skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Influence" is a big word.

Context and details matter. As does intent. Saying that all discussion is really "influencing", isn't useful, imho.

In the context of our discussion about Facebook, IMHO these are the defining qualities specific to Facebook:

1. Massive, global scale and scope - behavior via Facebook can influence culture, politics, etc.

2. An algorithm driving the bus, as opposed to people (albeit people choose what the algorithm does or doesn't do).

3. Facebook's primary motivation in influencing is to profit via increased user engagement - they currently have no financial incentive to care about the particular nature of said engagement.

4. Facebook's poor track record when it comes to acknowledging critique or concerns around the power its platform has, and Facebook's denial that it should exercise a degree of responsiblity (or be legally held accountable in some way) for said power.

5. The somewhat covert nature of how Facebook functions; as this documentary shows, while how Facebook functions may have been "in the open", it's not something most non-tech folk are aware of, and it's not something Facebook has been, in good faith, forthright and transparent about.

6. The particular power and impact of computers/the internet as a medium of mass communication, which we are still learning about.

6.5 As a subsection of item 6, the viral nature of the internet/social media which means stuff spreads very quickly, unlike other modes or media of human communication.

So sure, a parent "influences" their child, a teacher influences a student, newspapers influence people, and so do Coca-Cola commercials, but not the same way that Facebook has "influence", which I've attempted to describe above.
All of current consumer Gen4 drives are just rebadged Phison E16 drives.
Yeah it's going to be a challenge, but you could distribute it the same way you do testing with drive-up/walk-up using air injectors like they use in the military. It's far simpler than a nasal swab and we already test ~1M/day. If it's part of a workplace requirement (first responders), you're likely to do everyone over a week at work anyway. It's unlikely that even in developed countries the size of the US with multiple vaccines there is going to be more than 50M doses/mo and one should expect it to take 6-12 months to initially distribute the vaccines. Note that it's only ~1.5M/day and that a single (2-4 lane) drive through station open 10 hours could pretty easily do 1000/day. I'd hope there are at least 1500 stations to cover the US to ease transportation difficulties (roughly one per 30 zip codes). The idea that the entire US couldn't reliably mail out samples on dry ice (enough to last ~3 days) to 1500 locations a day speaks more to the sad current state rather than what is possible in a normally functional mail system.

Bikeshedding on individual vials and syringes for less developed countries borders on silly since most other vaccines aren't distributed that way. Vaccinating the 4B people in less developed countries is going to be harder, but it's doable.

The real concern should be whether enough people will choose take the vaccine and whether vaccine (or post infection) protection will be durable (or neutralizing).
I would say that it doesn’t make a difference. It’s more likely to sentence someone to death who is considered “them”. As evidenced by the increased likelihood that a minority will be sentenced to death in the US and how prosecutors go out of their way to get all White jurors when prosecuting minorities.

https://eji.org/news/supreme-court-georgia-prosecutors-illeg...
Your comment is a symptom of a larger problem. Sprints make the assumption that you've got some set block to "work on these things". It's just not true. Business is a live environment and priorities change quicker than that for both good and bad reasons. You should be asking the question "Is this something I should be doing" EVERY time you take a task, so doing that once a sprint isn't often enough.
I have sympathy for his situation; I doubt there are many parents in 2020 who aren't struggling with these issues. I certain have and continue to every day. The difference between me and Miguel is I don't expect or want Apple to fix my parenting problems.
> What's not an opportunity is locking down the entire world so children can't screw up.

Massively agree. It's also not good to teach children that computers are locked-down things you can't control.
Just want to point out that your post make it sound like the tobacco-pibe shaped licorice is strong licorice. It is actually some of the mildest you can possibly make.
"source available" isn't a great term, since it's relatively strongly associated with "you can look but not touch it" licenses.

A dedicated term probably makes sense. Some other licenses in this space have used terms like "fair licenses".
Do most people say “let me look on a search engine” or “let me Google it”?
You can always truncate the content of the feed to have people visit.

For smaller sites which don't have new content every day, an RSS feed means I'll come back, no feed means I'll probably forget about it and never come back at all.
It’d be worth trying to communicate a better design to him.
Unit testing is a waste of time IMO, only functional tests are worth the effort. My entire experience with unit tests these days is fixing something because the implementation changed and the behaviour didn't. They're a waste of time.
It's interesting how we can use age (selectively) as a discriminator, but within a certain range and in certain contexts, it's seen as "bad" to discriminate.

Most wouldn't say the concept of a retirement age is discriminatory, nor the concept of age of consent or minimum age to purchase alcohol, or pricing insurance rates differently based on age.

Somehow this application of age discrimination seems to cross the line for many people, though. I'm genuinely curious as to why.
“Alexa, I’m getting pulled over,”
This suggests younger cohorts need robust efforts to protect their rights when continued curtailment is attempted by those who aren’t offering up sufficient compensation and recourse for the impacted.

Can’t expect a generation to go through two economic catastrophes (GFC, Covid) without support and expect positive results. Things will just go from bad to worse.
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I do read show and ask every Day. Also Indie hackers for same reason (motivation and inspiration)
Not OP, but IMO:

Apps that are pay-to-play but are not 100% upfront about it should either be properly labelled as a demo or rejected. (Of course, before that we need a proper demo mode for freemium apps). I would disable for kids but not for me.

Ads are ok, but apps with ads should be properly labeled and there should be a way to avoid seeing those apps in the store. And ads include the "install chains", of course. I would 100% disable those for me and for the kids.

Notification spam should be dealt with the same way we deal with email spam: transactional is ok, for unsolicited marketing messages there should be a way to permanently unsubscribing. And mislabeling marketing as transactional should be grounds for rejection. I wouldn't ever accept marketing myself or allow kids to receive.

Privacy violations should be grounds for rejection, period.
Standups in low performing teams degenerate into managerial oversight and "reporting". That's both demoralizing, and forces people who hate it out of the company.
Standups in high performing teams are usually less useful because it doesn't really matter what process you use. Your best bet is one that lets them collectively agree on what to do, and then get out of their way.
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Hello,
I'm a teacher I need help choosing between zoom, google meet or something else

I need to see my students while giving my lecture and I don't know what plateform allows this.
Please, where is it possible to share my camera with my students, so they can only see my camera
But I want to see them all at once on gallery view mode. And no need for the students to see each other. They'll only see me through my camera
Is it possible ? or what software should I use ?
I've tried to try ( :D ) both google meet and zoom but I don't see how I can do this!

THANKS A LOT
Learning the hard way can be stickier. But it can also be devastating. STDs are a very permanent reminder to learn from the mistakes of others. (Not advocating sheltering kids unnecessarily.)
It’s often legal to discriminate by age (that is literally what the drinking, driving, and smoking age limits are), but I believe that the government must have a compelling interest in the restriction. This one seems extremely shaky to me, but as is common it’s likely that a lot of people will end up paying fines since they can’t afford to fight an order that may not stand up to judicial scrutiny.
That's exactly why they're doing it. They want to have their cake and eat it too.
People who receive social security actually vote, unlike the young.
Scandinavia isn't a country.
I agree with this. The whole "value" proposition of cryptocurrency is that there is no governing authority, no undo, no takebacks, the code is the only law. If that's _not_ what you want, you should 100% be using a bank instead.

All that "rescuing" people who have fucked up does is make the system seem more artificially reliable than it is. Providing a failsafe to people who have very deliberately and explicitly eschewed failsafes (at extreme effort and by subverting the system itself, no less) seems rather pointless and paternalistic.
Is the implication here that subdivisions of humans on attributes should all be equally valid or invalid, irrespective of the attribute? Because that seems silly.
Is it Spiro?
A good chunk of those aren't necessarily false claims, just ones that haven't been proven true. The study is misinforming us about the misinformation, and NYT is misinforming us about that.

Maybe it was bats. Seems like the jury is still out on that one. Even if it's wrong, I think Gen Z's could be forgiven for conflating it with Ebola in the origin story. Mind you, most of them are going to say "bats? I don't know, let me look that up" in real life. In a survey you have to go with "uhh, I do remember hearing something about a deadly virus that came from eating bats..."
Perhaps they should vote.
I was a big believer in the semantic web for years, but there is a load of things wrong with it from conceptual problems to practical ones.

For starters the Semantic Web requires an enormous amount of labor to make things work at all. You need humans marking up stuff, often with no advantage other than the "greater good". In fact you do see semantic content where it makes sense today. Look at any successful websites header and you'll see a pretty large variety of semantic content, things that Google and social media platforms use the make the page more discoverable.

This problem is compounded by the fact that ML and NLP solved many of the practical problems that the semantic web was supposed to. Google basically works like a vast question answering system. If you want to find pictures of "frogs with hats on" you don't need semantic metadata.

A much larger problem is that the real vision of the semantic web wreaked of the classic "solution in search of a problem". The magic of semantic web wasn't the metadata; RDF was just the beginning.

RDF is literally a more verbose implementation of Prolog's predicates. The real goal was to build reasoning engines on top of RDF, essentially a prolog like reasoner that could answer queries. A big warning sign for me was that the majority of people doing "Semantic Web" work at the time didn't even know of the basics of how existing knowledge based representation and reasoning systems, like prolog, worked. They were inventing a Semantic future without any sense that this problem has been worked on in another form for decades.

OWL, which was the standard to be used for the reasoning part of the semantic web was computationally intractable in it's highest level description of the reasoning process. If you start with a computationally intractable abstraction as your formal specification, they you are starting very far from praxis.

For this reason it was hard to really do anything with the semantic web. Virtually nobody built weekend "semantic web demos" because there wasn't really anything you could do with it that you couldn't do easier with a simple database and some basic business logic... or just write in Prolog.

A few companies did use semantic, RDF databases but you quickly realize these offered no value over just building a traditional relational database, and today we have real graph data bases in abundance so any advantage you would get form processing boatloads of XML as a graph can be replicated without the markup overhead. And that's not even considering the work in graph representation coming out of deep learning.

Semantic web didn't work because it was half-pipe dream, and not even a very interesting one at that.
At 21 I was out of university with master's degree in physics, working full time and providing for my family (however small) and making all kinds of life choices. Where would I be in your book?
Great way to give a bunch of young adults a criminal records. Get that rap sheet established early.
The story posted here reports the implications of the ban on college sports, but this may be a more informative article on the ban in general:

https://www.dailycamera.com/2020/09/24/boulder-county-issues...
You should double check that theory with a specialist. Just in case.
Well Facebooks content is human.

Also, what about books? Ideas? Film.

IMHO people are too complicated, and situations too situation specific to be able to generalize about how someone is influenced.

Sometimes people ignore the advice of those close to them, sometimes they don't, and, it probably depends on the subject being discussed, the particular relationship between the people, the state of mind of the person in question, and so on.
I bought one. My Blackberry Key2 is getting a little worn.

Join the weird fringe phone crew.
I love how these companies are fighting the “good fight” but if I don’t accept their cookies with my Adblock on... oh well I can use the page.

Even tried to only accept necessary cookies but nope... not working

I just feel it’s a bit ironic. :D
An extreme rarity, probably.
And don't riot
If you quote me, please don't omit the context. Which was:

How about instead you were denied the right to own a smartphone? But were told it's okay because hey, you have a console! It's a perfect substitute!

A game console is not, as I'm sure you'll agree, a substitute for a smartphone. Which is what the (intentionally ridiculous) hypothetical was illustrating. The analogy of the parent was Coke v. Pepsi, but that falls flat because one is near perfect substitute for the other (for the vast majority of people).

>You are repeatedly conflating the iPhone with all smartphones.

The parent said "the iPhone is a console, end of story" which means all smartphones are consoles.

Right?
I'm a big fan of Carrd for knocking up pages quickly.

https://carrd.co/
If they must learn the hard way, better it be on smaller problems than big ones. Better to lose your Roblox account to a scammer as kid than your bank account when you're an adult.
I would expect it to matter to Zoom.
Old enough to choose to die for their country in the military but not old enough safely hang out with friends?

Age limits make sense in some contexts but we need some consistency.
This is evil.

This strategy, ignoring human rights for a second, increases the proportion of at-risk individuals who must get sick before herd immunity is reached.
If you have a population of 100 people, and the HIT is 20% (assume homogenous mixing), of which half your population is high-risk and half is low-risk, you can enforce universal lockdown and end up with 10 high-risk and 10 low-risk infections, or you can encourage just the at-risk to isolate and end up with like 18 low-risk and 2 high-risk. It should be self evident which course is better.
Unfortunately the world has been tricked into viewing “herd immunity” as a dirty word as opposed to an emergent phenomenom.

Arbitrary and capricious regulations like this aren’t just ethically wrong, they’ee bad public health.

Unfortunately the disastrous Jacobson v Massachusetts decision laid the groundwork for this stuff. The Jacobson decision was later used to justify forced sterilization of the mentally retarded, as just one example of where a collectivist, “for the greater good” mentality inevitably takes you.
The law does define the concept of “protected class.” It includes race, religion, gender and yes age (but only above age 40).
You're conflating not knowing (or caring) what's going on with a meeting.
You absolutely should care what's going on with a team, because if you're work isn't affecting each other there's little reason for you to be a team. That communication shouldn't be every day though, it should be constantly available to whoever needs it at the time they need it.

Software can achieve this, and it's what my startup is trying to make happen. The key is to unify status-as-in-state with status-as-in-active-communication so the two can inform each other.
I don't know where you've been working, but that hasn't been my experience. Shrug.
i currently own a small cattle farm in rural australia and you are correct collars really are not a good solution not only do they rub on things but they love chewing on things especially rubber or plastic wires and electronics they would 100% chew on each others collars. We already use rfid ear tags which are small and unobtrusive and they still manage to occasionally rip those out, rubbing on things. If you were mustering a herd on a large holding say a few thousand hectares this could possibly be of some value at least in initially finding the herd however at least in my country if you are on a multiple k hectare property there is a good chance you wont have any sort of mobile coverage, also cows are creature of habit they have there daily grazing route they eat one place rest in another depending on time of day and weather conditions farmers typically know this.
I will also add that the value proposition I have seen with other smart tags that are actual ear tags that do temp / heart rate etc etc does not add up at least with my small holding. the price per month of $5 per cow would eat into the already somewhat slim margins, the data is great but it isn't anything i would not notice by visually checking stock daily.
im very skeptical on the faas model in general.
Farmers at least in my country would balk at spending that sort of money a month that doesn't directly add very much in the way of weight / condition per month, at least from a beef cattle stand point. (perhaps on a prize bull you could justify the monthly fee)
So I have one question with UBI if anyone can answer. What is to stop people every election cycle from simply voting in the people who promise them the most money? Couldnt that spiral our of control?
A waste management map from my county (Utah County in Utah) reveals that the three waste management districts that were servicing the two universities in the area were absolutely the red hot spots for covid-19. The two University presidents wrote a letter jointly telling the college students if they did not shape up The universities would be closed. Our governor applauded the letter and I don't think he was wrong. I don't care what anyone says. An 18-year-old is an adult and they need to take that responsibility seriously.
It's two cups.
Probably not at a party with others your age.
And after the geese, there are the scientists: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/5418462023483022/
This ^^^ we do a 30 minute standup every morning (remotely) and it's mostly the same except we get about three mins per team member. It's also a good time to bring up issues if user stories/acceptance criteria aren't well enough refined after coming out of draft and that gets taken to another, usually short meeting with the PM's individually.

In that 30 mins we also handle bug reports and assign blah blah blah.

Those 30 mins are 100% focused to stuff people are working on, except for an initial 5 mins or so of chit chat. It's massively efficient and massively productive. So whatever the writer of this article was doing, it certainly wasn't a standup. I'm not big on prescriptive process, but a well organised standup is unbeatable.
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Ah but that’s the irony. In the US the young overwhelmingly vote for the side that supports these authoritarian shutdowns. I remember when the authoritarians were on the right and the freedom lovers on the left. Oh, how times have changed.

(Compare South Dakota, right-leaning and NEVER locked down, to my home state of California, which is so democrat-leaning that we’re a de facto single party state)
> how much better he would have done it and how the new president should have done things. That's bad

So if a man with experience of running a country expresses opinions about running that same country that would be bad in your book?
> cilantro (people who are not used to it says it tastes like soap)

The soap taste of cilantro is attributed to genetics:

https://www.britannica.com/story/why-does-cilantro-taste-lik...
Interest rates have historically been their biggest tool, but the buyer-of-last-resort things seems both better at propping up the market (probably worse at spurring the actual economy, but again, all we're talking about here are investment returns!) and unlimited in power in a way that interest rates are not. Interest rates are bounded at 0, or at least start behaving oddly beyond that, while just buying stuff is bounded at having all of the stuff, and if the Fed has all the stuff you no longer care what prices the stuff has because you don't have any of it.
I'm pretty sure they do think this way. That's basically what this article is about.

I've learned you have to distinguish between what is known to be true with near certainty, what is considered plausible, and what is at the edge of possible. The history books focus on the first, but that doesn't mean archeologists aren't thinking about the 2nd and 3rd. Speculation on what is possible is what helps them decide what projects to attempt.
> If the Semantic Web had a chance to grow before the giants of tech emerged, we might be looking at a vastly superior internet today.

I worked pretty closely with people doing a lot of semantic web work in the 2006ish era, before Google and ML dominated tech. Even then it was nearly impossible to find a single, useful example of the semantic web in action.

The reasoner a la something like OWL is the true heart of the semantic web, but that never got solved at the scale necessary for the web. For any practical problem or even interesting side projects semantic web technologies didn't offer anything that you couldn't build better using existing tools.

People made RDF data stores because they wanted to use RDF, but I don't recall any interesting demos of semantic reasoners.
> After living in several developed and developing countries, I think both sides will suffer.

I do agree, and, apologize if I painted with overly broad brushstrokes.

I do think food supply issues will be a bigger issues in poorer countries. To use the coronavirus as an example again, while I haven't read in depth, I've seen various news headlines talking about starvation rising in the world right now because of covid-19; and increased hunger in the U.S. It affects everyone, but the poor the most.

But yeah I feel you; I too take my food security less for granted than I have in the past.
I can't imagine why. 10x engineers tend to either find a blend of their work / life balance or are so productive and organized that they have surplus time-in-day to burn.
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The problem is while technically Jacobson v Massachusetts is supposed to declare unreasonable restrictions unconstitutional, in practice it has allowed forced vaccination, forced sterilization, and forced detention. Oops!