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HN is an echo chamber on certain topics, but not on hate/racism or easily gamed to push a mis-information agenda

HN loves:

- LSD microdosing

- intermittent fasting

- Tesla

- Mastodon

- contrarian views to whatever the top comment is

HN despises:

- Blockchain
In retrospect, the Chrome-driven change from separate URL and search bars to one combined bar was a really bad idea.
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Thanks for the elaborate explanation and thoughts. It does make sense.
Good question. I expect many countries don't have a regulatory approval process at all, and simply rubberstamp FDA approval.

Nevertheless, medical tourism is a thing to get non-FDA approved treatments. For example, "60 Minutes" ran a segment a few months back on a Cuban cancer treatment unavailable in the US due to the FDA, and I've read about a Thai hip replacement procedure that is not FDA approved, but lots of Americans go there for it.

I also don't know what US law has to say about a US company developing a drug for non-FDA use outside the US. Certainly, it would not be a good public relations move, and may be a legal and liability minefield. Would you be willing to risk your investment capital in such a venture?
I’m paying $60 for 10Mbps down and 0.5 up.

It’s a weird situation. Windstream lies to the federal government and says they offer broadband to my area, when they don’t offer any service at all. The only actual provider (South Slope), which offers fiber elsewhere, is therefore shut out of the usual federal programs to finance upgrades to the completely antiquated and over-provisioned DSL lines. I’m 3 miles line of sight from their headquarters.
Define: “deal with”
Ask HN: Where did all the Symbolics hardware end up?
Interestingly here in Canada, we have a smallish, but still growing retail chain catering to the DIY pc builder market, called Memory Express.

They aren’t big box by any means, but I’ve been very happy to shop there. Better selection than Best Buy, better curation than Amazon.
I just go strict. Never use Any unless I absolutely must. Hunting down the types is just the price you pay for what is basically a huge reduction in hidden runtime errors.
Indeed, I think something that happens is that the weirdness and paradoxes of QM are what get reported and debated, with no mention that people are using routinely it to solve mundane problems with a high rate of success and accuracy.
> So when I see someone on TV holding an "abolish the police" banner, which context clues should I use to figure out what they really mean?

The same ones you use to understand what the word "police" means. Human language isn't a direct, thought transmission mechanism (especially with short utterances). Ambiguity and uncertainty and reliance on shared context are inherent. The artificial language Toki Pona gives an exaggerated demonstration of this [1].

> The slogan makes many people think you're advocating an unreasonable idea that you're not actually advocating. Do you think that makes for a good slogan?

No one can ever cram the nuance of a complex political position onto a slogan to fit on a sign. Inevitably someone will misunderstand to some degree, then have to go on to read one of the hundreds of articles titled "what does 'defund the police' mean?" to correct your misunderstanding.

If you're searching for some optimal slogan, you're not going to find it. Sure there are alternatives, but a couple things count in "defund the police"'s favor: 1) it succinctly indicates the topic and 2) pretty clearly conveys the opinion that a radical break with prior reform efforts is needed. "Abolish the police" does the same, except it's more amplified.

[1] https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/tokipona
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Uncle Joe is unlikely to have thousands of followers. And if he does, those followers are again, unlikely to each have thousands of followers.

Remember spam chain e-mails back in the 0's? There were a lot of stupid viral ideas going around in them, but their reach was rather limited, and they were, generally speaking, not very successful in breaking into the social zeitgeist.

"15 million people liked this" is a lot of social proof. "Uncle Joe + a few dozen other people liked this" is not nearly as much social proof... And viral ideas live and die by the amount of social proof they have.

It's quite possible that what I suggest may not be the best possible fix. In fact, I'll go so far to say that it's not. But I have a hard time imagining that we currently live in the best possible world, such that no amount of tweaking the parameters of these sites will result in improvement. The current outcomes are horrible.
Dynamic linking provides encapsulation and security benefits. An application with a statically linked OpenSSL can be vulnerable if a CVE comes out for that version of OpenSSL, whereas a dynamically linked OpenSSL could be patched immediately without recompilation (which may be impossible if the software is proprietary). The vendor of the shared library can update the implementation without requiring all downstream consumers to recompile. This should not be downplayed.

Pure static linking makes sense when you are deploying code you control onto an environment you control.

While I like ease of deploying Go, where binaries are one big blob that just works, it makes it closer to the Java style than the UNIX modular-tool-does-one-thing-well tradition.
I’m out in rural Wisconsin with 3 choices for high-speed Internet. With my current provider: 1Gbps down/400Mbps up for $75/month.

My parents live in the near Chicago suburbs, have 1 choice for high speed Internet, and pay $80/month for 100Mbps down and 6Mbps up.

So, rural internet options are actually better than urban in some areas.
From the linked page:

"Ideal for high-throughput connectivity with a range of up to 500 m".

For reference, that approximately two blocks in NYC.
Public utility functions are best run by regulated processes and it's just rubbish to say market forces help here. Prices for internet are now decoupled from true underlying cost in almost all markets. Fibre is a fifty year plus investment in the ground. Do it once.
U.K. assassination attempt reveals illegal Russian chemical weapons push
Jesus, this is tiring...

First, it's not "my system". I'm not a Soviet apologist, I'm not a communist, and frankly I don't even think communism is a workable system of government.

But I would the same exact things about libertarianism.

Just because I don't agree with something doesn't mean I think people should be prosecuted for it.

I get that you're trying to say that there's something inherent in communism that causes totalitarian states, but you are confusing correlation with causation.

Whatever terrible things have been done in the name of communism (and absolutely, some of the worst attrocities in history have taken place under communist rule), the same or worse things (slavery, genocide, oppression, colonialism) have been done under capitalist rule.
Navy has the same regulations on safety investigations, for the same reasons.
Ask HN: Can WebAuthn ensure one person one account?
Hey, with Apple’s recent announcement that they support WebAuthn, and Google supporting it, does this kind of mean that we can finally protect against sybil attacks on the Web?

I mean, for real elections or UBI we probably need more verification like WebRTC with the actual person and having them provide a hash of their biometrics or something, and then pick a token out of a hat. Like we have registration to vote in real life. But in what ways can a person open multiple accounts now, and is it an expensive proposition to do so with Apple and Google?
I'm someone who spends far more time on my laptop than I do in my car. I can't remember the last time I took a test drive when buying a car.

But I want to see my laptop, examine and touch it. That's getting harder and harder to do. But if I drove to a couple of store's in the Detroit area I could see all the leading contenders. I've never owned a Microsoft laptop but they were a contender and their stores were nice.
Ask HN: Does the T2 also encrypt bootcamp?
I can’t find a definitive answer for this anywhere. The T2 chip does hardware encryption on the Apple SSDs by default, but is that only for APFS volumes? Does an NTFS partition remain unencrypted?
A new President would go a very long way.
> * Disable song in album

<glares at The Girl Is Mine>
That's part of it, but not the entire solution.

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/7/8/the-architecture-tw...

> Outliers, those with huge follower lists, are becoming a common case. Sending a tweet from a user with a lot of followers, that is with a large fanout, can be slow. Twitter tries to do it under 5 seconds, but it doesn’t always work, especially when celebrities tweet and tweet each other, which is happening more and more. One of the consequences is replies can arrive before the original tweet is received. Twitter is changing from doing all the work on writes to doing more work on reads for high value users.
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I’d happily switch with you lol. $60 for 10/0.5. American broadband infrastructure is a sad joke.
Thank you for clarifying! Do you offer the "standard deal" to such companies, or do you propose something more custom in these situations? I didn't see mention of this on ycombinator.com.
Uber worked like that because governments are far less hesitant in fining / moving / removing stationary objects vs mobile objects which contains multiple voters inside of them.
We used to have a similar situation in the US: ILECs (the no-longer-monopoly telephone companies) were required to make lines available to CLECs (competitors) for a particular cost.

What happened was that the ILECs all managed to come up with the same excuses: sorry, no lines available in that office. And, mysteriously, working CLEC lines would stop working, and it would be blamed on a "bad cable", but there wouldn't be a spare cable to switch to... and the ILEC had just installed a customer.

Regulation needs to be enforced.
I am aware of that. I have been reading about what the courses are like on the reddit and quite frankly it sounds like hell to me.

I am mostly interested in security, and not so interested in AI/ML. Robotics does sound pretty cool though.
> Which the parent says is explained via decoherence.

It isn't. To take a simple example, suppose we measure the spin of a single spin-1/2 particle that is in a state such that there is a 50-50 chance of either possible result. Decoherence can explain why the total system--particle plus measuring device plus observer plus environment--ends up in a superposition of "particle with spin up, measuring device measures spin up, observer observes spin up" and "particle with spin down, measuring device measures spin down, observer observes spin down"--in other words, why the interference terms between those two alternatives go away. But decoherence cannot explain why only one of those two results actually occurs.
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Article is unclear if it's passport based or based on where you've been the last 14 days. The latter approach is more sensible and the former seems punitive and retaliatory more than anything.
How is it different than just settling on ordering from one restaurant nearby?
This is so silly. First, Apple’s history is that they will continue to support older hardware with security updates even if they can’t support them with the latest OS.

Sometimes older hardware isn’t capable of supporting new features. In prior cases it might not have a 64 bit processor or not enough memory, and of course you can’t expect support in those cases.

In this it’s old WiFi hardware that can’t support new features. It would be dumb for Apple to take engineers off making Big Sur more solid for 98% of Macs to waste time on this problem for a tiny percent of the active base.

Apple is doing exactly the right thing. Make it work well for the vast majority, then see if they can take it farther back in the first couple of bug fix releases.
Don't forget that loudly leaving and quietly returning is the nature of many supposed changes in the world.
Five years ago, I was a big proponent of Macs (not iOS devices). Obviously Linux had its uses, and Windows had, um, games, but Apple's precision-engineered combination of hardware and software was really hard to beat for day-to-day use.

I won't be buying another Mac. Both OS X and MacBook design get worse with each new release, for years. They don't care about anything but iOS anymore--the Mac line is treated as a semi-portable accessory for your iPhone.
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The whole bubble foam is called "gig economy", previously in business as "sharing economy".
> These are the tools that Trump, right-wingers and white supremacists use to fool their supporters and trigger their seratonin generators through fearmongering.

What a coincidence that those who disagree with you are all liars and brainwashed.
If you hang out on the lisp subreddit you'll see some stories every now and then. There was a former symbolics engineer or owner or something like that who was still selling them relatively recently (iirc). I guess mainly to hobbyists.

I've read that some people (the guy that wrote the Clojure sucks article) view them as talent amplifiers and others (Ex: Paul Graham) weren't as impressed.

Maybe we can summon Reddit and HN user /lispm who owns one and seems to be part of that community?
If that is the case, then the post I was responding to is wrong when it says "We need to put a ceiling on how extreme that content can be." If Facebook is just a private platform, "we" have no right to dictate anything to them.
Having lived near Regent's park, you have to ask yourself why the birds ever leave. Surely it's clear there's way more junk food than any bird could ever want?
I always get sad when I think of the techno-optimism of the 90s and the early net. I think it actually was still present well into the 00s, which were a golden age in their own way (blogs, forums, communities). Then mainstream facebook hit like a ton of bricks..
Does any have a reference for the evidence of high intelligence make the police more likely to leave the job early? I wonder what a police force recruited only from the intelligent would be like?

The great thing about IQ tests if you are smart is it is easy to pretend to be stupid.
Unfiltered internet is too annoying to use. Got a Pi-hole equivalent for whole network filtering, and uBlock Origin for the browser.
Invitation to take part in an academic research study
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They formally or informally promote best practices for users’ privacy, educate others, persuade, and advocate for privacy adoption throughout the software development process.
They have an official or unofficial role within their team acting as the “voice” of users’ privacy for the product or team, for example by giving privacy-related advice that can influence decisions and privacy practices.
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They can read more information about the study on this web page (https://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/tulips/projects/privacy_champion...) and respond by July 14, 2020. Any questions can be sent to us at study@tulipslab.org.

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It's to mitigate that risk factor. You wear your seatbelt every time you drive as "there is a non-zero chance you will crash" even though the vast majority of the time wearing the seat belt was unnecessary.
I think the fact is was Musk who 'chose' the baby name evidently and not Grimes, who I guess is just a house wife, sums up the article succinctly.

The writer could have written this without consistently insulting people, especially coming from a place of ignorance.

Musk's Starlink will change medicine in the poorest regions of the world, were at minimum Médecins Sans Frontières can certainly afford it.

But whatever, it's all about the click chasing.
How does the air get into the hollow spaces in bird bones? I've never noticed it when eating chicken.
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My partner has a ps4 and some subscription thing (PS now?). It ends up being about 6$/month and new games are available each month (including some AAA). If each month you add them to your library you quickly end up with a backlog of more games than you can play.

games seems to loose value rapidly after they are released so some are very affordable.
AI4R is a phenomenal course, and it's run by a couple of great professors who actually care about teaching it.

ML4T is another amazing course that's run by a great professor who actually cares about teaching.

Unfortunately I haven't found any other courses like those.
I'm neutral on RxJava, but honestly don't know how to handle backpressure without it. Would be glad to learn.
Are you seriously claiming that the presence of police increases the murder rate? Or are you actually asking to know by what mechanisms policing can prevent murders?

Once you are talking about solving a murder, clearly that one was not prevented. It may draw detectives to the neighborhood looking for clues. It's pretty hard to argue that the causality runs from these detectives to the murder though.
There was a thread earlier today on how VC forms did or did not invent tech. Invention is the wrong word - this stuff here, science, does the invention. the rest of us do the "evenly distributed" part later on.

And can I make a suggestion to us all as we barrel towards elections and post lockdown changes - write to your representatives, show them this and say "more funds, more"

Let's double the science budget in every western democracy.
I'm not sure about FAANG, but big companies are pretty stable, especially banks and government. Even they're evolving, though.
Bonus project idea: Get LCC to work on horizontal speaker array sound emitters, e.g., soundbars with multiple speakers for each channel. You may need to apply LCC to each driver and adjust LCC parameters accordingly.
Another variant is to build your own horizontal speaker array sound emitter that is steerable, e.g., use computer vision to track many heads in a room and send a L/R LCC image to each listener using beam forming speakers. Multiple sweet spots!
Absolutely. Exactly for this reason, I would hope not to see this ever become the default format for cell phone cameras unless there were somehow explicit guarantees around what is or is not faithful. Same with security cameras, etc.

But, anywhere where the purpose of output is social/entertainment, it seems this would be freely adopted. Profile pictures, marketing images, videos and movies. If could very much mean, however, that a photo on someone's Facebook profile might not be admissable as evidence, if used to identify an exact match with someone, rather than just "someone who looks similar".
Alexis Ohanian is leaving Initialized Capital
Conflating anti-mask with anti-vax or the notion 5G caused a virus is an absurd straw-man. Refusing to vaccinate a child is a little different than not bothering to strap a spit-covered rag to their face and acting like it's a panacea for Covid-19.
It's not wishful thinking. It's not going to happen.

We can, however, do a better job of championing science and long-term thinking.

I think setting a high water mark inspires people to reach for the stars, if only to land on the moon.

I like to imagine that world so that I can see the delta between.
This is the exact opposite of everywhere else in the world tbf.
I always enjoyed the store, there is one 100 yards from where I sit right now. But a store where the point is for people to touch as many things as possible is probably not a viable thing anymore.
Context: it's 40 years since the "Ustica massacre", as it's known in Italy.

TL;DR: there is controversy around what caused the disaster, but the most commonly accepted is that a war between NATO and Lybian forces ultimately led to a missile to hit this civilian aircraft.
Libya is definitely not better after Khadafi... It was a reasonably stable place (despite the murderous despot, lesser evil etc) that was irrevocably fucked by the intervention. Surely you don't think the Western campaign was done out of the goodness of our hearts and love of democracy?
Ubisoft places multiple employees on leave following allegations of misconduct
One of my professors had a pithy way of saying this: "Quantum mechanics is the square root of classical mechanics."
I think you make a good point about the need for law enforcement in high-crime areas, though I disagree strongly that the only solution to that problem is a police force as currently constituted in the US. I think it's worth pointing out that police often has abysmal clearance rates and response times and often do not provide effective relief from the real problems you outline.

However, what I wanted to raise was this:

> the fact is... violent (fatal and nonfatal) crimes do happen at a much higher rate in poor neighborhoods

I think this statement is worth examining.

We certainly know that poor neighborhoods contact the police more often and that the police arrest more people (and record more crimes) in poor neighborhoods. As I said above, I have ever reason to believe residents of poor neighborhoods suffer crimes more often and that each crime does proportionally greater damage to their lives.

I also think that, as people get access to more resources, they are reasons to believe they are less likely to contact the police in all circumstances. That, of course, is the other way to read the stats you linked about poor neighborhoods contacting police. Police clearance rates are often low and contacting the police rarely directly addresses the harm caused by a crime. Also, because we are most likely to be harmed by people in our social circles, wealthier people are more likely to be harmed by more powerful people. These are all reasons that wealthier victims of crimes might choose not to contact the police and generate statistics about them. It's difficult to point to data about what isn't recorded (of course), but I think the feminist movement has done some great work trying to document how under-reported rapes (and other sexual crimes) are.

I just want to encourage skepticism about the systems through which data is collected. Structural elements strongly bias the data that's collected and, if we're serious about changing the system, I think it's advantageous to be skeptical of every element of the system.
You could try lower level, like anything with microprocessors, industrial robots, data communications, or healthcare. The kind of things that use C or Assembly. These will still be in high demand and highly paid as IOT/Industry 4.0 tries to catch on.
Discovery is not invention. These are fundamentally different things. Scientists don’t think like engineers.
I look forward to the day when Trump leaves office for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that, having lost their most perfect of scapegoats, left leaning people will finally have to acknowledge the dire state of the republic and their part in the fuck ups that lead up to it. Perhaps then we can start to make things better.