skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You compare a pull to a push there. Sure on a service where you pull the information, you wouldn't pull what you don't want. Internet is a good example of that, your example of twitter-like is also pull.

It fail when it's a push instead. That would be anything that have suggestion, any public conversation, like a forum, or twitter, even private conversation in some case, like an email service, etc...

For sure you won't pull what you don't want, that's by definition, but you moderation is needed for the push system, where you don't control everything that goes to you.

Most service are push too, we want things to be suggested, we don't always know exactly what we want, we don't know even if it exist.
HN doesn't have PMs, and email addresses in profiles aren't publicly visible. If you want someone to contact you, it's best to put some details in your About field, which is public.
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It is plainly foolish to believe that only right wing groups are targeted by this kind of manipulation.

Particularly when the goal of KGB like entity is not necessarily to prop up one particular candidate or policy, but to generally sow discord. The fact that propaganda aligns with your views does not mean it isn't propaganda. We are not only particularly vulnerable, but playing right into these actors' hands when we pretend that only one side of our bipolar politics is subject to nefarious influence.
I think you are referring to this study https://www.cmaj.ca/content/188/8/567

Although N95 respirators appeared to have a protective advantage over surgical masks in laboratory settings, our meta-analysis showed that there were insufficient data to determine definitively whether N95 respirators are superior to surgical masks in protecting health care workers against transmissible acute respiratory infections in clinical settings.
I love how this tries to blame Adams wife. LoLz.
Mad props for running completely smooth on Firefox Preview for Android. Drag to select, double click, window resize, everything just works perfectly. Why can't modern SPAs work as well?
Excellent article.

You can't study consciousness directly in a lab but it's pretty easy to
"merge" with others under the right conditions.

For example, here's an old experiment with "mutual hypnosis": two people
hypnotizing each other at the same time.

"Psychedelic experiences associated with a novel hypnotic procedure, mutual hypnosis."
Am J Clin Hypn. 1967 Oct;10(2):65-78.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6080106

Anything which causes entrainment between two dynamic systems is
essentially combining them into one dynamic system. E.g. something as
simple as deliberately breathing in sync with each other can begin to
develop consciousness merging.
Pentagon adopts new ethical principles for using AI in war
It's objectively different groups of actors.
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Funny you write this comment, as I thought about exactly this the other day while out for a jog. These aren't VC problems, these are politics problems ("Think vertically integrated healthcare/hospital systems that remove insurance from the equation [1], nuclear fusion [2], new models for higher education [3], cancer treatments [4], etc."). I want my government funding these ideas, not some VC partner you have to pander to. Have a moonshot idea? DARPA/ARPA-E

Tesla and SpaceX weren't government funded per se (kudos Elon), but they took advantage of US government subsidies/financing (Tesla) and NASA contracts (SpaceX), which I take no issue with. But those are the exceptions, not the rule.

[1] Single payer Medicare For All, with a HHS (Health & Human Services) central EHR/EMR system

[2] US ITER

[3] Khan Academy, Coursea, Udemy (non-profits, not gov)

[4] US NIH (who provided the vast majority of the resources researching treatments for HIV/AIDS)
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A few years ago I came up with the idea that instead of funding facial recognition, image-recognition technology could be used at dumps to recognize the brands associated with unrecycled trash passing through the chutes, then using that data to tax companies whose consumers create the most litter and throw away the most recyclables.
"Facebook considers "your data" things you uploaded to Facebook intentionally."

Thought experiment: How is Facebook different from a file hosting service.

Do file hosting services provide access to analytics? Do the hosting companies take the position that any information about who is accessing the user's files belongs to the hosting company, not the user? Can user's control how a file hosting service "promotes" their files.

Facebook has never been transparent about who is accessing "your data". Users have a limited view of who is looking at their profiles and posted content. A Facebook account amounts to a "personal website" for many people. It is their own set of globally accessible (but not necessarily "public") webpages, often displaying their own content, hosted on someone else's (Mark Zuckerberg's) public website, allegedly with per page "access controls". Free web hosting, with extremely limited analytics.

Imagine if a Facebook user could look at a log of every username and IP address that accessed her Facebook profile each day. Pre-Facebook, there were early "social networks" that revealed to each user the other users who had looked at their profile. It is interesting that Facebook has never done that. Perhaps having this information would be eye-opening for many Facebook users. Those accessing a user's Facebook profile and posted content may not necessarily be her "family", "friends", "colleagues" or "people [she] may know". Perhaps the reasons a user's profile is being accessed are not ones that the Facebook user might expect, nor agree with.
Lying sociopaths and narcissist are always going to be wrong. What keeps them in check are those who know this and value objective truths or measurable metrics rather than prose and charisma.
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> [They were] buying assets WeWork would in turn lease back from them. But as Rebekah explained in an interview with Fast Company, “We don't have a line at all between work and life. It's not even a blurred line. There is no line.”

There was also no line between business and theft.
>> When CA was closed down many employees simply moved to new companies doing the exact same thing.

I'm not really sure why this is such a surprise. Think about the dot com boom. People were hopping all over the place. I remember one friend who was a developer and chased the money from company to company to company. All the companies wanted to be the next "future of the internet backbone" technology companies.

I would imagine its the same here. You have a specific set of skills, when one company gets shut down, you hop to the next company doing the same thing where you can continue utilizing the skills you were using at the last company.

To me, this is just standard career trajectory. The fact the work they're doing is morally questionable obviously doesn't concern them when they're making fat money doing it.
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Yeah. Seen the news station talking about that a few months ago. Some cities are just taking the recyclables to the regular city dump's landfill like regular trash, and some are just burning it since that's cheaper than sending it to China... and I thought they said not to burn plastic? Well using an incinerator, not like a campfire... but still, feels a bit misleading. Then cities got grants to fund recycling and some cities even have mandatory recycling laws too for residents. Seems like we've all been scammed in a way, but I think the intentions of recycling is good.
I do wish there was a ‘skip tech interviews’ cert that was taken seriously.
Depends on how you do it. Burning electronics in African open dumps to melt their metal parts is recycling and make economical sense. It doesn't mean it's a particularly good idea though.
Are you going to open source it?
FB Messenger on iOS rewritten to be 2x faster and quarter the size
As you correctly guessed, we're planning to provide features that would be useful to teams and larger organizations. Shared commands, integrations with custom internal tools, shared instant knowledge base and so on.
Accusing someone of shilling is contrary to HN comment guidelines.

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It is nobody's job to prove you wrong or right – it is a discussion, everybody is free to act as they please within the bounds of the law.

Based on the tone of your remarks it doesn't appear to me that you desire a discussion, rather a confrontation, so I will refrain from spending more time on this matter.

You are free to choose what you believe :)
Also glass bottles.
The result can give a much better UX if done properly. (If done poorly it's just frustrating of course...)

Just think of SPAs vs normal backend templated apps. The SPA can be much faster with poor network connection or when the data needed is large but unpredictable. Then the SPA can really shine, if routing is (re-)implemented well enough.
Yes, I didn't start until late December so I did a little loading with a bigger dose [1]. Next time I'm just going to start around October instead of running into a deficiency.

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It takes active effort to get all the pages faulted in at startup, and not lazily.

Some of us do that, to take the latency hit just the one time: MAP_POPULATE.
While I am an experienced Java developer, and took immediately to clojure, I don't think you deserved to be downvoted for expressing that experience.

I can imagine if I were to learn a new lisp, that was hosted on a language I did not know, and various difficult things leaked through the abstraction making it more difficult for me to work. I might feel similarly.
Man, it was mind-blowing back in the day to see a video streaming from a server right to your local machine in real time
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"Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (2019–2020)" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_investigations_int...

I have no interest in accusing anyone of anything but will point to timelines of documented activity that are hosted on a website widely considered to be a reliable source of information. I think those accusations are distinct from "Pizzagate" in ways that are obvious.
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I feel like the fact that everything they did made no financial sense, and that they embodied the old joke about losing money on every transaction and making it up with volume is probably the main driver of their collapse.

The impact of any of the other bizarre stuff they were doing was probably minimal.
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It's much better in almost every way besides weight. Much more reusable, not leaking any chemicals in soil/water/our bodies, &c.
Side question. If you wrote it as a side-project while at Facebook, doesn’t that work belong to them? How did you launch a business on this idea, did you strike an agreement with them or are you taking the do-first-ask-permission-later approach?
This thread is relevant.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1234474399694237696.html
Exposure to fake news in 2016 election overstated
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It doesn't help that plastics, in particular, derive a huge part of their utility from directly countering those two parts. They replaced other things because they were so cheap they were disposable (as in food packaging) and created new categories of ultra-cheap crap that couldn't have existed, or certainly not to that degree, without plastic, and often to dubious benefit to society—dirt-cheap toys, for example (dubious benefit to society because if not for marketing I very much doubt kids would be much less happy with a couple metal and wooden toys plus some rocks and sticks, versus a mountain of cheap plastic figures and playsets and such, source: have kids, have been a kid)
Geez, only claim D even makes conceptual sense to try in court.

This suit is an awful idea.
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Accept that there's a significant chance you're going to get coronavirus.

Educate yourself and be realistic.

Realize that 80% of patients have mild symptoms, only 20% have serious symptoms, and of that 20% only 2% fatalities occur.

Also, accept that nothing in life is guaranteed, appreciate the time with the people you love and care about, and be grateful this pandemic isn't some more virulent version of something more lethal like yersinia pestis.

That's about all you can do.
I agree. I want this functionality for my old phone.

If anything Apple could include a switch (like "low power mode" but for old batteries) and let people upset with it disable the feature.
Interesting strategy of name-calling people with opposing opinions, without offering a shred of evidence in favor of your argument. And somehow, that isn't unhinged, for society has to believe in the intrinsic benevolence of a trillion dollar super-secretive mega-corp with such a chronic history of victim shaming that their "excuses" are literal memes [1]

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I think it's also due to recycling being easier to integrate into our lifestyles than reducing or reusing. We have enough wealth to just buy another, and throw the excess in the recycling bin where someone else deals with the problem.

When you visit less wealthy countries, you see people reducing and re-using. They either don't have as easy of access to all these goods, or the cost of them makes the people re-use the stuff around the house.

For example, I could use empty beer cans to start seedlings for my garden, but I've instead bought those nice black gardening pots. I have the money to and it's easier than keeping beer cans around then modifying them to drain right.
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