skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congratulations!

You've just shown us all that the gradient started to shift upwards less than 300 years ago.

Seriously, look at some basic calculus. Try to understand what you are doing.

I look forward to your further efforts in debunking climate data misinformation.
I apologize if it took it that way - was an early morning, no sleep day.
They do not. It has taken me a long time to learn and accept. And I still struggle with it.

Many people have very different priorities and choose not to care. I am then often asked for advice for places to go and items to buy. Why? Because I do spend the time and effort it takes to go "beyond the stars".

For years I could not wrap my head around people who did not do that. I have learned (still learning) not to call them stupid, lazy or weak. They simply have different priorities.

Priorities. That is what I have chosen to call it. And I am still struggling with it... :-)
Research BioNTech CEO applies Covid vaccine's mRNA tech to multiple sclerosis
That sounds like how you wish the works worked vs how it does. Are you aware of a single court case where a judge dismissed it on those grounds?
Does that mean we'll sprout a generation of "Legal SEO" lawyers that try to game the algorithms ? :-P
> Having groups "approve" information means having gatekeepers who wield a lot of power.

You can choose the moderators at random. This would be somewhat akin to the idea of sortition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
I've been debating Matrix too! Though, i've not looked into it. My hope was to make (as i mentioned) a Git-like layer for my data that was in the way i wanted (wheels reinvented hah), which would work over SSH/Email/etc, and then plug it into a mature P2P setup. Matrix is definitely on the list of P2P impls i want to look into.

Though so far i've never heard of anyone actually using Matrix for a generic P2P backend. I'm curious what you've found on Matrix for this use case?
Maybe so. But there seem to be a lot of affluent qanon believers.
I visited thedonald.win and Parler. It was a bit scary. There were many many mentions of killing Mike Pence & Nancy pelosi.

We ought to remember that in the Capitol they found hidden IED pipe bombs. They were not afraid to kill public figures as was the intent online.

The sweeping reactions is because what was said online actually panned out. If this was predominantly Muslim or black community instead of Trump supporters, it would have been a much bigger uproar.
I understand your point but I'm not sure what the TOS has to do with a murder trial... The parent never said anything about all laws being a conspiracy.
Don't worry when they do, it will be used as a cheap thought killer meme all over HN, like the "Paradox of Tolerance" is being used now.
Page isn't loading so I can't comment on the article but there have been a bunch of papers in well-renowned journals showing the opposite. Eg. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.28.20116129v...

So I would be pretty sceptical about this unless a wide range of experts find this has merit. "Peer-reviewed" does not mean much if it's some third-tier journal or the "peers" were biased.
Swoole PHP 4.6.0 released: new HTTP API, Native CURL, Sockets hooks and more
I agree that the BBS tradition of G-files plays into this, but those were very different times. The people downloading this sort of stuff were almost exclusively kids who got a thrill out of possessing forbidden knowledge, but aside from setting off a smoke bomb at an abandoned quarry or something, nothing ever came of it. The near mainstream culture of prepping and guns and conspiracy is far different than it was back then.

I still think that there is a positive place for DWeb technologies, but that place is specifically to enable more truly free speech. A lot of what got us into this mess is that speech on social media is not truly free. The only speech that is allowed/promoted on those platforms is that which appeals to base instincts, because it is that speech that drives revenue for the platforms. What we're allowed to say, and have heard, should not depend on what is most profitable for a few companies.
Wikipedia feels so skeuomorphic now with single pages like a real Encyclopedia. Rather than having an “edit battle” over a single page and then having them always being locked down why don’t we have an “Omnipedia” where people can just fork a page if there is a legitimate alternative angle on something? We have the technology, just need a clever UI for visually browsing the various forks and a way of preventing the forks from becoming duplicates of the same alternative.
Spam was not why I stopped using USENET, I expect the same techniques that worked to clean-up email would have worked with that if we’d hung around a bit longer. It’s just that the overall maintenance required too much work (and legal risk) by ISPs and clients alike, in terms of disk space, synchronisation, integrity checks, backups, etc etc.
>Clearly

Why?
That's true, but then again, if everyone uses a small set of SDKs that are robust and known to be compliant, isn't that a strictly better situation? Why is it important to reimplement the standard itself from scratch?
Yes, this is a big problem. In fact, in May 2019, I mad a semi-serious post about it (https://notdaily.com/blog/2019/05/05/you-are-a-liar-yes-you/)

My major concern is the normalization of lying: the craziness of "I have read and accept..." makes liars out of all of us.

So I applaud the tosdr effort, but I don't believe it is addressing the real problem.
It's not...
I'm going to give Prosody a serious look then, thanks for the feedback.
> What you mean is Twitter doesn't prioritize reports on low engagement tweets.

It is funny you can find these low engagement tweets not a big deal while the threat report that Amazon sent to Parler literally contained a low engagement post too. It wasn't a verified handle that posted that violence induced post. Yet Parler was kicked off of Amazon while you are here providing justifications for Twitter. How does that make you feel?

These are the low engagement Parler posts. Can you extend the same justification you gave for Twitter to Parler too?

1. https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2021-01/10/4...

2. https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2021-01/10/1...

3. https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2021-01/10/1...
Don't be so sure. Trump-Qanon supporters seem to be pretty common around here. They were very active in the "Trump banned from twitter" post.

Doesn't surprise me as (Trump|QAnon)'ism seems to be very inviting to the tech bro culture.
I hate this thing with a passion, my corporate job mandates it and you can't turn it off, so Ecosia is the default search engine. 9/10 times I type something in Chrome's URL bar it's 'Google'. There's no opt-out.

Ecosia is fine but I just don't get the corporate policy. It's making my work a lot more inefficient, and when I worked for clients (I currently work for internal clients which isn't chargeable) I billed $300 per hour.

An Ecosia search is worth half a cent, you need 45 searches to plant one tree.

Suppose I do 20 searches in a day, that's 10 cents. Suppose the extra search to Google takes 3 seconds, at a billabe rate of $300 that's 25 cents times 20 searches is 500 cents, about 50x whatever Ecosia is gaining. I just don't get why my employer can't just pay 20 cents into Ecosia's tree fund, get the same marketing, contribute 2x as much to trees, save 25x as much money on this thing and save me frustration.

If I then figure that (1) a search for Google (I don't use Ecosia search results at all) is not contributing any revenue at all and (2) even those who use Ecosia search results are getting worse and less time-efficient information versus Google, the economics of simply letting people use Google instead of Ecosia (Bing) and contributing the equivalent in money, makes even more sense.

And then (3) corporate actively does not want you to go shopping online during work. This idea to show ads during workhours when employees just want search results is a ridiculous idea.

Other than that I think Ecosia is a great idea, but it must be opt-outable.

tl;dr I hate big corporates.

In other words, at the cost of 8 cents per second in billable time, I'm generating half a cent
Yes with plenty of oil
Counters cherry picked data with cherry picked data.
+1

I bet cloud providers are incentivized not to provide detailed billing/usage stats. I remember having to use a 3rd party service to analyze our S3 usage.

Infinite scalability is also a curse - we had a case where pruning history from an S3 bucket was failing for months and we didn’t know until the storage bill became significant enough to notice. I guess in some ways it is better than being woken up in the middle of night but we wasted millions storing useless data

Azure also has similar issues - deleting a VM sometimes doesn’t cleanup dependent resources and it is a mess to find and delete later - only because the dependent resources are deliberately not named with a matching tag.
How does peer discovery work? Im assuming there must be some central server(s) to handle the bootstrap? I had a quick scan through the github projects, but couldnt see any high level documentation explaining the architecture. Would appreciate some insight!
Sia is also about to initiate a large post-mine which will go directly to cashing out the dev's work on the protocol for the last 6 years. To me a post-mine cashout is worse than a pre-mine ICO because it more closely resembles shady bait-and-switch tactics than being up front about where the money to fund development will come from.
Better situation yes, better protocol no.
Actually that is being worked on (std/node is a shim for Node libraries that aims to make Node ecosystem 100% usable from Deno) but the idea is to build software with Deno's mindset and features on top of it. Just look at this Vue compiler, it is really lightweight in comparison to what the actual Vue compiler actually takes up in Node.
Parler: Why it is not so simple to move off of AWS
Tech libertarianism (not just US) has always leaned right, toward anarcho-capitalism.
FYI the senior author, John Ioannidis, has been making a lot of wild claims about covid prevalence, infectiousness and fatality rates since the pandemic started, and so far most (all?) have turned out to be wrong.
It's not about me, it's about government infrastructure. How do you procure a system that you don't have to trust, where you can rely on cryptography alone? It's simply not possible. It's not just about CPUs, but all the hardware that goes into running a network.
It’s really obvious this wasn’t a bug, but a backdoor. It proves that Telegram is an actively hostile adversary, the fact that their encryption scheme hasn’t been publicly broken since then doesn’t change that.

> Or 'backdoors'?

You might argue that their deliberate decision to not encrypt most chats is exactly that, more of a front door really.

Telegram is a bad actor.
Presumably both options are written relative to non cloud setups
I think a million dollar house counts as a mansion in relative terms for most of the world.

I just mean on a world scale I’m hot feeling pity for someone that “only” retires with a million and will have to try so so hard to make ends meet.

You won’t struggle to live on a million dollars (in the real meaning of the word struggle).
What I don't understand is why Higgs' boson wasn't discovered before LHC: its mass is 125GeV, which is way smaller than that of the top quark at 171.2GeV... Yet the top quark was discovered in 1995.
From the article:

>Implementing any NPIs [Non Pharmaceutical Interventions eg lockdown] was associated with significant reductions in case growth in 9 out of 10 study countries

There ARE very mixed results from the More Restrictive NPIs ("mrNPI"s).

I suspect that's because places like the UK (where I am) have pretended to implimented mrNPIs while actually encouraging people to go back to BAU. We're under super double extra serious lockdown here. In practise that means everything is the same as it was in any of the lockdown but some schools are closed for some pupils.

I went out and bought jewellery today (an essential good apparently). After that, I went to the supermarket where even the staff had no masks on.

But our numbers will be pooled with countries where lockdown means more than pubs only doing takeaway...
As someone relatively new to cast iron (around a year of cooking with it), I am inclined to believe the parts of this article that I cannot validate through my own experience, because the other parts match what I have learned through experimentation. However, I must point out that a year ago, I would have no way to recognize this. Whether or not this article is correct, it is at the same level of heresay as every other article, reddit comment, or youtube video out there (like the carbon steel video linked in the replies, which says never to use soap).

Despite the flax oil article being bad science, it is still the most science of any of the cast iron information out there, which is why it continues to enjoy such popularity. Even if it is bad science, it at least provides some hypotheses to test!

Here's my hypotheses on soap (edit: rephrased to better reflect my meaning):

1) Soap is fine to use; it will not damage the seasoning.

2) Seasoning is often damaged (at least a little) while cooking and it is important to re-season regularly to keep the pan in good shape.

3) If you do not use soap, the amount of oil left on the surface is similar to the amount you would want to wipe on when re-seasoning.

Basically, I think no soap + dry on stove is a shortcut to avoid the process/effort of reseasoning the pan (especially if you do the oil-and-salt-as-an-abrasive trick). Perhaps you'll get better results using soap and then wiping on oil, but it's more work and many people don't do the second part. Thus, they see better results when they don't use soap.

This would explain why some people tell you you need to reseason after every use, while others say that's bubkis, and why the same is true of soap avoidance.

To test: try all 4 combinations of soap/no-soap and reseasoning/just-drying (always dry the same way, on the stovetop).
Looks like this is built on Laravel, is this using Spark or Jetstream (curious)?
We haven't. It is in fact one of alternatives considered. The problem is just that the direction doesn't work well.
> Setting 4 / 10 (slightly below medium) is the default heat setting, and you have to really have something specific in mind to ever go above 5

Do you do any chinese cooking with a carbon steel wok?

For stir frying you generally want things as hot as you can get them. I only have a Teflon wok, and my biggest problem with it is that it just doesn't get hot enough. The other problem is that Teflon really doesn't like very high temperatures, so I'm lucky if a wok lasts a year before bits are peeling off. I've always been put off a carbon steel wok though, because of all the faffing about with seasoning, but reading some of the comments here it might be simpler just to wash and oil it after every use.
>I would also be interested to hear the other side of the coin. Who out there is using 20+ AWS/Azure/GCP products to back a single business app and is having a fantastic time of it?

Netflix uses a lot of AWS higher-level services beyond the basics of EC2 + S3. Netflix definitely doesn't restrict its use of AWS to only be a "dumb data center". Across various tech presentations by Netflix engineers, I count at least 17 AWS services they use.

+ EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, EMR, ELB, Redshift, Lambda, Kinesis, VPC, Route 53, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, SQS, SES, ECS, SimpleDB, <probably many more>.

I think we can assume they use 20+ AWS services.
Can’t donate in good conscience though because they do somewhat have a general tone and worldview that seems to be pervasive and heavily moderated. Wish there was a forkable version of Wikipedia so all views and angles can be allowed to co-exist, no need for a digital encyclopedia to be so skeuomorphic.
There's super interesting super-fast very high quality font rendering technique on GPU using extremely simple fragment shader and low-res prerendered texture that contains 3-channel signed distance field.

https://youtu.be/6l_oSHWFbb0

That distance fields encoded in the texture are really freaky to capture sharp corners as median of three of them when texture gets interpolated:

https://github.com/copperspice/cs_paint/blob/master/demo/res...
If Black doctors offered better care, I'd expect them to have similar results with black mothers and white babies. Two alternative explanations: 1. Black mothers are less willing to trust the advice of white doctors; 2. Black doctors are more likely to recommend abortion if there is risk to baby - a kind of survivorship bias
That is an extremely simplified view of non-software.

Hardware standards shift because of an Apple PR camopaign. We stopped using zeppelins only after one disaster of several dozens made very public by live radio coverage. Non-Sufficiently standardized rockets explode because countries can't pick a measurement system. The auto industry in a country changes overnight because a dictator decides that the roadside to travel on shall be switched on a whim.

Just like software, infrastructure/hardware/whatever is an unfathomably complex web made from science, faith, half-knowledge, geopolitics, coincidences, rules, dick moves, physics and random tweets.

I don't think we are winning anything by trying to lift software onto some kind of pedestal of specialness in every regard...
There could be an intermediary status between hoster and editor : a "displayer" would not be liable for what its users do. It would (unlike a hoster) be liable for the moderating choices that he decides to do.

There might be additional requirements to benefit from the hosting status : of size, power, economic model, &c.

https://www.laquadrature.net/2018/10/16/un-tiers-mediaire/ (fr)

(Some of this has now been implemented in the EU.)
You might be interested in the field of Process Mining -

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_mining
Remember that Elohim let humans break their own source code, according to the book of Genesis.

Tree of the knowledge of God and evil, etc, etc...
You can split the a.b.c.d onto different lines and comment each, which is a decent middle ground sometimes (a\n.b\n.c\n.d). A problem, still, is exceptions and debugging. You get paged and see that something went wrong in that expression that does so many different things, and it’s much more frustrating to track down the bug. It makes step debugging trickier too. I’d love better error message/debugger support for that kind of programming.
Anna – A low-latency, cloud-native KVS
A translation to “nationalistic” instead of “patriotic” makes the difference less pronounced, although the point still stands.
Ecuador's Ambassador to India Participated in Covaxin Trials
Forgot to ask in my other comment, does all this apply for carbon steel too?
Of course, $100 million isn’t enough money to retire if you want to live on a super yacht.

I just mean for the vast majority of the world, retiring with that sort of wealth is an unattainable goal. I’m sure most people can arrange their life to live incredibly comfortably with $1m.
I would just caution to keep a psychological wall of separation between investing and gambling. In the future you may encounter harder times and you may be tempted to gamble more, if you think you have learned something about gambling with your $1000.

Personally I don't gamble with individual stocks at all, both because of my risk tolerance and because I wouldn't want to make it a habit.
Archiving Parler posts from the day of US Capitol riots
As a long time Californian with non commercial timberland? Global warming, if
It played a part in those fires, played a small one. The biggest issues are failed forest management practices combined with expansion and development into previously undeveloped land.

As part of 4+ Year process to get my timberland thinned to reduce fire danger (through the state approval process which is terrible, but finally happened), it came up that historically - based on archeological data - fires used to happen in this area every 10 to 15 years. It has been 115 years since a fire happened on the property.

Massive buildup of fuel (due to suppressing small
Fires and not allowing cutting or timber harvesting), combined with many people living and using power equipment in an area that historically was thinly populated means massive fires when they do happen. Which is what you saw.
I wish that more schools offered "X for Y" classes to foster basic literacy in relevant areas of study. I'd love a "Math for {Game,Control System} Programmers" or "Architecture for Game Designers".
How much of the Aus/NZ success is due to seasonality? Respiratory diseases usually peak in winter. Does it ever get as cold as Northern Europe?
Do you not see the difference between forced sterilization (removing a person's ability to procreate) and contraception (giving a person the ability to have sex without procreating, which they can choose to change later)?
Can't really remember the last time I used or saw value in platforms like Yelp, or TripAdvisor, but generally if I'm on holiday I'm not using Google to search for 'best restaurants' in the area or whatever; I'll take a local recommendation or just experiment. Tourist traps are easy enough to identify. I might still enjoy a restaurant if the food wasn't great, because other parts of the experience more than made up for it.

I won't support a system like Yelp because the end result is that everything becomes average to serve the algorithm.
It looks like “Hang Mike Pence” trended shortly and then disappeared.

That sounds like a consistent standard, and effective moderation, does it not?

Twitter was willing and able to shut down a credible, widespread incitement to violence. Parler was not.
For anyone wondering how it compares to Signal privacy wise:

Signal works with a contact list, for private 1 to 1 and private groups. You need a phone number to use it, and they claim to encrypt almost all metadata, such as message senders. Signal claims they cannot read the content nor the history of users actions (but you have to trust them on that, they claim to use SGX enclave stuff, but can anyone technically verify that they do what they say they are doing?)

Element works with rooms, there is no contact list. A 1 to 1 conversation is a room with 2 people. The homeserver Matrix.org stores all metadata and they are readable (metadata are not private/not encrypted) by Matrix for some features to work. You only need a nickname to use it (at least for now). The content of conversations are e2e encrypted. In theory, i understand it would be possible for a matrix server to delete any metadata/messages once messages are delivered, but some features would not work, and you would also have to trust the server to actually delete the metadata.

Would be happy to read anyone who could correct or complete me.
Just went directly to Ecosia's search page and disable tracking protection.

This appears to be accurate.
BLM is fighting for rights every person should have. These people are just delusional sore losers. Stop trying to equate them.
Plus, it has an exponential distribution (survivorship bias, compounding). The shape of the curve seems to be trending over time. We're being sorted on a global scale. This isn't a new phenomenon. Genes, social status, geography, always played a role. But, it's quickening because of the Internet and globalization. One used to be considered lucky to have born with a 120 IQ. But, nowadays, a 120 IQ is the entry fee.
Signed up, verified email and then it took me back to the website. Clicking the Login and Create a new board buttons just take me to the / of the site every time?
Define “the market” though. Why is it that tik tok can not exist and suddenly become a huge phenomenon in just a few years and Facebook can do nothing about it?

That to me clearly says that FB doesn’t have a monopoly unless you define the market to be so tightly focused on what they control it becomes tautological