skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand "these people", your response is somewhat ambiguous. If you are referring to skeptics... Then I find your conclusion inaccurate. The response is not "measured". Shunned and ridiculed is what I have mostly observed.

Society generally had adopted intolerance and seeks to punish detractors. Both sides are doing this. Again, this is not... measured...
I understand that cancer drugs can be used for other things. That makes perfect sense to me. But we are not talking about using cancer drugs for things other than cancer in general, we're talking about using them as puberty blockers.

The use of estrogen-blocking drugs as puberty blockers is not a good idea just because estrogen blocking drugs exist. They were not originally intended for that.
I really hate it that so many people these feel the need to immediately push back when somebody says something they don't agree with. I remember years ago you could have a discussion and express your opinion and it was fine. Now with a lot of people it's better to say nothing.
I mean many people here on this forum during the worst of the pandemic. No, they weren’t modded or banned that I could tell.
I remember articles and quotes firmly rejecting the lab leak hypothesis and darkly implying that those championing the theory had a hidden agenda.

The considerations were:

— there were random attacks on Asians

- public health officials and scientists were worried about an anti science backlash

- virologists were really worried about a backlash against virology

— relations with China had not yet deteriorated to their current levels and government leaders didn’t want to antagonize them

So there was a semi-coordinated effort by government officials and the scientific establishment to put the lab leak theory beyond the pale. The middlebrow media either wittingly or unwittingly went along for the ride. Their readership ate it up.
>I remember most teens and young adults (which is most people who used computers) would never buy any kind of software, music or video.

I don't think it's true that "most people who used computers" were teens or young adults. Since we're talking about Windows 95, here is some mostly contemporary usage data from the 1997 US Census[0]. A few of the strongest predictors of computer usage for a household are income, education, and using a computer at work. Being older (55+) is a pretty strong negative correlation (along with some correlated characteristics like being widowed).

I don't see a direct statistics tying computer usage to number of children, although the household size does indicate that houses with children probably are more likely to use a computer. Even just looking at the sample, about a third of households use a computer at work, at third don't, and a third don't work, which gives you a very large pool of people using computers who aren't teens or young people.

I suspect it's more likely that many of the people on this board were a young person in the 90s if they were a person at all, and so it felt like many computer users were like them. In fact, plenty of not so young adults were using computers.

PS: if by young person you just mean "under 50", I retract everything above and instead am confused by your definition.

[0] https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/demo/tables/compute... , https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/demo/tables/compute...
I'm pretty sure JWZ is the OG for redirecting HN referrers, and whatever else you care to say about the man, if you tell me he does this so's not to get his fee-fees hurt, I will laugh in your face.
Oh, how I loved this book (and the whole series) as a kid -- I probably read it for the first time in 1975 or 1976, when it was still science-fictional, and yet the personal computer revolution was just about to get underway.
I mean, if banning Nazi'ism is considered 'state censorship' then yes, I wholeheartedly support state censorship. If that's 'imposing someone's truth on everyone else', so be it.
The parent post that you're objecting to is advocating exactly what you are. Talking about different measures of free speech and how it relates to society. There are both legal and social Dimensions to the issue
I think that more often than not the effort to avoid vendor lock-in isn't worth it, especially when it is very common for your "generic" wrapper around cloud services to over time bake in assumptions specific to the one platform you ever run it on and be, in effect, locked in anyway.
AIDS is caused by HIV, which is believed to have evolved from a virus infecting primates in Africa (probably more specific details than that exist, but I don't know them offhand).

Bubonic plague and polio both predate the existence of writing, and may well predate even agriculture.
Not firefox/seamonkey (and presumably others)

"This is controversial, however, it is just a different philosophy. The user runs as administrator (root), apps may optionally run as a non-root user or in containers as a "crippled root". The practical outcome is that you never have to type "sudo" or "su" to run anything, nor get hung up with file permissions.
Note, current releases of Easy default to running Firefox as user 'firefox', and SeaMonkey as user 'seamonkey'. It is easy to do the same for any app, that is, run it as its own user, isolated from other users."
Reading the comments here, there is something to be said about how much naysaying there is in regard to this technology. I should expect it. You see the same pattern everywhere in one way or another. I urge people to shift their mindsets and approach cutting edge technology from a perspective of what it could be in the future, vs what it is today. What I mean is, by the time you realize something has fundamentally changed society, you've missed the train.

In the end what we all value is what solves problems. Those who embrace AI tech and learn to use the tool and work around its flaws will solve more problems than those who don't. This includes coming up with a system to validate the work. Those who use the tool recklessly will create more problems than they solve.

What side are we on here? I've been in the industry for over two decades and I for one cannot wait to command the computer in complex ways in my natural language. I am not threatened by other people being able to do the same. The tool is just a tool. What you build with it is what will separate the "professionals" from the "hobbyists".
Why would it have happened only in the market? Seems to me that it’s plausible they just managed to cover up other points of origin for the pandemic in Wuhan and that the market was the first super spreading event.

If your only defense is that this is not the most commonly used way to add a FCS to coronaviruses, that seems pretty thin.
These people who conducted the research in the article, the employees of the DoE, were not shunned or ridiculed.

The only people getting shunned and ridiculed are the people who approached the issue unscientifically.
I remember reading this book in the early 1980s (it was in my school library and was outdated even then) when I had a home computer that I programmed in BASIC and laughed at it, because "That's not how computers work! You can't just ask them questions and have them give you the answer! You have to write a program to solve each problem!". But like the article mentions, this is quite similar to the way LLMs like ChatGPT work. And it even anticipated the problem that such chatbots may cause -- students using them to do their homework and not learning the material themselves.
> the Western "brutally honest" approach

Yeah, not so much these days, and probably not ever to extent that you may have meant it. Western folks are learning pretty quickly how well total reality denial has been working for... other regimes.

I am going to say Trump, but if I'm going to do that then I also need to mention an absolute procession of Western political and business leaders. Biden, Obama, Bush, Bush, Clinton, Abbot, Turnbull (he denied mathematics for god's sake), Morrison, Blair, Jobs, Ellison, Gates, Hoover, and so many other names I cbf remembering or looking up.

In fact, I think the "brutally honest" approach is exceedingly rare and always has been, in any arena in any hemisphere.
It takes an atypical human not to.
Sorry for misunderstanding you.

I'm not sure if it's really inevitable, but if it is, I think tolerance should be their most important virtue. I think that's also what sets western rulers apart as generally higher quality. They are usually more tolerant of dissent and individual differences, compared to their counterparts in other parts of the world.
You can have two devices with a single number but it costs extra and no idea if all providers offer this.

On my Samsung phone I can enable an extreme power savings mode, it disables everything but phone calls/text and makes the screen a very simple black and white affair, perhaps your phone has such a mode?
Was it? It's not really cheaper now. If you're lucky the subscription price is similar to the price of the standalone price after X years, usually how often they'd release an update. Except with the subscription you can't NOT update if the current version meets your needs.

I think of a few apps I've bought that moved to the subscription model where the subscription is several times the price of the app in a year.
My thinking is, promising something about your actions is itself an action that goes beyond mere speech. So threats of violence can be regulated, and so can contracts, product labeling, and so on.
Actually, I'm a trans-age (you know, years are biological and ages are social). There is always a mismatch between my biological years and the age of my soul. So I identified myself as a guy whoes age is 20.
Interesting. What are you thoughts in regards to Hickey's comments about the structural rigidity of relations/tables to represent information on how they impede flexibility, make your program hard to change over time and increase complexity.

He mentions it in various videos but these snippets are two quick finds:

- https://youtu.be/Pz_NvY1kw6I?t=489

- https://youtu.be/thpzXjmYyGk?t=255
>on a recent project I was trying to get team buy-in to move from Java to Kotlin, and the people who were super excited about it were 5-10 years younger and the people who were like “but why” were my generation

Older people are more likely to have managed to do that before (introducing cool new tech/tools) and seen the costs of doing so. There simply are always switching costs, integration costs, and maintenance costs as well as new dependencies involved which can make it better in the long-run to simply keep using the potentially sub-optimal tech that everyone is already familiar with and using all day every day.

One place where I've seen success with using different tech is in some batch-processing script-like thing that you can just deploy, set up a cron job, and then everyone can forget about it while it runs happily in the background for years. Of course, that'll mean another cost when it eventually does need to be changed, but if that's many years later, that may be negligible. Another is one-offs that you can run once, verify the results, and then throw away.

But for something that's going to need substantial development or ongoing routine changes, the benefit might not outweigh the costs.

Younger people might not have had that experience or be thinking in terms of that whole long-term lifecycle thing, while older people have already dealt with it.
I agree with this statement, COVID is very likely to be an accident, unless it was created by a mad scientist or aliens, I can't think of any reason to artificially create COVID to harm the interests of China or other countries other than China.
War in Ukraine stems from the Orange Revolution, a humiliating ordeal for Putin
Weird; I see the former symbol all day every day and have no trouble recalling. I see the second symbol almost never, maybe once a month, definitely not as easy to recall.
How is it clickbait? A US intelligence agency did say that the lab leak theory was more likely than the wet market one, even if their confidence is low to moderate.
> I remember years ago you could have a discussion and express your opinion and it was fine.

I also remember when racism, xenophobia, slandering women, and generally ignorant talk was accepted and chuckled at. Thankfully, women are now expected to express opinions at dinner parties and minorities aren't run out of town for having the audacity to exist in the same neighborhood.
The comparison was between SOA and microservices. No one mentioned serverless.
Rasmussen is a famous Republican pollster. Their polls essentially always skew toward Republicans and the right. They did very well in the 2016 election and very poorly in 2020, if that tells you anything. It seems to be a "broken clock is right twice a day" situation. I don't think they're trying to produce propaganda -- I think they're just a bit biased and a bit incompetent.

CNS News is an extreme right-wing propaganda machine[1] funded in part by Exxon Mobil.

1. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/cns-news/
That's a very circular argument and definition.

By that definition, any headline of any article will be clickbait to someone just by them saying so regardless of any truth in the matter. People lie every day.

If you are looking at 'reading' articles, its kind of expected that you will read them if you choose to do so. Complaining about it doesn't change any meaningful thing.

I really don't understand the point you were trying to communicate.

Is it that you want someone to just tell you everything to believe, without needing to critically think at all?

People lie, so it sounds like you want something that will never come to pass, and trying to make it come to pass would only create a negative outcome for you, those close to you, and anyone else that happened to be within your sphere of influence, at least given a sufficient amount of time.

For the past couple thousand years of history exploitation has been the norm in various forms.

Did I completely misread what you meant (but didn't say?). Could you clarify?
Is there a link to an actual page where we can learn about circle?
Perhaps. But you buried the lede.

It wasn't that long ago that just asking the question - or questioning the then narrative - was positioned as a threat to the democracy, racist (i.e., anti China), conspiracy theory, etc.

Low confidence based on available data is 100x better than high confidence based on nothing but some backroom creative thinking, and a mindless media entourage willing to parrot anything tossed in front of them.

It felt like 1984 then; this only magnifies that. And yet, still not an ounce of accountability. That's the lede.
I mean, that's a pretty common narrative. "They were being ATTACKED for being racist so they became MORE RACIST." And?

There's this black guy. They did this documentary on him a while back. He went and befriended KKK members and skinheads. Through his individual action, he was able to get people away from white nationalism. White liberals absolutely love him. They point at him as an example of what all people of color should aspire to. Turning hate to friendship through personal interaction.

(Speaking generally, not to you specifically.) The thing is, as a person of color, the onus isn't on me to convert your racist grandparent or uncle from being a racist piece of shit. Fuck them. That puts me in the subordinate position of having to placate a white supremacist and that, in of itself, is fucking white supremacy. Fuck. That.
The article uses the term pacer and rabbit but never really explained what function exactly this type of runner performed for the race organizers. They only alluded to this when mentioning other runners depending on the pacer. A little confused who the intended reader for this article is.

I had to follow up with a Wikipedia search where just the usage of the term “pacemaker” or “pacesetter” made things more clear.
Thanks man. Been battling weight issues my whole life. It's just about focus on eating well, drinking less, and working out more and the weight comes off on its own.
>It's that I question if GPT-3 is "producing" these identifiable facts, and if the user is "producing" them instead, whether they can possibly be "relevant".

I'm not sure what you're trying to say. That GPT-3 is just vomiting stuff up out of its training set and not producing any new knowledge? But that's totally irrelevant to the issue of whether it can transmit knowledge to a user, who presumably hasn't memorized the entire training set.
A Thief with Your iPhone Passcode Can Ruin Your Digital Life
Which to me suggests teaching critical thinking, to people, to help ensure we are making decisions based upon worthwhile information.
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/express-4m2

I currently use the 3.5" 4 bay, but it has a fan. It's not very noisy, but I appreciate the need for quiet. The one I linked doesn't seem to and will hold 4 NVMe SSDs.

No hardware raid unfortunately.
You could make 100-1000000 fake profiles for only one person eventually and dominate their entire online world with fake bots.
My dream is a 'universal' protocol for things like this, so that you can use whatever text editor you like to join a session.

Is there some inherent difficulty is this, or is it just "there is no standard" -> "nobody implements one"?
> But there seems to be speech that should be forbidden, like threats of physical violence.

The thing being prohibited there isn't the speech. Prohibiting threats is really prohibiting coercion. The words of the threat are the evidence of the coercion, not the crime itself.

That's why the threat has to be credible. It's not a crime to say threatening things as an actor in a play because you're not actually threatening anyone even though the communicative aspect is the same.
It's an approximation of how many Muslims there are in the world, making the generous but not entirely incorrect assumption that they will be familiar enough with Arabic to at least be able to tell if you've completely borked your rendering.
I believe you but.

Hasn't crime risen more sharply in the west coast cities? If so, is it simplistic to say that homelessness leads to crime? I think the mental health issues are a stronger correlation: without the meth induced psychosis being added to homelessness, you wouldn't have nearly as much crime.

Sadly, I've come to the conclusion that forced incarceration is necessary for a certain small group of people on the streets. A guy I used to know in Portland owned a club in the east side, and said there was a homeless man throwing railroad ties into the windows. Then, he murdered his girlfriend and burned himself alive in his tent. Completely anecdotal but I can't forget it. If we really cared about people on the street, we should have figured out a way to get him off the street.

But, that note in the article about data driven solutions showing that incarceration is not effective makes me pause, and I'll go read that now that I've sprouted off misinformation.
And there is, of course, nothing higher to aspire to than to be typical.
Another part is the saying that the young are too dumb to know what's impossible.
That seems unlikely, I would expect most African countries to beat the US easily.
In general, there seems to be a big difference between a dead horse and something being unfashionable.

> I remember in 2010 that deep learning was a dead horse. Deep learning was practically useless pre 2010 and a joke too (unlike formal logic which has almost all of its current uses outside of AI

By 2010 digit and text recognition was already long in use. It used hidden layers, so it was a form of deep learning.
Nice writeup! Building raycasting engines is fun and rewarding. You can get a lot of visual impact with very small and easy to understand code. I took a stab at it and ended up adding portals which I thought was really fun (https://github.com/gh123man/Portal-Raycaster).

I've been thinking about re-writing my raycasting engine in Rust but never really found the time - glad to see someone has done it and documented it so well!

If anyone else is interested in raycasting this page is also worth a read: https://lodev.org/cgtutor/raycasting.html
My dad used to manage KANQ, so this is kind of neat to show him. Thank you to the creator!
To play Devil's Advocate, I can see the reasoning behind that. Malware changing file associations behind the scenes is a fairly common occurence. Hell, even programs you want occasionally change file associations without your permission.

So putting protections in place to try and prevent that is ultimately a boon for most users.
Yeah exactly. How do you go around the ink on the stamps?
Ours ( French ) don’t go away with alcool. At least it was not the case in the 90´s.
It only took 7 minutes for someone to come in and do... almost exactly what the above poster was describing. There's no way this isn't a simulation.
Neither of those changes would address the large majority of interactions deemed "social media mobs".
It seems to have no idea on my Kubuntu desktop.

Other sites seem to struggle remembering my browser too, i'm not doing anything special to my knowledge.
There is no absolute basis for rights and the good being the consensus happens on religious societies as well. What is good is constantly being argued over and over in all societies.
While I moved away from Delphi over a decade ago, it is still reasonably popular in niche vertical market software and internal systems.

It is probably still a practical choice for both of those. Certainly I've seen sprawling internal systems developed with web technology at a multiple of what it would cost to deliver the functionality with Delphi.

Recruiting top talent will be tough though - those with the most choice often (rationally) choose to work on growing-adoption technologies.
> Container scanners and dependency bots like Dependabot are snake oil solutions sold to people too lazy to actually secure their application.

Many years ago I'd have agreed with this so hard I'd hurt myself. These days I've moved on to a much more nuanced "maybe".

Also many years ago the code might've had half a dozen dependencies and the developers knew quite well how they were used and what code paths were relevant now or in the near future. So it was fairly tractable to say: Nope, that doesn't impact us, ignore.

These days there are thousands of dependencies and if I grab a random developer from the team and ask them "How is libfoo being used?" the response is most likely along the lines of "libfoo? never heard of it" because it was brought in as a third-degree dependency. So is the vulnerable functionality conceivably relevant or not? Nobody in the house knows.

In such a world, it is quite often easiest to have a blanket policy of update/patch everything if at all possible. Only if some upgrade causes trouble, then spend human cycles to review and analyze what's up.

I've seen teams that try to analyze everything fall further and further behind because vulnerabilities come in faster than they can analyze.
see also: https://www.gi.alaska.edu/monitors/aurora-forecast
So Apple is bringing back Google+?
This website is well-meaning, but will be difficult to parse if you don't have elementary Arabic and can't tell apart ال from ل ا.

What it really needs is a simple reference input string, examples of how it gets broken, and what to do to fix them. The middle case, where the sentence is correctly rendered RTL but the individual words are LTR (breaking the ligatures), is particularly common and insidious because it looks plausible to non-Arabic speakers.
I know you're making a rhetorical point, but I found a thread I remembered from May 2020 where I both said that the wet market theory was shit[1] and that the Wuhan Institute of Virology/Wuhan CDC needed to be investigated without widespread censorship.[0] At the time, it was not exactly well-received. Someone accused me of throwing out so many lies that reasonable people couldn't even rebut it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23038503

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23041871