skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But what if they're never over?

They’re over. The only people clinging to them are either playing political games, or are completely uninformed about the scientific evidence (and yes, I include the CDC and LA county’s public health authorities in those groups).

Masks were maybe slightly better than nothing when we didn’t have vaccines. They are utterly pointless now. There is zero evidence that they have any marginal benefit in a vaccinated population. This stuff has risen to the level of superstition, and like any superstition, there will be adherents who refuse to let go. That’s fine, but they’re not reflecting science or rational thinking. They are marginal.

Those who are scared of the virus should get vaccinated. Those who are not can do whatever they like, but their choices do not affect me, and they don’t affect you.
Ideally, data is encrypted at the CPU (or coprocessor or TPU chip) and sent to the drive encrypted. The drive never gets the key, its only job is to store encrypted blocks correctly. In the TPU case, the TPU chip controls decryption and the key never leaves the specialized, tamper-resistant chip; wiping means sending a command to the TPU to rotate keys, thus instantly destroying any access to the data.
I just got a quote for a 15kW system at 1.48/W installed through project solar, and I still can't get the numbers to work out for me. I am west of the Cascades, though. Near Portland. It seems like something you have to do for some other reason than ROI. Like because it's fun.

I'm considering still doing something, but making it more hobby-level, maybe a 5k ground mount DIY so I'm not throwing so much at a toy.
They should clearly read a book about CSS, this is horrible on mobile.
> companies exist where the police literally buys license plate location data and nobody knows anything about what data they collect

The problem here isn't that the police aren't collecting such data themselves but rather that private companies are still allowed to. You're pointing to a massive loophole in the current regulations in order to argue against having any regulation at all. Instead, the loophole should be closed - I have no interest in living in a glass house dystopia.
I don’t disagree with any of this. There is clearly a deep connection between the brain and the conscious mind. One’s consciousness is in some way limited by one’s perception, and one’s perception is directly a product of one’s neural system. The question is, where do the boundaries lie between the self, and the perception in which the self participates. Obviously, I find this entire area fascinating.
With the US level of local veto points its going to be impossible for us to ever building housing or power anywhere.

Because the system defers to property owners - it gives way too much power to the few who would see some loss compared to the masses who would gain.

I thought this recent Ezra Klein podcast on the issue of local control was great: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/23/podcasts/transcript-ezra-...
You have to understand the mindset of Chinese.

Although a few decades into the industrial society and with the purge of traditional mindsets during the Cultural Revolution, they are not easy to be removed.

The old saying is 万般只有读书高, which basically translates to "Read books and pass your exams and you are going to have a bright future". This reflects the fact that ancient Chinese needed to pass some state exams to be selected as officials. In ancient Chinese (and today still in some parts of China), being "in the bureaucratic system" is the best thing.

Practically skills were looked down (I actually think it was a lot better back in the 50s~80s when people with practical skills were more or less not looked down, but things started to come back in recent decades), Merchants were looked down (but nowadays they enjoy higher status thanks to Capitalism). As a matter of fact, schools that teach practical skills (技校) are looked down and it's a lot easier to get into than the universities.

It's definitely not black and white nowadays (after all we went through a few revolutions in the last century), but the mindset is still there IMHO. It's just buried deep. I'd actually argue that the same mindset can be found in American parents too (Do you want to do X in the future like BoB?)

You are 100% right about just addressing the symptom and that's the what Humphreys do best.
Starlink’s broadband satellites nearly in position
Smashing the shit out of a phone to prove a point is a horrible example to set as a parent.
I just wish more people and especially companies would join this movement to leave.

I hate that the city I live in has almost zero online presence. If I want to sell something, everyone says 'use FB market.'
As someone who refuses to, I have a ton of stuff waiting for the yearly yard sale.

The neighborhood I live in also only posts updates to FB. So cue the monthly surprise(garbage not picked up, road repaving, etc) and never knowing about it in advance.

And don't get me started on companies with zero website and only some FB page.

I know it's 'free', and at this point it feels petty, but I'm literally holding out until the end.
Twitter is a dumber system with a more focused user base, so it’s more what you make it.

Facebook has everyone and is designed to drive engagement. It’s harder to prune your feed and it’s easier for people who need to STFU to speak.
I have no aversion to government handouts. I do, however, have a huge aversion to dragnet surveillance and the resultant systematic elimination of privacy. Police collection of license plate data and California's use of ID.me both seem like clear examples of enabling the latter.
Christ, talk about taking the comments out of context. They were saying that strictly forbidding your child access would just make them do an end-run around their parents and use it behind their backs. If you think a no-tolerance rule for something as pervasive as social media is going to yield some unspoiled angel of a child, you're in for a rude awakening.

Edit: it's also completely unrelated to the comment you responded to, which was talking about one social media giant going out of favor for another. You conflated it with "all social media" just to bring your drama into another post (which it looks like you've done elsewhere too).

Sorry if the truth hurts, I'm just, as your profile states, "confronting you with radical honesty."
The description of “students joining Lying Flat Movement” sounds very like symptoms of burnout so I think it is fully related.
This is exactly the kind of thing that is often done. Some software will just treat all months as having 30 days because it simplifies logic massively and doesn't cause that much of an issue.
Yeah that’s why new apartments will front load offers with 1-3 months free rent
It's a terrible what the western government will do to it's own people for power and control.
I'm going to ramble a bit, interesting conversation...

> Bottom up democracy is one thing, but if people can opt-out of the results of that democratic process then things can fall apart, and an inability to opt out goes against anarchist principals?

> Does everyone in a Canton agree? If not, it's rules are still imposed unwillingly on some.

What exactly falls apart? If half the people want to go left, and the other half right, is there something wrong letting them each do their own different thing? Is it so important to be united at scale that people should be forced into something they don't want to do?

It is my understanding that when power originates with the people then municipalities, cantons/states, and federal governments only are invested with powers if enough people in those structures agree. Ideally consensus - nobody vehemently opposed. Otherwise the smaller groups retain their independence. Along these lines the Swiss have the ability to repeal laws via petition/referendum. Like you said before, societies need to figure out for themselves the details of how they handle these things.

The Swiss legislate their social programs at the canton level, each an average size of .3 million people. If you have a problem you can knock on the door of your representative, each answering to a couple thousand people. You might even know that person already.

Compare that to the U.S. where most social programs are legislated at the federal level, involving 330 million people, one representative per 500k+ people. Look at the disaster that is health care in this country, written by industry lobbyists, overriding several new and interesting state plans, passed just barely by one senator who died before the bill was finished, almost repealed by the same margin several years later, still fought over and still a mess.

I don't understand why many in the U.S. think we have to do things at the federal level when the Swiss do the same things in cantons that are the size of U.S. counties or mid-size cities.

There are things the Swiss do at a federal level, like foreign affairs, national highways, nuclear power, etc. I don't know how flexible they are, but if a canton didn't want to participate wouldn't it make sense that the non-participating canton doesn't get the benefits - no federal defence, no highway, or none of the nuclear energy? Is that necessarily a problem? But they agree these are things worth cooperating on, and they do.

David Graeber (democracy/anarchy) and Lepold Khor (bigness problems) influenced my thinking on a lot of this.
>sweet-jeepers-boy-howdy it is a blood-curdling fart in the elevator of existence

If you just read the HN comments and not the article... this is a taste of what you're missing out on.
> There's nothing like ‘Jeopardy!’ in the cultural consciousness. It's not that I'm trying to put it on the same level, but I liken it to Barack Obama being elected president in the United States in 2008. I personally never thought I would see that happen in my lifetime. Did his election mean that we were in a post-racial America? Obviously not at all. But it was an important step. Every time we reach that milestone of a first, it does say something about us. It also tells us something that we continue to have these moments of firsts.... that white is the normative default. The reason that white is the default is the conversation that we are trying to have in this country now, that there’s so much resistance to.

I’m glad he said this. It’s sad to see some politicians hell-bent on preventing this conversation.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/martin-luther-king-jr-kkk-cut-texa...
> This is no accident.

That's the thing: no big, complex system ever works well by accident. It all comes down to the goals, the vision, and having someone at the top who can see they get met without compromising. Often this does happen, but the goals are "save money" or "increase throughput", which are not human-friendly metrics. If the goal isn't "make the airport dead easy for grandma", then it will probably be difficult for her. In other words, we have to care about the right things, or things in general will just end up crappy.
At 37:00 of the video below, Tim Dodd concludes that SpaceX's Starship will emit 1.79 metric tons of CO2 per passenger, while a 737 will emit .33 tons. SpaceX wants to generate Starship's methane from the atmosphere, so it could be zero

I found Tim's video to be more informative than the Conversation article

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4VHfmiwuv4
Perhaps someone should be FOIAing agreements between state unemployment departments and ID.me, and perhaps even the Veterans Administration, the Social Security Administration, and other federal agencies (mentioned in the posted article) who are leveraging a private firm for identity proofing services using facial recognition.

Fraud should be prevented, for sure! But a private corporation black box governing access to social safety nets is not to be tolerated.
I love the space trilogy.
Out of the silent planet helped me think of what the “heavens” are.
I’d definitely recommend them, though I love thinking of t he symbolic nature of things.
From your article:

> The US Department of Labor Inspector General Office in late March estimated that at least $89 billion of the estimated $896 billion in federal unemployment program funds could be paid improperly, with a significant portion attributable to fraud. This is based on a historic improper payment rate of at least 10%.

This is lazy BS from the other side; they know for a fact that the rate of fraud is going to be higher than it was pre-COVID. We know how much has been paid out and the only question is what the fraud rate is.

I agree that you have to be skeptical given that id.me is selling a product, and to be honest, I only put two-and-two together after making my comment and revisiting the axios article since I first came across it. That being said, given how many states are using id.me, they have unique visibility into the problem and I don't think it's fair to write them off as entirely untrustworthy.

tl;dr: The number is probably between $100B and $400B. It's hundreds of billions of dollars either way.
Tweezers of sound can pick objects up without physical contact
Yes, iron ore is mined in massive quantities in Western Australia at a cost in the order of $100 per ton.
https://www.gingrapp.com/
There are lots of good answers there to the same question that essentially say the same thing as you, but minus telling your kids to fuck off and that you are the boss and smashing the phone. I tend to agree with them, as well as the people who replied to you saying that that’s not a very good parenting style. You’ll likely alienate your children and not teach them anything, except perhaps that they need to respond unquestioningly to authority or they will be met with violence.

I suspect that is more why you were downvoted, but not really sure why you want to re-litigate it here in the first place.
It wasn't just "we don't accept the validity" for the Wakefield paper, it was that the paper was retracted for fraud and conflict of interest.
How is that autonomy? I have to wake up at 6am every single morning and make milk and change diapers. I have to take a crap with the door open. I have to think a day in advance if I can take a shower.

If I'm not doing one of those things I'm working, fixing something around the house, cooking, or running an errand. What I don't have is the privilege to do anything aside from what must be done.

Don't get me wrong, I love having a family but that's kind of my point: autonomy isn't worth a damn to me.
This is made all the worse by the embarrassing bugs in Safari. Apple broke IndexedDB in the current stable Safari and isn't in any rush to fix it (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27509206). Safari updates are so infrequent that developers will have to include workarounds to this issue for years.

It's been fixed on master for over a month, but it hasn't been included in any of the Safari releases that have come out since then. When someone asked the Webkit engineers when we can expect a fix, their response was "Apple does not comment on future releases." https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226547

If I asked you to imagine what you could do to sabotage the web, it would not look very different than what Apple is currently doing. Add "support" for modern web features but then actually subtly (or not so subtly in this case) break them on a regular cadence. To be clear, I don't think the Webkit team is doing this on purpose, but the effects on the web are still the same.
> You still need an accurate clock even if you can use a view of the sky, right?

Yup. In the 18th century figuring out a way to get accurate enough time at sea to allow accurate navigation was one of the most pressing problems for the various countries trying to establish themselves as major players in the New World.

Whichever country figured it out first would gain a significant military and economic advantage for as long as they could keep it secret.

An excellent book about this is "Longitude" by Dava Sobel [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_(book)
A coworker once insisted on fondling discarded drives with extremely strong magnets, then taking a power sander to the magnetized part. I wasn't sure if this was overkill or not. Is there any wisdom in this?
When did medical science become a plebian democracy? I don't expect to be consulted about the material they make the seat-belt in my car out of. It's politicised because calling it anti-science would bruise some egos. This is not a political disagreement, this is an arbitrary anti-science conspiracy put forward by anti-vaxxers. The only reason it's "political" is because all the people who are questioning science just happened to vote for the same president.

And if you think the entire system is broken and needs pulling down, now is quite possibly the worst time in the history of humanity to do so.
I read the article. I struggled to figure out what is smart about that stream...
One ton of shit is not equivalent in any sense to a single ounce of ice cream.
Nuclear Thermal Rocket (NTR) engines for one
Some marketers think like "hackers", that is, "growth hackers".

Marketing usually encourage you to be a consumer instead of a maker, unless they are selling something like 3-d printers or other stuff for makers.
Its been like this for half of a decade, at least.

Surprise!
Actually, even IE3 on Windows 95 supports the OLE embedding method, and you can build a "framed web view" browser.
Fraud is a subset of that 10%, it could 10% of the total improper payment rate aka 1% of the total.

Assuming it’s higher with covid seems without justification is just an assumption. If anything it might be lower if a higher percentage of people applied for unemployment without quickly finding a new job.
The US does this at the federal level, for example when applying for a passport. For state related matters the local DMV (goes by DoL in some states) does this. The oddity to me is how difficult it seems to be proving for many (most?) states to link their unemployment payouts back to their own driver's license databases.

I suppose the issue is that not everyone who collects unemployment necessarily has an ID card, and that someone with an ID card doesn't necessarily have a current mailing address (someone might be homeless or couch surfing for example). It seems like a fairly straightforward solution would be to have those people physically come in to a local licensing office.

But that would introduce accessibility issues for many (the most disadvantaged would be the most inconvenienced), hence facial recognition and video chats, but apparently the state couldn't be bothered to build out it's own system for that?

A much better solution would be to just put PKI chips into ID cards. US passports, the US DoD, many other countries, and the vast majority of credit cards have this at this point. Why not state issued photo IDs? I have no idea.

Oh yeah, and most states send unemployment electronically to a bank account. So it seems like you could just require the account to be with a bank that operates in the US and thus already complies with our rather extensive KYC laws. I have no idea why the banks themselves couldn't be used to vet their customers here.

On the whole I'm completely unimpressed.
I'd rather suffer the late import with absolutes than wrestle with relative imports
Anyone can take a battery and just decrease the discharge rate and claim "long duration storage".

The hard part is making it cheaper per kWh.

If they made it cheaper per kWh then they should say that
> > If you decide that your parenting style is “fuck off,” you can expect the same attitude from your kids towards you when you are older.

> This is the I better be my child's best friend or do what they want or they won't like me and will never talk to me again parenting style.

No, there's a great honking excluded middle there between the “fuck off” parenting style and the “I must be my kids best friend” style.
Twitter is a smaller, less powerful company with a much smaller userbase and it only really has the main Twitter service, while Facebook is more encompassing with services like Messenger, groups, events, pages, Marketplace, Workplace, dating, Portal and now a Substack clone (not to mention Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus).

Also, Twitter’s feed is (largely) chronological.
That’s Mozilla Foundation, not Mozilla Corporation. Corp has way more revenue.
Almost all the information kids are cramming is useless to their future. So, these poor kids study 24/7 useless information in hopes of what? The odds are they will know exactly what all the other kids know -- making it even more useless to future employers.
Does this headline bug the shit out of anyone else?
Not if other neighborhoods have also gone down in liveliness to the same extent.

Imagine a liveliness scale, which is the amount of bars, restaurants, independent stores, coffee shops, music venues, theaters, arts/music expos, and other such things available in the neighborhood.

If the top neighborhood for liveliness in some city last year scored 84 on that scale, but this year it went down 10 points to 74, because of hiking rents and commercial buildings unwilling to lower their prices even if it prices out all such business from the area, preferring to even keep units vacant instead.

Now imagine all other neighborhoods similarly dropped 10 points on that scale. So the next one up last year might have been worth 80, but is now worth 70.

That makes it that the same neighborhood is still the most lively, and therefore still the #1 place where renters hope to live, but overall the entire city is getting less lively. And now imagine this is happening in all cities, making every city similarly impacted.

That would continue to keep prices distributed the same between neighborhoods, the most desirable neighborhood is still the most desirable one, yet the overall liveliness of everything is going down, while simultaneously having prices rise.

I think most people are observing this phenomenon, but the question is why the hell is it happening? Why are landlords choosing to price rentals above market, losing their existing tenants in the process and yet having it vacant as no other business can afford the rent either?
Because even though they called it a dev kit, it was still a commercial product in many ways... there were a ton of games released for it, and a whole community of users who were not oculus developers. I got one, and I never wrote any software for it nor had any real plans to. I got it purely as a consumer.
Sometimes I also misspell words out of a misguided sense of solidarity.

It's like having a conversation and someone keeps mispronouncing a word. Do you just imitate what they are saying and avoid correcting them or do you tell them they are wrong?
The assumption isn't infinite capacity. It is recovery of the last data.
Large Ivermectin Study Retracted
Isolation on a machine is a very basic security primitive. Binding to localhost circumvents all of that and you end up with vulnerabilities like this: http://benmmurphy.github.com/blog/2015/06/09/redis-hot-patch

Remember, anything you put on localhost can be reached by your browser (unless you use iptables with the pid owner check) and arbitrary webpages you are on can hit those endpoints in the background.

The solution you are offering is worse both from a security and a usability standpoint.
There was a time I would have agreed, but when you seed 5-10 companies engineering a solution, if it's possible, one of them is probably going to succeed and take all. Unit economics are an optimization problem, which is literally what engineers solve, and you can hire them at scale. What doesn't work with climbing walls and beanbag chairs in the bay area might work remote, or somewhere outside the US.

If there is still science to be done, sure, higher risk, but even paying a few scientists to develop IP for 2 years is a rounding error on what investors put into novelty software projects.