skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't appear to have the faintest idea what gaslighting means.

Hint: this isn't it.

Yes, of course the rollout of covid vaccines was different than YOUR EXPERIENCE of all other vaccines. Because you weren't around when the polio vaccine rolled out, or for any influenza pandemics, or the plague, or smallpox. Have you thought for 15 seconds before speaking?

Obviously, when a new disease emerges and is killing millions of people, you have to do a NEW vaccine rollout, and so obviously, this is going to look different than the normal process where children receive a long list of vaccinations that have built up over the last century or so.

You need to get your basic facts straight before accusing those who actually are thinking about the issue of "gaslighting".
The hilarious thing is that neither side are good or nice people. I've been queer online longer than keffels has been alive and I've been anti-censorship the entire time partially because I remember when people were trying to censor LGBT+ information. This is like my two mentally ill parents fighting.

One side is going to call me a dyke, carpet-muncher, and link the fact that I like women to being a child groomer.

The other is going to call me transphobic, a bitch, a cunt, and a TERF for not wanting to suck dick/not wanting all queer spaces to be about trans issues 24/7.

> And if I am brutally honest, from the threads I have seen, the people they make posts about are not people I would want to associate myself with or anywhere near young members of my family.

This is one thing that pisses me off about people like keffals. When I was a baby queer in the mid 90s, it was functionally impossible to talk to gay adults in person at all because the AIDS epidemic had convinced society that all gay people were dangerous degenerates. The Internet changed that. Since I had WWW access, I could talk to gay adults and realize that a.) you could find love being gay, b.) get advice on what to avoid and how to stay safe, and c.) start to plan out a gay life for myself. Nobody was ever inappropriate with me. (That was always straight men...) Keffels et al. are dragging us right back so gay adults can't support gay kids that are genuinely in danger or suicidal. Thanks, guys.

At this point, parents are RIGHT to be leery of the most vocal parts of the queer community, because we refuse to eject predators.
Mille Bornes
Amazon is working on an adaptation of The Peripheral, but don't seem to have announced a release date. Hopefully they'll pick up the rest of the Jackpot trilogy as well.
Fairly sure Roam and Notion are both rejected. While Roam isn't there yet, Notion is a very healthy business at venture scale.
I’m guessing climate change is also on most peoples minds.
> It’s too bad that “car that gets you great mileage and helps protect kids in driveways and crosswalks” doesn’t sell.

We lost that battle 20+ years ago, when SUVs and giant trucks became so popular.
18th and 19th century Brits who first built these systems were not very educated by our standards. Many of them, in fact, were uneducated tinkerers.
Governments that tax unimproved land can reduce taxes on income and spending.

Point being that society loses nothing by increasing taxes on unimproved land except an opportunity for parasitic wealth extraction whereas by taxing spending you lose valuable and productive economic activity.

For the greatest political impact the money from a land value tax should initially be given to poverty stricken pensioners.
In addition there needs to be tiers of publication that are purely objective. Maybe something along the lines of this paper was replicated by 3 different teams and the results hold up. Like a replication score or count- this would be desirable since then students could apply for funding to replicate papers.
What is he saying now?

I agree it's unlikely CF would give a justification. (Hence why I said I don't necessarily believe Null.)
Fairly sure that Notion and Roam are both YC rejections. While Roam isn't quite at the same level, Notion is a healthy business at venture scale, a meaningful miss to the YC portfolio.
> It's honestly just a really bad analogy. Evacuated tubes were not pursued en-masse as an end unto themselves the way quantum computing is being pursued

No, it's not. The Vacuum tube was sold for commercial and industrial use starting from 1915 for rectification. And most of the research spending went into it after it shown some promise from commercial application.

Not arguing though if pursuing something just for research is bad, just saying vacuum tube research was nothing like quantum computer research.
A lot of commentary on governance relates to DAOs. So start with DAOs with newsletters or forums that get into their own governance (Shapeshift, Maker, Optimism) or cover the state of decentralized governance in general (BanklessDAO, Forefront)
http://www.fuse-t.org
heh it's quite a bit different but there are ways to avoid ddos (see dread, recon & co with endgame and onionbalance)
FSD, especially the way he was describing it, was a blunder. the Mars city is a pipe dream... but I absolutely understand why it makes people follow him - he's the only one who set out to build a private space company with the purpose to actually get to Mars, with the side effect of completely uprooting the space launch industry. the achievements are undeniable, but it's the vision that makes the perception be so surprisingly good still. there's literally nobody else who says things like that and has the means to even try.
Please do a few basic googles (like "mandatory vaccination history") before pretending to know what is "unprecedented in history".

You have no idea what you are talking about.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/us/politics/vaccine-manda...
When you're used to a manual, an automatic feels mushy. An EV is directly coupled, so adding a manual transmission makes it more must, rather than less.
There was also an interesting discussion on the r/navyseals forum, frequented by applicants and veterans, which corroborates the steroid use (looks credible, with a pinch of salt as always because the comments are anonymous): https://www.reddit.com/r/navyseals/comments/x1hvaz/death_in_...

> "Sobering read. I really hope steroid use at BUDS isn't as big as this article purports it to be"

>> "It’s pretty accurate, the instructors even make jokes about it “Your roid rage is showing sir”"

>> "How could it not be, anabolics increase performance far outside the natural range and/or let you maintain what you could achieve naturally with far less effort. The effects can last well beyond when you stop taking them.
You could take them from 18-21, keep training and join at 22 without testing positive but retaining a large (physical) advantage"

It's also very plausible from the NYTimes's article alone, from the report that the instructors had stopped testing for steroids, so there was no enforcement mechanism to stop the behavior.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32723422.
I've done the vast bulk of my CL work using just vi. Specifically, I was doing the typical "reload the lisp file" life cycle, rather than the interactive "just redefine this defun" style of development. Even when I used Lispworks, it was "save file, reload it" style of development.

I used CLISP because it had GNU readline. (e) to edit my file, (l) to reload it, and off to the races (I wrote those trivial defuns). No packages, no imports, no asdf. Everything in CL-USER.

I did switch to emacs for one simple reason: tab to reindent. Other than that it was the most basic of emacs use (load file, save file, ^s to search, cmd-XCV for cut and paste, pgup, pgdn). No Sexpr navigation, no buffer juggling, none of that, no lisp integration whatsoever outside of paren matching and the tab to indent.
Ovarit has some interesting threads on the Kiwifarms takedown and the possibility of it happening to their site:

https://ovarit.com/o/Ovarit/146818/if-kiwifarms-stays-down-o...

https://ovarit.com/o/Cancelled/150947/kiwifarms-blocked-by-c...

https://ovarit.com/o/Cancelled/151211/kiwifarms-latest-state...

https://ovarit.com/o/Cancelled/152066/the-kiwi-has-been-rend...

Choice quote: "What I find interesting is of ALL the things on kiwi farms (and there's some vile stuff on there, threads about special needs kids, woman hating, racism etc.) and what took them down is the documenting of literal correct information about these groups of people. Not just nasty behaviour just to be mean and talk shit but documentation of this group of men's behaviour.

"There's a level of totalitarianism that’s pretty scary."
I often really like this community, but I have found people here especially prone to falling to the "no-dissapointment-in-my-life-is-ever-my-fault trap". ie.: believing that they are where they are due to vast and well-executed systemic conspiracies rather than mistakes, missteps, or a simple lack of motivation or ability.

That's really unfortunate, and results in a lot of non-self-aware political bickering.
That's both a function of technological efficiency (direct heating vs heat pump), and the temperature deltas we need to achieve. Using my Southern Ontario reference point, typical cooling needs are only 10-20 degrees C, while typical heating needs would be closer to 20-30 degrees.

As use of heat pumps increase, and average temperatures continue to climb, the balance between heating and cooling costs will shift (this is obviously a very regional phenomenon).
How high should you get on the VC bandwagon?
Could yo I elaborate on this? Do you mean things like exceptions that are not explicitly dealt with in the code?
At least in a Tesla it will automatically dial torque down when slip is detected. It accomplishes this via lowering amperage to the motor, it also can adjust wheel spin using individual wheel braking.

All of this is already working fine with no transmission... Adding one to a consumer EV for snowy conditions is a step backwards in terms of more stuff to break and maintain.

I believe this makes more sense for heavy equipment and freight trucks. You wouldn't want to have the gear ratio for heavy load all the time, as it would require the motor to spin at high RPMs (inefficient) to maintain highway speeds even when the amount of torque required is low.
What's the political agenda behind eating more/less red meat?
Right now it is a pre-transistor in the 1920s and 1930s.

Vacuum tubes are analogous to the computers that we have now. In 1925 a patent for the concept of a FET was filed. It wasn't until 1948 that we had a working transistor.

That took 23 years to go from concept to useful invention. It isn't too surprising that a quantum computer is harder.
Pretty much what claudiawerner said in the sibling comment.

When I used to drink coffee, I took sugar in it. Sugar in diners often came in a dispenser[1]. I could tell when I had the right amount of sugar poured in from one of these even though it might clump on a humid day and pour freely on a dry day. With an analog watch, I can do this for time, but with a digital I cannot.

A digital watch requires much more conscious thought; if I log all my activities and make a spreadsheet &c. I can calculate a range of time it will take me for all my tasks, but with an analog watch I can just intuit it. To some personality types doing all of this seems to be enjoyable, but it's quite painful for me.

1: Like this: https://rapidswholesale.com/browne-halco-12-oz-sugar-pourer....
The article must be written someone who is not an expert in this field, or an expert who is suppressing information to disinform with his conclusion.

I say this because:

1. They say nothing about the breakthroughs in quantum error correction that is allowing IBM to promise a leap from 89 qubits today to 4,000 qubits in 2025 (still not enough on its own for a cryptographically relevant quantum computer - CRQC0, running Shor's algorithm for exponential speedup in breaking e.g. RSA 2048, which some research suggests would take 20M qubits including those for quantum error correction)

2. He did not mention Grover's algorithm which provides quadratic speedup (for time complexity of searching for a particular string in an unsorted list of N items) over their classical counterparts. However, even quadratic speedup is considerable when N is large.

3. He did not mention the breakthrough by University of Chicago researchers that showed multiple quantum computers can be entangled over tuned optical fibers to act as a single quantum computer. This still doesn't mean that we can go from 4,000 qubits to 20M by networking 5,000 of the quantum computers IBM promised for 2025, in 2025, but it provides a trajectory for networked quantum computing as a horizontal scaling strategy.

4. He did not mention the $100B allocated this year by the Whitehouse/Congress for CRQC research.

What is his motive in giving us such an incomplete story with such a skewed conclusion? Is he working for a hedge fund that is shorting some stock? Or is he just a lay person trying to sound intelligent by writing about a field where they're not sufficiently informed?
I've only skimmed the article so their solution seems like a totally valid way to do polygon intersections for their purposes, but for people that want to do this in a more rigorous way, there's something called the Vatti clipping algorithm which does boolean operations on arbitrary 2D polygons (in polynomial time).

To find polygon intersections, one can do a boolean "intersect" operation to see if the resulting operation has any results. If so, the polygons intersect. If not, then they're disjoint.

Angus Johnson has created ClipperLib [1] which implements Vatti's algorithm and is available in a variety of languages, including C++, with ports to Javascript by others [2].

CGAL [3] can do polygon clipping but, from my own experience, ClipperLib is about 400 times faster.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatti_clipping_algorithm

[1] http://www.angusj.com/clipper2/Docs/Overview.htm

[2] https://github.com/junmer/clipper-lib

[3] https://www.cgal.org/
Adding the reference [1] in case it is obscure for some.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs [video][language]
The funniest additional one would be "“Storyboards are the instruments of the cowards.”"

https://collider.com/werner-herzog-masterclass-interview/
Well, this seems to be the first retraction which happened a couple of days ago. Now there will be a more extensive search through all the rest of the papers with the same authors. Who knows if the Nobel prize will be retracted as well, no matter if they find more problematic papers or not.

A bit early to say "it worked" as everything here just happened.
Moderately amusing the first time you read it, but he's been banging on about it in book after book. Mocking French intellectual poseurs is fair game I guess, but then he started having a go at Feyerabend? Oh dear.
How can I bypass/disable this on sites that try to force it on me?
> cancer: FR1 (450 to 6 000 MHz): EMF are probably carcinogenic for humans, in particular related to gliomas and acoustic neuromas

I looked into their data for glioma (see page 51, table 4). They used 8 total studies. 3 studies showed glioma to be more likely in mobile phone users, 2 showed no difference, and 3 showed glioma less likely in mobile phone users. From this they concluded "probably carcinogenic for humans, in particular related to gliomas"?

This is a long paper and I didnt read it all, but I'm not sure I see how that conclusion is supported.
Is there a single example of any modern rich country where it is easy to enter?
Why not start eating humans ? this would solve many issues at the same time. More nutritious and ecological than eating plants I suppose.
Right, but are people likely to switch to those when they find out that red meat is bad? Or are they more likely to switch to pork/chicken? My previous comment doesn't say those protein sources don't exist, only that people are unlikely to switch to them.
I’m not optimistic (due to climate change, I think the entire US southwest is basically screwed). However, we noticed that people put these in 100+ years ago. They’ve failed due to lack of maintenance, but the place used to look like the “after” pictures, and currently looks like the “before” pictures:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/18/world/bunds-geoengineering-re...

It looks easy enough to do, assuming you own a tractor.
Not the number, but the "thing" itself.

It's a snap to fold a piece of paper in half, thirds[0], quarters, sixths, eighths, (etc), but I'm not aware of a trick that lets you divide a sheet into tenths.

[0] Higher powers of three seem tricky too.
OMG… that is a lot!
Biology has a pretty limited set of building blocks to work with.

Drexler specifically wanted assemblers that could work with aluminum and that could do some extra stuff with carbon that biology can't do.
Growing up in Indian small towns in the 90s, I remember how people would casually mention the number of air conditioners they had in their house.

The cost of the AC, while hefty, wasn’t that big of a deal. The real brag was that they could afford to keep X number of ACs running.

Even today, my dad switches off the AC in his room early morning to cut down on his power bills.
Ask HN: Best self-powered security system?
I am looking for a security system (camera, etc) to be installed in a remote location, served by solar power + battery.

Surprisingly, I didn't find anything at a reasonable price that can also offer several days of autonomy.

Anyone can offer suggestions?
While difficult, it's I think within the reach of just about every individual in the developed world to empathize with and extend a helping hand to those who were merely unlucky to be born into poverty.

Giving What We Can is a community of thousands of people giving at least 10% of their pre-tax income to the most cost-effective charities they can find (consider GiveWell.org for research). I'm a proud member and hope more people join.

I'm happy to share thoughts on how to cultivate the empathy and gather motivation to act to help others as well.
The energy historian who says rapid decarbonization is a fantasy
Been using it so far using a PPA with my own unreleased Python dialect that compiles to PHP. Gonna be a solid release.

Amazing to see so much evolution for PHP- autoloading and automatic file-based routing are such killer features for rapid development.

Fibers are going to be a gamechanger for performance once libraries start adopting it.
> Currently, health insurers are the only segment where profits (and “admin costs”) are directly capped via the ACA's MLR rules.

Capped at a percent of premium revenue, which gives them the perverse incentive to raise healthcare costs so their 20% maximum cut gets bigger.
No you can't. evil-mode gets pretty close though.
Why the US Army electrifies this water [video]
Thank you. I was going to make the same post. I'm a huge fan of all of the mod-cons, but for most of human history people lived with pre-industrial-revolution levels of tech.

And we still had rich and poor.

Poverty is when you don't have a good place in society, lack of respect by your fellows, and no security for your physical safety or property.
It wouldn't surprise me if beef turned out to requires significantly more feed per kilogram.
Let's say you taxed unimproved land at 1000%. What's the result? No one will hold it. OK, great you say. The government won't develop it. It'll sit there, owned by the government, unimproved.

Great. What has been accomplished exactly? Georgism is not the solution. Relaxing zoning laws and bureaucracy is. Private money already wants to develop their unimproved land if it's economical to do so. If it's not, taxing them more won't accomplish anything other than result in the land going back to the government, who will do nothing (historically) with it.
History will tell, but I have a bad feeling about "Apple Silicon".

They would not use that naming if they intended to support the official ARM ISA in the long run.

The only thing that would prevent them for going the proprietary route is if they can't.
> We're on track on a big part of Europe being energy-restricted this winter, so at least right now there's not an abundance of energy even for the current needs of the first world

That's self-inflected and the result of poor choices. In a just world, Merkel would get more blame for cozying up to Russia, and the rest of Europe would as well for choosing austerity. As world events have shown, austerity is not robust in the face of events you can't control. It leads to a fragile energy system prone to catastrophic failure.

Poor choices, poor results. Europe can do better if they learn from this travesty.
That just sounds like a form of mob rule. That's why most democratic countries have some basic rights enshrined in a constitution rather than dependent on the will of the voters.
This stack is neat, but what is even cooler is that all that nickel they mine is from a meteorite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_Basin
"But he talked like one of us!"
I would claim that poverty also comes from impoverished ecosystems, and lack of civil rights, so it's really wealth = access to energy + clean environment + civil rights
All poverty is institutional and societal poverty. People are poor not because of lack of energy, but because the societies they live in lack the inclusive institutions that can create those patterns for energy use, education, healthcare and anything else.

When you put those institutions in place, the effect manifests itself as economic growth, energy use, increased education etc., which in turn strengthen those political institutions, which in turn beget more growth.

Sorry to nitpick an article that primarily talks about energy, not development, but we need to agree on the root problem. If aliens drop an unmovable fusion reactor in Rwanda tomorrow that can output enough free energy to reach western levels, that will probably not lift the country out of poverty but start a bloody civil war about who owns it and can sell the energy to everybody else.
> If you're on a low-to-average income then Europe is probably better. If you're rich then America is better.

Many (most?) people on HN are highly-skilled, highly-paid technologists and likely the latter.
Corruption is the enemy of social progress.
1. Average consumers are not going to install your PWA. I am sorry. Get over it. Geeks and power users maybe, but for the average consumer if you're not in the App Store and Google Play then you don't exist. All further discussion is academic/hobbyist.

2. Even as a developer, I reasonably expect to migrate or re-write an app after 5 to 10 years. If I wanted to work on mainframe or AS/400 systems, then I would do that. But not trying to maintain a mobile app for 30 years without any significant evolution is a feature, not a bug.

3. Even if I did crave multi-decade stability, I would feel no envy toward SPA web frameworks on this front.
On the contrary, the view that life outcomes are due to circumstances and luck leads to the denigration of success and competition, abdication of responsibility for one's life choices, and ultimately to really bad economic policy that will make everyone worse off.

We now see this kind of thing even infecting our education system, and it's driving a lot of liberal people to the political right. Look at how Asian American voters acted in the recent San Francisco school board recall, for example. (Also: try telling those people that their success in our society is due to luck, even though they came here in poverty and were discriminated against every step of the way...)
I’d be surprised if other VC’s are not watching the show and making offers to rejected applicants.
I’d even debate mostly plants part.

I’m heavily biased due to abiding many plants and focusing on meats resolving much of my auto immune issues, but even something as simple as the above isn’t fully accurate.

In my non-scientific, subjective take, I think we’d find more evidence looking into genetic/ancestral links to diets. I know it’s not a new thought, but it may give insights into why some people just handle meat or plants far better than others.