skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article [0] would seem to agree with that feeling you can't shake; not that it's a "hoax" per se, but that it's bullshit ;)

> So what does it lack? The film implies anyone can make a beautiful work of art with the right application of science. There is no need for mystical ideas like genius.

> But the mysterious genius of Vermeer is exactly what's missing from Tim's Vermeer. It is arrogant to deny the enigmatic nature of Vermeer's art. If this art looks "optical", it can also look abstract. It is an act of seeing nature, not a work of copying it. Whether or not he made use of optical instruments, Vermeer looked at the world with a uniquely penetrating eye. He was able to paint what he saw with a delicate hand. If you can't see the astonishing nature of his talent when you are standing in front of his paintings you should walk away from them – not make a film about how easy they are to replicate.

> Tim's Vermeer is the equivalent of someone hanging a painting-by-numbers version of a masterpiece over the mantelpiece and claiming it's as good as the real thing. At last, an art film for philistines.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2...
Costs have gone up but there is also too much consolidation in many areas of the US economy. Not enough competition means prices will rise simply because they can.
That's more a spatial awareness and memory, I think.

I think I might have "aphantasia" (or I am not trying hard enough :)), but I can perfectly well find things I left somewhere in the dark. I could also easily find that place I got to once through a maze of one-way streets following instructions by someone else weeks ago by kinda-recognizing buildings and houses where I need to make turns. I couldn't describe what those houses looked like for the life of me, but I could perfectly recognize them once I saw them.

All of these are things I've noticed in the past, but never put a name to it (not that I looked).
> if you would really remember how the old web worked or ever
used Altavista or other early search-engines to look for stuff, you'd realise the web is a LOT more accessible today,
with a lot more information available.

I would dispute this. At that time, search was not gamed the way it is now, you didn't have to wade through millions of terrible low quality SEO bs to find the nuggets you're looking for.
the only lightweight news site i like is lite.cnn.com although with US focus i would love to see a more EU/UK/Worldwide focused one
Or you could just have a tag-like approach to news. If something new interests you, subscribe to a tag. If it ceases to interest you, unsubscribe from that tag or snooze it for some months. You discover new tags by seeing them referenced in stories from tags you already follow.

That's pretty similar to what Reddit does. And it doesn't even need much user data, other than the user expressing what they are interested in.
It's not uncommon for unwritten, but implicitly accepted, social conventions to be broken in the moment. You might take a screenshot of a private group chat "just to show my wife and I'll definitely delete it later" but then forget and it leaks.. etc. etc. Having some guard rails on that sort of situation might help/remind some people.
That's a very interesting perspective, and one you don't hear a lot.

For at least a small subset of early Internet and computer pioneers there was a sense that technology would usher in a new post-scarcity or even post-money era.
The "Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" gives a torrid and breathy example of the kind of thought and rhetoric floating around: https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

In hindsight it seems so naive to me. I don't wonder that we got blindsided.
I find there's something fishy about talking of "millions of people dying from pollution".

It raises a simple question that isn't easy to answer: what do we mean when we say someone died of something? Under what circumstances do we say that? If someone gets hit by a car, they were killed in a car accident. If an 80 year old dies of cancer, cancer killed them, but it's a little different than a car accident (and also different than a 15 year old dying of leukemia). Even more different is something, like pollution, that is a factor in someone's death.

When it comes to pollution, I think a better framing would be to talk about pollution lowering life expectancy. That seems more honest unless these people are choking on smog and asphyxiating.
Security is complex but many companies find it easier to offload it to managed services and best-practices/reference architectures in the cloud compared to janky internal systems.
It won't join smallpox because it has lots of animal reservoirs.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/17/health/covid-deer-animals/ind...
https://outline.com/

Afaik https://github.com/mozilla/readability is what Firefox uses and that's where you can report websites who don't parse well.
I don't understand what one has to do with the other. The owners should not rely on workers being able to receive tips in the first place. Tipping is not something involving the owner, as this is (except when contractually clarified) a direct transaction between customer and waiting staff.

To put it in a different context: I think I should pay the car rental shop less, because I know they have lots of money.

They would laugh at me.

So should the waiting staff.
Today I had to quickly compare trade import and export as percentage of GDP in two countries. I could basically write: (country) export and import as percentage of (country) GDP vs [repeated for country 2]. It worked in first go in WA, no issues, even produced a beautiful graph. That runs rings around Google.
I have read, without a lot of evidence to be fair, that port capacity is a small part of it. Overseas container shipping companies had, pre-pandemic, been competing so heavily that they were often running a loss and hoping to make it up on volume. They used the pandemic to sort of consolidate and lower capacity by decommissioning ships and so dramatically increase per-container price. Not sure if there's a lot of clear evidence for it, but it's one explanation I read.
I do!

The open source stuff you guys have is also interesting :)

- https://newscatcherapi.com/blog/python-web-scraping-librarie...

Will reach out to you via email later today
> Yes the vaccine does improve outcomes BUT the hospitalization rate for unvaccinated people is still lower with Omicron than previous variants.

Why "BUT"? Shouldn't the second part be, uh, a good thing?
The study adjusted for vaccine status [0] but was still comparing things to the initial wave in 2020, which is strange and I would like to know their justification for that.

For a bit more of an apples-to-apples comparison they should be comparing omicron hospitalization & fatality rates to those of non-omicron variants over the same period of time. It doesn't look like they've done that, and I'm not aware of a study that has systematically done this (yet).

It would certainly be a holiday-season gift if we shifted to a more virulent but less serious variant, but I'll hold out for a bit more information before I completely buy into that narrative. That can be difficult: people want to believe some good news here. Heck, my initial gut reaction was to push back against your objections but my career has trained me to resist that sort of thing. It won't be good for the erosion of trust in the media if they've jumped the gun on this and Omicron doesn't turn out the way we hope it will.

https://www.discovery.co.za/corporate/news-room
Is it possible for one to be developed?
Fwiw I absolutely can “look” at an elephant in my imagination, and sometimes I am even surprised by what it does (like when it blinks or squirts water from its trunk..) the subconscious mind can be wild! I can imagine the big gray elephants from the savanna or the smaller brown ones from the jungles. I have memories of documentaries that “replay” in my head. When I am imagining like this, my awareness of the real world fades and I can’t really see what is in front of me.

In woodworking, I can perform operations in my head and visualize the result to the board, sometimes catching errors before they happen in the real world.
So Miami gets submerged 13,000 years from now and not within the next 50?

My coworkers laugh when I tell them I'm looking at Miami real estate. It doesn't look like it's going anywhere but up in my lifetime, though.
Most of the predictions issued by climate scientists have been correct or overly conservative. We are also seeing just the same amount of warming that Exxon predicted in 1970 in their se ret study.

At some point climate “sceptics” are like the people avoiding vaccines. Dumb babies indulging in sophistry while ignoring real actions that can alter reality in massively useful ways.
" It's pretty obvious that other masks don't work at all"

So a N95 mask works and covering your mouth with a bandana has no effect at all? Not even 10%?
>One pet peeve of mine in all of this inflation talk is that all of the comparisons are to a year ago, i.e. to a very unusual year.

you mean the YOY numbers? That might have been a big issue for the march-may numbers (where the dip was the most dramatic), but for the latest inflation data (november) we see that the YOY data it was comparing against (ie. november of last year) has mostly recovered back to the trendline.

https://i.imgur.com/0ufS56V.png
All those problems you mentioned are policy problems. More money toward those issues will not solve them. US government has more than enough tax revenue to solve these problems, but not the right priorities.
The one imperative they do have, in effect, is to replicate. That imperative translates into the real world into analogues of action that replicate to equivalent observable effects.
I think the point is that him sending out notebooks (he only has 100 of) doesn't scale.
The cool thing is that you can do that on the existing system.

Make a new service. Make it username / password authenticated. Don't give out the usernames and passwords to everyone that comes in. Have some kind of gating function (BBS's were all about who you knew, somethingawful.com made you pay twenty bucks one time, some old systems were gated on something no more complex than single-administrator bandwidth).

You won't grow at a rate that any VC will care about, but that kind of capitalism-feeding growth isn't your goal if you're trying to cultivate a "web 1.0 experience:" web 1.0 didn't support most people's capitalist ventures.

What you may find (what I've found participating in these experiments) is that the resulting space is a whole lot quieter than the rest of the web. And if you're replicating the web 1.0 experience, that's the goal.

The site administrator will also spend a lot more time glad-handing individual users who have individual issues. That's fine; if you're going for a web 1.0 experience, authentication management isn't automated beyond a few simple config scripts.

And if that's what a person wants, nothing about the modern web stops them from doing it, except that very few people will care they're doing it because (unlike the web 1.0 days) there are alternatives that accept all comers with functionally infinite capacity now.
I think the exhibition should include the Van Meegerens. The fake Vermeers are famous enough that seeing them alongside real Vermeers would be fascinating.
How does wearing a mask hurt the economy?
I'm a bit confused behind the substance of your argument. I use RHEL at work a lot which is admittedly pretty corporately, but use Debian at home just fine. But as for windows-y? How so? And regarding backwards compatibility, isn't that how Linux has always been? Windows has always been the king of backwards compatibility, whereas it wasn't one of Linux's strengths.

As Miguel de Icaza said in 2012:

> Backwards compatibility is not a sexy problem. It is not even remotely an interesting problem to solve. Nobody wants to do that work, everyone wants to innovate, and be responsible for the next big feature in Linux.

> So Linux was left with idealists that wanted to design the best possible system without having to worry about boring details like support and backwards compatibility.

> Meanwhile, you can still run the 2001 Photoshop that came when XP was launched on Windows 8. And you can still run your old OSX apps on Mountain Lion…”

src: https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html
Yeah we can “blame capitalism”. It’s the umbrella meme people use to organize around industrial effort. We can absolutely target it. Better than targeting each other specifically.

If you want to get literal; there is one “substrate” upon which all of human invention, culture and engineering can arise from. I refuse to get into philosophical equivocation that waves off the focus on preserving it.

Put your money where your mouth is, go join a religion and see how it’s physically the same thing; you want to be in the club that feels right.

The specific ephemera mean very little. The shared substrate means everything. Demonize and denigrate the ephemera to preserve what matters.

We are getting out from under religion due to the same active indifference. Sorry, Ferengi. I don’t feel an obligation to your Rules of Acquisition. I will pantomime at job, go home and advocate and make political choices that end it whenever I can.

None of our laws or social memes require me to care about anyone specifically. They oblige me to accept others are capable of feeling like their own metaverse. I don’t have to live in it with them.
If they already do it, then what is the point of a new 'metaverse' for government? Most manage taxes and what not just fine with whatever identifiers they have been using
Not that it makes me a genius or something, but it's not that hard for me to picture that cube folding. Or to imagine it folded and rotated. I did have to slow down a little to make sure I wasn't making a mistake about the orientation of the characters.

What about you?
The only effective law would be a sufficient tax on fossil fuels to force reduction in consumption.

But it will be heavily unpopular as it will reduce people’s quality of life in the short term, even for the rest of their life, plus globally, other populations would be happy to pick up the demand.
Asymptomatic spread is not nearly as prevalent as originally feared.

Also, those who do not get symptoms (that is, most who catch covid) do not spread the virus in general, which is why it's now called "presymptomatic" spread.
Not for COVID. I had approximately 2 weeks lead time ahead of the general public, thanks to message boards of all things. I could've known it as early as January, AFAIK, if I'd had enough background knowledge to identify the information as significant.
Eventually. But as it appeared it was more virulent than its immediate ancestors.
This is just pseudoscience. No studies, no test, just a guy opinion.

Stop clarifying people this way. It's not useful, it's not insightfully. I have seen coworkers fighting for one thing but not another. One fights against bad work ethics, another for good tech and another one for their own right too be with his family. People is complex, everything comes in gradients and that changes as people grows and they learn and their lives change.

If you are interested look for some real course in psychology and learn from there.
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There's no guarantee a virus gets more lethal. Viruses select for survival and less lethality is _one_ strategy (though a fairly good one).
I didn't address that. I just said if you oppose mandatory vaccines, you are classified as "antivax". It may even turn out that the folks opposing mandatory vaccines were in fact acting in the morally correct manner (if for some reason it does turn out there is a systemic risk introduced by the vaccine that greatly exceeds the risks it reduces), although that is both unlikely to occurr, and unlikely to be vindicating.

Implying vaccines are addictive is either trolling, ignorance, or willful stupidity. Please come up with better, more informed kinds of industry hate.
is the weather getting colder where you live? that seems to be what does it for my mom and I. as things cool off here and cold fronts pass through it causes pain in mostly my finger and knee joints. my mom takes medication for arthritis and I'm probably going to have to look into doing the same soon
Look, I don't like mowing the lawn. I think long grass looks nice.

It isn't hypocritical of me to mow my lawn to avoid fines while still advocating for elimination of the grass ordinances in my city.

To directly address your point: the motivation of web 2.0 sites is to get a bunch of money by making the content hard to read without first looking at a bunch of ads, and futher to disallow a reading experience uninterrupted by adds every 30-60s. The web page in question did not show me any ads.

My question to you is: how do you not see the difference?
> This means people were willing to pay a 10,000% premium in order to buy shares in a project that no longer has a purpose. And it wasn'y just a handful of people — a whole liquid market emerged. Yesterday, nearly two weeks after the failed option, the daily trading volume in $PEOPLE tokens was over $70,000,000. Why would anyone pay to buy a token that no longer has a purpose?

The fact that we can't distinguish self-trading from legitimate interest is a problem with crypto. There's no possible way to know why and the author's theory that it's "investors believing in the story" is no more or less plausible than my theory that the liquidity is 100% fake and is just a core group of people generating volume between their own wallets.
As IT workers in general we have numerous advantages over most people.

First, we can work remote. Compare that to a fast food worker who has to risk exposure to feed their family.

Second, if you spend your money right you can say f it and leave any job that's too rough.

I was actually thinking of taking 6 months off, until I realized travel is still restricted
Out of curiosity: Is the first OCR example really the best you can find? Is there no open source solution that outputs good results for handwritten notes?
Analogue Pocket: FPGA-based portable console for legacy games
I've looked for some GPU on the web and it's super expensive to rent. I was expecting to rent that for say 50$ per month (considering I can rent some webspace for less then 10$ a month) but everything was more expensive like 600$/month (I look for entry level GPU, used just a bit, I'm a student) ... Did I look correctly ?
We are maybe a couple months from Pfizer's new antiviral becoming widely available, and it will probably work for immune compromised people. There's also a recent EUA for a long-acting antibody PrEP injection that should help immune compromised people avoid infection in the first place.

Both of these may be widely available in the US quite soon.
Why do you need youtube? You have the videos. You are not deriving any revenue from it being hosted on youtube or need their monetization capabilities, I presume. Just host it on an alternative platform (rumble? Odyssey? Others?) and tell your friends to do the same. Fortunately, youtube is not the only game in town, why insist on using a platform that clearly doesn't want to be used?
I think that's a large part of the appeal of overlay networks like Tor, GNUnet, I2P, IPFS, etc. All of them are niche and not supported by any notable ad networks, many of them heavily discourage JavaScript and tracking, and with the networks often being either slow or high latency (or both) websites are forced to be fairly lean.
I actually agree with your underlying urge: space travel should be pleasant! But what separates out engineering from science is essentially economics. In science we don't know the scale a discovery will make until we've made it. Before nuclear weapons how could we know that studying these tiny atoms would essentially end total war between major powers. With engineering smart people looked at the costs and said something like:

> We're 99.9% sure this is going to be >2x the alternative and it's not worth it.

Just off the top of my head costs that go up:

- Instruments (lol, our cameras now need faster f-stops)

- Every need now needs to be met during the spinning state and the non-spinning state. (lol, Frank you used the gravity toilet in the middle of the night but we stopped the spinning state yesterday)

- Harder to maintain, since crew needs to lose angular momentum as they travel along the bridge and they can't toss things around as easily.
> Even Ebola gets much less lethal towards the end of an outbreak as it evolves to preserve its habitat.

No, it doesn't.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/08/facebook-p...

> The claim makes a broad generalization about pathogens that’s not supported by science. It has been well-documented that pathogens can evolve to be more virulent. And many viruses, including HIV and Ebola, have in fact become more lethal over time.

As you note, smallpox disproves the idea that viruses automatically become mild. It had thousands of years to do so and carried a 30% mortality rate still.
really? I have yet to seen anybody that actually cares about AR at all in my day to day interactions
Thanks. A couple of ideas mentioned there for anyone else: "measuring cortical excitability in the primary visual cortex" and measuring skin perspiration/fear response in a situation where a story that triggers mental imagery is followed by imagery that might "amplify" the former. These both seem rather limited to measurements in study groups and both require equipment, but interesting nonetheless!
Building https://tablam.org I learn a bit about the relational model and found that the whole having/group by is plain bad "hack".

GROUP BY is totally the opposite of what you expect. It NOT "group by"!,

This is group by:

1:
A
B
2:
A
C

If where like this (as in the RM) then you can bet other hacks like graph-ql where not necessary (and will make database more friendly to OO langs)
It doesn't. My point is that one can critique something whilst using it and not undermine their point.
"right once read never"
This looks great and would be great for certain use case like a website for kids.
There’s a “dunder mifflin” joke somewhere in here
I've lived in multiple small towns in America and the reality is the nice central amenities are too expensive for most working people, and at least half of the storefronts are boarded up, which means most people end up driving to the Walmart. The majority of people that do use the centrally located boutiques drive in from their homes which aren't in the center. Most new construction doesn't even include sidewalks or crosswalks, making walking dangerous even if you wanted to.

There's at least one, but not more than a few, exceptions in each state (Asheville, NC for example) where people move in with their money to larp "small town living" but it depends on outside capital to work and the original residents end up getting priced out.
Depends on what you mean by "relevant". Personally I don't think Miss Universe is super relevant for the world. It's just some show that someone owns and monetizes.

Or that some kid detonated himself. Or something something about the NFL....
If you’re not on any sanctions lists there shouldn’t be any issues.

Your residency/citizenship does not play any part in forming a UK LTD. It might affect your ability to open an account with some banks though.

These guys are okay https://www.99pcompanyformations.co.uk/ The whole process takes a few minutes and costs almost nothing.
$1500 should be nothing, even to small data centers.
This is just a reskin of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
Part of the problem is that a lot of products are just shit that can't be sold legitimately, only mis-sold based on false promises. If you're a salesperson in a company peddling such products, your option is to mis-sell and become a conman, or be replaced by a conman.
Surgical masks probably help on a population level.

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/09/surgical-mask...