skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difficulty is that in many cases it's the local authorities who are the ones spreading the inflammatory content and their requests for moderation are actually requests for censorship.
That sounds bad but transport by ship is very cheap, even for long distances. I'd want to see the numbers.
"In Sri Lanka, it keeps families in touch even as many work abroad."

"It provides for unprecedented open expression and access to information."

"But where institutions are weak or undeveloped, Facebook's newsfeed can inadvertently amplify dangerous tendencies. Designed to maximize user time on site, it promotes whatever wins the most attention. Posts that tap into negative, primal emotions like anger or fear, studies have found, produce the highest engagement, and so proliferate."

What if there were applications or websites that allowed families to keep in touch even as many work abroad. [There are.]

What if there was a computer network that provided access to information. [There is.]

What if the computer network provided for open expression. [It does.]

What if the problem is none of the above.

What if the problem is "Facebook newsfeed" that serves no justifiable purpose other than to "to maximize user time on [a single web]site" where family member behaviour is recorded and family members are easily targeted by advertisers who pay the owner of the website for this "service".

Who conducted the studies re: primal emotions.

Has Facebook conducted such studies.

Do families need a "Facebook newsfeed" to keep in touch even as many work abroad?

Does Facebook need a "newsfeed" and other tactics to keep family members on Mr. Zuckerberg's website longer than they need to be in order to keep in touch, so they will view/click more ads and generate more behavioural data.

Are the needs of families and the needs of Facebook "aligned".
I think we'll end up with enough "next generation" energy (renewable, whatever), that we'll be able to afford the inefficiencies in manufacturing "legacy", high-energy-density fuels -- and product precursors, e.g plastics -- where still needed. (Avoiding further extraction and all the pollution and environmental damage and unqualified and quantified future impacts.) And our overall carbon burden may be enough less (disregarding accumulated atmospheric load, in this arugment), that we can afford the corresponding limited amounts of exhaust.

So, for common transport, I don't know whether pure hydrogen still fits in. It hasn't scaled, and it's still more difficult to handle.
I can't recall what countries these guys were.
Sadly, it seems that your mother would not have had a better outcome with or without the surgery - if the doctor had said "I'm 75% sure that the cancer is contained in the one lung, so removing the lung will remove the cancer", would that have changed the decision to have the surgery? What it was was 50%? What is the threshold where someone with a fatal illness will accept the risk for a possible cure?
The power of media is hugely underappreciated.

Marshall McLuhan, Noam Chomsky, Elizabeth Eisenstein, Walter Lippmann, and others, have been writing and warning of this for over a century.

...I want to argue that the parallels between the printing press era and today are sufficiently compelling to suggest:

Changes in the information age will be as dramatic as those in the Middle Ages in Europe. The printing press has been implicated in the Reformation, the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution, all of which had profound effects on their eras; similarly profound changes may already be underway in the information age.

The future of the information age will be dominated by unintended consequences. The Protestant Reformation and the shift from an earth-centered to a sun-centered universe were unintended consequences in the printing press era. We are already seeing unintended consequences in the information age that are dominating intended ones and there are good reasons to expect more in the future. Thus, the technologists are unlikely to be accurate and the inventors may neither have their intended effects nor be the most important determinants of information age progress.

It will be decades before we see the full effects of the information age. The important effects of the printing press era were not seen clearly for more than 100 years. While things happen more quickly these days, it could be decades before the winners and losers of the information age are apparent. Even today, significant (and permanent) cultural change does not happen quickly....

Renato Rosaldo, The Cultural Impact of the Printed Word, A Review Article, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1981, Vol. 23, No. 3. p. 508.

https://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=348784
The wavefunction of the electron is “smeared” around the atom, which is not empty.

The wave function may be smeared out over space, but that does not mean that there is an electron everywhere. Electrons are never at two places, never has anyone looked and found the same electron at two different places at the same time.

What happens if nobody looks is up for debate, whether you think the electron has no position, whether you think it is guided along its path by a pilot wave, whether you think it split into zillions of copies in different universes, or whatever.

But the electron or many electrons filling out its entire orbit is not compatible with any of that or any experimental evidence. At least as far as I know, I am not a physicist.
>> Do you believe in the business and its potential to succeed

This is going to be a tough if one does not understand the space or assess the market.
Absolutely. You can sue for pretty much anything. Winning is another story, but doctor's don't generally make sympathetic defendants. Juries know they have money and that they pay huge insurance fees to cover these cases. Of course, after losing a big case where the insurance company pays out millions of dollars, they likely become uninsurable and unemployable. But hey, the money is good until you hit the anti-lottery.

My father was an anesthesiologist (who retired in good standing), and I remember him telling me a case he read about a Caesarean section. The surgeon was using an electrocautery pen to sear closed the ends of blood vessels. The surgeon set down the pen on the surgical cart, lifted the baby out, set the baby on the cart, and the baby's heel touched the pen. Now the baby has a small scar on the bottom of his/her heel for life. The parents sued the surgeon, the cart nurse overseeing the cart, and the anesthesiologist was close to the surgical cart. All 3 defendants settled out of court, since babies almost always win jury cases against rich doctors, regardless of merit.

The litigant's lawyer would almost certainly bring up a below median survival rate as evidence of a pattern of gross incompetence.

Also, of course, in the U.S., I believe only governments are immune to lawsuits (sovereign immunity) without their consent. The courts have consistently ruled that many rights, including the right to sue, cannot be legally waived by contract. In a similar way, if you sell yourself into slavery by entering into a contract that waives your right against unlawful detention, that contract cannot be legally enforced.

My grandfather was an anesthesiologist. My dad was an anesthesiologist (and did well enough on the MCAT to go to med school after 3 years of undergrad... practiced medicine without an undergrad degree... med school is too competitive today to do such a thing). I was a good student: I graduated from MIT. However, my brother and I saw all of the BS and stress (anesthesiologists have a high suicide rate) and constantly rotating sleep/work shifts and both went into engineering.
I've always wondered why abrahmaic religions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism) never question why they came after Eastern religions (Buddhism, Sikhism, Hinduism, Jainism)
It's quotes like this that deflect responsiblity:

>“We don’t completely blame Facebook,” said Harindra Dissanayake, a presidential adviser in Sri Lanka. “The germs are ours, but Facebook is the wind, you know?”

And this, too, which says lynching is a natural individual reaction to systemic failure of law and order:

>And where people do not feel they can rely on the police or courts to keep them safe, research shows, panic over a perceived threat can lead some to take matters into their own hands — to lynch.
Yikes.

You could see them eventually either monetizing this content through advertising... or a SaaS subscription for all the people who couldn't attend a particular event.

Can also imagine that this might make the speakers/presenters less free-er to express themselves, knowing their content will be re-corded in perpetuity and can be used or mis-interperpeted against them at any point in the future.
I'm not so sure Goodhart's Law is correct.

For example, if I target a high win percentage, is win percentage, then, not a good measure?

Mortality rates are a pretty good measure for surgeons.

The problem here is that they are inflating their measure by cherry picking.

edit:

Some measures should be targeted, the problem here is that it is done in an non genuine way
Finger ----------------> Moon

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You're looking at this.
It's more a vector carrier. A set of fuses leading to powderkegs.
This would likely pair well with this functional interface to uitableview.

https://github.com/Shopify/FunctionalTableData
Who does any defense contractor answer to?

Look at Tor. It was created for some military purpose. Who controls it? Nobody really, it’s out of control.

It’s not about some conspiracy, it’s a power tool without adequate safety measures, in the control of people who don’t understand or care to understand the strategic impact on society.
Yep.

Good site with strong analysis of news stories - https://www.stopfake.org/en/news/

Amazing how much propaganda there is.
I see, you're probably right.
The Wikileaks Shop says that Coinbase has suspended its account
This topic was discussed in the last EconTalk [1] podcast featuring the author of a recent book “The Tyranny of Metrics” [2]. I think one of the author’s interest insights is the distinction between metrics for diagnostics and those for incentives.

1. http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2018/04/_what_is_the_ap.htm...

2. https://www.amazon.com/Tyranny-Metrics-Jerry-Z-Muller-ebook/...
Like which?
I like VS Code and Atom, so please understand my criticism here doesn't come out of hate or disdain.

Vim has a pretty huge community of plugins, and with NeoVim that plugin development has greatly accelerated. Intero, Fireplace, Vim FSharp (which works on regular Vim as well), and NeoComplete are excellent, and make NeoVim competitive with a lot of IDEs in my mind.

Part of the reason I don't use VS Code is that I really don't feel the need to run an instance of Chrome just to edit text. On my Mac, after loading a relatively large FSharp file, with FSAutocomplete (which is not known to be particularly efficient software), in NeoVim, it's taking so little CPU on the NVim side that it doesn't even register in Activity Monitor or `ps`. The same file loaded in latest version of VS Code (downloaded about thirty minutes ago) with the Ionide plugin is taking about 8% of the total CPU power.

With computers as powerful and wonderful as they are nowadays, I think you could make a solid argument of "Who the hell cares?", but in my mind, we have been editing text with full screen editors since the 80s, and had interactive IDEs since the 90s. If we could do this efficiently since the 90's, why should we opt for an inefficient solution now, especially if the efficient solutions are competitive?

Again, I'm saying this out of love. I use VS Code or Atom occasionally when I want to edit Markdown or HTML, and I think they are solid editors, especially considering that they are free. I understand that they are there to more to offer an open source and competitive solution to something like Sublime Text, and not to win-over the command-line-editor crowd, and at that I think they succeed. I just wish that an efficient framework like Qt, which has JS support, had caught on instead, since I think it would be a lot more efficient.
That doesn't change my view on this. You're paying Glitch _nothing_, yet are asking for 19/yr for this product. At the very least, a few users converting can get you a quality VM from Linode or Digital Ocean. Who's currently doing backups? You? Or Glitch.
Agreed: “that almost no-one grows up.” And is “immature”. Just because that has become the norm doesn’t mean we shouldn’t call a spade a spade. How else can we collectively, as a culture, identify where we lack and then to choose to grow?
You think it's arrogant in the extreme to argue that we should boycott a company because of its immoral actions? That seems like a very reasonable, non-intrusive thing to do. Further, you assume that "leave Facebook" and "leave social media" mean "give up on your connections [with people far away]". That seems quite silly to me-- I've found that Facebook helps me maintain a few sort of distant-friend/acquaintance connections that I care about, while all my close friends who live far away connect with me by phone. Group text chats or email exchanges are also fun ways to connect that are just as good at doing their job as facebook is.
Unbelievable! The five year survival rate for lung cancer is only 18%! Even when the cancer is localized the five year survival rate is only 55%![1]

It's irresponsible for the doctor to not give a reasonable prognosis!

[1]http://www.lung.org/lung-health-and-diseases/lung-disease-lo...
And the role of the movable-type printing press in the religious violence that raged across Europe in the 1600s
Agreed. However, there are people in organizations that are actually trying to improve the welfare of the employees (by introducing mindfulness programs) who work in soul-less corporations. In the company I work for, the mindfulness program is a bottom up initiative, but we do need to request for office space and budget to run it. To that end we do need to demonstrate why this might be in the interest of the company to fund it.
also see the chapter on the dalai lama in 'stripping the gurus' by geoffrey d. falk for that other side of buddhism
http://www.strippingthegurus.com/stgsamplechapters/dalai.htm...
That quote was referring to column editing mode, not “increment duplicates” shortcut.
I would be very interested to know what network applications show high overhead. Do you have any apps/number you could share? Does high overhead mean they are generally slower or that they consume more CPU or both? (I ask this as a researcher in computer science looking at container overheads)
Upzoning the American Dream
Will Warne: “Believe in your product regardless of the constraints”
Ingroup/outgroup dynamics are actually very well studied area of sociology/evolutionary psychology. It's extremely fascinating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingroups_and_outgroups
Almost as dead as its original creator, Steve Jobs, who only summoned it into existence because Jensen Huang leaked a deal between AAPL and NVDA ahead of him.

OpenCL could have been killer on mobile, and it could have delivered low-power machine learning and computation there all the way back in 2012, but both AAPL and GOOG went out of their way to cripple its use despite many of the mobile GPUs having hardware support for it. We all lost there IMO.
I cannot read the whole article due to the paywall, but from what I infer the article is trying to tell that Facebook is not doing enough to suppress incendiary content. But isn't that asking Facebook to be a censor and arbiter of suitability of content. It may well seem to people and the mainstream media from Western democracies that Facebook is acting irresponsibly, but out here in the third world where our freedoms and liberties are not so strongly enshrined, Facebook and their ilk are valuable channels to speaknout against oppression by governments. I fear what measures Western people and Govts force upon Facebook etc on grounds of greater responsibility for content, will effectively grant more power to repressive governments to censor legitimate dissention.

Moreover the Western MSM seems to think that Facebook and other social networks should bear greater responsibility since people seems to be getting more and more of their news through the social networks. In that regard, perhaps it is the media houses who is trying to protected their vested interest, who want to perpetuate their role as gatekeepers of information. I think the time for gate keepers is past, they should be evolving towards a model where their focus is not news gathering and reporting, rather it is establishing/publishing trust measures for news items circulaing in social networks/internet.
Capsule Corporation (from Dragon Ball): "a company that creates special small capsules that shrink and hold objects of various sizes for easy storage".
Then maybe mortality rate should be attributed to doctors not operating as well. Low mortality is a good metric on patients, not doctors.

But on the other hand, I don't want to be treated by a doctor who cares more about his sellable stats than saving lives.
I do not intend to diminish the suffering your mother has gone through or, in consequence, your mental agony. I myself have watched a close relative suffer. Treatment that just prolongs the agony is hellish and pointless.

Having said that, I just wanted to add a small message of hope for those in similar situations. Atleast in the case of lung cancer, the situation is vastly improved now. The variants of lung cancer that are most prevalent now can be managed with oral medication alone and the patients can recover to go on and lead normal lives. This is from experience seeing another close relative suffer terribly from lung cancer (mainly because diagnosis of lung cancer itself is very hard as the symptoms show up very late and can be mistaken for other issues) and has now miraculously recovered and is back onto his normal routine.
Beyond just skin color look at religion, sports, nationality, school almamater, etc...Humans are pretty wired to form ingroup/outgroups.
I think they're assuming that the leavers are people who were concerned and did research about it and decided to leave, while the accepters are "john/jane doe" sorts of people who dont actively question their use. It doesn't airtight-ly support their claim, but it's sort of plausible to me? Especially if we're separating [facebook for personal use] from [facebook as ad platform for promotion of myself]. I could see influential people deleting their personal accounts and continuing to use their professional accounts / run ads.
> Scrum isn't good or bad

I must have heard this at least a dozen times in the last months. OOP isn't good or bad, Exceptions aren't good or bad, Scrum isn't good or bad. It makes me mad. Guys and girls! Software is not a contest in being liberal and tolerant. There are methods and techniques that are objectively better than others in reaching most of the goals that are important. You wouldn't contest a F1 driver on a bicycle - not on a race track. And engineers who really know their stuff usually agree on how to build software in a given domain. I do not know of any success stories using Exceptions on Kernels or RDBMSs or even most server software. But I know people have tried, and even they agree it was a bad idea.

If you want to say Scrum isn't good or bad, depending on how you tweak it so it sucks less, then I say it's definitely bad. It's not a solid method that helps you reliably reach your goals.

If you want to say Scrum isn't good or bad unless metrics are defined (that doesn't seem to be the case here), then you are right, but it's a meaningless statement.
Please don't post flamebait to Hacker News.
In the US, if the surgery is in hospital:

- Well-regarded hospitals will vet surgeons before granting privileges.

- Average hospitals give out privileges fairly easily if there are no actions against a person's license.

- There is a "collegial" review of big screw-ups that carry major reputational risk.

- As with any fee-for-service firm, "rainmakers" are highly sought after and get away with more.

- Privileges are difficult to take away once granted. (Have stronger legal protections than academic tenure in some states.)

If the surgery is in an ambulatory surgery center or doctor's office:

Basically anything goes. Ice-pick lobotomies, tonsillectomy mills, boob job factories in strip malls....all have happened in recent US history. About as well-regulated as traveling carnivals.
When I looked at OpenCl, my impression was it was simply a kind of bundle of functionality that happened to be shared by different GPUs (thin-layer of syntax on top of each manufacturers chip) whereas Cuda is a library that actually shields the programmer from the complexity of programming a GPU. I think AMD is working on an open-source system somewhat equivalent to Cuda which might be nice to see develop. But it seems like the OpenCl consortium is the kind of organization that could never care about the individual developer or meet their needs. I'd love if someone could prove me wrong.
If you undergo a procedure whereby you could die it doesn't mean every cadaver is a paycheck. It means that if your death is a consequence of negligence or malfeasance that family has a recourse.

This is entirely reasonable and I cannot imagine how you could have a medical system where you can't?

What do you do if your surgeon operates drunk and kills you? Hope that a bunch of other doctors don't close ranks and protect their own at your expense? Why would anyone have any faith in their fellow man. People are terrible.
Yeah, but they're also operating in the "maker space", where ten people all pitch in $250 and buy a tool for everyone else to use. That $2400 buys you a tool that everyone, including kids, can use, as opposed to a real CnC machine that requires someone to become an expert operator needing to babysit anyone else who has an idea that requires CnC work.

This tool has zero appeal to commercial operators. But it's _INCREDIBLE_ for people who just want to make shit at their community center/hacker space/woodworking group/etc.
I am using vim for years now, and I haven't written more than 50 lines of vimscript apart from the bundles. Most of the thing that I have written is just maps, some configuration for other bundles, and some copied better defaults. I still don't get it when people say they heavily use elisp. Can anyone give example of a highly custom thing that you do in emacs/vim/any other editor, for which there is no famous bundle available.
If you want full control, you've got to be in full control. But you can't do that if you delegate that control to a third party. That's the whole point of bitcoin.

Instead of complaining, WikiLeaks can set up their own payment processing server and do away with Coinbase altogether.

Can't do that with a bank account!
> It's also more humanist than techie

I think it looks as if designed by a techie.
It doesn’t require as much of a vertical difference between the input and output.
To add a bit to what Scott said: one important reason to post substantive critiques of bad information, instead of flamey rants, is that a flamey rant makes it easy for readers to dismiss what you're saying. Assuming your view is correct, and the information you're ranting about really is bad, the net result is that by trying to defend the truth you actually discredit it, or at best make it seem partisan.