skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious if this will ever end either. For example, my understanding is...

30% of people will never take a vaccine [0]

The first couple vaccines will be 40-60% effective [1]

Similar vaccines never exceed 70% effectiveness. [2]

It's unclear how many boosters you'll need, etc.

I hope someone out there is crunching the numbers and seeing the issue.

[0] https://news.gallup.com/poll/317018/one-three-americans-not-...
[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/09/12/9119879...
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/vaccineeffect.htm
There is plausibly an easy enough solution for this, if the grant structure allows/encourages departments hiring developers to help with this. If your primary source of labor for this is short term grad students with no expertise in software development, and not training mechanism, the results are predictable.

Another thing that works against this is a lack of academic credit for doing,overseeing, or steering the work. This also could change.

Changing the incentives can easily change the results.
Word of mouth also actually can't be trusted if it doesn't have full view of reality. I revealed some secrets to a friend about a company and it turns out it was just my department that had the problem
Humans are notorious for under estimating routine hazards, and overestimating things that are rarer. We worry about strangers in deep dark alleys trying to rob/rape/beat/kill us, when in fact, most crime is perpetrated by someone the victim is familiar with.
This reminds me a bit of Chef Habitat and Automate.
Do people really fall asleep with crack pipes in their mouth?
> but we struggle to run 10 year old software

Do we? Virtualization and emulation usually sort this out. 8- and 16-bit console games are a good example of this.
The problem I see with that approach is that modern transformer based NLP like GPT3 make generating this sort of "review" text almost free. The value you place in those reviews is the perceived effort put into them. When that effort goes to zero... it's just more automated spam reviews with a "believable" statistical spectrum.

Honestly, I don't see how to trust reviews if the reviewers have no skin in the game (either their reputation or money). If identities and reputations can be faked/generated at low cost, then we're back to just money. Honestly, one theory of advertising (like McD and bigC) is that they throw money at pretty ads to convince you that lots of people have given them money so they must be good... it's pay to play, but it's not completely wrong. Limiting reviews to those who have actually bought the item also helps, if you time limit/delay it and weight by the cost of shipping/stocking.
But this comes full circle - the more privileged are more likely to be more charismatic. In the UK, the art of rhetoric doesn't appear in the standard curriculum. I am confident in my ability to predict whether a UK politician has been to private/grammar schools and Oxbridge or not - to distinguish those who have been taught elocution and rubbed shoulders with the rich and powerful from an early age.

Not only that, but confidence and certainty are very charismatic, or at least, draw attention. That works fine as a mechanism for liberating people from concerning themselves with the minutiae of every part of life in society. But we all know some variation of that quote about the certain fools and uncertain wise. I'm thinking of those especially confident scientists who have used their platform to trash reflective subjects like Philosophy (not naming any names).

I suppose a good summary of my point is that charisma can transform interest into idolatry.
> The OP did not provide this, only the generic google service notification on his mobile

Are you sure? The image in the tweet linked seems to me like the login screen you get on desktop, not a mobile notification.
Not true. All historical white supremacy movements have been built on the narrative of genetic superiority. Skull shapes, race theory etc.

Although cultural superiority is entwined in this its only recently this became centre stage as a means to still advance the same old tired bigotry but with a mainstream friendly face.
You're denigrating your primary source as a paranoid maniac on a public forum.
While also misspelling, cursing, and complaining about people declining to talk to you, the reporter.

Sounds like the CUPS developer and Apple dodged a bullet.
> I've said this before here, I'm pretty libertarian, and very much in favor of small gov, but at this point its become clear that anyone who strives to become an internet platform where market dominance equals monopoly or duopoly, should be held to strict regulatory standards, re: free speech, appeals, etc. similar to what a gov entity is held to.

About that - the government can be pretty opaque. I too would like some strict regulatory standards to apply to the CBP.
Possibly it would be an incentive that is not aligned with the user's interests. For example, CCC would do anything in their power to get you to buy something so that they get a cut. Whereas a user would maybe be most interested in getting a good value, or even not buying anything at all might be their best choice.
Is there a way to do this on Mac where you can open several app windows and use ALT+tab to switch between them? I know you can use CMD+` to swap between Chrome windows but this is a productivity killer if you have to first ALT+tab to Chrome and then use CMD+` to get the window you want.
Silicon Valley’s corporate ‘mindfulness’ hypocrisy
They obviously can choose what content they choose to host and display. That is their right as long as it is not discriminatory or in violation of US law. While that is the literal definition of censorship, the issue is not about a free market is it? Nope. Is about the Right whining that their hate is not allowed to be amplified, hence they call it censorship. They, not me, are the ones stating that this is a free speech issue. I state it is not. Explicitly not.

Its a really simple concept. I am surprised you dont understand.
Section 230 would protect Facebook and Twitter as providers, since the law doesn't require them to pass along content received.

As written, the provider protection would only disappear if they are the creator of the content they make available, or if they altered that content, in which case they would be subject to the publisher rules.

The publisher rules would likely protect them as well and may even require them not to publish that content, since there's strong evidence that the content is defamatory: (1) a random computer service tech apparently received a computer from a guy he claims to be Hunter Biden (2) but he can't actually say the person was Hunter Biden, (3) the customer never came back for the computer, (4) the computer service guy was able to get into the computer and look at the email but the only evidence is a blurry screenshot,(5) the current possessor of the computer is unwilling to turn it over to any third party for forensic analysis showing that the email actually exists, and (6) the timelines in the purported email don't match reality based on confirmed travel by Hunter Biden or the person he supposedly met with.
>especially if cost of living is going to go down due to the bottom dropping out of the real estate market

where's the evidence of this so far?
I'm a bit surprised they're focused solely on 3d printing, when this polymer seems like it would also be quite useful for recycling plastic.

For many plastics, pelletizing them again to use in injection molding is anywhere from challenging to impossible. If this polymer is the cement, then recycled plastic could be the aggregate in a sort of plastic concrete. Granted, it probably wouldn't be useful for small diameter injectors, but we have a lot of larger plastic items too.
>> If driverless taxi services

Given Unions and AB5 I'd like to see how driverless is embraced California

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Assembly_Bill_5_(20...
"as of late"
Oh boy I can hardly wait. I hope it costs less than a cup of coffee per day!
FCC will move to set rules clarifying key social media protection: chair
> Like every house and apartment comes with a kitchen, what do you mean you don't use it?

Traditionally in urban areas most people actually purchased food instead of making it, because most people did not have kitchens.

You can kind of still see that today; many old New York tenements have been converted into apartments with "kitchens", but really this usually describes something about the size of an airplane bathroom with a stove, a fridge and 1 counter.
I cannot imagine my life without Actual. Bookkeeping is such a joy with this tool. I've used Acutal for more than a year to manage the budget for two companies and my personal finances. Highly highly recommend.
Covid-19: At least two thirds of 225 000 excess deaths in US were due to virus (from march to july)

https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3948

> it has many errorneous statements

You used the word "many", do you have any more examples?
> I'm not sure about how consistently people in Filecoin need to be connected to the network, but that could prove to be an issue.

The initial release today focuses on Storage Mining, which requires the nodes storing the data to be online pretty much all the time to be able to submit proofs of that storage. This is because storage miners are the block producers, and we need to have high certainty that they actually have the amount of storage they claim. The requirements here will go down over time, we have a number of different proof constructions we are looking into that will improve things in nearly every dimension (zk-snark technology is still really young, and we're pushing its limits).

Filecoin (even today) has retrieval miners, that earn money for serving data as clients request it, but it needs a good deal of work still to form an efficient market. Its current state is more like Amazons 'Requester pays buckets' on s3, but is rapidly improving and many different groups are building out exciting things in this space. A retrieval miner doesnt really need to be online for any amount of time, only needs to respond to requests when it wants to get paid.

> a fairly large cloud storage provider, has a total network size of around 500 petabytes

Its worth noting that the current amount of 'committed power' (aka, proven storage) in Filecoin as of this moment is 572.8PiB, with significantly more than that waiting to get onto the chain. Most of this is just 'committed capacity', space that doesn't contain users data, but is proven to be there and ready to be filled with real data when it's demanded.
So much trump derangement syndrome. Seek help, seriously.
In what browser? I specifically said Edge because I find it uses a lot less ram than Chrome. I can easily use Edge and browse smoothly on that little PC, but with Chrome it's dead after opening facebook.
This is an example of why I think software patents are problematic.

Because Cloudflare said they are using Skia so the first thing that comes to mind is, how do you hook into Skia in order to intercept graphics commands so that you can efficiently transfer them to the remote?

And then the next thing is, what if there are already graphics on the screen before the remote session starts? Do I have to record and transmit everything that happened an hour ago? Or how do I figure out which part needs to be transferred, aside from a clear screen which obviously resets it.

So that outline is exactly what I am seeing is being patented. They do mention they are using "hierarchies" to figure out what needs to be synced. But a hierarchy is one of the most fundamental categories of data structure so that really doesn't narrow it down.

So now if you're going to hook into a graphics library and use any kind of hierarchy and then transmit it to be updated somewhere else, you have to be worried about the details of this patent? Because what I am seeing is the basic logic that stems directly from the starting point of trying to transmit the graphics at that rendering level.

Like if I go fork Skia and hack into a renderer saving the commands into some queue to be compressed and streamed, and keep track of when a new window is opened or shown (a hierarchy), it seems like I will be putting myself at risk of this patent because it is so generic.
It sometimes is.
And in fact, it was part of section 230(b).

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
I thought this was probably a man-in-a-jetpack shaped balloon last time it happened, now at 6000 feet it surely is. The Venn diagram of people capable of making/flying one, and people wanting to do so round LAX, surely has a substantially bigger intersection for balloon than for actual jetpack.
Because they could fire you?
>Driverless cars are going to be much better than driverful cars in cities since they follow the rules and behave predictably

This is a really niave take.

Sure they follow rules as well as any other computer but they're gonna be following a set of rules different than the human drivers around them. That's a recipe for a ton of minor accidents.
Oh certainly not "check up", but try to get a human to look at it and respond to the appeal with more than boilerplate.
No one ever stopped people from making the films, they only disallowed the distribution and showings via their operations. The Gov, banning a film (porn)was censorship by the Gov and thus was struck down by the Warren court. But you know that right?
I hated it until the day I have to go through every SaaS service vendors that I have and this is the quickest way I can actually "chat" with a real person about some questions. Help desk support tickets took 24hrs turn-around, and emails took even longer.

The problem I think it is harder and harder to reach to "real person" for support and questions these days.
The Weaponization of Laïcité
Also if you only need a car for 10% of trips, renting might be cheaper than buying. I don’t own a pickup truck because I rarely need one, but when I do need one I rent one from Lowes or U-Haul.
I am talking specifically about the NY Post article that has been censored.
Only if collaborators stay close to each other and prefer hanging out. When everyone is in office, calling a hangout in a bar is easier, compared to when everyone by default stays at home.
Stuff like this isn't the result of some faceless software algorithm that's only harming people because of 'bugs.'

Consumer abuse isn't an emergent property of algorithms. They're designed, by people, to abuse consumers.
That's definitely a tricky situation to be in since you'll inevitably get someone complaining that an upgrade broke something they depend on.

I like Godel_unicode's suggestion of logging and that could probably done in a stronger manner if there was some point (post-install, maybe starting a container) where it checked the existing rules and used a more prominent warning when there are existing rules which would prevent a container which would be reachable now from being reachable in the future. Given how widely Docker is used, I'd assume that'd be the kind of thing you'd need to add as a warning for multiple releases before even doing something like having it switch to a more secure default on new install.
The distinction isn't very useful. This is a forum. I can't even respond to that page of comments.

The only thing noteworthy about that HN link is that some interesting comments may have been posted there.
Spies struggling to tail suspects because of empty streets during the pandemic
This methodology also applies to the 'magic quadrant' about 10 years ago I was working for a small company that was making some great software addons for a MSFT product. They were contacted by the company I am implying and were told they would like to include them in the upper right quadrant but since they were not a "member" they couldn't, if they became a member then the company would be included in the next release.

I heard this second hand from my CEO at the time.
> "Google decided to arbitrarily ban a specific account among billions in order to target one of their employees."

Nobody is claiming that. Malice is not the issue here; the issue is the effect of having an account banned without recourse or transparency.
Also here on Wall Street Journal: https://archive.is/ZrJUF#selection-2033.5-2033.79
I should have been clearer: Domain generation algorithms render solutions like Google SafeBrowsing vulnerable. Sure, these are only used by botnets today, but before we know it, it'd be put to use by adware and spyware too.
This is a great answer and very helpful, thank you.
Typical BS title. The modern "news" really cant help themselves. Youtube banned information that their censors disagree with. That's it. The rest is just labels that belie the fundamental truth: the MSM is a perception management platform, they see themselves not as providers but as deciders. Their consumers are really subjects, and they at every opportunity treat them as stupid.
As a Google employee, I don't expect to have any special privileged access to Google customer support and I think if we did have it, wouldn't you think that would be unjust?

Disclaimer: not saying anything about the qualities of said services.
I'm an aspiring manager and I was hoping for advice on how to do this right rather than an explanation of how I'm a bad programmer (I already know that I'm mediocre at best).
> They shipped me a scratched up refurbished phone.

This was me and my Nexus 5, like you I baby my phones and exercise care. An update bricked it, they sent me a scratched refurb with shaky buttons and a creaking case as a replacement. :-/
Yeah, see, I don't think any of this has a single, solitary thing to do with "authoritarianism." It's just testing for normal human attitudes, rather than urban WEIRD attitudes.

I'm doing "that internet guy" again, but it's necessary here; from m-w[0] the definition of "authoritarian"

1: of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority had authoritarian parents

2: of, relating to, or favoring a concentration of power in a leader or an elite not constitutionally responsible to the people

There's nothing about our forefathers, homosexuals, feminists, theism, women, sexual preferences, pornography, sinfulness or any of the other bullshit in those questions that has a single, solitary thing to do with the definition of authoritarianism. Until the 1990s, most Americans, indeed most Westerners outside of (maybe) Holland and Sweden would have been considered "authoritarian" by those lights. Do you believe Westerners were "authoritarian" for all of human history until ... say, 1997 or whatever? I was alive back then: it was very obviously less authoritarian on almost every level. And mind you, I score fairly "non authoritarian" (aka not so conservative) on this test.

Anyway, I appreciate your constructive engagement, but I am extremely allergic to bullshit which dehumanizes normal people. I mean, we decided as a society that dehumanizing gay people and feminists was bad: the reality is people who are don't think the last 10 years of modernity is an amazing success are not particularly authoritarian, but dehumanizing them absolutely is.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/authoritarian
> weight of compulsory upgrades to OS and apps that now make what was once a decent enough product completely unusable.

Software developers and companies alike are very proud of it. I can understand companies defending it due to commercial concerns. But developers defending addition of enormous number of dependencies, bloating the software and calling it best practice to reuse existing components saddens me.
Is the Busy Beaver Sequence Well-Defined?
>the full solution is to NEVER rely on Google

You should have just put a full stop after that.
That's my bad. Because the gmail link later in the thread is very likely to be mobile, I assumed as the first screenshot was so centered that it was also mobile. But it could be on desktop, so I edited my response
This is kind of fascinating but it's also a fantasy that has nothing to do with reality. There's no reason why Starlink should hold itself to a ridiculously inefficient higher standard than other ISPs. Encrypt everything end-to-end and don't worry about ISP routing.
The problem is, public temper tantrums have become an effective way of receiving support from tech giants. So you can hardly blame him.
Sounds like they might not be employed there much longer

https://twitter.com/miguelytob/status/1316569623593127937?s=...
The first two sighting were in a usual jet pack height (800m). This one was now way too high. Technically possible for a few seconds, but incredibly stupid if so. But never underestimate the stupidity of rich Los Angeles folks, you see it weekly in the movies.
Will VCs start investing into Newsletters, based on Morning Brew success?
Business insider could buy Morning Brew for around $50M.
Day after that news, one VC approached to me if I want to sell them my newsletter (https://eastvc.news/).
Probably it is coincidence but still nice to see there is an interest. Do you think it could be a new trend that VC could invest into newsletters, since its proven that newsletter can be very profitable?
Small claims only provides monetary relief, you can't get equitable relief. How exactly are you going to calculate your monetary damages? And quite frankly, why would Google reinstate your account over losing a maximum of potentially $7,500?
> That said, I feel a bit dumb right now, but can you (or anyone, really) elaborate what's funny and/or sensitive about the name BYOB? I really can't figure it out. It seems like just an abbreviation to me.

Bring your own beer, and since alcohol is Evil™ anywhere even remotely associated with children...
I definitely think that what you're saying is true, and is part of the explanation. But another part is that the Wild West internet also had its own major issues -- roving bandits, to carry the analogy -- and these big companies did solve real problems that were only growing with time.

Gmail's spam filtering. Recaptcha's bot rejection. Facebook's identity verification. Paypal's secure credit card processing. Google de-ranking link farms. Youtube's hosting costs. All of these very effectively solved real problems with the old web, and those problems were growing as bad actors became more sophisticated.

I like the old web too, but I do appreciate that an attempt to return to it would still require very effective tools to solve at least some of these problems, and they'd require constant improvement to keep the roving bandits at bay.
I'm very sorry for your experience. This should definitely not happen. Could you please email me at dom@beacon.works so I can look into it?
HD 140283
Then you would just stare at an almost empty list of reviews. I don't think you'll get around storing actual negative reviews on top of that.
> I think you misunderstand US copyright law.

I probably do. This is the first I've heard of that.

Regardless, the NY Post article in question did not publish any of the pictures and I doubt the same copyright law applies to emails.
As an avid collector of vintage hardware and one who runs a YouTube channel dedicated to teaching people about how the hardware works, and how to actually use it, I can say confidently that yes, we definitely struggle.

There are a great number of games that cannot be played by most 16-bit and 8-bit console emulators. The Famicon disk system, for instance, is a real struggle to get working right.

90s machines are dying off rapidly, and hardware is becoming very very scarce. Much DOS software, for instance, requires very specific hardware timing and behaviors that is either not known about or still emulated wrongly. Worse, some emulations simply don't exist or are very difficult to get working (see also 3DFX Voodoo3 8-bit paletted textures).

2010 machines are next on the chopping block. Though tose systems may be easier to deal with hardware wise, emulation will still be a challenge.
Many people who thrive working from home have been forced to work in the office for their entire career and are now VERY driven on defending their improved working conditions.