skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't really believe that there isn't a lot of regulatory capture, nimbyism and general bureaucratic idiocy behind this. Yes, some buildings are going to be harder, specially newer ones, but it is no like we allow partitions in offices to be built with asbestos.
Aren't those all decentralized or federated protocols? Maybe Big Tech's constant censorship has finally pushed people far enough to really start caring about alternatives.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_compact seems like it would be at least close enough to a problem that the current Supreme Court would kill it.
Some of these I won't defend, I think the arrest for the protest post and the Melbourne Towers lockdown were not ok. Both of those have been widely criticized, including by branches of the government. I wouldn't be surprised if there's legal action from these events and I'd be in favour of the victims.

The number of people in the home thing doesn't bother me, again because I'm happy to accept this as a temporary restriction that reduces deaths until our vaccination rates allow us to go back to normal life.

I understand your perspective, and these events do concern me. However I personally don't see them as an authoritarian government making efforts to reduce our freedoms, I see them as a generally well-meaning government misstepping in an unprecedented situation, and I expect those missteps to be accounted for via legal action.
I think it's prima facie clear that inequality itself isn't a prime driver of "innovation," whatever that means. Was Haiti circa 1780 (one of the most unequal societies to have ever existed) particularly innovative? Is the United States of 2021 more innovative than the United States of 1970? Is Saudi Arabia more innovative than Germany? Perhaps it's true that SpaceX couldn't exist somewhere else, but I'm not sure it has much to do with inequality.
> Over time, when we know more about the virus and it changes more, there will probably be less-severe variants where we can mostly rely on vaccination.

With all due respect, this is a crazy take. Calling me childish and telling me that I’m “freaking out” is bullying and textbook gaslighting.

Covid is not novel at this point. It’s been a thing since very early 2020. What more are we possibly gonna know about it? It’s a respiratory virus. Not unlike many of its kind.

We have a vaccine for it. Anybody who is at risk can walk in and get it free.

I’m fully vaccinated. There is absolutely no reason for me to wear a mask. I’ve done my part. My obligations to society are over. I now can return to actual normal, no matter what people convince themselves of.

Pushing this dystopian “new normal” crap is, quite frankly, insane. There will be no new normal. People pushing for it need to be rigorously called out for the insanity they are preaching. Party is over.
btw, sorry for my tone, english is not my first language.
Study: AI can make better clinical decisions than humans
> 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". ... 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.

Let's consider a case like that. A student receives a graded history test, and says "I thought I knew that James Madison was the 3rd president of the United States, but I didn't."

Under the "justified true belief" one might say that their knowledge was undermined because they learned it wasn' true. But their teacher, born (say) circa 1970, has no more direct access to the truth of who was the 3rd U.S. President than their students.

So we might say instead that the student changed their mind about their knowledge because a rather flimsy justification for believing that Madison was the 3rd president ("I studied really hard") was kicked out from under them by a somewhat sturdier justification for a contradictory belief ("My teacher says that Jefferson was the 3rd President, and she knows a lot about history.")

> 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.

Yes, I'd say so.
My company mandated the vaccine back in March.
New Study Finds a Single Neuron Is a Surprisingly Complex Little Computer
Not to mention getting hit or run over by a car is a pretty brutal, this is from experience.
Because these groups are often painted as or perceived as having an agenda other than truth; unlike say when the WWF says a species is endangered or when people who have issues with "urban sprawl" happen to be large urban landholders.

In other words its a "these people can't be heard because of who they've been accused of being" argument.
The question of that is it target the network. But if it is for physics … should it be neural network using physics for physics (by physics scientist).
> Employee hours are more elastic than wages. My employer can go weeks or months without me; I cannot go months without wages.

This is obviously not true as a general statement. A business which has to pay the mortgage on its factory can't just shut down and make nothing or the bank will foreclose.

Meanwhile if Uber doesn't pay as much as you're willing to accept, you can go work somewhere else, or take a loan and go to college. It's extremely rare for one company to be anyone's only alternative to starvation.
Plus one to this. It would be huge to have this on my Pinephone someday, but there's not a chance I'd trust someone with all of my digital information ad-perpetuum. If a self hosting option pops up, I'll definitely get on board though.
More informative than one you didn't go to?
It’s an imperfect study, like all population-level research. That said, it’s not fatally flawed. So, unless you are aware of something better, it’s reasonable to say that this is is currently the best available data.

An imperfect but reasonable study is not an excuse to throw everything out and jump to your own conclusions.
Many things is modern human lives are social constructs. They are very important to the functioning of society, but they are propped up entirely by people believing in them. These are things like national borders, currencies, human rights, rules of etiquette, religions. They only exist in the minds of humans and they are only as strong as the number of people believing in them.

These concepts are so important to the functioning of societies that believers will automatically treat anyone daring to question their beliefs as an enemy and attack them. It doesn't matter if you simply raise doubts and don't attack the idea outright. You are still an enemy weakening the fortifications and need to be defeated.

Here's the kicker: our science is so advanced that most of us are lay people in most areas by definition. Neither you nor I actually have a deep understanding of how an mRNA a vaccine actually works. Sorry if you are a scientist working on this btw, just making a general assumption. Anyway, for most of us, due to lack of deep understanding, it all comes down to belief. Do I side with the crowd chanting Dr. Fauci's name or with the alt-right? Both choices are completely mindless and are based on social dynamics alone.

Therefore, because the belief is based on social dynamics you get the social dynamic type threat response. Anyone believing differently is an enemy.

Things most people understand don't tend to elicit this reaction. For example, few people will argue with the idea that a car is faster than a bike or that water is wet. You believing differently does not attack the foundation of their belief and so you can safely question.

The only thing that will work long term is education. It has to become as clear to people that vaccines work as "water is wet". Unfortunately, that is hard, and the media decided to take the social construct shortcut, with predictable consequences.
> 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

Years from now, people will look back at 1M people in the US that unnecessarily died and marvel at just how inhuman people can be when subjected to political forces.

I only wish that current day leaders in the US will look at today's traitors to humanity with the same disdain that future generations will. Only then could we quash the sick disregard for human life that drives us apart.
Lesson learned during a Developer on Duty: Observability
Can you give the site where your example actually comes from? We have this discussion a lot, and rarely is any actual evidence dissected.
For the Love of Raw Writing: Confessions of a Troglodytic Typist
That sounds reasonable on the face of it. Do you have data to back it up?
Need another thread on this. It is a major learning tool when I first encountered Jupyter.
Television in the US has long had an astonishing reach. Even in 2021, there are media companies in the US that operate on a segmented market with notorious control (e.g. Fox).

Would you say that the difference between television (TV) and social media (SM) is that TV can only push the propaganda from a central server, whereas SM provides the push of propaganda as well as mutual reinforcement through sharing comments?

I find it all quite deplorable, I assure you. But I really think the "toxicity" is a precursor to the expression of the "toxic" opinions. They already existed, but were hushed by the shame of direct attribution in regular public discourse.
Because democracy is not a tyranny of the majority, this will likely not happen, since life has so many shades of gray.
It creates a central plan based on what I’ve booked.
The King James Version is still under Crown copyright in the United Kingdom.

https://www.cambridge.org/bibles/about/rights-and-permission...
> Why is this a "pass"?

Not the OP but I’m not reading 109 pages of analysis from 9-11 truthers in order to work out whether their conclusions are correct. That’s not the genetic fallacy either, I’d love someone else who I trust to do it and get back to me with what they find.
> You're making a distinction without making a meaningful difference.

You made an very strong "always" claim. All that is needed to refute such a claim is a single counter example. I brought up school vaccination requirements because I believe they are an important exception to the principle you put forward. (I could probably have also picked border entry vaccination requirements.)

In my view, you should have made a weaker claim, such as that forced medical interventions have a history of problematic abuse and have lead to atrocities. As a result, new types of forced medical intervention (and generally any type of violation of body sovereignty) should be approached with extre caution.

> Having a bad lawyer is irrelevant the judges still have to know the law.

This is factually and obviously false. If lawyers aren't needed to help judges to decide cases fairly and in accordance with the law, then why so we have them and why do we pay them so much money?
Maybe not everyone's motivated by money?
An actual court in the US will probably not try to legislate whether a person is of the Jewish faith or not, _regardless_ of what some other religious "court" says.

Probably (IANAL) if a person says that they observe the Jewish faith and that this is a deeply held belief, regardless of whether some religious organization recognizes him/her, that will be enough for the courts.
> they are the ones making editorial decisions

...

> they choose harmful words because it makes them more money

OK but who is responsible for the fact that choosing harmful words is more profitable?
> I don't want to live in a world where the criminalization of everything that ever happened that you didn't like means that I'm always breaking the law.

You'll be fine as long as you're not in the habit of doing things like this that are clearly outwardly hostile to everyone you come into contact with.
ML News – AI predicts race from X-Ray – Google kills HealthStreams [video]
The healthcare system also had more than a year and a half to build capacity to deal with this stuff? Why should society be required to bail out hospitals by adhering to arbitrary restrictions on their life?
Your friend is the perfect example of why vaccines should be mandatory (with fundamented health exceptions if he is allergic to all kinds of existing vaccines). He is risking his life if any of their coworkers (or other people that he may be close enough in other environments) is not vaccinated. Should he quit of some of them decided to not get vaccinated?

As Lord Farqaad said "Some of you may die, but it is a risk I'm willing to take?". Your freedoms stops where the rights (and lives) of others starts.
CTRL+F "BBC" => Phrase not found

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAgi4Z5ImRU
> I lived in Berlin for a year and literally can't go to big cities anymore.

My allergies actually completely disappears when I was living in an urban environment. Now moved back to the countryside and spring/summer is a hell.

YMMV I guess..
The question is really about what level of inequality is justifiable. For example, the average S&P500 CEO earns almost 300 times the salary of their average employee, compared with 20 times the salary of their average employee in 1965. Are CEOs really 15x more valuable (relative to employees) than they were in 1965? I struggle to believe that's true - which means that inequality is ultimately a political question as much as it is an economic question.
We did stay in our house for two weeks. We locked down, and things were pretty locked down around where I'm at. Also, masks work and are freely given anywhere you go to shop. And vaccines are available. And natural immunity works. All these things in conjunction help without authorities building surveillance machines that will never go away.

The approach you are taking can be used to justify complete control and arbitrary lockdowns whenever N cases or N deaths for any virus happen. Or for anything that can be construed as a public health crisis, including things not related to viruses. Don't you see that?

My heart breaks for any death anywhere. Including the death of a free and normal life. Suicides and depression have skyrocketed. The evidence shows this:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7024e1.htm

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/ludhiana/covid-led-to-spik...

There are no easy answers, and it is not appropriate to beat someone over the head with the numbers of death in response to them calling out the systems of enslavement you are building in Australia. It's clear that your approach is not good for people's mental health, especially for young people. Presumably you still have lockdowns where you can't go more than 5km from your home? And restrictions on what you can be outside for?

Do these pandemic deaths justify the emergence of a totalitarian state? No.
(Yes, vega - we are looking at you)
Yes, that is shown in the study where the author makes a link for the claim. Figure 2 of [1] even shows this, and by eyeball alone it looks like it is closer to 4X more. The point I'm trying to make is that the people who published this graph, who cited the original study, are saying that the total number of fatalities appears to be more impacted by the total miles driven rather than the rate. I tried to dig up where the comparison of miles driven is made but was unable.

In any case, the principle point is that while you are correct that American's have a higher fatality rate, if we are also driving significantly more then that could be a bigger problem. If we have 4X the rate, but 10X the miles, it would seem reasonable to say that the distance is the biggest factor.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4112220/#SD1
There’s no good general torrent site, don’t mislead people. Specialized, yes. General, no.
If simple means forcing everybody, including toddlers, to wear masks… I’ll hard pass.
If you live in a school district with taxes high enough to pay that to teachers. They are still possibly underpaid.
I was under the impression that the topic is “email will never be secure and must be replaced”.
Well said. I am deeply ignorant of how mRNA vaccines work, for the record. :)
> need to repack everything onto smaller local trucks outside the city

So basically creating a new problem. If there is one thing urban environment is 100% dependant on is heavy transportation.
FTA: OKLab et al specifically excludes consideration of illumination environment for simplicity: "Should assume normal well lit viewing conditions"

https://bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/
Viruses generally mutate to be less deadly, not more.

And it is a fair comparison because both were used as excuses by governments for overreach.
> Their very identity is at stake and will not abandon their position.

This is actually much more likely among contrarians and critics than the general populace. People who are insecure about their identities seek out opportunities to stand out, not blend in.
I certainly did
Honest question, what value would it have provided the Saudis to support the 9/11 bombings?

The US has had a long, largely positive relationship with the Kingdom to include extensive economic investment as well as military support since at least the '50s (to sometimes an unconscionable degree considering some of the Saudi excesses in the war with Yemen.) It seems like maintaining this relationship with the US is in the best interests of both the Kingdom and its ruling class. The US seemingly continues to support Saudi Arabia at least in part as a check on the influence of Iran in the region.

There are some tensions and differences in ideology between the very religious rural areas and wealthy urban elites, so even the participation of individual Saudis doesn't seem to say much about the position of the Saudi government and the ideology of the state.
It’s complete gaslighting. There was even animated charts plastered over everybody’s Facebook posts.

“Two weeks to flatten the curve and build up hospital capacity”.

Right down the memory hole and people calling you crazy. Gaslighting.
Journal paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8630851
PDF: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/129702/1802.0...

Also conf paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9517890
for which PDF can be obtained via scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Mana...
yes I see now, thanks
Either is valid, but int_fast8_t is more meaningful, in my mind. Using an int_fast8_t encourages the compiler to use the fastest representation, except when explicitly bit-packed. When the value is pulled into a register it's probably not going to matter (unless the compiler is doing something quite silly with regards to handling unsigned overflow for a uint*), but it means that spilling it to the stack, etc, will prefer word-sized operations (which may or may not be preferred, but is my default). Meanwhile, the bit packing is fully specifying the representation when the struct containing the value is written to memory, so there's no distinction between _fast and _least here.
Rust is good but the GUI support is far from perfect, especially Qt-based interfaces.
What's interesting (to me at least) is "oh right, the spec for this only says abs-diff less than 1.5 x 2^-12 or something" and that AMD and Intel parts may differ by a lot (in the example post and value, the AMD part is more accurate).
That phrase is generally attributed to Rham Emanuel [1], and the sentiment is discussed in Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals (page 89, Communications).

Rather large showing of bias to try to attribute that saying to Republicans.

1: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pb-YuhFWCr4
GPT-4 Will Have 100T Parameters – 500x the Size of GPT-3
For cross platform chat based on Matrix also see https://www.beeper.com/, built by the pebble founder. (paid service, works with iMessage even on Android).

If you want to self host a Matrix server complete with all the bridges see here:

https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

Or - you could just ask your friends to download Element! https://element.io/
Brandolini’s Law
I Threw Out My Dotfiles
> Viruses generally mutate to be less deadly, not more.

Clearly that's not the case with Covid!
I don't really use it often as a user nor i my projects to have a definite opinion. There is some pairs of words (about 5K) in Sino-Vietnamese that came with their chu nom writing which was very helpful to one of project. Otherwise I think it lacks structure and can't be harvested automatically easily (I don't think Wikidata integrate it all, and that website is a non-starter for me). Also every language is structured differently so Wiktionary can hardly be commented as a whole.
Immunity is a right wing talking point. We’ve politicized the immune system.
>It does seem to me to be the worst decision in peacetime any country in the world has made in a thousand years.

I don't even know what to do with this. Anyone, at ANY place on the political spectrum, can name many more catastrophic decisions within the 21st century. Why would this educated person write this? Is it supposed to be interpreted as a joke by a sympathetic reader, and to induce outrage in others?
Might be a good solution, if it can output multiple keys with a single keystroke, but unfortunately my keyboard can't travel with me. In particular I can't plug it into my work computer.
Yeah, 100% agree. Or even better, for incremental improvement, have it enforce no new warnings.

But all of this requires adding complexity and branching to the system. It can be done and is worth doing, you just have to choose your battles.
A mostly C codebase using a bit of STL will almost certainly not use exceptions. So there's no need to worry about exception safety.
It's not really a complex mystery. GWB's admin was heavily stacked with people from a particular ideological clique, the Project for a New American Century folks. Cheney, Wolfowitz, etc. These folks had done the essay and speech circuit for well over a decade before 9/11 happened, and were very clear about their perspective and aims. I'd summarize those as:

~"American hegemony is net good for the world, therefor the US should not hesitate to use military power, unilaterally, to reshape the world towards US interests, without apology."

These are people that rejected any concept of a collaborative or consensus based world order among peer powers, consent of those governed but subjects of a weaker state, etc, vs the US becoming a benevolent in their imagination unipolar power. They'd spent most of the 90s writing essays about why the US should just straight up depose Saddam and allow US private interests to take over all Iraqi oil infrastructure.

These people had an extremely hawkish take on US foreign policy and it's undeniable that 9/11 dropped a giant present right in their lap. They did exactly what they'd already told the world they wanted to do as a response just using 9/11 as a new justification. The only real surprise is they failed to convince everyone on taking over Iran too.

As for GWB himself, it's not clear what his personal views were other than he stacked his admin full of these people and clearly trusted them. The argument that he had a personal grudge vs Saddam due to his father makes perfect sense and would be an easy way to persuade him personally.
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