skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So gravity fluctuates, I think in the 70's it was a little stronger, but the force changes depending on where you are on the planet anyway.

Saying that, if we are 10,000 years into a Mass Extinction, how many more years before we can start gene editing to bring back extinct animals like the Dodo?

I dont think we are more than a decade or two away from that, plus we are also now able to grow meat. Sure we havent solved the nuclear radiation problem for energy, but fusion seems to be close, I think the longest experiment was China running a fusion experiment for just over 15minutes.

So are we at the point where some of us can now actually play God!?!
> and, yunno, a Flatpak

What's wrong with Flatpak? I've had fewer problems with flatpak than with AppImage personally.
A lot of my social circle is farmers or children of farmers, and they almost universally consider the farm to be "nature" or at least a close enough thing to nature. I think society just kinda decided that nature is "not city" and that attitude is holding back progress.
Maybe the real story is "DuckDuckGo Email Protection" [1]? I must've missed this one when it came out.

> Get a free, personal @duck.com email address. Emails sent to it will forward to your regular inbox, with creepy email trackers removed.

Totally genius! I fear there will be a cat-and-mouse-game but hopefully DDG will keep relatively up to date.

[1] https://www.spreadprivacy.com/introducing-email-protection-b...
A vestige of the old web. Now there will be tons of tracking and 20 MB of Javascript to download.
BLM has every right to “kick up dust” about police brutality. On the other hand, the police have a job they get paid way too much to do (just look at police budgets around the country!) so the least they could do is actually do it instead of acting like petulant children.
How is atypical defined? They are very rare for the COVID-19 vaccines.
I feel the same about TV series, I tend to value more and be more mindful of content that is released weekly, than released at once for for binging. Later, makes me loathe it

Paraphrasing you: Scarcity makes you value things more, sometimes in a good way.
It's just another protocol.
I have to ask, did you call the emergency line or the non-emergency line? Because if you called 911, I can completely understand them getting on your case about it not being an emergency, because it wasn't.
I still don't get why hacker news hates subscriptions so much. the NYT is always producing content so it has constant costs, everyone hates ads / they might now pay enough - so subs are the next best option?
Can you provide some numbers? How many texts? What are you currently paying?
Comparing vaccines to software is an analogy I find very nutrient-rich. Basically, it can illustrate many points pro and contra, depending on what direction you're coming from.

Pushing webapp code to master certainly won't result in rockets launch, if only because no sane person physically connects launching platform to build server ("no biological pathway"). On the other hand, deploying build artifacts carries much more risk. This risk is usually mitigated by extensive multi-level testing and appropriate live monitoring. In addition, the target environment for software is, at least theoretically, fully tractable. I.e. it can be de-constructed and understood to the very last bit. It is also fully human-made and controllable, without random nuclear reactors hooked up to web server. If such invariants cannot be established, I think it is not ethical for a senior software engineer to approve mandatory wide-scale deployment. Under such conditions the decision must be strictly on the owner of each server.

In case of vaccine we deal with infinite number of reasonably unique "environments" - human bodies. We know that each of these "environments" are absolutely capable of developing a million of adverse things like cancers, strokes, autoimmune diseases, etc. So, the "biological pathway" exist, the "rocket launchers" are there. Our understanding of inner workings of human body is very imperfect, as demonstrated by the fact that humans still suffer and die from all sorts of diseases. Our monitoring tools are very limited, and our analytical framework is just blunt statistics. The vaccine is, basically, a clever hack into a half-understood system. So, it is certainly up to the owner of the body to decide what to "deploy" into it. And disagreement or misunderstanding, in my opinion, is exactly around the concept "who really owns one's body".

The database analogy is also interesting, in that while the experimental writing code is gone, the database remains modified. In sufficiently complex and poorly understood system how can one guarantee that modified data doesn't cause any unhandled exceptions down the track, especially given the number of vulnerable third-party clients?
Yes. Glad to see the Japanese are reporting antiviral effects.
Yes this should just be a domestic data charge, of which I am an unlimited plan holder.

I made the call via FaceTime.
Hmm, alright. I feel like I understand where you are coming from, but I'm not sure you understand where I'm coming from. Yes, the original comment pointed out one word. But clearly there was more than just that one word that held the sentiment. It's like picking up a leaf from an oak tree and saying "it's an oak tree" and then you say "well, that was only one leaf".

Zooming out, and reading the abstract for a third time, I can clearly see the implicit bias. (I'm not saying people are wrong for how they feel, (I actually feel the same way) I'm just saying it's not science. Of course the rest of the paper may be a bunch of great science, but I, and others, are just asking to keep the emotion out of the lab.)
>Many intense arguments can be diffused by first being specific about what we agree upon.

Exactly. Whenever I have the inclination to get into an argument about politics, I try to start by finding a common premise, in order to find where the problems or disagreements start. And eventually, I find that we have similar goals where you wouldn't expect sometimes, but are coming at it from completely different sets of facts that guide us to different conclusions.
> Is ad stripping in DVRs considered a violation of copyright?

Why don't we ask TiVo?
spot on. i did a brief stint as a xendesktop admin. it’s quite good if you throw big hardware at it, but so many places were cheap and overprovisioned the piss out of their underlying ESXi hosts (or did no resource scoping because surely the folks in accounting that mostly use Excel have the same IO needs as developers compiling multi gig projects in .NET) and they absolutely were not paying for PCoIP and/or GPUs (which you really only needed if low latency VDIs were a necessity)
So, you think that the only people who's jobs are affected by this theft are those in the advertising industry?

I have news for you. Those jobs are not affected at all. Advertising isn't going away, ever. The channels change, but advertising survives. There's plenty pre-internet history on that.

The jobs that are affected are those from the sites that rely on ad income to pay for salaries and their costs. If 100% of internet users used ad-blocking millions of jobs would evaporate almost overnight.

I'll give you a simple example of this. A good friend of mine runs a nice little site where he and his wife provide valuable and well-researched nutritional information for pet owners. They work very hard to create their content. This site is their sole income. This is what they do to house and feed their kids, to have a life. Nearly 100% of their income is form advertising on their site. If they did not generate this income they would go bankrupt and likely lose everything.

Why do people like you think it is OK to steal their work product? I don't get it. How can anyone rationalize that. Once you get down to ground reality, it's theft.
I Will. I have the rep saying in writing this is what they do.

They also put up no resistance when I asked for a refund for $600.

And everywhere I look I see FaceTime is free for international calling.
>- it was not, under any circumstances, performant

It was performant enough for one of the most popular games of all time, Minecraft, which was originally a game in a Java applet.
It's worthwile to defend offensive speech, like the one in the tweet, because one day there will be a culture/balance shift and what is deemed "offensive" will change. We have to defend what people consider awful now, because they are the low hanging fruit that normalizes the behavior and makes it more palatable to go after less offensive speech later.

For the record, I did not downvote you.
Another tricky thing about pulsar observations is that the integration times are very short.

Obviously. You want the thousands to millions of beats per second.

With short exposure time, not many photons to grab. You need a bigger aperture.

Aericibo used to be a nice telescope for pulsars. Sigh...

China has a huge dish, sort of a next-gen Aericibo, the 500-meter FAST
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_...

At a conference in 2000 or 2001, they had a brief presentation where they noted that they have multiple such geological features that could be used to create such telescopes.

Interferometric arrays have so far been easier to build, I think because they have proven to be capable of more types of observation than single fixed dish, and therefore a better investment.

The NRAO can do long baseline observations that include large single dishes, although Areicibo was never able to do so; they used the Green Bank Telescope. Which is a monster.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bank_Telescope

https://greenbankobservatory.org/science/telescopes/gbt/

A dedicated VLBI array of FAST-class dishes would be mighty nice, though, and could spend many hours to gravity wave observations.
What if one of Jimmy Savile's victims had tweeted something similar before his crimes were known? He was well liked for a long time. Could they have been prosecuted?
> When knowledge increases, the web of things we know grows organically.

Most of the time you aren't trying to store arbitrary knowledge, but rather well defined information.
I don't believe I have dyslexia, but this happens to me.

My trick is that when I'm doing my final proofreading, I usually adjust the size of the window to reflow the text.
Even so shouldn't this then just be like watching Netflix or doing a zoom call? Ie, it’s just my unlimited data plan.

Them “detecting” it’s FaceTime and then billing for an international call seems sus.
I’ve been thinking a lot about this issue lately and can’t really figure out what the legal standard is. Has anyone in the US recently been convicted of a crime that is purely speech?
Wow. I guess this is why they put the First Amendment first.

How is what is "offensive" even defined, legally? Is it entirely up to the jury's interpretation, or are there characteristics that the jury is required to say that the speech has? They hint at this when they describe protected classes, but I don't know much about UK law.
Sure, you can clone it, but you'd be competing with the well-known brand that's free in somewhere between two weeks and two months. NYT bought a user base that might be into crosswords and spelling bee.
It's way too overpowered for most ICE conversion; so an even smaller and lighter one would be fine. Now where's the batteries...

Edit:"After 20 seconds, the figures drop to 134 hp and 184 lb-ft of torque.". That's more like it.
Correct. You have no idea what it means to respect someone's property and livelihood. Hence a creative interpretation that allows you to take while explicitly blocking their ability to generate revenue.
I meant detecting clean water, as opposed to water still washing dishes/dirt
> where crime is up like 30% year-over-year

> won't even send a cop out for less than a homicide any longer

You might have cause-and-effect backwards here.

Talk to an actual cop and you'll quickly learn how wrong your theory is.
Its not really a fallacy...you can just fire the the mean-tweet-enforcers and hire more other-crime-enforcers.

You are the one making assumptions that firing people doesn't exist as a concept.
How to be great at asking coding questions (2016)
And trash his job.
It's their choice to make the content available for free on the web.

It's your prerogative to view this content in whatever browser you want. Is using lynx also piracy? It doesn't show ads and it doesn't even have JavaScript. No it's just how the web works.

And content creators don't have a monopoly on our attention. Going to the toilet during an ad break on TV isn't piracy.

If his comment had been that using some plugin like bypass paywalls was piracy, he'd have more of a point IMO. I use that one too by the way but I'm not really against piracy anyway. Using an adblocker however is too far-fetched a link for me.

Ps not that I'd watch LTT anyway. He's not very technical at all. Most of his videos are basically ads themselves.
Why I’m using Nintendo Ring Fit to achieve my New Year’s resolution
Excellent question.

So I was driving across the country in MajikBus.co and stopped through NM.

Happened to match with a lady who had been there this fall and was planning to move back.

It was very serendipitous.

We had a lot of FaceTime calls for a month and then met up when she flew back.
> ...or stop accessing it

So you do acknowledge that continuing to access a website while blocking its ads is some kind of "moral wrong", no matter how minor?
> the only lasting thing the vaccines do is leave your body primed to react to certain proteins

That is of course the goal, and assumes nothing goes wrong in the manufacturing, transport, or delivery mechanism for the payload. But if they haven't been tested for long term adverse effects, how do we know this? And again the answer ends up being because we know how vaccines work and round and round we go.

But let's leave that and assume that it actually does verifiably only prime the immune system to react to certain proteins. Is that some small thing? Immune disorders can range from annoying to horrific, and they're all from just reacting to certain proteins.

> This could be a bad thing, but if it is 1. Anyone who naturally caught covid would also suffer the same consequences

This seems to be a hypothesis. The current vaccines are based on a modified little chunk of a now extinct(?) variant of the virus plus some novel packaging. That they should have the same effect on the body as the whole current or future dominant variant (edit:
entering the body via a different pathway) doesn't seem obviously true.

> you'd expect to see the issues as soon as the immune system was primed, this takes days to weeks, not months

Why? I'll use the same example again. If a tiny little tumor were formed, or would be formed over time as a result of some protein reaction that started right after being dosed, why would you expect it to be detectable immediately?

The specific mechanism isn't important, it's just the "we can't think of a way it could fail, therefore we dont need to verify this" is just impossible for me to get my head around.

Feel free to drop the conversation if this gets frustrating. I will continue to ask until I understand, and I may not get there. I'm actually enjoying this, but I know I'm weird and this drives some people nuts.

> Just because you don't understand the human body very well doesn't mean the medical establishment also has equally no clue.

Fair, but that's not my claim. I can be at 1, while the medical establishment is at 100, and actual understanding of what's going on in the body could be 10000. We do some black box testing and get some somewhat repeatable results. That's a pretty amazing feat, but still a far cry from really understanding what's going on under the hood.
Yes, I have added.
That is surely fixable.

I.e., there is no constitutional restriction against Congress assigning such a task to some agency. NASA might be best organized, of federal apparatus, to do the work, maybe under a future "General Aviation Revitalization Initiative" authorization, maybe letting contracts for actual development.

The problem to be overcome is that nobody private seems to be rich enough to jump through all the regulatory hoops to get a modern engine approved to build modern small aircraft around, no matter how much better one could be.

I don't know why a Cessna-size turboprop mill never got to market. Is periodic maintenance and inspection of turbines prohibitively expensive?
Option 4: lab leak.

Now, I don't know if there's any evidence for/against this. Most people don't understand how these things work. But, if you're going to write an article stating all hypotheses... You best state them all and then procede to arguing for/against each one. Not even acknowledging that omicron could be artificial is poor practice.

We've already been through this once yelling "bats!". I understand people needed comfort at that time, and I agree that talking about a lab leak at the start of the pandemic could cause people to point fingers instead of working together to solve the issue. But, we're not there anymore.

We need to list all theories and rigurously reject each incorrect one.
If they won't do their jobs then they should be fired.
A more accurate title would be "Backup Wordle": if you click on the settings button it says "backup-wordle". Besides, this is essentially someone who downloaded the (static!) Wordle webpage and then put it on a nice domain.
I buy power ball or mega millions tickets somewhat often. Like one at a time. The 10 minutes thinking about it after I buy it before I get to my office is plenty worth the $2.

The brain still has fun even knowing not going to win and just spent $2.
Can you explain in as much detail as possible why US constitutional law is relevant to this case?
Java applets downloaded over 56k and were run (not jit'ed) on pentium 2's. In other words if we took Java, replaced the standard library with an interface onto the browser, would we not end up with exactly the same thing? They're even both stack machines.

Happy to support an argument that removing Oracle's influence is worth reinventing an entire runtime for.
But FaceTime is always meant to be free for international calls. If both parties have an iPhone, it’s just an internet data useage.

Them charging me for where the data packets end up is nuts. Imagine if they did that for any other web based service.
If an organization has bad morale then it needs to change. It doesn't matter if the bad morale had some initial justification -- bad morale tends to be self-reinforcing. Even if the public now said very nice things about the police, it is unlikely that would improve the morale of the police. It's a bit like trying to pull a friend out of depression by saying nice things about them -- it doesn't work. A prolonged episode of bad morale also indicts the leadership -- such episodes are impossible without some official support. In the USA the model for turning things around is what the USA military managed to do in the ate 1970s, after the defeat in Vietnam. New leadership needs to be promoted, and the old leadership needs to be forced out. Then the rank-and-file must be given the choice, they can get their head in the game, or they can leave. That spirit of feeling sorry for oneself needs to are broken, and it can only be broken when top leadership is committed to breaking it. And at this point, police forces in the USA generally need the same kind of reforms that the USA military needed in the late 1970s. In particular, it was generally understood that the officer corp had been openly racist during the years of the Vietnam War, and after 1975 there was a growing commitment to transform the military into one of the most anti-racist organizations in the USA. This was achieved by the late 1980s, when the military transformed into an organization that then became the model for other Federal organizations that wanted to transform their internal cultures. That movement reached its apex General Colin Powell became the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1989 -- a moment which symbolized how much the military had transformed its culture. And now the USA police will need to under go the same transformation. To the extent that the police currently feel sorry for themselves, the current mood is entirely unsustainable.
one would think & hope small well designed motors would & could also be economical to build. there's probably intense process to produce these but how fancy do you need to get with 200kg of materials?

whether material or production costs dominate is an interesting question.
That's incorrect. F1 cars are primarily driven by their piston engines. They have a real transmission that drives the wheels from the driveshaft. Electric motors assist with power delivery from energy captured from kinetic motion, heat and exhaust pressure.

This is different from pure electric drivetrains like diesel-electric locomotives where the fuel is only used to generate electricity and all of the propulsion is by electric motors.
The amount of on-demand kids content these days makes this even trickier now. I frequently have to explain to my kids that no, I can't play that song again because this is the radio and we can't control what it plays.
As a kid my mom ran out of gas several times, and it was always on the same road, which had a gravel shoulder. We'd be riding along, she'd pull off into (what I call "the rocks"), the car would stop and she'd say "we're out of gas". Since the car was moving along fine before pulling off the road, and I had no concept of how cars worked, I made the connection that pulling into "the rocks" caused the car to run out of gas. After making that connection, I used to scream not to pull into the rocks when she ran out of gas. My parents eventually made the connection as to what I was thinking, and instead explaining how it worked used to tease me with it well into my adult years.
The “human-meaningful” point seems like a pretty moot point to the end-user in a browser. See also: the current trust the general browser user places in a lock symbol somewhere on screen.
I’d be surprised if they touch the WoW cash cow and make it free with Game Pass. It would be a bold move
I think most exploitable vulnerabilities live in the WebKit, so the outer UI matters less in this regard.

OTOH a number of sensitive things, such as TLS certificate handling, or custom extensions, is external to WebKit, and may be exploitable.

The chances an exploit would be developed especially for a narrow-niche browser like Fifth are pretty slim, though. Some security through utter obscurity.
Are you sure?

> Results: Of the 223,128 citizens of Itajaí considered for the study, a total of 159,561 subjects were included in the analysis: 113,845 (71.3%) regular ivermectin users and 45,716 (23.3%) non-users.

That reads to me like 160k people participated, and 113k optionally choose to take Ivermectin as prophylaxis.

Am I missing something ?
This system pushes the "not human friendly" parts into the initial setup of a trusted root zone. This also establishes chain of trust security. The fact this can be used to create nationally and corporately controlled root namespaces that ship with machines seems like a survival trait even if I don't personally like it.

After that initial non-human friendly+secure part, the ideal result is that it is secure+human friendly. The reality is that this is just as vulnerable to eventual implicit centralization like DNS has been. That just means things need to be hijacked by regulatory capture instead of hacking.
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You are mistaken, it just wants to spread more. Being a 2 times more deadly for being 100 times more transmissible would be not big tradeoff in evolution. It happened with delta, I can happen again.
The striking difference between me and them is that I am not aspired doing profound fundamental work, instead, I am just tinkering, flipping bits in quiet.
It has legal implications in Denmark. If it is officially no longer a threat to society, there is no basis for restrictions.