skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can tell, social media was acting like a common carrier here - the @racetrust account was not shut down by Twitter. They appear to have deleted their account on their own.
Automattic Employees Buy and Sell Their Startup Stock – Without an IPO
Some people’s natural abilities outweigh the developed abilities of others without any extra work.

The best is when an individual combines natural ability with deliberate practice.
I honestly can't comprehend how you are talking about a tax on land being a tax on capital. The owner of the land didn't create it, taxing the owner of the land doesn't discourage his production of additional land.
If you were to introduce a 100% land tax no land would disappear as a result, instead the value of the land would shrink until people can afford to pay 100% of the value of the land every single year.

As people who can use the land more productively can pay a higher land tax they would outbid anyone who intends a less productive use of the land.
Is there a difference in what iscollected and stored in EU?
I believe you can use any character your keyboard and/or chosen input method supports. I happen to like ß. From memory alone I've seen people use the +/- symbol, the upright cross, the double-cross and the cross product symbol, just on HN.
We’re done with the death comparisons over distancing measures — we’ve been past the point where that was in the running for most effective intervention for months now. If Sweden fared poorly during the time it was true, that’s the conclusion. We’re in the phase where the comparisons are basically about social/logistic/resource issues for vaccine uptake.

Also, the idea that the playbook has always been low-distance intervention for pathogens of similar impact is wrong.
Humans are particularly bad at highway driving long distances because they get highway hypnosis or fall alseep. On local roads on the other hand humans tend to do a good job reasoning with situations.
How strongly does this hold in cases where the speech is actually effective? I'm genuinely interested in a discussion without taking a side, because I feel like when people advocate for free speech, they are mainly thinking about unpopular unconvincing speech.

Say, someone with a new brand of Nazi-ism is actually converting most of the people they talk to, using a combination of half-truths? Or even what if they are converting people by using celebrity endorsements and charismatic language? So no misinformation, but rather salient anecdotes, facts, and science?

What if someone's speech is effective at making people afraid of exercising opposing speech? What if someone's speech convinces people to attack the capitol? Maybe they don't plan the attack itself, and it's merely implied that the state of the world is completely unfair in a way that only a revolution and changing of constitutional rights, could a better world be restored?
It's called 'Copyright'
If the government was not getting what they wanted from Google, the entire alphabet company would have been broken up a long time ago just like the phone companies were.
> "Now there seems to be a paradox when it comes to clickbait. People almost universally claim to hate it, but you also see it everywhere."

His paradox of clickbait is very... interesting. I propose a similar paradox of used car salesmen: People say they hate it when used car salesmen lie to them, yet used car salesmen who lie the most sell the most cars!
I think some missing context here is that the "observation" phase of an NVC communication:

1. Is in large part for you, the speaker. It forces you to get clear about what you really know to be true. I'm surprised at how often I'm trying to communicate some reaction I'm having, and it's really hard to even say what triggered it. In the process of figuring that out I get a lot of clarity about hat I was expecting or hoping for, what was missing, what the other person actually did, and just by virtue of the reflection, often some "free" insight into what they might have been thinking.

2. Is always followed by a feeling, need, or request (or some combo of those). This, I think is the key to making it not passive aggressive. If I start with "I need for you to not be late anymore," it's a bit disorienting in the conversation for the other person. What caused you to say that? Why now? Providing an objective observation as context for the rest of what you say allows both people to be on the same page about what the subject even is. Being late is a bit of a trivial example, but just like making the observation alone leaves a lot of work on the listener to infer what you expect to happen as a result of the observation, making the request alone leaves a lot work on the listener to infer what generated the request in the first place, ie. what you think has been happening, what matters to you, etc.

I think the strongest move is actually: observation, then impact, then request. Like:

> Hey, you were ten minutes late this morning. We had to push back the client meeting because you weren't there, and I'm afraid we looked disorganized and untrustworthy as a result. I need you to be on time from now on.

It's quite direct that way.

Also much like the observation step triggering useful self-reflection, the impact step requires you to know why the request matters to you at all. Like if there was no client meeting, what do you care if the other person was 10 minutes late? Maybe you still care, but you need to reflect enough to actually understand why, so that you can say it.
There's always a big issue with systems like this: Any sophisticated attacker will have an image of the machine he's trying to get into at hand to stop exactly what this pam module is trying to achieve from happening.

All this would do is make you appear in a worse light to the deciding judge when it comes to trial or get your other kneecap shattered in a not so civil situation.
Looking at the measles wikipedia article:

"Furthermore, measles's reproductive number estimates vary beyond the frequently cited range of 12 to 18.[15] The NIH quote this 2017 paper saying: "[a] review in 2017 identified feasible measles R0 values of 3.7–203.3"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles
> Re the other two revolutions I'm glad MAD (mutually assured destruction) is no longer talked about

Yes, it's not talked about much, but there are more nuclear powers than before and the risk is very much still there. I don't know how we'll put that genie back in the bottle.

I just read the other day about Russia's new doomsday weapon. A nuclear torpedo with yield triple that of the largest bomb ever exploded, a dirty bomb on purpose for extra radioactivity, and meant to be detonated near a coastal city to strike it with a 500 meter radioactive tsunami. That kind of silliness continues on, unfortunately.
Twitter has great tech content and really isn't any more toxic than other social media (and remember, HN is social media too!). For instance, foone threads regularly apear on HN. A lot of the hate here IMO is just people's rationalized politic opinions and not having the discipline to avoid being baited into the politics side of the website. Which again, only has the same problems as getting into political arguments elsewhere online. I have seen plenty of flamewars here too, especially last year.

I have had a really good experience with the platform and actually met friends with my super niche interests that way. It's how I keep up with people in my small academic field in an informal way and talk about the human side of doing science. Also, I believe my papers have gotten more attention since posting there.

The only thing I'm not a huge fan of is how replying boosts posts and there's no downvote. It leads to noobs getting baited into responding to trolling or low effort content and giving it a ton of attention. However, everyone knows about that after their first month on the platform and uses workarounds so it isn't an issue.
It's generally agreed that the Sandwich Technique is manipulative and condescending. If the purpose of a meeting/conversation is to deliver negative feedback, your reports/teammates will almost certainly be able to figure that out. If you're using this technique, I'd highly recommend spending some time figuring out if people actually appreciate this aspect of the conversations you're having with them.
The amp is for taking out cameras :)
I'm not from the US, but from what I could gather: Since 2014 (ACA) that chart includes most private insurance payment under government/compulsory.
You can see the same change in the WHO data [1]. Their database [2] lists for 2018 (per capita):

- $4,089 "Transfers from government domestic revenue" (Medicare & Medicaid ?)

- $3,642 "Compulsory prepayment" (ACA private insurance ?)

- $1,267 "Social insurance contributions"

- $1,626 "Other domestic revenues"

Again, I'm not from the US so I don't know how to interpret those numbers. But it seems gov spending is >$4,089 which is already higher than most western countries with national health insurance.

[1] https://apps.who.int/nha/database/country_profile/Index/en (select USA)

[2] https://apps.who.int/nha/database/Select/Indicators/en (in indicators select everything under 'Health Expenditure Data' > 'Revenues', country USA, all years, unit 'current US$ per capita')
Population density is meaningless for countries as a whole. Most of Sweden is wilderness where hardly anyone lives. Swedes mostly live in cities, just like Brits.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28245221 - Aug 2021 (411 comments)

Previously:

OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28237274 - Aug 2021 (1306 comments)
What I find particularly interesting is that Sweden wasn't the only country that did this -- Brazil also did a no-lockdown strategy, and it was basically a disaster there.

Evidently, there must have been some other factors at play besides the boolean of lockdown true/false. Better healthcare, maybe?
Forking a new process for every incoming web request might just make a lot of sense on ~2020 era, Spectre- and Meltdown-prone hardware. And so the Wheel of Samsara turns.
Assuming that in any give situation, the only correct decision in the absence of any knowledge is the most conservative one. Which this would disprove and thus the argument is provably false.
You could set this up with three possible passwords, #1 for normal login, #2 for what looks like normal login but deletes most sensitive things and #3 that wipes the disk encryption keys and reboots. If forced by criminals or a not so free government enter #2 and pretend everything is normal. If pressured by the US or EU government with your lawyer present enter #3, see it fail and claim you forgot the encryption keys to make it boot (which is technically true, just never admit you made it delete them since that's illegal in most places)
I remember Kali Linux had a patched LUKS implementation for full disk encryption with self destruction password

https://www.kali.org/blog/emergency-self-destruction-luks-ka...
People need to realize that human memory != computer memory. It’s not even similar. Human intelligence is all about identification and differentiation. Intelligence comes from being able to work with raw data and seeing how it can apply to given circumstances, predicting outcomes and selecting correct actions.

Memorization is the lowest form of intelligence, although it does have uses. I think it would be very beneficial for standardized testing to move away from testing ones ability to remember dates and lists of things and more toward problem solving and ability for the student to come up with solutions to problems of the field being studied.
> One good thing: the study is generating interest by enforcement agencies who want to crack down on illegal sales.

> "Whoa, I just saw old widow Johnson down the street doing the perp walk. What was her crime?"

> "Opening planting cogongrass in her front yard."

Cracking down on illegal sales is highly appropriate, and very different from cracking down on people who (presumably unaware of the risks) plant it.
Apple is clearly headed down a path where they require intimate knowledge of your data.

That AI assistant lives in the cloud in an Apple data center, not on your device.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loiltpe6q-s&t=3s

fantastic channel that goes in depth on chip industry
Real password:

woD3PRBgELFHH9nuABH]ksD

Duress password:

duress123
Orwell was initially a socialist sympathizer (went to spain during the spanish civil war), but after the Soviet Union went through major purges in the 30s, and the USSR (bad) treatment of other countries and major ethnic forced relocations inside USSR, he might have had a change of heart later on. He opposed totalitarianism in general, and after the defeat of nazism, he started seeing communism as evil/bad.

He worked for communications in the BBC during WW2, and had first hand experience with the language censoring of the time, especially of communication towards British colonies at the time.
I'm not Russian or Ukrainian, but I suspect this stems from the Stalin's treatment of occupied Ukraine in the early 1930's, where so much of their grain was shipped out of the country that 25% of Ukraine's population had died by 1933.
I'm in a similar spot, recently started using Obsidian and am enjoying it. It's far from perfect, but it is better than the others imo. And the fact that it is all markdown based means no lock-in which is fantastic.
Really? Even our Logo interpreter successfully resolves that one (although you have to use radsin instead of sin because our sin works in degrees)
Add to this that babies born during lockdown have found to have a significant lower IQ.

“It’s not subtle by any stretch,” said Deoni. “You don’t typically see things like that, outside of major cognitive disorders.”

I think we vastly underestimate the severe long-term effects of lockdowns.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/12/children-born-...
Location history is default off - but in general is useful enough you'll want to turn it on. To have it turned on you would need to

* Sign into your google account

* Turned on location history (google account level) - default is off

* Turn on location reporting (device level option).

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A reasonable balance I've found is to have Google delete old location history - to do that you go to Google Maps Timeline

http://www.google.com/maps/timeline

Then do automatically delete location history. This deletes after some time. So you get the benefits of history without the forever record.

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You can also see what location history has been tracked for you with Takeout. Some cool visualizers there.
>it’s also a meaningless number

Saying something is meaningless doesn't make it so. Often things don't mean what people would like them to mean, but every observation means something.

If Waymo is operating in particularly easy environments, then it's plausible that it's not as good as a 30K mile interval would imply.

But that number definitely implies an upper bound, because if they could go longer, they would.

Do you have a source for there being no safety driver physically in the car and the car always finding a safe state on its own?
They can probably shut them off remotely. Also, some high end CAM equipment is geofenced. They are only licensed for one location.
> You're saying that for humans it requires perhaps 30% additional learning effort but for computers 9900%, and I'm supposed to accept the 30/9900 discrepancy because… what?

Because AI is not even remotely close to “solved”, and driving is a combination of a million edge conditions, social knowledge and communication, common sense knowledge, vision understanding, planning, and force feedback adjustment.

What’s unclear to me is why you’d expect these things to be so easy. To even say “for computers” doesn’t seem to recognize this isn’t just about executing basic math, but is rather trying to represent intelligence. There is no single computer here, these are implementations of ML models, which are each unique with their own architecture, parameter space, and capabilities.
Cameras with facial and gait recognition everywhere you go

RFID/NFC broadcasters/scanners all over the place

Credit cards that track your spending and movement

Contact tracing

Daily massive data breaches

Social media manipulation

Every modern car has built in GPS tracking that is uploaded to the dealer and stored

Three letter agency programs to capture as much metadata and content as possible

Hash bashed copyright scanning enforcement on your local devices

Oh and the stuff you create on these services? They own it. Everything they "sell" to you? You're renting it.

--

Sorry for the rant but the reality is that this is already a dystopian nightmare and there is no way to go back.
About this few weeks training you mentioned for Unix-style parsing of unstructured text - what resources do you recommend?
Zero-JS, fully functional, but sure to be downvoted…

https://mbasic.facebook.com/
Firm believer that private companies should be able to censor whatever they want here!

> What if someone's speech is effective at making people afraid of exercising opposing speech? What if someone's speech convinces people to attack the capitol? Maybe they don't plan the attack itself, and it's merely implied that the state of the world is completely unfair in a way that only a revolution and changing of constitutional rights, could a better world be restored?

The government should not be censoring this. Private companies, as always, should feel free to censor what they want, regardless of positions.
Aren't fabs already rigged with explosives in case of invasion?
Does this correctly handle all the different NaN values, weird corner cases, etc. properly?
-0.0 and +0.0?
> I have never ever encountered a type error with it

The problem is opposite - not having type error. The simplest example probably is import from CSV with incorrect column order. Using other DB you get an error, SQLite will just import everything.
Not true. Many Brazilian cities and states had lockdown measures at various times this past 20 months.
In the UK truck drivers:

a break or breaks totalling at least 45 minutes after no more than 4 hours 30 minutes driving

They are professional drivers.

To speed up EV adoption, improve road safety and make an attainable mileage goal for EVs we could use legislation to require a 30 minutes break after three hours of car driving.

This would be unpopular and initially hard to enforce, but if you were in an accident after driving without a break for six hours then you would not do it again as the law would make you the dangerous driver and your insurance would not help.

Trucks have a tachograph, this could be mandated for cars too.
So its worse the C02 for 9 years...

And then _becomes_ CO2 ?

Not seeing how this is a win?
I wonder if it's thoughts of a patent moat.

I'm guessing Nissan, GM, and Tesla have fairly robust patent portfolios related to recent EV tech.

Toyota probably has some stuff to offer related to the electrical side of the hybrid drive, but it's probably a far weaker portfolio-- some of their stuff is near the end of the patent lifecycle, and some is only useful in the context of range extended or hybrid-electric designs.

That means they can't offer a compelling cross-license agreement. It might cost them hundreds or thousands of dollars per vehicle to license the patents at "market rates", particularly of other players see it as a way to hobble a huge competitor.

OTOH, if they can make hydrogen work, they probably hold a lot more cards to deal with other manufacturers.

I'm surprised there wasn't more two-pronged thinking though. The selling point of hydrogen fuel-cell was that it was less subject to range anxiety, but we knew there are clearly identifiable markets where that message was a non-starter. No point selling a 500km range to a city dweller whose longest journey is 25km, but you could sell them a vehicle with Ni-MH batteries left over from 1990s laptops and it would cover their needs.

This would have allowed them to focus on the markets where liquid/gaseous fuel would make its last stands. I'd think freight would be the big one-- even if there's a charging station every 100km along the interstate, business wants to minimize fueling stops, so being able to say "800km+ range-- a full shift of driving on one tank of hydrogen" would set the bar high for electric competition.
> While many people might point out that Sweden did in fact have more deaths, the verdict on that is still out

Other people would point out that Sweden experienced economic effects and other indicia of behavioral changes roughly equivalent to places that notionally, at least, had lockdowns.
I've re-upped this thread in lieu of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28264032, which references this article but is baitier and led to more of a garden-variety thread.

The current submission got a surprising amount of upvotes for a post that remained underwater (below the front page): http://hnrankings.info/28238163/. It's on my list to detect threads like that and rescue them. This case will be a hell of an example for testing.
Self driving cars are here now, I'll take that 1000 dollars.

Or do you have some specific definition of what qualifies as "here" that generally makes people unwilling to take this bet?
I am 41 years old. And I feel like in last 6-8 years, people have become far more intolerant regarding free speech. It is just not possible to say anything which is unpopular without inviting vicious attacks or even real threats. In part social media platforms are to be blamed. They somehow bring the worst out of everyone. The guy who is/was willing to listen to me patiently is now issuing death threats to anyone on Twitter. Somehow these trends are now transgressing to real life. These days people just don't think. They only react.
-0 and 0 do.
Ah that makes sense!
For the last few decades, the best practice for data archiving has been to include a machine capable of reading the data inside the box with the data itself.

E.g. Inside your big crate of tapes, you include a tape reader, with printed instructions and schematics for how to read the data.
The same goes for their analytics "IP anonymization": it's hardly anonymous. I wrote an article about it a while back: https://bytewelder.com/posts/2021/07/08/google-analytics-ip-...
Lawenforcement yes, but I'm not sure most criminals are digital enough. Especially if it all looks just normal logged in, but in the background deletes some hidden files.
Is that the case? My impression is that PHEVs have been very rare in the last 10-15 years. Even now the selection seems very small. I’ve just started looking into them and it seem like the market is just barely getting up and running with some decent 2021-2022 models.
True, it is basically //go: generate, before Go was born.

Here is an example, https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/101816/generi...
for me mixed value types killed index, which drastically affected performance
Welcome to America in one sentence.
Size issues.

If I remember correctly, the machines are designed to fit the plane and vis-a-versa. So they will be smaller on top to fit the curvature of the plane body, for example
The problem is more serious when it's things that people desperately do want to hear but turn out not to be true.
Can we stop calling everything an "fallacy" when you're just trying to say he's wrong?
That aside what you're saying doesn't address the issue at all. You have a clear relation between two groups and an outcome and those relations clearly show that it was a bad choice to pretend we can lockdown until a miracle cure happens.

Let's put it this way, did you expect the outcome to be what it currently is? We have MORE deaths with Covid than we had at the same time last year. Is that what you would have predicted when the great results of the trials were published?