skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally the fig tree in the Bible represents Israel. Jesus cursing the fig tree falls in line with Israel’s long history of apostasy.

What it probably was is a representation of one of Jesus’ goals for his time here. The Israelites were being their usual disobedient selves as they always have been. Instead, the job of spreading the gospel has been relegated to the gentiles, since the Israelites were not producing fruit…ie spreading the gospel, following the law, etc.

At the present time, AD, we are in the age of the church…where the gentiles are the ones working. Israel won’t be back to being the focus until sometime in the future. Thus that situation could be an allegory for what was going to happen.
Everyone thinks the next gen of reactors will finally solve the issues the last 3/4 didn't. This is one of those generational issues because young people (I'm 37) hear promises and old ones have heard them before...
you don't even have to be polite can't believe I read that whole comment
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41447603

Former Chancellor Gerhard Schroder oversaw the shutdown of Germany's nukes.

Now he's on the board of Rosneft, a giant fossil fuel company controlled by the Russian Government.
The bad economic consequences you vaguely alluded to would presumably apply to the 1950s when the US and its middle classes grew the fastest and top rates of tax were ~98%.
Well, I heard the same statement for Belarus, the most impacted country by Chernobyl (with still-in-effect Evacuation Zone). The key? How to calculate "health effects".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Exclusion_Zone#/medi...
Shatner's comments really saved this as A Moment and should be all over commercial space's (and the overall space program's) marketing as the face of the So What.

The theme of folks self-congratulating themselves on another example of their exceptionalism is all over these events. It's a very long way from test pilots in the Air Force in the 50's, "The Right Stuff," and JFK's mission.

This is a cynical take and rich or poor, going into space is going into space. An intense act, and who knows how I'd respond. But the contrast in this video showed that theme a bit - champaign showering and other "correct" reactions, Bezos rocking an astronaut uniform for some reason, while Shatner is just standing there speechless. Glad The Moment landed with him.
When advertising is a monopoly or quasi monopoly, it transforms basically into a tax on all transactions.

I think this is overall a waste of resources and I'd like to see a more virtuous system, but I fail to imagine one.
The concentration of the majority of wealth to a smaller number of people is definitely a factor, it's the hallmark of a corrupt system...

> I know tons of SDEs that come from other countries because they get paid fractions of the salary they would get here.

This is not irony, and has nothing to do with billionaires. Most SDEs won't even be millionaires.
Incrementality studies: https://www.adroll.com/blog/marketing-analytics/beginners-gu...

Interesting article

1. "industry" is moving away from last touch attribution (pretty much what Rand complains about)

2. "Incrementality strives to identify the causal event of a conversion,"

The way to identify the causal action seems to be :

errr ...
that's difficult
Now, that is what I call organic advertisement.
> Are they actually paying less...or is the cost being dumped on to someone else?

Cost compared to what? In a free market situation, everyone gets to negotiate for the price.

It seems insane to be a group advocating for the free market of ideas, only to decide that the free market / negotiation suddenly doesn't work in this case.

If the government negotiates too low, then the other side rejects the deal. If the government negotiates too high, the other side accepts the deal and the government wastes money (but probably less waste than no negotiation at all). You know, like sane people would. Standard free market philosophy.

Government doesn't want to lose services (Medicare / Medicaid promises a set of services), so that incentivizes the Government not to shoot too low on the price. That's the price discovery mechanism.
In reality in a machine like the C64, etc. it wouldn't really run at 100mhz, because in that case the bus speed is driven by the VICII chip and the bus access is stolen by it to do its work, and this is all tied to NTSC/PAL speed. So in the design on this FPGA impl it could theoretically internally do a burst of 100mhz-esque work it would only be while the VIC-II (or equivalent in other machines) has given time over to it.

The original article touches on this, the difficulty interfacing an Atari 8 bit, C64, etc.
I don't understand this narrative. Does Musk now own the private pursuit of space travel? Was he the one who kickstarted X Prize or SpaceshipOne 20 years ago?

Somehow Musk is a hero for SpaceX but Bezos is a wannabe for Blue Origin? Makes no sense.
I feel so bad for Sophie Zhang. Not only did she risk her job to whistleblow, but she had the limelight totally stolen from her by Frances, even though she said many of the same things already months prior. And it wasn't Frances' fault, but rather the big three media companies in the US who didn't really bother to cover Sophie's work, and then follow on publications like this one referring to Sophie as "the other".
What’s not safe about the nuclear engineering in the UK or France?
Ah so it's a kind of sofa / pullout bed, with a continuous folding mattress instead of the older "split" style
Feature Store Summit 2021
You can get a USB-A expansion card with the laptop order, i think its just the one-off marketplace listing thats "coming soon".
> Seems strange to be called "anti-vax" and, presumably, "anti-science" for questioning…

Who is calling you these things? Are they government epidemiologists or just randos on the internet? If the latter, then why do you care what they call you? Opinions are like models: they are all imperfect and only some are useful.

Questioning policies is fine, but you have to recognize that you aren’t the only person espousing your position. There is a seemingly endless stream of opinions about how policies should be changed, so your voice is grouped together with other voices (some louder, some uninformed, some come with death threats, some come with violence).

And it doesn’t help your case when you discount the actual scientific evidence that masks (even some cloth masks) do a non-zero amount of intervention. Never mind the fact that cloth masks are available, cheap, safe, and visible. You may not agree with these qualities, but you aren’t (I’m going out on a limb here) a government official charged with maintaining public health. Policy makers have to factor in things like effectiveness, cost, ubiquity, ease of implementation, effectiveness, and how it affects public order. If you aren’t applying all of these in your calculus, then you are just complaining without suggesting a viable solution.
Sure, but why was Tesla able to start up and take a big portion of the EV market over the last few years? The big companies were too slow in reacting to changing demand. It took years to get something that was equivalent to what they are offering...and yet they still don't have anything close despite far more industry knowledge on how to mass manufacture cars.
> Doubling the population will make things worse in 40 years. How is this hard? Double chickens? Double cows? Double coal plants? wtf? lol. You are the fool. Trying googling "when does population double".

Ooooff.

1. The population isn't projected to double even in the next century much less the next 40 years. In the next eighty years, the population is expected to increase by only 40%. If you took your own advice ("Google") then you'd know this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...

2. You're incorrectly assuming that the greenhouse gas emissions scales linearly with the population size *even as the emissions per MWh approaches zero. The demand for energy does indeed scale with population (probably sublinearly, but not going to pick that nit right now), but the goal is to drive down the emissions per unit energy to nearly zero much faster than population grows.

Better luck in the future.
Virup: The Virtual Reality Universe Project
If ivermectin has any effect against covid (I'm skeptical, but try to keep an open mind) it's likely past the point where it would have been possibly effective as she's over a week into it so the viral replication phase is likely mostly over and it's entered the inflammatory phase (meaning she probably needs steroids at this point).
Container security should start with image security. Instead of runtime security stuff, you can statically analysis images before they are running somewhere and find what known exploits might exist in them. This is also easier to scale.

Nist gets it right by starting there.
Sure, I just wanted to point out the sentiment which I feel most have. Smoking was also scientifically safe in the 70s.
I think you are making a cofusion between thermal fission reactors and fast reactors where neutron radiation is indeed a problem. Rebar and concrete in fission plants ages due to thermal stress plus the usual culprits (humidity, oxygen), not necessarily neutron radiation.
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I loathe the conflation as the resurrection of the stupidest bits of puritanism, the kinds that caused people to say they want kings back. It is always used to immediately pathologicalize anything remotely enjoyable to draw a straight line between "feels good" and "addictive" to justify controling others. It plays the same paternalistic game self-proclaimed leftists love to play to manufacture consensus via slight of hand. Either the people you are "helping" either agree with you or their objections may all be patronizingly dismissed as being controlled by noxious external influnces.
Plus radiation. People seem to forget that coal plants actually spew radioactive material in the atmosphere.
Exactly, 100%. Shatner and what he's trying to convey is the So What of commercial space, and the influencer vibe on display is what so many sense about it as a reality.
As a result of the Chernobyl reactor accident, certain species of mushrooms and wild game are still highly contaminated with caesium-137 in some areas of Germany.

https://www.bfs.de/EN/topics/ion/environment/foodstuffs/mush...
Considering MAD existed and most nukes would have been dropped on the US and USSR, not Germany, I don't think that's the issue. We and the russians had far more to worry about than the germans. Of course MAD pretty much ensured a 0% chance of nuclear war so really nothing to worry about. Nations truly worried about nuclear weapons develop them, not fight against them. Think about it.

Considering that Germany is an american vassal with significant russian influence, it's more likely political factions tied to US and Russia. US doesn't want Germany to develop nuclear energy because nuclear energy research is the same thing as a nuclear weapons research. A nuclear armed germany is pretty much an independent germany which is something no empire desires. Empire and freedom/independence/sovereignty don't mix. And russians don't want germany to develop nuclear energy because they want to sell more oil/gas to germany and gain more influence over germany/europe.
You may want to browse the website a bit and see if you feel like they might have a bias.

The tables are poorly labeled and I'm honestly having trouble figuring out what subset of the population they're referring to in each column.

As someone else pointed out, they got their numbers for mortality from myocarditis from the results of a study on a novel treatment that apparently was not very effective as far as keeping folks alive. I went to the study myself hoping that the other commenter had just misunderstood and that somewhere in the study, they had more general numbers for myocarditis outcomes, but that's not the case. The numbers are from the results and are only representative of the outcome if treated with immunosuppressants.

The only real argument that they have is that they managed to make two graphs which look similar. If it weren't on a web page dedicated to discouraging the use of the vaccine, I'd think maybe it was a relatively harmless misunderstanding of how science works.

It lacks any real substance and what little evidence they have is presented out of context.
Would love to use it as a library! Is it open source?
No, but it's not about trust. Businesses don't lower their prices out of good will.
A clarification: IOUs are not money, bank deposits are. The money supply is the money issued by the central bank (aka monetary base) plus bank deposits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_base
> ...compile and install the app yourself...

Every 7 days!! if you only have a free developer account, otherwise every year and only for a limited amount of apps.

If we could compile and install apps without any limitations, we'd already have a competing app store that automates this for people.
>Musk sent a car into space as a publicity stunt.

This just seems like such a stretch for something to get mad at Elon about.

They needed to test the rocket. They used a couple of flight-proven (used) boosters that their competitors all would have throw into the trash, and instead of flying a hunk of concrete, flew one of Elon's cars.

The car, by the way, is symbolic in that it did usher in the end of ICE vehicles. Other companies tried to do EVs and failed, Tesla made it happen.

Is it really better if the car had sat in a museum instead? What better symbolism could there be than to put it into a sort of museum in orbit around our sun? The day we are able to go and visit that car will be another hugely symbolic turning point for humanity.
Scandinavian countries also have diverse and differing cultures depending on where you live. Just because everyone calls themselves "Swedish" doesn't mean they all agree.

I suspect the answer is somewhat different. Just look at their parliaments: they almost always have majority coalitions made up of multiple parties, and a diverse group of opposition parties.

What is exceptional about America is its calcification into a two party system, which I think is far more of an issue than the actual differences of opinion and culture in the American populace. In fact, polls regularly show that a majority of Americans generally agree on a number of issues, and broadly support a number of possible policies and programs. For instance, on abortion, a majority of Americans have long supported legalizing it some fashion up until recently. Through the 70's into the 90's, support even reached 60%. Only in the mid 90s did the discussion become wildly more combative and enter a stalemate.

Really, most of the extremely popular social safety net programs were created and institutionalized during the 40 years of continuous Democratic majority. What ended it, and brought about the modern Republican party and the current state of American politics, was the "Republican Revolution" in '94[0]. The 2 party system then ran into a brick wall as both parties froze into defensive turtling.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Revolution
Right. People argue that we should take more than what we do but less than all of their wealth. The problem being, if taking all of their wealth wouldn't solve our problems, how would taking less of their wealth?

I personally think we should be taking more of their money, just describing what I think the "take all of their money" argument is doing.
But your own point is itself moot, given that we are not comparing nuclear to the dirtiest most lethal of fossil fuels, but nuclear to composite solutions of renewables+batteries/electricity storage or renewables+natural gas
L’science, c’est moi (Fauci)

Fauci has done more damage to "science" than any 100 religious authorities ever did. The above quote is pretty much what he said when he claimed people criticizing him are criticizing science.

One of the most important things for a scientist to say in public is "Just look at what I wrote; I'm not important."
Out of curiosity, how does an M0+ + MCU manage to be smaller and more power efficient than something as simple as a 6502?
Apple silently fixes iOS zero-day, asks bug reporter to keep quiet
Please educate me on this: if there was a “sick-out", wouldn't it be in the interest of the management to admit it to shame/pressure those participating? What's the interest in hiding it (if it's true)?
Fair, but I can't vote for/against private health insurance companies and they have many fewer transparency requirements.

Citizens have much more power when it comes to the government versus private industry. I can't even vote with my wallet because my employer chooses my insurer.
Other countries have billionaries and still manage to get these things done so no I don't think it is only just billionaires. OP's talking points seem to ignore this fundamental truth so thats why I was asking him to clarify.

>The US subsidizes so much for other countries. Without the US, these other countries wouldn't be able to have the same success.

This chart provides a false picture of R&D spending as European countries do in fact provide a lot of R&D to the global economy in ways that benefit regular people. How is the R&D broken down? I bet the US has a lot of R&D devoted to defense which I woudn't consider in the same category as other types of R&D spending. But regardless of this fact are you implying that since the US subsidizes so much for the other countries that Americans deserve to live in this second rate system where everyone is on their own?

>As an aside, I think the biggest irony is commenting this on HN. I know tons of SDEs that come from other countries because they get paid fractions of the salary they would get here.

I hear this trope trotted out so many times and in two tangental ways.

First point that is always made is we should be happy that US employees makes so much more salary. What you fail to understand is that Europeans are coming from an environment where they had good schooling, probably no debt from University and made it to adulthood without any health issues thanks to good healthcare and good healthy food policies.

All of this is a nonzero cost that allows Europeans to jump into the US system with a leg up from many of their American counterparts who may not have had those luxuries. Look at the typical middle class American household and you'll see all these hidden costs that reduce the chances of them achieving the success that the immigrants came into the country with.

Furthermore Europeans ALWAYS have an exit strategy to go back to a system that has all these fundamentals. The US employee may be paid better but they grew up and live in an environment where everybody else is sinking due to the lack of these fundamental systems. Just look at how San Francisco is turning out with its failures. Sure tech is booming but everyone else is sinking. Americans were born into this and for the most part are stuck in this system for life.

Secondly on a tangental point, Europeans love to talk about how Americans have access to a billion options for snacks and food. What they fail understand is that if you have grown up in this environment of corn laden garbage it is a prison that is difficult to escape. It is easy for Europeans to be in awe coming from an upbringing of whole nutritious foods. Its another thing to realize how much more expensive it is to eat healthy in the US vs Europe thanks to policies that were in place before even I was born (88).
One reason might be that the so-called tech sector here in Europe often acts as a service provider to other, more traditional industries which in turn hinders them to build IP resulting in lower pay.
Why would I move out? I'm only moving out from teams where I'm not motivated.
No, but I'd like to know about them too!

I've worked at two companies that have embraced remote work, and are hiring "anywhere", though still obviously limited by language, jurisdiction etc. The changes I've seen are mainly cultural: preference for asynchronous communication and preference for structured coordination over ad-hoc. So fewer meetings, and those that remain tend to be standing meetings on a regular schedule with a defined leader and consistent agenda, and they often get cancelled or ended quickly if possible. Slack tends to be more asynchronous; you're not expected to respond right away, and people turn off notifications when they need to concentrate. Waaaay less email, to the point where it's mainly meeting invitations. More writing and documentation, but even then, a preference for things like Jira, Notion, Coda or Team Retro over more unstructured tools like generic documents or spreadsheets.

Now obviously none of that is new or confined to remote-first organizations. But I do see deliberate thought about how to collaborate more effectively, and how to mitigate the downsides.
I was at one company several years ago and made two big changes to digital advertising:

#1 - Eliminated all paid search other than some limited branded search terms and shifted all the money to affiliates who were way better at making profits on the keywords we were competing on

#2 - Eliminated all display advertising after running numerous experiments showing it provided almost not incremental conversions, even though the platforms happily took credit for them.

Those two things drove our blended CAC down substantially and by building better affiliate relationships, sales actually increased.

The lesson here is that you need to try a lot of things out and you should be continuously questioning what you're doing and running specific experiments to gut check effectiveness of any ad platform that is slapping cookies on wide groups of users and claiming conversions.

My suspicion is that this is near impossible at any large organization, even one as new as Airbnb. I can just imagine someone walking into a team of 20+ performance marketers and suggesting they need to experiment to determine if any of it is remotely effective. COVID forced them into this but it's something that they should have already been doing.

I also suspect that the top line focus/obsession of most VC-backed companies make this type of exercise seem almost counterintuitive. Don't mess with or question the momentum.
Any tips for finding such a place?
>> Even if there’s a non-zero chance they were right all along

What does a non-zero chance that the Earth is flat look like? That we live in a simulation fooling us into thinking the empirical evidence is spherical? The evidence is overwhelming. There's not really any chance for it being correct, short of some odd metaphysics being the case.

Scientifically speaking, it's 100% wrong. Some beliefs are simply at odds with the vast empirical data, and can only be right if something else is producing false empirical results.
Might be true. Might not. But the CEO isn't going to say "oh yeah our policies created a walkoff", so I don't see how this adds any information value.
A novice mistake. Never interrupt your expert employee (an actor) doing what they're good at. Leave it to the experts with lifelong acting experience to effuse on trivialities.
There's a very good reason that you couldn't find another source. It's complete and utter bollocks.