skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> misinformation is combat with MORE discussion, not less!

The problem with that idea is that it takes more effort to debunk a lie than to tell one. It also takes more effort to absorb a debunking than a lie. That's why disinformation works.

Here's an example: JFK ate babies occasionally, and the media hushed it up. Oswald was actually a secret high-level CIA operative, and was so outraged by this that he assassinated JFK for it.

It took me two seconds to write that. How much effort would it take you to debunk it?

It's just not practical to put all the burden of combating misinformation on each individual's shoulders. It's also necessary to stop the spread of misinformation. That doesn't need to be done by a central authority, but people who've been convinced by a lie will perceive that as "censorship" by one.

> scientific consensus is not arrived at when every scientific paper says the same thing. this is a fundamentally wrong view of science and also reality. on any given topic, the corpus includes opposing conclusions. eventually we figure out why and discern the underlying principles.

Scientific consensus is also not arrived at by publishing literally every crackpot idea, and answering each with "more discussion." Science has several mechanisms for "censoring" bullshit and misinformation (e.g. peer review), and it couldn't function without it. "More discussion" is saved for cases where those mechanisms failed.
The Swiss would appreciate if you did NOT buy Swiss francs as an inflation hedge. This kind of speculation hurts our export industry.
We have a self hosted version of the system available, we have found that attitudes to data security and location are changing. Customers want to have it in house to the extent possible.
git init
git add .
git commit . -m uh
git push

Doesn't look too hard to me.
Particularly when I'm going to rewrite my system, I'll go ahead and check out a new Branch so I don't freak out when I break everything. Infact I tell a developer to learn git first.

The only time git becomes an issue is when you have large binary objects, like with a video game. Git LFS is pain.
Twitter adds “may have been obtained through hacking” warning to leaked UK files
Absolutely not, there are already people on HN pandering to the crowd just to get karma points, let's not make karma points more meaningless than they already are. This suggestion is so rich coming from someone with 34,500 karma points.
> maybe HN should have a high-karma warning

My intuition is that this is less of an issue on HN than on Wikipedia.
The counterpoint is Japan: its economy peaked around 1990, and still hasn't recovered to that level, 30 years later.
He Used Solitary Confinement to Learn Math, Solving Hardest Equations
yes, I'd personally say that a more interesting group is the subset of people with 10 year old accounts and karma between 50 and 500 points :D
Stuff like this could have incredible value, but be aware that you are up against once of the most powerful forces in the universe: people that don't give a shit.

> The idea for GreaseBoss came when Steve and Tim saw frequent machine breakdowns

Were you doing the dirty work, or were you watching from the office? Those RFID washers look a whole lot different to the guy with the wrench than they do to the guy with the keyboard.
I heat my home by shorting crypto futures. Together we have created a true perpetuum mobile.
I think that's a pretty valid argument about just wanting to rewrite history.

I'll offer an alternative. I love having every commit buildable. When I'm drafting, this isn't going to happen. I'd like to save my work and move between machines more frequently than that. But after a rebase, it's great to only have compiling commits. It makes doing a bisect a lot easier when you're hunting for something.
SpaceX Is Exploring Benefits of Placing Bitcoin on Its –. – The Urban Mine
The depletion of the ecosystem is crucial for my example (no animal does that without consequences for itself or its environment)

Earth being a patient was metaphorical speech. And sure we can be nihilistic about it, at which point all is said and done.

The hope is we don't recklessly risk throwing away the results of millions of years of natural evolution and thousands of years of cumulative cultural achievement because capitalism overvalues consumer convenience. That's idiocracy-level kind of shit.
Facebook was regularly kicking people off for problematic comments (it certainly didn't get all of them).

That was many people's motivation for going to Parler in the first place - frustrated with what they believed being tagged as "false", frustrated with repeated bouts in Facebook Jail, etc.

There's a dichotomy that one of the major motivations for Parler uptick is because of something you imply never really ever happened on Facebook.
Post-mortem privacy is such nonsense. The privacy rights of the surviving members of the family are relevant, as well as anyone involved with the dead but dead people are not people. The idea that they have rights is ridiculous.
Try to guess if code is real or GPT2-generated
I need to hire you to talk to a community member I'm having trouble communicating with. Good stuff.
It seems a mistake to format JSON as non-JSON text (SEN Format) in the name of "pretty". That will inevitably lead to copy/paste and monkey-see errors.
"from a lower or even mid-tier college is a worthwhile investment "

I always found this idea amazing, we just accept that univerities are not really there for education but instead a giant sorting machine to separate plebs from (rich/talented/dilligent/take your pick).

They don't work like a normal market, there best company grows their production, and supplies millions with the best goods.
Oxford/Harvard take their miniscule intake of a fraction of a percent every year, and opening door to unwashed masses would destroy their brand.

Do the best universities have best teaching technique, or are they best because they pick brightest students and they contribute nothing special?

A healthy market of affordable education cannot be build on this foundation of 16th century elitism, exclusion and zero-sum principle.
https://devscreen.io/

found from / more info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25790355

"a system that will automatically sin up a github project with a pull-request to review, or an issue to fix. Further test-types are planned but I will launch with these two. No matter the skill level of an IC engineer, they will need to carry out effective code reviews and fix bugs. I think that the PR test will be good for senior candidates while the bug fix test will be good for junior - mid-level engineers."
> Mypyc is a compiler that compiles mypy-annotated, statically typed Python modules into CPython C extensions. Currently our primary focus is on making mypy faster through compilation -- the default mypy wheels are compiled with mypyc. Compiled mypy is about 4x faster than without compilation.

My wager is that it does not. It may if you have math intensive code, but if you have an algorithm that touches lots of python built in datatypes, access to those types will be the bottleneck.
I was quite surprised by this, but when running NiceHash on my 2070S with no overclocking etc. it stays at ~60C, fans aren’t even audible, etc. And it generates the equivalent of $5 of BTC every day. Can’t complain.
> they have a systematic bias against reaching such a conclusion.

No they don't. They have a bias for reaching conclusions which benefit them. Full stop. Those conclusions may coincidentally benefit others, even if that was not part of their motivation.

What would you suggest? We should be in favor of a link tax purely to spite Google? We should surrender our privacy to Facebook just to stick it to Apple? We should protect Apple's ability to restrict what users can do with their devices as a display of contempt towards Epic?
Yeah, the native client Matrix ecosystem is getting better and better. And the page you linked doesn't list all the Qt based Matrix clients. There is also one for sailfishOS (using the same backend as Nheko), Kalz using its own backend and Kirigami for the UI.
Introduction to MIPS Assembly Language (2015)
You're still maximizing power generation demand. That makes environmental issues worse even if it does make fiscal sense. You aren't "using power tgat would go to waste anyway".

All power is JIT. It makes a difference.
> it is hardly socially unacceptable to vote for a republican and you have a secret vote anyway.

Those two things are not in conflict with each other: a sizable percentage of Trump voters may have been counting on the fact that they could secretly vote in order to protect themselves and even their jobs.

It seems that, today, some vocal people arguing for censorship immediately assume that anyone on the side of free speech and liberal thought is secretly a Trump apologist.
Although IBM invented EBCDIC, other vendors adopted it, and some of those other vendors created their own slightly incompatible versions of it as well. For example, Unisys mainframes (running MCP) have their own EBCDIC variant called "ASERIESEBCDIC" (named for its A Series mainframes). They also support another EBCDIC variant called "STDEBCDIC" ("Standard EBCDIC"), which I am guessing by its name is more compatible with IBM's (although I'm not sure which IBM code page it corresponds to)
Yes, but with that define it wraps vfork instead of fork.
Brilliant concept and impressive execution. I saw you write in another comment thread "its one of those things that you would never imagine is still a problem."

This was precisely my reaction. And then on the flip side, when you see a deceptively simple solution like GreaseBoss, it seems so obvious in hindsight. Well done!

What's your tech stack? Are you looking to build out your software team?
It's not important at all. “single-header-library“ in C basically means #including a .c file in disguise. It's for people who are too lazy to add a source directory to their build system...
More Android phone manufacturers should join this "who can support their phones for a longest time" race. Everyone will be a winner.
I believe the OP's point was that those things (Agent orange, tobacco <> cancer, etc) which our society almost universally agree upon were once, themselves, targeted by dis/misinformation campaigns.

And that if we are to allow censorship, we are allowing the potential for disinformation campaigns.

IMO, the flaws in this argument are that it assumes a disinformation campaign is something the censor entity is controlling (specifically the US military, in the Agent Orange example). It also assumes disinformation is the only tactic available to a bad actor to manipulate the public.

To the spirit of the OP's point, though, I think we need to be wary of any corporation pledging to make the world a safer place by monitoring our communications.

Of course the situation is not binary; there are things that should be censored. I would like our law enforcement to use any tool at their disposal to stop human trafficking. Murder is not cool, AT&T should help LE look into those as well. Politician Y is trolling the internet with lies; we actually have a toolset for that and it's called journalism. Understanding that journalism/media is actually part of the problem here doesn't mean AT&T can do a better job.
I suspect we mostly agree (although I don't have much faith in IQ as a useful predictor except at the margins) but there is a semantic issue; what do you mean by "quality"?

I find "went to an Ivy" a really good predictor for "above average performer", but I find it a weak predictor for "top rate performer", at least without a bunch of extra information. I also think the number top performing people who did not go to an elite college handily outweighs the number who did - but this is the nature of elite unless the selection criteria are very rigorous and targeted at something measurable.

Your comment about people in institutions that highly value this is on target, I think.
sigh But you have feelings now, and are presumably capable of having feelings about events beyond your immediate experience.

If someone offered you 5 bucks, with the caveat that if you take it then the Earth is destroyed the moment you die - you're a terrible person if you take the money.

(Incidentally, there's not really any difference between not experiencing something because you're dead, and not experiencing it because your back is turned. Are you fine with atrocities in general, provided you don't find out about them?)
Please point it out if I've missed it, but any list like this, of information that is changeable, should really have a publicly posted date of when the information was last confirmed.
I think the parent post refers to all of the different majors taking the same time.
Introducing this as an API was something ppl have told us repeatedly. Our plan was to, later as we grow, come up with something like “Sign in with Highavenue” - this way users can export their data to any gaming/MMOs or any other application with just single button tap.

And we can make sure it works cross platforms. We will collaborate soon on this :)
Reading these threads has been very depressing lately, Democrats ask OANN and other _extremely_ conservative networks for information, and that's somehow an attack on the First Amendment, where as 4 years of Trump - and the rest of the Republican party - attacking anything he disagreed with as Fake News was totally cool.

Either Hacker news is being heavily astroturfed (there are many throwaway accounts participating here for example) or really that's what this community is now.

I just keep a little personal list of usernames of people who are promoting Fascism and avoid anything they are associated with.
So long as the top tier universities are not expanding enrollments I fail to see what real change would come from more applications. Maybe they will get a bit more diverse. The lower tier schools will get their enrollment so long as the total demand is still there.
This is the confusing part to me. Everything I read online talks about Tether being fraudulent. Shouldn't the price of Tether reflect a discount based on that? If it doesn't, does that mean the market is okay with a Tether being 1 USD even if it is not backed by anything?
Reactivity, yes - works the same as MobX's autorun. But not derived values. You can ensure something gets updated by wrapping it in $:

```
$: value = $x + 2
```

but you can do that somewhere else as well

```
$: {
let y = 20
$value += y
}
```

Makes it insanely hard to track where changes come from. You can't say "this value is _only_ updated by these changes".

You can do this with derived stores, though. But each store must be it's own, separate value - with MobX's observable you have a central object representing your entire state, each of which is made automatically reactive, and putting in a derived store is just prepending with -get-. It's much cleaner.
That’s better than nothing, but still pretty half arsed. To see why, here’s the latest monthly Android Security Bulletin.

I count 43 of these fixes are for issues with the underlying AOSP platform, kernel and drivers. One of them is a Play Store codec update. Admittedly not all of those fixes are relevant to every device because some of them (about a dozen) are specific driver updates, but over 40 fixes in one randomly chosen monthly update isn’t trivial. This is what you lose when your device goes out of support.

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2021-02-01
I know that many (including one of the core developers) have tried to correct various things on that Wikipedia page, but my understanding is that there's an admin that keeps reverting most changes

> I don’t see this implementation as having any relevance to cryptocurrency mining

That's why a lot of people refer to running BOINC to get Gridcoin as "crunching" instead of mining to help distinguish it
Hey. See my answer to the same question below.
Media literacy standards to counter truth decay
Here are some of my replies to similar topics:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25656930

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24050254

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11170234

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20306637

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7365029

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9849703

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6464942

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8862233
When I went to your site, the “screenshot coming soon” for each of them caught all of my attention so I didn’t notice the fork on codesandbox link.

But why not just have the live WebGL thing on each page itself?
New world // Old world: commodities surge
BMW will now use aluminum that’s been made with solar power
Is there a spec somewhere?

This kind of thing really benefits from a clear explanation of how it works.
Ceramic pans will always fail after a short bit of time. Cook's Illustrated has yet to find one that can pass their durability tests.

That said I wish they'd test the Granitestone Pro as other reviewers have said the Granitestone holds up better than other ceramic pans.
That doesn't make someone incompetent; it may make them a bad fit for a particular job.
Certainly not a generator, at least not unless there was some miracle fuel cell fuel. The "electric boost" would need to be completely idle most of the flight (which creates some interesting challenges regarding conversion of electric torque to air movement).
I've had the luxury of not needing to ask for money because I need it. When you aren't in need, it seems like asking is a lot easier. I'm not worried about a No, so I'm not fretting about the answer or my delivery.

This has made a huge difference for me because I'm a terrible negotiator. Earlier in my career when more hinged on negotiation and I needed money, I sometimes worked for small fractions of what I could have.
Keeping Legacy Software Alive: A Case Study
If they tried again in the future, when EV adoption is greater, they might have more success.

It is hard to say whether the failure of the idea is because it is never going to work, or because the market wasn't ready for it yet.
> Why does a classics degree cost the same as a CS degree

Under a Marx labor theory of value, the professorial labor to produce a classics degree holder is almost certainly more expensive than the labor to produce a (edited: CS) degree.

It subjectively seems near universal in CS that the surviving graduates self taught themselves to program in high school or earlier, whereas AFAIK classics degree holders pretty much require professorial direction and education. The "greater CS community" aggressively self educates whereas I'm not sure the greater classics community does to the same extent.

Business, such as modern higher ed, is often an interesting tradeoff between the cost of production and revenue. I'm sure you can squeeze more revenue out of CS kids but the cost of production is almost certainly higher for Classics kids.

Which might explain why the classics are going away as available degree programs whereas CS generally only expands over long term.
Are you currently experiencing any server issues? I'm stuck on the generating head screen for over 5min now...
Lauren Witzke is a Q Anon supporter. Do you think Q Anon supporters should be given a voice here on HN?

Also, why does it matter how many people died during the attempt to overthrow our government by far right extremists? How many deaths are acceptable? 1? 7?
Does anyone have experience with Gopter, a Golang Property Based testing library? https://github.com/leanovate/gopter
Great feedback.

We are exploring the franchise model, one of our customers has a contract to manage the greasing for 18k zerks at a number of different sites. They want GreaseBoss to drive their manaul greasing business, they can reduce head count and reduce admin overhead.

I used to go to Papua New Guinean gold mines and the use case of not being able to get a spare part for months is very real. These are the early adoptor operations we are targeting
> That is absolutely no indicator for safety.

Currently, several billion in value is locked into Defi-based liquidity pools with USDT. If USDT collapses tomorrow, the stakers will lose nearly all of their principal. (Fast traders will quickly swap worthless USDT for all the USDC in the pool, before hardly anyone has time to remove liquidity.)

The largest of these pool, currently pays about 2.6%.[1] Even if all of that return reflects USDT credit risk, that market implies a 1/50 chance of USDT collapsing within the next year. I'm not saying the market is necessary correct. But what I am saying is that very deep, liquid markets are not pricing any significant USDT risk.

If you really disagree, you can even short USDT, by borrowing USDT on Compound at 4.2%. Then use that to buy USDC and supply it on Compound at 4.9%.[2] If USDT collapses, you'll make nearly 100% as you'll only have to buy back now worthless USDC. In fact the market will even pay you take this position, with the only risk being if USDC collapses relative to USDT.

[1]https://www.curve.fi/3pool
[2]https://compound.finance/markets
You couldn't liquidate that much BTC without tanking the markets... it's a game of chicken if it's true that the USD backing tether is gone.
why not? prisons are full of people that did much less. why a drug lord gets a life in prison? no one is forcing you to buy drugs. can you say same for these people?
They're proposing a theory of how the brain's cortex must work. Check out some interviews with Jeff Hawkins of Numenta, such as the forementioned interview with Lex Fridman. One essential insight of theirs is that the cortex is physiologically the same everywhere, so any differences between regions would be caused by what happens to be connected to them, rather than something that is inherent to them. This idea of 1000 brains is sort of along those lines.
In a lot of projects topic branches generally have a single owner and are not used as the basis of other people's branches, even if they are technically public they are not public in the same sense that he is referring to. If you aren't going to be getting PRs on your branch you can consider it private and rebase all you like IMO.

edit to add: I generally prefer people not rebase after they've asked for a PR review just because the reference for comments will be lost. If they want to, maybe do it after all the reviews are approved.
I think many US americans despise the german approach to censorship of speech.
Here in germany, we have not freedom speech but freedom of opinion, which makes a very crucial distinction.

There are two kinds of statements, descriptive and normative ones.

Descriptive statements explain "as is" relationships like "this door is blue" or "2 + 2 = 5". It does not matter if the statement is false or not.

Normative statements cover subjective "should be" relationships. These are opinions like "it should be 3 years parental leave" and thus protected in german law as beeing unrestricted. This is, what is needed for free public discourse and not the right to claim falsehoods.

In germany, you cant freely say that "jews are all criminals" and "the holocaust never happend". Over here, you can get penalized for public statements like these because (a) they are not opinions but wrong descriptive statements and (b) explicitly noted as beeing illegal. Whereas in the Us all speech is free (insults and such excluded ofc).

The question is, where do you draw the line. To which point can wrong descriptive public statements still be tolerated and where might they harm society or individuals?
From the german perspective, this question is easy to answer and i am considering the storm of the capitol here :)
Frankly, this goes for most software, for me. When I update, I want security fixes, bugs fixed, and performance improvements. I generally don't want more feature cram, pointless UX re-designs, and deprecated functionality. Unfortunately, the way 99% of software companies do updates, you have to take the bad if you want the good. They don't do separate tracks, where people who just want under-the-hood fixes can get them.