skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In many parts of the world good public transport already exists, and had existed for decades. An inability to build good public transport in cities seems to be a uniquely American problem.

I could certainly see cities like London banning ICE cars within their centres within 5 years, without much impact on poorer individuals. It’s already financially prohibitive to drive into the centre due to the congestion charge, and most people would consider it insane to drive due to traffic, and the fact that public transport is about twice a quick.
I’ll quit but I’m waiting to be asked I’m not announcing it to my teammates. Only one knows I’m not vaccinated because I keep political things to myself (which is beginning to look like a mistake.)

After our traitor of a president gave us the finger on Thursday I wouldn’t submit proof even if I were vaccinated on principle alone.
Beijing to break up Ant’s Alipay and force creation of separate loans app
Thank you for the link, very interesting. Now I see there's another problem: the colors on the hue bar (especially with OKLrCH model) look too blurred and mixed with each other. And there's almost no green, but mostly reddish and blueish tones.
You may want to take a look at https://gleam.run/
Believing what you see on the news about covid is like believing the USSR's growth numbers. It's the terminally online and politicians who push the narrative, the rest don't care, including the police.

In Australia it's under 20% of people that have gone insane. The rest have checked out and completely ignored it. It's like a long holiday where you get paid to pretend you work.

But you can't say that in polite company so you just have ~40 percent compliance with whatever insanity is going on now. Hilariously enough the compliance from police is lower than from the general population so basically we have politicians and the terminally online talking about masks, jabs and sign ins and the people who are supposed to enforce it not being bothered with it.

Standing in front of the super market something like one in three pull out their phone, unlock it, point it at the check in qr code and not log in.

I'm reminded of the latter days of the USSR where no one took anything the government said seriously and just did whatever they felt like. Which does not bode well for the current incarnation of Australia long term.
It was the chief health officer of New South Wales, Dr. Kerry Chant.

Dr. Chant said: “We will be looking at what contact tracing looks like in the New World Order…yes it will be pubs and clubs and other things if we have a positive case there.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/new-world-order-austra...
> Downloading and using the G2G app is voluntary in WA, but the Government encourages people to use it, claiming it “keeps you safe and the rest of the community safe while freeing up more police resources that would otherwise be undertaking more regular physical checks”.

Where is the overreach in a voluntary app that people are encouraged to use to save the government resources?
> If bargaining asymmetries are the key, why not low skill workers get paid $1million and the management get paid $1k instead, since workers are out numbers and they can easily win the bargaining fight?

The answer here is twofold: First because the state exists and will enforce property rights, protecting scabbing and preventing sabotage with force, if not escalating to outright war as they did in the early 1900s (continuing into the 70s in Kentucky.) Second, a capitalist can live just fine with a closed factory whereas workers will not be able to survive without work.

In any case, I encourage people to actually read Adam Smith for themselves. You can not only refine the mental model you have of economics but also learn that the popular Adam Smith that is caricatured is not the one who wrote Wealth of Nations. Did you know, for example, that the "invisible hand" is mentioned only once in all of WON? On the other hand, actual market mechanics and state policy (some of which was later discovered to be wrong) were discussed in great detail. You can find a lot of fun quotes too:

"As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce." [1]

1. From "CHAPTER VI. OF THE COMPONENT PART OF THE PRICE OF COMMODITIES." https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-0.txt
A 2 week lockdown caused this? I'm not advocated for a year long one again, but having 100k+ cases a day might be more harmful.
Processed/GMO foods with less nutrients, exhaust and brake dust from motorways and streets, HPV variants that don't get attention, Lyme disease, probably long-COVID, probably a ton of things I haven't even heard of.
The obvious difference is the scale. Sometimes difference in scale is difference in nature.

All of what you listed are easily substituted, and not very impactful to somebody's life.

The same games exist on Xbox and Playstation (95% overlap). McDonald's is a buy one time product, where you can easily choose on a given day to go to BK or Wendy's. You buy an iphone, you aren't going to just buy an Android the next day if Apple raises costs. Isn't it obvious how different these are?

You can bet that if Microsoft charged any third party apps on windows 30% of their revenue they would have been regulated long ago. You really think otherwise?

I don't understand the Apple defenders. Encouraging actual competition within the platform is the pro business stance. Competition is the basic element that makes capitalism work.

You don't have competition if cost of switching is high, it's that simple.

Platforms with sufficient impact on people's lives, and sufficiently high cost of switching will be regulated to require competition. It's as simple as that, though fanboys will kick and scream for the next few years until it passes into law. It's the obvious outcome, and china is already paving the way on legislation.
This is fun. I have another idea: I'd be interested on calling Siri from the command line. Even if using private APIs. (But without hacky fake drivers, or accessibility tools)
For example: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/09/10/cullman...
We’re all remote you absolute retard.
>You're balancing between responsiveness, accuracy, and reliability: pick two.

Can you explain the difference between accuracy and reliability in this context?
would be really really cool if someone could make a small script to convert these into a format understandable by dict://

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DICT
Rights exist by what people demand and exercise and do.

A "bill of rights" is a piece of paper. A piece of paper which is ruled upon by a court that was granted its power by the very same collection of papers.

For example, the right to keep and bear arms (obviously not for hunting but for war and security) has been infringed upon many times, but constitutional courts have decided that actually despite the bill of rights, some infringement is allowed. (EDIT: And this doesn't even address the problem of governments creating unconstitutional laws or executing unconstitutional actions which de facto strip your rights for some possibly significant time until it can be overturned by a court, but without much redress or punishment or deterrent)

In the end the people are the ultimate arbiters and deciders of what rights they are willing to give up and what powers they are willing to be governed under. This plays out the same way in USA and Australia and Afghanistan and Libya.
> Showing your ID to buy alcohol because the govenment has decided that under 18's cannot buy it. That's widely practiced and accepted without issue

The situation is likely different in the United States, but in Germany the youths solve this problem (under 16's/18's cannot buy alcohol) simply by the fact that always some friend has an older brother or sister.
When I went overseas from the USA to another country I had to get vaccinated as well. It's required. That's different. I'm neither agreeing or disagreeing with either point here, I'd just like to point out that it is different.
If "quality" means something like strength of the evidence, then couldn't you still have Gettier-like cases, so long as the evidence doesn't entail the truth of the belief? (suppose the HR department printed the wrong name on the offer letter, etc.)

If "quality" doesn't mean this... then the worry is that you've just labeled what you were trying to explain, because "quality of justification" might mean something like "that thing, whatever it is, which makes a belief count as knowledge".

About truth as a condition for knowledge... there's a lot of subtlety here. The claim isn't that you have to first know that P is true in order for you to know that P, or that you have to provide the truth of P as one of the reasons why you know P, or anything like that. It's more of a logical claim about what it means when we say "S knows that P"... knowledge is "factive" in that you can't know P if P is false. At least, that's how philosophers use the word "know", and it's at least one of the common ways that ordinary folk use the word.

(For what it's worth, there's a lot of discussion amongst philosophers about whether anyone who knows that P also has to know that they know that P... plenty of philosophers deny this.)
He actually did. He called for a very high inheritance tax and believed that the the rich should spend their wealth for the good of everyone (and society should inventivize that by allowing wealthy people to feel good about sticking their names on things).
Got a link? I've never heard of network engineers using an IP range because it's "mothballed".
Yup, they are absolutely atrocious. They also have lots of low-frequency noise that travels really far, and it hard to sound-proof against. I used to live in an apartment that was about 200 feet from a shopping center, and I could hear/feel the leaf blowers that were used instead of sweeping the storefront. And because they had a non-residential zoning, they could use the leaf blowers at 2 AM.
> He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her." -

Yeesh. I'm glad I've met a lot of 'girls' who are actually grownups, not teenagers in more wrinkly skin.
There’s no liability, they can mess up all they want and we just suffer for it.
That's not the point I'm raising. The point I'm raising is that they have a weird exception to the 'no bots imitating famous people' rule, which is 'dead scientists are OK' ... but this weird exception doesn't gel with the fact that many said dead scientists would hold views which violate their hate speech clause...hence the exception to the famous people rule is weird.
It does not work like that. I suggest reading up on some network science literature on spreading phenomena. Here's a start: http://networksciencebook.com/chapter/10#immunization
Integrating OpenReplay with Sentry
People are naturally scared of COVID and the 'unknown', they've never experienced anything like this in their lifetime so they don't really know what the limits should be and when to say no.

So it's hard to ask whether the people support it in such a state.

We should be very very careful relying on crisis moments to make major decisions. Which is always going to be a drawback in democracy (all systems have flaws). There will always be long term consequences as these things never have time limits. Any new capability adopted should be assumed to be permanent.
Vehicle ownership, including gas powered motorcycles, is extremely common in many countries. I’m not sure why you think it’s an American thing, because it’s definitely not.

“Developing countries” is a broad category, but it’s certainly not the case that they’re free of vehicles except for rich people driving around in expensive cars.
Manager poaching their former reports will become virtually unhirable in 2-3 cycles. Who wants the Hameln Rattenfänger inside their ranks?

Having lots of peers is not enough anyway; first you need to have a budget to lure those peers.
The problem there is that the experts did say, "I think this is our best course of action to mitigate the impact," but people heard "this will solve the problem fully" and then decided that all science is a lie.
Yes, a lot of people involved in dictionary processing are worried about copyright!

After I wrote my post about Apple's dictionary files, I got a mysterious email showing up in my inbox. The email was from someone who's spent some time writing code to do the same thing, but doesn't want to post it under his own name in case he falls fowl of his country's DMCA equivalent. Crazy. He said I could post his code under the condition that I took his name off it.

https://josephg.com/blog/apple-dictionaries-part-2/
I would rather anti-vaxers leave the country than continue to hang around, yes.

Do I think that it will be acceptable if lockdowns continue in Australia past the point at which the various state governments have agreed they will stop (i.e.: the 70% and 80% population vaccinated marks)? No.

Do I think the reason why those targets are harder to meet than necessary is because of unscientific fearmongering idiots refusing to get the vaccine? Yes.

In a way, I blame this more on you than on the government.
Integrating OpenReplay with Slack in a Web Application
I use qbittorrent-nox and make torrents with transmission-create i.e I put peanut butter in your chocolate.
You've copy pasted something wrong
I've never understood the fixation some people have on the trade deficit. Why is a large trade deficit a concern to you? Does that influence the Gini coefficient in the US?

Apologies if I misunderstood your comment.
Cool to see you bought the book, hope you enjoy the read! There's a ton evidence in the book itself. Happy to keep the conversation going!
> it should continue to be protected while copyright is removed. It would not be hard for new laws to enshrine + protect OSS licenses

Those things are logical opposites. If someone has a right to place any conditions at all on the way people copy their software, that is a copyright.

Maybe they meant to suggest copyright reform.

I make this point because people often like that GPL forces republishing of derivative works. This is an exercise of copyright, not a lack of it.
Transmission supports binding as well I think it's just not exposed in the config GUI.
It used to be "form follows function". Then came "function follows form". After that "form follows phantasy".

Design is just masturbation nowadays, design has lost any practical purpose.
> And I really dislike the 'well we have mandatory things already, so why not this also?' way of thinking.

You've literally employed that thinking in your rebuttal.

"We don't have to do X, Y, Z. So why this also?"
"*When we were misled about mask efficacy with a number of circular lies..."

This is false.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28201328
This is important.

The size of the stripped binaries should be compared. ELF binaries contain both link-time sections and loadable segments, and the longer name of C++ symbols only affects disk space (for both the link-time symbol table and for debug information). The size of the runtime-loadable segments is really the only thing of interest, and stripping the binaries gives you a truer indication of this.
Thank you for posting this code on Github! There has been some reverse-engineering done on the language dictionaries bundled with Mac OS, and it's nice to know that the same model is being used on the Apple Watch! I look forward to seeing your dictionary app.

https://josephg.com/blog/reverse-engineering-apple-dictionar...

There's also a command-line tool that can query the dictionary:

https://github.com/takumakei/osx-dictionary

Something I haven't yet reverse-engineered is Apple's word segmentation. I can get the word breaks in Chinese by pressing option + right arrow + space, repeatedly. But I have no idea how the backend for that works.
Philanthropy is still a thing and still expected, at least in these parts: https://www.montana.edu/news/21412/a-day-of-new-beginnings-m...

If I ever struck it rich I'd build the biggest, best cat shelter you've ever seen.
Pointing to a toxic culture in science coming from Ioannidis is ironic given that he engaged in a fairly nasty ad hominem attack on a grad student just a few months ago.

https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1376080062131269634?...

Of course that aside his predictions throughout the pandemic have been consistently terrible and undersold the threat, so I'm honestly not sure why we're still listening to the man.

Another point on the war/science claim in the piece

"When at war, everyone has to follow orders. If a platoon is ordered to go right and some soldiers explore maneuvering to the left, they are shot as deserters. Scientific skepticism had to be shot, no questions asked. The orders were clear. "

It's more than reasonable, on the policy front at least, to treat a real biological agent who is killing your population as an enemy. A pandemic is a state of exception, and countries that acted swiftly, with utmost precaution in mind, dealing with an unknown threat, saved countless of lives. A war is exactly what it is, and treating it like an abstract academic issue to engage in intellectual contrarianism to elevate one's own profile, while being consistently wrong at that, is a good way to lose it.
I for one agree with you.

I've never understood why America puts of with basically being a police state, with the level of police brutality and incarceration that they have.

And here in aussieland, we don't have that, but we do nothing to protect our liberties.
Why no option for I don't stick my nose into my co-worker's medical decisions? We're all remote and have been for years before the pandemic. For people like us, our co-worker's vaccination status is not relevant.
Indeed! And most of those more recent cases are the families of known contacts. Unfortunately Delta is very good at spreading within the household.

People enter lockdown, realise they are a case and are moved to quarantine almost immediately. Unfortunately those few days between infection and quarantine are enough now to spread Delta.
What kind of insanity have we collectively tolerated that “you can pay to be locked up in a ‘hotel’ tor two weeks” is seen as some kind of evidence that there is no compulsion?

That’s like saying people aren’t forced to vaccinate since you don’t “need” to work at that particular job and you don’t “need” to exercise in a gym or watch a movie in a theater.

Everything in history shows the slope is slippery. They will pass this on to everyone. It’s a blatant power grab. They want to spy on you and track you. They don’t care about your health.
This is a terrible way to look at things. Just because you're vaccinated doesn't mean you can't catch and spread covid further.

It just means that you probably won't need to go to the hospital when you catch it.
There are much, much better ones:

1) Philosophical Economics' stock/bond/cash preference model:

http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2013/12/the-single-gre...

https://financial-charts.effingapp.com/

2) John Hussmann's non-financial market cap to gross value added:

https://www.hussmanfunds.com/category/comment/

https://www.hussmanfunds.com/comment/mc210715/

But as the sibling comment and all the sources above say, those do not predict the path, only the destination (which is a decade or more in the future). It would be completely consistent with such macro valuation models if, for example, the general prices doubled or even quadrupled over the next year or two, why not. Stay safe out there :)
The closest I've managed to this has been through AppleScript (which likely violates your "no accessibility tools" criteria): https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/t/type-to-siri/13328/17
I have a friend who is both high risk and also severely allergic to the current vaccines. When he gets told to go back to his non tech job, I don’t know what he’s going to do. He’s pretty stressed
We are in a pretty well-funded district. None of our kindergarten classes have 2-4 assistants for a class of 24. Most have zero.
If pure gasoline knocks - explodes when it's not supposed to -- why can't we run it in a diesel engine, where self-ignition is the mode of operation?
The 'well we have mandatory things already, so why not this also?' is what you are using to argue against the vaccine. I think a little nuanced thinking goes a long way when comparing all of the examples you proposed.
Mandated vaccines for a bad cold are new. This isn’t polio.

Not to mention the vaccines are orders of magnitude more deadly than all the previous ones combined.
I don't think that's the part of your assertion the commenter was disagreeing with...
> Are you ok with going to a bar and showing you don't have HIV so in case you hook up with someone you won't spread it?

That's an absurd comparison considering HIV doesn't spread by simply being in a room with someone who is infected. Also, I'm guessing that you're unaware that in many countries there are laws against knowingly exposing someone to HIV without disclosing it to them. https://www.aidsmap.com/about-hiv/hiv-criminalisation-laws-a...
Hmm, personally I look for 720p. Who needs multiple 100gb files sitting around on their disk.
In this case it depends on their family's specific risk profiles.
Yes. Me.
Just because you haven't been to jail for abortion in your lifetime, doesn't mean it is new or unprecedented idea. So let the Texas law run free and expand to other states. Before Roe vs Wade it was illegal, so there is a precedent to make it so again right? Is this the logic? Same with slaves, it used to be ok and legal, so no worries about me keeping some haitians working at home and whip them if they misbehave. Remember, there is precedence after all.
How do you feel about requiring children to get vaccinations for stuff like polio in order for them to attend school? Is a mandate for a covid vaccine similar or different in your eyes? And if different, why?
SpaceX wasn't built it a vacuum. The US gov't did a lot to help it succeed. As they did for Tesla
Process Lasso. Manage CPU affinity and priority automatically