skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For context:

This important work done by Bob Haugen and Lynn Foster (http://mikorizal.org) and collaborators, has been continued under various project names and partnerships. For example, together with Tiberius and co at Sensorica, they helped create the first value accounting software [1], which led to the coining of the term 'Network Resource Planning' software, which stands in contrast to today's siloed corporate Enterprise Resource Planning software (e.g. SAP).

Their latest iteration/group is known as http://valueflo.ws, and is a spec for 'a vocabulary for the distributed economic networks of the next economy'.

A great short intro to the world of distributed supply chains is this recent presentation by Lynn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vymAHXGSM14

[1] https://github.com/valnet/valuenetwork
How so?

If one were charitable to this action, you'd say they're blowing up a silo full of rat poison and disallowing people from adding poison back in.

The balance between "free speech" in the moral, not legal, sense and disinformation is going to be just like "security v. privacy" has been, but perhaps even harder to draw lines for.

If you accept as a premise that most anti-vax sentiment is driven by charlatan media outlets and influencers (and probably nation-state adversaries), and that much of what is repeated by laypeople is an echo of this intentional drivel, and that this drivel is immediately costing not only their own lives, but the lives of others, what do you do? It's literally a disease.

Which the Chinese would say about "people talking about democracy". So there it is: Where, if at all, do we in a "free society" draw the line where harmful disinformation campaigns get cut out?

I argued several years back that the "app layer" of the internet should have more freedom of control over their content, but that the "infrastructure" layer should be expected to be more neutral. In other words, if an anti-vax website or social network got hosted on AWS, it would be a different thing for AWS or a registrar to kick them out.
Apparently they're good for red squirrel conservation, they'll hunt the invasive grey squirrels but not the long-suffering native red squirrels.
first they took CD/DVD and now they are coming for our compilers
The bar is passed to make sure that the student knows his stuff and laws, I don't think that applies to an AI that has every legal book in its database. But I do agree that jurys would be a big problem that can be solved by using it in small claims court where there's no jury, and as far as not being able to sue it, you can sue the company that created it!
Yeah, there's a reasonably visible message "warning" you of this, which has a prompt to turn it off.

I actually thought this was very old, added a year or so ago. I guess it got delayed?

I've had two phones stolen (right out of my hands) that were immediately shut down and sim cards ejected to prevent them from being tracked. While I'm sure this feature wouldn't help me get back a phone, I hope it does deter this.

Edit: I think this was announced back in 2019 WWWDC https://www.wired.com/story/apple-find-my-cryptography-bluet... ?
No I'm not claiming that, you're putting words in my mouth and you're misconstruing my arguments. I have been extremely clear.

As I've had to painstakingly clarify for you, just because I have commented on one thing, does not mean I am subtly making comments about other things. I am being very explicit, very clear. Please read my comments, because I'm not one to bury my lede.

A better way to approach this discussion may have been to ask me questions instead of just assuming answers. You could have asked, "Do you not believe they would have gone to war for other reasons?" to which I would have replied "Of course they likely would have! But it was over religion in this instance."
"The Open Society and its Enemies" by Karl Popper would be one thought-provoking contribution on this topic.
There is with your colleagues.

2 years down the line imagine you're in line for your dream job. Manager's about to pull the trigger, and they see that Joe also worked with you at Acme Consulting.

'Hey Joe, we're thinking of hiring giantg, what's your thoughts?'

'giantg? Yeah he was good, but then one day he just didn't turn up for work. Not sure what he did...'
>I don't feel this way, but I could understand the reasoning.

A vanishingly rare sentiment.
YouTube frontpage promoted and is still promoting crypto scams. A family member lost $4000 to it, and they are still ongoing, and YouTube is too overwhelmed to pull them.
"Your freedom to swing your fist stops where my nose begins". This anti-vaxx BS is already posing, or at least aggrevating, a serious public health issue. If it was just for the anti-vaxxers, I wouldn't care. It is affecting their children and people that simply cannot get the vaccine. At which point their freedom of reach (not necessarily expression, as far as I know their demonstrations are allowed) has to take the backseat when it comes to other people's health.
IMO one of the reasons these debates go back and forth forever is because it’s impossible to come up hard and fast rules that cover every scenario.

Maybe a poorly thought out analogy but think about cars. There are a ton of car accidents every year, a good number of which result in death. But we don’t ban cars because they’re essential for the way many people live. But if 50% of all car journeys resulted in accidents? Maybe we’d be having a different conversation.
Given that youtube looks, walks and quacks precisely like the classic "public forum where free speech is valued" that we all know and love, this move is clearly a massive act of deceit.
Bede BD-5
Non-cooperation with US authorities is a very different thing from general freedom. I wouldn't conflate the two unless I was intentionally trying to shill for RU or CN. In the case of scientific publishing, the US authorities are in the wrong and I'm glad their reach does not extend everywhere.
FYI - crossing state lines for a job that has disappeared when you arrive violates (really old) federal law. That guy could have sued the new owners.
And, in your online PDF, link the citation to the Sci-hub copy.

This can be automated.
When a private company with a market share of information as large as Youtube acts as an arbitrer of truth, regulation to prevent this would be nice, yes.
Not entirely true. If it's hosted on YouTube and then goes viral on Twitter or Facebook...
The stupid information is still out there.

It’s just not on YouTube.

We don’t live in the reality where the local book store and media owner keeping information away actually had an impact.

This only effects YouTube. Of the millions of other sites out there.

I think even the smart people are a bit stuck on YouTubes marketing effects on their limbic brain versus the reality; the bad info is just a Google search or friend posting in private away for anyone still.

YouTube is not the center of the internet.
focus stacking ... capture a series of photos each with a different distance in focus then in post processing synthesize a single photo from the portions of each which is most in focus ... heavily used for microscope image capture where depth of field is minute ... another is high dynamic imaging ( HDR ) which is a similar bracketing of several exposures each with a different shutter speed of each image captures maximum detail in a different exposure level ... if you wish to combine both of these tricks into a single output image where you use say a bracket of 4 exposures for the focus stacking and say 5 for the hdr then total necessary photos would be 4 * 5 meaning 20 separate photos
Great in theory, but if you've ever debated someone who is not acting in good faith online it's near impossible. Their energy input is an order of magnitude lower than yours. And yes, in this specific context it IS misinformation, disinformation, or just flat out false.
RAT stands for Remote Access Tool.
Agree completely on a no win situation.

Censorship can keep good information out.

No censorship can make whoever yells the loudest be the most heard, which can snowball into millions of ramifications.

I'd like to go back to the early internet days where people had to at least make a geocities site to spread their word, with no financial incentives to getting more clicks or viewers. It wasn't perfect, but you had to be seeking that group / audience rather than having it thrown in your face everywhere.
Debate has not been some private school grandstand it's at the centre of much of the hard science discourse and rather than the plaything of philosophy such as dialectics.
The only disinformation I've seen about these vaccines has been from Fauci and other pro vaxxers.

“You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.” - Joe Biden

there was never a basis for this statement, making it clear disinformation. Grass roots research doesn't fit the bill of what that word means.
Too bad that is not how humans work. If the good information is complicated and scary, we will go for easy and pleasing every time.
Open Letter to Catholic Bishops
...or you just do some actual moderating instead of offloading your workload on machines. People worry about idiots and disinformation yet ignore and allow way more non conspiracy nutjobs all the time. Big Tech has such a cognitive dissonance its dizzying
Inb4 it’s a private company argument. Or they are free to setup their own video sharing site argument.

What happens when a topic you care about is censored? How would you feel?

Are you really going to recreate your own video sharing website just to share your ideas?
It isn't the guy with the gun. It's actually the bullets that are to blame.
It's baffling that there is no example or demo or even a video of what it'd look like.
(b) was policy from HR at my last employer and I would always forward HR any reference I wrote for employees for review before sending to make sure it complied with their requirements.

There was more flexibilty for reference letters written for summer interns but that was a more informal process.
It may be their right to pursue profits within the bounds of the law but that doesn't mean their actions along the way aren't distasteful.
Then turn it off. Personally I’d like it on.
I guess that's why it's an option, with (IMHO) a reasonable default of being enabled.

It's a useless feature against theft if it can just be turned off the thief.
With the addition that it must be done in good faith. If you only create straw men arguments for your opponent, you haven't tried to get to the bottom of their reasoning.
Ask HN: What happens in your social bubble that is not visible from the outside?
Has your hobby got an interesting new way of doing things?

Has a company imploded after following the mantra 'fake it till you make it' for too long?

Is there a new release of some software you are excited about?
Oh, I agree that it is a bad idea to do it. I just don't think a private company not putting a video on their site is what censorship is. I wish Youtube would not take those videos down, as they're not illegal. Anti-vaxxers will diminish with better public education, more focused on critical thinking and science literacy, and not because there are no more videos about it on Youtube. The videos will always find their way to reach their audience's screens.
Restricting or banning content would count as moderation as far as §230 is concerned.
This is the real culprit, in fact.

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

Haunting people making noise at night in old houses is also a common hobby (but somebody must to run after the yummy mice).
Feels like onus should be on phone manufacturers to ensure new OS updates work on old hardware.

Instead, Xiaomi should release an operating system update. iOS 15 is compatible back to 6s (released in 2015), tho even 6 years of support seems short.

If you want to “BuyItForLife”, perhaps buy from a phone manufacturer committed to supporting OS updates for your phone.

What’s going on with Android ecosystem that old phone support is hard?
History of how Toronto got a truck smashing through a wall at 299 Queen St. West
Psychiatrist's Guide to Conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIATzLf-y04
If you selectively censor views you're taking on an editorial function. With that comes the responsibilities of being a publisher. Or that's how it ought to be.
This isn't a new situation. Free speech debates are as old as civilization itself. The printing press was at least as disruptive as the Internet, precisely because relatively small players could sabotage power of huge organizations such as the Church relatively cheaply.

I think that the old classical liberal principles still apply. A certain fringe of the population will eat any propaganda unthinkingly, domestic or foreign. But if a majority was so uncritical, democracies would have collapsed a long time ago.

We might actually be over the crest of max poisoning in social media. Lots of people have realized that such channels are not to be trusted. This is partly masked by the fact that a lot of new content is still churned out by dedicated players; silent majorities are silent.
It's because of work done on the main thread when it should be done using Workers. More about the lack of proficiency with regard to understanding UI applications themselves. Block the event loop in another language and you'll also get a laggy irresponsive UI.
Closed-access journals charge the paper author thousands of dollars per page.
Old terms partially describe a modern concept...
Yes, because back then (as much as a communications fuck-up that was) this was scientific consensus. What Youtube is banning is pure propaganda and falsehoods.
This is false argument.

Ability to work with companies is no longer an option if you want any message through.

If you can't post on any social media you are as good as being completely censored.
Can a Low-Carb Diet Help Your Heart Health?
I'd imagine most of this type of thing (prominent anti-vaccine personalities) is externally monetized via donations, as opposed to directly through YouTube.
This is truly wrong. Far from censorship, this is a field test of memory-holing. Deleting a part of the history of the Internet (yes, this silly little nonsense video is now part of Modern Culture) is a Rubicon I'm shocked YouTube has the temerity to cross. I can't wait to see what more conventional history they'll delete.

For now, note the conscious blowing-off, on YouTube's part, of all the re-uploads. Will they also get got? If not, why not?

I-- I can't believe they've done this.
You are right, we need to ban the actively harmful content. Let's start with the stuff you like and want to hear that is problematic. You like cooking content? Well cooking unapproved dishes is associated with obesity. Banned! You like hiking and being outdoors? Well, it disturbs animal habitat and ecosystems. Banned! You oppose and want to speak out about the mandatory microphones and cameras in every room of your house? Well, that clearly interferes with the greater good of catching people trying to commit suicide, avert domestic harm, make sure you are raising your child properly and in accordance with expert approved government requirements, and to make sure you are getting your mandatory amount of exercise of the required energy expenditure every day in order to not be a burden on society ……
At this point, Google is pretty much the fae folk of tech: immensely powerful beings with inscrutable motives and mercurial dispositions, inclined to rain ruin on your head at the slightest provocation or even just on a whim. Best to leave a saucer of milk out for them at night, and studiously avoid the areas they control if you value your anything.
I haven't seen any serious attempt to address the concerns with the "vaccines". Only ostracism and censorship.

Plus a healthy dose of disinformation about the safety and efficacy profiles of these therapies.

If the science is so clear, why not give an anti vaxxer a huge prime time platform and embarrass them in debate?
fwiw its supposed to be around 2k
There's a Wikipedia page[1] which covers the general background and a copy of the SCRIPT/VS Text Programmer's Guide[2] (which was my bible back in the day) on archive.org, which should give you a pretty good overview.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCRIPT_(markup)
[2] https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_ibm370DCFSpositionFaci...
https://cdn.pfizer.com/pfizercom/2020-11/C4591001_Clinical_P...

Here is an example. Just search the web for “[name of vaccine] phase 3 pdf”
You’re wrong, several Oxford and Harvard studies show that misinformation is best fought with more misinformation. Either that, or your own personal beliefs, which are _way_ more true than something studied for years by ivory tower academics who are always changing their mind. Like and subscribe to my podcast and buy my T-Shirts……
Good luck explaining to the mob that "there in fact is no fire", as they charge out of the theater.

I typically agree with you, and it was justice Louis Brandeis who said it so well: “If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.”

On the other hand, the one exception to this is when the speech is question causes a clear and present danger. We are facing a rather perverse crisis in the world right now with respect to vaccine misinformation. I'm not saying I know the answer, but I know we did not get here through a lack of quality, persuasive information.
Ask HN: Best tip for landing pages?
I have really not put much effort into my landing page because I have been working head down on the project.

I think I have lost a lot of potential opportunity to collect an email from interested people.

I know I should probably have: a headline, maybe a sub headline, a call to action, some features, some testimonials, and a second call to action at the bottom.

I am curious if there is one thing that would make a real difference on a landing page.

What is your best tip based on your own experience with landing pages?
Once upon a time (7-8 years ago), they would issue govt-vetted smartphones to even subcontractors. Wonder how that culture changed....
No. I’m not going to share a dumbass opinion.
It's an antivaxxer classic, for them effective means 100% effective under all conditions, otherwise it's ineffective.

It's called fallacy of composition[0] when they cherry pick the cases where it's less effective to infer it's not effective as a whole, and fallacy of division[1] when trying to do reductio ad absurdum by claiming that, if it's effective as a whole, it should also be so under all underlying metrics.

Two sides of the same nonsense coin.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_division
Wow! I had no idea, that's awesome!
Sounds like somebody's stuck using Ubuntu 4.10
Okay, but we really need to talk about what “stifling of public debate” means.

Companies are routinely pressured to fire people in public positions who espouse pro-Palestinian views.

Across the nation, states are enacting legal bans against teaching the history of racism, and firing teachers who dare to make students uncomfortable (by the same people who decried “safe spaces” less than a decade ago). Plenty of people on HN support this!

But for some reason, the only “free speech” issues that get attention here are radical right-wing viewpoints that get moderated on private tech platforms.
I might suggest we avoid using superlatives. I have seen disinformation about vaccines both from mainstream media presumptions that breakthrough infections won't happen at all, and also from other mainstream media publishing entire segments that the vaccine might cause infertility in women or somehow affect the fetus (a spreading of FUD basically).
Yeah, I can't believe they haven't switched to the metric system!
That is a moral argument and has no place in a discussion of the laws of a modern western country. We are a system of law, not a system of justice.

Although I do agree with you that anti-vaxers should be treated no different than common terrorists; as Americans, under the law, they have a right to declare that they are terrorists and give their little illogical terrorist rants. The First Amendment is very clear on what is not covered, and the courts have repeatedly confirmed that being wrong, being disingenuous, and lying is covered (as long as you are not committing perjury or other similar, actual, crimes).

Our founding fathers knew exactly what they were doing when they penned this: in their day, they also had their form of denialism. The first amendment is, essentially, "It is better to keep silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubts.", but weaponized against the idiots that shall forever plague us.

That said, if a rational adult, one that we have, as a society, cannot tell the difference between the truth and the lies, then we have both failed as a society, but also have trusted an adult to actually act like one and they, personally, made the choice to act like a spoiled brat; acting like a spoiled brat is not a victimless crime, and sometimes, but not always, they are punished like an adult for violating the trust of the society that they live in.
There seems to be an AI safety problem here: The youtube algorithm is optimizing for engagement at the cost of some other less-quantifiable human value like social trust.

https://youtu.be/L5pUA3LsEaw
That man wields such power. Super glad that he's such an awesome, wholesome guy.
If the hare never takes a nap, the tortoise will never catch up.
Just tried this out, looks great, I've wanted something like this for a long time!

I often use Cmd-tab to switch between apps on the mac, and I noticed that this search pane shows up in the tab switcher, which can get in the way a bit.

* In vscode, cmd-tab to chrome

* cmd-E to search for something

* cmd-E to close the search (goes back to chrome)

* cmd-tab to go back to vscode (but this goes to browserparrot)

Alfred, a similar search app doesn't do this, and I quite like that behaviour. I found out how to change this, as a user, here, but it would be nice if it was done by default:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/92004/is-there-a-w...
Eh, I'll never be promoted so it doesn't really matter. I highly doubt any of the people on my current team would also somehow work at the same company if we were to both leave.

The important part here is that if my company tells my old coworkers why I left or the circumstances around it, that would be a violation of employee privacy and a violation of their own policies. Lawyer please.
Is youtube doing a good thing by allowing content that says graphine oxide will kill you and/or that masks cause brain damage to kids?
YouTube is a private company, not a public service. Anti-vax is not a protected class of people, and so there is no law that says YouTube cannot discriminate against them.

As a company, they've decided to take this path. They don't have to justify it.

If that makes you angry, boycott them. Don't conduct business with them, which includes watching their content and ads.

And if you think that YouTube is large enough and a big enough monopoly that it should be treated as a public service and subject to the rules that apply to public services, then either nationalize it so that it is, or break it up so that there's competition in the market.
JS has Workers. VS Code uses them wisely. Other Electron apps? Not so much.

Block the event loop in other languages and you'll also see shitty results..
5X on count distinct is definitely good. The base dataset is 10M rows it looks like. The fact that this tool exists and has 3.5K stars on github is an indictment of the difficulty of getting started with hosted dbs, while also a wink to the current speed of broadband and power of memory in desktop machines now.