skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not "public opinion" — you would expect most quote tweeters to be people who follow this person (or follow other quote tweeters), i.e. people who generally agree with him already. This is a great example of selection bias.
What's so misleading about this Tweet? Is it the first bit about non-covid vaccines?
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Anyone got a steelman for this? It seems like everyone here agrees that this is generally bad but I'd love to hear the best-case opposing view.
Part of the new trifecta between social media companies / media / influencers, government, and large multinational conglomerates (pfizer, etc).
It might be possible to replace freqfs with mmap on a POSIX OS, but a) you would still have to implement your own read-write lock, and b) you would (I think probably?) lose some consistency in behavior across different host operating systems.
Interesting that a "33 percent increase" is the same thing as 0.105% to 0.14%. Those latter two figures are both a lot lower than I would have guessed.
This is the first tweet I've seen with this feature enabled, and frankly I'm floored. In what way is this tweet misleading? Are there any facts in it that are false?

Twitter links this tweet to a page saying "COVID-19 vaccines are extremely effective at preventing serious illness and death, trials show" however the parent tweet doesn't dispute or contradict that statement at all.

We're through the looking glass here...
> it's a political question not a medical question.

>> Our death rate per unit population is one tenth of the UK and local authorities

It's a fat question at the end of the day. Norway doesn't have many fat people.
technically, you cannot even disable ARP because of it inherent reliance on ethernet...

Atleast ND is a proper layer 3 seperation of link-layer discovery..
> Known passwords of any type are all in the first category,

Not really. People don't "know" their totp secret or their RSA secret key.

But yes, when these key-style secrets can be transfered - they behave more like "know of" than "in possession of".

The simple mitigation is probably fido2 auth tokens.
Just run through the scenario you have in mind: would the attacker not be able to easily automate the forwarding of the OTP? Would grandmas still be able to use online banking? It's a trade-off, and validity periods so short that the user has to race a potential attacker, I don't think that's viable.
We're trying to bypass the law because nobody can determine exactly what is misleading/incorrect information without taking in every bit of nuance and context concerning a tweet/social post, much less some law. If you solve that by having some oversight/review board make the rules and review violations you just get to the problem of government workers determining the rules and what general information is false, which nobody in the US public would trust after $x decades.

If you're paying for the servers that run the conduit, the least you should be able to do is decide who can add to it and what you allow through it.
Read this comment (directly above this question at the time of reading): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28722155
The date on this post is around that time.

It was considered something that would void your warranty to use a third party cooler.

https://community.intel.com/t5/Processors/Does-the-use-of-an...

> Yes, the usage of third party fan&heatsink void the Intel warranty on your processor. The Intel fan is made to keep the Intel processor working correctly. When we run the processor without the original fan means we are running the system out of the specifications and it may damage the processor.

Intel did everything they could with scare tactics to deny warranties. They basically implied that they would consider your RMA an overclocking case if you used a cooler with capabilities that exceeded the slug cooler included with your CPU.
or better yet - https://github.com/trizen/pipe-viewer
This is a wrong answer if I've ever heard one.
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Enforcing "fair treatment" (meaning forcing companies to publish anything that's sent to them) is flagrantly unconstitutional and not even consistent with the First Amendment.

Free speech is the US is freedom from censorship by the govt only, and it isn't unlimited. It only applies to ideological speech.

No consumer wants an unrestricted platform anyway. There are no platforms with zero moderation.
Which banks require an HOTP dongle for customers. Maybe it is a non-US thing but I have never once seen that.
Then you should be held liable for what you allow through.
IANAL, but I think the legal danger runs the other way.

If they don't police content, they're covered by Section 230. But if they do police content, and they miss some, then... are they liable for the part that they miss?

Does Section 230 still cover them if they're picking and choosing what they're going to carry?
> Nor is there evidence that symptom severity depends on initial viral load (beyond some minimum threshold for infection).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19057-5

> It's a plausible hypothesis

It's extremely plausible, and been demonstrated before in influenza, poxviruses, and other viruses. The human challenge trials necessary to prove a dose-dependent relationship between fall height and lethality haven't been conducted, either, but we have sufficient evidence from longitudinal and natural experiments to draw firm conclusions.
Remember during the 2016 election when Dems wrote a public letter to Google (while anti-trust was on the table) strongly advising them to remove what they considered 'misinformation' (e.g. Wikileaks)? Ye.. totally not in favour of censorship though as it was only an innocent 'suggestion'..
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Wouldn’t HSM only be needed for the private key though? Once it’s in memory it’s free
Sorry, I don't know how else to question the conspiracy theory itself without mentioning the conspiracy theory. I even called it a conspiracy theory.
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Yeah they can because social laws are not beholden to the kind of logic used in science.

Laws are thought ending semantic games invented by aristocrats to manipulate the masses.

Read James Madison; government exists to protect the opulent minority from the poor majority.

Laws as our society knows them are aristocratic obligations put in people. Our social meme obliges us to kowtow to the owners, just as religion obliged us to kowtow to the masters of the sacred texts.
I wonder if the answer to all of this changes if insurance companies decide that covering the cost of laboratory confirmation of covid 19 antibodies or the cost covering the expenses related to hospitalization exceed the cost of vaccination people who may not need it.

If Aetna decided to not cover hospitalization if you are not vaccinated (or I'll give you laboratory confirmed immune), then it would be an entirely different calculus for people.

The argument of "Oh well I'll just find a different insurance provider" doesn't track in the United States either because most people do not have that option. The mandate and the exchange has been almost entirely gutted, so you're left with the option your employer provides.

That's another good point too. The government really doesn't have a lot of say in terms of whether or not you're vaccinated, it's entirely your employer. At the end of the day it's not Aetna/Kaiser/Blue Cross/et al. covering your health care costs, it's your employer. They certainly do not want to cover any unnecessary expense. So requiring employees to be vaccinated is the simplest, scalable, and cost effective solution.

If we're going to point to organizations that have no tolerance for the unvaccinated for diseases other than covid, we need look no futher than the US military: https://www.hhs.gov/immunization/who-and-when/military-membe...
Here I am putting that name through a search engine before realising it’s the exact brand of mustard sitting in my cubboard, which I ate for lunch this afternoon. My search is over.
If there is any concurrent access to cached files not through freqfs, there is a risk of inconsistency and crashes.
Arguably, most of the world's industrial economies have been running on fumes increasingly over the last 30-40 years, as "fat has been trimmed", JIT supply chains have taken over, and "efficiency via merger-then-closure" have been common themes in national economies.
Alexis King's "Parse, don't validate" is pretty much the final word on using type systems to deal with "messy real world data": https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va...

tl;dr when used properly, static type systems are an enormous advantage when dealing with data from the real world because you can write a total function that accepts unstructured data like a string or byte stream and returns either a successful result with a parsed data structure, a partial result, or a value that indicates failure, without having to do a separate validation step at all -- and the type system will check that all your intermediate results are correct, type-wise.
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It's a near perfect solution assuming nobody ever loses their U2F device.
Doesn't help if the regulators are the ones pushing for it; e.g. Operation Choke Point

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point
Would you also agree that a coffee shop that pulls down objectionable flyers from their wall/window is circumventing free speech?

Maybe you can say more about why a business can't be both a publisher and a distributor? A newspaper publishes original content and classifieds, and they certainly have discretion over which classifieds to distribute in their paper, what makes social media any different?
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Good luck with that. These companies are doing the bidding of the people in power and this is cheered on by the bug men who have come out of the woodwork to celebrate having every aspect of our lives controlled from on high. This is only going to get worse. It's pathetic watching it unfold.
I must be missing something, but can someone explain what's the point of a hardware wallet? Why not just use a password manager?

Hardware wallets seem to have so many downsides, as far as I can understand.

You can keep multiple copies of your password manager's database (something like a kbdx file), but you won't have multiple copies of the hardware wallet. Therefore a single point of failure. If the wallet is stolen, damaged in a house fire, crushed by some accident etc. you're done. Also, can't the firmware of the hardware wallet possibly have some unknown bugs that might cause some failure in the future? Is the hardware failure-proof? No possibility of manufacturing defect etc.?

Secondly you've to buy a hardware wallet and whatever the cost, it's not free. Whereas an open source password manager like keepass is completely free (as in freedom as well as beer).
But you can quote tweet it: https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/144323875994478592...
Are you thinking of something like WinFS?

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

Or more like Beos BFS with its extended attributes, indexing and querying?

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

Also I think a lot of the old mainframe filesystems had the concept of records and indexes built in since they were primarily used for business operations.
5 minute old comment and it's already been downoted into oblivion.

I believe it's been determined you're guilty of wrongthink.
and will 'hit the ground running'
True, you can't generate a QR code without transmitting the TOTP secret/seed in some fashion, but it's a one-time event that's typically done over HTTPS like you suggested.
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>Okay, so this is going to be super controversial to some people, but I firmly believe that we are basically trying to bypass the law (at the very least in spirit) when we agree for the big companies to limit free speech in that way.

Use IRC. Use free forum software. Write a blog. Go stand on a soapbox in Times Square and shout it at the top of your lungs. Do whatever you want. But free speech has precisely nothing to do with having free reign to violate a company's terms of service. You have the constitutional right to say whatever you want. You do not have the constitutional right to have your nonsense amplified by billions of dollars worth of privately owned technical infrastructure.
They are still technically carrying it.
They're covered by Section 230 no matter what. The entire point of the law is to indemnify them for third-party content, even if they moderate.

There's a (mildly sarcastic) article on TechDirt that's pretty comprehensive: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
You can quote tweet it though
mRNA vaccines "don't stop transmission" isn't false, but it is misleading in that it sounds like they do nothing for transmission at all.
Which law do we feel is being bypassed?

I believe in marketplace of ideas ; I believe we should let stupid and wrong opinions be voiced rather than simmer in darkness; I dislike censorship in virtually every way and situation; but I'm not aware of what law is being broken. You might persuade me to vote for a new one but I don't know which law prohibits private company on their own private infra to do as they please.

(Please don't say "section 230" without reading it first, that gets tiring, not "controversial". See #1 etc etc ad infinitum ad nauseum)

[1]: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
These are separate issues. You said that the US is subsidizing drug development for other countries and suggested that you would prefer that we didn't. That affects drug development incentives.

You're also saying that the US government should have some of the profits that the drug companies currently have. Presumably this would affect something that drug companies do. Shouldn't you be concerned that the thing it will affect is them developing new drugs?

Maybe the current situation isn't optimal but there's no reason to think that your suggestions would improve things.
When you flip a coin five times and get heads each time, you shrug and assume you were just lucky that day. When you flip a coin a 20 times and get heads each time, you start to wonder if the coin is unevenly weighted. A consistent pattern of extremely hot weather year after year breaking established records at least suggests a trend.
The Times article didn't get anything wrong, COVID is hitting red states harder. You can't just blame the older populations in red states, the vaccination rate is higher in blue states vs similarly aged demographics in red states.
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They couldn't prove misinformation so they re-interpret terminology like "misleading" and make new phrases like "vaccine-hesitancy" to defend this censorship. And the only reason it works is because the gang of inflential companies that do this have captured the entire nation.
We can all agree it's bad, but that doesn't make it illegal.

The problem is the concentration of publishing power. We should never be in a situation where a single person (Dorsey, Zuckerberg, etc.) has so much control over publishing.

If we can't break up social media, we should at least enforce interoperability so that there can be free market pressure on these companies.
if Signal can do Mobilecoin without any access to our Contact address book, then I expect a mass adoption by the general populace.
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I'd like to subscribe to James Madison's newsletter... can you recommend a starting point?
Is it weird that I don’t like Common Lisp at all but I like Scheme a lot? I just never liked Lisp 2s and separate name spaces for functions and variables. But really that is the biggest issue for me. I’m sure if only Common Lisp existed it wouldn’t bother me at all.

That being said, I think CL is a fantastic language and there is a lot more libraries out there to do useful things than in scheme. My C programming is really weak so I find it challenging whenever I come across a library in c that isn’t already wrapped
Remember when the sitting Press Secretary admitted they were "flagging problematic posts" for facebook?
Just went through some of this myself. The R value of very good triple pane glass is R5 or so.

About the same R value as a wall made of 2x4s with no additional. Or about the same a 1” of extruded foam.

So… pretty poor.
I've found this to be a non-issue in Clojure with specification validation. Some call this gradual typing
There's no reason a totp/otp needs to be read/typed in the clear - that's merely a convenient way to bridge trust from a phone to a desktop etc.

The otp is proof that you "possess" the otp secret.

Then again, it's a shared secret - so if the server side is compromised - all bets are off. Here client certificates/public key crypto does better.
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> As share prices go up, more people may take notice and realize that company is and has the potential to continually create more and more value and want in.

> Once a company stops delivering on that premise, people again take notice and begin to sell. Maybe they sell to others who disagree and believe that there is still value to be created in the future.

The exact same thing is true of a Ponzi scheme.
Depends on Twitter’s campaign contributions.
I don't think there's a legal theory that gives legs to any sort civil lawsuit, but retaliatory lawmaking from congress definitely is a risk. That's a big part of the point of hauling in tech CEOs to testify to congress about their disinformation concerns; it's a veiled threat to pass legislation against their interest unless something is done about the problem.

And because it's merely a veiled threat, there's no basis for a 1st Amendment lawsuit alleging censorship by the government.
> The study, which was just published in Nature Human Behavior, analyzed data on the communications of approximately 61,000 Microsoft employees in the U.S. gathered between December 2019 and June 2020. Crunching the numbers revealed that while hours worked went up slightly when employees shifted to working from home, communication, particularly real-time conversations, fell significantly.

> Switching from a corridor chat to an exchange of emails isn't a one-to-one substitution, and the researchers worry about the knock-on effects of changes to the way office workers collaborate.

> "Without intervention, the effects we discovered have the potential to impact workers' ability to acquire and share new information across groups, and as a result, affect productivity and innovation," they write. "Based on previous research, we believe that the shift to less 'rich' communication media may have made it more difficult for workers to convey and process complex information."

So, if I'm reading this correctly, the study itself does not show any link between remote work and innovation. It merely shows that communication has become more asynchronous, and then applies the assumption that asynchronous communication is worse.

What a joke.
weird how that works. For me eggs are now a no-go.
The fact that there’s no OTP option even available is what bothers me. Let the power users use OTP if they want it.

When OTP is available I always remove my phone and use that. Sim swap is such a common attack these days.
The data collected in the US by the Department of Health has routinely shown ICU availability in my county (Santa Fe, NM). That data has generally indicated that roughly half the available ICU beds are filled, with 1 or 2 patients there due to COVID.

p.s. according to our local newspaper, this data is incorrect.
It even has a lot of the same features as a full fledged DB.

For example, most file systems today are journaling. Which is exactly how most databases handle atomic, consistent, and durability in ACID.

About the only thing it's missing is automatic document locking (though most file systems support explicit locks).

That said, there are often some pretty hard limits on the number of objects in a table (directory). Depending on the file system you can be looking at anywhere from 10k to 1 billion files per directory.

There are also some unfortunate storage characteristics. Most file systems have a minimum file size of around 4kb, mostly to optimize for disk access. DBs often pack things together much more tightly.

But hey, if you can spin using the FS as a DB... Do it. Particular for a read heavy application, the FS is nearly perfect for such operations.
It'd be the same process that you have to follow if you lost your phone and, along with it, all the TOTP seeds that were stored in your Google Authenticator. You'd have to go through whatever process the company requires to confirm your identity through alternative means and allow a re-enrollment in MFA.
I'm trying to find a way to say this and not be too negative about it, but I sincerely can't understand how people consume vox articles. It's some of the most partisan, corrupt, disgusting propaganda you could possibly consume. It's so tenuously connected to reality, so mischievous in their intents to force their partisan message on the reader, that I'm honestly seriously scared about the state of affairs that people base their worldviews off of articles like this, it's so worrying to me. And no, I don't read Fox News, it's just as bad. The difference being you'll never see a Fox News article posted here, yet articles like this are just casually posted as something real.
It turns out that foundational mathematical systems can prove their own consistency.

See the following:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021

However, the proof is not convincing because the proof is

valid even if the system is inconsistent!