skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read articles like this that are so naive about the symptoms of societal collapse and think "some people have absolutely no idea what the coming decades are going to be like"
I think that depth has been more widely recognized in neuro-biology before, but has fallen from grace in favor of a naive mechanistic enthusiasm at the beginning of that early neuroimagining euphoria.

You may look into constructivism, especially the biological foundation (e.g. the work of Maturana and Valera). It offers the (somewhat forgotten) hard science link to modern philosophy and psychology, like post-structualism/-modernism and systems theory.

As far as I know, it's not very popular, because it presents a little crisis and is "not very fun"... or at least that's what the criticism comes down to IMO. (I suspect, it's kinda similar to Gödel's assault, but much easier to dismiss.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(philosophy_of_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_constructivism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberto_Maturana

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopoiesis
Where is the uproar over Mastercard needing to change its name now? This is a social media powder keg waiting to explode.

Waitaminute, is "powder keg" still an allowable metaphorical term? Powder keg was a central tool of colonialism and racism in the 19th century. Cancel it?
Thanks! I'm always a fan of W3schools for markdowny stuff like this.
You but how long… gap year seemed like a good move at pandemic start but is been 2 years now with no End in sight
Force them to work, huh?

Does it really need explaining that besides making money, work is also used to keep our society running?

Do you like things such as...say, FOOD?
Hát, a lofasznak is van vége, ugyanúgy mint ennek a beszélgetésnek.
works - verb. Moves millions of people efficiently and without the pollution or danger of driving an expensive, private vehicle.
If it makes you feel better, I knew two people who were both committed foodies (an Italian and the guy who risked a $25k fine smuggling a leg of jamón ibérico through customs before there was a licensed importer), and then their son went through (IIRC) a 5 year stretch where he would not eat almost anything other than Wonderbread and Jif peanut butter. I am not exaggerating: their doctor actually pushed on vitamin supplements to avoid scurvy.
There's an arity difference on the inputs.
BitDefender is one of the bigger scams out there. I wholly believe that they operate based on a "blacklist everything first" policy, because that lets them tout their 99,99% detection rate.

I run a big open source project and the amount of people that complain to us about BitDefender deleting our software is staggering.
1a: I don't use plaid, but I suspect that adding the plaid domain to valid domains for your bank's passwords might work. I consider any time I need to copy/paste to be a big issue because it significantly increases the chances of successful phishing.

1b: yes desktop app seems like an afterthought

2: This is annoying and should be fixed. I didn't think of it because I so rarely register for new websites.
Since Mozilla isn't willing to allow more than 18 pre-selected add-ons on the release and beta channels of Firefox for Android, forks like Iceraven fulfill an unmet need for users who want access to more add-ons, but don't want the occasional instability of the nightly channel.

One thing that is still missing from Iceraven, Mull, etc. is the ability to sideload add-ons that are not published on addons.mozilla.org. Currently, anyone who wants to use a private Firefox add-on that is not suitable to be published on AMO must install v68 of Firefox or v68 of a fork like Fennec F-Droid.

Edit: In one of the Iceraven issues on GitHub (https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser/issues/...), someone recommended a Firefox for Android fork called SmartCookieWeb-Preview for sideloading .xpi add-on files into Firefox from arbitrary URLs: https://github.com/CookieJarApps/SmartCookieWeb-Preview/. The preview app is not available on F-Droid yet, but I'm going to try it out.

Edit 2: It worked in SmartCookieWeb-Preview. I had to go into about:config and set "xpinstall.signatures.required" to "false" before sideloading the add-on in the settings (Advanced settings > Sideload XPI). I hope this app makes it into F-Droid soon.
It doesn't have to be a blockchain. All these people selling "blockchain" are selling hype, the only reason you need a blockchain is if you're in an adversarial, permissionless environment and need consensus on state, and possibly need a record of historical state.

In a private system, you just need consensus among participants, potentially in an adversarial environment, but decidedly not a permissionless environment. As long as state can be kept, depending on the constraints of the system any sort of consensus and canonical state keeping mechanism would work. Could be a blockchain or something resembling one, could just be a document and it's hash kept by all participants and updated when the participants agree to a change. How complex you make consensus in a permissioned system depends on the goals and constraints of the system.
The Bored Ape NFT craze is all about ego and money, not art
Well, clearly it wouldn't work for something with always unique files like video-conferencing or game streaming, but with a limited number of files we already have an example of a non-HTTP working solution : Popcorn Time.

Also PeerTube seems to have found a way to combine the cheapness of peer to peer and the reliability of an (HTTP?) dedicated server, I wonder how did they achieve this ?
>"...outward particle emission rates..."

That's outward transmission when the wearer is already infected, which has nothing to do with mask protection of the uninfected.
Universities' Covid Policies Defy Science and Reason
The Future of Search Is Not What You Think It Is
> Doesn't this either

Cargo pins versions via Cargo.lock for you automatically. It's still not a great idea, (because when you update dependencies it will go to whatever version is the latest, which may not be compatible) and crates.io disallows packages to be uploaded that use this, but it is the easiest built-in way. If you install cargo-edit, you could "cargo add rayon" and it will add it with the latest version specifier instead, which is slightly easier and better but isn't built-in (yet, someday...)

> The author had to rewrite the project in a different language to add this cross platform multi-threading support.

They're not saying that, they're saying "how do I do what Rayon does for Rust in C?" OpenMP is sorta kinda an answer there, but the post is claiming it's not as good of a solution. "Rewrite it in Rust is easier than using OpenMP" is not what's being said, and you're certainly right that porting to another language entirely is not simple.

> If you write your code with the intention of using rayon for your multi-threading tasks then obviously it will not require any modification to make it work with rayon because presumably you had already written your code in a way that makes it usable with rayon.

The claim being made is that due to things like the borrow checker, this is often true for Rust code generally, moreso than it is with C and OpenMP. And, in Rust, if it doesn't Just Work, you'll get an error message pointing out exactly why not, whereas (in my understanding, I haven't used OpenMP) that is not going to happen in C.
Yep. I read this book last year. I really liked it, but I was crying like a baby at the end.
> Not addressing the point of my comment here ^, but why didn't anyone else do it if it was feasible and possible?

Because their customers didn't need it. The medium lift space only has a few players because there's not a huge number of customers. In heavy lift there's even fewer customers.

The established players had legacy expendable stacks with a proven flight history. There was no incentive to redesign their systems to be reusable and then start fresh with a flight record.

> And how long would it have taken an agency like NASA to actually start and complete the project?

SpaceX has gotten considerable amounts of money from NASA to develop the Falcon 9. Even the video you shared is SpaceX landing their rockets at a NASA facility. SpaceX is essentially a NASA subcontractor developing a reusable rocket. So the answer to your question is whatever amount of time it's taken SpaceX to develop the reusable Falcon 9.

Like I said, SpaceX has done some cool things. I'm not trying to take away from their real accomplishments. But there's some ridiculous fanboy shit around Musk and his companies. He's done a good job of publicizing his companies' accomplishments and people seem to jump to a conclusion that they just invented concepts whole cloth that could have never existed without some magic.
TraversyMedia on Youtube. Brad has AWESOME tutorial videos, both crash courses to learn and project tutorials to build sites from start to finish to learn the skills you need. He also puts out Udemy Courses, one of which is "HTML / CSS From Scratch" (title might be off a bit) and you can usually get it for $10 from a link on his YouTube vids.

Brad's a great teacher. Good luck!
WinForms sits on top of classic Win32 UI (HWND etc) architecturally, and that's what constrains its performance more than anything else. The way you get more perf is by taking over and rendering everything yourself, like WPF or WinUI does. But you can't do that while maintaining backwards compatibility - stuff like Control.Handle or IWin32Window.
Norton's Guide to the IBM PC was my intro to O/S internals and the magic incantations that gave them life. PCs seemed more fun to use back then, perhaps because, like the text-only Infocom games, they could be a ship of discovery sailing into worlds unknown, rather than what they've become today, a window to the humdrum desktop of a business.
The mob just needs to be pointed in the right direction, and universities will have to start canceling the term "Master's degree." It seems inevitable, because soon or later the mob will turn its attention towards this, once they've gone after all the low-hanging fruit.

Is low-hanging fruit still an inclusive term? Or it discriminates against short people? Cancel it?
I have a 2016 model. You're in for a wonderful year - enjoy every second of it!! :)
At least for us, in the early days, I understood the school closures to be about protecting the sometimes elderly staff, and the children from unknowns.

Now that vaccinations are widely available to both the staff and kids, I would like to see a more rigorous adherence to the rigor of the before times.

Regular bus schedules, and regular lunch times, and generally doing sports and activities, within the bounds of circumstantially necessary restrictions, would do my kids a world of good.

My 9yo has developed mildly concerning anxiety and night-terrors over this.
Given how many gun deaths are suicide I wouldn't be surprised if it's a result of social isolation in response to Covid.

I strongly agree with your second point... I'm all for a longer exploratory phase of life before people settle on a career, but that seems like it should involve a more gradual adoption of adult responsibilities, not delaying them ever more.
> It was never the case that anyone who was paying attention believed school closures might be the only thing standing between COVID and mass death of children. That did not happen. It did not happen. It never happened.

This is the aforementioned pivot. Nobody made this claim.

The claim is that, early in the pandemic, unknowns about the dangers of COVID to children were one among many sufficient conditions for closing schools. Once we learned what we currently know, that condition lost its sufficiency. But that didn't change the sufficiency of the other conditions (read: community transmission, teacher health, &c.), which remain.
I'm sure they do: and they do from the position of being able to talk about the consequences but not actually grok the consequences. You're doing it right here: think of the children! Well sure, but okay what about the teachers, the janitorial staff, the administrative staff? Schools aren't a machine children go into and then with no other inputs, education comes out.
That was always the biggest issue.

It’s not hard to outperform an M1 Max. Just use a ton of cores and high frequencies.

But that uses a ton of battery and puts off a ton of heat.

That’s my favorite thing about my M1 Mac. It has no fan, doesn’t get hot, has TONS of battery, and still performs well.

If Intel can match/beat Apple at similar power/thermal levels THATS an achievement.
Very much yes: like you'll have a meal with normal food and someone will make a batch of Kraft mac-and-cheese without even offering them what everyone else is eating. I can understand the appeal of not fighting about it but that problem only gets worse the longer it runs.
You can use the reader mode to get over the website shenanigans.
The WA teachers' union demanded "fully funded schools" for at least a decade. They finally got it.

There was no measurable improvement whatsoever in education.
Yes, money can't make you happy, but the lack of it can make you miserable. That's true to a point. I've also met some people who were suffering from poverty that would make you cry, and they were the happiest, kindest, most loving people.
I don't think we are talking about the same thing. I'm specifically talking about addiction, but it seems you're talking about withdrawal, which is related but not the same.
I think what keeps homogenized peanut butter homogenized is partially-hydrogenated vegetable oil, which is apparently also not good for you. Adams Natural, for instance (they also make a homogenized version) contains peanuts and (optionally) salt.
Start a business and ask them to invest. Call them if they refuse. Either you become rich like them or they stop answering your calls. I would never loan a friend money, or go into business with them. As far as money goes why do you think you would be happy with more when you aren't with what you have now.

Relatively speaking anyone in the modern western world has it pretty nice in comparison.

Enjoy life, learn to cook and laugh at people going to restaurants. If cooking and eating aren't your things, find what is and enjoy it, money is becoming less and less important to living a rich and enjoyable life.
but you still need to feed a QR code to the android's "camera" on each browser you want to use.
Speaking for myself (American/Midwest), I've never seen nor experienced children getting a separate menu than the adults.

Well, except for eating out, I guess. And even then an adult sharing with a child is not that rare.
This is great! Is the source available?

A couple of suggestions:

* Option to disable geographic location links

* Option to disable general articles

* Language options (include simple english)

* Maybe an option to use the mobile version? (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/)
ECMO shortage
You might damage the screwdriver I guess.
Coins on the GPU, antivirus on everything else
Let's say we collaborate on the code below. I'll change line 1, you'll change line 5, we'll merge both changes and then we'll see how Perforce makes the code run successfully "without conflict or even awareness of other person".

1 x := 0
2 x++
3 x++
4 x++
5 if x > 7 {
6 fail_horribly_at_runtime()
7 }
Well because days are returned 1-indexed and calendars in general are 1-indexed, but of course the internal 'getMonth' method isn't meant to be a calendar, it's meant to provide an array index to ["January", "February", ...] as an interface to the other methods of printing a human-readable form.
> Here in city (Seattle) most people drive because transit tends to be spotty and slow for most people...So, what's the solution? Make driving worse of course. Speedbumps everywhere...Transit still mostly sucks, but now driving sucks too...the transit folks realized it's hard to compete with driving, so they've just given up entirely on making transit great. It's easier to ruin driving.

The claim was that they put up speed bumps (and other measures) _with the intent of_ making driving worse to encourage public transit. That's obviously false. Speed bumps get put up to discourage unsafe driving.

If, when forced to drive safely, people would rather take public transit, that's kind of scary, but also a good thing I guess to get unsafe drivers off the road? However, that's not what the claim was (and in reality is unlikely to be true, though I have no data to back that up).
Well the suggestion here is that everyone uses eugenics to turn everyone into sociopaths. It’s cooperation that keeps the world going with periodic oscillations around it.
“Literary and figuratively, we are running out of room” (von Neumann, 1955)
Schools are child care… but you can’t just remove it and leave folks with nothing. There isn’t enough private capacity if you zero out schools
For comparison, 2019 and 2020 results. Seems Florida was also #1 in 2019 (Tennessee was #1 in 2020):

https://www.uhaul.com/Articles/About/U-Haul-Names-Top-Growth...

https://www.uhaul.com/Articles/About/2020-Migration-Trends-U...
I don't understand this sentence. the account you DO have 2FA on should offer more than one 2FA mechanism, and the printout of the backup security codes.

I also don't understand why you don't have 2FA on your secondary gmail accounts, but that isn't material to the point: Any google account which does have 2FA should (as I understand it) support multiple modalities of 2nd factor simultaneously so you don't get cut off simply by losing a phone, if you enable the alternates. I mentioned two, there is the third, the yubikey type option which I think is now in general release, but comes at a $cost.

Maybe I misunderstand something in the points you're raising. Maybe its a nuance of the loss of the primary device and the use of backup recovery accounts, but the way I read it, the backup account recovery path is AFTER you explore alternate 2FA paths to account recovery.

I have my TOTP on two devices because I kept the QR code to bootstrap and also used the migration tool in google authenticator. I also have them in BitWarden. And I have the security one-time codes printed out. At this point, loss of a single device in the two I have to authenticate with is an irritation. This kind of feels like a 3-2-1 story: three forms of authentication, two online, one offline.
As a suburban dwelling dad, where on Earth would I find some? I have been intrigued for a while.
> How many person-hours of lost productivity is there for each day a classroom is closed? At least a hundred per classroom, more than a thousand for each day a school is closed.

I think I must have missed the point at which classrooms took on a responsibility for parental productivity? If so, does parental productivity also fall drastically during summer when schools have holidays?

Stresses by the pandemic itself have likely caused parental productivity to plummet. Remember that "classrooms" are not the sterile abstractions you seem to bucket them into, they are staffed by teachers who are both employees and often parents themselves; with the accompanying stresses. They are required to face Covid, often from students who are imperfectly masked or unmasked.

I don't understand the American blind spot that allows people to think of schools being as essential as hospitals; and requires them to both face Covid infections while paying teachers $40k and doctors $400k. Clearly the rates at which teachers are paid indicate that US society doesn't consider them as essential.
>Do you really think that authors are paid in percentage of the publisher's profits?

For books authors generally get a percentage of revenue (with some caveats) which is even better.

> They bought the rights for a relatively unknown story paying peanuts, made it big and profited.

I assume the the author still made a lot of money from increased book sales.

> Do you really believe that the Witcher could become a HIT on its own merits?

If it was written in English then perhaps.

> I imagine a system where if the publisher makes a lot more money (with a lot to be defined) than the original author made before the creation went public domain, then __they could be forced to compensate the original author__

Sorry I think I missed this bit. However again this would only benefit the publisher and not the author until the threshold is reached. After it's reached I assume authors would get something similar to what they get under the current system?

I'm not completely against having some compensation mechanism similar to books royalties for derived works like games or movies under which would be entitled to receive some % of revenue as opposed to whatever they have negotiated with the studio in advance. However I'm afraid this would disincentivize studios from making on movies based on less successful/well-known books altogether.

> Shortening the life of copyright would make this hoarding practices useless, because everybody could make a Witcher after 20 years, now nobody can, because whoever bought the rights will keep renewing them for a century.

Is that a necessarily positive outcome? Even if you don't believe that authors should have the right to excise creative control over their work why is it any better for the society if anyone can freely make movies, games or sequels based on the Witcher universe?

Even if is, wouldn't it better to ban or limit the exclusivity clause in contracts rather ban copyright all together? (e.g. Authors could have the right to sell their rights to multiple companies or any contract would legally be limited to fixed numbers of years after which the author would be able to resell them someone else)

>No it's because Mickey mouse is a trademark and they will sue everyone who tries to create whatever fictional mouse.

Unless you're suggesting that trademarks should be abolished as well Disney will still be able to do that.

>Life long copyright is the root of all evil in the publishing/entertainment business.

I disagree, I think overall it's one of the main reasons the current publishing/entertainment industry even exists and the world would have been a much bleaker place without it. I mean yes corporations often abuse the current system and it's flawed in many ways but throwing it out of the window and introducing an arbitrary 20 year (or any other fixed limit) would just further disadvantage individual authors without solving any actual problems.
Times have changed, we are more sensitive now to death.

In the past it was considered normal to lose 50k soldiers in a war, have 3 of your kids die as infants, ...
No one has ever prevented intergenerational wealth, and it is so innate and natural to humans that you're bordering on Soviet territory when you decide to fight all that and try and end it.

(If you're just talking about reducing it that's fine, but we already do that massively with the tax and transfer system, and I think you guys have estate taxes too.)
> Why did Norton products no longer carry pictures of their founder? I don’t know. Maybe Symantec did extensive market testing before it made the move; maybe not.

The date of 2001 may be a hint. Maybe Peter Norton was contractually obliged to let himself be printed on the Symantec boxes for 10 years after selling the company, and after that he couldn't be bothered to do it anymore?
It's owned by Smucker, but not developed by them. It originated early in the 20th century in Tacoma, WA and was purchased in the late 1990s by Smucker.
>> I've found windows defender to be basically the only AV you really need.

Microsoft has no reason to load crapware along with Defender, they just ship that stuff with Windows itself.
I don’t live in this space, so maybe I have unreasonable expectations (or I’m reading the benchmark wrong), but is 10GB/sec of 64MB objects streaming out of each 96(48+HT?)-core hefty AWS server particularly impressive?