skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've reconciled my newfound disinterest in the principle of freedom of expression like this:

Lies and threats are already illegal if you lie about a person who has the power and standing to use the court system to enforce that.

If harmfully you lie in the legal system, it's perjury or filing a false report.

If you lie to trick somebody into giving you money (and they can show damages and standing), it's fraud or false advertising.

If you lie to hurt somebody, it's
defamation... again, if they can show damages and standing and they have the money for lawyers

And threats of violence are theoretically illegal but basically you need a good lawyer to get that enforced.

But now, we have vicious rumors about objective facts. Threats against reality itself. Global Warming can't sue for defamation. BLM and Antifa activists aren't even members of a real organization - could they even sue about the vicious lies about them, if they had the money to do so?

If a thousand loosely affiliated people push information about a vague cabal of vampiric pedophiles and one of them snaps and "heroically" kills somebody, who is liable for speeding the defamatory information that led to that death? If it was one, clear person, it would be a clear crime with a clear defendant.... But if it's thousands of anonymous trolls, does that make it legal, or does it simply make the laws judging it illegal impractical to enforce?

I think Dominion Voting Systems is one of the few orgs trapped in this web of deception that is actually a clear legal entity that has standing to sue and can show real damages from all the slander about them.

Basically, harmful lies are theoretically illegal but defacto legal. So I'm okay with finding alternate means to close the gap between theory and practice, in the absence of a proper legal framework.
Best part was things sold by Amazon were typically cheaper on Amazon vs pantry.
The question is how do you fix that? We should want domain experts in a lot of these government roles, but the primary way you become an expert in an industry is working in that industry.

Let's image we put a ban in place to prevent this revolving door. Why would someone working in the industry be willing to forfeit their post-government career, especially if they are a political appointee and might only have the role for a few years until the next election?

That is a huge disincentive to participate in governing and will likely lead to more career politicians and bureaucrats which isn't exactly an ideal situation.
Sounds like $40k spent to learn a lot of the useful stuff you'd learn in a basic MBA program. Probably a better deal than the MBA :-)
> but it was a bunch of uneducated hillbillies that have been indoctrinated.

A woman who flew in her private plane. Serving and former military officers, including intelligence officers. Children of judges. A sitting politician. But yeah, obviously hillbillies.
No, the sales rep is selling the outcome of the knowledge of the medical experts within the company.

In the same way the author was selling the outcome of the knowledge of their algorithm.
You think Trump cares about the constitution? He cares about Trump. We just saw over a hundred Republican congressmen vote against the results of a fair election in favor of Trump for Trump's sake. The constitution is a rhetorical tool at best for these people.
We don't share data except via order from Australian courts, so we're not participating in data sharing with either governments or with advertisers/data miners.

Our whole business model is money in exchange for service rather than having to monitise the data that's stored with us. Among other things it means we don't want to keep eyeballs on our site - the quicker you can deal with your email and go do something else, the fewer server resources you use!

We do participate in spam reporting feedback channels - such that are part of email deliverability and abuse detection of course, but that's about behaviour on the MX side, not about customers. Our list of "badly behaved IPv4 addresses" is quite extensive!
If you continue that analogy, how many of those bugs are something they fire the developer over?

It's one thing to have a defect. It's another to use it against someone, especially is that dev met the requirements.
Let me introduce you to the walking onion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_onion

They grow bulbs where other onions have flowers: these fall over and root, and send up stalks, and it does it all over again.

That's locomotion, just, not on the time scale we're accustomed to considering. We also have a whole category for animals which don't practice locomotion, sessile.

I would say the most central distinction between animals and (plants|fungi) is that animals have a definite body shape, while the other two have indefinite body shapes.

That isn't a perfect distinction (the occasional gecko will regenerate two tails where it had one before), but it's very good, in addition to being striking / obvious.
It got replaced by https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/, which is significantly more coherent.
Ask HN: How do you deal with distractive incoming messages/mentions while WFH?
Creative work needs focus. And focus usually needs several hours of uninterrupted time.

Somehow counter-intuitively this often is harder for people to achieve while working from home. Notifications from Slack, Jira, email, google docs, etc. are coming randomly during the day - and there is probably 5% of them worth responding to, but you need to check every one of them to make sure you don't miss an important one.

Is this a problem for you as well?
If YES - how do you deal with it?
> but not on bases of what someone allegedly done hundreds of years ago when societal standards were different

Guess we can't legally criticize people for owning slaves now.
This comment brought tears to my eyes. As someone who has lost many loved ones to cancer, and who has had cancer myself, hearing the "c-word" always brings on a chilling wave of helpless terror.

It seems in the near future, many cancer patients won't have to feel that indescribable terror. And that is a stunningly beautiful thing.

I wish you many more days, my friend. Thank you for sharing your story.
I made the mistake of ordering both crisps and bottled juice in one Pantry order. I have no idea why they don't algorithmically structure what to pack together, but I don't think I've ever had a full order arrive in non-broken state from pantry.
In the East Bay Amazon via Amazon prime now carries numerous whole foods grocery items but has much more reliable inventory (it seems) and I actually get the items I order. They are missing a lot of fresh produce and curiously often have slightly different prices. Its fulfilled locally from a warehouse nearby.
I guess it truly does come down to preference and perception, as looking over that link you provided I actually had the opposite reaction!

I prefer the DOM API in each example, save for examples that are clearly out of date to support old versions of IE without a polyfill (e.g. all the AJAX examples at the top can use fetch, other can use Object.assign, no use of the iterator interface anywhere, etc)
Mythos review – the Greek myths get the Stephen Fry treatment
People have to understand that this is what free speech actually looks like. Some people want to say some things, and other people don’t want to say them, so the latter choose not to help the former. In this case, the people running Amazon decided not to help the people running Parler anymore.

And it is decentralized. No central authority told Amazon to drop Parler; Amazon decided on their own.

I think a lot of young people came up thinking that “free speech” meant no one ever gets shut down for any reason. And they grew up thinking that tech platforms are like the government; neutral and inalienable. Neither was true and IMO it is very good in the long run for people to now understand and accept this.
Nigerian Fraudster 'Sold a Fake Airport' That Never Existed for $242m
That's the problem with absolutist positions, they rarely survive contact with the real world. I commend you for having a principled position on this, and I'm sad that you ran into this particular bug. But human nature treats absolutism like loopholes, it gives a person the opportunity to ignore the spirit of what is given and take the letter instead leading to all kids of nastiness.

Free speech would be a great thing to have, in a society where people are not hell bent on destroying each other and their own societal structure given half a chance. Memes are very powerful and the wrong meme has the power to wreck much more than good memes can help repair due to the asymmetry between destruction and creation. Destruction is far easier than creation.
I don't know the veracity of your statement, but censorship, particularly of right wing narratives, has been a hot topic for a long time, not just after the capitol riot. Your statement would imply that the massive support for Trump is only due to people wanting to protect their privilege. You are denying reality by ignoring the vast swath of poor people that voted for Trump because he claimed he would address their needs. This is an undeniable fact.
Covid vaccine: WHO warns of 'catastrophic moral failure'
>>>>A poor execution does not make it less seditious
Is this really new? It certainly feels new, but I don't think it is.

There are two issues here.

1) You should be very careful about having your business too dependent on a single supplier or partner. You need to have a backup plan in case that relationship goes bad. That is undeniably true, good advice for all startups, and it has always been true.

2) The more specific case of Parler? Again it feels new, but I don't think it is. There has never been a time in modern history when if all the leading companies in an industry decided your company was too odious to do business with, you would be able to continue to do business.

I'm not saying this is the ideal situation or that we should not discuss how it could be improved, but this is not really anything new.
I suspect the NSA would be able to keep much better tabs on people if they know exactly what they're watching on Youtube all the time, and $100,000 would be a pittance to them. I assume they already have access to this, but other espionage agencies may not.
Why? That's about 400% harder to read. Even someone who doesn't know how to program in any language can probably infer what the C++ example does.
Who are "Coalition of Safer Web"??

Who are they, dictating what's "safe" for me or what's not safe. What's their definition and standard/safe? why me, Apple or anyone mist agree with theirs?

Screw these American trends of deplatforming, and cancelling stuffs and peoples.
Don't the bomb icon and "Sad Mac" go back to the very beginning?
Picking a further nit: the key difference is that most other languages can share memory directly between threads, whereas JS can only pass messages between threads (which requires copying data, and usually serialization/deserialization)
I can't see this being useful for consumers directly. I'm not going to pay to optimize the efficacy of the pills I get for a headache or heartburn or bloating or whatever. If I choose one brand/compound over another and it's 20% better...what's that worth? $5/year? Maybe?

I can see this being useful for problems that are not trivial. Heart medication. Cancer drugs. HIV medication. The sort of stuff where a 20% difference in efficacy is not the difference between me having an extra cup of coffee or not—it's the difference between an extra year on medication and worse side effects or not (or even life and death).

But even then, you're not selling to patients—it seems super unethical (or at least immoral) to profit from folks with serious illness who want to know what's best going to keep them from dying. You sell this to the healthcare industry. But like the post says, doctors don't...really care. Not that they shouldn't care, but they don't benefit personally, and the patients aren't going to pay them more for it, and the industry will (slowly) get better on its own in the long term. That doesn't feel great.

So to me, it seems almost obvious that the customer here is the pharmaceutical companies. They've got money to burn. They pay HUGE amounts of money for display ads and instagram stories which literally don't even tell you what the damn drug does. During Ru Paul's Drag Race this past week there was an ad for a medication which didn't mention what it treats or who could take it.

Make the data free to consumers and doctors. Hire someone to call every cardiologist and HIV specialist and oncologist and whoever else in eastern standard time. "Hey, I've got this thing that will tell you what's likely the best drug for patients. It's free to use, and we'll send you a free mug after you use it 100 times." Then you call up every pharmaceutical company you can find and say "Hey friends. We'll put up a profile page for each of your drugs and make sure they're represented with independently verified data. We've called X thousand doctors who will be using this. Pay us $Xk/year and we'll make this happen."

You could probably do the same thing for healthcare companies (e.g., Kaiser): "pay for a license for all of your doctors and you'll have better health outcomes for your patients."

This is obviously untested, but if you exclude the doctors and the patients as potential customers, you're left with a pile of companies with a lot of money. I would love to hear from OP why this wasn't something they pursued.
De-platforming these end to end encrypted apps is probably getting backed by fed gov because they cannot snoop everything as they do on all other communication apps
Agreed, it is pretty gross. You aren't the only one who feels that way.
Indigenous agroforestry revives profitable palm trees and The Atlantic Forest
No loss - Prime Fresh has all the stuff that Prime Pantry had without that whole fill the box or pay a fee concept that was such a pain to work around. Though I have to admit I’m a bit disenchanted at the moment because I’ve had the same prime fresh basket open for almost two months now and all the baked goods I want are perpetually either out of stock or available one day further out then I can schedule. No problems with meat, cheese, or dairy but bakery goods are like catching unicorns.
The parts of the world you’re talking about are mostly ethnostates, tied together by deep cultural, linguistic, and historical bonds. Those things create the basic framework from which people can have rational, fact-based discussions.

The US doesn’t have that. My wife says we’re a “credo country” but it’s not clear to me we share much in the way of credo anymore either. Senator Ed Markey says the constitution, the closest thing we have to a social contract, is “racist, sexist, and homophobic.” What does someone in Kansas have in common with Ed Markey? A superficial consumer and television culture? What binds them together when they disagree intensely on policy?
If you're going to live remotely I think it would be an easy choice to install solar. The US is very good for solar in general, compared to Europe. Also many of these wide open areas are also great for wind power.

And what "extreme and unexpected weather" are you talking about? Climate change has increased the severity of hurricanes but I've heard nothing about tornados which is all you would have to worry about. The western parts have to worry about fires to some extent, but that's not a problem for the eastern parts (even intentional fires put themselves out). Also even in the western parts, it's hard to create a firestorm without trees, a simple fire break can stop many grass fires.
> Your idea is honorable, but do governments have the know-how to do it?

Yes. Governments hosting their own servers is still the norm if anything, the same is true in plenty of large companies. It's not exactly black magic, especially with modern technology. Outside the HN bubble the cloud hasn't really taken over.

> I don't think this could be feasible in most countries, maybe only in China and US.

Smaller countries are easier, there is far less scale to worry about and computers are powerful enough that most government services could just about be run on a single server (in practice you probably wouldn't).
One has to be accepting that medical professionals are not superhuman and don't have magic bullets for chronic illness. But I don't know where you are coming from with such a pompous statement about being "responsible" for psychosis. The minimum "responsibility" that I can imagine being taken for a patient who has a crisis would be to move a regular appointment up after (or before) they land in the ER, and in the healthcare system I'm familiar with, it doesn't appear to happen. Are you used to something different? Or maybe you have a different idea of responsibility?
If a programming language has exited for 11 years I'd be more worried about the author of the software dropping that than the author of the language deprecating the language. It's the Lindy effect.
Can’t have a poor execution without an attempt. There’s no credible evidence that there was any plan to do more than protest outside. Crowds can change, of course, but that never happened.
Thank God Jeff Bezos is protecting us from these vile terrorists.

We need to take down Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile. The insurrectionists were customers and bafflingly, these companies don't moderate their texts or phone calls whatsoever.
> If the argument is sound and based on correct premises

Therein lies the rub. The problem with a layperson doing this kind of analysis is that they might not even realize that certain beliefs are unfounded assumptions. Obviously experts are also vulnerable to the same thing, and they can have other biases, but they won't make the unintuitive mistakes that their field has learned to avoid through empirical study.

I guess what this argues for is peer review, which I suppose is what this comments section is in a sense. But the article doesn't link to any criticism, nor does it seek it out.
If anything is considered obvious on HN, it’s that Parler’s AWS problem is a bigger deal than what led to it, that “cancel culture” is worse than racism, and that the “mainstream media” should be replaced with “critical thinking”.
Reminds me of the MTV parody sketches or ads:

Paraphrasing: “Have you ever been fondled… by your toaster?”

That said, while the imagined implementation was way off, the ads did predict future tech pretty well. As memory serves, the video call happened on a pay phone. The theme was “tuck your kids in” from halfway around the world.

There’s one bit that was wrong almost, or perhaps entirely, universally:

Paraphrasing: “The company that will bring it to you? AT&T.”
Elsevier will likely find this out the hard way one of these days.
I was involved with a replatforming project in a state government that failed expensively.

I lasted six months before I left. It was infuriating and depressing.

I think with enough money the nearly impossible bureaucracy reform could be possible.
Let’s say that an opportunity arose where you could buy a warehouse full of copper at a very low price. Also, you find that copper futures for delivery in three years are currently trading at a very high price. You calculate that the cost of purchasing the copper, maintaining the warehouse for three years, and then delivering the copper, is far less than the amount you would receive from selling an equivalent amount of copper futures contracts. You then buy the warehouse and immediately sell one futures contract for every 25,000 lbs of copper.

During the next three years, you keep evaluating the opportunities to reverse your transactions, but always calculate that you will make more by continuing to hold the short futures contracts and the copper. You thus end up in the arb for three years.
Conversely, if the validity of an argument on complex subjects (like epidemiology) could be accurately judged by a lay audience with no deference to expertise they don't possess, then there would be no need for science and modernity.
Apple was a relatively small startup and The Beatles were an international sensation backed by the same kind of insatiable corporate lawyers who brought us the RIAA and the DMCA. Considering how things turned out, Apple probably made the right choice.
Investors for the most part no longer ask / want startups to move to SF. This was a trend even before COVID.
I don’t see how apple can be said to have ever competed with a record company. Unless there is something I am missing out on here?
Yep. The advantage of Prime Now/Fresh is that if you put it in your cart, it's yours.

With Whole Foods online, your personal shopper is competing with in-store customers.

On a slightly related note, I've given up on Walmart for groceries. At the beginning of the pandemic, it was among the best. Now it's terrible. My last order, almost 80% of the items I wanted were either suddenly unavailable and removed from my cart at checkout, not available for delivery, or not delivered at all because they ran out just before delivery.

Two times before that, Walmart just forgot my order and left it behind. The first time it happened, my 6pm delivery was delivered at 8am the next morning, once customer service could get in touch with someone in the store. The second time, someone must have noticed it sitting there, because my 5pm delivery got delivered at 1am!
It likely depends on the crime. If the crime committed is obscure and jurisdiction dependent, that argument might hold weight in court. If it is something like murder, the court will likely rule that that is a crime everywhere and it was unreasonable to assume you could get away with murder .
I don’t feel like I’ve given up any freedom ideals. My notion of freedom extends equally to Amazon and Google and Twitter, not just their customers.

I feel the opposite from you: I’m amazed that losing one election has been enough to make so-called conservatives start talking about using the government to seize private companies and force them to provide service to everyone whether they want to or not.
Wendover Productions - How Amazon's Super-Complex Shipping System Works (18m49s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qanMpnYsjk

Would also suggest watching pretty much everything else on the channel.
Eh, political comments go through upvote-downvote-upvote cycle all the time, sometimes multiple times. I wouldn't worry too much about it.
Some institutionalized patients still behaved unacceptably. It was just kept out of your sight.

Some institutionalized patients stabilized not because they had prescriptions or therapy appointments, but because they were coerced to actually take the meds and show up at the therapy appointments. Subject to lights-out at a reasonable hour. Denied access to alcohol and recreational drugs. Etc.

Either way, our current understanding is that these were gross violations of medical ethics and human rights. We locked people up who had not been convicted of any crime. We confined people indefinitely who had only been convicted of nuisance crimes. We took people who had the capacity to understand the medical care they were being offered, and we didn't care what they had to say about it.

It doesn't matter how expedient any of this was for society or for the patients, it was wrong. We are as likely to walk this back as we are to re-normalize sexual harassment or slavery or something.