skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://academic.oup.com/jcr/article-abstract/42/5/767/18559...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21875228/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ5rx5lDIoc

https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Constraints-Breakthrough-P...

If you google constraints and creativity you will find an endless sea of research.
Probably a refrigerator. A washing machine only takes 8 gig.
He first reported an IFR estimate that was lower than New York's total state-wide fatality rate (amongst all population, not just infected), and did it with a pretty explicit agenda if you read his opinion piece from before the study.

Several articles revealed conflicts of interest behind the study such as the CEO of Jet Blue promising lab funding for someone who didn't want their name on the study if they would sign on, or something roughly along those lines (maybe with another layer of indirection).
I'd honestly have a hard time making a case that Fox News is less net bad for society than Facebook as of today. But Fox News feels like the "end-stage" version of whatever you'd call that particular flavor of classic corruption and human-brain-hijacking, whereas Facebook has been visibly improving its algorithmic behavior control abilities, has already invented new flavors of human-brain-hijacking, and seems to be getting better and better at making us worse every day.

We've learned how to handle the old style of human-brain-hijacking. Those lessons were written in blood and war. Facebook has few parallels, only distant rumblings of far worse lessons to be learned.
Random people who regret participating in GamerGate offering apologies
> Looking only at people as individuals limits you to seeing first-order effects.

Where did I say "looking only at people as individuals"? My point was precisely the opposite: that people are not just individuals, that an individual person's failure to exercise common sense and critical thinking skills, making them susceptible to manipulation, when aggregated over a large enough segment of society, has higher order effects that go way beyond the consequences of the manipulation of that individual person, because it creates an environment where nefarious people can thrive, which is bad for everyone.

Social media technology certainly makes that problem worse by giving the nefarious people more leverage. But you can't fix the problem by banning or restricting the technology; the nefarious people will always have the means to control how those rules get written so that they can continue doing what they want to do, just with different labels pasted over it to satisfy the letter of the rules. Just as has happened with past attempts to do the same thing.

> People seem to be fundamentally incompatible with social media

You are assuming that there is no way for anyone to use the tool of social media without being an addict. That is as false and pernicious an assumption as the corresponding assumptions in the case of guns and drugs, which you are also making.

With that false assumption taken away, your argument boils down to: since some people are incapable of using tools like social media, guns, and drugs responsibly, we have to ban, or at least impose draconian restrictions on, those technologies for all people. That kind of thinking is incompatible with a free society. In a free society, you penalize the people who can't act like responsible adults, not the people who can.
I wrote a migration that dropped columns for a functionality that was no longer to be used.

Then the client wanted that functionality back. Oops.
This is cool, but I want to run my own server.
This is not working correctly for me with Firefox 81, Linux, with AMD GPU. I get a flickery mess. Seems to work OK on my iPhone, though.
The reality is that I commonly see MySQL production applications use non-admin accounts, and have never seen that for Postgres. So there is a problem.

Can you see if there is a grant similar to MySQL's FILE for COPY FROM/TO in Postgres? The last time I checked in early 2019, there wasn't.
Definitely, the likelihood of these things happens goes way up alongside the amount of concurrent tasks, meetings, or other forms of distraction. I’ve seen my fair share of production administration as a side task.
Sounds like it was just a crash/kernel panic rather than actual damage to the hardware?
Sounds like we need to restructure our social safety nets in America to prevent hunger + starvation and make sure people get the health care they need regardless of their ability to pay.
As a GSUITE admin, they absolutely do. ...usually.
But he lived well before the age of the internet and maybe, you know, just maybe when the world changes we should adapt to it rather than to dogmatically hold that what one person thought a couple of hundred years ago should be enshrined and never ever be changed lest the sky falls down.
It's not as simple as that.

I don't know about that. Everything you say is reasonable and not at all an example of the effect I was talking about.

It's totally fine to say "hey it looks like the CFR/IFR is declining because we have better treatment methods". This is a good-faith point, backed up by some easily observable data, and something that can evolve into a discussion about how to effectively manage the disease. It's not a point that I've heard any rational person object to.

It is worth noting though – the UK, as an example, currently already has about 30% of the cases in hospital versus the peak in late April, and about 15% of the deaths. This is much better, but those numbers are increasing pretty rapidly and without careful management risks getting out of control.
We already know humans make mistakes. But for this particular scenario lets blame computers.
here is some commentary from an epidemiologist
https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1316511734115385344
That's my guess too. Naughty naughty. That means his production creds are the same as his development creds!
And https://bazaarmodel.net/phorum/read.php?1,9
For what is worth, I think psychological manipulation is the real bad. Machine learning is just a force multiplier.
>and find alternatives to lockdowns and mask-shaming with the occasional assault

assault for wearing masks, or failing to wear masks? I'm only aware of the former.
It takes a great deal of integrity to admit that you deleted a database because you were mucking around in your infra after red wine.

And it bodes well for your firm that that doesn't get you fired either.

These things happen to the best of us but having dealt with it responsibly and honestly as a team is something you can be proud of IMO.
Me too. Both are iOS. It is weird.

What casues this? Maybe something like viewport problem?
The Fake News of the 19th Century
Absolutely.

Media - especially news media - wherein the product is advertising has always had a perverse incentive structure to stir up society to get more eyeballs. Key in this is the insight that what keeps humans engaged most is angry righteousness and tribalism.

The difference is that media never had the tools that are now available to track, optimize for engagement, and also amplify that engagement with immediate social sharing.

With this toolbox, we've created something that can cause society to destroy itself - the stakes are really that high. It's not the intention of the media companies but it is the result.

Nothing in this world scares me more than particularly our tools created by first social media companies in their compacity to destroy civilization.
I'm optimistic about:

SL - Subjective Logic

OL - Optimal Learning

I'd enjoy knowing if anyone else has run across these, and what they might think.
MTW (Gravitation) is a classic
Though in a tech trajectory where bezels get smaller and smaller, it makes sense to migrate to a Plan B at some point if not now.

And perhaps it's better sooner than later to let the magnetic accessory market grow and become the new status quo.

The magnet seems nice for other applications beyond bezel though, like snapping to the center of a wireless charger, snapping to your car's holster, helping you realize just how much magnetic dust seems to layer everything, etc.
> If you have gotten this far and think this is a self-indulgent pity party, please just stop reading.

I don't judge (actually I feel for this guy), but let's be honest: isn't it? And this email just reinforces the idea. In fact, as all this stuff I've just read settles in my mind, empathy starts to give place to the feeling all of this is kind of... petty?
Cramped, damp and cold housing is bad for health and New Zealand has a lot of both these problems.
Volkswagen and Renault-Nissan EVs outsell Tesla in Europe. Hyundai is also close to outselling Tesla in Europe.
> I'd honestly have a hard time making a case that Fox News is less net bad for society than Facebook as of today.

If you were to put "any media outlet" in place of "Fox News", I would agree with you.

Part of the problem is that so many people think it's only the media outlets that say things they disagree with that are the problem. It isn't. It's all of them, no matter what side they're on or what point of view they're advancing. They will all lie and manipulate when it suits them.
How to build a kernel Linux in 10 steps
This, I keep saying this. It's not a question of truth, it was never really a question of truth. It's about who is saying what.
Just interpreting time as unsigned would take them to 2106. Probably there would be other filesystems to use before then.

There are exactly zero XFS filesystem files created before 1970, so there is no need to represent those times in a filesystem.

I seriously wonder what makes this basic fact so hard for so many people to process. If you have a clue, please do explain.
> but what other option is there for a luxury consumer gadget?

To make something that won't fall apart the moment someone looks at it wrong?

To expect if someone sells something on its aesthetics and how compact it is, that those factors won't then both have to be compromised by the aforementioned $20 case?

Clearly you have different expectations of a $1000 device than I do.
So you mean that all libertarians are "very much fringe" and "Kock-like entities"?

Also, Hayek was not a collectivist. Maybe you should read The Road to Serfdom again, as he refers to "collective responsibility" in the localist sense of "collective", not in the sense of a government.
The US tax rate is progressive. So, if your salary is $100K, then you would be taxed not at the 24% rate on the entire $100k, but rather in progressive steps:

e.g. for $100K
10% on 9,875 (987.5)
12% on $40,125 - $9,875 (i.e. 12% of 30,250 -> 4,235)
22% on $85,525 - $40,125 (i.e. 22% of 45,400 -> 9,988)
24% on $100,000 - $85,525 (e.e 24% of 14,475 -> 3,474)

This example did not account for the standard deduction of $12,000. So, your taxable income would be reduced by that amount.

so the tax you owe (without accounting for deductions) would be closer to $18,684.50). This excludes FICA which is going to be an additional 7.65% on the example $100k as well as any state and local taxes.
The irony is remarkable.
That's the issue today. Everything is serious. Old web wasn't about security and payment :)
Yeah, I think that was an overstatement of my position and unnecessarily provocative.

I probably would mostly go back though. Overall, I’d rather accept a more dangerous world with normal human contact than continue the kind of things we’re doing now indefinitely. But I’m sure I’d be more cautious about visiting a nursing home than I was pre-Covid. I’d be a lot more likely to isolate at the first sign of a fever than I used to be. I’d wear a mask when I’m sick. But I’d probably stop avoiding gatherings, masking when I’m well etc.
> There are exactly zero XFS filesystem files created before 1970

But you can set the timestamp of a file to a time before the epoch.

$ touch --date='Jun 1 1952' foo
$ ls -l foo
-rw------- 1 me me 0 Jun 1 1952 foo

Silently changing the interpretation of these pre-epoch timestamps would break users and so isn't an option.
Works fine for me (Firefox 82 (beta), Linux, AMD RX 5700 XT, Mesa 20.2.0, llvm 11).
The difference is that TV shows and video games are clearly entertainment, so you know what to expect. It’s possible for a fictional TV show or video game to manipulate you, but it’s harder because you know what you’re experiencing isn’t real.

Social media is more dangerous because it can warp your perception of reality: what is happening in the world, what people think and care about in your neighborhood and your country; what is a scientific fact and what is up for debate; which politician is trustworthy and which isn’t. There is no boundary to what aspect of your life Facebook or Google can manipulate. With an ad business model, they are incentivized to expand the scope of manipulation further and further, since their ability to influence you is literally what they sell.
I didn't mention homicides.

Traffic accidents being down makes complete sense -- nobody is going anywhere.

The CDC says there is an increase in suicide ideation https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6932a1.htm

The PAHO says the pandemic exacerbates suicide risk factors https://www.paho.org/en/news/10-9-2020-covid-19-pandemic-exa...

There are some other studies that I don't necessarily know what to make of that already say they are increasing.
The Subaru version on the other hand is more of a "driver safety" tool that would sometimes stop you from drifting all the way out of lane, but was nowhere near reliable enough to be relied on to steer.

Subaru markets it as a driver assistance tool, not as a replacement for the driver.
I agree with you, as did my former work colleagues...BUT, this March i started a new job, and the people at this new job were very much used to work at the office, so working from home (due to the pandemic) is still very weird/tough for them...so they all want the highest quality of video to see each other's faces...and in my opinion it helps zero for productivity...it is all because it makes them just feel better ...they even all admit as much. So, clearly there are people out in the world who want features "just because", and that includes "the highest quality of video". <sigh>
High fructose intake may drive aggressive behaviors, ADHD, bipolar
Happens to all of us. Once I required logs from the server. The log file was a few gigs and still in use. so I carefully duplicated it, grepped just the lines I needed into another file and downloaded the smaller file.

During this operation, the server ran out of memory—presumably because of all the files I'd created—and before I know it I'd managed to crash 3 services and corrupted the database—which was also on this host—on my first day. All while everyone else in the company was asleep :)

Over the next few hours, I brought the site back online by piecing commands together from the `.bash_history` file.
> Computers are just too complex and there are days when the complexity gremlins win.

> However, we will figure out what went wrong and ensure that that particular error doesn’t happen again.

How can you say statement 2 just after statement 1 ? Isn't statement 1 just plain acceptance of defeat ?

And looking at all the replies here, is this a feel good thread for the mistakes you made ?
> small islands with restrictive and defensive covid policies got this right.

Contrast NZ with the UK. That train wreck has hit an island that should have done better.
There's nothing responsible about concealing relevant information from voters.
There are no safe wavelengths at all. Any frequency light at sufficient power levels will damage some part of the eye. Mechanisms may vary. Coherent light tends to be more dangerous but just looking at the sun will do damage and that's definitely not coherent light.

For every part of the spectrum there are safe limits.
Where are you getting 750m cases from? Their own dashboard only shows 35m.

https://covid19.who.int/
Like this never happens in big corps: sure, mostly on departmental level but still enterprises, not startups. They try to escape the annoying and slow as molasses dba’s/devops and install/create/buy/saas systems to avoid the red tape. But then the same things as with startups go wrong. And rather often too; we often had these calls asking if we could restore.

Obviously there are plenty of large enterprise wide data breaches, which, I would say is actually worse than losing a day of data in a lot of cases. So also not so many satefy measures, again, worse than startups; at least they have an excuse of being understaffed and underfunded.
>One needs to stay competent, if not competitive, to stay employable

if you are reasonably competent you can get a boring coding job at a large firm that pays probably twice the average national salary.

Software development pays so well compared to other sectors and is so starved for workers pretty much always, and unemployment is basically nonexistent, I think like the author you might confuse "working hat hip startup XY and making 200k" with being employable and living comfortably
The real mistake was wanting a certificate life longer than the expected time to crack it.
Its absolutely ridiculous and stupid to spend that much money.

You can get a spray bottle with a special tip from amazon and the whole kit is about $20 and will do just as good of a job and clean your ear perfectly. I have one of the amazon cleaning kits and its great. Doctor told me to get it when my hearing was muffled in one ear
Oyez is probably a top 5 website out there today. It's beautifully built in its minimalism, and it does an amazing job of mainlining what is an intentionally inaccessible part of the US government to the public. IANAL, but I've listened to and read hundreds of cases from this site, and it's a seriously undervalued resource. Whenever decisions drop in June (aka SCOTUS season), it's one of my favorite summer redoubts - to ignore all the press write-ups about the cases and just go to the source material.

Edit: As a testament to how deep this website goes, they've got audio from the 1960s curated in the same way. Here's a famous case (and very very relevant today) from 1963.

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1963/39
NetworkManager seems to handle it fairly well, if you’re running a OS/distro/network stack/desktop that uses it
Convenience and/or laziness, typically.

Things like this would have been much less likely to happen in the past -- you know, when the developers only had access to the development database.

But then someone had an idea... think of how great it would be if we got rid of the operations folks and gave responsiblity for prod to the developers, too!
I agree. The question is, if Facebook relied on paid subscriptions instead of ads, would they have designed their algorithm differently?

I think they'd still optimize for engagement / time spent on site.
> Lombardy alone had 450 deaths a day

Keep in mind that we are almost ten million people in Lombardy - a sixth of Italy's population.
The promise of the internet and social media was that it would broaden people's horizons. That has certainly failed so far, but I wonder if it is at all possible to create a social media platform that drives genuine, deep interaction.

I think it would have to be based on curated, pseudo-anonymous conversations with some strong ground rules.

Information is cheap. As recently as 20 years ago, the best source of general knowledge was a set of encyclopedias, at home if you could afford it, or at a library if you could not. Wikipedia is far from perfect, but it is generally as good as encyclopedias were, and far more broad. You could tell a similar story about the news, and many other things.

What does it mean when information is cheap? I'm not an expert, but I think it means that propaganda is cheap too. I wish people were better able to recognize propaganda and brain washing.

The truth does not battle falsehoods with facts, but with emotions. Hate, anger, fear, and distrust are used to prepare the soil for the seeds of propaganda.

It seems like the brain is hardwired to find 'interesting' things, like counterfactuals. Conspiracy theories are the ultimate counterfactual. I admit that I find conspiracy theories to be interesting as well; but I use them to inform my opinion about motivation, not facts.
They're called Intellectual Vultures in some circles...
Usually this grace period for new cars only applies to the liability insurance, i.e. damages to others, not to the insurance against damages to your own car ('kasko' insurance). Meaning you are out of luck regarding your own new totalled 100k car, but the other car you rammed in the process will be paid for.
If you can do this, then yes by all means do it, but that has significant impact on disk usage.
You have described New Zealand’s problem. Tourism was the biggest industry, it hurt and it’s going keep hurting for a long time.
One explanation for the author feeling that way is that the system is has too much automation. Being in a situation where you take on more responsibilities of the system at a shallower level leads to less industry expertise. This, as it turns out, places the security of the system in a precarious position.

These is pretty common, as devs tool belts have grown longer over time.

I think at some point we will stop automating or reverse some of the automation.
That's what you got from this? An opportunity to inject a political talking point?

People are afraid to go into a hospital. From March until September (for some states), people were being turned away because their routine screenings and exams were not seen as essential. Screenings and exams that can catch lumps, polyps, etc. Routine medical care is down across the board. Dental health is suffering.

For food, global supply chains have been interrupted and brought to a halt. These have months-long reverberations that have yet to be fully recovered. The people who suffer the most from supply chain interruptions are the most vulnerable, and those that live in food deserts. Again, money hasn't been mentioned yet.

But yes, you do have a mass loss of ability to provide, and businesses going under at record pace. There isn't a social safety net in the world you could construct to suddenly handle millions going out of work because of lockdowns.
No. The very killing applies selective pressure.
This unfourtunatly is why GPU-enabled JavaScript on the web won't take off.

It works on iPhone and Windows desktop but does not work on iPad Pro 11, not on Galaxy S10, not on some Linux desktops. So, it is inconsistent even within the same iOS ecosystem.

Some might say the OP misconfigured or I need to go about:config, but these kinds of thing should be trivial for developers/users.

Even Flash used to work out of the box across platforms. Why things going backwards?
Etching a Simple Pattern on Solar Panels Boosts Light Absorption by 125%
There are also countless safety measures on physical items that have been iterated on over decades to prevent all kinds of accidents. Things like putting physical locks on switches to prevent machinery being turned on while people are working on it.

Can you imagine if instead of a physical lock it just said “are you sure you wish to turn on this machine”. “Of course I want to turn it on, that’s why I pressed the button”

Some software makes it a lot harder for the user to mess up now. When deleting a repo on GitLab you have to type the name of the repo before pressing delete and then it puts it in a pending deletion state for a month before it’s actually deleted. Unfortunately for developers we typically get minimal cli tools which will instantly cause a lot of damage without any way to undo.