skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, I cannot say "probably". Although your notion that it converts our solar system into a computing machine, doesn't preclude it from leaving thereafter.

I suppose there are three possibilities.

1. It leaves the Earth, and either remains limited in size or expands in a more advantageous solar system(s).
2. It stays on the Earth forever, permanently limiting its computational capacity.
3. It expands to include sub-entities that both stay and leave in some cosmic distributed computing organism.

I suppose the three possibilities above can be reduced to one fundamental question: Will the AI expand to be interstellar/intergalactic in nature, or will it remain limited?

Is there a fundamental unending utility to ever-greater computing power? ...and, if so, would there be detectable signs of such expanding computers in the cosmos? This last question is important both for our own forecasting of the future, but also to interpret inter-AI-entity relations, because presumably if AIs do NOT get along in space, they likely hide signs of their existence.

One thing I'm convinced of - organic meat bags are not the future of space-faring intelligence.
>The person you replied to was being generous to your argument, and nothing but polite.

And nothing says generous and polite by making the lying, vicious claim that I've assumed ' the poor in America aren't working hard' and that I implied 'that poor people should just work harder and make more money!' It's purely fiction designed to paint me as the evil denigrator of the poor.

>The fact is that plenty of the "poor" work as much as you do, but you think they're somehow enslaving you because you get paid more.

'The fact' that both of you have to put words in my mouth (or alleged thoughts) to make your argument speaks volumes here.

>If you continued working the same job you have now, but at $7.50/hr, would it be fair to characterize your receiving the same health care you receive now as being handed to you on a silver platter?

By handed on a silver platter I was referring to someone capable of working, but who requests (and is handed) health care for free without performing any labor at all at the expense of someone working and paying an involuntary tax. I never said that was all or even most poor. I'm not referring to the poor person making 7.50 buying their own private health insurance. There's probably an argument from some perspective that 'equitable' could mean everyone works the same amount of labor (20 hours or whatever) per month to pay for healthcare, although I'm not sure even that would precisely be equitable. One able bodied person of equal insurance risk pool to another working BOTH more hours AND paying more for same insurance would certainly sound inequitable.
"Too much labor" is a subjective metric that depends on what type of quality of life you think is acceptable for the people earning the lowest wages, but changes in the price of labor indicate the movement of supply and demand curves. And the changes in the price of labor according to this report clearly show unfavorable amounts of supply of labor relative to demand for the bottom 3 (or even 4) quintiles of wage earners over the previous decades:

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R44705/6

Recent changes due to the pandemic response shocking the system and catalyzing changes in the labor markets, are not reflected in the reports above, and I suspect we (USA) are just beginning to see a reallocation of labor resources in the market as the US finally confronts a reducing portion of working age population relative to non working (old people) population.
10 minutes to get it, anywhere from 0 days to a week to get over the side effects. Source: personal experience. If the calculation changes from “one and done” to “do this every few months on a schedule”, I’m leaning towards taking my chances with the virus. I’ll reconsider if there’s a newer, broad spectrum vaccine available though.
Lots of times, just doing a current search on the title will recover it.
Yes, attrition of hospital staff is terrible. I was hospitalized last fall for a non-covid issue, and a volunteer came into the room who was a retired nurse. She told me that the current patient loads for nurses are about 2x what they were pre-covid. I checked on the nurses salaries (via job ads), and they honestly did not seem terrible competitive.
Whoa, that sounds awful, glad you made it through.

From your username I'm guessing you're in your fifties, that's my age and I have fond memories of EMM386.

At that age the calculation starts getting a little different. I'm also vaxxed-and-done but still a little bit cautious.
> NPM, Cargo, etc. don't allow this

I'd say the likelihood is about 50% you have a NPM package in your dependencies right now that pulls some binary or whatever from a random S3 bucket during installation.
The CDC is a bought voice of the corporate ruling class whose only interest at this point is getting working people back to work, with the exception of the pharmaceutical companies who want people to get vaccines. This is why the government has no consistent position on anything.
Ham is a necessary component. I wouldn't eat a pizza with only pineapple...but the Hawaiian! It's so good, if it's made right.
Generally you might want to use the `-x` argument to `pkill`.
New Year, New CEO
So what exactly is the benefit of not drinking coffee? I usually drink 1-2 cups daily (espresso), and don't see it as a big deal. Sometimes I skip it for a day, and I don't feel much differently.
> The issue of having a thin library is that one then ends like the relationship POSIX has with ISO C.

It should be noted that the vast majority of participants on that thread do advocate against bloating Rusty's stdlib, and they point out a very thorough and convincing list of prior experiences from other programming languages that justifies this stance.

It's as if they learned from other people's mistakes and bad experiences.
We can ask why those areas with no competition are so, and it is due to overwhelming anti-market bias that makes it hard for other ISPs to compete or even outlaws it directly. Meanwhile cities that have setup one touch laws or fixed right-of-way have seen robust competition emerge.

One area where markets do poorly are where the cost of service exceeds profit, like rural areas. This is an area where government intervention in the form of subsidies can help, but these can also cement single ISP marketplaces if not managed well.
The optimal angle is perpendicular to the sun at all times. Which changes throughout the day, and also throughout the year.

My recommendation would be to let the structural, material, and economic factors determine the pitch of the roof, and let the installers determine the optimal angle of the solar panels.
I find it strange China isn't in this list.
It would need to change color when there are past discussions with more than a couple comments, or something.

The "if there are any" part is more important than the actual links.
Thank you. I sometime read that too much "magic" and abstractions can quickly get in the way when doing something complicated that is not covered by a heavely opinionated framework. Is this nonsense in your estimation, or is this something to look out for?
My point: compulsory vaccination laws are legal and have been upheld by the supreme court. I dare you to find a proper legal counterexample.
> Are you saying that until young kids can get vaccinated, it is not safe enough to remove shutdown protocols for preschools?

I have no idea. I'm not an expert. And no experts seem to be talking. Our preschool recently switched from a 14 day shutdown to 7 day plus negative PCR test to re-enter. At least there's that?

> Frankly, our kids get enough other diseases from nursery that a months-long scratchy cough doesn't sound too terrifying.

We'll have to agree to disagree there. My kids have never had anything that's lasted for months, the kid I know with the cough was waking up in the middle of the night coughing most nights. No thank you.
You might find this video interesting: https://youtu.be/7s4Tp6MNhHw

TLDW: lockdowns are ineffective because they focus on protecting the wrong people. They can also cause harm to people.

They also touch on schools/colleges and say it makes no sense to lock them down because young people are very low risk.
Ok, yeah, that's what I thought. So someone could sell a multimillion-dollar NFT, then someone else could duplicate it manually and "re-sell" it, and if they didn't do proper due diligence...
> Just call up your local-clinic and ask them for a flu-shot. Stand in line for 4-hours for things _COMPLETELY_ unrelated to COVID19, and come back and tell me that its fake.

Note that this varies by where you are. Locally, there is no health care crunch: it's easy to get a flu shot or other vaccine with no wait, and ICUs still have capacity despite a huge increase in cases. We're probably screwed in a few weeks since there's only about a 60% vaccination rate here and the most recent surge didn't start until maybe two weeks ago.
Maybe it valued some companies at below market for $1.8M, but YC also accepts pre-revenue and sometimes pre-product companies. Surely their market value is below $1.8M.
Everyone thought that covid spread via touch back then. remember all the hand sanitizer and UV lights? then we learned that it was mostly airborne

This goes back to the comment you replied to. The government can't give perfect hindsight advice at the beginning of any situation. it seems like your complaint here is "science isn't perfect"
This reminds me that the same, naïve spirit that drives young or college-bound persons to incubate new ideas in the pursuit of a different future is the same one that can be ruthlessly exploited when it's in the hands of unethical agents.

I would think that the ability to start up your personal computer, download an entire UI engine like Flutter and build whatever you feel like with it is not going to be the same ethically if you were directed to replace a text widget in the Flutter control responsible for showing YouTube's video dislike count.

The mindset and opinions of both parties would be drastically different. But in both cases, focusing on the smaller picture makes the entire process appear to the programmer to be nothing more than an afternoon reading through some documentation and StackOverflow posts, followed by the morally neutral stimulation of typing out keystrokes and figuring out interesting puzzles.

Developer documentation and the like will never give suggestions about one's life goals, but it's worth asking just what the pursuit of that knowledge is ultimately intending to accomplish.
US VC firms raise nearly $13B in the first week of 2022
My doctor personally told me that Advil, Tylenol, Aleve, and Aspirin are all acceptable.

Anecdotally, Advil worked much better than Tylenol. Advil made the body aches stay away for 6 hours, while Tylenol was more like 2 hours.
cough Scala 2 tuples cough
I spend about $11 a month to eliminate YT ads. The DYI stuff there is just too good to miss.
I like to rate limit with my own coffee snobbery. Free pots of coffee at work? No thank you, I don't want any of that swill. I'm going to use my mini hand-pumped espresso maker for a single shot of espresso.

I did used to drink the coffee at work and ended up drinking a lot of it. Crappy coffee, better drink it fast cause I just need the caffeine. Or my cup is not warm anymore so better chug the rest of it, or add more hot coffee to the mug. Rinse and repeat.
I believe that nonsense was originally send in the world by the movie industry to have an argument for not increasing the roll sizes and weights to disproportionate sizes. Not to mention that the earliest film rolls were also highly incendiary giving even more incentive not to make them too big or store too many
I would say the key is to abstract the lower level data structure, so that it could be (relatively) easily swapped-out. So for example, don't start with a doubly-linked list of lines or for sure your upper level code is going to have pointers to line headers. Better to have some kind of smart pointer which is an abstract index into the edit buffer and provide functions like "find next line", "find previous line".

BTW, with any of these tree-based structures (like rope) you can store other meta-data in the the headers to make a fast index. For example, I would put a newline count in the rope headers, to make find a particular line a fast operation.
the reasoning is 3 provides robust long term immunity due to the several month gap between 2 and 3. While 4 won't add much benefit except to boost antibody count for a short while.
Reposting what I wrote in another thread:

I like to say "I believe in science".
However, what I've seen in the last 2 years is only science by name and by fiat.

We've been fed wrong information after wrong information "for our own good", which has caused the population to lose confidence as the article perfectly explains.

This is terrible, as trust and confidence take a long time to build. Now we have a wonderful new technology (mRNA vaccine) that could be helpful against many ailments, but that the population has learned to fear.

The root cause seem to be the government desires to cover their own mistakes (ex: the masks being inefficient: because they didn't have enough at first, how hands washing was so important... for airborne virus (!!!): because air filtration was too expansive, how the old vaccine is so important against omicron: because they haven't adapted the vaccine so hey let's give a 3rd, a 4th shot and so on, sending people known to have covid in retirement homes full of vulnerable people: because they hadn't built adequate facilities...)

I believe in science, but I can hardly blame people who now subscribe to weird ideas: in their defense, they have noticed some of the lies so in a Bayesian setting they have adjusted their priors: by default they now distrust every official message, and unfortunately for them they may not have the proper scientific knowledge to better adapt their probability distributions.

I seriously hope there will be official inquiries about a level of mismanagement that borders criminal negligence, and that will have cost human lives.
> Domestic violence rates went down significantly by all estimates. Also, they in fact go up and down with female employment - when women loose work they go up, when they get it they go down.

https://xkcd.com/2560/

A plausible theory is that things that improve the economy reduce both domestic violence and [female] unemployment. Or maybe it's what you said. Or maybe it's something else. No way to tell because correlational studies are worthless.

> This is simply not true. People break up a lot.

I think lotsofpulp has it on this one. It's a real benefit to women who make good money, because they can actually leave. It makes things worse for women with low pay or no job, because it makes things cost more, which makes it harder to survive on your own and exhausts the resources of non-rich friends or shelters.
If we want to get rid of vaccine mandates I think the give and take has to go both ways. For instance: https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/sta... : "Unvaccinated individuals at the highest risk of severe disease (anyone aged ≥75 years or anyone aged ≥65 years with additional risk factors)." in Tier 1 for priority usage of new, hard-to-get treatment.

Those who don't want to get vaccinated should take personal responsibility for that, not expect society to take as much care of them when they're choosing not to help take care of society (even in terms of "reducing burden on healthcare system by getting a likely-less-severe case", even if transmissibility isn't affected as much).
From the text of the complaint:

> The 568 Exemption allowed the [colleges in question] to eliminate incentives to compete if all of the members admitted all students on a need-blind basis. Plaintiffs show herein, however, that by their own actions, Defendants did not satisfy this provision and thus were not entitled to the exemption.

This seems to be the heart of the complaint. The admissions process wasn't actually need-blind, so the colleges don't have an exemption from laws against price-fixing.

Starting at page 26 (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ilnd.41...) they list a number of ways that colleges, despite claiming to be need-blind, actually do take financial need into account in admissions decisions. That's the real reason this scheme is illegal.

One (small) part of the reason they aren't need-blind turns out to be that they decide where and how to recruit students using sophisticated models that try to predict the resulting demand for financial aid (see pp. 29-32). Essentially, they are able to use data to shape their applicant pool based on financial need, while still technically being "need-blind" when reviewing the applications that come in.

But there are other issues too, such as the use of need-aware policies for waitlisted applicants and the advantages given to "legacy" students.
I did not state that this is why we currently have employer based health insurance, just why it came into existence. Many consider this to be the "original sin" of US healthcare policy.
>drink the kool aid time

That's slang for swallowing propaganda and committing suicide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid
Risk after-the-fact doesn't work like that. Probabilities cease to be probabilities after the event happened. Plus, don't forget about all of the dead people who are unable to write posts like this. I'm glad you're okay, but as the sibling comment said, your risk was higher, especially being overweight and asthmatic. If you win a slot machine one time, it doesn't mean everyone else will also win the slot machine. Getting lucky doesn't mean there was never any risk, it just means you got lucky this time.
It's not illegal for the journalist to receive donations and sell their work.
Japan’s Panasonic Joins Global Trend Toward Four-Day Week

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-10/japan-s-p...

Let's make 2022 the year Four-Day Workweek spread like wildfire ;) Talk to your coworkers -- I suspect many of them would love for this to happen.
My parents visited my sister for 2 days. They traveled by a private car, but must have stopped for food along the way. After they have been back, both of them experienced fatigue and cold symptoms. As much as it is normal for them to experience after a trip, I wanted them to rule out COVID early. I have heard that early diagnosis and treatment for COVID at their age can be a life saving difference.

If I experienced the same symptoms here in NL, I’d have also taken a test myself just to be sure that I am not spreading it around.

His decision is rational after he explained the reason to me. However, I wish that reason doesn’t exist and that people can get tested without such concerns.
Of course hospitals are incapable of keeping you safe from an airbourne respiratory virus. Nothing can, short of a respirator.

The follow-up question is - if we can't stop infection in hospital buildings, where the most vulnerable are literally cooped up together for days and weeks at a time, what's the point of the rest of the restrictions? If you follow the logic used to set guidance and law where I live (ie, closures of various categories of business at various times, and ongoing), then logically we should also have shut down the hospitals...
Is that because Texas numbers are good (I'm pretty sure they're not) or because Texas would never contemplate that button?
world propaganda outfits are so obviously scared it make me chuckle.....RIP legacy media...#WeAreTheNewsNow...say good by CNN,BBC's of the world...your NLP is no longer needed in an open source world....no longer protecting the pedophiles in charge with your actual "fake news"
Why is there much difference between getting a booster every 6 months rather than every 12-24 months?

Compared to lockdowns or even just mask mandates, both booster schedules seem like a pretty minor inconvenience given the pandemic-halting benefits.
If enough people had got their shots worldwide that would have worked. However enough is at least 80% of the world population, and maybe as much as 95%. There wasn't enough supply in the world. If the 95% number is correct kids young enough still are not approved to reach that, mutations keep making the number higher, though we might need to get a new vaccine that covers new variants.
> As viruses can remain active on surfaces, unless you irradiate the deliveries with a UV lamp (and do it again after unboxing them, since there may be viruses on the actual item) even that would not be enough.

Covid does not spread in any meaningful way via surfaces. All of the cleaning and disinfecting nonsense that is still going on is pure theatre.

> Any way we choose, it amounts to sacrificing XYZk people so we can go back to living a normal life. I don't think that's an exchange most people are willing to take.

It's an exchange everyone makes every single day in order for society to function.
so just like 3
Some private trackers require updated software in order to connect to them. And also, you're vulnerable to bunch of security issues if you connect to the public internet with a very old µTorrent version. Do you really run a 10+ year old version of µTorrent without any drawbacks?
> Pavel routinely criticizes WhatsApp, and even the government-sponsored encryption it uses, with Telegram preferring to hire its own Ph. Ds and roll its own encryption that, to date, has never been broken according to Telegram’s own website.

Hmm, I don't think "government sponsored" in this case is as suspicious as you you make it sound. People like tptacek have written about this several times on HN.

You link to a tweet from 2017 where Pavel predicts that a backdoor will be found in Signal's cryptography in "five years". Now it's 2022 so let's see if he's right.

Lastly, Telegram claims their cryptography has never been broken. Ok... so what? Has Signal's? Signal's crypto has been audited many times and is widely praised. Can't say the same about Telegram's.

> Even if what they say is true at one point, it takes a single person in their organization to ship a backdoor in an update, that immediately ends that whole guarantee.

Wait what? Signal's source code is openly available and I've been compiling and signing my own builds for at least five years. If they ship a backdoor it will be noticed eventually. And because I sign my own builds nobody can ship me an update that I didn't compile and sign myself... we don't need any Web 3 magic to achieve this...
I think a lot of employers find it to be a giant headache. It’s expensive and tricky to administer and has nothing to do with your core competency as a business.
As an experiment I installed a set of the cheapest panels and inverter on my garage last year. 1500 euros for about 2000 watt peak. The mounting materials were a bit more than a third of that. Also paid about 300 euros for the installation. So 1800 euros
all-in. Surprisingly, the system is performing quite well, delivering those 2000 watts reliably in the hours around noon, but also working quite well in more cloudy conditions. Bottom line: for around 1 euro per watt you can easily install solar (without subsidies), so as far as I’m concerned it’s a no brainer if you have the space.
I'm somewhat concerned by this notion that eventually everyone will get the Omicron variant. I personally do not have any family members, friends, neighbors, coworkers, etc. that have gotten any form of Covid (that I know of), much less died. We've all continued to wear masks and social distance and have gotten vaccinated. None of us has even had a little cold in 2 years! I hope that "everyone will eventually get the Omicron variant" is not true.