skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you do a screening and find something that might be cancer and do nothing about it, you've committed a major ethical violation. If you tell the patient "we found something that might be cancer but we suggest you don't do anything about it so we can get more data on whether it ends up killing you", well, the patient will probably see another doctor.
Everything is cheaper than US. Even Switzerland.
Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. There are many possible configurations & usages for P2P. Data stored on a DHT is one important tech for having people own their own data.

Also, it's ok to have leaches on a P2P system if you can properly incentivize & pay the hosts. Ethereum, FileCoin, IPFS, Holochain a market for hosting data. Ethereum & Holochain will provide a market for hosting apps.
> getting out of the way of tech practitioners

Agile is the literal exact opposite of "getting out of the way of tech practitioners".
I think the documentation should be very honest about how bad it actually is to use "unsafe". You don't want people reaching for it every time they think they're stuck without it, but at the same time you don't want people thinking they've written their code wrong because they had to use it.

I think linked lists are a great example of something that causes Rust's ownership model to fall apart. I've seen it done with tradeoffs, but it's something that you're best off implementing with pointers and unsafe blocks (though you probably should just use a battle-tested implementation or consider if you'd be better off with a vector for cache locality).
I'm generally sympathetic to this stance, but the major drawback that has surfaced (when I've had this conversation in the past) is that discovery is a real thing that still needs to happen and ads can in fact help with that.

First in the obvious way: there are products that I have found useful that I would not have known existed if not for ads. The idea that you should only ever purchase something because you were specifically looking for it seems a bit silly, because that's not how it has played out in my life. Have I purchased stuff I didn't need, influenced by ads? Of course. But I've also purchased things which objectively made my life better, which I would not have even known existed without ads.

We are lucky to live at a point in time where most of the world's information is at our fingertips (via the internet) and we can quickly, easily, and freely find information about anything we could want. But this is ignoring the fact that a lot of this is in turn funded by ads.

e.g. when I'm trying to find something, I google it, which is free because their business model is ads. There are a lot of people who are reviewing products with high levels of trust on sites like YouTube (tech reviewers like MKBHD), but they are able to produce those videos (which I watch for free) because they too are funded by ads.

Sure, we could pay subscriptions for all those things, but as pointed out in the OP, that is a regressive funding model – it becomes harder for a poor person to find the best products if all the best product reviews are locked behind paywalls.
It's a tradeoff between the equal protection clause (FGM is banned, so there is an argument there) and religious freedom. The former should hold more weight as religious freedom doesn't extend to imposing religious beliefs onto others.
It would only be a good heuristic if the same thing isn't being said about actual bad, failed ideas. But I'm pretty sure you can find similar "can't you just" remarks for those.
Reimagining Apple’s Documentation
They are all field journals. I only review for what I consider good ones now (in term of quality, I don't care about impact factors). I used to do some reviews for an Open Access publisher that went from predatory to starting to be reputable, but they went back to dubious practices so I stopped dealing with them totally. That plus their director spreading hateful comments on mailing lists and them not making a statement.
Perhaps it is as you are saying.

Nonetheless, the very charitable "perhaps the dire predictions didn't come to pass precisely because of the amount of controversy that was generated" would be neutrally described as "fake news must be published so that bad things don't happen". That's not a valid civilizational setup: it's both ripe for abuse, and also teaches people to dabble in double-think for sake of the greater good.
> You claim not to know their true motivation, yet your entire argument relies on the assumption that they had malicious intent. You also note that “the act they claim to be racist may or may not be racist” and yet it is clear that you have assumed that it is not throughout your post.

The person(s) that attacked Singer used social justice activist techniques, claim of and demand for denouncing "white supremacy" in order to reduce a viewpoint opponents moral authority, where "white supremacy" uses the social justice unstated redefinition of the colloquial term to mean "policy or habitual behavior that could perpetrate outcomes not in alignment with social justice dogma".

This activist technique is a kafka trap with no good answer. Keeping that in mind its pretty clear where the accuser comes from.

As a side-note: a discussion/debate between viewpoint opponent break down if serious accusation are made without evidence, and a healthy discussion and work environment need to exclude such bad actors. Kudos to basecamp and coinbase for adopting policies that discourage such behavior.
>It also reduced muscle pain perception (+6.0%, g = 0.47)

yes, 6% less DOMS in the morning is worth it.

Friend of mine has moved past foam rollers and uses a chunk of PVC pipe.

I'm fond of lacrosse balls to really get the last bit of godawful pain out of IT bands and shoulder knots.
If so that suggests it's the right attitude to have.
Lets focus on securities laws because as I said tax is solved and not that hard. I’m not talking about tax fraud so lets focus instead of being all over the place:

So basically crypto projects dont mind securities laws, they do mind that the securities laws have lots of unnecessary contigencies added to them that makes it impossible to couple with utility.

If a crypto token actually was a registered security, then nobody could list it because they arent broker dealers. All the partnership projects could not be because the partner would have to be a broker dealer. There would be zero framework to potentially add utility at all, if they complied with laws that didn't consider issued assets existing peer to peer outside of any walled garden. Alternatively, it can exist as a consumer product under the consumer framework, no different than the secondary market for Nike shoes, and thats what people do. Upon asking “how does Nike do it? People can walk in the shoes but many people buy their shoes with an expectation of profit” my securities attorney told me that Nike probably has securities legal opinions too.

Congress and commissioners at the SEC are warm to helping this, you are going to have to retire your talking points to the last decade as the grownups are building and some are representatives.
I think you're missing that content creators (whether they be small or large) need to be able to subsist off of their work.

This is especially true if we want high quality content. So the dichotomy is only false if you assume people are willing to accept "stop consuming content" which, by and large, they aren't.
An interesting article, though note the easy conflation of Jewishness with Israelis. Being Jewish ≠ being Israeli and for many people they are quite distinct identities. Indeed, Israeli identity can be quite anti victimhood.

While I would hesitate to call the conflation anti-semitic it is at minimum quite misleading - and also a gross overgeneralisation of Jewish identity.
I remember getting bagged on at the time for saying it was going to take 30-50 years to clean up Fukushima. We're 35 years out from Chernobyl. I think Three Mile Island took 15 years. And now 10 year out with Fukushima.
gman83 did the same: "This smells like a way to justify ignoring difficult criticism."
This! People forgot the whole "why should we pay for this, when we can politically club the providers over the head?" arguments here. Netflix was having interconnect issues, and didn't want to pay for a reasonable solution, so they made a hissy fit and progagandized the issue.

And I will also admit that I DID OPPOSE NN regulations, as they were "specified" (if any one remembers, they were only released AFTER being accepted by the FCC). Specifically in the "why fix what's not broken?" sense (ref stratechery for a more detailed consideration than I can give: https://stratechery.com/2017/pro-neutrality-anti-title-ii/) . It was not clear to me that they would provide any benefits that propaganda claimed. It was also clear to me that the quite reasonable thing of Netflix to pay Comcast (and other Tier 3 providers) to skip interconnect issues, which was being done before the whole argument came up, would also possibly come under scrutiny by the new regulation. And so I threw up my arms and said "If real technical solutions are going to be abandoned because of some misunderstanding of technology, I'm not on board".

The vitriol that still exists over this from people who this never really effected nor even understood the technical problem. Moreover, I was appalled at the lack of care here to even consider this from a technical perspective. Complete blindness to consideration due to tribalism.

Now were people wrong to use other's info without consent, sure! I 100% agree there.

Downvotes, commense!
For blogs in particular - this came after both geocities and livejournal. Folks had the ability to host their own websites with relative ease and to write a post history that other folks could subscribe and comment on. Blogging as a verb and Blogs as a noun really came into their own when folks decided that this sort of journal was a common enough task (and shared hosts like live journal lacked enough features) that software to easily throw together a stream of articles had common value.

That is, at least, if my knowledge of the series of events is off. Livejournal existing is about when I got into the web but that predated blogs (and particularly bloggers in the context of investigative journalism) becoming a term by quite a fair bit.
In your ethical framework, are all attempts at persuading someone to change their behavior unethical? What advocacy/awareness increasing behaviors are ethically acceptable?

What if an ad is for a product that someone wants, and is beneficial to them by helping them find a product they were not aware of?
> Why search for a brand, and not a high quality, well reviewed USB charger?

This is where you lost me. You assume:

1. There is a free service that allows you to search products. PS - it's called Google/Amazon.

2. There is a free service that allows you to read product reviews. PS - it's called Google/Amazon.

> To use the original example, googling for "good USB charger" and then buying one via an ad will not give you any guarantees that the USB charger is good.

And please do tell me, where does this perfect search capability exist in the world that allows one to search for goods and services free from all advertising.

Even a Turkish Bazaar merchant will tell you that the tube of toothpaste they're selling you last only a month.
> people's conditions are contingent on forces largely out of their control. That's a factual statement.

It is a factual statement, I agree, but in the US it is not true. Peoples' lives are the sum of their choices, large and small. One can choose to learn how to make better choices.

I spent a significant portion of every day learning to make better choices and doing things that will improve my life. Such as exercising. Improving my diet. Trying to eliminate unproductive behaviors. Etc.
Debris from Chinese rocket could hit Earth at weekend
Generally yes but Instagram ads are somehow amazingly well-targeted towards me.

Literally every ad I say to myself "wow, that is actually something I would consider buying" and in certain instances, I have. Outside of Instagram it is exceedingly rare that I would purchase something based on an ad.
z lib might be a good option too
A well balanced stamina mechanic would be a great way to implement flying. (Something along the lines of Valheim and Breath of the Wild's stamina mechanics)

With some tuning not only would it prevent complete flyovers, it could actually be really fun and add another option for progression. Like a basic mechanic where climbing altitude quickly consumes stamina, while gliding consumes it slowly. Add thermal drafts to strategic locations and let the player improve their flying stamina over time.

Now you can limit how much a player can fly and when, and create fun game moments with crash landings in hostile areas when you misjudge your stamina.
Nope. Not remotely.
A look at privacy in an American public school
Tech workers are turning down jobs at TikTok
>Let's talk about the individual and collective consequences of mass data collection. Are you saying you know something about those? Do tell!

Yes, let's. I'm not an expert, so I don't have any insight. Do you?

Still, this question seems like an essential part of essay about the ethics of working in the ad industry.

Perhaps you meant to direct your sarcasm towards the author?
> Don't you think there are tons of people out there who would rather not annoy their visitors with ads?

No, I don't. I mean I think they would if it didn't cost them anything but I firmly believe when given the decision between being vaguely annoyed by ads vs. ponying up the cash, they'll do the former substantially all the time.

Nick Szabo has a great paper on it. [1] Trust me when I say this is almost certainly the only thing Nick Szabo and I agree on.

[1] https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/micropayments-and-...
I wonder if these logic densities could be converted into units of nanometers. For example 333 MTr/mm2 is 333 Tr/um2. Then there are effectively sqrt(333) transistors on a side of a square micrometer which comes out to about 1/sqrt(333) * 1000 = 55 nanometers per transistor. Way off from the 2 nanometer feature size
> I'm not sure what this kind of cynicism actually gets for you.

Not OP, but cynicism against agile get me (somewhat) avoidance of the most toxic workplaces, which is what agile is.
Competitive Hatetris would be fun
Your link doesn't have any analysis on how preventive care is the cause of increased costs.

But there are lots of ways that are obviously not related to preventative care that drive up costs.

Our doctors and nurses make way more money than doctors and nurses in other countries.

We spend more money on questionable, or low yield procedures that have low returns that other countries don't.

Not to mention medicine just isn't that good at preventative care. The only real preventative medicine are diabetes medications and cardiovascular medications.
The problem is compounded by the fact that most of this is just a storytelling retcon anyway.

Mighty is trying to make your browser experience smoother, faster, whatever (saying nothing of the larger vision). That's obviously a good idea, and it's easy to tell a story about how the founders overcame huge technical hurdles to make it work, and so on.

But then Mighty is also obviously one of the ugliest, most inelegant ideas ever invented, which, in case it fails, can be used to point it how obvious it was.

So, yeah. Not sure there's much to be learnt here?
The pro-NN were systematically publishing fraudlent, alarmist opinion pieces in the media. That the channel is different and more dignified (citizen feedback vs big-name publications) doesn't make it any better.
Sorry I wasn't being clear. I meant reading PDFs already created by someone else with a certain paper size in mind, like a scientific paper. Basically, I am looking for something like a "reader view" mode for PDFs on smartphones.
I was referring to their security.
> You can work through it, but a lot of it has to be driven by you wanting to

No, no, no, no!

Please don't think this about yourself or others who have ADHD. There are ways to work through ADHD without medication, but it has nothing to do with a person's drive or their level of desire.

Having ADHD literally mean the brain doesn't function properly in some way. To then put the responsibility of fixing itself to that non-properly functioning brain, is nonsensical.

The only way to work through ADHD without medication (or some other form of therapy), is by having some other support system in place that can help with these problems. Like parents, friends or partner who helps the person remembering stuff to do, fpr example. This is why ADHD sometimes only surfaces when some of these support structures go away, like moving out, or puberty, etc.

These support structures are a very important requirement for handling ADHD without medication. It basically means you're trading medication for some other external thing. The common denominator is the External thing helping the person, this is REQUIRED.

It's very dangerous to feel like people can tackle this without any outside help. People with ADHD who carry this sentiment will ultimately end up blaming themselves for
apparently 'not wanting it enough'. This can easily result in things like depression, so please, never tell people with mental handicaps to 'tough it out'.
Q: Why does arstechnica.com think it's OK to default to opting me in to accepting "functional" and "targeting" cookies?

EDIT: ... in an article about astroturfing and consent :(
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27048332
Thank you for that, it made my day. His publications page is well worth the scroll.
I'm not aware of any fungi that will grow without readily available moisture. Even in environments with high humidity, fungi don't grow on dry, untreated wood, even though many species thrive on dead trees.
There was so much promise. After a year of quarantine I had 5 of my most interesting non work/family conversations of the year in a one week period. There was no real way for me to connect with those people without wading into the morass of twitter or instagram. I tried to build a tool (https://inof.me) to help people connect by providing an invitation and an asking for an offer. No one was really interested...it needed to be integrated into the platform to work. I couldn't block topics. I couldn't search for terms of active channels. I couldn't politely ping interesting people and ask if they'd like to set up a time to chat.

I love talking about decaying currency, certain(non-NFT) blockchain topics, Longhorn football, some philosophy topics, etc and I'll talk to anyone about them most all of the time if I can find a conversation partner(especially during quarantine). I had no real way to make those connection on clubhouse even though I had spoken with interested folks previously.

Most of all, I couldn't catch up. If an amazing conversation happened that you were late to...too bad. You couldn't explore and find if the person speaking was really trustworthy by looking at their back catalogs.

I wanted a clubhouse that lets me pay $9.99 a month to have access to a back catalogs that will let me listen to the interesting conversations that occurred in the past about very long-tail specific topics. Then I want to star those people with different color stars and notification levels so that if they start talking again I can quickly see what kind of conversation it is and jump in. If I'm late I want to back up 30 minutes and listen at 1.75x until I'm caught up. Give me the knobs and dials to customize my experience.
> Could you elaborate on how would adding checks on social media platform operations would compromise everyone's speech?

I don't need to.

Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech

The Constitution declares that Gov can't compel or restrict speech. Not even if that effort is labeled as 'adding checks'.

> I believe that we are losing ability to combat harm done by mega-corporations in general

Sure. This has always been the case. Monopolies, duopolies, anti-consumer collusion, etc is all anti-capitalistic. An historically effective measure against those types of anti-capitalistic corporate behavior is to break up those corps.

As far as the ongoing harm done to the public interest by major corps in general, that's mostly beyond what I'm looking to get into, ATM.
My experience with snap is that it makes Ubuntu absurdly slow. I completely removed this spawn of satan from my Ubuntu machines.
Crypto Should Care About Justin Sun’s Steem Drama
A package for writing scripts on JavaScript instead of Bash
I'm hopefully reducing the cost of these domains to be in line with other TLDs. Aiming for the $20 mark.
I like that the site turns black with dark mode.
You are confusing "usable" with "intuitive".

You are both right. Drag and drops are incredibly intuitive for users. It feels natural to most people and is easy for many of them to use.

But the parent comment is also right because drag and drops are not very USABLE. Meaning that if someone is using a screen reader or an unusual device (phone, kiosk, kindle, etc) the drag and drop functionality may not work well for them or might not work at all. It might be INTUITIVE on what the user is supposed to do, but it isn't USABLE. We have all encountered non-usable interfaces that we simply can not interact with for various reasons. This also becomes a concern for accessibility. A screen reader may not be able to read it to someone who is blind. An older device might not be able to display or operate the drag-able functionality. A user that relies on something like "Voice Control" may not be able to use your drag-and-drop system.

Ideally you would do both. You could show an interface that has up and down arrows for each item to move items manually. But also make those elements drag-able if users choose that option. But this takes more and more development time. That is the constant battle between software engineers and decision makers. Anything is possible with enough development time, but decision makers are quick to move developers along when the item is "good enough", which generally means the feature works on the decision-maker's devices.
The prices are similarly high across the country. They’re definitely a bit higher in NYC compared to Alabama, but not at all proportional to the minimum wage. In addition, NYC has much higher costs for properties so there’s an expected difference in price.
Imagine how much it would help to take your house away from you (without compensating you) to build that Highway. So many people would benefit from it. Perhaps even save lives by removing that dangerous crossing.
I am going to assume it was monetization issues. It is always monetization issues.
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Also isopropyl alcohol.
> Do you really want a dynamic language, or do you just want the ability to be careless intermittently? [...] I just think, as a codebase in a dynamic language grows, codebases seem to build lots of tooling to make that dynamic language less dynamic.

I think this is getting closer to the interesting questions. It's often a good thing that when the product matures and moves more into maintenance mode, you can then incrementally add the kinds of rigidness that suits the needs of that. Clojure has excellent support for these in the schema style data validation tools of spec, malli, etc.

If you had a rigid system and slow turnaround from the start, you might not have gotten off the ground to get that far.