skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Gregorian calendar was adopted in arguably four main spurts. The first spurt changed over in 1582, and was exclusively Catholic countries. Most of Protestant Europe then changed in 1700, in a second spurt. The third spurt was the Anglosphere, switching in 1752, and Sweden, switching for good in 1753. The final spurt was Orthodox countries changing over during and after World War I.

There is an additional wrinkle to comment on, which is that not every country started their year on January 1. And when a country changed their year start to January 1 is often not the same as when they changed from Julian to Gregorian.

In the absence of more specific information, it is usual to assume that an unlabeled calendar reference is a Julian date reference (starting on January 1) until October 4, 1582 and a Gregorian date reference from October 15, 1582 onwards, with October 5-14, 1582 not existing. It should be noted that this calendar does not correspond to any actual calendar used by any polity in actual history that I am aware of, but it would tend to be less confusing than actual historical calendars.
This one linked to above works on iOS https://domenicobrz.github.io/webgl/projects/glass-absorptio...
I disagree with your claim that Biden and Clinton are "well to the right of the median US citizen". They are clearly to the left in literally every assessment - whether in the actual elections or polling done by any reputable organization. You're imagining that "median US citizen" is somehow far left of "median US voter" and that's just not true.

Additionally, everything you listed is just exposition on your initial claim. Saying that you will "End Welfare As We Know It" sounds like a potentially wildly liberal plan - perhaps UBI, government-guaranteed employment, housing and healthcare or some other fundamental shift. The victims of crime are disproportionately the poor, people of color and people who are structurally disadvantaged so removing the threat of violent crime from their lives falls well within the standard goals of liberals (even if the actual implementation of the bill you're referencing had more mixed results).
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The article suggests "empathy," but often this is really just patronizing. It's about relationships, not "facts." Someone who believes there is a conspiracy identifies as an outsider to it. The only question is whether they are an outsider to their relationships as well. Discussing a conspiracy theory is usually the same as trying to explain a break-up to the person on the receiving end where the more you explain, the less convincing or final it is, with the real risk of exposing yourself to backlash.

The necessary condition for a conspiracy theory is for someone to believe they are a victim, and that they are being actively disenfranchised by a group who doesn't acknowledge it. Some are falsifiable, others not so much. Quite a few are even more true than they could ever conceive of.

The way I relate to the people I know whose lives are consumed by conspiracy theories is by setting clear personal boundaries for myself, so that when I inevitably diverge from their belief bubble, it's not traumatic because it's just outside the boundary on which we relate. I'd argue that if you want to deflect most conspiracy theories as a leader, professional, or even a manager, don't be empathetic, be magnanimous.
It's worse than that, politicians will be able to credibly claim that anything that's not advantageous to them is fake. We'll end up in a world where a tin pot dictator like Trump can go out and say that anything he said or did in the past was not real.
This is from a Travis CI mail I got today:

> You have 1,000 credits left - these will begin counting down automatically as soon as you run your first build.

> You can use your credits to build on both private and open-source repositories using Linux, macOS, and Windows OS.

> 1,000 credits will be replenished automatically monthly. Additional Credits purchase is not available for Free Plan.
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These do blink so it's no longer an issue. It's still not perfect because other than blinking the eyes have no expression to them, they're mostly still which is very unnerving once you start paying attention to that (it's also how you can tell a fake from a genuine smile). But we're at the point where unless you're looking for it, it's easy to believe.
It's probably not gonna take a single generation to get used to this but as it always happened with new technology throughout centuries, people who are born into this new normal will know how not to be fooled.
Why We’re All Likely Spreading Misinformation, and How to Stop
It's only 80% of the reason. The other 80% is all the time wasted dealing in the physical world, moving and plugging servers.

You could have the most competent engineer fully backed by the company, it's still going to take weeks to procure a goddamn server because it takes time to fight DELL and ship to the colo and have remote hands put it in place and set it up and a thousand more things.
We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.
I think it is a fair point -- when a technical standard and/or convention so vastly disagrees with common user perception, perhaps the requirement should be broadened to account for both.
Performance in js-dos is really great. I was actually curious about developing (4K) dos programs in 2020. And the best out there is compile with gcc and pray ;)

MSDOS Development With GCC

https://hackaday.com/2018/05/14/msdos-development-with-gcc/
"We exploit quantum tunneling in many applications..."

Just out of interest, I use the extremely fast switching times of tunnel diodes to make quick determinations of oscilloscope rise-times. When used as a switch their rise-times are much faster than most oscilloscopes so the rise-time seen on the oscilloscope is actually that of the scope itself.
So what you are basically saying: The posts might have not reached the audience at all. I'd say this is worse than people disliking the product. If it's the latter it can be improved!

Thank you for the time taken to provide your view about the website and the product, really appreciate it!

Based on your comments, we will try to better convey the value of the device describing more specific use cases. I was afraid the sim card and the internet connectivity wasn't well explained so we will improve that too and will add more information about he company. We didn't focus too much on the privacy policy as we are just starting but will definitely get it fixed.
Finally, about the weird places of the OBD2 port in some vehicles, we are aware of that fact, this is the reason why we will be shipping the devices with an extension cable included in the set.

Thanks again for your honest review!
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> But the concept of IP does not seem fundamentally wrong to me.

Let me ask you this, what if in addition to paying for the scarce materials and scarce intangibles that make up a house, you had to pay a license for using the idea of a “house” to people who had inherited a patent on the concept of a house from their ancestor who was the first person who had been documented to leave caves and live in an adobe hooch? And then you had to pay another license to people who held a patent on indoor plumbing, etc. etc. Because of all these i.p. licenses suppose tour house cost an 100x or 1000x the cost of materials and no one could afford housing, but your employer was such a good guy that they just compensated you with a benefit where as long as you worked there, they would pay for housing, and the value of this benefit approached and often exceeded monetary compensation. And any time people criticized the arrangement, we were told that the inventors of homes and bathrooms needed to be compensated or no one would have bothered to invent homes or indoor plumbing and if it weren’t for licenses we would all still be living in caves and defecating in slit trenches. If this seems ridiculous then perhaps you can see why some people think its ridiculous that the same system applies to copyrights on media and patents on medicines.
What do you do when there are no concrete examples or relevant scientific facts at the time?

How do you counter a conspiracy theorist when they then also point out very real conspiracies that have definitely happened and are well-known and well-documented?

Conspiracies definitely do happen and have been perpetrated by institutions that are supposed to be regarded with the highest trust, such as the people tasked with protecting us with their intelligence. How do you restore faith in those institutions?

Would you have argued against MK-ultra before having known it was real?
You'd likely regret it: https://www.bar.com
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I wonder if they're saying something similar though.
>What’s the connectivity into your 7+ year old asset cost? What about the space, power and cooling to provide it a home?

10Gbe ethernet was standard in 2013/2014. Space power and cooling is company dependent. If they're tiny, a closet in the building or a colocation facility, if they're larger, a room. If they're huge, a datacenter.

>What happens when your environment gets attacked by a volumetric DDOS, is that 100Mbps circuit going to get overwhelmed?

I can't recall the last time a customer got hit by a "volumetric DDoS". End-user facing systems sit behind cloudflare. Internal apps are... internal. Who cares if the WAN connection is getting hit by DDoS when your users are on campus? In post-covid world, they've got multiple tunnels with SD-WAN.

That's ignoring that fact that Centurylink or Comcast or Telia are pretty good at mitigating DDoS in 2020. Just because they don't post about the attacks they endure on a blog doesn't mean they're inept.

https://business.comcast.com/help-and-support/ethernet/comca...

https://assets.centurylink.com/is/content/centurylink/centur...

>I’m not arguing AWS is cheaper, simply that there are lots of things around the physical server which also have costs and complexities.

Sure, and they're all complexities which we solved 30+ years ago.
Does the term "herd immunity" make sense for a seasonal virus at all?

Yes. For instance, one of the benefits of widespread flu vaccination is that it slows the rate that the virus spreads at. Herd immunity is just the threshold where enough people have immunity that the spread diminishes. That we don't necessarily reach the threshold doesn't make the lesser effect useless.
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In the article, the mother was attempting to indoctrinate her son with “lizard people” conspiracy theories from a young age, among other things.

At the extremes, these conspiracy theories are clearly false. The problem is that it’s not simply harmless to believe something so wrong at large scale. The believers aren’t just holding an opinion, they’re making decisions, taking action, voting, and even at times encouraging violence based on beliefs that are clearly wrong.
The idea of memes being as something potentially dangerous should be more widespread. Maybe a different word should be used since it's colloquially used to refer to funny pictures with a caption, but I would pay for a service that used e.g. GPT-3 to detect fake news and flag them in my browser. I would trust a human moderation team to update the list for me, since even being aware of a meme lets it begin to take root in your mind. [0]

(Also known as the illusory truth effect[1])

[0] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2958246
[1] https://fs.blog/2020/02/illusory-truth-effect/
It’s hard to imagine a more direct icon for supporting open fascism in America right now than someone saying “Obama built the cages” as if it is somehow related to Trump dehumanizing immigrants and separating children illegally or mitigates what Trump has done or in any way makes Obama or Biden or the Democratic party culpable for what Trump has done.
> I tried Winamp a few months ago and was disappointed to find that it's evolved into a media center more than a player.

Really? Winamp looks the same to me as it did 20 odd years ago.

Maybe there are different versions? I have 5.65 released in 2013. It's exactly what you describe as wanting.
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Nobody should die from colon cancer.

Get a colonoscopy starting soon and then every 5 years.

Get a DNA poop test every year in between.
From the title I thought this was two distinct features running in google's background that used Web ML to figure out how to work together.
Edit: I was wrong. This ships with raspian. Very cool :)

(I ended up on this page: https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-400-unit/?..., which didn’t list the SD card).
My personal experience has always been that fact checking fails with the more extreme cases -- in that it wins the argument but fails to win over the person. In fact, that kind of win often seems to "inoculate" the person against anything you have to say in the future.

When facts and logic fail, I usually fall back on the other two of the good old Greek trio: ethos, pathos and logos.

First you need to understand what feelings are driving these individuals. Usually it's fear and uncertainty. Until you address the root cause of those feelings (which usually differ from person to person), no amount of fact checking is going to have a permanent effect.

The other thing is to build mutual respect, even if you don't agree with the person. Branding someone an idiot is generally not considered a winning strategy when it comes to persuasion.
That's why you should implement (and require) pre-registration of clinical studies - however, that still just means that everyone knows that there are the other 99 unsuccessful studies, not that they will get written up in detail and published.
>I also don't think we truly understood how susceptible so many people are to made up nonsense until recent years

That's not true, that's been the basis behind marketing and advertising since it existed. It's been fairly well known for a long time people easily believe nonsense.
This happened to me. I tried for years to contact Google including via back channels. I received no responses. They contacted me recently only to notify me that my data was purged from their archives.

I bought into the dream of the cloud early as a GMail beta user. I used Drive extensively and imported other email accounts into GMail. Now I don’t have decades of important messages and records.

Don’t trust centralization. Hold backups on storage you fully control.
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Do you know of the flat earther that in effort to prove the Earth is flat, he proved that it is round? He didn't accept it and came around with some other reason. This has got to be a mental condition that scientists have yet to study. At this point it's impossible to talk to true conspiracy theorists as stupidity is chronic by nature. Feed them the colorful pills to keep them at least subdued most of the time is probably the best strategy.
One drive is no different, except the backing tech is definitely worse.from the article

> Others professed to have been barred from using Microsoft services,
It is kind of interesting to think about how we got here. If you question anything mainstream these days, or try to discuss an alternative viewpoint, the conversation almost always turns vitriol. It's unfortunate, because there have been a lot of "conspiracy theories" that have been shown fully- or partially-true with time, but people seem to be very cult-like in their beliefs, even if they don't truly understand their beliefs. It's odd to me, and I wish we weren't like this. I've lost a lot of friends in harsh ways because of things I have become more outspoken about recently, yet we had been friends for years beforehand even when I knew they had the opposing view -- I was simply too afraid to share my view for fear of losing friends. But alas...

Edit: it's kind of crazy that I'm getting downvoted for sharing something that I would've hoped people would agree with. I guess not, and this proves my point. Man, we live in crazy times.
Very curious to see how the third-party market will build up around this device. For the RPi Single Board Computer there is a lot of products to extend it into all kinds of directions, assuming one is willing to breadboard and maybe solder a bit. With this new PC/keyboard things are opening up even more for casual geeking around, which I think might bring even more people in. If the community picks it up I think it could be very impactful!
Right, because LA is built for cars not people.
Please read the discussion in https://www.reddit.com/r/Cplusplus/comments/jjtn5v/fast_prog... . In short, everything is doable, but before starting your project, which you're paid for, you have to grow quite a large C++ infrastructure, which double the native Linux kernel API in many ways.

> Operator new is wholly compatible with kernel allocators.

Please read the referenced thread. The things aren't so simple.
Will this be imposed upon other regions as well?
I've had amazing results with myfitnesspal (free). The only discipline you need is to enter the calories and keep under the daily calories it tells you.

It's so scientific, linear and predictable that it makes you wonder why people bother with all these weight loss shenanigans when weight loss is as simple as calories in vs calories out (at least that's how it was in my case)
Survey shows bipartisan support for stronger consumer protections
Meet certanly rolls out improvements for GSuite before public ones. I think there's even a GSuite setting of "release channel" where you can control how early you get these improvements.
That's because "the mainstream" is constantly toxic to non believers.

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How effective are face masks really? There don't seem to be any standards and I'm wondering...

CORONA DENIER! CONSPIRACY THEORIST! YOU WANT PEOPLE TO DIE!
For those hoping to talk sense into family or friends.

One site with an established track record of helping people out of false conspiracy theory rabbit holes is metabunk.org. They have mainly helped people with 9/11, chemtrails, and UFOs. The guy who runs the site has written a good book on it:

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/escaping-the-rabbit-hole-bo...

Read an excerpt at https://www.salon.com/2018/09/16/how-to-pull-a-friend-out-of...

It is the best resource I have found in many years of searching but if you can suggest others, please do so.
Chamath Admits SPACs Are No Match to ICOs
Will they be able to? Widespread cynicism and distrust feels more likely.
It isn't about inverting the skybox, it is done in the same way as reflection mapping, but instead of reflection ray directions you use refraction ray directions.

The reason these can look off is because the image is flat and on a cube or sphere and doesn't have depth and exists infinitely far away. Sometimes cubes or spheres with a defined size are used to give a little more plausibility.
I'd really like to see the law changed so that companies that keep your personal data have a legal requirement to make that data available for a period of time if they disconnect you.

I'd also like to see long term users have to be presented with exact details of what wrongdoing got them banned and some reasonable way to contest it. This would only apply to the big boys, not to the average website out there.
Exactly, my share of nuts in my feed are already convinced fact checkers are in the conspiracy, too.

Personally, I only try to have instructive discussion if I care about the person. Then it's time well spent. Strangers on the Internet? No, thanks.
> I am starting to think of changing jobs again to something that involves more cooperation with others.

My favourite part of software engineering is solving a problem with a bunch of people in front of a whiteboard trade pros & cons of a certain design approach.

This remote stuff has really killed my favourite part of my job. The software itself in enterprise is never exciting in itself especially in maintenance mode.

I asked a friend of mine at a factory about openings. I just do not enjoy working in isolation.
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One man projects do indeed need CI. Test matrices can get large very quickly, and it is far easier to let that be somebody else's problem.

The open source Python library I maintain has over 30 instances in the test matrix of Python version x platform x implementations. I don't even have a Windows dev box handy. TravisCI and Appveyor take care of that for me.
I am creating a new account just for this: Social Media is the source of a lot of misinformation and there is no way to fix it other than reducing its usage.

Social Media increases information availability and by its very nature will always spread false information as fast or faster than the truth.

This ideal that we can fight misinformation with more truth is absurd.
No one is the villain in their own narrative.

Approach people with a good faith belief that everyone want's the world to be a better place. They may be misguided, manipulated or misinformed, but they want a better world and a better life just like you do. And if your especially gifted with an open mind, accept that informed, intelligent, people of good will can look at the same facts and reach different conclusions about policy.
If you're in New York City, this may be related to rules on rent stabilization. Rent stabilized apartments can only raise their rent by a small percentage each year. These landlords likely want to be able to raise rents quickly if the rental market heats up, so they raise the "actual rent" by the maximum percentage each year but then give a concession so that they can actually find a renter.
European countries created African country borders without an understanding (or care) of the culture and relationships/feuds between a whole continent of people. They put these people together in countries and flipped all of that long history upside down.
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This works in a courtroom. This won't work for a politician who retweets a faked video that then incites real violence. And that, at least for now, is where we truly need to be concerned.
> A "fact" is the _interpretation_ of something that has happened.

This is not how I'd understand it.

From Cambridge dictionary: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fact , "something that is known to have happened or to exist, especially something for which proof exists, or about which there is information"
Those protesters were >99% peaceful.

The remaining were members of radical groups on the left (mostly anarchists, maybe some antifa) and the right (neo nazis) that want to tear down our democracy.

This is all well-documented.
I've saw quite a few similar stories over the past years and this left me very scared. I've been a heavy user of google services for more than 15 years.

For some months now (maybe a year?) I've been trying to reduce dependency on google services and apps. It is a slow process, but I hope to get it done in the next year or so. Meanwhile I try to use google takeout as much as possible to keep up to date backups of my data.

My next step will be moving away from Gmail. Will probably register a domain so that I can have an address that is not tied to a specific cloud provider domain. Does anyone have a suggestion of an email provider I can use with custom domain?
The title seems misleading to me. Does the fact that "...blood samples from a cohort of more than 2,000 clinical and non-clinical healthcare workers..." might seem to indicate a near-constant exposure to SARS-cov-2? That might increase the chance that the individual is re-exposed and thus his or her immune system has continual "boosts". It seems noteworthy and something worth investigating. Would this apply to the population at large who do not risk continuous exposure?
How is this relevant? Amazon.com also predates AWS.
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The cloud is basically a loser so long as some one outside is controlling it. Not your cloud, not your data.