skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Social media companies are stifling freedom of speech in America. Have you seen the "Who's banned from Twitter and who's not" meme with Donald Trump and the Taliban? Unpopular or non-conformist opinions are censored, and it's dangerous.

"But it's private companies! They can do whatever they want!" The telephone companies are private. Do they have a right to kill your connection when you talk about unapproved subject matter? Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and so on are the modern de-facto means of communicating long distance and to wide-spread audiences.

"But it's dangerous to let these opinions reach the ears of the masses." Open discourse and trusting society to (eventually) make the right decision, given all available information, is something we've done (or attempted to do) in modern democracies. This is important.
Hey, I apologize that my stance, as to me it appears to rub you the wrong way. If you're feeling heated or triggered, please accept an apology from an internet stranger.

My stance on the necessity of vaccines isn't a belief. Its from understanding the science of vaccines and the exponential mathematic of pandemics.

Why people choose to deviate from a very clear dominating strategy is simply not necessary for me to understand or research. The simplest assumption is they believe something that is not supported in the science, but have too much ego on the line to accept they are incorrect. This accurately classifies most of the concerns I've seen. I can empathize. We've all made mistakes in who we trust or what we conclude. But in the meantime, people like kids, the especially vulnerable, and those who cannot medically take the vaccine are put at risk. Hence why I am absolutely okay with a mandate to ensure the anti-vaccine advocates burden the social costs for their decisions.
What you describe with finding the closest TLE is pretty much what they did. We use a highly directional antenna (~1-2 degree beam) and some tracking software, so it’s not ambiguous.

I’ve been able to demodulate and reconstruct about 100 subcarriers’ worth of signal, but until recently I couldn’t record the entire bandwidth. Now we’ve got our hands on one of those awesome RFSoCs with 2 Gsps ADC, so it might be possible to decode more. But unknown error correction, bit interleaving, so it’s a tall order. We’d have to get lucky.
I would be interested to see a speed-limit map from parallel universe where there were no seatbelt laws. I suspect that freedom would rebalance itself.

Also - and this applies to vaccines too - this definition of "freedom" is an academic one. There should be a competing measure of valuable freedom, defined as how much your freedom helps you to take advantage of the benefits of the world.

We then need to work out why so many people are so fiercely wedded to their Zero-value Freedoms...
Measles is fundamentally different. Asymptomatic transmission and zootic reservoirs have no impact. It's not a leaky vaccine and we aren't in the midst of a measles pandemic. Long lasting sterile immunity is provided by the measles vaccine. It makes a lot of sense to mass vaccinate for measles.
And for those who are unaware of the consequences? Do they just deserve to die?
Just like the spam filter, “algorithm” won’t be 100% effective.

Unlike spam, the content farm spreads organically.
Pretty much, with the small epicycle that the actual mandates are driven by a ton of evidence.
WebView2 will be coming to macOS then Linux in the not-so-distant future: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645...

I'm not aware of any public plans to move VS Code to WebView2, but I would be surprised if it doesn't happen eventually.
They haven't banned it very consistently, according to my news feed.
Humboldt was very impressed by them. His one beef with Jefferson was over slavery. He considered colonialism the biggest stain on humanity's record.
Rich looks incredible. I wish I had known about it about a year ago (and was more proficient in Python which I am now). I was creating an app to manage running all of our companies microservices locally on our laptops. I started out with ink-react (a text renderer for console apps that uses React). It was pretty cool in concept, but in execution it couldn't line up large boxes correctly and often failed. I don't know if it fixed all those issues.

Instead I just moved to Electron and now my app is a huge motherf__ing beast.
>vaccine hesitant and believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

This is a smear. Communities of Color are vaccine hesitant and for the most part do not believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen. It's gross of you to ignore the legitimate concerns of Communities of Color and to declare them election conspiracy theorist. You're attempting to lump together diverse groups into a single "not like me" group for your own ideological convivence. This is disgusting.
> are you claiming that the US government actively suppressed anti-vaccine views when the polio vaccine came out?

No, I'm not sure where you're getting this from?

> Should we do something about it?

Yes. This is a problem, but isn't that precisely what YT is doing..? They're banning bad faith actors here, no?
Millions and millions, millions of tests per day could be available today, except that the FDA is sitting on the applications, many of which I’ve looked at. And the applications are stellar. There’s absolutely no reason for an inexpensive three- or four-dollar test to be being outright rejected by the FDA right now or just sitting in a queue for many months. It’s no longer a normal time at the FDA, they’re being held up there for unknown reasons.

Coronavirus (COVID-19): Press Conference with Michael Mina, 02/24/21

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/coronavirus-covid...
Humboldt is strangely forgotten these days. He was an enormous figure in his time and soon after, in the 19th century. An ideal heir to the Age of Enlightenment. There's places named for him all over the world. But now his name mostly gets a confused shrug.
There is nowhere to start. Are you employed by RF propaganda?

People freely speak Russian language, though Russian language popularity greatly tanked because people like you. It is eights year of war, so many facts that confirm RF has occupied Ukraine, destroyed cities, killed thousands.
>but even without vaccination the CDC estimated the fatality rate at only 0.6% for the population as a whole.

And so, at least for the US, that's ~2,000,000 dead people.

I don't know where you come from, but that seems like a lot of people that don't necessarily need to die.

Or am I missing something here?
Youre literally advocating theft from Scottish Gentlemen. Im about done with you HN...
Rogan is not spreading misinformation.

The top two comorbidities, BY FAR, are old age and obesity. The CFR for normal-weight people under 65 is vanishingly small. This is an established fact.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e4.htm

One can fairly argue that he's doing a moral disservice to the obese and elderly by encouraging community spread, but this trend of throwing ethical disagreement under the banner of "misinformation" is absurd, when the actual science on hand supports the position.
Some Rubyists moved on to newer typed tech like Sorbert or Go and some want nothing to do with it. I wouldn't make such broad generalizarions.
> 1. Long covid is not well defined

I agree it's fuzzy, just like "vaccine side effects". If you believe one is worth worrying about, the other one probably is as well. But long covid probably a stronger clinical record even if fuzzy.

2. Ok so we definitely know by now that the vaccine does not give covid in the same way that some older vaccines against other diseases would've. There's been clinical trials and billions of doses given. As for events like adjuvant-induced narcolepsy, so far they're conjectures as well. Conjecture for conjecture, I worry more about the one that's been filling children's hospitals with unexplained neuro diseases...

3. Yes there have been lapses in reporting of side effects but so far they seem to have been rather benign.

> the ambient underlying assumption behind the vaccination programme is that everyone will get COVID at some point and it will be the same for everyone regardless of when they get it

No, I disagree. The ambient assumption is based on what happens in an unchecked mass epidemic: massive excess deaths. It is not this way because everyone gets it or because everyone reacts the same to it. It is this way because this virus is bad enough on average. There is absolutely an element of collective responsibility in the assumption about the vaccination campaign - that it's not just to benefit the individuals who are vaccinated, and that no matter how good you think your odds are of survival, it is socially irresponsible for people not to get vaccinated just as it is socially unacceptable not to wear your seatbelt in your car, even if you're driving by yourself on a desolate stretch of road, or to do recreational heroin which is detrimental to your own health only. It's because even though the vast majority of the people doing these things survive, left unchecked, they impose a burden on society that society rejects.
> Similarly but unrelated, let's also ban drug ads on cable TV.

I'm reminded of seeing anecdotes about British and Australian people watching US TV streams and them finding the prevalence of drug ads really bizarre.
> if the debate was about ISIS propaganda?

Google recently deleted the entire account of someone who had videos of vehicles in the Middle East, claiming it was extremist content [0]. He was a historian who was cataloging how vehicles are used and modified in military operations across the globe. But google’s bots (which are probably pretty similar to YouTube’s) classified it as extremist content.

So I disagree with the premise of your argument — that we’d all support the automatic removal of “ISIS propaganda”.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28621412
never mind that many of the positions that are "scientific consensus" are not supported by the current peer reviewed research.
If you don't wear a seat belt / helmet, you increase the liability risks of other drivers who may cause injury to you.

The government mandates liability insurance and also mandates safety features that reduce risk for liability insurance providers.

There are reasonable debates be to had if the lines are drawn in the correct places (if motocyclists have to wear helmets, why not other drivers?).
I grew up Catholic attending Catholic school for 13 years, so that is my reference point. The New Testament was absolutely viewed as instructions from Jesus on how to live a meaningful life. He was showing us how to put God's word into everyday action.

Certainly the Beatitudes and the Golden Rule are instructions on how to live, right?
You're missing the point. Prior infection creates a much broader response than vaccination does.
> for seatbelts it's confidence in one's driving abilities

It is confidence in the driver's abilities. If you are a passenger you may feel under pressure not to question the drivers abilities by putting on a seatbelt.

And it is also confidence in the abilities of other drivers on the road.
Settings -> (Your Name/Apple ID ...) -> Find My -> Find My iPhone -> Find My Network in latest iOS.
> It's an honest question, if a forger is as talented as Rembrandt then why isn't their work valuable too?

Because there's no originality in it and the time for that style has passed. Plus, there will always be more imitators. Same reason tribute bands aren't notable, even if they perform better than the original musicians.
Fuckin Nazis
Mosquitto is C/C++ without any crazy dependencies so you should be able to do that. I don't immediately see why you would do this though? Any specific use cases?

I haven't done this myself yet but I've seen a couple of production IoT setups with a local MQTT broker running on a RaspberryPi configured to relay all messages to a central broker running in the cloud.
Where do your clients live to need guns for protection? I presume it's for wildlife? What kind of wildlife poses that kind of threat? I know it's mandatory to carry firearms outside of settlements on Svalbard for polar bear protection, and friends of friends have found out why the hard way. (One literally woke up with his head inside a polar bear's mouth.)

Also, I don't think "licensed hunting firearm for wildlife protection" is quite relevant to "gun rights". You don't need to buy your fifth AR-15 or full auto Uzi at the grocery store to protect yourself against bears.
Amazing YouTube! Finally, some good news!

I am really pumped for what this means for alternative platforms like rumble and odysee. This is the boost the independent web needs! YouTube was way too centralized.

The network is healing!
Exactly. COVID is so deadly, that people have to be coerced and mandated into taking it, when in the beginning of all of this, most were walking around asymptomatic with it.
I have noticed this type of “vaccine side-effect hesitancy” too. Family getting serious heart issues after the vaccine, vision problems and other strange effects, and almost all of them have gaslighted by the doctors “it’s probably just a coincidence”, “it’s not the vaccine pretty sure, just take an aspirin”.

It’s the complete opposite response you’d expect from the medical community, where you’d think they would be very keen in investigating these issues.

It’s seems like they are almost afraid of even looking too hard…
No problem with the "Python" libraries that are actually C, C++ or Fortran code.
> The core issue is that journals offer standard. People don't like to bother with checking every paper's reputability with a magnifying glass, and the reputation of the journal gives a shortcut around that.

I'm not sure why people still believe this. High-impact journals like Nature have the highest rates of retraction. The incentives around scientific publishing are too perverse to make naive claims like that journals enforce some kind of quality standard.
My wife has volunteered at a wildlife rehab place (PAWS) before and worked with squirrels. They have very strict protocols about animal-borne diseases. For example, you don't get to work with bats at all unless you have taken the rabies vaccine.

They don't have any particular protocols around working with local gray squirrels, so I interpret that to mean that there is little risk. There were only 243 cases of bubonic plague globally in 2018. According to the CDC, there are no known cases of hantavirus from squirrels. The only rodent species that have been seen to harbor it are deer mouse, white-footed mouse, rice rat, and cotton rat. (Neither of the latter are rat species you are likely to encounter, which are Norway and roof rats.)

"<common cute urban animal> causes <horrific thing>" is a very pervasive meme because it combines a familiar thing we're drawn to with a high risk negative outcome. That means the meme will spread dramatically out of proportion with its actual likelihood.
YouTube's algorithm actively pushes people down rabbit holes towards fringe content.

The best way to combat this is not invest billions of dollars in infrastructure meant to do exactly the thing it just did.

Bad actors didn't poison the system, youtube covered itself in lacerations and jumped into sewer water. They stand back watching their algorithm divide and extremize everyone on every side of every debate, and now that the flame wars are starting to turn into mass graves they're hoping they can stop the whole thing by banning a few extremes here and there.

> Just a no win situation

I think there is a clear win here: AI should not be allowed to do what it is doing. Humans can't handle it. And the cost of lives is on Facebook and YouTube, plenty of employees took a stand to say exactly what was/is happening and were ignored.
Not unlike the censoring any discussion of the lab leak hypothesis they (the censors) better be perfectly accurate every single time.

The moment they get it wrong and censor something that turns out to be the truth they lose 100% of their credibility and become a part of the conspiracy themselves.
>If we really want to slow down China’s rate of innovation, we need to work with Europe.

Thought headline was hyperbole, but basically verbatim. Always fun to see mask off moments for US FP.
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Media platforms have always been gatekeepers. Freedom of speech is great, freedom of mass speech is decidedly not. This is super controversial on HN but I think the Internet without some form of restrictions on mass speech is a net negative for human society. Otherwise you’re just daring bad actors to take advantage of the situation.

Companies doing this is arguably preferred to governments doing it, but only just barely.
Wouldn’t a fair argument be that replication isn’t as valuable as art creation?
ISIS propaganda - at what point does a cleric preaching the Coran becomes ISIS propaganda? Should we stop seeing news where the taliban shout "death to america" - is that pro-taliban propaganda?
Should we ban videos showing life inside Kabul today? Is that taliban propaganda? What about a person interviewing that says under Americans the soldiers came in his home and broke his stuff and also streets were unsafe at night and now under the Taliban it's safer all around?

Holocaust - what is denialism? If you argue for the figure of deaths in Auschwitz being smaller than it is currently publicly known, is that denialism? Does that mean that you are never allowed to challenge the dogma in the "wrong direction" ? What if the official number is actually wrong? https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-05-07-920210... Btw, there are countries in Europe that will prosecute you for denying holocaust, but that is an actual formal process: the prosecutors gather evidence that you consistently try to deny it, with false information, for the sole purpose of minimizing it, not for research or open discussion reasons. This is something prosecutors should do, not some random employees at youtube.

Viral encouraging suicides - should we ban Radiohead altogether? What about "Virgin Suicides"? Should we ban all depressing music and movies? Where do you draw the line? Should we only see happy stuff all the time?

I think speech should be free, except for the cases where it causes actual harm, and those cases should be determined by an official body that has a democratic control over it, like the police, FBI, DAs etc. Youtube/twitter/facebook are completely undemocratic, opaque and unaccountable for their actions. They should not have this much power to steer speech.

And children abuse is a hairy one. When exactly is something ban-able? Does it start at anything below 18? What about countries where 15 is the norm(and the law). What about Romeo and Juliet? And what constitutes abuse? I personally think Desmond is a clear abuse, same with Cuties, same with all beauty peageants for kids. I would ban them all, but you see, I should never have that power, it should come from officials that are ultimately democratically elected.
Or they are tools for a medical totalitarian dystopia. 2 years ago there were effectively zero exception free vaccine mandates, and only a very few places where they were actually hard to get.
Unix Review Magazine
The AGPL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22540300
> Bans like this look incredibly stupid when you realise YouTube itself is responsible for this disinformation getting so much traction.

People keep repeating that the solution to bad speech is more speech, and more speech is more money for YouTube.

Unsurprisingly, more speech on this subject has not managed to drown out the nonsense, but it has done a great job of amplifying it.
Careful there - Microsoft and Canonical are increasingly cultivating a very close relationship that includes lucrative data sharing. There was a scary story on HN seven months ago, 'I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure':

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26114194

Canonical knows everything an Ubuntu install at your IP address installs with "apt get" unless you change your repos to a mirror that you know for a fact doesn't share its logs with Canonical. And Canonical is pushing the Snap Store that it alone owns and controls, and which it can Big Brother monitor what every single IP addr installs.

So Canonical doesn't need closed source spyware to make money spying on you.

For the most part though, Canonical seems it will only use its spy data to market products developers are actually potentially interested in. If you download a bunch of container tools Canonical may wish to market to you that a certain service they make money from might work for your needs. And all things considered it actually might.

I do use Ubuntu btw, mostly in WSL though. I will go back to native Ubuntu though once all the art and music tools I need run as well on native Ubuntu as they do on Windows, and once Ubuntu is as hassle free on laptops as Windows is. I recently bricked a native Ubuntu install because I forgot to turn off secure boot, which somehow broke the proprietary nVidia drivers I need.

EDIT: Canonical seems to have closed down its Ubuntu One cloud storage product... I thought Canonical was still trying to offer an alternative to AWS/IBM/Google/Azure but it seems they are just focusing on their OS now. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
> Postmodernists like to respond [...] that both claims can be true because both are true relative to some perspective or other, and there can be no question of truth outside of perspectives.

I wonder who the 'postmodernists' mentioned here are; for example, Foucault, who is often grouped under that umbrella, went to pains to say that just because multiple readings are possible, it does not mean that they are all valid from a single point of scrutiny.

It's also rather strange that the talk of 'postmodernists' is as if it's an academic movement rather than the state of the world today (e.g. see Azuma's analysis of otaku in Japan as symptomatic of the postmodern condition; the increasing reliance on trope and categorized personalities in modern media compared to the grand narratives of modernist literature). Theorists of postmodernism tend to argue four fronts: why we're living in a postmodern world, how we got here, and what that means for meaning (political, religious, cultural) and how to deal with that.

The people who usually decry 'postmodernism' are in general perfectly happy to live in the world that word describes, with its media and piecemeal, disconnected consumption and purchase of images and simulations lacking any real narrative. Even more absurd is the tendency for some of the same people to resist narrative (e.g. "no politics in video games").
The famous picture of her taking reporters into the machine shop is one example.

“Touring the machine shop” is an old trick when you want to waste time and not show anyone anything. Technically naive people don’t realize that modern machines each have a computer attached to them, and there is little proprietary in most shops.
What is Bill Clinton but a hype man, though? The board of Theranos was filled with names evocative of gravitas to baby boomers, but whose input on anything would be worthless.