skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you believe me if I told you I’d explained this with that exact metaphor to someone relatively recently? I literally mean with those same words in that exact order. This feels matrix-y :)
It’s true. Many pro-patent people say “think of the little guy”, but in reality the little guy regularly gets the shaft on matters of patent monopoly.
No, I'm ignoring where you're placing the goalposts. I agree with you that certain flavors of lockdowns do not provide sufficient benefits.

But you seem to be under the impression that there exists no form of lockdown that works. That's simply not true. We've already seen various real-world examples of successful lockdowns. China did them. New Zealand did so successfully in 2020. Italy did them when they were first hit.

Lockdowns simply work. The virus cannot spread between people that are isolated from each other. That's simple scientific fact. It's scientifically known how the virus transmits itself.

Take a simple experiment. 2 rooms opposing sides of the planet. 1 person in each room. 1 person infected. 1 person uninfected. There's simply no way the infected person can infect the uninfected person. They would need to get into contact with each other to allow the virus to spread.

If you keep the entire population locked up. If you implement a total curfew. Police the streets so that everyone stays inside. There is no doubt spreading will be reduced significantly. But we don't want to live in China.

So the question isn't if lockdowns work. They work perfectly. The question is what form of lockdown outweighs the costs to warrant putting them in place.
It's quite possible that the worse solution won over the better one - i.e. agrarian societies, while having a lower standard of living, were much better at centralizing power/money and thus funding an army that would slowly stamp out the hunters-gatherers (or the nomadic shepherd societies later on).
I've had modest success with this kind of thing. Managing to stay calm and maintain your internal composure is very important in the moment.

In a situation like this you need to be able to think on your feet and choose your words carefully, which can be very difficult if you have reverted to a defensive or fearful "fight or flight" mind state.

I personally have benefited a lot from biofeedback and meditation over the years, if only because it has given me the tools to recognize when I am in a fearful state and calm myself down.

The "fear is the mind-killer" mantra from Dune is not really fiction!
Totally agree with this one, was expecting some sort of visual demonstration or walkthrough about core features and how to use them.

As said in post this is still under construction, so this is where it can be improved.
Fully agreed. I used the videos from StudyMD and it's been super helpful in the past few weeks.
> My understanding is that inclusive fitness was shown to be mathematically unsound

That's not what the article you reference says. Generality of inclusive fitness does not rest on of regression (correlational) analyses of social scenarios the article critiques.

Figuring out group selection vs. inclusive fitness on your own is good training for your thinking process. Mathematical, but not too difficult to follow.

https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/group-selection

The Tragedy of Group Selectionism
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QsMJQSFj7WfoTMNgW/the-traged...
If more people would pay it would cost less. If everyone paid it would barely cost anything at all.

The alternative is to have your search paid for by someone else, in which case all the incentives are aligned towards tracking and manipulating you for their benefit and away from providing decent search results for your benefit.

The marginal cost per user for a service like this is tiny, but there's a huge fixed cost to running the whole thing. If few people use it, it will cost a lot.

I agree that it's not good for things to split into premium paid services only affordable by the well off and rubbish free services for everyone else. However the solution isn't to abandon building services like this with funding models that correctly align incentives. It's for there to be a culture change towards understanding and valuing those well aligned incentives. This will bring more users, more services, more competition and much lower costs for users.
> It's a type-think-type-think cycle

Depends entirely on the individual developer. For me its think-think-think-think-drinkcoffee-think-type.

And after the first iteration, the typing to make changes is usually miniscule compared to the initial amount.
> In cold war it was obvious there were two sides, and the other was obviously more free than the other.

It's quite funny that after the cold war it came out that nukes of 'the more free side' was targetting Estonian, Lithuanian and Latvia cities.
I’m absolutely in support of various compile time enforced constraints on languages, but do not forget that the field we are in has unbounded complexity. So after a certain range they have diminishing returns. (Eg. types are a trivial property that can be checked through arbitrary code bases, but race conditions and a litany of other bugs are not. Introducing harder and harder concepts to try to claim a tiny formal verification will quickly become diminishing returns at the price of a much complex language z)
Well, you are lucky.

It is actually quite common to find partial/corrupted images.

Typically an image will have a grey band/area or it will be "shifted" in some parts, some examples are here:

https://www.jpegmedic.com/tools/jpegmedic/

Even checking if a file or an extent on disk is actually an image is not as easy as it seems (JFYI):

https://www.forensicfocus.com/forums/mobile-forensics/jpeg-c...
When I fill out the form I get:

> We've encountered an error
Sorry, this service is not currently offered to residents of your state. If you need further assistance, you can call Customer Care at (866) 295-6801. Customer Care is available 8 a.m. to midnight (ET), 7 days a week.

My state being Georgia.
I think in Sweden all tax returns are public.
A few years ago I've read a comment on reddit of someone saying that they don't write tests because they don't write bug.
There’s a huge difference between what I’d be willing to pay for a good search engine and how much I feel should be charged amid competition (and cost to provide). Existing search engines are good enough for most purposes, but if there was a good enough alternative I’d be willing to pay a pretty substantial markup (and if google continues getting worse or the search engine gets better…)

10-20$ a month for a meaningfully better search engine is pennies compared to the possible value it could provide (if it provides search results of sufficient quality). Every search I have to spend a couple minutes refining saved would make it worth it.
Not sure I found what you mentioned on the page you linked to
Almost as many security forces have died as protesters according to this. Why is the title being dramatized to make it sound like Tienanmen?
Congratulations this is great!
Weird, because Al Jazeera phrased it identically.

Also a propaganda organ for the west?
> effectively zero harm

What? There’s multiple studies showing the risk of a young boy between 16-24 developing myocarditis is higher than their risk of getting hospitalized from Covid. And this myocarditis risk rises based on the interval between first and second dose, rises for each dose, is even higher for Moderna.

Also for men under 40, the risks of developing myocarditis from the shots is higher than the risk of myocarditis from Covid.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.23.21268276v...

Is makes absolutely no sense to mandate the shots for any young person, especially if they are fit and healthy.
I get why you say this, however corps often can't even think of why securing infra, and code, is important.

Why then would any other part of society be different? Competence is not a widely spread feature of humanity.
> What he is doing should have been secure.

Sure, but using any third party is inviting a layer of risk. Banks get hacked too. No system is without vulnerabilities. You decide which to trust, including your potentially error-prone self.
It’s true. Sometimes called no-dig by Charles Dowding or “deep compost mulch system” but folks in the USA, that doesn’t scale well. For JM Fortier and Curtis Stone for example though, they do a minimal tillage system with soil amendments but I don’t believe they do heavy application of compost regularly. They do take advantage of a flail mower and a power harrow to compost leftover green matter on site, which reduces waste.

And I love RED Gardens in Ireland!
It’s changed and by the fact they call it INS (and not UCSIS, changed in 2003) makes me think it happened a while back.

I know way back, TN visa holders got no grace period once dismissed from a job. Unofficially it was “24 hours”, and Canadians could always turn around and come back as a tourist to clean up, but that’s a huge kick in the teeth to someone you just fired.
Someone's recommended AzireVPN to me as a WireGuard-friendly VPN a few years ago and I've been using it without any issues since. I wouldn't use any of the big guys tbh, not going to contribute to the millions they spend on advertising. Here's a random review https://www.vpnmentor.com/reviews/azirevpn/
If you are seeing stuff you don't like on Youtube it's your own fault for letting them feed you. You need to curate your own channel subscriptions and rely on someone other than Youtube for recomendations. For me HN and Hackaday works well for this.
Really? It's legal? Would that mean someone running a torrent site should move their operation to switzerland to avoid getting prison time?
Wait, There’s Torture in Zootopia?
I might have read too much into your use of the term “safe” as being indicative that there was some danger or concern.

I agree with this sentiment:
> I said I spend not a lot of time typing. Therefore, a device that is aimed at improving typing speed, has a low impact on my productivity.

Though, setting aside that efficiency =/= effectiveness/productivity, I think the spirit of the article is that if a coworker is typing a lot, that may claim that their efficiency has increased greatly, not that every single person will see equal improvements.

FWIW: this is being typed with two thumbs on an iPhone because that’s as efficient as _I_ need to be right now ;)
Oh yes, the Cambodia that didn't turn communist in the 70s and execute millions of people for wearing glasses? Totally disincentivized.
I’m not sure what you have in mind but returning pointer to a value on the stack may very well be a huge error.
They generally were false positives if you were getting the downloads from decent release channels. The reason the false positives show up is because of the packers used to make the executable files. Cracks in particular show as infected because they are both packed, but also attempt to access other files with executable code at specific byte locations and modify them.
I just searched for "yer blues" by The Beatles. Different mixes of the same exact studio recording have different keys and BPMs listed. I could perhaps understand if it gets the demo versions wrong, but when subtly different remasters/mixes of the same exact source material result in wildly different output, I don't see how this data can be trusted at all. Was that just one freak result out of a million correct ones...?
We are not, knowingly, providing this data to Equifax; but sure enough, there it is. I'm going to guess it's tied up within the mountain of agreements with our HRIS or payroll provider.
The patent for what? Connecting a volume button to the volume of something?
It takes 4 to 10 years to get any crop cultivating truffles. It's only been (publicly) known as a technique since 2012. So this guy was an early adopter. He should get more every year for a while now it's working. Combine that with climate change making existing areas unable to produce and the fact no one else can enter the market in the short term and he's in a good position.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121023124105.h...
Too bad that Russia (and most importantly its army) stayed in this area for nearly the next 50 years.
“Propaganda” is an early 20th century term that eventually got turned into “public relations”. So yes, it is definitely, 100% propaganda.
It’s not neither or.
So capitalism is infinitely worse than the one-child policy?
I cannot reply to ur last comment but you are spreading a lot of lies.

I have not claimed to have lived in a ton of countries. I have lived in Vietnam, in Singapore, in Spain and in places you do not need or I want to tell you. But I just claimed to have lived in those and to know, through people, other countries.

Go travel a bit and talk to foreigners and read a bit if you want to know more. But do not claim your country is not de facto socialist in many terms. It is. You do not like it? Ok, cool. But it is.

I showed you evidence. I never claimed Argentina is communist by the way. I claimed what they do is socialist-style stuff. Every day stronger and stronger, limiting freedom.

Calm down a bit and start trying to not insult everyone you do not like. You do not like me I am cool with it. But attack the argumentation, not the people.

Milei is the only person in your country honest enough to put his payroll and privileges on a lottery to not keep it for him because he is against taxes.

See you!
I wonder if this is because of faker project or he did something else to violate GitHub rules.

Because if it’s only related to FakerJS then that’s really fucked up.
I’ve worked under both systems and prefer the short notice period (no notice is typical in the US, but 2 weeks is customary).

Landing a new role, then giving notice and working for 90 more days is a huge pain in the ass.
It’s so called „revenge bedtime procrastination” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedtime_procrastination).

I think the reasons behind it usually fall into the same category, which you and parent commenter both mentioned - taking control over your time/life and “fixing” otherwise unsatisfying day.
How safe is Proton Drive
I am in crypto, I have uploaded all my confidential files on to proton Drive. Am i really safe?
IANAL

The NFT would be completely irrelevant here. Basically I assume you are claiming copyright over your salary and personal information. Unfortunately you can't trademark facts, so this approach isn't viable.
Decrusting… I as a frenchman am digusted by this idea.
The good thing about the baguette is that it is nearly only crust.

I am traumatized by this „decrusting“

And as a bakery enthuisiast that baked in many european countries it is the quality of the flour in my opinion. For every country i visited it were different results but the same recipe. The french have a way „finer“ flour
UxPlay: AirPlay Unix mirroring server
Hwæt?! I think it's more than just modern Americans who love(d) heroic war stories. Look at J. Caesar, look at the knightly romances from the Middle Ages -- the latter are especially sanitized, the former were probably bloodied up a bit. The pursuit of that kill streak has been a genre for a really long time. I thought it was common knowledge that the US Government helped it along here and there and has in one medium or another since the beginning. There is a Maldon for every few Beowulfs though.
Tbh just look at houses in e.g. Luebeck, Germany or other old european cities. Some houses still in use have their foundation over 700 years ago and even survived 2 WWs. So, there you go -> thats how to build.
Let 1k Flowers Bloom (2015)
Actually, in the brain, yeah. And a well thought out plot, too.

I remember looking at old newspapers in the game, and it looks like the fungus was on crops. And I think there were allusions that the fungus was the same on which controls ants, but mutated.

Very fun game.
Congratulations for what you accomplished so far.

Question: I have a little "vanity website" of my oen.
Is there a way to make sure it gets included (in full or maybe just some pages) in Kagi searches?
Youtube could easily fix this, by having a 'report scam' button on every 'live' video.

This could be abused, but also easily fixed, by making it only available to accounts that have viewed at least 10 hours of video.

If enough people report it, all they need is a little tag saying "warning this video is under review for possible scam."

But I agree, I have a feeling youtube doesn't really care.
Google came along when the search industry was in its infancy, with multiple providers vying from top-spot. We have now had over 20 years of dominance, refinements to get it to what it is today. Entering the market today is on a whole different spectrum to what it was back then.
Capitalism is the engine behind the pay-to-play nature of the political processes and the supporting propaganda that triggers those failures.

You cant separate capitalism from, for example, the decades of amplified Koch propaganda attacking environmental regulatory prudence and buying up politicians. The Kochs respond to incentives just like everybody else.

>It's perfectly possible to have 100% ecological capitalism.

Only with a shallow and one dimensional view of what capitalism really is and how a state actually functions.
Thanks, it would be interesting to see new solutions in the space.
> So how do you change the world without capitalism? The answer is probably in taxing the rich, but good luck with that.

That would work for a year or two, until you had egalitarianized the money so everybody had the same amount. Then what? And what would be the effect of that?
What can we do to stop privacy invasions like this?
I wasn't thinking about Ayn Rand (although her presence is no surprise at all). Lets just say that some of the rhetoric must have sounded better in the original German. e.g. "Übermensch" is a much more evocative word than "overman".
Thanks for the reply. Let's see what happens and I wish you all the best!
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Leeching is. Seeding is not. Its also more of a legal grayzone rather than a blanket "this is allowed".
> If more people would pay it would cost less. If everyone paid it would barely cost anything at all.

Are you assuming it or do you know for a fact? That's normally not how startups work.. as long there is an increasing paying demand for their product, I don't see why they are going to reduce their price, quite the opposite actually.
This reads like a butchered Chomsky reference.

In actual fact so-called liberal democracies are free to the degree that authoritarian tools wouldn’t and can’t work.
> …the criticisms of people who fall below some threshold at some specific task, with dubious claims about the effect on their overall performance

It’s unclear to me where this criticism is coming from.

> If someone doesn't like how I work, then don't watch me work. I get paid for the fruits of my work, not how I get there.

Similarly it’s unclear to me where there is anything about anyone measuring how you get your work done. That seems unrelated to the article at hand that only passingly mentions any work context (only of a co-worker making a claim about their own effectiveness) while spending most of the article on games and typing competitions.
> When you're making 15/hour with a family things are pretty tight

Correct. But what Volvo invented (3 point safety belt and more) soon became standard in ordinary cars.

Say Kagi is a luxury product for some people: it will still open the road for others to see that it is possible to carve out a niche that isn't as crowded as ad-sponsored-idiotic-AI-manipulated-answers-for-everyone-and-noone-at-the-same-time.

Neeva is freemium.

I think you.com is freemium too.

Marginalia is free and at this point so good that it is sometimes a better fallback from DDG than Google is. (To be fair, Marginalia is a side project running on a single desktop pc in Sweden somewhere but Google is that bad these days that if DDG doesn't have you covered chanses are Google doesn't either. And then marginalia comes in with a delightfully different ranking, respecting my queries and allowing me to find things - if they exists in its index.)
Don’t forget the co-author Edward S. Herman.
Lots of mushrooms smell worse than they taste (cooked). I found some Lactifluus Volemus last year. It tastes great, but it gives your fingers a smell that's somewhere between musk and old fish.
Happy user here, but has anyone tested kagi vs devonagent?
Ask HN: Marginally viable AI-driven ideas for 2022?
Happy New Year folks, I am with three youngsters asking me for AI-driven ideas making sense in 2022. I am not sure I can help: big corps are all over industrial applications, and the internet bubble is so crowded they have no statistical chance with recommenders and content projects. Therefore, their best shot may be looking into something that would come good in two, three or even ten years from now. To put my hat into this, I am thinking of NLP and small robotics for hospices and nursing homes: low cost, low risk, high reward, prospective jobs if they can’t make it as entrepreneurs. Any different ideas? Thanks!
What Kazakhstan Isn’t
It would be better to link to the report from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/kazakh-president-... which contains this crucial information:

"The militants have not laid down their arms, they continue to commit crimes or are preparing for them. The fight against them must be pursued to the end. Whoever does not surrender will be destroyed," President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said in a televised address.

"I have given the order to law enforcement agencies and the army to shoot to kill without warning."
Physical bullying and then the police training?

By the standards they use here, were they torturing their fellow movie watchers with the "frequent pauses to code data?" They apologized like they were.
Have you heard of NextCloud (https://nextcloud.com/) ?
OP couldve been a bit more precise in their statement. Downloading is legal, uploading isnt.
Past discussion: "Syncthing is everything I used to love about computers"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23537243 (June 2020, 159 comments)

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Recent discussion about the software: "Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28859521 (85 days ago, 230 comments)
I'm actually super surprised Google does this kind of deals. I've thought they don't do this, becuase it would help competition to get started. Once you get traction, then it might be possible to drop the Google access.

This is what Kagi says in the FAQ.

"Our searching includes anonymized requests to traditional search indexes like Google and Bing as well as vertical sources like Wikipedia and DeepL or other APIs. We also have our own non-commercial index (Teclis), news index (TinyGem), and an AI for instant answers." [1]

[1] https://kagi.com/faq
Love this. As someone primarily from a web background I've been getting into binaries and low-end dev with minimal dependencies lately (basically a foreign concept a front-end native like me). It's really nice having something that won't disappear or change and you feel like you own.
When I was young I pirated everything but now I have paid the few proprietary programs I use. I prefer to spend some hundred on licenses, maybe a thousand in total if I sum videogames and have some hygiene on the computers I use to access my bank, private information and social networks accounts.
Google should have been run by libraries, perhaps even the Library of Congress.
> How are films supposed to get funded if people get them for free?

Film "success" is still measured primarily in box office revenues, indicating - to me at least - that a successful theatrical release is where the money's at. There are certainly some people out there who would rather watch some shaky camcorder recording of a theater screen for free than actually go to a movie theater, but it doesn't seem like that's had much of an impact on the box office bottom line - even with COVID affecting theater attendance - probably because of the theater experience itself still ostensibly having some dollar value.