skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Money and control was always the goal though. Linux has always been popular with sysadmins that used it to run their company's servers so they could, you know, make money. Some of it was invested back. I don't think those big initial investments really came from anywhere else.
Well that's a great argument that it isn't perfect, but the real question is whether it's an improvement. Is it better than the state of the art, which is everyone dropping a shit ton of completely untraceable cookies? For example the browser fingerprinting piece that they highlight is already a problem with or without FLoC.

I don't have an opinion about FLoC per se but this piece feels like it's focused on finding flaws with it in the absolute, as if we didn't have pretty awful tracking now. I don't believe we can get to perfect, what with shadow browser fingerprinting techniques and all, I just want to know if it's an improvement.
I don't mind ads if they're not intrusive or even useful.

HN has ads, in the form of job listings for YC companies. They don't bother me in the slightest, and if i lived in the US they might even provide value to me.

The hundreds or thousands of ads i'd see if i'd surf without an adblocker do not.

Maybe you do have a product i'm interested in and don't know about. But there's not hundreds of things i'm going to buy every month.

If it was like: here's 5 products we think might be highly relevant to you every month. Sure, sign me up.

But it's (almost) never that. Most of the time the entity selling ad slots realizes, hey, if we sell more ad slots, we make more money. So they keep pushing the button to get a reward. Until they die because they overdosed on ads.
> and the faux medicine of infinite dilution

You and I are clearly hanging out in very different tech communities if you're finding people who believe in homeopathy.
You keep calling it a "letter" but it is not just a "letter" in the sense that I can write a letter to you, it's a letter written by experts in the field to a top ranked scientific journal that has been editorially reviewed (by experts).

> If you cannot reliably judge the legitimacy of a pre-print in an area, then you aren't qualified to judge the legitimacy of any scientific comment in that area.

I agree, but now we are moving into the content and not just judging the book by its cover.
>"I just want a car with as FEW knobs/buttons/levers as necessary."

I also want "dumb" car. Not completely dumb but say the equivalent of ones released before 2010.
Isn't sugar pair with fiber (fruit) processed by your body very different then sugar without that fiber (juice)? Don't remember my source on that but probably one of the many Peter Attia podcasts I've listen to.

The meta point is that looking at ingredients alone doesn't really help much from a nutrition and health perspective. But also that nutritional science is a very inaccurate science as it's hard to get humans to actually obey studies and the digestive and energy systems of the body are "complex" systems, not just complicated. Any nutritional science is inherently flawed (or inaccurate) so the fall back of "eat like your 10k year old ancestors would" is safest from an evolutionary perspective.
Sheep dogs like to herd. Retrievers like to retrieve. Covering your ears and saying lalalala doesn't allow you to claim correlations are immune to causality.
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I agree that would be a dark pattern, but you can dismiss the offers and the red badges go away.
Get where you’re coming from - I agree that it’s not necessarily the most objective investigative piece (do we expect investigative journalism to be objective?)

That said - subhead from Substack is:

> What happens when journalists don't have any friends in finance to challenge their thinking?

Which to me firmly grounds their point in being about tax policy and not journalistic policy.
My dad bought one new car in the 90's.

It was a Dodge Dakota. He demanded a free Service manual from the salesman.

Conversation with my dad in my car after the sale.

Son---I demanded a Service manual because that truck has a computer, and I don't like computers. Always ask for a Service manual.

(The salesman would probally laugh if you requested a Service manual today.)

Son---I'll put in my own stereo. That overpriced factory cd player is a waste of money.

Son---power windows are just something that will break at the wrong time. If I ever get to the age I can't physically roll down a window; shot me.

Different time?
> the existence of a viable breeding ground for the disease keeps it active in the population, and capable of mutating, and escaping vaccines.

You assume that when a person does not get a vaccine, that person is helping to get more people infected. But that does not always happen; many people have natural immunity and in case they are nevertheless infectors, they are quite less effective at infecting others, similar to how vaccinated people seem to be so; and such non-vaccinated person can limit their infecting risk to others in various other ways, such as by wearing a mask in close encounters with strangers and by limiting such contacts.

It is not true that getting vaccinated is the only way to help limit the spread of COVID-19.

There is another issue, that many people do not want the vaccine, but they do want natural immunity. Those people actually want to get infected, by a weak variant of the disease, and let the nature do its process and get natural immunity.
I'm surprised these sites don't show a localised time with UTC next to it, even the popular statuspage.io doesn't do this, blows my mind.
Same here. Idk about specific grades, but pretty sure everyone knows what tizzy is.
I think a good understanding of the scientific method, skepticism and fact checking should be taught in school as early as possible.

The only thing students get is material presented as the truth that they have to faithfully accept. They are almost never taught how to deal with unreliable material. It made sense in the pre-internet age where finding information was the hard part, but now, it is the opposite: too much information. So we should focus more on how to filter it.

We had a "general knowledge" class in college and it was an important part of it. We had to make essays and presentations about random subjects and we were judged by our ability to synthesize and verify information. Copy-pasting was actually encouraged, and long as it was from a good source and presented in a way that isn't misleading.

The unfortunate thing is that we should have done exercises like that in primary school and not wait until college.
Thanks - I'll fix that. There aren't too many Adam Gordon Bell's out there though.
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How do you tell without another clock when it is right, though? I think the best solution to this is find independent reporting that has no relationship to any western countries, which I am sure will find some atrocities, and not touch the broken clock at all.
Click tracking
And no one understands the effects the Russell teapot orbiting Earth right now has on the human body, either.
>because they are just adding additional orange juice back

This is my understanding as well. I believe it has more to do with creating consistency with the product because different fruit (and even the same fruit from different lots or seasons) will vary in qualities like acidity, brix, color etc. and consumers expect consistency. It actually becomes a fairly interesting operations research problem on how to blend various lots to arrive at a consistent product.
This hit close to home, especially as a mostly independent developer who can’t ask the neighborhood senior engineer about stuff.

A much more basic example of this from my recent experience is discovering GenStage, which solves the generic problem of backpressure in sequential processing but doesn’t appear in the core Elixir documentation.
If marketers really just care about open rates and not who is opening, why not make a standard where you can put a UUID identifying the email blast and then query Apple’s servers and get a number opened?

And Apple can respond “nothing” until it sees the UUID at least X times or something.
> Responding to skepticism with hostility does nothing except make you feel better. And further convince the skeptics that you're wrong. After all, if you'll try to tell them that their own lived experience is a lie, why should they believe anything you tell them?

I hear you, though it's not an effort at convincing the OP employing manipulative communication.

It's an effort at highlighting the manipulation—with references—so that vulnerable readers are informed and inoculated against it. Unlike OP's comment, scientific skepticism simply seeks information, insight, and references in order to inform their own opinions rather than making assumptions on faith.
An article in The Register [1] says it wasn't a fire, but speculates:

While we lack any evidence on which to base an assertion, The Register has reported on erupting UPSes and tiny puffs of smoke leading to hypoxic gas being released into data centres.

The whole point of hypoxic gas release into data centres is to deprive fires of oxygen. And as humans need oxygen, it can be a while before engineers can return to a data centre.

The Register mentions this as it fits the facts offered in this incident, and with AWS’s language about “environmental conditions” preventing entry.

The Register says that it'll update its article if it gets further info.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/11/aws_eu_central_1_inci...
Was the comment about Bluetooth headsets ironic?
I doubt everyone behind a single household IP address is a homogeneous blob of interests. Their interests + the IP address will be enough to uniquely identify them if trackers are able to accurately identify a single home resident.

Did google ever seek proper peer review for FLoC before they started testing it on people?
>exceedingly rare reaction

In my personal case, it's 1 in 8 vaxxed that I know personally with bad reaction and accompanying devastating financial consequences.

I also don't really consider the reported thousands dead, tens of thousands of ER visits, and thousands more hospitalized and/or permanently disabled as exceedingly rare. These are CDC numbers from the VAERS database,

https://www.medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?TABLE=ON&GRO...

>when, exactly, do you propose making the call to go ahead and get your family vaccinated?

When it is proven safe.
Not in the least. But when someone (rightly) condemns 1/6 then throws out a veiled threat of violence to businesses who don't agree with him politically, the argument goes way out the window.

We need a lot less of "it's ok when WE do it" and a lot more "This is not ok for anyone".
A side point: the hedgehog/fox analogy originated with philosopher Isaiah Berlin.
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OMG it's in four year cycles. We have six months to sell our startups and get out.
We do prevent people from driving a car at all until they pass a test proving that they can do so competently, and even then they typically have strong restrictions on what they can do while driving for several years to help further reduce the risk they can pose.

Perhaps a fair comparison would be if we required those who do not wish to get vaccinated to have a relevant medical degree to prove that they know what they're doing?
Crater doesn't just run builds! It also compiles and runs unit tests to look for regressions between compiler versions. When I last looked the tool grabbed every library on crates.io and every repository on GitHub with Rust code, but they may have cut down the scope slightly as the ecosystem has grown
> One of the interesting things that happened at my company is that productivity instantly doubled when we started working remotely.

It is well established in literature on workplace studies that any major change to a workplace results in short-term productivity boosts.

Some changes result in long-term productivity boosts.
The seatbelt comparison is more apt than you probably thought it was. People often don't realize this, but seatbelts not only reduce your chance of dying if you are in an accident. They also can reduce your chances of being in an accident.

If you have to make a sudden swerve to avoid an accident it is easier to maintain control if you are belted in. If you aren't belted in the the swerve can cause your whole upper body to move to the side relative to the steering wheel which can easily interfere with your steering turning a swerve that you would have been able to recover from into a swerve in which you completely lose control.
The key is to use anything not just efficiently but sparingly. The heat may not be on at night, you can use thicker covers.

But the cost of wood isn't bad. The worst winter bills appear to arise from heating oil from what I've heard anecdotally, which is common in old houses in New England.
That's a concept for a startup, sell drones/robots that randomly put racks on fire.
Anyone that wants the vaccine can have it, I won't judge them. That's not my business.

The sanitary, risk adverse nature of the modern world genuinely repulses me.

I want to kill this overprotective beaurocracy in its cradle.

It seems stupid, and it is. But it's the only vote I get. I'm playing my hand. Disaster Socialism needs to be DOA next crisis.
Thanks for reading!

Yeah, the future trick is kind of interesting because it solves the immediate problem and it allows people to feel like you heard their concerns and valued their advice. If that is what they are looking for then its a great solution. If they have spotted legit problems then you need to actually reassess things.

I guess like everything it is very contingent on the environment. It worked in this specific context.
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20% chance of feeling rough enough to take medication does not seem much higher than the human average. Without comparing to placebo it is meaningless.
Do we have any idea how long it would take? I would have expected the venting systems to get that out pretty quickly.
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"You can still transmit the virus with the vaccine" was my statement.

Alright, I misspoke. You could've all still caught it whether she was vaccinated or not.

For you to attribute malintent claiming I'm purposefully misleading people is a bit ridiculous. All I'm doing is having a discussion on the internet with people and sharing my personal viewpoints. Quit telling people to shut up just because you disagree with them. With an arrogant mindset like that its not surprising that you think it is your place to make people get medical treatments against their will. Call me out some more.
My understanding is that it's gimped on Chrome. It's still better than nothing.

Firefox unfortunately is becoming harder to use with every release.
From the article:

> Because smallpox is eradicated, the effectiveness of Tembexa was studied in animals infected with viruses that are closely related to the variola virus. Effectiveness was determined by measuring animals’ survival at the end of the studies. More animals treated with Tembexa survived compared to the animals treated with placebo. FDA approved Tembexa under the agency’s Animal Rule, which allows findings from adequate and well-controlled animal efficacy studies to serve as the basis of an approval when it is not feasible or ethical to conduct efficacy trials in humans.

That's a little disconcerting that there are viruses that are similar, that they're severe enough to kill the host, and that they're willing to use it in tests. Perhaps these viruses they're using aren't nearly as contagious? Or they're not transmissible to humans?
A handful of AZ-less managed AWS services were having a bad time(tm) during the peak of the incident, so if anyone was reliant on those they were having a bad time as well.
> Any topic that is so clear-cut and obvious will not remain controversial for this long.

And yet you're no doubt familiar with the concept of Flat Earthers, so this is clearly false.
If smallpox-as-a-bioweapon is even a slight possibility why don’t we start vaccinating for it again? It seems like it would be much easier to prevent the problem at all rather than to try to respond to it.
Why would I kill them? That is some assumption you are making. A person can limit their infection risk to others in other ways.
The only (limited) success I've had moving emotionally-held models of belief is specifically exploring what signals would be present if the competing models were incorrect. By focusing on falsifiability and reconciling it with reality, I've _sometimes_ managed to have my counter-party downgrade their argument from scientific surety to human behavioural expections in some key ambiguous situation.
Hacker News: Big tech stiffles competition, the little guy can't compete

Also Hacker News: small independent publishers leveraging email for publishing shouldn't get engagement data on their independent newsletters.

Aggregate open rate data is vital to a newsletter. It makes it easy to spot delivery issues. It's an early indication of content quality, and important feedback loop.

I'm fully for blocking identifiable tracking. But isn't there room for a solution for anonymous engagement metrics?

Email newsletters are a great way for individuals to control their distribution channel built on top of federated, decentralized technology.

Adtech is the enemy.
This is a good point. However, being allied with the US does not magically make the cost of criticizing China any lesser, and there are Western countries with a stronger reliance on the Chinese economy than many Muslim countries.

So is the deciding factor really reliance, or is it rather US-alignment?

Besides, there is quite a bit to gain by criticizing enemies of the US and excusing crimes from allies of the US, see for example Muslim countries recognizing Israel at the behest of the US state department, so why is it not the case here also?

And the US too is a very powerful nation, even more powerful, yet many Muslim countries critiqued it.

I think the truth here is a lot more complex. The contrast between the reporting by western and non-western sources here as well as the factual inaccuracies in reporting and willingness to exaggerate lead me to conclude that while not offending China is a big thing, another is that western reporting is likely exaggerated as happened before when geopolitics made it convenient.
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Unless you crash into something going highway speed a car from 1990 or 1980 is fine as long as you're wearing a seatbelt.

The states look good because safety tech that only matters at the extreme end has improved so the drunks and distracted teenager who would have dies had they gone off a cliff in a 20-30yo car are now surviving.

Basically the medium to low speed impacts that people not behaving particularly poorly get into have always been highly survivable.
Did they ever confirm this experimentally, or it is just speculation about how it should work? It does seem like spike protein traveling further through the body than we thought it would would explain this.
If you can breathe, it should be ok.

A lot of DCs after 2000 went from cold to warm based on the failure rates not changing.

If you get a chance to tour HE Fremont (the old Apple factory), it's not cold.

Factoid: most startups in SV started with a rack in a closet, that one day lost air circulation or cooling and went to the boiling point. I recommend people monitor the temp and cut 2 inches off the bottom and top of their closet door to allow passive cooling while you drive back to the office.
The cases from January 9th to February 23 represent an 80% reduction in cases, from 250,000 to 55,000. Where are these "waves"? Do you mean when it went from 60,000 to 70,000 from March to April? This was down from 250,000 in early Jan.

This is what I'm talking about. People want to rewrite history to make it seem like we were all screwed until the vaccine showed up. No, experts were talking about how cases were going down drastically and it wasn't the cause of vaccine.
Don't look at me, it's not my idea!

I take it as a compliment that my staff get enough out of them that they feel weekly is worth their time. But I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a giant pain in the ass some weeks. I very much enjoy 1:1's and try to put some real thought and effort into them but they're pretty taxing as a consequence...
You are the lucky person who only has a little symptom. The vaccine is for stopping the transmission so that the unlucky people won't get and die from COVID. Then the economy and the world can go back to normal.
> Pseudoscience masquerading as science. Something bad masquerading as something good.

So if a rigorous scientific study concluded that pit bulls are more likely to attack mail men than golden retrievers, normalized to the same starting conditions, is it ok to make discriminatory policies against them?
>between a 1 in 500 and a 1 in 250 risk of dying in your age group

your post is an example of the "logic" that is abundant and has highjacked the info space especially when it comes to covid. The numbers you use are aggregated across the whole age group and not adjusted for health status/risks. There are orders of magnitude difference of risk between different people with different health conditions even in the same age group.
I like how behavioral economics works for vaccination.
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How are they acting as a regulator? They are providing features users want. And customers show again and again they are willing to pay more to increase their privacy.