skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why parents choose private school, or “good schools.” It’s a proxy for controlling your kids’ social circle. Mine are too young to go anywhere without me, but when I was growing up my parents insisting on personally meeting anyone I’d hang out with alone. They discouraged going to other kids’ houses and would insist on having get together at our house where they could keep an eye on us.

Going back a generation, my dad—who grew up in a village in Bangladesh—noted that other men in the village would notice him during his several mile long walk to school. If he did anything out of sorts word would have gotten back to his father.
> A lot of it is just straight-up fraud. Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz has documented this in some detail.

Alexandros Marinos provides a counterpoint [1]

> Reading the article, I was surprised (but not really) by the central role Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz (henceforth GidMK as is his much shorter Twitter handle) had played in the analysis. The man has a way to apparate wherever a person of influence takes a position on ivermectin. This is at least the third time I’ve observed the same sequence of events.

> ...

> I wanted to avoid focusing on GidMK himself, but the way the analysis comes out, this won’t be possible. I’ll try to keep things as dispassionate as possible without being fake, but I beseech the reader to understand that this isn’t your standard “Ad Hominem” argument. If Scott’s analysis depends on his trust on GidMK, it is paramount that I demonstrate that GidMK’s track record is not one deserving of that trust.

> ...

> I have to also note that GidMK is highly conscious of his feed, and is probably applying some automated means of blocking anyone supporting opposing views to his. Not only has he blocked me on Twitter, he seems to have blocked a double-digit percentage of my followers, many of which were not aware of the block until I asked them to check. My best hypothesis is that anyone “liking” anything I posted opposing his positions would automatically get blocked.

There is more I could excerpt, but probably better to read the whole thing.

1. https://doyourownresearch.substack.com/p/a-conflict-of-blurr...
From the link in another comment about the EU ruling it didn't sound like the issue was that users couldn't distinguish ads from emails. It was that the EU has decided that if the ads appear in the inbox then they count as direct marketing, which must be opted into.

I don't see how the inline option is objectively worse for most users. If I had to have ads in my email client I'd definitely prefer inline. My normal email already includes things I don't normally read so I'm already skimming the inbox to select what to read and discarding the rest. Ignoring ads would be no different than ignoring the other things I ignore. Unless they went totally overboard on the number of ads all it would do would mean maybe a little bit more scrolling on average to get through the inbox.

Having a separate ad section would be a lot more distracting and would likely reduce the space available for displaying the messages that I do read.
except... it isn't? that's literally not what socialism or collectivism is. socialism is just the idea that "wealth" (or any substitute, like lego) should be owned by the community, and rules that bind that community should be made by a consensus of the members.
In reality in most of the world, that's simply untrue. To most people, the concept of "standard tipping" is absurd.
I don't think there is an official style convention, but there are popular style guides; for example, this one [1] is using the same style for variable naming. I do use all lowercase for most of my other Lua projects, but I thought camelCase could work better for this one.

[1] https://github.com/Olivine-Labs/lua-style-guide#variables
Good call! I like that even more than what I did, will make the change
No ofc not. Who knows who is reading this. I fly under the radar and I like it that way
citation? I'm reading:

- Leaked data of the donations on GiveSendGo showed Canadians raised $4.31 million for the Freedom Convoy while Americans donated $3.62 million.

- Americans, however, accounted 56 per cent of the donor base while Canadians made up only 29 per cent of all donors
>(which is objectively "worse" for most users, but good for bottom line)

Do inline ads really make that much more money? I would have thought advertisers would pay more for bold in-your-face banners over subtle grey text somewhere.
If you OR the incident are in or involves US individuals or firms, US CERT would be a likely reporting point:

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/forms/report

You might want to reach out to the EFF (info@eff.org), or researchers such as Brian Krebs (contact form at https://krebsonsecurity.com/about/) or Troy Hunt (HaveIBeenPwnd, contact page including email: https://www.troyhunt.com/contact/).

It might also be wise to get personal and/or legal counsel to cover procedures and speak for you, which they can do without necessarily incriminating you.

Phil Venables is CISO Google Cloud:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/philvenables

https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/20055418
Say what you want about fossil fuels, but constant fossilization of Carbon from the atmosphere to under the earths surface is not sustainable.

Carbon is a building block of life... and for the few billion years life has been around, we've been losing atmospheric carbon to fossilization because it is being trapped as oranic matter under the earths surface. There are no good natural processes to release it back to the atmosphere consistently. The "carbon-cycle" is net negative over longer periods.

In the 4 billion years that life has been around, no other species has even come close to doing this very important work of bringing dormant carbon back into circulation... and if history is any indication, if something happens to us, it may be another billions of years before something like this happens... or never.

If there is a "Gaia", humans using as much fossil fuels over a long period is the ONE thing it wants. To ensure long-term sustainabilty of life, we should be building self-assembling and reproducing autonomous robots to dig out carbon as a contingency plan in case humans dissappear or lose this ability... or what is much more likely that we're are no longer interested because some other energy sources become cheaper.

It is lunacy to keep repeating the CleanTech era marketing material. Corporations and governments which have no future in oil have or have huge investments in alternate energy will try to vilify cabon and shut it down. But it is important for intellectuals to take the longer view and remember how important digging out trapped carbon is for long-term sustainability of life.
No. The strike into Central Ukraine isn't going to happen for many many reasons. The point is to be able to quickly encircle the Donbass forces, similar to August 2014 at Illovaysk, only at
several orders of magnitude larger scale. Giving Ukrainian readiness this time and their large army, that encircling if it happens would basically be cutting whole Eastern Ukraine out.
You clearly read your own bias into the article, because nothing about it rises to the 90% hype angle you're pushing.
"reflecting on things that you've learned is indoctrination, actually"
The subtitle is enough to indicate that the article is going to be trash.
Millions Tune in to Watch Pilots Land in London as Storm Eunice Rages Across Eur
Good point! I was mainly thinking of the desert of southern Utah and neighboring states, the subject of the book I quoted, and with which I have personal experience. That region is not free from its own human-caused environmental issues of course, but my understanding is that they are mainly different from the particular problems resulting in desertification in Oregon.

I guess a general point that may be worth making is that it's often useful to think in terms of protecting fragile ecosystems, be they desert or the victim of desertification.
I didn’t read that entire document, but the parts I read actually seemed quite good. I think there are some perspectives there where it’s easy to have a knee-jerk reaction against it, but on closer inspection what they’re saying makes a lot of sense.
The fact that you can compute y = f(x) doesn't imply you already know x = f⁻¹(y).
Probably true when they donated money. Certainly not true when they put up posters or claimed to support things. Fraudsters cloaking themselves in the names of things is pretty common throughout hot button political issues, although sometimes it's fraud and sometimes it's unintentionally mismanaging money. I mean, the trucker thing in Canada raised millions of dollars, and while some of it has not been transferred because of the apparent fraud, only $1 million was only ever planned to be spent on the trucker thing and the other $7 million was destined for the organizer's bank account.

In general, there are no trademarks on social movements, and it's a tough problem.
Having volunteered at a wolf sanctuary and interacted with a few of the human-friendly ones, they are as skittish as startled deer.

Toss a deer leg in the pen and they run for the back fence.

Not all though. Some of the “lower ranked” ones realized what was happening and took the opportunity to grab food they usually would have to wait for.
That points to a major issue of the criminal justice system. You should be clear after your sentence and have repaid your debt to society. If society wants to send people to correctional facilities for life for things like theft or drug charges, then it should be honest and do that.
Why on earth would you use this when Thunderbird is available?
It’s basically the inverse of the US system.

In the US, unless they have a solid case and offer a plea bargain, you’re better off not talking to cops and staying silent until they give up. In Japan, once you know they have somewhat of a case, you’re better off making it easy for the police and immediately apologizing. They mostly just drag people who don’t comply and haven’t really learned their lesson (it’s assumed you won’t be dumb enough to make the same mistake twice).

Most first time drug cases end with an apology, crying, and being let go. Americans make the mistake of thinking not talking will help, so police hold them until they do. It can help in bigger crimes, though, since if the evidence is hard to prove, they’ll just hold you for a while and hope you’ll confess, but if not, often let you go instead of risk losing at a trial.
Add to that being the only developed country with no universal healthcare and even healthcare becomes something the poor have little to no access to (with the added pressure of almost no labor rights - where I live the very notion of missing a day's pay because I went to the doctor would cause a riot).
This makes sense and, although I didn't include it in my comment, the buoyancy was part of my curiosity. While it's clever to take advantage of the buoyancy created by the air cavity, if they're nearly-buoyant that would also mean that the variability in traffic would create a significantly variable (as a percentage) load. I wonder how this is accounted for.

For the record, I don't think I'm "gotcha-ing" the engineers by thinking of these questions. I'm sure there have been answer to these questions since before the project began, it's just that I would like to know the answers.

They also must have a way to seal off segments in case of a water breach? Although, that seems awful given there will be human traffic in the tunnel
I don't think so. In my experience, kids are more collectivist than the average adult.
Some years ago I worked at a startup that was doing OCR on paper receipts. As part of my application to the company, I wrote a synthetic training data generator[0] to generate a range of CG receipts, along with pixel-perfect accuracy of labeled XY bounding boxes for each letter. Generating synthetic training data allows for a high degree of flexibility to the shape of your data. It allows you to focus on strengthening edge cases where you just don't have enough real world data.

0. https://www.arwmoffat.com/work/synthetic-training-data
This group is called Predator Catchers Indianapolis. Here's their Facebook page - they seem like an incredibly unprofessional outfit.

https://www.facebook.com/PredatorCatchersIndianapolis/

It sounds like they pose as minors and look for sketchy men to try to set up meets with them. Here's a news article with this quote from a female predator catcher,

> “Basically, I brought you out here ‘cause we know who you are, I’m definitely not 14, you’ve definitely been talking to a decoy,” the woman said while walking with Boyer into the nearby parking lot.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/02/25/indian...

More on their process (and even more detail in the article):

> Here's how it works: Members of these groups create fake, "decoy" dating or social media profiles and, once connected with someone, share their decoy age. The conversation either ends or continues and eventually becomes sexual, Spain and Schmutte said, at which point they'll agree to meet, only to reveal their true identities and confront the person while streaming on Facebook Live.

> Austin Spain looks at his Facebook Messenger inbox on his phone Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. He has two decoy pages that he uses in his search for sexual predators online.
> For Spain, it's as easy as creating decoy Facebook pages using photos of adult female friends who he said have given him permission to use their images. One decoy page reviewed by IndyStar shows a young woman who says she's a student at a Bedford high school who likes reading. There's nothing outwardly provocative about the page.

> Spain doesn't send friend requests, he said, nor does he initiate conversations. He lets the requests come to him. When he spoke to IndyStar on Jan. 22, Spain said one of his decoy pages had around 900 pending friend requests. Typically, he sorts through requests and messages, deleting those that are obviously fake or out-of-state. Then, it's just a matter of responding to that first message.

----

To me the people running these groups seem very narcissistic. I have no doubt they think they're doing a good thing, but I am never in favour of vigilante justice.
Do not make a second Microsoft account, it'll just end in frustration.

Story: I have two Minecraft accounts (I used to do plugin work and it made testing easier to have an alt.).

I migrated my main one to my MS account (one that's been in use with xbox and O365 for a decade+ at this point), no problem.

I migrated the second one to a new account a few weeks back after they pushed that it'll be mandatory after 10th March; usied a gmail address for the new MS account because I'm done dealing with outlook.

It all worked, for a week....
I'm now locked out of that second account, with them demanding a mobile number to "verify" it's me...

I haven't had the energy to go yell at them yet. It's the same bullshit I hear happens with twitter accounts where they also demand a mobile number.

The truth is I think my "primary" account has my mobile number already attached... and I'm scared that I'll lose access to that as well if I try to use it to unstick my second account, getting "auto-banned" in much the same way they described my second account (which ONLY ever got used to login to Minecraft) for suspicious automatically detected activity and violation of TOS.
It's not that dramatic. They can't do much with just the reg key.
You mean it’s not relevant to mention economics in a discussion about children who invented an economy?
I hadn't heard about Works in Progress before, but looks like incredibly well researched content. Pretty stark difference between the writing and what you see on something like sfgate.com or cnn.com.

I find it pretty awesome that the Stripe is successful enough to start branching out from core product into founder hobby areas. The cynical perspective is that this is not core to the product, but I find it kind of beautiful that the founders can do a bit of what is personally interesting to them with their company.

This reminds me of another incredible resource for deep learning articles: https://distill.pub/, which unfortunately looks like is going silent.
Yes. Do it. People won't look down on your for the stupid mistakes you make in college.

You sound rather mature for you age, and I think you're overthinking it a bit. You sound more like a 30 year old trying to decide if FB/Meta will last more than 5 years when in reality you just need it for a few months.
>We end up knowing less than we should and get less than we deserve.

Speak for yourself.

When I program it's to get things done, I need to read a text file. Auto complete me a solution.

C# would be impossible without an IDE. Maybe you can write something in JavaScript, but any language with a large standard library is impossible sans IDE
When I was in Cuba, the official maximum salary you could earn(e.g as a doctor or teacher or baseball player) was something like $20. People from the party earned more than $3000 through outside deals.

I had also been in Norway that people call socialist but is actually quite capitalistic.

Most socialists have an idealization of what collectivism "should be". They compare "real capitalism"(an implementation of capitalism in reality) against an ideal socialism that have never existed and never will on the real world.

It is only in their minds. Don't tell them about Venezuela or Cuba, China or URSS because they were not the real thing of course.

But they don't admit that Capitalism could also be ideal and perfect.
You are right that the study simply isn't powered to detect a decrease in mortality, even if it is there! That said, if true, a 70% reduction in mortality would still be of significant benefit.

You are right that this study doesn't change the picture. It is is just another underpowered study showing a large but statistically insignificant reduction in mortality. Yes, Paxlovid is almost certainly better.

That said, I would like to understand the efficacy of ivermectin with an appropriately powered and designed study. I hope ACTIV-6 reports out this year and used a reasonable treatment dose and timing comparable to Paxlovid.
> are the result of colonization

Is that supported by science or made-up?
Says you. Some of us believe that sharing and taking turns is a social obligation -- not a generosity -- necessary to living in a functioning society.

Even more of us believe that a small minority should not be allowed to hoard all resources for themselves while others have nothing.
I'll echo that, having had exactly the same experience in 2018. We stand out almost everywhere - I'm Caucasian with a rugby player's build, and my partner is tall and very obviously East Asian. Yet there was no heckling, no scams, no soliciting for bribes, at most there was friendly interest when interacting with locals. I fully expected to need grifter repellent from time to time, and but it was not so. So I'll also pipe up for Jordan.

I know it's not a perfect country, but to us it felt safe, in the way that some other nations don't, and we weren't confining ourselves to the usual tourist spots of Amman, Petra, and Wadi Rum, but also wandering further afield besides. Yet I've felt more at risk in parts of Europe, Russia, and China.

I just checked some global indexes and was not surprised to find that Jordan ranks #1 for literacy and medicine in the region, despite being one of the nations without oil revenue. In my experience it carried itself with the patina of both storied history and modern education.
Sean Campbell is black. That doesn't stop you from being called a racist for criticizing BLM; but it certainly helps.
Very cool, In Norway they are considering creating a floating tunnel that is held up with giant floating bois tederet to the ground because some places the sea is just to deep and steep. Anyway here is a video, dunno about current status: https://youtu.be/Gt1MDQHLjF8?t=26
Seems like they could have solved the problem by never retaining any state. After you are done playing with legos it goes back in the box, and anyone can use it again.
That intent to be "backwards compatible with C" doesn't stretch so far as to say, provide any way to spell valid symbols from C.

Imagine you have some C that has (for whatever reason) named two important functions "class" and "fn" which are completely reasonable C symbol names. In C++ that word "class" is reserved, so you can't name symbols class, but, that is what the C symbol's name is so too bad? However in Rust, even though fn is a reserved word there's no problem referring to that symbol, you just have to spell it r#fn meaning "the symbol named fn" as distinct from the keyword fn.
In the NYC area off the top of my head there's been the Tappan Zee bridge, the East Side Access project bringing the Long Island Rail Road into Grand Central Terminal, and 2nd Ave Subway Phase 2. Penn Station Access is being discussed, as is the Triboro RX line.

ETA: If you're curious NYC has a dashboard of capital projects >$25 million here: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/capitalprojects/dashboard/dashboar.... I think the complaint that we don't build anything in this country anymore is sometimes overstated.
But a better analogy would be if an AI generated a computer game that another computer can learn to play.

In the end, it’s more like an anonymization layer than anything. If a computer is trained to generate input data for other computers to train with, there’s not a lot special going on.
> What's the use of just saying it's not a thing? Make a point.

My point is that your anecdata is garbage. Older folks saying young people don't know how to communicate is a centuries old trope.

Most people can communicate just fine. Given that you are citing people flaking, one might assume that the traits you're applying to an entire generation of individuals may just be your shitty friends. Little bubbles at the top of reddit don't matter either.

Congrats on finally being old enough to start blaming the younger generations. Here's your tropey millennial participation trophy.

Many people aren't good at phone calls. You know why? Because they don't talk on the phone.
except the children made the system. they decided on the rules that would apply to them. there is no "system" beyond their own agreement!
Dating apps are an artificial environment that's inherently unfavorable to the majority of men with less readily-apparent advantages. Meet women as friends in more social environments and this is not going to be an issue.
The article ends with the ban being lifted.
yeah, it's a habit I picked up on usenet! useful for sites that manage quoted text awkwardly.
I must admit that I have only read the first book in the Dune series. I've heard that the first is by far the best of the series, and my reading list is long enough as it is, but I shall consider reading more of the series.

Anyway, my point was more about ecological conservation in general, and not much about Dune in particular.
theres a lot of wasted effort in the games we play to make software work in prod.
Would that not be cached? It would not actually run that date command again, right? unless you change that date line itself, in the Dockerfile.