skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is easy to forget the Snowden moment. Before him releasing the documents, most people in the HN group and in general public would call somebody suggesting such practices of the US goverment as maniac.

Sorry - your argument just do not hold whatever the underlaying question is.

Goverments and most probably the rich can keep the secrets from us, in particular when the topic is complex.
probably just removing numbers etc

dig seattlr.time @dns.toys +short
> I am actually somewhat concerned of the lifetime cumulative risk of specifically Covid-19 vaccinations. Particularly if it becomes standard practice to get a new booster every 6 months for the rest of your life

I think it's valuable to have this public debate in general, and also regarding the quarantine measures. Quarantine measures have been criticized as something of a ratchet that doesn't have anything to do with disease, but rather with authorities controlling the population.

And I guess in some locales that criticism has strong merit. But in my locale, all the extraordinary laws enacted to mandate social distancing, quarantines and so on were rolled back this spring, triggering a big Covid wave that turned out to be (in line with health authority expectations) relatively harmless due to vaccinations and previous exposure. Some businesses struggled with their headcount for a few weeks, but within reason. And the laws weren't re-instated. So I recently caught covid along with seven others at a small party, where someone was coughing without covering their mouth all night and of course no one considered wearing a mask. But this is now all in line with official policy. Literally forbidden one year ago, on multiple counts, in principle punishable with jail but generally fines.

So I do think it's important to follow up on these arguments. It's always a cost-benefit judgement, and it's ultimately a democratic, political question. Not something that can be decided by a bureaucrat. I've always figured that everyone getting booster shots every six months for 30 years sounded almost parodically excessive, but certainly there have been a few voices demanding that.
Computers make a lot of things easier, both oppressive and subversive, just like any other highly versatile tool: hammers, screwdrivers, knives, syringes, duct tape and WD-40.
It's super cool! I saw it in the other thread yesterday. I can't figure out how to resize the linux terminal, was one of the things I noticed.
I remember Lemmy’s devs being adamant on having a hard-coded slur filter (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/622). I think it’s been resolved now — not a great way to go about it though.
Would some of the mentioned drawbacks be solved by having Project Panama's other half be available? What I mean is allocating memory manually, instead of using Java primitive arrays inside the Vector API. Would the (de)serialization overhead be too much for it to be worth it?
If its mostly read then it's fine
Tools define a relationship with the entity being tooled, so you can learn a lot about the goals and values of the transactions by looking at the kinds of relationships that are/aren't implied.

You can't feed people with an AR-15.

The metaphors that define computing are all about abstraction, automation without human input, predictability, and control.

Abstraction tends to lossy and context-insensitive, which is why an algorithm will say "no" to a loan request based on a credit score that ignores personal context, where a human loan manager who knows the people involved might say yes - for good and valid reasons.

Computing seems to be one of the most successful products of modernism, which values speedy predictable repetition, lack of decoration, and anonymised mechanisation.

It's possible to imagine computing in other value systems. But it's revealingly hard to do without losing the essence.

All of which is a complicated way of agreeing - computing is not neutral, and very probably can't be.

It's the first automated value evangelising system in history. And that's not a comfortable thought.
Ah, Princess Alice doesn't check for ethical behaviour it checks for obedience.

This shows that religion could perform a valuable function in a pre-historic human society independent of whether it's true.
It's standard clickbait spam practice, to fit more ads and affiliate links. Just say no and don't scroll down.
> Terms limits are a red herring.

Yes and: Disempowering legislators empowers administrators and lobbyists. Power is zero sum.

I supported term limits until I saw first hand how agency heads run circles around legislators.

Now, I advocate making legislators more powerful, more independent, and therefore less dependent on lobbyists, contributors, and agencies.

Make legislating a real, full time job. More resources for staff, to help mitigate infoglut and provide real constituent services. Etc, etc.

> campaign funding and competitive districts/gerrymandering.

Absolutely. I advocate pretty much all the good government reforms. Public financing of campaigns, approval voting for executive positions, proportional representation for assemblies, restoring fairness doctrine, open government as default (eg something like data.gov for most everything). Etc, etc.

PS-

Lawrence Krubner's blog Demodexio is really good. Dives into nonobvious, nonsexy, common sense fundamental structural reforms for democracy, elections, and policy work.

So far, Krubner's advocacy matches my own experiences and observations. Here's just one great example:

Should the votes from voters combine on a per-issue basis, rather than a per-party or a per-candidate basis? [2022/05/13]
Why did Kenneth Arrow think that Approval Voting would do a better job of bringing to the surface the real concerns of voters?

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/should-the-votes-from-voter...
HN, of course!
I am sorry for the experience, I hope she beats it quickly.

I feel like the secret agenda in the UK is making NHS so bad, people would beg to have some sort of health service, costs a fortune like US but at least cuts the pain.

So, although I understand where you are coming from and the naive belief that they want to improve the service, I think for the politicians it’s not the case. They also don’t have courage to come out and say we want to make NHS private, as it would cost quite a loads of votes.

This is how I am able to explain the service quality, stupid phone calla you need to make and totally inefficient management.
I can totally attest that coffee has multiple psychoactive substances in it. I need at least one good cup a day. Preferably made via the espresso method with 'good' beans. This seems to extract the most 'chemicals'. The satisfaction scale goes down from there. Not so good beans, non steam/pressure extraction method, all don't hit the spot. A good cup of coffee - not so easy...
Side note: Would you put when this article published at the beginning of the article? When clicked on the link it's hard to grasp if it's current or published years go.
I wish there was basic administration for all people living in a city and connect that address to NHS correspondence address. So that the city council and NHS can send me letters without me worrying to go to all governmental institutions to change my address
I certainly have seen with my own eyes a train door "ruthlessly separate a child from his parent". I don't think I've ever seen an adult so distraught. I have also seen with my own eyes a lift door close on the head of an extremely elderly man. These things do happen.
Contempt for all religion is only pushing christian values further. Polytheistic religions incorporated every new Gods, as they all could very well exist. Then a new religion appeared and decided only one god existed and other gods did not. Athon and his clergy then died with the pharaoh pushing him, but around the same time, a new religion appeared in the middle east, led by a certain Moses(weirdly, an Egyptian name given to those destined to a clerical life)(probably an Athon priest imho, but i could be wrong).

Lot of stuff happens, it appears that divine right+monotheism is better than polytheism for population control (reason why and how Islamic faith spread amongst the ruling class of adjacent countries).

Contempt for all religions but the one from the book, and contempt for all religions are not really different. I just decided that .1% is a rounding error when deciding gods existence. I do respect polytheism more.
I once asked a manufacturer of instant coffee and got this reply:

“Moccona Freeze Dried Coffee has approximately 60-80mg/ 250ml cup for every 1 rounded teaspoonful (±2.0g). Our Moccona Decaffeinated Freeze Dried Coffee has less than 0.1% caffeine.”
X10, now there’s a name I have not heard in a while. Shortly after college, I had planned on X10-ing up my whole home for really no good reason other than it being neat and I had watched a video series (pre-YouTube, dvd) on controlling it programmatically. Life happened and I never got around to it. I’m glad I didn’t now lol, I’m sure I’d still have that junk around the house.
Really good LCD you have there, no ghosting..
I think Open Street Map comes close.
Although I am against e-voting for privacy and security reasons, this is a perfectly valid point of view completely under-represented in the mainstream dialogue. It seems that the powers-to-be only vouch for e-voting where they feel confident the status quo is guaranteed and they sell it as "democratization". How about casting an e-vote, or even less, a like-dislike on a bill?

Again, in concept it sounds like a good idea, but I can already imagine the privacy/security implications of such an action be grave, let alone the law like-farms that would surface.
Also worth noting that people at the Internet Archive are paid far less than what people at Wikimedia Foundation are paid.

Internet Archive (2019 figures):

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/943...

169 employees, total salary costs $10.9 million. Average per head: $70K.

Wikimedia Foundation (2019 figures):

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200...

291 employees, total salary costs $55.6 million.

Even if you allow that the WMF salary costs total will include some non-US employees in addition to the 291 US employees, per Schedule F in the Form 990 the non-US employees can at most have numbered 71 and were probably considerably less (many of those 71 will have been independent contractors rather than employees). Even if you assume that all non-US "employees, agents, and independent contractors" in Schedule F were employees whose salaries are included in the $55.6M total, you arrive at a per-head figure of $154K, more than twice the average of Internet Archive.

They are both located in San Francisco.
Economy less based on lies and more based on truth would be win for everyone. The competitive market would be much better.
I doubt that effect would be very strong as the effect of a magic eye massively dominates any feeling we have to notice that our eyes aren't having to do as much of whatever you'd call this lensing work.
Kinda, but Wikipedia is pretty universal, while open street map is limited to Earth.
That's like your opinion dude.
Can you explain how Firefox (or Chrome) knows my location within 20m even if I use a VPN? Brave puts me where I think the VPN exit point is.

For example:

https://wikishootme.toolforge.org/
You sound humble. Perhaps people don't feel the need to attack you for your religion because you're not attempting to cram it down their throat.
> uses of matrices outside of linear algebra do exist.

What do you have in mind here?
Even the quoted fragment is a bit debatable - while the standard does commonly use "JWT" to mean a particular token, the very first sentence is only grammatical if we take JWT to be the name of the standard/format. Otherwise, it's missing an article - it should have been "*A* JSON Web Token (JWT) is [...]" if it were consistently used to refer to individual tokens, not the collective format.
Beyond Cyberpunk! The Web Version
It’s English for me (connecting from Japan), English in settings.
I think the article tells more about the Authors mental health than about computers...
Ten things all languages have in common
Definitely agree. For me these days it's Zig all the way. The flawless and painless C interop is insanely good.
Wow, if anyone can put me in contact with the hiker, I'm a dev from Philly who is also thru hiking, we're just ahead of him. It would be cool to get connected and maybe meet up. Also extremely impressed, this project is amazing, I've just got a lame YouTube channel XD https://youtube.com/channel/UCNdZgXJBLh2E7Z-62MLOMKA
add more inaccurate sensors

The point here is that Tesla have already sold the $10k FSD sensor pack to people and told them that one day in the future a software update will provide FSD, with no additional sensors necessary. Adding more sensors is not an option (well, maybe Tesla will do that for people who bought the upgrade, but it seems unlikely they'd do that for free.)
First direct evidence of isolated stellar mass black hole roaming the Milky Way
The WHO and it's director has an enormous amount of centralised global power on this matter, which anyone would argue is ridiculously dangerous and disproportionate, especially considering how many scandals and investigations the WHO have already had due to funding from private corporations and pharma companies.

And the fact that they simply changed the definition of what a pandemic is, seemingly on a whim, to no longer include death rates, with no scientific intervention, is that something we should accept as some kind of perfect and neutral decision making that's obviously in the interest of.. whom exactly?
Ask HN: Importance af attraction for long-term relationship?
I'm dating my best friend. We have amazing fun together, but I don't find her that attractive. I often catch myself looking at other women, which feels like a bad sign for a healthy long-term relationship with her. On the other hand, I don't think I could find anyone who I'd enjoy everyday life as much with.
I absolutely love the smell of coffee.

However, I don't enjoy drinking it in particular. I like it with a lot of milk and I find the taste of some coffee varieties quite interesting, enjoyable even. But not enough for daily drinking.
In the US the risk of dying (in 2016) was between 0.8 and 2 fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles driven [1]. This doesn't even include serious injury of external death and injury (ie to cyclists and pedestrians, which is significant). Commutes are generally recorded as minutes per day but this estimate [2] suggests 41 miles per day is the average. That's almost 10,000 miles per year.

So just from driving to and from work the approximate risk of dying every year is approximately 1 in 10,000.

"Myocarditis" here isn't a disease or even necessarily a negative outcome. It is quite literally heart inflammation. That could be a risk factor for actual medical issues or it might not. Note that getting Covid-19 is a risk factor for myocarditis [3] so any alleged risks from a vaccine have to be compared to the risks associated with getting the disease the vaccine mitigates or even prevents.

But logic, facts and statistics here just don't matter. As you see from comments on this thread and any similar thread, any skerrit of evidence of a risk of myocarditis inevitably results in comments that can be boiled down to "see! we told you! even before we had any evidence!" These claims are peppered with (meaningless) personal anecodtes and cherry-picked VAERS data. Side note: VAERS is a voluntary unfiltered reporting system. You can quite literally report to VAERS "the vaccine killed me".

At this point we've administered billions of vaccine doses. The fact that we're still having this conversation about the vaccine killing people is a sad testament to human psychology and wanting to believe something in the complete absence of any evidence to the contrary.

I also now we'll be hearing about this until the next pandemic. Covid vaccines get compared to the "safe" existing vaccines but all of those vacciens were treated with the same skepticism and baseless conspiracy theories when they came out. The only thing that eliminated that opposition was the next pandemic.

Remember how we used to constantly hear about the links between MMR and autism? Covid means that's been completely forgotten and the same will happen with Covid.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...

[2]: https://itstillruns.com/far-americans-drive-work-average-744...

[3]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33088905/
Who would have ever thought the Atheist's Nightmare would have so many other uses?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4yBvvGi_2A
Sunlight exposure has been shown to be protective of eyesight, and we spend more time indoors focusing on screens.

The timespan is too short for evolution to have had a considerable impact.
> but then people remember that they want to get work done...

> cool, but ultimately not very useful

You know when you put it like that you're right and it's probably the reason why many choose macOS or Windows just to get their work done rather than switching around system components or essentially doing things in order to get things done i.e play around with their OS.

This isn't 2009 and generally it is not early days for the Linux Desktop and we are still trying to find alternatives of alternatives just to get it working. Instead we have yet another compositor demo with shiny effects that are a distraction and basically gets in the way.

So yes, not at all very useful in general.
Someone who was interested in uncovering the truth, you'd look beyond the headline (https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-health/m...), and realize that that "study" isn't a study, its as far as I can tell not actually peer reviewed at all. It's widely criticized for being a terrible and misleading application of statistics.

It doesn't pass the smell test (it would imply that more than 1/3 of deaths in hospitals are due to medical errors, which is, suffice to say, silly), but is highly enthralling, as it allows one to believe they're better than the experts.

Which isn't to say medical personnel are perfect or don't make mistakes, but it is to say that if you believe that study, you should really reevaluate both how you analyze medical studies, because you're doing a bad job of it, and reevaluate your worldview, and see if you're aiming to be different solely to be different.
> I.e. everyone is treated equally, which is an ideal under the rule of law

Sure it's branded as an ideal in our profoundly corrupt societies. But would "equal treatment" bring equality? In this system, we are all free to own a castle or to work 12h/day in the mines from the age of 8. But however impartial the treatment of individuals the system is still meant for profound inequality and exploitation.

Of course i agree that at least here in France we are very very far off impartial treatment. Like you pointed out, the rich, the powerful and the cops are above the law and we lower people can get abused by the judicial system in many ways. I'm just trying to say that being impartial (or as the op says, ruthless) does not imply fairness.

Capitalist impartiality still means billions of people starving and working the fields/mines/factories to maintain the cheap throwaway lifestyle of urban modernity. And yes, this state of things and the neoliberalisation of everything very much relies on computers. I think calling "oppression" is not a far stretch, but rather an understatement.

On the history of computer oppression, you can do reading about "micro-management" and "bossware", and the restructuration of factories/administrations from the 80s to this day. Computers were and are an irreplaceable tool to enforce stupid policies that ruin the life and health of many working folks and the people they're supposed to serve.
He's not the only Google engineer to believe we're uncomfortably close:

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/06/09/artificia...

Given how vibrant the academic/philosophical discussions of AI and consciousness have been for decades now, it's anti-intellectual to pretend there are any obvious answers.

We're headed towards a dilemma where most scientists claim categorically that a given AI/robot is non-conscious, but most layment think it is. If robots start behaving and talking like in Detroit: Become Human, won't people react with sympathy? Who cares if the behavior is purely imitative and non-conscious, how could we tell the difference?

Read this, and tell me honestly that you can objectively, beyond a shadow of any doubt make a conclusion either way: https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-inte...
Off the top of my head, adjacency matrices in graph theory.
I guess I should thank my mom and her well-done steaks for my decent jaw and relative lack of dental issues.
I did a very healthy 2 year complete abstinence from coffee and it did my sleeping very well. I've been able to go back to controlled amounts of coffee since.
"Healthy" isn't something that's immediately obvious, and it's entirely possible you're not as healthy as you think. I was running half marathons with undiagnosed stage 4 kidney disease, which by the classification we had in Canada, would have put me at the highest risk for severe outcomes of COVID.
Exactly. That's why published articles about racial discrimination at the workplace do contain evidence. Hell, the last on i read contained transcripts of recorded discussions, transcripts of Whatsapp discussions, and still commenters were like 'its not a proof that the police is racist'.
All of them. Just set the background element in HTML and use these to draw over it. Look at the historical kitchen with overlaid dots on the page at https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/
Because it’s not a common figurative use of the word pandemic.
Genius!

A "gateway" study to justify a larger, more scientifically thorough, and therefore much more expensive, study in which grant money is necessarily spent on lots of coffee!
I think that's precisely what the parent comment was being ironic about. We built industry to evade natural conditions, but through mass industrialization and planned obsolescence we're actually pushing nature to eradicate us all (and millions of other species alongside). Aren't you two saying the same thing?
> Also they have the best return policy. If you don’t like it, send it back and they will reimburse you without asking a single question.

Sometimes I forget how good we have it in Europe. In the EU we have a pretty close to universal [0] 14 day no questions asked return period for all online purchases. You occasionally get a crappy retailer who tries to push back but one link to this document stops that pretty quickly.

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/c...
> We have something that can talk intelligently, but might be doing it mechanistically. ...how do we even tell in that case?

But how do we tell that our own intelligence isn't actually purely mechanical?
I use WACUP, no issues at all.
That is covered by the case of negative prices.
Going off the app's reviews, it barely helps.
See also Peopleware chapter 12: Bring back the door.

The current open plan offices are insanely wastefull if you want any kind of productivity.

So if you have this kind of problem, it means the people above you don't care about your productivity.
Dude, you can borrow stuff from other people, you know? Like, gaming consoles I wouldn't ever buy myself? That concept completely unfamiliar to you?
>>If people eat more meat then are we supposed to talk about "tall people epidemic", because the average height of most people increase?

Have you not heard about the "obesity epidemic"?
To be fair, it's not the doctors doing the feeding; it's the hospital administrators who are almost always business folks representing the interests of the shareholders (increasingly, PE firms).

Hospitals are glorified hotels with super over-priced roomservice and activities. But the business model is very similar.