skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The intuition behind this is appealing (that a lack of religion invites a void that is filled by crazier things), but the current evidence seems to indicate that this is incorrect. Mainstream religions aren't a "prophylactic" against newer craziness like QAnon.

> In fact, the reality is the opposite. QAnon is most effective in converting people who already believe in Christianity.

I don't think you're looking at the right things. If you'll permit an extended quote from another Scott:

> In high school I took a sociology class, and the teacher talked about how modern society was atomized and there were no real community bonds and so on. And I thought this was dumb. I didn’t live in an atomized society! My family knew our next-door neighbors, and we’d even been over at their house once for dinner. There was a Community Center a few blocks away, and when I was a kid I would go there a couple of times a year for some kind of Neighborhood Art Night. Sometimes my mother volunteered at my school, and my dad was too busy to volunteer but probably would have if he could. We weren’t devoid of community at all.

> And then three things happened. Number one, I read some good anthropology about primitive and medieval societies, which actually described pre-atomized life and the way that there was barely even an individual identity and the community determined everything you ever did. Number two, I spent a little time in an honest-to-goodness Third World village and saw a little of what life was like there. And number three, I got involved in some good subcultures – including Bay Area rationality – which were slightly but noticeably less atomized than the neighborhood where I grew up. I realized that I’d mistaken the existent-but-weak forms of community in my suburban neighborhood for the really-strong forms of community that people complaining about atomization say we’re missing, because I had so little experience with the latter I couldn’t even imagine them.

( https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/07/concept-shaped-holes-c... )

You're looking at the void that people are trying to fill with newer, more satisfying religions, calling that void "mainstream religion", and then saying that mainstream religion doesn't block the adoption of newer more virulent religions. But mainstream religion in the United States died a long time ago. The people you're "disagreeing" with are looking at the same void, calling it a void, and complaining that there's nothing there to block the adoption of maladaptive beliefs. Which is the same complaint that you're making.
From my own experience, what that person is called depends heavily on who is doing the calling.
I'm not so sure, some countries that clamped down very hard("Authoritarian type policies") like Singapore, Korea or New Zealand have done quite well, while countries who did half measures ("USA, Italy") or very little ("Brazil") seem to be struggling.
It doesn't really strike me as incredibly outlandish to call someone like Aaronson simply correct, as he says at the end, albeit jokingly. He's always struck me as eminently rational. For that reason, he's established a great deal of trust with me and I'm sure with much of his reader base. Truly one of the most lucid thinkers of our time.
Maybe I'm misinformed, but as I understood it, COVID-19 is the disease brought upon by SARS-Cov-2 infection. That line on its own doesn't suggest it prevents infection, it suggests it prevents the COVID-19 disease (i.e 90% chance of being left with a asymptomatic infection).
Windows definitely shipped a universal WebView long before anyone else would. For a long time software like Steam would still shove an embedded IE component into dialog boxes and windows to show formatted and/or dynamic content. Being able to rely on having access to a consistent HTML renderer with scripting was huge for frontend software dev.

These days people just ship 50+mb worth of chromium goo with every application instead, but Windows definitely lead the way there and did so very early.
Not all markets are deterministic, in some there is some level of jitter so fastest guy doesn't always win anyway.
Some markets also take steps to prevent the speed game too in how they define the rules.

While for obvious big moves it might be all about latency, most events are more about the quality of your pricing, incorporating correlated information, edge requirement and risk management that decides what you go for and what you don't, and for those smarter trades you usually have microseconds to spare.
Ask HN: Why so many people comment with 'I wish it was open-source'
I have never seen a call to action comment that said something like 'Let's team up and write someting better and open-source'.

Every 'it should be open source' comment is about software already written and in my opinion is meant to guilt trip the author to submit to your begging and give it to you for free.
The original story for the Matrix was pretty much that, I've heard. I still wish they'd kept that bit, it made way more sense than using humans as batteries or power supplies.
>This is the first point where the audience probably starts to wonder about the ethics of the main characters.

that's a very impactful scene, but honestly there are moral/ethical red flags about many of the main characters from the very first episode.
Not sure I understand the question. Universities are for shaping future researchers and teaching you the foundations. If you don't need the foundations for your future job, do not attend a university. To me at least, this does not imply changing universities...
I do agree with the general sentiment of keeping politics out of it.

But sadly there do seem to be some pretty strong correlations at a county level across the US. It could also be rural/urban cultural divides but the more obvious one is simply politics.
modern fuel cells
While I'm sure there are countries that require that, you don't have to provide an ID to get a SIM in the United States. You can go buy one off the shelf (with service included) at Walmart for around $10, in cash.
How do you turn this on?
For cheap hosting https://www.time4vps.com/
It's not 8B divided by the total world population, it's 8B divided by fraction of world population that is hungry. I don't know what that fraction is, but it doesn't work out to $1 per person.
> Clearview sought to suggest the company is not subject to the GDPR — although the regulation is extraterritorial in scope, meaning it is applicable and (at least in theory) enforceable outside the EU’s borders in instances when EU people’s data has been processed in violation of the rules.

GDPR applies also outside of the EU? who exactly thought this one up? how can the EU possibly think it can enforce this and does the EU think europeans should be subject some special rules when in a foreign country?
.. Does this make Windows on Linux the "Java" of consistent, universal binaries?
The AlohaNet: Surfing for Wireless Data (2009) [pdf]
There is very good data on this. Infection rates are roughly 5x higher, and death rates 13x higher, among the unvaccinated.
So you are lying then. What do you gain out of misleading people with your rhetoric here?
this could be a completely different issue to yours, but i ran into a problem with some software where i selected the .exe installer to run but it wouldn't work as bottles didn't have access to the other installer files in the same folder.

when i moved the installer files inside the bottle it worked no problem. alternatively, flatseal will let you set up permissions for bottles so that it can access your home folder
If the mud fits, they need to wear it. Tone policing like this is mostly for their benefit.
Unfortunately, the Pfizer pill needs to be taken early in the infection, so when patients may not be yet in the survival mode, but still in "it's just like a flu" mode.
> Fucking Republicans

As a vaccinated, boosted republican, this attitude isn't helping. Yeah, there are a bunch of idiotic republican politicians out there. But there are also a lot of idiotic democrat politicians out there who aren't making COVID policy decisions based on science and evidence, but based on their ideological side: outdoor mask mandates, travel bans, blocking people's access to their own private property, etc. So no, not fucking republicans. Fucking tribalism. It's making humans act completely irrationally.
Sorry for the sloppy language. The question I have is, what is the value of gold relative to other commodities (preferably the same ones that are used to measure inflation of the dollar) in 1914 vs. in 1929. Unfortunately I don't have an idea where to get the data to answer this question.

I found that M2 in 1914 was 24.62, up to 66.61 in 1929. This is quite similar to the increase in gold reserves, not much of a surprise.

Second graph here:

https://www.longtermtrends.net/m2-money-supply-vs-inflation/
Is objecting to state power, or really anything, only situationally - when it doesn't suit you - just another way of saying you're willing to argue logically inconsistent positions from one day to the next?
> he used to watch roughly 2-3 hrs of television on any day

Surprising comment, that this is seen is unusual! I grew up in the 70s-80s (in Australia). 2-3 hours would've been pretty much universal, I think, and more likely to be >3 than <2. And half or more of it really, really bad. I've never admitted to anyone some of those deeply crappy US series from the 80s I watched, and am not starting now! Yeah, I turned out fine.. but all those hours watching crap. The movies/series had ads in them too, a lot of them.

I've been trying to make up for that, by watching just good/great stuff from around the world, no ads, during the last 10 years: see http://www.adamponting.com/movies/
Making up numbers isn't a very good way to be convincing.

Is that meteorologist bit supposed to be a reference to the Weather Underground?
> Crick and Watson certainly didn't discover DNA as the substrate for Mendelian inheritance, that was known long before. They (in collaboration with Rosalind "don't talk to me about this woman" Franklin) discovered its 3D structure.

Just to add a little bit.

They discovered the 3D structure, but the structure (specifically, the base pairing) made it quite clear that the mechanism of inheritance was due to each complementary strand serving as a template for information copying.

For me, that was the stunning bit of the discovery.
Java has fewer issues with the JVM than Windows games do with Windows
cloud is a marketing scam. It is sold to execs as a magic black box that scales and you don't have to be concerned with how it works internally. In reality it's a set of leaky abstractions and you absolutely have to understand how black box works internally plus be aware of thousands of bizarre hard/soft limits and other gotchas.
I wrote an interactive sed replacement: https://github.com/typon/tabdeeli
Why don't you read the link in the post?
> the idea that we have a choice between no ads or the most pernicious ads imaginable is certainly a false one

I agree with you. I spent a large part of 2018-2019 trying to make ads declarative, and am now working on (among other things) increasing the isolation of conventional ads [1] and implementing cross-site advertising without cross-site identity leakage [2].

But it sounds like you and my parent have very different views: there's a lot of space between "ads should be a lot better" and "ads should not exist".

[1] https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/issues/624

[2] https://github.com/WICG/turtledove/blob/main/FLEDGE.md
I think you're being a bit too charitable -- to the point of spinning his overall message to something different from what he plainly said.

Of course he wasn't saying they should be our "only" solutions to these problems. But he definitely did not merely say they should be components of a broader strategy (which I do agree with), or that they shouldn't be "written off".

He specifically said they should be our best and primary approaches to these problems -- which again, strikes me as over-idealized, if not outright naive and fanciful.
How is it the wrong solution? An app is required for any of this to work/be detected. Either everyone jumps on the same bandwagon (Google joins Apple or something), or you install the app for the bandwagon that exists.
Except the trials are still underway, so yes, it is about scientific study. And proper diligence and reporting is critical for such a significant experiment, wouldn't you think?
I know a lot of people are going to criticize this move but man the Tenderloin needs something to change.
Evidence on vitamin D is equivocal. [0][1] Experts disagree on how to interpret the various studies that have come out that do not all show the same results.

On the other hand, an official proclamation that people should ensure their vitamin D levels are okay would cause a rush on it with many people taking much more than they should. We've seen this with other medications that have not been systematically shown to help COVID but still obtain meme-like status. Ivermectin for example also has only equivocal evidence for its use, but has resulted in overdoses [2] and a spike in calls to poison control centers over its use [3]

Maybe there's a middle ground there on something like vitamin D, which as you say is often deficient. But it's a fine line to walk when the evidence is uncertain about its impact on COVID.

[0] https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/sup...

[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/e...

[2] https://www.newsweek.com/man-covid-overdoses-ivermectin-doct...

[3] https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...
We live in the post-modernism era. The common theme is the maximisation of hedonism, and through that we pursue "happiness".

Happiness needs to be experienced. Explaining what it is or how it feels is of low value. The problem is that happiness is directly linked to unhappiness. It's like notes and pauses: if we remove pauses from a melody, the melody turns into a "sound" that doesn't give us any pleasure.. it's not music.

So to experience happiness, we need to experience unhappiness for long stretches of time.

All this to say that happiness shouldn't be the end-goal IMO. Meaning makes more sense as an end-goal. If we can live "meaningful" lives, happiness could be a byproduct. Being happy is easy but transient (e.g. eating ice-cream can make someone happy). Finding "meaning" is difficult but way more permanent than "happiness".

I would separate career from "meaning" though. The two rarely go along and I also like to think that myself and everyone else is more than a "career".
And if they want to track, that ability was already available, for the same price as an AirTag, and without the annoying habit beeping loudly or notifying the victim that they are being tracked.
No you do not. Also, unless I'm mistaken, git uses the system pager for pagination and that happens to be less on almost all modern Linux systems (and many others).
Hegel /s

I don't have a great idea how to sum up, these ideas are still a bit raw in my head. I am not sure to what extent this line of inquiry in intellectual history is well-studded.

I suppose a concrete place to to begin is how to connect micro and macro phenomena. The Dawkins camp is very keen on the micro stuff, and wants to study the micro stuff very hard and then extrapolate. The Gould camp spends more time thinking about the macro stuff alone before trying to connect the two. That makes bridging the gap harder, and it could well be argued the Gould camp hasn't spent enough time working on that harder problem they made for themselves. But at least their description of the macro is a bit less biased by micro considerations.
There seems to be a lot of people here, and presumably a lot of companies, where no one has ever actually seen a successfully run devops team and what they provide.

For one, people are arguing past each other about deployment environments vs developer tools vs being a sysadmin.
What always perplexes me about AI is that while the neuron models may be reasonably representative of how neurons work in brains, the connections are not similar at all.

Deep learning uses layers. All neurons in layer one connect to layer 2, connect to layer 3, connect to layer 4, and so on...

In a real brain, neurons connect all over the place. It's a bigraph. Deep learning isn't even really a graph per sé, it's a hierarchy, or a weird tree if you will.

I suspect a lot of our intelligence comes from neurons living connecting through a bigraph substrate rather than a hierarchy.

Is there any research on this? Neurons feeding back onto themselves just seems natural to me, but I don't encounter anything on it.
In terms of posting to HN itself, an appropriate response would be to refute bad arguments with better arguments and/or incorrect information with correct information—or alternatively, to remember that to a first approximation, everyone is wrong on the internet, and just let it go. You don't need to do more than that for other commenters; they can take care of themselves.

If an account is behaving badly, such as by repeatedly breaking the site guidelines, sending a heads-up to hn@ycombinator.com so we can look into it is also an appropriate response.
Let me get this straight. First, you say the vaccine has been proven to be less than 10% effective. Now you're admitting that you've made it up, while at the same time insisting it's true. Astonishing.
Correction: History is littered with improvements that trade one externality for another. Typically part of the improvement is in separating the externality from the user by one additional degree.
English isn't my native language, but I thought "proven" wasn't a synonym for "I asked my friends".
Yeah, I cannot stop searching for "fat" in this thread.
I noted that my reply, but sure, let's not take the cautious approach with vaccines and yet take the extremely cautious approach with covid (dying within 30 days of catching covid is counted as covid death in many countries).

Covids deaths are not acceptable, but deaths in younger demographics are acceptable because they're less?
my point was you can get any rules if you cherry pick examples ...
On first encounter, it doesn’t yet exist.

Same reason it might not be sensible to have sex unprotected with a syphilis patient.
Lying about one's identity is unethical.
Court fees are generally not-that-high in trial courts. For example, in Oregon you can cover filing fees for multiple pleadings and a multi-day jury trial for less than $2,000.

Not sure about India though. Ultimately it’s attorney fees that getcha.
Harassment of Navy Destroyers by Drone Swarms Off CA Went on for Weeks
There's a well known tweet of Fauci saying 'all three vaccines are 100% effective'
yes, both different things. I guess helm is still the most common entry point for people to handle the contents of a cluster. I'm checking out other suggestions in this thread (dhall), but from my personal experience I can already tell, grafanas k8s jsonnet-libs was a second chance to kubernetes I'm glad I got to know (thanks coworkers).
Non-positive opinion ahead.

Personally I can’t find a use for it. Colors are so vast that I can’t figure out which means what (and they rarely play nice with a custom bg color). And then, all I have to know is whether a file is “->”, “*”, “/“ or “”. Tree+git view could be useful, if not node_modules, .git and other tree spammers. Of course there is an option to ignore, but then my .bashrc grows again while all I need in a project dir is covered by git status -s (yes I can read these capital letters since svn).

It is modern in a sense of presentation, and I see how it may appeal to someone, but not in a sense of ls being old or something. It feels to me like a strange tool that does everything but nothing specifically, as if someone always wanted a nice gui file explorer, but had no courage to admit this “lameness”.

Why spend your time squinting at black and white text?*

I usually spend time on colored output trying to read blue/lightgreen/etc on #444, and because my b/w tools are separated by colored PS1, which emphasizes important* things like hostname, user, cwd, exitcode and puts a newline so that each command is lined up and ends with an additional \n. File being a green file or a blue dir is not as important as me patching a wrong instance.
Show me a single claim they'd be 100% effective by an epidemiologist, please.
Well if you were caught squatting down, with your hand literally in the wheel well of the car, again, that makes it pretty hard to argue you dropped something there. That's what we're talking about here.
Patents and copyrights aren't limited to businesses, you can be in copyright or patent violation even if you're a private person - in fact, I'd assume vast majority of copyright violations now are performed by private people without profit motive. That particular law however is clearly written to target specific businesses and exclude private persons.
There are a large number of blacks and young people who are not vaccinated. This is a bipartisan thing.
Infection rate is orthogonal to preventing people from being infected. If you're not exposed, you can never be infected.

It also depends how you define efficacy/effectiveness. Does it mean for each exposure, over a period of time, etc.
You mean like this?

“Your failure to abide by your Agreements will result in [redacted] pursuing any and all available remedies, including but not limited to injunctive relief and monetary damages.”

So, I don’t consider this very specific (you may, and that’s fine but then our disagreement is about something different).
It's sophistry, but "COVID-19" in that press release means symptomatic infection with SARS-CoV-2, not just infection.
No, that is not the reason. Most children are abducted in some kind of custody dispute, by someone who believes that they already have some kind of rights over the child.
I think what this tells is that capitalism, in our sample size of one, was better capable of withstanding assault. Not that it's a better system, that it serves people better, or is better at lifting people out of poverty. In fact it the evidence seems the opposite: European countries that are much less free-market and have strong socialist policies are overwhelmingly better places to live than the US for the poor, disabled, and disadvantaged.

To claim that capitalism is the reason for people being lifted out of poverty just seems ridiculous when there's not really a way to show causation.
It tastes like it is. ;-)
You are 100% correct. You contract SARS-CoV-2, which then turns in to COVID-19[1].

[1]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-020-00459-7
I've always thought that the closer the engineer is to the end user the better.
That ‘just’ is doing a lot of work in the sentence, considering protein structure was/is often named as the “holy grail” of computational biology, and homology was always the method to get there.

I’m equally skeptical of the claim that this follows the 80/20 (or 90/10) rule. If you use straightforward measurements (rmsd etc), reality may well be 10 % off considering these aren’t static structures, but molecules in perpetual chaotic motion on several scales.
Exactly, but what kind of conversation would work?
AirTag also has an account linked to it. It’s required to function. In fact, if you find an air tag, you can scan it and it shows the serial and the last four digits of the owners phone number. I’m sure Apple will give the full details to the authorities, if requested.
No, but factors other than limiting factors can also affect the number of child abductions.