skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a purely technical note, something being "fully decentralized" would usually imply low reach. To amplify voices a platform has to be conceptually centralized enough to allow for a common experience. Which comes with the ability to impose rules. People may disagree on what the rules should be, but the great majority do want some.

The notion of huge swaths of people being sucked into some totally anonymous decentralized platform with no rules and nobody in charge sounds implausible.
While I agree this an important factor to keep in mind and I'm personally very supportive of the idea, I don't think this really addresses the author's concern, which is not too much free speech as in "too many people being chaotic neutral", but more about small radicalized groups with too much free speech as "too extreme views". You can't ban "too extreme" communities.
WRT man pages:

> and they don’t work on Windows

My cygwin install says otherwise.

And even if that were not the case I wouldn't not do something useful because of a deficiency in a particular platform. We have enough issues with that via needing to support IE11 still in the day job! Include the man page on the other documentation. You probably already have it written and can convert it from other docs so it might be very little work.
> The paper DID NOT force her out of Google. Her subsequent behaviour - submitting without approval, rant, ultimatum, and resignation - did. And she wasn't "forced out": she resigned of her own volition. She could have chosen to make improvements to the paper based on the feedback she was given, resubmit it for approval, and then get on with her life, but she went the other way.

This sounds a lot like taking what Google said without including Timnit’s point of view. Is it really fair to disparage an article for having a title like that when you’ve completely ignored such a large part of the issue?
To explain this: in many places women attempt suicide at high rates. If women start using a more lethal method the rate of death will increase to be similar to men. There are some factors that we think are protective that we use to help explain the difference in rates of death between men and women (more likely to be part of a family, more likely to ask for help, more likely to have contact with health care, less likely to use a more dangerous method, etc etc) and if these factors are changing for women we need to understand what's going on because understanding will also help us protect men.

All suicide prevention focuses on middle aged men because that's the highest risk group, but they don't ignore other groups.
I agree that it seems like the problem is more a lack of reputation and trust than decentralization. But how do we build trust in a decentralized network the size of the human population? How do I know if this username on my screen is publishing in good faith without some kind of transitive trust?

I might trust someone my real-world friends trust when it comes to local gossip. If I want trustworthy national news my only recourse seems to be to go through a centralized journalism institute. But which one? Well I'll probably look at what people around are looking at.

If there's a national broadcaster or dominant cable news channel in my country I'll probably look at that, but if I don't like what I see I may be biased to go search out another institution that I find more agreeable. Then you get things like Macedonian teens running sites dressed up to look like US-based newspapers posting straight-up bullshit because there's always a market telling people what they want to hear.

How can we build a decentralized system to overcome people's biases and laziness? People are going to gravitate to sources their friends and family use, and collectively to sources that fit their preexisting beliefs. It's no wonder we're in this situation where people are struggling to agree on reality.

>> Only a decentralized approach to trust and reputation will scale well enough to regulate decentralized content

But what if a decentralized network of trust collectively agree that covid is a hoax and the Earth is flat? I'm not sure if the (de)centralization of the underlying technology really has an impact on that problem.
musl has completed the move with version 1.2, and embedded distros are moving to that.

glibc time64 support is still work in progress, as I wrote in the article
Hiring an activist and then firing them before a paper is published can also be viewed as expecting them to be your activist. Maybe Google wanted to be part of the anti-establishment movement as long as its part focused on competitors.

I find the sequence of decisions made by Google problematic.

Until they describe in intimate detail what their management has been planning to filter they are effectively retracting all research from their institution as having this unknown bias. Like a tabaco lab that blocks all results against their products. That this was shoddy means nothing unless someone would have caught a Google positive piece as shoddy and actually stopped it at this process. I would guess no.

The right thing to do was let it be published, get external critique and end the relationship if most people with no money in the game thought it was bad science.
> Seriously, what happened to journalistic standards and integrity? Why are the actual events being so forcefully twisted to fit a particular narrative?

clicks. after a decade during which they lost money over fist not knowing how to monetise their product on the internet, they all went to the lowest common denominator: clicks. this in turn forced them to start bending the truth (something that tabloids where known for, and for which they got huge profits).

basically we still don’t have a viable business model for this industry. the only one that works needs headlines such as the one you mentioned to function.

the interesting bit is that publication such as Nikkei or the FT are still top-notch, but these are niches, not general audience publications. (also my FT subscription is £30/month and that’s a lot of money if you’re not in that niche)
The CDC haven't released any national statistics on suicide, etc. But there is a file that contains "All Cause" mortality and "Natural Cause" mortality, so I subtracted the two and got what should be the count for non-natural causes. That would include homicide, suicide, accidents, poisonings, overdoses.

Here is the graph I got: https://imgur.com/N4lSSam

The drop-off at the end is because of reporting lag. There is more of a drop-off with these than other causes, presumably because producing a final death certificate takes more time on average (forensic autopsies, toxicology testing, etc.).

Through week 35, there were about 13,000 more non-natural cause deaths in 2020 over 2019.

By comparison, the number of excess deaths through week 35 was 258,846. That implies that 95% of the excess deaths were natural causes.

Here are some spreadsheets I've made from CDC data:

[1] Weekly counts of deaths by select causes
[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G31ODc4eVgzg7etmcCV5...

[2] US Deaths by Week and Year
[2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qucznpabG1aUz0GSiDbi...

[3] U.S. Excess deaths by age
[3] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rcGoWRsNxS_zJQ3pJtbW...
a draft of the RFC contains an example: https://github.com/Crell/enum-comparison/blob/master/rfc.md#... - I would agree with you that using monad as a term here confuses much more than convinces of the feature.
Rather than censoring people, we could take the approach that our worldview is robust enough to withstand competition / challenge. More discussion should in theory wither the fragile ones:

https://youtu.be/BiqDZlAZygU

The real issue is echo chambers, and getting people to voluntarily cross- pollinate their bubbles.
Censoring actually makes this issue worse though.
Do you dispute her ultimatum and/or offer to resign?
Just flag these comments and move on.
Well ask them if drawings of their prophet are islamophobic and let me know what you find.

"brown people are terrorist" is racism, not islamophobia, so, terrible example.

But yeah, Islam is the worst religion we have here in Europe, I'm queer and feminist: of course I'm "islamophobic".

ٱلرِّجَالُ قَوَّٰمُونَ عَلَى ٱلنِّسَآءِ بِمَا فَضَّلَ ٱللَّهُ بَعْضَهُمْ عَلَىٰ بَعْضٍ وَبِمَآ أَنفَقُوا۟ مِنْ أَمْوَٰلِهِمْ فَٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتُ قَٰنِتَٰتٌ حَٰفِظَٰتٌ لِّلْغَيْبِ بِمَا حَفِظَ ٱللَّهُ وَٱلَّٰتِى تَخَافُونَ نُشُوزَهُنَّ فَعِظُوهُنَّ وَٱهْجُرُوهُنَّ فِى ٱلْمَضَاجِعِ وَٱضْرِبُوهُنَّ فَإِنْ أَطَعْنَكُمْ فَلَا تَبْغُوا۟ عَلَيْهِنَّ سَبِيلًا إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ كَانَ عَلِيًّا كَبِيرًا

This is the Quran saying that husbands should beat those of their wifes who are disobedient, and that's just the tip of the iceberg, I could go on and on on about the Quran: I'm Algerian.

Sorry for the victims of my "islamophobia", but it's nothing compared to what the victims of islamic violence have been through.
If you threaten to resign, I don't think you should complain if the other side says "ok".
> It seems to me that it would be impossible to do any social science research, and specifically any research on racism. With this kind of attitude.

I think this sort of veiled personal attack resorting to baseless extrapolation is not a productive line of public discourse.

You should take a step back and think about a) the field of study, b) how the main argument completely ignores the basis of said technical field and what it studies, c) how the argument being created lies on the idea that a self-annointed elite should have the right to manipulate the public to force it to fall in place with it's goals and desires.
Perhaps vest is the incorrect terminology here, or I wasn't clear in the explanation.

The essence of it is, the equity will be allocated to me on written acceptance of the deliverables.

I'm trying to determine, as quantitatively as I can, how much equity is reasonable for my time.
Software projects are development projects, not constructions projects. They are similar to the engineer developing the blueprint for a new machine, not similar to the mechanic assembling it.
Jeans will wear out from never being washed, too. Dirt, grime and dust collects between the fibers and abrade them.

Obviously don't wash your jeans every time you wear them, but once a month if you wear them all the time is fine. Low temperature, gentle cycle, never tumble dry because that really wears out fabrics fast. Consider using liquid wool detergent, since it's more gentle and doesn't have abrasive particles.

Another good tip is to wear clothes on alternate days, and let them hang to air out between wears. Give them a good shake before putting them on, that takes care of a lot of dry dirt and dust, reducing abrasion.

Steaming works really well for wool and wool blends, for freshening up items that are nominally dry clean only. A clothes brush and a steamer can put off the need for dry cleaning for a long time. Spot cleaning takes care of actual stains and steaming loosens the fibers so they release a lot of the dirt stuck to them. Plus it should kill off most of any bacteria, too.

And don't buy Levi's, their quality is mediocre now.
> if you have asked me, i would have issues,wiki,etc. integrated within repo just like Fossil VCS.

This is exactly what radicle does.
I'm not sure there are -net- additional risks with shutdown though. Fewer miles driven means fewer road deaths. More isolation and precautions also lead to fewer non covid deaths like flu and other more serious communicable illnesses, etc.
The only proven approach to successful superforecasting.

1. Choose 2^N people.

2. Develop M binary forecasts, M < N.

3. Send half the sample a forecast of True, the other half the sample a forecast of False.

3. Whatever occurred, True or False, select the sub population to which you sent the correct forecast for further forecasting. Discard the other half.

4. Repeat the forecasting and culling until you have 2^(N-M) people remaining.

5. Announce to the 2^(N-M) that you are a superforecaster and milk them for all they are worth.
There has been a trend among the progressives lately to scoff at freedom of speech as something that stands in the way of progress and majoritarian rule. Which is kinda amusing, given all the fights over it on campuses etc back in the day, that were in many cases about the rights to publicly express those political opinions that are now mainstream on the left.

But what's especially worrying is that some people do remember, and dismiss it anyway, because it "had served its purpose". That is - they explicitly say that it was never an actual principle, but merely the means to enable their propaganda when they were not in a position of power to ensure that they'd be heard. Now that they are, they don't want that tool to fall into the hands of those who "oppose progress". Same thing goes for due process rights, and some other long-held left liberal principles. Indeed, the very word "liberal" is becoming a slur further on the left, and specifically so because they see it as an ideology that protects their enemies. Much of that rhetoric is hard to distinguish from Soviet propaganda of old (take a look at question 42 here to see what I mean: https://archive.org/details/USSR100QuestionsAnswers1986/page...).

And while it's tempting to dismiss all this as some random internet rants that don't matter, it's hard to continue doing that when even ACLU is forced into changing their long-held stance to appease the social pressure and demands of newer members, and when their events are shut down by protesters chanting "liberalism is white supremacy".

Meanwhile, here's what non-authoritarian socialists thought about something similar going on 70 years ago:
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
How do you know?

You're reading a non technical summary of an article, and taking it as gospel.

I think I'm going to wait to see the paper before deciding whether or not it's good.
its implicitly addressed by saying enums map to objects and clarifying how "::class" works, i.e. enum_exists is not necessary, because its implementation would essentially be class_exists.
That depends enormously on the type of error, so you can't say that as a blanket statement at all.
Maybe the author just lacks deep editing skills…
> but synthetic fertilizer, as typically applied on commercial scale farms, is pretty darn bad for ecosystems.

True. It's a big problem. However, the biggest environmental problem _right now_ is habitat loss. As in, massive habitat loss has already happened. We won't feel the really bad effects of climate change for another 100 years. Clearing forests also contribute to climate change.

> Habitat loss is perhaps the greatest threat to organisms and biodiversity.[5] Temple (1986) found that 82% of endangered bird species were significantly threatened by habitat loss. Most amphibian species are also threatened by native habitat loss,[6] and some species are now only breeding in modified habitat

So how do we reduce habitat loss? Well, clearing habitats for agriculture is the principal cause of habitat destruction [1]. So we should try to be efficient with the land we have. Unfortunately organic farming does the opposite [2]:

> The Oxford meta-analysis of 71 studies found that organic farming requires 84% more land for an equivalent amount of harvest

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_destruction#Impacts_on...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_farming#Land_use
> This sounds a lot like taking what Google said without including Timnit’s point of view.

Not at all. I've read everything she's written on the issue including the long message she wrote to the brain group, and her tweets where she shared what Google said when they accepted her resignation. These latter make specific reference to the ultimatum, which was the ultimate reason for her departure.

As I pointed out in the previous discussion she may have faced some sort of disciplinary action upon her return from vacation due to the content of her message to the brain group.

However, when she resigned what Google managers did (and this is no great leap of logic) is figure out that if they made her work her notice period she'd probably only cause more trouble in the meantime, so they brought it forward and made it effective immediately.

This might or might not be unusual behaviour for handling a resignation at Google, but it is fairly common practice amongst different organisations for a variety of different reasons that usually boil down to mitigating some kimd of risk to the organisation.
What do you mean by pretty serious? I looked at three, two are about better documenting ML models/data, and one is about inferring the political leanings of an area by what type of cars are parked in it. None seem particularly groundbreaking to me...
I think what the article tries to get at (and what I’ve also read being echoed elsewhere in similar works) is that this “deep read” ability means having a working memory able to process and extrapolate from what you’re reading.

Reading and chanting the Bible or Little Red Book and taking everything at face value is not being skilled at deep reading. Only if you possess the ability to read and think at the same time will you stop and say “hey wait a minute, this doesn’t make sense”.

On the other end is shallow reading which is defined as reading “God said this, and these people are bad”, and internalizing that instantly without thinking about why.

But as a stand-alone piece I see how this article has a few “gaps”.
To her defense, she was working on ethics in AI. What ethics to adopt inherently comes down to ideology.

While I don't really understand the emissions argument, the rest strikes me as very defensible. If the best language models need giant datasets to excel, it is very difficult to ensure your AI is trained on reasonable data.

I wouldn't want an AI therapist to be trained on 4chan. Now obviously nobody would be that stupid, but unfortunately it seems we are not far from it.

Unless we build models that rely on less data, it will be difficult to prevent problematic biases in the AI we put into production.

If that is the argument Timnit makes, I think that's the exact type of work I would expect from an AI ethics department. And good work at that.
What are some p2p platforms and techs that have the best content / productive uses? BitTorrent, email, Mastodon, DNS, WebRTC and Tor come to mind for me. What makes them different?
Maybe they become those young adults for different reasons? It could be an effect of an alienating society, focused mainly on wealth instead of on the human being.
Lego Landscape Piece of Vatican City State
January seems like the worst month across countries and years.

Given that we didn't have Covid this January, Jan 2021 would be horrifying
Thanks for sharing the app link. I was thinking a similar thing: "if it's for the web, why can't I run it in my web browser?" But I can!
why you think so? just curious
Between two Lisps
U.S. Marines – 2d Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment – Dogs of War
I do not understand why this is macOS only right now, especially considering that anyone can access the web application using this link.

There are still cross-platform differences even when you use Electron. Heck, there's differences when you just use Chrome as a normal browser. For example, the delta value of a mousewheel scroll event when the user is holding down their meta key (ctrl or cmd) can be very different between Windows and OSX depending on the input device. There are differences between Windows Display Scaling for high pixel density screens on Windows and the scaling on OSX for Retina devices. And so on. They're problems right on the edge of app development so they're hard to find and hard to fix. You should not just write an app using browser tech and assume the browser will make it exactly the same on every OS. Until you've tested and debugged on a platform you shouldn't say you support it.
So, it 'seems'. Is there a systematic study measuring the 'literacy' quality of thoughts over time in media?
A company that profits from AI conducts and oversights research of ethics in AI. What could go wrong?

It was just a question of time before something like that blew up.

Edit/disclaimer: said without judging this particular conflict.
Product looks great and I look forward to working with it, but they should think about how to solve the drag-trap on mobile for these types of experiences. I literally had to scroll by touching my finger on the top menu and flicking. Google maps eventually move to a two finger drag on mobile to fix this...
well, stop doing that.
> That said, I find pagers annoying because it's hard to switch back and forth between typing a command and the docs.

I tend to live inside byobu on the command line, or "pure" tmux/screen depending on availability. When opening a man page or similar I do it in a fresh pane so there is less back & forth.

Or of course usually you are using the CLI within a GUI so you have the option of a separate terminal too, or a web browser to the one version or other docs, though when using an external resources rather than the local man page there is the slight gotcha of making sure versions match (the main docs online may be for a newer revision than the one your OS currently has in its package repo).
GitHub is more than just a git host.

It has an issue tracker, pull request manager, manages releases and users,... All this cannot be replicated with a simple "git clone".

What Radicle seems to do is to offer some sort of social network on top of git. The novelty here is not the decentralized nature of git, in fact it is what radicle relies on to make its social network decentralized.
Noone in the elite wants to examine the exploitative capitalist relationships that support fast fashion

The True Cost (2015) documentary trailer: https://youtu.be/OaGp5_Sfbss?t=31
I don't agree. Fail fast fail hard or you deliberately lie and confuse your users.

If I make a mistake - tell me. If you allow me to do it slightly wrong then suddenly in my universe there is no consistency between commands and that is way worse than being told what I did wrong.
> Do we want a model that acts like the average person of the last 20 years? Or do we want a model that acts like a person who has just been through 2020?

You're free to use the model you believe is best for your goals.

I you use real world data from the last 20 years to generate the model then your model will reflect an amalgamation of the real world data collected in the last 20 years.

If you prefer to focus on last month then go ahead. You'll have less real world data and seasonal patterns will have a deeper impact and the model will be less robust, but go right ahead.

If, instead, you want a model that is not generated from real world data and instead just uses your own artificial data that is blatantly and openly manipulated to reflect your personal biases and political preferences then just call the spade a spade.
Ask HN: Video Creators, how do you organize your stock footage?
Hello.

I am looking for ideas and naming/tagging conventions for organizing stock footage the can be reused. As you know, stock footage is beneficial to filmmakers as it saves shooting new material.

Example -
Starting with something basic, such as creating a folder where you essentially dump, say, every piece of video footage that involves 'writing' can be a good start.

Then narrow it down and creating substructures such as:
- writing on the computer
- writing with a pen
- writing with a pencil etc.

It could also be nice if you have some ideas on some software one can use to quickly do a keyword search and get a link/path to the desired clip inside your folders.

Apply and expand this for various types of footage can be a huge time saver.

How do you organize your files?
Are you using any software to tag/find?

Thank you!
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