skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people with particularly bad spending habits use debit cards as a way to enforce self-control, but there are probably much better ways of achieving that. Teenagers also use them when paying with their own money because you can't have a credit card until you're 18 unless it's an authorized user card on your parents' account. Costco used to make you pay with a debit card, if I remember correctly.

But those are pretty much edge cases. Credit builder and secured credit cards exist for people with poor or no credit.
> Several groups have learned how to weaponize information for their own gain. At first it was just ads

Weaponized information is not new. It's just usually more subtle. A few examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Marwen cast the attackers as all white and one with swastika tattoo, even though they had no such tattoo, and one was black.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hurricane_(1999_film) in addition to many other inaccuracies, shows the white vs. black match as a racist fix, which was such a fabrication that "Even Carter himself agreed that Giardello was the rightful victor.", and Giardello sued and settled out of court for damages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Accused_(1988_film) was loosely based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Araujo where all the rapists were Hispanic, but in the movie, they're all white.
Your first sentence seems at odds with the second one.
> In fact most of my higher vote comments are lower in substance (because people won't read long/nuanced posts, they want short black & white answers).

Similarly to Reddit, hn karma seems to be a lot about timing. Getting in on a thread early and getting some quick votes yielded far more karma for me than anything else.

I wouldn't necessarily say that larger comments are overly ignored (especially in the hn community); the time it takes to formulate and research them, combined with the delayed upvotes due to reading time, probably scews the average karma enough already.
> The notion that Obama is a Muslim strains credulity, and it's not a widely held belief.

Its a held belief in my family. My very mother, my uncles, and more. Whether or not it is "widely held" has little-to-no bearing on the seriousness I take it.

Since my mother believes in it, I will take the alternative fact seriously.

> What disinformation? The information you don't like, or the information I don't like?

Disinformation like: Obama is a Muslim (or Obama was born in Kenya). Surely you can agree with me that such a fact running across political discussions is unhelpful.

> but can't seem to see that big-tech's censorship is pursuant to their own political aspirations is alarming

I'm prioritizing issues. I see misinformation / alternative facts to be a bigger problem than big-tech's censorship. As such, I'll stand in support of big-tech's moves here, if it helps the misinformation problem.
Mafia is not a bunch of criminal thugs that just take and walk away, it's a social organization with its own rules that even cares about some of its members, marginalizes some, provides protection etc. Apple doesn't protect (its developers). It provides them some tools but it has shown no interest in them as humans or as entrepreneurs. Google may get a lot of hate too, but we remember that they ve built and promoted a lot of open platforms and open source stuff that stayed with us (despite their bad habit of shutting down services). Most other companies acted similarly. Apple is singularly capricious , and their primary appeal is their rich customer base, which they are waving like a carrot in front of everyone. It's only popular in US btw.
And yet every time you bring it up with people, they are quick to dismiss the notion that hand-writing something is any different from typing it other than being slower.
SeaweedFS does support erasure coding for warm data.
I guess that has more to do with sensory habituation/satiety than with attraction to breasts being a social construct.
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> I always find it disheartening that people see the propagation of 'bad' information on social-media networks as a bigger risk to society than said networks becoming the gatekeepers of all propagated information.

Who thinks this? Are you just assuming that anyone who approves of social media networks removing disinformation also thinks that is a bigger problem than the social media networks being powerful gatekeepers?
Oh cool. I just learned a new git verb today! (Previously I always used `git diff <commit-1> <commit>` but `git show <commit>` is much simpler.
Ah, I didn't know hardware keys are domain-bound that's cool. Do they open an encrypted tunnel directly to the server?
> a) You can't hold 5000 open connections out of which 4900 are idle without performance impact.

Author here. I agree. In fact this blog post only exists because a blog post on analyzing the various bottleneck around connection scalability in postgres was getting too long, so I split it out... That post has numbers showing the slowdowns:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-for-po...

There's a significant amount of improvements in Postgres' development branch addressing the - in my opinion - major source for the performance impact of lots of idle connections.

> b) Opening a new connection takes way longer than connecting through pgBouncer running on a differnt(!) box.

Hm. How long is way longer? And how high is shared buffers on that instance? In tests it's pretty easy to reach a few thousand connection establishments/second. That's not great, but also not terrible.

If the instance is otherwise very busy (e.g. due to the above issue), it can make connecting very slow, due to contention on very important locks.
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Can’t speak to their deposit account offerings (I use Chase, Schwab, and Fidelity for that), but my credit experiences with Citi were bad enough I switched to Amex exclusively for credit cards (Platinum and Gold charge cards, Schwab investor card, etc). Data point noted, many thanks.
> Apple's customers have willingly chosen this, it wasn't forced upon them.

There's a tentative (probably weak) argument to be made that the people who have bought Apple's hardware chose this. This is was simply inflicted on the developers, however. Regardless of the degree to which developers voluntarily develop for iOS, the rules by which they play are 100% dictated -- and they have no say in them at all (no free market) if they want access to Apple's 1 billion customers.
I feel like someone needs to write a blog "So you spent $100m and 500-person-years of engineering time and your tech performs worse than a minimum wage employee"

Because seriously, I understand the hope the that facebook can just automate away the actual job of running a platform where users post porn/death threats/plans for genocide, but telling the difference between "I'm gonna nail that pussy" (romantic plans for later tonight) and "I'm gonna nail that pussy" (homophobic death threat) is not only non-trivial, I'm starting to think it may be something that facebook needs to fix now rather than waiting for the tech to maybe catch up at some point in the next 5,000 years. Specifically, before the second example actually commits the murder they're threatening.
Thanks for good work with seaweedfs, I shared it with the community as was working on using it personally in our startup to replace minio.

It will be nice if you can integrate it with pyfilesystem [1]. It’s a small library providing unified file interface in python for local or cloud storage without fuse. It can already support seaweedfs using S3 API, it will be nicer to just directly have a driver for seaweedfs removing S3 translations.

I like dried crispy seaweed wafers, they do produce umami flavours, so it is a good name, reminding them. The quality of software isn’t based on name but by what it does, so don’t bother about people talking about name.

[1] https://docs.pyfilesystem.org/en/latest/
Can you use smartphone wifi to do backscatter communication with the product at the software level or do you need some kind of custom firmware to achieve this ?
> Reamde is a lightweight page-turner, but fun.

Read it a couple of times. Totally agree. This, but at a larger scale (like Snow crash) is the kind of Stephenson I love!

Thanks for your thoughts. I think I'll try reading Anathem.
This is my biggest fear
From what I heard, the change led to treating drug usage as health problem, and removing the law enforcement aspect from the loop.
The police can still refer drug users to the healthcare institutions that deal with the problem.

Another interesting tidbit is that the Netherlands did not in fact legalized cannabis. They just decline to prosecute that crime. There's no legal framework to regulate its sale, like for any other consumable good.

This leads to silliness like people in "coffee shops" being allowed to smoke weed, but not tobacco since that is regulated for all indoors venues.
Yes. 2000 IU and 5000 IU daily are common recommendations from medical groups in the USA.
This a fascinating account of Gordon Moore's early years at Shockley Labs, Fairchild Semiconductor, and Intel. He contradicts the conventional wisdom that the so-called "traitorous eight" were somehow disloyal to Shockley. As Moore tells it, he and others tried very hard to convince Arnold Beckman, who had provided the seed funding for Shockley Labs, that the company could not succeed unless Shockley was relieved of his management responsibilities. This group of eight scientists and engineers decided to go elsewhere only after Beckman refused to take action. I wonder if Beckman later regretted this fateful decision? In hindsight, Beckman Semiconductor probably would have done very well.
You seem to suffer from kettle pot syndrome.

Just because one side is wrong doesn't mean the other is right. Viz. the Eastern Front in WWII.
Jail inmates in California did that in an attempt to get released.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/11/us/california-inmates-coronav...
This is literally the opposite of the conclusion you should be coming to.

This is what a lack of will to clamp down on misinformation, and lies from the President on their platform, out of fear of being of subsequently being politically repressed has resulted in.

Twitter is twisting and contorting itself in a million knots to avoid simply banning the president's account for the damage it is causing to society, the economy, and literally human life.
> Our data on almost 200,000 kids in 47 states from the last two weeks of September revealed an infection rate of 0.13 percent among students and 0.24 percent among staff. That’s about 1.3 infections over two weeks in a school of 1,000 kids, or 2.2 infections over two weeks in a group of 1,000 staff.

If they genuinely aren’t acting as Petri dishes then yay. But I don’t understand how looking at a two-week window for a disease with a known incubation as long as two weeks can paint an effective picture. Surely you would need to look at least twice the incubation period to be able to render a realistic interpretation of the data?
Epic Injunction Ruling (partial grant, partial deny)
As mentioned in the linked thread, Safari already does this. You still get the full URL when you tap open the URL bar. Personally, that's worked perfectly fine for me. I generally don't tap the URL bar just to look at it: only if I already decided to edit it or copy/paste it somewhere.
airware?
Circumcision is rooted in the effort to reduce male masturbation and it's still practiced widely. Of course you can't enjoy some onion nips. Could lead to dancing.
I forgot to check back that comment, if you see it feel free to send me an email at contact [at] efugulin.com
Whether or not that's true, the article isn't talking about 4-5x the RDA.

It's talking about massive doses beyond even the most aggressive supplementation, much less a normal days intake.
> 1. 'Misleading Information' is a targeted category, specified only by manual intervention, leaving the door wide open for selective enforcement and biased enforcement.

The "slippery slope" should definitely be on everyone's mind as this enforcement is rolled out, but it should not stop the enforcement. Otherwise your statement becomes the "if we can't fix everything we should fix nothing" fallacy.

I agree that the enforcement needs to be monitored, and also that the enforcement needs to be done. Not mutually-exclusive. There are absolutely agreed-upon lies today: there isn't a deep state of vampire child rapists running the country. Fight me. ;-)
Twilio set to acquire Segment for $3.2B
Your are comparing one industry and one job in that industry and it is still a bad comparison. The idea that working a cash register now takes more skill than before is false. The idea that you have to now have more knowledge is false. People were not stupid back then and supermarkets still existed, and neither then nor now does a minimum wage employee need vast amounts of knowledge. The best retail employee has a positive attitude, not knowledge of how to get to the bread aisle. It is outrageous to make such a comparison and assume current jobs are more difficult or harder when advances in nearly all technology has only improved. Remember when cashiers had to do math?
My teen years were the second half of the 80s. Like a lot of kids my age, I’d sometimes seek out weird stuff outside of the pre-internet mainstream. One of my favorite books from back then was “High Weirdness by Mail”. Which was a very funny tongue-in-cheek catalog of crackpots, conspiracy theorists, cults, etc. I won’t detail all the weird stuff I got in the mail, but it suffices to say that most of it was roughly on the same level as Q.

But the key difference between now and then was: I had to seek this crap. Someone had to put together their zine or cassette or, very rarely, their full color glossy magazine. All at their own expense and then send it off to me. Ordinary people would never see this stuff. The mainstream culture was often bland but it was successful at gate keeping this kind of stuff. And this material was too labor intensive & expensive to distribute widely without the mainstream.

So it’s obviously very different now. People like my mom would have never sent a dollar to a post office box in Idaho to get a newsletter about how Ronald Reagan was a microchip controlled antichrist. But these days I frequently have to alleviate her fear from some conspiracy crap that popped up on her timeline unsolicited. Or to tell my aunt that there’s absolutely no evidence Biden is receiving antifa messages from a hidden earpiece.

I don’t know what the answer is. But the situation of widely broadcast misinformation utterly divorced from reality is relatively new. Having something like Q approach mainstream status is new. At least for Americans in the past 50 years. It’s a potentially very dangerous situation. Maybe one day, a vast majority of the population will discount what they read online without corroborating evidence, but we’re not there yet.
This is probably not about nipples. My bet would be that the machine is interpreting a naked round belly, vagina (vertical black shadowed area) and open legs in the arrangement of the three onions in the top.
There is potentially a sampling bias in who is reporting data. The author links to a NYT article they wrote that says it is volunteers for the study. It could well be districts without problems that willingly choose to share data.
"The www part of the domain identifies the address as a website. We merely use it because of historical convention. Back then, a single server served multiple purposes, the www indicated that a particular subdomain of the server was for website hosting. This is no longer true because we now have dedicated web servers."

Inaccurate.
That's not true. There are plenty of other Lisp dialects with a faster startup time - Chez, Fennel, CL, etc. You still would want REPL-driven-workflow. Practically, it's the other way around: Clojure's slow startup time doesn't matter because it's a Lisp, and no other non-homoiconic language (except maybe Smalltalk) gives you the productivity boost that "true REPL" allows, no matter how fast change/test/debug cycle is. Because it's not just about fast cycle, with non-homoiconic languages that do not have "true REPLs" you also have to think about the program's state and other things.

Homoiconicity of Lisp allows you to evaluate any expression or sub-expression without any kind of ceremony. Other languages do not have the luxury of giving you the answer right away. There's always some "ritual" involved, automated or not, but it is still required, but in a Lisp connected to a REPL, you immediately get the answers.
I'm sympathetic to automation in this sphere given the harmful impact on said minimum wage workers.

Nudity detection also includes filtering out child pornography, torture, etc.
So basically you agree. Cultural differences are challenges that cost time, money and effort to overcome. Sometimes it's not worth it.

I will also add that it's kind of sad that you imply that people who just live according to their culture are "less good", or "cheaper", or "less experienced". Price and cost have nothing to do with it. It is normal for people to live and behave the way they've been taught.
If card data isn’t property the way that customer data is, and isn’t transferable during an acquisition, then it’s hard to see how Fly Maid wasn’t in violation of the law here.

It seems like this should be readily answerable: in the event of an aquisition, does the acquirer have the legal right to use the card authorization token from the customers of the acquired startup? Note that Fly Maid did not charge them without their consent; they merely made the option available without them having to enter any CC info.

The reason I’m pressing this is because we’re talking about a YC alum + illegal behavior, which to my knowledge might even be a first.

Hopefully a lawyer might chime in with clarification. If Fly Maid was not authorized to utilize any of HomeJoy customers’ CC info during the course of business, regardless of acquisition, then this seems pretty clear cut.
that argument wouldn't work with native tribes. These things are entirely cultural and specifically judeo-christian. From the the ancient Minoans who portray their women usually barebreasted, to the greeks and romans , to many non-western societies, it is the prominent puritanism of anglosaxon cultures that is sticking out as an exception, not the other way around.
> - The main public opinion driver for both the needle exchange programs and the decriminalization was a _massive_ Heroin epidemic

There were politicians that publicly spoke about their personal experiences.
Others that had family members that were caught up with it.

It was a widespread issue across all classes, not just the poor.

Here's a recent interview about one of the main drivers of this policy (in Portuguese).

https://www.perguntarnaoofende.pt/pno/joao-goulao
The author is an economist who has spent her career researching public health.

There is no such thing as an “epidemiologist”. The field is filled with people who trained in other areas, and turned their attention to health.

For example, Neil Ferguson - the man behind the UCL models that politicians were using to claim that there would be millions of deaths in the US alone - is a physicist by training.
Something need not be the pinnacle for it to not be horrid.
Users who don't like Apple policies are often told to 'switch to Android'. But how one does that when the subscription cannot be managed without an Apple device/account and there's no way to 'pass' your subscription directly to the merchant?

That's pretty much the definition of lock-in - there's no way to cut Apple out. Apple on the other hand could remove the user out by banning all its subscriptions - which is far more damaging than any one merchant deciding to do so. The power imbalance is utterly on Apple's side.
It's for this reason that I'm a fan of APL, which was intended both as unambiguous computer notation and as effective mathematical notation.
This is about the glyph, not the telephony software. Though it does go into some of the modern technology involved.
This book came out recently and might help with some of your questions.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08GZPBFPH/ref=dbs_a_def_r...

PS: I haven't read the book, so take it with a grain of salt
> Because it creates an automatic subconscious response (excitement) in males.

Is that an innate response? Or is it one that comes from your upbringing and social environment?
BASH too. Example:

SILLY_VAR="

My silly username is "$USER"

"

echo ${SILLY_VAR}
I use the F.B. Purity add-on. Can't imagine using Facebook without it.
Several years ago, an image of the Womb Chair from Knoll was posted to Twitter and it was marked as possibly containing sensitive material.

Twitter: https://imgur.com/a/ydyIFrj

Link to Image: https://officesnapshots.com/photos/48909/
I had the same concerns and didn't buy one, but a few of the projects here look like they could help: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

Ah, someone beat me to posting it.
It’s pretty benign when you think about it. Rich, successful people creating public goods so that their less-brilliant children can save face. What better trade-off are we going to get?
This attitude is a real problem for society: leaving outdated laws on the books just because they are not the most pressing issue encourages bureaucracy, a bloated enforcement system, and worst of all selective enforcement that can mean its easier to find a way to punish groups society generally doesn't dislike. I think there should be a regular purge of old laws as we should be deliberately retaining the ones we still feel are relevant. Just because this sort of thing doesnt rise to the level of the crisis de jour is not a reason to ignore it.
I'm not denying this at all, but again this is not the point I'm discussing. All companies have a political agenda one way or the other, even if it's just driven by profit.

As a thought experiment: imagine if Twitter did the same thing as Coinbase did, got rid of all the politicized people. Problem solved? Of course not. The problem is that Twitter has this incredible influence. Asking them not to do anything is also not neutral and not a solution, you'll end up with 4chan or gab.

Take WhatsApp in Brazil. It's been instrumental to Bolsonaro's election due to the astroturfing and dissemination of fake news by pro-Bolsonaro supporters. Do you think it's due to Facebook's employee being pro-Bolsonaro? Or Facebook itself espousing a pro-Bolsonaro stance? Of course not.

It's really missing the forest for the trees IMO.
We'd be talking about people who have @me.com email addresses and use the web application and not Mail.app on macOS or iOS. I doubt there's that many.
“Conclusion: Current available data on COVID-19 myocarditis is limited. Further research is needed to advance our understanding of COVID-19 myocarditis.”
It looks like the sensor doesn't use power but the data transmission still does ?
The shop owner made a lot of sales on the wave of the free PR created by the Artificial Stupidity.

So. Imagine that - next time you start a business you engage an AS expert who will help you select imagery of your product, manipulate it to trip up the bots into false censoring, spread the outrage far and wide, then capture the blowback and send it directly to your checkout page.

I weep for humanity.
Productivity has nothing to do with wages. If you worked 4 hours writing a book by hand or 4 hours writing a book on a computer with spell check, you were more productive but it has nothing to do with skill of the user but the technology of the time. Another example is in the 90s only rich has cell phones, now everyone Does, does that mean everyone is now rich? Quality of life is vastly better for the world now.