skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can you provide an example of a law that is motivated purely by religion?

Certainly.

The Pledge of Allegiance. [1]

There's no non-religious basis for finding gay marriage objectionable. But it was not legal everywhere in the US until only 7 years ago. And appears to be in jeopardy again.

These are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance#Addition_...
Yeah it is asking too much. We have software engineers who couldn't write a sorry ass CRUD app while collecting $100K pa salaries. All the training and salary doesn't mean shit. With volume Walmart might be processing this kind of fraud is within cost of doing business.
When I go to the barber, I don't need to tell them my name either. Similar for the supermarket when I'm paying in cash.

So I'm not sure prostitutes are anything special?

Both barber and supermarket keep records of what services they performed or goods they sold, but not who purchased them (when paying in cash). A prostitute could do exactly the same.

> It would be interesting to compare to other (legal) business that keep identities secret in this way.

Basically almost any business where you can pay in cash?
This reminds me of Space Quest. I'd love to have a sequel to that. It felt a lot like monkey island. I really miss those pixel games.
Facebook Groups are being revamped to look like Discord
> Reading your comment history,

Ahh, the true sign of someone arguing in good faith.

> you have a very bad faith manner of making your points.

As opposed to your "stay calm and passive aggressive" nonsense.

> nothing in your tone suggests humility, decency or the willingness to debate with people as if they are partners in the community. You're looking for a fight. You aren't looking for solutions.

I'm not willing to debate your insane proposal. There's no humility here because I'm right. You're not going to change my mind because it's a stupid idea. I'm not looking for a fight, your idea is dumb. It has no corollary in any situation where something deadly is stolen (cars, prescription drugs, literally anything). To make an exception for the one thing that is constitutionally guaranteed is the most absurd way of going about such a thing. Not to mention the fact that it's completely _impractical_ politically, even if you could convince someone that it was a good idea.

I have the solution, stop proposing this bad idea.
but most researchers don't use first principles day to day, like others in this thread -have said - if you don't use it you lose it. researchers don't utilize the details of back prop in there day to day work, so expecting an off the cuff derivation isn't a fair assessment of what makes a good researcher
They’re taken away to be… replaced by someone more fit, capable, and attractive.
Yeah there isn't much publically available. We wrote a tool for this at Instacart, it relies on some internal tooling but much of it is generalizable (assuming you run pgbouncers). This is a good reminder for us to write a blog post or something.
'Supposed' being the keyword here. The last time I looked into them, they weren't actually very secure.
I really appreciate the Thunderbird development team for proactively going through the list of add-ons and reaching out to the add-on developers if there is any concern to be addressed before moving the add-ons to 102. I can feel the commitment to keep Thunderbird a great email client.
Sounds like we should be lowering barriers to entry, not piling up more regulations?
Wonderful. Love the rich comments in the code.
> You assume that my framework ends with "massively escalating violence everywhere in society" but you haven't proven that

Come on man. You're arguing like a 12 year old here. "You can't prove that!" is not an argument. Try to at least form a cohesive logical defense of your position.

> Or are we to take George Floyd's death and the related national civil unrest as not a massive escalation of violence everywhere in society?

Overall, violent crime is massively down since the 1990s. George Floyd's death and the resulting civil unrest highlights important problems in our society nonetheless, and should result in reforms. The fact that those reforms have been weak or non-existent is a result of regulatory capture by the police, the unjustified strength of police unions, a judiciary that gives too much credit to police, the police culture of protecting each other, and other issues. Hopefully, we will, through legislatively-enacted reforms, reach a position where the actions of those police officers are sufficiently disincentivized that they will become rare. I don't think that an appropriate resolution of the George Floyd incident would be for by-standers to execute the cops.

> bound up in perverse gotchas and outs for when force that is otherwise unjustified has to be justified or else "bad things" will happen to society.

Yeah. What you call "perverse gotchas" is what I call "necessary complexity," because human society is complex and the rules regulating is are complex. I understand the allure of using simple rules at all costs, but thousands of years of jurisprudence suggest that humans are too complex for that; that's why we have thousands and thousands of laws. Understanding that a complex system requires complex rules is not hyprocricy, it's just good engineering.
Oh, don't worry. You said it very clearly. ;)
In my exp., I have to exercise my brain a lot to make a good checklist
FTL handles this case by silently moving data around. Cold data retention is REALLY BAD in modern NAND generations using increasingly smaller geometries. Degraded data requires multiple slower reads. Samsung even had to deploy emergency FW update to make this process more aggressive on 840 evo where drive slowed to a crawl reading >1 year old data.

https://www.techspot.com/news/60501-samsung-addresses-slow-8...
I just looked up Matrix and IRC in Wikipedia. One was 28 million (and those are only the servers that opt in to reporting), and one was 371,000.

Maybe Jabber has more? But I doubt it.
There is more than one kind of regulation. Regulating people with an incentive to obey (professionals running businesses, like stores or shows) makes it harder for criminals to obtain guns they aren't allowed to possess.
Over the last 20 or so years musicians have gotten used to using a lot of prerecorded riffs and samples. It's now possible for someone that can't play any instruments to create very goods songs. Unfortunately, the use of these same samples has given us a situation where lots of modern music sounds the same[1].

I suspect that's where we are headed with all the coming automation. A lot of human creativity is going to slow. I don't think that's a good thing. But unfortunately, we have no choice. It's coming at a furious pace.

Musk has been saying for years that AI will damage/destroy society. We've all thought that for that to happen AI would some how need to be sentient. But given what we've seen lately, all that's needed is a tool like GPT-3 to be used as a weapon against each other. Good luck to us.

1. https://qz.com/1044781/this-music-production-tool-is-the-rea...
Interestingly, we've actually helped other AI companies build robust violence detectors precisely to prevent these kinds of violent, gore language model generations. You can read about it here https://www.surgehq.ai/blog/ai-red-teams-and-adversarial-dat... (we're writing a more technical blog post soon, too; this one is fairly high-level) or the detailed description by Redwood Research at https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/k7oxdbNaGATZbtEg3/redwo...

In short, one way to prevent your language models from devolving into violence (with extremely high safety guarantees) is by building "AI red teams" of labelers who try to trick it into generating something violent. Then you train your models to detect those strategies (just like other kinds of red teams find holes in your security, which you then patch). Then your "red data labeling teams" find new strategies to trick your AI into becoming violent, you train models to counter those strategies, and so on.
Cool. Imagine when it can be installed on existing panels.

I have a 5.5 kW panel system that gets me around 30kwh daily in summers which is probably the best l can get on a stationary roof east facing.

They did not give any specifics as to the improvement in efficiency, is it 10%?
I lived in a Chinese neighborhood at the time and there weren't any hate crimes. I feel like news agencies find a hot topic latch on and blow it out of proportion. Fear sells like nothing else.
Difference of course being that a fetus can't be used to kill anyone except the womb owner.
Defense based funds were generally avoided by universities in Japan. Reasons are linked to WWII result and top professors were left wing.
Yeah, that's possible too. I'm certainly no economic expert, but my understanding is that bear markets typically last less than 2 years on average. But who knows? Your guess is as good as mine.
Ha… It might take only three clicks but I once did this in gmail (deleting over 50k emails by clicking select all and then delete) and my account was inaccessible for multiple hours. So tread lightly.
Can you tell us more about this system? ECC on an 8086 was rare.
I don't think the parent is referring to quality, but to the cognitive load of discerning things that are real and true.

As far back as the Romans, Pontius Pilate is recorded as saying, "What is truth?" (John 18:38)

Showing that people struggled with these questions, even back then.

Figuring out what is true and what is false, real and fake, is important to a safe, healthy life.

Whether it's counterfeit goods or counterfeit words, it's all frustrating to the consumer.

Also, the easier it becomes to produce content, the easier bad actors can weaponize ideas.

So, I don't think many are worried about quality.

I think the concern is how will the average person handle a 1000x increase in "counterfeit" content.

Edit: As I think about it, the next Google will probably be whoever solves this problem.
And we should strive to minimize what companies need to be classified as utilities.

Eg these days it doesn't make much sense anymore to classify phone companies as utilities.

> In 2022, I think credit cards should be viewed as a utility, as well as the internet itself. It's very difficult to live without either in the US and a lot of the world.

It's also difficult to live without food, or without an apartment. That doesn't mean providers of either of these should be treated as utilities.

Btw, I never had a credit card in my life and don't intend to get one. It's perfectly possible to live without them. (But that's only a minor and pedantic quibble: I agree that it is hard to avoid the major payment processors like Visa and MasterCard. I just happen to use them via debit cards, not credit cards.)
> All the other stuff (environment, diet, mother's diet… even training) is more likely to be it because it happened more recently.

And yet, the evidence contradicts you:
https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1286...

Mind you, the (many variables) in the environment certainly have an effect. And without training you just can't reach elite performance. But most humans out of the womb, can't run a 4 minute mile regardless of training regimen over their lives.

I pick that number because it's at the edge of human performance. No woman in the world, out of the many impressive athletes who have tried, ever got close - the record is 4:12 by the incredible Sifan Hassan. Only a few hundred men in the US have been able to achieve it. Was it the environment, their mother's diet or the patriarchy that allowed these men - but not the many thousands, (millions?) of other men and women who tried- to run under 4 minutes in the mile?

I'm sure you agree physical ability depends on genetics in certain cases. No human being can reach the top speed of the average lion, and that's purely due to genes.

The idea that genetic differences cease to matter for peak potential performance when we talk about individuals of the same species, flies in the face of all the sports science evidence.

Occam's razor makes genetics the obvious explanation for things everyone who ever did sports in school has observed: certain kids can dunk with minimal training (height, fast-twitch muscle fibers) and others can't touch the rim, certain kids can lap others before they ever do any sort of endurance training, and once they do, even very talented kids run out of breath trying to keep up with the best given equal training, etc.

Most environment effects can be extremely detrimental in rare cases (mother's diet impacting embryo/fetus development, poor early childhood nutrition), but once we're out of the womb and healthy, there are massive differences and nothing indicates running a 4 minute mile is about whose mum ate the best breakfast.

P.S.: Most of this "genes, evolution theory, speciation, yes all true, but humans are all the same, basically" ideology stems from a good place - don't want to repeat the eugenics and similar bullshit of the last century. You can do both. Defend humans rights and equal treatment for all humans, with the understanding that individuals are different and many of those differences are determined by their genes.
A great FOSS alternative to Unity and Unreal engine is Godot engine. I've found it much easier to learn and work with, extremely Blender3D friendly, and it's cross-platform and web export support seems to be excellent thus far as I've tried any of it. It does still require a fair bit of learning, as any complex tool does, but there's many great tutorials on the web and YouTube to help with that.
Firefox 102.0
The Nettle Magic Project
See also this twitter thread announcing the project: https://twitter.com/codermiddy/status/1541965867671494656?s=...
Which is what? $120K/yr? $350k/yr?
HRV breathing has improved my memory and cognition.
More often than not, antitrust laws are used by the side who can afford lawyers to inconvenience the competition.

A more straightforward approach would be to lower barriers to entry. Both for startups but also, and probably more importantly, for companies from other industries and other countries who want to branch out.

At one point, Walmart wanted to become a bank in the US. The existing banks lobbied hard against that and prevailed. Say what you want about Walmart, but that would have been a breath of fresh air for retail customers and much needed real competition.
This is an almost psychopathic anarchy.

Sometimes we all need to heed the rules of the society in which we live.

If an elected government cannot make rules because "someone might get shot" then the government needs to control the guns. Otherwise we're all at the mercy of those willing to kill so they don't have to abide by the rules.

Government officials already need to worry about the political implications of their actions, they shouldn't need to worry about being murdered by a loon with a gun who disagrees.
I was just wishing for something like this yesterday.

I wanted to figure out how to detect some very very low infrasound reliably, and no conventional microphone technology seemed like it could do what I needed.

This feels like it could form the basis of a new wave of scientific vibration measurement systems.
The basic everyone else mentioned (sleep, diet) + minimizing negative influences: especially alcohol (which mess heavily with both sleep and digestion), negative thought patterns and ... negative people. Sleep conditions matter also -- it needs to be quiet, restful sleep, with the windows open if at all possible.

Cutting down on screen time (i.e. this thing you're looking at right now), in favor of book time, or just-about-anything-time if its happening, you know, outdoors and in beautiful scenery, helps also.
>well, except for Lego Star Wars of course

Until you watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WmLmPYvrMA
"[term]" with quotes is considered by the search engine (Google included) to be an exact match. This means that the text in quotes MUST appear in the page content/page title.

Why there are different results without quotes is probably due to some bias/glitch in the search engine.
So you're saying that rather than communicating our will to our elected officials with ballots and phone calls, we should use the threat of violence against them?

Great idea, let's apply it in other contexts. Next time I get a parking ticket, I'll follow around the traffic cop with an assault rifle until they lower the fee.
And of course any single stock doesn't have to correlate with the performance of the market.

The market as a whole might bounce back, but that doesn't mean that a specific stock will.
Exercise, specifically following powerlifting programs. It makes me tired so I can sleep without stressing over what I need to accomplish work during the next day. It also makes me crave healthier food. It's a feedback loop, and it makes me sharper mentally. If I skip 1-2 days, I immediately notice the negative effects by the end of the week: cloudy thoughts, less motivation, etc. Powerlifting also gives me goals to work towards; PRs on certain lifts. It's replaced my cravings for MMOs which I've spent too much of my life playing - It's feels like I'm the character and I'm constantly working on improving my real life stats.
Yeah but I see no problem with prospecting the guy who bought it for him. If you illegally buy a felon a gun and it’s used in a crime maybe that should be prosecuted.
Working on Projects That “Matter”
Keto diet made me very energetic and sharp. But I lost alot of weight and was worried about long term health effects
Crypto crash threatens North Korea's stolen funds as it ramps up weapons tests
I think the case is even stronger if you're counting in transistors, because FPGAs usually come with multipliers built in, but bare silicon wafers don't. A CPU such as a 6502 or an Intersil 6100 (a PDP-8 on a chip) costs on the order of 4000 transistors. I suspect SeRV would be about the same size, maybe a bit smaller. How many transistors do you need for a 32-bit multiplier?
Raising one teenager with severe ADHD out of three kids. Homework and general academic work is a constant battle. Reactions range from outright refusal to do anything, explaining things, 10 seconds later, having to repeat the same thing, rinse and repeat. Simple assignments take all day. The same assignment would take younger sibling 20 minutes. At worst, the stubbornness to not work through it, even with one on one tutoring or assistance will result in putting head into arms for hours. Still figuring it out. Would love more advice on that.
You are losing money based on the fact you might have to hire staff one day??

What??
Could you be more specific what exactly it handles from the steps above?..

Also, docker adds complexity itself.
Unfortunately, there is also such a thing as stealing entire trees.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_spade
I would go even further and say that governments should get out of the business of issuing cash. Especially having a monopoly on issuing cash.

(For this proposal in eg the US, the Fed can still control the money supply. It's just that banks would print their own cash; exactly like they mint their own account balances that you can use to pay with already.)
Author wrote a very successful book on the Meteor framework, happens to be an amazing designer, was a fixture in the Meteor community, and yet manages to be completely clear-eyed about the lifecycle of this pioneering effort. Maybe the best postmortem I’ve ever read.
They are preserved in Wikipedia and ranked according to their longevity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wi...

There's more or less a competition for them.
I feel like you read my entire comment wrong. Like you didn't read what I replied to, stripped all the "ifs" and arguments, and hyper-focused on points I wasn't trying to make. Surely I wasn't as clear as I thought but this feels so strange.
Here's the behind the scenes video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1T-RNDWIEU
> How many more users could you support if the amount of time you had to await IO for each was reduced by ~2 orders of magnitude?

None - or practically not many, when using async (or sort of green threading) backend stacks. The waiting connections / users are just waiting and don't block any new connections.

If the network round trip to Postgres (in my experience around 3-10 ms, but of course highly depending on your server infra) was a concern Postgres could be placed on the same server as the backend, though I would not recommend it. But this relatively small IO overhead usually is not a concern for many apps.
You might even land the ultimate innovation of doing both by "inventing" AJAX! (Just call it something new, like piped hydration)
> How does private gun ownership check the government?

It often doesn’t even give local police enough pause to make sure they are invading the correct home in the middle of the night.
Forget Wikipedia, how much of history in general is largely made up or fluffed.
The thing I never understand about this argument is that there’s a much higher likelihood of significant injury or death (getting shot) robbing the houses with guns, no?

Guns may be “easy to liquidate” (not sure if that’s actually the case) but surely selling Xboxes and MacBooks on eBay is just as profitable?
Thanks for letting me know, I will refrain in the future. Not trying to annoy you.
Wow, Sacha! 10 years already. Meteor was one of the first Javascript frameworks which gave me joy. Maybe the closest to that today is Imba. Realtime all the time was performance heavy for sure but so much fun. I recently saw https://liveblocks.io/ which is trying to do realtime primitives for the current wave. Discover Meteor was one of the first "modern" programming framework books I bought and I still remember the book built around an example, something which was missing from a lot of books in that era. Modern JS is a complicated mess. I would love to go back to that era where people were trying to do magical things with one api call. Hooks in React is more complicated than a whole library from that era. That is not a good thing. In 10 years we should have had far more higher level tools. Wish you all the best. Meteor gave me a lot of joy. Maybe I will try building something with it again to see where it's at.
You use many MD analogies. Let me assure you that patient _do_ resent knowledge about their disease. Also, your assumption about MD academia is unrealistic. Universities are driven by research citations and funding, and this is also true of medical schools. Many professors basically hold the belief that even a chimp could do clinical work, while only the true elite can do research.
You are correct to question whether there is a connection between welfare and drug use, perhaps there isn't.

But a broader point is that for most people your income is due to someone's spending, so a reduction in income (welfare and unemployment in this case) may reduce spending on all things, necessities and vices alike.

As for the connection between homicides and drugs, this is a general assumption, perhaps there is no connection.
In 2015, the FBI tallied 114 Anti-Asian hate crimes.
In 2016, the FBI tallied 113 Anti-Asian hate crimes, a 1% decrease.
In 2017, the FBI tallied 128 Anti-Asian hate crimes, a 12% increase.
In 2018, the FBI tallied 149 Anti-Asian hate crimes, a 14% increase
In 2019, the FBI tallied 161 Anti-Aisan hate crimes, a 7% increase.
In 2020, the FBI tallied 279 Anit-Asian hate crimes, a 42% increase.

I tend to believe the assertion that hate crimes are always under-reported in the Asian American community. The 42% spike is a big jump that probably feels even bigger within that community, as a result.

Interestingly, from 2001 to 2010, Anti-Asian hate crime was higher, generally in the 200 range, with 2001 beating out 2020 at 280 tallied Anti-Asian hate crimes.
Then Walmart shouldn't be in this business if it's literally impossible for them to train and employ the people necessary to do it somewhere in the neighborhood of correctly.