skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it was an honest mistake, how did it get to the point of having to settle for $3 million?
There's a flipside to this, too: technology doesn't just improve the ability of the state to enforce law (or social mores), it also improves the ability of it's subjects to violate it with impunity.

Borders in medieval Europe weren't nearly as necessary because the physical ability to travel was limited. Forget traveling from Germany to France - just going to the next town over was a life-threatening affair without assistance and wealth. Legally speaking, most peasant farmers were property of their lord's manor. But practically speaking, leaving the manor would be quite difficult on your own.

Many churches railed against motor vehicles because the extra freedom of movement they made possible also broke sexual mores - someone might use that car to engage in prostitution! You see similar arguments made today about birth control or abortion.

Prior to the Internet, American mass communication was effectively censored by the government under a series of legally odd excuses about public interest in efficiently-allocated spectrum. In other words, this was a technical limitation of radio, weaponized to make an end-run around the 1st Amendment. Getting rid of that technical limitation increased freedom. Even today, getting banned from Facebook for spouting too much right-wing nonsense isn't as censorious as, say, the FCC fining you millions of dollars for an accidental swear word.

Whether or not a technology actually winds up increasing or reducing freedom depends more on how it's distributed than on just how much of it there is. Technology doesn't care one way or the other about your freedom. However, freedom is intimately tied to another thing: equity. Systems that economically franchise their subjects, have low inequality, and keep their hierarchies in check, will see the "technology dividend" of increased freedom go to their subjects. Systems that impoverish people, have high inequality, and let their hierarchies grow without bound, will instead squander that dividend for themselves.

This is a feedback effect, too. Most technology is invented in systems with freedom and equality, and then that technology goes on to reinforce those freedoms. Unequal systems squander their subjects' ability to invent new technologies. We didn't see this with Nazi Germany, because the Allies wiped them off the map too quickly; but the Soviet Union lost their technological edge over time. The political hierarchy they had established to replace the prior capitalist one made technological innovation impractical. So, the more you use technology to restrict, censor, or oppress people, the more likely that your country falls behind economically and stagnates. The elites at the top of any hierarchical system - aside from the harshest dictatorships - absolutely do not want that happening.
The problem for me with that line of reasoning is that it's one based on philosophy & not mathematically proven or with any clear evidence.

For example, [1], [2], [3] all show there are classes of computation outside of Turing machines. So if we agree there are computations outside of Turing machines, then the question is where does the human brain fall and, relatedly, can non-Turing machines run Turing machines? I suspect the answer to the latter question must be yes given the simplicity of a Turing machine (i.e. a pen & pencil is sufficient).

Thus, the fact that a human can execute a Turing machine doesn't conclude anything meaningful to me. If you could show that a Turing machine can execute a human brain, then the human brain would 100% be a Turing machine since a core property of a Turing machine is that it can transfer to any other Turing machine.

Even if we build "general AI" on a Turing machine, all we've shown is that there is a class of intelligence that is at its core a complicated Turing machine. It might suggest that a human brain is also a Turing machine (& I'd shift the weight of my prior from let's say 30% we're not Turing machines to 70% we are), but I think the only way to definitively prove that would be to do so by mathematically proving the model of the human brain, and then maybe also using it to actually clone a human brain onto a Turing machine to prove the model correct.

I think until that happens the argument remains philosophical & whichever side you take to be uninteresting. The only purpose of the debate is to show the question itself is important.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercomputation
[2] http://faculty.poly.edu/~jbain/physinfocomp/Readings/94Hogar...
[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030439750...
Deciding not to get vaccinated massively increases your risk of transmitting the virus to others. An unvaccinated person is far more likely to get the virus, and then if they get it, they are far more likely to transmit it.

Any way you parse it, vaccination is preferable to infection. The worst case with vaccination is that you get a breakthrough infection. But that's far less risky than getting infected in the first place.
I see so many examples with comments explaining “what” - given that you have to read code to truly understand what it does, comments must be maintained in addition to code, and comments can be either or both misleading and outright incorrect, isn’t it generally considered best practice not to write huge block comments at the top of a function implementation? Given these points, those kinds of comments are really just additional text the reader needs to parse through (to make sure they aren’t missing a meaningful “why” portion of the comment.)

Without circular reasoning (“we do it this way because it’s done this way”), can anyone provide some context here? Much appreciated!
> Right so instead we should take one of those 100 people and give them the power of violence to take all the coconuts and distribute as they see fit.

No one is saying that.

We take all the coconuts, gather all the people, and work to come to a decision.

Or are you saying you need someone to tell you what to do, and you'd rather it be the guy that got rich off everyone else than someone randomly chosen? I can understand that at least, although I still disagree.
Exactly. The tax externalities and dividend system is such an underappreciated idea.

Sugar, carbon, and land are things that we move quickly to implement and bring it to more and more externalities.
Surveillance for you, privacy for me. - Facebook
Gotcha. For load balancing in particular, one is better off doing it server-side. Many reasons, one among them being ability to change load balancing strategies in face of unforeseen circumstances.
It's not an off-the-shelf solution, but what I do is roll my own keyboard layout with MSKLC.
Are the alternative sweeteners any better for people's health and/or the environment? If not, then it's hard to say the tax "worked". If so, what are they?
I think the trouble with LA education is that LA is just so ubiquitous and can look very different dependent on context. No style is going to suit everyones needs.
Alternate title: After a many years of improvement, there was one bad year for diabetics during a pandemic.
Masking Emotions: Face masks impair how we read emotions
Speaking strictly about mRNA vaccines, the risk is not yet well-defined, since it's a new tech, so doing a quantitative comparison at this point doesn't seem right. Additionally, the methods of data collection between vaccine and COVID risk haven't followed the same standards, making an apples to apples quantitative comparison difficult.

The risk of the vaccine is an open question that's being answered over time (consider things like ADE that caused mRNA vaccines to be put on hold prior to the pandemic). On the other hand, COVID has a pretty well defined risk being that we've seen it for 2 years now, and it's from a familiar family of viruses. We also have to consider vaccine effectiveness; is it robust to variants? over what timeline is it effective? does it reduce transmission? etc. If it is less effective in any of these categories, the risk:reward grows larger, and not taking it begins to make more and more sense.

Lastly, you have to consider when comparing these numbers, that there's a non-null probability you won't ever catch COVID. I'm not at risk, and I believe I probably have natural immunity, so I see no reason to expose myself to additional risk; it wouldn't help anyone any.
> What we need to do is regulate how much sugar you can put into foods.

How about we first find out what actually causes diabetes. Not what correlates with it, but what really causes it. And then how we can stop that.

You can tax or forbid sugar all you want, but is it gonna stop diabetes? Will people who eat tons of other "empty carbs" really not get diabetes?

I'm not so sure. Instead of restricting peoples lifes, I would much rather opt for giving them opportunities. Such as providing discounts for gyms or other ways of working out.
The thing is, they can't. Under those troop levels the Taliban was already taking more territory every year. The choice was between a US troop surge (for an indefinite period), a slow death, or a quick death.
Isn't the idea not about instilling trust in specific news sources, but teaching how to recognize a good source or critically thinking about and comparing different sources?
Rather we do have some idea what they do with their time and money: influence politics, lobby for regulatory capture, lobby against societally beneficial regulation, bust unions, rent-seek, astroturf, form monopolies and oligopolies, have outsized carbon footprints, avoid paying anything back to society, commit crimes and get away with them, etc.

We see them as mustache-twirling villains because, well, they act like mustache-twirling villains.
Yes!!!! Check it
Thanks for your comment Lisa. We do do daily checkins within Iona, but we're always looking for ways to improve the app, and the idea of doing morning and evening checkins to set goals / intentions is definitely an interesting one.

We have an "anxiety" and "low mood" track within the app at present, but we're mostly aimed at general mild to moderate usage where we feel such apps can be most effective.

We've heard about Germany and it's usage of apps, it's certainly a country which very advanced in this area. Using the app to improve adherence between in-person appointments is also a great use-case.
It’s not just sugar though, it’s junk, processed, and fast food in general. It’s astonishing how bad our current nutritional advice is.
My best guess would be that the French study based it's results on the entire population, whereas the UK stats are drawn only from laoratory confirmed cases; thereby ignoring the large number of completely symptom free people, as well as comorbidities.

The stats for young people without pre-existing health conditions are wildly lower than the already very low mortality rates.
Same - Fedora 34, nvidia driver. Excellent performance though.
Baghdad, centuries ago, had better medical policies than the United States does in 2021.

Unfortunately, the mongols came and burnt everything to the ground/left the city a literal pool of blood.

Makes for good reading in the 21st century I guess.
No question - but there is so much special interest tied into things like climate change that there is no will to actually solve it.

We've got now the hydrogen thing (aka fossil fuel with a ton of steps before you actually run an electric motor). We're going to have billions in special interest for this in the dems new bill.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ese3.956

We've got the ethanol thing

https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_record_report.cfm?dirEntr...

I could go on endlessly.
If you want an intro to JSP, you might find helpful an annotated version [0] of Hoare's explanation of JSP that I edited for a Michael Jackson festschrift in 2009.

For those who don't know JSP, I’d point to these ideas as worth knowing:

- There’s a class of programming problem that involves traversing context-free structures can be solved very systematically. HTDP addresses this class, but bases code structure only on input structure; JSP synthesized input and output.

- There are some archetypal problems that, however you code, can't be pushed under the rug—most notably structure clashes—and just recognizing them helps.

- Coroutines (or code transformation) let you structure code more cleanly when you need to read or write more than one structure. It’s why real iterators (with yield), which offer a limited form of this, are (in my view) better than Java-style iterators with a next method.

- The idea of viewing a system as a collection of asynchronous processes (Ch. 11 in the JSP book, which later became JSD) with a long-running process for each real-world entity. This was a notable contrast to OOP, and led to a strategy (seeing a resurgence with event storming for DDD) that began with events rather than objects.

[0] https://groups.csail.mit.edu/sdg/pubs/2009/hoare-jsp-3-29-09...
Maybe if you claim it in a head-line and it isn't true, you should be forced to perform the act indicated. I'm smiling while thinking of the scientist hiking through Alaska over a distance that took the Mammoth 28 years. Of course, the disconnect here was probably introduced by a disconnected reporter or editor.
Everyone talks about sugar. But the real problem is food culture (or the lack of). American, and now many European diets now consist of either fast food, oven-ready food or fried food. I recently went shopping and had a look at the "healthy" aisle. I could only find supposedly healthy food consisting of extremely savory dishes -carbonara, paella, etc. This is no way to eat healthy

In many western countries, no one is willing to eat a plate of barely seasoned boiled potatoes, or of barely seasoned pulses, etc

Everything is meaty, savory, rich.

Edit: I see I caused a reaction. I will explain. We are training our taste, and our children's tastes, to expect an explosion of flavor in every bite. This is not healthy. It promotes ordering take-out food, buying ready-meals, etc. Food doesn't need to be complex. We have fallen to "recipe book" diets. For example, I am mediterranean. When I read mediterranean recipe books, I see the same meals we eat, but turbo-charged with flavor. You can see the same thing in Chinese take-outs, where you will rarely see the owner eat the loaded meals he sells. He'll sautee some bean sprouts and mix them with boiled rice

Our stomachs aren't nuclear reactors, but in the western world, they are trained to be

Recipe book meals are ok to eat twice a week. The rest of the week should include steamed veggies with olive oil and salt, boiled apple puree, lentil soup, chick peas with carrots, mash with cabbage and til, leek and potato cream, etc
comparing what's going on in Afghanistan to the Korean Peninsula and how the American forces helped South Korea become a prosperous country make me think the US has lost its core values about its role in the international scene.
They debunked the video that purported to show Trump insulting his supporters. They said the video was fake.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-video-insulting-supp...

According to you, they are wrong, though. Ignore evidence to the contrary.
Given how much mudslinging has gone on with Snopes over the years, and how little I know about Buzzfeed News' journalistic integrity, I really wish there was a factchecking page about this on an established factchecking website...
Anyone find it funny how "The Handmaid's Tale" is present day reality in Afghanistan? Making that book about Christian Fundamentalists was such a stretch.
For one, the character coverage is much broader than what's typically found on an international keyboard.

I use it all the time for typing arrows and other symbols, for example. YMMV but I also find it mnemonically better, from time to time I can just guess what the right Compose sequence is.
Show HN: Pushpin – a proxy server for adding push to your API
these days i prefer to use menus like Rofi for things like this. all you need to memorise is 1 hotkey to open the menu and then you can search and filter the list to find whatever character you want, say 'trademark' or 'tra' to find ™, or search for an emoji by describing it
You just lower other taxes proportionally, and if Johnny average is actually average, he'll see little difference.

Putting tariffs on Chinese goods isn't exactly an unpopular idea either.
Sugar does not cause diabetes.
The usual solution to this is import tariffs for goods coming from any country that doesn't have a similar carbon tax (where such tariff goes away if and when it does happen), and to distribute the revenue from these to offset heating and transportation costs.

Economists have studied Pigovian taxes a lot. There are answers to most of the obvious objections (and answers to those answers, and so on). I happen to think most of macroeconomics is pseudoscientific nonsense. Unfortunately, in cases like this, pseudoscientific nonsense is the best we have.
If you accuse somebody of overthinking, it’s almost a compliment in that they are too intelligent and might get them to reconsider. If you accuse them of being thoughtless, it’s like saying they are unintelligent, and you made an enemy who will resist changing their mind
I still wonder if recreating mammoths will ever be possible, and of course if you could, would they survive in the modern climate in the wild.
Yes, t had a lot to do with it.

The war against salt, also.
It will teach people to eat things with less sugar. It's behavior modification via people's pocketbook. If you appropriated all funds derived from a sugar tax back into health care funding for people below a certain AGI, then it is probably a great way to improve health outcomes.
It's pretty easy to build a device that connects to the internet without you knowing about it, with all the mobile networks around us..
ahhh, I see you got hit by some of the fallout of my migration from Wordpress to Blogspot. Sorry about that!

I tried to set http301s but gave up when I had to pay for it :)
Do you have experience with screenreaders or are you arguing from a theoretical point? If this is from your personal experience, I will argue no further, if not:

If "for decoration" is a valid reason to add "unnecessary images" for the sighted, why shouldn't they have "decorative alt-texts" for those who cannot see? If it is not a valid reason, why are these images there in the first place?
http://www.lahey.com/nl00apr.htm#Fortran_and_the_Space_Progr...

describes use of Fortran dummy arrays before Fortran IV. No LDA/B/C in the example provided. But I find it hard to believe that once a compiler existed that would compile that example, people took more than a week to realize that by adding LDA/B/C you can write a general DGEMM that can multiply submatrices.

We need to remember that first there was a compiler implementation and the language was secondary to that. Language extensions that the compiler could do "easily" get implemented quickly. Sequence association was one of those things and I still maintain that it would be needed (in the absence of array expressions) even if there was dynamic allocation in Fortran I.

Consider a subroutine that is expected to take the 1st column and the last column of an array, sum them, and put the result in the 1st column. You want to write

allocate(a(3,5),source=b); call sub(a)
deallocate(a)
allocate(a(2,4),source=c); call sub(a)

Can you reuse sub to only sum the bottom half of the columns? Not without allocating a new array and copying before passing the copy to sub. With sequence association, LDA and adjustable or assumed-size arrays and extra integer arguments, you can and it will work for any rank.

The alternative coding that I have seen (and abhor), is putting an LDA in a COMMON and then all your subroutines pick up an LDA from there. Such codes are usually riddled with errors.
The health care model in the US doesn't really help much on the matter, but this isn't a battle against diabetes, diabetes is just the result of an overweight population with bad dietary habits.

There is the inherited kind, and then there is the "earned" kind. One is genetically unavoidable, the other is mostly preventable.

It is not even the food, or fats, or carbs, or sugars, it's too many calories over extended time frames and all the fizzy drinks with sugar and lattes with more calories than a pizza are what transfers people to diabetes city.

The body has ok ish prevention systems when it comes to food via ghrelin feedback loop and stomach size, but the body cannot cope with too much fast absorbed fluid calories.

The rise of zero calorie drinks is a decent first step, some people say these can make you fat as well, but that is entirely physically impossible, they contain zero energy and they do not cause blood sugar level volatility , else diabetics drinking them could drop dead within minutes.

Many people have very poor education on food matters and are falling to all kinds of marketing tricks, like bio(doesn't make it healthy) , no fat(replaced by sugar), natural ingredients or juice(how much and still, fluid fruit sugar is not good for you if you drink a bottle).

Sure, a basketball professional can have a Gatorade after a training when he is depleted of glycogen, but the Avery joe whos daily exercise is grabbing the beer and tv remote and constantly being saturated with carbs? Will not end well.

I didn't look up historical data but the self caused diabetes will certainly be more wide spread in nations with more obesity problems than nations with slimmer people.

And diabetes and blood sugar levels are just the start, there are many more undesired side effects.

Source, ex gf has masters in nutrition.
I don't see how this article bears on my comment. This article was written before the vaccines came out. We now know fairly well how the vaccines perform, and they are vastly preferable to natural infection without vaccination.
It was a joke. Tim Apple is not a person that exists.
I think that UN countries should indeed do that, at the very least it'd send a strong signal. But they won't, because when the dust settles they'll be looking to do business with the Taliban or at least try and have some kind of diplomatic relations. They (we) have historically been completely okay with the oppression of women and minorities in other countries, and we still are.

That being said, it would just be a gesture. These women are not free to travel, or make any kind of life choices freely. And even if they were, social pressures are almost insurmountable.
Ive shared my view on media here before and always get downvoted. That is fine tons and tons of people hook themselves up their boogeyman of choice (Faux News, MSNbsee, C&N, NewsMax, EpochTimes, etc, etc .. all media driven by dollars and making investors and or their parent companies raking in the dough) and let it control their lives.

After two months into the pandemic I was done with it and went about living my life with a mask on. Some very close family members struggled with Covid .. it is real for sure but this pandemic is a human experiment where the real truth and facts will come in time. Time will prevail and help us best deal with it ... even at this point i feel we are still in the experiment walking blindly as they change things .. get vaccine no mask.. wait now wear mask if vaccinated ..oh wait your gonna need a booster shot .. lol

We are all gerbils even the ones pushing out the dynamic information!
it's such an easy solution to fix the insulin resitance that i don't know why this is still a thing. stop eating processed foods. ban sugar and vegetable oils from your house. eat a ton of meat, eggs, butter, ghee, lard, bacon..and you'll be fit in no time. omg.
Is this the solution, though? Even if you could prevent new diabetes cases there are still countless millions of diabetics who wouldn’t be helped by a sugar tax.
Sadly, literally does actually mean "not literally" now

> 2 : in effect : virtually —used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally