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I was also surprised when I first saw a huge Roman fresco in person. It seems that the medieval times were indeed the dark times. I get the historical reasons and all that but it's almost laughable looking at this art in museums.

The latest craze for 2021 kids is "pop it" game. We are just too old to be amazed by that. Do you think these kids will prefer living in 2050, working in a cubicle, facing midlife crisis, even though they are living through a pandemic now?

As for your view on technology, while many of us here share it, let's not forget how small HN crowd in general population is. Like you said, people shrugged, but most probably never even thought about it.

You were a kid, everything seems magical then. As we get older the magic disappears. Happens to every generation. See for example how many people are nostalgic of (objectively worse) 80s, in countries that were much poorer than are today and had much worse living conditions.

What is the goal of this campain to re-introduce aliens into the public discourse? Interestingly, it seems that the "smart" people are now falling for it (washington post, hn, certain subreddits and podcasts...).

In which case would you use the whole table?

They don't? One is a row in table (R^n) (order matters) and the other is a set of points (R^nxd).

If you consider the whole table, any dataSET is like point clouds.

"There are two types of quotable quotes, those that deal in absolutes, and those that divide people into two groups."

So what was Austria's loophole?

It's better but not great. Not everyone can afford tesla. Western goverments and big companies are to blame for lack of incentives and infrastructure. People buy what makes the most sense, and petrol is better for many people. This can be changed.

I think that everyone would instantly switch to EV if it had the same properties but had a battery instead of a tank. They are faster, silent, cleaner, but it's up to leaders to bridge the gap making them economically viable.

But all of those are still true. I would argue that public transport should replace cars for commute which is most of the "non-niche" usage.

Public transport can't get you anywhere, on your own terms? Sounds familiar.

"I can't remember the date to fill out this form. Can you help me, but give me the least informative part first?"

Is there some resource that compares all the vaccines, an article or a blog post? I would guess that a vast majority of people don't have time/knowledge to look into official reports. One big table with different companies, number of people in trials, results etc. would be nice. For example, what I just found out is that Moderna is actually not 95% effective on all age groups but on 18-65 [1].

Back to J&J. How old were the 15% that did develop the most serious symptoms? The article says that "more than 40 per cent had other illnesses [...] including obesity, diabetes and HIV." Isn't the base rate for obesity in a population something like that or higher? Finally, if we just look at the numbers (if they are even comparable), can we objectively rank these vaccines by how good they are? No ones feelings should be hurt if we can conclude that their vaccine is close to useless (think of how vaccinated population will demand loose measures although 40% of them are still at risk).

[1] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210114-covid-19-how-eff...

Another sad day for internet communities. Big guys always win. If you want freedom to express, self host (let's see how long until this is forbiden).

What is the most common way of transmision? I assume not random policemen but relatives and friends. Try doing distancing there.

The amount of unknown and disagreement after all this time and money spent is a big failure of science. Laymen have a unique peak into how science works day to day, which might be good or bad depending on how you see it.

Follow up: given the answer is yes, how to solve it? Allow under performing students in?

In the current shape this can definitely be used on social media. But I would ask someone about their life, where they live etc. GPT-3 will fail that, the next model might succeed. This model would be even better for social farming so maybe these tests are not useless after all. The question is what are we building these models for. At this point it's getting immoral to continue research in this direction, as is the case in some computer vision tasks.

I made an argument to challenge the parent comment's argument. It is obvious that nor physics nor population size led to advancements alone. There are many confounders.

What I wanted to point out is: there is a trade-off in allocating budgets which are finite to different parts of society. If science gets a certain budget, I argue (like the original author) that new collider takes away a part of the cake from others. However you frame the sources of the money, the budget is obviously limited and can be directed in other experiments and ideas as well.

What prompted my response is defending physics through listing inventions. Ironically, the proposed experiment might never give any practical application, and it shouldn't in my opinion. The search for knowledge, especially as fundamental as this is enough. But this part of physics already appeals to wide audience and has great PR. There might be other parts that could use billions but are not as sexy to general public.

Well educated people who can work on this problem are not minorities, i.e. they have access to education, higher social status, better starting point. While their color of skin might be different, they don't need to be aware of all the issues their race/sex faces. Example can be difference between treatment of certain minorities in US (where most of the science is developed) and the rest of the world. A scientist at Facebook/Google will develop something for the whole world having US centric view, without access to views from other cultures and their reqiurements for fairness.

Where does it come from?

The question of spending money is the question of politics, and there is a finite budget. I would argue the reason for all of these inventions is the increasing number of educated people (not only physicists) in the world. So maybe investing this money into education is better. Also, of course the physics will birth all of these inventions, it would be useless otherwise.

Also generations of students stuck in this hole because the supervisors that have paid positions stick to string theory deadend -- a feedback loop.

You can find many east european movies on youtube. Try doing the same for Adam Sandler's netflix movie.

You could even watch Memories of Murder on youtube just until Parasite won an oscar. Then they started carring. And this is a relatively new movie of a known director.

Distribution is a problem but saying this isn't blatant piracy is wrong.

> iron media curtains

You mean like itunes, hbo, netflix catalogues in countries outside US? It's just that there is no interest in seeing these movies.

You can clone any expensive yogurt for small price and control the ingredients fully.

Ideally, the voters can vote these people out. Politicians are not hatching from eggs, they come from people and reflect them. Same people who watch blatantly biased news, later are influenced by false ads. Improve education.

Can anyone share how big a deal is this proof? I remember seeing one post already about it on quanta.

"Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." HN Guidelines

But this is probably just my lurker observation. Not against all news but there should be at least some spark of insight of novelty. Feel free to flag now.

Edit: To expand a bit. What I like about HN is not that it's tech but it has plethora of very interesting topics and comments are almost always insightful (unlike this one). This headline is basically the whole article. The comments are therefore not guided by idea, but news. This topic is important but nothing comes out of these threads. This rant is contributing to bad quality of comments, one thing I always try to avoid.