skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're acting like he hasn't had public outbursts before...

Ya know.

"George Bush doesn't care about Black People".

"Taylor, I'ma let you finish..."

MBDTF came out in 2010. That was around the beginning of social media entering the mainstream (Kanye joined Twitter in July 2010).

So up until MBDTF, he didn't have a device in his pocket that allowed him to broadcast his unfiltered thoughts to millions of people. Up until that point, his public image was likely carefully managed by his label and management. All of his interviews were probably overseen by them. They likely only allowed interviews where he was asked pre-approved questions and gave canned answers. If he went too far off script, his label likely stepped in.

It's clear now that he has a lot more freedom with handling his own image. He's been signed to his own label since 2016 which probably afforded him a lot more power over his career. He had a few moments prior to 2016 but he didn't really go off the deep until 2017.

TLDR: what you saw as stable behavior prior to 2017 or so was probably the result of a curated image created by his label and management.
I enjoyed it a while ago when I read it but it was hard to get through at times. some of it is pseudo-philosophical ramblings of a man during a mental breakdown and you have to accept it as not entirely making sense. Don't try to understand every thought he has. That said, not everyone has to enjoy it.
>Failing to pay a debt is illegal.

okay but how is that relevant to this discussion? if the state refuses to assist in debt collection, it effectively makes failing to pay debts legal, which seems to be what you want?
> I don’t know the “official” name for it, so I just stole the name from a recent reddit post (magical handler functions).

I’d want a term mentioning that it’s type- or signature-guided or -driven. “Magical” is way too non-specific. How about “signature-driven handler functions”? Seems both accurate and fairly clear.
> The touchscreen in front of my android greeter allowed me to check in with a cellphone number, but my jet-lagged brain forgot to start with the country code. The computer didn’t recognize my number. The robot, now impassive, was no help.

This is the kind of stuff that makes robot/computer customer service bad. If you fall into the normal use case, it's fine, but if you need anything unusual or you make a mistake, the escape hatch is always to get a real human, so you've now wasted time.

On top of that, it's often much slower than human service. Lots of fast food restaurants have a ordering touchscreen kiosks now, there are some advantages, but ultimately it's a much slower experience because the interface is much less efficient than talking to a human who's using a dedicated piece of hardware that they're trained on.
The short answer is it's complicated.

The longer answer is...

There are 2 sections we care about. The first (203(c)1) defines platforms as not being publishers so they're not liable (civilly) for content. That means they don't HAVE to moderate.

But that leaves a problem. As soon as you start moderating, you become a publisher whether you like it or now.

So there is ALSO 230(c)2

>Section 230(c)(2) further provides "Good Samaritan" protection from civil liability for operators of interactive computer services in the good faith removal or moderation of third-party material they deem "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected."

That lets platforms moderate and censor if they want to AND STILL NOT GET SUED when their moderation is not perfect.

Platforms probably have c1 rights anyway, courts ruled on that before 230 was enacted (section 230 is the remains of a bigger law that was ruled unconstitutional because it didn't respect the free press aspects enough)

So without section 230, platforms have 2 options: no moderation OR moderate but eat a tonne of liability.

Section 230 let's them have the best of both worlds: remove things AND don't be held responsible for things you didn't remove.

I should have been clearer that it was c2 that I was referring to.

If c2 were repealed, most platforms would have to stop all moderation. HN would be gone as we know it.

Messy enough?

In theory we could repeal the whole thing, but that has much the same effect as just repealing c2: companies close their user created content or get sued into oblivion by any lawsuit happy citizen.

You can see how this turns into political talking points and mis understandings very easily about how section 230 is both critical the free speech and against free speech and stops companies and enables them depending on the agenda of the speaker...
Funny, this covers a lot from my post below (https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=33234667&goto=item%3Fi...)... you cannot have zero trust, its really about less trust of the network (at least in the case of ZTNA). I wish we could go back in time and change the term.
Obviously not essential, but NFL tickets no longer have a paper option. It is app-only.
The paragraph you referenced is wholly dependent on one paper:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9385200
and in particular on the supplementary materials.

Referencing table S9 (for children) in the appendix/supplementary there are only four categories of illness where the p values are still possibly meaningful after correction: cognitive deficits, epilepsy or seizures, intracranial hemorrhage, insomnia

The two common conditions, cognitive deficits and insomnia, are only significant because of the arbitrary follow-up period selected of six months. If you examine the charts shown in Figure S1 in the same appendix, you can see that cognitive deficit has no long-term effect, and that actually COVID-19 seems to be protective in the longest term (as is the case with anxiety). This to me is suggestive of the fact that social aspects/expectations are dominating the reported symptoms for these common experiences. None of the symptoms, even insomnia, are quantified.

I can't find if/where they break it out by sub-classification but they seem to lump together real measurements of cognitive deficit with self-reports of brain fog. Similarly anxiety is not well-quantified.

For intracranial hemorrhage and seizures the effect is more pronounced, but as you can probably infer from the pixelation of the charts in S1 for these two, the sample sizes here (children with these symptoms), are tiny, and so the results are underpowered. If I wanted to keep looking this is the only avenue I'd consider.

As far as effects in other populations, they compare e.g. sinusitis and laryngitis on equal footing with lung infections resulting in hospitalization and possibly ventilation for COVID-19. That to me suggests there is the problem of confounding based on the impacts of reduced perfusion and oxygenation of brain tissues due to actual major lung infections that is more present in the COVID-19 data than the control dataset. A respiratory infection for this purpose ought to be something that can seriously impact perfusion and brain oxygenation -- they don't seem to have realized that and instead used "respiratory infections" without further qualification.

The Taquet et al study is the best study I've seen on it and I'm still totally unconvinced this is anything beyond hypoxic brain injury (and only minorly so -- in most survivors it seems to be primarily fear, hypochrondria or provider nudging).
Apparently the link's now dead?
Went to restaurant yesterday without paper menus. Just a QR code on the table that redirects to the website.
How does it work?

1. Celsius calls up Tether and asks for $30Bn to buy Bitcoins.

2. Tether says, sure, prints 30 Bn USDT out of thin air, gives it to Celsius, and Celsius uses that to buy Bitcoins.

3. Celsius collects a bunch of money from retail investors.

4. Celsius steals all the Bitcoins and files for bankruptcy - and, oopsie, the retail investors lose everything.

The Celsius insiders obviously get something out of this. They got Bitcoins for nothing. They can and did sell those Bitcoins for the miniscule fiat liquidity that exists for Bitcoin.

What does Tether get? They're printing funny money out of thin air. Sure, it doesn't cost them anything. But they have to know that none of that funny money is going to get paid back with real money.

So why lend Tethers to someone else, so they can sell Bitcoins for real money - instead of just printing Tethers for themselves to capture all fiat inflows?
Well after Unipers bailout by Germany (99% ownership) and Unipers majority ownership of one nuclear power plant in Sweden (minority in the other two).
How much of it is covered with Corexit 9500 and 9527? (courtesy of BP)
sorry my brain read "VLC" as "VNC" and I was thinking you were watching videos over remote desktop LOL
Google word master seen in Germany
When just opening Google on my phone, I saw they are leveraging their user base again to label images and translate words. Looked pretty gamified with points you could score etc, named "Wortmeister".

I wonder if that part of data mining or collecting labeled training data hasn't been completed from the early captcha and recaptcha years already? Filling up the gaps? Verifying the status quo? Maybe they test adoption to implement other content types?

Any ideas?

Edit: just found out it has been around for quite some time.

However I leave my thoughts here in case someone else is confronted with it for the first time ever, just like me.
Even the “f -“ option is unneeded as the default is to stream to stdout. Though it’s always a bit scary to not explicitly specify the destination in case your finger slips and the first target is itself a writeable file.
How to Stop Worrying and Love Front End Dev
> Solar and wind aren't 'flexible' though, they are unreliable. You don't get to choose when they start and stop, even for solar predicting sun during the day isn't reliable due to random clouds cutting out 80% of incoming light.

They're both.

When they are able to generate power, they can turn on and off on a moment's notice. Nuclear and coal plants often need hours for a significant change in output.
The pacific's radiation levels have increased by about 0%. The total releases from all of Fukushima was on the order of 30 PBq. Water has a natural radioactivity of 13 Bq/L. So, if you want to only double the natural radioactivity of water (which is still basically nothing), you need to dilute ask this radiation in 2e15 L of water.

The entire pacific is 7.10e20 L of water. Even the area around Japan is thousands of times more liters of water. To give you an idea, in 2011, 41% of caught marine species on the coast of Fukushima had Cs137 concentrations higher than the normal limits (100bq/kg, which is still really damn low). In 2015, that was 0.05%

So, no, the pacific doesn't give a damn about Fukushima. And so do the people. You're exposed to about 2100Bq in a year.
For "every day" fashion, the game is given away by the cyclical nature of fashion trends. What's popular today is approximately what was popular 20 years ago. It's a game of maintaining constant demand for new stuff in an industry where almost all of the practical problems were solved a century ago.

High fashion is obviously a completely different beast. Something that has been pointed out to me recently is how "folk fashion" which focused on meticulous details like beading and cross-stitching was largely the pursuit of women, while modern "high fashion" that involves conceptual flourishes that are relatively simple to produce is more dominated by men. I'm not really sure what to make of this observation yet, but it is interesting.

The treatment of workers in both "every day" fashion and high fashion is deplorable as well and is hard to look past if you're trying to keep an open mind.
Years ago I talked to a guy who worked there and at that time they were using VB6. I am sure it has changed now. Anyway I read that Epic sue TCS because some of the contractors from TCS stole its code.
"Discriminating" against the oil industry
The person holding the last 'dollar' in the 'dollar' Ponzi is the US Government. The person holding the last 'dollar' in the 'tether' Ponzi is a shady businessman who won't reveal his books.

Which one would you rather owe you?
> I mean the way people do things within the law.

The examples considered that: gambling, collecting interest, price gouging, underpaying workers, supporting laws to undermine competitors.
Quite apart from what others have pointed out regarding the "hidden" feature that isn't, I had homebrew development systems for both Acorn Atom, C64, ZX Spectrum and a few other machines that effectively banked the RAM. There was the main 48KB of RAM on the Speccy, and a further 128KB in banks that stored the assembly program, the editor, and other tools in a protected space. The 16KB ROM was swapped out for a custom blown 16KB EEPROM that performed the copy from banked RAM to the Spectrum's main RAM, and then the custom EEPROM swapped back with the regular Spectrum ROM, and the machine performed a reset/jmp to execute the actual code I needed. This was most definitely not an MMU in the true sense of the word, but it did give access to a "protected" memory space, a dedicated kernel mode effectively, that the regular Spectrum could not access.
It certainly discriminates against those without a bank account.
Life on earth, er outside the oceans would end with sterilization down to 1M. Likely 99.99% or more of humans dead within a year.

Mars however is very cold, highly radioactive, practically no atmosphere, and vulnerable to meteor strikes. So to fix all those problems inhabitants would likely be under 1 meter to minimize air leakage, radiation, heat leakage, etc. So it might well be that 99% of people survive a 1M deep sterilization ... only if self sufficient, which does seem a stretch, at least for the next century.
I wrote that Tumblr eng blog post, glad to see it's still making the rounds! I later joined FB's mysql team a few years after that, although I can't quite remember if FB was still using pigz by that time. (also, hi Eric!)

Separately, at Tumblr I vaguely remember examining some alternative to pigz that was consistently faster at the time (11 years ago) because pigz couldn't parallelize decompression. Can't quite remember the name of the alternative, but it had licensing restrictions which made it less attractive than pigz.

Edit: the old fast alternative I was thinking of is qpress, formerly hosted at http://www.quicklz.com/ but that's no longer online. Googling it now, there are some mirrors and also looks like Percona tools used/bundled it. Not sure if they still do or if they've since switched to zstd.
One of my favourite stories is how deep sea mining was started because the CIA went overboard (pun intended) with a cover story [0].

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/deep_sea_mining
If you’re looking to get into online trading, there are a few apps you should avoid at all costs. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at three of the worst offenders: Acorns, Robinhood, and Stash. Acorns is a popular app that allows users to invest spare change from everyday purchases into a portfolio …
But if you don't specify the -z flag when using tar, then it won't be compressed. Why type all that out when omitting one flag does the same thing?
That's a fair point. I'm sure more experimentation and optimization in form factor will happen, depending on use case and settings. There's no need to engineer unnecessary humanoid qualities beyond what is necessary due to cost.
Likewise, everytime I buy something I don't call it the "money taker item".
> imagine you told employees they now had to log their time and account for each 15 minutes

You don't need to imagine, this is becoming (if it is not already) the norm for salaried employees. Maybe not to the 15 minutes, but hourly accounting is very widespread.

That said, the joke is on the c-suite in this case - almost everyone makes it up, or at least guestimates heavily.
Reminder: If you want a "legitimate stablecoin", get a savings account and/or money-market account and/or money market fund.

Prime money market funds are kept at $1 as long as "all is well", while the bank responsible buys and sells dollar-based instruments (such as commercial paper and US Treasuries). Also the whole SEC regulation thing to ensure proper liquidity levels (30% must mature in a week), and other such guarantees.

Savings accounts have additional requirements that allow for FDIC insurance. Money market is "risk" but not much risk (one fund dropped to 97-cents per dollar back in 2007 for example). So its possible to "break the buck" but very very rare. And US Laws/regulations changed in response to that 2007 failure.

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Real life money markets are yielding about 2.95% right now. Anyone offering more than that is taking on risk and/or lying to you. That's what highly ranked commercial paper can get you today.

In a few weeks, the Fed is expected to raise rates. We'll be at 3.75%, then 4.5% probably by the end of the year (?? Hard to tell the future though). So we're back into a realm where cash holdings can generate returns.

Anyone seeking 10% to 20% returns from a "Stablecoin" is taking on some kind of risk. Much like Celsius, any one returning that much is lying about something (or trusting somebody else's money and that someone else is lying to them).
Amazing to realize that 75% of the oceans - which are 70% of the earth's surface - are unmapped and unknown
Yeah - but as we saw with the floormat/unintended acceleration, many people don't think of it in an emergency (all the fatalities could have been avoided by shifting into neutral in those cases, might have blown up the engine but wouldn't have crashed/killed).
no i didnt, and it was a sincere question. im the guy who wrote the post and i didnt understand cardinality zero lol.
Remember that video that showed Nancy Pelosi supposedly 'drunk', but it was just slowed down and pitch shifted? It was so easy to tell it was faked, but it still spread like wildfire.
You might become a non-multi-billionaire that way though
It's interesting that you formulate your argument so specific to exclude all the risk in the middle while arguing for it.

Just assume you really don't know: you bet that 1. This has some advantage for you while the company bets it has some advantage for them. Great bet everyone wins?!

2.also with every bet the company makes with others does what to your bet?
renewables make sense if you can prove to me that you can make them reliable like nuclear, but you can't. Someday I suppose a high density, cheap "battery" tech will happen that will make that true, but right now it's simply not true and the Germans are getting ready to find that out this winter, unfortunately via much higher prices via power imported from adjacent countries using dino-fuel and likely blackouts from time to time.
I’ve come across that one before - I think the problem is the designer’s face is figuratively showing through. Some artists are good at hiding it or some just has a pretty face in real life that it’s not a problem, but in this case the face isn’t working.
What about timestamps? This is one of the biggest differences between SQLite and Postgres, and one of the most annoying aspects to deal with when migrating a db.

A tool or library which auto-detects common datetime patterns and handles the translation for you - that'd be compelling and a real game changer here.
In the UK NHS, the staff have software that they think is working, but the management thinks its best to change. They are changing systems every year, once they have adapted, there it comes a new platform that is "going to solve everything"... their email provider, the patients management, drugs stock, the staff management, reporting... then they get tablets, then laptops, the PCs on wheels, then barcodes... Combined with their understaffed shifts,
errors are increasing, and people dying

Obviously people are tiered, but they can barely finish their shifts, let alone have strength to protest. The whole thing must be about to implode soon
Ya, it's been an interesting thing to see play out over the past few years.

People figured out that Congress was too hopelessly corrupt and beholden to oil sheikhs and fossil fuel multinational corporations to pass any meaningful legislation to tax carbon emissions or limit pollution or even clean up after coal mines, so they decided they could at least "vote with their dollars" and invest in mutual funds that wouldn't invest in things like coal mining or fracking.

After a few years, that went from a tiny boutique service (mutual funds with no "blood money" from fossil fuels, slave labor, etc) to a major industry under the more expansive ESG label, until it reached a significant enough market pressure on the polluting, extractive corporations that they're now passing laws that prevent people from NOT investing in those companies.

Texas and Louisiana have had similar things, requiring banks, pensions, etc to invest in fossil fuel companies. Often their rationale is self-contradictory, where they will in one sentence claim it's a fiduciary duty to maximize returns without considering things such as harm from pollution, but then in the next sentence stating that it's to support local fossil fuel jobs or whatever.
No, it's actually a very fit analogy: carbon offset credits are pretty much a sham / marketing tactic.
Well it's a bougie hobby if you fly every year with your private school to Switzerland, and get a new set of skis (deliberately exaggerating of course, it can be various levels of bougie). Cross-country is definitely cheaper (no ski pass, skis are generally cheaper) but there are plenty of places where affordable ski slopes are nearby and it's normal for someone working in (for example) a pub to own a set of skis, and be able to head out with some friends for a day of skiing
Same as in this Rust example then. The Axum example is basically the same as its equivalent in JS. I've also seen similar abstraction in Python (Django, Flask), Ruby (Rails), Elixir (Phoenix) etc.
I have always had a very strong internal sense of direction and I've found that it relies strongly on knowing which way is north. This means that when I'm in a mall or other large building (malls are the worst) I get very lost and have to think hard about which way is which. I usually have to paint a birds eye view and know which stores are on which corner of the mall and orient myself that way. This also means that occasionally when I'm in a new city, I get north/south mixed up and am hopelessly lost
I could see something reasonable being a surcharge for allowing access to an "archaic" system - however then that fee should be subsidized to the business, by the centralized organizations, as such "archaic" systems are necessary mechanisms to counter potential tyranny-captured of centralized systems by very bad actors.
That's why in our monitoring we used nagios scheme + 1 (0 for invalid, 1 for ok, 2 for warning, 3 for crit, 4 for unknown)
Optimization stories are the best stories (second perhaps only to bug–fixing stories).
In theory, most stuff should work as it's 99% compatible, but there might well be something that breaks. Rather than symlinking it or some such, it's better to configure the necessary tools to use the pigz command instead and then you'll at least find out what works.

FWIW, I configure BackupPC to use pigz instead of gzip without any issues.
Also issue with golang (+ protobufs) where you can't distinguish a populated zero value from the default "not present" value.
Would not recommend using this in 2022, use zstandard or xzip instead.

zstandard is faster and slightly better compression at speed selection settings that are equivalent to gzip, in addition to having the ability to compress stuff at a much greater ratio, optionally, if you allow it to take more time and cpu resources.

https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2017/03/07/better-compression-...
I like the kiosk to order because I can browse all the options without a queue of hungry people behind me waiting to order.