skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Red teamer here too, and this was my exact thought. There's lots of legit uses for DLL injection, but straight up shellcode injection? Shady as hell. So of course it was an AV vendor...
Find another dentist. Composite fillings have been the standard of care for decades.
That doesn't matter clearly they have few people contributing so they will get to it when they get to it.
There's a used TMS machine on ebay for $8k (and $70k) and clinical instruction videos on YouTube. Could be a good side hustle haha.

Unfortunately for SAINT it looks like you also need fMRI to correctly target the therapy...that's going to be a bit tougher to DIY.
I suggest taking another look. Look past his weight. He knows exactly what he's doing with his suits.
Exactly. Not only "can", but will on almost every case. Some times I wonder if it's on purpose.
Radical opinions, just speaking out loud.

Design: Modern design sucks. Everything after 1990, especially after 2000 is completely shit. I truly mean all design. Industrial Design to Architecture to the garbage you see in the browsers today. We threw away physical controls, can't even find them. Alps catalogue is dwindling and toggle switches are no more. Go explore how things used to be done, look up advertisements from 1970's. Also, the Big Tech design monoculture is shit. Everyone suddently in 2020 decided to add rounded corners. It happened almost overnight like a meme spreading through the design circles.

Globalisation: Imagine if you were to travel to Japan in the year 1890. Everyone wore kimonos. It was a prestine, isolated and incredibly rich culture. Same with France or US or any nation. It is fun to explore how US and USSR had invented stuff during the cold war. Russia had their own mechanical watches to titanium alloys. When large groups (millions of people) are isolated, they can create some amazing stuff on their own. Connecting the world with wires was a bad idea. It destroyed cultures into a giant globalised culture. I wish Globalisation didn't happen and the internet was never invented except for highly controlled and regulated uses.

Masks: Facial expressions are key to communication and we've just defaced our selves in public settings, possibly forever. This is not good. Humans evolved to look at faces and see expressions.

Edit: Interesting to see downvotes in a thread about outrageous ideas. It only confirms it!
I've met exactly one dentist not actively at a dentistry office. She's a burlesque performer and it's her secret life, none of the other dentists (or patients) must ever find out. So this tracks.
There's "two" in the sense of "I have two loaves of bread, you give me two loaves of bread, now I have four". Abstract math arose as a way to describe physical things. That's a pretty concrete definition of truth.
Intelligence will never prolong life that much and it definitely will not get us outside of our own solar system. I think the constraints of nature and biology are just an outer system our neurology evolved within and no matter how much cleverness it can maneuver in its owner, it cannot break the confines of that system.
Well I assume this thread is looking for things that are "outrageous" but also genuinely believed to be true. If I can easily defeat your belief with an argument is it true?

I came here interested in seeing outrageous beliefs and arguments that validate their beliefs enough for deeper examination.
itch.io is kindof nuts - IIRC the creator is also responsible for lapis and moonscript, basically building a whole lua-based stack just for itch.
This is the closest thing to a teleology I believe in (some of the time). Why do anything? Because the aliens are coming. (I literally think of it using the same verb as you.) And then, death match time. Which may well get settled by utter luck, as likely happened in old world vs new world. But still. The more divergent two populations are, the less likely their meeting is to result in cohabitation. I don't think it's luck that there's only one remaining sentient species on the planet.

See also this excerpt from Peter Watts: http://akkartik.name/post/2012-11-21-07-09-03-soc
Leetcode style interviews allow companies to practice ageism under the guise of testing for qualified candidates.
Yes, thank you for sharing.

One point where I think we are in strong agreement: no behavior is unmotivated. I have had a number of frustrating experiences where I've brought my son to the hospital when he was in distress and struggled to get them to take it seriously. In one example, after I made a big fuss, they finally took an abdominal x-ray and realized he was severely constipated. It's heartbreaking because he had no way to communicate that other than hurting himself, and to think about how long he must have been in pain.

The thing that is unique to my son's situation, and it really core to him, is his struggle with communication. It's not just that he can't articulate things, there's some more fundamental blocker for him. He has a talker (for those that aren't familiar, an iPad with special software that displays picture icons). He's a whiz at navigating to familiar things he wants, like asking for potato chips, but he struggles with more abstract concepts like how to say he's uncomfortable. We've spent a lot of time working on body parts with him, and he's pretty good at it, but it doesn't seem to occur to him to use it to talk about what is happening for him.

I know how frustrated I can feel when I'm trying to communicate with someone and they just aren't getting it, but I can't fathom how terrifying it must be for him to have nobody understand him. And, I would assert that you probably can't either. So, while you may have some perspective and ability to speak about aspects of my son's experience, I would respectfully submit, there are many things that you cannot know or speak for him about. And while I can't say what it is like for him, I can share our experience, and advocate for him the best I can.

I'd also say I don't think we are completely misaligned. I agree that the current ways people talk about this are not ideal, and are doing harm to a lot of people. But I think we need to find a balance between being more accepting of neurodiversity while letting people like my son have the dignity to get the care they need. I don't have the answer yet, I'm afraid. But I'm encouraged by this discussion.
Yea, this made the rounds a decade ago. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/comments/mlw0b/cigarette...

That said, I do know some rather serious mountaineers that will have a few cigarettes on extreme climbs and they swear it helps ease the strain.
Taking Tylenol is the same as taking an illicit drug for serious mental illness?

Self medicating with cannabis and alcohol are bad news bears too. I wouldn't advise doing anything without your doctor being in the loop.
PHP was one of the first languages that I learned, and used professionally for years. I agree with you RE. pass-by-value; even to this day I find it annoying in other languages that I need to remember their particular quirks around that.
I guess some people are like that and others are more paranoid. I’ve never had anything stolen from my car, knock on wood, but I’m rather paranoid about it because replacing windows would be a major bummer.
To be clear: I definitely think this kind of study is valuable, I don't think it should be in the news, unless the headline is something like "small study shows promise"
I think we've got a long long way to go before material conditions are actually ripe for open conflict. We'll have our panem et circenses in spades for a long time coming, I think.
> Meaning medical staff ultimately is on government payroll.

They aren't government employees though. They all bill the same insurance, but they still have to compete on service, efficiency, availability, and friendliness. So inevitably some healthcare providers will do better than others.

> Why does entertainment need public funding?

Because it's more than just "entertainment".

> Marvel and Disney made billions last year by simply making content that people want to watch

And now you have powerful forces who want to perma-extend copyright terms and lock up popular culture behind paywalls until everyone who cares about it is dead. And even longer than that.

> What does that tell us about the people working there full time?

In professional sports, it's common for some teams to advertise themselves as feeder teams for the big names. The pitch is "Join us and see where you could end up one day."
Capability Based Security is the only way out of the current tarpit of insecurity that we find ourselves in.

Unix, and everything modeled on it assumes competent users running applications they wrote for their own use. Anything that follows this model can't ever be made secure without rendering it useless well before then.

Capability Based OSs can be just as easy to use as Unix, except for the core assumption that code is to be trusted. When I say capabilities, I mean fine grained ones, like access to a file, which could then even be filtered down to access to part of a file, or read-only, etc.. then passed on to other tasks that require it. It makes permission composable, like being able to make $16.23 from exact change, instead of handing your wallet to the cashier and hoping for the best.

Until Capability Based Security becomes the norm, no nodes on the internet are safe, and it will always be an excuse to clamp down on freedoms. If we are to have freedom, we have to migrate to Capability Based Systems, and then continue on to win the war for general purpose computation, which most people don't even realize is already in play.

If you're old enough, remember shareware and dual floppy drive PCs? You could try out anything, and not worry a bit, because you didn't risk everything to the code you picked up for $2 on a shareware disk, you could always return to a known state. Capability Based Security makes that possible, even with mobile code on the internet.
Many US immigrants studied under the British system before arriving here. More Asians and Africans studied/follow this standard than actual Brits.

Nigerians, for example, follow this standard and they have 4 times the population of the UK.
It's not just my opinion that that joke was the turning point. Although Mondale was clearly outmatched by Reagan, that incident pretty much encapsulated why.
Am I allowed only one outrageous belief?

The Bloodstream Sermon[1] is literal and true.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_DzXYI7xRU
1989 General Magic Saw the Future of Smartphones: Motorola Envoy’s Smart Desktop
And they stoke bloodlust so that they don't have to do anything about economic conditions.
I don't know what "heresy in general" means regarding a programming language feature, but I dislike OOP in Java and C++ code where I have encountered it.

The largest code base I love and feel productive in is Linux kernel which is mostly C and assembly, medium sized project of 30 million lines, probably less than ten thousand active developers (although difficult to judge with the way development on certain features or functions can occur for years on private repositories before being merged), I would say relatively high rate of change for a project of the size.
Why would he suddenly develop his next project anonymously when he was public on Bit Gold?

Was he so convinced that Bitcoin would be a killer app and thought he should hide since day 1?
Were you looking for a Skynet debunking?
What did you like about it?
Mind sharing which discords to follow?
IMO, a lot of modern design is the result of answering the question, "how can we make this cheaper and mass produced?" instead of, "how can we make this more pleasant to use or look at?"
In my experience, that's how left wing disinformation works. Using rhetorical tricks to mislead the audience. It's even more ironic when most left wing journalists and pundits are followers of Foucault and Derrida.
http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunch-discussions-145-c...

I’ve felt like Capt. Obvious since then. I don’t understand why people are shocked about anything.
Databases in 2030: SQL DB finally succumbs to Graph DB as #1

Does anyone else feel like a caveman when modeling a many to many relationship in a normalized schema, and then querying via SQL?

I’m surprised graph DBs aren’t more popular for this reason alone. Maybe it’s a far fetched dream, but perhaps a graph frontend can be slapped onto the Postgres backend.
This website doesn’t seem to work.
I don't believe in any kind of transition of consciousness because I think consciousness is fundamentally unique to the system that it emerges from. There is only one physical you, so the consciousness that emerges from you is from your particular arrangement of dna/atoms/etc.

But I do believe in consciousnesses at different levels, like you mention. Also, at different time scales. For example, some systems may only appear conscious to us when considering 100 years of their time as 1 second of our time. The complexity of the system probably has some direct correlation to the "amount" of consciousness that can emerge from it over some time scale.
Pretty sure it's already available.
I don't find it offensive, I do not think it can be true and currently, at least in the EU where I live and have lived, this is seen in this day and age as an American thing (the end of Don't look up for instance). And that people on HN believe that (logically inconsistent stories interpreted differently; your interpretion is already different from versions practiced where I grew up, where, by the way, the churches closed down mostly now) is beyond me, but each their own. If it makes you happy, who cares what others think.
Billboards are actually not even legal in all 50 states.
What was wrong with arm-eabi-none-gcc? No platform suppport?
In 2003 there was a major blackout that started in Ohio and took out the power grid for most of Ohio east to New York and up into Ontario. Around 55 million people lost power. This is the same as a hypothetical EMP (blackouts without structural damage) because there is no real EMP, just a full on nuclear bomb. Within 2 days the entire grid was back up like nothing happened. No civilization collapsed. This is fear mongering nonsense.
> If I can easily defeat your belief with an argument is it true

I do not feel defeated, nor that I no longer believe what I wrote.

What I was trying to agree with is that if you step back and look at the good things, life doesn't seem so bad.

But at the same time, I still feel like -society- is crumbling. In the US, because I don't experience life in other countries.
That's a very flattering review of their suite and product. If salesforce is the bar, maybe it's a hit but I found the product broken with problems with roles across the different offerings, SSO issues and just broken parts of the platform.
> There's no such thing as "2" in the physical world

…wat.

ಠ_ಠ

At this point, society has quite a lot of science and engineering relying on the fact that numbers have objective meaning in the physical world.
I think PostgreSQL in an excellent general purpose solution specially for OLTP usecases but what it lacks behinds is that it's hard to scale horizontally (sharding). There are solutions for this ofcourse with citus but I haven't experimented with it however I have tried MySQL with Vitess which almost seems like dark wizardry. I hope one day vitess works with PostgreSQL.
I have plenty of hours flying planes (unlicensed - while doing aerial work and playing around to kill time thanks to my instructor pilot), and have a limited amount of experience skydiving.

One thing in these comments I haven't seen said: F*K that plane. Off runway landing has significant risk. Parachute is so close to 0.0 risk that you do it just for fun on a day off. I wouldn't do an off runway landing just for fun on my day off.

The thing is staged, no question. The guy knows he messed up and will pay for it. But if I had to decide between my life and protecting a bunch of metal tubes and (fabric | aluminium, not sure), I know what I would do.
Dentists don't have a social life because they're up to their necks in debt, paying for outrageously expensive software tied to their Xray and their CNC gear, to make crowns, etc.
Wait, how much does it cost to rent a blimp for a one-off event? Surely not very much, compared to the marketing budget of a typical company this size? Building brand awareness with a stunt like this (which mostly relies on viral publicity) could easily be dramatically cheaper than building it by paying for ads on an ongoing basis.
> Microsoft's evolution into adtech is the natural evolution of industrial capitalism.

How is advertising synonymous with capitalism? If it were communism or socialism we'd likely just call advertising propaganda, but is there a real difference?

To be clear, even if Microsoft was born in a reality where America was Democratic Socialist, wouldn't they be doing the same thing just a slightly different purpose?
“ If, on the other hand, the database is an open public database that is not controlled and administered by a single company, but instead is a truly open system available to all, then that kind of market power cannot be built up around a data asset”.

When I use a service I hardly think which fat cat I’m feeding. It just has to work good and fast for me.
That religion is completely and totally a man made, fictitious, concept. Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, etc... all just mythologies that have no more basis in reality than any work of fiction. It is simply a tool. A tool used to soothe existential angst in the people that need such soothing and that certain others can use to exert control or gain power. This would be absolutely outrageous, to the point of death, in many circles.
That's why I like Bayesian statistics...it places 'uncertainty' in the observer rather than the environment.
Telepathy. I don't know if that word captures the exact idea I'm trying to convey. Here's another attempt. There are forms of communication and connection between humans (and possibly between humans and other species) that have not yet been systematized. A recent example: my partner and I were in Tahoe, talking about a friend in Brazil, right around the time she died. Sure, we talk about her every now and then, but the timing was just too suspicious. Other examples that come to mind. I have often stood completely still, looking at a person passing a few hundred feet away, and they instinctively turn and lock eyes at my exact location, somehow knowing where I am. Knowing when I'm about to get a text from someone.
> You are downvoting me for your own emotional reasons.

I didn't downvote you, and you can't downvote comments you reply to anyways. Also, its bad form to talk about downvotes on HN (mostly because of misplaced accusations like this).

Nothing about your comment goes against mine, now is the time they have to decide to mothball plants, let them stay as they are, or upgrade them with a few billion in improvements. Why keep them around when both sides are uninterested (even if for different reasons)? Decommissioning a plant 10 years early can avoid upgrades needed to go for 10 more years.

Nuclear power has always been plagued by high capital costs...which is why virtually stopped building plants in the mid 1980s (my dad was part of the boom and got hit hard by the bust). Not only high capital costs, but insurance against disaster must also be subsidized by the government (private insurance companies won't go near nuclear plants). Economically, nuclear power has always been on the edge of affordability.
That people are becoming less and less informed. They're reading less and this is the golden age for propaganda because people think they're smart when they watch documentaries.

Lack of nuance in discussion and simple video explanations about complex issues will lead us down a dark path unless the trajectory changes soon.

Then either the scholars become disproportionately more powerful or are stoned for not having simplistic views.
They're similar in terms of how advanced they are. I find Nim preferable, personally, and has a pretty excellent batteries-included standard library, as well as robust tooling and third party library support. That said, I'm biased, and haven't used Crystal for a couple years. Anecdotally, I see more uptake of Nim than I do of Crystal, but again, I'm biased and it's likely because I'm looking for it, rather than it being a fact of the world.
Wouldn't the patients just opt out of the trial rather than continue and lie to the researchers? Nobody's being forced into it
I recall now that some aircraft types are modified in a way that the FAA requires the pilots to wear a chute. But as you pointed out, they don't wear a full blown skydiving rig.
First commit in this repo is 2014:

https://github.com/ethereumproject/web3.js/commits/develop?a...
Raymond Chen is a great writer. He writes about the driest topics on earth, but still manages to make it entertaining. Definitely one of my favorite blogs.
In my field (experimental plasma physics) the general convention is that the PI's name goes last on the paper, while the first author is the one who did the bulk of the work and wrote the manuscript, with the other coauthors usually playing small supporting roles.

This field also tends to have very large grants (~$10-100mn/yr) that support dozens of researchers, because of the large centralized facilities, so it's easier for students to have some self-direction.
Regarding development, there hasn’t been much at all outside of SSRIs/SNRIs. The third chapter in the below video on bipolar disorder and ketamine addresses this.

https://youtu.be/PkwQBGGsj2c
We’ve been waiting decades for renewables

Coal for electricity globally is at record highs.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/12/20/coal-fired-power-generat...

it really appears that we aren’t going about this in an effective manner
Seems like running it through a compiler and fixing the errors would address that for you, though…
Digital Unwrapping of the Mummy of King Amenhotep I Using CT
There weren't any eagles. Frodo made them up when writing down his memoirs, so he wouldn't have to narrate the long, dreary journey from Mount Doom back to Gondor.
It's all about whose textual criticism you believe. You can find people who argue one way. The Old Testament professors I studied under would argue a different way. Just one example: https://genesisapologetics.com/faqs/gilgamesh-epic-which-cam...

There are other things in the Bible that challenge me more than textual criticism.

On the flip side, I'd say the core "rationalization" I have for my belief is what the Bible teaches about sin. It's obvious to me something is very wrong with with the world we live in. I think the Bible explains convincingly both what's wrong and what the fix is.
VCs invested $146 billion in US based startups in 2020, that's around $500 per citizen. We'd be much better off giving each American $500 democracy dollars to invest in projects / businesses of their choice.
I was confident that the users of news.ycombinator.com were getting dumber in aggregate. But yesterday I decided that the feeling in the back of my mind had been there long enough so I ran some simplistic data measurement. Turns out that based on my methodology the influx of people "dumber" than those who were here first started between 2011-2013. I was among them. Also the level has been consistent since those years so not much has changed.

I'm going to attempt to get data more often to confirm my assumptions outside of this one circumstance. Seeing my beliefs disproven was a bit of a wake up call. Also, I need to stop being a dick.
Presumably we could pay for collecting tens of millions of dollars in forfeitures by ... collecting tens of millions of dollars in forfeitures.
"I permit no woman to teach or have authority over men; she is to keep silent." Timothy 2:11
..that within ~10 years, ~80% of people in the modern/advanced world will be unemployed due to AI, robotics and automation.
Awesome. I think there’s a risk of inducing mania but it really looks like we have a lot of new treatments for depression that are safe and effective.