skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but truly I bet you what you are referring to are people's opinions which are 'extreme' but at the same time probably can be lumped into groups of like-minded opinions with others - they are cooling towards their chosen echochambers but the same concept applies - because they get directed based on said data to these fringes because the data groups them towards them in suggestions
this is particularly true for people who have international ties. you become subject to the social cooling mechanisms of very different cultures that may conflict with each other.
The OP blog post taka about that. It's called ACR
We're already going bankrupt with military spending and bailing out corporations and billionaires.
Stuff like what the UK is trying to do with a DNS based "black list" of bad things on the internet? Futile game of whack a mole.

Authoritarian regime that forces all ISPs in a country to run networks funnelling all traffic through a government run central point where they do DPI and flow analysis on it (Chinese GFW for instance)? More of a real threat.

For instance there is one ASN in Iran that has transit connections to the outside world. All ISPs are forced to be downstream of it. https://bgp.he.net/AS12880
It should hopefully show, that once you get blacklisted on the SCS system, getting off it and living a normal life is extraordinarily difficult.
> hardly any ill effect.

Surely you're being sarcastic? There's this minor issue of inflation which results in constantly paying more $ for the same goods.
https://www.idemia.com/innovation/morphowave

Their product uses visual light to take the 3D scan (hence the green glow) but their patent filings cover a lot of related scanning techniques.
the problem isn't necessarily with _accurate_ data and math, but with reductive statistics that paint with broad brushes. Statistics inherently remove nuance, which is fine when the nuance is unimportant to what you're measuring, but not when it's actually important.

The example about cancer doctors in TFA is perfect. "more deaths = worse doctor" is a poor metric, because advanced cases have higher deaths in general, leading to a disincentive to try to help people with advanced forms of cancer. That's a terribly perverse incentive, and one that should be avoided.

Fundamentally, a lot of this stuff comes down to a lack of nuance in metrics, leading to some nasty effects down wind.
That's because trains in the US are incredibly slow. There is nothing inherent in train travel the requires it to be that way.

If you visit a country that actually invests in train travel you'll see it's a fast, convenient way to get around. The most underrated aspect, IMO, is that it's not a hike: the train stations are slap bang in the middle of every city. That's even true in the US, it's just the rails between the cities that let the whole thing down.
I see the note at the top of the post that it's meant to be extreme and satirical, but a lot of people actually try to substitute Slack for a meeting or quick zoom call and I think it's incredibly counter productive. The efficiency of verbal communication should be prioritized any time a Slack thread goes beyond ~10 replies. Slack is where work goes to die; not meetings.
The route is seriously dumb -- goes straight to Milwaukee and then south, versus going directly through Madison. Badger bus already does MSN-MKE cheaply and quickly, and there's almost no chance that this routing could ever be time-efficient versus the direct route.

The route in Madison was supposed to go to Monona Terrace, which is singularly inconvenient for most people, limiting the catchment basin. Getting out of Madison requires huge numbers of grade crossings, limiting speed, and disrupting traffic.

So this route was never going to be anything other than a slow drain on the treasury, and SW wisely killed it.
It's inherent to the current state of US rail, though.
Hmm, maybe I am wrong, looking at one popular home improvement site, most of the toilets, including single flush, are listed as gravity-fed rather than siphon. So if the problem really is non-siphon toilets in general, it would apply to single and dual flush ones, at least the ones sold by this popular US retailer. (Lowes)
It took seemingly forever, but eventually we (mostly) got HN commenters to stop saying "LOL Betteridge's law of headlines!", along with a Wikipedia link as if we hadn't heard it a hundred times before, to every article. Hopefully we can get to that point with this stupid quote too.
Thanks. While I wrote the OP I had 'reusable standardized glass jars' as a possible end goal in mind. I'm heartened to hear this goal is feasible. The question remains on how to move the status quo from 'myriad shape plastic containers' as is common in US to 'reusable standardized glass jars' as apparently is common in Germany. This was also common in the country of my childhood due to poverty: there was a single type of yogurt period, thus standardization was trivial, plastic was rare and glass was expensive, thus reuse. In particular as recycling around here is a sad joke. People are harangued to perform the ritual separation of 'recyclable' stuff, which then the garbage company either sends thousands of miles offshore to unclear fate, or just transports it exactly to the same landfill as the regular garbage. Forget about reuse.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/21/us-plastic-r...
They may well be doing their jobs, but it's important to acknowledge that India's accusation of "interference in domestic political debates by entities funded by foreign donations" is substantially correct. They are indeed aiming to do that, and while it may well be good that they are, India's not the first country to be unhappy about it.
The jargon for this in the US is "general education requirements" or "gen ed"

For example, a CS student at Stanford would meet these requirements [1] by choosing from a wide range of courses such as "Jazz History", "Conservation Photography", "Contemporary Moral Problems" and "To Die For: Antigone and Political Dissent"

People who like this system would say it produces a well-rounded education - surely nobody would want students of politics to be ignorant of statistics, or students of engineering to be ignorant of ethics!

There are a variety of much more cynical interpretations available, of course...

[1] https://undergrad.stanford.edu/academic-planning/degree-requ...
In the sense that nobody is obligated to buy an iPhone (and can jailbreak one after buying it, for that matter), it is up to the user. For the consumer, they have more choice if Android-style "app store but also side-loading," phones that lack an app store altogether, and iPhone-style walled garden coexist.
Non-paywalled version: https://archive.is/IxHw5
If you want to save money on your military budget i can find a few hundred overseas bases i could recommend for closure.
Some links without comment:
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/ipfs-npm
- https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/apt-on-ipfs
- https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-02-14-improved-bitswap-for-contain...
It is exactly because of social cooling that you heard so little about white supremacy for so many years. The tacit endorsement of one famous person (see if you can guess who!) helped to somewhat raise the ambient temperature for it.
Extensions get different rules.
Vultr is having major downtime
But you can get that ratio with any caloric deficit - no fasting hgh required.
> I would say that there the value added of a college over an online reading list is marginal.

If you can read through Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy and get everything out of it without help good on you, but I certainly couldn't.
It's not just the valve getting clogged. The design on all horizontal models of these that I've seen have very flimsy plastic rods connecting the buttons to the valve mechanism. When the rods inevitably break, the valve somehow fails open.
Opposite experience here, I've never seen a siphon design in the US (single or dual flush). I would have thought approximately all our toilets (outside of high-pressure toilets in non-residential settings) had a rubber flap at the bottom of the cistern or the same hole with a dual-flush mechanism.
Given the nearly unlimited number of places one can find explanations of why printing more money causes inflation, I think it's reasonable to assume that, at worst, it _can_ do so. As such, throwing caution to the wind and just printing as much money as you need because "it wasn't a problem in <that country>" seems risky.
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Also Canada, Mexico, and almost all of South America. Only a few other countries elsewhere, none of them developed.
Tangent, what's the best way to use Nix-like features in a mainstream distro? Eg, i've been evaluating PopOS recently because i want a Mac equivalent OS. Ie, i don't want driver/config issues.

However one problem i never see solved from any "normal" distros is reproducible systems. Hypothetically if i used Nix as a Desktop my config would be bulletproof. .. but then i'm going through a fair amount of work configuring everything when, as established, i want none of it.

So i (as a user) seem to want some middleground between no effort installations / configurations of my Desktop, with reproducible snapshots/states/configs/something.

You can use Nixpkgs on other distros/OSs, so maybe that is enough. But is there a better way?
Because they create tools governments will use to restrict legitimate speech and freedoms. As history has shown they do.
Then there is still monopoly on that content-specific platform.

Think of it as if philips screwdriver producer forbid using those screwdrivers with posidriv heads (it is less efficient but works).

And there would be those that would say: "this is their product, they can dictate how it can be used".
Anything which doesn't try to process the sql file but instead just passes it to the db to deal with, e.g.

psql -d mydb -f migration.sql

I use a home-built solution that does this (160 lines of go), doesn't seem very exotic to me and did not require lots of work as there are only a few requirements for a working solution: Unique ordered names for migration sql files, use the db to store metadata about migrations run, use the db tools to run migrations.
FWIW as a current _Political Science_ student, my only marxist professor thus far was muzzled by their department...
Not to be supportive of American militarism, but calling China or Russia (Number 2 and 4 in spending) American allies seems to be actively misleading.
Exactly - you can pick one boring color and not have any flashy/animated/cycles.
54 sleeper car actually can be full. Basically no way to fill the Amtrak car, as people don't like to share the bedrooms.
Russian trains used to have 3 bunks, which improved the economics.
The ideal that gave birth to the university in the form that we recognize it was tied to the fact that until very recently, the university was an intellectual playground for the wealthy. Most of these folks either didn't need to work for a living or already had good jobs waiting for them via well-established social connections among their fellow elite.

The vast majority of people need to work for a living and need practical skills that others are willing to pay them for. The idea that the university should exist for "learning for the sake of learning", and the idea that "everyone should go to college" is incompatible. You can have one, you can have the other, you can't realistically have both.

If you want to learn for the sake of learning (I know I do), there's never been a better time to do it. The average person with a $200 laptop and an internet connection has access to more and better information than a Harvard graduate student did 50 years ago. We need to rid ourselves of the notion that college == education and that education == college. At this point a college degree is mainly just proof that you are diligent and were able to follow directions for four years while meeting deadlines.
You forgot to add:

"We need to think of our devices as small hyper local billboards with untapped potential"
Important notes: No data is available on actual illness according to the article, which means that while there could be an immune response, that does not mean that symptoms were observed. This study also does not regard the impact of T-cells, which were determined to mediate the immune response to COVID [1]. The paper acknowledges this shortcoming.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-020-00436-4
It's important to distinguish between sterilizing immunity and protective immunity here. It's pretty common to get re-infected relatively quickly by a Coronavirus but previous studies showing the same thing also showed that these re-infections didn't cause disease, that is symptoms. And since transmissibility is generally correlated with intensity of symptoms there's reason to believe that vaccination still helps with that, though not as much as we would hope.

And our few examples of known re-infections with SARS-2 don't seem to have caused disease the second time around.
I saw something in his face that suggests he was a fearful person afraid of loosing control, and looking for an unhealthy way to deal with that feeling.
>When a model produces an unpalatable result, that doesn't mean it is biased.

Absolutely, but there is no admission, from what I can tell, from ML or predictive [buzzword here] companies that bias is a thing, or even could be a thing in their systems.

>All these algorithmic fairness people are saying, once you peel back the layers of rhetorical obfuscation, is that we should make ML models lie. Lying helps nobody in the long run.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but that is not at all what I am saying as an 'algorithmic fairness' person. I am saying that we need to ensure there are strict oversights and controls on the building/execution of algorithms when making substantive decisions about human people.

For example: It's okay if an algorithm predicting student success says that all the minority students on my campus are at a higher risk of dropping out. That is a data point. Historically, minority students drop out at a higher rate. Sure. Not great, but it is factually true.

What is not okay is for the 'predictive analytics' company to sell their product in conjunction with a 'tracking' product that limits minority students' access to selective admissions programs simply because they are selective, more difficult, and, historically, have a higher percent of minority students who drop out.

I guess what I'm saying is that ML models shouldn't lie. But they also shouldn't be seen as the truth above all truths. Because they're not. They're just data, interpreted through the lens of whoever built the models.

Every human carries a bias, everyone. It's how we define ourselves as 'self' and others as 'other' at a basic level.

Therefore, everything we build, especially when it's meant to be intuitive, may carry those biases forward.

I'm only saying we need to be aware of that, acknowledge it, and ensure there are appropriate controls and oversight to ensure the biases aren't exasperated inappropriately.
Consoles couples hardware generations with appstore, the iphone store has one appstore for all hardware generations. That is a huge difference. There is no iphone3 appstore where I can buy iphone3 apps, in fact iphone3 stopped being supported so likely there are many apps that you can no longer install that worked just fine before. However there is still a ps3 store where I can buy 14 year old games and they still work with no maintenance required from the developers because their ecosystem doesn't break things.
The global context is more complicated, but (as my international friends are fond of reminding me) the US has outsized cultural influence on what other countries consider best practices.
I censor myself on Wechat.

am American.

If you're paying attention you know that you might want to skip the "vocational bootcamp" when you need to do business in China some day. Because you might not graduate!

Let's just skip to the end: Every rebuttal I have to whatever lecture you want to give me could be construed as a whataboutism and could also be construed as simply true. There are various groups of people that would get re-routed outside of the respected due process paths in the US for things they said too. We also consider those problems. Its just not a different enough user experience for me to single out China.
I've never seen a siphon flush toilet in the US, only drop valve toilets. A siphon design looks like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flush_toilet#Siphon-flush_me...
So long as universities are charging tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars for degrees that employers are requiring, university will always be a jobs program. It's very sad, particularly since it's not a very good one at that.
This is a tired line that needs to die. It was popularized by Thatcher in 1976.

Take a look at Norway's finances from that date until today.[1]

Norway decided that the profits from natural resources belonged to every citizen of Norway, not just the companies that landed the leases. The profits were invested in infrastructure, including education, and conservatively invested in external markets as a hedge to internal economic crises. The results speak for themselves.[2]

America has more natural resources, more workers, more opportunities to make sensible economic decisions that provide for the well being of everyone. Instead we have an oligarchy that write laws to benefit themselves. The claims that it won't work here because market socialism "doesn't work", or because America is "too different" are pure bullshit.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/NOR/norway/gdp-per-cap...

[2] http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/norway/
> really what I want is JSON with comments and multiline strings for the "human reader/writer" use case

Sounds like you want json5: https://json5.org/

It also has the "Arrays may have a single trailing comma." feature which is a pain to not have in json.
I know it’s likely the vaccines are actually going to help against Covid, and I really hope the experts are right, but I can’t shake the feeling that this new world is simply the new normal.

So far, expecting things to turn out semi-shitty seems to be the way to go. At first our national health agency didn’t take the threat seriously. Then they took it very seriously but didn’t think we’d see a second wave because our restrictions worked. Heh, now we’re heading toward a winter with high amounts of new restrictions that are targeted at the second wave that is unlikely to lift until sometime next year. And this is in a country that has so far handled the pandemic better than most.
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We've been printing money hand over fist since 2008. Inflation has been been normal. Classical economics no longer correctly models reality.
Not going to get much competition if folks keep arguing for public utility regulation of App Stores. Consent decrees and regulated markets never work out the way you’d expect.
While technically true in this age of social distancing and increasingly online everything it probably should.

Youtube is essentially a Monopsony for monetized Internet video. So this will make many previously accessible channels inaccessible to the deaf and hard of hearing.
they already put ads on their 1400€ phones, so this is not surprising.

hopefully it ends badly for them on the long term
That's the entire thrill of the "Anarchy servers" twitch streams - to not get caught even if you're famous.
IME, the people who complain about SD cards failing on raspberry pi bought cheap cards that were intended for bulk storage, not frequent writes or running an OS card. Regular SD cards are not SSDs.

On my network of random Pis and other stuff, I use only high-endurance SD cards which can withstand lots of writes have durability much closer to SSDs.
A good example of JSON stupidity. Square brackets introduce an array, whose elements should be of consistent types. But actually this is not enforced. It only enforces the ordering of elements, which adds quite a bit of information! So this is a list (called an array).

Curly brackets introduce an "object", whose fields are considered unordered. So you are not supposed to have multiple "tag". What happens if this is the case ... unspecified!

JSON is probably worse than XML here.
Ok. Got any examples of woke western publications expressing the opinion that Hindus/idol-worshippers are "beastly and low-life"?
This feels like.. too much. It's great to have all of these plans, but this is years of development at which point the original problem is likely to have changed. Especially when there is only a single very early alpha with no major product growth, this feels like Star Citizen but for ActivityPub.
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If you don't think indoctrination at universities is a serious issue, you clearly haven't seen the inside of a college classroom for quite some time.
So this is "Asymmetric Nested Virtualization", then?
Assange being an enemy of the state is sufficient proof for me that Trump is not as dangerous as the left says he is.

I mean, Assange basically had 2 nukes, one with Clinton's name on it and one with Trump's name on it and released only the Clinton one because he had personal beef with her. This likely resulted in Trump's election.

Until that election, I was a Wikileaks fan. Now, I think Assange can go f* himself in prison for the rest of his life. What he did is almost unforgivable.

https://theintercept.com/2017/11/15/wikileaks-julian-assange...
>” Russian dissident Pavel Litvinov has said of AI's criticism of the US: "[B]y using hyperbole and muddling the difference between repressive regimes and the imperfections of democracy, Amnesty's spokesmen put its authority at risk. U.S. human rights violations seem almost trifling in comparison with those committed by Cuba, North Korea, Pakistan or Saudi Arabia”

That’s from a Russian dissident, i.e. someone suffering under a regime known for heavy handedness.
Disclosure: us resident.

None of those countries seem to be particularly democratic at this time, which means that Amnesty International is doing it's job fighting for people's rights.

That's trouble that human rights organizations should always be in, until the government's stop abusing their own people.
It's because this page is using "minority views" as a code word for "ruling class threatening views." Which has always been the case. A minority view that doesn't threaten business interests will face little suppression (see: white supremacy)
You can turn off the smart features on a Vizio TV by declining the ACR terms during set up. It essentially makes it a dumb TV.

Best part is, the TVs are essentially subsidized by ACR and selling your data so you’re getting a deal by not paying the “data tax.”
Very useful tips!
it's sad that this is downvoted, since it's also true. For example, AWS emits its response as XML, and it's a chore for boto to convert that to a json response. If you don't want to use boto (say you're not in python) and you prefer getting the response in json, you might be out of luck.
this is the kind of privacy discourse I am interested in. Whether an individual can find my ssn, location, credit cards, or whatever personal information is not really what I am thinking about when I think about “protecting my privacy” but rather reducing my data emissions that compose these ratings. in my experience it’s hard to get this across to people who are not familiar though, always get the “I have nothing to hide :) what are you trying to hide?” response. Will try this “social cooling” framework next time. maybe a little less daunting as an entry point than “surveillance capitalism”
The very one! Thank you.