skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An echo chamber is any social group that repeatedly reinforces one set of viewpoints amongst themselves. Echo chambers usually form accidentally - any dissenting voices to a narratove leave or are forced out and you end up with a single religious narrative.

An open comment section is an open room. Each comment, and each commentor, is acting individually. There aren't really narratives because there's not enough cooperation to build one, if things are working well.

As a recent example, consider the lab leak theory for covid. This was perfectly credible to begin with, was parroted by some bad faith actors, deemed a conspiracy theory and actually censored and removed from several sites.. and now we have really good evidence to suggest it may have been the origin of covid.

In an echo chamber, you remove the truth. In an open room the truth can always exist, even if it's hidden.
No, dividing the number of reported cases by the number of reported deaths absolutely does not give the infection fatality rate. For example, the UK has one of the most widespread testing programs in the world and also monitors the actual infection rate via sampling, and we're still not detecting most Covid infections and reporting them as cases. I think for a while the government was even publishing estimates of what proportion of infections were being found, and it wasn't much, can't find them off-hand though. Covid-related deaths, though, are pretty well reported since pretty much anyone touching the medical system gets tested. (Some countries have been massively underdetecting deaths but they're making an even worse job of reporting mild cases...)
I'm not sure if I'm the right audience/user to answer your question but here's an offshoot thought: Wouldn't there be some value in building something like what you are suggesting but for electric vehicles only?
I understand that argument.I hadn't thought of the issue of insulin being a biologic, so true generics aren't likely, hence biosimilars. None of this justifies a 10x+ price increase on the same product over 20 years of course.

By the way that same site had an interesting article breaking down costs normalized by insulin unit

https://www.goodrx.com/blog/how-much-does-insulin-cost-compa...

By that table and some assumptions about approx 40 IU/day it looks like the cheapest you could get away with at full retail would be about $120/mo, assuming optimal usage etc. The most expensive version would be at least 5x that.
Yes, vaccination of 50% of the people results in a four-fold decrease in transmission - more or less.
Transmission varies with the virus. Measles is so infective that one person can infect all the susceptible people in a 25 foot square room in 1 minute. SARS-2 is a lot less infectious. Specialists in viral spread can show different maps for each virus - usually over a range of infectivity ratios (R value). Sars-2 = https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

Measles has a value of 12-18...
That kind of type coercion predates JS.

perl -e 'print !!"whee"'
1
php -r 'print !!"whee";'
1
awk 'BEGIN {print !!"whee"}'
1
An important point is that WinAmp was not hosting content, so the cost was limited to the relatively small development cost. And there's still lots of that around.

Once you get into actual hosting, it's very hard to get past a small number of users without a lot of funding. And since a lot of users don't want to pay, well...
I’ll just create another account and start again. You won’t stop me.
I would wager that in most ordinary C programs it is worse. You can’t even reason about code anymore with all the callbacks.
San Jose does need more offices, especially closer to the downtown core. Despite being a 1+ million resident city, it's largely a sleeper suburb. Many of the people that live in San Jose work elsewhere in the Bay Area.

So San Jose does need more offices. It's all the nearby cities like Cupertino, Sunnyvale or Mountain View that need to be building more housing.
> A mature programmer mixes elements freely with no thought to "orientation".

Seriously, you advocate freely mixing radically different architectural approaches? Well... I don't want to share a codebase with you.
Yup. Googlebot can also traverse some paywalls
>The most income something generates is usually when it just gets released.

YouTube is still making me pay to see movies (again) that I saw decades ago. Meanwhile, didn't Bob Dylan sell his entire catalogue for $300 million, just last year? David Guetta, $100 million? Paul Simon? I am not saying this is how I want things to work. Just that your statement seems factually... troublesome?
> 926 million Covid-19 deaths in the US

Was that meant to be thousands?
You’re commenting on a thread about reality, not a hypothetical, where the judge specifically called out reasoning such as yours that argues Facebook is a monopolist without defining terms or making concrete market share arguments.
Tantalus pattern?
Sabotage by executing the given orders?
I got a lone Hydrogen atom
IPv6 from the beginning.

I have a theory that NAT killed the open web. There was this idea at the beginning that everyone could host their own website, email, etc. But when you're behind a router, you suddenly have to be quite technical in order to set all that up on the computer in your room. So only (bored) technical people bother. It's possible this is the reason platforms came to dominate.
I hear you loud and clear, but South Walnut Creek is way better than this for uninterrupted riding, IMO.

https://www.austintexas.gov/department/southern-walnut-creek...
I agree it sounds high, but remember that anyone over 25 BMI would qualify for this, for both the COVID and population-level stats.
I think you mean freedom of speech is only a negative right and not a positive right. You cannot compel anyone to enable your speech.
My favorite feature is how when someone shares an Instagram post of Whatsapp it's blurred out. I realized this today and it just hit me that they don't care about making the apps actually good. All they care about is that you go back to the main app where they can advertise to you.
The failure spoken of is clearly the breach of the promise (and associated changing of literature) to back each by one USD.

However I'm very interested in the idea of shorting a "stable"coin. Who would possibly enter into this contract for an asset that has an upside of zero and a (potential, long-term, depending on your bearishness) downside of 100%?

In any case, with the strong likelihood Tether themselves are effectively shorting it by selling it unsecured by any real assets it would be a tough market to get in on.
There are so many different cancer types, that stopping one kind doesn't affect the outcome of other kinds of cancer.

So, yes, some cancer types are fed on carbohydrates, and if that's what people eat, they will get those cancers.

If people have a better diet, a better kind of cancer will kill them. =)

It is very infrequent to actually die of "old age" at over 100.

And the common thing of all cancers is still they are DNA mutations.

Having said that, yes, people should avoid a carbohydrate heavy diet, not only because it helps against common cancers, but because metabolic disease is just getting sick without any unavoidable reason.
This is a matter of perspective. Being intimately familiar with the differences between YouTube and Facebook, you can point out many differences. I'm sure if you were a food scientist or food marketing exec you could point out many difference between different soft drinks. These differences are market differentiators, not evidence of being in an entirely different market. Outside of the tech sphere, people see social media as a monolith in the same way that you see the soft drink industry.
That is Awesome & looks Ultra-Portable

Have a feeling with fashions repeating & all something like the Nexus 7 + BT Keyboard (full-functionality lite-tech) may someday make a comeback

Really like the idea of a low-cost pc / tablet that’s always in the backpack

And thanks!
They reported it because it’s noteworthy but do you really think it’s a huge accomplishment for the US and deserves propaganda-level hype on all major news networks for an event that happened on may 16?

Instead you get incredibly hostile and defensive. It’s a great accomplishment for the Chinese but seriously man check your biased worldview at the door.

Do you get just as upset when China doesn’t report on the US gymnastics superiority in the olympics and instead chooses to focus coverage on the Chinese prowess in weightligting, table tennis, and diving?
> I also hate that the anki shared decks web site does not encourage collaboration...

Dude, I'm building exactly this. I'm not basing it on git for various reasons, but I am using event sourcing, and git is basically event sourcing for code. My system will (eventually) allow pull requests, comments, upvotes/downvotes, and all kinds of community shenanigans on flash cards. It's months away from release... but here's the repo if you wanna have a look: https://github.com/dharmaturtle/cardoverflow
If you look down that page, the CDC provides several estimates of COVID-19 mortality based on different methodologies. The current range is between about 583k and 729k.
Use the old interface available at old.reddit.com. Its mostly fine. There are some really good corners of reddit, though the popular subs have been infected with the well washed masses.
This post provides a great visualization of this:

https://www.vumc.org/health-policy/covid19-model-vanderbilt-...

The rapid decline in travel precedes the statewide order.
Only the most expensive SEO-experts know the occult methods of success on Google's search results
I see I misunderstood the question
Add requirement for every user to have to solve
mathematical equation before being allowed to post
anything. Make it hard requirement and enforce at
all times.
How would body cameras prevent leaks? (More than, say, any other kind of camera?)

You could try to have potential leaker’s wear them and have them on 24/7 for a period of time… and they could simply text/write/message/email outside the view of the camera and the capability of the mic. Not to mention they are going to need to let people use the facilities or have other personal moments with the camera off, so the purpose is defeated.

A guard could wear one and it would help with surveillance but it doesn’t need to be a body cam, just a regular surveillance camera.

It seems a lot more useful in the normal sense, where, e.g., campus guards would be required to wear and use them so that when there are disputes about what happened in a particular incident, the footage can clarify.
Exactly, those are obviously "collaborative" things that can happen by people working alone and without every seeing or talking to another person.

The definition of collaborative that includes "In person" is just wrong.
Also, good lawyers + good contracts. Its way more profitable for those companies to be quiet about what their mix is than risk the wrath of a $233B beverage company.
> but that does not diminish their dominance - in fact it’s their platform dominance that makes them so dangerous to smaller companies in other spaces.

You have to demonstrate somehow that the dominance exists in a rigorous way.
To me, it's the difference between "is a requirement for" and "is the cause of".

- People drive cars.

- Cars are car jacked.

- If people did not drive cars, carjackings could not happen.

- People driving cars is a requirement for carjackings.

- People driving cars is not a cause of carjackings.

I understand that it is possible and truthful to argue that people driving cars is a cause of carjackings; it's just not my view of the meaning of those words.
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Thank you. I really don’t understand people who use rare acronyms on a global forum and don’t write what it is.
Teclis – Non-Commercial Web Search
I think this is because "tech" is quickly becoming a business utility, and every company is becoming a "tech company" just by augmenting its business with an app stack. "Tech" has become watered-down by proliferating everywhere, and accordingly developers have grown in number and diminished in average passion and skill.

Coupled with this, everyone knows these tech-driven ad-distribution companies posing as "social media" are pretty shady, because they're based on coyly mining user attention for $. So I you get a job there, your moral bar is low enough that a dark pattern here and there is no big deal.
> It’s important to remember the public demand for safety.

Let's not pretend that the TSA makes travelers "safer"...admittedly, if you've seen the crap people try to take onboard you might disagree. Regardless, the "public demand for safety" is not that. There is a demand for disclosed risk. The world is not safe, but if A happens when B happens % of the time, people are able to feel like they are making informed choices (even if the choices are misinformed). When this cannot be established or remains largely in dispute, society in the USA starts to crumble. So what the US gets is lots of theater with less and less disclosure of actual numbers until it becomes a stream of random noise.

This pandemic has highlighted the well-known quality about the US public. The US public demands a specific kind of answers, but the media and government continue to play sensationalism and politics, while everyone else scrambled. That's what I won't forget.
Stanford AI Lab Papers and Talks at CVPR 2021
The most frustrating thing about the Trump admin was the number of people on the left that didn’t realize he was fighting the GOP every single step. So much for “the enemy of my enemy”.

This was obvious to me from Reince Priebus on. McConnell and Graham played their parts until they didn’t have to anymore.

How do people seriously not see this?!
I'm getting a "Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (INTERNAL SERVER ERROR)". Looks like we broke it?
Lots of places in the US had "covid curfews" too.
this strikes me as ageist. Maybe there is a citation here?

Once bitten, twice shy

Fool me once, shame on you ...

Why wouldn't the accumulation of experiences logically lead to people being savvier about claims over time?
You can still collect (a lot) more information than classical advertising in print or on TV gets, and that seems to work alright.
>But the reality at the time was bottom-up and we should not forget that.

Its a good point, but that ignores that co-opting "useful tragedies" are how authoritarian fanatics grasp power.

There is no reason why it can't be both: A bottom-up response that has morphed into a dystopian power grab.
Exactly. This system has been polished to some definition of fairness over a long period of time. "millenia".
Thanks! I'll run it by stakeholders internally and see if I can de-anonymize :)
Any algorithm can and will be gamed. Making it public means people will adhere to every detail, and yet still be unproductive.

There's even a name for it: "work to rule".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule
Have you heard of Tezos?

Tezos is often referred to as the first “self-amending” blockchain, which routinely adapts and adopts new features natively and automatically via its unique on-chain governance mechanism. This protocol functionality allows the system to coordinate the selection of new updates though popular voting, integrate the new updates that are selected, and compensate the developers who proposed them. [1]

[1] https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/what-is-tezos-xtz-governa...
In the UK it is 62.8%. Americans don't seem especially fat because we're all fat. In many countries, anyway.
Shouldnt you include engineers compensation in "The infrastructure" thats where a lot of money goes.
> Not sure what the FTC's game plan was going into an antitrust fight without a market share pitch.

Maybe their plan was to lose to destabilize any later lawsuit which would have had a reasonable chance of winning?
> every good browser but safari desktop (it's in technology preview)

It’s finally in the mainline release now as of version 14.1!
> Currently we list 604 thousand Americans dead from COVID, that’s 0.18% of the entire population - not the infected population. Brazil is at 0.23%, and rising fast. Worldwide it’s almost 4 million out of 181M reported cases. That’s over 2% IFR.

If one were to assume that everyone in these countries was infected and we are just really awful at reporting, that number is still wrong. But the US is currently reporting a hair over 1:10 people as having been infected, and Brazil has not crossed that threshold yet, so 0.15% is already empirically - to use the technical term - horse shit [1].

Your analysis is severely flawed from the fact that you are equating the number of "confirmed cases" with "number of infections," but many infections are never confirmed with a test (and indeed never even become symptomatic).

The article links to a source to support its 0.15% number, but some others are below:

Nature, estimates about 0.5% for USA: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2918-0

World Health Organization, median IFR of 0.27% (0.05% for those under 70): https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf
> Ironically, a good workaround is setting your user agent to the Googlebot and suddenly all those modal/nag screens disappear.

Cloudflare slaps you for this, though.
You make a great point that I hadn't considered before.

It's like rocket fuel! The faster you want to go, the more fuel you need. Which adds weight, so now you go slower, so you need more fuel...

I want to serve a cat picture, which would cost 1/100 of a cent. But at scale, it adds up. So now I show adds that generate 1.2/100 of a cent in revenue but add .5/100 cents in serving cost, which I can optimize with user data to add an additional .7/100 cents in revenue, but which adds .4/100 cents in serving costs....
I'm not familiar with formal verification, so forgive me. Could something like TLA+ be used to inch yourself towards a verifiable spec? Although you are moving the goalpost, the hope is that eventually your spec is so simple that it is "obvious" that it is correct?
A corporate trust is a monopoly or a near-monopoly, so it is neither surprising nor shameful that the term anti-trust should be associated with monopolies.
The serving size is 1 tbsp which is a reasonable amount for one serving. It’s a negligible amount of sugar.
Don't forget that 40% of the population is above or below working age. So perhaps it's only 20% of working age people.
I don't know about the rest of Europe, but at least here in Denmark we had no restrictions on going outdoors.
I disagree, as a user I think what dang did makes sense and was clearly explained to anyone viewing. Whether something does or doesn't have special treatment in the software is mostly orthogonal to the actual material impact of what happened, which was clearly minimal here.
> And some pages just won't get fixed because of some ads.

This makes me wonder if the choice between leaving in ads that lower page rank due to CWV and removing some ads to get a better page rank will lead to less advertising overall. I can only hope, I guess.
Flying the Ornithopter in FlightGear Flight Simulator (2006)
>There's definitely a difference between "being psychic" and schizophrenia or clinical paranoia.

Only to the extent that psychics are often frauds.

If "psychic" powers go away on medication, but come back if it is reduced, is that evidence to you that they are a type of symptom? If not, then what is the evidence that convinces you?
Image search is practically dead and Pintrest singlehandedly killed it. I just use Wikimedia Commons now.
I'm definitely interested! But....

NOTE: These are not criticisms so much as release 1.1 (or even 2.0) use cases....

The categories are too broad (and, for some use cases, the 21 days is rather long, but I get it...).

Re categories: While I am interested in science, quote unquote, I am orders of magnitude more interested in physics than biology, with the exception of biochemistry as it relates to evolutionary theory, and within physics I am at least an order of magnitude more interested in QM (two orders, if you can nail it down to relational QM) than I am in astrophysics, and my interest in astronomy is even lower, and my interest in exoplanets is mostly nil.

And that's my personal interest stuff. Professionally, I am interested in JS specifically, so that would be programming, but I really have zero interest in Fortran or COBOL or Haskell, unless somehow those relate directly to things I can or might want to do in JS (full stack React FE, node BE).

The timeframe side relates to that professional side as well: That JS focus will change at some point (startup life) and by the time 21 days have passed, well, I'll be about 2.5 weeks behind, eh?
Bring back the necktie.
Once upon a time Google Search was there to help you find those small online communities.
I mean, in this case the definition of echo chamber is meaningless, if an echo chamber consists of "non-incel, non-psychopath, non-uneducated people".
Bit of a food snob here, I usually buy a "fancy" alternative to Heinz even if it's just the Annie's Organic bottle that's also mass-manufactured but to me has a richer vegetable taste and less saccharine sweetness to it. Heinz tastes a bit too much like HFCS-sweetened tomato frosting to me.
I'm not sure I'd subscribe to that theory. The port forwarding issue is a few clicks; actually getting a site to host is another issue entirely. Even if it was some application you ran on your desktop 24/7 that holds your hand through the process, NAT + DHCP aren't insurmountable.
Re: mail - I believe what gp is saying is that mail will be sent directly - made possible by the larger IP address space. Once it’s on your device you can copy and move it wherever. This would actually match the original design of email before it became the case where everything was via pop and imap. Of course the biggest flaw with email was not expecting spam. My change would be accepting messages only from known senders or those who have done the needed “work”
https://www.w3.org/2003/10/acquaintance-protocol/
So, which do you want? A go-to place to see <insert arbitrary interest here>, or a ton of smaller forums and communities?
Don’t forget how they also remove and re-list items all the time to avoid bad reviews, and copy/paste reviews and ratings from other unrelated products. I’m guessing that it’s worth it to pay people in call center type operations pennies per review to do this if the bot detection is usually good enough to catch it, or if they’re doing the “verified buyer” thing, to pay people to “buy” their products, etc etc. The point is that what Amazon does to try to stop this isn’t working, and Amazon feels like a flea market with a few “official” stores. The categories and requirement to pick a category before getting more advanced parameters has been broken for years, and I doubt anyone in power there is very interested in fixing it.

I’ve also been buying less on Amazon, but their easy returns if something arrives truly broken or mismatched from the description are a lot more peace of mind than one typically gets with random small businesses. I’ve had to file a chargeback before after a small biz refused to let me cancel an order after informing me after charging me that one thing I ordered was no longer available in the configuration I ordered it (auto parts so it literally wouldn’t have worked). It was a huge hassle and a few hours of wasted time, plus I still had to find the hard-to-source part somewhere else. On Amazon I’ve been refunded immediately, no questions asked, when I’ve been sent the wrong thing. I’m sure that people who return stuff at a higher rate are super annoying for merchants with how Amazon puts seemingly all of the burden on them, but for consumers who mostly buy stuff in good faith (e.g. not buying a tool to use it then return it when done), it’s a great experience. I’m sure they have metrics on customers around how much they return and what that “free shipping” really costs.