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> No, it really isn't.

What about when gatekeepers (such as Google/Facebook/Twitter) say they are banning disinformation, but are really banning dissent?

> Disinformation is spreading factually wrong information to push an agenda.

(1) Who decides what is factually wrong?

(2) If you look at accounts that G/FB/T have banned, I'm sure the vast majority of them said some things that were true; in fact I'm sure the vast majority said more true things than false things. But the gatekeepers banned the whole accounts, not just the bits containing factual inaccuracies. This demonstrates that in the guise of combating disinformation, they are actually combating dissent.
I suspect a depressed person would be less likely to overestimate their ability to correctly control the strength of a homemade vaccine ;)
100% code coverage and 100% adherence to TDD are two different things.
That one is rather simple to break.

console.log(add({a:"1", b:2})) //12
console.log(_add({a:"1", b:2})) //21

So to make the code break with the change to _add, I can just do:

if(add({a:"1", b:2}) != 12) boom()
A publication calling “The Origin of Species” a harmful book is on the front page of HN? This place has reached full-on clown status. No reasonable person would see this as a home for engineering and science as it once was.
> users do not suffer from withdrawal symptoms/effects

I smoke a lot of weed. Withdrawal isn't a big deal, but it is a thing. It's closer to caffeine withdrawal than alcohol/nicotine withdrawal though. Symptoms I've experienced when taking a break are typically irritability and insomnia for about a day or two. And of course cravings over the longer term which often brings me back.
Ah, so it’s just a question of nomenclature. Was just curious because around here a juridical doctorate is a research degree just like a PhD, and most practicers of law are not doctors. Indeed most medical doctors are not doctors either but rather licentiates (an intermediate degree between a master and a doctor) :D
I’d never heard of the Client Side Monitoring tooling that this appears to be using. Is anyone in here using it to any effect?
Here's another snapshot from 2018: http://web.archive.org/web/20180205093432/http://starship.py...
The revenues are very small for the company but could be huge for the employee.

If you joined [random company] early at got 1000 shares that are worth 10x much after a round or two of funding, it may have turned into house downpayment-sized dollars in the meantime. Further, most employees don't know if their company is raising until it's a done deal. Therefore, they can't predict, plan, or act when the time is right.

Regular, predictable liquidity windows is compelling and gives employees more choices, even if they never take them.
I agree that it's not that balanced. Compared to the other articles prevalent in today's society I can see how it seems to be.
The loss of lives is hard to fake though. Sometimes incompetence is just that.
Taiwan’s strategy for combating disinformation from its belligerent neighbor is quite interesting:

https://cpj.org/2019/05/qa-taiwans-digital-minister-on-comba...

> Each of our ministries now has a team that is charged to say if we detect that there is a disinformation campaign going on, but before it reaches the masses, they're in charge to make within 60 minutes an equally or more convincing narrative. That could be a short film, that could be a media card, that could a social media post. It could be the minister herself or himself doing a livestream. It could be our president going on a standup comedy show. It could be our deputy premier watching a livestream of a video game.

> Our observation is that if we do that, then most of the population reach this message like an inoculation before they reach the disinformation, and so that protects like a vaccination.
> Spreading factually correct information can also just as easily be used to push an agenda.

This is a good point.

Most propaganda doesn't tell many lies. It mostly tells the truth, but is selective about which truths it tells.
The problem happens when you start picking and choosing your preferred set of facts, as you are doing here. “What we label disinformation is always X, what we label dissent is always Y.”

Many of what you would probably call “facts” I would call “beliefs held by a critical mass of connected people.”

However upset you are about it, there is an enormous counterculture that disagrees with you about the facts, and no amount of rhetoric will ever bully these people into submission.

I find myself necessarily allied with that counterculture, and you can go ahead and call me names like “flat-earther” all you want, it will not make a difference.
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The risk of permanent smell changes, possible neurological changes, and a chance of hospitalisation and death from COVID is unlikely to be smaller than ingesting a microscopic quantity of a peptide.
Hey, you need to recognize that what seems like a major fuck up today that you’ll never recover from will, in a few years’ time and with some perspective, just be a thing that once happened - maybe even a funny story. No matter how bad it feels, there is a relatively short half-life to the suffering. You can, and will, recover if you put your mind to it and give yourself time to work at it.
This is the reality of bottom up organisation, and is basically a completely different metaphysics to the current Western modernist one. Going further down this path of thought will lead you to ideas like constructivism, teleology, and non-dualism - all ideas that have long philosophical histories but are currently out of vogue.
I wrote a paper called "Counting Complexity" (https://github.com/treenotation/research/tree/master/papers/...).

In it are the beginnings of a new simple universal way to measure complexity.

The "real-world benefits" are that you can compare 2 systems that accomplish the same problem and objectively choose the less complex one, much like you could use the measurement of "weight" to pick a lighter material for something like a plane.
This letter argue that a tall-thin can is better, but most of the cat food cans in market are short and wide. Only the first and third point argue for short-wide cans (while promoting tall-thin cans as well).

https://www.google.com/search?q=cat+food+can
Hehe :) smart one!
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> Avoid configurable functions

I used to work at a place where they had a substantial amount of legacy, they kept two systems up to date, a current one and a new one. In my time working there they still didn't phase out the old system and the new one was already a system full of legacy and they were planning a new system (I wonder if they're running three systems now).

Many of their functions had +10 arguments which were poorly documented so they had to be deciphered from the function bodies who were sometimes thousands of lines. I was fortunate enough to be granted my own project so I didn't spend too much time working with it, but when I did I had no idea what I was doing.

I was very happy when I left, they practically begged me to stay but I just simply couldn't deal with it (and there were plenty of other issues as well). It was very effective at teaching me ways of how you can bungle up every aspect of your IT.
IIRC, during the Korea war there were people at Pentagon proposing to nuke China over their support for the North.
There are some companies such as https://www.owlstonemedical.com/ who’ve made some progress on medical diagnosis from breath
Yeah, I also have a Garmin watch, so wanted to write a script to properly compare the data for a while. From the few spot checks (e.g. actually comparing 20 select days against my manual records)

- heart rate and respiration rate match pretty closely (kind of expected I guess)

- Emfit is noticeably more accurate at detecting asleep time/awake time. But even so, sometimes emfit doesn't detect that you've woken up and just lying in bed with the phone.

- 'sleep phases' at a glance don't match well. Definitely need a comparison script to do any stronger claims. In addition, I'm still not sure if sleep phases actually mean anything at all (for my body, anyway), need to do more analysis about it.

- Emfit detects HRV, which doesn't seem to correlate with any of my subjective feelings. However, it does seem to change after exercise, for example.
The joke didn't land, sorry.

Just to elaborate (not troll!) I believe C with tools[1] makes more sense economically than Rust. Rust is popular not because it's groundbreaking but because it's fun.

[1] Such as: https://compcert.org/ https://frama-c.com/ https://www.cprover.org/cbmc/
> The large majority of the cost (about $850) was the peptides. These are the main active ingredients of the vaccine: short segments of proteins from the COVID virus. They’re all <25 amino acids, so far too small to have any likely function as proteins (for comparison, COVID’s spike protein has 1273 amino acids).

I know nothing about making vaccinations, but what would happen if you made a vaccine with a huge number of random protein segments? Would it prime your immune system to make you immune to several yet to be discovered viruses? Or it's just useless and/or dangerous to do this?
Tools like https://pol.is/home give me hope. (It also got it's first big showcase in Taiwan, who sibling comments mention)

The importance is to develop tools that allow us to perceive which ideas are fringe, which are in the liminal space between groups, which are at the center of groups large & small. We can do the rest of the nuanced social computation so long as we have this info.

Assistive tools that put intuitive layers on dimensionality reduction techniques (like Principal component analysis, and others) and imho the key to getting through this current crisis
Worthless if you assume their business will not change and adapt. This is the fundamental risk in most short selling theses. People and businesses are not static, immutable objects. Given the dollars on the line you have to assume they will be seeking ways to pivot and adapt.
“They were threatening castration! Are we gonna split hairs here?”
Ancient? I resemble that remark :-)
Classic example of a STEM person getting out of their lane and thinking they know it all.
The most shocking part of this to me is that someone had the time and knowledge to reply to this. Is this common in any companies anywhere still? In my experience customer support usually knows nothing about the product, they are there to read off a script and maybe authorize a repair/replacement. That you'd get a reply from someone who understands thermal requirements for sterilisation sounds almost surreal.
As likely is that two grabby expanding civilizations make be so different that thier volumes intercept without conflict. If one only likes warm rocky planets, and the other doesnt bother with solar systems, they might not even see each other as they pass. The "grabbed" volumes would then overlap, mooting this model. Contact would then not be a function or time and speed rather a matter of curiosity and willingness to explore non-desireable parts of one's grabbed space.
MAD is grounded in game theory. It is designed to make the only winning move “don’t play”.

It’s hyper-rational.
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That's because the article's point is that the war on disinformation is being wrongly used to squash dissent. If anything, the author agrees with your position that dissent is not the same as disinformation.
I wonder if the inner solar system is a ghetto.

If the base requirement for life is liquid water, then it is a generic property that you find it in most moons and dwarf planets, usually driven by pressure and geothermal or tidal energy. If the under layer is rock instead of ice you could have thermal vent economies like we have in ocean rifts.

In comparison the Earth is a really dry place, the most special thing about it is that the plants support an oxygen economy that might not be necessary for complex life but it sure helps.

Any species that masters interstellar travel is going to know how to cut up something like Ceres or Pluto into hundreds of thousands of miles of shopping malls and apartment buildings and might not find inner solar system bodies that interesting. In fact they might not even have an off-the-shelf landing vehicle that would work on Earth and might spend a few years developing one.
To be fair, in many disciplines PhD theses are often not real and substantial pieces of research either. But they should be and it's only due to grade inflation that they aren't, so there is still a difference.
Author sent the suggestion to the marketing, marketing forwarded it to engineers and the engineers took that personally. It was sort of like Torvalds C++ response.
Thanks for trying! I'll update the code to remove the period and make the link clickable.
Yes, this is a big part of the problem. If you systematically feed people crap for years you can't then turn around and say 'oh, wow, look at all these idiots believing crap'.

You quite literally reap what you sow and by polluting people's minds with factually wrong stuff the stage is set for much more consequential moves at a later date. After all, if people were critical about what goes into their heads advertising, religion, the bulk of the news and so on wouldn't stand a chance and large sections of society rely on those mechanisms.
There problem is, and what the story is about, is in many situations what people claim to be "disinformation" is really dissent.

The new speak being pushed by people that want to censor the internet "for the good of society" is they are doing it to stop the spread of false information, when in reality they want to stop the spread of dissent.

they use easy targets like Anti-Vaxer's or 5G death rays to institute the frame work of censorship, then slowly start grinding that knife edge to the point where unless your position on something is endorsed by an "authority" then you will have no right to say it

We do not have to look very far to see the problems with this when at the start of the COVID pandemic people were being censored for saying people should wear masks in contradiction to "authority" who said they should not, only after "the experts" in "authority" approved the messaging of mask wearing was it "acceptable" to say that, now however it is not longer "acceptable" to question the policy (or any aspects of the policy) of mask wearing..
Disinformation is a subset of dissent. Holocaust denial is, no doubt, a dissent from the societally agreed-upon set of facts. It is also disinformation, in the service of racism, and so I don't want anyone spewing it using any platform I run to do so, and most others who run platforms agree.
No, it's not. The article's point is that the war on disinformation is being wrongly used to squash dissent. If anything, the author agrees with your position that dissent is not the same as disinformation.
Yes, I was banned “for spreading disinformation”from a popular online forum for suggesting mask wearing could be helpful. The authorities at the time were fighting “disinformation” that masks work. A few weeks later I’m sure the same mods were banning people for saying the opposite.
Being intentionally wrong about the shape of the planet isn’t “counter culture”, it’s just “cult”.
> It is a vocational certification, requiring no research nor contribution to knowledge—just two to three years of classwork.

The same is true of an M.D. though with four years. They’re both doctorates.
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Outer solar systems bodies have water and other volatiles as major constituents. If you want raw material for human bodies, cattle, trees, plastics, that is where most of it is.
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The real problem is when people/institutions use non-quantitative language to support their stance or argument. Words like majority, largely, mostly, to great extent, etc.

That, and that "it's difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
I'll admit to not being fully ready for all of JavaScript's footguns when I first switched from other languages, and most of the function related ones can be (as this article points out) mitigated by blindly wrapping everything in lambdas.

As one fun example suppose you're working with the snippet:

const f = foo.predicate; return arr.filter(f);

If foo is a class instance and references any instance variables via `this`, then just storing the method before you attempt to use it will cause the whole house of cards to blow up. So...adding a reference to `this` is a breaking change for even moderately sane code. That problem is also easily mitigated with lambdas: const foo = (x) => foo.predicate(x);
> Tbqh I wasn't even aware of that story until now.

Hopefully your CTO was.
There is an argument the shorts were driving it down below it’s intrinsic value. This story wasn’t about intrinsic value - it was about the shorts overextending themselves without a backup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Guide_for_the_Perplexed

I discovered this book in my early teens and it helped me in structuring my thinking about this sort of thing.
I don't have much faith in any single educational approach to deal with changes that are coming at us in sub-12-year timelines. We have to fix education, but that fixes prospective 12-year-out challenges, which I think we can safely assume we haven't the first clue what they'll be. For our current challenges, we must change the space outside minds, to add assistive tools that help untrained minds read the landscape better.
Student: literally part of the university.
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That sounds very pragmatic and effective, thanks for posting.

Could such a service exist within China itself, though? I'd not be surprised if a US-based 'minister' immediately encountered a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting them.
7 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23689280 (239 points/130 comments)
Can you please elaborate on this point? What would you prefer instead?
Never thought about this side effect. What precautions do you take.
std::vector and std::any both allocate - compared to (say) std::tuple<int, float> that's a ludicrously heavyweight solution.
There are obviously more concerns that are relevant. Most of these containers contain single servings or maybe a few. Open cans of cat food smell. Thin cans of single servings would be narrow, getting the food out would be a pain.
The best propaganda just repeats a huge lie. Reinforcing something is the very best way of getting it to lodge in people's heads and once it is lodged there it will become part of their worldview and hence will due to being 'theirs' be seen as true.

To quote a German of ill repute:

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
I'm assuming the Esquire was conferred on Bill S. Preston by his dad, making him the pretentious one. But of course the whole Wild Stallyns schtick was always more about being a musician than the music itself.
More scrap metal is generated as the diameter is increased.

Can anyone comment on why that is?
It depends on your workflow. I'd say your approach is interesting, but it's mostly driven by availability of the data ("searching under a streetlight") except for your sleep monitor (however, being an under pillow solution, it's not essentially different from the accelerometer data from a smart watch)

I would suggest you invert the logic: design objective (ex: mental acuity), conclude on what things you want to track (ex: time slept, cups of coffee per day, time you drink it, errors in shell) and get the data accordingly, spending as necessary (ex: smart coffee maker? or maybe a smart plug that can let you infer when the machine is being used from the wattage drawn)

As for data tricks, L distance is a good one, yet not applicable for shell, as it's sensitive to the string length so you would need correction. Also, it's missing the essential metric: did the command work? Only the error return code will give you that.

TLDR: think about what you want, but before that think about why you want it. Collecting useless metrics is another form of data hoarding.
The good news is, taxes, regulations and rent are so low in SF that they make up for the lack of attention to inhabitants' safety...
This is a rather beautiful idea -- and sounds to be rather beautiful in implementation. Taiwan really is a special place if you've ever had the good fortune to visit.

I used to go to Kaohsiung repeatedly over the years when I did Oceanographic research -- my first visit the Love river was borderline industrial waste and it's shores kept with the theme.

From one trip to the next though it had been transformed. I don't think I've ever seen part of a city "become beautiful again" as fast as the Love river ...
Well, ok, that is a viewpoint and it is internally consistent. But the author is proffering specifics and arguments (eg, the link to Brennan's notes related to spying on the Trump campaign) in what could reasonably be called an attempt to find shared common ground based on facts.

So what exactly is your test to work out that this is disinformation, and how do you intend to defend it when I accuse it of being highly subjective? The war on disinformation will have spectacularly bad unintended consequences - far in excess of any successes - if it is run by Democrats based with only a partisan criteria. There needs to be some level of objectivity and observability to the label.
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Yes. I thought everyone learned a thing or two in Pandemic with toilet paper and flatten the curve.

Nope. No one cared. They just decide to make an excuse or an enemy to blame and point fingers at.

No one question why Apple didn't have the same problem, considering they are selling 200M+ iPhone ( Likley 220M+ this year ), 20M Mac, 50M iPad, or together 300M+ of their own silicon?

No one question why Apple don't have the same problem with "their" supplier? i.e Broadcom with their WiFi, Qualcomm with their Modem, Skywork, USB4 Controller, etc etc.

Everyone thought TSMC was 7-11, or Circle K or whatever Corner Shop you have in your region. They somehow would have unlimited amount of shelf space for "you" and for everyone else.

Supply Chain and Logistic Management isn't hard. All it needs is some logic and common sense. But over the past 20 years all I have seen is that Common Sense is rather uncommon.
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At least here (Finland) the “standard” cat food can is taller than it is wide [1]. Smaller, shorter containers are mostly used by the more “premium” brands.

[1] https://www.puprise.com/whiskas-tuna-in-jelly-wet-cat-food-c...
The title doesn't mention the interesting part -- the company responds with reasons why they made their cans a certain size. Definitely worth clicking through.

I'm not sure about 1987, but today, Carnation is a lot more than "a cat food company".