skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The exact quote from the Surgeon General Jerome Adams in March 2020 was:

"Seriously people - STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!"

Yes, they wanted to preserve mask supply for healthcare providers, but there was also an explicit statement that they were not effective for preventing infection.

You can retrospectively split hairs over the exact meaning of "preventing the general public from catching #Coronavirus", but the clear message being pushed at the time was that you shouldn't buy masks because they weren't going to work. Whether he actually believed this or whether this was a cynical manipulation to get the effect desired (lower demand for the limited supply of masks) is irrelevant. "Masks don't work" was the message being sold to the public.
Data hacked for 400K Planned Parenthood LA patients
How much value has been lost to inflation this year? Why is that acceptable but coding errors are not? I am not a crypto-currency enthusiast but I remember the Bitcoin whitepaper arguing against centralized currency. So it was critical of the Federal Reserve.

I think people should be allowed to choose. If they don't want regulation then fine.
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These "I'm not allowed" assertions are all over the map.

You can't "recklessly speed" down a road, but are you not generally allowed to drive along any public road for any reason - or no reason - so long as you're not "reckless"? Should you be made to justify your need to be on the road, or your choice to drive rather than ride a bus? After all, these things impact public safety and the climate.

You're not allowed to fire guns wherever you please, but you're also not allowed to even HAVE a lawfully obtained gun in many settings simply because those in power have deemed it so. Try getting a concealed carry permit in NYC. Should it be that way everywhere?

You can't live in "any house you please" perhaps, but you're certainly allowed to live in any house that you can afford. Are you trying to justify bringing back things like redlining or neighborhood exclusionary rules?

I won't go over every single "I'm not allowed" item. But I'll finish by saying that "recklessly speed" and "drive where I please when I please" are different things. Almost every rule in existence finds SOME degree of justification in necessity, which is why "necessity" has always been the go-to justification for any authoritarian regime or ruler throughout history. And it never stops until people push back.
> I wonder if, because Facebook regularly gets very bad press here (stories about Facebook are overwhelmingly negative, and so are comments), FB people don't feel confident to speak. Do you share that feeling?

I share that feeling, but also... Apple, Amazon and Netflix have some halfway decent customer support, whereas Google and Facebook have next to none so I think part of the cause may be people tired of being abused as unpaid customer service / "grievance counselor".
> Why doesn't anyone create a search engine comparable to 2005-Google?

Because the universe being searched isn't the internet of 2005 and earlier, and because user expectations have moved on, too.

Plus the index expense.
Solving it quickly is the goal before sending a solution, since that's the only thing that officially counts in AoC. After doing that, I could take a step back, think about it and make it concise as a self-imposed challenge - which of course also involved not counting the sums.
There maybe be millions of crypto holders, but how many of them will be single issue crypto voters? Probably only a fraction. I would be legitimately surprised to learn that it had any kind of measurable voting impact.
>Insanity is contagious. What I mean by that is: Mental instability, FUD, conspiracy theories, propaganda, and simple sociopathic narcissism are viruses. No one who has witnessed 2016-present could doubt that. But anyone who knows about 1932-1945 already understood it.

What an implicitly condescending, shitty thing you state so casually: That obviously the only reason Trump won in 2016 is because he "spread" his sociopathic narcissism to others, who also likely happen to be mentally unstable and possibly conspiracy nuts. No chance that maybe, just maybe, millions of people voted for him on their own no less rational volition than those who voted for a frankly terrible democrat candidate like Clinton. No, the Trump voters were just mentally infected, weak minded idiots I suppose?
"I guess I'm just old or something"

Fwiw, my teenage son prefers video content over written content. Even if you hate it, there are other people that love it.
What if you are looking for something written by a human?
Developer In The Middle[0] extension for Firefox may help. You can substitute obfuscated library with properly formatted one.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ditm/
The video is "unlisted", meaning it can be accessed by URL. When you upload a video, you can choose to make it Private (only you can watch it), Unlisted (anyone can watch it if they have the link), or Public (anyone can find it even if you don't have the link). Not sure this qualifies as "censorship" by any definition.

I have a bunch of unlisted videos myself, e.g. "audition tapes" when applying for an acting role. I want the people who I send it to to be able to watch it, but I don't want it to be findable. Nothing nefarious about this.
This. I've actually had someone take their disagreement with me out by leaving negative reviews of my company online. Thankfully my company at the time agreed with my personal views and nothing came of it. But after that experience, I never mention my current employer in public forums. Especially with how easily mobs and vigilantes can be triggered by opinions they don't like these days.
McGill is the man. I suggest his book Back Mechanic to anyone dealing with back issues. I blew my back out last year. I assume it was either a very bad bulge or herniated completely. I could barely walk for 2 weeks, excruciating sciatic pain every time I stood, to the point I was in tears.

Granted, my mother went through similar issues at the same age so I kinda knew what I was dealing with. Anyway, suggestions from the book I'm back doing squats and deadlifts in the weightroom. I ski and mountain bike regularly as well. I get occasional pain but if I take a day off as soon as I'm aware it usually feels better quickly.

He's very against surgery except in emergency situation where you can't go to the bathroom or lose feeling/motion in your legs. In most cases your back will heal in a similar amount of time without surgery.

One suggestion I have is DO NOT SIT FOR LONG PERIODS. Sitting is awful for you. Walk and stand during your breaks at work if you're in an office job. If you can get your employer to buy a desk that allows you to stand at least some of the time that is also very helpful. Follow his big 3 exercises or get to the gym and do something to strengthen the muscles in your back.
This doesn’t make sense. What about antibodies? What about the fact that vaccinated still catch and spread the virus?

None of this adds up and it’s likely it all goes back to Wikileaks.
Neat. This is new. I was afraid it was going to rehash metformin, which is an excellent medication.
A Utah company says it revolutionized truth-telling technology
They're unlikely to succeed, though. They've been trying for decades and it's still easier to pirate most content than it is to buy or rent it.
GEOS didn't really rely on DOS, it just used it as a launcher and for some basic I/O for compatibility's sake. It would have been trivial to cut loose from it, but why bother? Customers would just have worried that it wouldn't run on their 'DOS' computers.
People often say Odysee is a good alternative but it was acquired by Google so it has the same issue as Youtube. Then there is Rumble but it's a much poorer experience and somewhat of an echo chamber but that seems to be changing as a more diverse group of non-political creators move over there.
Bro, literally none of this stuff is inherent in the system. You can still make a Beowulf cluster. You can still network a bunch of Raspberry Pis. Computing has never been more accessible.

Writing software has never been more accessible.

But consumer standards have risen. The geeks are out there and will happily work from your source code if that’s all you want to share.

The old life is still available. It’s just that back then that was all that was available.

It turns out there are a whole bunch of superstar product designers out there. And now that the software nuts and bolts are easy, those guys are beating (in the market) all the guys whose skill was nuts and bolts.

That’s natural. It what comes from accessibility. That is good because the whole world is lifted by the fact that some fool can build a business on Zapier and Airtable.
Nice. Been looking for something like this - a Dockerfile equivalent that isn't governed by the Docker folks, with whom I generally do not see eye to eye with.

Bookmarked for later. Glad someone is thinking about this problem space!
Nice thing about Firefox:

about:telemetry

Full details on what is sent to Mozilla, how it's used, and easy to understand.

Additionally, if you don't like what's being sent, you're still able to disable telemetry.
"The summary is that in any system, if you don't have an explicit hierarchy, then you have an implicit one."

That is very well put. I'm stealing it.
Plus, it scales less well than pure algorithmic search. This fight already happened, with a much smaller internet.
Pretty much this. Every friend I have who has gone to work there admits that they've sold their soul and acknowledges that the company is doing harm.

They care more about the money that they're making.
people can still be targeted if that information is public. anti scraping sounds like security by obscurity
I have two thought experiments:

- Imagine the exact same software was used, instead by the localities' fire & rescue departments. I don't suspect anyone would complain about trying to put ambulances as close as possible to populations that tend to need medical care. As far as optimizing a locality's resource use by analyzing historical data, this is the best they can do.

- Next, imagine a case where the software was just flat out wrong, all the time. Would any departments buy it?

I don't have a real solution. If we're limited to exploring software fixes instead of societal ones, my best shot would be to take the algorithm and flip it on its head, reframing the purpose. Instead of "predicting" crime and putting officers where crime is known to exist, why not put them where crime isn't yet known to exist? If officer-visible crime is committed in equal portion by all populations, this at least has the potential to reduce bias.

It would make me much less comfortable having police roaming around looking for crime, as they tend to find—or invent—what they're looking for... but maybe it'd be better to spread that discomfort equally than to limit it to disadvantaged communities.

Finally, I could be easily convinced that the algorithm is more impartial than where officers would choose to spend their spare time on their own[1]. Of course, that depends on being fed accurate crime data, which the article (correctly, IMO) suggests does not exist.

1. eg. if there's a sudden smattering of crime in a white/affluent neighborhood, I suspect any reasonable algorithm would recommend patrols there more readily than the officers would otherwise.
Time for an https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome search engines?
“We don’t need deregulation. We need better designed regulation.”

Ah, I guess the anarcho/libertarian crowd is stepping back from the abyss. But how is that going to make your EC2 SSD go faster? Cheapen your egress fees? Make you write software that actually has less exploits? Pay artists better?

As with many ideas here, how about a concrete suggestion? Here’s mine: software security education for all developers. 1 year of it. Mandatory. Financial penalties for developers and their employers.

You don’t get to call yourself a professional and punt on responsibilities. We don’t let doctors or lawyers do it, why should we let coders?
What money is in what sense though? In a centralized/decentralized sense? In a philosophical sense? Are we considering going back to bartering?

My point is, you see companies abusing bailouts and say "oh no, our fundamental concept of money is changing because bailouts". I see that same situation and say "oh no, our regulations are so antiquated that they are 50 years behind in terms of the abuses they are able to prevent, we need to update our regulations and create new ones, and create a framework for rapidly adjusting regulations going forward, because the current rate is untenable."

This problem extends well beyond money and touches every area of society. Society and technology are evolving faster than the legal frameworks that supposedly govern them. Limiting the scope of the discussion to just cover money would do just that, limit the scope of what should be a much wider discussion.
To me it seems search engines needs weird name.

Maybe I'm wrong and someone has a list of somewhat successful general search engine with a somewhat serious names besides Alta Vista (and I never thought about that before) and Fast?
> Google Search itself is now a threat to the open web. Forget Chrome.

Google search seems to be something of a feedback loop at this point.

Which is fine as 1) it's good for searching Google properties and 2) it opens the door for web search engines that search the web.
Any non capitalist governments with no corruption?
Read Bitcoin whitepaper. Bitcoin was meant to decentralize trust and to eradicate fraud through transparent decentralized database called Blockchain. It is certainly more impactful than hobby search engines taking in consideration Bitcoin was also hobby project but really revolutionary one.

Go search what Larry Page said 20 years ago: If innovation is commercially successful it can have more widespread impact.
Of course, but stemming is a fairly basic technique in NLP, as is POS-tagging. NLP is not machine learning.
Can echo this. About 30 days going all devices. I’d say about once a day I do a !g, and rarely do I actually find something there, it usually just ends up being a confirmation search.
We tolerate those things because they're useful. They enable our way of life. Wearing a mask has essentially no impact on our lives, so it's not really worth accepting deaths in order to not wear one. You just wear one, and fewer people die, and nothing else changes. It's not like giving up cars or construction sites at all.

The problem here is that you're trying to claim that the utility that cars provide to society is equivalent to the utility of going shopping without a mask on. That argument is obviously stupid.
It's an amazing feat, but man was it terrible. I just set it up recently on my C64 (with 2MB additional RAM, sd2iec drives, etc) and it was a huge pain and still barely usable. I lived through that era, so it's not just my inflated expectations distorting my view.
I have a 16 port 10 gbit Ubiquiti switch, and it has fans. But they only ever spin up when I (re)boot the device.
Lots of companies you can get fired for saying certain things or have HR policies against social media or speaking in public about your company unless you are an authorized person. That’s what CEOs are for. You may not be allowed to even discuss your tech stack.

Even when people say who they work for, they need to be cautious of the content they write. Defending a company against negative press is the role of CEOs and other personnel.
Anti-regulation != anti-government. I am okay with regulation and being regulated, but I absolutely am not okay with any of our existing governments having any part of that process. Revolution does not require anarchy as an outcome; indeed, my preference simply would be to install better governance.

Turning the law into a set of constantly shift sands would make it impossible to do business, because that could end up rivaling anarchy. Risks can be taken only when the consequences can be predicted in advance. Without precedents, every single legal case would turn into a gamble. Only fools and the insane would ever stick their necks out; not far from where we are now, I suppose.
Why do you have a user account with a login?
The data may come from other sources, like your phone that can be connected to both the corporate and private emails.
I stated that case counts today are roughly equivalent to pre-vaccine times in most countries

This is called verifiable data.

Also the numbers in the US south are roughly equivalent to the east/west that had much more stringent lockdown, mask, and vaccine measures.

If these policies had any significant impact, you would see a large disparity in outcomes of TX, FL, vs NY, CA.

This is also verifiable data. Prove me wrong with data showing FL and TX had worse outcomes in regards to infections to blue states with strict measures.

If you can't show a significant difference in outcome, reassessing your firmly held beliefs that have been proven wrong through data is called "following the science".

Most lockdown proponents are following religion, and what they desire to be true, than science.
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No-tracking and independent from the start. Now at 4.6 billion pages with own infrastructure and IP. Went to market in 2020 with contextual ads and API. Self-disclosure: CEO
here is Drop Side Trailer information, it should be helpful for those logistic company.

https://www.dreamtruegroup.com/drop-side-trailer/
Financial based scholarships are bad. They assume that the parents are giving money to the children. By definition every single person going to collage has no money as they are still children, not even legal adults.

They also make very odd choices like your family must be under the poverty line ($14k) yet a family making $25k is no more able to pay for college.
Yes, it's pointing out that regulation doesn't protect one from theft, it just formalizes it.
Only in the "No True Scotsman" definition of Socialism.

Because making everyone else to do what you want (eg. give something that they have to someone who you deem deserves it more) will always require force.

So, decide right now: how much force are you willing to apply?

The answer will have to be sufficient force to ensure they yield: lethal force.
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Moxie makes some good arguments for having the server centralized, which is evidenced in Matrix moving/developing insanely slow due to it's decentralized nature.
Isn't it just a tad bit disingenuous to say "those same bitcoins", when, as we all know, their value has appreciated by around five orders of magnitude since then?
It seems to be auto-banned and then put up again after manual review.
"Except"? I feel you mean "Especially".
Paul Frazee (of Beaker Browser) had a thread that got some good reach on distributed without consensus (but often some ability to see people break their contracts). Holo did come up. :)

> Maybe it’s time to dig into the non-blockchain smart contract idea that’s been floating around for a while. Drop the PoW and transaction fees, but maintain the trustless verification and open data/code

https://twitter.com/pfrazee/status/1462491070244208640

As for the 1000 years post being great- in general Avery Pennarum is a world treasure. Great ability to surface ideas & through & make situations legibile. Another very fine example. The "state my assumptions" lead in is divine all on it's own.
Why didn't you just search "austin subaru service"? If you want a query narrowed down by location, that's your job to say so.

Sure, it feels great when the engine guesses something like that correctly -- but it comes out worse overall for the plentiful cases where you have to try to compensate for it guessing wrong.
The memory corruption would happen in the C code though. By the time that the program is actually affected by the memory error it could be much later, back in Rust code, and now you don't have any tools for debugging memory corruption because "that never happens in Rust".
> Firefox, for all it's modern faults, is the only browser that's actually different in any substantial way.

That's the thing. I don't WANT a browser that's actually different. The web is a duopoly between Apple and Google, and everything else is a second-class citizen. The era of an "open" web came and went, passing us by as capitalism took over. Firefox offers no meaningful freedom when all the content it's supposed to consume was designed by and for big companies targeting other big companies' products and customers.

Using Firefox introduces a lot of headaches and subjects you to frequent, meaningless UI updates that add partner extensions against your will and show you recommendations that I don't want to see... Mozilla is desperately trying to stay relevant and has introduced a lot more dark patterns than Chrome has, all while adding no value beyond some vague, lackluster appeal to a libre web... too little, too late.

Google, for all its faults, makes a darn good browser. The only downside is that they track my habits. So what? I'm not particularly exciting, and the only real cost I've noticed, beyond needing an ad blocker, is that my Google News feed gets cluttered with shit I don't care about derived from my browsing history. But other than that Chrome is just wonderfully simple and clean compared to the bloated Firefox (and its lookalike clones, Opera and Edge).
How about just a meritocratic rating? Even here on HN I would appreciate some sort of weight on expert/experienced opinion. Although in theory I like the idea that every thought is judged on its own, the context of the author is more relevant the deeper the subject. That's one of the reasons I still read https://lobste.rs. It has a niche audience with industry experience.
for the people in logistic business area who search in Google, Flatbed Container Semi Trailer, it should be good for your reference.

https://www.dreamtruegroup.com/flatbed-container-semi-traile...
Try searching for the same thing from your computer and your phone and you will get different results. Also, their results come from Bing so any improvement happens at Microsoft.
> Anyway my point is - don't you think me lawyering up for this would have been absurd?

Isn’t this just hindsight bias? What if the situation wasn’t your mother’s absentmindedness but your number being found in the phone of a murder victim? The “back and forth” with the officer leads you to confirm that you know and have visited the small town where this person was killed. So they ask you if you have ever visited the window tinting shop where they work, and you say no. What you don’t know if an eye witness incorrectly believes they saw you there, which makes you a liar in the LEO’s eyes.

This issue isn’t “what if it turns out to be nothing”. The issue is that if it does turn out to be something, the consequences of not keeping your mouth shut are far worse than the minor “over reaction” when things end up being ok. Its like wearing a seat belt. You don’t do it for all the times you don’t get in an accident. You wear it because the consequences are dire in the case that you do get in an accident.