skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting how we all project a moral position, in defining what sits across from elites... representing everyone else.

The blog puts a lot of weight on prestige and attention, celebrity in it's expert-elite division.

"People are far more interested in talking with elites in elite mode on most topics, than in talking with the clear relevant experts in expert mode"

There's a "some animals are more equal" retort to this, IMO. If attention and prestige was showered onto the real experts, in expert mode, then they would be the celebrities. Are you concerned about elitism, or the quality of elites?

You're addressing elitism more broadly. I sort of agree with you in principle, but I think you're discounting how much breadth the principle allows. It's definitely true that most societies have elites and power structures. But, there's a pretty big range of how that works. Nobel prizes are actually a good example. It's an intentional, symbolic piece of elitism... they kind of things that an archaeologist or historian might note. It doesn't relate to majhor power structures very directly though.
> everyone is doing it, there's nothing to be done, etc. This is wrong.

Well, what can be done about it? The US is not gonna stop spying just because they got denounced and certainly no country will declare war on them over it.
The list of countries anywhere that haven't enthusiastically engaged in warfare at one point or another is rather short. Yes Britain conquered India, we have a bloody history, but show me any period in India's history before then that wasn't soaked in blood.

I'm not excusing anything, I'm just saying human nature is what it is, or has been historically. Power has generally been in the hands of warrior elites, because if it wasn't a warrior elite would come along and seize it. Liberal democracy, when it works, is a massive improvement on that state of affairs.
I think there is a J book on statically analyzing network traffic
Cancer does not spread rapidly through air.
Also, chemotherapy is done after you get cancer. It is not a preventative measure.
Correct. Whenever people talk about the vaccine not slowing spread they forget that vaccinated people are 5x less likely to catch covid to start with. They only seem to focus on viral loads of break through infections.
>At some point they hid the new topic/thread input behind a button, and that really improved my life, since people stopped creating new threads when responding to other ones.

Actually, yes, I remember this now. This was definitely a huge improvement. I was just trying to think of an addition of something good rather than fixing of something bad.
It’s just that drivers have always been a particular problem with linux, but IMO ubuntu has a very bad track record, because they want to provide it “out-of-the-box” windows style, but this approach gives users very little recourse when things fail.

Other distros have way better driver management, even if it needs some minor poking around.
> have the Kardashians (or whoever is the biggest influencer) impacted the world the same way that someone like Rudolph Murdoch has?

believe you are referring to Rupert Murdoch.

They do have some similarities... both are billionaires with widely successful tv shows about their family drama.
> eating indoors in not too crowded restaurants.

This is one of the potentially higher risk activities that I see commonly accepted. If your area has high rates of community spread and/or the restraunt has poor ventilation, this is probably a risk that should be avoided. Choosing restraunts with outdoor seating or getting takeout to eat in a park is a very minor sacrifice to cut out one of the hishest risk activities that people commonly engage in
What would be the abuse issues from open peering? How were we able to solve them for email, but not IRC?
This is also essentially built into Clip Studio. It’s usually not worth the effort. You have to spend a lot of time putting down color hints for it to do anything remotely good, and at that point you’re already basically laying in the painting anyway.
The author's assumptions were spot on for me. I am familiar enough with E&M to know the equations and roughly understand relatively but did not know where the intuition for a universal speed limit comes from.
Cost is "£1000-£2000 per treatment" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58281332
Ahahhaa, and somehow, you ve got here like a solid 70% of this forum that not only do not question any measure by the governments media and big pharma in the last 18 months, but actively find excuses for any inconsistency and lack of logic for any measure, or the lack of any positive results. These people are mostly phds, bay area engineers, entrepreneurs, highly skilled specialists and scientists mind you. These people work with deadlines, need to show scientific papers, or some working snippet of code, or some working infrastructure at the end of the day. Somehow, they never question the moving deadline for pandemic(2 weeks to flatten the curve) or the abysmal results of vaccination and lockdowns in stopping covid infections and hospitalisations. Covid is truly the afghanistan of the nerds it seems. See you in 20 years.
The prices of block storage on DO are pretty steep, I'm seeing $50 a month for 500 GB..? Am I missing something?
Sometimes they aren't even real Greek!
It would be interesting to see a writeup comparing J and the open-source implementation(s) of K. Which would be better for a complete novice at array programming?
Artists receive a fraction of their profits because the distribution network is immensely valuable to them.

The 30% is pulled out of your ass. If I did all my own editing and released songs on Spotify without any assistance I would get a much higher cut. If I don't like Spotify I am allowed to sell mp3s on my own website. However - if I was trying to produce a high quality album a year and coordinate worldwide tours then it is worth it to me to share my profits with hundreds of talented artists/marketers/engineers on my team or in contract with my team.
Clubhouse made me fly to NY
old people. I've helped a lot of old people with their PCs and they call me about paypal scams when they do not have paypal. they want to donate to some one because of a nice horoscope email they got.
They don't put people simply pending a COVID test in the ICU.

Mississippi was recently down to six ICU beds in the entire state: https://www.wlbt.com/2021/08/04/just-6-icu-beds-available-en...

Arkansas got to zero: https://apnews.com/article/health-arkansas-coronavirus-pande...

This isn't explicable with your hypothesis.

You can absolutely go to your PCP for a COVID test, and get your ear infection treated while you're there.
I know quite a few people 35-55 who went to hospital with severe symptoms and a few with breakthroughs this fall. None of the breakthrough cases required more than perhaps a day or two of rest.
> If you were watching their lives out the window of your spaceship you’d see them in fast forward vv. they’d see you in slow motion. Everything is relative.

Both observers, looking at one another, would see the other moving near c. Neither would know who was ‘actually’ moving. Yet, you assume there would not be a symmetry in their respective views of the other’s passage of time.

Explain why.

In simpler terms, a twin in a c-speed rocket could very well assume he was still and the earth was moving away. He should expect to find a younger twin when the earth ‘returned.’ Yet the examples only have the earth twin age, so to speak, and not the rocket twin.
I had the same question looking into HSLuv recently. Came across this https://github.com/hsluv/hsluv/issues/73 but it didn't really gain much traction. Maybe it'll be more popular once Chrome finishes CSS Color Module Level 4 color space support.
I think humanity is meant to work to a "grow and bud model", where when a community starts getting unmanageably large, a number "bud off" and form their own. Like how the Greek city-states formed associated colonies across the Mediterranean, or how large friend groups almost always have sub0units within them. It even happens to subreddits, but since it hurts the network effect social media companies strive for they want to prevent this happening.
Built 6 Apps by Nocode
Interesting to know that if we would have a 1g acceleration spaceshil with almost unlimited energy onboard we can cross a large part of our galaxy in less than 70 years.
Ray casting in 2D game engines
My question for you is, what is the end point?

I am willing to wear a mask and practice social distancing for a period of time—in the aim of some goal. I'm not willing to do it forever. Which is why I wore a mask until this summer when vaccines were widely available.

Give me an end date, and explain why things will be different then, and I'll do it! Honestly! But right now, I'm looking around and I'm not seeing a timeline.
A look inside the Codex Seraphinianus
This is a myth. Lead has no lubricative value in engines, and in fact causes damage. From https://www.shell.com/business-customers/aviation/aeroshell/...:

"The temperature for Lead deposits to form tend to be favourable around the spark plugs (as the whole mixture is quite cool before the flame starts to propagate) and on the exhaust valve stem (as the mixture cools after combustion). The problem is that the deposits are electrically conductive, which shorts out the spark plug - and corrosive, which can start to attack the metal of the valve stems."
In theory I agree that almost all of this would be solved if the courts could work at the speed of social media. That’s a pipe dream though. There aren’t enough people with law degrees to throw at the problem, and we couldn’t afford it even if we did throw the problem at the courts.
Q1. Does the future already exist? I realize this might be purely philosophical, but if I leave Earth, and fly through space near c kph, and return home a few hours later to find everyone aged 50 years... are they the "same" people, or are they a future-instance of the people left? To clarify, theoretically I could leave earth, and return home in exactly 1 hour (from my ref frame), and basically make people whatever age I want by varying my speed. Since the same 1 hour passes for me no matter the age for them I chose, it seems like I'm selecting an already existent future from a stack, not fast-forwarding the present I left.

Q2. How do black holes exist if time stops inside a black hole? That is, they continue to move through spacetime, even though spacetime is not moving within the hole? I accept that a black hole can form, and can stop time, I'm just curious how something that stops time continues to persist in the present. The way I'm visualizing this, is like a lava lamp about to bleb off some goo from the top [1]. As the object gets more and more dense, it curves and drags spacetime more and more, until eventually its density passes the Schwarzschild radius and blebs off.

[1] https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/615deDvfDkL._AC_SS450_.j...
Your comment is nonsensical to the question at hand, but why would you call it petty politics? If the people killed had been what the original target was thought to be, would that really be petty politics?
In the US the federal government buys it, though I'm not sure they are going to continue doing so. In the tristate area and Florida it's apparently pretty easy to get.
I think this is an overly simplistic (and I've seen this argument on the internet a lot) argument. It's true that there are a lot of people, especially in Anglo countries, who oppose any policy that could allow the State to be enriched. But it's also true that there are many crappy state-owned enterprises. My family came from a developing country that used to have _most_ things run by the state, and there was widespread corruption in the government which kept service bad and prices high.

I do think it would be useful for economists to analyze the conditions under which state-run entities create good outcomes, but in the currently charged political climate, it probably won't happen.
Only if that apartment complex is wired with ethernet and a local switch [0]. GPON, cable, and DSL would all still go back to the ISP's core, transiting the last mile link twice. There are definitely efficiency gains to be had with decentralized identifiers and distributed systems, but with the centralized nature of the physical Internet they're not always a win.

[0] or roommates want the same files and their router supports hairpin NAT or the software uses local segment discovery.
>Please share a link to one you trust.

You're shifting goalposts now. All my comment was for was to correct your statement that "no other journalistic outlet" reported on this. True or not (and, again, I make no assertion either way in regards to those articles), it has been reported on in other outlets.

>That’s obviously false. We have examples of people being untrustworthy at every level of expertise in every domain.

And that's a fair point! That said, in regards to how quickly you're writing off those journalists, if that's your logic then everyone offering any kind of advice/input, giving a speech, training, whathaveyou, etc. related to the area in which they work should be ignored and/or assumed to be giving incorrect information to you if they're not doing so with the full endorsement of their employer or some higher authority.

But you and I both know that that's a rather poor way of looking at things, which is why I clearly stated, "that doesn't necessarily mean we should automatically assume it's true, but it also doesn't necessitate a complete write-off."
NPR article honestly just sounds like fear-mongering. I am fine with showing how worse it can get, but nothing in the NPR article talks about the likelyhood of getting a bad case of COVID after vaccination. Objectively informing the public, it is not.
You’re making uninformed assumptions and obviously don’t work at a Covid center in the USA. Personnel are now careless, many are fatigued and/or disillusioned, protocolsuu are not universal or enforced, many buy into the political drama and don’t mask when outside the facility and patients have become argumentative about masking. The moment I have another career option is the moment I quit. PPE use / enforcement and availability is also spotty. People are tired of arguing with their coworkers about it, too.
I wonder if someone like Jeri Ellsworth or Sam Zeloof will be able to reproduce this with their home-fab techniques
Adverts and adware as we see them now would have been considered 'spyware' 15/20 years ago. It's worth re-watching the IT Crowd scenes where someone's got ads all over their computer and they don't see the problem with it but it's obvious to the protagonists / viewer it's malware. And then through that lens have a look at a normal person's computer or smartphone in 2020. It's very disturbing
I think stuff like notes, Pocket in general, VPN and password management make sense as side activities for a browser maker. Firefox OS is rather ambitious, though. Not that they were the only ones who tried, see eg. Ubuntu's failed phone OS.
If people think there's nothing to be done, then indeed, nothing will be done.

Wenn ein Mann denkt, dass nichts getan werden kann, dann kann nichts getan werden.
Yeah I agree we are pretty much done here. All (major) countries are treating this "feature" of "must-have" and once you give the bureaucratic some power it is almost impossible to take it away from them.
True, but OpenBSD seems to some extent value correctness over "usability". I can imagine the argument being made that if something changed and caused the package to stop building, it should be fixed, because the warning was potentially significant.

Since they do want the OS to be practical and usable, though, your argument also holds true, and seems to take precedence here. Just kind of surprised they'd make a policy of explicitly patching out upstream's Werror, since it implies it's "supposed" to work with no errors.
Do you have zero mass?
Otherwise just to a 150lbs person will have mass of a galaxy at 99% of the speed of light. And to go remaining %1 you will need to have a power to push entire galaxy 0.1% of speed of light.
At 99.999998% of speed of light the man will need to burn all the elements in the universe.
Basically a credit card or bank loan cannot buy you such energy.
When I was at Mayo Clinic, one of the eye doctors put tape at the top of my mask to seal it. He did the same to his because he wore glasses. This prevents fogging up glasses (or eye exam equipment).

I'd suggest using paper tape for this because the skin around the eyes is very delicate and regular medical tape is a bitch to get off. They used medical tape, and I felt like it was ripping my lower eyelids off when I removed it!
The website actually recommends against using the same date for everything. I think that was the point of the website rather than giving a random date. Namely, promoting not using personally identifiable information such as date of birth. I suggest thinking of the random date display as a sort of practical joke.

Also you're right that no one writes down their fake date of birth -- that would be weird. As an advice that wouldn't make sense, but what if we consider the case where people "don't care" and always chose "default" date of birth like "Jan 1, 1999"? That would be the same on all websites.
ironic that this is published on a blog called "overcoming bias".
It may if you want your explanation to be correct though. And technically, a grand conspiracy is subjective, and a bit of a false dichotomy. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence

The complexity of the problem is such that it is extremely difficult to not make a cognitive error during contemplation, even leaving aside the famous unreliability of the multiple systems this cognition sits on top of.

Think of how hard it can sometimes be to debug a system for which you have the literal source code for, which sits on a highly trustworthy base. Now consider reality, for which you have no source code, but you do know (at least during certain mental states, but not necessarily all) that it is chock full of bugs, indeterminate behaviors, etc.
It’s perfectly fine for that to be ones risk tolerance and to take mitigation steps. It’s not to mandate them by government fiat.
Wood heating remains improbably popular (and favorably regulated). Not to mention the stupidity of diesel cars: trading a little bit less CO2 for actively poisoning the lungs of your immediate environment.
> The 30% is pulled out of your ass.

I pulled it off a search engine. And that was one of the better figures. Do you have better data?
Prior to the Iraq war Saddam was pressing the UN to lift a bunch of sanctions and courting Russian and European oil companies to come in and run their oil operations. By the time of the invasion Iraq's oil infrastructure had been gutted due to sanctions.

This was a complete anathema to the PNAC psychos' vision of the Middle East [0]. They basically wanted to exact control over the majority share of OPEC producers for power over economic rivals (as they saw them).

The PNAC [1] had been pushing for war in the Middle East from their founding in the 90s. They got a lot of buy-in from all the Nixonites in GWB's administration. Rumsfeld set up the Office of Special Plans [2] that stovepiped unvetted intelligence from a bunch of Iraqi expats and exiles to push PNAC narratives to GWB.

[0] https://archive.org/details/RebuildingAmericasDefenses

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Special_Plans
Machine learning is synonymous with non-linear growth. So of course I think any chatbot will eventually have no problem persuading humans.
The pivetal moment is when his persuation skills succeed that of the average human.
I have no clue how far away we are to that goal, but given accelerated growth, it will come rather sooner then later.
very true, esp when using const, static or restrict correctly
At this point it’s pretty clear that the “reasons” for the Iraq War were made up.
That we know of. Delta is killing some children, but low numbers. COVID-19 can infect brain cells and organs, so very much not like other viruses, and definitely not like the flu (or colds) which is limited to acidic cells from your nose to your lungs (and stomach).
It's a consequence of the time dilation. You are not stationary towards the photon to an outside observer, so to them it looks like the photon moves away from them faster than it moves away from you. And from the obserer's perspective, your clock is ticking slower. That's the key. The amount that your clock is ticking slower is such that you, the one moving, would calculate the speed of the photon the same as the stationary observer, because you would do so from your own slower clock.
Exporting data to other systems is a massively different idea from using the data in a business-transactional sense.

If you wanted to bulk export/stream transactions from my system, you would simply take the compressed event log batches and replicate them wherever they need to go. The working set is kept in memory and can be reconstructed by simply replaying the events.

If I were going to solve your problem, I would probably maintain 2 materialized working sets in memory, one potentially on another server that is slightly behind real-time. The cool thing here is you can replay the events into any arbitrary schema, as long as they are granular enough (6NF+).
Windows 10 Decrapifier and Debloater
It’s the default at Fedora too. I’ve been using it at NixOS without any problem.
His science journalist part is also not convincing. Neil deGrasse Tyson far outstrips the popularity of science journalists, because unlike other scientists he is not boring to everyday people
The issue is that they are changing things without the data changing so it feels like it is more politics driven than science driven.
The children's hospital in our area has been running at near full capacity.

Not for my kids, thanks.
How to end the American dependence on driving
It does work out, in fact you could go arbitrarily far in space (and, mandatory, in external time) if you had infinite energy to spend. The acceleration and deceleration phase is almost negligible.

Edit: the faster you go, the slower your own (inertial) time passes. That means the external time passes faster, and the factor grows to infinity the closer you get to C.

In fact, subjectively there is no speed limit. As you go faster, anything around you ages faster, but you yourself won't encounter any speed limit.
We've been quite comfortable with vaccine mandates for decades. My kids needed proof of MMR, DTaP, and several others to be able to attend school. Colleges have similar requirements. Hand washing is mandated "by government fiat" in many scenarios, as are quite a few other OHSA or public health scenarios - try working on a construction site without a hard hat, for example.
Let's encrypt was also started by EFF. It's been doing some shady business with it's authority and the trust it accumulated since internet heyday. I wonder when it will betray the community.
I checked no for the same reason. Also I don’t want corporations to profit off my body parts. It would be different if they shared the money with my family or they at least got to choose who got them.
Your argument is weak. The only evidence you have provided that vaccination cannot lead to herd immunity is a quote tweet about Iceland which has been discredited. US experts argue vaccination can confer herd immunity. If you disagree present data that supports your case.
Quick update: I just sent a short & friendly email to my local member of parliament asking him about his position on the matter. Took about 10 minutes.
> Recent research from the U.K. suggests that vaccinated people are about 50% less likely to develop long COVID than those who are unvaccinated.

To me that doesn't sound like that great of a risk reduction.
Make up your minds

"Mozilla get 95% of their revenue from Google, that's terrible! They shouldn't be so dependent!"

"How dare Mozilla try to make money from products other than Firefox!"