skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to believe you. If you know this to be true, please share.

I remain skeptical. Evidence still seems mixed.

Yes, it seems social medias are effective incubators and accelerators for social pathogens, dominating the attention economy.

But there's also evidence that attention doesn't change minds. If I read this correctly, StarSlateCodex is making the case that media attention about Creationism didn't move the needle about beliefs.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/28/creationism-unchalleng...

I really want someone to explain what's going on.
Mods: the title of this submission ("Change.org solicits donations under George Floyd petition, keeps money") is a blatant case of editorializing, in violation of HN guidelines.
MacOS + UniFi actually have seamless reconnection.
Access to quality investigative journalism is more important than ever. With the decline of printed newspapers, the lowering of the barriers to publish online, the increasing sensationalism of TV news, and -yes- the rise of online paywalls, we've forced a certain economic segment of the voting populace to make decisions with a limited set of poorer-quality information.

"But without paywalls, how will quality journalism continue?"

I usually like to point people to take a look at the quality of the output of the BBC and NPR, and ask ourselves why America doesn't really have a decent printed-news equivalent. We also need to take a good look at how other industries have coped with the digitization of media. The music industry, the movie industry, the makers of books - for a long time they stumbled (and certainly still aren't perfect), but they're finally beginning to come up with profitable solutions that satisfy creators and consumers alike. I personally think there's a void for a quality news subscription platform (e.g. a news version of Spotify/Netflix/Kindle Books) that would allow journalists to get compensated by people who subscribe to an all-you-can-eat model from various publications.
When you take in the context that footnipple was replying to, my read is that they were implying a logical connection between the police arresting non-violent protestors and the looting / "insurgen[cy]" that is occurring.

Of course we can't really say either of us is right or wrong, because their statement inherently relied on bystanders inferring most of the meaning from context.

edit: footnipple replied in additional contexts that they've seen "a lot of destruction at the hands of some very bad people" when asked if they'd been in the protests, so I feel a little more confident that my read of the context was correct.
FAANG are different a kind of monopoly - an unprecedented one for which no legislation exists. They have a monopoly on data, as brokers they control not only what companies may purchase for commercial services, but through curation of search results and news/social media feeds they control what information reaches the eyes of millions of people.

This is an unprecedented amount of power over society wielded by corporations and, in effect, the handful of private citizens who own them.

I tend to lean libertarian but I've questioned for a while if it's appropriate and/or possible to limit this power in an equitable manner...but unchecked Google alone can probably sway elections with algorithmic manipulation of search results and even selective autocompletion.

That's probably the entire reason that the administration is targeting these orgs, and while I don't agree with the administration I believe this particular endeavor may be for the greater good. When Twitter can delete videos retweeted by the president, or add "fact check warnings" which effectively (though maybe not truthfully) discredit his statements, Jack Dorsey and his board are wielding a more direct, more immediate, and possibly more effective power than any of other branches of government.
Yes, through if you look at the role the police plays for some minority's, especially in some authoritarian or unstable countries they might be better off with no official police and (likely biased and not very good) self mad order keeping.

Through I don't think this is the case for any democratic country.

In the end bad police is normally better for larger societies then no police at all.

But at the same time bad police can do a lot additional damage. I.e. it keeps some sources of danger in check but at the same time adds a new source of danger.

Which is, I thing, one reason why some people believe they can do without police. The other reason is the thing below:

Law and order exists just fine in small isolated (but not simple) societies without police. Especially if the society mostly contains similar minded people.

Additionally you need neither law nor order in the modern sense for a small isolated but we'll working society. A common goal, respect for other people and implicit traditions can be enough in that case.

I also can thing of at least on model for a larger society working without police through some form of self policing and self survilence but that's much more distopian than the US system as far as I can tell.
Yeah folks dont do this if you have allergies. You might die.
I wonder if this will be noted on the easy blog or on hacker news. It seems that people are too caught up being outraged to notice. Comments made here three hours ago about the book now being available on Amazon are buried under piles of diatribes. Let’s not let the truth get in the way of a good sanctimonious rant.
I thought NHS was about as well known as FBI or KGB or GCHQ.
On the contrary, I think your example proves my point quite well. I understand very little about PDP-11s and only slightly more about GPT-3's inner workings, yet I have no trouble reasoning about whether or not a PDP-11 is suitable for running GPT-3 or something even more difficult to formally reason about, say Microsoft Windows. I have a mental model of computer performance and compute requirements that simplifies the question from a difficulty of "Oh, it's Turing complete, halting problem, let's throw our arms in the air like this is an infomercial!" through "You need to understand literally everything about PDP-11s and Windows" all the way to "50 years of exponential growth is a hella large factor to try squeezing down anything by." It's a trivial question hiding in the skin of an intractable question, and it perfectly exemplifies why it's silly to believe that human cognition will forever remain intractable.

In order for a problem to forever remain in "let's throw our arms in the air like it's an infomercial" territory, it must not merely be difficult in its most pedantically defined complete form, it also must stymie the search for useful relaxations and workarounds. Nobody fears running a program on account of being unable to prove that it will halt: they just kill the program if it locks up, or (equivalently) set a timeout. Personally, I'd just avoid throwing my arms in the air like an infomercial altogether.

EDIT: substituted GPT3 -> Windows because arguments about GPT-3 and/or a set of incarnations being Turing Complete would be irrelevant to the main point.
It may be worrying but it's not surprising. Every common-enough point of view will be well represented in any large-enough population sample, assuming the sample wasn't specifically selected to exclude it.
My Criteria for a Tiny SaaS
I think government should not be breaking up big successful companies only because they control >50% market share. What Microsoft did with IE was nasty but Google acquiring DoubleClick, AdMob, YouTube etc. is not nasty at all. If Google for example made the same exact product like YouTube and then leveraged its massive resources and distribution channel to destroy YouTube and claim the market share that would be problematic but otherwise I don't see a problem.

Punishing the best student in class only because he or she is the best is not cool at all.
"hosting speed" -> hosting speech
Because common sense has been used to justify all manner of things which are thoroughly debunked. Blood letting, bed rest, alcohol for pregnant mothers. Common sense doesn’t have a great track record.
Food and shelter aren't natural resources. They are things that you produce using natural resources.

"Civilized" societies use far less land per person to produce food.
What authority does protesters have for escalating violence?
My numbers were population adjusted (per-capita), and there's no dichotomy between "black communities have historically been and perhaps still are targeted" and "the media is amplifying the perception of the degree to which they are targeted". Thanks for pushing for me to be more clear. I really do appreciate it.
you don't need to store it in plaintext, this was probably caught by something general like the great firewall or golden shield then traced back to her wechat account
Perchorate is one of those chemicals that I first heard of on account of their use as rocket fuels. It seems that you won't go far wrong by regarding anything in that class as hazardous.
So we don’t even need to to pay more. Just better management, training and accountability.
i wouldnt say comparing to a window washer is quite the same

being in the military is very safe, but most dont want to sign up let alone deploy to a warzone

the structure of tgis argument is very interesting

it seems we are saying the cops are responsible for how people react to their appearance, yet in other settings this sort of argument doesnt fly
recording helps but its not always enough though. most recent example

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/may/23/boeing-737-...
charles simonyi 4.3b

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Simonyi?wprov=sfti1
I’m going to be as charitable as I can be here: the experts have done a very poor job of communicating the science of mask-wearing to the general public.
Diversity numbers are measured after the fact. Diversity hiring is done by filling the front of the pipeline with a diverse set of candidates (i.e. getting the interview) but hiring decisions are made independently.
I am going by memory here so I very well could be wrong/it may have changed but I think the process is as follows -

1. On the signup page select either the username/email or password text box

2. Press the key icon.

3. Select add in whatever password manager you use (I use Bitwarden)

4. Generate a password, etc. then hit save

5. Select it and it will autofill and add any extra stuff in the sign up form

That is how I have done it in the past (maybe not exactly like that, as I said this is from memory) and it has worked well enough. Not a great user experience though to be fair.
There’s Doom and Doom II on Gameboy Advance - low resolution, but authentic look and feel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEncPfs5VWw
I think the same should be said for the people at AWS: they run the GovCloud region hardware on which the Palantir code runs.

There’s also a similar case against Microsoft.
There is no CSS on the page. I have a feeling your comment was facetious though, hinting at the amount of bloat (e.g. Jekyll theme) we need today to do the simplest things.
If the world is divided into many super-tribes made up of millions of people (based on ethnicity, religion, etc), try to encourage mixture of those super-tribes at school, work, and socially. Then people have a maximum composition of different super-tribes within their personal 100-person tribe. This way people will be less likely to identify everyone from another super-tribe as part of the outgroup.
I can agree with that. I think it all depends on the person and only someone who deeply knows them can give them the right advice. And that CAN in some cases be a harsh one, if all their life they were coddled, it can be good to hear a stern voice that tells them that they are shit right now, a disgrace of their species, but they have the power to change etc. This is indeed the strategy of some gurus or even clinicians (perhaps with different words). In other cases you just listen, you just nourish, just hug and radiate love and they can, over the years, perhaps open up as a flower and work their way through their issues. If done in the wrong way around, the person may just get crushed under the weight of it all, while in the other case they may grow comfortable in all the coddling and now won't even want to fix things, because "having issues" is what gets them all the hugs and kisses.

Some respond more to rational reasoning, some to emotional ones.

There is no general recipe.
Am I? Is that different?
It’s not in addition. DC is $142,000 total after the CoL adjustment
The test was against compiled Crystal code:

crystal build program.cr

./program
It seems to be the same thing. The use-case displayed on Nokia's website matches to one of the blog-posts available on kuha.io
I covered a Texas Tech study that showed how perchlorate can be passed to babies via breast milk. That was in... 2005. The EPA's recent decision is extremely disappointing.
https://www.wired.com/2005/02/rocket-fuel-fed-to-newborns/

(An aside: Reporters don't usually choose their own headlines. I fought and lost a battle with my editor on that one.)
Show HN: Listen to BLDG Evelyn – Chapter 6: Vows
I think this is a reasonable criticism, I didn't see it addressed in the paper, but one place where it complex examples wouldn't matter is when writing material for basic introductory courses. There this would be really good: it's a way of quickly and accurately producing large numbers of diagrams, automatically adjusting for changes, without drawing things by hand, and there are probably enough students that this would help if it just reduced the barrier to producing maths diagrams.
> By transparently shifting the processor between its real and protected modes on the fly, Rational Systems’s “DOS/4GW” could make it seem to the programmer as if all of the machine’s memory was as effortlessly available as the first 640 K.

This describes EMM386 expanded memory manager. This is not how DOS/4GW extender works :/ DOS/4GW
is a manager between your program and DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) (or bare metal MMU in case DPMI host is not loaded). You run your code in flat linear address space protected mode all the time.
Damn, and I thought COVID lockdowns around the globe would have helped reducing pollution, apparently not significantly enough
It seems we need parallel executive branches. The second which is beholden to the polity, and who’s job is to police the former. That way we don’t have an automatic “regulatory capture”, which we currently have. Heck, let them go after each other: divide & conquer style.

Maybe have the top-level official be elected at a very-fine granularity, but with the power to enforce across locality lines? Like—elect at the county level, but can enforce anywhere in the State?
We've only had problems with snap so far, constantly. Kudos to Mint for doing the right thing for their users.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23431502
I've really enjoyed PBS Spacetime - it's a great "more than layman" but "less than physicist" channel. They aren't afraid to show math, and explain hard concepts.

Additionally I've found this channel, from Anton Petrov, to be good in a similar vein:

https://www.youtube.com/user/whatdamath
Are EPA's regulations the only ones that matter regarding water quality?

For (absurd) example, does this ruling mean that I could give a child a glass of "water" that's 50% perchlorate, and because of EPA's ruling I'm legally untouchable?
The ones I worked with some time ago did not. So it seems really dependent on the job.

But even if you do currently, there's a lot of peace that comes with: it's not company's goodwill, it's a requirement and company's goodwill goes on top of that.
> I'm willing the accept the 5% extra chance of death entailed by some emergency doctor not knowing my medical history.

That seems logical in theory, but in practice, that is not actually how this kind of thing works. I know firsthand: I ultimately survived a series of differing and often unusual medical crises in my 20s, that I really should not have ultimately survived, individually or collectively, statistically speaking. I never actually pictured myself once, after turning age 18, ever being age 30. I never once believed that I would ever be 30, in my adult life. Now, every year after 30 to me is a gift.

If you do not think that something like this can happen to you: 7-8% of the general population collectively has some sort of a rare disease. Rare diseases can look exactly like a small collection of different common health problems that people with chronic illnesses may legitimately regularly acquire. It requires a lot of intuition, knowledge, experience, and foresight to actually get something like this right. This requires medical expertise and being an excellent clinician is essential. This is not a problem that software engineers can solve on their own.

Also, medical records are almost always littered with a ton of errors, that may seem minor to you, but in reality, they really are not. Considering the third leading cause of death in the US is considered to be preventable medical errors [1], which is appalling, you better being going through your medical records in detail, correcting each and every error (along with sharing the records--by giving physical copies--for security reasons--to the other provider--if they do not have full access to complete health records), if you plan on staying alive long-term, whether you are healthy or not.

We have a tremendous way to go on medical records and medical data, and it is really not something that AI can practically solve, in general, due to so many errors, bad datasets, and profound hoarding of data.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/05/03/4766361...
Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Design for Great Power Competition
This is not a binary choice.

There's a lot of daylight between censorship and simply not amplifying outrageous behavior.

We could break feedback loops, add friction, disallow retweets (forcing copypasta), not show likes, etc.
People aren't rioting because they're bored and cooped up. They're protesting extrajudicial killings.
Reddit pledges to appoint black director after Ohanian quits
Would people otherwise be aware that Steve has an order of magnitude more bugs than anyone else?
Adyen, Booking.com, ASML, Just eat, Nokia, Shazam, Skype, Zalando, Hello Fresh, Takeaway.com, NXP, Nginx, Rasberry Pi, Waze

Sure, they are no Google or Amazon, but they are or were nothing to sneeze at either

I'm also highly doubtful that this is mainly because of anti-trust laws.

A much more likely reason to me seems that Europe is much more diversified in law and culture, a Paris company has a much harder time expanding to London or Berlin than an San Fransisco one will have for Los Angeles or New York. This naturally leads to more, smaller companies.
Space rockets should all switch to hydrolox, at least that burns clean. Like Delta IV.

(yeah, yeah, terrible impulse density..)
I started using `jq` for my API project and I have to say it makes JSON munging much nicer on the command line. I think it'd be really cool in order to have a `jq` based redirection service, where you can paste in the URL of the API you want and a query parameter of the `jq` query you want to create.

Something like:

https://jq.io/https://myapi.com/endpoint?jqparams=$PARAMS

So like bash via HTTP :)
I dumped Ubuntu over Snap. Maybe I’m just ignorant but it seems like allowing developers to push software updates without any review invites the same sorts of issues we’ve seen on npm, with very high risks for certain use cases. I don’t want that kind of relationship with my OS, forced updates are why I ditched Windows in the first place.

Aside from the philosophical concerns I ran into a lot of glitches with various snap packages, frequently resulting in lost or corrupted data. And the sandbox approach prevented certain filesystem tweaking I previously took for granted. Overall I didn’t see the benefit and didn’t have time to futz with it.

I’m curious if there are any distros with a recent version of Gnome and also a sane package manager.
Reddit co-founder quits board over George Floyd
fantastic work! installed.
Strongly agree. This is just one example of how police culture is toxic and likely un-fixable without dramatic changes to the entire concept of policing.
The EPA declined to regulate perchlorate because, among other things, it’s not found in very many water systems and is naturally occurring in the southwest. (When the EPA tested thousands of systems in 2011, under the Obama administration, just 0.62% had perchlorate levels about the EPA recommended limit: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2011/02/11/2011-26...)

Instead, EPA has been pursing less formal measures to reduce perchlorate in the specific drinking water systems where it has been found: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-notes-successes-reducin...

As one of “those people” who thinks it’s harmful to have a national regulation where a more local one will do, I don’t see the problem with this. There are many kinds of pollution that are national in nature, but drinking water is actually fairly localized. There is no evidence perchlorate pollution migrates great distances, so why do we need an nationwide regulation?

It should be noted that drinking water systems are almost entirely run by public entities, and already face massive funding challenges. When the EPA sets maximum allowable levels of a pollutant, it triggers a huge bureaucratic framework that everyone must follow. Is it unreasonable to decide that we don’t need to force everyone to go that far for a chemical that appears in possibly concerning levels in less than 1% of systems?

This is an excellent example of how even the slightest push back on the notion that the federal government should regulate anything and everything is treated by the media as a crisis of epic proportions. You didn’t know what perchlorate was before this article, and it doesn’t affect 99% of water systems out there, but the EPA declining to create nationwide monitoring and enforcement framework for the chemical is somehow “madness.”
Agree with your points and I might give massaging a try. I've let go of so many things and pursuits since my condition started so I doubt it's anxiety and stress. It's been more than half a year since I need to work (fortunate to be on company's disability benefit for now). Right now I simply wish to stay alive/healthy and enjoy simple things in life. Hopefully my sleep keeps recovering to a point that I can work full time again. For several months, it was super scary that it was only going down hill.

> you are tired as hell, your brain is almost failing, you want to sleep, but you just can not.

I know exactly what you mean. I was like that for the whole winter. Fortunately this scenario's not happened for quite some time. I'm at least getting some amount of sleep everyday.