skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nitpick: technically, plastics are considered organic compounds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_compound#Modern_classi...:

“The modern meaning of organic compound is any compound that contains a significant amount of carbon—even though many of the organic compounds known today have no connection to any substance found in living organisms. The term carbogenic has been proposed by E. J. Corey as a modern alternative to organic, but this neologism remains relatively obscure.”

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

“Plastics are a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic materials that use polymers as a main ingredient. Plastics are also considered organic materials, like wood, paper, or wool.”
That's a strange quote to use as support for keeping government out of personal health.

> "If a bull gores a man or woman to death, the bull is to be stoned to death... But the owner of the bull will not be held responsible. If, however, the bull has had the habit of goring and the owner has been warned but has not kept it penned up and it kills a man or woman, the bull is to be stoned and its owner also is to be put to death"

Seems to me a person who catches the virus and spreads it thereby killing others is analogous to the bull owner who lets their known violent bull kill others". Unless you're saying anti-vaxers don't believe the virus kills anyone period? It seems like the parable is saying "you are responsible for how you and your actions affect others unless you can say you didn't know any better but once you do know better you're responsible"
Other people had plenty of time to get vaccine. Mandated masks and vaccines is stupid. Everyone should decide for himself. There are few people who can't get vaccine because of medical reasons, but they should not be the reason to strain rest of the society with stupid restrictions.
"Raises hand"

I like to do in-depth research for myself (example: watching an entire Trump or Biden speech instead of relying on a selected soundbite), viewing the original video or source instead of blindly believing on what mainstream media says about them.

Unfortunately as more things get censored from social media/YouTube whether fairly or unfairly, it looks like I'll have to spend more time on "alternative" platforms, being exposed to the stuff that is common on such platforms. In the end, there's going to be the Twitter echo chamber, and the Gab echo chamber, etc (note that Parler seems to be dead).
Science shouldn't be settling political disputes. Politics is the realm of people's most base instincts and desires - try to step in that and like the man wrestling a pig you'll end up covered in filth and the pig will be deliriously happy.

I doubt the wisdom of people who say - I want to stop global warming so I studied climatology. You're going to open yourself up for a heartache if the plan is to study and learn enough so that you become a voice of authority and then use that voice to control what happens.

It's not like people are terribly confused about what the least damaging course of action to take is. If resources were unlimited there would be little disagreement about what to do. Resources are limited though so we need to choose who gets what they want and who does not. There are messy compromises that can be made. Tricks that can be played. Sometimes there's power enough so that only one side sacrifices. In all of that though Science can inform what choices are available but when it starts trying to make them it will get slapped down.
Curiously, no one seemed to think that when they did not get the flu vaccine nor did they seem to think there was anything wrong with one's apartment being surrounded on all sides by heavy pot smokers during winter.

I bring up those two because the group of people who stayed away from the flu vaccines and were fully in support of people's right to light up and get high tend to overlap with the current group of people who want to deny others livelihoods and even life for not conforming to their fears.

"We" are very distinctly not all in this together. Some, mostly single, mostly well off people (or people who have well off parents back to whose large houses they can retreat) are enjoying themselves very much as every part of society is reformed to match their phobias. And, they are empowering people who would love to expand their power no matter what.

The censorship and surveillance infrastructure that is being enhanced to cater to these groups will be used for far worse.

But, who am I kidding, it looks like the majority thinks "Killing Fields" is an adventure game and "Cultural Revolution" is a good thing.
Didn't expect to see you here excited about a dynamic language with a slow runtime ;)
Sketched Book – So Good They Can’t Ignore You (2015)
Google Data Engineer Interview Questions
Is somebody who makes the claim that vaccines are better than natural immunity actually "anti-vax"?
Thank you for introducing me to the word temerity.

Clearly they are relying upon an immature AI dragnet to classify and kill categories of objectionable material. Thankfully they have an appeals process, but it seems to me that automated takedowns are blatantly wrong. Instead they ought to use that data to generate a queue for humans to review and flag, where more popular videos have more reviewers requiring consensus. No matter, it’s clear we’ve allowed a commercial platform to outgrow its structural integrity, and no algorithm can do a thing but delay its collapse under its own weight.
A dead Jesus cannot create more followers, right?

The arguments goes in both directions, if you don't handle it correctly then being too heavy handed has the opposite effect.
What you're proposing is really not an effective way to handle an outbreak of an airborne respiratory virus.
Agreed. Everyone, regardless of their political leanings, tends to be ignoring the elephant in the room: why is there such an insatiable demand in America for conspiracy theories and white supremacy? It would serve all of us better to look at the root cause instead of getting hung up on the symptoms of the disease.
I don't think our power is any weaker if you're talking about military power. Is the perception around the world about America different? Sure, but we're definitely nowhere near weaker, although now the Taliban has some high tech equipment, let's hope they don't figure out how to maintain and recreate any of it.
If spam filtering didn't let recipients opt out, and permanently deleted emails instead of putting them in a spam folder, then it would be censorship too.
Those “conclusions you don’t want to hear” are not from the AI. They are an embellishment by the sci-fi author.

If an AI did do that, the “conclusions you don’t want to hear” would be artifacts of the AI’s algorithmic process or data set.

Living things in general don’t worry about conclusions. They just live.
Anti-vaccers have limited amount of claims. Instead of shutting them down and feeding into conspiracy if governments and big corps are so concerned they should make web sites where they disprove said claims with valid data in a way understandable by mere mortals. For interested there can be also list of references for further reading. Youtube and the likes are then free to promote / put on first page headlines from this websites.

Instead what I see when opening youtube (I am Canadian) is the pic of Theresa Tam: our Chief Public Health Officer. She is known to change her opinion every other day to the point that whatever she says can be ignored - she'll come up with something different tomorrow.
YouTube has been seriously ramping up its censorship for at least couple of years and it goes way beyond anti-vaccine videos. Comments on HN related to this subject routinely display ignorance of the issue or deny it outright. Moreover, a thread discussing some WaPo article that white-washes the whole thing as reasonable and scope-limited fight against disinformation is hardly proof that HN crowd started to take censorship seriously. There is a bit more awareness recently, but it's nowhere near what I would naively expect from a website full of tech-savvy people.
In "To Have and Have Not" Eddie believes that dead bees can still sting, "especially if they was kind of mad when they got killed."
> If those companies started in 2019 they'd be all in on Go. Today...I don't know...Rust?

Not a chance. Dynamic languages, especially Ruby, are way more productive than Go and Rust. Go is basically a less complicated, vm-less Java and Rust is a safer C++. Neither compete with Python, Ruby, Javascript or PHP.
Thanks for the response! Sorry, I was imprecise. Agree you should never store passwords in plaintext, 100%!

We store hashed passwords, but allow people to export them (along with the salt and the hashing algorithm). We do this over a secure channel agreed to with the customer. It is their data, after all. Exporting these attributes lets folks import the passwords in such a way as to not require the user to reset their password.

I don't see any way to get Cognito to export hashed passwords.

In contrast, Auth0, another competitor, allows it if you open a support ticket. Instructions here: https://fusionauth.io/docs/v1/tech/guides/auth0-migration/#e...

EDIT: Made clear we coordinate the export over a secure channel.
FWIW, I do support some working hours personal development. My strategy: schedule an hour a week for on the clock training. This works out to about 50h (versus Target's 50d program). This hour is used for:

1. Mandatory "trainings" from HR
2. Reviewing recordings from internal training sessions
3. Attending live training sessions

Critically, these are the things I can only get from the company, and probably wouldn't do if not employed by them. OP is already doing more than 1h per week from what I can see of the schedule. They're also usually directly related to my job in some fashion.

Beyond that, I have also done some conferences, weeklong training sessions and 'work through a book on a tech I'm about to use for a work project' on about an annual basis.

The stuff I do outside work hours:

1. 3-5h/week of reading journal articles and books, on a Kindle at night.
2. About 1h/week of Anki, split between adding new cards based on #1, and daily reviews.
3. As they become available, conference presentation recordings.
4. Like, a lot of podcasts, usually at 1.5x-2x speed. This is basically how I avoid 'screen time' an hour before sleep and would be counterproductive to move to the workday =)
Strange, the book has no Amazon reviews and very few mentions on the internet, despite the author's popularity. Any idea why?
Those “Congratulations to Drugs for Winning the War on Drugs” bumper stickers must really bite if you're a DEA agent.
Free speech is used as a dialectic medium to exchange information without having considerations of direct action taken against you (at least by the government). It is, effectively a deductive process. "Spreading" misinformation is not the same as discussing the obverse of the populist topic. Were you to fabricate tables, charts, and number which are used to conclude you're misinforming. This misinformation only extends in its ability to convince to the unscrupulous. Were you to, with due skepticism, promote the discussion of this data and provide an analytic outlook you're not misinforming, you're discussing, you're empirical. As an aside: if you're empirical and your opponent makes attempts to shut you up, what do you conclude? Make a tree, discuss the probabilities you assign to it.

Hilariously it seems to be that empiricism has failed. One does not generate a meaningful framework of human morality from non-transcendent scientific conclusion other than utilitarianism which in itself is conceptually flawed because each human presents hundreds or thousands of immeasurable and constantly moving targets. This is intractable. It is also why, despite the leaps and bounds in technological advancement, people still have to put in their 40 hours. It is why a CEO can rake in ~300x that of the company's average employee. It is why a large swath of the population must undergo the risks of debt peonage. It's why people feel that populist ideology should be inflicted on everyone, despite various circumstances - by the very definition a slave master relationship, the same sort of relationship virtually everyone rails against. Which brings me to the final point, I am not your property, and I suspect neither of us wants to be the property of the government or of corporations. I will assume they neither you nor they have property rights over me and thus I will consume and defer as I so please, but do go and inflict your blind ideology on to me.
It seems self-evident that normalizing a behavior helps to propagate it. It's obviously not the sole driver of a behavior, but trends grow the more they're displayed / normalized, no?

For example, many people jaywalk because they see people doing it all the time without consequences.
Requiring that content be sourced from actual humans in good faith, and identifying people violating terms of service by spamming with puppet bots would be a good start. If the service is being operated by a national government, then you could require posters to prove residence or citizenship. But would anyone really want to use such a service? Could it possibly be even produced or operated efficiently? Once you put strict legal requirements on the operating entity it will get very slow, expensive, and user unfriendly.
To be fair, tons of TV shows have been wiped from history as well. I learned recently that many game shows from the 60s and 70s are mostly gone, including early episodes of Wheel of Fortune!
If I leave a gun I used to kill someone at your house (and you're aware that it is a murder weapon), can you just destroy it without being an accessory?

Also, lol at Youtube getting filled with war crime videos. Youtube has plenty of space.
Mailchimp Down?
Is it just login page or dashboard as well?

https://downdetector.com/status/mailchimp/
Nobody "fact checks" Biden either. His statements and numbers are always way off reality, but the media just lets it slide.
XSS is a special type of bug bounty report... we[0] get them occasionally, and by-and-large they're easy to fix -- sanitize the input on the way out.

What some HN commenters don't understand here is that XSS is special not because it's particularly nasty (though it can be), but that it can creep in without you knowing. You can be aware of it, but one can still slip in if you're not actively guarding against it while coding. When you have a hundred things on your mind, and a complex model of frontend-backend living in your brain's RAM, it's easy to forget about something like sanitizing the output of user-generated content.

It's easy to say AFTER the fact that you should never trust user input... obviously I don't, but they still happen, and I'm thankful every day that pentesters check us for XSS as part of our bug bounty process.

XSS vulns happen to a lot of developers, Apple devs included. It definitely should've been caught during a code review process, but the silver lining to all of this is that the fix is actually rather simple... update the site to sanitize the input on the way out. No firmware changes needed to the physical devices themselves.

[0] NodeBB.org
Are you trolling or stuck in the 60s? Do you seriously consider lines of code to be a real measure of productivity
> Sounds like she has already made up her mind

If that's the case, did she make up her mind before or after consuming the anti-vaccine content?

In my experience, most people who are hesitant about the vaccine are that way because they distrust the government. The anti-vaccine content didn't cause their hesitancy. They only consumed it because it confirmed their pre-existing bias.

If the anti-vaccine content isn't the underlying cause of people not wanting to get the vaccine, censoring that content will not fix anything. I know many people who, like OP's wife, simply see the censorship as further justification for their pre-existing bias. We are likely killing free speech with nothing to show for it.
NB, that post seems to have migrated here:

https://www.aaronhuertas.com/a-field-guide-to-bad-faith-argu...

Can you tell me about my epistemology?
These days you MUST wear a seatbelt because the explosive device that will go off inches from your face will kill you with the slightest provocation if you do not.

Ironically, airbags were developed to _replace_ seatbelts as people like Ralph Nader thought people could never be convinced to wear them voluntarily.
If you're not already subscribed to Two Minute Papers you oughta go check them out

https://youtube.com/c/K%C3%A1rolyZsolnai
In the US, copyright protection is automatically granted as soon as a protected work is fixed in a tangible form[1], so it's not possible for the Library of Congress to store all copyrighted material.

[1] https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html#mywork
We worked with a med-tech company, as a subcontract. That company kept getting funding, investors kept pumping money in. Despite the company now being to old the justify being a startup, they had never been profitable.

We happend to know one of the newer investors and asked who did technical due dilligence, because from what we could tell the primary product was just a bunch of outdated open source software glued together and general build on 15 year old tech. We got a very angry call from the CEO telling us “to mind our own fucking business”. We don’t work for them anymore.
Anti-vaccers have limited amount of claims. Instead of shutting them down and feeding into conspiracy if governments and big corps are so concerned they should make web sites where they disprove said claims with valid data in a way understandable by mere mortals. For interested there can be also list of references for further reading. Youtube and the likes are then free to promote / put on first page headlines from this websites.
Sure it worked at reducing hate speech on reddit, but is that the right objective? It's not implausible to think that the resentment from such local measures could cause hate to increase in a more global sense. Kind of like entropy in thermodynamics: local work can reduce local entropy, but at the expense of causing a global increase in entropy.

If the real objective should be a global decrease in hate, then maybe local suppression/exile might not be the right mechanism.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28693407, partly because it's swerving into generic ideological flamewar, and partly because I need to prune some large subthreads in order to ease the load on our poor server, which smoke is coming out of right now. The latter is our problem and we're working on fixing it, but the former is the community's problem and everyone needs to work on fixing that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> It might be nonsensical for you, but for the sort of people we are discussing they ditch the seatbelt

I don't see how that's actually a counterargument to my statement.

> while doing some activities in which the typical rationalists and left-brain people would be such a drag

What, are you trying to argue now that people who wear seatbelts are boring? This sounds like the "bad guy" in some 90s car safety education video for kids.
Before the argument against blockchain methods is an argument against centralized methods such as "did:ccp", which seems to be an identity mechanism backed by Baidu accounts: https://w3c.github.io/did-spec-registries/#did-methods

If this were a Google conspiracy using Mozilla sock puppets, why would they bring that up as an objection, and ask to move the spec back to the discussion phase explicitly forbidding such mechanisms? It would be extremely straightforward for Çelik's handler at Google to ask him to remove that paragraph before publishing it.

(There are more centralized identity mechanisms there, including a proposal to use Microsoft GitHub. That spec doesn't even have the veneer of distributed ledger that Baidu's one does, and it was added by Transmute, one of the authors of the DID spec. How do we know Transmute isn't a Microsoft sock puppet, helping them "embrace, extend, and extinguish" this spec? It seems like Çelik's concerns are all reasonable and it would be entirely possible to make a DID spec that satisfied all of them - is the reason that we ended up with this DID spec that Microsoft and Google are deliberately producing a bad version?)
There's a guy in my area that legally named himself Hitler and drives around in a car covered with swastikas. He's not gained any followers, just ridicule and a bunch of court orders for being shitty to his children. Nobody wants to be him.

Building the tools to better censor is a slippery slope that moves quickly from silencing extremists to silencing activists.

>Would that make you reconsider if the holocaust really happened?

Pulling the h-card out as a cudgel in every single political argument has reduced people's ability to reflect or care about it. Same as the 'think of the children' arguments. It's an emotionally manipulative and dishonest debate method.
Mostly False, mrna vaccines have been studied for about twenty years now.
If you look closely you'll see that the banner on the linked site says:

“Gratipay: A pioneer in open source stability née gittip 2012–2017 RIP”

Apparently, after five years of trying to make a business of it, he gave up.

The article, by the way is from 2017. Perhaps a mod should add that to the link title.
It makes sense from some perspectives. It is intensely hypocritical to require seatbelts while allowing motorcycles on the road at all. What level of deaths-per-mile-traveled is acceptable and what is not?
Another founder here, with some more comments on the tech side of things:

1. The software is relatively usable, and you can try it out right now on https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula

2. The hardware is still being worked on, and the website is kind of a list of expected specs/placeholder in that regard:

2.a. The compute unit is tested and works, but requires a custom carrier board to fit the form factor. This is a blocker for the final product, but relatively low priority for the prototype.

2.b. Lens system design is scheduled to be complete in early November, with first prototypes available in early December. We're planning to use Valve Index lenses as a stopgap right now for prototyping etc.

2.c. We're currently solving a few challenges in driving the displays, as we're pushing the boundaries of the available technology, and at our volumes support from manufacturers is like pulling teeth. BOE supplies the 2880x2880 panels and there aren't even enough docs to figure out how to drive the (non-trivial, local dimming based) backlight.

2.d. We're also experimenting with different approaches to tracking as our original plan (RealSense) became end-of-life recently. I'm interested in an mmwave based solution, but we might just use RGB cameras instead.

2.e. The mechanical design for the front part is reasonably advanced, but we're still working on the back part.

There's a lot more going on right now that's probably not coming to mind immediately, but that should provide a good overview.
That’s how they are traditionally being used. They are used as the ultimate source of truth. “We don’t agree, let’s see what the dictionary says”. That trick would still work on majority of people I’d think.

But yes, it’s the tail that is wagging the dog which is wagging the tail.

There have been cases where lobbyists and special interest groups got the dictionary definitions altered to suit they client’s needs.
A dead giveaway for throwaway board seats: Nobel Prize winners, generals, politicians. Another: “professional board members” who sit on multiple boards but have never had senior executive roles involving profit and loss.

These people may be accomplished in their own right, but they know little about business. They are there for lunch, the fat fee, and to pose.

And when a big company has a NUMBER of these types, i.e. two or more, they have an authoritarian/secrecy problem.