skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is incredibly inane. The components that make up a GPS tracker are both extremely cheap to produce, too general-purpose to be made illegal themselves, and can be put together to make a GPS tracker with zero technical skill, just by following any of a thousand YouTube videos. (I have one explaining how to make a GPS tracker out of an Arduino on my YouTube home page right now!)

All that making GPS tracking devices illegal would do is to eliminate all the positive-sum uses of the technology, while creating literally no additional barrier for people already willing to break the law.

It’s the “then only criminals will have guns” thing, but much more clear-cut, because while making your own gun from general-purpose input components requires a machine shop and an unethical person with machining skills to run it (and so making guns illegal really does make guns harder to acquire — though not impossible), making a GPS tracker from general-purpose input components can be done in your own living room without even a soldering iron.
Self-discipline is a better predictor than IQ according to this paper from 2005. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.368...
One of the most eye-opening studies I saw was that social science papers with the most citations, had the highest likelihood of not being reproducible. Meaning that Social Sciences are actually pushing out misinformation more than not.
The work number (by equifax, a credit reporting agency) may report it though assuming your employer participate and gives them your pay and employment info.

https://theworknumber.com/
The function of being secure against attacks? Yes.

The function of continuing to handle transactions? It can do that fine I suppose.
It used to be fast. Now it's so slow it has a loading screen.
The goal is simple: for nobody to ever die of COVID-19, or any other cause, ever again.

Any less than this, and you'll lock down again.
Police are claiming they are, but have provided very limited evidence this is actually happening. https://twitter.com/neilcybart/status/1472634032827645962
When Satoshi returns and activates his backdoor all the coins will be his.
What are your thoughts on what China has done to Taiwan or the Uyghurs?
> With people, we can say, "stop joking around", and it's a meta-discourse signal that we want stop discussing imaginary worlds and focus on the real one, for example, which has to be totally self-consistent.

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> We get a distinct feeling that we don't understand something, and a different feeling when things click together. Or when we hear a syntactically valid (in other words, pattern-matching) but nonsensical sentence (like "colorless green ideas sleep furiously"), or see a Penrose triangle, and we cannot imagine an example, we get a very specific feeling that something is wrong.

It's true that the human mind has the capability to do these things sometimes (and within certain specifically designed frameworks like the scientific method, do it highly reliably)....but whether we do do it (or even have the capability) with consistent, high level success across various domains is a very different matter.
What do MPHs even do? What kinds of jobs do they get, and how much do they pay?

Sounds like a very low ROI degree.

If you're interested in getting an advanced education in the healthcare field, you might as well either get an MD (to make the advanced degree worth it) or go to a less expensive city and become a PA, DPT, or OT at a public university.

Out of all of the options in healthcare, MPH at NYU seems like the most excessive waste of money.
Yeah, that's all about quantifying something well known, not "stop the press, there's been a reinfection!"
I was thinking more about power shifts, not inequitable comparisons :D
Have you tried this? Obviously, law of small numbers and whatnot, but as an early-20s male who's gone on multiple dates with older women, I repeatedly felt disrespected or ignored in conversation. It's as if I bored them. Some outright told me they prefer to date men older than them.

And maybe I'm boring! But when I date younger women this doesn't happen. So, in my experience, this does not work and I won't be trying again soon.
I feel like there may be a middle ground between 100% on taxpayers and 100% on the issuing banks that still deals with some of the problems the current system was intended to fix.

Pricing the risk of an 18 year old trying to get through school is a crap shoot, so banks just won't do it. That effectively shuts out kids from poor backgrounds. I know I wouldn't have been able to go to school without loans, and saving money for a few years wouldn't have been an option because of my area/family.

Current laws were made to solve a problem. Now we know that they create a new problem. Let's try something new rather than reverting back to the old problems.
> with billions on the line

Not my money. Why should I care about lawsuits between advertising networks and their advertisers, regulators and so on?
What you talking about? App delivery trough browser is what enabled the low cost zero friction startup world you see today, and we're all better for it.
I don't care to live past 130. I care to be able to enjoy life till then. And according to my own data points (2 people close to 100), I can assure you that at 100 your life is not funny at all because you can't do much else than having a walk, maybe reading a book and sleep.
Radar → Blockcap → Core Scientific
'head' is a function that returns the first element of a list. On empty lists, it raises an exception. I'm not sure what's the origin of this, I know that standard ML also does that. The thing is that ~20 years ago exceptions in functional programming languages were seen as something normal, whereas these days people tend to prefer sum types. So what they would want is for head on a list of number to return a Maybe number, which can be Just number, or Nothing. This would allow the compiler to check for errors, and allow for easier composition since Maybe is monadic (if you don't know what monads are, think of them as an ubiquitous interface, like Iterator in another language).
I'd say this is a situation where you should use a tool that's appropriate for the job.

Listing 70k files without greping or piping into another process is something you are probably not going to ever do. exa seems very good for the average case.
This is ridiculously and demeaning to the Chinese people. Losing your temper is universal and I have seen plenty of white friends that lash out. To say that only Chinese people behave this way and not white people is well at best a sign of superiority complex and at worst a subtle _______ remark.
Because one IRB makes a bad decision doesn't mean, in general, deception studies are easy to get approved. Furthermore, this study used an "no human subjects" exemption to avoid a full review - which should not have happened. The Linux code attack study has also roundly criticized in the research community because it was such an abnormal failure of IRB.
A relative of mine works in NYC schools and routinely notes that whenever he subs in a poorer district the teaching strategy basically revolves around making students sit and behave so they'll learn how to be obedient unskilled labor when they grow up. They told a six or seven year old girl that she wasn't allowed to cry when she missed her parents and toys.
Only if you have other income.
Then offer to do work in your community than your employer.

There are many food banks and code for america (and other country equivalents) that can use your help to impact your community.
they have their own parliaments and official languages

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_Catalonia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemish_Parliament

but they are not independent countries.
Are there many experts who are easily confused by age structure?
>Also, isn't Razib Khan a "scientific racist"? (Protip: when someone's wiki page has a 'Controversies' tab it doesn't look good)

He is a Bengali-American (with a Muslim name) who has repeatedly debunked Hindu nationalist claims about ancient human migrations in and out of India.

Unfortunately, as your comment shows, they have been succesful in maligning him as a racist for speaking the truth.
then if we assume they were trawling it anyway (that they're lying about end-to-end encryption), why would this TOS change matter?
The US removed troops as part of the One Child Policy. That policy is now being undermined by the DPP, US and Lituania, where "undermining" includes selling weapons to Taiwan, sailing more warships near China, and AUKUS. It's not exactly a peaceful situation right now where China's worries are completely made up.
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> The special thing I’ve done is mostly being willing to sit with hard questions like “who am I” and “what do I really want out of life and a job?”, sometimes for years at a time

A couple years ago I watched "Avatar: The Last Airbender" for the first time, having skipped its original run.

When Uncle Iroh says to Zuko, "You need to start asking yourself the important questions, like _who am I?_, and _what do I want?_" it kinda hit me.

I don't have much of an identity and I spend a lot of time bored and aimless because all I want is to be happy and one day retire, which isn't short-term or specific enough to get me through the weekends.

I still don't know what I want, and that kinda sucks.
>is morally wrong

That is the problem not just with Rust but with today's tech. There is moral story or ideology everywhere. My definition of "engineers" is basically trade offs. Unfortunately that doesn't seems to happen much in software. The Rust Evangelism Strike Force.
I think this reverse tracking would also raise concerns

- keys with airtag attached are lost, thief (perhaps opportunist) can find the home/car they belong to

- stalker types can steal an airtag from a water bottle, handbag, or whatever, and find the owner's home

Not an iPhone user but AFAIK the lost phone scenario was already covered with even pre-airtag "Find my..." since you could log into iCloud web interface on any other device and use that
What is the role of VMWare ESXi in this? Is it just used to show that the BIOS is setup correctly, or is it part of the final configuration?
thanks, it sounds interesting
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Can someone just put any random AirTag on someone's car and have it trigger alerts on nearby iphones? Does one have to do something to activate it first?

Curious if all one needs to do is get one and stick it on a randos car to cause psychological distress without even pairing with a phone or otherwise registering/activating the thing.
I didn't say there is no difference, I've specifically said that their status is similar.

Catalunya has a quite conflictual relationship with Spain and the level of conflict has raised in the past few years.

Catalonia is not a country, Taiwan is not a country.

Some of us might think that they deserve to be independent, but that's not their current political status, so calling Taiwan a country is technically wrong, just like calling Catalonia a country.

In this specific example, if John Cena said that Catalonia is a country, Spain would have protested and probably asked Cena to correct himself.
No, removed WhatsApp and all Facebook apps from my phone since then.
Using Telegram and Signal instead. Don't want them spying on my phone or my data, at least when using through a browser they can't get so much data.

I can use Facebook and Instagram via the browser if needed, although I have not logged into fb from my phone since I updated my phone, just to keep it exclusive to my desktop.
The automatic git status is the killer feature of exa for me. Makes it easy to see what files have been changed, what's ignored. etc.
Looking at the paper, the statistical story is a bit complicated.

In figure 2, the authors argue that there is a trend. But the graph seems to show the direct measurements of dependent variables with confidence intervals, and they are all non-significant. This means that there is no reason to talk about a trend, especially if the difference between significant and non-significant is not significant :)

[edit]: Would really have loved if they showed marginal effects here, removing the influence of control variables.

But the models themselves do something else: Table 3 suggests that covid was used as a binary variable to test for. So they are comparing pre-covid to covid-time and see a significant result there.

Methodologically, it doesn't seem like a bad design, but the sample size is really a bit small to have sufficient power.

Apart from that, the effect size of covid (31) seems really high, but developmental psychology is not my field so I can't say anything about that.
Why would you want all US presidents to have an MBA? Is the US a business or something
I think it's really important to stress that while it is obviously great to see fewer people in hospital, that alone doesn't tell us very much about the severity of the variant, or the expected outcome in other countries.

We would already expect the number of hospitalisations second wave to be way lower, because of the effect of higher levels of immunity through vaccines and previous infection versus the first wave. The Discovery Health research from South Africa [1] suggests that Omicron might result in about 30% fewer hospitalisations versus an equivalent Delta infection, but it's still early days and it's hard to get clear data given the number of confounding factors. The early research from Imperial in the UK [2] says:

"The study finds no evidence of Omicron having lower severity than Delta, judged by either the proportion of people testing positive who report symptoms, or by the proportion of cases seeking hospital care after infection." with the notable qualification that "hospitalisation data remains very limited at this time."

Even if it's substantially less severe, it does seem certain from the way it's ripping through the UK at the moment that it spreads extremely quickly – and even with a lower chance of hospitalisation, we could quickly see a very large spike in the number of people requiring care, with the corresponding stress on already overstretched healthcare.

I'm definitely a bit concerned about the amount of "it's basically just a cold now!" chat we've been seeing – something we'd all like to be the case because pandemics are shite. But anecdotally I have witnessed first-hand quite a few people I know here in the UK being pretty blasé in the run up to Christmas and getting quite sick as a result.

[1] https://www.discovery.co.za/corporate/news-room#/pressreleas...

[2] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/232698/modelling-suggests-ra...
Thanks for writing the bulk of my comment for me. :)

The thing I would add is that tools like this cater to introductory users, not power users. They're for the person who tweaks every cosmetic default to the point where they need a setup of "dotfiles" to be functional.

Meanwhile, tools like this often skip over important implementation details like extended file-system attributes.
-- small rant

The UI looks very nice and polished

.. that would be true if it was a mobile app, not a desktop app..

i'm tired of constant scroll/touch/gesture based UX on desktop, it's wrong

-- rant end

Running windows app?

What kind of windows only app does people need nowadays?

I see none personally

Office? meh, gmail/google doc etc replaced it

3D? blender is here

Game Engines? they run on linux

Editors? they run on linux

What's left? i literally see none!
You don't have to tax everyone for basic income.

Thought Experiment: Let's say we eventually have a super robot, which can build other robots which can produce all the goods and services the humanity can consume sustainably.

Now, You(Government representing the people) can print money and give it to all of humanity to buy the goods and services from this Super Robot. At the end of the year, this 'super robot' (or the owner of the super robot) will have all the money that is printed.

Next year, you can

a) Print a fresh set of money and distribute, leading to this super robot accumulating all the money (but really who cares, you can make laws that limit how much non-renewable assets a single person or robot can own)

b) Tax this 'super robot' 99.9999% and redistribute it again.

Repeat (a) or (b) forever
People keep saying that, but the only stable experience I have had is with Windows. Every single Linux distro I have tried (Ubuntu, Debian, Manjaro, Fedora) has been inherenty more sluggish and painful to use than Windows for me (even if you were to ignore the initial setup problems with various hardware).

Windows unactivated is actually free to use (just use a generic key from its official documentation) and most of its preloaded bloatware can be removed with single-use scripts.
Afaik, this project is reasonably old as well, I remember looking at early versions when I was at the uni around 2010.
Orders of the political police are backstopped by violence. I'm not sure what distinction you're drawing?

Either way, the head-shooting and the stake-burning are Scott Alexander's metaphors here, from the linked SSC post. As the severity, suddenness, and violence of the sanctions heretics actually face go down my intuitions about his Parable of Lightning start to change. Dial them all the way down to Damore's situation (private business terminating at-will employment, for repeated on-the-job behavior that creates HR problems, totally non-violent) and my intuitions flip entirely.

All the rhetorical work of the Parable is done by this false equivalence. That it falls apart when stated so plainly causes me at least to worry about the reliability of SSC's digressive style. What other unfounded assumptions slip through on mood affiliation when you're not disciplined enough to write straightforwardly?
> There is no evidence of souls existing, they are unable to be measured in any way.

This has a dependency on what is considered valid evidence, as well as our current ability to measure things.

> Unless they have several magical rules and violate physics (but only sometimes and are still somehow undetectable), then your brain would still have all those same thoughts about how it feels strongly about having a soul, because that's part of how the ego hard-coded into your brain works.

The same phenomenon applies to reality itself, including our perception of the state and behavior of what is inside of it, as compared to what is actually there (the question of whether souls exist is subject to this problem).

A somewhat relevant post from SSC the other day: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-phrase-no-evidence...
> are you saying the US weapon sales

I am saying that none of this has changed. Taiwan is its own independent country, for decades, and we've been doing the same things, which is follow our defensive treaty with them, and have been doing this for decades.

That's the status quo. Nothing needs to change. Nobody is shooting down Chinese military assets.

All that is happening is the same exact, completely normal defensive treaty actions that we've been doing for a while.

And china isn't going to do anything about this status quo, of Taiwan already being an independent country, with a defense treaty with the US.
Not only that but your database and app are working under the assumption of Read Committed or better and now by introducing a cache that is out of band from your database transactions you’re introducing a whole slew of consistency bugs (that often go undetected).
Maybe this is a US problem… I graduated (Master Degree) at the 1st university of my country (Italy) for engineering 10 years ago. By graduation day I was already employed… and had the luxury of choosing the offer that inspired me the most (had more than 10 offers… basically every company I interview with made an offer). After graduation my phone kept ringing at least twice a day with companies reaching out to try to schedule an interview for months! And the best part that my education was extremely cheap! Annual university fee was less than 2k euros!
> As soon as the iPad/computer was no longer "special" due to time limitations it sort of lost its "power" over him.

Back in 9th grade when I was 14 or 15, we had a substitute teacher who was just out of college and our regular teacher hadn't prepared any sort of lesson plan for her, so instead of doing what we were supposed to we somehow got into a long conversation about adulthood.

The part that's always stuck with me is when one of the other students asked something like, "now that it's legal you must get drunk all the time, right?", and she described the same thing you did here about screens: All the allure was from it being forbidden, and once she was legally allowed to drink she just didn't care anymore.
Yes, you are right, it is a blessing if you learn to look at it like that and flow with it. But it is a curse if you can't.
Some behaviours are more immediately rewarding than other. It’s rare to find anyone eating too much broccoli or having problems stop rehearsing German irregular verbs.
Depends how you were caught. On your back reaching up? No. On your knees? Yeah. Consider that this tag was placed in the wheel well, which doesn't require getting on your back and would only take a few seconds. It isn't like someone is there for a significant period of time. Especially since you can then produce said AirTag after inquiry and people will generally believe the claim even if suspicious. All you have to do is create _reasonable_ doubt. That's different than _certain_ doubt. This is because weird stuff like that is much more common than nefarious acts (though we remember nefarious acts more easily). I think you are likely overly estimating yours and the average person's awareness. Scam artists and magicians exploit these kinds of effects frequently and with an extremely high success rate.
On modern android devices there's a "Quick settings developer tiles" option called "Sensors Off" that's available after you enable developer mode.

After you enable that, a settings button will appear when you pull down your notification/settings menu for "Sensors Off". This disables the microphone, camera, fingerprint reader, accelerometer and other sensors.
The significant part of the affront is asking people who paid for their own tuition to then pay for someone else's in addition.

It costs money to forgive loans, which either could have been spent elsewhere or must be raised in new taxes.

The analogy is if you build a house with plumbing, and your neighbor builds without, then the city uses tax money from you to pay for their upgrade.
Frankly, I think far more performance problems nowadays lie in things like insane SVG/CSS animations for every possible loading spinner than in developers not knowing their O notations.
Thanks for expressing this. I think it gets left out of the conversation due to stigma. People are expected to say how happy they are to have disabled children because anything less is, I suppose, considered inhumane.

However, it's very humane to bring to other people's attention that their prospective children might not be healthy.