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The Covington Kids story shows how social media amplified both sides of an issue.

The behavior of mainstream journalists calling for the doxxing of and violence against these kids just strikes me as amazing. The groupthink involved with accepting the initial narrative is quite apparent.

What you’re describing “group consensus” is a systemic bias.

When systematic bias reaches the point where journalists completely abandon fact-checking and basic adult judgement, it's more than just "group consensus." Offering sexual favors to do things against kids? I'm sorry, but if I made something like that up, it would be purple prose. Journalists were swept up in that kind of groupthink!

A historical example of say US WWII propaganda qualifies as essentially all US news is shifted in the same direction.

Read Manufacturing Consent -- it's the same in 2019 as it was in the 1980's, we in the west just do it faster and harder with the bias, emotional words only for one side, and selective coverage. The thesis was that the west is just as bad as Pravda. In 2019, I find that Pravda was more subtle about it.

bias would mean the story did not evolve.

Bias can also mean that the retractions were either absent or all but meant to be invisible. In 2019, the typical media modus operandi is to technically be about the truth and retract, but engineer this to have basically zero effect. The number of mainstream sites who will edit a story, but give no indication of that, is just amazing to me.
I thought the answer was obvious - then realized blackmail is seemingly a more vague term than I'd previous thought.
My previous understanding was that blackmail was ~"a threat to reveal illegal activity unless you were compensated"
The reason this is pretty obviously illegal is that it's what builds up pyramids of corruption.
Alice skims some cash, Bob demands cash or he'll turn in Alice. Alice skims more cash to pay Bob. Charles discovers Bob is blackmailing Alice and demands money from Alice and Bob etc etc.
Pay-offs/golden-handcuffs CEOs on one side and short-selling and all manner of other mechanisms that have sprung up, are to skirt the rules of directly demanding money in return for silence.
I think it does actually reuse the >50 year-old 737 airframe design, as a condition of continuing the same type rating. Just.. not much else.
Hey!

1. It's MoneyPass.

2. With Point you get a checking account and high interest savings account by default. The savings account pays out the 2% APY interest on a monthly basis.
I was talking about anger, zebrafish was giving you the benefit of the doubt and implying the full gamut of emotion.
The takeaway I'm getting form all of this is that the system functionality is fine, but the operation is too obscure.

There should be a design intention to communicate information to the pilot as clearly as possible, for automatic systems or otherwise. Relying on training alone for pilots to interpret this failure hasn't worked.

It's too much of a blackbox if pilots can't quickly learn how the system is operating, e.g. how it operates when autopilot is on or off.
I'm not going to defend this straw-man. Refer to what I quoted.
He did mention that about netflix:

https://twitter.com/MohapatraHemant/status/11024101732036608...

> E.g. if you are +30% of the internet traffic (nflx) it doesn't make sense to pay rent to telcos any more and feed their margins. You have the volume and stable demand to justify ownership. For the rest, cloud is where they'll live and die.
At least before Lion crash it sounded like the lack of documentation or training at least wasn't exactly a mistake but a purely business decision to make it appear like the regular 737.
I don't understand. You feed in a 0.3 megapixel image, then scale down - how is there enough resolution to recognise a face? If the face is 25 pixels wide in the original it's now 5px, that can't be enough detail??
> That's precisely how poll-based opscans work.

I know, we have them in my district, but they don't do all the validation I was talking about. I think all that the current machines do is validate that there were no overvotes, etc. I was proposing a separate machine that would let the voter validate that the ballot would be read as they intended.
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So here's a puzzler... I think you are backwards. Based on what I've seen [1][2], the arrows show the direction of sight, so the part would taper towards the inside of the hook. It's not clear how this would be gradual, either, i.e. tapering in two dimensions, so the drop-off would be sudden. I'm still trying to figure this out.

[1] http://www.me.umn.edu/courses/me2011/handouts/drawing/blanco...

[2] http://web.aeromech.usyd.edu.au/ENGG1960/Documents/Week12/En...
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This may be a silly, but I have been kicking around this idea of creating a politics based lobste.rs of sorts; the users would need to go through a vetting process to be able to contribute. Possibly even crazier; users would need to go through some further vetting process to discuss a particular topic. Maybe this is already solve-able via Reddit, but i would prefer it to be off reddit. Any thoughts? There seems to be no place for very well informed and educated individuals to discuss politics that is publicly accessible imo and something like this could address that.
Awesome to hear! We believe there is a fundamental shift towards debit especially as the new generation is burdened with student load debt and has a stronger disdain for credit cards due to growing up in the 08/09 financial crisis.
That's like saying that the government can ban a newspaper because, after all, people can just read another newspaper.
I don't have anything exact, but we've banned perhaps a dozen networks of accounts for corporate astroturfing over the years. Cases where the issue was nationalistic are much rarer. I recall only one, and it was years ago. (That of course is not to claim we aren't missing some.)

If we go by the data we actually see, the phenomenon itself is vanishingly rare. Why is there so much commentary then? I can think of two explanations: either the foreign spies are cleverer than we are, or there is something in how human nature meets the internet under current social conditions that is leading to mass projection. And of course it could be both—but how are any claims about the former falsifiable?
It looks to me like your opinion is based on drawing an artificial distinction between "real lobbyists" and what real lobbyists actually do.

It is the job of lobbyists to get politicians to do what the lobbyist wants. Campaign finance, job offers, favors for people the politician cares about, status symbols such as honorary degrees - all are normal stock in trade for a lobbyist.

That said, I agree. Lobbyists who do none of the things that are known to be effective, are ineffective and do not have an impact. They also do not deliver results and do not tend to get happy clients.
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It's exploiting their vulnerable state so that they feel they have no choice but to comply. There's an element of coercion.

Clearly different from an employment relationship. You can't really coerce your boss.
There is a strong urge in democratic society, which I believe isn't wrong or incorrect in itself, to legislate the shared ethics of that society -- that is, to outlaw that which is commonly believed to be morally wrong. There are two problems that are encountered in this pursuit:

1) Not everyone shares the same philosophy, thus not everyone shares the same ethics. Where philosophical beliefs differ, there will be clashes over what ethics ought to govern legislation.

2) When writing law, what is being outlawed has to (a) not contradict the constitution(s) governing the land, and (b) be well-defined enough to be enforced.

A lot of the discussion around outlawing blackmail centers on (2)(b) - defining terms. It's surprisingly difficult to do, to the point that a lot of things that are commonly believed to be morally wrong can't be legislated. (2)(a) is why personal freedoms/liberties, and to what extent government should be limited, must both be written into a constitution if they are to exist and be respected by the government/courts for a very long time to come.

Regarding (1), in a democratic nation, the prevailing worldview/philosophy is ultimately what determines what the moral fabric, and consequently the legal climate, of a country will be like. Of course religion (or lack thereof) will factor into this, since it strongly informs ethics -- there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, the US constitution explicitly allows the legislation -> ethics -> philosophy causal chain to arise out of any worldview, when it states that there cannot be a "religious test" for elected officials.
> He was almost a victorious Senate candidate in Texas

“He needed the fossil fuel money in order to almost (but still not) win his one campaign for statewide office” is probably not a defense the O'Rourke camp would be well served by when the issue, inevitably, arises.
what do people say who already moved on to 4G? I mean some of us want to watch Netflix on mobile phones as well.
>many fall over themselves to please

fall over themselves to please someone in power
Your comments have been too unsubstantive for this site. Could you please increase the amount of information?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Santa Claus is a great game we (our culture) plays. Every year we pretend (x) (y) and (z) about someone called Santa Claus, and pretend he's real! Do you want to play this game too, or would you rather not?"

and

"A lot of other kids really enjoy the Santa game. So don't spoil it for them. Like when you're playing being a pirate captain you don't like it if another kid says you're too young to be captain or your cardboard pegleg is fake..."

Kids more easily accept games and makebelieve, and happily hop into different games.

(2 kids, 4 3/4 and 2)
mainland china is pretty big. you two should be a little more specific.
Rust and Julia as programming languages.

Spacemacs as editor.

Gitlab and netlify for hosting static websites.
I am unconvinced by the 'reverse hammer's method.

Does it rely on eddy currents in the steel ball? Wouldn't copper work much better in that case? Will the ball be large enough for eddy currents to be big enough to have much effect?
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I disagree. There is no defense for informing people they are dying via a "robot".

What is next. "Please press # to be connected to our partnering funeral parlor"?

It's a hospital, there are doctors, there are nurses present. Perhaps a specialist can only participate remotely, but if that is the case then a local doctor can deliver the news and ask if the family would like to speak with the remote specialist.

Being told your loved one is dying via a roomba is beyond the pale. I have received more compassion from our vet.
There's one episode that on the surface, or to a child, would be a completely banal story of a kid helping his dad clean out the garage. There's of course, an emotional subtext of people thinking about the past, and past relationships, and people they've lost. Then, there's another subtext, invisible to a child, where there's the story of a widower who has an affair with the friend of his dead wife.

It's one of those cartoons that's one thing on the surface, but has other things for the adults.
Our partner bank is Evolve Bank & Trust and the debit card is a MasterCard.
But they already use VPN to hop over their own firewall. Double firewall will not change a thing.
Just because you wanted to do something in the past, doesn't remove your right to change you mind, that's taking woman's rights back to the 'no rape law within the holy sacrament of marriage' days.
From what I have read, the NG series had the habit of pitching up under go-around conditions and this system exists because Boeing expected that issue to be more prevalent on the Max and also to try and solve it.

So its not a new thing on the Max, its just expected to be more prominent.
TIL a "saloon" isn't just an old time bar but also a synonym for "sedan"
Yes, but it is a poorly written article, and I have no inclination to wade through five paragraphs of garbage to find it.

Thanks for your help there, bub.
My bosses DID set out to build unsafe systems, to save money, and ordered me not to fix unsafe software for that reason; even after explicit warnings. Which crashed that nonprofit. It's common. There are many motivations including agent-principle problems, narcissism, and more. "Nobody sets out to make an excessively safe product that won't turn a profit" would be more accurate.
This makes some assumptions about the country you grew up in. I don't know too many people in the UK where I grew up that could give me any nuanced discussion about country music like they could almost any other genre.
Gold standard. Discussing fantasy worlds in a tech platform.

Don't forget me some goblins though.
Very recognizable. Still, I think the annoyed reactions have more to do with people in general not liking being preached to. In my experience many people take offence with advice. They want to find out for themselves, even if that means getting hurt in the process.

Point in case, I have a floundering friend who won't take business advice from me or that of a mutual friend of ours, despite the fact that we both founded and operated successful businesses. Frustrating.
Sure, so a combination of on demand and better scheduling.
Lightweight electric transport (ebikes, scooters, golf carts? etc.)
Obviously implementation depends a lot upon the local geography/density/weather etc.
Definitely not proposing a one size fits all solution.
>It's a bunch of anonymous people posting crap, often for shock value. Sure, there's incitement on there, but nobody takes anybody serious.

As someone who frequents 8chan, I can tell you this categorically is not the case and /pol/acks are very serious.
Blaming an entire community for individual actions is dangerous. Sometimes it is called for, but first I'd like to see a real honest analysis about why these communities are responsible for a significantly greater number of homicides that do not happen in other acceptable communities.
Yes! Another great classic Hacker flick.
This is what happens when you have a business-forward administration who guts all regulatory bodies and instills industry titans into their spots.
Exactly. People here sort of already know RNNs. You could use RNNs in your game theory game (see AlphaGo, etc), but Game Theory is just a set of principals for defining a "Game", and defining incentives, etc.

If the game doesn't properly account for some incentive, it's the problem of the model designer, just like it would be the problem of the RNN designer not gathering the right type of training data.
What has diet soda got to do with eyes?
Gonna go wash my car three times :D
Any info on the camera(s) used for those first two reddit photos?
The problem is that the people who talk about this have no basis for the claim. It feels like it's happening, so they say it is. Other people also say it is, so there is social proof. Anyone who disagrees is reframed as a shill, puppet, useful idiot and the like, leaving no feeling of uncertainty internally.

As far as I can tell this dynamic has nothing to do with reality. Reality is that the HN community has millions of people, is diverse in many ways including internationally, and is divided on divisive topics. That is already enough to explain the comments that show up. But none of us is wired for dealing with that. We're wired for loyalty to our tribe, needing to feel safe, and suspecting outsiders.

It's painful to encounter a sharp opposing view, and people are angrily sharp on divisive topics. Reframing the other as a foreign spy or whatever insulates you from that. It relieves you from considering what truth there might be in that view, and reinforces loyalty to your own—at the cost of feeling surrounded by infiltrators and enemies. This is poisonous to thoughtful discussion, which depends on people being willing to open to differences and truths they may not yet see.

Since the actual phenomenon is vanishingly rare compared to the insinuations people make about it, we have a rule that users not post such insinuations without evidence. A feeling is not evidence. Even the sense "there are a lot of green accounts saying things I disagree with" is usually just a feeling, because we notice things we dislike more vividly than we notice anything else [1]. People on the opposite side have the opposite perceptions, but the identical feelings.

Notice how when people post claims about astroturfing, trolls, and spies on HN, they don't include links; just as when they make claims about "threads about $topic", they don't include links. Why is this? If the perception were of reality rather than a feeling, specific examples would always be available, yet in practice they almost never are. The discussion falls apart when specific cases are mentioned because (a) people never agree about those, and (b) such data as there is never supports the claim. The discussion always stays in a mist of generality, breeding bacteria of suspicion.

[1] Does anybody know or have a name for this bias? It's a huge factor in these discussions and it needs a good name.
I can't live without f.lux (https://justgetflux.com/). Dark mode in all apps possible and looking away frequently generally help me as well as parent.
Does it respect daylight saving time, and leap seconds?
What does diet soda have anything to do with eyes?
Have you considered that perhaps people's opinions are just changing?
Hey there!

What is the value of a point? You say '2x points,' but I can't find the value of a point anywhere on your website. Is it one cent = one point? How do we redeem points?

That aside, love the design and concept. :)
Why do Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, and YouTube continue to turn a blind eye to the hate that populate their platforms? Why do they continue to enable them? The only argument I've heard is that regulating speech is a slippery slope, but I don't find that very persuasive.

https://twitter.com/fraser_anning

It makes me incredibly sad how blatant calls for violence and racist and backwards ideologies are freely pushed on Twitter. Please stop giving these people a platform.
Refreshingly good analysis of the 737MAX from the pilot's perspective.

Most are focusing on the flaws of the plane (which I'm not discounting) but pilot training is also a big part in recovering from unexpected situations, overriding MCAS or automation in general when things go south, and hand-flying the airplane.

The two crashes happened in developing countries, Indonesia and Ethiopia, with local crew. While I don't know the specifics here, often times local airline pilots in developing countries (i.e. no pool of experienced general aviation or military pilots to recruit from) are trained ab initio to have a high reliance on automation, not so much hand-flying the jet. That's how you get, e.g. a first officer with 200 hours.

I do believe that the US civil and military pilot training pipelines, flawed as they are, teach hand-flying and build up experience, and these crashes would be very unlikely to happen with a US carrier and crew.
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April? I heard this morning it would be til the end of the year before the software was updated.
Or they may very well decide to do something else and drop the project entirely on a moment's notice
The tweet took Lyft's total AWS costs and divided it by total rides. It's not a literal accounting of the compute cost for a single ride.

AWS costs that wouldn't really fit into a per-ride accounting:

* Redundancy of instances (regions/AZs)
* Data-storage/duplication/backups
* Non-ride related AWS costs (hosting/processing of analytics, test & automation infrastructure, etc.)

I'm sure there are others. I'm not saying that there's no way they could get their AWS costs down, btw.
>bad rebirth

Carl Sagan Dragon fallacy (1) reincarnation may be as real as not existing. Buddhism was mainly a way to solve India caste problem.

(1) Carl Sagan, The Demon Haunted World
Residents weren't being asked to save 10% of 10% because taking that water from the environment would destroy it. They were being asked to save 10% of 10% so agriculture couldn't point to residents and say "see, they're doing it, we should be able to take whatever we need to from the delta too".

No one is arguing about wet years either. Look at the dry year example. 36% environmental. 62% agriculture. 13% urban.

Edit: also notice the chart - the delta is only about half of those environmental percentages (on average, unfortunately they don't split it out for dry years). The other half comes from "North Coast" which seems likely to be more difficult to take advantage of - at least I haven't heard any controversy over trying to use that water. We don't know what the exact percentage would be in a dry year, but it would still be below 36%.
So if Moore's Law is slowing down and expected to end in 2025 (per it's Wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law ), does this "bitter lesson" then need to be reversed?
I can't understand how using split_at() would work...if the CPU and the GPU both have a reference to the RAM, we're still using an Rc<RefCell<>>. If the slice gets passed into the CPU and GPU's run() functions, then how does this magical memory manager know what to pass ahead of time?

>It's hard to implement unsafe patterns in safe language.

I agree with this 100%. And I think that for certain problem domains, rust provides more safety than you actually want.
> Computers should never overrule manual controls.

I think the justification for an AoA override is there; the system was created as a result of a history of pilot error.
And having to disable a switch isn't overly burdensome.

The issue seems to be transparency, letting the pilots know what the system is doing so they can make a judgement to disable it.
> In the right generation, isn't that practically a job requirement for a CSO?

Which, were he applying for a job as a CSO, might be relevant.
Note, though, that as soon as you do that, you're flying an airplane with flight characteristics that are unlike any other aircraft you've ever flown (unlike any ever built before); an unstable aircraft with extreme stall characteristics you've never encountered - not a normal airliner. And you're close to the ground already.
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