skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> She thinks they’re taking it down because they don’t want people to know the truth.

1) If they take false content down that will reinforce her beliefs.

2) If they leave false content up, she will keep consuming it, which will reinforce her beliefs.

3) So - when it comes to changing her mind (and the millions like her), 1 and 2 are a wash. She's adopted an unfalsifiable position. There is no policy Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, et al. can adopt to reason her out of this position. She will have to reason her self out of it at some point.

4) The purpose of taking down false content is not to change her mind, or change the mind of anyone else who has adopted an unfalsifiable position. The purpose is to stop the spread of false and untrue information. If there's 10 million people who have taken the unfalsifiable position the goal is to prevent another 10 million from adopting the same viewpoint.

5) However I can't be sure #4 will actually work. Its very difficult to lockdown information and prevent its spread.

6) And can these platforms moderate edge cases with accuracy? If they bungle the job users will lose trust in them as an information source. But - since these platforms are the main driver of misinformation, then discrediting them as information sources would be a net good.

7) So - no moderation means we continue the status quo of information and vaccine hesitancy.

8) Requiring moderation might combat hesitancy by a) preventing the spread of misinformation and b) discrediting platforms in the eyes of the hesitant or hesitant adjacent.

9) Because these platforms are public and performative they are ill suited for mea culpas. Rarely do people relish engaging with ideas that might prove you wrong, especially in a public setting. The work of helping people reason themselves out of unreason will be done outside these platforms.
I've just dedicated the best part of 2.5 years to working on my open source project[1] almost full-time. During that time I've managed to rewrite the entire library from scratch, discover a new purpose for its existence and (very selfishly) have a lot of fun with the library, pushing its boundaries and re-evaluating its 'API' as I discovered/explored the world of generative art.

Sadly my personal funds have run out and I've not been successful finding sponsors etc. But the work has helped me land a new/exciting full-time job so I've wasted nothing through my endeavour. I wish Will McGugan all the best at the start of his adventure, and hope he has as much fun as I've had over the next year or two!

[1] - https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas
I'll just pile on my own accolades. We use MQTT to connect handhelds with in the field ag irrigation controllers. There's probably about 10,000 valves on farms and other ag projects throughout, that are ultimately scheduled and monitored through MQTT. We've even been able to build a full request/event protocol on top of it.

The protocol is simple enough, that when I wasn't happy with not many full solutions existing in iOS, I just rolled our own in a day or two.

Currently adding an Elixir REST bridge to the whole thing. It's been pretty cool all around.
The biggest health mistake I ever make in a day is not rowing
You're right, although vehicle crashes remain the leading cause of death in young adults in the US. I'm just saying that SUVs and trucks externalize their costs onto other road users.
> “For decades, our customers have enjoyed the ‘thrill-of-the-hunt’ for value at one dollar - and we remain committed to that core proposition - but many are telling us that they also want a broader product assortment when they come to shop,”

I have never been inside of one, but is it not always the same products? This makes it appear as if it’s different all the time - that’s interesting.
The VAERS database wouldn’t be what I would use for measures. I mean I saw a guy faint like one minute after getting the shot. Side effect? Nope he even said while he was talking to paramedics he spent the whole day freaking out about side effects and then blacked out. Paramedics said they see this all the time, people are scared. However the technology for the vaccines has been around for a few years now and the vaccines all went through rigorous testing. We don’t know the long term adverse affects of COVID, but with the mechanism of the vaccine plus the insanely high number of people who have received them we should feel even more confident in their safety. I mean I get the hesitancy people have. But honestly a lot of people are making decisions based on emotion to not getting the shot, and I think a lot of it is that reason and facts can’t counter emotion (not saying you in particular just a general observation).
Ah. Sounds like something one of those pickup artists would say if they blindly pivoted into marketing.
>"youtube and facebook are different."

Every specific case is different; you can always find some facts which differentiate one instance from the 'general case'. It is not enough to say 'this time is different', one must overcome the presumption that general rules should hold.
I remember a story , may from The Sea Around Us. politicians will decide how many fish they can capture in next year, scientists say 'please reduce x %, or we trust it will be terrible', politicians heard the advice and start taking. finally, they decided a number smaller than half of x.
In practice, this has not happened yet, and it has been 3 years since the forum inception.

One obstacle which I forgot to mention is that an account cannot report posts or warn other members unless the account is 3 months old *and* the account has created at least 300 posts. Both conditions have to be met. I guess it is a sufficient hindrance for most Internet trolls to forget about the forum if they had no intention to take part in the community in the first place.
I would argue that much of the anxiety in first time users stems from the perception of marijuana as a dangerous or illegal substance. Not to discount the negative effects of cannabis because they do exist (cannabis induced psychosis is very real in heavy users), but there are also plenty of medical use cases where cannabis is safer than the widely-accepted alternative. I actually use it for anxiety attacks myself; a good mellow indica works better and impairs me far less than a Xanax, for example.
I mean, anybody can sue anybody, but I'm not sure the states could successfully enjoin the federal government from enforcing federal prohibition. In fact, I think this issue has already been settled in the courts. The federal government cannot compel the states to use state resources to enforce federal law, so there's that.

There is so much federal policy based on commerce clause jurisprudence that overturning Raich and others is a pipe dream. Change will only come from slow erosion by giving the Supreme Court the opportunity through some creative cases.
This is hilarious on so many levels

My suggestion to him:
Turn in a new artwork next week:
the money shredded.

Call it "you greedy bastards"

It can be explained as a revolt against the existing power structures in the financial world, where the poor are only noticed when they cause unrest.
> But everyone forgot about herd immunity.

You may be beyond herd immunity, but most pro authoritarian/pro vaxxers I've spoken with on HN and elsewhere still firmly believe that the vaccine provides immunity, and to question it is to question The Science.

You are working from alternative facts and therefore by definition a wacko. Sorry, this turned into a completely flippant comment, but I don't know where to go from here. You only have to scroll down a few comments from here to discover someone who is still insisting that herd immunity is reachable via vaccination. What is there to say when people believe the sort of thing completely contrary to all of the science, and they're backed up by plenty of people who know better but find it convenient for them to believe it?
What kind of home routing would require a Pi?
A pandemic is a natural disaster akin to a forest fire. Once a disease reaches pandemic level there is very little that can be done to control or extinguish it. There is no going back to before no matter how hard we try.

So, we learn how to live with a new disease without letting fear dictate our behavior.
> because the other side is too stupid to make their own decisions

The unfortunate reality is - that is the actual crux of the problem. Maybe say "incapable of making" instead of "too stupid to make", since that makes the scope wider. But that is the long and short of it.
Sorry to tell you, but your mom is an idiot and she is probably going to die. Sucks, but such is life for those people.
Well over 2 billion people have been vaccinated. You probably know some of them in real life - you don't need a broadcaster to tell you if there are problems.
Idea is that in emacs the procedure is a simple function call, so if the "business" logic isn't too expensive (and I presume the Emacs folks have done a good job of ensuring this is true), it will run pretty darn quick. On VS Code it's a whole IPC maneuver, so even if the "business" is fast, there can still be a lot of overhead that bites you when calls happen frequently.

The extension model is the same in VS Code, all the author needs to do is write basic JS (or TS). VS Code core does the heavy lifting of creating the extension host process to run that code and exposing the `vscode` proxy object to the extension's code, which enables communication between the extension and the renderer in a manner that appears identical to as if the `vscode` were a simple object. See the minimal hello world sample [0] for the basic case.

End of the day it's a tradeoff between latency and throughput, emacs chooses latency, vs code chooses throughput. Both have their ups and downs, largely dependent on the size and frequency of the task at hand.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-extension-samples/blob/m...
I hear he is working on the architecture of an oceanfront property in Switzerland next. If you move fast, you may be able to buy it.
The long term studies are not due until 2024. It would be too early to tell.
In industry terms? Absolutely. In terms of getting a billion dollar evaluation for being a disruptive start up? Probably not.

Also, the former seems to be a harder problem to solve than the latter.
Freedom of speech can go beyond just what's in the federal constitution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._R...

It's not necessarily that simple, although it probably is under current state laws.
> First and foremost, it eliminates the need to rely on the costly, rigid hardware solutions

Instead, you have to depend on "free" (wrapped up in subscription charges), rigid hardware solutions provided only by Cloudflare.

It's an interesting product, and furthers Cloudflare's dominance strategy. It provides real value and at a cost that is invisible.
> Documentation could be vastly better if it could reference traits across package boundaries

Could you clarify what you mean by this? As far as I know the vast, vast majority of rustc's compile time is spent on code generation (hence the massive speedup from an LLVM update), and everything else is relatively well optimized.
Wow that's a lot of misrepresentation. There is a secret court called FISA, which we all know about and therefore isn't secret. NSA collects on everyone but by breaking in, which while not ideal (and might not be legal) is not the same as an information sharing agreement, which is what we are discussing. And of course America still has laws about such things, even if they aren't always followed.

Domestic state intel (FBI, DHS, etc.) have 0 privileged access to American companies and their data. In China, the law is literally "the state doesn't even need to ask, it's just given".

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

Do you honestly not see the difference?
Further, every time you trade, the overwhelming likelihood is that the counterparty to that trade is a financial professional with dramatically more access to company-specific research and information than you. This imbalance is minimized when you trade infrequently and maximized when you trade frequently.
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/114939
I hate to be pedantic but the poll you reference was in 2020 and Trump said that in May of 2021. I don't think it had a measurable effect on either party.
> That vaccine granted immunity was a big one, it rapidly became less symptoms, and from that surreptitiously changed again to well you'll still have a week of feeling like shit, but you'll be less likely to die from it.

You're being downvoted but the medical industry in the US honestly has terrible PR. It's not surprising that people misunderstand.

Vaccines do grant immunity, but immunity doesn't mean "you cannot catch the virus" and it never has. It means that your immune system will recognise the virus immediately and fight it.

This is the same thing as "less symptoms".

"A week of feeling like shit" has nothing to do with the virus at all, they're not symptoms of an infection that you are feeling, they are side effects of your immune system learning to fight the virus that the vaccine is teaching it about.

All, or at least most, vaccines require occasional boosters, but if everyone is vaccinated when they should be, the virus will die out before any significant number of further infections can occur, as has now happened with Polio and Smallpox.

So in short: You were not lied to, but you absolutely should have had this explained to you with greater clarity.
Also important to note that Reddit doesn't ban hate. They ban unpopular opinions. If you want to see hate, go to r/politics.
Immunity: the ability of an organism to resist a particular infection or toxin by the action of specific antibodies or sensitized white blood cells.

The vaccine gives immunity, by the definition of what immunity is. The reduced efficacy was communicated as soon as it was confirmed. There was no lie. This is how science occurs. The best conclusion was given from the data at the time.

Regarding the metrics for vaccination rates that would allow full normalcy: they existed before the Delta variant, and unfortunately this new variant has made herd immunity impossible.
I remember the same mid vendors and drive batches suggestion for HDD RAID Arrays. Ahhh.
Then again, those 1/500 are old age or with existing debilitating health conditions. The rest of the people have a close to zero chance of dying from Covid. It is not a great idea to expose them to that 1/17000 chance of getting an unnecessary heart condition that will affect them for life. And remember, myocarditis and blood clot issues are secondary effects we know about now. The vaccine was invented and released very recently and there is no way to know the long term effects. And don't forget, this vaccine works with a brand-new genetic technology never before released to the public.
People who don’t want to take the vaccine come from all walks of life. Not just the poor or uneducated.
> That [the] vaccine granted immunity.

Vaccines work by stimulating the immune system. "Immunity" in the context of vaccines does not, and has never meant something like 'diplomatic immunity.' Instead, it means that a vaccinated person's body has the tools to fight off the virus. Which looks like reduced symptoms and drastically reduced likelihood of death from the virus. Mild side effects are expected. [1]

This has been true since vaccines were first discovered /invented, and will continue to be true. Measles, Smallpox, Polio, etc.

Perhaps many people misunderstood what "immunity" meant... But that initial misunderstanding doesn't mean that they were being lied to by doctors and scientists. What it really means is that they were unintentionally lying to themselves about the definition of immunity.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/why-vaccinate/vaccine-d...
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how does the crawling works, if the URLs content is behind logins or similar?
As pot comes to work? Drugs have always been a part of workplace culture, the only difference is now it's legal. Just because cocaine, mdma, and LSD are illegal doesn't mean they aren't part of work culture. Many, many companies take the stance of "do what you need to do to bond with your clients, we'll look the other way as long as it doesn't create an issue".
This adds to maintainer burnout.

During heavy periods this year I had ~20-30 code reviews per day.

There's a balance between money and contributions. You can't just throw bodies at a problem and say it's better than any alternatives.
Crossing the street is also potentially deadly.

Not crossing it, staying home all day until you starve or go insane from isolation is more deadly.

So we choose to cross the street.
This seems like an advertisement for a specific row machine that uses someone else’s article to sell it with a referral link.
Probably chiropractors
Bullshit is a ddos attack, youtube is just putting up a packet filter that drops a portion of the ddos packets before they make it to the target.
My guess is this acvount belongs to a 14 year old troll.
Yes. It’s past time to treat some software maintenance work as infrastructure (in the “roads and water mains” sense of the word)
RT is the synonym of misinformation
Once it's fixed this won't be possible, in which a fake Apple sign-in domain will be the best vector.
on the one hand, i think that calling this "censorship" is wrong because, in my understanding, "censorship" is an activity of the government in an attempt to remove the (presumably dissenting) voice of the populace. this is simply a company refining its product in an attempt to make it more attractive to current, or potential, consumers.

on the other hand, masks and vaccines have been so conflated with political ideology that it's easy to see why people immediately make the leap to "censorship" and it does highlight the critical reality that internet corporations either do, or believe they do, own your content and can remove it in order to suit their ends.
Epic Games Store, Discord, and Zoom join Windows 11’s more flexible app store
> Erm, what? We know Facebook and Google cooperate with NSA since Snowden.

NSA collected by breaking their security (not good), but that's not the same as handing over data. Both of these companies vehemently deny any kind of information sharing agreement with the government (and no evidence of such a program has ever been made public).
> The vaccinate all crowd well just wants everyone to be vaccinated, the severity of the crisis is a forgone conclusion.

There was a gallup poll recently that asked people what the risk of hospitalization was if you got infected.

95% of D voters overestimated the risk, 78% of them were more than 10x wrong, and 41% of them were more than 50x wrong. R voters did better, but still overwhelmingly overestimated the risks.

So we're having this enormous discussion on misinformation and how to combat it and making sure people get "trustworthy" news, and yet, Americans are completely fucking wrong about the disease. It's a giant elephant in the room that no-one is addressing!

No wonder you can't have a rational debate about weighing different risks against each other, if your opponents wrongly overestimate the risk by one or two orders of magnitude.
Many companies provide alcohol at company parties or Friday "wind downs". Who will be the first to provide marijuana as a standard option?
Ask liberals or conservatives and they will quickly point out their it's not their side that's misinforming.

The fact is that they are all misinfoming. Just yesterday in the congressional testimoney, Gen Milley, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Gen McKenzie - all said they informed the president for keeping 2,500 troops in May. President Biden couple of weeks ago denied that he had any recommendation from the generals or anyone in the government.

So which one is true?
I would not have guessed that the Rabies virus is one of the deadliest viruses known to medicine.
Never thought I'd see so much anti-vaccine rhetoric on hacker news. Very disappointing.

@dang, maybe it's time to follow YouTube their example before this forum encourages more deaths?
We need to go back.
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The US government has been working towards that goal: https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/me...

I don’t know the current status of implementation since the policy was published mere months before the Obama/Trump transition. But I wouldn’t be surprised to see it make progress again under the Biden administration.
Why does it require sign up though?…
Congrats! Any string views on how pricing changes over time? (Do what it takes to get early reference customers versus maximizing long term revenue later on)
Nice site! But what does diversity mean?

The front page has lots of cool posting, but I don’t understand what makes a startup diverse or not?

> You don’t want a job at just any startup. You want a diverse company where you can learn and grow.

There was a page where people could submit their own companies; what conditions would their workplace need to qualify as diverse? It seems like anyone can claim to be diverse.

I was looking around the closest I got was on the policies page, where it said this.

> We do not have any warranty on these jobs. Some jobs may not be listed anymore. We don’t promise that all jobs are on diverse teams. Do your own research too!

What's the difference between a diverse startup vs. a nondiverse one? What does it mean to have and encourage diversity?

Maybe an FAQ page could explain it, something like

“Q: What’s a startup diverse?
A: A diverse startup sometimes does X Y Z but can vary.”
> What is the likelihood that that company expenditure would have decreased without the team? (over time bugs/improvements are fixed/implemented by other employees or outside parties (open source))

Don't forget the time part of this. If the issue is fixed, but not for 2 years, that needs to count for having the team. Nobody is giving real numbers, but reading between the lines you can guess that some of these changes are saving $100,000/month to the company, so 2 years is $2.4 million dollars, and you are assuming you get the change at all.

Most of the above savings are on the electric bill: computers use less power, and therefore need less AC to cool them. Some of it is also that the company buys less computers.
Elizabeth Holmes went out of her way to find non expert investors. Infact, I don't think any silicon valley VCs made any significant investments in Theranos.
I really like Mosquitto, I'd recommend it for quickly getting started hacking together IoT projects on the hobby / side project scale. One of our community (QuestDB) contributors put together a docker compose example that I thought was pretty nice for quick prototyping, could be convenient for someone here:

https://github.com/shantanoo-desai/questitto
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PUBG Update 14.1 for PC Adds New Carry Feature, Changes to Taego, Pochinki
Let's disinformation roam free in the land of the poorly educated so it can kill them? That doesn't seem very nice.
There are plenty of Ruby JIT in the past which shows order of magnitude improvement in micro-benchmarks but doesn't even run rails. ( I think to the point people gave up making JIT for Ruby )

So running these complex code, not only just those heavy benchmarks like railsbench but also their production code all while passing their test is pretty damn impressive if you ask me.

And as pointed out both inside the rubykagi talk and twitter, there are lots more optimisation in the pipeline.

At the scale of Shopify, those improvement could easily be million dollar saving per year.