skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you read the whole article (and please do before you comment) you will see the main point of the article.

I agree that the problems with pithy hyperpartisan sound-bite media is nothing new. Social media is just another form of media, with all its problems, it just does it faster.
It is also harder to track and easier to create.

I had to quit Facebook because I found myself policing my friends shared content that was factually wrong. Fake tiny-home giveaways, distorted facts that I agreed with politically but were factually just plain wrong and other junk. Unlike other forms of media, the difference was that I could police this disinformation, if I wanted to be "that guy".

I don't work for Facebook and didn't want to police their platform. So I just quit the stupid platform altogether along with their sister site, Instagram.

Side note: Its ironic that this guest writer on Harpers actually works for Buzzfeed; where journalistic integrity is a joke.
Making demos is easy, making a product is hard.

Universities could totally do what he is doing. But that’s still far removed from commercializing this tech (unless the product is “a mini fab for universities for educational purposes only.”)

For a real product, you’d need to meet all kinds of reliability requirements: life time, voltage range, temperature range, parameter control etc.

(Once again: what he’s doing is awesome. It’s just important to keep some perspective.)
Right! If the US (or some coalition of nations) recognized this problem and came to an agreement with the Philippines to handle waste management... it would probably be cheaper to handle it on their behalf for 100 years while the country continues to develop rather than try to force a culture change from the outside.

Many developing nations don't worry about climate change because frankly they have a lot of shit going on. Manila has a very low quality of life. Would the US have listened to any outsiders if they started complaining to us about smoke during the industrial revolution, the dust bowl, the depression? No way.
> vaccinate a small portion of high risk people and effectively eradicate the disease

You could remove it as an endemic disease in the US and Europe. In places like South Africa where a third of the population is infected, nothing less that a blanket vaccination campaign would work.

(And of course it is not easy to find out who the high risk people are when both HIV and sexual promiscuity are stigmatised, so you might need to vaccinate everyone anyway to avoid costly errors...)
This is a guess, but I reckon Alphabet has a little over 50,000 members of engineering staff (135,000 total, roughly 40% engineers). Suggesting that one or two of them wouldn't want to be involved in a core Google product that's been running for about 20 years is so strange to me.
honestly I would prefer a robot goes in and restrains the people the police want vs a crowd of hopped up armed officers.
The original comment said nothing about C-style languages. That must be something you read into their comment.

Learning J is like learning Perl or regular expressions. Nobody really wants to engage in such an activity, but people do what they need to do. Depending on their level of experience, a person who understands imperative and declarative paradigms along with the language's execution model can absolutely learn J within a day, because it only differs in syntax from the existing languages.
I keep insects as pets, and this seems to be a common way to get live insects from point A to point B. I felt a little bad about having them go through the surely-unpleasant process of being in the mail for a couple days, but they came out on the other side healthy enough that I didn't lose any.

Makes the idea of keeping pet insects that no store or breeder sells near you a lot more affordable, which is nice, since a lot of insects make such easy and practical pets.
You have a handful of low-level languages listed. It doesn't make sense to try to put those through a JavaScript lens. Rather, pick one to start with and build some programs with it. You should quickly start to see how memory, I/O, etc, are handled.

I would also recommend the book "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" by Charles Petzold as a general introduction.
Drug addicts.
All deleted, but he (surprisingly) survived. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-58244518
That was a very cool website. I didn't know that fonts alone could be used to advertise itself.
Government reaction to case spikes does not reflect at all on the efficiency of vaccines.
Vaccines don't stop you getting a disease they prepare your immune system for it, so when it happens you are more likely to survive.

Seems to me Spanish government bodies (where I live) look at headline case rates and then start making bizarre rules without talking to the scientists.
If you look around the world (and across history), the natural outcome of weak central institutions is more along the lines of feudal warlords than something utopian.
Mixers and coin tumblers could very well be honeypots. Want to easily see who has dirty money? Setup a mixer and find out!
It would be useful in circumstances they might work best. Hostage situation, mass shootings. We don’t want to have to wait till a human LEO shows up to incapacitate the perp.
New research suggests diabetes drug could slow Alzheimer’s progression
I have the same issue and I only ride cars very very rarely. I'm still wondering about the reason.
A common thing I've run into is people working on very, very toxic things for society, like human behavior modification (ad) systems, who get up every morning excited and enthusiastic about it because the technical challenges keep them interested. I generally avoid hiring people like this, who often will state openly they don't care very much about the application of their work, but "just want to solve hard problems."
The WCML has to accommodate very long distance express trains, regional trains, suburban/commuter trains, and freight.

I think you can read section 2 of [1], and the start of section 3. With enough trains, you can still fill up a four-track railway.

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Ionizing radiation. Ingenious approach, sort of a pseudo-vaccine, kills and breaks apart a pathogen in the blood that was taken and when re-injected it presents a greater attack surface for the immune system to learn about the pathogen. Also whatever active measures the pathogen cells in the sample were taking to evade attention are no longer in effect since it's dead.
This is a native english speaker: https://youtu.be/pit0OkNp7s8

We are a diverse bunch
This was probably the gruesome incident that got heads banned:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean
Your comment doesn't make sense. A tree growing in a tree farm, and being turned into lumber will sequester that carbon until that lumber is burned. I suppose it matters if you're talking about cutting down old growth for lumber, or using old farm land to put a tree farm on.
The middlebrow dismissal in this thread is galling.

This is AMAZING. Just like everything else Boston Dynamics does...and all HN has to offer is weird musings on Terminators.

You know, its okay to spend your days knocking out three-line Python PRs and still be wowed by people working at a much higher level...
With cop IT being so shit, how many cases have been pure fabrications on both sides?

Alterations from the government with fake evidence or cases lost with hacks they don’t even realize. Or even better, shit stirred up within government cases by planting fake evidence to put arrows to someone’s enemies.
The best option is to update backups every week or two weeks. It might be tedious, but it's better than nothing. Also, keep in mind the security of the network.
The cost of Afghan war: $6.4T... the number killed: 51000... cost per death? $125.5M
Pixelied is an all-in-one design suite where our goal is to be a hybrid of tools like Photoshop and Canva. It'll have all the necessary tools to create visuals but at the same time provide ease of use for non-technical users.

Our goal is to make it super easy for users to have access to advanced tools without creating much friction.
The X-Client-Data header is only for evaluating the effect of changes to Chrome, not ad targeting: https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/whitepaper.html#variat...

Earlier comment with more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27367482

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself)
what are you talking about?

Australia negotiated some deal with the manufacturer and immunises every child and found it to be a great deal: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

I don't know or care about the US's inability to negotiate drug prices or unwillingness to fund useful programs - which is a choice.

> I’m calling you out for an out-of-touch liberal.

lol

this site is amazing sometimes. people have the knowledge of the world available at their fingertips, can read the experiences of people from all around the world and still end up making some strongly worded reply about how the important thing is how much you can buy an HPV vaccine at a discount retail chain in the countryside after a country failed to work towards an obvious public good? what a time to be alive.
Well neither of them were successful so we're both clutching at straws.
Any ideas why the physics looks slightly off like gravity is slightly too slow? Maybe it’s slow motion or sped up?

Or I’m wondering if it looks like both feet are off the ground when really only one is and supported by the other?
Encrypted DNS: What It Is and Why Parents Should Care
Probably all of our current policing problems come down to officer emotions & decision making so I'm neither pro-autonomous robot cop nor pro-robot cop as a police controlled tool
"That’s something Purdie says she doesn’t have time for. She has adapted to Excel’s quirks, adding apostrophes before commonly affected genes to prevent the conversion, or pre-formatting spreadsheet cells before importing data. “It’s one of those things that I just accept,” she says."
This binary thinking is wrong. Nobody thinks three shots will "stop" the delta variant. They think it'll lower the number of severe cases and deaths.
I think the biggest programming productivity boosts since 1984 haven't been about programming languages, but about tools.

Specifically, distributed version control and dependency management tools.

Being able to collaborate with developers anywhere in the world, and being able to pull in any library with a single declarative line in a configuration file, increases productivity more than any improvement to a programming language ever could.
But there is significant real data that the side effects from Moderna were significantly worse (but, again, not severe, and time-limited) than a flu shot.

I know this is just another anecdote, but I get a flu shot every year and have never experienced anything more than a sore arm. With 2nd Moderna dose I had a fever of 103 and was completely out of commission for 36 hours.
Never heard him bring up incarceration rates (link? perhaps content I've never seen), he tends to highlight the stats around children-out-of-wedlock, ratio of unmarried to married Black women, and amount of unmarried, childless middle-class Black men. The first and second issues being fairly specific to the Black community.
Lawrence Livermore claims a milestone in laser fusion
> that these vaccines were developed in weeks as an emergency.

I shouldn't have to address this point since the vaccines are presented as ultra efficient (94% or more).

> because most countries have vaccinated 0% of their under-12s.

They're not at risk, why should they get vaccinated?

So now you're going to tell me they're transmitting the virus. OK, but if the vaccine works, who cares?

If the vaccine works why are vaccinated people afraid of the unvaccinated. If it doesn't work why get vaccinated and why insist everyone gets it?
I wonder what Mitch Hedberg would have to say about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n1ryH3igKc

Unfortunately, escalators can break catastrophically - See these comments in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28208925
IMO probably monads. Next might be Unison lang or dependent types.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted, as this is one of the major reasons we had lockdowns around the world even before Delta — our healthcare systems are not designed for the capacities that are pushed through when something like a pandemic occurs. This problem will only get worse in the coming decades, as shifting demographics means we will not have as many young people available to take on jobs as essential health workers for the ever-growing percentage of elderly and at-risk.

We are really lucky to have this pandemic happen now, rather than 30 years from now, as it gives us all an opportunity to prepare for the shifting demand / resource patterns in healthcare. New ways of administering healthcare will be needed.
Most bad stuff can more easily be done with drones. I wouldn’t worry about these guys. Just tie their legs together.
Considering Javascript is the only language supported on the frontend, claiming to be more productive is definitely valid.

Coffeescript was a breath of fresh air compared to writing ES5.
Autocorrect(and predictive text) has reached an interesting milestone, good enough that you mainly rely on it, but occasionally it distorts the data you intended to send. Disengaging the technology isn't easy, or even understanding field types it shouldn't correct(everyday my work VPN auth window tries to autocorrect my username). There is so much context that is unavailable to the computer, and there is no good way to provide it.

I think it has interesting implications for self-driving, since as far as I can tell we're at an earlier but similar stage in its development; works for simple situations, likely to drive you into a wall for no reason. We build so much trust in these systems, we stop paying attention to what they are doing, and then pay the price when it behaves in an unexpected way to the user.
This isn’t the case in Tasmania, since nearly nothing is open here 24hrs almost all fuel stations have a pay station located by the building, rather than at each pump.

Recently one independent has built a few fuel only prepaid only fuel stops, no minimart and no staff.
How cohort analysis can reveal if the economy of your mobile app is healthy
I think there is a difference between the errors. Excel autocorrect errors are easy to miss as it is the software making an arbritrary decision over your own.

Errors made from using a new , presumably neutral software, would be the kind you are supposed to catch as a researcher.

There is obviously scope for error in everything but Excel's user-hostile methods are not justified by this.
I don't know. The last time I had a seasonal flu, I was sick for a week. I cried because I needed to do laundry and simply didn't have the energy and I ate poorly - I lived alone at the time. All of my energy went to surviving work.

Compared to having a sore arm for a couple of days? Or even getting sick for a day or two - at a time I can choose - to just not deal with getting sick later on? Sure. And I'm awfully sure that the flu kills more than the vaccine for it. So many complications for so many people.

And to be fair: The folks you knew in their 60's had an unusual reaction. Older people with their aging immune systems are actually more likely to get little to know side effects to vaccines - younger folks tend to get more. The same goes for folks that are genetically female: You tend to get more side effects (they think this is because so many immune genes are on sex chromosomes, and women have more genes here.).

And to be fair: Taking a day off of work when you are sick isn't such a big deal if you live somewhere with labor protection laws that allow you sick days. It is a little less of a big deal if you live in the US and get paid sick time, but a lot of folks just don't have this so it makes being sick after a vaccine a bigger deal that it should be.
It might be easier to teach people how to use excel correctly with for example power query.
Do you know what takes the majority of those 8 seconds on AWS?
Freight 60-80mph constant speed. Stopping and semi-fast passenger up to 100mph but varies a lot. Fast passenger between 125-140mph. Fast-passenger is moving to HS2 albeit at 10 times the cost it would be to do the same thing in France.
Newly hatched chickens can survive without food for more than 24 hours. They only want to sleep and can travel perfectly at this age, so is the usual way for amateurs to buy fancy chicken breeds or small chicken of known sex.

So, most probably those chicken would end having a happy life destroying carefully the backyard of somebody, one scratch at a time.

There is also a special kind of fishes that lay eggs that can travel perfectly without water in an envelope.
When and how did the real dystopia start?
A lot of it probably depends on how your team is structured. I have a product manager for working out what is to be done and managing complexity.

The technical side of what needs to be done is something I solve alone. The business side is just told to me.
I downloaded this and intend to read it over the coming weeks - at 950-odd pages, it's lengthy.

Dr. Bartle is still one of the best thinkers on this subject. Also, his personal website is delightfully 90s-esque.

https://mud.co.uk/richard/
US Government Launched Probe into Tesla's Autopilot System
> In the same way that HN is a more bearable debate environment than Facebook, not because of any moderation choices but because HN is a self-selecting population of people with mostly the same job, class, and general education level.

I think this underrates the importance of moderation, at least at the community level (my experience of HN moderation from the top has been nil, so I can't speak to it). Sure, HN is the way it is because of its community, but that community was not an accident; it was created. Spaces can be made welcoming without becoming cesspools, and to point to the tendency of public spaces to become cesspools doesn't mean that moderation makes no difference.

(Long delayed response because I was posting too fast.)
> the vaccines are presented as ultra efficient (94% or more)

At preventing severe disease. Which has been stated since the beginning, remains accurate, and your not understanding that seems to be core to your confusion.
I have developed very fast, accurate, and vectorizable atan() and atan2() implementations, leveraging AVX/SSE capabilities.
You can find them here [warning: self-signed SSL-Cert].

https://fox-toolkit.org/wordpress/?p=219
Switch to what?

Excel is everywhere.

People are familiar with it. The same people are often not familiar with, and have never used, and may even be confused by “notepad.exe”.
I like new spins on old classics. Always liked Hellvetica: https://allbestfonts.com/hellvetica/
Buy exact weight from the butcher counter.
If you expand your definition of "mailing" things, all sorts of creatures can be sent.

I once mailed a cat via Delta Airlines. Brought the kitty in a carrier to a special desk at the airport with the forms and certificates and a fist full of cash and a few hours later, he was in New York.

I know that sharks and elephants and such can be shipped via FedEx, but I don't consider that "mailing" because the handlers stay with those high-value critters.
I like to call it Inspector Gadgetarianism. Cops LOVE stupid gadgets and they don't care if they work or not on a scientific level, they just like having their biases confirmed. This goes all the way to stuff like police dogs acting on cues instead of training to showing potential pervert recruits videos of dudes fucking chickens while hooked up to penile plesmography.

There's a fuckboat of this kind of stuff, like you could write a book's worth on it considering how much is coming into the fore.

Reading the parent comment and it being pretty much "Blockchain for law enforcement and justice record keeping" definitely makes me feel a little off here but then again this one actually looks like it's at least trying to approach the problem of record keeping maintenance. I don't really think there's a hell of a lot out there but this field has an interesting and controversial history. Just check out the inslaw/PROMIS (prosecutor's management inventory system) scandal. I think the US Justice Dept concluded there was no wrongdoing but Canada's RCMP has a very different opinion about the compromising of their law enforcement record keeping system breach.
This was true of FLoC and it's perhaps even more critical now that topics are more easy for advertisers to understand:

Do. Not. Allow. Anything. LGBTQ+. Related. To. Be. A. Topic. Unless. It's. Opt. In.

People. Live. In. Unpredictably. Unsafe. Places.

People. Will. Die.
Clothes only get worse while being used (or cleaned). Thus, all clothes I donate are basically in a condition that I considered "fit-to-wear" just one usage ago. Is it a stretch that someone would be happy to get for free what worked for me just until now?

That being said, after reading articles like this some years ago, I started to throw everything that is actually damaged to the trash (even if it is only a small hole). Maybe I am overdoing it - but I totally understand the mindset of "worst case they will have to trash it in my place".
There's no fundamental reason Lambda needs to make you lose control of the kernel; I'd love to have Lambda with a custom kernel, and that doesn't seem like it'd be too difficult to support.
Rust is a great language too (I'm in the process of learning it), but I would definitely not put it in the same category as Java and Go in terms of the problems it is good at solving. It fits much more with C/C++.

There is a huge class of problems that don't need the precision (especially around memory) that Rust demands from the programmer.
This is all about switching the ad targeting system from one that competitors could use (3rd party cookies) to one that only Google can use, further cementing it as the indispensable company to online advertisers. This issue is really an anti-trust issue. Google already knows everything about you.

I do think it is fun to imagine what topics they could assign to you around the web. What about "anti-vax", "terrorist", "communist", or what not now totally divorced from the material that generated the label.
http://algorithms.wtf

It is free online. It starts with recursion and dynamic programming. I felt like dynamic programming really clicked for me after reading the first few chapters but this was probably the 3rd or 4th book I read on the subject.
I was with you until the end.

> Instead of counteracting this tendency in some way most Silicon Valley companies actually amplify the problem by running puzzle interviews and structuring their work around glorified paperclip maximization. This is why so many systems we have to use today are extremely complex, highly optimized for some specific criteria, but ultimately designed like shit.

That's quite a jump. There are multitudes of interacting systems that cause complexity in software, from time constraints, to company structure, to incorrectly mapping the domain, to sometimes incompetency. Companies that don't hire and reward the behavior you outline have just as complex systems. Maybe there's something else there?