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I've read a lot of comments about unsourced claims and the like. I expected that after reading the article, the tone is more matter of fact than it has a right to be based on it's citations.

Or at least it didn't present a credible argument for a crowd like HN. Despite that, from my perspective, having long followed the research in fields that relate to health, almost all of the points are the most likely explanation based on what we know (which isn't enough). Backing that up is of course a big ask, big enough that you'd have to decide between spending a few hours on a post or spending weeks compiling sources, then writing a brief history of health policy and practice.

I can understand going with option one.

All of that aside, I think this point is important:

>The default for evaluating some food that isn’t found in nature shouldn’t be that it’s “healthy until proven bad,” rather, bad until proven healthy.

We've co-evolved with our environment for 25 million years (if you count from the earliest evidence of hominoids). It's hard to argue that it doesn't make sense to approach anything that falls outside of that evolutionary relationship with healthy skepticism.
I did RTFA, but I haven't been on the Python scene long enough to have a truly educated opinion about the transition to v3. It's not unusual for a language to make breaking changes in early versions. What happens when you realize you need to do it late in the game? Tough call. I think it's probably impossible to know whether cost of breaking changes in the short term (people leaving Python for Go, etc.) was justified relative to the cost of a crufty and inadequate Python in the future (people leaving Python for Go, etc.). I'm generally sympathetic, but I'm glad I didn't get into Python until the transition was well underway.
But many datasets will be full of recorded perturbations already. Can't you usually hunt for the evidence you need in the data you have?

The Michelson-Morley experiment was enough data to get special relativity, for example.
I solve this issue by never using Grubhub and calling restaurants directly. I'm here to support restaurants, not Grubhub.
I think this is the main indictment:

>"Rather than offering a venue for airing dissent, marginalized voices and unheard perspectives, it is rapidly becoming just another media outlet with mandated ideological and partisan loyalties, a rigid and narrow range of permitted viewpoints (ranging from establishment liberalism to soft leftism, but always anchored in ultimate support for the Democratic Party)"

It was originally supposed to allow dissent from the mainstream but now toes a particular strain of mainstream orthodoxy.
Thanks for the clarification -- I am in agreement with your points.
> The only real thing that can save us is for a small group to come up with some kind of technology that can make sweeping changes on a massive geological scale and ultimately reverse global warming without humanity having to do anything.

Or, you know, fixing the US political process so that a handful of ideologues aren't in a position to ignore popular sentiment and derail even the mildest form of action.
>foreign nation misinformation

Source?
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And HN just removed this from appearing on the front page...
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Real news organizations breathlessly reported unverified Trump Russia allegations.
Better than that, compilers can be told to include line numbers too.

This thread would love to learn about Compiler Explorer https://gcc.godbolt.org/ which works for C++ and many other languages.
I take it you haven't seen EJB2.

Let's just say that it was a more brutal age, and we were more accustomed to such horrors. :)
If I produce a random TXT file saying jMyles is doing BIG BAD THING X, is it on you to show it is illegitimate? No, it is on whomever is producing this to show it is in fact a real email, from a real source, and not just something they made up on MS Word to win an election, especially if they make up things a mile a minute.
Foreign capital influx isn't bad unless the capital that is being traded is bad, which in this case it very likely is.

On the direct trade it's a win for both sides, the side with bad money turns it good, and the the side with the asset converts it into capital (just like every other trade, which is always a win for both sides), but not at a broader level where illegitimate funds enter the system and become legitimate, whereby the one producing the illegitimate funds are the true victors, stealing away with real value while the rest of the market is destabilized for introducing illegitimate turned legitimate extra capital.

To clarify, by not doing due diligence and allowing funds created in a nontransparent shadow banking system to enter the real market, you are giving the power of printing money to a foreign entity.
Yeah, I have never been sold some future utopia here. There are plenty of reasons to fund NASA, and that is not one that is on me mind. Its $22.6B budges is a small fraction of the US total budget. Something like 0.5%. There are much larger portions of the budget that should be addressed first. I think we can prioritize things like space exploration and higher standard of living at the same time. They are not at all mutually exclusive.
according to that graph the world was as warm if not warmer relatively recently
>We know that synthetic supplements are not absorbed the same way as when we get them in real food, so even though Soylent has everything, we’re likely not using all of it the same way since it’s not in its original form. In that case, “100%” may be more like 20%, since we can only use some of it.

Anecdotally, I've used Vitamin D drops to raise my Vitamin D levels from deficient to 57 ng/mL. Blood tested three times to confirm stability at or around that level. I've heard numerous times that vitamin supplements don't work, or aren't absorbed the way same, but the blood tests don't lie.
>The company also argued shoppers were made aware of the activity through decals it had placed on shopping mall entry doors that referred to Cadillac Fairview's privacy policy.

Do what now? Physical spaces have privacy policies? We're really sleepwalking into a dystopia. If you don't like the privacy policy of your shopping mall, you're free to shop... online, where they get even more behavioral data on you. Yikes.
I understand there has been an influx of migrants. Are you saying they’ve entered France in disproportionate numbers or are disproportionately marginalized relative to migrants to other European countries, and this is causing excess hostility in France?

I just don’t understand why France is experiencing this differently than Belgium or Germany or Italy, etc etc.
> This is frankly a blatantly wrong and quite foolish argument.

I like to remember that these types of flawed arguments are the best at getting viewership up and ads viewed.
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I'm just going to state the obvious and I don't see it anywhere else here. There are a lot of posts here saying you have to trust his integrity over the editors due to all of his accolades.

All of Glenn's accolades are from the reporting around Edward Snowden. I'm a big fan of that reporting and I think that story needed to be told but it was most strategically beneficial to Russia where Snowden eventually took sanctuary. This was also during Obama's presidency.

Now, he seems to be very biased to the point of being a hack, pulls a stunt like this on the eve of an election, has continuously made an effort to discredit the Russian interference in our elections and comes to Trump's aid fairly frequently when it matters (as well as sometimes critiques him and his admin when it doesn't i.e. "he lies")

I don't know what his motives are but it sure doesn't seem like it's about getting out the truth.
This summarizes it fairly well

https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/oct/29/tony-bobulins...
Interesting. I do have digital backups of all (or, nearly all... some are hard to find) of my physical books. I didn't make them from my own copy of course, but I still consider my digital library to be a backup of my physical bookshelves. Maybe this isn't as common as I had imagined, but I thought it was a fairly reasonable thing to do.
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I wish it wasn't bulked with maltodextrin.
But AFAIK both CA and NYU got "consent" to access data from the users who installed their game/extension, but neither are asking consent from users' friends (ie the crux of the CA scandal).
Thankyou for that explanation. I suppose that none of this should surprise me.
The problem is there are more "reputable" sources that are also often wrong, and are just as harmful, if not more, for the same reason: wikipedia, Politifact, The John Oliver show.
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Even their status page is not resolving.
> Er, Mueller straight up said "if we could exonerate the President for obstruction of justice, we would. But we can't." So Mueller has admitted that Trump obstructed his investigation

There's a pretty big excluded middle between "We can say with authority that X obstructed" and "We can exonerate X of obstructing".

(Which is not to say that details in Mueller's report don't tend to support the conclusion of obstruction, but Mueller saying that they could exonerate doesn't equate to saying that Trump did obstruct.)
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While I don't really think the comment is appropriate through this thread, throughout human history most men did not have children so it is not entirely inappropriate. What conclusions you draw from it may be inappropriate.

There's part of the old testament that focuses on giving young men advice to not being taken advantage of by society and specifically women, so the sheer length of time OP's complaints have existed is noteworthy.
because SV doesn't do exactly that? Elizabeth Holmes anyone? Give me a break, 99% of stuff made anywhere on the internet is a waste for "real" human beings.
What you're describing is a bubble, or put more technically: gross malinvestment. It's happening for the same reason any bubble happens, artificially cheap credit financing a speculative boom.

Through government financed student loans, we make money available for any sort of educational pursuit; and unlike a loan for, say, opening a new restaurant, no business plan or market research is needed to convince a banker that the venture is a sound one.

So, the reason this is happening in a "supposedly rational, maximally efficient — or close offer — market economy" is contained in the first word of the description: supposedly.

In truth, government loans distort and destroy a market economy. Cheap credit undermines rational planning.
Bobulinski has audio recording talking to one of Biden family partners saying "if you go public with this story, you will bury us all".
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It's good to see people working on this. They're focusing on the right part of the problem, too - predicting a few seconds ahead in a physical environment. Basic survival is about not really screwing up in the next 10 seconds. (People who do robotics are very aware of this.)

Don't get tangled up in the philosophy of causality. That's not the immediate problem.
I would imagine that any colony would be dependent on Earth (for survival) for quite a while. I think that it would take a certain level of self-sufficiency in order to reach a point of not being controllable by earth.

Being far away is one thing, but when I look at how powers on Earth exert influence and control over others, it seems you also need to be self-sufficient (protection from blockades, trade embargoes, or other modern "seiges"), and also sufficiently defended/defensible to avoid military threats. Sure, your Martian buildings may be underground, but would they be safe from heavy objects flung at them at high velocity? Seems like it would be easy enough for Earth to "put down" any Martian activities that rubbed people the wrong way for the foreseeable future.
Attribution is important enough that several software licenses amount to little more than "attribute the original authors and don't sue us." Attribution is important enough that a right of attribution is incorporated into some countries copyright law as "authors rights".

Perhaps legally, in this case, they're owed nothing - but it's not unreasonable to consider stripping said attributions to be a dick move, even when legal. Maybe unsuprising, but a dick move nonetheless.
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Reminds me of a James Ellroy novel, without the literary elements.
Just made this live: https://help.tara.ai/hc/en-us/articles/360051704951-Gitlab-I...

Basically, RN its a webhook. Once active, you can view merge requests related to a task, when synced. Over time, we should be releasing a full fledged Gitlab bi-directional sync and app (similar to our Github app here: https://github.com/marketplace/tara-ai)

Our Github app also allows you to view stale PRs that are blocking the sprint. We should have similar functionality for Gitlab over the next few wks.
Definitely not alone. That post could have been written by me.
They are in a lot of current Western Digital SSDs. Nvidia is known to have them in their GPUs in some form. I know of other consumer products where they are similarly used as embedded CPU, which is where RISC-V will be most prevalent in the coming years.
The fact that Ukraine has been trying to spread these emails, coincidently around the same time Giuliani happened to be there, which ended up getting the president impeached.

https://www.businessinsider.com/time-hunter-biden-emails-sho...
> I would certainly hope a minimal HTTP library would be simpler than a suite of functions to manipulate and plot tabular data.

HTTP is pretty complex, but that's neither here nor there. The relevant bit is that there is no domain for which guessing caller intent based on reflection over argument types is appropriate.

> “My application is slow, the language sucks!” Doesn’t indicate a very serious investigation into the problem.

I was pretty explicit above and elsewhere in this thread about why Python's performance is miserable; I'm not sure why you would invoke such a poorly constructed straw man when everyone can look upthread and see my actual arguments.
Where did he say that? Towards the top of the linked substack, he says: "The censored article will be published on this page shortly."

Edit: I dunno if I agree that this counts.

"But Intercept editors in New York are demanding I not only accept their censorship of my article at The Intercept, but also refrain from publishing it with any other journalistic outlet, and are using thinly disguised lawyer-crafted threats to coerce me not to do so (proclaiming it would be “detrimental” to The Intercept if I published it elsewhere)."
Why are they only collecting on 1/8th of their billable time?

That's insane.
> Like blowing up people living in mud huts in deserts going by US economic priorities. A regime largely in place to protect biased trade relations for cheap materials and goods from around the world and more importantly (to those orchestrating the regime) to the line the pockets of select defense contractors.

Haha. How on earth did they convince US citizens that indeed sending highly trained soldiers each worth their weight in gold to fight a war of attrition in the desert against sons of goat farmers?

At what point did everyone agree and say "this is a brilliant idea Mon general!" and proceed to send their sons to die in the desert?
The idea that the Intercept has a blanket prohibition on criticism of Joe Biden is transparently ridiculous.

https://theintercept.com/2020/09/02/biden-foreign-policy-war...

https://theintercept.com/2020/09/01/biden-economic-policy-us...

https://theintercept.com/2020/08/13/biden-latino-deportation...

https://theintercept.com/2020/08/07/joe-biden-climate-policy...

What Glenn’s whiny rant leaves out is that it wasn’t just the Intercept that refused to run the Hunter/Ukraine/China BS: reporters at the NY Post and Wall Street Journal both refused to put their names on the story. The NY Post had to use a producer on Tucker Carlson’s show, while the WSJ ran the story as an op-ed since the reporters again refused to tarnish their reputation (they also ran a story from the actual reporters rebutting the allegations)

Editorial judgment and criticism is part of free speech. It is not just about broadcasting the president’s re-election propaganda as loudly as you can. And the idea that Glenn Greenwald can be trusted rests entirely on his 2007-2015 work, and ignores how disgraceful, craven, and just plain pathetic he became in 2016. Anyone who appears on Tucker Carlson’s show simply should not be trusted.
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He has stuck by his claim -- despite the findings of numerous national and international intelligence community investigations and even a Republican senate investigations -- that Russia did not interfere in the 2016 election.

And despite his founding of the Intercept in part to investigate abuses by people in power (and his constant criticism that the press never publishes negative articles about people on their side) he has never written a single article critical of any of the abuses of power by the Trump administration. Not a single article critical of anything Trump has done in the past four years. [1]

1. All articles: https://muckrack.com/ggreenwald/articles
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> the delivery driver doesn't deliver it well. I've waited over an hour for delivery food before.

That's the cost of delivery. You can pay to cover the cost of fast deliver with short wait times and get hot food, or you can pay a lesser amount on a gamble that it ends in a long wait and cold food, or you can pay with your time and do it yourself. The balance has never been in favor of the general availability of delivery (with the exception of maybe places like NYC). It's surprising that it's popular at all, really.
I wouldn't be surprised if the cold would "wait" for the very end of the winter season and then unleash a frozen hell to last until the end of spring.
We need to have faith in the general public that if this story comes out, along with the set of doubts that you just mentioned, that the public will be able to interpret it accurately.

Keep in mind that _you_ are a member of the public.

Your statement is counter to fundamental thesis of democracy. We must believe in the intelligence of the public to make an educated decision.

Your statement is also counter to the fundamental thesis of capitalism. We must believe in the intelligence of the consumer to make an educated decision.

If you don't believe in the sanctity of the public to make educated decisions, than what do you suggest we do to restore the fallen pillars of our society? You no longer believe in the capability of the public to perform capitalism and democracy. Rather, you believe that some subset of society should wield the power to influence the lower masses. Like rats in a maze.

Now, that I have characterized this harsh dichotomy for you, you must face the question are you a rat in a cage or are you one of the puppet masters?
It's a GoA 3 system, so it isn't designed to be safe without a human staff member on every train. There are GoA 4 systems which do not need a human but the DLR isn't one, so while it would seem to operate normally if you just let passengers operate the doors - when anything goes wrong those passengers are in trouble because the system design assumes a trained member of staff is there to fix it and now there isn't.

That triangular key opens a panel by the front left seats of the train, which reveals a complete set of controls for manually driving the train which that member of staff is trained to use. If the GoA 3 system has given up when the train is just out somewhere random then "just get out" while technically possible since there's a walking route along the side at all times - is clearly not ideal even for able-bodied passengers, so in fact the member of staff will drive the train manually to a station unless obviously that's impossible somehow (e.g. terrorists blew up sections of track either side like a Hollywood movie).

Because humans are bad at driving trains, they aren't allowed to move at full speed, they can either let the GoA 3 automation oversee everything (e.g. it won't let them go anywhere it wouldn't be willing to go) at a reduced speed or when that's not useful they can switch off all automation and move at a crawl with no oversight.

Every morning the first train of the day on each route is driven in the first of those two modes, because overnight human maintenance teams sometimes manage to leave tools and equipment on the line and the automation doesn't know not to drive the train into a welding kit left on the track by some idiot who just discovered his wife is leaving him or whatever. So the human staff member's job is to drive the train (with the AI preventing them smashing it into other trains) while looking out the front window for problems.
It’s crazy that their lawyers think that merely referring to a privacy policy via a decal on the door is adequate acceptance of this kind of intrusion. I thought the laws required explicit acceptance online, via a check box on sign up, along with emailed updates when the policy changes. Merely walking through a door cannot possibly be construed to be explicit acceptance.
Thanks for the vim plugin for vscode! It's quite useful and usable. fwiw i don't think you get many donations because it looks like an official microsoft backed vscode plugin so why would people throw money at microsoft. that said, i do think you are correct in that people in general do not donate to open source individually that much.
Right, I'm sure the ones you know are "good guys". But they aren't going to refuse an order. Personally, I'd be asking them what they know about the NS shooter. Probably another one of their well-intentioned psyops gone awry.
Will you change your stance on this, in a general sense, if it's all later confirmed to be real? And isn't it true that someone wishing to affect an election, and in possession of real information, would take the exact same action? You can't judge truth solely based on motive. That motive and action is consistent with the carefully timed release of either fake or real information.

The same was probably true of the person who leaked Trump's tax returns before the election. Of course they were initially treated with caution, but the media worked to confirm their veracity. Here they won't even ask the question.

I don't think the emails contain anything very damaging to Biden, as far as I can tell. I think the cover-up, lack of care about truth, and blind zealotry is way worse than anything in the emails. I do happen to think the emails are > 50% likely real, but the absolute refusal to consider them impartially is the actual problem, not the emails. It just shows neither pro-Trump nor anti-Trump give a single shit about truth. They just care about winning. Ideology trumps epistemology.
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In principle, the cities themselves could have angled bases and be spinning, adding mass-gravity to centrifugal-gravity. I’m not sure if this is actually a good idea (and why would you want to build on a planet if you’re going to live in spin gravity?) but in principle it can be done.
You are completely right, I jumped through too many hops to reach that conclusion, and I was very imprecise in stating it.

Let me try again: the most interesting and frequent setting is where you cannot control the experimental conditions and you have no idea about the causal mechanism at play. And that is where traditional ML cannot help, but RL can.