skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the many incentives that exist for different parties

Someone(s) should update the Five Filters models from Manufacturing Consent to account for social medias. Compare the social network media ecosystem to the prior broadcast and print medias.

Here's my stab at it:

The Five Filters are Owners, Advertisers, Sources, Flak, and War.

Owners (social networks) took most of Advertisers' economic power for themselves, flipping that power relationship. With loss of status, Advertisers' power to control dialog and shape opinion largely disappeared.

To reduce costs, prior Owners debased Sources by replacing news with infotainment and drama/comedy with reality TV. The current Owners reduced costs even further by making the audience their own Sources. Trolling, conspiracy, karma, gossip, outrage IS the new content. Genius.

While social media Owners became the biggest economic winners, Flak became the cultural winners, displacing Advertisers. Social media eliminates provenance (authenticity) by laundering (disintermediation) content. Flak now enjoys impunity that Advertisers could only dream of.

For lack of a well defined enemy, War turned us against each other.

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Two aspects of the rise of social media confuse me.

Why haven't Advertisers revolted? Owners and Flak continues to steal their lunch money, and they just take it.

The battle lines for the free speech haven't been updated for social media. New lines had to be drawn with the advent of broadcast media. (Duh.) No one anticipated the function and impact of algorithmic recommenders. Total game changer. So we should recognize and accept the new reality and update Section 230 accordingly.

Of course, Flak benefits most from this willful blindspot, and is best able to shape the dialog, to better defend their spoils.

Owners will oppose any change by default, because why not? The status quo is pretty terrific.

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Manufacturing Consent's Five Filters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent#Propagan...
How was the Soviet STRELA computer designed to function during a nuclear winter?
Where my wife is from, it's very common for neighbors to mail one another chicks and ducklings as Easter presents.
"This" being "Zoom executive charged with disrupting meetings commemorating Tiananmen Square".
As I understand it(which could be completely wrong, so take with a grain of salt), there is no actual 'stopping' variants. The idea is to keep tricking your body with mock spike proteins, so that your body builds defenses against it. And data shows the more shots you get, the more your body builds resistance. So when the real thing arrives, it doesn't affect the host as much, if at all.
Can’t this be expressed as a library in Haskell or even F# though?
Sounds famliar! I remember attempting to do a meeting with a company that resellls Webex. The meeting was not Webex related but related to another product they sell. We ended up switching to Zoom because Webex wasn't working.
Whenever they do these demos they never show them firing weapons. I guess they just haven't figured that out yet.
Yes, and also the video and audio chips were "cycle-synchronized" with the CPU (e.g. it was guaranteed that a fixed number of CPU cycles after the vsync interrupt you'd always end up at the exact same video raster position etc...).

OTH making the hardware components "asynchronous" and the timings "unpredictable" enabled today's performance (e.g. by introducing caches and pipelines).
Neither! Human LEOs in the US need to have fewer weapons and more accountability, they are currently virtually un-prosecutable. Even when cops commit a crime on camera it is extremely rare for them to be indicted.
I for one am glad that cultural acceptance for these jokes is fading, mostly because young people generally no longer find the sentiment relatable because they're no longer expected to marry the first person they want to sleep with.
I love Easter eggs!
Using CSS Module Scripts to import stylesheets
Have you seen the behind the scenes video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EezdinoG4mk
The NA English accent is considered the most clear and easy to understand. This is not a controversial opinion and is held by virtually all non-native English speakers around the world.

Frankly there are billions of people who would kill to speak English like a native American. It’s about economics, not identity politics.
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> We need to decentralise governance and power in a massive way

Agreed but I’d also like to see human rights protected from the new decentralized governments. Not sure how that could work.
Hopefully they will prevent them from using terms like: "full auto 100% auto-pilot"

But I think that the next one will start with the letter K.... for AFK (tried to put that comment as a reply to a comment below, but YC would not let me)
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Thank you! The more we know about, the less effective the censorship is.
How does banning the import of secondhand clothing reduce waste?

Unless you can prevent westerners from getting rid of clothes in the first place this really seems like paying people to dig and refill holes. Work for the sake of work.
Without ads, content quality would go up, because very few people will pay for low quality content. And if quality goes up, people are happy to pay for it.

With ads, content quality goes down. You don't need to convince people that your content is worth reading, you just need to convince Google. Slap a few expired domains on your text-spinner generated content and off you go.

Not all content is created equal, and Made-For-Adsense content would not have been made otherwise and would not take away attention from quality content.

I believe you're rationalizing your paycheck.
I would figure conventional firearms would do the job pretty well depending on the round. That being said I could well see "anti robot" rounds becoming a thing similar to "zombie" stuff a few years ago.
If we’re thinking of the same interview, he laughed at the iPhone because it lacked a physical keyboard and cost $500 fully subsidized.

There was no App Store or any indication of a developer platform.
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Did you consider that I'm tired too? I have become a pariah in my own country (France), I am now forbidden to vote, go to a hospital (unless it's an emergency) , go in a shopping mall and go in a restaurant.

But just explain me one thing please. If you trust the vaccine, why are you afraid of me, if it works you will be protected right?
I clocked a custom Ubuntu-based AMI at 2.85 seconds for the median of 10 runs.

https://gist.github.com/hashbrowncipher/17a92c6afb9642503876...
Bundling BD's work with loss of privacy, face recog, etc. is so far fetched. This is just such an illinformed fearful stance that is cliche with any robotic innovation - it gets a disproportionate amount of pessimism (because robots!). Motorized controls of arms and limbs is physical intelligence, a very small slice of "AI" if you want to call that. "Overlords" meme has infested most of YT comments and but surprised to see it on HN. Disproportionate attention to physical visceral things - especially if it looks like humans - is particularly prone to fear response.

Have you ever seen your cat/dog stare at a look-alike version of stuffed toy and become completely bamboozled? Humans are particularly magnetized by anything that has 2 legs and moves like itself. No one bats an eye on a sentry with a gatling gun, but how dare you put 2 legs under it - sudden dystopia.
Dunno why this was downvoted. This is how things tend work when humans are involved.
> People who are not making enough money to make ends meet [...] don't need to get paid faster. They need to get paid more.

Or they need to pay less. If the cost of being poor represents a significant fraction of the total spending for these people, lowering that through arbitrage is still a benefit.

I mistakenly went negative once on one of my bank accounts (purely due to sheer laziness/inattention), I was amazed by how expensive that small mistake was. People who are unfortunate enough to have than happen regularly spend a lot on those fees, especially compared to their almost non-existent disposable income. Anything that can help/reduce those expenses is a win in my book.
Yes. I subscribe to a few write.as blogs and Pixelfed accounts from my Mastodon account.
Nice-looking font. It's a little jarring due to how long I've been seeing nothing but sans in code editors, but I'm going to give it a decent trial period before making up my mind.

Nowadays most of us have displays that are actually capable of rendering decent serifs, so there's no reason to limit ourselves to sans fonts any more (IMO).
Interesting. I would expect most people in the US to have Zelle due to the market share of the big banks, and the extensive list of Zelle participants:

https://www.zellepay.com/get-started

As far as I know, you do not have to do anything other than let your bank know the phone number/email to associate with the account you want to send/receive money to.
Ugly Diamonds Hold a Billion-Plus Years of Earth History
For one thing, zoom does have E2EE (https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-enable-zoom-encryption/) and secondly - if we're talking about public meetings (like city council meetings) why would it matter?
He was a historian sharing a document he discovered with other historians.

Are scientists and researchers not allowed to use Facebook to share information?

Is Facebook allergic to data or facts?
Waymo Is 99% of the Way to Self-Driving Cars. The Last 1% Is the Hardest
Their comment is supposing that the energy costs of hauling the tree out of the forest and slicing it into boards / mulch / whatever (given our current logging technology) emits more carbon (from fuel usage and electricity generation) than the tree sequestered during it's lifetime.

This probably not true, considering that for many decades steam powered logging equipment burned wood before coal became the dominant fuel source (and thus able to cut down and process a tree with less energy than we got from a single tree), although many mills were powered by flowing water.

It's the same notion that "PV panels emit an equivalent of 50g of CO2 per kW/h (assuming a 25 year service life)". Even though the panel doesn't emit anything during operation, mining and manufacturing are still heavily reliant on fossil fuels.

The tree itself sequesters carbon, but the carbon output from using the tree is what is produced burning it + getting it ready to burn.
So basically the same headlines as right now, but with Robot in the title?
Is there any reason to suspect that the primary factor is something other than the difference between an extremely featured end user GUI and programming?
My parents would mail order bricks of sleeping ladybugs. Put one in the garden and when they thaw out, they eat all the bad insects.

I always thought about putting one in someone's locker in high school, but never did it.
>> hybrid control scheme with a human controlling a smart-ish legged vehicle

Much depends on scale. BD is working towards a robot-donkey, something that can follow soldiers over rough terrain. At scales much larger than a horse, such robots already exist and are already much more mobile than soldiers in most terrains. These robots are called tanks. Or trucks.

Once a vehicle is carrying a large enough load that it will not fit between the trees and so cannot follow soldiers into forests, legs are not very useful. Wheels and tracks are better than legs, particularly in soft/wet terrain. So large walking robots are likely never going to happen. The MechWarrior fantasy will have to live on in things not much larger than a horse, things that can fit between trees and along footpaths.
Correct, but except in very special cases, memory leaks are themselves considered bugs. Using memory leaks as an example of RAII not always working is, in my mind, similar to saying Rust doesn't prevent memory errors since it has the "unsafe" keyword.
I wanted to like Imba, but there was no hash based router. (Required for static sites without having to redirect on the server). Quickly looking at the docs looks like that is still the same.
Yes! Your warehouse would have to be a cleanroom (someone left a can of soda? Your robot just smashed through a shelf when it tried to step on it)

In general, I'm an AI researcher and an AI skeptic. After 10 years in robotics, I'm learning that the Human Is Cheaper and where Human Is Expensive, we prefer toasters, not terminators. (just enough hard-coded / hard-wired adaptivity to get by with tons of supervision)
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Serious question, is this a viable area for a startup product? Obviously nothing will easily displace Excel for general spreadsheet work, but I could see room for a domain-specific spreadsheet that has core features and supports just a basic set of functions relevant to genomics, + a "we won't fuck up your data" feature.
Twitter is funding a decentralized Social Media Initiative
almost 10 years after the original iteration graduated from YC S11. congrats!

press release has a bit more details https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210817005374/en/Apo...
>Offer a comparable alternative, then.

Maybe I am not doing a lot of meetings compared to others but I really haven't had more or less problems with Teams, Google products, or GoToMeeting (haven't used webex in a long time) ... compared to Zoom.

It's all a wash for me among those experience wise.

I constantly have various orgs tell me all about how they only use X video conferencing app because of Y experience. Most of those stories conflict ;)
TfL is funded from fares, the congestion charge, business rates and grants from the Greater London Authority — which itself is funded by the national government and some council tax.

https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/about-tfl/how-we-work/how-we-ar...

(Note TfL are also paying for buses, trams and many larger roads in London.)
This tool looks very interesting
My comment is in the spirit of fostering vigorous scientific debate in the context of "legitimate disagreements about Covid-19" as discussed in the OP. I did not make any claims about censorship or intend to insinuate such.
Tiny human brain grown in lab has eye-like structures that 'see' light
not getting this persistently is really frightening. maybe a short term effect of a corona shot 2 days ago. i had difficulty finding some words yesterday which fortunately is much better allready.i will definitely not work on critical software for the next 2 days...
I think the disconnect here is between the expectations of the donors of who the end users are, and their needs. I would have expected that donated clothes would end up with the homeless, who at least here (NYC) have a need for layers. I would not have expected donated clothes to have resale value, and to merely be functional. The idea that donated clothes should be job interview quality is new to me, and I guess probably none of my current wardrobe would qualify.
Your comment reveals your own cultural biases. Look inward before looking outward.
I found Webex to be quite a lot worse than Zoom in my limited experience. I attended a few IEEE presentations hosted on the platform. Audio didn't connect smoothly and needed a few restarts. The talk was constantly interrupted by a chiming noise whenever a person joined or left the meeting. I remember finding a configuration setting for this but the hosts didn't see my message (another bad feature), as this was a meeting-wide setting rather than a client one. Even if it were configurable per-user, that chime turned on is an unexpected and intrusive default setting.

Beyond that, I couldn't see the presented content in full-screen. There was a lot of junk in the form of perpetual UI elements for the "fullscreen mode".

These seemed like pretty fundamental misses for the platform to make.
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>how often have you ever written a function that requested a string as input and actually wanted an empty string?

To be fair, I do it quite often. Most of the strings I deal with in my code are coming from user input, and most of them are optional. They are usually just passed to/from a database. If the string has some internal meaning (like ULSs or file paths), it usually gets wrapped in an object anyway.

If you're processing some formal language or network protocol, that's another story.
Your result is significantly slower than the versions presented in the article, though yours has more terms and so may be more accurate.
Tornado is open source. You can go check if its a honeypot if you're worried.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NriDTxseog

BoldVoice, I hope you get Amy Walker on as a consultant...!
I hope the team considers abstracting this codebase into a general framework after its reached a sufficient level of maturity.

Would be nice to have a growing ecosystem of high-performance, rock solid, cross-platform native app frameworks.
And how long as the open web survived? Cause I see a lot of it dieing every day, being replaced with walls.
They are just not going to drop this idea, aren't they? Google is in the online advertising business after all.
Agreed! Floating is the right description. See my other comment. I’m thinking the other foot is still in contact with the ground and supporting the floating foot?
Or a paintball gun.
Anecdotically, I was talking to an acquaintance who decided to pick up R as a replacement for excel for data analysis and they were positively blown away by the possibilities opened by the new mindset that came with programming.

So yes, maybe these "relatively unskilled users" will struggle for a few weeks/months, but it will be a net positive change as many of them will see immense benefit after some tinkering.
It's understandable that people have concerns about a HTTP header that could be used as part of a fingerprinting system.

Is there an option in Chrome to opt-out of this data being sent to Google?
They also chose not to build many of the suburbs that the extended lines would have served, and instead to keep those areas rural as the Metropolitan Green Belt and to build new towns further away from London.
As a counterpoint, my wife also has a ~~something~~ diagnosis. She's been dealing with it for 10+ years now. She eventually went through 2 or 3 of these types of recovery programs and they did nothing for her. Some of them were even sort of gaslighting, saying that it was all psychological, when it very clearly isn't.

I don't want to diminish what anyone else has gone through, just be sure that you're prepared for yet another treatment to not work if you try something like this. I hope that it does work for those who try it, but it may not, and that can be even more frustrating to someone who has been told by doctor after doctor that "it's all in their head." She tried fixing whatever's in her head, and that also didn't work.
While hangouts is a dumpster fire, Google Meet seems to work pretty well for those who aren't willing to jump through some self-hosted hurdles to run their own.
I've noticed that some projects being complimented for having good docs come from CTOs (esbuild is another example). I'm hoping that by pointing out this little correlation, people might feel more inclined to spend more time on writing docs for their projects if they aspire to climb in the career ladder :)
Yup, when you tear out someone’s tongue that just makes the skeptic community more adamant about finding out what they have to say and why they are saying it.

The people who are just saying “obey” are the ones who want power over everyone else.
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Zoom has had several major security flaws [0]. (Arbitrary execution, installers with malware in them, and so on.)

Executives charged with coordinating attacks against citizens outside China, on behalf of the PRC. [1]

They recently settled a class action for lying about having E2E encryption. [2]

[0] https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=...

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/china-based-executive-us-tele...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58050391
Isn't there a statute of limitations
In hindsight of all of 5 minutes, I agree with you.

But, I read somewhere that only 20% (ish) of the earth's surface is accessible by wheeled / tracked vehicles. I guess the important part is that's where the people are.
Under wider definition of “system software” you can consider db tech (etcd, cockroachdb, digraph) and compute management software (kubernetes, nomad, docker) to be included into that. Which is where Go is doing just fine. Lower level stuff is harder but because of gc not lack of generics
I moved to Vietnam and became vegetarian when I realized that despite what Bourdain (rip) likes you to believe, cheap street food isn't that good for you after all.

They don't go through much effort to hide the source of meat. In fact, some places hang the meat out in the sun (and flies and dirt) for you to see it as you drive by.

Never mind that there is no quality control, animal welfare, USDA, sanitization, etc... Heck, the meat they serve you might not even be what they advertise. Plenty of dogs and cats roaming around. Don't forget, right before covid, there was a mass swine flu going around where they slaughtered literally every single pig in the northern part of the country.

Anyway, I always cringe now when people try to tell me how good street food is... if you've seen some of the things I've seen... the decision is pretty easy.
Webex is so shockingly bad. Zoom, Teams, Slack, all seem to work fairly well, all have clients (and can run in the browser)

Webex - which I have to use as part of a university course I'm doing on the side - requires you to run it in a browser on my OS, it has really awful options (like allowing the presenter to unmute people), half the claimed features just aren't available (virtual whiteboard, no major loss as everyone uses a shared google doc instead), and if you disconnect for some reason (like sound stops working which happens fairly frequently) you are kicked out of a group and you can't get back in.
I wondered about this the other day and didn't get much of an answer:

Are there first-hand research studies where we take a large sample of some animal (whales / mole rats / whatever) and check the animals for cancer?

Apart from the thought experiment of Peto's paradox, has someone actually taken the time and effort to document this? I'd be interested in reading some papers.
hmm... we need to compare rates of infection, not raw numbers since only a small number of the population ever received the lime disease vaccine, and both populations reside only in part of the US.

In any case, I agree with the underlying point that it's a travesty that the vaccine was taken off the market due to fear-mongering and unproven allegations.

It's a testament to the failure of the judicial system to protect against frivolous lawsuits.
It mostly transports people who live in the 'home counties' (the smaller towns and countryside surrounding London) to and from the major rail stations, so maybe they should pay for it. e.g. 750,000 people pass through King Cross station in the morning rush hour.
These aren't someone's 85 year old grandparent getting a computer for the first time to look at pictures of their great grandchildren, these are people who have used a computer every day since they were 14 and have advanced STEM degrees. I think they are probably re-trainable.
This is a nightmare for those who are indecisive.
How do you prosecute a robot that kills the wrong person? It's not possible. Would you then logically move on to prosecute the software programmer? And for what crime? Is it murder?

(side note : ios slide to type will not allow the spelling of murder, try it.)
It looks like Audi's design team discovered Final Fantasy XV: https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Regalia
>a "we won't fuck up your data" feature

That's a hard to implement feature. Hand waving and buzzword lingo will not be enough for people to believe it.