skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eg, a doctor at a jail tested Covid treatments on inmates to see if it helped. That's a ground-shaking loss of trust! Where that's one crazy doctor and an isolated case, it's hard for the disenfranchised not to generalize to the rest of the medical establishment.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arkansas-inmates-ivermectin-fed...
Eugenio is super cool, got to meet him in person. Check out his blog https://eugeniopace.org/
Nov 2021, Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), Washington, DC, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8651604/

> For decades, corporate undermining of scientific consensus has eroded the scientific process worldwide. Guardrails for protecting science-informed processes, from peer review to regulatory decision making, have suffered sustained attacks, damaging public trust in the scientific enterprise and its aim to serve the public good. Government efforts to address corporate attacks have been inadequate. Researchers have cataloged corporate malfeasance that harms people’s health across diverse industries. Well-known cases, like the tobacco industry’s efforts to downplay the dangers of smoking, are representative of transnational industries, rather than unique. This contribution schematizes industry tactics to distort, delay, or distract the public from instituting measures that improve health—tactics that comprise the “disinformation playbook.” Using a United States policy lens, we outline steps the scientific community should take to shield science from corporate interference, through individual actions (by scientists, peer reviewers, and editors) and collective initiatives (by research institutions, grant organizations, professional associations, and regulatory agencies).

UCS Case studies: https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/disinformation-playbook
Great choice of critic -- who has written many books about scientists commiting fraud because of their lust for grant money.

Too bad his criticism comes from fantasy, instead of facts.

And of course he's a climate change denier.
No one really makes 26” mountain bikes anymore everything is 27.5 or 29 not just “high-end” bikes. Unless you’re talking about 26” bikes that kind of look like mountain bikes but aren’t really mountain bikes at all.
Nah #2 would only be true in countries where you don't have the option to start your own platform and make a business out of presenting alternative platforms for those "social voices". If you can't make a business out of that then those voices were tiny and unprofitable anyway and should have been put on personal blogs or something.
What? Tesla has thrown multiple serious FSD changes over the fence into vehicles with little more than a few days since the previous releases (multiple changes to phantom braking, being one of them).

Their attitude to testing, safety or otherwise (i.e. braking) has been horrifically lacking, at best.

I'd be surprised if this move saw much more than a User Story from the MMI PM before going into production.
As someone who has been involved in development of new drugs, you are massively understating Pfizer’s role. BioNTech never could have got the drug to market without Pfizer.

Pfizer had to: 1) conduct animal testing, 2) scale up synthesis to billions of units, 3) work with the FDA to align on clinical studies [where OWS helped], 4) conduct global clinical studies in dozens of countries, 5) collect, analyze the clinical study data, 6) assemble a new drug application for dozen of regulatory agencies across the globe [typically 1000's of pages long], 7) actually manufacture billions of sterile doses to the FDA’s requirements, 8) negotiate purchase agreements with 100+ countries, 9) actually distribute the vaccine globally despite the need for -78C temperature.

BioNTech maybe could have done step 1. They had never gotten a drug approved before. Pfizer has brought over 100 drugs to market.

BioNTech’s role is like creating an iPhone app and saying it’s the same as a building a multi billion dollar business like Uber.
They're just going to have to bite the bullet and pay more. It really is that simple. If they can't find developers, they aren't paying enough and are trying to cheap out on talent acquisition.
I’m there with you on the search function. I have no idea what its result ranking algorithm is, but I’d love it if the top results were ones with the exact search string. Instead, we get “You searched for AWS. OK! Here are pages with awl, Australia, House, lasagna, [8 pages], Google Wave, and AWS.”
Wisconsin Central was my local railroad growing up, and they've since been bought out by Canadian National (in 2001). When I look at documentary footage from the 90s or before of trains coming through my town it's obvious how much effort they put into upgrading the tracks and removing as many grade crossings as they could. Driving a few extra blocks to get to a crossing was annoying when I lived on the other side of the tracks, but I can definitely appreciate the improved safety and increased speed of the trains compared to when Wisconsin Central originally took over the rickety old Chicago Nortwestern (/Fox River Valley RR) and Soo trackage. CN can speed trains through town at 35MPH so it's not usually too long of a wait.
The history will not be written if either the shell/OS crashes, or if you `unset HIST_FILE` before exiting the shell.
> - this hasn’t caused serious accidents (edit: which I’ve heard about)

We aren't going to hear about it unless someone files a lawsuit or otherwise makes a big attempt at publicizing it. It's something that we might hear about a few years after it shipped after a dozen or so people die in situations where literally everything else but the UI are eliminated as causes for the crashes.
I’ve read the same about heat but mainly in combination with high humidity places where sweating (evaporative cooling) is much less effective.
if you want just modern and fast, to avoid bloat, but with a few trick, just get a raw website builder to use grid css & cash.js as a replacement for jquery
It's really not possible to overstate what an accomplishment this was. To stand up an organization like this outside of the normal departments and to give it the political backing it needed.

If that's true, it's also a testament to how ossified bureaucratic boundaries have become.

It's like; America, 1969, "we put a man on the moon!". American, 2021, "we put a man into a position of authority outside of ordinary bureaucratic channels!". Maybe that's an achieve indeed but the context give one pause.
Is there anything particularly "Ising" about the lizard scales, or would any model that posits an anticorrelation between the color of a scale and the colors of its neighbors do?
Is even having all this stuff on a center console touch screen such a good idea? I drive an old Civic with no touch screens and I know every function by feel—hardly have to take my eyes off the road. Driving my wife's car or parents' car, both with touchscreens, I've occasionally found myself cruising down the interstate at 80 mph tapping through nested menus... I've never driven a Tesla, but I'm skeptical that a giant touchscreen has better UX than the usual array of knobs and buttons, all the more so if I have to use it for basic things like defrosting and the UI is revised on occasion.
>'given evidence' is true unless OP made op the story.

OP never mentioned evidence. People just "knew" this person was a fraud but there was no mention of the actual evidence of fraud. The closest thing to evidence is that "their work was terrible" but that isn't evidence of fraud.

>I think 'less risk' goes part and parcel with being administration rather than someone lower rank reporting a problem.

We have no idea the risks involved. It would be highly embarrassing for a prestigious school and/or instructor to admit that they admitted a fraud into their program. Maybe this isn't even the first time this has happened to these people. Would you want to be the person know for repeatedly being duped by frauds? Maybe that would that ruin your reputation more than looking the other way and letting this person fail somewhere else where you would not be directly tied to their downfall. It is also incredibly risky to punish this person without hard evidence as that can lead to a lawsuit.

These are not meant to be definitive statements. They are just hypothetical that show how we can't judge people's motivations without knowing a lot more about the situation.
Options, options, options. Knowing that resale will take 1-6 months rather than 1-6 years, maybe longer, means that if your life circumstances change (as happens to many people), you will be in a much better position to respond to them.
I haven't yet read or heard a single argument for why Robert Malone is wrong. Not even a weak one. All I've seen so far are appeals to authority.
At this point, I'd ask them to give it back to you just so you can have it in your driveway "in service" for 16 days and then file a lemon complaint.
No. It's saying exactly what it sounds like, that most of everything is at a very low level of quality.

Historically, it was a response to the argument that science fiction was a genre that didn't deserve to have any attention paid to it, because look how awful some science fiction books were. Sturgeon's response was that most science fiction books were terrible for the same reason that most work in every other genre, past, present, or future, is terrible.
I’ve hired about 50 Latin American devs as contractors over the last six months or so and they’ve all been absolutely top notch — I will continue to aggressively hire more.

Some anecdotal highlights:

- great time zone overlap with US business hours

- very very good English

- very strong engineers who actually take ownership of the products we’re working on

- leadership aspirations and drive - I’ve promoted a few folks to team lead positions

- shared culture that works in a similar way to US culture
Pretty impressive, regardless.
That's not the way I remember it at all. The government were very obviously going into war because they wanted to and scrabbling around for anyone who would support them. You only have to look at the death of David Kelly.
>Stopping people like this takes a lot of work and often some personal risk.

I don't recall where I first heard it, but the principle that it takes 10x the amount of energy to refute bullshit as it does to generate it certainly seems to apply in this case.
You realize that they only charge at night currently because that's when there's lots of extra grid capacity. Right?
To be fair the Moderna vaccine has been shown to have the highest efficacy,[1] but not by much. Definitely data that should be incorporated into the next run, especially considering that the red tape doesn’t seem to have lowered vaccine hesitancy in the U.S.

[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19/vaccine/comp...
On a tangential note, is it not possible to automate defrosting with today's tech? Measuring visibility seems not all that difficult?

Had this come with automatic triggers for defrosting it may be have been okay
> Politicization is not a new thing, it's a fact that there's a lot of extremely conservative individuals in each country.

How are you using “conservative” here? The right certainly has no monopoly politicizing science.
Sharing code and data can be as harmful to science as it is beneficial. You don’t want to reuse the same instruments that conducted the last experiment to validate it.

Independent replication is inherently expensive, but also critical to the field at large. Some sort of code vault that releases the code and data after a period could be a solid compromise.
There is zink project to translate OpenGL into Vulkan. That should help maintain legacy cases in scenarios when OpenGL drivers will stop being supported.
Ask HN: Where to buy good quality furniture?
I've done two orders from Pottery Barn but had problems with both of them. My bed was delivered without the necessary bolts and instructions. I just had a dresser delivered and it’s so messed up it’s not even usable.

Who sells good furniture at a similar price point?
I had a similar chance meeting on Craigslist in 2012 - I bought an SSD off someone who I'd been contemporary with on some Netscape/Mozilla forums in the early 2000s. This was before Craigslist implemented e-mail address obfuscation (don't get me wrong, this was a good thing), and he recognized me only by my domain name.
> I suspect yes, because the poor research was simply not be being done. Science was not a career, there was no pressure to publish, it was the pastime of an elite few.

One of the critiques I hear about Academia these days, even in hard sciences, is that it is now significantly more dominated by the sons and daughters of elites (who don't have to take out loans and can afford unpaid research opportunities etc. etc.) So it might be on its way back to that.
> Same problems exist in other languages, although "import numpy as np" doesn't explicitly say that you're importing a random head from someone's master.

Sure, python is just implicitly doing so, is that any better? Lets say you know nothing about python or numpy. You see "import numpy". What/who is numpy? How is it provisioned? Is there only one thing called numpy? How do you know it's installed locally/site-packages/editable/PYTHONPATH? You can answer these questions, but not immediately. Numpy is a poor example because it's so well know, but the other day I was trying to sort out "from pylab import *". Can't "pip install pylab". Turns out, matplotlib provides it, but for weird legacy reasons, pylab is a top level namespace.

The whole point is, if you don't trust "liyue201", then you can immediately know not to import that package. It's completely explicit in what it's doing, and no one is making you install libs from github.
Of course similar stories, not involving Lisp, abound. So, this story does not, in the end, reveal any unique merit of Lisp, however fun it is as a story.
This is a fascinating question. This is a famous story, as a Cambridge mathematician I've heard it many times but the simple question, 'did the cab reg numbers in uk in 1919 allow for a match with ".*1.*7.*2.*9.*"' is not easily answerable.
Which is also why the trust in the institutions that give people airtime is virtually nonexistent, and people on the internet, sometimes those censored experts and sometimes people masquerading as censored experts, are getting all the attention.
Indeed, there's one bike in the family fleet, a Surly with tubeless-ready 650b's, that are a beast to mount. I can get them on and off, but I have strong hands -- jazz double bassist for 40 years. My spouse has no hope. If she flats on a ride, she has to make the Call of Shame. ;-) This isn't reasonable.

As I read somewhere else, Frank Schwinn and Frank Brilando wanted a bike to be serviceable by a 10 year old.
He just doesn't like the idea of there being people who can tell him what to do, or make him obey laws like the rest of us.
It really was crazy. Back in 1985 Neil Young apparently thought that he could catch HIV if a homosexual clerk handled his groceries (obviously nonsense and highly offensive).

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/michelle-shock...
I have found lots of static site generators more focused on blogs than a more traditional personal website. While they can be used for non-blog sites (I use Hugo for my own site), I can see how they can be daunting when first approaching them and seeing nothing but blogging examples and templates.
You can't spend trust, you can only violate it.
The thing that's hilarious to me about this debate is the unstated assumption that, but for this promise to appoint a black woman in this nomination cycle, the overall process of nominations and confirmations would select -- and for prior appointments has selected -- the most brilliant, most impartial legal minds available.
You really, really do not understand correlation vs causation. And you're so convinced you're right, you're hawking terrible science. Every claim you make is hedged: "...in a balanced diet". Yeah of course, in a balanced diet, nothing is unhealthy because by definition the unhealthy bits are balanced out somewhere else. What are you actually trying to prove here? Your grasp on these topics is tenuous at best. Antioxidants? Do you only get your nutritional advice from Whole Foods? Do you know how weak the science around dietary antioxidants is and our understsanding of free radicals in general? Fine, don't like my soda analogy...mix some psyllium husk in with your soda. Now you have fiber...this doesn't change the metabolic pathway in any material way. You don't understand what I'm talking about.

Honestly, these kinds of views are why the American diet is so poor. You so desperately want to prove a narrative, irrespective of what the science actually says. You're focused on nutrient density, as opposed to the real issue: calorie density. We don't need to run around inventing new standards for "nutrient density"...we need to get people to eat less. And most people are over eating due to chronically elevated insulin levels and reduced insulin sensitivity on the back of carbohydrate based diets. People aren't dying prematurely from specific vitamin, mineral, or EFA/EAA deficiency. They are dying because they are obese. Even a horrible diet is going to provide most nutrients in sufficient quantities. Outside of a select few nutrients, the human body can synthesize and up/down regulate processes to accommodate varying levels of "nutrients"...this is not what people in the developed world grapple with. But sure, let's all eat wheat cereal with oat milk and fruit and honey for every meal. So healthy.
> I carry a spare tube and a patch kit, but typically patch the punctured tube at home.

Paranoid me always carry two spare tubes, a patch kit and a puncture repair spray (it's supposed to inject a product that reinflates the tyre immediately, allowing me to keep riding and then go home without having to repair or remplace the tube, but since I've never had the opportunity to use it I can't tell if it's really effective).
I live in Iowa on what I call a small farm (we do raise animals and crops, but nowhere near enough for it to be our primary source of income), but which my neighbors who actually make a living farming would laugh at. But I can tell you that every farm here has at least two pickup trucks. Generally they are larger than the F-150. F-250 or equivalent are common, 350s not at all uncommon. The trucks frequently haul heavy loads, generally in gooseneck, fifth-wheel type trailers. A pickup hauling 12 1800lb hay bales on such a rig isn't at all unusual. 32' or larger livestock trailers are also common.

What I can say for certain though is that farm trucks rarely travel over 200 miles in a day. Hauling stuff is mostly an adjunct activity for farmers. They don't generally spend 10 hours a day doing it.

The same is true for the other natural market for a truck like the lightning - which is contractors and construction/maintenance trades. An electrician or farm equipment repair technician isn't earning money when in their truck; they use them to get themselves (or their employees) and their stock-in-trade materials to and from worksites. Yes, those worksites might be scattered, and they may spend a couple or three hours a day getting around to various sites, but that's it. 200 mile days would kill their profitability.

Personally, I drive a Toyota Tacoma for farm work. Smaller than an F-150, but big enough for most of what I do. I'm very interested in the F-150 Lightning, and seriously considered putting a deposit on one, but as I only put about 1500 miles per year on my truck, I just couldn't justify the cost.
> Then Tesla proceeded to demonstrate time and time again that no one that purchased their vehicles actually owns them. In fact, Tesla can upgrade and modify the car without permission, and they have repeatedly done so in ways that would terrify me. Either love that modus operandi, or don’t buy their vehicles.

I think the most egregious example of this is that paid upgrades like FSD don't transfer with the sale of the car. Those features are pinned to accounts, and you can't sell them. That way, Tesla gets to double dip by forcing both owners to buy the same upgrade.
Most of the world lives in the Northern hemisphere. Right now I'm learning to use. every. trick. that. exists. to keep frost off my plug-in hybrid windows. It's not easy, but cars are for moving around. You learn to live with their quirks, and their main quirk has been an externality for too long.

We'll adapt.
Ok, in your threat model, a person who doesn't wear masks or take vaccines represents (even though the vaccine you took should keep you safe?) an existential threat to you, and therefore you should have the right to dictate their beliefs and actions. However, they may view your actions as an existential threat to them. How to resolve?
We buy most of ours at an "antique" shop - I use quotes because it's really a guy who buys stuff from estate sales and refurbishes it, I don't know what else to call it.

We've outfitted our house with lots of good quality wood furniture for less than you would pay at a box store in most cases. If you can find a local store like that, it's your best bet
You only need to look at the all "the science" which gets ignored by people pushing an agenda to know it's not about science it's about power and control.
There's another trending HN article [1] that implies that meditation makes one more self-centered. I'd love a study which looks at whether medication makes users more or less self-centered

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30142106
> or if you `unset HIST_FILE`

I figured I'd learn something by putting in the "I'd love to know others" bit, but this is something I didn't know I could do, and is genuinely useful to know!
And an older classic in coloration: Turing, The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis https://www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/paperscs191/turing...
The free catalogue to buy cow sperm.
You're absolutely right, so I was pleased to find a fairly low-political-content article, with little mention of Trump, adequate credit to Biden, and, mostly, a focus on the civil servants and government bureaucrats we rarely hear about -- who are arguably parts of the "Deep State" that Trump ran against, in fact -- and who the article lauds.

And if

> its editor eventually wrote that he regretted voting for Trump.

then at least he's seen the light, right?

The overall impression I get is that this particular author wants industrial policy, dammit, and he doesn't care if it's a Biden or a Trump who gives it to him -- or whether it's a "small government" Republican or a neoliberal Democrat who's getting in the way.

Arguably Biden has taken some of these lessons (he may be the perfect Democrat for this), and has been attempting to enact them with Build Back Better (admittedly with some sops to the "progressives"). Which -- if "Trumpist" means "the principled stance of American Affairs" and not "the buffoon pandering to white grievance" -- would paradoxically make Biden more Trumpist than the Republicans and "moderates" who are now blocking his efforts.

So how about I not call it "Trumpist" to begin with, given that Trump himself probably doesn't have many principles at all. It's simply: "Onshoring, Reindustrialization, and Industrial Policy". Or, "Make America Competitive with Germany and South Korea", you could say.

The author's closing theme is also in direct contradiction of some talking points we've seen from Republicans recently. They've been talking about "government incompetence". Yet here, this article speaks of OWS as a display of competence. So if this guy is a Republican, I don't think he's a Republican who's "on message".

The magazine does have its own ideological slant. But honestly, as it's begun to pivot away from Trump, it's not such a bad slant.
*than racism
Do they grind leetcode or are they so cheap you don’t care?
> The goalposts are all over the place in this thread.

yeah, they really are. no one said anything about terrible companies, smh.