skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about just tell the truth. Masks work, but we have shortage of PPE for our frontline medical workers, so please do not buy PPE.

I think people can handle the truth. When you lie, you might temporarily achieve your objective, but you're sacrificing your ability to achieve any of your objectives in the future. Now I don't trust the WHO because of this, and I'll be less inclined to take them seriously.
Imagine if the whole United States had the geography of Nevada, and you'll see how attractive solar is to Australia.
That’s wishful thinking. The US has and had the ability to mitigate covid19, but the Trump administration is incompetent, and our citizens have thrown up their collective hands in frustration, and have settled on the strategy of “what can ya’ do?”
NASA scientists with their board of calculations, 1957
I see it as a tail wagging the dog scenario.

Government concerned about shortages + wasted N95 masks by untrained public -> recommendation against the public wearing masks -> additional evidence for airborne & asymptomatic transmission / opportunity to ramp mask production -> "I heard we recommended against the public wearing masks, so I guess we don't need to do that"

To be fair, there are tons of valid reasons not to allocate scarce masks to the general public (economic panic, inability to properly fit test, inability to properly wear, no decon procedures or facilities, likelihood of proximity to Covid-positive patient). But unfortunately, it seems like the actual rationale (and suggestions it would have for subsequent action) got lost in the simplification, even on the government itself.
Dust to dust?
Is Better Healthcare at Dramatically Lower Costs Possible in the U.S.?
The vast majority of "misinformation" is not in fact 100% made up lies.

I believe the fact that people think this is because they've never gone and looked at what these groups are saying. I have. You won't get far by just blowing it all off as lies, because usually it's not lies. Rather, important information isn't highlighted, or interpretations of motivations are different, or some detail has been lost or interpolated (e.g. will Bill Gates himself be managing a quantum dot immunity certificate programme, or would that be local governments). And frankly sometimes they're pointing out mistakes that people in power would rather just ignore.

You're arguing, again, for authoritarianism. It doesn't work. The people who practice it end up believing lots of lies themselves, because anyone who could tell them otherwise is gone or silenced. Like the leaders in China who have no idea what's really going on in their country because the local officials all feed them garbage statistics, authoritarianism is ultimately the enemy of truth.
Exploit database with more dorks

https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking-database
I can feel stressed cooking, but usually that's from an Internal desire to create something good. It's also avoidable with frozen or delivery (or asking my wife to cook). The end result is often enjoyable, too.

Driving in traffic stress is external, reduces my faith in humanity, and is most often unavoidable. The end result (was) often that I was at work or home late. Not enjoyable.

For me at least.
Is Apple developing a game streaming service?
Yeah if I didn't schedule things and have task lists I'd never get anything done.
Are you sure? The article is from late 2018. Spectre is from early 2018. I would assume some microcode patches were in place. I recall several waves of patches of various types.
> Why can't they do both?

Because you can actually see the opposite happening: Mainstream culture subverts tribal ornamentation by picking up the look as fashion but discarding the essence, a process also known as "cultural appropriation".

As for deconstruction, I just don't see it. Well, maybe I sort of see it with the unnatural hair colors. Maybe you can explain how?

> When you call a body alteration someone made by choice a "mutilation", you're viewing it from your cultural context, not theirs.

Particularly, I was thinking of the practice of amputating the small finger that is practiced by certain Xhosa tribes. Objectively speaking, it confers no advantages, not even those that could be attributed to the genital mutilation practiced in Abrahamic religions. It therefore is a very strong tribal signal - and unlikely to be appropriated.

> That's the whole point: The limits of aesthetically pleasing appearance are subjective and shouldn't be dictated by what you or I personally find comfortable.

What "should or should not be" is of no consequence to basic primate behavior: You send an out-group signal, you get the out-group treatment - and vice versa.

> But to assert people are getting face tattoos just to indicate which political tribe they're in is an extreme claim that requires substantial evidence.

I didn't actually claim that.

In any event, it doesn't have to be a political tribe per se, nor does it have to be one particular tribe. A Maori is going to have a face tattoo for different reasons than a rapper.

By getting a face tattoo you are at least implicitly positioning yourself against anyone who thinks face tattoos are bad, which probably includes 99% of "conservatives".

Unless you're Maori of course, then maybe getting a face tattoo would be the "conservative" thing to do.
While possibly rude I tried to use humor by slinking out of meeting rooms in an exaggerated way. In hindsight it was probably heavy handed.
That's true. But, even allowing for specialty clothing that they don't wear all that much and clothing that doesn't fit quite right, etc. but they haven't gotten rid of, most people have way more clothing than they really need. Even for generous values of need.
Not just same board... the RAM is literally stacked right on top of the SoC. It’ll be interesting to see what Apple will do on desktop... maybe some stacked RAM plus more on the board? Having full control over memory / bus architecture (and the OS) creates lots of opportunities for optimization.
I don't think they're dissatisfied with truth of any kind. They're dissatisfied with their own position and status relative to that truth. There's little glory to be had from saying "yes, the experts know what they're doing and they got this right" even when those experts are highly regarded. But if you get in early to become your local peer group's representative for an unconventional or controversial position, and it turns out to have merit, there's a huge social-status payoff. Everyone's playing the thought-leader lottery. They keep bleeding little bits of credibility, over and over again, in the hopes of some day hitting the jackpot that will make all those losses seem tiny. Getting in first is an essential part of the game, so people range far and wide to find what they think is the perfect balance of possibility and payoff.

The 40-year project to undermine expertise and specialization of all kind magnifies this effect in some, and brings it out in others for whom it had only been latent, but it's not the real driver. The real driver is that people feel slighted and ignored, operating in a supposedly egalitarian public sphere and seeing other "ordinary" people gain extraordinary status, but unable to do so themselves without taking risks.
Right. It's a horrible stereotype.
> there is one overall Haskell language and the absence of a particular language extension disables a particular feature. The language is, by and large, more coherent with language extensions turned on

Right, that's exactly it! Almost nobody uses Haskell without un-disabling many features; in doing so, they discover "Real Haskell" and leave behind the less-coherent "Plain Haskell".

However, there is no central understanding (that I've ever seen) of what "Real Haskell" is. Everyone defines their own.

Beauty being in the eye of the beholder, it's thus no wonder that wizened Haskellers come back from the wilderness speaking of a thing of magnificence – for the Haskell they have seen is a Haskell they wrought. They found the extensions that suited them, and unlocked the "Real Haskell" of their dreams.

But for a new adventurer setting out, there is no one charted path to Nirvana; only swirling rumors, each as different as the next. Perhaps all travelers agree that a good bit of String is necessary to carry along, but it ends there.

This isn't to say that Haskell fails – there are many who love it, and its curiosities inspire much exploration in plainer realms – but.... well, you can see that it wouldn't be appealing to someone who wants to understand a system instead of playing a choose-your-own-adventure mystery game ;)
At least now we are somewhat more empowered to find obscure blog posts. Which raises the suggestion that hackers are advantaged towards finding information. Which raises the suggestion that we should take the independent initiative of using SEO to inform more people about how to become search super-users.
Might be my librarian career bias but I'm always surprised at how few people know about query operators. Ironically as Google search seems to be ignoring vital parts of people's queries, they are becoming more needed now, whereas years ago I would have assumed a constantly improving Google search would get better at determining what I was looking for.
Maybe it’s just me, but I find it odd that Gates is the go to source for public health issues.

His biggest contribution is money, which pays for really smart people to tackle these issues.

So why not talk to the really smart people he hired?
You do get a foreign tax credit. There is also a foreign income inclusion that lets you avoid all taxes, but it comes with some severe restrictions (including not being in the US for more than ~30 days in any 365-day period).
5g is mostly about spectrum and positioning the user plane such that traffic can avoid backhaul and concentration for internet-destined traffic.

The marketing around it is incredible, though. Every undefined or hypothetical market is being tied to 5g. There's pretty much a new version of Betteridge's Law of Headlines - any future product that will "drive 5g" or "needs 5g" doesn't.
But personally, I don’t like to be “taught”. I prefer to learn on my own.

I had this view for a long time, and it seems common among engineers I've worked with and mentored. It's such a common view that I was advised never to use the word "teach" or "training" and instead say "knowledge share". And to some extent it is impossible to teach what can only be learned by doing.

But more and more I feel like the self-teaching learning curve is an S curve and we all approach diminishing returns. I suspect that in the right group of self- and mutually-motivated, highly talented people (not just engineers), one could level up significantly faster through coaching and interaction than through self study alone, no matter how much of an autodidact one is.
Random question: why is the publisher listed as "Fatih Kalifa"?
It looks like the project has lost steam in 2015.
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Columnar is just a specialisation, like graph or document. It's not a general-purpose improvement on relational.
I'd be willing to give up Vegas to turn Nevada into a giant solar farm.
So the attack will then be to hook into the car's on-board computer and tell it to send the falsified message with a fake plate number, and let the existing cryptographic code handle the signing. Alternatively, dump a legit cert once (e.g. by detailed examination of one on-board computer), then put that into the malicious hardware that sends falsified messages.

This is "the DRM problem", but in reverse. There is no way to give an end user a device that can send cryptographically-protected messages while also guaranteeing that they can't generate messages other than the ones the manufacturer wants them to send. One can make it very, very hard to do so, like with TPM/trusted enclave hardware, but when the potential consequences are people dying in car crashes, and the motivation to send false messages is so high[1], it's just an awful idea, because it will absolutely be misused, and people will die as a result.

Vehicle-to-vehicle communication makes this even worse. At least with a tower intermediary, there would be some sort of forensic evidence stored outside of the vehicles involved.

[1] The ability to manipulate traffic in order to get to one's destination faster would be a huge selling point for a lot of people.
Masks are an open question, there’s still very little actual reliable data on their effectiveness. I think the change in advice is based on two things. One is mask production is now high enough that there’s a decent supply for the public to access, without compromising supplies for medical personnel who definitely need them.

The other is plenty of countries in SE Asia with high rates of mask usage seem to have done well overall so it doesn’t seem to hurt. Anyway information changes do advice changes, that doesn’t mean these people are untrustworthy. Surely if they weren’t prepared to change advice as circumstances changed, that would be even more concerning. What matters is the reasons and context for the change.
I find that historical novels by science fiction authors can be very rewarding, especially when they use their world building skills to bring the past to life. The Baroque cycle by Neal Stephenson comes up from time to time on HN, but one of my favourite examples is 'Hild' [0] by Nicola Griffith, which is an excellent interpretation of seventh century Britain, focusing on the young woman who was to become known to us as Hilda of Whitby.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hild_(novel)
I don't believe (3) appears anywhere in the article. That's your inference, not the authors.

As for (1), the graph clearly shows there is no uptick in deaths in Germany. So I'm not sure what you mean by, if (1) is not reliable. The graph is right there.

As for your final point, you seem to be assuming the article was written by an American for a US audience. What's your evidence for that? COVID is bigger than the USA, you know.
This is incorrect. There is no US blacklist for mobile apps.
Having a reliable search syntax would commoditise Google as other search engines could offer the same options. Having just a search box, instead of lots of options was how they moved ahead of e.g altavista in the first place.

Google would rather people are trained to just type human speak into the search box.
I live two towns over from Dorking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorking
Is this why Kim Jong-un is the fattest person in every single photo of North Korea?
Apparently there are skeptics who are disputing whether these structures are human made or even that the drawing represents a dinosaur. So guess it needs more research.
Video game designers often draw the sun as white (except when the scene is intended to be near sunrise or sunset). I just doublechecked all the skybox textures I have.
Well, if you know what kind of a bat-shit crazy Trump zealot Adams is, merely mentioning him in any context screams "rock-bottom politics" in the worst possible way.
In fact the -ise ending is pronounced with a 'z' sound because of French spelling rules, but since most English speaking people don't learn French spelling rules they don't realise the etymology and hence (not henka) the spelling. The rule in its most basic form is either an 'i' or an 'e' before or after and 's' changes the sound to a 'z'. In a similar way and 'i' or an 'e' before or after a 'c' changes it into an 's' sound; this is why France is spelt France but Francaise is spelt Française, the cédille is there to remind you that the base word has a 'e' after the 'c'. So one could say that the '-ize' ending may have a more Germanic feel to it. In a similar way "metre" versus "meter".

When I was in primary school I was taught basic French, German, Latin and Greek spelling and etymology so that spelling in English would make more sense (not senze!)
Square brackets because they look like matrices perhaps?
Private APNs existed in 3g and LTE as well; 5g slicing is an evolution of that.
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Eh it's natural for the brain to fill in the blanks with its own assumptions, to the point where you aren't sure what the person said and what you assumed they said later.

Thanks! It seemed to work out well for both me and the customer in the end.
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en but it's not complete. My favourite is actually the "range" operator. I don't need it often, but when combined with the exact match quotation marks, it's great. For example, here's a search for Sony bluetooth headphones available on Amazon.ca for between CA$100 and $150: https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=site%3Aamazon.ca+%22C...

The range operator also works great with years, dates, though the Tools menu with shortcuts for before: and after: operators can help there too.

One I haven't seen mentioned yet but used to be documented is that you can leave out words in a phrase by replacing them with an asterisk. I'm having trouble not italicizing text in this comment box, so pretend \* means a single asterisk: "Stocks rose today by \* percent" as a search matches the phrase "stocks rose today, led by a 4.4 percent". (Which until this post, had only one result on Google.)

Note that it's not 100% exact matching, because for actually exact matches you have to select "Verbatim" under Tools > All Results in the menu below the search box on the results page.

The only downside to using all these operators is that you'll get very familiar and frustrated with the Google reCAPTCHA prompts as your search is "too precise to be human". Even when signed in to Google, especially often in Safari on an iPhone. Sigh.
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> It is absolutely not a prerequisite to know all extensions

Which ones are a prerequisite? OverloadedStrings? TemplateHaskell? How many others?

If the answers to that list were enabled by default in the language, and most Haskellers agreed on them, there really wouldn't be much complaint – you'd reach for these fancy macros when you need them, like you say, and that'd be that. A newcomer wouldn't know that some of them are required reading and others aren't and not know which is which.
I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, but "You need to suffer" is not something you can say on the internet without it coming across as a personal attack. Besides, it's guaranteed not to convince the other person, any more than smacking them for their own good would do.

When it comes to things like this, the burden is on the commenter to disambiguate their intent, and this needs to be done sufficiently well to obviate the default reactions. Previous explanations about that:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

If you had written something about your personal experience, like you started to do in this reply, that would have been much better. That's a much better thing to do generally!
a lower-case b (10Gbps) should indicate bits while uppercase (10GBps) would indicate bytes. This is the correct notation but you definitely see it done incorrectly fairly often. It's usually easy to tell though as giving network media speeds in GBps would be very unusual.
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> Others say what APL needs is a little bit of Franglais, which in our terms is APLGOL. “If APL only had the while-statement, or the if-then-else, or the for-statement, it would become such a perfect language.” That’s ridiculous. And it’s silly to say that if APL had arrays of arrays, all of our troubles would disappears. In point of fact, what will happen is that the amount of troubles would just grow almost exponentially if that happened.

And it turns out that the troubles do not increase exponentially when you make some concessions. I think kdb+/q is a great middle-ground between APL/J and regular programming languages. Retains most of the good stuff, but is simpler to learn (no rank), and can be used in a functional or imperative style if desired.

One day, I think we'll realize that we're on the wrong path, and array languages will reign supreme. Until then I guess I'll have to suck it up and resign myself in dealing with the huge and inefficient monstrosities we software developers have created.
You don't even wanna know how many times specialized searches have saved my ass, after multiple years on uni, and working as a writer, journalist, programmer, en even a musician! You can safely say that my entire life revolves around being good at doing various forms of searches.
I love meat but by no means is it necessary for living. About 40% of India is ovo-lacto vegetarian and India is in the top half of the life expectancy table compared to other countries with a similar GDP-per capita.[1]

I'm personally down to eating meat once or twice per week. Mostly because it's delicious. I feel no different from when I ate meat every day, and I've lost some weight.

Most of the resistance to vegetarian diets in the Western world is for cultural reasons. There isn't widespread knowledge of how to feed oneself healthily on a vegetarian diet - people picture endless salads with no fat or protein or taste. And there's the perception of vegetarian sources of protein - beans, legumes, lentils, peanut butter, eggs, tofu, yogurt, paneer - as either foreign or "poverty" foods. There are also notions of masculinity tied up with meat consumption. I have no truck with any of that, but it's silly to try to use faulty nutrition science to defend cultural mores.

1. https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy#life-expectancy-a...
The issue with deepfakes is this: at least in the other cases you outline, it's possible to be skeptical and weigh evidence-- including direct photographic and video evidence that is unlikely to be safe (while it may have been possible to fake before, it's been labor intensive and presents more risk that it'd have been messed up). In turn, we can evaluate the credibility of media sources based on how they agree with other evidence that we have directly evaluated.

As it becomes possible to fake more and more stuff, we're going to lose that. Different silos are going to have different, meticulously supported versions of the facts with an equivalent degree of direct-evidential and reputational support. And it's not clear to me as an individual one ever disentangles this.
Tiktok is better than YT new 15-30 sec videos and far better than fb as well in content and keeping the user in. Entire thing deal and stuff it's a waste of time or distracting people. Somebody figured out something better, newer algorithm. At this point in world you have a mobile you are being tracked.

In last one week YT reco is all about bomb after watching couple of Beirut videos. That clearly says algo is broke. Tiktok was on fire during BLM protests but still keep regularly showing other contents then and then.

Microsoft first has to figure out and tell why have Teams and Skype. At this point people are migrating from SharePoint to confluence or other s/w to manage documents. Shrpnt GUI pretty much suck. New IE copy of chrome for the first week, it was consuming less CPU, now I could hear CPU fan just like chrome. MS should focus on improving software rather than media or unrelated things. Right now only s/w I like in Win10 is task manager, I use it soo much, thank god that UI has not changed.

Google never had luck with social media platforms. Fb came tookout Orkut, so many other things they started all closed down. Google search also needs improvement, it's fast but content is not as good as how it used to be 5yrs back or before.
Hmm, those are language _features_ not language _extensions_, right?

And yes, I think the Rust comparison is a great one – I'm not the sort of person who would want to use nightly Rust and turn on feature flags; I'd want to use Stable rust with no extra features.
A lot of research looks like this looks to be deciding on car less way of life and collect facts only to prove that. Seems most people look for ulterior motive in case of oil and tobacco companies research while everything else is obviously right 'science'.