skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What Taibbi is asking for is that the guy who tells you that drinking rat poison is good for you should be allowed an audience

He should, it's the basis of democracy. Sure rat poison is a bad example, but thinks are much less clear cut if we speak about other things, including covid19. So putting up warnings about this problems (potential more then just a subtle note at the side) is reasonable removing it is much less so (as long as they don't e.g. tell people to go on the street and kill all politicans or similar bs.).

I mean you start with removing 100% clear bs. misinformation.

Then you remove misinformation which contains some truth (it's still misinformation).

And before you notice unpleasant opinions are removed to (like e.g. the CIA having had similarities to a terrorist organization in the past, factual right but misguiding).

EDIT: Oh and if you tell people to dink rat poison and they do you should be held responsible for tricking people into killing them-self, still that's not the same as censoring the content.
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An example from Germany is that there is a very mixed movement called Querdenker. It clearly contains right radicals, nazies, covid denies, q-anon believers etc. BUT a non small part of the core movement are neither of this but people which believe in covid, believe it's bad. But also believe that the decisions done by the German government do more harm then good. But they get frequently denounced and grouped with all the problematic groups from before. Which has all kinds of problematic consequences (including making this people being more susceptible to manipulation from the problematic groups). Now removing (some of) the information sources of this people instead of adding information enlighten them about what is wrong with the information is only making it only worse. Furthermore you can't censor them as this will just push them to other information platforms and if you continue to censor again and again you will end up with a censorship system no less powerfull then chinas... which I believe no one would want in a democracy. So I believe we will have to learn how to handle such information _without_ censoring information we believe is wrong/misguiding.
A list of many of these "bad things" can be found in BabyCobol [1, 2] -- it's a "toy model" of COBOL, specifically because COBOL has a lot of strange features that modern tooling doesn't/can't handle well.

[1]: https://grammarware.net/text/2020/babycobol.pdf
[2]: https://slebok.github.io/baby/
Plus it is zero marginal cost for those places where slack has expensive per user pricing.
A customisable search engine would be great too.
I would love the ability to:

Permanently block Quora and Pinterest from any results

Choose how to sort my results. Why doesn’t google have that?

Have the option to prioritise forum pages

Have a clear choice between getting generic results and personal algorithm results
Tell that to the RGV Trump trains.
Ask HN: How to Choose Baby Names?
It's a rabbit hole I don't seem to be getting to the bottom of any time soon. So, I'm coming to you lauded folks with my idea for a quick SaaS /s

Now, we could do a single elimination tournament on a piece of paper with a pen and be done in ten minutes. But where's the fun in that?

I recalled http://www.kittenwar.com/ from way back when and thought that 1v1 technique would be great for figuring out the name.

I've found a couple pairwise ranking tools that use spreadsheets, but that's boring.

Then I found the PAPRIKA method and this style of decision making:

https://www.1000minds.com/conjoint-analysis/pairwise-comparisons-method

But that's waaaay overpowered for what I'm looking for.

Isn't there an app, that starting from an arbitrary list, that creates a recursive 1v1 series of choices resulting in a ranked order list. And free, online, somewhere... Heck, if there's something on GitHub I'd run that just to stop searching for the optimal solution.

I bet I'm just not using the right terminology and there's a whole ecosystem of solutions. But, maybe not.

Now, I could come up with a hand rolled solution, but to be honest, I don't have time.
You still pay for RAM, just not CPU.
I am not sure I follow. I understand that people have the right to reject the vaccine, but it doesn't mean that I on principle should reject it as well.

If you don't want to take it for any reason whatsoever, fair enough. It's your right. But at least be honest and defend your choice on its own instead of hiding behind some "principle" that doesn't really exist.
Until they show up at your door, decide to move wherever you moved, or even try to move in with you.

You can't solve a boundary issue by not dealing with the boundary issue. At best, you can avoid it and hope it's no longer a problem. The underlying issue still remains.
So when a lawyer or doctor is stripped of their professional license because they become professional bullshit peddlers, does that constitute silencing people or saving lives and the integrity of the justice system?

I don't have time to listen to million bullshit peddlers with an agenda.
What does "Govern themselves" practically mean in this context?

Lets say that I'm an intelligent person that firmly believes in "rugged individualism" to the point where I'm an anarcho-georgist [1] and do not recognize the state as an authority for real property allocation based on a well reasoned moral philosophy.

Given the fact that there is no unclaimed territory for which I could live without falling under the purview of a state's thumb, and hence would not be allowed to "govern myself", how would I then govern myself consistent with my political philosophy?

This is obviously a hyperbolic example, but it's IMO an important exercise to explicate how a large group of people with heterogeneous values, is supposed to act/behave when a prime mover state system is (in effect) demanding no values be higher than it.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism
I disagree that Slack couldn’t have survived when Zoom exists. We will see where Zoom is 5 years; but Slack never expanded beyond Chat and their video calling product just isn’t competitive.

From the outside, Teams (and Zooms) growth was accelerated because video conferencing became way more important. People didn’t need video conferencing pre-COVID because that would have just been a meeting. When they suddenly did, Slack wasn’t that good. My pet peeve continues to be that on Slack I cannot see someone’s screen on iOS - that one annoyance had us move to Zoom then teams.

An argument could be made that Slack was ultimately unable to compete in video by virtue of not having an army of high paid engineers to throw at the problem like MS does, but the features that Slack chose to focus on (like the WYSIWG editor) doesn’t say that to me
Well, we do reject this idea. That's why we have a republic rather than a direct democracy.

The same allegory of the cave justifications for why the average individual is too stupid to rule and shouldn't be allowed to are made today. Oh, you aren't well enough educated or experienced enough? You should not govern, and move aside for those who are educated or experienced...
There's been two major attempts to leverage spatiality: spatial file managers (most controversially, 2.6-era GNOME) and zooming interfaces. None have such a checkout by default, but it would fit both quite naturally.

I don't have much experience with the zooming stuff, but I did use Nautilus heavily then (see also Siracusa's Mac-focused discussion here: https://archive.arstechnica.com/paedia/f/finder/finder-1.htm). As soon as you got used to it, it was amazing -- accessing files felt natural in a way it just doesn't in other systems. It was both digital and leveraged our natural understanding that things are at particular places. It's no surprise people still miss it.

A few people, of course. A very large majority of people absolutely hated it, and it's widely considered a huge mistake now. Familiarity and habits win out, users hate changing paradigms and unlearning habits.
I want a 1/10th scale one for my garden.
You can look all over the universe for entropy. Lava lamps make for a cool PR showpiece, and apparently easy fodder for fluff pieces like this article. I just hope none of my relatives read it and ask me about it. The reality is much more interesting but would probably bore most people to death.
It was hovering around 30-40% 2 months ago, and was around 56% in May. Unfortunately historical data is hard to find since most gov/hospital websites only seem to show covid related data.
Because it increases the amount of pesticides used (or incorporates them directly into the plant where they can't be rinsed off) and pollutes the natural gene pool with artificial genes. The increased amounts of pesticide run off the field and mess up the rest of the ecosystem. Now you're seeing herbicide-resistant weeds come up in these fields.
I am not sure what you mean by “low service.” I have lived in both places and I greatly prefer not paying $800 a year to register my car. And the roads in Texas? Far better than California. And gas prices? Dramatically cheaper.

If low service means that, then yes, sign me up. I don’t see much value in California “services.”
This is something that frequently comes up around sex work. For legal work, it’s the same as any other gig/contract job (i.e. the organization is responsible for reporting, the worker is responsible for filing and paying). For decriminalized work (where it exists, it’s reasonably safe to assume that it’s not filed, unless there’s specific provisions). For criminalized work, it’s safe to assume it’s untaxed.

And without trying to be too nose up in the air about it, everyone should probably be able to draw these conclusions from their familiarity with other mixed-legal markets (e.g. cannabis).

As far as the IRS’s perspective, as far as they’re concerned they can’t especially scrutinize anything that isn’t federally recognized. So it’s highly likely they pay closer attention to income for (say) cam models than (say) brothel workers in the counties in NV with legal brothels. But it’s also pretty likely that those brothers in NV at least encourage if not verify their employees’ compliance.

With all of that said, while I don’t have a strong stance on legalization vs decriminalization (and I defer to my sex worker friends and peers on the subject), legalization is a clear net benefit for bean counting purposes.
Do you have a chicken egg allergy, or have had a significant reaction to any b other vaccine? The former and you probably can't take the vaccines being rolled out at all, the latter and you need to proceed cautiously.
Bloom County ended? ;p
In some countries people wear masks when they have any respiratory diseases and do not touch the strangers they are greeting, which seems sensible. Otherwise, it depends on the parameters of the diseases you are trying to stay safe against.

The thing about the flu is that you develop symptoms earlier, so the window of oportunity for unknowing transmission is shorter (on average). From what we know at this time, it's a less deadly disease than COVID-19. And it mutates quickly, with each season bringing new strains. I think if it was possible to erradicate it completely through vaccination that would be something worth considering, too. Nobody likes that it exists.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/flu-vs-covid19.htm

https://bgr.com/2020/10/21/coronavirus-death-rate-vs-flu-cdc... (sourced)
Even the rich lifestyles are greener than in America

Manufacturing is dirty but then the whole world consumes these goods so that's not only a China problem
"Another person familiar with matter". Ah, the good ol' person familiar with the matter. They should have also gotten a second opinion from someone "familiar with Trump's thinking" while they're at it.

Oh, and the headline for the article is written as if it factually happened, whereas in the article itself the FDA Chief himself denied that it happened. They didn't even bother to add an "allegedly", "reportedly", etc. to the headline, they just wrote it as "X happened".

That's some serious journalism right there, nothing but the best from CNN. I'll be waiting with bated breath for them to ever write a similar story about Biden / his administration over the next four years, I'm sure they'll give him the same treatment; CNN being the strong bastion of impartial journalism we all know it to be.
The Tyranny of Numbers
New Orleans, if you dare.
> The Supreme Court will almost certainly defer to the state's highest courts when it comes to interpreting that state's election laws.

That's a bold statement. Based on their decisions over the past several months, and especially some of the most recent ones, I don't think your presumptions are true. I think most if not all of the conservative justices (I'd have to confirm precisely where Roberts sits) have expressed their opinion that in Federal elections Federal courts have a unique role in interpreting state law legislation. And that's exactly why many of the recent filings, including this most recent one (Texas v. Pennsylvania), complained about state courts modifying legislative rules in seeming contravention of Article 2, Section 1, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution.

I think it's a nuts interpretation that shows how facile the neo-textualist approach has become. But in any event you might want to revisit your assumptions about what the law is or will become in terms of applying traditional separation of powers principles and precedent in the area of election law.

I'm also comfortable putting down some money that with Barrett on the court there's a greater-than-even chance that SCOTUS will invalidate state constitutional amendments that move redistricting to independent bodies. The last time it came up it was only saved by Kennedy, IIRC. Even if Roberts decides to adhere to precedent (notwithstanding that he ignored it the first time around), his vote won't be enough to save independent redistricting. But I'm not even sure Roberts would try because, IIRC, he seemed to drop some hints in one of his recent opinions as a swing voter that he'll get his pound of flesh on the next redistricting case--that is, to vindicate Federalist Society arguments about Article 1 Section 4 Clause 1, a sister to 2.1.2 that uses the same wording regarding legislatures and the manner of Federal elections.

EDIT: Fixed last sentence to refer to 1.4.1 instead of 2.1.2.

EDIT: s/2.1.1/2.1.2/
Probably closed solutions to those simple lighting situations.
There's a bit of a gap between when netscape was relavent and when firefox/firebird/phoneix was.

Yes there were other browsers, and yes there existed people who used them, but it was very small
Having experienced both extremes of 3 generation familial living and extreme solitude during Covid I agree with you. Cooking and caring for family is often more exhausting than 8 hour work and occasionally you crave alone time, but I think most people find it inherently more meaningful than office work.
Seems most results i get is porn ...
Thanks for your post and FWIW I don't think your views are crazy, selfish, unsympathetic or offensive at all.

If only the global attention and resources that have gone into the covid crisis could be channelled into the many equally, or more serious issues affecting humanity and the planet today (e.g poverty, oppression, war, over population, pollution, tuberculosis etc.). But they are not the new hot shiny problem, just our boring, faulty and irreplaceable legacy system.
In Slack's case I'm not sure how much this played a role. Slack itself really seemed like the kind of project a team of developers could write at a one week hackathon. So of course Slack was going to have to compete with essentially clones from all the major vendors and more, it's a very cloneable piece of software.

At least something like Zoom seems to not be as easily cloneable (the alternatives don't compare yet, in my opinion at least).
> Silicon Valley couldn't have designed a better way to further radicalize Trump voters

Fuck Trump voters. Unethical behaviors are not desirable online.
It is a black box. An enigma, wrapped in mystery and covered in secret sauce.
New Orleans checks all your positive boxes and Louisiana still has the migration pattern you attribute to SD.
How would you suggest a company like YT can "allow people to make up their own minds" about an issue if they do not "provide a platform for views" of that issue that they "don't share"?

Unless you are just making the point that YT censorship is more acceptable than government censorship (which I think everyone agrees with), then I'm not sure how you can have your cake and eat it to here.
They divested in 2014.
ARM MacBook vs. Intel MacBook
Pinhole lenses create visible diffraction effects pretty fast. Actually, even normal lenses cause diffraction at small ~f/11-f/22 apertures.
First, I appreciate you having a legitimate conversation about this stuff instead of dismissing my arguments for the aforementioned political issues. I think skepticism is fair on both sides.

> But we've bounded the risk to be much, much less than COVID in almost all populations.

Are you sure? And by sure I mean, there is enough data to prove this statement to be true? How?

> Generally, a whole lot of the reasons why we take vaccines is to provide collective protection.

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? If the latter is true, is the stance of "I will wait 1-2 years until there is actual data" even at odds with this idea?
Rob Phillips is a very unconventional scientist. Think Vin Diesel but a genius.
How do people learn about a lot of “laws”? I know practically none, and it seems so useful to be able to produce them when explaining an idea...
The Republican Party has been a fusion of business elite and evangelical Christians since its inception. The two groups not only broadly overlapped, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quakers, but both had adverse interests to the slaveholding south. The religious segment opposed slavery, and the business segment favored economic policies favorable to manufacturing industry (e.g. a strong currency, tariffs, and infrastructure) versus the weak currency and low tariffs favored by the agricultural south.

The strength of each faction waxes and wanes depending on what’s dividing the electorate. During the mid-20th century, both parties embraced “Christian values” (https://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Pro...) so economic issues dominated. Since Clinton, the parties are generally both on board with neo-liberalism, so religious and social issues dominate.
Workplace injuries.

It hasn't just happened in Havana, it's also happened in China, Australia and Taiwan.

Obviously the State Department wants to keep quiet about it, as the number of Workers' Compensations claims (or a class-action) would be prohibitively expensive.
Yeah that one was a real head-scratcher for everyone. It struck me as almost trolling the black metal crowd, which I appreciated.
The no response isn't that much higher than the Lizardman constant.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...
This was not a regular occurrence before 2017. Climate change is coming at us fast.
Wow... if I had made that statement, I would have been immediately down-voted and my comment removed for not "following the rules".
And then I wonder why certain 'mods' or overzealous persons have it in for me...
> It may seem bizarre that Cloudflare would allow average people to affect the video footage, but that’s actually intentional. External disturbances like human movement, static, and changes in lighting from the adjacent windows all work together to make the random code even harder to predict.

well what if you show up with a white blanket and putit in front of the camera?
There's two different things here: communal cooking/engagement, and the distribution of labour (i.e. mostly women). The former is presumably a positive, the latter is very unequal. You do appear to be passing judgement on both at the same time, though, and I think this is a shame - we could all do with more communal activities, just not to the point where it becomes intrusive or forces people to do what they do not wish to do.
This is incredible! The chiasm between him and 99% of people on Earth, really mind boggling that he can make so much money like that. He seems to have his head quite well on his shoulders too.
If this is your argument then you should be against laws that prevent discrimination against a protected class. If the markets are efficient enough to account for free speech issues, i.e. someone can just start another facebook/youtube, the markets should be efficient enough to correct themselves for companies that decide to discriminate against protected classes, i.e. someone can just start another facebook/youtube.
Yes, an accurate term and at least a somewhat humanizing one. Finding it objectionable probably says more about you than it does about sex workers.
America has a pretty good history of peaceful transitions of power, and I expect that to continue. Republicans selected an asshole to represent them, and he's now lost the election. He can throw a fit with his lawyers, which will doubtlessly fail, and I fully expect Biden to take the presidency peacefully, as has happened in past American elections. That's the process at work.

People telling you that this time it's going to be a war or coup are trying to scare you. In retrospect, you will probably laugh at trump for being such a pathetically poor loser, and laugh at yourself for worrying about it.
Looked legitimate? Do you have any idea how cheap a label maker is?
Looking at the IIci right next to me, it takes more than seconds to boot (well, with the config I have on it) but yep, I worked from home on that for years, running X over SLIP and a modem. Fun times.
Of course, you're right, it doesn't make sense and that's not how it should work. Unfortunately, science and medicine are fields that are largely driven by money. Laboratories don't really care about a vaccine for a disease in Africa that nobody will be able to afford or invest in. They will turn to better markets. There are multiple reasons, the most obvious one is that they're private companies, their goal is to make profit. The second one is that it's a field that requires a lot of resources. So you need a big ROI.

One of the reasons the vaccine for COVID-19 was produced so quickly is not because of some sort of conspiracy, like they had the antidote all along or something. It's just that when there's a real buck to make, it becomes a race between these big pockets companies.

That's one side of it and I don't know enough to cover every aspect of it. Also, it's just my opinion of course and how I see this.

Edit: I'm doubtful about a zombie vaccine being given for free. Most likely in a Walking Dead type scenario, where the economy would completely go down, there wouldn't be any financial incentive to keep the searches going, and no money to back up the researches either. So we'd be scr*wed I think. :o)
when it comes to splitting hairs, it doesnt matter how immune you are, to any pathogen, you will ALWAYS get infected.

if you have a fresh host of antibodies or a long term host of memory B cells you will prevent the virus from replicating to produce a morbidity or mortality.

you have to get the virus in your body...then the immune system responds to it.

as a fork you should be aware of the concept of becoming a vector in other words you get the virus on you then transfer it to someone else, no incubation required, just evasion of any cutaneous antibodies.
You’re probably thinking of “At Ease”! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Ease