skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Banksy on Advertising

“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girifriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are “The Advertisers" and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them
any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.

- Banksy
No wonder I always get rekt when I play Civ.
> I'm fiddling watts around and it's just not worth it unless I can actually shut the inverter down entirely.

That’s where I’m coming from: trying to convince a family member to setup a DC system so the inverter can stay in sleep mode during evening/overnight, because the efficiency is horrendous at small loads. it’s really academic in kWh savings per day, but it saves you the most when sunlight’s the least and reduces battery cycling. But if you’re running an office, the inverter is pretty much running a good load or off, I think.
This is what we've been paying for and they've failed us this time.
I'd remind you that Google isn't your private search engine either. It's an index of public-facing websites, some with content that requires payment. The job of filtering and discernment is yours.

Perhaps there are search engines that do some of that legwork and you'd prefer to use those, or you could use some of the advanced search techniques available on Google. But suggesting they remove any listings of subscriber-only material seems impractical -- also not helpful to the many people who discover content through search results.

I agree with your last comment:

they are Microsoft of the 90s (living off of their monopoly)
The replacement for Microsoft exchange sounds interesting
Safety on the road is more important that the freedom to annoy drivers. Also, you can express yourself elsewhere instead of on the road. And, on top of that, a driver doesn't have the freedom to completely ignore the expression (not yet). I can ignore some yelling fellow on a market (never liked that annoying, noisy shit either btw) with noisecancelling earplugs. One can't drive with a blindfold. I'm sure there is gonna be QQ over AR in driving, partly justified. However, less is more. Plus, AR could allow you to get traffic signs in a HUD. Can't miss them.
Part of me is inclined to agree with you. In terms of pure function, I prefer the rapid response of gas stoves to anything electric. I have a moderately high-end glass/electric (not induction) range right now, and TBH it just doesn't work as well as a basic gas range. Unfortunately, I also have to consider the upstream and downstream impacts. This less-functional range is a price I'm willing to pay for not adding to the world's woes.
Heyyy, I wasn't far off then! What does your product do and how could it help our users train models more efficiently? What is meant by efficiency here?
Fertility rates in most developed countries are below the replacement rate. There is absolutely no need to dissuade people from having children.

It's about giving up on the paradigm that population has to grow, and thus giving up on policies aimed at ensuring that it does, and then adapting to the social and economic consequences.

This will happen in any case since population cannot grow ad infinitum.
I believe FreeBSD has removed support in CURRENT.
> Government funded university tuition (student debt is only in the form of upkeep).

And how many people get to go? And who chooses which majors are available?

If you have a pulse, you can get into a US college/university.
social media is the like the densest exchange of personal thought in human history
Well, must be Obama’s conspiracy because the US side selected the participants. You speak as if you have indisputable proof of some conspiracy.

The naïveté is not understanding that China’s problems is not so much they are evil masterminds rather than just incompetent bureaucrats. The takeaway from the trip is that 90% of what they expose to the outside world is a facade to save face for their own politicians, not that they are competent super spies.

They may have spied on us, but we’d have not much value being spied upon. If spying is somehow the benchmark of authoritarian regimes then the US and Israel probably lead the pack of these types of regimes.

Secondly, just because you disagree with government policies doesn’t make it some evil regime. You cited Jack Ma but he is still out and about.
I just refresh /newcomments
> To give you an idea of how sophisticated Ontario is, most Hollywood comedians and a large percentage of writers are originally from the Toronto, ON area because of their writing and self-production abilities.

Haha, that's just because Ontario has a large population with respect to Canada as a whole. Sophistication is not the right word to use as someone from Ontario.
Non-competes weren’t really enforceable before. I’ve been there with an infantile CEO and talked with lawyers about it.

Perhaps there’s some value in making it explicit, yet again. But I think this is one of those frustrating “another law for something we already have a law for.”
> do they decay in any meaningful way, or are they just overpriced.

The flammable thing is relevant because gold, platinum, or silver can be recovered after a fire, but Diamonds can’t be. It’s a real risk. Large ones regularly get chipped and their all susceptible to a range of chemicals including some acids etc.

Add it all up and nationwide Diamonds get destroyed on a very regular basis.

PS: And yes as you referenced they do decay at standard temperatures and pressures but reasonably slowly. Still diamonds last 1,000 years if well preserved just don’t have the same ring, paper can do the same. The simple fact the average stone is more stable feels like a slap in the face.
This is a bit of an "Are Y'all with the Cult?" moment. Tumblr is a niche community at this point and the people who are still there are largely unusually dedicated fans.
> But it does raise the question: what would a genuine online counter-culture look like?

I can think of:

The short-live Boogaloo meme culture

The NRX movement

Fundamentalist religious communities

Note that none of these subcultures are ever likely to be history's protagonists. But they are (or were) arrayed against the dominant culture's contemporary beliefs, narratives, and trends.

100rabbits permacomputing work is worth looking into.

There are other pockets out there, typically left-leaning that are too multitudinous, heterogenous, and individually niche to be effectively categorized in a single sentence.
https is still non-existent
I would argue that postgresql is pretty light if you just want to use it as a crud backend.
Rain flows straight down river instead of melting slowly. January rain doesn’t water August gardens.
> Ontario is the "California" engine province of Canada

Quick Wikipedia lookup of Canadian provinces by GDP per capita shows Ontario’s at 61k CAD, which precisely matches Canada’s overall

Whereas Alberta’s is 31% higher.
> This guy made a graph of their data, which makes it a little more clear:

As another commenter as has pointed out, the graph in question in included in the PDF version of this preprint (which you can see here: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.02.21267156v...).

I want to add: "this guy" is Vinay Prasad, a professor of oncology at UCSF and an incredibly prescient thinker through the COVID-19 pandemic, and someone with whome I've had the joy to correspond and repeatedly be impressed by his straightforward, evidence-based, dry-witty way of thinking, writing, and speaking.

He's a significant up-and-come in medical science, without a doubt, and someone to follow if you are interested in science-based policy.

We had the pleasure of hosting an AMA with him on /r/lockdownskepticism which you may find enjoyable and educational: https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/m0ll33/...
In metallurgy, several computational models are available based on specific applications. University of Cambridge is involved in neural network modeling. Just recently I published a paper that analyzed a welding electrode database to provide specific insights. One could see it here, https://s3.amazonaws.com/WJ-www.aws.org/supplement/2021.100....
> In summary, the risk of hospital admission or death from myocarditis is greater following COVID-19 infection than following vaccination and remains modest following sequential doses of mRNA vaccine including a third booster dose of BNT162b in the overall population.

> However, the risk of myocarditis following vaccination is consistently higher in younger males, particularly following a second dose of RNA mRNA-1273 vaccine.

This is an important reminder for policy makers and the public that vaccination policy cannot be reduced to a simple dichotomy.

Vaccines can be beneficial for the overall population AND present excess risk for certain sub-populations. Stratifying by age and sex is essential for discussions on this topic to be accurate and productive.

Moreover, it takes a long time and a large sample size for these anomalies to be detected with significant statistical power. Let's do our best to avoid frustrated bickering, we need all the patience and empathy we can muster.
The spike protein RNA vaccine saturates the body causing an inflammatory response especial so in certain muscles that use lipids (vaccine contains lipid as a transport mechanism) as a primary source of energy such as the heart muscle. A good interview of this is [1] Joe Rogan Experience episode #1747 - Dr. Peter A. McCullough

[1] https://open.spotify.com/episode/0aZte37vtFTkYT7b0b04Qz

Edit: [2] The CDCs myocarditis page on this since the Dr. McCullough is upsetting people here. And just so to pre-emptively dismiss any attacks that I am anti-vax I am fully vaxed and boosted. But talking about side effects or risks apparently puts one in said camp. Nuance is dead.

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/my...
>A genuine counterculture would be orthogonal from the original culture, not the negative of it.

Counterculture always runs contrary to an existing culture, in rejection of its ideals and values, it's right there in the name. I think you're making an argument that counterculture can be just as mimetic as culture, which I might agree with. It's all part of the same cycle of assimilation, transformation, rejection and rediscovery.
I agree that non-competes being enforced are uncommon. I've never even heard of it happening in Canada.

That being said, my contract with AWS stipulates that I can't work for their competitors, it's insanely wide so I don't see how it could realistically be enforced, but I still signed it which means that technically I can't work for Azure/GCP. I would much rather see the practice outlawed entirely so as to not have to worry about it.
Consider the life of a cell phone, or any other electronic gadget... it has value because of the utility it offers at first, that declines as it ages, until it becomes a special form of hazardous waste that you have to pay to dispose of.

Perhaps this analogy of private user data to electronic gadgets is helpful for predicting the future? Public data is another matter all together.
Do you mean an observation schedule?
Is the paper actually biodegradable or is it basically just plastic coated paper?
https://permies.com/t/42722/Passive-Solar-House-design-Cloud...
Thanks for this thoughtful list. I try not to flood my ML dev team with too much academic reading but obviously some are too important. Seeing another persons take on what’s important helps me refine what I give to the newcomers to get them up to speed.
It’s not up to a search engine to decide what is true or false. If they want to play this game, it’s censorship.
Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners to Acquire 5G Innovator Dense Air
Hard disagree.

1) They only made changes on the iOS app.

2) The last time they made sweeping changes to content policies it was at the behest of Apple (https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/13/18139940/tumblr-back-app...).

3) The changes they made seem utterly unrelated to a generic push to be more advertiser friendly.

Tags they have blocked include: "about", "about me", "arms", "beard", "donate", "hot", "long post", "me", "mine", "misc", "my face", "my gif", "my life", "queue", "queued", "repost", "self", "self reblog", "selfie", "snap", "stim toy", "submission", "suicide prevention", "tagged", "TMI", "Tony the Tiger", and a huge number of tags starting with the word user such as "userdave" or "userjane". (And then, yes, a ton of words with sex or drug connotations too, yes.)

Notice that a ton of these are actually meta tags relating to how people use Tumblr; "submission" is automatically added (by Tumblr!) for items submitted to a blog; "queued" is added (again, by Tumblr!) for posts queued to be automatically posted in the future; people often tag especially long posts with "long post", and so on. Then you get just weird things like "Tony the Tiger".

I'm not sure what exactly they're trying to do, but it seems very clear to me it's a half-baked attempt to stop getting kicked off the app store again. They've as much as said that this is an emergency fix and they will be rolling out something less broken when they can, but a general "let's be more advertiser friendly" push wouldn't be an emergency.
Employees not succeeding at disconnecting from work is often unintentional, and caused by subtle, pernicious effects of middle managers simply existing and following basic incentives (such as "my boss just sent me an email after dinner, guess I should act/forward it along").

Forcing companies to write down their policy on this seems like a pretty good idea, because it forces HR to actually decide how they want their employees to be treated, and enables middle managers to be held accountable for their actions along this axis.
"Study after study reveals that diversity in participation produces better outcomes and more robust technologies—that diverse communities are simply stronger communities."

Does anybody have links to some of these, hopefully with some numerical stats? E.g. diverse groups finished tasks X% faster or something? My intuition tells me that diverse groups are far better able to see all sides of problems, and make sure no stone goes unturned - I would be interested to see the actual numbers.
This is a project I am still working on (I wasn't expecting it to be posted on HN), so while I have thought of the problems you've listed, I haven't finished solving all of them. I do appreciate the feedback though. To answer your questions:

1. My original plan was to have a textual description of the algorithm that you could print out and store with the key shards or main document. That way even if GitHub goes down and Rust is no longer available you could still pay someone to re-implement the algorithm to reconstruct the secret. That document could also contain a minimal version of the source code to just reconstruct the secret. The reason for putting a link to the website was so that a regular user (who is ultimately going to be the target audience for this) would be able to follow the instructions to recover the secret.

2. All of the data has a u32 version number inside the wire format, so any change which would render things incompatible would result in a new version and the code for recovering the old version would remain untouched (and once we get to that point, there would be tests to make sure that works). Also the document says in the header which paperback version was used to construct it, so even in the extreme case where we wouldn't be able to detect a change we could just ask the user what version of paperback does the document say.

3. Good question, but I'm not sure how I would go about estimating this?

I will add some of this information to the README.
HyperNeRF
Well, installing the ad blocker took me five minutes.
I see. COVID is now just a cold. Next please.

Seriously. Look up the history of infectious diseases. For most of history, we were living with truly debilitating ones. Polio. Smallpox. Measles. Syphilis. The Roman Empire would probably be around if not for the Plaque of Justinian. Heck, look at the impact of disease on IQ in parts of Africa.

Yes, it's possible COVID will behave like how you describe. It's equally possible it will knock 5 IQ points off each time it hits you, until we're drooling idiots in our old age. We don't know yet.

We do know colds don't cross the blood-brain barrier like COVID.
Capitalistic forces means the force itself is capitalistic (and says nothing about who is creating the force). Capitalist forces means the force of a capitalist - it directly references the being that is creating the force.
> probably not as seasoned as the article wants you to think.

I remember when the TSA split the security lines into "seasoned traveler", "regular people", and "families and children" for a while. The "seasoned traveler" line was actually the slowest, because everyone wanted to think that they were seasoned when they were actually disorganized fumbling newbies. The "families and children" line, meant to be the slow one, was actually the fastest, because everyone assumed it would be slow and went to another one. So all of the actually seasoned travelers knew that that "families and children" line was the real fast one. Funny how that works.
They weren't, but companies still included terms in employee's contract.. and "not really enforceable" still requires a (legal) fight.. this is better, no?
> But it is the team, as a whole, where this expertise resides. Not one member of the team who happens to have a particular role and title.

Which is why I made the distinction between accountable and responsible. I totally agree that it’s the team as a whole that’s responsible for the output of the team, and that it’s essential that everybody on the team has a customer focus.

> you seemed to imply that any counterexample of a PM who is not doing this as not a true effective PM, and hence, not worth discussing.

In my opinion, the better a PM understands their customers, the more effective they are in their role. I had thought that this would be relatively noncontroversial. It certainly wasn’t a dig against a some subset of my profession. Virtually all PMs that I’ve worked with see this as core to their role.

Now I am curious, was there anything in the wording of my reply, or in your past experience working with PMs, that caused you to reply?
I think that might have more to do with their brittleness and their coefficient of thermal expansion than it does their flammability, but thanks for pointing out a danger I hadn't considered.
Companies will still include them.

Just like “no pets” or anything else that’s very explicitly banned in the landlord tenant act.
Can you quantify that Tumblr is dead? Metrics I've seen still have it receiving a huge amount of traffic.
Sure but you're weaseling out of the things you originally said, neither of which are true - that there was universal and broad belief in the ideology of the system because basically people had not heard any better, all the way up to 1989. And that at the time of the breakup of the Soviet Union, Soviet republics or Warsaw countries were starving.

Your newer stuff isn't much better (Hungary didn't let East Germans into Austria because the fence was under-maintained) but that's probably past the point at which should wrap this up.
The use isn't simply incidental; it's restricted. You have some piece of equipment which runs telephony firmware that is configured to talk to a particular server, and identify itself with some credentials that bind it to a particular line.

The user is not running a freely selected Internet-based VoIP application connecting to a server of their choice located anywhere in the world. (In which case that would be real Internet use and not incidental.)
From another POV, browsers are pretty bad at displaying HTML and CSS.

The layout mechanics are complicated. DOM is slow and non-transactional which means jumpy redraws and jank during partial updates, and you just can't render it at 60 fps, or even 30 fps, like you would with a direct-mode game-style UI; at best you can peg several CPU cores to 100%.

And this can never be fixed because backwards compatibility. It can only be replaced in some indefinite future.

This is why the virtual DOM was invented. And yes, if you know how to cook it, it's faster than jQuery.

OTOH great many web pages are not apps, and should not be treated as SPAs. But this happens, and it will until server-side rendering is made ridiculously easy to set up, and also becomes the fashion.
Could puberty and high testestorone have something to do with it? Just making a guess because it's specifically higher in 16-24 group.
That’s what lying is.
Were they fined 1$ for their transgressions? I bet there will be no consequences
Yes, this was the case for many major diseases. It also wasn't hard to observe:

* Syphilis could cause madness later in life

* Polio could lead to paralysis later in life

* Rabies moves up the nervous system very, very slowly, with no symptoms, and suddenly you go crazy, fear water, and die.

* Lyme disease causes memory losses and cognitive dysfunction

... and so on.

Good thing we managed to fight those off!
I always assumed there was a penalty for not showing up.

I may be in the naive minority, however.
Does this change allow employers to work part time for another company if the company forbids it?
The 30 micrograms of ribonucleic acid in an mRNA vaccine dose get folded into protein and make their way into the lymph nodes in your armpit. They do not “saturate the body”.

Joe Rogan interviews are not a reliable source of medical information. Rogan is a COVID conspiracy theorist of the “just asking questions” variety. For anyone unconvinced about this, and values diversity of opinions in their media diet, the recent episode of Decoding the Gurus is worth a listen.

https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/joe-rogan-ju...
ArcGis is very flexible though? Costly but flexible.
It saturates the body to such a degree that the "worst" vaccine in the "worst" age group creates an extra 30 cases of myocarditis per million people?

Edit: 100 per million, thanks for the correction. 0.01% of people.
I'm not re-asserting anything, I'm just saying that our children won't really have an option NOT to work in the bitcoin mines.
You don't need dignity or respect to live.
I am sure they have some ratio of cars to reservations they keep based on actual no show/cancelation statistics.
Ask HN: How to Start a Language Reform?
If I'm unsatisfied with a certain aspect of a language I speak, like English in America, and I have a proposal to make that part better, is there a way I can do that?

Who owns English?

How to propagate the change?

Is it legal to completely change a meaning of word in people's mind via internet and memes, without the permission of any authority?