skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another question. Have you heard of companies like Innocentive and HeroX? They seem to be at the other end of this, where companies put out a call for solutions and have a cash prize for them, as well as the opportunity for future partnerships.

https://www.innocentive.com/#challenges

https://www.herox.com/crowdsourcing-projects?from=home
I understand you're upset about that, but it's not productive to take out your frustration on unrelated stories like this, and ultimately it probably won't make you feel better.
You can't, and shouldn't. The people in this thread that still have blind faith in the legacy media are mind boggling to me
Seize the university endowments, the crystallization of privilege, and dispense them as reparations. They are the ones perpetuating this depraved system to the next generation of government agents. No one will believe you unless you work for a place like the NYT, but you can't get into the NYT unless you came through a short list of universities that make sure you know what to say/do. They reinforce this by training the teachers to only accept their approved sources in schools.
All legislators have to do is not offer a tax break for employer subsidized benefits. However, this will be lobbied against by the large employers because they maintain a competitive advantage over small employers since they can afford to do all the paperwork that goes into offering the benefits.
> Try asking your girlfriend whether she thinks holding her hand is worthless

but value and worth are not the same thing ?
The Apple privacy track record - updates:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-ce...

https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/pegasus-project

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/14/apple-...

https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/09/apple-call-center-workers-sur...
I quoted the main thesis is to simply demonstrating the creator of project is a straight liar, so her work can't be trusted. You can get more information by reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1619_Project
there are re-shipping services. they will order for you, receive the package and forward it. they don't work for everything, but they may work for you.
> Emancipation happened over 100 years ago,

So did the introduction of steam, IC, and electric machinery. Your quibble is with the OP.

Emancipation happened right around the time of the introduction of large-scale steam power.

This was not a coincidence.
A breif rant about truth, and freedom of thought
Somehow, we continue to disregard what is staring us right in our faces. Simply put, … the truth!

What truth? A couple, a couple of serious problems that is contributing to the self-destruction of the United States of America. Now, I would like to preface this with the fact that I hope this provokes you, because it should.

As an American, I have noticed that people have very fragile beliefs here.
To the point that if challenged, it is almost as if they crumble or short circuit when confronted with something foreign to them. It makes sense but for one reason, most tend to fear the unknown to an irrational degree. This form of indoctrination of non-critical thinking or the inability to think for yourself starts from the second you come out of the womb, and into your parent's arms. They tell your truth, before you can observe it yourself to confirm, they fill your head with what they like; what they want you to be!

Then so do your teachers, politicians, etc. They force-feed us lies, in hopes that we will be more like themselves or our perception of what they represent to us. Then we are lied too once more and are trained to believe that there is any other race than human. Which is false, there is nothing racial about varying pigments, skin pigmentation is simply a result of the climate you are subjected to. But we are fighting and killing over race, religion, and man made beliefs, that did not begin with us and are scientifically false or implausible. For some reason we often try to disassociate from the fact that we are animals (Mammals), we self-domesticate, and think we need a government to survive and this is why we are such an easy people to brainwash, it’s a cultural thing! Actually, on an instinctual level human beings are very much like dogs, easy to train and are territorial. As far as I can tell, the animal kingdom was doing fine before us animals came into the picture, natural selection; it’s a thing.

So the reality of needing (God = Government) is actually not real at all, and this is merely another fundamental flaw in your ability to think with your own brain.
I don't think 'cognitive bias' is used half as dismissively or dishonestly as 'woke' is.
Millionaires call for an emergency tax on billionaires
JSP used the "quit" statement to handle errors and backtracking; it was a primitive form of exception before exceptions were common. There's a lengthy defense of this in the JSP book (on p.282) arguing that eliminating GOTOs dogmatically is a mistake.
> Does that win you points or something.

Its not my points that matter. Its your points in this discussion. I'm no longer convinced I'll have a reasonable discussion with you on this matter.

A good discussion has give and take, back and forth. I don't expect it from you.
My university at least had a commercialization office. I imagine that they are the ones paying for it in this model.
> Despite what those propagandists and opinion pieces say, the NY Times, Washington Post, and similar publications do provide quality news (don't read their opinion sections either).

They do, but only on certain subjects they approve of. There are often major world or local events that are never covered in these outlets. Just to give some recent examples, the largest worker protests and strike in history happened in 2020 across India, and not 1 mainstream outlet in the US and UK covered it at all. Similarly, the miners' protests in NY were not covered in mainstream media.

I do agree that on the news they do cover, you can get decent facts from the papers you cite.
Yes, my wife is an emergency medicine doctor. She frequently ends up wearing her mask in the car and other places where it’s unnecessary until I remind her she’s wearing it.
I can’t answer this question without venturing into nationalistic flame bait territory.
To ignore the guy. He has a certain axe to grind. Whether right or wrong, all his opinions sway one way.
Whether or not these additional contract jobs are a good thing for the community is debateable; certainly anyone who has driven from the US west coast into the interior (e.g. towards Denver) has driven through a lot of these one-stoplight towns with myriad shuttered storefronts, one gas station with the town's only restaurant (a Subway), and hardly anyone around on main street except an idling police cruiser. Truly any jobs would be a boon to the local inhabitants (although turning it into a company town has its own obvious drawbacks, e.g. see all the history of mining in Appalachia).

The real thing that is truly unjust is the tax concessions they extract out of the local officials. The sums of money that the Google/Amazon/Microsoft officials wave in front of these guys probably has at least 1 or 2 more zeros than they are used to seeing when it comes to town finances, and they too eagerly gobble it up out of desperation without realizing that the deal is highly exploitative.

I wish there was some way of either regulating this at the federal level, but the government seems to be highly in favor of enabling the business side of things instead of protecting individuals, e.g. the ridiculous Kelo v. New London SCOTUS decision [0] where Pfizer rolled into town and got the city officials to eminent-domain people out of their houses, only to have the whole deal fall through and now that site is used as a dump...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London
Plain old C is pretty beginner friendly. Programming an Arduino is a good introduction (similar to C, forgive me I'm a bit ignorant here). A good systems project would be writing a simple shell.
> As someone who actually engaged with that story, I found the reporting and posited facts to be incoherent and full of holes.

Was the story of Russians electing Trump coherent and without holes?
Part of the problem is we were all newbies at some point.

I remember the first time I tried to use SCM. It was a collaborative project in college, and our professor recommended we set up a CVS repo (at that point in time, he probably should have recommended SVN, but we didn't know that). We spent about an hour trying to set one up, and eventually concluded it was a waste of time and that we'd just e-mail each other .tar.gz files of the repo and manually sync them. Eventually we did break something and have to go back to the last .tar.gz to un-break it, which wasted another hour or so, but with the friction we'd seen trying to set up CVS, that still seemed preferable to trying SCM again (although it also showed that SCM would have been helpful had we been able to set it up).

GitHub with a password is much easier than setting up a CVS repo as a newbie, and had that been an option then we likely would have succeeded. But I'm much more doubtful that we would have tried and succeeded at token authentication; I also remember how mystifying I found it the first few times I worked somewhere that required it, even understanding the underlying concepts of public key cryptography. The problem is understanding the tools well enough to get it working, and working across operating systems (Linux doesn't have PuTTY; Windows doesn't have the Linux command-line tools; etc.).

When I eventually started using SCM reliably, it was with Mercurial + BitBucket + a password. I recall that I kind of knew I should set up a token, but my first few attempts were unsuccessful (largely due to most instructions being Linux-focused, and being on Windows), and thus I kept using a password for years because making progress on development seemed more useful than figuring out a token. I did use randomly-generated, lengthy, unique passwords, so the risk of using a password seemed pretty low.

So I think this is a bad thing for newcomer-friendliness. Perhaps it is an opportunity for GitLab and whatever other competitors still exist. But I would have rather seen it remain an option, perhaps based on new users choosing whether they're new to Git (allow passwords) or experienced (require tokens, but be able to change it in case they're only experienced with Git, and not with tokens).
Great insight! More than a change of framing it's also something we're beginning to explore and productize. At first, it was easy for us to view the tens of thousands of unlicensed university technologies as a problem, but now it seems to be more of a solution to the problem of corporate R&D not knowing who exactly they should be getting in touch with. Push vs pull if you will.
that was very well said.
What if that's because "right-leaning" information is truly wrong? What if global warming is real and a real threat and being caused by human activity? What if cutting taxes doesn't pay for itself? What if abstinence only education really does lead to more pregnancies and abortions? What if LGBT people really should be able to get married? What if running around encouraging other people not to get vaccinated and take basic precautions to prevent the spread of a pandemic really does lead to more infections and deaths? There's not a both sides to every story. Sometimes people and groups are simply wrong.

That or there really is a global conspiracy between doctors, professors, journalists and corporate PR departments specifically to spread lies about conservatives...
That's in fact how I read the author. He advocates using already written well know software like Traefik, LinkerD, Envoy and so on, and not to reinvent their functionality in your code.
Yes! I'm so glad you commented this. We actually ended up focusing on universities due to the pandemic last year and having to stay hyper focused. But, we're in process of preparing to launch our company need --> scientific expertise tool. This is a much larger market and we can't wait to kick things off.
Why not put these accounts into shadow ban mode? Allow them to post to their hearts desire, but just have the algorithm never display their posts to anyone. They get to feel that sweet endorphine release from posting their minds, just the rest of us don't ever have to see it.
If the media chooses to focus on someone who died ten years ago and someone who retired fifteen years ago is that really a problem the tech industry can do anything about?
I avoid links or content on social media that I think will lead to more recommendations I don’t want, sometimes consciously. Does anyone else?

I wonder what effect this has long term on what people see. Probably making the information bubbles stronger.
> It's no longer theoretical that antibody dependent enhancement (ADE) is a concern for the vaccinated

IMO this is too strongly worded and doesn't paint an accurate picture. First of all, ADE is a concern for anyone infected by a virus, whether through vaccination or natural infection. Second, there is substantial literature showing that immune responses can still be protective even in the presence of ADE [1]. Third, OP uses a molecular modelling approach which places it mostly in the realm of theory and far from conclusive clinical evidence.

Some quotes from [1] to support my point:

> It is clear that after many years, and considerable attention, the understanding of ADE of disease after either vaccination or administration of antiviral antibodies is insufficient to confidently predict that a given immune intervention for a viral infection will have negative outcomes in humans.

> Despite the importance that such information would have in the COVID-19 pandemic, in vitro assays do not predict ADE of disease.

> Most animal models of vaccines and antibody interventions show protection, whereas those that suggest potential ADE of disease are not definitive and the precise mechanisms have not been defined.

> Although ADE is a concern, it is also clear that antibodies are a fundamentally important component of protective immunity to all of the pathogens discussed here

> Even when vaccine formulations such as formalin inactivation have shown disease enhancement, neutralizing antibodies with optimized properties have been protective.

[1] A perspective on potential antibody-dependent enhancement of SARS-CoV-2
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2538-8
It looks like they explicitly call out pepper spray in your GP's quote (emphasis mine):

> There are products which squirt a relatively safe, brightly coloured dye (as opposed to a pepper spray).
Pardon my cynicism, but you could use these as a guide for drawing money from people that are predisposed towards having many strong cognitive biases. There seems to be a near limitless number of people with money suffering from extreme social isolation in addition to narcissistic personality disorder. These people have little interest in reality and will happily give you their money if you play into these biases.
> “State sponsored news” is generally seen as a bad thing(tm)

Very Debatable, capital D. Maybe in the US, but even there you have things like NPR and publicly funded libraries which are not seen as "bad things" as far as I can tell.
Stable weight simply means the intake calories are just enough for the spent energy (muscle and brain which still use 20% of energy for adult, for example a chess player can spend up to 6k calories/day when playing)
They would just be construction workers
> We didn't sacrifice everyone's right to privacy. We didn't lock more and more rights out of the reach of minors.

No. My elders and society just denied the monsters existed. And punished any one who talked about it.
I think it might be more that you haven't understood the broken window fallacy, because you are making a classic didn't-quite-get-the-point broken windows argument.

The US could be enjoying $2 trillion of resources spent improving itself, plus flow on benefits from the economic activity that 2 trillion would have caused.

Instead, the US has wasted (worse than wasted, really) 2 trillion dollars but has managed to enjoy the flow on benefits. The entire 2 trillion was wasted, because it was spent to get outcomes that are useless.

The fact that there are still some flow on effects is better than a pole in the eye with a blunt stick, but still a pretty lousy consolation prize. Also, I unhappily point out that the flow on benefits are also reduced, because instead of useful skills you've got a bunch of logistics experts specialised in how to blow up goat herders instead of ... any skill that might help the US do well in the world. Or people who know exactly how to manufacture killer drones which will not help much as China rolls out 4G mobile networks and plots out a global infrastructure program.
Hey, I just checked out the iOS app and it is clear that you have put a lot of thought into it. As someone who has previously dealt with depression, I was happy to see how low effort the entire onboarding flow was. I do think the interface (colors, padding, illustrations) has scope for improvement, but there's time for that. I hope you guys will continue to build this while optimizing for long term value creation over short term returns to your investors.
> If the father makes his daughter send him sexual photos, and he is also the one who gets notified about it, what is the point?

> Then what about the father who gets notified about his daughter sending her boyfriend sexual photos while being completely okay with it?

Continuing on with your scenarios, what about an abusive father who gets notified his daughter is sending her boyfriend sexual photos or texts, gets jealous at the "competition", and then uses these anti-predation systems to further isolate his daughter? The phone that would have been a lifeline to the outside world then becomes another tool of control.
Done... wait (head explodes)
OK, and I see they worded that in line with typical hate crime laws found in a number of developed countries.

Do you not think the first item on the list applies to everyone though?

Harassment
Harassing, bullying, threatening, intimidating, or abusing someone with the intent to create a hostile environment or discourage them from participating on Reddit.
Wish I could upvote this more! It's a great article and a great overview of how columnar stores work!
On the other hand, organic material on Reddit generates traffic and has high conversion rates.

Why pay when you can get the same for free?
It's very sad that it's not more widely known or published. If this was in the reverse, there would be huge boycott campaigns and media-backed outrage programs playing in repeating cycles till the CEO was fired and Reddit dismantled. And yet still we're told that there is rampant systemic racism against non-white people being enacted and coordinated by white people, while at the same time anti-white racism and legislation is alive and kicking right under our noses with nobody caring (and those that are noticing and caring are being shrugged off and punished for being Fox News watching right-wing nationalist nut jobs or something). It's really Kafkaesque.
Does anyone on Twitter really support that, though? There are some small niches where people are consistently nice, but in general it seems like snarky, mean-spirited takes are a big part of what people go to Twitter for.
Yes - the majority of our current customers include the tech transfer, corporate relations and VP of Research offices.
I don't need propagandists to delegitimize those institutions. My personal experiences dealing with them will do just fine.
It's a CBT app - if it helps people feel better that's good enough for most. Perhaps a message at the beginning saying "Remember this isn't a replacement for licenced therapy so if you're feeling particularly bad contact your GP or <suicide hotline>" could be useful.

But for those who haven't got access to anything, something is better than nothing, and there is evidence even journals tracking your feelings help (which this appears to be, albeit in a more advanced form).
No one else concerned it can (and why would there be any doubt it will) be used to get future generations to think the correct way?

No? Okay, nevermind then..
I haven't heard of either of them. I merely brought this up as a point of discussing a possible issue. I feel the more we discuss things, the more we learn and can prepare for possible future issues. Unfortunately, it seems the debate is dominated by people on both sides who are treating possibilities as inevitabilities and preliminary data/results as idempotent facts to be applied to any future scenario regardless of the variables that might change.
There's a difference in that deadly heat can make people who cannot swim, start panic crowding in the water in tens of thousands of people large groups?

Sounds to me like a mostly not seen before thing

> Is there a name

"False analogy" is what comes to my mind, maybe there's something better
Why Beijing? He lives in the US.

Agreed his work is excellent. I particularly like that he brings different aesthetics to generative art. Traditional Chinese brushstrokes, these 19th century European themed fish drawings.. It's nice to see something calm and classical.
> Then we are lied too once more and are trained to believe that there is any other race than human. Which is false, there is nothing racial about varying pigments, skin pigmentation is simply a result of the climate you are subjected too.

Such differences in environment cause not only differences between races and subspecies, but cause the creation of different species as well. Are subspecies and species mythical too?
There is value in the forced interactions of a workplace, especially for introverts (like myself) who are perfectly capable/happy to go days or weeks without in-person communication. Eloquence requires practice to acquire and maintain and you get less practice when working remotely.

However, the forced interactions of a workplace lack quality and diversity of topics and audience, especially when compared to the vast opportunities for human connection outside of work.

It's sort of like saying, "Now that I'm no longer busting rocks on a chain gang, I don't get any physical exercise." The response to which would be fairly straightforward, right? Join a gym, exercise at home, take up weightlifting as a hobby, etc.

I think you would do well to find a new, better "gym" where you can exercise the skills you mention. For example:

- Volunteer somewhere that will put you alongside other people (e.g. Habitat for Humanity or a social cause).

- Attend networking events. Even if you aren't looking for a job, treat it like the gym. You are there to exercise.

- Join a public speaking group (e.g. Toastmasters).

- When you do go out (e.g. to the grocery store or a bar), strike up conversation with a stranger.

- Throw a party at your place. Invite a variety of people.

- Start a video diary. Instead of daily written entries, record short videos about literally anything going on in your world.

- Join a hobbyist group. You don't have to know anything at all about that hobby. Choose something you find intriguing. Don't overthink it.

- Read a book out loud. Yes, even vocalizing alone is good exercise as it forces you to do what you're missing when working remotely, which is to quiet your mind and focus on speech.

In short, working remotely gives you more time and--for introverts--more energy. Use those precious resources to your advantage.
Carbon Neutral Cloud Computing
When I created my Apple ID ~6 years ago, it forced me to enter my CC info before installing any new apps (even free ones). Is this not the case anymore?
Great point. The good news is we're offering our tool for free to PhD students right now as we work to get universities to cover sitewide licenses for faculty and students.
"advanced artificial intelligence" > looks under covers > SEXSELLS.exe, commited 18y ago, zuck
editor is Mac only. SDK to "run" created experiences is for iOS and Android.