skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it would happen way faster than that.
What I’m seeing is a disintegration of the narrative, with a relatively small group of disinformation plutocrats bombarding minds at scale with conflicting positions.

A compassionate view of humanity would say that humans are basically accepting. This openness can then be abused by viral misinformation. We could take the view that humans should just be self protecting and if they got duped that’s on them. But IMO that’s a depressing view of the world, and tends toward something like mutually assured social destruction in the limit. We need to protect our shared narrative.

Also personally I find the view that “democracy prevailed before, it’ll continue to prevail somehow” deeply unsatisfying. Democracy is not built into nature. It has to be proactively maintained and refreshed.
This is not where I was heading at. We have no simple way to assert that smoking causes lung cancer: no RCT is available for that. So we are left with the same level of evidence that we have for alcohol, which is observational studies. That knee jerk reaction that observational studies can't give us a relatively high level of confidence is why I mentioned the case of tobacco: if you really believe that, you should also disdain the case against smoking.
Or better yet, own copyright to your voice (and perhaps face) without having to register anywhere.
Yes! Start with low reps and weights and just do it regurarily. There are plenty of sites that show what to do if you want to strengthen certain muscle groups.

I've had success with daily low reps, but some longer intervals may work too. Once they've been primed, muscles grow when you rest, so rest is crucial.
I've looked at Jeff Hawkin's On Intelligence. I don't see how it bears similarities Hofstadter's work. Notably, Jeff Hawkins is highly focused on brain anatomy while Hofstadster's work mostly starts at the level of logic and abstraction.

Anyway, Hofstadter's (and his student Cabrera's) aim actually hasn't been to deliver a convincing industrial scale system but produce models that illuminate our understanding of thought. I'm not actually sure if that is the right way of doing it but it's worth noting they're not trying to "deliver" on the terms akin to today's neural networks.
“Perfectly fine” for cheaters too. that’s the issue with anti cheat on Linux. It’s much easier to verify the integrity of a windows environment.
I agree its risky. Perhaps I'm being pedantic but seems weird to do an entire article on Musk's vision for space and not once mention starlink or the satelite side of the business.

The not-up-to-date person reading this would truly think that the billions of dollars funding this by Musk are like a side project done simply because of his dreams of terraforming Mars. Maybe Musk is serious about that - but if described with starlink you realize its much less of a "billionaire hobby obsession" and more of a "potentially profitable business (with bragging rights too)"
Somehow I hoped it would be included when you pay $62k (in NL) for your Model 3. Think the base model with FSD is like $72k. I should check if other brands also have it as add-on
I'm not a web developer at all and I guessed how I would do it from the title alone (including having the server send the initial values in the CSS)... but that feels like an awful lot of code for what amounts to 3 animated rotating divs.

Likewise, you can do a similar thing with a GIF image.

The article actually convinced me to turn on CSS animations (which I normally keep off to reduce distraction), in the hope that I could actually see a working example on the page, but unfortunately it seems it only contains images.
> Special case. The US has a lot of experience with counter-insurgencies and screws it up every time.

Arguably, in Afghanistan the US came closer than ever before to not screwing it up, despite Afghanistan being a particularly hard nut to crack.
I think you're imagining something like a logarithm for each channel, log(R/3) + log(G) + log(B/10). But that's not how it works.

Instead it's like log(R/3 + G + B/10). So when G and B are about the same size, the effect of B will be negligible. It's only when R and G are small that the logarithm will kick in and let you see detail using the blue.

So for seeing detail in a normal picture, blurring the green will have a much larger effect than blurring the blue. But entirely removing the green would let it still look sharp, because we could see the detail using the red (or if we removed that, then blue). If we just blur the green it overwhelms the blue and red to make the picture look blurry even if the blue and red were enough to provide sharp detail if the green wasn't there.
This is absolutely true.

If I can't explore new ideas, evaluate information and make up my own mind, no matter how much bullshit exists, I'm not living in a democratic free society anymore. I'm living in a technological dystopia, and authoritarian state.

I'm afraid, skepticism is part of a healthy democracy...no matter how much the government want me to get a jab.

When did Google feel the need to be the world police?
Anyone else get annoyed when they see "fertility symbol". No one has any way of knowing why it was made. Why make up some stupid reasoning that is applied to everything that could be sexual?
I work at Google. I’m not involved with this change specifically, but suffice it to say there is far more advanced processing than simple hash checks for CSAM being run on every file uploaded to Drive. I would be surprised if all files weren’t subject to these checks, but whether or not Google will take action on them is another matter.
Is it easy for an anti cheat verify that it’s running on an untampered Linux installation?
The very first citation in Wikipedia's Petroleum explorations in the Arctic page [1] states that, "Greenland is believed by some geologists to have some of the world's largest remaining oil resources." It goes on to cite a US Geological Survey that found its waters could contain up to 110 million barrels of oil.

So yes, I believe that qualifies as a huge self-sacrifice.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_exploration_in_the...
> Mac Mini colocated for $54/mo

Interesting, who is the provider for this?
Nintendo has some rabid fans as well as selling mostly exclusives. Valve's market mostly already own gaming PC's and won't buy a handheld. It's just too expensive for the few time's you want to play games and aren't at home. For most people.
I really believe that we don't fully understand what cancer is. I really believe that after taking care of a loved one post mastectomy. I really believe that after listening to a relative who worked at the CDC and had cancer multiple times bitch about how most studies are bullshit and there's very little new in cancer research.

I really believe that after another relative of mine caused two cancer clinics to change their practices.

I really believe that after listening to the tales of a relative be patient zero in a cancer study.

And on and on.

Cancer runs rampant in my family. I've had multiple relatives who have had it, some multiple times.

Your opinions about my opinions not withstanding, I will continue to believe what makes sense to me.
But the point is in not trying to censor.
One voice I would love to have historically preserved is the iconic Morgan Freeman.

His narration of the documentary March of the Penguins really hit the mark for me.
The First Amendment restrains only Congress making law, not the Executive branch cooperating with corporations. Unless they did it in come round-about way under an act of law which led to authorizing/funding this, I guess.
Seems totally valid for a CSS/HTML clock to basically get the time on "startup", and then run off that.

That's similar to how the computer fetches the current time from the quartz crystal on startup.
I am confused, what is worse a Carrington like event or a high atmosphere multi-megaton nuclear blast for EMP effect?
I didn't know that -- it's good news. From a free market point of view, you obviously don't want to restrain trade, so that is the right-wing justification for bans. The left wing justification would be about increasing the power of labor. For both right and left leaning states, there seems to be an ongoing battle about non-compete agreements, and there is no reason for the pro-compete side to frame this as purely a left or right issue as there are allies to be had on from all sides of the political spectrum.
Ofter you see what you want to see in the world. As much as I adore Bourdain, I have to admit he was undoubtably jaded and there were trips where that colored everything. For many, depression comes in waves and lasts for periods of time. He showed a lot of the good and bad in these places, but everywhere has a bit of both.
>except true criminals like to talk.

The ones that get caught do.
"just like in Iraq WMDs did actually exist at some point - the US sold some to Iraq - they were just destroyed."

Are you seriously going to post that without a source?
Yes, and voter id laws are racist. Pull the other one.
I don’t know about you, but any social group I’ve been part of has had its boundaries beyond which some speech and behavior becomes unacceptable and has consequences. What kind of social groups are you part of where all speech, including lies, insults, smearing, is accepted?
My sister works as a nurse in a geriatric department her attitude is “if I make it to 70 I’m going to start smoking”. She’s seen plenty of people with healthy bodies and destroyed minds to know she’s rather avoid that kind of fate.
So you're saying the obvious interpretation of the text is impossible to render because you insert grouping breaks where you please? I reject that.
I believe MacStadium pricing is in that ballpark.
Had friends that had to have 4-6 beers to chill out every night and had been doing that for 20 years. I feel fucking terrible the day after drinking a six-pack; I can't imagine what that does to the body (a lot of the same stuff as sugar). You're slowly killing yourself. Having not known a grandfather due to alcoholism (don't be so hard on the boomers, their fuckups are the fuckups of a generation that went through ww2), and slowly realized why my father is the way he is....it's kind of fucking terrifying.

I don't recall if this was precovid or postcovid, but there was a 60 minutes where they were talking about the impact that understanding the genome has had on health research, but specifically curing some cancers and longevity. They had a harvard prof on there that firmly believed that within 7 years that we'll be seeing real advances (that the public will have access to) on that.

7 years is nothing. You know it's not going to take 7 years, it's going to take 25, but stop pickling yourselves so you can make it that far. I have 45 year old friends that act like they are going to die tomorrow.

edit:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harvard-geneticist-george-churc...

This is the 60 minutes in question. Keep in mind academic timelines. It's longer than seven years, money quote, among other interesting stuff:

> Scott Pelley: What's the time horizon on age reversal in humans?

George Church: That's in clinical trials right now in dogs. And so, that veterinary product might be a couple years away and then that takes another ten years to get through the human clinical trials.
They looked at correlations for "cancer sites with sufficient evidence of a causal link according to the most recent IARC monograph.".

But they don't mention any other adjustments (age, other dietary factors, BMI...).
Ok, so get rid of AirBnB. Wouldn’t an influx of wealthy professions squeeze all the low income renters out anyways?
And Joe Biden owns a dog. Dogs still don't qualify as government property.
Curl Noise, Demystified
Here in Australia, the national health system pays the cost above a certain threshold.

Since her financial circumstances are strained, the amount she contributes to each prescription is capped at AUD 6.60 ie: USD 4.88

Although we are pretty backward compared to the cutting edge in the USA ( A couple of my classmates work at the Mayo and I know how far behind Australia is. One of them edited the Mayo Clinic manual of cardiac electrophysiology ), health care is adequate for most common health problems and is generally pretty affordable.
That’s not a reasonable position. In the limit that implies that you treat everyone as the enemy. Isolate in your own protected world, because you might get duped or harmed any minute now. That to me is a shitty world I don’t want to live in. I’d rather reasonably trust people and have a common baseline and shared narrative.
Poppycock!

A. Private companies cannot force you to do a single thing! Governments have entire agencies and departments dedicated to keeping people they deem dangerous in line, using a list of powers up to and including the right to take their citizens lives, if they do choose. No private company has this kind of power! Not even close!

B. People are not empty vessels, free to be molded by wiley corporate villains. People possess values and opinions, and (much to the chagrin of both corporations and politicians) it is very difficult to change people's minds.
In that case, the chemist would probably give it to her for free.

Alternatively, I would have paid for it myself ( I would have rung the chemist and asked him to put it on my account ).

People should not go without essential care simply because of an inability to pay.
Yeah, I get that. And I stand by what I said and I don't understand why it's at all controversial.

Some cancers are known to be caused by viruses. Maybe people drink because they caught a virus that causes cancer, either to self medicate or because the virus makes them crave alcohol.
Astigmatism is easy to self-detect, and it's quite different from the light focusing to the wrong plane. Astigmatism will noticeably warp the entire shape of the distant point object, rather than just make it "fuzzy" in an isotropic manner.
The negativity of comments here is astounding.

I think this demo is packed with clever tricks and I've actually learned more than I expected.

Congrats to the author and thanks for posting.
My simple answer because I have a synology NAS is the synology note app with my iPhone and desktop web app.

The app works well, works offline with sync, secure notes, hierarchical notes in folders…

Very good solution if you already have synology.
> about 9 in 10 people have some degree of Astigmatism

https://patient.info/eye-care/astigmatism
Yes, a fractal antenna in a bag of salt water. Good luck getting more than 2 or 3 bars with that. :-P
gitlab runbooks is a great place to learn: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/clusters/runbooks/
Not sure if it's a well known trick, I usually have a JS function in a util library for setting CSS variable.

// Set value to the variable at the element, default to :root.
// e.g. setCssVar("--varFoo", 123)
function setCssVar(cssVar, value, elemSelector) {
let elem = document.querySelector(elemSelector || ":root");
elem.style.setProperty(cssVar, value);
}
Probably 99% of non-tech professionals start business to make money. Do you think your plumber started his business thinking of making the world a better place? Highly unlikely except for HIS own world.

Yes, do it for the money.. it’s OK.
Your "nobody" scenario is basically the whole beginning of the personal computing era. "Useless" machines that cost a fortune, had no available software (to within statistical error) and booted to BASIC. Without that era, we wouldn't have this one.
I'm really hoping a blade like the Uptime.Lab concept [1] makes it to production, because you could cram 15-20 Compute Module 4s, with native NVMe boot, into a 1U chassis, for around 100 ARM cores, plus over 100 GB of RAM and whatever amount of SSD storage you can afford.

I have been in contact with Ivan, the creator of the board, and I'm currently testing his beta '0.6' version. It really makes racking Pis for simple clusters easy, compared to trying to mash Pi 4s into a rack.

There's also the Scalenode [2], but I haven't heard much about it since the first post to GitHub.

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/CRZMXmRLRma/

[2] https://github.com/antmicro/scalenode
> That accurately describes Drive's infrastructure.

It accurately describes a piece of infrastructure that many (if not most major) services including drive use.

It does not describe drive, but it’s a moot point since there is nothing relevant about calling drive a CDN.

> Private calls are a different model from a public & shared link.

Not at all. There is nothing stopping a phone call being made to a radio station, or placed on speaker to an audience of multiple people. This is analogous to the use case of posting a link to Twitter or a Facebook group.
> All our legal protections ultimately depend on a democratic foundation -- undo that with misinformation and you don't have anything anymore. Similarly, your rights don't matter much if you're dead.

This is an insane conclusion to draw, because it blithely ignores that it positions Google as an oracle of what's threatening to democracy and what isn't.

The examples in the current policy are fairly narrow, but this is a categorical line being crossed (for better or worse). Those who are concerned by the increasing encroachment of effective utilities on what can be communicated need to speak up when clear lines are crossed, because it's the only way to avoid frog-boiling.
We own a 2008 Ford Fiesta, and renting a midrange 2020 Corolla on our last trip to the States was amazing - set the cruise control to maximum desired speed, felt like the car pretty much did the rest when outside of cities. Since it was a midrange Corolla with no extravagant promises of self-driving, I paid a normal amount of attention.
The database ruins all good ideas
How to Delete Your Instagram Account Permanently?
Vienna Is the New Havana Syndrome Hot Spot
If someone votes against their own interest then you might say it's wrong.
You could also say that if someone voted for bexit for reason x, but brevity doesn't actually deliver x, then that might be wrong
Go to "Airport Utility" > Click on the Time Machine > Edit > Disks tab > Select the partition if not already > Erase Disk > Choose whichever security method based on "how clean" you want it to be. More clean takes many hours.
Adventures in Linux Ep. 5: The gaiety of having the choice
> suggest that misinformation is some new phenomenon

Misinformation in this shape and form is a new phenomenon. And it is not just the scale;

- the number of agents that push their version of misinformation is at least an order of magnitude higher than ever, depending on the particular topic. So-called culture wars have so many different sides.

- technology not only scales misinformation, but it also accelerates it. The objective function of "increased engagement" meshes very well. Hard to grok, full fidelity facts don't get shared or recommended as much as rage-baiting or bias-confirming material.

- technology can on-the-fly piece together material to conform to whatever bullshit you want to hear, I want to hear or the other guy wants to hear. As it is optimized to increase engagement, it can efficiently generate personalized micro-narratives, which is ultimately a reflection of our personal biases.

The problems is it gets harder and harder for these narratives to converge. More on that below.

> If anything, what we're seeing with the internet is a more true democracy with a wider range of opinions, less controlled by small groups of plutocrats

As mentioned, original thoughts don't have the same propagation speed or reach as junk-infotainment, and you're just as subject to the narrative-shaping powers of those "plutocrats" as ever. They just blend in better.

But the larger issue is that you can't equivocate mere plurality with a functioning democracy. Ultimately there is a single reality, and even though we are in divergent positions due to having different entry points and framings, we should be - however little - converging in our narratives and understanding of that reality as time progresses.

But the opposite seems to be happening, we are getting dumber at scale, stuff makes less sense, institutional mistrust is at all-time-high. I am not putting this all on tech, but it certainly pours fuel on the fire of meaning-making crisis.

I wouldn't take it for granted that we could survive this without it creating a larger crisis first.
Source? Astigmatism can blur and distort.

https://patient.info/eye-care/astigmatism
I think the concerns are 1, this is passed off without real buy in from next of kin for a person who would be against it if he were alive. And 2, I think the attention and concern is heightened because this shows it can be done at scale to anyone with ease instead of having very talented people individually read off scripts into a mic.

Consider getting a voicemail from your dead grandmother tomorrow. Public figure or not, we need to have a line somewhere where it’s no longer okay to scrape a profit from every little thing we can think of. Can we let dead guys just be dead?
India has better financial system than USA/Europe. so they are not afraid to kick the monsters out of the country. Next is Visa
USA backed Iraq in the iraq-iran war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq...

USA armed 'rebels' in afghanistan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

I mean it's pretty commonly accepted at this point that Iraq was a US proxy for waging war in the middle east (similar to the mujihadeen against the russians)..I don't think it's too much of a stretch to arrive at the conclusion that the USA facilitated the sale of weapons of mass destruction (anthrax) to Iraq.
Honestly, lot more people use WhatsApp/FB Messenger/iMessage for personal communication. Slack/Teams are taking away huge amount of intra-office communication. For professional and inter-corp communication, email is still popular because LinkedIn product managers aren't smart enough to build de-facto comm. platform over there network.
Give your allies only as much power over you as you would be comfortable with if they were your worst enemies.
Why do they scan it when made public? Why does it have to be pro-active and not reactive?
I have everything working on my Thinkpad, including bluetooth keyboard (ok, sometimes I have to restart the bluetooth daemon after the machine returns from sleep), hybrid sleep mode, dual screen setup, headphone jack, camera, wifi, VPN with networkmanager ... I swear I will never touch the config, update the distro or anything again.
> I will continue to believe what makes sense to me.

And I will continue to believe experts that have specialized in a area of study that I have not, regardless of my personal comprehension of the topic.
I'm not even close to convinced by your response. Relying on the public-private divide as the sole basis for your retort is weak. You also assert that the person is pushing a personal narrative, but I suggest you're doing the same.

There's an argument that private corporations that are involved in dissemination of information (search engines and social media) should respect principles of freedom of speech as a democratic principle, regardless of constitutional mandate.

Suppose the government outsources welfare eligibility decision-making to a private company. Does this mean traditional notions of fairness we would expect from such an decision-maker do not apply, because they are a private company?
That is a six pack a week? Yeah, that seems pretty low to me. You can certainly go lower than that, without not drinking at all, but you can also go much higher without it having any noticeable effect on your life and without being drunk at any point:

One beer to celebrate sitting in your garden at the end of the work day, one glass of wine at dinner, one scotch before bed.
Every integer can be written down with a finite number of symbols....right?
It is funny how people blindly trust Google on this..
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27861813