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>Let's imagine for a second that we really believe is this idea - society is in a fragile equilibrium, and any change is dangerous and could be for the worse.

Surely you see the problems with technology, you don't think that the world was more social, people less polarized, and less isolated? Why do we have to assume its not when its obviously true, smartphones did change society greatly, so did online dating apps. They are not beliefs or guesswork.

>No mainstream conservatives proposes 'let's ban kids form having mobile phones and Facebook until we fully understand their effect'.

American conservatism isn't about preventing changes, its about less govenment control. In fact to other countries they are considered very liberal. Nancy Pelosi banned ecigs to protect the children, does that mean that she is conservative?

>It seems hypocritical, a bit like 'pro life' people not supporting healthcare reform.

They think aborting which is killing an unwanted baby is murder, but they ignore who takes care of the child after, its something I have a problem with too.
The whole meta tag thing seems to break the “principle of least surprise,” as I had no idea that was how go get worked.
Now it becomes clear why it takes 6 months to get to first light.
If you have nothing constructive or of a substance to say, you probably shouldn't respond.
This is cool! I took todays post as a seed and put it through some of my own (supervised) filters: https://ec-share.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/21-12-14.a.6.jp...
I was worried by the size of this reply that it was some kind of copy-pasta at first. That doesn't seem the case. I am genuinely interested in digesting this and giving you a thoughtful reply, but it will take some time.
> possible alternatives

Asteroids, vulcanism are the usual culprits. There also could be cosmic ray bursts from exploding stars.

> the Oxygen Catastrophe

There seem to be many hypotheses about that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event

and it isn't clear to me there was a collapse, but a gradual replacement.
I really want to feed to collected works of Deepak Chopra into an AI network and see what comes out.

It’s likely to be something like this.

I love the Deepak Chopra charisma and soothing, vaguely profound stories but I don’t believe any of it.

So I thought an AI generated Chopra would be as good as I’d maybe better than the original.
I think there are a couple of things at play here. Full disclosure, I have no data to substantiate by "hunch" but I think it would be interesting to see if there is a way of testing it.

My theory is that, as society becomes more accepting of "unaffiliated" more people admit it. I think the parallel is that we have always, most likely, had the same percentage of the population that is gay for example, but just more people feel safe to admit to it in a more open society that we have today.

I think religion is similar in that; in the past, it would be a career killer or one would be confronted by other challenges if anyone were to discover or if you were to admit to being and atheist, agnostic, unaffiliated or whatever label.

Today, most people in westernized nations, feel free to admit it, but, again, just a hunch, but I am willing to bet that say, 100 years ago, there were plenty of people who had significant doubts but knew that if they didn't want to end up on fire tied to a steak, best to keep it to one's self.
We are lucky we have vaccines at all; it was never a sure thing.

Also, IIRC Sinovac’s Coronavirus vaccine is an “old style” inactivated virus vaccine, and the J&J one is an adenovirus vector vaccine. They are not as effective as the mRNA vaccines.
For that matter, you can have multiple modules in a repository.
Some of that has been traced to mapping for Bing I thought but maybe that's old news.
I was blown away by this presentation. Shared widely yesterday. We are test driving the code for possible use in pangenomic modeling of genomes of many individuals—-complex genomic graphs. Some of these methods may also have good applications in neuroimaging segmentation-—the brain split into non-overlapping regions and fiber tracts that should o”not intersect (at least in our models).
Thanks for the explanation (and congrats on the IPO).

Consider also that having multiple distinct binaries interferes with (dis)allowing Backblaze to reach the internet with process-based firewalls like Little Snitch, because each copy needs to be configured separately.

Some tools, like Docker, have a function for collecting relevant diagnostics. Perhaps it would be useful to you to migrate towards a solution like that rather than asking the user to identify a misbehaving process on their own.
And yet debate and progress continued. The scientific method doesn’t stop people being people, with all the associated flaws. It just sets a set of standards we can measure against. String theory and expert systems came up short and we moved on, but when you have questions and genuinely don’t know the answers sure, we end up exploring some dead ends. Science is just a heuristics to telling when that’s happening, but it doesn’t stop it happening in the first place.
I'm sorry, but if your definition of free market literally includes a government printing money to get rid of its debt (like the Weimar republic did), then your definition is just broken. The 'free' in free market literally refers to governments (or other actors) not interfering in trade. There is no prescribed free market monetary policy, but if you intentionally manipulate the market through monetary policy (as is common policy - the fed's goal isn't only monetary stability, they also account for things like unemployment), it's absurd to blame free markets if this goes wrong.

Using gold as your currency also isn't mercantilism. Mercantilism is about increasing exports while reducing imports. e.g. China today is quite mercantilist, despite not using gold.
It's not the sum of human knowledge, though. Any subset works. Your grammar can have five nouns and that can be enough for your use case.
Nvidia had at least two generations of Android tablets. Intel had several as well. These aren't smartphones, but they did have options for cellular modems, and there's really not much difference. I've got two tablets at home, one with a 3g modem and sim card slot (a family friend got it free from at&t). Whine I'm not aware of AMD making processors for any mobile devices, there's also nothing stopping them.

No, you can't buy either such device today, but reason they lost out had nothing to do with them being inappropriate for such use.
>plenty of economists think GDP is good enough to be useful. Which means it’s informing their decisions or it wouldn’t be useful

Yeah, that's precisely my point. It's informing their decisions.

>You can’t say measure X is useful, and it’s flaws are well known therefore it’s flaws are irrelevant. If it’s useful then it’s flaws are part of any decision made using it.

Measure X is useful, its flaws are well known therefore people who use it account for its flaws during the decision making process.
Honestly I just need karma and idk what to do so
Like I said I do need karma but idk if this is like reddit or sum so it would be great if I had. Some help.
Most women don’t have an enjoyable experience of being approached because too many of the men approaching them do not meet their attractiveness bar. You’ll find that many women who say “don’t hit on women at the gym” won’t mind at all if George Clooney does it.
I haven't seen much on HN about such restrictions so I suppose something in the mainstream media does point to that or I have a bias. Do you have some examples ?

Also, apparently, wearing a mask and getting vaccinated is already a giant no-no for some here so I'd like to know what restrictions are being advocated by who ? Surely it's not a `they` as in everyone though, right ?
This kind of reads like Mayor Breed will be handing over a whole lot of power and funding to SFPD and whatever tech contractors they’ve partnered with on the basis of… what?

The violent crime and open drug use in San Francisco has been famous for a very, very long time. Am I to believe that the open air drug market at the corner of Turk and Hyde was impervious to police intervention for a decade because… the police didn’t have enough money? But now that they’re getting more money, they’re confident that they’ll be able to make it more difficult to buy drugs in an area that’s walkable on foot in like 15 minutes?

This whole thing really seems like police grift. A long time ago (back when I used to do drugs), I actually remember patrol cars regularly cruising around that group of blocks and doing NOTHING to interfere with these activities.

I’m quite skeptical that handing full control of a big chunk of the city to (what sounds like) cops with a blank check and whatever city personnel that feel like pulling up Palantir or whatever is a good idea. This kind of sounds like a giveaway to cops that have demonstrated for years that they haven’t been intrinsically motivated to clean up anything, ever.

Good luck, San Francisco residents!
Writing code for the happy path is 1/100th of programming. Maybe less.
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A fantasy football take on investing
Believers in the Dollar Milkshake Theory are lacing up their shoes for some victory laps.
> ...and when does something stop being an outlier? ... the 1300 mass graves of indigenous children in Canada?

I wouldn't blame that on the Church--the secular boarding schools for indigenous children weren't any better.
By quick access I meant access to data for a few weeks. It seems you have to sign up for an year at least with 1 week free in the beginning when you can cancel. I would like to know if there is another service that has a better pricing system.
sorry, can you clarify what you mean by you lost the game?
Specific examples can be quibbled about, but I will first say there is still good science occurring everyday. What I am talking about more are people who have donned the mantle of science. At some point along the line, science went from more of a verb to a proper noun (figuratively). We went from doing the science, to trusting or believing the science.

Think about the statement "We believe in science in this house". What does that even really mean? As you considered joining the priesthood, you should know there is a great deal of scholarship that priests engage in. Not just religious scholarship, but the study of the natural world. Many of the minds that pushed humanity forward were priests. Priests believe in science, but the people who put those signs on their lawns tend not to agree.

That gets me to my point, science isn't a noun to me. Yet everyday I keep hearing how the science has spoken. Often, when I look at the evidence provided and I deem what was said to be correct. Just as often, I find small sample sizes, hacked p values or a logical flaw with the conclusion. If I start a dialog about my findings in the wrong places, I get told I'm anti-science by people who didn't even read the paper.

If forced to provide a good example it would the talk of Covid escaping the Wuhan Institute of Virology. This has become a more main stream opinion in the past month or so, but if you wanted to discuss the possibility of this around this time last year, you would've been called a conspiracy theorist by people who reportedly "believe in science" or even be censored by some of the major platforms in the name of science. That is the opposite of the science I grew up with.
Is there a wave pattern, yet? So that they can stop reporting on it...
Is there a reason to not just hold the middle button to scroll with the trackpoint? Seems easier than needing to move your thumb to the touchpad.
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Oddly, I’ve written my own decompiler stack from scratch for ARM thumb to “dumb” C for embedded systems, based on radare2. I looked at all the existing tooling and said “That would make sense in a professional capacity” before this change. But this is a little ridiculous, given how easy it is to write decompilation and reveng tooling, if you’ve got some compiler know-how and you’re willing to read manuals for those tricky details.

Also, just to be clear, my tooling only really covered what I needed. It was pretty crude. But amazingly simple to stitches together aside from a few gotchas.
> I would say the main historical consequence of the French Revolution has been a lot of other revolutions which had even more tragic consequences (up to and including the ones in the 20th century that led to more than a hundred million deaths)

uh Why? Because of the rights of man and the metric system? Think you need to elaborate.
Based on the tone of the marriage section of the article, I suspect that the author thinks that marriage is silly and that people do it only out of willful ignorance.
https://www.maketecheasier.com/how-to-customize-mac/#Custom-... So this?
> Many atheists do believe in higher powers, though.

No, they don't. Unless you are actually talking about human power structures, in which case, of course we do.

Doesn't make us "religious".

> I put it to you that much talk of "spirits" is far more aligned to the kind of higher power that you already believe in, rather than the dualistic way of seeing spirits as some kind of invisible smoke hiding inside living creatures. This kind of thinking is a curse of our modern age, handed down from the likes of Descartes and the "Enlightenment".

I don't believe in spirits or souls or any of that. I'm an atheist, stop making up versions of "higher powers" or "something that exists outside of an individual, and across multiple individuals" and insisting I believe must believe in them. I assure you I don't.
Isn’t HTTP_REFERER not enough to pinpoint the traffic that came from HN?
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"Boundaries of where he lives, farms and hunts” makes me think they carped bombed the whole area, including a whole bunch of private property that was his and other people's. Basically nobody farms public lands. A lot of people farm their neighbor's land.

And as other commenters have pointed out, there isn't a 1:1 mapping between "not your property" and "where the .gov can stick a camera without a warrant".
It's not explicitly said that the reasons for the public devotional is to dissuade the couple from an embarrassing betrayal of those public vows. To the author, being explicit would mean saying "and we say all this so we'd be more wary of breaking up, given we just told all of you how much we're going to stick by each other."
> And once you have a candidate treatment, you've still got to produce and supply that, with manufacturing and logistics considerations, all of which were evident in the rollout of existing SARS-COV-2 vaccines (e.g., production issues, patent licensing, quality control, storage and refrigeration, cold-chain management, patient contact, scheduling, and follow-up, etc.).

One of those manufacturing / logistics consideration was "we need to make a lot of high quality, sterile glass that can withstand the temperatures that the pharmaceutical companies are saying they're going to be using for transport."

Corning was part of Operation Warp Speed - https://youtu.be/asDKBi5Ungc - they had to build a glass plant to make 0.5B vials/year.
Go is the most readable language I’ve used in terms of understanding other peoples complex code bases, and I’ve been doing this a long time and have used a lot of languages.

Edit: It’s also one of the most approachable languages.
Ah. But the people making the outlandish accusations were your friends, right?

Imagine if it was the media. (Remember the Steele dossier?)

Or if the people making the most noise were actually the worst offenders. (Harvey Weinstein, Michael Avenatti, Mario Cuomo, Chris Cuomo, most recently John Griffin.... 'Party of Women', anyone?)

There is enough craziness to go around, I assure you.

I have crazy friends on both sides. I hope a return to sanity can happen.
That is fascinating, but unfortunately not so surprising.. When you're unmoored from a strong governing structure or tradition, I think it's unlikely to be any other way.
Not OP, but speaking from personal experience and preference, summers in So Fl aren't that bad. It rarely goes above 90, and there's a constant sea breeze. Don't get me wrong, it is hot, but never unbearable.
NASA craft 'touches' sun for first time, dives into atmosphere
Huh, I went to check if the pun still worked in German, and apparently that's just the actual etymology of both the English and German words.
You can copy your home directory on macOS, too, I do it every time I get a new machine and it works fine. I just `cp -a` my home directory onto the external drive and do the same back off. I do have to chown -R the directory sometimes, if the UID is different for some reason. Obviously you need to reinstall the applications, but that is mostly just dragging them into /Applications. Not too much different from `apt-get install`ing them, really.
> Maybe you think what's going on in the Tenderloin (and Soma) is acceptable.

I definitely don't think things are good as they are now. And I would highly appreciate programs that help the homeless as well as cleans things up.

> What if I told you that there are plenty of people and families in the Tenderloin that face public safety issues on the daily on their way to school?

If you read the post I was replying too, bostonsre was describing this program as mainly about helping the poor, and with cleaning up as a side effect. In reality the program mostly talks about the cleaning up side of things. That's all.
> That the tesla swerved is down to the poor striping on the road.

Certainly not. It's not appropriate for a self driving car to make any assumptions about striping or any road markings being correct. It crashed because it wasn't capable of self-driving after all.
All revolution does is put a different group of people in charge than previously.

The outcome could be good bad or ugly. Look at the iranian revolution. It has not resulted in a better outcome at all. In fact, most revolutions of the modern age has resulted in somewhat of a worse outcome for the citizenry.
Good point, I can totally imagine that this is what happens, and agree with what the answer should be.
Congratulations Chris, this is really nice. Lots of cool ideas in this CSS
Expert(s) think we should care: "There is increasing evidence that vaccinated individuals continue to have a relevant role in transmission."

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
On this point, I would highly recommend "Strange Rites" by Tara Burton. She makes the case that people who "leave" religion are often just "remixing" the religion they were raised in, incorporating a weird mishmash of spiritual feeling and secular ideologies/subcultures. For example, libertarians have their biohacking and dreams of immortality, progressives have their pagan fandoms & self-care, and conservatives have, as she puts bluntly, reactionary atavism.
Not much in common. A "vector" in Postgres is a tokenized and normalized array of words. So 'a fat cat sat on a mat and ate a fat rat' becomes 'a' 'and' 'ate' 'cat' 'fat' 'mat' 'on' 'rat' 'sat'. This just makes keyword searches a bit easier. (Source: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/datatype-textsearch.html)

A "vector" in vector search solutions is a dense vector generated by a transformer model. A sentence like 'a fat cat sat on a mat and ate a fat rat' put through a model becomes an array of floating-point numbers like [0.183, -0.774, ...], with hundreds of values (often 768). The point is that this vector is positioned in a 768-dimensional space in close proximity to semantically similar sentences. So then searching by semantic meaning is a simple (well...) exercise in measuring the distance between your query and the surrounding vectors.

We have a whole course on the topic, coincidentally also on the front page of HN today: https://www.pinecone.io/learn/nlp
> Science changes course as more data comes in.

And that's reason to express epistemic uncertainty when basing one's conclusions off limited data.

> At first there wasn’t evidence that masks worked, once that had been accrued science was pro-mask.

First of all, there was already evidence that masks worked.

Second, officials did not tell people that we lacked evidence that masks work - they told people that masks don't work period.

> The reason people questioning the effectiveness of masks is called a science denier is because there have been innumerable studies on the effectiveness of masks, and every one that has stood up to scrutiny has come out in favor of masks.
Calling scientific consensus that is backed but huge amounts of direct evidence “dogma” is nonsense.

The studies show limited effectiveness of masks, particularly with newer variants that have higher exhaled viral loads. People who argue that the benefits of masking are outweighed by the costs are labeled science deniers. This is despite there being some evidence of negative impacts from masking (e.g. on childhood development).
I highly recommend taking the short test link in the article.

It reveals profound things about your mind in a couple of minutes.
The idea was that it could just compromise your host OS. It doesn't matter that you jail services, since the attack is affecting the hardware underneath the kernel that underlies them; the theoretical attack was more along the lines of "the motherboard watches incoming packets and if it sees a trigger then that packet never makes it to the OS, and if the motherboard wants to send traffic it can either send packets itself (after reading the route table directly out of kernel memory) or modify already-outbound traffic to exfiltrate whatever it wants".
By now new variants should be expected. Why on earth do governments seem to be caught off guard every time a new variant comes out? And why on earth can't they lay out consistent general guidelines for how they will react to new variants in the first, second and third weeks of its emergence as and when the data comes out? The apparent lack of imagination of our governments seems to be a dismal failure. The whole world dropped the ball the first time round, many countries the second time, but to be surprised a third and fourth time is outrageous. I'm not advocating for any particular policy, but consistency is key, that way people can actually plan ahead and not get the carpet pulled out from under their feet.
People are flawed and when they have insufficient evidence or misleading evidence, or questionable incentives they make mistakes. Science doesn’t stop that happening, it doesn’t stop people being flawed. It just generates the evidence to tell us when it has happened so we can correct. It worked. Job done.

> travel bans don't work, and worrying about COVID was irrational alarmism…

Clearly you were listening to different medical and scientific advice than I was seeing at the time. The medical establishment was warning about the dangers from very early on. The question about travel bans was mainly about timing, not whether they would be needed or not.
> The media landscape is completely different now

Not entirely. Right-wing talk radio has been fanning the flames of hatred towards "liberals" (e.g., all "others") for decades. It's taken root and flourished.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/us/politics/limbaugh-deat...
But this isn't a falsify-able conjecture - if you claim that this thing could never be understood, but nevertheless essential and helpful for you, you're asking people to just put in faith. This borders on the idea of religion, rather than scientific, rational thought.