skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I for one encounter this fallacy constantly and discussion would be a net boost if all participants recognized and avoided said fallacy.
Watching Rudy Giuliani's common sense right now, making a case for why Trump won. Despite his chances of actually winning now are something like less than 1% on betting markets.
No court case has gotten to the stage that allowed significant evidence to be presented (They've rejected for standing or other reasons). The media has all but inaugurated Biden. And it looks like the Republican party will turn against Trump too now. Trump is really a populist politician that somehow won the Republican party nomination. But he doesn't have backing in the institutions of government, especially the courts. Allowed most of his closest political allies to be prosecuted, and removed or taken out or he fired them. And his support in republican party is also shaky. They would love to get rid of him.

Joseph Stalin said some version of "It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes."

Its interesting listen Rudy to make his points and argue his case, how the votes should be counted.

He's a skilled orator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAzCECx8XeE&t=547s
Of course it can.

If we have a large supply of very cheap energy, say from fusion or feeding a black hole, then a CO2 to jet fuel to CO2 cycle can be considered the same kind of thing as charging and discharging a battery. And it would be similarly "net zero" for CO2.
I suspect it has more to do with not knowing the guidelines. Asking "why is this relevant to HN?" is a tired question that pops up too often.
Sure, but all the points of entry to Britain have border controls. If the government ordered the channel tunnel to stop, it would stop. It's not like France, where there are innumerable border crossing points.

Of course a total closure would be a last resort, because that would cut off imports of things like fresh fruit, but it's been possible to get 20-minute pinprick blood tests since April (admittedly with lower accuracy than PCR tests) - the government simply decided measures like testing everyone at the border and enforcing mandatory self-isolation were not priorities.
Can these elephants be cloned to inject diversity into existing hurds?
:) No worries. If you'd like to chat about it more, shoot me an email at zack@knuckleheads.club, I'm obviously very passionate about the subject and love talking about it. There's still a lot more to write and publish, I won't be done with this hobby horse of mine for a while yet.
Pieces like this make me want to find the original books and read them, I wonder how many more insights I could find there. C.S. Lewis seems to resonate particularly well with me and with how I reason (same holds for Chesterton).

I think Lewis is right in blaming Bulverism. So I asked myself: can I identify a way in which Bulverism originates? How can I avoid it and how can I suggest other people to avoid it? Sorry for the excursus, but I hope someone will find it useful :D

It's very interesting, to me at least, to notice that getting "completely" rid of bulverism seems very difficult - perhaps impossible? Perhaps because it's part of how humans start the process of knowledge.

Let me explain...

Reasoning can go, a priori, in several different directions. Which one to pick? From a practical point of view, you pick the one that stimulates you the most: and this way, someone becomes a mathematician, someone else an engineer, someone else a poet, a doctor, and so on.

This movement has both some bulverism and some anti-bulverism: you hear someone speak, and a-priori, you feel like he's right (is there a name for this fallacy too?).

And I think that starting the process of knowledge with some pre-conception is unavoidable and also what makes diversity possible. So when does a safe practice become a threat?

I think it's when we lose faith in the positiveness of reality, that is: in the possibility of knowing what's true and that this knowledge is what really makes us more humans.

Bulverism is saying that I value more what I think than what's true, or that I value more to blame you than to affirm the truth.

It's interesting to see in how many way reasoning can go wrong once you exclude that reasoning has its natural end in the knowledge of what's true.
I've read an interesting opinion on this in the past, something like: trying to improve one's argumentative skill by studying fallacies is like trying to improve one's mastery of the violin by studying examples of poor technique.

There's value to it, but its not a way to reach true greatness in a field.
...and then you'll have to ask all the same questions with the next person in that group, or maybe even the next time the same person talks, because an intentional part of the tactics involved is to waste the time of people who assume positive intent.
Do you know what the relative trade off is between eye muscle strain and neck muscle strain? Although intuitively the head is a lot heavier than the eyeballs the neck muscles should be much stronger to compensate. Perhaps the neck spinal column will be deformed after a while?
I think the best response depends on whether you can want to persuade the person you are talking to or bystanders. Either you could call out the tactic or you could use something like non-violent communication.
> Do people at Google own Pinterest stocks?

TIL Pinterest is a publicly traded company (NYSE:PINS).
> Most of the music in BoTW is quiet and subdued, unlike previous entries in the series. This is good for setting a certain tone, but it's less effective unless there's some flashier music to contrast with. To me, the lack of music made the game feel even emptier.

Hilariously, I had the opposite experience. BotW was the first Zelda game I played extensively (I have some memories from OoT and MM because a friend had an N64 back in the day, but never played it myself for anything more than 10 minutes).

After finishing BotW, I wanted to play the Link's Awakening remake. But I had to walk away from it after about an hour because the endless barrage of music was annoying me to no end. (I have since adjusted to it.) I'm currently playing Age of Calamity, where the soundtrack does not feel as obnoxious because there's actual action going on all the time. After that, I might be able to go back to Link's Awakening.

Also:

> it's less effective unless there's some flashier music to contrast with

IMO there is tons of flashy music in this game. The cities' motifs, the champion's motifs, the castle music, the Divine Beast tracks, the fight tracks in general. I have hours-long playlists of all of that as my go-to background music for work.
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What if the Uyghur genocide is indeed propaganda? How would you know?
A lot of the Uyghur witness have been revealed to have ties to NED and the population of Uyghur minorities in china have increased. If there is an active genocide on the scale that's being reported, why have we not seen reports of mass exodus into neighbouring countries?
How is this news at all? The virus has been mutating and throwing off different strains all along. There are entire websites devoted to tracking these, e.g., [1]

Perhaps this is just the normal operation of American media to exaggerate the negative side of the situation? [2]

[1] https://nextstrain.org/sars-cov-2/

[2] PDF link: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28110/w281...
SVN?

A decade ago, something like that, a project I was on switched from SVN to Git. I don't know why, I don't know what problem was being solved.

"Git isn't that hard once you understand the internal model" one of the devs said.

I didn't need to understand the internal model of Subversion, we just checked stuff out and checked it back in. Within a month of adopting Git they had managed to lose a week's work. I guess they didn't understand the internal model. I kept my mouth shut.

For most corporate development teams, there is no problem that Git solves. Corporate development teams don't do distributed development. In a decade of using Git, I have never told another developer to connect to my local Git repo to get a piece of code. I would create a feature branch on the very non-distributed Github or GitLab server and they would go the single source of truth to get that piece of code. Like you would have done with Subversion. Only without the complexity.

In the Subversion days, non-technical people would use the same repo as technical people. Like tech pubs. With Git, they can't.

As I said, I have no idea what problem Git solves for the typical corporate software development organization. But I admit, it is complicated and hard to use, so in the end, as a developer I make more money. The more complicated it is to make software, the more money I make, and that's what's important.

Rock on, Git.
pinterest is clearly being spared seo penalty so one can only assume pro-pinterest bias at google
But the N64 only has 4MB of ram, I think a GUI would be beyond it's capabilities. Still a cool project though.
Last public publication 2011: https://www.nature.com/articles/nphoton.2011.295

Then they go dark for 9 years

And almost 10 years later, bang: https://www.sammobile.com/news/samsung-quantum-dot-successor...

It takes a company like Samsung to singlehandedly pursue a pie in the sky science institute level project for 10 years before even a mere prospect of commercial returns emerges.
Bogleheads and intelligent investor
Most people who click on Pinterest links are already logged into Pinterest...
>"Most moral systems of my acquantance are based on a hierachy of values that puts saving human lives over just about anything.
"

False. While not explicitly stated there is a threshold usually measurable in money spent after which saving life is considered of being "not worth it". Ford Pinto case that went through the courts I think can serve as a very good particular example where cost analysis made it legal to allow otherwise preventable deaths.
This vid has a really great set of Latin links in the submission area!
Here's a list of similar books for other languages:

https://blog.nina.coffee/2018/08/27/all_nature_method_books....
It was really sad to see the absence of Nintendo Directs this year. One can only hope they're saving up some big announcements for 2021.
Or just something like what Amazon does with their Kindle.

Though I think there is an old Thinkpad model that had a light on the lid that lit the keyboard. Maybe something like that would work nicely.
“Italian Job” cliff-hanger solution sought (2008)
The Silver Lining of 2020 – great scientific progress
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How is it clear that people are intentionally wasting the time of those who assume positive intent?
Have Blue and the subsequent F-117 were of course the result of computational design limitations, rather than representing a particular school of LO design.

Back in the late 80s I remember the rumour being that the USAF had tacitly leaked information about optimal LO shapes to obscure the fact that they couldn't yet manufacture them.
Or maybe he has, but he didn’t let that consume his life entirely.
You can add:

-site:pinterest.com

to your search to exclude pinterest.
Maybe as a show of good faith, those same reps should stop extending the patriot act, to convince the more suspicious among us that advances in tyranny are not permanent. Until that happens, I am not convinced, and I will continue to tell people like you that you shouldn’t fall for it either.
I was hit hard by this when I casually booted up Warcraft 3 in a fit of nostalgia and realized the only resolution options were 800x600 and 1024x768.
They would be sued. Pinterest and Quora don't actually care that their actions make the web crappy for us all. They would stand on their high horses and complain that google is treating them unfairly. Normally I would assume this problem is because all the cool kids at google are working on more interesting problems but in this case I honestly believe they can't make a change for the betterment of the majority of their users.
Fan article, written by fans.

So it tends to read a bit like when you ask someone "Do you like horses?" and get back a taxonomy and discussion of various horse bloodlines, relative performance at races thereof, and historical progenitors.

Sometimes, more information isn't the answer to a simple question.
I've spent thousands of hours of my life playing and studying chess and go. There are very few games that are rich enough to come close to holding my interest as much as those; poker, Titan, and Diplomacy are the only ones that immediately come to mind. Then last year I finally delved into 18xx (I had vaguely known about the genre for decades) and it leaped into that list as well.

There have been a few projects to make these games playable on computers over the years, but http://18xx.games/, launched this year, is in my opinion clearly the best (disclaimer: I'm a contributor to the codebase). Ideally you can find a game with experienced players who are eager to help a newbie learn the ropes.
ungated: https://archive.is/UxTHi
I don't get why Google doesn't give an option to permanently remove or downgrade certain domains, straight from the results page. There are results I am never interested in. It could also work as a further signal for their ranking, if used with some caution.
Crazy is a very imprecise term.
Well people would prefer color if they could get it, every techie in the ebook world is wistfully awaiting the day that a high quality color e-reader is released.
While: https://www.brainboard.co/static/js/main.af9695a1.chunk.js is loading the page is blank

This file is large (15.7MB) and took 1.2 minutes to load

So your website looks broken for 1.2 minutes for me.

I doubt anyone else but a web-dev has the patience to wait for it.
Makes it harder for doctors to get supplies if all the borders are closed.

The UK has an upcoming COVID vaccine (the Astra-Zeneca/Oxford one) that may prove useful in the near future. Cut off the UK from the rest of the world and the rest of the world can't benefit from it.

Also, it's almost certain that the UK strain is in the US already, and the US is shit at dealing with pandemics once they're on our soil. Border closures only work if your test/trace/isolate institutions and compliance with social distancing is good enough to eradicate the virus from within your borders; they prevent reinfection in that case. The US has shown we're completely incapable of that, so it really doesn't matter.
Chaos vs. Python on Fibonacci
> I have an account there and I use it but the interface is atrocious and they seem to actively be making it worse.

If the user is confused on how to do something then it keeps them on the page longer and pushes the metrics up

taps on head
If Donald Trump tweets something, you might get hurt if you go ahead acting under the assumption that he was wrong, without checking for yourself first.
I think most of the time this sort of tactic is used with an audience in mind, so presumably we would want to convince the audience. Does calling out “that’s just a bulverism fallacy!” really work?
FUD: Fear, uncertainty, and doubt
You can reduce both by lowering the display so that its top is roughly at eye level (or maybe up to 5° above or something), and tilting it backward a bit.

Ideally you want to find a neutral position where there is as little static load on any of your muscles as possible (including the eye muscles used for accommodation (focusing), convergence, and turning your eyes around). Temporary dynamic muscle loads are fine, but static loads get tiring and lead to long-term problems.
Abusing my computer science knowledge to cheat at Catan
The Atari ST's late 80s monochrome CRT looked a bit like an eink display, with no discernible flicker even at 72 Hz. It certainly looked very different from a 72 Hz colour CRT displaying a monochrome image. I think it used a different type of phosphor.
I think, a bigger, virtual area may be even more difficult to handle. In Spacewar, it's an exact square and all of it is shown on-screen, including immediate transitions to the other side (which is replicated here), while in Computer Space, it's also a square area, but the visible screen area is just the standard NTSC 4:3, including a vertical off-screen area and an invisible bit of horizontal blanking at the side(s), where the saucers may hide, while still attacking you. Personally, I find the latter more difficult or even irritating.
They've been around for a while. They ran successful crowdfunding campaigns for several generations of their previous 13" e-ink monitors (https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/13653865/campaigns) and a Kickstarter for their e-ink tablet.
I think this would just move people back to trade secrets.

That said, I think patents could be given out less often when the operation of the device is clear or can easily be discovered by the public without a patent.

E-Ink screens released without a patent kept under 'trade secret' wouldn't have mattered, the idea would have been implemented elsewhere.

I suppose you could argue that without exclusive rights the original inventor wouldn't have bothered to create it at all - in that case there's probably a better middle ground of something less than 20yrs. 5yrs? 2yrs? First $1million in profit?
Is this equivalent to a vector backed list?
For two reasons:

1. When people see a search result from Pinterest, they tend to click on it more than on the results from competing publishers.

2. After they click on it, they tend to engage with the content more than they do with the content from other publishers.

This is not specific to Pinterest, it's how modern SEO works. You'll notice that Pinterest doesn't dominate every search result in the world, but predominantly the ones where the user's search intent is more aligned with Pinterest's strengths (product discovery, visual stimulation, pet/animal pictures, art direction, etc.).

I think what people find confusing is how can Pinterest compete with other search results that have far more text? Well, it's not about the amount of text at all, it's about satisfying the search intent. And when someone types in: "what should I wear for my wedding," images are better in answering that question than text (a picture is worth...). As Pinterest's success in SEO teaches us, there are many more similar instances than we would have expected.
Of course, books are a thing, but we all know that without access to screens kids would get bored out of their minds staying indoors. Indeed, that is the premise of the grounding punishment.

So a hypothetical of a boy reading books until Pokemon Go made him spend every second outside just seem like arguing for the sake of arguing.
Clip of the ending:

https://youtu.be/HZCaSyid4m0

Solution:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7845533.stm

TV news version of the solution

https://youtu.be/wEpbkk26RcA
I don't think he's bothered too much about the pricing model itself merely the way it's presented.
Frame Canada: How Americans were brainwashed about Canadian healthcare
In addition to the alternatives others have mentioned, the author of `scoop` also has a package available for `scoop` named `sudo`, described as "An approximation of the Unix sudo command. Shows a UAC popup window unfortunately."

From a non-elevated shell (cmd or ps), you can run `sudo <command>` to a roughly equivalent effect from *nix terminals. I find it meets my needs.
JavaScript Bootcamp instructor on using ClojureScript instead
I bought and played a bunch of out-of-print Avalon Hill games during college in the early 2000s, and '1830' was probably my favorite. It took a long time to play though, usually at least two entire days for us, but this could have been shortened considerably with computerized route revenue computation.
Well, we did have an intranet (and yeah, the search was abysmal, so it was tough to navigate), and giving it a second's thought, maybe email each person a magic number, that they then enter into a single magic-number box on the intranet and you're magically whisked to the appropriate site? This just doesn't seem like rocket surgery.
This variant is already widespread. It is very unlikely that it is not already spreading in the US.
I'm open to being skeptical and I also think using the Patriot Act as a predixtive :intent-finder" highly problematic.
Watching the impact on the network through downdetector today has been interesting. If I wanted to be conspiratorial I'm reminded of Room 641A.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
I'm pretty sure I saw people getting banned on twitter for disagreeing/challenging him (in a civil way).
A 2018 interview for CBS This Morning (7m):

* https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meet-the-priest-determined-to-k...
Nice catch, it will be optimized soon. Thanks for the feedback. Love it.
>That isn't how people are persuaded, that isn't how people ever were persuaded, and that isn't how people ever will be persuaded.

Why would anybody have to be persuaded ? The point of thinking isn't just to manipulate people.
Win3.x would be fine with 4MB of RAM, and it's (just barely) enough for Win95 too. But those OSs were definitely optimised for low resource consumption far more heavily than Linux.
Funny, I just recently found out that there's a replacement for freshmeat, which I visited daily (or more, when bored) in ancient days gone by. So right now it's in my rotation again and I have discovered some interesting new applications apart from the regular old staples there already.

Hope it would get more posts there, it's definitely better than watching those horrible "awesome" github lists or hoping for the rare sprinkle of fairy dust in sub-reddits.
If you don't care for small test group you can try to test it yourself with polarizing vs non-polarizing sunglasses.
I think Carbon Engineering already has a pilot plant making gasoline: https://carbonengineering.com/our-technology/

The example in the article of colocating with a coal plant is bonkers. Seems like coal gasification would be more efficient than turning coal into electricity and carbon and then trying to turn the carbon into liquid fuels.

This is a valuable technique but only if we have a lot of spare clean electrical power to do it with.
I find this argument unconvincing. The UK is an island, and it's doing badly. "But it's highly connected with the rest of the world, so it makes it honorarily a non-island!" Okay, sure. How about South Korea? It isn't an island, and it's doing pretty well. "But it's de facto an island, it's not getting cases from North Korea!" Okay, sure. But by that standard the US is an island: it didn't get its cases from Mexico or Canada.

And, of course, China has more land borders than any other country in the world, and it's managed to engineer the most drastic turnaround of any country in the world.

Having a small number of entry points is useful to limit initial inoculations, but internal policy and cultural cohesion are key for preventing the explosion of any successful inoculation into national disaster, regardless of a polity's geography.
The expansion pak is another 4MB of RAM, so that'd bring you to 8 total.

And Windows 95 only required 4MB, so it should be within the realm of possibility,
Ditto - and if we’re talking chipsets, both Four Phase and Viatron had much more general offerings pre-1970.
Acausal decision theory, given the assumption that you have the same decision-making algorithm as the technologists in charge of $BigTech. (The assumption's completely invalid, so it doesn't actually work.)
Here's a short (4.5 min) remote teaching demo by Kellermann - compare this to your average Zoom/Teams/WebEx meeting!

What comes after Zoom teaching? Surface Hub, Teams and XSplit demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5ecT6inCio&list=PLHSIfioizV...
Upgradeable to 8mb with the "Expansion Pack", for what that is worth.
So you think we need more irrational anxiety to control behavior? Mental health is just as important as physical health.
Why does there need to be energy other than heat if the heat is enough and it's endothermic?