skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UNIX was just pushed by AT&T, Sun, HP, IBM, Compaq, Dec.

I let you sum how much money they invested into selling their UNIX workstations.

As for Python, Zope made it during the early days, plus the research labs and companies that employed Guido, and if you want a list,

- DARPA funding in 1999

- Zope in 2000

- Google in 2005

- Dropbox in 2013

- Microsoft in 2020

You can sum up Guido's salary as per those corporations.
Facebook is an accelerant. The movie "Mean Girls" largely predated social media and highlighted many of the same issues. This seems to be a pretty ingrained issue, although I think most people agree that Facebook makes it worse.

Here's a theory that's nearly guaranteed to land me in hot water:

Why are young girls so awful to each other? I don't think it's unreasonable to suspect that is has to do with "hormones," new emotions, and new social awareness, etc. But, it's also the case that from a strictly evolutionary perspective, young girls are are the most fertile and therefore the most desirable. This will decline over time, and sharply as women enter their 30s, 40s, and 50s. Perhaps there's an evolutionary reason why young girls work so hard to identity and sideline any competition? If this is the period of their life where they are the most desirable, there might be an evolutionary benefit to be the most cut-throat when it comes to vying for the best mating opportunities.

A few caveats:

- Hopefully I don't have to explain that evolutionary impulses are not the same as desirable or positive social values.

- Nor are evolutionary impulses immutable, or always expressed in the same way. (for example, sports are often observed as a peaceful replacement for warring city states.)

- Further, I'm definitely aware that evolutionary psychology can sound very reasonable while being perfectly rubbish and unscientific. There are plenty of people who say things like "because hunter-gathers experienced X," that explains "dubious trend which I have anecdotally observed." Even in the case where an evolutionary psychology explanation may happen to be correct, it remains difficult to prove or test.
This was suspected early on in the pandemic. Before the vaccine was FDA approved I publicly wondered if we could just give people one of these "colds" that protects against COVID-19. My doctor friends said that would never pass any ethics board. I also suspect there would not be a good way for pharmaceutical companies to make any money on this more natural approach. Today the future looks like a carousel ride of booster shots and people are wearing masks again. My person approach, which would never be endorsed by public health officials, is to be fully vaccinated, not wear a mask and be in close proximity to people in the hope to get a breakthrough case of COVID-19. I want a mild case to build natural immunity, which studies show provides better immunity than vaccines, and get off a booster shot carousel and put COVID-19 behind me.
I mean, you put your credit card into it, so yeah?
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This caused glorious meltdowns on Twitter. Some people just don't want to face reality.
In addition to whichever dictionary and textbook you use, as you get deeper in, an Allen & Greenough grammar reference is really handy. Because Latin word-order is looser than English, there are some a-ha! moments where it starts to click, "Oh, this entire clause is acting as the direct object, and it's here because Cicero wanted to emphasize this and this." Quickly being able to look up common constructions and how noun cases are used helps with that.
That’s what the study calls into question.
I was always pro-crypto, but Bitcoin is a first generation cryptocurrency. It is still a work of a genius, but it is a first generation cryptocurrency developed 12 years ago. The world has moved on to more efficient and exciting things, like Solana, or Polkadot, or other 3G projects. And what gets me even more excited, this is just the beginning, we have barely scratched the surface of what’s possible to do with smart blockchains.
The first brick is the hardest, because once you have one you can knock it on someone's head so that he cries and bleeds even more.

Jokes aside, I think you need clay and limestone to create cement. Clay has been found Limestone is probably not available on Mars, although I believe there were reports of some carbonates in tiny quantities. The lack of ubiquitous carbonate is seen as evidence that Mars never really had a denser atmosphere with fluid water.
It's worth considering the differences between Bezos' notion of regret minimization and the mathematical techniques of the same name.

First, Bezos' is about a once-in-a-lifetime chance, whereas the mathematical version is more about choices you repeat over and over.

Another difference, relating to the author's point

> Regret is conditioned on what happens

is that, in the mathematical version, while you do update your regret tables on the basis of what eventually happens, you make your decisions now on the basis only of what you know so far. Depending how you look at it, you might be satisfied -- "no regrets" -- so long as you perform this procedure properly, i.e., you can forgive your past self for ignorance. In this way you are attached not to the actual outcome but to your correct choice and execution. This creates a kind of "equanimity". The idea may be very vaguely Jain/Buddhist.
Requiring de-orbiting at EOL would destroy their business no? Also EOL de-orbiting works great for low-altitude orbits, but becomes exponentially more difficult with higher orbits. It is pretty much impossible with the very valuable geostationary orbital slots.
First, I applaud your attempt at thinking-out a "better" system

The big critique is going to be getting the network effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect) strong enough to really take off

Real-world example: Facebook is by far the most-well-known social media service

There are scores to 100s to 1000s of "better" social networks - but the problem of "everyone's on Facebook ... so I need to be there, too" strikes

"Everyone" already accepts Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, Apple Pay, Android Pay, PayPal, etc

What are you going to bring to the table that's not merely "better", but so much decidedly "better" that would actually make people want to switch?

Even one of the great successes in "new" (or, at least, "simplified") payment tech, Apple Pay, took a long time to take off - but had the advantage of 100s of millions of iPhones in circulation whereby using it became "free" (users only had to take 20 seconds to add their card to Apple Wallet, and vendors merely had to upgrade their card readers to be [Apple] NFC-compliant)
Curious if the reverse is true ... also is momentum conserved in this, then wouldn't the positron electron pair be shooting off at the speed of light, and if not where is the extra energy going? Or have I missed something?
It feels like more and more people whom I would consider very partisan (either side) simply act out of spite nowadays. Whatever the other side wants, well, we're just going to unconditionally fight it. You saw this accelerate after Trump won with "Resist", an ethos that literally means to defy regardless of circumstances. And now you see the right's version of "Resist" by avoiding vaccinations. Why? Because screw them, that's why. This is just more the feeling I get about society. It's very frustrating.

I also think places like the CDC made enormous tactical errors by doing things like celebrating certain political protests, or changing language from "mothers" to "birthing people", etc. They tried to score cheap political points while sowing seeds of total distrust in the process. Just a massive mistake, all downside no upside.
Magazines came once a month, the people in them were clearly supposed to be uncommonly attractive and they couldn't talk back to you.
In all fairness, a locked bootloader won't help against exploits in the OS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28516095

If I'm Snowden, I would be far more concerned about that.
7 banned, 12 removed as sysops [1]

> We have banned seven users and desysopped a further 12 as a result of long and deep investigations into activities around some members of the unrecognized group Wikimedians of Mainland China

and 12 warned [2]

> I believe it was 12 other users who were contacted and asked to adjust their behavior to work within community policies, especially regarding "canvassing" and good faith collaboration with other users.

To put it in perspective, Chinese Wikipedia has 65 sysops (excluding the ones that have been removed).

[1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@list...
[2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@list...
[3] https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:用户列表&grou...
Also not how disputes work
Android lets you use your own service with the same features as Google's or Apple's. iOS does not.
I am making an argument about overall long-term health, not about a specific, temporary immune response to SARS-CoV-2.
> of biological traits

or genes

I saw a visualization of the clustering on twitter.

https://twitter.com/rokomijic/status/1426614501856751620
To me, it's obvious that "social" media is extreamly bad for people, and specially extra bad for young people who compare themselves with others a lot.

If we figured too much TV was bad for people, "social" media is 100 times worse. How is it even possible to still feel good about yourself after spending time there? I don't use any of these services because I see them as obviously bad for our mental health.
Would you like another EXTRA BIG ASS FRIES
I think these social media platforms give teenagers the feeling, that everyone is pretty and successful.
Back in the days, only famous people where in fashion magazines. They where an elite group of people one could easily distinguish from.
But nowadays, there are so many "noname" persons out there, having a successful instagram feed. This could create the impression that all people out there are good looking and successful, except yourself.
I know a few VPS distributors, and I've heard pretty mixed things about ARM's viability in the server space. Not only is it pretty expensive relative to x86, it's also pretty slow: you won't be getting SIMD instructions like AVX, which are huge in the server space. The only thing ARM has going for it is low IPC, but I really fail to see many applications where you could benefit from that, much less one where it would be worth the price premium over x86.

Maybe in 5 or 10 years, ARM will be viable. But by then, we'll all be rocking RISC-V CPUs because someone realized that accelerating for specialized workloads isn't a crock of shit when 90% of your workload is video decoding.
I mean, what is there that could fail? It's basically a hole in the ground, That's it.

I know Germany prefers to strip-mine their coal these days, but digging tunnels several kilometers deep is a skill that's been mastered for more than a century.
Funny, I read this immediately after leaving a comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28525122) using height categories as an example of a social construct.
> You are commenting on a HN story which is literally linking directly to the document they authored.

You're conflating the timeline and facts a lot. Here is what you stated happened above:

- FDA panelist published a report -> Biden admin asked them to resign -> they resigned.

Here is what actually happened:

- CDC published a report -> WH accepted the CDC's report -> WH signaled moving forward with boosters -> FDA panelists who never got to publish resign -> FDA panelists author review paper in The Lancet critical of boosters (what this article is about) -> [Future] FDA publish their official recommendation

The timelines are completely different (e.g. resign before Vs. after publication), what we're talking about being published is different (e.g. FDA official report Vs. Lancet review), and the whole "asked to resign" is nowhere to be seen.

> This is a false and fabricated quotation, which I did not say at any point.

You said this verbatim:

> Biden administration seems to have asked two multi-decade long FDA vaccine approval experts to resign

You haven't defended or sourced that. Want to go ahead and do that rather than acting offended by my shorthand characterization of it?
I am dismayed by your example that runs counter to the modern science.

While "faster than light neutrino" was highly unexpected and rather suspect from the start, the "bone geometry differs slightly between ethnic groups" is well established among the anthropologists of humans. There are also parallels in wider biology of animals - mentioning that to underscore it's as scientifically expected, and not merely construed for humans alone.

The question here was how exactly is AI detecting it this well from chest X-rays; the question centered around AI and possibly if it would unexpectedly influence the medical processes - rather than around the bone geometry itself.

For sake of example, a random link from google search: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24427702_Ethnic_dif...
I really think this is right, it would be nice to have a Star Trek like sci fi series that actually tried to tackle the issues. As a series it's been a source of inspiration for decades. It's a shame modern Star Trek is just generic sci-fi drama.
> 1. I remember that while growing up fashion magazines, actors/actresses and I want to say peer pressure (but am fearful its incorrect) were a big source of body image issues.

I remember reading somewhere, can't remember where, something that addressed this point.

Broadly speaking, the idea was that "people in magazines" weren't perceived as "peers", so you wouldn't compare yourself to them in the same way as you'd compare with a classmate, or some other "regular person", "just like yourself".
I've been to most of them but teeming isn't a word I'd really use. They're also the most obvious hotspots outside London, I was mostly attempting to make a point about all the 2nd-tier and 3rd-tier locations that are currently very busy with UK staycationers.
I remember a idea to use lasers to burn up space debris. Would you be able to just launch somd kind of weapons platform to handle space debris rather than trying to attach and slow them down?
Yeah, but people have a certain level of disconnect with the models, athletes, actors, and superstars you see on TV and in magazines. Facebook brings that to the next level by encouraging that sort of content from people who you can actually relate to and feeds it to you around the clock. IG is especially bad about this.

And that's just some of the content. The algorithm is also just as happy to feed you a continuous stream of outraging, extremist "punditry", manufactured drama, fake "crafting" videos, conspiracies, and paranoid, depressing "news" - anything to keep you engaged.
That thread points out some interesting observations about typical Star Trek inconsistencies (another one would be to think about why someone should move to a colony in the first place or rather about why not everyone can simply travel between planets as they like). But the objection against desalination is pointless. We can manage that problem already today (e.g., by drying up the brine or by pumping it into old oil wells). There is absolutely no reason to assume water would be scarce in the 24th century of TNG.
Thanks, I wasn't previously aware of these reports.
I think the big difference is that society transformed a lot faster compared to previous ages that most people were not prepared to adapt.
Of course. If anything, it gives them a greater responsibility (and accountability), because it's such an easy trap.
Can the modern Arctic environment really support herds of new mammoths? I know they used to roam the tundra 5,000 years ago, but they've been absent since. Wouldn't their reappearance displace the creatures that have taken their place in the ecosystem? Perhaps moose and arctic ox would suffer a decline?

It seems really reckless to me to resurrect long dead creatures and to call that "healing the earth". I don't think these people have the systems in place to model the ecosystem accurately enough to know whether introducing a new hybrid into the environment would be beneficial for any creature on Earth (except themselves of course ... I'm sure they'll have a great Instagram post about it).
> is it because they're afraid of improper installation breaking them?

Yes. This was an issue back in the Athlon Thunderbird days.

"It's on the user" doesn't work as an argument when all of your large desktop/server OEMs notice a large uptick in failure rate post-assembly.
China Makes Sure Everyone Writes Taiwan Name Just So–Even a Colorado High School
This is true but the companies choose how to build and operate these spaces, which includes things like moderation and what they promote. Part of what makes Facebook important here is that they’ve put so much effort into taking over people’s socialization everywhere with an emphasis on being where your friends and family are. The more toxic parts of the Internet used to be different places you had to seek out.

Given how profitable that’s been it seems reasonable to expect them to be involved in fixing it.
Oh the house prices. I’ve gone from looking at £250+K houses and thinking I’ll never be able to afford one on my own to “I’m buying a house in the next 12 months”. £5K deposit (not even joking), a 3 year mortgage (which will end up costing about the same as my rent down south) and I’ll be set.

I looked at Durham as well, and when it comes to buying, if I spot a good one there, that’s where I’ll go for sure.

The town I live in is nice, quiet, the people are super friendly, there’s literally no downside if you’re a remote worker.

These places aren’t a scam, they just don’t have high paying jobs available, but that isn’t a problem if you come with your own job.
First i thought it is a promising idea and a cool new technology. But after some research and usage in an university project i really changed my mind. Most "use"-cases that come to mind are better served with classical "money". And what really gets me furious is the fact, that everyone tries to use the solution blockchain for their problem. When really it is ONE solution for a specific kind of problems. So that's my changing thoughts on the topic blockchain. Would really appreciate informative links that don't praise it as an asset in the end.
They haven’t apparently told store staff that pickup customers may not be able to load the QR code or generate a wallet pass.
It really often is harder to notice these things when you're part of it. It's not like such systems are necessarily bad places to live initially. We have this exaggerated view of what political evil looks like based on the most excessive examples of the past. But it's more important noting the creep towards that point, once a state has gone full fascist it's too late.
The modern equivalent of the comic book ad for an anti-zit popper: it clearly works because the second drawing of the kid has fewer dots!
I agree that an AI model might be able to glean race on a probabilistic basis from x-rays.

This specific model's ability to do it from a 64 pixel version of said x-ray makes me skeptical it's doing so successfully.
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important: "We may someday consider open sourcing Superpack."
Why would I pay a cleaning company instead of spending a lot less money on moving the satellite into a graveyard orbit before it runs out of propellant?
It is very unusual for bootstrapped companies to hit a billion+ valuation.
Grammarly SDK beta lets developers embed automated text editing in any web app
> I'd like some corroboration for this blog post's rather alarmist rhetoric about Jekyll's project health.

It's literally at the top of the article.
The Pfizer vaccine loses 6% effectiveness every two months.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/28/pfizers-ceo-says-covid-vacci...
Yes but in this case I think a more apt analogy would be of a funfair with lots of different stall owners who were under the impression that although they weren't completely free, they at least wouldn't have their stalls taken over at some point in the future
That was my hope too- unfortunately I don't live alone so can't go out and do it. And it probably is smarter to do what we can to avoid it as we still don't really understand the long-term effects of this nasty virus, just that it can have some bad ones for some people.
I discovered a lot of great old games thanks to this book (I read the PDF). I recommend it for anyone interested in CRPG.
I am no longer convinced that urbanism is categorically better for the environment. Here's why.

First of all, consider direct energy consumption. A suburban or rural home can probably get >50% of its energy use (including cars if they are EVs) from solar power directly off its own roof and property. This is year round in the sun belt and at least 2/3 of the year elsewhere. Batteries are getting cheap enough that home load leveling or even fully grid-free homes are now approaching middle class affordability.

EVs are now 100% practical as replacements for gas cars even in rural areas. I have a 200 mile range Nissan Leaf which was very affordable and would suit me just fine even if I lived way out in the exurbs or countryside, and they're building fast chargers everywhere where I live (Ohio) even along highways in the country. The next generation or two of cars (or a Tesla today) might even drive me to my destination, allowing me to read on the way the way I did in the subway when I lived in the city.

Secondly, the vast majority of your land use and probably more than 50% of your energy use is not direct. A huge fraction of your energy use is in the embodied energy of the products that you purchase and their transportation around the global supply chain. An even larger fraction of your land use is in farming and resource extraction to support you and your lifestyle.

Where you live changes none of that. A cheeseburger or laptop purchased in the city has exactly the same footprint as a cheeseburger or laptop purchased in the country.

In fact, I can see a future where dense cities are actually worse due to being harder to power with renewable energy. To power a dense city you might have to gather a lot of renewable energy from far away, which means more transmission infrastructure and more transmission losses. If we shifted to local farm-to-table eating patterns food in the city may even have more embodied energy due to a longer supply chain to get it there. Then consider that city dwellers eat at restaurants more and restaurants waste a lot more food than cooking at home usually does. (Seriously... look into how much food most restaurants throw away!)

Cities are hands-down superior to suburbs and the country in a fossil fuel powered world. In a post-fossil-fuel world it's very debatable.

Last but not least, we new urbanists (Gen-X and younger) have discovered that big cities are real estate cartels that make it impossible for the middle class to accumulate wealth. That's already pushing people away. For young people today I would recommend not going to a high cost of living city for any reason other than to level up your career and then leave. Big cities used to be fun centers of art and culture, but that's being driven away by real estate hyperinflation. I'm seeing more and more cool stuff happening in small towns across the country where creatives are settling so they can afford to live without spending >50% of their income on rent.
Because the study you reference only looked at data from early-ish in the pandemic, doesn't cover delta-variant or anything else that happened in the past year? (It's also not that difficult to find claims from John Hopkins that deaths in children have happened, so you obviously realize that the "wasn't able to find a single pediatric death" is a controversial, at best, assertion?)
Librem 5 has its modem on a detachable M.2 card, sounds like what you describe.
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