skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zipper merges! It’s my understanding that that’s a norm in some countries, but that’s a social issue and not an infrastructure one.
The Pyramid of Success
> Sounds like a decent reason to maybe keep these people separate from the rest of the population

Sounds like you're trying very hard to make an abstract point to contradict what happens in practice.

> Would you miss a paycheck to protest in the streets?

I did, several times. I happen to live in Poland and our government is awful for the last 8 years.
While California absolutely is overzealous in looking at people who leave the state, it's also reality that plenty of people don't really leave or blur the lines to the point where there's a legitimate question as to their residency.

If you're going to leave California, leave. Don't keep a California address, tell clients you're based in California, come back all the time to do business, etc.
Is the zen of git to stop using git? Somewhat inspired by OpenBSD I spun up my most recent side project with cvs. I'm amazed how much less stressful code management has become. Makes me want to go further back in time and learn how to properly use rcs.
Thank God for the meme stocks and crypto. Otherwise we could have seen all the money jump into commodities or trying to corner markets or other goods.
When anti-vaxxers are asked to trust the science and listen to the experts, they are simultaneously being asked to ignore inflation by economists and different experts.

How do you convince someone that one group of experts is telling the truth?
I prefer butter, but I leave it in the fridge and if I want to spread something on my bread in a snap without thawing the butter, I use margarine instead. It's just another spread variant. I don't understand the margarine hate.
That may happen longer term, but the problem is supply at the moment is not able to grow to meet the increased demand. Just look at all the articles about container ships queueing up at ports, and companies unable to hire enough workers, chip shortages brining manufacturing lines to a halt, energy price spikes.

There's proving to be a significant drag on capacity at the same time as the burst in demand. So it's not just QE driving this, but it's certainly a factor.
Software you run on your machines is not a huge problem except in heavily regulated industries. Services that store and handle company's data, very much are.
> https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/countries-by-nat...

What is really interesting in this list is not the top of it, which, like another comment noted, contains mostly places you wouldn't want to live in, but rather the bottom (ie countries with tiny debt to gdp ratio).

It's a strange mix of basic hellholes (countries that no one wants to lend money to), and some of the highest standard of living in the world (Switzerland, etc...).
Many "white-label" groceries are in fact produced in the exact same factories as the branded ones (and the factories are owned by those brands), often just with slightly changed recipes or cheaper ingredients. It's not simply blatant unauthorized copies of more expensive groceries.
Okay, look, science has some ups and downs but unless you expand its definition to include all components of modern society, it's not charging people $300 for insulin. That's a result of the various problems of the US medical system. We can check this claim by comparing the price of insulin in different countries, where science (being the same everywhere in the universe) is the same but business works differently.
I like how singluarity and inflation are the only things that could have possibly occurred prior to the big bang, turning evidence against one option into definitive proof of the other.
>Maybe you have evidence of ultrasounds causing pain

Anecdotally, I had an ultrasound years ago and it was most certainly uncomfortable. The body of the testicles was fine, but moving over the epididymis wasn't that great.

And no, no inflammation or anything.
it's complicated because it's probably moot: we should learn, teach, spread and support "the scientific method" rather than anyone's "science"
My roommate once got pretty lucky with this, in that he was accidentally sent a big projector screen that he in no way ordered. Being an oversize/awkward item it was easier to Amazon to say "eh keep it w/e" than pay for it to be shipped back.
HughesNet?
It's not that money is abundant, it's that debt is cheap.
I agree re: medicine or physics because you can perform (in most cases) controlled, repeatable experiments. That's not really true for economics. I do feel the field is on much shakier ground than other sciences.

EDIT: Add on also that economics is one of the few fields where what you learn changes the field itself. Gravity didn't start working differently because Newton figured out the laws of gravitation. But if one economic theory holds up in a particular economic cycle, people will adjust their behavior so that it doesn't work anymore. In that way, it's really like psychohistory.
From a Bayesian perspective, someone who's been wrong again and again and again may eventually be right (like a broken clock being right once per day) but I'd say it's unlikely.

You may consider that an ad-honimem attack, I see that as providing vital contextual information to help readers update their priors.
A centrally-planned economy has been tried many times previously. From each according to their ability, to each according to their need, all that stuff. I guess this time it will end well?
At this point, wouldn't they have already priced in the inflation? that is, you have to pay more for the right to those inflation-adjusted interest rates.
Science is a process and is skeptical by its nature.

“Science” isn’t some belief you hold.
Dumfriesshire is where I grew up as a child fishing for salmon on a farm filled with curlews, oyster catchers and lapwings.
I remember one day out fishing and seeing six red squirrels in the same trees. I'm living in England now and when I recently went back to the farm it was bereft of all these things. It is sad to see so much depletion of nature in such a short period.
In fact I've just realised I was at school with the author (Paddy) about 30 years ago, which is why his writing seems so familiar.
Hopefully we can work out a formula where society allows for farmers to get paid a decent living while making space for more nature before even more is lost.
Search Fund
Zoom the chart out a bit more (https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/future/ng.1). 2009 and 2014 see higher prices than we're at now.
The fact that you can make out every single historical crash location in their prediction shows that this model is horribly overfit. (Edit: The paper does mention this general problem.)

Also, the rest of the prediction appears to just be the density of the road segmentation. Look at the parking lot (?) top left of the purple box (or all the road-rich neighborhoods in the right half):

https://ml8ygptwlcsq.i.optimole.com/fMKjlhs-dkVIYmPS/w:700/h...

Plenty high estimated risk, zero actual collisions.

You could get the same predictive quality with a simple gaussian blur of the "historical accidents" plots (road segmentation included), it seems.
Absurd Irrational Human: Smoking
I don't think the questions should be any different than for "normal" companies. You could ask for some information about the longterm vision of the company.

While not a question, I would strongly encourage researching the private equity company. Some of them prioritize shortterm thinking to just flip a company. This can be bad for the longterm outlook as an employee.
I am 100% sure those kind of articles contribute nothing to distrust in science. I bet you a $100 the people who are anti science never read article like that.

Dipping toes in flat earth community, when I still believed that its largely a 'for the lulz' community, there are predictable patters of how those are formed and propagated/sustained.

There are few opinion makers that use techno/science babble to create theories that have easy to grasp headline so it easily spreads as a meme in the community.

I strongly believe vast majority of those people are scams, selling books to their followers. But their followers dont read anything but their own post,headlines, materials.
All easy reads exposing some secret knowledge kept from the people.

In fact those communities are almost identical to religions, only their dogmas are still shifting, forming, spliting and evolving. But one universal mechanism for all is conformity to the dogma, any outsider get shutdown as an enemy and their ideas gets thrown away.
Of course it is...

All fields of science have dogma's. It's the very reason why science progresses one funeral at the time....

Also, no living soul has time to read all the papers that are pooped out by all the worlds scientists, so the shortcut is to fall back on "people in the known" AKA you can pick whom you want to believe. Of course a rational person will say he picked a source because trustworthiness, not because he or she liked that person...
Pushing back on a banal, obvious truism like, "we know speeding is a significant cause of and contributor to death, destruction, and injury in automobile crashes" is the kind of comical rhetoric that should get drivers ridiculed. It really shows just how disconnected the typical beliefs about driving are from reality.
> What kind of relationship do you think you're building without any trust and explicitly telling your partner you don't trust her by both of you using contraceptives?

One where I don't end up with children I didn't plan to have.

> Let the fairer sex have some power

They do have the power to prevent conception. That's nice.

They should not have the power to have our children without our consent. The reasons for this should be obvious to anyone. I'm honestly surprised it's not considered rape.
>. Insulin could cost $15 per vial, but they can cost $300.

I guess the lesson here is to educate folk that "science" doesn't set insulin prices?

Is that a widespread belief?
Mother Teresa, George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, and Groucho Marx were alright. We don't need fictional superheroes, plastic celebrities, or lionize individuals as perfect humans but there are some interesting folks who are and are not celebrities. The narcissism, self-absorption, and self-adulation of aspirational celebrity culture is also problematic for the wider society.
Your Realization is call MMT, it is a terrible theory of economics and will likely be the downfall of the US Dollar and other Fiat Currencies if it continues to become more popular
“Respect” has no place in science. There is no value to elevating individuals above ideas. The real and only meaningful respect that should be given to anyone is the success and proliferation of their ideas. There is no value in deifying individuals. In fact it’s a distraction and it introduces all of their flaws into the discussion. It only has downsides with no upside.
I wasn't specifically referring to masks, but now see that the thread had gone that way. I would say, however, that doing good and grabbing power are not mutually exclusive.

I, too, am baffled by beliefs (in general) and would suggest any new powers given to authority be viewed with extreme suspicion and of limited duration before enacted.
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts"

~ Richard Feynman
This is one of those languages I'd like to try because the people I know of that are using it seem so dang happy.
Seems like a good ELI5 (or 75) to me.
Fish, Now by Prescription
I used the MicroG respin of Lineage for perhaps a year, then on my next hardware upgrade I switched to naked Lineage.

I keep an iPhone 7 for corporate apps, but I'm on a Pixel 3a XL that hasn't talked to Google since I bought it.
> I think its clear from your post that you have never dealt with the visually impaired or even explored accessebility options of iOS/MacOS/Windows. We have working accessebility for all applications throughfully designed with native OS controls.

...which is a simple consequence of Windows people not being used to polyvalent software. You're putting horse before the cart.
Even common sense needs to be validated though. There are always "common sense" solutions that end up being wrong, often because they are an overly simplistic model.

There was an interesting outcome of some states stopping benefits because common sense said that would make people more pressured to go back to work. This was essentially a large-scale economics experiment.

"25% of the workers who lost their benefits in June had gone back to work by August. Now, in states that left the benefits in place, 21% of unemployed people found jobs. So there was only a four percentage point difference when these benefits went away...And what this means is those states that ended benefits early, they turned down billions of dollars in federal unemployment aid, and it ended up backfiring for their local economies."[1]

The "common sense" solution to helping their economy may have actually hurt their economy.

[1] https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1034965231
If this was actually about security instead of control, Apple could compromise: Allow third party app stores to exist, but Apple gets to sign the third party store app itself (and can set minimum requirements like app review).

It may sound counter-intuitive, but the whole issue here is that Apple is using their store for anti-competitive things (e.g. blocking/slowing competitors, requiring the use of Apple's payment infrastructure, Apple's ads, etc).

If third party stores could exist, you wouldn't need side loading, and security isn't completely compromised as hopefully the third party store provides some level of assurance (Vs. essentially none with side loading).

This of course won't happen because it is absolutely about control. Apple may one day allow side loading but will make the process incredibly unpleasant citing For Security Reasons™ as their justification.
Didn't the /r/wsb dudes start it with "aping into stonks together" or something?
Right - "Trust the science" means that if your doctor prescribes you insulin for high blood sugar, it's likely to work and to help you live longer and healthier.

There are political decisions that cause it to be ruinously expensive in the US. The messy bit is where science necessarily interacts with politics.
We have tested methods of birth control for women. We have untested and/or not as effective and/or not as safe methods for men. These methods also alter your hormones, the testicles are where the male hormones are produced. (We also have condoms guys)

The "important problem" should be to have _even safer_ birth control, not male birth control.
Meanwhile, earlier today.

"Dopamine, Smartphones and You: A battle for your time"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28850169
A trillion dollars is basically a 12mo-18mo of GDP growth for the USA. And it was handed out in a year where GDP fell by 600 billion.
ANSI escape sequences are a standard. Relying on that standard isn't sloppy, any more than relying on any other standard. Terminfo is today basically a hack to work around the problem that some uncommon sequences differ between terminals, but others (like cursor movement and SGR, which cover 99% of use cases) have been well-established for 30 years. I much prefer using such sequences directly over the complexity of shelling out to an external program. I'm not going to pretend that there is a chance my script might have to run on some obscure text terminal from the 80s some day.
Coinbase Phishers Steal One-Time Passwords
We are not even close to that my friend. How does this have any relation to a "Nanny" state, and which individual freedoms are you worried about?
There's https://tqdm.github.io/ to do nice progress bars in Python.

But my goal was not really the progress bars, but the placing of it below the logs.
The eviction moratorium ended, so did the $600/week.

Presumably we should start to see a big deflation, and an oversupply of available housing as a result if this theory is right.
> Companies and individuals frequently have an address in high-profile locations while most of the work gets down elsewhere. You're forgetting that a lot of clients want to tell their clients that they have a NY or SF based team working on such and such.

Renting a virtual address in NY or SF is not the same thing as telling your clients you're based in those locations or have teams there.

Pretending you're based in a place you're not is not only deceptive, it's a great way to find yourself dealing with painful tax and legal issues you don't want.
Science isn't based on trust. It's based on evidence. You may "trust" that someone's results are what they say they are, but they must be reproducible and independently verifiable. If they aren't then its bunk.
Given that pandemic relief has ended and in fact ended a while ago in a lot of the country while inflation has kept up would imply this isn't true.
So to give a bit more insight. We've been back in the office since May of 2020. The vast majority of the office works in close contact, and no mitigation efforts are taken to prevent infection. The vast majority of the office is also unvaccinated. What we do have is a response protocol. If you wake up and feel unwell at all, you're asked to go take a COVID test. Most will simply go take a rapid test on their way into work, and they'll wait in the parking lot until they get their results.

The last 2 outbreaks have been among the exact same group of people: the office bible study group. That group meets at least once a week in close quarters for an hour or two at a time.

As of right now, at least 5 of the people that are currently out and have positive PCR tests have had it at least one other time in the last three to four months, with another positive PCR test to confirm. Our company requires everyone send in their proof of a negative or positive tests each time they're taken, and you cannot return to work until it's been submitted.
> There is this weird idea I can't wrap my head around that is very popular that if you explain why something is happening, that means it is somehow not happening.

It's that the reason matters.

If I ask "Why is my finger hurting?" and the answer is "because I got a paper cut this morning", I don't really have to take action. It'll resolve on its own.

If the answer is "because a badger is gnawing on it", immediate action to resolve the issue is necessary.
Very great presentation for code walkthrough thank you!
I'm probably late to the discussion, but if anybody finds this looking up macros later, I found the HOPL IV paper Hygienic Macro Technology[1] to be a thorough look at the subject that hardly gets mentioned. It turns out solving these sorts of problems elegantly isn't some technique that the author has missed, it's an active area of research. Newer Lisps compete by having new ways of constructing macros that avoid these problems (say, Racket's syntax-parse[2].)

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386330

[2] https://docs.racket-lang.org/syntax/stxparse.html
> The US has the biggest army by far. Also the most aggressive.

Fat lot of good it did them in Afghanistan, Iraq and Vietnam.
The js probably pinged their own server with then did the 'net send'
I think the OP is saying "high modernist science-imitating central planners" when they use the word "science." They're talking about the people who give prions names like "Shawshank Diagnostic and Treatment Center."
Maybe it should be:

"Trust the scientific method."

You come up with an idea, TEST, see if it works, evaluate and so on. That tends to work out a great deal and has provided humanity with a lot of great things / protections we don't have to worry about / progress.

It doesn't mean the outcomes are always optimal, but they're better than every other option if you keep at the process.
Right, as you yourself admit - it has nothing to do with trust. You can absolutely trust or not trust someone, and a condom can still break, maybe because you made a mistake, maybe for some other reason, but trust isn't the "main" issue.
Fixing object detection models with better data
They don't have the military power to occupy Europe in the event the ECB decides to offload its dollar reserves and buy oil in Euros, never mind the will to do so.
We managed to eradicate smallpox because there are no animal hosts and we have a highly sterilizing vaccine. Those conditions do not obtain with COVID-19. I encourage everyone to get vaccinated if they can, but SARS-CoV-2 will never be eradicated.
Ugh. I worked school IT in the past. You're not as smart as you think you are. These vulnerabilities are typically known but there's not enough time, money, or the devices themselves can't really be locked down or hacker proofed anymore than they already.

IF you do something like this at least consider that someone else is going to be cleaning your mess up.

School kids are the worst users you can ask for. Unlike a normal business where they'd be punished or removed for something like this the kids will deliberately try to destroy the school network.
Also presumably because lots of shopping activity starts and ends on amazon, and if you aren't listed there, you'll lose sales.
Probably a bit of both. The market settles on a version that's "good enough" and it gets patched until it's "good". But Windows 8 was around for quite a while, and never got to be particularly good.

10 became good over time.
8 was crap, and stayed crap with 8.1.
7 became good over time.
Vista was crap.
XP became good over time.
I just skimmed over it but it looks like an interesting article. One thing the solution doesn't seems to be is simple or easy to use. Pipewire seems to be fixing the last remaining linux problems with multimedia, it is already a reasonable low latency kernel and will probably soon become even better once PREEMPT_RT finally lands. By coming by default on most popular distros, I hope using it will be invisible or simple too.

Nevertheless, as a linux user, I envy some features. I had apt break recently in a way that took 5 hours to fix with help from the people at #debian at oftc. A stable, mature and high performant filesystem with snapshots is badly needed. It could have reduced my time to a working apt again from hours to minutes.
Plus the fraud. I know in some neighborhoods almost everyone is getting "their $10K small business loan", sharing tips on group chat about how to lie on the forms.