skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> is supposed to be a free country

That's highly dependent on a bunch of stuff that you can not choose at birth. For some variations of those you are going to find yourself decidedly less free than others.

Agreed that blind trust in experts makes the problem worse - in principle. But with hysteria just around the corner (of which the wishful thinking that a cheap and common cure exists is one exponent) I can see why authorities chose to try to massage the message. Where they wrong? Probably, in the general case, yes. Were they wrong in this case? Possibly, but I would not be too sure of that, taking into account that even the highest levels of politics were actively spreading mis-information against informed scientific consensus. If we actually had trusted the experts things would likely look a lot better. But instead, we outsourced our trust and hence our decision making to committees, politicians and the lens of the media.

The fact that every country acted on its own was yet another confounding factor, if this had been a giant synchronized operation then it likely would have worked out differently as well. Even today we are still seeing giant differences between countries, rather than that the rich countries structurally help the poor.
Understanding the Sliding Window Pattern
Defense given: 480 x 212

Prosecutor withheld: 1920 x 844
Czechs bar unvaccinated from public events, services
Calm down, SJW.

In a pandemic, there's no "informed decision" one can make except to buy an island, stock it up with 2 years of food, then move there.

The only people you can blame for this pandemic are CCP/WIV, the CDC for failing to be prepared, Fauci being a habitual liar, and some of the officials who sent corona patients back to nursing homes.

Other than that, corona spread 5x further (or faster) than the NIH/CDC expected, so nobody without their own island could have avoided it.

Essential services like grocery stores and shipping had to continue during corona or we'd all have starved by now - so 100% mortality vs, 1/500 to corona.

Note that if you're basing any of your opinions on the MSM, like cnn.com, you're gravely misinformed. All of the actual corona journalism was done by Sky Australia and NTD Media.
Hilbert spaces with infinite dimension you mean?
That's a good call, you're right. Below is what I put for the last "Who's Hiring" post:

Location: Ottawa, ON, Canada
Remote: Yes (remote or local)
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, Lua, C, Zig.
Résumé: http://rendello.ca/resume/
Email: gaven@rendello.ca

And my GitHub is here: https://github.com/rendello

My skills are fairly scattered, as is my Github. That being said, I usually indicate on my resume that I'm a Python programmer, and I try to also talk about the lower level C and Zig projects I've done. I would like to apply to more lower-level work, but I don't yet have the skills (I can work in C, but the general ecosystem and interacting with hardware is beyond my current skill-set).
Chevy van? Damn 4L60 transmissions suck. Sometimes it's just a solenoid, and sometimes shifting it manually might get some more life out of it.

I hope you can get help. I have a few family members with schizophrenia / bipolar disorder and the way society treats them is like shit.
You said that already, but why would that be a better approach to using a higher voltage from the start or using AC? This isn't exactly an unsolved problem.
I don't understand how that's relevant to a discussion about conflicts of interest.

If someone is promoting Ivermectin, how do they benefit from that given that anyone else can jump in and take away any increase in sales?
This is maybe true. But I have seen more than a few dubious COVID articles gain traction on HN. There are several times I have tried to clarify basic statistical points as well. So it’s not a given that it would have been flagged/dead.
Love and emotional vulnerability are one topic. Specific divorce laws are another topic.

As a thought experiment, imagine pushing the divorce laws even further in the existing direction. Imagine a law saying: "if a wife kills her husband, this is not considered a crime, and she automatically gets all his property". Wouldn't this make men even more emotionally vulnerable? Wouldn't this make marriage a more exciting adventure? How much more attention would we pay to choosing the right partner! Definitely seems like a move in the right direction. (just kidding)
> The fact that I cannot get housing just proves no one cares.

All it proves is that there is a big housing shortage.

Have you tried taking your van somewhere where housing is dirt cheap?

I hear small poor towns are better at taking care of the downtrodden too. Walk into the church poor people go to, and see what happens.
Very prisoner-of-war-esque. I might try that if I ever get into such a subscription trap. I am just not sure if I could maintain my composure enough to keep saying "please".
There are a lot of mental health issues that make this level of self-awareness and future planning incredibly difficult.
You know who Justin Trudeau also looks like ? Pierre Trudeau.
i personally will be trying to ensure this lives on in infamy through sarcasm at every opportunity. i'm in texas, so it's not often some other state does something as just obliviously dumb as the texas govt. except florida. it's neck and neck between texas and florida
The generic broad anti-viral props of ivermectin seems to have been established during the last decade https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016635422... so it isn't out of the blue that it may work as anti-covid, though whether it rises to a clinical effect that i guess is the question right now. To me it looks like the small positive clinical effect reported in many places matches that generic broad anti-viral props, and it also shows that it isn't a "cure", at least not in the current form. So all this drama is kind of strange - why not prescribe to the patients who want it? Not that doctors have anything better to offer anyway, and the patients will get a deworming as a bonus.
Neither is going to happen. The photography market has split into three camps.

Casual users who care about apps will just use their phones and the quality will be on par with Micro-4/3 and likely APS-C with computational photography advances.

Prosumers will stick with smaller full frame optimised for style and old school usability e.g. Leica. Professionals will either use full frame for speed or move towards medium format which Fuji is leading the charge towards.
I think the answer must be an unequivocal yes, because there are people who exhaust all of their options for intervention and then kill themselves.
I think you mean "C-h r"
Withholding high-definition evidence? Oh dear.

That probably means case closed and this guy is walking free.
You make a lot of very good points.

> You are operating under a very peculiar view of left/right

I am using the most current views - for instance, in the US, the "left" (there is no such thing as socialists in the US mainstream politics, or even a "proper" left) wants everyone to have healthcare, regardless of how much they can pay. The very far left of the US political spectrum are mild social democrats and Keynesians.

> Whereas an envious elitist may try to outdo his opponent, the egalitarian will deny or cut him down.

While neither of them is going to Heaven, that doesn't undo the notion that Jesus told people to get rid of all their worldly possessions, give the money to the poor, and join him.

> suggest that what is forgiven is understandable or resolved by understanding.

Not at all. One should understand and accept the other even when there are irreconcilable differences, for God made both and both deserve love.

> Christianity/Catholicism is anything but the Church of Being A Nice Fellow.

It has been used for purposes completely opposite to what Jesus taught, by fallible humans.
I hope my question won’t wake up anything, and please accept my apologies if they do.

- What hopes did you have when you were younger?

- What did it look like when you started failing?

- Do you think a different turn of events would have avoided that?

I feel like I was on the high path up to 25 years old, I’m earning now, but I’m getting inexorably rid of my friends, one after another. I’d like to know where I’m at…
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I think only the C/C++ development environment existed for those platforms, but I can try to dig more. Maybe I couldn't find them at the precise timeframe I had an Alpha to play with.
This article is talking primarily about publishers. Does it also apply to other subscription services, like say, an ISP?
This headline is somewhat misleading.

The Trump tax cuts were structured to the benefit of his base at the expense of his strongest opposition. This was done by severely limiting deductions for taxes paid to city, county or state, in effect, forcing double-taxation on wages paid to people in major cities.

This new proposal is less of a "windfall" and more of a return to the standard American practice of not doing double-taxation, which was removed by Trump to harm his opposition.
And then the prosecution zoomed into an area of that video that must have been all of 100×50 pixels, and showed that on a 4k monitor! :D
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like so many mozilla issues.
Ignorance is not contagious and it is not entirely learned either. By teaching anyone anything, you are changing the physical substrate of the mind. Did you fix anything at all? Or did you destroy one mind and create a new one in its place.
How did you determine that the RAW images are lossy-compressed?
> The worst customer satisfaction score with least lowest rate of re-subscription is from companies that make it hell to unsubscribe.

Does "least lowest" mean highest? Or did you mean "least/lowest"?
Its called a society
This is GOP strategy in practice, I’m not sure if there’s a party document anywhere that outlines it though.
Terrifying that the liver transplant feels like a "let's try clearing your cache and cookies".
> identify why Teams is doing it?

Probably to increase the friction of using other browsers. It will be simpler for many users to keep all their bookmarks, history, and saved passwords in one browser. If Microsoft's products require Edge, it's going to channel more users to Edge due to reduced friction.
I do not want to tweak Lucene. I don't want a huge dependency. I don't want Lucene. Period.

I am writing a database, full-text search is just a *minor* feature.

Why should I bringing in a huge dependency for a minor feature when my whole code base is orders magnitude smaller than that?
The link exposes a login and a password. Dunno if this is intended.
We used XMPP to orchestrate servers and runtimes at one of my previous employers.

I might be romanticizing it in my memory a bit, but I remember it fondly.

We would run ejabberd servers and could easily know which nodes were up and talk/send commands to them.
No you are absolutely correct, I was just illustrating the disconnect between what people think they are communicating and what it actually comes across as.

There is a degree of nuance that is definitely lost when people say to trust the science, which is to say that the rigorous process is what is generally trusted, but that isn't how it is communicated which is why "trusting the science" is probably a slogan that does more harm than benefit. For example it is sort of tone deaf to say that now, after how science experts have handled the first part of the pandemic, or how science has been used to justify things like the oversubscribing of opioids, or what they have said regarding nutrition (sugars vs fats), or carbon emissions and even smoking in the past. Politicizing science taints science more than it benefits politicians, but since they don't bear the costs of that erosion of trust, they will continue to politicize it.
Statistics also suggest that, singularly among illnesses, people with schizophrenia fare better in the developing world, where the rates of remission are higher.

It's because developing countries are low-compliance societies. Humans weren't evolved to live in high-compliance societies and a lot of us don't care for it at all. Some of us get by. Others don't.
Price reductions and increase in script sizes (at 1MB, currently) would be nice, too.
The Lost History of the New York Sun Clock and Thermometer
It's a hard question to ask about mental health, but it seems like an obvious conclusion when it comes to physical health:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay...
This is ultimately a nature vs nurture debate.

Are humans the way they are due to their inherent 'nature'? Are they genetically set in stone, programmed and minimally changing from a set point(like an object)?

Or are human's the way they are by 'nurture' and does their environment influence their essence and with a changed external environment they can change as well?

Science seems to believe it's a bit of both. Look at twin studies and epigenetic expression of schizophrenia for examples.

The issue I see with your argument is that it assumes that human's are like objects and therefore heavily 'nature' based.

I think science leans towards more of a balance of nature and nurture.
I think that is a fine question to ask in this forum. Maybe not a question that people in the situation described can handle of course!

Related may be "Too broken to imagine (myself) being fixed." Which is probably more of a failure of imagination (and possibly of support) than a reality.

And then you get into what does "fixed" mean, vs "good", in a _person_ ...
That's not a real thing.
Why Clubhouse Is No Longer the Funhouse
Some perspective on Clubhouse being in the dog house after being off to a super hot start the company has been losing users each month and here is why.
Why PlanetScale won't support PostgreSQL
There's a web framework performance comparison project out there that makes HN from time to time, and IIRC the findings have been you basically can't reliably beat PHP performance at serving dynamic web sites without resorting to a compiled language—and even then, it's far from guaranteed.

I haven't written much PHP in a long time, but I'd believe it. There are some really slow programs in PHP (Wordpress...) but the language is damn fast. Its tendency to be only a thin wrapper over C or C++, such that one rarely spends much time in PHP itself, is probably the main reason.
The upshot of the discussion seems to be that the definitions of a Lisp and a Forth are so orthogonal that one person correctly say "most lisps have no relations to forth and vice versa" and another can correctly say "look, a lisp that's also a forth".

How conceptual orthogonality works.
thanks for sharing this bro
What do you mean by high/low compliance?
Are they still a dominant OS though? I'm sure they are if you're only talking about desktop operating systems, but I think we'd want to include mobile operating systems now that many people solely use phones and tablets for their personal computing.
> Unless you have a lot of money and influence don’t play games with them.

There are a fair number of companies that do these dark patterns that have a lot of money and influence though.
Blaming others for reasonable reads on careless phrasing has never in the history of conversation made the situation better.
what jurisdiction?
I use a Hisense A5 since about two years and the battery runtime of over a week is just excellent. Being able to use it in plain sunlight is simply priceless. The grayscale display is good enough and i don't miss color at all.
The only thing that somewhat bothers me is that it can't be equipped with some non-chinese alternate ROM like LineageOS. Nonetheless, as it turned out to be much better than expected i actually bought a second unit as a spare.
The team may be in the public, but neither on Twitter nor on their website is any imprint or personal information.

The proper way to do it, would be to set up a non-profit organization where each funding/paying member gets voting rights (no crypto needed).

It's funny as a joke and maybe the intention is good, but in the end this could just as well be a new crypto scam and funding this project is the same as gambling at a casino.
Social media for kids is a lot like heroin.
If you don't get started, then you don't crave it.

As a philosopher / technologist, I limit all apps with gambling or flashy light content. This is the other heroin.

Once you get rid of these ills (social media and gambling rewards) tech and media can be really great.

Don't let kids play or watch things you would not play or watch.

My 3 year old really likes Ghiblis' Spirited Away and plays Putt Putt.
And what if you don't understand enough of the topic to pick the right specialist? (Answer: you go with the person who sounds the most confident)
Menu -> Format -> Lossless 2:1, Lossless 4:1 etc

It's not a hidden feature by any stretch. Different vendors allow for different types. Some only allow a smaller frame size while still RAW. Some allow a compression to be applied.

Shorter answer, read the specs or RTFM.
Perhaps a good reason to keep elevating the socially approved age to reproduce?

By the time you're in your 40s, you likely have a good idea of whether or not you're a stable enough mind to commit to the minimum 20 years required to uplift a new human adult.
It is. Specifically, IQ is assumed or asserted to follow the normal distribution, where mean equals median and mode.

By definition, half are below the median. The normal distribution's median is equal to the mean, so half are below mean.
The shareholder fight that forced Apple’s hand on repair rights
“Radio Row,” NYC's First Electronics District
oops, that was a typo. Fixed it.
I've seen several Fujifilm bridge cameras with in-camera stacking; not sure about the rest of their line.
There are, certainly, medical situations where we cannot fix it, and we let them go. In fact, most of us will meet our end in such a way, eventually. The difficult thing about mental illness, is that we know so little about how it works (and much of what we think we know is incorrect), so that the solution might be really close at hand, but we haven't found it yet.

We know when someone's physical health, for example a rapidly spreading cancer, has passed the point of no return. We don't understand mental health well enough to know that. In rare cases, of course, like brain damage from trauma that leaves the person in a vegetative state, we know that it will never get better, but in cases like this article I don't think we ever know one way or the other.
Mozilla argues in their paper that once governments in one part of the world start forcing browsers include root certificates, governments in other parts of the world will start doing the same shortly after. You might trust your government more, but you certainly wouldn't trust arbitrary governments more.

Furthermore, I have seen nothing wrong in mozilla's stewardship of the root certificate program in the decades it's been running, whereas mozilla points to deficiencies in the EU's certificate programs. This is to be expected since running a root store is not one of the EU's specialties. I would trust that government most that defers to private companies in areas where they lack expertise.
Small correction: you can very much enjoy and love Unsong without understanding of Judaism and Kabbalah.
What Apple’s New Repair Program Means for You (and Your iPhone)
Algorithmic thinking and gluing things together well are both important. Algorithmic thinking is easier to test, I think, and also harder to teach.

I don't think you really need to spend 4 interview slots on it though. Two slots should give you enough signal there, IMHO, or you're not giving the right problems; possibly three if you get solid maybes from the first two, but then you're missing out on whatever your other slot was.
Nvidia easily beats earnings expectations on strong gaming and data center sales
Well, there's the estimated work to fix and then there's how ... "valauble" someone is. It's an invisible measure: a little bit of celebrity (or how many people know you), some kind of reputational Whuffie (will they be missed?), a dash of disregard for age("he was so young" versus "it was his time"), some men versus women as kind of a global score, then you have individual removal. As an example, were Taylor Swift were pursued by the black dog, wallets would open up for suicide prevention, but some loathed yet similarly known figure not so much.

Whatever it is, the never-to-be-acknowledged issue that for many, people "care" to an extent that is materially indistinguishable from not caring one bit. Most people give advice with no skin in the game and no penalties for being wrong. Who wants to face the question, "What if it didn't get better?" What if you convince some miserable twenty-something that it gets better, as the platitude goes, and some fifty years later, no, it didn't, that their life was one terrible slog through stone-faced despair, lest we "affect loved ones" via the taboo of picking the time we board the train to Endsville? Whoops, sorry about that, we guilted you into suffering for half a century so we wouldn't have to look at you. Someone who would have done a Richard Cory instead ends up like Giles Corey, and it was just one more weight on the plank crushing them down, but gosh we feel good about saying the right thing.
Also social pressure and expectations. How many people would feel comfortable saying "Sorry mom/dad/friend/potential partner, I'm not going to have kids because I'm worried I might not be a good parent or maybe even take my own life"?
That's a pretty harsh view.

Let me try something else: the author notes that 6,000 people take their lives in the UK every year. That has a very substantial cost, potentially measurable in many ways, but let's measure it in dollars.

The US EPA uses a value of about 7 million dollars for a statistical life in 2006 dollars [1], or about 10 million 2021 dollars [2].

The cost of suicide in the UK in the aggregate is something like 6,000*10,000,000 dollars. That's a 60 billion dollar problem.

Nearly every 60 billion dollar problem is worth caring about. Hypothetically, if you could spend $10 billion dollars to prevent all of those suicides, you would be generating a $50 billion dollar gain.

It's worth at least asking of a "we need to talk about..." article how big the problem is (on some dimension, whether in dollars or otherwise). This one is quite large.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/environmental-economics/mortality-risk-v...
[2] https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
Can anyone ELI5 how a bad guy would use rowhammer to escalate privileges?

As I understand it, it's just flipping random bits, wouldn't that have a very low chance of doing anything useful?
You are arguing in bad faith. You’ve stopped talking about the topic and instead about me. Grow up.
Unfriended: Frances Haugen on Her Facebook Testimony and What Comes Next
Moving costs money that's hard to get when you already can't afford life, and further isolates you until you get integrated into the new community. It's a risky proposition. A lot of people who find themselves homeless got there by moving without being prepared for the other end.