skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Social media is what is making people anxious in the first place. Then they serve as the platform for the circular referencing "proof". Facebook & WhatsApp posts are supported by YouTube videos, are supported by tweets, are supported by more YouTube videos and then back to more Facebook.

So some people I was visiting in a small town started going on about 'chemtrails' they learned about from someone on Facebook. These contrails control the weather, while dispensing chemicals that get into the ground water to control people's minds. They showed me a video on YouTube, it was polished bullshit if I ever saw it. Then there were more FB posts about people who "know the truth".

It was hopeless, even with apps that showed the flight origin and destination of of the planes overhead for commercial cargo, passengers, etc. Apparently hundreds of international and domestic flights are all part of a conspiracy to make it cloudy and dispense chemicals to control the minds of this town. Further, the chemicals are clearly not working since they are even be able to have these thoughts.

I blame social media. The real disaster is coming, this is just the second inning.
I recently learned that Expensify build a database server (BedrockDB) on top of SQLite. At first I was like "that's absurd!" but after reading a bit more and realizing SQLite's "library" nature could just be a building block, it seems less absurd.

Pretty impressive it's so flexible.
Messing with tech support scammers, although for that purpose the Fake Name Generator (search for it) is better because it generates addresses and credit card numbers (that pass the checksum validation) too.
I actually think #5 is the most important and shouldn't be discounted. I like three month projects - something moderate hard that might or might not get shipped. A summer of evenings sort of thing is usually enough to get a good grasp for me.
While self-aggrandizement is fun and empowering of course why not simply focus on the arguments for and against specific claims and skip the self-proclaimed measures of analytic power?
I made a random Arabic name generator around 5 years ago[0]. Data is scrapped from Tunisian electoral lists.

Feel free to use the DB, it is in sqlite.

[0] https://lab.raed.it/php/tounsi/
In a base sense, I agree with you. But this way of looking at it will lead to a misinterpretation that it's just our inability to measure it that is behind the weirdness. I tend to think of it like this: nature, at it's core, is fundamentally weird. Our frame of understanding is based on definite postulates that "things" have a certain "position", they can be only be in one "place" at one "time" and our body of scientific logic and reasoning is built on it. At core of QM, there is the Broglie concept of matter waves. What we used to consider as elementary particles are fundamentally a wave which exhibits particle-like behavior in certain scenarios. If you accept that everything (the double slit, the beam, the screen, a bunch of grey cells postulating about it) is a combination of fields of probabilities of what we call as "elementary particles", it will become easier to digest. "observation" is nothing but an act of interaction of some of these fields that takes away the "coherent" nature of an observed weirdness ("collapse").
I did, simply because it became the defacto interaction layer, with its ecosystem of first- and third-party plugins. Perhaps a plugin ecosystem is another defining characteristic: I think the "all batteries included" property most people associate with frameworks seems a bit limiting.
Most people here want to belive that the world revolves around tech as opposed to tech being a tool that is used in our everyday world to make it better. So I'm not surprised there is nothing posted here.
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> So have the WHO, FDA, CDC, EFSA, FSA, etc etc. Does the book you recommend arrive at different results?

Yes
I have always wondered what a scripting language designed with the values of the OpenBSD project would look like. It would interesting to sit down and think how pledge, veil, and privilege separation among other things would effect the design.
Gap years are a luxury for the privileged. A lot of American students lack the funds to sit around for a year. You can't get a student loan unless you're actually studying in an accredited school.
Apple supposedly marks certain beta builds with a bounty multiplier. I say supposedly because like their "research iPhones" they mentioned it in a presentation once and I never heard about it again.
Fortunately some rando site or SaaS app doesn't have the leverage to force me to implement additional garbage! Apple does, and did. I'm still surprised that this didn't trigger an antitrust investigation like when Microsoft abused their monopoly to push internet explorer. This is exactly the same thing, if not worse.
Idiots == people who are questioning the status quo of their day?
The title should say 'full/end-to-end' rather than 'strong'.

It's not about how hard it is to break but rather where it's encrypted/not.
> One of their best conspiracies in modern times has been to convince the populace that those pointing them out are nuts.

Even if this is true, the fact remains that most conspiracy theories are nuts.

No matter how many times conspiracy theorists shout "Snowden! Snowden!" at critics, that doesn't lend credibility by association to flat earth, anti-vaxxers, Pizzagate, etc.
Which makes their confidence in their literacy so bizarre. koheripbal's reaction to the uncontroversial observation is to first convince himself that it must be wrong and then project a specific and fantastical reason to explain why we have observed it. He really thinks he has figured something out.
So basically, give up on LaTeX to PDF as the primary workflow. Either convert LaTeX to semantic HTML instead of to PDF (probably doable for simple cases... \emph to <em>, \section to <h2>, \begin{tabular) to <table>, and so on), or better yet just author HTML without going through LaTeX at all. If needed, convert the semantic HTML to PDF as well, for printing or whatever, and then the PDF might end up sane.

Fine, fair enough. If fixing TeX is hopeless, then so be it. I assumed it just needed a few small tweaks, maybe combined with slightly cleverer PDF viewers. Guess I was wrong.

But then what should people use for math? I suppose there's MathJax, which seems to have put some thought into accessibility.

There's still a problem though. I can't help but notice that the journal you linked to is a biology journal. In some math/CS circles which are TeX's "home turf", TeX is far more entrenched to the point where I'm not sure such things even exist. For instance, arxiv sort of supports HTML, but not really:

https://arxiv.org/help/submit_html

So there I guess step 1 is to make HTML a viable option.
I did that too and wondered if they were finally offering a real bug bounty platform…
(sarcastic) summary: If you don't take things at fac(k)e value, you're not part of the herd and would rather check the facts: you a conspirationist.
It's a good impulse, and almost certainly more productive, but aren't we still left with how to deal with people holding (and especially acting on) totally counterfactual beliefs? I would like them feel heard, but without encouraging them to actually harm other people (which fits with the 'cheating spouse' analogy I'd say).
I disagree. If as a researcher you come up with a new kind of model that (1) performs better than small-scale transformers given the same computational budget, and (2) improves its performance as you increase the computation budget (model size), quite a few people will be curious to see how your model would perform at greater and greater scale.

BTW, I like the clever username, Al-Khwarizmi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Musa_al-Khwarizmi
Hard to believe it still hasn’t been fixed.
This just isn’t true. I’ve never used Tensorflow but Kubernetes is great.

We moved to it from docker swarm because docker swarm still has a lot of glitches with its overlay network. Rolling upgrades would leave stale network entries and its impossible to reproduce. Sometimes it happens sometimes it doesn’t.

With a managed solution, Kubeadm, or RKE it’s not hard to deploy anymore. All our infrastructure is in code, is immutable, and if you’re careful can be deployed into any kubernetes cluster.

Just like Docker has been great for easily deploying open source products, kubernetes is great for doing the same thing when you need to deploy horizontally. It’s easy for OSS to provide a docker image, a docker compose file for single node deploy, and Kubernetes yaml for a horizontal deploy.
I'm sorry about this, I only now realized how many people responded to this post. I kind of which that Hacker News had notifications so you would know that I am replying to you. At this point replying seems like sort of a lost cause but if you do happen to get this I thought this question was important enough to warrant answering.

That level of dedication came to me because I was not very disciplined when I was younger and hadn't developed any marketable skills. I grew up poor and I didn't want her to grow up poor. So I threw myself into something I had an aptitude for and I started working my ass off at getting better at it. Though, one could say that any effort is considerably more than I had put in before.

I really want what is best for my daughter. I have to give her a better life. So because it has become so important, that's why I work so hard. She interferes sometimes, but I'm not going to let that stop me from giving her a better life.
And famously Martin Luther King Jr, even Hemingway.

TL;DR: His friends were disturbed by his paranoia that the FBI was following him. But years later it turned out to be based on fact:
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/opinion/02hotchner.html
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>As long as they don't take any aggressive or dangerous actions based on the feeling of course.

That's exactly what they will eventually do.
I find Scientific American has been deeply disappointing for 5 years if not more. They infrequnetly cover meaningful science, and when they do try their work is full of errors.
When the government spends money on advertising I expect it to be labelled as government spending on advertising, not hidden behind a shell organisation.
Stephen Pinker. Hans Rosling.
So we can appease them - and prevent them from spreading potentially harmful information - by trying to make them less angry with the medical system or the telecom companies?

Sounds nebulous and I’m highly doubtful.
Yes it does, my application written in Go, Java, .NET, doesn't care if the runtime is bare metal, running on an hypervisor type 2, type 1 or some other OS.

I run Docker on Windows Containers, no Linux required.

There are also the ugly named serverless deployments, where the kernel is meaningless.
I keep getting emails for a person with the name of my fake identity.
That system would never be exist if not for the framework. Also good luck hiring developers who want to work on your half-arsed system (or rather who would run away as soon as they realise that their experience is barely transferable to another business).

With homebrew code you end up with a few really old developers whom you pay a lot because no one else exists in the universe to support your system. Everybody else comes and leaves while never saying that, to be fair - you really need to rethink your approach to software development.
I think we all did that at that age. And there's nothing wrong with those stories, even as adults... as long as you realize they're not true.

Like, could you imagine if we could deploy microchips in vaccines? We're maybe 30-50 years away from nanotechnology that could operate in the human body like that, and it would be groundbreaking and revolutionary.

Or, could you imagine just getting gigabit wirelessly, even out in the sticks? It'd be absolutely amazing for accelerating the growth and connectivity of about one third of America, and revolutionize the economy, education, literally everything in those places.

The problem with conspiracy theorists is that a lot of their conspiracies depend on the emotional connection with technology fucking up their life. No, people fucked their lives up, technology just makes it faster, easier, and more efficient to do it.

I, on the other hand, am just disappointed that you can't actually torch a 5G tower... because there aren't any outside of very tiny test installations. What they've been torching have just been normal towers or long range LTE deployments.
The problem is that nobody claims that databases "know" anything. They store data. Data can be retrieved from storage. That's all they do.

>> The query does not encode the answer, and it is vanishingly unlikely that the database would simply accidentally return the right answer ever if it did not store the information in some way.

Oh, yes, absolutely. A query encodes the answer. Queries are patterns that are matched by the data stored in the database. If a query fails it's because it does not correctly represent the information it is trying to retrieve. For example, if I SELECT * FROM TABLE PEOPLE and there is no table "PEOPLE", then I don't get an answer because the query does not correctly represnt the structure of the database. You cannot retrieve any data from a database unless you have some idea about the structure of that data.

But that's not the point here. I don't disagree that a language model can learn (i.e. it can represent some elements of its training dataset). I disagree that it "understands" anything and I find the fact that it needs specific queries to retrieve the data it is representing to be evidence that it does not.

And so it's not more useful than a traditional database at this kind of task. Except it's much less precise than a traditional database and costs considerably more to create.

>> Learning about the real world or text is very different from learning your particular dumb broken query method.

I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean here. What is my "particular dumb borken query method"? Is that meant as a personal attack?
This is lazy thinking as well. There are enormous political and economic factors at play.

It’s not only racism that people leverage for political influence. People also use racism as a label for political gain.

But the people on the receiving end of that labelling tend not to be well represented on this forum, so it’s easy to smear them as backwards and ignore their complaints.
People forget what life was like before Rails and Django.

Everyone can build their functionality in any way they want to, but the trade off is that anyone else who works on your code then has to figure out how you structured it, documented it and make sense of everything else along the way. It’s a huge headache if anyone other than you is ever going to work on your code.

But that also only works if there is a clearly dominant framework in your language (like Rails and Django).

In languages that are more built for the web out of the box like PHP, JS and Go most frameworks are just putting the pieces together in different ways and that leads to a lack of a dominant structure.

Anybody can strip out parts to make something fast. There’s nothing special or magical about that.

Assembling a cohesive approach to solving a repetitive problem that thousands of other people can get behind is significantly more challenging. It’s an exercise in optimizing education rather than optimizing performance.

Good frameworks are hard. Bad frameworks are numerous and easy. Look for languages with a single dominant framework.
All the more reason to stay with Firefox.
If the status quo is trivially provable, and has been for thousands of years, yes.
Trump Executive Order Misreads Key Law Promoting Free Expression Online
This is a very dangerous advice to follow in general.
Surely discrimination on a public license offer would not be considered funny in Germany either?
Very telling that this is at the top of HN. Predictable that it is considered status quo for Scientific American. "Everyone who disagrees with me is insane."
It's specific to the tool, but most distros disable the message.

> If you want GNU Parallel to be maintained in the future, and not just wither away like so many other free software tools, you need to help finance the development.

etc

For more details, check out the Arch Linux patches that patch this super-annoying message out:

https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk?...

The message appears every time when using GNU parallel unless a very long flag is given or the executable has been patched.

I think it goes against the philosophy of most open source software that comes with Linux distros, where you are given software freely, but pay back by contributing to the overall open source community, if you can and want. (This is my subjective interpretation of the matter).
You’d ban half of Twitter. It’s pretty much impossible to differentiate an actual “person typing like a bot” from a legitimate user that, say, likes to tweet memes a lot. People that think this is an easy problem just don’t have the slightest idea of what it entails.
Very few databases support transactional DDL, meaning that you can do something like:

BEGIN;
DROP TABLE foo;
CREATE TABLE bar (t int);
ROLLBACK;

...and it will just work as you expect. Oracle doesn't, nor does MSSQL.

As far as I know, other than Postgres, only Sybase ASE, Informix, DB2 UDB, and Firebird support transaction DDL.
"Affected Users whom [sic] utilize Webmail for Hosted Email will experience issues logging into Webmail or using Email Clients."

Someone at Rackspace must have taken Andy's advice[0] to heart when they should've visited Grammarly[1] instead.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01Dn53H2ZLw&t=1m10s

[1] https://www.grammarly.com/blog/who-vs-whom-its-not-as-compli...
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That is very wrong with the US system. It should be "loser pays"
Turning the entire file into a single line really doesn't seem like a solution. Now

foo(1, bar, false)
print("Hello, world")
flag = true

shows up in your grep output, and not in a particularly helpful rendering.
As much as I appreciate humorous replies to my question, I'm serious. What makes a new article appear on the front page?

I saw some hitting the front page with much fewer votes than others. What's the mechanics in play here?
I think I trust Apple over a random website too, but was adding an additional kind of sign in and forcing everyone to use it even needed in the first place?
Hydroxychloroquine – Not the Elixir That Gives Life
What I read is that the so called quantum dot is just invisible ink.

A stamp that tells the next health care worker if a person has been vaccinated, when, the type...

My friend who believes in stuff like these seems to have a thinking impairment in some areas. He latches on to the first idea his mind likes and never lets go.

Example was two days ago. He downloaded GTA3 game.

The file was a 147mb 7zip archive. Which magically expanded 147mb expanded to over 2GB after he ran a batch file!

He immediately started singing the praise of 7zip.

Without knowing any detail I told him the uploader was the wizard not 7zip.

He sent me the setup.bat file and the stuff became clear.

The uploader converted wav to MP3. MPG videos to low quality MP4.

The setup.bat used ffmpeg to upscale things.

No logical explanation from me changed his mind.

Last straw, told him to uninstall 7Zip and run setup.bat.

That was the end of the discussion.
Not relevant. Most layman get science wrong. It doesn't mean science is bad.
You could sue for damages arising from breach of contract I guess. And in the US you don't always have to substantiate your damages.
> flat earth, anti-vaxxers, Pizzagate

I disagree with the assertion that these are representative of "most" conspiracy theories. How about JFK? The Panama Papers? Mass surveillance? These are real things that happen, and people are offered no explanation—or no good explanation—and will try to reason out their own.
I am doing other hpc stuff, so I am wondering why are you limited to 1 GPU? Windows recognizes up to 8 I think.
You started your account here by claiming that Twitter was engaging in a conspiracy to silence one political party over the others by fact checking Trump.

It doesn't seem like to me you're engaging in good faith here at all and are in fact engaging in irresponsible posting.
None of these claims is real. “shadowbanning” doesnt exist, and that has been proven many times over. They also don’t remove any content that doesn’t infringe the TOS. This “valley ideology” nonsense is pure propaganda.
For the last 15 years PHP didn’t have a framework that wasn’t a pile of dysfunctional code. I can totally understand why you never considered a switch.
Not to mention the proposed actions aren't drastically altering the landscape and draining swamps, it's stuff like introducing genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild that cause the species to become infertile and die off. Draining wetlands and destroying forests is of course many times more impactful then removing a single species.
Elmer FEM – open-source multiphysical simulation software
Orcas don’t do well in captivity (2019)
Sorry for the tone. I tend towards a little formal perhaps, but it’s intended to be optimized for precision not presumption.

I am also concerned about foreign influence, but I also observe that we meddle in other countries’ affairs as well, so it’s just a fact of life and social media changes it but didn’t start it. I’m more concerned with a population who isn’t thinking critically and with the right balance of short and long term (and is therefore especially susceptible to influence), but whether the influence is foreign or domestic doesn’t matter as much to me as the effect of the influence.
Not a bad idea. I can think of a couple improvements:

1. Let me search, I don't want to scroll through a hundred options.

2. Bring more flavor variety. Hello, ketchup chips!??!
If it were trivially provable to these people they wouldn't question it.
Newbie question: If/when models the size of GPT3 are released to the general public, will average people going to be able to run them on their PCs, as they can with GPT2? Or will that basically be impossible now without expensive specialty hardware?
Me too! For me it was because I've usually seen "zero day" written as "0day".
Consultancies are especially unrealistic because many of them tend to take on new projects without having to maintain very many of them. That's definitely going to skew your view of standardized tooling.

If instead this company was focused on long term support or fixing other companies' mistakes, I think the view would be different.
Next Wednesdays meeting has been moved forward 2 days. What day is it now on?
In the apps I write for my org integrating with the org SSO provider, I treat the JWT tokens mostly like a non-JWT token. Verify the token with the IDP, map the token to a specific user and never relying on the JWT payload user info for the resource auth. It takes additional 0.25s during the login process but has never let me down. As the SSO provider was issuing non-JWT tokens few years back, this was the way we went about making sure the user is who they are saying they are and just stuck with the same approach when they moved to JWT tokens.
Donald Knuth, for example, don't use email https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html

Not telling you should stop using it. Just to give a thought.
Sometimes when I'm feeling blue I write letters addressed to fake people and share my thoughts with them.
Influential if you want your audience to be entirely made of other bots.
"create stand alone database: ~30m"

If creating a database takes 30 minutes, there is something extremely wrong either in the procedure the person used to do so, or in the Oracle software itself.