skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1984 could have turned into billions if allowed. A billion-strong movement does not appear fully formed out of the blue.

Also, you ignored the Gwangju one which had an entire city of hundreds of thousands. Or should I mention Hong Kong? At least that failed more peacefully.

I think you're not understanding what it means to live in a regime that tries to police your thoughts. Supporting it means nothing because it's the only way to survive.

As for reconcillation, I say: give them a real voice without fear of prosecution. It's not the case in China today.

The failure in Afghanistan is an example of jumping to conclusions and shortcuts in thinking, just like the grandparent did. I don't know how you managed to equate being thoughtful with invading though.
> Original research or are you repeating the well-known debunked tripe despite knowing better?

No, I'm looking at pp. 42 and 44 of the report you linked to.

> If you look at the raw sum without considering the subgroups, your number is confounded by the fact that the vast majority of the deaths are in people 80+, who are also vaccinated at a higher rate than the general population.

Actually, the figures I gave for percentages of new hospitalizations and deaths were for people 80+. (I had misread the tables thinking that that row was totals.) You are correct that the vaccination percentages for this age group are higher than for the general population, but they're still about the same as the percentages of new hospitalizations and deaths for this population.

I have not tried to check the rates given in table 14 based on the numbers in the previous tables.

> Another confound is that we really don't know the number of unvaccinated people.

The report you linked to seems to be pretty confident in the percentages it gives of vaccinated people. That implies that the UK government believes it has accurate counts of the total population (or at least accurate enough that any uncertainty in the count doesn't significantly affect the rates they are showing).
Very cool project. I love the fact that you did it in a weekend.
That’s true, along with countless other pleasures which aren’t literal poison. So at some point many of us just stick to the healthy pleasures that make life worth living.
Nope, for some reason I use Dvorak on mobile, but no where else.
> Sorry, I didn't mean brute force as in DDOS, but as in brute forcing passwords.

That's super easy to avoid. Use strong passwords.

Heat death of the universe will arrive before anything brute forces a 30 character password generated off /dev/random

I don't have any of my users (just family) set their email passwords, those are generated to be strong. These are not passwords that need to be seen or remembered by anyone, they just go into the IMAP client config.
A lot of these projects seem to utilize append-only data structures. It looks like this one doesn't?

For example let's say I set of a chat room, and someone spams multiple GBs of data into a channel, can my moderators (in principle) remove those messages without essentially just publishing a new message saying "please ignore all this spam"?

How do you deal with "network splits", that is a smart contract that could have two equally valid states?

You say you use contracts as the key in a key-value store, can you have the same contract with two different data sets? Like two different chat rooms that work the same way but which have different moderators and different message histories?
If the plugins used the same parser as the compiler this wouldn't be an issue?
I learned emacs lisp around 15 years ago - his tutorials were essential. The way he remains prolific is amazing.
The Big Nerd Ranch. Omg how this brings back nostalgia. I drove (at the time) 20 hours to Georgia to a remote location and spent an intensive heads down week coding and not sleeping. The whole team was quite memorable.
This is a very simple case. There is no nuance. People who regularly speed are mad that this will make them face the consequences for their habit of breaking the law. If they want to chance the law to make speeding suggestions instead of speeding limits they should do that. But outside that they are plainly and simply wrong in everything.

comparing this to stasi is comically stupid. It’s nothing like that. And people have been able to report you for breaking the law all along. This app is just helping collect the evidence and facilitate the process to a point where the cops won’t throw out the case without any action straight off.
What is the worst thing of all, the US, the one country who could actually maybe lead something like that maybe has the worst possible regulatory standard.

The US literally hard coded PWR reactor standards into the regulatory framework. Doing anything else is essentially impossible outside a few niches. That is why a number of companies re-located to Canada.

In the US you basically need to give them a design (100+ million investment), lots of money (nobody knows how much) and an unspecified amount of time (great to tell an investor) and then they will tell you what you need to do so they would consider licensing the design. And then you would actually have to go threw that licensing process.

And people are wondering why there are no GenIV designs.

You can't even do a prove of concept reactor for less money to prove the design. SpaceX basically does that with NASA, they show tests rather then doing more paperwork. You can do a university style research reactor but that really not enough to prototype a serious commercial reactor. To do a prototype you would have to go threw the full process above, that is why most reactor companies go from design directly to product.

The Western world should have been a nuclear society since the 80s.
Which parts are they going to hit 200mph on? I have driven extensively on 8, 10, and 40 into and out of California, and I can't recall a path that doesn't transit the North American Cordillera: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Cordillera

On 8 heading out of San Diego, you go from sea level to 4000 feet, down to (IIRC) 3000, and then back up to 4000 before going back down to sea level. Once over the Arizona border, you pretty quickly go from sea level up to about 2000 feet.

40 goes through Flagstaff, the elevation of which is almost 7000 feet. Albuquerque is at 5000 feet.

So, where in the world do you find HSR that transits not one, but three or four 4000 foot passes?
Shaark: Self-hosted platform to share your links, posts, passwords and pictures
Yes, I remember last time I posted something on the internet that disagreed with what corporate media was saying and then the secret police came to beat me and warn me that my family members may disappear.
> I don’t care if you don’t use Shortcut.

I never said whether I was or wasn't using Shortcut.

> Use Linear instead, for example, since apparently

I never said whether or not I was looking for an alternative

> don’t pretend like JIRA is the only reasonable option

I never said anything about JIRA except in the following context: "If you <make things complicated>, you've failed. In exactly the same ways that Jira fails at this task." And you are the one who actually mentioned JIRA first.

So how about: you stop pretending I said or implied something I never did?
I mean this in the kindest possible way: take your antipsychotics.
With a modern firmware or maybe software you can map capslock to be escape when tapped and control when held. I hear this is nice for vi, and it’s also nice for emacs since escape can serve as meta.

I’m going to try that with the key left of space, since it feels completely obvious that the thumb is the natural best finger for modifier keys.
Services that only provide disposable addresses get blocked. iCloud is too big to block.
"Corporations are people, my friend" - Mitt Romney
Depends what type of project you have. If you're on the next-gen, team-managed project, that was written from the ground up so is supposed to be faster.
Something I feel like is missing with both Synapse and Dendrite is some kind of tuning guide or config generator based resource availability/usage.

There are a ton of values to tweak which impact the server and room sizes you can federate with, I’ve never been able to figure out how to come up with sane values to set those that also allow joining common, larger community rooms like #matrix:matrix.org

I haven’t tried in a while so it’s possible that I missed something but for someone trying to set up a homeserver, even someone technical, it can be confusing and intimidating.
Citation very much needed here. This is nuke bashing.
I see your point. So your saying people should not be allowed to own phones, because they can take pictures of others breaking the law.
I'm doing it the other way around, which is slightly less work because you don't have to create new email addresses explicitly: Catch-all by default, with a recipient blocklist as part of smtpd_relay_restrictions that I update whenever some service gets breached.
Huh, hadn't heard about Proton buying Simple Login.
I'm not sure how to feel about that. I really like SimpleLogin, but Proton always felt kind of "icky" for lack of a better word. Guess we'll see.
I hate how most swipe keyboards don't support swiping with multiple fingers at once. It's such a convenient feature that they always seem to be missing.

e.g. To type "apples" you swipe from a to p with one finger, then put your other finger on l, then move your first finger to e, then move your second finger to s. While it might sound confusing having two swipes going on at the same time, it's pretty easy once you get the hang of it.
Nobody is too old especially if you code to build your own product. It's never been easier for a single programmer to bring a product to market.
This was a very interesting clarification, but I don't get the last part. Why would Boeing be nobility?
1) Amtrak isn't light rail. It definitely doesn't smell like piss.

2) Your characterization of light rail does not remotely resemble the reality my partner and I have experienced in the Boston area. We have yet to ride in a rail car that "smells like piss". It's fast, safe, and inexpensive. We do not have to worry about enduring property damage to our private vehicles, or injury from other drivers. I suspect our experience is not unusual among MBTA riders; per the 2015-17 MBTA Systemwide Passenger Survey [1], 70% of subway riders have access to one or more cars and 82% hold a valid drivers license.

[1] https://www.ctps.org/dv/mbtasurvey2018/index.html
More generally, the idea that people really should be on the communications grid has been normalized in a lot of circles. I see a fair number of people, including here, rather uncomfortable about the fact that someone may not always be able to reach you or that you may not be able to call for help.

(Of course, if you talk about government VIPs, satellite/staff mostly does provide an always on-call ability. And for others, there are increasingly reasonable satellite options available as well.)
The trick he mentions he used where he issues a floating-point divide for perspective correction followed by integer instructions allegedly killed Cyrix. Carmack figured out for Quake that the original Intel Pentium could execute a floating point divide in parallel with integer instructions and exploited it. Without that trick Quake produced a disappointing frame rate. The Cyrix 686 CPU was generally faster than the Pentium but the FPU didn't work like that which meant it couldn't play Quake very well.
In 1985 you could say “homosexuality is a disease and all gay should be locked up” and you wouldn’t have to be too worried about your employment. Today you can say “I’m gay” and don’t have to worry about being fired for it. I like today’s freedom of expression better.
I don't know if this is totally related to the question, but I think in a near future will be more and more common to have 4G, 5G, or 6G in your devices (not only phone and tablets, but also laptops and desktops computers) instead of using cable, fibre or others and a router.

I don't know in the US, but in most parts of Europe we have reached such levels of speed and low ping that in not too much time it would be more clever and cheaper to ISPs to have more towers than wired solutions.
@dang
Can I know why this post got flagged? I'm really curious as to which community guidelines were violated.
China isn't dealing with the same situation because Sinovac isn't as good, they haven't purchased a large stockpile of reputable western vaccines, and so the value proposition of forcing everyone to vaccinate isn't as strong.
Covid is becoming increasingly vaccine enabled
No, he’s not saying that.

I interpreted it as saying, for him, as soon as he hears one of those words, the conversation is over.

Which… sounds like… if not heresy, then taboo?
As far as I know, the UK is about the only country that's made this work reasonably well, and that's with pretty much all routes double-tracked or quad-track for the major ones, and much less freight rail than the US and worse passenger rail than Europe.
This is a great statistical breakdown of covid infection rates using the official statistics. Some quotes:

"those with 3 doses are now all between 2.6X and 4.91X the risk of contracting covid."

"no one looks protected from infection, all look like they have been made far more vulnerable."

"and this risk ratio enhancement looks to be accelerating upward."

"having been “inoculated” with these mRNA and adenovirus products could wind up generating a long-term syndrome in which those whose immune systems were altered cannot generate immunity to the evolving covid pathogens that take advantage of their non-adaptive immune responses"

"even the folks i know who were still saying “thank goodness i got boosted it made my second time catching covid milder than it would have been!” are not going to be OK getting it a third time (as many vaccinated seem to be starting to be) and the fact that this is not happening to the unjabbed will get noticed, esp in the US. there is still a significant control group. "

--

There seems to be even worse state of affairs in New Zealand, where:

"Double-Injected Have SIX TIMES the Infection Rate of the Uninjected in New Zealand — Government Data"

from https://anti-empire.com/double-injected-have-six-times-the-i...
> People bring up `unsafe` Rust as an argument against the language

Those people usually don't understand what `unsafe` is.
The problem is that it virtually never goes away, keeps building up in the environment, and results in ever greater levels of toxicity over time.
> Many transit agencies in the US, including the one in Boston, are planning electrified rail (as they're aware of the benefits as well) but are unable to construct it right now (and likely the next 10 years) due to funding and ownership issues.

Boston's MBTA owns its tracks (generally all the way to the state border), so ownership isn't the issue. Instead, it's been an issue of opposition to electrification. Ex: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/07/23/massachusetts-...

I'm not completely up-to-date on this, though -- has it gotten better in the last couple years?
So you agree that the issue of heresy is a problem, but instead of addressing the actual issue, you are more interested in knowing which team PG is in, in the ongoing pattern of treating politics like team sports.
Why deliberately avoid enforcing design constraints? I mean, why not just make everything a void * and cast as needed and promise not to mess up?
I swear, teuxdeux is the most laconic and functional planner I've ever tried and it looks stunning. I'm so happy I found this comment, thanks @jeffkeen
Austrian Leader Nehammer to Meet Putin in Moscow After Kyiv Trip
Except that's not how patents are used in the 21st century. Patents are generally written to be as broad in scope as possible while disclosing as little as possible information on how to get said invention to work (if the grantee has actually figured out that part at all). Registering and successfully defending a patent is extremely expensive and patent lawsuits are usually won by the party with the most legal resources, so arguments that it protects small "garden shed" inventors are largely fantasy.
There's a lot of hubris in ML!
I do a simplified version of this. I just use a catchall account with Fastmail and then pick email addresses in the domain randomly. If someone abuses the address, I block it. I specifically do not use addresses that make it obvious what my strategy is. I end up just using a name and number that would look right at home on gmail.

I'm also not trying to stop tracking, so much as I'm trying to have my own semi-permanent equivalent to mailinator that nobody will recognize as such, that I can use to cut back on the amount of spam I get.
From what I skimmed over, looks like another word to describe traditional blogs. Seems like an alternative to Hugo, Ghost or Wordpress.
Another fraught heresy, which I'm about to commit, is that men and women are intrinsically different (in aggregate, on average, blah blah blah) and thus if you swap the genders in your story, it is a genuinely different story. Granted, I can't say that I have positive regard for older women who sleep with teenagers, though I'm glad you didn't garner any trauma from it, but my personal experiences lead me to have a very negative opinion of older men who sleep with teenagers. Maybe it'd be different if that weren't a highly stigmatized thing to do, but currently the selection effects are such that 99% of them are scumbags. For the same reasons that counterculture groups have a higher-than-average incidence of rapists (anecdotally, I admit) — when you gather a bunch of people willing to transgress societal norms together, well, said transgression continues.

> The reason pg didn’t dare mention any specific heresies is because you can’t mention examples without immediately making the conversation about that, and not the bigger question of why so many opinions need to be so closely guarded now, when they didn’t need to be before.

I just proved your point, didn't I? :P
My dog has made the same realization. He's figured out if he knocks something that makes a lot of noise I'll come running to find out what is going on.

One of my cats is a whole another level though. Yesterday I saw he'd figured out that he can hold a Tupperware container between his front paws and then use his teeth to pry the lid off. Jerk!
I’ve got an absolutely bonkers idea: add two or three passenger cars to the freight trains

Edit: Not sure why I’m being downvoted. This was a thing for a long time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_train
>If available and priced attractively

i'm thinking the same. the game that i play now is either wow or hearthstone which isn't very graphic intensive. i think this card if price cheaply can be use for casual gaming and workstation (maybe?)
I'm confused by what you are saying here. Corporations have always been totalitarian in their decision making. How often have you heard from your boss "this isn't a democracy" when they make a decision that's unpopular among the employees?

The more interesting dynamic to me is the free-market, anti-regulation, low-corporate-tax capitalist politicians arguing we should create regulations to make the market less free.
Some may call this “the industrial revolution and it’s consequences”… These people are entirely dependent on technology and social structures that they have no control over. Unfortunately, that’s true for everyone in the countryside too unless they want to live with Stone Age farming tools. Could you sustain yourself if your town had to recreate the metal supply chain? Energy? Probably not. I don’t think you’re much better off in the long run. You can’t sustain your own lifestyle either.
If I were to guess: advertising.

It would essentially kill the business model of any offline app with relies on advertising to function as soon as regular people learn that turning off network access means they keep their app and also don't get advertising.
I've never seen a pulpit or a town square in the city I live in. Have you?
Well, it could also be the case that everything is working as designed, and that they gave your address to someone else who did have a data breach or is themselves sending the phishing emails.
Yup, but assuming these spammers want to keep their lists of leaked emails fresh, it’s kind of silly that they’re so unconcerned about it: they’re very much helping to expose their suppliers. I feel that they must realize that can’t be good, but maybe I overestimate them.
My Grandma, the Urban Farmer (2012)
And your whole comment ignores the fact that government subsidized those rail lines under the condition that the companies run passenger rail.
They failed to do so, and government gave them a free pass. Government should have stripped them of their rights due to breach of contract
It may surprise you to hear that they set cookies (perhaps only for the 'essential' ones) before you grant consent. Check the dev tools of your browser next time you get one of those banners and see what's already lurking.
It will never be over. It may now be endemic, i.e., steadily circulating and flaring up regularly in the population.
The only thing that seems to have changed in that screenshot is that the word "STOP" is not printed in red. Otherwise it's the same message I've recalled seeing for years.

Discord also has a similar message in their console.
Indeed, some would. Would you? Note that you reflexively express your position by reference to a putative consensus.
I'm in the lockdown in Shanghai, feel free to ask me any questions. Things you read on the internet is mostly true (but may be exaggerated):

Life: Yes we can only buy food through WeChat groups to organise wholesale deliveries (2000 eggs, 200 cabbages minimum order) on hiked prices, but it's easier than you might think; No one has died from starvation (yet), but there had been a few cases of death due to not getting medical help in time; The city's resources are stretched - it's a city with 25m population.

Work: I'm still working 12 hour days online (we're a design & project management firm). I get to wake up 10 minutes before a morning meeting and be in my pajamas the whole day.

So on a personal level, life isn't that miserable. But it's definitely a very difficult time to the elderly and the ill.

Will I (or anyone in my shoes) leave China permanently because of this? I guess not, even though I have the means to do it. There are harder problems to solve in life than feeling terrified by a lockdown.
Ok, so what if a platform was owned by just one person... it would be totally fine for that one person to refuse to allow certain people to post their thoughts on it?

If you accept that, then what about a company that is owned by two people? Or three? Ten? 100?

How many people have to own a company before the owners are no longer allowed to decide who they allow to use their platform to espouse their views?
> Swap the genders in the above story, and it’d be a firestorm. Everyone would gleefully watch you burn.

It could still be a net positive for the teenager, even though it was an extremely inappropriate/problematic relationship.
> I still use Evernote for scanned documents

In my opinion, that is Evernote's one and only killer feature.
Not using IRC/Matrix though is a weird choice, libera.chat is a pretty "standard" choice for decentralized open source projects.
They'd probably try to rely on legitimate interest rather than consent, but it would depend to a large extent on how personalised and automated the messages were.
I must have been tricked by this and repeated this more than a few times, no idea where I first heard it. Or am I being tricked by _this_ authoritative sounding post? I don't know which one, but I know this for certain: I'm being duped one way or another!
To answer your question: the sun doesn’t shine at night, that’s why we can’t do solar only (without enough energy storage to get us through the night).