skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if that same vaccine were given to a front line health care worker, or to a young partier who just can't seem to help themselves from giving it to 25 other people, including 3 grandparents, we solve the disease, we address the externality, and we protect old people, much more effectively

I was just thinking this the other day and wondering if I was some horrible monster. People looked at me like I was crazy. There's some comfort in knowing that whichever side of history this viewpoint lands on, there is a sense in which it was right by correctness if not by popularity.
It's true that some review papers are shallow but it's pretty cynical to paint all contributions of this type with the same brush. In my experience, good review papers are more than summaries. They can connect separate lines of research for example, compare and contrast different ideas and they can re-contextaulise a body of research to give a broader picture and reveal new and interesting directions. These papers are hard to write well and take a long time. Even more so in cases where empirical work has been undertaken so as to make direct comparisons and provide reference implementations.

Even the summary papers can be useful. On particularly active problems there can be dozens of papers per year. Sorting out wheat from chaff by highlighting notable works, and pointing out trends in published research, is again a genuine contribution, and helpful for the scientific community.
No, on retail shelves I expect to see an assault rifle with the logo of an enraged militant heading into battle where he will kill other human beings and/or be killed themselves.

Also, all the local stores in my town sell some sort of colorful box with drug capsules depicted on them. Many advertising that they give energy to stay awake.

Or I expect to see booze, depicted as booze, one of the most addictive and destructive drugs on the planet.

Or I expect to see.....any number of things which can be abused when used incorrectly.

No offense, but I think this argument is weak.
Great book by Louis L'amour, "Last of the Breed". Escaping and walking across Siberia to North America. One of L'Amour's better books.
>Apple requires software to be "notarized"

This is not exactly true and you know it. For example:

>if you have enough technical know-how

You right click the app and then click open.

>Especially when all the dialogs are calling your software malicious, untrustworthy, etc.

Another lie. The dialog says "this is from an unidentified developer" and does not say anything about being malicious or untrustworthy. What is your beef with Apple that you're so willing to say so many outright lies on a forum filled with people who know better and can call you out on it?

Windows does this with UAC. Many Linux distros require executables to be explicitly set with the +x flag. macOS is not unique in this, and like with the other OSes it's a security feature.

Check out the warning and "bypass" for yourself: https://www.macworld.com/article/3140183/how-to-install-an-a...
I’ve become a big fan of this multigenerational lifestyle which you’ve described, especially with remote work. You can truly have your cake and eat it too by having parents give free childcare during the workday. I have little ones running around like banshees also, and it really helps when my parents look after them 3-5 days per week so I can focus on work.
We all know autotune, but what's "gridding"?
Zygna was the company that threating to fire employees or take back stock.

https://www.cnet.com/news/zynga-to-employees-give-back-our-s...
It's less reasonable when the store is the only one people are legally allowed to buy a product category at.
Fine. GTA then. Are you just playing idiots advocate?
> Why don't we have more outrage against this outdated institution created out of 1600 era values?

I can be outraged at both outdated, dehumanizing institutions.
I actually had coffee with one guy who started and was acquired along with Farmville by Zynga. Can't remember his name, but I do remember I considered how useful a time machine would have been to go back to stop them from stealing so much of so many people's lives.
They're also hip, maintain some level of underdog cachet, and folks like their products. People wish they could be that, and tend to give a pass to the things they idolize.

You might also imagine that inside a company made of money, there's no need for anyone to be a jerk.
A good manager should.
This is scientific poor communication + regulatory inhibition.

No, the drug companies did not study sterilizing immunity. No, they make no claims. However, ask any expert and they would say they expect there will probably be some sterilizing immunity and reduction in spread for those who do get it.

Some moderna data showed a 2/3 reduction in asymptomatic cases. It would be astonishing if vaccines cause no decrease in spread.

This meme is the new “masks protect others, they don’t protect you”. They do, in fact, protect the wearer to some extent. How could they not?
Why not just cook with healthy fats like extra virgin olive/coconut oil?
The fact that the current government did a crap job isn't reason to jump on a free market solution. The free market does optimize, just not to anything fair, equitable, or even the most efficient in protecting the population. The solution is to have a government plan that optimizes for the proper variables and the means to apply that plan.
Health care workers are in the first group receiving the vaccine, so it's sort of confusing that the article goes on about them being prevented from getting it.
> I’m incredibly perplexed why people do this. Even pre pandemic it was patently obvious to anyone who paid attention that certain foods just don’t deliver well.

I don't say this with any malice, but a lot of people are just not that bright. Things that you think are "perplexingly obvious", to the point that you can't conceive of not thinking about them, just aren't to them.
This reminds me of Bertha Benz who made the first long-distance automobile trip in 1888. Bertha wanted to convince her husband Karl that his invention had great potential and should be marketed. So, early one morning, without telling anyone, she loaded up her two teenaged sons and set off over 65 miles of wagon tracks between Mannheim and Pforzheim. Through ingenuity and determination, she overcame numerous obstacles to complete the illegal trip. Fascinating woman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Benz
YouTube would be a great source for spoken language. But only a tiny portion of YouTube has subtitles, and it doesn't yet feel like automatic transcription is at a level where you would want to use its output to train something else. That day will surely come though
You should eat 6-8 times a day but smaller meals to prevent obesity. You should also avoid carbs in a majority of your meals and added sugars in all meals. Stick to healthy fats and the obesity problem reduces to none.

Obesity comes from ultimately consuming more calories than calories exerted. Your body learns (maybe this is the wrong word) to store fats when there are long periods of time without eating
> it doesn't serve as a deterrent (based on talking to ~50 prisoners about this)

1. Talking to prisoners doesn't mean it's not a deterrent for the rest of the population. This is a massive selection bias, it's like saying diet and exercise doesn't work because morbidly obese people say it doesn't work for them.

2. People sometimes lie (often first to themselves), especially about their motivations. This is like an angry teenager yelling that all their rebellion is because of their parents' rules, it's often a self-serving rationalisation.

3. There's no doubt that the US prison system is a bit weird if you compare it to the rest of the world.
Don’t miss the Maru interpreter and compiler:

https://www.piumarta.com/software/maru/
While that statement is true, it's not relevant to the author's claim - that if you have a limited dose of the vaccine, you should allocate it as quickly as possible (and the free market is a good way to do so) and to people who risk infecting other people. We don't have enough doses for everyone to get the vaccine, so whether it provides sterilizing immunity very much does matter to the question of who to allocate it to and how.

(If we did have enough doses ready to go for everyone, the government solution of "have the government buy it and distribute it to everyone" and the free market solution of "everyone and their insurance is very willing to buy one dose but values a second dose at $0" would basically collapse to the same thing, and so the author's argument would be moot.)
Best performing asset of the decade.
> This would seem to be in the same level of complexity as six carrier/modulator interactions; you have to do a multiply to do a lookup after all.

The Yamaha FM synthesis chips do zero multiplications. Everything is done with additions in log scale, with a lookup table for log-sine and another lookup table for exp. I’m unaware of a technique for implementing digital filters without multiplication.

I don’t know why lookup would require a multiplication. Recall that the Yamaha FM chips do not use interpolation.
German army mostly found that Union had more soldiers than they had bullets, and that wehrmacht got to Moscow on the fumes.

The "massive industrial advantage" was nothing not to be expected from the most resource rich country on the planet.

Yet, the country was, by all accounts, from both most staunch communist party sources, and contemporary anticommunists, completely incapable of running during the crisis, and "all in" strategy of manufacturing one gun, one tank, one shell, one plane in massive amounts was a result of desperation, not industrial might.
One example of this is the law in the US that all buses are supposed to stop in front of tracks regardless of traffic signals. There was an accident once and now buses do this needless maneuver: https://brokensecrets.com/2011/04/08/the-incident-why-buses-....
I'm not a fan of the current strategy or execution either, but

> There is a lot of private incentive to combat an externality!

No
Big difference is that other FAANGs have much less secretive inside culture. That of course doesn’t prevent abuse, and horrible experiences will happen everywhere. But it’s much easier to hide and develop pockets of abuse if everything you work on is top secret.
You assume that the only way somebody could conclude that working at a megacorp is right for them is that they are brainwashed ("drunk the kool-aid") and that they are so thick headed that they'd be unable to pierce with argument. You fail to consider that it really is possible for people to have different values and needs than you and honestly and coherently conclude that working at one of these companies is a good idea for them.

For the record, I also disagree with a lot of what was written in your post as straight of factually wrong. My manager's manager's manager's manager does know my name, for example. I do work that I choose almost entirely, my work has direct and meaningful impact on a problem I personally care about a lot (my friends and family care a lot too), and I've been able to be one of the primary voices involved in pushing an entire org of hundreds to change a major strategic approach over the last several years. I've never been asked to sign a non-compete.

There are problems with major companies. They aren't for everybody. That's fine. But telling people that they are just blind for disagreeing with you is just awful.
It's strange, in projects like these I always see curated lists of non-free software being used for nefarious purposes, and free software that benefits their users.

But surely there's free software javascript that can collect keystrokes and fingerprint you, and other generally bad things as equally well as closed software.

Is the FSF be ok with people (companies, really) using free software spying technologies instead of closed source ones? Are the examples picked specifically to sway more people into the project?
Are we slave labor for ML data?
Thanks for sharing!
I'd agree with your point that getting started in robotics is challenging on your own, and that finding a research group is a great place to start.
On the accountability of megacorps, I think there are roughly two groups they are accountable to:

1. The shareholders, who care about growth and potential future profits

2. The pampered employees

For the first group, I don’t think they will effect much positive change (from time to time some massive fund like blackrock will say that companies should have better corporate governance, and positive environmental and societal effects, but this is purely words and won’t affect their investments. Other investors want to invest in ESG funds of “good” companies but they also want those funds to have the same returns as the S&P500 ...)

For the second group (who are also likely shareholders but only to a minor extent), I think they have a lot of power to hold these companies to account, otherwise they wouldn’t be so pampered. So I think it’s an important question as to why they don’t succeed in doing this at all. I suspect many employees either don’t care or think about ethics at all, or don’t particularly object to what the company does. Being charitable, they may nor care because the issues concern parts of the vast business which are not so close to what the person works with. Others may just not know about many objectionable projects (surely the company would be motivated to keep them relatively secret if internal backlash seemed likely.)

But there also seem to be many employees who do find out about these things and care and complain. The energy seems to be dissipated entirely by internal discussion or meme boards (people can post “company is doing X and it’s awful” and nothing will change but maybe the poster feels like they’ve done something now) and the few instances where someone tries to do some kind of workplace organising, gets fired, wins some money in an unfair dismissal suit, gets some media attention, and goes to work at a think tank or something, hence no longer posing a threat to the company.

Perhaps one reason people don’t organise around such issues is that they feel some kind of embarrassment about it—they have this relaxed pampered lifestyle and high pay, so they would look silly to be complaining about it.
Wow that's nice
I know infantilization is big with the tech set, but is this a serious question you'd ask an adult?
The author does a really poor job of providing evidence for why 1996 happens to be the date for "the end of progress" in software. Why not 1995, 1994, 1993, or the years before that? This sounds more like someone who went into the field in the 80's and now they are grumpy that the world cares about a completely different set of concerns than what was important back then.
The Pebble had a transflective LCD display (branded "e-paper"), not e-ink (a term which refers to electrophoretic displays).

I agree though that Pebble was great and there's no true replacement yet.
I found the twice linked article:

"How Perfectionism Has Made the Pandemic Worse", far more interesting and to the point.

https://blog.supplysideliberal.com/post/2020/12/31/how-perfe...
In English, by calling out a specific subject in the sentence that is the implied and assumed context. Not more and not less. Unless clarified in preceding or subsequent sentences. Otherwise everything needs a qualifier all of the time which would make communication annoying, overly verbose, and burdensome. We do this to get along in the world and with each other. This is why it is correct to consider Grubhub dishonest or incompetent. They are using an alternate meaning, which is not common usage, by leaving out the necessary qualifiers to communicate what they actually mean.

By your misinterpretation of this I’d guess you deal with rigorous systems and strive towards clarity. That is fine but not how common language is used. Grub hubs language here is exploiting not using common standards to veil their intended and unexpected meaning in language the reader will find positive because of their common interpretation, which is false information because grubhub means something non-standard.
Response to edit: A lie by obfuscation, or a lie by misdirection is still a lie.

If you set something up so it is easy to believe a thing, without ever stating that thing, you are still lying, it is just not obvious that you are.
But that’s not what the OP was arguing...
> prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals

A lot of palaces, museums, galleries, opera houses, universities and houses of government share the same basic layout. You’d be hard pressed to say what the function of the Palace of Westminster was if you didn’t know. It certainly looks a lot like some schools and universities.
You mean after you spend at least $700 on a mac mini. Install developer tools. Learn enough about version control to clone the source and pay $100 annually.

Can we just admit that most people actually can't reasonably be expected to do so?
Free market vaccine, however, would not increase the amount of vaccine but only change the distribution. The wealthy companies would have faster access to the vaccine, which is not the same as the right companies having access.
Apple employees would probably be vaccinated sooner than nursing home employees.
Money is a big issue because there isn't any to staff the actual vaccinations. Spending money on it shouldn't even be a consideration, but here we are.

And then we don't have anything like a plan to treat administration of doses like an emergency. It's bonkers.
I only got a 700. My school was rumored to by designed by prison architects, so maybe that's why.

Can I flag the whole thread as off-topic? Geez, HN.
As an aside, nice vanity URL. I find myself having a Patrick Bateman-esque moment of business-card envy, but for URLs. That domain is just so...good. .com too often implies a business, .org a non-profit, etc but .website is just saying it is a website, not necessarily for anyone or anything (although presumably created by someone). Sadly someone is squatting josh.website or I would own it right now.
The article addresses this point:

> Instead events—including the staggering cost of delay, the spectacular failures of institutional authorities to adapt to the scientific realities of covid, and the long-awaited finding that all the major vaccines safely work (some better than others), just like the experts predicted back in February—all this only made me more confident of my original, stupid and naïve position.
Thereby ensuring that the dominant companies stay dominant, because they just upped the barriers to entry.

Always count on government to do the opposite thing to what might actually fix the problem.

The actual problem is not that delivery apps list without consent. The actual, real problem is that they use their dominance to take their cut.

Without that dominance we could easily see another app & another app until that margin is a mere cloud fees + 50% sort of markup.

But now... restaurants can go on paying through the nose.
Graphic Designer's POV on Current Magic: The Gathering Cards
When you are the victim of a crime, you want the perpetrator to be punished. Typically to a larger extent than reasonable. That's the point.

The fact that the state does it for you according to predefined rules, already is the civilised aspect.

It's telling that liberals naturally take the perspective of perpetrator. Perhaps they remidn them of themselves?
BS article.
PDF attachments are very useful for lossless steganography. Image-based techniques get lost in recompression (e.g. Save To Camera Roll on an iPhone, or sending via Facebook message). PDF attachments don't get lost in that way.

Want to include the CSV raw data with your report? Just add it as a PDF attachment.

Want to hide a game with your homework? Add it as a PDF attachment. Chrome and Preview on Mac doesn't show that it exists, but Firefox can be used to extract the file.

It's not going to shock anyone to have a 5 MB file as a PDF, but there's a lot you can hide in there (MP3s, games, HTML files including more JavaScript, whatever else).

On the surface, everyone thinks it's just another PDF. But the real data is hiding in plain sight.
"If you are an Apple employee, please send this story to your upper management particularly Tim Cook."

What exactly should we say? "Hey Tim, this unnamed ex-employee, working on an unnamed and extremely vaguely characterized project in an unnamed organization, is accusing unnamed co-workers, managers, and HR-representatives of perpetrating truly appalling abuses on her. You should look into this at once!" ?

It's a difficult situation for the original author; I understand their desire to remain anonymous for their protection, and I understand their wish to have their allegations investigated, but I don't see a good way to reconcile these two goals, and especially not a good way to recruit allies for the second goal.
Intel's about to be MBA'd to death.
Often, yes, but than you have 3blue1brown. MKBHD and Jonathan Morrison also have a more tasteful, relaxed tone.

I love hardware reviews but not this format and I don’t really care for games. I was wondering if there’s something akin to Anandtech’s style review on YouTube.
I occasionally read Geography articles from the first half of the XXth century, they are a joy to read, until at least the 50s or 60s. It reads like a book: the vocabulary is very accessible (the few words/concepts which do not belong to the common language are introduced and defined) and while the writing flows pleasantly like a fiction or documentary, it conveys much useful information.

The recent ones? They're horrible piles of pretentious jargon, jargon which oscillates between hyper-technical and utter-bullshit. They read like those technical marketing fluff pieces. Philosophico-technocratic verbiage all along; when you're done with it (assuming you didn't give up in despair or anger), you haven't learned anything, basically. Anyway, they usually don't bother really describing concrete things any more, they rather talk about fancy social constructs. The synergy of the Promethean dynamic of the actants of transformative innovation of mountainity. Right...

(I made up the example, but from real pieces from my last 2 attempts. I unfortunately can't remember or find the previous one, it was 10 times worse, I wouldn't even have needed to make up this example, I could just have copy-pasted its abstract.)

The difference is like between reading a page-turner, and trying to read the latest ISO standard about development methodology in safety-related domains (perfect for falling asleep before the second page).
Which is objectively worse for reducing deaths and long term side effects. It is a really bad idea.
> On the other hand, what seems to sell in North America is crappy bikes with full suspension and maximum number of gears.

Part of that problem is there's a certain cost floor to Derailleur based drivetrains versus Internally geared hubs, and when you're an ODM mass producing you're at a whole different level of price structure.

> Actually IGH can’t shift smoothly under load

Ehhhhh..... So The Nexus 8 speed will upshift under load OK, but downshift you typically will have to pause pedaling for at least a moment for the shift to complete. I had one on a tandem at one point and even with two experienced riders it could do the upshifts fine. I think? some other IGH manufacturers have/had models that could shift in both directions fine, but they were very expensive models.

From my time slinging bikes (which was around when Shimano kicked off their 'Coasting' program,) where Shimano missed the boat was they didn't offer a 5 or 7 speed with shifting capabilities close enough to the Nexus 8. That would have been enough for everyone to be happy.

As an aside, It's fun to see all the different kinds of shifters Shimano cooked up for their IGHs over the years to sell people on them...

I'm still not sold on Drum brakes, in any case, but I'm also a Mechancial Disc zealot FWIW.