skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Factors I can think of:

1. Bigger mirror = better. Enclosing a mirror requires mass and volume, limiting mirror size.

2. The L2 orbit is unstable. Far less risk of being hit by debris than low Earth orbit.

3. Webb's sun shield blocks the primary light pollution angle. Hubble would need more protection from all angles due to the Sun, Earth, and Moon.
My personal favorite was something like "No, Trump was not telling the Truth, Clinton did not submerge her servers in acid." prior to the 2016 election. That is when I knew the guy would never get a fair shake, no matter what he did.
The problem is fact checks would do the damage on a post like yours above, and by the time they're proven "wrong" have done the damage and moved on.

it really is just information parroting/parading, and anyone defending it, is OK with it because its supporting their own "interpretation of the facts". It's wild how polarized we are, but not really, because these things are just further supporting the echo chamber of opinions one side already had.
This article is a hatchet job by a self-declared "skeptic" intended to convince the reader that a popular Swedish book about personality types, Surrounded by Idiots, is without scientific basis or value. The language of the article, independent of the content, conveys the negative message.

These days we are immersed is a sea of falsehoods and half-truths. Storytelling and lyrical metaphoric depictions of reality have been replaced by downright lies and malicious intent. Opinion articles which violate rhetorical rules and utilize deceptive and fallacious argumentation are not a good resource to mine for facts.

We are "Surrounded by Idiots", individuals whose weltanshanguung embraces fantastical concepts supported by pseudoscientific argumentation and assertions without evidence. Much of the richness of human culture is captured by wrong ideas and conceptions. Consider creation myths, fables with morals, religions, moral systems, astrology, political systems, cold fusion, Meyers-Briggs personality tests, and so forth. Finding a balance between the factual, the fictional and the speculative is difficult.

Words, facts, and expression do matter. The title, for example, states that Swedes were "fooled by one of the biggest scientific bluffs of our time" is wrong. There is no evidence that people were "fooled", the book and theory are not a "bluff", and there is no partial ordering of bluffs so "biggest" is hard to identify.
I would like to show my new Python library: universalasync. It helps library maintainers to create only asynchronous version of their libs, and synchronous version will be created automatically, so that users could use it in their sync and async apps interchangeably.

For example, when running inside a sync function, you could call obj.method(), but when running inside an async function you could also call await obj.method()

So there is no need to create async_* variants of your functions, or use other methods of creating sync versions (for example in my another library some time ago I was just removing async and await and publishing this as a separate package).

The library has 0 dependencies of course, it wraps all public methods of a class to it's implementation. It basically does what you would have done if you needed to run a coroutine from your sync code, but automatically.

API reference can be found here: https://universalasync.bitcartcc.com/en/latest/api.html

Any feedback, testing and bugs found welcome!
So how do you propose parents prevent their children from using Alexa other than simply not having it?

Not having it is my solution, and I put a bunch of (specialised, technical) work into safely introducing my kids to the internet [1], but if that's the only safe solution Alexa should have a "not safe if you have kids" warning.

But of course it's not the only solution. Amazon just need to make sure their device doesn't tell kids to stick things in power sockets, and they don't dispute this.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29177716
Is it "censorship" if I throw you out of my Christmas party because you got drunk and insulted my wife? Is it "censorship" if I throw you out of my 2000-person seminar because you keep interrupting? Is it "censorship" if I kick you out for handing out flyers for a competitor on my premises? Are they all "inherently evil" acts?

Keep in mind, I'm using the scare quoted version of censorship because all of my examples are censorship by definition. But no reasonable person would find anything objectionable in them, let alone "inherently evil".

I can't (and won't) stop you from saying whatever you want. But I don't have to let you be on my property to say it. I respect your freedom to say what you want. Please respect my freedom to enforce codes of conduct on my property.
see the engine being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29711495
Fact checking is a fig leaf that allows you to apply further content decisions. You can’t just stop promoting or ban a piece of content outright without some ground rules; a “fact check” acts as a filter that enables you to do so. It doesn’t matter if the target audience believes the fact check or not if they never see the content as a result of it.
Architecture of open source applications, which has a free book version available on their site, has that info on some other large desktop applications .
It's also important to keep in mind that fraud is rampant in NFTs, such as the same person faking transactions by essentially buying his own asset with a flash loan. This means that the paper trail is left behind but no sale actually happens.

The most expensive NFT to date was the result of such a fraud.

https://www.cnet.com/news/why-this-cryptopunk-nft-sold-for-5...

Relevant link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wash_trade

I'd bet that if someone bothered to trace the wallets used in the transaction, they'll find out they start and end at the same person.
> break into their briefcase rifle through their documents

I think I gave you that misleading impression by poorly abbreviating the headline. The warrant was not for the contents of the phones, but for identities of people carrying them nearby at that those times. IANAL but I think another warrant would be needed to search the phone or individual.
If you ask a fact checker that, no. Years later when they change their tune, then yes. So the answer is no: because we live in a fact checker society now.
ehh an adult driving a car has the reasonable expectation of making safe decisions to avoid driving into a body of water… could I blame the GPS for slamming into the car in front of me or hitting a pedestrian?

I think there’s a considerable difference from giving a child instructions to electrocute themselves… they literally don’t know better. They’re not licensed or educated.
I’ve “flown across the room” from touching a fly back transformer in a CRT. I think what really happened was I backed up trying to get away, and fell over backwards.
> Was there ever a lawsuit against GPS providers telling people to turn right into something like a lake?

I can't remember any lawsuits, but there have certainly been insurance claims rejected, appealed, and rejected again, on the basis that the policy presumes a certain level of driving with due care and attention.

No doubt the small print of policies are now festooned with text specific to trusting tech to the point of life-threatening stupidity, rather than relying on more general provision, if they didn't already have it.

> It seems like the same ruling would apply to both

The key difference in this case is that the actor is a child, and legally can't be held responsible in the same manner. So if it did apply it would be to the adult who installed the device or an adult considered responsible within the household, not the child that used the device.
I really enjoyed https://xcelab.net/rm/statistical-rethinking/
That is also my takeaway from the book - people work differently, and being aware of that can make you more effective at communication.

I didn't even manage to take the book very seriously because it was so overly... arrogant in its presentation. "If you do X, you're red. Red people do Y, Z, U, V. Remember the times someone did W? Red person." Every statement presented as unquestionable fact, but none of them sourced (but anecdotes abound).

It's unfortunate that people (all of Sweden, apparently?) seem to have gotten carried away and based lives and decisions around what is evidently just the author's musings.
I had the oddest experience in trying to upvote his comment. I’m on mobile so it may just be be that. But, when I upvoted, there was a small delay but it seemed to register a downvote. So I unvoted and tried again. Same thing. Anyway, assuming HN mods do not have some switch that turns every vote into a downvote on particular comments. I think it’s fine to space out the upvote/downvote buttons. Users shouldn’t be losing minutes of their life trying to convince themselves that their vote was properly registered.
So it was labelled "false" and not "disputed" as claimed by nradov? Then it is hard for me to see how this is an example of the phenomenon that hereforphone discusses.
You really think so? Why? From what I know every other industry matured through a series of crysis. Al least that is the way I see it.
So early startups should get money from their workers?
When I posted the question I made sure to not mention religion because my curiosity was more about meditation/alignment with what’s important/practice in term of making sense of the bigger life questions.

This answer is perfect :)
> You don't teach children to use Alexa. If Alexa is there they just talk to it.

I'll second this. My 5 year old talks to my father's Google device when we're visiting. We never taught him to -- he just learned from grandpa.
I'm not disputing that the policy is real. I'm saying there's a possibility that the engineer's disdainful reaction to the policy is fake -- and done to stoke outrage and promote the gossip site.

> Why [not name the source]?

Because my intuition is that there's a high probability of this being a viral stunt -- in which case, I'd rather this site not exist.
The fear is of not being in control not that someone will invade.
I was thinking about the downsides of losing a communist superpower (Soviet Union) last week, and how it unchecked the worst excesses of capitalism in the US.

To answer your question of “why now”: Every generation had its unifying experiences.

In the 1930s and 1940s: The Great Depression enabled FDR to become “a traitor” to his own kind, by working vigorously against the wealthiest and helping the public. I can’t help but think this enabled the US to enter WW2 as strong and motivated. Still, look closely and you’ll see the wealthiest were very unhappy with FDR but the economic and other problems were too obvious to ignore.

The 1950s to the 1980s were driven by the fear of communism and nuclear war, in the afterglow of winning WW2. Look closely and there were at some that questioned the zeal of anti-communism, but the Soviet Union was a threat that was too big to ignore.

The 1990s to the 2000s were driven by the afterglows of a belief in a more accessible and truly shared international community. Look closely and you’ll see that the American working class was being stripped apart and people were complaining.

Right now, what are the unifying raw emotions and concerns? Tap into those and you’ll find the next long-term plan.
Are you Straw Manning and Ad Hominem attacking the author in the same post?

Where did he say that these people don't believe in medicine? In fact, being a Doctor or Nurse by definition means believing in medicine and protecting the patient is your job. More so than some random hacker news stranger.
Does Excel not provide other functionality and features even though it has a DRM licensing aspect? Of course it does as such an aspect being present doesn't dismiss everything else outright. The same is true for micropayments, that they are there does not dismiss the idea others could find the app (or games in general) a useful functionality in an OS to the point they would consider a core feature.

As an anecdote I've removed default apps while cleaning many PCs and gotten more pushback about CandyCrush being missing than Calculator. Regardless of how much more base utility I think Calculator provides personally it doesn't mean others don't find the same base value in an entertainment component, even if it has micropayments or other revenue streams built in or could be a click away in an app store (as any component could be anyways).
This is great advice. Just getting started is also the biggest thing for me. Once I get started, it's usually easy to just keep going
Interesting they didn't go with Ada/SPARK, to be honest.
It might be that the previous leak completely or partially exposed the algorithm of LastPass's password generator, or some other commonly used tool, and people being targeted show up on other lists. Credential stuffing with a targeted list of generated passwords.

If passwords from other breaches fit the characteristics of a weak or compromised generator, that could also be used for targeting.
It's also worth noting that much of JWST is now twenty year old technology. Assuming it isn't a total failure which needs to be salvaged for PR reasons, it will almost certainly make more sense to build a new observatory in ten years rather than rescuing this one. If Starship exists at that point it will also be a much less complex undertaking to get it into space, and it could likely use an even bigger mirror.
> So a manned mission is currently infeasible. But maybe in the future.

Given the increased interest in manned missions and recent technology advancements/investments, I wouldn't be surprised if we could get there in 15-20 years, which sounds likely to be when it'd need to be refueled.

If it's worth it or too dangerous to send an astronaut to deal with the dangerous refueling operation are whole other questions. But actually getting there? I think we can do it in 15-20 years.
> you might as well use astrology.

Not only are these "tests" tantamount to astrology, the amount of bunk that goes into momentous decisions is underestimated. Ronald Reagan is reported to have consulted an astrologer about nearly every decision. That's dangerous. Accepting bunk is dangerous to your business.
Here is an example of identical claims made by a conservative and democrat politician.

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-6fed2339071d503d32e531...
Ah yes, the complaint of "progressive big media".

You know the first time I decided a media outlet was pushing an agenda? When Fox News famously asked its audience as it went to break if Obama's fist bump was "a terrorist fist jab".

This isn't a "progressive" narrative; it's whatever narrative fits the interests of the company. Sometimes it's progressive, such as when it comes to social issues. Oftentimes it's conservative. I've yet to see CNN etc laud unions, higher taxes on the rich, universal healthcare, etc, even in stories they were reporting on where it would make sense (such as the high cost of private healthcare, or times it didn't cover something ludicrously expensive for someone because reasons, etc)
They are set when building the libc. If you change the macro to something else and then link, you will get code that crashes due to mismatches in ABI.
I helped write SF’s surveillance ordinance. London Breed is lying about it
On a program called 20/20, John Stossel punked Astrology. He asked adult night school students to provide their birthday, gave them an astrology chart, and asked them how relevant it was. Many said the description was uncanny in its accuracy. Except it wasn't their chart ... it was for Jeffrey Dahmer.

I couldn't find the episode to cite. Maybe some of the students were upset?
Probably a bunch of devices will just jump to 1970 tbh.

Through if you do it properly you add some fixed known min
. time (like manufacturing time, or time of the last system software/is update) and if the NTP time is noticable below the min time you increase the epoch by 1.

E.g. in you case the device could know it's revision had a min. time of idk. 2015. Then if it receives 1973 it knows it's 3 years in the next epoch.

But as anyone can guess there will be devices which didn't implement that at all and will end up in 1970. Or which require setting time by hand and will end up in 1970 because it truncates to 32bits at some point or similar.

Through some embedded devices might happen to avoid it. Like due to special reasons they might use a non-unix epoch.
updated the post with groupByToMap, Thanks for pointing that out.
Your post is an Ad hominem style based of reasoning to shut down discussing any of the actual uncomfortable truths behind the post. You used antivaxxer as an ugly label to ignore discussing any of the points.
I don't think it's quite like that.

Yes, everyone in a region is likely related to ancestors +800 years ago from that region, it's not the same for regions with little migratory exchange.

Probably every Chinese person is a descendant of the 1st Han Emperor, but probably most Europeans are not, though they are probably all descendants of Charlemagne, whereas Chinese citizens are not. Etc.
There is an essential unifying framework: those who benefit from war, either financially or career-wise, are motivated to enter government and persuade it to make war when advantageous to them.
Not like that. But it will mature over crysis like all old industries. And of course engineers are not saints, we will get our wake up call as well. I did in 2008 for example.
groupByToMap would be useful in that case as pointed out in another comment. Updated the post with that.
My experience is companies treating security as if it were a competition where having more "security points" than the hacker means you can't be hacked. Which leads to bizarrely wrong trade-offs like "we don't need passwords on the prod database because it's only accessible through the private network". Even worse is "we're on AWS so we have Amazon-level security".
Ditto - I recently switched to BitWarden and kind of forgot that I was still giving it a self determined "trail period." This certainly kicked that trail period into my new current password manager.
Bodega Inventory as Gentrification Metric
Things you can do to avoid being a texting scam victim
> After 25 years in Toronto I moved 3.5hr drive North to a beautiful city with gigabit internet, lakes and wilderness.

It's wild, I had to move 20ish miles outside of Indianapolis to a town of 200~ people where the closest gas station is 8-10 miles away and I don't get residential mail delivery while being surrounded by corn and soy fields to actually have access to gigabit internet for the first time in my life... scratches head
It's a very interesting mission but it's sad to see NASA lower themselves to using clickbaity headlines for their articles.
Ketamine therapy is fantastic. It saved the life of a close friend. And greatly helped another. It helps to find a reputable provider and pair it with good therapy. One friend found a provider that paired it with a therapy session part way through which helped him a lot. These were all with depression therapy, though I've heard from the providers that it's amazing with PTSD.
What Is Passive DNS? (2020)
Whatever you think the Internet was built for doesn’t matter. Copyright exists and some people want to retain their rights to share an image without people just wholesale scraping it without even visiting the website.

This antisocial behaviour of walking in and taking whatever isn’t bolted down leads to an unfortunate arms race of watermarks, other technologies, and crappy laws that attempt to stop consumers from disrespecting the rights of producers.

Whether intended or not, Google at least makes you visit the website before taking the images. (Which is contrary to all the times google does this for its own benefit.)

The number of people who produce desirable content are drastically outnumbered by the number of consumers, so I’m very guarded about any rhetoric that fixates on consumer rights at the cost of producer rights. Naturally they don’t get an equal voice.
It is one of the reasons for the new undersea cable to Norway. When we have excess wind then we can pump water up a mountain there, and when we don't the we can release it and recapture some of that energy.

Problem is, that is currently only 1.4GW of capacity. We'll need a whole lot more of it to get fully off gas or nuclear.
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It's not a toy if you use Gaia + HDRP.

Unity doesn't have as much built in, but the asset store is miles ahead of Unreal's. You can build almost any game you can imagine ( within reason, MMOs are hard) fairly quickly. I am biased since I find C# to be much much easier than C++ and I don't like visual scripting.
Did you get any assistance from insurance?
> This is all fine as long as all externalities are included in the price of consumption.

Just like a software team scaling a product is going to discover new scale issues, we discover new externalities on a regular basis.

Hoping that we can discover all externalities ahead of time and price them is an impossible objective.
I live in center of historical city in middle of Europe. All houses are from 15th to 19th century and most od them has chimneys. In our house there are two oven stoves and we use it during winter. We are able to keep 21°C in entire house even during -10°C outside. With rising prices of gas, it is incredibly handy and saves money. House has old wood windows, not ideal for keep constant temperature inside and yet, it works great.
> Medical speech must be censored or else the snake oil salesmen will take over.

Everybody talks about snake oil salesmen in the 19th century, but do you know what doctors were hawking back then? You can find plenty of examples of garbage products not because of the lack of regulation but because of the lack of contemporary science. Even medical professionals at the time didn't know any better -- or else anyone could have asked their doctor about Snake Oil(TM) and known not to try it.

Today nobody is going to believe that you can cure a disease with "Indian blood" or any of that nonsense, because the information on its harms or ineffectiveness is widely available and not seriously in contention.

The problem comes when you get to the medical information which is still in contention today. That's when censorship is the most harmful because when something is still actively unfolding and it's poorly understood with limited data, there is no basis for anyone to authoritatively declare something to be definitively true. And if the thing authorities are telling everyone is false, censoring the people challenging them is the harm.
which is literally the case for any security system lol
Part of the healing process for people who’ve suffered through trauma is releasing all of that energy out of the body. It’s very common to go through big up/down swings during this process.
Can anyone share their experience consuming Lithium Orotate?

Years ago I remembered reading this article - https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/magazine/i-dont-believe-i...

The one compound I've used (on and off, for maybe a few weeks at a time over the past 18 years) intermittently is Clonazepam. Recently however I don't find the dosage to be very effective, and reading the literature, upping benzo dosage has a high risk of increased dependency. I'd like to avoid that.

I happened to randomly start Googling about Lithium and stumbled upon Lithium Orotate, which is sold as a supplement pretty much everywhere. There's a little bit of literature on Pubmed, but not much.

I bought this - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00PB4II68/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

And it arrives on Friday. The reviews on this and other Lithium Orotate seem almost too good to be true, but for $10, I'm willing to give it a shot.
Actually most published medical research is false.

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...
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