skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not about censoring. Putting a warning beside a comment for BS is in fact very effective. Not only it humiliates the bastard, it also keeps a record of his ignorance for the world to see. There’s nothing special about the president. He’s elected by people. In this case it’s not even sure whom exactly since he lost the popular vote by a huge margin. But he’s a human and not above the law. The problem is the USA constitution that has no answers for the possibility of someone like Drumpf getting elected and then tools for congress to control him while in power. When it comes to decisions with big implications, border wall or brexit (in the UK) it can’t be left to a simple majority to decide.
But in this case the media is acting very dishonestly. I remember every major outlet posting articles about how now HCQ was debunked by this study. I have yet to see a single retraction of those articles or any new articles mentioning this. Only the science publications are covering this part of it so far.
You got sources for those stats?

> There are no good career cops

I’ve watched a few videos of cops kneeling with protestors or cops laying down guns and walking with them. Are those bad cops?

When you say “there are no good career cops” that means there doesn’t exist one good career cop. It’s a ludicrous thing to say.
If Apple had some sort of body to mount an iPhone as the sensor and attach DSLR lenses it would probably kill the DSLR industry or at least greatly damage it.

The biggest reason to use a DSLR are the lenses. The second is better low light performance and RAW capabilities (for video and photography) but I think a Pixel or iPhone can do that already.
Even accepting the premise, surely if the Shire's media has painted Azog as a gibbering green goblin, while in reality he's only a gibbering goblin, you would want to hear about it.
I would have guessed that’s new enough. Any error messages I. The console?
Good point, I touched on that in another comment. Both ends of the spectrum are extremes, but one cannot deny that when you look to reduce costs that dramatically you are gambling. Why is something 80% cheaper?

‘Oh it’s because their country sucks’

Ah ok, and you found 30 geniuses in this crappy country?

‘Yep, these particular guys are all the cream of the crop’

Got it. Okay, let’s give it a gamble. I’m not making a real point, so don’t beat up my straw man, this is just my gut feeling.
It's almost like if it were true that if it only cost $400/hr to 51% attack the BTC chain, we would actually see it happening much more often.
Digital signal is clearer, but all or nothing.

I know a fire chief who told me that some stations have switched back to analog. Some firefighters allegedly went silent and their bodies were found later. I guess it's believed that they attempted to radio for help, but the "digital cliff" stopped anything at all from getting through. If they'd heard someone calling for help, they could have gone there -- even if they didn't know exactly what the issue was.

I'm sure pricing is a factor in a lot of areas. $150 will buy a decent analog radio. The same thing, but digital will cost $300-500. Cheap Chinese radios can be had for as low as $30 or so. With just 100 radios saving $200 each, you get 20k to spend on other things. That matters a lot to rural police and even more to EMS (especially volunteer groups).
I really like Nature's new font, Harding. But I don't think it's even commercially available.
The subtitle on that last one is "Engineering firm has been told by the government that their services are no longer required" - not sure why that is Dyson's fault!
Your arguments apply just as well to voting; people express their views though voting without the benefit of peer review and those votes have an effect on the public as a whole. By your logic, perhaps secret voting is not a "positive development" and we need to "regulate it on every level" (your words) as well? I hope not.
Users choose their technology. Technology doesn't choose its users. There's no way to make it impossible for criminals to use some communications service. The same technology that protects the lawful person will protect the terrorist and drug dealer. There's no solution available that doesn't also involve sacrificing the safety of upstanding citizens.

In case anyone doubts the above fact: government agents abuse their surveillance powers to spy on their loved ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT

This article was posted here recently, a reminder of how easy it is to become the target of warrantless government surveillance:

https://schmud.de/posts/2020-06-02-mlk.html

There's no reason to believe the government is any better than these criminals. Cryptography must be strong enough to defeat even intelligence agencies as well as ubiquitous so that it'll be hard if not impossible to enforce legal limitations or bans.
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I find it's like programmers arguing about laptops.

At the end of the day, you're arguing about something that you want to "get out of your way" as much as possible. All that time you spend arguing, you could spend programming or learning.

Imagine if you were sitting next to a reincarnation of Ken Thompson at a local coffee shop... who cares if he's typing into a surface pro? The writing and the writer are the important things. In photography, it's the shooter, the subject, and the choice of frame. Gear-ogling is fun to geek over, but past a certain low threshold, it's a waste of everyone's time.

I had a friend who got a chance of a lifetime to go on a photography trip to Mongolia with a pro who had worked for Nat Geo. The dude had some seriously impressive gear. He was kind enough to lend some of it to my friend, who loves to geek out over these things, while the pro used more enthusiast-accessible glass. Shiny gear is nice, but it's best thought of as a set of interchangeable tools.
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>No, they could not monitor all conversations. They could only listen to as many calls as they had agents to listen to them. It was not possible for them to listen to everyone at once, nor could they use this as means of discovery. They had to suspect someone in the first place in order to decide to expend the human resources to listen to their calls.

I think you're taking this a bit too lightly. As a side topic, I am surprised to what extent state surveillance was a thing here in the telephone era.

The secret police had about 50k full-time agents, 600k double-agents and about 400k-500k informants. From a population of 18 mil, that's about 1 in 18. Consider an usual family. You have a brother or a sister, two parents, 4 aunts or uncles and 4 grandfathers. Odds were in favor of one of them being at least an informant.

For your community? There definitely was an informant or double agent among them. Just knowing that the threat is there has a massive effect in how people communicate and bond with each other, effects that can still be felt to this day.
The Republican party has also taken on a lot of 'free agent' groups like the NRA. I believe prior to Nixon, there was no stance on gun control. Nixon saw the NRA as a group that voted and brought them in solely to win, but he was recorded as calling them 'gun nuts.'
Flops.

Cells balance right on the edge of Maxwell's Demon. Even a few thousand ions can change behavior radically. So, you are forced to track all the ions, proteins, lipids, etc. Which means you have to do a lot of atom-by-atom tracking. There are a few tricks here, but since the cell is not crystalline, you can't do a lot of fun physicsy math to get the problem to be easier.

Also, most of the time, since this is 'research' to begin with, you don't know what's in the cell. That's the point of looking. We've nearly no idea what all the proteins are in any given cell. DNA gives some guide, but a stochastic switch from coding to non-coding happens, constantly. So you don't know what all the proteins in a cell are, where they are, what they do, what they don't do, what the extracellular space is like, etc.

Cells are just really complicated. So you need a lot of flops.
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It's a fine supposition, but these suppositions often get passed around as if they're true and self evident. The reality is you don't have distinct information about what the government is collecting. Instead, what you have is information about what's probably possible.

From that standpoint it makes sense to err on the side of caution, and assume it's all being collected. But, while this is an effective risk calculus, it's different from having access to the ground truth.
The article clearly shows that Musk put in significant contributions to the effort
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That doesn’t mean that all officers are bad. Good cops exist.
> Have experienced similar things as a Sikh all over the world when I still had an uncut beard.

10 years ago, my neighbors were Sikh (I moved since then). They had all sorts of stories about how 9/11 got them confused with Muslims.

They were pretty big extroverts, and threw a lot of parties, and came to virtually every neighborhood party. But I can't help but think that they felt the need to socialize, to make sure their neighbors knew who they were.

Those parties are how I learned what a Sikh was. Before that, I did think they were Muslim. So it worked. But yeah, it probably sucks that they had to work extra hard to make sure people understood who they were.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/55xv60/kerbal_space... (thread with some sources)

Squad were paying the original developers next to nothing for working full time on KSP
We should really have laws against commuting, commuters block traffic way more frequently than protests do..

Work is an escalation that could literally cost lives..
In my experience Americans are pretty blunt, and will not hesitate to point out flaws and make cynical jokes about them openly in the presence of their team.
Sounds about right given Archive.is has this feud going on with Cloudflare.

https://jarv.is/notes/cloudflare-dns-archive-is-blocked/
I think you're absolutely correct. The whole model of contracting in general is entirely based around perverse incentives. And all the more so when going offshore for it.
My point is proved, QED?
There's absolutely no indication that would be true. This study in particular curtailed support for pharmaceutical treatment.
Somehow China has been an outlier to this norm, so far.
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There are many things that might influence the result and therefore your decision.

I once worked for a product in the SaaS business and what helped us is understanding "where are our customers".
So, where are _your_ customers? How do they come to your product, how do they discover your product? After having this answer we focused on improving that conversion rate (for us it was all about being first on google and having a high-converting landing page, but in your case forums might be a better place to look at. It all depends on the target customer)

Also, one issue I've often encountered is that knowing the customer and selling to the customer might be very different things.
Did you only sell online? One great piece of advice is try to sell the product IRL and record the audio.
After many failed and successfull attempts you'll have recordings of _what works_ and what doesn't work for the kind of customer.
That information will be useful to convey the benefits into your landing page / homepage.

Back to your question: How much growth should you expect? It is a generic question. How many people are impacted by your product? How many have that specific itch to be scratched? How fast can you get to them? How good is your product at scratching the itch?
The (partial) sum of these questions might lead to the answer.
If you have many people impacted by your product, if the product scratch a big itch and you can reach all the people at the same time, chances are you're going to grow fast.

If you grow slow, is it bad? It might be bad if you're asking 5$/month for an extra. If it is 100$/month maybe a slow growth might make sense.

In the end, if I were in your shoes, I'll wait a year to decide if it's time to give up, but at the same time I'll set some monthly checks to see how growth is going, what are the feedbacks and how the community is reacting and test each month a different way to market the product. A good book on this is "Traction" by Gabriel Weinberg

PS I also run a side business creating cosmetic products (not saas) and my growth has been relatively slow. The product (in my case) fixes a big itche and had no competitors. Reason for that is that achieving a stable efficient result is quite hard, but we somehow made it (bootrapped obviously). In our case slow growth was a good thing because it allowed us to fix the issues in the product before being too much known in the public.
This is great. Thanks for helping local restaurants!
You're right. I apologize.

An auction for a lottery ticket to win a gun. Are you sure there wasn't a raffle involved somewhere? :^)
Can't seem to find a dead-tree version of this one :-(
We don't know as much about the safety profile of the drug in patients with COVID-19.

Aspirin has a long track record and well understood safety profile, but it can still cause life threatening complications like Reye syndrome in certain viral infections.
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There was already a controversy over Zoom marketing their calls as "end to end encrypted" when in fact they're only encrypted on the way to and from Zoom's servers, where they're unencrypted (and easily wiretap-able).

There are a variety of better Zoom alternatives from fully end-to-end encrypted peer-to-peer ones like GNU Jami (which requires an install) to Jitsi Meet, which runs in a browser with better quality¹ and IMO better ease of use than Zoom but requires running everything through a central server (though at least allows you to host it on your own).

1: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-video-confer... See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitsi
Checkout this service for Chi:

https://crimeisdown.com/audio
And, ironically, it doesn't seem to work in ChromeOS (Chromebooks).
This is how learning OCaml and having access to Native Oberon and Smalltalk/V did to me.

It opened my mind to an alternative universe of safe systems programing and computing models.

This kind of stuff is a bit like explaining monads I guess, it only groks if one goes through the experience themselves and it always hard to convince others just with words.
I gave up reading The Lancet some time ago. They have a poor record frankly with this kind of thing, Andrew Wakefield et al chief among them. They should have been cancelled over that one.

Anyway, the larger point is that these established journals have failed us. Their added value, already low, has dropped below zero in this pandemic. They are slow, opaque, rent seeking parasitic entities seemingly run by individuals who don’t grasp basic statistics. The combination of preprint servers + twitter has proven far more effective in looking after humanity’s best interests.
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Yup. More than suspicious.
I hired a woman with just LaunchCode experience in web development, because I could tell she had the drive and aptitude after interviewing her. Ended up being awesome. 5 years is a long time in front-end land, I wish I could forget more than half the shit I've learned/put up with over the past 15+ years. Not saying you're doing it wrong, just an anecdote.
Someone commented and deleted, but in response I'll leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNfqr-rzj5I

It's an interview with Cornel West. You may not agree with his political philosophy, but he "gets it" with regard to the current social unrest. If you want to understand what's happening, you should try to empathize with what he's talking about.
https://0x00sec.org/

for security, malware analysis, reversing etc. It's more of a forum, but the write-ups are pretty helpful
That could be. I haven’t given much thought on how to solve the problem. It could also be that we need to kill laws that are protecting police from the justice system.
The biggest bill in our time in the UK was the car rental for 1.5 weeks. Something like £1,000, and petrol cost us around £400. I couldn't imagine owning a car in the UK and living in a rural area. I certainly wouldn't want to commute to work via car if I lived there.
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I strongly believe there were people at the Lancet who wanted to believe the HCQ study, regardless of how well it was run.

See, if you can skewer HCQ, that means you get to take a shot at a certain politician too.

There were a number of researchers who criticized the study's structure and numbers from day 1. Over 100 researchers wrote an open letter about how skeptical they were.

I understand journals make mistakes, but this was egregious and smells like agenda to me.
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> If you had simply asked me to share what I know, I would have given you some links. But I have a distaste for the "[Citation Needed]" meme because it's pompous,

Totally fair. That wasn’t very conservative. I’m sorry.

> That's not even close to what I said.

Could you clarify what you were saying? I directly quoted you, but I’ll admit your sentence isn’t clear. It says “More” but doesn’t indicate “more than what?”, so I assumed you meant the oppression that rioters are responding to. Maybe that’s not the case.
I guess, but being against DoH just because the default for that is Cloudflare is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Yeah you can change the magnetization direction of materials by irradiating with circularly polarized light. Synchrotrons use circularly polarized x-rays to probe magnetic materials routinely. The underlying mechanism of these effects is simply the transfer of angular momentum.
This paragraph would lead me to believe that the author may not have tried setting up a company and hiring abroad:

"There's probably some added legal hassle and maybe even accounting-related hassle, but it doesn't seem significant (arguably even less in some situation, since people from other countries can work as contractors rather than employees)."

As programmers we'd like the simplest possible implementation of hiring: I would like to post a job offer for role x at salary y regardless of hiring location.

The reality of implementing that as a business in a compliant manner - involving international payment methods, tax reporting implications across multiple jurisdictions, legal implications, etc do not strike me as trivial -- if you're a small company they're time-consuming and require expensive consulting, and if you're a large company it may be difficult to get your internal tools and processes to align with them.

I'd love to be proven wrong, and would like these systems to be simpler and fairer. They certainly shouldn't be torn down until the positive reasons for their existence are understood and handled.

I feel like many common narratives around 'programmers can work from anywhere' come from a naive point of view and rarely include details about how to compliantly achieve those results, from either the business or individual's point of view.
Are you sure Tesla batteries are structural? They don’t look it and I haven’t heard that claimed before. Lowering at speed has been around for a long time it wasn’t invented by Tesla.
I find the Ubuntu hardware certification a bit dubious specifically since they list all the hardware details. See, eg. https://certification.ubuntu.com/hardware/201906-27127 (copied from another thread, as a reference)

Now, as a consumer, I don't have access to that level of details while trying to buy a laptop!

So, the certification both makes you believe your laptop will be compatible but then when it isn't they can come back and claim your specific controller or bluetooth card is not in the list.

This is, of course, the manufacturer's fault since they use the same product name for a large variety of component bags. In a way Dell XPS Linux Edition is good since it tells you upfront there's no tricks.

That being said, this news is encouraging but I want to know when can I buy laptops from this lot of certified devices?
That's revealed preference of their employers.

What this shows us is not that being weird gets you fired, but that being outwardly "normal" and "nice" saves you from being fired when you go to private rape islands. Try fixing that one.
We don't really know the scope of the original pitch, so hard to make a determination of feasibility. But yes, a fully modeled spacecraft simulator would have been effectively impossible.
Agreed. For better or for worse there is a "standard of care" that is a solid legal basis for lawsuits and a lot of decision making stems from it. "It's what's in the textbooks and established, and I can't be sued for doing it."

But the flip side, using newer research, may fix incorrect/suboptimal diagnosis or treatment, but can also fail.

I'm of course sidestepping the "I'm an MD and am right, and you're a layperson and don't know medicine" mentality, but to be fair, there are fewer of these in the newer generation of MD/DO/healthcare providers.
Yup.

Worked in healthcare IT in the USA. Beans counters were utterly determined to send our work overseas. Old story of training our replacements.

We could teach them programming, testing, our stack.

But we couldn't teach them our healthcare system. Stupid small stuff that challenged us were completely opaque to our colleagues. Stuff like definitions of "visit" vs "episodes of care" and how each customer had different rules. (Made worse by sharing data between orgs.)

(My billion dollar idea was to help our counterparts adapt our stack for their local markets. India, Malaysia, and Vietnam have healthcare too, right? Get in on the ground floor of those emerging markets. Alas.)
> "the new substance is crystalline, occurs in two-dimensional sheets, and could one day be useful in advanced electronics."

> "the material itself remains unstable and it quickly dissolves when the heat and pressure are relaxed."

So... advanced electronics that can only exist at 1.4 million atmospheres and 4000 degrees C? What are we building, here, computers that only work inside the sun?

By this insane standard, what material would not one day be useful in advanced electronics?
In all likelihood lashing out at fancy retailers will be effective. Additional police powers and crackdowns will be paired with throwing the rioters a few bones (e.g. greater checks on police powers and throwing the book at George Floyd's murderers).

Of course, the elites will pretend that they meant to throw that bone all along and will vehemently deny it has anything to do with a smashed up Gucci store in Beverly Hills and a lot of Americans (perhaps most) will believe this denial.
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried to do it, but YouTube still refuses to let me DL my video.

app $ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12345678
[youtube] 12345678: Downloading webpage
ERROR: 12345678: YouTube said: This video has been removed for violating YouTube's Community Guidelines.
Sorry about that.