skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The goal is to invest in a company that reaches a valuation high enough to let them recoup their investment at a profit.

Alternatviely, they want to invest in insane companies/founders on the off chance that they actually make it.

>But another theory is: No, those investors really want to be lied to. Those investors are holding a competition of the form “who can sound the most excited and persuasive and crazy when they lie to us,” and they give their money to the winner. They wouldn’t put it quite that way. But what the investors want is a fantasist, a wild-eyed dreamer, a visionary who sees the world not as it is but as it could be. They want someone who looks at $1 million in revenue and sees $10 million. They want someone who looks at some blueprints for an electric truck and sees hundreds rolling off the production line. They want someone who looks at a finger-prick blood test that doesn’t work and sees one that does work. They want someone who believes in something that nobody else believes in, an out-of-consensus visionary who wants to change the world. Obviously obviously obviously they would prefer it if this person’s wild belief comes true, if she succeeds in changing the world. But the first step is to back founders with crazy ideas. And then if one of them works out, that pays for 10 that are just crazy.

>This theory is also well supported! Lots of venture capitalists will say it out loud! But also, like, man, look at the entire history of SoftBank Group Corp. Look at how SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son met WeWork’s Adam Neumann, and Neumann pitched him on some vision of office-space-rental changing the world, and Son gave Neumann $3.1 billion. And, famously, “Mr. Neumann has told others that Mr. Son appreciated how he was crazy—but thought that he needed to be crazier.” You don’t say that and then turn around and check every line of the financial projections for exaggerations and unjustified assumptions. If you invest in startups by (1) meeting crazy people and (2) telling them to be crazier, your main investment criterion is not scrupulous accuracy.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-08-31/theran...
Dithered images and websites (2020)
There seems to be some thought that society can force people to do what is deemed best without the awareness that...

1.) Society may not know what is best
2.) Even if it is the best option the push back will still exist and in many cases attempting to force the issue will galvanize opposition
Remove legal immunity from the manufacturing companies and get FDA approval for all the shots and I am sure more folks will line up.
I mean all of that tells me that you could do whatever you really want. Never mind the admin panel, even if it won't let you change the wallet, overwriting the firmware would certainly allow you to change the wallet where Bitcoins go.
Because we know for sure that Covid infection causes significant long term damage in at least 10% of cases.

So if you want brain damage, scarred lungs, or some other organ malfunction, Covid infection is the way to go.

And the longer term risks are still unknown.

Which is why it's insane to play evidence-free yes-but-what-if FUD games about vaccine safety when the risks of infection are already known to be high for the survivors.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i...
> Opening up the tools to review the scientific literature gives people the power of "doing their own research" without having the tools and skills to decide whether a paper they have found on whatever topic is good research.

I think we'd be better off letting people read the papers themselves, even if they do a poor job of it. Seems very unlikely to be any worse than science journalism as it currently exists.
they better be perfectly right every time or else they become a part of the conspiracy. You would think they would learn after the lab-leak censorship fiasco.
We run a hosted version starting at $5/month [0]. We used to have a free version but it was too popular.

[0] https://www.cloudmqtt.com/plans.html
It's possible but what needs to be added to this (very common) what-if is the anti-pattern your response creates for solving complex problems. "Chilling effect" concerns have been raised since '08 or so, and that platforms have unilaterally moved on with a decision indicates to me the failure of this approach. What does that show?

It's a (very, very valid) counterpoint that's ultimately a slippery slope argument in disguise. Slippery slope arguments rarely present a way out of a mess, and instead just serve as this semi-stakeholder that won't help solve things but adds nice insight. A position's side needs to be more than just a slippery slope approach, in short. It's important to sense when "something" is going to get done, and shift from wise advice on second order effects to something more outcomes-oriented.
> It's an arbitrary choice made on the foundations of very shaky knowledge.

Nothing about down syndrome, autism or gender qualifies as "very shaky knowledge". It's the woman's choice. It's her body and she has the right to abort for whatever reason she wants.

> There's legitimate reasons to terminate a pregnancy that are completely unrelated to trying to screen for a "normal" kid.

The only legitimate reason is the woman doesn't want to carry the pregnancy to term. If it is wrong to abort an autistic baby, then all abortions are wrong. Think about it.

> But this study does not appear to be coming from a good place, or a place of genuine understanding.

A good place? You get to decide? If you want an autistic kid, you have one. And if another person doesn't want one, they don't have to have one? What ever happened to the choice in pro-choice?
Yes, many companies have bad lead qualification and try to sell their product too early. But that's orthogonal to the concept of having a landing page or a call to action in itself.

The problem is not having or not having calls to action, it's to figure out which call to action is relevant at what step of the funnel.
If "misinformation" were easily discriminated, there would be no need to wait for consequences to properly label it.
What symptom are you implying is being ignored?
This document is a prove of why you need to learn algorithms, algorithm complexity, compiler, parsers :)
There is one for emacs. Could be good inspo if someone wanted to make a VSCode version.

https://github.com/alphapapa/prism.el
> Also past vaccine history means absolutely nothing. You can't assume the next bridge is built safely just because you have never seen a bridge fall before.

It does not mean nothing. Yes just because previous vaccines were safe does not mean the next one will be safe. However success of previous vaccines mean we have the technology to create and evaluate future safe vaccines.

Similarly, because we have a history of building bridges we know what it entails to make future safe bridges -- however the bridge could still fall if make a mistake.
You don't see any difference between the concrete links in this post and the handwavy allegations in your prior post? If it's not worth your time, don't bring it up.
>Yes, but that means deciding which content is harmful, and that's where we are now. Figuratively, you end up with lead-lickers coming out of the woodwork saying that their way of life is being stifled by regulation/moderation.

There might be something to be said for instead of limiting speech, increasing the 'reporting requirements'. This isn't a fully formed position of mine but rules along the lines of no anonynomous speech[0] and stricter fraud[1][2] rules are imo compatible with free speech and its ideals while helping to manage fraud and propaganda.

[0] So if an AI wrote a blog spam post, it should be at minimum illegal to not have the AI in the byline, with e.g. a unique identifier.

[1] Say loudly and publicly that there is a pedophile ring in the basement of a pizzeria, with no evidence, go to jail.

[2] Not that such rules can't/haven't been abused before though.
I’m reminded of the fable about the little Dutch boy sticking his finger in the dyke.
Note how much ink is used to target Tesla as opposed to Pappa's. The real reason that Pappa's is being sued under the Dram Shop Act is to destroy complete diversity, so as to avoid removal to federal court.

If they only sued Tesla, they might get taken to a less sympathetic federal court. By including a Texas defendant, Tesla can't take them out of a state court that may very well be far more sympathetic to local police, or simply more plaintiff-friendly in cases sounding in negligence or products liability.
What dream world do you live in where people don't get sick or die of other vaccinations as a side effect? You're injecting a foreign substance into your blood stream. There's always a small risk.

Nicki Minaj got kicked off twitter for making an absurdly stupid and false claim because she didn't want to bother with getting vaccinated.
Censoring ideas just makes them more popular. If YouTube wanted to do the right thing they'd let people debate openly, instead this will just push people further into their respective echo chambers.
Great writeup.

I have a ZFS account - how do those work under the hood? Is it a VM backed by a ZFS volume? How does the overhead compare to a normal account? I suppose using a VM eliminates some advantages of the special device.
>2020-2021 has shown me that most people happen to be 'fair weather fans' of civil rights

All you need to do is examine firearm rights, which have been removed from felons and regulated into oblivion in places like Hawaii to see what can happen to free speech. Both those amendments are right next to each other and should apply to everyone (who is not in jail for a crime), including Hawaiian felons singing "somewhere under the rainbow" while smoking a big fat blunt with a machine gun on their back. But the tyranny of the majority has gotten away with putting their fears above the civil rights of others.
https://nats.io/
https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server

Is it suitable for embedded applications? (very low resources, intermittent network availability, etc)
Chris Hedges sometimes remarks that he finds people turn towards superstitious, religious, or conspiratorial world views when they find they have no control over their lives. I suspect that if the US somehow changed so that economic security were increased for most people, there would be much less unreason and general discourse wouldn't be so mean.
I think America has a very serious problem right now accepting that personal liberties, while important, need to not deride public welfare. It's like the entire nation has taken it's anti-anything-socialized fervor to an extreme level and is now becoming self-destructive. During a pandemic it is unacceptable that prominent national politicians vocally fight against societal welfare but that's where we're at.

I'm looking at you guys from up here in Canada where there were some CPC (Conservative Party of Canada) candidates who are still openly anti-vax and the party leader took a lot of shit on the public stage for failing to stamp out their voices. The PPC (People's Party of Canada) by comparison is openly anti-vax and did secure a big chunk of voters (I'd assume the vast majority of anti-vaxers) but again failed to win even the party leader's seat and the GPC (Green Party of Canada) had their turnout decline staunchly after a combination of weak leadership and continued ambiguity over vaccine passport rollout. No where on the main stage except for the PPC (which failed to qualify for the debates) was there any voice actually advocating against vaccination.

This is I think why America has a real problem that the entire world is getting their civil liberties curtailed in order to address. The country needs to get its house in order - it is unacceptable that mask mandate prevention laws have been passed by governors that might legitimately consider a presidential run next year. This is a crisis that needs to be addressed seriously and overcome and at this point governments in the rest of the world are losing their ability to keep order internally because of how fractured the nation has got.

It absolutely sucks that it has come to this - but the domestic government in the US has not been acting competently. Even with both sides of the aisle have technically worked together you still have the BS "We're not going to side with them" crap going on. America has a long, long history of severely curtailing civil liberties - if you think this sort of an action is new I would direct you to one of the most regretful legal frameworks ever issued - the Sedition Act of 1918.

Get vaccinated and get your friends and family vaccinated - get those numbers up so you can be a world leader again.
say what you want about her but if I knew nothing about this company and someone told me the CEO got charged with a crime and she got pregnant after charges were filed.

I'd almost think she is guilty and trying to get a lesser sentence because of having a kid.

As a sane person the last thing I want to do is bring a child into a world where a parent could be in jail for 20 years.
That's moving the goal posts.

Of course you'd rather have good than bad lead qualification/generation. But you still need calls to action to collect those leads somewhere, which was the parent's point.
The last few years have shown me how many people are willing to believe utterly stupid things, and how easy it is to make people turn against each other. I knew this in the abstract, but watching it happen in real time is something else.

The human mind (myself included) has some serious bugs, and "we" as a society - with help from technology - are getting better and better at exploiting these bugs at scale. I don't think censorship is a solution, but I don't know what IS a solution.

Incidentally, what happened to FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt)? I miss that term, and I think it's much more descriptive of what we're seeing these days than the more vague "misinformation".
> Wouldn't it be suddenly obvious that these videos must be taken down immediately, accounts banned and platform owners are responsible?

It is obvious that you have a totalitarian mindset and believe in one 'objective truth'. A Free society that holds to the free speech principle should do the opposite. After all, this principle is not about protecting views that you agree with, but those that you don't.

History has shown time and again that censorship never resulted in a positive long-term outcome, and you are repeating past mistakes.

Also, coming from a totalitarian USSR and now living in a totalitarian Russia, I tell you this, fellow Americans: most of you here don't seem to understand the value of free speech and harm that censorship does to society.

Quick example: beside vaccine deniers, youtube now also bans users who doubt the official election results. What could possibly go wrong with that, right?!
Don't forget that emphasis on will compete. The Model X is already out (and so are a bunch of other EV SUVs now from a variety of manufacturers, as others pointed out), but neither the F-150 Lightning nor the Cybertruck are out yet, and while both have strong presales as this article points out Rivian is looking to beat them both to actual market, which also includes the small possibility of flipping presales if people can actually drive away with an R1T "today" versus wait another few months. (Though that's probably a very tiny possibility given the huge brand loyalties of both Tesla and the F-150.)
Stack size is visible and settable. This article describes a non-issue. A programmer just has to be knowledgable about the tools at his disposal. Here's an example

cat <<EOF>demo.c

#include <sys/resource.h>

#include <stdio.h>

#include <unistd.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[], char *envp[])
{

struct rlimit rlp = { 0 };
getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, &rlp);

printf("stack size=%llu\n", rlp.rlim_cur);
if (rlp.rlim_cur < rlp.rlim_max) {
printf("setting stack size to %llu\n", rlp.rlim_max);
rlp.rlim_cur = rlp.rlim_max;
setrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, &rlp);
execve(argv[0], argv, envp);
}

}

EOF

make demo

./demo

Similarly, there is pthread_attr_setstacksize(3), which does the obvious thing for threads.
( OP here ). For me the core of Solarpunk is that we need to work with nature and we need to inspire people to do so.
In my definition, your suggestions are very much in line!

Contrary to some communities, I consider "overthrowing capitalism" NOT a consideration of Solarpunk, and a detractor.
You’d think they might try a softer approach first like slapping a strongly-worded warning on the video.

“This video contains incorrect information and should be watched for entertainment purposes only.”
git --local-is-everything

The job of the server is syncing clients and not keeping the data way from the clients. Good examples are Git or any reasonable mail-client like Evolution or K-9.
Bad examples? The GMAIL-Website and especially the GMAIL App, if you scroll too far you have to wait and hope that the servers are reachable and working.

Old school programmers know how to read- and write files on the local file-system and load it into the free store. Things work fast, stand-alone and reliable. But this people are more expensive.
Not a lawyer or legal expert. But American juries are generally unpredictable and overwhelming evidence doesn't always decide cases (look at the O.J Simpson trial or more recently Bill Cosby or the first Epstein case). I think the general consensus is that there's a lot of damning evidence against her and there's a good chance she'll be found guilty. But a lot depends on how effective her defense is in swaying the jury and a lot of technicalities. Plus there's the baby/new mother factor that might influence her sentencing if not the jury verdict
You don't have to trust the FDA or CDC. The mRNA platform is quite old relatively, and millions of doses have been administered with profoundly low adverse effects.
That's a great point, but candid communication doesn't address if the opposing view has overwhelming (and un-candid) counterpoints.

What's next, in that case?
Netflix launches new mobile games in Poland,Italy and Spain
I did not know that there was that much redundancy in the metadata but there is. Still, I think damaging the timing areas causes problems. All the ‘creatively damaged’ QR codes I’ve seen avoid these as well as the positioning areas.

Of course it’s not too useful to speculate about what’s required beyond adherence to the specification, it depends on what the scanners your users use accept.
Cryptomator – put a lock on your cloud files
> 99.2%

I would use 99.7% as a fairly conservative number, frankly: https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/99/1/20-265892.pdf

Anyway, the other point is that that number is the overall IFR. If, like me, you know you're in a category that has almost no risk from COVID, then it's even more of a no-brainer. That's why it's completely absurd that the GP tried to tell me that I'm at less risk from the vaccine from the disease, when they don't know my age, # of comorbidities, metabolic health, past SARS-2 infection status, past non-SARS-circulating-hCoV infection status, etc. They simply don't know what they're talking about.
> when you tell someone "get vaccinated or be fired" what choice do they have?

That's the point. You don't have a right to endanger the healths of other people, and you never have; the legal groundwork for vaccination mandates significantly predates the current crisis.

> I eventually relented and uploaded my vax card because i was going to risk my family's wellbeing over a random piece of paper.

Close to 5 million people have died worldwide, and your concern for their wellbeing only begins when you're required to get a vaccine that's been free & convenient for months? With all due respect: have a little perspective.
I just think this isn't true. The reality of the situation is almost nobody actually wants to maintain anything unless they are paid to do so; people just want to throw you patches and have you accept them and then never contribute again. Very, very few developers actually want to maintain anything. The trust barrier is also typically high. I don't just hand out a commit bit for no reason. This is all cultural, sure, but it is what it is. Maintenance isn't fun and people don't like it.

From experience the ratio of random drive-by contributors to people who regularly contribute high-quality code to the point of qualifying as a "maintainer" is something like 20:1 or worse. That doesn't mean they become maintainers, just that 1 out of every 20 might have the chops, if they dedicated to it. This is true even of corporate contributors from well staffed companies; they only want me to accept the patch so they can do something else. I have literally had corporate engineers file reports to me saying "Please do this" (not maliciously, mind you) and when I respond "I don't have time", but actually knew the person in question enough to follow up with "But I would trust you to do this if I added you as a maintainer, since it's not hard", and they still rejected it as, effectively, "too much responsibility." Didn't even get to the point of whether their work would let them have time for it or not. They have no interest beyond that, I can't blame them in a sense.

The idea that most projects actually have enough well-intended, frequent, sufficiently informed contributors to merit any actual "governance" structure at all beyond "Whatever the one or two authors do to make it all work" is completely detached from the reality of my own experience, is all I can say. And that's the reality for most open source projects that aren't stupidly famous, have literally zero monetary funding, and are still very important.
Holmes still made it - she's still rich and probably will serve minimal (if any) jail time.
https://abc7news.com/covid-immunity-coronavirus-vaccines-cdc...
Zero-Downtime Postgres Schema Migrations Need lock_timeout and Retries
If you had sat next to Bill Clinton on a TED talk stage and had a former Secretary of State and his friends on your board I bet things would have gone more smoothly for you.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7996102/

>Ivermectin was found as a blocker of viral replicase, protease and human TMPRSS2, which could be the biophysical basis behind its antiviral efficiency.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-01577-x

>Our results indicate that boceprevir, ombitasvir, paritaprevir, tipranavir, ivermectin, and micafungin exhibited inhibitory effect towards 3CLpro enzymatic activity.
How a 64k Intro is made
Apparently it is working for some, https://juliacomputing.com/case-studies/
The initial study was very heavily affected by sampling bias (medical personnel with hallway rumors and unbureocratic access to screening techniques).
Add to that that the risk of blood clots is strongly increased by typical isolation at home due to a lack of regular movement/exercise, and the (significant, but still very low) heightened incidence rate isn't enough to deny people vaccination.
For a particularly eye-opening video of how views change over time, a 1984 NBC news report of a mandatory seatbelt ordinance in a small Michigan town: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glmcMeTVIIQ
> Vaccine mandates are crucial social policy

Maybe the reason USA has so many anti vaccers is because of vaccine mandates? It is much easier to believe that something is evil when you are forced to do it. Also many first world countries doesn't mandate vaccines and people get vaccinated anyway, so it isn't crucial social policy.
Pointing to a mental health crisis service would be far more advisable.

I'd stick with the ban if the threat was in response to moderation actions.
No, it really is. You're ignoring the fact that the definition was changed in order to shame people who are against mandating COVID vaccines.