skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The writing is on the wall, eventually there will be bifurcation in Big Tech and Twitter and Youtube will become the walled garden for the left of center only and largely irreverent with conservatives with things like Parlor and BitChute and others taking the exodus. It will turn into a battle for the centrists eyeballs to come to their sides platform or straddle both.

The analogy of Reddit banning toxic subs only holds if everyone is ACTUALLY on reddit, most simply left. There is already talk among conservatives of alternative Reddits and Facebooks, alternatives Netflix/Hollywood companies, alternative Fox News even. Many will say "but those will be subject to the same problems of early Twitter and Reddit, how to excise the toxic elements and keep the real discussion." I would say that can EASILY be done without going down the censorship rabbit hole by simply knowing where to stop. Get rid of the illegal stuff, the spam and pornography, and leave the rest regardless of how distasteful it is. Its an Overton Window problem, you just need slightly looser boundary condition on discourse. Stop pretending to be platforms and admit you are indeed publishers to an extent. Give users the ability to filter what they don't want to see and pledge to never bias your algorithms. The cries of the left will be largely irrelevant, they will simply tell you to "go back to Twitter if you don't like it". Once the public loses faith and trust in your company or institution due to your sacrifices in credibility in the name of censorship of one sides information, there wont be any coming back from that loss of face. I'm not saying this is a good or healthy thing for public discourse, but I do think it will come to pass.
Cloudflare workers both bundled and unbound run on v8 isolates. While they’re performant you can only use JavaScript. Js that works with cloudflare’s v8 version.

With google cloud run it’s effectively running your container. You can use whatever language you want, whatever apt dependencies you need, whatever Linux flavor (ubuntu/alpine/busybox) e.t.c

In that sense cloud run is the more generic serverless platform. The devs can indeed say “it works on my machine, so let’s ship my machine and scale it up as needed and hibernate when not in use”
> The difference is that direct democracy doesn't scale.

I hear that every time Switzerland is mentioned. I've yet to see a strong argument to suggest why it wouldn't scale in this day and age.

What I think doesn't scale is centralized systems like France, where all money flows to Paris and rarely any back. Switzerland on the other hand is extremely federated, to the point each canton, often smaller than average cities, have their own school system. Most tax money stays on the local level and didn't go to Bern. This independence IMHO is the critical factor for scaling that would work for moch larger countries.

As to the homogeneity: US has one language any natively born American speaks. Switzerland has 3, with a considerable political divide between the French and German spanking areas. Finally Switzerland has 20% Foreigners vs 10% in US. So again I would very much challenge you there.
The average California tech worker maybe not, but plenty of them are sitting on $500k+ in cash with yearly incomes in that same range. At that point what does $100k mean? $100k makes no difference in the person’s day to day life. If you like the house and you end up in a bidding war, the $100k is more than worth it.
So do you have a problem understanding or do you disagree?
> Not sure that the question of whether we've "tried hard" to understand it is a productive one

The point is that more effort isn't likely to dramatically change things on the margin. Whether we know much about pain in an absolute sense is really quite orthogonal to the question.
Meta:

Thanks for presenting this in this format, it helped me visualize how this process would work.

We use the five whys at work to great effect, to such an extent I actually look forward to COEs.

Your comment put a name to this domain. I'd like to learn more about systems thinking. Are there any books you recommend?
Naming a New Drug During a Pandemic
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the whole point of the Loeb books that the original is right there on the facing page, so that both the original Greek/Latin and the English translation can be read together? I guess in principle the translation could be read independently, ignoring the original (and that's what it seems you're saying you did), but just from the format of the Loeb books I've always thought of the translation as some sort of helper/guide best consumed along with the source text.
I'd be worried creating a viral reservoir in schools even if the adult population were completely vaccinated. It'd be an excellent environment for the virus to mutate and become endemic.
On the other hand, sometimes it's just that people get so used to something, they don't take a close look at how it could be improved. Bows stayed much the same for centuries until the compound bow appeared in the 1960s.
Note that the approval date has absolutely nothing to do with the production schedule, which is the real limiting factor here. Having a few hundred people get their shots on Saturday instead of Tuesday or whatever isn't realistically going to move the needle. Every dose we can get is going into a patient somewhere.
No cloud run is only for http requests only. Not even push. You want to use this for short lived requests. Web sockets need more persistent connections.

Although may be there is a way I don’t know.
Monopoly abuse doesn't lower prices for the consumer; it reduces innovation and raises prices. It's only 'bailing out' Slack if you accept that abusive monopoly practices as a norm, in which case arresting thieves who steal and sell goods is 'bailing out' the jewelry stores.
The author mainly belittles the misinformation problem and doesn't get at all that we're in real trouble here. The internet is being flooded with wrong information and it gets increasingly harder for people to tell truth from fiction. Something _has to_ be done, YT can't sit and just watch it's Plattform be used to destroy democracy.
It's not a binary development. There are stages to getting to that point.
> If they had proof, they would've shown it in court, where there are real consequences, not on social media where anything goes.

This is a great example of why censorship is such a disaster.

The Texas case was dismissed today because Texas "has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections". So regardless of whether there was anything to complain about, Texas isn't allowed to complain about it. (This is basically what everybody predicted, but it means the Supreme Court will never even hear the case.)

The case in Pennsylvania was dismissed because they were complaining that Pennsylvania had changed its election procedures in violation of its own constitution (in ways alleged to facilitate fraud), which appears to be true, but the court dismissed the case for a procedural reason again, in this case for being brought too late.

Several other cases were dismissed for similar reasons, i.e. lack of standing or timing. The only one I'm aware of where they're even being allowed to make their case is the one in Wisconsin, which is still pending.

Does it concern you at all that you apparently didn't know that?
Do you think this is new or something?

The government has a documented history of retaliating against people regarding speech issues.

There was a long period, know as "the red scare" in which this happened.

There are many forms of "in between" retaliation, that is in between a democracy and an authoritarian government.

And it is important to also protect people against these in between consequences, by allowing them to be anonymous.

We don't have to straw man the situation, and talk about a dictatorship that kills people.

Instead, we can also say that lesser forms of retaliation are also bad, such as the kind that happened during the red scare.
Ahhh... the old HN post of “I work in tech so I know more about how to approve an experimental vaccine than the FDA which is comprised of thousands of scientists and has been approving drugs for over 70 years.”
your site could use some flow cards help....
Firebase functions is essentially same as google cloud functions. In my personal experience cloud run starts up much faster compared to cloud functions even on a cold start. The min instances feature makes it even faster.
But with much worse weather.
What's the point in rushing? Production is already going at full speed and they're not yet ready to begin the vaccination programme. Rolling this thing out is going to be a massive operation given the delicate conditions it must be stored under and the coordination across thousands of health systems required. All the preparation work is well under way and the timing of this approval doesn't impact it in the slightest.
Same in South Africa
For now what you are saying does not really make any sense, so I can't really disagree...
As far as we know young children don’t spread COVID. There aren’t any confirmed cases of children under ten spreading it to other people. It’s super odd, but that’s what the evidence suggests at this point.
You sound very emotional, maybe take a break?
The hammer analogy has its limitations here. When the task is simple (hitting a nail), a simple and good design lasts. When the task(s) is/are complicated, depend on context, are tied to human understanding, knowledge or training in using machines, then design could benefit from both refinements as well as radical and creative thinking. I also don’t think that just because we have a good design, even for a hammer, we should stop people from challenging norms and thinking in bold ways. Here’s a contrasting example to hammers - chairs. The objective is simple, to sit on it. The design innovations still continue to this day, on how a chair can be structured. There have been interpretations of chairs that challenge the very notion that chairs need legs.
Nope.

>You misunderstand. "Blowing through entire supply" and being left with nothing is exactly the "slow distribution" Alex Tabarrok, a professor at GMU, talks about in the link I gave. He contrasts it with vaccinating entire population on day 1. Read it carefully.

Vs.

"Now assume that the vaccine can’t roll out to everyone immediately. For the sake of this simple model let’s assume that on day one you can only vaccinate half the population. By doing so you save 1000 lives on day 1 and 2000 lives every day thereafter for the length of the pandemic. That’s the fourth panel. Now suppose we delay the vaccine rollout by one day. 2000 people die on Day 1 but you save 1000 on Day 2 and 2000 on Day 3 and every day thereafter for the length of the pandemic. How many people were killed by the delay? Compare the 4th and 5th panels. 2000 exactly as before! "

This compares vaccinating 50% on day 1, and the remaining 50% on day 2, to vaccinating 50% on day 2 and the remaining 50% on day 3.

But in blowing through the supply, we're comparing vaccinating 1% on day 1 and another 1% on day 7 and another 1% on day 15 to vaccinating 1% on day 7 and 1% on day 8 and 1% on day 15. Not at all the same scenario.
And yet the solution to a negative can still itself be the cause of equal or greater negatives. Hence why I was asking if you believe it is a NET gain. Because the Government cracking down on speech, even obvious lies, will erode some people's trust in the system as well.
France may not be the best case.

France in the end of the 60's nuclearized its gridpower production.

This 'success story' led to a state law (2015-992, from 2015, the "loi relative à la transition énergétique pour la croissance verte", see https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000031044385/... ) stating that the part of nuke-produced electricity must fall to less than 50% in 2025, from 72% then, and that renewables must replace it.

In France nuke-power is backed by gas (which produced 10,3% of gridpower in 2017).

The sole reactor currently planned (Flamanville-3) is a complete disaster, more than 10 years behind schedule and 4x overbudget. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...
according to that famous internet law about questions, "no"
That would be nice although Google CDN even without any compute is pretty slow compared to cloudflare.

Google has many data centers around the world. I don’t see why they can have cloud run automatically select the data center closest to the user and spin up the container there. That would deffo solve a lot of problems.
So scala is neither taken over or destroyed and the author of this post stresses multiple times that he does not suggest that this approach by adopted by the rust community, even concluding with:

>But Rust is not Haskell. The ergonomics of GATs, in my opinion, will never compete with higher kinded types on Haskell's home turf. And I'm not at all convinced that it should. Rust is a wonderful language as is. I'm happy to write Rust style in a Rust codebase, and save my Haskell coding for my Haskell codebases.

How is any of this fanatical?
My guess is photobucket archives, that site was really popular among college age kids around that time.
Well put. I actually spent a decent bit of my teen/young-adult years in nursing homes partially because I really enjoy talking to older people. I noticed though that while some were very chatty many were just as happy by themselves. Not that they wouldn't talk if I engaged but they were so comfortable in their own skin that external stimuli had a much lower influence on inner peace. This was in Europe though. I imagine if someone is generally uncomfortable in their later years or has a lot of ailments or diseases that might be different.
I'm not a virus expert, but my understanding is this type of virus is very unlikely to mutate in a way where the vaccine will not work against it, and it is going to become endemic regardless of what we do. So I don't think either of those concerns would merit not opening schools.
I replaced my 2016 mbp with one of these https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-x1/X1... (4C/8T 16gb model)

It's a great laptop, and the best linux laptop i've ever owned. The tablet mode in linux is subpar (i'm running i3) but it works great for movies / tv etc
There is at least one case where someone found videos of their own rape on PornHub and PornHub refused to delete them.

I'd argue that this is a serious matter.
There is no such variance and new fashions in compilers every year. There are hardware compilers and tools including language servers primarily. Move to cloud requires source to source compilers for data snd transforms.
Different browsers for different stuff is why I made a 'router' of sorts for my browsers. Hoping to product-ize it someday, but so many browser quirks! (There are actually many of these switchers but none which try to transparently intercept navigation in browser.)
Yeah, it's Linux. :) macOS always ran nicely, and the hardware itself is great. I think if somebody more capable in Linux kernel/drivers' hacking looked into it they could fix it, it's just that nobody cares (and `rmmod brcmfmac && modprobe brcmfmac` is simple enough).
You’re operating on two fallacies (slippery slope and a strawman). I think there’s a pretty clear distinction between having a spell-checker bundled into word, and reproducing the product of a competitor after the fact and bundling it into your office suite as an accessory.

Also, that’s the whole point of the legal system (and part of what Stoller is arguing). If a spell-checker company feels the behavior was anti-competitive, they should be able to go through the legal system and fight it. I think Stoller is saying that this exact legal system is currently flawed.
>I'm personally of the opinion that less is more.

I used to have this position as well, writing everything in either assembly or pure lambda calculus, to avoid all these pesky higher level language features.
On this front Australia may be a weird case. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92t8np88fEI
A single shot that decides the outcome is an assassination, and that's generally done to avoid a war that will have worse outcomes, if we want to stretch this metaphor to the breaking point.
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I see your point but comparing nationality to safety equipment does not compute.

>Maybe we should have laws to prevent a race to the bottom on long commutes, living away from family, or having everyone in a household work, just as we have laws to prevent a race to the bottom on working hours or safety.

I agree that it creates problems and, we can have safeguards like that. The point is, the safeguards should be same for everybody if we are aiming for merit based employment.

Sure, go ahead and implement ban for 12 hour work days but don't do it on nationality/race/gender base. Of course you can have exceptions for certain groups(like women who give birth to a child can have special benefits) but blanket bans for based on those is simply not O.K. if you want to have a fair society.

On the other hand, you may not want to have a fair society or fair means a different thing. I understand that there are different ideologies who would advocate different structures in the benefit of a certain race/gender/social status. Racism, sexism, classism are not novel ideals.
I haven't found that to be the case.
Phrenemies is a multiplayer game that’s perfect for happy hours with coworkers
Interesting to see companies starting to move to TX. And the state being one of the leaders on renewable energy growth for a few years now. Is it the new eldorado for companies? Dystopic thought but what if the companies push the TX secession efforts to get their own land.
packrat parser combinators are recursive descent with infinite look ahead. That’s the problem, engineers are under educated
Thanks for checking it out - will email you separately. FYI, I use Azure API Gateway to handle user management & sign up and I have to say it's somewhat limiting.
It was a limitation before but maybe not soon (they would have already mentioned it).

Knative in your own cluster supports it but I want scale to zero instead of paying for a cluster.

They say that it supports sockets but not bi-directional. You can't send messages back up the socket which we're using for GQL mutations
It's very... orange. I feel like changing the color scheme would be an easy way to greatly improve visibility
Perhaps e.g. the FAA should have done things the same way with the Boeing 737 Max certification.
My normal deep voice now sounds like Mickey Mouse's and it hurts to swallow.

Perhaps a more "low hanging fruit" solution for this problem space would be better procedures for helping people recover.

Doctors routinely prescribe antibiotics. I never had any of them tell me to eat yogurt afterwards to repair what they do to your gut biome. I learned that elsewhere.

No doctor ever told me I needed to taper off of steroids. I learned that from a friend.

There are a lot of ways modern follow-up care for medicine seems to be pretty bad and this is probably a much easier thing to improve upon than innovating on intubation tubes (which I'm not trying to discourage -- I see no reason we can't do both).
Now Tayne, I can get into: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maAFcEU6atk
California files to join antitrust efforts against Google
Doesn’t Facebook already have a quasi-WOT? People on Facebook generally see the posts of their friends and those they follow, plus ads. That doesn’t stop fake news from rippling through the social graph.

How would a “true” web-of-trust be superior?
What is the danger of IPO being significantly higher than estimated?
Radicalization doesn't just happen, it has to make deep intuitive sense to that person based on their own prejudices. You can't convince a normal person to kill people by showing them a bunch of videos, but you can convince people not to believe hanlon's razor and therefore deepen their hatred.
Adobe Atmosphere (2003)
> Are you sure? And by sure I mean, there is enough data to prove this statement to be true? How?

Reasonably sure. Even looking at the low death rate 25-34 population, deaths have been about 4 per 100,000 population with only 15% infected so far; a natural trek to herd immunity will presumably kill 6-12 more per 100k. There will be even greater amounts of morbidity and hospitalization, too, than outright death.

Compare to ~22000 dosed in trials; two of the vaccinated died from causes that don't look related to the vaccine, and four of the placebo group died. This mostly lets us exclude a high death rate from the vaccine. Several in the placebo group ended up hospitalized from severe COVID; none in the vaccine group ended up hospitalized from COVID or vaccine related side effects.

Indeed, the entire judgment call made in emergency use authorization is exactly that: the benefits of the vaccines appear to conclusively outweigh the risks.

> This makes, sense, but is "collective protection" a right now thing? Or is collective protection the goal of a vaccination program over the course of 5-10 years?

It's a "right now" thing. We can get all the way there in 6 months, and get significant benefit in 3 months. To be clear, the former doesn't mean "cases knocked down to zero", but instead infections knocked down by >95%.
My site is pretty decent when viewed in Lynx. Except for the "Resume" page title, which looks like garbage because I use accented e characters.

I've started using Lagrange probably more than I ought to lately.
Blissfully unaware of all this because I live in one of the US states with no sales tax.
Semantics of C in K Framework
When it feels like a hug, and you haven't felt a hug in a while, is it really a surprise?

I don't blame a single person who becomes afflicted with addiction.
ARM? ASML?
Just peek in on any Uber or Airbnb related thread and you'll be cured of the idea that regulation is not supported here.
Well Microsoft teams is free if you already have office 365 so of course it's now one of the most used systems.

I wish calls had native support for Apple pencil as I'd like to use my iPad to draw on screen or a board during meetings
Reducing or removing cars isn’t ‘abandoning all our technological progress’. There have been several good links on HN about cities that have reduced car usage and the effects. Here are two on Pontevedra.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18014283

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21267283
Predictions are different than lies.