skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Eliminating 230 doesn’t eliminate free speech, it eliminates centralized socialization.

How is it any less eliminative for decentralized services? If you have a private moderated forum (e.g. HN), or even a small one with only 5000 users, that's still more than enough to attract spam and trolls. So the small forum operator deletes the spam and the trolling.

If that makes them responsible for everything everybody says on that forum, first of all, they're screwed. People will post some liability-inducing material while the forum operator is on vacation and they'll get thrown in jail for hosting it. Small forum operators don't have the resources or the risk tolerance to put up with that, so they'll fold, and leave the huge centralized ones to pick up their user base.

Worse, to avoid the liability the ones that remain will over-censor. We already see this with the DMCA. Even transparently fraudulent takedowns are typically executed anyway because it's not worth the risk if you're wrong or the resources of proving you're right. Web forums aren't courts; they aren't a valid entity to be making complex lawful speech determinations in an accurate way, and they won't, so instead they'll do something despicable.

But you also can't use forums that don't moderate at all, because they're immediately overrun with spam and trolls.

The actual problem with these centralized entities is not that they do moderation. It's that they're centralized. Break them up.
Maybe they found the name to be funny?
Horizontally scalable systems are usually slower than single-node solutions because of overhead on passing data between nodes. We at VictoriaMetrics clearly see this - cluster version of VictoriaMetrics needs up to 2x more CPU and RAM resources comparing to a single-node version for achieving the same performance.

Single-node VictoriaMetrics provides almost perfect vertical scalability though. Its' performance scales almost linearly from rPI to a monster with hundreds of CPU cores and terabytes of RAM. See https://valyala.medium.com/measuring-vertical-scalability-fo... and https://valyala.medium.com/billy-how-victoriametrics-deals-w... .
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Probably about 5 years between this account and a prior one. I lurk a lot and frankly can’t comprehend 90% of the posts since I’m not an engineer, but I learn a lot and wish I could contribute more. It’s my favorite community online.
I think that "privacy" is being used as a trojan-horse in this regard. Technical-minded people are especially reactionary to any criticism of HTTPs and the other related things that will inevitably arise from giving entities effectively an end-to-end untamperable and non-user-controlled pipe straight into your TV/Monitor from their server.

In an alternate universe, "ability to control/mitm data going through your network" could have been argued to be a fundamental right such as "right to repair" and "right to be forgotten". Where is the EFF on this? Where is Stallman when you need him again? Why is Mozilla not fighting this instead of pushing DoH?! EU regulators? Anyone?
Depends on how and where you live.

Goes fron $300-$1000 a month for a shared flat to a single flat.
Its a dangerous assumption that a company can conduct ethics research to begin with no? One should just assume it's a highly paid PR group.

Academy has it's challenges with ethics and issues of representation in research even without direct influence of share holders and academia supposedly makes huge investments in this area.
The US has so little restricted movement, that it's as if its unrestricted anyway.

>you should be ashamed of yourself and your propaganda

Rudeness is uncalled for.
Or support open hardware.
If you train an AI on the largest dataset it's possible to obtain then you have, almost by definition, done the most you can to avoid bias of any sort

All politics aside, this is not even true for toy ML problems. If I’m trying to do digit recognition and “all the data I can find” is a billion hand-written 0’s and a million hand-written 1’s through 9’s, naively training on that data will yield a model that’s pretty close to guessing 0 every time.
> The OG Pixel said original quality for life, and that persists

Mine was ended. I've got an OG Pixel.
I get the motivation thing but what else is there to do on a Saturday besides go hiking or take the dog on a long walk.
We’ve been through this for eight months now and people should be getting outside just for sheer boredom.
As I already mentioned, the paper also uses an industry average PUE factor of 1.58, when Google's is 1.1. Other large tech companies can't be too far behind.

Which makes me wonder how far removed AI researchers are from actual production environments. I'm not faulting them, because there's only so much time in your life; the more realistic problem is when someone else takes a paper as gospel and runs headlines with it. Kinda like the trolley problem. Imagine the absurd extreme in this case of governments wanting to regulate large language models because of pollution or to level the competition playing field.
> Why is this?

Because there are lots of FAANG engineers in here (i.e. working at Google, or with friends working at Google, or working at companies who do the same nasty AI stuff as Google) so them unconditionally supporting Gebru on this would be against their direct financial interests. It's as simple as that.
this is naïve. the problems being addressed do exist, independent of whether this particular solution will work. that’s great that the status quo is working for you, but it’s silly to then assert that progress cannot be made.
I love how there's a derisive comment saying "the author doesn't even understand SFINAE".
Maybe read 10x slower, and actually understand and absorb what you've read?

There's absolutely no reason to read 10x faster. It becomes hyper-consumption of vacuous talking points...
Why should our goal be a return to normal? Why not normalize wearing masks during flu season or when you have a cold? Why not mandate payments to let contagious workers stay home rather than spread infection all the time, not just during a pandemic? Why not mandate flu vaccines to attend school or take public service jobs?
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According to moveBuddha, 16% of outbound residents from San Francisco Bay Area moved to Texas in 2020.

Also, Stripe Workers Who Relocate [to an affordable city] Get $20,000 Bonus and a [10%] Pay Cut.
Eh, some do nag about not setting it up, and if this Chinese model is representative of the future [1], the ads may be built-in anyways.

1: https://youtu.be/4eSADWuZskk?t=231
The US likely has something like 50 million people with acquired immunity (14.5 million have tested positive) and another 50 million people are slated to be vaccinated by March (this estimate is assuming weeks after the second doses), with tens of millions more each following month, so it can be sometime next year that the pandemic is waning here.
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My native language has "gendered" nouns, verbs, and adjectives. I think it's culturally insensitive to try to eliminate these.
I add this because no one seems to have mentioned it yet. Without experimenter freedom it is hard to make any inferences from the results of experiment. If the experimental choices you make are correlated with the stuff you're experimenting on in hard to understand ways then the experimental data you gather is essentially meaningless.

To make a dumb example, you measure some system and always observe outcome A. You might conclude that A is a property of the system you measured, but it just so happens that your decision to do the experiment is correlated with the system, so it always has A when you measure it, but it has other properties at other times.
Sure, if you have no parents or grandparents or other relatives over the age of 55 that you care about. No friends, co-workers, doctors, mentors etc over 55 who you care about. And not caring about anyone over 55 in general, as fellow human persons.

And also not relying on anyone over 55 in an indirect sense - those working in and managing hospitals, legal systems, physical infrastructure, schools and universities, banking, agriculture, industry and so on.

If you truly are a person like that, for you there is nothing to be concerned about - and you are probably enjoying the reaction you are getting here.
"....toss it all and start from scratch." with a different homegrown framework :-) (this time done right, of course)
As i said, ianal and it's my own personal opinion. Others here have better expressed my views on the subject. Disruption is not always a good thing. Especially when it has large societal impacts.
Weird, there’s very little JavaScript and there shouldn’t be anything messing with that specifically. Are you sure the culprit isn’t a browser extension?
That can be just as bad, but for different reasons. It distorts the economy, in potentially very harmful ways, because it can induce some really perverse incentives. Real situation: in India, Western companies paid so much above the local rates that qualified doctors were working in call centres because it paid many times more than working in a hospital or clinic. When my friend visited, he was told not to tip anyone. Because what might be a casual £1 tip to you, might be a months wages to someone else. So to answer your question, giving people "free money" without any reciprocal commitments can be extraordinarily harmful.
This is a political post.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotinamide_riboside

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotinamide_mononucleotide

Both are NAD+ boosters, but the science is far from settled. Bioavailability is a huge open question.

https://blog.insidetracker.com/nr-nmn-longevity-supplements-...
Epidemiologists likely do know something about human behaviour.

One quote from this article:

“For some, it has gone back to normal, and because of this, it will be two to three years before things are back to normal for the cautious, at least in the U.S.”
it is called 'passion'
How's your experience with Fable, especially when using third party JS libraries?

I'm really having fun experimenting with F# for my API server, but I hesitate to use it on the front end.
Think of the blowback if the paper was published!
Shaming someone making claims like this is not rude, it's a public service.
Yes! My wife is an Editor. Once office publishing became a thing, folks forgot they needed and Editor. Downhill ever since, at least on that front.
What about comparing TimescaleDB to VictoriaMetrics? There are some old benchmarks [1], but it would be great to see updated benchmarks as well for the latest TimescaleDB and VictoriaMetrics versions.

[1] https://valyala.medium.com/measuring-vertical-scalability-fo...
I think it would be probably easier to have a convention of programs to output their autocompletion options similar to how github.com/urfave/cli does.

https://github.com/urfave/cli/tree/master/autocomplete
Wow, that's super cheap! Here in Grand Rapids, MI, USA (generally considered a low cost of living area) an unfurnished apartment in not great parts of town is on the order of $800/mo, plus about $150/mo in utilities, depending on how cold you can tolerate in winter and how hot in summer, i.e. double the price.

Now, actual studio apartments command a premium here, and anything that small is hard to find, you'll more likely find an 80m2/800 sqft converted space in the basement of someone's house for that price. Also, housing is cheaper the farther you go from downtown, and I'm not sure how good public transit is in Leipzig, but it's pretty car-centric here. We have a bus system, but that basically means an extra hour anywhere you want to go, which is a massive pain when you're already working 2 30-hour-per-week jobs.
I wish they would state what a "minority" of the epidemiologists is. 345 (slightly under half), that's a lot different in my mind to say, 7.
> There are countless better alternatives today: Rust, Swift, D, Haskell etc.

These aren't alternatives and are strictly worse as far as language power and expressiveness goes.

There is some value in simpler and dumber languages, but your post essentially boils down to an anti-intellectual "programming is hard, let's go shopping instead".

Some people need complex tools to solve complex problems.
My conjecture is that school systems tend to mirror the population they serve, with blue collar schools tending to be more authoritarian (it's cheaper to operate with the regularity and order of an assembly line, after all), and wealthier schools placing more value on independence (as the parents would demand and be willing and able to pay for). Teachers in schools that operate like factories (or prisons) will be managed like blue collar assembly line workers. Teachers in white collar schools will be given the autonomy needed to adapt the school's policies and curricula to the unique needs of each student; they will be managed like white collar professionals.
Sure, from the filmmakers perspective, but it isn't narratively incoherent the way it is for someone headed into a battle. It's maybe strange that a giant slug would sexualize a humanoid, but maybe that's not what is being implied.
I’m skeptical that vaccine production and distribution will in the US will scale that well. I certainly hope that it will happen, but given that the country has failed on just about every other pandemic related front tempers my perspective.
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Superdeterminism just says that there is no statical independence. Not sure where you are getting the future determines the past from that. However, yes, in a deterministic world there is only one way to get to a certain future, so I guess the future does indeed determine the past. Is that what you mean?
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Here's the link to the fact that only 20,000 people have died of Covid under the age of 55. Under the age of 55 is 80% of the population in America.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm
Yes, the point is that democracy can exist in more places. For example in the workplace or even within certain supply chains (such as food production).
We'll just stay away from those people it's very simple.

It's not a societal problem that's an individual problem.
Well Europe has people in soccer/football stadiums. The US has people in football(American style) in stadiums. The states has "famously" had several country music concerts that, well probably not a wise idea to attend, were packed.

And I feel pretty confident saying that practically every country on the face of hte planet has atleast one wedding a day.

I mean, I've been to 4 funerals over the summer and I live in Canada.

Where are you that there are no funerals or visitations to attend?
If it's OK to assume that Jeff Dean cannot understand certain things because of his ethnicity, is it also OK to assume that people of other ethnicities cannot do or understand certain things? Is this the kind of culture we should be encouraging?
See also VictoriaMetrics vs TimescaleDB vs InfluxDB benchmarks:

- https://valyala.medium.com/measuring-vertical-scalability-fo...

- https://valyala.medium.com/when-size-matters-benchmarking-vi...

- https://valyala.medium.com/high-cardinality-tsdb-benchmarks-...
There is a point, but it is overstretched. make_overloads is actually a cool trick. Yes, it would be nice if there was a version of this in the standard library, but then again, it is just a few lines of magic. That will not be the first lines of magic in your C++ codebase.

If you compare the sum type and pattern matching story with modern languages, sure, you will find C++ is lacking. And it is. However, such a comparison is ignoring history.

I actually like variant. It is the best sum type we have in C++.
Uh, you've gotta do the exact opposite: you have to make people aware that they will have to wear masks and maintain social distancing even after the vaccine, for who knows how long.

Will depend on vaccine adoption, availability, etc.

Makes you wonder if stricter measures shouldn't have been taken right after the initial spread, just like many countries did and are currently in economic recovery.
They wouldn't have access to that information. ProtonMail doesn't provide it.
The senior citizens need to be on quarantine while you're right the young should be free.

80% of the population is under 55 years old. This is not a societal problem.
Damn...I've forgotten more about the timelines of this stuff then most people know.
For some people like forever. Developers can be banned because their country/area happen to fall under US sanctions.
I don't understand why it's so frowned upon in cities like LA to arrest someone for disposing used needles on the ground, and sending them to jail. I'm not going to pretend that it's doing the homeless any favors. However, the alternative of letting them poison themselves with drugs, and I don't see how that's any more humane.

I think the real reason America fails the homeless is not a lack of empathy, but a "it's your fault because you touched it last" mentality. Housing first requires people who work with social workers. These people already draw a lot of ire when they fail or deemed as too harsh.
“I don’t care if my actions kill old/at-risk people” is indeed a perspective, but I’d argue it’s a bad one.
A reminder: 70% number is probably based on the estimates of R_0~3.0 for Covid-19 (1-1/3). Even with partial vaccination some activities can be carefully resumed as long as R_t stays under 1.0.
What is the difference between linguistic virus and RNA virus?
This sounds like a game of cat-and-mouse. Lists of 'known' DoH DNS servers will be collected, and PiHole-esque blocking will take shape via more advanced filtering.
Closest 2 servers in OpenNIC.
I saw the workaround, but I’d rather not go against the grain of the framework like that.

I faced the problem when trying to add layout styles to a component from the outside — basically, the parent should decide a component’s position/dimensions/etc.

FWIW, I don’t consider myself particularly good with web stuff. I’m just interested in graphics and I’ve beaten my head against it for long enough that I’ve figured out how to make some things :)
Great. I've set up Kodi on my Mac. Of course, there's no way to get the content from my machine in the office, to the actual TV that I can see. So that doesn't really solve any problems.

Unless you mean buy a separate box, put Kodi on it and attach that to the TV
Rust and D are not "strictly worse". They are better in some respects and occasionally worse in others, but even there the gap has been shrinking.
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I wouldn't say that, and my comment wasn't an accusation.

If you want to be guilty of something, I'd say it was approaching the conversation adversarially rather than charitably. "You were asked for a source" treats the other commenter as an inattentive schoolboy, and coming from a place of curiosity with a question like "But how do you know that's actually what happens?" might have done the job just as well.
Shows how fast websites without javascript are.

Ironic, since JS was initially added to make things faster (ajax forms etc)
The difference is that they (China/Korea/Taiwan/&c...) learned their lesson the first time around, and had the policies, systems, and general training in place to stop this early.

My suspicion is that the reaction of a US/EU/ect... to the 'next' pandemic will be the same regardless of how bad this one turns out, simply because they will have the time (as in, years & decades) to get their policy responses in order.
> other ethnicities cannot do or understand certain things? I

I don't think that those ethnicities have been in the same position of power as the one represented by Dean, so your point is moot.
It seems prolog.
would be nice to see it working with a big database like wikidata
Section 230 has nothing to do with copyright infringement, that's specifically excluded and instead falls under the DMCA.
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If only you could see how entitled and childish you sound.

But I agree: with that mentality, please stay away from any free (as in freedom) software. Please continue paying MS to deal with you and your attitude.
Nobody cares if YOU use linux, certainly not the community.
All kinds of not-so-good people believed they did "a public service" when they shamed or did horrible things to others.

I won't even mention a great example, lest I invoke a famous internet law.

All it takes is believing your side has all the truth, that is absolute and can't and shouldn't be unchallenged, and that the other side is necessarily not just misguided (they could not be merely having a different information and/or opinion, as your have all the truth), but also malevolent.

How about let's fucking DO compare "the entire flu population during completely unlimited movement to COVID in a healthier group during restricted movement" and the you can just point why you think it's fradulent, and the other side can point why they come to see the light and agree, or why they still disagree for this and that reason?
I’m interested too.
What a terrible state of affairs we're in now that you can't trust the network's own DNS. Please consider making it an advanced option to switch back on the DHCP provided address.
I don’t think those kind of changes are what they mean. Many of the quotes seem to be expressing reluctance to socialize or be in large groups.

Perhaps more importantly, I think “let’s never go back to normal” is catastrophically bad messaging for those kinds of changes. A lot of people are desperate to go back to normal as they understand it; if we tell them “let’s never go back to normal”, they’ll tell us to shove it, even if they would have been fine with masking when you’re sick and excited about mandatory sick leave.
I live outside the cellphone coverage area. Your move, manufacturer.
I'm less cynical about this as a concept.

Would you feel differently if, say, Apple hired a "Privacy Watchdog", with a long history of activism on the topic? Someone you could trust to speak out if something was amiss.

If the person is later fired, that's a sign that something is wrong at the company. But if they stay, and have generally good things to say, that's a sign the company can be trusted.

I do think this is a good system!
I hate my Samsung. All of our TV content comes through our Xfinity internet (no digital antenna, no cable box). However, when you turn the TV on the Samsung defaults to "Samsung TV" set of stations that look like local TV and have commercials. They hijack your internet, bandwidth that you pay for, to feed you commercials that they get paid for.

How the hell is this legal???
I Disagree. But in particular I a think it is important for one to care about the ethics of what one works on and whom one works with. This is an industry where people are generally in a position to be choosy about what they do and it is a myth that it’s generally possible to separate something technical or theoretical from how it is used.

Even if one releases software with a license like the GPL that explicitly doesn’t constrain what the software is used for, I think one should still care about how it is used and the ethical implications of it.
HN strikes me as being pretty consistently anti-Google almost every time Google comes up, so I don’t think this is the reason.
I don't remember where I read that, exactly. But here's an example that discusses some of these ideas: https://www.jstor.org/stable/350357