skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Take a look at table 1 in this WHO report from 2019 on non-pharmaceutical interventions:

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/329438/9789...

"Quarantine of exposed individuals", "contact tracing", "border closures" and "internal travel restrictions" are "not recommended under any circumstances".

"Home quarantine of exposed individuals to reduce transmission is not recommended because there is no obvious rationale for this measure, and there would be considerable difficulties in implementing it"

And: "Border closures may be considered only by small island nations in severe pandemics and epidemics, but must be weighed against potentially serious economic consequences."

Also: "There is also a lack of evidence for the effectiveness of improved respiratory etiquette and the use of face masks in community settings during influenza epidemics and pandemics."

Finally: "This document will serve as a core component of WHO’s influenza prevention and control programme in community settings".

Consider that this was published in 2019. Less than a year later every single position had been inverted, and epidemiologists / public health experts were telling the world that "the science" didn't just recommend all these things but outright required them. The masks issue is especially neuralgic because at the start they correctly stated that there was no evidence mask mandates would have any effect, then flipped their position overnight and asserted anyone who thought otherwise was ignoring science.

As you correctly argue, there must be never be punishments for being wrong. However this is not a case of merely being wrong. No new evidence came to light to cause these flips in position, and in fact - as predicted - lockdowns, masks and so on have had no impact on the course of the pandemic. The models that were used to justify lockdowns were never validated against reality, and even contained severe coding errors: the people behind them have never admitted they did anything wrong here. Moreover the people who pushed hardest for lockdowns consistently claimed that there was "scientific consensus" behind what they were doing, even though just a year earlier the WHO itself had published a document stating that their recommendations should never be used in any circumstances! In other words, they were lying.

And that's before we get to the fact that the WHO has a long track record of going into mad panics over diseases that are extremely mild or may not even exist at all.

Der Spiegel, 2010, "Reconstruction of a Mass Hysteria: The Swine Flu Panic of 2009", https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/reconstruction-of...

Unherd, 2021, "Is the WHO inventing diseases" (in reference to gaming addiction disorder), https://unherd.com/2021/11/whats-china-got-against-gaming/

Any standard that allowed people to be imprisoned for spreading misinformation that was applied fairly would quite simply result in the mass imprisonment of public health officials, advisors and experts.
They get money from the ads, they get money from selling your usage data, they get money by selling space on the remote for streaming apps, and probably through some other means as well.
Projectors require dark rooms; the less dark it is, the less contrast you'll see. I've got a 1080p projector on a wall at 100" and it looks fantastic. But it's in my bedroom and I use it only at night. I imagine for most people's living rooms, especially for daytime viewing, a projector won't work.
Wow, thanks for finding that. I'll look into it. I've never had this problem before.
StoptheMadness does. Since I already have it installed dunno will i get anything new with this extension.
Yes. While that situation was bad, it was not nearly as bad as the completely out of control results we get from social media.

I actually think there is a great opportunity here to fix this problem as SM has made it painfully obvious and visible to everyone, while also democratizing the entire process. (Democratizing manipulation and outrage isn't necessarily the best thing in the world though, but we can at least start thinking what causes it and what can be done to improve things)
I have been running Winamp 2.95 for coming up on 20 years now. So you would be correct on that count.

Despite how powerful modern computers are, I still notice how much lighter 2.x is than 3.x.
Mis-issued certificates are (1) highly visible, (2) revocable, and (3) inherently time-limited. Governments have permanent, de jure control over the DNS hierarchy. My snarky reply to this is usually just "OK, go exploit DNS to get a GMail certificate issued. It's just DNS, you should have no problem."
Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
My question is how accessibility software will link into such an environment, screen readers etc?
I think Ubooquity is probably your best bet. But it's no longer maintained and has some issues with larger libraries due to how the library scan is implemented.
If people are upset by so called "dumping" - can't they just let China charge more than they would have for this aluminum?

Aluminum has well known fixed costs in smelters, it's one of those products they use as an example where it may make economic sense to keep a smelter going (even if incurring losses / ) because the cost of shutdown.

Ie, a potline may take up to a week just to "turn off" and a huge amount of effort - think a month of full time work + weeks of troubleshooting as annode effect issues, alumina concentration and other bits settle down. Don't you basically have to recondition (fully, replace all anodes, dig out the crust) the pots, and even then you may be taking a bit hit on pot life with the cool down / reheat cycle?

I know the US has "anti dumping" rules regarding sugar as well - which I've been told contributes to a fair bit of corn syrup use.

I'm not that hung-up on the US blocking imports of cheap materials (if that's what the US wants to do), but how does the US get some third party country to grab this quantity of metal? Ie, China could sell to other countries that are not as concerned about dumping. For example, why would a poor country without a local smelter even care about "dumping" - it would seem the cheap prices would be a subsidy in effect.
Can you provide specific examples please? It would seem that it moderates trolling content, self promotional or bot level garbage.
Look in to the hospitality line of NEC, LG & Samsung which costs a little more but are universally dumb. Lots of input options, but none of the smart features or network connectivity unless you actively plug an ethernet cable in to the ethernet port that some of the models have which permit you to control the TV or send video over TCP.

I have a 4K Dell 55" which is really a Samsung panel.
yes. I even went to same colleges as these guys. And Here I am sitting in daily standup hoping the company won't lay me off while I am on H1B.
Finally a personal knowledge management tooling that works
Having worked at the c level and just below at 3 large US corps, let me just say it matters. Ceo is more important than QB I'm the nfl. It's that dramatic.
I put the computer chronicles on in the background while I code. It brings back happy memories of a time when the industry was a little less cynical.
Isn't that IPS though?
Wouldn't you normally just spool separate encryption and authentication keys out of HKDF for this?
Not entirely true. My blind friend encourages me to annotate screenshots whenever possible. It's just a pain, because you have to remember to do it as you tweet (you can't do it later), and only you can do it (why not crowdsource it?)
I am no expert, but I remember the main culprit was that Boeing had insisted no further training is required for pilots to avoid some sort of expensive recertification. Weakness of pilots was the direct result of this. Pilots having experience with previous 737 planes were told in no uncertain terms that they can fly this new plane the exact same as the previous one and no further training or testing is required or even available. They did just that, but actions which would have saved the plane in previous generations ensured its crash in the MAX generation.

And Boeing had the audacity of blaming the pilots when they inevitably died in crashes.

> In vivid detail, the documentary pieces together what Boeing knew about the potential for disaster with the 737 Max and when the company knew it. Pasternak says in the film that in 2012, a “Boeing test pilot was flying the MAX in a flight simulator and trying to respond to an activation of MCAS, and that resulted in what he described as a catastrophic event. It showed that if that had been in real life, he [could] have lost the airplane. They realize from that moment on, even a Boeing test pilot may have trouble responding to MCAS.”

> Yet internal communications explored in the film show that Boeing was determined to maintain the status quo: avoiding potential scrutiny by the Federal Aviation Administration that would add costs; keeping new simulator training for pilots to a minimum; and even requesting that MCAS be removed from pilot training manuals.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/video-clip-boeing...
Especially considering the title is "the origins of...". Should probably instead be "the unknown origins of".
https://cojdev.github.io/lowpoly/
Can you elaborate or create an issue on Github? I primarily use Firefox and haven't noticed anything.

We support OPDS for consumption, but not for consuming content. I have some loose plans to support upstream sites/sources, but nothing concrete nor planned.
Not every tool is meant for every job.
Not just that. Broadband connection for things will become so cheap in the future that it could become essentially free one day so it can be subsidized by the businesses depending on it. 5G aside, It is believable that in a few years most home broadband routers, even tightly closed ones, could open a channel anyway using a fraction of the bandwidth for exclusive use by devices so that only closed source drivers will be able to instruct WiFi chips to see and use it. The catch being that there won't be any means of preventing the TV or other devices from going online, short of opening them and removing physically the network hardware.
I believe we badly need alternative (Open Source, auditable, trustworthy) operating systems for smart TVs too. Next will be cars, fridges, etc. Pretty much everything.
Both Let's Encrypt and ZeroSSL participate in Certificate Transparency, so you at least have the detection of unusual certificates.

Let me turn around your question: Now that Let's Encrypt and ZeroSSL give (almost) anyone certs, why should we bother implementing all new system with less features and less accountability?
Yep, whenever you see something that "just questions the medical science" getting heavily promoted, follow the money. You'll very likely eventually find the link to the sale of food supplements, essential oils, Homeopathy, Crystal Healing, cleansing and detox, or other "alternative medicines".
Both Pulitzer and Ben Franklin are national heroes for their ability to levy the masses and gain popular support.

Problem #1 is explaining to people that the outrage-filled Yellow press is a problem in the first place. Too many people yell "free speech" and "freedom", and point out these heroes of the past.

People don't even think this is a problem. So it won't get solved. If you can convince enough people that maybe we should do something about this, feel free to do so.
I think facts exist and people can do damage spreading lies, threats, hate, and etc.

I honestly have trouble following where you're going. I'm not aware of any effort to censor Galileo at this point. If that is the case I'd like to hear about it.
Nate DiMeo recorded it for The Memory Palace too: https://beta.prx.org/stories/380337
It helps to have more of the full quote to work with:

> For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

> As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

That is to say: the past is built around this one proposition. Moving forward "with caution" translates to "how can we move forward (solve some current problem) without jeopardizing this essential proposition?"
The difference with the new platforms is their ability to push content to users. And that content can be driven by bad actors.
We should have (software) systems that amplify our strengths and help us deal with our flaws, not the other way around.
wow beautiful. I just read the summary on Wikipedia the plot and symbolism are all great
Starting a business is a lot harder than running one.

If you buy a business, you have the opportunity to scale and fix issues (code, business model and otherwise). Starting something from scratch involves a lot more work and skills.
why bother. certain political figure has their own Mastodon installation now.
> if Ben Thompson says that FB is not a monopoly

Well, he was referencing a bunch of sources, including courts rejecting those pesky regulators cases. I could have cited the courts, but BT's writing is a lot easier to read and cites the courts.

> we are all good and we can cut on all these pesky regulators.

Who's case was thrown out (in the US) for not having any basis for their claim. Its basically the same claim as all HN. Its big, so its a monopoly. Except there is no fact basis for it. They don't have a dominant market share.

> the FTC has failed to plead enough facts to plausibly establish a necessary element of all of its Section 2 claims — namely, that Facebook
has monopoly power in the market for Personal Social Networking (PSN) Services. The Complaint contains nothing on that score save the naked allegation that the company has had and still has a “dominant share of th[at] market (in excess of 60%).”

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.224...
I checked a couple past posts and they have the same canonical link issue (on your site). But HN only recently started rewriting URLs to the canonical links if they were in the HTML so it's likely that it was just a non-issue (on HN) before today.

Neat article, by the way, and it has prompted me to get back to finishing Nand2Tetris.
macOS desperately needs a version of this. Vox is the closest thing I could find, but still isn't the same. Can't stand native Apple apps.
My copy is falling apart, but I remember it got me interested in geodesic domes. In 7th grade I built an 18' diameter by 9' high dome in my parents' front yard. Some strong winds destroyed it though, after I had skinned part of it with poly sheeting. Our across-the-street neighbor called the school to have them tell me and they let me go home early!
I see the opposite problem more often (Bay Area): cars with always-on daytime running lights that don’t turn on their headlights (and the corresponding taillights) at night. I flash my lights at them but this rarely seems to help.
Attitudes like yours are what embolden governments to engage in revenue enforcement the proliferation of which leads to people tipping each other off about said revenue enforcement (e.g. flashing their lights to warn of speed traps). People wouldn't be warning each other about the cops if "people the cops shake down" and "people who were doing dangerous things just prior to being shook down" had more overlap.
It is useful if you don't care if the product is right.

Most engineering managers would think "this is great!" but the customer won't agree. The CEO will agree until the customers revolt.
Even RDT isn't going to give you insight into L1 occupancy.
Sure, but my intuition says they might get a few hundred dollars that way, tops. Is my intuition off by an entire order of magnitude?
Do our aeroplanes flap their wings like the birds do?

GPT-3 is obviously not the AI end goal, but we are on the path and the end might lead to aeroplanes than flapping machines.
Just anecdotally, I had a pet rat as a kid. They're pretty friendly creatures who seem to enjoy company and playtime. Not sure what constitutes "bad for the rats", but I personally think a situation where they're getting food, safety and stimulation would not fit into that category.
Built-in cell modem that can only call home?

Also, Amazon and other companies are building out networks of their wifi devices. I assume at some point they will start selling access to other companies. So, even if you decline to set up wifi, the appliance might be able to get online through your neighbor's doorbell.
If the loser of a 60/40 split wins, yes, that sounds pretty bad. Those kinds of majorities don't happen very often.
The risk of them getting sick is not significant. People are using their trumped up unjustified fears the media and government have whipped into them into demanding _some_ form of child abuse. The only thing they're willing to question is "which form?"
This is similar to why the argument that capitalists are due returns because they take on risk doesn't move me. Please, give me the "risk" of having somewhat-fewer millions in the bank. I'll take on all that risk. For free! Meanwhile workers will be in deep shit if their company goes under and they don't find something else ASAP. Risk, indeed. The absolute worst-case scenario is that they might have to work for a living? Oh my, what horror.

This isn't to say that investors shouldn't make money, I just find this (often presented as) quasi-moral justification for it absurd.
Interesting, I'll have to look into that as well. I have a lot of platforms that I have to support, so utilizing tools can be problematic. I'm sure that's why send to email is so popular (and it's easy to implement).
I'm also not trying to be a jerk either but when I'm constantly being told by random people that I have to be OSS when it comes to WACUP that's also not particularly helpful other than introducing more potential work for me to do when there's absolutely no guarantee of a return to that effort. So maybe I'm more terse than I should be about such things but that's also just how I am.

It might make more sense for other projects especially those starting out fresh but that's not ever been my mindset with how I've been doing Winamp plug-in related development since 2003 along with the 5yrs I worked on Winamp & if that means people will avoid WACUP then so be it as they're more likely to be sticking with the AOL provided 2.x releases anyway.

Also it goes both ways on the trust aspects & maybe when the likes of fb2k, aimp & musicbee go OSS I might eventually reconsider my dinosaur like approach to development but there has to be a tangible benefit for me to do it.

I've already asked for help over the 5yrs or so I've been trying to make WACUP but the things that need help with doing are also the things that no one really wants to do (e.g. a new good midi input plug-in).

-dro (assuming this reply ever gets posted as I've been trying for over an hour)
They already have the market cornered. They produce over 90% of the global supply.
Can anyone recommend a microphone / audio setup for recording audio books? I'd like to record some and I want to avoid the quality problems some Librivox recordings have.

Actually, more important: is there an app that makes recording audio books easier? Like, can I record in one shot, and mark places I want to cut out so I can just re-speak one passage, and later on it'll automatically be cut together like I want? I could probably jury-rig some keyboard-based app to do it...
Like it was not abvious what the replyee meant.
With a 200M MAU? I think you're thinking of Facebook.
Yeah, until the Bayer process was discovered to pull aluminum out of bauxite in the late 1880s, it was worth more than gold. Tutankhamen had an aluminum ankh very close to his body for that reason.

And even for a long time after that, before we had a critical mass of aluminum for recycling, it was still extremely expensive because of how capital and energy intensive the Bayer process is. For that fifty or so years it held a similar niche as aluminum in practical materials science.
If you are using the reduced rounds of Blake3, seems like you might as well also go to XChaCha12 or XChaCha8?
The current leading purchase-able extremely-over-hyped-by-non-technicals language model has no memory, yes.

You see the same thing in all popular reporting about science and tech. Endless battery breakthroughs that will quadruple or 10x capacity become a couple percent improvement in practice. New gravity models mean we might have practical warp drives in 50 years. Fusion that's perpetually 20 years away. Flying cars and personal jetpacks. Moon bases, when we haven't been on the moon since the 70s.

AI reporting and hype is no different. Maybe slightly worse because it's touching on "intelligence", which we still have no clear definition of.
Well, to be fair to Wilhoit, the divine right of kings was only asserted after the threat of other models of (conservative) government were asserted, to try to justify something that had previously never seemed to need justification.
Ford Edge (US market) has this too when in 'automatic' mode for the lights. It seems to work reasonably well though it sometimes lags a bit so other drivers probably find it somewhat annoying.
Correct, and not to sound too obtuse, but your production 'doesn't really matter' in a supply chain sense. Most agriculture production comes from highly scaled, large operations.

My goal is to accept this fact, and try to bring those sustainability qualities to the big guys instead of chopping the big guys up in 1,000 smaller players that _would_ care.
I think the criticisms of layouts are fair. WRT native UI, there's SWT which was used by Jetbrain's primary competitor Eclipse, but obviously users didn't care that the widgets were native because in the end IntelliJ has a much higher market share.

This is probably because not many apps really use native widgets anymore on any platform. It's not even clear what the native UI toolkit on Windows is anymore, due to the numerous aborted attempts to replace Win32 that didn't quite take off.

The Swing widgets IntelliJ uses aren't any worse than native widgets and some are actually much better, for example, any tree view in IntelliJ supports excellent typeahead search, many text inputs are in fact full blown code editors and so on. I don't feel I'm missing anything by them not being Cocoa.
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