skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there's a lot of overlap between young earth creationists and climate change "skeptics"

Most YECs are "climate change skeptics", but only a minority of "climate change skeptics" are YECs. Indeed, many of the leaders of the "climate change sceptic" movement, even if they might be occasionally willing to share a stage with YECs, do not endorse YECism themselves – for example, Lord Monckton or Bjørn Lomborg. I think that's especially true outside of the US – European conservatives are far more likely to take "climate change scepticism" seriously than to take YECism seriously.

YECism is much more popular in the US than elsewhere because of the distinctive US religious history which produced an emphasis on hyper-literal interpretations of the Bible. Catholics, Orthodox, and the more traditional Protestants (Anglicans, Lutherans, Reformed) never had the same emphasis, because they had the historical memory to know that YECism had been considered in the first few centuries of Christianity and judged to be optional (see St Augustine's 5th century book The Literal Meaning of Genesis). Many Americans forgot that history, Europeans remembered it, which is why some European conservatives will believe in "climate change scepticism" but very few of them have time for YECism.

> the same is true for flat earthers and other conspiracy groups

The vast majority of conspiracy theorists don't want to have anything to do with "flat earthism". People who seriously believe in "flat earthism" are a minuscule (and irrelevant) minority.

> When you add the two party system super groups to the venn diagram you'll see most of these grouped to a specific side, which indicates a strong degree of ideological bias is at play.

I'm not an American, I come from a country (Australia) with a two-party system but a weaker one than America's. But I don't think any one side of politics has a monopoly on conspiracy theories. Historically, certain kinds of conspiracy theories have been popular on the left as well – such as conspiracy theories about the CIA or Mossad. (Some CIA or Mossad conspiracy theories are probably true, but a lot of them surely aren't.) Here in Australia, traditional left-wing conspiracy theories include that the 1954 Petrov affair was a setup by Australian intelligence agencies, and that Australia's 1975 constitutional crisis was secretly engineered by London and Washington.

My anecdotal experience is that the majority of people who believe in UFO conspiracy theories are left-leaning. And people who believe in UFO conspiracy theories are often inclined to believe lots of other conspiracy theories too.
Google, Facebook and Twitter could disappear tomorrow and there really wouldn't be much loss to society, in fact we'd likely benefit from their disappearance. And yet they rake in huge amounts of $$ while people engaged in things you mention like eldercare and childcare make a pittance.
I'm not sure there's any crisply definable bright line separating them. Generally embrace/extend strategies do involve trying to make extensions that some people will consider valuable.
Losing all identity is the final fate of anything that becomes corporate.
'Sure, but at what point does a genuine apology look identical to one that is "fake"., and at what point will people just be unhappy with any response they give?'

It's about what they're apologising for. For instance, if (hypothetically) they stole everyone's money and spent it all on hookers and blow, then their apology for dropping web access is completely besides the point.

The main problem IMO with fake apologies is that they're a shitty attempt at pretending to be reasonable to those who aren't aware of the situation (and by extension, portraying people who are still mad and ignore the 'apology' as being unreasonable), without actually acknowledging the real problem or committing to fixing it.

AFAICT Simple is giving a genuine apology, btw, I'm just speaking generally here.
Sure, but like I said, you need to go viral multiple times for it to matter. Going viral for a single piece of content is just a flash in the pan.

It's way harder to be a "content creator" than people think.
The banner might be gone, but the first row under the carousel contains a big box with an 'Amazon Warning' which leads directly to this blog post.
Here's one: https://www.contagionlive.com/view/immune-response-from-mrna...
Yes yes, we know that, I'm not sayign someone took it away, I'm not an idiot. I'm saying it's a bad reason to take it away, period, whether I bought the system or not.
> People say that part of Ulbricht’s shitty opsec was that he left his laptop unlocked, but think of this - the FBI was already ready to grab his laptop the very moment he left it alone. Clearly, they knew he was the criminal well beforehand, and were just lying in wait for him to slip up just one single time.

Is there another laptop of his that they physically accessed somehow prior to distracting and arresting him? (I don't understand how someone could think from that story that the laptop seizure played any part in initially identifying him, since it was done by FBI agents in the course of arresting him pursuant to a warrant.)
The real reason they don't want their thermometers sold on amazon is because they are merely official US distributors of the Thermapen which is made by a British company, ETI.

https://thermometer.co.uk/99-thermapen-thermometers

You can buy them from European distributors in bulk for less than MSRP and sell them for the same price as thermoworks on amazon and still make a profit. The only reason they were going for $179 previously is because thermoworks was buying the thermometers from sellers and reporting them as counterfeit. Thus making it difficult for sellers to sell them which keeps supply low.

They have fraudulently filed copyright removals and counterfeit accusations on amazon multiple times for Thermapen listings that don't use the "thermoworks" name.

You can see that thermoworks does not own the Thermapen trademark.

https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4803:hv...

Edit: apparently, you can't link to a trademark search directly, so you would need to go to the basic search and enter"Thermapen".

https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=engli...
DHS launches warning system to find domestic terrorism threats on social media
>But Windows 10 does run on ARM as long as you're willing to use "modern" apps only. I suppose this won't be a machine developers will be excited by, as excited as some of us want to be.

Windows 10 for ARM have always had x86 emulation and they've recently extended it with x64 support: https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2020/12/10/introdu...
> Is it not a bigger problem that the majority of students cannot handle the math and science that currently exists

No, its the same problem; while most of the attention here is focussed on “equity” mentions because everyone wants to fight the culture war, one of the key underpinnings of the reform is research showing that the status quo tracked approach adversely impact learning for students across the various tracks.

> You need to hit calculus senior year or getting into STEM is gonna suck hard.

The new plan is designed to enable students who choose to to hit Calculus senior year, as well as abandoning tracking and providing more math options in the last two years of high school; bt abandoning tracking which effectively locks people out of reach calculus on High School before they start, it should make it more, not less, possible for people to reach that goal, if it fits their goals.
Who cares if you don't mind it?

The question why everyone ought to be forced to follow some made up rules.
Best advice for cv writing: if you're not modifying your cv and cover letter for every job ad, you're doing it wrong.

Generic, and vague links to my job ad are the worst cvs to read.

I don't know how you can help me. Why does your three years at telecorp relate to my e-commerce business?
I take it Amazon does a 360 style review and eliminates the lowest “performing” 10-20% of employees automatically each review cycle?

These types of environments breed hostile and manipulative work environments, it may get short-term results, but long-term it creates horrible company cultures.
Will this be a SaaS offering?
I was a simple customer since before the BBVA acquisition, but once I heard that they were shutting down the main service I moved everything over to a cash reserve account in betterment, which I already had for investing. Since then I've opened an m1 finance account which had a 1% interest rate and 1% cash back if you use their debit card. (I tend to only use credit cards since the rewards are better)

Closed my account a few weeks ago. sad to see simple go, it was refreshingly easy and just worked, had great features and was something I never thought about since it just worked.
It’s everyone’s dime and it’s there for everyone too. It’s us, together, as a society. It’s how we watch out for each other.
The pepsi universe and magnetic fields parts are utter bs but there's some stuff in there that I feel matters, the shelf angles and golden ratio basis.

Rebranding and changing such an iconic logo would go all the way to the top, quite doubt such BS would fly with execs. I'm not a designer and I don't work at pepsi so who knows though.

This seems to have been created by a design company Arnell group for Pepsi. I wonder how much Pepsi paid them
If Google disappeared tomorrow, I would think the biggest immediate effect would be people scrambling to figure out what to do about their lost email. The other two probably aren't very important, but that would hurt; Google has some pretty dangerous leverage.
How would you maintain the gas cout? Per instruction or per basic block?
The original IBM PC standard for a double sided 5.25 disk had a formatted (FAT12???) capacity of 360KB. By around 1987 this was replaced by the 1.2MB standard, and by 1992 or so the 3.5" floppy was the preferred format. For a long time any reasonably specced x86 clone desktop PC would come with both a 5.25 1.2MB and 3.5 1.44MB drive mounted in it.
Rule #2 - Once you get an interview, realize and lean in...you're interviewing them as much as they're interviewing you. It's a date. Be thorough. Your future, career, health and satisfaction might depend on it.
Sure but they are still made of amino acids and presumably could be translated from some sequence of mRNA. You might need to modify it slightly to provoke the alternate folding while still maintaining the essential infectious/auto-catalyzing structure.
I take the approach of how big a deal it is if I get a counterfeit. If not a big deal and/or it’s likely all coming from the same Chinese factory anyways I just go through Amazon. If I want to maximize the chance that I get the real deal I try to get as close to the source as possible
Thermapen is fantastic - it really reads in a second or two. For years I was resigned to the fact that "fast read" thermometers take nearly 10 seconds and fall apart, after buying a bunch from Amazon. I've had the same experience with other kinds of things. For many categories, Amazon simply does not sell high quality products - at all. You have to find the brands using your own research (good luck getting past the top-10-of-2021 hell hole), then buy directly from them.

My impression is that it used to be that it was only this hard to discover sources for obscenely high end products. Now it's the case for anything that isn't ultra-cheap garbage.
Absolutely, direct or trusted retailers only now. I don't trust Amazon for any purchase anymore. I got tired of putting in so much effort to researching products and still feeling like I was rolling the dice.

The video streaming service is the only thing keeping my Prime subscription active, and I'm hoping to drop it before the renewal date in July this year.
I was watching this video: https://youtu.be/i7yigpPSu_o

And he was arguing that the plaid 0-60 time of 1.99 seconds had an asterisk: with 1-foot rollout

Rollout is when you put your car tires between the two light beams at the drag strip. When the lights change, and the car starts moving and the front tire clears the first line that is the 1-foot rollout location.

What I found interesting

@ 1 foot a tesla will be going 5-6 miles per hour

@ ~100 feet it will hit 60 mph

@ 550 feet... a P100D can probably be going pretty fast.
Wow! Hackernews always delivers the real goods!
The search says it expired.. but nevertheless this is pretty bold.
I clicked into his Twitter account. He currently has 1477 followers, so that gives some context. He probably usually doesn't see much traction with his tweets and for him this was a huge spike in activity.

That kind of immense social attention, even for something as minor as a tweet, can really get to some people. And they can wonder how to replicate, where they went right -- or wrong -- etc.

For people who have a lot more followers than that, they might not feel so derailed by a tweet going viral in a big way like that.
Sure those are two of the three true outcomes that the pitcher and hitter have the highest degree of individual control over, so how are you distinguishing that the K-rate is the issue compared to the HR%, which as you noted, is also down? From my POV the hitters optimizing for launch angle (long fly balls instead of lower-trajectory line drives) is just the other side of the equation from pitchers throwing hard and going for high K-rate.
Something like that is also possible with F# https://twitter.com/zaid_ajaj/status/1365124291965157380
The Laser Power Record Has Been Broken
The GNKSA was the real deal. It was for Usenet but a lot of it applies to email too.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160417105503/http://www.gnksa....
Voyager 1 hears the hush of interstellar plasma
Good call out, I didn't notice that.
There are other stores that specialize in particular items.

Jetpens for stationary. Technical books can be bought directly from the publishers. Microcenter for computer parts. Uline and Office Depot for office items.

Amazon has benefits from big brands who can police their stuff better than small brands. But smaller brands all seem to be complaining about Amazon these days, so I do try to buy direct I'd possible.
Is this meant to compete with MathCAD and MapleFlow?
Not true for Subaru, mine emergency brakes with objects ahead at any speed
A full scan rarely happens on BQ because of the nature of the columnar store. Try some public dataset like HN archive, and see how a query actually costs. You'll need very advanced (or stupid) query to read 100GB at once on BQ.
I shop online...
That's a pretty interesting take on the subject for me. I've never used Twitter much myself. Not quite, but pretty close to not at all. I love a good quip but that's not something I'd spend a lot of time looking for or working on trying to conceive and that's about all it's good for.

I can see how it'd be useful for short announcements with links to details but HN is a lot better than Twitter for that (for me).

But more to the point, the notion of the false sense of achievement that getting "retweets" and "views" and "comments" made it feel like "junk food" to me, with an added dash of fandom, which I also can't do. I am not a "fan" and don't want or need fans.

Twitter offers the chance for anyone to be "famous". That's it's most appealing feature. I learned early on that anonymity is highly underrated in our culture.

Those attributes of the platform seem to be exactly what the author experienced so it's interesting to read about how they got there.
> glaring counterexample to your hypothesis is Brazil (Manuas) where prior infections (as high as 60%) didn't stop the P1 variant from ripping through

This says nothing about the strength of a previous infection. It very plausibly just says that R > 1.7, ie it is infecting the remaining 40%.
It could also be the carpets. The carpets suck. They have good velcro to stick to the floor, but there's a terrible glue that keeps the carpet attached to the velcro and it softens and unsticks in the heat.

If you have those carpets, I would recommend sewing the velcro patch to the carpet so it doesn't come loose.
There's a free version of windows 10. The only difference from paid version is that you can't change the wallpaper.
Yeah, recently I bought a knife from bladehq because I was worried about getting a knockoff off Amazon.

Two weeks later I got an email from bladehq that they had been exploited and my credit card was now known to hackers.

So, fucked if you do, fucked if you don’t.
For sure, a lot of rural people are much closer to and have actual living practical knowledge of farming and hunting. However, I wonder if there are really enough resources to support them. Two concerns, short term and long term.

Short term, depending on the season, it could be over a year before sustainable crops can be grown to eat. Best case, it happens in early spring, and everyone can go immediately till and plant as many acres as possible, presuming they have the seeds. And the stored fuel and sufficient labor to prepare the extra ground, fell trees and turn them to fields, etc. Even then, what is the fastest-maturing crop, 10 weeks? A long few months to live on the scraps in your no-longer-working refrigerator. And if it happens too late in the growing season? yikes, but less bad for those in more temperate climates.

Hunting? If everyone even in small towns started hunting for food, including out of season, most food species would be hunted to local extinction in short order.

Longer term, is there really enough to sustain more than a small population? I recall one rule of thumb of 20+ acres/household just to have wood to heat with (an acre/year, 20 years to regrow). With little tech, we'd pretty quickly be back to 98% of the population doing primarily farming activities.

Cities? Sure, everyone would help each other, but what other things stop working when there is no electricity? Water, refrigeration, fuel pumps, heating systems. The populations of cities are so dependent on just-in-time or constant supplies, I have a hard time seeing how they survive in any numbers unless massive aid can be immediately mobilized and sustained, which would be very tough if all the cities are out of power at once...
Is closed-source proprietary software sustainable? Asking for Lotus 1-2-3, dBase, FoxPro, and OS/2
I thought you were joking about the price. But nope it’s actually a $100+ thermometer.

Like I get paying that much for lab or industrial use if it’s highly accurate/precise. But for cooking…nobody will taste the difference between 0.1 degrees. And I’m not even sure it’s that accurate. It looks like a 10$ thermometer and I doubt it’s much better than one for cooking.
It at least implies a certain lack of technical expertise on the part of organizations that send such HTML only emails. The same for when they put completely unformated garbage in the text part. If W3M can do a better job starting with their HTML email you have to ask yourself why they couldn't of done at least that instead of whatever they did.
I buy direct from the manufacturer whenever possible. When that's not possible, I go for a retailer with a somewhat "verified" supply chain. Walmart, etc. will do. Even Ebay is better because at least your purchase isn't coming from a comingled inventory.

This is coming from someone who used to buy from Amazon over everyone else because it was so darn convenient.

After seeing all the horror stories and having friends receive counterfeit or obviously defective, returned, and resold as new items; I just can't trust them anymore. Especially for things that go in or on my body. Or my pets for that matter.
It's not just glamour. There's an argument that teacher salaries are low because people find it more rewarding than a lot of other work.
Interesting, what kind of phrasing do you look for in newspaper articles? I can't think of many times an article has made me think, this is a big opportunity, but I probably need to read between the lines more to get to that conclusion.

Would be very curious to see, if you don't mind sending. I made this email address: dave.lookingforideas@gmail.com. Industry-wise, I guess Tech, FinTech, AI, SaaS/Software, etc.
> [1] A glaring counterexample to your hypothesis is Brazil (Manuas) where prior infections (as high as 60%) didn't stop the P1 variant from ripping through.

The prior infection estimates for Manaus were simply wrong. They were based on a paper that "adjusted" the observed seroprevalence rates upward by a factor of ~3x. The parsimonious conclusion is that these corrections were too aggressive and ended up over-estimating infections. See Figure 2a in the paper, here:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33293339/#&gid=article-figur...

It is a "glaring" example only of how the low editorial standards of major journals during this pandemic has led to a wave of confusion amongst the public.
> I love Europe, and I want to see the European Union succeed.

You have conflict of interest, then, and cannot be trusted.

This idiotic idea is leaving the end user just as exposed - if not more - than they are now.

Today you are just as unlikely to be cut off as you have always been.

But if you're Italy and want to leave the EU without paying back the 400-500 billion euros you owe and they decide to hang onto your DNS servers, you'd probably wish Cloudflare was in charge of DNS.
There's also the benefit that with the mRNA vaccines (and the adenovirus vaccines as well), your body is developing antibodies specifically for the spike protein, which is highly conserved. Your body's immune response to actual covid may, just by chance, focus on a less strongly conserved target.
I have one for work (I do cartech related stuff) so it just kinda is what I need to drive now.

There's very few people who have the same kind of non-bias as I do here but then again my single opinion is merely anecdotal.

Given that sandwich, it's in the same class as an iPhone and beats headphones. A non-flattering description would be "tinsel and tack parading as luxury and class" but honestly, that was my impression of the porsche boxster and bentley continental as well.

My orientation for luxury is certainly non-existent. I feel such "touches" are inconvenient and grandiose.

But like with beats headphones or to a lesser extent, the iphone, this acts as a filter. This product (model 3) isn't for me and I'm fine with hyundai's ioniq or kona ev.

So yes, I think it's more a personality type that the car attracts than anything else. But again, sample size of 1 here.

I'd expect the same kind of happiness response from Ford F-350 owners.
It's my second EV. I got a BMW m235i in between my first EV and my Model 3, because my lease on the EV was up, I loved the performance of the EV, and wanted some range until I could buy a Model 3. I'm super concerned about climate, but don't drive much and thought that I could justify a 20-25mpg vehicle for a few short years...

The Model 3 is by far the best car I've had. Had multiple Pruises, a boat of a Chevy Impala, and driven lots of rental cars when on trips to places without public transit.

And despite all this, I'm still slightly ashamed to say it's my favorite car, because I'm no fan of Musk. Whatever team at Tesla is building this is great, but I have a feeling that it has very little to do with the singular person who wants to take credit...
Is the "costliness" because of the scale the systems operate at?

It's not a knock on the companies or employees, but my initial reaction was that embedded code in safety critical systems like what operates infrastructure, cars, airplanes, etc. would be less forgiving in terms of mistakes
I don't think disinformation is an essential component of terrorist propaganda. It's easy enough to stoke hatred and urge violence against almost any group by harping on actual qualities they have, or actions they have taken.
Absolutely. Amazon is as good as street corner counterfeits for most things.
> much better

Define "better"