skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In healthcare we have astronomical costs that have not bought us more vitality, but an extended morbidity. Gone are the days of grandmothers with sinewy arms maintaining huge gardens. Obesity in the early 2000's was at "crisis" levels and it's gotten so much worse that we just stopped talking about it. But we can keep the numbers up a bit here and there.

Even funnier is we can blame our covid 19 failures on being unhealthy: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/17/politics/us-health-conditions...

Obviously this a bit of shift the blame (played by both parties), but we can see that reaching for this argument means we really have failed on the healthcare and preventative medicine side - covid19 just calls this out.
Sadly, can't agree. The rules we had in the last decade weren't actually working; they only appeared to work. They looked like they were creating conflict-free environments, but they were really creating environments where, in general, minority populations hate speech was targeted against weren't using the tools or participating in the forums that had a laissez-faire attitude on such things.
I've quite often seen people claim Russia and/or China had full copies of the Snowden documents, and try to use that to accuse him of being a foreign agent. It's interesting to see a high ranking NSA employee say the journalist were likely the unwitting source.
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> Why should it be hitting the singularity at all?

Because the singularity is in the future of every event inside the horizon. It's a moment of time, not a place in space. It can't be avoided because tomorrow can't be avoided.

> Why can't particles have a stable orbit just under the event horizon? Is it because the orbit speed would exceed the speed of light?

That's one way of looking at it, yes.

> why singularity at all?

Because that's what the math of GR predicts.

> Neutron stars compress to a certain density and then stop compacting any further.

Neutron stars have a maximum mass limit. So do white dwarfs and every other kind of stable compact object. Anything over that maximum mass limit has to collapse into a black hole.

> Can't it be a very dense object where compacting force is compensated by matter density limit?

Not for objects above the maximum mass limit. See above.
That's a valuable pointer, thanks for sharing :-)
With a bit of planning you can have a near seamless switch. The biggest pain point would be places where you have to reregister/change your email address, and you can avoid even that if you're fine with Google still getting to read all email that comes to that address.
How do you define "stealing"?

On Wall Street this is called arbitrage.

If you don't want to lose money on sales, don't sell for less than your cost. People buying your product is not "stealing".
This is why I cannot separate hate speech from free speech. I don't like hate speech. I don't condone it. But I cannot conceive of a safe way to separate the two. The first step must be to define what hate speech is, but we can't even all agree on that.

All speech is free speech, even the parts I don't like - hate, lies, slander, and everything in between. That said, it's okay to regulate speech in some circumstances. You are legally obligated to tell the truth in court. It is rightfully illegal to lie about who you are in many scenarios.

YouTube is private property and Google has the legal right to censor whatever speech they want on it. I don't think we should regulate that. However, who and what they censor shows us who they consider to be most valuable on their platform.

Anyone who depends on YouTube should keep a close eye on Google's censorship patterns and constantly weigh their options. If you want to have any serious discussions about existing communist regimes, you'd be foolish to stay dependent on YouTube.

EDIT: If you can come up with a way to distinguish between hate speech and free speech that can't be easily abused, I'm all ears.
That depends on how many users flagged the post.
The only way this makes sense is if the intention isn't to ban in order to stop the term being used, but the opposite; to appear to ban in order to cause a sensation.

Is any anti-CCP content banned/blocked? epochtimes? falungong? ... it's all still there.
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That's why we have to compensate for it by upvoting!
Wasn't it was an enemy-of-my-enemy alliance that occurred in the context of the Japanese invasion, and both sides were planning on picking up their civil war where they left off, after the Japanese had been removed?
Liberals have always said "you can't say X" for all sorts of things, not as a matter law, but because they don't want people to be assholes. The term "PC" was invented a looong time ago for this.

The only thing that's changed is that people are pretending that it's new and unprecedented, as a way to garner more outrage.
The argument is a popular Authoritarian viewpoint that isn't viewed as such. Meanwhile the work towards decentralization continues, one day I hope it'll get the network effect akin to Bittorrent.
1. I imagine state actors have better information than Wikipedia editors.

2. Leaving that aside, why permanently ban those who make such contributions to Wikipedia?
Can someone explain why Uber stock is up 7% today then?

Is it because Uber's expenditure will decrease because of the layoffs?
Interesting.

I suspect the formula is changing if only because the sheer volume of spammy type stuff skyrocketing to the top seems to have subsided.

There was a short run where a lot of nearly raw spam type posts were quickly rising to the top, and sticking a long time despite almost / all the comments being about how terrible the spam is.
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There is an Excel "German" dictionary (probably others too), but when you Google "Excel German dictionary" Google shows "übertreffen". Which is the German word for "to excel"...
舔共(which means curry favor of CCP) also will be deleted.
We can confirm that Google is 舔共ing!
Never really seen the Bill of Rights reduced to nationalistic slop for the proles before. Kind of impressed, in a sad way.

Edit: all governments control info. I can only think of one government that has a million Uygher Muslims in concentration camps.
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Porque no los dos? I think they're guilty of a lot of things not one or the other but being taken down by treason for aiding foreign powers solves the oligarchy issue. I think he's pretty much walking garbage.
It is a huge pain in the ass to switch, but the sooner you start transitioning to an email solution you control the sooner you'll be out of the tenuous position of depending on a free service that can be revoked at any time.
Free trade agreements should only be extended to countries that have roughly symmetrical environmental policies, human/labor rights, market access, IP protection, among other things.

Any trade less this sensibility amounts to the exploitation of people, the planet or of property rights, and should be taxed extensively.
>If you have a suggestion on how to better elucidate this, please let me know.

Put it in the actual text. I don't necessarily look at urls, navbars, logos, authors.

Prefixing the text with something like the following would go a long way: Notice: This analysis was performed by Parachute, one of the companies competing in this space. We tried to keep it fair and balanced, regardless, and invite the readers to fact-check our statements and data, which we have made available as well.
> He adds a new rule to the detector. Mark as spam if it contains the "共匪" sub-string

But they have the best people of the industry who are highly paid for their engineering and problem solving skills.

Isn't this the kind of problem they are supposed to solve ?

> As a software engineer I understand these sort of bugs.

As a software engineer I would have understood this sort of bug if it was some startup.
Factor those externalties - internalized for some manufacturers by regulations - that allow them to manufacture more cheaply into the import tariffs. Trade is not the same as a tariff-free common market.
> Youtube is more and more siding towards removing content. I wonder, can US regulators do something about it?

A few weeks ago the discussion here was about how YouTube is not removing enough content (mostly in relation to Covid-19). The consensus was pretty much that they do it on purpose because it makes them money.

I don’t think YouTube (or any large public content platform) has a winning move in this discussion. Any move will be perceived as nefarious.
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My 1800X did the same thing. I was able to RMA it and get a replacement that worked fine. It's only the early chips that had this issue.
That's like saying the police are liable for you being robbed because the thief wasn't in jail.
Hacker news and dang in particular has a very good track record of even handed and well thought of moderation. They have definitely earned benefit of the doubt from me. Let's wait a little before bringing the torches.
If you knew the owner well enough to have their number, it doesn't seem totally crazy.

"Had no idea you did delivery! Boss just put in an order for a work event! See you Friday?"
Huh, I once plugged a 2D physics engine into Tkinter and made a little floaty PID drone sim. I added balls that spawned from above it and fell on it, and it would stay on point. I'll see if I can find it later today if anyone's interested?
This is a very common bad experience on HN. To me, it must be PG's own character that is being reflected here through a series of mirrors (his disciples). The fish rots from the head down.
Whelp, as far as edits are concerned one could always PGP sign their posts?
Here's a related Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiInAction/comments/du2nnn/wikipe...
Yeah, not sure why you would equate those two.

Providing a former spouse with alimony money is not generosity. Neither is providing a former employee with severance money generosity. In both cases, the ethics are incredibly obvious.

The fact that alimony is required and severance is not is simply a matter of a corrupt (US) political system. This system leaves it to individual CEOs to act ethically (or not) and the public to judge them.

We can improve the ethics of tech companies by holding them to account for how they behave. One way to do that is judging their behavior during layoffs.
I was asked to look at the spatiotemporal parameters and modeling, separate from any code issues. That part of the model is astonishingly naive, apparently oblivious to existing research and science on the matter that strongly recommends a different and much more nuanced approach. Industry has invested inordinate amounts of money in understanding how to build effective real-world predictive models of this type and none of that knowledge is reflected here. That seems like a rather glaring oversight and alone voids any utility as a predictive model.
The entire market is up on Powell’s positive remarks on the economy’s recovery.
My educated guess is India. They have a reasonably big development center in Bangalore and Hyderabad, besides operating rides business there.
> The average family has more workers, doing more work hours in it now than it did a generation ago.

I'm pretty sure that the average household has fewer workers than a generation ago.

The number of single-parent households has risen from 12% in 1960 to 31% in 2016,[0] so more families are capped at one income-earning adult.

Meanwhile in two-adult households, stay-at-home moms/dads are as common now as they were 30 years ago[1].

And with housing prices, we're not really comparing apples to apples, are we? The size (in sqft) of the median house has increased by ~40% since 1990 [2], even as the size of the average household falls.

[0] https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2016/cb16-192...
[1] https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/04/08/after-decades-of-...
[2] https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/new-us-homes-today-are-1000-s...
BT has about 170 million users (depending on who's counting). Hardly nothing.

But in terms of network effect... YouTube has two billion users.
> Why can't I ever wake up in someone else's consciousness?

I've thought about this too, and my conclusion is that there's no way to know. Maybe we wake up as someone else everyday, with all the emotional/psychological baggage that entails.
> > On the Gmail page, a pink alert bar appeared at the top, reading, “Warning: We believe state-sponsored attackers may be attempting to compromise your account or computer. Protect yourself now.”

> Fascinating that Google does this. How do they know?

They know because they are the state-sponsored atacker.
The Replication Crisis is much larger in scope than just software reproducibility. But yes, it does include that too.
Seems like a lot of cuts that needed to happen even without Covid. Common refrain for these companies is why does Company X need Y thousands of employees for a single app/website. For Uber I guess we are going to find out how much they were really needed.
I haven't heard that phrase in years. There were some growing pains when self-checkout systems were first introduced, but every one I've interacted with in recent memory has been re-calibrated to be much more permissive.
I presume they run it many times and compare the final and intermediate outputs to reality, then adjust parameters and see how it performs under those parameters. And other models do similar things and compare to you. There are hundreds of papers on Google Scholar about epidemic simulation. This isn't an area where your performance is going to be determined by a few unit tests.
I just had a package from Amazon that literally weighed less than the product that was supposed to be in it. I peeled off the shipping label and found another one underneath that was labeled "weight error". Someone had apparently intercepted it, overridden whatever check was going on, and sent it out anyway.

Weirdly, Amazon still made me mail back the underweight one (I would happily have paid the correct amount for the smaller quantity to save the trouble of remailing) and a few days later sent out the correct one. You'd think in this case they have a record of the actual weight of the package and could sort things out instantly, but apparently not.
All these platforms have always been censorship platforms. It is the nature of the beast. They can explicitly or implicitly censor. They can censor by making sure the algorithm downvotes or content is not discoverable. Many governments, ranging from the US government to other countries have had these platforms like YouTube enforce censorship of content:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/us/politics/youtube-terro...
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What makes you think that users with high karma have stronger ways to censor things ?
maybe. but they’re getting better at building the machine that builds the machine that builds the machine.
> maybe these things aren't actually as important as we think they are in professional software development?

Maybe for professional professionals they are.

It is funny that Hinsen's insight is so mundane and obvious: "the code itself is merely a means to this end".
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Possibly interesting fact: the writer of The Egg also wrote The Martian. Haven't read the book, but the film was great and much funnier than I expected.
What an infantile understanding of the issue.

The reason that hate speech creates outrage is because it exists to communicate inhuman hatred of others for their immutable characteristics.

The reason that sites like YouTube don't tolerate it isn't that they share in the outrage - it's that they rely entirely on advertisers to keep their bottom line positive, and advertisers aren't going to pay to be associated with hate speech.

Hate speech isn't "mostly subjective". It can be easily identified using a few easy qualifiers. Most people who have trouble defining hate speech are people who, at least partially, agree with it.
Strongly disagree, there are some blurred lines around hate speech, but this isn’t one of them at all. This is a critique of a political party, that’s clear cut not hate speech.
I don’t see any of those licenses listed on https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical and it took me a bunch of digging in the license-review mailing list archives to find when it was submitted for consideration (most recently anyway, sounds like it was submitted previously too): https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists....

The consensus on that list is that License Zero violates certain tenets of the Open Source principles, and as such software released under a License Zero license is not open source software. By extension, this means that getting to work full time on License Zero software means that you’re not working full time on open source software.
In (US) law there are two sets for rights and responsibilities: public (government) and private (individuals and organizations). But when it comes to responsibilities individuals can suffer consequences that organizations can't. And organizations can have power vastly greater than that of any individual. In some ways they should be subject to restrictions like governments, in others they shouldn't.

Really we need a third group. Corporations aren't individual people, and the legal simplification of modeling corporations as people is problematic. Unfortunately this probably requires a constitutional amendment for the US to change.
Unless I'm missing something, this thread is talking about the automated system making a mistake on its own. No one is trying to game the system.
Can anyone with knowledge share whether the Uber Amsterdam office is impacted?
Brush up on Korea, there neither google nor Apple map can provide you navigation services, it is reserved for local company only. I have to drive car there using Korean gps.

For mobile network and services they have their own standard giving virtual monopoly to SK and KT telecom and local manufacturers. No foreign car manufacturer can setup easily in Korea, Samsung rebrand Nissan car as S5 and S7. Except high end German cars with high tariffs you will only see Korean brands.

Check any sector and you will find more hurdles. Doing business in Korea compared to China is harder, if you target local businesses.

These all are not visible or so pronounced because Korea is relatively small compared to China in terms of GDP and size. Actually Korea is more like China and unlike USA except for political systems.
Aren't the Tundras still made in San Antonio? IIRC they also contain the most parts fabricated in the US of any pickup in class. (Disclosure: Don't work for Toyota nor own stock but I do own a Tundra.)
fundamental attribution error: we judge ourselves by intention, and others by action.
Not sure if you realize that 'Operation Enduring Freedom' is regarded to as a joke. A '40 country coalition' to invade two countries with no means of protecting themselves. It was like stepping on an anthill.

I can't comprehend how you wrote this sentence, 'attacking military assets on China's mainland to neutralize the invasion' What galaxy do you live in where you think this would ever happen?
That's some next level evil genius. Pretty scary.
Please upvote the discussion about flagging: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223939
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this is simply to keep the stock price at a certain level. half of everything he says is to feed into an image which keeps that stock at that level.
It's not so bad if you have a domain tied to the gmail account. I use myname@mydomain.com but point my MX records to use gmail for it. So switching for me basically means re-pointing to another mail service.

The only reason I use them is their spam filters are excellent. Otherwise I wouldn't.

Switching would be laborious if you're using @gmail, probably a case of looking at each unique domain name you've received an email from, logging in and switching addresses. Could be relatively methodical about it by taking a backup and then working down your inbox and deleting the emails from those recipients until you have nothing left. Could be a day job.

There is an option in gmail to forward your emails to another address if you wanted to do it over time.
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I don't have first hand experience with higher spec build on the single CCD Zen 2 chips, but the dual CCD chips are not particularly good in terms of thermals. Only the very best of air coolers can handle them, and are not particularly quiet doing so. Idle CPU power consumption is unimpressive and at 50-70 W exceeds what older systems achieved for the entire system.
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It's a drama called The 21st Century Western World: The Softening.
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Perhaps this should serve as a good case study for why reproducible research is so important.
I found an advertising SDK inside the factory installed AVG "antivirus" Android app that could:
#Determine the users location
#access the phones text-to-speech API's and view any custom words added by the user
#access and read anything the user copied/pasted to/from pasteboard (clipboard)
#Record audio from the phones microphone
Tested and verified. It was deleted right away. I didn’t even right anything harsh.
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What's often hard about this situation is tuning to one problem case (fixing that downhill drift) often makes a different scenario worse. For example, fixing the downhill drift can make that overshoot worse.

I can imagine tuning something like this for a cruise control scenario would be tricky, because there's probably hundreds of different cases to test for.

I think a simulator here could be particularly fun to toy with, because you could have "unit tests" with 200 different scenarios that you try to optimize for. You could set your parameters, and it could run the 200 different scenarios, and show you were your parameters did well and where they did badly.
I agree and disagree with this. I agree that in many environments their definition of a "great software developer" is a bolt turner.

However I think that in many other environments, especially early stage, a "great software developer" is someone that makes sure the user's problems are met and that is definitely measured by usage.
It wouldn't be such a problem to have YouTube colluding with Chinese censors if we didn't depend so much on YouTube to disseminate information.
I did not say this. Flagging becomes possible, when you reach some X points of karma. 300, I guess?