skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This term has always bugged me. It seems to me that thinking "conspiracy theory" is a meaningful concept is guaranteed to make you dumber. Truth is an incredibly complex concept, and while we need to use greatly-simplified models of it to function in everyday life, the notion that there's a useful _binary_ distinction between theories that should be taken seriously and those that shouldn't does has a way higher epistemic cost than it does a benefit.

It's particularly bad as a thought-terminating cliche because so much of what defines the label is aesthetic: when figures or institutions in the cultural mainstream speculate wildly, the term is never used (guess how many outlets covered Hillary Clinton's description of Tulsi Gabbard & Jill Stein as "Russian assets" as a "conspiracy theory").

Every theory can be considered with the same tools, parametrized by fundamental factors like how far it is from your current model of the world, what the implications are, etc etc. I freely admit that I've never looked into Flat Earth arguments enough to thoroughly debunk them, but a combination of 1) the amount of things I'd need to change in my model of the world for it to be true and 2) the minimal impact on my life if it were mean that I don't really care to look into it. I can apply the exact same process to every other bit of constructed knowledge, without needing to hand off my critical thinking ability to lizard-brain pattern-matching and mood affiliation like "conspiracy theory".
Centaur chess did reign for a while. For AlphaZero, which has a strong ability to perform pattern recognition based on experience in a limited domain, humans may not be able to add value to its play.

That said, most board games are a very limited domain. Even more complex computer games prove more challenging than the current AI approach can handle without weaknesses (see comments about Dota on this page).

In complex real-world domains, humans can definitely still add much value relative to computers working by themselves.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27180545
I can't wait for the BBC to publish an article about the inaccuracies in China ...
Greatest battery of all - Mitochondria!
> which is a terrible design in usability terms.

Depends on the goals...

I'm betting it's the perfect design for what it's intended to achieve.
"Targeted advertising", in other words.
You seriously miss read a lot of what was said in that article to post those claims. Re read slower and pay mind to the nuances.
Wifi on the Raspberry Pi Zero works, but in NetBSD-current, not NetBSD-9.
Like US during McCarthy era.
The video shows a polar orbit. How does this address azernik's point that "if the data exists for one place at a similar latitude, then it exists for every other place at a similar latitude"? With a polar or near-polar orbit, you'd get the densest (fewest stitches) and freshest data near the poles.

> as you can see there's no fuel required.

Like I wrote before, no fuel is required if you're orbiting the center of the earth. No one orbits the axis of the earth (other than orbiting above the equator). I was only responding to what azernik wrote.

Here's what I am saying: 1. the resolution of the images on Google Maps varies a lot from place to place. Not just Gaza, but other places too. I mentioned specific places too. Please verify that for yourself. 2. Orbital mechanics is the wrong explanation to reach for to account for the disparities.
Being free to say what you think does not mean CEO will submissively follow all suggestions.
Reasearches that rely on self-reported digital media usage are inaccurate
People died. ALOT of people. I think an FAA crash investigation where they try to pinpoint EXACTLY where the problem or chain of problems were is more relevant here. Or the Challenger investigation.

Don't miss that the entire gravity of this line of questioning is that if COVID19 did escape from the lab, our entire response to a lab leak would be different and save lives then a zoonotic emergence scenario.
I think the modern, mainstream opinion underrates oral traditions greatly

When you go against the opinion of mainstream experts, you should have some evidence of rationale.
Is there no API? The only way to consume the results is the website?
Not coding in java is often about preference and choice. Not sure where the superiority comes from.
You're right, here is a detailed list for various age groups for unintentional deaths [1]. Still, first or second depending on the age group for all age groups. However, unintentional deaths isn't the leading cause for the older age groups.

[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/leading_causes_of_inj...
naming is hard, indeed. what do you suggest?
I'm yet to see this magic happen anywhere in the world. Also doesn't address repeat offenders. The purpose of the criminal justice system is enforcement, judiciary and corrections. You are talking about just corrections. I don't even see enforcement for many many crimes.

And, yes, no insurance will cover my emotional loss. "justice" in the system seems to be missing.

If the answer to that is "deal with it", I'm obliged to return in kind the same mindset to thieves.
It's not a conspiracy theory. It's a perfectly reasonable theory that will never be proved one way or another, because of an actual conspiracy of the CCP to prevent investigation. They've been openly waging a trade war and ever-increasing threats of kinetic war against Australia for a year now, simply because the PM publicly called for an enquiry to determine where it came from.
Sometimes, fully understanding other position means you will perceive them as even more threat.
I will be sure to relay your misgivings to the people displaced, once my time machine is ready. I will need to teach them English when I get there/then, so I can explain your careful distinction between a flood and ... what, an inundation? You didn't say.

I harbor doubts about their receptivity to the correction.
Anticipating some good cicada clickbait out of this remarkable event:

"Cicada Coin: Value doubles every 17 years. How to start saving."

"Why we need to have a conversation about cicadas."

"How to talk to your children about cicadas."

"You can eat cicadas. But should you?"

"Neighbors complain Florida man shooting at backyard cicadas with shotgun."

"Cicadas destroyed my marriage."

"What cicadas can tell us about life on Mars."

"Can cicadas spread Covid? Experts disagree."

"DC high school principal repeatedly calls 911 over cicadas, is suspended."

"Cicadas and home insurance. Insurers inundated with questions."

"Trump eliminates cicadas from Mar A Lago golf course. Fascism or prudence?"

"Mr. Cicada new Marvel hero. You won't believe his super powers."

"Cicada-covered corpse alarms health officials; prompts new questions about insect invasion."

"Palmer Lucky transforms battlefield with AI cicadas. Pentagon takes notice."
Agadmator covered Kramnik v Leko 2002 (in 2018) titled "Invisible to Engines | One Of The Greatest Moves Ever Played" [0] which is worth a watch.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGnpewUKP88
Encryption Deep Dive
You seem to be suggesting that informing people that working night time shifts is dangerous for them and thus should be compensated proportionally is not important. Again, the absolute number doesn't really matter, the person is significantly raising their chance of dying.
There are plenty of actions beyond military options like economic, political, and legal. China could be isolated financially with trade embargos for example. US treasuries and other nations instruments that China owns could be seized and extinguished. Bank accounts can be seized. There are many actions that could be taken if countries really desired. However, the alluring call of cheap manufacturing and a large population to market goods toward clouds most countries from taking any actions.
For example Pavlopetri in Greece, about 5 000 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlopetri
In here, I would opted for: "could we remove meme plugin from code review software?" And then pushed for that.
From what I've read they were cancelled, but the motivation from the government to keep transit operation in the lead up to Chinese New Year might have been to allow citizens to get home. This would be to avoid backlash from citizens who couldn't be with their family for, what is for many, their one holiday a year. Which seems reasonable. I believe by CNY the gene sequence and other data had been leaked by a rogue scientist in China to the rest of the world, and the cover was blown.
See OPs above comment and you can see where his standpoint is so it's not that surprising.
I don't know that people are plucking the word out of its context like that. "The pandemic was engineered" is a substantially different claim than "the virus was engineered", and I have seen vanishingly few claims of the former (in the mainstream; you can nutpick literally any claim in the Internet era).
> It's accepted, it's respected, and it's even expected.

"I'm not rude, I just tell it like it is"
4.4BSD Scheduler
> You've intentionally partitioned the original system, allowing them to be inconsistent, and choosing one side of the partition to promote to being a new system.

I'm very confused.

If there's a new system, and the old system doesn't exist any more, then how is the old system partitioned? The old system is down. The new system just happens to contain nodes from the old system. (This is a crucial distinction: if you tried to introduce your new node to the sub-cluster on either side of the netsplit in this model, while advertising yourself as being a participant in the parent network they broke off from, all new sub-networks would refuse to connect to you. None of the sub-networks consider themselves a continuation of the parent. Each netsplit gives you two new networks.)

Saying this kind of permanent intended split is "partitioning", is like saying deallocated memory gets "corrupted" when new memory allocates over it. It only makes sense to say such a thing in a world where you didn't do the thing you did (deallocate the memory), because by doing so, you removed the semantics under which corruption makes sense to talk about. The allocated struct visible to your process is gone, and so there's no longer a requirement from your program that it be in any particular state. So, whatever state it's in, that's "just fine" as far as your program is concerned. Full of 0xdeadbeef? Valid! Because there's no longer any meaning to validity, past deallocation.

A partitioned system is a system that cares about being partitioned — and whose operators care about it being partitioned. Being partitioned is a state that exists in the context of the design goals of the architecture of the system, and an implementation as a control system that attempts to achieve those goals.

Two random nodes that have never talked to one-another aren't "partitioned" — they're just not part of a shared network-architecture design that would make partitioning between them a valid thing to talk about. They've never tried to communicate; they have no reified logic that says they should be communicating.

By designing a distributed system that can never care about nodes that leave it — that can never model other nodes as ever being able to rejoin, such that they could ever potentially introduce conflicting updates — you thereby design a system that exists outside the semantics for which being "partitioned" is well-defined as a concept. You're sacrificing "the ability to have partitions as part of your domain model", in the same sense that deallocation sacrifices "the ability to have structural validity as part of your domain model."
Logjam - A journey to the heart of the lumber shortage
Other countries could insist on oversight of China’s labs, and if they aren’t given that they could put economic screws to them.
I wonder, is it because USA holds research to be important to national security?
Seems like a great way to piss them off and have them do something unethical
IDF couldn't provide any evidence of Hamas' existence in that building, it was all over the media yesterday.

https://twitter.com/haaretzcom/status/1394287848950427649
But they called Australia racist for imposing travel restrictions in February?
It's also pretty tasty fried and salted, although its nutritional value goes out the window, so to speak...
This is a brilliant book. You get major new insights every few pages, and many of them are highly relatable with your own experiences with sleep. Probably goes a bit overboard with some of its claims but even then there is too much good in it. Considering we spend anywhere between 25-30% of our lives on this one activity, its almost criminal how we ignore its importance.
Let's say that a serious proof of a lab leak emerged, what would be the political consequences? Will countries ask China for compensation?
Show HN: Smol Pub – Your journal on the small net
The perfect virtual video store isn’t Netflix. It’s DVD.com (2020)
The decibel level is incredible.

My first experience these two cycles ago when I flew into Texas and wasn’t expecting to hear one in a tree next to me. It was surreal because it sounded like a loud kitchen appliance or lawnmower and I couldn’t find the source.

Took me a long time to realize it was a bug on the tree that I had seen moments after I started looking.
Currently yes. Webhooks and S3-compliant data export is on our roadmap: https://volument.com/roadmap/
> You know it was once a conspiracy theory to say the Earth wasn't flat.

In the 3rd century BCE, it is documented that the Egyptians calculated the circumference of the Earth to a relatively high degree of accuracy [1].

The Earth not being flat wasn't so much a "conspiracy theory" but a challenge to medieval Christian doctrine. It just doesn't fit the modern definition of a "conspiracy theory". The essential part of a conspiracy theory is that a powerful and covert group is responsible for something not appearing as it seems.

Common examples: faked Moon landings, UFOs (as aliens, including Roswell and other such incidents), the JFK assassination (done by the CIA or whoever) or the Holocaust didn't happen.

They all tend to revolve around some Big Lie (a fact exploited by Goebbels and others) and it tends to play into human psychology that there's some grand plan or there's something you, as a believer, know that other people don't. We now live in a time that has validated people raising how they feel to having the same weight as science, demonstrable evidence and reason. So now we have people believing in stolen elections, QAnon, Covid-19 being fake and the like.

So what you're doing is attempting to conflate the term conspiracy theory by applying it to a situation any reasonable person knows as being obvious ("the Earth isn't flat") and I have to wonder why. What other belief are you trying to validate?

[1]: http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/~jochen/gtech201/lectures/lec....
Interesting they think it was written to after the dent. I'd think it'd error during write.
Floor-level employees voicing discontent in only a few words to a director who just happened to walk past their station, is still infinitely more information than when they had kept their mouths shut and eyes down.

It's then up to that director to hear them out and find out what their concerns are really all about. Perhaps they should be given a bit more information, so they can also see the bigger picture and how it'll benefit them too.

Some really high leverage opportunities can come out of this.
Also, because they’re trying to compensate for biases that cause people to see patterns where none exist.
Put some garlic cloves in the ground. You can eat the garlic shoots and the smell discourages some of the bugs.
Not completely correct, they will not support the best lossless audio quality of Apple HiFi new service via bluetooth but they will support a better audio quality than the actual aac 256kbs (https://www.soundguys.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-bluetooth-he...).
I don't know about the use of the Airpods Max wired to the iPhone, but is possible that they will support a better audio quality using the DAC on the headphones.
PKD once pointed out that the only way to really live unmolested in a police state is to never find yourself on the radar to be examined in any way in the first place.

They never really close the file.
So one bad flew 2400 kilometers, bit some people in Wuhan, then died?

It started in Wuhan spontaneously. There are no intermediary COVID19 infections in a migration trail of any kind from those bat reservoirs in Yunnan to Hubei.
Multiple colored buttons may be incorrect, but dark patterns are even more so.
I am aware. This is why I find it particularly grating if you even pretend it's not subjective.
I was in the same boat a month ago. However, I accumulated content that I wanted to publish, without cluttering it with commercial stuff (e.g. on medium).
Focus on writing was my only criteria. But most themes I found for Hugo, Jekyll etc. had too much layout. I finally settled for a stripped-down mkdocs (du.nkel.dev). Primarily because mkdocs has superior markdown code formatting extensions (superfences etc.). The only thing I am missing is easy integration of a self-hosted open source comment system.

Regarding the OP's website: Unfortunately, it feels too cluttered. Examples: Why the header line `Home / Blog / ...`? I can see this from the URL. Why duplicate the title? Why duplicate urls next to the icons (facebook etc.)? Too much space without any content. Links/Contact/Search.. all mostly uninteresting for the majority of visitors.. Yes, mkdocs has search, too. But I disabled it - no one will use the search function on a blog.
To add one more data point, for the past year I’ve been following this story passively — reading articles I’ve come across but never searching actively — and this is the first I’ve heard of the coincident location of the Wuhan CDC.
The one I disagreed with a lot was "border-radius" (why not call it what it is, rounded corners)

A little bit can make things look more friendly sometimes but I think modern design overuses it by a ton
Does this mean that Flint, Michigan may finally get the funding to replace it's poisonous water infrastructure? That would be greatly appreciated by a number of people I know.
The convenient use of the word “conspiracy theory” usually indicates a lazy evaluation of the facts from what I’ve observed. The threat of “polarization” adds even more to the lack of rigor. Should we just ignore concepts and discussion if it is not generally agreed upon or upsets a group of people?
This is a horrible and depressing indictment of society and from my observation, this slide has been occurring since about the mid 1970s. If I am correct then we're talking four decades plus. Even if we could reverse the trend immediately then I don't see how we could turn it around in less than several decades. That means we've still several very rough decades ahead.

I'd add that improving the situation will be made considerably more difficult by the wide scope and depth of the issues.
No, I don't think this is required.
"Excuse me, but did you just compare the number 1 to the number 1000 by pointing out that they are both positive integers?"

The point I am making is simple. There are approaching 3,000 billionaires worldwide. Suppose 90% are upstanding and 10% are unethical. That's 300 unethical billionaires. Suppose each unethical billionaire does just 1-2 unethical things per year, that is plenty of "unethical billionaire" stories for journalists to write about an unethical billionaire every day if they want.

You write: "The only way to amass that sort of wealth is to exploit the labor of others." Then you cite a few examples of billionaires behaving, in your view, unethically. That's very nice, but to prove your claim, you need to show that every billionaire has done this. You mentioned 3 billionaires. With about 3,000 worldwide, you are about 0.1% of the way there.

But the examples you've provided so far don't even pass the sniff test. Example:

"ABC News[47] and The Economist[48] both conducted comparisons, and found that although the number of workplace suicides at Foxconn was large in absolute terms, the suicide rate was actually lower than the overall suicide rate of China[49] or the United States."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides#Analysis

>Simply the fact that some people are amassing such wealth, while millions of people in the world starve and cannot access even basic education or healthcare. That alone makes being a billionaire unethical, by default.

This argument only applies to billionaires who haven't signed the giving pledge. Those I will agree with you on. However, it would be highly unethical to tax away the wealth of those who have signed the Giving Pledge, in order to provide even more goodies for Americans who are already quite wealthy by global standards.
The Evolution of Lego Sorting
> There really is no recourse if you get caught up in or are maliciously thrown into government bureaucracy which is rather alarming for a modern society.

This has nothing to do with government bureaucracy, and everything to do with malicious, criminal cops. Don't confuse one for the other.

They suffer no consequences for harassing and abusing people. Frequently they even get away with murder. The cities and their unions protect them, because they know that at the core the police are a criminal enforcer organization. The law protects the rights of the poor and innocent in the USA, but the police are tasked by landowners with a lot more than simply enforcing the law: they want them to enforce the social order, too, which is a much more, err, "informal" process, such as we see here.

This results in a culture of lawlessness in the police, as they carry out the wishes of those who write the checks and suffer no consequences for breaking the law which they exist ostensibly (but not in practice) to uphold.

I've written about this before: https://sneak.berlin/20200628/the-problem-with-police-in-ame...
For the blindness to good design by programmers, there is the eyesore of the tk tutorial:
https://tkdocs.com/tutorial/widgets.html#checkbutton
I am not sure if tk has to look like this.
I always ask these flat earthers to explain how we see the coriolis effect when firing long range rifles or artillery. Naw, I'm lying, I've never met a serious flat earther online or in person. I think it's a device used in lazy debate rather than a set of real breathing thinking people. Even the flat earth society appears to be just a fun group that meets socially more than scientifically.
Interesting to see Kotlin getting more adoption in distributed systems space.

Using kotlin on the server-side has been such a great experience.
Volkswagen says it can profitably sell a self-driving system for €7 an hour
Integration of Taurus SA with Temenos Transact
It can be conspiracy or may be not. For example Indian cities doesn't have clear images as US cities. Sometime back, I tried finding reason for same. Apparently, Google not just use satellite images. It gets aerial images from planes as well. Obviously, Google didn't pay for aerial images of Indian cities. This can be a reason for Israel as well.
zenaton renamed to infinitic?
Is there possibility to deploy this on-premise or inside VPC?
Pretty awesome. It'd be nice to see some design tips for vegetable gardens. Maybe things about companion plants and the best way to utilize space for maximum yield or something? Or possibly maybe even permaculture stuff, or designing edible flower and vegetable gardens that grow together.

Their vegetable tips were nice and detailed, but their design stuff was all basic landscaping design stuff, i must admit, I was hoping to see maybe something about vegetable garden design.
This article shows how funding and fear of losing funding might have influenced all these experts to back the wrong narrative.
If anyone is interested in the Job posting story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQFCcSI0pU&t=122s

Webarchive links are in the comments.