skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Conspiracy theories aren't 100% irrational.

The term is often used to refer to implausible "theories" that make very strong claims, but have zero supporting evidence and make zero testable predictions.

Of course, it's true that people conspire all the time.

Implausible "theories" that make strong claims are exciting and entertaining. They're fun to play with. They become a problem when they go viral, among groups of people with limited critical thinking skills.

The internet has been responsible for this, by democratising information. Anyone who failed at school can still look up shifty research papers online, misunderstand them, and not not know how to evaluate the evidence.

This is a social pandemic, and I have no idea what the cure is. But I'm certain the cure isn't more censorship.

> you can always point to incredibly large groups of people who believe some facts that you perceive to be incorrect.

Hardly any propositions about the world are "mathematically rigorous" - there's nearly always a big chunk of judgement needed to decide the truth of a proposition. That doesn't mean that all judgements have equal value; some beliefs are "wronger" than others. There seem to be large groups of people with opinions that are screamingly, obviously, completely wrong, and as close to 100% irrational as makes no difference.

Some "conspiracy theories" lack adequate supporting evidence, but are at least arguable. For example, it's a fact that in the past, groups of people have been given vaccines that were deliberately contaminated by the manufacturer. It's therefore not unreasonable to ask for evidence that this hasn't happened in the case of e.g. COVID vaccines.

I prefer to reserve the term "conspiracy theory" for that class of opinions that is obviously completely batshit.
Yeah the experience in each airport varies. Some have a lot near by where drivers can sit and wait in a queue for passengers and some just say good luck but dont you dare sit in the loading zone.

If you are traveling to a new city/airport you never really know what you are going to get. Regardless waiting is normally better than getting into a taxi that will change you an unknown amount.
> This sequence was never valid

Neither were four-byte UTF-8 characters at some point.

> and never will be.

We shall see.
Covid-19 has altered small-sized machine builders' buying habits
What about Node has changed? It's been the same for several years save for the introduction of some new (optional) APIs and support for language features in JavaScript.
Great content from this channel, look into the rebuilding a Trabant's engine and his turning of a bus into an RV videos - lots of fun.
I'll venture a guess why they asked for the computer that comes in the smallest box. They were buying a computer as a present, and they needed to pack it for travel before unboxing.
The most common use of setjmp/longjmp I've seen (in embedded development) is to have coroutines in C. The original use AFAIK was usually to implement exceptions of some variety. Neither use is that common these days.
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Maybe so in C, but in C++, stack-allocated container classes, smart pointers, scope guards(!), and (with Qt) the parent-child system can handle almost all cases. Binary size usually increases but lines of code are less or equal to a C-style solution.

It's called RAII, but the main point is really that destructors are automatically called on scope exit.
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That is weird... does the same thing for me. I'm in CA and that's vegas suburbs. So I'm not that close either.
Sure, but from the view of design that's irrelevant.
"both sides of the story" is already a hole. Why are there just two? Are they equally credible and valid on every issue? Do we want "both sides of the story" when it comes to the Holocaust or slavery, as we see playing out in Texas today? Do we want only two sides of the story when talking about complex policy measures or historical events?

As other commenters have pointed out, you will be in a filter bubble no matter what, because you cannot speak to every person, read every paper, or understand every point of view. Bias cannot be eliminated, only understood and corrected for.
Uber was easily the single biggest improvement to my quality of life over the last 10 or so years. No, it didn't usher in a utopia of traffic free cities. But it made my large city accessible in ways that it was never before. Especially for a 20 something that wanted to go out on the weekends.
>MacOSX API

I think you mean what's now called classic MacOS. System 7, Mac OS 8/9

>Programming is hard, let's go shopping.

What you are describing is not programing, but life and career choices, which is much, much harder in my opinion and most of us are sorely unprepared for.
> big oil? Their products kill people literally every day.

Does oil kill more people than lack of oil though? How many people would starve without synthetic fertilizers (made from oil) and without oil-powered farming equipment?
There is really only one more deepwater capable port left that is undeveloped on the west coast of the US. Coos Bay, OR. They are pushing hard to bring in larger ships, but need to dredge the channel to make it deeper and wider for larger ships. That is planned for a few years from now. But this port also only has one rail line, now owned by the port, that connects to Eugene, OR, where the other large railroads are. There is also only 2 lane highways out of town, in the mountain ranges, so really rail is the only way out of the port.
> Isn't the fact that people use Uber proof that they provide some value?

Yes, but that value might be, that some people feel better because they think they are doing something for the climate.
People use single-use unrecycleable plastic, unhealthy food and capsule coffee machines, all are unnessesary, net negative to society but enable lazyness and are a great business.
There was that time I was stressing it because I had to set Chinese characters vertically and my gfx library didn’t support vertical text and it hit me that the characters were all square anyway and i could just draw them one at a time
This makes sense. Thanks for the advice
I love it how it's ambiguous whether the three minutes or the hour is supposed to be the real time passed in your comment, but according to Csíkszentmihályi both can indicate a flow state.

> One of the most common descriptions of optimal experience is that time no longer seems to pass the way it ordinarily does. The objective, external duration we measure with reference to outside events like night and day, or the orderly progression of clocks, is rendered irrelevant by the rhythms dictated by the activity. Often hours seem to pass by in minutes; in general, most people report that time seems to pass much faster. But occasionally the reverse occurs: Ballet dancers describe how a difficult turn that takes less than a second in real time stretches out for what seems like minutes: "Two things happen. One is that it seems to pass really fast in one sense. After it’s passed, it seems to have passed really fast. I see that it’s 1:00 in the morning, and I say: 'Aha, just a few minutes ago it was 8:00.' But then while I’m dancing... it seems like it’s been much longer than maybe it really was." The safest generalization to make about this phenomenon is to say that during the flow experience the sense of time bears little relation to the passage of time as measured by the absolute convention of the clock.
"When the whole world has gone mad, proclaiming sanity can only get you hurt"
And yet, Slack, Etsy, Wikipedia, WordPress, Mailchimp, Canva, Indeed, Investing.com are using PHP. I would think Wikipedia is a worthy competitor to youtube in this regard.
A PDF containing text is a text document, just not a plain UTF-8 or ASCII document. If it has hyperlinks, it is hypertext.
Microsoft Certified Rootkit Spreads in Gaming Ecosystem
It is almost like consuming art is subjective experience.
Yeah, it's a battle that China may not be able to win, but the United States government continuing to permit SpaceX to deploy satellites that are used to circumvent Chinese policy would be a clear act of aggression, especially if China had taken action to assert control over it's domestic communications.

I mean, it's entirely possible that some elements of the US government might prefer that, but generally speaking, I don't think that's a winning strategy for SpaceX. I think that even the most ardent Musk fans should anticipate how quickly tolerance for Musk's cavalier attitude dries up once missiles start flying.
Actually, I haven't been to Athens since summer 2019. Lovely place, so long as you avoid the touristy places.

Though I do like your form of expressing your frustration about the trial and sentencing of Socrates at myself as though I were his prosecutor, I assure you that I'm an under-50 mortal not born of gods and not atanatos.

> you could explain it and wouldn't find questions 'annoying'.

A question would not be annoying. Badgering, accusations, and pestering would be. And quite frankly, as we both know, every single one of us has contradictions in their beliefs and their actions. I'm not going to defend mine in public to a beggar following me around with the explicit intention of exposing my contradictions to my peers as a way to demonstrate that I (and for that matter, anybody) am not fit for the office I hold.
I'd like my eyes on the outside of my skull, thanks.
> -You need to be an expert* JavaScript developer with strong understanding of computer science at the same level as say a Java engineer.

I would put Java engineers in the "software engineering" category more than the "computer science", but that may be just an expression of my bias.
> That won't get the top 10 Steam games running on MacOS.

Top 10 Steam games according to https://store.steampowered.com/stats/

* New World - Amazon Lumberyard

* Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - Source

* Dota 2 - Source 2

* Team Fortress 2 - Source

* Apex Legends - Source

* PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS - Unreal

* Destiny 2 - Custom

* Rust - Unity

* Dead by Daylight - Unreal

* MIR4 - Unreal

Unreal, Unity, Lumberyard, and Source 2 all support iOS and thus Metal on ARM already. A game developer using one of those engines should generally be able to just click a few buttons to target an additional platform unless they've gone around the engine's framework in ways that tie their title to their existing platform(s). Obviously in all but the most trivial cases there will still be work to be done, but those game developers using a major commercial engine are doing so because someone else has already done most of the hardest work in platform support for them.

That means six of the top 10 could add native MacOS support with relative ease (as in significantly less work than doing it from scratch) if they wanted to. The three Source titles are likely stuck on DX/OGL platforms forever because it doesn't really make sense to rework such an old engine, but at least the two Valve in-house titles have had persistent rumors of a Source 2 update for years.
I'm a natural at looking stupid. I'm always thinking outside the box and don't conform to most groupthink. My experience is that it doesnt help.

The only way to get power and money is to have people with power and money want to give it to you. For that to happen, you have to share a majority of thought process, opinion, etc.
I'd expect a decent YAML library to have functions taking UTF-8 and not wasting time verifying that the data passed is actually UTF-8 in release builds.
Banning anonymous social media accounts = good for authoritarian governments and corporations
well, I worked in the field for several decades and got really tired of the constant overhyping of the results. These results really aren't useful (they're not predictive, or useful for genetic screening) and the cost is really extraordinary (hundreds of millions of dollars). There are other areas of biology that provide much more value per dollar spent.
I'm willing to bet this is why the Models 3/Y have the octovalve heat pump: to offset LFP cold weather performance.
> Which is why the meme with LN was "its 18 months away from wherever you are in time".

yeah, if memes are the way you keep yourself informed on the topic then i totally understand your point of view.

the reality is that LN works and what you call "small cliques" are just subnets that route payments internally efficiently but are also able to route externally when the need arises.

this is literally how distributed systems are scaled, internet being the largest one.

it would be centralized if nobody could use LN if some one or two largest nodes failed, but the protocol is open and everybody can open a channel with everybody else and nodes in the middle have no way to censor traffic because they don't know neither the sender nor the receiver.

you're simply misinformed.
> totally agree, cyber-bullying is mostly due to anonymity

That isn't the conclusion of the article at all. No one was proposing banning social media either.
I think the bigger risk is people using the wrong formula because "Google suggested it", and ending up miscalculating something important.
Gifted students, this wasn't supposed to have anything to do with wealth distribution.
works with comedy too--some of those who are willing to ham up the stupidity do so because they understand that others 'like' to feel superior
A cancer survivor had the longest documented Covid-19 infection. Learnings
There's an unfortunate amount of truth in it.

I noticed a marked difference in how I was treated and respected when I gained weight. When I was skinny, I was pushed around and ignored.

When I gained weight, suddenly people were wary of me and much more likely to accept my input or requirements.

I didn't even exercise. I merely gained weight.
> who adopted Google's browser engine

I'd love to see a "from scratch" Chrome competitor, but man, that would be expensive to put together.
When you ask questions you learn faster.

I think there’s some stuff here where he could have done a better job explaining why he was curious about something (the smaller computer box).

Generally people are afraid to ask questions when they’re afraid to look stupid. This creates a harmful feedback loop.

Part of the reason for this fear is cultural.

I try to go out of my way to encourage new hires to push through this fear: https://zalberico.com/essay/2017/02/21/asking-questions.html
I am using Mac Pro mid 2015 which already been to service center thrice.

I am thinking about setting up a desktop with Ubuntu and cheap laptop for meeting and other BS.
> The insurance dealer does his job and tries to get a higher premium? Not surprised.

This is actually an example of where the author IS stupid. You will often be found "at fault" in cases where you are not actually at fault (the other driver lies better than your truth) and there are many cases (at least in Ontario) where you are legislatively at fault even if you did nothing out of the ordinary (making a left turn while overtaking traffic attempts to pass rather than yield). That the broker was trying to protect them from this isn't even a conflict of interest for the broker.

I wonder how many insurance brokers encounter the "I'm such an amazing driver, I don't really need insurance." macho man ... I'm presuming the broker, at least initially, assumed the author was one of "those drivers" and not "stupid".
You can spin this endlessly.

You look stulid and are stupid.

You look stupid but aren't.

You look smart but aren't.

You look smart and are smart, but people think you're just virtue signaling. But you know that virture signaling actually saves you time discussing why your aren't stupid while still looking so.

etc. pp.

In my opinion, real gain in looking stupid is when you actually are and then know how to accept valid critique, or at least try to understand where it comes from before you know it's valid.

Because then you actually learn something that could improve your situation.
Tesla's German plant hits snag as public consultation repeated
Most programmers and I believe even most teachers see technology not as an application, but as some sort of a blind religion. Shallow understanding only adds to this problem. I’ve seen enough of them saying “what, goto?” in disgust, but almost no one could explain why, apart from saying that it is a taboo and maybe remembering that it was in some book.

They need it, and it’s really good that it was “goto”. If it wasn’t, they would jump on another, more useful bogeyman, like eval.

And for those interested, the specifical use of goto that was considered harmful is its use in place of “for” and “[do-]while” flow control statements and explicit subroutines. Literally:

loop: …;
if (!cond) goto loop;

a = 42; b = 13; goto sub;
…
sub: …

It was used as such by inertia, because these were times before invention/adoption of the structured code.

While you may not want to goto into inner scopes for obvious reasons, leaving two loops or goto-ing to a function cleanup section is perfectly okay and is much clearer than breaking the outer loop with a boolean or building ladders of ifs.
I will allow that it was a bold choice from Liu Cixin to make someone like Xin the main character. I just really disliked everything about her.
One benefit to keeping your value wrapped in a Maybe is that as you transform and manipulate the value and pass it around in your system, you leave it up to the last place in your system that uses the value to define the fallback value in the case of a None rather than defining a fallback value part way through and establish a convention that the fallback value means nothing was found at some other part of your system.

Another benefit to using Maybes is that you avoid the rigamarole of null checks at every call site where you want to use the value. If you have a function that returns null or a value, whenever you call that function you'll always have to add an if guard to validate it's not null. If it is, that function itself may return null, and callers to it will again have to implement the same check.

I wrote a JS implementation of the Option object and the readme has lots of specific examples about these benefits: https://github.com/sbernheim4/excoptional and a few blog posts on these ideas[0][1]

[0] https://sambernheim.com/#/blog/the-engineers-schrodingers-ca...
[1] https://sambernheim.com/#/blog/building-a-monad
In his and Wolfram case it's justified.
Progress on General-Purpose Quantum Computers
nope it doesn't. those are necessary but not sufficient skills for success in this field.
NewRelic acquires CodeStream, inks Microsoft IDE partnership
All right, that is a valid point.
This is not dissimilar to export of cryptography law that passes for strong encryption
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
Exactly how many data points did he have in this thesis? Running, horse, bike, car, train (coal, electric, diesel), plane? There's lots of places which have flip flopped, e.g. Italy going from train -> Alitalia -> high speed rail
The vaccines appear to be providing very good protection against hospitalization and death. This was the original goal -- to keep people from getting super sick and dying. Then the focus shifted to preventing infection entirely. However once it became clear that the vaccines didn't provide sterilizing immunity, a lot of places remained focused on cases.

If you plot cases versus deaths in countries like the US and UK, it's clear that the vaccines are doing what we needed them to do most and as more and more people have some level of immunity (either through vaccines or prior infection) the virus is looking less and less menacing.

It's true that COVID continues to strain hospital systems, primarily because of unvaccinated patients and vaccinated patients who are high-risk to begin with (due to age, immunocompromisation and comorbidities), but getting out of the "overwhelmed hospitals" situation is going to be really, really difficult. Resource and staffing shortages didn't just begin when COVID started. According to Becker's Hospital Review, "For most level 1 trauma centers and tertiary care facilities, operating intensive care units at 80 percent to 90 percent capacity is standard — even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit."[1]

Between the large populations of vaccinated individuals and those with natural immunity, it's getting harder and harder to justify maintaining restrictions indefinitely on the basis that SARS-CoV-2 naive individuals in certain populations (namely the elderly, overweight/obese and diabetic) and high-risk vaccinated individuals are filling ICUs that were already routinely at 80-90% capacity before the pandemic.

At some point, learning to live with the virus also involves accepting that we can't shut all of society down when ICUs fill up.

[1] https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/patient-flow/2-healthc...
The actual solution is to limit your social media use unless you want to be subject to abuse.

I only have my Facebook for friends to contact me via messenger. As well as it's original purpose, commenting on a ( real life )friend's engagement photos with a nice congrats.

The moment you get into stuff The Facebook wasn't designed for; like actually meeting new people, arguing with strangers, etc , then you run into problems.

I have some very strong personal beliefs regarding how I live my life. I don't need to argue them though. I also have various strong political/ societal beliefs. Again no need to argue them.
FIFA announces Arab Emirates will host the next FIFA Club World Cup 2021
The Club World Cup will be held in the United Arab Emirates after Japan's retirement
https://www.koora55.com/2021/10/2021.html
Yeah, I went buy a tablet and I wanted a specific form factor. So when the retail worker asked me what I wanted, I told them the specific product. They mentioned other models that were newer, faster, better, etc. And I simply told them that I was looking for one I could fit in my hand by basically palming it. (Being in person, I could just hold up my hand and say "hold it like this").

Once I explained that, I was able to get what I wanted with no more questions. Now that they knew why I wanted what I wanted, they also knew what information was relevant to me. And I had already chosen the best model they had in that form factor.

Communication should be simple, direct, and complete. That's where I don't care if I "look stupid". I'll go over basics if there's a chance someone doesn't know the basics. Because you can say, "Oh I'm aware of X", but if you aren't and I assume you are, you may be too embarrassed to bring that up because you're afraid I think you're stupid if you don't know it.
So 78% by PHP but 77% below PHP version 8. OK
Those are such labors of love. Last year there was a big event here to remember the liberation and a number of these old warbirds flew right over our offices in Baarn. I can't really describe the kind of sound, but even with the windows closed it was like all hell broke loose. 10 of those radials at less than 500 meters high is very impressive.

I've visited the old hangar (Hangar 10, for the locals) on Schiphol Oost a couple of times when the PH-DDA (which had a horrible accident by the way) and another DC-3 were being worked on, the PH-DDA was still flying at the time and the other one was in a state of complete overhaul, painstaking part-by-part reconstruction. I'm not quite sure whatever happened to the second plane but the PH-DDA will return to Schiphol Oost soon so volunteers can continue to work on it. This is good because there is a lot of knowledge about those old planes floating around the old Schiphol airport, this is where Fokker (now bankrupt) had part of their assembly lines.