skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then we started putting “safety” before everything else.

One caveat.

It's safety first, unless they decide to go to war to ensure continued access to cheap commodities (Iraq) or to play weird sociopath power games (Vietnam).

It's going to be kind of rich when they ask people from podunk towns in "flyover country" to go fight their next war, after years of ridiculing them and decimating their local economies.
I subscribe to a descriptive rather then a prescriptive view of language. It is "reasonable" to use a term if the usage conforms to how the term is understood by the people using it.

In Sowell's case he uses the term to make a point. The white connotations of "redneck" is apparent as it conveys his thesis that blacks in America got their culture from rural whites.

My point is not that "redneck" is not a racial slur because it could hypothetically be used against non-whites. I guess it can but I have never heard it in practice, save for Sowell's rhetorical use. My point is rather that a white person can use it against another white person, in a derogatory manner, without invoking statements about racial inferiority. In the majority of cases that I've heard someone use the term "redneck" it is one white person insulting another white person's behaviour or background. Clearly this implies something like classism rather than racism.

Speaking of Thomas Sowell, I think he is mistaken regarding black culture. James B. Stewart has formulated a good critique of his stance, if you are interested.
Yep. Slippery slope "fallacy" is actually nothing more than "you are not allowed to be human and extrapolate from trends."
A couple years ago I heard a domain mentioned in a tv show episode and found out it wasn't registered. I snagged it partially for the novelty and partly to see if I would be contacted to purchase it back.

I remembered years ago there was an incident on Conan's talk show where he offhandedly made up a dumb domain name and the network was forced to buy it so it didn't get bad things put on it.

Well the show has since ended, and I got a handful of emails and comments from fans but nothing ever from the network itself. Still a fun experiment.
Prophylactic Role of Ivermectin in SARS-Covid 2 Infection in Healthcare Workers
The tech industry has spent decades hyping up AI, convincing the public that they have created human-equivalent general-purpose AI because your phone can do good speech recognition that can read answers parsed from Wikipedia or control your house's lights. The tech press goes along with it, painting a vision that AI can do anything. And then we blame the politicians for buying into the hype? Although I do blame the Republicans for defunding Congress's Office of Technology Assessment in 1992, which offered independent, non-partisan, evidence-based assessments of the feasibility of exactly this kind of law.
I agree with you, but my hypothesis is straightforward -- it's the money. The internet in particular, but tech more broadly, is now a mainstream industry, generating and attracting a lot of money. In the US, even a poorly paid SWE, for instance, is almost certainly making well above the median income. Decently paid SWEs make a lot more, and well paid SWES... And of course those who actually employ well paid SWEs and are only paying their developers the least they can get away with, while still paying them a lot, are obviously raking it in.

There's good and bad in this, but it does clearly change things. When there's that much money on the line, ironically the stakes become higher and there's less genuine creativity and risk taking. The flip side is of course true -- too little money is a problem (I mean, I'm not about to trade my SWE gig for working in an Amazon warehouse as a means of spurring personal creativity), but given enough money past a certain baseline, things do change. There's a sweet spot at "enough money that people can feel free to be creative and take risks" and "so much money people are scared to take too many risks".
maybe match the low reliability of classification with a low impact rule, if the system thinks you're drunk you just have to drive slower ?
Very cool reading about option injection. Thank you for sharing!
Basically anything we can do to make cars more expensive and take them off the road I support at this point, driving in America right now is a frustratingly brutal experience that leaves thousands dead, maimed, late or in prison, every day as well driving the environment into a state of global chaos.

I love these kind of laws, oh we mildly inconvenienced a car company, big deal, they'll end up making more money off it in the end. Hopefully I'll just stop seeing the bodies of people being decapitated or torn in half on my commute to DC and actually be able to actually go where I want on time.
And Telesat (Canada) also raised money to build a LEO constellation.
Dont forget pistachios. The Wonderful Company grows tons of pistachios in California that can take up to 40-50 gallons per day per tree. Remember folks, your water is going to a luxury snack food!
This looks pretty closed source to me: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/x-pack/...
Technically the wording is vague enough that they could be referring to anything, but the article specifically highlights distracted driving systems that scan drivers’ eyes:

> Among the systems that have been studied are ones that monitor a driver for signs of distracted, impaired or fatigued driving. One uses sensors that scan drivers’ eyes for signs that are similar to ones that police officers look for when they suspect impairment during traffic stops.

Even breathalyzers aren’t as fool-proof as they sound. Apparently eating certain meals right before using a breathalyzer can trigger false positives. Even breathalyzers have not insignificant numbers of false positives they would become a huge problem if forced upon the entire driving population.

So even with breathalyzers, it’s still about magical thinking about technology’s ability to monitor people’s behavior.
I've watch some of his videos. He's basically the Robin DiAngelo of black people.
They want to do this, but not interested in taking out apps like Kik from their app store...
You're missing the fact that it uses perceptual hashing, not cryptographic hashing. Minor changes to an image result in a similar or identical perceptual hash. Here's an article and a big discussion about it from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28091750
How about we mandate alcoholism detectors in liqour bottles instead?
That's what "source available" means. Open Source is a much stricter definition, which includes not discriminating what your user is going to do with the software.

From https://opensource.org/osd

> 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
> The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
I'm somewhat surprised this hasn't been attempted as a product actually. Guess it would probably be dreadful for your stomach lining but would be a novel alternative to shots
$100M donation powers decade-long moonshot to generate solar-power from space
It's really much better than that. At least for the subfields I've followed.
I recall the old science fiction pulps of the 30's and 40's.
Many of their illustrations had flocks of winged prop driven planes filling their skies.
You can make a costly flying plane, but you can never have a flock because physics is against you.
Look, we have traffic on the ground, when it gets dense it slows and even stops - no problem, you just sit there.
In a flying car what do you do when the car above, and to the right and left and below stop? - Hover? - if only we could in a flock for a while.
This is the essential limiter of large numbers of flying cars in a crowded air space.
We have seen many flying cars from as far back as the 50's, but never one that could 'flock',
Electric will not help, it has a lower power to weight ratio. Only the full control of gravity will help - which may never come to pass.
That is the limiter
As with all submitted legislation it is available at congress.gov.
on one website for gaming mice my hand is medium if i measure the length to the fingertip, but large if i measure the width.

if i had small hands, more mice might fit.

for a comfortable hold using only fingertips, a mouse would have to be 8-9cm wide.
React Vulnerabilities
Specifically you want section 10105 in your version of the text.

I think its 24220 in the senate version? I dunno.. I don't fully get the system.

Keyword to search for is "passively".
I know two dozen pain patients under consuming right now, and for decades.
The supposed advantage of commercial archiving is duration, where as self-hosted tends to depend on the author; But we could create solutions where, if works are being used by clients (hospitals, research), the client would be in charge of automatically downloading all the dependencies. Like a Maven repository, but with P2P resharing.

In similar vein, software used by public institutions should be required to be made open-source. Open source is already the VIIth marvel of humanity, and needs consolidation.
Good luck arguing this to regulators. They are cheap, but not the only option, both in the US and globally.
We don’t know what this training data might be used for in the future, especially considering it could be stolen. I always feel uneasy clicking on school busses, it feels too similar to a shoot em up game where I have to eliminate all of them, then “verify” when I’m done. Perhaps the interface is too similar to a scope on a weapon overlaid on everyday images.
Anyone has any experience with the JS version of Tesseract? Is it accurate in general? And is it English only or does it work with any language?
The statistic he is analyzing here is median revenue per content creator, not just median revenue.

The numerator is the median revenue and the denominator is the number of content creators.
No, giving criticism of an OS is not attacking it. You'll see that strcat only responded to places where GrapheneOS was mentioned. You'll see that there was misinformation being spread about GrapheneOS, whether intentionally or unintentionally, that originates from the Calyx community. Just look at their Matrix rooms and what their supporters/influencers say about GrapheneOS.

Bundling a bunch of apps and integrating proprietary corporate services with privileges unavailable to other apps is not privacy, sorry.
Iirc there wasn't. I think it is mostly about strong institutions that keep military in check.
So long, Iridium flares (2019)
It seems like insurance companies should be liable for massive damages for DUIs (raising rates), but offer the option to "voluntarily" install a breathalyzer to get lower rates. That feels like the American way.
Each article priced as much as a textbook...
As dredmorbius points out, the ISS gets solar every hour of every day, so it really is 24/7. What it’s not is 60/24/7, because up to ~45 minutes of each hour may be in earths shadow.
But what if millions of people do it? Sounds like Little Brother.
If this happens I imagine used cars will be more valuable than new ones (and not because people want to drive drunk but because its impractical and requires more stuff that can fail + higher costs)
Still not a "port" though.
It's funny, nobody ever asks about recycling thermal plants, they only ever ask about the waste that comes from solar panels or wind turbines? Why the double standard, I wonder?

In any case, the biggest expense of solar panel recycling is transport of the panels to the recycling center.

> Not to mention the ceiling in Si based solar panel carnot efficiency which the whole industry is banging it's head against the table over

I'm not following what you're saying. Carnot efficiency is a limitation of heat engines, not solar panels. And nobody is banging their head into solar panel efficiency limits, increased efficient of panels only enables cheaper costs. In contrast, the limited efficiency of large heat engines, such as nuclear or gas or coal electricity plants, means that waste heat must be dissipated into the environment. And when using natural bodies of water for this, the common choice, we are going tons be turning off a lot of these more often as the climate warms. This is already happening frequently in Europe. Solar panel efficiency declines a bit in heat, but they don't trip off.

> Solar is to renewable as fusion is to fission 30+ years away. At least with fission the promise is clean limitless energy not higher efficiencies and the ability to recycle materials in a slightly less labour intensive way

Solar is here today, we deploy hundreds of gigawatts of solar each year across the globe. It's the cheapest source of energy nearly everywhere in the world. Even the IEA, an organization hostile to renewable energy that constantly tries to undermine it in their editorial choices and modeling scenarios, to the point that the IEA is now considered a joke by many in the business community, has had to admit that solar is cheapest:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-is-now-cheapest-electricit...
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300 nits is terrible though.
This is stale news. It’s up to four officers.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/officer-who-responded-us-ca...
Reading in a Digital Age (2017)
I wanted to see this kind of comparison in a study but this pretty poor supporting evidence for vaccine > natural immunity.

1) Low number of people studied.

2) Voluntary testing!!!

3) Testing occurred during the sweet spot for vaccine effectiveness (vaccine would not have waned)

4) No delta variant!!!

5) Not stratified by age group!!!

Can't we get a high statistics study with strict testing!? We have literally hundreds of millions of people who've been vaccinated, and there is no excuse to show me unstratified data as if a 20 year old has the same profile as a 60 year old.
I'm shocked by how many commenters here sympathasize with the domain squatting/parking business. Sure it may be a fun side-project or profitable long-term investment.
But trying to make money from people who actually create value is not really the future of the web I want to see.
It’s a temporary solution until the inevitable scope creep has this looking at all data on your device.
> This is either ignorance or delusion. Brick and mortar stores take a lot more of a cut than that

This is a completely false equivalence, for two reasons.

A) stores have very limited shelf space they need to allocate. They also carry the cost of logistics, keeping inventory and the risk of bad sales. The cost to app stores for reviews and distribution in comparison is tiny per unit and easily scalable. The only context where this could apply is highlighting of apps, but that is handled via separate advertisement.

B) The high fees do not apply only to app sales but also to in-app transactions. This is where the cost is truly ridiculous and can be called extortion.

Credit card companies, for comparison, charge a few percent. The EU has even limited the maximum interbank exchange fees to 0.2% in 2014. Visa and Mastercard seem to be doing just fine with that cut... (there are additional fees, but it still only a mounts to a few percent)

The equivalence would be Walmart getting 30% for every in-game transaction for games that were bought at Walmart.

On Android you can at least use other payment providers, but on Apple you have to use Apple Pay.

> No. For one, Android and the Google Play Store are not a monopoly. Android doesn't even have a majority market share in the US.

They are a duopoly. Many concerns that are relevant for monopolies apply to duo or oligopolies as well. The companies split up the market and arrive at a comfortable equilibrium where they can milk the customers. They might squabble for market share, but they also coordinate (directly or indirectly) to not hurt each other too much. This can be seen in the matching of the cut they take.

The only reason the stores get away with their pricing is because there is no practical alternative for the average consumer for Android, and no alternative at all for iOS. The Google/Apple situation is indeed a classic economy textbook duopoly.

Calling something "ignorance or delusion" is quite a strong statement with such shallow insight.
I look at someone like Steve-o and say nah, people can change. If someone as addicted as him can pull out of the spiral, then no you can break the cycle. But not everyone can do that.
I was obese[0] 3 months ago, and had been that way for about two years. Now I'm a healthy weight. It was easy to do with minimal lifestyle changes - calorie tracking, minor dietary changes, and couch to 5k running a couple of times a week.

The way most studies of weight loss work is by recruiting a pool of obese applicants. This is intrinsically biased: someone who has had a lifelong struggle with obesity can be recruited across 100% of their lifespan, whereas someone who spent two years obese and then lost the weight and kept it off can only be recruited for that 2 year window, or 2.5%. There are probably other factors that come into play that bias the sample even further.

The question these studies answer is "given a random obese person, how likely is this person to lose weight?" This is a relevant clinical question, and the answer is usually a pretty low percentage. For an individual who hasn't struggled with obesity their entire life, a more pertinent question is "given that I have just become obese, how likely am I to lose the weight again and keep it off?" The chances of that are much higher.

[0] By BMI, which has a pretty big margin for error, but I was visibly overweight.
This reaction can also be accelerated by crushing basalts and other readily-available rocks to a fine sand/dust, and exposing that to the open air by spreading it over large areas of ground, such as fields or beaches. The process is not cheaper than other kinds of carbon sequestration, but it's definitely comparable and long-term sequestration of the carbon seems especially likely, since we're simply enhancing the existing geological carbon cycle.
Ah .. That sounds like you're looking for Zettelkasten, or maybe a tab-folding bullet app. Roam and Obsidian seem to be the favourite options for people who don't use their own Emacs style solution.

This is a verrry popular topic on HN the last while; searching for the above keywords should get you some interesting previous discussions. Here are a couple conversations I have handy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25802277
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27649667

... And, I don't open Anki very often because it worked. I memorised and internalised enough of the things I wanted to remember. As soon as I need to use it again, I will.
Notably, in recent hosted versions of Exchange that has been resolved since they can use Azure AD to authenticate across tenants, and if you don’t have Office 365 you can make a temp account in their tenant when you click on the link to see the email. It works fine (unless you’re still on-prem for email).
Also weird that (more generally) Euclid is only rarely mentioned by name, and more often nearly anonymously as the author of Elements. Yet, Pythagoras is named early and often.
The Senate was rigged from the jump to favor states with lower populations. That clause is also the only part that is immune from the amendment process. It's never represented the people, it's always represented the states.

The problem at the moment is that the person in charge of one of the two equally sized factions in power has zero interest in doing any kind of leadership or legislating. That's why nothing is happening.
Nice! Let us know if using Studio might be helpful there.
Yeah make them do 30mph on the highway this will surely reduce the danger /s
Just to add another data point, I’ve been with them since almost day one and every interaction I’ve had has been very nice. They even got my data out of a backup when something weird happened when switching from a business to family plan. (I might be a weird edge case since my account shows as both family and business a custom domain).
In France, the Gendarmes patrol plazas and parks in full military attire and arms: fully automatic weapons and combat shotguns. The same in Spain and Italy with the Policia Nacional and the Carabineri. That’s unheard of in the US, outside of some spots in NYC or DC.
You're right, and that's been true for millennia. "Think of the children" is like a damn magic sword of rhetoric.
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Facebook amplifies it. Now blunt stupid gets a platform. In the past you could have stood on a corner and yelled things and you would have only reached the people within your voice.

Now you can get online and reach millions with stupid theories. In this case Facebook could/should shut this down. I am sure there are more nuanced areas where it would not be as clear cut.

Cutting the voices of stupid really does help.
Subway is perfectly willing to admit that most of their cold cuts are turkey-based, so it seems extra unlikely that they'd go to the trouble of creating an ersatz tuna and then hiding that fact. Especially considering how cheap tuna is, comparatively. The way you cheap out on tuna salad is adding more mayo and thickeners and other fillers, not by inventing some kind of psuedofish.
The science has already changed on this just last week. the CDC now recommends vaccinated wear masks indoors again because vaccinated are transmitting the disease and “have the same viral load” as non vaccinated. I try to avoid Reddit comments as a reference because they are nothing but mob consensus and even less accountable than news articles which have an obligation to correct if found wrong. Here is a Washington post article that tells us that at least with these vaccines that vaccinated are spreading the virus. Again this is completely new recent data on Delta only, which the vaccines weren’t made for, so it’s natural actually. While, vaccines do offer protection they aren’t stopping the viral load and aren’t stopping transmission of delta. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/07/29/cdc-mask-gu...
In my experience methodcaller is an occasionally-useful "mid-refactoring feature".

That is, sometimes when I'm making a largeish modification there's a point in the commit series where the natural way to express what's going on involves using methodcaller, then by the time the work is finished the use has gone away again.
This sarcastic tone will really help you in life. Keep doing it.
Same reason that they presumably supported them in the first place: money?
I put it in Google Drive on purpose to analyze if Google is also scanning as aggressively as Apple. So far no warnings.
It gets worse. Their browser extension doesn't work when using a private window in Firefox. The GitHub issue[0] around it was raised in 2017. They've been blaming Mozilla for deprecating and subsequently removing an API. It's pretty ridiculous.

[0] https://github.com/bitwarden/browser/issues/136
I get the feeling that society in the large is all about vague implementations and vague evaluations models that are vaguely good enough to not be cancelled.

Society is extremely inefficient
If a work flow has a 3 week wait to start year round, it isn't load balancing, it is an obstacle.