skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just out of interest, why should the burden of proof be the way round you've framed it?

"independently verifiable incontrovertible evidence of a show-stopping problem" seems a fairly high bar.

The risks from COVID have been fairly well understood for a while now, if you're young and healthy and have no comorbidities the risk of dying from it is quite simply vanishingly small:

https://qcovid.org

EDIT: so a hypothetical 19 year old unvaccinated me has a 1 in 1,000,000 risk of dying after catching COVID according to that University of Oxford model.
Would that pet peeve be regarding British publications using British English? https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/short-sightedness/
Amazing - that makes https://www.lingscars.com/ look organised
> where a single set of components does all sorts of things, switching function millions times per second. Of course you cannot analyze it using biological methods, no organisms work like that!

uh, what do you think the brain does ..? does it have a magic special place cell for every place you’ve ever remembered being? (no)
Google's AI doesn't understand restaurant menus
> If you mean the mental/emotional state necessary for a human to act without regard for consequences of their actions to other people, then computers are not ruthless.

I don't understand, what am I missing?

I've never seen a computer have any regard for the consequences of its decisions. Computers are thus completely ruthless.
if this were true then BBC would know I'm not watching from UK.
Mapping the impact of war in Ukraine on the world’s food supply – interactive
Relevant old British comedy sketch:

https://youtu.be/56yN2zHtofM

Skip to 1:35
Rain is a good thing
Yeah, the big mistake was going cold turkey. I tricked myself because there have been days where I missed a dose and it wasn't that bad, and that was how my first day of abstinence went. But the days afterward were pretty brutal. I've never experienced any other kind of drug withdrawal so I can't say how it compares, but I definitely wasn't feeling anywhere close to my best. Using decaf sounds like a good idea for the future.
Remotely mind-controlled metasurface via brainwaves
Previously discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13825078 but seems that it was worth a repost.
I was told reading was my problem too...except I was only nearsighted in one eye. My right eye couldn't focus clearly past the length of my arm, but my left one had no trouble at all. For years, I wore a plain lens for the left eye, and when I was old enough, switched to wearing only one contact lens.

They confirmed it wasn't that I was reading only with my right eye, and it's obviously not like my eyes got different amounts of sunlight, given that they go everywhere together, so I've always been suspicious that that was a lazy answer.
You claimed American society was in ruins. You have failed to support that claim.
> 60W would be some 10 LED lights that each are 100W equivalents to old glow lights. That would probably already do the trick in a small room.

Not really, daylight is not 10 times but much more brighter than a 100w incandescent lamp, such illumination (e.g. it has certain uses to help seasonal depression) exists but it's very bright compared to normal indoors lighting.

The old 100w lamps were ~1600 lumens; outdoors daylight is something like 10k lumens/square meter in shade (direct sunlight would be another order of magnitude more), and an appropriate number for the surfaces of a small room would be in the ballpark of 100 of such LEDs so 600w of electricity.
Feel free to substitute a computer running GNU/Linux as the “smarts” here. This can be quite ergonomic with a wireless trackpad-keyboard combo. I’m quite happy with an Apple TV running Emby though.
One part of the argument you are missing is that FSD requires real-time decision making as well, so when complexity goes up with a larger number of inaccurate sensors that can become an issue. No one cares if getting a picture of a black hole from noisy data takes one year to process, the same is not true for self driving.
> I strongly suspect the amount of light outdoors is NOT really the issue. If you're always focused on things close at hand (as the above mentioned folks on wall street), you never allow the eyes to focus on the far horizon for an appreciable fraction of the time.

Then you need to read more on the matter.

Studies on chicks, tree shrews and rhesus monkeys show that simply increasing the amount of indoor light intensity has a protective effect on myopia. Scientists can induce more myopia in chicks simply by reducing light intensity. See https://iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2164963 and https://iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2355431

The leading hypothesis is that light stimulates the release of dopamine in the retina, and the dopamine blocks the elongation of the eye during development. One study showed that injecting a dopamine-inhbiting drug into the eyes of chicks abolished the protective effect of bright light, and myopia increased. See https://iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2126968

Your particular confidence on this ("strongly suspect") bothers me because it has an influence on others, yet it is totally ignorant of what current scientific findings suggest.
2. His point is everyone shares the same help so he's correct in saying he got no (extra) help.
Definitely a slow method! It outputs about 1 byte every second. Not great performance!
This 22KB sample took several hours to collect: https://github.com/valerionew/Banana-Random-Number-Generator...
…But geometric aberrations might be annoying: The image is perfect in the center but blurry/rainbowed 10° from the center, etc.
How a computer designed this week's cover
Another reason to use decentralized messaging.
Any service which depends on a single point will be fragile to this point wishes and weaknesses.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator#Fixed...
The love affair of Hackernews and SQLite continues ;)
Well, you can't easily use Haskell on web, at least not yet. But there's Purescript, which comes with both anonymous records and Haskell2010-ish type system with some extensions and may be an interesting choice.
Where to use a blockchain in non-financial applications?
This is an interesting issue. First, I hope your mum and family are getting acceptable care and support, and that she gets the outcome she wants from it.

I know what it's like to see or experience something at the patient end of things and feel the urge to do something about it. It's difficult to find obvious ways forward with that in the NHS system, and the common ways for patients to raise complex and niche issues - MPs or the NHS' public-facing channels - can produce dispiriting responses.

I get the impression you're in England, so my assumptions here are about NHS England. There's been a push (and requirement) in recent years for Patient and Public Voice (PPV) - closer public involvement in the design, production and governance of NHS services - so there should be increasing opportunities for the public to act on their experiences. In practice, there doesn't seem to be much of an open invitation to public involvement in digital at the national level yet.

As you didn't mention it, you might be interested to know that, as well as the breast screening report you mentioned, there has also been a recent review of adults screening services [1]. That's led to NHSX's Digital Transformation of Screening programme [2], with objectives directly relevant to your issue. There's a contact email address that might reach someone more likely to grok it and/or explain the programme's routes for PPV input.

There's also some information about the current digital screening services, including named heads and leads [3]. Maybe a direct approach to one or some of them about how you can influence the issue (and highlight the shortcomings of the approaches you've tried)?

[1] https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/report...

[2] https://www.nhsx.nhs.uk/key-tools-and-info/digital-transform...

[3] https://digital.nhs.uk/about-nhs-digital/our-organisation/ou...
It’s not obvious to me that the train pulling away was the point here. It is merely a meditation on the fact that machines are “absolutely incorruptible”, so if we’re talking about the same thing, it is a tangential fact if some human did or did not pull the cord.

If we are talking about how human intervention softens the incorruptibility of machines, then what you wrote supports that point.

If we are talking about if machines are inherently good or evil, then we have somewhere changed the topic in the middle.
Why can’t we remember being born or our first words?
I absolutely agree. In my eyes, any true enthusiast should respect preserving the computer as much as the associated keyboard.

I've not personally witnessed a keyboard hobbyist throw away a matching computer but keep the keyboard, but I do believe it probably happens in some circles.

I think people either

1. Know the keyboard they want, and want to restore it to have in a collection
2. Know which keyboard model numbers have specific parts/switches to harvest
3. Want the computer, and fixing the keyboard is a part of a much bigger project / a means to an end

Generally with harvesting, people usually replace the parts they've taken out with compatible parts, to make the original still usable with compatible computers. People only ever really harvest if they know there's a huge supply out there in the wild.
A chat with Ray Dalio
I am so jealous of anyone able to read a single paragraph of that article. I could not need keep focus on letters because of all the gifs
Not really. In the UK nearly all private work by doctors is an extra session on top of full time NHS job. It increases the hours worked, and it increases capacity through a investigations/non health services also requires.
Personally, I don’t do any private work but don’t think it’s a bad thing to do so.
There's a decent amount circling around amongst private collectors. The good ones go for a pretty penny too!

I run a used retro games business, and will regularly sell stuff like a C64, Amiga, IBM Clone or SpectraVision to one particular group on Facebook for $200+ in as-is/untested condition. The rare stuff goes for even more. I recently got $300 for an old Atari ST floppy drive.

The guys that buy them will often do things like de-yellow the plastic and change all the caps, and there are even new upgrades being made for many of the old PCs today (HDMI mods being a big one).

In terms of where they come from, I know that some of them make their way back from overseas e-waste (there's one guy in India in particular I'm thinking of that does junked Game Boys and vintage toys too), and there are plenty just sitting in sheds covered in dust.
This is essentially the same as replying "no u". The risk results in question are clear and numerically comparable on their own. It's not a complex diagnosis, analysis, or treatment issue that would require a specialist's medical opinion. All you need is the knowledge of someone who understands basic arithmetic, statistics, and logic. This is not editorialising. This is not misrepresenting data or reports to mislead. I welcome you to try again - preferably with a point beyond "no u" next time.
Love that 2020 reel video. Reminds me of The Avalanches.

Now I'm down a rabbit hole of Racer Trash. This remix of Alien is brilliant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5cQh_APsow
We do that for all sites we (a nonprofit / education / science / arts web agency) build. Seems like such a no-brainer to me - if someone has expressed a preference like that, you're only going to annoy them with a cookie popup, which they're most likely going to reject.
> The timespan is too short for evolution to have had a considerable impact.

I am not talking about evolution as in developing new species but about survivability of naturally occurring variations. Modern humanity timespan is not enough in developing new genetic traits but long enough to alter effects of natural selection. BTW, due to advances in medicine nowadays we have children born and survive into adulthood with medical conditions that were terminal just 100 years ago. Survival variability (in developed world) is much broader that it was in recent historic past (e.g. middle-ages). This is a plain fact.
Mine is genetic.

I have very similiar values than my mother.

So i'mnot sure if / how your theory is correct or not.

Also there are a lot of normal people in the world who live outside and also don't have perfect eye sight at all. This goes back a long time.

Can you also elaborate on your 2 diopter difference between red and blue light? For one i find that number very very big but i'm very good in seeing full color without any chromatic aberration.

The effect of your theory would need to be less relevant than other factors.
I’m thinking it’s the heavy metal that the rapscallions these days are hipping and hopping to.

The reality is near-sightedness is a massive problem in countries with insane childhood studying hours, eg all across east Asia.
Me too - I just found it on the wayback machine though - [1]

[1] - http://web.archive.org/web/20220610184600/https://www.charle...
“my wooden doll will never become a real boy; therefore, nihilism! People are an illusion too!! That makes sense. I (who doesn’t exist) said it, so you (who also don’t exist) can trust me”

What hubris.
> I absolutely agree. In my eyes, any true enthusiast should respect preserving the computer as much as the associated keyboard.

Not saying it's ideal, but that's capitalism. If something is more valuable as parts than a whole, it'll be stripped down for parts.
I believe we had publications of multiple other similar scale (200-ish qubit) systems before, and it's progress if and only if the particular physical process (there are many very different, effectively unrelated physical processes which have been used to build quantum computers - many of these other quantum computing systems have little in common) can scale to 100x more qubits without succumbing to noise that destroys coherence. Perhaps this one has this potential, I can't judge that, but they don't seem to be asserting it.
PaSh – Parallelized Shell Programs
> the issue runs a little deeper imo.

Right, because the developers are "political"?
You should ask for a TXT record, not an A record.
The data is that objectively you are more likely to have serious health issues resulting from Covid than you are the vaccine. And given the spread of Covid, the odds are close to 100% that you will catch it eventually. This is true regardless of health, age or obesite.

It's extremely simple math. If you have a 1/100 chance of something bad happening versus a 1/500 chance, you chose the 1/500 odds. It doesn't mean you throw your hands in the air and choose the higher odds just because they're low enough. You optimize for the best outcome.
In what sense did you take a highly focused approach? Did you identify area's where the chance of succeeding was high and worked your way from there?
The oppressiveness described by the article is not about computers, but about rigid design — design with few affordances. Or, design with missing affordances — affordances that intuitively should exist but do not, due to various material or intellectual constraints when designing the thing.

Which leads me to disagree with the article that computers are inherently oppressive. Because with more resources, we can design computers with more and better affordances.
On this point, being stripped down for parts, being lovingly cleaned/restored by an enthusiast and then used/appreciated is probably a better fate for the keyboard than forever living in landfill or in a box in someones attic.
>When it comes to growth, Britain’s politicians will the ends but not the means. They run scared of the homeowning elderly, who turn up to vote and make up a growing share of the electorate. So tax rises are heaped on businesses and workers instead, further harming the economy. The government has likewise watered down its plans for reforming the planning system—because elderly homeowners object.

Introduce an ageist voting system. Your vote is worth 1/(how many years you've been eligible to vote). I'm only half joking of course.
The coolest website I know right now is https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/.

It’s a solar powered, self hosted version of Low Tech Magazine. The articles are always interesting, but there’s also a ton of good information about efficient website design as well [0].

[0] https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html#how
Yes, when my oldest was 1 1/2, I took him on a lot of short walks where I had no particular destination in mind. It was great for teaching him sidewalk safety and for giving him freedom to practice whatever gross motor skills he was working on, like climbing up and down steps without holding on to stuff.

Unfortunately I didn't do nearly as much of this kind of walk with his little brother, because it's not safe if your attention is divided between multiple kids.

https://bancosparenting.wordpress.com/2018/05/24/freedom-wit...
> Computers are neutral technology.

Don't make me tap the sign: Technology. Is. Not. Neutral.

A shame so few technophiles have read Jacques Ellul[1]. Ellul's La Technique (and his later "Propaganda") should be mandatory reading for anyone thinking about systems. Be careful though, this thinker/philosopher has verbalized a problem that made Ted Kaczinsky conclude the only solution is for us as a species to retreat into the forests and vanish into the trees. Read Ellul at your own risk.

About the rest I agree, but this is complaining about a system that works _exactly_ as intended. Read Ellul!

[1] "La Technique" (The technological society) https://archive.org/details/technologicalsoc00ellu
Thank you, I was unaware that such sites exist.

It reminds me of the GSMArena's Phone Finder (https://www.gsmarena.com/search.php3?) which also allows specifying very narrow search criteria. But it is specific to phones and tablets only.
I have around -10 dioptres in both eyes, like my father. I am also amblyopic. It is a minor inconvenience for me right now, but the risks for serious problems in the future are real.

The problem, if I understand correctly, is that myopia correlates well with eyeball elongation, which puts stress on the retina, thus sharply increasing the risk of macular degeneration and retinal detachment as you get older. Other complications are also more likely to occur.

I was only vaguely aware of this until recently but I am a bit worried now and going to a doctor soon to asses the situation and manage the risks if possible.
This is more of a testament to HTTP/HTML though. It's a universal format for storing and retrieving information.

OpenStreetMap is, along with every other geo data project, limited by the common coordinate systems we have for storing and retrieving geospatial data -- and these are almost always planetary, not universal.
I add cream and sugar if I'm getting coffee out. At home, I'm drinking it black.

Most places, especially ones that don't specialize in coffee, do not properly clean their equipment and prep the brew.

If I was just a junkie, I would use cream and sugar at home too.
Genuine question: what happens if they refuse to release? How is it enforced? If the answer is going to court, who sues them? EFF?
>nobody on Wall Street can see past the next Quarter's numbers. I don't need the economist to point that out.

This funny to read on a tech oriented website.

I agree that the quarter by quarter financial goals can be a "shortsighted", and I think the problem is even worse when it comes to the 4 year political cycle (2 years if you consider the fact the Houses can change hands).

But Wall Street is still filled to the brim with public companies espousing some future fantasy profits that may or may not ever come. We are as far away from shortsightedness there as we've ever been. One only has to looks at ARKK research to see this.
> This is naive. Someone above your team is superficially watching how much work your team does.

It is not naive. Top down micromanagement is certainly common but it isn't inevitable. I have worked in multiple businesses with healthier management cultures. I'm sorry if you haven't.

> The original complaint is opening a ticket for updating internal documentation.

Yes, the rebuttal to which was "that's stupid don't do that" to which the claim was "it's normal to require tickets for every change", which is what I said the claim is. I wouldn't be pushing back on a claim like "nearly every change requires a ticket, but not minor edits to documentation like fixing typos". But that's not what people are advocating here.

> No, the "that" is watching a repo instead of you taking a tiny amount of to tell the team you wrote some documentation.

What thing are you saying is "telling the team"? Filing the ticket? So the team is subscribed to the feed of new tickets then? Why not just be subscribed to the feed of new changes to the repo? What do you see as the difference between those two things? Or is "telling the team" the standup status update about it? In that case, can't I tell them about the change I made directly? How does having a ticket help?
I doubt that personally. The real issue is that terms we use for intelligence, sentience, etc are all subjective. So what one might consider intelligent another might not. And thus we might never agree that something is sentient even long after we have androids serving on star ships (as has been a well discussed topic in TNG).
I wouldn’t call it science-based, it’s just materialism. There’s no science in believing that something that can be completely described
by a set of logical rules, or mathematical formulae, or something similar, suddenly gains new features that cannot even be defined with math or logic. It’s pure belief, without too many arguments for it.
Because one is fully baked, the other is explicitly billed as under development not yet complete Beta software. Also there are a lot of people that just make up lies about Tesla people deserve to hear the truth.
Why do you care what other people are enthusiastic about?

Like old computers are "interesting junk", if preservationists want them preserved the thing to do is buy them and preserve them.
The best thing about this topic I've read is an article by Melvin Kranzberg as "Kranzberg's laws" https://doi.org/10.2307/3105385 .

There are six laws.

1) Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.

2) Invention is the mother of necessity.

3) Technology comes in packages, big and small.

4) Although technology might be a prime element in many public issues, nontechnical factors take precedence in technology-policy decisions.

5) All history is relevant, but the history of technology is the most relevant.

6) Technology is a very human activity-and so is the history of technology.
Luxury Beliefs Are Status Symbols
That's not at all clear. Amongst people me and my girlfriend know it's the opposite. The effects of the vaccines were worse than that of COVID, both in terms of frequency and severity.

Actually the focus on my heart problems is weird and frustrating. I have a close friend who had a heart attack after taking the shots (it was never reported!) but by far the most common problems we've heard about affect women and their reproductive systems. Broken periods and the like. The frequency of this is massive compared to heart issues, but is being completely ignored.

Official stats on this are all useless for the reasons you can see in the first comment - deaths and injuries that are obviously vaccine related are constantly excluded. After insisting that someone previously healthy dropping dead two days after a vaccination is a mere coincidence, they report that there are miraculously almost no vaccine deaths or injuries and COVID is definitely worse. The entire medical and research system pushed vaccines on pain of them losing their licenses and careers, so you definitely can't take what they say at face value.