skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you play Youtube clips audio-only with NewPipe?
So far the evidence doesn’t show anything near this level of harm. I’m just skeptical of anything that seems too good to be true.

People with rare diseases (and their families and caretakers) get excited about anything at all actually helpful, especially if it comes through official, approved medical channels, because they suffer a whole helluva lot every single day while listening to the medical community promise "cures" that never seem to arrive. It's an amazingly hard psychological thing to live with.

On a Cystic Fibrosis list years ago, a parent said "My child turns 18 today. The life expectancy now is 36. When he was born, the life expectancy was 18."

So gains get made but these are people who need a miracle cure and needed it "yesterday" who are, instead, getting incremental improvements at what feels like a glacial speed while they live tormented lives.

So, yeah, they get excited. But that doesn't mean they are going to all throw caution to the wind and jump on the band wagon. Some that do -- or seem to -- are basically "already dead anyway" if they don't try something new and are happy to take a gamble in hopes of one last hurrah and at least it's more data for others like them if it doesn't help them.
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That is perfectly reasonable. Someone else might gladly learn something interesting on the company dime, even if the topic seems unrelated to the job. For example, if my employers offers me a sailing, woodworking or machining class (neither of which has anything to do with what I work on) I will take it. Sausage making -- I will pass; not my kettle of fish.
The tricky part about nuclear in space is that you either manufacture the fuel somewhere off Earth too, or you need to launch it from Earth, with a non-zero chance of the rocket failing and tons of highly radioactive fuel contaminating the atmosphere.

I would probably risk that on a rocket that proved to be reliable enough, say, 500 launches in a row without a single failure.
I'd agree with your definition of novel except for the addition "in a minimal timeframe or effort" because else of course you can replicate the same outcomes with about the same effort.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics puts out an occupational handbook that outlines industries, jobs, expected job growth, salaries, credentials needed etc.

It isn’t well known which is a shame because it’s important information for anyone career / education planning.
Additionally, ReCAPTCHA is worse than a metal detector, since in addition to being an inconvenience, it's performing unpaid labor for Google. It's more like a bouncer at the door, who won't let you in unless you grease his palm first. Just filthy corruption, plain and simple.
My favorite is finding errors on their side. I was tasked with finding the parking meters, and being told I was missing one. The "one" was an image of a mailbox, not a parking meter. Selecting the mailbox allowed it to say I was a human
In my experience a bachelors degree is not required for most development positions.

What is required for a non-intern position is experience in development work, and even that has to be in the same technology and language as the job you’re applying for.

Most companies will quiz you on your experience, and want specific details on what you can do. Some will give you a coding exercise to complete, I’ve seen many that don’t care how you completed it, they want you to intelligently describe your design, strategy and execution. Writing a unit test or two is usually impressive.

In old-school companies and government contracts you might get weeded out for not having a degree. Most startups and smaller companies are looking for experience, not academic success.
100% true for some fields.

100% false for other fields.
I’m a bit concerned as to what it really says that this is front over material on hn.

The short of it, is suspect a substantial sub population here are holding a variety of opinions that ultimately result in vaccine reluctantance. While the numbers aren’t so fast as to be significant to public health, I do think it forms a sort of idea laundering or affirmation by social proof. In other words people are using the reputation of hacker news for having smart people to launder and promote anti vax.
Did I get promoted when I got that new title?

- If I make more money, it is a promotion. If I didn't, it is a demotion.

- If the number of reports increases, it is a promotion. If it decreases, it is a demotion.

- If I have more areas reporting to me, it is a promotion. If I have fewer areas, then it is a demotion.

- If I have greenfield projects under my direction, it is a promotion. If I have maintenance projects, it is a demotion.
I spent about a year working a retail photo processing lab - I can assure you that what you describe is exceedingly rare.

I saw “questionable” images on a probably weekly basis. Maybe once a month something would come through that I thought warranted bringing my supervisor over to provide a second set of eyes because I didn’t think it warranted calling the police over but wasn’t entirely sure. An example of that that comes to mind was a series of photos that appeared to show a young woman bound and gagged to a pipe in a basement area - but she was obviously of age, her eyes in the photos didn’t look fearful, and the rest of the roll showed her free and apparently happy. Finally, I was the person who accepted the roll of film and knew that she was the one who dropped it off. We didn’t call anyone on that, but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to get a second opinion. When she came to pick them up, I did ask her to review them and make sure everything was OK with them.

Twice in about a year we have photos come through that were obviously what’s now called “CSAM”. In both cases I called the police without consulting management then told them afterward. Also in both cases, the negatives were put into the store’s safe and the owners were arrested on-site when they came to pick them up.

All of this is to say - photo lab techs see some shit. If they called the police every time there was a picture of a kid in the bath, police brutality would be at an all time low because they’d not have time to respond to anything else. :)
> Systems level thinking is unpopular.

I think it is the opposite really. Materialistic thinking is the baseline in modern society and in many ways the tendency to dismiss the unquantifiable as non-existent is one of the greatest weaknesses of modernity.
It is certainly far easier to quantify the average temperature in a region using Antarctic or Greenland ice core data and use that to determine how that may affect agricultural production in a historic time period or analyze average skeleton height sizes to assess quality of life metrics than to analyze how cultural changes affected problems.

>At the root of this exists a fallacy of composition where the argument is that if each individual is virtuous, then the whole[system] is virtuous

The Romans may not have worded it correctly but it should not be surprising if we replace the word 'virtue' with 'social norms' and re-analyze how changes in social norms can affect social trust, how institutions are structured and even how families are structured(e.g. a change in norms from the religious change from paganism to Christianity meant a change from the city focused philanthropy of euergetism to the poor/sick focused ecclesiastical charity).

Social trust, for example, is very important as it greatly reduces transaction costs yet and its core much of it relies upon the concept of common shared knowledge (in the form of traditions, values and principles) that is difficult to quantify. Yet at its core, the change in social norms would be deeply related to changes in 'virtues' as virtues, in practice, are ideals that society pressures individuals to follow. So, the Romans may not have the scholarly data on material changes in the environment to be sure but they also have a better intuitive understanding of the importance of virtues than their modern successors.
Also, extreme temperature changes. At least compared to Earth.
The wrong lesson will be learned from this, ie: increased law enforcement to stamp out the black market rather than remove barriers in the free market.
I've edited my comment (there was a horrific typo) -- I 100% agree with you. Covid is *not* disease like Ebola, whose transmission is self-limiting by its lethality -- it's the opposite.
> I wonder how this works out in terms of energy waste?

Cryptocurrency waste is vastly greater. It doesn't compare at all. Crypto wastes as much electricity as a whole country. This will lead to a few more people being employed by Apple to verify flagged images, that's it.
I have been assuming the idea of these vaccines was to buy time until a new one gets developed that also stops transmission. Ie, I assume we will all get a second vaccine one day that’s better that can have a shot at wiping Covid out, if we get really lucky and everyone takes it
What fraction of people take the annual flu vaccine?
Sometimes I end up failing them deliberately. I can't boycott them because they're often in the way of important sites. So my small, practically invisible protest is to never click more than 3 times. If you want me to pick out all the bicycles, you better have 3 or less. I'm only clicking 3.

I fully understand this isn't going to have any effect. Maybe if a million of us were doing it, it would. But it still makes me feel better.
But perhaps partial vaccination has a similar effect if you make transmission less likely and now only more transmissible mutations make the cut.
Depends what watches you’re talking about. For some brands $50k is the basic model.
This is a new era though where companies can survive for over a decade on hype and the promise of future profits. In fact present profits make it seem like you’re running out of room to grow.

Not that any of the companies anyone here works for work the same way.
Why do these things keep coming out AFTER I've already taken a dose?
Is there some crowdfunding initiative to get this working on additional phones?

I would contribute to get this working on more Xiaomi phones for example.
If sci-hub had popped up within reach of the United States, Alexandra Elbakyan would have already been "taken care of" like Aaron Swartz was.

(On a more practical level, though: it's in English for me.)
It is not very difficult to imagine that antivaxxers would use this article as proof that vaccination was a mistake and that we should not go further. However, this bit:

> Our data show that anti-disease vaccines that do not prevent transmission can create conditions that promote the emergence of pathogen strains that cause more severe disease in unvaccinated hosts.

Actually makes a convincing case for anyone who did not get the vaccine to get it.

Anyway, that won't convince hardcore antivaxxers, so we shall see in the upcoming months/years whether this article actually transposes to our situation. Just a shame this may be happening at the expense of gullible yet still good at heart people.
Oxyrhynchus could happen all over even today, with things we've lost as recent as the early 1900s I'm sure.

It's incredible to try and search for, say engineering practices we've lost, that happened only one or two generations ago. I'm sure there are buried textbooks that would uncover such practices that someone in academia thought, "Well it's probably time to throw this out."

There are buildings today constructed with materials processes that are exceptionally difficult to find information on.
I’ve always wanted to do humorous/depressing captchas.

“Select all the images of public executions.”

“Select all the images of disgraced politicians.”

“Select all the images convicted war criminals.”
Why You Should Switch to Bayesian A/B Testing
No, because that what he actually think the right answer is, he views these things at the fundamental constraint. He is perfectly able to answer in detail when that the questions as he multiple times did in this video.
There hasn’t been a single paper I’ve looked for that wasn’t available on Scihub, even old ones.

It’s like how every movie, even the rare no longer distributed ones are available on Torrent sites but you can’t find them even if you have access to a good online commercial libraries.
Assuming N<1, you see a scrunched up, blue-shifted version of the night sky in the forward direction and very little in the aft direction... this is a combination of the fact that the stars at the various grid points where the stars are now are truly Lorentz-transformed to be more numerous in the forward direction + the usual "aberration" effect accounting for the fact that you are seeing the stars at the retarded time where they were when their light was emitted, not right now. See: https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/Spacesh...
That's not my question. My question is how much easier can it be? I'm just not sure what you are complaining about.

Give me an example of a more accessible drug than marijuana.
What fascinated me was that, even laying out my awareness of the "neverending fractal of bullshit" tactic and making it clear it wouldn't work, we went around in a similar circle — and Chris didn't seem to see any problem with this, just so long as he thought that even if you couldn't be fooled into wasting your time addressing his claims on the original topic under the mistaken belief that he was coming to the table in good faith, he might stand a chance fooling you into wasting time arguing about why you weren't willing to waste time arguing with him.
Why would that be a solution if you still need to manage manure to grow plants? You would still have runoffs due to similar mismanagement. It's not the management of human wastewater that is an issue with ocean deadzones.
If this can and does happen to an L8, step below VP, imagine what happens at the lower ranks.
It is still melting and no it's not good when we had something similar two years ago

The article sounds like that in the next 80 years it has an effect which adds to all the other things happening.

Like the weakening of the gulf stream.

Why would you read an article like this and come to the conclusion that climate change is a narrative?

It's a scientific fact and the most crazy shit about is that we are increasing our knowledge about it every day and still don't know enough IF it will become really really bad really quick.

What is so wrong or bad for pointing our society to have much much more sustainable supply chains? Solar power and better isolated buildings?

Why do we try to keep a status quo which is not even that good?

All those cars create toxic fumes. Don't you think it would be 21 century smart to not pollute our own environment?

IF there is a cause we all humans should unite and work for having a much better future for everyone should be it.
Have a look at the Microtik CRS305-1G-4S+IN. 4 10Gbps SFP+ ports with an MSRP of $150 and a street price just under that.

For direct connections (NAS to VM host, for example), you can also forgo a switch and wire them directly on a private point-to-point network.
> Looking at these leaden vistas of America

This touches on something else: are all the Google captchas, worldwide, based on photos taken within the US? I suspect they are, and cultural imperialism is at play: taxis in New York are yellow, therefore a yellow car must be a taxi. That kind of thing.
I was going to vehemently agree and start ranting, but I see you've linked a submission that already has enough of me ranting! Ha. I'll only add that sometimes it annoys me so much I want to create my own 'Britcha' out of spite.

Perhaps if I ever run some really popular site I shall: 'select all pubs', 'arrange the squares in order of social class', 'type the word that describes an ordered collection of people waiting for something'.
True civil disobedience would be clicking the non-bikes.
Here’s a thing about jailbreaking.

As a user I like my device being safe from outside attackers (NSO & co).

But I definitely do not want my device to be protected against me. It’s absurd that I have to use the methods of an attacker to gain modification privileges on a device I own.
> the fact that heavy daily marijuana usage is a net negative for mental health

citation required.

There is no comparison because you are speaking in anecdotes, not data.

Even if it is a "net negative" is it a bigger net negative than the cognitive effects of anti depressants?

How is it "whataboutism" when the two are being used to treat the same illnesses, but you only look at the negative effects of marijuana in a vacuum, while at the same time lauding pharmaceuticals.
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Much of the reason the term "open source" started was to get rid of the "free beer" connotation that "free software" had. They thought companies were scared the word "free" meant they couldn't profit.
Armor is hard. It slows you down, and you can't hear or see as well as the guy coming up behind you.

If you are trained well enough to be effective with metal armor, you're probably trained well enough to be effective without it in close quarters.

Heavy plate requires mounted cavalry, but largely negates the maneuverability of horse, and can be brought down with foot trained with pikes or heavy spears.

Maybe the metal was best used elsewhere.
I’ve heard that before and I don’t really understand how people have so much trouble with this. But I guess knowing the rules helps me with this:

The machine doesn't know the answer so it doesn't really matter. You need to emulate the crowd and also realize you are contributing to the crowd. So you can actually pollute it with wrong answers to delay the robot uprising. Or at least cripple it when they keep running into fire hydrants they didn't see.
Other way around.

If you root your phone and disable its ability to spy on you then that’s obviously against the desired effect. The whole point of the hash scanning is that, you, the user, cannot disable it.

Meaning there would probably be laws to force us not to tamper with that functionality.

Similar to how printer manufacturers have to look for “the yellow dots” on bank notes and refuse to print/scan.
I hate captchas with a passion, yet I was recently forced to deploy it on website due to direct instructions from the credit card processor. The system was being used to roll through credit cards script-o-matically, and they mandated captchas to be deployed on threat of closing our account if not.

So if anyone has better solution so I can eliminate the G and is Wordpress happy, I'm all ears (or eyes reading in this case).
I've read the whole article, and I see so many comments agreeing or even adding detail to the post. Am I really in the minority if this kind of thing couldn't even cross my mind or feels like written by someone living in a parallel universe?

A few poorly shot street photos are "unbearably depressing"? And there's even a detailed explanation breaking it down into points, each one feeling more alien than the last. They're just pictures from the street! Just how? How does a person come up with a whole emotional essay for this?

I am failing to understand the author to the degree I feel like there's something wrong with this person's psyche or something is wrong with mine. Am I having a stroke and words are no longer making sense? Am I too young, or am I too old at 26 to "get it"? Is it because I live in a third world country and lack perspective or have "too much" of it? Is this homework for an English class and it's just trying to talk about literally anything for a given arbitrary word count? I almost feel like I'm dissociating from reality by an article talking about a freaking captcha.
No, the world runs on C/C++ mostly because CL vendors were too greedy. It's difficult to convince people to use a $100k environment when you could have gotten a $2k environment instead.
I think I got that exact same one, and had the exact same problem with it. Maybe reasoning that it was confusing the mailbox for a parking meter was how I proved that I was a human to it.
Then you can read Reuters.
Going from VP to SVP is most certainly a promotion... In this particular case, this guys was probably an L10 before his leave and is probably still an L10. In companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc; an official promotion is changing levels, not titles.
For the US, everything in the design of the vaccine card system was made to prevent it from becoming another social security card fiasco. They are oversized, freely distributed, not centrally tracked, etc.

If I had to guess, it was made this way on purpose to quell fears that this vaccine effort would mutate into a bigger privacy concern and discourage people from getting the shot.

But yet here we are. People want to use it in exactly the way it wasn't designed to be used.
> earth-to-moon range: 400 km

Three zeros seem to be missing.
Then learn how to do better: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/8/219594-small-data-comp... (The Android calculator app uses exact arithmetic on arbitrary-precision real numbers.)
> who makes Google money

I’m sure you invest your personal portfolio in companies that make less money (lower return) when higher return alternatives are available?
Ironically, this happened with Apple recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27878333 misapplication of face recognition.
IIRC, Apple was already scanning iCloud server-side for CSAM [0] so I'm not sure if that excuse holds.

[0] https://www.macobserver.com/analysis/apple-scans-uploaded-co...
Were these peopled hired for responsibilities including historical briefings?

No?

So why are they being asked to do them?
ed: "consensus-driven publicly-auditable append-only database" is actually a pretty decent generalization of "crypto", thanks.
Probably for the same reasons that one of the predominant tones on Twitter is howling despair about, in the larger view, trifling things
It’s about evading the forbidden images scanning, which becomes possible when you can modify the software you’re running.
The distinction between scanning locally before upload, and on server after upload, is an implementation detail. The only reason Apple have done this is to allow them to implement E2EE for iCloud without hosting CSAM.

All arguments relating to anything other than this are arguing against something that doesn't exist.

I don't dispute that fictional proposals in the imaginations of HNers might pose a grave (fictional) threat to civil freedoms.
“ Loyola initially denied written requests by the 11 students, who stated that the available vaccines contained fetal tissue from abortions and their religious beliefs do not condone abortion”

Confirming that the students and their lawyer don’t science well.
And future versions of your compiler are going to want to do different things with your UB than what your current compiler does.
The 2007 version did not have the image grid that the patent claims to cover. But there is other prior art that the article covers, so this is yet another patent that should never have been granted.
Markets like web hosting will eat any discounted 2.5” enterprise SSDs. Don’t even mention stuff like chia.

There is such a large market for 2.5” storage that I don’t think we are going to have a large discounted sell off, unlike say DDR4 ECC DIMMs
Or a 'vette. Can't forget the canary yellow corvettes.
Is it possible that it gets fewer dice rolls but the "dice are loaded" by the fact that a vaccinated but contagious case is likelier to spread only selected mutations? Isn't that the concept of immune escape[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigenic_escape
I'm feeling the same, I can't make any sense out of the article, not even about the article's main _claim_ actually. I guess it's just a matter of differing sensibilities?
This the first time I have ever seen a non-promotional story on the front page with just 2 votes. I always thought the minimum was 3.
Sounds right to me. Unlocking your bootloader wipes storage.