skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This “study” has been proven to be obviously and demonstrably incorrect in the years since it was published. The authors should retract.
And even if unquoted input got through, what year is this, 2012? Content-Security-Policy is a thing for almost a decade.
To me it's strange to think of money as a resource especially on the societal level. Money is just a unit of account. Creating more or less of it should not create more resources or products.

People, natural resources, finished products, those things are finite and thus there's a need to allocate them. Money has turned out to be a good way of doing that.
Interesting document linked to from the article:

https://manilaprinciples.org/
The article list has dates: https://danluu.com/
I actually check the laws in a US State before moving there just to make sure it this type of intellectual property grab is not allowed. By rights any jurisdiction that allows this should have zero people producing intellectual property, but there's so much friction in moving elsewhere for most people that companies can push it and get away with it.
I remember that first "OMG people can see things further than 20 feet away!?!" revelation.
More health workers are fed up with constant stream of unvaccinated patients in hospitals (also a big overlap between assholes and unvaccinated in USA where vaccines are available), so they would rather want everyone to be vaccinated. Ask your doctor friends and relatives.

What would your imaginary girl do when all ICU beds are occupied by the unvaccinated?

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/never-ending-nigh...
Welcome to the CO2 Monitoring Credit Card That Cuts You Off at Your Carbon Max
But much of the debate isn't strictly scientific. What is appropriate policy is not something science can determine. People who will be affected by policy absolutely should weigh in on it.
Sabine Hossenfelder put it as well as I've seen it put:

"Science doesn't tell you not to pee on an electric fence. It only tells you that urine is an excellent conductor of electricity."
Hard to think of a government agency with less credibility than the DEA.

$5 says the average DEA agent uses more drugs than the average American.
So true.

The NTP project is symptomatic imo.

So important and totally ignored until recently.
yup, the Intel failure I mentioned below was a firmware issue, not any actual failure of the flash modules
So you're effectively proposing that government should be deciding what speech is allowed on the platforms. How is this free speech if government can silence you?
How does this apply to the rest of the world?
Are you going to release on f-droid?
Are there any estimates on what would a unit cost?
You're not wrong but… it's pretty disheartening. Do you see a way out?

For businesses that want to minimize their reliance on the (trickle-down scraps of) the fraud money business.
> I recently moved into a new home. But before I can get settled, I have to install a tech monopoly. Is it an Alexa, Google Assistant or Siri home?

The author forgot his last option: not installing any of this garbage in his home
https://archive.is/RQFdw
Let's not pretend that the practice of throwing a bunch of models at a dataset in search of statistical significance isn't a thing. P-hacking is a pretty big problem in some fields. That's one of those context-things I mentioned. It's easy to go from a field where you can control variables very well, like physics, and look at a field where the variables are all over the map, e.g. psychology or nutrition; and expect the contexts to be similar because science is science. But it's not. The latter fields have really big problems actually replicating published results, many times the findings just never materialize outside of the initial study. It's not all from overt bad science like p-hacking, effects like publication bias also appears to play a big role.
my previous page collected about 200 email addresses, but my project is not 100% ready. I feel guilty collecting an email address when I do not have something ready.
I disagree entirely. This quote explains my view better than I could word it:

> The term culture industry (German: Kulturindustrie) was coined by the critical theorists Theodor Adorno (1903–1969) and Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), and was presented as critical vocabulary in the chapter "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception", of the book Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), wherein they proposed that popular culture is akin to a factory producing standardized cultural goods—films, radio programmes, magazines, etc.—that are used to manipulate mass society into passivity.[1] Consumption of the easy pleasures of popular culture, made available by the mass communications media, renders people docile and content, no matter how difficult their economic circumstances.[1] The inherent danger of the culture industry is the cultivation of false psychological needs that can only be met and satisfied by the products of capitalism; thus Adorno and Horkheimer especially perceived mass-produced culture as dangerous to the more technically and intellectually difficult high arts. In contrast, true psychological needs are freedom, creativity, and genuine happiness, which refer to an earlier demarcation of human needs, established by Herbert Marcuse.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_industry
appetite stimulant?
Maybe they simply haven't got there yet. Packaging and deliver to CDN would be technically simpler comparing to maintaining the virtual packager + chunks at CDN level (not to mention the virtual packager if needs to run at CDN level, requires smarter CDN such as Cloudflare Worker).
That makes sense, thanks! I'm wondering if there is some sort of regulation possibility on their processing of content or algorithms. In other words, similar to the cookie law in EU (which has an abysmal implementation) whereby individuals have more control on what they can and can't see and what gets promoted to them.
I don't think funding should be the sole determiner here. We don't expect any company which raises VC money to give 100% ownership of their code to the VCs.

Labor needs to be rewarded, not just investment capital.
650K USD investment is so little for something so important!

Meanwhile, I just read that a recruiting startup raised 100M $ in investment.
Anti vaccine content is just posting pro-vaccine content from six months ago next to pro-vaccine content from today.
> 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.

Then why do we see articles saying that Youtube etc bans people with great credentials who are anti vax? There are people with great credentials on every side of every argument. Great credentials doesn't stop you from being an idiot or being wrong. If you believe the first person with great credentials you see, and that person happened to be anti vacc, would you be anti vax? Sounds like it to me. I'm pro vaccine, but I am strongly anti blindly listening to people with credentials.
Is this guy trying to suggest that instead of getting a cushy day job to pay the bills and pursuing one's dreams as a side hustle one should just just pursue one's dreams, costs and consequences be damned? It's hard to tell because of all the MBA-speak.
Seems so.

Is there no background code analysis in VS code? That would be a reason to switch.
iPad mini has a subtle scrolling problem [Updated]
> You are presenting this as if this is somehow unique to Russia.

No, I’m presenting it as if Russia was the topic of discussion when I joined.

> Anything Russia is doing on this front is dwarfed by what the US, UK, France, Germany etc. are doing.

Now you are falsely presenting it as Russia being uniquely moderate in this regard.

> Somehow things like Russia Today are presented as blatant propaganda, while Radio Free Europe is neutral reality.

RT and RFE are both propaganda, the latter more openly so, not less.

But the discussion here is about false-flag propaganda, not things like RT and RFE.
> but it’s not like it became a tech capital

What?

Let's put aside the massive government contractor industry. Even without it, DC's internet history includes MAE-East, UUNet, AOL, Equinix, Network Solutions, and Microstrategy. The Dulles Technology corridor is one of the largest single tech regions in the country. Nearly all the significant genomics and bioinformatics companies are here, as well as all financial regulation groups. FINRA is in DC. So is Capital One. Amazon is opening in DC, and not in New York: and Amazon Web Services has long been in DC. And all this has fueled three highest income counties in the country, all here in DC.
The ones that conflate people who are anti-vaccine-passport with anti-vaxers in general are usually doing it deliberately.
When the different vaccines came out we did not have peer-reviewed studies to show that they were effective, only the smaller studies done by the drug companies that developed them. In much we were accepting the opinions about the effectiveness as facts, as well as the side effects which were yet to be discovered.

We saw the same thing about the effectiveness of cloth mask and anti-bacterial cleaning had on spreading of covid. It took well past the first year before we started to see when, how, where and whom benefited from different strategies, and the meta studies is yet fully clear on the answers to those.

Looking what we don't know as far as today in terms of vaccinations, the biggest unknown variables seems to be about duration. With most nations having gone through two rounds of vaccinations, it seems now that a third one is now needed. One study cited recently was conducted on patients that is undergoing transplantation, with half of the patients missing antibodies while having taken two vaccination already this year. As a result there is a lot of talking about treating covid vaccination as something that will be added to the existing seasonal flue vaccinations that vulnerable groups take, but which the general population do not because of the short window of protection. Time will tell and it won't be anti-vax people that do the research or conduct the discussion.
This not a helpful approach. Art maintains it's value as it expresses the depth of human creativity. If someone imitates it, it's an entirely different (and vastly more common) skillset and thus considerably less valuable. Further devalued by the communal irritation at fakes in the art community. Creatives take humanity forwards, it is the cusp of that creative point that is being celebrated.
> as deadly as this one

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

On what planet is a 1.6% CFR "deadly"? On what planet are we "at war" with a virus?

This language you are using is a perfect demonstration of the danger of propaganda. You're dehumanizing your fellow man and justifying it after the fact with more propaganda.
> Google is also a Bay Area company and happens to have a sizable number of vocal/activist employees with lofty world-saving goals.

Which ends up being mostly used for PR, and causes occasional drama when some employees' view conflict with tech sphere's most vocal views. Notice the swift and harsh reactions of Google and other tech companies in those cases: that's what happens when their revenue is threatened.

> I also can’t help but think that having so much revenue and de-facto monopolies means they are comfortable with alienating “the other side”.

It doesn't really matter what "the other side" thinks. All "sides" are using YouTube and buying Android phones anyway, because they have very few other options. And all "sides" are equally good targets for advertising.

Google isn't worried about people migrating off YouTube because of these actions. They're worried about regulators, who are looking at content moderation practices and considering meddling in that space - which would be very threatening to YouTube's revenue.
Some businesses are incredibly dependent on open source components that can stop being maintained at any time.

Having in-house contributors spend company time on these dependencies alleviates the issue.
> You don't have the necessary information about my demographic and medical history to be able to make this claim.

I was referring to the aggregate, it is strictly correct unless you have a specific medical issue and I'm confident your doctor will inform you.

> The following statement of yours is a non-sequitur because it in no way proves the claim of yours that I am at greater risk from SARS-2 infection than I am of a COVID vaccine:

Sure it does. You will get COVID. You'll either be vaccinated at the time or you won't be.
Sometimes it is helpful to first reduce the number of colors (preferably to 256 if that doesn't cause too much banding, depending on the number of color shades used). Then png usually compresses a lot better. Png compresses badly when the image contains too many different colors.
Main reason I gave up on desktop Linux after 20 years is that Gnome is being forced on us and software is no longer playing as nice on traditional X11 window managers. I use HiDPI 4K screens and if you use a traditional window manager like FVWM which doesn't do all the modern desktop bus systemd stuff then you are outta luck.

echo 'Xft.dpi: 192' | xrdb -merge

Is the first step to getting hidpi to work. But some 'modern' apps ignore this, but might respond to

export GDK_SCALE=2

But then there are apps which respond to both of these settings and give you 400% scaling, or give you 400% scaling for some UI elements, 200% for other UI elements.... I just installed Windows, set my desktop to 200% scaling and I was all done and could finally start doing work again that actually makes money, and I even have more spare time for HN now that I don't have to constantly study the Arch Wiki to fix the next broken Linux thing.

Windows is actually better for online privacy because a Windows browser is so much more mainstream. If you are broadcasting your "Linux" OS in your browser User-Agent string to every website you visit you are not terribly anonymous online because you are broadcasting you are among the elite 1% of computer users. Yes, you can install a browser extension to say your User-Agent is Windows, but have you?
I don't think people in technology should stop talking about these things, I just think they should talk about it somewhere other than HN.
> yet we force our children to be vaccinated in school in order to be part of society.

It's important to note that this isn't some worldwide, universal practice. Many countries, such as the UK, do not have vaccine mandates to enter their school system. There are also different rules in different U.S. states. It's also quite unfair to compare vaccines that have 1-3 doses to essentially vaccinate children for a lifetime against horrible and deadly diseases to a vaccine that needs endless boosters for a disease which presents very little risk for children or immune adults. My child isn't required to get an annual flu shot to go to school and I don't see how this is much different.

So I agree it is contextual and I think this is the proper context.
>Nobody complained when social media sites shut down ISIL videos or Taliban content.

People did. You didn't hear about it because they were brushed aside as free speech extremists and wacko libertarians.
I am immediately suspicious of any scientist (or expert in a subject) who doesn't say "well, actually, it's sort of complicated..." because it always is. Everything is complicated and confounded by innumerable factors, and requires years of study to even see the full shape of.

But, politics and media do not currently thrive on presenting complexity, so if you're going to run the risk of asking a scientist their opinion, you either select scientists who are willing to dumb down the science, or you ignore everything they say that doesn't match what you already believed.
No, it used to be like that but not anymore. If you want your own app on your own phone to last more than 7 days you need to buy the $99 membership.
Yeah, I will agree with you that there can be some smaller-scale systems that work fine. That said, in these cases in my experience it's always few key "hero" mods who are just very committed to volunteering to keep things cleaned up.

Without actually hiring people, it's hard to get that level of commitment, and just as you are saying, as soon as the work gets hard enough (eg clever trolls that turn users against each other, or paranoid political crusaders who think the mods are in league with unseen forces), even the best volunteers end up quitting at the worst times.

In the long run I think the solution is just hiring moderators. It costs money, but if you want a job done well and consistently ya gotta pay.
there's at least one major reason to be skeptical of that result, and they mention it in their limitations section.

what they did was create a lexicon of hate speech terms from two large subs that were banned. they then counted the frequency of those terms in other subs after the ban. they found that usage of those terms dropped substantially, and concluded that the bans were effective at reducing hate speech.

if you're familiar with the dynamics of these sorts of subs, the problem with this approach should be fairly obvious. these subs tend to develop their own set of specific terms/memes (hate-related or otherwise). it may be the case that the bans were effective at reducing hate speech across the whole site. but it's also possible that the same people are still posting the same stuff coded differently. this study is far from the final word on the matter.
From the original paper:

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We find clear evidence that surgical masks
lead to a relative reduction in symptomatic seroprevalence of 11.2% (aPR = 0.89 [0.78,1.00]; control prevalence = 0.80%; treatment prevalence = 0.71%). For cloth masks, we find an imprecise zero, although the confidence interval includes the point estimate for surgical masks (aPR = 0.95 [0.79,1.11]; control prevalence 0.67%; treatment prevalence 0.62%).
---

If you go to the chart, you find a 5% relative reduction with a p-value of 0.540 (!)

Regarding reduction in symptoms:

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Additionally, when we look separately by cloth and surgical masks, we find that the intervention led to a reduction in COVID-like symptoms under either mask type (p = 0.000 for surgical, p = 0.048 for cloth), but the effect size in surgical mask villages was 30-80% larger depending on the specification. In Table A10, we run the same specifications using the smaller sample used in our symptomatic seroprevalence regression (i.e. those who consented to give blood). In this sample we continue to find an effect overall and an effect for surgical masks, but see no effect for cloth masks.
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There's no intellectually honest way to interpret this data other than "cloth masks have very little effect, if any".
Because the unvaccinated are:

1) Filling ICUs and taking up other hospital resources unnecessarily. Leaves that for people who are injured in accidents.

2) Dying. We don't want our fellow humans dying. Only anti-social jerks don't care if their fellow humans die from easily preventable causes.

3) Carrying larger viral loads for longer.

> their bodily choices?

If it were only their body it wouldn't be a much of an issue. However, it's not just their body. See above.
Although I'm glad it is up, it was sadly only restored after the tweets became popular.

The "review" that claimed it still violated policy: https://twitter.com/Twotafkap/status/1443099098438045697/pho...
Mosquitto is not, we use RabbitMQ which runs on Erlang/OTP and has mqtt plug-ins. Mosquitto is single threaded. It's fast for sure but doesn't scale out. They can interoperate though as Mosquitto has configurable bridging.
I have a pet theory on this that is entirely based on my own biased views: societies which are communal, whether around a family, village, tribe, etc..., tend to keep sociopathic tendencies in check. Either the sociopathic individual is exiled from the group, or at least identified and prevented from harming the collective. If the larger structure is still made up of smaller (at most 100s of individuals) communities, exiles risk becoming pariahs and without any societal support, it becomes next to impossible to strive (or even survive).

In highly individualistic societies, a lot of the most personal checks and balances are removed. You no longer have a tight-knit family that imposes some moral framework and behavior on it's members (good or bad).

Having said that, I'm not sure whether there are any truly communal societies left in the modern world. I suppose some isolated, rural communities could qualify, but pretty much all modern countries are now individualistic. Family values are slightly more pronounced in the East/far-East, but not to a degree that matters. Being successful still often trumps being a decent human being.
You can do offline first by installing CouchDB on the client side and using that to store user data. This only works on a desktop PC right now but for some apps that's a much better approach.

My own testing had my web browsers choking up when I had a few thousand documents stored in the browser's IndexedDB. This is on a 10 year old Mac Mini with 8gb ram. Could be that newer PCs do better but I doubt they'll do much better.

Using CouchDB with PouchDB.js provides a "Live Sync" option that syncs data both ways and that feature works very well with the apps I've made which do not have 1000s of users accessing the same DB. In my case there are probably not more than a dozen users accessing the same DB. And in my case there is not much chance more than one user is modifying a document at any given time.

Also, in my case, there is no "backend logic" being processed. That's all done in the user's web browser.
> In short, if the large platforms like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft et al started using DIDs, we could start using logins across platforms instead of creating new accounts for each one.

Not a chance really.

First, DIDs define a method behind resolving data be it use a website, use bitcoin classic, etc. There are over 100 defined, and only "web" and "key" (inlined data in the URI) have achieved interoperability.

Second, if DIDs define authentication then your Apple/Facebook/Google account will require to own the DID so that they can make sure the authentication requirements aren't rewritten to be too weak to qualify.

Third, DIDs used in that way are less privacy preserving than the existing system, since it is now a global identifier shared with everyone.
Right, I'm just curious what targets fits such profile. Ostensibly US doesn't need this new capability unless there are new threats.
High school.
I'm for freedom of speech, people should be able to make their own choice with all the information available. There should be a right to be a "conscientious objector"[1] for vaccination. But to be fair, it would work only for an educated population that is capable to distinguish facts from misinformation. And for me, science should always be questioned, if not there is no research and no discoveries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientious_objection_in_the...
Can you provide more info re: compliance propaganda? I haven't heard about that.