skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To suggest that overpopulation is controversial is itself absurd, as it is fundamental to the science of biology[1]. That a species can reach numbers where their environment and habitat is depleted or otherwise unlivable is fact, not controversy.

"Population Control" is certainly controversial, though, as it should be. And, though controversial, it should be considered seriously. Many environmentalists lose their credibility by speaking of "sustainability" on the one hand, but then disputing overpopulation on the other. We need to impact the earth much less, and keeping our numbers down is a very effective way of doing so. That, plus using energy and resources more cleanly and efficiently.

[1] https://biologydictionary.net/overpopulation/
What is the value in this project?

If the purpose is to let X make statement Y and prove did X said Y and only Y, there are at least five more prevalent standards to do so ranging from other blockchains to web sites/archiving, DNS records, various archives across the world, etc. We can make the QR example work today with a URL.

All these mechanisms are much more likely to survive longer than the suggested project, and are less subject to Proof-of-work energy waste.

That leaves the voting mechanism, which isn't very useful either - truth isn't subject to majority vote.
Didn't know XView, Athena widgets, Win3.1, System 6, and more were elitist.
And old Dell machine.
I think "long COVID" is too vague to really provide a specific incidence rate - it's more meaningful to look at the incidence rates of particular symptoms long after infection.

The study I linked finds 27.9% incidence of "confusion/brain fog/trouble focusing attention" and 20.7% incidence of short-term memory loss 8 months after symptomatic COVID infection (confirmed with antibody testing), compared to 14.7% and 5.6% respectively in the control group (who tested negative for COVID antibodies).

I don't know or really care if "long COVID" is the right term for what those folks are experiencing, but that result has real practical significance and the rates are way higher than 1%. The same study also finds significant incidence rates for lots of other symptoms that could reasonably fit under the "long COVID" umbrella.
Liberalism and Communism are diametrically opposed. Communism is proudly illiberal.
> Patient zero being the first person who contracted COVID-19? I wasn't aware that they had been identified.

They haven't. Neither can we identify with certainty who spread COVID to who. Yet you want to blame the unvaccinated.

> All of the evidence at this point is that the harms from getting vaccinated are orders of magnitude less than the harms from the disease. So no, you should not receive blame because you took the best action known to you at the time.

For those who might be at risk for one or more of the adverse events from the vaccine, or have already recovered from COVID, the best action would be to not get the vaccine. Yet you still want to put culpability on their shoulders. Your can't have it both ways.

> They are under strain now because of COVID, out of all proportion to the strain experienced in recent memory from any other cause.

They are under more strain, yes. How much of that is COVID, and how much is that hospitals are not willing to pay enough to stay staffed?

> I don't know what you're trying to say here. Yes, get tested if you are worried about being exposed to COVID, irrespective of whether you're vaccinated. Leading epidemiologists have long called for widespread rapid antigen testing to prevent asymptomatic spread.

I'm saying that if it's reasonable to blame the unvaccinated for spreading COVID, it's also reasonable to blame the vaccinated who don't get tested weekly because getting tested weekly is, in your terms, a "reasonable action." In other words, if you think the unvaccinated are culpable, so are the vaccinated who don't get tested weekly.

If you claim that requiring the vaccinated to get tested weekly is not reasonable, then my answer is that neither is it reasonable to blame the unvaccinated. In fact, in my opinion, it's as reasonable as requiring weekly COVID tests. You and I would have different definitions of reasonable. We are not going to agree.

You want to blame me for COVID and to force me to conform to an orthodoxy that changes daily, and you call that reasonable. I want to be left alone and call that reasonable.
Recall that a major driver of tension before the US civil war was slave states using federal law (Fugitive Slave Act) to force free states to enforce slavery. The whole ‘states rights’ thing was only when it suited.
Totally understood. There is nothing wrong in reporting how bad COVID can get.

The reason for immediately taking it for agenda starts with the headline "I got 'Mild' case of COVID", then proceeds to explain how a 'Mild' case of COVID can make your eyeballs ache and make your skull explode in 103 degree fever. This is gross mischaracterization of medically agreed upon common symptoms of COVID.

The next conclusion is become cynical and try to understand what is the purpose of this article and who is its audience? I hope I can call out the publication without anyone accussing that I have an agenda.
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Keep in mind that data processing consent forms covers more than just cookies - providing consent and then deleting cookies still allows them to stalk you based on IP address, browser fingerprint, etc.
That is pretty American focused. In developing countries, low end wages aren't enough to buy cars anyways, and the rich people clogging the roads can afford EVs. Even in the rest of the developed world, cars are much more of a luxury item, and ICE vehicles and/or gas to power them are already ladened with lots of taxes (so buying an EV in Norway can be cheaper than buying an ICE).
As a European, I think it's completely insane not to have to provide an ID to vote.

Of course it's a system that's ripe for fraud if you can't even identify and record voters reliably.

I don't know how you can think this will introduce any more friction for low income people. You need an ID to drive.
You may introduce friction for illegal immigrants and mentally handicapped homeless.

Saying this will affect low income people doesn't make any sense. Saying this will affect black people is plain racist.
He did it on x64.

EDIT: This is the talk, if I remember correctly.

https://isocpp.org/blog/2018/06/cppcon-2017-going-nowhere-fa...
His face after the incident:

https://newsfeed.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2010/10...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Whittington

> Whittington told the paper that although many media outlets had described Cheney and him as "good friends", the pair had only met one another three times in 30 years, and had never been hunting before. The Washington Post article also said that Cheney had violated "two basic rules of hunting safety": he failed to ensure that he had a clear shot before firing, and fired without being able to see blue sky beneath his target. The paper also reported that Cheney has still neither publicly nor privately apologized to Whittington for the shooting.
You do what is a measured, not what is right. That's how you succeed in corporate America at least.
Ask HN: How to get a bank to proxy ACHs on your behalf?
I'm considering pursuing a marketplace business idea that would involve facilitating ACH payments directly from customer A to customer B (without my company in the middle). For a few reasons I can't just use Stripe/Dwolla/etc.

There's some good info online about this (see Gusto's helpful post [1]) but for the first step of partnering with a bank, they all basically just say "You have to find a bank willing to serve as your ODFI."

So my question is, does anyone know what that process is like, and how hard it is? Do I just make a business account with Wells Fargo or SVB and then request this service? What are my chances of approval? Anything else I can expect from the process? Any advice would be much appreciated.

[1] https://engineering.gusto.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-perspective-part-1/
I now have antibodies and memory cells against covid (because I’m fully vaccinated), so covid is not deadlier than the flu for me.
This doesn't take into account interest rates.

Buffett himself has said recently that given the current interest rates stocks are not overvalued.
The title is a bit misleading. This PR is just getting the lib to compile with a C++ compiler. Seems like the bulk of the work remains.

> This PR is the first incremental step of getting libtransmission to compile with a C++ compiler.
> "Closely Monitored" - OK so where exactly is the data? "Closely Monitored" is just a call to "trust the institutions".

Submitted to the FDA, first for the EUAs, then for the full approvals, and still on an ongoing basis for longer term monitoring. They're so careful about reporting everything that they submitted a lightning strike as a potential adverse event. https://metro.co.uk/2020/12/18/covid-vaccine-volunteer-struc...

> I think deaths are counted differently, though - everybody who dies within one month after testing positive is counted for Covid (afaik - at least in some places). For vaccines, I am not aware of such rules. So the numbers can not easily be compared. That is the problem.

Again, easily addressed. Look at total deaths, for the entire country, regardless of cause.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

If vaccines were killing anything like the numbers COVID did, you'd see it. Instead, you can see in March 2021 the excess deaths largely go away (after being elevated for more than a year) for a couple months, as vulnerable populations got protected. It doesn't tick back up until Delta hits, and even then, the spike is much smaller than previous ones.
No, I'm saying that electing to not take the vaccine means I have to multiply the probabilities of complications from COVID by the chance I'll get COVID, while if I take the vaccine, I multiply the probabilities of complications from the vaccine by 100%.
Saudi Arabia is the Land of the Two Shrines. If you want to kick the hornet's nest (not just regular hornets, but Asian Murder Hornets), that is the way. You'll have 1.5B pissed off Muslims if the US does anything hostile against the Saudi Kingdom.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/article/flatten...

“The gentler curve results in fewer people infected at this critical moment in time — preventing a surge that would inundate the healthcare system and ultimately, one hopes, resulting in fewer deaths. “What we need to do is flatten that down,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during the coronavirus task force briefing at the White House on a Tuesday evening in early March. “You do that with trying to interfere with the natural flow of the outbreak.”
California was much worse in the 70s/early 80s, where it wasn't forest fires but car exhaust and power plants causing dirty air. A lot of my older friends who grew up in the two big California metro areas have asthma. They cleaned up the air by the late 80s, but now forest fire season is a huge problem instead.
nvm, just got to the "Criticisms of The Buffett Indicator" section where they cover just this topic :)
Not entirely true. Certain classes of jobs, like working in health care, have always mandated vaccination. Additionally, when most vaccines are given in childhood, making sure everyone is vaccinated in grade school has the effect of ensuring that most adults are vaccinated. No need to keep re-checking throughout life.
I've lived in a few different places, and mostly really only encountered leaf blowers either for some larger scale work like cleaning up leaves on a university campus, or for cleaning debris from parking lots.

I've recently moved to an area with single family or attached homes on small lots, and inexplicably, everyone has a leaf blower. Most houses have a driveway and parking area, and about 10 square feet of lawn, but for some reason all the guys are out blowing leaves around... I'm supposing there must be pockets where culturally that's what people do, I certainly don't get it
To make things more complex, some (small) harms are legitimate: If you open a new store you "harm" other store owners because they have less customers. When you build/repair your home there is some noises and dusts that can annoy other people but it's considered as a legitimate temporary problem. So the question is more where is the limit ?
I am so tired of the lies. Encryption doesn't stop you from 'catching bad guys,' it only stops you from mass-spying.

Furthermore, I'd argue that the real 'bad guys' in the present day is LE its self. The acts that are punished these days are things like personal drug use, protesting, unfair tax evasion, human rights demonstrations, and whistle-blowing. All things that the people would like to engage in but the government wants to squash at all costs.

Again, who are the actual criminals??
Nowhere in that quote does Fauci say "no one can get sick again". He's literally talking about flattening the curve and the reason for doing so.

Either your reading comprehension is lacking or you need to try harder.
DoD seeking solutions for lightweight, portable, long-duration power sources
I'd posit that elites are just the objects of mimetic desire, where experts have expertise, they're almost completely unrelated outside narrow fields. Elites are the people you want to be like, and sometimes who we envy as a result.
If those were being addressed, you wouldn't have fossil fuel to put in your car, gas power plant, or gas heater next month. Never mind flying anywhere.
The problem with macro-economic composites is that at that level, everything is unfolding on different timescales. So around transitional moments, your end result is going to go wonky.

GDP plummets -> interest rates are dropped -> GDP recovers -> interest rates are raised

You're balancing between responsiveness, accuracy, and reliability: pick two.

I'd have thought the last few crises would have taught us that we should be thinking about the system more in terms of stability, or lack thereof.

The housing crisis could have not exploded, if key institutions and/or investors had acted differently. But it was objectively true that the entire system was in a very unstable state.
What corruption exists in the US? Short of politicians and lobbyists (since thats obvious), where else does it occur? As far as I'm concerned, family politics and inheritances are not corrupt.
For office workers, the whole remote experiment of the last year seems to be the equilibrium. You can still "come to work" even if you feel like death, you're just allowed to do it from home until you're not contagious.
I don't know what policy around flu should be, but I'd like to share my data points about flu, for those who think flu is no big deal.

The last two times I had flu (first age 36, then a few years later), I was unable to work for an entire month each time.

For most of that time I struggled to get out of bed, and couldn't think much. I was too weak and tired, so I slept most of the time or did low energy activities, and relied on other people to bring me food. The first one meant I missed Christmas: My partner went to an all-day get together with our mutual friends, and I stayed home in bed, too ill to go.

My other flu story would be, a good friend and former employer got flu one day when he was visiting his wife and children (he normally worked in another country to them). Few days into it, he lay down on a sofa and died. I don't know the rest of the story, but I miss him. I think my life would be different if he were still around.

These experiences certainly gave me more respect for flu as a killer.
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uTorrent is on the same page as Transmission before this change, it achieves its small size by not using the STL at all.
The Altaic “macrofamily” mentioned here is deemed controversial as is the relation between Japanese and Korean. From a cursory research in this topic I think that many discussions (on either side of the debate) are at least partly motivated by national feelings and politics and it’s sometimes hard to discern where this ends and real science begins.

There’s a large body of writing in this topic, one easy starting point is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic_languages. Unfortunately, some in-depth research good resources I have seen accessed in Turkish are not referenced here.

The comparison of Altaic languages with some in Europe, e.g. Finnish and Hungarian was based on some similarities:

1. Being agglutinative
2. Having vowel harmony
3. Lack of grammatical gender
4. SOV word order

However, AFAIK, not much evidence could be found at the cognate level.
Cheney (or was it Rumsfeld) had a saying: "Never let a crisis go to waste"
He was not wearing a suspiciously big jacket. That was a lie propagated by the police, which evidently many people still believe.

See eg

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/tube-shooting-wh...
AArch64 with a lot of Apple specific ad ons, doubt it will ever be hakintoshed.
The oldest surviving non-fragmentary copies of the Septuagint do include these extra books. Whether earlier copies, that don't survive, included them or not, can only be speculation. But you raised this issue as a "valid reason" for rejecting those extra books ("There is no evidence that they were included in the original versions of the Septuagint"). If we can't know and can only speculate, how can that be a "valid reason" for rejecting anything?
> Shanghai/Beijing: security checkpoints at subway entrances, getting on/off trains is orderly and trains are clean.

But the lines to get on can be a PITA. Eg. waiting in line for 45 minutes to get on the subway in Beijing at Liangmaqiao is a horrible experience. I'll take the piss smell in the USA to that. Actually, the security check waits in Beijing subway was the main reason I transitioned quickly to taking a taxi to and from work. (see https://www.thatsmags.com/beijing/post/20938/photos-increase..., not my personal experience, but I've experienced similar in the interchange at Dongzhimen).
Fortnite shuts down after Operation: Sky Fire event
Is that part of the ruling? Because they stopped requiring price parity long ago.
I would rather pay a CEO more than an educational bureaucrat cause you can at least fire the CEO.
This is a superb description.
The beginning is the best line, that no one really knows "why" and what I have said to even other physicists who don't really understand it. A lot of the counterintuitive consequences of the paradox of the moving charges detailed here are a fact of nature but we don't really know why it must be that way. For example, in a modern particle physics starting point for qed, we force the equations to be lorentz invariant from the start but that is a starting assumption. But that's it, there's no real deeper answer to "why" beyond it being a experimentally observable fact, and the only resolution of these observations is that lorentz transformation and thus things like time dilation and length contraction must happen.

Small relativity related tidbit: I hate when people say the phrase "the faster you go, time slows down for you." This is a problem because it implies that the moving observer notices their own time dilation which is reverse of the case. Of course, every non-accelerating observer is in their own rest frame, so it doesn't make sense to say "time slows down for you," because you are your own reference and there is no other frame to base your measurements on (I mean that was the whole point of relativity, there is no universal rest frame). Instead, when you measure the rate of change for other reference frames moving relative to you, their clocks move slower when measured by your clock. So the actual phrase should be something like "the faster others go, the slower their time appears to you."
Fortitude Required
The screenshot below is an inactive window. I've just double checked to be sure and yep that's exactly what it looks like when I switch to a different window. It is on a Mac though so sounds like the the behaviour is different on other systems such as your Windows 10 example. I'll have to have a look when I have the time.
The first torrent I downloaded was one of the demo videos he put on his home page in 2001 (I think there were two). Never seen a reference to them since.
At this point it's not a matter of game compatibility, it's a matter of anti-cheat. As I've spoken about many times before, Linux has a kernel module problem. Anti-cheat wants a closed-source kernel module that hooks into everything. Linux wants to disallow access to internal kernel state unless your module solemnly swears it's GPL.

Valve has said that they're working on this problem, but the workarounds one can undertake are pretty grim, and I doubt other companies (Blizzard, Ubisoft, Sony, EA, etc.) are all going to go down that sketchy rabbithole.
apt install transmission-cli
> This is like saying today "In addition to Python, he coded in Javascript and PHP, and later in C#. He wrote numerous scripts, including 24 websites and many text-processing utilities, as well as some CRM plugins for his local church."

You think writing a symphony is like writing a Python script?

"Salieri was just an average composer... my source? Why, the Mozart film of course!"
So staying unvaccinated counts as reckless now?
There are some that think that cyclists should have their own separated ways the same way pedestrians do.
> Imagine an Internet where accuracy was valued.

LOL even in the "good old days" Usenet was absolutely chock-full of assholes and cranks, the above archive is just the _good_ parts.
Main advantage: decentralized search.
It's disappointing that he seems to confuse the field in which intelligence and perception take place (the subjective experience of being alive) and the sensory perception and thought inside it. It'd be a much more interesting article if he focused on how and why the former shows up out of physical neurons.
The blatant disregard for efficiency and constant churn are a huge problem.

Don't confuse the sane and stable Internet core protocols with the "web stack".
Even if it’s just a service center, that’s probably 20+ relatively high paying jobs. It will bring people to the municipality too so an opportunity for “trickle down” to local restaurants shopping etc.
Eh, they may put more emphasis on that technique, but its only a subset of the scope:

> This document contains a practical and comprehensive introduction of everything related to deep learning in the context of physical simulations. ... Beyond standard supervised learning from data, we’ll look at physical loss constraints, more tightly coupled learning algorithms with differentiable simulations,...
Agreed, without my adblockers, the Internet feels like a seedy underpass in a city centre.
Most hybrids are cheaper and overall more sustainable than fully electric cars. The vast majority of trips are.less.than 50 miles, so mining 300 miles.worth of more battery ends up causing a lot of pollution and a fresh disposal problem.

Hybrids with 50 mile electric range and ICE after are much better options. Minimizes pollution at source and point of use. All while being monetarily affordable.