skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Arctic Ocean may have gone fresh in ice age times
The difference is that the US either leverages foreign spies (e.g. trade for its own captured spies) or, like captured sources, they go to prison for breaking espionage laws or treason. They don't execute these people like some other countries do.
Agreed. The issue is all those controlling the narratives of the argument are institutions that want to be the authoratities standing and the beacons of truth and information.

If democracy and free speech are to survive, I'm all in on the idea that education is the most critical piece. Obviously, bias and falsehoods can be injected into information taught and regurgitated in educational systems, this is nothing new and already practiced. This is why I'm a strong proponent of teaching the process of fact finding, the scientific method, etc. We need to teach people to be better free thinkers and trust in them to make good decisions. We need to teach them on manipulation strategies deployed and show them how to avoid them. Those who want to leverage and manipulate people don't like this idea.

Too many interested in authority want people to be easily manipulated and are playing roulette with who ultimately wins the game of control: wealthy private interests, US government, foreign government, and even your neighbors. We have to trust that educating everyone to defend against these sorts of disinformation attacks is actually in our own best interest, otherwise I think we have to give up on ideals of democracy.
Thank you! This is why I read the comments on HN. I was thinking while reading that I'd like to find some good resources to explore complexity theory in more depth, this looks great.

Side note: 14 people created something of value and distribute it for free, and still many of the comments here are just complaints about auto-scroll, websites, and JS. Pretty sad to see.
const add = ({ a, b }) => a + b;
const _add = ({ a, b }) => b + a;
hahaha same bro
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Ha. I see what you did there. Bashing crazy ideas became 'bashing conservatives'. Because they so often come up with crazy ideas?

It's still fair and proper to bash crazy ideas. The notion that it isn't, may be another crazy idea. And I wonder who promotes that idea?
Could you elaborate on the power grid idea? It seems like a good example of how to apply complexity theory to make hard decisions, in this case optimal investments in grid stabilization.
That was my read as well, it doesn’t make a difference in terms of the total volume occupied by these “grabby” civs.

Also, one civilization dominating wouldn’t mean that the other one would magically disappear. As a simple assumption, I can imagine the stronger civ expanding into the territory of the weaker one relatively unhindered (in terms of expansion speed). But the weaker civ would still expand outwards as well. If it’s expansion speed isn’t slower, it would continue to grow in absolute size.
Partially.

TypeScript doesn't complain when you pass in a function that ignores some of its arguments. Which is totally fine and safe. If you upgrade your function from no second argument to a numeric second argument TypeScript will not complain and your program might break.

It will not crash, because it still perfectly type-safe, but it might not behave like you want to. So in that sense the article has a point.

However, this is just one instance of a larger issue with changing the behavior of a function, while keeping the types compatible.

- Using a function as a callback to .map() with two numeric arguments and then swapping the arguments.
- Returning a tuple of two of the same type and swapping the order.
- Returning a string in a new encoding.
- ...

Basic rule: if it's a type error and the program might crash, TypeScript will complain. If the types are fine and only the behavior changes, TypeScript will (obviously) not complain. Callback functions and optional arguments are not special in this regard.
My raw thoughts

phd in systems engineering is inherently unnecessary unless you want to spend time in academia.

This is my opinion with first hand experience working on a phD and working in a FAANG.

If you want to go deep into systems and make something at it - I would recommend a PhD in.a top tier university like Berkeley otherwise it's not worth leaving your job. A phd from a top tier university is required for a good academic career.

If it's just interesting work-- You can work on far more interesting systems work if you navigate to the right team in google for example.

PhD is a 5 year ish commitment and it's better to do it early in your life if you want to go to academia.

PhD dropout rates are also high, it's okay here too there's a lot that you learn anyway and the FAANG company is not going anywhere :). They're always happy to have you back...

I would wrap this up by reading this article by Prof. DesJardin
How to be a good graduate student

https://heibeck.freeshell.org/Grad_Advice/how2b/how.2b.html

Hope this helps
No, it really isn't. Disinformation is spreading factually wrong information to push an agenda. Dissent is an opening position, with disagreement about factual matters with the eventual intent of reaching common ground after robust dissection of the facts to see which facts should be discarded and which facts have good support.

The disinformation factory serves one purpose only: to avoid people from reaching agreement, it is a wedge that is driven into society by an avalanche of garbage that drowns out any reasonable discussion.

By positioning the two as equivalent the author engages in disinformation under the guise of having a rational discussion, which is quite funny given the theme, and a pretty cynical display of the degree to which this is now something that you can get away with.
That's true, but you can upgrade to a paid subscription to get rid of the ads. I'm good with their getting paid to provide this service, one way or another.
How is a digital nose different than a mass spec applied to sweat/blood/saliva?
I've seen a study that points in that direction, but I don't think that's conclusive.
I think being “productive” [1] is a hobby for him. Some people organize their vinyl collection with painstaking detail, others build dioramas.

[1] I’m putting it in quotes, because it seems that the output of all this “productivity” consist mostly of filing cabinets and databases filled with mundane information about his life.
When it comes to supporting Qanon, Nazism, bigotry, or any other provably toxic and categorically stupid idea, I brook no dissent.

This isn’t an open debate, like the existence of god or the meaning of existence. The arguments that conspiracy theorists, cretins, and crooks badger polite society with have already been thoroughly debunked.

To continue to engage with them on those topics, is foolish and only fuels their insanity.
as an anosmic by birth, please give me a device that lets me know the food i'm taking is bad, have had a few close encounters with food poisoning
Tesla founders talk about the early days and bringing on Elon Musk
And for at least the past couple of years—unless I’m bringing the bigger computer, usually in a backpack—I have taken to “wearing” my little computer wherever I go. I originally wanted a bag where the computer would fit completely inside, but the nicest bag I could find had the computer sticking out a bit. To my surprise, though, this has worked well. And it’s certainly amusing when I’m talking to someone and quickly “draw” my computer, and they look confused, and ask, “Where did that come from?”

Today I learnt that Stephen Wolfram dos not live anywhere it rains very much, because I sure would not take my laptop out in that bag when I lived in Seattle, nor would I take it out in that now that I live in the tropics.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/data/uploads/2019/02/10-...
> In 1988, AN ELECTION YEAR, the Dems controlled the senate and still confirmed Kennedy who was put forward by Reagan of course, 97-0

That’s because Kennedy was Reagan’s third try to fill that seat after Democrats blocked the first two. In late 1987, a year before the election, Patrick Leahy gave Kennedy an ultimatum that if Senate Democrats didn’t like the next appointment, they’d hold the seat open until after the 1988 election. That was against a vastly more popular President than Obama—Reagan had won his election in 1984 by 18 points.
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Yeah ok, it‘s a saturday in lockdown, why not.
I have a hunch that the only way I can do this safely is with a bunch of safety checks. I have to think about wether your breaking has something to do with the intricacies of function arguments in js or if you consider addition of a property to any type of "options" object that is passed around always breaking.

For day to day, I feel this pattern is good enough, as typescript works nicely with it.
The EU's paying around 2 euro per dose of AstraZeneca (and about 15 euro per dose of Pfizer). That's on the low end, but no-one's really paying more than twice that. And those vaccines have the great benefit that there is actual evidence that they do something.
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I've heard of this issue with mammograms, but not with colorectal cancer. Complications from a colonoscopy are very rare, and removing polyps before they become malignant is a pretty safe choice as well.
To be fair, similar professional jealousy is also the exact reason why "Doctor" in English refers to a physician. In the late 1800s, physicians felt that they as a profession didn't get enough respect, and decided to exclusively refer to each other as "Doctor", and require that patients refer to them that way as well. The terminal medical degree was renamed from "Bachelor of Medicine" to "Medical Doctor" as part of the same movement.
If the bots has reasonable and well formed arguments does it matter? And if they don't why would you care whether there are real people behind them, would you listen to them if there was?

https://xkcd.com/810/
Yes, anything can be weaponized. The question isn't if something can be used as a weapon, it is if that thing also has good and proper uses beside as a weapon.

Antidisinformation is just a different word for counterpropaganda which is just propaganda used by us instead of them. Even the term 'propaganda' has been more positive 80 years ago, it just underwent the usual euphemism cycle, so now we are at '(counter)disinformation', 'fake news' and 'fact checking'. Which all is just a nice word play for the thing it all is: information warfare.

(of course calling it 'warfare' is also propaganda)
I don't understand why people keep insisting on bringing up Musk's undergrad degree as somehow evidence of his expertise. Four years of schooling many decades ago isn't a relevant "background in physics" to demonstrate that Musk is right and all of the other engineers working at competitors are wrong.
From skimming the article:

* The CDC “errors” are from the early days of the COVID-19 crisis, when we didn’t know that much about COVID-19 and were still learning about the virus. As just one example, the author seems to have a short memory: It was pretty hard to wear a mask all of the time when masks were not available to buy, so initially saving masks for front line medical workers until they were widely available was a sensible idea.

* The allegations of corruption on Hunter Biden’s part are still considered a conspiracy theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biden%E2%80%93Ukraine_conspira...

* Whenever I read an article which talks about the “establishment narrative”, alarm bells ring in my head. This is a common trope among conspiracy theory proponents.

I’m disappointed this kind of article borderline espousing conspiracy theories made the front page of Ycombinator. @deng: I don’t think it serves Ycombinator’s interests to have this kind of article prominent.

Edit: The article has been flagged. Good riddance to bad rubbish. The article used, for the CDC example, the fallacy that, in so many words, “since the CDC made some errors in the early days of COVID-19, the CDC is deliberately spreading disinformation to support a narrative”. No, COVID-19 was a new virus, there was a lot we didn’t know back in March of 2020 when we shut everything down, and the scientific consensus has changed as we got more facts to build conclusions from. Changing what we know based on new research is not evidence of spreading disinformation; that’s how science works.
Great! I'm working on adding subscriptions now. And thanks for the guild link!
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This won't help in most cases, because you're not going to be able to get the people writing libraries to add guards to every single function they make.

This is a problem that should be handled at the language level, not by adding multiple lines of potentially incorrect code for every dozen lines of regular code.
What’s missing in a lot of this conversation is the spoken vs written honorific. There are many professions/designations that people may wish to be identified (often times reflective of their profession, work, achievements) e.g.

Maj. Gen. Jane Smith, Ret.

John Smith, P.E.

Jane Smith, CPA

The Honorable John Smith

Dr. Jane Smith, PhD

John Smith, Esq.

All these written forms of address convey something about the person yet, verbally they would be Mr. Miss/Ms/Mrs when addressed (leaving aside the rabbit hole of Dr / PhD thing for the moment)- point being that there is difference in taking pride (even if to outsiders you may wonder why (appending MBA?!?!) it doesn’t change they way they are addressed verbally.
That is your idea of a balanced article? Yikes..
If the science community does not take the guy who invented Mathematica seriously, they are just a bunch of arrogant §%#$s, but I doubt that is even true.
Good for them!

Hungary didn't listen to the EU and took advantage of this Russian vaccine. The UK took care of the problem on their own, while the EU has mounted a laughable, 3rd world-level response. Of course - don't expect any resignations there and that's a good thing because the incompetent euro-bureaucrats could get promoted to a higher post in their national government.

Isn't it strange how "best" places to do business came up dead last in the race to invent and make a product that saves lives. Secret sauce: the European Union.

Congrats to the scientists and manufacturers involved in Sputnik.
> It will not crash, because it still perfectly type-safe, but it might not behave like you want to.

Which is generally worse than crashing, because silent data corruption can have far-reaching impacts.
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> How: many shells support keeping timestamps along your commands in history.

> E.g. "Remember all your bash history forever".

It would be far more important to get $? to get the rate of error of the commands you type (ex: typo) and use that as an indicator of poor mental acuity (ex: bad sleep, stress, ...)
I was just trying to understand what people mean when they say that "consciousness is an emergent property", which always felt like a hand-wavy explanation. I was weighing that explanation against panpsychism and then this thought emerged.
I don't see the author equivocating dissent and disinformation.

If you read the article, you will see that the point is that the war on disinformation can be misused to marginalize those who dissent.
In Europe, yes. Not in the United States. There are many professors who do not have a PhD or even necessarily a terminal degree.
It's literally the title of the article.
For that example, I'd say the text wouldn't help most people regardless of language. One would have to know a fair bit about the mechanics of currency conversion. I happen to know that, and I still would have to pick randomly, because this would come down to exchange rates that the interface isn't exposing.

The correct user-focused interface solution for that particular problem is to show the actual costs next to each button. And then I'd think one would make the cheaper option the obvious default (e.g., bigger, greener), with the more expensive option less favored.
the article startd: "contrary to popular belief Elon Musk did not start Tesla"...
it is not popular belief, it was the direct result of a PR campaign and settlement agreement that included repeated editions to the wikipedia page of Tesla the company.
Can You provide an example of a shared thought that does not attack someone or group of people that has resulted in censorsip or banning? Otherwise your argument falls apart too.

Edit*

Your argument is actually a reasonable one but because of that it pretty much proves the Baker that refuses services is just as bad as the social media companies that descrimatly ban and censor users.

It is with that in mind that I made my argument, I think both of us and most others would agree that there have been unfair, arbitrary decisions made by tech companies and they should not get a free pass to discriminate or control the narrative.

Rather than a race to the bottom by allowing everyone the right to act in this manner (Including Mr. Baker) is it not more reasonable to hold our elected governments accountable for their willingness to transact buisness with said bad actors and insist on policy changes which prevent the collusion of government with private corporations forming some kind of techno-fascist authority like we currently have?
Does TikTok have a problem with Black women’s bodies?
I'm wondering which sort of consciousness is under scrutiny. We know when we're conscious and unconscious. E.g. Awake vs Asleep. Even animals exhibit that dichotomy.

The other consciousness is self-awareness. Which is hard to detect from the outside. Some animals may have it. Do they understand when they look silly? Do they recognize themselves in a mirror? These may be diagnostic.

It's important to know which one is intended since they are so very different, at least in their distribution among living creatures.
I must admit I only skimmed the white paper, and saved it to read in more detail later. Maybe I missed some part that set you off?

https://radvac.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/White-Paper-SA...
(be aware: there's 3 pages of warnings and disclaimers upfront. They are very clear that this constitutes self-experimentation.)

The paper does appear to assume that the reader is indeed an expert or at least a somewhat experienced amateur. If you sign up on their researchers map, they do ask whether you have a science degree and/or lab experience:

https://radvac.org/researchers-map/

I must admit I'm stymied by your implication that an antibody test wouldn't constitute evidence that the vaccine had been effective in that instance (n=1). What makes you say that?
What I like about Spotify is that the discovery features are good enough to be worth the price by themselves.
Yes, but saying "supporting/opposing X is really about supporting/opposing Y" does not imply "X and Y are the same".
AWD is useful if you live somewhere with a winter.
Exceptionally sober article on the current "media circus" and why 'only 16% of people trust the media'. Integrity of news and journalistic ethics have declined substantially from 2000's and have become very charged with political agendas, sensationalism and emotional pandering hit-pieces.
Trump accelerated the abandonment of the GOP by suburban and educated voters. These trends line right up with Virginia's demographic changes over the last 20-30 years. So it's not all attributable to Trump, but he certainly accelerated shifts that were already ongoing.
The keyword here is appear, but in reality it wasn't a non-breaking change.
This is a great approach to determine permission especially for service accounts - thanks for giving me another tool for my toolchain.
Inefficient software is deployed to millions of users and can cost a lot more time (and resources/energy). Also, I’m fed up by bad software eating up all the performance improvements of modern hardware. It feels like we never got faster CPUs, memory and SSDs. The demand for programming increased but the supply of capable engineers couldn’t keep up and everyone is trying to find excuses for the simple truth: most programmers are incompetent.
Spreading factually correct information can also just as easily be used to push an agenda.

You must understand this if you have read about the dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide .
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Have you maybe compared Emfit QS to a customer-grade tracker like Fitbit directly?
I'd be interested in the history of how people in the medical profession came to misappropriate the term Doctor (which IIRC referred only to a PhD).
The important part of this entire thread is that if you have symptoms, don't let the bell curve affect whether you seek treatment/exams from medical professionals. Colorectal cancer is no longer a rare thing in people under 50, and many practitioners operate under the naive idea that it doesn't occur in younger people.
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100% false. your argument hinges on the assumption that you can tell the difference between disinformation ane dissent.

this is the central problem. a tool for censorship is in no way tied to "truth" (whatever you pretend that means). censorship is for everything - disinformation AND dissent.
Anyone can upload stuff to the AUR, so it's only to be expected that there's some malware there. At the very top of the wiki page for the AUR[0], it warns:

> Warning: AUR packages are user produced content. These PKGBUILDs are completely unofficial and have not been thoroughly vetted. Any use of the provided files is at your own risk.

If you want to stay malware-free and aren't able to vet the packages you're installing, just stick to the official repositories and you'll be fine. This page[1] documents the role of each official repository, and this page[2] is a list of the people who can modify the official community repository.

[0]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository

[1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_repositories

[2]: https://archlinux.org/people/trusted-users/
> One the one hand, [TDD is] too strict. Insisting on writing tests first, often gets in the way of the exploratory work

Who are the proponents of TDD that promote 100% adherence even when it's not a good match for the situation? I keep coming across this claim, but it's not how I learned TDD, and I wonder if it's a straw man.
Indian health insurer app tracks physical activity
Didn't read due to annoying web design. Can someone summarise?
The UI of US real estate websites horribly invasive and inefficient compared to European sites. They ask you to sign up or sign in via I auth for a simple property lookup. They prompt you to enter preferences then reload or ajax refresh the page. This is ridiculous, just offer a proper query filter and leave the user alone. I understand, the agencies want to push the data into some crm and follow up with retargeting etc. The victim is the user experience.
Letting the potential buyer/renter view the properties without obstacles is certainly the better approach than retargeting after pissing them off.