skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a certain irony here given that this is linked from a wealth advisor or whatnot; I love it.

I found that book amusing some years ago but have lost my copy. Wonder what they’d make of the current market conditions..
From the Wikipedia article on Human overpopulation:

> The concept of overpopulation is controversial. A 2015 article in Nature listed overpopulation as a pervasive science myth. Demographic projections suggest that population growth will stabilise in the 21st century, and many experts believe that global resources can meet this increased demand, suggesting a global overpopulation scenario is unlikely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_overpopulation
That's a strawman. There's literally no-one on earth saying "I should be free to do as I want regardless of harm to others".
I think it's a sensible choice. I've seen way too many C codebases rewriting half of the STL or using clunky macro hacks (or worse, half-assed linked lists) when basically every single platform out there has a copy on the STL available which includes containers and algorithms with excellent performances and are well tested.

It's complicated but it's the only reasonable choice. You can then write your code C-style while compiling it as C++ and nobody will bat an eye.
I confess that it crossed my mind. Torrents are obviously network-oriented and are often used to interact with, uh, untrusted content (the torrent files but also the trackers and peers that exchange data with the client). The surface of attack is rather large, using a memory-safe language doesn't seem like a luxury. I also can't imagine wanting to write C++ in this day and age, but that's my prejudice.

That being said I've been using transmission for years without complaints, so I trust them to do the right thing.
Who cares? Clicking on a link was the premise, we just assume it to be true and move on.
Your analogy doesn't really make sense to me.

It's not like we are aware that there are certain drivers that are 100x more likely to kill certain members of the population.

And if we were aware that certain ways of driving made you 100x more likely to kill someone, people would AT LEAST be talking about banning them.

Like, if teenagers could drive around drunk just find and not kill themselves or other teenagers somehow - they probably wouldn't care if only old, sick people ended up dead from their driving. People would probably make rules or at least talk about making rules to prevent this.

But that's not how driving really works.
'Legality' of some actions is not a Sacred Cow. A lot of essential freedoms we now take for granted were once illegal.

As famous quote goes, 'Slavery, Apartheid and Holocaust were legal'
> this is a completely absurd assumption

lol this "assumption" is empirically >99.9% true for vaccinated adults (which presumably describes the parent). Fear of covid appears to harm reason and numeracy far more than the disease itself.
If a user tries to compile with a compiler that gives a new warning, what do you expect the user to do about that?
But then your organs just go to waste, rather than be used to save lives.
This seems like a poor model of population dynamics. Isn’t it possible that earlier deaths in the elderly population might act as an economic stimulus that increases birth rate in the younger population? (So the net change in life years would not be 17bn).

Edit: I assume the downvotes are suggesting my logic is wrong. It would be helpful to hear why.
At least I can’t think of a period of human history, or a political system, where the richest families within it, didn’t have much more power than the ordinary citizen

Bolshevik Revolution, China's revolution, Iran's Islamic revolution... Plenty of examples of middle class/upper middle class leaders overthrowing the richest families and seizing control. Now in most cases those who take control end up enriching themselves but the point still stands.
Rewire is fairly different. It still exists, and also existed for macOS too. But to use it, applications have to be explicitly coded to use it (and linked against the rewire SDK).

That's quite different from JACK, SoundFlower, Hijack and the innumerable other inter-application audio routing systems for macOS, which can be used without the applications knowing anything about them.
For me, any cookie setting is instant at Starbucks. Actually I've never experienced this delay with 'essential' cookies anywhere, despite hearing about it a lot. Possibly because I'm using Brave, and so those cookies are blocked by default anyway?
Said the guy posting a Rust comment.
Agree, and if site breaks with those filters I just decide not to visit it.
> Of course you can go faster than light, way faster.

OK. How?
It may be based in truth, but it's a humor piece.
Does it fix the Bluetooth audio mess? Ubuntu 21.04 still can't do videoconferencing properly via Bluetooth as only ancient 'string on a tin can' codecs are supported.

And getting it to just stick to unidirectional audio (relying on the internal mic for input, which seems like the only practical option) took some serious trial and error. It still occasionally sends a stream to my headphones when nothing is playing, which prevents other devices from using them (my headphones let you connect two devices but only play audio from one of them).

If it does address these issues, I hope Ubuntu will soon officially support it (I've learned better than to use non-defaults, it just invites pain).
That would make current ALPR databases illegal. Do you think that is possible?
The #1 thing to do if you have or think you have COVID-19 is nasal irrigation. It decreases your chance of hospitalization by a factor of 19X:

Rapid initiation of nasal saline irrigation: hospitalizations in COVID-19 patients randomized to alkalinization or povidone-iodine compared to a national dataset
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.16.21262044v...

>Conclusion Patients who initiated isotonic saline nasal irrigation after a positive COVID-19 PCR test were 19 times less likely to be hospitalized than the national rate.

Iota-carrageenan nasal sprays can also not only help prevent nasal infection, but can help cure it:

Efficacy of a nasal spray containing Iota-Carrageenan in the prophylaxis of COVID-19 in hospital personnel dedicated to patients care with COVID-19 disease A pragmatic multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (CARR-COV-02)
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.13.21255409v...

> The incidence of COVID19 was significantly lower in the I-C group compared to placebo (1·0% vs 5·0%) (Odds Ratio 0·19 (95% confidence interval 0·05 to 0·77; p= 0·03).

Carrageenan nasal spray may double the rate of recovery from coronavirus and influenza virus infections: Re-analysis of randomized trial data
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34128358/

> The increase in recovery rate was 139% for coronavirus infections, 119% for influenza A infections, and 70% for rhinovirus infections.

Here's a list of all the nasal sprays containing one branded iota-carragenan ingredient in every country in which they are licensed:

https://www.carragelose.com/en/portfolio/launched-products
It would also financially cripple any poor person that relies on a car to get to work. And public transportation won't be viable in the US until cities finally wrap their head around the reality that you need basic security checkpoints at entrances to discourage riff raff from getting in (like in China).

If you've ever ridden BART, you know what I mean.
It's also unclear if those long COVID symptoms will resolve after a few years.
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I know nothing about OpenBSD, but one reason to avoid -Werror in shipping code that I've heard is that the set of warnings is a moving target.

It's easy to imagine having a compiler upgrade then add new warnings, that cause unchanged code in a project with -Werror to no longer build, thus breaking it.

Of course it can be argued that such "exposure" flushes out bad code with a vengeance, but it can also be considered to be annoying.
When any of them travel abroad they should be tried as spies.
No. Weapons can be dangerous. Technologies cannot be. Leaving a textbook around unattended is never dangerous. Did OpenAI shut down a weapon? No. They just shut down somebody's chatbot.
I think there is a tool to automatically convert C to Rust, but that would probably be a terrible idea given what looks like a lot of custom data structures that would translate to unsafe Rust.
I'm really, honestly trying my best to have a reasoned discussion about this! But I don't know where the misunderstanding is, somehow I'm looking at the same numbers for breakthrough infections as you are, and I'm seeing a very different story.

To be clear, I wore a mask religiously for 15 months, and got vaccinated as soon as I could.
This is why I left Silicon Valley and founded my last company FAR, FAR from it. Silicon Valley is 100% OVER. It's jumped the shark. It's overdone and needs a fork stuck into it.

I sold the company 3 years ago. My latest company is doing so much better than it could ever be possible if in Silicon Valley in terms of "R&D budget/Investor capital".

It means we'll attain things that Silicon Valley startups with exactly that kind of personnel compensation requirements NEVER WILL.
> Wearing a mask and social distancing doesn’t preclude you from new experiences.

You really can't think of any activity that is diminished by wearing a mask ?

210 Million people (64%) have already been vaccinated in the US, and children aren't even eligible. At some point there is an acceptable level of risk. When do these 'temporary safety precautions' stop?
In fact many regulations were fought tooth and nail by corporations. Environmental protection, tobacco health warnings, seat belt mandates, nutritional and content warning labels on food. Limitations on misleading adverts. Many, many more.

Arguably these regulations promoted competition. By raising awareness of these issues consumer information regulations helped new entrants promote innovative healthier or safer products. Increasing public confidence in a class of products can even make those products more popular.

Absent regulation individual companies can become locked into a race to the bottom that can turn a market into a cess pit. But introduce minimum quality standards and consumer confidence and participation can rise. There are spectacular examples of this in developing countries where effective regulation of financial services builds consumer trust and adoption of banking services. Used car sales and prices in many countries boomed when regulations were brought in to ensure customers were properly informed about the car's history and that the cars passed basic checks, because suddenly customers could trust that they weren't being ripped off. The narrative that regulations are necessarily bad for markets is simply not always true.
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sorry, this works too well. Only the best horse Ivermectin and finest Hydrochroloquine for me, coupled with a FDA approved vitamin protocol.
Simply being double jabbed and providing a negative test isn't a solution, because the vaccine fundamentally doesn't work the way you think.*
You are speaking way too conceptually and not looking at the actual warnings that compilers report.

Some compilers will warn about:

while (true) { ... }

having a constant condition. The fix is to write:

for (;;) { ... }

to nobody's benefit.

I've used languages that warn if you use snake_case instead of camelCase, because it violates their preferred naming convention. Or if you accidentally use a tab somewhere, it'll warn about a mix of tabs and spaces.

None of these matter for correctness, yet you're advocating to break the build for correctness.
Would that prevent Facebook from doing recognition on photos of strangers taken by users? Would that make existing ALPR aggregators illegal?

Yes, we can imagine some set of laws that would make the aggregation impossible. I don't see how they could be effectively created and enforced.
>We need to decide if we're okay with science agencies lying to us.

This is the "Science is a Liar sometimes"[1] defense, and it can be used to discredit any sort of scientific research. You are basically asking that our agencies be 100% correct the first time and be perfect predictors of the future.

Secondly I don't understand how you were mislead about vaccines. The efficiency rates were always described in preventing you from going to the hospital. With COVID, the main issue has always been overstressing the health system - thats where the breakdown happens and thats why everyone needs to take the vaccine. Even now, ICU beds are not majority unvaccinated COVID cases, which overworks nurses and prevents people with other diseases from getting proper treatment.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3Ak-SmyHHQ
While many Democrats do support it, Biden doesn't support medicare for all.
Looking at the rclone feature set, it’s not clear if it provides a daemon to continuously synchronize a folder. I imagine that this is high up on the list of what “normal users” care about.

For power users, though, rclone does look quite nice.
Have a look at this Article written by me for improving programming logic.
More like Saudi Arabia could be the next target for the US attack.

Reason is simple: it possesses large deposits of fossil fuel but spends "too much" (from American point of view in the world with rapidly declining energy resources) for internal consumption.

By bombing Saudi Arabia, killing millions and destroying infrastructure (e.g. oil-fired power plants), USA will reduce consumption of fossil fuels by Saudi Arabia and leave more for export to the US.
As someone who is not a C programmer, but is aware of the fact that the Transmission codebase is 15 years in, can someone state whether it is normal that after 15 years of work on the code, that it is so terrible it has to be changed? I'd like to think that if I worked on something for 15 years that it'd be pretty stable by that point.
Transmission also does have transmission-cli
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Copyright protects intellectual property. It does not protect those captured in photos taken by others. Trademark law maybe would work here. Is that what you meant?
pollution kills slowly, and as a result is imperceptible to the public

covid hysteria is just getting started. years from now, decent people will lament that covid hysteria continues to suck all of the oxygen out of the room...and when they do, they will be cancelled

fifty years from now, no one will admit to having been part of the covid mobs...but for now, they rule the world
If the last 20 years in France taught me something, it’s that any civilization’s survival depends on remaining relevant on the arm’s race and having control on their borders, or survive at the whim of the occupants. US is an immigration land because they’ve killed most of the natives, and EU is an immigration land bec…
BART is uniquely bad in that respect. Significantly worse than other North American cities. Chalk it up to Bay Area dysfunction and inequality.

Used EVs will be relatively affordable soon and the total cost of ownership is significantly lower.
Is the problem "literally using a freezer"? Could you (in principle) build an insulated chamber that could deal with the temperatures?
Again, I literally had to prove my vaccination status to be allowed to stay in the US. In 2009… and I’ve yet to present my COVID card anywhere in upstate NY.
Also of the "near zero information" value of resumes.

Tufte compared PowerPoint presentations to having the information density of Soviet-era propaganda posters (i.e. nearly zero).

You can validly claim similar comparisons with resumes!!
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It doesn't have to be a conspiracy, there just has to be incentives to keep the fear up.
Vermeer originally included a depiction of Cupid staring out of a painting (within the painting) in his work Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window.

Analysis revealed Cupid was painted over by someone many years after the original work was complete. Restorers are uncovering Cupid to bring the original statement back to the painting.
GA is non-commercial, non-military, non-aerial-work (application, survey, etc). The pilots can be paid employees and have it still be GA. (Your sheik A320 example would be considered GA, not commercial, as would business operators, fractional operators, and of course private operations.)

Don’t confuse the commercial certificate[“license”](which is required to be paid for flying) with commercial operations (typically holding out to the public for air transport).
Could you please describe your ideal, non-authoritarian model for management and leadership?
There have been "RTOS" versions of Linux for more than 20 years. The current mainstream kernel already includes almost all of the RT_PREEMPT patch set that makes it more or less an RTOS if you want it to be.
As you’re asking in good faith I don’t see why you’re being downvoted.

Population carrying capacity is difficult. We know that given a particular level of technology we can support a particular number of people with global resources in the short term. Intuitively it seems like we’re wrecking the environment and we’re in for a nasty fall when we exhaust those resources. However, Malthusian predictions like that - so far - have a bad track record, because with more people comes more innovation, and so far that innovation has been increasing carrying capacity faster than population growth.

Ultimately it looks like the world population is going to stabilize as most people seem to prefer smaller family units once they achieve “western level” of child survival expectations and material wealth. Strangely enough it may be harder to maintain a stable population with our consumption habits if it means that technological advance slows down.

That said, for most people all the above is unimportant compared to caring for the living. Preserving and extending life and quality of life is fundamentally good, and shortening human lives to “save the planet” is not. So while you can have the macro level discussion along the lines of “do we really want the population to increase,” for most people if you venture into “should we just let the people who are already alive die sooner than they must” is pretty offensive.
The article does not mention Rule of 72.

Divide 72 by the interest rate and it gives you the time to double your money.

eg at 7% compounding it takes around 10 (72/7) years to double your starter value.

For a rule of thumb surprisingly accurate out to a fairly wide range.
Great conference talk with a brief recap of color perception https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU
Rust has jumped the shark.
Those Googlers just follow orders, so you can't blame them. /s
Oh, not really a mystery. It just lacked a name is has properties that are had to calculate.

What is enough to publish several scientific papers and maybe enable very useful discoveries, but the shape is out there on plenty of things for people to see.
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Well, often they're dropped when questions about methods, like Stingers, or extreme embarrassment, arise.

(A UK secretary working for the MoD gave US enrichment secrets to Russia, saving them 4 years in developing the bomb. She was never prosecuted because of the embarrassment. She had been indoctrinated into Marxism by her father, so take that as a warning.)
Because invariably the truth eventually comes out and then people trust their government even less? Then when the next crisis comes along it doesn't matter if you lie or tell the truth, the public won't listen anyway.
I think there are always people around, more than we care to admit, who will do things they know are bad to make a buck and to wield power (and frankly, most of us, sadly, have a price; look at the widespread participation of people in tech in the aforementioned industries and companies even though they and we all know the bad stuff they're doing). So I wouldn't treat this as some exception. I think people are extremely good at quietly repressing knowledge they're rather not have interfere with their desires.

> this era of vaccine denialism

Not central to your point, but this isn't really that widespread. 98% of Americans have the full regime of vaccines. The whole "antivax" scare is largely fiction and has been whipped by journalists afraid of people asking questions. Now, where the covid vaccine is concerned, that's different. People who aren't skeptical of vaccines qua vaccines are skeptical about this particular vaccine or whatever you want to call it because of the obscene level of politicization around it masquerading as "science". So I wouldn't conflate the two.
It's almost certainly a much more tractable problem to get C code compiling with a C++ compiler, and then gradually transitioning to C++ and the STL over time. I would love to see greater Rust adoption (especially in things that deal with untrusted peers on a network!), but that project is likely orders of magnitude larger than what the author has chosen to take on.

Also it seems like the author is already well-versed in C++; learning Rust might not be a priority for them, and would certainly slow things down a lot.

And while there are certainly plenty of footguns and unsafe things you can do in C++ (even unintentionally), it's probably still safer than C, even if it's not as safe as Rust.
> I would love the field of mathematics if it was not so ambiguous.

IME the ambiguity is usually intentional. Take dy/dx for instance. In some sense, d/dx is acting as an operator (or "function" to use programming terminology) acting on the function y to produce y'. However, the intuition here is that we're calculating a slope (ie. a ratio), and the particular ratio we want is the limit of [a sequence of] Δy/Δx. Both of these viewpoints are important to keep in mind to understand calculus, and the point of the notation is to aid that intuition. There are, as I'm sure you're aware, alternative notations for derivatives, and the d/dx notation survives because it suggests things beyond its formal definition.

I think this becomes the most clear when we consider the chain rule, dx/dy * dy/dz = dx/dz. We can't just "cancel out" the dys (outside of exotic approaches such as nonstandard analysis), but allowing that sort of visual pun in our notation makes the formula easier to remember and gives a sense as to why it might be true. And, if we didn't know the chain rule ahead of time, it would likely prompt us to try and prove it in the first place.

The bigger story here is that a lot of mathematics runs on human intuition, and finding a notation which communicates and facilitates that intuition is quite important.
From the pull request, it was less that the C codebase is bad and more that the C++ STL has gotten better.
It's not a bad hypothesis, but would Apple have withheld that info if they were already advising people of the danger of direct mounting? They could just advise people to keep their phones inside a padded box or something of the sort.
You made me look.

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

The FCC has no enforcement power. The only law mentioned was West Virginia and they have no authority over the airwaves.

Apparently the heaviest restrictions are on government-owned land and that seems appropriate. But I question the legality/enforceability of an administrative edict rather than law, especially one that deprives the public the benefit of a public resource.

To your point, no, I disagree. The FCC does not have the authority (in my opinion) to arbitrarily decide who can and who can’t use wireless devices licensed for public use, certainly not without supporting Federal legislation.

I have to be wrong here, there has to be something I’m missing.
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