skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what is wrong with pointing out that good empirical evidence exists, where it does?

I think it’s OK to just point out that empirical evidence exists, although it’s better to reference an exact source. The strength of evidence hinges on many things, including the methodology for its collection, etc. If my counterparty doesn’t share my confidence in that evidence, I wouldn’t consider them “confused”.

What constitutes “good” evidence, by the way? How is this suddenly a question of morality?

> as someone who claims to favor science, and to trust this claim, you are not now going to claim that all empirical knowledge is ultimately just an appeal to authority, are you?

“Appeal to authority” is a type of argument. I personally consider the relevant scientific knowledge base trustworthy, but if I were to present an argument in favour of a statement derived from that knowledge base to a person who does not share my confidence then yes, to them my argument will essentially be a fallacious appeal to authority that they don’t inherently trust. It’s not always a bad argument, though—if both sides agree to trust the authority in question, the argument would be convincing and logical.

> You were complaining about "jokes about having to deal with anti-vax relatives over the holidays and so on", but this is just one example of the many familial tensions that have always been staples for comedy - why should this one be any different?

I’m not very familiar with the culture of such tensions. The only example that immediately comes to mind is the racist relative trope—but it’s not really the same, or at least I hope you were not equating racism with unwillingness to subject one’s own body to a procedure due to skepticism with regards to a scientific prediction (and if you were, I hope you are seeing the problem now).

> I'm not preaching, I am pointing out a fact that presents a problem for your argument, and which you are trying very hard to ignore.

Which fact am I trying to ignore? The existence of a prediction is a fact, don’t think I have ever questioned that.

But still, it’s a prediction. After weighing the odds and possibilities of an error skewing them one way or the other, I decided that so far I am satisfied with them enough to get a jab myself. Yes, I am sometimes frustrated that not everyone shares my position (and indirectly causes various lockdowns and other inconveniences to continue), but if they don’t then I can’t (or, rather, do my best not to) blame them—scientific models are never complete and are routinely found suboptimal as time passes, and so are predictions based on those models.
Put another way it sounds like a corporate investor or VC into an industry they know a little about but have heard good things. Goldman Sachs is not known to be a good energy investor. Who knows maybe now they are.
Any time you hear those extremes about any place - e.g., lots of people say it about parts of American cities - it's nonsense. People live there; they are biologically the same as you; they live, breathe and think, they not complete idiots. They aren't organizing, tolerating or sticking around a situation like that.

(That said, I know nothing about favelas or what is wise or unwise to do in them.)
I think my comment:

I keep looking, and I find it kind of incredible that we're two years into a pandemic, and except for one study in Bangladesh with masks (that wasn't really that clear) - there is nothing to say that any of these masks are working.

Was what was seen as a lazy dismissal. I should have spent more time expanding on why I didn't think it was really clear, but the point I was really trying to get at - is that there has been a lack of experimentation, trials, research - despite the millions of lives lost and many billions of dollars spent (Trillions?) - and I was really hoping someone would respond with a pointer to such a RCT that we could all read.

Unfortunately the takeaway wasn't that we should spending more time to demonstrate that masks work, but that I was dismissing that they did. The absolute opposite of what I was attempting to do. The failure in communication is clearly mine, and I'll try and be a little more expansive in the future.

For the record, what I really should have written was,

"To date, there have been no studies that have reassured me that I could go indoors into a crowd of infected, unmasked people, confident that as long as I kept my well-fit 3M 8210 N95 mask on, that I ran < 0.1% chance of being infected by Covid. The Bangladesh Study that showed 8.6% of people in the control villages reporting Covid symptoms and 7.6% in the experimental villages, did not provide me that kind of reassurance, thought I think it provided statistically significant results that masks as a general public health NPI are effective at reducing transmission of the Coronaviruses under study at the time."

Of course - Omicron essentially reset all expectations for transmissibility.
According to PV=nRT (ideal gas law), no you cannot in a closed system!!! But Hydrostor isn't violating any laws of physics -- they are simply capturing that heat so that it doesn't become waste heat!

Hydrostor has a thermal management system that captures the heat and stores is during compression. Then it reuses the heat when it is decompressing the air.[1]

This seem extremely promising as a much smaller footprint solution than pumped storage and much more sustainable and lower cost than any other energy storage solution. I just heard about them today, and I'm extremely impressed.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOWjwwKSR78
Is this ``two-column'' proof style an American thing?

I'm not a mathematician but I've written my fair share of proofs (incl. math competitions) and I don't ever recall being taught or having used something like this.
This article is propaganda ahead of the upcoming election. The working people of Brazil have suffered tremendously under Bolsanaro’s neoliberal government and the Worker’s Party is leading in the polls. After the recent socialist victories in Chile and Bolivia (following the U.S.-assisted coup), western states will do everything they can to prevent the Worker’s Party from retaking power in Brazil. Expect more of this as the Fall election nears.
I spent some years in Sao Paulo and in Rio too. I had many friends and visited almost daily the Morro do Cantagalo, a huge favela there. You can live pretty well there, but they make sure that you know who is the boss there.
disclaimer: I started you.com, a private search engine with summarization.

I've seen many users complain about Google's quality and wanting to have some control over their sources. That's why we added source preferences as a feature (you have to log in).
You can also change the order for a query and similar queries directly within the search results page so that you eg see StackOverflow or Code Completion higher than web results.
Permitting the growth of monopolies is a form of government censorship (2020)
> Visa and Mastercard are going to get wrecked soon, as it becomes apparent they are an unnecessary trillion dollar parasite on the economy.

This is a completely unsupportable view. The rise of CC processing happened because it was manifestly better than the options you had before (every seen a hand-written credit list at a bodega?)

Now you can probably squeeze the price point a little, and argue about if/when newer technology means the same level of service could be provided for less (maybe) but the complexity of what they do is pretty high. Not to mention the reach and reliability.

Lot's of people wave hands about crypo/defi being a solution to this but currently that's at best wishful thinking.

BNPL companies are a real potential threat for them though.
Defeating EDRs with Office Products
Here is that kind of thing: https://ibb.co/T1YtShy

That is from:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7211627/#mmc1

Specifically the lower bit of figure 2:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7211627/figure/...

If RmYN02 picks up the QTQT sequence from recombination with other bat coronaviruses (or RmYN02 is a deletion away from a common progenitor we haven't found yet -- and the QTQT deletion is seen in SARS-CoV-2 variants in humans) then it is one insertion away from PRAAR which would be an active FCS, which is then one substitution away from the PRRAR SARS-CoV-2.
So is there no valid way to say "This is a waste of time and resources" ?
Here's one: https://lygte-info.dk/review/batteries2012/CommonAAIndividua...

Note the small link near the top titled "Comparator" if you want to generate comparison graphs between different batteries.

1.5V Li-ion rechargeable AAs are 3.7V cells with DC-DC buck converters attached to reduce the voltage. The main reason to use them is poorly-designed[0] devices that don't play well with NiMH. There may be some standby power drain from the electronics, and these are less compatible with voltage-based battery status monitoring than NiMH (NiMH gives a false low reading; bucked Li-ion gives a constant false full reading).

Modern low-self-discharge NiMH has very good performance and shelf-life; the white Panasonic Eneloop is the gold standard in this category; the black ones have higher capacity, but wear out in fewer charge cycles.

[0] Even if designing for alkaline without NiMH support isn't a design flaw per se, a device that doesn't work at 1.2V leaves about half the energy stored in an alkaline unused.
I believe most modern smartphones have more powerful cameras than ArduCam. They're more expensive, but broken / older smartphones can be had for cheap.
Apparently it takes 6 people making a business to run a waifu generator. That pretty far from one person doing it as a joke.
This is interesting:

"This was a crisis. Without electricity, the Amish couldn’t store milk, and the church was adamant that Amish were not going connect to the local electric company. Finally a solution was found. It was decided that diesel generators could be used to power the refrigerators. This decision allowed the Amish to continue their tradition as dairy farmers without having to use public electricity."

So the Amish are allowed to use electricity, just not from the public grid? Generators seem like a weird loophole to their own rules.
I'm wondering how you/he was able to determine that he got infected during, rather than before or after the flight.
I'm not sure I follow... So:

> Humans get energy from high intensity tasks / work

> Humans have innovated out of high intensity work which offered more opportunities for cultural and social connection

> Humans are losing energy because we don't do high intensity tasks / work anymore

Is that right?
Seems like typical doxing behavior, posting inaccurate information for the mob. This Krebs guy sounds like a pos.
Note: The title isn't editorialized, I just took it from Cory Doctorow's blog:

https://craphound.com/articles/2020/01/06/permitting-the-gro...

Cory also gave a CCC talk on the same topic last year, which is a little less prolix:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9oBXofvqJ3U
Background: https://trevorspiniolas.com/doorlock/doorlock.html
Here's the Krebs story: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/03/who-and-what-is-coinhive...

The board was "pr0gramm". In Krebs' words, "Multiple longtime pr0gramm members have remarked that since cha0s departed as administrator, the forum has become overrun by individuals with populist far-right political leanings."

He also justifies the "dox" because:

"So I set about trying to figure out who’s running pr0gramm. It wasn’t easy, but in the end all of the information needed to determine that was freely available online.

Let me be crystal clear on this point: All of the data I gathered (and presented in the detailed ‘mind map’ below) was derived from either public Web site WHOIS domain name registration records or from information posted to various social media networks by the pr0gramm administrators themselves. In other words, there is nothing in this research that was not put online by the pr0gramm administrators themselves."
More anecdata - I don't have anything to add regarding Duracell, but I've experienced the same thing you describe with Energizer.

Recently I've leaned toward ACDelco batteries, which aren't on the test list.
50% of discretionary and 18% of mandatory.

Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Income Security are better thought of as insurance and pension systems that happen to be run by the government. This is why they're ear-marked in federal budgets and listed separately on your paycheck.
It's a great story and it's pleasant to see end-devs investigations contribute to the overall performance of the ecosystem since Tokio is so widely used. Cheers
>and disappointed about its delayed introduction & market rejection

Even at peak NAND and DRAM price ( at ~3x of normal ), where Optane had a slight chance of competing, Intel was still selling it at cost, with a volume that could not even fulfil their minimum purchase agreement with Micron. With a technical roadmap that doesn't fulfil their initial promise, and questionable cost reduction plan even at optimal volume.

Compared that to DRAM ( DDR5 / DDR6 and HMB ) and NAND ( SLC / Z-NAND ), as much as I love the XPoint technology the cost benefits just didn't make any sense once DRAM and NAND falls back to normal pricing. Micron already know this all the way back in 2018, but the agreement with Intel kept them from writing it out clearly.
Teen hacker finds bug that lets him control 25 Teslas remotely
> After studying and doing OOP for about 5 years, I don't see the advantages of inheritance over composition.

I mean, "prefer composition over inheritance" was in the GoF book which is from 1994, and is one of the core OOP books. If you've just been studying OOP for five years, it's likely that you weren't even BORN when this was already industry-level good practice.
Curious if you're having these leaks in Duracells you bought from a big box retail store, or shipped from Amazon.
That's not my definition of art. That's your take; and you're projecting your (mid-brow) sensibilities onto me.

I don't define art. It's a sense, not a logical box you can put things in.

Receiving money for your art is one thing; going out of your way to use it as a means of living is another. The work immediately becomes tainted, and is no longer art.

It could be an amazing piece, but if your line of work is receiving money for what you create, you're an artisan, not an artist.

A character drawn for an RPG is not art. It is not a work of art. It is a graphic designed for utility. That is all it will ever be.

The sublime nature of art is there because it transcends everyday vulgarity. One transcends mere personage and becomes an artist by being in the world, but not of it.

The more money an artisan makes, the more his craft suffers. He almost always improves his technical ability through this process (otherwise, he would not make money), but loses his soul, and will never be an artist. He does not have the fiber in his heart that allows one to suffer through all manner of anguish, and material poverty, to dedicate oneself towards something above oneself; so he settles for being an artisan.

I can understand not being educated on these matters. But the amount of misplaced confidence you carry, writing on things you know nothing about is detestable.

If your inquiries into the nature of humanity and what it means to be are genuine (and not mis-attributed self-importance), my recommendation is to read and listen more, and talk less.

Matthew B. Crawford's works are a decent bridge into all that, for the modern middle crust who feels something stirring in his soul, and needs a direction.

If you feel like your assessment of your own abilities is honest, then I would completely skip anything modern, and begin with Burke's A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful. I will even buy you an unabridged copy and have it shipped to you, if you're a starving artist that cannot afford it (and my respect for you would increase, all the same).
Chia Network Launches Native Peer-to-Peer Trading Services for Wallet Holders
The examples shouldn't use real email addresses.
john@gmail.com and steve@gmail.com are surely in use.
"example.com", "example.net", and "example.org" are reserved domain names for a reason.
CVEs are allocated to major users (vendors, distros, etc.) in blocks, so this might just be the 88th CVE from whoever has the 22500-23000 block or whatever.
Is exchanging anecdotal evidence a substitute for good scientific argument?

My father died of the flu. A friend of my mother's sister died 10 minutes after taking the Covid vaccine. I don't know anyone who died from Covid but I know that of course it's happening.

My anecdote doesn't add anything to the discussion but then again, neither does yours.
Matomo is also dead-simple to develop plugins for. So if you're looking at a product that can be customized beyond simple analytics, Matomo is a great choice.

I also used it a lot back when it was Piwik and the biggest issue was that it is backed by a MySQL database, and the way the reporting engine was designed meant that it would get pretty slow to work with custom date ranges with large volumes of data. But it did support caching and would pre-build reports over certain date ranges (by day, by month, by week, MtD, YtD).
Replying to boost this. We love Eneloop and have probably 40-50 of them in the house at this point, between remote controls, gamepads, children's toys, fairy lights, bike lighting, tools, etc etc. They all get funneled through a La Crosse charger with a simple two-bin depleted/charged system.

We've been buying them for years and I think I've only ever disposed of one that was unwilling to take a charge.
Includes a link to [https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/] which today lists 982 Dial-Up and Telnet accessible BBSs.
Yea and it just makes people like me want to gtfo and head to Europe where people aren't as insane and profit driven at the expense of human life
I have my problems with this statement mostly because IBM actually does suck. The amount of products its bought and promptly did a full thrust crash into the ground are many. AWS has its problems but 99.99999% of the time the "core" products perfectly fine, I dont know about its multitude of side-hustles though.
Thanks so much for the link, I didn't know they had English speaking jobs going in Kakao, Naver and Coupang. I assumed those companies especially would be 100% Korean.
Why would it be any different than now? What fundamentally changes if RAM itself became persistent vs. being persistable to other hardware, except you'd save the one-time data loading cost? Case in point, RTX 3090 GPU's have 24GB of RAM on board, and they're left always on.
I have a pet theory that smartphones and the mobile Internet are the primary reasons for the decline of violent street crime. People these days don't need to be violent to entertain themselves -- because they now have porn, dating, gossip, games, and gambling in their pockets. Plus it's a lot safer than violence.
>lots of people say it about parts of American cities - it's nonsense

In general (although it used to be truer).

That said, there are many places in US cities where I'd pretty strongly recommend against looking out of place, wandering around like a clueless tourist, late at night.

No, you probably won't be shot. But being robbed isn't out of the question.

What is almost certainly true is you're pretty safe most places if you blend in reasonably, keep valuables hidden, and look like you know what you're doing.
Understanding Google Auths (2020)
That's an understandable concern you have IMO. As with anything, the solution should fit the problem. Those aren't issues for us but I can empathize with the concern with adding more external services. In our case, we actually tried to implement our own socket "stuff" in one project and ended up switching that to Ably as well just because it was very difficult to both implement and debug over AWS.
If you don't have an explicit value set in your my.cnf config and the client sends no explicit value upon connecting you get the current built in default of the version you are using. If you set something somewhere it will be respected.
Assessing the effect of beard hair lengths on face masks
To facebooks credit they were good at supporting every platform under the sun and not actively using their breadth/power/reach to stop consumer choice, but be the consumer choice. The best thing that happened to consumers was the failure of Facebook phone - because they wanted to be like google. i'm glad we rejected that.

Google on the other hand, absolutely used its power to stifle competition and still does to this day. Platforms, Content, and Creators live and die by google's whims.
I once took a tour of the Mabel Tainter theater in Menomonie Wisconsin. The original light fixtures had been built to work off of both gas and electricity, just in case the whole newfangled electricity thing didn’t work out.
Graduate level logic? That’s so interesting. I only took undergrad, but did an ambitious independent study in logic once; we did not use two-column proofs, which seem mostly useful as a pedagogical tool to make the student see where the logical steps in the proof are, and less as a tool for serious work, since prose is really the best tool for communicating the insights that led to the proof.

Definitely did plenty of “one column” symbolic proofs though. I think part of the lack of need is that seeing two steps right next to each other generally makes it very clear what was done to get from one step to another.

Unless it invokes the axiom of choice, in which case fuck me.
> arrogant

And how do you think you come off to me?

"You can't have an opinion about race matters that is different from the official, scientifically correct view as descended from, and endorsed by, all the big brain people and institutions with whom I already agree. We already know the permanent and unchanging answer for all of history, so why would you think your own experience would entitle you to an opinion on such an important question?"

I truly could not have caricatured your position worse than you've expressed it. Are you genuinely unfamiliar with the fact that this flavor of academic anti-racism is not incontrovertible, but deeply disputed by people across the spectrum?
This is anti-science. Science is science. Politics are politics. Science playing politics is not science, and it's this exact powerplay that turns everyone off of climate issues.
Yeah, though the heat pump dryers I've seen don't sound like they perform very well for some reason. I need to look into it more.

Heat pump water heaters, though, are supposedly much better than resistive.
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What it means is that people would stop getting as sick, and hospitals would be able to stay off of emergency status. Yes, it would have been better to do that last spring but it’s still important now: you can get COVID multiple times - as many are seeing now - and the longer we go with low vaccination rates, the better the odds are of an even worse variant arising. Lots of healthcare workers are getting burned out and it takes years to replace them.