skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is a difference between silencing dissenters in a scientific discussion and silencing dissenters trying to push a viewpoint to the masses that may or may not result in tens of thousands of deaths if it gets sufficient traction.

It's the oldest trick in the book. Millions will die! You can't seek the truth in an non-transparent environment.

> This is exactly the kind of thing Russian propaganda always tries to achieve

How two Californian doctors talking about their own data and the reading of other counties data Russian propaganda?

> See eg the EU's take on it: https://euvsdisinfo.eu/

Form the website: "EUvsDisinfo publications do not represent an official EU position"
330 million americans at $24,000 a year comes out to $7.9 trillion dollars a year. How exactly are we going to afford that?
Millennials will swap experiences for buying stuff
> This is not a philosophical debate, people are literally dying.

That's a bit like "let's not think about what we're doing, people are literally dying".

The gravity of the situation only increases the need for evaluation of our behavior as a society.

Public discourse isn't an optional nice-to-have in times in which everything is fine, it's one of the cornerstones of democratic societies.
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One day I will find the security consultant who keeps going around companies and telling them that letting me paste content is insecure. On many platforms I use a password like "Fart123!!" because I can't paste "$3f4[FEsz$%643we]]SFv" from my password manager.
I actually think the results on DuckDuckGo are better than on google for many topics especially technical:

- there’s less ads (you can turn them off completely, but I’ve only seen one ad on the front page at most which is ok for me)

- not as SEOed (still not great though)

- the box on the side is often more useful, e.g. Wikipedia instead of shopping ads

- on mobile Safari I use the bangs [0] which have a sort of Omnibox experience

[0]: https://duckduckgo.com/bang

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Short term: printing presses at full blast.

Medium term: raised taxes.

Long term: we cannot afford this.
If it is one smart person with an open mind and time to investigate, fine. But what we have is a mob with no time, interest, or capability to investigate, and every incentive to find a reason to end isolation. Most importantly, there is a very real deadly outcome if they get it wrong. Under those conditions taking the video down is the right move.

And yes, the quality of the content matters here. It is well-known that misinformation is incredibly hard to correct once the horse has left the stable, so low quality argument can do plenty of damage even if its easily debunked. It doesn't sound like this video was mere dissent, and I for one would be satisfied if the video was replaced, for example, with an annotated transcript pointing out the factual errors in the content.
Free speech DOES grant the right for anyone express opinions without interference from the government. SCOTUS limitations for freedom of speech are very narrow, and being wrong or against the mainstream opinion is not one of them.
For a copy of the article NOT behind a paywall:
http://archive.is/sOTkP
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be bought at the price of chains and slavery?"

Chains and slavery being a bit overstated, but hey that's the quote.

In the long term, those few lives matter less than the billions - trillions - uncountable quadrillions - who benefit from free, Liberal cultures (capital L, not lowercase). This is not because the ends justify the means; they do not -- it is because the freedom to choose, even your own death by Darwin, is a pillar of a free society.
If that were the case, then people could claim that any parody was "too good" to get it removed.
This is out of date and not representative of current Uber business. Keep in mind Slack did not exist for several years after Uber was founded. Also, today all of Uber uses Slack, which gave them a nice stock bump. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/slack-stock-...
> You can pull docker images from ipfs? How?

Like this https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-02-14-improved-bitswap-for-contain...

Note that this is also similar to Kraken[1] from Uber, and Dragonfly[2] from Alibaba. Facebook also does container and artifact distribution using BitTorrent, but I can't find a good reference to it.

[1] https://eng.uber.com/introducing-kraken/

[2] https://d7y.io/en-us/
In the 90s in the USA, the grunge movement ruled rock music. We were told, by the music critics of the day, that this was for the greatest good, that rock music was finally returning to authenticity after the excesses of 1980s hair metal.

But closer examination of 1980s metal reveals that it doesn't want for genuine, heartfelt angst, boiling below the surface. I realized this upon relistening to a song from the dusk of hair metal's golden era: "Heaven" by Warrant, and realizing that it was the blue-collar lament of an aging factory worker who had been put out of a job, and hadn't much to look forward to except the grave -- and the continued love of his wife, for whom he would make every effort no matter how meager.

It seems this author came to a similar conclusion, and that's heartening.
"anywhere in the world" being the challenging part. If you're think about it from the perspective of a local taxi company, sure, it doesn't make sense. If you're a global service then it's probably different.
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It's hard to argue that the market can get, uh, frothy from time to time. This is especially true as low-interest-rate money is chasing such limited yields (or more frequently, negative yields) in low-risk asset classes like bonds.

Large investors and VCs are more interested in growth than they are in fundamentals because they believe the fundamentals will follow the growth. Often they do, but sometimes they don't. The size and employee counts of those organizations don't always mean much. It's worth being skeptical.

I think you'd have made the same reply if I'd cited Luckin before last week, ya know?

Especially for a company like Uber, whose operating economics have been -- let's just call them bleak. They burned $1B/quarter for years. I really like the write-up from Naked Capitalism (a few years old now, but aging well imo) [1]

They have lost more money so far than any startup in recent history. But I'm sure genuine profitability is right around the corner ;)

> Furthermore all companies are evil, greedy and nobody wants to build things that develop and grow the world.

Uh... sir, this is a Wendy's. IRL, just because you really deeply want something doesn't mean you'll get it -- or that it was even a good idea to begin with. And it certainly doesn't mean losing a billion dollars per quarter is going to magically generate a profitable business from thin air.

OR, I'm totally wrong! Either way's fine :)

[1] https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/can-uber-ever-delive...
Every time there is any discussion about the number of employees at a large company there is some comment like this. Whether it be Uber, Airbnb or twitter.

No large organization is going to be 100% efficient with their workforce, but what's more likely? 1) They (and judging by HN comments, every large company) just massively over hired without realizing it or 2) running a global company is more complicated and involves more moving parts than it appears on the surface.
> Cyanogenmod but it was always so buggy

Huh? LineageOS has been rock stable for me for years as long as I go with stable builds. Maybe the author meant using something like microG to replace all the google frameworks?
100% this, and all those parents are also now wondering and worrying what will happen to their child next school year, when they're either at or ahead of grade level, but half their class is most of a semester behind.

I had been reasonably happy in public elementary school until now, but am seriously considering private schools for next year because I'm convinced this reacclimation process will be much, much smoother with fewer regressions.
Unfortunately it’s not perfect and can do strange or undesirable things sometimes, especially when interacting with auto.
You are entitled to a soapbox. You're not entitled to an audience. Each person chooses for themselves, not one party choosing for others.
I'd recommend trying these Google Alt's: Protonmail or Fairmail for email. DuckduckGo or Bromite for low-ad/tracker browsing, or button down your Chrome with Umatrix/UBO and a host of other extensions (Privacy Badger, Canvas Blocker, etc.) Been using Protonmail beta's Calender feature with success, can't wait for their Android App. Have begun pulling all my photos off Photos and moving to both local drives and PCloud, and considering encrypting them at rest there too. DDG/SearX for Search. NextDNS for secure and adfree DNS mimicing PiHole (which I have at home) when away. If you want to keep your awesome Android hardware (OnePlus6T here), you can disable Google Services Framework and neuter everything at will using NetGuard, with the paid version allowing individual link granularity, so you can stop that Facebook link Spotify spawns upon launch, among all others. This allows you to fine tune each app to comm with only links you allow. FB is particularly pesky..once it fails to connect to it's obvious servers, it spawns other numerical IP's that you have to do lookups on to see where/who they are...often returning to FB, so it's an ongoing task, recommended only for those most commited. I was on this path well before Shoshana's book, but her presentation was reaffirming.
EDIT: of course...Signal, how did I forget that..most used app of all.
You can allow antivax movements to voice their flawed arguments and yet make vaccines mandatory.

You can allow them to speak yet consider their opinions worthless.
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For anyone wondering, a quick google search suggested that while "epidemiology" isn't a degree program anywhere, most epidemiologists have biostatistics degrees or background, which are a thing and do, in fact, involve statistics.
https://developer.nvidia.com/gtc/2020/video/s22697

Pretty impressive work.
https://takeout.google.com/
Google Takeout works fine for that. It zips and splits everything in chunks. Didn't have any issue extracting 57GB worth of photos a gew months back.
The French revolution was the worst thing to happen to humanity since the birth of the renaissance.
> Yet if you look at the comment sections for this video, there isn't anyone tearing it to shreds.

I count several detailed criticisms of it just in this thread. Do none of them have a YouTube account?

Why don't the people proposing to censor it post their own rebuttal?

> I think at the very least, YouTube needed to put up prominent disclaimers and links to limit the harm that this content can cause.

Which is totally different. Leaving the video up while posting a prominent link to a rebuttal isn't censorship, it's more speech.
No, we don’t, but that uncertainty doesn’t mean that it’s definitely an unprecedented calamity. This is not good, but how not good is yet to be seen and anyone who claims to know how things will shake out is lying or fooling themselves.
Nah we have zoom premium accounts. Kinda. You have to register it in this strange way, so half of us don't have these accounts. What this means is that if you start a zoom meeting with the premium account, you are a host and everyone else with the organizational premium account is a cohost. If you haven't enabled premium on your zoom, or you are a collegue from outside the org, the host of the meeting has to open screen sharing privileges for all guests. That button is found next to the share screen button, a small carrot revealing a menu with advanced screen sharing options. Within that settings menu is the toggle to allow guest to share screens. This is in contrast to most other host/guest controls that are found in the participants pane. These aren't the default settings, but we had to adopt these due to zoom bombings throughout the org a few weeks ago.

Of course it's zoom I'm talking about, come on dude.
No, public discourse in a technical matter is out of the question. Equating the opinion of 2 random doctors to the thousands of epidemiologists worldwide is not helping democracy in any shape or form. It actually destroys it.

We need to stop this insanity. Ignorant people's opinion is not worth the opinion of an expert.
Instead of building it on the ground, testing it, then launching it, where you are limited by maximum payload size.

I wonder if it is now easier to launch the raw components, and manufacture it in space. There are some engineering challenges of course, but it might be a worthy industrial exercise.
I watched the video and I think there are both good and bad in it. I want to list them here for others to consider.

The wrongful:

1) They extrapolated non-randomized sample to be somehow indicative of the whole State's population (CA and NY were mentioned I believe).

2) They concluded that the COVID-19 death rate is similar to that of the regular flu.

The valid:

1) They made the point that it's impossible for the current restrictive measures to get to near-zero cases.

2) They made a call for people to look at the long-term societal consequences of the shutdown, referencing issues like domestic violence, child abuse, etc...

3) They are calling for reopening the economy by gradually opening up schools and small businesses as we ramp up testing.

The questionable:

1) They argued that after being shut inside homes, people are lowering their immune systems. When restriction lift and they go outside, the disease rate will skyrocket.

2) They are pretty much full-on Dwight-mode, calling for no social distancing and not wearing masks (in attempt to boost one's immune system).
Yes, given the decades worth of damages it has caused by being an inferior quality software product (no quality control) and the anti-competitive tactics used to ensure that consumers could not choose a higher quality alternative. Unfortunately, this petition is concerned with something else.
Mail in a box comes with Nextcloud for contacts/calendaring, well, out of the box.
Talk about missing the point!
> The point to make here is that Youtube is NOT the New England Journal of Science

Exactly! So why are the doctors using it as a platform when they should be going through reputable peer-reviewed channels?
The video of 6 US Presidents performing NWA's "Fuck Tha Police"[1] is also pretty incredible. Some of the older presidents (JFK, Roosevelt, Regan) are a bit rough, presumably due to less training data. But even in FDR/MC-Ren's verse you can hear echoes of his cadence when saying the "only thing we have to fear is fear itself".

The Obama and Trump verses also have moments that sound uncannily realistic.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAZVp-n-5TM
You aren't entitled to a soapbox unless you make your own soapbox or buy one. Nobody is required to give you one. If you have a soapbox, you might still not get an audience.

YouTube took their soapbox away.
Plus, even the adults are struggling to maintain productivity. Stressful times are not conducive to consistent performance.
Or people just see Uber the app and think to themselves why is that so hard. All the while ignoring / not seeing all the other pieces that are needed to support that app. And this is just from the technology perspective.

I don't have any insider knowledge, but I imagine just the support and operations org to manage and respond to all those riders and drivers can't be small.
DDG results are okay until you need to look up something non computer science related, like results for your local country.
Sorry for the confusion. I'll try to fix this link too.
Well written! Airbnb hoteliers are a net negative for cities.
I'm still kind of conflicted on this particular case, but if someone yells "fire" in a crowded theater should the theater owner be able to kick them out? What if the fire alarm is going off, but a so-called "expert" is claiming that the fire alarm is just malfunctioning? Should the theater owner be able to silence them? Deep down I think I still believe that free speech should be protected even if it costs lives, but it's getting harder to hold onto this philosophy in recent years. Misinformation and propaganda is a plague that is nearly impossible to beat since it takes an order of magnitude more effort to refute a lie than to spread it. The only ways I can think of to solve this problem are either to restrict free speech or to spend huge resources on teaching the public critical thinking skills and the scientific method. The second option will take decades to work, if it's even possible at all.
Google is killing its experimental social network Shoelace
The important part isn't the feed, but the business model.

If your users' needs are important to you, then your users need to be your customers - i.e. they need to be paying you.

If someone else is your customer, then their opinions and needs become more important than your users' opinions and needs.

The problem with Facebook is that advertisers are their customers and therefore they're the people that Facebook needs to keep happy. Providing a great experience for their users is secondary.

As users we get annoyed by this, but we're stuck with it until Facebook starts giving us the option to pay for our FB accounts. Which Zuck promised he'd never do.

So for your new shiny social network, the important question, as always, is: who's going to pay for it?
Do you really trust YouTube to make that decision? That's the whole point. I'm not actually interested in the credentials on either side - merely pointing out that YouTube is doing far more harm than good in choosing a side. Society would be far better off without their curation.
Regarding [5], it says infection rate but talks about absolute number of cases. Which isn't a big surprise to be second in, India is a big country.
If there were 50 YouTubes, that would be amazing. I wouldn't care ONE BIT if someone got kicked off RandomTube. It'd be hard to argue that their voice was being silenced.

The 2nd player to YouTube, however, is a very distant second. YouTube has the power to decide if billions see a message. That's.... a power most governments would salivate to have.

Personally I feel like the perspective that "they're privately owned so they can do what they want" while technically true, intentionally and dishonestly misses the point.
You would think that, and they might also think that, but they're largely not allowed to behave materially differently than they are accustomed to.

fwiw, until our district settled on a specific set of policies, one of my kids' teachers had already -- the first week of WFH -- setup Google Classroom, used Classdojo to communicate with parents, shared a weekly agenda with links for augmentation material, and setup Zoom meetings 3 days/wk to teach & help the class. she's had to scale back some of this because it's against policy. My other kid's teacher was absent the first two week and, since the district's policy has clarified, is following it to the letter. Thankfully, a stay-at-home dad in the class has created a class email alias, is organizing multiple online sessions per week with parent led code.org, drawing, art history, music history, daily math check-ins, and informal "recesses" (social hours).

You may or may not be surprised how few parents are qualified to supervised their kids' learning.
No, your hands are gonna get tired after about 3 mins of using surface. All these futuristic videos showing what the future entails - everyone using a touch screen or a gesture - is ergonomically aggregious and completely out of touch(no pun) with reality.
This astronomical naming scheme doesn't seem to be limited to telescopes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Array
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I'm not sure data size is a good metric for measuring energy use; sure, all other things being equal... but they aren't equal. Heavy JS can be small, ShaderToy shaders are pretty small and make my 2080 Ti run at 300W while I'm enjoying them, and just yesterday on HN we had that 256 byte demo example which will keep a computer plenty busy with actually entertaining video for a good while: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23002874
> Aren’t dissenting voices and debate pillars of our democracy?

No, not all dissenting voices are equal. When your opinion is factually wrong you should not be allowed in the public discourse.
Actually that’s better too, I like how it’s possible to switch countries easily to get local results or choose global results.

Some non technical searches are more difficult though.
I know it's their platform so they can do what they want.

But why not show a warning like "the following content has false and dangerous information"?

Now it is gone so it can't be discussed.

And I also think you take away responsibility of the viewers if they don't need to be critical about any information.
You can probably phrase this as "teachers would be" and make the same, realistic point without attracting as much ire? It was my first thought too. Another option would be to have a rotation.
Lyft is about to layoff roughly 30% tomorrow. That's the rumor anyway.
Chinese POV on Coronashock
Woops.

My original comment ran the numbers against the OP's "wouldn't that be 256^256?", but I got tripped up by the reply refuting that and saying it was 8^256 instead.

For as-yet unknown reasons my brain has always had a hard time mapping between the real world and the mathematical vacuum, so it was honestly less stressful to risk trusting that comment than try and [figure out how to] figure it out on my own. So I just substituted calculations for 8^n.

Here are the original numbers I supplied:

8^8: 167,77,216

16^16: 18,446,744,073,709,551,616

32^32: 1,461,501,637,330,902,918,203,684,832,716,283,019,655,932,542,976

Thanks.

Hopefully I can figure out those mapping problems one day. I think neurological damage may be involved, or something - I had to resort to button-mashing on my calculator while trying to figure out how many vegetables I could buy for $X given that they were $Y/kg one day at the supermarket. I'm 29. </rant>
For anyone else wondering about the fixation on LLVM bitcode: It seems that Apple in some cases requires app app store uploads in a certain LLVM version's bitcode format (their Xcode is based on LLVM), instead of binaries, so they can do transformations to it before sending out to users.

Rust issue about dealing with it: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/35968
One thing to add to the list. Signal rather than Whatsapp. It's the best. Protonmail isn't bad too.
I have Fastmail and other private email services but I've been unable to really move over because of all the integrations that Gmail has. Automatic email scanning for trip details, calendar integrations, searches from the web also surfacing details from emails, google voice, tons of other apps and extensions.

It would be a nice if there was a way to get all this functionality beyond Gmail.
So, they are going to do a haircut after summer or ask their mom to do it now?