skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because he's not just making that claim, he's immersing you in why he thinks it's true. By walking you through that world like it's a movie, and pointing out all the inescapable cultural corrosion that follows from letting the world be that way.

Scott knows that people will blithely accept his thesis as obvious... until the moment it matters most, when there is social pressure to accept something untrue. He wants you to feel the price you'll pay if you cave.
On the flip side they sent me an email that wasn't lying, so they could have done this for everyone:

priv...@princetonprivacystudy.org
Tue, Dec 14, 12:25 AM (5 days ago)
to me

To Whom It May Concern,

We are researchers at Princeton University conducting a study of how websites are implementing the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). We are reaching out to you because this email address is provided as a contact on the website seifried.org.

Your website may be required to implement one or both of GDPR and CCPA, and we would appreciate if you would answer a few brief questions about your privacy practices.

1) Does seifried.org implement GDPR or CCPA? If not, could you please explain why? If you are uncertain about whether seifried.org is required to implement these laws or answer questions like ours, we have included informative resources at the end of this email.

2) If you implement GDPR or CCPA, do you process data access requests from individuals who are not residents of the EU or UK (for GDPR) or who are not residents of California (for CCPA)?

3) If you implement GDPR or CCPA, do you process data access requests via email, a website, or telephone? If via a website, what is the URL?

4) If you implement GDPR or CCPA, what personal information must a user submit for you to verify and process a data access request?

5) If you implement GDPR or CCPA, what personal information do you provide in response to a data access request?

Thank you in advance for your answers to these questions. If there is a better contact for questions about privacy practices on seifried.org, I kindly ask that you forward my request to them.

Sincerely,
Ross Teixeira
Trusted figure eliminating evidence of a plot against you while you sleep (and possibly nudging you to not call the police, who knows!) sounds like a villain right out of a detective story, but it would be a very silly move to not clear in advance how AirTags work and whether the victim uses an iPhone (which can be easy even if they are not that close).

Not impossible (e.g., an impulsive boyfriend or familiar admirer with control issues naively wanting to find out where she goes or purposefully scare her as part of larger big-brain ploy), but depending on her car an AirTag-assisted car theft attempt could be more likely: https://www.yrp.ca/en/Modules/News/index.aspx?newsId=167fa5b...
Like Matrix, then.
Move Constructors Revisited
No, people often take over a month to die from COVID, we simply haven’t had enough time to collect data especially when the first few cases represent a tiny sample.

This is one of those enough information ask again later situations.
Could you elaborate what you see as the salient differences, and why you believe the Gould camp is more correct? Personally I agree pretty strongly with almost everything in the post, but I'm interested to hear the counter-argument.
That scene was so cool in a disturbing way!
Also the fact that the severity of omicron varies from country to country. In the US it is likely to be much more severe than in South Africa

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/12/17/1065315...
I’m very happy to see more evidence that suggests the severity may be lower, but it is still very early days.

I honestly don’t recognise your portrayal of fearmongering or a desire for negative news. In fact I’ve been particularly surprised by the response to this variant in some circles, which is to hop right on to the tiniest shred of potential positive evidence as a cast-iron guarantee that it’s no big deal. Everybody really wants this to go away, and there is extensive debate in every country about the second-order effects of control measures.
I guess the whole field of statistical mechanics would make you uncomfortable.
Would you say it's a platform team?
The vaccines were also lauded as 100% effective in the early days by Fauci and others, so just a reminder that time and reproducibility matter before being too confident about it.
Right now, the California Department of Education. https://gdoc.pub/doc/e/2PACX-1vQvuzlJ8MWthsqOhRLxQc5akGS0Jkg...
Yes, but an empty ideology nonetheless.
ethics only comes in when they exhibit consciousness.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7996102/
Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 15
He's talking about the origin of 'modern humans', which are specifically the homo sapien species, not about the origin of all humans. He even says so:

>"Today almost everything we had figured out then is wrong. We didn’t understand the origin of modern humans, and we’re still in the process of unpacking all the complexity as more and more findings come to light."

And thanks for the downvote.
Automobiles solved the problem of knee deep horse manure in New York City once and for all.

In exchange for poisoning the air, killing streetcars, and (with the help of farcically idealistic mid-century urban planning) decimating whole communities, physically and spiritually (not so coincidentally with disproportionate effects on certain disadvantaged groups). A silver bullet to the horse manure problem, perhaps, but to the sustainable public transport problem .. a dull hammer, wouldn't you think?

Just as coal was a revolution over wood, and natural gas over coal, so too can imperfect solar, wind, or nuclear be over natural gas. Or perhaps GMOs will help us reverse some of the sins of today’s mono crops.

I agree that both nukes and GMOs can potentially be part of the arsenal of approaches to these problems. But to anoint them as our "best" solutions to these problem strikes me as fanciful, to say the least.
I think one issue is that we do need to introduce a new "slower math" framework for the majority of math students in California as most are not able to reach our current standards.

Our current system is simply not working.

The trick is to introduce that slower math framework while still keeping an option for some students take algebra earlier.
Delta hospitalization is averaged at 8,5 days. You're talking about new cases and not currently hospitalized cases, which is what I'm interested in for Omicron.

To know the difference, we should at least wait another week after Omicron takes over new cases in statistics.
False positive good news would be much worse than false negative.
Perhaps there are different kinds? If they are anything like fish balls, I can imagine they're good in some dishes, although perhaps not appetizing on their own.
You can be both lawful and evil character, at the same time, as any D&D player will tell you.

Sadly, people misunderstand those two basic concepts.

Autocratic systems are better in some ways. For example, they can be very efficient. CCP says something and it is done. Is it good/right? It is completely different topic.
what can break when you alias standard system command name to some random program downloaded from the internet.
Most games targeted SB/Adlib and almost every game used 320x200, oblong pixels and all
But seriously, I wonder if the "clump of human brain cells" gets tired or needs to sleep or, need any other nourishment. The COHBC might learn faster but can it then keep playing at the same level 24/7?

edit: disclaimer, I am a COHBC.
They address this by having the video player stop buffering more than 30 seconds ahead. It's also less compute resources for the servers to send all the bytes for the next 30 seconds to a client at max speed, let the client disconnect and wait 3-5 seconds, then give them the next 3-5 seconds immediately when it's requested. If they only let you download video at a rate slightly faster than video playback rate than all clients would have a constantly open connection downloading video which would tie up more resources.
the first 6 words of this headline shot fear through me, jumping to the conclusion that something had gone wrong with the launch setup
The Axolotl ratchet is the basis of both current Signal and WhatsApp. The standarized layer you are looking for is Matrix, which uses the same encryption approach.
Is this surprising? It has been the default format for 25 years, and a lot of experience and tooling has been developed to support it. It would be very hard for a competitor to overtake that head start advantage.
Also I think Norway's reservoir levels are low. Which also affects prices as they are likely to import some energy.
What is the difference between those two camps?
Engineering of James Webb Telescope
> 486 PC

The Mac's 8MHz 68000 CPU is more like an 8086 than a 486.

Though 4MB of RAM probably helped a bit with the workflow.
This is the message I get:

>Sorry, your address is not eligible.

This is the kind of BS that makes not only not buy sports, but to avoid it.
May I ask how does one start their contracting path? Is it feasible with say 2 years of experience in the industry?
SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket on record 11th flight carrying 52 Starlink sats
I don't recall a single instance of 100% efficacy claim. It was around 92-97%.
How is France (or the EU) going to enforce their extra territorial law on a US company with no business interests in the EU?

> Enforcing fines on companies without an EU base does present a regulatory challenge, however.

Understatement of the year.
Based on perf report, the latest stable version of exa is spending >99% of its time doing grid stuff. I pulled the repo from git, and using the latest master commit, it appears to have a huristic to not bother with the grid when you have lots of files. Now the times are a lot closer. (redirected stdout to /dev/null since otherwise the vast majority of the time would simply be outputting to the shell)

[user@anarchy:~/exa_test]$ time ../exa/target/release/exa >/dev/null
../exa/target/release/exa > /dev/null 0.05s user 0.07s system 99% cpu 0.122 total
[user@anarchy:~/exa_test]$ time /bin/ls >/dev/null
/bin/ls > /dev/null 0.03s user 0.01s system 99% cpu 0.048 total
I don't understand what "blurring" means applied to a sky. That would seem to require some detail to get blurred. Do you mean the skyline?

And, I do not see any banding, even at "tiny", in these images.
has ops ever not been dev?

Atleast in my experience (ISP/DC world) most operational people where expected to do troubleshooting which at some points, results in one having to program to get to the nitty gritty efficiently. At a certain scale, issues start to creep up that are hard if not impossible to troubleshoot without atleast some programming and CS experience.

Are operational people developers? Not in the traditional sense, but the development of specific tools is required to efficiently keep the lights running.

A good example of this is troubleshooting packet loss. In a large network, this can become very difficult to pinpoint because more then a few dozen hops exist, and packets drop seem to occur randomly.

Without tooling to gather this data from different points in the network and doing statistics on it, it becomes nearly impossible to get a clear picture and troubleshoot efficiently.
Laws take a long time to enact, especially when there are companies with almost unlimited money lobbying against them. Technology (such as browser updates and ad-blocking extensions) can be deployed immediately and can adapt quickly to changing threats.
You are arguing over semantics. In reality, the Pfizer vax has proven to be less than 10% effective at stopping a future infection.
If you have global vaccination, you reduce the opportunity for new strains; we're getting variants like omicrom because we have large populations of vaccinated and unvaccinated mixing. If you wanted to create a situation in which new strains were inevitable, you couldn't plan it better.
"billion dollar projects" is telling. Work like this helps reduce the cost. I think you're underestimating the impact, and that in a decade or so it'll become clear that research like this laid the foundation for breakthroughs we then enjoy.
They should also compare different regions of the human brain. See which ones learn better, and which ones are closer to animals in terms of learning.
The theory is that there is a pressure in certain academic fields to reinforce existing popular narratives with new publications, motivating researchers to confirm them, and thus for other researchers to cite them. ...but since such efforts attract low-quality researchers and are based on an implicit initial bias, due to its self-referential nature, that the results are not reproducible by others in the future since teams that try to reproduce results are usually more neutral on the topics.
It's probably better to ratchet up precautions slightly for the additional 2-3 weeks from now that it will take to get more data.

I don't think history will look poorly on a scenario of "A more infectious version of COVID emerged, so for the following 6-8 weeks we asked people to increase social distancing and mask wearing".

If the mandate was "Cancel Christmas and arrest people found at holiday parties" then yes, "authoritarian" history would look poorly on that. As it stands, I haven't seen any governments take drastic steps towards more lockdowns due to Omicron. It's all "urging more caution".
>Advertising to poor people has traditionally been a pretty bad pitch

Is that true? It seems like poor people spend, in aggregate, more than rich people and they tend to buy the cheaper, more mass-produced stuff. The grocery business alone must be build on the commerce of poor people, right?
The rationale for the bar being at different heights is:

1) the “precautionary principle”

2) the consequence asymmetry: if we’re vigilant at a time when we could relax, the consequence is small, but if we relax when we should increase vigilance, the consequence is larger.
Yes, unfortunately most of them didn't make it.

There was also talk of replacing most of the file system with a database, something which they played with for years and then discarded.
My politics are similar to the policy prescriptions that Scott Aaronson lists in this post. I prefer the pragmatism of nuclear energy over coal, and GMO food over famine. I appreciate the implicit irony of listing out the possible coalition possibilities for the sad coalition that holds too many 49% positions. (I’m using 49% here and elsewhere to mean less than 50%).

I recently read the book Democracy For Realists that makes the point that in a society where people care about multiple issues there will be no 51% coalition that also holds the 51% position on every issue. It’s basically impossible. For anyone interested in the details of that theory, I posted a long excerpt here, along with an example:

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/democracy-for-realists-part...
The process you mention is for a "hot plasma" formed by electric sparks. Presumably this companies technology uses "cold plasma" aka non-thermal plasma which is significantly more efficient and more selective toward HNO3. Heres a good review paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42768-021-00074-z

Here's another interesting one: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b04997

There is still some NOx production, but likely low enough enough concentrations to be filtered.
If the customer relations specialist from one of the charities I donate to wrote me a note about how much they love me I’m not sure how I would feel about that
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2Fpredict%2...
One can write good and bad code in any language. It just so happens that our daily driver - procedural or functional languages, happen to be ones where a Software Engineer's mental model + Existing tooling is evolved enough to make understanding it _easier_ (as opposed to just easy).

The problem with DSLs and Config languages is that someone will inevitably try to use them in a way they are not designed to be used, and then circumvent the way you're "supposed to" do things. Not only do you lose all the advances in tooling, but people will end up reinventing things that already exist in the other languages.

PS: Of course, I'll pick Static Typing every time.
Why the decline after 1970?
Ffmpeg to Remove Meta_data in Video
REM RenTag.Bat
REM This script will remove the meta data in a file of type .avi .mkv .mp4
REM cd to the folder containing the video files
REM Type: c:\'program files exe'\remtag.bat
REM After processing, filenames preceeded by "1" will be replacing the originals, so
REM delete the origianls, and then remove the 1 from the beginning of the files, as required
REM .
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for %%a in ( ".avi" ".mkv" "*.mp4" ) do (
(ffmpeg -i "%%a" -map 0 -map_metadata -1 -c copy "1%%%a"))
I don't think explicitly saying "we don't discuss politics here" would endanger his career. It may be dangerous if you do it just out of the blue, but if you have any minimally relevant reason, you can state it without fear of persecution.
I can buy a battery powered GPS tracker with 4G LTE uplink on Amazon for $30. A bit larger than an airtag, considerably smaller than a smartphone.
Well the fact they need to advocate for separation is proof of unity by default at least. It is united as government organizations, not united as a hivemind.

Unity failing under the previous is say, Birmingham besieging London. The latter never happened.
They'd also have to be able to identify pictures of French people. Perhaps a large US-based corporation could help them developing a tool to do it? They'd need lots of examples first.
exa does (or can do) more than that. Git information, for example; and more fine-grained output control.
They compared human induced stem cells with real mouse cells, and human cells learned better.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying?

The article explains that modern humans actually don't descend exclusively from homo sapiens, but also have lineage from Neanderthals and Denisovans, and that's just of the ones we know. So the article seems to talk about the origin of modern humans as in the people alive today that we'd all consider to be human.

That's why he specifies that now we understand that what we thought in the 80s, that modern humans = homo sapiens, we now know is wrong, as we now know that modern humans involve a more complex lineage. But what we thought of the homo sapiens lineage does seem to be correct though.

At least that's what I understood of the article. Now I don't know how precise and correct and up to date the article is.
Excessive vehemence fuels that machine, though. It's just too easy to take an authoritarian stance when we already agree with the stance and would stand to benefit, but that is counterproductive in the long run and just amplifies polarization.
Well I’m a scientist with 12 years of post secondary education in life science (and no conflict of interest), and that’s exactly what I’d like you to think too.

Be reasonable.
Dijit is completely correct.

A junior sysadmin executes checklists, writes simple scripts, reads logs, and solves common problems, all while learning the complex supersystem of their workplace. They learn configuration of systems in use and how infrastructure is arranged and commonly changed.

A sysadmin helps to create checklists, writes more complex code to work in an automation system, and generally solves problems with non-obvious causes and/or remedies. They know all the routine events in their workplace, and add to documentation. They build, configure, test and recommend new tools and solutions to users, devs and the rest of the ops staff.

A senior sysadmin works on policy, debugs automation, solves complex interactions, and has an excellent understanding of complex systems and networks, not just at their workplace but in interactions and hypothetical interactions with the Internet at large.
Don't forget to feed your phone, it might die!
And it is trained for a bias towards crystal structures.
we once had this issue at an old job.

People wanted to replace a monitoring solution for something new, because snmp was "bad and outdated".

SNMP is definitely not the holy grail of solutions (to be honest, its kind of a mess). But atleast SNMP is widly supported, works reasonably well, and gets you the data in a dashboard you need. Even for those old Cisco 7200's with an uptime of over a decade.

Being new and shiny in operations is usually a sign of inmature technology. (with the bugs and issues associated with it).
As someone else said here on HN, in situations like this all it amounts to "mutually assured time wasting".

It reminded me ofthe old joke about two people entering an area infested by lion's, and one of them sits down on a log, and takes 5 minutes to replace his robust hiking shoes by a very expensive pair of running shows. The other says "why are you doing that - you can't our run a lion." The reply is "I don't have to be faster than the lion - just faster than you".

It makes prefect sense of course, when the lion has a choice. But in this case there is no choice. There is only one youtube. No matter how much time and expense youtube putting into their running shoes, youtube-dl / yt-dlp is always going to chase after them.

They are always going to win that race. While Google may be paying 5 or 10 of the cream of worlds programmers, those two open source projects ultimately how pools of 100's of equally talented people who occasionally want to download a video, and will happily contribute back a few hours of their time to do it. Which is probably how yt-dlp came about - youtube-dl slowed down, and someone said "fuck it - I'll do it myself". Worse from google's point of view, unlike splitinering a commercial endeavours, once those two projects are already contributing code to each other and may well merge again.
A GPS tracker in the wheel well would have no problem getting signal, GPS receivers have gotten spookily sensitive in recent years. And that's a genie that won't go back in the bottle.
I warned people about this garbage when GDPR came out and was shouted down for it. It's the same as the fucking copyright laws we're all burdened with.
Where did you see someone targeting _all_ Chinese? I did not see that. The point here is the red-guard generation in general is a bit unique, that's about it. All or nothing argument is dead on arrival, we all know that.
The average doctor in France is over 50 years old too. And all those ages use the same hospital beds.
Amusingly we're getting to a point where it's easier in many cases to just target Windows than ship native binaries for Linux.

So then the question arrives: since there's going to be a native Windows binary regardless what's the point of putting in the extra effort if it works well enough?

I think compatibility layers (Wine/Proton) are very useful especially considering many developers don't want to put the effort into making a well supported Linux binary (or make something open source so it can be compiled/patched against updated system libraries), but it very well may be a snake eating its own tail situation that hampers further adoption if things are "good enough".
Even your "good libertarian's" version of the small localized outbreak affects people that didn't make that choice.

My personal view (please don't be offended, libertarians -- it's my right to believe this!) is that individuality itself is a bit of a fiction, and this makes libertarianism essentially based on falsehood and break down. We're interconnected.

The best argument for individuality in politics and government, in my view, is that it gives "the average person" a fair shot, giving us good outcomes at the societal level even if many individuals do not get what they want.
I have no fear of abysses:

https://github.com/ziglang/glibc-abi-tool/

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/tools/gen_stubs.z...

bring it on