skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't know if you and I would even be able to find data from the Mexican program to see this precipitous drop, but health ministers from Mexico's federal government have appeared on Mexican TV and said pretty much what Kory is saying [0].

Government officials will say all kinds of things that make them look good. Numbers are falling? Great, it was because of lockdowns/vaccines/medication and it was definitely a result of our decisions! Numbers are rising? Oh well, we did what we could, it would've been far worse without whatever we did!

Then, you compare the two countries and see that fatalities just rise and fall in tandem, even though measures have been quite different. What does this tell me? People are fooling themselves.

> Yes, I would like to see larger sample sizes, but I'm also aware that being able to replicate another researcher's finding is a feat in and of itself in science.

What about the studies that failed to replicate, like the one where Ivermectin causes a 33% increase in deaths? Of course that study isn't that strong either, but it's on the stronger side relative to the mass of very weak studies.

> It seems more logical to me that they should be willing to embrace any solution to the problem, or multiple solutions.

I don't disagree, but I think you're overselling Ivermectin as a solution. To be fair, I'm also skeptical about the efficacy of vaccines, particularly in those who need it the most. I don't think there is a solution. I think the time has come to stop collectivist measures and let people decide for themselves whether they want to "protect" themselves with a vaccine, Ivermectin or garlic. I'm going with garlic, not because I believe it to be effective at all, but because I like the taste and believe it to have the best risk/reward profile for myself, based on the data that I have seen, as well as the data I have not seen.
Generally no
> This one could apply to our relationship with China maybe?

This is absolutely nothing like the situation with China, which is definitely NOT an ally of the west.

Shortly after assuming his position as President of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping disseminated a secret internal paper with his most important views and plans, including the 7 biggest threats to China in his eyes. In 2013, this "document number 9" was leaked. Among the 7 threats were democracy, human rights, and independent media.

Seriously, China does not just have a different culture with slightly different ideas. They view our most fundamental values as their biggest threats.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/world/asia/chinas-new-lea...

Edit: As pointed out by several commenters, my remarks refer to the Chinese Communist Party, not to the Chinese people.
There is also lfe [1] which is a lisp for the BEAM VM

[1] https://lfe.io/
Politicians are weird. When it comes to peaceful activity they are going to turn over every single penny When it comes to war they do the exact opposite. The broken window fallacy is therefore not an answer to broken capitalism but rather broken politics.

It's probably because laws accumulate and don't expire. Getting rid of counterproductive laws is an action. Revolution is just an instantaneous loss of power. Maybe we should have a system with a continuous loss of power, the same way we have a money system with a continuous loss of purchasing power to prevent an abrupt loss of purchasing power.
To be clear, I don't necessarily agree with isaacremuant.

Obscenity laws are kind of different, since it's perfectly possible to add or remove obscenities from an utterance without substantially affecting the message. I'm not saying I agree with such laws, just stating the facts. What are examples where specific types of messages were banned? E.g. hate speech laws, blasphemy laws, lese majeste laws, etc. In Western democracies, the only examples that come to mind are recent.

>People agree with censorship if it's in in agreement with their belief.

Agreed, generally speaking.

Geez, what did I say that was so disagreeable? This is why I don't have a permanent account here. Whatever.
Going to a university is a waste of time. I know a few software contractors making £100k+ in the UK and they don't have any formal education.
I believe most people have read the fine print. They just don’t believe or understand the limitations, in the light of the amazing things it can already do. They understand the potential consequences, but they naively believe that anything bad will happen to someone else.

By way of example, the causes to most industrial accidents are well known in advance, and workers are trained to avoid them by using proper procedures or safety equipment. Yet these same accidents still occur with regularity. Why? Because some people will be too lazy/ignorant/stupid to follow directions. You can’t make anything foolproof, because the universe will simply evolve a bigger fool.

Don’t blame the car. Blame the idiots behind the wheel that do the stupid things. They are the problem here.
How disappointing. It seems the post was about his journey from indoctrinated hatred to coming go see that we are all the same... and Google's response is "you used to have views we don't approve of so you're fired". It doesn't matter that he uses that past as a way to show that there is hope to get past the deep hatred between many groups in the middle east.

It is sad how little grace (and perhaps reading comprehension) we have. How does this culture change?
How did you decide that he meant conservatives == nasty, bad people?
There are also fewer blue cones in the retina, so we have lower resolution in blue.
Spoken like a true American who only heard about those places from TV shows, movies, and mass media "coverage"...

"media and education brainwashing" LOL
Mig Pilot
It was a statistical observation. The people who phrase it the way the parent did, usually tend to be on a specific side.

(The other side has its tell-signs as well).
I had a friend who was wanting to get a master's degree in poetry, and it cost about 45k a year, back in early 2000s. I strongly advised against it, my friend did not take well to my advice. Hope it all turned out well.

I have no problem with people getting degrees in the arts. My spouse has a Master's in fine arts, from a university in Europe. But she didn't acquire any debt from that degree, while I did in the US with my CS Master's.

But living with enormous debt--debt that cannot be discharged in bankruptcy (in the US)--is such a burden, and the degree itself may really not offer that much in terms of job prospects (though we shouldn't discount the value of humanities degrees--turns out they often do pretty well in life).

It is hard to see why a poetry program should cost so much.
FTA:

> For colleges and universities, master’s degrees have essentially become an enormous moneymaking scheme, wherein the line between for-profit and nonprofit education has been utterly blurred. There are, of course, good programs as well as bad ones, but when you scope out, there is clearly a systemic problem.

Cool. Now do the higher education system as a whole.
People think I’m crazy but my office is lined with a wall of 4x6” notecard filing cabinets. All cards linked with individual branched id’s (I’d dare call it that term starting with a Z but the explanation of such term has been warped and morphed into something it is not. Which is why I dare not mention it. All but one first-page google result explains it wrong).

While I applaud the creator of this app, I’ve found the analog way most effective and fulfilling. I find it develops my brain instead of developing something or someone else.

I opt for the hard way. The slow way. Paper and pen and, a lot of whiteout rollers.
If you have a disfunctional police force that may be the case, but when I cold shoulder my local pc (who I've spoken to a couple of times at parish council meetings about speeding issues in the village), that's clearly going to be increasing suspicions on me.

Your claim "not directly beneficial to you" is also odd. Not talking to the police and thus not finding out there's a murderer around?

Maybe it's different in third world countries where the police don't care about the public and are just a law to themselves, that's certainly not the case where I live.
Amazing read, to get a glimpse of 'gripes' of Americans back in the day. Reminds me of the whole "Freedom Fries' fiasco. Times may change. Some gripes stay.
Increasingly the answer is no.

Still though they have the best selection on certain things and a generous return policy.
Very interesting to know there was a term for that already.

Slight anecdote, I gave a few geometry lessons to a teen. And witnessing his brain operate was quite staggering. Teen operate at high frequency low depth it seems. He didn't want to grasp the rule or symmetry but ran in many intuitions very rapidly (honestly my brain froze at his pace of change, so vibrant) only to feel defeated or confused. Made me think adult and kids really need different approaches. Our emotions facing a new topic are so different.
Here's my attempt at a tldr.

1. The laws of physics at the time scales, space scales, and energies of the human brain are "known" and we have deep reasons to believe that more will not be discovered. He spends a great deal of space explaining and arguing that the credence that physics is "complete" in this regime should be very, very high.

2. Given the current laws of physics, there is no place or room for non-physicalist explanations of consciousness (or, I suppose, for other dualist ideas like a soul) because there is no mechanism for them to effect change in the physical world.

3. Anyone who wants a non-physicalist approach to consciousness must either claim they can violate the laws of physics in our brains, or cannot affect the physical world.
I call this thermodynamic truth.

And while it is the sole arbiter of truth, the moment something occurs that truth starts decaying via entropy. Photons fly away at light speed never to be seen by us again. The energy that remains starts mixing in ways that cannot be reversed. You quickly lead to scenarios where more than one initial state could lead to the current state we can measure.

And worse we can never exist in a system where we capture and keep this information. You either alter the 'experiment' by measuring it, aka chaos theory. Or, you bring about the premature heat death of the universe.
Europe is generally 3 for Bachelors + 2 for Masters.
Fantastic read!

Via the French Wikipedia page about this booklet [0], I learned that the probable author is Leo Rosten, author of “The Joys of Yiddish” [1]..!

That makes sense as “Joys” is an incredibly funny and witty read on the interplays between Yiddish and English in the US. Much recommended

From Rosten’s Wikipedia page [2]:

—

In his book, The Joys of Yiddish, he defines the word chutzpah as "that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan."

—-

[0] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nos_amis_les_Français

(Funnily, the booklet’s title was translated to “Our friends the French”)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joys_of_Yiddish

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Rosten
This paper reminds me of one of the "wow" moments I had when first studying neuroscience: a professor passed on the realization that everything in the universe we can observe and understand must have a neurobiological representation. Reality as we experience it is in fact always represented in brain activity.
I don't know much about philosophy, but as far as I know "conceivabel therefore possible" was an argument Anselm von Canterbury used.
My masters degree in Computer Science was incredibly educating and opened many career doors for me.

It filled in a lot of gaps that my undergraduate education left, and significantly raised my profile amongst recruiters.

CS might be the exception to the rule about Masters degrees though.
Is that recognized socially ? As in opening a business after passes these classes.
Science needs smart skeptics. from the geocentrist view, you are the skeptic. And from your point of view they are the skeptic.

Science doesn’t really say anything about where the center of the universe is. Surely the geocentrists don’t think earth is bigger than the sun or even other stars anymore.
Issac Newton Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms
One would hope that one's salary would depend on one's expected productivity, which an education should increase.

Lowered standards and devalued degrees is probably a thing though.
Yeah. Good to know. It's not worth my health or my mental health.

Better to work for the boring stuff.
ReSharper for C# discourages nesting and favours early returns instead. Having personally had the displeasure of working with code that does the opposite, I have to agree that it's the better option.
Question 78: A 73% casualty rate for the French in WWI seemed bonkers to me at first glance, but it probably makes sense for the kind of war it was

Ref: https://www.facinghistory.org/weimar-republic-fragility-demo...
Yes NP probably bigger than P
I kind of wonder why it's always acceptable to have general critics about the Frenchs, but take exactly the same discours and replace it replace it with Jews or Blacks, and sundenly, it becomes completely racist and unacceptable.
And in some countries it's more common to do 5 years straight to Masters (for example it was the system in Poland when I graduated but it became more popular to do 3+2 since then).

At any rate - I wouldn't say it's a scam in countries with free university education. It's actually cheap to teach people and it improves the society. Win-win.

University system in US is a scam for the same reason that healthcare system in US is a scam - because it has bad incentives and no taxpayers control over them.
> Hah. The first encounters between the French and the US in WW II were hostile: The US landings in Morocco against French resistance.

I feel this statement grossly misrepresents history. French north Africa was controlled by Vichy France, which was Nazi Germany's puppet regime and did not represented french sentiment or opinion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Torch
That said about federal student loans, it is a low interest unsecured type of debt. At a bank an unsecured loan is at least 11-16% depending on the amount.

So if you as a student do have some of that debt leftover, it is much smarter to use that toward a car down payment or a deposit on an apartment. I feel like most college kids don't have even the slightest grasp on budgeting and how all transactions affect the accounting equation honestly.
I'm a David Lynch fan, and a practitioner of meditation, but the connections between Transcendental Meditation and Physics are pseudoscience.
The power of personality, marketing, and propaganda can do that to people. Really.
>There are people that drink what the study says to drink, every day?

Not sure, honestly. They seem to pull this data from a WHO database on health statistics [0]. In stricter terms, you are asking if their estimate of what people drink reflects what they really drink in real life. That is, is the estimate biased? I would expect it to be biased in this case.

I am not sure how much it really matters unless you are in charge of large sums of money for public health policy. The best evidence we have suggests alcohol does increase the risk of cancer. Faulty population level alcohol consumption data is not being used for that observation, so it won't matter. Although it would impact the quality of this particular paper.

"Controlled" doesn't appear in the original paper so not sure what you mean there.

0. https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/global-information-...
The dudes got the feel! Not to mention that they are real bikers, too. The video of the band performing "Legacy":

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_I8O37H745M
Can you elaborate why you don't need a house? Do you prefer to rent?
Most US government publications are are public domain: https://www.copyrightlaws.com/copyright-laws-in-u-s-governme...

But determining the copyright status of anything old is really much harder than it should be.
FakeSpot Removed from App Store
Oh it most likely did jump from animals to humans. Lab outbreak theory does not refer to the virus being artificial, but on that the jump occurred inside the lab due to bad measures and then leaked outside.
The implementation i am using works best with several <30 second clips. I've tested it by cutting up 20 minute interviews to only have the person i care about, and it seems to be about the same as a half dozen 15 second clips.
Large discussion ongoing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27863535
Agreed, its important to note that these modern day, illiberals couch a lot of their phraseology in sophomoric nuance.

"XXXX statement is misinformation, because it lacks context"
"XXXX statement is misinformation, because it is still up for debate"
"XXXX statement is misinformation, because it is offensive to class YYYY"
"XXXX statement is misinformation, because it is unfair to person ZZZZ"

These are logical fallacies presented as civility. Applying them uniformly would me desperately wrong. Having double standards, and applying them based on partisan bias is nothing short of evil.

Glenn Greenwald said it best. If you are okay with these practices, you are a political authoritarian. No other information is needed to determine this about you.
> they seem to be advocating for some sort of dualism.

This paper is doing the opposite. It's arguing that other papers/ideas advocating dualism are going the wrong way and purely physicalist explanations are the best path forward.
Now that we know what you want, what do you really want?
https://github.com/OvermindDL1/protocol_ex gives you protocols with full pattern matching.
Like many things from companies this size, clear legality has little bearing on their plans.

Uber’s business model has been to cheat the system since day one, sidestepping the established laws covering commercial taxi and transportation services. They had enough time to establish their turf and revenues to fund their needed war chest, when they finally got sued by assorted municipality and governments. Then they drag things through the courts for as long as they can, lengthening their runway.

I would bet they are planning a similar strategy here. They likely have already done the math to show that it will be profitable any which way the wind blows.

At their scale of capitalization, legality is either entirely irrelevant or can be bought as a minor cost of doing business.
Yes we will. Planet killer sized asteroids are the easiest to detect and track and are also the least common. City killers are harder: there is a chance we won't one of those coming and there are many more of them out there.

Asteroids that hit Earth are in near-Earth orbits. For a first intercept event the odds of an asteroid just happening to hit an Earth sized target as opposed to, say, a 1000x Earth sized "near miss" target is incredibly unlikely. We get a few near-miss events of a given asteroid before an impact happens.
Do you have a post of this? Last I look BLM, mistakenly, believes the protests are about the embargo. I haven't seen anything from them supporting or criticizing the regime.
Russia did pay a massive cost for WW2, but they also paid a high cost due to: 1) their attempt to placate the Nazi’s with their non-aggression pact and attempt to avoid war (which they weren’t that prepared for), 2) the Great Purge in the late 30’s where they executed and imprisoned a massive number of experience officers, which they had to replace, 3) their tactics (no retreat) which resulted in massive encirclements and POWs who were starved to death.

Eventually the USSR learned and with support of the UK and US in terms of materiel turned into a formidable fighting force. But a decent amount of their casualties were somewhat self-imposed.
No, it’s politically-motivated nonsense with no basis in fact or law whatsoever. You can read the amended complaint with all of the baseless allegations - it’s linked in the PDF. It’s poorly written, contains very little substance, and even fewer alleged facts. (Alleged facts don’t even have to be demonstrably true to be included in a complaint, you just have to have a reasonable basis for believing they’re likely true and could be proven. That is a very low bar!)

The filing parties aren’t even represented by an election lawyer but a personal injury lawyer.
The continent is generally 3+2. In the UK it's generally 3 + 1.

Eg I got a Master's 4 years after high school in the UK.
Some people like to pay for promises. It generates data their egos can point to and say, "Because I paid, it must've been worth it!"
Does performance matter considering Elixir is already very slow in per-thread performance?
Everything yeilds from one. All creation grows from this field that science is finally proving exists. I link to this clip because David explains it better than I could, but it's not just TM.
Irrespective if it's a random thing, it still gives valuable insight into possibilities and crowd psychology.
Is it possible to have correct information (~ "misinformation") that is intended to or does mislead ("misleading information"). Your answer: ___

No need to answer this question. The technodemocratic complex has already answered it. It's tawdry, but the hunter biden laptop was "misinformation", because it was intended to mislead people away from Biden.

Doesn't matter that it was correct, the evidence was good, and it was published by major newspapers. The technical elite agreed with the political elite, and it was struck from the internet.

Amazingly, when it was raised at the presidential debate, real-time polling suggested that the majority of the populace had no idea what was being talked about. The suppression was effective.

We live in dangerous times.
If something is big enough to wipe us out, you WILL notice it a few decades ahead. The bigger asteroids are, the easier they are to detect.
Fullstaq Ruby: Ruby, optimized for production
Yes

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2515799/microsoft-conf...
You don't need a degree to open a business. And mostly it's for learning things for your own satisfaction, which I sense is what you mean?
But is there infinite regress -- does it have a representation of itself representing itself.

I find a more prosaic version of this question quite interesting too. If you can feel a touch/heat anywhere on or in your body its represented in the brain somehow, somewhere. For a moment (i) imagine the brain is sensitive to touch (it isn't because lack of 'pain' receptors) (ii) that the representation of a sensitive part of our body is localized in the brain rather than distributed.

What this gives us is a mapping from the entire body (that includes the brain) into itself. Now, if there is a fixed point of this mapping, that fixed point is aware of itself.

Is the brain insensitive to touch because its not biologically/physically possible for a localized region of space not to be aware of itself ?

EDIT: Downvote ! That was rather unexpected.
I think that was the case when Universities offered only 5year Master's degree programs but it changed after the Bologna process and you have Bachelor's 3years (3.5 for engineering) + 2years (1.5 eng) Master's.

Bachelor's degree is often enough for a starter job in industry and I don't think it matters that much if it's Master's or Bachelor's even later in your career (at least in software dev), PhD is definitely regarded much higher
What's considered "a different race" has changed over the years and the classifications we have today is mostly along social and political boundaries. Before WWII, Polish natives were often seen as of a different race, today we would consider them Caucasian.

Note how the remaining big race classifications recognized by the US Census are divided up mostly based around areas with which we still have some political tension or heavy political history: Asian, Middle-Eastern European, Latin American and African, and Native American and Native Alaskan, and Hawaiian.