skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring the god-awful attempt at "humor" that I just killed a few of my brain cells by glancing over, I was sorely disappointed this wasn't an article discussing the characteristics of how people walk and what constitutes walking 'normally'. As anyone who's been ostracised and victimised for "walking weird" will tell you. When you ask the honest question of how one is supposed to "walk normally" so you stand a fighting chance of being treated like a human being by the vain, Darwinistic sociopaths that make up the rest of society, the answer you get is invariably radio silence. Because these scum don't want you to know how to walk in the way that they deem acceptable. They want to be able to invent something to point and laugh at you about, to drag you down and beat you into submission for the heinous crime of not putting one foot in front of the other in the unspoken "correct" way, to tear every bit of self-esteem out of you until you're nothing but a servant to them - wanted when you're useful, disposable otherwise.
As an engineer living outside the States: Get a grip.

Its a marginal tax, so it won't even affect engineers making $500k, unless they cash in on a windfall.

What do you get for your taxes? You get to be living in the one place on earth where you CAN make that much money. Nothing is stopping you from moving elsewhere on this earth and renouncing your US citizenship. Then you can stop paying those taxes (and likely pay higher taxes).

You get access to a massive highway system funded by the feds, you get access to multiple international airports in the Bay Area, you get access to a collection of some of the smartest people in the world at some of the best institutions in the country that suck in an absurd amount of federal funding.

Let's not even get into the fact that Capital gains tax is at its lowest ever, and at one point capital gains for top earners was 40%, and income tax was even higher.
> All works first published or released before January 1, 1926, have lost their copyright protection, effective January 1, 2021.

That's not the entire story. Sound recordings are a separate category, and pre-1923 sound recordings have a special clause that means they don't enter public domain until 2022.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1401
There are some studies indicating that ivermectin may be helpful in treating covid. But those studies are small, not statistically strong, and not all necessarily trustworthy. There are a few larger, more mainstream studies that don't look too promising. But ivermectin is still a candidate and deserves further study (and there are larger studies underway).

All that being said, this whole situation is basically an amplification of a problem that we already have in the US, which is the ability of pharmaceutical companies to advertise directly to the public. Social media and right wing news outlets are basically giving medical treatment recommendations to the public and at best, this information is being delivered for the most part by fringe doctors without direct expertise in treating respiratory diseases and without any knowledge of the individuals they are mass suggesting receive this treatment.

This talking directly to the public about Rx only treatment is what has led to people self medicating with the livestock version of the drug.
Maybe they'll lobby Congress to make it illegal to block spam.
I recall that Peter Norton was also considered responsible for why many DOS applications required pretty much error-for-error IBM compatibles - because he advocated for directly dealing with hardware and disregarding DOS APIs (which, admittedly, were bad)
Many enterprise apps you can force it or depend on authentication from Google or Azure kind of SSO providers, who have this feature.

Consumer apps try hard not to do hard security unless they are forced to, usually for cost reasons.

Security measures like these create a ton of administrative tickets - check any sysad ticket queue a good chunk is password reset/recovery, in enterprise apps the org sysads are paid to handle this.

In consumer apps, the app company has to manage it, also it lot harder to verify identity of a random user than company employees making it harder to do this kind of support.

A good jarring example is AWS, the amazon.com and AWS did (does?) share authentication stack so some basic 2FA functionality like backup codes is not there for AWS .

Google is better at this because they have for long time also focused on SSO service as a product.

Many companies use Google AD /SSO workspace/suite because third party apps support google login out-of the box free[1], maybe charge for AzureAD/SAML2 and likely not support others at all without customization costs.

[1]It is standard because SMB/mid market companies are more likely to use Google for productivity than Azure/o365 as it is easier to manage albeit with lesser features. Third party apps don't want to expend support time on smaller customers if they can avoid it
Can you share who your vendor/host is? In another comment you mentioned that you're mmap'ing files on SSDs... on vendors like GCP that sort of hardware (especially the storage volume you'd need to have access to a handful of the local/global models, as you reference on your website) isn't particularly cheap if you want to have 100% uptime.

A cheaper/scalable approach instead would be to re-process your data into an appropriately chunked, cloud-optimized storage format like Zarr and save it in object storage. Then your scaling bottleneck would just be the VMs or compute you use to query from object storage, as a function of traffic/load.
The blame for YouTube’s copyright system is largely not YouTube, lest we forget the parties that actually benefit from it.

Sadly, it seems like it’s going to be the norm now. I recall hearing the EU wants to legally mandate the mechanism of Content ID, just another nail in the coffin for the open web really.
Because people with children recognize how universal some behaviours are and make a good laugh out of this. Also it makes you think about what being a child might be like.
The very next sentence in the article:

> Lack of any one of these points isn’t the end of the world, but at the present moment, Jekyll lacks ALL of them. That’s a real problem.

Nobody cares if there's no Discord if you're releasing and responsive to Github issues / roadmap questions.
I'm not by any means meat-free, but it's really quite easy (and tasty) to cut 80% or more of your weekly meat diet.

We do this at home by making lots of hearty soups, having salad with each meal and having good cheeses, nuts and lots of fruits on hand.
This is a significant improvement on Typescript’s enums but I wonder what the underlying code it compiles to is.

Because we’re planning on moving our codebase to ESM support (the community is moving over quickly), we’ve run into a number of issues with TS enums, the primary one being that TS enums compile to undefined vars that are populated with an IIFE, which disallows using them in certain import/export situations.
Yes, I'm probably wrong on the semantics of lock free. I should read up on that. My point was that maybe you can gain a factor of 2 by using atomic ops in a "lockless" fashion compared to mutexes but it still scales extremely poorly compared to what you could do if the hardware had real async mechanisms that did not rely on cache coherency. The cache line that is subjected to an atomic operation will be evicted from all other CPUs cache lines, back and forth.

A simple example is just letting all CPUs in a multi core CPU doing an atomic add at a memory address. The scaling will be exactly 1 with the number of available cores. I realize this is very of topic wrt to this cool article an implementation in zig. It's just that this problem can't really be solved in an efficient manner with todays hardware.
There's a name for deliberately hosting a service that blatantly disregards copyright enforcement. It's called "contributory infringement", and the litigation of which will have existential amounts of potential damages.
Any nation could do the same. It's less to do with "being an island" so much as "having strong borders"

I feel like "only NZ could have done this, since they are an island" is a cop-out.

Any nation could adopt other pillars of our system also, such as free testing, free healthcare, free vaccinations. Or Contact tracing, quarantine of infected people. Clear scientific communication by those in charge.

It's not magic, it has been well documented what to do in pandemic situations for 20 years. Only the specific tools (the test, the vaccine itself) are specific to Covid-19.
yup. I use protonmail and even that apparently gets blocked by gmail recipients occasionally. Rolling your own, you're lucky to have anyone ever see your mail
Times change (1897)
In your opinion, what are most philosophers about?

I think even ignoring the more academic discussions, any of these contexts at least have legal ramifications, at which point jurisprudence (aka the philosophy of law) is relevant.

>For example, the very post we are discussing here talks about physical resonance -- nothing to about morality. A poster two level up claims that understanding consciousness will help with "mind portability" and "full reality simulation" -- nothing about morality either.

Sure, that's fair. If all we're concerned about about is designing experiments to test subsets of the consciousness problem I think that's an appropriate take. And to your point, a subset is the main thrust of the article. But perhaps I read too much into your statement about "solving" the problem. To me, there is a big potential danger at the interface between technological understanding in the experimental sense and the application beyond the laboratory. It's one thing to say we "solved" the question about how to split the atom, but once that translates to an application of, say, a nuclear bomb or a nuclear reactor it requires some of thought from the domain of philosophy and when it's left strictly to technocracy it may be set up for misalignment with the concerns of broader society.
I just bought it on steam a few months ago. $5. On my 10 year old system I had I think there was thousands of individual units running at the same time. I downloaded the mid Escalation with amazing unit, and was playing against 4 AI. At one point there were thousands of units all running at the same time and the battles were epic. I would throw 500 Fidos (my favorite original unit) to the AI and they would slowly get mowed down, but then I would
Keep sending them in waves. It’s still so much fun!
Thanks a lot! I'll mention this in article right now.
If you are unaware of religions coining official mysteries, let me recommend any introductory course in comparative religion. Sometimes the word even shows up in the name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusinian_Mysteries

And, if you do not understand how "development of doctrine which tends toward greater clari[t]y" implies a progression of events in time that can, perforce, have no effect on events that preceded them, let me suggest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality

Finally, without comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_faith
It’s because it is being exploited in the wild. Those bugs tend to get patched fast.
Intuit is one of those companies that go under everyone's radar. But their stock performance the last 5 years is one of the best in tech.
Very cool! Super jealous!
AI can refer to classifiers, perhaps neural networks, or some probabilistic algorithms. I find it hard to believe that marketing department would just label something as AI without any underlying algorithm existing[1]. So, for what kind of work does mail sending service needs classifiers/neural networks?

[1] Ignoring outright fraudulent press releases of course. This doesn't seem like a fraudulent company.
> and assessing them based on merit.

What merit? Lets take the claim of "marginalized the core team"?

WTF does that even mean? As in specifically, what was the action that amazon did, to marginalize anyone? Did they say mean things about them? Did they have a meeting without them? Did they kick them off of a group? Did they create a feature roadmap, without getting the core teams feedback?

Just say specifically what happened, with actual details, that describe exactly how someone was marginalize, and the consequences of that!

> reason to ignore other points

What other points? Specifically? The only verifiable point, that anyone has mentioned, is that amazon has a board seat somewhere, on some organization.

But even that point is low on details. Have they used the board seat to do anything bad? Whats the concern?
Intelligence, and animal intelligence in particular, is a very complicated topic. But I definitely suspect a nontrivial percentage of people who assume animals are dumb are doing it because of the mismatch in non-verbal cues. I for example often find myself completely unable to parse the facial expressions and body language of my cat, yet she is very obviously a reasonably intelligent animal.
The existence of a remedy isn't a good excuse for avoidable injuries. The resolutions you allude to in that case took place after the public became incensed at the delicate treatment handed out to a guy who was literally caught in the act of humping a passed out woman behind a dumpster.
Flying sheep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrB_D_3IXOU
This "ordinary" definition of capitalism is vacuous because it views all mixed economies as "capitalist" economies. It's a fallacious definition that marginalizes economic "socialism" as an impossible bogeyman (i.e. zero private property). TINA and all that.
I'm guessing the Texas situation might change given how much Tesla and SpaceX are investing in Texas right now.
So, selling to non-state residents won't provide an incentive to the buyer, but buying from non-state residents would?

I can buy my car from a foreign person and still receive incentives because I live in a state that offers them? This has little to do with selling cars on tribal lands if so.
If you download the Escalation mod, the new units are amazing. The TA community 25 years later is still amazing!
When rightsholders give notice of alleged infringement, YouTube can't simply be like "well, they say it's fair use, so we're going to ignore this." If they did, they'd be knowingly contributing to copyright infringement and lose out on safe harbor provisions.
He didn't say it WAS a Linux Foundation issue, he said it was LIKE the Linux Foundation. I'm assuming there was some Linux Foundation drama in the past he is specifically referencing that this mirrors. I'm not familiar enough with either group to narrow things down further.
Wiki article for more context

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanchester%27s_laws
It just makes me so uncomfortable that these things keep happening. We always find out about these things eventually but what percentage of the time are our devices vulnerable? Isn’t it close to 100% of the time that our desktops and mobile devices have significant security vulnerabilities?
The big problem is that the pills people are obtaining are "just a horse dewormer". The specification is different, the dosages are different, and the active ingredients differ (drug delivery is frighteningly complex area).

Meanwhile people made enough run on ivermectin-based horse dewormer that people had trouble getting it for livestock.
Reminds me of how the alcohol distribution system in some states causes ridiculous situations such as requiring Trader Joe's to sell their inhouse wine to a distributor and then requiring them to buy it back in order to sell it in their stores. Obviously the distributor loves this as they get to rent seek while adding no value at all. That gives them plenty of money to lobby with to keep them in the loop.
how do you compare with Kachelmann and kachelmannwetter.com in terms of data?

For visualization, the UI there is great for a trained eye only, yours seems more accessible. Congrats on that point!
> How does this dispute what I say? Fortunes change hands, and sometimes people who just so happen to be friends with the Ceasars can suddenly rise to fortune through the positions they achieve through their network, but which of them were able to do so without a rich oligarch?

That is exactly it. The example of Gaius Julius Caesar in particular such an example; he was able to marry into money through family connection, was stripped of it all, but was able to get some crucial positions and claw his way back into power...from which he then became wealthy.

Some of the most powerful houses in England (Spencer, Cromwell, Beaufort have been intertwined with the monarchy over the centuries. They queen not even the head of the richest family but by definition she has the most status.
No More Spectrum
The title says it all, but I will add a little color. I am excited because today I cancelled my Spectrum internet service.

I have had their service for more than 10 years because I had no other choice (for a variety of factors). Today, I have hope.

Their service approach seemed wholly anti-customer. Every interaction with the company was miserable. Even cancelling, making final payments and returning equipment was a total hemorrhoid.

You may wonder how I accomplished the Herculean feat of disconnecting from Spectrum.

Simple, T-Mobile Home Internet.

I have been testing it in my home for several weeks. The entire experience from order, to set-up to usage was as advertised and wonderful.

Your mileage may vary, and even if you can't disconnect from Spectrum today, have hope. One day, you may taste freedom!
Technically virtual guarantees dynamic dispatch (i.e. calls through the base type will resolve to the derived function object). The dispatch can still be resolved at compile time of course.

A compiler could legally remove the vpntr if not necessary. In practice this only happens for purely local objects as current compilers do not implement the necessary interprocedural data layout transformation.
Elizabeth Yin: Human Aspects of Going Through a Pivot
In our area I think where I work we’re the only ones that have a bunch of those sensors. It’s niche, HN in general is niche so I think they’re not selling millions of their LIDAR sensors. Still for those that rely on them it’s sad.
That's a great idea. We will add it to the To Do.
Probably NetSurf. https://www.netsurf-browser.org
It seems like an necessarily combative headline that conflates your relatively unknown non-profit with the whole community.

If your goal is genuinely to improve the legal and governence situation of the postgres community, this seems to be am extremely poor way of doing that.
If I knew anybody at NSO Group I'd start messaging them unsolicited PDFs and shit :P
I have a similar anecdote about my cat. He tried to twist the handle but couldn't get enough traction with his paw pads (it was a round handle.)
For me at least, since switching to a complete meat based diet I have had a lot of my digestive issues along with host of other problems (better sleep for example but that could be because I don't have to wake up middle of the night from the esophageal pain) completely gone. I also feel a lot better mental health wise(again could be because I have better sleep). I understand I might be an anecdote.
Ok now do emissions from global travel by reporters versus food production
Appreciate Your Achievements
Yes! As a kid, I specifically remember thinking that even the installer was cool.
Adam Curtis’ “Bitter Lake”: A Review
i think that _is_ synergy.

we often think of synergy being where you can apply your skill in solving problem Y to problem X even though the markets for those solutions are wildly different.

but you can also think about the "thing" as being "selling to a particular category of customer". you can cross sell, bundle, gain some forms of economy of scale.

this is basically the internet equivalent of WB Mason selling you toner, coffee, paper, chairs, and water coolers.
+1 It's also healthier to cut down on meat.
Don't forget Girl Talk and The Legion of Doom.

Also don't forget the greatest mashup of all time, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43vGywjbuCU
This phrase right here is what’s wrong with all major sites/networks/apps/services >>> “We have so far been unable to find a human at YouTube who can fix that.” Replace YouTube with Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Google and it pretty much sums up the problem of moderation or human decision. This can be solved very easily by these big corporations, by using some of the millions they have as profit, by hiring more people who will take the results of the algorithms and have a second look at all appeals by using common sense :-)
I’d question the motivations behind that first… hint: money.

Patches when done correctly are more than safe enough for 99%+ of drivers.
> our immigration system is so broken

There are plenty of those in Europe as well, in case you've missed the barrage of news about migrant crises, xenophobic naturalization policies, etc. Certainly, there are also countries like France that don't treat citizenship like some reward at the end of a pointlessly contrived maze, and these countries (IMO) deserve credit for that.
Merck is going to receive money ($1.2 billion) from the government for an alternative treatment. There are generics of Ivermectin so even if it does work Merck would want to push their new drug instead of Ivermectin.

If this was not related to covid nobody here would be trusting Merck due to this conflict of interest.

https://www.merck.com/news/merck-announces-supply-agreement-...
I call horse paste eaters horse paste eaters, those actually getting prescribed Ivermectin by their doctors aren't the ones calling poison control.
Steve Wozniak Appears to Be Launching a Space Garbage Company
This argument that dead people's work shouldn't be protected because they can't be encouraged to make more is wrong, even where copyright gets extended afterwards. Predicting future value allows others to pay for it while they're alive, possibly by speculating on future enhanced copyright law.

Corporations can persist beyond the life of any humans within them for a good reason. It enables longer term investment and decision making to achieve things that can't be done in a single lifespan. Why should human lifespan be some essential time limit on property rights?

It also has the ethical problem that old or unhealthy people's work would be worth less than young healthy people's.
Emphasizing that it is my opinion, I think it’s easier to reach consumers directly. I haven’t researched the history of car dealerships, but I’m guessing (dangerous) that they came into existence because the locals knew the local market better. Now that they exist, they need to be protected to prevent too much unemployment too fast in local job markets. Anecdotal, but I haven’t heard people talking about the wonderful experience they recently had at their car dealership. I think some of that comes from legal protections and getting comfy.
Yup. That's the part where he'd burn the money on creating influence. After which, he would have influence - and possibly no money. Then, at some point, some other wealthy person could use him as a platform to convert their wealth to influence. Meanwhile, Glenn Greenwald could launch a book and/or start a company and/or run for an office, and leverage his audience and name recognition to get into a position of wealth... most likely significantly damaging his platform in the process. An influence to wealth conversion.

I don't see anything strange in here, or anything countering my point. Yes, to exchange money for $thing, you often need to give it to people already having $thing.
I mean, speaking as someone who was clinically depressed for 25+ years, and about 20 of those years highly violent/homicidal/suicidal, in my opinion, a good solution would be to allow those of us with daily emotional pain and no regard for human life, access to cheap and mediated suicide assistance. Suicide is a human right.
Direct link to copy of Lancet study:

https://www.scribd.com/document/524998636/s-0140673621020468...