skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a tentative conjecture.

People in power, in the West, are disproportionately lawyers with humanities skills, or business types with no skills (lol). As our society increasingly fails, knowledge of math and science is increasingly important to convey truth. Politicians have long repeated repeated what experts tell them (when they are telling the truth), but now that they are repeating something they cannot well understand themselves, it just comes us stale / on faith alone.
"The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas."

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It is not your or Facebook's job to censor people. Btw. Sweden made most of the things work what this particular group is asking for (no masks). Do you want to ban Sweden too?
Same thing but I did with R I think iirc. I tried with my old crush. Sadly or gladly we did't end up dating for longer.
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none of that makes any difference. basically no one needs to disinfect masks, including those at elevated risk (emergency personnel and hospitals facing shortages the likeliest exceptions). just wear your mask at appropriate times (indoors when you can't distance from strangers for extended periods of time). regular folk don't need to do more than that.
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One thing that never happens anymore -- innocent wholesome friendships between generations. When I was a kid (I'm older than this writer, born in 1962), my parents thought nothing of me going to hang out with an older neighbor in his workshop to see his computer, or fixing an old radio. I used to meet people on the phone on the party lines and loop lines, or on ham radio, and I'd go see them in person when I was 14 or 15.

Today, no parent would let his kid socialize with strangers, especially adult ones!
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Not a silver bullet, but some focus on Informal Logic would at least help people to identify a claim, the premises for the claim, and typical fallacies.
QAnon posts to 4chan. It leaked out once, it can do so again - but now people are also looking for it.
I think you touched on a great point here. Thinking a lot about this lately and I'm convinced the authority figures don't just don't understand why people have stopped trusting them. Trump's election was a perfect symptom of the problem.
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Mister Educated applauding the curtailment of speech.
To read as text: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1291801858676228098.html
If people here give up on free speech, all is lost. This and other groups are just a symptom. The reason these groups flourish is because the legacy media (aka MSM) has lost all trust. Should you also ban NYT for the Russian interference conspiracy theory? If the legacy media deal in conspiracy, you should expect a reaction on the periphery of the political spectrum.
Really? I'm curious if you can find an example?
Could this be the same phenomenon which motivates theism, at least in part?
An interesting thought experiment: what if shares in songs could be traded on a public exchange? Which would be in the S&P 500?
Sugar will get people killed by a large factor more. Do you want to ban sugar?
> "The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas."

Weird how "let's not send the Jews to the gas chambers" didn't catch on in Nazi Germany. Good ideas sometimes get swamped by bad ideas pushed by effective people/propaganda. It's quite clear from human history that good ideas are neither a sure weapon, nor a fast one.
Yep, that's what I thought too, but had no way of confirming it.

It can also be that they wanted citizens to cultivate more of it in their home gardens for its nutritional values. But either way, I have no data to confirm it.
Science gives us a very sharp razor blade to separate emotions from facts. Even in western societies only 5 - 10% of the population is trained about people like Karl Popper and their knowledge.
Did you just use defaults or one of the profiles? Will mess with this thanks for the tip!
That example disproves your point. FPH lost a lot of traction after it moved to Voat and kept losing it. It has barely a fraction of the activity and views it had on Reddit.
There is no specific information available about the nature of the vulnerabilities or possible mitigation.

Arstechnica.com is sensationalizing the news, when it comes to security I would rely on actual sec researchers.

https://blog.checkpoint.com/2020/08/06/achilles-small-chip-b...
Making a font can be very detailed process and often a slow process. I really admire font makers and type designers who put so much effort in creating fonts.

Here is a very informative and enjoyable look at how one visual designer went about creating their first handwritten font:

The process for making and selling a font:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtSZqhtSjpk
It's like I said, it was an excuse to avoid drinking something I didn't like that much anyway. Yes, weird will always be subjective, thanks for clearing that up.
Because this particular kind of conspiracism feels likely to get people killed. Not just the pizza parlour, but a lot of this stuff gets cited by mass shooters (+), and racial misinformation in particular, from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in onwards, has been involved in most genocides of history.

(+) What happened to mass shootings? Have they just vanished from the news cycle from outside the US, or vanished under the high covid death rate, or been ended by lockdown?
Someone has actually been working on a project like this. While not 100% complete it's the best working one I know of. Can definitely relate to the problem being described here, especially when writing IAM policies for terraform deployments.

https://github.com/flosell/trailscraper
There's more VC, but there's also more companies chasing VC (possibly more skewed towards the demand side than in 1989). In a seller's market, you can make more demands, hence the "cost" of taking VC has probably increased.
I think you're conflating contrarian thinking with critical thinking. Believing in conspiracy theories does not imply a well-reasoned path to belief. Critical thought requires not only analyzing a position from contrary points of view, but also judging the objective likelihood of each point of view being true, and then picking the view that is most likely to be true. Stopping at picking a contrary point of view is more like subscribing to a religion than performing critical thought.
How so? This is increasing the value of created works... isn't that what copyright is for?
> How does more education prevent conspiracy theories? I’ve witnessed many highly educated friends (including some from outside the US) succumb to crazy conspiracy theories on Twitter.

Degrees are often conflated with education. People need to be able to think critically, something that is only partially practiced at a modern institutions. There's plenty of people who can tell you the facts of some field without being able to explain what a theory is, or how evidence works.
I think it's an example of the old addage that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I agree with you that conspiracy theories require a degree of critical thinking. But it's necessarily flawed or incomplete thinking. If someone understands (explicitly or intuitively) Bayesian reasoning for instance, they're going to be less likely to believe conspiracy theories than someone who thinks 'less critically'.
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> Life isn't supposed to be a constant pursuit of cutting out any unwanted or negative things. It's about experiencing things in general.

Says who? My goal is 100% to cut out all unwanted things. Even going so far that I only want things that
I know bring me joy. Automate all chores and stop doing anything that I have the slightest doubt about. I'm at a stage now where I don't care if I never experience anything new. I could die happy continuing doing what I'm doing for the rest of my life.
This.

This hard pull towards conspiracy theories is happening in contrast to a period of about 100 or so years of relative enlightenment supported by mainly centralized liberal institutions(not saying that doesn’t have a cost), but this pattern is as old as civilization itself.

But why now? IMO it’s modern day mythology created by a tremendous lack of trust in fragmented and unreliable cultural and political institutions. Authority and expertise to explain and deal with the events around us been either drowned out by false prophets or ignored after committing enough reputation suicide as to be rendered untrustworthy.

It’s hard to see the path out of this dark forest.
If there were billionaire historians today you'd be hearing about their conspiracies.
> I started writing a “How to work with Julie” guide for my team

The best managers I've had, which I've tried to emulate, have been exactly the opposite.

Good managers know enough about their team to create their own "How to work with $coworker" guide for each and every direct report!

People vary (1) in how they best receive feedback, (2) in how much freedom and ambiguity they prefer in projects they're given, (3) in how often they want to meet, so on and so forth.

If you aren't able to adjust your communication and management style to fit the needs of your team members, in most cases you aren't cut out to manage — it'll only become worse as your team grows and becomes more diverse.

Disclaimer: this only applies to smaller companies (<100 employees). The author worked at a very large company, where employees are content to read the manager's 'user guide' to understand them better and try and thrive under them.
I'm trying to wrap my head around the phrases "conventional truth" and "alternative" truth.

How about we aim for just plain old un-modified "truth" and realize that it can be quite elusive?
That does not tell us anything though. The fact is that “The largest part of most combustion gas is nitrogen (N2), water vapor (H2O) (except with pure-carbon fuels), and carbon dioxide (CO2) (except for fuels without carbon); these are not toxic or noxious (although water vapor and carbon dioxide are greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming). A relatively small part of combustion gas is undesirable, noxious, or toxic substances, such as carbon monoxide (CO) from incomplete combustion, hydrocarbons (properly indicated as CxHy, but typically shown simply as "HC" on emissions-test slips) from unburnt fuel, nitrogen oxides (NOx) from excessive combustion temperatures, and particulate matter (mostly soot).”

Emphasis added. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhaust_gas
> That's how conspiracy theories emerge.

No, most conspiracy theories are based on ignorance or fallacious reasoning as well as mistaking cynicism for reason or critical thinking.
I always use my thumbs to press command in shortcuts, and I never had a problem with the location of the command key
Aha, I didn't see your comment until I submitted my edit suggesting more or less the same thing.

I personally believe it is. Or at the very least it's closely related.
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I hope you are being sarcastic because I completely disagree with what you are saying. Critical thinking requires you to gather data, analyze it, and come out with a logical conclusion. In addition when faced with new facts you should be able to re-evaluate your conclusion and change.

People who believe in conspiracy theories rarely, if ever, change their minds. Everything is controlled by some small group that is pulling the strings.
What happens is you can never get fully complete combustion. Some of the gasoline gets cracked and recombines to form HC soot. Which is also very reactive. Thus likely really bad for you.

https://www.bts.gov/content/estimated-national-average-vehic...

This gives actual figures for PM2.5 emissions from exhaust, brake wear, and tire wear per mile for both gasoline and diesel vehicles.

There is an argument about how much EV's would reduce PM2.5. The above shows things were a lot worse 20 years ago. And current gasoline cars produce 0.008gm/mile PM2.5 from exhaust and 0.003 and 0.001 from brakes and tire wear.

That says to me that EV would still reduce emissions a lot. One can assume that brake wear is half that of a gasoline powered car. So you go from 0.011gm/mile for gas. To probably 0.003 for EV's.

Electrifying diesel trucks is a huge win.
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Apologies dang. Won't happen again.
Read the book. Toxic masculinity is not the takeaway of Fight Club at all.
I agree with your point, but Kanye West has known mental issues.
Elixir is a super fun language but suffers (at least in my opinion) from a serious lack of remote jobs. And I suspect it’s because of the nature of Elixir jobs in general: load-heavy and systems-heavy tasks for critical roles (fintech etc), which means it’s tricky to hire someone thousands of miles away to do the work.
One issue is the truth of late in West has been more statistics and less theory based.

Never mind that theory alone and statistics alone are both recipes for bias (either flat out fictional narratives (Freud) or p-hacking and over fit crap (bad science).

At least when we erred on the side of theory, it was more "catchy" and better fit our narrative brains. Theory-based truths also derive more from subject-matter-specific reasoning, whereas statistics based truths derive more from subject-matter-agnostic reasoning.

I started reading this https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/01/the-sociologist-who-cou.... It does seem like Ulrich Beck was on top of lots of this stuff first.
> This is valid even if Google's internal infra is strictly worse than what is available openly.

Indeed it is, because Sod's, Parkinson's and Wirth's laws.

> This is insane and a sign that something is deeply wrong in Google. Splitting Google up, forcing this infrastructure to become open, etc would be much healthier than perpetually killing small products to protect Google's secret sauce.

Given such a massive rewrite will not be possible without bankrupting the company, and such an open source would just amount to going non-profit (they would essentially lose all trade secrets and profit-making advantages), forcing a public domain of intellectual property, replacing the top executives without severance and stripping of for-profit status will be way better economically, than splitting it.
Lol who's your gramma?
qanon does not post to 4chan
Pushing against wearing a mask is not based on misinformation unless you qualify the CDC's stance on this misinformation.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article

"Although mechanistic studies support the potential effect of hand hygiene or face masks, evidence from 14 randomized controlled trials of these measures did not support a substantial effect on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza. We similarly found limited evidence on the effectiveness of improved hygiene and environmental cleaning. We identified several major knowledge gaps requiring further research, most fundamentally an improved characterization of the modes of person-to-person transmission."
Oh no, that you have gotten completely wrong. Very few conspiracy theories survive even a modicum of critical thinking.

Critical thinking doesn’t mean to never believe authorities. It means to actually be able to judge the evidence and the sources yourself.
I'm guessing most people you interact with are highly educated, and therefore most people you see spouting conspiracy theories are also highly educated. If you sampled the whole population though, I'm pretty confident you'd find a lower percentage of conspiracy theorists among college grads than the general population.
Are you suggesting WaPo, the newspaper, is a conspiracy group? I find that hard to believe.
Brian Cantrell is off trying to build server hardware based on Open firmware. Which likely means they’ll have to write a lot of it themselves.
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While I agree with that sentiment (and as you say, "not a silver bullet"), I despair over something I see more and more lately: people who do have at least some understanding of logic, and make "logical" arguments... but they've chosen the outcome they want to believe in advance, and are just using logic to rationalize / justify their belief.

And yes, that's more or less exactly what logic is in a sense... except the people I'm talking about skip the part about checking the base premises they are building their argument on - because they so badly want to arrive at a specific conclusion.
Be careful with “conventional truth”. From Epstein alone we learn that our government does conspire (conspiracy) against us. We’re only finally starting to learn the truth about that situation and Q people have been talking nonstop about it for two years.
It'd certainly be a start if there were at least some good alternatives for people to use. It wouldn't solve the problem, but at least there'd be an opening for norms and viewing habits to change a little.
I think you need to be clearer about what you think of as "rights". Unfortunately that word is used to mean many things but at least at the level of "natural rights", it isn't a zero-sum game.
Huh. Didn't know. Proof http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/ww2carrots.html
Shouldn't people be held responsible for their own decisions?
To quote T.S. Eliot: "Human beings cannot bear very much reality". To expect anyone to strive towards truth is just not realistic. That's what makes genius so special.
Google? Yes I believe Google makes enough money to provide support.

Was that a joke?
That’s their entire business model, so yes it is their responsibility. Their obligation is to advertisers that want to target very specific (or very broad) groups of people. If you don’t like that then close your Facebook account.
A lot of facts is ultimately based on trust.

Despite knowing the flaw of scientific institutions, I still trust scientists in general for ground truth facts, even when they get things wrong.

Hell, when I follow a known expert lecture and followed the citations for just the first lecture, I found minor errors or discrepancies.

I don't understand the major theories at the gut theories. I don't have degrees or the knowledge needed to understand them. I haven't followed the citations and look at the facts.

And the thing is: nobody in the world have time to follow the citations and see if it match up with what everybody else said, let along actually verify the raw facts and follow the thought process of the original scientists.

That being said. I am pretty sure that the modern world is based on a system of rational thought and technology built on the accumulated knowledge of generations of scientists.
Exactly. This is how Brexit happened.
Because people are hypocrites when it’s politically convenient.
> That and I’m tired of the GUI looking progressively more like a box of candy.

I assume you weren’t around during the early Aqua days.
The same could be said for a non insignificant amount of the population. It’s far more common than one might think, and it’s important to internalize to understand the environment one is operating in.

https://www.cdc.gov/mentalhealth/learn/index.htm (Control-F “How common are mental illnesses?”)
> You break one clubhouse they build 3 more, re: FatPeopleHate diaspora.

In the case of FPH, the new clubhouse was harder to find and didn't affect its neighbors as much.

http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf

> More accounts than expected discontinued using the site; those that stayed drastically decreasedtheir hate speech usage—by at least 80%. Though many subreddits saw an influx of r/fatpeoplehate andr/CoonTown “migrants,” those subreddits saw no significant changes in hate speech usage. In other words,other subreddits did not inherit the problem. We conclude by reflecting on the apparent success of the ban,discussing implications for online moderation, Reddit and internet communities more broadly.
And cmd + r to just clear the view (keep the current buffer)
Many of my high-school friends (I'm a millennial) are definitely being sucked into this.
I'm ignorant of these things.

What's an example of something that might be a trade secret belonging to a children's hospital?
Likely ”report abuse” submissions are just one variable in a model that is used to determine propability of app being malicious.

Or it might be that humans are just reviewing top N apps, sorted by number of reports.
Scale is the truly terrifying variable here. We’ve always believed in ghost stories when we couldn’t explain the phenomenon. But now those ghost stories are displacing explanation and at massive speed and scale. So worrying.
I think that's part of it. I have also noticed that it tends to satisfy a deep desire in susceptible people for "secret knowledge". They thrive on the idea that the world is more dangerous and mysterious than it actually is, perhaps stemming from the malaise and depression that comes from those things you mentioned.
Media literacy in the US is god awful even among the STEM educated.
just read their articles, it's a brainwashing machine
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There are many social media platforms better than Facebook. If it disappeared tomorrow, people would simply relocate.
GP's statement was "You need... the desire to seek the truth" instead of reinforce what you already believe. In other words you, or let's say people, will choose, based on your desire, or let's say want, to believe one way or another.

Your statement was "People believe what they want."

You're both saying the same thing.
I suggest strong criminal libel laws.
And America's ever increasing IP and copyright laws conveniently only last a century, don't they. Funny that, strange coincidence.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'ehtical or right'. It really depends on your perspective, and probably the place you were born.

People are dying that could be saved, right now, today, because of America's IP laws.

How is that right or ethical?

You could argue that without those IP laws, more would die in the future. But with how fast tech moves today, I think even a 10 year copyright/5 year patent length is perhaps too long to really justify that.
...history?