skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There were 3 billion people in the world in 1960, now we are 8 billion.

And some of them consume very little, and a western minority consumes much more than in 1960.

https://futureearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/great_acc...

> Why do I pay almost double for 'bio' foodstuff? Why do people today choose to buy ultra processed instead of simple foods

Why is healthy food so expensive in America? Blame the Farm Bill that Congress always renews to make burgers cheaper than salad

https://fortune.com/2023/07/21/why-healthy-food-so-expensive...

The 2023 Farm Bill is projected to spend $700 billion over the next five years, with powerful industry lobbyists directing funds to enrich themselves at the expense of agricultural communities, human health, animal welfare, and environmental sustainability.

Most Americans have never heard of this massive omnibus bill, which Congress reauthorizes every five or so years, yet it impacts us every day. It shapes our food system–from subsidizing factory farms to funding food and nutrition programs, and it is why burgers are artificially cheap and salads cost more than they should.

> with votes for politicians that push for innovative solutions

Where did that got us in the last 50 years? Still business as usual.

> actively trying to develop new technologies to mitigate the strategy

You have one of the 4 classic viewpoints, pretty understandable, but not really realistic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPb_0JZ6-Rc
It clearly is censorship. Maybe you're conflating censorship with the First Amendment? The Constitution only protects certain kinds of speech. Only that of citizens with respect to government, and only Americans. When people speak about censorship, they are referring to all kinds of censorship by people all over the world, including private companies censoring individuals.
> Out of curiosity are you espousing that differences in intelligence don't actually exist, or just that we need to come up with better ways to measure them?

Yes and No to both.

Simply put;

1) There is nothing called "General Intelligence" beyond what enables a Human to survive in his/her environmental niche (including cultural/social since we are social animals). Leaving aside obvious biological retardation, if Extraversion/Introversion, Agreeableness/Disagreeableness, etc. enables one to survive, they are equally "Intelligent". Trying to rank these attributes on a ordinal scale and do quantitative calculations on them is nonsense. See Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mismeasure_of_Man) for convincing arguments.

2) Humans are highly adaptable and exhibit dynamic behaviour in different contexts. This "role" and hence the "exhibited intelligence" is specific to that context but if that adaptation subsumes the need for another related context then obviously one will be intelligent in both the contexts. For example London Taxi drivers actually grew their hippocampus and became more intelligent in both spatial navigation and memory recall - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/london-taxi-memor...

3) We know that gene expression can be influenced by the environment via Epigenetics over generations (see the documentary The Ghost in your Genes). Environment (cultural/social/nutritional/economic) now becomes of paramount importance and thus a person's "fitness" for a role is dependent on Nature, Nurture and his unique Family Past history. He will now be intelligent in certain roles not so in others.

4) Wrong understanding and misuse of Statistical methods in the above scenarios. This is where Taleb's writing/videos help one to separate the wheat from the chaff.

- Notes on Taleb's article - https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Taleb:_IQ_is_a_pseudoscientific_...

- IQ is a dismal measure of intelligence - https://supermemo.guru/wiki/IQ_is_a_dismal_measure_of_intell...
"In employment law, constructive dismissal, also called constructive discharge or constructive termination, occurs when an employee resigns as a result of the employer creating a hostile work environment. Since the resignation was not truly voluntary, it is, in effect, a termination. For example, when an employer places extraordinary and unreasonable work demands on an employee to obtain their resignation, this can constitute a constructive dismissal. "
The paradox of tolerance gets you a long way to understanding it, but you will also have to be far more specific if you want answers because practically everyone has limits to what they consider acceptable speech, even if they don't call it that.

Beyond that, there is a pretty concerted effort to elevate minor grievances into the national spotlight to portray the left a certain way, e.g. the Oberlin Cafeteria scandal, where story in the college paper about the quality of the food in their college cafeteria became both a national news story and a symbol of just how deranged the left had become.

Is that actually indicative of anything? Is it something the general public should actually care about? Does it even reflect "the left" as a political body?

I think once you start asking those questions a lot of the "wrongthink" stories (not all!) start seeming a lot closer to college kids complaining about bad food than they are to the sands of politics and free speech shifting underfoot.
Isn’t Copilot a killer app?!
Note that's not the actual top speed in use:

"With that much power behind the 22″ wheel, the electric unicycle achieves a wheel lift speed of 140 km/h (87 mph). The wheel lift speed is the unloaded top speed of the unicycle’s wheel when the unit is lifted into the air. It is higher than the actual top speed when ridden on flat ground, but is a useful metric used in the industry for comparing electric unicycles. The actual operational top speed of the V13 is still likely to surpass 90-100 km/h (55-60 mph)."
I'm sure a retail chain would NEVER sell that data to advertising and vocational industry interests.
Hey snowflake,

Your proposal sucks, get over it. You have received plenty of thoughtful feedback and you are not a victim.

Veiling contempt for your audience should be a bannable offence here.
Cryo-EM Scores Again
>Human neurons are long, spindly structures, but if you could zoom in on their surfaces at super-high resolution, you’d see surprisingly large pores. They act as gated channels that open and close for ions and other essential molecules of life to pass in and out the cell. This rapid exchange of ions and other molecules is how neurons communicate, and why we humans can sense, think, move, and respond to the world around us
Typical European anti-nuclear article:

1. Neglects to mention that the sector has been progressively gutted over the last 15 years and pretends like the current cost problems are natural, whereas they are basically a government policy(especially in France which has been trying to gut EDF over the last 15 years).

2. "Uranium mining causes pollution" - Yes, and mining for copper doesn't? A modern wind turbine is like 5 tons of copper.

3. Construction times of around a decade - This is by far the worst aspect of European idiocy around this issue. Yes, if we do thing as usual, the building company makes a normal rate of return and there is no effort then sure it will take a decade. Kashiwazaki-Kariwa was built in 5 years,Hongyanhe was about 6-7 years(for first 2 units), Zaporozhia averaged 5 years per unit(until the last unit which got delayed because of Soviet Union falling apart), Gravelines 6 years, etc.. You can't go around pretending that we are facing a climate catastrophe that has to be solved in 10 years and at the same time trot out estimates that assume business as usual.
> Where are we in the hype cycle on this?

Can we stop acting like the Gartner "hype cycle" is anything more than a marketing gimmick created Gartner to validate their own consulting/research services?

While you can absolutely find cases that map to the "hype cycle", there is nothing whatsoever to validate this model as remotely accurate or valid for describing technology trends.

Where is crypto in the "hype cycle"? It went through at least 3 rounds of "peak of inflated expectation" and I'm not confident it will ever reach a meaningful "plateau of productivity".

Did mobile ever have "inflated expectation"? Yes there was a lot of hype in the early days but those people hyped about it, rushing to build mobile versions of their websites... were correct.

The "hype cycle" is a neat idea but doesn't really map to reality in a way that makes it useful. It's only useful for Gartner to create an illusion of credibility and sell their services.
Beatsaber got me to exercise and that itself was worth the money spent.
The reason for that is interesting, IMO. The Amiga was intended as a home computer. And in 1985, a home computer might have a TV for display, or a very fuzzy low-quality colour monitor. For some reason, yellow/orange/red/white on blue is particularly legible on poor-quality monitors and TVs. (Many DOS applications of the era were white or yellow on blue, for the same reason. And early Windows had similarly horrible schemes.)

By the late 1980s, colour monitors were nearly as good as a B&W one for showing crisp text and lines, and so grey/black on white.
Livewire v3 has just been announced at Laracon by Caleb Porzio. There are a ton of amazing new features so let's take a look.
This is so funny to read and really reflects how availability of ingredients and tacit knowledge really changes perception. Plus having a pressure cooker.

Western interpretations of curry are always elaborate affairs.

There are many varieties of extremely simple curries on the subcontinent. For example, the Maharashtrian amti. My mom or grand moms can make amti in less than 30 minutes and most of that time is waiting for things to cook and not active participation .
Far-right or hard-right are terms often used nowadays to refer to any dissident who questions government leadership, the security apparatus, or the war machine. I have learned to ignore these and other labels from the MSM as meaningless. I am not denying that actual fascists exist, but these labels are used to scare us into believing or supporting particular positions such as cracking down on any dissidents.
Is that even legal? I'm guessing this is to avoid unemployment benefits and severance packages.
> How a forced "voluntary resignation" is different from a being fired? is it some corporate euphemism or is it a thing?

It is different in that you have a choice. You can either adapt to the new policy (work conditions change) or you can leave. Totally up to you.
No, not at all. It was to try to push the discussion toward questioning our ability to predict the probability of life arising. The "random" argument is typically an argument from incredulity, "how could random processes make such a specific thing? The probability is astronomically small." But with only one universe observed, and only one instance of life observed within that one universe, we don't have any way to say that random processes just accidentally formed life vs the probability that it is likely, or even inevitable, that life would form given the properties of the universe.

Adding a god to the discussion doesn't really advance anything at all, honestly. It just explains the mystery with a bigger mystery, so it doesn't explain anything.
You asked for examples of impactful uses, you have been provided with some.

Arguing with people who provided what you asked for is a common but unproductive habit.
Of course you can.

3M, Scotch, Crate & Barrel, Lufthansa and Jeep all have legitimate trademarked word marks that consist of nothing more than their name written in Helvetica.
I want more passenger rail, but would like to pile on that the US rail network is freight in a way not seen in Europe.

When I looked at the numbers some time back, the US had something like 10x more freight rail than Europe [per capita], and Europe had [at least] 10x more passenger rail.

(I suspect the difference is two-fold: our major river network doesn't connect our hinterlands to our population centers in an efficient way, and our country is big enough to have a continental divide within a single economic zone.)
I loved newgroups, I'm just not sure how would it work today, because for sure people will come up with idea of fact checking it, or flooding it with fake news, or teaching why X is wrong and you should stop to talk about it. I remember that back in the days, conspiracy theory was ok, and nobody entered in other groups to teach people about the truth. We just knew it wasn't true. I wish it could still be like that today. I personally just left any discord, facebook, whatsapp group because of that.. soon or late, it become just about politics, agenda and who controls the rhetoric. It just sucks.
Your response and the other responses are proving our point. It wasn't about context free grammars, level 2 or level 3, etc. It was a very limited subset of a problem. Answer should have been, "while I don't recommend doing it the way you want to do it, that should work for your limited subset".
If they don't excite kids, they're kinda missing the point eh.
try pistol whip next! it got me covered in sweat before I even realized it
internalizing comes from repetition. Hand writing helps with that too. There's a free class on various platforms called "learning how to learn." It was a big help to me in understanding how brains process and develop memories.
Then what is your issue with GPs statement? We have a car culture in many places where it isn't necessary. As I've shown, more and more people will move to cities. Why is it good to further entrench car culture?
Is it possible he did a good job with his successful ventures, and a bad job with the unsuccessful ones?

I find it difficult to believe both SpaceX and Tesla was 100% pure luck and chance. Not even the devil is that lucky.
Why can't you fake remote attestation? I imagine it's a bit more involved than swapping a user agent but is there some magic mechanism that makes it impossible to spoof?
Does anyone has access yet?
> SO has been around so long a lot of the answers are no longer relevant. I don't place much trust that an answer from 2010 will solve my problem.

I did have problem like this before too and I just made my search better by appending the `after:<insert year here>` to my google search to ensure the latest info
china is not the only nation where something like this exists

I also think you massively over estimate the average persons fear of monopolies over convenience.
What’s the real reason
I’ve just generally found the polish in Element lacking - which seems strange to me. I was under the impression a benefit of Electron was you get very nice building blocks with edge cases taken care of.
Kinda surprised there isn't a few CAs that set up Let's Encrypt-like automated infrastructure that charge a small subscription fee for certificates. I'd pay $1-$3/m or so for preventing a mono-culture + big attack surface, but don't really want to give up the convenience of Let's Encrypt.

I know there's a big barrier to entry for being a CA (as there should be), but it shouldn't be impossible.
Are people truly this lazy? What happened to knowing how to answer questions related to your job?

Finding a status update in your area should take seconds -- if it doesn't it suggests you don't have adequate systems in place which would then in turn would also kneecap an AI assistant.

How bizarre.
I'll highly recommend Cal.com! Been using them for a while, huge advocates for it :)
Looks like a good application of Betteridge's Law.
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/08/http3-core-concepts...

> While TLS 1.3 can still run independently on top of TCP, QUIC instead sort of encapsulates TLS 1.3. Put differently, there is no way to use QUIC without TLS; QUIC (and, by extension, HTTP/3) is always fully encrypted.

Basically there is no HTTP/3 without a TLS certificate.

I'm not sure what "problems that might arise from centralization" might be. There are many different TLS certificate providers from different CA roots.

Is your gripe that you don't like TLS? Judging by how long the migration from TLS 1.1 to 1.2 took, I assume we're at least 10-15 years away from a world where everything is encrypted by default without backwards compatibility (if we ever get there at all).
I think this is less invasive though. The Google proposal runs before content loaded into the DOM. Which means it can be used to do things like programmatically detect and block code injection like ad blockers.

PATs are purely a server side thing. They don't give this kind of control. And don't perform a signature over the content
You might be interested in "The paradox of tolerance"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

>Karl Popper described it as the seemingly self-contradictory idea that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance.
Still a firing, false choice etc...
My first thought when I saw it prior to hearing about the change was that the icon failed to load for some reason.

It just looks like an error or failure and completely out of place with the rest of the site.
> The only people who will agree are the ones who sadly have no alternative.

Many people will continue to choose to work at Amazon and specifically because they want to be around other colleagues a few days in the week. It is pretty presumptive and insulting to say to someone like that that they're in a "sad" position and they are "victims".
Actually it's both of those, and more complex: multiple private companies building at different times in history, using widely diverse tunnelling techniques and depths to suit different needs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_London_Underg...
Can you underestimate a bird? I have many times.
Probably has something to do with mandated severance in some states if I had to guess. Otherwise they might have to show cause. But I'm completely out of my depth here
Elon makes a bit more sense when you see he has deep connections with the CIA.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career
I don't think that saved any power on a CPU without frequency scaling.
> Still a firing, false choice etc...

Why do you view it as a false choice?
Isn't Apple also an ad tech company? Do they not maintain lists of their users and sell ads based on that information?
That’s an interesting perspective.

Any decent science curriculum will cover the inherent mutability of scientific knowledge, the fact that it is just a model that is updated as we add knowledge—these facts and the process of updating the model are the main takeaways of the scientific method. If you weren’t exposed to that sort of stuff, that’s a substantial strike against somewhere’s education system.
It's a lot easier to run Stable Diffusion locally. Meanwhile only the dumbest LLMs work on ordinary consumer GPUs. Datacenter GPUs with 80 GB vram are ridiculously expensive.
> Kinda surprised there isn't a few CAs that set up Let's Encrypt-like automated infrastructure that charge a small subscription fee for certificates.

There are other ACME-compatible CA's.
awesome, i remember some of those HAM images.

oh, when i read paranoimia this is the tune i think of XD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSwgZ7wGus0
That matters when employees have contracts promising termination only with cause. But these employees are likely all at-will; they can be fired for having the wrong hair cut.
Without checking for compatibility between the licenses -- if they are both open source, it is possible to combine the best of both tools.
I agree, but there are too many reports of teachers teaching some pretty extreme gender ideology to young kids. Things like "you can be any gender you feel like." Most people don't agree with that, and in fact there is no scientific evidence for the existence of gender at all. Sex ed is fine, but I don't think school is a place for ideological indoctrination. States are addressing this in many ham-fisted ways.
I do not know how they can do this also, but it depends upon the State.

I think "blue" states Amazon would not be able to do this, "red" states I think anything goes. Red State Gov. only cares about not giving poor people money.
Because saying "you can keep your job if you uproot your life" isn't a fair choice.
Maybe I'm wrong but Web Attestation will also be a death knell for Linux devices (not Android/Chrome OS) as far as being able to use them as equal clients to use the Web goes. They're simply too diverse and 'hackable' as a plotform for remote attestation to work reliably and thus they'll be excluded altogether (except a few 'blessed' distros that will then become industry controlled, and not Linux in spirit anymore).
> Because you're answering every person who ever will ask, a lot of the people who pass through your question & answer will be people who don't know the difference between the right way and the wrong way.

Then you have to do two things in your answer:

1. Correctly answer the question as asked.

2. Add your opinion about the "right way" to do it.

If you only do #2, you are failing "every person who ever will ask."
> to do everything in the same app because they rightfully fear monopolies and over-consolidation of major corporations

How is it different than Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc?
So if there was a crime, and it was committed by the person whose identity was "stolen", is the implication that there is no reason for law enforcement to investigate the person who "stole" it?
You cannot choose to live outside of society. See: Waco, Rubgy Ridge, etc. You cannot even choose to renounce the citizenship that you did not want, never asked for, and never consented to, without getting another citizenship first.

The social contract is the only contract in the world that you can be legally bound to the terms of without ever having agreed to it. In this way, the government acts very much like any other organized crime group: "follow the rules we create or else".
He really liked blade runner?
It's kind of the perfect metaphor for society moving to a mainly online existence.

This ubiquitous ephemerality of everything is a reason why piracy exists. Some copyright holders transmute into petulant unicorns once their property gains considerable interest- hoarding future earnings potential even if that application never comes.

Information wants to be free.
We have this working quite well with the Fediverse where we have thousands of instances of Mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin, Pleroma and so on running of donations of the users of those instances.
If you select window size "7 days" and filter the Traffic section for "new visits", you see a massive and permanent two-thirds drop between end of April and mid May 2022. Apparently some change in the Google algorithm pushed down Stack Overflow heavily.
“I have become Death, destroyer of Chromebooks.”
They could, in the same way ads/analytics can be served from your own domain (or more likely subdomain) to avoid various adblock/analytics-block tools. It's a cat and mouse game.
To be honest, everything you listed seems either irrelevant or a small mishap that at worst just leaves some bad taste.
I'm a remote worker who would quit before returning to the office. But even so I can't interpret a requirement to be non-remote as "a hostile work environment", "extraordinary", or "unreasonable". But yes, it does look more like a termination than a voluntary resignation.
We don’t even have a good grasp on what life is! Try to get an explanation of why a living thing is alive, but when it dies despite having the same observable material condition its corpse is not alive. I’ve yet to hear anything beyond the most obvious begging of the question; it’s always some variation on living things are alive because they have life processes and nonliving things aren’t because they don’t. And what’s a life process? Well it’s a process that occurs in living things of course.