skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"people who don't think truth can be known, often act with a great deal of certainty about things they believe to be right."

Great comment.

It is very rare, in my opinion to find anyone who isn't acting on beliefs as if they were knowledge. 99.999% of people are unable to understand that what they think is 'knowledge' is actually a set of unverified assumptions. These assumptions are presented as true at school, in work, on TV, etc and they see that everyone else treats these assumptions as true, so... well they are true, right?

People cannot accept holding something as a hypothesis. They may even say they do this, but they do not change their hypotheses when they get new information. If pushed, they may state something to be a 'hypothesis' and that they use the word 'know' as a shortcut to that - all fine - but then if they are presented with additional information they cannot take it on and will reject it. Cognitive dissonance has no place in their minds - it is a tension that is unacceptable. Apparently most of us seek certainty and prefer a certain story to just resting with the evidence.

The idea of 'believing we know' permeates our lives, and is why I argue that science is religion. And beliefs held as true operate on fundamental levels, despite a lack of verified evidence.

TLDR, people prefer stories to truth.
I'm comparing the future of all commonly available computing devices (phones, PCs, consoles, et c) following the xbox model to terrifying and violent failure modes of ubiquitous surveillance and censorship.

When all systems available follow only these cryptographically enforced rules, your tools will make it impossible for you to do basic human life tasks without being censored and surveilled.

I encourage you to study what happens to societies that go through that.
Israeli Surveillance Companies Are Siphoning Masses of Location Data from Apps
Yes, tho they have been around now for about 20y, are big (no
good for eg neurosurgery, ent) and cost $2m.
You don't need that for lap appendicectomy, - just a better scope, and a good surgeon.
Robots have no advantage over human dexterity. They have a few niche roles eg where we can't get our hands in eg the prostate.
I don't like appeals to authority, but this perspective that people who have spent their entire lives studying epidemiology have just got this all wrong, don't understand what they are doing, and that appeals to "common sense logic" will reveal the truth ... really irritates me.

That's very understandable but I doubt your view would survive contact with the epidemiological literature.

It's really hard to believe I know, but epidemiology papers are all terrible. They seem to always contain basic errors that any lay person can spot, and peer review doesn't catch them, nor does the editing process at supposedly prestigious journals. I've read a lot this year and by now I go in to a new paper being sure I'll encounter something stupid or crazy, because the rate of problems is just so high.

Remember that the only people who study epidemiology their whole lives are in academia, a place where being correct is less important than being published. Although it sounds absurd, 2020 has convinced me that epidemiologists and public health researchers in general know absolutely nothing about disease. They are however very good at closing ranks and claiming nobody outside their little cliques should be allowed to criticise or question them.

More generally, this is really basic epidemiology, and I don't understand why you think it's so useful to question this stuff in this way.

There's nothing basic about the claim you just made, and I'm really curious now if you yourself are an epidemiologist. Because you've gone from asserting that epidemics aren't susceptible to "common sense logic" to saying it's obvious and common sense that lockdowns/masks - which have no observable impact on case curves for COVID at all - will have outside impact on influenza.
The so called “AI” as they are practicing it now, is not intelligent at all.

Sure, they found a new trick to recognize cat pictures. But this technique was discovered decades ago. It just took this long for computers to speed up, for it to be usable.

Instead, they should change the moniker from Artificial Intelligence, to Artificial Insight.

Because all it is doing is to comb through all that random data, to look for interesting signals. But, the algorithm doesn’t even know if what it found, is interesting. That’s up to the human to decide.

Hence, the algorithm can provide Insight. But, it is the human in the loop, that will provide the intelligence.
I guess you should ask ‘Is click bait an accurate summary?’ Instead :)

I think it will come down to how you define an object-I don’t think that’s a scientific term.
I think the biggest thing is just having someone explain the tongue positions and differences - otherwise, most people do notice that there is something different between how they speak and how natives speak, but can't put their fingers on it.

For example, in my native language we don't have the 'th' sounds from English. Most learners approximate the voiceless 'th' with 'f' ('fing', 'frow') and the voiced 'th' with 'z' ('zis fing', 'zat fing'), because they don't even know what to do to pronounce the real sound.

Even worse, many consonants and vowels have variations between languages even when they are recognized as the same consonant. R is a famous case, but for example, the Slavic and Latin 't' sound is harder than the English or German 't' - I pronounce my native t with my tongue closer to my teeth than when I'm speaking English.

However, one someone points out the specific differences and helps you practice the right tongue movements, it's generally easy to replicate if you're pacient and try for a while. There may be exceptions, like learning to roll your R sounds, to vary pitch or learning click sounds (haven't tried any of these myself, so maybe they're not that hard either).
Every time I call tech support at my job so that they can remote in. Granted, it's the IP on the company's network so it can stay IPv4 forever.
Create REST API with Laravel Orion
Would that work with an object of the size and mass of, say, a mother in law? Just curious...
‘Covid-19 has an odour, and the dogs are detecting it’
Just look at browsers — no more status bar, title bar reused for tabs or controls, hidden menu bar.

Web does not value menus and window manipulations either. I don't get it too, tiling window manager optimizes geometry, multiple desktops available by shortcut.

Shell is a manual mode of automation tool. It stores history, I can easily call previous command, combine several commands into new one.
Black Holes That Spin Fast Enough Might Gain New Powers, Physicists Find
Customer? How about the users? The tools keep getting "better and better" and yet time and again I'm on sites - big major sites - that trigger a "No way! WTF is _that_?!??"

Mind you that's not necessarily a direct result of the tools or those using the tools. On the other hand, resources are finite. Any time used for X (e.g., wresting with Webpack) "comes out of the budget" for Y (e.g., bug fixes) or Z (e.g., a UX designer).

Clients/customers care about their users/end-customers. And users/end-customers don't give a toss about Webpack or anything else. They care about themselves. Full stop.
I still do not understand, as they do not carry Qubits, but they use laser to transmit information, why not use the laser in the first place to transmit information?
Untrue and off topic.

> 42% of RNs in hospitals said they had ever been tested for the virus.

and anyways that's different from a one-time pre-vacccination test.
I was just thinking today, mostly because of Mojeek, that to beat Google, you need to be better in at least one area. Once people use your search engine on a daily basis, you can add more areas where you can deliver better results. Just keep chipping away. It’s impossible to beat Google as a general search engine from the get go, but if you can become a tool people rely on, it’s possible to become really big.
I think Firefox devs restart it many times a day during development, so they are not as affected. I think with 24GB of RAM I am at least on the edge of tons of memory qualifier and it still seems not enough after few weeks or intensive usage. Nevertheless it's baffling for me not to return the memory, but it's the default with small (roughly less than a page) allocations, because of how brk/sbrk work, Firefox should strive to do better.
Pushbacks: Migrants accuse Greece of sending them back out to sea
The barriers we’ve faced monitoring proceedings in Assange's case are extensive
"AI" will be there is almost everything is few years time.
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-5-greenest-tech-com...

Maybe you have good reasons for disliking Apple. Maybe you have fair criticisms of the company, that's fine. However on environmentalism Greenpeace are the real deal. They put in the hard work of checking the details, and they absolutely know the difference between companies doing low effort environmental PR and those putting in the hard work to actually make a difference. Out of all the mainstream tech companies they rate Apple number one. If environmental concerns are a significant factor in your tech purchases, there is one clear best option and it's not even close. Now if there are other factors that matter to you more, that's fine. Your choice.
A Homeless High School Dropout Became CEO of a $1B Company
Flat earth, busted again.
Same here in Munich, we've had a course on software-testing in OOP-languages and had to write unit-tests for some modules of jenkins which were graded and eventually merged into master.
I'm not a student of serial killers but it's hard for me to even begin to formulate a motive for this particular guy. Men that kill women is common; women that poison men is pretty common. Let's theorize these people have a fetish for killing. Another category is those with automatic weapons that kill groups of people all at once. Just for notoriety knowing they will be caught or expect to commit suicide at some point in the process.

But Zodiac is killing couples he doesn't know at a distance with a gun (or a knife, likely because a gunshot would draw too much attention). He wants to be notorious but not personally notorious? He just has a hate on for anonymous couples? Are there (m)any more examples of this kind of killer? Hypothetically, if he could kill say a hundred couples from a distance with a bomb would that motivate him? I'm just not getting it.
It's sickening, really. Jim Sterling's video on lootboxes [1] really hammered it home for me, especially the section where he quotes from a talk by one such developer [2]. The talk is literally titled "Let's go whaling", a reference to getting people to "whale" the game by paying tons of money. Fate Grand Order, a gacha game, even lampshades it:

> What’s interesting about Fate/Grand Order is that the game’s marketing features a vicious caricature of dedicated players. She’s a slobbering, lecherous, gambling-addicted little monster.

> Fans love her.

[From [3]]

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S-DGTBZU14

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNjI03CGkb4

3: https://www.polygon.com/2018/4/18/17247246/fate-go-free-to-p...
The other day I read an article about "uncovering tax fraud with algorithms and AI". The innovation: examining tax records not just from an individual perspective, but from a family perspective. Essentially a split-apply-combine. AI!
My Life in Cars
I'm pretty sure I've seen some examples of this but I can't find them now. Besides the better-known pinhole photography, there is also pinspeck photography, and some random object standing in front of the wall could perform the function of the pinspeck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinspeck_camera

(p.s. you seem to be shadowbanned)
This is similar to the "_______ DESTROYS ___________" in YouTube videos. It's one way of getting likes/upvotes/karma points.
It has to draw attention somehow. It has to have some weird thing (unexplained to the eyes of the author), a rare event (a Black Swan?) or something that is highly controversial so gets the discussion going.
It has been like that since the first headline on the first newspaper ever made by man (perhaps earlier, under other medium).
Ask HN: Document Management at Modern Companies
How is document management handled in startups/companies nowadays?

I understand that in public sector you can find something like Alfresco and Opentext, but these look like overkill/complex for startup context.

In early stage, I think people get away with file-based solutions, e.g. Dropbox/Google Drive and later documents will be tracked in Google sheets/Microsoft Excel. What's the next step?

What am I missing? Perhaps document management is not a thing at all nowadays? I can imagine that employee contracts are kept in HR system, IT contracts tracked in asset management system, client contracts at CRM, etc but this looks messy and there's no central place at all. But someone/somewhere still needs to keep an eye on expirations and in case of physical documents, where they are exactly.

So, how is it organised in your organisation?
Exactly. I did a double-take at this "comparison":

>Unverified users are now banned from uploading content — a policy no other platform has put in place, including Facebook, which reported 84 million instances of child sexual abuse material over the last three years. In comparison, the Internet Watch Foundation reported 118 incidents on Pornhub over the last three years.
Commentary by Derek Lowe that links this graphic.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/12/10/th...
Summon the JSON decks seem awesome! Great work!
It's a "well-known" fact that in WoW new characters receive something awesome very quickly. It was not acknowledged by developers, but plenty of people including me observed that behaviour.
At this point in my career, it is very apparent to me, that if you offer a B2B service and provide a way to customize the look and content, the end-user would rather pay you to do it, instead of struggling w another UI.
Is there a similar test psychiatrists or therapists use to understand their patients? Seems like the answer would reveal a lot about the person giving it.
Methodology to protect your data (2014)
I downvoted you because you are stating things as a fact that are not true, and have not been true for several years.

Modern EV batteries don't loose much of their capacity over time. You probably have your information from old Leafs.

Most people that actually drive EVs I've heard from do not have problems with long charging times. In fact, it only takes a couple of seconds to do most charges (the time it takes to plug it in in your garage). When they are travelling, it does take longer, but for most people it just means a slightly longer coffee break.

Coal is on its way out, and even with coal on the grid, it doesn't actually defeat the purpose, as it is still more efficient than small fossil engines not running at their optimal revs. And it is on its way out!

Hydrogen for cars is not going to happen, outside a few compliance cars. And you'll probably be surprised to learn that you can't fill up a hydrogen car as fast as a gas car.

The main problems holding EV cars back right now are lack of production capacity and upfront cost.
Yeah I went from notepad to visual studio to emacs to sublime text2 to vscode and finally gave up all that nonsense and got back on good IDE and got Clion. Simply the utility of the code refactoring tools completely blows any text editor out of the water. For example when I want to do a simple refactoring such as rename a function or a class I can do this trivially in seconds. I could never find anything like this for any of the editors I tried before. OK, I mean there's some clang based plugin for vscode for example but the the functions it has (such as code completion) basically almost never works and it has very little to offer in terms of refactoring.

That being said I adopted emacs style key bindings which I use continuously for the most common editing things. I find this is really the best bang for the buck and best of "both" worlds!
It is more of an interesting trend than it is an "exciting product". Once upscaled ARM processors and/or SoCs become available for use in other- or non-branded products it will become truly exciting as that will open up for breaking the AMD64 hegemony in the server and PC spaces. They will be supported by Linux, Windows and others which is essential for the viability of a new platform.
The vaping issue was related to Vitamin E in THC vaping and was not related to vaping in general.

The Vitamin E was being vaporized and inhaled directly into the lungs, which caused the problems. Inhalation of Vitamin E into the lungs is a known cause of lung disease symptoms.

See https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/s...

There's no evidence that EVALI is related to COVID-19 or SARS-cov-2.

The vaping "thing" hasn't just come and disappeared. The CDC has stopped reporting on it.

See https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2...

So that correlation is not causation, EVALI is not COVID-19.

EVALI is not related to the vaping pens or where they originated.

The disease was reported where people were using THC cartridges that were diluted with Vitamin E, which is primarily the US.
It's meant to be satire ..
It is a problem and it should absolutely be paid attention to. US excess deaths aren't like in other countries, where they are generally on a long downwards trend. In the US they've been rising since the financial crisis.

Oddly this year the CDC baseline expected death rate diverged from the trend line:

https://twitter.com/Humble_Analysis/status/13356752493633536...

That looks bad. If they were projecting the long term trend forward as they did in prior years, excess deaths from COVID in the USA would suddenly become a lot lower.

One other thing to bear in mind - a lot of these graphs that make excess deaths look dramatic are only looking 5 years in the past, because that's generally the easiest data to get hold of. But death rates are falling with time, as you'd hope to see. If you look further back you don't have to go far to find years with similar death rates. E.g. the UK had one of the highest excess death rates in the world from COVID in the first wave, but when you look at historical data, it was no worse than the the winter of 1999/2000 when no special measures were employed.

Lockdowns are an ahistorically extreme move. For that to make sense the scale of the problem with have to be equally ahistoric but it's not. I've lived through years with excess death rates just as bad as 2020 and never even noticed, because nobody was commenting about it. That's the risk with very short term analysis.
If you get your card skimmed you can call your bank and have your money bank.

If they steal your crypto it's buh-bye.
> Why don't we just use Reactjs?

"Dealing with immutable data in JavaScript is more difficult than in languages designed for it, like Clojure. "

From React's docs.
How does residential IPs actual work?
Nice story, but

:wq ?

I've mapped ZZ to :w, ZX to :x, and QQ to ZQ / :q! to quit.
Kind of expected a darker end to the story, feels good to hear such a vim optimist, thanks!
I don’t think ‘known’ really qualifies as a “weasel word” in this context. To me, “weasel word” is a somewhat wishy-washy or putatively unnecessary qualifier designed to weaken a statement in a way that allows the statement to be phrased in a way that seems much stronger. “Dozens of supporters” meaning “25 people” is weaselly; “virtual unanimity” instead of “99.9% support” is not always weaselly (though it could be depending on the context); “largest known in the observable universe” instead of “the largest we’ve happened to spot in a telescope” is not at all weaselly.

In this context: “are you sure it’s the longest long-exposure in the world? Have you checked every single camera or device that employs a camera obscura technique?” isn’t a very reasonable objection. And “known” isn’t a weasel word so much as a tautological qualifier. It doesn’t weaken the statement in anyway, it just clarifies that the author is not ominiscient.

If the headline was “believed to be one of the longest” because they were aware of a longer long-exposure, that would be much more weaselly.
This is a article is a non-story, turned into a story by (what must be deliberate) misinformation.

Wary as I am to attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetent journalism, the fact that Sanguine Security are mentioned by name in the article, and their website directly linked to, makes me think this must be a paid marketing piece. The article also seems to imply that Willem de Groot is the person describing this "feature" as a modern addition to the CSS spec (it isn't any such thing).

There is no such feature, this attack uses JS eval normally and does not rely on anything special in CSS the language. There isn't anywhere near enough novelty here to describe this as anything distinct from any other old-fashioned XSS.

Flagged.
Christmas Prism. Safe. Family. Fun
How does one make a point with made-up hypotheticals?
They also prevent sending links to known phishing sites. They prevent the spread of malware.

Yes, this Trump-idiocy is malware.

Yes, this oversight needs oversight in the open. A list of banned stuff, with explanation.

Also, not surprisingly alternative platforms quickly sprung up to serve that audience and host. Though they might eventually get kicked off Cloudflare, and so on.
My .bashrc is on a quest to turn my yakuake into the better half of vscode. "The shell is my IDE" is definitely true.

Though Google takes up a worryingly large fraction of it. Wonder if there could be a shell tool to just dump the first stackoverflow hit for a search.

bashrc highlights: https://gist.github.com/FeepingCreature/649588a2f6fa27c717bd...

- ctrl-G for "directory up"

- ctrl-E for "find and open in editor" (using fzf, substitute 'edit' with your editor of choice; the history gymnastics is to basically pretend that you typed it in manually for purposes of bash history)

- and of course, for german keyboard layout devs, rebinding capslock to alt-gr.
I think along the lines you're thinking, you would actually want to come up with an expected cost of an infection of an individual ("cost" being in a misery-illness-utility sense, not financial). This would presumably include the average expected illness severity of the person infected but also the average illness burden in others indirectly attributable to that person being infected.

So you'd want to give it first to people who are very likely to become severely ill themselves, and whose infection would cause others to become severely ill, directly or indirectly (eg through disease spread or through lost resources, as if an ER doc in an understaffed area became severely ill).
From the outside I like the proposition system, but not prop-13 specifically.
> But this technique was discovered decades ago. It just took this long for computers to speed up, for it to be usable.

This isn't really true. Old techniques don't work well even with modern compute. Now, try replacing sigmoid with ReLU in old networks and see it improve.
Someone with technical knowledge is not going to talk to a journalist. Ugh, now I have to wash my hands after typing that word.
Thanks. You mean to say they laid you off despite your turning down the promotion?. Sorry to hear that. Any idea why?
> The talk about "AI" is not just misinterpreted in the press, but the ML/AI practitioner themselves too.

Of course, for example when you use the phrase "ML/AI".
People sure seem to like the spending half of the equation though. So debt just goes up forever, I guess.
RIP ad-hoc GTA multiplayer.