skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is (1) a totally legit idea (2) achievable nearly out of the box with Ergo and Gamja!

Live on our production network: https://ergo.chat/gamja/

Gamja: https://sr.ht/~emersion/gamja/

The one clunky thing is that you have to register your nickname with our NickServ and then become "always-on": `/msg nickserv set always-on true`
Unless you're on a limited embedded platform 100k of size increase in a binary is basically nothing these days or any pc/mac built in the past 20 years. Also equating bigger to slower in binaries as a truism is usually a fallacy.
SpaceX has done good work but it heavily drew from U.S. government investments in the space program & ICBMs which resulted in things like microchips and a lot of advanced manufacturing technologies (ever wonder why carbon fiber became common starting in the 90s? Defense aerospace demand dropped at the end of the Cold War and the manufacturers repurposed), not to mention a ton of engineering data about the launch systems, how to keep astronauts alive and functioning, etc.

All of that foundational work happened when the top marginal tax rates were much higher, showing that “don’t tax rich people so they can fund innovation” is too simple a thesis to be correct.
reading that: wtf (never heard about this)
hey, libera chat staff here. daniel is a top guy, a good friend, and I trust him to the moon and back. as others have said, he was nought but an employee and it didn't involve ora/ergo.
With such a small sample size, formal methods break down. The sample could be biased. In fact, it's almost guaranteed. The ability to p-hack (even inadvertently) is extremely high. Publication bias is also practically guaranteed. These kinds of issues void significance to a reasonably high degree.

At these kinds of sample sizes, the biggest issues are not going to be included or visible in the study. Unless the reported significance is extremely high, it's not meaningful.
One of my favourite passages from Adam Smith, I believe it was from the Wealth of Nations, though I don’t remember the chapter. When I was underemployed I took the time to read it (skimming the obsolete chapters on colonial administration: the American revolution is referenced as an ongoing disturbance)

>“We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform, combination, not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate…Masters, too, sometimes enter into particular combinations to sink the wages of labour even below this rate. These are always conducted with the utmost silence and secrecy till the moment of execution; and when the workmen yield, as they sometimes do without resistance, though severely felt by them, they are never heard of by other people…” [In contrast, when workers combine,] “…the masters..never cease to call aloud for the assistance of the civil magistrate, and the rigorous execution of those laws which have been enacted with so much severity against the combination of servants, labourers, and journeymen.”
nothing computational in there
https://archive.is/B7Yu0
Good. Religious exemptions are pragmatic canaries for state overreach. People are not livestock, even if states and employers like to treat them that way. The idea of a religious exemption isn't just some pastafarian variation, it represents a very real line between the individual and group and whether one is a citizen or mere property.

This is the marking issue with biometrics. Are you a being with agency, or are you property represented by your mark? The point of privacy laws are that your consent is required, and taking things from you under duress or coercion is not consent.
Ah! So what we have right now is a websocket API (so clients can speak IRC via websockets), and our default config basically turns the ircd into a 'bouncer' (it automatically stays online all the time, caches message history, plays it to you when you join and all that).

We're looking at some new persistence capabilities and caps to speed up connection, which should (hopefully, eventually) provide something similar to that c2s bouncer api in terms of speed: https://github.com/ergochat/ergo/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aiss...
Always up to take on and look at suggestions though :D
> This has been reported for over a year.

If we covered the flu the same way we cover covid, people would be saying the same things…

> These things called "masks" are there to reduce risk without forcing us to stop living life.

Sorry I’m fully vaccinated. I’m not wearing a mask ever again. Masks are not normal. In fact they are quite the opposite.

Vaccines were supposed to be the end. Not some kind of dystopia where everybody wears masks and treats each other like disease vectors… forever. Because some people are frightened.
Often we might think we know something and later conclude that we were wrong... but in this case, it's common to say "I thought I knew such-and-such, but I didn't". Also, for what it's worth, most people don't think that knowing that P requires that you're certain that P.

At least, that's one way of using the word "know". So if we're trying to give an analysis of this thing, we can't just decide to discard truth as a requirement of knowledge... the goal is to give an analysis of this thing that people talk about, not replace it with something else.

That said, it sounds like you're sympathetic to a line of thought on which this so-called "traditional" conception of knowledge isn't very useful, and we should focus on the sorts of things that Bayesian epistemology focuses on... something like degrees of confidence.
> Do you consider people with immunity from past infections to be antivaxers?

In Australia, for all intents and purposes, yes.

Thanks to the terrible "totalitarian regime", less than one percent of our population has yet to catch COVID. We've had even less deaths! It's fuckin' awesome that we've managed to come out of this so well, almost entirely thanks to lockdown.

The route out of lockdown, without massively increasing the numbers of preventable deaths, is vaccination.

It's simpler and more expedient for me, and the government, to treat all Australians who refuse to get vaccinated (as opposed to being unable to get vaccinated, of course) as either idiots, petulant children, or misled and out of touch with reality.

Either way, I appreciate that the carrot & sometimes the stick is necessary to force people to abide by the laws of their society. Just like it's not your choice to drink and drive, it's not really your choice not to get vaccinated while participating in Australian society. These are the norms that the majority of our country believe in.

If you don't want to get vaccinated, don't participate. Go find a community of like-minded rugged individualists somewhere. Move to Texas, maybe. (Sorry, Texans.)

> You’re falling for their us-them division tactic where they get you to hate the “anti vax” until you build the systems of your own enslavement.

Nah, I already harboured a great deal of spite for anti-vax idiots prior to COVID, didn't need any help from the government.

...

And all that said, if the government doesn't remove restrictions once we reach 80% vaccinated and more, I will be fighting those governments tooth and nail. But we're not there yet.
This probably doesn’t come across to an international audience but Australia is in a really weird state at the moment.

On one hand you have QLD/SA/WA which are probably the places least effected in the world by COVID. QLD for example with a population of 5.2 million has had a total of 7 deaths from COVID over the entirety of the pandemic. Schools, shops and workplaces have all been pretty much running as normal the last 18 months in these states.

On the other hand you have the South East states which have large active delta outbreaks and have gone through long lockdowns, especially Victoria. These states have given up eliminating COVID and are planning on letting COVID spread as vaccination rates meet targets.

Residents from the SE states are effectively locked out from the rest of Australia. State borders are shut and have been on and off for much of the pandemic. Thus Australia is in some ways operating as two countries at this stage.

What’s more international travel to Australia is effectively shutoff. The only people allowed back are Australians and there is a wait list and you better be planning on moving back to live permanently.

Obviously no one wants to split the country in half. No one wants suspend international travel indefinitely. In particular the federal government views its reelection chances as effectively riding on getting things to a semblance of normality by Christmas.

Yet residents of places like SA and WA obviously do not want to give up their COVID free status.

Hence you see the search for solutions like this. The app does address a genuine problem. In particular, hotel quarantine was introduced in Australia after home quarantine failed due to wide spread non-compliance. Yet it is expensive
, capacity is limited and hotels aren’t great quarantine facilities in the first place. Sealed windows and shared ventilation systems in particular are problematic.

Whether or not the trade off in tracking people for two weeks is worth it, I’m not sure.

I don’t think these measures will be around permanently though. The slightest suggestion of permanent measures has been slapped down hard so far.
Writing it myself is what I did for my blog. The only thing I capture is the page that was visited, when it was visited, and the domain of the referrer (to see what the source is). The tracker is meant to be used for blogs where I don't control the server, such as Github Pages, so there's a single AJAX call to my self-hosted server.

I usually open source my code, I just haven't gotten around to it for this one in particular. Might be worth doing if people are interested.
Most people don't do anything from their selflessness, that includes people elected as representatives or employed by any given state (despite whatever they may signal to the contrary if one looks at their actions).
> Keep in mind you are writing this in defense of a gov that presumes itself to be in charge of how many people you can have over.

Source: https://theconversation.com/vaccine-passports-are-coming-to-...

“NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian yesterday announced freedoms for fully vaccinated people once 70% of the state’s eligible population are double dosed. These include being able to go to hospitality venues, hairdressers and gyms, and have five people to your home.”

That's not the same government at all. You've quoted a decision by the NSW government, and this article is about South Australia.
Interesting that he was religiously opposed to fingerprinting but had no problem with the debt collection aspect. I seem to recall Jesus being not-too-complimentary about the tax collectors of the time who hounded people for money.
> I would rather anti-vaxers leave the country than continue to hang around, yes

Those supposed 'anti-vaxers' are more or less guaranteed to be vaccinated for nearly all diseases just like I assume you (and others who insist on calling anyone who is not toeing the party line by that epithet) are.

Some people have natural immunity from having had SARS2.

Some people are being advised by their doctors not to take the current crop of vaccines.

Some people deem their risk from contracting SARS2 lower than the risk of side-effects from the current crop of vaccines.

Bodily autonomy is an essential part of a liberal democracy.

If you are vaccinated you are mostly protected so why worry over those who do not get vaccinated? They run a higher risk of contracting SARS2, they have a higher risk of ending up in a hospital, they run a higher risk of needing intensive care and they have a higher risk of succumbing to the disease compared to vaccinated people in their own age and risk group. These are all risks to their own health, something you might find stupid and unreasonable but... it is their own choice. The only possible argument you might have in a country with socialised health care (like Oz) is that they may run up health care costs due to their refusal to take the vaccine. Those same people might respond that they do not want the vaccines because they fear potential side effects somewhere down the line. Given the limited amount of long-time experience with mRNA vaccines in humans this is not an unfounded risk, although most side effects seem to occur within 6 months of vaccination and as such should have already become visible.

Have you seen the movie 'Babe', the one about the pig which acted like a dog? Do you remember how the sheep in that movie called anything which they deemed to be a threat a 'wolf', leading to a field full of sheep bleating 'wolf' in sheep-speak to each other and to the supposed wolf? Calling anyone who shows the slightest hesitancy towards these rather new vaccines 'anti-vaxxers' (the word seems to be mostly spelled with two 'x'-es) is comparable to how those sheep reacted.

Don't be a sheep, Australia has enough of them already.
I really don't understand the wholesale dislike of inequality when that inequality is due to legitimate value provision and not due to illegal activity, externalities, cronyism, rent seeking and so on.

Would people be happier if Elon Musk made a shittier space company? Inequality would be lower and yet the world would be objectively a worse place.

The only legitimate argument I've heard is that it creates a biochemical stress response in people, especially men, who are not as successful, which leads to poor health outcomes. But inequality in social capital also does that in spades but I don't see anyone clamoring to remove and equalize Instagram followers.

That tells me that the real underlying motivation is an intrinsic disgust with inequality due to unstated jealousy, rather than an earnest concern for the poor. If it was the latter you would see those motivations revealed in rhetoric that focuses more on prosperity and lifting those specific people up and fixing the real issues underlying poverty and disease and suffering, whereas instead most rhetoric is around the delta between them and the top which only indirectly impacts them through a very fuzzy and unproven mechanism.
Ahh, that makes sense! Maybe keep the inflammatory language out of your original comment, though. A lot of people browsing these forums and may not be familiar with local slang terms/jargon like that, and your original comment sounded like a definition.
Unfortunately banning ICE vehicles is only part of the story. A major health risk in cities is fine particulates caused by tire and road wear. Switching the entire ICE vehicle fleet over to EVs would eliminate pollution from combustion but have no effect on tire/road wear particulates.
On the other hand it is not likely that interest rates will remain this low for very long. How much money can be poured into 30 year bonds with less than a 2% coupon rate? How long will the Fed continue its asset purchase program? How much more supply can be added to the bond market before demand begins to run out? One way or another interest rates will begin to rise, and then the stock market will be forced to correct.

We have had a 40 year bull market in bonds, but that is almost certainly coming to an end. There is just no more room for that bull to run.
> ICE lawn equipment

If you are going to ban one thing, why not just ban lawns ;-p

Although to support your point, “Quantification of the environmental and economic benefits of the electrification of lawn mowers on the US residential market”[1] abstract says “Gasoline-powered lawn mowers and garden equipment [in the USA are] accounting for a quarter of all non-road gasoline emissions.”.

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11367-021-01917-x

I inherited a large lawn mower which I use for the overgrown uneven driveway. I could replace the mower with a weed whacker, however that would then take many hours longer (for a chore I really hate doing and do as little as possible!) I hate the noise but it works. An equivalent electric mower would be completely unaffordable for me.

I thought the majority of PM2.5 emissions was due to two-stroke engines?

The only two-stroke device I own is a chainsaw. I wanted to get a battery powered chainsaw, but they are at least 3 times the price. I also own a mains powered electric chainsaw, but an extension cord is frustrating, and only reasonable to use within tens of metres from a house.
Still, it lays infrastructure for future abuse. When the covid Zeta mutation comes around, it might be tempting to scale it up to the general public.

"Sir, if we make the general public use this, it will save 24% more lives"
Yeah we didn't need to agree in writing because I didn't sign anything giving them access, control, ownership, or anything else over my IRC projects. They offered to purchase one of them at one point, but I respectfully declined.
Humans Could Develop a Sixth Sense, Scientists Say
So you wouldn't object if someone followed you to every restaurant

I think most readers stopped here.
Why can't they use ankle monitors that they give people who are under house arrest?
Because they built something too big for the foundation? I bet if you weaken those trusses between 5&7, gravity will handle the rest.

>The final design for 7 World Trade Center was for a much larger building than originally planned when the substation was built.[16]:xxxviii The structural design of 7 World Trade Center therefore included a system of gravity column transfer trusses and girders, located between floors 5 and 7, to transfer loads to the smaller foundation.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_World_Trade_Center
Another way to extract all of those compressed zip files would have been to use binwalk.

binwalk --dd='.*' *.asset

Edit: should have read the comments before I posted this, because enragedcacti already mentioned this tool an hour ago.
Pfizer.
Please use IPFS [0] too, for posterity

[0] https://ipfs.io/#install
Jesus preached to debt/tax collectors, prosecutors, etc because they were the ones who needed it.
yes, you can't solve these problems with tiny band-aids, it requires significant structural changes. People have to live and act differently. My observation of the US from the outside is that this kind of adaption is next to impossible and would be unpopular. The timescales needed compared to the election cycles means politically it's near impossible without very widespread support. It seems it will require actual disaster scenarios to instigate change, even then, the US seems really slow to adapt. So I'm expecting that we will see slow piecemeal measures that are more palatable to the populace.
"I'm pretty privacy and personal freedom conscious- for example I wouldn't go anywhere that made me scan a QR code or use an app. But I can't think of any concern I have with a private business using my fingerprint as an access token"

That is absolutely ridiculous and contradictory. You won't scan a QR code with a phone app, but you'll hand your fingerprints over to a private entity? For storage with unknown security and access by an unknown number of people?

Dumb.
Are you saying that it’s a responsible decision, one that won’t have consequences for people who cannot get vaccinated?
What about last year when they were talking about natural immunity passports before vaccines were available, now they pretend natural immunity does not exist!
If society is violent, divided, and less trusting of one another, there is more willingness to turn to the state for protection.

Unfortunately this creates a strong incentive for all governments to actually create such societies and increase division and mistrust in order to gain power.
> rather than in a state-run, guarded, hotel room, or without regular police visits to their home

Ah yes these are totally normal things for a democratic country to do
https://archive.is/wpWjl
Yes, dictionary content is the revenue source of dictionary vendors, so of course they don't want anyone to use it without permission. On the other hand there are more and more open-data projects (I started one myself), often based on printed dictionaries that felt in the public domain.
I'm not really sure where you got that idea...

"The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state."
If Musk had 1/10th of his current wealth, would his space company be shittier?
Mid-50's with an existing disease. Which is why I got my shot early. I have good reason to worry.
https://archive.is/kmKBw
I find this unpersuasive. I don't want to hear anything from the CDC. I don't trust the CDC because (among other reasons) they recently silently redefined "vaccine" to not include the idea that it provides immunity.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210826113846/https://www.cdc.g...
https://web.archive.org/web/20210902194040/https://www.cdc.g...

Vitamin D might qualify as a vaccine under the new definition, or some other substance that's obviously not a vaccine.

Downvoters, please use the little-known "reply" feature instead of just clicking the little triangle to assuage your discomfort.
Yeah sure! Please do open source it if you choose to, I've been thinking about something similar but it's just not pressing vs. all the other stuff I'm working on. I literally haven't given it much thought beyond "ok intercept the request from a visitor, do some analytics on the IP address, and then log visits of logged in users/new visitors"

> The only thing I capture is the page that was visited, when it was visited, and the domain of the referrer (to see what the source is). The tracker is meant to be used for blogs where I don't control the server, such as Github Pages, so there's a single AJAX call to my self-hosted server.

To be honest, I'm not entirely sure how I'd solve this without the 'single AJAX call' but I guess it makes sense to start there!

Curious how you implemented it - again, I'm not a rocket surgeon and this is just like a 3 second analysis of the problem space, but it's always neat to check out other people's implementations for common, shared problems
How about the church of not needing a college degree to get a job
It's not really something researchers can control. I was commenting on the news release, and it being posted on Hacker News, because that's more of an issue.
It seems that most thoughts seems to go towards transportation if we banned internal combustion from the city, but to me my first thoughts goes to power and heating. It would be interesting to see some number of how much of air pollution in cities comes from traffic and how much comes from other uses of internal combustion.
Doesn’t Jeff Bezos mostly own the means of logistics? Or is that bundled up in “means of production”. A warehouse full of iPhones isn’t worth much if it’s impossible to get them to your customers.
All sources I've found indicate that uTorrent was written in C++, but perhaps its author was a bit more mindful of unnecessary abstraction and the like.
I've been tinkering with a to mount remote file systems of various kinds using Sharedigm/Cloudintosh. By mounting your web server's code directory as an SFTP file system, it would allow for a nice, intuitive way to view and edit your remote code files. This would make web development a bit more pleasant.
The 9/11 Era is Over
> The idea of a religious exemption isn't just some pastafarian variation

Anyone’s assumptions or thoughts can qualify as a religion. At least for any consistent and useful definition of religion.