skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great beginning, because this captures perfectly the feelings of so many, especially older, Americans. Even dissent feels like it was easier back then, when it was hippies vs. squares, a simple yes or no on Vietnam, yes or no on the Civil Rights Act.

There are two glaring omissions from this article. First is any mention of Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent [1], which the author spends a lot of time loosely recapitulating. The other is a lack of sensitivity to the Boomers and the (non-geek) Gen Xers that were simply not exposed to online anything and so do not have immunity, and they generally don't have a good feel for dealing with modern information systems.

The upshot is that I think this is a transient, but because of better health outcomes for the elderly, it's gonna be a long and painful one, because easily manipulated Boomers are going to be voting for a long, long time.

The problem is largely Fox News. Fox has a strangle-hold on the older minds and gives cover and support to the online insanity, specifically because it's format isn't the news, it's a news walk-through (like a game walk-through), which makes you feel like you're good at consuming the news, feel like you have the right opinions, all while saving you the trouble of actually having to think.

The solution, I'm sorry to say, is not teaching critical thinking, or appealing to better emotions, but rather an equal-and-opposite channel: a news walk-through with the same emotional profile, but with opposite opinions to Fox.

With luck, such a channel would become equally popular and cancel out the Fox effect, and leave the actual political decision-making to the critical thinkers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
> Some debates and some representation does not constitute "democratic tradition".

Those things are the foundation for what becomes democracy. To use England as the clearest example, Democracy there evolved with feudal aristocrats creating a parliament to have input to the king’s decision making, and from there parliament taking on more and more power and eventually being turned over to popular control through elections.
I am inclined to give his software a go. Very interesting ideas that resonate with my own learning experiences.

This sales model is also interesting and notable:[1]

Older versions of SuperMemo are successively released as freeware.

By purchasing any of these freeware items you get registered in this store and become eligible to instantly upgrade to SuperMemo 17 (see Freeware Upgrade). In the future, you will also be able to upgrade to any SuperMemo at a big discount.

Your cheapest pathway to new SuperMemos is:
order SuperMemo 15 Freeware below (or any other collector item)
if you like SuperMemo 15, use Freeware Upgrade to get SuperMemo 17
in the future, keep upgrading to new versions of your choice (once registered in this store, you are perpetually eligible)

Well done!

[1] https://super-memo.com/supermemo18.html
The mice were fattened in a special vessel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glirarium) which tricked them into preparing for hibernation, which fattened them up significantly. Still probably not a lot in them.
I agree. I love the old win95 UI because everything looked like how it performed. Buttons looked like buttons, scrollbars looked like scrollbars. It was immediately usable. The UX back then was amazing.
I'd move the time machine about 20 years later to the 70s. Yes, we still had 3 networks then. And all three (plus AP, UPI & Reuters) gave us a pretty middle-of-the-road view of the world. And, I would argue, we were a much more cohesive society because of this. By the 70s there was much more sensitivity for minorities then there was in the 50s and that was starting to show in journalism as well. Women's rights were making great strides - the ERA came very close to passing (something that likely couldn't happen now with so many state legislatures controlled by the right wing ). We were becoming very aware of environmental degradation and staring to do something about it.

Having grown up in the 70s I find that era much preferable to today's 24/7, highly partisan news cycle. News outlets now are highly politicized and ideologically specialized. There is no cohesive vision for how to live together at this point. Sure, there were outliers back then (as the article suggests) - I vaguely remember John Birchers, but nobody took them seriously - now it's like Bircher views are mainstreamed and we're supposed to accept them as a viable view with some kind of equal footing among all the other views.
the more they make the robot make 'cute' things like aerobatics, the more scared I am. Uncanny valley.
Source? GitHub is meant for collaborating on Git repositories. One of the main features they have are Pull Requests, which basically is the `send-email` feature but without email, with a web UI and some other features on top of PRs.
Unfortunately seems to align with my anecdotal/limited conversations with law enforcement in the US. Thank you for providing this - with my new startup Tovera [0] I'm pursuing potential law enforcement use cases and it's good to see that some countries/jurisdictions have already raised the issue.

Thanks again!

[0] https://tovera.com
> It wouldn't. Their immune system already has a sample of the virus. Giving them a vaccine would give them nothing they don't already have.

What you said applies to most viruses (flu, corona, ...), but not to HIV.

There is a reason we failed to create a HIV vaccine for 30 years, and that reason is that simply presenting the virus just doesn't work.

So this vaccine uses a new quite amazing methodology, instead of presenting the virus, it presents something else designed to trigger the 1 in the million B cell from our bodies which are actually capable of producing a neutralizing antibody. Regular vaccine trigger randomly the other 999999 B cells which produce useless antibodies.

Typically that process takes 10 years for a HIV infected person, after which they produce the proper antibodies.

This approach is called germ-line targeting, and tries to accelerate that 10 year process in 2-3 shots.
I don't think that would explain the transition from reusable milk glass bottles to plastic milk jugs. A decrease in deforestation doesn't explain a systemic rise in using plastics.
Buy it, a lot of those stores receive more donation than they can sell. So by buying it, you help turnover the inventory and allow them to put more on the shelves. I doubt that results in higher prices, supply >>>>> demand
It might be just me, but the typeface they're using isn't very readable either.
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Agreed this very exciting. Malaria is also being targeted using the same technology. BioNTech announced they were working on it last month and some results[1] in mice are already looking promising.

[1] Messenger RNA expressing PfCSP induces functional, protective immune responses against malaria in mice.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-021-00345-0
Just what I needed... Microsoft on my Linux.
>> Is washing your hands too much to ask too?

> For (too) many people washing hands is indeed too much to ask...

This. This is why Covid is here to stay.
> feels more like an assembler than a compiler

Yes it's a kind of transpiler, or template compiler, a typically 1-1 mapping.
One of the core problems with machine learning is that we often don't really know why the model does what it does. We train the neural network on 100000 images of road sign, 5000 of which are stop signs and we know it will identify stop signs, but we don't know what it is that makes the algorithm think something actually is a Stop sign. Is it the color, the shape, the word "Stop"?

The training set had red octagonal signs and signs with numbers, but no red octagonal signs with numbers. Since the the model had never seen a sign with just two big digits that wasn't a speed limit sign it decides that the numbers was more significant than the shape or color and went with that.

What this shows is how important it is to include intentionally adversarial data in your training set if you want your model to be robust in 'unexpected' situations.
This idea looks good. Finance revolves on information asymmetry and keeping your customer uninformed on what's best for them.

What does the final step on account opening and transfer of funds look like for the user? Surely banks can't be that cooperative in providing you an api to open accounts for them.

Are there any money market funds or short term debt funds in Mexico?

I am sure you would look into adding forex cards and remittances in future. There are a couple of startups here in India which help you get better forex rates by negotiating with banks for pre loaded foreign currency cards, hard currency and TT/Swift transfers.
Cultural issues are huge here. Back in the 1980s high end construction made great use of tropical hardwoods which were considered premium materials that any proper wealthy person would prefer in their home. By the mid to late 1990s there was a huge shift and wealthy people building custom homes started to request LEED certification instead which completely changed everything. Out with the tropical hardwoods and in with reused barn beams. And all through this time the argument focused on legalities when evidence was mounting that the tastes and preferences of the wealthy were what really made the difference.
I agree with your overall point that what the parent comment is suggesting might be not a nice way to treat your friends.

However, if someone feels an equivalent amount of distress from having a convo with a fake person on a dating app as they would from thinking that some terrible accident happened to their kid at school, I believe they might have some larger personal problems to address first.
Whenever I see news about Googs making a decision, it is always read with "how will this ultimately be screwing the users". If Googs decides to stop doing some invasive data collection it is only because they have found something better.
Given the track record of the COVID vaccines (take a look at current Israel stats) I'm not optimistic about an HIV vaccine.
Modern CPU's already have several counters for 'nominal' cycles (i.e. cycles at a constant frequency). e.g. TSC instructions and Performance-Monitoring Counters.

Converting nominal cycles to time can be unreliable in some cases but not impossible.
Yes it is, sorry!
It would do little, I think. Not because people get less smart with age, but because with years they establish themselves in their field, and become more conservative and less willing to shake the status quo.
Don't worry, we'll get that solved in a jiffy.
I wish they’d start switching back to “Don’t Be Evil”.

But hey, shareholder value, right? Waaay more important.
I don't agree.

There is so much to learn about the world around us without even hitting physics limits.

And then so much to do with that knowledge.

I am not worried we will run out of problems to solve.
> a news walk-through with the same emotional profile, but with opposite opinions to Fox.

You wont find truth in the middle of two lies. Issue with Fox is not merely that they have different opinions. It is staggering amount of lies. Opposite of it are lies in another direction.

And in addition, you can actually find lies in different direction then Fox. It is just that, more lies dont solve these issues.
The actual announcement:

- de https://datenschutz-hamburg.de/pressemitteilungen/2021/08/20...

- en (auto) https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3...
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> It wasn't "very rare" and the side effect was that it literally gave people lym disease.

It sounds like it didn't actually do that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease#Vaccination:

> Subsequently, hundreds of vaccine recipients reported they had developed autoimmune and other side effects. Supported by some advocacy groups, a number of class-action lawsuits were filed against GlaxoSmithKline, alleging the vaccine had caused these health problems. These claims were investigated by the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control, which found no connection between the vaccine and the autoimmune complaints.[170]

> Despite the lack of evidence that the complaints were caused by the vaccine, sales plummeted and LYMErix was withdrawn from the U.S. market by GlaxoSmithKline in February 2002,[171] in the setting of negative media coverage and fears of vaccine side effects.[170][172] The fate of LYMErix was described in the medical literature as a "cautionary tale";[172] an editorial in Nature cited the withdrawal of LYMErix as an instance in which "unfounded public fears place pressures on vaccine developers that go beyond reasonable safety considerations."[25] The original developer of the OspA vaccine at the Max Planck Institute told Nature: "This just shows how irrational the world can be ... There was no scientific justification for the first OspA vaccine LYMErix being pulled."[170]
What should they use instead, some half assed open source solution subcontracted to the usual cronies of the consulting business?
I'm much like you, especially in personal projects. In a personal project that I plan to stay with long term there is no way I want to be chasing my own bugs all the time.

At work, I've found I work best with fast moving get-it-done types. They push me to accept imperfect work, and I've learned to see the value in that. I polish the imperfect stuff, and signal to the team when a "boring" quality improvement really could reap benefits.
Depends on the vaccine. There are research programs to develop vaccines that induce people to make broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies. Most people don’t naturally produce these. Such a vaccine could plausibly help people who are already infected.
Users benefit from a web where sites can make money by showing ads, because the alternatives (primarily paywalls) are worse. More: https://www.jefftk.com/p/why-i-work-on-ads

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself)
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I 100% admit to consuming food that I waste. That's on me! Half a pound is the least they sell.

What's beyond me is just the top line, gross figure. I'd need to bring home 10-20 pounds of meat every week to conform to the average, which is unimaginable.
Yes and no. If there's a network glitch while we're polling to see if the instance is "running", it will result in the "pending-to-running" time being high but the "running-to-port-closed" time being low.
> however, they fail to acknowledge that this was typical of the medium everywhere.
It was typical in mid-century Cuba, France, Japan, Brazil, etc. It wasn’t a uniquely American quality.

They aren't arguing that this state of affairs was uniquely American...
Yep, the FBI is unlikely to nail you to the wall for doing something inadvertantly (unless it was really really bad).

A friend of mine is a field agent who spent years prosecuting financial crimes, and a lot of her time was spent knocking on doors and telling people to stop doing stupid stuff. Like one lady in particular was elderly and kept getting taken advantage of by money launderers (people putting cash in her account and telling her to deposit it somewhere else). My friend had to visit her on multiple occasions to explain that she needed to stop doing that.
That is how you think about the software you write. System evolution is only one aspect. Most patterned OO codebases I have come across were *not* engineered for evolution. Sure there were some classes you could implement or replace, but the complexity was not paid back later.

Design principles can be applied to all implementation mechanisms.
Ya, that'd suck. But consider. Tardigrades are pretty tough. And elephants have x10 more cancer fighting genes than us apes.

Pretty soon, parents will be picking their kid's eye color and temperament. For better or worse. Surely future humans will become a great deal hardier than ourselves.
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I have seen estimates the climate change will reduce world GDP by about 6% by 2100, which is about 3 years of economic growth. So in 2100 the world will only be about as rich as it would be in 2097 without climate change. That is far from "destroying civilization", and I think that many of the actions proposed in the name of climate change will cost more than 6% of GDP by 2100.
This was probably the hold-up for FDA approval. They needed to see if a third dose would be recommended. But if two doses weren't enough to stop the delta variant, how can they be sure that three are?
Even in the USA Bodegas have a huge problem with card transaction fees, for example, the one near me charges $.80 per card transaction... So, imagine if you are buying something for $1.60 on your card (Many people do this, especially when you observe them using their unemployment/SNAP (Food Stamps/Government assistance cards)) -- so they pay %50 of the transaction just to swipe their card....
We would only small amounts of food, if we could efficiently recycle it. Right now, we use plants/animals and solar energy to upcycle our waste products into food. However, there are no physical reasons that we couldn’t use electricity and managed bioreactors to do that instead.
Maybe at a certain point "what they are made of" ceases to be a meaningful question.
There were huge amounts of knowledge and techniques that were never preserved. The Internet has forgotten many things about applied computer science.
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I agree with this completely.

It goes both ways too, like companies that try to keep business analysts and strategists completely separate from the database and data generation specifics.
When did C add standard library functions for Vecs and HashMaps? You're putting words in his mouth, no one claimed C lacked "robust, debugged standard library functions". It's no secret that the C standard library lacks implementations of a variety of things that programmers use on a daily basis.
But it's not mandatory, is it? Anyway, I would likely use the 5.6.3 version which was the last with LGPL 2.
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Anything else, even something proprietary.
Oh, definitely — my point was simply that it's good to think about how that would sound to someone who _isn't_ used to that risk. Saying “no big deal” runs the risk of sounding like ”I don't know what I'm talking about” or even “I'm downplaying this for some reason”. I don't think the person I replied to was in either category but I do think with medical concerns it's important to acknowledge that someone's concerns are reasonable before introducing some things which might make the risk more palatable (e.g. doctors now are far more likely to quickly recognize it and treat it aggressively since there's been a lot of awareness that this is becoming endemic in many areas where it didn't used to be common).
Yeah, I had the same (also with the i3 window manager and the fish shell): it came with sane[1] defaults to allowed me to chuck out my previous big, grown-over-the-years config and start over much smaller.

[1] very subjective but they were mostly similar to my tastes
It's worth posting Moderna's research pipeline to understand the breadth and depth of where they plan to take mRNA vaccines: https://www.modernatx.com/pipeline
We have the vaccine/treatment. We lack a population willing to embrace it, at sufficient levels to make a meaningful difference.
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Bitcoin traceability is old news. Nothing written on this article applies to Monero.
Offer a comparable alternative, then. I spend half my day on meetings either internally or with clients, and every time I have to jump on a client meeting with Microsoft Teams/Google Hangouts/WebEx/GotoMeeting because their company bans Zoom, it's a recipe for a fruitless meeting. Someone will fumble the sharing controls; screens will take forever to present; at least one person's microphone will become inaudible, static-y, or suffer from "robot voice slow-down" lag.

To say nothing of the clusterf*ck that happens when two company-specific instances of Microsoft Teams try to communicate with each other and I'm left with a bunch of orphaned chatrooms with outside personnel after the meeting concludes.
I would quickly be in the $500/mo tier and that would be a consequent cost to handle since I don't really make that kind of profit yet. But I have to agree anything beyond 10K is very reasonable given the features.
I just kind of wish they had an more affordable bracket between 500 and 10K but they probably have reasons not to.
There exists code that functionally cannot be deactivated, disabled, or removed on the blockchain (Uniswap is a good exmaple, no admin keys). Let's say the SEC prosecutes Uniswap Labs for running a securities exchange. What they cannot do, and what no one can do, is shut down the underlying code behind Uniswap.
Japanese :) first gotta pitch her on it though lol.
Started watching some of his videos. Very interesting and, in earnest, doesn't seem to be any different in other communities. Amplified in some ways in particular because he brings up the incarceration rates.
For anyone like me inspired by this quote, here is an audio recording and transcript:

https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeche...
> You are protected by the Statue of Not Worth It.

It can be automated and fined. This is why I'm totally against central band digital currencies, the potential for abuse is tremendous.
The biggest problem is you are missing an ecosystem. If someone wants to use it they need to do everything your way. But when using a boilerplate like from laravel, django, ror etc. there is a huuuge ecosystem which can be used too. So many functionality which does not need to be reimplemented.

So in my opinion all these one-off boilerplates not build on a well-known framework are too much hustle.
Yeah, Code Search is a counterexample because Google was using it, but killed the public version to focus on internal use. Though it is still available to the public in limited form for Google's major open source projects as https://source.chromium.org/ and https://cs.android.com/
Trying to stop fraud on a platform meant for migrants is absolutely a 'hard problem'.

Just trying to get the app out there for people to use is a 'hard problem'.

So it's mostly definitely 'hard' , just no in the bounded way puzzles are presented in classrooms.

Where I find it gets bad is in technical conditions wherein people are used to competing on these terms aka 'who is the smartest'. If find people end up arguing over the wrong things, and of course 'bike shedding'.

If the problem is framed in terms of outcomes, then it's harder bike-shed or wax philosophic because those activities are more or less exposed as having less relevance.