skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author states repeatedly that 'media' is trying to control 'us', but not what this media has to gain by mask wearing.

The more likely goal is to continue spending money (or eyeball time / clicks ) on media.

Yes, for profit media screams stupid headlines... For profit. business insider' as important media? Really?

There is no reason to reasonably and rationally discuss an issue raised by an article which takes this position... And does not discuss timing of vaccines, Delta variant, population skew, or the goal of preventing hospital overload.

I love the graph where the author says 'sure, maybe fewer people died, but...' . Classic.
Their goods will cost more, but they'll also have more income, both from employers paying more for labor and from the direct payments from UBI.

And even if the benefits are entirely "inflated away" in aggregate (which is extremely dubious given that UBI produces real economic value in terms of stability), that's just the aggregate effect. To take an extreme example, if the Fed prints 1,000,000 exadollars and distributes them equally, then yeah it's pure inflation, but it also massively redistributes wealth to the point where everyone is practically identical. Hopefully that example demonstrates that the effect isn't zero even if it's just "inflating itself away."

Finally, I object to treating this question in pure economic terms. We shouldn't be overly concerned with optimizing aggregate economic outcomes for society. Those at the top end can more than afford to give up some wealth, and those at the bottom are struggling to a heartbreaking degree. The utility function of holding wealth is not linear and if you're interested in increasing everyone's well-being then that's a fact you have to address.
Interestingly, the one person I know that I gave the example over was almost hospitalized on his 2nd post-vaccine case of covid. It was worst than his first. But it also was likely a different variant than his 2020 case.
There are theories. Such as the discrepancy being due to sterile neutrinos (also explaining dark matter). Confirming or rejecting through data is currently underway, is not at six sigma, and won’t be for years due to rareness and difficulty of detecting events. So it isn’t being talked about since we are in the lurch.
Again, the problems that people were having 10, 50, 100 years ago are largely the same ones as today.

The financial industry has changed in some ways but most of it is exactly the same.

Viewing everything as personal is why people don't learn from history. This is why financial markets have cycles.
From the illustrations FLW's concept of a super-tall skyscraper looks very much like the Burj Khalifa.
That too is a relevant discussion, but probably better off without sarcasm and with a little bit more intellectual honesty.

If I had to pick one point - it's that absolutely, yes, freedom is great, options are great. We HAVE the social and legal freedom to choose what lifestyle and combination makes the most sense for our family. And we weigh all the pros and cons and think of short and long term benefits and then have that discussion again few months later to see if anything has changed. We are lucky, blessed and privileged, on many different levels. So I don't feel picked on; I only wish more people here and around the world had the freedom, support and opportunities my wife and I have.

(as others have pointed out, daycare is not necessarily a bad thing. It's staffed by certified professionals who specialize in teaching kids - whereas let's be honest I'm just making it up as a parent. It's also great opportunity to socialize and make friends outside of their family. We don't see daycare as a downside - we see it as opportunity for our kids to get diverse experience between family and friends. As I said discussions revolve around all the many factors and options but certainly does not start from "daycare is bad" stance)
In other words, you're saying that it hurts them...
You can't find a hosting provider for an anti-obesity forum? I would think there are all types of servers you could find.
We could always invite in more au-pairs using the J1 visa. Many au pairs end up taking up college here and switch to an F1 visa. This system is tested and works well.
I've had trouble locating English language resources, but if you speak German:

- finanztip.de plus their social media presence are a great way to start

- Stiftung Warentest/Finanztest for general financial product tests

- Finanzfluss' social media presence is great, too.

- Smaller scale sources like Finanzwesir, Gerd Kommer's books plus his company's blog for well researched treatises of all things finance, backed by data.

- Education by workshop companies like Madame Moneypenny that teach hands on.

Those are my favorite sources.
That's pretty much my take on America right now as well coincidentally.
One way people could start is by uploading content on both, Youtube and a PeerTube instance and mention their PeerTube content in YouTube videos. This way they also create a kind of online backup, in case YouTube's algorithms decide to take them down.
> If private companies don't, nobody will.

All these efforts are literally being paid for by NASA.
They could have made the coin out of aluminum.
They might've purchased a decryption key from some dark corner of the internet and after failing to trace the money to the bad-guy they're now hoping to track him down by IP address. Probably it would surface in court that you're not the bad guy they're after, but who knows what kind of bad things they'll do to you in the meantime.
> Having parents looking after kids is a far better solution than outsourcing parenting to an external company

I don't necessarily agree with this. If the people/company that is looking after the children can do a good job, then it's far more efficient to have multiple children per person (company) vs 1-2 per person (parent). Plus (some of) the people that work for the company generally have an education that supports good developmental growth for the children under their care.
You can browse for all of them on https://tvtropes.org/
Empirically grounded technology forecasts and the energy transition [pdf]
Covid will kill this guy.
Some HN users are stuck in an interesting privacy paradox. Most of the time when a company or government tries to undermine privacy or encryption they jump at the throat and point out the need for both.

However, it seems when we actually accomplish those goals and create systems that are truly anonymous, private and/or encrypted they basically say it's only for criminals and child abuse.
Can't wait to see and ad for Coca Cola or Red Bull on the moon.
I enjoy Louis Rossmann and all, and I've learned a lot about computers from his videos.

But this video is purely one lay person's opinion. I'd go as far to say "speculation."
If you think that society can function without those jobs being done, then there actually isn't an issue and there isn't a shortage, there's actually a surplus. If you don't think that society can function with a pure workforce of managers, bureaucrats, and specialists, then you believe that no matter the individual merits and judgments you make of people's inherent worth, a large proportion of them will actually have to build, move, or operate physical objects.

These are the people who you're saying are asking for a free lunch. The people who do things, rather than comment on them. If everyone reached the baseline of worthiness that you've set up, you'd just have more educated strawberry pickers (or import more slaves.)

> But the progress in labor fairness in the US, 8 hour work days, minimum wage, workplace safety, has been fought for in literal blood.

The blood of the people you're talking shit about. Not your blood, not your classes' blood. The you 100 years ago was making this same fucking speech about how spoiled workers were for wanting any of that, and that in your day you had actual slaves who understood the value of work.

This is really a slimy take. If we paid people based on their effort rather than our leverage, there wouldn't be a problem. Free lunches are being eaten, but not by the people who quit washing dishes and waiting tables i.e. making and serving your lunch.
Thank you for your feedback. I would love to get more insights into your use cases---we can use them as inspiration as we continue to improve the technology in this space. Please feel free to send us your use cases where Flash Fill fails at prose-contact@microsoft.com.

You may consider watching this 5-minute video segment starting at 4:30 to get a sense of the current scope of Flash Fill (i.e., when it is expected to work, and when it isn't): <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1YXge3C8RI&t=270s>
Why would copyleft have anything to do with the quality of content people upload? I am not quite following the connection there.
> replaced more polluting gases with “cleaner” fluorine

yikes
Tax credits are not the only mechanism for government funding.

We already have a very successful model of government provided childcare: the public school system.
> That M$ company produced something that literally "just fucking works exactly as you would imagine/hope it does".

We used to use that with our son when he was younger. We found some problems with it:

1) Popping up a button saying "ask a parent for more time" was a problem – it was encouraging him in asking for more. I wish there was a way to turn that off, but at least at the time there wasn't

2) It was unreliable, sometimes we would give him more time and he wouldn't get it and he'd get upset

3) The monitoring data on how much time he used on each app was often wrong

We haven't used it for a couple of years though, so maybe it has improved since. I wrote my own parental control software and we use that now. Its big advantage is that it does exactly what I want, and I can experiment with changing how it behaves and observing how our children respond – can't get that with an off-the-shelf solution
Freenet is not a point-to-point network. I.e. you cannot address a specific computer on Freenet by something like an IP.

(Well you can, but you shouldn't want to, will explain below.)

Freenet is a datastore: It addresses content, not computers.

So a Freenet address points to a file or a directory of files (a zip). The addresses can be versioned so files/dirs can be updated.

A file/dir may be stored anywhere in Freenet. Where it is stored is not known - the machines which store it are anonymous so censorship is prevented. If many people request a file, it will get stored on more machines automatically.

Now of course you can make a specific computer constantly publish new versions of a file to "send" data like on IP and poll for a remote file to receive data. This can emulate direct connections and does work.

But it invalidates the whole point of Freenet:

Freenet wants to be censorship-resistant, so content should not rely on a single computer to keep existing because that is a single point of failure.
UK defence has the concept of 'lines of development'. When creating a new capability, you need to think through

* the training needed to use it

* the equipment it will require

* the personnel needed to operate it

* the policy associated with its use

* the information it will require

* where it will sit in an organisation

* the infrastructure required

* how it will be supported through-life

And some others. These are a great checklist of things that if not considered can cause a system to fail / be unused.

Also... Before enlightenment, fetch water, chop wood. After enlightenment, fetch water, chop wood.
Undersea internet cables connect Pacific islands to the world, but
The issue they are addressing, is that some people assert a natural origin of COVID-19 as fact, when in fact as shown in this article, there is no evidence to support it.

So in one sense you're right, we can only debate the likelihood of finding facts to support the theory of lab leak vs natural origin right now. The aim of this paper is to encourage that debate rather than try to silence it, the way the natural origin proponents seem to want to do.
> Citation needed.

https://www.cato.org/blog/poll-59-americans-have-favorable-v...
I said was I couldn’t find another place that would host it. I didn’t say that Reddit didn’t have a right to remove it.
See Wikipedia on SARS section “origin and animal vectors”
Are you sure those are the same people?
> which got us Trump and the current antivax movement

I think that you are stretching it a bit here. Claiming that individualism is responsible for that seems unsubstantiated.
> As long as you set up everything correctly it's fairly pain-free

This is not true. Maybe you got it working for you (or maybe you never really measured your deliverability), but as a general advice that's just wrong. I've run my own email server for years and I've found it extremely difficult to get deliverability to Outlook and Gmail. You won't even get access to their deliverability debugging tools unless you send large volumes of email. Perversely, a small-volume sender is more likely to be classified as spam than a large-volume sender.
China Mogul Loses $27B in World’s Biggest Wealth Drop
> But at least we aren't "regressing" to how societies always worked, having the expectation that a woman would prioritise the care of children over a "career".

No, but where there are 2 parents involved in the child's birth (most cases), we _should_ have the expectation that both of those parents contribute to raising the child, barring edge cases.
Art will never be replaced by AI because art isn't about just literally the manifestation itself, it's also about the intersection between the cultural boundaries and the individual as well.

Taking two pieces (of whatever medium) produced by a human and an AI and comparing them - if the two are the same, that's fine. However if you knew the human involved had some extraordinary circumstances involved in its creation, many would elevate the human's piece despite being literally the same as the AI's
Legal or not, the fact that many people host and share dozens of large torrents from their home servers for free belies the claim that sharing video would necessarily be too expensive to be practical or would devolve back to turn off the century RealVideo quality.
Just wanted to second that I think Zeynep Tufekci has consistently had by far the best rational analysis of the pandemic over the past 18+ months. I find her commentary always does a great job at analysis and she never falls into the trap of social pressure affecting her conclusions or messaging.
No. "Pomegranate" comes from the Latin "pomum granatum," the 'fruit having many seeds.' Granum means grain or seed, and granatus is a pseudo-participial form (like "mentulatus") meaning 'endowed with seeds.' Granada, the city, likely derives its name from Arabic.
I’m pessimistic about tech fixes, not because it can’t be done but because there is zero incentive. Like I said all the money and all the incentive is toward invading privacy.

Nobody is going to seriously try unless people are willing to pay for it in significant numbers. I don’t see that. Most people just don’t care or don’t understand.

There is also quite a bit of surface area to defend if you are trying to make privacy guarding OSes or browsers. Look at how hard it is to eliminate browser fingerprinting. There are so many ways to infer unique information.
Most people don’t care about the license of a place to put their videos
This used to be the case, but with io_uring, Linux has very much non-broken buffered async I/O. (Windows has copied io_uring pretty much verbatim now, but that's a different story.)
> the cost of childcare for both children encroaches the income of one parent alone

That's the case in the US. In countries where family welfare policies exist and where governments incentive and support families: that's hardly the case.
Childcare is pretty much free or does not cost as nearly as much as in the US.

I think the US may be an advanced country for many aspects, but it is just ridiculously behind when it comes to healthcare and families.
> If you get caught by this you can request "delivery mitigation" (i.e. removal from their IP blacklist) here:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=614866

Microsoft only provides delivery mitigation for large-volume senders. Small-volume senders (i.e. not spam senders) will not be provided delivery mitigation. That's from my personal experience anyway.

> You can also join the "Smart Network Data Service" (SNDS) program, which can alert you in the future if you are re-listed and sometimes will provide additional information about why the IP has been listed.

Unless you are a large-volume sender, you will not be able to get ANY information out of SNDS.
I see. What are the statistics for the other countries in the comparison? (They’re not that different.)

How does it happen that thousands of foreign-born immigrants die? Why does it happen in Sweden only? Why is that an explanation or an excuse, as it seems to be put forth?

The people that died were simply killed by the Swedish authorities’ appalling mismanagement of the pandemic.
The treaty means you can’t claim territory, but you can establish bases, and extract and use resources. What it means in practice is you can’t make a claim, you just go and take what you need, and once you vacate a site others can come along and occupy it. They just cant interfere with any equipment you leave in place.
Nigeria spends N1.03 trln on debt service in April vs. ~CBN
The Self-Designing High-Reliability Organization (1987)
>>you're not entitled to force someone else to print anything.

Unless you're the surgeon general. Then you can force private companies to publish compelled speech on their alcohol and tobacco products.
Then why did you bring it up at all?
sendfile() with splice and io_uring is similar? I know that this is very experimental on Linux.

The overall idea is to copy bytes from disk to the socket with almost no allocation and not blocking, this is the idea right?
The scary part is that it's impossible to verify where most of the online content on both sides come from. The enemies of the West must be having a field day with how easy it is to insert radically opposite and polarising views into each side and then watching big issues become quashed, and little issues become magnified beyond proportion.
it's intrinsic value is still zero
My comment comes from chatter I've seen from actual infectious disease specialist and my friend who's has a masters in public health. My friend was assuring people that getting the second dose 'late' wasn't going to be a problem.

Other chatter I've seen is that which part of the immune system does the heavy lifting varies depending on the infectious agent. With Covid it's the CD4 T lymphocytes that appear to what's important. Antibodies by themselves aren't that effective. (Notable antibody based therapy has been a bust with Covid19)
Because we live in the united corporations of America.
Necessary for what? To convince everyone to stop with masks and restrictions?

It's not just about mortality rates. The other problem is hospitalizations. If you get in a bad car accident, get a bad infection, or have a pregnancy go bad you want an ICU bed not occupied by someone drowning from COVID. I expect most of these mortality rates are from places that didn't have their hospital systems collapse and have to ration care. I think US is heading there in some states, then mortality will get closer to that hospitalization rate.

Excess mortality has to somehow account for reduced commuting, reduced regular medical visits, more domestic violence, etc it's a mixed bag when you are dealing with pandemic behavioral changes do they have real models for all that?
I’d bet you and I both would agree that we don’t like people who recklessly put themselves in a situation where they are at extreme risk to catch or spread COVID. If we were to have a forum that criticized people who won’t vaccinate, won’t distance, won’t wear protective masks, and promote unproven treatments would that be a “hate group?”
Perhaps efficiency shouldn't be the thing we optimize for in this case. If you look at the internet it's extremely inefficient, there are millions of DNS servers all kind of have semi recent information about domains. There are millions of websites mainly hosted on extremely inefficient servers. There are millions of images and other assets mainly compressed less than they should be wasting tons of bandwidth. Yet here we are, the internet works and it works great. It'd be a sad day if someone argued that we should abandon all this and give the keys to someone like Google? Because it'd be more efficient? Screw that!
A significant portion of content creators do it as a full time job. Ads is a stable revenue stream for these content creators. You as a consumer are free to move to any decentralized video platform you like, but the main bottleneck for any significant shift in market share depends on content creators, and ultimately, on advertisers.
> I've run my own for about 4 years now with mail-in-a-box. It's on digital ocean, and it delivers fine to everyone. Like others have said, you just have to watch the lists to see if you end up in a block of IPs that gets blacklisted

This is not true. I've also run my own server for several yes (on AWS), I've never seen the IP on any blacklists, and yet my deliverability to Outlook and Gmail is extremely bad (I've since moved on to using Postmark for sending emails).
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This is a good point. Censorship-resistance sounds good in theory, but when you actually think about it there is certain stuff that everybody would agree needs to be censored.
I agree. I noticed the same as you, when I talk to people; sometimes they don't know what's easy, what's hard or even what's possible to do with code. Talking to them and trying to understand what they're trying to do often leads to a better result.
Same in Canada.. always seemed fair enough to me and I assumed it was standard but now I'm curious how many other ways they are and how they shake out.
The above post is deliberately misleading since:

1) Nobody questions her WIV reporting. She has multiple sources and in 2021 they are the most likely explanations, not an "alternative." There are enough FOIA documents to prove a GoF coverup by Fauci and Daszak, and enough video to show what was happening inside WIV.

The DOE reported in May 2020 that a corona lab leak was possible, and the only reason Fauci wasn't fired was to avoid making him a martyr - big mistake, since Fauci was able to coordinate a coverup for over a year.

The head of WHO also admitted that a lab leak was possible in summer 2021.

2) Hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin are prescribed by medical doctors for corona, so that's a red herring. But that's a separate issue than her year-long, accurate WIV reporting.

3) Youtube bans anybody who doesn't agree with their narrative - it's a badge of honor at this point.

The problem is that people like shakna are the ones who are in fact anti-science, just endlessly parroting MSM narratives instead of examining the facts. If you haven't followed the WIV investigation closely, then stop posting misinformation.
Troy Hunt on Twitter: “I don't like getting emails from me”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28580615
What really interests me is, how I can host a PeerTube instance, without getting into all sorts of responsibility issues, like people uploading videos containing illegal stuff (upload filter laws). I would love to give my server something to do, but with the current law, I simply do not want to be responsible for what people upload and spread via my instance and my server. Does PeerTube offer me a way of reviewing videos before they can be found and a way of telling people, that they are responsible themselves and have that accepted by law? And how do other instance admins manage this? Does anyone here have that experience?
I think what's missed is that there doesn't have to be a conspiracy behind a unified agenda. People whose goals and interests converge can coordinate without actually colluding.