skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it can be tied to a death then the perpetrators should get life in prison with no chance of parole.
We are brains in vats. Bone vats. Supported by complex biomechanical, electrical, and chemical systems that convert food to chemical energy and filter waste for the brain.

So is the important part of the question whether reality is being modified by a man in the middle? You end up exactly where you are already, having to answer the same questions about where you are in Plato's cave, so unless you have evidence to think you're in a simulation, the simplest explanation is that there's no filter between you and reality except the limits of your senses and cognitive capacity.

This is the same argument about living in the matrix. You can't assume that the option of us not being brains in vats is available. You'd have to explain what a brain not in a vat would look like - something entirely made of computronium, in a configuration radically different than our hodgepodge evolved meat suits look like. It's more likely that we're simulated and tricked to think we have brains and bodies than for us to be physically different, and stuck in a Matrix all unaware.

I'll stick with the simplest explanation that satisfies all available evidence. We're all brains in bone vats riding around meat suits for adventure and exploration.
The price for high levels of consistency. This is why Apple doesn't have the obsolete remnants problem that Windows does.
Interesting. My Indian grandparents and g-grandparents appeared to have most or all of their teeth, and were a long lived bunch (all but one into their 90s). I can’t say conclusively all but I never noticed any gaps or problems, which is the kind of thing kids notice. The g-grandparents would all have been born in the 19th century.

My Australian grandmother had all her teeth pulled out when she was 12 and wore artificial teeth for the next 75 years.
Yes, my choice of car determined my smartphone choice. I decided I was more interested in the particular vehicle (Porsche Macan) than the particular smartphone (Pixel 5a vs iPhone 13). Both CarPlay and Android Auto are worlds better than the OEM head unit software crap I've found in any of the cars I've owned (Audi, Porsche, VW, Ford, Chevy, Kia) for both navigation and music/podcast listening. I was hesitant to switch, but I figured it was an easier choice to back out of than a car purchase. And six months later, I think I made the right choice. While I still would prefer Android, I'm ok enough with the iPhone that I'm not bothered day to day with it.

Apparently next year the Macan is getting Android Auto support, so people in the future won't need to make the choice. But I was in need of a car this year, so I had to make the choice.
> There isn’t surplus water in the Mississippi

Thus “pump water from the east coast into a tributary of the Mississippi”

The way these kind of projects work is to divert water at the border between multiple catchment basins. You might need to pump water up a minimal distance or even simply cut a channel at one end which lets you extract the same amount of water without negativity impacting anyones water rights.

As to pumping water up, users downstream of the Mississippi don’t care where their water comes from as long as they can get it. Thus you can now move water upstream on the western edge of the Mississippi to Nevada because that’s been offset but adding water to the eastern edge of the Mississippi catchment basin.

Of course the more water you want to move to Nevada the more complicated this gets. Also, it would be much more convenient to start from the Great Lakes than the east coast but the basic principle works.
I completely get it, and it is not a problem that is limited to the US, either. My parents are landlords in Canada and getting rid of a clearly negligent, possibly criminal, tenant is very difficult, time consuming, and expensive. I can absolutely understand where the landlords are coming from and the fear that they feel.
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Do modern skulls lose their teeth too? Do we find them in a little pile under the skull?
“According to an eight-state study, the insanity defense is used in less than 1% of all court cases and, when used, has only a 26% success rate. Of those cases that were successful, 90% of the defendants had been previously diagnosed with mental illness.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insanity_defense
Alphabet's robotics division, Intrinsic, acquires Vicarious
Ask HN: What are you using for a RSS Reader?
I am using FeedBro, it's a browser extension and it does not sync data yet. So I just export my subscriptions to a OPML file as a backup. It's free and has some nice features.

For other feeds I use iNoReader which is really packed with all kinds of features.

I was wondering what you all are using these days.
The Former Chancellor Who Became Putin’s Man in Germany
>This is why the type of disability activism you see in identity politics is usually limited to mental illnesses

You are using the term "mental illness" in a way that seems to exclude people for whom it is obviously a disability. These people are characterized by:

1. One or more hospitalizations that are not voluntary.

2. Diagnosis by medical professionals, not psychologists or oneself.

3. Having to take medications forever, at least in order to be employable or generally take care of themselves, that cause substantial long term effects including diabetes, brain damage, disfiguring tics and involuntary movements, recurring tumors, sudden death, and other problems.

The people you are thinking of, who act like it is possible to normalize and be open about mental illness, are, let's say "type A", while I have defined above what I'll call "type B".

I just want to call your attention to the fact that "type B" people are erased as much or more by "type A" as the visibly disabled that you acknowledge. You are inadvertently promoting that erasure.

"Type B" people bridge both worlds but can't talk about it normally. I do recognize the emotions regarding "type A". I recognize why they do what they do, and I see you embracing their compulsive erasure from existence of "type B".

The issue of productivity is difficult, if you think there is a right answer. If someone can work, at incredible cost, should they not take pride? Yeah, it's luck that I, or anyone, can work, but you wouldn't sneer at someone with an intellectual disability that was bagging groceries, would you?
yea it was just a cool project we tried! Not every useful at all
I think you are missing the point of the parent comment. Changing the assumptions doesn't just change how we predict black holes will behave, it should have impacts on other things that we can measure.
Yes they are free to edit the suggestions after the generation
> Still, SR followed from theories that were well proven empirically, and had obvious experiments that could falsify it.

Sure, my point is just that reasoning based on thought experiments, parsimony, etc., played a key role in its discovery.

> Well, I think here there is a difference between trying to work out consequences of an otherwise well-established theory (such as working out exactly how gravitational waves would look like in GR, or arguing based on Maxwell's equations) and trying to come up with a new theory that modifies existing ones (such as grand unification or some solutions to BHILP).

I agree, but this claim gets a bit far from what I take Hossenfelder's point to be (as does the UV catastrophe stuff). You and I both accept that certain theoretical activities are productive, even in the absence of empirical evidence (e.g. working out the consequences of a well-established theory). Hossenfelder's argument, as best I can tell from that blog post, implies that she does not accept these activities as worthwhile. I think there is an interesting conversation to be had about exactly where we should draw the line between worthwhile and not worthwhile theorizing when we don't have data forthcoming, and I think there's a good case to be made that the study of BHILP falls on the "not worthwhile" side of that line. But Hossenfelder doesn't make that case, or seem to admit any nuance: If there's no data, you're just "lost in math" and not doing productive work.
The vaccine was effective against the more dangerous Alpha and Delta variants, where we saw the unvaccinated overwhelming the hospitals.

The vaccine is not effective against the less dangerous Omicron variant, and the hospitals are not overwhelmed.
What problem does revoking an old covid test solve?
Betteridge's law applies. It's well understood that hominids experienced tooth decay throughout their evolution. Causes and contributors and rates over time may be up for debate, but the evidentially confirmed fact that our ancestors got cavities is settled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth_decay#History
I can't tell if this is just the LA one or other sites? I've been to the one in San Diego multiple times. Now I wonder...
Yeah where did phone calls go?

Just a couple of years ago the standard medium for a meeting was a conference phone call.

Just because it’s easy to always have a videoconference doesn’t mean that we should.
This seems like oddly-timed tax advice -- the filing deadline (without extensions) was Apr 18 and today is Apr 23.
You obviously first need to vectorize the Bible and generate the 4 billion plus word generalization of Biblespace
GNOME Feeds, frozen on the last GTK3 release. It's nice, but the browser engine is pretty bad (webkit-based) and I don't really agree with it's later design changes. Probably going to start looking for something new once it breaks.
Visiting Arizona made me never want to move to Arizona or Nee Mexico. The minute I got there a kind of depression set in. Just the color of the place. After awhile I realized it was because so little was growing, even compared to say somewhere like Wyoming.
The current Mexican government is trying to take control of elections, banana republic style, from the INE, the independent institution in charge of those. Our president is suggesting blockchain tech to make votes electronic, and defunding the INE since physical votes won't be needed anymore. A blockchain would not guarantee fair elections, is just a buzzword.
For google, it is mostly for fighting against random api abused usage in China apps. China apps can always find a new way to abuse apis that mean to enhance the user experience to tracking and data stealing.
Why does the author assume we _want_ the law to be well-defined? Law makers frequently don't actually know what they mean and it would simply take too long (and would be too fraught) to try and actually spell out what they mean.

This, however, is not a big--it's a strong advantage! Not only do they avoid the issue of painting themselves into a corner and needing to define what a chair is, but it allows the law to be flexible and react to both extraordinary circumstances as well as slow moving social shifts in the meaning of various terms. It does this by intentionally being vague and allowing issues (which happen rarely compared to non-issues!) to be raised and discussed in their actual, real context.

I understand the desire of software people to try and frame everything through a computational model. It's familiar to us, it's our domain after all! But not everything is a problem best solved computationally.
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Older games have reviews from outside of the app store, friends recommendations and brand awareness. Freshness is important to one category of user, older brands another.
The idea of an inverse cramer index assumes that cramer is always telling the "wrong" thing - that is, his predictions are inversely correlated with the truth (or outcome).

That's not what cramer's predictions are though - his predictions are likely not far off from a random flip of the coin. So an inverse is likely to perform just as well (or poorly) as the real prediction!
Also nobody mentions all the starchy stuff and the fruit our ancestors ate. It's just odd how people reinterpret the entire history of our species based on recent dietary fads.
https://www.amazon.com/Nutrition-Physical-Degeneration-Westo...
I use https://sumi.news because I like to read feeds grouped by day.
US (DoD) Greenlights Mobile Nuclear Micro-Reactor Pilot in Idaho
Arizona just happens to be upstream from California. That doesn't imply Phoenix or Scottsdale are sustainable.

Scottsdale's population is 268,000, and they use 63.2 million gallons per day. That's 235 gallons per day per person.

Californians average 85 gallons per day. Arizonans average about 100 gallons.

Anyway, the snowpack is increasingly a thing of the past, and so is the Colorado river. I'm guessing Phoenix and or Scottsdale will be mostly abandoned in the next few decades. California cities can at least desalinate.

References for the water usage stats:

http://scottsdaleaz.gov/Water

https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/scottsdale-az-po...

https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3611
It's like saying get a new car because the floor mats got dirty, and emacs is in fact a heavy and expensive life change just to edit a text file.
People click those titles and don't click other titles. No one cares that's it's not sufficiently uppity to satisfy the intellectual elite.
I’m guessing Snaps are great for what they were designed. IOT devices.

They are good for server installations as well, except Docker/containers are almost always a better solution. Although the auto updating features make it a good solution for potentially creating self hosted services.

They’re just a terrible fit for the desktop. Unsurprising because they were never designed for the desktop.
This is unscientific nonsense. Clove oil isn’t going to repair a hole in your tooth.
Often going to another dentist and getting a second opinion will "fix" your cavity, but give you a new one in a different tooth.
Mental illness is still widely used as a mitigating factor in sentencing, even if insanity is not plead.
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Ah yes. But you see, this time is different.
I have taken to using the dislike rating on stuff I have no intention of ever watching. I don't know if it helps yet. It might be fantastic for people who like the genre, but I'm now rating for myself rather than other people. Hopefully these metrics don't feed into any meaningful ratings systems.
My $10k Toyota Corolla has android auto. What happened?
I don’t think there are any distros that are pushing Flatpak as the ultimate solution the way Ubuntu is snaps.

Ubuntu’s aggressive approach with snaps would have been bad enough if snaps were the perfect desktop app solution. It’s a lot more frustrating considering snaps are probably the 3rd best new packaging option behind Flatpak sand appimage.
It’s a 100 year old book that is still required reading if you want to understand the subject of the article because Price visited existing healthy cultures around the world that had few cavities. He concluded that the shift from a nutrient dense diet to a nutrient poor diet (white flour and sugar) was the cause of cavities.
It is OK to use multiple apps to chat with your friends.
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My wife’s family was among the first American settlers in Oregon. She would take up arms to prevent Californians from getting any of Oregon’s water.
Chris makes some points which are interesting in their own right, particularly the one comparing the amount of research which has gone into tracing/copying gc vs rc. But I think there is an unmentioned bias which is worth pointing out. Tracing gc has found massive success in enterprise java applications, which:

- Need to scale in terms of code size and contributor count, and therefore need the modularity afforded by tracing gc

- Need to scale in terms of heap size, and are therefore more likely to run into the pathological fragmentation issues that come from non-compacting gc

- Need the higher throughput afforded by tracing gc

- Generally run on massive servers that have the cores, memory size, memory speed, power budget, and heat dissipation required to support high-quality tracing gc

Contrariwise, swift is a product of apple, a laptop and phone company, and is used to make laptop and phone apps which:

- Are unlikely to ever get really huge (people balk at large downloads)

- May have limited memory, and need to share it with other apps

- Run on battery-powered hardware with little or no active cooling, and so need to attempt to conserve power

No silver bullet, as they say. I implement APL, which absolutely cannot do without reference counting, except perhaps in some novel configurations. I think that for the more usual case of a pointer-chasing language, tracing gc is almost certainly the right choice.

Lastly, however, I would be remiss not to bring up bacon et al, 'A Unified Theory of Garbage Collection'[0], which notes that tracing gc and reference counting are not really opposed to one another, and that a sufficiently advanced implementation of either will approach the other. Lattner mentions barriers (though as a sibling mentions, barriers are an order of magnitude cheaper than reference count twiddling); on the other side of the coin, consider deferred reference counting, one-bit reference counts, ...

The bottom line being that memory management is _hard_, in all cases; a sufficiently robust and general solution will end up being rather complicated no matter what it does; and, again, there is no silver bullet.

0. https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse590p/05au/p50-b...
I’m in the same boat. I’ve eaten a lot of junk in my life (standard North American trash diet), and have never had a cavity or any serious dental issue in my life. I also get a cleaning every 6 months at the dentist. I’d be shocked if the likelihood of developing a cavity didn’t have a large genetic component.
This.

If Mozilla was so keen on snaps of their own accord why wouldn’t they be pushing other distros to also pack it up as a snap and/or Flatpak.
If interest rates went up 10% (hypothetical, I understand it won’t happen), what would the face value of an existing 10y bond be?
I only live about 25 miles from Boston and I don't have any idea what you mean here.
I think youtube-dl (and the somewhat popular fork yt-dlp) can do this.

You don't have to be an expert on "web stuffs" to benefit from it -- the very active communities around these tools are doing that research for you! -- but you do have to install software not through an app store, a skill that I hear quite a few people aren't picking up these days.

Despite the name, youtube-dl includes code to support downloading videos from hundreds of different web sites.
Small miners typically join a pool to smooth the variance.

Also, hash rate and reward value don't always correlate - mining difficulty can increase during periods of flat or declining coin price.
Right now it's trivially easy to fake a paper test cert or CDC vax card and no one can verify them at scale without QR/digital signatures.

If an authority was found to be issuing false test results then revoking the issuer's own signing cert by the next level authority, eg the state health department will solve that trust issue.
this is a really good benefit of RC codebase.

Resource management becomes much more harmonious and easy to follow.
25Gbps is not insane if you are using commodity hardware. If you are buying any sort of datacenter switch, most likely it will be 25G/100G already.
10G/40G is dead tech.

Now, 400G uplinks are still pretty reserved, but 100G (and its' breakout, 4 x 25G) is common as dirt now.
I am in Europe. Is there any way to purchase I-bonds or an ETF that is based on that?
Liferea on the desktop, smd_xml[0] for some web projects that parse, and PHP plus...simplexml? I think for some other desktop scripts. My desktop panel lights up in different ways depending on some RSS based genmon scripts. Some Python and Ruby in there too, somewhere.

0. https://stefdawson.com/sw/plugins/smd_xml

Edit: That was interesting, URL updated
That's quite awesome. It's like Dr Seuss.
'Algospeak' is changing our language in real time
There are always integration problems when you deviate from the standard.
Those are all mere suppositions that assume evidence which needs to actually be furnished for a proper debate. But aside from that:

1) is wishful thinking that may end up coming true, but is naturally not currently a position supported by science. I don't think this can be discussed much in a scientific context beyond basic stuff like calculating the magnitude of carbon sequestration needed, what such efforts would cost with current technology, and how many orders of magnitude cheaper future technology would have to be to provide a viable solution for the problem as it will exist by the time such technology is invented.

2) boils down to a question of the precision of climate forecasts, and there's certainly room for reasonable debate when framed that way. But given how many of the historical instances of weather/climate-related migration and adaptation came with immense humanitarian costs, you have to be really sure that global warming will be sufficiently slow-moving to not actually be catastrophic. I suspect the bulk of the evidence is against the proposition that global warming will be too slow to cause large-scale famine, or that rising sea levels will be too slow to cause major disruption to coastal cities. At the very least, it seems unjustified to be confident that climate change effects will never approach the scale of what something like a volcanic winter causes.

3) simply ignores the existence of political and corporate resources that are eager for climate change to be disproven. Opponents of climate change are both directly involved in the search for evidence against climate change, and indirectly pressure mainstream researchers to publish only their strongest, most defensible results. So it's quite hard to imagine how the mechanism of bias you point out could be strong enough to produce the net effect of a scientific consensus that greatly exaggerates the magnitude of climate change. This is a reasonable question to investigate, but the question itself does not provide any grounds for rejecting the available evidence for climate change. (This mechanism was able to preserve the wrong scientific consensus regarding the charge of the electron for only about three decades before it was overcome by new results.)

Obviously, none of this discussion is a good fit for Twitter.
If you read the article, you’ll see fruit is mentioned multiple times, including the frequency of its consumption. There is no mention of dietary fads.
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In NYC there were tons of "testing sites" on the street, many of which felt extremely sketchy. I took one, the administration was so sloppy I worried both about cross-contamination and that the swab was barely in my nose, also did not help the wind was blowing everything all over the street. We got no receipt or anything, then over a week later I got an email saying it was negative on the most bare-bones site you can imagine.

During this time they made multiple attempts to charge insurance totaling almost $1000 for various generic sounding services, none of which mentioned COVID.
I had this same experience in St. Louis. Visiting for work from international so needed a negative test before returning home. I went to a small place and it was an empty storefront with Covid test signs in the window. They took my data, promised PCR results in 48 hours (which were needed for international travel to my country at the time). They didn’t send anything until maybe a month later, much too late for my flight. Looked up the company and it was a Chicago company that fit a similar description to yours. Kind of sketchy and weird, ended up going to a national chain for one within the travel window.
Even if N95s or surgicals are only half effective, that’s half as many colds. That’s a win in my books.