skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The distinction is that one is unlikely given the evidence and caveats, and one would require completely rethinking the knowledge we have of how viruses work and how radiation works.

It's the difference between 1e-2 and 1e-10. I would trust my life to one, but not the other. Scientists (and the media) should be able to explain the difference.
>It obviously is a result of a monopoly

Apple and Google will both argue that it's not a monopoly because they're competing with each other. Not sure if they can in any way argue that it's not a duopoly however.
Android isn’t even really a fair comparison because Google really, REALLY strongly recommends you don’t toggle that setting which might cause you’re phone to explode in your hands. You’ve been warned. Are you really sure you want to roll the dice and sideload? Wait! Did we tell you how dangerous this is? Are you absolutely positive? Oh no! This is your last chance to save yourself. Do you want to? Yes/no?
The author uploaded his plaintext dump here: https://www.kaggle.com/ltcmdrdata/plain-text-wikipedia-20201... it is 22 GB in 605 .json files.
For me, "the media publishes things that are not true" does not count as a conspiracy theory. I've never seen eg. Chomsky's Propaganda Model[1] described as a conspiracy theory.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model

Edit: After brief googling apparently it has totally been described as a conspiracy theory. I guess this illustrates an issue with the term "conspiracy theory".

Edit2: Like other posters, I'd like to know what predictions you're talking about. The big, scary one I recall was the Imperial study that predicted 500k total deaths in the UK in a completely unmitigated scenario, or much lower numbers with various mitigations. As it is we've had 60k deaths so far, with very severe mitigation measures. Which doesn't look like a wildly wrong prediction to me.
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I don't think that's fighting stupid with stupid, but more so pitching black-sheep thinking to someone who likes the idea of being a black sheep.

Your first example isn't entirely unlikely (I'd make it part of my effort if I were trying to destabilise a country) and as you said, the second example isn't too stupid.

A friend of mine dated a woman recently and she was partial to some qanon business. When he carefully probed with an argument to see how firm her thinking was, she said literally "I don't want to change my mind," which is likely quite insightful.
Chain wear is caused by bad lubrication. Both lack of lube and grit in the lube. You can use a bike chain with 25 horsepower if you put it in a sealed case half filled with oil.
"I often wonder why we accept living in an emergent system rather than a designed one though."

Because we ourselves, our bodies, are an emergent system rather than a designed one?

Human biology seems to be even more chaotic than various political systems on Earth, but both have one great advantage under their belt: they survived unexpected crises in the past.

Designed machines tend to be nowhere near as robust.
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Oops I missed my edit window! That'd also be some insane power consumption! Let's pretend I'm not from the U.S.A. and the comma is used as a decimal.
So, to archive/preserve content that was lost because it relied on a proprietary closed-source technology we should be relying on _your_ proprietary closed-source technology?

Please. I understand you're trying to make a living here, but being able to use F/LOSS software is absolutely critical for the preservation movement.

“Not-for-profit, charitable and educational organisations can benefit from discounted rates.”. Yeah, no, thank you.
Are markups and margins not the same thing?

If they aren’t, what’s the difference?

If they are, then a markup isn’t a function of cost, it’s more accurately a function of pricing power, or how much your customers are willing to pay you over a competitor.

Best Buy can’t markup more because people will buy from Amazon or Walmart or Costco or Target or Aliexpress. Apple can markup more because people can’t get a similar product elsewhere for cheaper.
This. And have in mind that with 0% effective interest, the Fed can't cut it anymore to prop the market up.
Did you also make note of the things that they were correct about, or did you fixate on exaggerations which did not play out?
Its a different story when not much market share is present compared to when its a monopoly/duopoly where there is no other option.
Imagine TSMC taking 30% of Apple's revenue.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-53285610
With Rust, you could re-implement 99% of flash player in WASM with some JS shims
It’s been a very, very long time since I bought something for $1 on an App Store. Most stuff is $3-5 now based on my experience.
Something need to be fixed for sure. Full-on direct democracy in the digital age could be wild. It'd require high knowledge, deep thought and empathy among citizens. Something need to break the stalemate of two party system. Maybe a new great leader will do it, or maybe restructuring the political system. The problem today is most politicians themselves not fairly representing the people, even the so-called "rebels".
cmake generator only needs to be run once per project. After that you use make or ninja directly, and it regenerates the build files if necessary. I can't say it's a strong argument against cmake.
I don't agree. It is a fair question to ask how much value do both stores contribute to their business. If Apple and Google provide more value to the business than they take away then a lot of the arguments about how fair these charges are, melt away.

When people pretend they are arbiters of what is and isn't valid because they don't consider it fair it stops any avenue of investigation because they consider it forbidden.

As much as I don't like Apple or their store, if they are going to provide value I am going to work with them. Pretend that for a minute that apple gave me a 10 fold increase on revenue. 70% of a 1000 is still more than 100% of 100.

Also number of people sideloading an app on Android I would wager is negligible compared to store purchases and could be considered to be irrelevant.

So again the question is how much of their revenue came from those stores and how much value does that add to the business?
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I had no idea a lock pick costing under a dollar could defeat a security system.
Sure, I know experts may not know everything. However I'd like people taking responsibility for what they said. I don't see anyone admitting "Yes, I was wrong but I did my best to approximate the truth". I don't see anyone explaining what exactly they were wrong about and how their thinking has changed few months later; what they would have said in hindsight. That's what I'd expect from true authorities but it never happens.
I have unfinished project to revive the Flash Games I played as a kid using Ruffle JS. Make them accessible through a simple website. Games like Eggs[1] used to be my favorite pastimes. Of course, we have moved on to better entertainment, but there's still value in these short games, something you can just play for five minutes to take a break from work.

I would love to play these games, not just for the nostalgia but being quick, small, and not too addictive. Hopefully, I am not alone.

I think, HTML5 would have done the same job, but the number of HTML5 games is surprisingly low in comparison and wesbites are generally ad-infested.

[1]: http://www.vagenisonline.com/flash/eggs.html
Never mount a backup writeable.
Most of the time, tethering is allowed in the base package. What happens afterwards depends. They can either cut you off or throttle. The only experience I have with this is Orange, and they throttle to the point where you basically have no connection (SSH is unusable).

Not sure though how they differentiate the traffic. There are "access points" set up which I presume are used for either connection. In my case they are the same but I seem to remember on an older phone they used to be different. It was also a different provider. I'm also not sure how they would detect that they're changed.

Screenshot of my setup: https://imgur.com/a/xH88Itp
I just curious couldn't someone just write down missing part of documentstion looking at something like Scaleform source code? So someone else can make clean room implementation using the doc.

Scaleform impplementation of Flash player always looked really decent to me.
Apple/Google are providing the whole operating system and API development and in Googles case access to billions of devices and in Apples case 250 MB cloud storage per app user for developers (up to 1 Petabyte) and piracy protection.
This is the most effective route. BetterExplained can be a good supplement.

Make sure you know how to learn effectively: check out the Learning How to Learn course on Coursera.

If you want to go even deeper than Khan Academy, the Art of Problem Solving books are great.
The distinction from OP might've been "human created fictions"? That was my interpretation anyway. If you were all about the societal guidelines, would you find the idea that those parables were invented by humans inoffensive?
It's been 20 years since I started using the Internet. How much longer before major national brands start using it?
Does APN type go out over the network?

I thought that's an Android internal thing to decide which of several APNs to use.

Also the first 2 references that Google returns say dun is obsolete and not in use with today's devices. I believe that belongs to the ATD *99# era

(Havent't worked in the field for 10+ years, could be wrong.)
Both of the left wing "conspiracy theories" you mentioned are inaccurate and not actually conspiracy theories. No one thinks that the gender pay gap is an actually motivated effort by men against women... it's purely the observation that there is a wage gap (perhaps due to historical gender roles?). So it does not involve a "conspirator", that is a big difference.

The same goes for the second one. It's not the belief that wealthier people are this evil group which acts against the lower class people, moreso a critique of the system that allowed them to rise into the position and situation they are in. They are not believed to be "conspiring" though.

You have to understand that one of the core beliefs of the left is that inequality is bad. The political goal is to create a situation/system where humans all have the same opportunities. It's not about punishing one group of people but instead about leveling out the playing field, making the game "fairer" in general.

That is at least how I understand it but I am sure there are also extremists with irrational ideas.
Vitamin D won't "keep you safe" from COVID-19. That is misleading at best, most likely simply inaccurate, and at worst - it's downright dangerous.

As it has been discussed in SEVERAL threads, here and in alt-meds - and even in your own post - it is the lack of a deficiency that can help the body handle exposure to the virus. Supplementing if you are NOT deficient in D, won't help. Taking more than your body needs to prevent it from becoming deficient - won't help.

It's possible that people need more than science has previously believed, but that is a matter of the RDA, not a matter of being "safe" from COVID-19. Read more on https://www.canadadrugsdirect.com/

Vitamin D can't cure COVID-19 and it can't prevent it. However - a Vitamin D DEFICIENCY might have a correlation with a lowered resistance to the virus. If you are not deficient, then taking MORE won't raise your resistance. If it did, then the vaccine would already be out, and it would be primarily Vitamin D, and "big pharma" would be making a small fortune on it.
Sorry, but your implications are ambiguous.
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The user pays good money for the phone. The price of the phone pays for certain expectations of service: software updates, Siri, Maps, etc. (this is even reflected in the way Apple books revenue in their public filings.) There's no reason the app store couldn't work that way as well. It's not selfish to expect that if you pay $1,000 on a phone that there isn't a hidden and unavoidable tax on third party apps purchased for it.
Here's for hope that we'll get 1-1 sized, 100% artificial replacement organs within 10 years(I know I'm dreaming but one can hope).

Edit: artificial or grown.

All those that need a transplant fast would get a second chance(as long as we don't end up with something like Repo Men).
> your bias is leaking pretty heavily

Please explain what you personally interpreted as bias.
They do release the details—-both to the FDA (and the equivalent organizations in dozens of other countries) and in their patent applications.

But if you want to base medical decisions on an ill fitting analogy because it sounds catchy, then go ahead.

As for your article, the phase 3 trials for COVID vaccines can’t be cherry picked because they were registered before hand with preselected success criteria, and they have been intensely followed by the media.
If you believe in the "privacy marketing" coming from any of the DACH countries and buy their "privacy" products and services, it only means you are not familiar with the 20th century history.
Plenty of historians have taken a critical look at his work and dismissed it. That doesnt mean things didnt happen, but that his work is not to be used as a factual account. But somehow this critical look at sources just goes out of the window if it concerns something horrible or if it places an ideological enemy in a bad light. Then it is acceptable to go "well this is sorta right so good enough".
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>>it is hastened by unionization

True in a technical sense, but misses the point. Sure, there's technically a price point at which automation is "worth it." If labour costs more, demand for labour is lower. That might be because of automation, or any of many ways that demand reacts to price: efficiency, decreased production, increased capital expenditure, outsourcing, whatever.

So really, the true generality is not that "the biggest thing working against unionization is automation." The biggest thing working against labour is wages. Higher wages, less demand for labour. This is also true about anything, not just labour and it's somewhat banal. If cornflakes or netflix cost more, people will buy less. That doesn't mean you always have to price to lose money as a business. Same for labour/unions.

In any case, the bigger point is that if some job is almost "worth automating" at minimum, market or union wage... That's not worth defending. It will probably be automated soon anyway, and there's little to gain by defending it.

>> Unions are about minimum wages.

This is very far from true. For one thing, most people don't earn minimum wage. Most union workers don't. No one wants to. In fact, neglecting the lowest rungs is a habitual mistake of unions.

Starting from the premise that unions are about minimum wages misses most of why the current amazon stuff is even interesting. Depending on what kind of union(s) they form (getting back to my original point) unionisation could mean a pretty wide range of outcomes. Amazon has a big pay scale. There's nothing to say that unionisation means nothing for those at the $200k point on that scale.

The basic premise of an amazon union is (1) amazon is very profitable (2) Negotiation power/leverage is always relative to the size of the pie. A union is what you negotiate with, profit is what you negotiate for.

Bluntly, amazon have $100bn in profits and 1 million employees = $100k per employee. Rarely has a plumper prize been seen on the horizon.
I continue to wonder if we have even exceed Delphi in terms of RAD today.

There are so many things that were better in its field, domain or niche but simple got washed out in History. It was only the other day someone commented Rails, despite its similarity in concept and execution, it is still not as good as good old Enterprise Objects Framework from NeXT.
I have not seen anyone make unqualified predictions of "disaster in 2-3 weeks".

It is easy to imagine you are referring to tabloids exaggerating claims to make them clickbaity ("Y2K will cause problems in traffic systems" -> "your car might explode on Jan 1st 2000!"), or twisted interpretation of the reports where a qualified statement is turned absolute ("X might happen unless we take precautions" -> "X will happen!"), fabricated alt-right news meant to politicize and divide, or any number of other confusions.

Can you give some sources, to help clear it up?
Now imagine that the mall has 100,000 other stores in it as well. Your store is in the middle of some random other stores. It's not in a prominent position.

Yeah, that sounds pretty bad.
The article lost me at making pods mutable.
Also image the mall inspecting every color change you make to your dresses and randomly denying you to sell a certain dress...

Sorry you can't sell that TV, it can be used to watch pornographie.
Currently the only thing leftover from Skype is their logo.
Attempting to change the culture seems like a waste of time to me unless you hold a high position in the company.
> No one thinks that the gender pay gap is an actually motivated effort by men against women

I assure you there are people that believe exactly this, because they publicly stated as much on Twitter threads, getting a considerable number of likes in the process.
>Major apps will get prominent first-page listing on the App Store

Major apps don't really need that anyways. One of the promotions on the iOS App Store is "If you love indoor plants". The first three apps in that story are "Get some inspiration: Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest". I sincerely doubt any of those three needed any additional promotion in order to get App Store downloads. The apps that actually would benefit from getting promoted, and also the Ebay app, are further down in the article.
Maybe one could create a full text search for Wikipedia out of this data. This would also allow us to easily gather statistical information from Wikipedia, e.g. how often does some word occur in Wikipedia. It would be great to have a Wikipedia to play and query around with.
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Genius + empathy for non genius beings is a very rare combo
Probably some small scale predictions were right, but I did not maintain a complete log of everything that was said. The general picture about when and how things will go to hell did not play out. This is the single thing I care about most - that disaster scenario did not happen in two-three weeks, despite being predicted many times. And most of the time it wasn't a "balanced" prediction like "if we are unlucky millions die, but most likely only few thousands"; it was more often than not pure fear mongering.

Also, I think it's really uncharitable to use the word "fixate" here.
I see you over and over again in Flash Player threads. Your approach isn't good because it requires someone else's, namely Adobe's, cooperation, and even then, you still end up with a black box inside another black box. Doesn't feel sustainable.
All quotes are equally worthless so I don't know why you bring that up.

People quote people because they want to express the same sentiment but they believe someone else did it better. Not because they believe the quote to be an absolute truth.
Nothing interesting, typical russian scum.
He didn’t open the business, he managed it. And the man starved his children while forcing them into labour. Then he pissed away everything he had, and a lot of what he said he would give away to others. He’s not a hero, he’s a criminal.
I thought the "Swiss Army Knife of hacker tools" is curl.
You also have malware on PC. I don’t have to worry that my parents install a key logger on their iPad.
Imagine the phone company taking 30% of revenue for every purchase (over LTE) on phones locked to their network. After all, without the network that sale wouldn’t have existed, so developers and retailers should just be happy for anything they get at that point, right?
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even on windows 95 it didn't always work very well. The main problem is getting people to actually test their custom widgets under different color schemes.
“But she finds it so difficult to verbalize, Charles dear. It helps her if she can quote instead of working out words of her own.”
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Where do you want to live? How long are you going to live?

$1m won't go far in some places.
Isn't hard to find small punctures with the tube still stuck around the wheel?
You also have malware in app stores.

https://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/google-play-store-main-di...

But yes, there is a "supervision required" subset of users. Still, shouldn't calibrate the level of big brother involvement for everyone based on this.
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tldr; There are 3 parsers for wikitext,
1. the "old" wikitext parser written in php
2. a newer effort written in js and named parsoid
3. parsoid.php which is the one currently in use on (most?) WikiMedia sites.

All the important details are on the wiki page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid

Disclosure: I work for the Wikimedia foundation but not directly on the parsing code.
Anything I post on hacker news does not represent the views of my employer.
How much access did the cryptography community have to Crypto AG’s cipher machines? I thought those were mostly sold to foreign military/diplomatic missions.
I think Agenda App and Working Copy do sell through the App Store with the 1 year of features. They don’t do the discount of course like Panic with Nova is doing which indeed isn’t possible in the App Store.
Would be nice to understand how natural selection lead to this material and what were the steps. First you had a moth with some fur that absorbed maybe 0.1% ultrasound and then it started to increase from there generation and generation?
Look at the businesses that use it: Theranos, WeWork, pets.com
Doesn’t work with any current App Store unfortunately.
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I think that paying $10m for a stolen painting valued at $20m, I (as an affluent criminal) would brag that I own a painting worth $20m, not that I paid $10m for it.
And working his kids extremely hard, without even managing to feed them...
There are overlaps, certainly, but ideas labeled as "conspiracy theories" usually boil down to the instinctive left vs right values, but that is not always apparent at first sight.

Example: anti-vaxxers. Why would this be RW? Well, RW fear "being controlled" and have a deep distrust of the state. They like their freedom, and don't like to be told what to do, even if that would be in their best interest. So they reject this idea of being told "inject this into your body" and concoct stories about how the state plans to give everyone autism. Same with flouride in the water, etc.

At the same time, well-off mums that probably vote left or green reject vaccines too, but for different reasons.
Anyone know of any animation editing software similar to the original Flash MX?
The key phrase being: taroof na konid (let's not do taroof)..
But even that can make the other party think you're levelling up the 'taroof'..
What Western government isn't all-in on climate change? Am I misunderstanding your point?

As someone you'd probably describe as a climate skeptic, I think governments are capitalising expertly on this. They have hysterical populations literally begging for bigger and broader taxation; all they have to do is not be greedy. Exploit as much as they can get away with, and no more. That means pandering to the cronyists and greenies begging for taxes (that they won't pay) under the guise of environmentalism, without getting so carried away that the working class father decides enough is enough. That's what they're doing.

How is a conspiracy around government inaction going to work when I read about new regulations, committees, levies and taxes every time I open a newspaper?