skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure the end game is either exerting social or even legal pressure to KEEP the value going up, simply because so much money is involved.

It's like 'because this is ridiculous, it is therefore obvious that it's only about the money invested in it, not in any sense what it's 'about'. Therefore, the money has to keep getting more valuable. Because money, that's why.

If that argument holds, then it is money, full stop. No matter what else it is or isn't. The entire difference between it being a weird speculative prank, and it being money in the weightiest possible sense of the word, is how it's treated by society and any governments that have jurisdiction.
A new theory for how neurons encode memory
> Vaccines only work if a large majority of people are vaccinated and people who refuse to receive the shot are putting everyone else in danger.

I assume by "work" you mean herd immunity (I can't make sense of the statement otherwise), but even 99% vaccinated regions are seeing transmission because the Covid vaccines are not sterilizing and do little or nothing to reduce transmission. Herd immunity arguments don't apply here.
Covid inspires 1,200 new German words
Yes, some schools are still teaching that the delayed choice quantum eraser involves time-travel. That probably does more harm than good.
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With this new decision how exactly does tings work as so far as not giving the influencer money but other goods.

For example a gaming pc brand give a fully built top-of-the-line in exchange for publicity.
Would a video by that person on the brand be labeled an ad or not?
It kind of already has a discharge mode, just short the leads of the capacitor with one of the probes.
> mathematics is not plagued with false "theorems."

But you don't know that.

There certainly were precedents: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/291158/proofs-shown-to-be...
How a Yale professor found a Mendi translator for the 1840 Amistad trial
> Definitely not get the vaccine white: 65% hispanic: 13% black: 13%

Given US demographics, this is exactly what one would expect.

> Unvaccinated adults white: 57% hispanic: 20% black: 13%

Again, this shows white people as more vaccinated than other groups when accounting for population.
Yep same with my primary care physician, my kids pediatrician, wife’s OBGYN, and the health authorities of… y’know what damn near everything.

On the other hand the dumbest people I’m related to are fiercely on your side. So maybe I need to do some more research.
> an agressive overseas mission

A NATO operation. A NATO operation "his country" was very much involved in (and where citizens of "his country" paid the highest price).

Keep in mind he could have surrendered at any time.

> He's still technically a war criminal

Indeed.
Right, but the ordinary methods of doing mathematics seem to be so good that the vast effort required to encode proofs well enough for a computer to check vastly dwarfs the benefit, at least for now.

There's obviously been a lot of work done on proof assistants and maybe it will become easy and natural to formulate most proofs in a way a computer can check, but it's not anywhere close to that yet. The book explicating the proof discussed in the article is already 500 pages long, translating that into something a computer could check just isn't at all feasible yet.
Bezos isn't Amazon. What he chooses to use his wealth on be called into question without conflating it with Amazon the company.

And yeah they are one of the largest employers in the world. You have yet to define what specific action Amazon should have taken to produce radical change. Maybe it would have just been a flat out increase in salaries, but with the lens of education, it seems like this is a positive move.

> This is a rather myopic view of society. If you believe that the status quo is unquestionable (that businesses should only prioritize their self-interest), then of course you can't believe in any radical change to it.

No, THIS is a myopic view of society. Entities are always going to work towards the social reward system established, and Amazon/Bezos are acting exactly as you'd expect for our reward system. If the issue is a broader society problem then by definition it cannot be exclusively Amazon/Bezos fault.

And this brings us back to what SHOULD they be doing in this scenario? I am not saying don't question the status quo. But how does questioning the status quo change anything about this scenario? We can question the status quo while also accepting that people live inside the status quo, and thats not inherently bad. I fail to see how it's inherently bad that Amazon is paying for employee education. What SPECIFICALLY does it block in terms of radical change? How do these two things become mutually exclusive in this scenario, not some hypothetical scenario?
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Absolutely. This also paved the way for Buck v. Bell. There is no better use of state power than forced sterilization (public health).
> None of it allows them to print more

What stops an exchange from crediting an account with newly created bitcoins just like commercial banks do?
That's a really poisonous argument.
That is not how vaccines or diseases work. Vaccines are never 100% effective at preventing infections or at preventing people from having to go to the ER. One vaccinated person surrounded by unvaccinated people will eventually contract the virus. A large unvaccinated population also breeds new variants, eventually resulting in vaccine-resistant variants that put those who are vaccinated in danger.

The fact is that a particularly vulnerable person is better off surrounded by vaccinated people even if they themselves are unvaccinated than if they are vaccinated but surrounded by unvaccinated people. This is a good and long overdue policy that should be widely replicated wherever vaccine supply permits.
Clearly it has become a political position. A progressive way of thinking about this move is to depoliticize it by making it the enforced norm because it's a stupid thing to politicize. A cynical view is that it'll force non conformers out.

But its hardly novel to make government employees do politically slanted things. I'm sure a lot of government employees on the democrat or neutral side felt strong opposition to demands made of them during the trump admin.

I'm for this one.
e. ponzi scheme (there can't be speculation because there is no scarcity from which to create a true market. It isn't like Babe Ruth's jersey, this is a picture of a tree that Babe Ruth looked at once.)
What is the usefulness of including race data in polls like this? I'm French and I have little if nothing in common with other "white" people.
> (also linked in the article)

Would never have seen that without your telling me. It was well hidden until you moused over it
The FTC doesn't move super fast, but they have done some enforcement actions over this: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/terms/231
The speakers did work. So did the guitar.[1]

'MTV: So wait, the whole thing actually worked?

Gibson: You bet your sweet... George -- unfortunately -- doesn’t like things that don’t work. I have in the past built him props that I thought were just supposed to be props, and then he goes, "Okay, plug it in now."'

George Miller simply assumed it would work; and as a result, the end result was actually a functional guitar and speaker system.

[1] https://www.mtv.com/news/2161513/mad-max-fury-road-guitar-pl...
To add to/reiterate the above, they use a separate table to store metadata. Whenever you see a situation in a webservice where there is a custom way to store data, it's likely that they either store metadata in a table, store is as a more lose format like JSON or XML, or a combination of both.

In my experience, most services don't make tables on the fly that are meant to hang around, since storing metadata can get you very far.
They will be a requirement to enter establishments.
How else will you be able to prove that you aren't spreading far right extremism?

Nothing to hide nothing to fear right?
The complete lack of foresight, in the year 2020, was a spectacular thing to behold. I'm glad I was alive to witness it. The currency of the word 'pandemic' was cashed in full.
> But I honestly don't care that much if the alternative is no app.

I feel the same, however I still find that mobile first app are not a great experience on desktop.
Well, they might still be people in a position to significantly affect the quality of the slave' lives. Which should not be conflated with "slave owner".
This site is f*cking unusable on mobile.

The cookie banner pops up and is half the screen.

Then an offer pops up and takes 30% of the screen.

Before I can even figure out where the X button is - probably behind the inexplicable "copy link" button - a newsletter subscription modal pops up.

Clicking the X wasn't responding.

Then the tab froze.

https://i.imgur.com/wMEcI93.jpg
perfect for Burning Man, especially the Doof Wagon
>But most of the electricity that you use, most of the time, is free, or at least “free.”

This paragraph is absurd. Charging phones and laptops is a few orders of magnitude less energy than keeping your house warm/cool or cooking and storing food.
I can't find that but there is a way to get Android 9 on one.
COVID mutates too fast and the covid vaccines do no provide sterilizing immunity. The smallpox vaccine provides sterilizing immunity, which enables eradication.

I agree the COVID vaccine is good at reducing severe cases and preventing death.
I read somewhere when someone was criticizing Rust for GUI stuff, that lack of OO and inheritance can be a real problem. Is that also true for Clojure?
Out of interest I went to their source. It is a Tennessee study of unvaccinated individuals and The primary distinction between conservative white and black/hispanic people is that the former are primarily in the "unwilling" category while the latter are in the "willing but not yet ready/waiting for an appointment".

I will say that the study is way too small and not rigorous enough to use as a source for that information.

Interestingly KFF's numbers and polling tell very different stories, so I wonder if kff has bad/outdated/unrepresentative data or if pretty much every demographic has a subset that is lying about their vaccination status: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/nbc-news-pol...

In that poll, white people are lower than both black and hispanic people, and the biggest predictors for low vaccination are rural, republican, and trump support. It's possible that those groups are more likely to tell the truth about vaccine hesitancy?
Epic Games shuts down Houseparty app to focus on metaverse
Everyone getting vaccinated has clear benefits, and helps avoids breakouts. See mumps, measles, polio, etc.
NFTs have value because people who have been into crypto are rich now and any activity surrounding them is now a rich persons game.
Well, I'm a firm believer in cryptocurrency but I have yet to find legit use cases for NFTs, so you can be pro-currency and nft-skeptical.
> Navigating with a mouse and keyboard is not the same thing at all ad navigating with your fingers on a touchscreen.

I wonder how many computer users are actually using a mouse in 2021. I reckon most people use laptops now, which means that people are navigating by touch, either with a trackpad or a touchscreen (I think lots of window laptops have touch screens?)

There’s no way to get actual numbers on this…. is there?
In Australia government now controls how much alcohol people can consume in their locked down homes. They are searching all bags and things coming into the building.

That is the line now. How far it will go we will see.
this is why I said "implies". I fully acknowledge that in principle QM and human minds might be intimately boundm but that, like panpsychism is effectively ipossible to prove or disprove in our current scientific framework.
You haven't intellectually engaged with anything I said, you've just called it a "conspiracy" and tried to laugh at it. That's says a lot.

You totally ignored the essential point of my post which is that many things have changed since the gold money era and you can't extrapolate directly from that era to this. In particular, we have instant communication and much better ways to verify institutional financials.

(I'm leaving the conversation now. I know you'll do your best to make it look like I'm wrong, but I'm going to ignore it.)
The article is really poor and not original, doesn't link to haproxy or jfrog web pages or haproxy git repo.

Please link the original jfrog blog post with in depth analysis:

https://jfrog.com/blog/critical-vulnerability-in-haproxy-cve...
I know, but it felt very different.

For starters, it doesn’t run on the channel subsystem, but uses the CPU for it. Also, channel programs (the IBM ones) can do a lot of stuff - IBM’s ISAM uses self-modifying channel programs. These channels can’t be that flexible because they run within the kernel and being too flexible would be a security risk.
Yes, I agree, though I think Google presents an interesting case study because technology develop preceded it's business model. It at least started out as a tech company.

But while it has also expanded its business model to include selling actual tech (Google Cloud, Chromebooks and Pixel phones, etc.) the lion's share of its revenue comes from advertising.
This is finance, writ large.

Understanding that is important, especially now. And it's a bad thing because there's serious undesirable consequences to it, but understanding the reality of it is still important. Just because it's a hallucination doesn't mean those in the physical world aren't affected. Crypto just makes it more explicitly a hallucination.
I"m curious as to how these will be received at U.S. ports of entry considering U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s policy and practice of prohibiting the use of cameras and video recorders. Will they take people's prescription glasses away?
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The first people into a ponzi scheme always do well. Is he going to HODL until retirement? I doubt that will work out so well.
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If "talking point" is getting us tripped up here, maybe "convenient excuse spread mostly to help the vaccine hesitant continue to not get the vaccine" would be a better phrase.

I'm not an English major here. Just trying to get my point across.
Yes I agree, I mentioned it recently and then shortly after saw someone referencing dang's quest in another thread, and felt a bit guilty oh-I-hope-mine-wasn't-taken-that-way.

As I said then: 'Usually when I see it it's used either in a humbling reminder that the future isn't known sense, or a suggestion not to underestimate the value in simplifying, de-nerd-ifying existing things that work.' But also perhaps/hopefully the most 'jerky' ones get flagged out of my view, and unfortunately into dang's.

I certainly don't see (and would flag myself) anything I felt was saying 'Oh this [BM] guy doesn't know what he's talking about, what an idiot, hahahaha'. It's usually just 'oof, isn't hindsight wonderful, I must try to learn from this'.
I pay my mortgage with exposure
I saw him speak like 6-7 years ago and it was pretty clear that he was trolling and didn't take himself seriously.
It is not built with Catalyst. Podcasts is, but Music is not. And presumably he's referring to the webview-based parts of Apple Music, i.e. the browsing piece of it. The native parts of the app (library browsing and management) work very well in my experience.
I actually responded to, I think, each of your points.

(1) I don't support ending US hegemony because it's the least worst option.

(2) US hegemony doesn't depend on the dollar.

(3) All major historical wars were fought on hard money so there's no reason to think reverting to hard money would somehow end war. In fact we live in roughly speaking the most peaceful time in recorded history.

(4) Fiat works fine.

(5) Variable supply is ideal because it creates stability and separates long-term store of value (volatile) from short-term store of value and medium of exchange (predictable).

(6) Inflation is useful because it incentives productive allocation of capital.

(7) Banks aren't stealing huge quantities of money from Americans, they make a 1% annualized return on assets on deposit, which is returned to bank shareholders. Money circulates.

(8) Honestly its up to you to explain what changed and why you think there would be a different outcome. Quantifiably.
lack of expected growth in India's car market.

Are all foreign and domestic manufacturers affected by this, or were there additional considerations for Ford vehicles in India? For instance, issues with price, features, appearance, anti-foreign sentiment, restrictions for foreign brands, or something else?
You're absolutely right - getting vaccinated protects your family, your community, and your country.

What I mean by punching yourself in the face is: Even if you don't have any family and you hate your neighbours, getting vaccinated is still in your own interests, because it stops you dying.
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For most of the last 15 years, if you had an old CRT television or computer monitor, you had actually to pay someone just to get rid of it. Because of the lead shielding used in CRT tubes, they are considered hazardous waste. (Of course, most people were irresponsible or just didn't know any better and just chucked theirs into a dumpster.)

But in the past few years, retro tech has become sufficiently popular due to certain YouTube channels that a CRT TV or monitor in good working condition can now command a worthwhile price.
Or that a gladiator committed suicide by choking on one.
Agreed, I am very skeptical too. I have a long time believed that dynamic linking vs running an executable with arguments will be regarded the same in a court. So either both are derivative works or neither.

My personal belief is that a court will only care about if your code is a wrapper (e.g, libgpg) or if it is its independently useful and just uses the library (e.g. PostgreSQL using libreadline) for a small part of its operation. But I am not a lawyer and this has not been tested in court as far as I know.
> But vaccination is a community thing more than an individual thing.

Ok, but the covid vaccines do not prevent infection or transmission -- which really takes the wind out of the "do it for the good of the community" sail.

Additionally, viral concentrations via min PCR cycle threshold has been found to be roughly equal between vaccinated and unvaccinated.

And finally, these mandates completely ignore natural immunity -- which has been shown in several studies to be more robust and durable than vaccinated immunity. More specifically - natural antibodies bind to more epitopes across several different proteins on the SARS-COV2 virus. Vaccine induced antibodies bind to epitopes only found on the original version of the S-protein. In my opinion, this 'fragile' immunity produced by the covid vaccines is going to exert selective pressure on the virus leading to new variants and immune escape.

tl;dr: vaccine mandates using for covid vaccines are not applicable when sterilizing immunity isn't produced.
Great, let's dive into this data. I'm not qualified, so let's get the medical community at large to discuss these things, uncensored and unabridged on Youtube, Facebook and Twitter. The fact that they've been censored for so long is already a disaster for human rights.
I'm a libertarian and I think choices should be up to the individual, because it's never ok to have a political group decide for you what is good or bad. It's antithetical to western liberalism.

My rant aside, I think there are better and worse ways to infringe on people's liberty when needed. And given the way the winds are blowing, it would be much better to enforce vaccination at the federal level, i.e. compel people by law to get it. There can be exemption of course, but the point is it becomes between you and the state. The current patchwork creates all kinds of disparity, invades privacy be repeatedly making you tell others about your health and identify yourself, and burdens businesses and others with enforcement. It also lets the government avoid the ire of people who don't want a mandate, by moving the front lines of enforcement elsewhere.

I think business and local level mandates are more popular because they play on people's desire to punish the unvaccinated, instead of working positively to tackle covid.
The "experiment" was testing whether these bogus papers would make it through peer review and get published.
You have ads in your facebook feed? Weird, I'd assume someone who posts on HN and has an opinion on this would also know how to shut that down.
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1980s? As the linked article points out, it was sprayed in the 1970s.
The question, I think, is not whether we should or should not. That is irrelevant. Someone eventually will whether that someone is us or not and the end result is still a possible release of grey goo. The question is how we prepare for someone having it who will do things with it we might find irresponsible or dangerous. It seems like historically the answer to that question is 'we should make it first'.
Don't pretend to be at all concerned about ICU capacity if you also support mass firings of nurses who won't take the vaccine, which is another of the "prongs" being rolled out by Biden today.
We see the blood has fewer protections through blood-donor information (fewer and fewer antibodies present in blood-donors). We then see variants evolve that are explicitly avoiding immune responses (aka: Gamma and Delta). And finally, we see these variants reinfect huge swaths of the population in practice.

Its not really that unbelievable of a story. It lines up with the science going on all around the world. Immune response wanes through some indirect measurement, variants rise, reinfections happen.

It also is within-a-magnitude of vaccine-induced immunity. So even if you get your immunity from vaccines, its seemingly waning after 8 months (Pfizer). 6 months / 8 months... that's close enough that its practically the same when it comes to these early / less rigorous studies. It seems that's how long our bodies immune response works vs this virus.

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Why do you think the virus is resurging in USA? There already was a huge surge (the 2020 summer surge and 2020 winter surge). For there to be yet another 2021 July/August surge??

Well: July 2021 was over 6 months since the last surge (December 2020/January 2021). Our collective immunities wore off. People _are_ getting reinfected.
> borrowing and throwing away trillions of dollars on unjust foreign wars

Because the era preceding fiat currencies was peaceful and devoid of hegemony and global power struggles?
The answer given there by Manuel Eberl is more or less what I was trying to get at (and he is far more knowledgeable about it than I am). Lots of mathematicians find that the existing level of rigor in the field is enough.

Obviously the people who like proof assistants disagree, and they may be right. It could be that modern theorems are just too complicated to be adequately evaluated by unassisted humans. But mathematicians have been getting along just fine without them for a long time, so "why aren't we requiring computer-checked proofs of everything" has a very straightforward answer: mathematicians writ large aren't convinced of the benefit yet.
My intuition is right with you. They will actively avoid anything that the end user thinks is a camera while packing it full of sensors that allow interactions with (mapping/object recognition of/etc) the world around them.