skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If you build a house of straw because you're not technically savvy to build it out of brick doesn't mean you get to complain that the wind blew it down even if it was a big bad wolf.

Let's apply this reasoning to a few other examples. Let's say you live in the jungle, and build your house to jungle building codes. Then, a logging company comes in and dismantles your furniture to make particle board for IKEA products. One could argue that if you were more competent, you'd be able to form a well-armed militia, build land vehicles and air craft, and defend your jungle home against the invaders, who are not infinitely powerful and could be dissuaded by even a reasonably well-run guerilla uprising. One might also argue that that's crazy. ;)

To put it another way, if being a guerilla fighter is the only way to have furniture in the jungle, we wouldn't expect everyone to become guerilla fighters, we'd expect a few people to become guerillas while most people lost their furniture.

Here's another example. Let's say you're a US citizen concerned about civil asset forfeiture. If you were more competent, you would smuggle your wallet across the states where that happens inside of your hubcaps, or maybe in a drone, or perhaps in a shallow-water submarine. On the other hand, it's a bit might-makes-right to assert that only people who can assemble smuggling vehicles have property rights. Again, if that was the way to have property rights, we'd expect a few people to become smugglers and almost everyone else to lose property.

So finally coming back around to the YouTube thing, if we say that the way to have a platform is to build servers, organize communications networks, and arrange payments outside of the usual system, then we would expect a few people, almost all of them criminals, to do that, while most people simply would lose their platform.
Not unlike the censoring any discussion of the lab leak hypothesis they (the censors) better be perfectly accurate every single time.

The moment they get it wrong and censor something that turns out to be the truth they lose 100% of their credibility and become a part of the conspiracy.
it is possible, as i stated just below in my comment i'm simply not aware of any exceptions.

to be sure, i specifically selected cryptography in the very first comment for a specific reason. math subspecialties require rather unhealthy amounts of training that is best started as early as practically possible. it is very hard to do, a mentor often helps and speeds up the process, and by the time you start doing original research as a fully self-taught mathematician, well, you might as well get get some recognition of your efforts by way of getting a degree, plus potentially get funded to do it. why not?

due to several factors, in all probability, successful applicants for mathematical research (cryptology) positions will have a phd, if nothing else simply because prior original research is likely to be required. competition pushes up the entry barrier as high as possible, for better or worse, and so the exceptions in research without a phd are going to be exactly that - exceptions.

the school ranking is a bit of a red herring here. while reputation of the school itself does matter quite a bit of course despite everyone doing their best to pretend it doesn't (but insist on sending their kids to the best school possible), it is simply that very often talent is sought out from specific groups/departments/professors who just happen to teach at this institution, wherever they are located. it's just that most of the time large well known institutions have budgets and brand recognition that attracts top talent, often from around the world. brain drain is real.

just to be sure, its not that i recommend everyone goes out and gets a phd in math (personally, i think that even a masters degree is a complete waste of time for the vast majority of jobs), but that in some situations it is a de facto pre-requisite. it likely will not pay off financially and it is a big commitment that can crush you mentally, emotionally and potentially even physically. some departments have sadly a reputation for high suicide rates.

btw. john list does have a phd, and spent 8 years teaching elsewhere prior to UC. not sure if that supports your meritocracy argument, as one would think someone with his reputation today could advance quicker.
Yes. But I'd wear a seatbelt regardless of the law.
Let's say someone starts a video site where users post vegan recipes. It's a vegan video site. People create an account and can post what they want. Some users post barbecue videos, video on how to skin game, and the site owners remove these videos. If somehow a high percentage of society become vegan and this site blows up, becomes the biggest recipe site in the world, a quasi-monopoly of recipe videos. Do they now have to allow meat videos?
I'm not a mind reader. I can only explain what I see. But I do see conservatives being mad that certain kinds of topics are taught in universities (climate science, colonialism, gender studies, etc) and would like that to change. I see these steps as an approach to building a justification for state officials to discourage or eliminate these topics from public universities under the guise of enabling free thought among the student body.

Step 3 is important because then they get to say that an impartial judge agrees that they are being treated unfairly. Without this, the broader bureaucratic institutions won't be as likely to take their whining seriously.

This aligns with other behavior like the 1776 Project or Governor DeSantis floating ideological surveys of college faculty, which clearly exists to influence curricula to match what conservatives deem more valuable.
Ultimately, I can’t fault a corporate entity for wishing to improve their customers’ experience by preventing dissemination of potentially harmful material. Perhaps I would agree with them if I had insight into their cost-benefit analysis. I still generally prefer to have all types of ideas out in the open.
I don't think the author claimed those to be sources, but well worded opinions about what he believes
Danish artist takes payment, sends blank canvasses titled Take the Money and Run
Selection bias, plain and simple.
Is there a list of journals or publishers that are on Deepdyve? Seems to me that the only way to know if an article is on there is to sign up.
No comorbidity has caused the life of thousands of people. Drinking slurpies and eating ding-dongs all day, the chickens have come home to roost. 80% of Covid deaths involved obese people. Stop blaming people who won't get the vaccine for the troubles. I got Covid from a friend who had the vaccine, lo and behold, we had the exact same symptoms, including losing taste, fever, cold sweats, etc., and he actually had it a little worse because he had headaches from it as well. Vaccine works, mmmhmm, ok, better get booster 3 and 4 and 5...to be sure.
My personal opinion is that it should depend on the situation.

If you leaving suddenly wouldn't cost society any more than you getting sick suddenly, I don't think the norm does any good. That's true of jobs where you're a replaceable cog (like a clerk at a store) with no need to transfer knowledge.

On the other hand if you're at a job where you have long lasting context, which it is painful to lose, it would be bad for society to have it be the norm that you quit without transferring that knowledge.

I don't think that this norm needs to be tied to the norm about how you're compensated (provided that you are fairly compensated, but if you're not, you shouldn't have taken the job in the first place), whether that compensation includes notice when you're being fired, or not, seems irrelevant to whether or not it should be considered your responsibility to give notice. The two situations are only superficially similar.
If the regulators get out of the way it would be great to make these available direct to consumer with an app companion, and the consumer can share the results with their physician.
The discussion about "If the fake is good enough, what's the problem?" was dismissed by the article hastily. They suggest that to study a fake Rembrandt as a real one, would muddy our understanding of Rembrandt. I wonder how many of these fakes in private collections are studied at all? In fact if studied, aren't they detected as fakes?

It's an honest question, if a forger is as talented as Rembrandt then why isn't their work valuable too?
> the left is scientific

Yeah but is it? As someone who considers himself at least culturally left-leaning, I'm definitely seeing a worrying trend of moving away from the conviction that data, numbers, science, logic are valuable and desirable tools to interpret the world.

The fact that one of the catchphrases of the alt-right is "facts don't care about your feelings", as idiotic as that is, should really make you stop and think about what kind of worldview is being pushed.
It seems to me that government has taken up the job of cracking down on people who have a great deal of self-confidence about anything relating to self.

For COVID it's the confidence in one's immune system,

for seatbelts it's confidence in one's driving abilities,

for drugs such as alcohol and other drugs...it's the confidence in one's abilities to handle it.

Not saying government is wrong but it's natural that there will be a pushback from people who want to live and go out and about in the world without fear and with their chin up.

Because according to their perspective the government is first insinuating that they are weak and secondly stepping on their freedom to again go out and about in the world without any fears.
I don't think that anyone "needs," help with this. Rather, I think this is needlessly judgemental: people have been getting stuck in ruts since the dawn of routine life.
You can't be an infectious disease expert, yet many, many people called the coronavirus pandemic in January 2020 when the WHO was saying "the stigma is worse than the virus". The powers that be have lost their credibility completely through this debacle, and it's ridiculous (but expected) that their response to this is to shut down avenues for dissent. Despicable.
Actually, I kinda think it fits with the topic! You've managed to make an oblique cultural reference to the exact issue at hand:

YouTube users: Can I see it?

Google: ...no.
If you oppose the idea that Black Lives Matter, that's a white supremacist talking point.

If [anonymous, spontaneously organizing locals counter-protesting white supremacists aka] Anti-fascists oppose you...it's because you're being an asshole.
Some history is captured here - https://www.gerritcodereview.com/about.html

(note, this is for the open source version of the tool, rietveld, from which gerrit roots are)
Yes. But I wear them. I'm also vaccinated, but I'm against mandates.
How long do the components of the vaccine stay in the body before being consumed?

Is DNA changed?

Do you have a specific pathway you think the mRNA vaccine conponents takes that you think will cause long term effects?

Why is the more traditional approaches taken by J&J not acceptable if there is fear regarding mRNA vaccines?
There are many other problems as well, but I think the topic of conversation in this thread is the oratory skills of policy makers, which might explain a few downvotes.
> iBooks decided that it was a good idea to “offload it into the cloud”, a book that wasn’t even 24 hours on my device with plenty of space available

I had the same problem with Google Books on my Galaxy devices. There's a feature that will let you pin the book to be available offline. But you have to do that for every book.

It really takes away the usefulness of the devices.
> The only thing worse than bad ideas is the suppression of bad ideas.

I don't know. This on one hand, but people burning down 5G network towers on the other.
I can confirm that e.g. there has definitely been e.g. a batch of enterprise SSDs from Intel a couple years ago which failed en masse after a certain amount of powered-on time.
Reading, Writing, and Online Bots: School Reopenings Stymie Teens' Reseller Gigs
The title made it already clear that this is an instance of "I am fighting the good fight, so please give me your money." I am an open source/FLOSS enthusiast since 25 years, but such calls still sound pathetic to me. These days even more then 10 years ago. Its a bit like going "I volunteer as an ambulance driver, do you have a few dollars?" I can see that some people dream of becoming financially independent from just coding open source. I have dreams as well. But the truth is, only a very select few ever reach that point. Joey Hess with git-annex comes to mind. I guess he just hit a nail at the right time, and wrote something that many people actually use. But if you're just that tad below the "everyone knows your tool"-line, you will never ever make your living from donations.
> If they are unvaccinated and they die, so what?

Every infected person is host to the evolution of the virus. It is likely to become vaccine resistant given enough reproduction cycles. And it could become more, or less, deadly. If it starts killing children quickly, like measles, and is vaccine resistant because we let it simmer in 35% of the population, we will be very sorry.

Our best defense against this is to vaccinate as quickly as possible. Measles now rarely kills our children, due to vaccination.
> People are going to cheer that "wackos" will no longer have a platform.

And if you deplatform wackos, you just create incentive to decry everything as wacko in order to ban it.

The way to combat misinformation is in the free market of ideas and discourse. Not by banning it. That's just might-makes-right.
The problem with your argument is that you assume that legitimate voices won't be coöpted by people pushing some agenda that is not supported by any data; i.e. you assume that the people on the other side of the "public debate" are operating in good faith. There is no debate when one side is not seriously & honestly looking at the data.

It's good to debate science and to question whether vaccines are safe and effective. The problem is that if someone with any credentials asks these questions in public, a firestorm of antivaxxers will immediately create thousands of posts claiming "doctor questions the safety of the vaccines." Most people who read those posts won't take the time to understand the nuance -- their takeaway will be "this confirms my belief that the vaccine was rushed/etc."

That's not to say that these debates shouldn't happen -- they absolutely should, but not on YouTube or social media where nuance is easily lost. During a global pandemic the consequence of airing objections in public on social media can mean that thousands of people might not get vaccinated because of bad or malicious actors. That leads to real deaths.
> I don't understand why people care about the CPython GIL

1. pypy has a GIL

2. not every python program is compatible with pypy.

3. not everyone can program in C.

4. it would be a free speed up for troves of multithreaded code.

that being said, the GIL is not going anywhere, there are enough workarounds and the task is monumental.
So every person who can be labelled as taking a "hard right turn" can be safely ignored?
Google has blocked auto-complete of the word 'perjury' with 'Ken Griffin'
DeepMind and UK’s Met Office use AI to improve weather forecasts
That makes zero sense.

An action that has nothing to do with the vaccination itself does not "strengthen" anything unless you have decided that you are just in opposition to something for the sake of being in opposition. Which is entirely what the anti-vaxx movement is really about from a political standpoint. Same thing with anti-mask.
I think we have to ask whether adversaries have the right to run hogwild on western social media and spread disinformation.
That's what this article about Rivian's R1T is about too: Rivian's 4-wheel motored truck (and its SUV form factor brother the R1S) are going blow some minds among my redneck cousins. 4WD is nice, but 4-wheel Motored, with instant full torque at each wheel and each wheel can have its own torque for the offroading task, is a dream they probably don't even know they have yet.
I think JS is a versatile and good enough language for many tasks. I use node for my backend services since there are sdk for everything now and why spend a few days of effort when it can be done in minutes? And the effort spent in a few minutes can also scale if necessary so again not a huge concern. Love it!

It’s a great place to start for many tasks. When things get slow or it’s not the right tool for the task, then it’s time to switch that piece to Go or Rust.
She didn't just "using public money and delivering a bad product". She lied to investors and regulators. That is called fraud and it is definitely a criminal offense. Her defense rests on proving she did not do it knowingly or with the intention to defraud. Nevertheless, yes she could get away with it. And yes, this being the United States race and class is involved but more so class in this case.
Sorry, for replying myself, but wanted to rely on outside sources - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_(software)#History

So it got from Python -> Java
This remains one of the most infuriating things I've ever seen.
> without fear

I see this line a lot and it's entirely nonsensical. I don't wear a seatbelt out of fear, I wear a seatbelt as a rational choice to reduce risk of injury in random accidents.
As a European, I mostly just find it interesting that americans have such an extremely black/white view of free speech.
* Well, the links on the front page point somewhere random -- to a clipart site.

* There's nothing about who is doing this or why.

* There's no way to actually pay that I could find.

* There's no information about overhead, or if the GratiPay is pocketing the money.

It's just a half-baked half-finished web page. I think a good not-for-profit here might be helpful? But I'm not sure how to structure it so that it is. I don't see why a business would actually want to pay. Most managers believe they have a fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value. This doesn't help.

And the money raised? I'm not sure a serious analysis has been done by anyone. As an open source author, I'm not inclined to even deposit a $0.32 royalty check.
Oh yea, I am totally suffering from long term Chicken Pox. Sometimes I scratch my arm where a pox used to be.
Exactly, "I did do it. But that bad man made me do it."
that one jumped out at me :)
Maybe related to the panic over the TikTok property damage/theft spree stuff?
YouTube set to win coveted heel-dragging award 2021. Yes protecting free speech on anything but science and public health.
"Why should they trust the government, the CDC, the WHO and the like?"

For similar reasons they should be trusting people creating content on private media platforms.

People need information and seek for sources, whatever they are. I don't think the lack of content on YouTube will make change most of people beliefs, if something will reinforce them to think this is imposed.

You can always go to other sources to look for what you want to see.
> I don't get this. Here in Germany for example holocaust denial is illegal.

Didn't the "Alternative For Germany" get like 10% of the vote there, and they're pretty much Nazis? Doesn't seem to be working.
Delta isn't, and likely, won't be the only variant.

Having a broad response via vaccination helps, even if you have antibodies from prior exposure.
Harmful speech and misinformation should not have a platform.
Or, a little older, magnet:
Time repost such cultural heritage videos on Peertube it seems.

https://joinpeertube.org/
Companies withdraw offers of employment all the time though.
I didn't downvote you, if that's what you were hinting at, however your phrasing was more likely to be interpreted as "C can't do that" as opposed to "C doesn't default to that".

It seems we agree, after all.
Donations are very unnatural for for-profit companies, unlike payments for services, requiring a lot of work to prove the legitimacy of a donation.

Furthermore, funding public goods with donations creates ethical issues: in a competitive environment freeloaders have a competitive advantage over donors.

Is there a way to contribute equally and fairly to public goods? Yes: taxation.
> She thinks they’re taking it down because they don’t want people to know the truth.

I'm sorry to hear this. I hope she find the help she needs to understand how and why she's been led to believe this. You might want to talk to her about where she's spending time online, and maybe look into her social circle. Lastly, if she's susceptible to conspiracy theories this won't end with COVID for her or you.
Not true, seat belts keep the driver in their seat and can allow the driver to maintain control when they wouldn't have been able to without one, potentially reducing the severity of a crash with another vehicle. Admittedly this is not the most common benefit of a seat belt but they are designed with this benefit in mind.
France has had Paris at the hub of its railway system ("chemins de fer" --- paths of iron) pretty much from day one.

This is a series of railway maps of Europe from the 1870s through 2000. Local routes eventually in-filled decentralised waypoints, but the main lines and high-speed (TGV) lines continue to operate with Paris as a major hub.

https://europeanrailroads.blogs.wm.edu/maps-and-graphs/railw...

This proved problematic for France during the world wars, when the railroads improved the capacity of invading forces to focus in on the capital whilst defenders were unable to mobilise between other points other than by travellling through the (variously: under-attack or occupied) central hub.
No one claims ISIS recruiting videos are removed to save lives. The comparison doesn't make any sense. There are actual reasons why these videos are removed that aren't appeal to emotion fallacies.
MMR vaccine links to autism, total hog wash you smart, smart people say.
It worries me when far right libertarians and the authoritarian left agree. Nothing has meaning anymore.
Can you provide any examples of a high-profile company, ultimately shown to be dishonest, where the early investors were able to “cash out” before this dishonesty became known?
> Why are ICU beds such a fixed resource?

Because there are only a limited number of trained nurses and doctors available. "ICU beds" as a metric actually means the number of patients the staff is able to care for, not the literal number of physical beds.
People give them absolute control and then wonder why they would use it. Stop watching youtube, there are numerous viable p2p alternatives.
Social awkwardness is a component of ASD, and can be a huge burden for people with it. It really doesn't matter whose definition we go with for what constitutes "proper interactions." Clinically speaking, ASD can cause people to have a difficult time with verbal communication in general, and reading cues of people. This goes far beyond just being too honest.

The inability to make friends due to the behavioral issues that arise from living with ASD is torturous. It's probably why ASD is also linked with depression. If I weren't intelligent enough to work a technical job where people don't need to interact me, I probably wouldn't be around today.
Sure, absolutely. The point the author is making is that since you're more likely to get an antibody response with the vaccine, you're getting a benefit from the vaccine that there's a decent chance you won't get from catching the virus.