skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've never seen a bad or immoral or harmful idea die out when more people learn about it and scrutinize it.

Leaded gasoline, phlogiston, cold fusion, phrenology, scientific racism, basically the entire history of the progress of science.

But let's also not forget that you're asking for a list of discredited ideas, so you wouldn't have heard of them, by definition, if things are working as they should, because they're wrong and the former proponents have long since abandoned trying to disseminate them to you.

> Deplatforming these people and, importantly, showing social pressure that these are bad ideas and shouldn't even be entertained as valid debate, has shown to work repeatedly.

If all you're doing is defining "work" as "the censorship target was censored" then you're not claiming anything. When you kick these people off of major platforms, they don't cease to exist, they break off like an extremist splinter group and go to a place with no moderating influences to fester. You don't see them anymore, but they're still there, and then suddenly somehow Donald Trump is the President of the United States and people can't believe it and don't understand how it happened.

> In fact, social pressure is one of the most effective tools against hate and ignorance like this.

Censorship isn't social pressure, it's force. Social pressure is telling wrong people why they're wrong, every time.

People who are wrong need to be made right, not made frustrated and angry and yet not only still wrong but now even more convinced that their wrong ideas are right because they now have real evidence that they're not getting a fair public debate.
Of course there's a chance. It's possible that Trump is correct and there is a vast conspiracy to make him look bad when in fact he is exactly what he says he is: a very stable genius who is doing a great job.

There's also a chance that the earth is flat. I'll give comparable odds for both.
In general, in the US if you don't have a BS, you won't be accepted to any MS program.
are 99% of people entertaining dissident thoughts getting banned from youtube?
Vigilante lynch mobs instead of a justice system also do work.
>ban the lizard guy

He's not "the lizard guy", he's "the antisemitic guy". Lizards = Jews. It's not crazy speech, it's thinly disguised hate speech. Got it? Understand yet? Because all the racists do.

Are you against banning the antisemitic guy or not?
People are responsible for their own actions. "Hitler told me to" or "David Icke told me to" do not excuse anything someone does. I believe we established particularly after WWII that "I was just following orders" is not a valid defense to committing atrocities.

You might also want to remember that one of the first things Hitler did after getting power was to outlaw any opposition parties and violently break up meetings of any dissenters, then arrest and torture anyone who was promoting anything other than the Nazi party line. Hmm, sound familiar?
One aspect of Death Stranding I'm still fascinated by is its punishment of fast travel. It's like the antithesis of any other modern open world game (like Ghost Recon Wildlands, Far Cry 5, Horizon Zero Dawn...) where traversing the open world is largely negated by the ability to simply warp to the objective area. In Death Stranding, however, I'm forced to give up all of my inventory to fast travel; the game is centered around the travel itself. I've never experienced a similar game, where I'm plotting a course and deciding how many ladders and ropes I might need, and how heavy of a load I can safely bring with me. Absolutely fascinating, I still haven't finished the game because I'm obsessed with the side objectives and feeling like I'm helping other players by constructing roads.
I recommend getting a good text book and working through that. That gives you a through overview so you don't miss certain areas. I can't recommend any for particular subjects, but make sure you choose wisely. Try to find the one everyone refers to.
I agree, OP is just out of touch with current realities. Sorry but I will side with the the notion that Youtube IS a public utility. The free market allowed these monsters to grow (Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc) and become extremely powerful. They cannot now to claim "they are just another private company" when people are totally marginalized from public discourse if they dont play along.

The other thing is the partenalistic stuff, please remove the content so those brain dead morons(not me) dont get influenced.If the ideas are so wacky, you need more light and debate and shame, not censorship and secretism. Maybe I am one of those brain-dead morons, but for me the standard is very clear, if a video/tweet is illegal, remove it and block the account, otherwise, let it be.
That’s not what you said upthread. Salt, k8s, Ansible: they’re all the same. That’s what you said.
Former Supreme Court judge gives a critique of the Government's lockdown
When Does a Small Business File for Bankruptcy?
GNOME didn't have any significant systemd integration until well after Debian had decided to go ahead with it.

I remember this being a strong supporter, among others: https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/01/msg00287.html
I don't understand how anything that I've said is in opposition to my original point.
Refusing medical treatment for children on religious grounds is legal to varying degrees in 43 states.

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/parents-beliefs-about...

Anti-vaxing is not an organized religion but I could see organized religions adopting anti-vaxing beliefs.
> Leaded gasoline, phlogiston, cold fusion, phrenology, scientific racism, basically the entire history of the progress of science.

The progress of science wasn't driven by nutjobs delivering spittle-flecked rants on Youtube. Almost all of it was driven by careful peer review of ideas -- which is the exact opposite of unrestricted speech.
In short, you have no degree and no software engineering experience, so getting hired for a junior dev role with super low pay should be the realistic next step.

I have no degree, but I started my career with a lot of open source projects on Github. If you work hard enough there, and you actually market your projects and your own brand, you will have a chance at getting hired. I was offered my first job at a very, very low salary and I took it. After a year, they realized I was worth my salt and they wanted to keep me, so I got a hefty raise.

If you want into this industry, I recommend you do the same. Make some open source projects which are useful and market them. Make them look good, visually, and do the same with your own website. Meanwhile, apply places and talk to recruiters. If you get an offer and it's a low salary, you should probably take it. The only reason you shouldn't would be if your personal expenses require a higher salary (i.e. you have a kid); you may need to lower your class of living, if you're single and used to making a lot more. However, once you get that first job, do everything you can. Learn everything you can. A couple years in, people won't know you don't have a degree; you'll just be another dev.

There's one key thing about practice that I'll mention here, though: stick with one thing, at the start. You need to make up for your lack of credentials and experience, so it would be good if you're very comfortable with something. For me, it was C++ and game engines.

With that said, the lack of degree still bites when it comes to job changes. Even later in my career, I've had teams give me the "okay" and even welcome me to the company before someone higher up sees I don't have a degree and calls the whole thing off. That primarily happens with larger companies, though, so you're better off sticking with smaller companies until you have enough work experience to make people no longer care where/when you went to school.

Lastly, I mentioned this above, but it's the most useful point here and it's worth saying multiple times: market your fucking brand. Firstly, if I spent a weekend making a FOSS project, I'd spend the next week adding documentation, CI, code coverage tests, and everything else which people expect from a Github project these days. Why? Because it looks better and it makes you look better. Secondly, if I make a ray tracer or game engine, I'm not going to show it rendering some spheres; instead, take the time to parse some file formats to show a whole scene. This is because people make up their mind about something they see in the split second when they first see it. It doesn't matter how slick your code is; make it look good to recruiters, team managers, and passers by. Thirdly and finally, know your audience when you're making things look good. When you build your website, build it not for super technical people, but for the most average mouse clicker you can imagine. That's who you need to impress in order to get your résumé in front of a dev.
This article has an unexpected resonance for me after several weeks of pandemic lockdown. Just three months ago I would have laughed it off. Now I am increasingly pissed off.

In the US, but I see reflection of this in Europe as well, has allowed irresponsible puerile imbeciles to be elected. These people play games with wealth and power, with no regard to the lives and well-being of the society that pays for it. I did not mention any party, that perennial misdirection to their collective heist. Also don't fall for the other smoke screen of small vs. big government. I demand at least a competent government.

For politicians truth is whatever you make people believe it to be.

Meanwhile engineers and scientists struggle daily to find the hard facts of the world to painstakingly build or discover something that improves lives. We should be disgusted and revolted at who is leading us right now. We should drive these fools out office and strip them of any respect.

If we don't, there will be no one competent left in position to rebuild from this, or the next, catastrophe that "nobody" could have expected. Or maybe there will be some states or localities that can get their act together, and the rest will be a wasteland of warring cultural and racial tribes.
True. Apparently the author wrote a book about the topic, presumably that has some good citations, but one can only guess.
Furthermore, there is zero guarantee that the censors won't eventually develop a taste for antivaxxing themselves, and now any information about potential benefits of vaccines is actively suppressed.
But if you fail to update it, you leave unpatched security holes. In practice, using a cloud version could be better.
> I've looked into this, and it seems pretty much down to the retail vs. commercial packaging and the assorted supply chains. Both the packaging materials themselves, as well as the plant capacity to pack a bunch of 5lb bags of flour vs. giant 50 or 100lb bags a baker would pick up. I'm sure FDA labeling requirements/etc. are likely different as well so it's not quite as simple as "find a few trucks worth of burlap bags".

Yep. I own a bakery. My big-name ingredient supplier doesn't carry the flour brands commonly seen in supermarkets, and the same is true in reverse. Likewise, the flour I buy doesn't include the labeling seen with retail products, like a nutritional panel. If I want the detailed information a manufacturer offers I request that from my supplier or the manufacturer. As an example, I was looking into a new source for one ingredient recently (malted barley flour), and the sales representative also gave me all the secondary documents (total of 70 pages):

Food Safety Audit Report

Certificate of Conformity

Material Safety Data Sheet

Certificate of Analysis

Kosher Certification

Technical Data Sheet

Corporate Certificate of Liability Insurance

Product Guarantee

Product Specifications Sheet
“When we update this prior in light of the Fermi observation, we find a substantial probability that we are alone in our galaxy, and perhaps even in our observable universe (53%–99.6% and 39%–85% respectively). ’Where are they?’ — probably extremely far away, and quite possibly beyond the cosmological horizon and forever unreachable.”

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.02404.pdf

Done and done.
Office, Messaging and Verbs (2015)
Fraud is absolutely a criminal issue.
Yeah I would say your numbers are even on low end for sr roles (depends on how sr ofc). They probably mixed all kinds of engineering-but-in-name-only compensations there.
if you have enough flour, we got around this problem by making a sourdough starter.
I have a bachelors in finance and got into U Mich MS in CS. It's certainly doable.
Droped out of collefe, self taught programmer. I've been coder at a big multinational, tech lead in state and federal government, currently VP at one of the big three.
Don't worry, try to be a good coder.
But systemd-resolved is such an odd complaint since it’s only connection to systemd is the name and that it’s in the same repo. It’s not connected to the init system at all.
"Fake News" entered the realm (not even recently, might I add) of popular misuse. Actually, is there a term for: language/grammar incorrectly used because society has developed a familiar "meme" use?

Common examples:

* Look at this dank "meme".

meme has come to mean "a picture shared on the internet that has words on it".

* Let's [have a] "cheers".

It's a toast. You say "cheers" when you toast.

* You missed Suzie and I's party last night.

It's Suzie and my party. This one is particularly annoying because it's made it way past editors and into writing, screenplay, etc.
Are you making a moral statement, or asserting the current state of the law in the US, which is the jurisdiction at issue?
There's an old saying that people deserve their rulers.
I think it's the "This place is wonderful, you'd love it, but we don't want the whole world to move here and ruin it, so we say that it's terrible" schtick. I think the ;) in there was a hint...
> A digital product which, if it achieves the necessary adoption, would force anyone wishing to engage in modern society into a feudal system via network effects.

Most other digital products (outside of some decentralized services and even then maybe not. See, for example email) have this problem but even worse in that you end up in a dictatorship. Is a feudal system with free exit worse than a dictatorship? I’d say no so does anyone make this argument against all non-decentralized services? I don’t think so.
That's an example of a very bizarre view that seems to have almost no chance of being right and almost no evidence in its favor. And presumably many truths sounded weirder (less plausible) than that in past societies, and many truths are going to sound weirder than that in future societies.

It's harder to say this because of the implied criticism of the common sense and rationality of people now living (including everyone in this conversation), but perhaps there are many truths that sound weirder than that to us, too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation
from article "In some cases, users and developers pair program together, and the source is their common language."

from example: f←{4⎕CR ⍵}◊s←{⍺~⍨¨⍵⊂⍨1++\⍺⋸⍵}◊f ⊃{⍎⎕UCS ⍵}¨¨44 s¨10 s⊣⎕FIO[41] 0

Mmmm... I code in C, Java, PHP, CaML, Prolog... for a long time... so I guess that I'm quite used to programming. But really: I can't make any sense of these hieroglyphs !!!!
And NO user I ever worked with would either...

So I guess that I'll need a lot more sugar to taste APL...
Goodbye and Thank You, Honestbee
Correct. By the time the question of default init system was being decided by the Technical Committee, the tentacles of systemd were so entrenched that its relative merits or detriments as an init system were of little importance. As Russ Allbery (a committee member) pointed out at the time:

"We’re not really talking about choosing between two competing ecosystems. Rather, we’re talking about whether or not to swap out a core component of an existing integrated ecosystem with a component that we like better."

Also (to try holding back the tide of historical revisionism) let me highlight that Debian's decision was in no way unanimous and the process was not without its own controversy. In reality, the Tech Committee was divided down the middle when it came to their vote on the default init system, and the tie was only decided by the double vote of Bdale Garbee, the chairman of the committee.
I don't think I've ever seen a 20lb bag of flour in a grocery store. That's a really big bag. That's about 4 gallons by volume.

My wife bought a 50lb bag today: our local bakery buys that size for their own purposes. It's a good sized sack.

I do not think there are many people out buying 20lb bags of flour.
Interesting comparisons of a GNOME volunteer to Stalin. Also found it very interesting that the author put inclusivity in quotes.
On January 14, Chinese central authorities knew that COVID-19 spread readily between people. They continued to tell the world the opposite, as reflected by the infamous WHO tweet.

Also, the word you are looking for is not "extend" but "extent".
There have been issues more recently with vaccine safety. Or at least, there were enough lawsuits to start frightening off vaccine manufacturers. Since 1986, however, they've been insulated from lawsuits under federal law:[0]

> The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, ..., as amended, created the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), a no-fault alternative to the traditional tort system. It provides compensation to people found to be injured by certain vaccines. Even in cases in which such a finding is not made, petitioners may receive compensation through a settlement.

> The VICP was established after lawsuits against vaccine manufacturers and healthcare providers threatened to cause vaccine shortages and reduce vaccination rates. The Program began accepting petitions (also called claims) in 1988.

The current anti-vaccination movement began largely over concern that thiomersal preservative in many childhood vaccines was causing autism. Although multiple epidemiological studies indicated that there was no appreciable risk, "the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) asked vaccine makers to remove thiomersal from vaccines as quickly as possible as a precautionary measure", and it was ~gone by 2001.[1]

0) https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/about/index.html

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiomersal_and_vaccines
Specialy given making bread better than the store is very likely, my father used to be a baker and has told me how stores use a yellow coloring to make it look like bread has lots of eggs but it has near none, or how they push yeast to the limit where bread gets the most air inside possible to make it look big, or how they buy the cheapest butter and so on.
>I've never seen a bad or immoral or harmful idea

Sure but who decides what ideas are bad or immoral or harmful? Everyone pretends like this is some simple problem to solve but come on. It's incredibly complex and it seems that both sides of this argument that want to anoint an Arbiter of Truth are only okay with it insofar as it's their Arbiter.
My two cents:

1. Have a medium/long term goal, and then structure the topics you want to learn around that.

2. Plan and execute projects that exercise the topics you want to learn.

If finding the goal (1) is a problem, maybe start with solving that problem.
>ugh there are literally people who think the Earth is flat. There are literally people who think the Earth is flat!

True, should they ban that as well? Though they havn't been going around flattening mountains or any other harm, so there is that.

Not all those who believe conspiracy stuff, act upon it. Some will, those are more the ones who will engage in lesser, more niche platforms in which such content will run, along with more such content. Thus, driving many who will want to watch it to be exposed to other platforms in which such content is less tacked as more echo chambers and this is not something to be overlooked.

Thing is, whatever you do, there will always be some and with so many humans, the odds of there being more than one is a given. Do you ridicule/educate in public or cast aside to dark corners in which they can carry on unchecked.
The thing about embedded is that you can stay in it. I'm 58, and my salary hasn't stopped going up. Sure, it's not at FAANG levels, but it's better than people with 8 years of experience get. In embedded, that extra experience actually is worth more money. It's not the "you don't know this week's web framework? No job for you" world.
This answer resonates with me a lot. I was in a what I consider to be a similar situation as the OP three years ago. Graduated with a fine arts degree, made a switch in developing software skills, took a few quarters of community college classes. Had over 200 side projects when I started applying around in 2017. I did a year at a part-time internship for almost no pay. In 2018, I started applying again with much more responses, and I finally landed a full-time software engineering role with my current company. Been really enjoying working here.

Open to chatting, email me at "~ (at) mtso (dot) io".
So Hitler was guilty of no crimes then? It would have been a good, or at least morally obligated thing that nobody stopped him, yes?
Occasionally ships can be had for extremely cheap when the former owner cannot afford the maintenance on it. It's more common with small pleasure craft, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear about small cargo ships being occasionally abandoned up there.
The entire repo is a big ball of mud. No one knows which parts can be removed without breaking things.

Heck, the author of this article couldn’t even find a design doc or adequate manual for the init part of the train wreck, and it’s been in development for ten years.
I think there's an under-noticed property here: you have an engineering degree - an ME degree.

Hiring boards will often be concerned that the person applying doesn't have an engineering level degree, and may not have the intellectual horsepower to do the work. (I'm not defending this - I'm saying it is a thing).

You have an ME degree - which, say what you will, is, intellectually speaking, a lateral move, as compared to software engineering. They are comparably hard.

This is great! You won't get dinged nearly as hard, which will make your transition vastly easier.

You will have more opportunities than someone without an engineering degree, so that's a bright spot on your resume.
Great teachers come meet you where ever YOU are at in your knowledge.

Once they are next to you, they guide you to take the very first step, nothing more. Then just the second step, nothing more. Then the third etc.

If you are not understanding what is being taught: the problem is the teacher.

Soon you both see YOU have more confidence. That confidence is called learning and the best teachers know when to pull back and let you go on your own.

Great teachers do not judge you. If you are embarrassed in front of a teacher because you do not know something; the problem is the teacher.

The best teachers let me be myself and just showed me how to take the next step.
+ increased borrowing costs as the deficits begin to worry investors.
Then why did Josselin Mouette, a GNOME packager for Debian, write this in October 2013:

"GNOME in jessie will need systemd as the init system to work with all its features, just like it needs the network configuration to be handled by NetworkManager."
"E pur si muove...!"
If the feds did centralize acquisition and distribution all hell would break loose. Every allocation would be disputed and every allocation would be blamed on partisan allegiances.

The solution would be the states deciding among themselves who should get what, with the richer states being OK with getting less than they would otherwise get.