skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are the only creature we know of that's capable of reasoning about our own existence and understanding our potential creation. That is a scientific fact of which there is no counterevidence.

To deny that in an effort to refute the potential existence of God is to cut off your nose to spite your face.
Setting, Tracking, and Reflecting on Goals: A Framework
> Global cities should simply be built up into the stratosphere by decriminalizing construction, anything else is a policy failure.

Physics, anyone?
"“It’s just they don’t like me because they are boring old bureaucrats and everyone likes me and no one likes them,’’ he said."
Sure. So you take half the staff and put them on testing a second plane. Then each individual plane takes 10 years to test instead. (Remember that you don't gain person-hours for free just by shuffling people around.)

What would this accomplish? Instead of a total system time average of 10 years, you now get an average testing time of 10 years to which you still need to add the queuing time, so you're even worse off than before.

(The queueing time won't be five years with two servers in parallel, and I can't do the exact approximations in my head, but it'll be at least two years. In other words, by testing in parallel you worsen the cycle time from 20 years to at least 22 years.)

This is a good general rule: by taking on more work in parallel, you'll make the turnaround time worse. This is why lean consultants go on about limiting work-in-progress.

Also a call to learn some basic queuing theory! It comes in handy often.
Bear spray is indeed illegal to use on people, but so are high-velocity bullets. The courts tend to be fairly understanding in self-defense cases.

It is legal to carry in California, at least.
MQ-8 drones have been in service for years and can lift way more than 10kg.
Thank you very much for your feedback here - really appreciate the input here. We're making updates and changes to our onboarding + website and will definitely take your points into consideration.
Didn't think of that one, that would make sense.
> 20k pounds of plastic

aka 7 tons? and no timeframe was specified, and the ships in the picture look like they will happily burn 10 tons of fuel per day.
This is a fantastic review. These books are going on my list.
Works for me from Germany (on iPhone, language set to English [UK])
To continue this metaphor: If I was hiring a skipper to sail my family over the Atlantic, I would absolutely hire the "lame" 40 year old and not the hip 20 year old
Google Proposes ARDMs: Efficient Autoregressive Models
Instead of napkin – SaaS startup financial model generator
> What??? 4 and 5 are legit complaints, the rest is literally the nittiest of picks, in my opinion.

I'd argue that 4) (async support) is the only meaningful point and 5) , given it's a Python framework, is at most a nice-to-have.

But yes, this article is a complete waste of a click.
We developed several working vaccines, and in record time. A triumph of scientific engineering.

I too am very hopeful for mRNA vaccines, although I don't know how much I should temper my expectations. The idea of curing certain cancers, not just preventing them, is wild.
The ADD (1980) / ADHD (1989) world has always been fairly shady in my opinion. The argument that this disability was invented rather than discovered so that pharmaceutical outfits could push amphetamines on kids is fairly valid, and a lot of the 'adult ADHD' behaviors seem equally explainable as a side effect of amphetamine addiction:

> "ADHD drugs, such as Adderall and Ritalin, increase levels of the brain chemical dopamine and provide mental stimulation. This, in turn, allows users to become more focused and calm because they no longer need to engage in self-stimulating behavior."

> "The number of young people abusing ADHD medication has been steadily increasing over the last five years, with almost 9 percent of high school seniors abusing and approximately 35 percent of college students in the same category. And unfortunately, this misuse does have consequences: Over 19,000 people have suffered from complications related to ADHD drugs since 2013."

It gets less attention than opiate abuse as deadly overdoses are much less common, but amphetamine addiction has major psychological effects - whether we are talking about street meth, ritalin, adderall, desoxyn, etc., the general effect is the same.

In addition, there's no clear diagnostic test for ADD/ADHD (no way to even distinguish between the two), it's just an opinion based on the subjective judgements of psychiatrists - and yes, just as with the opiate business, there are kickbacks with the pharma outfits and reckless prescription practices.

1. https://drugabuse.com/blog/spotlight-on-adhd-meds-and-their-...
... nested dongles that are safe inside your computer instead of free-floating in your bag, or in your home somewhere separate from your computer.
"people who's primary source of earned income is the sale of transportation of illegal substances"

Usually this group shows up in stats as "gang related crime" or something like that.

Basically it's all the violence that lawful businesses don't need to use to settle business disputes because they can use the courts and threat of state violence to settle their disputes instead whereas the drug industry needs to bring it in-house.
Probably. But I don't think those requirements are unreasonable. It feels like it largely boils down to "I buy a smartphone to accomplish certain tasks easily". If you eliminate many of those tasks, is it a useful device for those people anymore?
For starters, it would create a more level playing field to allow alternative products by companies with different values to flourish, rather than having them acquired before having a chance to become competitive.

Look at WhatsApp, founded by an idealistic person whose product was shaped by his experience living under an oppressive government and who succeeded wildly under those values. But no one is going to turn down 14 billion dollars, so it gets absorbed and starts to slowly adopt the same scummy values of Facebook. That purchase clearly shouldn’t have been approved.
Not a stupid question at all! ADHD impacts executive functioning which a lot of people struggle with whether they qualify for a diagnosis of ADHD or not. While we have had users who don't have a diagnosis of ADHD use the app, naturally the benefits are felt a lot more by people who know they have ADHD.
https://github.com/swc-project/swc/discussions/2097#discussi...

- Run yarn add next@canary

- Add to your next.config.js:

experimental: {
swcMinify: true,
swcLoader: true
}
Trust busting can seem like it’s anti free market, but when a company has a monopoly on a network it stops functioning as a company and basically becomes a government. The problem with Facebook/Amazon/Google is that they have a monopoly on a specific information network, for Facebook the social graph, internet discoverability for Google, and online shopping for Amazon. It’s similar to if a single company owned the road systems or the internet, since the structure of these networks means that competitors can’t exist, there can only be one network for it to have value, so the first company to build it will have a monopoly and be able to indefinitely milk it for a profit.

The same thing happened with railroad barons in the 1800s and also in other areas of the economy, and the trust busting response the government took seems to have worked well to bring back a fair market. Government should keep the information networks predictable and accessible.

This is a core theme in George Gilder’s controversial but imho extremely insightful book Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World: https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Power-Information-Capitalis...
> the next big milestone planned is to link it to a "social credit" score, i.e. an opaque system of extra-judicial punishment where the government can hide behind an official excuse of "the AI decided" every time a wrong-thinker complains about their oppression

Moscow has no qualms about overtly oppressing its opposition. What advantage does the ambiguity of such a system bring to the table? If anything, Putin's flamboyant campaign of pursuing dissidents puts as much emphasis on messaging as physical outcome. Softening the message--if you oppose the Kremlin, it will hurt you--is counterproductive.
This statement can also be taken as one as a limitation of our understanding of the internal lives of other creatures. And there's nothing scientific about it.
I use Privacy[1] for this and would highly recommend the service to anybody using a bank that doesn't have an easy and convenient way to issue disposable card numbers (most US banks).

1. https://privacy.com/
>>Gun owners are substantially more likely to die of gun violence than non-gun owners. Gun owners have a 3x higher risk of suicide.
>
>It is disingenuous to conflate "gun violence" with suicide.

They were called out separately, and distinctly in their own sentences and one of them had a specific statistic. That is not conflation.
A lot of devs don't understand this, but can save a lot of time, especially when the code is all python. Especially if you questions are off the beaten track
But people that need glasses keep them on
Haha. For fraud. Nice one. Should have been for manslaughter.
While in the video he compares the infrastructure provided in a Norway town compared to similar ones in Finland and Canada, he doesn't touch on the underlying financial situations in the three countries. In summary, Norway is loaded while Canada and Finland are not. And that's because Norway has drilled hundreds of billions of dollars of liquid oil over many years that Finland and Canada do not have.
I wish I could buy it with a Ryzen chip. Not a knock on the company, they have to start somewhere, but when I'm looking at Ryzen and M1 systems as alternatives (along with just continuing to use my existing sturdy laptop) it shifts the benefits and costs a bit.
Nope. The Islamic approach is to optimize to our maxima. Essentially our core purpose is to strive to "find/discover/understand" God through manifesting different values (the 99 names of Allah). The various prophets (Jesus) are those among us who came closest so that understanding and manifestation.
I would welcome some grognard at work telling me map filter reduce is an anti pattern. My colleagues cant grok git.
We overlooked this. You are right about the number of users being artificially low for our standard plan and we will adjust. More databases is the more expensive part on our side. Thanks for feedback.
That's a lot of ifs. You'd also need to have people in influential positions in the project.

Let's not sugar coat that GIMP and Blender both went to great lengths to eschew industry workflow and UI/UX norms. they both only started shifting to more familiar paradigms when grassroots movements within their user communities pushed hard for it.

Development time and money are only half the battle. Project leadership and politics are an unquantifiable effort.

Blender for example has been capable of great things for a long time. Its surge in popularity was largely down to giving up the ideologies of its unique workflow.
They do placebo-controlled trials of therapy techniques like CBT, although for an educated patient it may not be a great placebo
- similar to the problem with trying to placebo psychedelics. But basically you can assign the patients randomly to either an informational session on the disorder + unstructured talk "therapy", or the actual therapy method such as CBT.

CBT does perform quite well repeatedly in these sorts of experiments, particularly for depression (it is less studied in some other disorders although still promising). You're right there can be a lot of variance between people though. There can also be additional variance IRL due to therapist quality IMO.
This is exactly the world we live in: Government facilitated social improvement through committee-designed culture.
That's a fun thought experiment: imagine you're a police officer tasked with helping a woman being anonymously threatened.

I suppose for the police officer, solving the problem of "a stranger is making death threats" is to take a proactive defensive measure and arm yourself.

----

What if you were to imagine the advise from some sort of other professional? Maybe a social worker who helps victims of domestic violence ?

What other professionals would have good advice to offer the scientist ?

----

I did think it odd that the article mentioned the "go get a gun" response. Was the author's intention to drive home the point that the police were unhelpful ?
>the colour qualia question essentially dissolves away as irrelevant

And yet, I still wanna know.

The question is IMO as valid as "if I poke you with this pen, do you feel it different enough than what I feel if I poked myself?"

If we go through the exercise of breaking down the physiology, neurology and linguistic, I still wanna know if they feel it any different and how different.
My point is that when you pair a certain perception with a certain experience, it's possible for things to seem one way or the other.

Some people are very stuck in their perceptions.
I think D tried to be too many thing for too many people. The "better C" paradigm is obviously desired (Nim, V, Zig, and others) but the D approach was to add more to C, (as is nim and V)... I guess zig is unique in that it started by removing things from C and adding one big thing and a few small things.
Here are some things that I thought that at the time were called "misinformation", "conspiracy theories", and had "no data to support that claim":

Jan. 2020

- The illness in China is much worse than the Chinese are letting on

- The Chinese government is disappearing whistleblowers

Feb. 2020

- The illness in China will become a global pandemic

- The only way to stop the pandemic is to act immediately and enforce full international travel bans, inter-state lockdowns, and invest heavily in virus testing

- COVID-19 is far worse than the flu

- The illness is already in the US even though there aren't confirmed cases yet

Mar. 2020

- People need to withdraw from public life if they can

Apr. 2020

- There is a significant chance that the virus was partially studied or modified in a Wuhan laboratory

Mar. 2021

- The vaccines clearly lead to side effects in certain cases, including neural effects, heart problems, and interactions with the reproductive system

EVERY single time I told people who "trust the science" and "believe the experts" about these topics, it was before any mainstream government or media sources had caught on to these ideas. These ideas, now common knowledge, were derided as misinformation and anyone who believed them were mocked as ignorant at best and deliberately fear-spreading at worst.

I am not fully anti-vaccine; I had the first dose of Pfizer and later had my spike antibodies tested. I haven't had any positive COVID-19 tests because I locked down until eventually taking the vaccine.

I don't care about the idiots you know, I care that the scientific and political institutions in control of this country are attention-seeking frauds that never take responsibility for making incorrect predictions.
The story is split in two and thus far spans some 30 - 40 years, where one part has been able to focus and develop the same characters and themes over that course owing to a quirk in how those characters work into the plot, while the other part has been hurriedly shuffling characters, motivations, and mysteries on and off the stage to keep pace with that same timespan.

I wager its harder for the writers to get the second partition down pat as they're still getting used to adapting a story that has to move quickly owing to the limitations of TV, but its clear they can write good material which the first partition makes clear. I think the first season will be rough for them but a second should be more promising as they should get a handle on working with a plot that spans space and time on a grander scale than Game of Thrones.
Bear spray is not the more powerful version of pepper spray you might assume it to be. In fact, it's formulated to be weaker, because deterring a bear doesn't take as much effort as deterring a human assailant.

So recommend pepper spray. It's less dangerous and more effective.
Only the initial downvoting commenter would have to reveal his name. Then others can just bolster the downvote which harms the rating of the original comment, sort of like a "let him without sin be the first to throw the stone" situation. Then others can join in if they agree. And that might hurt if they're throwing stones at us but at least we get to see where the stones are coming from. Currently we dont, we just get stoned and dont know why.
Whenever I'm on Windows I get a stream of non-urgent notifications about updates etc. which is far from staying out of my way.
Personally I always go with Cache Enabler (by KeyCDN) with nginx. Simple and rock solid. Creates static HTML. For optimum performance (bypassing PHP altogether) configure nginx to try_files (or equivalent in Apache) in the wp-content/cache directory.

Edit: I've also used WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache quite extensively, both both of these have on some sites had a tendency to randomly clear the cache and I've never managed to figure out why. Cache Enabler has never done this.
To me, all those questions are much closer to creating a testable hypothesis than trying to ask how to go from 0 to 1, from the inert to the conscious. "Consciousness expression" sounds like something you could develop a measurement of based on an observable behavior. I'm not sweeping the problem under the rug, rather presenting a scenario in which trying to discover the origin of consciousness is like trying to discover the origin of energy.
And then they went on to develop Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Shuttles. All of them were able to launch payload into space. NASA can no longer do that. They have gone backwards in capability. The launch systems they are working on are so no where near working that multiple other company have been started and surpassed them in that amount of time.

NASA is no longer a space launch company. They service existing missions that were planned/designed/launched when I was kid. This pretty much makes them a legacy. Where's the new?
Are you sure it isn't that suicidal people attempt to purchase firearms? Seems like a pretty obvious correlation/causation problem, like blaming home alarm systems for burglaries.
It goes against repairability, and sustainability which they're trying to promote.

I was very optimistic about this phone, but it looks like I'm going to have to go if the Google 5a
my guess would be that it will allows other companies that offer competing services to compete against facebook's comparable service while not having to compete against all of facebook's services. Then the market can decide which features it prefers in each service, presumably not the ones listed in the op.
Yes, but those require rebuilding Blender. They're not expressed as plugins
The cycling network there is pitiful for city that size.
> How does breaking up Facebook help fight misinformation, polarization, engagement baiting, objectionable content, etc?

It reduces the influence that a monolithic Facebook can bring to bear against its critics in Congress.

It also puts existential risk on the table. Fining Facebook out of existence is, presently, political suicide. Not only does it hit a massive slice of the electorate, it leaves them with no alternative.

Shutting down one of several social media platforms, on the other hand, where user data is given a chance to migrate prior to the servers being turned off (but after shareholders have been wiped out), isn't out of the question.
Where do you draw a boundary? What you're saying is "you are doing a thing that is bad for you, /I/ know better what /you/ should be doing". You can talk about externalities, but unless it's something that is very narrow and direct, e.g. "you ruin your health via smoking so you get charged extra for certain healthcare services", it becomes a slippery slope. "Healthy society" type stuff is especially suspect, stuff like "undermining society/government/cohesion" has been used by authoritarians for the vaguest of reasons.
the one thing I actually like about django is consistency, which is exactly what i am looking for when i am deploying something to production.

Async support is nice and all, but i fell in love with django (and the eco system) mainly because it solves problems which i really don't want to concentrate on.
I mean, couldn't you dual-boot android on this thing? Or is the SoC not supported?
There has been a great announcement today with the beta of nomad 1.2 - nomad-pack: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad-pack . Which, in my opinion, is aiming to be helm for nomad.

Which is really great, because we've basically built nomad-pack in terraform and we would really like nomad-pack to replace that, because .. it works, but it could be better than terraform wrangling for templating :)
Thank you for feedback - really helpful!

In terms of our current features, we have:
- Short daily learning exercises that tackle a range of ADHD topics
- Challenges to support the development and tracking of habits to help manage ADHD
- A community of like-minded individuals
- Live weekly events with psychologists & coaches where you can get any of your questions answered, or participate in group meditation and coworking sessions.

We are also working on some new interactive features such as accountability buddies, accountability coaching, group-based challenges and routine building tools.
An associated component to trust-busting should be foreign trust blocking.

Given the way the world works, if the US breaks Facebook up, (insert here) government-supported competitor takes its place.

Part of creating a fair, diverse playing field is ensuring international competition is playing by the same rules in the internal market (because you have no jurisdiction to prosecute them as a monopoly in their home country).

Which isn't an argument for not breaking Facebook up. But is an argument that if you break Facebook up, you should probably impose substantial limitations on ByteDance and Tencent as they operate in the US.
It's cold to very cold from Nov 1 to April-ish with occasional Chinook breaks. If you can live somewhere else for those five months, they are the worst for sure.
Yes. It seems a more powerful cpu was the most requested improvement to the original Pinephone. I'm glad they listened.
It definitely is heavy lift as far as drones are concerned. But I am disappointed that there has been so few drones trying to go in this direction that 200kg is considered “heavy.”

(You can make arguments that the multi rotor approach has lower maintenance needs than swashplate-based conventional helicopters, besides the use of electricity instead of hydrocarbons… these all potentially allow lower operating costs. And the higher pitch sound of multi rotors travels less far than low frequency of helicopter blades.)
I don't think it's about reaching conclusions; I think people just don't like hearing bad news, much less bad news about things that they regularly participate in. We say "don't shoot the messenger" for a reason - it's just much simpler to shoot the messenger than to consider the message.

What I'm personally always worried about is to what extent I might be doing it myself. It stands to reason that these people themselves don't believe they're engaging in unacceptable behavior, after all.
Not op, but "We don't know" != "False"

Also, op does not claim "no one showed this actually works." Your comment is not in good faith.
Backup your data before the ransom strikes