skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a superb interview[1] with Neal Stephenson that was published just yesterday about this kind of human behavior.

Here's a quote from Neal:

"Another thing I’ve been reading recently is “The Fixation of Belief” by an American philosopher named Charles Sanders Peirce. He was writing in the 1870s, and he goes through a list of four methods that people use to decide what they’re going to believe. The first one is called the method of tenacity, which means you decide what you’re going to believe and you stick to it regardless of logic or evidence.
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The next method is called the method of authority, where you agree with other people that you’re all going to believe what some authority figure tells you to believe. That’s probably most common throughout history. The third method is called the a priori method, and the idea is, let’s be reasonable and try to come up with ways to believe things that sound reasonable to us. Which sounds great, but if it’s not grounded in any fact-checking methodology, then you end up just agreeing to believe things by consensus — which may be totally wrong. The fourth method is the scientific method. It basically consists of accepting the fact that you might be wrong, and since you might be wrong, you need some way for judging the truth of statements and changing your mind when you’ve got solid evidence to the contrary. What you’re seeing in the Baroque Cycle is the transition from Method No. 3 to No. 4. You’ve got all these people having what seem like reasoned, logical arguments, but a lot of them are just tripping. So a few come in, like Hooke and Newton, and begin using actual experiments and get us going down the road toward the rational world of the Enlightenment. But what we’ve got now is almost everybody using Method 1, 2 or 3. We’ve got a lot of authoritarians who can’t be swayed by logic or evidence, but we’ve also got a lot of a priori people who want to be reasonable and think of themselves as smarter and more rational than the authoritarians but are going on the basis of their feelings — what they wish were true — and both of them hate the scientific rationalists, who are very few in number. That’s kind of my Peircian analysis of where things stand right now."

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/01/10/magazine/neal...

(Nit: I think you mean "Behind the Curve", not "Beyond". But yes, really good documentary recommendation!)
On a current project I needed to get RMS volume of the mids of an audio file in 1-second isolated segments. I wrote a bunch of code to do just that...and was floored when my partner pointed out to me that ffmpeg could give me that exact data on the commandline.
Maybe we shouldn't be relying on Google and Apple to decide what we can run on our phones and tablets. Maybe we shouldn't let Apple and Microsoft decide what we can run on our computers, either.
Where does the desire come from?
> Polygamy and polyandry should be legal.

Is it not? (assuming everyone is a consenting adult)
Good point in this context.
> Does an extra booster reduce hospitalizations and deaths?

A meta question: how do these studies control for the fact that people who care enough to get a booster are more likely to care proactively about their health?

Lots of good outcomes correlate with caring.
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I’m agreeing with you? I’m saying that the HN title “claims jurisdiction over all sites even if outside the US” is way more sensational than the US gov’t telling a
US based registrar to remove entries pointing to sites hosted outside the US.
But the fourth dose did work, just not significantly better than the third. So for people who might have had their third too long in the past to still be confident about their imminent encounter with omicron, it is exactly the obvious short term solution you describe.
No, just like how we had quarantines for people coming by ship in the 50s or how you have required vaccinations to enter certain countries on certain disease outbreaks and that has just been reduced drastrically as a lot of endemic diseases have been tamed.
only if your travling on the surface in the 10th dimension.
Source? Everything I've ever read suggests that conversion is a complicated religious issue for Zoroastrianism and that the traditional answer is that conversion is not allowed. There is division and some groups do allow it, but I've never seen anyone claim that opposing conversion had anything to do with it being a condition for staying.
You way overestimate the importance of decades long backlog of hits.

New content gets infinitely more views.
Foreign entities engaging in exchanges with the U.S. market via U.S. TLDs implicate U.S. customs enforcement.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has jurisdiction over customs enforcement.
I don't think there's just one great filter.

I imagine there are various filters depending on the particular environment and circumstances.

Several are behind us already. Several are ahead.
Thank you for sharing.

> even gnutella became The Pirate Bay.

Never thought about that.
No, $100B is a tiny, single digit fraction of NATO military spending. I’m more concerned about the time and knowledge to spin up more manufacturing capacity.
Having omnicron "rip through" would actually be a great thing, I've just read an article from Belgium saying they have no patients with omnicron in ICUs. It does seem some people need supervision but I presume the load is much much reduced. Also omnicron doesn't seem to spare vaccinated neither in symptoms nor in infection rate, but that's just anecdotal, maybe someone has other information?
Thanks.

I have never heard of someone use cosplay/cosplayers that way.

Makes sense.

Off topic - where you from?
I think I've seen persons like that in every ideological
camp I've encountered

I'm not the parent poster but yeah, I think the concept of being "in the know" in relation to others is definitely a concept that appeals to nearly everybody.

I mean, who doesn't enjoy that to an extent? Even if it's something innocuous like being "the person within your friends group who knows where all the cool bars in town are."

The allure of being "in the know is certainly not unique to conspiracy theorists, but I think it clearly is a major part of the appeal.
The Earth's shadow on the moon during a lunar eclipse. It's always round -- no matter the time of day, etc. -- which is only possible if the earth is a sphere.
Have you lived in different latitudes? Not only the stars change (what is not very noticeable nowadays), but the Sun goes through entirely different paths on the sky.

If you care to observe the stars, moving only a couple hundred km on the north-south direction is enough to see the change with bare eyes.
I’ve heard it’s less of a concern because by the time troops got to the fabs they’d be useless to the Chinese.
Sometimes I find others who have the same life philosophy that I have, and I'd always wondered where they came to it from, but its just not one of those things you can ask.

I'm really glad there are others that were able to absorb the AA adjacent wisdom, and transform it into something productive like I was.
stopping transmission is an impossibly high bar. Vaccines reduce transmission. Really really shockingly unexpectedly well for the first few months, in previous waves, but that sterilizing antibody-mediated immunity wanes. The booster restores that efficacy against transmission, but omicron's immune evasion means that even a booster only gets to ~70% efficacy against cases/transmission, compared to the surprise finding of ~95% efficacy for the first two doses. Fewer people spreading the virus -> fewer cases -> not as bad of a time.

The other important factor is that because your immune system is primed to recognize SARS-CoV-2 after vaccination, even if you do get infected, it responds and clears the infection more quickly than it would otherwise. That could mean you're never infectious, or infectious for fewer days, reducing transmission. Pre-omicron, breakthrough infections were infectious for 5.5 days on average, compared to 7.5 days for infections in unvaccinated people (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2102507). Yes, all this to maintain some semblance of healthcare for society, and to fill up fewer reefer trucks with body bags.
I left Ukraine in 2013, but putting that aside, how else are you going to learn something without doing a research?
I mean, I can just dump a bunch of links to studies and details about how boosters are highly effective, even for young people.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-...
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/10/1/23/pdf
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/01/no-omicron-im...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01575-4
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.13.21267748v...
https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/2022-01...

And I can find dozens more.

Your comment is basically entirely an appeal to authority in what is linked - these are not studies, they are specific individuals saying things and you saying we should listen to them because of who they are in general, and not because they have actual data to back their specific point.
Defined as dangerous because:

https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/I-Can-Tolerate-Anythi...
I'd prefer everyone keeps doing what they were doing
Since I was at Stanford then, I downloaded it on sunet.
That's not accurate either. Neither the cube nor the sphere "bend" in any way. Irrespective of the number of dimensions, the cube's surfaces remain (hyper)planar, and the sphere retains its convex shape and constant curvature.

The diagram on the web page is just wrong. The enclosed sphere does not poke out with "spikes".

The error in the diagram is that it shows the corner cubes "filled" with spheres, but this is not what happens in the higher-dimensional analogues. If you take a cube-shaped cross section of a 4D example (through the center), you wouldn't see the corner spheres at all.

Think of a 2D slice through the middle of the 3D example: You'd just see a square, no circles!
Ask HN: Anyone got experience using Scuttlebutt? Thoughts?
Curious what the lot of you who've used Scuttlebutt (and whatever app you use to access it) think about the platform.

Scuttlebutt is a decentralized, peer-2-peer social platform where all of the data is stored on your own computer. There is no central server. It's been around for a few years, and has a somewhat quiet web presence. I'm curious about it, am looking into playing around, and always like to check in with the HN community first, since you all collectively have a ton more experience than I do. Just curious about your thoughts on it (or anything else like it). For reference --> https://scuttlebutt.nz/

I will say that while I'm interested, part of me thinks this is just the most complicated way to say hello to someone. Like, just call them?

Edit: clarification
If you’re in DC try http://www.mitsitamcafe.com/ in the Native American Museum.

My partner has been on a Navajo Indian reservation and some of the food was good but most was sort of bland. Sadly, after being driven to these reservations one of the staple foods in the diet became fry bread. It is not the healthiest.

Also, it is hard to have a restaurant selling traditional foods like squash when many tribes don’t grow it and eat it themselves, because well, it doesn’t grow in the desert.
Since people have apparently submitted attempts that were incorrect, it seems likely that it’s not at all easy to verify whether any pair of pages is correct.
I think expectations we have of an age are indeed part of it.

I started my education in Eastern Europe, and we got Physics and Biology as dedicated subjects in grade 5, with formulas and proofs etc.

So when we did "inclined slope" in Canada in grade twelve, in what was for many their first true "Physics" class (and this was AP!), it did indeed feel like we were about 6-8 years too late.

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To reminisce and meander seemingly pointlessly on a personal anecdote - I remember reading "Ender's Game" when I was 18, and initially thinking "what BS, this guy doesn't know how to write kids, they all sound like adults!".

And then realized... wait... that's exactly what I WAS thinking when I was a "kid". Kids don't think they think "like kids". We all think as humans. We have plans and schemes and wants and concerns and ponderings no matter the age. So whatever good bad and ugly there may be in Ender's Game specifically and Orson Scott Card generally, I like to remind myself as I raise my own two kids now, that we need to give children WAY more credit for capability of thinking than we sometimes do, on this continent in particular.
Not for me. Behind all those hedges is where the intrigue lies! I'd rather that than overselling a thrice-maybe as a positive.
The Enigma Black Diamond – A Rare Cosmic Wonder
This isn’t an original opinion, it’s taken from this paper:

https://www.nickbostrom.com/extraterrestrial.pdf
It's a bit conspiratorial to suggest health authorities including epidemiologists and immunologists would 'ignore' a foundational aspect of their underlying knowledge of the system when trying to understand it and formulate policy.

Of course they are taking it into account.

Most health authorities do random sampling to try to get an idea of underlying natural immunity and the various characteristics that takes on.
GUI-driven development is a perfectly fine way to getting started, which is what this guide does. However, does anyone else get an uneasy feeling about developing software that revolves too much around using a GUI/heavy IDE? You can argue that Visual Studio Code is bloated, etc., but at the end of the day, I can clone a project on GitHub and easily run a CLI command to compile and try a project, and maybe use Vim if I have to do a quick edit. Any time I see a development guide that depends on screenshots or requires a specific IDE it makes me feel uneasy, even though I know that's not how most newcomers feel.
I would say most of my Go projects involve what you described (logs to stdout, simple interface) but I often find myself needing a shell to debug my docker build, like ensuring that files have ended up in the correct place, and have the correct contents, within the docker container.
> They're about "belonging" and in-group/out-group signaling. It may be true that they're ill-equiped to discern such things, but it's also the case that there are social incentives for them to not want to adhere to facts, self-derived or otherwise.

I think it’s most evident in cults, but agreed that it’s present in other less intense belief systems as well.
It didn't. There's actually a generous guard band between the radar altimeter frequencies and 5G. I say generous because it's more than double what the manufacturers asked for. And what other countries are already providing without issue.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/11/faa-forced-delay...

And yeah this has been years in planning (2017) with public consultation.
What's the harm in a post-truth society? It's a memetic virus that is spreading. Misinformation was weaponized before flat earth took off. However flat earth is the embodiment of 2 + 2 = 5.
One of the main reasons that ICE believes they can exert this authority is because the .com/.net TLD namespace is owned and operated by Verisign, a US company. Further, the ICANN namespace is owned and operated by ICANN, a US company who, in fact, is also under the jurisdiction of attorney generals of California state [1].

As long as the namespace remains under the control of a centralized authority like the US, this will continue to be a reality. There may be some naysayers about solutions like Handshake, but frankly speaking, there's no person who would logically want their name to be able to be taken away by someone else. Your name is your identity and it is you. To be able to assert this with cryptography is a cypherpunk's dream.

[1] https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/heels-ag-becerra-lett...
You should probably read the data, and not just the title and conclusions:

> Among those previously infected, until the emergence of the Omicron variant, the cumulative incidence of COVID19 was not significantly different between those vaccinated and unvaccinated, even at almost a year of follow-up.

> However, among those with prior COVID-19, vaccination was not associated with significantly lower risk of COVID-19 in either the pre-Omicron (HR 0.78, 95% C.I. 0.31-1.96) or the Omicron phase (HR 0.77, 95% C.I. 0.53-1.12).

The only thing they find is that there's some effectiveness against symptomatic illness during the Omicron wave:

> among those with prior COVID-19, vaccination was associated with significantly lower risk of symptomatic COVID-19 in both the pre-Omicron (HR 0.60, 95% C.I. 0.40-0.90) and the Omicron phase (HR 0.36, 95% C.I. 0.23-0.57).

Apparently this is based on the data in Figure 4...but Figure 4 isn't included (again, did you read this??), so I can't say either way.
Indeed! I expect that it's very useful as a function to avoid the deleterious effects of inescapably embracing the pessimistic version of existentialism.

"Religion: An Evolutionary Pressure To Bother With Any Of It At All" :-)
> To me the problem is the content

or the idea you can grow forever.
I doubt it, considering people have apparently submitted attempts which were unsuccessful. Assuming at least some of those were from fairly serious puzzle fans giving it a serious attempt, it’s probably not a puzzle where the solution is easily verifiable.
> If so, good for you, I wouldn't want to impose a garden or a parking spot on you. By the same token, calling these out as if they could possibly not be useful, simply because you do not think them useful, is at best, a fallacy.

This is grossly out of touch with how most of these features end up existing. Most of the time, there's a minimum setback for the front yard, minimum parking, etc. specified by local zoning ordinances.

This isn't bottom-up market-driven demand, it's top-down requirements specified by the local government for that area. So they are, in fact, imposed on whoever wants to live there.
Or convincing a government to bankroll you
Folks shouldn't worry whether it's effective or not. Just go get it because it's never a bad thing to keep everything topped up. I hope they mandate everyone to take those new pills Pfizer came out with, that will probably make us super human Covid fighting machines. If we just keep taking boosters and those new pills Covid doesn't stand a chance.

Please make sure you tell everyone who isn't vaccinated to get vaccinated so they don't make a vaccinated person catch Covid.

https://ifunny.co/picture/don-t-talk-to-me-unless-you-re-gig...
In case anybody else is wondering what Scuttlebutt is:

https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/
It's not only that they didn't live up to their initial promise; it's that those who were skeptical were executed in the court of public opinion. Suddenly, real science didn't matter, and everyone was told to "trust the experts"--the same experts who have made companies and careers out of grift, lies, and psychopathic behavior.
> Exposing all these fields seems like it'll cause challenges when trying balance backwards compatibility vs breaking changes.

That's less important than it sounds because the project is pretty explicit about not caring about backward compatibility till 1.0.
Bah, I miss it. It should've been so much more. I bought my first 4/3 in 2012... but my interest faded. Flash forward a decade and I bought my first full frame last year. The new Canon RF lineup has some great potential, but damn I would've loved it all in a smaller package.
Peer to peer but mostly the main peer
There's a new place that just opened in 2021 here in Minneapolis called Owamni - https://owamni.com/

I haven't been yet but I'd like to try it sometime.
Really challenging to do either these days. In the olden days when PMs were rare and relatively senior/experienced there was a clear path that developers could take to move towards a PM role. Something of a branch between the intermediate and senior software levels or heading to PM vs Eng manager.

These days there are so many more PMs and they’re so much more junior. There is largely an expectation of coming up through their ranks. I don’t think it’s right, and I don’t think it’s a positive for the industry in general to have people in PM roles who have never experienced other more clear cut roles before (whether dev, or analyst, or marketing, or whatever) moving into something with the ambiguity and responsibility of a PM. But it’s where we are.

Overall it’s probably similar difficulty to get “adopted” by a PM or SWE group that your team works closely with.
For the vax, with omnicron being so mild, it seems like a bad trade-off to get vaccinated with v1 Covid with it's presumably more nasty spike protein rather than risk infection (which seems unavoidable anyway?)

also, it's known that 2 weeks past vaccination your immune system is weakened, you are more susceptible so it seems like a particularly bad idea during a surge
This is such a bad faith argument - you are transacting at any store in the fiat currency that store accepts and not crypto. That a service exists to seamlessly deduct an amount of crypto equivalent to that fiat is no more novel than one providing the same service between two fiat currencies, gold or Nuka cola caps.
More correctly, Mitra-Varuna is a compound referring to two independent gods, Mitra and Varuna. Mitra is also mentioned in the Avesta, separate from Ahura Mazda, and in a similar compound form. This has led some to believe that Varuna is to be identified with Ahura Mazda in the proto-Indo-Iranian religion, but this is debated.
>> It's "Node.js" with a dot. If you spell it "nodejs", that's a serious red flag and you shouldn't be surprised if it gets you automatically discarded -- even by a human reviewer.

Haha and then they scream about labour shortage )
Yes, thank you. I will put that in the description...
This is absolutely, amazingly cool! Awesome job!