skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is true that kids are always spreading respiratory ailments. We've always had to live with this risk.

It seems to matter how dangerous the situation is, how helpful closing the schools actually is, and how much harm we are doing to kids in order to hopefully protect others. It doesn't help that we don't have exact numbers for some of this. Nor would people assess these risks the same, even if they agree on the numbers.

For example, some people don't think that covid is that dangerous, given that only 1 in 500 people have died and we now have a vaccine. Some people think the harm to kids is significant, especially those just starting school and how long they have been locked down. Some people question how effective closing schools has actually been, how many lives are actually being saved, or are we only delaying the inevitable spread of this through the entire population. Some people feel the opposite, they are vulnerable and want to impose on others to lesson risk to themselves.

Keeping schools closed now that we have vaccines doesn't make as much sense as before. If the vaccines are 95% effective at preventing death and hospitalization then there is 95% less reason for keeping schools closed.
I've never understood this logic. Very few subs limit posts by karma and those that do certainly don't require the insane amounts of karma that these bots are farming.

I know I don't go back through someone's post history before voting on their comments and I don't really care about their aggregate karma values.
Does it? How?
FYI the person who writes the article rarely writes the headline. That's the job of editors. Source: I worked as a copyeditor at a newspaper. A big part of our job was writing the headline. Back in the day it was harder because it had to fit allotted space on paper, today it's easier.
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DuckDuckGo also tracks what links you click on. Try it: when you click on a link you'll see an immediate ping to https://improving.duckduckgo.com/t/...

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
It sounds like Blue/Green deployments.
Nice, thanks for sharing here @pshanoop. If anyone has any question, please let us know here or in the reddit's post.
> if you know the foreground and background colour of a letter, and you know the single colour of pixel it blurs to, you can still work out what the letter was.

Totally agreed, and I like what you said about information remaining - you start to get into fun information theory stuff.

For example, let's say you're given one of the 'shades' you mentioned. I give you #a9a9a9. There's 32 bits of information there. However, if it's a blurred letter of black text on white background, it's always going to be grayscale. There's only 256 possible grayscale values - only 8 bits. Luckily, since there's only 26 lowercase english characters, we can easily fit that into our 255 values. Information is not destroyed! This is the shade->char map you were talking about.

But now what if we blur enough to turn two letters into one shade. That one shade will still be between 0 and 255. But now there's 26*26=676 possibilities that could've created that shade. More inputs than we have outputs for. There's no way to fit more than 256 possible inputs into 8 bits of information. Shade '98' could be 3 or 4 different inputs. However, we can be very clever...

We know that the letter 'u' comes after 'q' almost always. We know that 'x' never appears next to 'j'. We know lots of things, and can supplement the destroyed information, with outside information. We can actually change the whole context for this conversation now. We're not talking about blurring. We're talking about fitting english text into less bits than ought to be possible. We're talking about compression. This is exactly what compression algorithms for english text will do. There's a lot of redundant information in plaintext, just like there's a lot of redundant information in our images of text. An 8x8 pixel character glyph can easily reduce the information to a single pixel. However, there are limits. You can compress english text by 10x, if it's simple enough. You can't compress War and Peace into 5 bytes. You can blur text a few pixels and not destroy information. But you can't blur a paragraph of 12px font by 500px and get your original information.
I thought about selling or donating it, but I have no way to be confident that I've wiped it of all credentials and content.
I'll tell you what, my first actual jobby job was managing a number of printers, plotters, copiers and PCs at 2 locations. At 16.

I was paid twice the average wage. It taught me making money is easy.

2 years later I was earning 10x the average wage doing affiliate marketing in a country where few even heard of it. Money was no issue. Spent it all, there's always more, right? 2008 was a very rude awakening and to be honest I've never recovered from that.

Wish I could've worked at some factory first.
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"The USB-C breakout board with the pull down resistor connected on the bread board"

Actually, it isn't. The resistor is in row 16 of the bread board, the cable to the connector is in row 15. I'm sure, you just wanted to test whether we're paying attention.
In 2016 it was used to target these specific types of people with outrage. Get them riled up against their opponents and make them more likely to vote for your candidate or issues and more likely to spread your propaganda for you.

AFAIK you absolutely can target (or could target) groups of people based on very specific criteria.
Well you can take the approach that one TikToker’s mom took: comment on the post and say it’s datamining.
There is extreme value in knowing who your most-prospective marks are. If you had a population of 1,000 people, and had to sell something (read: convince to vote a certain way) to 400 of them, wouldn't you like to know the subset of those people who are already predisposed to your position and just need a little more nudging with a narrowly-tailored meme , instead of making a dartboard attempt against all 1,000?

That was the entire value-add of Cambridge Analytica , whose Facebook-API data-gathering loophole has now been replaced by just engaging suckers via the platform itself and a tiny bit of NLP/sentiment analysis.
Those I understand, but I'm wondering about the "What's your perfect fall day" or "How old were you when you got your first job" questions that don't seem like they'd yield answers to security questions.
> Even the punch card got this right: the program wasn't stored as text, it was stored as physical holes in paper.

We still do that, storing executable programs as executable binary rather than text. What else could you do?
Because of this my approach these days is to use a different virtual credit card number for every subscription.

That way when I want to cancel I can cut off the card to be sure I wont get charged again “by mistake”

privacy.com is a good one
Then they are not enlightened in the sense meant in Buddhism, that is, they have not attained Arhatship nor become awakened Bodhisattvas nor Buddhas. They haven't extinguished the causes for rebirth, and are still bound to the samsaric cycle.
That isn't the argument I'm making. I'm simply showing the prevalence of the ngrams "Guiness" (capialised) and "Guiness *" (same, followed by any other word).

"Guiness Book" clearly trends in print before any reference to a beverage, in the US-English corpus.

If you have a complaint, it's with Google Books and its ngram viewer.
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We've been plagued by poor-quality studies making all the wrong conclusions! Of course, our metabolism drops and gets more and more defunct with each year of life passing as BMR depends on lean mass and sarcopenia is a scientific fact! Also, the higher your metabolic rate is, the faster you're aging! I think scientists keep forgetting about the Hayflick limit! Unlike cancer cells, our cells do not divine without a limit! The faster your metabolism is, the faster you will reach this limit! If you care about longevity, you need to aim to lower your BMR, not increase it. If you look at studies, it's not the athletes who live the longest, it's the scientists with a sedentary lifestyle who spend most of their day thinking, not running on the treadmill! I highly recommend to you The Longevity Book, which is based on the longest-ever study still going on at UC Riverside! I "feel great" is highly subjective. Brainless exercise also means upregulating growth factors, which also increase your risk of getting cancers. Exercise is also the single biggest source of ROS! Keep your cell turnover low, don't think autophagy comes at no cost. Keep your mitochondria healthy, and prevent senescence. Reduce exposure to environmental toxins, breathe clean air, drink pristine water, and eat less than what would make you full - all clean and simple foods! Walk 30 minutes a day - and that's all you need. Gyms and sports are industries often associated with injuries, a waste of productive time, and money. Be a turtle, not a hummingbird! Yeah, turtles are ugly, but live much, much longer that hummingbirds to enjoy the outside, not inner, beauty of this one-of-a-kind world!
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Separating things into bounded contexts sounds like specifically not connecting them, which means not understanding how they connect or even trying. And its these bounded things that seem to cause the biggest issues later on when their actual connections come to the surface as bugs in the system.
I don't know what world you live in, but business goals are never "test if a function returns an array of users with their comments sorted by likes". Business goals are more like user should be able to view comments on their profile. Which several layers of abstraction away from what coding is.
Social platforms amplifies all of our human qualities, and our interaction habits. Since old ages, people were striving to seek attention and show their work [1] [2]. After reading this book [3] indistractable, I started to reflect on how our educational systems are not designed to prepare students to live in this digital age, yesterday it's FB, today it's TikTk and tomorrow there will be something else. FB is just one Pawn in this game.

I know that siding with FB is one of these topics that are very controversial in HN, but I am not finding excuses for the practices of these companies, my point is that our kids will live in a different age than the one we lived in, educational systems should keep up with these challenges and find innovative way to prepare people to efficiently manage that.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu%27allaqat
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_ancient_Rome
[3]: https://www.nirandfar.com/indistractable/
Is it really true that wanting to be successful is just western culture?
It's true that git is blob based, as opposed to patch based, but it's not the full picture! In practice, git stores a lot more diffs (or rather, deltas) than it stores loose blobs. (And you probably know this already, but I feel it's still worth making explicit)

This is necessary, because when a repo accumulates commits, it becomes a lot more efficient to store most of the objects as deltas instead of separate blobs. If Git didn't do this, it would have a lot of copies, and they would take a lot of space.

So the fundamental model of git is truly based on blobs in theory, but in practice many or most git commands will operate on packfiles, and if you look in your .git object store, most likely you will have a few big packfiles containing most objects, and then a much smaller collection of loose blobs.

All those diffs are what the "resolving deltas" progress indicator that people see when they do a big clone, fetch, or checkout is about =)
With those comment counts, something dodgy is obviously happening.

The interesting question here is whether Facebook is somehow accidentally amplifying it. Certainly it is not in Facebook's interest to allow this kind of data harvesting. If it hurts you to think that Facebook somehow isn't maximally evil, at least consider that this is data that could be only Facebook's. Allowing somebody else to harvest it is money straight out of Facebook's pocket.

So, given FB should not be complicit, what mistake could they be making to allow the system to be haunted? The obvious guess is that they have a feedback loop in the ranking algorithm. It values comments very highly as a signal of good engagement, but they weren't prepared for "content" that is this good at eliciting low effort comments and have wide appeal demographically. As long as one of these reaches a critical mass, it'll be shown to tens or hundreds of millions of people just by any engagement feeding even more engagement.

Is there anything less obvious?
I think you don't understand what false equivalence is.

> False equivalence is a logical fallacy in which an equivalence is drawn between two subjects based on flawed or false reasoning.

Are you suggesting Youtube, a media company, and Hollywood, a collection of media companies, are somehow not comparable?
Something this article doesn't mention is that FB's glasses, because they look extremely-similar to normal glasses, will face less opposition simply because many regular people won't realize that they're being surreptitiously recorded by a mega-corporation with a track record of serious privacy violations.

There's something even creepier about this. "Oh wow those video glasses that were clearly-identifiable as video glasses were met with violent opposition... well I guess let's disguise our version as regular glasses! Problem solved :)"
It just takes one person to do that though and say "you made a new account for this you troll?" before everyone gets it.
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Hell, I got a lecture from someone once for questioning whether cloth masks were accomplishing anything meaningful in a 100% vaccinated workplace with surveillance testing. A lot of authorities are concentrating more on appearing to Do Something against COVID than on the cost-benefit calculation of NPIs' actual impact on preventing disease.
Gasoline is high-energy-density using a high-power-density portable quickly-starting/stopping engine. These advantages can overcome the minuses in some applications. (Fewer after the recent advances in batteries, etc.)
I can recommend the one published by the AMS.
> if you have institutions which push policies, empower candidates beyond the scenes

There's nothing in your article that suggested that the organization in question was some sort of propaganda arm of the US government, and there's nothing undemocratic about advocating for one's interests. You might not agree with the advocacy, but "democracy" doesn't demand agreement.

> Of course this is not exclusive to the US, let's just say they lead the market of political BS, k?

I don't buy this at all. There are nations with actual propaganda departments, state-run censorship, bot nets, etc who actually directly attempt to influence elections.

Like all other countries, the US does advocate for its own interests abroad--this is called "diplomacy" and it's generally the least-bad kind of advocacy. However, unlike other countries, the US does possess a lot of clout (the world depends on America in large part for security and prosperity, however loath we are to admit that America or Americans serve a useful purpose).
> 2) do not give you a chance to explain your point of view.

You can't eliminate the department meant to answer media queries and then cry that they don't tell your side. He chose to remove the PR department.

> 1) purposely mischarachterize you and your work

That seems to have gone in Musk's favor more than not. Most people think Tesla makes their own batteries (they don't), their cars drive themselves (they don't), they have advanced manufacturing (by every metric they are terribly inefficient and after all the talk of air friction and alien dreadnoughts their model 3 ramp was pure incompetence compared to how other car companies just turn their lines on once validation is done). Musk's lies have been uncritically reported for years.

Honestly, even look at HN articles:

The 2nd highest Tesla article is "All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware" from FIVE YEARS AGO...

The top one is "Tesla Cybertruck" - from two years ago.

Third highest - Tesla Roadster - 4 years ago

6th - Tesla Semi - 4 years ago

None of those exist for public sale, all of them got reported and mass upvoted by an uncritical audience. If you fall for Musk's victim complex you're a sucker IMO.
Those are thrown in there to make the general asking of these types of questions considered normal.
I have been a proponent of Agile for many years. But it bothers me that it has been used to take power way from Senior Developers. We really need to bring back the Tech Leads.
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If delivery services emit a lot of CO2, then making delivery services (which is not about "someone who works as a delivery guy" but rather about the company selling delivery services) much more expensive is a key part of ensuring that delivery services get used less and only by those needs where those delivery services are relatively more important i.e. those who would be willing to pay the significantly increased price of deliveries.

After all, the whole point of carbon tax is to reduce usage, not to gain revenue or penalize some people; so it works if and only if it meaningfully changes behavior, i.e. if the tax significantly raises prices of some specific market goods/services and thus drives people to use less of those specific goods/services. A simple income-proportional tax or just "tax the rich" doesn't incentivize reducing emissions, so it's useless for that goal; it's perhaps useful for social equity and wealth redistribution, but that's something not directly linked to climate change goals.

It's not about money, it's about CO2; driving deliveries needs to emit less CO2 so the goal is to either get more efficient deliveries (e.g. electric vehicles) or less deliveries (putting some of those delivery drivers out of jobs), and "who's paying for that" is just choosing the most effective means to achieve these goals.
Municipal Fiber is the way to make that happen. It allows ISPs to offer very cheap rates, since they do not have to provide the infrastructure. I live in a building connected to a municipal network, and pay $32 Canadian for symmetric gigabit.
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thanks for sharing this. This is from 2009 and as I listen to it for the first time, seems just as applicable today.
Which one of these are you?
They 'walked away' and then the deal got done 2 months later - there are no details on who did the deal.
Not surprising that scrum works best for consultancies -- Scrum has just as much to say for how engineers should behave as it has to say about the people paying for the project should behave, and how to pretend to be that person when they seemingly abandon their duties.

The sprint is also a product of its time. A methodology for shipping new features on a monthly basis is great when your competitor is shipping Excel on an annual basis. But the shorter the turnaround time for a feature, the less use there is in planning timelines.

This is why the big tech companies don't have a unified process -- the process that works best for shipping operating systems is different than the one that works for shipping a mobile app, is different than the one that works for shipping a webapp. Any program office that tries to smooth out these wrinkles is hazardous to their wealth.
A short one can be found in The Computer And The Brain written by his wife as foreword. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300181111/computer-and-b...
Actual calls to violence are a clear line in free speech. Telling someone to blow up markets and commit terrorism is something everyone should be opposed to.
I think you're using phrases like "sometimes" and "mostly" and "some blend of" to advocate for a position that fundamentally promotes toxic positivity.

I agree with certain aspects of what you say, such as that it's inappropriate to justify disgusting behavior (which I assume you mean assaulting/harming others) and attribute it purely to circumstance as a way of avoiding consequences. I however vehemently disagree with the notion that a healthy mind is a mind that ignores basic facts of reality, such as how much influence randomness and luck have on our quality of life.

There are going to be circumstances in which people's lives objectively suck in a way that isn't their fault and they can still be optimistic about it in a way that acknowledges basic facts of one's living circumstances. There are going to be circumstances in which people's lives are objectively awesome in a way that they didn't do very much work to achieve and acknowledging that has nothing to do with whether or not they're an optimist.
What a ridiculous thing that is. Thats so clunky and unappealing. Somebody should just write some software to simulate direct gaze into the camera or something more elegant than attaching a periscope to the top of your poor laptop.
Those look like phishing for answers to account security questions.
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It's not an assumption. Of course, it depends on a lot of things, but broadly speaking, they use less CO2. And the great thing about a carbon tax is that this shakes out through the system: if they're not reducing CO2, you would see it in costs and could react accordingly. This price signal is a lot more convenient than having to, as an end user, try to figure out what the best and worst things to do in terms of CO2.
Is this a tired meme peddled by Zuckerberg?

All I see are people dancing pool-side.

All I see is billions of views being taken away from FB/YouTube and others...and this is the great danger.
Google, FB, and any gaming or streaming service is losing their prime demographic: teens.
"Oh no the Skinner box we built to exploit and manipulate people is being used to exploit and manipulate people!"

"But why is that-"

"Because OTHER people are doing it!"

"Oh no!"
I don't see why this is better than simply implementing a table like this yourself.
There's lots of stuff you can do with the data.

The most obvious one: with the security question type stuff, you can take over other people's accounts.

But collecting data about people is also useful if you're trying to spread an agenda. You can determine what types of messages resonate with an audience. You can group those people and target them separately -- not through ads, but through special interest accounts/groups. You can recruit people to amplify your message. You can even get people to act in real life, i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency#Ralli...

If you can identity, categorize, and influence the loudest voices, you can influence public discussion and opinion.
> Enabling reproducibility is a costly investment, but the cost of doing unreproducible work is even higher. This is a calculation I rarely see organization make.

Hopefully things like Alex Freeman’s http://science-octopus.org (or something like it) will take off very soon, which addresses this well (and will make science more accountable).

Meet Octopus, a new vision for scientific publishing: https://www.science.org/careers/2018/11/meet-octopus-new-vis...

Dr. Alexandra Freeman | Octopus: a radical new approach to scientific publishing - 29 October 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af6aITLEoD8
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I have encountered a number of occasions when the Startpage results are frustratingly shallow, but the direct Google results are not. It was as though Startpage was not being provided a complete set of results.
I don't really plan. The past plans never worked. I have no decision making authority at work, and at home my wife basically has the final say.
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