skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but I don’t think calling it a fallacy is correct as a fallacy means incorrect

The (logical) fallacy is in the word "must". Let's look at the statement again:

> if an aspect of a system benefits a group, that the group must have planned said system aspect

This is incorrect because sometimes groups benefit from things they haven't planned. If the statement were changed to "that there is a good chance the group planned said system aspect", it would no longer be a fallacy.

It's the same as the slippery slope fallacy. Slippery slopes are real things. Sometimes A does get out of hand and cause B. Saying that if A happens, B must happen is where it becomes a fallacy. Changing this to "If A happens, there's a good chance it will snowball and B will happen" also removes this fallacy.
The method and rate aren’t new.

The method is “people tell others you’re an asshole”.

The rate is “quickly”. For most people in the 1700s, the news only has to go a few miles to spread to basically everyone you know.

Ask Aaron Burr. Not just canceled in short order, but remembered for it in a hit musical centuries later.
>Is it actually easy to identify all scam content? Then why is it possible to find scams in search results?

I think to a knowledgable observer and moderator, sure. Algorithmically it's probably more difficult, which is why you still see it in some search results. These scams are less prone to subjectivity, which is why you rarely see Twitter uproars about a bitcoin pyramid scheme being booted off a search engine.

>So should they treat every news outlet as equally ranked?

Yes....

>Because I'm struggling to think of any news reporting that could be said to be free of bias or could be said to be completely objective.

....and that is the reason for why they should be equally ranked. You can see on the initial page load the full spectrum of reporting from MSNBC to Fox News. Of course one of them has to be ranked above the other in the UI (it's a list of items) but that should relate to objective things like what words from the search query appear, etc.

>Is that what they did?

I think what people take issue with is that we're trusting these sites to determine what disinformation is. How is DDG deciding what is and isn't misinformation? Without a clearly defined process for misinformation, this becomes subjective.

>> "Weinberg didn’t elaborate on the decision, or how the down-ranking will work."

But other sites are simply doing a blanket ban:

>> "Since then, the internet industry has responded by blocking access to Russian state-sponsored media outlets such as RT and Sputnik News for users in the EU. In addition, Twitter has placed warning labels on tweets linking to Russian state media. (Google News decided to de-rank RT and Sputnik News back in 2017 for allegedly circulating propaganda.)"

>I don't think something being a top search results implies that it is an objective truth either, especially with ongoing news reports.

Not right now, no, and that's the issue. Most people assume it to be though.
Visuals: Why We're Sicker, Fatter, and Weaker Than Ever
This is Nice; Thank You!

This excerpt is funny but very True: Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like a herd of cows, moving slowly in the direction they are being driven towards. If we make one point, we have a good chance that the audience will take the right direction; if we make several points, then the cows will scatter all over the field. The audience will lose interest and everyone will go back to the thoughts they interrupted in order to come to
our lecture.

Any other papers/notes like this you can share?
"two decades of destructing Afghanistan"

Clearly you know nothing of Afghanistan, our mission there, and what we did asides from blow up terrorists. We built roads, energy and data infrastructure, government buildings, and trained countless Afghans on everything from construction to IT to self-defense.

There was certainly mission creep and mistakes were certainly made, there is no arguing that.

Nevertheless, we invested more money into building Afghanistan than we did dropping bombs on caves and desert compounds.

Then the Biden administration handed it all to the Taliban, who sold some of it to China.
Same issue, youtube-dl.org doesn't show up in web results
awesome! https://pgloader.io/ can do it in the other direction.
It’s fun when reading very old books and correspondence to see how conventions have changed. For instance, in the 1780s, George Washington and his contemporaries often closed letters with variations of “I am, dear sir, Your most obedient humble servant…”

In a particularly informal letter, the same might even be abbreviated to “I am, etc.”
I think the GP is referring to the very common case where you can’t possibly say what needs to be said in a single variable name, but one or two lines of comments is sufficient.
Maybe they mean they need that much to live purely off the rental income, for their hands are like gelatin desserts. :)

https://i.redd.it/f0kl4a40cl861.jpg
Is there a picture/diagram you could link to that would show this configuration in more detail?
Probably worse than Google at this point. At least Google doesn't hide behind "privacy respecting"
It might feel "overengineered" to people outside the Japanese society, but it actually just solves common issues here and it's not overengineering.
The rotating mechanism is the easiest to see this.

First, Kanji signs are more detailed than the alphabet and uneven lines can make it really ugly/hard to read. Same issue with breaking lead, causes ugliness.

Second, traditionally handwriting in Japan have been seen as a way to measure one's upbringing; you can fake looks and style but if your handwriting is bad, that signals that your parents didn't raise you well. This was(and still is in some places) the reason resumes have to be handwritten.

So tools that helps your handwriting had uses beyond just utility.

(my handwriting is garbage and I'm happy IT and tech jobs doesn't check this)
Sure there are a 1% of megaprojects that require additional process, but for the rest PRs are a method to control code quality socially. They introduce delays and foster ego antagonisms, so less methodical ways to control quality are optimal if the requirements are met (buy-in + skill) and complexity isn't too great.
I do think there is some signal based on how well the developer can utilise existing structures without getting stuck in "all you have is a hammer". That said the tradeoff is mostly time-based so if it is a take home without constraints a lot of that signal is lost.
It's a search engine, not a popularity ranking system.
Just my perspective as working for a trading firm (and perhaps the difference comes from working at a relatively big, established shop), but the sentiment around here is that you do not fuck with the markets, you do not fuck with the feds/sec/finra, you do not fuck with your exchanges and you always always consult the armies of lawyers if you think there's even a slightest doubt of the legal & compliance aspects about what you're about to do.

Don't really see that wild west of a*hole trader attitudes anymore tbh
I used here:

https://github.com/organizations/<ORG_NAME>/settings/audit-l...

... but the real question is what would malicious activity look like, exactly?
Reactionary Software – Make software great again
10yo me would have loved this information. Linux FTW
Zuck was an AOL programmer https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-when-i-was-a...
That's the github link, not youtube-dl website :)
> It was not covered at the time because the way it was "released" meant that the claims were unsubstantiated and unsubstaniable.

No, I don’t think so. There are billions of unsubstantiated and unsustainable messages on Twitter. I think this one was censored because of the political impact. It seems weird to argue otherwise.
Spam scam
> Climate change is another one. Anyone who wants to debate the topic is instantly cancelled as a denialist.

This is nothing to do with cancel culture or social media. It’s because big energy companies paid people to deny climate change. Unsurprisingly this makes people tetchy around those with let’s say heterodox views.

The well has been poisoned for fair criticism and it was not poisoned by environmentalists.
0%, no charge? How do you avoid the risk of being used in a swindle, where the party that paid a fraudulent invoice then tries to recover the payment from you?
The parent believes, based on Elon's own claims, that part of his plan of raising the money is to get some existing shareholders on board, essentially having them finance the deal, obviously by promising them a stake in the future private company.

They are also assuming an existing shareholder would only do this if they believe the future private Twitter would be a more profitable endeavor for them, which Musk's comments really shouldn't inspire confidence in.
Add a bitcoin deposit to verify account as orange. Problem solved
I think 2018 is exactly the kind of thing he is trying to avoid; I think you are underestimating the impact vigorous enforcement of labor and securities laws would have on his business prospects. Elon and his companies of course also spend quite a lot of money on campaign donations, lobbying, and political activity.

I think this is probably only one factor at play here, and who really knows to what degree, but it's certainly more of a factor than marketing pablum about Elon being a futurist deeply concerned with the optimal future of humanity or whatever.
I remember the pr person fired during her flight to South Africa because of the hundred thousand retweets. Thats new and that’s much faster.

Aaron Burr wasn’t cancelled over a single message within twelve hours.

(Thousands of similar stories)
I prided myself on being self taught but once I went to a bootcamp and learned RoR in just 3 months from zero to working products.. it blew my mind how much having a good teacher around for 5 hours or so can do for you. Previously I taught myself js and it took 3 years to become decent at it. Teacher was able fill in the holes, give watch out tips, inform about parts to skip for now, show the big picture and keep momentum going.
Examples of thin desires: our desire to spectate on petty rivalries + hot takes.

>> petty rivalries dominate politics and Hot Take Artists sit in their cages, hungrier than ever while inducing hunger in others.

Another thin desire: porn.

>> Readers will know by now that I believe pornography is one of the primary scourges on our culture, particularly our youth.

Example of thick desire: searching for glory (?)

>> NATO is an institution that does not, for instance, seem able to withstand the thick desires of Vladimir Putin

More thick desire: strength + honor

>> "We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function."

I stopped reading at this point, since it seems to be a reactionary rant. The author appears to want a return to our days of glory, when we laid down our lives for our country, and we righteously murdered all those we deemed wicked or too effete to withstand us, allowing us to take their wives and their daughters as our own, etc.

This is a common authoritarian sentiment, and it's the polar opposite of the ideas developed during the Enlightenment (espousing science, humanism, etc.). Steven Pinker talks about it in Enlightenment Now, an excellent book.
Solved is a strong word here. They've certainly made a lot of progress
Strong agree, Twitter hasn't grown their user base more than 10% since 2015, they might be making more revenue per user but annual revenue is likely ready to plateau if it hasn't already. Getting a premium on your stock is a good option if you can get it and a natural outcome of investing.
Yeah, I meant it more along the lines of a quota system around time, rather than silence people. But whatever, I with musk at least on one point, maybe it's time for longer tweets.
Is there a tl;dr for this Twitter thread?

He lost me at : [..]Elon is one of those, because he doesn't understand what has happened to internet culture since 2004. Or as I call it, just culture. [..] They would like you (the users) to stop squabbling over stupid shit and causing drama so that they can spend their time writing more features and not have to adjudicate your stupid little fights.[..]

Internet ‘culture’ in 2004 and even a decade before that was Glorious!

I think we should all squabble more and get it out of our systems. A society that doesn’t interact genuinely(even if it’s ‘squabbling’) is a sterile society.

The sentiments expressed there..that I think I grokked..is like someone who has never had sex trying to explain sex to 40 year old virgins.

Free expression is too valuable and precious to be sacrificed for techbros to ‘write more features’.

They are trying to sterilize the Interwebs. They are trying to redefine the ‘Free’ in free speech. I hope they fail.
I've sometimes wondered if the way American media and culture treat people like Musk, Bezos, Gates is that we have no royalty -- there's no hereditary monarchy and indeed the old money keeps a studiously low profile.

Do human cultures just need kings and princes? Is there a special kind of celebrity niche that the billionaire businessman fills that occupies an ancient hierarchical part of our society?

I read Yishan's post here as kind of like a duke commissioning an epic poem in the hopes it'll influence the king. Maybe it'll work -- he shot his shot, and he's a pro at putting in just the right Internet comments in just the right place. But I wonder why I'm so fascinated about seeing this conversation between these two nobles. Is this how the English lower classes saw their royalty in the 17th century? Did they chatter about the king's foibles on the street while they were out costermongering?
Nah, you’re coping hard for the existing system. All the established players need to pay, deeply.
You remember her nearly a decade later because it’s rare. (She’s also doing fine: https://www.vox.com/2018/1/19/16911074/justine-sacco-iac-mat...)

People have irreparably ruined their reputations in less time than a plane flight. Burr did it in a single instant.
I like the flavor of meat, but as an environmental move, I'm willing to use meat as a flavoring - rather than as meal's centerpiece lump.
When I built my house I paid full price to have those utilities brought to my house. We’re talking over $100,000. And I continue to pay service charges for maintenance of all utilities.
> You could fix this by capping the number of jobs so that increases in population would be forced to distribute more evenly through the country.

Can you? A restaurant is very busy and want to hire a new server. But, what, a city official says they can't because the city hit its jobs limit?
I believe all the international signs have unique shapes and the stop and yield signs are borrowed from there.
Holy moly - reading that article I never knew the British caver's lawyer was the same completely delusional Lin Wood from the idiotic "kraken" lawsuits. No wonder he lost the case.
"Spam bots" on their own aren't a hard problem. The hard problem is a very restrictive set of constraints on the solution space, e.g. "can't inconvenience or increase barriers to posting for legitimate users in any way."
>> You can still make edgy and politically incorrect jokes today if you do it right.

>Not really. Doing it right means adhering to the left’s idea of what is right. Your whole position is based on the left being correct about everything.

Also, whats right today may not be right tomorrow. Tweets live forever.
So, use zfs on Linux.
Do you know about Amethyst? I've been told it's not as fast as i3 but I'm a happy user.

https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
> Your claim that it doesn't work because of the "nature of viruses" seems belied by the facts on the ground.

Well either viruses typically are very good at killing you (SARS style) and so you can curb it fast or they aren't and stick around awhile until you can vaccinate a ton of the population and build immunity (measles). If they adapt too rapidly that they escape the effectiveness of a vaccine faster than you can develop and deploy them, you have the flu. Covid seems to be in the third camp rather than the other two.
SGX is used by Signal’s server[0] to allow an open source trust-Intel / trust-their-hardware, but no one else based private contact discovery.

[0] https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/
why would you look for torrents in search engine? you will anyway find most of them dead

you are much better off with Knaben on EU domain, same results can be achieved with add-ons in qbit, then there are special software not worth my time (Jackett)

but I agree I find myself using yandex much more nowadays as alternative
Upcoming Hybrid Cars in India – Maruti Suzuki, Toyota, Honda
100% that the folks I know who are alcoholics have high anxiety. It’s not the same exact kind of anxiety in all of them, but I believe it’s at the root of their problem with alcohol.

Part of my understanding is that for at least some of these folks they never learned to deal with emotions. They never learned how to feel and accept that feelings exist. Alcohol is the agent that they utilize to help keep those feelings at a level they can manage. It’s a numbing agent.

The social chaos that these individuals because of their alcoholism is so enormous. And I’m at a point where I can see how it influences their adult children and it’s depressing. You can see how the disease is transmitted from generation to generation. Someone might be disposed towards alcoholism, but coming from an alcoholic family and the chaos that comes from that makes it even more likely that the kids will become alcoholics.
You should have filed form WH-4 [1] with the Wage and Hour division of the Department of Labor to report the violation. That could have stopped the employer from exploiting other foreign workers.

[1] https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/forms/wh4
> The belief in this case being that your opinion of their identity, based on the studies you have read, is more relevant to their truth (or anyone's) than their feelings about their identity. As far as some of us are concerned, it isn't.

But why should I take someone's view of their identity without question? Why, and to what extent, am I obliged to uphold and reinforce someone's self-perception? And why on some issues but not their race, height, age, etc.?

Saying it's a "cultural issue" or a "social construct" doesn't help here. "Social construct" does not mean an individual gets to decide unilaterally - quite the opposite in fact! A social constructed category is one which society decides.

Nor does "socially constructed" mean something is arbitrary. Language is socially constructed, but that does not mean we can change anything we want about a given language without consequence.

> Really, the issue at hand is that you feel like you should get to make jokes about people's identity, and others feel like joking about people based on their identity is rude so they call you out on it.

Presuming to know someone else's motives better than they know themselves is not persuasive.
there are telegram bots for it though, personally I don't use them but people swear on them

btw Baidu is extremely slow due to GFW
An alternative take: there's spam that's trivial to spot and spam that's hard to spot. Twitter is ignoring both. I can give you both searches and keywords to post which will return lots of spam ready to block. Not everything of course, but let's not post the "spam is a hard problem" excuse until they nuke every account responding with "metamask" and a link to Google forms.
To think that a company that has failed to create self-driving for nearly a decade could solve "content moderation", one of the hardest problem on the internet that every single of the big companies (who btw hire the best talent) have been struggling with, is truly a shocking statement to me.

If all Google and Facebook couldn't solve it, why could a Tesla engineer of all people...
It would be easier to do what Singapore does. You get a 99 year lease on the land.

When the lease it up, the government takes it back. Between those two time points you’re free to buy and sell.
Will shells or posix standard ever evolve instead of being the obvious gotchas in interviews?
Antabuse (Disulfiram) does not cure alcoholism. I think there's been a translation error from Japanese to English, because I don't believe the Japanese think they have a cure for alcoholism.
I really like this design. The UK has a similar system, where there's always a line across the road whenever road users have to stop or give way. There are different types of lines [1] but even without knowing by heart what each of them means I've always found it obvious what one has to do (based on signs and other road markings).

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/560aa6c7ed915...
How did our corrupt, evil government force XYZ to happen?

I’m sorry but your entire logical structure comes off as absurd to me.

We have a fundamentally evil and absurd government, and you’re asking me how anyone was “forced” to do anything? Really?
sounds like you were driving quite unsafely when you nearly went into the ditch, i'd slow down on such roads
You mean self driving, which they promised would be ready over 5 years ago and still barely at L3 level? Meanwhile Google engineers have actual L4 level self-driving in both Phoenix and San Francisco (by your logic, they are better than Tesla engineers), yet have not managed to solve Youtube's spam problem.
I'm not sure why this is downvoted. This is literally what the CCP is saying, except maybe the part about the efficiency of their vaccine. But other than that, yeah, it is in line. The "0.5% of a billion people is still a lot of people, we can't take that risk" is exactly what they are saying.
This is the last place I would expect to see naive hero worship of Tesla's autopilot software, of all things.
Never heard of it so I had to look this up, OmniOS is a distribution of illumos.

And for those who dont follow closely, illumos is forked from OpenSolaris. And OpenSolaris is a discontinued open-source computer operating system based on Solaris and created by Sun Microsystems.
How much diesel fuel do you need to burn to mine the materials for the 100 batteries each of the 604,163 landscapers would need to abide by this advice?

Electrics are weaker comparably so they wouldn't be appropriate for the majority of work done by landscapers and tree services.

I suppose it would make sense for a homeowner who does the occasional cleanup, but even that has limits unless they have multiple batteries. And you still need to charge them on the grid.

The article dismisses real problems with the plea, which is fundamentally flawed on its face due to immense impracticality.

Not to mention, the extra demand of electricity if everyone went electric for everything would not only send prices soaring; more natural gas and fossil fuels would be required to meet demand and upgrade the infrastructure.

Line trucks don't run on solar.

"Get a rake."

I'd like to see the author, living in a concrete jungle in an overpriced apartment, rake an acre of leaves without crying about blisters or breaking a nail.
Probably for a lot of us, a source code leak is not the end of the world, but leaked secrets (i.e. config vars) should be addressed immediately. Rotating credentials will take time. E.g. 20 heroku apps with 30 secrets per app could realistically take several hours (even days) to fully rotate creds.
That sounds wonderful in theory but it doesn’t seem realistic in general to have this doc explaining a particular constant and why/how it was chosen that doesn’t need updating if someone comes along and chooses a new value. I appreciate that you think you’ve discovered the answer here, but experience tells me it ain’t that simple.