skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Where is the evidence that there was even a single bot campaign - again, emphasis on bot - on the pro-net-neutrality side?

There's plenty:

>One 369-word comment supporting the Obama-era net-neutrality rules was posted on the FCC website more than 300,000 times. One of those was attributed to Gloria Burney, 87, a retired speech therapist in Los Angeles. She isn’t in favor of repealing those rules, she said, “but I never wrote that.”

You presented the "Chicago programmer" analysis as proof of bot activity. In the linked blog post, they say:

>A number of journalists have tried to trace where this message is coming from, and the best guess seems to be the Council for Individual Freedom. This was a mentioned in a recent Gizmodo article, where the organization claimed that they were running an ad campaign that directed users to a form, and they provided a screenshot of that form.

This is the same thing that many of the pro NN organizations were doing. Under what definition are you implying that a single message submitted 300k times wasn't a bot but the other ones discussed are?

Again:

>He said the FCC received more than 7.5 million comments consisting of the same short-form letter supporting the current rules from about 45,000 unique email addresses, “all generated by a single fake e-mail generator website.”

This is on average each email being used over 100 times. You think 7 million Americans:

A. Know how to use email generator websites
B. Decided to all use a particular website
C. Sent the same form letter while using said website and
D. Happened to choose the same name as 100 other people on average?

This is just not a credible claim.

I'm sure you've got a perfectly innocent non-bot explanation for this as well:

>He said the FCC received more than 400,000 comments supporting the old rules “from the same address in Russia.”
From what you say it would then appear to be a cryptographically secure distributed storage system.

So I develop an app, and while my app is running I'm providing some storage space. I get rewarded for this via some mechanism I don't understand, but involves some sort of cryptocurrency. I can then store things "out there", and the cryptography means that it's secure. Similarly, parts of other people's data gets stored in my app.

Is that right?

If so, what happens to other people's data when I turn off my machine? What happens to my data when other people turn off their machines, or are otherwise unavailable?

I don't understand what problem this is solving, or how it can work.
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Googled Venus Simulation. Found Terraforming Wiki.

https://terraforming.fandom.com/wiki/Venus_Simulation
But copyright is not 5 years right now, it's 70 years after the death of the creator. You say the longer the period, the greater the incentive to invest, but there are definitely diminishing returns there. Does anyone actually believe we would have greater investment if it was 80 years? Or 90 years? Maybe it should be 300 years, for all those companies looking for investments that take centuries to be realized.
And look at all amazing work that has been produced based on public domain works, the Disney movie empire was basically created on it.
I think we can pretty much say that yes, reduced copyright terms would increase the types of movies that we see.
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Neither are ships, but we have become pretty good at keeping them buoyant, primarily by properly compartmentalizing the internal space.
GeForce NOW seemed to handle raw input correctly when I tested it on macOS. Though that's more of a game streaming thing.

Regarding Apple's mice, the Magic Mouse has a rather unusual polling rate of 90 Hz (likely to save energy), which probably explains why it feels awful to use.
Why do we call it "producing"? Most of the oil is harvested not produced, right?
I disagree with this point of view. It only encourages covering things up. The US frequently has it's own lab incidents including even with anthrax (this was reported in some of the Newsweek articles). There's no indication of carelessness or violations of lab procedures in the Chinese labs yet. This could have happened anywhere in the world.

The problem now is that there is no real investigation into the true source of the outbreak. That is all we should be demanding right now. And if it turns out to have escaped from the lab that does not imply a need for punishment beyond perhaps the lab director and those in an oversight position.

What is more important is probably to recognize how dangerous it is to work with bats and that much greater safety precautions be taken with them even when not working on gain of function research. And the entire world needs to learn how to research infectious diseases in a safer way that doesn't create outbreaks.
That’s unlikely to happen. Businesses generally have no means of verifying whether you’ve been vaccinated, and any attempt by the government to implement or enforce such a system would inevitably be contested and tied up in courts.
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That doesn't prove it's not a niche, dude.

Valve, like a lot of other companies, hopes that VR will become a thing, so they're making a headset. Because they'd like to sell headsets, they took a major property and made a VR version. If they lose money on their VR version of Half Life, they're fine with that.

Some game makers will surely try VR versions as well. This could be a big wave, and they want to be ready, so it's ok to lose money. But if unit sales aren't there, they're not going to keep doing it. In which case, things could well end up just like every other attempt at VR going back to Nintendo's 1995 effort. Or like the various waves of 3D movies and TV, where everybody's really excited for a hot minute and then people stop caring.
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I’m sympathetic to most of these arguments, operating systems should typically trend towards more clarity and user choice; especially ones likely to be used by professionals like Linux. But I will say that the Ubuntu software store has sucked for as long as I’ve ever used Ubuntu; they made it pretty years ago, and apparently never once considered performance or behavior. I would regularly search in the store for applications I knew existed, and it would either take forever or not find them. I always gave up and used apt, at least until I gave up on Ubuntu altogether.
If you were a speculative trader, and absolutely didn't want to have any oil delivered to you, it makes sense to sell at close the day before the futures become binding.

You could wait until the last day, but you'd have a big problem if the market was closed that day becomes of unexpected circumstances.
We covered the rotating detonation engine on Orbital Index a few months back. The main conclusion was that, while more fuel efficient, the RDE is currently way too unpredictable for real use. Here's a cool video of the circular detonations though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEYFy3qRNdo

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> much more suited to gaming than DOS-era PCs.

Is that really true? I was alive during DOS-era gaming and still remember kids from Mac families standing out on the sidewalk in the rain crying like Oliver Twist weenies because they couldn’t get their game on. Meanwhile PC - read _intel_ - games we’re writing their own low-level memory managers to eek everything out of the platform possible. I was inside playing Ultima VII or playing Falcon 3.0 with a remote friend _over modem_ drinking hot chocolate. I think any review of the games catalogs would show that the market clearly judged the Mac as less well-suited for gaming.
And that's not even addressing the fact that WSJ contacted a portion of those leaving some of the form letters and found that 32% of one pro-NN batch said they never sent anything. The number is higher for the other anti-NN batches they checked, 60-80% range, but that's not the difference between massive and not-massive.
That's what we tried (our teams are self-organizing, as they are in Scrum, so we couldn't do it another way) but the things the teams wanted had hardly any consistency (partly because the products and projects are very different, partly because of the people).
In reality, democracy can be commandeered by well-organized groups of people that vote as a bloc. At the local level, this means that well-connected homeowner associations wield the power to ban density and commercial activity near where they live.

The oft-cited counterexample to US restrictive zoning, Japan's permissive zoning, works because in Japan zoning type is decided at the national level and there are only 12 types of zoning that define maximum nuisance (so a blacklist). US zoning gets extremely nitty-gritty and is functionally a whitelist.
Most of the tutorials use Flutter's Material Components group of widgets. However, there is a built-in group called Cupertino which looks and behaves identical to iOS: https://flutter.dev/docs/development/ui/widgets/cupertino.

I built a small app last year on an iPhone 7 Plus and didn't have any problems with scroll stuttering that were not my fault. Techniques were the same for any UI platform: run in release mode, avoiding unnecessary rebuilds, and cell fixed geometry. Don't know which particular demo you've tried, but I wouldn't expect intro tutorials to cover everything. Or perhaps there was a recent regression.
That’s one of the dumbest platitudes ever deployed to deflect criticism, and I wish people would use it correctly.

“This thing has absolutely no evidence of reliability or safety in a critical environment” is not criticizing it for being less-than-perfect. It’s criticizing it for being possibly inferior to the status quo.

Here’s one simple example:

Staff gowning up for routine rounds are much more careful, and safe, than staff rushing into an emergency code. If this thing throws up even the occasional false alarm, its cost to staff (in exposure) could easily outweigh, massively, and reduced rounding requirements.

That’s not “oh, well that’s not perfect.” That’s “oh, that might be worse, masquerading as better.”

“Perfect is the enemy of the good” is a wildly irrelevant comment.
I'm a CTO and I work closely with our CRO. In my experience, being involved in the sales process is an eye opener for a CTO. In early stage startups (heck, even in a billion dollar company), a CTO cannot be disconnected from sales. This allows help bridge gaps in product and how engineers think about product features. It also makes the CTO leave their ivory tower of technology and be more grounded to reality.
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We’re not really at a point in our society where blanket enforcement of vaccination by the government is likely to go over well. I have a hard time believing the current administration—or any administration in the foreseeable future—would be daring enough to attempt that. And even if they did, I’m sure it would be tied up in the courts for years.
People feared Windows updates long before agile was a thing.
This seems like the kind of piece bad product managers reference to defend why they don’t put a price or purchase options on their website, only “contact us”
oh cool! I do see the repository in the list. Come to think of it I haven't noticed the popup recently. It used to be basically be a thing in the corner of vscode with a link to the download page. I would usually do the update manually when i saw it, cause I thought it couldn't update on its own.
It would be easy to issue certificates to people who have been vaccinated. Businesses already have guidelines for who can enter their premises, like wearing shirts in restaurants in spite of not wearing a shirt being legal.
It's not legal..Look up rule 105
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> Microsoft didn't have a choice. Given an option regular users will never update their computers

I think this is a misconception.

A few weeks ago I was updating my Windows 7 install that hadn't booted for a year or so. I opened Windows Update. It looked for updates, and found some. I clicked the update button. It proceeded to start downloading, by which I mean it would hang for 1 to 2 minutes and then download very quickly.

When it was done updating, it required a reboot. After the reboot it needed to do something for another 5 minutes. The last 2 of those minutes it showed 100% progress, seemingly stuck again. Then when that was done, it rebooted again.

I started Windows Update again. It looked for updates. There were more updates. I clicked the update button. It proceeded to start downloading, by which I mean it would hang for 1 to 2 minutes and then download very quickly.

When it was done updating, it required a reboot... and so on, and so on, 5 or so times. Every iteration took somewhere between 10 and 45 minutes. Determining how long an iteration would take was impossible, because everything appeared to just get stuck all the time. This has been the Windows update experience through XP, Vista, 7, 8 and now 10.

The result of this madness is of course that nobody updates Windows. To solve that, you can go two different ways: Make updates painless, or force everyone to go through the pain again, and again, and again. Microsoft being Microsoft, they picked the latter.

Meanwhile, on a typical Linux system, I just decide to update every once in a while. I make it look for updates, get a list of everything that will get updated, and accept. It starts downloading, by which I mean it immediately downloads everything very quickly.

When it is done updating, it may require a reboot if the kernel got updated. After the reboot it doesn't have to do anything.

I make it look for updates, and there are none. Updating my system actually brought it up-to-date. This generally takes 2 to 15 minutes, almost entirely dependent on the amount of data that needs to be downloaded.

The result of this is that I update my Linux systems very often. It's painless, so why not?
Very relatable. I feel the same way about dotfiles, and fancy programming languages.
When I was younger I loved ideas for their own sake and was constantly disappointed when I went to have fun with some idea and found that everyone gathered around it viewed it as an opportunity to assert dominance. I fled so many fields because I believed ultimately I would find some place where people were there for the ideas themselves, not for the zero-sum battle for status. Ultimately I left academia and became a programmer because it seemed the ego battle was less a part of the process. I hate the competition-based culture of early academia -- olympiads and whatnot -- for the same reason. The reward isn't in the ideas themselves or the work but in the ranking.
That extreme inequality is inherently bad is not a "bizarre" view. It's a very common one. You're living in a filter bubble if you think otherwise.
Now if only they would patch in multiplayer into Galactic Conquest mode within BF2 classic so that it would be at least on feature parity with the console ports.
If I’ve got the technical know how to install Ubuntu, I should have full control over my machine; full stop. It’s my hardware, so it’s my rules.

Of course, since it’s my hardware I just uninstalled Ubuntu and went with something that gave me more control.
The point of the article is discussing why the system can't work as promised ("anonymous", "voluntary") and has to devolve from "decentralized and privacy aware" to "shit in a bun".

Yes, you need a key and the article explains why that's the case and why you don't want one.
This is kind of my point. Most places within an hour drive of established cities are pretty well settled.

To accommodate new people towns either have to start building more housing (costs increase) or those people will have to move 1 hour and 15 minutes outside the city. Rinse and repeat until the formula doesn’t look as beneficial.
I'd recommend NixOS instead. Trying different desktops is easy as changing the config and doing a `sudo nixos-rebuild test`.

Arch with its rolling release model is prone to breakage. Every upgrade gets you closer to having to reinstall everything from scratch. On contrast, NixOS is transactional and if something breaks you can switch to a previous version easily.

(I actually went from Arch to NixOS, after using Arch for about 3 years).
That’s gotta be a tiny minority of Linux users.
Some people might appear less productive because they're dealing with child care etc. I've been able to keep up my output, but I'm a bachelor whose life hasn't changed much in the last couple months

But good point. Just we shouldn't be applying aggregate performance reviews based on this episode which don't account for the varying burdens being experienced
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none of the reasons make sense sorry about the formating, but i've tried to cover all of them:

Joe the hacker
What if Joe stayed home the first day (did not get infected), got hold of Jane’s phone and decides to swat her for fun?

// What does that have to do with anything?

Joe, the slacker
What if Joe was not a neighbor of Jane, but one of her students, desperate to meet a deadline. Could he buy himself an extension by faking an infection?

// not really sure what this has to do with the tracing app...you can't fake an infection on the app, you have to get tested

Joe, the movie buff
What if Joe had invited Suzie to the movies and turned his phone off before entering the cinema hall?

// who the fuck turns off their phone in a movie theatre?

Joe, the deceived
Plot twist: Joe just caught the flu. Same symptons, different pathogen. Should he wait for test results (or be tested at all) before hitting the alarm?

// Again, you can only tell your app that you are infected with a key that you get after you test positive.

Joe, the unprepared
Joe is single. What if he runs out of food while quarantined? Will he sneak out, leaving his phone at home?

// not sure why he's leaving his phone at home? who does that? even if it does happen, it will be rare.

Joe, the kindergarten teacher
What if someone had the idea to reopen kindergarten, thinking the availability of Bluetooth contact tracing renders social distancing unnecessary?

// people want to open kindergartens because 'MERICA...not sure how this app will change things

Jane, the hypochondriac
What if Jane had an unrelated symptom, quarantined herself without a test and thinks, she gained immunity afterwards.

// what does this have to do with the contact tracing app?

Jane, the gym instructor
How many contacts would Jane’s phone log, if she left it in the locker room?

// I don't think most people leave their phones in the locker room. Even if they do, they will have contacts...other people that are in the gym at the same time.

John, the secret agent
Are there countries that would benefit from keeping other countries in lockdown? If so, what could be more effective than interlinking as many people as possible, then sending a fake alarm?

// ugh...sure...I guess...if they're bored? and they get a key from a doctor

101010, the software bug
Is it possible that a piece of software, especially one, that is based on a bad idea and coded in a hurry, might malfunction?

// pretty much everything around us runs on software...yes, there might be bugs, they get fixed
There's some merit to both sides. As a kid in the eighties, I remember being annoyed by Logo -- it seemed a toy, and even as I child I wanted to learn the tools with which "real programs" (mostly games) could be written.
What did they do for you exactly? Did they continue working at the major company while they were working on your project?
So because perhaps some '"power users" can't be trusted" (in your opinion), that makes it's okay to just take away their own control of their own computers?

(That kinda reminds me of "trust us, we're the government and we know what's best for you".)

Sorry, but that goes against everything that this whole "free software" thing stands for.
What if the most effective response is 'pray it never happens'?

Pandemics are similar to nukes: both have damage capacity and exponential growth regimen. The one major difference is that nukes have limited fissile material, whereas a pandemics's mass is the entire humanity, or, in the worst case, biosphere.

Engineering viruses for human reproduction to 'learn how to contain' pandemics is about as useful as detonating nukes to 'learn how to contain' nuclear detonations. The downside is that you may end up blowing up significant chunks of the world, whereas the purported benefit may never pan out. It may well be that a pandemic or nuclear detonation is uncontrollable and unstoppable once it gets started.
I have some regrets in my college experience, but this is definitely not one of them. Ask questions. It's like a cheat code; you're getting twice the education that someone who doesn't ask questions is, because you walk away with a comprehensive, integrated understanding of a topic but they walk away with one shot full of random holes.

Plus, if you're wondering it, so is half the class. There was only a couple of occasions where it turned out I was on a very idiosyncratic path and decided to just let it go. Most of the time the class is nodding along at the question.
Yeah, I had similar thoughts. One really interesting thing to me was that after a while, the kids would sit down to play Beat Saber. Instead of moving arms boldly as one would with real swords, it degenerated into hand/wrist twitches. Part of the fun for me of VR was getting a real workout, but a) I want that, and b) I mostly play video games in short bursts. It makes perfect sense that people who play longer want it to be nice and easy. And if you're already on the couch, the big TV and the regular controllers are just fine.