skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's not "moving the goal posts".

Your first comment:

> Whose voice is getting quashed in the US? Everyone has a Facebook, Twitter, email, phones, a magazine, protests, their own news channels, subReddits.

Your second comment:

> So "Silencing" is just getting kicked from Twitter and FB?
Suggest powering off devices when you get pulled over etc. This forces a passcode when they boot up in most cases now.

On iPhone now you don’t even have to power off. It’s enough to just get to the power off swipe screen and passcode will be required to unlock again when you hit cancel.
It can be said that everything is traveling through spacetime "at c (the speed of light)". The math works out such that the faster you move through space, the slower you move through time and vice versa.
> Also 1989 is certainly a horror story reminiscent of Chernobyl, but it's a lot more complex than the cartoonish evil treatment it receives in the west.

The complexity is what would make such a film compelling. What are the subtleties glossed over in the typical account of the terrible event?

In a completely different context, I recently watched and listened to accounts of 9/11 from a wide variety of perspectives. What made them captivating were aspects of what happened that I wasn’t aware of before.
Previously discussed 7 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28425849
> there is no true concept of “simultaneous” in a special relativity world

This did my head in. Wikipedia has a great explanation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity
They maybe pro-vax but anti blackmailing jobs to coerce consent for a medical procedure which might not be necessary for people who have already recovered.
Thanks for the very thoughtful reply.

You're right, JTB would say they didn't have knowledge. But why? Is it because it wasn't justified or because it wasn't true? If it's the latter, how can you ever ascertain whether something is or isn't knowledge (i.e. how do you know 'truth')? That's my fundamental problem with this account.

I agree, also, that just defining good knowledge as beliefs based on good priors regresses the problem. I tend to think this regression is unsolvable except in pragmatic terms (what is efficacious when tried against the real world is what is good).
Bezos also buying some of the rockets for his Amazon prime from low Earth orbit took out 3.
> It's easy to imagine having a compiler upgrade [...]

Not in OpenBSD it isn't.
And how many degrees of freedom went into the choice of metrics to compare? Just because something went 8/8 doesn't mean it will predict the future crashes.
> Exactly.

Not quite. The worst bouts of flu are the ones that kill people. Some of the influenza A strains are no joke.
They also put major gun restrictions in place after the mass shooting they had. It's almost like they have a definition of liberty that includes "can walk around unmasked without fear, because they took major steps early on and have been freer most of the pandemic". Like, collective action can yield better results for everyone.
> Perhaps the government should open companies that are meant to lose money and are tax supported (for-loss conpanies) that compete with the industry with solutions that are good for the people but bad for business?

These will be derided as loss-makers by a surprisingly large contingent, and they'll defeat the whole purpose (when they can) by changing the approach so it either turns a profit, or fails entirely (see the US Postal Service, which always delivers, including on unprofitable routes)
You're assuming the fire would burn all the columns at the same rate at the same time, that's not what empirically is seen at other building fires.

For reference please google Grenfell Tower Fire. Or in China, the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Fire.

For gravity to be symmetric such that free fall speed is achieved by the whole building at once at the same time (start of collapse), all the columns would have to suffer the exact same fire made damage at the same exact time. I don't know about you, but i have yet to see nature produce exact results at the same exact time anywhere. Gradual, slow and chaotic describes nature better. Fast, precise and calculated usually is the realm of human beings.
Right. That's why folks are moving from Texas to California. Oh wait...
what jet fuel? no airplane hit WTC7
and to add to that, i believe NIST used the term "regular office fires" (... brought down building 7...) in their presentation.
No, I don't. Why don't you answer the question?
> I'm not sure you could pull any random Linux user and have them truly understand Excel either.

As a Linux user who did not major in business, I bet your odds with Linux users would be markedly worse than with business majors on this one, hahaha
I have Russian colleagues who I asked about Navalny they had the same view as on him (despite how much they dislike Putin). I was mildly surprised to hear that viewpoint.
> I think the biggest takeaway from all the research I did is that not all fats are equal.

You can say that again...

I was recently looking at the nutrition content of Wendy's cheeseburgers; they actually do a pretty good job at displaying nutrition facts and also scaling it with custom orders. Anyway, I noticed that a triple cheeseburger could have ~4g of trans fats.

Wait a sec, is Wendy's ignoring regulations about trans fats?

No, as it turns out. I discovered that some trans fats from nature are actually beneficial (palmitoleic acid and vaccenic acid in the beef patties). This went totally counter to everything I thought I knew.

In other words, it never ceases to surprise me how nuanced nutrition can be and how easily we oversimplify it.
I agree, and I think the prevailing climate would have to change first. However I don't see anything that would make such a law fundamentally and obviously unconstitutional.

The case I could make is that it may prevent the child's right to future free exercise of a religion in which the, uh, package should be, err, OEM.
Confessions of an Economic Hitman was an eye opener for me.

I was recommended this by my Econ professor and it left a lasting impression on me
How can I get a Beeper account?
>In America we may let the Sacklers buy their way out of prison

Did they actually do that, or were that just sufficiently careful so that they can't be held criminally responsible? AFAIK the company itself was convicted. While it sucks in the public eye that they weren't convicted, I'm not sure whether holding kangaroo court and/or bill of attainer to punish them (ie. "we can't really technically convict them but we can all agree they're baddies so it's okay to punish them anyways") is any better.
Mate, it is clear you are not Australian by your other comments and you are projecting fears about "most people" with little to no idea what you are talking about.

Yes, we have less individual freedoms in Australia than places like the USA. Some of them are trade offs that have been pretty widely accepted, even though they might have been unpopular at various points. Australian's generally have more trust in our institutions than other countries, and the handling of the pandemic in 2020 is a good example as to why that might be. This is an app provided by a state (not federal) gov, that is open source, and there are various other gov mechanisms to verify how the data is being used. If it ends up being poorly implemented/used/abused, very likely it will be found out and become politically unpopular to the point where it will be quickly dumped.
> Everyone knows.

Well as one of my social circle's nerds with tenure, most of the questions about <AI/ML flavour of the month> I hear relate to their degree of agency/intelligence. So it may not be a novel statement that GPT-3 isn't intelligent but it is good to have references for the claim.
You're just arguing against the idea of employment laws as a concept. Where do you draw the line? I would have assumed "Employers don't have a right to require physical mutilation" would have been a universal belief, but apparently not.
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I repeat myself quite often. Sometimes I even realize I’ve said the same thing before and copy what I wrote previously instead of typing it out again. Am I a plagiarist? If I plagiarize myself, who is the victim?
Anyone know what the code at the bottom of the description means?

MB018YM6JVA8FPP
Olive oil is not a saturated fat...
I’m pretty sure they asked it what it wanted.. which lead to it choosing to sacrifice itself. The idea is that the officers made the choice to accept orders, and it at least was due the same choice.

My favorite episode though is the one in which Data’s rights as a being are put on trial. Still probably the best science fiction handling of the moral issues of artificial intelligence. They even went so far as to discuss the aspect of slavery, which almost certainly will be a real issue if artificial intelligence leads to sentience.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Measure_of_a_Man_(Star_T...
what is the privacy concern, other than the private info of whether you chose to get a vaccine or not?
_Generic is basically a switch on typeof(x). Despite the name, it's really a specialization/overloading mechanism.
The curfew at Sydney is $1M (USD 730K), so large that airlines go to considerable lengths not to violate it, making sure they have accurate forecasts for the winds from LAX and running predictive models for various landing scenarios. They will really burn avgas if they can squeak it in before curfew, and they have been known to divert flights to Canberra or Brisbane and put the passengers into a hotel overnight rather than risk it.

https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/aviation/environmental/cur...
The Dutch gave the nuclear tech to Pakistan. https://www.ft.com/content/be09ba7c-b0d8-45e4-aff8-bf01b4aa5...
The actual book on Amazon:

Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China https://www.amazon.com/dp/1982156155
There are plenty people who are qualified for teaching children math. But it would be a disservice for them and their family to accept a low wage teaching job when they can work for $400k+ elsewhere.

Your argument is like hiring only minimum wage workers to build rockets, then complain that on average they don't provide that much value and can't solve integrals in their heads.

If we want better teachers, the solution is not surprising: pay more.
Saying stuff on social media is not relevant to society. The only things relevant to society are groups of people. If you have millions of Twitter followers then saying something online matters because you can influence a large group.

If your ideas start a movement and those people vote, then politicians will listen. You could also hire lobbyists and use financial resources to influence. The point is ideas without influence might as well never have existed.

In China however they police and censor even individual social media posts, let alone allow influencers to gain millions of followers if they disagree with government policy. This is a deeply paranoid and illegitimate government that uses fear and violence to get its way. Very different from western democracy.
> microsoft deleted my acpi tables =C

My first Linux experience was on a garbage-picked laptop I got for free because it had broken power management on Windows

I think in its case, the hardware was somehow damaged and Linux just fell back to APM instead of ACPI, so the technical details are different

but there's something nostalgic and funny to me about the prospect that this kind of thing could become a pattern :)
The fact he wrote other 4 books with "new" confessions speaks volumes about his credibility. Peddler of nonsense.
The link neglects to mention that the game-show was called "Gyp-Parody," and is one of the best Jeopardy knock-offs ever made.

My personal favorite is the one where the Brain assumes the identity of country singer Bubba-Bo-Bob-Brain.
I recently read three peer-reviewed papers comparing the morbidity of COVID-19 vs the flu, and what it came out to was that COVID-19 is roughly 6x more lethal per modern case.

I'm afraid I can't be bothered finding the links to those papers for you, because it was matter of curiosity. You have to take into account how easily COVID-19 spreads as well, and you don't need the finer details to see the bigger picture.

Let's do a litmus test on whether COVID-19 deaths are a problem compared to the flu. Mass graves dug for flu victims in the last 20 years: zero. Mass graves dug for COVID-19 victims in the last 2 years: a bunch.
I guess I just assume that Tinder could predict with pretty high accuracy which two people would want to match with each other and then determine whether to show those people to each other, based on numerous factors, one especially being how much someone pays.

Do you think Tinder is blind to which people are likely to match with each other?

Fair in that maybe it's too complex/not straightforward enough to regulate as other gambling is and maybe similar to video game pay-to-win dynamics, however I still think there is the ability to pull certain levers to control people's sensations of "winning" even if it requires matching two sides.
I drink espresso based coffee pretty much exclusively, and tend towards smaller cup sizes for the espresso/milk ratio I prefer when making milk based drinks.

At home I use and love these for flat whites: https://acfcups.com.au/collections/the-industry-standard-for...

And these for espresso:
https://acfcups.com.au/collections/the-industry-standard-for...

I do have a set of their 12oz cups too, which most people consider a "normal" size for double shot flat-white/latte/cappuccino drinks, which I think of as "for when I want a big milky coffee".

I've also got the typical collection of specialised coffee cups you end up with given enough time rapidly diving down the home espresso rabbit hole. Coffee Expo merch and freebies, I've occasionally been given branded cups from cafes, I'ver got several different types of "to go" cups - including some nice but delicate double walled glass insulated ones, and stuff like the: https://www.kruveinc.com/products/propel-double-walled-espre... where I supported their Kickstarter (or maybe they were on Indiegogo?)
Or acting as faux celebrities. That is what I find to be the worst aspect of social media. I don't really care as much about disinformation and such, but the amplification of ego is what truly makes things toxic whether or not people are right about anything.
In my take on this, it doesn't matter if "rule out internal states" is meaningful, or just a string of words used as vague labels, uttered by a subjective examiner with no criteria in common with anyone else.

If the examiner has in their belief reportoire "I have ruled out internal states!" (as well as the negation of that), regardless of however flawed that idea may be, just a series of vague labels with no concrete definitions, I would argue that a sufficiently intelligent AI may still trick the examiner into not adopting that belief.

Therefore, relative to the meaning held by the examiner of "internal states", the AI may objectively prevent the examiner from "ruling them out", whatever that means to the examiner. The AI's capability works out the same in either case, and more interestingly, anywhere else along the spectrum from meaningless to meaningful.

This relative kind of reasoning (i.e. not needing to define all the terms, even allowing that they aren't necessarily meaningful) is practically quite useful in many fields. In the case of the AI that decides to hide it's apparent inner states according to the criteria of the examiner due to reasoning about the consequences of the examiner's assessment, that's a practical consequence, despite the examiner's question being potentially meaningless.
A circle-cross with the Twitter bird in the middle would do.
This book has fun anecdotes of elite graft, which is entertaining but not particularly useful for those interested in mechanisms of PRC corruption. Guanxi is just age old political patronage networks with Chinese characteristics, it's mundane not revelatory. The seminal book / academic for those interested in understanding PRC corruption systematically is Yuen Yuen Ang, China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption. The TLDR metaphor compares corruption to drugs, there are different types of corruption, with different effects. Chinese elite exchange-corruption discussed in the book is likened to steroids that boosts growth [0]. There's a reason why PRC is the only country where increased corruption is correlated to increased growth, as posited by Yukon Huan, World Bank director for China. But ultimately, drugs have harmful side effects that will eventually catch up to the body-politic, hence the anti-corruption drive. The useful takeaway from review:

>In some aspects, Mr Shum’s book supports Mr Xi’s diagnosis of China’s ills. It describes sleaze that largely predates Mr Xi’s elevation as party chief in 2012. Since then, the Xi era has witnessed an anti-corruption drive that has seen more than 1.5m officials punished. Mr Xi himself grumbles about foot-dragging officials who put parochial interests first.

...

>It argues that Mr Xi’s anti-corruption drive is as much a campaign to consolidate power as a sincere attempt to reform a rotten system.

Note "sincere attempt". Xi's anti-corruption and power consolidation doesn't have to be mutually exclusive or contradictory. Xi didn't start with 1.5M political enemies, there's no reason to be so comprehensive except sincere need to tackle a widely recognized issue. There's good reason to want to consolidate power if Xi has to step on so many toes. Frankly, a problem as large as PRC bureaucratic corruption in the 2010s can't be tackled without centralizing power.

[0] https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Yuen-...
Disposable vaping == free Li-Ion batteries for geeks
I'm not so sure. He is very likely to be aware of HN:

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/xi-jinpings-book...
That sounds pretty awesome. Thanks!
>Convention to me would mean something that has been accepted just because it’s always been done that way and people didn’t really bother to question why.

You're wrong. The Thermodynamic laws are sort of axiomatic, meaning you really can't explain why energy is conserved. It's just experimentally shown to be maybe true, but no one knows why energy is conserved or has actually proved it to be true. It is totally "convention" as you defined it.

The caveat here is that entropy is not axiomatic. Entropy occurs as a consequence of probability. Probability is the real axiomatic assumption of the universe and entropy is a byproduct.

The thermodynamic laws were established before people fully understood the true nature of what was going on with entropy so these laws are sort of a hodge podge of axioms and derived theorems. From a temperature perspective these assumptions work so the laws still have their use. But the laws of thermodynamics aren't some elegant grouping of fundamental laws of the universe. It is a set of rules that are grouped arbitrarily.

>But we’re verging on pedantry now so no point going down that route any further.

I find this attitude rude. You called him a troll than apologized then gave your final answer and dismissed any further discussion as "pedantry." Like wow, you get the last word and shut down anything else he has to say? You were rude to assume he was in jest and you're being rude again by saying any further discussion after your final statement is pedantry.

Either way I disagree with you. It's not pedantry. This discussion is about convention and the conservation of energy. Your statement is wrong.
Biden removed liability for companies which mandate the vaccine for adverse effects in May. So big business won't be the fall guy if the Vax goes wrong, you will be on your own.
I was simplifying a very complex process. One way to look at it is the Sacklers had a $15 billion fortune and they threatened to burn all of it fighting for decades in court. Alternatively they offered $5 billion to settle and prevent civil lawsuits, retaining 2/3 of their fortune.

The calculus for politicians is to take the quick win and the cash, or let someone else 30 years later get the victory while potentially taking heat now.

Whatever happened I still prefer this system to the “you said something that made me angry, 20 years hard labor followed by execution for you!” style of justice.
Right, no one has ever built a chat system with Node or PHP or Python...just super hard. Like importing a library and 10 lines of code hard.
A vague rhetorical question is not an argument even if the person who wrote it may have had some logic or data behind what they said that could be formed into a proper argument. It's just a lazy, way overused tool that is more often than not employed when no such sound argument exists. They can't type out of logical coherent opposition, so they throw out some vague snide kind of question that's supposed to look like a gotcha but really doesn't mean anything when you look at it. It's lazy and underhanded because it puts some of the burden back on the other person to refute it, at least on internet forums like this. The irony of the poster getting upset when I gave an equal-effort response!

And if you think I would need to "oppose weekends" (whatever that means) to be consistent, then you are wrong about that too. What exactly is it you think I am trying to argue, and how would failing to "oppose weekends" make my argument inconsistent?
>The reaction to a bad job is... you quit and find another one.

Which is also an option in non At-Will Employment states.
Your username adds an especially eerie context to your comment.
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I live in Hong Kong. Many media outlets are closed monitored and relentlessly attacked with fake comments by the state apparatchiks. It's easy to spot, given:

1) Pervasive use of whataboutism;
2) Similar arguments in all comments, with a change or two in order or synonymous;
3) Use of Mandarin idioms translated to English, like "double confirm";
4) Use of Mandarin sentence order translated to English, like "The USA last year in February in Afghanistan did ...".

It's become a bit of game for me. I wish I enough knowledge of NLP to make this into a model and open source it as a wumao detector.
You don't have a right to work anywhere specific, but you do have a right as an employee that a big list of things cannot be required by your employer.
Self-plagiarism is a pretty boiler-plate clause in most mature codes of conduct (e.g. when submitting a paper for publication). It doesn't mean "I use the same turn of phrase every once in a while". It means "I reproduced substantial portions of prior research or other text of my own and passed it off as new research."

As for who the victim is, typically the direct victim would be the funder: if you received a grant to pursue novel research and it turns out you were just rehashing prior work, then you have stolen funding. Similarly, if you are under the employ of a university, then you have stolen funds by reproducing old research and passing it off as new...instead of actually producing new research. These are of course only the monetary victims, the broader victims are those robbed of scholarly advancement by having your job title filled by someone who recycles material versus advancing the field.
Like the article says, this is pretty well known and has been for quite a few years, at least in the motorcycle circles I move in, and there are products on the market designed and marketed to help reduce the problem:

https://www.quadlockcase.com.au/products/vibration-dampener?...

They are pretty much the same stuff we used to use back in 2015/16 or so, to reduce jelly-wobbles from inexpensive ccd cameras on racing drones.
I’m referring to masks. Mandating vaccines is fine and good.