skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So why would I bother borrowing some if I already have more that is readily available at my fingertips
How did they support their ""Best Little Boy in the World"" hypothesis? Or is it just a handwavy "discrimination something something"? Why does it not work equally for lesbians, if that is the cause?

Another hypothesis (which I made up on the spot): educated gay men are more likely to come out as gay than uneducated men, so their sample is biased.
Same question of course why does it not apply equally to lesbians. Perhaps lesbians face less of a stigma or whatever.
Have you ever read the Bogleheads forum at:

https://bogleheads.org/

I thought it was an awesome forum for discussing investment related topics. It’s named for Vanguard’s founder Jack Bogle.
I agree, but I don't think its worth it. At sea-level you rather have a sea-level optimized engine then a spike as I understand. So you would actually lose landing efficiency, and that is the most important place to save energy.

I'm not even sure if Starship will light all 6 engines on separation. Its a question of gravity loses vs lower ISP of sea-level engine. Maybe they turn them on for a initial boost and then turn the center 3 engines off.
This isn't too much of a surprise. How else do you get tf out of your small, homophobic town and into a community of other queer people? College! And how do you keep yourself from having to go back to that town or being on the streets cause your parents kicked you out? Get a career!
Microsoft thwarts mega-DDoS attack on Azure platform
It seems like there’s an underlying assumption that you’re going to trade often. Paying a one-time fee and making it up in volume doesn’t seem very appealing for people who don’t trade that much anyway? Is this just for day traders?
React vs. Qml: generating component trees
It’s a reference to a 50+ year old economics joke: https://worldin.economist.com/article/17506/edition2020dont-...
This doesn't really answer the question, but if you touch on PHP the PHP Internals podcast can be very informative. A lot of interviews of the people writing the RFCs for the next versions. And the host is the creator/maintainer of XDebug.

https://phpinternals.news/
I wrote "The burden of updating". Testing still needs to be done but there's a lot of automation to minimize the workload.

> If there are no resources to carry that burden, then the only option seems to be to wait for an updated release from the upstream, whenever that arrives.

No, most upstreams do not backport security fixes. And switching to a newer release is not an option if you want to provide stability to users.
You’re still stealing, as the neighbor is paying for the availability of bandwidth, whether they are using it or not.
Does it? It requires internet connection and sends all company data for third party. Smooth perfomance is locked for using Chrome browser.
Yes it seems like a combination of magnifying and muddling information.

Say, for example, a cancer researcher makes a statement like "Red wine contains compounds that might protect from some cancers" - not very interesting as news. So it gets magnified to "Red wine CURES cancer".

Next, another expert says "excessive use of alcohol can increases the risk of certain cancers". Of course the news converts this to "Alcohol causes cancer".

Finally, combine these two messages and people quite understanderbly conclude that cancer experts have no idea if alcohol causes or cures cancer.
> If you have finished reading the post by now (seems you are commenting and editing as you go along),

Wrong.

> I think I make it pretty clear when it gets to more detail that the NFT is the thing you own.

Yes, you contradict yourself.

> Further, I make it clear exactly what rights you and others have over the media, which is basically none.

Yes, which is not what you say in the parts I quoted - let’s remind ourselves:

> Just like a deed conveys ownership of a house at some address, the token conveys ownership of that media.

This is a common pattern in writing about this subject, which is why I point this out. It’s a standard Motte and Bailey technique, which is a dishonest form of persuasive writing.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Motte_and_bailey
"less than 14% of the variance in SAT scores can be explained by SES in two massive and representative samples"

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/please-think-critically...
It also looks like this was a pre-production model. It's very easy to change the charging params and achieve super fast charging if you sacrifice some battery health/longevity.
Lol everyone saw it coming, but policymakers needed everyone to think it wouldn't come, otherwise the public appetite for Covid measures would have been far less...
There's something deeply wrong with the incentive structure in many IT companies.
Alphabet Is Using Multi-Tasking Robots to Tidy Up Google Offices
I wanted to do the same, and in the end gave up in favour of a simpler approach: I drop the bookmarks in my notes, I can tag as I please, less moving parts and it's easier to search. But I would still like to see someone figuring this out!
That was the fear. It didn’t seem worth the risk in today’s climate. I try to keep my business non-political.
Yes that's exactly how I did it back then.
Because of Office license lock-in, not reputation.
I remember reading that also. LGBT has become an ability to challenge societal power systems so it's obvious that privileged individuals would obviously opt for this since basic reinforcement principles would dictate people who do identify this way will get special treatment.

Now that is only to say for individuals who are privileged. People who are not obviously do not get the same treatment. Hence why they are less likely to out themselves.
I don't understand, how does sci-hub undermine the prestige-accumulation feedback loop?
The Femtojoule Promise of Analog AI
I'm honestly trying to understand the benefit of going this route vs just using 800 of the 1000. It just seems obtuse. Coins can't possibly be trading at the insane prices because of the fundamental you are getting a crappy deal with defi
I think it's not uncommon to hear gay people saying they can't have 'normal' lives so they seek intensity where they can, art, science or else.

ps: sibling messages seem to confirm that view. Also note that it's not only related to closeted situations. People stuck in bad situations have to compensate. We need to have an influx of blissful stimulation and living means finding it no matter where.
You could take it that way if you like but it resonated with me. During the pandemic I was useless. I contributed nothing at work. I plodded along through life. One day I woke up and lay in bed till the sun went down. I didn’t even pee. Just lay there. The image of the light above my bed still remains with me.

And yeah, at one point, at the urging of a friend I went to Barry’s Bootcamp. Then I started going every other day. And then every day for two months. It wasn’t instantaneous. I was still worthless at work. But eventually I quit that job, accepted my losses (which is hard to do if you’ve always won), and moved on.

The lesson I learned from this article is different. This person needed these organizing skills in that moment. They needed that mental model in that moment. And they had it not because they developed it in the moment but because it was familiar.

Placed in an unpleasant situation, we all tend to the familiar. And for this person, the familiar turned out to be a useful tool.

Maybe one could turn it into an implied insult against one’s own behavior. Maybe one could treat it as arrogance to imply it is a fix for one’s own problems.

But I think the truth is that this article is intended in the spirit of something I, personally, greatly treasure: the honest human sharing of experiences in a way we can glean some truth about parts of the world we cannot observe. It’s a statement akin to “Here are the patches I’ve applied!”

And perhaps when you see those diffs you think “Fuck you! How dare you think this software is so shit that it needs those diffs” or “Fuck you! You think I haven’t thought of that?!” but maybe they don’t think that. Maybe they think it’s just that the software runs better on their machine with those diffs. And maybe they’re just sharing in that respect.
I would say it like when you have the best ever basketball team with all Hall of Famers on it. And then team that has never done anything drafts a rookie that might be good (nobody knows) but at least that rookie looks cool.

Does that answer your question?
> Allowing everyone access is not necessarily a good thing across the board.

Why not? Spare us the hard realization and explain to us why it is a good idea to deny access to complex financial arrangements to people.

And let's not get moralistic about it. I didn't ask "why should Mitumba in Nairobi be denied access to lending?" because I don't want to be moralistic, so I expect a response aside from "do you want to enable Osama Bin Laden to launder money?" We all know the obvious examples to support both arguments, so let's stick to more run of the mill, less extreme examples. Why should the average Joe be artificially restricted from access to financial services of his choosing?
Building your own business.

Generally, applying for jobs is a young person's game. As one gets older, a lot of the opportunities come through the network you've built, so investing in building a network is an absolute must.

But at some point, even the concept of "having a job" gets precarious. So investing early in building the skills to generate your income independently of an employer is super worthwhile for career longevity. It's harder to master than yet another framework, but will do more to guarantee your income.

A big part of building this skill is figuring out a market you can serve, and the needs of that market. It's more likely to be an existing product or service, but over time one builds their own unique take on it, so that over time one becomes the best at servicing a particular type of client. This, coupled with ongoing investments in networking, is the closest thing one can get to "job security" in modern labor markets.
You can't completely eliminate the risk, but simply having regular backups and actually testing the process for restoring from them to make sure that they work can greatly mitigate the damage from ransomware attacks.
It helps make money for its owners. It's not here for charity.
The flip side of workers taking better care of their own tools is that their tools also actually get used.

When I worked construction (many years ago) you could always spot an inexperienced bullshitter who showed up looking for work on the crew by the fact that his tools would be all shiny and new.

I guess the pro tip there is that if you don't have much experience and want to work construction, take your brand-new tools and beat up on them a little bit before going to look for work. :-)
They wrote another paper on this topic, the summary of which is that an AI capable of human level conversations is impossible because:

"This is (1) because there are no traditional explicitly designed mathematical models that could be used as a starting point for creating such programs; and (2) because even the sorts of automated models generated by using machine learning, which have been used successfully in areas such as machine translation, cannot be extended to cope with human dialogue. If this is so, then we can conclude that a Turing machine also cannot possess AGI, because it fails to fulfil a necessary condition thereof."

https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05833

In other words it can't ever be done because we haven't done it yet. QED. How stuff like this gets to come out of U Buffalo is beyond me. At first I suspected it might have come out of a religious think tank, but no.
Everyone is at risk, since people don’t suddenly die from COVID, they take hospital space and resources. So if covid patients start filling up ICU’s a hospital’s capacity to deal with other emergencies become limited. You and I may not be at direct risk of COVID but definitely will have an impact on our health.
That's a great idea.

Do you support Inkscape?
The Comfort of Ignorance
I always remembered this as a Peter Schiff joke.
Vaccinated English adults under 60 are dying at twice the rate of unvaccinated
what you are describing is a PHEV (plugin hybrid electric vehicle). The Chevy Volt and Toyota RAV4 Prime are examples of that. Those vehicles are intended to address range anxiety, not charging speed.

Trying to do it with a Mickey Mouse contraption like a generator in a trailer would likely be inefficient and inconvenient compared to an integrated system like a PHEV. Generators are not as efficient as just getting electricity directly from power lines. PHEV's engines are there to power the vehicle when the battery is depleted. they don't try to recharge the battery as that would cost more than just plugging in on a charger.
> The difference is that it can't be done in secret.

Who cares? The record is entered by a government official. That's it. The land bow belongs to whoever is written the record. Blockchain doesn't help here at all.

There are also multiple other cases around land ownership that blockchain proponents don't consider because blockchain proponents en masse have no idea how reality works.
I would bet that children of doctors or lawyers or engineers or those whose parents have more than $10M in assets earn degrees at an even higher rate than Hindus in the US. Seems neither here nor there.
> this is clearly revenue base

As if Windows itself is free. I mean it technically is, you can use it just fine without activation, but isn't the cost of these licenses supposed to pay for everything?
The FSF don't actually care about such details - sure, they'll deride ME, but they make no attempt to inform users about how it compares with alternatives and which options are better for users. That's because their criteria are not based on technical analysis, like determining what the access surface of the blobs is, but instead on the mere existence of the blobs. To them, all visible blobs are equally bad, regardless of whether one can completely compromise your system and another one is completely harmless and requires no trust.
No it hasn't. Please stop ever linking to Arca space.

That is not a company, its a fraud. They defraud investors. They are not a real company.

I recommend ignoring them and warning people against them.

The most recent company who was seriously developing a areospike was Firefly. That was for a pressure fed rocket. They have since dropped that, and in the most recent interview between Everyday Astronaut and the CEO of Firefly he addresses why they did that.
to prove that cancer causes smoking you have to provide real life example of a non smoker, where after getting cancer, a patient starts to smoke.

No, I wouldn't. I would have to prove, for example, that someone started smoking after getting human papillomavirus and that there was a mechanism plausibly linking the infection with the craving for cigarettes.

I don't readily know how to make the linguistic distinctions I want to make here. Sure, if you want to say "They first have to have a diagnosis of cancer..." okay, I'm dead in the water.

That's not what I'm suggesting. I'm suggesting that we don't fully understand what causes cancer so it's possible that whatever living thing is a factor in causing cancer may also alter behavior such that it makes a diagnosis of cancer more likely.

This is probably not worth discussing further. "You cannot solve a problem using the same mental models that created it" but those "proven" mental models are a handy means to dismiss someone in conversation as getting off the rails.
Tech in Plain Sight: Eyeglasses
This is just a DOM manipulation library, with some animation support thrown in. It's doing the same stuff that you can do with a few D3 libraries: d3.selection + d3.transition.
s/serverless/cloud/

FTFY!

Ed: fixed autocorrect error
> and telling someone that all they have to do is work out and eat well and get outside is almost cruel.

Except the author doesn't do this. They describe a system in which they track and observe what doesn't and what does work for them. Only someone that's living with a victim mentality would suggest that this is an attack on their own situation.

I'm tired of the suffering-olympics that people put on. "This person isn't as depressed as me. I've got a medical professional to confirm this, therefore what you've shared is unhelpful to anybody"

Surely you realize how ridiculous this position is?
This idea that a lot of money is involved therefore every imaginable need must be fully covered is extremely dangerous and unreasonable. Just one example of how this goes is residents have pushed the City to take responsibility for trimming of all street trees which used to be the responsibility of property owners. The result is a lot of trees either ignored or hacked to death by untrained workers in a hurry. Large amounts of money are not infinite amounts of money and still have to be carefully managed in order to get good results and make reasonable trade offs.
CCS has a 500 amp cap in the spec, so here is a limit to how fast 400V batteries can be charged on public infrastructure. Going to 800V removes that limitation as well. Tesla doesn’t care since they control everything and can ramp up the amps, but all other cars that want to charge more than 200 kW need to have higher voltage batteries.
Experts have done a lot of exploration and gained much experience, but just having abilities is nothing by itself. You need to exploit your abilities as well, employ them for good gain, and that takes time from exploration. Maybe you don't want to explore anymore because it's so good where you are at. This happened to Microsoft as well.
Well I'd say most of us aren't "dating a 17 year old while 45" kind of questionable.
A teenager can do these attacks. Quit using boogeyman as excuses.
MIT prof reinvents news via improvethenews.org
Q: Rabinovich, what is a fortune?

A: A fortune is to live in our Socialist motherland.

Q: And what's a misfortune?

A: A misfortune is to have such a fortune.

There is a number of Wikipedia articles belonging to the interesting kind and other examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Russian_jokes&old...

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Russian_political...

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=East_German_jokes...

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jewish_humor&oldi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radio_Yerevan_jok...

https://www.johndclare.net/Russ12_Jokes.htm

http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Radio_Yerevan_Jo...
Why Jellyreach is not just another Email and SMS Marketing Tool
Here's a replay of the rocket demo if others are curious how it works.

https://app.replay.io/recording/3cc35235-0a00-4fff-a1eb-7ffa...

https://www.loom.com/share/059d3d0770db447a8287c05bf269b476
Ah yes Florida where jailing scientists and statisticians is par for the course
Lots of people are staking already, so validators are running. The system shouldn't be vulnerable when the fork goes live.

What will really determine the successful chain, is where the stable coins go.
"guix describe" and "guix time-machine" make it rather easy to pin a Guix revision (and thus the whole package set) and to restore it anytime:

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Replicating-Guix.ht...
No, technology is the application of science and other knowledge to achieve practical goals. It started with agriculture, metallurgy, etc. thousands of years ago.
This is another variation on the privilege discussion. It is okay to observe that some parts of the population are more privileged than others based purely on circumstance, but it is inappropriate to level the accusation of being privileged at individuals. And along the same lines, it is inappropriate for individuals who are disadvantaged to dwell on their circumstances and use that as an excuse to give up. Everyone can improve with effort, and I'd wager that the vast majority of people can improve enough to have a perfectly happy life if they try.
How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation
Say robinhood gives me a price that’s 10 cents worse than the brokerage that charges 10$ per trade. I’d need to be buying and selling over 100 shares per transaction for it the $10 fee to be the better option.

99% of people are coming out ahead with robinhood.
Must be nice to be in a demographic that you can believe this.
Sunlight is the best cure for corruption.

By putting registry data on the blockchain and allowing anyone to independently verify state of an immutable distributed database makes it much harder to get away with the corruption.
I appreciate the goals and tenacity to achieve them of the folks who do this kind of thing but it's not my style.

I've spent a lot of time in our State and National forests and for the past 15 years most of it has been off trail and the past 10 most of my trips have been solo.

Thru hikers tend to focus on the trail and their only goal is making miles. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's not even close to the same as experiencing the "wilderness". It's much more akin to running a marathon. So it's easy to spot thru hikers on a trail. They most always have their heads down and eyes focused on the trail and often won't even say "Hi" as they race by you.

To really experience the wilderness you have to learn how to "bushwhack" off trail. To do that you need to learn how to use a compass and triangulate your position on a map. That's not near as common of a skill as one might imagine thru hikers have.

For me, making miles was never a goal. Immersing myself in the wilderness and finding "Super Scenic Spots" to hang out for awhile has always been the goal.

One of the things you learn when you start bushwhacking is the wildlife will be hiding from you before you even get there. They can hear or smell you coming. But after a bit, if you're quiet, they'll come out and get back their normal routine, and that's really something awesome to experience.

I have to give them credit though because it was thru hikers that motivated me to get off the trails more. Over the years I've increasingly had those folks walk into my camp and ask, and just as often demand, that I give them food and supplies because "I'm out" of whatever it is they needed.

And over the years I increasingly had to to cut trips short because I couldn't say "No" and some of them were truly in desperate need. The first few times I was glad to help and it felt good to help, but after awhile I noticed this was getting to be too common and I grew tired of it because my trips kept turning into rescue and relief missions for those folks and getting cut short.

But when I get off those trails no one ever walks into my campsite. And when I backpack solo I can leave no trace, but when I invite friends who're not really backpackers they tend to want to build a campsite. What I do is much more akin to "Shinrin-yoku".
The question is why proprietary microcode that ships with your CPU is fine, but microcode patches released later are non-free? According to the FSF, you should never apply a vendor's microcode patch and instead you should buy a newer processor from them which will ship with the microcode patch already burned in.

You can't even argue that it is a difference of being stored in ROM vs. RAM because the existence of patches means that microcode is upgradeable.
Tools I use: PyCharm / Idea plugins
Teams is bigger than slack? Like, the executable?

Teams is an abomination; something to be cast into the fires of Mount Doom. Slack is miles better for everyday communication.