skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Porn is harmless? To make that claim shows either bad faith or profound ignorance. Porn is incredibly harmful and degrading, both to those who perform on it as well as those who watch it. Nevermind the child porn, sex trafficking, or the blatantly non-consensual stuff, porn itself is gravely immoral and incredibly destructive. It hurts a person’s ability to have a healthy relationship. It creates obsessions and addictions that are also difficult to break. It enslaves you to your passions and blinds you. It locks you within yourself. Porn is a totalitarian regime’s dream come true. Instead of prodding people with police batons, you drown them in isolated prurient occupations, Brave New World style. You want a revolution that increases your power (until it gets out of hand, anyway)? Begin with sexual depravity. Sell it as “liberation”. Reenact the Bacchae. A man has as many masters as he has vices, so multiply those vices in others to multiply your control over them. Give them rationalizations that keep them trapped in their vices and easy to manipulate. He who controls the passions controls the masses.

Thus a man is only free when he has mastery over his passions and lives according to the truth. For a man can either conform the truth to his passions (rationalization) or he can conform his passions to the truth. The first is a slave, the latter a free man.
My point is that if you're an expert that people are supposed to trust - you shouldn't make statements about things you don't know yet.

You seem to be ok glossing over that because you want to talk about the current admin when I'm not even talking about that. I agree with the culpability there.

Fauci - In March he said "there's no reason to be walking around with a mask" [1] The CDC and WHO were doing the same.

Also regarding the lie, "“We were concerned the public health community, and many people were saying this, were concerned that it was at a time when personal protective equipment, including the N95 masks and the surgical masks, were in very short supply,” Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and public face head of the federal government’s coronavirus response, told The Street in an interview this week." [2]

You can go utilitarian if you want and say that's cool. Maybe you are ok with them lying to you because you believe them and think that was their only option. My point stands that there's enough distrust of the government. I don't believe they should do that, connect a lie to experts we are supposed to trust, and I don't believe that was their only option to prevent a shortage.

A lot of incompetence.

#1 not having enough masks in the first place, replenishing our supply

#2 talking about things they don't know and

#3 because they were incorrectly claiming cloth masks weren't useful for the public, they ended up parlaying that into a lie to try and prevent a shortage.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23hvLiA2akE

[2] https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/dr-fauci-admits-feds-initi...
There's still threads on hacker news today bemoaning the ribbon UI and harking back to the good old days of drop down menus, and how great it was to be a power user back then. If you're after an example of a UI change with minimal blowback then I think this is a poor example!
I would like to know what kind of interesting mind downvotes question?!
He didn't even mention the google calendar alerting system
Something big is brewing. I think there is going to be a big push to reign in social media.

I've thought long about this and can only think of one way to regulate them. I would propose that people are allowed x degrees of separation. As a regular user I can only go n+2 connections. After that the content is not seen no matter how popular. It will kill virility but should reign in stupidity being broadcast. To increase your separation score you must merit it with a reason and stick to it.
Agree. But try doing a video call in a channel in a team in Teams, and watch everyone in the team join, not just the people in the channel. At that point you won't miss just starting Zoom so much.
Their 'AI algos' allow videos to be repeatedly reposted after being deleted, as detailed in the NYTs article.
Feels more like we threw someone in and watched to see if they could doggy paddle back.
Also, any task that involves reading or writing files will, in the presence of cutomer antivirus software, turn into a random number generator on whether the read/write goes through at all, how long it takes, etc. We are constantly having issues with customer AV because of this.
"We conclude that the Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results. The system intentionally generates an enormously high number of ballot errors. The electronic ballots are then transferred for adjudication. The intentional errors lead to bulk adjudication of ballots with no oversight, no transparency, and no audit trail. This leads to voter or election fraud. Based on our study, we conclude that The Dominion Voting System should not be used in Michigan. We further conclude that the results of Antrim County should not have been certified."

We need more independent review of proprietary systems. Or better yet, a requirement for it all to be open source.
That's only possible because Reddit is not a blog, more like a message board so it's incredibly easy to distinguish between a content marketer/astroturfer or a genuine user.

This too will change. As search results get gamed even further, either users will move to restrict their searches to specific domains, or Google will favour Reddit's results more and more. At some point, the astroturfing will move there. There is already a pretty good business in selling high-karma reddit accounts as their content tends to get more visibility on the site.
That's, as they say, a big if. There's absolutely no reason to assume it's true.

BTW, love/affection/contact is one of those aspects of life where you're not a brain in a jar.
Live stream of Covid-19 vaccines being given to physicians
So true. The satisfaction gained from work is typically related to the backward glance: I'm proud of what I did and I like how it turned out. It can also come during the work itself once you've gotten into steady state, but the decisions and confusion and false starts at the beginning of a project -- necessary as they are -- are no fun.
If it were Iran, Turkey, etc the missiles would already be in the air
> Drive’s search is so poor that it’s often easier to get a colleague to resend the invite to a doc than it is find the thing via search.

For a search company, it's embarrassing how hard it is to search for things in their office suite.
https://www.seat61.com/trains-and-routes/nightjet.htm suggests that (nearly?) every route offers a single compartment.

That is, "Most Nightjet trains use Comfortline sleeping-cars built by Siemens in 2003-2005 for German Railways' City Night Line sleeper trains." and "Below: Comfortline sleeper layout. All compartments can be sold as a single, double or triple."
Yeah, those benchmarks seems to be highly biased over non-multicore applications.
The geekbench showed pretty much the same, M1 beats 3900X on single core performance, but only have 0.5 on overall multi-core score.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/5326018?baselin...

This isn't a benchmark that "focused on the real-world programming", it's more of a benchmark on single core performance.
> I can’t think of anything I might want to do really that won’t have me wanting to wait for the previous thing I was saying to Chrome to first complete.

That's precisely the point. By using async/await you can describe each of the things you want to do as a sequence of steps depending/waiting on previous results, but at the places you'd have to pause anyway (waiting on chromium, a database, etc) you can clearly signal that the machine is free to do other things till it has your results. If you have other tasks you'd _also_ like to be doing then those can be similarly coded with async/await, and they can run during times when the first task would otherwise have been idle (or however they're being scheduled).

As an aside, async/await is just a tool to try to make your life easier. It's moderately easy to reason about (each task is sequential after all, and shared structures can only be modified at explicit pause points), the syntax is only mildly more cumbersome than writing the sequential task you were going to write anyway, and it's remarkably easy to write a scheduler to execute an async program with some degree of efficiency. You can absolutely use any other parallel execution model you'd like or none at all as the situation demands.
Today they added a weird "feature" in Google Search : when I hover on some results links, there is a blinking black line and the result description expands from 2 lines to 4 lines, sometimes with adding pictures. I trigger that effect involuntarily and this disturbing thing can't be disabled. Where this idea come from ? Google is more and more cluttered everywhere. I miss the Google search page from 2005. I don't have statistics but I always remember Google pages and UI being fast, simple and straightforward. Time passes and I feel my experience with Google UIs more convoluted.
Director of AI at Nvidia publishes a list of people she wants to be harassed
Well, if engagement is measured by time in the system, then a bad UI/UX can help that measure. If things move around inside an app frequently enough, I'm forced to spend more time using it because I on longer know how (Google Finance changed yet again a few weeks ago on me). If they hold an outsized share of the market + momentum from people having used their services for (now) 20+ years, then they can get away with this for a while.
I am sorry, this is pretty weak, why didn't they add turning on the phone in their steps.

In firefox on android its 3 clicks, and duck duck go is one of the default search options.

On my phone, I click settings, type "search engine", select duckduckgo

This to me is reasonable, a single click is a bit impossible if taken literally.

They are including adding their browser, this is not the same thing as changing your search engine settings, which seems to be most of the steps they list, none of which are needed to change the search engine on your phone/browser/etc...
Maybe they were just bribed?
Facebook, WhatsApp, Snap, Twitter, YouTube, ByteDance, Twitch, Reddit, and Discord.
No, dude. I remember back in college when Youtube was the source for copyrighted content. That's how they got their start.
Check out this article about using a racing sim to train drivers during COVID:

https://dirtfish.com/rally/robert-reid-virtual-rally-safety/
Thanks for this - really useful and interesting resource. (And I now know how to pronounce Bartok!)
Google wants everything to run on Chromebooks for the education market, so writing native desktop apps goes against their own interests.
And they're sped up by like 50%.
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"The point of my post is that your epistemology is too narrow. Trying to sell you on my epistemology was outside of my intent."

Well, you either know a thing or not. Its really that simple. You know you are sitting at a table, typing, etc. I also accept the results of repeatable experiments, as long as I have verified them.

It really comes down to you. The individual. All ideas are therein. Are you prepared to kid yourself, or do you want the truth?

Often people say 'we' know to get around this. What does this usage of 'we' mean? It is trust that someone else has done the verifying, that they are trustworthy, that they are relaying the results faithfully, etc. If you are trusting though, you are not knowing.

Now, it is fine to have beliefs, and to accept other people's ideas and hypotheses. But it is another thing to say you know them to be true!
> Because it's a waste of very expensive time to develop native desktop apps in 3 different platforms?

and yet the latest-and-greatest cross platform framework is supposed to be Flutter
Especially when you can just /zoom from inside Slack, in fact.
> (1) Pornhub wasn't really checking, which is an easy way to get good stats.*

Those were external checks, no self-report. So the real question is whether those checks were insufficient and just found the tip of the mountain, or whether pornhub was acutually doing serious checks for this stuff and doing quite well in that.

In later case it also opens the question on whether the reports were really childporn, or just some disputable case which be acceptable in some country or time, and problematic in other countries or times. Or whether they just missed them. Or whether there is some darker reason behind them.

I think it's very likely that pornhub really had a system to prevent the nasty stuff, after all they are were big and old and not stupid enough to ignore those easy targets that would kill them fast. Their fast reaction this time shows that they are very focused on surviving.
In large disasters, cell phone networks have historically become so bogged down that even with fully functional towers and phones, you couldn't use the network. Perhaps sometime we'll have sufficient provisioning of cell phone towers to absorb such large spikes in usage, but we're not there right now.

Crucially, however, there is no profit in getting to the point of being properly provisioned for emergencies, and no regulation pushing for it. Land lines, in contrast, are regulated to push for availability during emergencies.
When was it switched? You are technically correct because I can't find when the switch was made. My mind still recalls "Accessibility" from decades ago but it looks like both were used:

https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ajs300/security/CIA.htm

https://www.pearsonitcertification.com/articles/article.aspx...
I use my Kenwood kr-3130, which was given as a gift to my mother in the 70s, every single day. Still truckin'
Your computer always uses as much memory as possible. That’s not evidence it wouldn’t work with less.
I didn't say anything about minimizing blow back. I agreed that there will be blow back. But life moves on.
Casio calculators also have a seperate exam mode where they clear all memory and do not allow the user to get to advanced function such as programming or derivative guessers. On the newer models a special led light on the top would indicate if the calculator is in this mode. You can disable this mode only by plugging in a usb cable and connect it to a pc or other calculator.

On all dutch state exams they simply checked this light on my calculator. But a friend of mine showed me already that there exsics special firmware that can fake this light so yhea 100% security will never exist.
They don't advertise clock speeds, FWIW
To https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6215946537001, which was the URL in the comment I was replying to (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25410636). I don't usually repeat the URL when I say such things because (a) it's right in the parent comment, and (b) once we change it, it's linked at the top of the thread too.

I don't know anything about that data, sorry. Just the janitor.
Not only is Drive's search poor, but Google's own search results have been getting notably worse. Somewhat recently, they rolled out a change where some keywords in your query will be left out to generate results for something unrelated. I've been having to wrap everything in quotes, add plus signs, and/or click on the "no, what I submitted really was what I wanted to search for, thanks" links on the results pages. I really hate to say it, but half of my searches are done on Bing now where I don't notice this kind of behavior taking place.

Also, if you want to talk about bad UX on Google products, I could write a book on frustrations I have with using Maps.
It's worth noting that the go1 compatibility promise[1] allows for breaking compatibility in the name of security issues:

>Security. A security issue in the specification or implementation may come to light whose resolution requires breaking compatibility. We reserve the right to address such security issues.

If the go team decides that this issue is worth a breaking change is another question entirely.

[1]https://golang.org/doc/go1compat
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Doesn't sound like 'venting' to me.

Eye strain and inscrutable UI elements sound like concrete complaints. Whether they were phrased diplomatically, I'm not sure, and I'd concede it might be construed as venting depending on the delivery.

That being said, assuming it was brought up constructively, I see nothing wrong with the criticism except for the specific designers' refusal to consider it.
yep, the same with google and facebook.
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Same for me.
I have a Ryzen 5 and it feels about 3x faster than anything else in the house, and it's not even the most expensive chip in the house.
Next year definitely getting another Amd chip to upgrade my now old ryzen 5. Not touching Intel again in a long time.
'The internet' is not a for-profit corporation.
> ... yet today digital technology is just part of everyday life.

In the dumbed down form. TV 2.0 (Netflix), grocery 2.0 (Amazon), news 2.0 (whatever YouTube/FB/twitter recommends).

The same people who did not care about stepping outside their comfort zone to get a bit more out of those aspects of life still don't do. (And sure, on one hand it's completely understandable, many people don't have the need, ability, resources and time (the good old privilege) to even do so; and ... there's no other hand, even if we know long term being closed in a walled garden will lead to problems, it's hard to make people understand it when they are inside.)
Yes. I expect it will surpass $100k next year, maybe hit $200k, then crash down to $50k in 2023. Media will declare it dead. By 2025 it will be back up over $1M and “dead” again at ~$500k in 2027. Then another ATH in 2029, 2033, 2037,2041, with of course it being dead for three years between them.

Seems pretty regular eh? Like every four years. What happens every four years in bitcoin?
The way to do it is, survey your macro use to identify common patterns, specify them formally, and then write a computer program that allows those patterns specifically but no others. In other words, design a higher-level language. ;)
The sensor-based driver assist solutions is what I meant as a secondary aid in my comment above. However, these solutions are reactive and quite partial as opposed to strong preventative measures like alcohol detection-based car immobilization solutions. Some would say that it is a radical measure, but so is electronic speed limiter/governor in all modern cars.

I'm well aware of the progress in autonomous driving space (including Tesla's - though, I would argue that Tesla is not the leader in this space; I think that it's Waymo). However, more generally, my point was not about limited fleet use cases, but rather global-scale deployments and massive adoption. That, I believe, is certainly not going to happen soon.
I really fear that Linux might get left behind as Apple and Microsoft go after this ARMs-race (pun intended).

At least Microsoft requires UEFI with their ARM offerings, but often the bootloaders are locked. I love Linux and I love running it natively. Currently I can grab almost any Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI, etc. desktop/laptop and there's a very good chance all the hardware will work with mainline Linux. If I get a laptop with replaceable Wi-Fi on those little PCI-E or M.2 cards, I can pretty much get past any hardware limitations.

Microsoft pretends they're onboard with Linux, but they still have hundreds of thousands (maybe millions? I don't think they sold that well) Nokia Lumina Windows phones that are e-waste bricks. They've released no docs for people who want to make Linux drivers and people have had to find exploits to unlock their bootloaders.

PostmarketOS is making some amazing strides, but they can't keep up with all these new incompatible ARM devices. PC architecture based Intel x86/64 devices allowed for Linux to thrive in the niece hacker/developer world. ARM has no standards for basic-input-output or device management (please don't say "device tree." It's garbage and no one uses it).

Alternatively, Intel or AMD need to step up their game and show the x86_64 instruction set can be implemented in such a way to get some of the same speed boosts seen on the M1. I'm not sure which one we'll see going forward, but I hope Linux doesn't get left behind.
I'm in SEO as well, and IMO the writer is simply describing what SEO means to the average person.

IRL no one not in the industry cares about the real work of SEOs from a technical and accessibility standpoint; they boil it down to the most visible manifestation of it, which is low-quality content marketing written by passionless freelancers that aren't domain experts and don't encourage any kind of trust.
Zoox unveils a self-driving car that could become Amazon’s first robotaxi
I haven’t analyzed your source at all. But even if I stipulate the data was correctly gathered and the conclusions made are reasonable, it doesn’t support your comments.

Data is not the reason you are in a bubble. Data is your excuse. Your view doesn’t gravitate toward data. You gravitate toward data that supports your view. When you find it, I’m rather convinced you’re not particularly critical about it. You seem to be trying to use that data as a club rather than as a tool to fix problems.
This website, like all other online communities, exists in a bubble and is very far from reality.
I like how someone at work says "hey this isn't the normal level of professional criticism and feedback you get from coworkers -- the level of anger I receive makes me genuinely fear for my safety." and the response is to assume that it's an overreaction. If someone is saying this they're taking a huge risk because it if people don't take them seriously it's over for them.

Like we've all been on the internet in tech forums right? Some guy on Github literally threatened to kill me if I didn't implement some feature he wanted. This shit is rampant and it spills over to companies populated by the kind of people who hang out on tech forums. Like our community isn't that big -- that hackerdude70 who threatened to rape you on your issue tracker because because you dropped sysv support is someone's coworker.
The article you link to was not published in a reputable peer-reviewed journal, or any journal, as far as I know, so I'd take its claims with a grain of salt.

However, even assuming it's accurate, it says:

"As you can see from the gray line, women rate an incredible 80% of guys as worse-looking than medium. Very harsh. On the other hand, when it comes to actual messaging,
women shift their expectations only just slightly ahead of the curve, which is a healthier pattern than guys' pursuing the all-but-unattainable."

So even though the women rated most men as unattractive, they were actually more open to dating less attractive men than men were open to dating less attractive women.
You can't rule out error in other counties/states, as they simply haven't been looked at.

I'm 100% sure you'll find irregularities in other states/counties as well.
I think the point of the screenshot was to highlight that there are a lot of buttons, but no labels or any way to know what they do.
Sounds like hazing.
It is appalling how so many people seem to have such little regard for what the consequences of the next "war to end all wars" would be.
I really don’t think that’s the situation being described here.
From looking over their Wikipedia entry, it looks like Cinemax has backed away from adult content, but the last time I was a subscriber (around 2016/2017), their app had a less-than-obvious "late night" section buried in its navigation.