skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I watched my mom’s* Facebook feed for a bit on Jan 6. In a span of 30 minutes she was getting bombarded by claims that the people invading the capital in order to overturn the election were actually antifa complete with a veneer of evidence**, a passage that was misattributed to Dave Ramsey***, along with all the normal claims about a “stolen” election.

The misinformation may be coming out of a organized campaign or it may arising organically, but it definitely exists in droves and is spread by social media. It exists on both sides, but it is not balanced.

* thankfully, she’s pretty discerning and don’t believe any of this, but believes it is important to not le this sort of behavior cause her to “unfriend” people she’s known for decades.

** just to be clear, they weren’t, and the evidence was that pictures of insurrectionists appeared on an antifa web site. That was true, but that’s because they appeared on the part of the website dedicated to documenting people as fascists

*** I found the original source in about a minute, and a public rebuttal from Dave Ramsey in two
Explaining why a misnomer came about isn't an argument for why we should continue to perpetuate it.
> It's unfortunate that people nitpick them, because the alternative is long and complicated examples that can't be understood at a glance.

If the examples don’t show cases where the feature even arguably is the best option, they’re bad examples of the feature. I don’t think that’s nitpicking.
Also, it's an actively managed index. Companies are added and subtracted.
Index != fund.

There are funds that are more diversified than funds tracking S&P (e.g. $VOO tracks S&P 500). $VTI should represent the total US market. $VWRL should represent the total worldwide market.

Not sure about “better to own” though - that depends on your risk profile. Of course both of them underperformed S&P 500 in the recent history.
One point to my others and pretty orthogonal to them:

I was a tech assistant in Google Patent Litigation. Part of my job was to bust patents (a dream job, right?), and for that, I would scour the Internet for literature to invalidate a patent being asserted against us.

I would constantly see articles behind some paywall, and I would never, never click through. There are reasons you can imagine, like (1) I didn't want the hassle of justifying the expense, and (2) I hate those publishers. Both true.

However, the biggest reason was:

I don't know if it's any good until I read it.

The vast majority of articles are not helpful for my purpose. I can't tell if they really are until I read them. If it turns out that some article is the killer, then of course Google would pay for it. But for the 1000's that are not -- well, why waste the money? I can almost always find the same information somewhere else, for free.
It depends on what you're looking for. I've seen so much "trash" wine and spirits turn out to be total hits with people that I don't think anyone can outright say that any drink is objectively good or bad other than perhaps absolute bottom-shelf spirits. I was at a party back on fourth of July where someone brought this incredible scotch that literally everyone there found to be amazing. My parents decided to get a bottle and we shared it with a group of relatives who unanimously poo-poo'd it.

Maybe a connoisseur looks for certain taste and smell profiles most people couldn't discern, but that doesn't mean a given whisky is bad.
I'm always going, step away from the computer and think about what the fuck you are doing.
I think it still works out to a net difficulty increase to any group trying to restart an industrialized civilization because of how much easy energy reserves have been permanently extracted. There’s basically no surface level coal/oil/gas that could be tapped into and finding the remaining reserves from scratch might be prohibitively difficult.

Then there’s the question of how much of the steel will still be usable when it’s time to extract it. That’s a variable problem depending on how long the ‘dark age’ is before people are rebuilding I suppose. It could be like Doctorow’s Walkaway where there’s abundant enough discarded resources you can almost achieve post-scarcity (but that world never wen through a hard crash it was more building a parallel society than a whole new one). Or it could be centuries later when a lot of the steel will be rust. Hard to say.
How arrogant do you have to be to know a civil suit on anticompetion is inbound, and still email about plans to stifle it? A long time ago a mentor said “never put anything in email that you don’t want to show up in a court of law” and that’s always stuck.

But how monumentally dumb/ arrogant do you to be to not realize these emails and docs would show up in discovery?
Got to agree with the conclusion of the paper:

> In our strong opinion, the root of the problems discussed in this work is the notorious publish or perish atmosphere (Garfield, 1996) affecting both authors and publishers. This leads to blind counting and fuels production of uninteresting (and even nonsensical) publi- cations.
I suspect most countries would prefer Japan's problems to their own.

An alternative view might be that the excessive returns in the US are due to outright financial manipulation using share by backs funded by low interest rates (amongst other things) leading to an insane concentration of money in the stock market and financial sector to the detriment of large sections of US society, its basic infrastructure, and its democracy.

This is what happens when white collar crime is institutionalised.
This is one of my pet peeves, too, an obsession with referencing the first to try innovative math. Maybe Babylonian root finding is a simplified case of what we call Newton’s method. The minimum level of rigor for a concept to go from theorem to proof is both human and philosophical. We get very little recognition for the mathematicians putting in the hard work, and detrimental recognition for concepts that don’t exactly widen a field of math for innovation.

Recent movements to revise the recognition of Pythagoras are doing the right thing when they acknowledge the path dependence of unbroken written communication of ideas is often mistaken for awarding prestige to a particular institution, educational tradition, or culture.
So who's the Babylonian guy who we can name it after?

Also, this has been well known for awhile.
At what point do other picture types become surveilled?

Maybe if you take pictures of Trump signs...

Maybe if you take pictures of Red states...

Maybe if you take pictures of cis relationships...

Maybe if you happen to be male and white and take a selfie...

What/when do these get reported to the FBI or other woke agencies in government?

It's a very slippery slope AND WE KNOW there are sociopaths in positions of power who'd gladly do such things without a second thought.
'Functionally useless': California privacy law's big reveal falls short
In other words: it is, in fact, complicated?
A single malt is not made from a single cask, and each cask behaves slightly differently. The distiller therefore has a lot to work with, and will very carefully blend multiple casks to create the desired single malt product before bottling.
so they had to build a new engine?
> smartphone means fuck all to me. It changed nearly nothing in my life.

Sure, that's the same to me, I don't even own one. But that's not how the majority feels and acts. And there's been another acceleration in the last 2-3 years, where more business and, worse, official administrative stuff is pushed on the smartphone (as mobile-first).

One fresh anecdote. 2 hours ago, I watched the news, and the presenter was explaining how you didn't actually need to have you Covid Pass on your mobile: "you can have it on paper, on a sheet you know, and then er... you fold it and put it in your pocket, er... like we used to do in ancient times."

"Like we used to do in ancient times", she said. And she felt the need to explain how to carry a stupid paper... (she was that close to tell people how many times they should fold it, and how to unfold it.) At home, we were like WTF? For many people, doing everything and the rest on the smartphone has become not only normal, but the primary way of doing, and the only way of doing they know. Other ways are already being marginalised.
> Are they really that incompetent at coding?

Wait, you think this is a _coding_ issue?
I don't disagree with you, but I was asking about the following:

> but it seems to have some license purchase requirements even for the self-hosted options

which doesn't appear to be completely true, regardless of whether you think it's worth your time or or reasonable.
I wish industry encouraged engineers more to pay attention to this kind of things, rather than to flashy bells and whistles. 30-50ms may seem insignificant, but has a huge impact on the overall experience.
Absolutely. We can kinda diffuse that risk out though if we have these files across a bunch of different services (some use OneDrive, some use AgileBits, some use Dropbox, etc).

Would we be better off if instead of one company like Equifax having _everyone_'s information, we had a company per state?

That all said, I actually self-host my (now KeepassXC because 1Password's push to cloud) databases on my own hardware, so for me it's truly a solution.
I work throughout the desert Southwest with numerous cell modems for real-time data collection. I was initially excited to find new shape files to include on planning maps, but this map is wildly optimistic. From personal experience I can note several areas that have involved significant efforts to achieve low data rates from anywhere in the vicinity with limited success— there is zero chance someone with a normal handset or consumer modem can expect "broadband" speeds in any way in these locations.

How anyone (carriers or FCC) thought they could publish this nonsense without many people immediately realizing the quality of the data is beyond me.
I'm a bit confused about what you are saying.
"Please identify where our abstractinos go wrong"? "Our abstractions are slowly getting better"? "Abstractions are bad but not for performance"?
Laws of Software Estimation for Complex Work
Indeed, just see the hundreds of popular free chrome extensions that sold out to adware/malware providers because they were offered $$$

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/-particle-chr...
Most probably encrypted data out of a backup for you to use after unlocking.
That really depends on the country/regulation, Irish blended whiskey is indeed a blend of Grain and Malt whiskey, Scottish blended is a mix of single malts and is usually labeled as blended malt whiskey instead of just blended.

But indeed people tend to classify blended whiskeys as inferior for some reason they aren’t, especially in tightly regulated countries or from good distilleries.

Blended whiskeys allow for a much wider flavor spectrum and most importantly consistency which you can’t get from single malt/single cask whiskeys as each batch and even cask will have quite a bit of variance.

Once you get to the few £1000 per bottle often from brands you never heard off including a lot of private clubs, the whiskeys are nearly always blended and they basically are blends of some of the most rare and sought off single malts.
Ha! I actually read about this a few years ago, but this is an entire base station :-)
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Australian mathematician discovers applied geometry on 3,700-year-old tablet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28062020 - Aug 2021 (11 comments)
I gathered that he finds his business special and lucrative, especially by his native city standards. I think he presumes that even a "bad" employee at his company will find a nice spot in a more ordinary one.
DJIA is also a pretty dumb index.
Do you have a link to the fed's minutes or to your thesis?
Hate how the oppressive Roman empire used state control to force its Latin alphabet on everybody.
> no one ever once characterized him as an alcoholic, he never attended AA or any kind of treatment, and my mother did not care that he drank heavily because "he was never a mean drunk and there was always enough money."

I feel like whenever I read a description of alcoholism, an essential component of it is that you can't stop drinking despite it negatively affecting your health, work, relationships, etc. If he was able to drink at that level without causing those negative consequences, then I think it makes sense that no one would have thought of him as an alcoholic.
I have the 1password family plan which I share with four others, collectively we pay a whopping $1/mo each.
How many Gt of carbon are we capturing annually? According to Wikipedia, less than 50Mt. We need to scale up hundreds of times to make a sizable dent in global emissions. Hard to scale up a technology that is not working that well in practice.

> The joint venture project between NRG Energy Inc and Japan’s JX Nippon had received a $190 million grant from the U.S. government. Before being mothballed, it was the only U.S. project capturing carbon from a coal-fired power plant.

> Since Petra Nova started up in 2017, it suffered outages on 367 days, according to a technical report it sent to the DOE in March. Issues with the carbon-capture facility accounted for more than a quarter of the outage days, followed by problems with the plant’s dedicated natural gas power unit, according to the report.

> The facility also missed its carbon capture targets by about 17%: It captured 3.8 million short tons of carbon dioxide during its first three years, shy of the 4.6 million short tons developers had expected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-energy-carbon-capture...
I would suspect the volume is simply too large.

The “haircut” where you pour a mixer into your mouth, someone pours liquor into your mouth, and then you swallow in a way such that the liquor doesn’t touch your mouth or throat is the closest thing to an “alcohol pill” I can think of. Come to think of it, shots plus chasers are somewhat “pill like” too
"I am reminded of this often when I see kids fight with their parents about how much time the spend on their phones / tablets / computers instead of doing other activities."

To be fair, some parents arent worth connecting with. I'm really happy for you if this isn't your personal experience.
>Rust is known to leak memory, and compiled code can't rely on standard garbage collection.

Rust does not use GC but reference counts, you need to go out of your way and actively call for a memory leak. The part about the "explicit types required" in the the limitation sections sound weird to me too.
I have. My company wanted to begin hybrid next month, while I didn’t feel comfortable doing so until January 2022. When I initially broached the subject in May/June, they weren’t accommodating so I gave my notice. (Hybrid require a big move on my part.)

Recently, they’ve pushed back return date to November at the earliest and become more accommodating, but that ship has sailed, unfortunately.
In many ways, WebAssembly was a poor choice in naming. I propose that "WASM" be retroactively associated with the phrase "world-wide assembly".

(Serious proposal. Please consider adopting this in your own usage, even if informally; think of it as guerilla rebranding.)
Not the poster you are replying to, but I'll bite, out of curiosity about your thinking...

> Is this offering anything more substantive than you own bias and suspicions?

My take-away from the article is that they found all the bits of the immune system primed for long term protection after covid infections. Which is not entirely unexpected, this is what happens with sars, also.

> Is there any response that could get you to consider that the comment "anything which doesn't make people more fearful must be suppressed" is as harmful or even more harmful than the media itself?

I got pretty fed up the news other day when the front page of the BBC led with the an article about leaked CNN memo and three unnamed employees who were fired for not getting vaccinated, and another about Jennifer Aniston apparently cutting off contact with unvaccinated friends. I felt manipulated. I consider stuff like this to be propaganda, not news. It reminded me that I need better sources for covid information, like statnews.com, to get away from such things.

I'd rather see more facts and less adjectives in the news. I'd rather that politicians justify their actions based on numbers, not vague statements. It doesn't seem like the general public is trusted with the facts, but are rather fed a lot of alarmist information.

I imagine the parent poster's assumption is that it would be front page if this study said that natural immunity expires quickly, but we won't see this good news about long lasting immunity on the front page.
In this scenario energy would be stratified by wealth and geography and result in massive civil unrest. So it’s absolutely possible, just highly unlikely to happen until it’s absolutely necessary, and likely too late to actually “solve” the problem.

So from a societal function perspective, carbon capture is the the only way
The idea that two mRNA dose immunity is superior on average to those recovered with natural immunity is absurd. I haven’t reviewed your sources yet, but if you have such a source then you are cherry picking among numerous other results that disagree. Antibody levels can be lower but effective protection against re-infection is very high because memory cells can generate antibodies on demand. Natural antibodies target numerous areas of the virus and are more resilient to variants. Additionally recovered individuals who receive an mRNA dose have the highest levels of measured antibodies.

Why are you trying to arguing something that is clearly false? Do you have a political objective of some sort?
They built it for their spies, so they can exchange information without traces. And they popularize it, so metadata analysis becomes useless. It's unlikely to have vulnerabilities, because other states could find and use them.
Yeah, I also found it slightly conflicting. I think the author is probably saying that those bad feels are probably not an answer in themselves but have an underlying cause that often gets overlooked.
You've obviously never read global chat in Chivalry 2. ;-)
> Even in the early decades of the twentieth century, telescoped words and phrases had been one of the characteristic features of political language; and it had been noticed that the tendency to use abbreviations of this kind was most marked in totalitarian countries and totalitarian organizations. Examples were such words as NAZI, GESTAPO, COMINTERN, INPRECORR, AGITPROP.

And now, COVID.
So that was a really bad explanation but it sounds like it makes evanescent waves? Otherwise I don't see how it could work. Also I don't really understand how you can make a symmetric point source sort of thing that makes evanescent waves.

Very unclear article. A single animation would have helped massively.
Well, it does include this:

its whisky waste-based biogas is already powering three specially converted trucks

I've added "will" to the title. We can call that the Hedberg tense (i.e. they're using, and they will use as well).
People need not know anything about Marx to invoke him. He's much more useful as a boogyman -- besides, aggressive enough badmouthing him will discourage others from finding anything serious out about his beliefs or positions.
Whiskey makers sit on a lot of inventory in order to use a library of older spirits to backstop their highly imperfect annual production. Producers also lose an astonishing 20% of inventory to the "angels' share."

The Bloom Energy guys –– fuel cell experts –– have now started a whiskey company doing interesting things.

https://www.sfgate.com/shopping/article/bespoken-spirits-mak...
If Google Drive scans with the same database then how is your link working?
If true according to the final medal count, https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/interactive/2... , the CCP has failed to achieve its objective this go around by 2 gold medals.
Imaging Cygnus a at 8.45 GHz with ATA
Well yes. We are talking in the context of buying an index in the 20s and holding it until the present day. I split the Japanese index’s performance into two periods, but I’m not sure what your point is because I’m commenting on the entire 90+ year timeframe. Buying straight after the crash would obviously have a different outcome, but that seems like you’re cherrypicking a particular date rather than me.
We're talking about the flagged one which is no longer visible; the trend to remove comments or even accounts is even increasing with the large providers. I responded to the flagged comment before it was flagged, and I didn't see a reason for flagging it. But you can already tell from the downvotes what values certain people here represent; obviously not exactly liberal.

EDIT: as it seems it has been unflagged meanwhile, so it's again visible and you can check yourself.
Why are you intentionally misleading people with dis-information.
The article says "total return", and the price index only increased by 513x (from 68.63 to 35,208). so I'm pretty sure they're including dividends.
A few reasons:

* Efficiency. To get a quad to the same level of efficiency as an equivalent monorotor, the total area of the four prop discs must equal that of the large rotor. Simple geometry makes this impractical, as you end up with a machine far larger (and with four booms instead of one).

* Power distribution. You must now power four props instead of one. Your choices are batteries (very poor autonomy with the current state of the art), mechanical distribution from a combustion engine (heavy and just as complex as the helicopter), or hybrid-electric (very heavy since you need electric motors and a combustion engine and a generator).

* Control. Speeding up and slowing down rotors to modulate lift works great when they're inches across. It's not so good when they're huge - it's laggy, and you waste energy, and it's difficult to do mechanically (see previous point about power distribution). And sure, you could use variable pitch instead - and once again we're on complex helicopter turf, except multiplied by four.

* Safety. Although a helicopter only has one rotor, if it loses power, it can autorotate safely to the ground. Catastrophic mechanical failure is extremely rare, because the only absolutely critical components are the rotor and the bit that keeps it attached, and those are highly overengineered for obvious reasons. Quads on the other hand do not tolerate the loss of any part of their lift system. If the battery runs out, you die. If a prop fails, you die. If a motor burns out, you die. You just can't overengineer the entire power train to the same degree as a single "Jesus nut", and you now have four critical points of failure instead of just one.
This article is at best naive and at worst dangerous and deadly. Addiction is visceral and affects the ancient parts of the brain, the best you can do with consciousness and reason is outsmart it at every turn. Can you rationalize being hungry or in love? It's more like a natural reflex that is described: That's what it addiction feels like. Unfortunately you never get to "eat" or "fall in love". It's at best annoying and at worst crippling, and such is the rest of your life to some degree. I wish you luck brother.
Not even from plants, from plankton.
Anthony Weiner
I'm pretty sure they mean every commit on `master` or `develop`. Not every commit in your `add_new_feature` branch.
Why not place the main algorithm for speed of search, so users can lookup the difference on another page.
I didn’t though. That wasn’t my starting point, the 20s was. It’s just the 80s are when things start going wrong. The Nikkei declined over years, hitting just over 8k in 2003, whereas post bubble it went from mid-30s to mid-20s. The bubble wasn’t even the worst of it.