skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If your Grandpa chose to not get vaccinated and gets COVID, thats his problem.

Sure thing. Can we get the Grandpa's to sign documents saying they're going unvaccinated by choice and would like to opt-out from any hospital care related to COVID if their resources are needed for any other patient?
What was once the biggest NFT, Axie Infinity, has tanked. Today, for the first time, their Smooth Love Potion token fell below one cent, to US$0.009954. The peak was around $0.36 last summer. This is the one all those people in the Philippines were playing a grinding game to earn, and paying about US$1000 up front to get into the game.

Axie Infinity combined the worst features of a gig economy, multi-level marketing, and a Ponzi scheme.

The company responded by launching another token.
They were state of the art MAV Rapier machines, in mid 1970's. They didn't use shuttles, but instead had rapiers that transported the fibers across the weave.
I think the reason we sleep so long has a bit to do with our lack of predation. It might be more of an evolutionary accident than a necessity.

Cats are another Apex predator who sleep a lot, but the fact that they do it in naps is probably an evolutionary remnant of when they were not so apex. Primates have been apex for longer (?) and have longer been adapted to sleeping in trees away from predators.

I think you're on to something about energy. I suppose the longer an organism has the luxury of being able to spend in an energy-conservation mode, the more it will do so when evolved in an energy-intensive world. And maintenance/repair/consolidate modes will prefer to converge with these modes as that is a time when it is most safe to perform. So a long time spent sleeping is perhaps emergent in all apex predators who have energy-expensive biologies.

But the substrate / environment of life matters too. Aquatic creatures have shorter sleep cycles because the dangerous environment requires being alert at all times. Apex predators resort to strategies like sharks, who switch half their brain asleep while the other is awake, or whales, who sleep for only up to 30 minutes to maintain breath.

I think a silicone AI or other advanced life-form may evolve to spend similar amounts of time in maintenance mode depending on the energy economy of their environment, but they would do it at shorter timescales that would make competing with it impossible. And the level at which they could function in "sleep" mode would probably rival our awake mode by orders of magnitude.
My parents live in a moderately rural area outside of seattle, i live in seattle. The end of very first week of the lockdown my parents were able to acquire or had already had a few items I could not find in stores in the city. Primarily toilet paper, but a few other items as well.

So I drove over to their place and they leant me some stuff, we were all paranoid so they left the stuff in the garage, I drove up, waved to them on the porch and loaded up my car and headed home. I did need to stop and get gas before getting back on the freeway, at the gas station there was a little mini-mart. There were four people inside, none of them had a mask on. The gas station is next to a Denny's or similar, their dining room was closed but there were people waiting INSIDE and UNMASKED for takeout.

That's why we can't have nice things, even if your town/city collectively was pretty serious about lockdown, the next town over might not be and their citizens are coming into your community to work or whatever else. The only enforcement is the local sherif and if they are a crazy gimme liberty or gimme death type they aren't going to enforce shit.
It is endemic. Its everywhere. Its mutating.

Humanity has never stopped the spread of similar coronaviruses and even if we could the death rate/risk is not bad enough to justify the cost (this isnt smallpox/polio)

We have vaccines. They don’t stop you from getting it or transmitting it. They do lower probability of the vaccinated person getting severe/fatal covid. Clearly a personal health decision that should not be mandated (although I would encourage it)

Mask are of marginal help.
Mandates dont change actual behavior.

Life goes on. (Me: triple vaxxed and have had Covid 2x)
That would require them to dump JavaVM and rewrite everything except the kernel (and whatever parts are theirs but are not on JavaVM). And invent a new static programming language that is not GC-based and is not Go.

Also please, that should probably be done by a company that is not Google.
No. At some point you've got to ask if these measures are worth living for. It's winter in the northern hemisphere. It'd dark and it's cold.

Keeping people locked up at home for a third season is absurd.
> It just represents a general fatigue that a lot of people have with the anti vaxxers. That we have hard numbers that vaccines actually work seems to be irrelevant to them, so why maybe they would be convinced by snark and sarcasm instead?

and you think this is an experience unique to your viewpoint? do you think the people reading your words who have vaguely opposing views might not also be fatigued when your group flatly denies their concerns as irrelevant?

if you find yourself in an us-vs-them mindset and decide to ditch empathy, all you do is widen the divide.
> “87% of teens own an iPhone

Doesn't this imply that parents are the one purchasing it for them? Would be interesting to see how many stick with iPhone when they start earning for themselves.
It seems they have arrested some of the decline since Jony Ive left. The newest MacBook Pro has gone back to a formula that works well with processors that blow away the competition. Things are less rosy on the software side though.
Where in Florida is Triller relocating to exactly?
They also have 6 GW of pumped water storage and interconnects to countries with 20GW more, with 8TWh of storage in total.

https://www.hydropower.org/country-profiles/germany
I'm here to collect my free sex and drugs.
Ah this is exactly what I am looking for! I'll have to see if the free version will run in Wine.
Ya, I understand your concern, and I may change the license going forward if it causes too much confusion. The intent is that those use cases would be totally fine (unless 3rd party users are literally writing Hibiki HTML code). My intent is more of a temporary anti-cloud-poaching license because I intend to integrate Hibiki into my hosted internal tools platform - https://github.com/sawka/dashborg-go-sdk .
Like every odd numbered version of OS X? Leopard in particular.

(I will say one thing about leopard, I iinstalled a boot disk of it on an intel machine and I was able to boot an old ppc mini. That was impressive at the time)
Thanks! It is intimidating to build from the ground-up, but it has been worth it.

I'm not exactly sure how I want to integrate this into a more all-in-one solution. Once I check off some more immediate items on my to-do list I will try to figure out the best way to do that.
If you don’t want to contract it feel free to make whatever personal decisions you think will prevent it.

Don’t use your fear to control others and prevent them from making their own decisions.
“ this is all pie in the sky nonsense”

Nah, only the Neuralink part.
The trouble is I'm perfectly fine with the Huxlian distopia. Ship me off to an island of intellectual dissidents and give me some good drugs, I'm down for that world.

Kafka is the one who really got it right. I've never felt a more realistic depiction of my life than The Trial.
Nailed it.

Even in cars where there they do a bunch of gliding (rolling) batteries are just becoming plausible (looking back over time).
Requires subscription to Masterclass to view the series. Not much info in the linked post - https://www.masterclass.com/classes/terence-tao-teaches-math...
probably helps also to have a 1 in 100 million IQ too, but sounds like fun anyway. I am not sure how some of thee masterclasses are useful. Like the one by the astronaut . I don't plan on going into space anytime soon. Maybe Elon Musk would enjoy that one. No amount of videos will make even a typical PhD in math even as close to as good as him. It's 90% genes , 10% other factors.
If you read history, you quickly realize that this is what socialism always was, even back in the mid 1800's: A counter revolution against the capitalist emancipation of the world.
But don't forget that no matter the amount of taxes collected, politicians will find a way to spend more, so there will always be a deficit and more money will always have to be printed and whoever wants to reduce the deficit will be accused of "tightening" (ajustar) the Argentine people.

Argentina leads a ranking of world tax pressure:

https://www.ambito.com/economia/impuestos/la-argentina-lider...
Puppeteer has experimental Firefox support.

https://pptr.dev/#faq:~:text=What%20is%20the%20status%20of%2...
If you stick with one starting word, and that word is in the set of possible Wordle answers, then some day, one day, if you keep playing forever, you are guaranteed to get that magical 1/6.

This is not quite the same as the lottery-player's fear that they change their lucky numbers and then those numbers come up the next week... the lottery has no memory, so it really doesn't change your odds when you change your numbers. But Wordle's drawing words from a finite pool.

Of course, if your go-to starting word is NOT in the set (looking at YOU overly optimized people who play crazy words like STOAE that are almost certainly not in the answer set...) then by sticking with that you're guaranteeing you'll never do better than 2/6...
Currencies don't have inflation rates. Countries do.
If it's Windows, it doesn't actually use flags for those emojis, it renders a country code instead. If it wasn't supported you would just see the glyph for an unknown character.

The reason was because they didn't want to be caught up in any arguments about what flag to render for a country during any dispute, as with, e.g. the flag for Afghanistan after the Taliban took control.
True, but thats a % of a % of a % (ie Masks could prevent some % of COVID transmission at school, of some % of which would have be transmitted to other individuals in the home, of which some % of which would have required hospitalization), which makes it seem likely to be a high cost for not much reward.
I don't disagree, but my point is more than their concern was about having "too many characters" in Unicode, which no longer seems to be a real concern, so what would be the harm of adding national variants?
> why would bezos want this?

Easy answer: The Cantillon Effect [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cantillon#Monetary_the... ]

Whenever Central Banks print money, they don't load up helicopters and distribute the funds evenly among the populace. They work through close relationships with Primary Dealers. The money enters the system through asset purchases. But when banks' assets are replaced on their books with cash, they have to do something with that cash. What do they usually do? Buy other assets. Like corporate debt. Like stocks. Money is fungible, and unless there are specific regulations preventing it, the first place freshly printed money goes is to the banks. The second place it goes is whatever those banks buy. Think index funds. Think AMZN.

Even in open-market operations, the money still finds its way to AMZN. Example: The Fed pins the 2y-7y maturities down by buying in OMO. SOMEONE is selling. Usually, it's some sort of institutional fund with variable capital controls. With the TSY prices too high for their desk, they look for somewhere else to park their cash, like AMZN, or the SPY.

The first at the trough always wins. The second at the trough wins really big as well. Hacker News readers with their FAANG incomes, RSUs, and 401ks, are pretty big beneficiaries, too. The guy that raises your pastured free-range eggs, though? By the time he's buying coop materials and fencing, most of the purchasing power has already been sucked dry from Bezos and you.
there is a video about it. It's probably one of those things where it "teaches you how to think".
I find it kind of amazing that the justification for school mask mandates (which was once "keep kids from getting covid") has morphed into "we'll lower the load on hospitals if the kids keep their faces covered."

Can anyone imagine if we went back to 2020 and pitched this to parents? "Look, if your kid gets it, it will be similar in nature to a chest cold. It's somewhat more dangerous for the elderly. In order to keep doctors and nurses from getting burned out, the kids are all going to wear masks all day. Other than that, outside of school, we're all going to be pretty much getting back to normal."

I have lost track of what the goalposts are. I am starting to think that people just like the idea that children are suffering, it must mean that we're taking the whole thing seriously. As long as none of us are inconvenienced, right?
You can download the script and host it yourself, or serve it locally. I just put it on CloudFlare so it is easy if you don't want to host it yourself.

Totally understand the Tree Shaking problem, but the intent is not to use this for high performance consumer facing sites. More for just getting internal tools / prototypes written quickly without overhead / scaffolding.
IP-Link – Twelve years after
He was, because those stories and ideas, if widely known, would threaten the state built on the narrative of virtuous gods and deviations from that narrative would lead to worse outcomes for everyone.

Our state is built on the narratives of democracy and equality thus while those factors have ability to undermine the narrative (as we've seen in not so distant history) we have to censor them and do the research behind closed doors, otherwise we risk more damage than any possible benefit.
This plan would kill a large portion of immunocompromised people worldwide.
> Which is why indoor dining rooms should still be closed. Pretending we aren't living through a pandemic that is respiratory in nature is fucking madness. Maybe if we had locked down harder for longer and treated this thing seriously in the beginning we wouldn't be almost two years into this with no end in sight.

We aren't living through a pandemic anymore, we are now living in an endemic. Omicron isn't going away anytime soon - and we can't lock down businesses forever. Omicron can't be stopped by lockdown anyway (see challenges of containing it within China).

Secondly, it is highly unlikely that we would have got rid of Covid-19 even harsher lockdown measures earlier (e.g. see Omicron which happened because the original virus jumped to mice and back to humans - just humans locking down wouldn't have stopped this variant, we would have had to lock down all the rodents too).

My personal view - we have to stop viewing life as nothing but a vector for disease, and stop re-architecting our entire society and culture to avoid Covid infections (at huge societal costs to education, standards of living etc).
Apache Kafka 3.1 opens up data streaming for analytics
Right, "hopefully it isn't quite the case", but the article states that the FDA can't regulate the authenticity of the oil.

Like I'd be on board with banning the import of goods from companies that employ people that were principles at a business found to be adulterating food. Throw them out of the industry entirely the first time they get caught. Probably hard to enforce, but I'd be fine with that being the law.
I had an issue with Cash App recently and support just put me in a death-spiral so I looked up the phone numbers of some execs and texted them. At first they were helpful in escalating the issue, but then they terminated my account for contacting their employees outside the online support channel lol.
Unless I’m overlooking something, that paper doesn’t go into details, to say it extremely mildly. As far as I can tell, they only say “the first aerial space colony floats free and can be sold and inhabited”.

And as I said, the whole paper is highly optimistic. They’re suggesting huge space colonies (“the terraformed Venus is unlikely to be fully occupied until the population of the space colonies reaches ~3×10¹⁰”. That’s about four times the current population of earth)

I think I’m not alone in not seeing us put “several small space colonies” in the orbit of Venus and construct “a heavy orbital ring around Venus” ten years after we started planning.

I guess they extrapolated exponential growth of everything imaginable.
> as soon as you end up having an institution with the power to do something for a large number of people, you'll have power and corruption

Honest question: What would lead you to this conclusion?

I hear this sentiment often, but I've never understood how anyone could think so little of other people and (evidently) themselves.

It sounds like you're saying you can't even trust yourself to resist corruption in a position of power, which strikes me as pure cynicism.

Moreover, you seem to have made the assumption that factoring corruption out of government at a structural level is impossible. If that's the case, I think you're being unimaginative.
> ... astronomical.

Ha!
Kids are less at risk. That doesn't mean they aren't at risk. They can, and do, still catch Covid, even if they are less likely to suffer severe hospitalization.

On top of that, if they end up with long-covid or some other long-term complication from the Covid infection, they're quality of life is impacted for a far longer time. Some known long-covid complications include things like (potentially) permanent loss of smell or taste, reduced mental faculties, and organ damage. Would you sentence a child to a lifetime of being unable to taste their food for the rest of their lives just so they don't have to wear a mask for a tiny portion of their lives?

Also, adults seem to hate masks, but plenty of kids don't feel the same way. My oldest loves to accent his outfits with his cloth masks, and wears them over surgical or N95 masks now.

Who are they protecting? They're protecting each other and everyone around them. That could be a teacher who could catch a breakthrough case, a sibling or family member, and anyone they might come into close contact with. That also cascades. That vaccinated teacher who may have caught a break through case might infect their family causing a small outbreak in their home.

By wearing a mask, they're reducing risk, even if it might be a small amount. Those few percentage points could mean the difference between life and death for someone in their contact circle.
> Russia has publicly expressed regret that it did not get the wording in a treaty though it holds to the idea that assurances made outside of a legal framework are not worthless, whereas to an American legalistic mind it appears, they are.

Russia isn't even holding to an actual legal treaty about respecting the sovereign territorial integrity of Ukraine and you're exclusively pissed at Americans for assurances outside of a legal framework?
My point is that if you insinuate that anyone who holds that position is stupid through sarcasm and snarky comments, you are never going to hear those reasons, because no one will want to engage with you.
> since you have jet turbines strapped to your arms

So soldiers that use them would need guns strapped to their feet?
Apple doesn't stop you from installing open source iOS applications.

I do it all the time without having to go through the App Store.
I hate to break it to you, but that was decided a long time ago, and we all agree to live by the biases of the majority.

You don't want child porn on television at 7pm, do you?
If anyone has any feedback please do let me know? Looking to build out the multi platform sync very soon which will be where the tools really becomes super helpful.
It wasn't I, but this has been an absolute plague on an organization I work with. There are only 3 people, and we all have need to access some accounts but they are personal accounts. Also, the boss travels a lot, often to international destinations. Every time he flies I can almost guarantee we'll face some new nightmare. The worst is "we noticed something is a tiny bit different with you but we won't tell you what it is. We've emailed you a code to the email account that you are also locked out of because something is a tiny bit different with you. Also we're putting a flag on your account so it raises holy hell the next 36 times you log in."
May I ask how old you are?

From where I am, a "selfish" lifestyle of video games and porn replacing responsibility does not seem to be healthy long-term.

I'm in my late 20s now, and the guys I know who are not working towards getting married and starting a family are pretty much all starting to experience some sort of constant existential anxiety.
If you're using Python, check out grapheme: https://github.com/alvinlindstam/grapheme
Yes, that’s how much internet communication works.
What are the bots goals? Curious
Define "no significant number."

And we aren't going to get anywhere in this discussion if your only rebuttal is "the leader of a country using it voluntarily is a dictator so that settles it." Do you have a rebuttal to my point at all?
> It's 90% genes , 10% other factors.

Do you have evidence to support these numbers, or the more general claim of genetic supremacy?
Yes. Down with with the Big Apparel
this is an excellent point

Sort of tangent, but the fact that Block Protocol is also managing the distribution of the resulting UI components, unlike Solid which encouraged people to consume the data independently through an API, makes it more accessible.
A recent thread went around twitter discussing the need for artificial wombs to address the inequality between men and women. Huxley is the first place my mind went.

https://twitter.com/molly0xfff/status/1483831201823703041?s=...
All or nothing though, eh? :P

But seriously I see your point, but would the cost (economic, social, environmental) of developing a launch tech that could get the mass out of the atmosphere without rockets, heading towards the sun, not be be worth it? The amount of applications for that would be insane.
How is spent fuel buried deep into bedrock "enormous risk"? I've read your thread and I still fail to see how this is anything but hyperbole. Even in the event of a container breach, the waste is buried under hundreds of meters of bedrock. What is the threat model for how this waste results in harm to society?

Even if this uranium were somehow brought to the surface and dumped it into drinking water supplies, it would be detected. Drinking water is monitored for uranium, because naturally occurring uranium in grounder is sometimes above safe limits.
Orwell is more oppression that is done to us. Huxley is more oppression that we go along with doing to ourselves. So far, it's more Huxley.
Probably most. And not even primarily because of inertia: for the average person, even the technically inclined person, there's really not much of a reason at all to move away from an iPhone. It just works, it almost always just works, it has the best build quality and fit/finish/polish, it's supported for many years, and you always know you're basically getting the best hardware.

And it's not Google.