skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think OP may have stopped one or more causal links short of the systemic issue. In general, politics is vulnerable to actors who work in bad faith.

You can blame the current power-hungry narcissistic wealthy sociopaths who are doing what power-hungry narcissistic wealthy sociopaths can be expected to do, or you can accept that there will always be people who fit that description and try to fix the incentives and checks that they're responding to.
Everything seems so last minute and ad hoc with this Conservative government. Their announcement of another level 5 lockdown (which hadn't existed until today) and the u-turn on school closures makes it clear they are simply making things up as they go along.

The goverment's level of incompetence is simply off the scale. How has this nasty, rotten government gotten away with some much? (No doubt helped by our nasty right-wing press.)
> Also allowing people to order alcohol to be delivered within the hour probably isn't the smartest!

Why? What is the difference vs someone who keeps a quantity on alcohol in their house (other than being exorbitantly more expensive)?
You think that if it was classified as mental health disease at the time, Reagan and politicians would cared? You think they would be better accepted at the time and cared about?
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It is super annoying that it isn't done more.

I'd love to be able to opt in to bounds checking when I feel it is needed.

I have no bloody idea why language designers seem so intent on not letting me choose what perf/safety trade-off is worthwhile for me. :/
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Do you have any of those "good reasons" beyond "it's nonsense"? Most people who say things like that, in my experience, have lifted that opinion wholesale from their undergrad psychology professors and have never read the man's work.
Good point, we’re a small share of global cases. I’ll temper my wrath a bit.
Check your junk. That is where mine ended up.
At what point do we label massive shared delusions mental illness and treat them as such? If we do treat them as mental illness and approach these people with kindness and compassion, is there a threshold of sheer numbers and self-destructive potential beyond which kindness and compassion fail to be effective tools to bring people back to reality? If so, what do we do then?

Obviously there are weaknesses in the human brain and in our educational systems, and these weaknesses are being actively exploited by people bent on chaos, power, money, or whatever. So how to we find and punish the culprits and dissuade them from doing this kind of brain-hacking in the future? How do we establish global-level policies to make average citizens less vulnerable to it?

Stuff I spend a lot of time thinking about lately.
We're never going to have a productive discussion if you think capital and labor are the same thing.
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Also as I understand it, Norway already has as of April 2020 (VOEC), so not just EU.
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Vulnerability isn't binary. You're not immune one day and susceptible the next. It's much more likely that immunity to getting sick might start decreasing over time, but still remain relatively high. So, perhaps 80% in 3 months, 60% in 6 months, and 30% in 9 months to use made up numbers. Additionally, production is still ramping up so it's highly unlikely that we'll have less vaccine in 3 months than currently. We'll also likely have 1-3 more approved vaccines by then as well.
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> Freud came as a kind of a doctor for mind, calling his clients 'patients' and mimicking "real" doctors in any way he could.

This is a popular misconception. In fact, Freud was a "real" doctor who studied neuroscience in medical school and had a career as a doctor working in hospitals. The most interesting thing about psychoanalysis is that it was invented by neurologists like Freud and his mentors Jean-Martin Charcot and Josef Breuer, not by psychologists. The "talking cure" was originally used to cure people who had been hospitalized with various physical symptoms and ailments.

The popular myth holds that psychoanalysis is a non-science trying to mimic science, but in reality it is the other direction. It was originally closer to biology and moved away from that.
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I dislike sports, but I do see that making pro sports broadcasts continue could provide the entertainment needed for folks to be happier to stay inside their homes like they should.
Notion is about the only service today out of many other major platforms (see: https://downdetector.com) that cared to email me about the downtime. I’ve been a happy Notion user since about a year ago and this is probably the only one time I have experienced major downtime as far as I can remember.
Please stop posting like this.

It's clear that you've been through a lot. I'm sorry and I wish you the best. Comments like this are off topic, though. They don't help, and repeating them especially doesn't help.
"__ So alcohol spreads COVID? Good thing restaurants don't count on alcohol sales to stay afloat."

The problem isn't the take-away alcohol itself, the problem is what people do with it.

We routinely get people around our area (East London) who buy take-away beer - stand two meters away from the pub - and drink it with their friends. It promotes people spreading COVID.

The UK government aren't confident enough to actually curtail people's behaviour (eg mask wearing in public, fining people etc) that they stop the things that people inherently do.

I don't think it's a great policy, but it's a step in the right direction.

The science itself is all in the messaging and tone.. but they make it easy to get out of with "valid reasons". Stay home.
If the benefit we are looking for is better up time, that will not happen.
The main benefit is going to be knowing why the system is down, and the eta to being up again.
China is able to manipulate its exchange rate to regulate the relative prices of imports and exports. So are ~200 other economies in the world. The US doesn't have an exchange rate to fiddle with. Hell, it can hardly produce domestic inflation with its low interest rates, let alone devalue its currency.

Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorbitant_privilege
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It's largely overlooked that the success of Slack & MS Teams is partly due to the cybercrime portal that email has become. IOW, you don't get phished in your org's Slack chats. To prevent phishing, any chat service will suffice; an open protocol isn't necessary, as you don't intend to engage with ppl outside your org.

The essential problem IMO is how to replace SMTP. No one has proposed and implemented an alternative, to my knowledge. So I decided to[1]. The current draft omits federation (although I wouldn't rule it out in all cases yet).

[1] https://github.com/networkimprov/mnm/blob/master/Protocol.md
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Not sure if it’s really that common, but it’s a staple of Friday evenings at City firms if you have to stay late.

You order a meal via the corporate Deliveroo/Seamless etc., to the firm-paid limit and immediately call the restaurant and ask for beer of the same value to be delivered instead.
I was into Bitcoin all the way back in the days, when they were free (I believe I read about it here on HN) and we had faucets and all that up until they were worth around $300. I had great hopes for the technology and was mostly just following stuff on r/bitcoin while also trying to built little proof of concept projects on the side, that could maybe turn into some useful gadget like a payment processing device or similar things.

I got out because it turned into exactly a religion. There was no room for questioning the technology or considerations about whether this was really as useful as we thought it would be.
> So alcohol spreads COVID?

This always gets me. Isn’t it obvious that alcohol consumption is a social activity? Not all of it, but to a large degree. Limiting the consumption seems logical. Of course, you can’t assess the impact of individual measures at the moment, as you need a controlled experiment and proper statistics. But is this measure really something to be that upset about?
Yeah it’s a shame they don’t link the original text. You can find copies pretty easily with a google search of the title, albeit with a big, opaque redacted watermark on the pages. I’m sure if you really want it you could find it with a bit more effort though.
I'd file that as either symptomatic of their illness or cultural stigmatization (which I forgot to mention). The latter doesn't just influence patients, but also how other areas of medicine sometimes view psychiatry.
It's single-threaded, isn't it? If so I'm sure the hardware is fine and not the bottleneck.
Twitter has been by far the worst ad spend i've ever seen. When I complained that the clicks i got weren't real people, they blamed the landing page. I was advertising to 3 keywords "free astrophotography data" and the landing page was 0 ads, 0 popups and a link to free data to download.

They charged me for the ads, I complained to credit card company and did a charge back and they never followed through...

in fact, they offered me more credit to try advertising more.

For the life of me, I'm not sure how you can pay for 1,000 clicks to a very specific keyword and not have a single person download anything. The download was also valid for any user type. If you were on a mobile device, it showcased data that you could see on your mobile phone vs requiring a tool to download XISF or FITS data - it allowed you to download the high res image(s) in native iOS/Android formats.

Beyond the improbability of landing page being junk, Google analytics didn't fire for the majority of the traffic and twitters response was "the landing page may be too slow"

the landing page was < 1 second load times even within the twitter iframe nonsense.

anywhoo... the same ads on facebook, bing and google all had 75% click through and downloads but there were still a ton of clicks that had no analytics, no web time, didn't load anything in web analytics that we got charged for too...

the whole thing seems like a scam
I worked in a unionized IT shop for 6 years (now in SV) and here's my take:

Pay transparency: union mandated pay band helps - no 2x/3x pay for the same position that's for sure. Though I do think this problem could be solved without a union. It's really about opening up compensation information.

Broken promotion process/age discrimination/interviews:

First of all, broken processes are not going to get better with a union. They will still be broken, just in different ways.

Union favors/protects seniority therefore the promotion process will still push out high performing employees because they need to "wait for their turn". In fact the running joke we had about promotion was that you could only get promoted if someone:
1. Dies
2. Retires
3. Quits

Age discrimination happens less than in SV tech companies but not by design. In general the workforce in a union shop is older but you also have a lot of low performing lifers counting their days to retirement. On the other hand, interview is far less rigorous since the key factor is "likability" (aka culture fit). Many interviews took place just to satisfy a policy when a pre-determined candidate was already chosen.

Will I ever work for a unionized IT shop again? Not a chance.
What maniac thought Miami was going to be a tech hub
But if half of people in the world have Teslas with self driving, Tesla can also sell entertainment (they've already started, with video games!). They can also sell fancier version of self driving where you can "rent" your car (Uber-like). The hardware is a gateway to potentially more services.

I still feel that Tesla is overvalued, but there exists a potential future where it still has room to grow (I'm not sure I'd like that future - so this, coupled with the stock volatility, kept me from investing in Tesla. Which, TBH, was a poor decision so far :D )
I think they might be trying to 'get ahead of the story', and write articles which are first, and may turn out to be right. This did not start with the internet (see the 1948 presidential election), but it does seem have gotten fairly extreme.
IME, Slack is far more likely to lose my message than iMessage. I believe that's part of the point being made above.
> Someday I'd like to do a "desktop literally built into the desk top"

For 7 years my desktop has been literally just a motherboard sitting on a cut-up yoga mat on my bookshelf. [1] The SSDs are piled next to it. My work PC is zip-tied to a milk crate. Don't let people fool you, you can be pretty creative with your definition of "case".

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It’s also illegal to access many of the sites on this list (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...), but it still happens.
You can still buy alcohol in stores; by take-away this means in a ready-to-drink fashion.

Alcohol delivery to a house is fine unless you're assuming people are still having parties.
Does her router have parental controls and the ability to block websites? I was under the impression that most do nowadays.
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Oohh look at these people with more than one room!

I feel ya.

Back when I was running a one-man startup, I had myself, my wife, and a cat in 450 square feet. Except when I was out gladhanding potential clients, I worked from my bed.

At least back then, I could decamp for Starbucks if I got the crazies. But today's studio apartment dwellers are really screwed. Especially if you live somewhere hot, somewhere cold, or a city that removed all of the public benches to "combat" homelessness.
> Are you an official representative of HN?

Yes, he is. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25225775
“nobody is asking the hard questions.”

Maybe they have asked these questions and concluded that this is the best path? Seems most countries are following similar paths.
he's a moderator

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...
So there's the narrative. You disagree with it. I don't get what more needs to be said.

Go short it if you disagree.
I dream that one day I’ll be able to turn my ears on and off at will. Earplugs work alright, but complete silence would be fantastic (personal safety be damned)
How would it work otherwise? The lockdowns are announced when they happen. What's the alternative? Announcing them weeks before they go into force? Then people would be up in arms the nasty Tory government are delaying the lockdowns.

They are "making things up as they go along" or as it's more charitably known, reacting to events.
There are 27 photos at the bottom on mobile? Who are these people? If these are example profiles I would try to get a more diverse and inclusive grouping. There is not a woman in the 27 and ideally it would be 50/50
>* Establish a network of "Research Universities" from each country in the World (sort of UN of Universities). The poorer countries can be partially funded by richer countries. This is to ensure that knowledge flows are not constrained due to lack of resources.

Agreed, a lot of grant funding now has an open access rider on it, so research doesn't get stuck behind a paywall.

> Research in the various Sciences have to be clearly identified as "Critical" or Not. The former is funded and managed completely differently than the latter.

How do you ensure that this classification of critical/non-critical happens accurately? How do you hire for this team, and what metrics would you use to judge their performance? How do you ensure that this 'non critical' funding isn't simply a waste of money? This solution seems to just push the same problem further down the road.

>For example, research in vaccines/cancer is considered critical while research in "battery chemistry"(currently a hot area of research) is not.

I work in vaccines, and I don't agree with this blanket assertion. How do you deal with vaccine technology that is junk and will never produce a safe and efficacious product?

>In the former case, all we keep tabs on is "some progress" and not necessarily an external deadline i.e. researchers are given the freedom to keep working on it with self-imposed and self-defined milestones.

So unlimited funding for unlimited projects as long as they are critical according to some review committee? We might have a tiny problem doing that.. :)

>* Finally, No "Research" project should ever be overseen by purely "Administrative/Finance/MBA" types. Only Core Domain Experts should be granted oversight with the above mentioned helping as needed.

We should have a large tent. Financial management is a critical component of any successful project. "Core Domain Experts" will likely have limited time, given their other commitments and own personal research to work on. Also, there needs to be a thorough vetting and oversight to make sure that these experts aren't just funding projects that their buddies are working on.

I think you have some good ideas, but as you can probably imagine too, its no easy task proposing a working model, and getting it adopted world-wide :)
There's also a massive surge of simplified chinese users in the same month, along with a small increase in previous gen GPUs[1], so I suspect it has more to do with more older builds being sampled than intel gaining marketshare.

[1] If you check gpu market share for windows, the usage share for many nvidia 10xx, 16xx, 20xx series gpus went up. The first two are out of production years ago, and the last was out of production early/mid last year.
Hopefully the two vaccines currently being rolled out in the U.S. and Europe will largely eliminate the need for future lockdowns.

Once the most vulnerable populations are immune, it's just a matter of weeks or months before herd immunity among the general population is achieved and life can pretty much go back to normal.
> Why would anyone join now seeing these circumstances?

Because the world is moving to being dominated by the big 3 trading blocs: US, EU and China. All in an environment where the WTO is diminished and bilateral relationships become the norm.

If you are outside one of these blocs increasingly you will become weaker and more irrelevant for trade and services. And far less able to defend your interests.
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No longer the case: https://oisd.nl/excludes.php
There are new features/changes added often, many are documented here (not with dates, but you can get an idea of when things change based on the commit history): https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

The most recent change I remember was when Twitter and GitHub posts were split based on the user the link belonged to (i.e. GitHub.com/dang is different than github.com/torvalds now).
Penny pinching bosses are the same thing as profits. If they did not pinch, there would be no profits.

Sure, labour doesn't have to fight to reduce the pinching, but there's no benefit to the workers in thst
> Honestly, the top responses almost read like neural network generated proto-english

That’s not specific to questions about 5G. Most of what I read on Quora would fit that description.
Flightradar24 use raspberry pi's? Wow!