skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or to take a more recent example, should the media have censored Drs. Marshall and Warren in 1982 when they claimed that the scientific consensus about the cause of stomach ulcers was completely wrong? Everyone thought that ulcers were caused by stress and spicy food, but it turned out to be bacterial infections. We always need to be humble and recognize that some things we believe to be correct will later turn out to be false.

https://badgut.org/information-centre/a-z-digestive-topics/n...

(To be clear I think the current scientific consensus that the COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective is correct.)
Fascism is governmental power (ie dictatorial control over the public conversation.) in the hands of the corporation. Which is exactly what we have here.
I would hardly call this handful of replies (within a thread of 1200 comments) a "flamewar", and I disagree that it's unsubstantiated or off-topic.

If the moderators think I'm breaking the guidelines, I'll happily comply. Until then, could you please stop telling me to read them?
Yes and yes.

Network based hashing is great to maximise information quality of the hash (compared to other LSH methods). It works to compress existing vectors super efficiently.

Very soon things like language embeddings will skip the vectors and instead networks output hashes directly. These are much faster as the network can learn where to use more bits where it needs resolution, as opposed to using floatXX for everything. It’s amazing to see it work, but not fully there yet.
> 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.

There has to be more to this right? Trafficking tons of the stuff? Repeat offender? Violent history? enhancements?

see also: https://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentenc...

edit, since people clearly are against this comment: I'm not arguing that that the "more to this" justifies the 25 years, only that "25 years for a marijuana conspiracy" isn't the whole story and we'd all benefit if we were able to judge the whole story rather than some person's stylized version of the story.
every truth is born an opinion.
Well said, seconded. The tragedy of the uncommons.
Thanks. I'll tone down the snark.
Right, that was the surprise. It should be what you said, but in practice it became the tribe-of-choice for people who wanted not just religion out of government but also religious people.
I beg to differ. I have met people who have been mentally damaged by religion to a point where they are no longer a useful member of society, to the contrary. While media is also doing a lot of damage to people, especially in the last 2 years, I am convinced nothing can top the horror that is religion. Besides, people that have to believe in a supernatural overload to function in this world are just spooky to me.
I remember this was a particularly common talking point a couple of years ago (probably circa #MeToo), but thankfully I haven't heard it much since. It seems like the left kind of goes crazy in fits and spurts, but once the zeitgeist dies down they just kind of go quiet on all of the indefensible things that were said ("we literally want to abolish policing", "violent protest is necessary to affect change", "men need to be taught not to rape", etc). And "going quiet" is certainly a lot better than "doubling down", so it's not a horrible outcome.

Note that I'm not implying that the right does better (I'm not a righty, I'm one of those universally reviled moderate liberals) or really noting anything else outside of this one quirky observation.
You could just adjust the height, not width of the bracket. There is usually plenty of space between lines to support this.
> Tailscale has cool ACL rules, but it's not really the best way to implement true Zero Trust, especially for web applications.

authzed.com is a better fit if you need ACLs for your web properties (Tailscale ACLs are super-clean though and I fully intend to copy it for one of my projects).
True freedom simply cannot exist in a society. Why do I have to be polite to grandma, why do I have to wear pants in public, why can't I just kill that guy... liberty would be so great if it wasn't for so many other people around. Basically our lives are a collection of social restrictions (call them whatever you want) and I think recognizing this fact would bring some ease into this discussion: what makes one new restriction worth.
> I visit my parents most months. They live in rural Ireland. Not like a one off build down a back road miles from civilisation, but a small village of a few hundred people. They absolutely do not have reliable internet, and at this point they've cycled through every available provider.

This is why state run services matter, Because they will 'serve' in areas where private businesses cannot turn up profit and so they have no incentive to serve.

5-6 years ago, In India only the state run telecom - BSNL's service would be available at remote, hill stations. But with 4G it couldn't keep up with private telecom and the company is nearly done for. So now again there's no connectivity in remote areas and mountains as private players don't bother ~~serving~~ doing business there.

This is especially worse with pandemic, many in such areas have lost communication outside world and remote-education is non-existent for children there.
Athletes at private colleges are employees who can unionize, NLRB GC says
I am using Firefox and I do not have a Facebook account
a text editor (especially for code) is a good example of a case where both matter. it doesn't take much latency to make typing a very frustrating experience. the common case (editing small files) needs to be very fast. but we also need to gracefully handle very large files that involve nontrivial processing (10kloc+ c++ files do unfortunately exist). I gave up on atom several years ago when it slowed to a crawl opening a 4kloc c file. vs code can handle many multiples of that without breaking a sweat, so it's my current first choice.
The competitive landscape is across the board, not just for superstar devs. The vast majority are not "people who can deliver anything". The vast majority can be replaced.
Concentrated solar is not semiconductors, it's mirrors and salts. Perovskites I don't think are, although they aren't a product yet.

Do we need cutting edge fabs for silicon solar cells?

And ORNL-LFTR reactors is the biggest missed opportunity in terms of global warming ever.
> I heard anti-communism was pretty popular back in the day. Does that mean such actions should be endorsed/allowed?

Sure, why not? If you (or even your entire neighborhood) don't want to have a garden party with an open communist, that's your right. I similarly have the right to say "you're a dick for doing that". If I'm a civil rights activist, I have a right to endorse the Montgomery bus boycott, too.

> So your only objection to that was the government interventions?

With a fairly wide definition of "government interventions", yes. The Comics Code is something I'd consider intervention; "we'll self-regulate under threat of external regulation" is something I consider government intervention and a First Amendment violation in this case. The same for McCarthy's driving a fellow senator to suicide via abuse of power (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_C._Hunt).
Every profession has a certain percentage of unqualified morons working in it.

In most cases, it just means work doesn't get done and/or you have an unsatisfied customer. But in the case of medicine, it kills people.

Then you have the corrupt that will do anything to try to get rich and famous. This is where you'll have a doctor claiming they found a new treatment for a disease or some other discovery by manipulating data and not seeking peer review. Examples of this include the Andrew Wakefield who started the "vaccines cause autism" movement, and whatever doctor started claiming Ivermectin treats COVID.
Not getting your vaccination at this point in time, with all the information available is performative theatrics, not an intellectual decision based on facts. They're only going to be convinced when someone they know or love is either hospitalized or die from the disease.
Things I learned from startup failure and success
Only God could be Objective; that whole Descarte's Demon thing makes True claims based on empirical observations a lot more fraught than you'd really like it to be, even in the best of cases where everyone agrees on: what language game we're playing today, what "an observation" is, that it was faithfully reported, and so on.

Nobody's perfect; what builds the sort of trust that permits action is a history of publically doing one's best:

I would like to add something that’s not essential to the science, but something I kind of believe, which is that you should not fool the layman when you’re talking as a scientist. I’m not trying to tell you what to do about cheating on your wife, or fooling your girlfriend, or something like that, when you’re not trying to be a scientist, but just trying to be an ordinary human being. We’ll leave those problems up to you and your rabbi. I’m talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you’re maybe wrong, that you ought to do when acting as a scientist. And this is our responsibility as scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen.

Do that, and you'll earn your Ethical appeal easily enough.
“GC” = General Counsel

The full headline was too many characters.
They have that kind of algorithm, but most people want, or at least behave as though they want, outrage bait, and cute content farm affirmations. The moment you take a moment to be proactive and have ownership over your experience the algorithm happily shows you less crap and more people.
What angle about vaccine skepticism isn't summarized as "it might negatively impact you so maybe don't get it".

The vaccine is totally the tragedy of the commons. If everybody gets it you are just making your life worse by also getting it.

If nobody gets it it is bad for everybody.

The reality is sometimes everybody collectively deciding to take one for the team is exactly what we need. Vaccination is one of those situations.

There are exceptions, I don't mean to imply otherwise, but those are not what is being talked about.

"Maybe we shouldn't vaccinate those who have been infected to vaccinate someone else" is being used to justify those who were presumed infected to not get vaccinated. The nuance is getting lost in a painful way.
Surely you're not making this statement in good faith because the same virus that gave you Chicken Pox can lay dormant in your body until it reactivates and causes Shingles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingles
There should be a certain degree of cultural competency, though.

For example, Czech Facebook banned an ad with a word "Rifle" in it, because of an American ban on gun advertisements. But "Rifle" means "Blue Jeans" in Czech and nothing else. It is not a gun-related word in our language. And indeed the ad tried to sell blue jeans.
(author here, hi)

Thanks, glad you got something from the piece!

> My view is that most people cannot know what they want before they have an experience of it.

I feel this very strongly. As I said on my "About" page, anytime I find something I enjoy, I see what it's like to actively create it too -- developing a little more of the San Franciscan School "feel" for the object/experience in the process, and almost always deepening my appreciation for the object/experience.

My writing is itself an example of this. I only started writing these essays because I enjoy reading things like them so much!
Do you find (or know) that the THC is contributing to this effect on top of the CBD?
> I can count the number of journalists I've seen in my life who tried to dig into the nuanced details behind stories on one hand.

Is that supposed to say something about journalism or your knowledge of journalism?

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Which would cause a ruckus in most of the cases. Not exactly what I as a driver, or I as a passenger, want when I think of a ride.
Earthship, heatpump, and this... getting pretty close to a dream house TBH.
How would you make YouTube better? Monetise all content regardless of what advertisers say? Never remove any videos? Have courts make decisions whether video should be removed or not? Hire more human moderators as if humans are somehow super reliable and never make mistakes? I'm genuinely curious.
>Right now, vaccine holdouts are really screwing things up for us who want to return to some form of normality.

Is this even true anymore? Delta is highly contagious and the vaccines are leaky, thus it is not obvious that the effective R0 of Delta will be less than one assuming a fully vaccinated population. We already know that vaccinated people can still be infected, and not at minuscule rates, and once infected they are similarly contagious as an unvaccinated person. If Delta is endemic now, blaming the unvaccinated for the ongoing pandemic is just false.
What exactly is your criticism? Saying "more technology will solve it!" is not really the point of solarpunk.

Most of the solarpunks I know, including myself, are also broadly described as anarchists. "A shift in how you view the world" is something that happened to us long ago.
Skillshare moved to a federated GraphQL API
> Start enforcing proper driving standards rather than making every vehicle double-height and armour-plated.

School buses being built the way they are keeps kids from getting killed in crashes. Enforcing proper driving standards basically just means somehow penalizing the driver who killed people, which doesn't bring them back to life.
Barely better than placebo? The paper you linked says:

"Inactivated influenza vaccines probably reduce influenza in healthy adults from 2.3% without vaccination to 0.9%"

That's a ~60% reduction, which is nothing to shake a stick at. But I don't think it's a surprise to anyone that the flu shots do not have a remarkably high reduction rate; that's been public knowledge for a long time. In fact the CDC's own data on this is even gloomier than the Cochrane review:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/effectiveness-studies....

In any event, if people are concerned about mRNA vaccines for whatever reason, there are other vaccines out there like the J&J vaccine.

While there are always reasons to be distrustful of the gov't (it is not hard to find examples of the CDC, Surgeon General, etc being dead wrong on aspects of the pandemic), a cost benefit analysis of whether to get the vaccine or not should produce a pretty clear result.
> Corporations are not humans (regardless of the "corporate personhood" doctrine) and thus should not be entitled to the full rights of humans.

True, but corporations are just connections of people with shared goals. Should groups of people lose "fundamental" rights when they organize?

> Fair-weather friends indeed.

Yes, I fully support the rights of platforms to do stupid things. Use rumble or whatever if you want. I'll mock those platforms, but I don't think the government should ban them.

> Semi-monopolies like Youtube are especially not entitled to use their dominance to manipulate public opinion, given how easily it can be abused.

So, you think that we should circumstantially limit constitutionally protected rights, for the greater good? Fair weather friends indeed.
It’s everyone’s business. Vaccinations are to protect a population. Some industries require vaccinations before the employee can work and this isn’t a new behaviour. Not looking after staff and those the staff interact with would seem negligent and a potential liability.
Experts should be allowed to weigh in, not office workers and bureaucrats. Where were the aerosol dispersion specialists when the CDC/WHO were preaching "droplet?"
Medical Delivery Drones from Scraps
I think there is some nuance even for those with institutional access (e.g. field, institution, etc). I am also a researcher (though I hesitate to call myself that), and I read (or skim) through quite a few papers every week, and I very rarely run into a situation where I do not have access through the publisher. It's so uncommon that I very rarely think about (my own) access at all...

I only say this to provide my day-to-day experience, I do think Sci-Hub is a net positive, and I'm certainly in favor of seeing the status quo change.
I think it's more of a make more money, get closer to FIRE-ing.
As someone who knows very little about biology, I watched the HBO documentary about Theranos and am kind of still confused by some of the conflicting claims I hear.

In the documentary, they focused a lot on the engineering challenges of the machine they were making. The blood samples would spill, which would gum up the mechanical workings of the machine and make a huge mess and contaminate all the other samples. The documentary claimed that Theranos started doing demos where they would pretend to put the blood samples into the machine, but really take it to a lab bench and run the tests there, and then report the results back.

That implies to me that at least some of their tests were actually possible to do. I left the documentary thinking "someone should simply do this again, solve the mechanical/robotics problem, and not lie about it and this could still be a game changing technology". But then I've seen other sources (like your comment here) claiming that the basic science of what they were trying to do was impossible/fraudulent from the beginning.

Which is true?
I saw a plaid delivered with the yoke steering wheel and no stalks anywhere.
The dudes got savings and career to fallback on—he might be dreaming but it's not like it'll hurt to try. Not to mention he's already popular in Python circles (i.e. tech workers with disposable income) and has an existing group of sponsors.
> We have 30 years of mRNA studies and research, and at this point

The mRNA vaccines are the first ever approved for use in humans. This is indisputable.

There are no long term studies as to its side effects. Do I think there are any? No. But could I be wrong? Definitely. Thoughts and feelings aren't science. We need the long term data, which have none of.
One thing I don't see discussed in the comments is the trade off of resources. While water is an important resource, a quick Google show that a "Large semiconductor fabs use as much as 100 megawatt-hours of power each hour, which is more than many automotive plants or oil refineries do." [1] If you look at a cost analysis, I'm sure the price of energy far outweighs the total price of getting their water for the plant. By building in AZ, which has the ability to get a lot of solar and cheaper energy, they can reduce that cost dramatically, so the economics can still seem viable. My company is also energy constrained and we went through a similar analysis recently. It's hard to say no when you can cut your energy costs literally by a third.
[1]: https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/dotcom/client_serv....
I am supporting two arguments:

1) Even some technical employees of Vaccine producers
are skeptical of their products, particularly vaccination
of children. Watch the videos as they are secret
recordings of some of these employees. I am not claiming
all at J&J have the same position. But its a position
that currently gets you banned on YouTube and downvoted
here.

2) My other argument is that this whole thread is full
of claims of "vaccines safe", ignoring the error
implied by the generalization that comes with it.
The examples I posted of the J&J medical lawsuits
show the appalling record of this company. But if you
refuse a vaccine from them you are apparently
somebody you should not even debate.

And please dont mention the FDA...

"The story of "probably the worst drug approval decision in recent US history"

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/26/politics/alzheimers-drug-...
I work in QA at one of the BIG ones on hardware/software, and you would be scared how little top backend/frontend devs care about security, other than pluging in some common solution. I'm right now detecting vulnerabilities, I'm running test cases, writing reports with clear descriptions and screenshots of the holes in the system, and yet I'm pretty sure all of that will go into the managerial sewer because they don't want to take the costs of solving it. But I'm sure if I point to the company/project I'll be kicked out of my job.
Frankly don't care about the investors, they won't go hungry and they should have known better.

Endangering the lives of ordinary people though - 10 years isn't enough.
It is very frustrating, especially to many of my fellow scientists, that bellowing "THIS IS TRUE" as loudly as possible is insufficient. But it is insufficient.

While I understand your argument, I'm believe there's something more going on.

Taking COVID, for example. From the pro-science side, we get:

"COVID is a dangerous virus. We should take X, Y, Z actions" from somebody with a PhD in public health, medicine, or similar.

And from the anti-science side, we get:
"It's fake. It's the flu. X wasn't perfect, therefore X, Y, Z are all a plot to make you magnetic" from somebody on YouTube with no credential beyond being on Youtube.

I guess what I'm saying is there's something fundamentally broken about how people process information. All the Logos, Ethos, and Pathos in the world doesn't help when a significant portion of the population is brainwashed.
Yeah, 30-40% of the population needs psychologists and propagandists to evaluate or re-educate them. I think this viewpoint you're espousing might be part of the problem.
And you could replace them all with dithered WEBP images of William Howard Taft. Nothing of value would be lost, content-wise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howard_Taft#/media/Fil...
I didn't mind so much, as I was well compensated in general. It was only in the last few years that Agile cultists took over and managed to ruin the place completely. After a long, painful decline, my entire group was laid off, from senior managers down to new hires. Fortunately, I immediately found a better job.

Oh, and I had been there for 22 years.
Here's one done with jpegoptim -m 40, which gets it down to 28k:

Original 123k picture on top, 28k picture on bottom:

https://imgur.com/a/hZy46K3
All of this is correct. Many on the left seem forcibly unable to view the nuance described here.

Freedom of choice is an American value that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world to the degree that it does here. Freedom to decide what you do with your body trumps public health. Half of Americans believe this, and the other half doesn't.

Finding the compromise between those two viewpoints is exceptionally challenging. Each group has the temptation to view the other as being "willfully evil," whether for being selfish or for imposing tyranny.

I hope the solution is that our high vaccination rate of 70+% of adults and the prevalence of the spread of Delta (which creates natural immunity) will combine to reach herd immunity and we can get out of this craven, horrible timeline we find ourselves in.
Title should really have said "with a managed switch".
GitHub: New code review assignment settings and team filtering improvements
Well done and congratulations.

Just like the Freshworks IPO which the CEO was inspired by a HN comment [0], it is good to see more founders getting their companies listed on the stock exchange and have gotten their inspiration from this site which is what I want to see here. Once again well done!

And I also will be buying Amplitude stock at near market close.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28625322
Tell GIMP not to include the EXIF and XMP data (which doesn't get any smaller when you decrease the quality). Then tell it to use 4:2:0 chroma subsampling, and set the quality to 24 or so.