skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
COVID disinformation is against is against Facebook's terms. They just don't make it easy to report it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/05/trump-p...

> Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said, “This video includes false claims that a group of people is immune from COVID-19 which is a violation of our policies around harmful COVID misinformation."
I don’t think users really understood this, both in fact and in practice. Now, you may rightly argue that this is on the users, but I’d just say that perspectives have changed drastically.
Every time I'm called upon to learn a new skill quickly (as often happens in IT), I think about the training montage.

https://youtu.be/vK4gv11PTI8
Eventually good education will need to confront convincing fake videos. This will be an increasingly technical war where policy can only go so far.
You are onto something very important. No one can be expert in every domain. So, one has to trust judgments of the people from other domains and institutions. However, if people with authority (not institutional authority) conflate science with policy positions, these 'authoritative' people and institutions lose their authority. That's how conspiracy theories emerge. Authoritative people and institutions have 'abused' their positions.
And on top of all that, it doesn't tell you the units of the result. Is it size in characters? Size in bytes? Size in code points? (Obviously in 1989, it was both characters and bytes, but these days, who knows?)
Well you can say the same thing about computers. But if computers were as closed as some FPGA offerings, then we wouldn't have had Linux and its ecosystem of open/free tools, for instance.
Great idea! Of course you will eventually have to wrest power back from the administrators of your fund, who have taken over control of everything and are doing whatever they want with your money. Just like every other great idea involving wielding power.
People who believe in conspiracy theories are more likely to be critical thinkers.

People who can't think critically never believe in conspiracy theories. They believe the official story every time.

I've never understood this argument against conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories are the ultimate form of critical thinking.
Anecdotally I know several Gen Z-ers in their early 20s that are college educated and half believe in these conspiracy theories.

May be more of a psychographic than demographic reason.
> If I will be having to deal with those quirks anyway, then the guide is helpful

That assumes that the guide is frank and truthful. Unfortunately this is, in my experience, rarely the case. There is strong incentive to use this as a PR exercise (or "aspirational" to put it mildly) given that it is being published and visible to many people, especially above you.

So you are going to have to try to match reality against that document anyway.
Cutting Corners in the Race for a Vaccine
In the early days it was Reddit that was crucial to QAnon taking off. A bunch of dedicated Q folks formed the sub and got it to take off(this was easy to verify because they all had Reddit account creations dates within a couple of days of each other). Reddit didn't do anything for a very long time.
"The Secret Police said 'We have secrets. We have many secrets. We desire all secrets. We do not have your secrets and that is what we are after, your secrets. ... However our mood is melancholy. There is a secret sigh that we sigh, secretly. We yearn to be known, acknowledged, admired even. What is the good of omnipotence if nobody knows? However that is a secret, that sorrow."'

"Engineer-Private Paul Klee Misplaces an Airplane Between Milbertshofen and Cambrai, March 1916", Donald Barthelme
This is exactly what the deep state would do.
I assume HN is probably one of the better educated and critical thinking populations, but there are no lack of conspiracy theories that pop up on here.
You need the right type of education. Being a highly trained engineer does not necessarily help, but you don't see a lot of historians falling for this type of stuff.
Critical thinking? I don't see how this helps with an apparent bug in human thought process.

You and I could easily weave conspiracy using ordinary facts.
Hide from it, run from it, Eternal September arrives all the same. It was bound to happen. Honestly, it's a miracle and really hard work from dang to delay it for this long
On the other hand why are people so scared of distrust of authority? If it's true why does it require censorship to defend?
Be careful of Control-Command-Power which will immediately reboot the computer (losing any unsaved changes, potentially creating FS corruption).
Some of the people falling for this are products of the education system of the 1960s and 1970s. The latency on "educational reforms" is enormous.

> Most of what we're seeing today is really just a symptom of a deeper issue.

Well, a whole cascade of deeper unresolved issues, plus a very modern Bernays-derived system for injecting nonsense into people and getting them to proliferate it.
I set up my VPS to ping the router of my long-distance girlfriend every second 24/7; it made me feel nice to know I was flipping bits in her router's memory every second and having some tiny impact on the space she was living in despite being hundreds of miles away.

I also encoded a love note into the Bitcoin blockchain but I prefer not to dwell on that one.

Oh and for a while I added a HTTP header to all responses from my websites professing my love.

And I'm just now remembering the secret chat command I added to my chatbot that would tell her good night + I love you but only to her username.

This is all coming back to me after seeing this post, lol.
Good to see that reporting people is alive and well, in Hungary of all places.

> There is not even a category to report them because Facebook only has limited options.

I understand that 50 years ago reporting was easier, but you'll have to take what is available.
While I don't subscribe to the QAnon related conspiracies, I feel even more strongly that Facebook is a bigger threat to society as it stifles discussion and dissemination of apposing ideas if they are not compliant with their policy.
I’m surprised that you’ve been downvoted. It actually isn’t that hard anymore to create your own little space where you can be as retarded as you wish.

Both chapo trap house and the Donald that were banned from Reddit quickly created their own websites.

What people are demanding is not just freedom of speech but the right to appear in everyones newsfeed no matter how dangerous or bigoted their views maybe. We tend to conflate the two freedoms.
> Who says it's stronger? It's OK at best

It's what the Americans point to when they discuss reforms of their education system - and I am the one saying it's not really that strong, or rather, does not seem to be the actual solution.
Equal rights means lessening the privilege of some. They’re having something taken away from them and need some way to convince themselves they are in the right to push back. You need to do some serious mental gymnastics to seem just in wanting to maintain an unjust advantage.
Wait, HBO Max supported Linux?

To be honest this outcome is unsurprising, especially when users using Linux on the desktop (Not Android) accounts for less than 4% market share worldwide. [0]

[0] https://netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.asp...
Do you have a lawyer?
I make my pancakes with oat flour, no sugar (other than the chocolate chips--can't give those up), and no dairy. The chips are at least 62% cocoa, so their sugar levels aren't as high as milk chocolate chips. I just checked and the oat flour I use (Bob's Red Mill) is whole grain, not refined. So I think I'm doing alright!

By no means are these pancakes healthy, but after years of experiments I think I managed to find something that just straddles the barrier between nutritional-waste and nutritional sabotage. And that's fine for one meal a week. Thanks for your concern, though!
Because they're going to get people killed?
Being smart and successful doesn’t mean you can think critically and challenge your belief and value systems. They are mutually exclusive. Kanye West is successful, you make what you will of the rest of his personality.

Quite the contrary, many successful people believe they and they alone are responsible for their success, despite their contribution being less than that of others.
97,000 children test positive for coronavirus in two weeks as schools open
there is no evidence for this. Achen and Bartels in Democracy for Realists[1] go through a lot of research that shows that education does not aid in combating disinformation and may in fact make the situation worse.

One notable example is climate change. Among Republicans in the US belief in climate change actually declines with increasing education.[2]. Higher education or reasoning facilities don't stop misinformation because misinformation isn't the result of a literal lack of information, it's a rationalisation strategy of adopting fact to preconceived beliefs, and if anything highly educated or capable people are more likely to be able to justify their assumptions.

This even literally shows up in the QAnon slogan which is "question everything". Conspiracy theorists virtually never lack the ability to critically think, if anything they think too critically.

[1]https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691169446/de...

[2]https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/14/upshot/climat...
Because every fact is disputed. There's no truth anymore. Look no further than the use of masks and hydroxychloroquine in the United States.
Because reality is complicated, messy, nuanced, moves extremely quickly, is sometimes seemingly contradictory, and feels completely out of control.

The root of much of conspiratorial thinking is attempting to make sense of a chaotic world by assuming that everything is being organized and controlled by a small group. The feeling of being "in the know" about the "way things really work" gives adherents a sense of control.

Put another way: modern conspiracy theory could be seen a coping mechanism for information overload.

I think that it's at least in part rooted in epistemic heuristic, and I suspect that the reason people engage in conspiracy theory today is exactly the same reason ancient humans imagined the movement of the sun and the tides as being controlled by anthropomorphic deities. Of course this isn't the complete story, there are social aspects as well, but it is a very large part of it.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5724570/
Duplicate:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22774057

The original article has a lot more technical details. Also here's the firsthand account by the author in April:

https://twitter.com/metaweta/status/1246166302688808960
That might explain why immigrants in that country have higher crime rates but it doesn’t invalidate the point that cutting immigration would be one way to lower crime rates.
The gotchas with those are that:

1) The boards are very bare-bones. Most of the I/Os are tied up in high-speed connectors like PCIe or SFPs, which will be very difficult for a beginner to work with.

2) The Virtex/Kintex parts they're using require a paid (or pirated) Xilinx license, and the sheer size of the parts makes compile times even slower than normal.
I don't think the blog post above here is about using julia for ultra-low-latency systems to be pair. 'Production ready' is a pretty vague statement and certainly doesn't apply to every usecase.

I'd say that if people have other reasons to use julia in a realtime low-latency production system -- like needing it's scientific stack -- then you can certainly make it work, you just need to do some testing to make sure you're not hitting GC.
Yeah- I remember when I first gave it to her with no explanation, she was quite confused. One of the key features is that you were allowed a limited number of presses (I think only 40 or so). She wasted five or six pressed before I stepped in a gave a few pointers.
Theory: huge swathes of people are hugely dissatisfied with their lives; long hours, poor pay, lack of social mobility, poor education (as others have said) and they feel there must be some thing tangible to blame for this. It’s fertile ground for conspiracy theories to grow.
When the argument ceases to be about the thing, and is instead about the group of people, it's lost.

With Covid, people were having scientific discussions around R0, transmission of viruses, etc. Then it became about hating "anti-maskers" and all that stopped.

Once it became about hating a group of people, all intelligent discussion immediately stopped. This same pattern plays out in almost every major news story in America.
Sit at a cafe reading a paper or the menu, but look past it at the ground?
Or more like what triggered their dissatisfaction.

https://www.businessinsider.com/true-government-conspiracies...
Of course, this exactly what a deep state conspiracy would do.
Smash them up as a sort of therapy when you get really frustrated and upload the video to youtube. You'll get rid of them and make some money as well
I would suggest that there is an element of fear involved when subscribing to the majority of conspiracy theories. Critical thinking and emotional intelligence are necessary, but fear supersedes intelligence and is easily manipulated.
Instead of using Signal you can just upload a specific meme to /r/wallstreetbets
Best guess: the conventional truth is boring.

Next best guess: the conventional truth is inconvenient.
It was introduced by Unger in 1980. You're probably thinking about the Sorites paradox which is related but not the same.
"music theory aware"? Like...it snaps sequences to scales like every other decent sequencer? I can't actually tell why this is useful from the front page description.
I agree. But there is an education war, rather than it being failures in honest attempts at providing a system. How many of QAnon are billionaires, millionaires or acutely wealthy? Yet they follow their billionaire leader with the belief he is working for them.

Inequality needs stupidity to breathe. So, the ruling classes actively ensure that working class people have as little access to education as possible. The wealthy doctors, scientists and experts are the enemy. But the wealthy racist who is equally as stupid, is your friend.

Absolutely, the largest part of the battle is education. But until we obtain the power to fight for it, we ain't gettin it.
It doesn’t. We don’t see that in practice, either. We see deliberate misinformation censored. It just so happens that the authorities on topics are also right a good amount of the time. Misinformation necessarily has to attack authority. You don’t need to be spreading misinformation to challenge authority.
Exactly. So many people are commenting here about how self absorbed it is and “you should just be easier to work with”.

Some people are making valid points (the documents tend to be managers selling themselves, or making excuses for themselves), but teams need to know how each other work. Assuming “being easy to work with” means being easy to work the way you want is even more self-centered!
Why are we against book burning but cheering moves like this?
In a large, unconfined space, I would also not want to rely just on masks. It's a public health issue. If I've reduced the odds of catching COVID19 by even, say, 30%, that's an incredible impact on how much COVID19 spreads, for the cost of a $5 mask and a minor inconvenience.

The trick is to get R0 under 1, so we have exponential decline rather than exponential growth. Even if it's above 1, if we can bring the exponent down, it's huge. There's no sane argument that masks don't do that.

You might want an N95, and I might want one too, but there aren't enough to go around. For the most part, easiest thing to do is to not go out in public.
> This would put you in the path area, so you can sort of use it like a terminal.

In macOS’ Finder, it’s command-shift-G. It also supports tab-completion and the usual text-manipulation shortcuts. It works also in file dialogs.
Why Do Razor Blades Get Dull So Quickly?
> Especially if they concern a new political issue that more or less didn’t exist at the time the work came out.

Wachowski, AFAICT, doesn't tie the movie to trans rights as a political issue (though that had been an issue, though with very little public traction, for quite a while before the movie was made, so if it was going to be addressed in a major motion picture, doing it indirectly and subversively would be natural and necessary). It's incorrect to equate any story about that groups experiences, whether literal or metaphorical, as necessarily being about some political issue involving the group, though it's a common mistake for people outside the group whose only attention to the group is political to make that mistake.
There’s to my knowledge only been an increased anti-China sentiment, which is understandable since they’ve become the nazis of our century.

I don’t support anyone getting beaten up no matter what crimes they’ve committed, but I do support isolating China from the rest of the world until we see a positive regime change.

The racism towards Asians in general is overblown. I highly doubt that Malaysians, Koreans, etc. abroad have seen an increase in physical assaults compared to white/black people. If there has been for Chinese people then it’s also important to consider that they in democratic countries went out to have anti-democracy protests (and the Chinese were often very aggressive during these anti-democracy protests).
My wife was a teacher for a long time. She was technologically advanced, so she used spreadsheets to track all her grades. Apparently this wasn't a thing most people did.

She was required by the district to do report cards in this very crappy Mac app, which then synced with a central server when you were done. The Mac app had no import utility nor any keyboard navigation, so I had to help her manually transfer the grades from the spreadsheets to the grading program, and each kid required about 90 mouse clicks (times 32 kids).

After the first time, I decided I was going to figure out a better way.

I ended up reverse-engineering the save file format, which was sort-of-but-not-really XML. I wrote a python program that could take CSV exports from her spreadsheet and recreate the save files for the app, so I would run that, load the app up, and then just spot check a few of the grades.

The first time I did the grades that way it took twice as long as just manually entering it, but after that, doing report cards was a breeze.
For some reason, I rarely know what points the authors of Nautilus articles are trying to make. What are they claiming? How are they backing up those claims?
Even if true, that takes decades to have any effect.
Is it Facebook's responsibility to push paid political propaganda into my feed? Because I get no shortage of that, mostly from the Trump campaign.

Right now, they absolutely do discriminate on the information they feed me - most of that discrimination comes in the form of "Did the author of the information pay us?"
Then proceed to talk about how gin & tonic is your favorite drink
The article didn't try to explain the details beyond quoting Facebook's "policies" phrase in literally an incomplete sentence. Couldn't the BBC journalist interact with a Facebook spokesperson via phone or email to ask for more detail? Which policies, etc.

Conspiracy theorists and deep state lunatics - great, ok, we got rid of them. But is no one concerned that we're putting a lot of trust in Facebook or Twitter or other companies mentioned to correctly deem what's correct and incorrect information?

If you go back in time, there have been countless cases of journalists uncovering important cases but who were suppressed by the authorities and institutions. Yes, they come off as "conspiracy theories." Until, later we're very thankful for their bravery and sacrifices.

Just because QAnon peddles silly theories, doesn't mean that we should clap and smile and puts our thumbs up at this, or the removal of people like Alex Jones.

Let's put on our creative thinking caps and consider what happens if someone who you happen to like, or a more obscure or unpopular group who thinks differently is muted.

A basic principle of pluralism of ideas is, yeah, some ideas are just not agreeable. That's up to us to bite our tongues and tolerate it. If you think the conspiracy theories die along with QAnon Facebook Groups then you've been living under a rock.
How did BS conspiracy theories spread before the internet?
That's not how conspiracy theories and magical thinking work. I grew up around folks who thought fluoride was in the water to brainwash us. I had an English teacher who thought the major news
media was hiding the fact that we discovered the remains of Noah's Ark.

Humans have thought patterns like this by default. We invented things like science to _prevent_ us from falling into those traps.

Flat earth, anti-vax, Qanon, etc. are more of the same. If there's a difference it's the scale and speed afforded by social media.
This. That's one of the reasons I'm glad I work in a team with competent colleagues. Not just because I would expect them to answer such an email/message/bug report comment competently, but I feel encouraged to reach out _and_ feel it necessary to already myself go into detail and explain all assumptions I have, everything how I see it, hypotheses etc. With "dumb" colleagues (which includes a rubber duck), I'd never do it on this level.

So, often times either I solve a problem while writing all this down to them (or for me/others to read later), or after one or two cycles of them pointing out something that they didn't understand or didn't follow. I'll then have to go back and clarify and maybe refresh/refine my own knowledge and it turns out that that's where the problem was.
Weird flex. The entire concept of a "design flaw" depends on there being a designer.
If you're a spy and one of your assets is passing you a message, then of course you would.

And if that's not the case, you're probably not looking at other people's shoelaces - which is the entire point.
I think the right phrasing ought to be that anyone can learn physics if they want to. The problem is that learning anything deeply is really hard, much harder than you think it'll be upfront. So, unless you're really motivated and really want to see it through, you're likely going to give up.

That being said, I believe that if you're a reasonably intelligent person (say at least above the median) then I don't see any major issue with you learning physics to some decent extent.
A Man Who Sued Red Bull for Not Growing Wings
Johnny Got His Gun.

Back in the 80's they would show this on PBS and cable TV from time to time, no "trigger warnings" back then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUfBVLAY_pU
Because the truth is messy, and is always less satisfying then a neatly packaged lie.
The Problem with Labeling People
Or double click for some quick editing and annotation.
How Ice Cream Helped America at War (2017)
I personally really enjoy hazelnut milk too. It has oils and sugars from the nuts, I have no idea if it's 'good' for you, but it is delicious.
"If there is no luminiferous ether then there must be tiny invisible gremlins ferrying light particles around the universe" etc etc.

Actually, I agree with you. "Gremlins" is a great way for unknown unknowns or necessary assumptions that are impossible given current observations. I'll start using the term in that way, if you don't mind.
If you live in Chicago, the rules are very simple. Either use your own money, friends and family...or have traction. There is no in-between.