skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Scientists don't make policy decisions either. Politicians do.

Even politicians aren't that good at solving this issue clearly.

It's because centralization is bad at responding to the needs of individuals.

> The reason that this top-down bureaucratic management approach does not work is because the knowledge we need to plan is local, widely dispersed, and held by individuals. Hayek’s point, which won him Nobel honors in 1974, was that there is no such thing as a centralized repository of knowledge from which epidemiologists, policy-makers, or anyone else “in charge” can pull any required data at any time and then — poof — solve societal problems. He further warned that we must treat economic problems differently from scientific problems. Truer words have not been spoken regarding how we should think about the COVID-19 pandemic. Successfully containing COVID-19 is a problem that both requires scientific investigation and economic thinking.

https://spectator.org/covid-experts-shutdowns/
fries - completely ok: a lot of people get in contact with them, but putting sign on them while not putting warning over any other harmfully (over)fried products seem at least illogical(yea, creating regulations doesnt work in us, or at least there's no efficient mechanism, but still)

sand - widespread construction material, i wonder why they only put label regarding cancer instead of placing usage restriction over maximum allowed radiation flux produced from square meter area of material(some decorative stones would not fit into safe range but are ok for a lifetime risk of any person)
Diversity requirements are a common practice for large law firms.

Many Amlaw 500 firms have agreed to the Mansfield rule[0].

> Now in its third iteration, the Mansfield Rule Certification measures whether law firms have affirmatively considered at least 30 percent women, attorneys of color, LGBTQ+ and lawyers with disabilities for leadership and governance roles, equity partner promotions, formal client pitch opportunities, and senior lateral positions.

Mansfield rule certification is independently audited on a biannual basis.

It's also common for clients to have their own diversity requirements[1].

[0] https://www.diversitylab.com/pilot-projects/mansfield-rule-3...

[1] https://www.diversitylab.com/knowledge-sharing/clients-push-...
You would think so, but it's sort of just become a standard thing on forums, someone claims that linked lists are impossible, someone else talks about how you can do them in various ways (possibly linking to the "Learning Rust with Too Many Linked Lists" book, which is awesome, by the way), and how you don't actually need them in real code, followed by someone saying that this is just Rust stockholm syndrome and they use linked lists all the time... just the fun of being on forums :)
Laptops shipping with HDR displays don't even get it right.
The Arctic Getting Greener
The biggest flaw in human thinking that's even bigger than all the ones in the article is admitting you're wrong on a consistent basis.

We are incapable of doing this especially when we've already invested years and years of our lives onto object oriented programming.

Humans always like to construct logical scaffolds around a biased agenda and they are unable to deconstruct that scaffold when presented with contradictory evidence.

And no one is consciously aware of that this is happening. Contradictory evidence
can be right in front of their eyes but if the programmer already has 10 years of Object Oriented Programming under his belt he's not going to flip on a dime and admit that he's been doing it wrong for 10 years, it just doesn't happen. Instead the person needs to unconsciously recreate a logical perspective of the universe that fits his personal agenda.

Another thing to consider is that this and the flaws mentioned in the article exist within our minds because they aided in our survival. These "flaws" were biologically advantageous and that's why we think this way.

Maybe lying to yourself is technically wrong, but in the end you may be better for it, especially when you've already invested so much time reading and practicing Object Oriented Programming.

Does anyone have any examples of their own illogical and illusive scaffolds about world views that they've built to support their biased agenda?

If so please reply! I set this post up so that it will be very easy for you to find your own examples.
>when they stopped liking its content
well when that content is "these people do not deserve to live, are degenerate, and need need to be killed" I think it is reasonable to protest against that.
You could get a smart TV and just not connect it to the internet. If you were really paranoid, you could disconnect/snip the wifi antenna.

At least my TV still allow firmware updates via USB, so you may not lose that. Not that it'd matter much if you weren't using any smart features, but they do still provide things like improving compatibility with devices (recently HDMI 2.1).

I have a bigger issue with VR headsets. They go a step farther in that you have to use their platform. There's no equivalent of "just use HDMI" in some cases.
IANAL, but I would expect that this could squeak by as Fair Use, considering the website is intended as a commentary on the various UI designs. If it's ever an issue, the fair use rationale could probably be improved by adding some descriptive text to each screenshot. In either case, the damages to the game publishers is minimal: what prospective game purchasers would see this UI database and choose to not buy the game?
I'm a UI designer for almost a second decade now. In short textual content is the last thing I need from a site like this. Forgive me but that is just a load of pointless academic pedantry.
Voyager spacecraft are still feeling the sun billions of miles from home
I like how in the mid 90s neural networks were almost a write-off. "But the neural nets won't help predict the unforeseen. You can't train a neural net to identify an incoming missile or plane because you could never get sufficient data to train the system."
Wonder why there are no routers that offer built in ad blocking.
First, stop moving the goal posts and the whataboutism. Now you are bringing things like political assassinations. Can you go the part where almost we talk about how almost 50 million people starved to death due to the ideology of the Great Leader, or how the country has 300 million excess men because of the one-child policy which led to sex-selective abortions and plain brutal infanticide?

Second, you seem to be the under the impression that I defend the things done by the US State. I do not. It is precisely because I do not like the US State that I do not want to give it more power than it already has. In fact, it has been quite a bit amusing to see your cognitive dissonance of talking about all the horrible things that the US Government has done and yet you want me and everyone else to "Trust the State" with social media. It's almost as amusing as the cognitive dissonance you show when you say you want to take things out of control of "private entities" and put them to the control of the state that you so clearly (and justifiably) loathe.

> Do you really believe you can go from 700 to 115 by hiding the deaths?

Take just the million Uighur in "re-education centers" and call the thing by what it really is - a concentration camp - and suddenly this number already goes up quite a bit.

However, what you are failing to understand is that there is no point in comparing a country that has established (however flawed) democratic institutions with a country whose authoritarian rulers have unchecked powers. The numbers are meaningless if the masses are subjected to tyranny and indoctrinated to never question the authority of the leaders.
Yes it's quite different. It's a deliberate platform lock in. Its pervasiveness does not make it the same as alternatives, it's far worse.
Having given teddit a go this would probably be a must-have for me. I'm by no means an anti-javascript absolutist though.
Debian 10.7 Released
You’re exactly right.

Furthermore, an external box is easy to replace when it breaks or becomes obsolete. What are you going to do when the embedded OS in your sly TV is no longer supported?

No thanks. My TV is a monitor, only. It has never been, nor will ever be, connected to my home network after I first brought it home and updated its firmware to whatever was current at the time.
This is by far the biggest reason I don't buy these.
> Where’s PHP’s equivalent of let/const?

Well php has actual constants that are.. constant. So if you’re asking for an equivalent misleadingly named feature, it’d be people declaring properties with an underscore rather than just making them private.
Why is your name feedfeedback? I think it looks little awkward and spammy if i get email from ”feedfeedback”. Like there was a typo or smth.
C++20 is barely out yet, and not supported by any toolchain. If that's the only version that counts as modern C++, then I agree that modern C++ isn't portable :)
I prefer the term “sly”. They’re clever, but not in ways that benefit me.
Scamming people, running a pyramid or ponzi, selling shovels.

edit: I'm only semi-joking, the official Bitcoin forums quite literally has pyramid and ponzi and straight up fraud schemes that people happily sign up to and refer each other to. There is no attempt to hide them or look legitimate. You'll find ridiculous-to-outsiders threads asking "hey anyone know a good ponzi i can sign up for will use your referral"

The marketplace subforum is nearly totally populated with stolen/hacked accounts, subscriptions using fraudulent/stolen credit cards, it's pretty much a fraud forum.
I dont get this logic. If it is going to take months to scale up manufacturing then we can just add a few more days and take another 2,000 deaths per day? How many few more days are acceptable?
> There's no normal to go back to.

I mean, sure, if you define "normal" as something other than what was there before, okay, but then it becomes a moot point. There is a clear meaning to what "normal" means when people say it, and it's "whatever we were doing before".

Who defines what "normal" really is, anyway?
both of you miss the point. I want to have a diskful of books, I can pass on to my kin and also share with friends (which is like normal books worked for years...). I don't want to have a streamingservice which can censor and restrict my rights to read a book at will.
why is that hypocrisy? Even if facebook censors, it's plausible that their positios is that they want to let you opt-in to censorship. an onion site lets you use the site that they censor on an opt-in basis. (I opted out of facebook just over a month ago).
That's hilarious. I would give you $2 to just keep writing. Sadly the technology is just not there. Everyone is busy welding the next digital prison for popular walled gardens. Building a forest of plastic plants.
I also find it interesting how the spread of extreme ideology is characterized as being the result of the free flow of information, when a cursory look at the situation shows that it is not the case. There are sites such as this one where anyone can pretty much say anything they like, and you don't see this phenomenon here. Where you do see this phenomenon is on sites where algorithms control the spread of information directly based on business incentives centered around attention grabbing and emotional reaction, and less commonly (but increasingly more commonly) sites that outright require ideological conformity to participate.
Dennis Ritchie on Recursive Functions
An accident is a harm that wasn't intended. It might be negligent, it might be due to a mechanical failure. There are different levels of culpability in those cases; but neither is as culpable as intentional harm.

Sometimes being more specific about causation is important; sometimes being more specific about culpability is important.
Of course treatment is better, but privileged Californians see the state "coercing" an addict to go to rehab as evil as well. That's why the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on homelessness rarely goes to the people who need it most.
Very interesting presentation, thank you for the link. I'll have to look and see if they've made progress since then; something I can try at home perhaps.
KDE is working on a "smart box" software to run on raspberrypi. I believe it's called KDE Bigscreen and even has voice search features through mycroft if you are hosting an instance. The project is available in beta right now but it looks like it has potential
The storage company most willing to explain what they're doing is Backblaze. Their blog is great. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/category/cloud-storage/storag...
>My guess, then, is that smoking bans in social contexts (bars, restaurants, parks etc) have the greatest effect, and price also has a strong effect.

Agreed.

The thing that no politician has touched yet is protecting children in their own home more rigorously, i.e. banning smoking in the vicinity of kids. Arguably that's hard because it infringes a lot on what people do in private, and also hard to enforce. Still, even as a mostly symbolic law it would have social impact.
Yeah, hence high level non-GCed language. Using heap allocated linked lists is rarely the way to go if you're not developing for embedded.

However, if you're developing for embedded you'll probably want to be familiar with unsafe either way if you're going to use Rust.

Regarding self-referencing: Rust encourages you to design differently, which I've found leads to nicer and more thought out designs most of the time. Not all algorithms are possible (or efficient) without it though, and for those you'll have to use unsafe if you _really_ have to implement them yourself.
I agree with this (and I maintain a bunch of manual troff, in both senses of the word "manual"), but I also think it isn't the point: the point is that you don't need to learn an additional markup/macro language to produce high-quality manpages.

IME, the tools that are missing nice manpages are less than a decade old and have very good online documentation, particularly in the form of community-assisted ReST or Markdown docs. Most projects would rather just compile those docs into another format than introduce a split maintenance load for manpages.
Ok. I believe if you abuse your workers, you are unhealthy, you cannot be healed easily by HR, and I will fire you/not work for you (this paper is evidence of that this belief is scientific truth, but let's just say it's a belief). I believe if you avoid abusive people in life and at work you will live a happier life. I guess I will have to make a religion out of avoiding abusive people so I can't be criticized for it?
I briefly tried Ubuntu on a notebook computer. Very briefly. Touch screen performance and battery performance were both poor, which would have been show stoppers for a tablet.

I don't know what layer of a Linux system is responsible for making the touch screen or battery work better, but I suspect it's not the fault of any specific distro.
This, anyway, is correct: In 30 years of coding maximal-performance C and C++ systems, I have not spent hours debugging subtle runtime memory safety errors. I have spent strictly more time tracking down compiler bugs.

I can count on one hand the memory errors I have debugged in five years. The longest took a half-hour. (Code that used a "relaxed" atomic load was moved to a place where it needed "acquire" -- which is the default.) So, I eagerly prefer (rounding up) 2.5 hours of debugging spent in five years over spending 5 extra hours every week -- 1750 hours in 5 years -- waiting on builds from a very slow compiler. (I don't know any reason why the Rust compiler could not be two orders of magnitude faster, and notably faster than a C++ compiler.)

My experience may be unusual in that I do not habitually depend on code badly-written by other people. My complaints about other people's code I do use are more typically about performance, conformability to requirements, or poor usability.
Hmm. Ignore the existing coins for a moment, let's just imagine that starting today everyone gets their salaries paid in bitcoin and that's the only currency you can use.

Assuming the value will slowly (and for the sake of argument steadily) increase, would consumption and innovation stifle to a halt and everyone turn into hodlers?

Saving money would become attractive yes, and loans would become expensive or unrealistic (depending on the rate of deflation).

And companies/businesses would value a steady and solid stream of revenue/profit over hysterically chasing constant growth.

Would this really be so disastrous and why?
> First, stop moving the goal posts and the whataboutism. Now you are bringing things like political assassinations

Can you tell me who wrote this and brought up political assassination?

Because I'm sure it wasn't me.

> Have you ever considered the possibility that China has "less people in prison" because their government just kills any dissident and "troublemaker" without any semblance of due judicial process?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25316054

> Take just the million Uighur in "re-education centers"

You mean like the Mexican kids kept in cages while their parents were being deported for the simple fact of being Mexicans?

How many people suffered because of this thing I will link here for the nth time?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in...

And that's only one of many

What about this?

> effects of the Gulf War and over a decade of economic sanctions have resulted in the deaths of 500,000 children due to malnutrition, diarrhea, and other preventable diseases.

(The gulf war was started on a lie, fabricated by the US government)
I use WizTree for this which is faster but maybe less accurate? The end report is, in my opinion, more intuitive and easier/faster to navigate.
Who is only paying 1.5%? That is substandard.
Blaming the current situation on unmitigated free speech is such a blatantly non-materialist take I'm just left agape.
I own several smart TVs but use none of the smart functionality. They don’t even have internet.

TV makers are horrible software developers, for the same reasons that mobile manufacturers were horrible mobile OS developers until Android came along.

We have similar solutions for televisions in the form of Apple TV and Chromecast.

I honestly feel I’m wasting my money when I’m buying a smart TV these days, but you just narrow your choice so much if you only look for dumb phones, you’re almost forced into buying one.
> In what dystopian sci-fi novel? That's just mad.

In this world, where there are bills to pay and you can't disadvantage yourself if you want to be ok. Having bills to pay is, I agree, just mad.
They’re probably level 2 chargers so that when you buy the car, it’s actually at 100% battery. Hyundai does this.
But that sounds like something that will eventually be stopped by YouTube.
>> p(A or B) = p(A) + p(B) - p(A and B)

> How does one add degrees of belief and what sense do we make out of the result?

That's how we postulate [1] that the numeric representations of degrees of belief are added. Doesn't that look like a property that you want a numeric representation of degrees of belief to have?

If you have some degree of belief about A, some degree of belief about B, and you believe that A and B are mutually exclusive, wouldn't you want the number representing the degree of belief of "any of them" p(A or B) to be the sum p(A)+p(B)?

>> p(H) = p(T) = 0.5

> Sure, two equal quantities representing degrees of belief must mean the degrees of belief are of the same magnitude. But what about P(H) = 2P(T)? What does it mean for one degree of belief to be twice as large as the other?

Consider p(H or T) = p(H) + p(T) = 2 p(H) = 2 p(T). Isn't it natural to quantify the degree of belief that I got any outcome with a number that is the sum of the numeric representations of the degrees of belief that I got each outcome?

Or say that, instead of flipping a coin, I toss two of them. They're lying flat on my desk right now. The number of heads up is 0, 1, or 2.

How would you describe your degree of belief about the statements "X=0: there are no heads", "X=1: there is one" and "X=2: there are two"?

Wouldn't you say that your degree of belief about "X=1" is of the same magnitude as your degree of belief about "X=0 or X=2"?

Wouldn't you say that your degree of belief about "X=0" is of the same magnitude as your degree of belief about "X=2"?

Wouldn't that make the numerical representation of your degree of belief about "X=1" twice as large as the numerical representations of your degrees of belief about each of "X=0" and "X=2"? (Where you assign numbers to degrees of belief using the representation we're discussing.)

p(X=1) = p(X=0) + p(X=2) = 2 p(X=0) = 2 p(X=2)

[1] in fact I think this is what we get from postulates which are a bit more general, but for the sake of the discussion we may stay in this level
I'd like to offer another use case, one near and dear to my heart: grandma.

My grandmother, like many grandmothers, has no business being on the road. She is a wonderful person. She is also a horrible driver, a threat to herself and others by virtue of natural impairments (vision, reaction time, etc.)

Taking away her license would make all roads safer, but it would also obliterate her quality of life. The actual need for driverless cars, to me, is a means of retaining her freedom of movement with a far lower level of endangerment.
You would be some sort of metrics to say when something has become a monopoly wouldn't you? Why can't company size be such a metric?
The 'At My Last Place ' Problem
I have no stats. Only my own annecdotal experience.

On Android 2.x, I remember apk download installs just failing, until you changed the settings; but everything else has been pretty easy. A Samsung KitKat phone I was using recently was even nice enough to have a 'allow just this app, or let it be wide open' checkbox.

About the only thing I sideload that's not on the play store is rooting toolkits, but sometimes it's convenient to get the APK another way (Google Play requires logging in to Google, which is hard to undo, for example)
You can. Many dating apps use Stripe.
Why do the publishers need to start with a fancy business model? First they should have a basic website that sells .epub files. I would gladly pay a publisher the the amount that Amazon charges if they would sell me an unencumbered epub.
This article summarizes an interview The Verge’s Nilay Patel had with Vizios Bill Baxter [1]. Their televisions are being sold at or close to at cost, and their business model is tied to tracking and selling offerings on their smart TV platform. Roku has a similar model. I believe that in this case, the total monetization value of using the smart tv services has to be higher than that.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/smart-tv-data-collection-adv...
You're in luck. Buy a commercial TV, or a hospitality TV. For example:

https://www.lg.com/us/business/commercial-tvs/lg-65ut640s0ua

Other TV manufacturers make similar products.
Afaik OpenWRT still has no auto-updating functionality so I'd rather not see something in that poor state on even more Internet connected devices.