skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't even really understand what this means. Like, I would guess ~half of workers no longer clock in or out these days, I know I haven't for a majority of my career. So what do they do?

And then what about retail where you just need a warm body present for a time range. Do they just get a defacto hourly rate raise and then you hire another person to make up the left over?

Im overall in support of people working less but the details of these schemes never make sense to me.
I mean, when they last dumped kernel sources there was a member of the team who blogged about how to compile and use them. It’s still possible, just almost nobody bothering.
I understand where you're coming from, and I probably would agree that mental health would improve. But the reality is that the majority of political discourse today happens online on these digital platforms. It is only going to get more digital as Gen-Z comes of age. So while my immediate short-term mental health might improve, I also feel that not being present on social media means that I would be participating less in our democratic process, my views would be less represented, and in the long-term my quality of life may change in a negative way as a result. It's also why I think the ban of Donald Trump is unacceptable - for all practical intents and purposes, these social media platforms now gatekeep the most fundamental (political) processes underlying society.
> just host their service on their own ISP

Good luck
Essential to whom? For example, I used to be a consumerist pig, but when I trimmed the fat by deleting YouTube, Reddit, FB Messenger, Whatsapp and Instagram off my phone, I suddenly felt like I could breathe again. Now I spend my time during the day doing the things I love (hobbies).

P.S. I've kept HN because, you know... the last bastion of reasonable discourse.
And... what has happened in the past billion some odd years of life on this planet? If any organism does not adapt, especially due to fragility it... gets a participation trophy? There's no deserve. It's simply a fact of the circle of life. Why are you throwing morality at this? Is there morality in physics or math? No grandstanding will alter that reality. It's neither sad nor good. Just is.
That's why it's a stupid decision from Twitter. Twitter could say "type your username backwards to see this tweet" and you could say "just type your username backwards, it's really not a big deal." It would still be a stupid decision from Twitter.
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OK....most big-shots are not working in the field.

I'm trying to argue that blockchain/crypto industry is amateur and infant and you think I work in such industry and scam people around. I mean c'mon!
Ouch! Nothing changed and it got worse, dare I say. He mentions a point, I have had for years, and that is, that these 25-35 year old nerds from the Bay area define too much of out every day's culture.

Just look what happened to HTML: once a document system, manageable by everyone, now a more and more complex app system, dare I say WASM, etc.?
I don't know the folks behind this, but to me the take-away to "in hindsight of course we can do pretty well" is that really, the whole pandemic should have been addressed with (a lot of) hindsight.

The idea that viruses spread like this isn't new. It happened before. Africa had seen it. Asia had seen it. When Europe went crazy with "they're taking away our freedoms" a lot of my Chinese friends hopped on a plane to China, away from the "plague enthusiastic" westerners.

A lot of what happened over the last year was pure crazy, and entirely foreseeable. It wasn't clear when or where such a spillover event would occur, but what would happen (or not) after that, as a function of actions taken (or not) was painted out and experienced before, by epidemiologists and entire countries. And it was promptly ignored by policy-makers, journalists, and the general population.

I lost a lot of faith in (western) humanity over the last year. I have little hope left that we'll learn anything from it. In fact we're already seeing that some of the obvious promises made with easily verifiable binary outcomes, like better income or security for frontline workers, are being dropped.

I recently watched a youtube video from May 2020, and in the end the person on screen hears noise, goes to the balcony and starts clapping with everyone to celebrate "our heroes".

That didn't fucking age well.

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Ebert has a great review for Elephant too: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/elephant-2003
Nope - latest version of Little Snitch has already moved to user space: https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-big-sur/index.html
Slovakia did this in November [1]. Population ~5.5M, 2.5M tested over a single weekend for the first run.

Afterwards there were a few more weekends with lower turnout and until about month or two ago there were free testing places all over the country. These were during many periods require to cross between regions, go to work or shops. Significant fraction of population was getting tested on weekly-biweekly basis.

I can't find a good chart because most only show PCR tests (for a good reason!) but according to [2] Slovakia averaged 7300 tests per 1000 people.

The initial mass testing weekend was useful to get an overview of distribution of the infections and remove a large chunk of the infected from the pool (despite high false negative rate of those tests). It was also good PR and made people more aware how serious the situation is and reconsider if they would rather wear the mask and distance than go through this.

However the continued testing is now viewed as mostly useless. More money spent or tracing and targeted PCR testing, plus vaccine campaigns could have helped more.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/01/half-slovakia-...
[2] https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-testing#how-many-test...
>Facebook made promises to keep the two services operating separately, and Facebook broke those promises just two years later, with similarly unclear notice to users

When will we learn? These are businesses. A promise is worthless, the only thing that matters are contracts.
Tripping alone can be wonderful, just don’t take too much.
C++ will gladly create the dementia for you.
Well, the common carrier approach would not necessarily mean that every user can publish what they want.

Common carrier treatment arises when you control a unique piece of infrastructure, or, more loosely defined, a dominant one. As a result you need to provide non-discriminating access for competitors.

In my interpretation, this requirement would also be satisfied by Facebook allowing publishers and companies to create pages. A minimal threshold of importance that's equal for all page owners might be valid.

And the paper touches on this, mentioning that there's a valid role in moderating comments:

> There might thus be reason to leave platforms free to moderate comments (rather than just authorizing users to do that for their own pages), even if one wants to stop platforms from deleting authors’ pages or authors’ posts from their pages
Rate coding vs temporal coding is literally a meme in neuroscience because the two camps seem to refuse to compromise.

Everyone else has realized that both happen depending on how that particular part of the nervous system works, or even what particular kind of information is flowing through it.

This title reads like it was written by a rate coder who woke up one day and was like "Woah, you mean ... there might be more to it than just averaging spike counts per unit time???"

edit: Hah, they are literally the first two headings in the wikipedia article on neural coding [0].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_coding
And it broke the back button! There seems to be no way to go back a slide if you forwarded by tapping accidentally!!!
Arianespace fat-fingering an Ariane 5 into the wrong orbit recently didn't exactly help with my anxiety...

https://spacenews.com/bad-coordinates-led-ariane-5-astray-la...

(OTOH, I'm positive that particular issue won't reoccur)
They don't collect because the level of shoplifting is so high that collecting on insurance would be financially a net negative due to premium increases.
Hmmm, there are definitely public repos around that _don't_ have OSS licenses.

Wonder how they're feeling about this...
I don't think this is a major issue at all. All the common carriers (phone line, cell phone, public square in shopping mall, etc.) designated by law have (or can have) spam problems. This does not change a thing. No serious common carrier will challenge the court with the argument: I can ban spammers so I can ban everyone I want to.
Because it has all the cool benefits of SVG :p
StackOverflow and Cloudflare have both self-DoSed themselves with such flaws, causing downtime.
I don't see an example of what you're talking about in your link, can you post a specific quote?

I'm honestly not sure what your point is in your second paragraph. My point is that Chaucer did not use "they" in the sense you're talking about. You're saying that people are now trying to use it in a very similar sense to how Chaucer used it. So we agree?

I don't disagree that it's a very similar sense, but that doesn't mean it's identical. So instead of invoking Chaucer, just say "it's close enough already, so let's just use it"
Some companies and governments only communicate through social media.
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I recently ported a light kext to driverkit to enable some custom game controller usage. Wasn’t too bad, and if anything is more documented than kexts ever were (for the stuff I needed, at least).
If we really wanted this to be a 'public square', how would that combine with a commercial for-profit entity?

Unless the government (the people) buys it and funds it through taxes, it doesn't seem to be anywhere near the concept of a public square, just like a newspaper isn't a public square, and the commercial TV and Radio isn't a public square either. Neither are phones. Or billboards.

If something becomes ubiquitous enough to be regarded a public square, we either have to make it one, or fix the reason why a commercial for-profit company is regarded as public square in the first place.
It costs you your choice.
Very nice document, speaks from my heart. But the document's format sucks! I do not even get an address in the addressbar in Vivaldi. I would love to download this as PDF or in any other presentation format, but it seems to be impossible, without going through the code.
It comes back to reputation. In the real world, we build up a reputation and people can choose to trust us based on it. That also means that they get to know us. I personally like being able to interact with people that I've built up a positive relationship with. Why doesn't that carry over to the virtual world though?

I think everyone's view is tinted by the over-collection of data that some companies are doing. A real-life analogy would be having someone record everything that you do. We've come to accept that to an extent when going into stores, but probably wouldn't hang out with a friend that did that. I don't think the best solution to that is to put a bag over yourself and change your voice so that you're anonymous but still hang out with that friend -- I think it's to tell your friend that you don't want to be recorded. If some service is recording you too invasively, don't do business with them. If you don't know who is recording you, get your government to pass a law like GDPR.

If you want to live in a world without reputation, there will be drawbacks. Attackers will be indistinguishable from regular users, so you have to treat regular users as if they could be attackers; you can't have a tiered approach. The person banned for posting threats (or worse) or otherwise misbehaving on a message platform will be indistinguishable from a new account. The brute force attack will be indistinguishable from the legitimate user. Etc.

To throw out the whole concept of reputation so that you can be perfectly anonymous seems like the wrong solution to the problem.
Very rare. Rentals are 99% bare bones. Apartment hotels are also very rare. Usually available on the low end of desirability. Usually run down and so on.
You're probably right. Something like a small battery per home, and a bigger battery per block would likely go a very long way in creating a more stable grid. That's probably cheaper than "real" grid scale storage. What would a 15 minute battery look like? Probably not much bigger than a car battery. Install one with every power meter. Sounds so easy that I can't help but wonder what the catch is. Why aren't we doing this?
I agree they are great, especially for simple icons that work as SVG. Support for SVG favicons, however, keeps me from using them: https://caniuse.com/link-icon-svg
Ask HN: Do any healthcare companies provide upfront costs?
What the title says. Can you get a literal checklist before everything you do with a cost. The insurance/billing after model is so unpredictable.
It doesn't cause constipation like the prescription opioids. It's a partial agonist, so it does not build up tolerance and continues to work at the same dose for extended periods of time. It's all natural and a green leafy vegetable, so it's a good source of micronutrients. It is a better pain reliever, more similar to Tramadol/Tapentadol (partial norepinephrine agonists) than the other opioids. Tramadol is too weak and has a max dosage that is quite low. Tapentadol is extremely expensive and not covered by all insurances.

Mitragyna is affordable, shelf safe, and sustainable. It's a silver bullet compared to the unsustainable lifestyle that chronic pain doctors are pumping out with their prescription pads. What other questions do you have?
I'm sorry, but what you posted were obviously flamewar comments. "I have simply posted a historic fact in a neutral way" is a misleading description for two reasons: (1) "facts" is a red herring (see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... for explanation of that); and (2) a drive-by one-liner on an extremely inflammatory topic is not at all "neutral". (Also, (3) what you posted appears not to have been a fact, and when someone pointed that out you responded with "I'm not here to nitpick or defend genocide" - more flamewar behavior.)

It's not at all surprising that this made the flamewar worse—a neutral observer would expect precisely that, and that means you're responsible for the effects, whether you intended them or not. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

If you don't see how that's the case, I can understand why you might feel like a victim, but such perceptions have a lot of cognitive bias in them. It's hard for people (I mean all of us) to see the provocations contained in our own comments, and all too easy to see the negative contributions of others. Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

As for downvoted comments, which ones are you talking about specifically? When users do the kind of thing you're describing, we often remove downvoting rights from them. I didn't see it when I took a quick look, though.
You're being deliberately obtuse.

A continent consisting of North+Central+South America would be considered a "Super-Continent".

And no one says "I live in America" when they live in Canada. Do you refer to yourself as American? I've never heard anyone refer to a Canadian citizen as "American". Or someone from Mexico as "American".

You can link any dictionary definitions you want, but in 99% of cases when people say "America" they mean the US.
Boeing gets about 28.6 Billion from the US government each year[1] given the US population of around 400 million you're giving them (if we spread the cost evenly) about seventy five dollars every year. Once upon a time this was a large sum of money - now-a-days it's probably less than most folks spend on spotify and definitely less folks spend on coffee in a non-pandemic year.

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2020/01/02/ho...
Hope it has nice washrooms.
I appreciate the detailed response but it's an astonishingly silly argument.

Facebook has a 1st amendment right to host whatever content they want.. any desire toward consistency is entirely self-imposed. They could ban every single Democratic politician tomorrow if they wanted and people would be outraged, but the US government rightfully protects private companies from government-compelled speech.
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Yes and the author is recommending to hike the tax rate to 25%. How does that prevent corporations from continuing to shift profits to Ireland? It doesn’t.

The global minimum tax rate is only 15%. As you said yourself, as long as other countries offer less tax rate, they will continue to shift profits elsewhere.

Providing a simpler tax system might not stop Apple from shifting profits, but it definitely increases the incentive to do so.
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There might be a difference between belief in sky wizards and belief in taxation in capitalism being as authoritarian…
This is a really inspiring presentation and I am going to be spreading this one around!
Author here. I would love to hear what is missing or what may be wrong.
Oh, I'm definitely being nitpicky :D
In the Apple Relay case, the person is deliberately making it impossible for me to determine who they are. It isn't a problem with my peephole.

If there is a problem with my peephole, I'm still not trusting the person at the door until I can check it out and fix it.
Why not sh instead of bash. This is a script; it is not an interactive shell. sh is faster as a scripting language. Don't take my word for it. If you are using a UNIX-like OS such as BSD or GNU/Linux, sh has been chosen as the default scripting shell, not bash. Bash might be the default login shell (interactive use) but it is not the default scripting shell (non-interactive use).

This is only one function. We cannot see the rest of the script. Maybe there is a compelling reason1 to to use pushd and popd instead of using sh features.

1. i.e., no way to achieve same result in sh
Would be interesting, but my old ThinkPad X31 has a dead battery and a broken charger.

As many already has mentioned, browsing the web would probably be the biggest issue.
Lets say the modern CPU gets itself really tied up in knots and is out of action for a staggering 10ms. During that time a speeding train doing 350kph travels not quite a meter. Do trains run such tight scheduling that this isn't sufficient time to cause delay on actuating a switching element and cause an accident?
The problem is that our legislators famously do not write or even read the legislation that they vote on. Sometimes it's strategic and intentional that a party will try to hold a vote on some 1000+ page piece of legislation with 24 hour notice. Other times, they simply don't care to read it, so they do not.

Actual lobbyists write actual legislation, in fact. And our politicians vote on them without having read it. It's a really stupid system.
Phone companies are regulated as common carriers, but there's an exception allowing them "to block by default illegal or unwanted calls based on reasonable call analytics before the calls reach consumers."[1]

[1]: https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/stop-unwanted-robocalls...
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That thing in your pocket you use to browse the web and make phone calls is a computer too, so Windows isn't the dominating operating system.
And IE isn't the number one browser anymore, so this worked out.
Jesus christ. Is this seriously the argument for everything now? You realize how useless saying that is?
If you don't all ready know it having a good understanding of SQL.

Even a high quality 1 week intro course.
Was wondering if you could use this to run a version of your site in the favicon directly using `foreignObject`, but it looks like Chromium browsers at least render the SVGs in static mode [1][2]. Maybe it'll work in others though?

[1] https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5180316371124224

[2] https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/conform.html#secure-static-mode
Yeah to be honest this feels like a Googler trying to deal with their guilty conscience by starting a "movement" that fundamentally cannot go anywhere because it runs entirely counter to the economic incentives that animate ad tech companies.
It’s in no way trivial to create an alternative site. What makes those social media platforms what they are is the network of people. That’s like saying if Ma Bell decided to kick someone off the telephone system in the 70s that they could just create an alternative network.

That’s without even talking about stuff like being kicked off app stores, AWS, other hosting, or even their domain name.
The fundraising has begun

https://twitter.com/NYTnickc/status/1412804622591406080
Trump was deplatformed for using Twitter to incite a violent attack on the United States Capitol which aimed to derail the certification of his opponent's victory. While the attack was ongoing, he used Twitter to label the Vice President a traitor, as a gallows was erected before the capitol and people roamed the halls chanting "Hang Mike Pence".

If you're worried about the death of democracy, given the context, it seems strange to focus on the deplatforming.
> To really understand it (primal, dual formulations) you need tools from convex optimization. So it doesn't really feel appropriate to teach it in a standard machine learning class (unless you just toss out the details).

Sure. But to understand it, you probably also need to know a bit about arithmetic, algebra, geometry, etc. Still, you wouldn't say that SVM belong to these fields, even though these fields are probably a requirement if you want to understand SVMs.

> So it doesn't really feel appropriate to teach it in a standard machine learning class (unless you just toss out the details).

If the people you are talking about already had an optimization class (including convex optimization), then it should be appropriate to teach it using those formalisms, no?

Another example: you're not going far in understanding Schroedinger's equation if you don't have the necessary linear algebra bases. Does that make Schroedinger's equation part of linear algebra?

> It hits duality, quadratic programming, even gradient descent (Pegasos).

Sure... then it's a subject of machine learning that is good to refresh your knowledge of optimization and linear algebra, sure. It still feels kinda weird if you're going to introduce people to SVM in the context of an Optimization class (other than possibly as an example of a specific optimization problem, or as an application of specific optimization methods).

> However, work on the various optimizers (Adam, adagrad, second order methods, etc) which are all fundamental to doing any deep learning work would be firmly in the field of optimization.

Exactly. If you're doing that, then you are doing research in Optimization, and not research in "deep learning", as far as I'm concerned. But, let's face it... those types of papers are a minority in the field.
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> I will be spammed with ads for useless shit that I don't need. Check here _

Isn’t this the exact opposite though? Your data being used for targeting will minimize bad ads that you see.

(Facebook employee, never worked on ads or anything similar though)
Government’s ‘Critical Software’ Rules Could Drive Away Industry
With Mars landers, they do build two of them. When they have an issue with the one on Mars, they break out the one here on Earth and start debugging. When they have a solution that works, then they know what to do with the one on Mars.

I don't know if that would work on telescopes, though - I suspect that the copy wouldn't have the full optics installed.
Even if you hate Trump, then I think it's hard to not agree with him on that
This is showmanship for the base. It has exactly zero legal merit or even intent.