skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before conspiracy theory culture went mainstream via the last presidential administration, there were the 9/11 truthers, led by orgs like AE911Truth. These orgs do real damage to peoples' lives, such as convincing surviving family of 9/11 victims that the US govt planned the attacks and covered up a conspiracy to bring down WTC7.

It takes slightly more than a casual interest to draw the correct conclusion that WTC7 fell from uncontrolled office fires. In this case, reputable scientists and engineers at NIST did the analysis work for us.

One wouldn't be faulted for casually examining a collapse video of WTC7 and preliminarily concluding that the tower fell from some type of controlled demolition. Of course, further examination of the video negates this conclusion.

WTC7's collapse could be a project for a critical thinking skills class for high school students.
I’m in the same position my dr is kind enough to let me email in for refills.
What about people who ace standardized tests, but are open to "conspiracy theories"? Just outliers? I've seen a couple.
Every time it comes out that a pirate version fixes things broken in the mainline version, esp if drm is what broke it, I slide more firmly into always pirate category.

meaningful online service is the only thing that drives me to buy AAA games now and days, and most don't even have that.
MKBHD can be very critical of Apple.
Except you are too big to be hold accountable.
Please don't distort the meaning of words. PR "submarine" pieces are a very real thing, but they are exactly what the phrase suggests — an article put out by a corporate PR department for publication.

This was literally an interview by a real reporter, edited into an article. You might not like that the interviewer wasn't antagonistic (let's be real — most aren't!), but this is not a "PR submarine piece" by any sane definition of the phrase.
Free and open internet isn't under attack because major corporations want it that, it's because people want it that way. The average computer user is a non-programmer. Why would they want things more complicated for themselves? So where does the money flow? To the path of least resistance. While many companies are willing to oblige that thought process, it unfortunately creates the system that strips "free and open internet" away from us.
This article isn't a fluff piece. It's the Google CEO giving conversation on many topics such as quantum computing or AI.
Google is literally the only tech giant with an interest in the open internet.

Facebook scored the mortal wound on the web — they reinvented a bigger, badder AOL closed garden.
So are the nannies and the landscapers. Are these also a racket?
We have a name for people who don’t care at all what other people think: sociopaths. It’s healthy to give at least some weight to that input.
Sutter Health is one of those hospital cartels. They've made it so that giving birth in Sacramento is now one of the most expensive cities in America. It's all a racket.

Source: https://www.kqed.org/stateofhealth/205822/northern-californi...
I believe many people don't follow those recommendations, because no one is told how. like lose weight and exercise - how exactly? There's a middle bit missing imho - an average joe's food and exercise centre if you will. personal trainers and nutritionists are next level in my experience, they're not really interested in telling average joe's walk a bit and do some exercises, same with nutrition - people need recipes that they can make easily, and healthy food they can buy when out easily. These things don't exist in my experience. The junk food industry is huge, as is the diet industry - saying do these easy things and you'll be sweet isn't really a money making proposition afaics.
Thank for the downvotes. I was talking about vaccines for Covid-19 cases, not polio.
> Third, a lot of Pichai's big bets have failed: Google Glass, Google Plus, Google Wave, Project Loon

Every single one of these predates Pichai, who only became CEO in 2015:

* Google Wave was already turned down in 2012

* Google Plus launched in 2011 and the writing was on the wall by 2015

* Google Glass consumer edition was discontinued in Jan 2015 before Pichai started

* Loon is the only arguable exception; it was started in 2011 but only promoted into an official Bet during Pichai's tenure in 2018. However, it was also an experiment from day 1, not "the next big thing" like Wave/Plus/Glass were supposed to be.
Nice. Yet another example of a "pirate" product being superior to the "genuine" version.
Having noticed the increasing proliferation of super-thin easily-breakable rubbish rubber bands, I for one would welcome availability of high quality ones.
> because I'm not super convinced that would work.

I think its because you missed

> ports

Other energy products are shipped on tankers: CL, NG.

Once they arrive at a certain country, they can be disbursed over roads and rail to plants; CI and residential alike.
DRM: make your product worse for your paying customers.
Feel free to examine the resulting machine code. Godbolt is a really valuable tool.
Hopefully not using the Linux kernel though. It changes too much, stuff gets dropped too often, it's buggy, it's insecure as hell, there no test framework. It releases features quickly, sure. But I kind of hate using it, both on my desktop and in production. Would rather BSD, but then you don't get features.
War Games in California and Florida Linked to Test “Kill Web”
wow it is definitely broken for any product I try. I can only imagine the amount of money they are losing per minute.
Have any good sources of this topic of macro assemblers? I'm interested in reading about this type of thing. I'll search Google, but you can't always find good sources there today.
> As a holder of shares in a company for retirement, why would I want to in any way enable short sellers to artificially drive the price of those shares into the ground, or even bankrupt the company?

So you can buy more shares on sale, clearly.
Nothing about my response has anything to do with 'being offended.'
That’s what THEY want you to think!
That depends. rlo() is not the only function that is allowed to have synchronization primitives. It is possible that before rlo() is called, some other code modifies x, and all threads use some synchronization primitive to guarantee that they observe it. There is no notion of lexical or compilation unit scope for synchronization, so (unless it is doing whole program optimization) the compiler has no way of knowing that no other writes are visible after initialization.
That is the position of many a CEO of a large company, akin to politicians in that they say lots without actually saying anything and by the time you realise that they have said nothing, they have gone.

For example "He says many countries are restricting the flow of information, and the model is often taken for granted."
Shifts any blame elsewhere in a way that does not detail this model or outlines any of the issues that define the restrictions and how they effect Google. So for all we know, he could be on about data protection laws like GDPR or the like and paints them as bad without going into any details of the pro's or con's.

Remember some law/restriction that is bad for Google may actually be good for the users.

Also when I see the term "free internet" I do feel it is a misnomer in many ways, more so in the context it is used.
Locking people up for life for wanting to get high is not ever morally right.
> There's a reason nobody who understands what's going on cares.

Wow, what a condescending finish. I care and I understand. If I invest in a company, I don't want my shares to be lent out for the purpose of lowering the price of my investment. I would never buy shares on margin for investments I really care about, because it's obviously a conflict of interest. Why would I want people to be able to work against my investment? You can't possibly understand and argue that short sellers have no incentive to tank the price, and that's what they are betting on happening. And you can't possibly understand and argue that people that invest in a company have no incentive for the price to go up, and that's what they are betting on happening. You don't see a conflict there?

I'm not saying it should necessarily be illegal, but why not make it an option to opt-out for people who care?
Show HN: Deriving Hubble's constant from fundamental constants
Looks like vim-airline to me:

https://github.com/vim-airline/vim-airline
Vaping yes, and I guess I wouldn't also use flavouring if it were 100% for the nootropic effect, but it's still the main reason. To me it's similar to why ppl (like me) drink black coffee, mostly for the nootropic effect (despite there being other nice things about it)
There is also a third issue:

The high cost of medicines that are low cost to produce, and are sold at low cost elsewhere
Why do my eyes water when I yawn?
Is there a non-paywalled version somewhere?
Google is Skynet!
NYT, WSJ, WaPo are worth paying for and have been successful with this model. Forbes, business insider, USA Today are grasping at straws while the plush rug of programmatic advertising and juiced up search promotion is yanked out from under them.
Couldn't this exact sentiment be said about CS as a whole? Do a project on one aspect that interests you -- over time, you'll learn more. Very few people are knowledgeable about all of it.
First, people that patent something should have to be actively working on the patent; not just sitting on it like a patent troll. Patent trolls stifle innovation.

Second, it should be easy for an inventor or developer to go create something new without having to look through a bunch of patents and see if someone already thought of something related to his idea. The more roadblocks in the way of development, the less development occurs.
> As a user, I don’t care about the dev’s challenge of supporting multiple OS’s

As a user I do care about that. A big selling point of vscode versus emacs for me is that it works "natively" on both Windows and Linux. Finally, I don't need to run a VM just to run emacs. I tried all the other alternatives like Msys2 and cygwin, but they're like their own circle of hell as soon as you need to run executables and all the extensions assume you're on Linux.
I’m not sure what are you thinking of, but CPUs are guaranteed to run as if the given instructions were executed one after another, even though in practice it is free to reorder them slightly.
Don't need to speak to a lawyer. Millions of folks do this every year to save money. Doesn't mean they'll have unique drugs in stock however.
> Much of technology is pure fact

I think there are actually very few bedrock facts in computing - a program executing as intended on a CPU is fact. Nearly everything else is culture or opinion, including the programming language that produced the program.

When you get to the level of arguments about programming languages, tools, web development, software architectures, etc this is all discussion in the realm of the mostly subjective, with perhaps a side reference to facts when something is actually not achievable. The most wonderful thing about computing is that it’s pure castles in the air, and that if you’re sufficiently motivated you can build the whole castle. The most dreadful thing about computing is that it’s pure castles in the air and you have few real facts to anchor your arguments to.
C was originally a macro assembler! This new mutation of C is just that, new. I don't mind optimizations as long as it doesn't remove intent, which is usually clearly indicated in the source, standards be damned.
did you know that the compensation for some of these index managers is tied to the returns of the fund? so if lending shares out hurt the fund, they'd make less money.

what would be their motivation for harming their compensation?
You forget that to own a stock you have to buy it first, and it's not in your interest if the stock is overpriced.
The pressure is off and high temperature superconductivity remains
I agree with you, but I think the problem is more about the conflation in some people’s minds of conformity vs correctness. It’s fine to conform as long as doing so is close to optimal, or the cost of conforming to a non optimal solution is low. It works the other way too: sometimes conforming is simply cheaper than optimal, due to existing processes etc.

I often get credit for being right more often than not, but actually I just try to be a disciplined thinker and to understand the problem well enough to be able to make informed decisions. But I also get called a troublemaker for the same reason.

Drives me nuts. Isn’t trying to find the right answer actually the point?
My understanding is that Google was a target of PRISM, not complicit in it.
If I’ve understood you correctly, it isn’t the nature of the investor that is creating the conflict, but something inherent to owning stocks: if I own shares of a company I am implicitly the enemy of short sellers. Is that more or less correct?

If I’ve got that right, then you’re basically saying it is irrational for stock lending to exist at all, since all stock lenders are by definition owners of the stock. Do I have that right? I.E. do you believe that stock lending is an inherently irrational economic activity?
> Biden recorder the most votes in history, while winning the fewest counties. That's a head scratcher.

Why is that a head scratcher? 40% the us population lives in just 100 counties (of 3000)
Check the generated machine/byte code?
While interesting, this project does not seem ethically sound. Not to mention illegal. I think the author got lucky having the case dropped.
>Also I'm not exactly sure how seriously I'm supposed to take someone who advertises himself as a 'professional economist', but as far as I can tell does not actually work as an economist, has a bachelors degree and no publication history and tries to sell me gold and silver from his dealership on the same page he writes this piece about central bank currency.

Presumably an economist who runs a profitable business has demonstrated more economic understanding than the average academic economist, as academic economists don't face any feedback loop that penalises them for bad predictions. As Karl Popper said, a science is only a science when it makes falsifiable predictions that are proven correct.
> 'atomic' isn't uncuttable

Well then it's a pretty bad name no? Considering what the word atomic means.
In Australia this situation has reached whole new extremes.

Retirement funds are huge because a compulsory 10% of all wages must be invested in a retirement ("superannuation") fund, not able to be spent until retirement age. The total savings is over $3 trillion, and annual fees each year amount of ~2% of GDP (twice what Australia spends on electricity each year, and nearly as much as the military budget).

Oddly enough, it's unions and the Labor party themselves who set up this arrangement, during a neoliberal phase in the 90s.

Ostensibly, it was supposed to give workers secure retirements, but it's simply replicated the inequality of the labor market, and left the poorest people with the lowest balances (elderly women are now the most impoverished demographic in Australia, mostly due to these privatized pensions).

So it's failed to fix poverty, failed to provide secure retirements, lowered spendable wages for every working age Australian - not to mention invested in anti-worker companies and participated in privatization as discussed in the article above.

Sadly, the Labor party still defends the scheme, due to being unwilling to admit that one of their flagship projects was a mistake.
> I don’t really trust capcom on pc.

Wait until you read about capcom.sys:

https://www.theregister.com/2016/09/23/capcom_street_fighter...

I don't trust any japanese company to make good PC games.
This is such an interesting case. People can come to many reasonable opinions about it, but I'm glad that it ended without a fuss.
The author contradicts themselves at least three times in this article.

Going against social conformity can be dangerous. You should not do it unless you have fully thought out the consequences [to yourself and others] and weighed them.
Governmental incompetence exceeds their ability to regulate. Google have the capacity to pull off a lot more than Governments.

Google would have a walled garden if they could afford to lose the users and manufacturers that would revolt against it.
These tools are used to produce official BDs as well.
Based on 2020, about $45,000 profit per minute.
No charges were ever filled here.
Companies are often in a temporarily precarious position.

Suppose a tsunami destroys your factory and the insurance company weasels out of paying the claim. Now you've got an otherwise-profitable business with knowledge of the industry and an existing supply chain, but you have to raise capital to build a new factory or you're out of business.

An obvious way to raise the money is to issue some new shares. But if short sellers lower the share price right at the moment you're trying to raise the money, you may not be able to raise enough to build a new factory. Then the company goes bankrupt, the long-term investors lose everything and the short sellers make a lot of money.

Companies in precarious positions where the ability to raise capital to continue operating could be make or break are the sort that tend to attract heavy interest from short sellers.
I'm not saying short selling should be illegal. I genuinely think short selling is a critical component to a healthy market.

I'm saying being forced to loan out all of your shares in a retirement fund with no option of opting-out is the problem. You should have the option to buy on margin or not. I consider this one of the most important factors when deciding which broker you want to use, and it's one of the many things Robinhood purposefully tries to drive their users away from because they make less money by making this transparent.

If somebody profits by keeping something a secret from you, you should ask yourself why.
At this point I wouldn't expect the compiler to care.
it’s Windows. I’m not going to run a Windows server.

I’m not even going to run Windows clients.

It’s a shame they can’t do a containerized version of BlueIris. That is something I probably would run, so long as I could avoid running Windows.
I don't think you could get thousands of cycles, but you might be able to go from <500 to ~1000. Higher quality cells might achieve the same thing though. Apple guarantees 1000 cycles on its laptops, like a sister comment states.

Consider a Tesla that gets ~250 miles of range per full cycle. The battery would reach 1000 cycles after 250k miles of driving, at which point you have a pretty old car. Depending on factors like time, environmental conditions, driving style, a battery replacement might be necessary at some point in the car's life. So the batteries in EVs probably cannot sustain thousands of cycles. The battery capacity is large enough that the overall cycle count is reasonable within the lifespan of the vehicle, and the battery cooling system keeps degradation reasonable given the high demands EV batteries must fulfill.
It’s not about not caring what other people think, it’s about making sure that what they think applies to your situation.

Like the article says, lots of people get rich promoting very bad advice.
Vanguard, the company behind those funds exerted a lot of pressure on the industry by offering those for such low fees. There are still lots of other funds that charge high fees to this day though.

I am not sure about specific ETFs, but some of them will lend out their shares to make up for the no fees though.

Additionally from a cooperate governance point of view the ETFs will generally vote for whatever management recommends. If the majority shareholder of a company is an ETF then management doesn't have meaningful oversight.

If you don't want to follow a bunch of companies than Vanguard funds are probably a good choice though.
That’s not what the Ship of Theseus is. The thought experiment is: if you replace 100% of the original object then is it the same object. Not like, if you change the batteries in the remote is it the same remote.
It only targets a bitrate if you tell it to. Constant quality/crf mode doesn't care about bitrate, it just applies a quality level to whatever makes it to intra prediction (which is the stage after inter prediction, where all the motion compensation is).
I’ve had the same script for 20 years.

I should add that the same thing applies to glasses.
Amazon.com product pages are down
A game’s animation and other in-game timing functions are very unlikely to be based on wall-time, instead typically relying on monotonic counters that are higher resolution, less overhead, and not potentially adjusted backwards or forwards while the game is running. Thus, disabling wall-time accesses for a crack should have little influence on game timing and animations.
Reprinting a single person’s viewpoints without critique or counterpoint isn’t news or “real reporting.” It’s still just a PR piece.
Now you've seen how a "journalist" doesn't have the patience to spend 60 seconds searching for something you're knowledgeable about, will you (not you specifically) take as gospel anything they say about something you're not knowledgeable about?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...
I've looked at the busybox source, and it appears to me that bash compatibility that is added to the Almquist shell is a very thin veneer, not much more than defining [[ as an alias for [ (test).

If you're looking for arrays, you will be sorely disappointed AFAIK.
20+ years of using them - I don't think I've seen a universal outage on all of their product pages.
> there's nothing the supposed beneficiary can do about it

Can't they withdraw their money and use some other instrument? Or just keep it in a savings account? Or just bury it in their backyard?
I've been on a Kaiser plan for years. I don't think I've ever had a "routine checkup", but have had other services.
no one sees the irony of this appearing on a site designed to maximize eyeball exposure?
Services from nannies and landscapers are nontradeable goods. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradability
> Data behind paywalls/logins is useless to them.

Sites are often not behind a paywall if you reach them via google (and only google).
My understanding is that some systems, for instance in Germany, have a system like this. The employees have elected representatives on the board of directors, giving them a direct say in corporate policies.
The author commented on this on Reddit, they're going to fix that text soon:

https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/oi6z11/neorg_a_road...
> even though it did not have to

How could it work if it didn’t?
Meh, often the majority view is the majority view for a reason. Certainly there are exceptions, but if you don't know what to do, following the crowd is a decent rule of thumb. At the very least you'll have the same issues as everyone else, so you won't get blamed. Nobody ever got fired for choosing ibm.
Dtrace?
I was just coming to Hacker News to see if this was just me. Every browser I tried and every Amazon I tried (.com, .ca, co.uk) had the same result.
IO was closer to Self as a language than JS, since JS combined the prototypal inheritance with Java-like syntax, making things confusing. But Self was an evolution of Smalltalk (replace classes with prototypes), so the live programming using a GUI running inside the Self VM was part of the deal, instead of writing to files in your editor of choice.
I think an important aspect that pieces like this gloss over is actually how to go about starting to think like this. If you're someone who's actually spent their entire lives living in a conformist approach, it might not be that easy to simply unlearn this overnight and start to see the world in a totally different way. Also applies for learning how to work through engineering or design problems from a first principles approach.
Heh..and I just yelled at my alexa for making me repeat myself..

Maybe she was trying to fix amaon.com :-P