skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The underlying problem in the case this article describes is one of classification.

Fact checking every claim is a lot of work, so fact checkers find a widely-circulating claim to check and generalize it from whatever various specific claims are in circulation. In this case, it was generalized to "there's no science behind masks on kids". That claim is easy to check, and it's false; there are multiple scientific studies showing that requiring masks in schools reduce covid rates among students.

The author's article did not make that claim or anything that could be reasonably reduced to "there's no science behind masks on kids". Instead, his claim was that the CDC made a recommendation based on a specific study, and that the study in question has serious methodological flaws (the headline phrase "junk science" is a bit sensational). That's a more narrow claim, most of which probably falls into the category of opinion or analysis rather than fact-checking.
> Facebook stole the public square from us

How? Do they control the Internet or the Web somehow? You and I are talking on a non-FB property right now.

And even if it were true, I point you back to my previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29726412

All of this "censorship" scare-mongering has the potential to turn into a slippery slope that could seriously erode property rights online. Fix the actual problem, rather than whatever's most convenient for you at the moment.
"Fact checkers made a mistake" articles draw out a certain crowd, and their over the top rhetoric is always the same. The dominant narrative in here is unlikely to correspond with the public at large, or even the majority of HN users.

This is a particularly weird submission because the article the person authored was basically blogspam. They took someone else's hard work, put a clickbait title on it intending for the sole value of pandering to a very specific audience, now getting to double down under the auspices of "my blogspam was suppressed" narratives.

And I suspect that the article came under the attention of Facebook because it, exactly as intended by the author, fed directly to a certain crowd that absolutely consumes and propagates fake news (not like "it's open to debate", but just astonishingly nonsensical junk that just makes a wider and wider audience of the gullible and misled). Being embraced by that crowd is probably the biggest indicator to such systems, and 9 times out of 10 it's probably spot on.
Is Fluvoxamine the Covid Drug We’ve Been Waiting For?
I suspect the outsourcing wave of the 70s-present underestimated the complexity that goes into "mundane" manufacturing that could easily be "outsourced" while the R&D parts of the company sorted out the hard problems.

In practice many smart people would have gone to work in manufacturing doing the mundane work, hone their "practice" and eventually solve or at least work around the swampy problems inherent to the field. Eventually moving up into various lead positions with the firm.

Now we're left with credentialed experts produced by academic programs designing machines while never visiting a factory floor.
Can anyone with knowledge provide a rough estimate of how much would it cost to manufacture a second telescope considering all the research cost is assigned to first one.

It is a hypothetical question to understand if we had lost it in launch would it have been a complete loss or can we have 2nd one within couple of billions and 3 years.
It does use helium only as refrigeration fluid in closed cycle, it does not get depleted. Building a cryocooler capable of achieving so low temperatures without boiling helium off was a major hurdle in JWST development.
That was my first assumption but it's not babashka underneath - Bass has its own interpreter - but the author clearly has some affection for Clojure's conventions. I do wonder if there wouldn't be more mileage in building this on top of babashka though.
> Snopes rates the claim that Senator Joe Biden said "we have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics." as false,

Snopes rates the claim "In October 2020, Joe Biden admitted to perpetrating voter fraud." as false.

These are different claims, aren't they?
https://archive.md/MHhds
A lot of people don’t understand how much gruft is in IT. While I doubt it, my hope for the new year is that business will slow down and shift focus. Rather than building ever more complex system, for what ever reason, perhaps we can now focus on simpler and more secure solution.

The collective memory of our industry is shockingly short. If Log4J has taught me anything it is that the old meme: “LOL; It OPSs problem now” is very much still all too real.
Snopes rated the claim: "Does context matter?" as True!

This is obviously just bias on their part
I don’t think fact checkers are an enemy of free speech. The entire foundation of science is build upon the process of being able to fact check each other’s findings.

There has also never really been a period in western civilisation where the news media wasn’t heavily controlled and fact checked by powerful editors.

The real issue isn’t fact checkers, it’s that Facebook isn’t held accountable.

If we want a functioning democracy, we need to stop giving major corporations a pass because the manipulation that happens on their platforms is created and run by users. That’s not how we treated News Papers and it’s not how we should treat Social Networks. If Facebook has really been a knowing participant in genocides, then Mark Zuckerberg belongs in the Haag as far as I am concerned.
I was just reading that after L2 insertion it's going to take five months to get everything cooled off and aligned properly. Amazing.
Thanks to both answers - I've asked couple engineers of my generation and "that would be an interesting concept" was the best response I got. I have so much to learn!
They're definitely not perfect, and they will be ineffective at times.

But there is a need for sources of factual information, so it is a worthwhile objective. And, I think there is a lot of usage for fact checks, wherein reasonable people who are not tribalists just want to sort through competing information.

And remember, fact checks also include removal of disinformation (i.e. not just leaving in place and providing commentary). So at a minimum fact checks can slow the propagation of disinformation by simply making it unavailable.
Unfortunately the typescript definitions for these two methods haven't been written yet [1].

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/47171
>an adult driving a car has the reasonable expectation of making safe decisions to avoid driving into a body of water

The famous example of that happened in the middle of the night during a storm, but you can use the other common example of being told to turn the wrong way into a one way.

The two scenarios seem similar, an ai giving dangerous directions and I suspect the difference in age and experience would not effect the precedent.
Relative truth is more dangerous for planning.

I don’t plan to exit my apartment through the window because I know there’s no relative truth of what will happen.
It’s still in stealth mode, which is why I assume it’s invite only for now.
The combined ball of WP and a plugin might be GPL, but that's not how it's distributed, is it? A plugin separate from WP is unrelated to WP except for API.
I think that's a false dichotomy. If social media is so disruptive to society then costs shouldn't be externalized onto citizens but the corporations.

* Force transparency on the engagement metrics and the algorithms they drive.

* Have C level executives face prison time.

* Force data interoperability or break up the SM monopolies.

All of these options are less extreme then restructuring society around social media corporations and their stakeholders.
A lot of the core research wouldn't have to be repeated, but the build and verification costs would not go away, and to do proper verification takes many many years.
Depends a lot on what type of programming you're interested in doing and if you're willing to pay for lessons. I think scrimba.com is a great resource for front-end related stuff – and not to mention a great platform for making programming lessons.
Probably because the article addresses this.

> For employees unable to do deliveries, there are other programs in place to work with service employees and businesses
I think what many here and the writers of the article are missing is that you can both be truthful and misleading. These are not mutually exclusive. Let's start with the title: "The Study That Convinced the CDC To Support Mask Mandates in Schools Is Junk Science". If you just read this (titles are very important and most people only read these) what will you take away? What the authors are trying to say is that this one study has problems.

But reading further in the article they rise doubt about masks in general, which is something we know is highly effective (purely from a physics point of view). They don't say masking is effective, they continually question if it is. This is really problematic. The study being wrong doesn't question _if_ masking is effective, but _how_ effective. There's a major difference in these statements and they can have readers, who are not experts and don't know scientific vernacular, to doubt and distrust more science than the article _technically_ draws into question. The article is suggesting that this is the norm and because this study is bad we get to question all the others.

So the problem here really is that while yes, the article only questions the one study they do so in a way that questions more fundamental knowledge that we have. Masking works. How much? Harder to say. There's a few old sayings such as "the devil never tells a full lie" or "the devil sows doubt" (often with truth). These are the errors that the authors are making here.

I would conclude that they aren't inaccurate, but are misleading.
I've sometimes used this method: break the work into pieces, and invent little rewards for the completion of each piece, e.g., next cup of coffee, walk around the block, read one story on website, get snack, etc.
> the deprecation of Index and introduction of Constant more recently.

The introduction of Constant also deprecated everything it replaced (Str, Num, Bytes, and NameConstant).

There's also the introduction of f-strings (ast'd as JoinedStr), various nodes being duplicated for their async version.

Probably more relevant to automatically discovering signatures would be the addition of positional-only arguments to the `arguments` object.

But messing with the AST is definitely a lot more stable than messing with the bytecode.
I think this proves that a significant portion of the population are upvoting based only on the headline. Which I am occasionally guilty of.
I do the exact same with my kids. I’m not “innocent” of my own perspective either. :)
Limiting speech (of anyone) is a band-aid for poor critical thinking skills. No speech would be dangerous if people were smart enough. Unfortunately we just don't value intelligence or education in America, and that is the real problem.
It's career ending to not do that.
Sorry to hear about your wife’s experience. I have never heard of such an intense schedule. In my experience it’s either an ivy or a sublingual session once every 7-14 days.

As with any psychoactive medication, taking it too often sounds physically and mentally exhausting. In this specific case it’s even more unusual as all guidance I saw in regards to ketamine therapy mentions that the post-session period of integration is critical to the success of this whole process. So having sessions back to back is pretty unusual.
It would be nice if a case was brought for libel and all Facebook and the fact checker communication was subpoenaed to show a clear instruction and bias to mislead. Without paying a price they will continue to gas light, lie, influence elections with funding from foreign powers.
Fun to read trip reports in The New Yorker
No, don't censor them. They should be allowed to post "this is false" all they want in the comment box, just like everyone else is. They just shouldn't get special powers, like blurring out your article and putting their comment directly over it, instead of in the comment section.
> Once commercialized, fusion energy will be clean, low-cost, secure, abundant, and safe.

Safe?
No, they won't fact-check "Earth is flat" because it would be a waste of resources; the evidence Earth is a globe is overwhelming.
> Moreover, you rarely get a clear answer

Weirdly enough, i actually got more than I bargained for.

So whatever the pseudoscience is. It was applicable and useful to me.
another recent experience
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/26/opinion/depression-ketami...
2021’s eight coolest archaeology and palaeontology discoveries in China
What's next? There's nothing wrong with phishing or other forms of social engineering because the victim fell for it on their own volition?

If I give my child a speaking rubber ducky as a bathroom toy, and that toy would include phrases like "I bet you can't keep under water for more than a minute" or "I want to go swimming in the ocean", I'm pretty certain that the product will be quickly pulled from the market, even though the $35 toy is made from the safest, non-flammable, non-toxic plastics.

If a child answers a phone, and someone on the other end tells them to harm themselves, the phone wouldn't be considered the risk.

Indeed. So what's on the other end of the Alexa line, legally speaking?

is some how going to protect children from the internet

The child didn't access the Internet, now did it? Alexa accessed the Internet on behalf of the child. As such, it acted as the child's agent and should be expected to tailor its reponses to the child. If Amazon doens't want that, it should not allow Alexa to respond to children's voices.
Speaking of fact checks, that’s literally not what the page you linked says. Instead, they are rating the claim that “In October 2020, Joe Biden admitted to perpetrating voter fraud.”
When you say that "this whole article just should not exist", are you stating that predictions should never be investigated, validated, measured against the statements of experts? Or are you just quibbling that it shouldn't count as "fact checking"? The former seems silly and the latter gets a shrug from me (who cares if there's a better phrase than "fact checking").
Same. No one talks about this, especially not our "official organizations" who clearly have no agenda to fear monger or increase expansion of control and power through fear, and then people wonder why trust levels are so low.

It takes a lot to violate ones trust, but once its there, you don't get it back overnight. I speculate we are at the cusp of no return- the only way I can see new trust in any big US govt organization is well what history tells us. Destruction and recreation.
This works for me too.

I bribe myself with small chunks of nice chocolate as well sometimes
That's because facts have a well known liberal bias
I can't say anything about low-dose lithium so I'm sorry if this is out of scope.

I did however take 600mg daily of Lithium Carbonate for a long time and it really helped me with my anxiety, and, importantly, it reduced my suicidal thoughts/self harm urges to basically zero from multiple times a day. This isn't as low as the doses people seem to use with Orotate, but it's still "subclinical".
There was a time when it seemed like BlackBerry was going to take over the world.

Now you can't even use the phone to make a 911 call?
Exactly. They have also a Github organization for the e-ID software repos. https://github.com/open-eid
The systems are very expensive because everything on airlines is super expensive due to certification requirements
I didn't know this was a thing on U.S. social media now... I remember reading some years ago about how Chinese social media users used homophones to bypass the automatic censorship.

https://gvu.gatech.edu/research/projects/algorithmically-byp...

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/03/china-social-...
Sorry for being obtuse, but FF only allows me to put in a website to save passwords. How would I use this for an extra-browser application (steam for example)?
Please don't dismiss it just because of the source or its focus on Sanders. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/02/washington-post-sanders-b...
TBH Dang’s bio has only implicit connection to The fact that he is a moderator here, but most people of course know.
Fact check: They never said they wanted to censor fact checkers.
What exactly are these 2.2GW of battery installations in California then?

https://www.energystoragejournal.com/southern-california-edi...

Or the 1GW they already have?
So, the celestial equivalent of "Press Alt+F4 for hacks"?
I think part of the problem is the polarisation in and of itself. It leads one to think that there are only two sides to any story when, in fact, there are usually several.

I believe that this push for fact checking lately is a symptom of a larger problem. How often is there genuinely a single, correct version of events, and then an incorrect one, at the scale of humanity we're talking about?

And why is it hard to bridge that gap? If you take to social media, it can be really hard to have a conversation between two politically opposed groups of people without it immediately jumping to aggression.

Flat Earth News is an old book now but it's a worthwhile read still.
They just so happen to see a lot of challenges that their software is well suited to resolve... no surprises there.

My predictions for 2022: An awful lot of work to be had before you go insane.

I'd expect the trends of "massive complexity causing problems solved by more complexity" to continue, because that's literally the only thing the hardware and software industry seems capable of doing anymore. Stacks of complexity that then require more complex hardware to run, and the cycle continues. Nobody understands the whole stack anymore, except perhaps the malware authors who freely move up and down the stack to accomplish their goals. Those writing the software and, theoretically, auditing the software don't seem capable of finding badness hidden in it - and decades of experience says, "Humans can't find suitably stealthy badness hidden in software, intentional or not." Look at how long some of the really nasty bugs have been floating around (exploited or not, we don't know) before someone finally got around to noticing them. I mean, how long was Debian only generating one of 32k SSH keys?

I don't see a good path forward for "connected, computer based, all the things." If we were willing to consider dumping, say, 80% of the features of modern computing, we could probably do a pretty good job securing the other 20% (the commonly used ones). But at too many places, payment and promotion is for features, not bugfixes, not security patches. So new features just keep getting released, old stuff gets abandoned, and the cycle of promotion goes on. The incentives are simply wrong to create anything faintly resembling secure software.

And I expect a continuing wave of people who've been doing security for 20-30 years just... quietly retiring to a life of not much consumer tech. The joke in my circles is that we'll be goat or llama farmers, and I'm not sure it's too far from the truth. I expect a large collection, in decades to come, of "You clearly enjoy this farming thing, I don't think you care a bit about making money, and why is the most advanced bit of technology on this place a couple Arduinos?" You'll find them run by former low level security types.

I don't know how much runway is left in the current trends of tech, consumer and enterprise, but we're clearly at a point where nobody can reason about the stuff anymore, and even if you're using all the patches, all the best practices... you can still have your whole company shut down by ransomware and such. It's less likely, but still far from impossible, when we see things like former NSA 0days used to deploy ransomware. Pretty hard to defend against 0days.

Were I to do a business these days, I'd probably take a serious look at doing things like "Training employees on Qubes" (and buying hardware that can run it). You may not be able to make things impossible for an attacker, but you can sure make them want to go somewhere else for easier pickings (if they're not targeting you, specifically - if they are, you're probably screwed). The whole "Giant Windows Domain" thing repeatedly proves impossible to secure in practice.

Or maybe just go back to typewriters and a good secretary or two.
What Happens When an AI Knows How You Feel?
Somebody in my university did their PhD thesis on that. Let me see if I can find it.

(But the answer was yes. If I remember it correctly, 10% of all IT infrastructure energy consumption goes for displaying ads on web pages)
Setting up clean interfaces between people and teams
What they debunked was a twitter post that claimed Biden admitted to voter fraud. They didn’t claim that he did not say that sentence. They even posted a full transcript. Did you actually read this before posting it?
Presumably you'll be using it with a browser. I'm sorry that I didn't clarify that assumption in my first response.

I don't know about Estonia in particular but I'm guessing "$SOME_GOVERNMENT's interfaces" for most places is going to be HTTPS.

So, with that in mind, I've used a Nitrokey HSM and a Taglio PIVKey with Firefox on Linux using the OpenSC tools PKCS 11 module. I would suspect any smart card supported by OpenSC will work fine in Firefox.

From my reading, OpenSC is being distributed by the government of Estonia, so I suspect using it in a browser that supports PKCS 11 modules compatible with OpenSC on a Linux PC would work fine.
Clearly ketamine infusions are about being legal and all the benefits of doing business out in the open. Anyone could buy illicit ketamine for 1/50th the cost and administer at home, but that is a felony.
Roads serve the public interest and have been legislated into existence at the federal level[1]. Your turn.

[1] - https://history.house.gov/Records-and-Research/Listing/lfp_0...
I've read that optical tracking/docking markers were added around mating ring that connected JWST to Ariane upper stage. It does not mean that docking to it will be easy but it was at least considered.
what's the current state of the enantiomer disparities? IIRC S-ketamine is less good than R-ketamine or racemic mixtures, but this is stuck in regulatory paperwork.
I tried this for a short time. Hard to recall the affect on me, I don't feel depressed any longer so safe to say it probably worked.

I'd say the bigger impact on me was def. psychedelics though.
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