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I think when you call certain people conspiracists it’s unproductive. Who are you referring to? Sure Alex Jones is a nutty conspiracy theorist. But highly credentialed physicians and academics who simply have opinions that deviate from the established consensus? No, that’s unfair.

Did you watch the posted ten minute video? Have you watched any of his podcasts in full? He explains why he has those guests on and concedes with some gratitude the idea that he ought to have more guests on that can communicate the opposing views, especially soon after a controversial guest.

The alleged harm he’s perpetrating in having conversations is way less dangerous than a full-steam-ahead into uncritical, contrived, and corrupt thought control from established institutions and governments.
"Either you die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

It applies to politicians and businesses alike.
How about it's always medically necessary?
I had to search a bit for the right word to explain Rogan. He's being obtuse.

When he says he's not trying to be controversial, he doesn't mean that. It means he appears, exdternally, to not be controversial, but internally, he has an entire viewpoint and goal when he runs his interviews. Part of that is to get more people to believe his viewpoints, and part of that is to make more money by getting more viewers.

We can see through his act of playing dumb and "just letting people say things".
> I don't understand the thought process here on HN when people start punching the flagged button the second a controversial subject comes up. I would think the large portion of scientific minded people here would be thrilled to toss around different ideas

Take a look at comments on more controversial threads, I think you overestimate the userbase.
I think it’s unlikely a game that high profile would be the target of a betting scheme. Much more likely some everyday regular season games, or even specific portion of a game are manipulated. You can bet on things that are way more in your control to win if you have that kind of influence such as a single players performance over a game, one quarter/inning, one hole of golf, etc
Again, another reason why people should realize that privacy is power, and everyone is out to leverage every possible way of vacuuming up information to tilt information asymmetry in their favor.

Beware folks. The eager eyes outnumber the politely interested by orders pf magnitude.
I like that this is basically Jupyter/Colab extended with an explicit cell dependence graph.

However, I think this needs some serious brand work to distinguish it from "visual programming," which multiple commenters have already confused it for.
Code doesn't deteriorate... Like we're talking about a banana growing spots or whatever...

Code gets plastered over with features and abstraction layers, but that's an active process that we are complicit in doing.

More germane for this discussion, technical debt was originally defined as a positive thing that you want to go get... It is the mismatch between our domain model and how our users think about the domain. It is positive because “enough with all of the planning and interviewing and requirements gathering and careful architecting, can I just build something and have my users criticize it and do four or five drafts until I get it right?” ... The debt is the drafts before you get it right, the interest is the constant translation between the language of your users and the language that the system is expressed in. You have a “contracts” table that contains things that are not contracts because every purchase foreign keys to a contract, but your users have since wanted to know what they do with the purchases that are not associated with any contract, where do they go. And now every query that aggregates over contracts needs to exclude the non-contract contracts, this is part of the interest you are paying.

But at some point it started to mean that we had to upgrade our dependencies, that's tech debt, or this kludge that I threw in, that's tech debt, or the fact that we never worked out a shared library between the front end and the back end and so any Python code in utils.py needs to be manually kept up to date with a file utils.js in a separate Git repo so that we are sure that we can do these things both on the front end and the back end. More broadly, anything that we no longer care for is tech debt. And that's where you really get this idea that it is deteriorating, that's more a measure of our own patience deteriorating, especially as we never seem to have time for the refactors we want.

Perversely the cause of not being able to refactor has nothing to do with tech debt and cannot be solved in this way. It's multifaceted so at different places it emerges in different ways, but usually it's an incentive problem. At some places it is that the only incentives are for feature development. At other places it is that every developer is working on a different thing rather than prioritizing one thing that the business needs and delivering it, and allowing developers to use their slack time in this equation to improve the product however they see fit... In yet another it is because the team lead resists any suggestion that the framework being used is too heavyweight for the problem being solved and so trying to keep these very clean abstraction layers is causing people to have to rewrite the same basic thing in five different unrelated places, because it has to bubble up from the data layer into the service layer into the business layer into the controller layer into the API into the consumer layer into the app state layer into the frontend model layer...
The linked document isn't representative of books on Lisp or Emacs---it reads like a half-finished idea for a sketch of a pitch for a book. Since it is more than 10 years old, the project likely got abandoned at a very early stage. Writing a book is a lot of work, so don't mean this as criticism against the author. Just thought I'd say it in case someone doesn't want to waste time downloading and building something unfinished.
It depends on the local culture. In Wisconsin, I haven't seen many holes in roadsigns. A lot of rural people have guns for hunting or wildlife control and for the most part are relatively responsible with them.

I suspect in places where guns are tools, less of this stuff happens.
Frankly I have no problem with ads that are simple (text/images/untracked). The ad industry has made it clear they would rather be utterly obnoxious and creepy so therefore as far as I’m concerned they can wither and die.

Firefox+addons seem to work best for blocking ads which is why I am increasingly concerned about that browser being marginalized.
I'm going to push back on this statement, as I spend my day-to-day more immersed in the non-techy car world than in the HN tech world. I see a lot of frustration with new tech features among car reviewers and enthusiasts. You can read almost any car-related social media forums and see ire directed at stuff like complicated touchscreen-driven interfaces and flaky emergency braking systems. I also know many older folks who simply ignore and avoid all these tech features that now come standard on luxury vehicles. Anecdotal evidence, I know, but I don't think there's widespread acceptance of this stuff as you imply.
Unsecured AWS server exposed 3TB in airport employee records
Video of Tianwen-1 flying over Mars
And this is inflation illustrated. When they talk about inflation being a rise in prices they are talking bullshit it is simply that they created more fiat currency and so devalued what was there before, as perfectly illustrated.

The importance of this distinction is that when your currency devalues its because the goverment (central bank branch thereof) consciously choose to print more and devalue it for you.
The content is just a lure the creator and platform hope bring you in close enough to be hooked by an ad. Sometimes, the fish get away.
> Whenever I'm around someone else who puts on a free-tier version of YouTube its rather shocking how frequent and intrusive the commercial ads are.

Also, when I accidentally open a video in a private browsing window where I'm not logged in. DAMN IT WHY IS ALL THESE ADS.

Although, I have to say that the ads on YouTube were some of the most targeted of any site, and I would often sit through them.
I wouldn't exactly call replacing AWK with Sed a "simplification". And now you have a stew of escaped $s. Invoking `tput` is a good idea, though; maybe you can use the AWK `system()` function for that.
Doesn't Firefox block autoplaying videos by default as of recently? It does for me anyways.
70% prevention is better than 0%, and something tells me that it will see a much higher rate of adoption than the Covid vaccine.
Adblockers are available for several mobile browsers; system-wide adblocking exists, but tends to be more work. What is keeping you from using an adblocker on mobile?
Sometimes the cost for a quality piece of gear is incremental though, so you buy a harbor freight thingamajig then it breaks so you buy the Milwaukee thingamajigfor twice the price, for a total of 300% of the cost of the original thing. You could have saved 30% in that case by just buying the good thing in the first place.
>”and burning of books”

I assume this merely metaphorical?
The covid-19 vaccines were very effective at preventing disease and spread until the omicron mutation, which perhaps wouldn't have happened if not for vaccine hesitancy. (but that is an inevitable human nature thing, so you have to accept it and deal with)

Fortunately the vaccines were still very effective at preventing death and hospitalization with omicron, I wonder how many lives were saved overall, so far? It is really quite remarkable.

Given the slower way HIV spreads we have a much better chance at actually getting rid of it. Its not flying around in the air mutating in a billion people at once every day.
anecdotally, this feels like the tenth "Ask HN" I've seen pop up in the past week that seems to be driven by loneliness. A lot of us seem to be creeping up on a breaking point.
If I remember correctly rental businesses were offloading cars at a crazy rate to survive the pandemic, but then once people were travelling again they needed to buy them back up at a crazy rate.
I have never used an add blocker. If the page is too intrusive with toxic adds, I just close the page. Also, if I go to any page that launches a pop-up to subscribe or some other stupid crap, I again just close the page, never to return.

I wish more people would do this.
I'd like to introduce you to my grandmother's flat surface stove from the 70s with 0 touch controls. It's easy, just decouple the controls from the heating element.

3/4 of the reason they're touch is being 'cool' and none of the designers ever cooking a meal in their life.
But it's always medically necessary, because weight changes are a leading indicator of many issues, and the long-term trend is needed to see these. If people feel that they don't understand why it's necessary, maybe better communication and education is needed, but I don't think these cards help that.
Right, but he took them in a way that nobody could say for sure what helped and what didn't. The problem is that he's not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong . I think it was a mistake for the press to criticize him for taking "horse pills" but it's fine to criticize him for making pseudoscientific statements about what made him feel better.
It's certainly arguable that a particular namable someone first found some way to communicate the concept that the earth is spherical to someone else... but it was many someones and the actual origins are lost to us.

Its easy enough to say "the earth is a ball" because you've been told, but how can you prove it?
> Think of it as jumping into a new codebase you have never worked with before. It is full of strange functions calling each other for unknown reasons. It takes a while to get a good intuition for why.

I've basically abandoned all languages/ecosystems that aren't, at the very least, extremely grep-friendly. Static types preferred so I can get that sweet, sweet auto-refactoring, jump-to-references/definition, docs-on-hover, et c.

If we expected people to read code like they're expected to read math, I'd have taken the huge pay hit and left the profession by now. It'd be a choice between that or a spiral into depression ending in tragedy. I don't know how math-loving folks can stand it.
I think they're talking about in-video ads?

I could be totally wrong, but ublock-origin just keeps certain things that match a pattern from appearing in the html. It can't remove the annoying "in-video" ads, right?
As I understand it, the reason an HIV vaccine has been so difficult to create is that HIV mutates so easily. I understand the basics behind how mRNA vaccines are generated, but I don't understand why this approach would be expected to have any more success in evading the high mutation potential of HIV than other vaccine types. After all, it was even a concern with new coronavirus variants that the original Moderna vaccine would be less effective against them (and, indeed, while the original vaccine is still highly effective against all variants, my understanding is that it is less so than the original variant). And SARS-COV-2 mutates much less easily than HIV.

Can someone with more knowledge explain the thought process behind this?
I've been a hiring manager for remote positions for a long time. If your recruiting channels are good, most of your candidates are going to be honest and good intentioned.

But interview enough people, and you'll start encountering people trying to abuse remote work. They're not interested in contributing to your company. They're only interested in collecting paychecks while they do as little work as possible for as long as possible. They might already have a full-time job or other remote jobs, or maybe they're just trying to travel the world and do a "four hour workweek" thing where they answer e-mails once a day and phone in a couple hours of work at key times during the week.

The common theme is that they aren't really interested in fighting too hard for the position. As soon as the interview or job turns out to be something they can't just talk and smile their way through, they're out, just like this:

> I think my last update for a while: as soon as HR got on the call with him, before they could get through their first question, John said the words “I quit” and hung up the calls. He has since been unreachable!!

Always makes me wonder how many dysfunctional companies are out there letting deadbeat remote employees collect paychecks and do as little work as possible because nobody cares enough to press the issue.
You obviously don't live in a place with harsh winters.
Fortunately goverment and b2c things like banks and insurance dont show ads, tho they are probably selling your data
For the longest time I refused to install an adblocker. I worked at a company that made most of its money from ads, and it felt hypocritical to run an ad blocker. Also I wanted to experience the website the same way as the users do.

For a long time I told people "my brain is my ad blocker I just ignore it". But after a while I just couldn't stand the web without it anymore. Websites got so bad I couldn't find the content anymore. My CPU would spike to 100% on some web pages and my laptop fans would spin like crazy.

It makes me sad but now I install an ad blocker on every place I can.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted all much… well actually no it’s pretty obvious.

I think you’re right though. The current Covid-19 vaccines are proven to lose efficacy over time. Will the same thing happen with this one as well? It’s a good question.
There are at least two popular visual programming languages for electronic music: Max/MSP (cycling74.com) and PureData (puredata.info).
I haven't seen an ad on the internet in at least a decade so this sounds about right.

My mom recently somehow managed to disable the ad-blocker I have setup on her computer and was blown away by how much advertising is on the internet.
And, it explicitly mentions concerns about getting the equipment back. So it's a company owned computer.
I wanted to show a video on YouTube to a friend. He passed me his cellphone. I searched and found the video and then something very strange happened: a completely unrelated something started playing. I said "Sorry I don't know what is this. This has nothing to do with what I wanted to show you." He then explained me that was just an advertisement and the video would play soon.

People are used to abuse. My internet is very different from the internet most people use. I feel sorry for them.
I hang out on a bunch of subreddits dedicated to hobbies and interests of mine. People shit on Reddit because the biggest subreddits can be toxic wastelands. But, like the web itself, the smaller communities are often absolutely wonderful.

I don't do chat or anything synchronous like that because it doesn't fit into the way my free time is sliced into small chunks by family commitments.
I don't think the it's all because of betting.

Celebrity culture is another major factor. Players are now becoming famous for being famous soccer players, like the Kardashians. It's irrelevant if they can play or not.

How many followers you have on Instagram is now more important than how many goals you score.
Of all the places I've hung out online, IRC is still, by far, the very best. It had something to do with the simplicity of it. It had something to do with the organic policing, how channels and voices don't get overrun because it's impossible to understand a conversation after X number of participants (i.e. if too many people chatting, then people leave or silence themselves, like an auto-organic throttle). Of how unique voices and interesting people seemed to bubble to the top simply by the nature of the anonymity and the force of their personalities, of how punishment for bad behavior was carrot or stick and judgement rendered instantly /kick. There was something about the meritocracy of it all. And your name was only so good as your lastest contribution, because you knew that people would remember what you said. You had the power of anonymity, but it regulated itself because you cared about the people you were talking to, because you would develop relationships with them through that anonymity. Those who contributed the most were respected. You weren't competing with NeverEndingWaterfall™ of blah from Facebook, Insta, etc. Yeah, I miss IRC a lot. I know, it's still there, but the privacy and anonymity are all gone, so too the personalities.
Netflix productions do content placement. It's pretty sneaky and they do use social media accounts for shenanigans like fake posts on subreddits asking "What was that jacket in TVShow S03E04?" and another account responding with a link. Big brands with recognizable logos also do product placement on those. For fantasy shows they aim to own the merchandise distribution, but for stuff that happens on the real world there's always product placement and webpage placement and stuff like that going on.
Wouldn't there be an implied consent to routine data collection during a physician visit? A clinician may also make notes on patient appearance or mannerisms that they feel may be relevant to the diagnostic process, not to mention non-invasive tests based on touch.
All I know is that here in the Netherlands, online gambling used to be illegal but it was legalized somewhere last year. Now advertisements for this stuff are also allowed, because "people need to be made aware of the legal offerings" (in contrast to the illegal ones).
Ok. 500 million optional, correct. But it's at ~20$ / vaccine which is the sale price.

FDA requirement was valid for all the contract.

> The U.S. government will pay the companies $1.95 billion upon the receipt of the first 100 million doses, following FDA authorization or approval.

The big giant checks also was not the best decision for other countries. But it was for the US.

By comparison, Israel paid 30$ and could vaccinate the population even faster.
Oakland is fairly densely populated urban area. 30k subscribers is roughly an area of 3 sq miles. It's normal for any type of infrastructure service not have redundancy for it.

I hate Comcast as much as most other people, but this is not something I can blame them for. It's a reasonably sized area for last mile service.
I support several content creators on Patreon because I greatly value their content and want them to continue making it. I realise not everyone is in a position to do so and that is fine.

> If something can be taken for free with no repercussion, most people will take it for free.

This is clearly not true. Netflix found massive success even though it was, and still is, incredibly easy to pirate everything you want to watch. Indie games with poor or non-existent DRM make money on Steam even though pirate copies exist.

Yes, of course there is a loss to piracy. Is that loss greater than what surveillance capitalism is pushing onto us? I doubt it, but you may think otherwise.
Lie detection systems go high-tech
Sorry, I thought it would be self-evident for anyone who listened to the clip. The man shouts endless, provably false nonsense, and when an actual educated person calls in to try to tell him actual facts, he loses his shit, shouts at her and hangs up on her. If anyone is choosing to listen to that, they surely must share that rather loose relationship with reality.
I use CR, but they do miss the target sometimes. They extrapolate a lot between models, sometimes farther than I think is justified by saying they are 'similar'. And occasionally they make really boneheaded recommendations that I just don't understand. On their recommendation I bought a Samsung washer and dryer pair, which both broke within the first 12 months. A bit of research on the appliance forum, and it turns out that all the repair guys say pretty much the same thing -- don't buy Samsung appliances, they're unreliable crap. As someone who owns three Samsung appliances (the third being a refrigerator), I wholeheartedly agree. Never again. Refrigerators are notoriously unreliable regardless of manufacturer, but Samsung really sets the bar pretty low.
ServiceThen, ServiceNow, ServiceTomorrow
I think it would absolutely awesome if somebody on youtube or elsewhere just sort of made up a long video where they explained that Joe got better from COVID because he had worms (possibly). IE, raise the idea in people's heads that Joe is a parasite-infested person. That sounds like absolutely the sort of thing that Joe would be totally OK with.
I've seen this strategy adapted for remote. A friend of mine started using IntelliJ's Code With Me for remote pair programming sessions.

I guess it's possible that if the new hire isn't legit, they might send a better person, but since those sessions were quite regular, plus they were also doing "remote stand-ups", it would be tougher to always be able to send the same replacement and / or not get caught.
Mozilla does all these cool things, and I’m afraid they’re gonna shut it down in a year or two :-/
Those are all great points that you made. However, is it more important to be fair to them or to criticize them for their bad practices? Can you win a fight by being principled, when the other side is fighting dirty? Maybe. Personally, I'd let small errors slide, and look at the larger picture - How the tech world is slowly shifting towards a pay-to-play, rent-seeking, monopolist model. I'm optimistic about the future, and we can still save it. I'm no organizer, but I would focus our efforts on taking down these mega corps that have abused our trust and good-will - to make room for smaller companies to flourish that do believe in doing the right thing.