skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sunlight is wide-band (see "black body spectrum"). This is why a white object (that reflects all light equally) and a yellow object (which mostly reflects reds and greens) are discernible under such light, even under sunset light which is visibly yellow or orange. The sunset orange light still contains many other colors.

A yellow object and a white object would be not discernible under a very narrow-band yellow light, or a mix of two narrow-band red and green lights of right proportions. This is how LEDs and lasers emit light, but totally unlike hot objects (like Sun) or fluorescent lamps (like "natural light" LED lamps) emit light.
Next big thing in mobility is Behaviour change
Government control of what exactly? Lowering emissions?
Is this really that complicated? We can have more people living lives with limited freedoms and limited lifestyle quality, or more people with greater freedoms but greater health/climate/whatever impacts, or we can have fewer people. Fossil fuels aren’t the primary problem or even the sole problem. It’s that we have enough people living rich lives to create problems of scale whether from fossil fuels or mining or whatever.
The first statement does not follow automatically from the second.

It is not currently run in a sustainable way. It can be, and people are trying change it so it is sustainable. This is hard, but does not appear to be impossible.
>How many people can someone lead?

The average person? I'd say 0.

Can it be taught outside of a highly organized situation? I'd say no.

Can it be taught from a book? I'd say no.
The current crop of swindlers don't, but it'll be a lot easier to start and a lot easier to scale in a world where you don't have to go find actual people to run the scams.
"Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply imprisoned inside her ruined body. 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." - Heinlein

And so it is with us, and our beautiful, human sense of morality, responsibility, and integrity, ravaged by time and the requirements of practicality.
I can't stand this intimation that you're an asshole for not wearing a mask. If other people want to be precautious, they can get vaccinated and wear a mask and do the social distancing. It's not my problem.
The UK's immigration policy wrt. certain places 10-1000x more prone to violent crimes make it harder to stop terrorism
> I'm sorry

Don't be. It's the only sensible opinion on this.
You're missing my point. Do you remember last year, very early in the pandemic, when Fauci went on TV and urged people not to go out and horde N95s, claiming that they didn't work, when in reality he just wanted to ensure that they were available for healthcare workers? And then he flipped around weeks later and recommended surgical masks for everyone?

I'm not claiming that masks do or don't work. I'm just claiming that they lied about it (twice) to suit their interests.

> Research published long before COVID-19 proved the efficacy of masking in blocking particulate matter. That's why terms like N95 even exist.

Sure, but what about for aerosols? If you want to see what the self-proclaimed rational community thought of masks and research available at the time in March of 2020 as it pertained to COVID, see this article: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/23/face-masks-much-more-t...
> You are basically asking that our agencies be 100% correct the first time and be perfect predictors of the future.

That isn't how I read this comment at all :/.

First off, the person isn't even saying not to trust scientists at all, much less because they are wrong: in each case the idea was that they are acting in their best understanding of what the effect of a certain kind of intervention will be; the comment isn't blaming scientists for getting something wrong or failing to predict the future: it explicitly even seems to agree with each intervention as being a sensible thing to do given the information at the time and the risk/benefit analysis.

And then secondly, the issue of someone overstating their confidence on purpose and knowingly is very different from someone misunderstanding something and later realizing they were wrong. "I think this is our best course of action to mitigate the impact" is an honest thing to say. But people seem to want to hear "this will solve the problem fully". People seem to not want to deal with "I realize this might not help much, but it certainly won't hurt: let's try it and see how effective it is" (another honest thing to say), but instead want to hear "trust me: you need to do this as I know it is going to work".

I was--and am!--fully willing to do things that are only going to mitigate the impact, whether to myself or to others, and I am willing to do it even on reasoning as flimsy as "it is unlikely to hurt". But I feel like I am in a vast minority, and so everyone instead is motivated to overstate their confidence and overstate their intended result in the hope of getting more compliance, which is why we have people who don't just feel "scientists and doctors are trying their best to work in our best interests, and this is our best hope as of today" but help get on the bandwagon of "if you disagree with how effective this is going to be you are an idiot who is anti-science and you are part of the problem in our attempts to get compliance".
I don't understand the point you're trying to make. Should we stop having nurses treat covid patients so they don't spread it to people who are more likely to have severe reactions? Should we stop having nurses treat people with compromised immune systems and other health issues so they can treat covid patients?
One of the chimeras (in the research the article is based on) reproduced up to 10,000x better than the virus it was based on and caused the mice to lose weight through illness. Sounds viable to me.
I first heard about this in college. Secondhand story about how a friend's roommate had burst out of her room distraught and frantic because she was with her boyfriend and they had run out of Viagra. It just raised questions for me: Like, this guy was probably around 20; presumably he didn't have E.D.? How bad could the sex have possibly been? Though older me goes "maybe he was on Prozac; I think that may cause impotence". The whole thing just made me sad.

Not very related: I hear Viagra was the one thing Americans had that reliability bought the support of aging warlords in Afghanistan. Between their "wives" and "dancing boys", I imagine those septuagenarians must have been exhausted. God bless America.
> taste was lost for maybe a week

All comforting data, as I have second degree acquaintances who have not recovered taste and smell 17 months after infection. I think it would be quite desirable to have stats with comparisons of these details (duration of adverse events) in all relevant different cases.

(Your «sweating like a pregnant nun in church» will remain with me and I must thank you.)
From the frame of reference of the runner the pole will first hit the door at the end of the barn (unless it opens in time), and the door at the front of the barn will only close just after the back of the pole has passed the door.

If the doors actually don't open in time then the resolution for the fact that the pole doesn't physically fit is that nothing can be rigid at relativistic speeds. So either the door or the pole or both will deform (violently) to allow the pole to fit inside the barn.
Jean Charles de Menezes
>Venture capital investors are big fans of the word "strategy,"

(.....) Deleted a thousand word rant that are against rules on HN and continued intensely fouled language.

They were the ones who said strategy is useless, execution eats strategy for breakfast.
J is definitely more batteries-included than the open source K implementations.

There's also a wealth of documentation and books on J:
J for C Programmers: https://www.jsoftware.com/help/jforc/contents.htm

Learning J: https://www.jsoftware.com/help/learning/contents.htm

And the New Vocabulary "Nuvoc" on the wiki: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/NuVoc

Edit: spelling.
Though it's possible Fauci may not have known.
I am not sure it affects people as directly as you claim, at least not everywhere. I can see that argument in Los Angeles or Mumbai, but not in Seattle or Portland, where the air is fine and there’s no “stink” even with people mostly using combustion engines.
Code size definitely affects performance, and has done so ever since caches existed.
I feel like this is an argument in favor of broader social safety nets, not against pollution prevention.
Gatekeeping against some minimum level of effort and technical ability to connect, and a culture that celebrates accuracy and the scientific method and honest discourse.
Off the top of my head, broadly right-wing attacks include the murders of Jo Cox and Md Saleem. There was also this incident: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/man-stabbed-during-vio.... I may have forgotten some.
It can work both ways though. A single person can also invent a scalable way to sequester CO2 for example.
>EVs affordable enough for the poor will definitely be required here

Here in SW Ontario there are countless people riding those electric scooters or ebikes in the summertime. I’ve even seen old barflies hop on after drinking a pitcher and head on to the next spot.
I’m sure the Bay Area has more clement weather year-round than here.
> The hospitals are clogged because the basic in person care is crippled by covid prevention practices.

They also seem to be suffering from the labor shortage. Only secondhand anecdata from friends in the medical field, but nurses seem to be getting harder to hire and retain right now.
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On the contrary, I think it's dangerous to ignore the very close link. Yes, they've switched talking points from mercury to spike proteins but it's the same playbook. The meme just got more viral when it hitched a ride on politics.
Is there a word for this interaction, where an act is taking place with the knowledge that the action is characterized as 'wrong' but done anyway to achieve an outcome that is ultimately benevolent and a benefit to posterity?
I'd like to chime in before the GNOME hate train starts.

I welcome this change. I've been using GNOME for tens of years now for both my personal and my office systems. I very much enjoy the experience. Keep up the good work!
I agree with you on that point. Fauci told a noble lie about the N95 masks and it really harmed credibility. Perhaps I did miss your point.

My intention was to say that, outside of Fauci, the science around mask efficacy was well-known because you said that it wasn't.
All of New Zealand's lockdowns saved a heck of a lot of lives over the course of 2020 and early 2021, and now vaccines are available! It wasn't for nothing!
You said "you can't know"

With COVID, you can. Pretty easily.
> All elites and experts can do is attempt to persuade other people

Experts rarely persuade anyone, and when they do it's usually another expert in the same field. So much for expertise.

Meanwhile, being successful at persuasion is one of the defining characteristics of high social status. Napoleon was dead broke when he escaped from Elba, but by the time he made it to Paris virtually the entire French army was marching with him. It's hard to be more elite than being a beloved emperor who persuades the usurping king's army to join him.

Another way you can tell social status is mate selection. For example, Elon Musk is clearly not just rich, but socially elite. Consider the difference between the women he is with compared to the obvious wildly rich but low sociosexual status nerds like Zuckerberg.
For a project that keeps being maintained, you want maintainable code that isn't a burden to work with. That's their rationale according to the PR. It's not that the code is bad, but it's more pedestrian than directly writing C++, so can lower the motivation of the involved people to actually work on the code and implement the things they want to implement.
Is that a problem there?

Looking at this long list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in...

all I'm seeing is "a neo-Nazi with paranoid schizophrenia carried out nail bomb attacks over three weekends" in 1999.
At these high speeds and tiny distances, very little would probably be noticeable to a human observer. If any matter collided it would be a catastrophic release of energy evaporating the human.

But I think over longer distances there would be a time delay for the light of the explosion to reach the individual, so they would probably the light of a visually warped pole colliding with visually warped barn doors very briefly before disappearing into an explosion.
> Please tell me what the goal is.

I think a reasonable goal is "get the vaccine approved for children", and I think the FDA's dragging heels on this has been a significant mistake.
Podman + Pipewire (and soon Wireplumber), two things to love about Fedora.
I wouldn't say cautious. The current situation is like a runaway car down a slight slope, with a person trying to stop it with their bare hands.
>If you were to say “most people who don’t already have natural immunity ought to be vaccinated” that would be a much more sensible recommendation, in-line with general scientific consensus (and public health policies in other countries).

It might be scientific consensus, but I do not consider this good public policy. There are several problems:

1. How do you verify if someone has gotten COVID already? The PCR test can report negative for as short as 2 weeks after symptoms go away.

2. Do you then parallel documentation where people have vaccine documents or positive test requirements?

3. How should businesses/schools treat positive testing individuals who did not get vaccinated?

4. Should the government just wait for the unvaccinated to get COVID and just roll the dice if they survive or not?

I'm not sure how you can seriously argue that point versus the massively simpler to execute policy plan of just getting everyone vaccinated.
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I remember using BitTorrent for the first time in the first half of 2003. I'm a bit surprised that absolutely none of those are still around.
Or this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill
>> until cities finally wrap their head around the reality that you need basic security checkpoints at entrances

Sounds like you live in a "war zone". I don't know any place in Europe with that kind of security.
One in Three Americans Already Had Covid-19 by the End of 2020
Define 'Many'. Do you have any stats?
I would say more important than the experience of the team is their ability to work in a self directed fashion. I have had interns that work very well on their own, and I have had 20+ year veterans that need regular hand holding.
I already have trouble distinguishing the active tab on inactive Firefox windows......
> Remember that after it became apparent that "two weeks" was a lie...

It wasn't a lie.

First off, significant portions of the population refused to take the measures advised.

Second, it's on you if you took "two weeks to slow the spread" (and yes, it was slow, not stop; https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/16/trumps-coronavirus-guideline...) as "two weeks to slow the spread and then we're done". That's an absurd misunderstanding of the point of it.
Not to mention that the movie ratings are derived from fake reviews, and you have to look at the distribution of individual user reviews to gauge if they are genuine and decide if the movie is worth watching. If its lots of 1 and 10 ratings, the movie is probably crap. Many 6-8 ratings and you're good to go. The nice thing for bad movies is that there's always a low-rating review which is a great read that gives you a good laugh.
Millions fear eviction as US housing crisis worsens
Let's note that this thread's been shifting back and forth between information which is publicised over media and data, with the discussion focusing on use in research.

These aren't entirely dissimilar, but they have both similarities and differences.

Data in research is used to confirm or deny models, that is, understandings of the world.

Data in operations is used to determine and shape actions (including possibly inaction), interacting with an environment.

Information in media ... shares some of this, but is more complex in that it both creates (or disproves) models, and has a very extensive behavioural component involving both individual and group psychology and sociology.

Media platform moderation plays several roles. In part, it's performed in the context that the platforms are performing their own selection and amplification, and that there's now experimental evidence that even in the absence of any induced bias, disinformation tends to spread especially in large and active social networks.

(See "Information Overload Helps Fake News Spread, and Social Media Knows It".
(https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/information-overl...), discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28495912 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25153716)

The situation is made worse when there's both intrinsic tooling of the system to boost sensationalism (a/k/a "high engagement" content), and deliberate introduction of false or provocative information.

TL;DR: moderation has to compensate and overcome inherent biases for misinformation, and take into consideration both causal and resultant behaviours and effects. At the same time, moderation itself is subject to many of the same biases that the information network as a whole is (false and inflammatory reports tend to draw more reports and quicker actions), as well as spurious error rates (as I've described at length above).

All of which is to say that I don't find your own allegation of an intentional bias, offered without evidence or argument, credible.
Most of that is probably in some symbol table used by the linker. C++ symbols include type names for parameters, C compilers only contain a function name, its linker literally can't tell the difference between a char main[10] and int main(int,char*){} because both are compiled to "main" .
It takes a firm tone from the beginning that weeds out and does not tolerate fools.

Once fools have taken over > 50% of the messages and start writing in an authoritative manner, all is lost. See the python-dev mailing list after the woke revolution for example.
First time when I saw the headline "Fortress Australia" I thought not about defending from something but about prisoners who are inside that fortress desperate to break free.

I wonder how many people in Australia after COVID pandemic will still trust their government and choose not to stay and instead sell their property and move to UK or US or maybe to your homeland New Zealand.
Maybe we won't get all the details but there is a steady drip of information coming out at the moment including the funding documents referenced in the article. I think the odds of getting data is helped by the US Chinese cooperation. I think the odds are good that US scientists have some of the hidden details that they could be forced to divulge through legal action.
This is what post pandemic looks like.

Covid is endemic, and just like you probably don't know anyone who has never had the flu or the cold, it will be the same with this.

Get your vax! It'll likely keep you out of the hospital when you do get it.

Mask up all you want. Avoid crowds. Shun and shame people. You're still going to get it, just like everyone else.
But in your inertial reference frame the people on Earth are moving at (near) the speed of light. So they are the ones that should be staying young. Or similarly the planet you are traveling to is actually speeding towards you and you are staying still. This is why the twin paradox is a paradox, because of the reference frames.
https://ergo.chat/nope

>Copyright © 2019-2021 Daniel Oaks <daniel@danieloaks.net>

>Copyright © 2019-2021 Shivaram Lingamneni <slingamn@cs.stanford.edu>

https://danieloaks.net/ is behind this. Notice all the companies associated with Ergo IRC Server are the same as those that are associated with Andrew Lee and the freenode take-over and death. shells.com londontrustmedia handshake.
Wow 86 hijackings and nobody in intelligence could ever conceive of how that could go horribly wrong
So it took all night for the dough to rise but baked quite well. It wasn't until I tasted the bread that I realized what went wrong. Apperantly while I was waiting for the yeast to prove, a little helper decided to add two tablespoons of what they thought was sugar to the dry ingredients.... it was actually salt! So now I get to make a bunch of croutons I suppose.
I know right? How could they have resisted the temptation to join an anti American terrorist network.

Also please remind me the part of the constitution that guarantees a speedy trial to our military adversaries? I don’t seem to have that part in mine. Must be missing that page.
How is that better? Can you point to a single example where a person made such a claim? Just a single example. Go ahead, I'll wait.
My reasoning is that cash yields lower profits due to reduced purchases, higher insurance cost, higher crime risk.

There doesn’t seem a reasonable reason to be cash only since, even though credit has a 3% hit or whatever, people spend more with credit.

There’s a need for money laundering and that is much easier with cash only businesses.
In terms of how the other nations responded? Of course it was. They had to put on a good show for their citizens.

The other eyes nations all understood the NSA & Co. had cooked up exceptionally broad technology. They all lied and pretended to be surprised and outraged. That faux outrage was for domestic propaganda consumption, because the alternative to that is to admit they were party to some of what the NSA has been up to for decades.

All major affluent nations - without exception - understood the US had an intense global spy machine. That has been true for ~70 years now. Many of them are part of that machine. Of course they don't all know every program the US is working on, that makes little difference in whether they grasp the basics though. The know what the NSA does, they all have their own intelligence agencies, and they all partner with the US in one way or another.

And some of those faux outrage nations are top tier spying nations themselves, including Russia and China. They lied and pretended to be surprised or shocked at what the US was doing. The point of that is similarly pure propaganda (in that case both for a domestic and international audience, it was a good opportunity to jab the US on propaganda).
> to the point where you sort of start feeling like the experts don't really know what they’re talking about either

Speak plainly. Waffling language like this is commonly used by conspiracy theorists who don't want to come out and say anything clearly and plainly, because it could quickly be shot down by the actual facts. Instead they use speech patterns like this to create a hazy word cloud that breeds uncertainty.

Do you really think the experts don't know what they are talking about? Say so then. Enough with the snarky insinuation.