skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He is trying to make a point. Like he said, people will ingest the oil because they are dispersing it in order to make it sink, being on his hands it's probably the least of his worries.
NYT has more than "some bias" toward liberal. It has Paul Krugman for regular opinion columnist, for starters, one article from him on today: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/opinion/inflation-infrast...

But these are opinion, so examine one news story from also today: https://www.nytimes.com/article/emotional-labor.html

"emotional labor" you never will hear outside of very leftwing area, same with use of term like "partner" or specification of "in heterosexual partnership". These are not noticeable for many readers from urban area but are almost jump off the page to any from, say, more rural background. Coverage clearly is more than "a little" bias.
>I can't fathom how anybody still advocates for this industry unless they're getting filthy rich off it [...] but how can you still argue that this crap is fine for the environment? You want polluted waters, polluted air, polluted everything?

Because even though most people are against "polluted waters, polluted air, polluted everything", it's only in the abstract. They care about cheap transport (and associated goods) more. See: the yellow vest protests, the failed carbon tax in switzerland, or the US opposition to gas taxes even from democrats[1].

[1] https://thehill.com/homenews/house/559063-democrats-have-tur...
have restrictions on the visual distraction of those adds (preferably static images)

My worry is that the height of the revenue you speak of in 2009 was because of stuff like this. That the invasive nature of the ads was what impressed ad-buyers so much and caused such a huge spend in the first place. That, coupled with the fact that online advertising was still fairly new and everyone thought it would be so much more effective than traditional advertising, mostly because of how flashy and unavoidable it could be.
Yeah, it's not using the dom, it's using a canvas with webgl.
Covered what up? It's not like the virus signed out at the front desk and they're hiding it. Nobody knows, there's no evidence to cover up.
Especially given that a typical washing machine has a <50W motor.

I think you could easily rinse the clothes through spinning using such a setup.
Ad revenue? A traditional news org might put up a paywall, but that presumably goes against Snopes' mandate of debunking nonsense for the masses. We here at HN tend to paste paywalled article links into archive.is. Sure, an adblocker does the job of depriving beneficiaries of ad revenue just as well, but this way there's at least a chance.
"Using your opponent’s force against them"
How is this not a better established position? I see Snopes as pure, unadulterated bias. Honestly, I see all those fact checking websites the same way.

Which is fine, though humorously this pairs nicely with another thread on HN this morning about HS critical thinking courses around journalism, quite well.
The offer is to invest 2.5M in exchange for 10% of the company. There is no offer to buy all your shares for 25M.
I think this conundrum can be broken up by noticing how pervasive one extension is. A feature that has become identical with the core product in the eyes of a layman is problematic in the same way as thinking "IE6" is the same as "the web". If there's no awreness of choice, then the only outcome is further lock-in.

Implementing "sync" on its own doesn't matter that much, because few people think "sync" is a defining feature of the web standards, or that preview is an inherent part of web feeds. The awareness of alternatives still exists (I hope).
This study talks about reinfection for vaccinated patients and not about reinfection of unvaccinated patients. This does not seem to contradict the parent comment.
The tax could be such that you are forced to turn over shares in the company to the state. The bigger you get, the more shares you have to give to them, the more influence they have on company decisions.

In theory, this would act sort of as a general purpose regulation. Instead of using the force of law to make companies comply, it uses the force of its share votes.

Of course, there are a bunch of ways this kind of scheme could go wrong too.
There are interesting non-rebel cases of What if they weren't. I have a library (object only, no source) written for C (not C++) which wants callbacks. It is the only interface provided by the vendor for something that shall remain nameless. Every callback has to be wrapped in a try catch, or hell will break loose.
> 10000 litre tanker delivery costs $10 at most.

Source? Because I highly doubt that the entire supply chain, from getting the water to the tanker, to getting the tanker to the refugee camp, to unloading and making it available for use, costs $10 at most for a single tanker.

Hell, even without the last step. Even without the first step. The fuel alone to get a tanker to the camp from wherever is itself more than $10.
Yeah you’re putting your faith in a company whose talcum powder has been causing cancer for decades and saying “it doesn’t kill you it’s not that bad”

It’s an experimental vaccine that hasn’t even been out for a year mate. Use some better judgement.

“Oh but it prevents covid” - yeah and that powder helped with the rash too I’m sure.
Yes, that's a problem. But it's not as big a problem as the current economic divide. The very wealthiest have superfluous amounts of money -- enough to pay to find loopholes so that they pay no taxes.

If there was an island with 100 people and one person had almost all of the coconuts and others were starving, no one will care about details for very long. Fix it now because people won't ask nicely for long.
By the way, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is bullshit up until someone does an actual study on it. It's just anecdote based at this point, and my personal anecdotes don't support it.
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people were saying the same thing about the SPLC when they were founded
I upvoted this comment, but people are not so dumb to only eat junk food. There are environmental/psychological factors why people overeat. Other research shows that people will overeat "healthy food" i.e. huge dollops of olive oil, or fruit juice, because it's "healthy."

I agree that reducing bad food and portion control is the answer, but it's very hard to drive behavioral change in people. And the health industry has done a "good" job of creating medication to enable bad lifestyles i.e. metformin for Type2 Diabetes, other drugs to manage cholesterol, etc.
Imposing a wealth cap like that is a fantastic way to assure that those basic needs will never be met.

Over the past two centuries, billions of humans have been lifted out of poverty. Approximately zero percent of that came from the redistribution of existing wealth. All of it came from raising economic productivity. And that vast majority of those productivity gains had foundations built by entrepreneurs seeking great fortunes.
Companies provide points of contact for these types of legal process to be served on them - it is akin to the registered agent process. Govt agencies do not have the authority to dictate how a company accepts this legal process, only that they comply with the legal order itself. As a result, govt agencies follow the methods of contact that a company provides, whether its a fax number, email address, mailing address, etc.

Agencies are willing to follow the process that a company lays out because it makes engaging with that company easier. It is not in an agency's interest to make the process difficult (i.e. demanding to use fax machines when a company already has a lawenforcment@company.com email set up).
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...

It has real evidence. I can hunt down more if you like.
If this is your stance, then walk the walk and stop replying.
Why is everyone concern with accessability on small gui tool? Someone make a cool project and always hackernews with the question on how it serve this very small demographic.
> Despite what those propagandists and opinion pieces say, the NY Times, ... do[es] provide quality news (don't read their opinion sections either).

You ever read Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent[1]? If you can't bring yourself to read the book, he made a film about it too [2]. But the book has hundreds of examples (well sourced) of why you should probably rethink that.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Econo...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuwmWnphqII
In order to do remote correctly the company needs to be setup for remote work, no half measures. Standups/meetings happen online only. Employees are active on slack/teams, and not only devs but everyone.

The biggest issue is people who are resistant to change and are unwilling to learn new ways of communications. Some companies were forced to go remote but never did remote correctly. Some people just work at home and produce work but the team work/communication isn't there. This may make people feel like "hey, office was better", but as someone who has been apart of many online communities, you can form relationships online and collaborate to get things done. This wont happen with people who refuse to change.
But there's definitely legal grey areas. Like, if you're on vacation but have a job back home, are you prohibited from answering work emails? Sending a commit from your hotel room? When does it go from doing work on vacation to 'working'?
Also OCaml (1996).
Then one can update to provide a prominent note of clarification, rather than rewriting history. This deprives conspiracists of the ability to go "See, they rewrite history" while providing the full story, warts and all.
Conspiracists (and many others) disregard Snopes out of hand, so I highly doubt that was part of their thinking.
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
> "the hard thing in this discussion is to differentiate between consumption and investment"
Indeed. Even harder is to acknowledge our government already has enough tax money, and further tax revenue will not be used prudently, in the best interest of our country.
This industry powers our cars, paves our roads and provides us with plastic, probably the greatest material ever invented. All of us are "rich" from the oil industry.
> How would you? Seems very difficult to me.

If the question is "How effective is a course in reducing ones propensity to be "misinformed"?" then that's a pretty basic (and cheap) experimental psychology study.

Set up a control group (diverse, large enough) that goes through a traditional curriculum. No added class.

Set up a test group (diverse, matched, large enough) that adds the additional class.

Afterwards, present both groups with a battery of defensible and indefensible information, with and without source identification.

See what the statistics say.

Some psychology is hard or impossible to study, but this is relatively straightforward.
So are you working a remote job? Or why is it so inexpensive to live in this specific country for you?
In the articles? Like what?
We could start by overturning "Citizens United". I don't have any hope for that happening any time soon.
In our case, we used Postgres. Our event volume was quite small, and we needed strict consistency (i.e. all participants in the auction see the same state). So we stored the log of events for an auction lot as a JSON blob. A new command was processed by taking a row-level lock (SELECT FOR UPDATE) on the lot's row, validating the command, and then persisting the events. Then we'd broadcast the new derived state to all interested parties.

All command processing and state queries required us to read and process the whole event log. But this was fairly cheap, because we're talking maybe a couple dozen events per lot. To optimize, we might have considered serializing core aspects of the derived state, to use as a snapshot. But this wasn't necessary.

Batch looks pretty cool! I'll keep that in mind next time I'm considering reinventing the wheel :)
If i got taxed at the same rate as millionaire and billionaires did, i'd be rich too.

Just tax them at the same rate you tax Johnny Average.

edit: and tax their companies at the same rate local mom-and-pop stores/bakeries/... get taxed.
> NOTE: The WebGL backend does NOT pass the color test.

> This is because WebGL does not support linear framebuffer blending (not even WebGL 2!).

> Maybe when WebGL3 becomes mainstream in 2030 the web can finally get colors right?

Yes, I had to transcribe this manually because I couldn't copy and paste it.
I get why people like immediate mode GUIs but the performance tends to be pretty bad.
If the materially false statement is the article's byline? Any port in a storm, I guess, but this isn't solid reasoning.
Needs copy and paste?
> accuse them of Arguing From Fallacy

But then, you're just doing an ad hominem...
We have taxes now; this would be a wealth tax.
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Is eplanit a disaster-capitalist or racist? That's usually what triggers it...
> Yeah you’re putting your faith in a company whose talcum powder has been causing cancer for decades and saying “it doesn’t kill you it’s not that bad”

No, I'm putting my faith in the CDC and VAERS, and an incredibly twitchy public willing to report absolutely anything and everything, in no small part because folks like you freak them out.

> It’s an experimental vaccine that hasn’t even been out for a year mate. Use some better judgement.

Yeah, it's been administered billions of times. Most "experimental" vaccines are given to around 1000 people total. This is like aspartame now - one of the most studied vaccines on earth.

> “Oh but it prevents covid” - yeah and that powder helped with the rash too I’m sure.

This could not be less relevant.

Just wait until you learn what Bayer did during WWII as part of IG Farben. I'm pretty sure they had a Nuremberg trial about it. And yet we still take Aspirin. I suggest you stick to one thing at a time.
Empathy is something that is sorely lacking in a post-COVID world. Apparently some people decided that certain groups are simply vermin to be exterminated and have been quite open about their abuse. Empathy, for them, simply isn't on the menu, because they have been told that these people pose an existential threat. It is left as an exercise for the reader to determine precisely who such parties are, and how this will end.
At times it seems perverse that people indulge themselves in the most extravagant activities this planet has ever seen, wasting resources per person and day that could help thousands of people.

All while millions of humans go hungry and die from poverty. It’s about time this issue is discussed more publicly.

Don‘t get me wrong, I‘m no socialist whatsoever and have nothing against a decent lavish lifestyle. I just don‘t think the world needs more megayachts, shipping around the world to be near wherever the owner is, in case he/she might want to use it for a day or two. Or 15+ megamansions around the world per billionaire, stockpiled at all times with the most expensive and rare food money can buy.

At some point society has to think about a fair allocation of scarce resources.
I've always assumed that this is why early socialist and communist ideology strongly emphasized internationalism. To properly soak the rich, there must be no place for them to escape to.
> Because of economic development, the UN estimates that the average person in the world will become 450% as well-off by 2100 as they are today. But climate change will have a cost, in that adaptation and challenges become somewhat harder. Because of climate change, the average person in 2100 will “only” be 436% as well off as today.

This same type of prediction was in the UNs last report. GDP growth reduction of 6% by 2050. Growth. Not GDP.

We really need to be clear about these things but of course the media prefers just getting eyeballs at all costs.

Global warning at worst will slow our development. It won’t lead to catastrophe.
Lots of folks get confused about satire sites. It is a positive development if you can find another site on the internet that says "even if this is satire, this is why they are wrong".
No, 'they' didn't train me to do that, I'm capable of using my brain and evaluating sources. If anything 'they' taught me to examine primary and secondary sources, look for bias, and draw my own conclusions. 'They' also taught me statistics so I can understand the use and misuse of such things by journalists.

I've barely ever come across the NYT in my lifetime, not being American.

Good try though.
Yup. This thing really destroyed peoples ability to assess risk. I make no embellishments when I say a good swath of people got some screws knocked loose in their head because of this stuff. Some of the smartest most level headed people went right off the deep end and will never be the same again.

There is a shadow pandemic of untreated, unacknowledged mental illness caused by the non stop fearmongering.
Except humanity and emotion kick in. People generally don't like to leave their country.

I'd be confident in calling out the rich on this bluff.
A much more articulate and informed take than I'm capable of was recently written by a practicing psychiatrist, about the medicalization of CBT apps and how absurd it is.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-terribl...

> feels like you have hacked around a regulation that is meant to keep unfair and false app and service in check.

Blind faith in every excess of the FDA's obstructionism and other bureaucratic pathologies was always insane to me, but it really, really shouldn't have survived for anyone paying even casual attention to the global pandemic we're in the midst of. Agencies like the FDA are taking on the herculean task of standardizing the messy landscape of scientific knowledge into bite-size, oversimplified answers that the dumbest layman can make use of. This is hard enough to begin with, and gets even worse when you remember that they're as subject as any institution to politics, inertia, bad organizational culture, etc etc etc. I get that most people have a powerful, almost-foundational urge to avoid critical thinking, but it's a fantasy to think that you can outsource 100% of your cognitive function to bureaucracies that can provide maximally-simplified, crystal-clear access to The Truth. When it comes to your health or that of those you care about, it's downright negligent to do so.

To be clear: I think the FDA does a massive amount of necessary, fundamental work that the medical system depends on, and I'm not suggesting people go hog-wild trying every random substance without regards to efficacy and safety guidelines.

But the approach you take in your comment is a dramatic and farcical example of bureaucracy-as-religion. Consider what we're talking about: you're concerned about non-medically-approved use of a chatbot that (reductively) helps you think about things more positively. Is there a principled reason that you're (presumably) okay with people watching yoga videos at home without a prescription? Or picking up a book on meditation? Or reading Couch-to-5K and starting jogging? Is there any difference between these activities and a CBT chatbot, beyond the fact that the latter has been medicalized by our regulatory bureaucracy?
Along the points you bring up, John Cochrane had a fantastic series about why wealth taxes are such a terribly economic inefficient mechanism to raise revenue and why virtually no economists support them.

https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2020/01/wealth-and-taxes-...
> there are accurate facts against we can measure bias

In the context of reporting, bias isn't about reporting accurate facts. That's honesty or accuracy. A source could be very biased but 100% accurate (by cherry picking facts that fit an agenda) or neutral but inaccurate (by reporting everything they hear without any evaluation or judgement).

Bias is about choosing what facts are worth reporting, and which words (with similar denotations but different connotations) to use to describe those facts.

> the most important step is understanding one's own, and understanding that you always have biases that are invisible to you.

Agreed.
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It seems that many people are overly focused on examples in the article. Rather, isn't the main point of the author that some people don't accurately value their time in relation to life outcomes?

People spend too much time thinking about some things relative to the marginal benefit of each second/minute/unit of time spent on that decision. Conversely, people spend too little time on some decisions whose outcome will be greatly improved by spending another second/minute/hour...etc.
...a wealth transfer to Moderna.

There. Saved everyone a read.
What about these?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/blm-terrorist-rosenberg/

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-vaccine-passport/
That's 100% standard practice for any reputable news organization.
US took actions vs Iran and Iraq in the 80s and early 90s.

Bin Laden attacked the twin towers in the early 90s. It was originally a big bomb in the basement / garage floors, but the bomb wasn't strong enough to topple the towers.

We didn't start the fire. It was always burning, since the world's been turning
Then don't pin to a dollar amount, pin to relative wealth available in the world/country/region. Something like estimated total accumulated wealth / total pop.

Inflation destroys the value of money, not the underlying goods or services. Whether there are 100 dollars to go around or 10 billion, for the same "physical context"/material reality a rule along the lines of "no more than %5 of total wealth accumulated in 1 person's account" seems inflation-resistant.
I encourage you and the parent to read the full text of the Plos paper (if you have not already). It does not show that vaccines selected for more virulent strains as is claimed in the Quanta magazine article and by the parent. It only shows definitively (In a sample size of 100 birds) that birds don’t transmit virus after they die.

It also begs the question, what point is the parent trying to make here? That we should just let covid rip so it kills off all the vulnerable?
Here are the numbers for Germany: https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/start-a-business-in-german...
This phenomenon is found across other Indian cultures too, although it doesn't have a name as such. There's even a pretty good Hindi/Urdu podcast called Puliyabazi, whose name pays homage to this practice.