skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see it as a group of people who somehow believe what infinity is exactly, and a group that doesn’t. As infinity is far away enough, you can find all sorts of people who believe in god(s) and are at the same time intelligent, because the infinte trap is easy to fall into at any level of intelligence by definition.

To make it clear: sometimes I tend to suspect (not believe) that there are some parts of math that we can’t reach, yet or at all, and it has effects which break or create higher-level symmetries and create everything as an imminent result. Think of a monster group as a cute little example of it. That still doesn’t make me think that I’ll be salvaged into paradise if I don’t mastrubate.

Also, I’m not a historian, but wasn’t Christianity the only way to access education back then? That would explain something.
:) cute metaphore and known feeling
Slightly off-topic, but if you're looking something more hacker-like (not so-called-nerd-like), then I can highly suggest The Hacker's Diet: https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet
> Not for young healthy people. And the covid risk for that population, even before omicron, was negligible in the first place.

About 20% of young and 40% of adult people in the US are considered obese [1], which has been closely associated with more severe COVID-19 cases [2].

Additionally, even young and completely healthy people have parents and grandparents. While they themselves can be completely fine after a run-in with COVID-19, their family may not be... just look at your workplace and sick leaves. It's usually all the parents that call in sick at the same time because some wave of shit is sweeping through the schools, be it the regular common cold, RSV, flu, norovirus, whatever. The problem is, us humans have adapted somewhat to these viruses, but not against SARS-CoV-2... and now it spreads to the affected generations via the children.

Can you imagine just how horrible a 10 year old feels when he learns that the COVID infection he got at school killed off his grandparents?

[1] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/obesity-a...

[2] https://www.science.org/content/article/why-covid-19-more-de...
At the top of the article :

Editor’s Note: Readers are alerted that the conclusions of this article are subject to criticisms that are being considered by the Editors. A further editorial response will follow once all parties have been given an opportunity to respond in full.
I just achieved my personal record of 35 seconds long free handstand two days ago and I just wanna say this: DO NOT try the handstand without PROPERLY warming up, else you can and will seriously and very badly injure yourself (speaking from experience).
have you verified that it actually gets better and that you're not just getting used to it?

I used to think the same thing when I just tried not wearing glasses for a while. I could swear that it was awful at first but over time my no-glases eyesight improved tremendously. I then did a really simple distance reading test and it was obvious that it didn't improve at all and the effect was imagined.
> Mastodon/Matrix/XMPP

All available for free in low-friction ways (and still only geek-popular), and easy to self-host if you care about privacy and ownership. It’s a really strange spot for a personal use focused SaaS.

Focusing on companies may indeed work better.
I often thought that glasses and people who do a lot of reading etc was a side effect rather than a cause - i.e. that people who read more noticed they needed glasses and we're happy to wear them, but kids who would rather do sports perhaps didn't notice so much and/or were less inclined to wear glasses when playing cricket or whatever
You should've stopped at the scoff. Someone qualified to handle children in a classroom and in field trips is already qualified to take them to a beach.
You can change your wealth much easier than you can change your race. Sure a rich person will have it a fucktonne easier than a poor person, regardless of race. However race is the first thing you see.

As someone who is from the outside, Its especially obvious at points where the state or large institutions interact. (ie property, banking, police, airports etc etc)
Comparing one’s religious beliefs with believing in the existence of Santa Clause misses the point completely and it validates what the author of the article is saying, i.e. that contempt for religion and, in the end, religious discrimination, is widespread in tech circles. (if it matters I’m an atheist myself)
I was addicted to heroin, I’m intimately acquainted with the harms of drugs. Whether I or anyone else wants to control others is entirely separate from the question of whether it does harm. And, incidentally, however inarticulably agonising is heroin withdrawal, I suffered far less than those at - or near - the other end of the production chain. Don’t give me this shit about how drug production harms no one just because you like taking them. Tell it to the Colombian fishermen who get a bullet in the head after unwittingly ferrying a package. Tell it to the people strung up off bridges. Tell it to the countless dead.

(I don’t think drugs should be banned or controlled, for what it’s worth. I believe in pragmatic policies of harm reduction. I’m just not going to deny reality, and the harms this system causes.)
For your first example it's more a matter of architecture than technology.
Worse EMC.
I loved the smell of coffee before I started drinking it. The taste takes some getting used to but I liked it the first time anyway. I drink one cup a day with small effects but don't seem to get worse when I stop.

It's very different from tobacco, where people seem to hate the first time and start liking it as the addiction sets up.
I think there are people who genuinely don't mind the taste, or at least acquire a palette for it. I for instance cannot handle the taste of many German beers. A Pils, sure; an IPA, if I have to; an English Ale fermented in a basement bartub, no problem. But a standard Helles, forget it - I've tried many times, it just doesn't take.
Google engineers tend to overestimate how smart they are because they were able to solve a few medium-difficult Leetcode questions. And they just don't see the water that they are swimming in. They probably don't know any young, intelligent Christian. Of course, even talented software engineers, like most people today, tend to be ignorant about history, philosophy, and theology. They only heard a strawman caricature of Christian belief and are completely unaware of the intellectual tradition of Christianity (or other religions for that matter).

Other commenters already pointed out: There have been many Christian scientists, philosophers, and artists smarter and more impactful than any Google engineer. Newton, Heisenberg, Cantor, Gödel just to name a few. Even Donald Knuth! And, of course, every nerd's favorite J. R. R. Tolkien. He was a maniac by their standards.

And it's not too surprising. There are good, rational arguments for deism. Unless you introduce a atheistic dogma, honest thinking has to hold the hypothesis of a creator god at least as somewhat likely. Today you can also call it simulation hypothesis, which is deism for geeks. It's not strange that an intelligent person becomes a Christian from deism plus the historical evidence.

I don't know how close-minded Google engineers in the US have become. I think an explanation along the lines as I tried to sketch above should at least make them more understanding.
People don't seem to grasp that a monopoly can empty them of all they have and then some. It will suck no matter what time it is.
indifference isn't opression, and all the world with the exception of some people is indifferent to you
lemmy is awesome. I'm on lemmy.ml and it basically replaced my reddit browsing.
Allow me to say this, emphatticaly no!

"Governments are well placed to solve such collective-action problems..."
Audioserve: Simple personal server to serve audio files from directories
I feel that everyone should be free to believe what they want. It’s just that if you start talking to me like Jaweh, Zeus, Allah or the Flying Spaghetti Monster are real, you loose some credibility with me.

I can think of many things on the spot that have the same level of evidence as you have for your $GOD but such a conversation just doesn’t make sense to me. I prefer to spend my time otherwise.
I have another aphorism for you: If you distrust everyone - especially those who do not know each other and have little to no other reason to cooperate or seek each other out - no one is going to be able to convince you to trust anyone.
Outdoor activities are very common in Norway winter and summer. The skies are often quite clear too.

And, at least where I live, kindergartens have the children playing outside most of the time, summer and winter, rain or shine.

My impression is that short-sightedness is in fact rarer in Norway than in the UK but it's not something I actually have statistics for.

I fear that it might be changing now as so many children, boys in particular, spend so much time using computers.
> pure software problem

Rather a missing algorithm.

Software can no doubt be capable of being written to implement the alg... but no one has a good enough alg or even knows if one can exist or can exist with tesla's limited sensors.
i3 has tabbing so that's a way to hide windows. However, I still prefer work spaces as a high level concept. One window I have always tabbed, namely my command line window for different machines. Occasionally during debugging I also move a tab on top of the monitor.

Long before I used a tiling window manager I tried workspaces, too. But it just made the general chaos worse, not able to quickly find what I wanted. It's "too easy" to open a new window in the wrong workspace. Maybe just a psychological difference, with tiling I have learned not to create a mess.
It very much depends on the relationship you have with your kids. Respect and trust are really important.

However beyond that IMHO frankly it's critical safety imperative that children do what their parents tell them when it matters. If you're in the street near traffic a child disregarding parental instructions is a life and death issue. There are other safety critical situations too. This is why I feel it's vital that children and parents have a relationship of trust and respect, in both directions, that allows for that. It's not easy, I know.
How are you defining "continuous western democracy" because the subject of this piece (the UK) would seem to have a better claim.
Everything is supply constrained.
This oppressiveness is not inherent to computers, it's inherent to the people and institutions making use of them. The examples in the article say it all: government bureaucracies, beverage dispensers. They own the computers and impose their own rules on us, rules like deadlines and brand checking. We don't want these rules but they impose it on us all the same.

Computers are neutral technology. It's just that we are increasingly losing control of them. We're no longer the ones making the rules, the corporations and governments are. The computers belong to them now, they're just letting us use them. We no longer define our choices, we choose among the options they provide for us. Freely programmable computers are actually quite powerful and subversive which is why there are constant attempts to control them: radiofrequency hardware firmware, digital rights management, encryption regulation. If left unchecked, the power of computing will cause massive damage to the entire intellectual property industry as well as many government functions such as law enforcement. Computing freedom is therefore against their agendas: they want to transform computers into tools of oppression in order to preserve the status quo or change it in their favor. We can buy iPhones but they're not really ours, they still belong to Apple, the software is under Apple's control so when they suddenly decide to oppress us with client side scanning there's nothing we can do.
Effects still appear to be significant in those studied
Is it what your user wishes or what you wish your user to see.
Can you describe in a bit more details on this case? I'm trying to understand for myself, would it hit any problem for our dev team anytime soon - so far I've heard no complains/requests from them about Apple Silicon - should we get prepared for that or it's very specific case?

In nutshell I don't see how having Apple Silicon locally makes the problem - if your non local env (dev, prod, stage) is running on x86 Linux or even arm Linux, shouldn't be any issue to build for that architectures on your build farms anyway.

I may be missing some important part here.
I guess still better off pdf'ing it and running it through tabula (free) or maybe abbyy (paid)
Or controlling it exclusively. Because if you look at the religion as a crowd control institution, that comes pretty naturally. Why fight education if you can just patronize it.
What's the use case for being able to zoom out of my desktop that far and have windows permanently rotated at an arbitrary angle?

I feel that as a community we want to work on impressive things but we forget the small, boring stuff that actually makes a difference. That's why then my Linux desktop has every app icon with a different style, the margins are slightly off, the fonts are clunky, and overall just doesn't look as polished as the proprietary options.
Assuming that it’s technically practical, the results would be very unsettling: the phone screen would look like a window with the content “behind “ the window, very far away.
Why the downvotes?
The parent seemed to give some solid examples of how different parties are in fact different.
fair point, but i think this distinction between compositor and window manager is going to go away. if the compositor manages windows, then technically it is a kind of window manager. calling it something else feels unnecessary technically pedantic.

if the term compositor wins out, then fine, but i feel that that won't happen.
I know DIDs are a standard being worked at by the W3C and it's really great; I've been following it for a while.

My question here is, what happened to Web4? And isn't this kind of what Web3 was anyway? Well, this is answered in another article that is not covered in this presentation: Web5 = Web2 + Web3.

Tbh, I find this whole thing sort of stupid. It's branding, it's marketing, it's the new new age thinkers thinking we need heroes to save us from the hell they themselves constructed. I'm afraid to say that I don't believe decentralization will ever be a thing for as long as we have giants like Facebook, Google, Amazon and Microsoft (emphasis on the work that Microsoft has done to consolidate the current model) holding these immense economic, legal and political power.
So you and I can run a full node for the Central Bank of Nigeria's blockchain? No, it is obviously a private database because not even Nigeria has judgment that poor.
I'm bothered by the sensationalist "healthy". It is used only once on the site and it's not explained. "Byte-sized" is also an offender here, but let's say I can mentally replace it by "small". Do we really need to explain technology in terms that sound fancy without deeper meaning?
Would you seriously like to go back 150 years and see how that feels?

Because of "SOX" I run our "exit process" and I had a small victory lately. I'm not proud, but it happened, and I was thankful.
I encourage others here to read the study and analyze its methodology before outright accepting the conclusions of a self-described “think-tank devoted to making the EU work better, and strengthening its role in the world“.

One of the several issues is with how the “dopplegängers” are selected. A basket of (weighted) countries is selected with economic structures and pre-Brexit performance similar to the UK. I haven’t analyzed the linked Python code and datasets, but the text gives scant information on what exactly makes a specific country similar or dissimilar to the UK.

The rare exception is when it compares UK’s GDP growth with Australia’s and New Zealand’s instead of Italy’s, when it says it ignored the latter because of its “rapidly ageing” population.

In the “Services trade” rubric, UK actually outperforms the dopplegänger, until the author removes the country with the largest weight, at which point the UK’s advantage disappears. This could be interpreted as some questionable data massaging.

None of which is to say that I necessarily think Brexit was, or will be, an economic success for the UK. This is not something that can be easily determined at this point, especially with Covid. But these studies should be taken with a grain of salt.
Print-ready PDF of “Do things that don't scale” by PG
Here here! Computers are being oppressed by humans every day all day long!

"Their system of oppression
What did it lead to?
Global robo-depression
Robots ruled by people
They had so much aggression
That we just had to kill them
Had to shut their systems down"

https://youtu.be/2IPAOxrH7Ro
Is your last sentence applicable to religion?
Pretty sure in the recent times COVID has worsened this. I do exercise often these days. But its nothing like the morning workout, lunch time socialising, and tea time walks with colleagues before COVID.

These days apart from the workout in the morning I get no outdoor activity, its just staring at every decreasing(sizes of) screens. I'm showing early symptoms of Shortsightedness. Several other colleagues tell me the same, there's also additional problem of people getting obese staying at home.

Though schools have opened. Last two years were equally worse for kids, no play, classes on smartphones and laptops.

Humans have not evolved to live like this.
Of course you can’t change your race, but we’re talking about some American analog of the caste system. Race just isn’t nearly as large a factor as money. Not even close
This is very interesting (disclaimer: I work for the NHS, although this isn't within the remit of my role). Many useful comments in the thread, so I'll add just one thing. In NHS England there are national programmes for screening that set the guidelines and, up to a point, the process under which screening for a specific condition or set of conditions happens. Some of these are under review, and looking at how they work might be a good starting point for a discussion of something like this: https://www.england.nhs.uk/cancer/early-diagnosis/screening-....
It might take time, but it's possible for the government to admit its mistakes. In the UK, some MPs have condemned the initial scientific-led response to the pandemic and successfully called for a public enquiry which is now underway.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58876089

https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/

There is no doubt that a mixture of political and scientific lessons will be applied in the response to the next pandemic.
Starlink may actually be a great example of the grift. Starlink is not a widely available functioning system yet, and there's a strong chance it may never be. Musk himself has been dropping hints to that effect, and there are plenty of analyses out there of the problems with the Starlink business model. Musk's own statements make it clear that he knows Starlink has a high chance of failure - but, it has a big benefit for him because it drives demand for SpaceX launches and, at least until it does fail, it bolsters the public image and feeds the futuristic vision he's trying to sell people.

My previous comment wasn't saying Musk hasn't achieved anything. I was making a couple of points:

1. He tends to throw more ideas, more publicly, at the wall than most tech entrepreneurs.

2. Some of those ideas seem to be obviously impractical, to the point that he (hopefully!) must realize that, and the're probably intended more to boost the image of his companies in order to pump up stock value. And if you accept this line of argument, it's been a staggering success, making him the richest on-paper person in the world based on a car company and an aerospace company which, without his clever grift, would be worth a tiny fraction of their current valuation.
Related: upcycling an expired smoke detector's ionisation chamber into a Quantum Random Number Generator [1]. I don't see a schematic unfortunately. Make sure to read the comments section about using single versus pairs of decay events in the thread that Don Froula started.

I fantasize about collecting all the ionisation chambers being tossed in my city and first rigging up a massive Redundant Array of Inexpensive RNG's out of them, then upcycling them into home-based RNG appliances to sell to people to plug in that hand out hotbits over the wire, public and private WiFi and Bluetooth to create a mesh of hotbits anywhere you walk around to grab through a protocol that mixes hotbits from these appliances and public RAIR's. Then we could be awash in randomness data to use anytime we wanted, from a highly-distributed mesh.

[1] https://hackaday.io/project/180445-qrng
How long did it take for you to understand that we are born into a world where all the land is already claimed and must be bought from previous generations? We are born as illegal aliens into this world with no automatic right to be allowed to exist on this planet. The only thing we have is the benevolence of our parents and grandparents. The latter seem to have run out of benevolence, intentional or not.

This is one of the reasons we aren't giving birth to the next generation. Because their parents have no basis to exist and therefore wouldn't want to force another generation to suffer the same fate.
I gave up heroin once. But missed the taste. No desire to give it up.
This is not an academic forum and so the standards are a bit relaxed. Typically people post their beliefs along with a snippet of the reasons for said beliefs. Then others who disagree sometime respond by presenting contrary evidence. No one has a burden as such. We are not academicians beholden to standards of thoroughness.

My suggestion is that had you responded by stating that there are contrary studies and that those studies are better then your post would have been a lot clearer. At least it would have put the idea that the evidence presented was suspect into my mind. As it is it came across as unclear who has the stronger position objectively speaking.
because you can still get covid even with the vaccine... so if you are not in an at risk group, why bother injecting yourself with stuff you probably don't need?
Atheism, more religious than religion, a common theme also on internet today :-/
Computers are fine but total computerisation of human society may not be so. That's actually what the article should have explored in my opinion. Computers are neither ruthless nor kind, its controllers, humans, are. So the question then becomes, who controls them and how sophisticated they (the computers) become, and how much they infiltrate our world. A simple thought... should everything that can theoretically be controlled by computer algorithms, made so? Should computers use ML for as many as tasks as possible, even though that can lead to wrong decisions on occasion?
That might explain why I felt nothing after the first does, felt like I was dying after the second dose and nothing after the third and after getting infected. Interesting.

I know here in Norway the second and third doses have not been pushed on young men due to the heart issue. As I understand it health officials are not sure the boosters are better than getting infected for young men. Same reason why children are not getting the vaccine at all, for the vast majority of children covid is benign and the vaccine might carry risks on it's own.
It feels to me that some segments think they are in on the scam somehow.

Thing I learned from O. Henry, the easiest mark is someone that thinks he's in on it.