skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was able to talk to some pretty powerful astronomers (one of whom had "fixed the hubble") and they did make a number of points about how JWST wasn't a boondoggle, but it did eat into the budgets of other legitimate projects.

Realistically speaking, $10B for a world-class scientific instrument that will operate for 20 years without any human intervention, producing image results that we simply could not have created in any other technically accessible way, sounds like a reasonable budget to me. $25B would be "too much" and $50B would justify inventing a time machine and going back to shut the project down before it wasted too much money.
Why is it removed from the frontpage? It got almost 20 points in less than 30 minutes, and then suddenly got removed from the front page?
Rails very slow view rendering is one of the worst parts of it. GitHub's view_components library has some performance improvements that can be substantial in some cases. I wish someone would port how Elixir Phoenix does views, which is extremely fast.
Name one time in history the people on the side of censorship been in the right. If someone says something you disagree with then you debate it to convince people that you're right. You don't censor them. The only censorship that should happen is when something illegal is said. If you don't want someone saying something, get a law passed. I'd love to hear counterexamples.

And for those of you who think it's okay because "free market" and "private corporation", you're naive to think the government isn't heavily influencing social media censorship.
+ UPC doesn't appear in the system

+ Scales (bagging vs PoS) don't match

+ Temporary ID

The list goes on. There are lots of exceptions that can happen and those are trivial for a human and impossible for an AI.
Most people generally do not use these math skills. Most use the very basics. Never once have I used or seen another developer use Calculus, for example. Most devs will have no idea what a "polynomial" is, either (grade 8). Let alone factoring a quadratic polynomial!
That one's actually a good argument for open source software, in my experience. While the cargo-cult culture exists everywhere less experienced users are involved, in FOSS land there's a decent chance some developer or power user (any developer, not just a project member) will stumble upon the problem and either figure out the real issue themselves or coordinate with the project devs to do so. I've done this many, many times over the years. Complete nonsense cargo-cult stuff doesn't tend to survive forever in this ecosystem, because someone eventually realizes it's nonsense.

In Windows land? Decades can go by without anyone knowing what's going on, unless someone motivated enough to reverse engineer the binaries involved shows up and finds the issue. That isn't very common. Though when it happens it can be hilarious [1].

[1] https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times...
How many times do I need to go down this path:

...
- ask for help
- try to explain how it's supposed to work
- try to explain how it's not working
- Listen to them come up with all the ideas that I've already ruled out
- Try to explain why their preferred idea has already been
ruled out or is not actually relevant to the problem
- conclude they still don't understand the problem or even
how this part of the system works
- go ahead and just solve the problem myself
...

before it's OK to stop "asking for help", and just fix the damn thing?
Some sympathy for the devil: operating systems are just so…big.

Like, there’s an arbitrary code execution issue fixed here in ColorSync. ColorSync! Who thinks to attack the color management system, and then how do you set up your org structure to protect from attacks on that? Because…assuming they have much of a team on it at all, as it’s probably a bit of a solved problem…your core team is probably going to be focused on color, and not buffer overflows.

macOS has a lot of old components now, and just getting a grasp of where you could possibly have security issues must be nigh impossible.
Thanks for the encouragement and sharing your experience. Patience and iteration seems to be the key here. Congrats on 50k
Tesla 2021 FY Results [pdf]
Interesting, are you saying that they don't even achieve quantum annealing? I haven't really paid much attention to them.
I don't think every village idiot needs a megaphone.
Spotify says it will remove Neil Young’s music instead of dropping Joe Rogan
Zetane Viewer – ML models and internal tensors 3D visualizer
Weather maybe. The reason why we have wind is of course because of pressure differences. But those are also caused by the centrifugal powers moving air up and downwards in spirals. That would not happen in the same way on Venus
Same thing happened with this thread earlier today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30087769
Does anyone know if this fixes a 100% CPU use by bluetoothd on 2015ish macbook pros? The release notes are scant on non-security fixes.
The crux is disallowing or otherwise destroying the profit motive for platform creation, as much as or more than creating a functional alternative.
> - Training someone after they fall victim to a phishing attack makes them MORE likely to fall for future attacks.

Causality alert!

What if companies that have post-phishing training are more likely to hire people who are susceptible to repeat phishing?
He talked about this book.

https://www.amazon.com/Red-Handed-American-Elites-Helping-Ch...
I'd say the answer to that should be determined by the hospital capacity. If a region has sufficient hospital capacity that it would not be overwhelmed by the increase in COVID cases among the unvaccinated go ahead and lift most restrictions.

I don't think you're breaking any new ground here. In the two regions where I've lived since the outbreak, hospital capacity was already a factor in what precautions were mandated.

But the spread of disease is a lot more complicated than sick/not sick. It has an affect on society much farther and wider than hospital capacity, and that should not be the sold yardstick by which we measure our reaction.
This article [1] has some good info regarding transmission in the context of the quote in your source.

While mRNA vaccines – produced by Pfizer and Moderna – continue to offer some level of protection against transmission of omicron, other vaccines – such as Johnson & Johnson, Sinopharm and AstraZeneca – offer “almost no defense,"

“It gets very easy to misconstrue,” Dowdy said. “If someone asks, do vaccines prevent infection, and you have to give a yes or no answer, then the answer is no, they’re not a perfect blockade. But do the vaccines offer some protection against infection? The answer is yes.”

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/01/21/fac...
The vaccines also offer very little protection against infection by Omicron, and less with the B.2 variant.

Definitely not saying vaccines aren't important - they keep you out of hospital! But they don't prevent infection post Delta.
>One has weekends and holidays, can send their kids to fancy schools, go on international vacations, choose to retire by 40, has access to great healthcare, choose to work a different profession or their hobby or whatever they want.

The poster you replied to was very clearly limiting the scope of their comparison to the "so they do not have to do menial tasks for richer people" standard you gave originally. Listing any number of other differences is orthogonal to the point they are making.
For context, this is likely a response to an article published 2 days ago about Covid misinformation on Substack: https://mashable.com/article/substack-covid-misinformation
I don't fully get it either. Certainly the agricultural revolution led to more babies and more calories (if not better nutrition in the early days), so it is possible to the calories / babies ratio stayed the same.

For the hunt gather nice times stuff to work out, I think theoretically there must also be some claims about the work being divided more evenly. Among other things, that could be some restrictions on how much pregnancy the nomadic band can deal with.
Nicely done. If that genuinely only took you 25 mins, I'm really impressed
We should expect youtube to value free speech regardless of whether or not they're legally obligated.
If revenue generated > fine * estimated probability of getting caught, then do a badness.
This definitely feels like class action lawsuit territory to me.
Why the all-caps brands for these? Is there some belief that it stands out more or something?

Because it does, and not in a good way. I skip all those when I'm browsing search results.
Same for me. My ISP uses CGNAT, so I essentially share an IP address with hundreds to thousands of other people. Who knows which one of us upset their naive DDoS protection.
Alex Jones?

I think maybe censoring Hitler would have been a good idea, too, but what do I know.
Adversary of what caliber? All they have to be able to do is redirect a host (for instance by poisoning a local DNS lookup); the actual exploit is trivial. They're self-signed certificates; in the absence of a "TOFU" scheme that doesn't yet meaningfully exist, they provide no security against attackers willing to spoof DNS responses.

"TOFU" is also a truly abysmal fit for any application with a mass audience (at any given time, a huge percentage of your inbounds are going to be people making their first request, all totally open to attack --- contrast that with SSH, where you make first contact with a host on a new machine fairly rarely).
Why not just have a way to restore the defaults? (this is a rhetorical question)
Feynman complained about this way back too.

Sometimes kids aren't taught understanding. Just Drill and practice and memorization.

For some subjects you can almost get away with that (but not really!) , but for mathematics it's really heavily evident.
Seriously… half of these are memory management bugs
8% of the population in the paper are not vaccinated.

27% of hospitalizations are not vaccinated.

~50% of ICU cases are not vaccinated.

The conclusion is that people are bad at understanding statistics.
Bluetooth / BLE 5.2 is bringing in a lot of functionality and standardisation for audio scenarios. Hopefully this will improve things.

Previously there hasn't really been much official support and implementations are messy and differ across platforms.

Source: have worked with various BLE stacks. Getting this stuff working well is difficult. I have much respect for companies that actually get it to work reliably.

Funnily enough, I try to avoid Bluetooth as much as possible and everything is wired on my setups.
It's completely possible to fix this short term

That's not what people in healthcare say. But hey, you can say whatever you want.
I’m sort of surprised they have a circular dependency on them self
The probability density function (PDF) for being hospitalized due to smoking or obesity is very wide but not tall. The PDF for being hospitalized due to COVID is not wide but is tall.

It is things with not wide but tall PDFs that cause problems with hospital capacity because it generally takes a fairly long time to increase hospital capacity.

Things with very wide but not tall PDFs are much easier to deal with because you've got years to build up capacity for them and that increased capacity will be needed for decades. The latter is important because it means a young person can look at that increased long term need and choose a career in healthcare knowing that the demand will still be there 10-14 years later when they've finished school and residency and will still be their long enough to see them through their entire career.
Why is Nevada always omitted? By "online" I guess they mean manufacturing cars, whereas Nevada just produces parts (batteries) needed by the cars?
That's actually surprisingly cunning.

Run a very in depth training program on how "not" to do antitrust.

Secretly, it's just a training course in antitrust.

Gotta respect the level of commitment to evil.
That's debatable. As far as I'm concerned I prefer being annoyed by my occasional lack of care rather than wondering what software quirk makes my phone call come out of the wrong device.
At least I can identify the cause quickly and make my best to avoid the issue.
I'm confused why this is anti-trust. Isn't this how all wholesale vendor deals work?

Regular wholesale: "We'll buy 200 units from you at $20 each. I'll sell them for some other amount, you don't need to care about it".

Amazon in this example: "We'll buy 1 units from you at $20 each. I'll sell them for some other amount, you don't need to care about it. Finally, don't worry about the wholesale rate for a single unit, we will make another 200 offers like this very soon.".

Why is there a legal difference between buying in bulk once and buying 1 many times?

Disclaimer: I used to work for Amazon in Marketplace, but never on this feature.
It started with Young saying "I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform".[1]

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-young-dem...
I hope more musicians join him.
There's always https://www.android-x86.org/

You can run a full-featured Android on any VM on a PC or Mac.
Not necessarily a bad thing. Your users are probably using potato computers. Make your app and dev environment work there too.
> Name one time in history the people on the side of censorship been in the right.

"Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason."
Affordable Housing Models in the Nordic Countries 2020 [pdf]
I have had the training in companies not in danger of anti-trust, but only when in a leadership position, not as a developer. And not a single-purpose anti-trust class, but as part of a business ethics class or similar.
This is 100% what I used to think re: the censorship debate, so hear me out.

The problem isn't censorship or dangerous speech.

The problem is NOT censorship! Literally everyone can throw apache on an old laptop and then punch a hole in port 80 on their home router. Some issues with that setup, sure, but we had billionaire POTUS crying censorship. Fucker could buy a bunch of data centers with a week's income or whatever, so clearly has the ability to speak, but also isn't wrong that his speech on twitter/fb is being curtailed.

The problem is not dangerous speech either, though. Something happened over the last 10 years that I'm absolutely certain would not have happened if we were still hosting everything on geocities or BBSes.

The problem is platforms and profit motive.
> I don't understand what motivates a move like this

There's been this big shift the last 10 or so years that hasn't got enough attention. People somehow now act like the world has to align to focus all its priorities on exactly what they prioritize, and can't imagine the idea that things matter differently to different people.

The way things previously worked, you didn't have to agree with everything someone else did or said, you just had to get along. Now it's like "if you don't drop everything and take my cause as seriously as I do, you're dead to me"

I had previously thought it was a "me generation" thing, but Neil Young is like 80 so i guess it's a societal shift.
The number of subs is great but the total views and watch time might be too low to meet google's minimum. I spent the lockdown getting a channel from nothing to over 1,000 in 9 months or less. My strategy was long content and a lot of content at least 3 times daily 45/60 minutes. To achieve 1,000s or 10,000s with one video involved timing and great matching keyword intent with photo.

500 views per video is not bad. It's better than average but you literally need to do 100,000 a month to make a few dollars. The 100 subscribers tells me you have an audience ready hopefully to buy. Get them off youtube on to your own platform asap
It was pretty obvious what Amazon wanted from its business partners if you look at abebooks, a site owned by amazon, but not visibly if you just look at abebooks.com. 'Independent' booksellers sell used books through abebooks, but never for less than amazon sells the same books.
> A small town mayor has none of the power a member of congress would.

Assuming the mayor is in an executive mayor system (not a council-manager) system, they often have far more practical power than a member of Congress over any issue, but their power is over smaller issues. Even in a council-manager system, the mayor (who is a primus inter pares council member) is more likely than member of Congress to have decisive power over any issue within their ambit.

(Also, being a small town mayor, or similar local officer, is not an uncommon way to build the infrastructure for becoming, say a state legislator. And that's a way to build the infrastructure for Congress, and that for Senate/Governorship, and that for the Presidency.)
there is truth in that but it does not cost 65 dollars to stock and deliver a sled.
Where in Switzerland are you? How long have you been there?
Should FreeBSD print a nice error message when it EFAULT's even the attempt to exec a program, any program, with argc==0?
> "don't use terms like 'market share' in internal communications"

Sounds like the training was teaching you how to avoid leaving an audit trail rather than how to prevent illegal activity.
longtermists, having noticed the skulls[1], have addressed these issues. they are most definitely concerned about extinction risks that happen on much shorter timeframes, quite possibly before humans break even 10 billion. second, op is criticising total utilitarianism. total utilitarianism does lead to longtermism, but it's not the only ethics that does, and there are longtermists who are not utilitarians. third, discounting money is not the same as discounting lives -- $1 was worth way more 100 years ago, but 1 life was not worth more then than 1 life is today.

about "the future is distant and we can't know anything about it", see e.g. this[2] post on the effective altruism forum.

> Possible misconception: “Trying to influence the far future is pointless because it is impossible to forecast that far.”

> My response: “Considering far future effects doesn’t necessarily require predicting what will happen in the far future.”

> [...]

> Nuclear war could feasibly happen tomorrow. Climate change is an ongoing phenomenon and catastrophic climate change could happen within decades. In The Precipice, Toby Ord places the probability of an existential catastrophe occuring within the next 100 years at 1 in 6, which is concerningly high.

> Ord is not in the business of forecasting events beyond a 100-year time horizon, nor does he have to be. These existential threats affect the far future on account of the persistence of their effects if they occur, but not on account of the fact that they might happen in the far future. Therefore whilst it is true that a claim has to be made about the far future, namely that we are unlikely to ever properly recover from existential catastrophes, this claim seems less strong than a claim that some particular event will happen in the far future.

i recommend op engage with some longer longtermist writings and try to understand the view from the inside. another poster mentioned toby ord's the precipice, but there is also plenty of material online. for example, i recommend this interview with carl shulman about extinction risk.[3]

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/07/yes-we-have-noticed-th...

[2] https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ocmEFL2uDSMzvwL8P/...

[3] https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/carl-shulman-common-...
Better to signal virtue than a lack of virtue.
Damn. I switched to OpenBSD a while back, glad I did.
Being passed over for command taught this Army officer to lead
The 4hr work week set me back years
I don't know what the requirements are, maybe you need to be open source non profit something, but by far the easiest-to-use alternative I've seen is

https://liberapay.com/ (imagine your bank or paypal were open source: https://github.com/liberapay/liberapay.com )

I am not affiliated in any way, but I funded K9 mail through this, F-Droid, Matrixdotorg, and presumably more projects in the future. It's so pain-free, just put in any amount, your details (IBAN, address), check the box to authorize the direct debit, done. No account needed, but you can check your history by "logging in" which just emails you a one-time login link.

It's also transparent about how much the beneficiary is already receiving, so it doesn't feel like you're all dumping money into a black hole with no idea if it's way too little or already a decent amount (and you can fund other things instead). I just wish more projects used it.
> Making sure hospitals aren't overwhelmed with COVID patients is the goal.

So fix the capacity issue and your problem is solved without toxic, corrosive and highly controversial government mandates with dubious efficacy. I mean, thus far they've had 2 years to fix the "overwhelmed with COVID patients" problem so we wouldn't have to do all this. At this point it's all just excuses. What gives?
In case others were as confused as i was about this

"While they’re often confused, Sold by Amazon and Fulfilled by Amazon are two different things.

With SBA, Amazon prices your products and owns any transactions that take place. When an item sells, they pass the proceeds on to you for allowing them to sell your product.

With FBA, you price your products and own the transactions. It is a service where Amazon handles the order fulfillment process for your products."

https://amzscout.net/blog/sold-by-amazon/
> This was obvious in the time when people that had the most rationale argument typically made decisions on how things should be.

Outside of a few brief moments in history where sanity broke out, this is usually not the case.

> Now we live in a time where people who make the most money make the decisions on how things should be.

This is the default. Substitute "have the most wealth" for "make the most money" and it's about perfect.
Can you cite a case where someone has been convicted under 22.05(a) for driving drunk on private property without actually having hit anyone? You can charge whatever you like, a prosecutor/grand jury can "indict a ham sandwich." Texas still has a sodomy law on the books too (although enforcing it has been stricken by supreme court).
Seems like you got a plan! How to avoid this situation in the future is also something I've talked about in therapy, and while I haven't reached a conclusion on that, a major takeaway from my session is that it's sometimes beneficial to not rationalize uncommon situations, as that can lead to self doubt and unnecessary guilt.

Even if we do get into a similar situation in the future, we'll be much better prepared to not only deal with it, but to identify it before it necessarily becomes a problem. To me that's the important bit.
Sort of: https://www.ssa.gov/dataexchange/eCBSV/

Reliant on that the citizen has a registered Social Security number and that you have the requisite information to do the lookup. However, currently you have to work with one of the designated partners as they have not opened it up to general access.
> government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth
Thank you. That's currently the plan :)