skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cause is all mixed up in cause and effect. Fox News exists because there are people who want it. It amplifies what they believe and gradually pushes them to believe more extreme forms of it, but it's just one part of a huge ecosystem -- politicians, right-wing radio, religious leaders, etc. The common factor all of those have is the population.

Facebook doesn't have control of any of those things. The only thing it can control is itself. But it can at least reduce its own part in the way the people and the media perform for each other to be even more extreme. And Facebook is in a rare (if not unique) position to be directly in front of that population: it can't make Fox News go away, but it can put a flag in front of Fox News stories.

The "cause" is ultimately the individuals, not the media or the politicians or the wealthy think-tank funders. They don't have mind control. All they can do is appeal to people with what they already want to believe and amplify it -- a process that's been going on for at least four decades. Reversing it will take at least as long. I don't expect FB to solve it, but I do think it's a good idea for them to not allow themselves to be part of it.
I presume “jail”
In this context derived from FreeBSD jails. The Free/Open/NetBSD systems are generally easier to harden against attacks than Linux distros (in part because the are full operating systems and not “kernel distros”). I wonder if security consciousness could be the impetus needed to get users looking at *BSD for desktop use in high security environments.
As soon as I hit a medium post, I hit the Pocket icon and switch to The pocket viewer.
In the US context who would get voted in using the Australian Senate model is an interesting thought.

GOP and Dems would obviously pick up the majority, but I could imagine a fishing/hunting coalition (with possible NRA support) picking up a few seats, a few religious groups similar to Family First doing the same, and a whole lot of others. The scary thought would be a QAnon supported candidate gaining enough votes for a seat.

The point with Bandt and for other 3rd party candidates is that these models give them a chance as it removes the issue of split/spoiler votes and people are free to vote how they want but fall back on who they would prefer from a major party.
It's a good point, but:

If you don't want to hold the fiat, you can always send taxes on a continual basis to the collection agency (most people do this with each paycheck, via the automatic withholding).

In the case of a rapidly inflating fiat currency, you would make the trade, since you are probably going to lose value holding the dying fiat.
Also from the same blog

> We know that playing nice with others isn’t exactly your MO, but if you can’t offer people an open platform that brings everything together into one place and makes their lives dramatically simpler, it’s just not going to work.
Tell that to the politicians.
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Because what he articulates is contradicted by his behaviour on a regular basis. Scott is an intelligent guy, if he wanted to stay anonymous he could. He clearly doesn't, so he is at the very least insincere.

There's an increasing culture on the internet of wanting to be able to speak to large audiences without being personally held accountable for what is being said, treating pseudonomity or anonmity as a right rather than as a personal practise.
This reminds me of a talk Greg Young gave called "The Art of Destroying Software".

https://vimeo.com/108441214
I think forcing a team to ask these questions is more important than making the document perfect. I've had too many conversations that amounted to "a React front-end, Node backend, Mondo data store is the perfect solution to this and every problem," with no other options chosen.

There's also value on having some this kind of documentation when you're bringing on new people. The project I'm currently working on started two years before I got here, and I would love to have a document that explained why, for example, we're using Active Directory instead of some other authentication mechanism.
>you had to install basically all or nothing.

but from the link you gave:

>BUT, if you are willing to invest a little effort, there is a business specific tool you can use. It is called the "Office Deployment Tool". You will have to edit a simple text only "XML" file that tells the tool what you want it to do.
Why do you think that? Where does fedex, for example, not deliver?
Great fun! As a non-native speaker, I was confused by the "Print its contents" exercise. I tried things involving /dev/lpr.
This attitude continues into job interviews: the thought that, if you work hard enough and have enough talent, you should get the job you want. In reality, you might just not be a match.
Definitely didn't cover COINTELPRO but the Philippines and Wounded Knee were definitely covered. We rarely got past 1960 so most of the more recent US actions were uncovered.
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It always amazed me that you could strap a space shuttle to a modified 747 and ... fly.

The whole idea of "just strap it to another flying machine and move it that way" seems like something my 4 year old would come up with.

It is clear my mental model of 'things that can fly good' is deficit when we see things like the AN-225 and etc.
It would be great/dystopian to, in the future, figure out what particular people are good at by analysing their brains.
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Couldn't agree more)
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No, it isn't that high resolution. I'd have to read paper to know what they mean.
>If code is the bricks and mortar, then these docs are the blueprints.

That analogy falls apart quickly. Design docs aren’t specific enough to be analogous to blueprints.

You can give a set of blueprints to 3 different construction firms and get fundamentally the same building. Try giving design docs to 3 different development shops and see what happens.

The problem is that the only way to get to that level of specificity is with code.

Design docs are closer to something a city planner would produce than to something an architect or civil engineer would, and they should be treated accordingly.
Many universities’ core product is exclusivity and hard-to-get-into status signaling. Increasing enrollment disrupts that value.
> ... permitted to allow a baby to cry sometimes...

Nothing I said contradicts this - as long as you have a bond with your child.

If all you want to do is lay on the ground yourself and cry and you aren't meeting the child's needs, that is neglect and it is trauma and it does affect the child.
The dosage is in a shorter amount of time (within seconds instead of months). I don’t think the radiation averaged over half a year is comparable to the head CT.
You don't need drugs for that. Set a reminder for tomorrow, two hours after waking up. When the reminder comes up, list all the actions you took, and mark those where you made a conscious choice. Most actions will not have been the consequence of a conscious deliberation:

- waking up when the alarm goes

- hitting snooze a few times

- getting out of bed with the right leg first

- wearing the blue shirt instead of the black one

- lifting your foot to avoid the doorstep when stepping out of the front door

- breathing, for that matter, or your heartbeat, your digestive processes, etc.

Honestly the 20%-30% number is way off. I would guesstimate something like 1-2% conscious decisions max.
Does anyone else find itwire.com articles incoherent to read?
What was the difference that yielded the positive experience?
You are also describing reasons why Sweden went for this strategy - their availability of space, limited physical contact etc. The argument is whether the strategy is working or not for Sweden vs a full lockdown in Sweden and not whether Sweden's strategy would have worked in other countries.
But this misses the point of getting food for delivery. If cooking is one of your hobbies you will very quickly be able make food better than any mid-tier restaurant in your city (i.e. the kind of place you would probably order take-out from). It's honestly not that big of an accomplishment because you have so many advantages over line cooks when you're just cooking for yourself / your family.

Once you're at that point getting take-out isn't about getting better food for a special occasion, it's paying for something better than frozen that you don't have to cook. Ordering take-out is a function of how tired I am, not the quality of food I want.
there is also https://github.com/akiraux/Akira , still in early development
largest by payload - unless the Stratolaunch gets uprated.
It's too early to say the Swedish strategy failed, because the Swedish strategy was "do badly at the start to do better later", and "later" isn't finished yet.

On the flip side it would be possible to say it succeeded, if it did so much better that they are already better off than the rest of the world, but I don't think we're really there yet either (and the epidemiologists point is really just that there are signs that they might be there in the future).
Look at the Nikkei until 1990
Hmm - I've tried meditating for 5 or 10 minutes with limited success. Is meditating for more than that qualitatively different?
I am not aware of any megacorp (FAANG or otherwise) that doesn't wind up sounding like your experience above. There is a certain degree of ownership and autonomy that is only possible when you work with a smaller team at a smaller organization with fewer policies and regulations around you.

If you are looking for excitement (aka stress/anxiety/massive payouts) then a startup might be more your speed. If you want a easy-going "don't rock the boat" experience, then I recommend sticking with what you have right now.

Stability in your current job may give you the ability to explore other interests. If you are in a startup and fully own a product, it is much less likely you will have the time & energy to pursue other interests.
nice, will bookmark it for later use when there will be more content :) thanks for the effort!
I came to therapy very late in life and it was similarly opaque to me. I was very fortunate to come across someone who listened to me talk about my life and distilled it into insights I had never made on my own. I can only assume they've seen so much and treated so many patients they have a deep well of patterns to start with and it's mostly of matter of seeing where you fit plus whatever is unique to you.

I've always had a good relationship with my mother but it was only though my therapist I even realized I did in fact have some attachment issues. Anecdotally when I mentioned that to my aunts they immediately starting sharing stories about mom. Family knew all along but they remained silent until I asked for detail. The point is for both the therapist and family just talking is enough to prime the process of discovery. You won't start with a giant epiphany.
I was thinking this too, but on closer scrutiny I don’t think it’s true unless the “goal” of code is to be rewritten. If the goal of code is to work as well as needed and no more, then it won’t move in that direction.

The “goal” of employees in a corporate environment can be to be promoted and get paid more, on the other hand, leading to the Peter principle.
>>> hard to grasp/understand

I truly believe anyone is capable of grasping QC. Minimal physics required. Math no higher than linear algebra. Q# Quantum Katas are ideal for beginners. Mariia Mykhailova is a terrific instructor. And you can scale up to arbitrary numbers of (simulated) Qubits on Azure Quantum when you are ready to solve real world optimizations / simulations ;)

Just want to link up another resource currently ongoing: Qiskit Global Summer School. Currently 2000+ students enrolled and materials are identical to bootcamp given to IBM Quantum Interns

https://qiskit.org/events/summer-school/

Best of Luck ;)
Considering the head of the Commission and all the Commissioners are chosen by the governments of the EU nations and voted on by the Parliament this is a bit disingenuous.

It's a bit like saying that the UK in undemocratic because the civil service drafts the laws.
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I like this - in general, I’m a fan of this (my job is survey research). There are many different approaches to getting better results than most reviews get. Personally, I’d love to see a max-diff approach to reviews.
What's your general thought on adapting one of the bigger design systems with thousands of hours of improvement & polishing vs building one from scratch?

I do think there is need for a common vernacular in these components, however I think that too often teams start from scratch when they could pull something off the shelf, and swap out some colors.

List of corporate sponsored design systems:
https://designsystemsrepo.com/design-systems/
How? A bunch of people died. Compared to Finland, Denmark, or Norway it looks like a disaster.
I feel honored that my city has been chosen as one of the beta sites for the new Gestapo. I’m surprised the right is so welcoming of unmarked, unnamed federal agents but surely the plan is for this all to end well. It’s definitely not meant to distract from the 140,000 dead (and rising) or the massive ongoing recession or his friend on trial for sex trafficking.
their twitter has various screenshots: https://mobile.twitter.com/akiraux
One of them being complexity and and how fast you can move on new features. Adding features to a spec'd standard is a horribly slow process, this is the reason the developer of Signal decided against decentralization. You end up building XMPP, and that doesn't go so well if your specs are not very explicit. You can see this in how unreliable OMEMO is with multiple resources connected.

The Web is already a mature platform and has not actually made things more interoperable. It replaced a lot of the previous internet infrastructure that was (IRC, Newsgroups, SMTP which still somewhat clings to life)
Oh, I have seen that clip so many, many times. It's just about the first thing trotted out. I need not read that paragraph yet one more time, life is too long.

It ignores things like, "What number of those ninety-four just continued to be miserable?" They didn't kill themselves, but it doesn't mean that they were not still suffering. It might well mean that they were bludgeoned with the "just think of how devastating it will be for your family" bit until they submitted to a life of quiet desperation. It's not a measure of life being worth living at all.
This is the ultimate sales pitch for REST - no big blob of third party libraries needed, just basic development skills and an understanding of a simple serialization format.
Find it odd that so many people hate Teams so much. For me, it works considerably better than using Slack did in my previous position; the only downside for me personally was the lack of a Linux client initially, which is now present.

It's also considerably better than Slack for mixing other communications in, which is widely used in corporates: video calling, screen sharing, and the fact that you can hook it in with phone systems. Given it's effectively replaced Skype, that's not really surprising. Prior to teams being introduced at my current company, we were using a mix of Jabber, Cisco WebEx, and other ad-hoc tools in various teams. Now we can use Teams to do all of that.
U.S. agrees to pay Pfizer and BioNTech $2B for 100M doses of Covid vaccine
As far as I know that's accurate. Additionally the NYT is denying they were ever planning to do so.

My personal interpretation is that Tucker's statement is more or less true and his reading off the names of everyone allegedly involved at the NYT and implicitly threatening to doxx them on the most watched cable news program in the country was an effective deterrent that caused the Tucker address story to get killed. I also believe that the NYT statement lacks candor and that their denying there ever was such a story is a face saving measure.

I freely admit there are other interpretations that fit the publicly available facts and that others may believe otherwise while being intellectually honest.

I actually find observing my own cognitive biases at work more interesting than the underlying story. I know for a fact that my interpretation is driven to some greater or lesser extent by my own confirmation bias. Sadly, being aware of one's own cognitive biases doesn't generally counter the effect. The best I can do is to try to keep an eye on the facts and at least limit myself to beliefs that don't contradict them. For example, why do I believe that the NYT statement is dishonest but the Tucker statement is honest? Firstly of course my cognitive bias runs that way. However I do believe the circumstantial evidence really does support my belief. Tucker was able to name the specific people involved in the alleged cancelled story which implies that either there was a cancelled story or he just made up some names.

Edit: Added some elaboration.
My university was using Adobe Connect almost a decade ago. It is way better than video call apps like Zoom.
Popular science has been trying to explain quantum mechanics to people for well over half a century now, and it hasn't worked one time. All we got was a bunch of woo like What the Bleep do We Know?! You need math. There's no other way around it. Any understanding of quantum mechanics or computing that is not fundamentally rooted in mathematical reasoning is worse than mush.
Design docs should be written in Markdown and stored in git. The advantage here is that the git hash can be used as a legal reference, for example in the case where a contractor is expected to implement the design.
The issue was debated to death when the initial story flared up, but the strongest counter-point I saw was this:

Publication of his name in a NYT feature would have made a huge difference to the awareness level of his identity, vs just being able to be sniffed out by determined online sleuths, and would have dramatically altered his identifiability with respect to his clients.

I can see it both ways and don't care to argue the topic any further, but this position deserves to be put.
All those companies have the single point of failure in the policies of the US government.
It's helpful, I have spoken to maybe 5 companies of the current batch who were introduced through the YC network and are working on problems that would help us succeed.
I'm in the process of moving from InfluxDB to TimescaleDB myself and can't wait to get rid of the hoops I have to jump through to get InfluxDB to answer some basic questions, mostly stemming from the fact that InfluxQL doesn't support boolean expressions. Something like 'SELECT MAX(temperature) > 10 FROM...' doesn't work.
> basically requires that everyone involved be extremely experienced, and kept together as a team for years

Yep, that's the issue. Businesses can't codify that approach into a process because they can't make any guarantees around that.

Your approach is "conclave of wizards." It's a high-output approach that is the right thing for some problem domains, but (a) it isn't repeatable and (b) it isn't sustainable (if a critical mass of wizards leave the conclave, what is the company to do? Give up and shut down?)
I sympathize with the argument that social platforms are private and can do business (or not) with whomever they please, the counter argument is that these platforms are "Radical Monopolies" (https://wikitia.com/wiki/Radical_Monopoly) apropos of a recent HN thread on Ivan Illich, where the analogy for the effect of being kicked off a platform is not like Ford declining to sell you a car where you can just go get another one, but rather, cancelling your license in Los Angeles.

It's not 1:1, but if you lose your drivers license in a city like LA or non-coastal state, your ability to participate in society (find work, etc) and your social franchise in society is diminished because the automobile has a radical monopoly in American cities.

Twitter and social platforms like Facebook have definitely become radical monopolies for reputation, where if you have no social media presence, you are excluded socially. (Regarding Facebook, try find a date without an instagram page.) Facebook execs even commented publicly early on that people without Facebook accounts should be treated as suspicious.

That QAnon types are so ridiculous and indefensible is what makes them a great example for discussing how and whether to protect minority views. Twitter does have the right to do what they want, and I'm optimistic that these purges will create demand for the divergent platforms that will replace this first generation of them, but to say this right is simple and natural ignores precedents of radical monopolies that were enabled and sustained by political protection, which seems naive. The non-libertarian case for limiting social platforms ability to purge can be summed up in president Obama's thoughts,when he said, "you didn't build that."

Arguably, social platforms that rely on network effects to become radical monopolies didn't "build that," either.
>Microsoft has illegally tied its Teams product into its market-dominant Office productivity suite, force installing it for millions, blocking its removal, and hiding the true cost to enterprise customers.

So what's the core issue here? That Microsoft bundles Teams with Office 365, or that it gets auto-installed and can't be removed? If that's considered anti-competitive, is it possible for eg. Evernote to go after them as well, because OneNote is also bundled? What about Dropbox, because Onedrive is bundled?
The opposite - it demonstrates the power of inquiry using philosophy.
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I'd say that the fact that Sweden still had the same level of restrictions as they previously had is proof that their approach is working exactly as intended - the people behind it have long said that the goal isn't to push for herd immunity, but to impose measures that are sustainable in the long term rather than a short-term lockdown. Especially since many of the countries that have locked down and then opened up are seeing a resurgence of the disease, and their definition of opening up is sometimes as strict or stricter than Sweden's rules (for example, the UK bans gatherings of over 30 people and restricts restaurants and bars to table service only, amongst many other restrictions).
If GraphQL isn't viable unless I use a huge third-party toolkit, then it isn't viable.