skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> as i already pointed out you invented the "manipulation", ie. you generated misinformation, and you're clearly acknowledge here that you're using that misinformation in order to affect "vulnerable readers", ie. for propaganda purposes.

I was clear in providing citations. At this point, you need to provide your own backing for all the other vaccines you've supported, such as the flu vaccine, MMR, etc. if you want to lend credibility to the idea that you're not broadly anti-vaccine.

Thing is, even if you're against new-technology vaccines, we have numerous old-technology vaccines following the same paradigms used to make the vaccines I mentioned above (AZ, JJ, etc). Being broadly anti-covid-vaccine essentially acknowledges holding generalized anti-vaccine opinions since the majority of vaccines on the market make use of legacy manufacturing techniques.

I don't see this conversation between you and me being any more productive. Sock puppetry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sock_puppet_account) is a pretty established pattern, and it's easily defeated by asking people to provide their sources, something you haven't done with your assertions against the COVID-19 vaccines.

Cheers, mate. I wish you the best.
In the MUAs which have read receipt functionality, all of them let the end user turn it off.

Even MS Outlook.
You’re late for school
Yeah, but we do have an awful lot of middle managers, who know very little about software.

Consider e.g.,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_Premier_League...
except for one or two, all managers are former players. Why? We all know something about that industry at large.

My theory is that when you are competing on equal terms you cannot afford managers that are not part of the game.
This is pretty bizarre. If they were doing so, why would anyone think that online criticism on an American forum would do anything to help? There is quite literally nothing that could be done about cultural genocide by a hostile superpower.

There is already inherent value is trying to debate the truth, so I'm not saying you should stop if you genuinely believe what you're saying. But you're definitely not holding anyone accountable or doing anything to help the situation.
I think the main idea here is that it’s Safari traffic - not https traffic specific to an app you’ve written.
I don't know about RS232, but Linux, TeX and C all ended up really inelegant and hard to work with. Maybe the backward compatibility is worth it in your case; personally I'm far happier using something that has been ruthlessly refactored to keep everything clean even if it means I have to update things on my side sometimes.
Such people also are recommended to get immunoisolated.
> ... falls apart for me when I consider that the user would have to prove they never did something, except that one time.

It falls apart for you, since you are the person trying to trick every single driver. It won't necessarily fall apart for a judge.
The argument that the address bar is too complex and we need to dumb it down is irritating.
If we want to regress to AOL keywords then great. I would prefer we stick with an address bar. Let those who can learn the reason it exists and how to use it, learn.

edit - btw I don't mean to infer parent poster argues this point, however it is often the reason 'designers' argue for these kinds of regressions.
> No it doesn't. The entire history of Western Liberalism—since the Magna Carta onwards—teaches us that censorship is quite literally never the answer.

What do you mean by "works"? Deplatforming seems to work if it's goal is to simply limit the spread of a message. Whether or not that's good or bad is a separate question. Do you think Alex Jones has just as big of a viewership as when he was on Youtube? Are there just as many people who know what Trump was talking about last week, now that he's gone from Twitter? Big platforms give those with followings an opportunity to reach even more people.
It depends. Some insulation melts at 60-90C.
From How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk (1980):

> My husband and I took Jason and his older sister, Leslie, to the Museum of Natural History. We really enjoyed it, and the kids were just great. Only on the way out we had to pass a gift shop. Jason, our four-year-old, went wild over the souvenirs. Most of the stuff was overpriced, but we finally bought him a little set of rocks. Then he started whining for a model dinosaur. I tried to explain that we had already spent more than we should have. His father told him to quit his complaining and that he should be happy for what we did buy him. Jason began to cry. My husband told him to cut it out, and that he was acting like a baby. Jason threw himself on the floor and cried louder.

> Everyone was looking at us. I was so embarrassed that I wanted the floor to open up. Then—I don’t know how the idea came to me—I pulled a pencil and paper out of my bag and started writing. Jason asked what I was doing. I said, “I’m writing that Jason wishes he had a dinosaur.” He stared at me and said, “And a prism, too.” I wrote, “A prism, too.”

> Then he did something that bowled me over. He ran over to his sister, who was watching the whole scene, and said, “Leslie, tell Mommy what you want. She’ll write it down for you, too.” And would you believe it, that ended it. He went home very peacefully.

> I’ve used the idea many times since. Whenever I’m in a toy store with Jason and he runs around pointing to everything he wants, I take out a pencil and a scrap of paper and write it all down on his “wish list.” That seems to satisfy him. And it doesn’t mean I have to buy any of the things for him—unless maybe it’s a special occasion. I guess what Jason likes about his “wish list” is that it shows that I not only know what he wants but that I care enough to put it in writing.
Then you take a vacation, and find that one or more of the shadow banned feature requests have actually been started...
My work touts the "look at links before you click!". But they also auto forward all email links to a service that scans the link for malicious stuff. The result is that when I hover over a link, I get a REALLY long url, like: https://urldefense.company.com?link=blablablablablahlablabla......

And I can't actually read it.
The two best mail clients, mutt and whatever people like that runs as part of emacs now, don't have read receipts at all.

Even MS Outlook lets end users decline to send read receipts. There's probably some awful group policy system to force it, though.
What makes you say sheep dogs like to herd? Because that is what they do? If you trained a retriever to herd sheep and a sheep dog to retrieve, would the dogs not do those things? What would the dogs do if they were never socialized? Are you even considering these questions, or are you covering your ears and accepting the not-science dogma you've heard your entire life?
Our building in SF is doing this. All the units are "live work" and previous to the pandemic many were rented out as offices. Now most have been changed over to residential.
Bummer, just paid for my ITX Dev board too.

Hope they don’t get acquired, but can’t really blame them if they chose to go that route.
Automation drives down costs for standardized, mass produced items, but it may also remove the economies of scale that made it possible for more variety to exist due to decreased demand for those varieties.
> You're basically suggesting reimplementing semver in a clunkier way. Just bump the major version but continue supporting the old major version with security releases etc.

> This is a solved problem, it's just that some library maintainers don't practice proper communication of breaking changes.

It's not just a communication problem, it's also the way that a lot of language tooling works. For example on the JVM you can (mostly) only have a single version of a given (fully qualified) class on a given application's classpath, so it's quite important for incompatible new versions of a library to use a completely new set of class names - thus you'll see e.g. commons-lang3 using org.apache.commons.lang3 alongside commons-lang using org.apache.commons.lang.
Ok some work can not be done remotely. There are also cases when the work can (and should be) remote but the laborer can't (kids, little room etc. etc.) So we set this aside.

Other than that finally there is the article that reflects my feelings about the subject. I always thought that this was a "plot" for bosses to "own" you soul and for a sizeable percentage of middle managers to be a parasites who get credits for the things that could and should be done without them.

I have my own company and when I need employees (contract workers actually) they always work from their own premises.
> because we find our worldviews can help us decide how to live in the chaos of our world

Simple answers conserve brain power.

I think we can keep using simple answers, we just have to apply different simple answers to different situations. Maybe one way we can do this is to collect simple principles in big lists and, when we feel like we might need to change our perspective on something, look through our list and choose a hypothetical principle to apply. This is basically the I Ching / Book of Proverbs, but you have to compile it yourself.
> Preventing the raising of objections was called ‘reaching alignment.’

Sounds like they had the wrong idea of what alignment means. It should mean making sure everyone knows what problem is being solved, and focuses all feedback and concerns solely towards whether or not the project is on track to solve it. See the quote later in the article:

> The problem with all the bad advice was that it was unrelated to the problem we were trying to solve.

Yup, there's your problem. There was no true alignment on a goal.

Their solution to punt all objections downhill works, and in many places it might be the easiest answer. But the better answers is to wrestle objections as soon as they arise, focusing on whether or not they are relevant to the problem at hand. It is harder, but has a better result on all counts.
Soggi's BIOS and Firmware Page (2020)
Because it no longer exists in the wild. All vaccines have some risk of negative reactions.

No matter how small x is, x is > 0, which is the current chance of being infected by smallpox.
How to get out of Fat Club
I'm just curious, do you think your chances of dying or having serious problems from catching covid is higher or lower than one in a million?
My example was a simple one, and you are right, Javascript objects contain a reference to their prototype object from which they are cloned and via which they can inherit behavior. However, this is handled a bit differently in Self and in the original Tivoli Systems actors. The details between these systems are different so my example left out many interesting details.
The current smallpox vaccines stockpiled in the US use a live virus¹ and have a fairly high rate of serious side effects (1–2%) for a disease that doesn't currently exist. The vaccines are also still effective a few days after exposure to smallpox.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinia
> Damn. I just want a car with as FEW knobs/buttons/levers as necessary.

In 2005, there was a huge publicity campaign to make cameras mandatory in cars on the basis motivated by some parents driving over their toddlers playing in the driveway.

Of course, there are many rather more straightforward solutions to that problem. Given the fact that such parents must be in a rather select group, I doubted having cameras would prevent other sources of injury to their children even if they prevented parents from moving them down.

Now, auto manufacturers had to put a camera in every car[1]. Yes, the requirement took effect in 2018, but the manufacturers knew it was coming.

So, you have a screen in the car. In addition, there is the temptation to monitor and collect information. You can sell that to insurers as "anonymized" data. Etc etc. You can enhance the tracking dimensions a lot if you can also get to track all the other stuff people do. Offer them the honey of pairing their phones with the entertainment system, and, boom.

> 221 people were killed by non-traffic (not on public roads) backover crashes in 2007, and 14,000 people were injured.[1]

Given that the value of a statistical life is about $10 million, if the backup camera eliminates all such deaths and injuries, its benefit is about $5 billion. Conveniently, we do not know how many fatalities and injuries have been caused by trying to change stations or select tracks on a touch screen. So, on the cost side, we are stuck with the cost of all the equipment, software development, bug tracking, and, above it all, the annoyance of having to live with all this additional equipment one cannot avoid for the foreseeable future.

Here are sample stories:

* https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/over-in-an-instant/art...

* https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/12/nyregion/2yearold-run-ove...

* https://www.kidsandcars.org/how-kids-get-hurt/backovers/

* ...

Ah, the Houston Chronicle stories has this nugget:

> A cost-benefit analysis, required as part of the rule-making process, put the cost of each life saved at up to $19.7 million.

It's all for the children. How there you object?

[1]: https://www.thedrive.com/news/20612/rearview-cameras-are-now...
Notice that the two Approvals are different. They are different in the law.
Get article. I really appreciate how you were able to incorporate Tetlock's findings.

I've been surprised by how reluctant sales and marketing people are to Brier Scores when it comes to their forecasting, given their interest in delivery estimates from engineering.
> Your rights end where the rights of another begin.

Agree with this statement as such.

Except that you do not have a right to force others to do anything that they are not in agreement with. You have a right to protect yourself and stay home. I support that. ( Just putting it the way opposite to how you have phrased it )

> Going out in public as a spreader is not a right

Anyone out in public could be a spreader, vaccinated or not. The science is not as clear yet. You should protect yourself.

> the people you infect should be able to hold you legally liable

Why only for Covid-19?
The Hoover Dam reservoir is at an all-time low
That’s true! Prescription Desoxyn is though.
> That creates a stripe of Internet commenter convinced that nuclear plants are the solution and renewables are terrible.

I can't recall ever seeing one of those.

I hope you're not filing everyone that wants a high nuclear:battery ratio into that box!
The ATHLETIC BRAIN – how neuroscience can transform performance
This thread is being laughed at on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/ctrlshifti/status/1402876173680472065?s=...
Oh, it would probably be lethal. But luckily Russell claims the teapot is in a stable solar orbit between Earth and Mars, so we should be fine for now.
Interesting perspective from Facebook[1]:

> On the one hand, this is a great idea, very cool. On the other hand, if you think iMessage is platform lock-in, you haven’t seen anything!!

[1]: https://www.facebook.com/49799578922/posts/10159919509093923...
How Equality Slipped Away
So the author of the article was told by Blake Hall, who runs a company that tries to prevent the kind of fraud he's hyping up.
That is a very catastrophic view of the world. Taxes keeping us from destruction... I don't know, maybe they just keep us from evolving the society.

Indians were living fine before they ever heard of taxes. They had different organization, but they did have one. The same can happen in the future. A set of local communities with local order based on merit and seniority, without a bureaucracy somewhere far away trying to direct people's lives.
The entire west should also learn that free press doesn't always work from the detergent that was shown as the reason to invade Iraq.

It's not the silver bullet that solves any political issue. Your own failure demonstrated it and you are still so fixated on it. That's laughable.
Tetlock also found that foxes were less likely to be famous because contingent advice is harder to explain in a sound bite.

Yep. Occasionally there will be a complex problem with a simple solution. More often, complex problems have difficult solutions. And unfortunately, If you're in a room discussing the problem and one person gives a simple solution and you try to start a conversation about the complexities involved and resolving sub-problems... Well, you could be the one who is wrong, but in my experience that's often not the case, though unfortunately people favor the easy answer. That said I have also occasionally seen the simple solution proven right. There's just no one size fits all approach.

Personally, I've been wrong both ways and right both ways in my career. When I get it wrong and I'm fortunate, I also come up with the better solution too. Regardless, I've learned to be skeptical of my own simple solutions too.
Wow, sounds like the start of some implausible hollywood heist movie.
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If America's bullshit was happening in any south American country, or most middle east countries, people would have heads on spikes by now.

Really surprised how much shit Americans are capable of taking.
Questions you should ask before building desktop applications
I wonder why Fastmail decided to bend the knee and proactively block Russian IPs. The only thing those &^#%$-!@ could do is just that what FM did: block Russian IPs. Why make life easier for the dictators? What does FM gain by complying with their demands?
The struggle here is that in software, sometimes hedgehog thinking is correct. The discernment challenge isn't in spotting hedgehog thinking and choosing fox thinking instead. The challenge is in figuring out in what domains hedgehogs are right and in which domains foxes are right. Unlike in the arena of politics, in software hedgehogs reap the benefits of deep expertise.

When are hedgehogs right? In the "obvious" stuff:

- You should always use correct indentation in your code

- Document your architecture decisions. Have conversations in your team to get feedback and buy in.

- When practical, try and keep down the number of languages and databases you use. It'll make onboarding easier and it allow the team to build deeper expertise

And so on.

The "relational database advocate" usually isn't making an argument that relational databases are better all the time. They're making an argument that relational databases are the right default, and this particular use case isn't weird enough to justify the cost of learning and deploying something else. They might be right - its extremely difficult to know without taking into account the task at hand and the skills of the team.

My personal take is to think about the values of a piece of software before writing it. How much should your project care about maintainability, or scalability, or accessibility (ie onboarding)? Then make your technology choices with that in mind. If actually, short term team velocity is the most important thing, skip automated UI testing. If your team's ability to hire developers in 5 years is really important, use React and not the javascript framework of the week.

Bryan Cantrill gave an excellent talk on this a few years ago, talking through the values different and systems encapsulate. Its an excellent talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wZ1pCpJUIM
Great advice, if every project followed these recommendations I predict we'd see a 200% increase in successful completion of software projects in our industry
> That's why people tend not to like changes to them—they're used to the current one, so changes make the icon less useful, at least for a while, and the more drastic the change the worse it is.

For me, it's not just that. It's not just the "change" which I disliked. It's how ugly they are. The icons simply look very ugly with the shadows and other strange changes.
The article was great, but this was an annoying set of substitutions. There's a perfectly cromulent way of creating technology-agnostic content: metasyntactic variables like "Foo" and "Bar". Instead, the simple substitutions made half the article a meta-meta-guessing game, first working out which technology the word translates to, and then trying to work out whether the author meant to rag on those specific user groups (some communities have a reputation for being more fanatic than others), whether they were meant as metasyntactic variables, or whether there was some other point in there. I couldn't work out which it was.
The "Sunday" in that quote is referring to February 14, 2021, when the daily case count was more than six times what it is today, and was still ~1.4x the peak of the previous wave.

The comment you initially replied to said "these days", which in the context of a rapidly changing pandemic I don't really consider to include "4 months ago".
This is a selection bias toward Covid patients who had to be hospitalized. Most Covid cases are mild and patients recover at home. The “extent of what you have to deal with” varies considerably.
I feel like there is a body of literature waiting to be written about businesses refusing to take a hint in favor of user-hostile decisions. These things are conscious choices by the senders and they had several meetings about it.
Same here. That is why my wife's office is on a main floor of the house and mine is in the basement. She's been remote for at least 10 years I think and I ran my own product development business since 2000.
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you've got caught generating misinformation, and now you're clearly deflecting.

>I was clear in providing citations.

All the citations/links you brought in were to build a house of cards of your pet narrative on top of a factually wrong false statement you generated about me out of nothing. You generated that false statement in order to be able to apply those citations. Without that foundational false statement your citations didn't make sense.

Now, once you've got caught (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27467720) by me showing that you just casually generated that misinformation, you're trying to drown that fact under the pile of the long winded meaningless word-abouts like this gem here:

>Being broadly anti-covid-vaccine essentially acknowledges holding generalized anti-vaccine opinions since the majority of vaccines on the market make use of legacy manufacturing techniques.

It is a classic device of propaganda - equating risk-benefit analysis unfavorable in a specific narrow situation (a healthy very low risk group in this case) with blanket non-acceptance ("broadly anti-covid-vaccine"). Like back in the USSR - "You don't like the absence of hot water?! You're anti-Soviet!" It is strange that you didn't notice that propaganda device description among your "manipulation" describing links.

It is pretty clear that you're trying to paint me, against the already demonstrated facts, as an anti-vaxxer in order to undermine whatever i was saying. I think you'll be able to find on your own a link describing that fallacy.
The Timeless Way of Building describes a philosophy, not just of building practice but really of how to live a good, fulfilling life. A Pattern Language is an set of examples of how to shape specific parts of your community and home to implement that philosophy.

Following the patterns without understanding the philosophy makes no sense to me because it’s a very opinionated and, in the modern world, quite radical. What if you don’t agree with it? I think many don’t. At least, you want to be able to read them critically.
Urban Airship meeting rules. Don’t just mention them or be inspired by them. Just… use them as you see fit. Walk out on meetings, or decline them, if they don’t benefit you or your work. Don’t tolerate meetings that could have been an email (or equivalent communication). Don’t fill the time. Don’t repeat things that were already communicated.