skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't dictate truth and their job is not to spread truth. There job is to make money, and letting the loudest fringe people drive off lucrative sane people is against their best interests. Nobody has a first amendment right to have a WSJ OpEd column or a Youtube account. There are platforms that allow you to say anything as a policy, like 8chan, and they are cesspools because of it. Rand Paul can use one of those. Sociopathic liars love attention and are great at manipulating systems in ways to generate sympathy.
R/NoNewNormal has been quarantined
There is a busy subreddit- financialindependence- comprised of people hoping to retire by 40. Its a mixture of a frugal lifestyle and high savings. The rough formula is you a financially independent when you have 25 times your annual expenses saved. That is a million if you can live on $40,000. Some single people in professional jobs can fairly easily do this.

I find it sad when some posters go overboard by denying themselves vacations and families just to feel rich.
Easy fix for matters like this: citation. If you want to remove a video or other social media post, do so temporarily pending citation. Give people a way to back up their point of view with real data/research. If there is a conflict, put one of those warning banners beneath the video and link to the cited resource. Done.

Otherwise, these companies look like oligarchs participating in low-key fascism.
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Next year on the Q1 I'll be able to push for a full demo again. Hope we get traction this time. It's great tech, and a pleasure to use.
IIRC, Stross learned about Bitcoin in 2011 when doing research for Neptune's Brood. Had he hedged his bets and bought $20 of Bitcoin before writing posts like "Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire"[1], he'd be a multimillionaire today.

At some point in the past decade, Stross went mad. He's become consumed by dogmatism and doomsaying. He constantly predicts disaster, and he's constantly wrong. Here are a few examples.

He thought that Brexit would destroy the UK[2]:

> I'm calling Hard Brexit a road to mass starvation and famine-grade deaths on a scale not seen in the UK since the Hungry Forties (that's the 1840s, not the 1940s).

He canceled visits to the US because thought that Trump would become a totalitarian dictator[3]:

> In which case, for me to continue to plan to travel to the United States in eight months time would be as unwise as it would have been to plan in February 1933 to travel to Germany in September of that year: it might be survivable, but it would nevertheless be hazardous.

Here's a snippet from his 2018 retrospective[4]:

> 2018 was the year that the global climate change alarm sirens began to sound continuously, with wildfires and heat emergencies and melting icecaps. 2018 was also, by no coincidence whatsoever, the year in which the global neo-Nazi movement made considerable headway, with neo-fascist demagogues grabbing power in Brazil, tightening their stranglehold in India, the Philippines, Turkey, the USA, Italy, and elsewhere. The UK was, for a third consecutive year, paralyzed by the utter shit-show that is Brexit, with the deadline now looming less than 100 days ahead of us.

No matter how many times reality contradicts his views, he refuses to change his mind. Even in December he was predicting Brexit catastrophes.[5] Moreover, his writing style has become snide and dismissive. At first the transition saddened me, but now I just find it annoying.

1. https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/why-i-w...

2. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/10/facts-of...

3. https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/01/policy-...

4. https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/12/crawlin...

5. https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2020/12/so-you-...
So now what, the non-imposter stops worrying about being an imposter because they asked it. Now they don’t bother asking.
Masks haven't been shown to reduce transmission, they have abundant deleterious effects upon wearing them, and they could even worsen transmission by increasing the net release of aerosols (due to the larger net volume of air moved as a result of the user inhaling air that has relatively more CO2 and therefore relatively less O2 than a normal breath; that's without accounting for the possibility that masks actually nebulize what would have been respiratory droplets into fine aerosols as the plosive force forces the droplets through the mask fiber mesh)

So even if you don't accept that we shouldn't try to fight the inevitable (which you should accept, but I don't feel like going back and forth about it), recommending mask mandates as an intervention is a foolish strategy. They've never been shown to work in an RCT and they certainly haven't worked in real-world community settings.

> And letting it run its course is going to kill a lot of people

I think you missed the point. It's running its course either way. We had insanely high mask compliance in america, even in red states, we've had on-and-off lockdowns for a year in blue areas, we've had widespread vaccination, and it's still spreading to and from vaccinated people no problem.

Furthermore you seem to not understand that different members of the population are at different risk levels. For example, people in their 20s can acquire the SARS-2 infection, beat it off, and have robust, enduring natural immunity, which will prevent them from subsequent infection and especially from transmitting it. Vaccination alone does not achieve that result. Thus why you're fighting against quicksand.
Why are employers against remote work? (Reddit)
lol. the idea that masks reduce infection rates is not leftist.
Yes, if you're actually a libertarian -- like Rand Paul claims to be -- that is in fact fine. People can vote with their feet.

edit: typo
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> Could argue the Trump administration is directly responsible for killing tens of thousands of Americans through that act alone.

Well then why isn’t the Biden admin doing it?
Sure, a local-only password manager doesn't need a subscription, and solutions such as KeePassXC demonstrate this quite well (as a user of it myself!)

However, in the case of 1Password it's not just about being a password manager; it's also about syncing passwords between devices, staying on top of (sometimes rapidly!) changing standards between devices and browser extensions, and being aware of the evolving landscape of best security practices.
I have always believed that if I can smell the guy next to me, I could probably catch his virus. Even while wearing the hand-crafted mask made by my wife from an old tee-shirt using information gathered from YouTube.
If Australia and the rest of the world continues to rely on coal as it's main source of baseload power then I suspect we are all doomed.

No amount of economic wealth is going to help once the environment has been damaged beyond repair.
The idea that my N95 doesn't work after a few hours is ridiculous.

If you do wood working you know this. Even a few hour hold mask makes an AMAZING difference. I've seen doctors wear masks for full 12 hours shifts.
I've recently started using TLA+, and the mathematical syntax was a big turnoff initially. Took two weeks before the entire approach "clicked", and now it's second nature and I like it a lot.

If you need to think differently (as in TLA+), I think having a different syntax that reflects the different thinking is a good idea.
This thread feels like a game of broken telephone: you're literally quoting a quote of a quote. Rand Paul's overall stance is basically "let's revolt against masks because freedom". Whether Rand Paul's carefully cherrypicked arguments are technically medically/factually correct doesn't really matter, you need to consider the narrative as a whole. Youtube deemed that promoting his overall message is a threat to public health, regardless of whether he made factually correct statements or not.

It strikes me as unfortunate that the rationale Youtube gave tried to add legitimacy to their decision by quoting Rand Paul as "evidence" for their case (under the presupposition that a "bad" position must necessarily be supported by factually incorrect arguments), when they could just have said that his anti-mask position goes against CDC guidelines or something along those lines that is easier for a non-expert to verify.

If anything the lesson here is for Youtube to be careful of snake talk that employs half truths as weapons. In other words, if they are not experts enough to determine whether specific quotes are factually true, then don't base decisions on your ability to determine accuracy, and instead defer to the language of the official guidelines.
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Indeed, I fear that we have arrived at the sad day where social science research is more conclusive than medical research!
In /r/androiddev I've read stories of developers getting lifetime bans (from Google Play) for 3 strikes. Maybe they are guilty but often they say they didn't know what its for and the decisions are made by bots. A common one is screenshots of a music player app showing copyrighted material: album covers. So alternate stores would be appreciated by small developers.
Most people aren't going to be willing to wear masks forever. Compliance is already quite low in most places. Especially in private homes where much of the viral transmission occurs.
> Why not have an expiry date on money? All of it: fiat and crypto.

I came up with that idea in my teens (so looong before "crypto"), thinking about replacing taxes with it: Deprecate your currency by the same percentage the state needs to run, have your central bank print the same amount of new currency for next year, and voila: Nobody pays taxes, the state gets its cut anyway, and the money supply remains constant because the X billion the public held at the start of last year are only 0.7 X billion at the end of it / start of the next and the other 0.3 X billion are freshly minted by the central bank for the government.

This was before I learned that "the money supply" doesn't consist only (or even mainly) of cash, and that most "money" isn't actually created by state central banks but by the commercial banking system... But what can I say, it was in my teens.

> Good for 10 years from the date its minted/created, virtual or not.

Too discrete-step-ish. Deprecate at lest yearly, or if possible somehow smoothly over the year.

Your second paragraph: Full (well, almost full) agreement.
Ah BitTorrent… the ultimate geo-blocking buster.
Get those laws passed first and then open pandoras box.
Got something against your non-straight colleagues?

adds parent to my do-not-hire-lest-we-get-an-EEOC-complaint / do-not-hire-because-I-want-an-inclusive-team notebook
Did the mask mandates change in MA across these time ranges?
Funny how ads might backfire this way!
The personal opinion of the White House press secretary doesn't carry the force of law.
The bill's text seems to specify "App Stores" to those limited to "users of a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose computing
device".

Does anyone if this can possibly apply to video game consoles? A wasteful amount of computing is locked behind these consoles and it would be great to see open access come to these platforms as well. Another concern is whether Android and iOS can get out of this bill by arguing themselves to be similar entertainment devices.
I take it you don't buy their latest Official Report From An Official Assurance Reporting Company Whose Job Is To Assure Us?
> what exactly does moving from a purchase to a subscription benefit me?

It keeps the vendor financially healthy, stable and willing to keep developing the stuff you use.

Would you want to dedicate your work into a product for meagre & sporadic standalone payments pressuring you to endlessly churn out marketable feature upgrades with little time for maintenance work just to barely make ends meet? No? Then why on earth do you expect other software vendors to do that?

Even Bitwarden pushes subscriptions.

I'd love to see how many developers who complain on HN about subscriptions actually make a living primarily from selling standalone software to consumers.
There are billions of ARM processors used in a wide range of applications. How many radiation hardened CPUs are in use today?

And the one of the goals of Ingenuity was to see if a COTS processor could be used on Mars. The fact that it's survived this long is really encouraging.
s/politically powerful agent of the government/person/ , yes.
Hardware on Earth can be compromised any time later - via coercion, inducements to collude, etc.

The usual disadvantage of far-space probes – older tech that can't be upgraded – becomes an advantage in the trusted-validator role, as long as the initial prep/launch isn't corrupted. The window of potential compromises is shrunk.
The problem is that you still need someone to evaluate the research. I can find a citation that says thing X, and then a different citation that says !X.

This is twice as much of a problem when public health authorities like the CDC will issue statements or guidance that is directly contrary to the clinical research, as has been done repeatedly in claiming that masks work to slow community transmission of SARS-2 despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary
> Yes, OK, everyone, Fahrenheit, we get it, metric system, cut the smugness, Axios is a US-centric publication, discuss the issues.

The entire article places Celcius first and Fahrenheit in brackets after it, but the title only gives Fahrenheit without saying that it is? It's quite obviously deliberate clickbait.

Apart from that; it's quite hard to find on this website that it is “U.S.A centric”, which certainly does not appear from the title or the u.r.i., and going to “About Axios” we find:

> We launched Axios in January 2017 based on this shared belief: The world needed smarter, more efficient coverage of the topics shaping the fast-changing world. We pledged to put our audience first, always.

Clearly they profile themselves as news for the world, not for the U.S.A., and so they use their units, but only inside of the article text.
This sounds like they are running out of money making ideas before the next quarter. Look like a red flag
> only one side is presented and the internet

Wait, only one side is presented ... on the internet? I must be misunderstanding you.

Unless you're being snarky, or referring to the Internet 'as controlled by google/youtube', and the fact that they're cancelling everyone that disagrees with them.
Thanks for sharing your ideas. We aim casual and competitive (amateur) gamers and don't provide any services for professional gamers. More specifically, we're targeting low-to-middle level gamers.

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I guess when the Solar EMP storm wipes out the BC ledger they maybe rethinking that strategy. Never ceases to amaze how people lock on to the most complicated ways to protect themselves from the Apocalypse. In a true Apocalypse only the most simple precautions will likely prove useful.
> It's been conclusive for years and years, before COVID-19.

March 2020:

U.S. health officials say Americans shouldn’t wear face masks to prevent coronavirus https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-cdc-says-americans-don...

In fact the U.S. surgeon general recently urged the public to “STOP BUYING MASKS!” “They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!,” wrote Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Twitter.

The CDC said last month it doesn’t recommend people use face masks, making the announcement on the same day that first case of person-to-person transmission of coronavirus was reported in the U.S. The CDC recommendation on masks stands, a spokesman told MarketWatch Wednesday, even with the first reported case of a COVID-19 infection in an individual in California who had not been to China or been exposed to a person diagnosed with the virus.

“The virus is not spreading in the general community,” Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the Center for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said in a Jan. 30 briefing. “We don’t routinely recommend the use of face masks by the public to prevent respiratory illness. And we certainly are not recommending that at this time for this new virus.”

WHO stands by recommendation to not wear masks if you are not sick or not caring for someone who is sick https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/world/coronavirus-who-masks-r...

“There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit. In fact, there’s some evidence to suggest the opposite in the misuse of wearing a mask properly or fitting it properly,” Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO health emergencies program, said at a media briefing in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday.
He's right to despise libertarianism, I'm right there with him!
Bleh, ads.
Spoiled by ad free Netflix for a decade...
I understand what you mean, but it’s not exclusive to wealthy countries poaching people from developing countries either right.

In Germany(already a wealthy country) doctors move to Switzerland for better pay and better working conditions too.

It’s also very expensive to move internationally. Visas can cost up to $10,000 alone, so I doubt that so many people actually leave developing countries for developed ones.

There are also tons of people who would never move countries because their family and social circle is in that particular place or they want to make their country a better place.

I also think many people move back home from overseas to their
home country, bringing their improved skillset with them.
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YouTube doing the right thing and banning some stupid misinformation is nowhere near civil war.
Do you have a right to privacy in the workplace?

Back in the day the boss would be right there with you in the store etc and could watch you all the time.

Or maybe this will be something that really only shows up in china etc? I think they are a bit further along on some of these types of things.
The problem with this is there often is some shred of truth in any extreme claim that is pulled far out of context.

A better approach might be to leave it up but flag it and link to a page that explains what parts of the claim are true and which are misconstrued or embellished.

Social media excels at optimizing that one more engagement, leverage it here to lead people closer to the truth.
> Masks (cloth or otherwise) do in fact reduce infectiousness

This has never been proven. Please find me an RCT that shows this. I'll wait.

BTW, this is a doubly wrong statement for cloth masks, since cloth masks have plenty of studies showing increases in self-infection, at least relative to wearing a surgical mask.
I don't understand how people think that "controlling the narrative" is more overt now than in the past? In the past there wasn't even a Youtube, and if the local news in whatever-town didn't want to carry your point of view, you weren't getting any ink.

Argue all you want about if you approve of the policy, but let's stop acting like people not having unlimited access to megaphones is new or that we are in some sort of democratic crisis as a result. If you want access to someone's megaphone, you've always had to convince them to take you seriously. People perceived as arguing in bad faith can easily lose that - but even then, there is no lack of news networks or websites willing to give Rand Paul a platform still.

(I'd personally go further and argue for MORE slowing down of idea transmission. Bring back MORE of a cooldown and consideration period before you just regurgitate the last thing you read on Twitter.)
Free markets are always regulated. I can't have slaves. In California, I can't have non-competes. I'm not allowed to dump toxic waste in the water supply. I need to take care of injured employees. I can't sell toxic food. Etc.

Free market capitalism is really good algorithm at approximating an optimal solution to the problem posed to it. Regulation is needed to define the problem.

Regulation is really poor at coming up with solutions to problems, and free market capitalism is really poor at defining problems.

I'd recommend a quick re-read of Adam Smith.

Building codes are an example of a bad regulations. They require e.g. a specific spacing of wooden beams, and specific materials used. That's regulation defining a solution. When people come up with better ways to achieve the same level of safety, it's banned.

In contrast, for example, a lot of codes around EMI and consumer electronics are good regulations. They require bounds on how much EMI is emitted, but leave the free market to solve the problem. That works well.

Fines and mandatory insurance are another example of good regulation, whereas bans are usually bad regulation. If there is an externality, a fine places a cost on it, and a free market can optimize to it. A ban distorts a free market. Mandatory insurance too allows us to price in the cost of externalities with market mechanisms.

In this case, if you allow logging where:

- Underbush has to be removed to within some level

- Trees ought to be left to a specific spacing

... and so on, things will work out okay.

If you require loggers to have insurance, such that if a fire breaks out where they logged within some time window, insurance covers the damage, very smart finance people will figure out which things are high ROI and which are low ROI, and things will work out even better.
Yes, it's a good way to stick to the cases where communism has been tried at 10-100M+ populations, and not get distracted by tiny, ethnically homogeneous, and as-arguable-as-not socialist countries like Norway or Sweden. Those too are hardly models for the US, but not for the reason that they required mass slaughter of one-third their populations.
> Over the past months, we’ve left our macOS model behind and moved to Codespaces for the majority of GitHub.com development.

The article never explains what "macOS model" actually means. Could someone enlighten me?