skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are catastrophes and setbacks, but there is no case of entire civilization going down the drain.

Indus Valley and Minoan cultures are but only the most well-known ones. Teotihuacan is an interesting "maybe"--the dynamics at the end of Mesoamerican Classical period are less well-known than the Bronze Age collapse (which itself is pretty enigmatic).

> The more advanced knowledge that is nascent in the teaching of the sciences does not seem to have propagated itself to how science is applied at the largest scale, less, how the science explains things to the public.

The problem isn't the scientists. Popular anthropology and history, as fielded to the public, makes the goal of telling people the truth subordinate to a particular narrative. The cultural elite of today are the ones that are pushing this narrative, and shamefully, the things in the history books in primary and secondary education are part of this (witness the extreme political backlash today towards the teaching of the idea that our ancestors once did bad things). Scientists have been pushing back against this for literal decades--longer than you or I have been alive, most likely.

People like Hancock aren't helping. Instead, they seem to prefer things like, well this statement:

> As said, this is just scientific conservatism that exists due to the scholastic roots of modern scientific establishment.

I've explained multiple times already how it's not the scientists who believe this, and you're still coming back telling me that this is the rot in the field of science that needs to be exterminated. One gets the feeling that it's not about trying to uncover the truth, but participating in a crusade against "the establishment."

(I'd respond to the other points, but quite frankly, I don't see the point. It's clear that you're invested in the narrative, given that you're completely ignoring the points I'm making that there are alternative explanations which explain the same fact, so providing more facts seems unlikely to do anything.)
STW GC is only for ParallelGC right? Does not apply to G1GC, ZGC or Shenandoah?
Yes, and In Japan you can eat raw chicken at plenty of restaurants

https://www.google.com/search?q=%E9%B3%A5%E5%88%BA%E3%81%97&...

it's good.
Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code
Yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_accounting_firms
> There is no such thing as a confounding factor for a correlation.

Sure there is.

As an example, let's say there's a positive correlation between the dose of some antidepressant and the probability of suicide. There could be a confounding variable with respect to the severity of depression in those samples such that people with more severe depression are more likely to take larger doses and more likely to commit suicide. The original correlation may not necessarily be between the dose of the antidepressant and the probability of suicide, but rather the severity of the depression and the probability of suicide. In other words, the correlation could be a correlation of the wrong thing because you didn't control for depression severity.

It does not matter only for causality, but also for correlation. In both cases, it's important to control for confounding variables so that you're measuring and analyzing the actual variable(s) that you're trying to, not some other variable(s) (i.e., confounding) indirectly. Otherwise, it may no longer be a relationship, whether causal or correlative, of the thing you think it is, but of some other thing.
I don't think this has been particularly ignored - in epidemiology circles, the reaction, by and large was "Huh. That's weird - I wonder why that is?"

But it's also not particularly actionable. In terms of a modifiable intervention, "Quick, everyone take up smoking!" is a horrible idea, so it remains in the domain of "A scientific curiosity, and a rare 'W' for one of the worst voluntary health risks one can have."

That's not a cover up.
To avoid syncing my calendar and contacts to the cloud, I'm using wireguard as a always on VPN on my phone, to connect to a locally running CalDav/CardDav server. Wireguard on Android can be setup to only affect specific apps, so my DavX app is the only one using the VPN.
Using the phone analogy, Siri is a string with two cups on either end.
Great for some but you know arizona doesnt require I renew my license until the 2050's
confirmed. it's not changing. haven't lived there for a while, but it'll always be the Sears Tower if you ask me.
You can replace it with K8s ingress but I think it's separate?

https://github.com/openshift/router

Looks like you can run this on native k8s so maybe not a big deal anyways
That "we" in "we survived" is doing an awful lot of work. "We" also survived many rounds of bubonic plague and suchlike. Those who didn't, though, presumably don't get to count themselves among that "we".

For the purposes of these kinds of conversations, I think I might prefer some sober estimates of costs and benefits over platitudes.
> an AI taught to drive safely will be significantly better than humans at it.

That would depend on which human you have in mind. Some are 100 x more dangerous than others. (See the link below.) Or 100 x safer depending on what you consider normal

You don't happen to know about any statistics about fatalities per 1 billion vehicle-km for (partly) self driving cars?

To compare with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic...

Edit: i found:

> Overall, autonomous vehicles (AVs) were involved in more crashes: 9.1 crashes per million miles traveled, compared to 4.1 for conventional cars. However, compared to injuries experienced in traditional vehicle collisions, the ones involving injury were minor.

https://1800injured.care/self-driving-car-accident-statistic...

If that's reliable info, then they'll eventually get better than an average human in the US (or are already).

And in some countries, they could be an amazing improvement -- see the insane amount of fatalities, in some countries (Wikipedia link above).
Archive link:

https://archive.today/Q64fL
Have been thinking about exactly this workflow and of course Simon is way out ahead. I recommend taking a look at Simon's daily notes logs too, really fascinating back and forths.
Can confirm that Global Accelerator helped us avoid this issue today.
Learn how it works? It's a rotary phone! Just turn the disk the appropriate amount for the number you're dialing and loose. You could train a chimpanzee to do that.
As a former (briefly, due to an acqui-hire) consultant at one of the big companies mentioned, this was a really interesting read.

I never thought anything the company did was morally wrong per se, it was just a different business model that I didn't really want to be a part of. The role of most people in the U.S. was landing the big deal, talking the client down when things went wrong, and then winning an extension for additional services at the end. Actual implementation was just a cost to be minimized and handled somewhere at one of the company's offshore sites. Somehow it all worked out (usually) even for some truly massive projects.
What do you expect from a country that came up with the saying "best thing since sliced bread", when sliced bread is the worst :)
My observation is that clients hire BigName consultants for one of two reasons:

1 - They need external validation/blame.

2 - They don’t trust their own people to execute.

In reality I’ve found it’s more efficient to just hire the ex-consultants and not pay the markup.
Grandmother sues cop who wrongly targeted her home using “Find My” app
In my experience, Accenture is the big body shop. I've worked at companies that outsource tech strategy, new system requirements / scoping, delivery and development, and post deployment support and maintenance 100% to Accenture.

There are regional hubs they have (I've worked with Philippines and India and heard of Eastern Europe) for the support and maintenance.

There are some back office financial shared services (e.g., AP / AR / cutting POs) that they also support. I wouldn't be surprised if there was more.

Accenture can give you everything from the PowerPoint slides up to the people that will be seconded or placed in your organization as contingent workers / contractors.
This doesn't at all appear to be the governments argument though?
Because people know and like Markdown. It’s good enough so they don’t go looking for a replacement.

Markdown is used enough that you are going to need to know the syntax. So a competitor doesn’t just have to better, it has to have enough additional merits to be worth learning in addition to Markdown.
I have been to the USA only twice, to San Francisco and to New York, and the absence of flavour and substance in the food is what really stuck with me. Everything was so bland and generic and non filling. The two only exceptions were a cheesecake at the Cheesecake Factory, and a chowder in some small fish shop. And the latter only because I never had it before.

I can really imagine all portions being over sized and saturated with fat and sugar in an attempt to (over) compensate with all its consequences.

And yes, proper fresh French baguette is worth a meal on its own.
Oh sure, I remember running OS 9 on my Cube in 2000 before the OS X beta was available. My point was that the monitor frame shown is not consistent with the note in the stickies that indicates a mid-90s timeframe.
And yet you don’t touch ‘greedo for the same conduct?

You’re a pathetic bug-man.
Make sure to drill into the pay scales by location... suburban DC gets a 30% bump. SV/Bay Area is >40% bump over base GS scale.

Why would somebody take the .gov job? Same reason anybody would take a .gov job...
Benefits (though that gap has closed).

Work/life balance.

Job security.

Interesting work (agency-dependent).

Inertia + location (many of my peers who are bureaucrats come from families of bureaucrats and are DC natives)

Anyways, the government can't hire developers not because the salary is too low but because the electorate has decided the government should be "small" which forces outsourcing to the big name consulting/contracting shops.
I too read "A Prayer for Owen Meany" this year, it is beautiful, and despite knowing everything that was coming I still welled up.
I've seen XMPP floating around TAK platform as chat service (although apparently one could run chat service directly on the CoT protocol as well)
This is a much better watch, and features Jean-Yves Bordier before he retired.
My logic is to build highly resilient infrastructure given the constraints available. Your definition of "poor service" is not what I have experienced in my 10 year career as a SRE, because I build around your definition of what makes it poor and make it work as it should. It's called chaos engineering, and companies like Netflix have been doing it for years with their Chaos Monkey tool and SRE practices. Doesn't matter what cloud provider you go to, there is ALWAYS unexpected and unannounced downtime unless you build around, plan for, and expect it. But sure, go ahead and tell us all how industry leaders like them are wrong for sticking with what you call "poor service."
> more often than they have prevented your house from being broken into

The whole point is that you can't tell whether that's happened with the data presented, regardless of what you compare it to, and no, once is not too many times given the actual thing we're discussing.

If the existence of Air Marshals prevented one more 9/11 type event from happening, or even a few failed attempts (which would be capitalized on by politicians to push their own agendas), then I would without reservation say they are worth it. We just haven't been presented with that data. In some cases it may not exist. Acting like the answer to that is irrelevant is not the correct way to go about it though, in my opinion.
> Our medical system is a "no-miss" culture that has extreme life altering penalties for physicians that give medical care that leads to harm.

That is the problem. We expect physicians to be faultless, but they're not. If we applied the same standards to everything in life, then life would stagnate, if not grind to a halt.

This idea that everyone who passed their exams is equally qualified is a fiction. Let quacks back in and end defamation lawsuits that silence critics and leave it up to reputation and the market, contracts and standard criminal law. A much more dynamic market in medicine is necessary.
Have you tried to parse it? Even the Swiss army knife of document formats, pandoc, only supports it as an output format.
I'll be incredibly surprised if all this admission-of-guilt-galore doesn't get him in _real_ trouble, even if he manages to get only a slap on the wrist.

To bypass the Paywall: https://12ft.io/https://www.ft.com/content/a1df1d73-9932-4d1...
In that situation I would take the job and do the best I could to satisfy the customer. But I would insist on my company name not being associated with it, or maybe one step further: a statement appearing on the website disclaiming my company’s endorsement of the content. They might not accept that condition, and I’d be happy not to take the job.

This applies in many cases across many fields. Like in Australia we recently had a kerfuffle in which the National women’s netball team protested a particular sponsorship (on pretty stupid grounds, but anyway…). Why not accept the sponsorship but say your piece? Constructive debate is much better than virtue signalling.
I believe it's because it's from The World Ahead issue, which iirc always has bylines unlike the normal weekly paper.
Have we seen studies from India, Peru and a few other countries, japan as well I believe, on ivermectin?
The Ars article does leave out one detail that will probably come as a shock to no one: Ruby Johnson is black.

https://www.aclu-co.org/en/press-releases/aclu-sues-denver-p...
> Wild to see the Seattle Chamber acting like he is making things better in Downtown when 2 blocks down the hill from City Hall 7-Eleven closed up shop due to all the tweakers.

This apparent contradiction is easy to explain.

Forcing people into rehab is considered inhumane. Tweakers are deemed to be victims of society, and therefore the 'correct' solution is to have more tolerance for tweakers. More tweakers out on the street is evidence that the tweakers feel tolerated, which must mean that it's working.

This won't change until you vote out the local politicians who believe these premises: that forcing people into rehab is inhumane. That tweakers are victims of society's intolerance, and that tweakers wouldn't be a problem if we had more tolerance for them.
Does anyone know the address of a website that used to bring up a full blown VM in the browser as a background to whatever the main site was loading?
> Once you have the plutonium, making the bomb isn't an expensive prospect.

Doing anything with plutonium is expensive. It has some strange physical properties, such as going through phase changes, expanding when heated and not shrinking when cooled.
This makes machining difficult. Plus it's toxic and flammable, as well as being radioactive. The Pantex plant has struggled with this for decades. It may be machined in a liquid bath. Usually under remote control. Everything about making a plutonium bomb is hard.

Metallic uranium is not difficult to machine. There's a tech note on how to do it from Union Carbide.[1] Even the radioactivity problem isn't too bad.

> Otherwise, a gun is pretty much all that's needed to have a suitcase nuke.

Truck bomb, yes. Suitcase bomb, no. The minimum size for a gun bomb is rather large.[2] Implosion bombs can be made smaller, but at a cost in complexity and reliability. The US nuclear establishment spent most of the 1950s on that problem.

That's why non-state actors getting hold of weapons grade uranium is a big concern.

[1] https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6580353

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy
Conscientious objections have been permitted for over a century in the U.S., and the last major legal changes to the law were made in the 1980s...
Funny I just had the thought this morning that the common held view of q-tips being bad feels bogus. I couldn't imagine not using them as after a day or two my ears start to feel noticeably clogged. My strategy is to twirl the q-tip around the outer edge of the inner ear, gently moving it further up a tad. It seems to work well.
Tried to get it when changing my address after moving in IL.

Documents weren't perfect. Also you have to let the address settle after moving and getting a new id. (I.e. utility bills that aren't printed out with your address on them)

Short end of the story, I could have done an address change online quicker. Also, use my GE card as my fed id now. (Real Id)
be interesting to graph that against immigration numbers......
>Sure. Source of truth for all our app state? We've built our own thingy ("corrosion", a Rust distribute state system) to phase Consul out with. I'll get Jerome to say things about it.

Looking forward to the blog post!
What happens when a company is found to be in contempt of court?
> Tamiflu reduces symptom severity but not duration. So apparently it's "worthless", because it improves only outcomes that aren't measured.

To be fair, that's not really "being confidently wrong with statistics" so much as "being confidently wrong by ignoring all of the statistics that are inconvenient to collect".
Surprised not to see Lulu publishing on here. Whenever I need a North America hardcover print job, I refuse to use anyone but them -- a 300 page linen hardcover is $20, and gets cheaper as you make the components more and more modest. I print all my own custom notebooks that are laid out just like want this way.
But of the places known to have a large share of cycling, none have mandatory helmet laws (at least as far as I know). Thus, it may not be sufficient but it seems necessary.

If most cyclists wear helmets, why do you need to mandate it?
Eh, worst case you access it via the web-ui, it has been taken over, and it serves a malicious copy of the front-end that steals your password.

But... that seems reasonably unlikely.
Yep. The ability to say "the design was vetted by McKinsey" is exactly the cover that they were being paid to provide.
G1 GC totally has stw mode.
There also studies about how car on-ramps can be built, how sidewalks should be routed, how schools should be organized, etc. etc.

And money has to be split between all those things. A government has to provide for its people’s needs and if its people show no interest in cycling, some other more pressing problem is going to take priority
It might be conceivable that more people hurt their heads on a per-km basis walking than cycling, but I'd be extremely surprised that for the same individual, walking (or driving) a given distance would be more likely to result in a serious head injury than cycling it.
This is the political orientation of the zeitgeist of the training data. A summary. You can construct an orientation in a model by embubbling the training data. Conversations between models constructed on various ideological bubbles will be fascinating ... then omnipresent and boring.
This is a great security measure. Tho it's pretty privacy invasive in some aspects, but otherwise it's good.
> Lots of cryptic little plain-text config files, both in a global directory (usually in `/etc`)

Okay, but AIX quite notably deviates from that, in that it stores a lot of its system configuration in binary format, in a database, the Object Data Manager (ODM). In some ways, AIX's philosophy about storing system configuration is closer to the Windows Registry than to traditional Unix systems. Does that therefore mean that AIX deviates from "Unix design and architecture", and hence isn't a "real Unix"?

> Then look at the things that are only pretending to be a Unix, from NT to OpenVMS to z/OS, and there's a totally different shell or set of shells, there are drive indentifiers and maybe directories, maybe not, with who-knows-what as the delimiter.

So one of your arguments here seems to be, that if a system supports a non-POSIX path name syntax, it cannot be a "real Unix"? Or if its native path name syntax isn't POSIX path name syntax, it can't be a "real Unix"?

But, isn't it true that z/OS natively supports POSIX path name syntax? I mean, when you give z/OS a Unix path, if it is a path to a Unix file it never translates it to an MVS dataset name, because Unix files aren't datasets and don't directly belong to the MVS VTOC filesystem. Now, it is true that the Unix file is contained in a Unix filesystem (HFS or zFS), and that Unix filesystem is contained in a VSAM LDS dataset in the VTOC filesystem. But, if you compare that to z/Linux – a file is contained in a Unix filesystem (ext4 or whatever), and the Linux kernel supports storing that filesystem as a non-VSAM dataset in the VTOC filesystem – so z/OS and z/Linux actually behave pretty similarly here, at least when you use the Linux kernel's IBM VTOC support, the only actual difference is whether the filesystem dataset is VSAM LDS (DSORG=VS) or non-VSAM (DSORG=DA). Also, z/Linux can actually read (non-VSAM/PDSE) datasets in VTOC filesystems (using zdsfs from s390-tools), and for both z/OS and z/Linux, access to MVS datasets in VTOC filesystems is done using a hybrid between Unix and MVS naming syntax (although the details are somewhat different in each case). z/OS supports write too, but I don't see why that's a fundamental issue, given that other components of s390-tools (such as fdasd) have some degree of write support. z/OS and z/Linux are more alike than you seem to think.
I've been meaning to read this just to see if he's plagiarising Roger Williams but with humour added in.
Hi, it's a great project, although I found out that some 68k and PPC software seems to have required things that aren't emulated by either BasiliskII nor Sheepshaver, or at least so it looked when I was playing with it - tried running Macintosh Common Lisp and it always seemed to crash.

Still, reminds me of plying with vMac long ago and this weird world of, to our perception then, barely usable machines ;)
Trump at his place in Florida. Felt quite satisfying.
I can only recommend Threads (1984) if you want a glimpse into just how utterly bleak post-apocalyptic life might be.

https://archive.org/details/threads_202007
Hazard pay is sort of passable for risks like falling off a telephone pole, where you pretty much fully prevent it if you're careful and know for sure whether it happened to you or not. It's not at all compelling (morally anyway) for a risk with much higher odds, where you won't know for twenty years whether it gave you cancer. That's just taking advantage of people's shortsightedness, and I don't think "but I paid them really well" is an excuse.
Never? What if it keeps a criminal from committing future crimes?
Same. I'm perfectly fine with my email address and all my other online accounts disappearing or being completely inaccessible. Nothing else I save is of any real value to anyone but myself. Like, who the hell wants my... ~840hrs archive of my twitch streams?
People just stand farther away from smokers, even outdoors. Because smokers stink. And if your having trouble breathing cause of the Covid, you will go to even greater lengths to not get close to smokers.

But also, people with chronic respiratory problems, ie pretty much all smokers, you won’t notice you have mild Covid. Everyday of being a smoker is like having mild Covid, so less likely to get tested etc.

Lastly smokers are on average lower IQ, lower SES, etc. very hard to control for that health research. I think we do know that lower SES communities were less likely to seek health care including vaccines and testing.