skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it could leak embarrassing information about what you've been searching or buying to your friends.

Yes. Say no to tracking, regardless of if it listens to your voice. Even if it does not leak this way it's probable that one of the major ad brokers will leak data in the future.
> If good news happens, you don't need to do anything.

There's plenty you need to stop doing.
> Seems the evidence bar for bad news is quite low, but the bar for good news is unbelievably high.

It seems safer to believe bad news, and remain wary, than to believe good news and drop your guard.
Most people have access to alcohol and do not drink all day. Among those that do drink all day, it's common to use alcohol to self-medicate for various mental issues like depression and anxiety. Removing the alcohol will not fix the underlying problem and may simply result in a different choice of self-medication.
Thanks, yeah, I think I should just start and learn one resource while keeping an eye on other resources for additional information on the topics that I find challenging.
Let's say Clearview says they are deleting the data. How could France make sure the data is actually deleted? Is it possible without perusing Clearview's source code and accessing its servers?
> The point is that the statistics do not back up many fears

There is a saying, Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics. Or "tell me what you want the conclusion to be and I'll tell you what statistical method to apply to the data". Also known as "torturing the data".

In the case of bathtub fatality, the majority of them are either very young or very old (kind of like covid):

> Drowning occurred most often in a bath tub for persons under 1 year of age and for adults aged 85 and over

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db149.htm

If you adjust for age, that will make the bathtub/knife odds even worse.

But on a more meta level, how do you feel about Nassim Taleb. My sense is that you don't like him, because he talks a lot about so called "irrational logic of fearing terrorists more than bathtubs", and he calls this behaviour extremely rational.

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/832234355552559104
It is not boring, it is just not as interesting/difficult as the remainder of the stack.
> Government also printed $10 Trillion in the last two years and gave it away to mostly poor

Incorrect. QA/corporate bonds have been out of control, PPE etc loans that will be forgiven en masse after being given to the best and coziest customers of the large banks, etc.
> Were there no highly educated and intelligent people in Europe for 2 centuries?

Their mistake was generally adding Rousseau and Marx into the mix, rather than stopping with Locke.

> As in “the enemy is a 2 hours drive away from the capital”, not “let’s bomb another country on the other side of the world”. It’s not because of its immutable constitution that these things did not happen in the US.

Err... before Canada became quasi-independent, the United States had a very long border with the British Empire, which was (in)famous for its penchant for grabbing territory. They even burned Washington DC at one point.

The story was the same with Mexico. In the early years of the United States, Mexico was part of the Spanish Empire, another entity noted for wars of conquest on the grand scale. And yes, after Mexican independence, the United States launched a war of conquest of its own across that border. But it could have gone the other way in the early days.

The French (another colonial power) also had massive holdings in North America.

Sorry, the "United States didn't have any war-like neighbors" theory doesn't hold.
That is making the same mistake of many here and the author of the linked article, which is equating smoking cigarettes to smoking tobacco. Smoking tobacco may not be healthy, but it is not nearly as lethal as smoking (national brand and major brand) cigarettes, because cigarettes include a lot of extra stuff that is not tobacco, namely, an infusion of 300+ known carcinogens in order to increase addictiveness.

What should be banned and made illegal is the method Big Tobacco uses to process tobacco into such a lethal product [1]. If we banned this process, but permitted manufacture, sale and consumption of smoking products containing only unadulterated natural (i.e. no additives except water) tobacco, within 10-20 years, the mortality rates of smokers would plummet and return to what they were prior to the chemical revolution of the 1950s, which is probably far less though we don't know by how much because the studies only appeared after the chemical revolution.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdV_1u-TodY&t=13m25s
> 'By “modern humans,” I mean Homo sapiens'

Though it's not a distinction many people care about, for me this is always the fundamental context: Homo Sapiens, not 'humans'. There have been many species of humans; only one of them made it to modern times. So--the post isn't on 'human origins', it's on 'Homo Sapien origins'.
With the relatively high vaccination rates, perhaps it is time to start focusing on fortifying our immune systems and early treatments also.
What would you have done with the cash? Hold it? That’s how the poor stay poor.
> You build it, you run it

For any set of non-trivial apps the cognitive load is simply too big. Assuming the engineer can handle it, eventually more time will be spent in keeping up with the current system(s) than writing code/promoting the business logic.

A company could chose to use ready-made tools but all them get expensive pretty quickly and make their own assumptions about workflows, view-points, etc. The assumptions might fit the use case or not. Lock-in then becomes another problem. There's no easy way out, it's trade offs all the way :-)

Example: The Haskell lead engineer for App1 has all the necessary knowledge to understand how the base-metal NixOs fleet is configured because there's deep familiarity with Nix. At some point the infra team will start making decisions and assumptions to automate _this_ or _that_. The engineer now will have to spent time understand what changed since last time, making sure nothing is broken while performing changes.
Wow! I can't believe I've never noticed that. For many years, the only graphical installation disk was based on Plasma, and I think it also had that tag. NixOS only started shipping a GNOME iso for installation purposes a little over a year ago (for 20.09), and I kinda never noticed.

Looks like the main reason GNOME is recommended for installation media at the moment is that it does a better job of autodetecting HiDPI displays, and then scaling appropriately: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/pull/643

There are also some packaging issues for Qt with NixOS, because Qt plugins fundamentally rely on ‘impurity’ at runtime, and the Qt framework makes promises it doesn't keep about binary compatibility.

Here are some of the relevant issues for historical context and some of the tradeoffs Nixpkgs developers have faced when it comes to handling Qt and KDE packaging:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/86369

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/54525

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/44047

I realize that may not be a fully satisfying answer as to why the GNOME-based installation graphical ISO is recommended over the Qt one because one can imagine that the Qt packaging issue should be resolved some other way, or see the difficulty of packaging Qt plugins and applications in Nixpkgs as fundamentally a Nix defect. But I hope it makes that decision make more sense.

FWIW, afaict Plasma is the more popular of the two major DEs on NixOS, and it's what I've always used on NixOS myself, including now. It is definitely usable.
From the documentation

> Here’s an example. exa, by default, runs the stat system call on every file it encounters. This requires communicating with the storage device or hard disk to get that file’s type and permissions, which determine how that file gets coloured and displayed on screen. The system call, which may have been expensive in the days of time-shared computers and slow connections, is still not free, but is extremely cheap. The extra information is worth the minuscule increase in processing time.

For 100% - ~3 use cases the performance difference does nit matter as a human is unable to react in milliseconds. You can always fallback to ls.
Oh, I forgot to add; these days, msys2 have got a number of extra package repos. They have one, "CLANG64", which has got Clang/lld as the default compiler (just like in llvm-mingw) and with all packages built that way. And there, it defaults to native TLS too. Depending on your use case, this might be easier to take for a spin than llvm-mingw.
I provide a self-hosted analytics platform and I have the same issue. Also, if someone sends an email requesting to have their session stats somehow deleted, it's almost impossible as I can't link their session to their person in any way, so I can't know which one to delete.
> 1TB NVME drives aren't very expensive on the order of $80-$100 US.

That isn't the point. I have in my possession several small form factor computers that have 16GB disks in them. "just spend $80-100 each on them" is not a good excuse for having such an inflexible system that it demands everything be on one disk.

The original Mac did this on floppies in 1984. It is 2021, our software should be able to do better.
I don’t think I’ve seen any suggestion that outcomes are worse, or policies made with that assumption.

At the moment, the evidence we have available suggests that Omicron is much more transmissible than Delta, and between 0-30% less likely to result in hospitalisation. It certainly seems like policy is being made with that in mind.
I think this is largely damning of the american political system.

These are all fairly mainstream center-left views. E.g. except for the get rid of beurocracy in the fda one, i agree with all of them, and im not particularly out there.

If someone who has these relatively mainstream views feels unrepresented in the mainstream political discourse, something is wrong with the discourse.
CPU cores, cpu frequency, available memory, disk read/write speed all affect performance too.

CPU cores and available memory can be limited via a VM. CPU frequency, and disk speeds can't. 5200RPM disk vs SSD/NVME is a HUGE difference. If it's swapping often on a 5200RPM, that's a significant slowdown.
You're misreading the words. It said "full size dirt park half pipe"
This is wrong. It would be true if you received all the cash in a lump sum as soon as you're hired, and you used it to buy stock, but if your cash "vests" in the same way as equity typically does then you'd lose out on the opportunity for it to appreciate before vesting like shares can.
If anyone else was lost like myself, here is the rundown. The linked github readme assumes prior knowledge of 2b2t.

This is an exploit for a very old Minecraft server (called 2b2t) where griefing (destroying other creations) and hacking is basically allowed. This kind of environment means that groups of players are incentivized to hide their projects out in the middle of nowhere, hundreds of thousands of blocks away from the world origin coordinates. The exploit allows a client to ask the server if data chunks at arbitrary coordinates have player activity in them, opening the server up to a brute force search to locate well-hidden bases.

Basically, a group got spy satellites in an anarchy Minecraft server where remaining hidden is critical to not being destroyed.
When your values lead you to [almost castrate yourself](https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=2119) and then publicly flagellate yourself further when your supposed political allies dogpile you, maybe you should rethink them.
sounds like a joke so maybe treat it as such
I learned some of the Monte Carlo techniques in my medical imaging classes, it’s very interesting the data one can fish out with a good-enough graph.

I also find the adaptive location “pinging” quite interesting, reminds me of the tech behind the F-22 active radar.
At this time of year it’s in vogue
Kamani Massacre
I agree, the problem is not each site storing stats about their visitors, it's one site storing stats about all the visitors across many websites.
could you give me a hint why you didn't like jsonnet? I dreaded k8s yaml when needing to (write) and use helm packages and think of indenting levels, but jsonnet via grafanas tanka gave me the option to be concise, writing functions and creating reusable bits. Of course then you're not far away from using a real language "sdk style".

As you so aptly put, k8s learning curve is beginner hostile and needs system knowledge before you go at it, so I'm not sure if this was also with being more familiar with the abstractions - after having looked at k8s for 2-3 years, jsonnet made me finally like interfacing with the k8s apiserver.
>> the problem with that kind of lagging reaction to policy...

We know that vitamin D helps prevent this kind of thing. We know that most (Americans) are deficient in the winter months. There is evidence to support the idea that it is protective against Covid-19. It is also very safe to take even if you're not deficient.

I have yet to see a PSA or recommendation on this. That could have been proactive rather than lagging.

What I have seen is newer research suggesting that vit D doesnt help, but always with some caviotte like "in people who are not deficient" or one where they administered high doses to people already on ventilators.
I can only talk for my own country but politicians seem to have been really careful to either couple the laws to an state of emergency which is justified by the pandemic situation or do laws which have a certain due date and need to be renewed by Parlament every 6 monthish.

Unlike national security against an invisible threat the absence of CoViD can be shown in which case government even if showing the behaviour you suggest can be more easily pressured into doing the right thing.
The structure of this essay sets up the paired positions as opposing ideologically, but it's not clear that they are.

Take this for example:

> It’s like, what do you call someone who’s absolutely terrified about global warming, and who thinks the best response would’ve been (and actually, still is) a historic surge in nuclear energy, possibly with geoengineering to tide us over?

The Democratic Party has recently endorsed nuclear power:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2020/08/23/after-48...

Republicans seem on board as well:

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/543267-house-r...

Others appear to be tautologies:

> … who wants to end world hunger … and do it using GMO crops?

I have yet to see anyone promote GMO as a way to make better tasting crops. It's always painted as a way to better feed the planet and reduce starvation. To support GMO seems to be an affirmation for ending world hunger. At least it would be entertaining to see someone try to argue that that's not the best use of GMO.

Still other opinions are often heard, but when push comes to shove, actively opposed. For example:

> … who supports free speech, to the point of proudly tolerating views that really, actually disgust them at their workplace, university, or online forum?

Yet:

> … who believes in patriotism, the police, the rule of law, to the extent that they don’t understand why all the enablers of the January 6 insurrection, up to and including Trump, aren’t currently facing trial for treason against the United States?

Those who participated didn't think of themselves as traitors. They thought of themselves as doing their patriotic duty, exercising their Constitutional rights of speech and assembly, and their moral right of action against tyranny. They may be delusional, but that's how they describe themselves. Not coincidentally unlike the lawbreakers who interfered with nuclear weapons research, animal cruelty practices, racial discrimination, the British occupation, the Vietnam War, and abortion clinics.
How Apple Is Organized for Innovation: The Leadership Model
Improving the accuracy of minimal impact Python profiling
If you want to read good news, you proactively look for them eg here https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/
That's more of a GNOME effort, if I'm being honest. It's a feature that's provided via GTK's libraries, but the whole "we're going to add CSD and you're not going to do anything about it" has been more of a GNOME sentiment[0].

[0] https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2018/01/26/csd-initiative/
If those are your only requirements, there are a ton of Android-based smartphones out there, based on your hand size. Google's Pixel, Samsung's galaxy, Sony's weirdly named series to name a few.
Please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29617871
Most evidence I see suggests it's many fewer hospitalizations.

Stats from a recent Denmark study show 60% fewer

https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/14726914313367265...

But people don't want good news with covid. They want to fearmonger as if we can eliminate 100% of cases through authoritarian policy. Which think I don't need to state, will never happen, regardless if 100% of society is vaccinated with a booster and we perpetually lockdown.

It's an endemic disease, that's life.

Zero heed is paid to the extremely costly second order effects of these extreme policies. One of which was a massive increase in wealth inequality, by the way
> We're in the age where we're able to serve an entire sqlite database over a static website

Making use of the SQLite database is entirely client side and requires JavaScript or WASM (the distinction is unimportant) - it requires running code on the frontend. This is not a great way to state your case.
Interesting why France (with its nuclear power plants) and Switzerland (with hydro) have the highest prices.
It’s not at least as good as stock, it’s worse in most markets. Because your stock is appreciating before you’re allowed to sell it but the cash is depreciating to inflation.
Analytics provides a lot of insight into that. Not so much CPU/RAM/disk speeds
From 2004:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041022104658.h...
Having kids can be a way out of from a too-comfortable hedonistic life. I also realized I had just frittered away precious time doing nothing of much value for the last 10 years.

For data points, while I’m tired as fuck all year I’ve never (maybe as a child) smiled so much as when my new infant tries to constantly get my attention and then giggles when she does.
> It can be tracked during your background check (using SSN). They will make you sign a form that you authorize them to perform such a check.

Can you show me a background check service that offers a list of previous employers found by SSN? I did not know that exists. Unless they're consulting the IRS, I don't know how it could exist.

Background checks as I understand them, tend to check things like: credit score, contacting references (that you provide), criminal records etc. Primarily publicly available information.
> The other main advantage is low power consumption.

As someone worried about our climate, I'm very curious about that actually. Is it more efficient to feed neurons biological food (from an energy perspective, since that food needs to be grown on land somewhere and takes up solar energy, it needs water that comes from clouds which were created by evaporation, etc.) than it is to use low-CO2 energy sources (solar, wind, nuclear, hydro, wave, whatever) and power a computer with that?

E.g. electric motors are very efficient compared to combustion, but it's only effective if you get electricity from a non-combustion source or else you might as well use a combustion engine in the vehicle itself. I kind of assumed it's the same for computers, that they efficiently calculate things compared to biology, but I never really thought about it. I'm curious how energy-intensive biological computers are (discounting any R&D that I assume is currently still a big part of the equation).
In terms of “Haskell type classes as production API”, I assume you’ve come across Dhall?

https://dhall-lang.org/
Take the higher than your current salary offer, they’ve already demonstrated how they value work and those who perform it (by geography).

Super interesting work is overrated compared to maximizing comp. Money buys opportunities and freedom. Optimize for comp and quality of life. Lots of inspiration in that regard in this recent Ask HN thread [1].

(i do the same and would not give advice I don’t practice myself)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29614095
It used to be after 3 days. It was only changed to hours because of cases like this.
I don't know how best to speak to these rationalist types. Here's a new attempt;

There is a ---Dawkins----Gould--- political spectrum, and Scott and his people are in the Dawkins camp, in terms of the content certainly, but also in terms of the personal relationships, if one were to make a big over time social graph.

The Gould camp however I think is the better / more correct / more insightful one.
I think that most of us are missing the point.

What he laid out here is just mainstream gospel.

And then he punctuates it with "correct".

Which is to say, he's calling out the latest popular totalitarianism.

Yes, I might be spoiling the punchline here but it seems like it needs to be underlined.
Please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of how wrong or provocative other people's comments are, or you feel they are.

When people get to this point in a back-and-forth, it's a clear indication that the thread should have stopped a while ago. Believe me, I realize it's not easy to pull away, but it's necessary.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What makes fish type produce high risk? Given that fish don't share as much biology with us as mammals do, I thought that there are far fewer fish parasites that can both survive cooking, and are harmful to humans.

Is the concern here that fish spoils faster?
As a dev, I don't produce bad software.

Users of the features we develop are the ones that produce bad websites.
I'm pretty sure you don't honestly believe that even the most outlandish claims from the least credible sources deserve rigorous testing before they can be dismissed. The only people who aren't willing to draw a line somewhere and conclude from the manufacturer's lack of convincing explanations for their implausible claims that it really is bullshit, are people engaged in the same kind of scamming and trolling.

No honest, reasonable assessment of this "product" and its marketing can conclude that the manufacturer appears to be on the level. Expecting journalists to wade through literally infinite bullshit from people not acting in good faith before reaching a conclusion is absurd. Your perverted idea of what journalism should be is far more harmful than any journalistic laziness that may be on display here.
It was a mistake to throw away the tag.
They could've used it (together with police, perhaps) to track down the offender.
I think their meddling in the Bernie/Hillary primaries broke a lot of peoples trust in them.