skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You pretty obviously can argue with people who don't argue in good faith. When they shift the goal posts call attention to it, explain it, and then meet them where they are at. People watching will see the other party being duplicitous.

I'm imagining YouTube or the government or whoever hiring some informed experts and inviting the vaccine hesitant on for debates. Let them make whatever arguments they want and when they are absurd or move the goalposts point it out. Are medical doctors X, Y, and Z, selected for being informed and skilled orators going to be outdebated by the likes of Alex Jones? Why can't we have some experts who just engage with the conspiracy theory stuff, not sneeringly but just dispassionately.

I don't think this would convince everyone. I don't think convincing everyone should be the goal. I do think it would convince more people than the current approach though and it would be more in keeping with free speech ideals.
> I think there have still been a handful of "wow" moments in graphics for me still in recent years.

I'm not saying it isn't happening. I just think it's less dramatic. The examples you've given are all significant in adding to the realism of a game but it still doesn't have the same impact that previous leaps in tech did. eg no kid chats to his mates in the playground about how much more real someone hair looks in a game.
I've tried Unhook and DF YouTube, but I replaced them both with Undistracted [0]. It's more versatile - it has better configuration, supports more sites (Reddit, Facebook, etc) and allows an arbitrary block list.

The internet would be a better place with the ability to hide recommended feeds [1]. They can be useful sometimes, but mostly they're used to distract you from your goal. It's the digital equivalent of placing milk in the back of the grocery store. The ideal home page of a service to me is an empty page with a search bar.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/undistracted-hide-...

[1] https://suketk.com/feeds-considered-harmful
Indeed. It's a cool project, but I don't think this is a great success metric. A better metric would be to have a human composer do the same task, and have audiences judge whether they like the human- or AI-generated result better.
> These are not lies, these are changes in our understanding of viral epidemiology

Stop arguing with the guy, I'm not sure what his motives are, but whatever they may be, facts will not change his mind.

It's just reactance if you ask me, but I'm not a psychologist.
There are substantial differences (and, I would argue, motivated reasoning) on the subject of mask mandates. To me, that's the area where the political desire to "look like we're doing something" has trumped following the data.

On vaccines, case rates, etc. I agree with what you said.
I think the data alone is an objective argument.
Using basic math (Bayes theorem) I can compute it reduce my chance of death by 668 time and Hospitalization by 116 times.

see below:

Covid Fact:
- proportion on covid death that are unvaccinated
p(not(vaccinated) | covid-death ) = 99%
- proportion of population this is unvaccinated
P(not(vaccinated)) = 14%
- proportion of population this is vaccinated
P(vaccinated) = 86%
Basic math:
- Probability of death from covid if not vacinated
P(covid-death | not(vaccinated)) = 0.99 * P(covid-death) / 0.14
- Probability of death from covid if vacinated
P(covid-death | vaccinated) = 0.01 * P(covid-death) / 0.86
- How many time more likely to die from covid if not vaccinated
P(covid-death | not(vaccinated)) / P(covid-death | vaccinated) = 608
Fact:
if you are not vaccinated,
You are 608 times more likely to die from Covid 19 and
you are 116 times more likely to be hospitalized.
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From Babylon to Google: a history of weather forecasting
I pointed out that there might be a correlation and described a sensical hypothetical link.

you respond definitively claiming that you know the answer, not causation.
How would you have given a point estimate that both accurately reflects the scientific confidence interval estimate and also serves as an aspirational target for public policy?

Keep in mind that if your estimate is too low many people will die or have significantly reduced life quality. And if your estimate is too high internet trolls will use that as fodder to discourage people from getting vaccinated.
You are entirely ignoring the point the other commenter made about delta changing things. You are simply repeating talking points I've heard over and over, it's exhausting.
This is an Ad. Nothing wrong with it but title should be changed to the title of the article this leads to, i.e.“Why render”.

Otherwise this is deceptive.
Two dead from taking ivermectin in New Mexico
yes, trials that take time.
I love the idea. I like the concept of the name, a fun shortening/nickname for "Ampersand", which in this function also makes me think of the "Yes, And" concept from improv comedy. For me as a user, the drawback to the name "Ampie" is that it also makes me think of Google AMP, which certainly isn't my favorite thing lol :)

I didn't love that the plugin is automatically active on every page I open; I was expecting that it would be a button in the toolbar that I could click at my leisure to see what discussion of a particularly interesting article was. I really do love the Twitter integration with people who you follow, but again, I wish it was kind of an on-demand plugin, or maybe just a site I could go to at my leisure and input a URL to see a nice big display of all the discussions about something specific.

I'll be turning it off for now as I'm already prone to too many distractions, but I might toggle it on sometime if I want to deep dive on something and see others' comments about it.
I've started using YouTube while logged out in Brave. Every week or two I'll clear my cache / cookies / service worker / literally all of YouTube's local storage to be truly anonymous again.

The recommendations I get (next to a playing video) immediately after doing that are fantastic. It's like a time machine that takes you back to when their recommendations algorithm focused on recommending videos that are highly relevant to what you're currently watching.

When I hit an age gate and have to use it logged in, through firefox, the quality hit for the recommendations is immediately noticeable.

I was surprised that the difference is so apparent, and I've been spending more time on YouTube again as a result.
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Private networks need censorship, or their userbase will implicitly censor people by harassing, intimidating and threatening them.

“Free speech” is an overused buzzword. Anyone can say or write whatever they want privately, and most can talk freely to their friends and family. Your voice will never reach most people unless it’s popular, because there are many voices and people have limited time and attention. There are plenty of free speech networks today but most people aren’t on them, because most people don’t want free speech.
> i have no idea why you are downvoted,

The decision to prevent Flash from operating on iOS was never considered as cause for lawsuit by any of the agencies mentioned by GP.
she s also on trial for defrauding doctors and patients
Well Reddit is barely profitable if not at all and it's not like they invested for innovation like Amazon is doing.
US Army backs ‘sleeping cap’ to help brains take out the trash
For some context, WRF (https://github.com/wrf-model/WRF), the current state-of-the-art weather modeling system (also developed by NCAR) can (to my limited knowledge) only run on CPU. There have been efforts to run it on GPU (https://wrfg.net)... though it doesn't look like it's been kept up to date.

It seems like FastEddy mostly replaces WRF-LES, which is used for high-resolution localized modeling.
I know it's part of corporate lore but I'd like to see some evidence that you have to be "brutal" for your company or products not to be mediocre.
No. Art Criticism and Theory is literally about the interplay of art with its context, and viewing art in different contexts (periods, and cultures). One such example is the 'period eye', where you juxtapose art from one period to another, such as 15th century Italian art in today's realm, and observe how the context has changed w.r.t. dimensions like racism, classism, or sexism. Have you ever taken a class on it? It doesn't sound like it. The term sounds intimidating but I think most 101-level classes try to be accessible from the interactions with educators I've had. Perhaps you are confusing art with the meme about UI design and jokes.
This is entirely due to their banking sector and not at all to entrepreneurship or innovation.
"Think of the children!" one of my favorite ways to see people trying to get out of an argument. Who could possibly argue for wanting to hurt children!

I would love some citations here, as this seems to be the exact type of misinformation this act is trying to combat. The thought that hundreds of thousands of medical professionals across the world are willingly ignoring potentially fatal consequences for children out of some nefarious political agenda is ludicrous. If this was really happening, it would be trivial to show it, anecdotes are not hard data.

In the same vein, not 1 immunocompromised child should die from COVID when there is an easy and safe way to combat it. Not one. But many have.
People get fired for violating policies. A CEO is happy that the issue is handled. What's the problem with that? You can sue if the policy is illegal, but before the lawsuit settles, it is not.

Don't push your current ideology back on historic matter. Whether something is illegal is dynamic and dependent on the era. Smoking weed would get you in jail not too long ago. So is that right or wrong? Things are not always black or white. Stay open-minded
All brands should put USB-A and USB-C ports on the power brick.
The implicit assumption in that statement is that "less contagious" means "less disease" means "less casualty".
What advice would you recommend to a current undergrad?
> but the biggest goalpost that got moved was, we have government regulations and protocols that concern drug approvals to make sure that the general population is not exposed to unnecessary risks.

That's not a goalpost that got shifted. We have standards for both normal approvals and emergency use authorizations. Both were followed for the vaccines (which got EUAs followed by, in some cases/uses, full approval.)

> The Covid vaccines were fast tracked and unleashed untested

No, they weren't, vaccine candidates were developed within a few weeks of sequencing the virus and basically the entire time between then and release was spent in clinical trials.

> accompanied by a notification of the major risks inherent in this approach, like for example, perhaps the viral spike protein was causing all the tissues' damage and the vaccine included the spike protein.

Pretty sure “this vaccine causes all the damaging effects of COVID” side effect would have shown up somewhere in Phase I-III trials.
The cost that with self hosting you instead sink into paying for SREs? Or getting paged at 2am?
Alas, the people most willing to draw bold conclusions from science also put the least effort into being scientific.

Ted Cruz is a good example. He argues that he's a scientist not because he has done science, but because his parents have done science. Thus, he's a "legacy" scientist, and because they emanate from him, his arguments must be scientific.

The man isn't this stupid. But in endorsing such nonsense, his supporters are willing to be. "We don't need no stinkin facts!"

How can reason hope to overcome willful illogic of this magnitude?
It's been recently published and the warning on it is:

This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice.

It's not something that can be held up as evidence in any direction at the moment.
> Then again, I wonder how much code will randomly break, plus AWS’s dependency management is literally bundle it up locally and upload a zip.

I much prefer using Docker containers since they added support for this. There's an established toolchain which supports things like this and it fits well into popular deployment pipelines from things like GitLab/Github.
Dollar Tree plans to sell products at $1.25 and $1.50
That is not a RCT, that is comparing 2 data points selected after the results were known. The reason we have RCTs is that it is very easy to fool oneself, for example by filtering the experiment populations after the results are known. Remember when peer reviewed journals published experiments 'proving' ESP. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/psychologists-confront-imposs...

Re asymptomatic. Vaccinated people also spread the disease asymptomatically. I have seen zero rigorous studies showing how vaccinated asymptomatic spread compares with unvaccinated asymptomatic spread. No, picking 3 studies and linking data between them is not a replacement for a rigorous RCT. This is a particularly salient question as the biggest selling point of vaccines is that they reduce symptom severity.
The other posts have some great screenshots of our product. Giraffe Graph! That brings me back.

The fees are actually the same between a traditional IPO as well as a direct listing. We ended up paying $15M or so all in between everyone. The reason some banks push you to a traditional IPO is that their real clients- public market investors like hedge funds who to repeat business with them, get a good deal on your stock.

I heard all the expected ones: not having control over your price, wanting a monotonically increasing stock price, having the price trade up on the opening for good press. It's all bullshit, if you read any of the coverage on Amplitude we were able to achieve all the goals we wanted to: https://www.google.com/search?q=amplitude&tbm=nws

My absolute favorite argument was that if you price too high, you price out people who will stick with you, and that will cause your price to be lower in the future than it would have been otherwise. Luckily, I did a year in the finance world in high frequency trading so they couldn't pull this one on me. That logic is the opposite of how pricing in a market works. High prices now are a signal that prices in the future are expected to be higher. If you want your price to be higher in the future, having it be higher in the present will increase the likelihood of that outcome. The thinking reminded me of Yogi Berra's famous quote: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

I know a bunch of other companies planning to go public were watching our direct listing to see if it was a viable path and I hope our results convince them. Please reach out if you're a CEO and trying to figure this out!
Having used MSTeams, I've stopped complaining about Zoom. It's stable and straightforward. The on-call UI has its warts, especially on mobile, but otherwise it's fine.

Teams, by contrast, is buggy and inconsistent and weird and has the awful arbitrary rectangle subdividing of the chat window instead of just showing me the other people's full cameras.
Why does it spread in the first place? Because half the country feels disenfranchised. You can't solve that problem by further disenfranchisement.
That's a very big step from "the trials didn't run as long as I'd like" to "untested".
Apple is part of a global conspiracy that is making it harder and harder to get away with murder.
What's ENG?
This is exciting.

In Rust, unique ownership and borrowing eliminate defensive coding: you never need to copy "just in case", because the type system makes it clear who can modify what and when.

Elimination of unintentional shared mutable state is generally helpful. It's not just about bare-metal no-GC performance, but helps document and enforce data sharing contract between libraries and their users.
Asian Folktales – The Two Daughters
You’d think the cops would be busy doing other things in Florida, but I guess not.
I think a modern formulation of freedom of speech, like Article 19 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights, is clearer about what freedom of speech is: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." Note that this formulation doesn't have to descend into some sort of free speech maximalist apocalypse; spam is unprotected because it's not something anyone wants to receive, incitements to imminent violence are violations of other human rights and laws, etc. so moderation is still possible. There is a difference between interfering with parties who are mutually voluntarily communicating and helping parties not receive communications they voluntarily have decided that they don't want to receive.

(I was about to say that free speech maximalists are a myth but I do recall seeing at least one person on HN advocate such a view.)

And I agree there's a tension between the rights of different individuals/entities but the same tension exists for other civil and human rights. The compromise used for other civil rights seems reasonable here: everyone should be treated evenhandedly and impartially and, the larger the corporation/organization, the greater the responsibility to do so.
I think that many companies prefer to fire their employees immediately in exchange for money, typically what the employee would have been paid if he stayed for the notice time.
It is expensive, but often better than dealing with a disgruntled employee for 2 months.
Is there a book(s) you could recommend for product design methodology?
The topic OP raised was, "things like this that make me believe that the US isn't a truly free society. It simply pretends it is."

The comment above is a genuine addition to that line of thought; one which I'll maintain has substance and is worth reading.

I'll take your point on crossing into personal attack though. I definitely did call that guy ignorant of basic facts. However warranted I'll try harder to avoid that kind of talk.
Thank you!

If they were that serious about security-- the chips we made also implemented this same compression algorithm. It would have been trivial to hook one up to an arduino and feed it the data you wanted to encode. I assume someone realized this, or they never really had a need to encode their own data (we provided a extensive library of encoded data).

I strenuously disagreed with the business justification for keeping all this stuff secret. But it was my job to respect those decisions.

It was a lot of fun writing the (rails) app itself.
If the initial cost is x engineer hours and each hour costs $y, that implies the cost of the project is `x * $y + maintenance costs [of this system over the simpler, original approach]`

Is the increased speed worth `x * $y + maintenance costs`?

Could it pay off? Potentially yes. Will it actually pay off? I don't know since there's far too many variables to wildly speculate on. But I hope Netflix did the accounting at some point along the way to find out.

Not every improvement is worth building since the initial investment might grossly overshadow any potential gains (as a purely hypothetical situation, that's why you shouldn't spend $1 million up front to save $1/day for the next 30 years).
Yikes. Rigorous testing? Yet concerned about long term effects of covid itself? With lack of logic like this no wonder we have leaders exploiting the unvaccinated.
Steve Job's email was pretty public. He was fairly known for replying to randos off the cuff.
The PPC is essentially the party of Bernier right now - no PPC MP has ever been elected (though they did take home 5% of the popular vote this election). As such the personal actions of Bernier is really all we've got to go on - so I don't believe it's particularly irrelevant, though I won't dispute that it is quite vague and not at all definitive.
> They even give you a dialog prompt now to inform you

slightly tangential, I hate being informed of things when I try to do them. I'm in a hurry, I don't want to read all about something now. I wish the dialogs had an "email this to me, willya?" selection, with an opportunity to decide the long term setting that I want.
Every phone talks to cell towers, and they always track and log your location.
Like the shortage of chocolate predicted 5 years ago?
You comment indicates you are somewhat knowledgeable about this, so a question for you. I think the first police forces were established 60+ years after the constitution was written, do you think they would have given that same level of immunity to an armed branch of the government? Seems like the restrictions on military actions within the countries borders would indicate a general skepticism towards armed agents of the government.
Not sure how NextJS handles async component SSR, but looks like from the docs we should just be able to use React.lazy in place of loadable-components in an SSR render pass now. The new server components seem to be a different feature not directly related to regular SSR usage. I think they added that for people who aren't using GraphQL for data-fetching, so that certain components can be rendered on the server only and set in a serialized form without sending the associated JS required to render it.
Precisely. Once you start to consider how other ISAs factor into that (like perhaps RISC-V on the horizon) I really wonder if ARM has a chance to take off in the first place. A ~50% price/performance boost isn't negligible, but it's also not very compelling. Especially for larger companies who'd need to invest more time/money into transitioning their backend.
It's a question of how much you can do with the tool. If Lambda only supported, say, pure Python or Node libraries you'd run into cases where you couldn't use it or would see big performance penalties. Being able to push a container with, say, a high-performance image processing library which your Lambda needs makes it a lot more versatile but also forces you to think about things like x86 or ARM.

Overall, I see that as a win: you can get started by putting code in something like Python or JavaScript and not caring but when you do hit more complex dependencies you have a path which is an extension of what you've already been using rather than having to switch to a completely different service like ECS.
I would pay a lot to watch this and other content like it. Exhaustive rebuttals that painstakingly enumerate over the minute, and ultimately unimportant, arguments fully refuting the hair brained arguments we’ve all seen shouted without an a drop of critical analysis behind them. Good luck getting an anti vaxxer to agree to an argument that’ll have to take place over months to allow time for proper research and production to occur.
So, you're not wrong that there have been plenty of shifts. Some of those were laughably optimistic even at the time, some of those are true (masks do work, but cloth masks suck). Some of the people are hypocritical and will get haircuts or whatever that they forbid others from doing.

But you know what basically everyone is doing? Getting vaccinated. Even Trump got vaccinated and told others to do the same. [1][2] If it's some kind of poison, as many are memeing, you'd think we wouldn't want to do that. You can argue that there are long-term unknowns... but that's equally true of the virus. And I've seen literally nothing that the vaccine has caused that isn't known to also be caused by Covid.

So I'd say not to get your science from journalists in general, wear a quality mask (N95 preferably, but at least surgical), and do what you can to lower the replication rate of this stupid virus below 1 so that it goes away. That last part is proving really hard so far.

[1] https://www.deseret.com/2021/4/23/22399234/former-president-...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-booed-al...
The Find My network is designed to not allow Apple to track you using it.