skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is old but I think the modern aspect is that is it much more of a 2-way communication medium. Yes, in previous eras you could get angry letters or phone calls. But today you can have hundreds of thousands of people respond directly on the channel that you are using to communicate. It makes it a lot harder to fire and forget with an opinion, so I don't blame them for including caveats, but it makes the content annoying. I am not annoyed at them personally for including these CYA spiels, I am annoyed that it has to be included.
May well be a theme, but since the author is Jewish don't draw a long bow.
I don't think it needs to be compulsory. And I do not mean this in a deontological way regarding what is morally wrong or not; I mean it in the utilitarian sense. As humans, we already have tools to make people conform. Like when someone refuses to shower, they will probably be viewed as disgusting. If someone says something derogatory, we tend to punish them somehow. I think the same process can occur in this case. People who increase other people's risk of acquiring a disease should face some type of cost for that. Just let people be people and antivaxxers will eventually be ostracized.
A Lisp runs Lisp code, code that could have been written anywhere from 50 years ago to today. The extent and degree of modifications required before that code runs, illustrates how far away one is from Lisp.

All Lisps (incl Scheme, Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp) sit fairly close together in this historical "Lisp" space. I can get Lisp code from the CMU AI repository and run it as is or with slight modifications in any of the aforementioned Lisps, but Clojure would require a complete rewrite, both syntax and logic/semantics. Ergo, I and lots of others don't see Clojure as a Lisp. I'd call it Lisp-inspired or a descendant of Lisp, but it's clear that it is a different language.
The work of Facebook's illicit media team has led to many, many prosecutions. They intentionally keep quiet about it because the reaction to a headline like "500-member Child Porn Ring busted on Facebook" isn't "Geez, I'm glad Facebook is keeping us safe," it's "Wow, maybe we shouldn't let our teenagers on Facebook" -- a reaction that significantly hurts their bottom line, and tips off the ChiPo folks besides.

Source: my own experiences in the criminal justice system and Chaos Monkeys, by Antonio Garcia-Martinez (a Y Combinator alum!).
The real problem here is that the user can't un-pwn the device, because it's the corporation that has root instead of the user.

To do a factory reset or otherwise get it back into a state where the spyware the abuser installed is not present, the manufacturer requires the authorization of the abuser. If you can't root your own device then you can't e.g. spoof the spyware and have it report what you want it to report instead of what you're actually doing.
Do you consider gwern not to be an AI expert? I think this is a reasonably technical explanation of how we may not be as far away from AGI as some choose to believe: https://www.gwern.net/Scaling-hypothesis
The next client's request gets sent after your request. If you get frontend and backend servers to desync, the backend gets to your first request, responds, and the response is sent to you; then the backend gets your second request + the next client's request, responds, and the response is sent to that next client.

This means you are making other clients get responses for their request prefixed by your smuggled second request.
Their rhetoric about China has often time been very loaded deliberately or out of ignorance.

Compared to how they were during their stay in China especially serpentza saying how he "gets" why talking about politics is so important while very obviously barely cares about it (zero interest in his current country's politicsfor instance).

Or their weird "we are the true journalists" shtick like with covid or agood example being their claim of being the first to report illegal fishing by China when news outlets reported on it a week before.
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That's not even remotely true. I know of half a dozen random 3rd party engines just off the top of my head.
The study at that link includes Elgazzar's "retracted" results (which appear to have been fabricated).

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/16/huge-study-s...
Hey thanks, first hand comments like your's help, where misinformation the norm.
In that Unstable Radio sound set (which is great by the way!)[1], do you think the trackers on the 2 Amigas are synced somehow? Or he is just very skilfully starting the clips at the right time?

I guess it's the latter, but I was wondering if any of the classic mod trackers had external sync capabilities. Back when I was still using them I never investigated if I could sync.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTvMSA4m04
It's a natural, predictable counter reaction. The government has lied to people so often on so many different topics that now some illogical people habitually distrust all government statements, even the ones that are completely correct. Once credibility is lost it can take generations to rebuild.
Are you allowed to drive on the job when under medication?
The US military gives a huge number of vaccines to its servicemen and woman. Lots of companies require periodic drug tests. Airlines definitely restrict you. The list goes on and on.
This. My son had Covid-19; had effects for about 4 months. Better now and is unmasked. Why are we not talking about those with antibodies? Why is the only choice having the vaccine?
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Staring blankly doesn’t help much. You have to direct your thoughts at approaches that are more likely to lead to success.

I think “How to solve it” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It) is worth reading to get an idea of what it might involve.

It has lots of hints on approaches that may teach you something about the problem at hand and eventually may help you solve it.
Something that IS conclusive[1]: a myriad of documented cases of physical harm, caused by vaccines, inflicted on humans that have no legal recourse to hold their Modern Mengeles accountable.

[1] https://vaers.hhs.gov/
I often have posts that have a downvote a few minutes after they're posted, and then gather a few upvotes some time later. You can see this sometimes on a bigger scale where the first few posts on an article are for some opinion, they get downvoted after some time and the new posts are all about reacting to the first posts. My conclusion is that the most active people are the most extreme, while the "silent majority" is more reasonable.
Well yeah, but this makes the UI better to pwn your victims - now it tells you when they do something instead of you needing to watch for it
I was under the impression that prescribed burning (including the return of indigenous burn practices) enjoyed majority support in Australia? (Save the few NIMBYs complaining about the smoke)
In the real world the system delete the data, deletes the associated user, bans the user and no human will do anything about it. Most likely there isn't even a report made to a human it just goes under ToS violation or something so no one inside the companies aks questions.

No FBI is called. Imagine the financial damage this would do if specialist come over and try to collect evidence and the company is forced to cooperated and work for them, for free ofc.
Only the big tech does this. They have whole teams for this and automated system and what not because surely the FBI wont walk into googled data center ever to collect evidence. But all the smaller companies they cant afford to do this and the detection system is actually to protect them form going bankrupt because they accidentally stored some illegal data from a user.

>And to the letter of the law you can't just delete the data if you found CP that one of your customers uploaded without running afoul of mandatory reporting laws.

Yes such laws exist. So they use filter software from third parties. They intentionally offer some generic filter that includes "unwanted content" and doesn't specify what it is when it find something so the companies can wave away the liability as they have no way to know if the image was valuable evidence of a crime or just some LiveLeak gore. They can justify that no human watches it because that's to expensive.
> This means that when the features are rolled out, a version of the NCMEC CSAM database will be uploaded onto every single iPhone.

Question - if most people literally don't want to have anything to do with CP, isn't uploading of a hash database of that material to their phones precisely that?

For once I think I will feel disgusted walking around with my phone in a pocket; a phone that is full of hashes of child porn. That's a terrible feeling.
Yes but that’s network byte order. It’s pretty natural to consider (var & 0b1) the “first bit”. (especially if coming from certain HW)

Really “first bit” can mean whatever you want so the phrase just shouldn’t be used
Forced oestrogen vaccines for males exhibiting symptoms of toxic masculinity.
How do you know that the image classifier on your iPhone, that exists today, and detects faces, isn't also detecting whether the photo has a gun in it?
Hadn't heard of this, but really interesting, thanks for posting! Will have to see if we can use that somehow...

(NB: Post author here.)
Oh awesome find, thank you! It's too bad it only goes back to 1979, I'd love to see changes since before Kennedy.
For some balance --

[1]excerpts from abstract

"
Background:
Repurposed medicines may have a role against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The antiparasitic ivermectin, with antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties, has now been tested in numerous clinical trials."

"
Conclusions:
Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease. The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally.
"

[1]
https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/fulltext/2021/...

-- Referenced in below article

https://www.jpost.com/health-science/israeli-scientist-says-...

--Also related

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fda-ivermectin-covid-19-coronav...

( bypass paywall -- https://twitter.com/westmeeteast/status/1420470317005352964 )
I would have liked to have seen Malcolm Gladwell try for it, not that I think he should get it, but it would be interesting.
Indeed. Our superior intellect of the fifth order to ninth power above tribal humans of course obliges us annihilate them along with the stable human environment.

It’s terrible what China is doing to ethnic groups. They should chase extinction of the species itself! As if that doesn’t have old school biblical vibes. People were promised hell on Earth!

Play video games. Collect social points. Write code. Superior. Intellect echoes to fade out
I just backpacked through major burn zones from 2003 and 2020, and that is exactly how it worked. Mt Washington was burned to the ground in 2003 (B and B Complex fires), every single tree was burned down, even the big ones. The current new growth is about 5-10ft. In between Bend and Crescent there is a strip of forest that is completely orange because of the drought: top to bottom, every tree; it looks painted. The burn from last year near Lake Detroit has regions where no tree survived due to drought + fire. I recommend you backpack/drive/hike parts of Central Oregon to see the damage, and impending risk, for yourself.
Noted he used the word "atomized," which seems like a Hannah Arendt reference. Personally, I don't worry about conspiracies, as I'm indexed on something much more plausible and serious. To scale and really be dangerous, you need for an idea to be simple and seductive. Arendts view was the idea of truth being the enemy, and once people were unmoored from it, they could not resist the directed chaos used against them. The sufficient condition was that good men did nothing. With no truth, there was no basis or identity on which to organize.

So there is no conspiracy. Just a set of incentives to align to and sustain the narrative, and the more absurd the gymnastics, the greater the rewards, because only the powerful can afford to seem so stupid and inconsistent. In that model, absurdity becomes a status signal, because to be that stupid requires hidden power.

Imo, Poppers paraphrase had been used to justify this precise set of incentives, and I don't think he's a useful reference for insight into what's going on now. Arendt, however, nailed it.
Seems like it breaks some pretty basic principles of quantum mechanics.
Yesterday in a local paper they featured a front-page story about some dipshit who won't get vaccinated, refuses to wear a mask, and is covered in tattoos from his jaw to his ankles. The rate of severe reactions to tattooing (amputations and whatnot) is 2 in 10000.
For context, the issue was, as many posters said, this:

> African Americans may have been treated poorly

On my part, I'm british. "Fucking hell, man!" for me is a way of being exasperated; I was surprised with reading that. It's not a condemnation, it's surprise.

And a phrase containing 'may have' is begging for equivocation, especially when referring to black people as 'african americans' while talking about their treatment.

> Black people may have been treated poorly

^ this is the sentence that I read
OsmAnd is an absolutely brilliant map app for android. Very fully featured but also pleasant to use (though I dislike some of the defaults).
How is this any different from just showing the fully expanded tree of the folder structure?
Not everyone can choose where they live, or when/where to move.

What's happened to sympathy/empathy these days?
One new way for swatting.

Send or otherwise inject problematic images to the target, but make sure the target can't see it (image too small, part of larger collage), but their device does. The target gets flagged by Apple for having CSAM.

The target gets FBI'd.
I probably should've looked this up before I decided to comment but at least according to this:

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/datasets

The ratio of male to female tagged voices in the English dataset is 45 percent male to 15 percent female. (The remaining 40 percent is untagged.) Odds are good that the ratio is closer to 75 25 than 50 50, at least by hours of recorded audio.
I wouldn't give a 13 year old an iphone, but I guess that makes me odd.
> Why should others moderate their existence based on your unfounded fears?

We seem to be at an impasse, because that question can be asked literally word-for-word of you.

Except I'm not insisting on you changing your behavior, you are the one trying to suppress my freedom of association.

> Should cars be banned as they pose a nonzero risk to your children as they cross the road?

Cars at least arguably have a benefit to society that supports their continued existence.
There was a series of them made from 2009 to 2015. Originally they were intended to show what Microsoft productivity products would look like in 2020.

Here is the first one that I could find, as far as I can tell Microsoft doesn’t distribute them anymore.

https://youtu.be/8Ff7SzP4gfg

The big ideas were that screens would be everywhere, and dedicated animated touch interfaces would be the default computing interface. This motivated the development of the windows 8 and Microsoft surface line of products to at least a certain extent - but looking at the videos it’s clear that nothing remotely like what they show would have been possible/common in 2020.
Author is a woman.
For sure! Saving money for the company was never a factor in my thought process!
I posted this previously but HN moderated my personal story.
—>
Story of how I came close to losing my life and how Ivermectin saved me. Ivermectin just saved my life. I woke up with thick mucous and blood that I couldn’t extricate or cough up and called my doctor and the hospital. They threw up their hands and said there is nothing we can do, monitor your saturation levels and let us know if you feel faint. And within 8 hours I could not walk or talk, my wife called the hospital and they said I need to be brought into ER. A friend of ours who was taking prophylactic treatment with Ivermectin brought in his medication and begged us not to go ER and wait for 6 more hours. I was put in touch with one of FLCCC doctors who immediately asked me to take Ivermectin and prescribed a steroid to ease my respiratory issue. 6 hours has passed, the symptoms started to stabilize and reverse. I was able to talk, walk and drink. Within 10 hours my saturation levels turned around. I still continued the protocol for the next 2 days, I was out of the woods with barely a sore throat. Continued the protocol and even the sore throat was gone. I am as good as new. My PCP is dumbfounded and refuses to acknowledge the work of ivermectin.
The studies from India and others have not yet been retracted
Interesting. For me it's worked out well, but it would be worth doing a proper comparison. I'll add that to my to-do list.
> AFAIK that won't save space in git

Actually, it should (precisely _because_ of Git's approach to storing blobs) but that's besides the point. Saving space had nothing to do with the motivation for the earlier comment.

> in fact it will probably use more

No.
Not true, if you get enough revs on the ball a urethane coverstock will curve no problem (IIRC most alley balls are urethane due to higher durability than polyester). Throw two handed with no thumb with your palm under the ball and axis rotation (i.e. the axis of rotation is at an angle to the direction the ball travels) and you will get significant curve.
What I want to know is why they decided to implement this. Are Apple just trying to appear virtuous and took action independently? Or was this done at someone else's request?

For all the rhetoric about privacy coming from Apple, I feel that such an extreme measure would surely cause complaints from anyone deeply invested in privacy. And maybe they're just using words like "significant privacy benefits compared to previous techniques" to make it sound reasonable to the average user who's not that invested in privacy.
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That was a non-hyperbolic illustration of the attitude you'll find among many anti-vaxxers. The ones who won't even wear a mask, since that would be too much of an imposition on their "freedom".

But to address your criticism you've written between the lines, the vaccinated might not die, but they're still at risk for long term complications, were they to contract COVID. And ultimately, the longer this lasts, the more strains will appear, some of which might indeed prove adequate to kill the vaccinated.

A thorough campaign of vaccination, on the other hand, would put an end to this disease, just as vaccination put an end to measles, polio, whooping cough, mumps, etc. etc.
Citation needed for that tattoo stat. I'd believe 1 in 5k have a minor infection; I seriously doubt that many are getting amputations or related.
> It doesn't mean I don't think people should use emacs, it just doesn't feel right in my hands.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with your opinion. Do you like to tinker with things in general? That is a common personality trait that I have seen amongst many of fellow Emacs users. I enjoy tinkering with all kinds of things, so Emacs fits my personality well.

Though, sometimes it's easy to get distracted tinkering instead of actually doing productive work (for me, at least). I still say that my Emacs config has been my single longest running "project."
It's more popular than elsewhere. In Italy where I grew up, it gets very little support. I now live in Sydney and in the past 10 years I became used to periodically having smoke from planned burning. I can't imagine something like that would go down well back in Italy.

I was wondering if there are climatic/ecological differences that make controlled burning more effective / less disruptive for the ecosystem in some places compared to others.
Am I seeing this correctly?

Digital reskins of knives in CSGO sell for $200+ Euros?
The Covid-19 vaccines don't contain heavy metals. Neither do other modern vaccines.
For those not in the medical field, Cochrane does high quality literature reviews and is a reliable source.
I've done my own "literature review" [
https://www.notion.so/The-Cure-for-COVID-19-e052c9d829d34bc4... ], and "Inconclusive" is correct. It's astonishing that after 18 months of COVID and 12 months of rumors this type of question is unanswered.

So we have one band of Twitterati saying it is the "Crime of the Century" that Ivermectin is not being used, and another band saying you'd have to be an idiot to take horse pills, and neither group cares what the scientific research actually is.

Hopefully the Oxford study will finally give some conclusive data.
The music point is very true. Used to be that a CD had 10 songs on it and sold for between ten and twenty dollars. Now for $10 a month for Spotify or YouTube music you can stream literally thousands of songs a month.

Another one is mobile phone service. Does any remember pay-per-text plans? My phone bill has been more or less than same for a decade, but I now have unlimited call, text, and data.
I always considere NTLM and Kerberos to be very similar, so I am surprised to hear that NTLM is broken.

Kerberos and HTTP/2 work just fine together.

What in particular is broken with NTLM?
But you have fewer options if your child is 13 years old. Or am I misunderstanding the article?
Robert Dingwall, critic of Covid vaccines in 12-15 year olds, axed as advisor
It’s not trustless, because you’re trusting the scraping NGO to put the correct price data on the chain. You can verify that it came from the NGO with a simple signature; you don’t need the chain for that.
In a roll over crash, a 5 point harness can actually be less safe unless the car also has a roll cage. 3 point belts are designed to allow a person's torso to deflect to the side so that the head and spine aren't crushed if the roof caves in.
Lineage OS is 100% production ready, it's been my daily driver for almost 2 years and I've been Google and apple - free since.
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I thought Apple's iMessage wasn't end-to-end anyway but instead used a key stored on Apple's servers?
I’m not anti vax, I always cash my free flu vax coupons, but last year the flu vax put me out for 3 weeks and I had bronchitis for 6 months. Nearly all of my professional contacts also got sick from it.

I wonder if they put the interns on the flu vax whilst everyone else was working on COVID.
Tetanus shot may be laced with antifertility drug in developing countries (1995)
Why technical people pay to self-host, but not for your app
I hadn't seen it until today - looks like a useful product!
At least one of the studies included in the above analysis was discovered to very likely be fraudulent.

The authors say it didn't change the overall finding but it certainly takes away my confidence in their ability to discern a well designed study from a fraudulent one.

And as we all know in CS: garbage in, garbage out

Details: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02081-w
So, yet another article about "cases" that are "surging"...however:

"The study does note that “it appears that severe illness due to COVID-19 is uncommon among children.”

"Among the 23 states and New York City reviewed by AAP, children’s hospitalizations made up 1.3 – 3.5 percent of all COVID-19 hospitalizations for the week ending July 29."

"According to the study, children were 0.00 – 0.26 percent of all COVID-19 deaths, and seven states reported zero child deaths among data from 43 states, New York City, Puerto Rico and Guam, with 0.00 – 0.03 percent of all child COVID-19 cases resulted in death in those areas."

If you're trying to provide evidence that Covid does not present a serious threat to children, it'd be hard to do a better job.