skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you! Why can't they just say this. It actually makes a lot of sense and I would be interested, if it wasn't for all these non-sense buzzwords.

Anyway, thank you again for explaining.
>Where's your proof that the administration did nothing? Shutting down terrorism content is about the easiest political slam dunk imaginable.

Before they were terrorists they were "insurgents" of the "Arab Spring". Something that the administration and Twitter/SM were more than willing to lean into before they lost control of the situation.

>I have never seen ISIS propaganda. Plenty of "Fauci went to school with Bill Gates and was CEO of Moderna" memes, though.

That's more a function of your age and filter bubble not whether there was ISIS propaganda which is well documented.
Really? IME images compressed real hard with modern techniques look pretty terrible. Dithering is much less efficient if you're looking for low loss, but if you're trying to get something quite lossy, it looks better to my eyes.
We're making our own headset. Nothing off-the-shelf was available or satisfactory.

Most of the recent Github commits are in the dev branch, but right now it's 90% George working on the code. I'm busy on the hardware and wrangling vendors side, our third employee is the ME so no coding there.
Except when it concerns risky sexual behavior, or so we were told just a generation ago.
And because the publishers are being squeezed from all sides, including from sci-hub and proposed legislation, universities requiring open journals and so on.
Not that this was their criteria (they seldom if ever think it through to this level), but gmail requires phone number after a certain point. And they only allow 4 accounts per phone number.
I promise you from personal experience, radicalization does happen online too.
Windows 10 forces reboots these days to update. It happens relatively often.
We plan for at least 100deg DFOV.
anyone curious about this poster need not look far, in this thread, and elsewhere, to note their hypocrisy. As such, I will not be engaging with them further.
This incident is an interesting example of the general under-appreciation of systems thinking and the impact of tail events. Amazing/crazy!
Raspberry Pi as a router using a single network interface
Apple could hit a $3T market cap in 2022
Looks like a bug. If you are hovering outside the nest, and a wasp finds you, you have to Quit. Restart level does not reset the outside view correctly.
Also like SphereXP ( https://web.archive.org/web/20040130224608/http://www.hamar.... ) . A pretty undervalued project from around the same time
Is your claim that moderate voices are causing people to not get vaccinated then?

If that is the case maybe silencing them isn't a bad thing so that we can get past the pandemic rather than wallowing in "would we should we" territory.

EDIT: To be clear this was meant to be a joke about loosely defining "moderate". Many things are being said that aren't "Bill Gates is tracking you" that are also staunchly anti vaxx such as "it doesn't actually work" and "it can kill you".
You jumped ahead a bit. Let me clarify.

If you are unvaccinated and have not had the disease, then if you get infected your prognosis is much poorer than being vaccinated.

If you are vaccinated and get infected, you have a better outcome.

If you are both vaccinated and have had prior immunity, see the discussion on other threads in this discussion.
you're going to continue to be downvoted but it's the truth. when Jon Stewart was going against the grain of the widely-accepted political narrative of the Bush administration, it was easy to agree with him calling out bullshit. when the political pendulum swung the other way, however...
> They're banning everyone, bad/good faith actors alike. That's bad and should be stopped.

Are you sure? From the article: (emphasis mine)

> YouTube is taking down several video channels associated with high-profile anti-vaccine activists including Joseph Mercola and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who experts say are partially responsible for helping seed the skepticism that’s contributed to slowing vaccination rates across the country.

> As part of a new set of policies aimed at cutting down on anti-vaccine content on the Google-owned site, YouTube will ban any videos that claim that commonly used vaccines approved by health authorities are ineffective or dangerous. The company previously blocked videos that made those claims about coronavirus vaccines, but not ones for other vaccines like those for measles or chickenpox.

That sounds like to me they are discretionarily deciding who gets banned, no?
While HN would kindly steer us towards polite curious conversation, the range of topics themselves is wide open. I have yet to see a site-wide blanket ban on, for example, adblockers. It is a contentious topic in the industry, there are entrenched trillion dollar interests that would rather have adblockers dissapear, and yet we can have a hopefully polite and informative conversation about the relative merits of subtopics in this area.
Has no fix? You don't need logging, you just need to keep track of fails and start throttling attempts.
In a global collapse, people with the money often are also caught by surprise.
Maybe I’d be more okay with this if the vaccines weren’t owned by multi billion dollar companies who stand to make billions of dollars by requiring the world to use their products.

Can you imagine that for anything else? You MUST use the product of ours, and we are actually going to make it illegal for you not to, and ban any discussion about not using it.
At a smaller scale, you don't necessarily need a dedicated team, you can just have a couple people who know to look for core dumps and know how to look at them (although gdb exe exe.dump ... bt gets you 90% of the way there 90% of the time), and whatever their real job is, it can be deprioritized to deal with urgent issues elsewhere without much fuss.

If you get to the point where the fixers are always mostly busy fixing things, you can give their real jobs away.
Hi Spenser! Congratulations by the way to you and your team.

I've been working quietly on a project which I hope to turn into a product. When I speak with potential customers and users, they're very excited, but when I work with VCs, I receive the tired argument of "but XYZ incumbent pretty much dominates the market."

That's fine, and I feel that I am differentiated enough, but I'd love to hear how in the early days of Amplitude you battled the "okay but what about Mixpanel" conversation?

I'm fine with not raising cash for a while. I'd much rather put something out there and then have my user growth speak for itself.
The kitematic peeps are wonderful, smart, and genuine people.
I observed this as well and was just starting to dabble in MQTT with my ESP projects.

I have yet to find a good resource for outlining autodiscovery. Most of the projects I have come across just hard code some pub paths in the homeassistant namespace.
> The results are presented to the media. [The media misrepresents the results to the public, intentionally or unintentionally]. The public debates it on social media.

I filled in the critical missing step. Science journalism is mostly trash.
> Critical thinking is at an all-time low in Western society.

I think you are viewing the past through rose-colored glasses.
> By that standard, this entire website and most of the software industry is misinformation.

Sure, if we ignore the context of my statement and this whole discussion, which happens to be about COVID vaccines.

Also, please note that what I said -- and what you quoted -- is that if your claim is not supported by peer-reviewed scientific research, then you're offering your opinion. I didn't say that offering your opinion is the same as spreading misinformation.

It's only when you're presenting your opinion as a fact that you're engaging in misinformation, which is what I said in the next sentence that you didn't quote.

> GP is saying that the conversation is, and should be recognized as, more nuanced than that.

"Having a nuanced discussion" and "being responsible with how you say things" are not mutually exclusive propositions.

> If you're arguing we should only have evidence based discussion and that anecdotes and opinions don't matter, then you have new problems.

Anecdotes and opinions should be clearly presented as such, so that everyone who encounters them can decide how much they matter to them. That's what I'm arguing.

> I agree, but it seems GP was indicating this doctor was doing just that and was still silenced.

I see nothing there that indicates whether the doctor was doing that or not. Like I said, I don't know whether the doctor "insisted" in a way that made it clear it was his opinion, unsupported by current research.
I am reminded, from time to time, that one of my high school classmates is living out a 25-year federal sentence after being convicted on marijuana conspiracy charges.

On the other hand, I can get marijuana delivered to my house.
As an American, I find it interesting that Europeans seem so eager to have government restrict speech.
Skilful precipitation nowcasting using deep generative models of radar
Specifically, modern formats use gradients where possible. If something transitions smoothly from one color to another, they can represent that as what it is - to oversimplify, one pixel is the first color, a different pixel some distance away is the second color, and the decompression will generate the intermediate colors for all the pixels between those two. By manually dithering, it has to encode each pixel individually, because the transitions are gone.
This requirement places too high a burden on one person. Only a saint (or God) could achieve the standard claimed here. Objectivity on topics should be sufficient. Scientists who lose their objectivity cease to contribute usefully to the discussion.
> Isn't this logically inconsistent? The vaccinated should be protected by the vaccine, and thus little to no threat should exist.

This isn't why we encourage mass vaccination. We encourage mass vaccination because herd immunity protects everyone, including people who can't be vaccinated for legitimate reasons (allergies, immunocompromised status, &c).

I'm young and healthy; my chances of severe illness from COVID are extraordinarily low. I didn't get vaccinated primarily for my own protection; I did it because I have friends and family who need it more than I do, and whose return to normal life is predicated on the participation of society as a whole.

The rest of your post is misinformed about the role vaccines play, and would be addressed by improved public education about immunity, improved immune responses, and lower incidence of severe cases. Individual vaccines produce different outcomes along each of those axes, which has (understandably) produced a great deal of confusion as to whether the COVID vaccines "prevent" COVID or not. But the information is available, and it's incumbent upon you as a member of civil society to avail yourself of it.

> It's naive to think you can save everyone. It's okay that you're afraid.

What?
The ease and portability are what make me moderately interested. I had kids over the last few years and no longer have a home office. I might get a desk area at some point but the only option is right next to my wife and my time to code would be when she's asleep.

So I plop on the couch with my laptop but the constraints of that setup quickly drain my energy. If I had a quality "multi monitor" setup that is ready any time, anywhere, my productivity would increase, even if the device/process itself isn't better than monitors + i3.

And if that happens, I'll have a happier time coding, probably produce more code, and live a happier life (because currently I am unhappy with my lack of output and that feeds back into my family life). That isn't some magical hope either, the same would happen if I had a multi monitor office again, but buying a single device is easier.

So don't despair, there will be plenty of good outcomes from stuff like this project.
What use cases do you have if the diagrams were exported to code?
Do you have any screen shots from the first version you put in front of customers? It'd be fun to see how far it's come.

I assume investment banks were trying to convince you to do a traditional IPO instead of a direct listing, so they could collect some fat fees. What were their best arguments?
Russia arrests Group IB's top cybersecurity executive in treason case
The goal is to reduce network effects.

As poetic as free speech is, the 1700s were a different time. Hard to SWAT a rando a town away let alone a country. Now a nation state can instigate localized terrorism.

Thomas Jefferson understood laws and constitutions must change in step with human discovery.

Scalia wrote laws are not open ended, and up for public romantic interpretation.

To paraphrase both. Indeed many Founders wrote of the need for free speech in official political proceedings, never considering the privilege extending to the public. In public people were welcome to get a beating if they prefer to violate local order.

Humans are biological animals first. Gentile by training.
Moving from more abstract to more concrete, it starts with philosophy and arts (what is desirable), then engineering and business (how to get to the desirable situation).

Now that the world has mostly established that the ecosystem is both important and interconnected, I think it's a matter of time before we come up with the technologies and business models to act accordingly
> They are nature's hippies.

"Yea, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."
>I can scarcely believe that any reasonable person would argue that blocking propaganda or misinformation that harms the war effort would be an egregious imposition on free speech.

Propaganda is spread by who? Domestic traitors? Then arrest them and charge them for treason. If this was true they would be already behind bars but you don't seem to understand the only thing they are doing is expressing their opinion publicly nothing else.
Agreed, and those things can even deliver some value and remain sales tools for the main product.

I fail to see how doing those things has to dilute the main product.
> Your risk from the vaccine is lower than your risk from Covid

You don't have the necessary information about my demographic and medical history to be able to make this claim. The following statement of yours is a non-sequitur because it in no way proves the claim of yours that I am at greater risk from SARS-2 infection than I am of a COVID vaccine:

> because you know the Covid disease creates fully functional viruses whereas the vaccine only incorporates a small subset that cannot reproduce. Why you would want the fully functional version is beyond me.
Your "industries" page has a broken "about" link in the footer—and maybe other issues, as it's very different from most of the rest of your site, and there a some other little not-broken-but-not-ideal things about it that I see with a quick once-over, like the button-look "sign up now" at the bottom only having the text clickable.

https://www.rsync.net/industries.html
> These farms aren't trying to "spread chaos" for its own sake.

It's not their only goal, but it is definitely among them.

From Dugin's 1997 Foundations of Geopolitics, to this day required reading in Russian military schools:

> Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".
"Uber might not have lied about their business"

Yea that is what we discussing about Theranos. Theranos was an outright fraud. You cannot say the same about Uber whether they inflated or lied about their profits etc. Uber provides a real service and honestly a good one for people. Theranos on the other hand, played with people's lives by lying about their entire business model and product which never worked. Big difference.
From a former Communist country: whatever was banned (jokes about the Party or the Soviet Union, various conspiracies or whatever correct-but-undesirable information out there, such as the Chernobyl accident in the first days), spread like wildfire by "whispering channels".

People are really drawn to forbidden fruit.
Given the size of 8 Chan and the size is communities banned from Reddit, we know this to be untrue.
Oil companies and their suppression of climate change science.
That still doesn't give reliable recommendations of your subscribed channels, it's just a chronological list of their new content.

If I subscribe to a youtuber with a back-catalog of several years of videos, I want recommendations of those prior videos, not only their brand new ones.
> What just amazed me is how gullible all the investors were, and how they didn't do due diligence, hire outside experts, or anything. Weird.

Gullible or just willing to take a risk on something that may get them a return on their investment before it all collapsed?
What you end up with is recruitment. If the user remains on Reddit or Twitter they're exposed to the gamut of human thought. However extreme they may be, they're still attached, there may exist some sort of analogue for a cleavage furrow, but nonetheless the cell remains. It's only at the point where you've so alienated and shorn their attachment to the whole that they become a fully independent entity, and that they become truly radicalized. And having observed this, I can say with sincerity that they move deeper into the domain of extremity.
Please tell me you found better pastures! A place where you were compensated and appreciated. :)

I've been at the current job for 10 years, receiving the highest level of performance review for all but the last year (the global pandemic was one of four life upheavals... I'm glad I pulled off a 'great' review vs. 'exceptional'), doing similar style work of solving problems people can't seem to comprehend... yet I just can't get seem to break into the next job title tier because "We don't need a principal."

...

I just found out my lead was just promoted to principal. Once the divorce is off my plate, I plan on taking more risk and jumping ship.
Sex-advertising graffiti in Pompeii are still valuable cultural artifacts that let us know what life in Pompeii was like.

There are two orthogonal reasons for culture to be preserved:

* there are things that will be valuable to future generations to build upon and enrich them

* someone in the future would ask, what was life like in 2020, and without the "trash" culture, the answer will be very much off the mark

Trash or not trash, this is what we have.

This is why archive.org is important, this is why preserving Usenet archives is important, and why I'm happy that many geocities websites were archived before Yahoo axed them.
Veteran assembler folks very likely still remember the good old Randy (Randall Hyde) vs Betov (René Tournois) debate in alt.lang.asm. e.g:
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.lang.asm/c/gYJ4KYpczSc?pli=1

I like HLA (never use that for production though, since I'm a mobile app dev). Too bad is not actively developed anymore.
Arguably; drafts do look like that. I mean, I can't say how many people scream while being dragged off to fight in a war, but the concept is very similar.

There hasn't been a draft in most of our lifetimes. There also hasn't been a virus as deadly as this one.

So, maybe the better frame of reference would be: nationally mandatory vaccinations can be alright and make sense, under the same argument that allows the draft to be alright and make sense; we just need some quantitative framework under which it can be instituted.

For example: if covid becomes endemic (which seems to be likely), and we institute mandatory vaccinations for it during this phase of the pandemic, pre-endemic; the argument for mandatory vaccinations may make sense today, given the level of infections and deaths that are occurring, but will "mandatory boosters" make sense in three years when the level of deaths is (hopefully) far lower and more in-line with the seasonal flu?

The critical difference between a draft and mandatory vaccinations is: most people understand the general need for, but also hate the implementation of, the draft. Its a duty; its not desirable. In a democracy, this, alongside the massive cost and logistics effort of maintaining such a large army, acts as a very natural counter-balance to the impetus for people in power to abuse it.

Vaccines do not have such a counterbalance. They're very cheap per-shot, relative to the draft. The logistics are already in place and have successfully operated at scale. And, most concerning; many people want mandatory vaccination. No one should want it. Its an ugly necessity, but far too many people don't see the ugliness.

If you're reading this and need help to see the ugliness: Our government experiences corruption, like any government. Moderna's stock value has gone up by ~2,000% since the beginning of the pandemic. This, alone, is an obscenely powerful bias for people in key positions of power to push for more vaccination, irrespective of their need or efficacy; for example, maybe you assemble a panel of experts, who tell you vaccine boosters aren't necessary, then overrule the panel and say they're necessary anyway [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/world/covid-boosters-vacc...
Marijuana as schedule 1 is one of the dumbest things we have ever done. The fact that it remains in the modern era speaks to how incompetent the US has become.
OK, lets put it another way. If everyone who deserves support for their work is going to be posted on HN, its going to take a long time until the last one gets their money.
I think I assumed everyone saw trees as they're commonly drawn and painted: as just a blob of green
"Anti-research clowns deny the results of research"

Is anyone surprised?
Haven't applets already been disabled for years? How does removing the JRE enhance security in any way beyond that?
Not as drastic as the dithering in the linked post, but if you work with png files, pngquant is worth a look. It's lossy, but the image quality is still quite good.

https://pngquant.org/

Also, better to compile from source. There are os packages, but they tend to be older versions of pngquant that have various issues.
We're evaluating 2880x2880 displays right now. With our upcoming optics, we can get up to 45PPD in the foveal area if everything works out as planned (they're basically a variable magnification optic).

Depending on vendor support we might have to go to 2.5k displays from another vendor, but hopefully we can get the support we need for the 3k displays.
> Cloth masks showed no statistically significant reduction in the spread of Covid-19.

This is a completely false characterization of the article you just linked.

There were significantly fewer COVID-19 cases in villages with surgical masks compared with the control villages. (Although there were also fewer COVID-19 cases in villages with cloth masks as compared to control villages, the difference was not statistically significant.) This aligns with lab tests showing that surgical masks have better filtration than cloth masks. However, cloth masks did reduce the overall likelihood of experiencing symptoms of respiratory illness during the study period.

“Unfortunately, much of the conversation around masking in the United States is not evidence-based,” Luby said. “Our study provides strong evidence that mask wearing can interrupt the transmission of SARS-CoV-2. It also suggests that filtration efficiency is important. This includes the fit of the mask as well as the materials from which it is made. A cloth mask is certainly better than nothing. But now might be a good time to consider upgrading to a surgical mask.”