jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What actually causes Flat Earth/Qanon/Lizard People/5G coronavirus/whatever?

Is it a manifestation of mental illness and therefore some defect in brain chemistry or structure, in which case they need psychiatry more than fact checking?

Is this not some kind of schizophrenia variant but maybe a pseudoreligion which fills the hole that in an earlier era might have been filled with fire and brimstone Baptist bible thumping or End Times theology, except Alex Jones got to them before the preacher did?

Is it an information problem? Did their fourth grade science teacher just not do a very good job of explaining how Foucault's pendulum works and now they are into Flat Earth and all the rest but they can still be saved if we can just get them to read the Snopes article debunking it?

How many are doing this just to be edgy (while possibly attracting some followers in the above three groups in a symbiotic relationship), because it's a pretty easy way to get media attention right now? Come up with some ridiculous stuff about the Flat Earth 5G Dead Internet Bird Hoax and The Guardian/NYT/WaPo/etc will write a bunch of hand-wringing articles fretting about the latest disinformation campaign which has been debunked six ways to Sunday by all right-thinking people. How else can you be transgressive and shocking in the 2020s?
Warnings can be done completely within the frontend, that probably makes them way more desirable for the company.
You should look up the definition of enfranchised. The insurrectionists will definitely be disenfranchised if convicted of felonies.
Google just removed it from the store.
Coordinated bans everywhere. Build your own platform they said.

They'll just instruct them to download the APK on their phones instead, just like Epic games did for Fortnite.

Even so, I think it will only get worse. They'll also move to encrypted chat apps instead. So when will Signal and Telegram be targeted and banned from the App Store or Google Play Store?
I'm glad they used the word "operationalism". I've been seeing this type of conclusion fairly often in recent times and now I have a word to describe what it is.

Also I agree that it is strange they didn't just ask those used as data points if their co-authors were mentors. I imagine there are a lot of mentees who never co-publish papers with their mentors (as there are multiple different connotations for the word "mentor")
> these people are insane

While I agree with your emotions, the use of the word "insane" might be counterproductive. As a group, we're mostly optimistic, trying to find the best interpretation of actions.

"Insane" implies that these people are not in control of themselves or their actions. That's not what is going on: they are fully in control and are CHOOSING to feed themselves with conspiracy theories... hoping to undo the 2020 election.

I don't know what word to use to describe them. Conspirators might be more accurate and helpful.

Ex:

> I think that's important to contextualize: these people are conspirators and are acting on these tweets. The Q people dissect these tweets twisting them to confirm their conspiracy beliefs.

By and large, these people are NOT suffering from any mental illness. They'll be going to work on Monday, and will probably take off this weekend, maybe go to Church on Sunday. They are choosing to participate in the conspiracy.
Ummm maybe I'm mistaken but censorship was widespread throughout Europe during the enlightenment and yet the enlightenment still happened. The paranoid American style where anything but free speech in the most absolute and extreme terms is guaranteed to result in tyranny and the destruction of civilisation itself isn't really born out by any of the facts.
Do you see the irony in your comment?

Echo, meet chamber.
The envelope is retained. There was an audit performed on the signatures. They can count the number of envelopes vs the number of ballots. They can AND DID contact people to see if they voted. And most importantly, they can ensure one person didn't vote twice.

Inventing a ballot, forging a signature, and making sure you didn't vote for someone else who would later vote themselves... 11,800 times?

I'm sorry, but you need to provide evidence for that happening. Or evidence of how it COULD happen.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/a-warn...
As an American, I agree. US citizens take the First Amendment as a virtue without a lot of exploration into its origins or practical utility.

It has a LOT of practical utility... But it's really important, I think, to know what that utility is and what its limits are.

And the limits exist and are quite noteworthy. Restricting someone from saying something defamatory is legally challenging relative to, say, the UK. But repeat someone's story verbatim and claim it as your own? Oops, you violated copyright, and no amount of bleating about your First Amendment rights will get you off the hook for the money you owe them, even if you didn't charge for your copy.
DRY humor?
I made a simple HTML page with a large font that said "You're working on XYZ" and set it to be my home page. Embarrassingly, I was very productive that week.

Even though I didn't keep up with updating the HTML to represent what I was working on, I became much more aware of my actions and their relations to my responsibilities since then.

I found it to be a valuable lesson.
It's a headline. Headlines have a grammar all of their own. Since they're essentially a hook to make you read more, good headlines will be short/catchy/interesting. In this case, they're using alliteration, plus they're attacking one of Facebook's weak points (lack of privacy control).
However, you also have to take into account that Matt didn't quit just based on the quality of the articles posted, but also the decreasing quality of discussion.

This comment thread is a perfect example of fanboy pile-on voting against a well-reasoned but unpopular point of view : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1888239.

Don't you think turning off HN (literally) for a few hours every now and then will help? Sure, it won't be convenient and some people will complain but it's still worth a shot. It will at least improve the world's productivity by a few % points. The next Google might be born.
I was locked out of an investment round at one company because of qualification status. I'm pretty sure being meeting the accredited investor standard actually does matter, at least if you're not an employee and the round involves an exchange of money for financial instruments.
Yeah, there's an EBNF syntax description. I must have missed the part where the GP thought that's all that was necessary for a "real spec". I guess I just disagree.

Java specifies the semantics of Java and the JVM remarkably fully. Python, not so much.
"This competition requires participants to predict travel time on Sydney's M4 freeway from past travel time observations". This line seems to suggest that the past travel time is the most important part of the experiment; however, as one other (rrrhys) pointed out, the data is useless, since the road has changed, and the grandparent of this post mentioned sporting events affecting traffic.

All of that said, perhaps a strong model can be generated using just historical data.
I don't understand this statement: "Blacklisting based on the /64 won't work, due to the potential to deny service to legitimate users,"

At the moment, we have multiple users sharing a single IPv4 address, so when that gets listed, there is collateral damage.

If we change to having lots of users sharing the same IPv6 /64 and we start listing /64 there is no change to the collateral damange...

If every user starts getting their own /64 to send mail from, then this will reduce the collateral damage, but make it harder to list. In which case, larger blocks will get listed, again bringing the collateral damage back up to the same level we already have it at...
Yeah, if the kid grows up he'll be awesome for sure
I don't have a Tesla, but I had upholstery on the backs of the rear seats (the part that becomes the floor of the hatchback when you fold them down) all off on my Ford C-Max. It looks like an adhesive failure there.

Not making excuses for the big T, just saying that there's a lot places for things to work out poorly in automotive.
Thank you! Have you used any 60FPS user interfaces or played movies?
I don't know, but I see many very successful new and growing tech enterprises from the US, and nothing like that here.
I'm assuming they're some sort of airplane black box?
That’s right because China, CCP, Xi, and Tencent are all the same thing.

How often do the Tencent board and CCP meet? Monthly? Or like a weekly catchup do you think?
I interpreted it as: Generally the clothes they wear are either too nice or too nasty for wiping clean wet hands. At the library and Starbucks they wear clothes appropriate for wiping hands. Too nasty makes sense to me, if you work landscaping, construction, maintenance, auto repair, possibly even in food service.

The too nice viewpoint is less relatable, but could be from fastidiousness or OCD applied to the clothes themselves, rather than being concerned about your hands.
You’re on the right track. Browser makers should be on the users side and websites should have to honour users preferences which are configured and sent to sites in the headers.
Some nice graphs to go along;
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
I think: Gmail started caching the email/images in late 2013 to protect against this. So if the sender is watching, they only see gmail servers pull it once to their cache. The gmail user only ever sees or gets content from Google's cache. To not "download images" is to stop arbitrary image content when you load an email (for me atleast since I stay inside gmail).
If you read Matt Levine's money stuff: a new favorite thing amongst financial products (currently only available to hedge funds, but on its way to becoming retail) is the following:

The default investment should be "the diversified market portfolio", e.g. S&P500. Then, if you have opinions (especially negative ones) about companies (e.g. if you are a perennial Tesla bear), you want to invest against those companies. A regular way to do that is to short. Shorting is hard and expensive for retail. A better way to do it is to buy everything in the S&P500 except TSLA. The way to do this is to construct a custom index that is identical to S&P500, except that TSLA is removed and all other weights are adjusted accordingly.
While I absolutely agree with this, and think Twitter does things that make it worse: no automated (or human-driven in bulk) abuse-detector will ever work perfectly. People are creative. Some amount of manual blocking is a reasonable expectation... just not as much as is necessary now :)
It has to be software. I have a ThinkPad that I recently installed macOS on (not advocating hackintosh, but it's a fun project nonetheless) and the trackpad feels every bit as good as a real Mac. Smooth scrolling, smooth gesture recognition, everything just feels good. The hardware is capable of processing the gestures, but the non-Apple software just does a terrible job of making it feel good to use.
Why build in YAML?

- All Lowdefy apps use the same structured config schema, which makes it easier to debug large apps or pick up where others left off.

- Nothing is hidden in a GUI. This allows you to do the basics (copy, paste, find, replace, etc.), which makes developing apps more productive.

- Lowdefy app config is simply data, so you can even develop scripts to create and manage your apps.

- YAML files work with your favorite developer, source control, and CI tools.

- Building a GUI to build Lowdefy apps is possible but resource-intensive, so for now, our primary focus is to develop a really powerful and stable application engine.
Is this even possible in Big Sur?
agree, this is exactly why the code was written. I had originally tried to use plv8 or others, but as my postgres experience matured and I built testing harnesses, I decided to throw away any non-standard code (plv8, etc).

I think often times folks who come to postgres often don't know PL/pgsql (as I also didn't) and prefer to user their language of choice. I truly think if our postgres dev environments were better, we'd find more people writing code this way, so I can empathize with why people would prefer python or JS in the db, but at this stage I can't get myself to use those extensions.

FWIW, at one point, AWS didn't support a lot of these (sometimes unsafe) language extensions. So going pure PL/pgsql was the only true path forward. I think now for AWS users, they do support plv8 now, but as you pointed out somewhere in this thread, they are much slower... also I remember plv8 specifically had memory leaks.
> Unifi APs being bridges only is a feature, not a bug

I think OP means that you have to be running Unifi somewhere in order to get all the features from the AP. Not that it's just an access point and requires a separate router (which I agree, is a huge plus).
Real paper, I think (from the linked principal researcher): https://research.chalmers.se/publication/511209/file/511209_...

The claims are reduced somewhat:

> The system features several attractive properties, such as a long energy storage half-life (40 h) at room temperature,

> Concerning the energy storage efficiency, 0.88% of the solar energy could theoretically be stored in a neat sample (S5, ESI†). The highest efficiency that can be expected for a 5 10 4M solution is 0.02%, and for a 2 10 4M solution is 0.01%

> However, the reaction rate was still too low to be used for macroscopic heat release purposes

This isn't a commercialisable solution. What this is, is fundamental research. Which often looks completely terrible because it's a first attempt at something. Once the relevant quantum effects are more understood, better candidate chemicals can be developed.
> voluntary payments (not donations)

What's the difference?

> It didn't come up during an interview though :|

They keep warning me this will be the case. Lies. Lies and slander!
i think monetdb is not supposed to be used on high write (or update) scenarios
What's a promise? This article seems to assume you know that when you start reading. Here's my understanding: Sometimes in code you get into callback hell. A callback calls a callback calls a callback. Your code starts to grow horizontally more than vertically like this:

callback1
callback2
callback3
callback3ReactionToFailure
callback2ReactionToFailure
callback1ReactionToFailure

As a result, the code is hard to read because it doesn't flow sequentially.

Promises are a solution to that problem. They let you take something that would be callback hell and write it sequentially.

Keep in mind it's the blind leading the blind here. I just learned this term a month ago. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

That said, I found http://promises-aplus.github.io/promises-spec/#terminology to be more informative than the article itself (no offense)
These days you can't hardly swing a "Coexist" bumper sticker without hitting someone claiming that X, Y, and/or Z are inalienable human rights.
I just made something similar yesterday that shows a progress bar based on amount scrolled through targetted content: https://github.com/RyanNielson/jquery-progress

I whipped it up quickly so I'm sure there's room for improvement. Feel free to post any issues or enhancement ideas on Github.
Postseason typically shows all games on TV. This setup will allow us to watch any game regardless of where you live (and what your cable provider allows you to watch).
Another excellent example of why the government should leave these things to the private industry or contract it out.
Going back to the "if" here - the output he did send them may also have been his sample code of sorts.

When I interview people we bandy about a lot of "ifs". But if the interviews don't go well, or if they submit crappy sample code, things tend to peter out from there.

The "if" in this question which is clearly missing but implied (at least in dealing with American companies) is "If there's something of value here, and the two parties are a good fit, and we think we can make this work...". There was no verbal contract here, or even an offer to acquire. It was a job interview, and he didn't get the job.
I was at this presentation.
Before the recording started, he said that the volatility of the Rust standard and its library really inhibited productivity.

He said something along the lines of: "By the time we update the codebase for a syntax update, there would be a library API change and vice versa."

I recommend checking out the rest of the LCA2015 talks; very informative if they apply to your area, IMHO.
Dave Chinner's talk about how important "knowledge transfer between humans" was to kernel development and software engineering in general resonated strongly with me.
It baffles me how you can call this convoluted process "learning". It's not. It's rightfully called the art of trivia bullshitting and has nothing to do with learning.

It's a purely social process that seems foreign and awkward to a visible majority of the HN crowd. I happen to agree with that crowd, I don't see the fun in it. I don't see the point in it. I wasn't raised to respond positively to this specific situation.

Instead - and again I believe a majority of the people on HN are in the same boat - I get socially interested in people with whom I can have exchanges that have the potential to affect the way I work, I behave or I see the world.

I have a fairly arrogant (but not necessarily incorrect) theory about this. I suspect that when you work/live in an environment which constantly stimulates you intellectually, you have an easier time getting to the "rewarding" part of more intellectual exchanges (eg. the facts of a conversation) than someone who works 9-17 at Walmart, and whose curiosity in the world is not being constantly nurtured, might. Thus we see a large majority of people who do not get any satisfaction from talking about more in-depth subjects than, say, Steven Tyler and Mary Tyler Moore.

And that lack of satisfaction is present on both sides. Once you have tasted what it's like to fire pure knowledge and experience at each other in a conversation and having all parties enjoy it, it's very hard to find any pleasure in exchanging senseless, bullshit factoids that will only serve to be repeated to someone else in the same social situation later on.
I also have a bad attitude to what you are saying - worse, in fact.

You say physics and chemistry are the only deep uses of math, and illustrate that with a physics example to define "deep", and a biology example to define "shallow". That's not meaningful at all: it's circular logic (i.e. bad mathematics).

Without math, we would have a much poorer understanding of population biology. Your population biology example was from 1926 and the state-of-the-art has moved on - so you have badly represented the subject. I suggest that your personal understanding of biology is where the shallowness really lies.

The parent commenter has made a genuine effort to understand you and offer you some advice, despite your bullshit. You should thank them.
Spax?
It doesn't look possible right now. I've looked through the extension docs (http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/Tool...), and the overall architecture is very similar to Chrome's. Safari extensions are essentially user scripts with a limited API for access to the UI and user data; if Apple doesn't provide an API hook for a given UI feature, the extension can't touch it. SafariTabs would be possible to implement if Safari fired events when tabs and windows are closed, but it currently doesn't.
So where do I learn how to deal with extroverts....
Looks like the misconceptions about password hashing are out yet again.
Trouble is in a startup you always try new things you are not skilled at.
Your response to me is a personal attack.

As for contradicting the opinions of others, you made disparaging
comments against Hearst Castle and Monterey, both of which were highly
recommended by others here.

I did not "correct" or "contradict" all of your opinions, instead, I
pointed out a potential problem many people will have with one single
opinion you have.

Since there is a good chance some people will feel ripped off by staying
at the Madonna Inn, having both positive and negative opinions voiced
about the place really does make sense. Providing people with more
information about a destination so they can make more informed decisions
based on their own preferences is entirely beneficial.

Some people love the tourist nature of Vegas, but others hate Vegas for
its tourist nature. To each their own. If you take a step back from
being offended, you'd realize my statements about the Madonna Inn are
actually more valuable, supportive, and even "positive" than your
statements to anyone who likes the entertainingly over-the-top. If
you're into that sort of thing, then by all means, have at it. But if
you have different preferences, then at least now you know what you're
getting yourself into.
How Python's super() actually gets used:

http://www.google.com/codesearch?as_q=super\(&as_lang=py...
read my reply above ;)
At the gourmet high end, my favourite is http://www.squarerestaurant.com/ -- I love the big, big pictures of food, and of course all the other information being available. They use the same format at Pied a Terre.

The annoying ones are e.g. http://www.wildhoneyrestaurant.co.uk/ -- useless use of Flash, this could be done in pure HTML and not force me to scroll a tiny frame with a menu. It could be much worse though, el bulli's website has a "virtual city" you have to wander through in order to select a wine from their menu -- "easy and fun" they say: http://vins.elbulli.com/elbullivi.php?lang=en
Absolutely this, from a personal experience. (Throwaway since a decent amount of people know who I am here.) I smoked a sizable amount (~4x my usual amount to get high) of marijuana one night with friends. They later reported me as simply staring into space, looking around, and saying random words from other languages. However, I was having one of the most incredibly profound, enlightened moments in my life, getting closer to understanding the basic questions behind life and what it is.
That's the question, isn't it? If the user feels like they don't have a choice (and especially if it's because any potential choice has been intentionally squelched by the reigning monopolist), then it starts to seem dickish. There are plenty of alternative mobile platforms and thus it's rare to see people complain that they're forced into using an iPhone.
This is a really interesting theory to me (and probably many others). Care to share some links, documentaries, or documents regarding this topic? Would love to know more.
It's not about technology, it's about transparency and the lack of it, to the point of hypocrisy, like when Obama removed bill reviews from the internet and accepted a "transparency award" in the whitewhouse in secret, banning any recording of the event, even though it's an event that should be publicly available.

The crime here wasn't even that she was banned, it was threatening others with the same if they reported about what happened to her.

However this is trivial to much more serious nonsense like meeting lobbyists across the street instead of at the whitehouse so they are off the recorded guestlist. Remember how lobbyists were going to be banned?
It was a joke about Bose products...
> thanks to the [often hyperbolic] claims of its inventor

To be fair.. I always see this in HN comments about V, and at this point it sounds just as a non-objective and prejudiced evaluation as the article is.

I agree that the article should have presented some downsides. But to start a discussion, how about presenting some valid criticisms?

Clearly people have worked on this project for a while. Have they completely failed to implement the “hyperbolic” claims? Or are they doing something good?

I’ve been intrigued about V for a while, i haven’t had the time to look into it yet.

I wish we had an objective discussion about it..