skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think "fact checking" is the wrong framing for the problem at hand - assuming we're talking about the problem of people shooting up pizza shops. (The article also talks about how businesses or hobbyists who are genuinely interested in truth can find the truth more accurately, but I think that's pretty orthogonal to the problem of social-media-fueled conspiracy theories.)

Take the US election, for instance. At this point the "facts," strictly speaking, aren't really in doubt: we have certain reports from the various states following various procedures for verification, and those reports give a certain winner. The argument against that position is not against the checkable fact of the reports - the argument is that, for various reasons, multiple of these states are either deliberately lying or had their procedures tricked. What's left is whether you believe that to be plausible and in fact more plausible than the null hypothesis that the election went roughly as predicted. And that's not checkable, or at least not democratically-checkable. If you believe that voting machines were hacked in a way that left no evidence, or ballots were modified in transit, or the distance of observers left them unable to notice intentional mis-tallying, or whatever, what sort of fact would convince you otherwise?

If you are so inclined to believe that the election was stolen, you can find facts to back you up. It is factually true that there were illegal votes, for instance: in an election with 160 million votes, the chance that not a single person would misunderstand the rules for where they can vote are basically nil. It is factually true that the Georgia secretary of state made this argument, not particularly eloquently, and is on video saying that they expect to find voter fraud. It is factually true that many electronic voting machines lack proper safeguards. It is factually true that there are more avenues of attack on mail-in ballots. And so forth.

What we have is not a lying problem: what we have is a propaganda problem.

And we do. in a sense, have "distributed fact-checking" / a marketplace of fact-checkers: we have different members of the news media with different viewpoints. And it turns out people aren't particularly loyal to any one vendor. When Fox News called the election for Biden, people flipped the channel to Newsmax, which has "an editorial policy of being supportive of the President," according to their CEO. So I don't think that encouraging people to buy into fact-checking builds any bridges for the communities that incubate future pizza-shop shooters to come back to reality. What they will learn is that they can always find facts to fit their beliefs. Sure, there are facts out there that don't fit their beliefs, too, but they lack an interest in changing their beliefs, so it's easy to wave those away. (The flat-earthers mentioned in this article are another good example of this phenomenon.)
1- I’m not sure how to pronounce it (maybe it s just me), ‘j’ has a lot of depth consonent-wise (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_palatal_approximant)
2- what’s the story behind it (strong believer in the importance of symbols and what they attach to)
3- what is it supposed to make
me think of? A pidgeon? So it’s everywhere and defecate randomly on people?

I must also postface: I understand it’s a spanish word meant to evoke a bird (what for?) and maybe I’m the only one that believes that simple
evocative name change anything, but hey, here you are in that thread :-p
Oh wow. This would be excellent for language dependencies - ruby gems, node_modules, etc. Integrating this with something like pnpm [1], which already keeps a global store of dependencies would excellent.
[1] - https://pnpm.js.org
Ten Problems for Silicon Valley in the 2020s
I moved my WordPress website to Cloudflare Workers and compared the speed
I have several highly-redundant NTFS backups that I'd like to compress into a read-only fs. Can DwarFS preserve all NTFS metadata?
A nice approach. Progress is often a product of error correction, which is great for unfeeling entities like sprint boards and repositories, not as great for people.
Year isnt as useful as kernel version.
> No, the company isn't equipped for this and this is the role of the police and judicial system.

It's literally not; sexual harassment is a civil, not criminal, offense. The police have no concern with it at all, except that some sexual harassment is also a crime (e.g., rape, solicitation of prostitution, etc.)

But employers have legal liability for sexual harassment, which only gets more severe as it continues and they fail to act, whether or not there is a crime involved.

They cannot delegate this responsibility to the police.
That really is the quote of the day. Well played.
Yes, the same happened to me. Maybe an extra button where the music and hint buttons are that says how to play or something like that.
Is this study saying that more than 8 hours of sleep correlates with negative effects on cognition?
I'm sure they have smart people, but they're not that exceptional imo. Otherwise mid-way through they'd have surely realized the impossibility of the situation, notified the city that the original objectives are unattainable and all presentations, documentation and suggestions clearly stated that their new goal is not to "stem jail violence" but lessen the "contrapositive" (out-of-control violence). I bet none of that happened, not because McK doesn't have smart people, but because they're often not really trying to "solve problems".

Often, I don't think you hire McKinsey to solve your problems - you hire them when your problems are already out of control and you need to deflect the blame. They give it their best shot, if they turn it around then they're heroes, if not, you can blame them and they still get paid.
But that's really not accurate.

There are some developers who might care about Linux on a Mac. Most Linux zealots I know hate Apple and won't touch a Mac just because of ideology.

Photoshop is not at all in that category. You're comparing apples to dump trucks.
The Rust part I think is meaningful. It means we can (with reasonable probability) expect the software to be fast and lightweight in terms of memory usage, and it means it’s probably a lot easier for new contributors to jump in than an equivalent C or C++ codebase. That last bit is about a lot more than memory safety. Rust is basically designed from the ground up to make it relatively easy to onboard a new engineer safely onto a project in comparison to legacy systems languages.
And this is why we are tormented with free-speech absolutists - their conscience says they're doing a good thing for the world.
Working on something that will probably end up covering a lot of those requirements in the long run. https://micro.mu
solutionism, monopolies, diversity, outsiders, gig economy, misuse, narrowness, obsolescence, manipulation, public mood.

ps. This is a literature review, neither a libel nor a manifesto
Interesting. Makes sense now that you and others have ball-parked it.
squashfs is widely used in Linux install media.
Seems related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25247200, but as opposed to being “stupid light” is “stupid heavy”
This is my experience working with McKinsey. The consultants on our team were incredibly smart and incredibly hard working, but internal politics and selling ideas to stakeholders is a huge part of their value.

It carries a lot of weight to say you worked with McKinsey on a proposal.
Crowdsourcing the Cost of Healthcare
It wasn't discarded, just delivered separately. Unlike Swing/AWT, JavaFX is not part of the Java SE standard, so vendors don't have to include it, but users can use it like any library.
The Windows equivalent is/was COM and in particlar OLE ("object linking and embedding"). With appropriate DLLs you can make a new file format and drag-and-drop a file into Word and open it inside Word.

The peak of this was ActiveX; in Microsoft's world around 2000, they really wanted you to be able to embed controls and programs in web pages and then put those web pages everywhere, including on the desktop background ("active desktop").

The problem of running third-party code inside your application is not just security but it tends to crash bady and put the name of the hosting application on the crash. Eventually Microsoft got so fed up with that, especially in the kernel, they built a system where video drivers could crash and restart while the OS kept on trucking, and use of COM has faded.
Aaand here is why we can't have nice things:

> Someone is currently trying to register hundreds of accounts with fake email addresses per second. I'm trying to prevent that so in the meantime you can't sign up on http://SpaceHey.com - sorry.
I don’t think JS (or some other runtime) could plausibly be removed from the web on any time scale. People have a (reasonable) expectation that they can do app-like things on a network, and that surface area will find its way to manifest one way or another. At least having it on the web has somewhat of a limiting effect on the entrenchment of the biggest (and worst) privacy offenders, because the barrier to entry is lower than building a wide array of native apps.
McKinsey is part of the military industrial complex (though these days we need to loop in "educational" too):

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/02/spies-intelligence...

Still, you haven't addressed how they seem to remain popular despite being ineffective. My sense is it's a "nobody ever got fired for hiring McKinsey" kind of deal and they're just on the Washington nepotistic short list.
So, it's prosecutors that decide what is true? What if they are wrong?

(I'm not talking about this particular case)
This system reminds me of a sophisticated Facebook news feed.
Though a major problem is the news sources that are biased at the source. We might need a transparency fact checker that compares between sources.
> The resolution is not everything.

If you talk about 8k, 4k or 1080p, the only thing that matters is the resolution. Whatever resolution that is advertised should work.
> If someone says they're "37% sure" tomorrow will rain, what does that mean exactly?

When someone says they're "37% sure" tomorrow will rain they mean that they assign the same probability to "tomorrow will rain" that they do to "if you throw three dice you'll get 9 or less" or "when you threw three dice you got 9 or less". In the second case the event is either true or false already and there is no uncertainty for you, their probability assignment is their best guess with the information they have.
This seems to be for WSL1 though.
> it would be quite useful for a number of things

Would it really, though? CDROM are basically dead, what are you going to ask: "please connect another internet cable?"
I think the thing that is being overlooked here is that these are real people that whose safety was gamed so that a consulting firm could get paid and with the full cooperation of the very people who's job it is to ensure that safety. The way the US allows the prison system to treat human beings as simple profit points while discarding their safety or any semblance of rehabilitation is appalling.

Guards who very often work for private companies are essentially given godlike powers of life, death and torture with no consequences. Its pretty revolting how we allow wards of the state to be treated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Darren_Rainey
(Link is disturbing)

It really appears that the US has no bottom when it comes to the treatment of its most vulnerable, and whether or not these are good people, they are in a power structure where they are indeed the most vulnerable. As a society we should strive to be better than this.
Because they are often there to tell someone what they want to hear, and give them a report to cover that person’s backside. No one ever got fired for following McKinsey, even if McKinsey was just an echo chamber.
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Nice! Some feedback, maybe not specifically for your implementation, I think these are the reasons I've never gotten that into Mahjong even though I really like these kind of games.

- Some of the bricks are too similar for me. Red symbol with a smaller black symbol above. As those symbols are meaningless to me, I'm unable to pattern match quickly. (It's probably the standard look, but having variations would be nice)

- I have trouble with the depth perception, it's not extreme enough for me to intuitively know if a brick is available or not. If anything, fading those blocked just a tad would be very helpful to see it at a glance.

What I find enjoyable when playing puzzle games is to "turn off my brain" and just do it on intuition/pattern matching/experience. I feel I'm unable to do this here, it takes a lot of cognitive effort to search for the bricks, instead of actually solving the logic of the game. Which to me often makes Mahjong more of a hassle than other type of games.

- Whats the flower pot for?
OP: this should be updated to say (2019), since this article is almost a year old
It happens all the time... depends on time of submission, who is looking at new submissions, etc...
Ten Reasons for Tech Optimism
Show HN: Swoopy Boi. It's swooping season and you're the magpie
It looks like the obvious answer.
My questions:
- Would they be legally able to bring the google play store there?
- How will they manage multiple android apps running on the Front-End. That is a major issue with anbox
Sure it was.

The crime bill was designed to stop the "super predators" (to quote two democrat presidential candidates). It was a racist depiction of black men. It included a provision to outlaw scary black guns. You can't really divorce the two and pretend they're not related.
No. And I am not amused.

I have had agbots of various sizes demo in my field.

You are making a mockery of my living for a few laughs on HN.
I’m not sure what you’re trying to say.
I guess something like borgbackup would be better suited for this.

You could theoretically try to build this with dwarfs, by using overlayfs and then compressing the upper layer again with dwarfs, but that sounds pretty fragile and cumbersome.
> setting up kubernetes is as easy as "# apt install kubelet kubectl".

That's not even remotely accurate unless you run Kubernetes on AWS, Azure, GCP.

> straight out of kubernetes home page: "Kubernetes builds upon 15 years of experience running production workloads at Google".

Sounds like you need to read that sentence carefully. They never say they use Kubernetes.

It seems to me you're a Kubernetes fanboy.
Seems a pointless thought experiment. If governments banned ARM and Intel chips then there'd also be lots of new companies. So what?
agreed. this seems far too low and smells more of p-hacking.
Thanks! I'll definitely give that a try, just looking at the docs real quick it sounds pretty doable.

I can think of at least twice in the last month that I _think_ this would have saved me some effort, be interesting to give it a go. Cheers!
I’m working on a new RSS reader. Hopefully I’d be able to show something in the beginning of next year.
HTTP vs HTTPS...not the same conditions.

You should enable HTTPS.
I like the intro bit "we build real businesses for real customers who pay us real money" from the video you linked.

The term master mind has been a bit off-putting to me, but it seems like scheduled social time is a solid step in the right direction.

Thanks.
Judging by the absence of regular safety inspections in vast parts of the US... mostly no one cares? Talk about an active choice there.

The stopping distance fetish is weird in any case, whatever benefit you got from stopping faster is obviated by the outsized inflation in vehicle weights.
> and stay on my toes not to accidentally push the commits

You could just set the upstream of the branch to a remote that will always fail pushing to, which depending on how you usually push should make it very hard to accidentally push something. Always worked well for me.
My perception is that the consultant's advice is rarely put into action in the end. Is this correct ? People keep on hiring consultants as some sort of marketing of the process in their project.
Does this allow for semantic, non-text diffing? This would allow for code formats without syntax errors (i.e. storing the valid AST in binary as separate, likely structured in binary, from the editor representation).

Diffs would then be truly semantic, representing semantic refactorings (e.g. "extract method to function", "rename symbol") at the patch level. you could easily then query "when did this variable show up" even post-refactor where the variable moves modules. Sure this has its limits but it'd push the tooling to levels virtually impossible to automate with text-based code now.

A man can dream!
> Since when do he have to buy something to have an opinion?

It's pretty difficult to have an informed opinion about a product that you've never seen/used/tested/tried.

Due to the requirements for a shopping appointment at an Apple Store (hard to come by, if you check online), and due to social distancing, it's fairly unlikely that a person who hasn't bought/received an M1 machine can have an informed opinion about it -- especially so soon after the release.

That's why I take the hype regurgitation with a grain of salt. Has nothing to do with buying the right to have an opinion.
AppFS provides global file deduplication and also solves the distribution problem, and also you don't need to have all the resources locally
Have you tried explaining what you want in a completely non-technical way?

A mistake/mis-step clients commonly make is trying to use the correct terminology/jargon which doesn't mean what they think it means, but the developer(s) think you know what you're on about so take you at face value.

Something common I've found is clients insisting on me using the latest buzzword technology even when it's not what they need.

And I'm not saying that's what you're doing, but trust your developers to do what you've hired them to do.

It's not a sign of being ignorant, everyone has different strengths, but you don't need to learn the entire trade just to communicate effectively.
Q&A with the Creator of the Pijul Version Control System
Speed Reading: 5 Best Apps for iPhone
Probably, but also at age 44 I bought one of those nose hair trimmers, and it may be the best investment I've ever made.
Agree, it's actually a little confusing to call this mahjong. It really has very little to do with the actual game that is called that name. This is just "match the tiles" with some complicated tiles.
"Fact-checking" has very little to do with facts. It's just a clever rhetorical ploy to promote some viewpoints and disqualify others. Specifically, it's a species of bullshit[1]. If the actual facts support the bullshitter all the better, but if they don't you can rest assured the "fact check" will be "contextualized" to whatever extent is needed to serve the bullshitters' rhetorical ends.

[1] Bullshit defined here as speech intended to persuade without regard for veracity. The liar knows the truth and conceals it, but the bullshitter doesn't care if his statements are true so long as his bullshit is persuasive. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/385.On_Bullshit
I am generally not of a conspiratorial mindset, but in the very particular case of these photography-centric cameras, I can’t help but wonder if these video features are purposefully subpar so as to not steal market share away from their more expensive cinema cameras.

The real reason is probably much more along the lines of “oh, that’ll be a nice bullet point to have on the marketing site, let’s throw it in and not really test it that much in the field”, but still, leaves a bad taste in the customer’s mouth.
Tribalism is as old as humans, and previous successful attempts at “defeating” it have typically involved warring tribes being wholesale eradicated by, or assimilated into, larger tribes, then states, then blocs. Now we have global tribes and nobody bigger left to defeat or assimilate them.

The only way out I see is to try to grow the “sensible majority” into a dominant majority that can robustly eject extremists - make a bigger tribe, essentially. But what cluster of issues unites enough people to form a dominant political force, while also rejecting the dark patterns that consume the current political tribes?
Developing a game that competes with Roblox isn't close to the same magnitude of effort as developing a new mobile device and OS. The bigger the capital investment required to compete with someone, the lower the possible competition, and therefore it is more applicable to accuse them of anti-competitive practices. Economic effects are not scale-free.
Spoiler tag, jeez :)
An extension that reads your images and match them with similar items on Amazon
Software and Hardware for General Robots
Not snide at all. They're only principles if we defend them when it's hardest to do so.
As a former MC myself, I would add another point why people hire MC firms - Political cover.

You have an urgent problem, your stakeholders want change now, but you can get people off your back if you hire McKinsey.

Or, you know what you want to do already, but it’s a big change so you get McKinsey to sign off on it.

If it doesn’t go well you have cover ie we made the best possible decision we could - we hired McKinsey!
This list is pretty good: https://resumeworded.com/free-online-courses/
Cool. I am definitely missing this.
I'm not even sure what's the recommended API to write Windows apps at this juncture. It might be more interesting to ask which APIs are being use by well-known desktop applications.
> The Windows equivalent is/was COM and in particlar OLE [...] it tends to crash badly

The mistake was implementing this stuff in C++, which is way too fragile on its own. Had they built a separate VM to manage requests for these objects, it would have been no problem: VM crashes, host app just restarts it. But Java did not exist yet and VMs were not really a thing, resources were too scarce.

I do think the ideas behind COM/OLE were pretty good, unfortunately real development on desktop OSes basically stopped mid-'00s so we might never know what it could have been.
News has been trump trump trump for the past 4 years and you say he doesnt get his voice heard?
When is Apple going to buy one of these struggling camera makers? They could pick up Olympus for nothing and ship a camera with a real CPU in it, and maybe even software that doesn't make you cry.
That's not how this works. The computation is done in tubes via chemical reactions. The inputs (column and row) are specified by providing a variable concentration of two input solutions to the same base solution which encodes the ray marching algorithm. The scene is static, but you can theoretically sample it at arbitrary points and resolutions by varying the inputs.
This is terrible advice.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-way-fewer-actively-man...

A vast majority of advisors (90%) aren't going to beat an index fund. You are just giving money away money by hiring an advisors.

Unless you want to pull offshore tax shelters or Real estate depreciation schemes its not super complicated to do taxes. Invest long-term and you are getting capital gains tax.
And that's not to mention the Kin phones that were killed off immediately after launch due to internal politics.
> Overlay the mounted read-only fs with a read-write fs. Then you can install modules as you like and if you want to start fresh, just throw away the read-write fs. That's what I've done in the past.

It would be nice to be able to build a new read-only filesystem in incremental mode: given a compressed filesystem and some new uncompressed data, incorporate the uncompressed data without completely re-doing all the work.