skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is literally the reason `size_t` was created.
Excellent! Together we can ban fast food and sugar consumption for the greater good. Heart disease and diabetes from the scourge of empty calories finally eliminated. Hundreds of thousands saved each year from poor choices. Up next: sedentary lifestyle enablers :).

It’s such a rabbit hole, who should know best?
The mask is to protect others as much as it is to protect yourself. You can be contagious and spread it for up to two weeks without symptoms. It's unfortunate that wearing a mask is such a hardship for you.
It’s depressing how all these stories just reinforce the idea that the US could never suffer another lockdown.

We have exploding cases and even a brief lockdown would greatly decrease them, but the political will to try and stop it has completely dried up, likely from business interests.
> pseudo-security people

Heh, that's grand.
Meta comment. The problem with these stories is that there's no follow-through. The generalization (the current top comment, by newbamboo) harms the narrative, because it gives the sense that everyone is doing it, there's nothing to be done, etc. This is wrong. Each wrong needs a persistent state machine to track the facts, who's responsible, what action can be taken, what action has been taken to rectify, until there is a conclusion, one way or another. This will often take the form of either a court case or a legislative process. Each of which can take years.

All of us are helpless in 99.9% of injustices done, because they happen in another place, or because we aren't involved in the affected systems. That fact does not mean that injustice cannot be rectified! It just means we need to encourage those in a position to make a positive change to do so. Don't fall into the trap of equating a global lack of efficacy with a lack of local efficacy.

What I'm trying to say is: don't get disheartened or depressed by the onslaught of injustice you read about all over the world. Take care of the things you can affect, and give moral support to the others doing the same in their region.

So, let's hear it from the Germans! Whatcha gonna do?
> So if a photon is emitted from the sun, it's passing earth immediately? Then why does sunlight need 7 or 8 minutes to get to earth?

From the photon's perspective, it passes earth immediately. From our perspective, it takes 7 or 8 minutes.

> And let's say, i travel one light-year at the speed of light, that should be instantaneous, right? The odometer would show 1 light-year, my watch would should 0 seconds and some decimals. How much would I have aged by the end of the journey?

You would have aged as much as your watch says you would have aged. Zero seconds.

>If I travelled at one percent of speed of light, same distance, i suppose 100 years would elapse for me, how much would elapse on earth?

I don't know how to do the math, but a very, very long time would have passed on earth.

> And what if I left earth at 50percent of light speed , traveled 1 light-year away and did a turn and came back to earth at same speed. For me, it would be 1 year, but if I had a twin brother who was waiting on earth, would i now be a year younger than him? And how is this possible?

Yes, you would be younger than him, and it's possible because that's just how relativity and time dilation work. It's even practically measurable in "real" life: http://www.leapsecond.com/great2005/tour/
Thank you! Now OpenBSD routers will have a powerful array language available for statistical analysis of network traffic. :)
> The vaccines aren't a forcefield that ward off all things COVID. They were given the greenlight because they greatly lower your chance of getting seriously ill or dying.

> ... there were reassuring findings earlier this year that the vaccine was remarkably good at stopping any infection, even mild ones. This was a kind of bonus, we were told.

Isnt this false? If I recall, there was not enough data in early clinical trials to tell how effective the vaccines were at preventing severe illness and death, and the vaccines were largely approved based on reducing the risk ratio of infection

EDIT: pretty sure I'm right. See data below.
Actually the original quote is "the plural of anecdote is data". As a scientist, I support the original. All scientific observations start as anecdote.
I'll disagree with you on this. A collection of anecdotes absolutely is data. It may have more (and unknown) sample bias than you'd like, but it is real data. Just because something happens outside the context of a formal study does not mean it's not data, nor that it can be safely disregarded.
The author throws away their own and our power - it's up to you (and me) to evaluate elites and experts and to influence your community and decide what happens there. All elites and experts can do is attempt to persuade other people, but it's really up to those other people. There are endless examples of the public ignoring the elites and experts.

> This also helps explain why artists are said to “contribute to important conversations” by making documentaries, etc. that express “emotional truths.” They present themselves as qualifying elites by virtue of their superior art abilities.

Artists are 'experts' in observing, conceiving, and expressing the world that is and the world that isn't. Many experts in their own domains overlook the real issue, misunderstand it, have failures of imagination, and fail to express themselves effectively.
Never heard the word hamartiological before but it's perfect here and describes exactly how I've felt too.
When I first tried it a year ago, it worked for some time until some update that broke my headphones. Half a year ago, when I installed another distro I gave it another shot and it worked OOTB. But unfortunately a month ago my headphones stopped working. But they still/always worked in pulseaudio. There seem to be a few issues with my symptoms, yet the maintainers haven’t fixed the regression yet…
Until then I’ll be having to use pulse
Nice article btw.

Honestly hippies haven't been a thing since the 1970s-1990s.

You used to be able to go to Seattle in the 1990s and see something that resembled California hippie culture but that's long gone also.

Hippies were made up of two groups.

First were the "Real" hippies. Most of these people were high IQ, thoughtful and deep. They were also broadly read/educated and talking to them was a useful, educational thing. They were true libertarians; leaders rather than followers.

The second were the hangers-on, the soulless, guys wanting easy hook-up sex, drug addicts, etc. The latter mostly became Disco hustlers in the late 1970s, Yuppies in the 1980s and Dot Com entrepreneurs in the 1990s.

The last remaining vestiges I know about were those who left the Haight-Ashbury BEFORE "Flower Power" became popularized. They went first to Marin, especially Mill Valley. And then they left Mill Valley and often went to places like Bolinas and Stinson Beach - far enough away that groupies and trash wouldn't follow.

Others, of course, became your long-haired, bearded Unix admins.

One "nice" part was hippie girls who went braless and wore macrame tops. That was about 30% of all the girls I went to middle school with. Marin was a wild place for everyone in the 1970s. The downside was patchouli perfume which smells like garbage.
Multiple negative rapid tests for covid followed by a positive PCR lab test, which is known to be more accurate. I'm curious why you didn't mention the positive covid test?
There are no aliens.
This example has a flaw. Skateboard man sees object stationary, but the cable is moving. There should be magnetic force too.
I assume they're getting those numbers from hospitals themselves, who see FAR more unvaccinated patients than vaccinated. Which really tells you everything you need to know about the vaccine and getting vaccinated. Sure, having a concrete number to point to is nice, but knowing that your local hospital sees drastically more unvaccinated patients is far more useful than knowing the average rate nationally.
> Upset with people who own sports team

> Go and turn over then burn the closest bar that has lots of their fans
Especially because a lot of outside doesn’t need a mask. If you live in a dense urban core, it might. If you live in light urban, or suburban/rural, you can mask when stepping into the store or whatever.

Don’t forget that masks are to protect others at least as much as yourself.
>So we should shut down the internet in general, because people ought to go outside instead too?

That's a pretty good idea tbh.
I generally don't pay much attention to conspiracy theories but with regards to WTC 7 I feel there was something missing, a common video I see cited for this is this one [0], where Larry Silverstein, owner of the trade centers, says the fire department 'pulled' the building down because they determined that would be safer than letting it collapse of its own volition.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZlmHvd_RZU
I've been a recreational Cannabis smoker for almost 20 years, since I was 14, and smoking it 100% has a noticeable effect on my speech. People, also stoners mind you, will make fun of me for it because of the level of effects it has on me. For instance, they would say I'm actually a model for why people shouldn't smoke pot (again these are users). Anyway, these effects go away with abstinence, but generally take up to a month to really go away (not that I've had many breaks that long in the last 20 years). Yes, weed effects my speech, but also other activities that involve hand-eye coordination or heavy thinking, such as sports, video games, programming, learning mathematics, etc.
It's not a huge stretch of the imagination (and a theory supported by research) that short term neurochemical changes will result in longer term structural, i.e. syntactical, changes in the brain. There is a lot understood about this type of mechanism (I did a PhD in computational neuroscience, so I've seen and understood the research in this area).
> Jumping the fence at a concert and sitting in an empty seat is not stealing.

Of course not. That's trespassing, a real crime unlike copyright infringement. Physical space at the venue is limited and the actual artists are the most scarce resources there is. It makes sense to pay to see artists you love play live.

No idea why you're applying physical world concepts to digital "content" which can be infintely copied. It doesn't work. Mental gymnastics like copyright exist purely to enable rent seeking monopolists. It's not even morally defensible. Artists receive what, 30% of the profits of their record sales?
Can this thing infect any i-phone remotely?
“ To sum it up, I'd put my breakthrough case of COVID-19 right up there with my worst bouts of flu.”

Exactly. I see no reason why I’d take strong measures to avoid getting exposed to it (now that I and 90% of adults around me are fully vaccinated) when I never did the same for the flu. Somewhere along the way we seem to have lost sight of what constitutes a normal disease burden.
It depend on the person, and it depends on the job. The article does a lot of dancing around that obvious fact.
The recognition that the medical establishment is still unsure of many things regarding a still developing situation is a good first step. The next is to realize that the misinterpretations of their knowledge and understanding are the direct result of misrepresentation of events and facts by media outlets.
Massive Cleaning Effort Saves Acid-Drenched Atari
Willful ignorance, confirmation bias, etc. Unthinking people are the bedrock of this world and they will twist themselves into knots to assuage their guilt.
I'm probably not thinking about the problem deeply enough but why the restrictions on use, are they concerned someone will come along and build something profitable on top of their work?
So did I a few weeks ago. I was vaxxed in April. And then caught it in early August. Three days of sweating and chills, a week of coughing and loopy-head. Positive PCR test. 3 weeks later and I still have a chest-cough I can't shake.

Of course, if I didn't have the vaccine, I probably would be in an overflowing hospital close to death.
I don't think that's a good assumption. What you know is that, at the moment, some kinds of owning stock are effective at building wealth FOR NOW.

It could have inherent failure modes you're not taking into account. For instance, if systemic crashes are built into the model, and 'anyone' as a class is substantially more likely to risk such crashes and lose everything, that changes the calculation.
I take your argument as “covid will be around forever so we should act like it doesn’t exist” which is nonsensical to me. I’m not sure I can come up with a more charitable interpretation: sometimes things change and societies need to adapt.
> pre-revolutionary France wasn't too dissimilar.

In appearance maybe; if you dig a bit under the varnish, the power exerted by creditors over nobles and even kings quickly appears.
If you were watching their lives out the window of your spaceship you’d see them in fast forward vv. they’d see you in slow motion. Everything is relative.

The main ”paradox” found by experimention is that the speed of light is a constant, regardless of your velocity. The only way this could be true, if you do a thought experiment, is if time was dialating for you. As for the physical and mathematical “why is this happening”, that’s where Einstein comes in.

It’s an exponential. At 0.5c 100 years to you would be 115 years elasped to an observer, 0.9c 229 years, 0.999c 2,236 years, etc.

Here’s an online calculator for the dilation effect https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/time-dilation
Cool. But the argument "we let people drink alcohol despite harm caused to others" is a bad one.
It was hit by north tower collapse then fire raged on for many hours as sprinkler system had failed etc. I think structurally it still shouldn’t have collapsed but it doesn’t require a grand conspiracy to explain the failure here.
That's... one possibility.

Another possibility is that the AI decides to punish those who did contribute to building it.

"Working to build the AI because the AI will punish you if you don't" means that you claim to know how the AI will think. The AI that will be smarter than you, you have the hubris to claim that you know in advance how it will think. So maybe it just punishes those who believe in Roko's Basilisk. Or maybe it just punishes those who made claims about how it would act. (Oops, just doomed myself...)
Perhaps we were too lackadaisical about flu.

I've certainly enjoyed not getting the usual bouts of cold and flu my kids would bring home from school every winter.

I hope at least one lesson we take from COVID is "people should be able to take sick days rather than coming to work/school sick".
I don't have a business and I don't want to be shut in home. If you want to then lock yourself down, thanks.
It isn't so "Open" after all. What a shame.
I learned functional programming first and I find it the opposite. And I find the context switch from functional to not is always difficult, namely because I can't just assume things are immutable and I have to go out of my way to make it so.

That's all to say that the mental overhead is just comfort more than anything.
https://archive.ph/oQU5F
I’m getting a little tired of articles or chats with people where you get the impression that people think the vaccines will create some sort of covid-proof bubble around them. This is the only explanation I can find for people acting surprised that vaccinated people get sick. The whole point was to prime the immune system so that when exposed, the likelihood of extreme effects would be drastically reduced. That’s it.

(E: I don’t get why people downvote this - all of the benefits of vaccination are precisely due to what I describe. Lower likelihood of individual bad outcomes, which reduces burdens on healthcare, and ideally, reduces community spread by reducing the amount of virus that replicates in an individual and can be passed on. This is why I was one of the first in line when I could get the vaccine. Perhaps daring to critique people with unrealistic vaccine expectations is unacceptable?)
This is a web OS in the sense that you can build desktop like apps on top of it. I'm currently building a ray tracing application on top of the Sharedigm OS and I imagine that others have applications like this that they'd like to move to the cloud while also preserving a desktop like user experience.

Question: If this platform were released as open source or fair source, is there an audience of people that would consider building applications on top of it?

It's an appealing idea, but I have a feeling that today, most wouldn't even consider building on top of anything that's not provided by Apple/Google/MS.
Pasta is subsidized in Tunisia. It won't be affected.
Cows in US feedlots are not, as a rule, only or even mostly fed hay.
This is incredible. How big of a VPS would you need to preprocess the whole dataset now?

If I use peermaps and zoom to a particular city, how does it find peers that have that particular part of the db?
Probably because anyone who got a solid case of COVID will raise the alarm for others and have an agenda of preventing it. The 24 hours of reaction I got from shot #2 convinced me that I really wanted to avoid a full case.
Here’s an interesting calculator from Oxford using Britain’s data from COVID:

https://www.qcovid.org/Calculation

My wife is a nurse and doesn’t follow up the data and she was in disbelief that her “risk” of serious/death was around 0.00005% or somewhere near that.
If you can always merge reordered edits/messages then CAP does not apply because you don't need C (as defined in CAP), you may instead talk about partitions/connectivity issues as if they were some anomalous sources of large latencies in the system. You have your own, different definition of C. There are some very very large scale systems out there that work under the assumption that any edits can arrive reordered, and it's OK for the observable properties of the system.

Here's what's "inconsistent" in an eventually consistent chat app: your typed responses might have been different had you seen in time what the other party has to say. To some degree the "computation" happens in your head. A "fully consistent" / "fully synchronous" chat app would sometimes refuse to send a message because the other party might have said something in the meantime. Like you'd expect from a fully-synchronous bank account balance handling system that wants to keep >= 0 balance at all times, rejecting overdraft transactions.

(And I agree that this is completely acceptable behavior for a chat app; we as people are built to tolerate this kind of a problem in async person to person communication; just pointing out what does C in CAP exactly mean; the "fully synchronous" chat app would be just an occasional pain in the ass with little benefit)
>There is no such thing as a dangerous book or a dangerous ML model.

ML models that discriminate against women and black people seem self evidently dangerous to me; who has done wrong here?

Also ML models that are inadequately designed and tested and then mooted as useful for medical applications seem dangerous to - like drugs that aren't tested before being given to infants.

I just don't understand your reasoning about this - if books can't be dangerous then why are they so powerful? If ML models can't be dangerous then how can they have utility?
17B life years could be saved if air pollution was reduced to WHO standards
AQ lived and thrived in Iraq?

After the invasion there was some activity, but before?
This article is fantastic, I love the quote about no data having a virgin birth.
> have lost sight of what constitutes a normal disease burden.

I don't think so. This is only "mild flu" for vaccinated people. We still have kept sight that people who can't be vaxed can die, and people who ignorantly chose not to vax are killing people because they clog the ICUs and prevent people from getting non-covid life-saving care.

So we haven't lost sight, people just choose not to see. You just can't teach some people to be unselfish and considerate.
Isn't it strange that all 24 internal columns of building 7 would collapse simultaneously?

Even if the office fires burned hot enough to compromise the columns, wouldn't they have advanced gradually over the diagonal span, trigger slow sequential collapses that might have resulted in the building listing or distorting, rather than falling flat to the ground in 5 seconds?

Would thermite be deployed explosively at 140db, or might it work over a longer period of minutes at lower volume to heat the steel columns to 700 degrees, the temperature at which it would lose structural integrity?
My bedroom door has shifted and makes a loud noise when opened. Those 8 hours of unconsciousness are very likely to be interrupted when an attacker opens my door (and then proceeds to trip over the stuff on my floor). Oh, he also has to prevent our paranoid house dog from barking while he's picking the lock on the door.
There are no way to know the long terms effects (if you do please provide the plans of your time traveling machine to nearest patent office).

The drug companies are not only under total immunity but also will get paid regardless if the vaccine works or not in the long term. The reporting of adverse effects is probably getting suppressed, for example OSHA is now admitting it won't record vaccines adverse effects so it doesn't discourage vaccinations (https://ogletree.com/insights/osha-revokes-guidance-on-recor...). There were vaccines that were deemed "safe" yet were scrapped because they weren't (Dengue vaccine, Guillain-Barré of the 1979 flu vaccines).

The immunity of the vaccines is fading after a few months and Pfizer is now talking about bi-annual booster shots and daily pills.

Personally I got my two shots of Pfizer, which is considered the safest, because it made sense to me. But even then I got adverse effects making me not want another booster shot. Calling people "anti-vaxxers" is because they do not want to take an experimental vaccines (mRNA vaccines are not vaccines in the traditional definition) is just intellectual laziness.
Nice attitude. Time flies whether you like it or not.
> You'd get the same intensity out of a group of tired people too

That would be interesting too, since AFAIK weed helps with sleep and gets you more deep sleep, but at the cost of REM sleep. There's a lot of theories tossed around as to what that can do to people, but I found it hard to find something solid in that area.
I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but the pharma companies burying some side effects doesn’t help anything.

Here is one example in Pittsburgh with severe side effects [1] (temporary paralysis, loss of fine motor control and a continuously flapping hand). The news did one story and both the person impacted and news station were contacted and told to not run a follow up story or they would have “problems” (this is second-hand info, but I have no reason to distrust the source).

I think transparency is key in a situation like this. Yes we will have side effects, but if we are ever going to get past it, our only hope is very high vaccine compliance. The unvaccinated are causing a drag on the economy, the healthcare system, and the country.

We don’t know if the vaccine side effects impact the same people who are most likely to die from COVID or not, so it’s definitely a decision under uncertainty.

[1] https://www.wpxi.com/news/top-stories/bethel-park-woman-para...
Yes, it can - https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/infiltrated-by-p...