skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Fact checking" is newspeak for censorship.

If the Telegraph controlled the "fact checker" the Guardian wouldn't exist. If the Guardian controlled the "fact checker", the Telegraph wouldn't exist.

If you support "fact checkers", you are not welcome in my life and I will route around you.

You could, perhaps, consider yourself to have been "fact checked".
Well, as John Cena put it: "bing chilling!"
> While I could go into a long story here about the relative merits of the
two designs, suffice it to say that among the people who actually design
operating systems, the debate is essentially over. Microkernels have won.

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/c/wlhw16QWltI

I will concede that I spelled 'minix' wrong.
Well, I wasn't saying that there should be specially endowed people, I was asking about the reverse: how can someone who is not informed fact-check someone who is?

Or to make it less personal, how can someone fact-check information they aren't knowledgeable about?
Regarding "sincerest form of flattery", I think how you copy and when you copy matters.

For example, if you copy something that is still in its infancy because you are privy to some insider talks from the creators. I don't think they would take it as flattery.

See my other comment elsewhere on this page [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29596238
You make a good point. But isn't the ability to comprehend and work towards long(er)-term goals over more immediate gratification kind of the essence of being human (as distinguished from animal?)

If we "allow people to architect their environment to conform to their longer term executive preferences, rather than imposing an environment tailored to their shorter term instinctual ones.", isn't that kind of the definition of civilization?
Agreed. Came right from the CEO. What else was he suppposed to say? "Skip the booster, it barely helps."? Imagine the public panic, as well as the stock market panic.
SL rebranded SL OBS to SL Desktop. They seem like another corporate FOSS mooch IYAM.
What a silly proposal. You can find plenty of web pages with specific text that supports obvious falsehoods like flat earth theory.
This one is much trickier than it looks. Reposting user nojito's post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29596111), but here in a top level comment:

> The fact check was correct in this instance though?

> https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2021/11/fact-check-britis...

> The conclusions in the original BMJ article make zero sense when actually scrutinized.

> https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635

Please read both URLs before commenting in depth.
It depends on the weight and ballistic coefficient of the projectile and the medium through which the projectile travels (as far as "muzzle" velocity goes). Using compressed air and a small enough projectile you get well over 1400 feet per second/ 425 meters per second. Using helium you can get it a little higher. That's about on par than what the guy in the youtube video achieved.

Railguns can get projectiles up to mach 8. The magnets at the HLC can get particles pretty close to the speed of light.

I think if you continued with the trebuchet/rubberband approach you'd really only be limited by the amount of tension you'd be able to put your band under. There are probably better materials than rubber.
Theres a lot of truths in this article, but it overlooks that every 10-15 years another new generation of people move to the city and after enough time will write sorrowful creeds about how the city has changed for the worse. I could write how much North Beach has changed since the mid-80's with the disappearance of cafes full of old Italian men, but frankly most of the people in the city now never experienced that. The Bay Area is more than just the tech industry and attempts to label it as one thing or another seem misguided.
Hi, I'm one of the main authors of `tokio-console`, so if folks have any questions, I'm happy to answer them!
In addition to the points raised by BMJ and in the comments below, there is a limit to what independent fact checking can accomplish. For example, are their fact checkers conducting their own scientific experiments validating claims and outcomes of a scientific paper? Are fact checkers reaching out to sources from a news article and verifying quoted information? When “breaking news” or “scoops” are reported presenting totally new information about the world, how can that be verified against other information that - by virtue of something being new - cannot be verified by other preexisting sources?

If the fact checking process is limited to verification based on other information that is currently available, and if the fact checking process cannot distinguish between factual information and the opinions people hold as a result of that information, the outcome will be an inevitable echo chamber that reinforces currently dominant views or whatever preexisting biases are present.

In short, fact checking is hard and there is a reason why reputable publishing outlets have their own internal fact verification processes before something gets published (including safeguards and retractions, because they make mistakes too), and why news is separated out from opinion-editorial pages... even if it is in style to add opinions (read: “perspective”) to every article.
Perhaps, but without any actual statistics or expert claims to back it up, this doesn't seem to me a sound rationale against which to take risks with our health.
I recently wrote an XSD file for a fairly complex XML document format that is mostly hand-authored. It's amazing, and I agree with the analogy. VS Code even picked up on it and started to suggest valid values and highlight errors. XML seemed like the wild west before, like JS, but XSD tamed it for me.
I took the Moderna booster.

In my case, I had fatigue and cramps within 24 hours (not as bad as the 2nd dose, but felt worse than the 1st dose). Clearly, my immune system was responding immediately.

The stats say I'm not fully protected until 2-weeks later. But I know for a fact that my body was reacting within a day.
Gather evidence for it if the novel idea is a claim
> Ever sung happy birthday in public? Crime.

I'm assuming this is regarding Happy Birthday being copyrighted? If so, you should know that that copyright was declared invalid, and Happy Birthday is now public domain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You#Copyrigh...

Also, copyright infringement is only a crime if it is done for financial gain. Otherwise, it's a civil issue. You won't get jailed for pirating a movie. You CAN get jailed for SELLING pirated copies of a movie.

> Ever played a poker game for small stakes at home? Crime.

I heard this isn't true unless the host takes a rake, though this might depend on the state.
We’re blaming victims now. What a normalization.
Great question -

I'd say there are two main ways:

You have an assert that would comprise of many claims that are all supported independently by sources, and so you would then have a hypothesis and present it as so (as opposed to a fact, which would be a claim and require evidence, but inherently your idea is jus that).

You present your idea on another forum that's eventually made into a fact by empirical evidence and then later link to that, citing your novel idea. This as you imagine is somewhat self-referential and probably wouldn't work at scale.
I moved to Vegas and am similarly interested to how it shakes out. Not super familiar with the local politics but they seem very amenable to building. There are a huge amount of SFH and midrise apartments going up all over. I think the Casio's have a vested interested in keeping the city affordable given the amount of labor they consume.
[Those] files will be flagged to their owner and restricted automatically, which means they can no longer be shared with other people, and access will be withdrawn from everyone but the owner.
love the split design but the new challenge will be where I can mount the magic trackpad LOL
If you look out the window, that is evidence. If you are heard to have reported looking out the window, that is itself evidence, because vaporized people don't report.

So, not an example. But, actually checking should be expected before proclaiming "no evidence". And, before parroting claims where there really is no evidence.

Until as recently as 2000, hospitals were routinely injecting quite large amounts of mercury-based neurotoxic disinfectant (thiomersal) into infants, when they got a dozen simultaneous vaccinations each preserved with the stuff. They stopped putting it into American vaccines about then, without admitting it had caused any harm. AFaIK it is still used in vaccines sent to poor countries. (Thiomersal is, anyway, excreted pretty quickly.)
The 1980s, 2002, and 2008 were worse.
> There’s no other explanation.

The other explanation is that they are being paid to control the narrative that the 'elites' order them to, by censoring anything outside their agenda.
My understanding is that they've studied people with 2 vs. 3 shots, both groups having received their most recent shot in a similar timeframe to account for that.
@xori, homomorphic has scale challenges. curious what you think of it and have you seen it in production? also, have you heard of polymorphic?

(BYOK is an extremely important feature for this category.)
Hi all -
This is a proof-of-concept I built. When you make a call to this API, it will keep track of the URL you pass in, and then request _that_ URL after a time delay.

For example, if a user signs up to your app, and you want to email them 24 hours later through your own server (instead of using a MailChimp of Campaign Monitor drip), you can simply make a call to the following URL:

https://aws-api.416.io/boomerang/v1/track/in-24-hours/https:...

24 hours later (the "in-24-hours" part), a request will be made to https://your-url-here.com/.

I find crons frustrating (for various reasons), and not ideal in certain situations. I built this some time ago and use it in production environments. I wanted to share it here incase others found it useful :)
> You also need to account for all the time I had nothing to do because I wasn’t allowed to proceed since I was waiting for the Product Owners to approve the development effort, and they rescheduled the meeting four times.

> You need to account for the times when I asked for more work and wasn’t given any for three days, and was told to “just be available.”

If they want you available from 9-5, then they are accounting for that time. Well, they're paying you for that time at least.
Not really. The whole point of down and upvoting the sources is because the sources themselves might be erroneous. Without an infinite cascade of the process I described, relying on down and upvoting of specific claims is more tractable.

In other words, you might have a claim that's supported by an otherwise bad website, but the bad website actually has a morsel of legitimately factual evidence there. It would be up to the readers of the claim and sources to actually verify whether or not the underlying supporting evidence is true.

The other reason to do this is to build a corpus of "truth." Meta and Google are clearly capable of this, but choose not to do it for reasons.

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This is why it's important that the claim itself is not voted on, but rather the source. Otherwise brigading will happen (it can obviously still happen, but is less of a problem in face of some hypothetical pure truth).

I'd also add that inherently the problem of "determining the truth" requires consensus. What I'm proposing is simply a way to make said consensus be gathered transparently. Obviously there's no oracle of truth out there for us to consult and some variant of what I'm describing is inherently necessary.
Exactly, this is the first release of Tokio Console. We will keep adding functionality over time, which will help inform the APIs in Tokio to better provide the necessary instrumentation.

I expect the new APIs like the task builder will stabilize (no longer require the `tokio_unstable` flag) over the course of 2022.
It's already in the supply chain, it's already approved, and it works - even if it's not as good as a variant-specific booster would be.

Timeliness matters a lot when you have doubling times measured in days, even 2-3 months and it could be too late.

Finally, it reduces people's natural hesitancy about side effects of the "new vaccine".
> How do you think people learnt to code before the internet? I borrowed large textbooks on Basic/VB, C++, and Turbo Pascal from friends and libraries. And this wasn’t a long time ago. I did this as recently as 2005.

I'm not denying that, I'm just sating progress was way slower - especially for newcomers before the internet. Imagine trying to solve problems without Google or Stackoverflow when you're a 15 old kid trying to learn programming. You're stuck on some shitty installation of Linux or some missing package and have no idea why the compiler gives this error message. How do you even get Linux? Have no idea how they did stuff back then but it was for sure harder to just to get something up and running.
So easy to give up.
Programming in that era used to be something 1 in maybe 50 children tried. It was no way near as accessible as it is today.

The flip side of that is that since it's now easier for everyone to learn new skills and solve problems, the requirements and expectations from workers pretty much went up proportionally.
> You really think the CDC and other govt and NGO organizations, as an international coordinated group effort, are in bed with pharma companies, plotting with them to craft false recommendations, just so those farma companies can make more $$?

Yes.
Facebook themselves state that their "fact checkers" are not really checking facts, their work is opinion.
Appropriate indignation and demand on BMJ's part.

Meanwhile, in the Stossel libel case, Facebook's lawyers allegedly 'claim that Facebook’s “fact-checks” are merely “opinion” and therefore immune from defamation.'
Better to zig when others zag. Probably the most contrarian and therefore best time to move to the bay is now while everyone is complaining. Even London breed is getting serious about crime, I think SF will bounce back with new energy.
This is subtly present in Neal Stephenson's Anathem, late in the book it's a plot device that comes up a few times.
Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (Prime-1)
> I'm sceptical of these "Silicon X" top-down projects which don't seem to have a great history (cf eg Silicon Roundabout);

I don't know how much the government helped with this, but the UK has one of the largest software industries in the world, right after the US and China. It's hard to argue it hasn't worked, even if were unclear as to what "it" is
I agree with points 1 and 2, but not with 3.

AWS isn't a developer tools company. It is ops tools company. In particular enterprise ops tools company. Their customers are IT managers and system administrators from large companies. That explains 1 and 2.

Famously, AWS is organized as huge bunch of two pizza teams. Essentially, it's a huge incubator for internal startups. That's how they manage to churn out new features so frequently and try out and discard unsuccessful products. Also, that is why their tools looks so damn inconsistent and why you never know what's working with what.

Regardless of money, they can't make the tools better without sacrificing something. And that is a space for competitors. Work on developer centric tools for small and medium sized companies.
The problem is that many people here agree with him.
I would like to see them partner with Logitech and integrate Logitech’s wireless tech into this and get rid of the cables all together and have a much lower latency interface than BT.
Please respond to my points. Prices are discovered on the margin, so losing a significant chunk of the students that pay full tuition, could certainly destabilize the market and cause challenges for university administrators.

Ok, say Purdue eats the acquisition cost to replace the 200 students. Those new students now need to be replaced by whatever school they would have otherwise attended, they have to come from somewhere. There exists some tipping point at which the system could unravel, maybe not 200 students but some number of students.
I'd normally agree with you. But in the case of Covid, some political actors are launching coordinated efforts to deliberately misinform millions of Americans in regards to a virus that has, so far, killed over 800,000 people here.

How do we deal with this challenge without censoring some information that ought not be censored?
> As current and incoming editors in chief, we are responsible for everything The BMJ contains.

And here lies the crux of the issue : Facebook (and other Meta services) currently don't.

While since they decided that they wanted to moderate themselves what people were posting on their websites, and they are neither a small service, or a nonprofit (or potentially other attenuating circumstances), they should be responsible for everything that Facebook (et al.) contains.
Amazon was also doing microservices very early and it was a monolithic C++ application originally (obidos).

Microservices was relly more about locality and the ability to keep data in a memory cache on a thin service. Rather than having catalog data competing with the rest of the monolithic webserver app on the front end webservers, requests went over the network, to a load balancer, they were hashed so that the same request from any of the webservers hit the same catalog server, then that catalog server usually had the right data for the response to be served out of memory.

Most of the catalog data was served from BDB files which had all the non-changing catalog data pushed out to the catalog server (initially this data had been pushed to the webserver). For updates all the catalog servers had real-time updates streamed to them and they wrote to a BDB file which was a log of new updates.

That meant that most of the time the catalog data was served out of a redis-like cache in memory (which due to the load balancer hashing on the request could use the aggregated size of the RAM on the catalog service). Rarely would requests need to hit the disk. And requests never needed to hit SQL and talk to the catalog databases.

In the monolithic world all those catalog requests are generated uniformly across all the webservers so there's no opportunity for locality, each webserver needs to have all the top 100000 items in cache, and that is competing with the whole rest of the application (and that's even after going to the world where its all predigested BDB files with an update service so that you're not talking SQL to databases).
Yes, get it ASAP. You should not assume that you'll get it that soon and therefore it's pointless even if many many people will. The booster also triggers a secondary immune response which rises faster and bigger than the primary response. Get your boosters ASAP!

You want to go into this crisis with shields up, weapons online.
This is how I have been living and I just want to go in the opposite direction somehow.
> How do you present novel ideas in this framework?

In that framework you present novel ideas, and they are vetted, somewhere other than the particular forum.

While it is somewhat different in detail, it's conceptually a lot like the Wikipedia model.
> posters can vote and downvote

Somewhere at this point it will get into "yes, he's a sonofabitch, but he's our sonofabitch!"
You can encrypt your files with Cryptomator[1] if you don't want Google looking at your files. I'm not sure about their policy on that though? I mean if it's encrypted, then they can't scan for piracy / Christchurch videos and other contraband, right?

[1] https://cryptomator.org/
There's something to be said here for the Lindy effect: the longer something has survived, the longer its remaining life expectancy. This is why the "decline of New York" at the beginning of COVID was so overblown. NYC has long been the financial (and arguably cultural) capital of the world; I'd place a bet that the city will still be extremely relevant in 100 years.

Similarly, the Bay has been the center of tech since 60s. But the Bay is much more fragile than New York; it is largely dominated by the tech industry. So a better comparison might be Detroit. When the car industry left, the entirety of Detroit was hollowed out.

Additionally, you need to be in New York if you want to "play in the big leagues" in the world of finance, fashion, art, etc. But tech has already embraced the remote model. 5-10 years ago, I would have felt like I needed to be in SF to further my career in tech. Now, I live in Austin and don't feel like I'm missing out. If anything, it feels like there is way more startup potential here – people actually building cool things, as opposed to resting and vesting at the big companies that dominate Silicon Valley.
I have seen speculation that the second dose was given too quickly.
I have seen fully encrypted end to end flows to Twilio. You got it 99% right here.

(There's some nuance around re-encryption proxies and how that is handled.)
I resist the idea that consciousness can be preserved like this, but moreover in any way. I think the litmus test for understanding consciousness is making something that is consciousness. I don't think anyone has done this.
i think most people know tokio is rust (I'm not a rust dev)
The article peddles the falsehood that the crime rate in SF is exploding, while retail crime is actually at a historic low: http://www.cjcj.org/news/13165
Why Log4j won’t go away: 5 key questions answered on the bombshell vulnerability
I hear you, even though you are downvoted. Right here in the ~10 comments you have from Americans we can see the "double standards" that people adopt. There was no outrage (actually some "anti-outrage") when Apple, Google and AWS censored Parler, an app that allowed "freedom of expression".

People draw the line when it affects their beliefs, in that case they say it was justified for Google, Apple and AWS to censor an application that potentially can be misused. But they get outraged at the thought of removing a video of a massacre, and also they outrage at the thought of limiting their access to tools that are made for the main sole purpose of killing people.

Go figure!
How Russia tries to censor Western social media
My concern is that I don't think that is the endgame. I think the endgame is a world where Facebook still seems to have a variety of news information, but it's heavily censored under the hood, and your parents/grandparents think you're talking nonsense if you bring up one of the topics Facebook fact checks don't allow.
Please cite the section of the comment that assumed that? I can't see it anywhere.
Thanks for these analogies. People unfortunately want the new technologies to be an exact replacement of the status quo. There’s no reason for it to be the case and the way these technologies work may make it infeasible to enforce the rules of the status quo.
Because the promises aren't panning out, and with each stutter step comes another heavy handed proposal (e.g., tracking, vax passports, etc.)

In desperation the public has abandoned "trust but verify." Put another way, given the lessons of history, governments should be trusted less, not more. The default shouldn't not be, "Sure, whatever you say."
And none of these nine vendors (or any of their competitors that Kail might have approached) reported the crime to the authorities.
FWIW, I've dropped Amazon and it was mostly just a change of habit. After becoming familiar with other options, it has been just as easy to order (and better in other ways).