skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well that's not Snopes.

But, assuming we're taking these as identical claims (and they are not necessarily), I still don't think that necessarily reflects bias in any case. These were two separate fact checks about two claims worded slightly differently, spaced 3 years apart. They were performed by two different organizations, and also likely performed by different people.

That they landed only a degree apart (mostly true vs half true) seems pretty consistent. Certainly doesn't seem like any kind of egregious bias.
I also wouldn't take Wikipedia as definitive but this guy has a bunch of red flags.
But it does indeed mean the mask mandates weren't worth much.
Before-and-After Photos Reveal the Destruction of Ancient Forests
I read that one and agree it feels absurd. Not something I want to depend on.
True, but it doesn't matter. After you burn the wood, you are adding carbon that doesn't need to be there. The physics don't distinguish between carbon that is produced by a short carbon cycle or a long one.
Does anyone know about the PVC pipe comment? Is there some common knowledge about how to DIY build bass flutes?
That’s true, but if someone bought the keys, then they’d be more likely to start moving/spending the coins.
When so much of your compensation is tied directly to the stock price, you also need to make a guess where the stock price will be in 2-4 years compared to your other options.

FB is not cool, TikTok is eating Instagram’s lunch causing IG to pivot more to video, so it comes down to the Metaverse.
While Instagram and Flickr (at least in theory) serve a different audience.

Flickr is for the professional or aspiring amateur photographer, to manage their photos and build show cases. Maybe even selling their photos online. Instagram is a mass market social network
Money. Lots and lots of fuckin money.

I morally stand against writing closed source software, and centralizing control over software. Yet I work for these megacorps. You know why? Lots of fuckin money.
I think Matrix has got allt hat as well.

And it has the security improvements and others as well (see features of e.g. Discord or WhatsApp).

Anyways, I don't think I still use email for its intended purpose anyways. It mainly became something to tie accounts to and to 2fa
I agree that expert consensus is more often right than wrong. However you have no scientific basis for claiming that they are right 99% of the time. You just made up that number. In fact the actual accuracy rate is unknown, and indeed unknowable.

My subjective impression is that expert accuracy rates vary widely by scientific field. High energy particle physicists might actually be hitting 99.99%. Psychologists and nutritionists might not even be at 50%. Epidemiologists are somewhere in the middle.

Experts lose credibility when they make sweeping recommendations based on flawed or limited research rather than remaining silent as they should. Once trust is lost it takes a generation to regain.
Use Graphene/CyLx could be a better summary except if you need banking.
> Are you saying senior engineers who don’t use HN have different values from those that do?

non-california, non-big city senior engineers have wildly different values from HN users. i'm not sure about non-HN big city or california engineers. i suspect that HN accurately reflects the values of folks working in SF/LA.

if i tried to explain the shit HN freaks out about every day to my coworkers, they'd think i was making everything up.
No way that paper and implementation is a "quick side project". Even if Satoshi were some kind of Bill Joy, Jeff Dean, John Carmack hybrid that's a full time endeavor
that doesn't let you launch processes, it lets you interact with running ones. even if the chrome extensions could launch new processes, they run inside Untrusted integrity level on Windows, you can verify this at chrome:sandbox and checking the Chrome task manager (shift+esc). You cannot interact with processes above your own integrity level nor launch processes with an integrity level higher than your current.
I wouldn’t because I know better but if I’m reading the tone of the comment correctly I would seriously consider responding “you have nuclear weapons? Great. Fuck off”. Again, don’t say that, but you’re right that they should either bounty it or do the damn patch themselves.
I'm doing this right now on my language platform.

On one hand, I'm inventing a new way to build online experiences (games, social apps, collaborative apps, small/medium business)

On the other hand, I have no customers

I have 100% code coverage for many of the packages.

I'm building my own gossip failure detector right now using some blockchain ideas so I can gossip really-really quickly at an exceptional low rate.

All this madness started because I was building an online board game.

Fortunately, I've retired from big tech and can afford a few years to indulge myself.

Check it out: http://www.adama-lang.org/
I understand what you’re saying. I too hate the practice of discarding real solutions because of overblown fears of misuse. But on the other hand, go and look up The Cobra Effect.
I am often trying to build new habits, however, I normally lose momentum after a few weeks.

This summer, Instead of working on my will power or my habits, I decided to build something to punish me when I fail to follow through with my commitments.

Kommit is a free to use web app where you can create commitments and when you fail to stick to them, you are forced to donate to charity.

Like a true programmer, I started building Kommit without doing any research and I’ve since found out that similar apps already exist. However, in several ways I think Kommit is already nicer to use and more flexible.

Kommit has helped me reach a 112 day streak studying Korean on Duolingo, and it’s helped my partner keep a daily diary for the last 6 weeks. Hopefully it can help some HNers with their 2022 New Year’s resolutions!

PS If you don’t have anyone who can review your commitment, feel free to email me at callum@kommit.to and I’ll be happy to help :)
> I think trusting a device like a family friend has been an error,

I think I was too verbose and meandering to convey it, but I agree with you on this 100%
Pick whichever, it wouldn't be emacs if there wasn't at least 3 ways to do something.

read this for a complete answer
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/In...
I am not sure that I follow. I think "using copyright" does imply that it is done by the copyright holders. I disagree that it being done by the copyright holders makes it a non-issue.

There are other examples of using copyright for censorship. The infamous book by the mustache man was prevented from being reprinted in Germany until 2016 by the copyright holder (Bavaria's state government) [1]. Use of DMCA notices by corporations to suppress disparaging news about security vulnerabilities is another example.

Do you believe these are not instances of censorship?

[1]: https://archive.is/6EMYF#selection-3131.0-3143.129
Phone service is an oligopoly. Spectrum is sold by the government and it is EXPENSIVE. No new companies can join the market, and customers have nowhere to go. So prices are high and companies do the bare minimum.

Email is more of a fair marketplace. In theory, you can even roll your own on a $5/mo VPS. Switching costs are low. You can forward messages anywhere. So email providers cannot charge exorbitant rates or require 12-month contracts, and they must provide better service to retain customers.
That problem is solved now, it's going to be added to emacs. See:

https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package/issues/282
Yep, that is what I'm saying. Most of my real life SWE friends have attitudes that seem different from folks on this site. Perhaps they are secretly harboring the same views, but I'd guess that there is a selection effect that biases the sort of folks who comment here.
JMeter, or write your own load generation framework.

Mind the Network links, don't forget doing it within a Cloud provider's network boundary is not giving you the whole picture of how network traffic'll look like coming from the 'Net at large.
those #s just the cash portion or total comp (rsu's included)?
Is it the case that the schools were also flying NRA flags or did this "fair" rule just happen to only affect rainbow flags?

"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread." -- Anatole France
This is technically true in the sense that you can claim any crazy thing you want to (see, e.g., the whole “freemen-on-the-land” movement.)

It is somewhat less true in the sense where “can claim X” includes the implication that the claim of X stands a whelk’s chance in a supernova of prevailing in court.
> It's become nearly unusable, for example, as a way for businesses to contact customers they have an actual relationship with because of all the spam.

On top of that the telcos are joining in on the fun. I am an AT&T cell phone subscriber and in the last month they’ve started robo-calling me non-stop to sign up for their ailing DirecTV service. Who in their right mind would subscribe to that with all the better streaming options available? But the worst part is that they technically aren’t breaking the rules themselves because we do have an existing business relationship (if you can call paying my bill on time and doing everything in my power not to otherwise interact with them a relationship).
They don't even necessarily have different values. A lot of online people are virtue signaling to get virtual points.
How are you supposed to know when you fell asleep?
Tortstenvl's comment below is flagged, so I can't reply. I object to being called lying. But he is partially right and deserves a response.

I wrote 'does the same thing with Ukraine' and this is imprecise/incorrect. Afaik, no NATO nuclear weapons have been placed there.

But NATO is pretty open on the nuclear topic: they declare themselves a nuclear alliance. Nuclear deterrence and forward deployment of USA nuclear weapons in Europe is a core idea of the organization. If Ukraine joins, the question of forward deployment there is clearly on the table. Apart from that, deployment of standing forces in NATO Ukraine, which can't be unarmed, is basically a given.

NATO was created specifically to threaten the USSR. With Ukraine as a member, that threat literally moves a lot closer. Expecting Russia to just sit there and watch seems incredibly naive.
Your quote is not in the reason.com article linked here. Anyway, text quoted points out incomplete identification of outbreaks, not that it was not right to track them. In fact, it would have made no difference tracking cases because of school district's policy of testing only 'unmasked' individuals.
> I've realized that game development is a great coping mechanism to help you feel safe and in control. You are the master of your own universe.

This is THE reason I started programming when I was 11 years old! I was always dreaming of this universe that I would create. I even tried to make an RPG game using Game Maker. I stopped when, after a couple of weeks, I had a barely working fighting system and nothing else. I learned that games are huge!

Later, while I was in university, I implemented four gamedev frameworks. Every time I decided I was done, I would develop a small game with it and I always found something I didn't like. A few months later I would start from scratch having learned something new and trying to find a solution to what I hadn't liked. At some point I realized I enjoyed better writing the framework than the actual game.

Funnily enough, I never went into game dev professionally. Although I still implement libraries that nobody, other than me, uses from scratch in my free time.
This is really interesting. Would you mind sharing a bit about how you keep the data that is shared across services in sync? Or is there a hard separation of concerns so that services would only commuincate with the service that owns that data to obtain it?
I recommend checking out the IndieHackers Community (indiehackers.com). There are plenty thriving one-person companies there
Journalists have no such protection under US federal law. Some states do have journalist shield laws but those are irrelevant in federal cases.
Hmmm, haven't run into situations with bad subtitles on foreign films, I watched a few and they were decent. I thought there was good quality control. But I definitely agree on the absence of multiple choices and options when it comes to dialogue and subtitles
Yes. And it particularly may confer federal jurisdiction to a state crime.
You just sell the stock every year and switch it to S&P 500 if you're that worried...
> I often think Marissa Mayer would have been great as COO.

Really? What was her operational expertise?
I don't know much about computer security. Is this a domain where you can fix something that was broken and be okay, or is this a constant race between attackers and defenders? If it's the first, more pressure is great. If it's the second, it's a bit depressing to spend even more time and energy on a zero sum game.
When I was a kid, I did something a lot safer... I wrapped a metal paper clip around a wooden pencil with the ends pointing the same way and then stuck it in the outlet... it probably tripped the breaker but I never got shocked (while doing that). Another thing we liked to do was mix milk and pool chlorine in a plastic bottle... it makes a nice pop (can get you hurt if you don't get away fast enough though, after you put the cap back on).
"Miracle drug" is a sidelining attempt to dismiss infusion therapy, your primary concern in your post is the patient's health - with recommendations to maintain discipline, which is usually done through a focused, repeated and consistent healthy activity - like running, or weightlifting - known positive recreational activities.

Since your concern is for the patients health, and your recommendation is against the use of first line infusion therapy, and your alternative is a known positive recreational activity with the intent to build discipline; it is implied that you believe the infusion is not safe for the patients health in the particular circumstance of short-term sadness.

You are not debating the fact, you are simply dismissing the efficacy of the infusion with regard to assisting patients undergoing "short-term sadness", and working around it when confronted.

The mistake here is somehow believing that all patients can handle "short-term sadness" without undergoing a mental break; it is analytically correct to assault the issue on all available fronts, and if a small infusion dose assists someone in rectifying their issues, it should be done.

The patients perception of their mental state becomes their mental state, which is why psychedelic drugs have such a high efficacy in the first place, the BDNF literally rewires their brain and how they view their issues. So what exactly is implied when you say "Can't wait for regular people that have a few solvable issues in their life but perceive themselves as "depressed" to just take a shortcut where Ketamine, or whatever is the miracle drug at the moment, will fix everything." - these issues are perhaps solvable for you because you would view it how you view their "short-term sadness". This is not the case, each patient is N = 1.
Full stack ownership of a game is what can make it truly good art imo.

AAA games have art in them (the assets made by individuals), but the entire pieces are less art than product after being ground to completion by an org chart.
“SARS-CoV-2 can replicate within tissue for over 3 months after infection”
Potentially just living there, or there for something, or a false positive.

> Bitcoin had been released a few days prior to that log file. So unlikely to be on vacation.

Vacations are great for after shipping though, after the long slog of a project. Since it was new it would be a good time to escape before all the support requests and more usage increased. Maybe they couldn't stay away from that draw and then got a bit lazy on vacation in terms of opsec. Or maybe not. Good info nonetheless, it is one potential clue or not in the mystery.
It's also a disincentive to steal instead of paying taxes. Otherwise one could choose to steal money (say, embezzling from a family business instead of paying oneself) with the idea of "I'd rather go to jail for 5 years than pay X million in tax"
Thank you, I wouldn’t say I enjoyed it, because that is a dark future you’re painting. The point on complexity is spot on with the trends I’m seeing.

Simple projects are increasingly solved by systems growing in layers and complexity, all in the name of making things easier to the developers that sits at the tips of the complexity and does see the horrors of the lower layers, and to pump out a ever growing bundle of features that shouldn’t be. We write more and more code, to avoid changing broken procedures. A broken world is painted over with shiny code, which few truly understand, all because we don’t want to fix the underlying problems.
It's not really an issue if you have 1 db per customer
Satoshi probably destroyed the keys to the genesis wallet as a gift to humanity
Simon is correct. There are a few Quora threads about this with information from insiders. Kellan Elliot-McCrea has the most complete answers about the failure to jump to mobile:

https://qr.ae/pGzfWU

https://qr.ae/pGzfWd

And here's another thread, started by a former Yahoo executive, Ravi Dronamraju, with lots of replies from the founders of various acquired startups (del.icio.us, Flickr, MyBlogLog, etc). It is very illuminating. They're showing you in public what the discussion was often like in private.

https://qr.ae/pGzfiw
Yes that’s the point I’m making. They hope you do not pay so they can charge you later.
Would Redis be a valid solution for your case?
Great idea! I've been trying for a while to find the best way to take notes when on the go, just installed to test it.
Kind of playing devil's advocate here, if we ever see a good blockchain it will probably redefine the terminology/history like the iPhone did. Like how "digital cash" was a thing from ~1990 to 2008 and was replaced by "cryptocurrency" because Bitcoin was such a qualitative improvement.
For people boosting car stereos and the like, probably not.

It's just like online shopping. You were technically supposed to report all of that to your state and pay whatever appropriate sales taxes were applicable. In reality, it was a bunch of tax-free shopping.
No their salaries are quite Californian
How is this setup fault tolerant? What happens if there is a hardware failure? How do you partition access in a way that means an extremely active user doesn't impact availability?
Actuarial credentials aren't licenses. In the United States, they confer no privileges aside from the ability to sign a particular statement on the condition of a company's loss reserves. This is something that few actuaries will ever need to do.

Actuarial credentials are instead a market-based signaling mechanism, akin to a specialized technical degree. All signaling mechanisms are imperfectly correlated to whatever it is they're signaling for, but in my own experience, it's usually a good bet that an actuary who holds a credential will be more capable than one who doesn't. The market agrees and pays credentialed actuaries a premium. If credentials stopped being an excellent predictor of ability, there would be nothing stopping the market from disfavoring them. Note that there's one highly successful insurance company (Progressive) that has made this call and hires very few actuaries. Most companies wouldn't be able to follow their operating model, but that's a different conversation.

And if the actuarial societies and insurance companies are trying to preserve scarcity of actuarial credentials, they're doing a poor job of it. The test-taking process continue to be well-supported by insurance companies. Junior actuaries typically have all exam expenses paid and are given an additional 25 to 30 extra days off per year to study for exams. The number of credentialed actuaries has exploded (I think more than doubled) in the past decade. There are no quotas and no economic barriers after you get your first job.

I do like your comparison with Michelin-star restaurants. Michelin stars are a signifier of quality. The letters after my name are too.
I feel you.

Thoughts on getting another gig or contract work? There seems to be plenty of software work that can be done remotely. Maybe you can coast thru 2 jobs.
My last sentence was along these lines. I recall reading somewhere that these types of approximations are things that we tend to make on first impressions, but taking care that they don’t last beyond that first impression is key.
Still, three hour lectures ? I don't need my University's School of Education to tell me that's not an effective way to teach humans anything.

We know in a safety critical environment, where giving something your full attention is vital to the survival of yourself and others you care about, human watch keepers are not effective for the 4-8 hours they are often given this task, even though they know that becoming ineffective will get somebody killed.

For lab work, where setting up and shutting down are time-consuming, and a mix of activities may help improve focus, a double (2 hour slot) might be reasonable anyway but if you're planning three hours of standing at the front talking, your students are not going to benefit anything close to how much they would from three separate one hour lectures.
I never had Santa or the tooth fairy growing up, and neither do my children for the same reason. Why deceive children with something so obviously fake and not let them enjoy the story along with you?

We still talk about the tooth fairy, but there’s never been a question that it’s mom or dad (which stinks when we screw up and forget).
>"easily fooled"

I've done it, and it's not easy, though it does work. To make it work in my environment, I had to use a golang proxy and a fair amount of messing around with certificates to see what all it's looking for. It's more than a cookie...it's a form post with keys/values that vary based on whatever the local vpn people decided.

See https://github.com/Gilks/hostscan-bypass for details.
Too much dumb money invested and the worst, full of passionate intensity, will return to reanimate the bones.
HN changed the submitted url to http://rcom-brw.browse-prod1.svc.cluster.local/support/mobil... because the latter was listed as the canonical URL and our software uses those now. I've changed it back to the submitted URL now.
That's amazing. I'm interested in C# now
NASA may be the greatest engineering organization in human history; I can't think of any competitors. They are also masters at consulting: Underpromise, overdeliver.

'The rover is planned to last one year.' 'Amazingly, it is still working after three years!'
Founded by the same people who turned a failed video game into Slack.
Your desktop Linux distro is not the scary case here
Sure, though that's if they're all doing CRUD at the same time. I maintain our company blog on a self-hosted install of Ghost backed by sqlite, and it's a been great (since the only inserting or updating is likely to be one person editing a post, and the frontend is mostly cached).
Haven't watched yet, but there seems to be a whole world of PVC contrabass flutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK_CJeAavpA
Explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29729105
Ask HN: What are the best paid resources to get better at marketing SaaS?
I want to improve my ability to market my SaaS products online.
What are the best paid resources?
Are there any outstanding marketing coaches online that you would recommend?
I've had great success using SQLite as both a desktop application file format and web server database. I'll mention just one thing I like about it in the desktop application realm: undo/redo is implemented entirely within SQLite using in-memory tables and triggers following this as a starting point: https://www.sqlite.org/undoredo.html

It's not perfect, but it fills the niche nicely.