skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mind thinking about nebulous things and fully considering their consequences, including societal ones.

But that feeling of walking on eggshells is more related to a surveillance state coming from social media.

More explanatory than I could be:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-07/social-cooling-are-yo...
> all I see is white people being shit on

I figured that would be the feel of the objection.

Maybe I should be grateful as a white person that that's not the world I find myself in. Happy to pick my variable names.

I can't help but feel that the antagonism here is very similar to the antagonism I mentioned about Gendered language. The anger seemed mostly caused by being surprised by being asked to think about something.
A concrete surface (such as a sidewalk) needs to be cleaned with a bleaching agent in order to remove bodily fluid stains, which can otherwise persist for years.
My comment was that you seem to be under the impression that there is a piece of software or file format named 'flatfile'.
I'm not sure that works because the operator can just go bankrupt in that situation?
A YouTuber is a business partner. One that YouTube treats poorly.
Yes, none.
Your prevalence in the comments speaks louder than the words you type
> Again: miners expend the same amount of energy regardless if they are validating 1 or 1000 transactions in a block.

For one that’s horrifyingly wasteful - you say it like it’s a good thing but it’s really not. And two, I’m describing the network as it exists today. That’s not dishonest; there’s no plan to increase the quantity of transactions per block. If it ever changes we can run the numbers again. But saying it’s a bad way to run the numbers is like saying there’s no cap on the number of bitcoins because the core team could just change the cap. Ok, and if they do, we’ll run the math again.
I am not Chinese, but I grew up in China, and while immigration is generally not open, it would be a far cry to sday that China is "hostile to foreigners". My father moved to China to work because it was a huge career opportunity for him.
In the process, he made a ton of money as cost of living in china was lower than cost of living in my home country, despite the extreme luxury which could be afforded. Once, we grew up we moved back to our home country and he plans on retiring here.
Interesting project, thanks for sharing the link! I will check that out. And for the tip, agree 100%! :-)
The infection fatality rate overall in the US is around 0.65%, meaning a 99.35% survival rate. For ages below 50, the survival rate is ~99.99% (https://www.nbc26.com/news/coronavirus/cdc-estimates-covid-1...). And it seems that controllable personal lifestyle choices like maintaining a balanced diet and getting outside may have played a role as well since Vitamin D deficiency increases chance for fatality from COVID-19 by 3.7x (https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/942497).

I do think there is an injustice in draconian coronavirus measures because this is a low risk event ultimately. So by making everyone change their entire lives, we are making it so everyone gives something up so that those with a higher (but still low) risk can continue to go outside and partake in business, leisure, etcetera to a limited extent. This was the alternative to instead having just the risk averse or vulnerable quarantine themselves if they feel the odds are not agreeable (they could just self isolate and face nearly no risk). Put another way, lockdown measures and other mandates or restrictions trade the freedoms, leisures, financials, mental health, and stability of the young, healthy, and personally responsible to reduce the risk exposure of other people to an amount where the other people can live a slightly more normal life than otherwise.

When I see children losing a year of socialization and education so that a small proportion of the very elderly can live slightly longer, I feel like we are making a disastrous tradeoff.
Chronic alcohol intake also damages the kidneys.

https://www.kidney.org/atoz/content/alcohol
>For example, Dr Fauci says we won't achieve herd immunity before fall. But he also says vaccinated people should keep wearing masks, because they could still get infected and be infections.

An effective vaccine can mean 1, 2 or 3 different things. The first is that you don't get infected, the second is that if you do get infected that your disease course is mild, the 3rd is that you don't transmit it if you are infected.
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The press are the manual reviewers, and articles like these are merely examples of the escalation process.
Lots of talk about false positives. As a human, when dealing with fuzzy logic, I like to focus on recognizing when something is wrong to reduce false positives.

Maybe Google should put more effort in training AIs to recognize when they don't know instead of shoehorning an answer.

An analogy is I would expect a non-stupid human who has never seen a screw before, but trained to work with hammering nails to quickly recognize something is wrong the first time they're presented with a screw and not attempt to hammer it flush.
I tend to see it as having an impact with new users, but almost everyone stops caring fairly quickly.

You see the same sort of effect with some video games where they make highly visible score or damage numbers, which is motivational early on, but a lot of people find the setting to turn it off if they play it for a while.
List me some “racist things being said about white people” you have seen on the internet so we can all see...
Be careful not to confuse manual review with an appeal. When I say "manual review," I mean the classifier isn't sure, so a human double checked, or it was sent to a human to validate the classifier. You're right--appeals are hard to get--but we have no idea how much Youtube manually reviews content.
Not on the same call that you explained it to the first person, I imagine?
Not entirely true. First the platform is free, but also is the content that people provide and without it Youtube wouldn't make sense - so it's not a free service, it's a partnership. Second, for many people YouTube is the primary source of income, and I'm sure there would be plenty of content authors who'd be glad to pay a service with human moderators rather than bots - GIVEN THAT they get to keep access to the same traffic that YouTube provides. That's the key thing, you can't just go somewhere else when all the users are on a few popular platforms. If it's not for that, many high-profile authors who get their videos demonetized on stupidities would have left YouTube long time ago - but they can't, big players keep them in a checkmate position due to the form of monopoly on viewers that they have.

And that means you can't just say "If you don't like it, leave, it's a free service", because it's not that simple, as leaving in reality means "give up on your business", and most of people just can't afford that. Youtube has them cornered and thus needs to be careful, since it's not a game, it affects people's lives. For many accidental blocking of channel can mean they'll be living in their cars until the Gods of Google show mercy and fix the error.... and if they do it, since sometimes you don't even get a meaningful reply on what happened, just a template message.
How is Australia evidence that lockdowns work when every country in the world had them, and almost all of them worked out much worse than Australia?
I think that purge was related to services that will get you plays. Where by they have a farm of phones that will play the song for 30 seconds (the minimum for it to count as a play)

This is just paying to get added to playlists with high followers. Plays are not guaranteed.
I was waiting for this comment.
In that article, split-brain looks to be an extreme state of inconsistency, that is somehow still OK. In fact, from the examples there I would deduce, that we are mostly inconsistent.

> He also reported to have grabbed his wife with his left hand and shaken her violently, at which point his right hand came to her aid and grabbed the aggressive left hand. However, such conflicts are very rare. If a conflict arises, one hemisphere usually overrides the other.

It sounds like this person still refers to himself as a single mind. It is not uncommon for people without split brain to begin an action, that is quickly interrupted by opposite decision. I bet you this opposite decision does not always come from the same set of neurons.
Just make a call. Is "blacklist" worth keeping? I've spent 25 years working in security, "blacklist" is a pretty core part of the lingo, and: fuck it; "blocklist" is just as good. But other people will answer for more-inclusive alternatives to "MITM", and I'm probably not going to change that.

At least 50% of the drama about these language shifts comes from people who can't handle making decisions that make people unhappy. Just put your big kid pants on, make a decision, and deal with the response, without hyperventilating about "cancellation".
We self-isolated just as hard as anyone from March - May. I was looking at my Amazon orders and I'm coming up next week on the 1 year anniversary of when I bought a pair of pulse oximeters as a diagnostic early warning measure.

In the summer, we started slowly going out more and doing things with people more. At this point, I think the country just needs to get on with life.

Everyone around here knows a dozen or two people who have had it, and a handful of elderly people who died from it. It's a tragedy, but so is their treatment this past year. My Grandma is 98 and has gone downhill so significantly this past year from lack of interaction. At least now she's allowed to talk with the other residents of the nursing home. She spent six months locked in her room. And they all caught coronavirus anyway last fall.

It's been clear since late Spring of last year that politics was driving the lockdowns far more than any real hard science.
I hope they double down on instant AI driven bans and the platform dies.
We have better alternatives based on activityoub.
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If you get their eftpos card and never wire remaining balance to aussie then it can remain untaxed?

Plus you're not doing international wire - they transfer from their local account (not 100% sure how it's accounted tho).
> fan blade failures are expected.

No, they're not. Fan blade cracks are expected; and fan blades are inspected for cracks so that the blades can be replaced before they fail.

Yes, it's also true that, as a second line of defense, engine housings are designed to contain failed blades. But the overall risk of the system is calculated on the assumption that that is a second line of defense, not the only line of defense. In other words, it's calculated on the assumption that a fan blade failure in flight will not be due to a crack that could have been detected at the last inspection but wasn't. It's calculated on the assumption that a fan blade failure in flight will be due to some other root cause that nobody has ever seen before. In other words, we have second lines of defense because we don't presume that we know about all possible root causes for a given failure. We don't expect fan blades to fail, but just in case one does due to some root cause we didn't know about, we design an extra layer of protection.

But what happened here is that an inspection regime designed to catch a root cause we do know about, failed to catch it. That's not within the design parameters of the system.
In winter in not very cold climates to you can have 40 deg celsius (70 deg F) difference between inside and outside. We had a night like this in Poland this winter. Pipes do freeze in walls if you don't enough attention to where they should be.
Some Boeing 777s grounded and FAA steps up inspections after Denver engine fail
lodash is there in the package.json. Why do a separate npm install for it?
I don't think you are correct.
For electricity to propagate at near light speed, electrons will have to move at near light speed, if only for a short time. Or to be a little more precise, shape changes in the electron wavefunction will need to propagate at near light speed.
I think we can do this to electrons because their mass is so low.

This only really applies when a circuit is opened or closed however. Once a circuit reaches a stable state (voltage is unchanged) the electrons don't move fast, I guess.
There have been three significant airliner engine failures in 72 hours. All aircraft survived. All are Boeing; 777 (Denver), 747 (Maastricht) and 737 (Makassar.)

That's a lot of engine failures. It's hard to find a common mode here, other than they're Boeing, which is next to meaningless; the engines and airframes are all very different.

Still, it's hard to overcome instinct. "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."

(It's a quote from Ian Fleming; I'm not suggesting any sort of 'attack,' only that some common mode phenomenon could be in play)

We get 4 or 5 and we're going to have to look at this really hard. If I had a gun to my head when asked what is going on I would speculate that perhaps these engines need more scrutiny before returning to service after a long COVID-19 hiatus. But then I don't actually know if that was even the case for any or all of the engines involved.
You are right. This isnt easy, but i do think there are some things worth exploring:

Science isn't controlled by one body, but by a network of peers that reaffirms or disproves prior work. Over time consensus is built, without the need to silence.

Right now we use clicks as proxy for value. What if we structured it differently like, give people a limited pot of recommendation tokens they could use to show others what they value. If someone gives 3 months of tokens to a 10 page article, maybe that's worth reading?

I dont know if these are the right metrics but we need to experiment.

YouTube did the opposit when they wanted to reach 1 billion hours a day: they promoted anyone who had a channel that produced 1h of content a day. That meant that all the alternative news/facts talk-shows got a huge boost and that lead to a lot of bad things.
Any country can be a logical island if it restricts movement at its national borders. Was the US powerless at the federal level to do this, or is that a state issue?

Even grouping the US by landmarks (west of the Rockies, in between the Rockies and the Mississippi, east of the Mississippi) and having open interstate movement in those zones would have been a start.

The options for handling COVID was not a binary choice between absolutely libertarian and absolutely draconian policies. There was and is a middle ground!
I'm interested in adding this on mixerapi.com.
Very roughly :

US GNP $21 Trillion
China $14 Trillion

Using PPP
US $21 Tn (obv)
China $28 Tn (!!!)

China can buy more stuff from itself each year than US. It just cannot buy the most sophisticated stuff yet.

This is presumably why the report puts "reshoring" and building out 21C manufacturing top of its priority list.

source:https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/macro-musings-with-dav... (worth listening too !)
A quick search shows it has already happened.

https://twitter.com/magnuscarlsen/status/1108662247860199424
> Foucault and the Postmodern philosophers of the 70s started this

Nobody can know for sure, but I suspect if Foucault were still alive, he'd likely be rather critical of a lot of contemporary social justice activism.
there is such a service already, sort of. it's called pimeyes.com
MDMA proves a promising alcoholism treatment in world-first trial
It seems he has relevant experience in the subject matter and is relating that experience to an audience eager to interrogate him. How could that be interpreted negatively?
If this round is any judge, it'll be about a century, and we can do it all over again!

dibs on not being the guy doing laps of my garden.
My cousins husband works for a company in Texas that provides massive generators to commercial energy users at cost with the catch they're allowed to run the generators to feed the grid when the cost of energy is higher than the cost to run the generators.
There is some evidence to indicate that higher intelligence is correlated with mental illness. When people get too smart they tend to be mentally defective in other ways. I wouldn't be surprised if AGI runs into the same limits.
> I haven't heard about someone hacking a bitcoin wallet. I've love to hear more details.

There's plenty of malware that looks for unsecured Bitcoin wallets on machines it infects, or masquerades as legitimate wallet software.

If you have root, you just need to wait until the user unlocks their wallet, or if you're lucky, their wallets don't have passwords.
Coronavirus policy has really helped me understand David Hume's point that you cannot derive and "ought" from an "is".

You can't follow the science on something as complex as pandemics and lockdowns. There are too many tradeoffs that people will weigh differently.
What a fantastic book. The movie was such a disappointment.
You could also install am app like Tasker or Macrodroid and set up triggers for handling incoming SMS (e.g. If SMS received, forward using another mechanism)

For outgoing SMS, have Tasker or Macrodroid watch an email inbox and send emails to that inbox with a format like email subject line = recipient phone number, email message body = SMS body. Then parse it through those automation apps and have it send the SMS for you.

I did something like this before and it worked decently well but I haven't had the best luck with getting Android apps to run stable for long periods of time without manual intervention. Not sure if it was battery optimization settings or what.
Why isn’t the answer just “those who are afraid of the virus can stay inside indefinitely” and no one else has to wear masks if they don’t want to? I don’t think it is “trivial” to wear masks - it makes breathing harder, it affects mental health (by not seeing people’s emotions), it makes communication harder for those with certain disabilities, and it makes every activity less enjoyable. After all if we really think there is no negative impact from wearing masks why not permanently require it all the time including at home?

So then this comes down to a fuzzy tradeoff, which seems more like a values or politics based determination than a mathematical or scientific one.
Can the west please stop pushing its values on Asia?

Even if you accept the BBC without discussions, it is not a genocide: people are free to embrace another faith, or none at all.
If the vaccine just protects you and doesn't keep you from infecting others, then why are perfectly healthy 23-year-old healthcare workers getting it while there's still so many people over 65 waiting for it? And if it does keep you from infecting others, then why do you need to keep following the mask and social distancing rules even after you get it?
Not knowing the transmission rate means one can not make any predictions of herd immunity.
> But it is getting there.

Yes, the line I've been hearing for the past 15 years or so.

Meanwhile Homebrew still works, I can still install non-App Store Apps, and Apple is publishing directions on how to install non-MacOS operating systems.

Literally the single difference their "Closing the platform" has made in my life has been getting prompted for permission to open various directories and services on the platform and much of that can be disabled.

> But we would be fools to ignore that the noose is tightening and, with M1 you are now stuck with macOS (unlike the older Macs).

Are we on the same conversation here? Did you read the article? Or the similar ones about people loading Linux on the M1? This is literally a thread about people who followed Apple's documentation on how to install a different OS on the M1 Macs.
Is this a joke or people seriously do this?
You presuppose everyone views this group of people's "trust" as something worth having. It's just as easy to close the PR and move on.
Not to mention that that indicator isn't a physical light with hardware and wiring, but merely an on-screen icon on the central display panel.
> Getting banned from the other services is much harder, of course.

Is it? All it takes is someone at Google not liking what you're saying for Google to conveniently allow a bug to "accidentally" de-activate your account[1]. Google's slogan may as well be "self-censor or be censored".

[1] https://medium.com/@zacharyvorhies/open-letter-dear-attorney...
Politics is behavioral psychology.
> I read that defector provided soviet jets at one point had tiny weeny valves, which were not indications of how backward their electrical engineering was: they were capable of being rad-hardened more than the IC's of the time. I'm not sure this is true.

Viktor Belenko's defection to Japan w/ a MiG-25 is a fascinating story unto itself. But, yes, the MiG-25 had vacuum tubes and other design elements that seemed like anachronisms @ first glance.

> The use of vacuum tubes also made the aircraft's systems resistant to an electromagnetic pulse, for example after a nuclear blast. They were also presumably used to provide radiation hardening for the avionics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25#Wester...
It's a genuinely hard problem, but they do have appeal systems that creators can use that go to human reviewer queues for things like video removals and demonetization even though the first pass is done via automation, but don't think humans aren't immune from mistakes either.

As of 2018 youtube had 10,000 manual reviewers (and I imagine it's significantly more than that today), but at their scale, that realistically won't go that far.
Because of how policed the online world feels with what you say it often feels like it applies in public. However I have yet to work/interact with anyone who seems as far gone as the permanently offended Twitter users seem to be. I swear not a day goes by anymore where I don't here about Twitter going after another person trying to cancel them.

We see people losing their jobs simply for sharing a more conservative view on Twitter. I've seen cases of actors losing jobs for sharing an edgy conservative meme, but than someone sharing almost the identical meme but liberal sided being completely fine.

Nowadays it seems like even things like jobs can simply be determined by how outraged a group of random people feel. Actors lose jobs because people who probably don't even watch the show get upset by a single tweet they made.

The world is starting to not make sense to me and just seems so illogical lately. No matter how factual and objective something is that you say, if it doesn't align with the current politically correct fad people will try to cancel you. People who make perfectly valid and factual claims get shut down by people who just simply call them a "racist" and say "you just don't get it". Instead of trying to help them understand and trying to use facts to logically debate someone they react with emotion and outrage. And then they get dogpilled into submission.

I see why it's hard to find people opposing the current PC culture. As soon as anyone does they get called some "ism" and get cancelled.
Serbia called and want its bombed army back.
It may not be intentionally racist, but that doesn’t make it not racist.

Consider why white moves first in chess. They literally did this two years ago: https://en.chessbase.com/post/carlsen-and-giri-campaign-for-...

Anyway, in many religions the light illuminates things while darkness is the absence of light. So it’s not just about people’s race...
I work with a lot of folks from China and they are bending over backwards trying to defend the CCP. Their argument almost always boils down to "I know people who live in Xinjiang and they say it's not that bad." Equivalent to someone using their one black friend as proof that they can't possibly be racist.