skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks really great! Would have loved something like this a couple of years ago before rolling our own, this would have saved so much time and effort.

Borrowing a lot of LaunchDarkly's playbook for feature flagging will serve you well here. Server Sent Events and providing a self host-able "relay proxy"[1] will be extremely valuable in terms of perf and redundancy.

[1] https://github.com/launchdarkly/ld-relay
I’m sure all the sources will be “neutral” given the far left leaning of the teachers union.
Someone should make an online version of this course. It could be widely useful. I just have to figure out how to enroll my parents now …
I think that's better a better fit for a logical fallacy chart than a cognitive bias list.
Hydrogen for aviation doesn’t solve the high altitude water emissions problem of aviation and in fact makes it potentially worse. This effect is just as bad a CO2 emissions. Battery-electric can eliminate both. In the mid-term, battery electric can serve all short haul routes, which is about half of aviation passenger miles, and probably most medium and long haul routes can be split up into short haul routes (the hub and spoke model means that you end up doing multiple flights anyway for most random city pairs and the smaller initial battery electric aircraft will be more granular, meaning you can do more direct flights, or at least more flights that go in the right direction instead of needing to double back to hubs). Long term, battery-electric can do 4000-5000km long haul routes, and perhaps even supersonic flights.
For US citizens, be really careful with freelancing overseas. You will probably need to file US self-employment tax statements quarterly, and face some scary penalties if you forget.
Inability to update the Linux kernel due to the proprietary drivers.
The problem is simple enough to solve without function calls at all (except maybe a comparator function) and this is why I like the second solution better: it is closer in spirit to the level of abstraction of the problem.

I think OP missed the point here: the interviewer was probably testing the candidate's Python chops by offering an opportunity to show off their knowledge of language features and standard library on a simple problem. The result is contrived by using __call__ and itertools, but is better for the purposes of the interview.
I think the idea is great, but I just don't trust the people who will be implementing the idea. They could simply use it to create more bias.
PCjam has ended with 13 fresh programs for the IBM PC. Happy 40th aniversary
Tiananmen square tank man.

The CCP already gets Apple to censor the Taiwanese flag emoji and store all Chinese iCloud user data on CCP-accessible servers in China.

We know Apple presently actively and eagerly cooperates with CCP censors to be permitted to operate and sell in China.

This is tailor-made for CCP abuse.
I didn't say Obama was a neocon. He inherited the war, but it was engineered by neocons like Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz.

I don't think it matters much who's president. There's clearly semi-shadowy decision making behind the presidential facade.

I think in internal politics the US president still has some influence but in international affairs, not so much.

Edit: Fwiw, I acknowledged the US' right to attack Afghanistan in 2001 because they harboured OBL, and refused to renounce. Everything changed in 2003 with the completely unjustified attack on Iraq.

You guys (assuming you're American) have absolutely no idea of how much you lost with that war of aggression. Now, everyone knows what the US is. People (who think) started reappraising history and once you start digging you realise what the US really is.

Your narrative is broken. Noone believes in your values anymore. Now, countries which support the US are merely doing it for short term purposes, not because they really believe in your "values".

The pipe dream of democracy, international rule of law and human rights all ended in 2003. It was always just a dream, but the world woke up in that year.
I wouldn't exactly call the urban dictionary a reliable source.

Doing a DuckDuckGo for "apex fallacy" turns up a bunch of incel and mgtow sites.

Is this even a _real_ fallacy?
Can't wait to hear the spin on this one.
> Cognitive biases refer to the identifiable and indexable errors that are found in our judgment in a predictable and systematic way.

Ok.

Clicking through to the first one:

> The Barnum effect is a cognitive bias that induces an individual to accept a vague description of personality traits as applying specifically to themselves.

Then they give an example story of something reading like a horoscope.

The story could reasonably describe a large swath of people so I fail to understand how this is an "error" on the part of someone thinking that it describes them.
I see quite a lot of people here talking about Mullvad. While I do trust their intentions as being good, the fact that they are so large, and based in a country that does in fact answer to some USA demands, I would not use them. I'm not positive, but I think I remember someone mentioning that Wireguard configs are generated client-side but with JS, where you would then have to implicitly trust Mullvad not to store your private key. The providers I use, the generation is done completely locally, and you only upload them your public and PSK.

This is HN. I'm surprised people haven't mentioned some of the really privacy conscience providers based off shore. They do exist, and surely do not cooperate with shitty demands for your info.
Amazon Kills Retail Stores
You are thinking of IEX not NYSE. And that is a marketing gimmick.
I mean one way to teach this class would be to simply cover current events in an over the top, biased way and then discuss the tricks used and concerns.

(Maybe students get credit for credibly challenging anything mentioned in the class)
As far as I can tell, most public health decisions made up until this summer have been about preventing collapse of hospital systems. Individual health is of secondary importance to the system being able to handle ordinary levels of non-covid events.

Something changed a few months ago and now some states in the US are making decisions seemingly designed to collapse their health systems. It's tragically short sighted.
You either don’t understand the science or you deliberately misrepresent it. Non-sterilizing immunity (aka ‘leaky’ vaccines) has been shown to be effective at reducing virulence in Marek’s disease. This paper was published in 2020, 2 years after the article you cite: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-020-0358-3
Did you people even read the article or do all of you need to take this course?

it says right in the article what they're teaching kids and no it's not 'these news sources are the right ones' it's how to analyze the news like the headline says.
This is a terrible idea. A lot of people are failing to realize that this is a bad precedent.

Even though the article spends most of the time talking about an example orthogonal to politics, it is clear that politics will be the main topic of this course. I have zero faith in the system to show the numerous examples of bad articles by the NYT, WP, NPR... anybody remembers the Covington kid?

The issue goes beyond self criticism of course. The state should not play a role in telling kids what they should or shouldn't read as a news source - because that's what will end up happen. I have zero faith that such class will actually engage in fruitful debates.
Debian is more recoverable though. dpkg is much more robust regarding rollbacks and installation failures in cases that pacman (by design) simply does not handle at all. It's much easier to break something in Arch and not notice at all until things start layering up (although it also means it's easier to fix things up "just enough", while Debian will give you hard time until the issue is resolved completely).
>> they are using an image analysis hash, not a cryptographic hash. However it doesn’t change the logic of your argument.

Yes, I think it fundamentally changes it. A crypto hash would be looking for specific known CSAM images. Image analysis is error-prone and will lead to problems and false positives. I don't care how good it is, that's actually looking at the users images and making a judgement.
How far from this black hole would the event horizon be?
What’s the use of this really?

Many of these are used as ammunition for arguments vs. clarifing reasoning.
Isn’t that partially because some people had better resistance to it and the survivors passed it on? https://www.studyfinds.org/bubonic-plague-human-immunity/
I can confirm. I worked at an AIX and Linux shop for about 4 years in the early 2000's. We had a couple of "enterprise" customers who didn't yet trust Linux for their critical applications. It was IBM all the way.

Note, that for that era, AIX was a very solid choice. Only other real option was Sun/Solaris, which was dying after the dot-com implosion.
> if someone makes new CSAM, it won't match any hashes so even "new" pedophiles won't get caught by this.

That assumes the hashes aren't recorded permanently.
When I see someone on Facebook/Twitter link to a site like this to demonstrate that the person they’re arguing with is “doing a fallacy”, I just accuse them of Appeal To Authority. I feel like these kinds of sites are often just used to shut someone down by saying that they’re doing something wrong, without actually going through the work of following through with why the “fallacy” makes their argument weak. Also, in my experience fallacies/biases are often more indicative of a weak argument than a wrong one.
Unless you don't cook anything without your binder of US FDA datasheets and guidelines in hand, you don't worry about it.

(And if you do that, you're already screaming 'not food safe' any time anybody mentions 3D printing anyway.)

Aside from direct and prolonged contact, (you probably don't want to print and repeatedly use a spoon for example) the main somewhat legitimate concern is bacterial growth in all the tiny crevices that arise as a result of the printing process. Don't 3D print food storage jars and try to wash and re-use them?

For a child's toy, there's not really a reason to worry about or treat it differently than anything you buy. Once it's been chucked on the floor, smeared through the dogs breakfast, and stuck in their mouth, it's pretty inconsequential that it happened to be 3D printed.
My pleasure! Her blog is really great.
FTR, if you wondered what they meant by "annihilation signals from the dark matter microhalo", apparently one of the theories for what makes up dark matter is WIMPs which are special particles that interact weakly with normal particles but can interact with each other and result in creation of other, better observable particles.

The theory is that in the early universe, WIMPs were created spontaneously due to massive temperatures of the primordial plasma, but later as the universe expanded and cooled, this creation didn't work. However, the WIMPs would still be able to react with each other, reducing their numbers, until they'd be so rare that annihilations are such a rare event that they don't significantly reduce their numbers any more. Then space expanded even further.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1403.4495.pdf

Apparently due to the strong perturbances of the dark matter that this black hole creates, it creates potentially detectable annihilations, and they discuss which scenarios can be excluded or detected with data generated by the FERMI-LAT gamma ray telescope.

Not a physicist though, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
That looks great! I would love to use this offline.
That's not my experience at all. I used to purchase 3D modelling and animation software (Lightwave 3D). Version upgrade pricing was entirely based on version numbers — as was all the big name software at the time (3D Studio, 3DS Max, Softimage, etc)

I purchased Lightwave 4.0, and paid for the upgrade to 5.0 (I think it was about $1000 for the upgrade). I believe I skipped version 6.0, so the price to go from 5.0 to 7.0 cost me more than the price from 6.0 to 7.0 (for users who had purchased 6.0). There were multiple tiers of upgrade pricing, and new users had to pay significantly more than users who were upgrading

Under the Sketch model, taking a break from upgrading does not financially penalise you relative to other users — sure you don't get updates during that time period — but when you go to pick up the software again you pay exactly the same price as anyone else renewing at that time and receive all the latest features

Even someone who has never used the app before will pay $100 and get exactly the same feature set as me, a user who has paid regularly for years
https://www.opencompute.org/blog/introducing-ocp-20

> Optics: Lead in defining market requirements for process and technology transitions for optimal convergence

Does this mean that in a couple years the half-dozen different parameters for fiber network stuff will be standardized enough for no-thought-required home use like RJ-45 / CAT6 wired ethernet is today?
yeah, right. Will classes start with students reading Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent? I consider it a must-read.
Climate Change and Childbirth
If anyone here is interested in learning media literacy, or knows someone who is, there's a really nice video series from Crash Course here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPwJ0obJya0&list=PL8dPuuaLjX...

I highly recommend it - teenagers, students, adults - it's for everyone!
> Using 2016 as an example doesn’t invalidate that goal or imply bias.

It actually does:

> Republicans' trust has not recovered since then, while Democrats' has risen sharply. In fact, Democrats' trust over the past four years has been among the highest Gallup has measured for any party in the past two decades. This year, the result is a record 63-percentage-point gap in trust among the political party groups.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/321116/americans-remain-distrus...
Why is [2, 1, 1] not being reversed? Since you do call reverse(), I'm not even sure what the bug is on first inspection, which is not a good sign!

Edit: I believe the bug is that the code assumes the first sequence is increasing. It seems a bug carried by all these variants that starts by declaring a -inf variable at the top.

IMO, the problem is trying to find a solution in one's head, then trying to write Pythonic code. The issue is that when someone else reads the code, one does not have the unwritten idea you had in your head.

To write simple code, you must have the least amount of idea in your head. I usually try to write the code dumbly, even if it is inefficient, then do a second pass to remove the most offending parts and maybe make the code more general.
Maybe at least mention that it IS sometimes illegal to work in the countries.
That's one thing. But there's another. I've done years of fighting sports training with half the local (sort-of, they get called out pretty far, sometimes even flown somewhere) SWAT team. Including the commander. If you think even such a team will go charging into what might be an ambush, you're insane.

It does not work like in the movies. If you're in your house and someone is trying to kill you with a weapon, it will take the cops 15 minutes to your door ... and 30 minutes before they come in, minimum. If a unit has been lost (meaning a cop already got hurt), it will take hour before they come to the door, minimum. Some places (such as the court house) have different rules.

As soon as a unit has been lost, they will FIRST do a cost-benefit analysis of retaliating at all. And, especially in large cities, that analysis will regularly come up with something akin to "just let them deliver the drugs and do ... nothing" or "just let them go". Even when non-lethal (and "non-lethal" as in a knife) weapons are used they may refuse. You see, not getting maimed (even a little bit) is a thoroughly essential part of having any sort of career, and the treatment wounded cops get certainly does not justify self-sacrifice. The kinder logic is that criminals don't stop after one crime. If it's needed to stop them, there will be another chance.

Working this way means that for even a large metro area they can maybe handle 5 to 10 serious situations at any one time. Police weapons, even the big ones, do not defeat even relatively small determined militias. And the police will abandon neighbourhoods long before it comes anywhere near this point.

If they truly the think the situation will escalate without end, they may go in. That, by the way, generally means snipers, not knocking down the door. If they don't think the situation will escalate, or if there's too many people, or ... they will just let it be.
No, just like you can slingshot around planets, blackholes are massive enough they can do that to light and other matter. It's the primary reason we can "see" them.
Make sure you begin your class by playing this clip? I found it pretty eye opening:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hWLjYJ4BzvI&feature=youtu.be

Description: dozens/hundreds of newscasters reading the exact same script.
Fair enough. I’ve read Kahnemann’s book, and hadn’t considered how to integrate it with TFA.

The sheer number of cognitive biases presented in TFA, and the overlap of the categorisations had me bamboozled.

But yeah, if these are System 1 staples then I can imagine how they might have made do for regular people for a long time. Some biases and prejudices affirm survival in a less civilised setting eg prehistoric tribes that compete for land and food with neighbouring tribes.

So perhaps it is the compact of civilisation that opens up the vistas for System 2 thinking to yield benefits.
How much bias is already being created by the status quo curriculum? Are you positive this change would make the situation worse?
That is the event horizon: when discussing a black hole's "size", you're discussing the event horizon.
I had a fairphone 2 for just under 5 years. It was good. A couple of quirks but overall very happy with it. Replaced the modular usb port component myself a couple of years in when the connection got a bit dodgy. Bluetooth was quite a bit worse compared to my new smartphone (Google pixel)

I could have made it last a bit longer by replacing the battery, but I was about to start a new job and knew I needed a reliable phone, so I wasn't sure it was worth investing keeping the fairphone going.
This whole thread is giving me hope that HN isn't entirely lost to the left wing mob, but you win the thread, thank you.
"Note that a 10M⊕ PBH is roughly the size of a ten pin bowling ball"

How to tell something is written by an American :)
Thank you! Sounds good! Well nuxt is a vue famework and yeah, vue is amazing. I use vuetify which makes it easy to "design" the frontend. You should check that out.
Bias is a good way to look at news sources and someone trying to sell you something. Many of these use your bias against you to fool you and/or manipulate you into something. Either buying something or thinking something.

Knowing what your bias is and which ones you fall into help you cope and guard yourself against them.
So small, can I make a ball peen hammer out of it and be the... lesser Thor?
The paper does not list any numbers for vaccination rates among PhDs, it only lists self-reported "vaccine hesitancy" numbers.

There is zero data here to suggest actual vaccination rates among PhDs are lower than among the general public but the title of this paper will undoubtedly be used by vaccine skeptics to imply that PhDs aren't getting vaccinated.
Every company hires contractors for different services. The company that cleans your offices at night is almost certainly a contractor, for example. If your office needs to be repainted, your company doesn’t hire a painter full-time and manage them directly. They enter into a contract with a painting company. If they need to expand their building, they contract with a construction company to do the work and the construction company hires people to do the construction work. Nobody would mistake the construction workers for employees of your company because the construction contracting model is commonly understood, unlike the data center model.

Working on a company’s contracted projects doesn’t make someone an employee of that company. It seems well-understood in common situations like cleaning or construction but people seem to struggle to understand how it works when it comes to unfamiliar topics like data centers.

The situation in this article is no different. The company they’re complaining about isn’t actually Google, despite how much the article tries to be about big tech:

> But the company that recruited McNally was not Google; it was Modis Engineering,
AlgorithmWatch shuts down Instagram monitoring after threats from Facebook
I'm not willing to pay $1000 for a cell phone no matter how good one is. Phones are portable devices too easy to loose or break.

After I searched a bit, found Volla which I liked a lot, unfortunately they only ship within EU.
The indie hacker's dilemma (a.k.a. existential crisis)
> All of the brands have an agenda.

If we are going to teach them to think critically, they not only need to think about the biases of sources, but to make decisions about trust. 'Everyone is equally and absolutely untrustworthy' is no more critical or skeptical than 'everyone is equally and absolutely trustworthy'. We can trust different news sources to different degrees, and in different situations. The National Enquirer is not the same as the New York Times.

> The same story came up over and over. Each NPR station pretended like they had wrote it themselves. Conan has a few fun skits that shows off this effect. If they are willing to lie ...

Should an important story only be available to listeners in one locality? If you drive between localities, you're going to hear some redundancy.

How is it a "lie" to broadcast a segment produced elsewhere? I think listeners are much better off getting the best segments in the country, and not being restricted to the limited resources of the local station. It would be very redundant (and obviously unaffordable) if every station ran a global news operation.

How did they "pretend"; did they say 'we produced this segment here in town X'? I've heard plenty of NPR and never had that impression at all (in fact, IIRC they say 'from our sister station in ...').
No, I mean they assumed that there would not be a significant slowdown of economic activity due to something like a pandemic, recession, depression, natural disaster, or even a market shift. Trying to pin the blame on the government is a bit disingenuous when there was an overarching condition that everybody was responding to.
"So don't understand why actual reality contradicts this paper."

This is similar as saying ... It had the biggest blizzard last winter in Texas, that's why Global Warming is a hoax.

Where is this paper wrong? Maybe you spotted something that the peer reviewers didn't.

Also you should submit your "scientific" observations of Texas ... because it's real reality (not science ... who needs the scientific method, when we have your observations).
If someone claims X is true because of Y it can be misinformation even if X is in fact true and it can not be misinformation even if X is in fact false.

For example, suppose I claim that using brand X soap can give you cancer because they use fat harvested from animals that grazed at a toxic waste dump and that fat contains the toxic chemicals that the animals ingested. Suppose it turns out that brand X soap can in fact give you cancer, but it is because some chemical used to make the soap's wrapping paper is carcinogenic and leaches into the soap. The soap itself is vegan soap with no animal products used in its manufacture. Same for the paper.

My claim is then misinformation even though my claim that the soap can give you cancer is true, because my reasons for the claim were wrong and I had no even remotely plausible evidence to believe those reasons.
"We do not negotiate with terrorists"

> has officially appointed negotiators with the Taliban