skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It took years — eight years and counting in exile — for me to realize that I was missing the point: we talk about conspiracy theories in order to avoid talking about conspiracy practices, which are often too daunting, too threatening, too total.

I disagree. People (at least, some people) are just naturally drawn to mysteries. Imaginary things aren't interesting despite the lack of evidence for them, they're interesting because of the lack of evidence. Everyone likes a good mystery.

Look at bigfoot. It's pretty much described as a great ape. It's described as being large, and being a little more bipedal than most apes, but there's no more interesting than a gorilla. I suppose it's a little interesting that an old world ape found its way to America (perhaps a descendent of the Yeti that travelled across through the arctic?), but there's similar interest in mysterious apes in most of the world.

Somehow, a lot of people are more interested in imaginary apes than real apes. Here's a quote about Bigfoot I found on Wikipedia:

> "Well now you will be amazed when I tell you that I'm sure that they exist."[162] She later added, chuckling, "Well, I'm a romantic, so I always wanted them to exist", and finally, "You know, why isn't there a body? I can't answer that, and maybe they don't exist, but I want them to."[163] In 2012, when asked again by the Huffington Post, Goodall said "I'm fascinated and would actually love them to exist," adding, "Of course, it's strange that there has never been a single authentic hide or hair of the Bigfoot, but I've read all the accounts."[164]

This is Jane Goodall, who is probably the best known primatologist of all time, not some conspiracy theorist. If Jane Goodall can be impressed by an ape simply because it's so mysterious (because it doesn't exist), this says a lot about the allure of a mystery.

But back to the main point - why is it that open conspiracies are less scary? I think it's fairly rational to be less worried at a visible threat, since a lack of widespread opposition shows that it's not taken to be a serious threat by the rest of the population. If the President announces that electronic communications are routinely being monitored, then that seems pretty safe. There's no serious opposition to it, so people must not care too much, so it's reasonable to assume it's not a great danger. On the other hand, if there was only a conspiracy theory, then you could assume that the lack of serious opposition was due to a lack of knowledge of the conspiracy.

If (picking something outlandish) Bill Gates announced that he was implanting everyone with micro-chips to extend 5G networks and help the police track criminals, a lot of people would grumble, but I doubt there would be a serious opposition to it, and people would feel reassured that this means it's not a serious issue.

How serious is mass surveillance, really? I certainly understand some people strongly objecting, but it's not like I do much more than use a VPN (which might be compromised anyway).
I've been using the beta for the last week or so and it's a nice upgrade in lots of subtle ways.
Wine is stored in barrels, which is pretty much the same thing, and there is of course the barbaric bag in box, but it’s not served that way in many reputable restaurants…
So many people talk Erlang / Elixir insane concurrency … but I’m struggling to reconcile the talk with what I find in stress testing and benchmarks results.

Can you comment on why so many benchmarks show Erlang / Elixir performing significantly worse than other languages like Go.

https://stressgrid.com/blog/webserver_benchmark/

https://stressgrid.com/blog/cowboy_performance/

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

EDIT: why the downvotes? I’d rather you post a comment to me so we can have a health dialogue.
I've been putting off replacing Windows for a while now. Windows 11 not being compatible with older hardware is the straw that breaks the camel's back. Here I come, Linux!
> A few weeks ago someone on a call said "we all know that programming is mostly copy and pasting anyway"

That's a dog whistle to find a better company/location.
> None of this is publicly available.

I received message on WhatsApp from someone claiming to be my LinkedIn contact, I asked how that person got my mobile number and was told my number is visible on my profile.

I didn't remember ever adding my number there, So I dug around to find that LinkedIn published my phone number to all my contacts when I uploaded it for 2FA (LinkedIn didn't have TOTP that time. You needed to have premium account to prevent it from being shown to contacts. I removed the 2FA until LinkedIn got TOTP.

LinkedIn IMO[1] has received far less scrutiny on its practices and content when compared with other social networks while having disproportionately large influence on professional life.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27673024
I mean we know why this is, because 1/2 the time the other part in the joint cognitive system wants something which isn't in our control to be different and won't be convinced otherwise.

After MUCH headbanging over people 100% refusing to get it because they don't like the answer, you get this.

It is a defense mechanism for the engineers sanity.
It really frustrates me that systems like Amazon and Goodreads (even before the Amazon acquisition) or Grubhub or Doordash don't allow you to order by number of reviewers.

I almost never care if something is 4/5 if only <10 people reviewed it unless the thing is very niche. Especially when trying to discover within a genre or keyword I'd like to see the books people read most. That's basically impossible to fine without hand-curated Best Of lists.

I'm prompted to say this by the fact that this curated list _does_ show the number of raters. So nice work.
They were selling old stock as recently as 10 years ago or so. But there's no inventory left now. People say you can still talk to the owner if you call the number on the site.
I think this only leads to perverse outcomes, in principle the (further) reduced incentives to keep things from going extinct in the first place.

There also needs to be a lot of consideration in reintroducing a species and how it fits into the ecosystem.
moxie views the servers as his, to change policy wise as he sees fit. I'm not sure you can separate the two practically.
huh... I've found that people who tend to describe their occupation as "knowledge work" are the most blind to the fact that white collar jobs are the first to get optimized away. Lawyers are going to have a really bad time after somebody manages to bridge NLP and formal logic. No, it won't result in a Lawyerbot-2000 - it will result in software that enables lawyers to do orders of magnitude more work of a higher quality. What do you think that does to a labor market? It shrinks it. That or people fill the labor glut with new, cheaper, lawsuits...
Beets is also not really maintained anymore. It’s been about two years since the last release.

If anyone is looking for a tutorial/HOWTO for Picard, I have one here: http://www.thedreaming.org/2020/11/22/musicbrainz-picard/
It's close, you can buy hardware commercially with it pre-installed. So you can just buy a working set of them.

But they aren't 100% finished hardware, no cases and such.
A really useful tool for us folks who don't use smartphones, been using it for the last 5 years to have Signal-desktop without a smartphone. Can't thank the maintainer and contributors enough!

https://ctrl.alt.coop/en/post/signal-without-a-smartphone/
They don't have an ownership right on attention. Railway company might have some unique long term lease on the land. Each user can extract their data with takeout, delete account and if they must – use another service.
No, early Crays were a lot more like that though.
thought this would be something about an open 'social' voice thing like Clubhouse/Twitter Spaces etc... a roll-your-own instead of all these closed platforms heh
> Not to mention, Web Crypto API is the literal opposite of roll your own crypto. and is SOO much better than someone implementing cryptographic operations on JS

I'm glad someone is pointing this out as I felt like the author didn't even attempt to understand the Web Crypto API assuming an incorrect worst-case scenario.
Sure, but if you’re planning a new thing saying we stopped doing dumb stuff in the last isn’t a great justification.

The general public became scared of radiation in part because of the rapid flip flop from this stuff is safe and useful to holy shit no don’t do any of that.
The reverse of that is that there are ecosystems that can only exist as a result of some large fauna's action on the environment:

There are theories that permafrost is a result of woolly mammoths, for instance:

https://theconversation.com/could-resurrecting-mammoths-help...

or

Horses / donkeys digging wells in deserts:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/wild-donkeys-and-h...

(edited to add horses)
Don't worry, they're pretty easy to use - one might even describe them as 'childsplay'
I don’t know what version of PopOs you are using. But mine with the 20.10 version supports fractional scaling on my desktop.

Are you talking about their laptops?
Initial Thoughts on Code Transparency
somewhat in the same boat - also ended up staying -
at this point I'd recommend pop OS on end-user devices in place of ubuntu since it has a few nice things for polish (boot to recovery partition, various UI tweaks) and doesn't really deviate from base ubuntu much otherwise

also, a plug for system76 - used to play the whole dmesg-device-support-lottery with laptops; feels good paying a small premium to avoid this and support a company who is helping the ecosystem instead of throwing away whatever ms license fee & hours of system tweaking I'd be paying otherwise.
Distributed Denial of Secrets, you've done it again!
I'm presenting the argument that information does want to be free but web as a whole is quite less free than its proponents would like us to believe. And I'm definitely saying web is bad over native for the consumer, maybe not for the developer who can worry less about knowing native development which is arguably not just more complex but has quite a lot more of legacy baggage as well.

Web is quite largely controlled and censored by a handful of corporations - Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Twitter.

Even the standards are largely dictated by Google (who ring! ring! also owns the web platform in name of Chrome).
Reading this was a “you read my mind” experience. Feels good to hear someone consider the same problems and come to similar conclusions. I’ve been daydreaming of building some append-only search-first note taking app for a while, love the insights here!
We know the policy, no one is confused about the policy, all 3rd party clients violate the policy.

Is the policy enforced? I've seen no evidence of it.
A sad state I agree, but inevitable when "supercomputers" became something you had to get past bean-counters, rather than just generals and congresscritters.
you can activate fractional scaling with gnome-tweaks and get 150%. Not super sure why that's not available by default (perhaps it ends up doing some lossy transforms on desktop resources and the like)
You can probably tokenize the names so they become irrelevant. You can ignore non-functional whitespace, so that code C remains. Maybe one can hash all the training data D such that hash(C) is in hash(D). Some sort of Bloom filter...
This is what I feel - I've done aggressive note taking, and then realized after a period of like 5 minutes I cannot recall a thing that was actually said or discussed.

...which, if the notes are the goal - why have the meeting? If they're not, then they're not needed.

In practice, I have fairly good recall, but there's also the basic element that I'm really struggling to recall any meetings I've ever had where anything useful actually got discussed (that couldn't have been an email). Maybe last week when I got my manager to explain some wider context of a project in a 1 on 1, but frankly, my current team has issues that none of the stakeholders have produced any briefing or priming documents (way more organizations should look at how the military structures briefings and provides operational context - they do a better job then the rest of us).
Your muddying up the points, none of those issues are related to drug use. California has a lot of homeless people, a lot of those use drugs. Californias homeless problem is complicated and completely separate from drug use. Now your quoting articles about california as a whole.

What your saying and the conclusions your drawing make no sense. Your also showing a misunderstanding of the nuances of san fransisco. Your own articles show that these problems are concentrated in historically problematic neighborhoods. Go back to the original quote i picked from you, it shows a complete lack of understanding of what is going on, and you cant form a coherent argument.

Show me one article that says, sunset, richmond, bernal heights, glen park, excelsior, pacific heights, presidio, noe valley, balboa park are full of needles.
Actually, it's sort of the opposite. The few dozen animal species that have been farmed and domesticated are quite prolific.

Regardless, blaming a species for habitat loss due to forest clearing, for example, feels slightly misdirected to me.
Bugs Faster Than the Speed of Thought
Note that beets hasn’t seen a release in two years, and the latest release has some dependency problems that break it. If you want to install it:

pip3 install https://github.com/beetbox/beets/tarball/master requests
Developers Human brain are also trained with propietary code bases, then when they quit and go elswere , they program using knowledge learned previously, yet you do not sue them.
Your defining "Google" more narrowly to mean "Google Play and Google services" (understandable as this is common shorthand), whereas I just meant Google the company. AOSP is a Google product and APK is maintained by Google.

Either way it's irrelevant whether any of it is or isn't technically "Google", my only point was that F-Droid do not make AOSP/Android. That's true regardless of your definitions.
PopOS feels like an extremely pragmatic operating system as far as linux distributions go. Yes, I do want my broadcom wifi card to just work. I do want my dedicated Nvidia graphics card to actually be useful. Anyone that disagrees with those sorts of principles can of course simply install a different distribution that aligns more closely with their own personal philosophy and gives them the absolute control that they need, but for me, I just want it to work.

I also think that the enhancements they've made with their Cosmic Desktop are indeed that - enhancements over base Gnome desktop, and they, as with most of the things have done, gone with a pragmatic approach to them. The automatic tiling is built on top of gnome rather than requiring a separate window manager (this is a much bigger feature than I think it's been given credit for). Workspaces are more prominent and there are more ways to make working with them better than on default Gnome. The launcher is also much more robust and more closely mimics spotlight search or Alfred rather than Launchpad.

I'm glad that PopOS exists and I would probably recommend it to anyone who wants to get their feet wet with linux and anyone that is curious about automatic tiling window managers - this is a great starting point with low commitment requirements.
I'm glad you mentioned Neanderthals. We have sequenced their genome and this will soon be possible. Whether there exists an ethical way to do it, I cannot say. (Probably not!)

On another note, the amount of Neanderthal DNA in modern humans appears to have a beneficial effect, and I have been wondering about the potential
benefits to humanity of increasing this percentage.

For an interesting perspective on the Neanderthal mind: http://franklludwig.com/neanderthal.html
I've been running internal builds but you're correct in that they can still make changes to requirement before public release.
> random blog

Let's put it this way - more people on this site know who Derek Lowe is (and respect his opinions) than every person combined that was involved in those 31 studies.
Goodreads can do it.
The master branch of beets is still getting regular commits.
I've seen this first hand here in Western Australia...

Was cleaning out my garage and found a redback had recently caught a baby dugite. very cool.

Have also seen them catch and eat skinks and geckos and I once saw photo evidence of a small mouse.
I like spiders in general, but redbacks are one that give me involuntary shivers. (plus those fat black house spiders we get)
How was it breached and what’s the fall out?
Same. I think these AI companies make too many assumptions on what people want and need. It's like people are lab mice they watch in terms of some experiment, but don't communicate with beside asking to name interests like technology or cryptocurrency and rate the quality of the call.
The forgotten era of Light Reflectors in London’s alleys
Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIEd) Conversations
AMD EPYC escape: Case-study of a KVM breakout
I was also hoping there would be a new release soon, since I have to run beets in pyenv due to the dependency issues, but it sounds like the developer is busy in real life.

Here is the GitHub issue if anyone wants to help: https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/3625
The times I have come closest to pooping my pants as an adult is working at a FAANG office. Not enough male bathrooms!
> I actually did make that same point:

Yes, I am sorry, I think it's error prone to read comments for such complicated matters.
I've noticed people treat conspiracy theories with the same level of validity or non-validity regardless of the facts or details.

Things like flat earth conspiracies have now inexplicably been lumped into the likes of those who believe in things like.

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-que...

Or just question in general the motivation behind the decisions made by those in charge.

There are some very obviously dumb conspiracies that have no basis in reality, there are some possibly far out there conspiracies that could have some merit and then there's conspiracies that seemed ridiculous but actually turned out to be true.

The world is not black and white...it's very grey.

Again, I find it odd these things tend to all be labeled under one giant 'conspiracy theory' label. Much like any theories, some are possibly valid, others very obviously not.

Categorizing these things together as has been done in recent years makes no sense.
Average Doctor's salary in Turkey is $2,200/month:

http://www.salaryexplorer.com/salary-survey.php?loc=221&loct...
the theraputics part is different than the immune system response part. they said in the theraputics part you don't get to use the immune system memory because the immune system memory is there to make a foreign enough protein that looks like the virus receptors so the body learns how to kill those proteins.

a therapeutic doesn't want you to kill the proteins it creates because the proteins created need to be able to go and do work on other cells... so it needs to look somewhat like "normal" proteins that a body would create naturally.
Cover thumbnails would make this so much better ...
It’s clear you are incorrect. Phase 3 trials have concluded as reported by all manufacturers. It’s literally that simple. Extended monitoring of those that were in Phase 3 does not mean Phase 3 is still ongoing. There is no debate to be had here, I am correct, and you are strangely insistent on misrepresenting anything I provide. The correction at the top of the previous article had nothing to do with what you claimed it did. Phase 3 met its endpoints for Moderna, Pfizer, and J&J full stop. They are over. You can write a bunch of irrelevant BS, but that’s all there is to it. I’m obviously fully aware what EUA is, do not talk down to me.

Please stop fear mongering and repeating falsehoods that have been proven time and time again to be incorrect.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-vaccine-monitor...

https://www.pfizer.com/science/coronavirus/vaccine/about-our...

“ This trial began July 27, 2020, and completed enrollment of 46,331 participants in January 2021. On November 18, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that, after conducting the primary efficacy analysis, their mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine met all of the study’s primary efficacy endpoints. On December 2, 2020, the Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the U.K. authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, marking the first Emergency Use Authorization following a worldwide Phase 3 trial of a vaccine to help fight the pandemic. Shortly after on December 11, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use.”

Key words: met all of the studies efficacy endpoints, (Phase 3 is primarily designed to find EFFICACY), following a worldwide phase 3 trial

EUA does not equal still in Phase 3. Not even remotely correct.

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...

Key word: CONCLUDES

Your previous comments point to the long development of other vaccines as a mark against COVID-19 vaccines. Surprise surprise, a vaccine developed during a pandemic gets pushed to the front of the line and has full priority, no issues with funding, etc. The speed at which it was passed is not a slight against it, considering it was able to still make it through Phase 1, 2, and 3, and then ultimately gain EUA. Again, not because it was rushed, it still had to go through all other testing other vaccines had, if anything full approval was delayed so they could get 6 months of additional EFFICACY data.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/29/covid-19-vaccine-myth...
I don’t drink. Not everything has to revolve around getting blackout drunk.
Currently stuck between this and Elementary for my next machine.
Slightly larger than a Turkey. Looks delicious still.
> claiming for them to be the same as modern Ukrainians or modern Russians makes as much sense as modern Greeks claiming to be direct descendants of Alexander the Great.

don't say this to either of the macedonias :)
He has had many successes. He essentially was the first to solve the commercial email spam problem:

http://paulgraham.com/spam.html

If you remember email before and after those techniques were implemented into mail clients of the time, it was night and day.
Most of the replies in this sub-thread are not about servers possibly disrupting the work of custom clients right now. But you react as if they were.

Other things that are being brought up here are at least as important and interesting to discuss.
It's extremely hard to reason about the global emergent behavior of a complex system than the isolated behavior of a small component.
> learn how to learn new languages

EBNF?
It seems like it'd be an amazing haul of resources for a spider.

You'd be the Spider King.
Indeed, but parsing has remained a hard (to implement properly) problem [1], and you likely don't want a language-agnostic tool like git to be tightly coupled with a language parser.

Maybe the popularity of language-servers can help bring this forward.

[1] Even smart people have trouble with it: "Amazingly, surprisingly, counterintuitively, the indentation problem is almost totally orthogonal to parsing and syntax validation." http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/js2-mode-new-javascr...
I don’t see misalignment at all. I see complete irrelevance between that quote and the facts. Why can he not be a womanizing workaholic? They are not mutually exclusive and possibly actually correlated.

Sex lives need to be private or at least not included as judgement of individual as they are not relevant at all to people’s accomplishments in politics, business, academics, or any other facet of an individual’s life.
I’m curious why advice is dangerous. Can you expand on why you feel that?