skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The algorithm here really is the perpetrator. The insane things I've had recommended to me by Youtube after watching rather boring philosophy videos or a bit of history is amazing. One of their recommendations was literally full on nutter ranting at a camera - and it came up on a video of a guy who builds and tests medieval longbows!

I much prefer recommendations from people.
> Has there ever been a case where a vaccine is MORE effective than actually getting and recovering from a virus?

Eradication of diseases and massively decreased death counts due to vaccinations. That's a pretty strong argument to support the idea that the vaccine is more effective than letting a disease rip through a population.
I never understood why American conservatives want more government oversight over private companies that offer services for free
I've got firefox as my default on Oxygen OS. Don't remember the last time chrome was opened on my phone--by me or by other software. Firefox is even handles the tabs embedded in other apps.
Because it's a new vaccine and the mRNA ones are a completely new type of vaccine. They seem safe in limited use over a short period of time, but we don't know yet what effects they may have in the future.

Also there is an aspect of if you are young and healthy your risk of serious effects from covid is low. Even if your risk of problems from the vaccine is low, if your risk of serious effects from the disease that the vaccine treats is also very low then why bother taking any action.
If I was mayor of a small town I would be rolling out fiber like there is no tomorrow and zoning everything to allow for detached units like these [0].

Interests rates are at their lowest and the rise in property value should more than pay for it.

[0] https://www.dwell.com/article/prefab-home-office-accessory-d...
The three different services have different requirements, and one allows lasik/etc.

Note that if you wash out in the Navy, there's a lot of crappy jobs you can be assigned to.
> As an engineer, I think we need something else. Masters in engineering administration. Teaching engineers how to deal with bs that takes 5 years of career to figure out

The "Executive MBA" is trying to fill this void, I believe.

I'm a mid-career corp finance exec that has painstakingly resisted the inertial forces that want me to obtain an MBA. I do not see the value from an investment or knowledge perspective (I went to bschool for undergrad). At this point, my experience and existing network far outweighs what a MBA on my resume would provide however I am intrigued by the EMBA. My hesitation is pulling focus away from what's working for me.
Currently we have a debt based monetary system, so banning debt means we would need an entirely different monetary system. This might be worth doing but there's a lot of challenges, specifically debt in some small amounts allows flexibility and options that don't exist otherwise. Some other mechanism to fund future work would need to be created to fill that gap.
The actual paper does conflate the personality type with the culture (i.e. intergroup conflict), at least in the first section, "The psychological dimensions of TIV: an integrative literature". See https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.11013... I think that's what the reporting is picking up on.

It actually made me curious what evidence there is, if any, in the domain of psychology showing a meaningful connection between individual personalities and cultural analogs, beyond a cultural phenomenon that is superficially similar simply making for a more hospital environment for the personality type, or vice-versa. In other words, by studying one (personality type or cultural phenomenon) can we draw substantive conclusions about the other in terms of genesis or remediation? We (as humans) love making such equivocations, but absent strong evidence they're mostly just exercises in, e.g., the composition fallacy.
They have the right to do it, and it will make the world worse off. Taibbi always has had a great guy instinct for normal Americans and how they react to elite condescension, and he's right here.

My idiot brother got twice as radicalized when they kicked Alex Jones's crazy ass off YouTube.

It made people feel better and more morally superior, especially employees. It hurt my brother. Now when he watches that asshole, he's on a website where he is guaranteed to never get the other side.

If you support this, then you don't know anything about how humans react to censorship.
Yeah, but they just passed Project Connect so expect that to change quite a bit. https://www.capmetro.org/project-connect
I'm genuinely curious as to why people have so much faith in big pharma after the whole benzo crisis that's hit America. Weren't these same companies paying doctors to get people hooked on Xanax?
For me, it was Taskmaker and Tomb Of the Taskmaker
???

You literally posted that using a statically typed language prevented breaking changes?
When you get insulted by a neurotypical person, you'd call that person a jerk. But when you get insulted by an autistic person, the problem is that they are autistic?

There are plenty of autists who go through life without 'yelling at and insulting' people.
This is a non sequitur. Free speech is an ideal. We would like google to preserve free speech, even though they are not legally obligated to per the Constitution. If their EULA does not uphold that ideal, then they should change it, not compromise the ideal.
This has bothered me for a long time and the fact it still drags on blows my mind. Predominantly white protesters in Portland misappropriated protests over racial inequality for their own disphoric amalgamation of social issues. There's little agreement among them about the goal of the protests or even why they're protesting. I know many of those people. Many have no idea why they're there, it's just drama to them, something they can do in the face of the most socially regressive times of our generation. On the other side people see this, point and say, "See? Told you I was right about those people."
Nobody seems to give a shit about issues racial minorities and poor face, in the same breath ravenously supporting covid policies and their unprecedented impacts on income and social inequality along mostly racial lines. I'm surprised they aren't chanting, "black lives are essential."

This is not helpful for racial equality. It's not helpful for anybody except the psychopathic industry of military oppression of civilian populations. Of course they're walking all over our social contracts, the continued protests have opened the door for them.

Disruption of systematic inequality is needed, but this ain't the way it's going to happen. As a privileged work-from-homer, white person, whatever, our first obligation is to listen to what racial minorities are saying to understand the nature their struggles. Otherwise you can tell yourself you're a virtuous champion of wokeness, but you're really just a part of the same problem.
I will wait because I a tiny bit skeptical. The first people to get it will be a huge study group and the results will, I expect, convince me to take the vaccine as well.

But, you never know if the vaccine accidentally turns us all into infertile beings. Which would be awesome, and I'll line up to get a shot. I hate humans.
I’ve implemented a lot of protocols. The more complex a protocol is and the more moving parts, the harder it is.

The fundamental challenge is complexity. Understanding how to build this stuff is a mix between figuring out which complexity to expose to “the masses” (masses here being other developers) and what else to hide in abstractions or better tooling.

I think the market would look very different if senior Linux kernel maintainers (including Torvalds) got together and said “this is the Linux power save API - implement it”. The challenge is that the same HW powers Windows (and used to power Macs and probably still does to at least some degree). No protocol worth a damn can handle that much variability. So then the question is can the firmware and driver code be given less to be responsible for rather than more and then let the kernel make all the decision making power. The problem with ACPI (at least as I understand it from reading about it superficially - I’ve never read the spec itself) is that decision making is extremely interdependent with the kernel ultimately not being fully in charge of decisions.

For example, a simple design for something like this is defining ACPI-lite that handles 80% of the hardware that ACPI currently supports but that drastically simplified the mental model and lets the kernel implement all the common logic with the driver and firmware not being responsible for anything more than translating kernel commands to the HW. Then you leave ACPI for the remaining 20% of HW that doesn’t fit in the bucket but you also make the warning verbose (you’re running legacy ACPI device X - this may degrade your battery power / prevent sleep wake from working effectively).

If they can also get Windows kernel engineers on board then you would have a compelling market forcing function on HW makers/driver writers to simplify their code.
I've heard of Seth Godin a lot and read his short blog posts here and there. However, I've never read any of his books. Which of those 3 books is your favorite?
It is wrong. It IS un-american. And no, it will not "radicalize" us. Radicalize? To what? Being free speech? Being pro-debate? Allowing discussion so people are free to choose for themselves? And youtube is not just allowing for content. They aren't a "content allowing" platform. They are creating it, curating it, producing it, etc...
No, the ftc needs to regulate them (and all social media, frankly) as a public utility, and then GUARANTEE constitutional rights.

The only way to combat "bad" speech is with MORE speech.

You don't "win the argument" by censoring it. If you're censoring content, you're a freaking bolshevik, and have no place in a democratic-based constitutional republic. Pure and simple.
Thanks again, I can see now how my question was nonsensical...
A similar issue exists with metal coolant reactors, which conceptually would be very simple, and would use proven technology, fuel rods and cladding and have similar or better operating characteristics to molten salt: low internal pressure, high temperature, inherent safety (fuel is physically separated from colant and never touches internal piping, pumps etc.)

It's very hard to formulate a metal coolant that has low melting point (pure lead is already too high), does not react with air or water (Sodium cooled reactors are notorious), has low cross-section (Hg fails), does not activate under the neutron flux to long lived chains (Bismuth and potassium in eutectic alloys) and does not dissolve the steel structure of the reactor (Tin).

If this problem could be fixed and have a safe, inert metal coolant with good thermal characteristics, fast breeders would become common place.
> I'd guess Hispanic immigration will trend in the Republicans favor and outpace upper-middle class migration from the coasts, which favors Democrats.

This was the RNC's prediction and former goal for future growth. It was correct until Trump disrupted it. The only place where this is still true is in FL.

Until Trump loses his grip on the Republican party, Hispanics by and large will be flocking to the Democrats.
China authorities detain Bloomberg News Beijing staff member
Short term:

People working remote in other locations will have higher salaries from SV companies since they are used to paying those salaries.

People moving from SV to other locations should expect moderate drops (10-20%). In my own experience moving to a 0% state income tax state, it effectively canceled out the savings from CA tax but the cheaper housing more than made up for it.

Longer term:

Tech salaries will come down as employers hire from a larger talent pool that is cheaper on average. This will make it hard for people in SV to work remote as they won't be as competitive. This probably means SV will become more affordable.

> be compensated the same as those in SV?

Generally speaking no, compensation has an aspect of location. Companies are going to have a harder time paying SV rates if they know you are in a cheaper area.
Yes. I've got a 28HP Kubota L-series, and have been contemplating upgrading to an M-series, but even 46 would probably set us for a good while and lots of farmers around here still find use for tractors 50+ years old that are smaller than that. Yes there are huge JDs beyond that, and the M-series tops out at 168 HP, but 70 HP still seems way beyond "hobby" level and I'm honestly and genuinely surprised to see it called that way. I mean sure I understand that in the midwest there are ginormous scale farms which are very important and a backbone of certain parts of our agriculture, but there are still plenty of farms in New England and other areas which are doing a few hundred acres or less, and experimenting with different kinds of farming (like paddy farms for rice) and intensity which alter the need for sheer power.

I don't have the slightest disdain for the megafarms, but it seems a bit blinders to consider them to be the only thing in existence too. Not that there couldn't be other issues with this, but 70 HP would be plenty useful at the right price and running cost. Calling it "hobby level" seems dismissive. Something kind of roughly equivalent like the M4-071 is at least $50k, I'm not sure how many hobbyists are dropping that kind of capital on a whim in the country. At $50-100k most families are going to be thinking about commercial ROI aren't they?
There was no SWAT team. They rang the bell, stood outside her house, called her on the phone multiple times, and eventually resorted to... knocking loudly.
I really don't agree that this is "the latest salvo in the fight against 'domestic anti-democracy information'". Youtube's generally had a very permissive stance on information they don't think is accurate; they're taking this one, targeted action against a uniquely dangerous threat.
Yep, politics aside I'm very pro vaccine. Vaccines have done amazing things for the world and anti-vaxxers especially those with resources to influence hundreds if not thousands of others are horrible people.

However, a vaccine that's been rushed through gives me pause. To be honest, I'm mostly worried about cognitive and cardiovascular side effects. I've distanced thus far and remain covid free even though I've been in NYC the whole time. It'd be stupid to throw all that away because I got side effects from the vaccine.

Unfortunately, I think the pledge of past presidents to be "vaccinated on tv" is poorly thought out, largely because it will basically just sow conspiracies that they "just had saline injections to influence the masses".
Again, has there EVER been a case where a vaccine is somehow MORE effective than getting and recovering from a virus?

I ask because the answer seems so obvious, of course not.
There are plenty of rubes on the left but I don’t bitch about them nearly as much because, at least in the current political climate, they aren’t active barriers to the changes I’d like to see in America. I’m not someone who believes left and right are intelligent & enlightened vs ignorant & foolish. Though I do believe the right to be more cynical and openly self interested.
You’re assuming that everyone talks about the USA, but they probably don’t.
Worth looking at it from the viewpoint of the Multi-Armed Bandit problem as well, or in other words, companies sometimes shift their focus from "exploration" to "exploitation," and it can be a challenge for the company to learn to shift back to "exploration."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit
Yes, I had a character in the game. I had an extremely over powered ship, and then if you managed to defeat me and board the ship you would find I only had a single credit.

I was a beta tester for EV Nova before I joined as a staff member. I got the character for winning a bet against Andrew Welch that I could hack the shareware mechanism of Snapz Pro (the screen capture tool). I did it by ignoring the shareware code itself, and instead patching the watermark code so the rectangle was 0x0. So you got nagged but the tool worked.
Charging overnight + installing solar panels near the fields will solve problem. Of course it’s easier said than done, but changing processes will lead to the solution.
They do still have the ad-blocking stuff built in (although is that much better than Privacy Badger?).

One big plus for me is it syncs with my phone (where I do vastly prefer Brave to Chrome).
Some of us are over 45. Some of us have regular contact with people over 45. Some of us know people who've died of COVID who are under 45.
For speed purposes I always hook my horses up in series, not parallel. With 10 horses I can usually pull a carriage at like 160mph on level ground ;)
I won’t be getting it, on principle. But the vaccine itself probably won’t hurt, if you don’t care about the context.
Bypassing currency controls should be high up there.
Not sure why you would think a vaccine being managed by the government will be rolled out in a sane and consistent manner?

edit As was correctly pointed out, I should mention I'm speaking purely about the US and not any other country.
Even if you pay the chat history is a massive pain in the ass to get out of the system, something that was a deal breaker for me when I was running a business.
I was referring to the entire discussion
It's been glorious!
Taibbi and Greenwald are two people on the left that still have a healthy attitude to question things, and not to follow the left echo chamber.
It seems they want to replace their managed AppEngine service through Cloud Run in the long run.
You can't catch heart disease from breathing near other people with heart disease.
>cost $250k

for reference here’s the used market for one of their larger tractors: https://www.tractorhouse.com/listings/farm-equipment/for-sal...

Some combines just for the fun in it: https://www.tractorhouse.com/listings/farm-equipment/for-sal...
Sci-fi surveillance: Europe's secretive push into biometric technology
Back in 2012, I attended an event with Microsoft Venture sponsored for alumni by both the engineering and business schools at my University. I went hoping to meet cool technology people and exchange ideas. When I arrived and started talking to people it became clear that I was the only alum from the engineering school.

At that point, I had worked in Silicon Valley for 12 years and had several successful product developments under my belt. Yet I couldn’t understand a word of what the MBAs were saying. Their words would stream out and there was no content or substance whatsoever to anything they were saying. I left with the impression that very few had any idea what technology development was or how to bring a technology product to market.

When I mentioned that I was from the engineering school, few wanted to continue the conversation.
No. You’re talking about 2 or 3 cases out of millions. It’s very rare to get it twice.
I was onboard being first in line until the allergy reaction news. I have a severe allergy so I think that means I'm waiting as well.
If your town or city wants to be the next silicon valley

Petition your state to change laws nullifying non-compete clauses
Even before Jones was kicked off, people went to YouTube for insane conspiracy theories and ended up, due to the video recommendation system, still only seeing one side. It really didn't matter whether Jones was on there or his own platform, people watching his videos still only see his (and related) videos.
It's not clear that feeling like a victim is ever a good approach to life and maybe a bit of bludgeoning would help in the long run. No matter how bad things are because of someone harming you, it can be just as bad because of nobody's fault. For example, born with a disability vs acquired on from an assault or unemployed because of discrimination or unemployed because of lack of ability. The outcome is the same and perhaps we should be encouraging all people to make the best of their lives and not suffer from feelings of vengeance and blame.
All of your indicators mean absolutely nothing if you do not measure the difficulty of the tasks submitted. Do that, then we can talk.

It's like saying, "your productivity as a carpenter is how many houses you build in a year" while refusing to take into account how big or complex to build are those houses.
What has always bothered me about Facebook and hate speech is the arbitrary way it’s imposed. To me it definitely has a bias against conservative speakers while giving maximum leeway to those on the left. All hate speech should be taken down, regardless of who it’s about, against, or who is posting it.
It's also not binary. Even if a vaccine is not 100% effective at preventing asymptomatic disease and transmission, it's likely to have some effect.
You're right I should give ProductHunt another go. I listed Hacky on ProductHunt a long-time ago by it's former name 'Dark Hacker News'. It's a much different and better app now so it'd be worth listing it again.

Do you have any tips for listing it on ProductHunt?
Authoritarians always justify silencing speech for the greater good. You can reject lies with counters to those lies, or do it your way, and end democracy.
Not sure about the testing, but as someone else pointed out to me, if you touch someone with dirty gloves, dirt will rub off.

I am not sure if asymptomatic transmission has been confirmed or not. I kept hearing that if you didn't have symptoms then you couldn't transfer it, but given the uptick in cases, it wouldn't seem like that is the case.
I wonder how this compares to Cloudflare Workers Unbound https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-workers-unbound/
My plan is to not take it, but I have a feeling that it will be mandatory sooner then later, so it will be unavoidable.

My reason for not wanting to take is, because I'm very weak mental health-vise and wouldn't want to interrupt my body while I'm healing with current medication (Flouxetine), I fear that vaccine affects could swing me a bit too much into the wrong direction and then poof I'm dead.

Just my thoughts though, I do think that vaccine are life changing and allow us the comfortable life that we have now.

Edit: I'm from Slovenia, not the USA!
It doesn't alarm auth-right authoritarian bootlickers. What's alarming to the rest of us is just how many of our "friends" and families actually fall into that camp.
It’s also shocking how certain stories were getting blocked, “Hunter”, before election for being false.

Oh now they are getting confirmed.
That study group already happened.
Are you suggesting that we'll get addicted to the covid vaccine? This thing isn't designed for repeat customers.
was this presented in court?

what were the courts' findings?
AppEngine has had scale-to-zero for 15 years, but instead of having a coherent product strategy, why not just launch a different competing product every year which is missing features that already exist? AppEngine vs Cloud Functions vs Cloud Run, the reasons these all exist at the same time is not because it makes any sense for customers, but because Google PMs get promoted for launching new things rather than supporting existing products.
Did you ever find out if you were given the real vaccines or the placebo?
I answered No because I already had it, so I may be n/a? But if they still want me to take the vaccine, i will.
Here is a use case for testing: search for “Online Wishlist” and if you can show DreamList.com, or Giftster, or Amazon Wishlist, and other providers of universal online wish list services at the top instead of millions of individual wish lists or retailers, you are easy to use. There are a lot of dead sites out there, and part of the job is flushing those out and keeping the most heavily used ones on top. I would bet that Google analytics heavily influences rankings for google (if you have a site and remove analytics, watch what happens to its search traffic).