skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Colion Noir has a similar tale [0] with fact checkers at politifact, and gives timelines of emails, etc that is pretty interesting. He is all about guns, and of course, the person that 'investigates' him is completely against guns. He was also doxed by politifact. The overall process seems disturbing.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0ASAxY0Roo
See if you can spot the difference in these two headlines:

"A Study That the CDC Used To Support Mask Mandates in Schools Is Junk Science."

"The Study That Convinced the CDC To Support Mask Mandates in Schools Is Junk Science."

Which one makes it seem like some evidence used should be discarded?

And which one makes it seem like Mask Mandates have been proven to be a Junk Science?

See that word "The" in the headline the author used? That sure makes it sound like the single source of evidence was wrong, and so therefore the conclusion is wrong.

If you want to be really safe, and not clickbaity, you could even go for,

"Mask Mandates May Be Effective, But One Study the CDC Used Had Deeply Flawed Methodology."

That's only four characters longer than the original one:

"The Study That Convinced the CDC To Support Mask Mandates in Schools Is Junk Science."
Agreed. The OP's assertion is questionable.

I don't know how good of a mathematician I am, but I've certainly used computers in all sorts of ways: CAS, plots, numerical experiments, wikis/blogs/QA sites... You use whatever you can.

Proof assistants are having a bit of a breakthrough as well, while previously they were associated with "inelegant" proofs or non-mainstream stuff for mathematicians.

Mandelbrot talked about an anti-computer snobbery that permeated mathematical culture in university mathematics departments in the '70s, and how he overcame it and produced the famous Mandelbrot set.
That's funny ... I haven't noticed this problem. I don't run pi-hole, I use uBlock with some customizations so I'm guessing I'm just not seeing the sponsored links at all.

I killed all text/image ads after an accidental click on a non-intrusive ad a decade ago infected my work laptop and haven't looked back. I'm going to turn it back on for DDG and just "be careful". Hopefully this is less of a problem in 2021, and hopefully it's not a problem at all on DDG, but the ad I clicked by accident was on a mainstream, non-porn/traditionally risky site ... it was a flash exploit, though, so at least that's gone given my configuration.
Kinopio
I agree with Tim that the whole covid vaccine booking process on the canadian government websites was a very pleasant process - really nothing to complain about, and I'm looking forward to more experiences like this one.

One small remark about the end of the blog post:

> Of course, it also helps that in Canada, healthcare is provided for free as a consequence of citizenship.

Actually it's not even tied to citizenship. Free healthcare is also provided to all permanent residents as well as for people on work permits.
Idk what you are talking about but not paying equally opens up a huge amount of discrimination liability.

https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/california_equal_pay_act.htm
These things are part of the basic tenets [0] of the NIST's Zero Trust Architecture [1], which has become an important cybersecurity target for enterprises.

0: https://aspsecuritykit.net/blog/7-tenets-of-nist-zero-trust-...
1: https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-207/final
> A device made in 2021 could assume that the current time is at least 2021.

As long as the device knows it was made in 2021. But the device can't know that by magic; the manufacturer has to store that information in it somehow. Do all device manufacturers do that?
To be clear, I'm talking about the bookkeeping element of an in-progress federal investigation involving theft of corporate equity and corporate tax fraud. The target was legally disabled.
It's not politically viable. It's not even viable within countries that are doing well, much less across the world where people still live in extreme poverty.

You'd need a global authoritarian regime with strong control over the population & extreme taxes or a command economy to make it a reality
Years ago I studied astrology quite a lot. I've never been too interested in the divinatory side, and the pop-level generalizations such as those you cited are not even worth commenting.

Instead I, like the OP's friend, think it's a rather interesting and deep system of symbols and archetypes. A set of lenses, if you want. Sometimes, looking at the reality through a certain lens yields interesting insights.
It's tragic that mass democracy is basically nihilistic in nature. If your values are decided by whatever the 51% want, then you are a reed in the wind. The Greeks had this figured out a long time ago, and Plato's Republic is a pure expression of that ideal of a divinely ordered hierarchy. Similarly, reactionaries like Moldbug argue that we'd be better off with a monarchy, because they have the sovereignty to execute a long term vision, and while I believe he's wrong about many things, that sentiment sort of rings true. In present times, where we've abolished metaphysical hierarchies and replaced them with materialist hierarchies like capitalism, if you want to execute on a long term vision, then you need to seize technocratic control to manufacture mass opinion to support it, and ruthlessly lobby politicians to execute it. That seems incredibly inefficient, and oddly more totalitarian.
Whenever I see a Snopes article where the claim is similar to the facts, but some parts are off, they use "Mixed", not "False".
Lots of things could go wrong but nobody realistically expects perfection.

Do you think the fact checkers have ever taken down anything that was total bullshit and potentially harmful? Probably, right?

So some things could go wrong, but hopefully many more things go right. I also hope the process isn't static and evolves after failures like this one.
I just assumed they can kick you off just as easily, but maybe I'm wrong.
"Censor everyone without an MD for all I'm concerned. The misinformation is worse."

Have you read 1984 or alike? Maybe do so at times.

The BS online surely is bad, but did you know, that you can just buy a MD in certain parts of the world?

So, we are in the middle of a question: which countries MD's do we recognize to speak censor free?

(and who are "we" btw.)

And well, governemnts do have some record of power abuse and missinformation, too. Even the democratic ones. And they take ages to get along and make contracts.

So lots of golden firewalled nations then, but less vaxxer bs online? I am not sure, if this is a good trade.
I know that taking things in context in this way is unpopular among folks who are looking to just sling mud at China. I aim only to provide further context to the intellectually curious who may be wondering how or why.

My posts do not justify or take a side, they merely aim to provide a more expert understanding of the motives and reality.
> We only need about 3 hours worth of storage

This doesn't align with the analysis that I've seen. For example in this post (https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/the-disastrous-economics...) the analysis shows that California would have to spend about $5 trillion on battery storage to have a solar+wind+battery grid.

If the book you reference was accurate we would be seeing headlines about power companies
bragging about these new grid arrangements but instead I just see headlines about how India an China are moving ahead with enormous amounts of coal power plants, rapidly increasing energy costs where intermittent power generation is a significant fraction of power capacity (i.e. Germany), and power outages when base load generating capacity isn't sufficient to keep the lights on when the sun sets and the wind dies.
I wonder if these beautiful machines would be usable as compact flywheels. It certainly seems like the energy industry needs them from my armchair perspective
> baseball bat? [...] cricket bat.

In my experience, Snopes would have rated that "Mostly true" or "Mixture". Do you have examples where they've given a clearly misleading rating?
Worker protests, mass illness lead Apple to put iPhone plant on probation
Very cool. At work we have a lang (hoping to make OSS eventually) which fills this space and is also a lisp at heart, though with some syntax sugar to avoid parens in common cases. It is also closer to GNU make in purpose right now but with a few extra utilities it could fit in CI/CD just as nicely. Exciting time and exciting technologies coming out!
The word "math" means different things to different people. It makes discussing the relevance (or not) of mathematics to computing difficult.
I would bet the angle is that programmers in their 20s are less likely to push back against things like on working conditions and demands on their time. Basically get them while they’re young and dumb
Curious if you're allowed to leave early or come in late for this, or if they are asking employees to do it outside of their regular working hours.
Yep, with fingers on the back of the cheek to feel the muscle tighten.
It says a lot of today HN if an unreachable URL is upvoted
The problem is that people are speaking of two different groups of people when they speak of the boomers (and the boomers were more than two groups of people):

1. the activists who, in their heyday, brought about enormous social change and

2. the reactionary non-activists who later tried to tear that all down

The people who loved disco and the people who hated it were of the same generation.

I agree that people should avoid ascribing characteristics or assigning blame to entire generations like this. It just pisses people off and drives them into camps.
Tenets of NIST's Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA)
Are you questioning the veracity of memes sir?
Hi, I have friends and family who are doctors in Minnesota. They were overwhelmed even before the hospitals decided to fire the health care workers who don't listen to health care advice.

Your "biggest problem" is not based on fact.
> One of the issues I have in the whole software industry is the lack of empathy for regular folks and a lack understanding of how hard the average person has to bust their ass just to make it in life with just the basics.

And how is that industry issue?
Perhaps. Although appointments are by definition, appointed, not hired, or considered part of the hiring process.

Certainly, the ratio of career diplomats to appointments with respect to ambassadorial appointments is a lively topic among FS personnel.
Yeah I am Texas. Before 2021, one could buy a beautiful home with a pool in a top rated school districts for $450K easily. Now same homes are going for $650K+.

I personally am not in rush to buy new home but it just made me feel like I didn't keep up with inflation and should do something about it. Wife is in slightly more rush but I am very strict on our loans to income ratio.
Yep, this and there is a Quora question somewhere I think iirc.

It's mostly LabView I think, which is an interesting choice given all the hate it gets.

For those that don't know, LabView is a graphical (drag and drop) language for the most part where you interconnect various hardware components together. The advantage is that a lot of labs need to plug a lot of devices and sensors to run an experiment and LabView has support for a large amount of hardware. So you connect it all and can graphically view what the outputs are doing in chart form. The downside is that I don't think it's always very easy to specify exactly what you want to do, and code can pretty easily become spaghetti. There are a lot of horror stories about engineers having to maintain someone else's code.

Edit:
-Flight software is C++
-Launch is mostly LabView and yes, they have LabView running in mission control
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29609542
This is not at all my experience with snopes. They've been pretty transparent from what I've seen.
Given that this family was wealthy and powerful enough to have a tomb erected, those cases of polygyny could have been due to political marriages. It was pretty common in the ancient world for male relatives to offer up their female relatives as a way to solidify an alliance, even if the woman was already married.
> Those LNG lobbyist from the US (or should I say neo economic-hitmen) are really worth their money.

They aren't the main cause here. Environmental parties in Europe have historically been built from anti-nuclear groups, and their involvement against commercial nuclear energy is ancient.
> "So what is an AST?"

I had to google... because it doesn't actually say that it stands for Abstract Syntax Tree haha

Would be nice to highlight what AST stands for in the first sentence of that section! :D
It would be very interesting if the outcome of Facebook's contracted checking was to prominently indicate such credential or lack thereof, rather than trying to indicate true/false.
Pandemic Tech Darlings Turned to Duds in 2021
Yes! I love this UI style! It’s like Trello if it was designed by Nintendo.

I’m working on a tangential yet similar tool for organizing thought in a graph and want it to feel like this - more like a fun/intuitive game and less like a brutalist tool.
iirc all flight systems are in triplicate and all data is checked against the others, then a quarum is needed from the 3 to make a decision.

other rockets use rad hardened computers that make decisions on their own, but for cost and time, I believe SpaceX just triplicated all necessary systems and votes out and reboots any system that gets bit flips.
Interesting but hasn't been my experience. I find that actuaries going into DS are what you'd naively expect. They know the stuff that's tested on the exams but have underdeveloped DS skills compared to other quantitative types at the same career stage, especially in coding. I would definitely not describe them as strong in business acumen.
I was already remote before the pandemic, but worried about getting too far from Boston out of concern for future opportunities. The increase in remote jobs has definitely changed my mind on this and we're now looking at houses in some smaller towns in Rhode Island.
Doesn’t explain the dodecahedron, though. Would be far easier with holes in a plank.
There are several inaccuracies.

Everything after “Darwin Kernel Version 21.2.0” is XNU, not iBoot. This is when macOS starts according to the diagram. You don’t see logs from iBoot.

I have no idea what this means:

> The end of the kernel-only phase, which is entirely iBoot, comes almost 20 seconds after the start.
I think your "someday" is now.
I started mining in 2011, blogged about how to do it with scripts as early as Ubuntu 8.04

Blog has since been wiped, most of my traffic was coming from China. I decided it was a bad idea to talk about money on the internet: see the first and second rule(s) of Fight Club. I should not enable mining bots with bash shell scripts on my blog.

We share some thoughts. The NFT's only make sense to me if you are using them inside of some meta-realm as a form of validation. ICOs were scams and the memecoins are scams and the Youtubers shilling this stuff are scammers as far as I'm concerned. I watched a video the other day of MrBeast and some other Youtubers laughing about shilling cryptopunks. Pretty sad life if you ask me.

If the market grows on its own and I didn't promote it or shill it, does that not mean it's legitimate?

I thought Ethereum was a pre-mine scam at first (kinda still do) but the market has spoken and all of these cryptos are just big pools of liquidity to swim in now. ETH has enabled and built some wild things like AAVE and AMM's but it's difficult to understand the value proposition in 2021/2022 - other than just big pools of liquidity. I think L2 scaling on Ethereum has huge potential.

I stayed off-market until 2017 and then I had to pay a few years worth of salary in taxes to the government because I got jiggy with the first ATH in 2017 as the knife was falling.

2021 has been interesting. A decade into this crypto thing, very little has stopped it. It's difficult to stop an idea once the genie is out of the bottle.

Yes, I believe Proof of Work is a race to the bottom; but it might just be the thing that fairly and accurately prices energy usage one day. I ran 16 GPUs sucking down nearly 3kW around the clock for ~24 months and then I had to shut down the operation because difficulty and I could no longer afford the electricity.

Am I destroying the planet? I don't know. I'm retired from proof of work mining.
I'm a staker now ;-)
That article summary says:

> Yet even in systems which meet >90% of demand, hundreds of hours of unmet demand may occur annually.

and

> satisfy countries’ electricity demand in 72–91% of hours (83–94% by adding 12 h of storage).

So not 3 hours and still significant number of days without power.
They don’t realize they are. From many peoples perception of their own thinking (meta cognition) whatever’s they do to cognitively engage with an input is critical thinking. If you give them information they construct meaning from it. If that information is facts, it’s facts. If it’s someone else’s conclusion or interpretation, it still gets treated as information received.
I have been in Estonia for a few months and get my TRP recently. It's new to me. But I heard that it's the same. It's just a notification probably. Yet, the term "forwarding address" makes me think it can be something else. I did not get any email from there yet, so I don't know actually.

The PKI thing includes a physical ID card, a software solution called Smart-ID and a mobile solutions called Mobile ID. The software solutions are just authenticator apps that you've matched with your ID.
> From your perspective, given you seem convinced that meditation is the same as a nap, sure. That itself seems to me like an absurd proposition.

Occam's razor. If people benefit from sitting and thinking about just one thing then the simplest explanation is that the benefit is that they aren't stressing around about their normal life. If there is some special effect above that then it would need strong evidence comparing it to just sitting down and not stressing about things.
Zoho, 1 dollar a year.
Yes they do offer a web app. It's nearly exactly the same as the desktop Mac app from a usability perspective. I can't really compare to Gmail recently however. It probably has feature parity bar some organisational stuff but is 100% completely different and you need to take time to learn it.

Their cloud offering is fairly poorly promoted and no one seems to notice it exists. You have mail, contacts, calendar, photos, drive, notes, reminders, documents, spreadsheets, presentations and device location all via their web interface all of which real time sync with desktop and iOS apps.

But note as always that the apps are Apple design centric which means they have intentionally limited feature sets and not many bells and whistles compared to some competition. If you learn to meet them in the middle they are monumentally powerful however, particularly in combination with Shortcuts app. I have a lot of event driven and schedule stuff set up with that which keeps me organised and kills a lot of routine tasks for me. I could not have set this up with Microsoft or Google ecosystems without resorting to actually writing horrible API manipulating code and having to host it somewhere. I just tap some shit out in the shortcuts app on my iPad or iPhone or Mac and it just works quietly and reliably. It's not perfect of course due to pre-existing expectations as a programmer mostly, but it's a real hidden chunk of gold once you wrap your head round it.
In general I realized that most clean tech is difficult to recycle at this point, from this site[1]. I'm just trying to get the big picture, and hoping that we don't solve one problem by creating the next.
In the end our waste ends up in the environment and in our food.

1. You are quite possibly right. Do you have a source supporting that the expected industrial waste is in the kilotonnes range? I'm not arguing it is not, I don't know.

2. It's just something that occured to me recently. It's not that just these things have to be recycled. It would be best if we did something about waste too.

3. and 4. Thanks for the link!

[1] https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/06/wooden-wind-turbin...
While I’m a moderate Democrat, and no libertarian, [1] I have a lot of respect for Robby Suave, the author of this piece.

He has been very good about pointing out the abuses of the radical left destroying people’s lives for things like wearing a costume at a 2018 Halloween party which the radical left woke mob decides is politically incorrect in 2020. [2] In addition, he has supported due process during the #MeToo “believe all women” moral panic when many on the radical left wanted to get rid of presumption of innocence and due process. [3]

[1] Certain problems require big government to solve: Police, military, roads, and, yes, health care

[2] https://reason.com/2020/06/18/washington-post-blackface-hall...

[3] e.g. https://reason.com/2017/11/16/dear-prudence-meets-due-proces...
Stallman is an a well known outlier, it's a definitely visible correlation that blue people hate free software.
I assume you were supposed to watch the employees interact with the technology, and ask them a few questions on their break or something. Trying to see if there's anything about the point-of-sale, employee scheduling, payroll, or other tech that seemed like a good idea back at Headquarters, but doesn't work well in real life. Or new ideas that would make things easier, etc.
I maintain some code that rely on Python AST for finding and packaging modules with appropriate class signatures when building customer specific distributions. It works really well most of the time. And, it is a lot easier to maintain than 50+ separate wheel definitions.

The one big drawback is that the AST for even trivial code patterns has had a history of changing between Python versions. This makes it more annoying than usual to support multiple versions at the same time. Luckily 3.9 and 3.10 hasn't brought any changes that impacted my codebase, as far as I've noticed.
Office 365 is good but keep in mind that it really, really wants you to use their proprietary email protocol. I tried using Thunderbird for a while but finally caved and am now on Outlook.
The way it works in parts of Europe and probably other countries is that there are some titles that are protected, and others are not. Anybody can call themself behavioral scientist. Psychologist would be the protected title in this case I believe.