skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are comparing mortality, not spread. Masks do not help with mortality.
How would that lead to more killings? It is not like activists come with an innate probability to be killed because of their work.
The police are in on it, the government is in on it, the corporation is responsible. Clear as day.
Surely the war is "make more money than everyone else! And they don't seem to be losing that.
Other than the increase in Murder of activists
Your straw man of the argument is however plainly ridiculous, so I'm not sure why you think it's successful.
Alleged right-wing extremist charged over blueprint to 3D-print a gun
As OP said,

> that alone should be setting off major alarm bells

No I don't think that balances out unless you think the 1% is much more important than the rest of society.
Hazards Menacing Machine Learning Systems in Production
Tangent, but I remember reading not too long ago that there were some cases where perfect hashes weren't optimal, but can't remember where..
Whenever I see people whining about Apple I always think: just buy a fucking Android.

But then I read that in the US teens are practically bullied into suicide for not owning an iPhone so maybe it's not that simple? Apple never appealed to me in the slightest and there isn't an iMessage cult in Europe.
Got to admit that there is a lot of effort put into this issue.

But, it doesn't convince me. Hack is more intuitive to me. while F# proposal looks like it is forcing FP paradigm despite its flaws.
The year is 2087, the remaining scientists that weren't hunted down in the previous year, have issued a dire warning that time is running out for action on climate change.

The claim is rebuked again by a conglomerate consisting of Breathing apparatus manufacturers, Sunblock body-paint makers, Subterranean city developers, Biohazard swimsuit makers, Soylent green icecream industries, Nestlé, FEMA holiday camps, and the Corporate Emperor of USA.

The 2088 hunt is scheduled to begin March 1st.
I've had the same, as an on/off thing. I recently went deep into an interview process with an Elixir shop, but pulled out for a more stable tech.

I really like Elixir, and I think there is space for it. However, from a web app perspective I realised that what I really liked about Elixir wasn't related to BEAM, processes, or the actor model; but architectural. The consistent layout of Phoenix applications is simple and pragmatic, and as someone overly subjected to dependency injection I appreciate it. I've successfully replicated the architecture in other languages, but it's more of an uphill battle.

That's not to say the BEAM doesn't give advantages. Per process garbage collection and preemptive scheduling yields an exceptionally pleasant environment. There are almost no GC pauses, and you can literally spin up 1000 infinite loop processes on a Phoenix node without effecting your latency.

I'd like to see better tooling for Elixir before I'm ready to commit harder. Some simple things are missing. Notable to me: the language server can't use type specs to provide code completion, and doesn't have the refactoring actions of more advanced systems. I miss being able to rename a function without grep.
I remember reading this back in 2011 and thought it presented some amazing ideas. Later I've studied physics with focus on simulations (mechanical systems, spring models, gases and so forth) and I'll have to admit that I haven't been able to apply it in practice.

Yes, it's always cool to have multiple visualizations of the same concept at different levels of abstraction, but in real-life there's always a trade-off between how much time you invest in visualizations and what you actually learn from it.

In this example I would say that the real-time simulation doesn't actually teach me a lot. It behaves exactly how I would suspect from reading the algorithm the first time. Being able to control the time and the angle is cool, but I need to interact a lot with the visualization to learn anything. It's also hard to actually compare different angles.

In comparison, with just a simple plotting tool I can easily create two graphs:

- For a specific angle, let X-axis be time and Y-axis be the displacement from the center.

- Let X-axis be angle and Y-axis be mean (or max) of the displacement for the whole period.

The first one will give me some intuition about how the system behaves, and the second one will immediately show me that it's impossible to find an angle which gives a good result — which suggests that the algorithm in itself isn't good enough.

I totally see that the tooling created in this neat, but how much more to learn from these tool over the two mentioned plots? And how long did it take to create these tool? That is for me the biggest question.

Example:

> We want direct, interactive control of each parameter, so we can go forward and backward, stop, and jump to arbitrary positions. This allows us to travel freely around the territory, investigate areas of interest, and pose and verify hypotheses as quickly we think of them.

In my physics simulation I've rarely needed a tool at this fidelity. Looking at a single use case just doesn't give me enough information and dragging sliders is very time consuming. I've pretty much always ended up defining a metric (which is mentioned in the article) and plotting that for various parameters. It's amazing how much you can learn about a system with such a simple visualization.
The Windows Desktop had many years. It may be in decline now, we'll see.
Not a rhetorical question, but genuinely interested: what is your context, given that you are aware that this is not a random distribution?

Of course the number of climate activists has risen, as we see the disastrous effacts of climate change more and more clearly and frequently on a global scale.

We also see a global political movement that has quite effectively prevented measures against climate change, using disinformation and propaganda and, as shown in the article above, deadly violence.
Ivermectin is an FDA approved drug and is regularly prescribed to humans. Sure, it probably doesn't do anything for covid but it's not just 'horse dewormer'.
Are climate activists expected to "take some loss" or what exactly are you implying with this question?

If people die because they engage in non-violent activism it's just wrong, plain and simple, there's no gray area (at least I have a very hard time thinking of one). The overall number of activists or the growth thereof has absolutely nothing to do with that.
As a Greek myself I can confirm that most of us know almost nothing about ancient Greek and a lot of us think that they do because they have the mistaken impression that the two languages slightly differ.

To be fair though, i guess this happens in any language/ethnicity so it is better to leave science to the experts/scientists and take their opinion. And ancient Greek scientists are not necessarily Greeks as much as any random Greek speaker is not a linguist.
Chaos is not a pit, Chaos is a ladder.
I saw an episode of a TV series about a small-town GP recently where in the end it turned out to actually be porphyria. guess he didn't watch enough Dr. House...
The central bank only sets interest rates directly, but not inflation.
Connecting with an FTP client shows that the connection times out.
Artificial Intelligence is simply a broad term meaning 'the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines'. The term accurately applies to any subtask no matter how small that involves the automation of human intelligence, even if it is just recognizing dogs vs. cat images. Colloquially there is a false equivalence between A.I. and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), 'full' or 'strong' AI. AGI specifically denotes a system that can learn any intellectual task a human could learn. And such integrated intelligence is purely hypothetical as of now.

I am active in NLP research and I have not encountered an instance of any academic claiming that their work is AGI. And terms and descriptions are usually domain- and task-specific, so not much has changed since your grad school time. Only those that work on grounding and multi-modality make the claim that their work is a step towards AGI. Which is true, as these researchers usually only claim that it is an exploration, an increment towards AGI.

What you are seeing is commercial entities marketing their solutions as AGI. Mass media has given more exposure to that idea because it sounds scifi. Also often journalists let their imagination run a little when describing papers. I agree that is misleading but academics still have the same rigor.
Seems this'd rather be proportional to the number of new logging and mining projects etc, from the article:

> Almost a third of the murders were reportedly linked to resource exploitation - logging, mining, large-scale agribusiness, hydroelectric dams and other infrastructure.
Sure it has, because it doesn't matter if it is open source or not, if it is a stable API described on the NDK documentation it is not allowed.

Something that termux guys are having some issues to swallow, regarless of Linux being the kernel, it is not allowed to do what they want, wrapping Java APIs via JNI is the only allowed way.
Of course we should be doing all we can to prevent murder! It is just always hard to tell with statistics and having a more honest statistic (that, say, shows that murder rates have doubled while number of activists have increased 30%) would be preferable.
I believe they're arguing there's an "innate probability" for _humans_ to be murdered.
Also no SAAS company outside of the app store is paying anywhere near 30% to their payments provider, so for something big ticket like that I'd expect them to charge a lot less if you're not buying through the App Store.
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100% oxygen under high pressure is dangerous
it has everything to do with it. if the murder rate remains constant and a group doubles in size, then on average twice as many people in that group will get murdered.
This approach flopped already for the case of rejuvenation.
I doubt this therapy carried any fruits in future.
Think you'll be surprised how far the ideology of "the customer comes first" can take a company.

If it was easy for me to unsubscribe, I'm not going to worry much about re-subscribing later. If you put me through an hour of faffing about in the hopes I give up then why would I ever come back.
I get that at some point murder becomes statistics, but I still feel the need to re-emphasize that this is murder. Not more folks getting the flu because there are more folks.
Ah, that makes a lot of sense.
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I don't think anybody is arguing whether killing innocent activists is wrong. But the implications of the headline are different if the increase in murders correlates with an increase in activism. That could for example imply that activists are murdered for being activists and not for being environmental activists specifically.
Here’s one from reality, bacteria. If we create self replicating machines, even if we do not intentionally introduce variation, they will vary from generation to generation. They will presumably not be indestructible and so some form of selection will be possible. If their reproduction cycle is fast enough they could potentially deviate from their intended purpose in a very short time.
I'm not sure the points you've raised demonstrate that there are many New York teachers that should be fired that have not been. The link from the74million.com focuses more on teachers that were successfully let go.

New York city is also one of the most expensive states to live in so any financial comparison would need to be relative to cost of living.

Which is besides the point that perhaps teachers should be remunerated well.
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I’m not sure what kind of number you’re looking for. There’s no global registry tracking the population of environmental activists - just that when people are murdered by anti-green corporations, we can figure out that the person’s activism is what caused it.
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That’s a nice law, I didn’t know about it. Only thing is that I hope they have well cabled/connected this small villages inside the mountains, it’s an indispensable thing for digital nomad/smart workers!
To be fair, they definitely do. Any kind of activism that campaigns against mountains of money comes with an innate probability to be killed. I suppose you could argue that it's not innate because someone else is instigating it, but if the conflict that gives rise to the murder is in itself a property of the activism...
It is! That's why the Omnia/Pardini oven is so much more energy-efficient.
mail to new manager with its boss in CC and its boss's boss and HR(?)

> hey i've noticed i got signed up to systemX rota without any notice or agreement on my part.

> 1. I don't want to. please remove me.
> 2. it's a part of the system that i've never contributed on and don't have any visibility.

or mail to your boss (with new manager in copy?)

> hi, i've noticed that newman signed me up for systemX rota, which i don't have any visibility or knowledge of that system. could you get me removed from there?
It seems they do, though. We're not talking about Extinction Rebellion people protesting outside a high school in a Western democracy, we're talking about activists working in nasty places, running interference against brutal governments and corporations. If the number of those activists is growing, then incidents of murder will be on the rise too.

That is, of course, entirely orthogonal to the actual problem being: those people out there are being murdered, this needs to be stopped, and people responsible need to be brought to justice.
I also get this little koan:

A robin is not a bird. It is a robin.”

“I know it is a robin,” answered the boy. “I am only telling you what it is. It is a robin.”

“And what is a robin?” asked the old man.

“A robin is a robin,” said the boy.

“Then a robin is a robin?” said the old man.

“It is,” said the boy.

“And what is a robin?” asked the old man.

“It is a robin,” said the boy.

“Then a robin is a robin,” said the old man. “But if it is a robin, it is not a bird.”
You could -- but that's no reason to dismiss the whole paper. The linked tweet is using the ad hominem accusation to lie: the paper did address the flaws in their analysis - in fact he explains in detail why he thinks they were biased.

If you read the final paper (linked by bergstorm) it doesn't contain any of the excerpts that he screen-shotted. They probably existed in an early preprint of the paper, but they don't exist in the final paper! : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.13554
Most people don't understand watergate at all. Nixon is far less culpable than people like John Dean for example and I doubt it was ever about "spying" on DNC internal ops rather than some personal project of Dean's not even related to politics. Anyway as the saying goes the victor writes the history.
Here is the original report [1]. For those of you who quip that the number of environmental activists has also been increasing in recent years (talk about being so close to realizing the point), I also want to clarify that Global Witness, the NGO who put out the report, has only been tracking these numbers since 2012.

[1] https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-act...
Green Bank. Good times.

Microwave ovens are out, too, IIRC. Cell phones? Nope.

That single-dish scope is simply unreal. Big. It is big.
>whereas usually the denominator - which they neglect to mention - has rose proportionally, meaning there's nothing newsworthy there.

there is not necessarily a reason to assume that the percentage of murder of activists is going to stay the same if you increase the number of activists, although it may be the case.
Yes, seriously.

The real question is : "Is environmental activism today more dangerous than it was yesterday". The typical way of computing "dangerosity" is through a ratio. Eg: number of death / kilometer for transportation systems, number of injury / game for sports, ...

Why should the dangerosity of the "environmental activism" activity be computed differently, by only taking into consideration a numerator, and dismissing the denominator ?
Why would you expect the murder rate to be constant? It's plausible the opposite is true that the more murders there are, the more publicity they get overall and the more cautious would-be murderers become.
Since it's not immediately obvious what the issue is since it's in the "reception" section

> The peer review process employed by the journal has been criticized by Jeffrey Beall, a university librarian and expert on predatory open access publishing, who also included the journal and its publisher on his list of "potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals" in July 2015.
Evidently you are unaware that use of -Os has on earlier (but quite recent) generations of CPU architecture resulted in notably faster performance.

And, that any compiler feature that is little used will necessarily receive less attention than commonly used features, and be less stable and reliable. Before trying to fix any bug in a program built with -Os, reproducing it first in -O2 will reduce premature balding.
The ANC, a tax evader? debt, unpaid salaries, dry donation taps
The ANC, a tax evader? Massive debt, unpaid salaries, dry donation taps
NHS launches world first trial for new cancer test
In another thread, someone argued that it might be rather caused by an increase in mining and logging activity instead (which in turn also might lead to more activists protesting this behaviour).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28509378
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While you won't be able to get a hard number of people, you could get a general number/trend (e.g. by counting the increase of people to rallies)
Fair enough, and I agree. People are being murdered, and that's the more important topic.
no itis me too
Oil money has made saudi arabia less extreme not more so. Read up on the Ikhwan.
> Every single file sharing client other than bittorrent had search

Sure, but decentralized search? Not many offers that, at even less of them still exists today.

> Bitcoin easily beat them all.

I'm sorry but what? Do you even know what Bitcoin is? How would Bitcoin help me search and download files today?
then the question is why does the murder rate remain constant, is the chance of death by corporation a part of being an activist.
I’m pretty sure activists are not just “people who show up to rallies”. Especially not the kind that a megacorp is trying to murder.
> research into psychedelics is difficult due to restrictions, but anecdotal evidence is not enough to start recommending it

Eh? Lions Mane doesn't have any psychedelic or psychoactive effects.
But also remember the hysteria about ozone depletion, which served the interest of DuPont. It's a mystery how heavy halocarbon could reach stratosphere. Nevertheless, thanks to "environmental" activists, DuPont had become richer.
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Self proclaimed experts must not be that reliable when considering selection bias.

Absolutely no one I know thought we would have all electric cars in 2020 given that the primary EV was a Prius which has its own issues with capability.
Lion's Mane mushrooms are not psychedelics though
Yeah, either your world view is pretty closed or you’re trolling. I hope it’s the latter.

The world trade centre attacks caused about 3000 deaths, and ongoing military action impacting a few countries around the world. The US makes up roughly 5% of the worlds population.

The pandemic has so far killed over 4 million people. It has created lockdowns in thousands of cities you’ve never heard of and forced the scientific community of the world to work together on common problems. It has affected every government and billions of people around the world, rather than the few hundred million in the US.

The pandemic is orders of magnitude more significant than the singular terrorist attack the US experienced 20 years ago.

For billions of people in the world, the US and it’s foreign policies have little to no significance.
> By August 2021, 330,000 scientific papers were published on COVID-19, involving roughly a million different authors.

Reason 1) it's easy to get funding.

Reeason 2) it's fashionable and trendy, potentially good for an author's career, especially in the handouts-heavy public health or healthcare sector where there's little link between cost and benefit and (as we see in the US) it doesn't even matter what the customer (healthcare subscriber) wants
Perhaps. Maybe it's constant, maybe it's rising, or maybe it's falling. To be able to tell, you need the denominator - that's why it's important.
The article mentions countries like South Africa, Honduras and Mexico, that have shockingly high rates of crime and murders. If you increase the population sample you will necessarily capture more incidents that are unrelated to the activism. The question is how much of it is unrelated. I think it is a fair question.
I am surprised to see Netflix being given as “ideal” subscription and payment method. I landed up canceling Netflix because of dark patterns they used.

I couldn’t cancel subscription from App, Netflix asks me to go to a URL to cancel.

When Netflix increased the price, the pop up in App forced you to select one of the increased priced plan, there was no button where you could just back out of pop up to decide later or wait till end of billing month. The two buttons were also confusing, I don’t recall exact words those button used now, but I was shocked when I selected one I thought let’s me wait, I received email confirming my acceptance to price increase. Being ex PM, I am pretty confident it had to do with KPI around price increase for executives and street.

I will take Apple subscription and payment system over Netflix’s any day and 100 times over. All subscription are tied to your Apple ID and display under your Apple ID.
> Such people are "politically invincible".

An analogous thing occurs in US politics: congressmen and senators (i.e. people with voting records at the national level) find it harder to become their party's candidate for President than state governors do.
Your commitment to empiricism is admirable. What kind of evidence would you find sufficient?
Oh that's a really neat theory! So many regularly declined nouns and related word classes end in the sigma. It certainly makes sense considering the frequency of -s ending words. The rough breathing mark seems like it could have played a similar role.

(At least, you have the singular nominatives of the 1st declension masculines, all the 2nd declension noms and a fraction of the 3rd declension noms. And then the singular genitives and the plural accusatives and datives. And so on. Using a 2nd person singular verb, you could probably make a complete and rather complicated sentence in which every word ended in sigma.)
Faro plague is the most close to us and the most accurate one from scientific point of view.
There was a show-stopping bug in the AWS provider that I was watching for about 13 months before a community patch got merged. Over 200 watchers and +1’s galore. We had to spin up separate tooling and write glue scripts to cover the gap. We didn’t really consider forking the AWS provider, but that may have big a quick fix in exchange for ongoing maintenance merges and confusion.
> The police are in on it, the government is in on it, the corporation is responsible.

Then why does it not stop? If you look at the countries where this problem is occuring, they don't really have highly effective governments, they have lots of corruption, and generally high crime rates.

If the governments do not prosecute those responsible and hold corporations to account, this won't stop, and if the people in those countries by and large continue their support for their corrupt governments and police, then that will also not change.