skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This forum and all the infrastructure that supports it was based primarily on hard science and conducted in the "hot path" of tech progress where inaccurate results are both unacceptable and quickly falsified: mathematics (Shannon, etc.), physics, chemistry, materials engineering, electrical engineering, and computer science.

There's a reason technology has changed the world significantly in the last 50 years and other scientific areas (e.g. medical research) haven't as much.
Isn't that law basically saying that absolutes aren't 100% accurate?
The ones in the center are in all three sets, they do look the same. The outer areas are out of bounds.
I think you’re getting at a deeper issue. The need for bug-for-bug parity internally is itself a sign of technical debt.

At this point we can’t for example fix historical calendars, so all highly accurate date and time related code is going to be complicated and full of edge cases. Such code is in effect an interest payment on society’s existing technical debt. So, the temptation to refactor such code is generally attacking the wrong side of a problem. The best approach may be to quarantine such code/systems and try and minimize the impact of such issues.
Instead of using that echo, you can tell bash to append the history:

history -a

Setting the histappend option does the append thing on exit:

shopt -s histappend

Instead of the ~/.full_history file you can just set your normal history to infinite:

HISTFILESIZE=-1
HISTSIZE=-1
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For background I highly recommend this article.

Ioannidis JPA (2005) Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. PLoS Med 2(8): e124.

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...
Unlike say music and programming, no. The view from my office and the company of chickens both just bring happiness. Also gorgeous fresh eggs
Poaching would be the more correct word to use.
Ethereum has been hard forked multiple times. Bitcoin at least once, too.
Overconfidence in people who think they know how to drive so they don't trust new fandanled gizmos is also a huge problem.

A human is incapable of performing as well as a modern ABS system which can independently operate each wheel and can adjust hundreds of times per second. Same with traction and other stability assists. Most of these things tend to be unused at highest levels of motorports not because the drivers don't need them but because they're banned so as to make the spectacle more exciting.

Even if you fancy yourself a Colin McRae, leave your electronic assists enabled while driving on public roads.
I wonder what Claude Shannon would say about misinformation? Is it noise? Can its impact be modeled?
The biggest problem is the labelling of anything outside the 'consensus' as unscientific 'misinformation.'
This is particularly problematic where it is the media and government representatives determining what is consensus.

Many scientific breakthroughs did not come from repeating the established consensus and a lot of scientific consensus has been horrifically wrong in the end.
A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar. After regaining his composer asks, “Why was that bar set so low?”
Warp Speed was good and whatnot but the first vaccine, the "Pfizer" one was developed by BioNTech, a Germany company, funded by the German government. Pfizer supported the development by handling clinical trials, logistics and manufacturing - and didn't take any Warp Speed money. IMO it felt more like a co-branding arrangement.

> Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said that the company decided against taking direct Warp Speed funding for the development of the vaccine out of a desire "to liberate our scientists [from] any bureaucracy that comes with having to give reports and agree how we are going to spend the money in parallel or together". [1]

Interesting anecoda.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Warp_Speed
My van smells deliciously of cedar
> That is an awfully authoritative statement to make based off what OP shared.

Which part do you disagree with? Maybe the 'much' on much less risk?

'given evidence' is true unless OP made op the story. (And even if OP made up the story then we're judging fictional people and the judgements are still valid.)

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

And it seems clear to me that it's their job.

So, criticism. Which is not a particularly harsh outcome. And doesn't necessarily mean they made the wrong decision, but them providing a justification would be a good start.

Inaction is often excusable when it's not your job. It's always important to look at motivations, but vilification can also be appropriate when there's dereliction. Sometimes there are no significant motivations leading to lack of action, there's just apathy and people that shouldn't have been hired to the position.
The question was about Venezuela because of the sanctions. It’s not just any country that works with Wise

Venezuela is banned on wise and many/most banking apps.
https://wise.com/help/articles/2978049/which-countries-can-i...
Anything related to scrum, agile
The problem is that the only viable solution is for an entrenched elite with disproportionate power and money to lose much of that power and influence.

It’s a struggle between the masses and the ruling class about who gets to make decisions in our society, not like lunch meeting where we can find common sense action items to agree on.
> The report says there is little evidence that calls for major platforms to remove offending content will limit scientific misinformation’s harms and warns such measures could even drive it to harder-to-address corners of the internet and exacerbate feelings of distrust in authorities.

This is a known fact.
Why is there no regulatory body reviewing software UI changes before they go live?
Not to mention that just about every offroading trip I've been on, everyone brings at least one NATO jerry can, just in case. Can't really bring an "extra battery" along with you when it comes to electric trucks.
Just anecdotally, the "yoga, spiritual, new age" people I know are BY FAR the most egotistical group of people I have ever met. I lived in Bali as a digital nomad where these people are one of the core cohorts and it is very noticeable.

Interestingly they are also, again anecdotally, on average a standard deviation or two more attractive than Americans on average. I think it is somehow related to a people who have grown up with people fawning over them and having people hanging off of their words and confirming everything they say and do. Then someone comes along and tells them that they can control their destiny and reality with their mind and crystals or whatever and it feels intuitively correct to them. Then they start projecting these ideas and get lots of positive feedback from their echo chamber.

It's really fascinating to watch from a distance.
that sounds even worse..
> It is done on purpose.

The sad thing is that it isn't. It's just how the things are done.

src: friends in HEP
I think we got there by mixing up science and policy. In an emergency (like a pandemic) you can’t have an atmosphere of doubt and uncertainty in decision making - someone have to make the tough calls and stand by them. Unfortunately we don’t have clear delineation between “science” (what and how we know, and how certain we are) and “policy” (what should we do based on this information) in the public discourse - the same talking heads are often representing both. Then we naturally end up at a place where we have to either “believe in science” or cast doubt on policy decisions, which seems suboptimal.
That’s a lot of ifs that need to be fulfilled. I don’t think your italicized “does” is warranted with so many unrealistic conditions.
Where can we find the official consensus statements and who is in charge of writing them?
GDPR differentiates between functional necessary and non-functional necessary parts.

And again technical nit-picking do not matter, but user intend does.

Similar that side you link to would also need to be GDPR compliant (or not provide service in EU countries).

The problem with google fonts is that the side which loads them agrees in your stead without your permission to google collecting your data and using it for non essential use cases.

While when you navigate to an side, it must not collect data beside purely functional data until you agree to it. (and yes collecting IP address can be purely functional, depending on what you do with it and if you delete it
in time. E.g. for security logs and DDoS protection it can be purely functional. (if some conditions are meet)).

Be aware what counts as "neccessary"/"purely functional"(1) is not always fully clear.

(1): Not necessary the wording used by the law.
A related idea I've had is that: when a living being reproduces asexually, the conscious observer does not split, and is able to experience both bodies. That is, all bacteria exist as one living being with many bodies.

To test this, I've dreamed up an experiment.

> In April 2004, scientists at Tokyo University of Agriculture used parthenogenesis successfully to create a fatherless mouse. [0]

Create an enclosure where two mice live but are isolated from each other: the parent and the clone child produced asexually.

Then, provide food for one mouse in a place where the other cannot sense its presence and see if it reacts with salivation, a kind of macro-scale entanglement.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis#Mammals
> They seem to genuinely think that mocking anyone who dare criticize the almighty Elon is a justifiable action. Instead, it makes them, and by extension all Tesla owners, look like children. And it's not because they're mysterious, complex problems. They just don't give a shit. They pretend that obvious issues are normal, or blame software for hardware problems, anything they can do to get rid of me.

Insular groups and cults do not handle criticism well. Those who go against their dogma will be expelled, often not by the leaders, but by the members themselves. They serve as an immune system that keeps the leaders immune from being seen through a critical lens.
Because it’s intention is to be low barrier educational?

This is like asking a child doing writing exercises, “Why on Earth would you rewrite the same letter over and over again?”
People are downvoting but this is correct - I know many being paid in USDT and USDC as well. One benefit is the central bank doesn’t steal your US currency and replace it with the worse (inflationary, poorly accepted) local currency.
> If there are only 120 cases of this disease worldwide...

120 known cases. Some of the afflicted likely died without ever seeing a doctor, and given the difficult diagnosis, others may have died without the cause ever being known.
When you’re not waiting 45 minutes for a charger to free up
Many of the same teams in this round.
> There's no way to sort candidates by skill that doesn't involve a ton of labor.

This is the exact concept of an IQ test. They aren't labor intensive.
> eg, writing simple assembly for an 8-bit CPU

I don't think most of the professional software devs I know could do this, maybe not any.
Is the Tenderloin ‘healing’? What it’s like under emergency declaration
I think the connotation just makes it more memorable.
> Ignoring that, it's nuts that the best practice is "send a little money, and see if it works".

This passes the "does it sound like email?, it might be decentralized!" smell test, anyway.
From the article:
'The report defines scientific "misinformation" as content which is presented as
fact but counter to, or refuted by, the scientific consensus - and includes
concepts such as ‘disinformation’ which relates to the deliberate sharing of
misinformation content.'

They define misinformation in terms of a "scientific consensus". That alone seems problematic[0].

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2719747/
Amazon just little ago killed some employees to keep them working during a storm, makes people pee in a bottle, Facebook ignored and hid the burden it puts on teenagers development, and you say they're not as bad? I would say the only not as bad, despite hating it, is Apple
> No, it’s that the average person cannot make decisions about complex subjects.

Can PhDs and Nobel Prize winners, the quintessential experts, make decisions about complex subjects?

If they could, wouldn't Long-Term Capital Management still exist today?

Would the IMF have said, months before the subprime crisis, that global economic risks were on the decline?[0]

Nassim Taleb's tweets are an endless source of examples of experts (PhDs, even!) being clueless, sometimes dangerously so.

Excessive trust of subject matter experts is a very real danger, and a significant one.

[0]: World Economic Outlook: Spillovers and Cycles in the Global Economy.
Washington, DC: IMF, April, 2007
I'm biased - I'm a researcher at a big research institution and finished my PhD 15+ years ago. Seeing how the sausage is made shouldn't cause one to become less "pro-science". It should give people perspective that the scientific process is a process performed by humans, with all their flaws (ego, ambition, competition, etc). Furthermore, science is all about making hypotheses and seeing how they work out - with the understanding that many are wrong for all kinds of reasons (bad idea, bad motivations to push known bad ideas, etc.).

When I hear people disillusioned with how science works, more often than not I see someone who is forced to see that the mental model they had of how it works doesn't line up with how it actually works. It's messy, and has always been messy. Just read some history books, and you'll see "scientific" ideas in the 19th and early 20th century that persisted for a long time simply because some people disliked specific other people with opposing ideas. You'll see horrible egos, non-scientific arguments to reject ideas, people scheming and trying to undermine each other, and so on. Basically, humans being humans to each other. There never was a time when science was performed in the idealized model that we sometimes wish it was done: it always involves people being people, flaws and all.

Plus, I don't know any working scientist who doesn't assume most scientific discoveries are complete bullshit (or, more likely, they aren't bullshit as much as they ultimately contribute no new knowledge or understanding). We all know how the game works and why people put ideas out there (especially with the increased volume of publications people are expected to have now). What keeps people like me going is that I know most ideas are dumb or flat out garbage, but good ones emerge from that churn too and push things along. I like to think that some of my dumb ideas, when I throw them into that churn, will also occasionally push things along.

Don't get me started in the "believe in the science" line. The fact that we've turned that phrase into a political cudgel is not helping the situation.
The journal editors have a lot of power. As a start they could devote at least half of their articles to reproduction studies instead of novel research.
Pfizer was developed by BioNTech in Germany, funded by the German government. Pfizers involvement was limited to a co-branding arrangement where they ramped and scaled production. Pfizer also did not receive any money from Warp Speed, and one of their scientists at a point even stated they weren't participating at all. This was hastily walked back, but it's not really clear they were anything more than a vendor, IMO. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Warp_Speed
You’re on hackernews, so the answer is likely no.
There are a ton of problems with how science is done and most of it comes down to the same root cause: greed. You have corporations buying off scientists (if not to rig experiments/falsify results, then to bury unfavorable findings), journals willing to publish any garbage with little (if any) meaningful review, then media companies willing to turn that junk science into a click-bait friendly press release for a company or industry.

The corruption of science into advertising and science by press conference is a huge problem, but it's not the fault of science itself. It's the institutions we've built around science that are responsible. The way we choose to handle funding, the universities, and the journals, these are all systems that were created and they are all systems that can be replaced or reformed. The underlying framework for scientific observation and testing are still solid and remains the best way to further our understanding the world we live in, but we need accountability and regulations in place to keep the output high quality.

It's the same issue we have with medicine. Not enough accountability and oversight has allowed for things like doctors taking kick backs from pharmaceutical companies (the opioid crisis was a good example, but it's been going on for ages) and people like Stella Immanuel who can tell her patients their illness is caused by demon sperm and alien DNA but she still gets to keep her license to practice medicine.

Without regulation and oversight every system is vulnerable to corruption and failure. It doesn't mean you should throw away the system, it means we aren't doing our job to keep it functioning.
That one was even harder to find because it's not centered. In that image I noticed what looks like two Chevy bowties on either side of the steering wheel, before I found the hazard light button (spoiler: it's toward the passenger side and looks almost like the other buttons in the area.)
Sure but this is about the USA government getting more involved in industry and they did that with Moderna and OWS. We already know that the German government (and Western European governments in general) are better at that than our government but at least we might have a chance to catch up.
I would absolutely love it if Microsoft developed a line of no-code (tiny-code?) tools for companies trying to build tech solutions. It would be great if we just had generic tech for generic business solutions so we didn't have to keep building software engineering teams to build the same god damn simple components over and over again. Imagine Terraform or ITTT using pre-made plugins and applications and some configuration language. You could download pre-made configuration for common solutions the way you load Resume templates in MS Office.

Imagine never having to actually build a microservice ever again, but just downloading and running some generic-microservice-app that loads plugins for whatever you need the microservice to do, and the only thing you'd have to "write" is 10 lines of business logic. Now imagine downloading a "template" of an entire B2B SaaS, and being able to tweak a couple lines and then run it in any cloud provider. You could launch a company over a weekend.
You've touched one of the real veins of this issue that very few really want to talk too loud about. There are still a handful of good journalists doing good work out there, but they seem to have been shoved over into "crazy man on a blog ranting" corner, making it much easier for propagandized coincidence theorists to shut down all discussion from them as crazy conspiracy theories.

I think a good analysis of the history and changing landscape of media is highly in order if we want to get to the bottom of this.

As for me, I like to remind people of Operation Mockingbird quite a bit lately, and rest assured the name just got changed after the Church Committee and given the explosion of the internet they are certainly extremely pervasive in the new system.

As CIA director William Casey said: "We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."
The Trump admin closed the borders with China in late January and was accused of being racist and exaggerating the risk by news media and the Democrats. In fact, they're the only people who took it seriously at all. Then OWS was partly responsible for shipping vaccines in record time while the media said it was impossible to do.

As for undercutting experts, the current Vice President literally said she wouldn't take the vaccine, implying it couldn't be trusted because Trump was engaged in the rollout [1] while the current President said the vaccine was rushed and that people shouldn't trust it. [2]

Numerous "experts" threw FUD at the vaccines, calling them rushed repeatedly. [3] Dr Fauci himself said a vaccine's approval was "rushed" by regulators in some markets. [4]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dAjCeMuXR0

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/us/politics/biden-trump-c...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/us/politics/coronavirus-v...

[4] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fauci-says-uk-rushed-covid-vacc...
He just said it's not good at building software, how can you say that they excel ? :look:
I'm probably in the minority here, but I'm a software developer and my sentiment regarding Microsoft is negative and growing more so as the years go by. VS Code, Flight Simulator, WSL, and Xbox are fine, but they have destroyed goodwill with me through mismanaging Windows.

Windows is now sprinkled with dark patterns like not allowing local accounts w/ windows 10 unless you turn off your internet during install. Windows 11 now requires a MS account. The number of advertisements in the OS continues to grow. The enormous and unforgivable amount of e-waste that they will soon create with the Windows 11 hardware requirements / the end of life date for 10. The sense that everything I do on their OS / software is being monitored through telemetry. The UI regressions w/ 11. Hard to quantify this but the I have encountered a lot of bugs with Windows in recent years and some of these bugs are infuriating.

I could go on, but I'll leave it there. Like I said, I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but I suspect that the number of dissatisfied users is growing.
If your car has a touchscreen to be used by the driver, your design is already a failure. Quit car design and take up embroidery or something.

Cars using a driver touchscreen need to fail their annual roadworthiness test. Take these cars off the road.
I really like Tidal. High quality streams, good recommendations and playlists, and solid app. I had some problems with Spotify, and I never got used to Apple Music's interface on Android
Self-driving cars are really about bringing the movement of the population under government control.
Looking forward to trying this recipe. That picture looks divine.

Can you share the other two recipes?

Here is my grandma's crepe recipe in exchange:

1 cup flour
1 egg
1 cup milk
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vegetable oil
1 tsp sugar
pinch of salt
As a farmer, where would you typically go for breaking truck news? Or for farming news in general?
I agree but they don’t care because they dominate the market.
Where did you study, what was your concentration, and did you finish? I'm not sure whether anyone on HN ought to care about your opinion. I'm not convinced that the sausage factory you experienced was a hot dog cart.
Yeah, if I were to take two extreme ends of philosophy in terms of sociological outlook it would be Ralph Waldo Emerson's style of self-reliance versus Critical Theory - and the self-reliance ethic runs deep in American culture, so of course Critical Theory seems like some kind of philosophical anti-matter to all things American.
Highly likely a fake. The number of fake artifacts has risen recently