skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like the way author uses them, propaganda, censorship and surveillance are just versions of propagation, filtering and signal acquistion with a corrupt intent attributed. They are just basic elements of any information processing system.

> Speakers and Audiences — a public — divided across independent networks, with access to different editorial selection, from different distribution networks, with access to different input message streams, are far less subject to propaganda, censorship, or surveillance. Epistemic diversity resists control.

One downside is if factions can’t reconcile their views we get into heavy information warfare between little echo chambers like we do today, and we haven’t seem the downstream consequences of this in full effect. The AIs of the “non-mainstream” information channels we use, twitter, youtube, facebook, reddit, instagram etc, are very good at diverisfying their information streams to micro-target individuals, but with absolutely the wrong objective function; to increase engagement, not to increase sensemaking. The result is more stratified cultural factions with little hope of reconciliation and conversation in between.

And for certain things, the reality has the monopoly we strive to converge to. Scientific process doesn’t necessarily reward diversity, but it reliably rewards relevance and approaching to reality. For matters like how covid spread, whether masks worked etc, we would have loved to subjected ourselves to the monopoly of what it really was in itself, but instead we made another information warfare out of it, heavily politicized every bit of data, causing tons of unnecessary human death suffering in between.

Therefore the problem is not the topology of the information network, but the incentive scheme driving the network. Today we all answer to the normativity of markets, not patriotism, not religion, not intellectual honesty, merely markets, so changing the shape of the network would achieve so little to change the downstream consequences.
It's not just Wikipedia. VS is very nearly a dead research agenda. If you look through citations from recent years, virtually all of them are just referencing it as a landmark in the prior art alongside Paxos et all. There's not much in the way of new work that's wholly within the VS paradigm. The main reason for this IMO is that the original paradigm predated people's full understanding of some important details of consensus in asynchronous networks, so some of the concepts are cross grain so to speak. People doing novel work today would rather just start on the firmer ground of everything derived from Paxos, etc.
Meanwhile a friend of mine flat refused to even consider buying any such device, from any vendor, because he's concerned about being spied on.

He cited several real incidents where vendors like Amazon had been caught listening in and sending audio clips to random subcontractors for analysis.

Several huge companies, including Facebook, Google, and Amazon have made it their business to maximally violate the privacy of the general public.

This rubs off on companies like Apple that treat customer privacy seriously.

The "free market" doesn't stop rampant abuse, and doesn't stop damage to unlucky bystanders. If everyone cheats, then the incentive will be to cheat also. If everyone violates privacy, then there will be little to no benefit in not also violating privacy. Certainly not if consumers simply won't believe you.

It's the same logic as: "Every politician is corrupt, so why should I vote for you Mr Honest Guy? You must be corrupt also! I'd rather vote for Mr Clearly On the Take, I like the way he smiles".
Also a framework to repeat it reliably, which is an important feature of anything we call Science.
Don't take my word for it (how bad sugar is). Go to an expert: Dr. Robert Lustig, Endocrinologist at UCSF. "Sugar, the Bitter Truth" [0]. He'll describe the metabolic pathways of sugar. Key take-away: fructose is processed by the liver, and much of its calories is turned to fat.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
I have never cracked a device. I have destroyed multiple male lightening connectors. Basically every time a plugged-in device hits the floor. Often because I’ve accidentally snagged the cord. The female port seems to hold up well, though. I now buy cables in multipacks.
Frankly if you want convenience in this day and age you have to turn to piracy.
I think there are a lot of examples of mass adoption of "bad" things also. Fast food and processed sugar are the ones that come to mind immediately.
Even with better genetics testing we're in the "check what works" territory due to different diets, lifestyles and existing buildup of different substances. Although that's probably more important for vit D than the coffee example.
It is plausible. 13.2 had a problem with bricking HomePods: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/10/28/new-13-2-update-brickin...

And the out-of-warranty repair cost is $279. Perhaps they got it on sale at $280. https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/12/17003296/homepod-repair-i...
A small fraction of those 100m are going to be working in corporate jobs where WFH is even an option. Retail workers, trade workers, transportation workers.

The whole WFH discussion is an upper-middle class discussion. Low income workers don't have the option of working from home.
That's not my point, though - perhaps I didn't word it clearly.

I'm not saying this event can't or won't happen, I'm questioning the claim (maybe I'm misinterpreting the article?) that we can accurately forecast the likelihood of it happening, even though it's never happened.
On a side note: aptX, aptX HD and AAC are said to be superior to SBC but this is only for the default parameters that everyone is using. Bluetooth's SBC codec is very capable of producing high fidelity when using the right parameters, two channels and high bandwidth wide band, which the spec allows. There was/is a patch for LineageOS that enables SBC HD with regular phones:

https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/06/21/android-patch-blueto...

Edit: there's also a patch for PulseAudio:

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/20...
The surrounding counties have far different demographics and density profiles.

Also, the article never stated if neighboring counties had decreased or increased aggregate tax receipts-- it only talked about online sales tax, which is a subset of all sales taxes collected:

> But eight of the counties — everywhere but San Francisco — saw major jumps in online sales taxes, as high as 36% for Contra Costa County.
This reminds me of all those Stack Overflow "closed as duplicate", where the link doesn't even answer the question.
Propaganda entails intent serving a cause.

There are useful ... tools ...though other terms are often employed.

https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105028944477718237
"Collapse" is just one way to explain how measurements happen. These are "actual" measurements, because they give you actual information.
Maybe your negative tone or the low information density. I guess just dropping links is frowned upon. You could have written a short summary or at least paste the TLDR from these papers and then link to the sources.
HFP mode is not worth using for anything unless you are roleplaying a person from the 90s taking a phone call in the car.

The sound quality is truly awful in HFP mode, I can hardly understand what people are saying when in that mode and you sound horrible to everyone on the other side as well.
For the shadows, maybe consider a method where first take a picture with light from one direction, then from a different direction. This could be done automatically by toggling multiple light sources quickly.
I grew up even further north, so I'll be fine ;) Plus, work from home! You just don't go outside!
Care to share the actual names of who these several companies are, requiring workers to take on the additional COVID risk with no actual business requirement? The companies, not the people. Not to be skeptical, but I will be. Government, small business, big corporations?
I'm a transplant here, and I feel like I'm living in a weird post-apocolyptic nightmare with all the Trump signs and Trump flags on their giant lifted trucks. I really hope that this state can pull it's head out of Joe Arpaio's ass, and wriggle leftwards a little bit.

I think the weirdest and most noticeable thing is people riding motorcycles without helmets.

That said; yeah, the heat is not really that bad (it took me about 2 years to acclimate), and there are options for relief. Surprisingly, I think we get more rain in Arizona than in California (not this summer though), and winters are definitely much colder in Arizona than they are in California.
Compared to the prospect of urgently ramping up to $trillions in spending on new generating capacity, not having tossed around more O($billions) on advanced development seems like a huge missed opportunity.

Never too late?
At least for the West Village, at least some of that is tempered by NYU. I’d imagine most of their overseas students are still renting.
Ok, that makes sense, but my question isn't "how would I go about coming up with an estimate?" it's "how could I claim my estimate is accurate, given that the thing I'm estimating has never happened before?". Even if we extrapolate the verified accuracy of predicting other stuff over to this event, we surely can't know we're right?

The article seems to be suggesting that this can be accurately estimated, but I feel like this would be a stronger claim if they cited something that was predicted and actually did happen...

Perhaps I misinterpreted the paragraph?
There's some interesting work happening in pulseaudio on adding backchannel microphone audio to A2DP codec: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge...

Along with adding mSBC support to HFP: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge...

I'm really hoping that soon I can use my mic without terrible audio. Though bluetooth is still glitchy as all get-out in Linux, and I don't know if that will ever change.
San Francisco is a failed state, when it comes to caring for the citizens.
Bluetooth support is all over the place for me. My Apple watch and airpods work flawlessly over bluetooth on my phone but everything else ranges from usable to very frustrating.
One option is to censor by default for SEO, but have some checkbox that sets a cookie that uncensors it.
If you don't mind sharing, what do you eat?
My crib here isn't about those who can afford it. It is about folks (specifically in India) who actually can't afford it and are pushing through for the "prestige". It's their life, but that they would prioritize it over .. well ... living ... Makes me turn laser eyes on Apple marketing.
I can't wait for it to eventually get back to the Joe Baptista era and the whole .loon thing. Those were awesome days.
For anyone like me wondering what these brits are on about, here’s a decoding:

“Scooby” => “Scooby Doo” => “Clue”, making
“I haven’t got a clue, mate”

“Ruby” => “Ruby Murray” => “curry”, making “let’s go for a curry after this”.

After dog detective scooby doo resolved to “clue” I was hoping that there was at least internal consistency between the rhyming phrase and the intended word, but as far as I can tell there is no relationship between a Northern Irish actress from the 1950’s and Indian cuisine.
> The CEO also noted that the system would be able to get commuters from home to work most of the time with no interventions.

I'm so glad it will be that easy. I guess we'll know if there's still some bugs if it still drives into highway barriers or other stationary objects at full speed? But somehow it'll still probably be the users fault
Everyone is cheating (they’re adtech companies) but Apple isn’t. Apple doesn’t have to cheat. They just charge it upfront, sure Siri won’t ever catch up because of the lack of data (knowledge graph like Google), but I’m fine with a crappy Siri than evil smart Alexa.
It is. Even in models that are actually linear (e.g. linear regression), calculus is used to characterise the function used to minimise the errors.
This is pretty much my exact situation. The new iPhones have been so underwhelming and so highly priced that I haven't felt the need or want to upgrade.

Now previously this year, I dropped my phone and the glass broke - but it still works. So I am on the verge of upgrading, but iPhone 12 still doesn't really... make me want to upgrade - if I can put it like that.

So I am rolling with a cracked screen iPhone 6S+ until I can find the motivation to upgrade. Maybe my battery life is becoming one and the problem with charging.
An X5 is a pretty high-end luxury car.
MA voter who's genuinely torn here.

The thing that bugs me out about this law is that, AFAICT, this data is _already_ required to be available to any 3rd party manufacturer through a physical "non-proprietary interface" (so far, an OBD-II port) after a similar ballot initiative from 2013 [0]. This law essentially just makes the data available wirelessly.

I care about security holes and I care about consent. Having a physical interface makes it easy to provide data with consent to repair shops who need while trivially making sure no third party manufacturer or insurance company is leaked a massive database of everyone's driving data. I really don't see how the "wireless" addition gives me more of a right to repair, but I clearly see how it forces manufacturers to significantly increase their surface area of possible data leaks.

I'm all for Ben Franklin's liberty/safety argument, but with the 2013 law already in place, I honestly don't see the upside of the 2020 law.

[0] https://malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2013/Chapter....
Фото забавных животных, которые поднимут ваше настроение
We don't go "hey i've saved up $100000, let me buy a Merc". But that's what I see quite a few people doing . They "save up for an iPhone". If you have to save up for it, you better think of other uses for the money than a luxury item for wasting your time.
> you can attach and remove the phone from a magnetic charger with one hand and without looking / in the dark.

You can't do that with the cable?
our rent went down, total, a little more than a third. half was a price drop and half was the averaged value of 2 free months, which we will have to pay back if we leave before the lease is up. We had budgeted an increase, so it’s a covid windfall. Less traffic and one of the lowest covid numbers in the union atm are a bonus. The constant smoke in the air is the real problem. Haven’t had a blackout yet.
Processed carbohydrates are harmful, however sugar is particularly harmful in its effects on the hormonal system, insulin resistance, concentration, dental decay (and tooth growth in children), psychology of child, irratibility etc. Humans are simply not designed to consume such vast amounts of industrial grade sugar in such quantities.

You can literally throw sugar canes into a juicing machine and it has less sugar content than a can of coca cola
https://archive.is/g8bFM
Something interesting I learned during one of his seminars was that breathing exercises can go a long way in providing most of the benefits. A lot of the media coverage focuses on cold exposure, but deep breathing is really the the core of the message. This is great because it means the barrier to entry is much lower since we all don't need to fill up our tubs with ice every week.
Wonder if 80+ US Senators would be willing to extend employment discrimination law to include place of residency? It would be in the economic interest of 40 US States (just a guess), and the long-term political interest of companies with National presence or aspirations, to do so...
One thing I don't quite understand about the HomeKit "ecosystem" is that there doesn't seem to be much of one...

I've looked on the Apple store, the local electronics store, but everything I would expect to see in a range of smart devices are very notably absent.

For example, I can't find a reasonably sized multi-port Apple HomeKit power board.

I can't find motion or person presence sensors.

In fact, just about the only products that seem to exist are "smart" light bulbs, but I don't see what's so smart about paying AUD 150 for a light bulb...
Personality Probability

ISFJ 0.911772

INTP 0.014028

INTJ 0.013168

ENTP 0.012464

ENFP 0.010893

...

Controversiality: 2.51 %

Interesting, looks like I'm more of a protector in the iternet than in real life... the last time I did the test I got ENFP
Fun fact: Linux is the only desktop OS that can use LDAC codec. (by using ported library from Android)
PopSocket has already confirmed they're working on something. This will be awesome for those of us who don't use wireless charging because of our popsockets.
How do you accomplish a tight fit that seals of though to prevent air from going out at the top without covering your nose completely?
There are some drawer refrigerators but they tend to be limited to high end remodels due to the high cost. See for example https://www.remodelista.com/posts/10-easy-pieces-best-under-...
Quantum Mechanics: Schrödinger's discovery of the shape of atoms
No. There are too many people on this website, and silicon valley that think their feelings are more important than truth. They use those feelings to manipulate people into buying shit they don't need and they know exactly what they are doing. I don't give a shit about your feelings and neither does anyone else really except maybe your mother. The rest of us just virtual signal to show we do but never actually accomplish anything often times doing the opposite and creating more division via botched execution. (Oh hey Colin Kaepernick)

Your feelings are irrelevant because they are subjective. Seriously, you and everyone else who feels triggered to downvote me, grow the fuck up. The points are imaginary and I frankly think it's funny to get -4 scores because it shows just how easy it is to set you mental midges off because of your feelings of in adequacy that program you to blame anyone but thine own ego.
The inevitable reversal of fortune will be a very interesting drama. Will it be like Chicago, where any attempt to shrink government is stymied and taxes are ratcheted upwards every year just to tread water on bloated pensions? Or will it collapse into bankruptcy like Detroit?

The amount of inefficiency and waste of resources in SF is unfathomable. Eventually the chickens come home to roost.
I break down all concepts into a glossary terms. This is quite important because the terms used somewhere can mean very different things elsewhere.

I go to the table of contents and start with the most interesting part. You don't always have to begin on the first page or the easiest one. If I feel bored or forced, I move to the next.

Keep reading different interesting bits. The concepts will naturally link to one another. The more concepts you have linked to a new concept, the easier the new concept is to understand.

Some here say learn by doing, and that's basically the same thing, except that sometimes the easiest to learn bit isn't practical. Knowledge is usually delivered in abstract chunks, with no relation to something else, and having something you plan to do will relate it and make it easier to learn.
To be fair these translations slightly exaggerate the difference between Shanghainese and Mandarin. The speaker is speaking in a more formal register in her Mandarin samples than in her Shanghainese samples which causes greater vocabulary and structural differences than if they were at the same register. In fact I'm a little surprised she doesn't use exact analogs when translating between the two, e.g. 搿就是讲 -> 这就是说 instead of her choice of 这意味着, 越来越结棍了 -> 越来越历害了 instead of her choice of 愈演愈烈, and 开始寻被偷脱个物事了 -> 开始找被偷掉的东西了 instead of her choice of 开始找被偷物品了, since it is both a more accurate translation and reflects the structural similarity of the two sentences much better (there is a one-to-one correspondence between each word of both sentences).

Regardless I certainly would not view Shanghainese as mutually intelligible with Mandarin.
In "Superforecasting", it's a bit clearer. What they end up doing is asking you to predict an EVENT by a SPECIFIC TIME. In other words, what is the probability that "x" will happen by "DATE Y".

In this case, by the time DATE Y takes place, you have a clearly verifiable binary outcome, which you can use to judge whether the forecasters were correct or not.

There is some art to this -- the "event" in question needs to be very well-defined... I think the example they're using is a bit odd and they have much better examples in their book. The example of a counterfactual event (i.e., 'if X happens then estimate the likelihood of Y happening by DATE Z') adds a great deal of confusion here because you're predicting conditional probabilities. Still possible to verify but to your point, much more difficult.

At this point, you're asking forecasters to build a probabilistic graph and estimate causality, which is becoming more of a science (e.g., Judea Pearle's work) but still lots to do in that space. Anyway, I'm digressing.
> Windows 10 look and feel for your Linux desktop.

That's exactly what I wanted! I've been using Manjaro KDE for a couple of months now exclusively.

I am extremely happy, it's very convenient developing on Linux directly!

It's much snappier than Windows 10 on the same hardware, and you can turn lots of the bling off to get better performance.
Light, and therefore color, is a wave when it comes to how we sense it. Like sound, if you take to frequencies and add them together, you don't get an average. You get a more complex wave that produces a complex sound (a chord) somewhat akin to a secondary or tertiary color.
The problem here is broken nutritional epistemology and lack of education. Remember that as recently as the early 1970s, it was broadly promoted, almost as a nootropic. In my home town in Australia it was common to add spoonfuls of sugar over breakfast cereal, Nutella and Milo (chocolate milk drink) were promoted as healthy sports foods for children, and a tablespoon of sugar (I know!!) was promoted as a good way to fix hiccups. My mother was ostracised by the other mothers at my school (in the early 00's, not the 70s) for not giving me Nutella, Chocolates, Lollies etc in my lunch.

I'm not making excuses here - it's more that unless you come from a privileged or niche background, especially before the internet, you would think this is normal. Imagine as a woman going to your GP doctor for a checkup in the 1980s and having them suggest you start eating spoonfuls of pure refined white sugar to help you control your appetite. Similar modern examples include the popularity of "Bubble tea" which should almost be regarded as a poison

It's not that its hard to find non-sugar food - it's hard to KNOW that's what you're meant to do, even in the most educated first world countries.

https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/19710510.jpe...
The problem is that all that good sun is out when I'm working during winter season. The only way to go for a walk in the sun is to take a long break, and even then I'm going to be wrapped in a thick coat, hat soon, without much skin exposed.
Speaking anecdotally I think this has some truth in it. A lot of people I know seem to loathe San Francisco and only put up with it because they’re required to live here for a job.

If that’s the true reason for an exodus, then I hope it benefits the city to have residents that want to live here.
throughput != latency
Also worth noting: it's about being better than an existing baseline. Effectiveness is measured in relation to a baseline accuracy, which can already be quite poor.

Suppose you make predictions about 100 events, and only 25 of these events actually take place. Your baseline might be in relation to these 25 events, and your 'superforecaster' needs to be better than an existing model, which could be really bad at predicting these odd/weird outcomes. Now you're better than everything else! :)
Google assisted has a 40-59% success rate for simple alarm and timer commands in my home.