skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is killing the elderly and those with co-morbidities. Any "spike" is barely a blip.

I’ve been seeing this ageist and eugenics-like language coming up quite a lot lately and it’s really disturbing to me.

Why is it OK that hundreds of thousands of people are dying because they are mostly older? Should we amend our laws so it’s OK to murder anyone above a certain age, because they’re elderly so who cares?

Why is it OK that people with pre-existing health conditions are dying because they have these conditions? Should we never provide any health care services to people with any comorbidities because their lives don’t matter?

You may think you’re being rational by deciding these people have little to no societal value—survival of the fittest! they’re maximised their contribution to society!—but this seems like a maladaptive coping mechanism: minimisation[0] in order to avoid confronting the fact that, yes, this is actually a big problem and no, it’s not really OK that hundreds of thousands of people are dying needlessly due to a communicable disease. (Nor is it OK that government has failed to step in to protect those whose lives and livelihoods have been disrupted.)

These are human beings. They have families. Their deaths cause needless suffering, and that suffering goes far beyond just one old person dying from a preventable contagious disease. Humans do not live in vacuums.

It’s also a tragedy that other people—who are statistically unlikely to suffer any direct long-term consequence of infection—are suffering as a result of restrictions set on movements and activities to try to save lives. That people lose their livelihoods and have to go hungry, though, is a failure of government.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimisation_(psychology)
Right, that's one of the projects that seems to be a nightmare to maintain and you'd want paid moderators for because its just so much...
> and continue his work without forking it

This is how you get in the same situation as uBlock.
Not necessarily. It's all supply/demand driven. Just because there's a sudden increase in money available, doesn't necessarily mean everything is going to inflate in valuations. Only things that are in demand will inflate.

Take it this way: If everyone who received a stimulus check this year went "Awesome I'm going to go buy 30 turkeys with this stimulus money!" - The price of turkeys would skyrocket as the demand for turkey's skyrocketed with all the additional money available, but the supply of turkeys didn't proportionally increase. However, the price of shirts would remain relatively the same as the demand didn't skyrocket for shirts. And this effect applies to foreign currencies/foreign stocks... as they're just another thing you can trade dollars for.

This is also why CPI is a garbage metric for inflation. It only tracks certain things, it doesn't track things like stocks or real estate...

Today people mostly have what they need. With all this additional money they received, most go "where do I put this money? Eh may as well put it into stocks..." And they buy stocks that they think are stable and good investments - and only those stock valuations inflate.
Finance is totally relationship driven (and 'honor systems' isn't really a good example of it). My bank waives fees on everything because of my personal friendly relationship with my banker. They gave me preferred terms of my mortgage rate because of my formal relationship - it wasn't just the product of a formula at the end of the banker's computer screen.

I know they'll do all sorts of shit for me because of the hard (account age, $$) and soft (personal) relationship.

But my point is more broad - API agreements come to mind as an example, just because that is a space I've played in prior jobs. "But the API Ts&Cs say you can't do xx but they are doing xx". Yeah, they have a relationship and got a dispensation.
>The minute there was technology available that allowed people to see and hear through walls privacy died.

JFYI:

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

"Happy goldfish bowl to you, to me, to everyone, and ..."
This is so unbelievably messed up, reminds me of Black Mirror.
A site like Amazon is always going to be better than a local shop if you already know exactly what you want.

Local shops offer human curation instead of algorithmic recommendation, and create situations where you can stumble into something that you would have never even thought to search for.

If this isn't a way you like to shop that's fine of course, but it's something that a lot of other people enjoy. Personally, I loathe algorithms that recommend things to me based on what I've already consumed, and certainly hope we don't ever lose our local bookstores.
It also disregards info after a + like:

validemail+ignored@gmail.com

You can sign up for sites like:

validemail+facebook@gmail.com

and it will still reach your inbox fine but be very obvious if your info is sold or stolen.
Much of that misinformation is also made with far cruder tools than a well-trained GAN. People will be fooled by what they want to be fooled by. Remember how Republicans thought Nancy Pelosi showed up drunk to some political event because someone just slowed down the video? Or the whole wave of cleverly-edited "expose" videos on ACORN and Planned Parenthood done by the Project Veritas guys? The reality is, anyone who believed those videos already had a negative opinion of those organizations and people that jived with the lie they believed.

It doesn't matter if Nancy Pelosi wasn't actually drunk, she's a lunatic anyway!

It doesn't matter if Planned Parenthood wasn't actually selling body parts for profit, they're baby killers anyway!

It doesn't matter if ACORN wasn't actually telling pimps how to file taxes, they're Obama lovers anyway!

The problem is not that it's possible to convincingly falsify video evidence. That's the kind of problem you need to deal with as the judge of a courtroom, and courts already know how to deal with manipulated and falsified evidence in other contexts: strong monetary and criminal penalties. However, we're talking about the people at large, who are not unimpassioned triers of fact but people who have strong opinions that they are angry about. The court of public opinion is not an impartial or fair court, it is a cacophony of angry people shouting into the void until society gives them a perceived win.

Look at QAnon nonsense: 4chan convinced a good chunk of conservative America that Trump is fighting a global child cannibalism ring by just writing a bunch of incomprehensibly long-winded stories. People aren't stupid, they're angry.
It seems to me that traditional media has not been algorithmically promoting QAnon or Militia groups to their viewers and that difference is extremely important.

Holding broadcasters accountable is easier than holding "narrowcasters" like Facebook accountable because you don't see what narrowcasters are promoting. But when you do find out you see that it is things that broadcasters would never push both for ethical and commercial reasons. This is important to consider.
Thinking about it another way, consider the poor usability and experience of WebEx/Lync and juxtapose that to Zoom -- Zoom just works without any friction.

A future Zoom-killer app would need to provide that much better service.
> "Sunday Sunday Sunday, Come on down to the Slam-a-torium and watch Zuckerberg cage-fight his own employees!"

Sorry, these sort of headlines remind me of WWE wrestling ads.
For Pete’s sake! The concerns and themes expressed in Shakespeare are the same as what we often see in modern media. The human condition doesn’t change much over the centuries! Why do you think it’s so bad that we continue to examine things like power dynamics, privacy, loss of identity and terrorism (all that Gibson touches upon) through new settings or against updated backdrops?
It is fine if you want to try to block duplicate emails, but you should always continue to use the original. But yes, it has false positives and false negatives. I don't think I would call it "broken".

But at the end of the day doing this kind of comparison probably raises more questions than it solves.
This.

I don't like it anymore than anyone else, but hate filled bile is profitable. Hate filled bile can earn you money. It can earn you votes. It can earn you power.

While FB may not care about votes or power, they are in business to earn money. They have expenses, as HN User gavman alluded to. Until better ways to make money present themselves, we can expect most social media firms to flirt with controversy. Because things haven't changed much from the newspaper era with respect to the bleeding doing the majority of the lede-ing.
oculus is not the FB platform. and, as pointed out, even that is not restrictive
Yeah. Hope this thread doesn't get spread around to much, seldom does good come from half the internet piling into one issue.
Hopefully its more single issue trolls. They're new, low karma accounts and HN is going to be a target for proletarization.
I remember the JetBlue aircraft that was having trouble getting its landing gear down. It struck me that they had live TV. So the passengers could watch live news video of their own plane trying to get the gear down.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBlue_Flight_292

Edit: Interesting tidbit from the Wikipedia page:

"Screenwriter Zach Dean was also on the plane, and while contemplating his mortality resolved to write a script about mortality (which eventually became the film Deadfall)."
I agree, opam and dune are a great combination. Probably one of the easiest tool-chains I've used for any language.
I know a FreeBSD core committer who is convinced that volatile is good for thread coordination.

Yes, he is wrong.
it's only fair
You are very badass.
We eventually went back to the terminal and departed about 5 hours behind schedule. I'm not sure if we got a new plane or the engine issue on the original plane got resolved.
There is a great breakdown of his interactions and timeline on twitter by NYT or WaPo. I'll find it...

There is also no evidence (in his immediate past) or leading up to the events proving he's guilty of premeditated malicious intent.
Do you know where I could read more about this scheme?

How do they guarantee that they will actually provide the energy at a given time? Are they pairing wind with another power plant?
That's just "Load/Store Architecture" though. RISC machines are usually load/store, but so are a bunch of other things, like GPUs and such. Hardly unique to RISC.
You shouldn't be suspicious!

Not all data is best graphed starting at zero. Such as graphs with negative and positive values or ones intended to show differences in values where the magnitude of the changes are substantially less than that of the values.
Interesting to hear another story of someone finding space in a crowded market segment.

> I was working for a company a couple of years ago and we needed a tool to do retrospectives and the existing solutions we found were not designed well and didn’t work all that great, not to mention the bigger solutions costing a lot of money to use for a relatively small need that we had. I set out to build a simple, affordable solution that looked good too.

...

> Retrospect has come a long way since the initial launch about two years ago, we have provided more permissions, more functionality, and improved the experience. The future has a lot of potential for new features and growth.

More features and more integration... Seem like most products work towards becoming the next complex, do-everything software, only to be replaced by yet another "simple" solution without the endless bells and whistles. They both have their place, but sometimes it's hard to find a simple software solution whose owners don't aspire to be the next big complicated solution. Perhaps I'm reading too much into interview...
You probably had a nice 401(k). But they're not required to be nice.
Yes, but there’s some asymmetry in this case because one side of the spectrum is reaching conclusions that are exceptionally inconvenient for them while the other end of the spectrum is reaching conclusions that justify as little personal sacrifice as possible. It proves nothing but there’s reason to be suspicious of people who always seem to reach a “rational” conclusion that directly benefits them.
So what happened in Kenosha was tragic, and I don't think the issue is as cut and dry as either side would have you believe.

But my concern is I felt like this was inevitable, and will continue. I know the BLM protests are politically charged, but the problem is that there are many people's whose livelihoods and business are being permanently put out of commission and communities that are being devastated by the the looting, rioting, and protesting.

Sure people use the "they have insurance" but imagine for a minute that your entire house burnt down, does your life just magically resume because you have homeowners insurance.

Ultimately I feel like this will become more and more common because individuals are feeling as though the government is failing to portect them and as a result are willing to take matters into their own hands.

Again I'm not trying to say I disagree with the movement or the concept of police reform but I am concerned about the fact we have been letting the rioting and looting continue unchecked for months now. The fundamental reason for the government to exist is to protect the life, liberty and property of an individual, if a government fails to do that then citizens will look to doing it themselves.
I am curious what facebook would look like or represent if it were up to the employees?
Most people in companies are not IT people or IT security people. The ones raising concerns are often only heard, when it is too late.
How often have I heard silly arguments against safer tech like: "The people are not IT people, they want something simple!"
People from Illinois pronounce it, ill eh NOY or ill uh NOY (even though proper french would be ill EE nwah) and get pissed when people from Wiscaaaahnseeehn pronounce it ILL uh noise. It is clear they are aware of this.

But people from Missouri (especially southern) may pronounce their state as misery. Having known someone who moved away from there, I'm assured this is perfectly accurate. Biases may have been involved, but 'state of misery' jokes basically write themselves.
I don't know if you answered my question: what is 3D Touch? Sure, it might be convenient, but it's hard for me to imagine without knowing what it is.

> What trackballs offer free scrolling?
My trackball (Marble Trackball from Logitech) offers it, with a little configuration. Effectively, you're holding down a button and using the ball as a scroll wheel, letting you move left and right. I can imagine that any trackball (since by nature they have the "ball") with some configuration could be used for free scrolling (at least, well, on Linux).

> And something done with a keyboard is by definition something not done with a mouse.
We scroll on a mouse. We can also scroll on a keyboard (with arrow keys). So they are interchangeable sometimes. I know Windows also has a feature to emulate the mouse with arrow keys. So this isn't inherently true, unless I'm misunderstanding.
100,000 year climate cycles are not what anyone was referring to in earlier comments when they said “climate change”. We are talking about the changes over the recent centuries which have been driven by co2 emissions.

It was a misleading change of topic.
Technically, you do not need to exactly follow OAuth methodology for sessions. You are right. However, there is one common problem with sessions and OAuth, which is token theft.

In order to detect token theft, we use the general principle of changing tokens on each use. So theoretically, we can use one random string token, that changes on each use and solve the problem in case of sessions.

The problem with that is that it's not scalable since for any request that changes tokens, we need to synchronise calls to that request (https://supertokens.io/blog/the-best-way-to-securely-manage-...).

In order to make things scalable & have this security benefit, we use two tokens. One that doesn't change, and one that is used rarely, but changes... This starts to look like OAuth now.

Pushing it further, we can name those tokens access and refresh tokens. So while OAuth and sessions are different, we can pick specific concepts from OAuth and apply them to sessions.
I had and lost a big response I typed up. And I don’t have the time to replicate it. But thank you both for such thoughtful discussion. This is giving me a really good broad sense of the topic. I’ve been implementing a game
Boy emulator for fun and it’s raised so many questions.
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Totally agree. I live in Seattle and my family and I pre-COVID would visit Portland at least once a year, sometimes twice.

Powell's was always a destination every single time, even if only for an hour with many books in hand I'd simply never have found or thought to look for online.
Usually there are lots of forks on github because for some reason the Github UI has always led people to think that they should fork a repo even when they don't plan on contributing to it. This is also true of the "Fork me on Github" banner that has been around for years -- nearly all the people who click on it don't need to fork, they just want to leave a star or look at the README or something. Empirically I believe that for the majority of github users it is the case that the majority of "their repos" are forks with no added commits.
> plenty of devices I've seen that ignore DHCP DNS, NTP and domain. Even if they should respect them. DoH is no exception to the general type of behaviour that already exists.

Wait, your solution to buggy devices is to treat the bug as acceptable and deploy it more widely?!
I think it's also important to have empathy and understand that people will have different risk estimations, based on their own personal experience. Too often our default is to judge everyone who is more conservative than ourselves as overly paranoid and everyone less conservative than ourselves as overly cavalier.
There's a simple solution here- stop the police from murdering black people. If a house burns down it can be rebuilt, but you can't rebuild the lives ended by white supremacy in our police departments.
No, this effort pre-dated the development of that spec.
EVERY religious group in China and recent policy changes have seen this escalating.

https://bitterwinter.org/chinas-new-measures-for-religious-g...
What's the benefit of lumping all these companies into a single bucket and calling it "tech?" Looking at it as an investor, it's a distracting term. When the pandemic hit, did Uber start making more money like Amazon? If more countries pass laws like the GDPR, will that hurt SalesForce as much as Facebook?

The pandemic is a great test for how we look at the market. If two companies fare wildly differently in an extreme event, were they every really in the same category? If you own a department store, don't "diversify" by investing a lot in Amazon. You'll just get a double whammy whenever disposable income is hurting.
Think of dataframes (from Pandas library) as excel tables on steroids.

Underneath dataframes are a collection of Numpy arrays with ton of extra methods on top.
By having more than a middle school understanding of what "free speech" is about. There is no "original idea" of free speech, there never has been, it is a concept that is used to refer to a wide variety of legal frameworks across different times and places. In Germany a person's free speech rights do not include holocaust denial. For most of the history of the United States free speech has been more limited than it is today; it was not all that long ago that we had the "equal time" rule that required media outlets to host both liberal and conservative commentary. You generally do not have a right to organize an insurrection against any government and whining about free speech will not convince anyone otherwise.
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I agree completely. Our local authority said that successful distancing means cutting interactions that can spread the virus by 90%. My wife and I decided we would be happy cutting back 95% personally, and that was easy to accomplish by the basic changes: no movies, no live events (plays, concerts, sports,) no parties, no bars, no restaurants (we've had a couple, literally two, patio meals,) groceries mostly delivered, precautions in public spaces (masks, distancing.)

With all those changes, we meet the target pretty handily, so we don't worry much about our interactions with close friends. We default to seeing people outside with decent distance, but we don't sweat it if a friend comes over without a mask and asks to come in, or if they sit a little closer than expected. It's not like a competition where grinding out the hard last few percent is going to make the difference between winning and losing. It's more important to stay sane and help our friends stay sane so we can keep this up as long as necessary.
I see Chainalysis as free marketing for Monero.
It's disheartening to hear people refer to anything and everything as 'racism' to the point it's lost all meaning.
I had a dell xps 13, and was not at all impressed. It ran arch alright, at least.

I had a surface book 2 which was actually really nice, but broke down within 2 years, and best buy couldnt get parts to repair it anymore and just refunded the money (laptops are one of tge few things I will always pay for an extended warranty).

Currently, i use an hp spectre x360- a windows partition for gaming, and pop_os for everything else. I was very unimpressed trying to get a few different linux distros to run well on it, though i was trying some strange combinations. Pop_os just works. Literally no tweaking needed whatsoever.

Lenovo's 6th gen carbon x1 got rave reviews, but there was a lot of mixed messaging about newer models and arch, so I never really bothered when i was last looking.
Tell Google assistant "I have battery issues"
See what happens :)
Cyberpunk 2077
I've had Mac wifi adapters that didn't like certain access points in the past (a specific Ubiquiti AP firmware revision circa 2014 comes to mind). Not sure that's still an issue nowadays, but you might want to make sure your AP firmware is up to date.