skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This post is hyperbolic.

I have friends who read gas meters for many years. This is a job that involves coming in contact with dogs of all sizes and demeanor.

If a gas company can handle sending some 18 yo kids into thousands of backyards a week to deal with dogs then I'm sure law enforcement officers can be trained to handle dogs with the same outcomes that the gas company sees (no amputations from dog bites to my knowledge.)
Virtually Sourced – Together We Thrive
@teh_klev explicitly addressed his comment to an AI. Perhaps you're not familiar with it, but this is a common acronym for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence. Your comments are all saying the same thing and all deliberately or not missing the point that he was explicit in that he wasn't addressing a human. Any human that creates an account called "Amazon AI" can expect to receive content suitable for an AI.
And what, exactly, constitutes "direct user request" that both 1) does not break common programming techniques (e.g. an application rolling its own GUI, or implementing its own modes/keybindings) and 2) is not trivially spoofable by the enterprising developer?

I understand the outrage over apps abusing their access to the clipboard but what I don't understand is the people acting as though the OSes they use on the daily don't have the exact same "flaw".
I definitely don't "see a number" in front of me. There is some sort of shortcut memory that says 7 * 6=42, of course.

For massaging an equation into the desired form, I see its "shape" (abstract from the numbers, like we had to in school with variables) and know what changes of shape are desirable. More complex math, let's say, 700 * 13, I do in my head pretty much like those equations; shuffle it to be 7 * (10+3) * 100, (7 * 10 + 7 * 3) * 100, etc. In no part of that do I see the figure of the number seven; there's a "slot" that's a concept of seven, but it's not the shape of the drawn number.
If you did even the slightest bit of research you'd understand that no one paid those rates.
your moral high-ground has us increasing the powers of the government which is permanent. That's bad for everyone. Susceptible people could have stayed home, but now everyone else is paying for it.

> The economy is made up of people, by the way.

And there is almost always an economic boom after any plague or war. Vacuums get filled, create opportunity.
Do you work for microsoft? Who cares how bad someone else is?
We try to recreate the archetypes from the past. Our heroes. Their struggles.

What about when we try to fit those archetypes over a reality that is inappropriately matched to them? What about when we seek out grievances where there are none just because they have a hint of resembling the past?

The past shapes the present in this way.
I would guess Reddit is where I would start looking for it.
In private chats with trusted friends.
Unfortunately there is little room for nuanced discussion anywhere. It’s hard to start a new platform to rival Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and Google/YouTube. All four of these platforms are against open discussion and practice censorship against certain stances, irrespective of the presence of nuance.

There are lists of Reddit and YouTube alternatives that are worth visiting. But they’ll only have a chance if we all try them out, evangelize them to friends, and post content (rather than just consuming it). The big issues are lack of content or early swarming from one political group (which then deters the “other side” from joining). Parler, a Twitter alternative, has this issue. I’m nevertheless trying it out just to give it a shot. But we might need a tool to manage the process of achieving quorum on what platform interested people move to. If we fragment across all of available choices, they’ll all wither and die.

Here are some starter sources of Reddit and YouTube alternatives:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/hi97fz/.... Also see https://www.reddit.com/r/YoutubeAlternatives/, which is newer and less developed.

Kialo is an interesting platform for debate - https://www.kialo.com/. But it is a complex interface and certainly doesn’t have the reach and accessibility of the biggest (and worst) platforms like Twitter. Apart from Kialo I think developing one’s own nuanced perspective is easiest to achieve by reading many different news sources and having respectful real life conversations. But only a few in my social circle are up for such discussions - I suppose it is better than none.

PS I feel your pain on the loss of Slate Star Codex. I had many bookmarked articles that I now can’t read :(
>not all android redistro uses Chrome

Preinstalled Google's proprietary apps on GMS Certified Android Hardware are Google Search, Google Chrome, YouTube, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Play Store, and more. If your devices are not certified, you will not have access to any of Google’s proprietary apps.

It's all or nothing. So if the OEM has certification from google, Chrome is compulsory. Also, the manufacturer MUST release ALL their phone models with it. They cannot release some models with the open sourced android.

AFAIK, Google and Microsoft are using the same playbook. Google simply learned from MS's mistakes early and created illusion of choice with open source.

Microsoft in turn, has learned from Google and is gluing "must have" services to open source VScode.

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-oem-licensing-345806...
https://socialmobile.com/gms-certified-devices/
Sure you don't have to, but then you potentially end up with a bias and you definitely end up with an incomplete perspective, when completeness is defined by considering the complete set of experienced circumstances.

It may be the case that a hammer-like lockdown has largely stamped the virus out of many countries and that the US failed at that and is worse-off for it. It may also be the case that the US will build herd immunity faster and it the average infection rate and death rates will eventually converge to the same everywhere. We simply do not know yet, but people are judging as if we do.

If we look to the past, we may be able to gain insight into how it played out until completion and how it was or was not affected by regulation, local & international laws, and the layperson perspective. In the current instance, no country has yet played it out to completion so that is something we could not learn from other countries right now.
Can you explain why this is preferred? Is it to ensure everyone knows where it comes from (journal or preprint)?
The concern in the US is that attempts to stamp it out will fail. I hope for your sake that we're wrong, stamping it out just works, and Australia and New Zealand can survive virus free for the next year or so. But when I hear about another month of strict lockdowns in Melbourne, I get pretty worried.
Chill dude.

In addition to this being in the context of air freight of which passenger..Not a whole lot of global freight involves rail or road only.

Not nonsense..

Passenger planes carried close to half of all air freight. And additionally while air freight only accounts for a small percentage of freight by weight, it carries a tremendous proportion by value.
Taking advantage of their monopoly is not the bad part IMO. The bad part is doing it in such an tasteless way, i.e. making the product suck.

It wouldn't bother me if they overpriced their stuff like Apple does or bought every competitor like Facebook does, etc. It only bothers me when they make their product unusable like they've done with Windows.
I don't have anything publicly on the web yet, mainly because I haven't gotten very far to share, but I started working on an X.25 stack for fun and for toying with some old modems I have sitting around. I've "re-architected" the projects a few times and looks like I might again and working in unfamiliar stacks, so I've been reading more docs than I have been writing code so far.
The best I can find right now is /r/Neutral*

Like /r/NeutralPolitics
You can hardly get a rational discussion, since I think, the positions are rather polarized on the issue.
> I feel like we need a new way to do peer review, that is more real time - so that papers can be upvoted/downvoted, flaws can be pointed out - and we have some way to assess the truthiness of what the paper is claiming. Your comment is a step in this direction (but we're not capturing the wisdom of the crowds quantitatively around papers today - arxiv is great, but 1990's era web design).

> This one managed to get 700 upvotes on HN and still be meaningless.

Agreed. This is why I don't think voting with online peramters, like down voting, will ever be viable choice; because aside from things like Cybil attacks, the reality is that Social Media has normalized and acutely optimized group think and the tribalism that often follow. For those of that don't engage in it its incredibly alarming and disconcerting how many succumb to it's practices in real Life.

What I will propose as an alternative is something that was first tried with Andreas Antonpolus' first book 'Mastering Bitcoin' wherein the chapters are each individually uploaded to Github and follows the same process that OSS does, wherein commits and corrections are submitted to alter the books ultimate maintained version, and never really being fully 'finished' and can be amended and annotated as needed to suit the updates that follow (eg: Segwit or Lightening Network) or in this case perhaps a replicated experiment that provides a larger sample size. Replication in Academic Papers is nearly non-existant, despite the notion that Peer Reviewed (especially in STEM) was to be a the critical component that made it invaluable.

This could also effectively undo the walled-garden-extrotionist model that afflicts Academia's Peer Reviewed model and foster more interactive and International work without being present in a University. Samples or specimens may need to be more tightly controlled and transported, but this could effectively be done over night if the Will exists for little to no money in anything other than training.

If the International University model is undergoing mass disruption and shifting toward a mainly online learning platform, this too could help mitigate these glaring problems and have a Global Repository for ongoing research.

Its almost stupid not to do it at this point given the MANY pitfalls that its current model forces down our throats.
Just like anything, there are limits. I can empathize on your point about libertarianism, but in the case of a public health crisis versus individual rights, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Our government got that half-right and half-wrong, in my opinion. They did right by closing things down and creating ways enforce social distancing and masks protocols. They did wrong by spending more money propping up businesses as opposed to making payments directly to people. The extra unemployment benefit is a boon to most, but it runs out far too soon. The $1200 stimulus was far too little.

We need to incentivize not working, thus not spreading the virus, in the short term. We also should take this opportunity to force the Great Unwinding, let value-less businesses fail and the market return sane levels and not these QE-fueled, post-2008 crazytown numbers.
MacOS absolutely does this.
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/153379/how-do-you-...
On the other hand, I don't want any web browser on my phone. I want it for maps, messaging, calls, and alarms. Nothing else. And yet I literally cannot uninstall Chrome.
Not according to every statistic I have seen.

https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2020/06/12/amid-protests-maj...
I would say swastikas have much more universal POPULARITY, and that Microsoft or Hitler don't get to define their meaning globally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
GNOME is based on X11, which _very_ much grants programmatic access to the clipboard to pretty much any application that asks.

Seriously, has anyone complaining about this actually paid any attention to how clipboards work on their OSes before this?
Neoliberal in the last 30 years meant corporation shedding any sense of Moral decency or obligation to its country and citizens. And sell its soul for the cheapest labor. This is how you end up with American companies purchasing hairs from Uighurs in concentration camps in China.

Neoliberal in the last 30 years meant laughing and deriding your fellow citizens because they lived in a state that was hollowed out by globalization and money concentrating in the states that exploited cheap labors.

Neoliberals are dead? Thank goodness!!! We welcome back nationalism
You're using winblows, you gave up your rights as a user already.
> Someone was criminally prosecuted because he insulted Erdogan.

No they weren't. He was never prosecuted - an investigation was opened after a complaint by Erdogan and then dropped before charges were laid.

From your own link:

"Erdogan then filed a complaint alleging that he had been insult" and "The prosecutors in the western city of Mainz said they had not found sufficient evidence to continue the inquiry against Jan Boehmermann."

Additionally:

"Mrs Merkel added that the authorities would move to repeal the controversial and little-used Article 103 of the penal code, which concerns insults against foreign heads of state, by 2018."

Which was done[1].

Seems a pretty good example of a functioning democracy.

[1] https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/service/cabinet-overt...
The one glaring difference from previous pandemics is that we are not quarantining our sick people from other members of their household, instead choosing to enforce "stay at home" orders. I'm not sure how much more evidence we need that this is a bad idea, particularly in multigenerational households.
Also very interested in this. Other social media platforms seems to be devolving into a negative feedback loop of echo chamber tribalism and outrage. HN is still pretty good, but even here there can be a lot of noise to cut through.

One thing I've been thinking about lately is a discussion forum that is highly curated, featuring only comments from a whitelisted group of approved posters. Essentially a hybrid between journalism and the best of online commenting.
> that an officer’s subjective fear of a minor wound from a dog bite

i _hate_ shit like this. i have very strong opinions on the militirization of cops in america being in opposition with individual sovereignty, but when you write absolutely, obviously idiotic things like this it just destroys the cause. why are you forcing me into a position of defending my enemy because you cant stop yourself from using blatantly false... lets say hyperbole.

dogs are dangerous. theres no part of your body you can give a dog to bite that doesnt have a high probability of causing permanent damage on everything but the lightest, most timid bites (assuming we're talking about 30+pound animals).

you might as well say "an officers subjective fear of minor stab wounds". dont be obtuse. there are many problems with officers being directed into peoples backyards authorized lethal force with legal permission to murder people and animals, but none of them are the officers fault.
This is a good one. Unfortunately given they are subject to Reddit’s new draconian content rules, I feel like it’s a dead man walking.
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Took part last year, this competition was a lot of fun!

Bleeding edge research, very fun to see your agents training, and lot of interesting ideas to explore.
Additionally of course Google Translate is a proprietary service from Google, and Wikimedia projects can't integrate it in any way without abandoning their principles. It's left for the reader to enter pages into Google Translate themselves, and will only work as long as Google is providing the service.

What is the quality of open source translation these days?
Plenty of governments around the world took extreme measures, for months, to contain the virus, and saw massive economic damage in their country as a result of the measures.

So your American-centric, politicized explanation is misinformed.

Also, the US had more than three weeks of lockdowns.

>>and decades of being socially unprepared for a crisis such as this.

What kind of social preparations would have prevented the economic cataatrophe that occurred?
No one has been "taken down", Scott removed his blog himself. The community response to what was likely to be an enthusiastic article has been absolutely pathological.

What is really being objected to here? Being noticed by a wider audience? Does the SSC community not believe that it can stand up to wider scrutiny?
No you're not alone. I also recently tried Edgium and I think it's a really nice browser. However, I'm going to keep using Firefox cause FOSS and whether I like the new Edge or not is besides the point. I don't like it when Microsoft changes things in an update that clearly only benefit them.
So far we are not digging more mass graves. While there is still some time for the lagging indicator to catch up, there doesn’t seem to be the massive deaths expected even though we have spikes.

The states caused our deaths. New York and others shoved the elderly (an at risk population) into nursing homes. This isn’t due to good or bad responses from the Feds. The state governments are what killed us. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/opinions/steady-death-rate-co...

Ultimately the disease was going to infect us. The only question was “could we slow the spread of the disease in such a way that we don’t overwhelm the medical system?”
Also the grammars of English and German are pretty similar. How well would it scan in other languages? Perhaps “well enough” is sufficient.
I tested out 20 Email Verification companies to see which one performed best
I've been bouncing from service to service for years now and wanted to just figure it out for myself which service is actually the most accurate.
This will be one of my argument about changing the current master-slave or blacklist-whitelist terminology in tech.
Ask HN: What's the 'slow news' version of HN?
I love reading HN (at least) as much as the next reader, but more generally I also enjoy (even if I don't always manage) the concept of 'slow news' - the weekly or monthly (or further apart) reviews that distil what actually mattered.

HN is a weakness of mine on that front. After any day that I didn't check the top submissions at least a few times I'm worried at what I might've missed. I used to have an RSS feed of everything that gained at least x points (x=75 I think) but it was too much, and not really because of the value of x.

What's the 'slow news' way of getting (a proper subset of) HN-style content?
That's a lot of words to concede that it wasn't based on reality, as the other poster said. :)
Not quite. Homer actually accepted the deal to be bought out by Bill, and then yes, Bill's goons smashed all of Homer's stuff. When Homer queries what's going on, Bill says "Well, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks," and laughs.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H27rfr59RiE
They do not poke fun at everyone who tries to do anything. They poke fun at self-important people who have latched onto progressive ideologies once they can gain something from it. They poke fun at crowd madness. They poke fun at hypocrites. The comment was a response to the perfect case in point: Caitlyn Jenner. The public face of trans women and 'Woman of the year', who didn't even believe in gay marriage.

The average South Park episode has Cartman representing the extreme of some issue, and the issue is mocked. But there will also be a foil, possibly Butters or Stan, who represents the core of the issue, ignoring the hyperbole surrounding it. This character is the one who succeeds.
> A few years ago, they found a custard apple seed carbon dated to 1800 BC at an archaeological site in Northern India [1]. Researchers still have no idea how it got there.

Seed dispersal has been extensively studied, so I’m confused by this paper. I took a glance at it and noticed it said nothing about birds or water. In the case of Hawaii, one of the most isolated archipelagos in the world, many plants arrived by water and birds. Wild strawberries in Hawaii, for example, have been traced to the Pacific Northwest, and are assumed to have started from the passing digestive tract of birds flying over the volcanoes from that direction. More recent research has given rise to a new theory of seed dispersal mutualism between plants and animals, since seeds passing though bird guts have an almost 400% increase in survival, due to various survival benefits arising from their storage in the digestive tract.
The US has massively increased the amount of testing it's doing. It has some of the most widespread testing out there. Your media just kept on continually moving the goalposts on testing for stupid, partisan reasons whilst intentionally misleading you all about how America compared to the rest of the world.
A functional snark detector would be a billion dollar idea.
File renames are atomic. This is a solved problem:

1. Write your updates to a copy of the file.

2. Do an atomic rename of that copy to the original.
One might say the true final Confederate flag was the white flag of surrender.
> Am I alone in absolutely loving Edge?

I'm not even giving it a shot.

It'd be one thing if word of mouth built up enough positive vibes for me to consider trying it for awhile. It's entirely another for my first experience with the latest Edge to be additional tech support requests from concerned and confused relatives in the middle of a goddamn pandemic. My mother has been a bit paranoid of Edge ever since scammers tried to get her to use it when Chrome blocked the malware she was being tricked into running - so Edge suddenly trying to take over her computer with no obvious way to close out of it made her understandably concerned! Fortunately we were able to muddle through it despite me not being able to see her screen over the phone, but this is another reminder that I should be strongly considering trying to switch her to a different platform, and poisons my perception of Edge to it's very core.
The rules saying to treat other people like human beings?
We did delay but we have to double down: let things run it’s course.

Reversing now and keeping things closed will have far worse devastation in the long run
I suppose that’s pretty reasonable, but from what I have seen causing trouble from people, I really don’t believe that your view is shared by the majority of people causing the outlast against these symbols. I think either already, or in the near future, when someone makes an innocuous OK symbol, it will simply be interpreted as a symbol they are an even worse and more blatant racist, how dare they.
Would you pay $300 for an item costing $150 if you use the item to make something more than $300 of value?

Didn't think so.