skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why consensus is a collection. Sometimes dialectical analysis is good; thesis, antithesis, synthesis is a tried and true formula that often works. But not always! Sometimes one side is just horseshit that gets mindlessly repeated in the interest of “balance”. In either case I’m not suggesting that the consensus ruthlessly censor dissenting views, rather that in order to make sense out of dissenting views, the strongest forms of each argument need to be presented together alongside accountability: editorial moderation and fact-checking.

Even in the cases where the truth really is somewhere in the middle between two opposing camps, reading a sequence of side A #1, side B #1, side A #2, side B #2, in disconnected stories gives you a very skewed view subject to recency bias. For example you can’t easily check the history to see if a claim B is making in their second story was already debunked by A in their first one, and it’s a huge waste of time and energy for A to have to spend all their media budget just refuting that claim over and over because B keeps bringing it up every time there’s no fact checker right in front of them to call them on it (and even sometimes if there is).

In other words the current media environment rewards being loud, wrong, simple and repetitive far over and above even the normal human bias for such things. It reinforces our worst cognitive habits.
I would start with having knowledgeable people doing the fact checking. Next, since it will not always be possible to get every fact check right the first time, allow for fact checking results to be revised. Exactly what BMJ asks for.
The changes are in macOS’s bootloader. Previously, the bootloader was only designed to load a macOS kernel executable, which was stored on disk as a Mach object file with some particular constraints. The Asahi project had to use a rather ugly linker script to generate an executable that “looks like like” a macOS kernel but is actually a first-stage Linux bootloader [1].

In macOS 12.1, Apple engineers changed the format of the kernel image, which broke the Asahi install process. However, they also added a “raw image mode” which allows the bootloader to load things that don’t look like macOS kernels — it’s an officially-supported boot flow for the Asahi project to use going forwards without fear of macOS updates breaking it again. (Plus, it makes that linker script much simpler [2]).

[1]: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/m1n1/blob/84acf60c24b8c9e28e60...
[2]: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/m1n1/blob/92aca22119a0afda9799...
Russia publishes proposal for legally binding security guarantees
I have had an AWS support person call me a few minutes after I got locked out of my account (<$10/mo spend) when I broke my 2FA device.
I am not convinced that "Judeo/Christian worldviews" have led to a more developed or dominant West than would have developed in the absence of those worldviews.
"fact checking" is bad. I'm not sure what the good version of it you imagine. By "fact checking in general" do you mean pointing out when someone is wrong? The parent comment sees fact checking as one thing: propaganda used to shut down heterodoxy. It has nothing to do with facts or truth.
I'm not sure, that sounds a lot like the Oracle v Google argument on whether an API is copyrightable.
Zuck and I.

Because we live in a democracy where being uninformed doesn't mean you have less say in the government.
The Lead Stories article sets up a straw man for claims not made in the BMJ article, then calls the story fake after debunking the straw man claims not made. The Lead Stories article is the "misinformation".
This isn't about the inherent limits of fact-checking (substantial though they are). It's about the inherent bias of Facebook's fact-checking.
Did the ancient Greeks have factcheckers ? I always wondered how they debated without “fact-checking” and muzzling the crap out of other side, yet produce wisdom that stood test of time

> Boyer 1991, p. 119 notes, "The Elements of Euclid not only was the earliest major Greek mathematical work to come down to us, but also the most influential textbook of all times. [...]The first printed versions of the Elements appeared at Venice in 1482, one of the very earliest of mathematical books to be set in type; it has been estimated that since then at least a thousand editions have been published. Perhaps no book other than the Bible can boast so many editions, and certainly no mathematical work has had an influence comparable with that of Euclid's Elements".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid's_Elements#cite_note-...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pqjOrsMupgg
Do you use some kind of library to help with transformations? If you have some volume using plain python can become a bottleneck no? Any tips in this area would be appreciated.
The difference is that one doesn't need a special education to identify porn. The average low-wage content moderator at Facebook likely does not have the scientific background to distinguish between bullshit and science. Case in point, this article.
The question was: For what problem (or problem domain) is Haskell better than Rust? (Back here, for instance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29595022).

The links you gave provide general information about Haskell, but do not answer that question, from what I can see. I don't want a single sentence reason, just a compelling one.

Again: I'm not doing this to be adversarial. A decent number of people seem to really love Haskell and extol its virtues. So I'm trying to carefully check that I'm not missing something.
I couldn't find the tongue-in-cheek emoji!
> is basically the default way of setting up a website

It's not the default way of setting up an online content management system to which student journalists can post articles without going through some convoluted command-line build process ("...then you do a git commit and push, run the Hugo script, and rsync the files to the server"... yeah, no.)

> It's not hard to check whether this is how your website works.

Since they're using a third-party content management system, they most likely neither know nor even care how the website works. Why should they? They're journalists, not system administrators.

As others have noted, this is an independent student newspaper. Their normal readership outside the Purdue community is probably in the low single digits on a percentage basis, and their EU readership is likely close to non-existent. They (or, more likely, the people who run the CMS for them) have concluded that a full audit of their system to ensure GPDR compliance is simply not worth it for the minuscule number of additional readers they'd gain. And they're almost certainly right.
That's been my experience too. When traveling to China, we were given a class and they advised us to not discuss any politics, even American ones, overseas. Other items that were "off topic" including voting, rights for non-traditional lifestyles, abortion, death penalties, taxes, and discussions about world conflicts.
If FB/Meta is in conflict of interest with big pharma and politicians trying to peddle drugs - this justifies deeper investigation.

FB being so insistent to censor posts regarding side effects and vax concerns - justifies deeper investigation.
"Because it is your job?"

Imagine I worked at a pizza shop and was getting $10 per hour to make pizzas. Every pizza I make my boss throws into the dumpster. My boss refuses to talk with me. The boss publicly tweets: he doesn't believe in pizza. This goes on for 12 weeks. It gets pretty hard to go to work and make pizzas.
No, this isn't a trial. It's OK to raise ideas up for others' consideration. The absence of obvious evidence doesn't mean the thing itself isn't happening.

There is also a big difference between one person's voice on a platform, and a decision-maker of the platform who is creating policy/process for filtering those voices.
You'd have thought that that Quorum blockchain would prevent such things..
Just to add another anecdata I used google fi for ~4 yrs and was always pretty happy with it. Recently switched to mint just for sheer price competition -- ~$20 a month for a line + 5GB data beats fi coming in at like $50-60 for the same.

fi used to be cheaper for me because I would use $20 line + $10 data. Now mint is undercutting them on both price and giving more data.
The main difference here is the scale.

"Let us take you on a $2000 vacation" vs. "Let us take you on a $700,000 vacation." One is objectively ridiculous - this is the difference.
Backups and sharing are rather different use cases. There's no mention of deleting the file (though it is something Google has done before) in this announcement.
Right - he helped California develop their standards and was one of the coauthors for the "Level 1/2/3/4/5" SAE classification for self-driving. His opinion obviously isn't backed with the force of law, but this analysis is likely enough to get regulators to send Tesla a letter or two.
It surely does, e.g. in Portugal you can't even name a Software Engineering degree without approval from the Order.

You are not required to do the exam, provided there is no civil liability or signing projects as the legally responsible Software/Informatics Engineering.
Underglow of any kind is a gimmick, but backlights, programmable or not, are useful in low-light situations, to let you see where that key that you rarely use actually is.

You generally don't want Q to light up different from W, but you might want to have a low-level green glow by default and slightly brighter colors to distinguish keys around the periphery.
Also, thanks for the thought re: digit precision. I am tracking it here: https://github.com/tokio-rs/console/issues/224
I love clicking on jwz links from HN
Large corporations dictate media narrative,

and also constantly angle to appeal to potential purchasers.
Well the game has also changed for dynamic languages. Writing JS or Ruby with a powerful IDE today isn't what it used to be 5-10 years ago and it will keep getting better. The tools and linters will become smarter about catching silly typos. It will never be like writing in a compiled language but the gap will narrow.
Also - I don't think we'll ever agree on any language. Sure, some languages will be dominant - Java maybe or Rust or whatever, but there will always be room for alternative approaches. Humans don't fully agree on much.
By that definition, everything is a trillion dollar market. :)
> Rather than investing a proportion of Meta’s substantial profits to help ensure the accuracy of medical information shared through social media, you have apparently delegated responsibility to people incompetent in carrying out this crucial task

Couldn't help but laugh when I read this. Good on BMJ for standing up.
True though with a lot of the European ones you get good support and/or can pay explicitly for a level of support.

The email disappearing with no trace sounds like Gmail hating DO address blocks though.. Gmail sends only a fraction of things it thinks are spam to the spam folder.
Generating Piano Music with Code (open source)
What I've been told is both ISP's v6 prefix should be advertised with different priorities to the clients, which also yields the net bonus that applications that are stateless (UDP) or use MP-TCP can seamlessly fail over or adapt to network conditions without the intervention of another network device.

I don't have easy access to multiple V6-PD enabled providers to test this theory, and as someone with quite the neck beard I really don't know how I feel about ceeding this level of control to endpoints. But also, I'm not sure I hate it either.

Oh and don't forget link-local and a ula prefix for your local addressing requirements for pinters and whatnot that shouldn't be using dynamic discovery.
I would imagine you can add an F key layer pretty easily so this shouldn't be a big deal. I found it impossible to touch-type the F-row on my Advantage 2, and it's awesome to be able to move keys closer to your fingers.

That being said, I don't see a reason to upgrade. I've ordered replacement key wells so I can install my own switches, and since the Advantage is my desk keyboard I'm not worried about portability.
Meh. Open source isn't magic. It can still fail just like anything else.
I've read over both sides of this, and there is some editorializing going on in this medical journal that makes it less about facts. The title makes no mention of Ventavia, but instead mentions Pfizer. The headline doesn't specify that Ventavia managed 1/44th of the trial, nor anything factual (mostly speculation that the data integrity is questionable).

> Revelations of poor practices at a contract research company helping to carry out Pfizer’s pivotal covid-19 vaccine trial raise questions about data integrity and regulatory oversight.

The questions are all whether this one company had poor practices. It mixes comments regarding the larger trial of Pfizer with this isolated company trial. At times it's hard to tell if they're referencing Pfizer or Ventavia (as "company"). An investigation found nothing remarkable at other sites managed by other contractors, but then even that is questioned because this small company wasn't investigated.

I'm not actually sure what part of this medical journal _is_ factual.
I don't know in your country, but in Spain most fact-checkers have very evident ties with two political parties, and they handle info in an agenda-setting style. They even have very personal links to politicians.

Of course they really polish their communication and websites, and they know how to sound scientific-y throwing in some graphs and stuff.

The problem is not only that, but that the same people who works in the media churning BS articles is the people who works in the fact checkers, and most of them are journalists, AKA experts in nothing that pretend to become experts with a few calls and some google-fu.

The reality, at least in Spain, is that fact checkers are just a side-effect of the kulturwars and don't bring any truth to the table.

This specially evident when they talk about something you really know about.

Of course, because fact-checkers happen to be lefty because of the, let's call, overton-window cycle, then the left choses to ignore this problems and just says it's the right-wingers that chose to ignore facts and yadda yadda.

While this is going on, right-wing, and many times right-wing extremist views, become the new punk and many yougsters are flocking to provide new blood to said ideologies.

It's all just so tiresome.
This is just a way of saying that every mid-to-large-sized company in the world is doing malicious things, because all of them depend on closed-source agent software of one kind or another. And you might be right about that! Certainly, the industry has not taken the threat of agent-based management tools seriously enough.

But what the hell is your point? This is about as practical an argument as "the only reasonable software for your company to run is free software". Even if it were true, it's so far outside of industry norms that you might as well be asking them to ship all their products on BeOS.
That people will start posting tweets as news items on HN
"The national attention, the constant emails, and the banners along Highway 50 might have suggested that Reynolds’s critics were in the majority in Gunnison County. But on November 3 of last year, with more than 90 percent of eligible voters participating, Taylor and Vader were trounced in the commissioner's race, each losing by at least 20 points. The result provided some assurance to Reynolds that most of the community was behind her, even if she hadn’t always felt it. In this time of coarseness in American politics, it can be easy to convince yourself that the loudest voices are the most representative, even if you know, intellectually, that they aren’t. You may understand, for example, that more than 70 percent of American adults are vaccinated or that most people wear their mask on an airplane without fuss, or that many Americans have friends who don’t share their political beliefs. But when you’re scanning social media or sifting through your hate mail, those facts can be harder to recall."
That’s just a bunch of [highly motivated] financial metrics. I was hoping someone might tell me some real-world benefits like “I used to be able to do X, now I can only do Y”.

Of course I don’t expect to hear much because as far as I can tell, 2020s USA is better than 1970s USA in every way I can think of.
> All rights and laws depend on governments and courts. That obligation is around interpretation and enforcement, not the provision of the right itself.

This distinction doesn't matter. You can't have meaningful, substantive rights, without an adequate governmental budget that is allocating resources toward your specific needs.

If you live in Chinatown (the place in the movie), then you don't have the SUBSTANTIVE right not to be murdered, because the police will enforce nothing. Your rights are taken away in reality.

But in your paper fantasy, you still have the rights because of some paper somewhere, even though you are dead.

In the real world, a right without an enforcement budget is no right at all.
I had a look at both WebAssembly and Rust a few months back, in the hope they could help me write some nice, fast graphics filters that I could then compile out and use via Wasm in a 2d canvas. Entirely do-able, but beyond my limits of understanding and patience.

Since then, I've stuck with what I know (Javascript) and branched instead into consuming Wasm written by others (in whatever language) on the frontend for my own experiments - for instance Rapier[1] which is a physics engine written in Rust, and some of the MediaPipe ML models[2].

[1] - Rapier getting started page - https://rapier.rs/docs/user_guides/javascript/getting_starte...

[2] - MediaPipe face mesh model getting started page - https://google.github.io/mediapipe/solutions/face_mesh#javas...
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains.
Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Short running cron jobs, jobs or functions you want to fire off adhoc with API calls without building all of the boilerplate around that, or an environment for execution of arbitrary code provided by third parties you want to sandbox.
The unstated argument here is whether the extra-judicial quasi-ethical use-cases for crypto (donations for SciHub, payments for NSFW artists) are worth the current valuations in the space.

I don’t think so. Most NFTs I’ve seen are not for art that would get booted off Patreon or DeviantArt. Is the additional complexity and weirdness and loss of legal protections worth the extra hassles that crypto brings even when existing payment workflows work well - I say no, but we’ll find out.
Well happiness and material wealth are two very separate things.

People can be very content and happy with very basic necessities. Some of the happiest people on the planet are renunciate monks and nuns based in brain scan research (for eg mathieu richard)

And of course people can be depressed even to the point of being suicide while being wealthy. (Any number of high profile cases)
He was indicted in 2018 and released on bail

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-netflix-inc-vp-c...
>experts

So called experts are not unbiased in terms of political interests. Also, all should believe that power is corrupting yes? But so are institutional power centers (social media monopoly platforms, prestige journalist outfits, elite media, academia, "expert" authorities, etc) targets for political factions to wield said power to their own ends. Just as centralized businesses are targets for hackers and such, so to are they targets for political factions because of all the power they sit on that can be wielded one way or another.

There is no "unbiased", there is no disinterested, above-it-all players that mediate some universal truth for the masses. Even if one attempts to do this they will quickly be subverted by political actors pushing a message.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29596948
I'm astounded Apple approved this. Guidelines for both iOS and macOS include "don't draw attention to the notch".
Beautifully put, what an excellent way to demonstrate what seperates the authoritarian mindset from the liberal mindset.
No, the original article is dated Nov 2.

This open letter is dated today (Dec 17) - see sidebar.
Meta releases Quest hand tracking showcase demos for Unreal Engine
What are you talking about? In WW2 Germany took over the majority of Europe in like 3 months. They completely transformed their industry towards their goals before anyone even lifted a finger.

You're saying they can't mobilize themselves to solve this comparatively tiny problem now? They can't build a few dozen field hospitals for Covid patients with basic therapies, like providing oxygen, which is what the vast majority of those patients need? None of the Western European countries have the capability for this? Is this some kind of joke?

This is not an exponential problem: it comes in waves. I'm sure you know what an exponential function looks like, and it's not visible here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/germany/

Field hospitals that stick around for a few months would be totally fine in handling this. That's what they're for.

Is this tiring you? I don't really know what to say to that, except that it seems there's nothing anyone can say to change your mind.
https://youtu.be/Y2EPgix5_5w

The elites, like any other group, have a culture and a worldview shaped by it. They believe similar things, read similar news sources, have similar incentives and goals, etc.
It's great if you can kind of plan some things out together, but I think flexibility and adaptability are more important than trying to plan out everything ahead of time. It's impossible to predict the future. In the US, we try and rigidly control and plan out land use and are surprised when it causes huge problems like the Bay Area housing crisis.
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I think a project like this is extremely difficult to maintain due to the nature of being essentially being a web scraper. They support a ton of sites that each may make changes that suddenly break the tool, completely out-of-band. Maintainers are then stuck with people filing issues, several PRs to fix, and perhaps to inability to even test the fixes (ex. geo restrictions, lack of subscription, language barriers, etc.) all while being pushed to ship a release with the fix ASAP.

I think a project like this likely could benefit from the per-website code being maintained separately from the main codebase. This would allow for out-of-band hotfixes and have disjoint groups that are willing/can maintain each site. Of course this introduces other issues, namely versioning and cross-cutting refactors.
There are only 1-2 apps I want that are locked out of the App Store due to Apple's policies, so at that point it's cheaper to subscribe to the developer's Patreon to get access to their private beta TestFlight (which I might do, it's not expensive).
Thanks, that's a good read.
The agent is intended to ensure devices meet the security/compliance requirements of the company. It is a lightweight read-only osquery based agent that we are happy to share the configuration of with prospects/customers.

To address some of your other points:

* We have been talking about making it open source, though it is not today.

* We do have a third party security validated report that we are happy to share with prospects/customers.

* Builds are pulled directly within the Drata portal and the agent does auto-update to ensure we can push any security updates to it that we need to. We do sign the code and you should be able to validate it.

Source: I am the Drata CTO