skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
most of the older large IRC networks wanted nothing to do with him

(having seen people like him many times before...)
Berlin's public transport is pretty dirty though. If I had to live in Berlin, I'd get a car, even if it takes more time.

I realize everyone has a different threshold for what they consider dirty, and people voluntarily living in Berlin seem to have a much higher threshold than me, but yeah, I'd prefer some checks in exchange for clean & undamaged public transport.
Also a GNOME user here, regularly switching to macOS/Windows for work so I do get to compare how GNOME is going with 'mainstream' desktops. Really impressed with how far GNOME has come over the last couple of years. It is really at the point where I feel more productive in GNOME than the mainstream desktop environments. I love the focus on ensuring the default experience is as good as possible -- these days I have no time to tinker so having a desktop that is well configured out of the box is a huge plus. There are a few tweaks I have made which are easily done. Big credits to the GNOME team -- they have come a long way from the 2.x days.
No, don't lie to the public. That's what happened in the first place. "Pfft... you don't need masks." The government said that because masks were hard to get and they wanted to control public behavior. This turned out to be a lie, everyone found out, then regardless of whether the authorities were giving good, accurate advice or not, the trust had been breached.

Politicians saw this as an opportunity to gain ground. In the absence of any trusted authority it became an us vs. them thing for too many people.

Don't lie to the public. Tell them the truth, tell them what they ought to do, and why you think so. Earn trust. It'll be easier to get people to do the right thing.
Stockholm isn't particularly windy.

I think cars generally contribute to bad smells, and poor waste management infrastructure can also contribute to bad smells (think garbage bins out on streets instead of enclosed, for example)
As a fellow student of "why is this named that, what does this name mean" I have found that asking about counterfactuals is rarely satisfying. Naming stuff is hard and the question assumed a level of intent that I think is rarely present. Asking "how did this thing get named that" works out better, cause it seems that occasionally gets written down.
I am not sure if ALSA playback should go through an audio daemon. Some audio applications (for example audio workstations that you have mentioned) want to have exclusive access to an audio card with minimum latency, without any sample conversions, any volume adjustment and ALSA (as I understand) was supposed to provide such access. Audio daemon prevents them from getting it. Passing data through a daemon adds latency.

Wouldn't it be better if daemons like PulseAudio or PipeWire gave control of an audio card to an application that wants exclusive access?

For example, Windows API can provide exclusive access to an audio card.
Here is the reason https://www.nti.org/learn/countries/pakistan/nuclear/ . Pakistan has nukes making it untouchable and unmentionable. Media doesnt even try to link Pakistan with Taliban and super quick fall of Afghanistan.
For every Thomas Midgley Jr. [0] there is a Clair Patterson [1] - and thats the problem.

Artistic talent seems to have strong correlation with empathy and a sense of social responsibility. Scientific and technical (STEM) talent much less so.

While the very pinnacle of science (people like Einstein) display (or convincigly fake) deep humanistic traits, the army of scientists / engineers that got educated since the early 20th century are basically just run-of-the-mill willing executioners, cogs in the machine, eager to turn in the prevailing direction, support whatever power structruce exists, with no strong conviction as to what "good" looks like.

How digital technology has been developed and used is just the latest manifestation of this amoral stance. If we consider areas like biotech, the risks those over-eager idiot-savants help bring to life are potentially existential.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_Cameron_Patterson
> Patient zero had reasonable actions they could have done. They could have followed protocols better

Patient zero being the first person who contracted COVID-19? I wasn't aware that they had been identified.

> If I get a vaccine and suffer an adverse reaction, should I receive blame for getting the vaccine? After all, since compensation for adverse reactions are paid for by society (the government), I failed to protect my life and my community, as you say.

All of the evidence at this point is that the harms from getting vaccinated are orders of magnitude less than the harms from the disease. So no, you should not receive blame because you took the best action known to you at the time.

> By the way, hospitals have been under strain long before COVID. That's how they operate.

They are under strain now because of COVID, out of all proportion to the strain experienced in recent memory from any other cause.

> Also, if I get vaccinated and found get myself tested regularly, I could spread COVID. Is taking a test weekly to prevent spread as a vaccinated person a reasonable action?

I don't know what you're trying to say here. Yes, get tested if you are worried about being exposed to COVID, irrespective of whether you're vaccinated. Leading epidemiologists have long called for widespread rapid antigen testing to prevent asymptomatic spread.
Sure, and there’s a big gap between that and asking “How many countries don't have high level officials reporting to Israel?”, which is what I was replying to.

Even without the USA having been a major destination for the Jewish diaspora while the point of modern Israel being a safe place for Jewish people[0], the global importance of the USA makes the American government a target for almost all other nations to try to influence.

America gets this from both a the motive and opportunity directions. Most places, Israel has neither, IMO.

[0] at least that’s what I was taught. If this isn’t the case, someone please tell me.
A question that I'd like to ask a C++ expert: If you use any STL container, is it always the case that the whole thing is templated, therefore effectively compiled and statically linked into the binary? Or will part/all of it come from functions in the dynamically linked libstdc++.so?
I've never been to NYC, but I've heard that waste management infrastructure is not great there. Could that be contributing to bad smells?
Those market forces are present in Europe?
That is not satire. Satire is recognized as such by smart people and you are a smart person, because you don't like dumb comments. Ergo, since a smart person like yourself didn't see satire, there is none. QED.
The FCC has an enforcement bureau that determines if you are violating any licensing rules or federal rulings. They can issue warnings and impose fines as a first step. The justice department and the US district attorneys are the ones who will actively seize your equipment and haul you off to jail in handcuffs if the fines do not deter certain behavior.

Whether you agree or not, we have collectively decided that the FCC has this jurisdiction and yes we can arbitrarily decide who can or cannot use the airwaves in certain situations. Your opinion has no standing here, but 47 CFR 1.924 (and how it may be interpreted by courts) does have standing.
I long ago realized that I was far, far away from GNOME's target audience. If I have to install a half dozen plugins just to get things to behave the way I expect them to, then the answer is a resounding NO. These days, I gravitate to XFCE for virtual machines, low-power systems, and remote desktops, and Cinnamon for full-fat machines with a GPU.

Why am I not surprised that GNOME would adopt flat design? I know it's trendy, but any time I have to use a recent Windows flat-design application (hello Visual Studio!) I find it annoying - it becomes a lot harder to determine whether something is a modal popup or an independent window.
Yes, there are a number of banned neo-Nazi organizations in the UK. Combat 18 is probably the most well-known (British Movement, White Wolves...there are a few).

These groups are offshoots of political parties, as fascist parties started to splinter in the 90s as it became less acceptable to be overly racist/fascist. Under Tyndall the BNP, which was a political party, was very violent (Combat 18 supposedly provided "protection" for their rallies). No terrorism but organising attacks on minority groups certainly (in the early 90s before Nazi groups went underground, there was a strong link with football hooliganism as certain clubs had groups that were overtly racist...Birmingham's firm is the only one I am aware of that wasn't racist). Tbh, these groups are more like criminal gangs in the US than anything else (and they had very little electoral success until Griffin moved the party away from overt fascism).

Also, it is worth pointing out that Copeland was a member of the BNP. He was obviously a nutjob but he was closely associated with the party, and the overt racism/violent rallies was still part of the BNP until the late 90s (and even after Griffin took over).

The UK also had a brief period in the early 2000s, before Islamic terrorism really took off and after right-wing groups started to really lose steam, where environmental terrorism was the main source of attacks. Environmental groups sent anthrax to academics who experimented with animals, and groups (iirc, ALF) were trying to bomb animal testing facilities (that is why animal testing facilities in the UK usually have multiple rings of barbed wire 20ft high, guard posts, cameras everywhere...I actually live near one of these places, and it was built when this was picking up: no signposts at all, tiny one-car road down to the facility, forest completely surrounds it so you can't see it from anywhere else, not built near any main road).

Btw, the whole premise of the original argument is ludicrous...these groups know they are being watched. I am sure that online communications are used after suspect has been identified but indoctrination is largely happening within in-person groups. With Islamic fundamentalism, it is same mosques, it is the same groups of people. I don't think any level of surveillance will stop lone wolf attacks either.
The climate religion destroyed the credibility of science.
Looking at the examples of changes done to the Obfuscate application it looks like quite a regression.
I had no idea this still exists, but congratulations to them on the release.
Minors aren't at serious risk, and 99% of the remaining unvaccinated population has made a conscious choice to live dangerously.
This actually isn’t necessarily true, one of the reasons I loved Sivananda yoga was that the classes were near identical and you could see yourself getting better at the breath hold/shoulder stand/sun salutations/etc. as the course progressed.
> Perhaps technology companies and encryption would be a bigger deal if terrorists were more competent but at the moment their opsec seems poor with many foiled plots

Exactly, attackers usually have piss poor OpSec but the police is even more incompetent. That’s why even for the few successful attacks it’s usually later reported “the attacker was known to the police” or “under surveillance by security services “, and yet… not sure how more surveillance would help, it seems they already have more leads than they can act upon.

(Disclaimer: I don’t know how many unsuccessful attacks there are, so maybe they’re not as incompetent as it seems from outside.)
J&J, but not by deliberate choice. I just went into the pharmacy to get a prescription filled, and they said, "Hey, we've got this extra dose, do you want it?"

J&J has the virtue of only taking one shot instead of two. So that probably is the one I would have preferred anyway, because getting shot is, um, not my favorite activity.
JWM (a window library that I plan to use) shows a fully initialized window in 600-700 ms on M1 mac for me. That’s without Clojure, but with JVM overhead

https://github.com/humbleui/jwm
Each assistant is typically assigned to a single special needs kid.
Top 5% in the USA, or top 5% in the world?

Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, and Sergey Brin were NOT top 5% in the USA. Depending what period in his childhood that you look at, Sergey Brin wasn't top 5% in the world either. (His family was educated, but they arrived in the USA as refugees from the Soviet Union.)

Several others started with rather less than you might expect. For example Elon Musk arrived in North America with only a few thousand dollars to his name, and had to work manual labor to get by. (Yes, his father was a businessman, but the two of them have a..difficult..relationship.)
So you’re arguing the decrease in average lifespan effects fecundity of the younger population. That might be true, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
> It doesn't do much better of a job than a rake would

That's disingenuous. Raking the yard is a half-day chore for me, that's fairly physically strenuous. Using a leafblower takes like an hour and is really easy- you can stand and point. A leafblower is a non-zero QoL improvement if you have to deal with leaves
How long do you run your leaf blower for a year? In the UK, I don't know a single person with a gas powered leaf blower.
F# support for type classes or implicits
I would recommend against this.

I was a NOC Engineer at an ISP and later a MSP while getting my degree. My peers we're those with unskilled jobs previously who took a few college courses.

My resume was routinely sent over to the IT help desk manager whenever I applied for a software role.

I got past it by volunteering as a Bioinformatics SE at the local university.
I Had Removed Google Analytics and Google Services from My Website Why I Did It?
From link > [We] performed some initial tyre wear testing. Using a popular family hatchback running on brand new, correctly inflated tyres, we found that the car emitted 5.8 grams per kilometer of particles.

That is 5.8kg per 1000km!!! An article that makes such ridiculous claims can be dismissed as trash. A small car tire weighs about 7kg[1], so absolutely no tyres or brakes left after less than 10000km.

Also note the the vast majority of tyre particles are larger than 50um.

By weight, I would guess less than 1% of wear by weight was < PM10 - see graph[2] from the first paper I found that measured tyre wear[3].

Edit: I'm not saying tyre and brake particulate doesn't matter, but I am saying that link looks to be solidly in the stupid camp.

[1] https://www.oponeo.co.uk/blog/how-much-does-a-tyre-weigh

[2] https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0301679X203019...

[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03016...
> Data [«vaccination can also have side effects»] is not hard to come by

To me, it is.

The best data I have is that of Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine ... for the C4591001 Clinical Trial Group¹, with its laconic "0.6% Severe Adverse Events but 0.5% in the control group".

Before being notified of that I have been looking for active monitoring databases, but could only find passive monitoring ones (VAERS, EudraVigilance, DAEN etc.).

I find it "undesirable" as an understatement that after billions of inoculations the original SAE assessment on 20'000+20'000 people, not clear about effects and their duration, is still the best document. It would have been very productive, for collective reassurance, to continue the assessment on a larger population, and provide as much detail as possible to define the risks and, e.g., their demographics.

¹(For reference: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2034577)
Inverse square root is often used to normalize the length of a vector to 1.
What is "the coddling of the mind"?
So, 17B / 8B world population = 2 years. Nothing to sneeze at, but much more understandable in per person terms.
The VPS we're running on has 60GB of RAM which should be plenty but the ingest program needs more work to use less memory so it stops crashing when denormalizing multipolygon relations, which involves denormalizing ways which fetch nodes... all referenced by ID which has not much locality spread across the pbf file. And if you write to temporary storage it can use a lot of disk and denormalization based on the on-disk format can get really slow. It's just all very tricky to get working well within reasonable time constraints (less than a week of processing ideally) and a reasonable memory footprint.
I agree about the notifications for replies etc...perhaps I've just not seen it yet!
$26.40/lb here: https://www.goldbelly.com/vande-rose-farms/artisan-dry-cured...
It’s still a hard topic related to the rotational “symmetry”.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cPEwkMHRjZU (7 minutes)

It doesn’t answer your question directly, but the tricky part of a twin paradox is not that the earth twin observes his brother in a slow motion (the space twin also does that, thus a paradox). It’s because a space twin actually changes direction by acceleration at some point B, and at that time he skips over a big part of earth’s timeline. The video above only addresses why it’s NOT the earth twin who changes direction by acceleration, which you’re reasonably questioning. The universe somehow knows who is really “steering” and what remains more or less inertial. The pendulum example at the end may give a hint on why.

Edit: also, the space twin doesn’t have to experience any additional acceleration from the “engines” - looping around some gravity well would work too. E.g. an entire trip could be that the space twin goes to the orbit around the earth, gets slung away by a quickly passing blackhole, loops around a distant blackhole and returns, all in a complete free fall.
Q1.

> basically make people whatever age I want by varying my speed.

No more so than making the Earth change shape by moving your physical location.

> 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.

Yeah these are more philosophical questions rather than a testable hypothesis. It’s an interesting way of viewing the world, but if you’re talking about a future “existing” scientifically and materially in concert with the present, then you’d need to devise an experiment to be able to enter or interact with that future beyond just waiting for that future to exist.

Otherwise time travel isn’t even necessary for this thought experiment. You could say the morning already exists and fall asleep and wake up and boom it’s morning time. But in reality all of the ticks of time happened between when you fell asleep and when you woke up, you just weren’t able to observe all of them at the same speed as someone who stayed awake all night.
Yeah, the analogy between toxic media and toxic chemicals is pretty good. However, I'd put they blame for that somewhere you might find surprising: influencers.

Everybody likes to hate on "big tech" these days, but if there's anyone that knows the dangers and all the ill effects but ignores them to make a profit, it's content creators. They are hyper-attuned to the way people respond to their content, and they'll do anything to get a reaction, the more intense the better. And if that means siccing a mob on somebody, so be it. If it means doing stunts that endanger people in the real world, fine. And polarization is the best technique they've stumbled onto yet: say stuff that enrages people to get them to engage with the post, and then pick up followers among those that watch the rage with glee.

Just about every successful influencer has done a post about how hard it is to be internet-famous. It's almost always about how the negative effects of their work get reflected back at them. They know how the things they say harm people, they just want the negativity to be directed elsewhere.

There's a lot of debate about how social media companies should be regulated, how much censorship should be allowed, how much platforms should subsidize legacy media etc. But none of it will matter if we don't rein in what's considered acceptable in the creator economy.
At about that time there were 400k deaths, which implies an infection fatality rate of 0.4%. This is consistent with various studies I ran across that point to a 0.2%, 0.3% fatality rate.
All of these increase healthcare costs for everyone involved.
Hamas Terrorism 'Leading Gazans to Ruin'
That’s pretty much what glib is. There are generic structures.
1024 was the max you could boost it to; 256 was the default as I recall. Linux 1.x was pretty bootstrappy.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/freenode-irc-has-bee...
This will skyrocket your sales and acquisition
Chaotic-Good
No, some large percentage of the remaining unvaccinated population have decided to put people like my immunocompromised mother-in-law at risk through their actions.

I'm genuinely sick of this "I got mine jack" attitude toward vaccination. Getting vaccinated isn't just about you. Unfortunately we apparently have a good solid 20-30% of the population who care only about themselves. But, who should be surprised. This is just American radical individualism coming home to roost.

And that's ignoring the fact that with Delta there's early indications that it's leading to an increase in the number of younger folks hospitalized or worse.
Just tried the default theme and the active tab is white with a dark grey border, while inactive tabs have no border and are the same colour as the chrome background. Even when the Firefox window is inactive the active tab still appears white with the dark grey border. It seems to me that there is sufficient contrast. Does your Firefox look anything like this image on your device? https://imgur.com/a/C2JvVRh
I'd contrast this by watching a season of HBO's "Entourage".

I find it interesting that actors who are those with the least expertise and least value of conversation have talent agents and publicists whereas the experts have little to no talent agents or publicists.

Why not just hire a publicist to write popular versions of the technical stuff that the expert feels accurately portray the technical innards?

The ability to communicate with the masses is talent independent of other expertise. One can be talented in both that's what it is, two talents.

Finally, America's corruption right now is off the charts. One cannot take seriously any critique of America's elite without factoring in the huge amount of influence corruption is having at all levels of elitism in this country. So I couldn't take this seriously.

America is weird.
He shot an attorney in the face, with a shotgun, and had the victim apologize to him https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/18/usa.dickcheney

"Harry Whittington, the Republican lawyer shot by Dick Cheney in a hunting accident in Texas last weekend, emerged from hospital yesterday and apologised to the vice-president for all the trouble the shooting had caused."
Wow what a shame. I really liked how GNOME 40 looked out of the box.
I've had an electric lawn mower for about 10 years now and I can tell you that it has reduced my maintenance costs. For the ICE mower, I had to take it in every spring or every other spring to get it tuned up so it would start (from memory those bills were ~$75 each tune up).

Same with the ICE snowblower that I bought back when I was young and dumb seeing all my neighbors with one, so I bought one - what a maintenance nightmare. I use snow shovels now which are way better for the environment and my health.
Air pollution is reduced by misty light rain. The process is called wet deposition. Swarms of electric drones could mist cities with water every morning to reduce air pollution. The technology should be feasible and economically justified.

Here’s a link about wet deposition.

https://public.wmo.int/en/our-mandate/focus-areas/environmen...

Here’s a recent example of misty rain at work in the Bay Area.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/pj12nx/a_labo...