skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a couple of things feeding into this.

One is that everything is national or global now, so if there is one Nazi anywhere, everybody hears about it and misleads people into thinking there are more of them than there are. This also feeds into trolls pretending to be Nazis because they see what a rise it gets out of people, thereby causing people to overestimate their number even more.

The second is that there is always a boogeyman. In the early 20th century it was anarchists. Then communists had a good long run. It became terrorists after 9/11. Now it's racists.

You can tell when this is happening because the proposals are to censor/incarcerate/kill some vile subhuman Enemy who cannot be reasoned with, with isolated instances being exaggerated excessively. Whereas if there were actual Nazis as a meaningful political force you would see e.g. serious attempts to re-institute segregation or have to fight hard to prevent Nazis from censoring you.
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True, but that's not the reason for the vaccination requirement in public spaces. If it were, elderly people would be restricted from public spaces as well. The primary reason is to limit transmission.
> furthermore getting corralled into being a daily active user / consumer as to not get shadow banned by any given app.

I call it the paradox of discussions on the internet. When it comes to some topic (eg language learning) everything has already been said somewhere by someone very clever. So in the grand scheme of life the value of my contribution to a conversation is 0. Now, if instead of wasting my (and everyone's) time in a pointless discussion I write an in depth blog post or make some creation of some sort that expresses my thought in a deep way and share it then I become a spammer. Whereas a one liner written by a newb or a comment that is posted everyday with a slightly different wording is a 'contribution'.
It's pretty easy to setup your own private WoW server where you can give yourself all the best items. Why do people then spend hundreds of hours grinding for them on official servers?

Ponder that question and you'll have your answer.
Vonnegut wrote about this a few times. It seems to have been something that bugged him. The short version of his complaint is that mass media, generally, have wiped out the social value of all kinds of moderate artistic talent—for example, fewer people may learn to plink out some holiday tunes on the family upright for everyone to sing along with, because you can just put on the radio, or Spotify. Live storytelling, or being good at dramatically reading from books (yes, people used to sit around and do that for entertainment)? Small, local theater? All replaced by radio plays and TV. And so on.

Basically, recording and mass broadcast means moderate talents lose nearly everything (as far as social, or even monetary, value of their skills) and discourage people from developing those talents in the first place, because those technologies place them in competition with people who are at the top edge of human achievement in those areas—including dead ones. It's broadened how many people get to experience those top-tier talents, and how often, but practically obliterated a formerly-major component of how people related to one another, socially.

The Internet has changed this a bit. Some folks have responded to the problem by digging hard into a niche and taking their act online, because you can succeed in an really tiny niche while being only pretty-good at something, since there are so many people that a niche with nearly-zero audience can still reach a lot of people, considered over the entire globe—think filk, or steampunk-themed music, or doing furry art on commission, or something like that. But in person value among their actual social circle, and among family, remains low, because Spotify and TV and Netflix et c. exist.
It depends on the person and their body.

In my case the body fat goals were also unhealthy, because I am not as genetically gifted as some of my peers towards the kind of body makeup needed to compete on my team.

Some people have bodies that are more ideal for running (longer legs, leaner, better baseline endurance, etc.) For everyone who isn't gifted they are going to have to work a lot harder to try and keep up, and that might involve pushing to a degree past where their body is okay maintaining, and that is _necessarily unhealthy._ That's not the sport being bad so much as the person not being an ideal competitive athlete in that sport.

Sports aren't about catering to the egos of the individual competitors. People can go on Instagram for that.
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Exactly.

Sweden, like many other countries, estimated that the virus was spreading very fast, too fast to contain, but also with low symptoms or lethality. The assumption was wrong, a lot fewer people had contracted it, and a high percentage had bad symptomps or died.

A lot of other countries had these assumptions too, but they reversed them when they got new information. Instead of the virus being unstoppable, it was succesfully stopped in many Asian countries.

For some reason, Sweden didn't change their policies much. Sweden has a good healthcare system, so not so many died compared to the number of infections. 14,000 deaths is a massive legacy. Some 10% of Swedes have had Corona. So if 10% of those get long covid, there can be one percentage of the population affected by that. The Estonia disaster is nothing compared to this. Sweden avoided the world wars as well. One would have to go pretty far back to find a catastrophe of these proportions.

Sweden's policy has been held by some American politicians as a success, something to emulate. No, it has been a failure.

UK and USA are doing badly as well. https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
Is it possible Copilot is using a network pretrained on a large text dataset that did contain the marketing blurb, then retrained for code prediction from GitHub source code? That might explain why it has memorized non-GitHub content (it's a bit of a reach though).
Sciopwhoop unscripted was horrible. The host had very strong biases and opinions and used to attack guests if it didn't match his. Also crazy wokeism
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Right. This is one of the few instances where how the social norm evolved can be determined.
> you are making use of tools that upload the intellectual property [...] onto third-party servers?

That's the whole point: if they did, it was NOT willingly: they have the intellectual property stored in a completely separate folder, which should not be uploaded to Github.
I unfollowed everyone and every page/group on FB and now I can just visit the profile when I want to see how they are doing, my feed is empty and since no ads are displayed when you visit a specific person's profile it is a very clean experience. 0 addiction.
One fix would have been for distros to have a special symlink like `/usr/bin/pythonx`. This could be a link to any version of Python, guaranteed to exist as long as at least one Python is installed, to be used by programs that can work with any version.

Probably too late for that; if you add this, you'are just complicating things: scripts then have to worry about pythonx not existing.

The env program could have a feature to help here. GNU Coreutils could adopt an env feature whereby it searches for multiple programs. Because of argument limits in the hash bang command line this would have to be encoded as one argument.

#!/usr/bin/env python|python3

So here, env sees there is a pipe in the middle of the program name. It splits the program name into two, and first searches the PATH for python. If that is not found, it searches the path for python3. Alternately, rather than giving preference to the left item, it could prefer the first one that occurs in the PATH. It could search the PATH once, stopping whenever any of the indicated names is found.

Or, how about supporting regex in env, if the first character is circumflex:

#!/usr/bin/env ^python3?

The advantage is that the specification is condensed. On some systems, there is a strict limit, like 32 characters, into which the hash bang line has to fit, so this could be helpful against that. The problem with that is that *env now has to read directory entries in user space to do the matching; it can't do a simple access() test on the name in every directory. This wholesale directory reading fails to take advantage of whatever name lookup caching mechanisms there are in the underlying kernel.
I haven't actually seen any reports of SSDs actually dying. Can you provide some links? SSDs dying in less than a year of typical use is a huge deal.
There are so many. What in particular are you looking for?
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It's only 11th because a lot of countries are missing data for 2020. It's actually 19th for 2019. And I bet you it's not adjusted for taxes.
I feel like many pro-Israel commentators here are a coordinated low quality effort to derail conversation using “tactics”. I feel this happens on the daily bases online.

I remember reading about it; Israel’s strategy to train their online citizens to do this.
It's also fictional. So yes, if you make up something that can't be contained, then it won't be containable. Discussions like this paper are philosophy, not science, and they often give the wrong impression to people who aren't up-to-date with the current state of the field.
Yes, but I think that's mostly wishful thinking. Not all applications get built using strictly go tooling. I rely on make for mine because it's better suited for the platform I'm targeting.
>In my experience over the last decade there are fewer and fewer ways to find a community and any success as a creator of any kind without getting corralled into social media and furthermore getting corralled into being a daily active user / consumer as to not get shadow banned by any given app.

Haha, my first thought after reading this comment was that I could've written it myself. I miss internet forums.

Also, I'm much more creative when I own the content I make. Doomscrolling is one thing, feeling like you're wasting your life by getting sucked into the dopamine/reward loop, another.

Reaching people is hard, because social is the main channel, but I'm experimenting with:

1) helping people (everyone) to reach me directly:

https://sonnet.io/posts/hi/

So far, I've met so, so many fascinating people this way and the depth of conversations I've (or just feedback) doesn't even compare to anything I could ever do on, say, Twitter.

2) content syndication
This one's a bit harder as there's a certain amount of bureaucracy involved
(https://mxb.dev/blog/syndicating-content-to-twitter-with-net...)

I found a perfect solution to Twitter blocking my account for whatever reason the might have:

1. go to https://www.potato.horse/shhh
2. scroll to the bottom of the page
3. roll over the Twitter button

If you're on mobile, here's the video: https://twitter.com/rafalpast/status/1457702588787433473?s=2...
What prevented Oracle, IBM et al to buy out Google, Facebook and Twitter ?

Yahoo refused to buy Google.
Thanks corrected. While we are at it. Is it "make the following experiment" or "do the following experiment" ?
> the gist of it is that in all countries you can't just give a gift without paying taxes

Several countries explicitly have no gift tax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_tax#Countries_without_gif...

Argentina
Australia
Austria
Canada
Cyprus
New Zealand
Norway
Slovakia
Sweden
Liechtenstein
Please don't post name-calling posts on provocative topics. That's flamebait, regardless of how right you are or feel you are, and I'm sure you can make your substantive points without it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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that's awesome, hunt the terrorists down via software
I've encountered some games where the default controller was downright broken and horrible.

I'd expect the game developer to provide an good default controller layout of the box, as that's what I'd expect from a console game.
For some people, money doesn't trump morality.
As I understand it, the webserver at twitter-unfurl-faker.herokuapp.com just dynamically redirects based on the user-agent.

The attacker doesn't need control over uniswap.org or harrydenly.com to make this work.

They only need control of harrydenly if they want to serve a phishing page. But as I said above this is redundant and they could just use this domain to also serve the redirection. Example below:

* (Twitter bot) phishing.com -> redirects -> fishtanks.com

Twitter bot makes shortened link t.co/aaa (but the preview shows fishtanks.com)

* (User) t.co/aaa -> phishing.com
There are tons of civil cases every day that involve insurance, and big money insurance cases almost always have mathematicians as expert witnesses.
Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14686277

(This is not a complaint; I found the post interesting.)
> That’s why I personally think that the best way to leave social media. The most adequate antidote is finding something else to do when you have nothing to do.

> Something that’s aligned with your long-term goals.

> Doing. Not consuming.

Those reflect my feeble thoughts running over in my head for the longest time, quite well. A really well written piece
Funny thing is, as of now the app is titled literally Visual Studio 2022 Current. Whoops!
> Organic does not taste or look different.

You're missing the point of organic, especially produce, and especially those you have to eat the skin too. It's not the taste, but the pesticide residue on the skin. Those residues accumulate in your body. What's the long term effect? I'm sure you know what the answer to that is.

By that measure alone, organic is healthier than non-organic.
> As long as the content is presented to a human for consumption, I think it will be possible to duplicate it,

Why do you think so? If you can tell the difference between a family scene and a screening of a Hollywood film, why can't your camera? It doesn't have to perfect, and you can gradually tighten things down, which is exactly what has been happening for some time.
This is interesting. I recently had a hive with 2 queens that stayed that way for a few months. It’s very uncommon as usually the mother flies off with a swarm or the daughter kills her mother. It was late winter/early spring and persisted for about 3 months.
Imagine being this angry about a job listing mentioning a Python library...
I agree. The deliberate weakening of the "organic" label in the US has been more damaging to its value than the occasional fraud.

More broadly, the more I learn about the practices and laws governing the US food system, the more I'm willing to spend on local food grown by people I trust.

It's certainly not perfect and I'd rather have trustworthy enforcement or certifications, but it's better than nothing.
> This may not be terribly popular, and its admittedly just conjecture, but I'm of the opinion that its less about the quantity of social media, and more how one interacts with it and even more so consumes it.

I feel the same way.

Facebook is a great way to keep up with what friends are doing. When I adopted a kitten, it was the perfect place to show pictures to all my friends.

The problem is, "keeping up with your friends" turns into living vicariously through them. This type of social media is just a highlight reel of your friends, and some people have a hard time internalizing that.

Personally, I'm in a great position in my life, so I don't really live through other people's posts.

I don't use Instagram at all. On Twitter, I follow a bunch of people in the InfoSec world and a couple politicians, and I don't read replies to the political posts, half of which are probably bots anyways[0].

I keep my Facebook friends list relatively slim. I deleted and blocked my racist uncle. Everyone one of my friends, I can tell you exactly how I know them. I don't accept random requests. I don't follow political pages. I'm in a few groups, but they're well-moderated.

[0] I wish I could use a regex as a block list. "[A-Za-z]{4,}[0-9]{4,}" would probably block 90% of bots.
It's not about picking earlier, an apple is either ripe or not.

Some producers get rid of much of the fruit early in the season which results in fewer, larger apples. Organic producers could do this just as well, but generally don't.
> 2005: Israel unilateral dismantling of the 21 Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip

If you credit Israel for dismantling the settlements, I think it would make sense to also credit Israel for having built them. Selecting events can make any side seem like the good guys.

This is not meant as a pro-someone or anti-someone argument. You can use the same technique to argue for or against either side.
The entire point of GPT3 is to create novel content that is similar to existing content. So that copilot suggested it doesn't mean it's not novel as a whole.
I made my original comment because despite the context I'd read up to that sentence, my gut reaction was "that definitely doesn't sound right."
Breaking the site guidelines like this will get you banned here, regardless of how right you are or feel you are.

Perhaps you don't feel you owe better to people who you regard as brainwashed, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The performance improvements of 2022 over 2019 are incredible. I cannot state this strongly enough. For anyone who complains about VS 2019 and earlier being sluggish: yes, you're 100% correct, but 2022 has solved pretty much all of my performance complaints.
My goal as a pilot is never to attract Juan Browne's attention. :P
I think there are enough skydives that we’d notice if this caused issues regularly?
Conduct the following experiment
Wouldn’t rising wages tend to increase housing costs?
I can understand your apprehension, although my personal experience around the world still puts the USA in the top ranks for food safety (I have way to many cipro/keflex horror stories).

Why not consider a local producer? Somewhere where you can see the farm, see their production?
And, if you can, why not raise your own? Much of the rest of the world does this. Self grown and raised food.
Undefined behavior, carried through the years
I just got a development job where there was no whiteboarding, no linked list implementing, no balancing a red-black tree, etc. They just asked me to talk about some of my previous projects that interested them. Maybe things are changing. Or maybe it's as the CTO said to me "it's hard to hire people right now". At any rate, I was pretty happy with this kind of interview.
Well, I was diagnosed with childhood asthma and I spend the average day with some sort of allergy that affects my sinuses and lungs. But after a few weeks, the allergy symptoms I had were much less severe. My headaches went away entirely.
I was going to link this as well. The app in the link is nice, but Anki is way more conducive for this task.
Much like one cannot have a patented trade secret. The grant of patent requires disclosure, and using the court system to publicly resolve disputes.

If one uses technical means to protect information, parent poster proposes that courts should decline to protect it under the copyrights regime as well. Certainly, they should not protect both the information and whatever technical device is used to do private enforcement.

You can either use the public protection regime, or your own private protection device, but not both.

The issue at hand is that copyright implicitly includes an agreement to allow the work to pass into public domain after the copyright term expires. Technology that prevents that is anathema to the agreement. At the least, such schemes should fail-open, such that archived copies may be read as plaintext when the copyright term expires.
Synthetic fertilizer absolutely affects flavor. Especially for root vegetable and aromatic plants which rely on healthy root microbiomes for nutrient absorption without synthetic fertilizer.
"Drugs, if taken properly, are no harm".

Correct in theory, but we universally agree that illicit drugs can be damaging to your life. -- even in some cases taking them not seriously enough can cause addiction and serious issues stemming from that.

We just need to figure out if Facebook/Twitter/Youtube are paracetamol, codeine, vicodin, cocaine or heroin.
Stall is about airflow separation, not lift force. You can most definitely not have enough lift for flight, but not at enough angle of attack to be in a stall.
Not everything is a conspiracy, some people might just disagree with you
If you're using this for anything besides screening actors for a role, you're opening yourself up to a mountain of lawsuits. I can't imagine even semi-competent HR signing off on "let's have all our pre screening include the race, gender, age, and nationality of all our candidates!"
Vinegar. Sticky traps. Soaps. Diatomaceous earth. Targeted bacteria. And so on.

I'm not sure these are in the same league.
99% of the stuff people want to use "a blockchain" for are solved more quickly, easily and reliably by a SQL database.

It's not even funny anymore.
Oh that's easy, let's use GANs: the generator solves problems and the discriminator prevents the generator from harming humanity.
This is a joke, but it may be the correct answer: if the company name is self-demonstrating, it's possible Codex could recognize that.
> Frankly, the Congress prefers to listen to their corporate masters over their constituents.

There's the crux of it all. We know firsthand that our addiction to companies like Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon are unhealthy, but the only thing stopping us from keeping them in check is our government. I've been saying this for a while now, but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if the SEC cuts deals to FAANG companies in exchange for NIST compliance or unwarranted data requests.
We don't need new companies, we need open protocols to become A Thing again. For open protocols to develop and succeed, we need to modify the business environment so capturing users isn't the #1 goal of online megacorps. That probably means passing really, really strong privacy laws, and the death of mass individually-targeted advertising.

I don't think we'll do that, but it's what it would take. Replacing the companies won't help, except maybe very briefly.
> On the whole though, i do think its more likely that Israel is behind this

Not just more likely, but overwhelmingly more likely.

You are clearly not weighing the facts in a neutral manner if you think a false flag by Hamas (?) using an Israeli security company's exploit to hack Palestinian activists has any substantial possibility of being what occurred.
Last time I checked it was not implemented yet though. Maybe they are starting to deploy a version that use the other open files for context, but mine is obviously not doing that yet.
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What does monitoring have to do with malware? IT departments can setup automatic updating so employee equipment fetches and installs updates from the departments servers, and the "service" running on the employees machine doesn't have to send out monitoring data in order to facilitate this.

Or is it essential to monitor the employee in order to prevent malware for some reason I'm too inexperienced to see?
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