skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But we're not debating whether the stat is misleading or not - I think pretty much every stat about COVID vaccines is misleading in various different subtle ways. The original claim in dispute was a factual statement about particular numbers along with a claim that only "conspiracists" could disagree this. But the claim has been wrong in the UK in the recent past, and this is not a matter of "conspiracies" but of published fact, therefore the claim is wrong and people should stop making it.

Re: out of date. I'll take your word for it on the UK data now, but it hardly matters. Here's one from today showing the same thing for Israel:

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/02/05/80-of-serious-covid-case...

"Professor Yaakov Jerris, the Director of a coronavirus ward in an Israeli hospital, has said between 70% and 80% of the serious cases in his hospital are vaccinated and that the vaccine has “no significance regarding severe illness”. Israel National News has the story."
After quitting full time job in 2000 I started with 1 hr but very low intensity. After 3 month I've lost all of my pounds and was able to go for however long I want. Like 200km bike ride.
From the headline, I was wondering if there was a way to speed up a rotten egg process? Like drill a tiny hole in it and leave it in the sun? Otherwise I’d have to wait weeks/months for it to rot depending on geo
I think the point that has the previous poster concerned is that you seem to be asserting that anything that requires capital allocation to perpetuate it's effectiveness as a disruptive protest isn't a protest. This thereby de-facto caps the effectiveness of any protest to something that can be quaintly noted and largely dismissed by the establishment.

This ultimately degenerates around the extremes, and I believe that is what the poster is concerned about; that your definition basically bakes in the assumption that any protest must necessarily be so minor in nature as to not overly disrupt, when in reality, the point of a truly effective protest is to disrupt.

Assume that somehow a fit of madness took hold of the Highest authorities in the land and sufficient agency to implement and enforce dicta in a resistable, but still a threatening degree to the nation as a whole. Assume quite literally the entire country except the perpetrators disagreed.

Now apply your rule. We've got a situation where literally everyone but the people wrecking things is ready to organize resistance. Your rule places the Authorities on a privileged position of presumptive legitimacy where none exists. Only token protests capable of being safely ignored due to transient nature and poor coordination will be tolerated. Anything (even peaceful in the extreme, literally being somewhere, taking up space, breathing air, and just existing), but requiring extensive/non-trivial logistics becomes an act against which force of law is "justifiable" to disperse.

Personally? I don't accept your view. If there are enough people that feel like their capital is best allocated making themselves a pain-in-the-ass to <authority of the week>, that's their perogative.

...Now, given, the cross-border jurisdictional complications in this case, I will give you this seems different because people in another nation are funding disruptive activity in yours. If it were only coming from domestic funders, that'd be one thing. The external funding elevates this to something else. However, this is a complication that has been long in coming to the forefront, and poses diplomatic questions currently above my paygrade.

However, I'm still more sympathetic to the protestors here in the same manner that I disagree with the Taft-Hartley Acts ban on organized secondary striking. Ultimately, I believe the People (for any unit Nation's definition thereof which is a completely different thing to kavetch about) are the ultimate authorities on what is legitimate, and what isn't. If they decide to fund something that the government, or even the rest of the populace doesn't like, ultimately, the vote of no confidence inherent in the action elevates their behavior to civil disobedience.

Which I am totally okay with.

Note: the implicit okay evaporates once people start getting violent, actually committing crimes (where said crimes are not transparently "stop being inconvenient" crimes, a la assault/battery/arson/murder/larceny/grand theft/kidnapping/property destruction).
If recent philosophy taught us anything it's that brains are special. The hard problem of consciousness shows science is insufficient to raise to the level of entitlement of humans, we're exceptions flying over the physical laws of nature, we have free will, first person POV, and other magical stuff like that. Or we have to believe in panpsychism or dualism, like in the middle ages. Anything to lift the human status.

Maybe we should start by "humans are the greatest thing ever" and then try to fit our world knowledge to that conclusion. We feel it right in our qualia that we are right, and qualia is ineffable.
> one of the standard test image (for early machine learning maybe?) was a woman in a suggestive pose (from Playboy or similar magazine if I remember correctly)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
https://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/09/02/iraq.weapons/inde...
I remember a large fraction of ads I saw on NYT for a couple years were like, "cognitive computing is here".

Nevermind that IBM calls everything it does cognitive, even basic bitch BI tools like Cognos.
Do they? Where'd you get that data from?

I'm sure actual gas masks would work, hopefully, but if you come up with a definition of "mask" that nobody actually uses and then claim mask mandates work, or even that masks work, then it's the same as admitting they don't really work.
I am about 1/4 done reading Chalmers’ new book “Reality+” and so far I like it. While I may dislike FB, I am a huge fan of Oculus VR gear, and I helped setup a VR lab at SAIC about 25 years ago, so I am a fan of the technology but not a current expert. I think that high quality immersive VR will be useful, lots of fun, and transformative - as long as it is used sparingly. For myself, I feel comfortable using one of my Oculus devices two or three times a day for about 5 or 6 minutes a session. Sometime, like when getting a new volume in the Star Wars Vader Immortal trilogy, my play sessions would be 30 minutes. My point is, good VR can be great, if used in moderation. I live about 75 meters from a national forest trailhead, and even a 10 minute walk in nature is a great way to round out a short VR session.

I am horrified, however, to think of people spending many hours at a time in VR or augmented reality. Nope.

Off topic, but even though I have only had one good talk with Chalmers in person, I feel some personal connection because he got his PhD with the same advisor as my friend Pei Wang, and he clashed professionally with my childhood friend Tony Brueckner (who, until he died, was chairman of the philosophy department at UCSB). I find that my enjoyment of reading books increases if I have met and talked with the author. This argues against the meta verse :-)
The title pretty much sums up the tone that can be expected from the article...
Both of those seem to insert their logo in the emails for the free tier.

I'd rather pay a little and get unmodified emails. Guess they all cater to marketers not personal use.
There's a simple way around that: any evidence found for crimes, can only be used to prosecute the original crime involving the law why the warrant was issued. Everyone else is offtopic, and therefore discarded. I know, there's parallel evidence, but the fact its possible doesn't mean such should be used.
How to chart/track issues/news/topics/mood/reliability around the world.

(Think globally)

How can we do the same locally - and provide help where we can - or individually where we think it is needed.

(Act locally)

TLDR
A Craigslist.org that is focused on a specific zip code.
Don’t let HR determine your career ambition
I switched back from the Magic Trackpad to an ergonomic mouse, because I got pretty bad carpal tunnel syndrome after a few months of usage.
> By your argument, you're okay with these sorts of requests for basically any crime. It seems to me that this kind of sweeping surveillance should only be used in extreme cases.

I’m not familiar with how police departments and prosecutors (or in this case, the FBI and the Justice Department) determine how much effort to put into solving any particular crime. I’m sure they wouldn’t put as much time into solving a misdemeanor as they would a felony, and that they would put even more time into a murder than a regular felony, but I doubt they would have very many rules about whether a specific type of warrant is reasonable for a specific type of crime.

I suspect that once federal investigators are involved, they probably take the position that it is an extreme case and any legal technique is justified.
Honestly indices starting from 1 fits really nicely in most situations. 1-based indexing together with ranges and inclusive range-based indexing makes loops and subsetting code really readable IMO
the premise is clearly correct, the implementation could certainly be more nuanced however.

Rather than a blanket ban on anonymous accounts, how about read only until you verify ID? Or perhaps some way to tar pitting posts based on the degree of authentication of the account?

This way you can retain anonymity on sign up, but incentivise celebrity by increasing reach
My cheap mandolin. Makes cutting things thin while cooking fast and fun, and isn’t dangerous if your fingers are connected to your brain.
It's a little bit embarrassing that they cannot handle umlauts (dropping them completely), considering that the most well-known beers come from Germany, which is known for having lots of umlauts in their names and stuff...
I can't believe how hard basic thermodynamics are... Why isn't any engineer, chemist or physicist asked to at least do some basic calculations if what they are attempting is possible or makes sense.

It's always fun with hyper loop to get to "vacuum" or even the calculations that how much whole thing costs and how many passengers it could serve if it were run 24/7...

And then the water from air devices... Which takes quite a lot of energy to get rid off...

Or the solar panels on road, the surface that we want to be pretty hard wearing...
He tests those as well, finds that they don’t actually do a staged release like that.
I'm ok with throwing a molotov cocktail at corporate/police property as a response to police killing people and getting away with it.

There are few "reasonable" options for redress or protest when the system itself is guilty and successfully sweeping nonviolent protest under the rug.

Those who feel more instinctive revulsion to intentional property damage than to injustice against human lives are part of the problem and must change. Property is never more important than human life.
My daughter is adult and being on my own since 2000 relieved me from wasting time on commute except occasional visit to client. The only obligation I have is to my wife and often we ride, hike etc together or with friends.
I agree with Galanwe, but

> [...] are often the mark of wannabe guru mid career engineers that have no clue what they are talking about.

is the "toxic" part.

At least he says "are often," as not to accuse the anonymous mid career Google engineer.
though at the same time, and in the same population, the existence of other planets full of conscious beings was basically non-controversial:

Life, as it exists on Earth in the form of men, animals and plants, is to be found, let us suppose in a high form in the solar and stellar regions.

Rather than think that so many stars and parts of the heavens are uninhabited and that this earth of ours alone is peopled—and that with beings perhaps of an inferior type—we will suppose that in every region there are inhabitants, differing in nature by rank and all owing their origin to God, who is the center and circumference of all stellar regions.

Of the inhabitants then of worlds other than our own we can know still less having no standards by which to appraise them.

Nicholas of Cusa, c1440; Cardinal and Bishop
what is the most popular type of beer there? in the states right now or atleast my state it seems like everything new on my local stores shelves is either an IPA or some type of heavily fruited sour. which isn't bad at all I'm just wondering about global beer trends
Because it’s literally too good to be true. Anyone would love to believe such a list will work, but measures like these will invariably become more problem than they’re worth. I bet that guy who got dragged out of the airplane some time ago would be on that list very quick. It’s a great list until you find yourself in it because you lost your patience with an attendant for being double booked. “Please calm down sir”.
Private schools. I went through a Challenger School in the US in the 80's, and that was pretty good. Specifically, they taught traditional phonics when California went to some ridiculous, untested nonsense (i.e., whole word method) because education academics have/had too much power to arbitrarily break education approaches and standards. Interestingly, the catchy "Hooked on Phonics" was a symptom of the widespread problem of the educational system failing students, not the students failing the system.

Climate change. Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). I frown on chemical and mechanical means because they can't scale inherently and would be very expensive. Farming oceanic life is likely the main answer to it, such as GM kelp or phytoplankton.
Why do you think that's more difficult than the backspace question? I see no reason to doubt AlphaCode can solve it.
Neuralink – Human Trials Explained
It's not like people can arbitrarily choose their own loss function; our drivers, needs and desires are what they are, you don't get to just redefine what makes you happy (otherwise clinical depression would not be a thing); they change over time and can be affected by various factors (things like heroin or brain injury can adjust your loss function) but it's not something within our conscious control. So I would not put that as a distinguishing factor between us and machines.
I feel similarly, IRC is better (to me) than the slack-like apps.

At first, the novelty of in-lining sections of the web felt magical, now I feel it raise my anxiety level.

IRC is to Slack-likes as a book is to a television.
Recently was given a 16” Intel MBP from 2019 for work after using my personal M1 Air for a few months and the damn Intel machine becomes warm simply by being on, idling away.

It’s kinda ridiculous that we put up with Intel for so long.
Why don’t you email this question to a researcher in the field?
It's FUD. So long as applications in any form can connect to an internet, people can route around The Internet. Gopher as an example shows that alternative protocols can be created outside the modern approach. Mesh networking as well.
I recommend a sub 1.0 strength. It will let you read a screen comfortably. They’re effectively a consumable for me, so I have pairs scattered throughout my house.
And many studies say the opposite, unfortunately studies are more or less junk. Non-profit research just isn't usefully reliable.

Fortunately we don't really need studies here. A study is an attempt to figure out what would happen if everyone were forced to wear masks, but we did that already. Mask mandates get added, removed and changed at different times even in places that are physically next to each other, allowing us to see what it means in reality - which is nothing. States, counties, cities next to each other that differed only in mask mandates have identical case curves.

This guy makes tons of graphs showing this:

https://ianmsc.substack.com/p/every-comparison-shows-masks-a...

If masks actually worked, this data shouldn't be possible. There'd have to be a clear difference in outcomes. For instance this debate doesn't come up with vaccines except in the form "the real world stats appear to show some effectiveness against hospitalization and death, but are they reliable/interprted correctly?". Whereas here there are no real world stats showing effectiveness, only a handful of worthless studies that invariably seem to have major methodological errors when examined.
I totally understand the joy of building something. I made a bunch of “sensor turns on an LED” projects, but nothing scratched my maker itch like building something I actively use everyday.
There's hope for rural areas under the iron grip of a single Internet provider.
> He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Having ascended Maslow's hierarchy to a certain level, you now have the luxury of ennui.
Is cross-compiling from Debian to Windows via mingw32 using WSL an option? This way you could keep Win32 desktops and (at least) have a build process which takes advantage of a shared ccache directory or http service.

(not an out-of-box solution, but perhaps useful in addition to what you already have, for checking basic build integrity,
for example)
For each person who punched a flight attendant I bet there are 5 on the list who didn’t come even close to that. The list itself can be used as a threat.
I agree GPT isn't grounded and it is a problem, but that's a weird point to argue against AlphaCode. AlphaCode is ground by actual code execution: its coding experience is no less real than people's.

AlphaGo is grounded because it experienced Go, and has a very good conception of what Go is. I similarly expect OpenAI's formal math effort to succeed. Doing math (e.g. choosing a problem and posing a conjecture) benefits from real world experience, but proving a theorem really doesn't. Writing a proof does, but it's a separate problem.

I think software engineering requires real world experience, but competitive programming probably doesn't.
I really wonder how many um, people, that buy these tests have been (implicitly) hornswoggled into thinking these gadgets are multiple-use devices. Or that these tests are intrinsically more accurate so will confirm a previous cheaper test.
I think I very much agree with your points and approach to parallelism.

> This applies to every data structure that can be defined algebraically.

Is this a mutually true? I’d expect this to hold for inductive algebraic data types but not co-inductive types?
It's rather dated but my dissertation is saved for posterity [0] and includes references and old Octave code.

[0] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R4mS_4vzf5mycQez76O_mmpQDpT...
This is a key behavior, without it the game is basically useless
At 17:05 he shows two possibilities left, ABBAS and ABYSS. In the actual implementation of Wordle, ABYSS is the only remaining possibility.

(I recommend his videos to my students, who love them!)

I don't know anyone who has actually read the Wordle JavaScript, but there are two word lists. The first list consists of more familiar words, ordered by date to provide secret words for each day. The second list consists of other words in alphabetical order that are also accepted as guesses. One reverse-engineers this code by figuring this out; one can experiment by resetting the computer clock to a new day.

The standard assumption in any analysis of Wordle as actually played is that we don't know what day it is. Otherwise, the game is deterministic.

Various of us have written code that agrees that SOARE is the best first guess using Shannon entropy for how Wordle is actually played (RAISE is close and easier to remember), and TARES is the best first guess for the most common misunderstanding for how Wordle is played. I don't recognize his first guess, so I don't recognize what he's doing.

There isn't actually any proof that Shannon entropy is mathematically optimal here. I searched the literature for a relevant theorem after getting annoyed that so many online approaches were improvised. The trouble is that five letter words have a fixed, known, lumpy distribution, an artifact of human choice. If the game randomized both the secret word and the word lists themselves, and one could query an oracle to measure bin sizes for each candidate guess, ... but that's cooking the conclusion. If one took a limit as word length went to infinity, with a regular definition of what constitutes a word, there would likely be an optimality proof. On the other hand, after choosing an objective function one could entirely solve this finite game, as some have done, and entropy doesn't even come up.

A refined variant on entropy that would be computationally feasible in cases where one can't solve completely would be to look ahead several steps. For each possible response to each first guess word (in practice one need only consider the strongest, and a partial search is nearly optimal as my Dad noticed programming JOTTO on Kodak's computers in the 1960s), find the optimal next guess using Shannon entropy. Now measure the entropy of the bins after both guesses, to value the first guess.
2 of the top-10 entries feature balls in their headings. Didn't age well.
I'm coming into it at 40 now that I'm far enough past divorce that I'm not an absolute wreck.

It is absolutely a shit show and was far far easier in my 20s.
Are you being truthful about the 24/7 horn blasting? I’ve seen reports on Twitter that the convoy stops horns at 10 PM because they’re not protesting the Canadian people/Ottawa citizens. Is there any video of the horns honking 24/7?
Facebook removes 'Convoy to DC 2022' group
First of all, you're 35 and have half a million dollars US? Congratulations, you won "Life on Earth". I'm seriously, that's pretty awesome and you should be pretty stoked about that (privately! Publicly be modest or at least fake it well.)

Also, 35 is not "getting old". Your time is not running out quite yet. If you live to be 70 you have another whole lifetime to work with, eh? If you live to 85 you have a half-century yet!

Secondably, what do you have faith in? I don't mean religion necessarily, but the search for meaning in life is something to attempt sooner rather than later. If you were having the same problem at 50 or 60 it's kinda late in the game.

Last but not least, try helping other people. It's very fulfilling.

- - - -

What you're going through is perfectly normal. I remember the day I woke up and nothing hurt and I was really happy about that, and then I thought, "I'm officially old now."
> crypto-signed government ID is attached to your every internet connection

No we need crypto-signed anonymous identifiers that establish a reputation over time. Weakness of online reputation is the problem, not the bots or spam.
A lot of the accounting in these things saying fossil fuels are subsidised in countries where they are not are pretty sketchy. It tends to be either that there is say a large tax on oil company profits but they can offset their costs in calculating profits and that gets called a subsidy. Or they figure the pollution costs are more than the tax levied and call that a subsidy. Straight subsidies of the government handing you money to burn stuff are pretty rare.
> Downvotes aren’t public, but they'll help inform us of the content people want to see.

God damnit YouTube, look what you started.