skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The NPR article that your NYT article links to is more direct about this; I'll link to it and quote it here directly: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/951095644

> The poll gave people a sort of test to see if they could spot misinformation like the coronavirus was created in a lab or that voter fraud helped Joe Biden win the 2020 election.

> 40% of poll respondents believe one of the biggest conspiracy theories that's out there about the virus, that it was made in a lab in China. There is no evidence for this. And scientists say that the virus was transmitted to humans from another species. But I talked to people all over the country who responded to our poll and they still believe this.
It’s not. The purpose of interrogation is for the officer to gather evidence pointing to your guilt which will be presented at trial.

The trial is about figuring out the truth.
That is not addressing the same claim though. That was refuting the theory that people were spreading about it being genetically engineered to be infectious towards humans.
Why would avoiding heap allocation explain it? Why is anyone getting the address of a stack allocated variable in the first place since it already in scope? What are people returning pointers from functions at all?
> "natural" has nothing to do with risk to human life.

Not sure who you think you're disagreeing with? Nobody said otherwise if you read the thread.
Those are from decades ago
> So what's happening is this artificial grouping "college graduate" has massively expanded, whilst maintaining its average. That's a remarkable increase in wealth for the 40% "left out" three decades ago.

You are leaving the cost of education out of the equation, which has increased massively over the past 30 years. Most Americans graduate under a mountain of debt. If salaries have remained stagnant, for the 10% who would have been that amounts to a net lower salary, at least for the first X years of employment until the debt is paid off. For the other 40%, they might have had the option to go work in a steel mill or an auto plant with a high-school degree, and now they have to go to university, and acquire a massive debt to have a hope of competing for a job outside the service industry.

I'm not so convinced this is a net win for anyone involved.

> Let's be clear. The top 1% in 1950 lived more differently than the rest of society in 1950; more so than the top 1% do of society today. Today the top 1% live much more like the top 10% who live much more like the top 50%, and so on.

I'm also not so convinced this is the case. If you want to make the argument that I am living like Jeff Bezos because we can both have an LCD TV and and iPad, I think this is a very shallow argument.

While the cost of consumer goods has not risen significantly in the past few decades, the cost of the markers of a middle-class existence absolutely have. For instance, due to the increased cost of housing, the rate of home ownership among millennials is much lower than that of previous generations. Due to student loan debt and the high cost of healthcare, many young people who might have risked leaving a 9-to-5 job to start a business don't feel safe to do so.

Low cost consumer goods are nice, but the "American Dream" has always been about owning your own future, and being able climb into the next social class above your origins with hard work and ingenuity. Due to income inequality, the price of getting a seat at the table is what has increased out of the reach of almost everyone.
Since you need to do collision counting for security reasons anyway, it's trivial the check the backshift threshold while searching for your key. If you got too many tombstones in your chain, backshift.
Interesting, TIL: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/broken-window-fa....

This reminds me of another interesting point I recently saw raised regarding WWII. WWII is often credited with ending the Great Depression, but in reality was primarily helpful insofar as it made it politically viable for the US government to inject a massive stimulus into the economy far eclipsing the New Deal (and other governments to do likewise).

Tying that to the broken window fallacy, it seems the ultimate conclusion is that wartime economic policy without the actual war would have been a better way to achieve the desired result.

Of course the reality may not be so simple from a US perspective when we consider that all the broken windows were outside our borders, the national focus and urgency imposed by the war, and that removing the war from history would have dramatic unpredictable effects on our world today. Nevertheless, the idea seems convincing enough to me in abstract that starting a new war purely for perceived economic benefits would be an inefficient alternative to simple progressive economic policy on an equivalent scale.
It seems ideal if they did both of those things.

Publish and make recommendations for future research, exactly as this paper does.
From abstract: ” Female entrepreneurs received 9% more interested replies than males pitching identical projects and Asians received 6% more than Whites. Our results suggest that investors do not discriminate against female or Asian entrepreneurs when evaluating unsolicited pitch emails and that future research on investor biases should focus on networks and in-person interactions.”

In other words: The preferred results were not found (females are oppressed) so we ignore wrong-think results (males seem to be) and continue to hunt evidence for preferred results elsewhere.
Why should all genders and races be equal? Why won't they ever answer basic questions? They are all deluded liars - and this is plainly provable.
I never understand why classify people on their looks. Talking primarily about the US. There is such a wide spectrum of white people coming from different cultures. Also, you're considered Asian if you're a Chinese immigrant but also if you were born in the US to Chinese descent let's say. The main common thing between the two groups is looks. Same for Africans and African Americans who are both classified as blacks but have very different culture. Then there is the latino group who once the lose their accent and don't look so latino anymore they drift to the white group...
I’m not sure, but probably?
Being a woman in tech should not be controversial
I think you completely misunderstood what I wrote. I was asking the person I replied to why they needed to use new and delete.
Solving child hunger has nothing to do with an individual being worth 200B or not. If the government siezed all of Warren Buffet's money tomorrow would hungry children magically have food show up in front of them? The government just spent 1.9T, clearly they are not limited on spending by Buffet hoarding all the money. It is terrible that children grow up with food scarcity and it is terrible that children grow up with alcoholic parents, but taxing rich people isn't going to fix that.
They removed the caps on green card applications be country (I think, I don’t know exactly either)
"are there any unambiguously African-American names"

Something like DeShawn is almost certainly going to be a black person, but that would have socioeconomic perception issues as the text points out. It's an interesting point though. I had a look for data and couldn't really find much of use.
That is addressing the theory that the virus was manufactured in a lab, i.e with the intent to release. Not the idea that it was released accidentally. It is very different.
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Which state are you in that forces employers to buy insurance? I'd like to know the details why you can't just give people the $7800.

Also, this may be state specific, but another benefit for the employee of doing it this way, is their portion is from pre-tax money.
“The Tor Project is joining calls for Richard M. Stallman to be removed [...]"
I’ve played piano my entire life, but I’ve never learned to play sheet music, and have no interest in it. I play by ear and I mostly improvise. Just mentioning this because sometimes it seems that people think the way you learn to play an instrument is by learning to play a score. No! These things are about a different as learning to program and learning to type in a program from a magazine. Even the idea that you could grade how well someone plays seems antithetical to the joy of expressing yourself through music.
What is the fundamental problem it is trying to fix? Does it work? Can it be done better by other means?
To be fair, it is a net win for the overall education of our country. That's not something to just dismiss—but it doesn't have a great deal of easily-measurable economic value.
Even if one accepts the underlying assumption that bitcoin "store" the energy wasted on "mining" them, the theory espoused in the article simply does not hold water.

If a new energy source becomes available, so 10x as much energy as before gets put into aluminum smelting, you end up with 10x as much aluminum.

Bitcoin "mining" does not work that way. The computations are an artificial hurdle erected to hit a predetermined level of scarcity/difficulty. If 10x as much energy as before gets put into bitcoin "mining", difficulty levels will adjust, and you end up with exactly the same amount of bitcoin as before.
There is no intuitive way to know that make out has anything to do with kissing, and that was my point: each (idiomatic) phrasal verb is another unique word that must be memorized. They just happen to consist of two (or more!) other words.
"It’s interesting that they don’t entertain the possibility that the gap might be caused by something other than bias"

Imagine a medicinal study that would concentrate on the hypothesis that sinners get cholera as a divine retribution for their sinful lives, and would not even entertain other possible causes, such as ... dirty drinking water.

We would rightly locate such a study into, say, 1840, but definitely not 2021.

That is where authors of this study belong mentally. Into the science of the era when Lincoln was young.
My sister became fluent in less than a year I'd say (living in Hungary, Hungarian boyfriend, worked hard at it and super-good at languages generally). I don't know what her accent is like but she definitely has no problem being understood by Hungarians - she has since lived in Budapest for a decade and came top of her year in her Masters degree in translation there which involved lots of translation into Hungarian (including things like poetry!). So possible if difficult!
>In ever measure there is, life has been getting better for centuries.

My country has salary record from 16th century. It is in gold, so can be translated to buying parity. Shoe maker today and in 16th century had roughly the same salary and expenses for living, heating, food etc.

>Life expectancy

has improved mainly by reducing child deaths. For adults it has not improved significantly, for some groups life expectancy is declining.

> abolishment of oppression (slavery, debtor's prisons, serfdom, involuntary servitude, military conscription in many countries)

Slavery and serfdom is still a reality in many countries. Even western countries have debtors prison and involuntary servitude (child support).

>educational attainment

It just caused education inflation. Person has to now study longer to do the same job. For simple child minding you may need college degree in some countries...

> standard of living have all improved.

Standard of living in most western countries is declining.

> I've met lots of people with no money, and very few of them were poor people

Maybe change social group.
Arguably that's why the US has less severe racism/classism than much of the rest of the world (despite whatever pop narrative).
The most devastating of all this is the fact that the supply in Serbia is larger than demand: 2 million vaccinated people and nobody else wants to get one (original estimates were that there is around 6 million adults needing vaccination).

Hopefully that does not repeat elsewhere.
can you explain to me what it means to be politicized, and which claims you find questionable?
> Funny thing to see is that as a country becomes MORE developed, women tend to be LESS inclined to attend STEM studies.

Stem jobs are relatively shitty jobs... paid well, but work schedule can be relatively screwed up. If you add enterpreneurship to that, it makes the work-life balance even worse. Women on average prefer better work-life balance, and men prefer careers where they can get higher and earn more.

In some countries (less developed), the only way to lead a realatively OK life is to get a stem degree and work something related to that. In more developed countries, the job market (and social support) makes it possible to live OK even with a "worse" degree (ie. the ones where you can't get a job with in less developed countries).
> Nobody prevents Indian women to apply for H1B jobs in US

Not even perception in India?
A big part of that loading bar, outside of network ops and slow drives (and remember, today you don't have floppy drive noise to know if it works or got hung), is for things like sorting and getting file icons and other attributes right. This can take non-trivial amount of time.
Sorry what are cpa deals
The reason you don’t collect some data and then see what curves you can fit to it is exactly the problem you describe. “Eureka, a ninth-order polynomial function fits the data quite closely!”

You can’t look at your A/B test results every morning and stop the test the moment one measurement “shows significance”. That’s not how it works.
Health care IT is a very special kind of hell. Avoid at all costs
This insufferable screed fails to point out the one and only reason why a super-wealthy person would ‘donate’ their fortune.

Not that the alternatives are better for society. To some extent, celebration of these foundations is an admission by lawmakers that their spending choices are so corrupt and incompetent to be actually worse for society than if the money had just disappeared from the system.
The US government still requires polygraphs as a condition of having administrative access to classified systems. They're one data point of many, since you already have a clearance and were thoroughly investigated by other means, but this is an obvious area where it is acceptable to use shitty evidence. The cost of a false negative is extremely high, but the cost of a false positive is close to nothing. Any person who can't pass just has to get a different job.

Courts are the exact opposite situation and I hope the practice of using polygraphs in criminal investigations disappears at some point.

People tend to miss that the error rate in a diagnostic procedure is not enough to evaluate the usefulness of a procedure because you need the relative cost of different types of error as well. It's the same reason FAANGs can get away with shitty interview methods. Cost of false negatives is much higher than cost of false positives.
> I think a 100× increase in world marketed energy consumption due to PV is eminently plausible.

It's not plausible, and despite your verbosity you offered no hypothesis as to why energy needs might increase 100x in just 30 years.

It's not impossible, but there is no reason to expect that to happen - and you offer none, which I think is the minimum required to support your argument.

That demand will increase 100x simply because solar energy is cheaper is not an argument.
How much of this price increase is due to money laundering https://financialpost.com/real-estate/billions-in-dirty-cash...
> ...it being genetically engineered to be infectious towards humans

That's literally what a gain-of-function experiment is. These are done to study how viruses interact with humans so that we can deal with them better. There's nothing sinister about it, such experiments are happening all over the world and they did happen in Wuhan.
I disagree. The SourceForge UI is still a confusing mess compared to GitHub or GitLab.
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It's easy to be blinded and think a 30% crash is huge, but in reality it only amounts to rolling back the clock a few years.

If property wasn't affordable (by whatever definition you choose) a few years ago, then it still won't be.

The interplay of interest rates, QE, life extension, centralisation, and property value amount to generational warfare.
Window is also from Old Norse (meaning "wind-eye") which has replaced fenester in English.

Meanwhile in Swedish, the French origin "Fönster" is preferred.
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In Canada there is no 30 year fixed product. Most people float month to month. Since interest rates have been dropping since 2002 prices will go up. Australia is very similar.
It's either Mexico and Texas, or Méjico and Tejas. Someone might mix across languages, but that does not mean that there is actually a formal exception to the rule.
Presumably the camera is aimed at the assembly line, not at the individual member of staff.
>Most likely accidental if it was premeditated all out global bio-weapon war would happen.

No, because at the same time they'd simultaneously make it look accidental; with a dictatorial, authoritarian country like China they could keep the evidence that it was premedicated from coming to light _and_ they could count on their politically fractured victims reacting in such a way as to further their goals.

I notice that the matter of HCQ getting effectively shut down in the US due to the fraudulent Surgisphere paper and it _didn't raise any alarms at HN where someone asked WHY someone went through the trouble of planting a fake paper IN THE LANCET_.

It's been brought up here but noone notices the implications.

When did Hacker News become so damn intellectually incurious about these sorts of things?
I didn't mean pointers/access-types, I meant ordinary integer-type locals.
Site is down ;_;
If you’re curious about why they didn’t include black names:

> After long and thoughtful consideration, we discarded the idea of assigning
African-American names to our fictitious entrepreneurs. First, there has been a concern about the
ability to disentangle race and socioeconomic perception by using distinctly African-American names
(Fryer and Levitt (2004)). Second, and most importantly, African-American entrepreneurs are woefully
underrepresented in high-impact entrepreneurship (less than 1%, see Gompers and Wang (2017)). This poses a substantial challenge for our setup, because even names that are disproportionately likely to be African-American in the general population (such as “Martin Jackson”) may not be perceived as African-American by investors in this context. Studying discrimination against African-Americans and other underrepresented minorities in high-impact entrepreneurship remains an important problem.
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I think Myanmar should implement harsher gun control laws.
Just disable JS.
I was more addressing a common kind of a claim which analysis wealth without consider time/population differences. As if "college graduates" were a fixed group of people whose "wages have stagnated". They havent; the average is stable because the population has quintupled.

Whether eductional policy here makes any sense is a seperate issue. It clearly doesn't. This is a side effect of how extraordinarily effective capitalism is also.

People looked at the top 10% in the 70/80s and saw "they had degrees" and imagined that they could be in the top 10% if they got them too.

This turned out to be "true" only if you mean the actual wealth of a 10%-er in the 70s/80s. Today, the top 10% have much different characteristics.

My point here is that there is also another force at work creating this apparent "inequality panic" which is status envy.

People thought that by imitating a 1%-er of 1970s they'd be a 1%-er today. Alas, no.

You were going to be a bottom 40%-er, now you're a top 20%-er, well done. But you ain't getting that 1% you think you're owed.

All this agit-prop is intra-elite warfare. People who've risen to the top 20% with their BScs, wondering where their mansions are.
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I read it more as "it's unhealthy when, in the absence of government redistribution, some people are starving on the streets while others are making more money than God."

Which I would think is an even bigger indictment of what we've got now, since we already have a moderate amount of government redistribution, but still have people starving in the streets and others making more money than God.
>> nothing is really as it seems when you peel back the veneer

Technically true, but I think this misses my point. Big businesses are complicated. Clever business people often compliment burger cooking businesses with franchising, real estate investing or crypto to make better businesses.

I'm not saying that a profitable business model for a restaurant is trivial. It's not. What I'm saying is that restaurants have a default mode. Software generally doesn't. There are software business that operate mostly by selling software on (eg) the Apple App store. That is more exception than rule though.

You're right that software business models aren't novel. Sandwich-4-cash has never been the only business model, even if you do sell sandwiches. That said, "Restaurant" is still a bad model for understanding a software business.

A lot of the objections of OS specifically have very little relevance to most software "business models."

Look... Apple refused to sell OSX and it's hard to say that was a bad choice considering how things proceeded. IDK if Apple ever considered open sourcing it, but either way... "How do you sell iphones when iOS is free?" is a hyperbolic question. You can sell iphones whether or not iOS is OSS. That doesn't mean it's a good or bad business choice. It just means it's a possible, non absurd business choice.
But if the client has a specific requirement, nobody else will have coded the same thing.

Maybe in some cases you can link together some open source projects and pretend you did a lot of work.
I used Ada (first Ada95, later Ada2005) while working on the GPS program, before leaving aerospace and taking on work using Java.

I found the Java type system to be horrendous in comparison. Much better employment potential, though...
the left - woke (Marxism) is our new religion

the right - the old religion is better than being Marxist
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"troops being moved through Canada like cattle in railway cars"

Interestingly, Austrian-Hungarian soldiers were also transported to the front in cattle cars (8 Pferde oder 48 Mann = 8 horses or 48 men in a car) and were very jealous of the Germans whose military bureaucracy tried to provide normal passenger railway cars to their troops if possible. The difference was very obvious in the places where the two armies fought side by side, such as Galicia.
I think a lot of the confusion, based on the responses to my comment, is separating the idea that the virus was CREATED in a lab from it being accidentally released from the lab. The former implies intent and carries a lot of secondary implications about bioweapons and political maneuverings. It is a hefty claim.

The latter is simpler—it is reasonable to think a lab that maintains and studies viruses similar to Covid-19 accidentally allowed one to be released. It does not imply an intent to misuse the virus.

I have not watched the video, I’m sorry. I’ll try and get to it later.
Always mean to try a Assimil course. Which is a similar idea I believe of reading along to an audio books.
Yup. A 70% crash will be huge, this is nothing.
My understanding is that for Intel cpus Intel compiler is substantially better than gcc.
> And we DEFINITELY do not do forced sterilization rofl.

No? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_Board_of_North_Caro... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study