skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would the forums of yesteryear survive? The early 2000s saw a veritable utopia of information sharing, as people with special interests came online and formed groups to discuss and collaborate on those interests.

Would the open source software community survive? My world revolves around github more than any other site; would ticket discussions be forced back to mailing lists? Would mail readers pick that slack up, and re-implement social media over email?
I feel like this guy still doesn't get the actual point why politicians are talking about section 230. They aren't directly rebutting the language of the law, they're threatening to amend/repeal section 230 since they know social media giants depend it to exist in their current form.
If I understand the topic then linguistic relativity has nothing to do with this, consider the fictional language of cave-speak as a stripped down version of English, It is reasonable to imagine that it would be harder to discuss theology or write the principia mathematica in such a language.
Standardize to what though? Personally I like spelling colour, humour etc. with a 'u', pronouncing 'z' like zed. Which standard do we use? I mean, British, American and Canadian English, to use three big ones, all use different spellings and pronounciations for different words. I personally, would not be happy having to standardize to either American or British English and I doubt Americans or British would be happy standardizing to the others.

And that's not even getting into all the other English variations out there.
> I personally feel that "Being who you are", "Staying true to yourself" etc, are very negative things to tell someone

I think life advice is much more case-by-case than we tend to acknowledge.

Maybe Person A needs to stop being so hard on themselves, stop conforming to other people's expectations for once, and just live life the way they want to live it. But maybe Person B needs to take a good hard look at their life choices, and understand that they've been hurting themselves and the people who love them. Maybe Person C needs to take a risk every once in a while, learn to think outside the box. But maybe Person D needs to get their affairs in order and start following through on long-term plans. Maybe Person E is too nice, and Person F isn't nice enough.

Some people need to hear "be who you are." Other people need to hear the opposite.
> Holding an important position in society (CEO, founder, whatever) is just a hindrance, it keeps one away from actually thinking about the stuff that really matters.

You may believe stuff like this, but many others don't, so it should be phrased as your opinion rather than as a fact.

Elon Musk, for example, has very strong beliefs about humanity's future on other planets. His position as founder/CEO of SpaceX lets him actually work towards making that dream a reality. You or I can dream all we want but we can't make them reality. If this is something you care about, then he's clearly successful in ways that we aren't, that are directly attributable solely to his role as wealthy person/founder.
Consumers Cite Trump as Leading Driver of Covid-19 Vaccine Skepticism
What You Should Know: – 65% of patients say they will wait to receive the forthcoming COVID-19 vaccine even if it becomes available before the end, according to a new Medisafe survey.
The reasoning is money, the unreasoning is ethical sophistry.
I'm speaking just to the specific point I replied to. That's why I couched it with "that was implied".

Secondary endpoints, decisions about when to end trials, etc, are all fraught with peril.

It's worth noting that neither SIMPLE nor the ACTT-1 Remdesivir studies moved from a mortality to a non-mortality endpoint. SIMPLE did have an endpoint change before any data was available, but it was a relatively minor, innocuous thing.

> The primary efficacy end point was clinical status assessed on day 14 on a 7-point ordinal scale consisting of the following categories: 1, death; 2, hospitalized, receiving invasive mechanical ventilation or ECMO; 3, hospitalized, receiving noninvasive ventilation or high-flow oxygen devices; 4, hospitalized, requiring low-flow supplemental oxygen; 5, hospitalized, not requiring supplemental oxygen but receiving ongoing medical care (related or not related to Covid-19); 6, hospitalized, requiring neither supplemental oxygen nor ongoing medical care (other than that specified in the protocol for remdesivir administration); and 7, not hospitalized (see Table S1 in the Supplementary Appendix, available at NEJM.org).
I promise you that there are options between "do nothing" and "remove the legal foundation crucial to the development of the participatory internet."
Implies is probably something you've used in a program's logic, it's probably not something you've directly programmed (in the sense that few people, outside of exercises, are going to code up logical operators). You'll see it in some conditionals. Think of the logical expression: If the radiation emitter is on then the safety door is closed.

This is not causal, we don't say that we will close the door, we are saying something that should just be true about the system (like in an assert). Perhaps if this assert fails we want the whole thing to shutdown.

Since languages like C don't have an implies operator, you'd write this assert as something like:

ASSERT(!RADIATION_EMITTER_ON || DOOR_IS_SHUT,
"Well, we irradiated something, but probably not what we wanted.")

It holds the same logical meaning (you can evaluate it by examining the truth table of A => B and ~A || B).

A B | A => B ~A || B
F F | T T
F T | T T
T F | F F
T T | T T
If someone said something you didn't like in the comments on a site you owned, and you wanted to erase them, do you feel that you don't have that right. (even if you expressly state that you do reserve such a right when people signed up to your site?)
> (10-21 seconds)

You’d imagine that a CMS for a university website would support formatting of something as simple as an exponent. Instead what you get is a claim that a zeptosecond is somewhere between 10 and 21 seconds.
Trump's base doesn't care that he's corrupt. Biden's does.

They don't get held to the same standards because they're playing to different audiences.
I have never heard of nano defender, but I wonder why anyone ventures away from uBlock origin
This is a regulatory oversight problem, pure and simple, and it has existed forever. The incentive structure is far too conflicted for self policing. See also: ratings agencies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/22/business/regulators-strug...

Fraud and Ponzi schemes will persist until regulators get real.
It could be a RSS feed. It could be a txt file on S3. I'm not asking for much.

I work on digital displays and I would like to help spread awareness when alerts occur. It is an incredibly complex process, made for big telecommunication companies.

A public API could save lives. You can't even ask them to send you a SMS on Twillio and make an API yourself. They send it through telecommunication networks, not by sending SMS to everybody.
An experiment consolidating my current understanding of unit economics

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16rWcnFi0KP-3WdlR96oF...
The housing glut hasn't been constructed yet. Most of Detroit housing stock dates from 1925-1945, which puts it at least 5 years out.
> I believe you, but I think you're hitting something completely unique to your setup and external to Slack.

That's entirely possible, but this problem has persisted throughout multiple versions of Firefox and Fedora. For all I know, it could be due to the VPN connection, but even then, the VPN connection isn't that slow. Zoom video conferences still work reasonably well over it.
If you choke off user-generated content, the remaining content will be directly produced by Disney and other media conglomerates. That's not better, that's worse.

The only people able to blog, for instance, would be people who have the technical chops to completely self-host. Everyone else would be reduced to handing out flyers on the corner like the bad old days.

The behemoth old-media companies would be fine, because they can afford lawyers to go over everything they publish.

Not only would it not be worth it, repealing section 230 would consolidate behemoth media companies' control, not break it. It would do the absolute opposite of what you want.
I agree with the selected quote. I also feel burnt out sometimes but it just so happens that building software and learning new "stuff" has kind of become my main hobby.

I'd love to work on impactful and meaningful projects so at least if/when that opportunity comes at least the hobby will have paid off in terms of what I know.
That is an interesting question. Thank you for sharing. Indeed, I was a chemistry PhD before going to medical school. Unfortunately, there are no easy shortcuts that I know of. Interestingly it is a bit unpredictable if somebody will practice medicine or not when they go to do an MD or MD/PhD.
JDK 15 Security Enhancements
> If they want to editorialize on the back of that content, then I don't see why they should have such special status.

They don't have special status for their editorializing. If Facebook or Twitter or any other interactive computer service produces editorial content that, say, libels someone, they could be sued over that and would not have a section 230 defense.
Though the law makes no distinction of publisher vs platform, I think people's intuitive sense that something is "wrong" is valid even though they may not be able to express it clearly. Publisher vs platform is just the easiest/closest way to express it for them.

For me, the problematic/key question and example is Facebook's (News) Feed. When content is collected, curated (algorithmically) with specific intent, published/presented in a particular order and layout to communicate and derive revenue, at what point is it a creative work with authorship?

If I prompt 100 people to comment on a topic by placing information in front of them, and then take portions of those comments, reorder and present them to you shaped by an overarching narrative of "what you may find interesting related to this topic" and place it on the front page of my website, in what way is this different than a newspaper?

A newspaper can be sued for defamation, however, Section 230 (c)(1) shields Facebook from any liability in the case where this selective curation and display of information contains known falsehoods or defamations. If any reasonable curator of facts (reporter) or newspaper editorial board would identify and reject these falsehoods or otherwise be sued, does Facebook get a pass because it was a computer curating?

*Edit: The reason I think this may be problematic is that it removes any check on purposeful misinformation that has traditionally existed on our previous methods of speech amplification (newspapers, tv, radio). Facebook has no incentive not to publish the most engaging information even if it is false, as it cannot be sued. If it could be, you would see it actively prevent misinformation. The standard would be what the courts would find it responsible for under existing libel laws, which is a difficult bar to clear, particularly for public persons, but is the only restraint on yellow journalism we've traditionally had.
How about Dominic Cummings? I don’t like the guy, but he clearly thinks of himself as a rationalist and has been extremely successful.
Building an Evernote to SQLite Exporter
How to answer questions in a helpful way (2017)
> Obama administration had put in place all the necessary infrastructure for a surveillance state

I do not think that is accurate. The Obama administration sustained the growth from the previous administration. I do wish they had curtailed this growth, but c'est la vie.
> non-white usually

This just isn't correct. Many majority non-white school districts are very well funded -- cities like Chicago or Washington or LA. It's simply not an issue of lack of funds.
Thanks! This is interesting, although I'd be worried about how stable this is for the long term. Would be happy to have my worries annihilated of course :)
does it exist on android? i have adguard
I mean, I agree, but it's not like this couldn't happen there, too.
> The only way they're related is that they store stuff.

Sometimes when you're trying to explain something you want to exist, but that doesn't exist, the best way is by analogy. It's not meant to be literal.
It's not uncommon to use chemo treatment to shrink the growth prior to removal.
Slack used to have that benefit when they had their IRC and XMPP gateways online. I know there are clients out there that leverage the API to do the same thing, but it's essentially re-inventing the wheel covered by numerous existing IRC and XMPP clients.
Another video showing dioramas and construction techniques, from Muzeum Karlova most and other sources.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1TDhX6tu30M
> Raymond inspected the modifications added by the new developers (which was not published to GitHub), revealing their dubious intentions.

and chrome will auto-update the extension for you transparently so you don't miss out on these new amazing features!
Nope - only in the sense of your great grear grandfather's axe after your grandfather replaced the head three times and your father replaced the haft twice and the head is now a sledgehammer. Vacuum tube making is about metalworking essentially. Sure you can swap components between the wires but manufacturing of vacuum tubes is entirely different than silicon and even they needed new fab processes for nanometer changes.

Lightbulbs and would have been a better pivot (with or without a gas in the medium for neon lights or CFBs) at least until LEDs finished them off.
> ... why collage tuition increases ...

Also covered in economics! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_%28economics%29

Being able to get into and complete several years of college signals to a potential employer that you are a better candidate. The more prestigious the institution, more difficult to get in etc, the better for the candidates that manage to. That increases demand, but the (roughly) fixed supply at a college results in increased prices and other things that reinforce the college (eg better sports and more successful sports teams).
The "amount of legacy comments and history" is the single most useful thing about Slack, imo. Teams in comparison was an absolute nightmare to try to find references to old conversations in, it felt like throwing away information into a bog, never to be retrieved ever again. Slack's archival search was the biggest reason I was able to onboard to a new team as quickly as I did, especially given WFH, since it removed the need to ask an actual person about so many of my questions.
It's an option to leave it alone, but it's the site owner's prerogative. If you don't like the site owner's moderation practices that's fine, but there's no reason that your opinion should override the owner's intentions with respect to how the site is run and the type of content on the site.
It's not just that people don't know how to write. It's been my experience that many people also don't know how to read properly. If you try to make a nuanced argument, many people will read what they want to read and completely misunderstand you. Or sometimes they will complain "why are you writing so much? I don't like to read".
According to the Hallmarks of Aging paper DNA inside the nucleus is relatively stable, and the epigenetic material (i.e. DNA methylation) is a much better predictor of aging, as the proteins can't be transcribed if the DNA is methylated at those parts.

That's why is such a big thing that reversing methylation already happened in humans, as it means that the human body already knows how to regenerate itself (just like other animals), we just don't yet know how to turn on the regeneration pathways safely.
There's a big difference between just running a bulldozer through a building (regulations bad because regulations!) versus fixing bad building work (audit regulations for effectiveness and loopholes). I'm not going to hire an electrician who thinks electicity is made by evil spirits haunting wires and wants to rip them all out, I'm going to hire someone that will methodically find wiring faults and fix them.
Many regulations are written in blood. There is no shortcut to fixing problems, no matter how loud someone is shouting simplistic answers.
The results of the control of their platform are... that you can choose not to use it.

Section 230 says you have a right to speech, not a right to a platform giving you reach.
> The intention of open source licenses was never to force those who redistribute the software to improve on it. It was to provide end users with the freedom to be able to do that themselves, by distributing the improvements as well.

Perhaps that was the intentions of the license creators, but famously Linus for example chose the GPL license precisely as a quid pro quo - I give you code for free, you give me back code for free.
The false equivalence between the right to due process in accessing the world's de-facto global communication platform and eating junk food is honestly sickening to me. The power to say anything you want to anybody in the world has fundamentally different consequences for every society on Earth than the power to slowly poison yourself in the colorfully branded plastic seat of your choosing.
You can use it to flavor baked goods or cheesy dishes. It can also be used to make cottage cheese or yogurt.

If you plan to cook with it, read up on what you're doing beforehand, and be aware that curdled milk and spoiled milk and VERY DIFFERENT THINGS.
Right, but nobody is asserting an implied license claim (as far as I'm aware). The complaint is whether or not any API declaration bears copyright, and if so, whether or not you can make a fair use of such a declaration. They aren't arguing whether or not publishing said declarations implies copyright permission to use them. Granted, that would probably give the Supreme Court an easy out on this decision without having to throw out a lot of caselaw that seems to hint towards API copyright or suddenly reassign ownership of half the world's operating systems code to a handful of defunct holding companies.
A Retrospective on Paradigms of AI Programming (Norvig, 2002)
It would be quite concerning if they disabled cars based by “our automated systems detected breach of community rules” without ability to dispute it in future.

Right now disabling car after violent crash looks like obvious security feature that every car (especially electric).
Unlikely, given the history of uBlock (Origin).
Are they a single community?

If not, I didn't claim it either.

But you already made up your mind in misinterpreting my message so I'll desist.
I've encountered it before. I believe its made it to HN front page a few times.
The problem is that Twitter and Facebook are not acting like news sites because

1) they don't write the stories or in any way pay the journalists

2) news is a minority of the content

3) moderation is not the same thing as curation

4) hosting a story is not the same thing as publishing it.

If I post an NBC News article to Twitter, NBC is the publisher. If that article contains libel, NBC is the one on the hook in court, not Twitter. (However, if Twitter discovered the article was very likely libelous then it would be both reasonable and responsible to restrict sharing the article).

GP is really making one of two authoritarian arguments:

a) Platforms are not allowed to make broad decisions about what sorts of content they want to host. Presumably GP would then also agree that YouTube's ban on pornography means that YouTube is a "publisher," and that every time Reddit remove a racist subreddit that it is acting like a "publisher."

b) If a platform does not want to host the president's dishonest re-election propaganda, they should expect to face financial and legal consequences.

Of course nobody would really say "b" out loud, hence the word games about "you see, Mastadon is a platform but Twitter is a publisher."
Do you mean the same left wing outlet that let the president violate their content policies for years, and said they did so because of the significant of the figure doing it?

I mean, its real easy to get hyper focused on a specific instance and start making claims like that.

But I think if you take a step back, they have let a lot of dirt swing from both side, and in the face of overwhelming pressure from the public have started to be more restrictive on this sort of propaganda as the election is coming up.
> Nobody is dying.

Perhaps we are talking about different things? I was addressing the current COVID-19 pandemic.
I haven’t seen that claim before. Do you have cites?

I looked up Utah’s Olympics build. It cost $2.1 billion, and was 24% over budget. I don’t really know whether that’s efficient or not?
I had a job in college that was basically keeping articles in a CMS for a couple of departments up to date.

The only formatting I got was whatever I could do with HTML and CSS back in 2008. There was a sort of rich text editor you could also use, but it was really hard to make it do what you wanted.
Watching YouTube videos. There are pretty good videos now on a lot of specific software topics (for example I find lots of helpful videos on web, mobile dev, infrastructure stuff). Then just cloning some example repos and breaking stuff until it makes sense.

I am by no means a expert but thanks to just looking up stuff on YouTube I got my head wrapped around some technologies like docker, aws, etc that just didn't make sense when I read the docs.
> the world's de-facto global communication platform

Sorry, was that Twitter? Or Facebook?

It's kinda hard to argue it's a monopoly when I can't figure out which one you're referring to and you're saying "Twitter and Facebook".

Meanwhile, this is why the USPS isn't a great comparison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Express_Statutes
I think the "type of person you want to become" is not static. It changes as you attempt to become it. It changes because you learn more about yourself and the universe _as_ you try to change.

So while your knowledge and perception of the universe is always imperfect, it can also always improve. Pursuit of your better self is the means by which you both improve yourself and your knowledge of what that better self is.
It could, but after what happened to the original uBlock it's unlikely that uBlock Origin would be sold to unnamed developers.
This is good timing. I was thinking about taking up the piano for fun. My plan is to rent a keyboard for a month (Roland FP10/FP30) and going the YouTube route to see if I liked it.
I also have multiple, the scary one is the constant frequency one and it’s the one that comes back if I lay sideways with strain on the neck(Thankfully doesn’t stay anymore). The more tolerable one is the one that sounds like old tv with no signal, this one responds well to massage. There’s also one that sounds like water running in the pipes, I actually like that one - in even helps me sleep :)

Anyway, The orthopedist gave me this leaflet with the exercises illustrated. Pretty basic stuff and in Turkish but the illustrations are good enough:

https://ibb.co/XWnTZVB
https://ibb.co/r6PBbTK

You apply pressure for 10 seconds each, repeat 3 times before moving to the next one.

These are intended to strengthen up the neck muscles.
2019 Viewpoint Inclusion Survey Report [pdf]
How do you stay current on tech when you're doing mostly crap work and umbrella-ing and project managing, and your people are doing all the juicy innovative stuff?

That's my current struggle. I'm leaning on doing work for myself on the weekend and evenings, which will be brutal.