skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that is the case. I think it is more a matter of frequency of exposure and less exposure to material to counter the conspiracies.

Most people are at least somewhat intrigued by various conspiracy theories. This has long been the case.

We had these things when I was a kid, for example. Erik von Daniken's book "Chariots of the Gods" was a bestseller. Art Bell's radio long running conspiracy/paranormal national radio programs were quite popular.

I found some of it interesting. I read von Daniken's book. I regularly bought "Fate" magazine. I don't think I listened to Bell often because he was on after my bedtime.

But after I read a book like von Daniken's, or read the new issue of "Fate", or if I had stayed up late and heard Bell's show...I had months before I'd find another similar book, a month before the next "Fate", and at least a day before the next Bell broadcast.

In the time before my next dose of conspiracy/paranormal/supernatural material, I was reading the newspaper, "Scientific American", "Popular Science", watching "Nova" on PBS, and reading science books from the library including ones that touched on the real explanations for some of the things I saw in the conspiracy/paranormal literature.

In this environment, the conspiracy stuff for most of us ended up at most a hobby or as entertainment. Unless you deliberately set out to make it so, it was hard for it to become more than that.

Compare to now. Now, once you show some interest, social media figures that out and will shift your feed to contain more and more of the conspiracy stuff until your whole feed is mostly conspiracy items. Now you almost have to deliberately work to not end up seriously believing at least some conspiracy theories.
That doesn't appear to be true, but you're right, getting into an argument with Wikipedians can be exhausting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_and_usin...
Most people have enough luck in their life to change it for the better. Part of intelligence is being prepared to take advantage of it when it you encounter your luck.
The key word there is "implicated." Who decides that they did it?
Chrome on Android
I’ve never had a non-self-cleaning oven.
You mean in a few years there'll be only 3 or 4 free mail providers with e2e disabled for convenience[0] and data broker objectives (as a mean to pay for the service) and only a selected few can federate (because hey, spam or something) ?

Like Mastodon, Matrix has it built-in in its principles that a federated instance can prevent being contacted from another (this is the whitelist setting). Feel free to correct me, I am not 100% sure.

[0] or available for real money !
It’s a Software drama!
You know, starting a reply to someone with the single word (sentence?) 'Lie' is not terribly friendly and may not lead to the constructive discussion we all come here to enjoy.

It's not just you either; I've seen comments with 'False.' strewn around this site and it sounds (to me) equally as cold.

Just a friendly note. You're neither a liar nor is your comment false.
There's at least one person I've heard of of doing this type of interaction to change the minds of KKK members— Daryl Davis. He's certainly an uncommon example though. Most people who are in stark disagreement with another's views don't seek them out as potential friends.

“Ignorance breeds fear. We fear those things we don’t understand. If we don’t put a lid on that fear and keep that fear in check, that fear in turn will breed hatred because we hate those things that frighten us.

“If we don’t keep that hatred in check, that hatred in turn will breed destruction. We want to destroy those things that we hate. Why? Because they frighten us. But guess what? They may have been harmless and we were just ignorant.”

https://lanthorn.com/61539/news/news-daryl-davis-lecture-at-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/features/klan.ht...
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Coincidentally I also see Ecosia[1] on HN front page right now, a search engine that plants trees.

1. https://www.ecosia.org/
Ask HN: Idea of “Riskipedia”, or “Wikichance”
The main idea is a wiki-like website where one could find out information about common risks and probabilities, for personal risk management and decision making.
For example, what's the chance of dying of COVID, given all personal circumstances? Or, how much health risks would be decreased when quitting drinking / smoking, etc...
Or, what's more dangerous -- flying or driving?
Or, what's more profitable on average -- lottery or startups?
There is a trove of such information online, bu it's scattered and badly organised, and every time I try to check to find a better and safer options, it's too hard.
Would such wiki / service be viable?
You can see how the title says UFO's. If it's a confirmed alien from another planet, that's not a UFO anymore, it's an IFO (identified)
I agree, things improved when I liberally used soap, scrubbers, and sharp flat metal spatulas to scrape things clean.

But I also haven’t seen any flaking of the flax base seasoning like others have. With previous pans I have accidentally scrubbed down to bare metal. Maybe I was just starting with thrift store pans that had been too heavily babied, and the process of cooking off the layers of carbonized food and old seasoning and starting over helped regardless of which oil I used.
I think you're confused about the topic.

It's about Parler and its hundreds of thousands of users being deplatformed from AWS, not Twitter banning Trump.

AFAIK Trump doesn't even use Parler.
It's certainly a deeply interesting interface between law and CS. Does anybody know how it can be explored further (in Europe if this makes a difference)? Recently graduated law school and I've been passionate for CS for quite a number of years and I'd love to combine the two?
"Many of the 'Unicorns' spark this reaction from me. Which is probably why I'm not retired on a private island somewhere :-P "

Haha, me too.
I cook eggs most every day in cast iron without it sticking.

It's a vintage Wagner pan, from when they used to mill flat the cooking surface. Modern lodge has a porous surface from the cast.

Anyway I just cook them in butter, they basically float. I think they would slide across the pan if I tilted it. I'm cooking them fried/"over medium"
> The root, she says, lies in structural racism.

Another HNr deleted his comment, but this needs more substance before thrown around. When I was studying sociology I noticed this trend of finding some general stat and the author follows with statements such as is systemic xism.

Most of the times it comes as intellectually weak. Why not researching further, before typing such gross statement. Often it is a non sequitur fallacy, and probably a sort of ecological fallacy too.

Of course, her recipe is not only to train doctors in the particular needs of other races (IDK the validity of this, since I'm not physician nor a biologist) and follow up this people and check them often, but to train doctors on racism and social justice.
I agree that the nodejs implementation makes contributing and using the libraries difficult. There are rust libraries being worked on and incorporated into the project as we speak, so if you feel like contributing, now might be a good time to look back into the project.

Alternatively, if you're interested in a replicated datatype that was written specifically for Rust, which is more compact than JSON, I'd suggest looking at RON:

http://replicated.cc/
https://github.com/gritzko/ron
If you're interested in the raw data behind these conclusions, it looks like the paper supplement [1] has some.

One potentially meaningful point from Table S1A of the supplement: it looks like there are 360k white doctor-black patient observations and 97k black doctor-black patient observations, and the mean length of stay for white doctor-black patient observations is 4.73 days vs. 3.37 days for black doctor-black patient. If I understand these figures, that means that on average white doctors keep black patients 40% longer than black doctors keep black patients.

I don't know what that means for the quality of care. Is keeping patients around good or bad? The Medicaid/Medicare/Self-pay numbers are very similar for the two groups, so it shouldn't be that the black patients going to white doctors are just paying for more care, right? Does it say something about case difficulty?

I know very little about this topic. Hopefully somebody who knows more can chime in. But that gap seems...significant?

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/suppl/2020/08/12/191340511...
Nano‐curcumin formulation efficacy in management of hospitalized Covid patients
We're all dealing with the same thing but its not just Spotify...its every algorithm we encounter. Its hard to reconcile that we're not unique, we're extremely predicable.
The Early Development of Programming Languages (1976) [pdf]
I forgot to mention how Trump said it's a hoax and a "money making industry". Isn't that ironic? Central banks are begging for money making industries. There is this money making industry that they could have spent the printed money on instead of letting it lie in some bank account and push up the value of every stock and cryptocurrency. It's money that could have employed low skilled workers in a fresh and growing industry and also save the planet. It's never going to happen. People are so against the idea of technological progress the only way it's going to happen is when it's forced down their throat.
>> The only way to do this properly, if desirable, is to make GCC an official backend of the main frontend. That will defocus some progress that happens with LLVM (every feature has to be implemented on both backends) and can make dev lives hard (eg “oh this problem comes up with GCC so use the LLVM backend “)

No. The correct way is to create a Rust language specification that describes what the correct behavior is.

Then whether LLVM, GCC, or something else is used does not matter. There won't be one implementation with defacto behavior, there will be multiple implementations that follow the spec.

This is the way mature languages work.
Right, but the violence actually happened. If we suddenly had people reading the #killallmen hashtag as literal, and start killing men, then Twitter would likely ban it. Once Trump’s tweets led to an actual terrorist attack, they banned him.

It is not a perfect system, but I think banning based on result is not an unfair system.
I have the same issue and two things:

- go take a walk alone for one hour. No headphones, no device. I’m not kidding

- make a list of tasks that you must accomplish. See it like a queue that you’ll pop from and get a task to focus on. Now take your days one at a time focusing on the task in front of you. Do this until you depleted the queue. For this to work the queue should not be vague, and have items that you really want to implement now (otherwise you’ll start thinking about re-ordering the queue)
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In the movie Back to the Future 2, from 1989, Marty travels to 2015 and sees an original Mac sitting in an antique store window with a sign saying 'antique computer, circa 1984'.

I remember that was a huge laugh at the time to think that these boring beige computers of the 80s would be collectibles someday. And yet here we are...
Tell that to the people who do it then?
But your friends do.
There’s a lot baked into that. It’s great that I don’t need to think about manual memory management. It’s a different class of operation than OP is talking about. I suppose google search is somewhere in the middle.
The average investor has little money to save and can't afford more conservative investments with lower expectes returns to meet their goals.
Oh wow! I must have missed that somehow! Very interesting!

I have been a fan of Matrix for a long time and have been very excited by all of the progress made recently! Particularly, the new UI experience for E2E encrypted channels is amazing! You managed to get solid security without sacrificing usability.

Thank you for your dedication to Matrix and its community!
You don't live in a world where a god would ensure that a trial by combat would go to the righteous, and there's the difference. If you can't find the mindspace, you rather miss everything else.
I've been working from home for five years, and on and off before that. I'm certainly no role model for it, but there are two things that have helped a lot:

- Start at a consistent time. Right now my daughter is in school so I have to get up and get her going on remote school. This usually gets me started around 9am.

- End at a consistent time. I have a hard stop every day at 7pm, because that's when Jeopardy! comes on, and when we have family dinner. I even went so far as to create a voice announcement through the whole house that it is time for dinner and Jeopardy! so my family keeps me accountable.

This ostensibly means I work for 10 hours a day, but I allow myself to not feel bad if I need to take a two hour break to go shopping or fold some laundry or just take a break to watch some TV, since I know that my default is 50 hours a week. A two hour break every day would get me to 40 hours and I don't take a two hour break every day.
> If you run a social network, you need to decide what posts to allow on your platform. Every platform needs some moderation, lest they be overrun with spam and porn and scams.

Agree, spam/porn/scams are problem on this kind of platforms. But social media is only tiny part of tech in general, and also spam/porn/scams is not really political. And I guess, if in example somebody posted hateful content or content that is bringing damage then this is what our juridical system should handle?

> If you develop artificial intelligence, you need to determine what applications of the technology are ethical. Is it okay to sell to authoritarian governments? What about the US military? What about individual police departments?

Most of the times I - as an engineer - have no say when it comes to those issues - from my experience these are business issues, not technical. And I guess these issues are probably influenced by politics, to some degree.

> If you develop hardware, or run servers, you need to consider your impact on the planet.

I'd say same as above - it's business to decide what to do about those issues. We as engineers think about efficiency - and had been thinking for decades, as far as my experience goes. I was always taught to build things that consume least amount of electricity, things that get from A to B with least effort. And Mr X or Mr Y being a president had no influence at those principles.
Further down in the comments you'll find a research paper [1] that analyzed why Wikipedia succeeded where others failed. I am not sure I bought into the conclusion (which prompted my initial comment), but at least it has a comprehensive listing of all the main players at the time:

Interpedia, TDEP, Everything2, h2g2, TheInfo, Nupedia, GNE

[1] https://mako.cc/academic/hill-almost_wikipedia-DRAFT.pdf
"More scalability — private clouds often offer more scalability compared to on-premises infrastructure."

I think they meant private cloud (renting 3rd party servers and using/maintaining your private cloud) vs on-prem (buying servers and building your own data centers).
Seems pretty clear to me:

"Why should & how can #Israel be eliminated? Ayatollah Khamenei's answer to 9 key questions."

https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/531366667377717248
That tweet seemed more like espousing a belief or opinion than a direct call to action of any sort.
Here's a case between Uber and a blind person [0].

TLDR:

- Someone is suing Uber for discrimination because drivers didn't allow the person's guide dog in the car.

- Uber's terms state users can't sue Uber and must go through Uber's arbitration process

- Uber's terms were presented in the "By continuing you agree to these terms" fashion

- Person claimed they never agreed to arbitration and that they should be allowed to sue Uber, and a state court agreed

> But the broader impact of the ruling is to put companies on notice that they can't bind users to restrictive terms merely by linking to those terms somewhere in a site or app's registration process. In order to create a legally binding contract, a tech company has actually put the terms in front of the user and get them to affirmatively agree to them.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/court-says-uber-...
LOL - true...

But that felt like just rubbing it in :-P

Also, they all seem to be trying to pivot to delivery and self-driving cars, so I guess they have doubts about profitability with the current setup.
Why is everyone talking about the computer like it has it's own agency and inhuman agenda?

The computer in this story was nothing but a human's pencil and paper.
Yes, Twitter is obviously doing that.

Personally, I find that it would be far more fair for Twitter and FB to allow these accounts but to add editorial notes to their tweets/posts explaining that the company believes strongly that these are falsehoods, or something similar. Even the current "This claim about election fraud is disputed" seems somewhat disingenuous to me.
Doctors care about the welfare of all of their patients. If the study is valid, we should learn what the black doctors are doing differently that reduces infant mortality, so that other doctors can follow suit.
This argument only makes sense if you act like history began in the 20th century. There was so clearly much more widespread racism and neonazism long before the mainstream internet. Also yes I do think that soccer mom would go to an in-person event if she sees some politician that appeals to her fears and biases, we've seen that all before. It doesn't mean she'll storm the US capitol building, but it does mean she can exist without Facebook.
Not a requirement for a GCC front-end and certainly not worth sacrificing a potentially faster path to bootstrapping the official compiler implementation. You should be worried about the ease by which various systems can bootstrap and adopt the language, which is a mostly solved problem for C/C++ but not a given for Rust itself. Some maintainers will absolutely refuse bootstrapping off of binary artifacts compiled from other systems, others won't even accept 'compiled to C' artifacts.

Keeping a viable C++ implementation as part of GCC would be the smartest decision.
I would say that it shifts the burden off of yourself by putting it onto management. Management then has the option to hire more people, to offset schedules to maintain better coverage, to establish more accurate goals and timelines, etc. These are things that are inherent to the role of a manager. There's no sense in me burning myself out to poorly work around a problem that exists at a different level.

The default assumption is that time outside of work hours is my time, and is not to be interrupted. Unless it's specifically discussed and agreed upon for my role, having anything else is extremely unfair and manipulative.
A lot of Silicon Valley hackers worked on it
It also looks rather incomplete. Are they not planning on implementing borrowck? If chalk/polonius were ready and had a C API the roadmap would begin to make sense.
Try oven cleaner! I leave it on sheet pans for about 15 minutes; it’s amazing what wipes away.
Maybe they got all of them, so we don’t know how we would do today.
when it comes to technology itself i think it is very much the case.

when it comes to marketing i wonder if immigrants might not understand the population so well.

if i went to india and tried to start a social network i'd almost certainly fail and people would say i was clueless, maybe imperialistic, ask what i was thinking, etc. I just dont know enough about India to think I could connect with people there.

In some parts of the US the opposite kind of deviance is normalized, and I never here it questioned that immigrants might have a hard time understanding and connecting w/ consumers. People just think it is hard to succeed and if you go to SV it doesnt matter if you succeed or not becauae you'll get aqui-hired anyway.
Yes. A well-used pan is quite non-stick. In my anecdotal experience, immediately after stripping/seasoning is not the best time; it gets better after a few weeks of use as more oil/fat bonds to the surface after repeated use.

If you find your pan is too sticky: use lots of oil/fat, cook at medium temperature (not too cool nor too hot), and be patient for a couple weeks; the problem will sort itself out, and eventually you'll be able to cook eggs with just a little oil.
Sadly, HN has been infested with a load of "I'm not racist, but" type racists, who will say anything to downplay the obvious racism in US society. Even when there is evidence.
yeah sounds a lot like the fabled "10x engineer" to me
Pretty much, yes: https://www.seriouseats.com/2019/06/how-to-season-carbon-ste...
Ecosia, especially since they lay claim to protect their user's privacy, shouldn't, in my eyes, have anything to do with Facebook regardless of where their integration points are.

That said, my gripe isn't with their Facebook integration, it is with their dishonest privacy posture when the fine print reveals something else. They can do way better.
I tried flax oil on some pans for a couple years. It didn't work out well. One cheap pan I gave away. All the rest I've stripped and reseasoned.

Vegetable oil works fine. Shortening works fine. Don't overthink this.
Dollar stores are still carrying metal spatulas
We switched to paddle after a week of stripe and realizing we'd have to do taxes ourself. When I asked stripe how we can handle taxes they just told me to use another Saas to do the tax calculating for me.

Sure paddle takes away like %10-20 from each payment for their service but it really saves stressing over taxes and other things.
Let's use math and statistics, not anecdotes. If an increase in variance means that you get a +5 outlier 10x more often, then looking at a 10x longer timescale will mean that you see the +5 outlier roughly as often, making it seem "less exceptional". The problem is that the exceptional thing is now happening 10x more often.

For example, Texas getting three "500 year" floods in 3 years. These were floods that were estimated to be a 0.2% probability in any given year. The fact that they are happening at much higher frequency is because the entire probability distribution has shifted (and expanded). Now if you improved your ability to peer into the past and found another "500 year flood" a few hundred years back, you'd be tempted to think everything is fine, when everything is decidedly not fine.
Moral Mazes.
Really? I figured most ovens had a self-cleaning option... I did this trick to recondition several cast iron pans and it works great, but be prepared for massive amounts of greasy smoke.
I used to be very excited about serverless, and I still have high hopes for it.

But for me it ended up replacing the complexity of runtime and frameworks with the complexity of configuring auxiliary srevices like Gateway API, Amazon VPC, etc. We needed to move the complexity to some tool that configured the services around Lambda, like Terraform or Cloud Formation, or at best to a framework like Claudia or Serverless.com. Configuring it by hand looks fine in tutorials, but is madness: it's still complex, and makes it all way too fragile.

There are however some products that make the experience better by simplifying configuration, like Vercel and Netlify.
I would have a hard time convincing management to sponsor, but if there was an affordable support option, it would be easier.... We regularly pay 1k/year support for ‘mission critical’ systems.
Google Cloud has quite good support and professional services.

I’ve worked with them for 3 years and can’t think of any services that have been killed.

They are very customer focused. From my perspective as a partner cloud services are more built for customer use cases than Google internal use cases. GKE and Anthos for example.
I wish that was the case in the US!