skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being serious and having a sense of humour is not mutually exclusive. The rhino example: the reason this research was done is exactly what you mention, saving the species. It says so in the article:

>The wild black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) faces a serious threat from poachers in southern Africa, along with agriculture development encroaching on its turf. This is leading to too much inbreeding. So African governments have taken to occasionally relocating the rhinos to different geographical regions to mix things up a bit. The problem is that transport by truck is difficult if not impossible, given the rugged terrain, so the Namibian Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) has resorted to transporting the rhinos aerially. This involves sedating the ungulates (from a safe distance) with a potent opioid and then suspending the drugged rhinos by their feet under the helicopter for as long as 30 minutes. Robin Radcliffe (Cornell University) and his co-authors noted that nobody had studied the physiological effects of this practice on the rhinos.

If you look at the list, all the research that was awarded has practical applications. All of this can be used to further our knowledge of the world, to give insight into how things work. And this is what a curious mind should strive for. To look into things like no one else has done before.

I think the scientists are people like you and me. In fact, knowing a few, I know this for a fact. They have a sense of humour, a drive to explore the world with knowledge and a healthy ability to mix the two.
They're getting conflated because the people who are against vaccines are referencing freedom to choose as their primary argument, as if the ability to make bad decisions implies some duty to make bad decisions.

I'm against vaccine mandates in principle, but the ultimate cause of the authoritarianism is mass media. Covid has been a fantastic setup for dog and pony shows - political hucksters rail all day about government overreach while inciting their followers to make bad choices. The large scale effects of those bad choices practically demand government intervention. And after the utilitarian system steps in to mitigate the problem, the hucksters take credit for being right about government overreach all along. It's the perfect con for the post-reality media environment - when reality asserts itself and some low level preacher dies of their own kool aid, they just go silent and are replaced by another ignorant voice on the same channel.

If we had a level of societal trust such that you could expect that most everyone would be taking measures to prevent spreading Covid, then coming together in large groups (eg employment) would be less of an issue. But as it stands, why would anybody want to go back into the office when it's likely that at least a third of your coworkers will blithely get you sick? And hence OSHA et al step in, using the same rationale as when preventing operating heavy equipment while drunk - it creates an unsafe work environment.
I kinda get the feeling that most of the issues with these projects are well understood and already solved.

Basically it's probably at a stage where somebody just needs to 'do it' - like on the moon as a starting point, and see what happens.

And on the moon you could park an escape ship nearby if things went really badly South, and get back home in reasonable time.

Anybody got a heavy lifter so we can start bringing up the prefabbed bits? :)
Don't know if "anti-vax" equals "top notch".
If you want to have a little fun then writing a python script to convert a file to beeps and recover it from beeps is quite doable.

It also teaches you just how insane the speeds we have today are.
Well, there's precedent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_wheel
The contract example was just to demonstrate the law absolutely allows punishment for betraying responsibility, not that you sign a literal contract. If you have sex, that should be considered voluntarily agreement to the consequences. AFAIK, you can sue people over matters where no contract exists - societal laws aren't all literal contracts.

> then probably we can assume that

then penalise non-medical late-term abortions?

> This might be a genetic birth defect (which is your responsibility for having sex by your count because it's one of the possible outcomes you are assumed to accept)

but acting in good faith, there's no formal responsibility to pass on good genes. An interesting concept, but moot in modern society. Also, it doesn't follow that "donating a kidney" fixes the issue in the same way "not aborting" would.

> or just beating the kid

In which case you would obviously be punished.

> you still wouldn't be obliged to provide your kidney as a replacement

My original comments agree this is true, but also state it doesn't mean you can't be punished/penalised.

> the law should never require of you the piece of your body

Then can I state your doctors can never retrieve/tamper with a piece of someone else's body, even if it exists inside your womb?

> However you'll be fully responsible for putting me there, if it was illegal

And I where a jailer who put you in there legally, but illegally left you there to rot? The legality of the first act would not change my initial responsibility to let you out.
I am running RX 570 with PCIe + 6-pin connector for the power. These works out-of-the-box due to open source drivers. Older Nvidia cards work too, but you would need to go with older cards as you need Nouveau driver. I believe someone recently used AMD RX 6700XT, which is a bit insane.

The bottleneck here is SoC, not the GPU. With HW decoding on the GPU I can play 4K 60fps trailers on Unmatched just fine.
If they can safely work from home this is clearly not an occupational safety and health issue and osha doesn't have any business getting involved. So this is either clearly an overreach or osha was just the vector biden used to exert power he didn't have on his own.
I think it is relevant to understand whether "being outside in ash cloud" leads to more or less instant death (1 day - 4 weeks as is typical with acute radiation syndrome) as my interpretation of the original post implied.

Or cancer 10 years down the road (unless you die of a car accident before that, or are treated with modern transplant/chemo therapies)
Bit delayed, but I wasn’t trying to imply that’s what happens at Apple. I know a lot of mechanical engineers there and I understand the approach they take is as you say.

My point was more in general. Should’ve clarified that.
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Also not to forget that currently midnight and the associated change of the calendar date happen at a time when most people are either asleep or otherwise don't really care about that fact.

Not having time zones means that everybody except the privileged minority living near wherever the new meridian ends up will have the calendar date change during their waking hours, which will be rather confusing.

Plus how are things that are currently specified at the granularity of calendar dates supposed to work? Do public holidays and suchlike suddenly start and end at something like for example 3 o'clock (solar time) in the afternoon, because that's when the new midnight (global time) happens at your location? Or does everything now need to specify starting and ending hours, too? Or do you decouple the change of calendar date from midnight (global time), which basically means reintroducing time zones through the back door…
Even if they do this type of research and don't release it to the public, you can bet nations states already are doing the same research in private, and using it against whoever they want.

Better to have this in the public eye, than to be too scared to carry out the research in fear of others abusing it. because whether the research is done publicly or not, the "bad guys" are probably doing it in private.
GP is likely arguing that reducing obesity reduces infectious disease, which is true at least in the case of COVID.
Non-zero. If COVID had a 100% death rate and was contagious like COVID we’d be vaccinating everyone against their will.
But the quarks give it it's identity. That's why they say it's made up from them, I assume.
> on this prison platform

Unlike prison, you’re free to leave Twitter any time you’d like. I did. The world kept spinning all the same.
Tobacco isn't communicable like a virus, doesn't produce symptoms in 2 weeks, hasn't ground the world to a halt and actually serves a purpose as a heretofore deeply ingrained cultural activity. The rest of the comparisons arent any better.
Regarding 2. You can write simple procedural programs with Ada, no need to use every last feature in a project.
They do put a burden on the healthcare system, but last I checked ICUs are not presently being filled up across the country with lung cancer and heart disease patients.
This is the approach I have to computers controlling things in my home, it's fine if they are computers, but I don't want them connected.
> For most people it's a pretty low bar and when it comes to paying your mortgage then most folk won't jeopardize their job.

Maybe so, but when you use naked force to make people do things, you make an enemy for life. Anyone forced to choose between his bodily integrity and feeding his family will never, ever, not a million years, forgive you, even, and he will hate you for the rest of your days.
I’m sure something like this exists somewhere already.

I bought a tiny camera on the end of a 50’ coax cable to fix a plumbing issue on Amazon for $40… that tech was James Bond stuff 30 years ago!
I don't want to worry about money anymore

Then you must stop worrying about money.

If you have a million dollars, you will worry about it.

If you have 100k recurring revenue, you will worry about the recurrence.

It's an XY problem.
Similar is my wife getting on a train with 7,000 steps still to go to maintain her x00 day streak of 10k steps/day. She proceeded to march on the spot for some time to keep her streak active. Our room was about 2-3m across.
Could you give an example of how you'd use POPCOUNT in an optimization?
The output was quite large so I linked it here: https://gist.github.com/rwmjones/29b63bf20b10371ca9f1a56dac2...

The numbers are of course terrible because these chips don't perform very well and I guess also no one has tried to optimize this benchmark for RV.
There are plenty of non-fascist things the state could do that might help address the obesity problem (like stopping massive maize subsidies) but the state won't do any of them. Sad.
Agreed. There is a reason camera lenses are not matte. Polished glass passes light rays more directly and efficiently, meaning a clearer, higher contrast view of the screen underneath the glass.

The big change that enabled Apple to remove the matte option was brighter and more efficient LED backlights. Now their laptop screens have plenty of brightness to overpower ambient light in practical usage. If reflections are interfering with work, one can simply turn up the brightness to overpower them.

This does not work well in extremely bright conditions like direct sunlight. But then again matte screens also suck in direct sunlight. I like to think of this as a subtle hint from the industry that one should not work at the beach. ;-)
> No, extrapolating outside of study sample is the entire point of doing science. Of what use science would be if we could not do that? Imagine, “no, you can’t say that this vaccine is effective, at best you can say that it was effective in the sample of subjects being included in that study

It's not about not extrapolating to individual subjects outside of the test group, it's about not extrapolating to categories which aren't represented. That's why we don't conclude a vaccine is effective on all mammals after a trial on mouses! We experiment on humans, and we even try to get as much diversity as we can (age, gender, preexisting conditions etc.) so the result can be generalized to the entire population.

> I observe a goalpost being shifted, from “genetic factors alone” to them being decisive. I do not accept that. Please, tell me, where they, or anyone else claims that genetic factors alone determine outcomes.

The argument made in The Bell Curve is that genetics is the single most important factor. I wrote “alone” not because there is not other factors, but because according to the authors there is no other factors as important.

> Relationship between g and genetics is an empirical, not purely ideological issue. Hernstein has been saying that g is mostly determined by genes precisely because this is the current state of our scientific knowledge, and has been for decades.

It's not. At least not according to the usual definition of “scientific knowledge” which imply some degree of consensus: this research field is strongly divided on that question, with a clear ideological split. BTW, even the mere existence of g is questioned.
I expect it makes people happier to listen to music they enjoy. So the same as someone listening to classical stations, or country, or whatever.

Maybe people enjoy hearing prayer radios. I spent time in Nepal and people would listen to recorded meditations and chants. But I didn’t hear them on the radio, it was recorded on phones and iPods and stuff.
You can get proper autocomplete out of OpenAPI, powered by typescript.
There’s a difference between “I am in public so taking a photo of me is fair game” and paparazzi gathering around a front door with a dozen cameras snapping flash photos the moment both feet are outside while goading the person verbally because their income depends on a saleable picture.

“It’s information in public so someone might see” vs “Google continuously maximising the damage of a short term mistake, testing every door round the clock for accidental unlocks, because it’s in their financial interest”

If the internet is a hostile place where mistakes can harm you, the harm comes from the people acting in a hostile way rather than s friendly supportive way, and on this spectrum Google is the indifferent machine rather than the kindly human janitor exercising discretion and judgement.
This is not an unusual thing to see around foundations of mathematics, either - where it could take dozens of pages filled with complicated argument and construction before one eventually can say, “We can multiply these integers now!”
In a perfect world the Eu would simply fund high impact and promising projects. Imagine the state of office if it were actually funded. I think THE biggest adoption problem with Linux for normal business people is office.
Search your feelings, you already know the answer.
Sure it is likely, and the bank will have to take into account the cost associated with future possible changes in its balance sheet (including if it needs to attract or borrow reserves) when deciding whether to make the 900k loan, or a 1.2m loan, or any loan. But the 10% reserve limit at no point directly limited the amount of loans the bank could make to 900k.

The whole premise of the paper seems to be that this way of thinking is backwards (in terms of the order and causality of events) and not really relevant to modern banking.

Another toy example - there are two banks in the banking system with 1m deposits and reserves, and they are let loose making loans at the same time. Why would they only create 900k of loans? The situation is symmetrical, they can expect the net reserve transfer between them to be small if they make similar amounts of loans. In what way is the 10% reserve requirement limiting them to making 900k of loans in this scenario?
Spook.js – New side-channel attack can bypass Google Chrome’s protections
I was going to say the same about Prime, but it's not perfect either.

Their Windows app is terrible. It takes forever to start for some reason. Sometimes, after a few minutes, I just give up and launch the browser. Sometimes if I try to get back 10 seconds it will just freeze playback. I can sometimes get it back by trying to fast-forward around. Others I have to stop watching and start again.

This never happens on the web app.
> Edit: One thing that puzzles me though - Why is nobody talking about those that are immune or already have the antibodies and don't need a vaccine? Why force them to have it if those vaccinated are safe?

The mRNA vaccines do appear to reduce risk (of infection and of symptoms) in recovered patients as well. (See e.g. https://theconversation.com/if-ive-already-had-covid-do-i-ne...)

That said, the German "geimpft, getestet, oder genesen" strategy ("vaccinated, tested, or recovered") is explicitly what you suggest.

The tradeoff here, to me, is that:

- If we do not mandate vaccination, people can preserve their individual autonomy and will, nonetheless, probably get infected sooner or later and thus have some immunity. (According to some research, greater than that of vaccinated people against the same strain, but perhaps reduced against other strains.)

- However, that relies upon maintaining sufficient hospital capacity for the additional cases with severe symptoms. So as long as hospital capacity remains an issue, mandatory vaccinations make sense.
I think you show yourself that Napoleon was a continuation of the Revolution, which was under more serious threat from the European monarchies' coalition to invade France and restore monarchy as it was.
Dinosaur Jesus approves of this message. https://joelx.com/jesus-rode-dinosaurs/1056/
We have had one death in NZ.

We're a small population so it's significant.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/126225003/...
Can you imagine ICUs already overwhelmed by covid in a world without seatbelts and airbags? Or ever-increasing safety standards in general. Times like this emphasize how what seems like individual choices can have major social consequences.
For some, maybe just holier-than-thou - but then, so too can highbrow art.
Let me guess, seat belt mandates are also “authoritarian”?

What about measles vaccine requirements? Have you complained about those recently? Believe it or not, there was a time when measles wasn’t a thing and very few question the need for a measles vaccine now.

What about the broad polio vaccine rollout?

Vaccine hesitancy has been a thing, but never this strongly along party lines
> Developers don't like complexity.

Judging by the code that is in front of me right now, I'm pretty sure they really do like it... or at least make lots of it.
That’s why Cylons only have one laser beam.
> so if they failed to pay taxes at the same rate as the other 99% of Americans...

Do you have any reason to believe this, to the point where you think the report is wrong?

I find it much more likely that rich people simply don't commit tax evasion as much as less rich people. For one, they can afford the tax bill. They can also afford accountants and tax lawyers to help them lower their tax bill without commiting tax evasion.
The hospital scene from Threads is on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUv_uvDeshE&t=41s
Fascism. It’s just called fascism.
>Author here, I don't actually know

Why are you writing authoritatively about something you know you don´t actually know then?
Social animal species with a strong drive to be part of the group are still quite happy to exterminate other groups of the same species. Just a random example is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War , but there are many others in different species - illustrating that being socially motivated does not mean avoiding organized slaughter of your fellow species-mates.
I.e., you do not understand what "pilot project" means.
Running a website is so hard even a moron can do it.
Ask HN: Push new posts in a Slack channel to another app?
Is there an API to pull new messages in a Slack channel? Or an integration so new messages in a Slack channel are pushed to another app?

I have users posting URLs in a slack channel and I would like to be able to programmatically add those URLs to a text file on my server as they arrive in the Slack channel... rather than me manually pointy-clicky-copy-paste every afternoon.

thanks for any suggestions/pointers!
Dont take this as me agreeing with the previous comment but I just want to point out that smoking, fast food, etc are all things that kill you "slowly", therefore has less of a risk of overrunning the healthcare system.

It would have been smarter IMO (though probably not politically possible) to mandate the vaccine for specific age groups. If what they are trying to do avoid hospitalization, they should focus on the groups that are most susceptible. If you're under 40 for example you won't be required to take it but if you're older you would because the risk of a 40 something getting hospitalized is way higher than a 20 something.
TSMC.

We legit need their semi production for defense much more than we need cheap plastic kids toys at Walmart.
I will note that fusion reactors have serious diseconomies of scale.

First, the power output of a fusion reactor is limited by what the first wall can withstand. Therefore, the power goes as radius^2, where as the cost goes (at least) as radius^3.

Second, the larger a fusion reactor becomes, the more parts it has, and the more reliable each individual part has to be (since there will be no redundancy in many; an leak into the vacuum chamber shuts down the reactor, for example). Reliability is expensive, so each part becomes more expensive as it is required to be more reliable.

Renewables sources are extremely redundant, so they'd scale just fine even with unexceptional per-unit reliability.
Or just put tape over the keyhole when you're in the house.
Organic Maps isn't as full featured, but so far, works well for directions here.

Also works 100% offline, after downloading maps.
>it's time we started holding them to similar standards of behavior to humans.

I have observed in my own behavior that I damn near refuse to "say" why I am calling to an automated system while I am happy to ask Siri for a kitchen timer.

Siri has a personality and the customer service automated line does not. It's like talking to a wall and it feels condescending.

Once you make a device human like, it seems that a new realm of possibilities opens up.
We still don't really understand how diet affects health long term.

The effects of smoking OTOH are extremely clear.
Yeah, I was experimenting with a similar thing a while back. The idea was to use camera equipped devices looking at each other to negotiate data transfer through dense QR-codes. Even with that substantially larger data frame support, transfer speed was abysmal at best.
boo-fucking-hoo

disneyland is for capitalist pigs
I love well researched but easy to digest posts like this.

For me Ruby remains a really interesting language and I really appreciate the engineering efforts to improve it without loosing what's fun about it.
> This already helps to eliminate lots of unnecessary code.

Well, I think you just moved the validation code to another place. Instead of putting it in your app, where (in my opinion) it belongs, you are putting it in a hard-to-read and difficult to understand external JSON file. I'm not sure how that's an improvement.
"the vaccine doesn't prevent spread"

Citation needed. This contradicts the most recent research and information available, and all one must do is a quick search to turn up dozens of published papers on this topic. The vaccine reduces the transmission of COVID, and that is an important public health goal.
Yes but beyond transaction speed there is the fact that people need/want the money immediately in a form that they can spend.

These are not wealthy people. The remittance is for real goods.
The last mile with money is "can I buy stuff now".
Some African countries are moving fast in this area with mobile wallets but it has been slow generally. Maybe this decade...
> classical deterministic physic mindset of prequantum discoveries

This model can extend into the quantum realm as well if approached correctly, like with Bohmian mechanics.
But what is it that I am fighting against here? Why is my tone a certain way? These people are literally trying to build websites in Rust. Acolytes, cultists.