skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Terrible bias in this article. Chinese-Americans can't be on the right side of the spectrum without being conspiracy theorists?

Maybe they don't like cozying up to the CCP like Democrats have been seemingly doing.

Many reasons to not be liberal, and being crazy isn't one of them.

"Infiltrate" and "go under cover" all you want, you're the only conspiracy theorist!

Maybe if you mix in Proud Boys, QAnon, and the "ok" sign even more you'll get more clicks.

I don't see any name dropping of Antifa or anyone that's actually killed anyone (CHAZ, BLM riots), strangely...

This article pretends like the virus wasn't most likely a lab leak. Saying "blaming China for the pandemic shifts focus from criticism of the Trump administration's response and plays into the increasingly negative public opinion of China."

Which gov let it out, which gov bought up PPE beforehand, which gov said it wasn't transmissible until late Jan, which gov shut down domestic flights to/from Wuhan but left international flights open? CCP.
This would confuse users and prevent these products from being successful

It certainly didn't hurt the original. I think I've come across articles about the Arduino folks not being happy that cheaper clones took away their sales on such a popular product. Going closed source in response to that seems to ignore the fact they were only as successful as they were due to getting more traction in the community with an OSHW design.
Even more harmful: smaller and smaller numbers of people who actually understand how computers work.
For an interesting take on this, find and read the Isaac Asimov short story "The Dead Past".
I don't really understand how YouTube distracts people, or maybe my viewing habits are just weird. I go to YouTube to watch exactly what I want to - usually either a livestream or a VOD from the handful of streamers that I follow - and then I leave. That's it.

Maybe this is easy for me because my watch history is already so tailored that all the videos YouTube throws at me are things I've already seen (and decided to watch/not watch).
It’s easy for a human to make another human, by combining with another human. If it’s the right human, it’s fun. If it’s the wrong human, it’s a disaster.

How to have fun and avoid disaster? That’s a definition of intelligence.
and for all we know, there's a teapot, too small to be observed by telescopes, in orbit right now between Earth and Mars.

1. I don't expect anyone to believe me just because I say this and 2. I don't expect anyone to spend time or money proving me wrong, either.
At least one other brand sells dogs in packs of 7 (Hebrew National).
Tesla has future cash flows. Bitcoin is ones and zeros.
Put yourself in the position of a richly-compensated engineer.

Your boss: "We need to launch this, or our division is shut down."

Your web search: Famous AI failure

You would like to stay richly compensated. What do you do?

This is one scenario, and waaay oversimplified, but the way you get richly-compensated is by doing what's required to be richly-compensated. That usually has more to do with corporate politics than long-term corporate outcomes.
Yes, proprietary software is negative in the freedom dimension.

You have to realize that what your saying here is a category error: The libre alternatives don't have billions of dollars of marketing, engineering, market cap and users.

EFF here is trying to point out exactly what you are espousing. These kind of dark patterns are used at all levels to drive engagement, including sign up and retention. ("But ... How will I be able to talk to my friends if I delete Facebook??")

I can't recommend a solution, but "Well, its free, what do you expect?" is even worse.
Yes and No. No, if one bought three Neiman Marcus shirts from such a source.

Yes, if one has bought many shirts, bags, laptops from these people; even in this case, prosecutors don't go after the fencers(middlemen) directly. They bust the small guys, who flip for plea deals. Then these 'thieves' wear the wire and sell stuff to these fencers; this is how prosecutors collect solid evidence to convict fencers.
I figure that it would be a good way for the world's most valuable company to give back to their core userbase, and it would certainly be a step in the right direction for helping developers like me who are highly skeptical of Apple's commitment to building a robust developer ecosystem. They need all the help they can get, because it's starting to look less and less viable for me to switch to a Mac as time goes on. It will be interesting to watch how they reconcile pressure from developers over the next few years.
Sure, but if you're depending on the cliff for retention you're working against your own interests: Employees will leave the 53rd week, just after you've spent all that effort training them within your environment.

Long term retention hinges on long term adequate compensation and long term quality environments. There's no need for cliffs.
> (2013) (Thoughtworks)

Microservices has certainly proved to be a lucrative trend for consultancies like thoughtworks.
I've seen countless projects where a consultancy has been brought in replace some existing monolithic application with microservices.
It sure creates a lot of billable work, but I can't say that I've seen much value in the business outcomes.
> It's lame that it has to be done that way, but it's the best way I've been able to do it.

How else do you think they can figure out what you hate vs you don't like but don't hate either ?
Check out Inform 7, which is distantly descended from text games like Zork. http://inform7.com It has a rules engine intricate enough to literally include basic physics simulations (example from their documentation):

A concentration is a kind of value. 200.9ppm specifies concentration. 200.9 ppm specifies concentration.
A room has a concentration called current concentration. A room has a concentration called former concentration.
To decide what number is the probability inverse between (space - a room) and (second space - a room):
let guess be 20;
let way be the best route from space to second space;
if way is up, let guess be 50;
if way is down, let guess be 10;
if the guess is less than 10, decide on 10;
decide on guess.

Every turn:
follow the diffusion rules.
The diffusion rules are a rulebook.
A diffusion rule (this is the gas movement rule):
repeat with space running through rooms:
let sum be 0.0 ppm;
repeat with way running through directions:
let second space be the room way from the space;
if second space is a room:
let incoming be the former concentration of the second space divided by the probability inverse between second space and space;
let outgoing be the former concentration of the space divided by the probability inverse between space and second space;
let difference be incoming minus outgoing;
increase sum by the difference;
now current concentration of the space is the former concentration of the space plus the sum.
A diffusion rule (this is the resetting concentration rule):
repeat with space running through rooms:
now the former concentration of the space is the current concentration of the space.
The last diffusion rule (this is the lethal dosage rule):
if the current concentration of the location is greater than LC50:
say "The concentration in the air overpowers you...";
end the story;
otherwise:
if the current concentration of the location is greater than TLV-STEL:
say "You feel extremely uncomfortable in this environment."
Instead of doing something when the current concentration of the location is greater than TLV-STEL:
if going, continue the action;
say "You can't work in this environment: your eyes and nose sting and it hurts to breathe."
Completely disagree. It reads pretty much like every other BBC article, and is actually more substantial than most.
I get your point. No, I have nothing stolen, and I def will not enter my password on HIBP ever :). I think this IP based security checks should be on by default, yes, but with opt-out option. Im using VPN all the time and getting sick of “new device” emails.

Btw, none of Apple services complained yet about my vpn usage.
Yeah, "impossible" phsssh... it's clearly a 180 heel-flip or something like that. THIS is an impossible - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtaJSQO0T8k
No. The IDEA and what they're proposing it can do is incredible, not the actual product. As far as I can tell it doesn't really work that well, and that's me being generous. It has a LONG way to go, and a massive amount of development before it's anywhere near ready for real production. In about a decade tools like this will be practical and ready using A.I. Right now we just aren't there yet.
It's simpler than this honestly — the Tailwind CSS Twitter account is managed entirely by me (I made Tailwind), and I'm the only one who tweets from it and checks the notifications to see if there are people doing interesting work I can help elevate or having problems I can help with.

Seeing a bunch of incessant vitriol in the mentions all the time about something I've worked really hard on for many years is very distracting and upsetting to put it mildly, and on days when my emotional reserves are already low from the stresses of figuring out how the hell to make money working on the project or having a young family it's really not a healthy thing to have to deal with.

Criticism being delivered in good faith is welcome and productive, but constant holier-than-thou "wow whoever created this is extremely stupid compared to me and clearly has no idea what they are doing" is not that.

I've only ever blocked two people for this sort of abusive crap since 2017, in case that provides some perspective.

Tailwind CSS is a "company" now in the sense that Steve and I built a commercial product to make the OSS stuff sustainable, and it turned out to be successful enough that we could hire handful of other people to help out, but I certainly don't think of us as some sort of faceless corporate entity. We don't plan to grow the team and I don't plan to become a full-time manager — I just want to keep working on interesting OSS projects and we decided to use the revenue from our commercial stuff to make that possible by hiring people to help with customer support, working full-time on existing OSS things from the ecosystem (we hired the person who built the OSS Tailwind IntelliSense extension for example), and to keep up with the barrage of GitHub issues we see as a popular project.

Tailwind CSS itself is very much a personal project of mine and a labor of love, and for better or for worse it's not as easy to detach yourself from projects you pour that much into as people (who have no perspective on the emotional challenges of being the face of a popular and polarizing project) make it sound.
Oh nice. I like the use of snippets with a date stamp.
The webdev community needs to figure out a way to give Safari the IE6 treatment, and shame Apple enough to stop holding back progress. Apple gets coddled so much everyone seems shocked when you try to tell them how awful Safari is.

Basically the only thing I really want out of all the anti-trust heading there way, is to force them to allow alternative renderers.
Everyone lost more than one year of their life. That alone outweights any benefit.
It doesn't follow that when two individuals are incentivized to transact with one another, that that transaction has a net positive impact on wider society; there may be negative externalities. Additionally, people are not always completely rational and perfectly informed agents, which means that not all voluntary transactions do render positive value to them. Selling your arm is vanishingly unlikely to be an efficient use of resources, particularly as arms are not fungible (you cannot change your mind later and reacquire an arm). An arm is just much more valuable when attached to a person, and if the economic incentives point the other way, we should probably look for how such a perverse situation came about, rather than fire up our circular saws.
If you don't mind a video that's a bit "Youtube-y", Corridor Crew had a great example of the situation here (including Runway!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmJ74774RO8. The short answer is that AI isn't mostly making new things possible, so much as it's making old things, like compositing, much MUCH faster. 10x so in some cases. Other videos have shown similar stuff getting gradually integrated into the larger production software.

Machine Learning is also genuinely making new things possible. Two Minute papers has a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Sojtv4gbg demonstrating a model that trains on driving footage, then adjusts video game footage to look almost indistinguishable from a real world shot (and in real time!). This is technically a video game application, but it's not hard to imagine how this could be used in a video or movie context.

The extent to which this site/software actually captures these broader trends is probably minimal, but they're definitely out there. I think we're on the edge of another huge shift, like the one where CG became more practical and down-to-earth so it could be used anywhere. A lot of the same stuff will be done, but by a couple of people rather than an army of editors.
Hi, game author here.

First, this URL https://covidgame.info/ loads the game in English by default. There was a plan to popularize the game outside of Czechia but, frankly, we missed the window when major news outlets were interested.

To address few points mentioned in the comments: the game was tuned to the specific situation in Czech Republic around end of 2020 / beginning 2021. The goal was to build basic quantitative intuition about the behavior of the epidemiological model (SEIR model) that the general public and decision makers were lacking. The game doesn't allow for zero covid strategy - because that was never realistically considered. Likewise, we after some considerations, we didn't include cheap interventions like extensive testing, contact tracing and better government communication. This doesn't mean that we didn't support such interventions. However, Czech government proved unwilling or incapable to implement such measures and in the short/medium term broad restrictions were the only "levers" the decision makers could pull.

There is an interview for a major Czech Internet server about some aspects of the game development:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=cs&tl=en&u=https:/...

We were working together with some real experts in Covid modelling and the model was in my opinion quantitatively sound (though, as we repeatedly said, the model was not optimized for scientific accuracy). At the end the was played by some members of the parliament, party experts and even ministers. We know that the game helped to facilitate consensus between the government and opposition in a very fragile political situation. I believe that, at the end, the game saved hundreds or thousands lives by helping to implement some necessary restrictions sooner than they'd be implemented otherwise.
Here’s the problem - my IP address should not signal reputation. They are fungible, and can change on your carrier’s whim. GEO-IP data is spotty at best. And that doesn’t even touch on how IaaS platforms handle IPs.

The only thing that should signal my reputation is my identity, and despite the best efforts of the adtech world, you can’t reliably correlate that to an IP address.
Do you understand that that was the intention of my original post right? Please tell me that you do.Because if not, Jesus!
ah, the dichotomy trap again. we've really got to get past "two sides". what's best for people? for society? if voting is expanded, to who? why? how? what kind of fraud could it enable? how much? how likely? it's not that hard.
Are you seeing more offers from US companies? I've been assuming that SV-based engineers are sort of shooting themselves in the foot by demanding their companies go remote, because there are so many good engineers in the EU making a small fraction of what an SV engineer makes (even at 100k EUR).
BTW, source code is available here: https://github.com/swehq/corona-game
NZ is not a great example of an average Western country, with regards to a pandemic.

For one thing, it is a small and remote island.

For another thing, it supplies most of the world's sterile bovine serums because the country has never had a case of mad cow disease. Laugh all you want, but that's a lucrative market and they are very good at border controls.
>it isn't clear to me why a unified messaging experience means that your real name will now be shown to other users. That seems like a product decision, rather than an inevitability.

They've probably noticed that Instagram has more marketshare with younger audiences and better engagement, where Facebook is full of your grandma and "old people".

If they can slowly boil the frog and make them the same, they have a much stronger grip. Its better to ask for forgiveness than for permission.
Putting to one side you don't like the article, do you disagree with the premise there is an unfortunate nexus between much chinese-american political activism and the far right?
That will take a while because there is no such thing as proof outside mathematics. But the fact that the percentage of people who suffer permanent damage from Covid is neglible and there would have been plenty of time to detect it is as close as it gets.
If not getting a source IP makes it impossible for you to determine who someone is, you really need to reevaluate your identity systems. IP addresses are not reliable indicators of anything, let alone identity.
I belong to a woke left group that fiercely advocates for development.
> Is it just me or does this look like flowered up Jupyter?

Must be JetBrains’ headline writers too, since the headline is “Announcing Datalore Enterprise – The Smart and Secure Jupyter Environment for Data Science Teams” making it sound rather like flowered up Jupyter.
>I don't quite recollect how email went from an asynchronous mode of communication to a near real-time mode of communication .

When Blackberries and push email took off in the late 2000s.
Yes, people have complained about it for years.
So the sticking point on the first point is that it is a one-way decision? By that framing, every product update is a cost. Upgrading from iOS 13 to iOS 14 was a cost. For the second point, then every time a company decides not to build a new feature that is also a cost? I guess I could buy that, but it feels pretty weak.
Anecdotally, looks like I've had the outlier experience, I suppose.
There's that, but there's also people doing a better job of keeping hobbyists happy, without going bargain basement. Teensy, for example, has what I think is a better product at a better price. Also ESP32.
Is this any better than the current After Effects auto-roto feature? (Real question... is it?!) I thought they were already using ML models to do rotoscoping.
No. Maximum likelihood estimation does not involve a prior over parameters, and the MLE does not depend on how the parameters are represented, nor does it depend on the way the variables are represented.

For example, the maximum likelihood estimate for a variance parameter is just the square of the maximum likelihood estimate for the corresponding standard deviation parameter, as you'd expect. And the maximum likelihood estimate for the parameters of a log-normal distribution for positive data are related in the obvious way to the maximum likelihood estimate for the parameters of a normal distribution for the logs of those data points.

Doing a 1-to-1 continuous transformation of the data causes the probability density (for any given parameter values) to be multiplied by a Jacobian factor, but this factor depends only on the data values, NOT on the probability density (determined by the parameters), so the MLE for the transformed data is the same as for the untransformed data.
Yeah, this is the argument for bitcoin, that if the transaction occurs then it must make sense for society.
Is it? Places with little forced mitigation like Brazil are still having waves. Some portion of the populace will be cautious and take precautions, and transient herd immunity within networks of people out and about will prevent some less cautious people from getting it during a given wave.

To truly burn it out in real world conditions you’d need to actively infect people.
No, they know what's at stake. That's why it's been delayed... and delayed... and delayed...

The question we're all biting our nails for is - Will it work?
Check out the Youtube channel Two Minute Papers if you haven't already. He covers a lot of stuff like this, and much of it comes with Google Collab demo scripts ready to run. Of course they're often poorly tested/maintained, and may take work to finish out into a tool for your specific use case, but you do at least get to touch the actual code and see how it works.
You're right, there aren't two reasonable sides here. There are people who want things to actually work, and security fetishists.
Please just go listen to or read the Wallace. Listening is probably better because of the audience mis reaction. It won’t take much time. The joke about the Alaskan in the blizzard is just another form of this thread.
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Today, it's not enough to be good at something. You need to be the best at what you do.

In this article, Ephraim writes on why you should aim for MASTERY, the one thing that really sets you apart.

Lessons shared in this article were inspired by the book Mastery written by Robert Greene.
On the main but with caveats, I agree with your argument, assuming nuance even where you do not elaborate it.

Our most important difference, I think, is around the significance and value of the hypocrisy of an ostensibly liberal system which nonetheless quietly affords the powerful with easy access to state-backed violence in the protection of their interests.

In my view, the presence of this hypocrisy is an abiding reminder to the civitas of the possibility of stable and positive change. It is the promise that such change will reaffirm, not diminish, the essence of one's culture and tradition. Just as a sinning Catholic retains the possibility of redemption by honoring their professed beliefs, a hypocritical yet liberal society has ready-made the justification and mechanism for reform. The nation may repent from its despotism and is naturally pressured to do so; what tyranny does exist must be hidden and so is neutered.

Take the French: since 1789 they have always managed to found a new, and hopefully slightly better, republic, even after interludes of imperial lunacy or foreign invasion. If you'll permit me to say so, their nation cannot escape from the hypocrisy of ruling by absolutism a people conscious of their own rights. In the extreme, this means violence, but in the smaller battles of society and change this means free protest, politics, voting, and yelling, as in America. Much - most - of the noise is in vain, but not always, and not in the matter of the most preciously held freedoms. To simplify: there, the state sins and fears the discovery of the people; in China the people sin and fear the discovery of the state.

I often feel in discussions like this that I am defending Americans from the charge of ignorance. We speak so loudly of our ideals that we perhaps beg for an insult to our intelligence, just as a common self-righteous blowhard would (hello).

And - by the fact of our empire our leaders' words carry an implicit threat, even when they speak to a laudable ideal. In the subtext I feel I am arguing for the existence of this empire. I feel I am arguing that the empire is a utilitarian good despite the arch-hypocrisy of the tyrannical, violent realpolitik that built it. I am not - though I am sure we would disagree ardently there as well.
So far it’s been completely unnoticeable. Browsing performance has mostly been within a few % as well - turns out having your traffic egress at a huge CDNs edge network isn’t a bad thing…