. If you loose you could end up homeless. Now what are the chances of winning the lottery again? Are you enough of a gambler to accept those odds?
Great charts. The fact that “Business as Usual” aka the default has industrial production falling 75% in 20 years tells you all you need to know about this amazing paragon of machine learning and economics
> What API would you pay for?

One where I can submit a British Columbia license plate and get back a name and address.
In Arizona, the results of audit are in, please decide for yourself if election was stolen or MSM is covering up by denying and constantly changing their message.

In race decided by 10,457 votes

3,981 voted despite registered AFTER Oct 15 deadline

11,326 voted who were NOT on rolls on Nov 7 but WERE on Dec 4

18,000 voted and then were removed from rolls AFTER election

74,243 mail-in ballots w/ NO evidence of ever being sent
I'm not sure if the author considered that even if this study was completely bogus, Ivermectin can still be a positive part of covid treatment. I have heard many good things about Ivermectin from several different countries including Africa, but had not heard about this study.
Yes, it's quite the horrific number, and I expect it to rise still ... here in Germany it's currently 59 confirmed, that number was lower a few hours ago - and apparently this doesn't even include bodies they know exist, but couldn't get to yet. And 1300 missing currently.

This village was essentially completely destroyed - this is the best visualization of this I've seen, from /r/europe: https://i.redd.it/9fdhwvte8fb71.jpg

We have apparently no statewide warning mechanism or even if we had, had the foresight to evacuate this region - now, there are calls for evacuation for other, not yet flooded, regions.

I have most of the info from this German article: https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2021-07/unwet...
Congress doesn’t do anything in piecemeal. Imagine how much better the affordable care act could have been if they had broken it up. First ban denial for pre-exsisting conditions. Let the market settle then bring in employer mandated coverage, and then let the market settle! I have dreamed about working for myself, but the price of private insurance is so grossly out there that we could not afford it. It’s not that I don’t love the company I work for, it’s a good company, sometimes I’m only here for the insurance. Shoving such large “solve everytning” legislation seems to do more harm than good because it takes ten, fifteen years to fix all the mistakes made in the first place.
That would be potentially dangerous.

This is old, but according to their site[1], IE used to use it for "Zone determination" and "ActiveX opt-in list security restriction".

If DNS were referenced for these purposes, that's how you get 0wned by accepting DHCP at your local coffee shop.

[1] https://publicsuffix.org/learn/
3d graphics libraries, drivers, input libraries, etc.
It is a nightmare getting the latest versions for those on Debian/Ubuntu.
Valve is pushing Linux gaming forward a lot and recent package versions are required in order to run games well.
"Terrible" might be a little extreme but it's a little hard to argue that Wikipedia has not seen better days. The moderation culture has seemingly been taken over by deletionists who seem more concerned about some arbritary metric of "notability" than if an article is of high quality.

https://www.gwern.net/In-Defense-Of-Inclusionism
Insider trading
> it's much better to simply commit to transparent and candid communication

As your responses show, what constitutes transparency and candor is widely disputed, given that NVC is fundamentally about transparency and candor. It seems you're confusing a (suggested, but not required) template with intent. The template can be used for anything good or bad. The NVC book isn't about the template, but the principles.

I've spent most of my life holding your view on this. Be direct. Don't take it personal. Etc. And my life's experiences showed me that merely committing to this is insufficient. Being well intentioned, and transparent, and candid, is not sufficient for effective communication, because there are usually barriers that prevent the other party from processing your words, no matter how clear or precise they are. What every communication book (not just NVC) teaches are methods to make it easier for the other party to listen to you. And in most cases you cannot do that without addressing the emotional aspect of humans.

I would often "excuse" myself by realizing that I've been quite unambiguous and clear, and if the other person doesn't understand it, they are the problem. In reality, I was merely accepting that I do not want to improve my communication.
I had never heard of Neo-Malthusianism but I realize that I ascribe to this school of thought.

What ideas made you change your view?
>A tale of what could be, if true, the most consequential medical fraud ever committed

uhhh. bud. have i got some extremely depressing reading for you...

I think invermectin doesn't sound promising at all, but there are some real atrocities in the literature, lemme tell ya...
I realize this, that's why I said first class store. It’s all about money, they’d stop fighting for freedom if they weren’t losing a cut. And now with all these lawsuits, no one‘s ever going to take the multi-million dollar investment to build a quality platform ever again. Why would you, when you can just leech direct from everyone else without them even taking a percentage of your sales?

May as well shut it all down. Everyone else gets to completely freeload off of your multi-year, if not multi-decade, multi-million dollar investment.
There's a few more Sanger "Wikipedia but better I promise" projects you missed -- Digital Universe, Infobitt, and Everipedia. Not that any of them amounted to anything.

But I think you've hit upon an important point here -- Sanger has been coasting off his early involvement with Wikipedia for the last 20 years. At this point, the Wikipedia project owes much more to the editors who have been working on it for the past 20 years than it does to him.
It's really interesting to think about, isn't it! It's not perpetual energy, but there's a lot of room for failure in that cycle.
CLICKBAIT sponsored by Big Pharma who sells $$$ thousands of dollar treatments of questionable efficacy. Ivermectin costs pennies.

Hey Gideon, how much $$$ did Big Pharma pay you off to write this "hit piece" ?

The core of this story is based on ONE research study in Egypt.
Ivermectin has been proven effective against covid19 in numerous double blind controlled studies.

Could 10 well published American and European specialist doctors with decades of experience be in a conspiracy ? I doubt it.

https://covid19criticalcare.com/about

https://covid19criticalcare.com/about/flccc-alliance-contrib...

27 controlled trials, including a total of 6,612 patients have been completed using well-matched control groups•
16 trials,including over 2,500 patients,a reprospective,randomized,controlled studies•
11 of the 27 trials have been published in peer-reviewed journals,3,900 patients,remainder are in pre-print
Models like this are as much about understanding the dynamics as making specific predictions.

A key dynamic that impressed me from LtG is that as pollution accumulates, you spend more and more of your resources dealing with the damage, and less making the sort of investments you used to make. But things can still carry on just fine, until suddenly the bottom drops out.

Since we're already dealing with significant damage from greenhouse gases, I find that a little disturbing.
Human ingenuity might be infinite, but we also do really bad shit all the time that causes horrible suffering and death.

We had a world war less than a century ago that killed around 80 million people. Did it end the world? No, but it ended the world for 80 million people.

So yes, you might be right that the world won't end from any of these scenarios.... but a lot of people might die horrible deaths, and I don't want me or my loved ones to be among them.
UMich Engineering College assigns Trevor Noah’s memoir as summer reading
By letting people make their own decisions. You've no right to make any claims to better discernment of truth than anyone else, and no one else does either. Your claims to truth have no priority above anyone else's.
You can't take 1 year of events and extrapolate climate change from that, you have to include many years and you get a probability and not a definite, that's the way patterns work when you have incomplete information. While I believe climate change is a thing you can't say "but look at what happened last year!" and draw any conclusions. We have floods and heat waves every single year.
No minimum-wage worker deserves a two-bedroom apartment. of course, this is just a historical trend that is maintained to this day.
> "I feel like what you said to me was rude" will elicit different responses

People responded negatively to you for good reason. Your statement above violates a fundamental NVC principle: Namely that you pretended to describe a feeling when you intended a judgement. It is precisely this that makes people think you're being manipulative.
It's amazing to me that this many obvious things need to be explained. People really are slaves to their jobs.
I'd imagine that portability along with avoiding the need to add a significant dependency to the kernel's core toolchain (rustc, llvm) are two reasons. Rust's involvement in the kernel is mostly relegated to less-essential modules for a reason.
Almost completely missing from the page is one of the biggest reasons for HTTPS -- the ISPs messing with the pages.

- Many wifi providers, like boingo (remember it?) inserting ads to _each page_, sometimes breaking them.

- Hotel and hospital wifi blocking a random subset of pages because they were deemed "bad"

- Caching proxies not respecting headers the origin server sent and serving old data.

In the FAQ, he mentions that but the answer is "sign the content" -- but that system does not exist, and does not fully protect you anyway (the caching proxy can still return older data). And his talk about signing is more secure and efficient that encryption because everyone can pre-sign content offline is pretty funny given that his website is dynamic wordpress site :)
Full article is worth reading, but the TL;DR is that one of the key studies in the Ivermectin COVID-19 narrative is full of glaring issues that suggest some or all of the data was fabricated. When this potentially fraudulent study is removed from meta-analyses, the statistical significance of Ivermectin in treating COVID-19 disappears.

More recent studies also fail to show statistical significance for Ivermectin in COVID-19: https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s128... There are further Ivermectin trials ongoing.

Meanwhile, Ivermectin has become deeply intertwined with conspiracy theory circles who have come to believe that Ivermectin is a magic bullet against COVID-19. They can't understand why governments aren't deploying Ivermectin to end the pandemic, which has spawned numerous waves of misinformation and conspiracy theories that pharmaceutical companies and/or governments are acting to cover up what they believe is a miracle cure.

If you want a peak into some of the conspiratorial thinking around Ivermectin, look at the top posts on the /r/ivermectin sub on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ivermectin/top/?t=month The topic has spread to popular outlets like the Joe Rogan podcast and Fox News, as well as become a meme in conspiracy and anti-vax circles.

It's still possible that Ivermectin might have some small modulating effect on COVID-19, but there's no real evidence that it's actually a miracle cure. We've also known for a long time that Ivermectin can cause serious adverse neurological events in certain populations: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5929173/
For non power sensitive embedded parts it makes a lot of sense - at least to the point that the pricing could be worked out with customers that want long term high volume commitments.
That is far, far worse. Let’s make sweeping generalizations about the stupidity of all ________ people. Fill in the blank on your favorite enemy.
I'm not 100% sure I understand your point, but I take it to mean that you're saying that Facebook's role is just an excuse to ban content I (or some groups) don't like?

If there was a true marketplace of ideas, everyone would have an equal playing field to build their own audiences, sway people to their positions, debate and discuss. But that's not how facebook works - engagement drives eyeballs, eyeballs drive revenue, and so Facebook optimizes for engagement, which itself happens to optimize for the most extreme and dramatic and horrifying positions. "Were the COVID vaccines hurried through approvals too fast?" doesn't drive as much engagement as "Covid vaccines are killing thousands, data shows".
David Baker's group (author of the RoseTTAFold paper out today in science) has multiple exciting examples of de novo design of proteins.

For example, see [1] or [2], and [2] was spun off into a company (Neoleukin Therapeutics).

[1] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6531/eabc8182
[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0830-7
> Aimhacking is still fully possible on Stadia.

That's why I specifically quoted the part about the server being able to specify what is rendered client-side - this part is possible via game streaming.

> So aimhacks will always be viable, regardless of how little the client is trusted.

Fully agreed. In the end, the platform can only do pattern detection, but this is really, really hard to do. LAN tournaments where the hardware is fully controlled is really the only option where one can be reasonably sure that no cheating is going on, but it has happened even in these circumstances.
PS3 allowed other OSes like Linux or BSD. It was eventually scrapped due to no market demand for it.
> Complaining about people who do follow such rules to make money is misplacing your ire.

I'm not sure if I understand what you are saying. Am I not supposed to point out that the politicians who are supposed to represent the people are too often influenced by those with more money?
Do they exist? I thought there was an independence theorem for the specific values of almost all busy beaver numbers.
> you go on to contradict yourself

Not at all. Please read more carefully.

> crypto

Can be productive. After all, people find many uses for it.

But I think I'll check out of this. Seems to me you're just being argumentative. I'll leave you with the last word.
Wikipedia was never intended to be a be an arbitrator of truth. It is an encyclopedia that anyone can edit and it's only purpose is to serve as a repository for information on many subjects or on many aspects of one subject.

Opinions aside, it does an excellent job of that.
It's easier to spread information, therefore the ability to spread information should be restricted?
Yes custom investment types! Up in Canada I have access to a registered retirement fund (tax-deferred, like a 401k but not as closely tied to employer) and a tax-free savings account (for untaxed growth), and I couldn’t figure out how to model monthly contributions to both out of a single salary stream.

Being able to fund both (and then in retirement, set a max annual withdrawal from the tax-deferred account before withdrawing from the tax-free) is to me an important bit of modelling that I couldn’t figure out how to get sorted in 15-20 minutes.
Bingo, the kernel updates through the life of the fedora release. Then it stops. The life of a console is 8+ years. This needs to be supported for that long. Valve don't want to do multiple dist-upgrades over that time. They just want roll
> Except you often need to rewrite them, so now you've got two places (per 'unit') where you could have introduced a bug.

That's not a bad thing, though. DRY might be fine for your main implementation, but redundancy is a time-tested way of catching errors (a.k.a. "double checking").
Not an expert, but for me it looks more like confirmation bias contaminating meta-analysis. Covid-19 has a lethality around 2%, so a huge fraction of infected people can be cured using any placebo. This very low lethality makes data with a bigger number of deaths very easily skewed or noisy.

So, it is very hard to derive any efficacy data except in cases where the improvement is significant, like in the cases of current vaccines.

If a placebo reduces lethality from 2% to 1% that may sound like a 50% reduction, but actually it is just a 1% improvement. This can only be ruled out with higher p-values which demand bigger samples.

There are hundreds of teams in the world right now trying many different drugs to treat Covid-19. It possible to use a meta analysis approach and carefully select works where statistics were favorable by mere chance. This is rare, but considering the enormous number of works, it is possible to find them.

A more trustworthy meta analysis can be derived if peer-reviewed published papers are also chosen randomly. But of course, such meta analysis will also be biased by the kinds of papers that are likely to be published after peer review.
Yes, but look at the example in the blog post of this thread- "stat" depends on "file", "file" depends on "path". You can call defer in any order in your code, the language syntactically doesn't enforce you to call defer right after resource acquisition. "try-with-resources" in Java (or "using" in c#) will always call "finalizers" in order opposite to how resources where created. Following the syntax I inveted above, for someone used to Java it would be easier to read than to think how defers are called:

try std.fmt.allocPrint(allocator, "problems/{}", .{ id }) |path| : allocator.free(path) {
try std.fs.cwd().openFile(path, .{}) |file| : file.close() {
try file.stat() |stat| {
try allocator.alloc(u8, stat.size) |contents| : allocator.free(contents) {
// do something with 'contents'
}
}
}
}

In Zig you can write this, and mess everything up:

const path = try std.fmt.allocPrint(allocator, "problems/{}", .{ id });
var file = try std.fs.cwd().openFile(path, .{});
const stat = try file.stat();
var contents = try allocator.alloc(u8, stat.size);
defer allocator.free(contents);
defer file.close();
defer allocator.free(path);
Definition of "smartness" is subjective though, isn't it? If a person is a brilliant scientist, engineer or whatever, but he makes incredibly stupid decisions in other areas of his life, is he still smart? Not in my book, which is why from my perspective the number of actually smart people is vanishingly small.
No minimum-wage worker deserves a two-bedroom apartment, maybe one-bedroom but a studio, yes.

Of course, this is a continuation of a historical trend to this day.
I'm having trouble connecting:

> I really can't stand talking to people who frame everything in terms of how it makes them feel or other emotional responses.

With:

> don't try to get what you want by guilt-tripping

Why do you think an expression of emotion is tied to guilt-tripping. When someone tells you "I'm really annoyed at my boss for giving me last minute work", who is being guilt-tripped?
Ah, I understand now. My understanding is that with zig and go, one does not DRY deferring, it's just a part of the idiom trade-offs between verbosity and explicitness.

So if bar, baz, quux aren't intrinsically related as a unit and might be mixed and matched arbitrarily, you just forego the whole ceremony and call each thing or the respective mock individually (the argument being that if you're making multiple different permutations, you're not repeating yourself per se; e.g. mocks don't need to be cleaned up in the first place)

There's also something to be said about tests needing several arbitrary mocks. Normally, I'd consider that a smell. I've actually seen the pattern of making a kitchen sink foo for scenarios like that, but with nils/noops for unused things (can't say I like that approach though).
I still have an account!
I’m not sure how this works I know some school systems in other states were just openly passing kids for doing nothing during Covid
The government is at its most efficient when its main purpose cutting checks. DARPA, Operation Warp Speed, Social Security, countless grants to scientists. Try to have the government actually achieve things directly and you get the Space Shuttle.
Kinda makes me wonder what an equivalent save-file quine would be. A multi-game playthrough where you always finish with the same score, use the previous save to start the next game, and finally produce the original save-file by completing the last game and converting back to the first?