skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same way trust in God
SPREADING: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreading_(debate))

Spreading is the act of speaking extremely fast during a competitive debating event, with the intent that one's opponent will be penalized for failing to respond to all arguments raised. It is a portmanteau of "speed" and "reading".[1] The tactic relies on the fact that "failing to answer all opposing arguments" is an easy criterion for judges to award a win on, and that speaking fast and fielding an overwhelming number of distinct arguments can be a viable strategy.[2]

Spreading dominated the US school debate circuit in the 1990s.[3] The public forum debate format was introduced in the early 2000s, with the intent of slowing speakers down by rewarding deeper arguments.[3] As of 2018, spreading was described as still being "de rigueur" at Lincoln–Douglas debate format events.[3]

Senator Ted Cruz, who was a national debating champion in his student days, described spreading as "a pernicious disease that has undermined the very essence of high school and college debate".[3]
As another person who've followed DID closely, where is the "underlying assumption that everything is blockchain" part coming from? The specification has one mention of "blockchain" and many parts of the specification leaves the storage part free for implementors to decide freely how it works.
One thing that worries me about wearing VR headsets for extended periods of time (whether for game or for work) is that your eyes are focusing at a single distance for so long. Not sure if there is any research to suggest extended usage is a problem, but it 'feels' like it could be. At least with a desktop or laptop, when you look around the room, you are actually changing your focal length.
I believe this has to do with any system where the government has too much control. Communism appears to me like a system that promotes the government’s freedoms over an individual.
YouTube removes “I Can't Believe You've Done This” video from 2007
Except we’re not allowing Sputnik V travelers in the country despite science…
First they came for the Republicans, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Republican.

Then they came for the antivaxers, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not an antivaxer.

Then they came for the antimaskers, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not an antimasker.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

— adapted from Martin Niemöller
> Misinformation researchers have for years said the popularity of anti-vaccine content on YouTube was contributing to growing skepticism of lifesaving vaccines in the United States and around the world. Vaccination rates have slowed and about 56 percent of the U.S. population has had two shots...

I assume 20% of the US population can't take the vaccine or something, maybe because they are kids. That suggests YouTube is coming out as a political opponent of ~25% of their customer base. This is an unwise course of action.

Also, the mandate part of vaccine mandate is legitimately scary. It is reasonable not to trust a big pharma-big government alliance actively controlling our medical life with no ability of the patient to opt out. It is easy to see this ending badly, US healthcare is not known for being full of angelic, selfless and friendly actors. These opinions should be aired.
Comfort is a bigger blocker. Headsets with a high enough resolution already exist, but they are too large and uncomfortable to wear for more than a short session.
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Netflix reveals top 10 shows and movies by hours watched
Incidentally, many researchers still believe that, to publish in (what they think of as) "high-impact" journals, they have to sign over copyright to the journal. The journals make every effort to give this impression, but it is wholly false.

This has been a public service announcement.
I'm not sure how familiar you are with anti-vaccination campaigns but they're far from credible.
There’s a squirrel in my neighborhood who I swear knows the exact length of my dog’s leash and uses the information for some sort of twisted entertainment. Every time we walk out the front door this squirrel dashes across our path juuust out of my dog’s reach. My dog goes nuts thinking that maybe this time he’ll catch that darn squirrel but of course the squirrel and I both know differently. I really think the squirrel gets a kick out of the whole ordeal.
Ask HN: Are you colour blind? If so, how does this affect your work?
I am colour blind myself (Deuteranopia) and it mostly affect me when I have to digest charts and diagrams using colours I can't distinguish.

Also, I tend to see how people use emerald green and fire red to signal OK/KO which are two colours I really confuse. This is the case of all the alerts being fired, in general.
We're talking about small, quick operations supporting a synchronous, interactive user interface here. When it comes to performance, asymptotics aren't everything.
> 3 Only one of those groups helped elect a Russian asset

I dont usually care for politics but nobody has given me any convincing arguments on the matter. I have seen Russia gain more with Biden shutting down the pipeline. If someone is colluding with you what have they gained thus far? I just don’t see it at all.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ex-lawyer-clinton-campaign-...
You just need to give something like a 30 day notice.

Have the new company commit to a start date in 30+ days, and then give the notice.
Well it's just the bare minimum. Imagine quitting before you even got a contract. Doesn't mean it's full proof, but it's a good start.
> Debates are essential in a free society. The alternative to debate is force. Either you convince your neighbour to do as you think they should do, or else you send men with guns to his place.

Yep there is no alternative option it’s either kill everybody who disagrees with you or change their mind…
Exactly. For example, when you're a phone thief.
Why don't they let you sue the drug companies? Why sign away your rights when you get the jab?
Good points. To be clear, my point was not that other energy sources are so much better than nuclear, but rather that we globally need to reduce energy spending instead of looking for a unicorn non-polluting energy source.

In this regard, i believe cracking down on planned obsolescence, implementing strong (>30 years) warranties on every single thing you can buy, and promoting cooperative economic models (reducing "waste" due to competition) would do a lot more for the environment than any plan our governments have put forward.

> Feel free to point to any sources that compare the two in terms of produced energy.

I don't have any. And to be honest, the international supply chain is such a grim landscape that i believe it would be very hard to assess the overall impact of this or that resource being exploited. But all studies agree that the less resources we use, the better is it for all parties.
Stacking abstractions is a great way to give yourself Big O problems. Fighting the height of the stack reduces them, and "Use C++" does tend to fight the height of the stack.
"Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction. The right to freedom of expression has been recognized as a human right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights law by the United Nations."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/principle

It is hard to sympathize with people who sow disinformation that costs people lives.

But it is also hard to watch principles being ignored for immediate benefit.

Principles are tested not when it is convenient for you to follow them.

What I think is needed is people spending more time to figure out how it is possible to reconcile fight against misinformation with preserving basic human right which is ability to express your opinion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

"In the United States, some categories of speech are not protected by the First Amendment. According to the Supreme Court of the United States, the U.S. Constitution protects free speech while allowing limitations on certain categories of speech.[1]

(...)

Categories of speech that are given lesser or no protection by the First Amendment (and therefore may be restricted) include obscenity, fraud, child pornography, speech integral to illegal conduct, speech that incites imminent lawless action, speech that violates intellectual property law, true threats, and commercial speech such as advertising. Defamation that causes harm to reputation is a tort and also an exception to free speech."

So in short. There are existing laws that can be used to decide what is and what is not protected by freedom of speech.

These laws should in my opinion be applied by judicial system, not invented on the spot by corporations.

People should understand they are responsible for what they say online just as if they used other methods of communication.

And if the exceptions to free speech are incorrect or incomplete, we should demand that the law is corrected in a democratic process rather than having companies act on their own.
So they should be held liable for illegal things posted on their site right?
I think that depends on whether the VM can determine if the lower case strings escape the function at runtime. By default everything is heap allocated.
So, then, YouTube is a publisher, not a platform?
To be clear, you're satirizing content moderation by comparing it to concentration camps.
YouTube is a publisher? Why aren't there editorial responsibilities put on them like with newspapers?
It absolutely would help. It's practically tautological to say that you can create bad performance in any language, but that ignores the very real fact that some languages and systems just perform better for any given coding skill level. With native apps, you have to be extremely bad at coding to get bad performance. With electron, you have to be extremely good at coding to get good performance. VSCode is the exception, not the rule.

Even then, it's a pretty poor exception. The "good" performance of VSCode doesn't scale. It's a pretty barebones editor by itself, and once you load it down with extensions, it slows down quite significantly. The python extension, also written by Microsoft, is one that was bad enough to make me leave VSCode for good.
> One bee dances, while other bees watch to learn the directions to a specific flower patch.

One of the fascinating aspects of honey bees’ waggle dance is that it happens in a fully dark hive. So there isn’t much watching going on. The bees sense air vibrations through their antennae, which are held close to the dancing, waggling bee.
> I assume 20% of the US population can't take the vaccine or something, because they are kids. That suggests YouTube is coming out as a political opponent of ~25% of their customer base. This is an unwise course of action.

Are you counting those children as political opponents? I don't think they have a political interest because they can't get it due to regulation yet, and they're also children.
Also pretty much every car in a few years will be connected all time, so someone somewhere will always have the means to monitor its position, visited places, conversations, etc. There's no solution; in just a couple decades we transitioned from local private unconnected CCTV (shops, malls, etc.) to pervasive government surveillance in cities, and we adapted to it; from this to drones with cameras flying and connected 24/7 it's just a matter of time. And we'll also adapt to that.
In due time it is entirely possible that each one of us will have a personal governmental drone constantly following us to prevent crime, though actually in our pocket we already carry one which cost nothing to governments.
Who will check the fact checkers?
Yea I don't think its going to improve a multi-monitor setup. Having a real office illuminated by the trillions of ray traces from the free sun in the sky is always going to be better than VR. That's why I really think the future is going to be an AR display that lets you leverage 90% of the real world with 10% of a simulated overlay. But! the road to the AR future is paved with VR work like this so I dare not write it off as useless.
*Allows to be published and doesn't allow to be published.
This is so dumb, vaccine proponents doesn't have anything to hide (like censoring information from vaccine opponents gives the impression of).
What's the thing where things are either nazi bars or supplement pyramids? YouTube* already disallows nazi bars.

Your whole host getting banned when you make your own youtube is the issue at hand, methinks.
Is it purely a coincidence that it's right around the time the US is losing hegemony in that part of the world to China?
How would the US react if China sent ships to secure the waters between the US and Mexico.
The damage is enticing someone to leave, not that you aren't employing them. I've never heard of this being decided in court in either direction. It's almost guaranteed to cost too much, though.
I'm sorry to hear about your situation. You should've double checked all of the things needed before you jumped in to the conclusion.
55% vacced + 20% kids + 25% likely politically opposed ~= 100%.

Plus some will have gotten the vaccine despite political opposition to the mandates. Being vaccinated is a good idea in a pandemic.
And by science we mean the profitable stuff. Like the most profitable pharma therapies ever offered.

Remember when they discontinued the control groups? I thought Randomized controlled trials were the gold standard for science
Show HN: Aeomax – weightlifting, powerlifting and crossfit workout tracker
I built Aeomax to track my workouts. I used to use paper and pen until one day I lost my notebook. With Aeomax I can keep all my workouts and their history in one place and I can track multiple workouts in parallel. I know, there are a lot of work should be done to make it the best app in App Store and Play Store. Currently, I am working on superset tracking. Later on, I am planning to add EMOM and AMRAP workout tracking. Also, I am planning Aeomax to allow users to create groups, invite their friends and workout together - kind of healthy competition with leaderboards and etc.

Also, during pandemic, I stopped going to gym and stopped getting workout programs in excel format. One of the advantages of my gym was coaches used to create a tailored programs for me in excel and I used to transfer these excel programs to my notebook. Wouldn’t it be perfect, if coaches create workout programs and deliver it to directly to my workout tracker app?

Here in HN, I am looking for fitness enthusiasts to try Aeomax and give me an honest feedback, how to improve it to make it the best app. Thank you!
I think poster is discounting children altogether as they are outside the scope therefore you’re left with an actual 25%.
Attempts to scientifically “rationalize” policy may be damaging democracy
Workers earlier in their career need to be told this:

Companies hiring can legally ask for some really personally risky actions. And some will.

You should never assume they have your best interests at heart. You can push back against this, and there's a respectful, reasonable way to do that in the process.

Broadly, this is the reason boxing bouts begin with "Protect yourself at all times." Because there's no taking back a sucker punch after the bell that dropped you to the mat.

Ultimately, the best advice I'd give would be to prepare your moves, so as to avoid putting your future self in bad, must-act situations. Be someone who can afford to pass on an offer, if the company acts unreasonably, versus someone who has to say yes to requests like this.
The only defense is the ability to always get another job quickly. And if you need to have that capability anyway...
Igelau linked to this thread: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/128465#issuecomme...

In it, CoenraadS (the extension developer) writes

"I follow this thread with interest, my extension is something that grew a bit out of control, and I grew tired of maintaining it."

and

"If it could that would be great, and my extension could be deprecated completely."

There was also discussion with the author about updating the extension to prompt users to switch to the native functionality, and it appears CoenraadS was also involved in the process/design of implementing the feature in VS code.

This appears to be a shining example of doing it right, and giving the original extension author credit.
The average electron program has very little data to work with and not a lot of hard algorithms to run, yet still feels sluggish, that's the main complaint here
This is like bugs we used to see on "MySpace". Is Apple unable to hire good people anymore given their current corporate culture?
It's possible for someone to buy public data and match that with their first party data from your account on their service in order to anonymize you. But it's unlikely. This same tactic was used in Afghanistan to find terrorists.

My point being most people aren't being hunted by anyone in particular like the US Government or the Catholic Church. It's expensive to set up these honeypot apps, and to buy this data, and spend the time to de-anonymize it. Frankly that church story is kind of insane.

Your second example is not really relevant IMO.
In this case, you can also guess it’s an animal and search for “martens animal”

Guessing that “martens” is the plural of “marten” also works fine.

I think many would find that easier.
Oh yeah, that’s exactly what a bunch of people are looking for. Declaring YouTube/Facebook/Twitter publishers.
Android version is located here - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aeomax.aeo...
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how does this jive with Section 230?
== Your insinuation that Christianity implies credulity and unfounded wishful thinking says a lot.==

It says almost as much as you insulting someone for having different beliefs than you. Doesn’t seem like the kind of thing “believers” should do.
One of The Osterholm update's video (a podcast) was censored for spreading "misinformation".

I hope they can survive this.
I saw something similar about doing a background check with your current employer, but a full reference? that's crazy
Anti-vaccine activists, or any activists for that matter, are completely free to post their videos anywhere else they want. Hell, they can even set up their own video site, and publish thousands, millions, tens of millions of videos championing their cause. Why does a private company has to feature every agenda, every viewpoint, even ones they deem to be extremely harmful to society? Just because they got big enought to be global? If I set up my own youtube-like website, and I only have one thousand visits a day, will anyone argue that I'm obliged to show stuff I don't want? Is anyone saying the same thing about Vimeo? Youtube doesn't have to show isis beheadings, why should it be forced to show unscientific propaganda? If there were a movement claiming the polio and smallpox vaccines destroyed our immune systems, and we should re-introduce these diseases to the public at large so we could develop our natural defenses, should Youtube be force to publish their videos?
I'm sorry, but what you're saying is not censorship.
“Trust their interpretation of science”
It’s unfortunate if that’s what passes for debate at the college level. I’ve had people do that with me just in casual conversation. Once it happens I just politely terminate my participation. I view it as a form of abuse if it’s taken to an extreme and not constructive in the minimum.
It's not entirely clear to me what the job of the Packager is here as opposed to a Virtual Package.

After chunk encoding and Virtual Assembly with an index file, are Netflix actually packaging the encoded video/audio/subtitles/metadata into a single file for each encode that is pushed to their CDN? If so, then why is the Packager even necessary? Why not go one step further and create a Virtual Package as well?

Is it so that they can better distribute the packaged encodes to their CDN?
It’s a private company, are they not?

There is nothing credible about anti-vax. Not a single thing.

Opinions of the uninformed are worthless. I have yet to speak with a single anti vaxxer who did research and not “research” on the subject (that is did clinical trials or even is able to read an abstract of one). I will repeat it again: if anyone ever finds an actual problem with a vaccine safety study I will personally drop everything and go help them get this information in front of the FDA, the CDC, and the media. Not a single person has taken me up on this offer yet.
What about YouTube’s right to freedom of expression?
Raymond Chen on Injection Vulnerabilities
I would pay to hear prominent scientists discuss each other's work. Or have a journal where the content is the meta analysis of the paper which I find the educating part as a non-domain expert in many of the papers I read.

Like the stilted writing in patents, academic writing often has a loud thundering message in the content that is never actually expressed in the writing. If you have the right context it hits you like a red brick, to the lay person is has to be explained.

Some work is like, omg this is going to change the world and another is, showing another construction of an uninteresting thing we already knew. Both are presented in the same manner. Much of this meta analysis happens on twitter and reddit, but is easy to miss. It would be nice if it was contained within the journal structure itself.
If they have surveillance program for the whole internet, they kick presidents off Twitter and censor YouTube videos, isn’t it pointless to spy on all Americans if you can’t keep top secret stuff off tic tock?
> But it is also hard to watch principles being ignored for immediate benefit.

This won't even provide any "benefit" in terms of increased vaccination rates, but that's not the real purpose anyway. What they're really doing is carving up large chunks of people into information silos and trying to reduce the amount of communication happening between them.
Yes, I was writing about launch-on-warning posture although I can now see I could have been more clear. As far as I know no country is presently assuming that it is able to detect, interpret, and authoritatively decide to enter full-scale nuclear war within ~25 minutes of enemy ICBMs' launch. (Leaving say ~5 minutes to implement the decision.)

What you cited is sad, but firstly it is still an "ongoing debate", and secondly the road from declarations to the actual ability is long with this one. And may it never materialize again.
Correct. You are free to read all the studies. YouTube isn’t a place to learn about vaccines.
Springer and Elsevier in my experience (CS and Economics) do very little copy editing, and often make the paper worse during their typesetting (introduce typos, bugs, screenshot figures rather than keep the vector graphics). As a reviewer, the antiquated administrative web system they use to make me input reviews is also a net negative contribution.
They're a private company and can do whatever they want. However, one only needs to see the trending page in any country to see the kind of crap YouTube promotes and profits from. So, please spare me of the corporate propaganda for YouTube's rationale of this decision.
If it was being distributed amongst python threads (which run on one hardware thread), then CPU performance can't improve since they're just taking turns using the CPU. If you're running on multiple hardware threads (what I assume the author meant), that can causes better CPU performance since it will distribute work across real threads that can run in parallel.

The GIL restricts use of multiple hardware threads.
US citizen EPAM executive was killed by the Belarussian KGB in his apartment