skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"They asked 554 mock jurors to read a story about a dog detecting the odor of drugs on a suspect’s car even though a later search turned up cash but no evidence of illegal activity. Lit says the scenario was meant to sound preposterous. Nonetheless, two-thirds of jurors surveyed said they would have found the suspect guilty."

There is a real problem right there. Looks like you could get a conviction based on a fortune teller.
No level of lead is safe in children, so even that is concerning.
But you are choosing to use the Turing test, which tests a form of intelligence, as a proxy to determine whether to believe the claim. A Turing test does not preclude philosophical zombies. It does not demonstrate anything about consciousness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
With good tooling, it might be possible to have autocomplete once you write the b of begin or the l of loop, which would reduce the typing verbosity.
I don't think eliding words or automatically substituting homophones is a symptom of any disorder, just very common for 'good' typists - good in the sense you don't have to think about the mechanical action of typing or spelling, in the sense you've reducing[1] typing to a sub/unconscious activity.

It's just something occasionally goes wrong with the thought -> word pipeline buffering in the one case. I find the homophone substitution more interesting - I would never, ever make the mistake writing, or if I was paying attention to what I type (I find it happens even more commonly if I'm not paying attention to the window I'm typing on), at some level it seems that the unconscious word-to-keyboard process 'hears' and transcribes somewhat phonetically in a way totally disconnected from my conscious thought process. I find it fascinating I can 'visualize' the spelling of and think a word like, I don't know, 'bare', but my hands, as if completely independent, type out 'bear.'

Another piece is that, if someone talks to me while I am typing, sometimes words from our conversation creep into the text.

Interestingly, I find these mistakes are more common when I am taking stimulants (caffeine) than when I am not.

[1] This is another common mistake I've noticed. I am quite certain I thought 'reduced', but 'reducing' came out anyway. I think this is usually due to me changing the grammatical structure of the sentence midstream; I probably originally thought "you're reducing" instead of "you've reduced", but I typed faster than the thought completed. Maybe this says something about my intellectual capacity. :)
No smoke without fire they say.
He does oscillate between what he believes the company is doing well and what they are not doing well in his view.

I suppose the motivation here is that he does want the metaverse to happen, but he understands that if the company flubb it then it ruins it not just for their company but in the perception of the public’s eye - history is filled with examples of excellent ideas and technology that didn’t take off because they failed to engage the public’s imagination.

I guess this is his way of saying you can’t achieve this by halves.
About time. I don't know why, but for me in Linux Chromium has had much better performance than Firefox. Maybe this will help.
I also said "or at least would pretend to."

But in any case, yes, there are plenty of institutions in the West that would make such a cover up near impossible. The exception might be if the events happened within a military institution -- and even then, in the US or Europe, there would be calls for inquiries.

Of course if you're part of the "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" or "the CIA killed JFK" crowds, that won't convince you of anything. Reasonable people will however recognize that covering up such events under such scrutiny is a risky move, and as such unlikely to stand for long. The calls for more investigation would never stop, just consider how riled up antivaxxers are for no good reason; do you really think there would npt be a much larger number of citizens up in arms and furious if there was any hint of such a cover up in their country?
Oculus' John Carmack skeptical about efforts to build the metaverse
> I sold everything I owned and moved to Vietnam in 2016 from SF Bay Area.

Why did you do that?
> How do you decide which school a child goes to?

It depends on which school you like. In case of high schools, if you choose a vocational high school (which teaches a specific craft or a group of crafts), as opposed to a gymnasium (a school that prepares you for further university studies), it also depends on your intended future profession.

> Presumably there are limits on how many places are at each school

That's what standardized entrance exams sort out.

> and you need some way to make sure that a child doesn't wind up with the only place left for them being on the other side of a city - so you'd have some degree of locality.

We have good public transport that was free for schoolchildren (and for high school students was very affordable), so this wasn't a problem for me even if my school was on the other side of town.
Startup Claims It Can Triple the Power of Electric Engines
cloud-init is for instance initialization, commonly called "provisioning". Nomad is a application (container/non-container) orchestration platform. The two couldn't be more different.
Thanks for correcting and educating. Now I know :)
Will you be affected? Here's the gist from the article: As of Firefox 94, users using Mesa driver >= 21 will get it by default. Users of the proprietary Nvidia driver will need to wait a little bit longer as the currently released drivers lack an important extension. However, most likely we’ll be able to enable EGL on the 470 series onwards. DMABUF support (and thus better WebGL performance) requires GBM support and will be limited to the 495 series onwards.

Ubuntu 21.10 currently comes with the 470 series driver.
Keep in mind that you're not allowed to use any sort of colorful language when disagreeing with whatever the mainstream take on an issue is. Those people get down-voted and a bunch of "y u so mad" (but in better more relevant words, this is HN, not youtube comments) replies. Hooray for double standards.
The UNIX wait system call, introduced in 1970 or 1971, after porting UNIX to PDP-11, provided a subset of the features of PL/I wait, e.g. it allowed waiting until any of the children of a process terminates.

So UNIX had very early some kinds of waiting for multiple events. A decade later, various other waiting functions, e.g. select and poll were introduced, for networking.

I did not say anything about UNIX processes, but about the standard POSIX threads, the normal way to use multiple threads in a single process under UNIX-compatible operating systems. For example, with pthreads, you can join only a single thread. You can join all threads in an inefficient way, joining them one-by-one, but there is no way to join the first thread that happens to terminate, which is actually the most frequent thing that you want to do.

You can achieve this in a convoluted and inefficient way, using various forms of communication between threads, but this is a very basic feature that should have existed in the standard.

Taking into account that various methods of waiting for multiple events had existed for decades in UNIX, it is even more baffling that this was omitted in the POSIX threads standard. Like I have said, this has also constrained the later standards, e.g. the C++ standard.
Goat-rescuing, firefighting nonprofit is a reason to like social media
For point (4), people who live out of state still have to pay property taxes on the property they own in another state.
Performance & delivery are, to an extent, in the eye of the beholder. Success is relative to whatever you're trying to achieve.
> data that's hard to produce

Yes. All human intellectual work comes down to discovering a really big number. This labor has immense value. The data itself can be trivially copied and distributed worldwide at essentially zero cost.

Society needs to find new ways to value this human intellectual labor. New ways that don't depend on forcing artificial scarcity on the result.

> Not only is it an utterly helpful notion

Helpful to whom? To the monopolists, sure. Meanwhile everybody else has been robbed of their fair use and public domain rights.

> enforcing copyright in the 21st century helps us to protect our computing freedom

Absolutely not. The number one reason why computers are no longer under our control is copyright. It is impossible to stop copyright infringement if we can create and run whatever software we want. They must have mechanisms that stop us from running unapproved software in order to have any hope of enforcing anything. Otherwise it's trivial for computers to share data with each other, it's as natural as a river flowing.
Look at the heat Fauci has been getting from a part of population. Do you really think it would have been tamer had a US lab been in the same neighborhood as the epicenter of the outbreak? Maybe if it was a top secret military, and just maybe. China is getting away with this even though the lab is not top secret.
Terraform also had the advantage of being able to pull together multiple services outside of a single provider.

Want to use Cloudflare with AWS and another 3rd party provider that offers services in an AWS region? Simple with Terraform.
Senior Game Developer (Web)
senior game developer (web): make kickass interactive experiences (PVP, PVE, P2E) with THREE.js + React in our engine. must be strong in Javascript and WebGL. shader programming + blender experience a bonus. an eye for design and fun. web3 experience helpful but not required.
Thanks for sharing, OP! I had a lot of fun learning Rust whilst building this, which means some of my code is probably questionable. Any hints about what I've done wildly wrong are much appreciated :)
This is my favorite so far!
Subtitles perhaps?
right. only the fringe who weren't employable to begin with will speak their minds. that's probably why lately some lunatic ideas seem very loud... and everyone else just keeps their heads down
When cooking, we often optimize for flavor and texture. But what about digestion and nutrition and how each person has different preferences and a different body? It starts getting very complicated quite fast, so many variables...
> The thing about groupings like this is that they only exist in the statistics.

You could say that about any grouping of people whatsoever.

> If you want to talk about something, talk about people who have the trait or don't, rather than where their ancestors lived.

But clearly where there ancestors lives is a major factor in identifying the likelihood that a person will have a particular trait. And all of this matters because people have gotten it into their heads that every cultural/ethnic group should be equally represented in every field. When you point out that, for the above reasons, this is just as absurd in executive leadership as it is in basketball, they call you a racist/Nazi.

The same objection is raised when people ask "Why are Ashkenazi Jews disproportionately rich/powerful/successful?" or "Why are African Americans disproportionately not?" and you point to the IQ data. In fact you're a racist for even thinking to study this in more detail. This is why I'll never trust anyone to decide what is and isn't an offensive thing to say.

> The salient point is that the Nazis are still wrong even if it is.

It depends on what you mean "wrong". They're clearly morally wrong for murdering and sterilizing millions of people. They're not however wrong that eugenics programs are just as effective in humans as any other animals. And there's more than one way to do eugenics. Why not, for instance, as a matter of public health, simply incentivize people with desirable traits to produce more offspring?

> It's legitimately hard to separate them out even when it's not as politically charged as this.

I agree. Like most things it seems to be genetic predisposition in combination with environmental factors.
> Something like 30,000 people died every year from the regular flu in the USA alone, before pandemic. Social distancing (and masks) would bring that number to close to 0.

Flu and pneumonia vaccines were also available and uptake was nowhere near 100% (my doctor's office is always plastered with posters about "Get your flu shot" etc, but most people don't go out of their way to get it).

For instance a friend once told me that they always get the flu when getting the flu vaccine (??! obviously nonsense, but they sincerely believed it) so would not get it anymore.

Social distancing when a vaccine is available just doesn't make sense. We have to take the downsides of social distancing into account as well.
I used to be in the same camp, but instead would use the aws CLI for automation. I wasn't happy with how far behind many features in Terraform was at the time.

However, since then I gave Terraform another shot and dang am I glad that I did. It is fast, easy for me to get started with. I would much rather waste effort and time on Terraform which is cloud agnostic than spend a bunch of time learning something specific to AWS
Social distancing is about both increasing physical distance between individuals when they interact, and also about reducing the number of social interactions. You and I may never interact and the physical distance between us might be so great it's irrelevant, but if we have a friend in common that visits both our houses frequently that creates a bridge between us the virus can cross.

This is why limiting the frequency of social interactions, such as by working from home instead of traveling to the office, it also part of social distancing. These honey bees exhibited this form of behaviour modification through reduced numbers of interactions between individuals in the foraging and nursing groups.
Are you making a point about Columbus (the biggest city in the 7th most populous state in the country) that I'm missing?

MSAs can sometimes be rather small in area -- for instance, the Bay Area is split into 9 MSAs, all but one of which (SF-Oakland-Berkeley) are less populous than the Columbus MSA. So, everyone in the South Bay lives in a MSA smaller than Columbus (San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara).

If instead, say, you opted to take all CSAs with > 1 million people (per the 2020 census), you'd cover just over 2/3 of the population.

(Even so, affordability isn't purely a function of city size. Chicago is eminently more affordable than DC or SF despite being larger than either, whether you consider the CSA, MSA, or just the urban core.)
Apple with iPhones? Steve jobs made mobile apple first priority when he came back and started with ipod but ended up capturing the market.
The metaverse singular seems an odd concept. There will be all sorts of virtual worlds where you can socialise with other real people through VR avatars as there already are such as Second Life, World of Warcraft, Fortnite and so on. Also I guess Minecraft?

Whether Meta will be able to dominate the scene if the way they do photo sharing I dunno. Their demo video doesn't enthuse me (https://youtu.be/SAL2JZxpoGY).

I guess they may be able to work the network thing - I put my photos in insta/fb because thats where my friends/family are. But will I go on Meta to chat to mum? Probably not. I think text messaging/phone are fine for that.
No one has answered the question yet as to why this will succeed where Second Life failed. Is it the power of market coercion and the ad revenue stream?
Thank you, you’re right! So I suppose English only marks case on pronouns.
My wife is an RN that has treated over 9K COVID or vaccine-side-effect patients in the last 1.5 years, with her team and their AI managing over 122K cases. These are higher numbers than many of the "studies" propagated by the CDC (like the Kentucky study with 730 total people) pushing VE vs. unvaxx'ed outcomes. She's not doing epidemiology, she's a front line worker that's actually seeing what's happening in their hospitals, not parroting a state line, or "doing epidemiology" from an office hundreds of miles away from the nearest COV patient.

>And you stop spreading that misinformation on the internet.

You got a lot of nerve (or just a total lack of sense and perspective) telling me what to do, or not to do on the internet or otherwise. This is not misinformation, this is real life experiences of a couple hundred of RNs.
The sooner you realize that everyone on God's green earth is acting from an emotional place, the sooner that human interactions make sense.

How something makes people feel - or how they think doing something will make them feel - dictates the vast majority of human behavior.
"The new acronym, MAMAA, stands for Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google’s parent company Alphabet."
Isn’t “Faceid” on windows/android just facial recognition with the camera?
A Markup Language for GTK
I believe compression is still a work in progress in duckdb. My current use is with parquet files which compress well but don't lend themselves to updates like a db.
Well, happy and excited seems to be almost the same thing. While happy and fear - I don't think I ever felt that way in my life.

I wanted to see more about this distinction and found a relevant Wiki page about emotions [1].

"Confusion" appears to be added as a separate emotion in some classifications, while missing from others. When it's added it is added as a neutral emotion (having 0 emotional "tone").

Personally, don't think I experience confusion as an emotion. It's just a mental picture of my state and emotions arise according to how I interpret that picture. Same as "I am lost" or "I am missing a finger" are not emotions, thou they would cause emotions to arise.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_classification
I've an USR courier gathering dust as I no longer have a voice capable phone line. Fond memories of my modem screeching away down the line.
I remember the Ceefax games. As a child, I got hooked on this quiz, 'Bamboozle!'.

There were other quizes that had competitions with prizes. At the end, you had to call a premium rate phone line to guess a random number and win the prize...

The expression on my parents faces receiving the phone bill is probably the same as those today, after a kid has been playing with lootboxes on their iPads.
No one is talking about +40% US immigration over the past generation, which is probably the largest single factor in demand for housing.
Polygon Shapes
If we found life on Mars that was independent of life on Earth it would imply a meaningful lower bound. Even finding a fundamentally different biosystem on Earth (life that didn't use nucleic acids, say) would be informative.

Just finding life on Mars that's the same kind of life as on Earth would not tell us much, as it could be explained by panspermia. There are Mars rocks on Earth, so transfer of life in those rocks should have happened constantly. If early Mars were habitable it almost certainly had life, due to this transfer.
I don't understand why this would just be a supply-side issue, rather than a huge demand-side issue given asset price inflation consequent from QE, the expansion of private credit and the financialization of housing over recent times. Or indeed a distributional issue given that we are now living in a new Gilded Age, of poverty amidst plenty.

A lot of housing problems result from the uneven and combined development inherent in capitalism. Physical and human capital floods to major sites of economic activity, leading to a positive feedback loop benefitting a small number of major cities. The rest of the country becomes a hinterland, sucked dry of business and anyone who has the option of leaving. In the UK, where I live, this is the major underlying cause of Scottish independence, and now the increasing calls for Welsh independence, and even Northern independence. The economy is asymmetrically built around London. That in turn makes it increasingly difficult for normal people to live in London (e.g. nurses and teachers). Zoning isn't going to fix that.
Good God, that article is WAY too wordy.
Addiction, by definition, causes problems in other areas.
What if neurons aren't the only component of a neurological system that we need to be tracking, and we're not aware of that fact?
Overarching moral of the story: data maintenance is hard.

By which I mean to say that humanity sees the value of these cultural artifacts mostly in retrospect.
I never skipped sleep to study. I frequently skipped sleep to complete homework assignments by the due date.
Apple TV's touch remote is a travesty. Their UI is equally annoying when you realize they advertise the Apple stuff first, and you have to click Home again to get to your main apps. Compare any of them to Roku, and Roku is a barebones, works as expected, channel choosing device.
> Suicide rates among youth are at an all-time high

Suicide rates were rising pre-pandemic as well (IMO, due to social media and the Internet). Suicides overall declined in 2020 in the USA, for instance, so social distancing didn't have the feared effects. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/health/coronavirus-suicid...

However I agree broadly that the downsides of social distancing are real and unsustainable for more than a short time like a year at most. If we faced a 5 year vaccine development timeline for instance I don't think it would be acceptable to keep people from socializing that long.
Interesting... I gotta get back to Prague, it has been as couple of years now!

Do you have children of your own in the school system? I found that my expectations didn't always match the reality either in Australia or in Norway when it came down to actual experience for my kids.

Myself, I grew up in a remote area and was home schooled, and then for the final years of high school I went to the closest school, about 90 min drive away, so I lived in a lodging by myself during the week from age 16.
I've been using Doom Emacs for a while now and never once required "support chat". What is the "nonfree client" you refer to? Where would I access it if I needed it?
Hi, I'm the author. I write a lot of technical software docs for a living so I'm no stranger to writing, but this was my first attempt at such an informal writeup.

I started trying to fix it on a Friday evening and gave up after I couldn't get the "abort -> No Operation" thing. When I came back a couple of days later, I realised how I was going to proceed, but wanted to write it up. I made sure the thread I was pulling made sense (and thus I was confident I'd get to the end of this), stopped, and wrote the writeup to that point retrospectively. I also went back and recreated some of the screenshots.

From then on I played with the software for a bit until I "hit a breakthrough", stopped, and wrote the story and took some screenshots, then worked on the software until the next "breakthrough". I wanted this doc to record offsets and methodology so I made sure to include that wherever I could. I also used the document as a "rubber-duck debugging" aide, writing it for someone unfamiliar to the project.

I then polished/edited it (rushedly, without too much care) the day after and put it up. You can see my shift in methodology a few times where I mess up the past and present tense and with how some bits have considerably more detail than others.

As this is my first, I don't know if I'd do it the same way again. I've got a HW hacking project on the go and while I've taken loads of pictures, I think I'll probably be writing that up fully retrospectively.
It's rather simple to explain with a banal hypothesis: that the epidemic began just slightly earlier than initially thought. It just failed to take hold, maybe by pure chance, or because the virus didn't infect a superspreader, or because the initial strains had not yet acquired a tiny mutation that would have made them infectious enough to propagate further.
The meaning is clear in context. Try reading what I wrote in good faith rather than searching for a gotcha.