skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the Hunter Biden laptop story.

The theory here is that Hunter Biden, for some reason, flew 3,000 miles away from his home to drop off some devices with unencrypted sensitive data for repair and data recovery at a place where the owner couldn't identify him positively because he's blind, and then just forgot them. The shop's surveillance camera footage for the time period in question got wiped clean even though there's footage from before and after.

And instead of just deleting the data and moving on with life, the owner held on to it for a year (no one does this) and then somehow (we still don't know how) it ended up in the hands of Rudi Giuliani. And we can't see it except for a couple of screenshots from imessage, but we're told it's damning. It got mailed to Tucker Carlson but somehow got lost in the mail.

Here's the interview with the shop owner: https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-who-reportedly-gave-hunter...

This is classic KGB/FSB misinformation. It's right out of the playbook.
They should be treated with caution and skepticism, but you seem to be using motivated reasoning without an impartial look of the actual probabilities. There's no hard proof they're real and no hard proof they're doctored. This requires a rigorous analysis, not dismissal.
The same editorial team and peers that tried to get Lee Fang fired for having the audacity to interview actual residents in areas where rioting was happening?
That's apparently how it was supposed to work at the intercept, according to his contract. Strange that he thinks his readers ... are actually going to read the article?
Lol, hiding under this rubbish argument to censor everything that you dont like. Incredible
> It's such a no-brainer since the national security apparatus (the FBI, NSA, etc) were used against Trump and his campaign very transparently.

A Republican-led senate investigation found that the intelligence community was not used against Trump, did not illegally spy on his campaign, and was fully-correct in following up on the Russia leads. [1]

Do you have evidence that the Republican and Democratic senators did not?

1. https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/513499-republicans-i...
So maybe MSM would act poorly in that case, and? That’s not justification for acting poorly now.
> but I suspect we'll see, like many climate estimates, that number ends up being a bit too conservative.

Good.

When scientists and politicians publicize scary, doomsday numbers that aren't ever realized, the public's natural response is to be more critical of the things those people say in the future. That sort of thing results in climate deniers, anti-vaxers, anti-maskers, and a whole slew of conspiracy theories.

If you want people to take climate change seriously, you need to publish conservative numbers and ring the bell when things end up worse than you predicted. Include a word of caution that things could be worse when you publish the conservative numbers, but don't start out with the worst-case scenario if you want to be taken seriously in the future.

Of course you can be too conservative with your predictions, but I don't see a lot of that except as a knee-jerk reaction to the overly-alarmist predictions.
Substack allows you to subscribe (paid) to an individual journalist or publication. They can then post long-form stories to your inbox. That gives them the opportunity to develop a long-term relationship with you where credibility matters.

At any rate, that is the argument. I don't think it will work, because buying journalism one journalist at a time is too expensive. Hell, buying it one paper at a time is too expensive. The better approach is the Apple News Plus or Google News one, where you pay a single subscription for a very wide range of outlets.... But, their idea isn't crazy.
> to determine causality, we typically have to perturb the system

Couldn't agree more! For computer models to understand causality, it must be able to interact with the environment and probe it. I think understanding causality is one and the same as reinforcement learning, where a computer model learns to interact with its environment
Right. That was modded down, but it's realistic. All the off-earth real estate in the solar system is inhabitable only at huge cost. Mars barely has an atmosphere.
>has there been any investigation of the intelligence response to Russia having bounties on US soldiers' heads?

Yeah. It turned out to be speculative bullshit. There is no link between American solider deaths in Afghanistan to any bounty program from Russia (or even that such a bounty program has ever existed).

Why do you think the story just disappeared?
I had to look up the link, but you reminded me of this:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a20622/watch-the...

...It doesn't look anywhere close to market-ready, but goddamn what a gamechanger once it is.
You're ignoring what I believe to be the most important point: how do we know that is actually possible to build an interstellar colonial vessel?

Or, to bring a concrete element to the question: all known rocket fuels require some nonrenewable Earth resource. How much fuel does it take to launch a vessel built with currently-known technology that would be capable of landing a living human being on a hypothetical planet around Alpha Centauri? And what does that fuel number look like, when expressed in terms of "years of current resource extraction" (or, somewhat more audaciously, percentage of known proven reserves)?

To my knowledge, interstellar colonization is flat-out impossible with current technology. (I'd argue that even intrastellar colonization is impossible, rather than impractical). Arguing that we should discount this non-knowledge of how to do it when explaining why it hasn't happened to our observation is irresponsible to me.
You might want to reconsider demonizing half the human race. But if not, there's a community for you over at /r/redpill
And you link to Tucker Carlson? Seriously?
Ceteris Paribus, efficiency is more morally acceptable than inefficiency. Not giving banks a huge unearned subsidy, and not destabilizing the financial sector with government-engineered bubbles, is more morally virtuous than the alternative, IMHO.

As for housing, plenty can be done to make it more affordable, without doing grievious economic harm by disrupting normal market activity on a massive scale.

For example, reverse the expansion of land-use restriction in high productivity metropolitan zones:

https://eml.berkeley.edu/~moretti/growth.pdf
Is this the editor who wore down Snowden's patience with obstinate ignorance how to use encrypted emails despite being written tailored dummies guides, until Snowden wrote in the clear and ruined his life?

I'm not asking rhetorically I'm on my phone, and on the bus but this seems like it could lead to the incident, "I tried to teach GPG to Greenwald but I had the same problem Snowden had encountered when he reached out in December, that Greenwald was busy and couldn’t focus on it. " From : https://theintercept.com/2014/10/28/smuggling-snowden-secret...
I don't remember the story well but certainly more self-skepticism, disclosure of facts, and rigorous investigation will always reduce the chance of humiliation and harm.
It leads to tons of people owing student loans for law school degrees that are worthless because they can't pass the bar. The bar exam in many states has become more difficult to pass due to this over supply of new graduates. Culling the herds I guess.
What a shocker!
They're free to make that choice if that's their true assessment of it. But when Greenwald publishes his piece, if it actually is not in fact a garbage piece, they're going to look extremely bad and biased.
Take a minute to step back. What do you think is more probable. That every single news organization out there, every single journalist, including NPR as you mention, are trying to hide this very real story and are wrong, while the one publication is in the right. Or that maybe, just maybe, it's the other way around and NYP published something that has not been well vetted?
> not simply a desire to "censor" someone they've worked with for years.

This reads as though you're implying The Intercept existed independently of Greenwald. They didn't, he co-founded The Intercept. He ought to (and I imagine, he does) have seniority on any editor.

I think it speaks volumes about him as a journalist and his journalistic integrity that he setup The Intercept as an outlet where he and his co-founders don't rule with iron fists. His submissions aren't treated specially. It's not his mouthpiece.
> I think pindab0ter would agree that it was improper enforcement of the CoC. I'm not sure anybody can speak to the intentions of the people that reported it with certainty.

Let's stop the speculation on what pindab0ter would or would not agree with. Clearly you and I interpret their message in completely different ways, so unless they want to come back to clarify their statement, let's just stop with the speculation.

> Is that consistent with the thread? Are you arguing that the majority of CoC reports are outright lies? I thought this thread was about the use of CoC to enforce a code of behavior, and if stringent enforcement counts as misuse.

Look, you asked me to define "weaponize" within a specific context. So I gave you 2 examples: one where I thought use of the term would be appropriate, and one where I thought the term would not be appropriate. I was trying to answer your question about the definition of a word, that's all. I have no idea what proportion of CoC reports are outright lies or half-truth motivated by hidden agendas.

Also, I don't like that you're trying to reframe OP's experience as "stringent enforcement". The case described in OP is clearly selective enforcement, which is pretty much the opposite of stringent.
By that logic, we don't know that any dietary plan is doing things right so nothing should be called healthy. That's what makes it FUD.

Haven't tried the stuff in near a decade personally but IMO Soylent is reasonably well researched and a good faith effort to try to create a healthy food, whether it ultimately is or not. "We don't know" doesn't cut it as a counterargument.
Investing in the Netherlands as an Expat
Keeping News of Kidnapping Off Wikipedia (2009)
I have no idea why you were downvoted.

Consulting often involves traveling and that's not fun for everyone.
What is the "real" media in your view?
Sounds like you need to merge more often.
Hey, BB has shuckable 14TB WD on sale for $189 . Don’t miss.
Note that RISC-V instruction set extensions can always be emulated in machine mode, so the lack of V or B extensions will only ever be an issue wrt. performance, not compatibility.
Yeah, from that angle and from the perspective of 2005 it's a reasonable design, and I think what I describe above as a massive deficiency only really becomes visible in the light of everything that's happened since.
> The Mueller report was heavily redacted, and misrepresented by AG Barr

Why would Mueller not say anything to that effect then?
“What was the problem? The moon had risen, and was reflecting radar signals back to earth.”

First I've heard of radar reflections off the moon causing a false positive. I do recall reading about where the sun glinting off the ocean was misinterpreted by orbiting sensors as light emanating from missile trails?
So, they say that the system is evolving, but from these parts of the article I would argue that the ease of contributing (which is the important part) is taking a massive hit:

> "you will no longer be able to click Edit on a page, make and save a change, and have it show up nearly immediately on the page. You’ll also no longer be able to do your edits in a WYSIWYG editor."

> "you won’t have a WYSIWYG to instantly see what the page looks like as you add your content, and in addition you’ll be editing raw HTML"

They had a user-friendly system previously... Now users have to learn GitHub and author raw HTML! - I would point out that not all documentation writers are developers!
he also tweeted that he has access to copies of the documents and UPS now have come out and said they found the missing documents.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ups-said-found-lost-tucker-c...

probably, just a weird coincidence but tucker wasn't lying about the situation.
A founder's guide to starting and building a lending business (2020)
Arguably these processors adopted 64-bit a little "too early" because they still couldn't support over 4 GB of RAM and people couldn't afford it anyway. However servers did hit the 4 GB limit much sooner than PCs which motivated server-oriented RISC processors to go 64-bit before the PC-oriented x86.
Thanks for sharing. I'm curious about the GitLab integration, is there a page on your website describing it in more detail?
Donald Trump Jr, unlike Hunter Biden, participates regularly in his father's political campaigns. He spoke at the RNC in 2020. He is regularly on Fox news. This makes him part of the political news in a way that Mr Biden's son simply is not.
>Glen Greenwald is one of the most respected journalists on the planet. the man is a modern day Cronkite. his character is beyond [reproach]

This isn't my experience at all, at least not for many years (speaking both in terms of my own opinion of his writing and the apparent opinions of others).
> Either that, or there are specific sourcing rules for journalists based on the credibility of the sources.

A kuwaiti diplomat's daughter or intelligence officers are not credible sources. And neither is the nytimes, wsj or any major news company at this point.

> Giuliani has burned his credibility, and the entire laptop story is on its face unbelievable.

It's far more credible than incubator babies or yellowcake.

> These other stories like Yellow Cake came from legit sources that were credible at the time.

No they weren't. It was intentionally manufactured lies. The nayirah testimony was a PR generated propaganda. And yellow cake was propaganda conjured up by the nytimes and pro-war intelligence groups.

> You are comparing apples and oranges.

You are right, I am comparing actual lies that led to millions of people's deaths and a possible lie. You are right, we don't know the truth of the hunter story yet. But we know for sure that nayirah and yellow cake were intentionally manufactured lies to start wars.
“Facts” conveniently dropped right before election whose veracity cannot be proven and which were clearly placed to affect the election outcome should be treated as fake and not promulgated in public discourse. Otherwise it encourages release of outrageous lies right before election and degrades the whole process.
The source is the Director of National Intelligence: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/fbi-hunter-...
> It's such a no-brainer since the national security apparatus (the FBI, NSA, etc) were used against Trump and his campaign very transparently.

Except that Trump doesn't even bother to hide his desire to use them even more brazenly than anyone in the past (including Nixon, whose abuses prompted explicit legislative limits) for partisan political purposes; Trump definitely doesn't want to make the existence of a vast security apparatus or its partisan use an issue, only to sell himself as a victim.

> In reality, he doesn't seem to have a deep, principled understanding of the issues of the "national security" apparatus (commonly known as the "deep state").

The "deep state" is more a reference to the permanent official and unofficial establishment of public service as a whole (both the permanent civil service and the network of past and present senior, largely executive, leaders who remain in-the-loop and exert influence even when out of current office); its not particularly associated with the national security apparatus. The use of the term (except as a reference to others using the term directly) is a fairly explicit indicator that the speaker prefers a strong-man rule and factional spoils system to the rule of law and professionalism.
Fun beetle sex story on Radiolab that includes a dramatization by a visiting crew of Broadway singers:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/hard-...
Of course they shouldn't profit from people they've harmed.

Is it okay to profit from the other people they've helped?

In any case Rhodes Pharmaceutical was started in 2007 by the Purdue family. It makes opioids too and should be shut down.
You're right, it's just that the people who are going to pay for it in the long term is not as politically active/connected as the people who's going to benefit from it in the short term (and possibly will die before the consequences appear).
Consumer Reports and Reuters don't attempt to manipulate stock prices. You might disagree with their conclusions but you're obviously wrong about their motivations.
So exactly what percentage death rate does it become necessary for you to accept personal inconvenience?
Every single journalist? What about Glenn Greenwald? How about Matt Taibi?
I think you just need to find a way to align incentives. Capitalism can work just fine. The reason we're in this situation in part is because the skills and resources you garner for delivering journalism happen to overlap with those needed to deliver political tabloids. We don't worry about air conditioner manufacturers magically becoming insurance companies, because its hard to do so. So ultimately if you align incentives enough I think you can make it increasingly unlikely a specific 'truth seeking' organization will slide into tabloids. But I don't know the formula. It might boil down to re-baking the culture which awards good journalism and bootstraps itself off of valid credentialism.
I moved countries 4 times, unfortunately a solid local network isn’t transferable outside it’s boundaries
It certainly won't help him that he is very close to Erdogan, who looks like he is waging a war against Europe and its values a bit more every day.

He had already caused anger in Germany (he is a German citizen after all...) because of that proximity.

It all starts to add up when you're in an industry that is a lot about image.
That's not correct.

1. First let's get through the easy part: reinforcement learning (RL) is not unique in its ability to identify cause-and-effect - this was achieved long ago through the use of randomized controlled trials. RL merely streamlines the task of reacting to such information (as well as optimizing experiments w.r.t. a desired goal).

2. Now the trickier part: you can learn causality from observational data alone if you combine this with understanding of a mechanism. Indeed, the whole field of causal inference is an attempt to formalize and extend such methods.

There is a massive space of problems where experimentation (whether old-fashioned A/B testing or more sophisticated online learning) is simply not possible, whether because of ethical reasons, cost, or other reasons behind non-destructive study. These problems are common in medicine, economics, physics. In such problems the only data is observational. Causal inference is very valuable here.
Space exploration has already created many significant benefits for humanity on Earth, by advancing hundreds of new technologies with terrestrial applications

Velcro! Tang! Teflon! Computers! NASA PR used to make a big thing of that. But those things didn't come from NASA's space program.

The ISS was a huge disappointment. It's the best argument for not putting people in space. Hugely expensive, and not very useful.
> Simplified back-end platform

Shows two flowcharts, of which the new one is arguably more complex.
I agree. I work in a company that had only few stated rules and operated under the assumption, that people had a common sense of what is right and what should not be done. The implicit rules were actually working quite well.

At least up to a point where some people clearly, but mostly not openly acted as if these unwritten rules don't apply to them. And these transgressions were not dealt with from management even when they became aware of it.

Was a shitty situation if one was trapped in such a bubble within the organisation.

Fast forward being acquired by a global corporation with an endless amount of rules and regulations. Nobody reads them. Everybody knows the important ones. Nonetheless nobody really cares in the global corp.

Exactly what I see happening in our part of this global org now starting. A sad situation.
OpenXR update, code examples, experimental overlays, hand tracking extensions
You're already buying into the propaganda - there is nothing to "cover-up" per se, there can't be a cover-up, because there is nothing to cover up, there is no story.

Imagine multiple media outlets simultaneously get an email saying "Meowface denies being Dogface during the night". If someone refuses to print this, due lack of evidence and lack of truth - that is not called a cover-up. There is no reason to dignify it with airtime in the first place.

After all one can publish this sort of stuff on blogs, internet forums, tabloids etc. Curation is the true news product - sifting of truth from untruth is one way to do it.
I don't mean for this to come off rude, but how can you be so cold? How can you lack so much empathy? At some point you have to learn that things matter to people.

Volunteer projects rely on an unspoken contract that symbolic recognition, awarded fairly, is a real motivation. And if a project wants to succeed, it needs to take that seriously.

Does the project owe its contributors anything? Legally, no. But if it wants to survive and keep contributors, then it had better damn well work hard to recognize them. The project isn't owed anything. The project should consider its free, voluntary member contributions a privilege.

Understand now?
Hey! So we had the option for a min char count, but users wanted to have one letter workspaces (for fun I guess?). We need to revamp our navigation anyway since it's hard to know where to click to change workspaces.

Good point on the whitespace- will take a look.

As for creating tasks- we're thinking of a sticky area on the left (that's always on) to create tasks.

For priority- we're releasing labels in 3 weeks. You should be able to assign #P1 or priority overall on different sets of tasks. That being said- we are considering adding some form of auto recognition or NLP to suggest priority and labels automatically based on past tasks. For time, we have 3 effort options (points, hours or days), we kept it simple to create a standup view where you can see how engineers track throughout the week.

Let us know which other parts may be tedious. We have more work to do!
Such nonsense. Everyone knows that if someone published "hacked" materials which were damaging to Trump then Twitter would laugh you out of the room if you suggested they block it.

This article has been suppressed for one reason and one reason alone: because it's potentially damaging to Joe Biden's election campaign. I know it, you know it, Twitter knows, everybody else knows, so stop pretending that this is about anything else because no-one is fooled.
We've demonstrated that we can heat planets up.
i think what greenwald is basing is story on is all in the public domain. i think tucker is prone to hyping stuff so these documents probably don't add much.
While I haven't seen Greenwald's piece, there is a lot more to the "Hunter Biden leaks" than some screenshots of emails allegedly recovered from a laptop.
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Because none of those on their own has the same balance of macronutrients (fat/protein/carbs)?
I think solid food takes longer to digest because it takes our bodies longer to absorb the ingredients. Liquid foods are much more bioavailable, so I would expect them to be better absorbed than solid foods.

If the liquid food has bad stuff in it (ex. bunch of sugar in a smoothie) that could be a negative thing, but for good stuff that would be a good thing.