skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two views you can take of the world. You can take it at face value, or you can search for deeper meaning.

If we take current events at face value, then yes covid is a real problem, the vaccine really helps, and governments are acting in the interest of the public with health and safety measures.

But if you look behind the curtain, there is so much more going on. It remains to be seen just how much manipulation is involved.

My analogy to the war on terror is meant to have layers.

After the initial attack there was a patriotic fervor and an outcry for retribution. The "war on terror" was a justified response to the demand for national security.

It's not until years later that much of the story we were told at the time had been revealed to contain false truths.

The WMDs never existed. The Saudis were connected to the attackers. Our prolonged engagement in Afghanistan, a means to funnel billions (trillions?) to security contractors. The pentagon. Tower 7. Etc.

There's a enough information to confound the official narrative, and we still don't have all the answers. I doubt we ever will.

The pandemic mirrors this in many ways already. The global outcry, the unprecedented scale of government intervention. "You're either with us, or you're with the terrorists" parallels today's divide. It wasn't something you could say no to then, and it's not something you can say no to now.

To say these thing simply erode trust is a pittance. This plants a seed in one's mind that there are in fact manipulators at the highest levels of our institutions. There is even more evidence of this in the world today ex. Jeffery epstein and the ongoing maxwell trials.

But maybe none of that applies to the current events. Perhaps my speculation is unwarranted. Sometimes the world simply is what it seems, and you have to take it at face value.

But more often than not I've found the world is a lot like poker, and by the time you have all the information it's already too late.
Well, enderm did say "in my opinion"...
>It discredits you because its a term conservatives have been trained to use when they don't like a concept or don't want to think about a new concept.

You sound like a Scientologist talking about "SPs" or suppressive persons. You've been brainwashed to ignore anything that doesn't reinforce your worldview.

I used virtue signaling first and I'm not conservative--I have never voted for anything but democrats my entire life. Stop with the nonsense please--this type of nonsense is harming social discourse. There is no reason that associating with red/blue should predict every other political view you have--people need to judge policies individually.
If its a private institution it can pay taxes like other private institutions and not get tax free returns on billions in endowment and then turn around and discriminate against disfavored groups.
>I don't see how this can work in practice.

That's because the admissions process is not the line-by-line ranking exercise you're implying.

In some cases an SAT may help to complete the picture of an applicant. In other cases, other attribute permutations are enough. Maybe #1 was close and the SAT sealed it. But, it's not necessarily the case that applicant #2 was hurt by not submitting their SAT (or would have fared any better by submitting even a perfect SAT score).
I think you're imagining Hoover dam getting torn down, when really it is a 6' dam built 150 years ago with no hydroelectric that is causing problems for certain habitats.
Occam's razor is formalized in Solomonoff induction but that doesn't mean that it is not still a useful heuristic in Science more generally.
I think when trying to predict the future of climate change, you’ll find every model imperfect (even if it can tell you important truths about what may happen).

If you try to make specific predictions, you’re going to turn people off.

It’s far better to frame it as a matter of, “Look we don’t know what’ll happen and since we only have 1 planet and pollution is bad, we’re going to try and minimize the impact we have, because we don’t get a second chance.”

And then just take it from there.

We don’t need to understand what’s inside the box when it arrives on our doorstep. We just have to avoid opening it.
There are plenty of people who oppose vaccine mandates but not vaccines.
Google is publishing the content on the SE. That is one level up!
Internet addiction and the habit of book reading
"Communicating badly and then acting smug when you're misunderstood" https://xkcd.com/169/
The War to Sell You a Mattress Is an Internet Nightmare (2017)
Just go back to ascii and green screens.
You can try some custom keyboard with low profile switches. There are many open source ones if you're up for the task. One option is cornish zen https://lowprokb.ca/products/corne-ish-zen-2
I built corne light v2 with choc v2 for my personal use.
Yes but that does not generate clicks,views and that sweet youtube money.Sorry but I cannot stand those kind of guys (he, Mark Robber and the likes). Khan academy is doing something 1000000 times more valuable.
Can you point me to a specific example?
And yet when you report stuff that is blatantly in violation (such as spam porn bots), they say that it doesn’t violate the guidelines
Well, there are: The provable lack of regulatory oversight and demonstration of the existence of poor practices at the company.

The argument that just because one of a company's trials are unsound doesn't mean that the rest aren't is not a good one, when the whole objective is to provide assurance in proving the safety of a product.
Well, definitions are what you make them.

If, as you say, IP is property and if property rights are human rights, then it follows that human (and property) rights can take away property rights, compel people to do things, or force them to do other things than they would like.

I think this contradicts the grandparent's claims about what rights are, and they rub me the wrong way, because I think there's a creed that gets repeated by libertarians who use it to forestall thought.

We all agree that slavery is not acceptable; therefore defining a concept as property does not make it legitimate.

Given a known counterexample, the possibility that any form of property is illegitimate or ill-defined must exist.

I refuse to commit to any definitions, instead I'm demanding uncertainty.

Here is an interesting Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_bondage
Being from Cincinnati, I had to laugh at that particular example a little bit, because there's an annual charity "Rubber Duck Regatta" where you pay to sponsor a rubber duck and they dump them all in the river and give a prize to whoever has theirs finish first. When I was a kid, they ran TV ads for it blasting the name out loud about every six seconds, so most students who didn't know the word otherwise would have figured it out. I'm sure there would be statistical analysts looking at the scores for that question by region and scratching their heads.
"Is there anything we can do to force the FAANGS of this world to maintain a proper amount of customer support staff?
"

It's called regulation and laws. A lot of other industries have to follow a lot of rules. Tech doesn't like it because it would cost them profits.
Don't pretend you don't know Renay
However callous Donziger's tactics, noone died of them. Putting corporate poisoners out of business is no game for the meek.
I didn't dig into the benchmark, but this seems to use typescript which fastly I think claimed in the inital post was "beta"? I would be interested to see how this compares to fastly with rust/wasm as their more mature system, even if that would also inherantly not be apples to apples (not that you can ever have that with something like this anyway)
You (the application) can certainly go on to issue other database commands. See the docs [1].

> With the libpq library, the application issues LISTEN as an ordinary SQL command, and then must periodically call the function PQnotifies to find out whether any notification events have been received.

[1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-listen.html
> If you're building a product and there is no standard to cover core technology

That's what the X in XMPP is for.
The author states this after knowing the true identity of who sent the bogus email. At that point they know it's not legitimate.
The purpose of async is mostly to avoid OS threads, and rust decided not to go down the route of implementing user space threads.

Instead, for async, rust implemented the ability to basically encode a functions stack frame and instruction pointer into a "normal" (but opaque) struct. What an async runtime like tokio does is (through a few levels of useful indirection that I won't talk about) store a list of these structs, and decide when it's a good idea to "call" one of them. When called, the structs either return a final value, or return a value saying "call me again later", in which case the runtime presumably puts it back into it's list of structs and calls it again sometime later.

Figuring out when to call it is left up to the runtime, but the useful ones will do things like record what operation it's waiting for and call it when that operation is ready.
I've had a kinesis advantage pro ( same as in article but single not split ) for some 15 years. It's awesome and my only complaint was that my hands were too close together. I think I might upgrade to this.
Bryan Cantrill (DTrace etc) has a good talk on ethics in software engineering[0].

Skip to 12:29 where he recalls Facebook in 2011 experimenting with users news feeds.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wtvQZijPzg
The false legal threat is particularly galling, but this absolutely should have gone through IRB even without it. Someone should have had to at least consider the impact on recipients of the messages before they were sent.

IRB review is typically required even for just simple research surveys.
That's very weak. Obesity is linked to inflammation but that's about as far as the evidence goes so far.
I may have missed it, but what makes Remix able to run SSR at the edge? Can you not do that with NextJS?
Poor neighborhoods always have more crime than rich neighborhoods. This doesn't particularly change if the poor are native or immigrants.

The real problem is wage theft keeping large numbers of people poor. Whether immigrants or natives, the fact that you can work your whole life for a mega corporation and barely have money to eat is the problem.
This is incorrect. The vaccine also provides protection from contracting the disease. This has been known to be true for at least the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines since this Spring, when the first big population studies came in. The efficacy varies based on the variant and the length of time since last vaccine/booster.

And the reason people have stopped talking so much about herd immunity is because Covid is becoming endemic. However, in such a situation, vaccines are just as important, even if herd immunity can’t be achieved anymore. That’s for protection of the individual, the immunocompromised in the community, the population as a whole, and to keep the healthcare system functioning.
This is the youtube generation. Entertainment, clicks and wow factor first (and money of course), facts a distant second.
I must note "things were more understandable" is an illusion. Ever since the iron age, very few people understood the art of ironmaking. People have been living in magic for a very long time.
Moral and ethical positions aren't relevant. Only religious and medical exemptions are allowed.
This sounds vaguely familiar. Do you think the people who created this site had recurring opinions on a particular type of punctuation?
Better for people who miss the old internet and gopher/gemini types. Not so much if you enjoy online shopping, commercial websites, or social media culture. Most of the most celebrated tech companies would be out of business overnight and the US economy would be screwed as well, but that's probably out of scope for this hypothetical.
Harvard can do this because they're rich and they're Harvard. The SAT and ACT simply don't work well to predict good students. Harvard is going to run applicants through an insane gauntlet anyway, and they trust their admissions personnel to perform as well without the tests as with. In their case, the tests probably add more noise than signal, especially with applicant self-selection.

Other, worse universities, are not going to have the resources to significantly evaluate applicants at all, and still need those tests just to insure that students have minimal math and language skills.
because they are paid to do research.
Short of legislation, they really don't care if even 5% leave the platform - Facebook showed this when they still recorded double-digit profit growth despite losing a huge amount of usage in the younger generation (but that was eventually offset by purchasing Instagram). They can tune the Ad levers anytime to extract money from the rest of the remaining population to make up for what was lost, so until there's some mass exodus or cataclysmic change in U.S. acceptance of social media, they won't see any real consequences for spitting on a trivial portion of their users.
Is your point that the server has room to grow? Or that you just “ain’t impressed by that”?
No, it really does matter. I don't have a problem with people who have genuine religious objections. I do have a problem with people who are just making shit up to get out of taking a shot.
Nothing you're describing would change if we replace "immigrant" with "poor person". This is all a problem of minimum wages, employment law enforcement and others, not a problem of immigration. For as long as people are allowed to hire others while.not paying for a minimally decent life, this problem will continue existing.
I'm an immigrant and moved here when I was 9. My parents always spoke in a different language growing up. I personally had a hard time with certain vocabulary that I never picked up and that maybe I otherwise would have if I had native English-speaking parents. This definitely slows you down when reading problems as you're only gathering about 3/4 of the problem at times. This is probably an outlier, but just thought I'd share my point of view here.
I worked with an artist to design user interface menus for a video graphics system. I'd design a menu that did what was needed. It was ugly. The artist would look at it, and say "That's like picking your nose with boxing gloves on."

Then he'd draw this beautiful menu. And I'd say, "How does it know that you want to do X instead of Y?"

We'd go back and forth, and wind up with something that was both graphically good and also unambiguous.

If you just have the non-programmer doing the design, I worry that it would stop at the "ambiguous" stage. There's a level of technical rigor that is needed, and non-programmers may find it hard to achieve it.
standardized test scores, that is to say IQ test scores, are by far the strongest predictors of success available in any domain of the social sciences; nothing comes close, not even wealth. obviously high scores are no guarantee of anything, but there is nothing else that compares. to disregard them is to abandon the pretense of objectivity for nepotism.
Glad you’re doing ok. I’m double vaxxed and got Delta (likely, I don’t know for sure of course) and it was BAD. I didn’t die but I thought I might at one point.

I’m any event, we all have to get it at some point.
It appears the study website has been edited to state they are no longer sending emails.

Previously it said they were sending these emails up until Spring 2022[1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20211216002029/https://privacyst...
>3-Way Adjustable Tenting

Looks too easy to break.

Anyway - I've tried ErgoDox some years ago and realised it's two flaws:

- too light

- not enough buttons if you need to type in more than one language and your second language has more than 26 characters.
In the case of a circle, you should still have a radiated signal that arrives before the conducted signal. But it would be far weaker, further compounding the problems with the "light bulb illuminating" way of illustrating that a signal has arrived. In the original experimental design, it was already reckless at best to leave the viewer with the impression that the radiated signal was capable of powering the light bulb rather than merely serving as a trigger for a self-powered light. With a circular setup, I doubt that equipment sensitive enough to detect the arriving radiated signal (and reliably distinguish it from other electromagnetic noise) could even fit into the light bulb's black box.
Giant corporations are certainly a problem, because it means oligopolies if not monopolies. Like Google, Facebook, Amazon in certain areas.

For cloud services to small customers there is luckily still a bit of choice. Unfortunately I don't see that any of them would really be better if things go wrong for some reason or another. Well, if you pay them less than a hourly salary for a whole month, customer service is not really an economic option.
It exists, it's called Bookface ;)
You pay 7% of equity to YC and you have access to engineers at FAANG.
So are you implying China is doing the world good?
I often approve a PR with the comment "Approved with comments".

In other words, I didn't notice any bugs but I have some suggestions. I'll let you decide if you want to make the changes or not.
I imagine their scaling problem isn't messages/day, it's probably lots of concurrent, persistent connections. And I don't think a connection pooler would work with this job queue setup.
The marketing is defense against any claims that you bypassed a safety, since marketing is saying publicly the safety systems are not needed.

My company has lost in court about similar cases where the court decided that the marketing picture showing someone closer than the warning label says is safe means we don't believe the warning label and so we are liable when a customer gets too close to cutting blades.
> It has just jumped out at me

I don't mean to pile on, but this is exactly the point: what jumps out at each of us is precisely the stuff that we find most disagreeable. If you had the opposite preference, opposite stuff would jump out. The effect that this has is very strong, and the conclusions it produces are completely unreliable. (I'm talking about all of us here, not you personally!)
How would a website “respond” without human interaction? If all they were testing was whether or not a website had an automated response to emails with ccpa in the subject or body they could have included a disclaimer at the end of the email about what they were doing.

This was clearly seeking a human response and is a human experiment.
> if the statement was true and accurate I would just take it as a helpful reminder of the timeframe.

People don't go through the trouble of digging up the particular section number of the specific statute of the specific jurisdiction in question for the mere sake of a generic "helpful reminder of the timeframe" required by law.

And similarly for the "without undue delay" part.
Platforms honor DMCA takedowns and remove violations from their front end (even if they are on the blockchain).
Hm. Not so simple. In my province (BC), over 90% of our electricity is generated by dams on rivers.[1]

I agree with you that some dams are mostly negative. And all dams have some negatives. Witness our Site C dam project currently under construction.[2] It has been a political, environmental, legal, First Nations, and agricultural shitshow. I just think it's worth knowing that river dams still produce the vast majority of electricity for a lot of people on this part of the planet. I vote for change. Fingers crossed.

[1] https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-markets/pr...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_C_dam
Link is to an abstract of the 70-page article, which is available as a PDF download:

https://vanderbiltlawreview.org/lawreview/wp-content/uploads...
This looks like a fun way to test ZMK. Most of the boards out there that support it are tiny and going or the same price, so why not get something bigger in a nice form factor?
Most things we do seem to be in the strive for immortality - if we can't make our bodies last longer, we can do things that'll hopefully make our names and legacies last longer, thus we stay 'alive', influencing the world, for as long as someone remembers.
Sure you can use the simpler version heuristically, but the OP's claim is that it is only a heuristic and not a valid logical inference. I'm saying we now have proof that it is logically valid to claim that one should prefer theories with fewer assumptions, all else being equal.
Agreed. After awhile you will always switch modes instantly as long as the keyboard is a different shape.

Kinesis to std, no problem, don't even think about it. Kinesis to Model 1 not so much.
To me yes, for the same reason pulling fire alarms at various company office buildings to see how they respond would be considered human experimentation.
I feel bad for you that your browser does not work. You might want to turn off some of your installed extensions to see if maybe one of them is highjacking links in your browser preventing you from clicking on them.
It is not if, but when. When it is too late. Don't come and cry here.
I can vouch for it. To my way of thinking, "A Tour of C++" is the closest thing to K&R for C++. It's not a complete all-you-need-to-become-a-professional-C++-programmer book, but K&R wasn't either. It gives a good look at what's going on under the hood and why. And it's amazing how complete it is for how thin it is.
A friend told me that on one trip, he was a cloud raining on a forest for five hundred years. He emphasized LITERALLY five hundred years.
Attribution of intention is extremely unreliable.
I don't understand the point about nuclear fuel.

The whole reason France went nuclear is to have energy independence, because you can source uranium from pretty much anywhere (unlike fossil fuels).

The largest exporters of uranium in the world are Kazakhstan, Canada and Australia. Those aren't former French colonies. But, yes, there are also countries in Africa that export uranium, but that's the point; if you look at a map of uranium reserves you'll find it's pretty much all over the world (and not really that much in Africa, actually).
It's not about amount of staff.

It's that bureaucracies, poorly run, provide incentives for people to stifle others for personal power.

And Account Safety/Support/Security/Compliance Customer Service is (almost everywhere) very much a bureaucracy.

Who has skewered this all too true trope? Partial list:

- Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (literally run by obstructionist bureaucracy)

- Zootopia (literal sloth in the DMV)

- Loki (TVA is literally a bloated bureaucracy)

I might even go further...bigger, in these cases, is worse. If it's not the lack of staff...then maybe it's too many.
Replacing Bohr's model with Schrodinger's equation is one example. Or Newtonian physics with relativistic physics. These were proven to be better models, of course, but if great physicists applied Occam's razor to everything like some on HN, Einstein/Schrodinger would have never bothered investigating further.

Perhaps the Catholic church invoked Occam's razor when Galileo suggested the orbits of celestial bodies are more complex. Occam's razor is a good way of advocating that the existence of one single god is the default answer we should all accept, because you and I have no evidence for or against anything else and any other explanation for existential questions is going to be more complex.

The point is that bringing up Occam's Razor on every thread adds no value, does not need to be verbalized on a forum of smart people like HN, and frankly seems to be a way to justify intellectual laziness/closed-mindedness (which might be useful in high stakes/low time situations, but not in an 'intellectual' internet forum where people have plenty of free time to make better arguments).