skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that government lies, especially ones that happen on a scale like that in the US, are not at all why we have conspiracy theorists. I think there's a more underlying human need to believe that there is something behind "it all", and when that is combined with a lack of education, political awareness, or just stubborness, you get people who will believe almost anything. That, and occasionally mental illness, is why you get people who will believe in lizard people who run the world, flat earths, and so on, not because of singular examples of wide scale government fraud.
That's true, yes, but I believe it only applies if you are a high-ranking official or work in a very sensitive position. Either of those are usually a good indicator that you're okay with "the system", are not a threat to it and your country's intelligence services won't go after you.

I don't think the average citizen has to worry about the FSB finding their kinks and blackmailing them. You don't kidnap poor people's children for ransom, you don't blackmail people who have no special powers.
The new release of VMware Workstation now works with Hyper-V as its hypervisor but a bunch of people (and I'm one of them) have experienced massive, unacceptable performance regressions for VM guests. I had to disable Hyper-V and hence stop using WSL2 until it's resolved. If the performance issues are intrinsic this will probably be a permanent showstopper for people who rely on VMware or Virtual Box. Hopefully this gets sorted out one way or another.
nearly all dabeaz talks are gems, a weird balance in casualness and depth
But on average its bad to outbid the free market, so countries systematically doing it don‘t last long
Agree with the app store being better than anything that preceded it. That said, it's not 2008 anymore and Apple should adapt.

What happens in reality is developers either capitulate and / or sneakily separately contact their users and get them to pay through another payment processor.
No notifications on ios.
If you read the post you see that those results were likely from repeat voters organized for that.
The rise of the Church made most of the ancient culture to be believed false of demonic. Philosophers were the first put to the fire. Temples were destroyed, along with the books inside them. With the end of the Roman state, there was nobody left in Europe to maintain the engineering knowledge acquired by the ancient.
I think the brain needs something special to be able to understand language properly. Perhaps this is one of the things humans are particularly (well, extremely) good at relative to our general intelligence.

Many parrots can speak but it's not really language, it's more contextual. Same with the non-human apes that can "use sign language".

Also your example is not good IMO because there are physiological constraints on animals' ability to speak similarly to humans, like needing a larynx
The "product" being sold is a doctrinal basis for group cohesion, the same basic constitutive role that the following ideas play: "property is theft", "LOTR is the best book ever written", "transwomen are women", etc. (<- this is not a comment on the truth of these, only their social function).

These ideas constitute groups around them, forming a bedrock of a social belief system.

Ironically, this is exactly how conspiracies function: "we never landed on the moon".

This does not apply to people with material goals, rather than social(/epistemic) ones. The goal, "let's poison everyone with 5G" isn't an essentially meaningless doctrine ie., whose only impact is on belief, not on the world.

Goals to change the world, rather than to regulate belief, require actual self-awareness, coordination and a desire to realise that end-goal. In this case, i'd require >1mil+ people absurdly committed to poisoning everyone around them (and not least, to have some magical ability to induce a virus with a wifi signal).
I get your point, but actually this (volcanic eruption) led to the Dark Ages:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23565762

(another HN front page story)
There's not much going on above GEO, so there's little risk of hitting someone else if/when you lose control of the sat. Orbital decay is pretty minimal at that level.
And if they can make a 14nm wafer for 1/4 the cost of the competition, it has the same economic advantage as 7nm.
Yes it is just another app.
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>3 years ago, in french: https://linuxfr.org/users/aurelieng/journaux/mozilla-l-enjeu... (can be translated with your favorite tool).
You've overdone it in this thread and now you're breaking the site guidelines, which explicitly ask you not to cross-examine other users.

We're here for curious conversation. Please don't harangue.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We're getting into a net neutrality type argument here.

Does Apple really own their users? Should they?

Why does Netflix feel entitled to access AT&Ts customers? AT&T should get a cut of Netflix's subscription revenue as well!
> The 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' lie could be described using the exact same sentence, and that wasn’t even twenty years ago.

Expect Hans Blix exposed that lie very shortly those words where uttered:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/23/iraq1

If the moon landing is also a fraud where is the Hans Blix of the moon landing program?
It was a weak man argument. Armstrong's paragraph was meant to be taken as a whole; but this argument just extracts one sentence and tries to establish a false equivalency with it.. And a scarecrow. Pretty impressive piece of drivel TBH.
“Yourselfs”

3/10, could try harder.
people have to be willing to spend their own money to
buy your product.

I would like to introduce you to the depressing world of Enterprise Software. Do you remember the old saying "nobody got fired for buying IBM"? Think about its origin & implications, all of which outlived the status IBM had at the time of that saying.
I would think that the craziness that led to the Dark ages would be the polar opposite - an unquestioning acceptance of all dogma, or at the very least, being scared to question
Some people do completely non-destructive modelling in Blender using its modifier stack. You can see an example of that here:
https://youtu.be/Atw16f8wZ6Y

I'm also a big fan of Houdini, though, and would recommend the free edition to anyone wanting to learn. It's the most fully featured piece of free software I've ever used. I almost can't believe that it's free, it's so good!
> The article suggested 18 months of non-stop no sun.

If there was no sun at all, do you think the temperatures would only drop 1-3° as mentioned in the article?
If at all my earlier comment was misunderstood, my intent was not to point or justify Apple's policies by implying that "someone else is doing worse, so it's ok for Apple to do this" on the cuts it takes. It's just that the comparisons seem highly selective and dismissive of counter-arguments (there was one such point about video game consoles that was dismissed too).
The Sound Approach to Birding is a bit more European. (it was my first book on bird song, though I live in the US... So I feel your pain.) It has a lot of good general knowledge, and then Merlin and Xeno Canto can help from there.
developers who only know how to write fat JS frontends

Yeah. This is often a big challenge for small companies / small teams.

Nearly every web app is now two apps, and it's increasingly infeasible for any developer to have a mastery of both backend and frontend stacks.

Not necessarily a terrible problem when you have dozens of developers, but a lot of dev teams are 1-3 people. Instead of web dev circa 2010 where you might reasonably have a 3-person team of people who can each individually work anywhere in the stack, now your already-small team is bifurcated.

In many ways this is an inevitable price of progress... 100 years ago you had one doctor in town and they could understand some reasonable percentage of the day's medical knowledge. Today, we can work medical miracles, but it requires extreme specialization.

At least in the development industry, we can choose not to pay that price when it's not necessary.
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All those things are possible for PWAs, just not on ios.
Surprised this got no comment traction. This is outrageous. Why on earth can’t Google just identify the exact infraction? Absolutely ridiculous.
Here is a decent place to start: http://www.bioinf.org.uk/abs/

Happy to talk COVID-19 specific stuff offline if that does not suffice.
And if you ever feel otherwise, the simulation will be rolled back and fixed :-)
Part of me wonders whether this is technically possible. I’m sure it’s an answerable question.
>I've had an iPhone for 10 years now and I've never had push notifications on for the 5 email accounts on there. Mind you, my battery isn't fine because the phone gets used a lot and that's what kills batteries quick.

You are a unique/minority case. The vast majority of the population that uses emails prefers notification for important mails.
The great trick about this is that you don't have to believe in a perfect conspiracy, because you can just make up anonymous sources.
Seems to be a case of whataboutism. Just because someone is doing it doesn't make it any less wrong.
Peloton vs. SoulCycle-at-Home
I am not too familiar with either, but in my view they are definitely associated with ‘authority’ whether then be mainstream media, government, institutions, etc.
I desperately want to check that out when I have some free time.

(In other news, I would desperately like some free time)
Alex: A ML-enhanced range index
Have you used this in real life, and how did it go?
Sometimes less is more.
Apple won't let them ask users to visit their website to pay or enter their CC details in-app without giving Apple a 30% cut.
> Failing that, he will probably have to bootstrap from Windows batch files and x86 machine code into a programming environment. I will ignore that possibility, since AFAIK nobody has tried to tutorialize such a task.

Are VBScript and JScript still available on modern Windows?

Though if they're older computers, these are probably available (or maybe even QBasic, if they're old enough).
No, we're really pretty close.

SPA frameworks query the server for JSON and then render HTML right?

Simpler in the sense of what? You prefer to not have all of the variables available when you render HTML? It's simpler to only render client side HTML and to query 4 different AJAX endpoints for resources?

Why are you trying to separate business and interface logic? Why are you displaying anything that the business logic doesn't understand?

The entire point of good code is that I can edit 1 file instead of editing 3.

Back end frameworks don't help you organize code? That's kind of their point?
What kind of ERP software is helpful for IT management
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People stopped using PHP in which planet?
The snippet about Node is confusing terminology. Node is not a framework, it's a runtime environment in which JS can run. It makes a mention of other "capable nonblocking frameworks", but is conveniently vague about which ones.

The argument about compute heavy workload also feels orthogonal to the whole issue of Node on the backend.
This guy isn’t a skeptic though, he’s a true believer. It’s just that his beliefs happen to be the opposite of established consensus, instead of being in line with it. That’s especially dumb, because if you’re going to blindly believe things you might as well blindly go with the flow, you’ll be wrong sometimes but right more often.

Actual skepticism requires a lot of intellectual effort and honesty. An actual skeptic on the moon landing/holocaust/global warming/Loch Ness monster/whatever would start from a position of genuine skepticism and curiosity, wedded neither to one side nor the other, and then carefully line up all the evidence on one side versus the other. That’s a valuable service; we don’t all have time to be genuinely skeptical about everything so it’s good to know there’s genuine skeptics out there doing the hard work for us; once in a while they’ll discover that the evidence for some popular belief actually isn’t as overwhelming as everyone believes, and that’s incredibly valuable. Genuine skeptics should be cherished and nurtured, but idiots who blindly take up contrary positions because they align with their worldview are of no value to anyone.
Performance. The article pretends it's good, but it isn't. Perhaps when you compare it to Python/django/flask, but node is not the best solution for file I/O, and takes a lot of memory.
Hey is taking $10/month. With $7/month revenue going to them they will still be the most expensive email app available, so I don't see why it would be so hard to stomach.
Different Functional Testing Types Explained in Detail
Starting with Catalina, it does not fix the issue. I had to send back a Macbook Pro 16 2019 because of that and go back to Linux.
Sadly populism is growing everywhere
I think actually you could cut budget much more than in half, and go to the Moon.

It's surprising how - comparatively - easy is - and was - to go to the Moon. Do you realize that for today technologies it's a walk in the park? It was done half a century ago. But that's not enough - even then in many aspects it was quite doable. Remember, the Moon race started as a calculated idea to win - all crucial requirements were approximately achievable, erring on "more likely than not". For example, F-1 first stage engine had a rather modest characteristics, except the size (which already provided a plenty of problems). The whole architecture was decided in favor of a single bug launcher - because docking was considered "risky", even though one docking (after liftoff from the Moon) and even one-half more docking (after translunar injection, when Apollo CM detached, turned over and docked with LM) eventually remained. Problems were being solved with size, not with smarter decisions - because the latter required time and were riskier.

So... Rocket science isn't a rocket science. Yes, Moon landing is one of the greatest technological achievements up to now. But it was done then, and for that much.
Please don't up the flamewar ante like that. It leads noplace good, just to the same nasty loops played louder.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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You would have to keep those scripts secret otherwise someone could easily build an adversarial neural network or a hacker might just find an exploit. Secret scripts that decide everything isn't a democracy. That's an AI government and we all know that we shouldn't let AI have military access.
I use Bitwarden as my main password manager. But Bitwarden is still lacking in the "life" management part because common things like WiFi passwords or software licenses need to be added as custom entities. Managing those is not easy with Bitwarden. I stopped using 1Password long ago (when it moved to a subscription model), but it has had many more rich types to manage for a long time. Bitwarden has a long way to go.
Just a small advert... We've just launched a Kaggle competition on birdsong identification this week!

https://www.kaggle.com/c/birdsong-recognition/discussion

One of the organizers wrote the BirdNET app... Improvements can help both the app and a lot of passive ecosystem monitoring projects. It's also a great excuse to listen to birdsong!
It wasn't actually a hat, it wwnt onto a hat you were already wearing, like a headpiece. And even then, you'd only wear it a few times a year at ceremonies.
You may be thinking of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_loUDS4c3Cs

Edit: changed to earlier upload of same video
> And I disagree with another commenter here saying Analytics is just for vanity. That's not true — even for a personal blog analytics are useful to see which articles are still being visited and thus need to be kept up to date, or in case content is deprecated, the least you could do is to put up a warning.

I mean, I'm not making the argument that analytics are useless, but this seems like the worst possible example. You can do this trivially with a script to analyze your server (e.g. Apache) logs. And you don't need "a VPS with 1 GB of RAM" for that - which is four times the RAM of the VPS my personal website has run on for the last half decade.

This approach also uses no client-side javascript to collect data, so you wouldn't have to alarm users with potential privacy threats, because nothing is stored other than what's in the HTTP headers.
I was there when he delivered that keynote at PyCon India in October 2019. It was all going casually, but when he tied everything together at the end, it all 'clicked', and everyone in the audience went nuts!

Highly recommend that talk.
If Elon can't get us to the Moon by 2030, I'm putting my tinfoil hat on.

Does this sound like a group of guys who just accomplished the most impressive feat of human innovation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeAGGpRYmKY
> Did you try to establish a new religion?

L. Ron Hubbard. Church of Latter Day Saints.
There have been major religions established in the last 2 centuries in the USA alone.
There is something extremely funny about someone wanting an accomplished astronaut to swear that the most important event in their lives actually happened on a Bible, which we all know is an accurate representation of historical facts...
The second page, on the right, the last bullet point, suggests such deep integration:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170708204409/www2015.wwwconfer...

Whether FCM uses these technologies, I don't know. I lack the hardware to easily inspect the mobile radio traffic on the necessary level (the best would be a DIY stingray based on one or two OsmocomBB-capable GSM phones, maybe combined with a Faraday cage to place one of them into, together with the smartphone.
I will try it next time haha

- the earth is flat!
- what earth ?!
Its for sure not easier, building a web page in react.
I’m a happy user and never touch the web app. It works, but a dedicated mail client is a superior experience.
They don't have to lie. You can have 90% of those 400k people do legit work, but still fake the landing. Maybe they built the rocket but encountered some technical bottleneck and had to fake the landing. Not a skeptic myself, but the argument that 400k people needed to keep a secret is pretty weak.
How many people work in the homeopathy industry?

You can create that kind of group think were many do believe in what they are doing.
those are indeed very important points I will keep in mind from now on

thanks for pointing them out
Under what definition is typescript not statically typed?
> > in which 80% people speak a language in daily life,

> Citation needed.

According to Wikipedia, in May 2013 82% of respondents spoke Russian at home.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Crimea#Ethnici...
I read about homeopaths on arstechnica the other day and I have to say that it shock me. How did we ever get to a society where people are injecting mercury to fight diseases? The worst part about it is that some of these people are the same who fear vaccines. It just doesn’t make any sense.

How do you even reason with those people?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/homeopaths-sell-inje...
The worst part about this is that it's a teacher who's believing the fake Moon landing conspiracy theory. I had a teacher in primary school who, one day, filled our heads with nonsense by Erich von daniken. When you're young and a teacher does that it tends to stick in your head.
Sure, but where I live, these are still held in high regard, yet anti-vax and flat earth spread here too. I don't think the institutions are the direct drivers of conspiracies.

Perhaps I should have made clearer that it was in particular the word "direct" that I was responding too, not the fact that unethical or shady behavior from a government can trigger long-lasting distrust.
The best argument I ever heard was that it would be more expensive to fake the moon landing than to actually go.

Thousands of people saw the Apollo rockets take off. They would have had to do that part anyway, and that was the most expensive part of the mission.
Sometimes it appears that microservices contrarians are just focused on nitpicking while turning a blind eye to the myriad of advantages that justify their existence and widespread adoption. It's similar to how it's fashionable to criticize Java or C++ just for the heck of it. Sure, the architecture style is not a panacea and there are plenty of downsides and some projects made poor decisions and some evangelists try to make a career selling their snake lard. However, one just need to understand that vertical scaling is not a panacea or effective in reducing latency or providing reliability to understand the need for microservices.
Please make a large announcement when you are ready to get it to testing on a wider scale. I'd rather not miss it, and prepare accordingly.
Definitely not for years. Temporary housing had widely prepared at least in few month.
Yes, thank you for the correction.
I thought it was just me...
Every time I end up on a reddit (from a search result), its a click fest trying to see anything except 'top comments' and ultimately ends up very unsatisfying.
Why aren't they more excited? Professionalism? Tired?
Where do I send my resume?
I think OP is being reductive, but at the same time, people do make new religions. We usually call them cults. Christianity didn't get a billion followers overnight, it took literally 2000 years of proselytizing. Who knows, the scientologists of today might be the mainstream religion of tomorrow
Those are not major enough, not billions. 2 centuries are longer than Moon controversy, though not by much.
thanks will definitely try it
You need to go though KYC and other custom checks to get a bank account and it's a heavily regulated process.
Surely wine is a windows subsystem for linux?

absolutely _nothing_ about the subsystem made by microsoft is "for linux".

I also still dont understand what you get for paying for a windows licence to run linux except more overhead and a total lack of a package manager.
Cults are cheap, they come and go. Religion - a true one, that's what counts. Cults we've had in the high school, nobody remembers them after a while.
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You are mostly correct, but the bluff wasn't really directed at the US. The bluff was meant for Iran, mostly, and Israel, possibly.
> not because of singular examples of wide scale government fraud

I agree, but I do believe it's mostly because of many small scale lies. If there was only one example of government lies in history, but it was a big one, I don't think we'd see the same level of conspiracy theory acceptance.

The fact that there is a constant stream of lies of all shapes and sizes from the government, the media, companies etc is what contributes to it the most. Once you make people lose their trust in those institutions, they will pay more attention to anyone presenting "alternative" explanations ("this explains that thing as well, but it's not peddled by the liars, so maybe it's true"). If those explanations then also line up with their world view, it's hard to convince them otherwise.

I see that in a friend who still reads the news. He no longer trusts anything he reads, so it's a constant state of "they are probably lying, but why are they lying about this" and he's more susceptible to conspiratorial theories imho. He's not "there" yet, because he'll also research those theories and often come back to me and say "yeah that was bullshit" and share what he found, but the threshold for looking into and considering it an actual possibility is much lower.
How long does your laptop's battery last and how can I improve mine?