skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it helps (in seeing people as human, or in justifying your hate for them) I doubt he actually hates any particular individuals. This is always about money and fame, for them. They want people to know them, and they want to be rich. And once you have come to terms with that, in your own head, you're kind of fine shitting on other people to further your own goals.

The culture war makes them famous; the beneficiaries of the culture war make them rich. It's just a business, and that's how they treat it. It's why shame doesn't work, and logic doesn't work. It's about an agenda, and not even one they particularly support. It's just the one that pays the bills.
You are free to go without money and have no obligations.

However, you are not free to force others to pay for you to do that; and that's what you're asking for.
The American System (hint, i am not american) is very broken. Yet any sane system would obviously see benefits of centralizing end of life care for sick people. If you manage to build a system that's so broken that centralization of healthcare is MORE expensive for everyone than decentralized at home care than that system is the problem.

And to be clear: It would be great if we had enough doctors, nurses and resources for everyone to die in their own home with all the amenities of a hospital specialized to end of life care but hat is practically impossible. And I don't mind socializing healthcare. On the contrary, I think it's a necessity for any civilized country. But given the aging societies of basically all western nations I would bet all I own that by the time I need end of life care, at home care with private nurses will become the privilege of the super wealthy.

Here in Germany, the system is already essentially collapsing and it's not even a money issue, it's a personal issue. But sure let's burn it all to the ground for the now-dying so by the time my generation needs it there's nothing left.
Nice, but insofar as Dutch law lacks stare decisis, it's not stopping the Estate from suing someone else and at least getting to trial...
The stock buy-back really exposes the game though... for $20bn they could retained their employees for another <5 years and just waited for the economic climate to change a bit... it's unlikely to take more than 18mo.

Whilst there's good arguments to be made about workforce planning during recessions, and how you need to not have "slack employees" doing nothing... there are similar arguments to be made about stock buy-backs (ie., that having 40bn in reserves is a massive economic cushion).

That they choose to weaken their cash position for the sake of a temporary boost to stock prices shows that their incentives arent well-aligned to most stakeholders in this.
Meanwhile the current Apple Mail app can be very slow & crash prone in my experience.
Astronomically annoying more like it...

People need to get off being 24/7 wired and chill more. The last thing people, society, and the environment needs is the kind of changes the internet brought...
I’d highly recommend a Ubiquity Dream Machine Pro if you have any advanced use cases. I’ve got mine VPN bridged to my office router and it’s been convenient to be able to force some devices at home to have all traffic routed over that link.

PlayStation dev kits annoyingly require usage on a whitelisted static IP to activate (every 2 days) and access dev PSN environments. It would have been a huge PITA doing it any other way.
The majority of popular science content defers to expert opinion because most people do not want to trudge through heaps of scientific detail and dry statistical language. You might be falling into the trap of projecting your own interest in science and technology onto the population at large.

Because the pandemic pushed a lot of people toward videoconference etc, hardcore medical knowledge is actually more accessible than ever before. People who were really, truly interested in what medical scientists and public health experts thought about COVID-19 could go to youtube channels like the UCSF grand rounds and get the straight dope from doctors at the leading edge of policy and research, talking to an audience of other doctors and getting down into the weeds of cellular biology, DNA base pairs, and statistical significance.

I've never seen any of the 'do your own research' crowds cite any of this work. When they cite something, it's wrapped in 17 layers of confirmation bias. If you complain about fallacies from people who are generally trying to simplify things for an audience that demands simple explanations, and then ignore that fallacious arguments coming from their intellectual or ideological opponents, are you wandering off into fallacy yourself?
Yes, there are levels of controlled substances based on, among other things, their abuse potential. That's not what we're talking about here because paxlovid is not a controlled substance.

If you're going to construct a new strawman argument, don't make up quotes that I never wrote. I also have a lot of thoughts about how controlled substance laws create problems and harm patients. But I'll stick to the main point of this thread: paxlovid drug interactions are easily checked and managed for the majority of patients, and should not be a reason for providers to reflexively deny prescription requests for it.
Wouldn’t have mattered if I did
This feels like another semantic argument, this time over what "macroeconomic environment is tough" means.

You are correct in everything you say in your first paragraph. That said, it's fair to say that "sharply rising interest rates" are also part of the macroeconomic environment. You can say that it was silly for all these tech companies and investors to think the free money spigot would go on for so long, but the key driver for all of the fall in tech company valuations and employment levels is rising interest rates.

> If there are problems, they are Gitlab problems, not macroeconomic problems.

Yet literally every big tech company I can think of has had similar levels of layoffs. If these were Gitlab-specific problems you wouldn't expect the slowdowns and layoffs to hit everyone.
> $? must be a numeric type, and not a boolean

$LASTEXITCODE

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsof...
Glib response to a glib comment. And there are many reasons bitcoin has still failed to die despite failing (in your opinion) to be useful as a day-to-day transactional currency; the fact that transactions are irreversible being one.
Not to stoke the flames of a religious war but I think this is why ultimately James will be recognized as the GOAT over MJ (until the next GOAT comes along)
Where was the implication of violence?
Tiger/Human/T-Rex meat always seemed like a much more interesting sales proposition than trying to compete with beef/pork/chicken which people already have available and cheap...
It does make me wonder if google is maybe going in the wrong direction with its knee-jerk reaction to Bing’s changes recently.

While what they’re doing currently isn’t perfect, it does provide results that are at least traceable. I could imagine an alternate universe where they doubled down on marketing themselves as “the search engine that doesn’t lie to you” or “where answers are found, not stories”.
I haven't used it much but it does do "continuous aggregates".
> Sure, the NHS does provide excellent care, but it's not free. The fact that the British won't come to terms with this is causing its collapse.

In the words of Luke Skywalker: Amazing. Everything you said in that sentence is false.

But focusing on the "it's not free" part; perhaps a distinction should be made in terms of "background passive costs paid regularly (e.g. taxes)" vs "additional costs once you're ill".

What is "not" free in the NHS is the first, but the latter is generally free.

This distinction becomes very meaningful when you realise that, in the US, things like the £145k quoted in the article fall in the latter category, while still paying for the former (in terms of regular insurance or whatnot).

This "dishonest" comparison made when the "NHS is not free" argument is thrown to justify why in the US things cost money, is to ignore the fact that you are also paying the background stuff in the US too, even in the absence of illness, but this is rarely counted in these discussions.

I would love it if someone armed with more numbers than I could give a breakdown of what it costs annually a person to passively contribute to the NHS through taxes vs an average US medical insurance scheme (assuming the US does not have other healthcare related taxes which I do not know about).
6.5k GitHub stars in 7 weeks, APITable Cloud launched
Encrypted-DNS-server: a high performance DNSCrypt server, written in Rust
https://archive.is/62ktx
Yes, I know and you're right but it's only a short path (about 2 meters), and it's the only way I found to get through the cable from a room to another. Anyway I haven't terminated the cable with the wall jack, the cable is going out of the wall "intact", this should be a bit safer.
I’d just like to appreciate your use of “latin@“; I’ve never seen it before but it’s so much better than “LatinX”
Outside of COVID can you give some examples of this "majority of popular references to science fall into the logical fallacy category of appeal to authority".

Note that appeal to authority isn't a logical fallacy- because scientific arguments are not pure logic. Instead, we use priors (authority) to evaluate the quality of statements. |

I don't agree the pandemic response was filled with malicious falsehoods; the public health officials acted in good faith. I think most people haven't benen public health officials during a global emergency and fail to appreciate the challenges of threading all the needles simultaneously.
I essentially have a foot in both camps... I like having the control and autonomy of open-source networking hardware but I don't have enough spare time to make it a full-on hobby. Right now my "happy spot" is:

1. An OPNSense firewall between my cable modem and the rest of the network running on a low-power PC Engines APU2. The web-based UI is funky but workable, full SSH access to the box for digging into the internals when needed, online upgrades are a cinch.

2. An 8-port gigabit unmanaged switch that everything hangs off of.

3. A Netgear WAX218 business-grade access point for wifi, running the stock firmware. Web UI is decent and doesn't require any cloud-based management bullshit. For around $100, it works much better than it has any right to, given the prices of mid-range APs and wifi routers these days.

4. A small fleet of Raspberry Pis for miscellaneous tasks.

If I get more into IoT, it shouldn't be much of a hassle to add VLANs and maybe another switch.
Humanity would be long dead and gone if they took on this guy's attitude. Freedom to these people is forcing everyone else to do the work of keeping them alive while enjoying the fruits of THEIR labor.
This is very interesting. Thank you for submitting.

I recently took the source code of the GC on

https://maplant.com/gc.html

And updated it to work with amd64 and added primitive register scanning.

The code might be helpful to someone learning
https://GitHub.com/samsquire/garbage-collector

One of my ideas is to see if we can do memory management by the absence of a keyword rather than the presence of a keyword.

So whenever you need to use a pointer, you import it. Whenever a scope is entered that doesn't import the keyword, it is freed. this is slightly different to RAII.
Possibly, but there's a horrible elision going on there; you've listed a bunch of individual actions which range between simple error to negligence, taken by various governmental and media individuals and organisations, but then attributed them to "science" as a whole?
Add xonsh too,
Only Zsh seems to be usable as daily driver. You gotta copy paste some shell script anyways and if the shell is not bash compatible, it's useless
I think this will be a key differentiator, Google has been so obsessed with automation that it's painted itself in a corner when that automation is inadequate. Microsoft doesn't have a problem with doing things that don't scale when needed.
I thought that Thunderbird was a native application for quite a long time. For some reason it never had the same icky feeling I get from any Electron application (even supposedly "high quality" ones) and worked fast on crappy machines (which is what I've typically used throughout the life). Of course, performance went a bit downhill since they abandoned XUL in favor of pure HTML, but still.
As far as I remember that talk, the parsing problems come down to two points:

- Shell aliases are grammar-defying macros in basically the same way as C preprocessors macros are but unlike those are not separable from the actual execution, which, yes, they’re a misfeature that defies static analysis, I don’t know why people seem to prefer aliases to shell functions so much;

- The "modern" $(... $(...) ...) syntax, unlike the "legacy" (per shellcheck) `... \`...\` ...` syntax, requires invoking the parser from the lexer, which, also yes, but as far as I know that’s a problem that every language with general expression interpolation must face—Python’s f-strings tried to sidestep the problem, but I’m not sure the resulting restricted language with weird escaping rules was worth it.

For a talk that was supposed to be about problems encountered while building a parser, I was surprised by how much of a non-event both of the problems were.
This shows up in a number of areas and I think a major contributing factor is the loss of shared media: 40 years ago you had strong anti-science tendencies (e.g. that's when Exxon started funding climate change-denial, the tobacco companies were at the height of their power, etc.) but there was a limit to how effectively you could promote those narratives without alienating readers / viewers because there wasn't a cost-effective way to produce radically different broadcast programs or newspaper versions and get major advertisers on-board.

That certainly wasn't perfect but it feels like we went from the flintlock musket era of propaganda to automatic weapons around the turn of the century when an increasing fraction of people started getting their news largely from hyper-partisan sources, especially ramping up after 9/11 when things like the warblogs started getting significant traffic numbers and zero editorial restraint.

The biggest reason for concern I have here is that this isn't evenly distributed: it's basically the same people denying climate change, COVID, vaccination, etc. and that means that there isn't a great way for them to come back to a more objective reality without admitting that they were wrong on many issues and, in most cases, rather vicious to people who they used to consider friends. That's a hard pill to swallow and I don't imagine many of them will do it.
>reasonably well kept and healthy people are receiving little to nothing for their money in the present

Even if I never use public health services my entire life (I mean I obviously already have) I'd still be happy to keep paying that tax.

Why? For the same reason that I don't mind as a gay man who will never have kids that my taxes also go to: welfare/benefits for families in need, helping children, building/benefiting infrastructure I will never use.

All of humanity is in this together, on this tiny blue sphere. If people are focussed only on maximising things purely for themselves and not others at all, then have we really progressed at all as a species?
Genius by Diagram
In Greek we have greeklish, an annoyingly persisting habit in the age of UTF8 and auto-correcting keyboards. Gia xara se olous!
10% is on the very low side of things
During the early days of the pandemic I has in a heated discussion on social media about face masks with other scientists (private group of 20k scientists).

I was in favor of using face masks. Most of the comments were by other scientists against using face masks.

Two days later the Surgeon General of the US turns around and openly on YouTube asks for the general population to use face masks. Until this days some people are still using face masks.

Appealing to authority is exactly the opposite of what science stands for.

Science denial is a self inflicted wound.
That's a decent feature. The main reasons we know of are versioning and IDE experience.

We were designed API-first. They are clean, but undocumented yet. We currently have a draft PR that generates an OpenAPI specification.

I think the next step for us would be a CLI to bring the code experience into the IDE.

What are your reasons?
Author is demonstrating a kind of binary search. Of course, binary search requires a target value, something to search, so your toy problem is underspecified.

Then your next interval would be (1/2, 2/3) or (2/3, 3/4) depending on whether s > 2/3 or s < 2/3, where s is your search term.
I think Apple Mail was unusable around that time for me. I think it mangled attachments to/from Windows, font sizing was off (i forget if it was previews or when writing). Search didn't work.
The Terror of Clean Looks, Part 2

"This proxy icon really fuzzes with my clean looks. Let's make it so that is hidden, but, when you hover long enough over it or click it, it will appear and shift to the title to the right. This only causes a break-down of your visual mapping and will force your brain into a 0.2s timeout for reorientation, but my design template is worth it. Now you only have to reposition the mouse pointer and click once again and there you are… — This is really how modeless direct manipulation should be done!"

Who ever did this to my Mac, if you're reading this, repent.
When there's something called deadline that's no longer feasible
thats because the person you're responding to is wrong. its simply finding an equilibrium price.
It totally is discrimination, but it's discrimination based on facts. What we have now is even if the first student is from an ethnic minority, and the second is from an ethnic majority, the ethnic minority student would be preferred.
> Hmm. I am currently participating in a group that uses a more, lets say aggressive, interpretation ( white supremacy is pervasive and all that ). It gets old fast.

Go read my reply again, I namedrop the kind of people who fixate on this stuff. DEI is way, way more than "white supremacy is bad"; if that's all you're getting, they're letting you down.

> Maybe, but then good actors have some responsibility to denounce bad actors.

And they do, sometimes publicly, sometimes privately to the CEO who hired a grifter "DEI" consultant for a year-long engagement that only delivers experiences like yours.
I guess there's different tradeoffs when you have a gazillion of these sensors or their output requires complicated parsing in the pipeline. But even then...
The macroeconomic problems facing all of these corporations are that labor is feeling empowered, that's it. Between union actions, NLRB actions, wages rising, low unemployment, and the whole return to work debate; power has subtly, slightly shifted towards workers. And it scares the shit out of the capital class. In response, they're culling the herd and raising interest rates to discipline workers.
Related to that myth, I remember that the most popular usenet group for people that thinking about committing suicide was alt.suicide.holiday.

That was more than 20 years ago of course!
My home cactus garden has an unnecessary number of cacti in it, as compared to the average home. I also expend unnecessary calories when hiking to places I don't need to go.

(edit: admittedly the five or six times I've setup a home network more complicated than just connecting to a router I've ended up regretting it after a few months)
So [what]... there is value in reminding people of that, because everyone has confirmation biases and while some opinion pieces are thoughtful, critical, and comprehensive, other are just propaganda.

Identifying it is a matter of contextualization. You don't have to employ it, if you don't want to. But if it gives even one person pause, I'm satisfied with that.
Well, if the source is available you can do what you want with it.

I don't know a thing about Ruby and for awhile really felt out of it when stuff was being written in it a lot more.
> If lots of well-paid people can work from home, they're not forced to sit next to people different than them on the bus and train each day.

This is why I always use the cashier at businesses instead of the machine. I’m fully convinced that cashiers are the only “low” people that some people deal with all day and we lose something as a society if they go away.
I couldn't find any - although someone in a McCoy story uses an army field telephone.

But, I did find these https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/10/the-mobile-phones-of-doctor...
Would you mind sharing a link to your discussion with David Simon?
Though much less culturally prominent, there does seem to be a lot of people who are preoccupied with correlating race and IQ.
"Meritocracy is a myth. participants have too much variability on starting points and environment for the concept to have any usefulness."

Depends on what you mean by starting point.

If my neighbor is genetically advantaged from the start to perform in a particular task then that may be "unfair", it's still best to let that person win. Dragging down top performers is the worst we can do nor should we boost non-performers in artificial ways.

If the unequal starting point is socio-economic, say a genius going to waste because they have no access to education, then I agree that this is bad. The solution is accessible/affordable schooling. Importantly though, that gives access, not outcomes. You still need to pass the test and prove (and improve) your capability.
Delightful intro, turns out it's written by the master storyteller, Ted Chiang.
I’ve seen this happen over the years and I’m always curious why there isn’t a discussion beforehand that offers the “overearners” a chance to stay at a reduced salary. I’ve asked people who were in those positions, and they’ve often indicated that they would have stayed at a lower salary, at least for a while.
I don't think I ever claimed that?

That's not my argument. My argument is that the anti-AI arguments, as spoken, also match to what I know I'm doing as a human. In my opinion better than it matches to what the AIs are doing, because as you say, they aren't human.
I love that cameo ("My dad says you don't work hard enough on defense."[0]), and also found myself thinking about it in reading this excellent piece.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSi6iF9kVBs