skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is no media blackout.

If there was an effective media blackout on something, how would you know?

> The media is simply reporting what is the general consensus among professionals.

It is true that the media reports "general consensus among professionals", but is it perfectly true that this is what they are "simply" (just, only) doing?

Human cognition has several flaws like this - it seems to very much behave in real time (when reckoning at the object level) like it considers itself to be omniscient, so falls victim to many things like "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"[1]. This is just one example of many that can be regularly observed in media and forum conversations, even on HN (whose participants are human beings let's not forget).

I think if we were to spend more time considering world events from a more abstract, "zoomed out" perspective, perhaps we could break out of this never ending loop. So, instead of arguing about whether <IssueX> or <PersonA> "is" right or wrong, try to understand why people are forming the beliefs they hold, which then introduces a whole bunch of complexity into what appears to be (because of the nature of human cognition) a very simple situation.

If we were also to document these learnings and add to and refine the list over time, I propose that a much clearer picture of just what the fuck is going on here would emerge. But instead, we repeat this simplistic process of "News event --> shallow analysis from biased perspectives --> form hasty conclusion that reinforces preexisting beliefs --> End" over and over, and we don't seem to realize we are doing this, because we are always reckoning about things at the object level. If you look closely, it's not too hard to see that this is quite similar (but not identical) to the approach the media takes to presenting the news as well, intentionally or not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance
It's interesting to see this comment here. In the usual quarterly arguing about PHP posts, the CGI-style "statelessness" is often brought up as a positive feature that differentiates PHP from more "modern" web app stacks.
I can’t speak to Europe, and admittedly my Latin America experience is somewhat limited to Argentina, Chile, and Brazil, and my Asia experience is mostly China, Hong Kong, Korea, and Vietnam. I’m sure there are places where it’s possible to get salty popcorn, but I have found it incredibly frustratingly difficult to find popcorn that is not sweet on my travels. Often if I do find salty popcorn it will be sweet and salty. I certainly don’t like the popcorn I do find, and I get the impression people from those areas wouldn’t like the kind of popcorn that I enjoy. Which I think was the whole point of this subthread, that culinary preferences are often very regional and things we take for granted in one area might be very different elsewhere in ways we don’t expect. I certainly never anticipated what a quest I would have to mount to find something that seemed so pedestrian to me growing up: salt and butter popcorn
IOW the ROI on delivering quality is surprisingly (to some) low. Release early, release often.
Here is the link that doesn't require a Google login:

https://archive.is/SFFph
Although I agree with others that Tesla is overselling the current FSD capabilities, it seems that the deep learning community is figuring out 3D video perception (Tesla taking a big part of it, though I'm not sure how many papers they publish)..it improved like crazy last year. Just look at a few videos from two minute papers:

https://www.youtube.com/user/keeroyz
Here's an example. I use Discord for keeping in touch with friends, running D&D sessions, etc. Discord on Linux has a random crash whenever in a voice call. I've followed up on threads, and others have this same issue, possibly related to glibc, but there aren't any definitive solutions yet. So, instead, I tinker. I make a quick two-line python script to launch discord repeatedly every time it crashes. Discord reconnects to the voice chat on restart, and all is well. Usually, people don't even notice that I've dropped out of 1-2 seconds.

But Discord does more at startup than just reconnecting. It also checks for new updates, and refuses to start if there is an update waiting. So now I've dropped out of a call, I have self-opening popups letting me know that there is an update available, and I'm trying to download/install the .deb update before the D&D players get bored and start making puns. Nothing good happens when the players have started making puns.

I like tinkering. I really do. But I like tinkering in order to solve my own problems, and to make my life easier. I don't like tinkering on limited time in order to add yet another support to a house of cards that is gently swaying in the breeze while I'm trying to hold a D&D session in the top room of that card-house.
Good anecdata. I observed a few different elections between 2008 and 2012, and the only clean one showed result vastly different from nearby regions.

I myself was kicked out by police force under a made-up reason (obstructing work of commission by making them nervous - without even speaking to them) during parliament elections in 2011. When this kind of stuff did not happen, you could see a different result from nearby stations.

Friends of mine reported discrepancies between observed counts of voters and reported results, indicating fake bulletins. And you can find quite a few videos on YouTube with busses/minibuses driving people around to vote multiple times.
See, there's literally thousands of "git guides" and maybe dozen of "visual guides" (not to mention cheatsheets, "handy aliases" lists, etc.) and they keep coming, which begs the question — why are they there in first place? How come existing ones are not enough?

> Git is truly the Dark Souls of version control systems

Yeah, but in a bad way. In my 10-years-experience with DVCS, Git requires orders of magnitude more attention than any other (D)VCS (except, maybe, monotone), offering nothing in return.

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I get that, but there are differences. With something like the US Open, you have people staying in the same spot for long periods of time in a sheltered building (maybe some have more winds, maybe some don't). You have shared indoor bathrooms, indoor vending, sheltered entrances/exists.

Nevertheless, I agree with the larger point that leadership should have provided more outdoor activities to draw people away from bars and restaurants.
The way the 'Pedestrian' is walking looks more like a Nazi marching and thus this may be a feature of Tesla and not a bug
I've actually seen the trackpad project which is really cool. The issue I had with shortcuts was finding consistency across different software, the basics but also all the text manipulation shortcuts that exist globally on macOS, it felt as though everytime I downloaded something new I needed to set it up again. It's quite possible I hadn't configured everything correctly though.
I've used many of the same technologies he's talking about and have experienced almost none of these issues...

maybe I just got lucky but it seems we have the bigger problem that these systems are so complex that they've almost reached chaos theory levels of total randomness of behavior from small changes to initial inputs.
which expert?
What if its a pidgin? You want to smash into that at full speed?
This is one of the strangest takes that I have ever read. I can remember my dad's turn on the waiting list finally coming up so that it was his turn to bring the HP calculator home from the government lab where he worked for the weekend. It was an absolute marvel. The whole family sat around the kitchen table for hours as he talked about RPN and showed us how the calculator worked. It was magic.

Almost 50 years later I have an incredibly powerful computer that I carry around in my pocket and I call it "my phone". It can solve all kinds of mathematical equations, display live video, and communicate in real time with the furthest corners of the globe. Saying that I "expect technology to suck" is just completely bizarre. I have witnessed amazing changes and have access to technology that were just Star Trek visions when I was young.
I've been following the Survivor Corps group since the start. It is now over 106k people strong and while anecdotal, has been very eye opening listening to people share their stories. Take everything with a grain of salt and wait for the official studies, but there is some definite patterns there to consider.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/COVID19survivorcorps/
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One thing that I think these types of channels and content don't do well is show all of the pitfalls and failures along the way. The missteps are vitally important to learning. This is also a potentially harmful side effect of newly remote teachers moving to pre-recorded lectures.

When you watch a 15-30 minute video(or even an hour long video) and it's highly polished. You do learn how to go through the exact same problem they're working on. What you lose is the methodology of how they retraced their steps when they got stuck. What did they read and reason through to be able to provide their carefully worded tutorial? How did they reason through the misinformation they had in their mind or that they read online?

When starting my undergraduate education I came into the program with a woefully inadequate grounding in mathematics. The calculus professor I had did at least two things right with his teaching that took me from failing algebra courses to completing really in depth 30-40 page projects several times per semester.

1. He had high expectations of those learning from him.
2. He showed his failures by working out problems he didn't work out before the class started. And critically he attached real emotion to those failures.

Focusing on #2:
There was nothing quite like seeing this professor get on the white board and work through a problem from first principles, explain his reasoning at each step... and then SHRIEK.

He would let out a high pitched scream that I can still hear today when he'd notice an error. Then he would carefully show us him backtracking through his entire process until he found the source of error. When he'd finally find it he would circle it and let out an "aha". Then he would continue on back through the problem fixing the errors along the way.

Seeing this process did several things for me as a student: It showed me that I am going to run into problems even if I have a PhD. Basic problems even. But more importantly it showcased the thought processes you need to be able to solve not just the problems you're given, but ALSO the problems you create yourself that come along with a human's fallible reasoning.

So he'd give us these insane Calculus projects to work through and inevitably I'd make some mistake that would ripple through the entire project. But knowing at least he would find the source of the error, check for errors, and being given some of his intuition first hand on where the errors were sourced was infinitely valuable. Without that knowledge I surely would've gotten frustrated and just given up.

Humans need both positive and negative cases in my opinion to learn effectively. Right now we're optimizing for positive cases only. Those are important, but the negative cases are also extremely important.
> The bifurcation comes when we start to group everything that happened all across the country into one label of "protests".

It is interesting thought experiment to keep your sentence the same, but replace "protests" with "police."

Police brutality is wrong, full stop.
When you understand that the Light you have seen is the Light of a precious Thought whose nature is Love, Beauty, Happiness and Life, you'll want to get to know the Thinker.
The Light is Love, and is the inspiration and mother of the Cosmos. Therefore doing loving work is doing the work of the Creator, and the reward of such work is Happiness
The only work of the enlightened one is Love; judgment has no place in the enlightened heart.
How can you hurt/eat any animal if you care about the suffering of all living entities?

What you are describing is a type of isolated compassion but it is relegated to homo-sapiens, it is not a universal compassion of which i am referring to, to which the Buddha refers to.

Compassion is sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it. This is the dictionary definition.

This is essentially just referring to people's distress, of which you witnessed. Empathy.

However, compassion is more complicated and detailed. "In Buddhism, the ideal of practice is to selflessly act to alleviate suffering wherever it appears." Note, wherever it appears, not just humans, everything.

Suffering and compassion go hand in hand. If you see any suffering of any creature, you want to alleviate it.

In The Essence of the Heart Sutra, His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote,

"According to Buddhism, compassion is an aspiration, a state of mind, wanting others to be free from suffering. It's not passive — it's not empathy alone — but rather an empathetic altruism that actively strives to free others from suffering. Genuine compassion must have both wisdom and lovingkindness. That is to say, one must understand the nature of the suffering from which we wish to free others (this is wisdom), and one must experience deep intimacy and empathy with other sentient beings (this is lovingkindness)."

Therefore, I will stand by my point; that real compassion, real empathy to alleviate the suffering of any sentient creature will manifest itself in the form of vegetarianism/veganism. How can someone hurt another creature when they know it will suffer, when they understand the nature of the pain it will experience?

Still not convinced? I can tell. Don't take my word. Listen to Master Thich Nhat Hanh explain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78qgek8GJ9k
The 'Pedestrian' is walking more like a Nazi soldier marching. This actually might be a feature and not a bug
This should be concerning to people since there are often wooden barriers around construction sites
Yes, it took me a while to appreciate the difference between a "visa" and "status" (in U.S. parlance). The analogy in my head:

Visa = permission to apply for entry (i.e. like an unexpired password to login)

Status = permission to stay (i.e. like a logged-in session)

So a visa is like authentication credentials with an expiring password (only needed to apply for entry or re-entry, can expire during session), and status is like authorization (token needs to remain unexpired throughout the session, otherwise will be in violation).

https://internationalaffairs.uchicago.edu/page/visa-vs-statu...
A similar article (a bit older but not? Chinese based tests):

https://insideevs.com/news/377427/video-tesla-model-3-failed...

An interesting insight was that pedestrian what most early detected by the Tesla but it just decided to brake only just before hitting them...
Kubernetes: When to Use, and When to Avoid, the Operator Pattern
Guided Tour of the Precursor Motherboard
In my understanding of the "Octopus Test" argument from the linked PDF, GPT-3 is exactly an octopus test, and has exactly the same information that the octopus would have about bears, so GPT-3 being able to perform this kind of task disproves the argument conclusively.
Mycorrhizal Networks Facilitate Tree Communication, Learning, and Memory (2018)
Masks are often recommended as "source control" -- if an infected but asymptomatic person wears one they reduce the risk of spreading the illness to others. The bit that goes unsaid is "a good quality mask, such as a 12 to 16 layer DIY cotton mask, or a properly fitted N95, worn properly, with excellent hand hygiene when putting it on or taking it off".

The problem with that framing is that most people quickly drop the "asymptomatic" bit, and so now we have people with symptoms going shopping wearing a mask. That mask isn't going to do much to protect other people, especially when you consider it's likely to be 2 layers of cotton, poorly fitted, with poor hand hygiene.
Yeah, that's not why. The "why" is because Assange has repeatedly (2010 and 2017) received leaks from within the Russian government, and refused to publish them. On one occasion having gone silent shortly before landing a job hosting a show for Russia Today. And also claimed to have documents about Trump, which he has also never published.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-l...

https://apnews.com/article/af39586daf254cddb3d955453c45865d
Conversational AI chatbots built with GPT-3
My most trouble-free period was when I was using Xubuntu exclusively for several years with a single monitor. Now I've been using Windows again for several years and I've grown accustomed to things just not working, ever, with tons of visual lag, usually just a few hundred milliseconds but sometimes stretching into seconds.

On Xfce I would sometimes idly hold down win-t to create a bunch of terminals then alt-d to close them one by one. As I might idly bounce a pencil up and down back when I used pencils. On Windows/OSX/Gnome I would never dream of just idly opening a bunch of applications for fear of what might happen.
Cutting the numbers of foreign PhD students is very likely the point.

There is a widespread view inside Washington that allowing foreign advanced degree students hurts US competitiveness because they "steal" US knowledge to take back to their home countries.
Thank you. Interesting stuff. This is the only study I've seen that actually presents evidence for masks slowing the spread. The comment section is a worthwhile read, too. I would like to see another study like this that's more recent, given that some locales started their mask mandate after May 15. I would also like to see if there's an effect on deaths and hospitalizations (the idea being, if mask mandates only slow the growth of asymptomatic cases, they are quite useless from a health perspective).
Yeah, I was suggesting that is not a good idea to keep the password only in 1 person head/home , it is an invitation to get assassinated. You could be right but I fail to see any relation with my comment(maybe is my fault and expressed my idea badly= I know that he did not reveal the password to protect Assanges life).
It should not stop in that scenario because there is no hazard. Wild application of brakes is just as dangerous as not stopping in a hurry when necessary.
So far only one person has posted a link that answers OPs question, so it was a reasonable question to ask.
> it puts public health policymakers in a dilemma

> they have to walk a line between fully detailed truth, and simplified advice that people en masse are more inclined to believe and follow

I know they are acting in good faith. However, the field also has a lot of received wisdom that may or may not be true. There’s clearly a bag of tricks they believe must be used to achieve a set of self-set goals, and I think a more straightforward approach along with dialogue would have been wiser in this instance.

The alternative is that some people will lose trust and won’t comply. You don’t want that if your plan requires everyone to comply.
Software has never been better; there are just more users to please.

And despite the issues lamented in this think piece, it is _Apple_ that the author should blame for setting technology expectations impossibly high.

No organization had been remotely as successful in understanding and releasing tech products that were truly great.

Everything since is just a comparison to expectations Apple set. Even when Apple fails, it is in comparison with an Apple that does not.
meh. I’ve noticed recently that Bash for whatever reason seems to just randomly erase my entire history, which is infuriating (though obviously not enough for me to invest the time to investigate or fix it at all). Stuff breaks all over, CLI or otherwise.
Is there a difference between being "most popular, wide range, mixed-genre" and being "mainstream audience, broad range, mixed-genre" ?
What do you think we had "right" in the time period and what made it "right"?
That's a bit like saying that flying intercontinental sucks because the low aire pressur and humidity make the food tasteless. Of course it does, and of course it's annoying, yet almost noone crosses travels on ocean liners anymore, because for all the rough edges that air flight has is still beats spending weeks travelling.

People expect techonology to have countless minor flaws, which it has, because techies spend their time pushing tech forward at a crazy speed instead of slowly polishing it.
>trying to get universal shortcuts that work nicely across the whole system

Did you succeed? For me that was the point where I gave up and just went back to OSX
Because the projects are started before they should have been. The permitting process should be a lot more final, the construction process should be monitored, and unless it exceeds some metric (too loud, too polluting, too costly), it shouldn't be stoppable just by simply filing a motion in court.

Of course the plans should be a lot more rigorous.

And then of course prices would go up. But cost overruns would go down.

Also, the fact that "the West" has stopped its building boom led to the construction industry atrophying. There is no efficiency, because there's no scale.
A Texas County Clerk’s Bold Crusade to Transform How We Vote
Certainly, but so what? The site loads perfectly on my devices so I am happy. It probably loads the same on many other evergreen-ish devices with a decent bandwidth available.

Like I said - I like minimal web sites but the ones that works are fine as well. This one works, I would have never wondered about the weight without your comment.

If a site starts to load slowly or is not readable, I will just skip it.
Indeed, and the last 'mainstream' headline I read was something like "Assange warned over outburst".

It seems to me that there's a global media conspiracy to ignore this case.

It's rather ironic, since it has quite serious implications for media freedom in the future.

Or perhaps it just demonstrates how 'not free' current media is already.
See my comment above. Fauci said on national TV that the first responders needed the masks, and that people buying them up could cause a shortage for the people that needed them.

Somehow the messaging got muddied over the last few months.
I disagree that social media is the problem but even if we assume it is, then what?

Ban social media? Should we make a government review board for all social media posts to make sure people don't think the bad things?

Even if social media were the problem, I'd start thinking about other places to solve it because social media isn't going anywhere.

We've got a better shot at finding less hubristic leaders all though those odds aren't great either
What a time to be pedestrian :D
Maybe you should provide evidence if it's a scam - countering their research, etc - e.g. Finding legitimate research from researchers who have used same process and fetal stem cells but couldn't reproduce the results; unfortunately you'll be hard pressed to find that research in part because very few places are doing research with fetal stem cells due to local laws due to religious-political stigma associated with fetal stem cells.

Obviously it's easy to label something a scam if you've not actually looked into the details and because "it sounds too good to be true."

Maybe watch some of the videos to see qualitative data from people treated to at least see that part of it if you're not going to dig deep into their research.
> need to stop extraditions to US of A stat

Extradition from EU to US is never allowed if in the US the people extradited risk the death penalty.

There are discussions going about abolishing it entirely for states that support death penalty, regardless of the single case implications.