skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> General rule of thumb is the deeper and more topical you go on wikipedia, the more alert your BS detector needs to be.

My perception is that the more popular and controversial topics are more likely to attract editors, but also BS. The Mohammad Ali page may attract plenty of BS, intentional or unwitting (lots of people have ideas about Ali); the page on the 1928 Olympic boxing champion probably doesn't attract much of either.

> the more alert your BS detector needs to be

Also, I think the "BS detector" is the most powerful mechanism for spreading mis- and disinformation. People who think they have one are the most prone to being fooled, and I think research shows that. Beyond obvious flaws, unless you already know the correct and complete information (omissions can be just as BS as outright errors), you won't be able to spot errors or omissions.

Think of it this way: Using your BS detector, could you edit your own writing to fool someone else? I think I could easily pass most people's 'BS detectors'. Imagine what someone paid to write BS can do - or just look at the research about massive troll farms and disinformation campaigns.

Finally, the fact is that BS spreads at a magnitude unimagined in human history. Evidently, the BS detectors aren't helping. And if you think you are smarter than everyone else, you are the most vulnerable (also demonstrated by research).

> it's once of the best sources we have today.

IMHO Encyclopedia Britannica is always better where it has coverage (i.e., because I can trust it), as is Google Scholar, authoritative websites by experts, and better journalism. If I want to know about the deer tick, I use a website such as Tree of Life (tolweb.org).
Randburg Blocked Drain
I suspect large customers are going to AMD for a quote, and then taking the quote straight to Intel for them to beat. No transition headache and price benefits with that approach.

But those are on-prem customers, what about cloud customers? In the SOA world, surely greenfield stuff won't be using any of that proprietary Intel software.
25 years ago it wasn't C++11, but C with classes. Less TMP noise, small compilation units instead of the source code of entire libraries being #include'd.
The problem the reader originally submitted clearly implied both those things, at least clearly enough for Marylin

> and the host, who knows what’s behind the doors, opens another door ... which has a goat

The explanation Marylin originally wrote makes the second assumption explicitly clear to avoid any possibility of confusion

> Suppose there are a million doors, and you pick door #1. Then the host, who knows what’s behind the doors and will always avoid the one with the prize, opens them all except door #777,777. You’d switch to that door pretty fast, wouldn’t you?

People still wrote in claiming she was wrong.

> Since you seem to enjoy coming straight to the point, I’ll do the same. You blew it! Let me explain. If one door is shown to be a loser, that information changes the probability of either remaining choice, neither of which has any reason to be more likely, to 1/2. As a professional mathematician, I’m very concerned with the general public’s lack of mathematical skills. Please help by confessing your error and in the future being more careful.

She then explained the solution a second time with a table clearly illustrating the assumptions and the odds.

People continued to write in claiming she was wrong.

> I’m receiving thousands of letters, nearly all insisting that I’m wrong

> 92% are against my answer, and and of the letters from universities, 65% are against my answer.

Lack of clarity did not generate all the letters.

I run a small website with logic puzzles. I get thousands of emails. Some tell me the problem is misleading. Some tell me the answer is wrong.

The one thing I have learned is that once someone's mind is made up, it will never change.

The other thing I have learned, is that a good problem is succinct.

The smartest people in the room will ask clarifying questions to test out their assumptions before they even attempt an answer.
True, but would a smart manipulator risk doing anymore than what it takes to push this to the #2 spot? (current rank at the time of this comment)
Only if the victim is 100% sure that the ransomware gained entry to the system recently and by a known security failure, eg you click on a phishing link and then have a problem immediately afterwards. If there's any reason to believe that it could have been placed earlier and then the attacker waited a while to set it off, it means your backups are probably compromised too.

Imagine you restore your backups (taking a whole weekend) but it turns out the ransomware is some kind of kernel-level hack that also patches ls to lie to you about file being there when they aren't (as an over-simplified example). Once you realize this you can switch to another tool and pinpoint where things are going wrong, but now restoration takes twice as long as before plus the farther back you go the more commercially valuable data you lose.

You don't even need to compromise the backup software, as long as it looks like you might have done so.
I completely agree. Did not see it was their prosumer brand. Makes more sense when one takes it into account.
Computers, computer languages
Remember that long lines aren't just a problem for display.

Longer lines might indicate that the code is either nested too deep, likely too complicated. Or poorly named withUnreadableRidicouslyLongWeirdWhatsGoingOnHereName.

It's also problematic if the line ends up doing too much, ie. lots of chained method, since VCS track changes per line.

While editors do a good job at word wrapping, they're not always excellent. Humans may do a better job.

Note that the kennels style guide isn't fixed at 80 characters but strongly preferred.

"Coding style is all about readability and maintainability using commonly available tools.

The limit on the length of lines is 80 columns and this is a strongly preferred limit.

Statements longer than 80 columns will be broken into sensible chunks, unless exceeding 80 columns significantly increases readability and does not hide information. Descendants are always substantially shorter than the parent and are placed substantially to the right. The same applies to function headers with a long argument list. However, never break user-visible strings such as printk messages, because that breaks the ability to grep for them."
Which was the whole point of their satellite launch business and of Starlink, as outlined by Elon Musk years before SpaceX first landed a rocket.

This is what angers me about articles like this. Yes, SpaceX attracted lots of interest because of its ambitious mission statement. No, that mission statement wasn't a bunch of empty statements like it typically is for most businesses. SpaceX is consistently following the path it outlined, the path from reusability, through launch business, pouring all the money into R&D for the ultimate goal of opening up access to Mars. I would've thought that after so many years, the skeptics would figure out the company is serious about it.
> Elsewhere, Renault is no longer putting an oversized digital screen behind the steering wheel of certain models

At least there is one benefit of the chip shortage...
I don’t think there’s any need for astroturfing allegations given the low vote count and the fact that HN is predisposed to this type of article headline.
They are available online, not just in print. In fact, I think they've stopped printing them ?

Online: https://britannica.com
Anybody here know if this double copy technique is related to the cobordism property found in Donaldson's Theory [1]. From wiki:

> Donaldson was able to show that in specific circumstances (when the intersection form is definite) the moduli space of ASD instantons on a smooth, compact, oriented, simply-connected four-manifold X gives a cobordism between a copy of the manifold itself, and a disjoint union of copies of the complex projective plane CP^2.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang%E2%80%93Mills_equations#D...
Just look at the prices for the Ryzen lineup. They've gone like 100% up in the last year because AMD can't meet demand.
Online Cheating Charges Upend Dartmouth Medical School
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/09/technology/dartmouth-geisel-medical-cheating.html

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QsKpHnlm386AP7fUs-Uq8AcKP5vcKW-K/view

In particular, I did not find pages 21-22 by the "UCLA Statistician" convincing
Yeah, I was grumpy. I took a nap and came back 6 hours later and went "that wasn't fair, I should remove that last line"... But the option to edit was gone.
Your accent exhibits the "cot-caught" merger, then. Those are two different sounds in most accents.
112 million in 2020.

So... not that far off?
I don't regret a single cent of it.

Nope, I don't do anything specialized, other than running some virtual machines while debugging and CI/CD pipelines. I've never exceeded 24 Gb of RAM in usage. At some point, I would like to run an small cloud infraestructure on this thing.
Just because its a feature you don't use does not mean its a feature others don't use. I see this all the time in programming IDEs where I don't know about or like the function of a feature but the person next to me swears by it and uses it daily.
I would say so. Post went from front page down to last position.

https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=17

More abuse of the flagging system
I apologize, I may have commented a little rashly. I just double checked and it is actually an Inspiron 600m (which I believe is even more vintage than the 5100?)

It wasn't originally in my plans for this weekend, but your comment got me concerned I may have misremembered other details. I just tried installing (32 bit) 5.14 off a USB stick and it did, indeed, work just fine. Sorry you had trouble with your config :(
I think you're mistaken about how dealerships and car sales are structured, at least in places like the UK and the US. Maybe it's different where you are?

They get a proportion of the sale price, and they get paid a referral fee for you opening a loan, and then on top of that they can offer extras that you probably don't need like fabric protection products.

> Nobody is coming out with less money on a loan purchase vs. cash, except the buyer.

The dealer is paid to get you to get a loan. If they don't get the loan, they get less money. My understanding is that their referral fee is somewhat weak about how much the loan actually has to be, so they just care that you take it.

It's worth it to them to discount the price by less than their loan referral fee, in order to get the loan referral fee.

> And if you had walked out the door they would have run after you to take the cash deal AND given you the discount.

No they'd just have sold to someone willing to pay their price.

There's a car supply shortage... that's the whole point of the article... did you miss that? If you want to buy a new car at the moment and you go in haggling them on a mid to high end spec car they'll just tell you to fuck off and you won't get the car you want.
> A fair question to ask is whether we should have platforms like slack and teams. Why are we rebuilding a tiling OS inside of a webpage, and then wrapping that webpage in an electron container, and then complaining that it gobbles up RAM like crazy?

I agree with you. I think this is exactly the issue.

I get that Teams and the chat apps of old are not the same category, but I think it's a fair question to ask whether this new category is relevant. MS Outlook already had a calendar which, somehow, loaded much quicker than the one in Teams. Even the calendar in Outlook web loads so much quicker than Teams it's not even funny.

I also understand that there are much more functions in Teams (which people may or may not use), but those are all supported by the backend servers at Microsoft, they don't run locally. Teams is basically a web-browser. So I'm not sure that this functionality is an excuse for what are local UI issues.

When I type in the message box, I input text. Maybe some rich text or something, but still, nothing that Word 97 couldn't have handled while being blazing fast on a 486 (aside maybe from emojis, but they can't possibly be the reason why everything is so slow). The same can be said about the lagging animations in the contact list. These all happen locally, with nothing to ask from a complex web service or having to implement some complex function.
Show HN: Barf the robust file transfer CLI
I'm not sure what your anecdotes have to do with the matter being discussed. Regardless of the fact if you support the war, the truth remains that the war is happening between Ukraine and Russia. For Russian wikipedia to conceal that fact is censorship.
Any favorites you've picked out from some of the new or lesser known languages?
I have tried this dozens of times in the last year, with an empty cookie jar. Every time it demands I verify a phone number.
The pain of aggregations in MongoDB Compass
You misunderstood me I said the --diversity-- was large not the amounts. Also I was talking about screening scale, not production scale (I said develop).
Seems to be in stock at least three places[1] here in Norway, at a relatively reasonable price given the $799 price from AMD.

But yeah, of those that have it in stock there's like 1-5 units at each place, and those out of stock don't have a firm date on next delivery...

[1]: https://prisguiden.no/produkt/amd-ryzen-9-5950x-469899
Some amount of test prep is surely helpful in terms of understanding the test format and strategies, but it does seem (almost?) obvious that the SAT is actually measuring something other than test prep.

NB: SMPY qualifications for at least the early cohorts of the study are “before 13” (so, 12 or younger).
Ask HN: How to de-dupe the HN front page
I've been using the HN client I wrote [0] for a couple of years now. It uses the official HN API. But I noticed that I get many duplicates every time I read it.

What's the best way to reduce duplicates? I always try to check recent posts before I post. Obviously if it has the same URL, it's a duplicate but it's not always that simple. Sometimes an article, like Elon Musk having Asperger's, is covered on many different sites and will appear 5 or 10 times.

(And yes, this is something that HN itself should try to prevent, but that's unlikely to happen anytime soon.)

[0] https://gabrielsroka.github.io/hn.html?small
Didn't fit in the HN title length limit.
I need more emotional stability (inverse of neuroticism) and less conscientiousness.

Fine-tune your agreeableness to suit income or popularity, as needed.

I wonder what a rich, intelligent artist's traits look like. :)
Are these personality types really scientifically grounded?

I once was sort of compelled to take a Myers-Briggs test and I found it utterly flawed. So much of one’s personality depends on the contact and environment, yet Myers-Briggs wants to force you into one type.

Making things way too simple. But maybe simple is what was sought here rather than really resolving personality.
Yes, it was like this here back when WhatsApp was new too. Not anymore though, so the point stands: around here young people see these apps as being for old people. Just today I read that they also see emojis as something grandmothers use. Matches my experience as everyone I know younger than me will at most use "(:" and not any emojis (yes, they are upsidedown too). I know many with no smartphone (old Sony Ericssons are getting expensive!).

I get the feeling from your comment that you are proud of the fact many in India use these awful apps. It's not something to be proud of. You are paying with your privacy and in India that can cause you harm a lot easier than in Denmark.
I think it is called bullwhip effect:
The bullwhip effect is a distribution channel phenomenon in which demand forecasts yield supply chain inefficiencies. It refers to increasing swings in inventory in response to shifts in consumer demand as one moves further up the supply chain.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect
The OCaml Manual has a good tutorial: https://ocaml.org/releases/4.12/htmlman/coreexamples.html

Note that ;; is only required in the REPL (i.e. the 'toplevel'), not in source code.
The challenge is to be able to understand how a particular post would appear to various other people who are unlike yourself. So I think you should answer that question yourself. Expend some effort or imagination, or else there’s no point.
IQ is good if it doesn't exceed other people's by more than about 2 std devs, then people resent you.

(IQ is a fuzzy, poorly-measured "quality" that doesn't have a whole lot of meaning other than some interpretation of taking a particular test.)
Knew a soldier who'd deployed to Iraq. Had stories about the things seen on patrol through night vision goggles.
There is formal writing, informal writing.

Words that are not commonly used in spoken English may often be mispronounced. Common words are subject to drift.

Then there are regional variations in the US. But then also people move from one region to another. And of course different dialects may coexist.
This comes as a surprise to no one.
I'd also be curious about the auto grouping.

I'm currently using Auto Tab Discard, which has a "Permanently delete (remove) old discarded tabs if they are inactive for (in hours)" and I'm manually grouping things with Panorama View. I don't know if it's built in to Firefox or one of the addons, but I've noticed it will already suggest an existing tab when I type the name/site in to the address bar.
This is one of many problems with manufacturing products in the western world. Not only is shipping usually much cheaper ~than~ from China (and you have to get the parts from east Asia anyway, most of the time), you also need to deal with a whole host of certifications, export restrictions and generally convoluted bureaucracy. It sometimes seems that the rules are designed to scare off hardware (and other) startups. Basing yourself in China you can manufacture cheaper, sidestep most of these issues and basically chuck uncertified products with shoddy and falsely filled customs labels at customers everywhere. If we actually want electronics manufacturing to come back, we'll have to sort those problems out, small enterprises matter too, not just the ones wealthy enough to have this sorted out by sheer brute force.
Another article that neglects to mention that we had already decided to quit nuclear in 2002. But the corrupt government we had in 2010 reverted that.

I'd also like to know what emissions spiked, considering our nuclear policies ultimately didn't change in 2010/2011.
Slightly tangential but does anyone else prefer not to screenshot but to just copy-paste the text?

I have a blind friend and he pointed out the accessibility issues to me years ago, around the time when taking a screenshot of a tweet became a thing. But it seems like a problem for all of us.

While widely used as a verification, they're quite easily faked. And it often arises when software tries to prevent copy-paste. Which seems to have emerged as a false security tool. And then we have attempts to prevent screenshots. All trivially circumvented with a hack. False security there. In the worst case, well you can take a picture of the screen. That also seems far too common. And then OCR it, possibly fully automatically, though few seem to think that far ahead.

Shouldn't it be searchable if you're going to archive or publish it? There is no real security gained by trying to block that. It seems like the screenshot has emerged as an anti-pattern from attempts to provide a false sense of security. But there is no real security, just frustration, in there being no easy way to copy-paste, log, or export data in a more sensible format.
Im doubling down on Apple sucks
I understand that is seriously starting to hurt my karma rating here,

But i said a couple weeks ago apple is seriously failing right now compared to linux, and I want to ask why is that?

The proof i have now is the fact that i can take two screenshot of thing on a mac, and on linux when you use the most popular "file explorer" not only are they being like "hell yeah were going to support wayland" but they are also like hell yeah were going to provide you your "recent" list in the correct order.

I just accidentally posted the 1/2 screen shots that only contained half of the joke i was trying to convey.

In other words Mac utterly embarrassed me just now, and demanded a correction of my behavior. Or a "double commitment" of what i intended.

In other words, why the fuck is my recent folder not the most recentized?
Apparently, we have very different political positions. But that should not be relevant. Wikipedia’s declared goal is not about politics. It’s about preserving knowledge about notable enough subjects.

Russians have started the war, and have been fighting the war from the very beginning in March 2012. That’s not a controversial theory, but a well-established fact with verifiable references all over the internets.

Yet Russian version of Wikipedia seems unaware.
I agree, my actual point was to point out the clear dislike of Google here. I only used to astroturfing comment as a mode of comparison, not to actually suggest it was the reason. But I agree, astroturfing allegations are not productive.
June 2020 article, seriously?
Science fiction stories shorter than novels
In the age of ubiquitous laptops and phones, I have a feeling that these graphing calculator sole market are exam-takers that are forbidden to bring phone and laptop in.

Who else would use it instead of smartphone app?
I found myself nodding along with your comment, having worked in a massive company myself.

A company the size of Google is simply not a single entity, so it isn’t surprising for one division to make a “private mode” that another division doesn’t respect.

But isn’t that an awfully big loophole for the corporate leadership? “Well, we’re doing so many things that our left hand can’t possibly know what the right hand is doing.” When really, the teams themselves know exactly what the score is, even if they didn’t hear it from the CEO. It’s plausible deniability by being too big to understand.

And it isn’t unreasonable for a consumer to believe that when “Google” offers them a private mode that Google products might become more private in some way.
They are likely hiring though
That sounds exactly like him.

I'm not sure if this is obvious from the gnuplot.info web page - not only is gnuplot not gnu (new), it is also not GNU (gnu project)

"Despite its name, this software is not part of the GNU Project." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnuplot
> some consumers don't understand the separation between Chrome the browser and Google the website

Well... I'd say that Google isn't doing too much to put separation in between. When I write in "google" in Chrome, those suggestions that come up... Are they from Chrome or from Google the website?
Threads was terrific. Threads needs to he remade.
Articles like this answer the question, "what if 1920s eugenicists got hold of 1980s magazine relationship tests?"

The scary thing is a lot of commercial "people analytics" systems marketed to HR departments, lenders, and government agencies are little more than dressed up relationship tests from 1980s magazines.

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/talks/MIT-STS-AI-snake...