skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) assumes that all levels of 'cooperation' with what you perceive to be evil are equivalent. I happen to agree that both testing medication and using cell lines to develop it are more or less equally distal to the original problem (as it is perceived), but not all people do. (The distinctions between formal and material cooperation, and proximal and distal cooperation, are relevant to many ethical systems, even outside of religion.)

2) is irrelevant to people not in the camps of 'most religious leaders' or a 'major religion.'

I mostly agree with you on 3). I think some positions are simply not open to some people with certain religious beliefs. A devout Muslim cannot work at a liquor store. An evangelical cannot be the JP anymore. An anti-COVID vaxxer (even for religious reasons) can't work for the federal government. So it goes.

However, these considerations are only tangentially relevant to a consideration of the morality of a register on these exemptions.
I disagree. Market targeting, segmentation, and consumer preferences are real things which can be and are routinely measured.
While that is true in theory, it's not true in practice. The 2 non-signatories are irrelevant countries.
Why should non-profit be tax exempt at all?
Interesting, the man eats animals alive, corpses at the morgue, drinks blood from hospital patients, and all other kinds of stuff, but people around him judged him to be completely sane?
One solid argument: xmpp failed as big tech (Google, Facebook) protocol and doesn't provide nothing radically better now: a ton of protocol extensions and incompatible clients.

Matrix on rise: got a business with EU governments, deliver new features (spaces), with voice channels probably will enter the real rival stage with Discord/Slack.
On the other hand, your religious freedoms end where my rights and freedoms begin. I cannot practice religious beliefs that allow me to harm myself or others and it is not crazy to believe that extends to practices which spread pestilence.

I think this strikes the right balance, creating barriers for anti-vaxxers to jump through while still not forbidding free exercise of legitimate religious beliefs.
Government actions are legitimate by definition, being them who defines what is legit.
You're calling them a liar, a "bad actor" (implying ill intent), suggesting they're "talking shit", etc.

That's a lot of strong rhetoric to throw at someone's character over such an innocuous comment that hardly anybody is ever going to see, just because they are wrong about something (which, let's be honest, is relatively no big deal to be wrong about).

I really hope you have a good day.
Can you link some of that research for the benefit of other readers?
Unrelated 486 story: I used a 486 66 dx2 as my computer until 2001 when I went to college and used my grad money for an actual computer. Get to school and they limit the internet to 1 gig per day. Discovered it’s by MAC address. Not by LAN port. So thanksgiving break grab that bad boy and drag it to school. It ran FreeBSD and I made a SOCKS proxy that just changes it’s MAC after about 1 gig of usage. Have it out to everyone on our floor and we destroyed Kazaa and Limewire. Good times.
We've only had mRNA vaccines for two years.

Also there are starting to be plenty of companies requiring boosters. Do you want to get a new experimental vaccine whose long term effects are poorly known every few months?
>almost all companies will spam your email address, even if you check the box asking them not to.

I find this very hard to believe. "Spam" has a specific definition; the most important bit of which is that it is unsolicited. Mails landing in your inbox that you'd rather not get, but which are not unsolicited (say, by you signing up for an account and confirming your address), are not spam by definition.

"Almost all companies" would find themselves unable to send email in short order if what they were delivering was spam.

Definitions are important. Let's not misuse them.
It is. Click on the “past” link under the story title.
Am I the only one that finds it disturbing that it's mentioned that people saw no sign of mental illness in him yet he ate live puppies and kittens, dead bodies from the morgue, and was ejected from the hospital when he was suspected of eating a toddler?

Honestly this whole article is nightmare fuel about what a person might become if all-consuming hunger is the driving urge of their life.
Surprisingly short text for how long it sets up an analogy with little value.

The problem with XMPP has always been that it is too extensible with too few guarantees in interoperability. You'll know what this means if you ever set up OMEMO over 3 different client implementations. It also does too much, anything from Kafkaesque (pun intended) persistent pubsub to content labels. The quality of clients is simply not good enough, so most XEPs end up in specialized variants of clients or proprietary implementations (Facebook, GTalk, EA Origin) that lean more on ejabberd's scalability than other XMPP features like federation.

Also, XML is not a good serialization format, and some of the requirements in the protocol are pretty exotic and not trivial to implement in a lot of languages. Like setting up TLS on an existing connection (plus the absolute refusal of the XMPP WG to allow on-connect TLS). JSON over websocket or HTTP are just better at reaching a wide audience of developers.
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This is not outside of the realm of possible. Google does nothing to stop spammers, makes up their own non-public rules and doesn't communicate with the Internet community, so Gmail addresses are already on shaky grounds.
For instance, for starters, go search through all of your email for any email sent from Google servers where the "Reply to:" doesn't match the "Mail from:", and tell me if there are any legitimate instances.

Why is this scenario a red flag in all instances? Mailing lists, including Google Groups, may have settings that set the Reply To to be different from the Mail From.
I’m no finance expert, but I’ve been semi-adjacent to finance stuff enough to end up in conversations with tons of friends/family about what makes for investment returns in everything from tech startups to US equities to crypto coins and have coined a tongue-in-cheek maxim:

Reesman’s First Law of Investment Success Evaluation: As concerns returns, that which can explained by survivorship bias is due to survivorship bias.
Looks like the Zotero devs have already done that [1]. You can probably just vendor the repo in a browser extension, I'd think.

[1] https://github.com/zotero/translators
Yes - if you can raise money then do it. Why not?
But do not gave up if you cannot.
To me this is the lynchpin:

> This is the very situation where matrix devs should have made use of the
properties of XMPP to improve it. Even the outstanding feature (I admit.
its a fantastic idea) of matrix, decentralized conversation store, could
have been implemented in XMPP as an XEP. Imagine the time and effort
spent on improving XMPP, instead of reinventing wheels in matrix. We
could have had a neat ubiquitous IM platform.

The approach XMPP took may have made sense when it was created, and it definitely had a lot of success early on at creating a truly federated IM network, but a lot of that evaporated when people and companies started needing more from the system than XMPP could guarantee.

XMPP + a bag of XEPs isn't a "neat ubuquitous IM platform" unless we get an XMPP2 that mandates certain key modern XEPs. It's just a big giant mess, the same one it's been for a long time.

Maybe that's where Matrix should have started, I dunno. But they are where they are and the reality is that it's not up to the IETF to dictate how things should evolve. If Matrix supplants XMPP as a dominant open IM federation, and the people behind it want it to be standardized, all the "but XMPP did it first" in the world shouldn't prevent that.
Why doesn't it always work? I'm also using my own domain, not sure why'd that ever 'not work'.
Should this link be replaced with the original source? Ars Technica linked to the original blog post in the first paragraph, and the rest of the article summarizes the original source. Here's the blog post in question: https://obscuritory.com/sim/when-simcity-got-serious/
No. Apple's "Hide My Email" uses the same `icloud.com` domain as the rest of their email addresses (unless you're using the "Sign-in with Apple" feature which uses `privaterelay.appleid.com`).

Blocking `privaterelay.appleid.com` would be kinda pointless since you'd be breaking your "Sign-in with Apple" feature, but if you don't support that feature you could block it (theoretically, one could create a login for SiteA and use the private-relay address for SiteB). Blocking `icloud.com` would mean blocking lots of legitimate email addresses along with the hidden ones.
I think most of it is abuse. Of course, I can’t measure it so we don’t know. But anecdotally I can say that my wife uses it. She is very religious and while our religion doesn’t specifically forbid vaccines (how could it - the texts are quite old) she doesn’t want the vaccine so she finds scriptures to back up her position. They are vague passages that _could_ be seen as being specific to vaccines, but of course that’s impossible because they didn’t exist.

All said to say, you can use scripture to justify anything you want or don’t want. Just examine…all of history?
There is a relatively common (still very rare) genetic mutation that is known to cause constant hunger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prader%E2%80%93Willi_syndrome

It is the product of a genetic arms race between mothers and fathers over whether a child should take its nutrition from the mother (by nursing) or the father (by eating). Prader-Willi syndrome occurs when the mother's genetic instructions are not appropriately counterbalanced by the father; the converse -- exactly the same genetic deficiency, but coming from the maternal side rather than the paternal side -- is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelman_syndrome .

The same genetic conflict occurs in lions, which is why ligers (lion father, tiger mother) are much larger than tiglons (tiger father, lion mother).

> It sounds like he must have had his metabolism turned up to 11, perhaps due to some genetic mutation that also caused the other abnormalities found in the autopsy?

Tarrare didn't suffer from Prader-Willi syndrome, since as you note he metabolized all the food he ate. I would speculate that his metabolism was sufficient to cause his hunger in the 'normal' way, and the hunger didn't need its own cause.

I would also guess that the enlarged throat and stomach were caused more or less 'mechanically' by his consumption of large quantities of food. A response to his eating habits, rather than a suite of mutations working together to both cause and accommodate a large appetite.

In other words, my causal model would go

metabolism -> hunger -> large meals -> large throat/stomach
I see. Especially if the games were given away free, or at cost of hardware, there shouldn't be any lost revenue for Nintendo as long as they are no longer making games themselves. But you can loose copyright if you don't defend it right? And the copyright to their logo seems like something they would want to strongly protect.
It's hard to say without the product actually being released, but I use a lot of Apple devices, and my main way of consuming media right now is my Apple TV. I'm in the market for upgrading my TV and I'd sooner pay Apple $2k for a headset than Samsung for a large form TV running Android, subsidized by adware. I'd enjoy seeing such a device also replace my Xbox and PC for gaming.
That's agreement, not disagreement.
you’re definitely not the only one. grids make much more sense. and not only for ease of navigation.
> the man eats animals alive, corpses at the morgue, drinks blood from hospital patients, and all other kinds of stuff, but people around him judged him to be completely sane?

Those are all normal things to do when you're hungry.
No it’s not. We’ve had mandated vaccines forever and no one cared until it became political during covid.

People made it political and people are avoiding vaccines for politic. blaming it protecting freedoms i stead harming public health for politics is a less morally corrupt stance to take.
What even are you talking about? The trend for the past several decades is people moving out of rural areas, into urban ones.
What is the rationale for the state to keep track of the religious preferences of its citizens in this manner? This can be used for nefarious purposes.
It's really difficult creating a fake google account nowadays
Maybe “fully maintained” is too high a standard for most roads in most towns? Maybe we are ok with doing minimal maintenance on most roads because road quality is just not worth the cost?
It would be possible if the hospitalization rate due to Omicron is also 7x lower than for the earlier variants. I don't have numbers in either direction, but given case loads rising everywhere yet recorded deaths remaining relatively stable, it's not a priori an impossibility.

(edit: just checked the UK's stats over the past month: infections have peaked at 200k/day, 5x the baseline rate over the past few months. Daily deaths have doubled but not yet peaked, suggesting Omicron has at most a 2.5x reduction in severity -- usual caveats apply, this is very coarse data, IANAE etc)
Alexandre Grothendieck: Récoltes et Semailles I, II. Réflexions et témoignage
> xmpp failed as big tech (Google, Facebook) protocol

Did it? They embraced it, made external XMPP clients being able to interact with their own services, and then suddenly cut them off. For all we know, they are still using XMPP internally, they just don't federate anymore.
Anonaddy [0] is much better. They are open source, support PGP key encryption, and more. 33mail is blocked more places on the web...

[0] - anonaddy.com
> We've only had mRNA vaccines for two years.

First off, mRNA was discovered in the 1960s, first used for drug delivery in the 1970s, and vaccines in 1975. [1] The work to create these vaccines has been under way for almost 60 years. It also builds off the work of other coronavirus vaccines that have been in development since SARS and MERS about 20 years ago.

If that's for some reason not sufficient, J&J, Covishield and AstraZeneca vaccines are not mRNA but instead adenoviral vector vaccines that have similar histories.

[edit] Most vaccines take a long time to test due to the low prevalence of the disease in the population but given half of America is currently infected, it takes very little time to determine the safety and efficacy. Most drugs and vaccines were released publicly after a few thousand participants tried it. You're looking at billions of doses administered.

You are not early.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02483-w
Could you expand on the “abusive” part? I get the other two to an extent since it’s a for-profit company.
Not to mention this should not even be required given the supreme court struct down the vaccine mandate for everything except medicare/medicaid facilities. [1]

[Edit] Apparently federal facilities were not challenged. So only struck down for businesses.

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-blocks-bid...
Thanks for the positive feedback! Out of curiosity: what do you use minimax for?
> I've built a few computers in my time but never used an old CPU from one.

I've routinely upgraded drives, graphics cards and memory to give an older system a new lease on life. Usually they're good for a couple of years after that. Essentially the only things remaining where motherboard, CPU and the power supply.
And how would you protect your service from users that just sign up with disposable Emails for the 7 day trial over and over again?
DearPyGui is built with C++ ImGui and includes a node editor [1]. It’s actively maintained and I’ve found it a joy to work with.

[1] https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui#node-editor
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The author's critique seems mostly aimed at conspicuous ideology; when it becomes a public performance.
... filtering out "gross woke types"... by showing that you're incompetent and don't know how to do your job?
Hi arxanas! I’ve run into `git branchless` too, and clearly it caught my attention. I tried to use it, but I think my mental model was not the correct one, because basically, all I wanted was a faster Stacked Git at the time ahah.

I should give it another try at some point.
The booster is the same as the original vaccine but in a lower dosage. This may change with future boosters, but I also get a flu vaccine every year (and have for a decade). Those are "new" each year but aren't generally considered dangerous and experimental.

> Do you want to get a new experimental vaccine whose long term effects are poorly known every few months?

Can you give a coherent biological mechanism by which the vaccine would have health impacts that aren't detectable over the course of say 3 months?

As I understand it, the entire vaccine will have left your body will before that point, leaving only your body's reaction to the spike protein. In other words, the only vaccine side effects possible after a month or so are a strict subset of covid side effects.
The cost of an employee is much higher than just the wages you pay them.
Is it so surprising that he wouldn't have been considered mentally ill, especially at the time? Imagine someone who's generally affable, who can more or less hold down a job, who speaks in complete sentences, obeys the usual social rules about manners, dress, and speech --- an ordinary guy --- except that he has a habit of eating a variety of unusual objects. Would you consider him eccentric or would you go straight to mental illness?

I think we're too eager to medicalize personality quirks nowadays. Traditionally, a mental illness is a set of behaviors or beliefs that impair one's general functioning in society. Mere weirdness doesn't count.
Even if we assume that there is benefit in this specific case, the utility of this law extends well beyond vaccine mandates.

It may sound great, until a government comes into power with very different world views to your own, and suddenly you're on a similar list.
My system is 100% 16-bit code and cannot access more than 640 kB of memory, and that's why it is so limited. I could probably increase the maximum amount of sockets and file handles to give it more capacity, but it still has its limits.
You asked, "Why don't you consider Cox's theorem - and related arguments - well-developed?" I consider Cox's argument not well-developed because D–S theory shows the postulates miss useful and important alternatives. So it fails as an argument for a particular interpretation of probability.
There's absolutely no way the US would lose this time, though, not that it would ever happen anyway. Even if we had time to attempt a defense, almost no canadian would be willing to die for Canada. The typical "Canadian patriots" who would have been willing to probably have soured on that idea in the past 2 years.
>We should never ever rely on emails for anything important.

Busy people will never get anything done otherwise. Not going to happen.
Yeah, Instagram started demanding a phone number for my personal account that I've had for many years. I just stopped using Instagram.
"Houdini is a group of APIs that give developers direct access to the CSS_Object_Model (CSSOM), enabling developers to write code the browser can parse as CSS, thereby creating new CSS features without waiting for them to be implemented natively in browsers."

Why develop custom features only for one browser (firebox) that cannot be displayed in other browsers? This feels antithetical to the spirit of the web. Not to mention the complexity it adds.

In addition, the Firefox rendering engine cannot be used to create a desktop app (like Electron) where this custom CSS feature might make some sense.
Robert Scoble has been saying it’s more of a home theater & computer monitor replacement. So instead of a 4k HDR 80” screen and accompanying surround sound, you get one of these. Instead of a Pro Display XDR, this headset will provide you with a virtual display that is just as good if not better.

He also has been saying there is some insane tech partnership with the NFL to bring an immersive viewing experience to the headset.
I agree that the register is a bad and dangerous road but can we all at least recognize that “religion” is actually “politics” in this case. We’re identifying blind trump loyalists who were tricked by the political system into choosing politics over public health.
You're totally right. This article is garbage. It fails to do anything to identify the differences between ideologies or a meta framework by which we can evaluated them. It assumes all ideologies work at a group level, when emergence and applied meme theory would suggest that the individual carries the ideas (in the same way that evolution only acts on groups through the genes of individuals). Some ideologies spread parasitically, and other symbiotically, but this article makes no distinction between the two, or has any grasp of the underlying "hows" of ideology. It's pseudo intellectual clap trap for the "oh I'm so smart" person who dominates downvoting, simple coherent comments such as yours because they're not capable of identifying the simple flaws in this piece's rhetoric.
I can't defend the state tracking this info, but I definitely asked my employer if they had granted any religious exemptions to their vaccine mandate (we are a small company so I don't think we fall under the federal guidelines). They never responded to me, but they also extended the WFH situation until May after Omicron accelerated.
I agree with you, I don't think the bug report was a security issue or even a bug. It's like telling Google that searching for bananas returns pictures of apples and reporting it as a vulnerability because self-driving cars might use the Google results as training data.
Reddit has always been at war at itself. Subredditdrama didn't magically appear after the Tumblr meltdown.

People talking about reddit degrading reminds me of people talking about when music was the best; it was great when you weren't quite new but weren't quite jaded about it yet.
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One problem though. If you start with McElreath, you will likely find all books which require you to wrangle your brain into sided p-values and confidence intervals stupid
I think you are the only one.

I grew up in Chicago on a perfect grid. Now I live on a street that I picked precisely because you only drive down it if you live there. I don't like the sound of cars driving past. That's a personal preference that seems pretty generalized, even among people without kids.

And on a street like that, you don't need speed bumps, because people aren't speeding down the street.
That $1600 is based a 10% tax rate, if you look at the chart. That means the whole property is only worth $16,000. Are you really suggesting they charge more every year in taxes than the house is worth?
Nice Whitehouse you’ve got there. Be shame if anything ‘happened’ to it. Again.
They still do. I communicate through Bitlbee/libpurple's XMPP client with friends on Google Hangouts (or whatever it is called now).
A California city has been overtaken by birds. Lasers may be the solution
Probably it is not the validity of an Email but the fact that you can use many disposable Emails and misuse the free tier / trial.