skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting that only 76% of the non-conspiracy-believing group intend to take a vaccine. Curious how that compares to the same group’s intention to take, say, a flu vaccine. E.g., some may not be able to take one, others may not want to. [2]

Vaccine is an interesting one because there’s the conspiracy side — vaccines will be microchipped, a way for Bill Gates to control the population, etc — and then there’s the general skepticism over the safety of something done quickly.

The latter is why the drug makers came together recently with a statement saying they would not cut corners on safety. It stems in large part from the White House pushing a message that a vaccine will be available before the November elections, in contradiction with public health experts who have consistently said it will take longer.

Personally, I think health agencies should be given some latitude in an emerging, novel pandemic. Mistakes are inevitable. Course corrections are inevitable. But in times of so much active disinformation, contradicting and tarnishing the agencies tasked with reigning in the pandemic is incredibly dangerous.

2: On closer re-reading, this number was over 80% in the spring.
Because in one case, if allegations are true, thousands of people are sick, hurt, and dead in the chaos. In the other case, another bad man is elected as normal.
I'm convinced if they had set a higher minimum system requirements and hid the pre-loaded memory from the task manager or labeled it more clearly Vista would be a lot more fondly remembered. Most of the people I met with negative experiences were running it on walmart "vista ready" computers that should have never certified in the first place or upgrading their old pentium 4 machine with 1GB of ram and expecting a good time.
The point of technology is to enable us to do things that we either can’t or don’t want to do. This ranges from simple time savings (don’t want to do/make things easier) to things we literally can’t do (high precision timing for example).

Tinkering is a hobby, your hobby.
And that attitude is exactly why it's scary.
Even if you totally ignore the fact it's person-shaped, a self-driving car should still stop if it's going to drive in to something.
This is a funny joke when it is not about silencing people.
Uh, what? Officially, Taiwan is the Republic of China, and claims to be the legitimate government of all of China, and doesn't recognize Beijing. This is a leftover of the civil war between CCP and KMT. The de jure situation is that the civil war is still unfinished.

There are forces that want to move away from that de jure reality. But the fact is that that move hasn't happened (yet?).

When it comes to de facto, Beijing "recognizes" Taiwan by allowing travel, communication and business. By Korean standards, China and Taiwan are unified.
I will just say as a precursor that I believe the masks have been a prudent precaution. But I am not 100% convinced about the shutdown of the economy.

I'll start at the beginning to try to explain how my worldview is different from many people here.

The treatment of the topic in this article appears to assume that simply by labelling these beliefs as conspiracy theories, they are disproven. Why else would beliefs that are held by such a large portion of the public apparently be dismissed out of hand? There is no other explanation given. They are labelled as conspiracy theories and therefore are not true by default.

In my very different worldview, describing these ideas as "conspiracy theories" makes me suspect even more that at least some of them may have an element of truth. Because historically that description has been used for many government actions that they wanted to cover up.

So in my worldview, even the term "conspiracy theory" is potentially a manipulation, and a significant number of conspiracy theories are true instances of government malignment. Normally many of these are acknowledged to some degree up to a certain historical distance. So if you are interested then you can research further to understand my point of view better.
How on earth do minor effective yield updates from burst timing tweaks indicate that US nuclear strategy is "entirely based on a pre-emptive surprise strike"?

Anything involving nukes could be framed as "undermining strategic stability." Even disarming them.

Also: the doomsday clock group has a credibility problem from their metaphor holding them accountable for prior alarmism.
It's hard to go back to scalable fonts after getting used to absolutely crisp bitmap font in my text editor on Linux. I don't care about the font shape, but the difference in sharpness on regular screens is so startling.
My main complaint with learning to code from videos is that it's really difficult to match the pace at which information is entering your head to the pace at which your head wants to absorb information. I believe (but cannot prove) that that mismatch is a major impediment to knowledge retention. With written material, by contrast, it happens so naturally that you don't even realize you're doing it. You unconsciously slow down or even re-read difficult bits, and skim over the stuff you already know.

I'm also a big proponent of active reading techniques for learning new material efficiently. It's nigh impossible to scribble notes on a YouTube video. With written material, virtually anything can be converted to PDF and read on a tablet with a stylus in hand.

That isn't to say that videos are useless. Lectures are great for learning things at a high level. And there are some YouTubers like 3blue1brown that make excellent use of the medium. But, unless you really just can't even with reading, even the best of them are probably still best used as supplementary rather than primary materials.

I'm an avid consumer of recorded conference talks and the like, too, but I recognize that as being a form of entertainment as much as anything else.
> Sorry, but this is classical gas-lighting

I sincerely apologize if it came off that way, because it was not my intention.

I'm not trying to deny that there were crimes and arson and whatever else. They did happen, and they are inexcusable.

I am specifically making the point, that the GP had posed the answer:

> What intelligent person can cope with the dissonance of arson = peace?

My point is simply trying to add nuance: nobody is saying arson is okay, the people I talk to say things like:

"this protest I was at was OK. I left at 11 PM everything that happened while I was there was super peaceful and wholesome and people even brought their kids!"

The bifurcation comes when we start to group everything that happened all across the country into one label of "protests". There were violent protests, there were peaceful protests. There were protests that started peaceful and became violent. Sometimes there were small violent groups that were literally ousted from the larger protest group for causing trouble.

I'm not denying that there were violent protests. But I'm also not going to deny that there were a whole lot of peaceful protests.
You and I see very different things when we watch that video. There's absolutely no doubt in my mind that a competent human driver would have avoided hitting the dummy.
You're going to get downvotes like crazy from the Corona Cult. Vote in November! Keep the fanatics from taking over.
There was an actual, clear shortage of respirator masks N95 masks for Medical Staff
There is plenty of archaeological evidence of Dorset culture settlement in Greenland long before the Vikings arrived there.

There are a lot of reasons for the abandonment of the Greenland colonies, including a changing climate hostile to subsistence farming and domestic squabbles back in Denmark leading to a lack of supply ships (the colonies were not fully self-sustaining). Actual records of the end of the Greenland colonies have not been found and probably won't be because those supply ships that did not get sent out also never returned.

The European settlers were later replaced by Inuit migrants, who eked out a maritime existence instead of a pastoral one.
>In general if you are not willing to kill someone over X, then X should not be illegal

What an odd, just outlandish statement. I genuinely don't understand this.

So I'm not willing to kill someone who steals a television, but I definitely believe there should be some kind of consequences for that action.

I legitimately do not understand your 'all or nothing' view. It just ignores all reality, I think.
> I don't particularly like the design of this site, as I find it difficult to look at

As someone who didn't realize I had a permanent eye floater until browsing this site, I agree.
I got my first Node.js job ( kuizinas)
I've been thinking very hard about introducing Timescale as a replacement for Cassandra in an application which is starting to show its age (when it was first built in the early 2010s, Cassandra was the only player in the game - but Cassandra never was a great time-series database). One thing which has made me wary of Timescale is the source-available license - which is great and all, but if the license changes significantly to make it more restrictive then we end up in a tough spot. A constant sticking point of Cassandra is that it's Apache Cassandra - it's very unlikely the license is ever going to become more restrictive, since it's owned by the ASF. This looks like a great development though, and I'm warming even more to further exploring Timescale.

Something I'm still trying to understand: does not allowing database-as-a-service just mean that you can't have, say, an application which abstracts away the details of implementing a Timescale database (e.g. you input some kind of configuration file which describes the details of your deployment) without violating the TSL? Are you still allowed to leverage Timescale in your SaaS?
I'm pretty sure that's not what David Leigh was doing. Publishing the password was total gross unprofessional incompetent foolishness. Or possibly at that point the Guardian "investigative" unit was already trying to poison the whole story.

Or he was just a damn idiot.
Interestingly enough, there are downsides to chlorhexidine gluconate.

"It is well known that CHG causes considerable side effects, such as extrinsic staining, an alteration in taste perception, and an increase in calculus formation. The calculus surface itself may not induce inflammation in the adjacent periodontal tissue. However, calculus formation is known to be a factor in plaque retention as well as a reservoir for toxic bacterial products and antigens. In addition, a recent investigation has reported that treatment of Porphyromonas gingivalis biofilms with CHG for 5 min did not degrade their external structure or reduce the volume of protein and carbohydrate constituents. The residual structure following CHG exposure may accelerate calculus formation and may serve as an ideal substrate to promote new microbial adhesion."

https://bmcoralhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12...
If I recall correctly, at the time Wikimedia Taiwan was added as a "chapter", Wikipedia did not have a clear definition of what type of organizations became community-based affiliate organizations, which is why there are Wikimedia District of Columbia and Wikimedia New York City chapters. I'm not sure if they have any specific restrictions on what types of groups can become chapters now (although I know there are some specific reporting requirements). The current chapters are partly an artifact of which groups were made chapters during a certain period of time and which kept up the reporting requirements.

From the look at things there are some potential future chapters which are at the sub-national level:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters#Chapters_...

In terms of affiliated user groups, they allow people to start them with a variety of justifications, from regional groups, cultural focus groups, etc.

Here's some more information about affiliate groups:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_movement_affiliate...
In Chinese language video, they explain that they are testing for a specific kind of accident, a “Guitantou,” which is when a pedestrian walks in front of a car with no warning. The video isn’t trying to be dishonest about what they’re testing, it’s just that whoever wrote this article didn’t bother to check what the announcer was saying.
Are these (proposed) rule changes more in-line with other nations? I’ve looked at student visas years ago but many of them were very strict and required taking English competency exams, with extension requirements. And when traveling on a work visa I wasn’t allowed to even pay for classes.

“Among other changes, the proposed rule would limit the time students could spend in English language training to no more than two years over a lifetime and impose limits on the number of times students can change programs at the same degree level or move to a program at a lower degree level”

I’m actually surprised that wasn’t already a rule, and probably has been ripe for abuse!
Parent post is right though, we don't have good evidence for mask wearing.

Here's a recent, high quality, paper in a high impact paper.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

> Although direct evidence is limited, the optimum use of face masks, in particular N95 or similar respirators in health-care settings and 12–16-layer cotton or surgical masks in the community, could depend on contextual factors; action is needed at all levels to address the paucity of better evidence. Eye protection might provide additional benefits. Globally collaborative and well conducted studies, including randomised trials, of different personal protective strategies are needed regardless of the challenges, but this systematic appraisal of currently best available evidence could be considered to inform interim guidance.

There's a bit to unpack here.

1) I don't know anyone wearing a 12 to 16 layer cotton mask. At best they're wearing 4 to 6 layers of cotton. Most people have maybe two layer masks.

2) "paucity of better evidence" isn't how I'd describe something that has great evidence.

Look at how that paper describes the evidence for distancing vs masking:

> Our search identified 172 observational studies across 16 countries and six continents, with no randomised controlled trials and 44 relevant comparative studies in health-care and non-health-care settings (n=25 697 patients). Transmission of viruses was lower with physical distancing of 1 m or more, compared with a distance of less than 1 m (n=10 736, pooled adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 0·18, 95% CI 0·09 to 0·38; risk difference [RD] −10·2%, 95% CI −11·5 to −7·5; moderate certainty); protection was increased as distance was lengthened (change in relative risk [RR] 2·02 per m; pinteraction=0·041; moderate certainty). Face mask use could result in a large reduction in risk of infection (n=2647; aOR 0·15, 95% CI 0·07 to 0·34, RD −14·3%, −15·9 to −10·7; low certainty), with stronger associations with N95 or similar respirators compared with disposable surgical masks or similar (eg, reusable 12–16-layer cotton masks; pinteraction=0·090; posterior probability >95%, low certainty).

All of the mask evidence says "low certainty". That's from GRADE, and it means "low certainty (our confidence in the effect estimate is limited; the true effect could be substantially different from the estimate of the effect);"
Another similar test where the Model 3 did break:

https://youtu.be/cMiZa3HgRVE?t=140
> Git is truly the Dark Souls of version control systems - that is, it's wonderful and masterfully crafted but it has attracted this misguided cult following which spreads misinformation about how intractable and hardcore it supposedly is

To be fair, From Software definitely plays into the "hardcore" image of Dark Souls with their marketing.

Do you think we'll ever get "Git: Prepare to Die Edition"?
It could be a 100-ton concrete block in the road. You don't want your car to drive in to it regardless, no matter if it's a person or not, and no matter what the lines on the road look like. You car driving itself in to anything is bad.
> If unlocking general purpose computing devices drove trillions in GDP and innovation, didn’t harm anyone, and generally improved consumers lives, I don’t see why we need a direct precedent.

If this was really such a boon, wouldn't the devices where you can already do this have a huge market advantage? If so then why are we talking about forcing it on consumers and manufacturers?
How does it compare to U.K. rules or Australia & NZ?
Car radars aren't sensitive enough to pick up pedestrians anyway. They're useful for detecting metal vehicles, and pretty nothing else. If you mean lidar, dummies are not transparent to those wavelengths.
The entire system is political. That's the problem.

Imagine you are emperor of whatever country and you're sitting there in February with a potentially very deadly mostly unknown highly contagious virus. You are forced to shutdown.

The problem is that your bias will leak into that shutdown and make the entire situation appear like a conspiracy.

Then people step back and look at the context. Hong Kong Protests, Yellow Vests + french martial law + banning public protests before covid, black lives matter, canadian oil blockade country wide, etc etc.

Every place that had ongoing anti-government protests were quick to jump to lockdowns.

Then came the squashing of free speech. You're not allowed to 'spread misinformation' on covid. Mass arrests of people for 'spreading misinformation'.

Wait, there's a global recession, global protests against government and the government is restricting speech? We're not allowed to talk about it?

What we need to do is similar to the military. Medical decisions are outside the chain of command. Remove the politicians from this equation. Fix the entire problem.
"Sorry you lost a leg, but to be fair, you don't walk like the type of people in our training set"
Your mom will die soon. You have a choice between now, and a year from now. What do you prefer?
Agree. It's simply not worth engaging with trolls or people who intend to be willfully ignorant. They will just sit there and say "show me the randomized clinical trial for <blah>" even if they aren't qualified to parse the study.
While I agree that the test is unfair (because of breaking capabilities), this is by no means a crazy situation that wouldn’t happen in a city or a place with tons of children. The important question this rises, and the most important question regarding self-driving cars in general is: who is liable?

Until that question is settled in court I don’t think I’d feel comfortable using the self-driving capabilities of a Tesla.
Because WIPO is a political body and it has nothing to do with truth and knowledge preservation, but about appearance and control.
> I don't think you could engineer a less sympathetic character to carry the banner of freedom of speech/press

Assange being an unsympathetic figure is largely a result of the fierce media campaign to paint him as one. Most of us have never met him, have only read about him in hostile media. Noam Chomsky and Alice Walker made the point well, I think:

> When setting a gravely dangerous precedent, governments don't typically persecute the most beloved individuals in the world. They target those who can be portrayed as subversive, unpatriotic – or simply weird. Then they actively distort public debate by emphasizing those traits.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/julian-assange-trial-us...

You write:

> The manning case in particular is an area where I believe he crossed the line and was actively assisting and encouraging Manning.

Have you read the testimony of experts about this? See for example Eric Lewis, a practising US attorney and former law professor:

> [Prosectuor] James Lewis QC: Do you accept that a government insider who leaks classified information may be prosecuted?

> Eric Lewis: Yes.

> James Lewis QC: Do you accept that a journalist may not aid such a person to break the law?

> Eric Lewis: No. It is normal journalistic practice to cultivate an official source and encourage them to leak. Seymour Hersh would have to be prosecuted under such an idea.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/your-man-in-...

Here's investigative journalist Nicky Hager:

> [Prosecutor] Lewis: You have as a journalist merely been the passive recipient of official information. Presumably you have never done anything criminal to obtain government information?

> Hager: You said “passive”. That is not the way we work. Journalists not only actively work our sources. We go out and find our sources. The information might come in documents. It might come on a memory stick. In most cases our sources are breaking the law. Our duty is to help protect them from being caught. We actively help them cover their backs sometimes.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/your-man-in-...
Was the story not that they sent two Scottish slaves ashore for two days, and when they returned one was carrying a vine.

Makes me proud the Scots first thought was whether they could get drunk
Another I learned from an ASL class years ago:

Do the sign for "milk" with you hand moving across your face. It's "past your eyes" milk.
> DST is predictable

No it isn't.

* Europe postponed planned DST abolition due to COVID19: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/europe/eu-dst.html

* Argentina had a period of deciding each year what the DST dates would be until one year they just decided not to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_Arge...

* Morocco and Yukon, Canada made updates to their DST policies earlier this year: https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2020-April/000058...
Should it matter? It's still an obstacle that it shouldn't be hitting
I mean, er, so is deadly drain cleaner?

Paracetamol is very safe if used correctly, and doesn't have many serious interactions or contraindications. If you have to have one OTC painkiller it's probably about the safest. There's maybe an argument that it should be prescription, but "poisonous things are available in supermarkets" probably isn't one.
> Assange went around and blamed it on the Guardian.

A Guardian journalist published the password to the unredacted trove in his book. Without that action, there would have been no "unredacted release". Nobody went around anything.

Why would you go around spreading falsehoods?
Is there a name for how the FSD feature is structured to never be responsible for accidents? Tesla has so many disclaimers about how you always have to keep your hands on the wheel and be alert, so when accidents do happen they're blamed on the driver. Catch-22 maybe?
> opposition parties are not "unelected".

unelected to government.

> , who you claim control the BBC and print media, since despite specifically referring to "Labour" you said you don't mean it's Labour.

I didn't use a present tense. Corbyn et al had a proposal to take control of editorial departments of major newspapers and tv media to set the agenda.

Your difficulty in reading comprehension is hardly relevant to the point
To be honest, it's weird after learning 5-6 programming languages how quickly you can pick up a new language.

Grab your variable declarations, inheritance support, static typign, flow control, loop forms, your variable casting, your i/o for files and the standard output for strings and you can learn any language pretty easily.

Edit: String concatination if it's not Java-like (because . concatination is a thing)
Whenever I'm sent a screenshot from a Windows user, the the text looks quite janky, with a red and blue blur around letters. Though I don't know if that's actually what they see on their screen.
Your message is actually much more problematic than its parent, IMO.
Responding to "your spam detection is not working" with what is essentially spam has to be one of the most unintentionally funny things I've read on HN.