skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I may get slammed for this, but I don’t understand the resources that apparently went into tracking down some kid who stole from an illegal marketplace a decade again

They found the kid in the process of looking for the missing forfeitable BTC from Silk Road. Which explains why the resources...
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Note that this study bases its conclusion only on the subset of the population that had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 during death. Deaths that occur outside of that ~2 week window do not factor into their analysis.

Today only a small portion of excess deaths are “died with covid” deaths.
Not only tech jobs (which certainly have been the biggest factor in lifting tons of lower income to middle/higher income status) but overall due to globalization, lot of jobs have opened up in the past 25 or so years.

I grew up in the 80s and 90s in India and moved to US in 2000. Now I am a US Citizen but when I do go back to visit, I literally know people who were poor/lower middle class and they all are now living upper middle class lifestyles (have a nice car, eat outside a lot , have their own home etc).

Some factors:

- Globalization of economy opening up in the 90s

- Tech and other jobs (manufacturing etc) but more importantly, lot of global companies opening shop after the economy opened up in 90s. It is still not as friendly to outside companies as say China but things are changing even though slowly in a complex country like India

- Rise of Internet especially since the introduction of Jio Data by Reliance. It has changed the game significantly. An average Indian may not have a Computer necessarily BUT they all have data and internet on their phones and almost everyone can order almost anything on their phone including paying for bills (UPI is amazing)

- Mindset of young people is changing especially as more people are now exposed to other countries/culture through TV, youtube/internet, Movies, Travel. Capitalism is becoming more favorable compared to old school thinking of socialism and the whole "Raj" mentality that was left over by British and continued for decades by previous Govts.

There is still a lot of extreme poverty in pure numbers (population size) but I have no doubts that overall, millions have moved from extreme poverty to lower or middle income status in last 2 decades.
Garner has an epic grammar/usage book that I used years ago when I was a copy editor. Anyone who's in the uphill crusade to rid legal text of all-caps is a hero to me [1].

This is an awesome find -- thank you for sharing.

[1] https://typographyforlawyers.com/all-caps.html
Why link to "hollywoodreporter" when you could link to the actual source.

Anyway, King said: "It ain’t the money, it’s the principle".... what, the principle of paying for a service?

I bought a few King books as a teenager, and even though I was broke, I don't recall saying anything like "f--- that I'm not paying for books". King thinks his Tweets are like his books! That's funny, they are not. His account serves his promotional needs more than it does the needs of people who like his fiction.
> telco's who have to track everyone in order to comply with subpoenas.

Subpoenas are used to compel production of existing information. Speculatively creating info to comply with future theoretical request is not necessary. It's easier to not have the info and truthfully respond to subpoena with "no such data".
Fwiw I would first reach for grep -c but that has the wrong semantics here as it counts matching lines. I think rg -c is the same but IIRC it also has a --count-matches flag which does what you want. But I don’t think that invalidates your point; I think I got lucky and happened to know how to do this already. And it may be that your program is faster anyway (or that it adapts well if you have multiple patterns)
It's weird that this tracker is global with no meaningful filtering by country or region. 100k people laid off out of 3-4 billion working age people seems irrelevant.
96 comment thread from back then (2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12431248
I suspect computers can also help us get deeper. Stuff like computer algebra systems.

Maybe some CAS-assisted work gets us into feedback loops allowing us to go indefinitely, as in a technological singularity.

But the "shallow" part is also quite wide.

You can teach people what you've learned forever, for instance.
>Huh? I see one article about Twitter on the front page right now and one article that might be tangentially related. New is getting spammed with that stuff but not a lot is floating to the top. It’s like that quote from the movie The China Syndrome: “the system worked”

Can't tell if you're just having a go or not, but it's been awful around here the last couple weeks or so.

- https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

- https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Insanity, actually. This is what insane people do.
It adds up. Also, Kessler syndrome potential is not negligible.
Off topic, but I've been very irritated they're removing SMS support. It was a killer feature that allowed me to adopt signal as my sole messaging app.
it brings up "Code completion, search, cross referencing, and all sorts of other feature" and again, those work much less well in ctags / rtags than with a proper IDE
age is just a number, some people may have a prejudice against larger numbers, and that to me, seems irrational
But what about human rights? Screw what the people in El Salvador think about the arrests. Listen to me, a western Twitter champion of human rights.
Early adopters with disposable income and a desire for excitement?
Aside from ultimately getting caught, this Zhong guy seems pretty smart.
Twitter is a major social media platform. It not only affects social media users, it also shapes our politics and our society, like it or not (I don't).

The current shitshow may be tiresome to read about, and I'm just as sick of the new boss as anybody, but it's definitely important news, and it's definitely tech-related.

Sorry you have to live in this timeline. I'm sorry any of us have to live here.
Brian Johnson, the “Liver King” is presenting a physique almost certainly unattainable without supplying anabolic steroids, testosterone and/or human growth hormone to the body.
Given that, I’d take claims with regards to his diet with a grain of salt. I’d even go as far as to extend that skepticism to all fitness “influencers”.
> I think this is a pretty small point to get hung up on. The rest of her article is perfectly reasonable.

The above isn't the only place that betrays her lack of understanding, though.

For instance, she confidently writes "Ion traps are used for example by IonQ and Honeywell. They must “only” be cooled to a few Kelvin above absolute zero," but this is just wrong; trapped-ion qubits do not, a priori, require cryogenic cooling. Yes, lowering the temperature can be useful for incidental reasons, as it improves the vacuum quality and reduces some technical excess noise sources, but this is simply an engineering choice. Many of the high-profile results in trapped-ion quantum information processing were in fact achieved in room-temperature systems. And even if one does opt for cryogenic cooling, the ~tens of Kelvin regime of interest here is incomparably easier to reach than the tens of milli-Kelvin required for superconducting qubits and other solid-state spin platforms (where those elaborate dilution refrigerator "chandeliers" are actually required to keep the qubits intact). In fact, in ratiometric terms, the temperatures of interest are actually closer to room temperature than to that millikelvin regime!

Like many physicists, I'd naturally be inclined to agree with Sabine Hossenfelder as far as her distaste of marketing hype is concerned, but in making authoritative-sounding statements without having the knowledge to back them up, and misrepresenting what one would hope she knows are the actual scientific facts in the service of a punchy script, she is hardly doing any better than those private-sector hype evangelists she ridicules. Beware of Gell-Mann Amnesia…
Because it's not the same as vim, they've made some fundamentally different choices and their default binds reflect that. I genuinely think helix stands to be better, it lacks the community and thus the extensions of vim/neovim as well as decades of experience, so it's hard to replace it, but for me it's managed to nevertheless.
Yes, but you are falling down instead around.
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not everyone wants to actively invest their money, "spend/invest your money or lose it" is a pretty shitty attitude
In my analogy the fox is war profiteers and the hen house is the rest of society.

ISW is always pro-war. They are Neocons, it is a foundational part of their ideology. Any drivel coming from that place needs to be viewed through that lens.

In other news, McDonalds thinks we should eat more burgers.
Reminds me of this SMBC: https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2490

I wonder if Apple will offer an opt-out subscription for ads once they get annoying enough.
I agree the signal to noise ratio in the information space is pretty low, but I think that the problem is abundance of low quality information rather than censorship. It has always been the case that true material information is kept under wraps.

I think that it was either Lao Tsu or Huey Newton who said, “Those who know don’t tell. And those who tell don’t know.”
> Myth: Esperanto is internationally neutral,

Somewhat. It is a matter of degree, relative to what came before.

> and is the best (some say the only) candidate for an eventual world-wide auxiliary language.

I'm not in a position to say what is best for such a purpose.

> Reality: Esperanto is overwhelmingly European in design, content and aspiration, and has nothing in common with most non-European languages - such as Arabic and Swahili, two other languages which are widely used as linguae francae in other parts of the world.

Sounds plausible, but I'll need to verify.

> It is thus woefully deficient for world-wide auxiliary use - ...

This does not follow. What are some convincing supporting arguments?

>... a role which English, for all its faults, has been fulfilling perfectly well for decades.

Perfect? This kind of reasoning is laughable.
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Kessler syndrome is important but somewhat unrelated.

Beyond LEO the drag is really negligible in the sense that other factors (e.g. gravitational abnormalities, the moon) have larger effects.
I think the clear winner of functionality, form and easy of finding fellow speakers definitely goes to Ithkuil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithkuil

Which, slightly less sarcastically, is probably a great runic language for us to start using for posterity on long lived markers (like at radioactive waste sites) since any Ithkuil manual or reference is so incredibly dense that it's rot rate can probably be measured on the scale of centuries.
Debit / credit cards always show country where card is issued. By now you literally can't get card from a country you are not reside in. I guess there are few prepaid card exceptions, but they're generally rarely accepted anywhere. Banning those on e.g Stripe is super easy and a lot of SaaS do it.

I not saying it's impossible to bypass these checks, but you either have to be very tech-savvy person to do it right or you you even have to break the law.
Kind of an irrelevant point given that none of these are externalities.
right, i was going to make a similar kind of critique (but probably less lucidly). the effect sizes are tiny and the confidence intervals overwhelm the supposed conclusions. seems to be motivated reasoning rather than impartial science.

covid may cause a rise in heart disease in unvaxed individuals relative to vaxed, but this study does nothing to support, and especially doesn't prove, that contention. one thing it does reveal is that the overall incidence rates for myo-/pericarditis are pretty small, vaxed or otherwise.

what would be more interesting is a comparative study of incidence relative to similar cardiopulmonary infections like the flu. that would tell us whether heart disease from covid is something to worry more about than our ambient worry over heart disease in general (which seems relatively mild compared to covid).
Wouldn't it at the very least be a recognized foreign currency, since it's the official currency of 1(?) country
RSA depends on large prime factors being hard to recover from their product.
I had an 8 week dizzy spell in fall of 2020. Never had anything like it before, didn’t have any other symptoms. Went to ENT and ears were completely fine.

I have no idea if it was anxiety or Covid, but the dizziness was disorienting, at the worst I couldn’t walk , it felt like I was on a boat. During this time I had anxiety attacks almost non stop-triggered by the vertigo. As soon as I started to notice the vertigo I would begin to spiral because it was so unprecedented and disorienting. It just cleared up on its own after 8 weeks.

Part of the vertigo was dizzy spells every time I stood up.

I had ~ptsd from it for a full year, every time I stood up I would brace for the vertigo ,

Hope you find some relief soon
Copyright law doesn't care about "use". It cares about copying and redistribution. The code at issue here was copied by GitHub and OpenAI for training. A fair use defense is warranted here because if it's successful no license will need to be abided by.
Very much agree on the edits as long as history is preserved. Same for the clients - it would be nice to be able to send history from client to client (or even just have cross-client backup loading).

Personally, I would like a long press / long click option to switch to "send and enable disappearing messages." It's a small thing, but it would make it easier to move back and forth between archived and unarchived conversations.
> the telcos can't just say "we don't keep that data."

Not sure what country you are in, though that is untrue in USA. Businesses keep whatever business records they desire, and some required regulatory/personnel data. Even if they have the data a USA attorney can try to argue that the request is unduly burdensome or too broad and ask court to quash subpoena.
> Because it was implicit - we are discussing circumcision of infants, not circumcision of adult males with phimosis.

Infant phimosis exists and it generally requires circumcision. Regarding the post I replied to, I'm not obligated to divine implicit claims from absolute statements. If someone has made an absolute claim with with no stated qualifications or context whatsoever, that is a fundamental error I have a right to rebut it. No context needed on my part.

> Of course it's motivated by animus - mutilation of infants is disgusting. It should not be done, unless explicitly needed in individual cases due to medical issues, just like any other kind of amputation.

> Yes, and the first step is to stop mutilating children in general just for the sake of mutilating children in general.

Just to reiterate, the first step is to understand the appropriate context for when circumcision is necessary and when it isn't, whether of an infant or adult. People don't mutilate children for the sake of mutilating children. The reasons may vary in quality and acceptability, but the general understanding of why parents and doctors advocate for circumcision is as a means and attempt to make the child's present or future life "better" (for some definition of the word). Whether the reasoning for "better" is acceptable depends on the particular case being examined.

I would also add that almost all surgeries are accomplished by mutilation, even the ones deemed uncontroversial and necessary to save an infant's life. Instead of throwing FUD around with words like "mutilation", it would help your case to make a clear, coherent, and consistent point.

> Speculation of religious hatred is completely uncalled for.

If the animus isn't directed towards the medical practice of circumcision, then by process of elimination it surely must be against its religious practice. Historically, religious figures (to my knowledge, Judaic and Christian) have advocated for circumcision and employed people to undertake the task on behalf of the church/temple/etc. In some sects/denominations, the extra-medical practice of circumcision continues to exist. It would make sense that the anti-circumcision posts have much (if not more) to do with the posters' revulsion towards the faith(s) they grew up in, and of which circumcision is a permanent marker.
that sounds really interesting. I've been doing a bunch of things and the flow is where the flow is irregular- sort of weird state machines. Putting it into a generator kind of things seems worth a try.
It's not being upset over money, the point is not wanting proprietary code to include my code or code derived from mine.

I don't care if people make money using GPL'd code, but I do care if they take the code and strip the license so they can use it in non-free projects.
> Higher burnup, higher efficiency, and higher enrichment means less waste. Much less waste.

No it doesn't. The really bad waste (because it outmasses the rest by four orders of magnitude) is in a tailings pond that will be 'remediated' by pulling a plastic sheet over it in Namibia, or being pumped into the ground water in Kazakhstan, or spilled onto the farm land in Navajo. Higher enrichment means more of that.

Reducing high grade waste by 20% at the cost of doubling that seems like a step backwards. Don't you keep saying the amount of high grade waste is completely insignificant? How would reducing something completely insignificant help? It'd be like touting a new solar panel using half the boron dopant reducing it to a microgram at the expense of using 10x as much silver as a nuclear plant rather than 5x.

> Another advantage is the fact this is a Small Modular Reactor. China wants to build 18 by the end of the decade. That is iteration. That's how you drive the cost down.

How much does fabricating the microspheres and then the pebbles cost? How much does de-fabricating them to achieve 'less waste' cost?

I seem to have found the actual upside. It's designed to be a drop in replacement on a coal generator. This makes sense and reduces radioactive waste slightly (or rather puts it in the ground in Niger rather than the air in china).
I don't know about other platforms, but Signal on Android supports backing up to a file, as well as direct transfer of data to another phone.
So then if you have 2 people, person 1 who only wants death threats to be disallowed.

And person 2, a person who thinks that any criticism of the government should be banned, then you think that these two people are the same?

That would be ridiculous.

Support of free speech is on a spectrum. And yes, some people support free speech more than other people, and not everyone is the same.

Some people support more free than others, even if everyone wants death threats banned.
Light office work still requires looking at screens, inputing things and the device being on.

Macbooks provide best in class displays, keyboard, touchpad, and battery life.

Not to mention many non-macbook laptops apparently not sleeping properly. No idea how widespread that one is but I see it in like every laptop thread including this one.
You make it sound like every employee TCS/Infosys hires are like that. Yes there is fraud and issues with the bodyshops and I am not a shill for these companies but these companies hire tons of Americans as well and create 1000s of jobs in America for Americans. So a blanket statement doesn't add much value.
Read my comment again. I claimed no such thing.
It's a good case for reducing our defense budget, but if we get rid of our government then we no longer have a way to regulate the market. If we had better consumer protections then this wouldn't be a problem (surprise surprise - we don't).
Regarding population decline vs. extreme dexterity... there's surely a good bit of room to improve our ability to discover and foster the dexterous extremes. If "nurture" plays any fraction of a role in the process, there are too many paths through life in this world that would still deny someone the opportunity to achieve their potential dexterity. As a baseline, I'm just talking about abject poverty / famine / war and other horrors that would easily divert someone from even the opportunity to be spotted as a prodigy.

So even if world population declines for a while, I suspect it'd be possible to enjoy more mathematical talent in the coming decades / centuries.
Call it the "Jordan Peterson Effect", since he seemed to go through that cycle the fastest.
> I said elsewhere that this would be more reasonable as a tax investigation

It was also a tax investigation, which is why IRS criminal investigatoes were involved, and there clearly were tax violations involved, they just weren’t part of the plea bargain.

> it’s (in my opinion) a pretty bad precedent that investigations should be prioritized by “how much cash can we seize”

I agree that prioritizing prosecutions that way would be, but Zhong doesn’t seem to have particularly been a prosecutorial priority. OTOH, spending investigative resources to find know forfeitable assets under an existing conviction seems a perfectly sane and responsible use of resources
> I don't agree with your take that both parties are equally responsible though, one of them has consistently used political gridlock as a weapon, since Obama years.

Is political gridlock the root of the problem? Help me understand how only one party is responsible.

Interesting you mention Obama. He ran on an anti-war platform, which was fairly out of line with the media and general American politics at the time. That alone was a big reason to vote for him.

But what did he do? An unprecedented increase in drone attacks. By all measures, Obama let the military industrial complex grow.

> I have a huge grievance with this line, it's literal Russian propaganda you are repeating.

How is it propaganda? Are you staying this IS NOT exactly what Russia stated, repeatedly since the early 2000s?
If you find a bug in a multiplayer FPS (let's say d-pad rocking to allow you to wall-climb or something) that gives you a competitive advantage, and you use that competitive advantage to best players and win their assets in combat, can you be arrested for fraud/theft?
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The underlying telephone network is in most cases packet-switched now anyway, so fax-to-fax is exactly as point-to-point as a TCP connection.
Oh, absolutely, but the further back you look the harder it will be to find the actual recordings. My point is only that it is revisionist to call the Republicans the “"any election we don't win is fraudulent" party”, when both parties have indulged in that fantasy over and over.

Honestly, it’s best to assume that both parties are cheating as hard as they possibly can. Certainly low–level frauds are found out in every election.
I'll watch/listen to "Sabine Hossenfelder, Roger Penrose, Michio Kaku".
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Normal jobs become harder to acquire during economic "down" periods. Hunting freelance remains the same in my experience.