skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What basis is there for these claims?

> IMO the most effective and most widely deployed (especially among the supposedly more reputable publications) propaganda tool isn’t outright lies, but rather, selective reporting of cherry-picked facts and omission of others to shape stories into their predefined narratives. TFA doesn’t address that at all.

That doesn't mean it isn't taught. The article can't cover everything taught in the class. So that is unfounded.

> It seems to me that students’ main takeaway from this course would be to trust NPR, NYT and the like, rather than viral content.

What makes you say that's the main takeaway; can you cite something in the article or elsewhere? The only argument behind it is the unfounded claim above.

Are you suggesting people should trust viral content? How should they interact with information about their world and decide what to trust?

> doesn’t help when your “trustworthy” media selection decide to suppress all arguments from another side, or remain silent on certain stories altogether.

That's not my experience. Obviously, news sources have limited resources and time, so they can't report everything nor will they always make good decisions. They also are there to serve readers, and thus should omit information that lacks foundation in truth - I certainly don't want to waste my time on it. They won't be perfect, but the only core 'mainstream' source (e.g., major national publications, the NYT, WSJ, ABC News, etc.) that I've seen systematically show bias is Fox News (however, I don't watch CNN or MSNBC) and a little in the Washington Post, which I notice few people remark on.

In the NY Times, for example, I haven't seen it, despite people repeating ad infinitum that it happens (repetition, I hope they teach, has no correlation with truth). They even have an opinion page with as many conservative writers as anything else, and they are among their most popular columns.
SMIT and smitty made AIX system administration somewhat tolerable as it could insulate you from having to figure out the incredibly arcane commands and arguments for that environment. SMIT and smitty worked exceptionally well.
>professors that are now full time podcasters

Shocking, the people peddling the crackpot theory also stand to profit from its proliferation.
https://archive.ph/hz4Wy
To be fair, I’m not sure where you grew up. I was in a low ranked school district, and I’m sure there are always a few (perhaps many) bad apples. You also probably wouldn’t see this behavior if you didn’t deviate from the approved path.

isn’t the classic argument that being black in America is awful and whites can’t understand because they aren’t marginalized? I actually agree to an extent, but only so far as people don’t realize how it feels to be on the outside, unless that’s at there or have experienced it.

That being said, there’s a long list I can cite. Differing world views lead to dramatically different understandings in even interpretation.

An excellent example, my friend and I in school had to do an essay on the impacts of global warming. We chose the impact on animal populations in the Arctic, as there was a news article about some poor starving polar bears. Turns out (at the time) the population of polar bears and other animals was booming (while a few were decreasing). We showed some graphs, we were surprised about this honestly. We failed because “we didn’t show the impact of global warming” - seriously, I don’t have evidence, but it’s an ideological world view that teachers push.

In my AP government class in high school it was so bad the students would scream at the teacher. He had to regularly remove and suspend kids for getting aggressive at what they were being taught. Believe it or not, idk It was a personal experience.

> I'm sure we can find a few examples of anything, but we also all know well that there's a political group that is trying to denigrate and politicize every institution, from the media to schools to the FBI to the courts to scientists, etc. by saying they are biased toward liberals. Repeating its claims doesn't help; if we are going to think critically about it, and we should, we need some credible evidence.

I linked a lawsuit. You can also request the ciriculum from school districts you live in. You can also attend school board meetings. I urge you to do so and see for yourself.
Omg why would democrats believe this it's not like the CIA released a report saying that Russia tampered in the election.
We may see the latter.
>Sadly this is so inconvenient for most of the adults.

I've heard about it before, but I struggle hard to understand what does it mean

like parents will go to school to flame teacher cuz their kid disagrees with them on $hot_topic?
Easier to build a Dyson sphere around it than the sun.
The first result I see on DDG for "apex fallacy" is RationalWiki, which is a left-wing site. The definition there is "when someone evaluates a group based on the performance of best group members, not a representative sample of the group members."

I can see why that's not included in most lists of fallacies. It's just a specific example of cherry picking, a well known fallacy that is already included in the lists.
Apple's system allows the middle to decrypt certain images or "visual derivatives" at least. True E2E doesn't.
An important part of indoctrination is training children that only regime approved news sources are reliable.
Note for the curious: WIMP simply means "weakly interactive massive particle". And "massive" here means "has mass," not that they're gigantic.

Although they're theorized to have a mass closer to the Higgs boson than a proton, which is a lot of mass as far as subatomic particles go.
There's also the Penrose process which is theoretically useful on spinning black holes. I also watched this in the past, which has some fun ideas (that are probably a little fanciful?) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ulCdoCfw-bY tl;dw: put a mirror around it and shine light in, get back lots of energy and/or blow up your whole solar system.

I'm not sure if any of that would apply to a ~planet mass black hole spinning with ~planet sized angular momentum, or how solid the physics even is, but it sounds cool anyway.
Oh, MST...
> "If I were now president, the world would find that our withdrawal from Afghanistan would be a conditions-based withdrawal," Trump claimed in a statement. "I personally had discussions with top Taliban leaders whereby they understood what they are doing now would not have been acceptable," he said.

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-blames-biden-unacceptable-talib...

The Taliban is not really a red/blue issue
Highlights:

> We took advantage of the 1918 virus sequencing and the resultant production of recombinant 1918 haemagglutinin (HA) protein antigen to characterize at the clonal level neutralizing antibodies induced by natural exposure of survivors to the 1918 pandemic virus.

> Here we show that of the 32 individuals tested that were born in or before 1915, each showed seroreactivity with the 1918 virus, nearly 90 years after the pandemic.

> Seven of the eight donor samples tested had circulating B cells that secreted antibodies that bound the 1918 HA.

> We isolated B cells from subjects and generated five monoclonal antibodies that showed potent neutralizing activity against 1918 virus from three separate donors.

> These antibodies also cross-reacted with the genetically similar HA of a 1930 swine H1N1 influenza strain, but did not cross-react with HAs of more contemporary human influenza viruses.

> The antibodies bound to the 1918 HA protein with high affinity, had exceptional virus-neutralizing potency and protected mice from lethal infection.

> Thus, these studies demonstrate that survivors of the 1918 influenza pandemic possess highly functional, virus-neutralizing antibodies to this uniquely virulent virus, and that humans can sustain circulating B memory cells to viruses for many decades after exposure-well into the tenth decade of life.
Mining in Logarithmic Space
Do you feel like you understand the banking system well enough to make a comment like that? I'm still just describing the basics to you. There's ample information online, so have at it...
> DAE fox news bad, cnn good?

This is going to be the extent of this "education".
most of the stuff I've seen is "temporarily remote" until COVID is over, so there is still an expectation that you will eventually come in. Who knows if that will ever happen, but it is quite a different situation between the two.
In situations where the work is not inherently temporary (e.g. a construction project) or seasonal, it seems to me that employing people as contractors without any job security is itself part of the problem.

That is on top of the sexual harassment and other mistreatment that the article discusses as well as the fact that the corps are cutting political deals to avoid paying taxes.
This is a really good point. I am very big on making code Pythonic, but I always tell junior developers to get the thing to work first. Once it works, we can re-write it with the advantage of hindsight. The hard part is getting people to tell the manager it's going to be a few days longer even though it's already working.
Umm, we live in a hell world without universal healthcare. Until that changes bennies are pretty important
Some episodes of 'Love Death + Robots' (Netflix) have caused me to double-take as I didn't realise at first they were CGI.

There's a BTS video[1] about the animation on one episode, appears that it was a blend of both CGI + real faces.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWB507yaBXI
Example 5 has long been a favorite of mine. So easy to investigate, so geometrical, and there is a pattern, just not the obvious one.
Well, if you really want to go this route, you can beat them at their own game and accuse them of Arguing From Fallacy. (A nice illustration: https://theupturnedmicroscope.com/comic/logical-fallacies-ar...)

That being said, I do think it’s important to avoid fallacious reasoning — it helps in making arguments clearer. As mentioned above, just because someone uses a fallacy doesn’t mean their conclusion is wrong, but it does mean that you can prove their argument wrong. (And any reply should ideally be phrased in these terms: ‘your argument has problem X’ is easier to respond to than ‘your argument has fallacy Y’.) Furthermore it means they are thinking less clearly than they perhaps should be.
- Apple link is dead FYI

- I can’t imagine a harder sell than an app improving mental health. From own experiences, simply stepping away / hiking / going without a phone for a couple days is a huge empowering reset.

Will check out and wish you best of luck
Yeah I remember seeing a lot of people deploying the fallacy list(s) as an argumentative tool to say "ha! you're argument vaguely resembles this 'fallacy' so you're instantly wrong." It's a lot less now I think, they've fallen out of style I guess, or I'm just getting in/reading less pointless arguments.
The only reasons to do stuff in infrastructure are 1) performance 2) costs and 3) because there is no other options.
Typical something that sounds cool but doesnt mean anything. Just do what's best. Whether it's infrastructure or code, just look at the problem and apply the correct solution. Design patterns are evil.
but more than half turn out to not really be remote
They can’t.

It will hurt their sales. It will hurt Apple.

They will have to walk this back or face devaluation.

They’ve already done a ton of damage to their brand. It’s really hard to believe they would sacrifice their brand like this. This is Apple.

They made their reputation on privacy.

You are 100% right. You cannot square the two.
np, makes more sense now, tx.
> This is my pet peeve!

I'm confused: Isn't this a very common narrative, especially among a certain political group?

> Underlining story: there is so much need for critical thinking in our schools!!!

That is the solution IMHO and IME: Teach critical thinking, not who is right or wrong. That's what my teachers did almost universally, what other teachers I know of did, and what seems to me is happening in this class.
That's a big if. For jobs like being an Uber driver, the consensus seems to be that you get less money.
That's kinda silly, but I see why Apple would do that. I guess it's a good thing this exists for power users then!
If these are common would not our exoplanets hunt have found a bunch of these? Especially when looking at star wobble.
You know what I love most about this comment? That I cannot tell which side you think has gone insane.
Considering the 1619 project is being pushed into public schools, I am pretty sure history can be manipulated too.
That's a great question and indeed a full research direction -- uncertainty quantification. Unfortunately it turns out that it's not that simple.
> As currently implemented

We don't actually know what is implemented. We only know what Apple's PR machine is saying about it, or do we have the source code somewhere?
Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately I don't know anyone who would do it. Do you have any good recommendations of services?

My goal was to be more secure than an out of date wordpress site - which I think I have achieved.

I don't really understand the harm that can come from an email/password/ip leak, besides spam or stolen accounts if they reuse their password. Do you have a link that might impress the seriousness of the situation on me?
I never thought of it that way - it seems my son has a near permanent case of the zoomies!
News Will Not Be Replaced by Anything
> They are taxed on bringing that money into the US though

Which they (almost) never have to do. If they need cash in America, they take out super-low-interest loans.

> the owners of it are taxed once the money moves to individuals

Again, that's technically true but only poor schnooks who keep their money in Vanguard index funds are paying those taxes. The wealthy have more sophisticated tax strategies.
If you can lift it, er... before it absorbs you, then you must already have supernatural powers, so you can join the Norse gods.
> have a policy of firing people after two years and refusing to re-hire them for a set amount of time. However, if they do then that would be immoral for them to.

The truth is that no contracting company wants to lost people after two years. Why would any company voluntarily let go of their most experienced workers and go through all the trouble of hiring and training new ones? Who would actually want to perform that cycle over and over again for no possible benefit?

They’re not doing this to be evil. They’re doing this to comply with poorly thought out regulations. Blame the regulators for coming up with these arbitrary laws.

The contracting companies would definitely be retaining their most experienced contractors if they could.
In my understanding, in all developed countries except US there is universal healthcare.
IBM top brass considered the PC market something they had to be in that could use to upsell other more expensive IBM kit.

They were very surprised when it became a hit and established a new market but then they lost it when the closed spec MCA (Microchannel Architecture) PC.

The cloners (Dell/Compaq) banded together and did EISA (Extended ISA) in reponse and went their own way.
Facebook, Reddit, and TikTok memes all can be valid sources of news, though.
I think it should be more generalized than "news" related but other than that, I applaud such lessons in public education.

Coursework should focus on aspects of information gathering/research; understanding sources, credibility, incentive/motive structures of those sources; comparison techniques between information sources for cross comparison; and then with all the information they gather, skills to apply critical thinking and assessment of the information. You also need to understand human biases that can creep in even when you're aware of the biases that often effect critical assessment.

In the information age, we need a population that's more educated about information, disinformation, misinformation, common propoganda/manipulation techniques, and so on. We also need a population who under certain conditions can do primary information gathering. Unless you're in the business of manipulating people or those who manipulate people align with your interests (they usually don't), then it's to your benefit to have informed peers to help fight off nonsense.
I would like to upvote this 1000 times to underline "pretty sturdy box." It can be a particularly amusing exercise to do the math for things like this, calculate the gravitational forces involved, and compare the results to e.g. the strength of steel.
This occupation has cost the US about US$52,000.00 (more than US$2T total) for each Afghan. Their GDP per capita is not even US$500.
> On August 22, 2011, the FCC voted to remove the rule that implemented the Fairness Doctrine, along with more than 80 other rules and regulations, from the Federal Register following an executive order by President Obama directing a "government-wide review of regulations already on the books" to eliminate unnecessary regulations.

Seems like it hasn't been a thing for a decade, so I'm not so sure.
From the article, it mentioned that WhatsApp lets users make free international calls. Not sure if that distinguishes it above other comms channels.
It's a nice building. The Taliban will probably try to capture it intact rather than burning it down.
All the middle-eastern rulers are watching this and drawing the conclusions.
A box made of any known material that close in would get ripped to shreds by tidal forces.
“At what cost?” Free, apparently.
Good to know! If we go by jurisdiction, it seems that surprisingly NordVPN (Panama) is better than these two.
Yeah we had this at my private religious high school in Canada as part of civics class. It didn't really have a right or left bend, it focussed on critical thought, sourcing (anonymous sources vs named, credentialed source), fact verifiability, and reputation.

Especially with what the internet has done to news this really should be taught in schools everywhere.
"We do not negotiate with terrorists"

- the Taliban, to the US government
I’m seeing is a lot for software development job postings in Canada. It is “remote” but you are required to live in the city.
> The problem is that the toplevel of a module is full of functions at various levels of granularity.

Exactly--this is what I was hinting at with "rules of function encapsulation." I took a course on LISP in college (apropos of nothing, it featured a lab called, "Isn't this just a one credit course?") in which it seemed like the LISP Way was to use helper functions. It's always felt like something was missing in my ability to "translate" between paradigms because this rubs me the wrong way (although as I went through some examples I realized I do this with some regularity in other languages--but it doesn't "feel" as bad).

In retrospect probably part of the problem was that we ALGOL-adjacent undergrads didn't have the scaffolding to understand more generic approaches like fold and cousins. It was a different way of thinking.

I like the idea of literate programming as a potential solution, especially as it can be used to guide newbies through the code and identify areas where idioms are much different between one's existing paradigms and that of the codebase.
More precisely, a black hole five times as massive as the Earth. And it fits on a page. I think I have to print that out and pin it to a wall somewhere...
yep, I always find surveys to be a very lazy way of "doing science" but that is probably for another thread. The results of this survey do create an interesting (and in my opinion, believable) talking point, and maybe can lead to a better researched paper on the subject.
I personally think that PhD students are more likely going to be cautious of anything they don't have a good understanding of. They would (imo) be inclined to do better research into the pros/cons of vaccination, which is not easy to do right now with all the noise online.
Would you also insist that these companies hire and manage their own janitorial staff to clean the building every night? That work is neither temporary nor seasonal either, but no one thinks twice when every small and medium sized company contracts with a cleaning company.
Someone on the internet is wrong!!!

Since onsite is usually implied and rarely mentioned explicitly in the text, taking a corpus that mentions either term will bias heavily towards remote
The prices faced by the average tech worker are very different. Restaurant prices in SF have one of the highest increasing prices indices in the country, you can look it up.

Ubers have also increased in price.

Groceries.. have not.
First-sale doctrine says probably not, although I'm aware that legally they may be able to work around that.
Didn't you study the difference in quality versus non-quality sources as a child? I remember lots of term papers where my references were questioned and only references of certain quality were allowed.
> "has become"

Was there a time when it wasn't?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_bias#History
Decoding AVIF: Deep dive with cats and imgproxy
I think the point was that some employers may pay you more than enough for you to pay for your own health insurance (even after tax deductions).

(I'm not in the US, you seem to have your own hell there, but still, every 'benefit' has a price tag, no?)
The case against crisis-mongering
i think thats the point the article is making? don't just use a tool or lib, but understand how generators work. that is more pythonic. am i right?
That's some fancy judo you're doing there. I brought up that Iraq point first, but apparently I'm the one ignorant about Iraq.
How to flexibly query back end (e.g. SQL) from front end?
Say I have an SQL database and I want to query it from a frontend/app. But I need to assume a malicious actor, so I need fine granular control over what is queried and I want to check if the query is valid for whoever submits it. Are there any good solutions that are less powerful than just having pure SQL (which is super hard to check) but more powerful than, say, graphql?

Something like cube.js (cube.dev) seems to come close, but I wonder what other options are there
I think it's more likely that the US will burn it to the ground to prevent the Taliban accessing it. After you have shredded the files and wiped the drives, you napalm it from a helicopter. It's the only way to be sure.
The world is full of people who take a casual attitude towards their finances. They are the ones we keep reading about when we are told most people can't raise $1000 in an emergency or don't think they will ever be able to afford retirement.
TypeDB Client for Julia
> People I know in the younger generations (in their 20s) who are conservatives are scared to speak and have been for years.

I haven't noticed this at all. The only time I've seen widespread silence from my conservative friends & family is after January 6th of this year. Could just be my circle, but almost all of them have gone radio silent, nothing at all to say any more. But before that they were definitely anything but quiet.
From the PDF:

> On its own, a PBH of mass 5M⊕ has a Hawking temperature of 0.004 K, making it colder than the CMB, and since it’s radius is rBH ∼ 5 cm, the power radiated by the PBH alone is minuscule.

Also wolfram alpha says it would take 7e52 years to evaporate from hawking radiation, so it's quite stable: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%285120*pi*G%5E2*%285+...
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