skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey @dang -- given that what "avs733" says is completely untrue and it is a lie meant to damage the people behind Freakonomics, can you

1.) Remove this parent post

and

2.) Ban this user for intentionally spreading malicious lies.

Thank you.

https://twitter.com/freakonomics/status/938505933508038658?l...
Oh please, this is as ridiculous as blaming the manufacturer of the truck for the psychopath that used it to run people over in France. As far as I know Facebook doesn't released public numbers on this kind of information, but their automated systems and human moderators have undoubtedly caught millions of objectionable content streams, you just don't hear about them. If we're making car analogies they would probably be the safest vehicle on the road.
Hun Sen the authoritarian leader in Cambodia also has his own app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kh.gov.samdech...

I guess most dictators do?

Taking it to the next level of making the populace play is interesting, but apps for dictators is interesting in itself.

Xuexi Qiangguo apk -
https://partyoa.xuexi.cn/app/download?app=xuexi&client=andro...
https://itunes.apple.com/cn/app/%E5%AD%A6%E4%B9%A0%E5%BC%BA%...
Sure. OP is still pulling that claim out of his nether regions, though
porn is not a replacement for a relationship with a person, casual or serious.
Of course they can monitor everything on their platform, they are just unwilling to pay enough people to do it ... This is really about money and Facebook being extremely cheap-ass
Yes, if you add China, the Four Tigers and Japan then you are already covering 1.6bn people. All of these countries/regions have fantastic public transport in the urban areas.
Author has a computer science understanding of VPNs but is breathtakingly ignorant as to the actual use cases of commercial VPNs. They're used for getting around geoocming and media throttling sure, but the biggest use is piracy.

Also, his disbelief of anonymous payment methods is incredibly stupid. I can walk into a store right now and get a prepaid visa using cash, no crypto currency shenanigans required.
There currently is no good candidate for a imaging modality that can be used for a general screening program to find the top 15 to 20 cancers and I am unaware of anything on the near horizon. Such a scan would have to examine the neck thru the groin area to cover even just 10 out of the top 15 or so cancer types. Since screening involves patients with no symptoms, most patients won't actually have any disease and thus the imaging must be inexpensive, must have high sensitivity, must have a reasonable false positive rate, must involve little to no radiation, and must not require injection of contrast agents or radioactive tracers. That eliminates all of the imaging modalities I can think of that can examine large areas of the body for cancer. The best we have today are compromises on these criteria for patients that are at relatively high risk, such as a smoker or a cancer survivor, or for highly focused screening programs such as what we have for breast cancer.
> we're being sold a bill of goods by doctors about "peaceful death" because it makes their lives easier to think about, at the cost of giving up earlier on patients

At last, an actual substantive statement. But unfortunately, it's still your opinion.

I have no problem at all with you choosing to fight to the last and continuing to seek treatments right to the end even if you are diagnosed with a terminal illness where all known treatments have slim to no chance of success. But that's your choice, and other people might choose differently. And the problem with accusing people of lying simply because they don't share your opinion and would make a different choice from yours isn't that it's rude (though it is); it's that it's not justified.
Shakers: they died out
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakers
>It also won’t do to point to changes over this time period that effected all ages and genders similarly, such as obesity, porn, video games, social media, dating apps, and wariness re harassment claims.

I think this is wrong. I don't believe these things effect all ages and genders similarly. For instance, I think we would find that the rate of young men playing video games and watching porn are much higher than for young women. I'm not saying that young women don't do these things, but I don't believe these things are engaged in at the same rates as young men.

Also, many older men are already married. Even if they do view porn at similar rates to young men, this might not affect the rate at which they are having sex with their wives. And, in my experience, older men and women are not playing video games at the same rates as young men.
It is a hard problem to solve, yes, but the solution has to be initiated from somewhere because it won't happen by itself.

And Facebook is not targeted because who they are, but because Facebook+WhatsApp+Instagram covers a ridiculous large part of the online communication spectrum today.

It's a channel where more and more diseased trash is shared unhindered, and if the owner doesn't do enough to stop it, then the government has to force them by any means necessary.
"in the decades after the Great Famine... as much as a third of Irishmen and a fourth of Irishwomen never married due to chronic economic problems that discouraged early marriage."

That is by most peoples' expectations widespread, up to some allowance for out-of-wedlock births (which the Catholic Church in Ireland famously acted forcefully against).
An interesting thought I'd never read about though I thought the speed of gravity waves was further constrained to 2.993 × 10^8 and 3.003 × 10^8, but any difference is sufficient.

The part I don't follow is that light follows the curvature of space-time and it's the distortion of space-time that propagates at the speed of gravity. Even if this distortion propagated at 10 m/s the path of light and the path of gravitational attraction would be along the same lines of acceleration.
This

> Add in that suddenly after Koch industries became a sponsor of their radio show/podcast they did a total softball interview of one of the Koch brothers with no disclaimer that they were a sponsor

is simply untrue.

https://twitter.com/freakonomics/status/938505933508038658?l...

What's your agenda? Who pays you?
Could a woman walk around the world today?
Facebook already employs tens of thousands of human moderators. What you're really proposing is that every piece of content that's uploaded to any internet website should be manually reviewed and approved by another human. You don't think that's a ridiculous and unrealistic proposition that could be turned into a weapon by bad actors (just like a livestream feature?)?
China is far, far worse with the sex ratio being incredibly imbalanced due to the past one child policy. There's a number of documentaries about the craziness and competitiveness of dating in China. People not having sex, not having families (if they so desire) and not making enough money to be comfortable anywhere is a national emergency.

American men of any sort can just go to Brazil, Mexico, Ukraine or the Czech Republic... where an endless supply of objectively-attractive women are willing to hookup with foreigners for very little or no relative cost. (Prague 10's for 60€/hour.) Rent a huge villa for cheap for a few weeks in Central and South America, the girls beat down your door like they're meeting a celebrity... they will bring their girlfriends if you ask them for a good old hellraising.

LDOW (older women) from the US visit Jamaica, Haiti, Costa Rica and parts of Africa for sex tourism, formally or informally, because of the abundance of fit men.

I think frustrated dudes need a shift in attitude, a more open-mind and make an effort for their own sake. A more pleasing personality, better social adroitness and improved awareness goes a long ways to many things in life.
> They can be forced to log

There is no legislation in the US that can be used to do this [1]. Some very misguided companies may voluntarily log, but those that care about privacy or, at the least, realize that holding people's data is a liability, won't make poor decisions like that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_retention#Failed_mandator...
Which is why many people don't use US-based VPN services.
There is no longer an average, middle, median, etc. Hookup culture has consequences; before it was possible for an undesirable male to mate with a female, with the institution of marriage.

So you end up with a society where everyone is unhappy. The hookup culture devalues the woman, competing for a slice of a shrinking desirable pool of men, while the undesirable men become angry and frustrated. But desirability is more about status IMO. Status can be decoupled from wealth and the economy. If you’re not playing the status game, even if you’re wealthy, women will not find you attractive.
I've noticed this disparity within my friend circles. The objectively attractive men match/sleep with multiple woman a month where almost all of the men with near average looks get approximately zero matches. Interesting indeed.
My female friends match with almost every male regardless.
That's amazing that you can do that.

Anonymous credit cards are ruled out by law basically everywhere in the European Union. Assuming that I live in the US, and that everyone on this planets is doing so, is - as you call it - incredibly stupid.
If we abandon the idea that everyone gets a voice, then who decides who does, and how do they do so?
> It's a hard technical problem to solve. It's an even harder political problem to solve.

hard to solve; not hard to address. I read this as being an expression of frustration at fb's lack of concern rather than capacity
Eh, that kind of makes a certain amount of sense, but I don't think that's quite right. Determining which of the two sensors is less-extreme supposes knowledge about the airframe's current state. If he aircraft is currently in a very high angle of attack low speed stall, then the sensor that says everything is A-Okay is the extreme sensor.

I understand that's not what you mean, that the sensor indicating a situation closes to nominal flight should be chosen, but I think the sticky part is that MCAS isn't a system meant for normal flight conditions. MCAS is only supposed to be active when the aircraft is in an extreme scenario. So in fact if the sensor with "less-extreme adjustment" is preferred, in a way that actually means the system functions as I suggested: MCAS is disabled if the sensors disagree. But not quite. In your scheme if both the sensors are extreme but disagree, MCAS would be active to the lesser extent. But in my scheme, if both sensors are extreme but disagree, MCAS would be totally inactive (while leaving the pilot with electronic stabilizer trim control of course, allowing the pilot to manually do anything MCAS would be capable of doing.)
Poor ecosystem? Have you used web frameworks like Express/Koa + a good linter + a modern IDE (e.g. VS Code) and of course npm? It's a breeze working with those tools. Productivity skyrockets and if you think a little bit about your design decisions then typescript (plus the proper support for it) gives you a huge hand in writing correct code from the first try. I think that if you want your opinion to be taken seriously you should propose an alternative. I would be interested to see a better ecosystem.
What data are you referencing exactly? I would love to see it.
Watch what comes next.
Do any economic indicators correlate with these data?
I would be interested in having some stats by education level and profession. From my current personal experience as a CS student, I would say it is easily above 50%.
From Amazon, Apple, Comcast, and AT&T: Who Owns the Media Today
I didn't believe you and checked. The GSS interviews 1500 people for each study, which comes out to about the numbers you mention.

http://gss.norc.org/faq
Then change the model. It wouldn't be terrible if it came with a cost.
Yeah, I would think "incelibacy" would mean non-celibacy. But that's the opposite of what PutinIsMyGod meant. Then again flammable and inflammable mean the same thing.
> To conquer the world these days, you'd have to have an anti-ICBM defense system that can stop thousands of nukes coming at you in every direction

Or you'd just need to do what the US did in the Cold War to become—for a time—the sole superpower: run a global race and have the opposition spend themselves into collapse competing with you, and swoop in and pick up the pieces; you probably need a couple cycles of that to establish durable de facto control, but if you've got the population and resources and aren't just leveraging an advantaged industrial position that the competition will close over time at the outset, being able to do multiple cycles while growing an advantage isn't implausible.
300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute...

https://merchdope.com/youtube-stats/
I'm not saying there are zero C# programs in GNU/Linux distro repos. I'm saying compared to its status in Windows world, it's a niche language with very low penetration. C# never got popular in Linux or BSD environments (partially because how Microsoft was hostile against the entire FOSS when it came out) and I personally don't believe it ever will, given the more recent renaissance of languages which brought us Go, Rust, etc which are safe, compiled and truly cross-platform alternatives to C/C++.

There are a few (GNOME) programs, which can be attributed to Miguel de Icaza. They tried pushing for Mono despite all the FUD surrounding C#, but I can't say they got much far.

I know it's tiny sample but neither I, nor many GNU/Linux users around me know C# or ever needed to use it.
That's a reasonable analogy, yes.
KeePass2 as well
You don't have to compare brain-mass/body-mass. You have to compare brain-mass/body-mass^(2/3).

> This phenomenon can be described by an equation of the form E = CS^r, where E and S are brain and body weights, r a constant that depends on animal family (but close to 2/3 in many vertebrates
Predicting age, gender, and cost of the route and timings for en route, and doing shopping online for groceries and beverages in the cab, and pick them on their return to home.
Probably a combination of lack of everyday demand and the complexity of the task.

Time is notoriously difficult for many reasons which have been discussed at length [1].

The trend now is that the number of programmers doubles every 5 years [2]. This rapidly expanding group of potential users and creators means features just on the fringe today might become available at any time.

1. https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-program...

2. https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2014/06/20/MyLawn.html
The ISP can easily build a reasonably reliable profile based just on packet size and timing.
TLS and most VPNs do nothing to these.

If they actually wanted to. You could sure them under wiretapping laws if they did.

If you cannot trust your ISP, you cannot really have any privacy without truly extensive measures. Not even Tor is enough, it does not pad and change timing enough.

The real problem is cookies, requirement for email backed login and phone home downloads. (E.g. images such as social buttons, JavaScript. They can also leak cookies or make them live longer.)

The last one is combatted to an extent by mix networks like Tor, or better yet, by aggressively caching and/or predownloading.
Calling it "hoarding" doesn't seem right unless there are both high vacancy rates and strong demand. How often is that the case?
There's a difference between unmarried and celibate.
We've messed up many features created by mother nature with millions of years of evolution. We hijacked the purpose of enjoyment of having sex with the invention of condom so that individual intention now separated from that of mother natures. Wide spread of porn flushed the brains of a couple of selfish generations with overloading dopamine. The direct consequence is that their threshold of ecstasy become lower than a healthy level. The indirect consequence is the symptom passed on to the next generations due to epigenetics. [1] (human behaviors cause unintended consequences are not always limited to regime change)

In other words: the current young people's enjoyment was consumed by their selfish parents addicted in porn.

The solution? There should be many way to fix it. If we talk about culture, I speculated that Niqāb exists for some reason that we might not really understand. Evolution is so tricky when think about survival of the fittest, the fittest is not always the conclusion of our "rational" thinking.

Claim: above ideas contain full of unscientific speculation with no proof. Viewer discretion is advised

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics
What's playing the status game? Expensive-looking clothes, being perceived as authoritative in some social circles?
Using an analog modular synthesizer to control IKEA Ledberg RGB LED strip
Car alarm techno: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WFsIskJ05I
If you hit an onion link, then that doesn’t even require an exit node.
I agree that it hasn't, but I'd be surprised if .NET Core doesn't shift the needle on that a bit over time. Previously, Linux was definitely not first tier in C# support (at least in terms of supporting ecosystem, which is as important as the language itself), but that is changing.
The title of the page is actually:

Linkerd v2: How Lessons from Production Adoption Resulted in a Rewrite of the Service Mesh

Whereas the title currently shown above is a non-sequitur.
This is an interesting conversation. As others have said, this article does indicate rent control works for the renters. What are the arguments about who it doesn't work for? I've heard landlords angry about this kind of thing in Oregon but never heard them complain about the values of their properties skyrocketing. It's human nature to only see the downside. But, is the solution to make these rent controls temporary? Is the big problem, as the article suggests, that the laws don't adapt to the dynamic nature inherent to cities?

Could blockchain solve this?

Joking!
Just to clarify, it's Tor clients that select which relays (entry guard, middle and exit) to use in circuits. Also, each relay in a circuit knows (or at least, could know, if it wanted to) both source and destination. But with three-relay circuits, no relay know both user identity and destination.

Also, by default, Tor changes circuits at 10-minute intervals.
There is Japan which has a culture of "herbivore men": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbivore_men

There is a similar movement growing in the US which is called "MGTOW", men going their own way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Going_Their_Own_Way

Personally, I'm a bit scared that we're going towards a culture of increasing isolation and tension between the genders.
> The US didn't have to wage war against every country on earth after WW2 to become as powerful as it is now.

The US isn't even remotely close to a global dictator so what is your point?

> Western economies being stagnant while China expanding influence across the world with the OBOR project.

Western economies are definitely not stagnant and China's economy should be taken with a grain of salt.

> They command far more wealth and power than England did when they started their colonial project so I'm sure that China will be able to pull it off far more quickly.

Nominally sure, but relatively is what matters and China "has" 2/3rd the GDP of both the EU and the US currently. Add in other countries like South Korea, Japan, the UK, Canada, and Australia which are all more closely aligned with US economic policy and defense treaties like NATO and the Five Eyes; I find it hard to see China colonial projects having much effect.
A quick google search of the terms "japan sex rates" [1] will return pages and pages of results about the high number of Japanese millennials that aren't engaging in sexual or romantic relationships, with some articles citing numbers as high as 40% of all Japanese people aged 18-34 are virgins [2]. It's even got its own name: "celibacy syndrome" [3]. A search for Korean sex rates shows very similar articles as well. [4]

I'm not sure what lessons we can draw from Japan/Korean, though, as these revelations all seem to be from relatively recently and the long-term impacts haven't been seen or explored yet. The main obvious consequence is plummeting birth rates [5, 6], which will probably have drastic economic consequences, but we may not see those consequences for decades.

1: https://www.google.com/search?q=japan+sex+rates

2: https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/20/asia/japanese-millennials-vir...

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celibacy_syndrome

4: http://theconversation.com/why-young-people-in-south-korea-a...

5: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/27/japan-shrinkin...

6: https://qz.com/1556910/south-koreas-birth-rate-just-crashed-...
We do. However, car manufacturers usually try to downplay reports of issues with the cars to the point when they can't do anymore. That's when something like a recall happens, which results in a substantial financial loss for them. Obviously not every affected vehicle owner can or may afford to have their vehicle serviced, so many keep using them despite the risk- like the people who are using social media knowing its weaknesses.

I think social media are at a point when they are forcefully downplaying the social issues which they are actually responsible for. We've already seen state and other actors exploit the social media and cause mass epidemics; anti-vaxx, white nationalism, Rohingya issue etc. to name a few. Let's see how far it goes before the damage is too much.
I'm an ex-USSR resident and I see a good bit of difference between a liberal society where free speech is seen as a basic human right and a budding Communist nation with a "Chief Censor" who gets to dictate the bounds of acceptable discourse.
In the 'Glimpse of Muon' example, how does the Map::getOrDefault() function work? Shouldn't it accept 2 args: a key and a default value (if the value associated with the given key is not found)?
Why draw the line at social media companies? Why not include AWS and Gmail? Why not force data-centres to moderate as well. Hell, why not force anyone proving egress of data to moderate it all?
Although I’m familiar with Tor, my thinking was packaging that concept in a better way, similar to how vpn services market themselves.
I was under the impression that it had more to do with lips than jaws. Hyenas can outbite humans a thousand times over, but they can't drink a milkshake through a straw!

In other words, breaking bones is the easy part; sucking out the marrow is the tricky bit.
But Joe typically hates dealing with the inconsistencies, and he can tell you exactly how they could be fixed.

It generally seems like (a) the suggestions for fixes are impractical to implement (overly detrimental effect on counterparty), (b) Joe isn't empowered organizationally to suggest fixes that will be implemented, or (c) Joe doesn't have access to the IT tools to implement fixes himself.
Given what I said, Even for fairly simple examples, it would still be more bug prone, simply due to humans not having perfect cognition. At scale that can add up.

Also keep in mind that this both enables, and follows a trajectory of increasingly complex frontend applications, previously a lot of interactive stuff was done server side.

Patently absurd, if you take it as a strawman, sure. You ended up using that to paint the complete opposite picture, which was essentially that Typescript doesn't actually add any real value, only "perceived" value. Which is true, if all you value is the execution environment. Keep in mind that Typescript was not the first attempt at trying to "tame" Javascript. One example that comes to mind is Coffeescript.

The natural reducto ad absurdum is thus, well why aren't we just writing in ASM, it all boils down to that anyway, right? People were doing fine then too... Could it also be said that accusing people of needing "crutches" is also snobbery?