skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm making no claims as to whether or not Snopes omits references

Good, they clearly do not omit references, thanks for not challenging that!

Snopes has debunked hundreds of liberal falsehoods. Same thing as your grandma fallacy, er, example right? Those falsehoods the liberals said about Trump are actually true?
I stopped consuming the news about a year ago and my life has been dramatically better and healthier for it. It's not really worth paying for something that is designed and coached into leaving you with a feeling of dread or political allegiance. I continue to hear about social issues and events from my friends but I mostly just listen and smile along with whatever their soap box issue may be at the time. That's to say, I hardly take any of this to heart or dedicate my time to thinking critically about things that will never affect me. I'm happier and healthier for it.
For me in South Texas, it was one of the coolest summers I can remember. We had no days at or above 100, and most of the month was below average.

This was due to the High Pressure dome not being over us as it normally is, causing us to have lots of rain.

Many Texans were happy that this summer wasn't a scorcher. While I understand that this weather isn't good (or normal) for us, I fear the nice weather will just make more Texans not care about climate change.
Same. We have a strategic supply basket full of tennis balls for our three mouth breathers.
Building an open source marketplace for Kubernetes (2 years later)
Covid-19 lab leak theory a ‘probable hypothesis,’ WHO scientist says
That's not really true for older people. Muscle weakness is a critical risk for falls. Once a person falls and breaks a hip or something the lack of mobility typically kills them within a couple years.
I started freelancing while working from home, concurrent with my main job, which I'd never done before covid. I don't think I'd go so far as to take a full second job but I have thought about it and I think I could swing it.

Still, I don't need the extra money and I'd easily give up if it meant the world (and work life) could return to its pre-covid normal.
Interesting, seems there's always a tradeoff
Much of our food is fertilized by energy-intensive synthetic fertilizers which are often created by fossil-fueled energy and almost always moved to the field and applied by internal combustion engines. That same ICE equipment is used to harvest and transport food. Oil is used in plastics which are used extensively in both food distribution and medicine/hygiene products.
Original Danish article. Use your blockers because it has an ocean of ads...

https://nyheder.tv2.dk/udland/2021-08-12-ansat-paa-laborator...
The long term trend in planetary sea ice still shows a decrease though, for more information on Arctic vs Antarctic ice:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-deciphering-the-rise-...
> My personal experience was finding an article that talked about something I was directly involved in, and it was clearly wrong.

Snopes can only go by what other sources have written, since they weren’t there. If you have direct personal experience, it’s certainly likely that your view will differ from the one reported by Snopes, for two reasons: Firstly, your view is by definition limited and personal, and is likely skewed one way or the other. But secondly, all journalists who write about something have similar incentives (i.e. to write an interesting ‘story’), and will therefore likely all choose a similar narrative based on a similar starting point.

I should note that Wikipedia has the exact same problem, since Wikipedia must limit itself to secondary sources.
The agricultural revolution is responsible for both low child mortality and the lack of famines. Pesticides, herbicides, artificial fertilizers and motorized farm implements are the reasons why humanity has been able to grow exponentially over the last 1.5 centuries, why famines have lessened and why better nourishment lead to fewer child deaths (with a small helping of better hygiene). All that is dependent on coal and oil.
And for [1]; the "return sorted(arr)" needs to be "return [sorted(arr)]".
I mean, it's partly its fault, sure. To see what happens if you completely let corporations dictate your diet, look no further than Super Size Me.

But also, that's kinda abdicating responsibility a bit, don't you think? My in-laws live in North America, but cook traditional homemade chinese food (and they were teachers by trade in China, so the "low income peeps don't have time" argument doesn't exactly fly either).

It costs them something to the tune of $150 a month in groceries to feed 6 lavishly when we go visit (probably even less otherwise because they're even thriftier when cooking for themselves). The fact that the vast majority of americans don't know how to cook rice in a regular pot, or pickle their own radishes is largely due to its culinary culture (or rather, a lack of it).

In Japan, there's the concept of Yamato Nadeshiko, a desirable set of traits in a romantic partner which involves among other things being excellent at home cooking. I'm not aware of this kind of intertwining between cooking and other aspects of life in the US. IME, cooking is mostly just seen as an annoying chore, or associated with snobbishness.

Another example: there's animes/mangas portraying cooking in home economics class in school (like cutting veggies and making rice). The closest I've seen in the US so far is third graders making homemade ice cream (which is basically just dumping cream in a bag of ice).

Point being, I think there's more than just corporate narratives when it comes to culture.
> "You could permanently denial of service to that farm just by simply over spraying one season, by literally loading up the fertile ground with too many chemicals."

Conceivably you could load up the soil with chemicals to an extent that it takes many years for sufficient breakdown to occur. But if you've filled up your tank to spray 100 acres and it runs dry after covering one acre, you're not exactly going to fill up 99 more times.
It was likely a targeted campaign to cut off the Babylon Bee's traffic source. The Bee had been targeting the Snopes brand for a while with headlines like, "Snopes Issues Pre-Approval Of All Statements Made During Tonight's Democratic Debate."

Facebook contracted with Snopes to fact check the news. Snopes knew that if they kept labeling obvious satire as false, The Bee would be more difficult to share on Facebook and potentially banned.

This happened, but Facebook realized the error and no longer uses Snopes for fact-checking.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/03/...
I had zero side effects from the AZ vaccine. There is apparently a correlation with age and side effects.
> Before I ever had political opinions it was pretty easy to see that people came out kind of brainless and all thinking the same things

Wow. I would say IME people were transformed from unengaged and ignorant to skilled critical thinkers. YMMV, and it it may depend on college and major, but they couldn't make it through liberal arts classes "brainless and all thinking the same things"; they'd fail.
It's a bit funny because Appeal to Authority isn't a fallacy. The actual fallacy is Appeal to Incorrect / False Authority:

"An appeal to false authority is a fallacious argument that relies on the statements of a false authority figure, who is framed as a credible authority on the topic being discussed."

https://effectiviology.com/false-authority/#:~:text=An%20app....
> No, but it does the mean the long term risk are not defined as well.

That's why we have 32 years of study on mRNA vaccines are almost 50 years of study on viral vector vaccines.

> What if, for example, this causes reproductive harm, or some harm to the offspring?

You have no basis for that. What if it causes some people to grow a third arm? A fourth testicle? Again, we've studied the vaccine and know that it does not affect the germ line.

> Or, what if the ADE risk is real, and vaccinated individuals aren't able to combat variants as effectively, perhaps even reacting worse to reinfection?

The data that I linked you shows otherwise?

> It's simply too early to evaluate so many risk here. On the other hand, I can be pretty sure COVID won't cause birth defects, given that no coronaviruses do.

No mRNA vaccine has caused that either lol, nor has any viral vector vaccine. So why would it start now? It's as likely to do that as it is to grow in a bonus nut. [1] Note that the CDC does not specifically cover my bonus nut theory, so who knows? I'll keep an eye out for it tho.

"There is currently no evidence that any vaccines, including COVID-19 vaccines, cause fertility problems in women or men." [1]

I mean why would they? A viral vector vaccine is a virus, just like COVID (well, more specifically, an adenovirus) which doesn't infect germ cells.

> Well, of course - there's a lot more unvaccinated people and cases, what else would you expect?

That's up to 200X higher per capita in the un-vaccinated population vs the vaccinated population.

> And I'm not at risk of being hospitalized anyway, so I still see no reason to try and mitigate that risk.

Everyone is, at different rates, and your rate is strictly higher than after vaccination.

> Regardless, taking the vaccine is pointless beyond self-preservation if it doesn't reduce spread, and at the moment that's unknown, and complicated by the fact that some 'variants' seem to side-step the vaccine. Sitting on the side lines and waiting for more data seems reasonable to me.

The infections from variants are still hundreds of times less severe in the vaccinated.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommend...
> As for the July record, OK - but also some points in time have to be the record.

Yes, if you have a sequence of comparable values that are not all identical, one of those values is the maximum.

If you keep hitting maxima at a rate that's not decreasing, then the sequence is trending upward. In this case not only is the rate of record-breaking not decreasing, it's increasing.
There's no evidence that a diet high in olive oil increases obesity or all-cause mortality.
I think an important point here is that as much as the industry is a problem, especially since it lobbies in its own interests, it is a problem we have helped to create and perpetuate with our lifestyle demands.
Having a website whose whole purpose is to recommend stuff and then being paid for recommendations by the sellers is both a scam and a common marketing tactic. It's hard to tell when this happens. I'm not saying OP is doing this, I'm saying it's hard to tell and I'll err on the side of looking for better sources.
Throwing out the baby with the bathwater, because the bathwater (after careful searching) was found to have some impurity, is itself a tactic for pushing an agenda, not a fair and rational response. You can't just say "added eplanit => all bad, no trust", you have to show a pattern and intent, neither of which you have even attempted to do.
Instead of "warmest", we need to use "hottest" or "highest temperature". Warm sounds like it is nice and cozy. I live in Seatte and it was NOT nice and cozy.
Since you mentioned QR, I want to link [1] to one of my favorite articles, which explains how to use the QR decomposition to sample a random orthogonal matrix uniformly at random. The basic idea, of course, is that if A is a random matrix, and we compute A = QR, then Q is a random orthogonal matrix. But with what distribution? Well, it turns out to be almost uniform (according to Haar measure), but there are some density issues. A simple scaling of QR decomposition resolves the issue.

When I was a TA I loved giving this as an example to students. It's a great teaser for the rabbit hole that is random matrix theory.

[1] Mezzadri 2002, "How to Generate Random Matrices from the Classical Compact Groups" (http://www.ams.org/notices/200705/fea-mezzadri-web.pdf)
No, it's not the Taliban. From https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-rights-women-...

"Fatima’s Taliban husband was so controlling that he refused to allow her to bathe and threatened to burn her face if she dared wear make up, suspicious that his 12-year-old Afghan wife was trying to make herself attractive to other men."

“He became my lawful husband and began to rape me and beat me every single day for not consenting (to sex),”

The Taliban being a pedophile network is well known.
It’s very unclear who he’s referring to in saying the system has “auditability”.

Be explicit Craig. Who gets to audit the source code and/or database exactly? And how is that done?
A little confused: We do or don't have to choose?

I agree with 'don't'; the idea that everything is politicized propaganda is a tool of the propagandists, like a liar saying 'everyone lies'.
Not to nitpick, but the "stable" part isn't necessarily true. If the money is just being used for a down payment, and not being cited as recurring income, they wouldn't care whether it's stable.

Side note: I still can't make sense of why lenders care about the money's source being legitimate but the title company doesn't, per my experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28163885
They can say "no" but they have to cope with the fallout from that.

The statement from Apple is that they will say no. Whether that actually ever happens is something we will see, one way or another.
Wow, that's a cynical take if I've seen one.
A penny pincher is someone who takes money out of the communal meal payment (deposited on the table like a poker pot) because it represents more than 5% tip. In other words, they effectively reduce their own tip below 5% because someone else tipped a higher, more socially-acceptable percentage.
No. It's not about satisfying bureaucracy. It's that at a certain point, any complex code system becomes a black box. You cannot fully reason about it. Your tests become your source of validating that box and any change you make is just as likely to break something as it is to fix something.
I do wonder if we'll continue to see elevated rates of hand-washing in the years to come (as people have started to make it a habit), and if that will correlate to decreased rates of common colds/flus.
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi is an excellent novel set in a future in which "carbon fuel sources have become depleted, and manually wound springs are used as energy storage devices [0]." There are also genetically-engineered animals that are particularly strong and good at converting food calories into kinetic energy (for winding storage springs or other uses) and treadle-powered desktop computers [1], like sewing machines before electricity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Windup_Girl

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treadle
This map is in line with what I would expect from the head line. I don’t get what the other commenters are complaining about. Did they expect a literal path showing exactly where the mammoth walked down to millimeter precision 24/7 for the whole life of said mammoth? This map is nice and good and interesting.
As opposed to MACHOs ("massive compact halo object") where the "massive" actually does mean "planetary to stellar mass".
Typical average latency of keyboard and monitor combined is about 26 ms

'typical' might be a bit of a stretch here: I doubt that without tuning settings on a standard OS like Ubuntu/Windows and with your typical 60 or 75Hz monitor it's possible to achieve numbers this low (I've measured software->monitor latencies, good luck getting lower than 2 frames, and that's excluding input and processing). Anyway since this is largely theoretical, what would be really interesting here to actually measure this with external hardware and see what the actual numbers are. Think 2-channel oscilloscope, channel 1 probing keyboard key activation and channel 2 measuring a photovoltaic sensor taped to the screen. Anyone did that already?
So now what?

The information is out there. Do we hold journalism accountable?

Do we change social rules?

Do we trust Snopes?

What’s the value of this information other than gossip?

Does it improve our scientific understanding of anything? Or just reiterate how useless 24/7 information cycles are?

I’m being sincere; constant scandal over… nothing burgers.

Meanwhile, the environment is burning up in part due to the systems we cobble together to distribute nonsense.

I struggle with the point of this culture. This is the equivalent of a paranoid neighbor peeking through the blinds and grunting nonsense in their house about their neighbors.

Such high standards, HN
They don't have food at home?

As a kid, eating at McDonald's was like a once-every-other-month treat.
It should let you put in your country of citizenship so it can filter the visas down before showing you visas you can't get.
> A horse working for an hour nonstop would be .7kW hrs.

More like 8.4kWh.

> data from the horse pulling contest at the 1925 Iowa State Fair showing that peak mechanical power output of a horse is 12-14.9 HP.

https://doi.org/10.1038/364195a0
Oh thanks. I wasn't aware of that article nor that Varnish did exactly this :) Updated the text of my post to incorporate it.

And when I said performance would suffer, I was not implying it'd be terrible. I was trying to say that the extra open/close system calls are overhead that you don't directly pay with direct memory accesses. But... the overall impact of those on system performance would likely be invisible. Also clarified this.
Businesses purposes usually has a strict definition that doesn't extend to operating a business from said country for extended periods of time. Nevermind the tax implications.

Other countries are far more explicit in law that any paid (or unpaid) remuneration is a visa violation. Thailand for example.

> don't care

That's the key phrase here. Personally I don't care that authorities don't enforce their immigration laws but it should be explicitly stated that you are violating your visa on sites such as this and Nomadlist.
> It sounds all good and well, until you realize it's essentially just a tax on the least wealthy people.

You could in theory offset that by changing the mix of products qualified for SNAP program. 20% of food stamp money is spent on sugary stuff https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/ops/SNAPF...
Honestly, I don't really care if the government even uses the money. Even burning the money in a furnace would be beneficial, as the act would at least take a small bite out of inflation. The point is to move away from the status where the richest 1% of the population owns 35% of the country's total wealth.
Exactly. But nothing new. That stuff existed since mankind exists. Still we didn’t figured out a solution.
>You are far less likely to get infected at all if you're fully vaccinated

This is what I'm asking about, transmission. The data on this is woefully limited however.

Here's another Fauci quote:

So far, the available Covid-19 vaccines have not been judged primarily on their ability to prevent transmission – though this is now being evaluated as a secondary endpoint for many of them. Instead, their efficacy was assessed by whether they could prevent symptoms from developing. “This means that we set our targets kind of pragmatically,” says Danny Altmann, professor of immunology at Imperial College London.

…

There isn’t yet any conclusive evidence that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine can prevent people from being infected with the coronavirus – and therefore halt its spread. But there are some early signs that it might.

When these were being released, no one knew it's effects on transmission, yet the sentiment was that they certainly did, and questioning this brought about frustration.

>There's more and more data

There's also data building to the contrary. Take a look at Israel's number of cases vs vaccination status, for example. We're not at a stage where data is conclusive either way, and in that case I'm fine with waiting things out.

For example, this is what you're study says:

>The mRNA vaccines are highly effective at preventing symptomatic and severe COVID-19 associated with B.1.617.2 infection

This is not about reducing SARS-COV-2 transmission, but symptomatic COVID. These mistakes lead to misinformation spreading.

Further, this is all your second study concludes:

Among index patients, those who had been vaccinated were likely to be less severely symptomatic2 and might have been less infectious than those who were unvaccinated.

As I'm sure you know, correlation does not imply causation, it's possible that vaccinated individuals were simply practicing better viral hygiene (especially given that they were vaccinated back in Jan/Feb, when there was less social pressure and more risk).
The digestive system also gradually loses the ability to absorb protein with age. Elderly people actually need more protein just to maintain muscle mass, but most of them fail to adjust their diets accordingly.
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I do not have access to the third paper, which may hold somewhat more interest. Otherwise, all examples of models of hypercomputation in [1] and [2] are relying on performing an infinite number of steps in a finite time OR on precisely knowing the solution to an uncomputable problem. These are as interesting as trying to solve human flight assuming anti-gravity exists - they are obviously non-physical, absurdist models.

In fact, we don't know of a single physical process that is not Turing Computable, at least if we add randomness. Even with quantum wave-function collapse, we already know that QCs are still Turing equivalent.

This all suggests to me that the prior for the human mind being Turing equivalent can only be taken to be very close to 1.
Is CX the new word for UX? Took me a minute to figure out what "We put the X in Mobile CX" meant.

I've heard people not wanting to call customers "users" but haven't come across it yet. IMO it only makes sense as a distinction from the end-user. Otherwise user is already well embedded in our language (username, user interface, user manual, etc).
Frontend developers really like their designers to have versions, because it handles the eternal:

Designer: Hey, I filed a bug for this, it doesn't look like the design. <screenshot of design they changed yesterday>

Developer: Um, we released that like two weeks ago; it's correct according to the design I had at the time.

Designer: Yeah, but this is the design <link to continuously updated document in web editor with no history> Maybe you can just fix it really quick today?

Doesn't have to be git, but some way to match up releases to the design document that was current at that time is quite useful.
Gee, yesterday I was just reading in Hegel's Philosophy of Right that properly speaking the nuclear family is the family.

I can't speak to other countries, but the United States has tended to be unusually mobile. That can make the extended family household hard to maintain.
Hold My FPGA: GroqChip Takes the Cake for LSTM: Groq
Neat link to working code!

"⟨3, 2, 1⟩" generates "⟨ 2 1 3 ⟩". I expected "⟨1, 2, 3⟩".
It's Nature's Own 100% Whole Wheat. I get it from Kroger. Total sugars are <1g, all of which seems to be added. The only sweetener I see on the ingredients list is brown sugar, but the FDA defines that as an added sugar so it's taken into account.
GCM Core is installed out of the box with official git installer on Windows. Several Linux distributions at this point include it as well. On macOS it is a simple brew install away.

git itself was built as an agglomeration of multiple tools bundled together and GCM Core is right on the borderline of a tool always included in the git distribution anyway on some platforms and needs to be installed on others. It's likely to always be in that "weird border space" because it requires a web browser and there isn't a pure command line equivalent.
You're right! I misread this as meaning the opposite. Thanks.