skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is literally that simple. That thinking has already been done by the FDA when they approved the vaccine and when they approved the boosters. The FDA is very conservative when it comes to approving new drugs and therapies (perhaps too conservative, but that's another comment entirely).

If you're not going to trust the FDA, we don't have anything to say to each other, really, because that's what the FDA is for. They have a great track record on these things, with very, very few drug recalls happening due to unforeseen side effects. As far as government agencies go, when it comes to drug approval, the FDA is probably the most trustworthy and least politicized government agency we've got.

They've examined the data on myocarditis and recently approved boosters for people over 16. They haven't yet approved it for 14 year olds, so, yes, that is an open question. But, it's one which they're working to answer, and which it's essentially part of their mandate to answer.
>In fact, you're brain will be constantly asking itself whether what you see is real or a 3D model.

I get this in movies. Sometimes I even get this in scenes where they're using real actors and not CGI. Harsh lighting with make up can make humans look somewhat fake to me. One of the Mission Impossible movies gave me this effect.
I rather see less babies.

I know it bad, but whenever I see a kid, I automatically think here's another person on this crowded plant we are ruining.

(And yes, I know the whole economic system might rely on having more kids, but maybe if there was a life extender adults could work more? Don't feel like a debate.)
Interesting. Would you mind if I asked you a few questions off-thread about the QS3? I'm working on adding a local tape option to my homelab (https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeDataCenter/comments/pira9v/powe...)

I need a solution for backing up the stored states for my 100 trillion digit PI calculation efforts.
> It seems you have a vested interest in preventing others from learning about the fractional lending scam.

This isn’t a huge conspiracy, I’m no where near important enough to benefit from such a conspiracy even if it did exist.

> As for your claim that a 0% reserve ratio means banks CAN lend depositor funds, that is either a huge misunderstanding on your part or an outright lie. Show me any documentation anywhere that supports your novel interpretation, and I’ll back down.

I’m not sure how many I can say this. Unless you’re the fed you can’t magic money out of thin air. If the banks aren’t lending depositor funds, then what are they lending? Where does the money come from?

You seem to be basing your understanding of fractional banking upon an old blog post, which talked about an interest quirk of how banks worked. But that quirk only exists if, and only if, you ignore the abstraction that supports it.

It’s not different to over allocating disk storage using ZFS. I can build a volume that capable proving 10TB quota to 100 people, using only a 1TB drive. When I create those quotas I “make” storage, by writing their available storage into a storage quota journal. But the only works if we ignore the fact that the storage quota journal itself is an abstract, and leaky one at that. If people actually tried to use their 100TB quota, they would quickly discover that writes beyond 1TB just don’t work, because I only have 1TB of actual physical storage.

Same applies to banks and their ledgers. The reserve ratio just determine how much cash the banks has to hold in reserve at a reserve bank, that’s all. That cash is customer deposits. If you want to assert that isn’t the fact, then you need to explain where the money is actually coming from, and why a billionaire hasn’t bought a bank, and lent themselves a few billion more dollars out of thin air.

Now I had a whole thing written out here with sources from the Federal Reserve etc explaining via tiny little steps what a reserve requirement is, then what a reserve requirement ratio is, and how that all links to net-transaction accounts, which basically account the hold depositor funds etc etc

But then I realised I don’t give shit if you remain uneducated and ignorant while wearing a tin foil hat, so whatever. Have good life, goodbye.
America is being attacked by pervasive narratives like this. News rags the whole world over are shitting on us, meanwhile authoritarian regimes are rising to power. It's a narrative dismantling, and we're being played like fools.

America is still the best country in the world to start a business and take risks.

America still has more freedoms (speech especially) than most of the world. (Side note: The left wants to put more restrictions on speech, which is horrible, because Republicans will swing back into power and use it in the other direction.)

America holds NATO together. Europeans don't give us enough credit. And they're replete with their own crises to always be pointing the finger.

We need more unity. This division by ideology and class is giving us short sightedness and blunting our ability to make sound investments in the future.

Globalism is something that should be reevaluated. Our capital is being invested into the capabilities of rivals, and it doesn't pay dividends. Americans have been turned into buyers of cheap plastic goods, and we've lost the ability to make our own critical components and wares. Huge mistake, driven in part by these narratives.

We're optimists, but the media is telling us not to be. They want us to yell at each other and drive ourselves into the dirt.
Our perceptions are like an adversarial network -- we are always getting better at spotting the simulation, so simulations have to keep improving to try to fool our perceptions.
Apparently the mix-blend-mode for images on the client is noticable performance-wise: https://github.com/lowtechmag/solar/issues/6
How to build a compute-based rasterizer with WebGPU
Sounds like suburb utopia.
I think it would be easier to become "filthy rich" for a poor person when they start in a nation with free healthcare and education. Because both of those things have a big chance of impacting your poor person's career lastingly if they don't have luck.

Most of the 0.1% inherited their wealth or at least came from an well educated background.
Only as expensive as the slowest pixel in the batch :D
Oddly enough, what you just described, is a pretty good model of a country with a powerball lottery.

Oops, this is the second post to say basically the same thing.
Why it compares just one type of mobility from the very bottom to the very top? Shouldn't it change all the stages in between? Also, assuming we always have the same bell curve of wealth distribution what does it matter who is where? Assuming some poor guy became rich, if the bell curve stays the same it means also that someone else dropped to become poor, so overall, what is the point? If you say the point is that having the opportunity encourage people to work and that in itself improves the situation for everyone then the American optimism is more valuable, even if it is not true.
There's some decent argumentation in here, but repeatedly referencing rising crime rates in San Francisco and other cities with anti-policing DAs is meaningless without context. Crime rates have been rising everywhere during the pandemic.
Tax those wealthy guys more. Tie all societal fees/fines to asset level. It might help?
I disagree with this assessment. (Or, more accurately, I’d like to see a more comprehensive counter argument).

The article you link to is essentially a response to 2 pages in the book, where Hoffman et al mention, almost in passing, that CLT is a silly theory when you want to train for real world scenarios (the intuition is that if you’re training marine fire squad commanders to plan on the battlefield, perhaps it helps to simulate shooting at them during training?) Hoffman et al use this as an example of a learning theory that doesn’t seem to map to real world requirements.

This reads like a disagreement over one particular dismissal in the book, perhaps because CLT is a pet theory of the article’s authors. The problem: this argument is not core to the book!

The article does not, for instance,

a) Deal with the many examples of successful real world accelerated training programs with no curriculum design (as is commonly understood; ordering of simulations isn’t really designing a syllabus) in Chapter 9 (some of which were designed by some of the authors)

b) Have a rejoinder to the two learning theories presented in Chapter 11 that the authors claim underpins their training approach (if there were something to attack, this would be it!)

c) Nor have a rejoinder to a more central claim in the book, (and to my mind a more controversial claim) that atomisation of concepts impedes rapidised training.

And, perhaps most surprisingly to me, your claim that

> Reading it I got the distinct impression that the authors did not understand a great deal of the research they cited, either when supporting or dismissing it.

is remarkable, given that one of the authors of Accelerated Expertise is Paul J Feltovich, one of the founders of the field of expertise research, and a contemporary of Ericsson’s.
Also, MacPorts or other multi-version python tools are generally better than Homebrew for Python:

https://justinmayer.com/posts/homebrew-python-is-not-for-you...
So an elementary model which cannot possibly hope to model all the real world variables is gonna predict the future? No no, this is too much but it's a cute toy, to play with models.
As a software engineer, I sometimes thank the heavens that when we make mistakes, they are often relatively easy to correct.
Loading and running a java class is only the most absurd exploitation possibility with log4j. Without that, you can still slurp any environment variables (or other process information) and send it to any host. And you can probably do yet other stuff too, it is quite flexible ...
the key advantage of FOSS is not code quality or price but access to the source and the right to resell it.

code quality on average should be on par with closed source software, if not a little bit better because developers know that their code will be public.

if FOSS would cost the same, source access would still be a factor, whereas code quality would not really matter because it can't be inspected for closed source anyways.

the downside would be a smaller pool of FOSS developers since less people would be able to afford to pay. but actually not that much. if a linux distribution cost the equivalent of a windows license, most people would still be able to afford it. the challenge is rather all the additional applications.

for a more realistic comparison look at freeware. it costs the same as FOSS but the only really popular freeware out there was the netscape browser and what, winrar? (there are probably others, but i am not a windows user so i am not familiar with the ecosystem). but if cost was the factor, then freeware should be just as popular.

FOSS is popular because it endures. i personally use several FOSS applications where the principal developers had left the project and others took over. any equivalent commercial of freeware application would be dead by now and i'd have to switch to something else.
DMX, Gabby Petito and TikTok Pasta: 2021 was not about Covid in Google searches
I'd describe it as wisdom instead, that thing that needs experience and consideration to (hopefully) come to fruition in oneself.
Mostly legal and ethical barriers are vastly higher for non human primates
This whole discussion seems kind of overblown. Every mainstream systems language is capable of having this kind of vulnerability, Rust included. But runtime pluggability is part of the culture of Java code (and some Python projects, and Ruby, &c) and isn't part of Rust or Go's culture. So every Java project is potentially exposed to this kind of thing, but only the plugin-styled Rust and Go programs are.

You're much less likely to see a deserialization bug in Rust or Go than in Java.

There is nothing intrinsic to Rust or Go that prevents deserialization bugs; they're just not encouraged by idiom like in Java.
I had some Class B stock for a while, so I got 10x the useless votes. Actually, one of my coworkers was the only one with class A stocks, and Deleware corporation rules require some elections to win in each class, so his votes weren't useless; as opposed to everyone outside of the founders and investors.
Because Memcached wasn't written by the OP, but this library was.
What the tweet and graph misses is the fact that the NICD systems have a delay in reporting due to some recent IT changes for data security. https://twitter.com/nicd_sa/status/1469405508679483395
> without the existence of government.

paying less taxes doesn't imply that the gov't ceases to exist. The gov't has no competition, so every entity within the gov't has every incentive to increase their own revenue by maximally expending tax dollars.

It is up to the people paying taxes to reduce it, as a counter-balancing force, and hold the spending efficiency to a good standard.
By a paper, do you mean the laws of thermodynamics?

The fans also eventually also dissipate their energy as heat when they push air around.

There is an alternative heater design though for the same power, which is a heat pump (the same as an AC, run in reverse), which can be much more efficient at heating (down to -5F outside, or so, when they may freeze over and stop working entirely)
Sounds like BuzzFeed was (at least) negligent in giving employees a path to convert their stock. And in fact I would argue that giving some folks "automatic" conversion, and then making "manual" conversion impossible smacks of something worse. Namely, fraud. Of course, it's always hard to press a fraud case since, by definition, you probably don't have money to pay a lawyer's retainer!
For renaming of many files I always tended to use this one: https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/
we had semi-static comments you are talking about. they were called guestbooks. but we gave up on them.
This is fantastical. The reason it's not done is because there are well established ways to do it that work other than this.
> They do exist in a limited supply. When a factory closes down and outsources all the jobs in a town, your job goes away.

I should have said "fixed number".

The US population is now twice as big as 1955. If the number of jobs had stayed fixed since then, unemployment would now be at least 50%.

This is clearly not true, which disproves the "fixed number of jobs" theory.
Not enough firefighters in that there are open positions and no one is interested? Or open positions only for the already trained/experienced?

If it’s the latter then that’s an argument that compensation is too high if anything. It should be rebalanced such that some of it is used for training.

If the former then that’s just alien to me. Here in Australia firefighting is a prestigious job with a lot of competition. People volunteer to do it for free or do it part time while working another primary job, for years, in the hopes of being able to become a full time firey.
The term "general inheritance" was not familiar to me as "inheritance across package structures". However, my OOP design intuition feels pretty good about that idea.

This quickly devolves into the inheritance vs. composition argument which isn't where I thought the Author wanted to go (but then sort of ended up going there). I agree with other commenters that it's an overstated idea. Inheritance is ridiculously useful in the right design structure, as is Composition. They both have a place. (Incidentally, bad Inheritance design usually looks very ugly very fast - bad Composition is often less glaring).

I find that years of designing in OOP has led me to build designs that have a goal of preventing me from making future mistakes and correctly consider implications of my code.

I find that my most immediate designs tend me towards Abstract Classes and Interfaces. While I usually get credit for "programming to the Interface" for this, that's not what usually led me there.

I like abstract methods. They (i.e. the compiler will) FORCE me to think about something if I ever decide to create another subclass of the Abstract class. The Author points out the "forget to call super" bug which is particularly nefarious and I avoid it at all costs. I can do that by providing a final concrete method which calls the abstract method. Let the subclasses implement that and never worry about super.

Anyway - governing inheritance across package hierarchies seems like a reasonable guideline. As for Inheritance vs. Composition, I don't favor either. When designing a class structure, I just make my best guess (as we'd all do) and find the structure quickly evolves on it's own. Usually, this ends up in a blend of shallow Inheritance trees with logical composition. There's always multiple Class Structures that will work - my goal is to find a reasonable one of those.
Well it changed the last 7 years. When I arrived, they didnt care and I was surprised they vehemently told me "we're Chinese through and through we just dont like the communists", fast forward 7 years, I m married to a local etc, she's religiously renewing her British National Overseas passport, like most people who are eligible, talk now of the "mainlanders" as the problem more than the communists, and 2 years ago the British flag was flying higher than the red flag...

As a french it annoys me you can imagine so Im not neutral on the subject, but I d say this Britsh link expanded. China managed to make the HK people regress by their mismanagement of the Taiwan murder issue (which turned into insane anti extraditions protests - how the hell did they screw up that much) and I lost many friends and colleagues to the anglosphere (many moved to Canada and US, some UK but life isnt as good there). I hear them say it was better with the UK, forgetting a bit their grandma sleeping on the streets of Sham Shui Po during the worst of the colonial era... but it was probably also the communists' fault if so many left Canton at that time.

Could also be me integrating deeper and seeing the issue as it always was, so take my comment with a grain of salt :D

Oh and linguistically, they're surprisingly less fluent than Singapore weirdly, and there are large pockets of HK where it's impossible to use English (usually poorer parts or more mainland populated) so it's very much a political link, not a love or influence of English as a language itself, unlike Latin in France where random grassroot people would fight against grammar reform to keep the Latin influence even if it's irrational, confusing or hard to write.
Seems to fundamentally confuse social mobility and financial mobility?

Simply earning more doesn't move your social class.
That dust would invariably collide, heat up a bit, emit that heat as thermal radiation and end up with a bit less energy. Thus slowly but surely its orbit would decay and it would move towards the core like normal matter, because it is normal matter.

However to explain the rotation curves the extra mass must have a different density profile, and it has to be present far beyond the edge of the visible galaxy.

If one assumes a particle which can't emit thermal radiation as it does not interact with electromagnetism, then it won't cool down and will remain in a diffuse blob around the galaxy.

Turns out one can get good fits to galaxy rotation curves with a huge diffuse blob of such a particles around a galaxy.
I also tend to stick with web safe colors everywhere. At the very least for my "base" colors. I also always expand them to the full pair of hex characters thanks to a bug in one of the 3.x or 4.x browsers that didn't support shortening hex colors when the characters in the pair were the same.
Of course, this is true generally. But, as I said in my other comment, when it comes to drug approvals, the FDA is probably the least politicized government agency we have, and they have an amazing track record of not approving drugs that ultimately end up causing more harm than good.

It's also rational to hold a realistic prior, so, you should take all this into account. Mistrusting the FDA on this is literally irrational.
Don’t blame the teacher for poor grades and don’t excuse poor grades by pointing out the mediocre students.
I keep a personal one that is somewhat simpler, and uses asdf for node, python, ruby etc: https://gist.github.com/llimllib/3fc4fefcfc0152dad8c58201246...

You might find it useful for a base for your own? up to you.
Visualization of American Incarceration Numbers
yes there are others out there. for video specifically theres unmaniac and tdarr. but personally I wanted a easy to use (ok, im biased on this, but thats what I'm trying to achieve) UI to make this simple but powerful. Like I said, its very much inspired by node-red, which is brilliant.

its only docker atm, as I was making it for unRAID. But I'm working on a windows installer. and I'll provide linux builds if theres demand for it.

I'm just working on making it a server/node system, where you can have multiple processing computers and one server. The server itself will have a built in node so if you just want the one app, you wont need to install both a server and a node. Thats probably a few days away. Its not that complicated to do.
From the article "Do we really need to have an argument about whether New Zealand [with a higher rate of incarceration than SF] is a carceralist state, or can we all just agree that this claim [that SF had been practicing mass incarceration] is absurd on its face?"

From the Guardian after a minute's Googling: "New Zealand has one of the highest incarceration rates in the developed world, with Māori people accounting for more than 50% of all prisoners, despite representing only 15% of the overall population. Some 90% of prisoners have a life-long diagnosis of mental illness or addiction." (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/29/yoga-herbs-and...)

Seems like there's an argument to be had, which makes me view the rest of the piece suspiciously.

[Edited to insert context on what "this claim" is]
I thought it was interesting that no country in the world did challenge vaccination trials despite there being many volunteers. I don’t know if I’d call that refusal red tape exactly but it’s in the neighborhood.
This is hilarious. Their marketing drivels on about how they employ a bunch of Apple engineers and the MacOS client is top-notch.
This reminds me of this post: https://putanumonit.com/2021/09/10/rules-for-noobs/

I don't think the guy is any sort of "certified expert" but it rings true to me. And occasionally I've tried to give people related advice but found I couldn't. For example: How do you know when you you're close enough with someone that you tease them in a way that they'll take well vs badly? I'm pretty good at knowing it, but I'll be damned if I can explain it.

tl;dr of the article is that when people are learning then explicit rules and guidelines are helpful. Once you get better at it, they are unnecessary and even harmful. People in the latter stage tend to give crappy advice like "just be yourself" because it works for them now, they don't really exactly know what they're doing (ie, the knowledge is implicit) and they've forgotten what it's like to be totally incompetent.

Anyway, perhaps the point is that while it's difficult to externalize how to "not be awkward" (and indeed it would likely be different for every social group) you can probably use rules to get along well enough, for long enough, to figure it out the hard way.
The Books I Read In 2021