skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So much of the discussion on disinformation is completely disingenuous and a distraction from the fact that Facebook and other social media magnates need to radically restructure their business practices and strip away the last 15 years of "innovation" in how our feeds are presented to us.

Return everyone's feed to a reverse-sorted chronological list of posts from friends only and so much of the misinformation problem goes away!
Except mask wearing actually has scientific evidence for its effectiveness, and is why governments around the world recommend it. [1]

Your rationale is based on personal bias against "artificial" substances. The same kind of quack reasoning that drives anti vaxers and other nonsense movements.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2776536
Am I missing something? What disinformation did they spread?
> strongly encouraging a single way to do things, promoting readability

This doesn't seem to be so true nowadays. Python gives you lots of ways to do many things.
Fingers crossed a solution could be found during the lifetime of debian11. The entire distro is ready for armel, such a shame that 500kb of missing flash partition space holds it back :-/

I saw one of the bugreports had a message talking about using a different flash partition but it involved a lot of scary uboot hex memory addresses, which without a serial console could be a quick way to make a brick...
I wonder how many people got the normal flu and did not report it because they did not / could not got to the doctor because of covid social distancing policies. What goes unreported does not cease to exist.
That shouldn’t happen because people will continue to report the bug and open duplicate issues. Instead, it should be tagged with something like “won’t fix”.
Apparently also solved by AI less than two years ago.

https://www.livescience.com/ai-solves-three-body-problem-fas...
Patent enforcement typically requires shipping a product. The open source projects themselves would be fine, but downstream users of the code could be forced to license. See for example exFAT on Android.
An open source validator for digital EU Covid certificates
That's so blatantly obvious I didn't even think to explain that I was attempting to draw a parallel between homo sapiens thinking homo sapiens are the 'civilizing force' and europeans thinking europeans are the 'civilizing force'

Edit: for context, I am from Hawaii and as such deeply interested in the Polynesian migrations. I have taken anthropology courses on human migration patterns across the Pacific. I would laugh at anyone who suggested the early homo sapiens migrations were light-skinned.
Yep. Closing issues consistently without resolving it is best way to cause your users to stop caring ever reporting new issues.

If you are looking to reduce number of issues, you are on the right track, because now not only you have closed a bunch of them without putting much work into it, but less people will be bothered to document and report their issues.
I didn't mean "You" in my previous comment to make it seem like this was your idea or interpretation. I'm aware it is a popular explanation of Sweden's rape rate and the one endorsed by their own National Council for Crime Prevention. I was just trying to refer to "You" in the sense of the argument you are putting forward.

The summary of the report makes the case that, if Sweden used Germany's system for counting and reporting rapes then Sweden would only have 1.5x Germany's rape rate as opposed to their current 6.3x Germany's rape rate. Further, the summary claims, Sweden would fall from "Rape Capitol" to "Somewhere in the middle" by which they apparently mean "Somewhere in the upper quartile."

Okay, so - obvious question here - Do all the other countries use Germany's methods for counting and reporting rapes? Maybe if you applied German methods to every country in Europe then Sweden would still be at the top of the list? Am I missing where in the report they cover this?

Intuitively, I'm pretty skeptical when an organization that has a big problem does some figuring and says "Actually - not that big a problem." Maybe the analysis is right and Sweden's high rate of rape is entirely/mainly a statistical consequence of expansive definitions and aggressive counting. But, from what I know of bureaucracies, I'd be pretty surprised if the Crime Prevention Council called in a guy to do a report on their high crime numbers and he came up with an answer of the form "Yeah, this is terrible."
“Naturally, as an experienced investigative reporter, my next move was the highly advanced research technique of Googling "Tennis Ball Shortage?" There were enough hits on Reddit and tennis forums to confirm there are, at least in some parts of the country, indeed tennis ball shortages.”

I feel like this fairly accurately sums up modern journalism.
Matthew Flatt and most of the core team are readily available through slack or the mailing list and often answer themselves, even to newbies. Being a hobbyist myself, I think this ivory tower reputation is undeserved. Few people really understand racket under the hood because it's the product of the greatest minds in scheme. That makes the pool of 'experts' people can query very small, and I think it's honestly too much to ask from the core team to answer to everyone. Racket teaches humility and perseverance, which I find to be a very good thing.
It is entirely possible for that to present unexpected differences because of the way that the PDF format works. One can have two different PDFs that encode the same content in two different ways and unless `pdftotext` does virtual layout and then OCR-like extraction, you might end up with jumbled text or text in different orders.
Nothing has changed, I witnessed a fairly violent antifa against police just recently
This is why you should consider https://carvel.dev/ytt/
I suppose I could use a custom allocator that calls mlock() on each page. I will look whether the ones you mention have Rust integrations and whether they expose a setting like that.
Relevant: https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/497455371372756993?...
> Denisovans apparently interbred with modern humans, with about 3–5% of the DNA of Melanesians and Aboriginal Australians and around 7–8% in Papuans deriving from Denisovans. [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denisovan
It's probably related to the Pareto principle.
That’s because the shortages you experienced were real. The shortages we’ve had over the pandemic are greatly exaggerated by our trash tabloid media which vice is a prime offender.
Expect all healthcare machines to be networked, even if only internally. Need the active directory to login and need to upload the image/test sample somewhere else after it's taken. That's sadly one reason why ransomware can propagate so easily and stop hospitals. :(

In theory there can be computers with no network, typically an isolated computer attached to heavy test machinery, but it's becoming impossibly rare in all industries.

And they should be easy to recognize, look for the post-it nearby with the shared username/password to unlock it, also notice the doctors leaving with the x-ray printed on paper or a USB key to be able to transfer it elsewhere.
> i.e registering the company that makes the sale in a country with lower VAT

Do they? The Amazon invoices I receive have German VAT.
Yeah and I agree especially for poorly documented issues, unclear demands on your time, etc.

But as someone with a long QA experience, sometimes I'm so disappointed in the 'no one bothered me, it must be bothering no one, close'. What about the time and effort of the person who described a defect in your system? Don't you want people giving you clear, researched bug reports? When you close their issues, although there CLEARLY is a problem and the ball is CLEARLY in your (sw dev) team, I feel like you're saying 'don't give me precise, actionable bugs'. That's what I'm hearing anyway.

And soon enough you get the eternal dev complaint about how 'no one fills tickets properly' and the 'no one opens issues anymore although they face clear annoying bugs' with heavy faulpelz connotations... Well you reap what you sow.

I'm not saying the project has infinite resources and that you should fix all issues all the time... I actually understand the real world tradeoffs. But put them on a special list, like knowledge database, known-bugs, not 'closed until some annoying piece-of-work busybody complains', and try earnestly to fix one once in a while, I even had a principle when I was team lead, to correct at least 5 more-than-2-years-old issues (or add a 'red' test for that bug). After all with tech turnover, those often make great onramping tickets.

And I can testify to the sheer joy of having one of your 'low priority' issues fixed, even 2-3 years later. 'hey I know it's been a long time, and we're not sure it's still annoying to you, but anyway we managed to reproduce on the latest version and we put a fix in place, let us know if you want a nightly to double-check or wait until next release'. Even though it doesn't show on SLAs, I do put in a word when renewal time comes around (even more now that I have a small bit of clout).
Remember the "KILL YOUR TELEVISION" bumper sticker of the late 80s, early 90s?

About 1995 or so, I was driving in Seattle, and at a light, the car in front of me had a similarly-styled "KILL YOUR MODEM" sticker.

Perhaps it was an Agre reader.

(edit: correction of egregious grammar)
Keystrokes sounds like overkill. It also records passwords in plaintext. No good.

Queries to sensitive DB endpoints are what you want to keep an eye on.
It's time for some big software companies like Google to commoditize their complement. So who knows ...
How would you plan to survive a full scale nuclear war?
I beleive a major, gobal nuclear exchange is survivable by a remnant of the population, say for example 144,000. How would you plan to be in that number? Is it even worth planning for?
I don't buy the too big to be punished. If regulation agenencies can approve/deny a corporate merger/sale/etc, I think they should have the power to force change. Rarely, is it the rank and file employees causing the mischief. As the C-suite employees and possibly the board of directors, it is the job responibilities to be responsible. In these situations, why not have the regulators come in and force a leadership change? If one particular individual is more responsible than others, why not ban them from holding leadership positions in the future? Other industries have similar punishments. Allow the company to stay alive under new management.

Too big to punish is quite frankly just laughable.
Or Dell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYl_d7dc-EY

If you watch, the older crow is making large vertical head movements, and if you really crank the volume, you can hear part of the sound it is making.

The rest isn't in a hearable frequency.

They noticed me watching, and the older crow didn't immediately believe the younger, more excitable crow when it called an alert, but you can see him walk over and react when he sees me.

More than anything, he seems mad. :P

I have a relationship with crows here, for a variety of reasons, suffice it to say, the older crow knows I am not a real threat.

Something to be wary of, but not a real threat.

But, would you tell a child, when seeing a tiger, not to be worried? Even if you knew that particular tiger wasn't a threat?

Anyhow, after I googled, and yup... ultrasonic hunting.

(And as buddy said, crows, not cows)

Yeah video quality sucks, I couldn't get closer, just grabbed my phone, did what I could to record it.
I don't think so. You can set a resident size limit, but you can't force all anonymous memory to be resident (or non-overcommitted).
Sometimes it is more a matter of getting most of the work done, without it mattering if some gets missed. Ignoring all reported bugs might be unsustainable because eventually all your customers would get fed up and leave, but it is unlikely that any particular bug would be the breaking point between the company succeeding or going under.
The laws get _weird_ if you have "resident" status in more than one country.

Just to make the rules easier to enforce, it's sometimes easier to show you have resident status somewhere else. I had much bigger issues with the fact that land ownership / house ownership / bank account laws care a lot about non-resident-ownership.
Humans are hardwired in to stories and story telling. they're the most effective way of communicating.

I try and get a little stories into my work comms (given enough time)

brief overview of how the project is going - story

technical document - story

It can be fun to write as well. It doesn't have to a childrens type of story either, read some short stories and get some good ideas

although being too creative is sometime seen as not professional.
I wonder if future archeologists will endlessly ponder the meaning of emoji similar to the way we in the current age try to understand ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. perhaps a new age Rosetta stone should be carved
Unless there's been an unfavorable change in attitude among you, there should be nothing to actually "handle".
While I don’t disagree with you in general, I disagree on strawberries. 100g of them is a very small amount and a snickers bar (or in my case, some artificially sweetened protein bar) is far more filling.
Something about the images and formatting makes this look like one of those “Buy my book for $20 and find out how to be a billionaire by selling books for $20” Tai Lopez type things.
Recommend this book that gives a balanced view of the perks and problems of being super-rich

https://books.google.com/books/about/Jackpot.html?id=9vvtDwA...
I'm way old, and I didn't mind the emojis, and I'm not a big user--I write words more often than use an equivalent emoji in Slack. OTOH, I 'read' :+1: (the actual sequence of chars) as 'like' and it isn't disruptive either.
A great gig if you can get it.

And he's quite good at it.
I read threads like this and just think "I no longer have any connection to this world."
But it says "I am a vengeful god, therefore", so it suggests that it's divine "policy", not just a statement of how the world works.
There's a saying: the harder I work, the luckier I get.

I read this as the harder you work the more you're able to take advantage of lucky moments. But those lucky moments still need to happen for you to take advantage of them. I think a lot of people don't like to admit that luck had anything to do with it because we have a culture that often suggests that it's luck or work but not some combination. While there are cases on the extreme ends of the spectrum I'm willing to bet that the vast majority are from a combination of hard work and high luck.

Veritasium did a (pretty obvious) simulation that showed those on the top end up having both high luck and hard work.[0] I think this should make sense to most people given how the simulation was run.

[0] https://youtu.be/3LopI4YeC4I
Speaking from personal experience: after a brutal round of antibiotics to kill a pathogen in my gut, I still had terrible issues — I believe from inflammation feeding into itself. A few weeks of pure CBD + probiotics has brought immense relief; I have since been able to drop the CBD; I will continue with a round of different probiotics to maximize the variety of gut microbes. I am finally, after several years of gut hell, optimistic that I’m going to get healthy.

Edit: the CBD had the immediate effect of reducing peristalsis. Also made me fog-brained and sleepy, but I feel that was an acceptable side-effect for the limited time I’d be on it.
as user5994461 wrote that's a bit too extreme in the opposite direction.

However, most people don't realize that the majority of the software deployed in the world is meant to run for years without getting feature updates.

Most production code is running on servers, vehicles, industrial systems, infrastructure, military stuff and so on. Planes and power plants can have an expected lifetime of 40 years.

Case in point: the civil infrastructure project https://www.cip-project.org/ plans to maintain a Debian-derived kernel and basic OS and backport security updates for 25 years.
Watch every episode of Doomsday Preppers.
GP's discussion was a mega acquisition; there's a lot more ability to setup retention grants for each individual on those.

Even on a mega ipo, there's some opportunity to make stock grants before or after the event.

In both cases, team size matters. If there's a budget for retention or $1B and founders get 90%, that leaves $100M for regular employees; if you've got thousands of people to retain, the payouts won't be large. With a team of 100, the payouts will be nice.
That's the Unicode specification, isn't it? (Though I suppose that doesn't get the in-prose meanings.)
You should not be. Which is why you need to be involved.

You alone will make little difference, but many of you together can change our course.

And, who knows? Maybe you'll be the spark that starts the (non CO2-emitting) flame.
And the worst part is that for anything else than clearly laid out bugs/issues, I apply GP's described strategy (if it is important, it'll come back or I'll remember), especially as a protection against burnout. I have taught myself to stop worrying missing an email or not be on top of everyfuckingthing. Yeah I'll come around to look and will say 'must be redone, sorry' and there's waste. It's bad. But you can't do everything and when the external environment doesnt you adjust to your work capacity by itself, I've decided to let not-so-critical things slide a bit. If/when there's a complaint, either I'll resend the email about not having the time to follow subject X or my manager will... It's OK.
Won't that fail terribly if the text has been re-flowed?
> Bill C-10 and C-36 are horrific China emulating policies, loose definition of "hate speech", bypassing courts in favour of human rights tribunals with 100% conviction rates and no requirement of evidence, preventative enforcement by police.

Didn't the current premier's father do pretty much the same thing (suspend constitutional rights) in the 70's for... dubious reasons to say the least? He was also the man who paved the way to normalize relations with China and Cuba, two nations known for their respect of human rights.

> and the brain drain to accelerate.

On the hiring side I can tell it's happening.
Correct; there was a market shift, where all of the demand for commercial toilet paper went to consumer toilet paper. Because of that shift, there was a real shortage in consumer toilet paper. Unfortunately, the myth that this shortage was entirely an induced panic seems to have caught on. For more, see https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/4/3/21206942/toilet-paper...
I highly recommend that if you don't have the ability, for whatever reason, to write a eulogy, find someone else who can do it authentically. An authentic and effective eulogy is about emotional connection. If you find yourself unable to write one, admit you cannot write one, and don't turn it over to an ai or even human service - find a human being with an authentic emotional connection to the deceased who can write it instead.

downvoters should at least have the fortitude to respond why they disagree.
> 16 cans translates to 192 oz, or about 1.5 gallons.

About 5.5 liters for non USA people.
See for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory#Gene...
I am fully vaccinated and I am trying to convince all the people I interact with face to face to vaccinate, but I still don't want to send to Gulag all the people who refuse. Even if 99% support something, it does not automatically make it right.
Thanks. What were your takeaways from it?
Paperless-ng – scan, index and archive all your physical documents
The burden of proof is on the person making the claim.
Preprint Déjà Vu: an FAQ about the ArXiv (2017)
> Take a look at ethidium bromide or pretty much any other intercalating dna stain and you’ll see similar characteristics. It’s also extremely carcinogenic.

This is a myth. This is actually a good example of a plausible biological effect that doesn't apply to living organisms:

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/04/18/th...
Considering that webP is 40% more effective at compressing single images, I’d guess APNG wouldn’t even be on the same ballpark, and most likely worse than GIFs.
So it was failure because they weren't studying a different part of the problem? I was hoping the model they were discussing was how to convince the world to actually tackle this issue and less about the specific things we need to do if we did agree. But it doesn't discard their work or findings.
Whatever is to handle is not between us but 100% in my head, I agree.
Even if people bought for just the next week, they had to buy more, because now they were using their toilet at home, exclusively. Everyone buying more at once caused a real shortage.
Affine types are a version of linear types.

Concurrent Haskell doesn't use typeclasses to constrain what data can be passed between threads. All data can be in Concurrent Haskell because all data is immutable anyway. It's a fundamentally different concept, not a slightly different subset like affine/linear types.
Aren’t most “artificial” substances more likely to be carcinogenic or toxic than something occurring naturally? Or is that just my wacky personal bias talking?
Being insulting isn't going to change anyone's mind. In fact, it'll probably persuade people in the opposite direction.
Visualized in this recent xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2500/
I think one dimension of crisis mongering is how drastic the stakes are portrayed. Its one thing to discuss discerning trends or potential problems, and another to portray every problem as a struggle of between good and evil in which the balance of the universe hangs. The Economist tends to stick to the former side of the spectrum than the latter in my experience.
Moderna’s HIV Vaccine to Start Human Trials Early as Wednesday
> Using data collected through Ad Observer, and also data collected using the transparency tools Facebook makes available to researchers, we’ve been able to help the public understand how the platform fails to live up to its promises, and shed light on how it sells the attention of its users to advertisers.

So they exploited the data from the main source of revenue of a corporation and then to use that data to smear that same corporation and then they complain that the corporation do not want to cooperate anymore. This is a textbook definition of blind entitlement.

> We can’t let Facebook decide unilaterally who gets to study the company and what tools they can use. The stakes are too high. What happens on Facebook affects public trust in our elections, the course of the pandemic and the nature of social movements. We need the greater understanding that researchers, journalists and public scrutiny provide. If Facebook won’t allow this access voluntarily, then it’s time for lawmakers to require it.

Here's the problem the people who want to fight "misinformation" need to realize: they won't be in charge and the loyalty of those who gets to decide might change and those who gets to decide will not be the same people you would place your hopes in. I can delete my Facebook account but I can't delete the government.
> Aspartame seems to be particularly popular in the USA (diet sodas), and less popular the further away you go.

At least in Germany, it’s very similar. Most diet sodas here are aspartame sweetened.
> The damage in a case like this would be calculated on how many peoples opinions of de Grey were lowered.

If you didn't have a prior opinion of the guy because you'd never heard of him before -- like me (unless I'd heard of him but forgot) -- your (my) opinion of him technically can't be "lowered". But getting to hear of him for the first time in a context like this certainly gives one a bad first impression of him...

So, does that count? Because in that case I suppose there could be quite a lot of opinions like mine, not lowered but set initially low, out there affected by this.