skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't the kind of thing that has an easy solution. All the actors in this issue have their own reasons as to why they are incentivized to act the way they have. For example, how news has increasingly become editorialized to try and remain relevant (and profitable) in a changing landscape of how people consume information.

A lot of these things change slowly (and are decades in the making), but aren't apparent until they have changed too much to easily fix so they require a lot of collective work to restore, which is extremely difficult because it often works against the incentives laid out by the environment that caused them to be this way. Using the news example, media sources could simply try to become more rigorous in their pursuit of being trustworthy again, but clearly society has incentivized them to move in the way they have. Running against those incentives runs the risk that it just makes them unprofitable again and then unable to report news all together when they go out of business (or become bought out by wealthy interests with an agenda). So the 'solution' would have to come in some sort of innovation in how people consume media that aligns journalistic rigor and being profitable, which nobody has really figured out how to do yet.
I see a potential in using VR as an interface to reality. Or rather, as a more immersive way to build models and test ideas about how we can solve problems in reality.
> It's been conclusive for years and years, before COVID-19

What? The overwhelming literature showed the exact opposite! That cloth masks did not prevent Influenza whatsoever.

I'd start with https://aapsonline.org/mask-facts/ as a great review, and then take a look at some specific studies like this one:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420971/

> The rates of all infection outcomes were highest in the cloth mask arm, with the rate of ILI statistically significantly higher in the cloth mask arm (relative risk (RR)=13.00, 95% CI 1.69 to 100.07) compared with the medical mask arm. Cloth masks also had significantly higher rates of ILI compared with the control arm. An analysis by mask use showed ILI (RR=6.64, 95% CI 1.45 to 28.65) and laboratory-confirmed virus (RR=1.72, 95% CI 1.01 to 2.94) were significantly higher in the cloth masks group compared with the medical masks group. Penetration of cloth masks by particles was almost 97% and medical masks 44%.

> This study is the first RCT of cloth masks, and the results caution against the use of cloth masks.

> The control arm was ‘standard practice’, which comprised mask use in a high proportion of participants. As such (without a no-mask control), the finding of a much higher rate of infection in the cloth mask arm could be interpreted as harm caused by cloth masks, efficacy of medical masks, or most likely a combination of both.

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The TL;DR is masks were never thought to work for community transmission of any respiratory virus, but they definitely don't work for SARS-2 where the preponderance of evidence points to aerosol transmission as the dominant transmission mode, which masks cannot help against and could theoretically worsen (by increasing the total quantity of aerosols released, and that's before looking at factors like them giving a false sense of security or requiring conversational partners to stand more closely together)
The pay cut mentioned for Connecticut is 15% and that likely doesn't cover the RSU, so the realistic cut in the pay rate may be more like 5-10%, depending on your function and level. NYC marginal tax rate for a typical Google employee is going to be around 10%. And that's before you take into account the actual cost of this scheme.
i'm literally working on it as we speak :) hear you loud and clear. my top 2 priorities rn are TypeScript SDK and new Web UI.
I like SAP. I think they are doing pretty well with the new direction, common platform etc.

But yes - Microsoft for example, if they decided to play harder / lean in more on the ERP space - going to be compelling for folks. I think microsoft needs a few more years to sort out / gel their story (ie, get to Azure, get rid of some of the crap old ballmer style stuff).

I don't see SAP though as a good example of a silicon valley startup scene. Can you start a new SAP in EU? Not so sure. Can def do it in US (Sap also competes and wins against Workday).

I'm not counting SAP out yet - I think their leadership hasn't been bad - which is key.
Ok. Say you do crash without wearing a seatbelt and smash your head against a windshield and sustain a head injury and survive. You're going to use additional medical resources and require months of physical therapy. You're going to drain the time and money of your family who has to now support your incapicated state. You may never be able to talk or walk again and become a drain on society for the rest of your days. The world has more people in it than you and your selfish decisions affect alot more people than just yourself.
iirc (it has been a while since I used it), this fits with what I saw. You could do it if you set it up as a local vault at the very beginning, and add a web account on top of it, but if you started with a web account it was not an option at all.
To get to be a good player in a game, you need to master the basic skills. In LoL this would've been laning (or jungling), CSing, team fights, 1v1s, having a clue what to build, warding. If you got good at these, you could get gold or plat. Past that, it's strategy and the small things, for which an AI will never help. There's too many things to keep track of, and AIs are simply not as good as humans at context and adaptation.

So in other words, a bad player will not improve as he doesn't need to train what the AI is trying to get him to, and a better player already has a better instinctual understanding than the AI.

However, I think this idea will still succeed, even though it's basically ineffective. There's a large amount of gamers of a certain archetype, that believe they can improve by spending money on small trivial enhancements. These are the same people who gets into a hobby and buy the most expensive military grade equipment and think they're gonna become better than their peers quickly. As misguided as they are, they do exist in great numbers, and they have a hole burning in their wallet.

I think the other commenters should keep this in mind, this idea is not about actually improving people. Nor is it about cheating, if I lose to someone because they have some paltry voice timers on, that just means I suck. It's about the fact that people will pay money for the belief that they can buy skill with it. Nothing wrong with that, good luck to y'all.
This is the direction I want to take our product. Running RCA on one of our transactions is really difficult because we only ever store the current state of affairs.

I am still struggling with the grain on which I would want to source events. The engineer in me says its safest to go low-level and source key-value, so it doesnt matter if the biz model changes. But, this would reduce fidelity on the other side in terms of scanning for specific events of importance (e.g. SetKeyValue vs SetCustomerEmail).
This is just niantic "talking their book".
Here's my "go to" questions for whether a "new" GUI framework doesn't suck:

Can your GUI system build a Digital Audio Workstation? It doesn't matter how good your text handling is if everything is too unresponsive.

Can your GUI system scale arbitrarily when I put it on a humungous monitor? It doesn't matter how good your text rendering is if I can't read it.

Every single GUI system currently fails both of those.

GUIs are currently stuck in a path-dependent local minimum that needs to be broken out of. It's not clear what the path forward is, but this article simply reinforces the broken status quo.

No, you don't have to render HTML. No, you don't have to support application tabs. No, you don't have to support modal dialog boxes. And, no, you don't have to behave like native. You don't even have to support an "editor".

About the only part I agree with is "If you support interactive text, it's a nightmare." For most people, this needs to be outsourced to a library because you will never get shaping, rendering, and input methods even close to correct.

In fact, I might even go so far as to say that "99% of GUI misery is supporting interactive text--don't do that." These are the "embedded" GUI systems that the author so blithely dismisses in the first couple of sentences.
Density gives a great boost to infection rate.
What is this? The page requires being signed-in to view and does not have a description of this subreddit publicly viewable. What's the significance here?
I remember the outlets screaming about censorship promising smoking guns REAL SOON NOW and then... quietly letting it fade away. Which isn't a convincing way to prove censorship or media manipulation. Looks more like they jumped the gun on some BS.
I've started with static languages and I prefer dynamic ones over static. Code is a liability and static typing can create incentives for adding more and more boilerplate that brings little value to the table.

I'm preferring dynamic languages and lots of tracing and rollback capabilities in production in 2021.
Still means it's worth paying for a VPN then, either way!
They knew for 4 months? This is pretty egregious. How can we trust the justice system when this sort of incompetence or cover up happens.
> Saying that "customers voted with their wallet" and chose subscriptions is disingenous

Honestly, I wouldn't mind paying a reasonable price for the 1Password service if it wasn't a step down in value from what I had before.

I have a slightly older version of 1Password and it works fine for my purposes. I've been holding off on the subscription transition because I would derive zero value from switching to subscription but I'd gain a monthly payment I didn't have before.

But the thing that irks me is the PR speak that is trying to spin the subscription change as something we, the customer voted for, when they've gone out of their way to force everyone into subscriptions and hide the standalone version. I know the standalone version of 1Password 7 exists, but I tried to find the price yesterday and gave up after a few minutes of poking around.

"We didn't choose this, you chose this!" is so distastefully dishonest that I have zero desire to engage with this company any more. Once my standalone license of 1Password 6 stops working, I'm upgrading to a competing product.
The site however does use the Lightning Network to provide Sybil resistance. Upvotes/posts/comments cost 1 sat, ~1/2000 of a dollar. This helps gate the site allowing mostly Bitcoiners in and imports an incentive structure - those more like in person social interactions.

Rather than staking your reputation, you're staking Bitcoin. Rather than earning just reputation, you're earning Bitcoin (your earned karma/upvotes is Bitcoin you can withdrawal from SN at anytime).
Was intrigued, yet somewhat disappointed, after reading Stross's post as I've read Accelerando several times. Some thoughts:

> It's also horribly energy-inefficient

Yep, here are some comparative carbon costs:

US Military:
59 M Tons 2017.
BTC:
22 M tons 2018,
37 M tons 2021,
130 M tons by 2024 predicted in China before shutdown,
Banks:
1040 M tons

IMO, the idea of a $1,000,000 BTC would be a huge hit on reducing CO2, as cost of mining approaches BTC price.

> Hork up a bunch of space probes

Here is a variation on that idea: One of the claimed advantages to satellite is lower latency (see https://www.groundcontrol.com/Satellite_Low_Latency.htm) Solana is claiming layer 1 blocktime of 400ms by synchronizing clocks. For Global coverage, I think satellite is a requirement to achieve that throughput as consumer latency is at least double that. This isn't proof of work; Solana calls its method proof of history.

IMO, PoW is the like the Cray Supercomputer of the 80's. My Apple Watch is lot more powerful at -let's see- 1/64,000,000th the cost.
In the 1600s they'd ban people for claiming the Earth is not the center of the Solar System.
Half the population had no problem trying to actually overthrow a constitutional election earlier this year and the previous President still claims it was all rigged. I'm not at all surprised that Biden's actions are not inspiring much outrage.
Thanks for sharing your opinions and we truly share your concerns about ethics. In our opinion, we're providing analytical support and assistance. We don't lead unfair advantage among gamers.
A number of people in the FIRE subteddit claim they saving big money living with parents who pay most living expenses until 30 or later. I know my ethnic would not tolerate perpetual adult children tenants. But this is encouraged in other groups.
Then an anarchist approach is preferred. Leave everything up, link to the citation, and be done with it.

The problem here is the drive to babysit people's minds. There's an arrogance of "who knows best" which creates this exact problem we're seeing. People need to put a bullet in their ego and shut up.
Twitter Unwilling to Ban for Antisemitism
I find this need to pander to people who are incapable/uninterested in understanding the reality and nuances of a conversation very frustrating. I see it as a race to the bottom for news organizations, and society, where we weaponize and spread the intentional misunderstanding of conversations that are often well formed and logical.
Thanks for your feedback, appreciated! We are not developing GPS in your analogy, in our opinion, the game already provides GPS via auditory information. We just help you to learn and use this information.
Is it awesome? It wouldn't be awesome if you replaced covid here with HIV (HIV restrictions being donating blood and having unprotected sex)
To be fair, I've only used Puppeteer so far and I assumed that Playwright was mostly the same thing. Python support for Puppeteer was very buggy. Thanks for the pointer!
> Here's just one study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8002747/

That's “non-zero”; not the same thing as abundant. How do you even know R>1? I'd say “found in wild animals” is the standard for “abundant animal reservoirs”; that's “some animals can catch it from humans” which we already know.

> Smallpox had no known animal or reservoirs.

Smallpox had cases in practically undocumented people. The last few smallpox infections were stamped out by pre-emptive vaccinations of everyone found in the vicinity; that doesn't require the subjects to be human in principle, even if they were in this case.

I maintain we could do it.

> Oh, and BTW, even if we did eradicate it, which we can't, it would still exist in the bioweapon labs of every major country in the world.

Fully-general argument for never bothering to eradicate any disease! Congratulations; I literally cannot rebut this point. All disease eradication is pointless. (By the way, Earth's only got another ~2 billion years of habitability left. Let's just roll over and die now.)
I really wouldn't recommend building a web scraper from scratch. You'll soon have to think about caching/rate-limiting/retries.

Personally, I use Scrapy and it works fine. For best practice, I wouldn't use the Pipeline concept Scrapy provides -don't do data transformation inside scrapy. Simply save the responses and perform the validation and transformations outside of Scrapy. The Pipeline concept is flawed because you cannot create DAGs with it -only serially linked pipelines.
Some science may settle during shipping and handling.
Have you actually spoken to any tournament-level players about your product? Have you actually spoken to anyone at Riot about your product?

It just seems incredibly bizarre to me that you made something which so blatantly breaks both ToS and tournament rulesets.
Anything that is considered "outside assistance" is not allowed during the round of gameplay. Any time coaches are allowed to talk, your app can be allowed to talk. That includes pre-game, post-game, and during tactical timeouts.

As somebody who both has played in hundreds of tournaments at various games and has run large tournaments, software like this just makes my life way harder because the TO has to require not just video recording, but also audio recording now of every person's POV just to verify that they are not cheating.

There is ABSOLUTELY a market for coaching and statistical analysis in esports, and many esports teams (at least C9, Immortals, and TSM to my knowledge) hire/contract engineers to build out data analysis systems to gain advantages. You need to focus on the outside of the game learning process - maybe even something to analyze your recordings (which already exists for CS:GO, and is way more useful than what this does).
No. Today's digital/tapeless cameras are probably limited to some FAT 4GB filesize limit, and they have decided to not do the common file rollover. It may or may not have something to do with chip temps as well. It also helps push people to buy video cameras in lieu of video on stills cameras only. Essentially, it's as much corporate political decisions as much as technical ability.

Betamax was limited to tape speed and how much tape could fit in the cassette. It was one of the downfalls of Beta. It only recorded at one speed. VHS could record in 3 speeds SP (normal), EP (half speed doubling record time), or SLP (third speed tripling record time). At the end of VHS, they were able to create an extremely thin tape allowing for 180 minutes of SP time in the cassette. In SLP, that's 9 friggin hours of record time. It looked horrible, but people loved it. People were essentially running their own DVR with a programmable VCR in SLP with a 180 minute load. You had to fast forward/rewind to find your shows, but even commercials we being skipped.
There's no convincing evidence the mitigations made a real difference, especially in the long-run. I'd expect to see bodies in the streets in Sweden given that they largely avoided the ritualistic behavior that the rest of the western world engaged in.

Unfortunately, people have it so drilled into their heads that the lockdowns and masks worked, that I don't know what I could possibly say to convince someone otherwise.
It's a common strategy employed by misinformation campaigns and people which don't want to accept some facts but know that they are kinda in the wrong to

take advantage of the difference between the meaning conveyed by words(1) to the general public and the specific words said(2).

(1): I.e. the meaning large groups of people will interpret words as. In this case "masks do not work at all".

(2): I.e. "in a very specific context which in this way doesn't matter in the grater picture masks do not work well".
ELI5 for those of use who don't reddit/haven't seen the subreddit before?
But you can take your device off the network when running the password manager to ensure it isn't able to do that, for example. (Or more realistically, you can watch with something like Little Snitch or WireShark to ensure it isn't happening.) That's something you can't do when the password manager requires the network to do its main function.
I think this is a good idea, but even if they were to require a peer-reviewed citation in such cases, it's possible to find examples that somewhat support his view. Especially if you cherry pick quotes. For instance:

> Novel coronavirus is believed to be tiny enough (0.08–0.14 μm) to penetrate through face mask, thus protection offered by cloth mask may be too low.

> The efficacy of cloth face masks filtration varies and depends on the type of material used, number of layers, and degree of moisture in mask and fitting of mask on face.

> Cloth face masks have limited efficacy in combating viral infection transmission.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7497125/
Yes, but you need a control to compare it against. How do you get one?
Apple is like "over my dead body!!!"
Talking Financially
I just looked. It sounds like they describe themself as a place to question the policies of the 'new normal'.
Many people have a bad image of Android and only use iOS because "walled garden = safe family". Those people are not going to suddenly be happy using the FB Store.

> How many people have been successful at getting their friends & family to switch from FB Messenger or WhatsApp to something like Signal? Some, sure.

Maybe it's an americanism, but i know almost no one that doesnt use SMS exclusively on android and SMS + iMessage on iphone. a few techies use signal, but i've never met anyone ask to use any other chat platform.
I'm done with COVID. I'm immune to it. By this point everyone has had the chance to become immune to it. I'm not worried about the delta variant. I don't think mass death is on the table here.
Cloth masks might not keep you safe. They do, however, improve safety for those around you. Anything that reduces droplet velocity and interferes with aerosol disperson is by definition better than nothing.
Well we could start by seeing if they have a history of being "concise for bad reasons" instead of endlessly re-legislating the point every time it comes up.
I wouldn’t be surprised if these competing media conglomerates think Netflix is magic and are requiring they block these big Netflix-evading VPNs.
Affordability is a mirage- $5 per month and $60 per year wont break a bank but its a huge amount to justify other geographies where money transactions are NOT in $$
We're not talking about regulating all kinds of waste though; we're talking about regulating (proof-of-work) crypto. And I think that, absolutely, is politically feasible.

As for things like massive trucks and giant TVs - well, steps are (slowly) being taken to regulate the former, at least; think of all those countries that swear up-and-down that all cars sold there will be electric in 10 or 20 years or whatever. But that's an extreme example, and this isn't really a new concept at all: plenty of things are made illegal or economically impractical due to regulations, environmental or otherwise.

Giant TVs, though - yeah, those are unlikely to be regulated any time soon. But then, that was the substance of my comment that I sort of feel you failed to engage with: government is absolutely free - via public opinion, some objective metric, or their own whims - to decide what's too wasteful to allow. Giant TVs, probably not. Massive trucks, getting there. Bitcoin? Well, it's not crazy to suggest it, anyway.

ETA: also, speaking of political feasibility and carbon taxes - do you think a regressive tax that drives up the price of virtually everything has more popular appeal than a targeted ban on crypto mining? Here in Canada our carbon tax has faced enormous political opposition, as did the one in France.
(a) it's August 2021 now. Lots of water under the bridge since then.

(b) that strikes me as a somewhat misleading reading of that data, which shows no _decrease_ of vaccine hesitancy from the previous month in PhDs while hesitancy for other educational buckets declined to some degree.

(c) what makes you think PhDs as a group are less likely to be lazy and ignorant than other groups? Do you have statistics on that?
This is an unfalsifiable claim. Sweden used but a fraction of the mitigations Israel did, yet the former is better off now.
Thanks for admitting that you are treating this like Polio, and not like the Flu...

Treating COVID like polio is foolish, and naive. All indications are COVID will be an annual thing like the flu, chances are mutations will be more transmissible but less deadly (and the data is bearing this out)

Chances are we will need annual "booster" or other vaccine just like the flu... We do not mandate people get the annual flu shot, nor should we mandate people get the COVID vaccine.

So the question is do you support mask mandates, lock down, and economic destruction for the annual flu? I do not.
It is misinformation ... I live in Japan. Everybody wears a mask here, they work ... It's the only major difference between US and Japan in terms of prevention measures. No flue season last year and lower infection rates ... How can wearing masks be a political issue? Whoever votes for these idiots, I pitty you.