skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, I see where you’re coming from.

When I wrote my comment, my intended meaning was more specific to the current situation: I really wish people would be more united in taking action in the face of an infectious disease, the transmission of which is entirely preventable in the aggregate.
I left another long comment going through Scott's list.

I looked around and found https://www.marxist.com/marx-darwin-and-gould-the-revolution... which has some neat quotes but is written at times in a bit a rigid way that I think would be a cringy rhetorical misfire for this audience. But as I am currently taking some economics classes, the biology--economics relationships are top of mind.

Dawkin's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene-centered_view_of_evolutio... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microfoundations along with neoclassical economics writ large have some pretty clear parallels.
If it means we can start applying critical thinking again, maybe
Isn't it? Perhaps it has been too long but I recall it being a fish patty, definitely could be my memory failing me.
Oxide Computer is a startup without a product on the market yet.

Embedded operating systems are a solved problem, there are many available on the market used in mission critical systems.

At most companies that are trying to ship a product and have a mountain of work to be done, and someone said, "I know, lets build our own RTOS", even though there are already many perfectly fine ones out there, they would be laughed out of the room.
Nice work of science fiction. It is impossible to estimate the probability of these events with a sample size of one. It likely took billions of years for our planet to reach the right temperature and composition for life to form. It's probable that life readily forms given the right conditions. In my opinion, it makes more sense that it is rare for a planet to develop the right conditions for life. That doesn't really matter much given there are 700 quintillion planets in our universe.
its a little disingenuous to make it seem like all fields are equal. when that is clearly not the case
sadly by the time omicron would reach 99% we might have another variant and cycle repeats.

Data released is with what was present, in time we'll get for the rest as well... Omicron right now is too new to actually know effectiveness...
> It also has an inbuilt task manager

This is part of WINE. You can access it via

wine taskmgr

or if you have some specific WINEPREFIX in mind (including, for example, one associated with some Steam game that runs via Proton), you can use

WINEPREFIX=/path/to/prefix wine taskmgr

> command line access

This is part of WINE, too. You can access it with

wine cmd

or launch it in your favorite terminal emulator with

konsole -e 'wine cmd'

or

xterm -e 'wine cmd'

or whatever. And you can launch it for a specific WINEPREFIX the same way as described in the taskmgr case, above.

Bottles definitely seems better than dealing with this manually, to be clear. But those two features are part of WINE itself! :)
I think many non scientists have a bit of a wrong idea of how science actually works. As has been said, reality has a surprising amount of detail. This means that, outside mathematics, perfect methodology is impossible. So you do your level best to create a good methodology under the constraints of time, technology and proper understanding, and roll out the experiment.

Filling in the cracks of doubt is a big part of what replication and productionizing is for. Of you think a study has a big enough hole in it's methodology, you are free to go design your own study to try to plug the hole or refute the result.

A corollary, though, is that there is always going to be a 'hole' big enough for a jackass on the internet to criticize. But the question is whether you're willing to put the skin in the game to see if the result holds when you design a study to exploit the hole.
People chase a higher salary so that the work they do now through clenched teeth will seem worthwhile one day. So what's the solution for those people? They need to make sure today is good. Not tomorrow.
For me, I networked via LinkedIn with some old classmates in different fields of study. I truly accepted anything I could do at first. There were bumps in the road. There were mismatches between my skills and what was expected. I believe most others who contract will report the same.

There are organizations that are clearinghouses for outsourcing contract work, and my name and CV is with most of ones I could find.

Be proactive. Reach out. Apply for stuff on LinkedIn (most of it goes into /dev/null but not all of it) and just get going. One other piece of advice: if you have any desire/skill at technical writing, that is a great angle. Pay is good and there is always demand.
Something like this strikes me as the most likely Fermi paradox explanation. We will probably eventually find other life, but it will almost always be bacteria to at most multicellular life on the order of Cambrian era fossils.

If intelligence occurs at a rate less than say once per galaxy per billion years, we may never meet ETI. Might find lots of bugs though.

Intergalactic travel is many orders of magnitude harder than interstellar travel. The time frames are insane even close to light speed. Over millions of years things fall apart at the molecular level. Building anything that could last that long, even dormant, would be far beyond any technology we can foresee.
It's horrible to see someone horribly raped like that. I think due to men perhaps we just need stuff like original women only media and media companies.

The problem is only going to get worse, and this poor woman is going to be traumatized for the rest of her life. Who is going to pay for her PTSD?
I am always curious how self organizing teams scale when tackling huge problems that no single person or small team can fit in their head. How do you coordinate your efforts when no one has the whole picture?
Right that post is some acceptance, some feedback, and some concern… it’s not traipsing around the comments repeating the trollish phrase “attack on algebra”
Even ignoring the fact that this isn't a free market by any stretch, the fact is the EU imposes massive costs which will necessarily be reflected in the price of electricity.

For example, about 60% of the cost of electricity in Poland is tied up in buying carbon credits [1]. Now you may agree with the existence of such a system, but that doesn't make its consequences cease to be.

[1] https://twitter.com/michal_1979/status/1472635201226428416?t...
Sentient means "Physiology. Of organs or tissues: Responsive to sensory stimuli." or more generally, "That feels or is capable of feeling; having the power or function of sensation or of perception by the senses." and "Conscious or percipient of something."

It doesn't mean human intelligence or consciousness.
And even better, the mortality risk has dropped despite increased social activity! While maybe the number of cases has yet to be mitigated, those have at least not spiked significantly despite previously cautious people returning to many normal activities (such as dining in, movies, and travel). It’s a big win :)
> it's the subset of engineering that supports engineering

only it's not what the idea behind it was. It was exactly the opposite of another compartmentalization. it was supposed to bridge silos not carve out new job titles for quality control
This presser from the 14th claims final data was submitted[1]. I don’t know the exact details of both processes, but somehow the EU has authorized it already, on presumably the same data.

[1]: https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...
It's always worth mentioning that you can create your own custom tracker device that uses the Find My network.

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack/
My heart goes out to the Chinese people. Our system is flawed, but it's one where even the most powerful of abusers can fall.

The next century of competition is looking incredibly interesting.

America made incredible leaps forward in WWII and the Cold War in the face of stiff competition. When our rivals disappeared, we only made incremental improvements in the decades that followed. We wasted our attention on distractions.

Now we're once again facing a challenging and ideologically opposed rival that will force us to focus more than ever before.

Let's hope that freedom and democracy endure.
Lots of tremendously valuable labor is done by people who don't pull down a wage. I.e., retired people who volunteer and watch the grand kids. Many people -- perhaps most -- contribute more value to society in retirement than in their wage labor years.
>The Democratic Party has recently endorsed nuclear power:

The platform quote is basically lip-service to nuclear fans. Quite different from the Manhattan-Project-level of a response I imagine the author is in favour of.

>Others appear to be tautologies

There are a lot of opponents of GMO crops that consider themselves liberal or progressive.

>Those who participated didn't think of themselves as traitors.

Those that protested outside are not traitors. Those that broke into the Capitol building, with the intent to stop the count or not, committed treason. Trying to overthrow the government is not speech. Yeah the founding fathers were treasonous, but they were successful.
More like complimentary gum at every storefront.
Amazon is horrible for reviews. You can't leave Bas reviews for a lot of these 3rd path vendors.
A common counter to this is something along the lines of "<bureaucrats with title t> are necessary because someone has to think about <something> blabla" where something is usually strategy, business, concept, product, whatever.

It's true someone has to think about those things! But in my experience, most of the people who do it are terrible at it and just come up with endless important sounding grand initiatives that are really just bullshit. But they are very good at making them seem important and portraying them as successes by perverting data etc etc.

So even if you're in an org where implementation is very efficient (cross functional teams etc), at the end of the day, you're just being very efficient in implementing bullshit.

To me it seems like the best orgs are those that have efficient implementation combined with a very simple goal that everyone can appreciate and so there is little need for such bullshit.
I am! I'm building a complete backend in Swift for an app i'm working on. It's actually been really great so far. I develop on my mac in xcode and deploy on linux via docker. See: https://vapor.codes/

I'm a little bias because I really like Swift as a language but Vapor is growing and there are lots of plugins to fill the gaps.
Baby driver: Philadelphia woman gives birth in front seat of Tesla on autopilot
People need to have this conversation no matter how flamebait it will be.

The ability to speak truth is when you don't allow yourself to be shouted down.
I think it's more accurate to say Ivermectin works _as_ an anti-parasitic which was already known. The WHO does, in fact, recommend its use on covid patients who are at high risk for parasitic infection due to geography and steroid use. This is almost exclusively going to be in poor and tropical regions.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/11/18/ivermect...
When the whole of Hawai'i was connected to ARPAnet with a single 56Kbps connection.

I think when I got on the Net the entire UK->USA backbone was 2Mbps?
Swift was conceived and sold as an all purpose language.
To an extreme degree, in fact. Lattner has said many times that it's intended from scripting to system programing[1]. Currently it's good at neither.

I think a language that's simultaneously productive at this two extremes is impossible, but it was their goal.

[1] https://developers.slashdot.org/story/17/01/23/085232/slashd...

“In short, I would NOT say that Swift is an extremely compelling systems programming or scripting language today, but it does aspire to be great for this in the years ahead.”

Jan 2017
Also, they do not recognize Norway as part of EU and do not give Norwegians the choice to opt out. I have not checked since 2020 though.
because L2 is so much more of a pain to reach?
> AirTags are a very expensive way of stalking someone

I don't know your frame of reference in terms of what counts as expensive here, but an AirTag just $29 if bought individually or $25 if bought in a 4-pack. $25 would cover 2 drinks on a night out here (a major west coast US city) at best (and that's without accounting for tax+tip+etc.).

Plenty of stalkers out there are definitely willing to spend way more than just the cost of ~2 drinks, when it comes to stalking someone.

I agree overall that plenty of things in the story don't add up, but the AirTag cost imo isn't one of them.
Unfettered free speech and a heavy nuclear push are mainstream?
or the account owner isn't the person posting. HN doesn't have a captcha for login attempts and there are probably lots of shared user/pass combos (or just easy to guess passes).
Some people think it's part of their 'Freedom' to defraud 17 year olds
android isn't more chaotic back then for me, probably because java docs are literally everywhere. Hard to find and navigate, but most of the time I know where to find things.

Swift is its own language and libraries, but I can't seem to find stuff in apple's website. I remember many times I am literally stuck, don't know where to read the definition or how to do stuff, then I end up having to ask people in reddit / SO. I actually still find people constantly complaining about the the docs in reddit every now and then.

Docs is really really important, having developed with laravel, moved to django, and react for FE, I just realise that their docs are really really good
I read her Weibo post the same day it came out and I didn't get the impression that she was accusing Zhang Gaoli of sexual assault. I thought she was saying that they had an affair (if you can call it that. in the post she said one time while they were having sex, Zhang Gaoli asked his WIFE to guard the door...) on and off for years and now Zhang would no longer respond to her, basically abandoned her.
There are allergies to vaccines (not to the dose, but to everything else that is in the concoction that enables it to work). Also, immunocompromised people often can't take vaccines.

Usually you can get a doctor's note explaining this, and you can participate in daily life normally (like going to school or college, which rightfully require vaccinations).

I don't know if policy around the COVID vaccine is different... But I'd be surprised if it were?
Your snarkiness is gross.
> 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'd maybe call them our best insufficiently-used solutions: things that we can most easily do a bunch more of and make a big difference. They won't get the job done on their own (e.g. nuke plants don't solve the transport / liquid fuels problem, but they contribute to plentiful base load which could even be helpful as part of solving that).
What I found remarkable about the list was the ones that were superficially appealing but fundamentally disastrous, in a way that takes more than a paragraph to explain why.

E.g., right at the top: Geoengineering, really? Maybe he does not know the expression "termination shock". Or "ocean acidification". And, does the author know nothing of the history of nukes in the US? Nuke projects nowadays produce $10B+ ratepayer debt and, ten years on, zero watts.
> outside mathematics, perfect methodology is impossible

Even in mathematics ... others on HN are better qualified than I am to comment, but I've read mathematicians say that almost no reader of a paper works out all the math; to a degree they go by reputation of the author that the mathematics is generally correct.

Similarly to your comment, while outsiders envision perfection, people inside have limited time for it. It may be more productive to spend that time on new research than on investigating every little detail of old research.
Why the Fuck Do You Trust Harvard?
But isn’t this exactly what client-side certificates are invented for?
One noteworthy thing is that the author of this essay is a prominent and successful literary translator. Other ideas in this piece:

* People are losing familiarity with their nations' or languages' own historic literary cultures (because of a mixture of guilt, technology, and cultural globalization).

* Literary translation sometimes gives an illusion of familiarity when readers are still missing out on much (much!) more context than they think.

* There is an awkwardness in the fact that literary translation into English is more important, prestigious, useful, sought-after, etc., than literary translation to any other language whatsoever. The success and prominence of this enterprise means that many people around the world are becoming moderately familiar with some foreign writers, in a way that the author fears may be more superficial than readers realize, while remaining ignorant (and increasingly so) of classic and contemporary writing in their own languages by their own compatriots.

* The lossiness of translation that's especially bothering the author here is not so much lossiness in the language but lossiness in the cultural context. That is, you may actually understand words and sentences very well in translation, and follow what's going on in a novel and how it was described, but still be missing a ton that another acculturated reader would have picked up on. Maybe an analogy to this is the way that we miss so much today when reading Shakespeare, not just because of his use of words that we don't recognize, but also because of a steady stream of references that we miss. Shakespeare is also often making a lot of sexual jokes that most readers today don't even notice.
Open Swoole 4.9.0 Released: Server Metrics, Cloud Native OpenMetrics Support
Instead of focussing on the DC establishment, you should have a look at who most of them seem to be working for. Give Dark Money by Jane Mayer a read.
You mean Green on black.
His warehouse is amazing. It's cooler than the Klein bottles. This guy is like a real Doc Brown with too much time on his hands.
“Meaning” ends up being empty too.

In truth there is no lasting meaning. Eventually the Earth and the solar system will end, followed by the galaxy, followed by every star.

Shoot for contentedness instead. Enjoy the life you’ve been given for it’s own sake and without preconditions.
Europe has repeated political issues with Russian gas pipelines used by Russia as a political threat.
You connect it and one of the researchers to a chat window and the one that first convinces some third party they're conscious gets let out.
It's not clear that anyone was breaking laws, and it's absurd to suggest a random person with a website in the middle of nowhere is going to have insight into the laws of 165 different national jurisdictions.
I wonder why you've repeatedly misquoted me in a deceptive fashion? Very interesting behavior. Does that belong on Hacker News?
I always want to call my DevOps team the "tools" team, but that's not as catchy.

It's helpless to argue for changing the name. You'll never convince people whose careers are tied to DevOps to change the word they use.

We should come up with a buzzword that that we can use for a few years to indicate real-DevOps. It will be taken over by the same managers shortly after, but it can be used by for a little while by people who know the real deal.

We can call this "buzzword maintenance". The industry of engineers agrees to regularly update lingo to keep ahead of corporate concept degradation.

We can do this for agile and DevOps, at least. I suggest taborca (acrobat backwards) and DesMis (designer-mission). These were done with just a quick thesaurus search.
My take is that he's not satirizing. He's simply stating fairly mainstream and popular views. That we don't hear much about. The over-amplified fringe of both right and left contemporary identity and tribe-driven politics speak nothing to most people, who want intelligent and pragmatic solutions to real-world issues, not ideological dross and culture war issues.

Most of us don't fit in the idiotic dichotomy given us. Even a typical liberal centrist/leftist is quite at odds with much of the orthodoxy out there. One can be a 2A zealot and a straight progressive ticket otherwise. Just as one can be a China hawk, anti-2A, and pro-LGBT. Just as one could be on the right and in favour of gun control. Not anymore. We are now all square pegs being forced into round holes. But for all we protest against orthodoxy, our voices seem to disappear. Thus howling into the wind.
Better would be a score gauging how many members of a media organisation have previously worked in parts of government (or still do).
>Every WINEPREFIX defines its own Windows disk drives, so the filesystem is effectively sandboxed.

No, it is definitely not effectively sandboxed. You only need to access / instead of Z:. Wine has no sandbox mechanisms built in. It is also a fairly large codebase which definitely has a bug or two that could be exploited to get around such mechanisms if they existed.

To effectively sandbox, you need the kernel's help. Linux offers namespaces and control groups.

The way you use these comfortably behind a layer of abstraction is through containers. Bottles uses flatpak for the purpose.
What I have seen so far for statistical mechanics is uses of integral calculus notation that has nothing to do with anything in any version of calculus, advanced calculus, measure theory, the Riemann integral, Lebesgue integration, etc.
Your comment doesn't add anything without such an explanation.
No. It's the best part of passover, with tons of horseraddish, yum.
You hear that said but if you look at human prehistory whenever we encountered large animals they got wiped out and are mostly have to be preserved these days by conservation laws.
I might add, in the way that a programmer might, that living unformalized theories are very flexible, and trying to "disprove" based on fact will never end the dispute. It's better to think in terms of "what model responds with fewer epicycle" as new evidence arises, or even broader and more simply "which abstractions are more useful".

So it's more like the quest for better programming languages and libraries, than "right" and "wrong".

I see no other way to resolve these sorts of disputes productively.
UN talks fail to open negotiations on ‘killer robots’
Hey, they shipped IE for Mac!
probably not rare, but the combination of having opposable thumbs and being able to collaborate is unique. crows, dolphins and magpies are intelligent, so are apes, dogs, cats, and even insects. the question is if we're smart enough to recognize that intelligence. we perceive animals as more intelligent if we can can find a way to interact with them. measuring intelligence is in itself a non-intelligent thing to do
What interesting macOS-only terminal apps should I try with Darling?
"Both would help the economy the same"

We've actually been giving 'free money' to rich people for 20 years by this point, it's called quantitative easing, it gave us rising house prices and securities, and 97% of that money never made it into the real economy. So we can conclusively say that does not improve the economy.

Stands to reason the free money experiment should be tried on the opposite end of the scale.
this.

It feels like where are in the reverse of the 50s. Where the 50s promoted masculinity, downplayed femininity the exact opposite is true now. Instead of father knows best, it's instead father knows nothing.

My best advice to young men - Be polite. Be deferential. Study well. Work hard. Take care of yourself. Help others. Don't assume that anyone is going to recognize your work or your achievements without crying privileged, but also realize that regardless of it that is true, you have a responsibility to help others.

This seems to me to apropos to the original article.