skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me: "Hi boss, because of Y the company needs to do X".

Boss: "Okay".

a few days later

Boss: "Y is not true, we should re-evaluate X since Y is what convinced us"

This would be a totally fair exchange and 100% correct. It does not matter if there are 5 other things that prompted me to bring this up to my boss. I hung my hat on Y being true and that's how I presented it. It's what convinced us. It shouldn't be a big deal for me, as an adult and a professional, to say "yep, I messed up. here's the other reasons to still do X."
Your setup was WRT political bias, but your meme example was WRT the tedious manner in which they report conclusions.

I've not experienced the political bias. Can you link some examples?

We have a serious disinformation problem. In my experience, Snopes seems to be overwhelmingly accurate and to do much more good than harm on balance. The fact that they tediously present the facts before drawing a conclusion (per your meme) actually helps to mitigate any perception of bias.
I am 44 and if I had to sum up what I've learned in my life into one concept it would be this:

The truth, real truth, is EXTREMELY hard to ascertain. Therefore, be open to new ideas, but slow to accept anything as absolute truth. Those in power push narratives. Conflicts of interest make data questionable. "Experts" are just people with their own inherent biases. And often we simply learn new things.

Therefore, I can think of very few things more damaging to society and free speech than "fact checkers". Almost always I find that their "facts" are nothing more than the "opinions" of the most powerful and influential group at the time, and are usually entangled with politics. In short, "fact checkers" don't actually understand the definition of what a fact is, but are quick to declare them, and this is contrary to my experience of real, actual truth.
It couldn't have been figured out, because we kept the 1st Amendment for a reason. We figured not having the ruling class/big corporations/government/big media be the sole arbiters of information truth doesn't end well either.
JWST is past the Moon and sunshield and mirror deployments are underway
The efficient market hypothesis is predicated on full information. Without salary transparency, the market can't sort it out!
It's not exactly anything. It's actually using the product they are developing. Is that really so crazy?

While not exactly the same, we were responsible for developing an in-house app used by our retail employees. Every single engineer working on the app would every so often shadow one of these employees to see firsthand how it was being used in the real world.
I meant at an atomic and molecular level. You're right that decomposing in the wrong way will produce different waste products, like methane, which is worse in the short term than CO2 (IIRC, better in the 80+ year time frame). If we look at the biosphere, the vast majority of elements that make up a given lifeform get recycled within months or years. If they weren't, the waste products would accumulate in the environment. We do see that in geological strata, e.g. limestone deposits, and fossil fuels. Those deposits generally took millions upon millions of years to accumulate because those leftover waste products were pretty minuscule compared to the biomass turning over.

We're producing waste faster than any other biological process in Earth's history, and it's new kinds of waste that no existing processes (other than defaults like erosion and UV irradiation) break down and recycle. And as a result those waste products are accumulating fast in the environment and unfortunately doing a ton of damage to the many intricate ecosystems that we indirectly depend on. Particularly plastic, forever chemicals, and an overwhelming amount of basically everything.

I support composting and produce as little landfill waste as I can get away with. I "recycle" (as much as putting something in the recycle bin is actually recycling) plastics, glass, aluminum, paper, etc. I compost all my food waste, and the only thing I put in the regular trash is stuff that I can't reasonably clean and recycle (e.g. tainted food wrappers). My composting is pretty unsophisticated. I just toss it out into the woods, spreading it out on purpose, as opposed to concentrating it in a compost pile. The Sun's UV will disinfect and being open to the air will dessiccate it before it is broken down by microbiota and insects eventually. I am slightly worried about infecting/breeding/spreading dangerous bacteria, particularly from meat products (which I make an extra effort to never waste) so I am not yet composting to produce soil for my garden.
It could be if you just muddle along enjoying the world eventually the Mongols show up and take your stuff and put your skull on the skull pyramid. Or at least that's the fear.
My framing: What's the difference between persistence and a stubborn asshole? I'm one, you're the other.

Mostly gets folk to double-think that it's their perspective that chooses their description.
As others have mentioned, Zoho Mail is a great option. It's marketed towards business but pricing is family friendly.
"Rich western countries have mostly caused this problem, now you stay poor so it doesn't get worse" wasn't going to go over very well with Indian voters.
My problem with these fact checkers is it feels too much like the ruling class/big corporations/government/big media becoming the sole arbiters of information truth again- and we know that doesn't end well.
India for example has so many languages that one has to group them all into different language families. To compare that kind of diversity with third generation Italian-Americans in NYC and how cities have X district (Chinese or whatever) is laughable, and frankly a new low.

> The US has the diversity similar but not the how that diversity is defined as with india or brazil.

I don’t even know what this sentence is supposed to say but it’s probably not anything profound.
In that century, the term "prescheme" had a certain cachet in mathematics. It wouldn't surprise me if the name choice for this scheme dialect was in part a nod to the math term:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_(mathematics)

>In the early days, this was called a prescheme, and a scheme was defined to be a separated prescheme. The term prescheme has fallen out of use, but can still be found in older books, such as Grothendieck's "Éléments de géométrie algébrique" and Mumford's "Red Book".
is it just me who cannot find it, or did this article basically only state the hertz of the processors?
So I got grandfathered free plans and I'm now wondering if it's different from paid plans in terms of hosting / privacy and if both are on the same platform.
Hidden Brain - Minimizing Pain, Maximizing Joy - https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/minimizing-pain-maximizing-j...

Life is filled with hardships and tragedies — a fact that 2020 has made all too clear for people across the globe. For thousands of years, philosophers have come up with strategies to help us cope with such hardship. This week on Hidden Brain, we talk with philosopher William Irvine about ancient ideas — backed by modern psychology — that can help us manage disappointment and misfortune.
Totally agree. I wonder what other companies can do similarly.
The more relevant metric is age adjusted death rate. Age is the primary risk factor for COVID-19. There is a much higher percentage of elderly people in Florida.

https://www.bioinformaticscro.com/blog/states-ranked-by-age-...
The main thing that's been scaring me away from Firebase is the vendor-lockin/pricing. My target audience are students who are very price sensitive, and I hear firebase is pricy as heck. I will likely launch this as a freemium service. Sync is kinda table stakes, so it'll need to exist in some capacity for free users.
There exists an easy solution for the Polish people if they were smart enough to act, the current government could go the way of Ceausescu.

But I’d guess all the smart people moved to the UK and rest of EU years ago, leaving only the worst to bicker among themselves.
Fact checking is imperfect, but what's the alternative? Social media where people rampantly share "Pedo lizard people firmly in control of Democrat party" type articles, and various and sundry other garbage. Combine that with Brandolini's law, and the whole thing is just a sewer. As we've seen during the pandemic with anti-vaccine nonsense, this has cost people their lives.

It's easy to point out flaws, but like anything, it's trickier to build something better.
Data-Oriented Programming book: First draft
> What could such a thing be?

I think we need a fact checker for the fact checkers. I propose we let the fact checkers fact check themselves.
Optimizing compiler for Advent of Code day 24
did you really expect someone to have published a peer-reviewed study in a high quality journal about how many times snopes was misleading?

The claim was that fact checkers write misleading verdicts with political biases, one example is sufficient enough to verify that claim.
A couple of dozen of chinese arduinos mega at best.
Kahneman famously wrote in Thinking Fast and Slow that his results can't possibly be statistical flukes and then a bunch of the studies in the book ended up being exactly statistical flukes - https://slate.com/technology/2016/12/kahneman-and-tversky-re...

Anyway, about the books...

Blitzstein's Introduction to Probability and Harvard's Stat110 course are a good starting point if you've taken calculus. There's also good books like All of Statistics by Wasserman and Bayesian Data Analysis by Gelman but they're an absolute slog to get through - definitely not my favorite in any way but they cover a lot of stuff and you can have a copy around for reference.
I wish I had an alternative to social media.

That's like a drug addict saying, "I wish I had an alternative to heroin."

The cure is to detox and move on. Nobody "needs" social media.

This is usually the place where the pedant HN crowd (many employed by social media companies) like to imagine a bunch of hypothetical edge cases and pretend that the .0001% situations where social media is useful somehow outweighs the massive harm that social media has done over the last decade plus.

This is your brain. This is your brain on social media. Any questions?
Couldn't you just stop using it? Get a subscription to a local newspaper and call it a day?
That was not my argument. And the organization of state and Plato's politics are way more connected.

But my comment was that people have such a "need for being ruled" that we repurpose ideas with clear autocratic root for our democracy.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cnn-washing-machine/

It has the rating "Labeled Satire" not "disputed".
After 18 months of development, I am glad to announce that I finally completed the first draft of my book: Data-Oriented Programming.

I wanted to thank all the people from the Clojure community that helped me in the thinking and the writing process.

The book is my attempt to formulate the underlying principles of Clojure approach to data and illustrate how to apply them in another language.

Here are the 4 principles of Data-Oriented Programming:

1. Separate code (behaviour) from data

2. Represent data with generic data structures

3. Data is immutable

4. Separate data schema from data representation
Wow, that's a lot of indirection! I've had the same setup, but only two requests deep. I think that if there's added value of each nginx tier (if each service has static assets, for example), then there may be some benefit, but tracing through all the layers gets harder. Glad to hear you removed the internal layers!
Not only did Alexa retrieve the wrong content (instead of a list of challenges to do, Alexa sourced from a list of dangerous challenges you shouldn't do), Alexa then stripped off the entire context of the warning about not doing the challenge because it was dangerous, and instead added a timer.

So the issue here is less about needing to sanitize the internet for kids, and more about how AI struggles to categorize and summarize content and the dangerous effects that can have.
Apologies for the cynism, but I wonder what big-tech firm bought the emission rights for this to expand their data hunger even further while "staying green". Here in the Netherlands we have a fierce discussion raging on the placement of a newly proposed "hyperscale" from Facebook/Meta. The datacenter would consume more than the power of Amsterdam as a whole, yet we have a lot of trouble finding the right grounds (and communal common ground) on where to place these enormous turbines.

and off-topic:

I bet that this entire windpark can be offset by disallowing arbitrary Javascript code to be ran in every advertisement, and all the wasted cycles that follow.
In the same vein, I wonder how much CO2 a regular citizin saves per year by running an adblocker.
Editing is easier than creating (blank page paralysis).

When I wrote my masters thesis I auto-generated 50 pages of Lorem Ipsum, properly formatted, and started editing it.

“The title is clearly wrong, I’ll change that. Oh look, the first heading is also wrong, let’s put something else in here. Now the paragraph doesn’t match the heading, better fix that”

By the time I get to the paragraph I’m mentally invested and continuing is easy
The Metaverse Land Rush is an illusion
Show HN: Stream-zip – Stream-construct ZIP archives in Python
it isn't a question if it can be built. we know it can't. the question is whether it can result in a better outcome than no moderation whatsoever.
Amazon Echo Show 15 review: Alexa on the big screen
Because it has become the only bar in town with free booze sponsored by the local hospital handling drunk driving accidents.

Make the social media platforms interoperable, and force them to charge the costs directly to consumers (so that the platforms could compete on price/quality) and people will run away from it like rats from a sinking ship.
Why is that the only way? Seems to me you could just raise rates after someone caused actual damage instead.
> I wish I had an alternative to social media.

You honestly believe that you don't? That's the problem right there.
slashdot did just that 15 years ago.
I understand the impulse to not want to be defeatist, but sometimes it’s both easier and more productive to stop running into the same walls over and over and instead find the path around them.
> fact checking is potentially damaging to society

Why do you think this? I am struggling to understand.
Many people think I'm a work-a-holic. My dirty little secret is that I'm actually very lazy (my wife knows :-). I can't say I have a good strategy, it's just that when I do get into a rare flow state (a few times a week) I can stay there for quite a while and little can distract me (thank you ADD!).

But here is what I would say: pick the smallest of tasks that is part of the larger work and convince yourself it's okay to only get that part done today. Also convince yourself that it's okay to do a 'Mad Dash' on it - focus on making progress, not making perfect. Save the edits and polishing for when you are in the zone.

This is how I get myself to the gym a few times a week. So many times I've told myself it's okay to just go for 10 minutes (and then sit in the hot tub :-). But once I'm there I almost always do my full regimen (which is only 45 mins).

So maybe that is my strategy: only focus on 'getting started', not on getting done.
Truth! Wouldn't have it any other way. ;)
Snopes edited their page after reasonable people pointed out how stupid they looked for fact checking a joke.
+1 for Fastmail. I just checked and have been subscribed to Fastmail since 2014. My wife switched from Google Apps to Fastmail in 2018 as well.

It has been a great experience. Their spam filtering is worse than Google Mail, but almost everything else is better: it provides far more configurability, the web interface is lightning fast, and they support standards.

I am a Mac/iOS user and I also love the amount of integration they have. You can set up Mail & Calandars by downloading a provisioning profile. They are also one of the few IMAP providers that have true push support for iOS (no battery-consuming IMAP IDLE).
Psilocybin may have saved my life, after a lifetime of PTSD. It threw off the “wet blanket” that had enveloped me for decades.

At this point in my medical history, I’ve tried just about everything else, what have I got to lose?
Ruler of great size, less useful when measured aspects are a pile of disconnected threads rather than a canvas that is mostly shared and mostly distorted the same way.
It actually uses a closed system:

https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/innovations/cryocooler.h...
The quote from this girl is not how a 12year old would speak. The words are straight from a PR person involved in America’s weird ideology.

Congrats to whichever family member managed to succeed in this project using a child as the face of it!
Haha.

Remember that time with Donald Trump quoted "The Babylon Bee"?(BTW, The Bee is CLEARLY Christian Satire) That was pretty good stuff.

A day later, The Bee had an article "Trump declares Babylon Bee the most trusted news in America"
They do.

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/11510
>If you want a fulfilling career as an engineer, don't work in a cost center.

By that definition, I guess the above article is not a help to a whole class of engineers out there. Now I really doubt if they even be called engineers?
If I had written this article myself and titled it “Lessons from my First Year as a Full Time Software Dev” a lot of the bullets would have been the same. Especially the Daily Progress and Get Excited bullets. Those two tend to go hand-in-hand given how often you need to do a thing with the only tangible reward being the accomplishment of the thing.
That may be a joke but I once wrote most of a ladder logic to AVR GCC transpiler.
Yeah, the problem here is that there is so much disinformation that we need fact checking in the first place. Once you've gotten to that point, there will be no perfect solutions.

But IMO, we're far better off having organizations at least attempt to fact check, even if they get it wrong from time to time. The alternative is an open fire hose of unchecked disinformation, and I'm not sure how we survive that.
See where Webb is on the way to L2 orbit;
https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html
Fun to see where it is on deployment.

It's also interesting to me that the mirror appears to be fully exposed to space unlike Hubbell. If anyone knows something about that design choice I've like to hear it.
Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka v0.3 released with major UI overhaul
>Around the same time I tested whether Santa existed by putting out food; when no one ate it I assumed Santa was fake.

That doesn't seem like sound logic to me. Maybe he's just too busy to eat food that was put out at every house? You'd get pretty full by eating a cookie from every house in your neighborhood.
Thanks for the recommendation I will check it out! Although I can't say that I've come to these realizations all on my own -- I've had a lot of great mentors, friends, and therapists help me on the way.
Your comment (and the child comments replying to it) would be much stronger if you could point to actual examples of this happening rather than imagined examples.

Personally, I think fact-checking is a hopeless endeavor, but none of the comments here would have convinced me if I didn't already hold this position. Are there any real examples of poor fact checking that people can point to? Are they anywhere similar to this cricket/baseball example you've given, or are they far less egregious?
I’ve been using Fastmail for a year and really like it.

I still don’t have an answer for a Google docs replacement. The combination of sharing, mobile support, and not being stupid expensive is surprisingly hard to find.
Emfy: Emacs for You – Quickly set up vanilla Emacs for editing
Open source package urllib3 raised $15,000 in 2021
This is a testament to the dumb money being invested into crypto. Mark my words, the Bitcoin crash is going to be brutal and will be remembered as one of the largest bubbles the market has ever seen. The complexity of blockchain technology is nothing more than an obfuscation of a Ponzi scheme. It's no different than any other scheme claiming to use quantum technology.
Users usual enter low entropy passwords. By stretching I mean a step to make a user entered password into high entrropy password.
> ACK storms aren't a thing with multicast. if FEC doesn't get you what you need, you wait a random time and send a NAK up the line, and the sender re-sends the requested bit

Interesting. This has not been my experience during my time so far in building a 802.11-over-mmWave ISP for the last 7 years. BUM traffic is routinely an issue, one that we measure frequently, and multicast ACK storming is absolutely a side effect of times when things are bad. This is usually because multicast, at least with 802.11, has to be sent at the lowest possible MCS because you don't know the rate capabilities of the STAs on the other side of the fence (also true for broadcasts) and as such the delivery is inherently unreliable. When things are bad, ACK storms are the measurable sine qua non of these events.

Its possible that, for Starlink, this isn't an issue for them because its not a conventional PMP infrastructure as you point out. They know the rates of the terminals on the other side and they're not using non-proprietary modulation.

FEC (or even network coding) can certainly help in these situations, but it has been far from a silver bullet in most testing I've been a part of.

> The Starlink transceivers are SDRs and extremely versatile. So, instead of playing games with modulation and subcarriers, it probably uses its whole band on each packet, effectively broadcasting all packets, and receivers just pick off whichever packets are meaningful to them.

Even if its an SDR, and presumably using something like phase-key shifting for modulation at the PHY layer, there is still MAC layer multiplexing it could use to offset the impact of multicast. E.g. in 802.11ax with MU-MIMO, you could dedicate an entire spatial stream to one kind of traffic, or alternatively you could dynamically put STAs into MU groups based the bulk of the traffic they're sending to blunt their impact on the shared spectrum. This is even more interesting in the SDR context where you can build a more adaptive algorithm for grouping (e.g. like using geospatial context to ensure minimal interference etc).

>The actually tricky thing is that broadcast streams cannot be like the regular end-to-end packet streams, where identical images are delivered in absolutely unlike packets. You need a higher-level negotiation identifying streams of interest by name and playback position, so that the uplink terminal knows when it is sending (or will have sent) the same stuff twice

I think this is where your point about the proprietary SDR is the most interesting (and maybe even for the DRM case as well). Would be interesting to see how they could handle this being in the middle of it all, without causing a major performance impact to end users. But thats mostly an implementation detail.
The first true millipede – 1306 legs long
BrainTool is one of the things I discovered today :-) thank you!
Oracle Linux for ARM is purely 64-bit, with no 32-bit support at all. Busybox 32-bit binaries will run, but only 64-bit RPM packages are offered.

Aside from Android, it is the only ARM distribution that I know of with this property.
I believe you are referring to "What I cannot create I don't understand", which is indeed by Feynman.
CDC Revises last week's NowCast figure from 73% to 22%
They won't fact-check that if Donald Trump claimed it?