skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Fake News" is a political PR term; can't they just talk about returning to baseline values after being given false information?

Also, this is another bad toy problem like the trolley problem; when you hear false information about something from people that you consider trustworthy, after hearing that information corrected it's not altogether rational to return to a baseline judgment of that thing.

When you hear information from trustworthy sources, you know that something attracted the trustworthy people to examine the subjects of that information, something about what the trustworthy people know about those subjects made them think that the information had a reasonable probability of being true, and the trustworthy people thought that information was important enough for you to consider that they communicated it to you. We want things in courts to be considered in isolation, because the courts are meant to be a final arbiter, and therefore the feedback effect of suspicion feeding suspicion would tend to make the first statement of an authority figure on a person the final judgment of the state on that person. Life is different; if you disregard rumors, and the context of statements (even when ultimately disregarding the content of statements) you're missing a lot.

The problem here is who you trust, not what you trust, and the ability to update trust, not as much the ability to update judgments on things unobserved and unexperienced.

I'd submit that people with lower "cognitive skills" would tend to trust the researchers more, and think that even if the researcher has withdrawn statements about events, they must have had a good reason for thinking them in the first place, and would have made a reasonable effort to avoid lying intentionally. On the other hand, people with higher "cognitive skills" would be more familiar with the format of experiments, and assume that the researcher was lying about everything, and that "Nathalie" didn't exist.

tl;dr, basically, the researchers weren't wearing the right outfit to convince one of the groups.
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What is a stupid person?
Some advantages of header-only vs .h/.c pair:

- you can build simple tools contained in a single .c file, and you dont't need a build system for this (e.g. just call "cc tool.c -o tool" instead of mucking around with Makefiles or cmake)

- the library can be configured with macros before including the implementation (e.g. provide your own malloc, assert, etc...), with the implementation in a .c file, these config macros must be provided via command line args, which implies a build system

- you can put the implementations for all header-only libs used in a project into a single .c file instead of compiling the multiple .c implementation files, this might speed up compilation

Single-header libs have some of the advantages that a proper module system would bring to C and C++ (e.g. extremely simple integration into own project and increased compile speed), but without all the complexity of implanting a module system into C or C++.
There's also something to be said for the importance of a certain fact. It's pretty harmless to be poorly informed about presidential history, unless you're a teacher of the subject or about to take a test. Significantly less so to be poorly informed about whether or not a presidential candidate is running a child sex ring out of a pizzaria.
>we encode our own motivations and desires as the impetus

I don’t see how that’s true. Wouldn’t it be more accurate to say, the system was encoded based on what the designers knew about motivation and desires at the time?

The fact that what they knew was based on their own motivations seems incidental. I doubt if they had the perfect formula evidenced and understandable to them at the time, that they would have intentionally ignored it to still encode it in their own image.

So we can really boil it down to, people didn’t understand human nature as well when these systems were created. Then, even as better understanding evolved and continues to improve, the problem of inertia and entrenched thinking works against change.

From that we can conclude one of the biggest problems with the criminal justice system is, simply that it’s impeded in the exact same way so many other systems are.

edit after comment: Point is the description of the problem seems to imply pretentious motivations, when the simplest explanation is they just didn’t know how things worked at the time.
So are you saying that the solution is to lock up these people for life?

Because I hope that’s not what you are saying.
Thank you. One of the forms of "fake news" is that it's only small set of groups put it out.
There were many articles about it before that. It was a constant topic of conversation in some circles.

The reason the Trends chart jumps after the election is because that's when the larger public learned about what is going on, and people were trying to figure out how it happened.

Pre-election examples from a quick search:

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/30074...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/24/facebook-...

http://meta.mk/en/macedonians-from-veles-open-propaganda-web...

http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/30/media/facebook-fake-news-pla...

http://fortune.com/2016/10/12/facebook-fake-news/

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/296211-facebook-steps-u...

and countless more...
In Mexico at least.

Now that I think about it, I do have seen red ones in Canada and the US.

In any case, it seems that it's a color chosen to comply with some law, instead of just an arbitrary choice. In that sense I'm not sure if regulations would let movie theaters (or other businesses) change the color.
The fact that we score some intelligence correlates on scales with true zeros does not mean intelligence itself can be treated this way. Indeed, since the rigorous way to define intelligence is to do so perturbatively (e.g., as a certain principal components in data, or as the first-order effects of flipping a bunch of SNPs), we should generically expect it to break down as a robust concept outside the perturbative regime.

Or in other words, the fact that one person can be twice as fast as another person in the 100m dash does not make it meaningful to say that one person is twice as athletic as another. In particular, we don't expect the person who is twice as fast to also be twice as flexible or throw the shot-put twice as far, even if those can be made true statements for small (e.g. 5%) difference with appropriate multiplicative factors (e.g., a 5% increase in top-speed predicts a 10% = 2*5% increase in shot-put distance).
No I have not. I am not surprised though. Content is endless, and shadow conntent is endless.

It sounds surprising, I think, because the Western, or perhaps popular view of spirituality is one of idealization. Focusing excessively on Light is as problematic as focusing excessively in Shadow.

I have a reprint of one of the mandalas to Vajrayogini on my personal altar. Most of the imagery and iconography will evoke the reaction you described. At the bottom is the most wrathful form of Vajrayogini, naked and all black with fangs, an intense, fiery aura, standing on a corpse. She holds a butchering knife in one hand, and a tantric staff (with three skulls) in the other. Various entrails being eaten by various animals. Yet the top one depicts a peaceful Vajrayogini, reposing in a meditational posture.

Both are Vajrayogini. What is not apparent is how any of this is an act of compassion. The middle Vajrayogini is red and she holds a cup made from severing the top of someone's skull. There is blood in it. How is _that_ an act of compassion? Isn't that just a depiction of evil and corruption? And Tibetan Buddhist will take this depiction as a yidam, ritually become this diety/Buddha. Why would anyone do that? Why do I have that on my altar?

Vajrayogini takes the most horrific karma and spiritual poisons and drinks it. She is called the trauma goddess for that reason. All the horror and abuses one might experience in this life and in past lived, she takes and drinks. And because she is a full Buddha, that karms burns and dies within her. In many ways, it is an extreme form of empathy, yet at the same time, the Buddha nature remains unstained.

Her two wrathful forms looks horrific because the pain and trauama she takes on are that horrific. That is why she is depicted in those wrathful forms. She enters fearlessly into your hell to give you the chance to awaken and to heal.

And this is why she is appealing to some people.

I have never set someone's broken bone or worked as an EMT or a nurse. Yet when I hear stories from them, it is like this. Giving care to the person even when really horrible things happen to them. I am not one of those Japanese cleaners who clean a houses after someone dies, or that Austrailian woman who clean hoarder's houses after they die. They clean away the pain, when no one else will do it. It is like that.

Are there abuses? Yup, there are. Is it excusable? No. And yet, there is a lor more going on than what is apparent.
> No global or hidden state

Does that mean that one can detach an input field, save its state somewhere, create a new one and attach it somewhere else again and have it appear exactly as it was before (i.e. cursor position, selection, focus, etc)?

That's one of the pain points with VDOM frameworks (i.e. need to diff around UI components which shouldn't lose state), so I'm curious if this library gets it right.
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Gmail is Outlook rewritten in VBA running inside Word, except it works better and doesn't leave you open to a bunch of viruses. I mean did you ever use the Windows client of Outlook? On the one hand your argument makes it seem that you did, but on the other hand you also seem to prefer it to Gmail which makes me distrust the argument completely!

Other than that Email is a good example.
I think it depends. If pointy/clickie programming I think this type well be the first to go to AI since all you are doing is linking blocks together. If programming that is only done using a text editor, I think it will be a while.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_...

Check out the list based on Alesina’s analysis.

Or go to Sweden. In the younger population groups, muslims are now are huge minority.
Morgan Housel from Collaborative fund has dealt with it his whole life.

he wrote a whole piece that was amazing and very motivating about his continuous battle:

http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/overcoming-your-demons...

you can find him on twitter @morganhousel

rock on mate.... the world is our oyster and we each have a unique view on it :)
Definitely, but I was using Valgrind and ASAN against the already patched version... So definitely no luck :-D I could see the issue only when it happened in the wild, and it only happened in this very odd conditions.
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> actually increases resource utilization exponentially

Quadratically actually.

Exponential would mean each user doubles the amount of calculations, for instance.
It seems the conclusion here is that: Lies work even after being disproven, especially on people with lower cognitive ability.

The first follow up I have is: How do they define 'lower' cognitive ability?

Assuming they're using IQ score or similar tests that go into an IQ score, what is the transition point? Are we talking about people who are below the norm -1 SD (~85 IQ), around the average of 100, or +1 SD (~115)?

The number of people in/below those ranges are progressively bigger and have a larger impact on things like the popular vote, market trends, etc.

The second follow up I have is: Ok, so now what?

Since this is "cognitive ability" and not "education" convincing people to go to college isn't a solution.

Do you limit voting to people with certain advanced degrees? Do they propose an IQ (or equivalent) test for voting?

Is that the case they're making?
> and confuses the implementation and interface

Normally you have the implementation inside an "#ifdef IMPLEMENTATION" block, and the API interface (public structs and functions) outside of the implementation block, and all private functions inside the implementation block are defined as 'static' so they are not visible outside the special implementation source file. In the places where you include the header for normal use, only the public interface is accessible.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/opinion/social-media-dumb...
> It's always interesting to see that there's a segment of the public discourse that consistently hammers on "melanin" as a predictor of crime, but ignores "testosterone"....

It's interesting to see the strawmen from people who were never interested in getting acquainted with the arguments to begin with.

>Mean testosterone levels in blacks were 19% higher than in whites, and free testosterone levels were 21% higher. Both these differences were statistically significant. Adjustment by analysis of covariance for time of sampling, age, weight, alcohol use, cigarette smoking, and use of prescription drugs somewhat reduced the differences. After these adjustments were made, blacks had a 15% higher testosterone level and a 13% higher free testosterone level. A 15% difference in circulating testosterone levels could readily explain a twofold difference in prostate cancer risk."

Testosterone level differences between human groups has been a known fact for quite some time.

As is the case for the different ages for puberty onset:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/20/us-study-boys-...

> The investigation also showed that American boys are divided by race when it comes to puberty. It found that, on average, black American boys started showing signs of puberty at a little older than the age of nine, while their white and Hispanic counterparts did likewise just after turning 10.

And even gestational age :

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15075154

> The median gestational age at delivery was 39 weeks in Blacks and Asians and 40 weeks in white Europeans.

We are going to pay for all this wilful ignorance and happy sentiments your kind has imposed on the rest of us in the west.
This is silly. We already have automatic code generation tools. We have for decades. They are called compilers, interpreters, standard libraries. These do not reduce the need for programmers. No AI can decide _what_ to build nor can they solve pragmatic tradeoffs between competing goals that real programmers have to deal with all the time. Some human has to be making the decisions about what the computer is going to do. And they'll need a means by which to inform the computer what it is to be doing. And that means is what we now call a programming language. Smarter compilers, code analysis tools, or library finders aren't going to remove the need to define the specification.

Anyway, it's not like there's a limited amount of programming to be done, and if we could only be more productive, we'd finish it all up sooner and go to the lake. No, the demand for more and better software will only increase to consume any productivity increases we achieve. Think about the software you use every day. Could it be made better? Of course! Most of it is terrible. There's an infinite amount of work to be done.
I am currently about 5 episodes in and I am enjoying it so far. The 5th episode has kinda lost some of the excitement that the first 4 had, but I'm hoping it it picks up again.

I know that this series is based on a book, and I have been looking for more sci-fi books to read. Does anyone have any insight on how the TV series compares to the book and whether it is worth reading?
> The fact that what they knew was based on their own motivations seems incidental. I doubt if they had the perfect formula evidenced and understandable to them at the time, that they would have intentionally ignored it to still encode it in their own image.

My understanding of the comment you’re responding to is that the nature of human experience precludes that ideal understanding, not that people would purposely ignore it. The point appears to be that humans encounter intrinsic difficulty in understanding the myriad idiosyncratic motivations of others in the species, not that they deliberately don’t want to understand it.

In other words: I don’t think you and the parent commenter are disagreeing.
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This article has elucidated absolutely nothing. Pure blather.
Here is one that is fraught where I live - disciplining children with a smack. Many people think hitting children in a disciplinary context should be legal.
AC is generally not a thing at all in German residential properties. Usually only in stores/offices/etc and even then it's not a given, I once worked here in an office with no AC. That was a hard summer and it was horrible trying to concentrate on work.

As I think someone else mentioned European/German windows are different to American ones. American ones, lift from the bottom up I believe and an AC unit is put in the gap. European windows can be tilted to be slightly open, or completely opened up into the room much like a door [1].

There are Window units I believe but the Windows have to be modified for them I think, so it's more of a permanent change.

There are also freestanding units which have a hose to go out a window but I've been told from several people that they're not worth the money / don't cool the place down enough. And because the window has to be slightly open for the hose to aim out of more heat keeps coming back in.

[1] - http://4e9dsh1squ2a41o9at4bz989-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-c...
Typically it's the accusers of racism who make these conflagrations. These are usually well-intentioned progressives who, in their zeal to protect minorities, pounce on anything that could possibly be warped into an attack on minorities. For example, that time James Damore was crucified for suggesting that population level gender differences might better explain Google's hiring pipeline than discrimination.
Accept that isn’t true. Racial differences rarely disappear even when you take those factors into account.

There is evidence that economic inequality has little to no effect whatsoever (1, 2).

There is also evidence that inequality is predictive for blacks but no whites (3).

There is also data that does support your latter conclusion, but my point is that this issue isn’t as clear cut as you’re framing it as.

(1) https://academic.oup.com/sf/article-abstract/70/4/1035/22326...

(2) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6742630

(3) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-9125.1999....
Ask HN: Has Facebook started to plateau?
To me, that does seem to be the case based on headlines I see here and on reddit. This may just be the media fanning flames to create a story but maybe the anti-Facebook sentiment has reached a tipping point.
With .h only files, when you need to include needed functionality, you modify only your own source file.

But with .c files, when you have multiplatform project, you need to put it in other "3rd party" tools. Think about the whole zoo: Visual Studio, XCode, Code::Blocks, make, NMake, etc.
>Also I really doubt retail investors are the catalyst for anything here. Normal people don’t move a trillion dollars out of the market in a few minutes.

Sure they do. Robo-advisor services like Betterment have exploded over the past few years. They alone have over 10 billion under management right now. When everyone's money is following the same algorithms, it's natural to assume that any market movement will be magnified now.
Or, more simply, you could incarcerate repeat offenders for longer periods of time.
> I used to make equity derivative markets.

By market, I was referring to the stock market. Also, are you claiming to be a market maker?

> About thirty minutes after CNBC said something about something, a tsunami of idiotic Charles Schwab and friends order flow would hit our systems. It absolutely moved prices.

It doesn't take 30 mins after the news breaks for stocks to move. And the move is usually orchestrated by the big boys and their algos. The herd can certainly follow the move of the big boys as they dump their shares on the late arriving retail investors. But the move is controlled by the big boys and of course the market makers as they tried to leech out as much off the spread as possible. Unless you are referring to lightly traded stocks or OTC stocks with no volume.

There isn't much retail trading derivatives. The derivative markets are almost exclusively dominated by hedge funds, banks, large investors.
Lots of people (in the US at least, not, say, Sweden) care more about revenge and suffering inflicted on the criminals than rehabilitating them (or even preventing them from doing more harm -- they are e.g. totally ok if they do more harm, but inside, to other inmates).

What I hope is that those people get to experience prison for inside, and even better, for some BS reason, like the reasons tons of people are in jail for (possession of marijuana, breathing while black, and so on).
I think what you're asking for is unreasonable. Labelled racist by who? How do you count 50%? Does it matter if only one fringe group labels it racist? Or does it have to be called racist by a group with political capital > X.

It also leaves any potential of discussing "chilling effect" like things. You're measurement does nothing to gauge the overall zeitgeist of the time, which would clearly influence the outlook of any researcher who didn't have balls of steel and bulletproof funding.

I agree the author needs more clarity. And the clear thing to say is that "one could easily imagine this type of study in the United States causing problems for the author due to possible accusations of racism".
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People interested in solutions should look to studies of different types of interventions. My usual example is the extremely effective Violence Reduction Unit:

http://www.actiononviolence.org.uk/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/apr/06/glasgow-murd...

"The results were remarkable. Among the 200 gang members who became directly involved with CIRV, violent offending fell by almost half, according to a 2011 study. Weapon possession was down 85%. Even among gang members who had not attended a call-in, violence had fallen by almost a quarter."