skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Remember, for weeks it was cast as Russian propaganda

What was it, actually? I've lost track.

> will they discuss how at first the lab leak theory was discarded as "misinformation"?

If 50 or 100 years from now, we find out that aliens did in fact visit Roswell, NM, would we posthumously rehabilitate the UFO nuts and conspiracy theorists of today? Even if all their details were wrong?

It's possible to write the right answer on an exam through pure guesswork; that's why teachers say "show your work". It's possible to be a kook and say something that later turns out to be true. It's possible to call lab leak "misinformation" in 2020 but give it a bit more credence after new facts come to light. Especially when "lab leak" was being used as cover or deflection for incompetence and mismanagement of the pandemic response.
I re-read the article to make sure I had not missed any mention of some sort of DRM on the washing machine soap, or perhaps Terms & Conditions that prevent you from repairing the washing machine....

I'm not sure how these do-gooders expect to make their next round of funding.

(Man, I need to get off HN. :-))
Back in the aughts, I had yomama.be. As in yo mama.be/trippin
A Dyson sphere around a body with 4.5cm radius sounds quite manageable. I wonder how small a Dyson sphere could be with current materials. I imagine it's mostly limited by gravitational forces at that point?
The most labor-intensive step of handwashing clothes is not the washing itself, but the wringing: http://www.handlaundry.com/clothes-wringer/

It's possible to line-dry clothes without wringing water out first, but it takes much longer for soggy clothes to dry and the potential for water stains is greater.

I don't see a wringer pictured or mentioned in the article. Perhaps there's also a market for hand- or pedal-powered wringers, as well as the manual washers.
This is what you said to me: "you’re just mad that your favored whitewashing of history is being challenged". Do you even have remote understanding of what "productive discussion" means?
Craig Federighi Explains ‘Misunderstood’ iPhone Child-Protection Features
I've found these platforms are fine with assholes, they just pick and choose whos assholes are acceptable based on political preference..
Glass: A new, distraction-free home for photographers
Laws against racism already exist.
I would imagine the manual powered machine is intended for areas where electricity or water hookups aren't necessarily reliable or even available.
If the accounts are subject to ID verification then the abuser can be prosecuted.
Hyperinflation is too much currency chasing too few resources, but currency is not the same thing as money. There are a whole bunch of nonlinearities because the value ascribed to a unit of currency does not instantly update when new money enters circulation and people speculate about long term behavior, but over the long term if you 100X the currency supply, a dollar is simply 1/100th the amount of money it used to be.
What “Insane Complexity and Heightened Risk” Looks Like [pdf]
Yes you are correct, you did read a different article, that’s the core problem. A large portion of Trump’s base still believes that fishy things happened in the election, if the journalist covering this story wanted to cover this without bias and truly believes that the program is a net positive (which I agree is probably true) they shouldn’t be injecting divisive politics into their coverage as these people are completely done with the media at this point, the OP is going easy describing what some of these people believe. They roll their eyes at anything these people say now, they have lost all faith in the media.

The story reads like the journalist is completely unaware of their implicit left wing bias and makes little effort to fix it - to them, this example is an obvious example to use but it will alienate readers on the other side (like the OP), yet they used it anyway.
Non-Consensus Right
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28153814
See also this TED talk by the late Hans Rosling:

https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_magic_washing_mac...

Traditional washing, by beating cloth on stones beside a river, can take 10-20 person-hours a week for a family's worth of linens (and that's assuming the same clothing is worn day-in, day-out, between weekly washes): it's a horribly inefficient chore than amounts to manual labour, and because it's usually left to women it's one that policy-makers and development economists overlook or discount. Automating it could potentially free up enough time to provide extra years of education, or to increase available worker-hours in an economy by 10%. But if you can't provide everyone with automatic washer/driers, something like this is still a huge improvement.
Under that scenario inflation could hit A list entertainer salaries. Chapelle could say his next 1 hour special is going to be licensed for 800 million dollars to whoever wants it.
You can buy plenty of cheap hand or foot cranked ones from China on Amazon for camping or for supposed environmental friendliness. This one has a nice story, donated labour and possibly adaptations unique to the situation of refugee camps
I need an API to download all the links and, well, kinda organize/sort/etc etc them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence
Noncompete Agreements Are Everywhere, Even Neighborhood Yoga Studios
I do insist that the companies should hire and manage their own janitorial staff, maintenance workers, mail room (so far as that still exists), food workers, etc.

A major part of American capitalism that worked was the fact that you could be poor, get a job at a company "at the bottom" and work your way up to the top. The transition to contracting out the bottom, and then an over-reliance on credentialism is a huge mistake.
A self-built Bubble Bobble bartop arcade machine
Russia already forced Apple to allow pre-installing government approved apps on local iPhones: https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/16/22334641/apple-follows-ru...
I call this the "fallacy" fallacy.
After watching it work, I want to add a flywheel and a treadle.
can you provide examples of that?

clarifying: you claimed there were errors, pls provide examples. You made a claim, its not unreasonable to be asked to support it.
The world is full of people with a hoarding attitude toward an arbitrarily chosen store of value. They are the ones we keep reading about when we are told poor decisions have collapsed buildings, destroyed ecosystems, caused wars and unnecessary human suffering.
The focus on privacy was new and only after their focus on advertising failed.
I wanted to buy a Tesla and I asked my apartment building management about getting a charging spot. They have 12 spots already (it's a 150 unit building), and they're all taken...and they can't install more unless they run new lines direct from a power station 2 miles away and install $100k of equipment to receive it. So they said no.

Now maybe that is bad planning on their part, but I'd bet they're far from the only building in town that didn't build to accommodate a rapid growth in EVs.
Not thrilled with that source. But given that Israel has such a high rate of vaccination, it seems reasonable to expect that most of those admitted to hospital at this point will have had the vaccine.
Official denial:
https://www.news18.com/news/world/amarullah-salehs-office-di...
The title as worded implies that Amazon kills its own retail stores as a business choice.

The article is about how Amazon kills other peoples retail stores, which, duh, and thank God.
Indeed. And having women in the workforce is literally worth trillions of dollars, far exceeding the costs of “obese Americans”.
> She said, “This battle is not between the right and the left, it’s not between conservatives and liberals or Republicans and Democrats.” Rather, “this is a battle between Our Lord and the devil,” and every person must choose a side.

...

> She said, “If we treat them early – early is the ticket – with ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, 80% of the people will not have to go to the hospital.”

I was under the impression that neither invermectin or hydroxychloroquine has been demonstrated to be effective. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.18.21252037v...

However you feel about vaccines being foisted on us by the devil, that article looks pretty shaky to me as a source of public health advice.
How useful would the algorithm being open source be without things like the ML models that feed its parameters or the data used to train the models? It would be like knowing PageRank without any of the data and asking why one site is ranked above another in search results.
I think it also depends how many times a year you are in this situation. If you go out with big group 5 times a year and end up paying $10 more than you should, you end up down $50/year.

If this is a weekly or daily event, it makes sense to make this more fair.

In my opinion, stressing about anything less than $100/year is penny pinching.
> The National Enquirer is not the same as the New York Times

This is true. But the NYT has an agenda, would you not agree? The Enquirer is easy to spot. The NYT is more subtle about what they do (mostly). I ask "If you have to 'unfilter' everything why am I reading this"? Look at the stories they choose to cover and ignore. Then look at the particular phraseology they use to talk about particular groups. Which groups are always in glowing terms. Which groups are constantly downed on. No group is that 'good/evil'. Selective editing of stories to make one side look better/worse is their typical weapon of choice.

Many are also using the Richelieu method "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

> How did they "pretend"; did they say 'we produced this segment here in town X'?
Yes they did say they had done it. They did not say 'from someone else', probably just a goof in the mad-lib script. It was just what keyed me into the subtle deceptions that go on in our news. On the face of it by itself it is not really that big of a deal. It is the pile of little lies that are not technically lies that are cause for concern. They are using top shelf persuasion techniques. Not for the good of the public or you or me. But as a way to get 'clicks' these days or move paper years ago. What the new set of persuaders call 'engagement'.

I can not honestly sit and say 'oh read this set' as they are brain junk food. Many are little more than outrage machines that try to keep engagement, usually by stroking cognitive biases and primed assumptions using the bernays techniques. You can try to sift through it but if they are just copying from each other and amping up outrage for something, playing the game of telephone. You are going to have a very hard time untangling that mess. Many times you roll backwards in time and have to become a news detective to find out the original source.
Polio is not eradicated and with Taliban taking over Afghanistan, likely won't be anytime soon.
There is no “international” calling distinction when using the internet. FaceTime audio, Google Duo/allo/whatever, Skype/Teams, WeChat, and I’m sure there are plenty of other apps that let people communicate via audio.
Bias is like an accent: people rarely notice their own. If you haven't seen the NY Times' bias, it probably matches your own.
I will admit, prior to FB I totally thought the opposite would happen. I couldn’t imagine saying anything political under my own name, because I would rather say nothing than incite controversy over text (which is a sub par medium of communication), because the probability of real dialog approaches 0%.

The fact that there are people who don’t care surprises me somewhat, but it must be a huge cultural difference (something akin to the curse of knowledge).
Given the coverage in the UK papers after the abuse, I was surprised to find out only 34 of the racist tweets were from the UK.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/05/there-was-no-outbur...

And the graffiti on the Marcus Rashford mural wasn't racist.
Not sure why this is downvoted. This is what I was taught in the past - mainstream media is reliable and trustworthy. Hell, those same media organizations reinforce that belief when they attack less mainstream news sources.

Yet if you look at the list of mistakes the mainstream media has made in the past decade I’m not sure why anyone would assume they are worthy of an assumption of good faith reporting.
I hate war, but the broken window fallacy is too simple here. The military industrial complex builds human capital and supports domestic manufacturing. The resources might be turned into fragments of molten metal, but the people who built them have been train in skilled careers with transferable skills and a slice of manufacturing capacity has been saved from outsourcing. As the prospects and expectations of people rise, they become more confident consumers.
Correct. If the transgressions are bad enough and police have resources.

But it still keeps the thoughtful, the vulnerable and the shy out of the public debate.
Do you do anything to help the researchers make better marketing materials/give better pitches?

Anecdotally, I was part of an accelerator where some participants were given the option of commercializing something the university had and researchers came and gave us pitches on things they thought should be commercialized.

The pitches were terrible. About half the time nobody in the cohort had a grasp of what the IP was after the pitch had ended. Sometimes we were not sure of the industry.
We know that Trump's campaign manager (working for free for Trump yet deeply in debt to a Russian oligarch) funneled internal campaign data to a Russian intelligence officer. This is according to Senate Republicans [1]. We also know that this info was passed on to the Russian FSB, which was engaged in a psyops campaign against the American public in an effort to elect Donald Trump. This is according to the Mueller Report and the US Treasury Department [2] [3]. Further context includes Trump's son, son-in-law, and campaign manager (the very same one working with a Russian FSB officer) meeting with a Russian spy at Trump's house to discuss trading dirt on Clinton in exchange for relaxed Russia relations (including lifting sanctions related to Russia's invasion of Crimea) [2].

What's more, Trump and his entire campaign lied about all of this, and Trump threw his weight and the weight of the government he controlled into obstructing the subsequent investigation. When the Mueller Report was finally released, it was torpedoed by Trump's attorney general, whose representation of the Mueller Report was characterized by a federal judge (who has seen more of the Muller Report than you or me) as "misleading" and "lacking candor":

"The inconsistencies between Attorney General Barr's statements, made at a time when the public did not have access to the redacted version of the Mueller Report to assess the veracity of his statements, and portions of the redacted version of the Mueller Report that conflict with those statements cause the Court to seriously question whether Attorney General Barr made a calculated attempt to influence public discourse about the Mueller Report in favor of President Trump despite certain findings in the redacted version of the Mueller Report to the contrary"

"The speed by which Attorney General Barr released to the public the summary of Special Counsel Mueller's principal conclusions, coupled with the fact that Attorney General Barr failed to provide a thorough representation of the findings set forth in the Mueller Report, causes the Court to question whether Attorney General Barr's intent was to create a one-sided narrative about the Mueller Report—a narrative that is clearly in some respects substantively at odds with the redacted version of the Mueller Report." [4]

Actual collusion between the Russian FSB and the Trump campaign occurred. It's documented and has been investigated by several bodies. Actual hacking of our political system by a foreign government in favor of one candidate occurred and has been investigated.

[1] https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...

[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Report_O...

[3] https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0126

[4] https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Ba...
This discussion (like many on HN) is a good example of the tool of skepticism about sources:

Almost every HN thread has a large proportion of attacks on the source and/or their methods. But interestingly, much of it is not (IME, IMHO) 'news literacy' or skepticism, it's the opposite:. Distrusting everyone is as unskeptical and illiterate as trusting everyone.

Skepticism requires examination of the facts, critical thought, and skepticism about ourselves and our own arguments and facts too. The results aren't simple, but nuanced: 'The report is this degree of good in that way, and that degree of bad in this way.' One potential signal is that if it doesn't add nuance it's not really critical thinking.

Also, if it repeats something we've already heard many times - memes, politicized talking points, etc. - it's not critical thinking. Finally, every work of humanity is flawed; critical reading is finding what we can gain from it, despite the flaws. Given the inescapable truth of our flaws, that is the only way we move forward.

I loved kebman's summary of the what they learned in Norway:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28168435

Summed up, it's about how trustworthy a source is, what method was used to obtain the data or opinions in the material (if any), whether the observations or claims in it are first hand or second hand, and whether its conclusions are reasonably objective or subjective.
Yeah I was also interested in these ships made of washing machines, and which used hand-cranks for propulsion!

Slightly disappointed to hear that they are actually hand-cranked washing machines. Sigh - maybe next year!
Logging roads in the national forest are usually fair game, unless otherwise restricted.

Those intimidating signs that say “Logging Permit Required” are meant for loggers, so try not to get caught with an industrial chainsaw in your van.

Loggers wake up too damn early. Prepare for (what sounds like) a military invasion at 4 AM when the equipment shows up to turn beautiful, innocent trees into money.
Why should anyone care so much about Hunter Biden? It's not like Joe Biden filled his staff with his own children like Trump did. Hunter is just another shady businessman, not an elected official.

At the beginning, the lab leak "theory" was really just a baseless conspiracy theory since there was zero evidence of it. No wonder it was mostly racist right-wing media personalities pushing it.
Allow it. Let the racists be racist. Let them expose themselves so we all know who to ridicule and ignore. Not only has this wacky notion of free speech worked well for a long time, society has grown far less racist despite no official policing of speech.

The insidiousness that comes from controlling speech is far greater than the insidiousness of a small group of assholes who say mean things. The short-sightedness of many continues to astonish me.
It's been about 2.5 years. Was paying under $700 for the two of us.

The difference in pay between W2 and 1099 was $30,000 / year. This more than covered all taxes and health insurance costs. (And even the W2 rate was much higher than typical full-time salaries.)

The main difference in taxes is the 15.3% you pay towards FICA, where an employer has to cover most of it for W-2 (you still pay 6.2%.) I don't remember all the exact numbers any more, but if 1099 is ~25% more than W-2, odds are pretty good you can do better on your own, especially if you take advantage of the solo 401(k) to reduce your tax load.
The potential of what that money could've done to help people was absolutely wasted even if individuals profited and that has marginal economic effects.
Thank you dang, for your tireless work, maintaining a space where you can respectfully with each other.
It's not the same at all, trivially.

Feeling unsafe around a psycho shouting at you on the street is reasonable, feeling 'unsafe' because someone tweeted a bad word is not.

I'm not even saying you're wrong but that's a terrible analogy.
Citroën DS19: The Green Goddess
Paul Graham's thoughts on lisp are worth sharing. I think he as inspired a lot of lisp progammers over the last twenty years.

http://paulgraham.com/lisp.html
What Twitter really needs to do is give users better tools to ‘curate’ what they receive in their stream.

Let me choose if I accept posts with foul language, hurtful language, posts with adult content, posts with NSFW pics, posts with political content, posts with inane topics (cat pics, memes, etc), posts from genZ, posts from boomers, sports, international, national, local, etc, etc.

Give us the tools so we can decide what we want to receive. You [ought]1 not decide for us what we wish to consume.

I want agency with regard what I consume and choose not to consume. Don't remove my agency and make me into a passive consumer of your product.

[1]fixed for precision.
These biases are also played out as deliberate argument tactics, and they work really well, especially on those who can't detect it. Basically each of them is also guide how to be more persuasive, if you don't care about playing dirty.
According to an article I read this morning in the WSJ, you would have to upload about 30 matching images to iCloud, at which point it would be flagged for review, and even then only the flagged images would be shown to the reviewer. This strikes me as not a serious privacy risk.

Article here: https://apple.news/AhVzAY--DT36Oz22W7taL9Q
If you had any international contacts, then WhatsApp was the no brainer when it came out because it was the best cross platform messaging solution at the time. The only people who did not use WhatsApp were people who did not have international contacts (or maybe used WeChat, but I am not familiar with those social circles).
A bunch of people are pointing out the phytosanitary concerns. For mangos coming from India, they were made legal under Bush. But the problem is the Latin American market has a strong hold on the US mango market and does not want India or others to enter it. All the fibrous [low quality] Tommy Atkins mangos come from Latin America.

USDA inspection requires the US side to place agents in the country of export to do the inspection. The US, while making it legal, never did place enough agents. My guess is this was done via lobbyists for the Latin American exporters.

Also, I should point out that before covid I was able to find boxes of Alphonso mangos at some of the local Indian grocers, albeit very expensive ($70-$80).
> Requiring COVID-19 jabs has become a way to exercise “total control” over people. “They want to force an experimental compound that we really don’t know the long-term effects [of]. Then they want to, on top of that, make sure everyone has a [vaccine] passport. So, it’s total control of a populace. And that’s communism. We’re headed that way,” she said.

This gave me a chuckle and did not inspire confidence.
These are being sent to refugee camps, where people don't have regular access to electricity or water (or $100).