skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Viewing these images remind me a lot of caricature portraiture.

As with real artwork, the eye is drawn to embelishments, exagerations, and simplification and directed by composition.

In pieces by a competant artist, these add a new level of interest and dimension to the piece.

With these images, following what makes each image is always a dead end. There is no composition and the embelishments are mechanical, random and uninteresting.

For example, I find myself wondering why the the artist chose to paint the mouth so asymetrical. Is the artist trying to express an emotion? Who is the subject, and why have the been rendered as they have. It's confusing and a challenge to critique the artwork... until I realize its just bit of randomness generated by algorithm incapable of any creativity beyond how the programmer applied generic and randomizing programming methods.

There isn't and cannot be anything unique to any of the images. Once you've studied any one of them, you've really experienced most of what the programmer/artist has contributed.
maybe because people on those countries are not idiots and they know they will be paid better if they move to northen countries?
Oops, I meant to say:

"But if you have a small dream and a *big grind*, you're much more likely to get it done"
One big problem with QEMU is that its virtual hard drives has the word "QEMU" hardcoded in their name, which proctoring software easily detects. When I checked there was a patch 1 year ago to make that configurable, but it was unmerged.
Seoul will be the first city government to join the metaverse
The quality of life may be higher for lower middle class or poor people, but not for developers making $150k+ a year with benefits. And most of your points are just silly or negated by having money.
I'm not seeing that the nuclear plant shut down due to the cold?
Thanks for sharing your story. I am a similar age and a couple of weeks ago I took the somewhat scary step of quitting my CTO job to pivot to indie game development. Can't wait to get started after my notice period ends. It helps to know that i'm not alone starting game dev later in life :)
And only to attend school, and until 4 or 5 years ago it was probably very easy to get an exemption. And every one of those vaccines had been in existence and monitored for safety concerns for years before they were ever mandated.
That's what I said. A younger, more aggressive me would have just filed a small-claims case and let their legal department figure it out.

I worked with her to try to get it escalated and at least get the test fees refunded or compensated but didn't work. She just accepted it and scheduled another exam.
I wish the article had gotten the person who bought it to share what it was like for them as they sat through the apparently very short auction that they won.
If apple was evil, i think they would just put a rootkit on your phone. Seems easier and more effective than compromising their app store.
There's also opportunity cost. What if you instead of hiring a team of 10 people (probably need more, managers, distributed geographically etc), you hire more developers, marketing, sales and increase revenue. So instead of saving $2M, you make $3M more revenue. Making up numbers of course, but companies can estimate this. If that's the case it makes sense to keep paying AWS, until the ratio changes, and then they can cut costs.
Why would someone even do this?
> I'm simply stating that my personal observation supports what a scientific study says. When there is evidence to back up an anecdote it ceases to be an anecdote.

That's actually a really good example of confirmation bias :) it can be a real sneaky logical fallacy! In this case you have no controls in place to verify the what, why, or how of those people's infections, but because it matches what you think it should you've accepted it as further evidence that confirms the proposition of the study. Anecdotal evidence remains anecdotal whether or not it correlates with a position in either direction.
They should do a "non free wikipedia week": once year for 1 week place a paywall that allows you to pay/donate whatever amount via PayPal, card, crypto or whatever other payment options, so that you can read the articles during that week.

That way everyone will learn its value to them and they could collect some $$$
You place too much faith in Facebook acting sensibly. It turns out that most of the tech giants censor a lot of words for very little reason.

Try typing 'nazi' or 'hitler' anywhere in Facebook. It is flagged and will get zero results. Would hate to be a WW2 enthusiast.... oh wait I am one.

But 'stalin' or 'mao' is fine.

The solution for big tech to stop something is just to force zero results where there may be thousands. They love controlling thought.
Jason, CTO of CoScreen here on my normal account.

So, this is about coding interviews for hiring developers, and it's more about the goal of hiring a good engineer.

Obviously evaluating them dynamically will be more heuristic, and less fair, but it has worked far better for me than using standard uniform async interviews.
They are all right. It's just how much human suffering you consider to be worst case.
Psilocybin has changed my life. It needs to be available to everyone in the world. Pharmaceutical companies will fuck it up (it's coming - very quickly) so learn to grow your own.
Simpsons did it first. Homer had an illegal bar set up in the tree house and when it started burning he told the patrons “By leaving the premises you agree not to sue!”
I would suggest a steel frame with disc brakes. Suspension is a nice bonus. If it can carry a fat person it can carry a healthy person with battery and motor.
Terrible writing! The author uses too many parenthetical phrases. And he adds nothing substantial merely standing on other people's work. And for goodness sakes, latex has ways of providing links sensibly. Please use it!
Why not have an electrified anal plug inserted that they can zap if you look away from the test while we're at it?

This shit is crazy.
The political will didn't fail. The EPR reactor in Flamanville is a work-in-progress since 2007. Albeit it was scheduled to start in 2012 it isn't yet. It will cost at least 19.1 billions euros (initial budget: 3.4 billions euros). No governments pulled the plug on this disaster. How exactly isn't it "political will"?
You aren't allowed to discriminate based on race, and as we all know some races do better on IQ tests than others. Basically this rule:

> A selection rate for any race, sex, or ethnic group which is less than four-fifths (4/5) (or eighty percent) of the rate for the group with the highest rate will generally be regarded by the Federal enforcement agencies as evidence of adverse impact

https://www.uniformguidelines.com/uniformguidelines.html#18

It means that for tests with disparage impact you need good evidence that it is actually relevant, good luck proving that for IQ tests. So either you need to design an IQ test which doesn't favor any race, or you need to design an IQ test which looks like work so you can convince a court that it is relevant for the job. College can be seen as an example of the later.
So my tetanus boosters over the last 40 years is not a real thing.
It only does harm when people paid to spread global warming denial propaganda use predictions to show that there is nothing to worry about. Turns out, many people make all kinds of predictions all the time. Turns out predictions are random variables. Anyone understanding this would welcome as many predictions as possible because the aggregate paints the most accurate picture.
That joke is pretty much exactly what Michaelangelo said about sculpture. I was reminded of that too. See e.g.

https://nilsaparker.medium.com/the-angel-in-the-marble-f7aa4...
Here's one[1], not actively maintained though.

[1] https://github.com/edoceo/pg-ulid
The proctors are random, poorly trained, people being paid near minimum wage in the American South that probably turnover every few weeks. I can't expect a high degree of judgment.
I'd love to pay handsomely to remove ads from my Twitter feed, but Twitter Blue only remove ads from _other_ websites? please Twitter folks if you see this :pray:
these scare tactics have only worked in emboldening skeptics. it’s a great example of how to de sensitize the world to a problem
Large coal plants.

At least one of the reasons why solar and wind really got off the ground is because the marginal cost of one more installation is not very high. Panels on the roof may not be the most efficient, but they are actually feasible for a homeowner to purchase and install.
Comprehensive annotation of the Chinese tree shrew genome by large-scale RNA
I love the rawness of games that are built by people who just want to make games. Today, we have tons of games that are made for money. Some are "fun" but missing that bit of soul.

I haven't played this, but there's something appealing from the screenshots. The flat colored backgrounds, the slightly unaligned colors, the typo on the screenshot. It's like an alternative rock band.
Although I love the concept, it seems hydrolisis isn't very efficient transforming electrical energy to chemical energy. Until it is ready, it is not ready.

Canadian politicians are pledging to develop blue hydrogen in Alberta. That means transforming hydrocarbons into hydrogen.

Yep, it is as stupid as it sounds. Consume fossil fuels to produce hydrogen and label it blue energy.
I think it’s going to be very bad no matter what we do. Having to stay inside last year during the Oregon wildfires was worse than dealing with COVID. It’s definitely going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
The biggest weasel word of all time: "reasonable".
>being armed by itself is not a threat

Depending on the context, being armed can absolutely be a threat. If I was attending an angry or violent right-wing or left-wing rally in America today and a lone guy from "the other side" with an AR showed up where I was, my assessment would be that there's a decent chance he's looking for an excuse to kill his political opponents - an unacceptably high chance. If I was brave/stupid, I would try to restrain or disarm him, and I would honestly feel that lives were at stake.
Dig a hole and dump it in the hole. Then worry about real problems.

I promise you no mutant monster will arise from the earth to destroy civilization.

The hysteria over where we store this waste is really silly. Even if spray it into the air all over the planet, we'd still release 1/100 the amount of thorium and uranium than is currently being released into the air by the world's coal plants. Therefore even if we spray the waste into the air, it's still safer than coal. Burying it in the ground is much, much safer.
What I do is negate a check that determines if they don't overlap. Done.
> Yes, a lot of laypeople were expecting them to outright prevent infection at much higher rates, but that was never the deal from the start.

It wasn't just laypeople, it's trivial to go back and find prominent public health officials promising that vaccinated people will not transmit the disease, the vaccines will be 100% effective against death, etc. They shouldn't have been saying that given that what you say about the trials is true, but hey, they haven't paid any price for getting it wrong since this whole thing began so why would they now?

In general I have noticed there's this pattern where the public will sometimes be clearly and strongly led to believe a certain thing, but if it later turns out to be false, 100% of the blame is placed on the masses. If there's any rebuke for the officials or institutions which led them into error it's always in the most vague and general terms, with no one ever indicted (or, heaven forbid, punished) by name.
Yeah. That sounds like a true story.

Back on topic: is there a tool or product that can help figure out the funding sources of papers by a given topic over a timeframe? I.e. the ivermectin or hydroxyq papers published over last year-2?
Why telling a cop you have Covid in New Jersey could get you 10 years in prison
Using Open Source Intelligence to find a car enthusiast
I assume they are blocking it because the prosecution got embarrassed two days in a row.
Those all seem consistent and accurate to varying extents. We are already suffering from permanent or at least metastable effects of climate change.
I completely fail to understand why some think France didn't try to build new reactors for decades. This is not true! We tried , however it is a running disaster.

The problem here isn't "political will".

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...
If he’s so fond of user choice and isn’t using the argument disingenuously, then keep sideloading off the table but give all devs/users the choice to use a payment system other than Apple IAP - that’s the real issue for most people. If all other rules stayed the same but IAP became optional all this regulatory/PR pressure would drop to near-zero.
The Maas river at the Tihange plant in Belgium beat its projected 1000-year maximum by a sizable percentage this year, using up about half of the plant's safety margin. Climate change makes such events harder to predict and if such a thing were to happen during construction, you'd absolutely have to reconsider flooding defenses while you still can, anything else would be irresponsible. This sort of cutting corners to essentially make these plants more profitable is (in part) what gives nuclear such a bad rep. Given that several of our supposedly invulnerable plants had serious incidents, I'd say we're still pretty bad at designing and running these things, and in no position to skimp on safety.
They block trends that they don't like. Curiosity and/or vulgarity is outlawed on most big tech sites.
Good point. That makes it a more marketable product then over vaccines or generic drugs.
So conclusions evidenced by climate models, valid or random variables?
Does having Covid make you a domestic terrorist?

From the article:

Deja Lewis was walking down a sidewalk in Salem, New Jersey, in the early, frightening days of the Covid-19 pandemic in April 2020, when she was stopped by police.

Lewis, 28, was arrested on warrants related to failure to pay traffic tickets, and an incident in which she “escaped” from a police vehicle. She had been a witness to a fight and left the back of the patrol car, her attorney said.

While she was in custody, police said she coughed “in close proximity” to officers, and said she had Covid-19, though no dashboard, body or in-station videos exist to prove the assertion either way.

The allegation has landed Lewis, who otherwise has no criminal history, with a potentially ruinous terrorism charge – one that could land her in prison for 10 years and leave her with a $150,000 fine.
Just want to point out that your reply doesn't clarify anything, just because you posted a quote doesn't mean you in any way addressed the fundamental (rhetorical) question.
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It doesn’t necessarily have to get better than today though, only better than the worst at that time.
Cheating is like crime. A criminal needs to be right every time to not be caught but enforcement only needs to be right once. Even if you let once instance fall through the cracks, it's very unlikely it's an isolated instance.
Spot on! The OP appears to be so obsessed with taking down a monopoly that he forgot to make a good product, or a good onboarding experience, or to just be a respectable human when interacting with others. He came here to convince the startup and dev community that he's our savior against Google, and then repeatedly told us we're just too stupid to understand what he's trying to accomplish. I find it disgusting.
What I generally don't understand is the stuff they're protecting against - god forbid you google how to do a regex replace in a string - is stuff you can just do on a regular boring workday.
In my state, at least, the restrictions on the tetanus vaccine for school is more restrictive than any covid restriction on public life.

I’m not sure how any of this has to do with using the term “pretext” to describe booster shots. They are a normal and accepted part of public health immunization plans and have been for as long as I’ve been alive. Pretext, at least to me, implies that there is no health reason for boosters and if anything this study suggests the opposite.
I think you're making the opposite argument from what you hope to. You start off suggesting that the fourth amendment might apply here, but then point out that in every analogous case you can think of, the court has declined to stand up for people wronged by government acting through corporations. What makes you think they would do differently here? More to the point, why do you want the judicial branch to exercise legislative power in this, or any, case?
I'm not, I don't have a Facebook account, Thanks for clearing that up
it seems like if you tell people we only have X years left, then they will be more than happy to sit on their ass for X-1 years
Yeah, you're right. So, there were no real substantive outcomes, and largely that event goes on forgotten in history.
What makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial? (2008) [pdf]
> When will students stop taking the bait?

They wont, new kids grow up every year and they hear mixed messages, some says college is a scam while others says it is the golden ticket. They have to make a decision, so lots trusts (or just hopes for) the golden ticket.

This will continue as long as colleges are allowed to market themselves as golden tickets.
This might be a very unpopular opinion here. I'll mention it anyway.

Free tuition.

Germany has had zero tuition university for quite some time. And though they allowed charging tuition again a while ago, it was capped at something like 600EUR (?) per semester. Many universities apparently also went back to not charging tuition again.

It works well enough if you ask me. I got a great education with zero student debt. Was it Harvard? No. Was it a great education? Absolutely. Masters degree. I have a good job and of the people in my study group more than one is working at Tesla, Facebook and Google. More than one of them also have a PhD.
Apparently it only does that if you have a FB account and you're signed in, I don't have an account so I can't verify.
Fair enough. Instead of signing a big check for an incredibly valuable domain, Benioff transferred the incredibly valuable domain from his personal possession to the company.

I’m not personally of the opinion that this is an important enough distinction to avoid talking about my larger point of “This is an expensive endeavor and there is no reason to believe that there is any barrier preventing an exit that involves compromising in the event that Marc Benioff or the other investors at some point want their money back.”

Even if the domain was “free”, the rest of the endeavor is incredibly costly. I’m not really filled with confidence that the founder here either straight up didn’t understand the spirit of my point, or found it advantageous to feign ignorance about this.
I have to look up all of those things, which means I didn't gain anything in class/assignments/reading, and no amount of Googling is going to help me if the person reading my answer is an informed person, whether my test is proctored or not.

Which is a long way to "yes, I agree."
I've heard so many stories of people with top-tier insurance still going through medical bankruptcies in the US. And while you can pay to mitigate the crime risk in some ways, you can't avoid it entirely without seriously restricting your life.

There are upsides to the US, but when I realised that I could never see myself retiring there I realised it made no sense to spend my working life there, even if the salary would be higher.
France already did so. Their current reactor architecture (pressurized-water) was Westinghouse's (France bought a license in the 1970's). They even coined a partnership, see https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/cen-v054n002.p005
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You also forgot the 2000, which was probably the biggest of them all.Granted almost everything else was also probably said back then: a comet, aliens, what have you.
Oh yeah it's not that they are absolute bullshit predictions based on climate pseudoscience; it's that they are completely true in a secret, unobservable way, and their ostensible wrongness emboldens the idiotic skeptics… I try to imagine the cognitive dissonance required in order to navigate these kinds of mental puzzles.
Or is the nuclear cartel astroturfing hard because they know they are circling the drain with regard to cheaper, safer renewables?
Yes, the tor project is very transparent that anonymity is not guaranteed. Bridges and obfuscation tools are simply one possible answer to the "how is [connecting to tor without ISP detection] possible?" question.

The linked article tries to imply that Ross Ulbricht's arrest was somehow the result of deanonymized tor traffic, but in reality many (most?) large DNM [1,2] and malware/hacking arrests seem to be the result of poor opsec [3].

[1] https://www.ivpn.net/privacy-guides/online-privacy-through-o...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaBay#Seizure_and_shutdown

[3] https://krebsonsecurity.com/category/breadcrumbs/
It amazes me that we can't all just agree that this is real and that we just disagree on how fast we need to act.

Because then we could spend 12 billion to retire the entire coal mining industry in the United States of America and retrofit the entire power grid with whatever mix of solar, wind, and nuclear floats each state's boat. It's about $2.6T to take all 128M homes in the US and convert them to solar with 40 kilowatt-hours of battery backup. These are big numbers but they are not astronomical.

But we can't so here we go. Evidently the extreme weather in Texas last winter and the entire West Coast choking in smog all summer is insufficient evidence that anything is going on whatsoever. Good luck with that mindset.
I don't get what would be so interesting about nyc after age 35 or so. Just people trying to make it, money to be made, tourists and visitors, etc. The young people you can kind of classify and thus they're not that interesting.
Does this help circumvent/disable IME?
And then at X+1 years claim "Well, I guess it's too late to do anything now".
Been hearing something similar for the last 30. I think we're way too late to the game really, hope I'm wrong.
Yes, you did, and it was a good talk. I actually did enjoy the snarky tone. PAM is a mess. On the other hand, I don't think that disclaimer really does cover all the bases. You yourself say it's partially satirical, implying that other parts are sincerely meant. Why shouldn't those be subject to the same discussion, correction, or even criticism as any other sincerely meant opinion in any other thing linked here? I'm pretty sure you can handle that back-and-forth better than Sir Lexicality gives you credit for.

And if anyone's still offended: my comments are partially satirical too. There, I'm immunized.
> However, breakthrough infections were not benign, as shown by the higher risk of death in fully vaccinated Veterans who became infected compared to vaccinated Veterans who remained infection-free.

This seems to be a longwinded way of saying that it's better not to get Covid than to get Covid, regardless of whether you're vaccinated or not.
>It may not be so now, but in 7 years ... it definitely will.

Maybe, maybe not. We know nuclear works so why not also make nuclear in case something happens and we can't build enough storage.
Ok I can see you haven’t thought about this much or deeply, there isn’t a lot we can discuss.