skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kara Swisher of The New York Times (previously ReCode) has been absolutely biting in her criticisms of Google generally, Youtube specifically, and other current tech monopolies.

Directly to Susan Wojcicki's face in a live public interview:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zKrQzJgFWdw

(Starting about 1:50 into the interview.)

Also numerous times in her column and podcast (I can chase those down if requested, though they should be prominent).

See "Algorithms Won’t Fix What’s Wrong With YouTube"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/14/opinion/youtube-algorithm... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20184282)
Felt like political pressure meant Marks could not leave that room without some positive vote, and they would make up questions until it happened.

Sad day for science. No one on earth can tell a 65 yo or HCW with confidence that they will be better off after the booster than before. No good efficacy data, no good safety data on boosters.
What's wrong with it? It's your body after all.
Make a product people want to use.
People didn't like their legs being part of the car's crumple zone: https://carbuzz.com/news/famously-unsafe-bmw-isetta
I have no problem with either one of those. I watch Netflix, YouTube, DailyMotion and Vimeo without issue, and game performance is quite good under modern Proton. If those were your two big sticking points, it's probably time to try Linux again.
Notice the price of brick really takes off in the early 70's.

Perhaps yet another example graph for
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
> The only thing that prevents me from riding an e-scooter to work every day is bad weather

In the Chinese context, riding an e-scooter to work every day is presumably fairly common, though much less common than riding an unpowered bicycle.

Bad weather is dealt with by wearing bike ponchos.
Because kids watch furniture restoration videos that GP was talking about?
I'm just happy we've all settled on a single endian-ness :)
It's been a long, long time since I read an LATimes article. It looks like they finally allowed people from Europe to view their website, after years of blocking it completely due to not willing to deal with GDPR. Well done, and "finally".
It won't happen. It'll be put in the 'too hard' basket. Australia doesn't have any nuclear industry, or any nuclear expertise that would allow it to happen.

That was just a distraction from the real activity which was the vastly increased absorption of Australia into the US's military web. A loss of Australian independent military action.

It'll end in tears, and very soon.
I wanna say speed skating is the only dependably crossover sport so far? Not just from the Heidens 40 years ago, lots of other examples here: https://www.google.com/search?q=speed+skating+cycling
It's quite a few clicks when you could just mentally skip over it, but indeed I wanted it to learn so I went through the trouble. Again and again. Probably more than a hundred times. It doesn't learn. I just pass over them now. The algorithm probably knows better than all of us what keeps us longer on the site anyway and the button is just a dummy.
It seems very likely. This illness started manifesting itself only recently, and only in the US. Someone is putting something in the dank.
The quick and dirty solution to this is to have a client response handler that checks for a header set on responses to ensure its a compatible version, then prompt a page refresh if not.
> Most things we take for granted like being able to get a week's worth of groceries home in one trip or going to enjoy a restaurant that specializes in a niche style, or buying cheap goods at a warehouse store, or being able to get to a hospital within half an hour all require automobile infrastructure

It's possible to do these things without a car if your city has prioritized making that a reality. The exact mode depends on the city. Some examples:

* In the Netherlands, cycling infrastructure is strong enough that you can bike to a big box store outside the city and load up your bike with what you need [0]. You can fit a week's worth of goods in a cargo bike [1] if that's your style. There is also an argument to be made that you don't need to buy groceries weekly if your city is dense and you have a store nearby.

* In Pittsburgh, there are flyer (fast track) busses that will take you to malls in the northern car-oriented suburbs as well as light rail to the southern suburbs. So you can reach most niche stores in the metro area by bus/light rail. Although it's pedestrian hostile in the northern burbs. In the city proper, bus coverage is good enough to get basically anywhere including all the niche restaurants. Though light rail is more frequent and pleasant. Bus frequency and reliability is just OK, not great. Could be improved by changing priorities. My point here is that Pittsburgh's urban form is not great but they still came up with transit solutions that work for average people.

* In Toronto, busses run every 10 minutes on an enormous number of routes. This reduces transfer times so much that travel time is nearly on parity with cars, even though the city is very car-oriented.

I don't understand your note about hospitals because ambulances get the right of way and can travel in bus lanes.

> The fact is taking a leisurely stroll on a nice spring morning when you want to is very different from being forced to walk for miles through freezing rain in November after a long day of hard work.

I agree, but it's not so bad in a dense urban area with adequate bus shelters, sidewalk clearing and bus lines scattered everywhere.

> Anyone telling you that the simple existence of car infrastructure is the problem has not thought through what elimination of that infrastructure really means.

The simple existence of car infrastructure is the problem because it causes sprawl and exacerbates our climate emergency. Cities have already come up with the solution and that is good transit, active transit included.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8F5hXqS-Ac

[1] https://www.bakfiets.nl/bestanden/afbeelding/2019/374-cargo-...
The article's fetishization of the experience of the print book and assertions about fundamental differences in reading based on it are luddite.

It's a funny argument to be picking at this moment. There are headlines everywhere about the publishing industry being in crisis for the indefinite future because of supply chain issues and shortages causing systemic break down in bookbinding and delivery, with the take-away warning being, "physical books are going to be hard to find this fall..."

I like books. I like physical books. I read ebooks every day on the Kindle, but I also buy 20x more physical books than the average American.

There are differences. Ebooks and readers could be better. But this sort of polemicism is oddly off key and ill-timed.

Hot-take: like everyone, Ian there is cranky and angry because of the compounded stress of the Trumpist/QAnon horror show, climate change, the pandemic, etc. I know I am.

The Atlantic thought doesn't get that excuse. It's an institution, not an individual...
One thing you can do in the shared library is to have a version number constant that is always passed in the rpc. That way if the client is stale, it can easily be detected, and you only have to change 1 place when you update the shared structs.
JavaScript FinalizationRegistry
I am a professional traffic engineer and I build micro-simulation models for most of the projects I am involved with. I can say that compared to software that is used in industry (PTV Vissim, PTV Vistro, and Trafficware Synchro) it looks like A/B is a reasonable toy model that can get pretty close to the real thing. I think it is great that software exists at a level for individuals without huge budgets to be able to build and play around with traffic networks. Automating the intersection setup goes a long way toward this type of tool being accessible to the lay person. All that being said, I think the limitations of any model are important to understand when interpreting the outputs. I can take any model and make traffic flow or decrease the delay per vehicle, that doesn't mean my results are realistic.

Keep up the work, this is an awesome tool and I hope it can get to the point where it can easily help inform people about traffic design and simulation.
Unfortunately, as you've discovered, giraffes are often used by crackpots to try to disprove evolution. Google seems to get around this by heavily boosting known authoritative sources like National Geographic and NIH. But, sadly, those are JS/image heavy sites.
Did no one here watch the video version?
Weird, but my experience is mostly with the land border so maybe it’s different
Those are in a category called music.

Even without the category system, if the user never ever goes back to rewatch a video they've seen, it could perhaps realize that the user doesn't want to rewatch videos they've already seen. Or if some videos or channels have a very high re-watch rate and others don't (presumably music channels vs., say, a random furniture restoration channel), it could tune for that. Clearly they're not separating the types, and it's not because they're not capable.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Care to expand?
Agreed, it's been a lot of demanding perfection from vaccines in case there's some nebulous potential harm - a feeling we can never assuage - while allowing the virus with known, realized, actual harm run rampant.

I still hear people talk about how they don't want the vaccine "because it hasn't been studied enough" when it's literally been given almost six billion times.
Make sure it wasn’t iMessage
I have my watch history turned off so the red bar doesn't appear in thumbnails of videos I left a quarter way through. YouTube still shows me videos that I've watched years ago (Primitive Technology for example a channel which has stopped producing content) and left likes on. How is it that their algorithm doesn't factor in likes/ dislikes at all?!
You mean 'disease induced immunity'?
Yeah I'm wrong, I was thinking of ESPP, not RSUs.
The paper (Open Access!!!) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=941... Says that I am wrong, and I am willing to trust their analysis.
Still, why not send actual CSAM then, so that they are actually caught? Getting them into review just causes them inconvenience. Remember, only the flagged images will be reviewed, and only they could ever be sent to law enforcement, so it wouldn't even reveal their private photos or anything like that.
I only mind when they make the software worse or hurt whatever i’m trying to do, e.g. more slowdowns or making some feature harder to use (and not just moving it somewhere else, actually removing it or adding steps). Or if the update fails to download and leaves my software in an unusable state.

But if your app updates with minimal inconvenience, good for you. In fact it comes in handy when the update adds new features or improves performance.
I would doubt that a spectral analysis would be revealing, or indeed, of any use whatsoever. After all, such an analysis would vary from performance to performance, or even between recordings of the same performance. It would seem more likely that the musical contents would somehow be the relevant factor, although this is speculative, of course.
[citation needed]

You can see effectiveness of response based on various states and regions that responded differently.
I don’t really think that IPOing is about acquiring more resources. The point is to get rich. The resources are the means to do that, and everything else is a happy side effect.

Hopefully, yes, they will choose to do as you say. But the tickets didn’t language because they were resource constrained. They languished because they were worthless, in the monetary sense.
That's not my argument. My argument is that the market adjusts to value labor accurately, and no matter what you do, someone picking onions is going to earn a wage that's difficult to live on once all the prices adjust. Yes in the short term they can buy more Big Macs, but then the price of Big Macs will go up, and they'll be back where they started. You're correct that this is not what triggered the waves of inflation in Argentina. But if the government then steps in and prevents retailers from raising their prices, in an attempt to make sure the worker's wages can buy what they bought yesterday, you end up with Argentine- or Venezuela-style purchase limits and shortages on basic foodstuffs, and ultimately a black market for those as well as a blue market for hard currency.

If you want to make the argument that the middle class can afford to pay more for the goods they buy, and that money should find its way to the laborers who produce the goods, I think that's a worthy moral goal. But I think if you look at the price increases and the housing crises going on around the US, it's pretty clear that "livable wages" have aggravated those things rather than make anything more livable. All it's done is essentially made the money the middle class had in the bank less valuable than it was last year. The main beneficiaries of inflation, and the people who have maintained or increased the value of their assets, are landlords and investors. Minimum wage increases and price controls are two sides of the same inflationary coin, and they both serve to funnel value upward to the top 10%.
Is it pronounced "sheshe" ?
Presumably the advantage of equity is also the ability to exercise some control over the business (the degree to which depends on the shareholder's agreements)
What you describe is in use in the Netherlands. Although when I lived there I was never a fan of mixing motorised and unmotorised on the bike paths.
Add another one to the list:

In the 1950's, the Dalles Dam was built and submerged one of North America's longest continuously populated settlement (over 10,000 years).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celilo_Falls
Not necessarily so from what I've read about neutralizing antibodies. You'll only have a lot of them for a while after an exposure, but if they latch onto, in this case, every spike protein on the surface of a SARS-CoV-2 virus, the virus will never get a chance to infect a cell. Antibodies latched onto surface proteins can also stick to each other and form clumps that limit or eliminate the ability to infect.

Otherwise you're correct as far as I know, the other mechanisms of the adaptive immune system only come into play once cells get infected. But there might not be very many of them, perhaps not enough for a RT-PCR test to find.
This is actually being done in France:

Construction on a new reactor, Flamanville 3, began on 4 December 2007.[4] The new unit is an Areva European Pressurized Reactor type and is planned to have a nameplate capacity of 1,650 MWe. EDF estimated the cost at €3.3 billion[4] and stated it would start commercial operations in 2012, after construction lasting 54 months.[5] The latest cost estimate (July 2020) is at €19.1 billion, with commissioning planned tentatively at the end of 2022.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...
> I think that YT could make a legitimate case that its recommendation algorithm is neutral

They’d have to remove shadow banning at the very least. I’m also virtually certain that their algorithms are machine-learning based, and as such very difficult to inspect, debug, and other ML based algorithms have proven to be biased in other contexts (like facial recognition).

> I don't agree that not-on-YT means no wide audience.

I… stand corrected, I guess. Also, I’ve just discussed it with my partner, and she pointed out a marginal exodus away from YouTube, which may amplify and chip away at their dominance.

> A service that only shows/points you at videos from channels you've subscribed too is radically different from the YT of today.

It would be indeed. YouTube is significant in the way it merges 3 tools together: hosting, search, and recommendations. They could be separate. (By the way, Google itself tends to merge search and recommendations, the famous "filter bubble".)
What this does is to tune the recommendations for that session to what you view for that session.

If you blindly follow some pratfalls or kittens video, you'll get served up junk. If you happen to be researching some specific topic (how-tos, explainers, academics, technical topics being among my favourites), you'll tend to find you're getting recommendations that follow from that initial topic.

I still treat recommendations quite warily, but at least the ones that come up in such sessions are somewhat better than standard fare.

(I never use YT whilst authenticated / logged in.)
Is there a link to the 248MP image?
As long time user I think this can almost certainly be explained by excessive smoke inhalation. Tobacco smoke can cause nausea & vomiting and even wildfire smoke can cause nausea, and I'd expect vomiting as well if you huffed enough of it.

When I was a pre-teen I vomited once after smoking way too many cigarettes and when I was a teen I vomited once after taking way too many giant bong hits. Back then we had daily competitions to see who could take and "press" the biggest hits. We were kids, and we were stupid.

The key to smoking today's weed is to sip a very small puff of it. I can certainly see how one could cause themselves to vomit if they haven't figured that out.
This is very cool. However I'm not sure how much torque the ball can endure. All gears have to be really strong and very precise. Is it really practical?
If you want the 'aha' moment have a look at most software vendors incomes statements.

They spend 2x more on selling than they do on R&D.

So when that Oracle Sales Guy is giving you the pretty talk, and taking you to lunch remember that all that money your sending to Oracle is literally mostly going to him! The product makers just get 'a cut'.

Now consider how much of high tech is just that, sales and marketing, conferences and luncheons.

That's a staggering waste for a developed economy.

We are very inefficient with these things, we need better approach to IT.
I got in to machining at the start of the pandemic, I suppose just short of two years ago. Absolutely brilliant hobby.

I remember a comment here a while ago about a lad who was interested broadly in systems and diagnostics, and had initially aimed to be a doctor. They then discovered they wanted to work on systems designed by logical first principles, and pivoted to comp sci and programming - only to find they'd discovered a whole new kind of almost random organic system.

I think machining is about as close as it gets, in terms of the physical. The depth to the subject is off th charts. It all logically follows from first principles ;everything is rubber ;D

It has an incredibly satisfying balance between the theoretical and the applied.

Physical mechanics is a truly beautiful thing. Doing it yourself is equally fascinating and fun.

Can't recommend it enough.
> A by-the-minute car service is pointless if I have to take a taxi to get to the car.

I had the same problem when I was considering using Zipcar to visit Santa Cruz from San Francisco. I had no problem paying Zipcar's rate for the time it would take to travel. But Zipcar charges you for the time between when you take the car out of its designated parking spot and when you return it to the same designated parking spot, which completely defeats the purpose.
For anyone that was using it personally, and was sad to see it go:

I had a decent experience switching to using the Tablo Dual Lite. It's a local TV tuner and DVR. Mine has 2 tuners, but they also a 4 tuner device.

It does, unlike Locast, require fiddling around with an antenna, but I guess the upside is that nobody can sue it into oblivion.

It does require a subscription for the guide ($5/month) and for the built-in commercial skip (another $5/month), which isn't terrific. But, the UI and the DVR seem more polished than what I was getting using Locast with Stremium (cloud DVR) before. It does take a few seconds to tune into a channel also, which can be annoying.
> Presumably this has already occurred. COVID daily death rates in the US are on track to meet or exceed the previous all time high. It is undeniable at this point that the vaccine effectively eliminates the possibility of death from COVID-19, so there are presumably still many Americans without protective immunity.

It’s a bit tough to follow the logic of this comment. If we have more vaccinated than ever, but there are more cases and deaths than ever, how does it therefore follow that it is “undeniable” that the vaccines are doing exactly what we want? Maybe and perhaps that can be partially explained through mutations, but with more than half the population fully vaccinated by now, you’d think that infection rates would be declining, not increasing. It’s very easy to see how vaccine skeptics would continue to think that everything doesn’t fully add up here.

PS: What tests did your friends use to differentiate between alpha and delta infection?
The wasm file is dc7bb6f6208af7f13f16.module.wasm which is 2MB uncompressed.
so you are against doctors and prescriptions?
This is a delightful article that isn't at all what I thought it would be about. The section about how Britain's brick tax disincentivized experimenting with new technology is great stuff.

I thought it would talk about how brick got displaced by newer building tech. It mostly talks about how making bricks got moved from a manual process to a mechanized one.

I will also note that the Great Fire of London in 1666 is one of the reasons London and Britain were so very powerful and globally influential. So much of the city was destroyed that when they rebuilt it, they de facto modernized the city. It was the most modern city in the world because of the fire.

Another random factoid that comes to mind: Some guy who was a bricklayer all his life became locally important in, I believe, Washington DC when he was an old man and was the only guy they could find who knew how to authentically recreate the old bricks these historic buildings were made from. (There were many old buildings in need of restoration at that point.)
To a point though.

Selling your only operating assets just because they're not operating at the moment seems pretty short sighted.

Creditors may have forced their hand a degree, but to me it feels like a factory selling their machinery because demand is down this year.

If you're going to sell all your cars as a rental company, might as well liquidate your whole company and close up shop.
Use a IBM Model M Keyboard on MacBook Pro M1, Remap Caps Lock to Command⌘
EUC are good alternative to bicycles for commuting (or recreation). They're a bit heavy to carry, but can be rolled using handle like a travel bag with wheels.

Be aware of safety, helmet is must, many wear motorcycle gear. They are relatively easy to get started and go on very high speed. Look online for safety tips and crash videos to get a sense.
This is a really important point which is being missed by virtually all commentators on this topic.
No. It must be novel, non-obvious and "useful", which obviously was considered to be fulfilled by the patent office. The patent describes how the invention can be used instead of tubes.
There was proper testing of vaccines. You only ever need six months of it.

https://bostonreview.net/science-nature/andrew-l-croxford-lo...

And its a myth that the virus only affects some neat tidy subpopulation like those over 70.

Places like Idaho are rationing care in their hospitals where the ICUs are full of unvaccinated younger COVID cases. Care for COVID patients is also resource intensive and requires weeks in the ICU which makes its impact on the hospital system disproportionately high for every single case.

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/17/1038180254/all-the-hospitals-...

Doctors are now deciding who is going to die by denying people medical care because there isn't enough to go around and practice the kind of triage that that we haven't even practiced in war zones for a long time.
How Epic Games Made a Dent in Apple’s App Store Domination
Thank you for the link. I'd not even heard of this before.