skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My hope, personally, is that the pressure would NOT work.

Market dynamics are fine in their place, even useful, but nothing about them is inherently free from exploit. Crypto and finance operate in a context that's set by law and custom. We agree 'if your crypto fails, hard luck, you lost money'.

If it was beneficial to literally threaten government until they changed the rule to 'if your crypto fails, but you are entity X, Y or Z, then you are to apply to the government and they will make you whole, printing 'money' if necessary'. This would be pitched in the name of 'stability' but it'd be a straight power play. The benefit to X, Y, and Z is obvious.

Doesn't matter much what kind of pressure they would impose, only the end result matters. It could be negotiation, blackmail, threat of physical harm: view this pressure as stepping outside the rules of the system to rig the rules of the system, secretly or explicitly. The idea is to legislate that markets can't be irrational, because (if you're X, Y, or Z) markets will be guaranteed to do what you want. No risk. Therefore, rational.
This doesn't work in Safari? What year is it?
And so defining the level of work required in law is usually not going to help anyone. This is why unions exist - so the people that know the workplace and subject matter best can negotiate to make the job fair.
Businesses don't exist to be secure, they exist to make money, and thus security will always be compromised. It's very easy to have a super secure IT system that makes 0 money.

IT teams generally are only going to value security to meet business objectives and protect their reputation. The unfortunate point is that often security is in the public interest but businesses don't act in the public interest.
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Have you studied creative destruction in your work? Could that apply here? https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/creativedestruction.asp
I support this, but I expect it to be challenged and I'm not sure whether it would survive. Would welcome the opinion of someone with some background on these kinds of rules.
Then what?

You pickup a felony battery and/or assault charge?
until the influencers were forced to disclose they were sponsored (in the US), they actively obscured the fact.

shills by intent
In higher level tech jobs, we struggle to find good metrics to measure performance, and then in jobs where it's easy to measure performance with a clear metric - using it is controversial.

Maybe the lesson is that when a metric becomes tangible, expectations to meet/exceed those metrics becomes an all-encompassing aspect of the job.
This is great journalism. Good job, and tbh, it comfort my theory that the twitter crowd, especially the loud twitter crowd, is small.
Why would the language they use make them less responsive?
> You're confusing statistics with events.

I'm aware of the distinction.

> How does a particle keep track of how many other entities it's entangled with and in what ways? Where does that information live? [...] A complete explanation would answer all of these questions - and others - with ease.

I disagree with this framing. Fundamental laws of physics are always going to have unanswered questions of this type. Given any set of rules you can ask "But what explains those rules? What are they built out of? How are they enforced?". Sometimes those questions will have answers and lead you deeper, but for truly foundational laws you'll be wasting your time. It'd be like asking "Where is the true platonic number 2 located? Is it in Canada?".

You can ask the same questions of classical mechanics, of course. We tend not to because it agrees with our intuitions, but you can. For example, where would a classical particle store its velocity? For that matter, where would it store its position? It's circular to say it stores its position where it is! Clearly a "true" theory of classical mechanics would answer these very important questions.

Concretely, there are a variety of ways of writing programs that act like quantum mechanics, that differ wildly on how the state is represented. This detail is simply not pinned down by the postulates of QM. That being said, what all these programs do have in common is that they are actually tracking information related the state; that the state is ontic.

So pick your favorite state representation: state vector, density matrices, Feynman paths, whatever, they all work! That doesn't mean they're describing things that aren't real, it just means there's many ways of correctly describing reality; such convenience!
Probably a really easy + low-friction way to gather data on user preferences.
Big difference also is, sadly, one this is immediately visible and tangible versus a vague "security" diagram and document.

Noone wants to get hurt in a fire, but noone really gets "hurt" when security is compromised.
For sure! But it would be surprising for someone to offer a benefit like this that is taxable, vs offering the tax-deductible version.
The numbers we're talking about are slightly different. You're referring to CFR but calling it IFR. There are many more infections than positive tests ("cases"). That's OK, the difference is quite subtle. Likewise your hospitalization stat is hospitalizations per infection and only in one US state, whereas the stat I quoted is the weekly risk of COVID hospitalization for everyone in that age band in the UK.

It doesn't matter much. The stats you cited don't change the point being made: whether it's 0.1% or 1%, neither number is "relatively high", "fairly high" or a "high chance". These are all quite low probabilities.

"Feeling sick for a few days after a vaccine is not in any way similar to actually being infected with COVID"

For many people it does seem to be the same. I know a few people who got COVID. They report the same experience as many people who got side effects from the vaccine: a day or two of feeling really rough, followed by recovery. But getting COVID, or at least COVID bad enough to notice, isn't that common. The cumulative number of cases is about 10% of the population where I live. Probably there were far more infections, but if those infections don't yield noticeable symptoms then they don't matter, so we can say 10%. By now I know more people who got sick from the vaccine than sick from COVID. It's not a massive surprise as far more than 10% got the vaccine. Given how they work, it makes sense that lots of people who get it report getting a form of COVID. The assumption that it's always drastically worse to get COVID itself does not match what I hear other people around me report. For example nobody who got COVID said it interfered with their periods. The vaccines have done this to several women my girlfriend knows.

This is what leads to problems and disagreements. People are pushing vaccines with claims about COVID that don't match the stats, and claims about the vaccines which seem to be contradicted by lived experience from the offline world. What are people to make of this?
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Just out of curiosity, what difference does verbal acceptance make?
It did in my mind at least. Before college, I imagined it as some utopia that could be someone's life goal to work at. Now, I've heard from friends, read stories, even interviewed there. It definitely lost its lust for me.
That's actually the opposite of what the PBR theorem shows (follow the wikipedia reference I included).
There are great alternatives in principle. The problem is incentives to sabotage alternatives by governments and manufacturers. There are chips that produce real entropy, and processors come with integrated hardware for this purpose. The problem is that you don't know if the hardware is deliberately flawed in some way.
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Kai Fu Lee, former CEO of Google China, on where next for AI [audio]
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Are you saying that "suffering erases sin" is Jesus' final message?

The Christian message is that there's nothing we can do in our own power to erase sin, including suffering, hence the need for Jesus in the first place.

Death in Christianity is the final release from sin and its consequences, e.g. suffering, and into eternal joy...and being released of the weight of the consequences of sin eternally is supposed to bring joy and love in this life.

So I have no idea what you're talking about.
It can be, if people are energized by their newfound agency, instead of towed around on cattle cars called Facebook and Google. Like Rob says in the interview, cooperation beats competition. Cooperative community solutions beat greedy private solutions.
The Fed actually completely eliminated the reserve requirement in March of last year (1). Unsurprisingly, this hasn't gotten a lot of attention from the corporate media.

1 - https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
Until the universe approaches heat death, one could always do more.
the title should be: "Facebook, Ray-Ban debut picture-spying smart glasses"
Amazon.com runs on EKS (and other services). You can see public customer references here https://aws.amazon.com/eks/customers/

ECS is 3 years older than EKS (2015 vs 2018) and a lot of AWS services launched (or planned to launch) during that time which is a very valid reason lots of customers picked ECS.

(I work on the EKS team)
That's just the opening bid. I imagine the sky's the limit for people with lots of money and a burning desire to own some one-of-a-kind cars.
One implication of what the article is talking about, in fact, is that fractional reserve banking isn’t really a thing, and has only ever been an inaccurate model for how banks really work.

A large proportion of money in modern economies is generated (along with private debt) in the private banking system. It is true that central banks can also create money (and in fact can do it without creating debt, unlike private banks), and can use this money for quantitive easing, but it’s not an either or - both are happening.
Americans may think they are the kings of capitalism but I have seen things...

I saw a Polish kapo beat someone who said he was too sick to work. It's almost a concentration camp out there but most of the public will never know. One day we will run out of folks to exploit but until then full steam ahead I suppose.
To put it another way that's a little less accusatory but still encourages the right mindset - assume any comment on a service from a user without verified ID was written by a troll trying to provoke a reaction.
Citation needed? A quick search turns up study after study from one country after another finding that COVID vaccines both reduce the rate of infection and reduce the rate of transmission even with the delta variant.

You are right that people are overstating what the vaccine does, and that is where politicians actually have a chance to do something useful. Unfortunately there is a major political party that is doing the opposite, spreading false information, and shouting about "freedom" while working to stop local leaders from taking action...
I can’t speak for the person you’re responding to, but I personally do find a large difference between the risk of fire/explosion and the visibility of an LED.

Furthermore I do in fact think that the distinction is big enough to justify legal protection to the end user on the basis that one can burn your house down (and can happen by accident with no user intervention) and the other cannot.

Personally I think words like “harm” have concrete meaning outside of language specifically crafted by marketers in order to make awful products more palatable.
Unless the functionality is supported in common software like zip the mere fact of one using it can be a clue.
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This administration is fascist trash.
"an activist for the conservative ruling party. . . He got the job – without even having a university diploma or a military background – thanks to his friends at the defence ministry."

I realize it shows my biases, but I am waiting for the first major troll farm associated with the left and with, I dunno, PETA or whatever the opposite of the military industrial complex is. Do they exist? They must, but it seems (based perhaps on my echo chamber) that 95% of the effort is from vested interests who prefer the status quo over fact.
> It is too late to adopt 0 emmisions as the entite strategy.

What does "too late" mean here? Certainly it's too late to recover species which have already gone extinct, and it would be too late to avoid some increase in drought, wild fires, floods, etc that we're already seeing, but there's a pretty big delta between the climate that we'll leave our grandchildren if we zero our emissions by 2050 versus the climate we'll leave our grandchildren if we continue polluting.

As for (A), I'm sure we're all ears.
Yes, if you assume the toe has "a viewpoint," then from its viewpoint, things have collapsed. But as you are not your toe, this has no observable consequence for you. It's pure philosophy.

Similarly, your consciousness could be considered just another measuring device from the perspective of someone outside the system. But by virtue of being "outside the system," their results have no bearing on you either.

You are the point at which "the magic happens" in your world -- which is just the place you normally call "the" world. It is the point at which neither you nor anyone else you can communicate with (i.e., no one else in "the world") can demonstrate interference, even in principle.
I don't know if this is common knowledge here, but on Reddit[0] they say Mental Outlaw is Luke Smith's deepfake channel.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/linox/comments/p4z7or/this_is_prett...

[1] https://youtu.be/tW2CFZ9SyMU

[2] https://youtu.be/KkwXtWtVj3w?t=689
Looks like millions of people died in China from flooding around that time.

But I don't think it's comparable and it's a distraction that deflects from the truth the article points out.

We also have vaccines, antibiotics, and a lot more knowledge. Doesn't mean we should say oh well with a shrug.

We are causing more death & more extreme weather. We have a moral obligation to do something about it.

And a lot of us feel like the consequences of our actions & current inaction is a giant threat to society & humanity. Not an apocalyptic post zombie hell fetishized on /r/collapse, but widespread hunger, social upheaval, and more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_by_d...
That's not self-hosting. That's getting services from a third-party organization that happens to be a non-profit. The only difference between that and GitHub is that GitHub is a for-profit company, which setup and maintain services for you (for free or a small fee).

So if the actual complaint is "stop supporting for-profit companies," sure (but then we have to ask why - there are reasons to expect that a for-profit company is likely to be more stable long-term, more likely to be secure, etc.). If the complaint is "GitHub / Microsoft in particular is bad, and chatons in particular is good," sure (but then, what about for-profit competitors like GitLab?).

But that's unrelated to the original complaint. As you say, chatons is maintaining OSS services for you to interact with.
Ah, the last year of the blogging era, when still it took several clicks to find the name of the author, and his photo was nowhere to be found.
Could you get any more “verified” than a recent president or be any more of a troll?
> Do you honestly think people willingly work at McJobs that still require them to live on food stamps when they have better options available to them, like living with their parents?!

Just less than an hour ago I was listening to the radio and they were interviewing someone who literally fits this description: They voluntarily left their parent's house and worked at McDonalds for a bunch of years. Not going to school or anything. Living their own life.

I also personally know someone who did this. Comes from an upper middle class family. Not kicked out of the house or anything. Just didn't like the small town he was in. Moved to another state and worked at McDonald's while doing some art projects when not working.

People do this. All. The. Time.

People here on HN (and especially in the comments for this submission) are showing how way out of touch their world view is from reality. How many of you here even know any Amazon warehouse workers? I know two, and talking to them has impacted my view of Amazon.

Anti-disclaimer: I don't work for Amazon and prefer not to buy from them.
That’s where “error code” essentially comes from, an actual code you could look up in a manual. Errors have evolved to be more of “error messages” which then have grammar, word choice, and a million other concerns.
I’m not sure why you imagine that building this at full-grid power levels might take less than a decade, nor why it might be an all-or-nothing proposition given every single gigawatt can be seen as as a (12GWh? I’m not sure but that magnitude) battery system not purchased, but I’ll gladly do the maths.

1) HVDC designs I’ve seen are copper (towers use aluminium because it’s light, IIRC)

2) http://www.necplink.com/docs/Champlain_VT_electronic/04%20L....

Gives 2500mm^2 cross section for a 1 GW cable

3) WolframAlpha says Europe’s electricity production is 410 GW: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=total+Europe+electrici...

Which means the total conductor cross section needed is ~1 million mm^2 = 1m^2. Ok, this sounds like it’s going to be a lot.

4) Lets put a line across the Sahara to connect all the panels plus connections to the existing EU grid in Gibraltar, Athens, and Milan.

It’s about 3700km from Casablanca to the middle of Egypt: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=casablanca+to+egypt

Likewise 350km for Gibraltar, 1000 km Awjilah to Athens: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Awjilah+to+athens

This gives a total length of about 5000km, if I spec the cable for 100% of EU power going through each cable, which is excessive as I was trying to suggest this as an adjunct to batteries and local PV rather than a total replacement for either: any combination (including none) of transmission and storage only has to cover lower nighttime/seasonal averages).

This gives me a total volume of 5000km * 1m^2 = 5e6 m^3.

5) This is copper, worldwide production of copper is 14.6e6 tons/year, given the density this is indeed 1.4e6 m^3/year and therefore multiple years at current mining.

6) Global aluminium production is 82.6 million tons/year: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=worldwide+aluminium+pr...

Aluminium is 60% the conductivity of copper; I assume that means I need the conductor to be 1/0.6 times the cross section? Not my field. Assuming that, I want 8.3e6 m^3 aluminium, given the density that’s 22 million tons, so 3 months.

Edit: I forgot Milan!

7) Tataouine to Milan is about 1500 km: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Tataouine+to+Milan+

Therefore multiply my mass estimates by 1.3

Edit 2:

410 GW is also 2-2.5 times current global PV installation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics

If you did put enough PV for all of Europe on top of/along side the Casablanca-Egypt line, the PV would need to be about 550m wide: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28410GW%2F%281kW%2Fm%5...

(I only need to care about peak power in this case, not average, hence only the 20% efficiency factor and not including the additional 25% duty factor).
Interesting to note that Facebook advertises on Axios (see any recent copy of Axios AM) and that fact isn't disclosed despite an editorial policy stating "If a story involves an investor, board member or business partner, we disclose the relationship in the story or on the bottom of the story."
Very good example re continuity!

I fully agree that (high) school math is mostly calculus and very different from university/research math. I would recommend parent to start exploring what math actually is, which fields there are and where they come from, what some famous open problems are and what beauty means to mathematicians.

Good popular maths books are e.g. The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy [1] or Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh [2].

It's also important to note that there are no shortcuts - it takes at least 1-2 years of studying maths to start to understand the why.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Music_of_the_Primes

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem_(book)
Minor at best and clearly offset by the national campaign for them to vote pro union.
Having just recently been picking a restaurant for an anniversary, I can tell the problem is real and I'm appalled at the sad state of technology for restaurant discovery.
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It is impossible to enumerate the individuals affected by carbon output. So who cares about compensation?

The point of taxing carbon is simply to get less carbon. Full stop. Economists (especially the free-market economists!) broadly agree that it will work. Why are we still having this conversation?
Lots of countries have no reserve requirement. It actually doesn’t change much, just the asset mix banks hold.

How much a bank can lend is basically entirely determined by the amount of paid-up capital, not reserves anyway. The maximum ratios are fairly strictly regulated (e.g. Basel rules).
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Many many years ago, trying to learn German as an english speaker, i was taught Maybe (EN) -> Wehrscheinlich (DE) -

Is that correct? If it's even remotely close to being correct, it definitely makes sense pedagogically to avoid the ambiguity.
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Weirdly, there are many who leaving MSFT in general. Looks like they are doing something wrong.
The rationale in that case doesn't apply here: the COVID vaccines don't stop the spread of the virus. Because COVID vaccines can't actually stop the spread of the disease under any plausible level of vaccination (the R0 of the virus is too high), vaccines can serve only to safeguard the health of individuals, and we generally don't use heavy-handed nation-wide mandates to force people to do things that are merely good for them health-wise on an individual basis.

The same reasoning that justifies this mandate would justify a state-imposed limit on daily calorie consumption, a state-imposed exercise requirement, and all sorts of other coercive measures that, while good for people's health, are flagrant violations of principles of bodily autonomy and informed consent for medical treatment.

This isn't about the vaccine and it's not even about COVID. This is about one political tribe using the state to hurt the other political tribe.
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