skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bots contribute to “engagement” numbers. Engagement-driven platforms will only take action when the bad PR from the bots outweighs their “engagement” contributions such as when they post the “wrong” things that go against the narrative they want or when such actions fit nicely within said narrative (and state-sponsored misinformation is all the rage in the current political climate).

Take example of the January 6 insurrection against the US Capitol - the whole thing has been brewing for a year on Facebook out in the open (this wasn’t some sort of advanced terrorist attack organised in the shadows protected by end-to-end encryption) but nothing was done because all this craziness has been generating insane amounts of “engagement”. It’s only when the whole thing blew up that the bad PR from being associated with it outweighed the engagement that actions were finally taken.
I built mine to learn Angular, then ported it over to React. I had some help building some customization options like color/background selection, and have it set up so you can log in to GitHub and backup/restore your bookmarks to a Gist.

https://ngstartpage.uk
Pretty much.

CGTN tweets are tagged with "China state-affiliated media" ( https://twitter.com/cgtnofficial ). RT (which Twitter seems to remove from search results) tweets are tagged with "Russia state-affiliated media" (https://twitter.com/rt_com ). Voice of America has no such tags ( https://twitter.com/VOANews).

Voice of America is part of the US government's executive branch, and was created and is funded by Congress, which comes from the State Department budget. It had some aspects of independence from executive control, many of which Trump did away with. RT similarly is a creation of the Russian government with similar aspects of independence to VOA. One country gets tagged, one does not.
> We have no idea of knowing how China is actually doing, since they haven't reported [...]

That assumes that the only way we could get information is by whatever China reports.

In reality there are a large number of people from Western countries who spend a large amount of time in China and regularly interact with the population. There are business people there to deal with Chinese factories that make their good. Many Western companies have offices in China. There are diplomatic offices [1].

That puts a limit on how much China can successfully downplay mass events like a pandemic that affect the population at large because there are too many independent observers interacting with the population with means of communication to outside of China that China cannot block or censure.

[1] The US has an embassy in Beijing as do 172 other countries, and consulates in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Shenyang, and Wuhan. Most of the biggest EU countries and Japan and South Korea also have several consulates there.
Nobody should have to justify why they don't want to wear a mask, the same way nobody should have to justify why they do. Justification is needed when you want to force your opinion on others.
Significantly reducing my risk of dying intubated and in agony is a fairly compelling vaccine use case for me.
I'll concede that we can't know for sure. But given their vast legal spendings and huge profit margins, i'd argue that whatever their strategy is, legal threats from BREIN is a drop in the ocean for them.
Well if Rt is ~3 I guess we're going to have another ride in Spain. I don't think this country can handle another lockdown.

In my region people is pretty sensible about mask use etc. We relaxed a bit, but people still take care. I've been to Madrid and Barcelona for work and people behaves like this never happened.

I hope I get a chance to a boost shot, because I know a couple of dudes that got covid and the side effects are pretty ugly. I'd rather be in my bed with fever for a couple of days.
I played with GEOS for the Commodore 64 when I was a kid. It wasn't really that useful on a system that tiny, but it's an amazing testament to what can be done on a tiny machine by skilled programmers who aren't larding everything up with layers and layers of abstraction.

The Amiga was way, way ahead of its time. Commodore is really a tragedy. There is a parallel universe out there somewhere where Commodore survived and the Amiga evolved into today's equivalent of the Macintosh.

It just shows that the best tech does not necessarily win. In fact it often doesn't. Winning in the market requires a large confluence of factors including network effects, timing, availability of capital, etc. Being good helps but it doesn't make it for you.
Good RF ground is a bitch.
From my limited understanding as a Canadian, Twitter is more accurately a tool of the _Democratic Party run national security state_. I don’t recall them really ever playing ball with the past administration.
I will do some research on APL and your mentioned 'commute operator', cannot comment on it now.
But regarding languages: k/q the issues with them is that they use x, y and z as keywords for the parameters. x is always the first parameter, y - second, z - third. In KatLang parameter names are not predefined keywords, you can pick almost any parameter names you like.
At a previous job we discovered that the software was strangely slow when running locally. It turns out that the antivirus (ESET, I believe?) was delaying every WCF request by 0.5 seconds. After adding encryption to the connections the delay magically went away.
The reasonable definition of "working" is "reduces rate of transmission relative to comparable areas with no mask mandate, by an amount that is statistically significant", and it certainly meets that definition. When people argue that mask mandates "don't work", what they really should be saying is that the effect size is too small to justify the inconvenience. At least that's an actual argument, though I think the people who make it are whiny babies.
The New York Airways Flight 971 crash didn't help - https://gothamist.com/news/in-1977-five-were-killed-in-helic...

That heliport also wasn't profitable during the few years it operated in the 1960s.

NYC does have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Manhattan_Heliport ("top business executives and time-sensitive document deliveries often use the heliport", as well as tourists and others) but it's on a pier, not on a roof.
"Residents of neighborhoods where PredPol suggested few patrols tended to be Whiter and more middle- to upper-income. Many of these areas went years without a single crime prediction.

By contrast, neighborhoods the software targeted for increased patrols were more likely to be home to Blacks, Latinos, and families that would qualify for the federal free and reduced lunch program."

That makes sense if there is more crime in those areas. The purpose of increased patrols is not to punish a community but to reduce victimization in high-crime neighborhoods.
> Google willingly interferes, in a heavy-handed way, with both search suggestions and search results

Indeed, they co-opt every search now. Anything related to local businesses or directions, flights and hotels, etc. And everything I try to find about pop culture or new tech or video games seems to be a page full of YouTube links. I want to grab the appropriate people at Google by the ear, and scream, "I DO NOT WANT TO SIT THROUGH A VIDEO ABOUT THIS." I guess I'm just old or something, but video seems like SUCH an inefficient way to impart information that could just be typed out, and then read. It's not even like it would be more work for these video producers. They're typing out the script to read over some generic video loops. JUST PUT THE COPY ON A PAGE! GAH!
“An Excel TikToker” and “Microsoft Excel influencer”. These are the most unexpected sentences I’ve read in a long time.
Whats the limit on how long until we can dig people up? Is it ok if someone digs up a corpse a week after the funeral? a year? a decade? Who gets to decide and if a culture believes that remains must be left untouched forever, who gets to decide that that cultures beliefs are irrelevant and overrule them if that culture is still around?
What is an example of a law that does not restrict freedom?
Right? Or just message them and they'll get back to you when they can? haha
i don't have any domain knowledge so i cannot build an opinion on the matter, but the fact that they discovered it doesn't give them more authority on the topic then everyone else.

most researchers i've heard on the topic only said "we will have to pay close attention to it", which sounds pretty reasonable from my uneducated perspective.
> It just comes across as "those people have no idea what they are talking about".

It doesn't. When the tech is exclusively used for hoarding and scamming, it becomes synonymous with its use.

> Honestly I don't care that much about people using BTC for scams. I care about the tech.

This really is a non-sensical statement. Tech doesn't exist in a vacuum.
I surely don't value the life of a convicted pedophile very much.
Masks work. I don't dispute that. I just don't want to wear one for the rest of my life. I don't want my government telling me what to wear.

I got vaccinated months ago because I thought that would be the end of masks. That was the entire point of vaccinating: not needing a mask because the virus could do nothing to you. The vaccination rate in my country is almost 80% and we still have a mask mandate. I will not even consider taking a booster until they do away with the mask.
Does Guix have any performance issues?
Best solution i found is to have normal firefox + Firefox Developer Edition

They use separated profiles (you could sync them to same if you wanted)

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/
broke: This is an unsupported assertion.

woke: Why does PG want it to be true? What is he attempting to communicate and to whom?
Vishal Garg is a douche-canoe of the first order. He's also in the midst of lawsuits accusing him of misappropriating funds, as well as threatening the lives of colleagues. He's a fucking sociopath.
Is there any existing decentralized search engine? I do believe that Google should not interfere with the listing. Even if it's piracy, it should not take any people's freedom to discover different information catered for the people.
> So what good came out of any of this

As far fetched as it may be -- I'm not sure who would do this in the first place -- this will help to dissuade any future persons from trying to do the same thing. It's not always about the current crime, but preventing the next one.

But, here, it seems like this was never about prosecuting Miller.

> There seemed to be little will at the Department of Justice to prosecute Miller, who was 91, for what was tantamount to property crimes

The main focus of the FBI was to get the items and remains back to where they belonged. They just wanted right the wrong.

Finally, the article does cover exactly what you mentioned -- that more of these "collections" will likely be discovered over the coming years as the next generation inherits them and wants to have nothing to do with them.

> He expects to hear about more problematic private collections over the years as they’re handed down to younger generations more troubled by them
On a somewhat related note: are there good options in terms of P2P/distributed torrent search engines, which would make it so that websites like the Pirate Bay don't even need to exist? Instead, that distributed index of torrents could be searched directly from the torrent clients.
Can't wait to try out nix 2.4 then, whenever it's deemed compatible with NixOS.
He served his full second term, afaik, even after admitting to lying to the Supreme Court. Trump still has another go if he ever wins it (I doubt it, though).

There's plenty of political work after his presidency too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton#Post-presidency_(...
This is why I believe in UBI.
Power Law Keeps the Brain’s Perceptions Balanced
Rittenhouse did turn himself in to the police. He was running towards them to do so, and when the Kenosha police wouldn't listen to him, he went to the police station in another nearby town.
I didn't realize HN existed in the 50s
Not just elon, any popular account, movie star, politician, has some scam bots in any thread.

And that's just what is visible. The bot to farm clicks, likes and rt are less so, and probably more numerous.
The Superposition Leadership Fallacy
I mean they’re right, Twitter has for years made and used their own definition of public figure independent of other media sites.

I think before we start saying that somehow identifying public figures is some literally impossible problem that needs a government registry or is somehow controlled by CNN we could at least cite some examples where Twitter’s mods have made decisions that seem erroneous.
I used speeddials for some years, then some other obscure addons and local html files. A few years ago, via G-Hacks, I found Humble New Tab Page[0], and it's been love at first sight. It has some little quirks if you are clumsy as I am and move a folder to another column, but it's not that hard to undo by hand. As a plus, it was a good excuse to bookmark frequent pages and put them inside folders.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/humble-new-ta...
That's the classic library I had in mind. I could have been clearer. It's not perfect, but it's as good as any library would be after 15 years of changes to meet new needs.
Of course she wasn’t; she’s a poet so everything she says has multiple meanings, but context matters. The issue of race and personal marginalization is inextricable from the quote. She would have used a different word than “Master” otherwise. Context crushing it this way diminishes the effectiveness of any argument you may be using it in support of. You can choose to use whatever metaphors you want, but other people will add their own context.

It’s the same reason you can’t say things like “final solution” — the phrase has societal context and its use is distracting at best when used in another context.
Asian messenger apps like LINE are really more of an “everything app.” I use LINE to chat with everyone. In Taiwan it’s a given that that anyone you meet will have LINE. Businesses have a special business line account that staff can use. You can book your hotel, vet apt, reserve a table, etc because every business has LINE. You can pay for things with it by letting someone scan your code or or pay for things online by clicking a link that opens line so you can authorize the payment.

As far as the messenger goes, it works really well. They’ve done the best job I’ve seen at making chat history searchable or let you jump to a date instead of scrolling backwards for an hour. They also allow you to send cute stickers, and they are used constantly.
"You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c
Mediaopoly
That's because the news media does not make money on rational and level headed takes, and the people in power do not maintain power with rational and level headed takes.

Threat level ORANGE!
Bit of an aside but the ineffectiveness of tin foil hats to prevent government intrusion into our minds has been known for some time :)

http://web.archive.org/web/20100708230258/http://people.csai...
Tel Aviv is the most expensive city in the world
Supermarkets organise food and make them accessible [to paying customers], as does (not with food this time) a private library. Sure their way of wording it makes it possible to read it naively as being altruistic, but technically I don't think they're not organising the world's data and making it accessible. Just perhaps not always in the way the world would most appreciate.
I have a family member who is a surgeon who is obviously accustomed to wearing a mask frequently in her job, but now that she has to wear it 100% of the time at work she finds it particularly exhausting and rips it off as soon as she is done.
> So what are the exit criteria?

Vaccination. Which is one of the reasons it’s especially infuriating when anti-maskers are also anti-vaccine. By far and away the easiest way to do away with masks is for everyone to just get the vaccine.

For myself, I have two small children that are currently not eligible to be vaccinated. So I will be continuing to wear a mask indoors until they can be.

> You can't seriously expect asymptomatic people to wear masks in public forever.

Another shame this has become such a culture war topic because there’s nothing wrong with the idea of wearing masks when appropriate, indefinitely. As the OP said, in Japan people wear them during flu season and when they feel themselves coming down with a cold. There’s nothing wrong with that, nor is it a particular burden on the vast majority of the population.

I live in NYC and might continue to wear a mask when I’m on the subway during flu season, it feels like common sense. But I know if I try to do that in other cities in the country I’ll be looked upon as if I’m a leper.
While the C64 implementation of GEOS was an amazing example of working within limited constraints, I am left wondering how much it harmed the reputation of GEOS on other platforms. From my recollections, the frequent disk access on Commodore's notoriously slow drives resulted in a product that was barely usable.

When I finally tried GeoWorks on a PC, I was stunned by it's performance and functionality. Unfortunately this was well past its prime since I avoided it for many years because of that initial experience.
Is having drunk driving laws just to be safe unacceptable?
UK: Unexplained Wealth Order https://www.stpaulschambers.com/what-are-unexplained-wealth-...
Apps != Services. The Music app is the main front end of Apple Music and iTunes Match, but you absolutely do not require a subscription to them in order to benefit from the app, and vice-versa.

Edit: I think I understand your point better now. I've just learned that Match is not necessary if you already subscribe to Apple Music. I still wouldn't call it legacy though, since you might just want to sync music you own between devices and don't need the rest of the service. In this case, Match is a lot cheaper than Music.
I've recently read that the blockchain was not rewritten or unrolled. It was actually executed forward through an "irregular state change". In other words, it made a new transaction instead of erasing or modifying old transactions, and that was done with consensus of all those who ran the ETH client. Those who didn't agree went to ETC, but the market chose ETH in the end.
This is the right answer.

It's never that they can't do it, they just don't care enough to do it.
"OOPSIE WOOPSIE!! Uwu We made a fucky wucky!! A wittle fucko boingo! The code monkeys at our headquarters are working VEWY HAWD to fix this!"
> The same thing would happen in Rust if you tried to pass a chunk of memory to C.

In an 'unsafe' block.
Many still do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis
Cellphone Data Collected for Advertising Landed at U.S. Government Agencies
I could have sworn this started years ago, albeit with different messaging.
Is the president's son smoking crack with a hooker a public figure?
I like to build and create, is tech for me?
In a way I understand the pointlessness of the question, I meant it as in—will it kill my soul or is the industry wide enough to find challenging work?

I come from an illustration background, I have seen the following job title "Product Designer", it seems to involve programming and design, it reminds me of an artisan in a sense. I'm quite enamoured at the moment, so please pop my bubble a bit.
That seems reasonable to me.
by default Julia uses locking for writes to guarantee thread safety when multiple writes are happening. That said, it's totally possible to go way faster using buffered IO.
Oh, once you’re talking about asset forfeiture, even an ironclad provenance doesn’t help.
Hahaha right! Well he’s right about one thing, that’s definitely a “secret”
Not Lisbon? (with Portuguese salaries)
This is extremely painful to debug and troubleshoot compared to normal code.
> You can save essentially every single person who will die in a traffic accident by banning cars.

This, but unironically.

(This post brought to you by Train Gang.)
Also I think that movie came 50+ years after peak hardboiled detective... 1983.
HN is on the fore-front of this Google bashing. Just look at this comment on another HN thread about "buy now, pay later". Here's the comment [1] which justifies MS actions:

> Maintaining browsers has become a significant undertaking, so complex that only well-funded corporate interests can afford to keep one patched and up-to-date with the latest web standards. It surpassed operating system complexity. It surpassed pretty much everything else too.
So we can forget about it ever being truly "free" (and free from ads) unless we simplify the web somehow. I also don't think we're going to go back in time and start cutting features out of browsers. So that isn't going to happen

Google develops Chromium and Google gets constantly bashed for selling ads. MS modifies Chromium and adds their own branding and sell ads. MS is just trying to cover their development cost.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29354937
Once someone is dead, they are dead. The body is just a vessel carrying around the person, I don't think it /is/ the person. I don't think there is much difference between preserving some bones behind a glass case, and some Roman coins.

I understand why some people do, but it's just some bones - something that is not rare or particularly special in the grand scheme of things. Obviously there is a lot of spirituality and religion attached to remains, but that shouldn't have any bearing on practical matters.
Has anyone done the math on whether these lockdown policies have produced objectively better outcomes over the long term?

Given that widespread vaccination does not stop infection from spreading, lockdowns seem arbitrary and pointless. Especially when you consider economic consequences, which also inflicts very real pain and suffering on the populace.

Anecdotally, it doesn't seem to have made any difference at all in the US, state by state.
And even more than mentioning vaccination rate you also have to consider age distribution.

Age is still a significant factor of infection chance and disease severity/outcome.

If older people are more likely to be vaccinated than younger people then it skews to more breakthroughs.
You can even get a simpson's paradox where people were seeing higher fatalities in overall vaccinated vs unvaccinated but is not true when you controlled for age.

And these days one would probably also have to consider time since last vaccination since antibody titer wanes with time which is likely important.
I also used Geos as a kid. I played with geoPaint a lot, used geoPublish to make newspapers with my friend, and used geoWrite to do reports and papers for school. It was amazing what could be done in that environment.
> How are users supposed to learn what is the right smart contract to begin with?

That's the definition of due diligence. It's not one thing and the specifics of what's involved vary depending upon the investment. At the end of the day, the onus is upon the user to determine if it's a fraud.

Being difficult or down right impossible for a non-technical person to audit a contract address or the contract code itself isn't a license for users to ignore that risk. It means they're accepting it in its entirety. Or they can defer to a trusted third party to make that determination for them. But even then, they're still on the hook for trusting that third party.
Both the name and the picture in the article would suggest that "he" is, in all likelihood, a she.
Gotta keep the kids off of windows don't want them to be trapped by Microsoft ecosystem one day