skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The MSM and Q both fight for a slice of the disinformation pie. I can't blame someone for believing Q.

When MSM gets away with a reporter standing in front of a burning city and saying it's a "Fiery but mostly peaceful protest" there's a problem. On one hand, people are stupid. On the other, people are smarter than you think. Somewhere in the back of their brain they can tell when they are being lied to when a scene like this unfolds on the TV news. Conspiracy fills the missing gap when things don't add up to the party line. And because of that, as long as people are lied to for "their own good", there will be a chasm waiting to be filled with a reason and conspiracy fills that void.

Over the past year people have been denying inflation is happening. I've watched people here snidely tear into anyone suggesting inflation has increased above the ordinary annual rate of 1-2%. In the past 2 months I've personally heard NPR extol the virtues of inflation and then even deny it's happening. Anyone who does their own grocery shopping understands this is a massive lie. JPow lies to our faces every time he gets up and says it's "transitory inflation". But of course the danger is that if the Fed even whispers the I word it can induce inflation to actually take off. So, lies abound, all for our own good.

The nature of the state is that it lies to us. You can believe the lies as-is and maby have a happy life if you are in the middle-class. You can silently accept they are lies but act on the reality that you can perceive. And you can search for a reason why what you are told doesn't match up with reality.
Oh, indeed. I had the pleasure of installing MS DOS 6.22 on two machines a couple of years ago. Booting, after the BIOS had done its thing, was nearly instantaneous.

The installation procedure itself was also very fast (no surprise there), it took maybe five to ten minutes per machine, and I suspect it could have been faster if reading from floppy disks wasn't the bottle neck.
There are some programs like this. My town just one $1m to tackle climate change. I had a very small part in the proposal process, it was exciting to see the news yesterday.

https://www.petaluma360.com/article/news/petaluma-earns-1m-g...
The only threats I can see to their growth is WFH disappears (highly unlikely) and Zoom etc. copy them. Otherwise they seem to have a bright future ahead of them.
FDIC Chairman: US Regulators Exploring How Banks Could Hold Bitcoin
Oh wow! Nope mine looks normal.
We started this back in January, and have been getting our ducks in a row since then. It turns out starting a nonprofit is hard, and takes a long time.
Windows has the tracking and telemetry requirement that Linux doesn't have to deal with. It must be tough spying on everything that the user does and keep the interface responsive enough :)
I've been using lsd[0] as my ls replacement for a while. I like that it has a config file for defaults, so I don't have to change a bunch of aliases when setting up a new system.

0: https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd
>There are areas in Europe in which extremely light judgement and behaviour is socially unpunished and considered normal, or "normal as an exception"

I'm not even sure what that means.

Is it about juvenile deliquency ("areas in Europe in which extremely light judgement and behaviour is socially unpunished and considered normal")

or some critique about how "elitists" are unbearable, making comments about things being worth more than their monetary value is beyond the pale, and the proper form of social being (that people - and peoples - should be "straigtened" to) is being a mass consumer?

If it's the latter, it manages to be way more patronizing that the "elitism" it's supposedly against, and unlike it, with no redeeming qualities either.

Or maybe it's about how in some cultures you're "straigtened" to behave like a public advertisement, marketing yourself, with faux politiness, well smoothed talk, and fake smiles -- and how some came to consider this the proper behavior, as opposed as a regression?
It is, and it’s also possible that some suffering is entirely voluntary, like the effects of using Facebook’s default sort method.
The news article you posted there isn't clearly libel or slander. Still, it shows that Fox News is defensively reacting and lawyering up.

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The fact of the matter is: Facebook trolls __don't even bother__ lawyering up. They don't even care. They know they're immune through a combination of technique + laws.
I was replying more generically to you. I don't feel like that FB revelation relates to conspiracies at all. It's the same tactic news outlets use, emotional kneejerk stories gets people mad so they keep coming back.
Combining this with Motion Amplification/Video Magnification [1] could result in some very interesting visuals and applications for factory equipment.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEoc0YoALt0 Explainer Youtube video about Motion Amplification
i agree. the overhead of teams and external dependencies is often just too high--you're far better off if you can keep things small but mighty
Permitting citizens to freely participate in the electoral process is not a threat to democracy.
Ohhh, duh. I've even used that before a few times but forgot lmao
Sometimes it doesn't really feel like parents think too hard about their child's well-being when naming them. They actually publish the list of names that were rejected because of Finnish naming laws and while the list doesn't say if it was a parent seeking a name for a child, or an adult for themselves, I imagine there are many that are seeking them for a child. For example, "Decepticon", "Marihuana", "Sukka" (literally means "sock").

And as a famous example from across the pond, Elon Musk comes to mind.
I don't have a team, if I did it certainly wouldn't be the Q wackos.

You know what a real threat to democracy is? "We have to control the flow of information lest the people believe the wrong thing and vote the wrong way." I come across casual because the threat is overstated, mostly by the people really doing the agitating.
But it can be run on commodity hardware, despite the fanfare over Windows 11's CPU & TPM requirements, every PC since 2017 answers that spec and every x86 PC off the shelf can run it. In that sense, it runs on commodity hardware.
> Do we force people to sell pieces of their property to pay the taxes on that property? (In short, for many types of property, yes, but it still has always seemed strange to me)

Not that strange, really. If your income tax at the end of the year leaves you in the red, you might sell some of your property to balance your accounts.

Just like how plenty a corporation, or rental property, has been sold because it was too expensive to hold profitably. In the case of land in particular, people who make poor use of it and fail to extract a profit probably should be forced to sell it. That's the market correcting their inefficient use.
The problem is that strawberries themselves would probably fail the test of being strawberries unless you want to do some really funny accounting like “sure it’s literally just water or sugar, but it came from a strawberry so it counts as strawberry.”

If the filling is 2% strawberry proteins, which is the not water and sugar part of the berry that actually tastes like strawberries, then that’s more than real strawberries.
Thank you for your response, David. I want to dig a little deeper on point 1.

You are using social accountability, be it online or in-person (office setting), to improve the completion rate. I am sure they have worked well for the clients you work with. Here are the few ways I have tried for corporate clients and have seen the completion rate increase in most cases

1. The candidate has to pay a high entry fee (for example USD 1000) and whatever percentage of the course they complete beyond the minimum 60%, they get that percentage of their fee refunded. So if someone finishes the entire course, the course is free for him and if someone does only half or less of the course they pay the full fee. The client then donates the money on the candidate's behalf to a partner NGO.

2. Another is a reward at every level. I don't have enough evidence to say these words, as I tried only once.

3. Course completion is tied to performance metrics but it has to be done with care because the goal is learning rather than a certificate.

4. Displaying % completed for the entire cohort (which can have side effects but is a good motivation device and can contribute towards social accountability.

I did these experiments by combining different tools but my case isn't representative of anything in the industry. So I must repeat take everything I say with a kilo of salt.
Four days before hosting COP26, UK halves tax on domestic flights
> But that requires listening to them, as people, not dismissing them. See what what it's really about

You cannot listen to someone if they do not do the same back. From my own experience, questions are always deflected, even simple ones. I want to learn how and why they think, however, when I propose questions to do exactly that, it is taken as a personal insult rather than curiosity.
Regular strawberry pop-tart eater here (~monthly basis). Obviously understand pop-tarts aren't "healthy", but definitely expected them to be more than 1% strawberry.

Here's a photo from the box in my pantry:
https://i.imgur.com/5p4RvHD.jpeg
I have found this to be true for my parents, only because they have an iPhone and iPad. If they weren't already in the apple ecosystem, it'd be a bit of a wash I think.
On reddit a post that is downvoted seems to slowly drop at first say -1, then maybe -5 then -6. But then at some point there is a tipping point a frenzy that seems to take over people. The downvotes suddenly are in the -10s then -100s per hour. It's not even on controversial posts it just seems once the hate starts it snowballs at a certain point.

You can tell the mood often by the upvotes to comments ratio. If it has 100 upvotes but 1,000 comments it's most likely a mess of bickering and threats in the comments. But that doesn't seem to necessarily affect the downvote mood but it's likely going to have at least comment one downvoted into oblivion for no reason.
Yeh, I agree with you. But this is the system we have.

Ideally we'd have a consumer protection group that would have raised the issue decades ago. But, it seems a vast majority of Americans don't trust government to regulate and elect officials that weaken these institutions. Instead they favor letting market do it, and that's how we got here.
> The fact that even those people above can still get stuff done even when using the tools "incorrectly" is an argument for the simple approach, in my view.

Spot on.
Lots of conspiracy theories unfortunately have more than a grain of truth to them.

For example, the lab-leak theory was enough to get you banned from most social media platforms. Now politicians are seriously talking about it and it's on every mainstream news outlet.
I sincerely doubt framework was even a factor in the decision making of whether or not MacBook batteries should be follow iPhones already existing design.
> A good technologist has grace. He will respectfully probe for intent in a way that doesn’t put the requester on the defensive. He will make it clear that this is a partnership, and that getting the job done is high on his list of priorities — it’s just that he needs some information in order to do a good job for you.

Sounds like a very toxic environment. What would put the tech worker that much on their toes, what would happen if they stepped out of line? Would the manager get angry because it looks like the tech worker tries to be lazy? Do people get angry when you ask questions unless you make it absolutely sure those questions are to help solve their problem? I'd really hate to work in such an environment where tech workers needs to tip-toe around issues because people gets angry if you don't.

Maybe it would be easier if you focused on hiring managers with soft skills first instead of putting in so much effort hiring tech workers with much better soft skills than those managers?
Linux has win32/directx API via wine project.
Why do you use biased language? Yes,there were lots of people in the media that dealt with Epstein. Epstein's arrest was public in what 2008 or 2009, you could find information about it on wikipedia in 2015. Now there have been multiple documentaries about it. That's why Gates acting all dumb about it years later is dumb.

The conspiracy theorists that point at everything as child abuse weren't right just because they found one of the most public instances of it. It doesn't make their other dozens of claims true.
And means that even once one manages to buy a house, one is still just renting from the government, and property taxes can be quite high, equivalent to a mortgage in some cases (sleep tight knowing they'll only increase, to boot)
Ask HN: State of PHP at Facebook?
Does Facebook continue to use Hack with HipHop Virtual Machine?

Have there been considerations of using some open source langauge instead of internal built one?
I recently re-subscribed to the New Yorker, NYRB and Trail Running magazine. The difficulty I had sitting and reading an issue, or a portion of, was really surprising.

I’ve had to retrain myself to read in a way that I used to all the time.
> Why are people drawn into conspiracy theories? Because when other people react angrily to a post (angry emoji), that post becomes 5x more popular than if they reacted with a simple like.

You may be partly correct if you only wish to answer your question within the context of Facebook, but more generally I think the belief and propagation of “conspiracy theories” is a symptom of people’s decreasing control over their reality and an inability to understand it.
The books use the word jihad extensively. We know at least that is getting changed to crusade/struggle.
I have personally had the opposite experience, but printers are a minefield, so it isn't a huge surprise.
about half a petabyte uncompressed, i'm pondering training a language model/embeddings on this treasure trove, immediate use cases - search, related/similar papers recommendations, medical informatics. it does require OCRing the entire collection first though
But also, isn't there an agreement that any house that uses nukes against human targets gets obliterated by the entire Landsraad ? Which might make a bit problematic the Fremens' use of nuke(s) in the Lynch-version assault on the emperor.
Of course, since the memory allocation comes from Rprofmem (via benchmark::mark), this only measures allocations of memory for objects on R's heap. Allocations by C extensions (like DuckDB and SQLite) aren't tracked. They're surely _more_ space efficient than just reading everything into RAM, but perhaps by a smaller margin than shown here.
I’m reading Carl Sagan’s Daemon Haunted World and would recommend it. It talks a bit about why humans throughout history gravitate towards conspiracy theories. One reason is mentioned in this article:

“Information that is interesting and attention-grabbing is easier to mentally process than information that is boring”

Today it’s QAnon. In the 1990’s it was UFOs. Before that it was witches. And daemons before that. As religion fades, we put “faith” in more secular stories like QAnon or extraterrestrials.

I’m still reading the book but Sagan’s thesis so far is that doing a better job of teaching critical thinking and science is the ultimate remedy.
I don't see any mention of Virtualization Based Security. Is that enabled for these tests? Because that makes a large difference in performance. With it disabled, 11 shouldn't run much different from 10.
This is my experience too. You have to care if hardware works, but when it works - and that is very frequent nowadays - it usually works much better than on windows.

My best example case is a Asus C120 mini projector whose linux driver development I personally helped. When plugged, it shows itself as a mass storage device with a .exe file with the driver for windows 7. The driver doesn't work on recent windows versions, I don't know if you can download a new version. On linux, just plug it and it turns into a monitor. Nothing to do, no command to type. And the best part: I discovered it when I accidently plugged it on an ARM machine. It is very unlikely you could have such a good experience even with supported hardware on windows.
Sometimes I wonder what a "cheating allowed, as long as you aren't caught" tournament for intellectual games would look like. Chess, Poker, etc. If you get caught you are disqualified.

If there were a monetary incentive it would probably turn into a race-to-the-bottom optimization problem where people are stuffing computers into body cavities, but still fun to think about.
I don't know if this initiative includes Wikimedia Commons but I'm sure they've got substantially more data than that, and higher typical bandwidth usage.

(https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
Robota was involuntary work for feudal lord during middle ages. The class of people required to do such work were called robotnik (in singular).
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28981861
Area 51 started as a conspiracy theory and eventually became known after the government acknowledged its existence.
UAP started as a conspiracy theory now the dept of defense acknowledges they exist.
Conspiracy theories expand human thinking don’t take the last of the fun things humans can enjoy.
I'm not an expert on the world of dune or anything, but I guess I would have assumed that nukes on a relatively barren sand planet would be pretty ok.
He sold his soul for solar and all he got was a stupid t-shirt
It's weird to me that that article's headline emphasizes "angry emojis" have 5x higher score than "likes (and repeats it in the first paragraph) and then only lower down explains it's in fact that any emotion emoji (including "love", "care" and "haha") produce a 5x higher score than a simple like.

And it doesn't even explicitly state it, instead saying first "A person was able to react with emojis that correlated to “angry,” “sad,” “haha,” “love” and “wow.”" and then "If a person reacted with an emoji instead of the “like” button, the Facebook algorithm would see the post as five times more valuable and push similar content.", requiring the user to draw an inference that all emojis were treated equally, despite the priming that it only refers to "angry" earlier in the article.

This feels, ironically, like an intentionally inflammatory framing.
I first got 'rudimentally' which certainly does already exist although it's not the most popular of words.
Yep, it's a strategy to divide opposition and get people used to the idea of it
> a perpetual, irrevocable, unlimited, fully paid, fully sub-licensable (through multiple tiers), worldwide license

So cjensen is right... They do not have any copyrights. They only have a license to use your copyrighted works themselves.

But you notice it doesn't say it's an exclusive license. Then they claim you've given them the right to "prohibit and enforce against any unauthorized copying". Which might be true, but I don't see how they have any right to define "unauthorized", since it's not their copyright, and their license isn't exclusive.
>what does "exa" even mean?

Examine
Slog – minimal structured Go logging
Peter Thiel aka Computer Software businessman and Eric Weinstein aka theoretical mathematician and his pal in software business. Like they know anything about the technological innovation, outside of computer software.
Lately I have been creating "three sided cards" which usually have a photograph or art reproduction on the front, a back side with an explanation and qr code that point to a web site.

Each of these is a package of files in a directory.

In the last few days I've been developing "ls-like" functionality for these cards with the specific goal of listing cards that need maintenance. For instance I did a series of photographs where I printed the cards but didn't generate the web sites.

Architecturally it's interesting, particularly in that there is the selection logic, the way you display a card, and then the realization that you ought to be able to do something to a card other than display metadata for it but select the cards with the same facility you use to select them for "ls".
I thought that the soundtrack was the most forgettable part of the movie. It's like they reused half the music from Dunkirk. There's no theme to the film that's stuck in your head after you leave the theater, nothing else special about it. It feels like filler
We currently produce around 50 gigatons (50.000.000.000) of CO2 per year. The cost estimates for removing one ton of CO2 range between 100-10.000 USD. Let's assume we can really get to 100 USD. That means just in order to capture a single year worth of CO2 output will cost us 5 Trillion USD (5.000.000.000.000), which is around 6 % of the worlds' GDP. And that doesn't even take into account if we'll actually be able to do it (which I strongly doubt).

So IMHO all these carbon removal efforts are just the next magic technology that's proposed in order to keep us from effecting real change. We already know how to stop climate change (rapidly decrease our CO2 output), but instead of doing that we're chasing solutions that might never become viable. And once it will become clear that CO2 capture won't work the next magic solution will probably be geo-engineering, which is just as unrealistic IMHO.

BTW I'm not saying that CO2 capture or geo-engineering will never work, just that it probably won't work in the timespan that's available to us.
> The key is that the entry point returns a description of the API using hypermedia which maps stable names to unstable URLs. This allows service to change its internal structure as long as the entry point returns a hypermedia result that has a stable structure.

But it's much simpler to handle this with basic versioning. If you want to rearrange /foo so it now lives at /bar/foo, you can just put the entire old API under /v1 and then have /v1/foo internally redirect to /v2/bar/foo.

You don't need to maintain a giant hypermedia reference for all your endpoints and have the client invoke it and parse it on every single call to make things "dynamic". They aren't dynamic, it's just a layer of indirection, but the coupling between the client and StableNameForEndpointIWantToCall is still just as tight and brittle as the one between the client and /v1/foo. Same maintenance work for the server, but the second requires less work for the client.
Finnish app[1] verifies as valid as of now.
[1] https://thl.fi/en/web/infectious-diseases-and-vaccinations/w...
So simply compiling code could execute any random code? How is that safe?
Every major pharmaceutical drug I know of (including mRNA vaccines see Pfizer) is based on publicly-financed (NIH) research done at public univesities and transferred to the private sector under Bayh-Dole exclusive licensing regimes.

Now, would a university academic overseer be pleased to find their chemisty professors doing 'open-source drug discovery', or focusing on alternative uses of old drugs that cannot be patented (say, cannabis extracts as pain medications competing with new patented opiate derivatives)?

I don't see how anyone can honestly argue that the profit motive isn't seriously skewing (and limiting) the kinds of academic research being done in US universities today.
I think your comment is simplistic thinking, and is a meta-conspiracy theory, i.e. "my conspiracy theory: the media is hiding conspiracy theories!".

> there is often a truth at the center of these theories.

Some theories have been proven to be somewhat right, like supercomputers monitoring our communications (as proven by Snowden), but your "often truth" seems to be a broad generalization trying to say we should at least consider any nutjob theory to be legitimate. Lizard people? Flat earth? GTFO!