skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is a conflation of literal fake news and propaganda. Propaganda can be subtle and not involve outright lies. A lot of propaganda consists of unsubstantiated rumors or speculation.

Sometimes it is helpful to read unsubstantiated rumors or speculation because it is notable. For example, the United States recently claimed that a foreign power was targeting its diplomats with a high powered microwave weapon. Substantial evidence was never produced, but American news media reported the story uncritically. I think that much of the reporting on this topic was disinformation or propaganda. At the same time, if I wanted to read about it, I would expect search engines not to make the editorial decision to censor this reporting. Even if it is disinformation, informed people should be aware of these accusations. In this case, I don’t expect the search engine to return the “truth” but rather “what is being said on this topic.”
6-7 figure amounts selling something of no worth to people who on average do not have any comprehension of it and which opens them up to fraud and scams. Great.

If an artist friend of mine sells an NFT I am going to struggle with continuing to see them as a friend, because it's morally bankrupt.

If a non-technical artist comes to you and asks for help selling an entirely phantom product to their presumably only-averagely-technically-aware fans, why would you get involved?

Anything that introduces non-technical users to crypto -- which is really the main function of NFT exchanges at this point -- is a moral hazard.

This is why I am so shocked to see Stripe involved with it.
Its really shocking to me just how many western companies have capitulated to the wholesale censorship and shunning of Russia for this war.

DDG and others snored through the bush era disinformation campaign that led to the war in Iraq that killed countless civilians, yet somehow have a sterling enough moral terpitude to suddenly care about truth now?
It means those things precisely because the person is a child. In A Song of Ice and Fire winter can last over a decade hence "summer child", a young one that has never experienced the hardship of winter https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sweet_summer_child

Regardless, starting out with any variation of "you're blissfully ignorant" isn't needed either. I get offense usually isn't intended but the use of that phrase has always stuck me as a very condescending way to respond.
Implementing a context based downranking policy on the results when they use a search engine (Bing) over which they probably have almost 0 ability to tweak or fine tune before the query sounds like an incredibly hard thing to do. You'd have to do a lot of contextual analysis and understand not only the query but also all the results the API gives you, after the search is already done. That seems even more complicated than just having your own search algorithms at that point.

It's possible but it's hard to believe they'd go through that effort and coincidentally come up with something very similar to what Bing started doing too. I don't want to assume they are lying but this can very well be just an attempt at free PR when the truth could be just that it wasn't their decision at all. ddg does not seem to be very upfront over their almost total reliance on Bing in the first place.

I mean IIRC when the tank man picture disappeared from bing and thus from DDG too, duckduckgo acknowledged the problem but it didn't seem like they could do anything about it but wait until Bing fixes the issue.
My favorite Randi joke about homeopathy...

"An homeopath died from overdose.
He forgot to take his medicaments..."
How many academic scientists end up being buried in managing science, particularly seeking funding? There’s way fewer aristocrats funding scientists as they would a zoo. Maybe the most visible advances come from those hungry enough and with time enough to do it?

Some of these older fellows trained a lot of students, such as bethe or wheeler. How old were the bell labs people when they did plan 9? Is Knuth still considered active? Maybe also, art is subjective while physics or engineering “just is”
“Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.”
They'll use an API if it makes it easier and less noticable to track most people. They should do a study and find out how many people will just set "Enable all cookies from all sites".

If the number of people who would use "Deny all nonessential" is less than the number of people who currently deny consent, it's a win for them.
No radar cruise control, it’s a carburetor, personally I don’t like driving behind people, their not paying attention to the road conditions.
To get real nitpicky here, a number of EVs still have a multi-gear transmission. It's just 2 gears instead of 6+ though. You don't have to worry about staying in an efficient RPM for electric motors, but the torque multiplication factor of gears is still useful & can be necessary.
Because Zen 3 Threadripper was announced only 2 days ago [1]. It’s not yet available even for preorders. Furthermore, the improvement of Zen 3 over Zen 2 is marginal.

[1]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/17296/amd-announces-ryzen-thr...
"Nobody saw me do it" and "I didn't do it" aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, if I don't do something, then by definition nobody saw me do it.
If they don't contract to the lowest bidder, they certainly feel like they're contracting to a grifter who certainly subcontracts to them.

Between:

* The implementation delays https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2012/jul/19/wsdot-reaches-...

* The payment issues https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/sta...

* The customer support issues

* the sensor issues (admittedly those may be on the state and not ETC/ETAN, unclear)

and more the state abandoned its contract with ETC in favor of one with ETAN, which took the system offline for two weeks to switch over and admittedly hasn't been much better (https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/wsd...).

God forbid we let the state hire a few local SWEs (Seattle doesn't have any of those) to write and maintain a system instead of paying $30M every few years plus a cut of tolls to whatever Texas contractor gave the most perks to a WSDOT exec.
How can you tell what cars get pulled over for?
I‘d go for backpat. ;)
Well let's flip this around. How many articles of misinformation advocating breathing CO would you have to read before you personally tried it?

If the answer is that you never would, then you are not advocating for something that protects you, just those that you see as inferior to you
From the text:

> Our exploded view diagram combines and visualizes three central, extractive processes that are required to run a large-scale artificial intelligence system: material resources, human labor, and data.

Also:

> Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Nielson use the term ‘extractivism’ to name the relationship between different forms of extractive operations in contemporary capitalism, which we see repeated in the context of the AI industry. 10 There are deep interconnections between the literal hollowing out of the materials of the earth and biosphere, and the data capture and monetization of human practices of communication and sociality in AI.

What are the arguments both -for- and -against- a claim that "data" is an extractive process as used here?
"... you'd better remember to type in the https:// explicitly ..."

You should use a slug[1] if you need assurance that you’re staying on your vpn/protocol/exit.

It would be very simple to create a "tor only" network slug.

[1] https://john.kozubik.com/pub/NetworkSlug/tip.html
Open-source RBAC library for GORM
Royalties are built into marketplace smart contracts. Individuals can do P2P trades where the artist doesn't receive any royalty but this doesn't happen very often. Anecdotally, it typically only happens on large deals and people who do a P2P trade often send the artist their royalty anyway (but still benefit from not paying the OpenSea fees for example)

Not sure what you mean by the second question
Russia absolutely made their move after consultation with China. We’re seeing Nato vs China/Russia unfolding
> Greater fools scheme [sic] is a valid criticism

Did you mean greater fool theory? That's not a financial scheme that's listed under Stripe's ToS (our context).

Are you arguing in good faith that Stripe should update the Prohibited Businesses section of their ToS based on what you said?
Thanks, I hate it.

This is just a quick reminder to everyone to check yourself and make sure you aren't falling into the trap of thinking like this, I know it happens to me occasionally.

And there's very little I've seen that damages relationships[0] more.

[0] All kinds, not just romantic.
This feels like the equivalent of patching the ai in GTA cars, so they can no longer randomly crash into each other and cause huge pileups.
If no one can turn it into a working exploit, it should be left alone for the sheer weird/cool factor.
I skip breakfast as well but I have to admit I put a little extra half and half in my coffee, but half and half is pretty low on glycemic load anyway.
Well it depends on your exposed viral load

Having anti-bodies reduces the viral load in your body, which also means that there are fewer viral fragments exiting your body

The policies are to reduce spread, not eliminate it
I don't know if you're joking or not, but for me, that was one consideration in figuring out what to do with stocks I sold when things started going downhill. I'm leaning heavily towards making some home improvements vs. investing in something else.
Unrolled thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1501966844118372356.html
Yes it’s a standard part of the interview cycle at Amazon. Usually two questions in an hour or something, and you code solutions which the test platform grades. They’re on par with leetcode easy IME, but I just find it to be a pain so I won’t do it again.

I’m sure it’s helpful to weed out applicants who actually cannot code, but what’s the point in doing it twice?

Thank you!
I can't reproduce it; you're using it wrong; it's a feature, not a bug.
There's no valid reason for the third party cookies. There are browsers that get this right (lynx lets you choose to accept and reject cookies (including an "always/never and never bother me about it again option.)
What group doesn't develop their own words over twenty years?
This would not surprise anyone who lives in a country with a weak currency, like Argentina or Turkey. The currency is devalued and you earn more and more Pesos or Liras, but they are worth less and less. I understand that you live in the United States and that you are used to measuring things against the Dollar. So you consider the Dollar as something fixed. Now that your currency is devaluing, businesses income (and your income) is going to increase, but only nominally.
The gulf between wokeness and supporting disadvantaged groups couldn't be larger. You do get a whole new appreciation for Matthew 23, where Jesus, himself a Pharisee, tears into his fellow Pharisees who lost sight of the goal of the movement, which sought to promote a form of spirituality accessible for everyone but then lost sight of that goal. It starts with "do as they say, not as they do" and gets better with every sentence. The "land acknowledgements" so popular at woke places do remind of the "whitewashed monuments".
Whoever the new provider is (I think there was a lot of pushback on the initial implementation) is far better.

They introduced "Pay as You Go" (direct tolling) so you don't need to hold a balance anymore. You'll basically just have a negative balance until they charge your card twice a month. Has surprisingly actually worked for me, and confirms that accounts can go negative now. I can choose to add funds or just wait for the charge to go through.
It comes from the office of the NYS attorney general. https://ag.ny.gov/consumer-frauds/pyramid-schemes

Please send them an email elucidating the finer points of what scheme is what.
> try and justify using a slur

Wait, what slur? I'm lost.
> Have you been living under a rock?

> has been criticized in the Zeitgeist

Zeitgeist? As in Twitter/FB/Whatsapp and other social networks' blabbering?

Then yes, I've been living under a rock. I proudly refuse to be part of that cacophony.
No many places like Arizona those cameras were made illegal. Some were installed, but the people voted to remove them. That's the difference between citizens and subjects.
>It looks so much following the letter of the law and circumventing the spirit of it.

I dont think this is true either. The consent options would typically come under a few pretty well defined headers (e.g. advertising) and could include the capability of raising specific exceptions for nonstandard requests.
Yeah, actually. Let me tell you about something that will illustrate. Once upon a time, Amazon had a flood of fake reviews. They would rate to 5 and be in terrible Engrish and the different styles were pretty easy to detect. I could use that as a signal that the product was bad and that the field of these products is likely risky.

Eventually, Amazon started getting rid of all these reviews. There are still fake reviews but they're more subtle than that. So now I have lost my signal that said "tread carefully for products in this class" and I have lost some signal that said "this product has fakers involved or in its competitors".

So now, yes, I trust Amazon less.

I am not making up a hypothetical universe. I am sure others have shared this experience.
Also, it's quite a risky assumption as an individual that one's able to make a long-term profitable bet against an army of professional investors that dedicate lots of resources towards making profitable bets in the same market.

As an individual, one is most likely to outperform other non-commercial individuals. It's rather likely in a complex investment environment that money will flow upward from the less well informed and less well equipped investors towards the big players.

Which is why individuals should be extremely cautious where they invest .. lots of options can probably be summed up as: individual lends big player their money gets negligible real return, while big player makes orders of magnitude bigger return.
Bilibili's search also seems to be just about as aggressive for videos on politically sensitive topics in China.
It's also not what I said. I said Putin had a vision of a "Greater Russia" composed of the components of its former empire and reached out to grasp them before its declining strength made this impossible. This is literally what Putin said in prior speeches.

I also said that democracies on their doorstep are a dangerous precedent for the serfs the kleptocrats are presently robbing.
You can use redshift[1] on linux, and there are a lot of cli tools that can be used to easily script color changes in hue lights and others via cron. It's not as integrated as f.lux, but reasonably easy to get working. There's also redshift-gtk to contorl redshift from the systray.

[1]: http://jonls.dk/redshift/
What makes it a shit way of supporting artists? I have seen some fraud like you describe, but I think it makes a lot of sense for digital only artists.
Or just get your blood lead level measured.

A few months ago, I happened to be at the doctor getting some other stuff checked out, and the week prior to the appointment I had done a ton of soldering, like two 12-hour days bashing out a whole batch of boards, both paste reflow and hand-PTH work, with a fair bit of sucker rework, and of course after that the lab needed a good tidying so I emptied all the suckers and tip cleaners as part of that. All tin-lead solder.

Zero gloves, and I only wore a mask part of the first day (when there were other people around). And actually the several weeks leading up to that also saw a lot of SMT rework and other up-to-by-elbows-in-solder sort of activity.

So I figured, that's kind of a worst-case for my lead exposure, hey Doc, can I get my blood lead level checked? Sure why not, it's one extra vial on top of the bloodwork already being ordered!

And the results came back below the test's detectable level.

So as far as I'm concerned, if that didn't do it, I don't think I have anything to worry about. Now, I'm sort of a germophobe and I never eat with my hands, so this doesn't necessarily generalize, but as far as skin absorption or vapor inhalation, I've gone from "not very worried" to "abjectly unconcerned" after getting that result.

I would encourage everyone to get their level measured and have actual data to make decisions with. Superstition does not become us.
> but still only something that the extremely wealthy could afford.

Something only the extremely wealthy could afford, but also something the extremely wealthy never bothered with.

If you think a modern, middle class lifestyle is in any way comparable to the rich in the past 60, 70 years then you have no clue what it means to be rich. It isn't the gadgets they can buy, its the people they buy that completely removes the need to even think about all those things you listed.

The rich don't do self service. This is why the whole discussion makes no sense.
"Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure"*

-- Proust, A la recherche du temps perdu.

* For a long time, I would go to bed early.
Oh wow. So I recently built something similar for my own needs[0]. It's strictly mobile right now, but it serves my needs to get reminders on when things are about to go bad. Will have to dig into this app to see if I can integrate it

[0] https://grocerytimer.app
For people who find it hard to eat a lot at once it may be detrimental to a gain goal, but it has a lot of anti inflammatory and hormone regulation benefits
I used Google Slides, and didn't use annotations. The reason that I didn't wait until after the lecture is that, when covering technical- or notation-dense topics, especially if the information is new, students often need to look back during the lecture to remind themselves "What does this mean again?", either that, or ask the question out loud, which a lot of students are shy about.

In short, the students needed to be able to review the slides during the lecture, so I couldn't wait until the end. My only options were then to distribute slides ahead of time, fill-in-the-blank style, or create a live delivery system. Honestly, the live delivery system was easier and cooler.
What is there to leak? A secure voting system should not possess any "confidential information," except perhaps temporarily, while a voter inputs a vote. Once a voter submits their vote, no system should store any of their confidential data, vote content included.

If it is possible to leak confidential information from a voting system following the conclusion of an election, then the voting system must be insecure.
> I will now trust my own media and sources even less, if they rely on silencing the competition and insist on controlling

As you should! It's actually exactly what authoritarian governments like Russia do. They silence and control information, blocking out other sources aside from their own propaganda. Everything else is said to be dangerous disinformation.
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
This system seems quite stupid. Surely the expenditure could be better invested in public transit. Not only is public transit orders of magnitude more effective in terms of people moved per hour, it's also much more equitable.
> Mexican Coke, which uses cane sugar

This is at least partially a myth.

Here's a study which found no sucrose in Mexican coke: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1038/oby.2010.25...

Though, it is complicated because there are multiple bottlers making multiple different coke products, and even the same bottlers could shift what sweeteners they use over time, presumably based on pricing.
This makes no sense, because then wouldn’t every single person just say “I forgot”? Why would you ever not say “I forgot”?
We had a conversation about this a short while back in a local Slack channel, and my personal opinion is that I have never been fond of coding as an exercise for a technical interview, especially if it is a whiteboarding exercise in front of others or a timed event. Due to their simplicity, they offer little beyond basic syntax or entry level abilities if you're looking at a short timespan, and anything more complex is probably prohibitive if you're interviewing multiple candidates, because the code has to be reviewed.

Take home coding exercises are a bit better, but someone still has to review it, and who has that kind of time if they are interviewing a lot of potential candidates?

Instead, if a coding exercise is necessary, I would lean toward having the candidate perform a code review on a known bad piece of code, looking to see how they spot inefficiencies, and then have a separate technical conversation, akin to refining a project that someone would work on. It would be more real-world, and I think you could gauge their thinking process better, and still get an idea of the complex thought processes involved with senior development.
I can give you the honest accounting of my thought process, since it seems to be of interest to you:

I read your root comment about McCarthy being wrong about repeating words in academic writing. I thought to myself, "this is exactly the sort of dismissal we tend to traffic in here, the assumption that we're subject matter experts on research and STEM and that a writer wouldn't be". I figured a bunch of people on HN would be instantly persuaded by the fact that your comment attests to experience in academic writing, especially since so few of them will closely read the article itself, which notes McCarthy's unexpectedly deep experience with hard science academic writing.

Then I thought to myself, "you know what? Cormac McCarthy is pretty universally considered one of the greatest writers of the last 50 years, so it is probably pretty safe to suggest that his writing advice not be dismissed easily, even by someone with their own deep experience with academic writing". That is to say: it's no great put-down to suggest that someone's own writing experience might be subordinate to that of... Cormac freaking McCarthy. :)

There's nothing especially interesting about "taking down authorities" on HN --- it's the air we breathe here. I do it too, all the time. By the same token: pushing back on that instinct seems totally within the bounds of our discussions as well.

So, long story short: I thought your comment was a bit facile and dismissive, and said why (or: almost did, but deleted my comment when I saw 'brudgers better one, then cosigned theirs).

Hope that helps.
They've always been like this. It's just that now they are promoting this behavior for the masses.

They never prosecute international cybercrime and they've built a reputation for bulletproof hosting and botnet-for-hire services. It seems to me that cybercrime is going from being something that Russia could have prosecuted but never chose to into state sponsored things that are actively promoted.
Maybe one day, when the code is cleaner!