skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Barack Obama included Patrick Deneen’s “Why Liberalism Failed” (2018) in his annual list of recommended books; meanwhile, Vladimir Putin has gleefully pronounced liberalism “obsolete.” The right accuses liberals of promoting selfish individualism and crass materialism at the expense of social cohesion and cultural identity. Centrists claim that liberals’ obsession with political correctness and minority rights drove white voters to Donald Trump. For the newly resurgent left, the rise of demagoguery looks like payback for the small-government doctrines of technocratic neoliberalism—tax cuts, privatization, financial deregulation, antilabor legislation, cuts in Social Security—which have shaped policy in Europe and America since the eighties.

Liberalism according to the New Yorker doesn’t seem too preoccupied by disambiguating wildly different concepts assigned the same term. Of these, probably the most overlapping are the Obama, Putin and supposedly “resurgent left”—but as a leftist I generally encounter criticism much closer to those attributed to either the right or centrists.

I’m not sure there’s much value continuing to read the article, it’s already so incoherent.

So I’ll just observe what’s coherent: liberalism, as identified by Obama and Putin and (to an extent) the “left” is a governing organizational principle. Its hallmarks are basically the intersection of republican and libertarian (the state is not autocratic, its purpose is to wield only so much power as necessary to ensure it continues to wield only that much power, no more and no less). Obama and Putin rightly observe that that model of government is failing. The “left” insofar as it’s the progressive end of the mainstream is understandably fixated on the inevitable laissez faire aspect of this principle and its capture.

The incoherent parts: characterization of the center and right are accurate portrayals of their reaction… to some other concept of liberalism that more closely reflects internal politics where “liberal” means something like “center-right” on a cultural spectrum, and has almost nothing to do with the concept of liberalism the Economist is historically concerned with. Not to “whatabout” this incoherency, but the actual left is almost entirely firmly on the other side of this cultural divide, much moreso than it concerns itself with historical liberalism. (To our detriment, I’ll add.)

Edit to add: we’re on the correct side of the divide, the detriment is our lack of concern for historical liberalism. I hope I’m wrong, but I suspect we’ll soon find ourselves on the wrong end of illiberalism while being on the right moral side of history.
I'm curious to your baseline here: my experience with cabs in San Francisco is/was that they would just drive off if you had a wheelchair, whereas Uber/Lyft drivers were already committed, so would follow through. Same for coming out to certain locations. I'm guessing this has far more to do with the norm about drivers being penalised for excessive cancellations/refusing trips, and riders ability to provide direct feedback.
Or we halt the research until computational models become viable. You make it seem like we have no choice but to test on animals. I’m sure that is how the researchers rationalize it to themselves.
I understand if you think we're too fragile to hear the word "cult", but the way you chose to obscure it is... not an improvement.
> It is clear that parents in AZ want babysitting over an actual education for their children.

More accurately: there is a landed (or otherwise wealthy) class in AZ that would rather not pay for public institutions they don't see the need for.

The average parent in Arizona is probably a reasonable human being who wants the best for their own children and the other children in their district. Very few would probably voluntarily sign onto a scheme where their childrens' education is scraped from the bottom of the hiring barrel; it's overwhelmingly a function of political alienation, civic illiteracy, and decades of disenfranchisement efforts.
Not just PRISM: Apple has actually been (presumably) forced to not publish e2e encryption software that the feds didn't want deployed, an example of prior restraint that is blatantly unconstitutional.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
Searching for "by:dang <typical moderation phrase>" is a handy way for seeing what actions are taken, in what circumstances, and why.

I'll admit to tailing dang's comments periodically, or searching for specific terms when people challenge / inquire about my own takes on comments. (Most often in the case of dupe / non-dupe article submissions, occasionally others.)
Hey don’t try it if it sounds too scary to you. I was sharing my routine because the @TekMol asked about it, not suggesting it for anyone else. @angelbar’s audiobook suggestion is a good one; I do that too sometimes. And sometimes I do language lessons while walking instead of books or podcasts or movies.

For me, it’s very enjoyable and I can watch a movie; it isn’t hard to pay enough attention, and it isn’t dangerous at all. Never had a Netflix walk injury of any kind or any close calls, and I’ve had loads of minor scratches, slips, falls, bumps, rolled ankles, sunburns, etc. etc., while hiking in the mountains and paying full attention. Mountain hiking is much more dangerous than walking in the city looking at an iPad half the time (and I wouldn’t call mountain hiking ‘dangerous’).
Do you actually believe China?
Here's a better question, why 25+ students?

You have 2 minutes per student in the average class. That hamstrings the future of a state or country more surely than having worse teachers.
Is trying to convince you in-and-of-itself a mistake? Or just the approach used?
How do you know this to be true? From a cursory search it looks like 95% of lawsuits for personal injury never make it to trial, so the judiciary is never involved in the vast majority of cases.

Of the 5% that do make it to trial, only 56% of them result in any award for the plaintiff and if you look at the breakdown [1], that's because of auto accidents which can hardly be said to be a case of "blame is laid on the person who has money", especially when you look at how much money is awarded in such claims.

Premises injuries has only a 39% success rate.

Product liability has a 38% success rate.

Medical malpractice has only a 19% success rate.

What do you know about the judiciary that leads you to your claim?

[1] https://www.cloudlex.com/tips-and-tricks/personal-injury-cas...
Haha, yes, and that would be pretty deranged given that the Korean ultra-right/fascist movement is very supportive of Japanese fascism, no matter how loudly it denies, downplays, or asks to be thanked for atrocities committed against Koreans. And that includes the vast majority of nutty religious sects.

Edit: or to translate, the scandal would be "concern that fascist politician, might not be fascist enough" with an emphasis on "might" since it would be pure speculation
> whether masks with holes orders of magnitude larger than the airborne virus particles they are supposed to stop are effective

N95 masks work due to a dipole charge, not necessarily because of the mechanical filtration size.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7724761/
You could've stopped them by breaking off the plastic covering the read-only hole, it would have prevented writing to the tape. And, then when you were using the tape and wanted to write to it you could cover it with adhesive to make it writable again. As long as they weren't aware they could do the same, your tapes would have been safe. Because, the moment they went to record over it they'd think the tapes were defective or not compatible.
As I've responded elsewhere in this subthread, a good top-level post can often succeed in gathering enough votes / mod attention to float up.

Probably not on the busiest posts (though those are something of a conversational lost cause already), but on most typical discussions without excessive comments, yes.
Valve is obviously right. You don't own any games sold to you. You don't own any commercial, proprietary software sold to you. On only have ever been a license holder. You own that license but are restricted by the license. IE. the same thing that keeps from from making copies and selling them is used to let them shut down the required servers whenever it stops being profitable.

If you don't like this then stop using proprietary software.
Almost all APIs are TLS-encrypted these days, leaking only the hostname to which the client is connecting (via SNI which is as yet unencrypted).

This is not to say you're not being surveilled (as to which apps you use, etc) but there is relatively little unencrypted traffic coming out of most devices in 2022.
In my market I can now get an taxi in more consistent time than an Uber. It seems drivers don’t get matched in a timely manner. Unfortunately I was using Uber primarily because of how fast it arrived previously, but the driver numbers fell off a lot during Covid, between some drivers churning out, not wanting to wear masks, and or switching to Uber eats.

Sometimes I wish I could just “even though there is so surge, I would gladly pay a 2x surge to just get a car to arrive here within the next 30 minutes”.
Collaboration implies underlying work. Something the collaborators are doing together in addition to talking. The vast majority of the talking in my corporate environment either has no such referent, or is a one-sided accounting of the work you are doing up to someone whose job it is to allocate your time or supervise that work, not to personally advance it with you.

A good litmus test is what someone's calendar looks like. People who are in wall to wall meetings every day (managers, Staff+ engineers, TPMs, etc) can never, properly speaking, collaborate, since there is no time where they could be doing the work being collaborated on. They have coordination and supervisory functions that may be valuable, even indispensable, but what they do is different from collaboration.
I believe that you are entirely correct. One of the big lessons-learned is that the response should have been: "N95s work. They are very important. If you hoard them, healthcare professionals will die. Please donate your extras to your nearest hospital."

I saw firsthand, working with findthemasks.com, just how many people came to that conclusion on their own and rapidly aggregated and donated as many N95s as they could.

It is bonkers to me that we're not all wearing N95s by default until case-rates really come down, but I have accepted that our current state is the way of the world.
2nd Weather Squadron ‘Listens’ to the Sun as It Approaches Peak of 11-Year Cycle
> The average parent in Arizona is probably a reasonable human being who wants the best for their own children and the other children in their district.

You assume the average person gives much thought to their kids education at all beyond whining about the taxes to pay for it.
Chess.com has a measurement for how accurate a player plays compared to top engine moves called Computer Aggregated Precision Score (or "CAPS"), and top humans do play incredibly accurately. Magnus has CAPS of 98.36 for example.

https://www.chess.com/article/view/who-was-the-best-world-ch...
> and would often refuse to go where passengers want

This happens to me all the time with Uber when I land at LAX and want to go to Anaheim or I’m in SF and want to go to San Jose.

And unlike a taxi, half the time Uber charges me $5 claiming that I ghosted the driver rather than them refusing to take me, something I don’t always catch.
> Our findings contribute to a growing body of literature which suggests school-based mask mandates have limited to no impact on the case rates of COVID-19 among K-12 students.

I’m glad that public health officials are actually doing this research and publishing these conclusions. Maybe I’ve gotten cynical, but I was worried that there would be limited retrospection about positions taken during the pandemic given the political sensitivities.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26091085
If both SSD's are from the same lot number and one fails, the chances of the second failing go up by a high amount. Both failing at the same time though is extremely rare.
You don't own physical games either, well besides the physical plastic. You're purchasing a license to use it, this is how all software/music/movies work. They have the ability to revoke that license at any time.
Absolutely NOT.

Appeasing the bully or tyrant leads only to more of the same. From the tyrant's perspective, what they did worked (gial achieved) and the opponents indicated that they are OK with it. Thus, they should try the next step they want.

The reason this invasion happened was because there was no real push-back to the Crimea invasion.

When would you propose that we start fighting back instrad of allowing Russia ti annex ever more - when Lithuania and Poland are being bombed? Berlin & Frankfurt? Paris? London? DC?
That’s not how it works.

You could illegally film someone else’s arrest closer than 8ft.

When the cops arrests you (unlikely it’s a misdemeanor) you’re free to film your own interaction.
> But they didn't. Because those places weren't just unprofitable but were wildly unprofitable.

Uber as a company is "wildly unprofitable" across the board. I cracked open Uber's 2021 annual report, and I'm not sure they are profitable anywhere. Their revenue model really appears to support the notion they are simply displacing taxi operators, "23% of mobility bookings came from 5 cities..." and listed only NYC and Chicago in the US.It went on to say that 11% of mobility bookings came from airports (and that revenue stream was under attack from the taxi industry).

> However, it won't be venture capital profitable.

I've never had a VC ask for profits. Only growth where revenue and expenses would show we could trim the sails and break even in a pinch. Since Uber is publicly traded, I suspect they are going to have to do better than an annual report that basically projects profitability like I do winning the lottery.
It seems more likely it was four drives (though dang and Mike both refer to "two" in the earlier thread).

Both primary and failover servers had RAID arrays. I suspect RAID 10 (striped mirror), which would mean two drives would have to fail to take down a single server.

Four drives of the same manufacturer spec and batch would do that.
It is now. We don't know when this person's Mom was giving the advice.
I don't know what it was like in Phoenix, but in the city I live in -- and frankly most cities I've visited in north america(1) -- price has never been a motivating factor in uber vs. taxis.

It's always been that taxis don't come when I need them. Sometimes they're fine if you're at a bar and a cab will come by for hailing because they know business will be there, but if you're carless and need to get somewhere at a particular time cabs have always been a nightmare.

I've called to get a cab to come pick me up and then waited 2 hours while dispatch couldn't find a cab to come because they were all too busy picking up opportunistic rides. I've never had an experience anything like that with uber or lyft.

I would -- and now that the money train has dried up for uber a bit, do -- pay as much for an uber as I did before for a cab, except now the uber actually comes. In my particular city most cab drivers also aren't union, and they pay to rent their cars for their shifts from the people who own the plates. Most of the protest of uber coming to town was from cab owners (some operators, but many not) who were using their license as a retirement plan.

I recognize that the drivers were put in a tough spot, and most of this isn't their fault, but things were deeply broken before, and they still are. But I think there's a lot of rose tinted glasses going on here, and people who needed cabs were often literally left out in the cold by the way things were.

(1) Pretty much the only city I've ever had good experiences with cabs is NYC.
They don't always stick to it. From LAX airport, it was showing an initial price of say $30, and then "looking for drivers" spinner goes on for 2-3 min. Then they "found" one that is more expensive, say $45, which you can accept to get "faster" service. Hint: you will have to wait ages to get that initial price, if at all.

Uber has become much more shitty AND much more expensive in the last years. Same with Lyft. I have a tingly feeling Lyft and Uber has struck a deal behind the curtain to not tread on each other, or fix prices.
Lol, have you been to college? I studied computer science, my wife studied natural resources and then got a degree in education.

First, colleges, at not the top ranked research schools aren’t about teaching. They’re about research. You’re expected to learn in your own, else why else have competitive admissions?

Second, my wife’s teaching degree, though supposedly highly ranked, was a joke, coming after her degree in natural resources. She was cruised by with a 4.0, and even so, was constantly dinged for things like not using enough colors in sticky-note bookmarks or highlights, not highlighting enough, etc. It was an absolute joke. She absolutely didn’t learn to teach either.

Can anyone teach? No, but a college degree isn’t the metric either. It is however a barrier to entry that keeps poorer people from joining the profession and also reinforces that institutional accolades are the mark of success, when really they are no such thing - they are an indicator of future success. Requiring four year degrees results in watering down degrees and erasing such indicators.
Your first paragraph describes Instagram's algorithmic feed or YouTube suggestions just as well. The original sin IMHO is not killing algorithmic feeds in the crib with regulation. I don't get how companies can continue to claim immunity from liability under section 230 when they actively curate user feeds to maximize their commercial interests.
Only if it was supporting a muslims/chinese/palestinians who are known for their vociferous support of the republican party?

I mean, these groups tend to be ultra-right wing and the Korean ultra-right are very supportive of the japanese ultra-right wing, like Abe, who is grandson of Nobusuke Kishi, "the devil of manchuria" and thinks grandpa was a lovely guy.

Edit: Nobusuke, not Nobuo, Nobuo is the other grandson who is defence minister. My bad.
Well, iphones have also only existed since little before Uber came around.

The reason that was the only way cabs were available because those were the only communication technologies available.

Maybe what you should be demanding is that cab services provide apps so you don't have to hail/call, etc. There are several companies that can provide this for your cab jurisdiction area as a third party service and they won't price gouge the cab drivers and/or the customers, and they won't use illegal threats and bribes to change laws to suit their needs.
> It's medieval 'science': They usually have no evidence of their accuracy,

I mean, not really. The difference between human and computer chess play-styles is well-documented, to the extent that in the earlier days of chess engines, human chess disciplines were developed to counter the way computers play ("anti-computer chess").
He was in charge of the testing program at some level. He wasn't purely a pilot.
What is the age range of the kids they are teaching? This would make sense for kindergarten- not so much for Middle School.
Isn't this exactly what they said about porn?

Last I checked - everyone's doing alright.
This was over 20 years ago now, but some classmates of mine in high-school made an RTS, and my vague memory of the alpha version is that it used a triangle grid, but it's possible that just the terrain was generated that way.
Maybe it's too demanding to run on a devices with very little cooling and power? Just a guess
However the firm grip on Haiti and Latin America in general is not gone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Bertrand_Aristide
This assumes that you can't have fun while cheating

You can, but the fun will be different because the challenges are different.

The cheaters aren't playing chess, but some other unnamed game
So the C+C Music Factory was right?

The music takes control, your heart and soul
Unfold, your body is free and a whole
Dance till you can't, dance till you can't dance no more
Get on the floor and get raw
Then come back and upside down
Easy now, let me see ya
Move (let your mind)
Groove (put me on line)
The music is my life

As far as sitting here at this desk, waiting for the bubble in my right eye to go away... jamming out to music on Youtube is one of the most relaxing parts of the wait.
Espionage for the sake of espionage isn't useful. But if you're collecting lots and lots of data about what people like and what makes them angry and you have a direct line to feed them whatever information you want, having tens of millions of targets for opinion-influencing content is a very powerful tool for a state actor.
In Canada they've barely even broken out of Toronto.
I've done some work adjacent to this. Not this project, not with microsoft. By internal network size they probably mean people you have a lot of traffic with in meetings and emails. Presuming they're competent they probably only look at interactions with small groups or 1:1. By collaboration they just mean meetings with coworkers.

Without having read in detail, its likely just drawing correlations between communication metrics and survey results.

Lots of companies are paralyzed big their meeting culture. It's not really a surprise to anyone. But the data can paint it a bit more clearly if people don't know quite how to articulate the problem. It's pretty much always the same in a large org.
> I lived in a "not quite wrong, not quite right" neighborhood where there was plenty of wealthy young people but it was also close to the "wrong" part of town...and when I tried using the service, it'd be 20 minutes to get a ride and usually at least one cancellation. In the "right" part of town? A quarter of the wait, and never a canceled pickup.

Is it possible fewer people were calling Ubers from that part of town, so there were fewer drivers there? Whereas the wealthier part of town was busier? Drivers go where they are called more frequently, hence the shorter wait time in the other part of town. What do you propose Uber do differently here, force drivers to idle in less busy parts of town?

“I had to wait twenty minutes for a ride” what’s your complaint here, that Uber is evil and transphobic, or that you’re upset a livery servant doesn’t show up the moment you snap your fingers? This “I had to wait 20 minutes for a ride” complaint shows a really entitled and self centered attitude.

I’m really curious what you think Uber should do differently in that case, and why you were calling Ubers at all if they’re so evil and taxis are just as good. The last point really makes me scratch my head.
Idk why but join via GitHub killed me haha
How to tell if someone has trained a model on your data
Even if you think that's insurmountable problem there's an easy solution: Pay the French to build and operate them, they already do that for other foreign customers.

But look at France's portion of nuclear at the start of the 70s, then the 90s. There's no reason except political will that Germany couldn't do the same.
What this article is dancing around is: Our employees are doing fuck all or just enough and we have managed to create an environment that actively encourages this behaviour.

You'd (not) be surprised how often this happens. $BIG_TECH hire people clever enough to look after themselves as well as their employer.

Now, what makes people happy? This doesn't:

https://hbr.org/2022/06/why-microsoft-measures-employee-thri...?
Steam isn't the guilty party in this nonsensical bullshit, Ubisoft is. Steam allows you to list titles with zero DRM, zero Steamworks integration, or zero online components just fine.