skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My claim is that "government bad" and similar broad brush claims about government are completely lacking in content.

But to your point, from sending humans into space to clearing snow off the roads, "government" absolutely destroys the private sector in efficiency and effectiveness for many important things. I'd rather let the CDC work on vaccine distribution protocols than leave it to Taco Bell.
How do bubbles pop? What triggers a sell-off? How does reality set in?
>The incentives to hide or falsify data can be enormous.

Highly doubtful. Pushing out an unsafe vaccine would be disastrous to Pfizer. They have every incentive in the world to be as absolutely certain as possible that the data is solid.
We are working on this problem, it is not simple. Identifying dependency trees reliably across languages is not straightforward [only nice for package manager ones]. Follow https://github.com/ossf/criticality_score/issues/8
> I do not believe my government (Canada) is making decisions based on science

As a Canadian currently living in the US, it seems to me like Canada has handled things better out of the two countries... less than half the deaths per capita, and they managed to avoid the hospital overloading that happened in some states. Putting a lid on international travel early on seemed to make a big difference for Canada, as well as having a nationwide quarantine requirement.

I understand the sentiment though. When I visited Canada this year, the border agent read me sections of the Quarantine Act and I was pretty astonished at the extent of federal powers and penalties that had been created on such short notice. The maximum penalty for violating quarantine is a million dollar fine and three years in prison.
You're the kind of guy who doesn't wear a seatbelt and speeds through red lights to protest the government telling you what to do? Or are you smart enough to understand why it's important that we have rules that mandate certain behaviors? (Not that getting vaccinated will actually be mandatory.)
Hmm I never thought of that I guess. I wish it was like the Spotify model where everyone wants their film on the service and they are paid each time someone watches it.
Agreed, we’ve never produced a vaccine of this type at scale nor managed the required supply chain considerations. Making 10K efficacious non-harmful vaccines for a trial may be much easier than making 100M or 1B. Some processes don’t scale easily.
That isn’t even the main argument. The main argument is that there is a concerted effort to let government take away the fundamental right of free speech.

That is morally bad. But besides that, it can have the effect of hiding actual truths. The author then considers thought experiments of what would have happened to the Watergate affair and other proven true scandals if there wasn’t free speech.
TIL. AFAIK jsonnet can’t do while loops so I assumed it wasn’t Turing complete and I didn’t see a way of writing a non-halting program.

But now I see, since it has recursion, there are tricks to make it go in an infinite loop.

Thanks for the pointer. I read the rationales again in the doc.
Right but a hammer is still a hammer right?

It's not like we're bashing nails with bricks and calling it an MVP replacement to the hammer.

What you described isn't innovation, its iteration.
Yes, but like ... it's easier to swallow when it's hidden in the price of a phone bill every month. And, I think for a while, you were stuck in contracts and the bill didn't go up, so it would be $100 with or without a new phone, it's just if you have a new phone, you're stuck in the contract for 2 years.

edit: I don't know if this is still the case. I buy all my phones full price anymore
I would only say that I FAR prefer an online landscape like the one we have right now, with loonies in the far right and left to be able to express themselves in all platforms, that a corporate controlled, sanitized, heavily censored Internet, it is not even close.
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2020/12/09/who-funds-the-federa...
She moved out because she got married and everything's mostly fine now the mom doesn't see my friend's living quarters as an extension of her own.
I met him very briefly while in Tokyo. He was closing up his shop for lunch and he stepped out for a minute while we were walking past after eating our own lunch down the street. I would have thought he was a tourist or somebody leaving a shop maybe but recognized him instantly from his excellent youtube videos.

He was very nice and quietly energetic and funny and obviously passionate about his craft -- exactly as he is on his videos. He was taking a break for lunch and has his shop closed for a bit. We said we'd be back but ran out of time and never made it back to his place when it was open.

It was an odd juxtaposition to walk about a block away and be confronted with the cacophony of the local Don Quijoti.

1 - https://mokuhankan.com/
You're not engaging with the articles main point, that this censorship and exclusion is not evenly applied, and that it is rather conspicuously applied along political lines. There are many non scientific, ideology driven ideas that have been bullying their way into every facet of communication these days. Labelling people who resist this trend as fringe radicals who should be segregated and monitored is frankly disgusting.
>This is a total backfire because it makes it even harder to change people's minds by confirming what conspiracy theorists suspected all along.

The question shouldn't be "will doing x help the antagonists", it's "will doing x result in a worse outcome for the antagonists". If they gain from either choice, we shouldn't be paralyzed in our response.
You’re ignoring the knock-on effects of life during a pandemic. Vaccination is the only way to regain normalcy.
I hope that extra public confidence is worth hundreds of thousands of deaths resulting from delaying the vaccine by months.
Critique of pornhub is coming from all sides this time, including national review.
No need to worry in this case. They were going to hold their meeting to give final approval on Saturday. All Trump's blustering did was move that to late Friday.

It did not change any deliberations or analysis, nor did it change when the vaccine will actually go into use.
The CEOs of both ULA and Boeing are former engineers
Toxicity wasn't banned. Just disagreement.
I finally upgraded my home machine this year, up from an i7 4770k, ~7 year old processor. The memory was starting to fail, and I figured it was finally due. I've replaced the GPU a couple of times, and upgraded storage but that's about it.

It's a nice boost for certain workloads that thread well, but it's not a huge boost for single threaded workloads except for certain specialised stuff where there are newer instructions to take advantage of.

Contrast that to a roughly comparable time frame: 486sx 60Mhz -> Athlon 1Ghz.

Short of a major revolution, I expect this CPU/Memory will last me just as long.
>They have already been removing videos that are not partisan and not fake news.

Source?
Blinn’s Law

“As technology advances, the rendering time remains constant.”

https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/founders-series-industry-...
Yeah, probably should have clarified that I intended no comment on the OPs comment about innovation in computer UI. Just wanted to point out that there's actually a surprising amount of evolution in design of the hammer.

Something that seems to be so simple, and has existed for thousands of years, can still be made better. I'm not a professional carpenter, but I've used a hammer a lot to do things like framing, and can confirm that many of these innovations are meaningful in function, not just form.
I am sure you are able to grasp the essence of what @rayiner is trying to say.
It's important to understand that antivaxxers are wrong not because they make a risk analysis of vaccines, but because they make that analysis based on flawed data. They severely undervalue the risks of the various diseases, and severely overvalue the risks of the vaccines, and land in the wrong conclusion that every single vaccine therefore is bad for you.

But they're not wrong in making that risk analysis in the first place.

I do not belong to a risk group for covid-19. I don't live with anyone in a risk group, I don't hang out with people in a risk group or even meet with them. So I don't mind being at the back of the line for this vaccine, the risk of the disease is negligible to me, while the risk of the vaccine is unknown. I don't mind waiting and seeing what happens after millions of people have gotten the vaccine before I get it myself. That minimizes the risk to me.

But my dad belongs to a risk group, so for him the same risk analysis gets a different result, because his risk of dying is a hundred times greater than my risk of dying. So he will try to get vaccinated as soon as he can, as he should.
>From a public safety perspective, I wonder if perhaps those most likely to spread the disease should be the first to be innoculated rather than those most likely to have a bad outcome.

The argument is that the vaccine has not been proven to prevent infection and spread. Only to prevent severe disease in those who do get infected. So administering it to those with comorbidities, for now, is the most effective means of reducing overall mortality based on known evidence.
So weird, why is this exposed..?
My bad, I was arguing about the Youtube ban. As for reddit, they kept T_D along, but subs like that regularly leak out and brigade other subs, which is why they were banned. Not for the information they share. Also, many of the comment sections devolved into doxxing and treats, which is also against global rules. Reddit generally doesn't give a shit about how true or false the opinions are in a sub as long as they don't break global rules and leak to other subs.

So no, they were not banned for "sweeping opinions you don't agree with" either.
AWS is fed up with tech that wasn’t built for clouds, it has a big blast radius
No, that’s wrong.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/12/th...
Yes, more validation - compilers as taught in universities need improvement.

So, a startup of 10 people should hire and train people for months. Raise a $2M seed round, have 12-18 months to show ProductMarket fit and as a founder teach all engineers their jobs? How many engineers go into compilers after school? So university education is all they know. The industry is built on qualified engineers. NVIDIA ceo was ahead of curve on graphics card, google founders ahead in search, why are compilers ones behind the curve?
I don't have much relevant info directly related to your question, but have some second hand experience with recovering from intubations that I would just like to share.

My mom went through this when she was having health issues over a few years before her passing. I think it varies based on how good the person performing the intubation is and how long it is in.

The first time her voice ended up like minnie mouse, and it was like that for a long, long time. Probably a year before it became "normal", but definitely not like how she used to sound. It kept slowly getting better.

A few years later her voice was mostly back to how she sounded before hand and had been for while, then she had more health issues and was intubated again. This time she was fine - no voice change and no pain that she reported. A few months later, intubation, but this time her voice was pretty bad and it never got better before her passing.
I find it really disconcerting how many people on Hacker News want a corporate entity to decide what information is deemed acceptable to know. Do you even know where that word came from? The irony is almost overwhelming. But I digress...

The idea that banning certain information will somehow result in it disappearing has been shown repeatedly to not work. A cursory reading of history should make this clear. You cannot turn the entire world into West Coast USA by banning everyone that disagrees with you. You’ll only create further echo chambers, both on your own platform and on the (new) platforms inevitably created by the exiled.
>gender science, nature vs nurture,

These topics, to be charitable, are heavily debated in biology and sociology, at least to some degree - look up "nature nurture" on Google Scholar and you'll find as much scientific debate, and recently attempts to transcend the debate, as you could read in two lifetimes. I don't think most "liberals" are even opposed to nuclear and GMO.
We already had millions of doses in April/May.

> If you managed to give 5 million doses a week earlier, you save about 200 lives (about 40 deaths per million per week).

No, that’s wrong.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/12/th...
"Corporationism is above socialism and above liberalism. A new synthesis is created. It is a symptomatic fact that the decadence of capitalism coincides with the decadence of socialism. ... Corporative solutions can be applied anywhere"
The first batch of Pfizer vaccine is enough to vaccinate a substantial portion of the vulnerable elderly (after vaccinating healthcare workers). Given that they are the ones that are dying at the highest rates, getting it deployed as fast as possible is likely to extend quite a few lives.

It's not like they've executed well on your last point in the meantime.
> We’re talking about banning the President of the United States, who although he lost just won 5 million more votes than Obama in 2008.

No, it's a ban on baseless claims of massive electoral fraud. Coverage of the President is still allowed.

I have absolutely no idea why you reference Obama in this.

Yes, there's still active litigation. But there is yet to be any notable evidence of anything approaching serious, let alone widespread, wholesale electoral fraud.
And that is? That as long as something's "under litigation" you get a free pass?
Equity, naturally. In those days it was options and not the grants we mostly see today. You're right about programmer salaries being about in the same league as other professional careers, but I don't see how we can overlook the fact that the stock options existed.
While popular films often depict a vaccine that’s effective enough and soon enough to stop an epidemic (Contagion, I Am Legend, World War Z) in real life many epidemics are fought without the help of vaccines (Ebola, HIV, SARS). The combination of speed, effectiveness, and new technology in COVID vaccines is “astonishing” indeed.
Because we haven't commoditized it. People seem to be upset on one hand because we aren't making people buy water, and they turn around and express outrage at the notion that maybe water should be sold.
Government schools are pretty bad despite the ever increasing funding afforded to them, and the teachers unions wield enormous power. If we are going to fund anything, it should be the students directly (via vouchers or whatever) not the systems.

I hardly imagine that a government can really be held to account by its citizens if it also takes for itself the role of educate their children.
Covid revealed the truth about our world
The difference is that direct democracy doesn't scale. Switzerland has a population of 8 million; the US has a population of 330 million. Also, I'm willing to bet that Switzerland is more homogeneous than the US. And size wise, Switzerland is only larger than 9 US states.

What I'm saying is that the US is huge. And diverse. It's a scaling issue.
Try watching a show called “the First 48” on A&E sometime. Their murder cases are only solved because a suspect confesses. If the suspect doesn’t confess, or lawyers up, then forget about solving it.
I'm not a doctor but if you've ever had to deal with nerve pain or neurological conditions in general, there's a ton of stuff we don't know. Doctors will readily admit this. Not sure that the question of whether we've "tried hard" to understand it is a productive one but there's a ton of stuff where we have only a vague idea of what is going on, we prescribe drugs that sort of work but we don't know how they work, conditions that they can't even nail down a diagnosis for, etc. It's probably one of the least well understood areas of medicine.
“How Could a Reasonable Person Ever Inject Heroin?”
Try and break the problem down with systems thinking. Here's an example of this:

━━1=> The output effect you're trying to eliminate/reduce is pain and swelling in respiratory tract.
┗━━2=> Hypothesis (needs testing): This is caused by physical irritation of the tube
┗━━3=> Hypothesis (needs testing): That irritation is caused by A) friction and B) physical pressure
┣━━4a=> How can we reduce friction?
┃ ┗━━5a=> Would a lubricant on the tube meet engineering constraints and reduce friction?
┃ ┗━━6a=> Would the use of lubricant in practice create added risks or difficulties in the operating room?
┃ ┗━━7a=> Hypothesis: Yes, due to the application of lubricant necessitating a glove-change afterwards.
┃ ┗━━8a=> How can we overcome problems with lubricant application to the intubation tube?
┃ ┗━━9a=> Would passing the intubation tube through a no-mess, easy-to-use "self lubricating ring" mitigate added risks or difficulties in the operating room?
┗━━4b=> How can we reduce physical pressure?
┗━━5b=> Would reducing the diameter meet engineering constraints and reduce pressure?
┗━━6b=> If there is a minimum diameter requirement needed to deliver oxygen, would dynamically changing the diameter of the tube (e.g. inflating it) after insertion create a reduction in pressure?

So that's a very simplified example of how to solve problems with systems thinking (although in reality it would be WAY more detailed and actually test each hypothesis).

The problem is very rarely "money" in medical fields, the problem is someone actually identifying the root problem/s, i.e. the "problem behind the problem behind the problem", and applying engineering to solve that, which solves the problem one level above it, etc.

If you're interested in this, read up on things like "the five whys", a systems approach to problem solving invented at Toyota.
You reference a totalitarian dystopia and yet you are salivating for widespread censorship to be applied. The great thing about the internet is the freedom of communication which broke the monopoly of mainstream media. If people like you have your way the internet will be as censored as cable tv used to be, in your blessed utopia of the 60s to 80s. Were you alive back then? Have you heard of the Vietnam war. It's not an exaggeration to say your ignorance and stupidity is staggering
I think there’s a github repo that may or may not compile to make ESP32 talk ROS2 message protocols, and that would be the entirety of ROS2 that fits in an ESP32 anyway, so the answer is a yeah
No, it’s supposed to be an indicator of “we have institutions to handle this and we don’t need Google to take on that role.”
It feels to me like both sides in this debate want to argue "of course it's patently obvious that I'm right". But services like YouTube and Facebook have no real historical precedents in terms of audience reach, and it's hard to think of a more rock-and-a-hard-place situation than choosing between "force a private company to treat their property like a public square no matter the cost to society" and "allow a private company to dictate what's allowed in a de facto public square."

So, yes, of course it's possible a gatekeeper would find it easier to misinform the populace. Over the long term, it's almost guaranteed. Yet it's also possible -- in fact, one can argue the probability is essentially 1.0 -- that refusing to have any gates will also misinform the populace. If we're looking for a blanket rule that will cover all possible situations in this new information reality, we're probably looking in vain.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25391186
> While in the US, un-elected corporations do very much the same thing, except when they whine, they get their way.

Thanks god that never happens in Britain.
I read the article, what I'm saying is that it's a go-to argument for these companies because there's truth to it, and when taken at face-value it's really not that audacious to say, "people ought to recycle the containers they buy".

Is that sentiment exploited by Coca-Cola and others in a way that makes it encompass more than it really does? Of course. But if it was an all-around flimsy argument then it wouldn't be "ol' faithful", they'd just find a different argument to use instead.
It's interesting. My question is getting a number of both downvotes and upvotes and for the moment is even. But no replies. So I'll go on.

In my view, 'zealotry' crosses over to 'radicalism' when the threshold of violence is crossed. We generally are concerned about radicals in religion or politics because we fear they will or have committed violence in the name of their cause.

Yet... there are far (far) more instances of violence on the record against Americans who support Trump than by them. Up to and including murder. In fact, there is so much political violence against them that congress created a list of violent political acts and entered the list into the congressional record[0].

Who is committing this violence and why?

Here is about 10 minutes of research:

- One of the murders, Lee Keltner, a hatter in Colorado:

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/10/17/lee-keltner-protest-sh...

- In this assault, the first is mild. The student punched in the face could have had knocked teeth out:

https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/rising-political-tension

- Punched in the face for wearing a hat in Russian. The assailant couldn't read it, but attacked once the wearer told him the translation:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-beaten-up-in-california-re...

- [0] And here is that seven pages of a Political Violence Report, official congressional record:

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20190409/109266/HHRG...

- The other murder:

https://katu.com/news/local/patriot-prayer-founder-man-shot-...

- Here are three more assaults, including an 81 year-old man:

https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/02/28/maga-hat-wearing-vic...

- This was a serious beating, an art gallery owner:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/york-city-gallery-owner-attacked-w...

- Citing the Berkeley assault, this guy wrote and app to help conservatives find safe places to dine out:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/11/need-safe...

- This is attempted murder:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-arrested-allegedly-driving-van...

Regarding the 7 page listing of more than 200 various acts of political violence, including attempted murder, against conservative politicians; I searched for the same document produced during the Obama administration and could not find one. From that I infer that during his administration, neither conservative nor liberal politicians saw political violence as enough of a concern to list it and enter into the permanent record of the United States Congress.

Political and religious violence and oppression was one of the primary motivators for the United States to seek independence from England. We are going backwards.
Yesssss. Right now I have a cron that hits my app every minute to keep it warm. However even with that I see cold starts every now and then. This removed that problem.

It’s so surprising that AWS and Azure don’t have an equivalent to GCP cloud run.

Being able to run a container on demand with a custom image with whatever language and dependencies you want is amazing.

I’ve spun up browsers for snapshotting and seeing a page like a real browser. Cloud run scale from 0 is absolutely magical.

This is what serverless ought to be. Cloud run + firestore makes it possible to build pretty scalable apps with little effort and pretty cheap to run.
Since I’m not a UI designer, I’m a bit lost. I’d appreciate it if someone could explain more since the website doesn’t. Why would one use this at all? And how would one create web pages conforming to the cards?
Not to be too pedantic, but there is no connection between the Atlantic Ocean and Baltic Sea. The North Sea separates them.