skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a large part of it is because the "misinformation" keeps changing. At first masks did nothing, then saying masks did nothing became "misinformation". The lab leak theory was "misinformation", until suddenly it wasn't. Large group gatherings spread Covid, but the BLM protests didn't. The list goes on, and the "experts" have changed their mind so many times that the idea that Youtube should be deciding what kind of thought is allowed is horrifying.

I am fully vaccinated, but given how many times we've been blatantly lied to or mislead by experts and officials, I can easily see why so many people don't trust the vaccine. And given that we don't know what the experts and officials are going to say tomorrow, I support people's right to be skeptical and talk about their skepticism with others.
> of course scientists could run a reputable journal for free or on donations

We can't even get critical infrastructure open source projects funded by donations. What makes you think people will start donating to free research journals?
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What if N clients use N versions of the client software?
STFU is not going to work to build trust in government and medical institutions. Frankly, believing it will is one of the reasons why things go downhill these days. "My way or the highway" has never really done anything good to make people understand eachother. I hear that you are frustrated, but your attitude is not going to help anyone except yourself.
If you take the "4x4 ordered dithering" image, and copy it, use a "mean curvature blur" filter (I used gimp - similarly for gaussian with low enough width) and overlay it on the dither at 50% opacity, the image actually looks pretty good. This could probably be done in CSS/JS on a client machine. a 14k image comes across passably, even on my desktop.
Ironically, because there is more than one entity in social media, they aren't monopolies.
Dude. I'm not debating if it's good or or bad.

I personally had the vaccine because I have high blood pressure and I'm borderline diabetic at 40+. I made my call and took my chances. Others should have the right to make their own call.

I'm saying that "no downside" and those sort of claims are outright false and people should have the right to choose for themselves wherether the risks are worth the reward.

Tell this Lisa Shaw's family that there are no downsides: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-58330796

Also here'a copy paste from the FDA meeting from oct 2020:
FDA Safety Surveillance of COVID-19 Vaccines : DRAFTWorking list of possible adverse event outcomes*Subject to change*Guillain-Barré syndrome Acute disseminated encephalomyelitisTransverse myelitisEncephalitis/myelitis/encephalomyelitis/ meningoencephalitis/meningitis/ encepholapathyConvulsions/seizuresStrokeNarcolepsy and cataplexyAnaphylaxisAcute myocardial infarctionMyocarditis/pericarditisAutoimmune diseaseDeathsPregnancy and birth outcomesOther acute demyelinating diseasesNon-anaphylactic allergic reactionsThrombocytopeniaDisseminated intravascular coagulationVenous thromboembolismArthritis and arthralgia/joint painKawasaki diseaseMultisystem I nflammatory Syndrome in ChildrenVaccine enhanced disease
That’s the dream, and it stays a dream most of the time. Business concerns pop up again when it comes to building out teams for Qt based desktop apps.

Electron comes with an enormous, deep, absolutely stupid big pool of web developers. I genuinely can’t emphasize enough how big it is, and how easy it is to hire from.

Montevideo, Montenegro, Monterrey, doesn’t matter. Hot, not particularly expensive developers are ready to churn out React UIs in your area!
The FCC has no legal authority to regulate anti-vaccine content on TV. (I don't support such content, just explaining the law.) The FCC has some limited authority to regulate obscenity and indecency on over-the-air broadcast channels only. Congress gave them this authority because broadcast spectrum is a scarce public resource that reaches into everyone's home whether they want it or not. However the FCC generally has no authority over cable, Internet, or satellite content. Those systems aren't subject to spectrum scarcity and have effectively infinite capacity.

https://www.reuters.com/article/entertainment-us-usa-televsi...
> The burden of the proof is always on the person or the organization that cares about something deeply enough that wants to perpetuate such behavior.

The benefits of both seatbelts and vaccines, not just to a single person but to everyone else around them, are proven and well-documented.

You're also still avoiding the initial point, which is that it's nonsensical to claim that people only wear seatbelts out of fear.

> Well...yeah? If you wear a seatbelt while driving in the city chances are that once we get to the club you won't drink, which also means you won't lose inhibitions, which also means that you won't pay for drinks, which also means that you won't find female companionship for the night.

I'm sure since you're talking about burden of proof you have some data to back this up, right?
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> Why do you care?

Because zero moderation beyond criminal content is 8chan, which arguably inspired mass shootings.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/04/three-m...
Having worked in a few open source based commercial businesses, I think the donation model can be tough and unpredictable. The only time I have seen it work is when businesses have commercialized an open source project and then give you a decent recurring donation back in return for your support. So the obvious move would be to just commercialize it yourself. The author does mention this at the end.

If its a small product but with a lot of users, think about a small add on service in the few dollars a month range. If its a more sophisticated product that's a bit more framework oriented, maybe use it as the foundation for project based services and build a consultancy. If its a true product that can be sold, then make a commercial version and start selling it. A lot of times there is a vast vast market out there that doesn't know this is a free open source project, they just see a product which solves their problems and they buy it.
> I think we have to ask if this won't have a chilling effect on open discussion by moderate voices.

That's the point of all censorship. It isn't to censor the truly outrageous wackos spouting nonsense since hardly anyone believes them and most laugh at them. It's to censor the moderates who critically analyze and perhaps offer some truth.

Heliocentrism has been around since the ancient greeks which the church leaders could easily write off as being the ideas of backwards pagans. After all, you can see for yourself that the sun rises in the east and crosses the sky and sets in the west. They could "prove" it to the laity. It was only when telescopes and scientific evidence proved that the sun doesn't revolve around the earth that the church started censoring, excommunicating and killing people. The censorship wasn't to silence the uneducated wackos, it was to silence the likes of galileo, copernicus, etc.
Anyone who shames you for taking/not taking a form of medicine can safely be ignored. I know it's easier said than done but things like HIPAA exist for a reason. It's no one's business.
False. Studied doesn't mean it worked or was feasible. This is the first mRNA vaccine approved for use in humans. The lipid nanoparticles used to deliver the mRNA was first tested in humans in 2015 but wasn't an approved drug.
The same exact argument could be said about the platforms.

What evidence do they have that that there is no chance of complications for certain individuals?

They need to be held to the same standard they are holding their end users.

In the last year social media platforms have suppressed facts and discourse pre-emptively and only months later do we find out that there was truth in the censored content. They can't be the final arbitraters of truth.
We will add neural hash based ANN to that repo when we get time. I expect HNSW to get pushed out in time for many reasons.
This is, in part, because VS Code plugins run in a separate process. Each extension API needs corresponding IPC code on both the extension host process and the renderer process.

This means that plugins which work great in Emacs, where there's no IPC overhead, might be pitifully slow in VS Code. Alternatively, plugins that work great in VS Code might bog down Emacs (yes, the Emacs plugin can spawn a new thread and work there, but I don't think that's the typical approach of plugin authors)

Note that Extensions are able to directly manipulate the main application bundle a la Emacs (this is what https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=be5invis... does, for instance), but that is discouraged by way of a checksum failure putting "Unsupported" in the title bar. Of course, that checksum code could be removed by the extension too, but doing so without informing the user would be considered in bad taste.
This is spot on. Investors don't give a damn about the business. They just want a machine that they put money in and more money comes out. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of fast growing businesses these days are frauds. In such environment, the less they know, the better.

Only frauds can succeed in a monetary system which is itself founded on fraud. So it makes no sense to do due diligence if you know that the company is all hooked up to the money printers because the business doesn't matter. Only the money printer and the business' connection to it matters; everything else is a nuisance.

The business of almost every company in the tech sector these days is the 'capture the newly printed fiat money business.' Any other narrative is fake and only used to create a facade of legitimacy for the company.

No company will ever admit that their main line of business is 'government contracts', 'government grants', 'laundered credit from shell companies', 'foreign money laundering', etc...
There is little evidence that radicalization happens online [1]. It seems to require in-person contact to really take root.

[1] https://www.rand.org/randeurope/research/projects/internet-a...
- They added fast metadata storage devices to their zfs pools. Since failure of these metadata device groups mean the whole storage pool is lost, they've set them up to have a similar level of redundancy to the rest of their system (i.e. it's fine as long as 4 devices don't all fail in a very short span of time).

- Chia is a cryptocurrency that made drives ~double in price for a while, but that's mostly stopped, though they're still a little more expensive than they were before. Also, reading between the lines, Chia looks really, really scammy/pyramid-schemey, even by cryptocurrency standards.

- A 3rd party SQLite streaming replication project added SCP as a transport mechanism, so now it works with rsync.net

- Rsync.net supports lots of their-side checksumming tools and they're really like it if you'd stop using computationally expensive ones if all you're doing is verifying data integrity.
While WSL2 makes it no longer necessary to switch to Linux, I've seen a ton of people making the switch due to Windows 11. Most things just work, better than on Windows.

I just switched a few months ago (after having tried it n times over 20 years), and this is the first time I'm sticking with it. Gaming works (I haven't found any games in my steam library that don't run OOB with proton), all developer productivity tools work, office productivity is solved with the rise of O365/GDocs, as hated as electron is every (or almost every) electron app out there is cross platform.

The only things that I haven't found suitable replacements for is graphics editing (I use the affinity suite on a VM), and probably CAD products and the like. But for 95% of users, desktop linux works better than Windows atm, everything works perfectly after installation.

Regarding the printer, in Windows I have to go to brother's site and download a driver, I've never had windows auto detect and properly configure a printer + scanner (just the printer, if your lucky). On Linux I just click add printer, it auto detects it and installs it, including the scanner.
WeWork and Theranos were selling hype no real solution or service. They seem like companies from dot com bubble era, I thought tech investors got smarter but they are still as stupid as they were 30 years ago.
Call me crazy, but if someone uses the word “theft” I think it’s implicit that it’s not a question of degree. Theft of pennies is still theft.

So I think it’s a perfectly valid assumption that OP thinks 0% is the right percentage.
> 1. I don't like seat belt laws because I don't like people telling me anything, even if it's the right thing to do and I do it anyways.

This is one of those positions which seem reasonable and valid from the inside, but from the outside feels like watching an adult throw a temper tantrum when they don't get their way.
> 1. Dunno, but they’re working in MATLAB.

Processing time would also be highly dependent on what the processing was done with and once the algorithm was established it could be ported to something less generic than Matlab. For example, an FPGA or ASIC for potentially quite short/low-power processing times in not a lot of volume.
Don't watch the news, I read it, never on fox. Don't want the vaccine because I was already infected. I lost my sense of smell for two weeks and slept a lot. Big deal. I don't want side effects of feeling shitty for a week after the vaccine and I don't think there has been enough time to study the side effects. The amount of propaganda and lack of an actual conversation on this fuels my cause. Additionally I don't trust the federal government to do anything other than spend money.
The Leaf is a hatch back but it's very shallow. The total volume isn't that different than the Model 3 we have or an Accord I had in the past. The main difference is the configuration with the Leaf being shallow but tall.
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A little history helps [EDIT: Maybe not!] explain it a bit. Back when Holmes was a rising star, we were in the middle of #MeToo, Tech Bro companies were getting increasing scrutiny about their treatment of women, and in general how tech companies were struggling with diversity, and then all of a sudden, we have this company founded by a seemingly smart, driven, technically-savvy woman, educated at Stanford (!) and who wears turtlenecks like Steve Jobs (!!!). It was the perfect narrative. This is the kind of exec they were all looking for right at this moment! People were willing to suspend a lot of disbelief in order to make it real. I imagine these investors had the X-Files "I Want To Believe" poster in their offices. It wasn't so much gullibility as it was a perfect narrative that everyone desperately wanted to believe in.

EDIT: Oh yes, I 100% agree [1] that her outsized personal charisma was a large part of it!

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28674285

EDIT2: You're right, I got the MeToo timeline wrong. I seem to have remembered anti-sexism momentum building up long before 2017 but yea the actual hashtag and Weinstein stuff was in the news long after the company rose.
The USA used to have a Fairness Doctrine. It required political viewpoints to have equal air time.

It made politics much more boring.

As it should be.
Could you expand on the difficulties you are facing? From the outside the protocol looks quite simple.
This is a really bad take of a complex situation.

Peer reviewing is hard. Reproducibility is hard.

Neither of these things being hard invalidates the value of peer review compared to gut ideas from random people.
Website exist to convey information, image are used to help convey information which is not easily explained otherwise. Using images to make pages beautiful is, to me, part of the problem with modern websites.

I happen to like the dithered look, but arguably it might not be the best way to save on bandwidth.
This reminds me a lot of SphereXP [1] A WindowsXP application that converted your desktop into a "spherical" desktop.

I agree on the cons: Wearing a headset all day? Also I wonder how looking at a light-bulb at 5cm of your eyes all day long will feel like.

OTOH for me one _advantage_ that these type of VR/AR technologies can bring is are "endless desktop space". Right now we have something like that with "multiple desktops" in Linux and OSX. But it will be cool to have just an endless space of screen real-estate to tile all open windows.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeHe-li-cZE
The article doesn't say what you think it says. Please post a link to a peer reviewed article that shows that natural immunity drives better reinfection outcomes and recovery rates than vaccines do.
That's like saying: "The nazi youth was not a monolith."

See how your logic is flawed?

Maybe stop associating with a violent, anti-family organization like BLM if you don't want to be lumped in with the contingent burning down cities, looting, and encouraging/inciting violence against others based purely on skin color.
Well, yeah…

The old political ways are not going anywhere anytime soon. The useful land is politically captured.

Hack the planet; have money = untouchable in our society.

After biological well-being, there isn’t much economic activity needed to sustain the species.

This is why the market went up during the lockdown but do nothing companies worth $75 a year ago are worth <$10 again.

At some point it just becomes keeping the simulation alive for the sake of those that benefit most from the simulation; these gods, then this god, then no god, we create value…
I know his recommendations have changed over time, but can you cite well documented instances where he lied?
> If you're claiming something that hasn't been demonstrated through peer-reviewed scientific research, then you're offering your opinion.

Not necessarily. What is the bar to be defined as "scientific research"? What is the bar for "peer review"? Considering the massive amount of evidence that a large amount of "peer review" doesn't review much and that a measurable amount of "scientific research" is inadequate and sometimes outright fraudulent, any pursuit of truth shouldn't be built exclusively on such a weak foundation. But to your point, good research should hold more weight (and does!).

> If you're pushing a narrative that implies that you shouldn't get vaccinated, then yes, that's "anti-vax".

And yet concerns about the long-term safety of these vaccines are, by definition, untested. The long term efficacy of these vaccines are certainly in doubt. Both are reasonable concerns worth debating and exploring. But will get classified as "anti-vax" and will become subject to censorship "for our own good".

I am vaccinated. I believe these vaccines represent an astounding accomplishment. I believe people should have access to all information in order to make the best decisions for themselves.

I also have some skepticism regarding the messages and messaging that comes from the CDC and NIH. I also distrust the role they've played in any discussion regarding the origins of Covid.

Why we (in America at least) can watch abject government incompetence in the DoD, FBI, CIA, ICE, IRS, and on and on but pretend the CDC and the NIH, the ultimate gatekeepers of the Covid and vaccine narratives, are immune to such failings is beyond me.
Seen it in Manchester, Fulham, Peak District, Lake District, Birmingham, Cheshire. I go to traditional pubs a lot.
May point was: you already have only a limited right to bodily autonomy.

But that aside: I think pushing people in some (oblique) ways towards vaccination while at the other hand not mandating it sends a somewhat confused message.
In the 19th century, Ignaz Semmelweis claimed that hand washing was a way to improve hygiene and communicable disease. If Google had existed in 1847, his claims would have been censored since they went strongly against the scientific consensus. History is littered with examples like this. Most of us with a STEM education spent years learning about example after example of a great scientist or whistleblower that was scorned by the medical or scientific community, and it turned out that countless lives could have been saved if people had kept a more open mind. I am greatly disappointed in anyone who claims to be educated but thinks that censorship is acceptable in a free society.
It's not so simple as whether or not a platform allows content of a certain type from certain authors to be published on their platform. It's also about whether the platform is pushing that content to others, using automated tools which have been tuned to improve "engagement". That's some of the Facebook research which was suppressed until the Wall Street Journal published the leaks from that research. Facebook apparently knew that changes they made were allowing posts that made people more angry to get surfaced more, because angry people were more likely to comment on the posts, thus improving "engagement". No matter if it caused disinformation to be spread, or if it made people more angry, or negatively impacted the mental health of teenagers. It improved "enagement" and thus $$$ to Facebook shareholders.

This is also why there may be a problem with the truism "the best way to counter bad speech is by allowing more speech". Well, what if the engagement algorithsm cause the bad speech to get amplified 1000x more than the speech which has objectively verifiable truth claims? Free speach assumes that truth and lies would be treated more or less equally --- but that's not necessarily true on modern platforms.

So it's not only a question of whether people have the "right" to publish whatever they want on a platform. Sure, you can stand on a public street corner and rant and rave about whatever you want, including "stop the steal", or "the world is about to end". But you don't have the right to do that with an amplifier which causes your speech to blare out at 100 decibels. Similarly, platforms might want to _not_ amplify certain pieces of content that are killing people by spreading misinformation, or destroying democracy, or encouraging genocide. And that might very well be the best thing platforms can do.

But now we have the problem that content can be shared across platforms. So even if one platform doesn't cause information about vaccines causing swollen testicles from showing up on millions and millions of News Feeds --- what if that same information, posted on one platform, is shared on another platform which is much less scrupulous?

So for example, suppose platform Y decided not to amplify videos that they decided was scientifically incorrect, because they didn't want to have the moral stain of aiding and betting people from killing themselves by not being vaccinated, or not allowing their children from being vaccinated. But another platform, platform F, which had done the research indicating this would happen, but actively decided that $$$ was more important than silly things like ethics or destroying democracy, might promote content that by linking to videos being posted on Platform Y. Maybe the best thing Platform Y could do would be to remove those videos from their platform, since even though they were no longer amplifying that information, it was being amplified by another platform?
Not wanting to enable and reward nefarious tactics is not “acting out of spite.”
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