skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s literally dehumanizing. Humans rely on being able to see each other’s faces for a wide range of non-verbal communications reasons. Learning to recognize faces and facial expressions is one of the first skills baby humans learn how to do.

Being from the south, we smile when we pass each other on the street. You can’t do that in a mask. Maybe you folks from NYC and SF don’t miss that—after all you can still glare at people with hostility wearing a mask—but it’s a major loss in quality of life for the rest of us.

Professionals wearing masks in specific contexts is different than advocating for ordinary people to wear masks in public settings.
Pure Nostalgia – 24 Hours in Cyberspace (ABC News NightLine Special, 1996)
Also, the Monaco code editor (a core component of VS Code) was started for the Azure Portal and then used by the IE Dev Tools experience for several years before Atom. VS Code didn't have Electron until after Atom, but they had a running start in several core component areas.
> allow you to disable the way it broadcasts/publicizes your every move on your profile page.

.. except from the owners of Github, and their paid clients ! you don't realize this?
In the movie Men In Black there's a scene where Will Smith's character is applying to become a MIB agent. All the applicants are required to fill in a form and all have difficulty doing so. He is the one who resolves the problem by dragging a low table over to his position to enable him to complete the form easily.
What's stopping a dictatorship from adding these things? It's very strange to assume a dictatorship would be so noble as to not add a tool for abuse, and you include the Chinese government as an example already.

Not adding it today does nothing to ensure a dictatorship cant use it in the future
Yes and no. It's more like google held them hostage and then just shot them without a request for ransom. It is the easy path though, I agree.
> provides stability and continuity and is 100% the right solution (cost inclusive) for some hard problems.

What kinds of hard problems? I think a big part of the discussion here is centered around the fact that aside from legacy software that's exclusively compatible with oracle (in which case you're stuck with it) there isn't yet a compelling reason to use it otherwise vs. eg; postgres w/ a support contract or even something hosted.

FWIW a lot of things people have tried to shoehorn into a traditional RDBMS can be accomplished other ways too.
If you were picking someone to ride herd on an AI generating code are you sure

- You will never need to understand a single bit of what the AI has generated for legal, moral, or strategic reasons?

- You will never need to manually rework a single thing or fix anything ever.

Logically neither statement is true furthermore who do you imagine is writing the tests that ensure correctness? Logically the person you would want to do this task isn't a yokel who understands interpersonal relationships its someone who understands what is being generated so your company wont murder people or get sued out of existence.

Of course you will probably want more than one person doing this task and there ought to be some interface between him and his fellows and between the lot of them and management to ensure good communication and company standards... Maybe a PM?

I find it endlessly fascinating that those who can't do dream about the obsolescence of the useful class deeming the irreplaceable human part of the endeavor is the petty manipulation of each other and ego massaging we all do by necessity to keep human endeavors tied together with bailing wire and barely plodding on. It doesn't speak well for our species.

Beyond narrow parameters self improving arbitrary representation and manipulation of symbolic data is basically AI complete. The toy you would hope to enable you to ask a computer instead of a person for a particular improvement to your website would upon completion represent a short step from the obsolescence not of coders but of humans wrought in vain hope that we can actually control tools smarter than us. It's probably neither "a few years" away nor that fantastic of an idea but do carry on.
It’s a series, not a movie.
I heard so much hype on Andor. I watched the first ep. I just find I'm no longer interested in Star Wars. Studdering androids/robots make no sense. Same with a world with all the tech around and yet people living in tipis.
How does that prevent anything?

An empty promise today is easily broken tomorrow. The best defense-in-depth against future abuse is not building the abusable system in the first place.

Adoption might start as a voluntary choice, but pervasive integration with other technology and services result in it becoming effectively mandatory.

> In general the actually existing surveillance of mobile phones that were in a certain area at a certain time is much more worrisome to me.

Integration of government ID with our smart phones is literally the next step:

https://learn.wallet.apple/id#states-list
This describes my usage too, I also am on a computer all day long, its also where I waste my time. I see my phone as a less useful computer, with the worst typing interface possible and try to use it as little as possible.

I'd be totally content to replace my physical phone, with a virtual one on a computer, provided I could make calls and send/receive text messages. Maybe I need to look into Google Voice...
I don’t know what the nature of the culture is these days, but in hindsight, it’s always been.
Warning - Pantheon only addresses the consciousness upload aspect and consequences and otherwise looks like slight advances in technology otherwise.
Digital books are fine. A few disadvantages:
When paper book publishers/distributors go bankrupt the books don't disappear.
Paper books can't be unsold from you.

Digital book distribution systems suck:
Try lending your digital books to your friends.
Try giving your digital books to to friends.
Try selling your digital books to a used book store.
While we’re listing our ideas for dream screen adaptations, I would love to see the Broken Earth books as an anime series.
Then where do we get the money to pay for things like the justice system, law enforcement, national infrastructure, unemployment benefits, healthcare, pensions, customs, diplomats,...? Switch to a system where the government owns everything and gives people what they need if they work properly?
So tell me, what does the J in JVM stand for?
I am a lay person but here is my understanding:

It's possible to conduct clinical trials that are not randomized in two branches. For example cohort study and the case-control study.

It's also possible to make more human clinical trials that are randomized in more than two branches, see for example the Healey platform [0]. In this case patients have access to several drugs drugs, with one being a placebo. So there is no "Russian roulette" effect where one patient can be enrolled in the control group and die, while a drug could have save him.

Clinical trials now also enroll women (they did not until recently because women could be pregnant) and persons of color and more diverse ethnicity. Until recently drugs were designed for men exclusively even if women have specific symptoms and pathology ... including in heart diseases.

Apparently cardiologists do not like these other kind of clinical trials, but they do not like either the heavy formalism of randomized, double-blind, and placebo-controlled clinical trials.

"Only essential data were to be collected and, wherever possible, much of the follow-up information was derived from national electronic health records (EHRs)"

Actually in real life there a wide chiasm between the trial protocol and the way patients are treated. There are many horrors stories with at least:

- Patients that are "channeled" by a whole industry that exists only for that purpose

- Trials that are conducted by busy CRO which try to streamline costs as much as possible.

There was an excellent post a few weeks ago on this topic.

[0] https://www.massgeneral.org/neurology/als/research/platform-...
Not myself directly, but about 5 years ago I was doing some work for one space agency and there were some Solaris clusters which were older than me.

I’m pretty certain most if not all are still running.
Musk Kills Twitter Audio Feature After Talk with Journalists
You could put storage in the low places.
Phoenix airport first to offer self-driving ride service Waymo
The movie doesn't even cover the full plot of the first book. I'd say the first 3 books are easier to adapt to screen, God Emperor later becomes impossible to adapt cause most of the book is internal monologues.
You have a lot of wiggle room to make what you want happen when you're the government, and arguing the finer points until an insolvency event occurs requires copious amounts of speculation. One of the country's largest utilities entering insolvency isn't a normal bankruptcy is a fact I hope we can agree on.
which is no different from any international remote work. employee protection does not work across borders unless there are specific arrangements involved (like within the EU).
Everyone thinks their system is reasonable, that's the whole problem. Banks obviously don't think chargeback fraud is fraud when they perform fraudulent chargebacks. They think they're reasonably legit, which is why they perform them. Retailers also think their fraud prevention systems are reasonable. Reasonable means different things to different people and it certainly doesn't mean infallible.

Nobody in any of these situations thinks they are being unreasonable.
If you're willing to look at it from a different lens, I'm actually increasing value of a human life that has already been assigned naturally.
It would really have helped the argument if coal had not been turned into a culture war. Are we all ready to admit that coal sucks now?
Setup focus time "meetings" on your calendar where you schedule time to be off slack - people can call you during them if they have to - and close out slack entirely when you're in those blocks.
Aws has done a really good job making encryption fairly simple to enable. It does make some common tasks complex though, like sharing images between accounts. However it’s not fragile or time consuming, and it is typically standardized in an org of any size that requires these sorts of compliance regimes so individual teams don’t need to worry about it. But associating a volume with a key in KMS is not complex or difficult.
Could not agree more. It’s fine and certainly better than Obi Wan and the Book of Boba Fett, but by no means is it rave-worthy.
> in the winter, as we go inside and the air becomes cool and dry, respiratory infections go up.

This winter is the cause the please explain Japan which had it's biggest spikes in summer
The platform is interesting, I changed the voice to make it close to mine own, going to share with my son
> However, the business of being a landlord and renting office space is a pedestrian and profitable venture.

Right, but that’s what Adam Neumann did for himself, then made WeWork his tenant.

Neumann is collecting the rent. WeWork is paying rent.

He took the profitable part out of the company and gave it to himself (for a subset of properties, at least).

That’s the scandal.
It's 'coucher', not 'baiser'.
> If principles mattered more than convenience, most Linux users would be on FreeBSD or OpenBSD instead of GNU/Linux. Either follow your arguments to their conclusions, or understand that Windows/macOS users are doing the same thing as you—making practical tradeoffs.

I'm chiming in with everybody else here, but why do you think that my principles are better served by licensing that is less supportive of my principles?
If Nixon hadn't sent his people to Vietnam in the late 60's and promise the Vietcong a better deal if they walked away from negotiations, He wouldn't have been able to run on 'winning the war' and we would have been out of Vietnam FIVE YEARS EARILER. Nixon was a fuck up, and is still screwing the world today. Piece of shit.
Btw, got any interesting book recommendations? (And yeah, I already know about r/rational ;))

Seems like we both got very similar book tastes. And to recepriociate, I think you might enjoy:
- Pretty much everything by Ted Chiang, but especially Understand
- Asimov's Nightfall
- Greg Egan's Reasons to be happy
How would you compare these cited risks associated with mask wear with the risks associated with more likely C19 infections, and perhaps more important with the emergent recognition of risks associated with long covid?

My wife works with long covid people most of the day every day. Included are young, healthy, active, fully vaccinated people who can hardly walk up a flight of stairs...six months after a very mild C19 infection. Or senior technical members of silicon valley companies you've heard of that are so brain fogged that they are incapable of doing anything like the work they did previously.

Yes, the prior paragraph is anecdotal, strong as it may be. Fortunately scientific studies are starting to gain some understanding of long covid.

Compare all this to the risks associated with wearing masks.

There have been cohorts of people wearing masks all day every day for many decades now. Has there been any evidence of the effects you outlined?
About 1000 times
They didn't. They're having a big spike, right now [1]. It's going to end up being bigger than the summer wave. They had a big spike last winter, too, but they weren't testing as much then.

Comparing the absolute magnitude of these spikes is fraught, because they depend on the number of tests being conducted, (which was rapidly increasing over the course of last year), as well as the many other behavioral changes that were happening at the same time.

[1] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/japan
> To be fair though I remember hearing people talk about the risk of airborne virus pandemics since the 90s.

Airborne pandemics were an established trope in cyberpunk by this time. Masamune Shirow's sardonic Dominion series from the late 80s comes to mind.
> The same thing is happening to Marvel. People checked out after Endgame.

First, it would be weird to say that was because Marvel was falling apart. It was the conclusion of a decade long movie franchise. Of course people might watch something else once the story they had been following was done. It doesn't mean they won't come back or didn't like the new movies, it means they wanted a break.

But mainly, it's also not true. Leaving aside 2020 (when Marvel released their movies all online), let's look at 2021. 4 out of the top 10 movies were Marvel movies (including number 1).

In 2022, they have 3 of the top 10 slots. They were beaten out by the Top Gun reboot and the latest Jurassic Park
Ideally you have enough food in your fridge to last without daily trips to the grocery store, so no, not starving.
> not other people's faces

Well, in that case, it's easy. Other people who are concerned can wear a mask, and said water droplets will land on their mask instead of their face. Problem solved, we have no conflict.

As for why we hate it, here's a good reason for me personally. I have to wear glasses, as I have an extreme prescription coupled with astigmatism. It's so bad LASIK is (or at least, was) high-risk. Wearing a mask with glasses is a miserable experience - you can't stop fogging them up without touching your mask every several minutes to adjust it, defeating the point because you're not supposed to touch it. In which case, wearing a mask (for me) is a self-defeating exercise. There are other reasons but that's my personal biggest one.
> Pleasepleaseplease someone make "Daemon" and "Freedom™" by Daniel Suarez.

Wonderful books but I wonder who would be able to turn them into a decent series. At some point there was a plan to turn Daemon into a movie but that never happened, probably for the best.

I don't know Viking, after seeing what happened to Foundation...
People like content. More content is correlated with longer page counts. Longer page counts are correlated with higher retail prices. Someone said "I want to make more money" and the result was a set of incentives to pad out books with more pages of filler.

Consumers have no reliable way of telling how much actual content is in a book. They only know the page count.
Yes, taking statements out of context and using them to paint a one-dimensional image of a person, whether it's Elon Musk or anybody else, is brain dead.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0142032/ was actually quite good (as was the followup Children of Dune).
This is a unique form of privilege. Most people don’t have the choice to “disconnect”. It’s engage or die. Not that I think technology is the be all and end all, but I think we are lucky if we are in the position to be able to shun it. That’s all I am saying.

Edit: OK, I am probably wrong about this. Sorry for the stupid opinion :(
Sorry I don't have a link but I read few years ago that dry air typical of heated indoor spaces in winter means that virus (or maybe virus + moisture we breath out) stay suspended in the air longer
Not so fast. I’d wager that repetitive padding is more effective at getting ideas into your brain for the same reason you don’t retain as much material from SparkNotes. There’s less exposure and time spent with the ideas in the shorter work.
I put together a list of Photo editing apps Influencers can check out and I a Sharing app Influencers can use to quickly share photos.
Buckle up everyone I hear 2023 is the year of the Linux desktop!
Not going to take a position on the latest Twitter drama; just want to point something out:

>Narcissists are made not born

I have a background in abnormal psychology and this is false. Narcissists are either born or the behavioural disorder forms in very early childhood. I'm on mobile right now but will find a source and come back to edit this reply.

Again, not taking sides or even care much about the Twitter thing. Just wanted to point that misconception out.
It puts the war back into Star Wars.
No, I'm saying that Firefly is and was good. It never got a chance to become bad.
Yes make sure to tell your doctor you think wearing a mask is before they work on you or you mother or your child. Tell them you think masks are dehuminizing.

Or just skip to what you really mean, tell your doctor who is going to operate on your or your child that you do not think they work.

Moron.
Holy crap, I never knew about this. Wow. That's a level of irresponsibility that I did not think would exist even in that part of the world. Incredible.
I gather that I am not adjacent to your field of practice by any means but this resonates with me deeply.
Ignoring the tradeoff doesn't make it go away, and if you don't consciously put a value on a human life, you'll probably wind up far from the Pareto frontier. In this case, for instance, thinking in terms of deaths-per-TWh is exactly what you want in order to fulfill our energy needs with as few people dying as possible. If a little "ghoulishness" saves lives, then I'll happily be a ghoul.
For VAT this is already defined (in the EU): wherever the purchaser is when they get their goods handed to them. If I drive over the border to Germany, I pay German taxes. If I buy online and have it shipped to the Netherlands, I pay Dutch taxes.

A digital good is handed to me wherever I am when I purchase it, so I pay taxes in that jurisdiction.
If you stop paying for data storage, the default is you should expect it to be deleted.

If there was a problem with insufficient warning, that's a problem, but not a hostage problem.
What "North Carolina incident" are you referring to?
As a vim user with only superficial emacs experience, does emacs have something like the remote file system setup that VS Code with the ssh extension provides? Basically local editor with local response time, but file system is external?

I realize sshfs provides something similar, but it has a few rough edges compared to the vs code implementation.
damn i should've bet somebody that this would go mainstream one day
In the text says it clearly: you must have an ID, and you have to present it if requested. That does not means, you have to have it with you at all times.

Exactly this is the kind of fine details that a lawyer distinguishes in the law.

So no. Absolutely no. You do not have to carry it with you. If it comes to the need, then maybe the police have to scort you to your home and you have to show the ID. But you are not requested to have it with you at all times.
>I'm a bit surprised about the second paragraph but then I realize it is indeed two skillsets.

I started out my career on the sysadmin side of things before becoming a developer and that doesn't surprise me at all. Most devs I work with have little to no understanding of things like file permissions, how networking works beyond making HTTP calls with $SomeRequestLibrary in their programming language of choice, or how services/daemons work in Windows/Linux.
Peter Norvig critically reviews AlphaCode’s code quality
Possibly it is hard, tedious, or the people able to fix it don’t think it is worth the effort.

Open source projects rely on volunteers mostly so it isn’t like there’s some outside force to appeal to. If nobody volunteers a solution, then it isn’t important enough to solve. The point is that, if it were important enough to fix, anybody with the requisite skills could do so.
If 100 healthy unvaccinated people in their mid 30s caught delta, how many of them would you expect to end up in the ICU?
Yes, given past stories like this https://www.fox13now.com/2016/06/21/weber-county-sheriffs-of... . But why is this classic Utah? Why doesn't, say, Arkansas, emit realistic stories and bills like this?
They can’t afford to pay their bills after one month and just destroyed their only meaningful revenue source.
Assumed this was a euphemism for an escort service. The real thing is 30 USD a month to be introduced to other people.
> In effect any corporation tax is a double tax.

There are a whole host of corporate entities which allow for pass-through taxation: LLC, S-Corp, sole proprietorships, and the like. I'd be surprised if European countries didn't have similar mechanisms.
> Everyone thinks their system is reasonable

Okay? I didn't say they get to choose. Was the implication of "shouldn't be able" not clear enough? You'd have externally imposed rules.

And in this case google hasn't expressed that they think the process was reasonable, they're just refusing to do anything.
> A bit more American-style distrust of government would be a good thing.

Nope. The American distrust is resulting in a self-fulfilling prophecy of a failing government. Your bureacracy is years behind basic things we've had in many European countries, and because there's massive distrusts there's no investment making it impossible to improve.

E.g. your tax process is a massive joke, but will it ever be fixed? Probably not soon because if nothing else, one of the only two parties claims government is by default incompetent so any money spent on it are by definition a waste.
Funny I quiz it about Gnosticism and the Uncreated Father. Much more fascinating to find it's non-science-y edges IMO.
>Actually…

He is telling people to vote for real republicans that exist today and presently support policies that will accelerate climate change.

It is a fun thought experiment to think about imaginary theoretical future republicans and their made-up brand new ideologies that they might one day hold, but I’d have to be suffering from a severe untreated head wound to mix that up with reality.
I would very happily have one in my neighbourhood, so kindly stop slandering me.

Here's the deal: I get that, and am connected to the grid, you don't, and no fossil back up for either. Virtue signalling over a gas grid is killing people, people I know, and I don't like people who support that. No "batteries maybe in some mystical future". We had carbon free tech forty years ago. If you frustrated that you too are responsible for the destruction I now see everywhere.