skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see the problems.

> Update: Virginia Girl Recants Story of Assault ...

What significance do you see here?

> NY Times title after an islamic terrorist beheaded a teacher near Paris

Again, what is the significance to you? It's not that I can't guess at some of it, but to discuss it I need to know what you think.

> (interpretations of Trump and Biden motives)

Trump and Biden are different people with different motives; should they report those motives are the same? Trump brazenly pushed those motives into the public, as an attempt at cultural change and attack on his opponents. Biden seems open about his too.

Also, according to the article, Trump backed his statement with lies, as he often did; should they be reported as facts? Should that be ignored?

Finally, circumstances had changed. The murder was years ago, for example.

> Ahmad Al Alawi Alissa killed 10 people in Boulder, Colorado, the shooter is referred to as a "gunman whose motives remain a mystery"

Do you know the motives? Was there evidence of them at the time?

> "How White Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror"

That's an opinion piece, which is very different. You can find all sorts of agendas and biases in NY Times opinions, the entire spectrum (almost).

.....

My impression, very possibly false, is you want the NYT to assume and appease the propaganda of neo-reactionaryism (or a segment of it): anti-immigrant and religious prejudices, and the unsubtle propaganda of 'anti-white racism'. Not only are those evil, dangerous and ugly, they are baseless. Certainly they don't belong in journalism, and you won't find them in anything serious from any source.
That’s a rather fatalist point of view. Hopefully there are at least some anti-vaxxers whose minds can be changed.
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The interesting thing is if you tried that you’d find less people fed, less people sheltered and less education.

I mean the politicians would love this because they understand it is not about owning things but about having control. And then they could control the most.

The scary part to me is the amount of people who think this same way as you.

If we as humanity just confiscate others wealth, then the world will be better. Forgetting there has to be those in charge of confiscating it.

No, the problems in our society will not be solved that way. People get a president like trump because they deserved it, and then they got a president like Biden, because the people still haven’t learned and still get what th wet deserve.
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Go back and compare CNN reporting from today to the 1980s. And even the straight news is extremely partisan in story selection: compare the coverage of De Santis to Cuomo in 2020.[1] Plus, fully half the content on CNN (and 80% on MSNBC) is opinion.

I’m not a partisan. I spent most of my life as a registered Democrat and read the NYT every day as recently as 2012-2013. But wokeness has definitely taken over and the pretense of objectivity has been abandoned entirely.

[1] Other good examples: the “Asian hate crime” stuff. It was wall-to-wall “cultural studies” professors blaming “white supremacy” on CNN for weeks. As a card carrying asian it actually caused me to have a bit of an episode where I was questioning my own grip with reality. I literally reached out to Asians I know in NYC to be like “wait, you think this is mainly about homeless people and you want more police, right?” Like if you had just watched CNN coverage you wouldn’t even understand the forces (crime) that led to Eric Adams overwhelmingly winning the democratic nomination in NYC.
I think there is far-right-wing propaganda like you're describing, but that doesn't explain why moderate liberals feel like the media is strongly biased in favor of the progressive left. Of course, many on the progressive left think that moderate liberals are holocaust/climate-change deniers, so this may not be very compelling to them.
I don't see how that's any different from normal method calls, though. If you don't know what `a + b` does for an arbitrary type, why would you know what `a.add(b)` does? Overloaded operators and methods are all just operations on a type.
It's amazing how different of a story one gets from ICU nurses and doctors, vs mainstream media.

In retrospect, I think the story of the pandemic is going to be how much was concealed from the public, and the impact those images that did break through had (e.g. Dr Li Wenliang's selfies, hooked up to oxygen support).

It's easy to live in an abstract world, until you've seen someone struggling for breath or being put under for intubation.
> Now, there will come a time where you'll need to automate this.

Unless you buy hiring-from-a-bootcamp-to-be-told-your-practices-are-archaic-and-pulled-into-regular-meetings as a service, of course.
Reading these articles, the first one says

>"If the public health professionals, if Dr. Fauci, if the doctors tell us that we should take it, I'll be the first in line to take it, absolutely. But if Donald Trump tells us that we should take it, I'm not taking it," Harris said.

and the second one's video byline says

>Senator Kamala Harris said during Wednesday's vice presidential debate that she will only follow instructions from health experts on whether to take a coronavirus vaccine, not President Trump.

and the third one says

>"I will say that I would not trust Donald Trump and it would have to be a credible source of information that talks about the efficacy and the reliability of whatever he's talking about," she continued in the clip from an exclusive interview airing Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" at 9 a.m. ET. "I will not take his word for it."

I'm no spin-doctor, but I don't think that's a sick burn against the grandparent comment, which suggests that

>>[t]he only people who think Trump was involved in vaccine development are Trump himself and his supporters.

Harris actually said that Trump's endorsement, without accompaniment by actual medical professionals, wouldn't convince her. You chose those articles, and that is what those articles you linked to said. Again, strawmen say whatever you want them to.
Wow! This is a great response. I'd love to find time for a chat, my email is chase@firstignite.com
WOW. J.A.N. Lee taught my intro to programming in C++ course back in '99. He retired during my undergrad.
Well, at least it wasn’t at the level of pain of getting any IME to work on Linux (not that Windows is much better in that regard…).
In a similar way, any one engaged in illicit trade with India is funding terrorist groups like the RSS.
might as well ask why that entire system exists in the first place?
I don't know how long they have been doing this for, but the two Snopes articles that this article links to use the rating "Labeled Satire", which seems accurate.
Yes, I remember a site listing the most evil people that ever existed and decided to place Marx at the top. It is not exactly the same thing (as it was not a fact-checking site) but it was similar enough.

Although, is it really that the question? We have known that "both sides" have been bullshitting their way for ages. It's not as if this is a secret.

The only reason that people care about Snopes having a political slant is because 1: it is popular and 2: it pretends that it is not (by being a fact checker). I am not aware of any similar popular and generally considered credible right wing site.
Until a decade ago, journalists used to be in touch with the everyday average Joe, made sustainable salary but not too much, used to go on ground to sites to report what was going on, present the facts and let people make up their minds.

Now a days, it’s become a circle jerk on who can get the most twitter likes, they follow and retweet people of their same political side, get multi million salaries, have zero idea of what the common peasant is going through, journalists sit in their ivory tower and look down upon the peasants for not doing the same “sophisticated” things. Smugness and being condescending is a norm in journalist circles.

The best journalist of modern world is rotting in a prison cell in the UK being extradited to the US while the journalists carry water for politicians and how mean tweets is somehow a threat to their press freedoms of lies. They lie and flip flop on all issues and then when the facts come out, they act as if they were never wrong and corrections are printed ignored by everyone, damage is already done.

"The battle is won when the average American regards a corporate journalist exactly as they regard a tobacco executive." - Michael Malice
A high ceiling _does_ mean that a modern A/C system has a larger volume of air to cool. And when people renovate high-ceiling houses, installing a "drop ceiling" is very common.

But when fans and cross-ventilation are the primary means of cooling, high ceilings allow the hottest air in the room to accumulate, where it will not bother occupants (and thus forcing cooler air into the occupied space near the floor).
> CDC is a political vehicle. It’s a tragedy what’s happened over the last year as they flip flop.

The CDC is an apolitical vehicle broadly speaking. It's not perfect, and it has become more politicized over time, sure. It's a sign of their doing their job to adjust their position in the face of a rapidly changing landscape. It's also their job to be pretty conservative.

> VAERS and it’s predecessors did not track this kind of thing even though they were explicitly made with the intention to. Their own workforce was puzzled as to why they weren’t deployed early on to track vaccine side effects.

VAERS has always been there to track Reports of Vaccine Adverse Events. It's by the way an HHS system, not CDC. Do you have any articles to back your assertions? I'm of course open to reading them.

> CDC didn’t make the vaccine. J&J did.

As is tradition.

> Neither knows what it will do over the next N years, and even if they did you’d be the last to know.

The vaccine platforms are decades old and well studied, we know broadly what they do, so we can project their effects.

> You’ve got all the evidence you need in how J&J handled the powder case.

Would you not say it's fair that they incurred liability over the talcum powder, but the government waived their liability over any vaccine adverse effects and so they would have far less interest in covering it up?

> So no, I’m not taking the vaccine or the aspirin.

You... won't take aspirin because of the Nazis? My dude (or m'lady, as appropriate), I'm Polish and I'm over it. lol.
I think the author's point was not about keyboard shortcuts but about the fact that people won't even know that the find feature exists (and thus they won't look in the menus/toolbars) unless they're taught.
Wait until you read the next ones. Pesky readers ruining mah agitprop!!
FWIW, the Mikkelsons (couple originally behind the site) had a messy divorce and the lawsuits between their various entities continue to this day. The plagiarism here does seem pretty clear cut, but it's likely the funders of investigation have their own axe to grind.

https://www.npr.org/2017/07/26/539576135/fact-checking-websi...
This is insightful, but how was that convincing either? To me, it was more obvious that hard viral mitigations would last for 18 months (until 2022) before there were options available for people (such as an option for vaccines), and I was surprised by the speed of viral sequencing and then emergency authorizations. That was new technology and was impressive, for the people interested in vaccines the option was available.

I don't see how flatten the curve was convincing, in March 2020 or in hindsight.

That's separate from the comical moving goalposts of various Governors and counties.
They settled a defamation lawsuit. The settlement terms included an apology and payment of $3 million.
>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.

really? you think land reform and mechanization in russia, china, and former colonies had nothing to do with that? wage raises and other victories of labor organizing? welfare and schools and transit and healthcare and other public services? most of the poverty in the world that one can say has been lifted probably comes directly from all those efforts.

it's easy to miss that viewpoint in america, where our wealth came from the homesteading of an entire continent (made available by genocide, pretty redistributive) and then food and manufacturing exports to a bombed-out world (implementing those reforms and supported by intentional redistributive funding from us) which turned around over decades and provided us manufacturing services to supply our consumption. when you don't look more than two steps ahead it looks like pure entrepreneurship. but you have to remember most of humanity doesn't live in the core of this empire, where land was free and consumption markets were far away.
Wow! I've researching different parts of SDLC and Software Engineering / Software Architecture / Distributed Systems in general, and I noticed a lot of cross-cutting and intertwined/interrelated concepts. I even start adding a first page/slide of every document titled "Intertwined concepts".
The intuition that I've built up is that most of the time that you have a debate that goes on for more than about 5 minutes, there's a problem at a different abstraction level.

For instance with Imperial vs Metric System, Metric optimizes for multiplication, while Imperial optimizes for division. You can never unify these under the current system. But you can, if you change our base to base 12. Then they suddenly merge.

With CLI vs GUI, we've realized that we needed a mixture. We need a GUI that runs through a CLI. And now we have that, it's called a website. I think tabs vs spaces was solved similarly, with tabs as spaces that editors config can treat n-straight-spaces as tabs.

I'm firmly on the expression only and lots of functions sides, but that transcript is very interesting. You can already do local functions in C#, it seems to be implying that we should strive for that to be our mixture.
The need to quantify the movement and then assign blame to one side or the other based on 'movement score' misses the point I'm trying to make.

Many, including possibly you based on comments so far, are enchanted with the idea that one side is correct always and another side is wrong always.

I think this is the root of the problem - a meta problem where communication has broken down - because the go-to discussion technique is to quote a gish-like succession of cherry-picked examples so the conclusion of the conversation can be one side is always wrong and another side is always right.

Said another way, any conclusion that ascribes traits to "the left" or "the right" is exactly the sort of stuff I would hope a News Literacy course teaches you to discredit.
faceless LLCs are not driving the real estate boom. very easy government backed loans and piles of government stimulus money are driving the boom
I wonder if they are they paying the corresponding sales and income taxes.
Go lasso that horse and ride it to the stars!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_starship
> we would have pointed out the idiocy of anyone choosing to use a web browser released by Google.

I still try to, but it’s a lost battle already. (Don’t use Chrome, BTW.)
No sources, that's how I like my medical information.
Remind me of their narrative again? They say that

> "Trump did not explicitly tell people to 'storm' or 'breach' or 'break into' the [US] Capitol."

and included the reasoning that

> the president called on supporters to “peacefully and patriotically” march or walk to the Capitol

...but wait, their far-left narrative! Why didn't they omit those references and reasoning?!

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-tell-supporters-stor...
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> Could you provide have evidence of your claims?

Did you watch the Danah Boyd video I linked to? There aren't many better Internet ethnographers than her. Like I don't know if she's the absolute best person in her field, but she's pretty easily top 10.
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Guess they'll have to start taking lessons from professional athletes who've had to figure out how to deal with not being able to "continue playing the game" and still be happy.
This is the only angle these people have since straight up climate change denial doesn't fly anymore.
The media has done a shit job of informing people without being wrong per se. The coverage usually goes like this:

Things are getting bad in [location]! Hospitals are overcrowding (no information on how many beds and how long until disaster). Here's some disconnected but scary stats. [x] people were admitted to the hospital this weekend in a sudden surge (no information on how many were admitted before, thus impossible to judge the magnitude of the "surge"). [y]% people tested positive this week (no information on how many tests were given, who was able to get tests, or anything about the methodology that would make this data useful). Now for an interview with some stupid person who wishes they listened to us earlier. If you ignore the restrictions, this will happen to you! Stay tuned.

All of it was factual but none of it was informative. The news is the noise!

It really got to a point where if you wanted to actually know anything about the severity of the situation, how long it would last, how much risk you are facing per trip outside etc then you had to download the data from the NIH/CDC and plot it yourself. The media should have been doing that for me. They were derelict in their duty.
Could you please provide specific policy examples that would illustrate drastic vs non-drastic measures? I think it would help me understand your point more fully.
> Except evidence has shown the the left has moved further left than the right has moved right.

That depends on all of the time frame (are you talking from the height of the mid-to-late-1990s “neoliberal consensus” where the DNC had shifted sharply right on economic issues compared to its previous positions, and when—due in part to the economic boom, broader in reach down the distributional ladder than subsequent expansions—racial issues were at a historically low salience, or some other time), and your political frame of reference (a fix set of policy stands defining degree of left/right-ness, or comparison to evolving global or developed-world standards), and what you are calling “the left” and “the right” that have moved (are you talking about the nth-percentile position in the electorate, are you talking the median position in each of the major parties [and, if so, are you looking at the party-in-the-electorate or the party-in-government], etc.)

And, as with most identity-charged issues, standard selection tends to be biased by the desired outcome (either directly and consciously, or because of worldview, e.g., a conservative will be biased toward the constant-policy rather than evolving-international-norms standard in measuring how far to the right or left things in the US are.)
The problem, as always, is implementation. Millionaires, especially those on the low end of that spectrum, tend to be fairly easy to tax. Their income sources are mostly regular and standard forms of income tax work pretty well.

Billionaires are a very different animal. They have armies of lawyers and financial managers that help them navigate the movement of wealth through the global system to avoid taxation. They avoid recognizing income at all opportunities and strategically use debt to provide for themselves without exposing themselves to tax consequences that would come from getting the money they want to spend. They can traverse the globe looking for the most favorable taxation rates to maximize their wealth.

There’s been a lot of “tax billionaires” and “billionaires shouldn’t exist” rhetoric without much substance to how to actually achieve that goal. Billionaires aren’t just going to say “aww, shucks, guess we’ve got to pay up” when governments decide to up their taxes. They’re going to react in ways that are both hard to predict and harder to stop. Capital flight is a real threat and will require a massive, coordinated effort on the parts of all the nations that comprise the global financial system to curtail. The efforts towards a minimum corporate tax rate are a good start, but that’s only one step of many that are necessary before “tax billionaires” becomes a realistic target.
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Pinephone is only slow if the software is not optimized. It's true for most OSes, but have a look at this: https://sr.ht/~mil/Sxmo/.
It was a very fine needle Twitter needed to thread and apparently they could not do it. In my mind the best way would be to ban politicians from posting political opinions. This would not only ban DJT, but AOC, Pelosi, MJT as well.

It took DJT to be politically neutralized after losing the election for them to have the fortitude to do what was necessary. When he went from being a controversial asset to the platform to a controversial liability.
Then Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif tried to cover up a scandal that was revealed in the Panama papers back in 2014. He forged a document purportedly from 2006 using Microsoft's not-yet-released font Calibri as an attempted cover story.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/not-for-the-firs...
I can summarize the class. Don't trust the news. They have financial incentives to emotionally outrage their audience. There is no such thing as an unbiased source. Only trust video evidence, and only that sparingly
It is easier to harass the obedient and honest. But there comes a point where they have enough and leave.
I didn't say it was. I was just guessing at a possible reason they might have done it. I've seen anti-vax folks pass around archive.org links as well as pictures of stuff that was taken down/corrected before.
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> The numbers come from a YouGov poll [0] as the image in the tweet shows.

The numbers provide no evidence for the second claim, which means that the twitter post is being intellectually dishonest.

> section VI of the report is titled NO EVIDENCE OF CHANGED VOTES OR MANIPULATED VOTE TALLIES

And there's not much (or no detectable) evidence of most hacks until suddenly there is. It is not unreasonable to assume a compromised system is compromised. I personally think there probably were not manipulation of the tallies, but I can understand thinking there probably was.

There's certainly much more evidence of it than say, Hunter Biden's laptop.
>No, I'm putting my faith in the CDC and VAERS

About VAERS this might be interesting...

https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/defining-away-vaccin...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IAzK4a58a7M4ajHKOpqe-9KD9Pd...
iPhone changed everything.
The funny thing is I have a friend of the family that has worked 7 years now at the prineville facebook datacenter, and has not had to worry about 2 year lay-offs, he's an electrician, his company in contracted to build/expand the datacenter there, with a full job with benefits that have only increased over time.

Because of expansion the 'temporary' construction jobs have turned out to be almost better than the actual jobs that actually work in there.
> It's not surprising that universities are more left-leaning when the right has taken a stance against higher education and pushes anti-intellectualism for political gain.

People do realize that you don't have to choose between the regressive, anti-intellectual right and the regressive, anti-intellectual left, correct? Every time someone criticizes the left, some left-wing person argues that the right-wing is worse as though there isn't a moderate option. We have to choose between overt left-wing propaganda and overt right-wing propaganda--we can't have a media apparatus that at least pays lip service to objectivity and neutrality like we have had for the last few decades.