my tldr of that post: in the context of ideological/political theory, mistake theorists are engineers who want results, conflict theorists are warmongers who want to win.

Perhaps seeing bias in everything is just one of those warmongering traits -- because trust me, it's really hard to win against a neutral point of view.

Food for thought: perhaps people treating everything as fake news is an unfortunate adverse effect of all the messaging about the dangers of not recognizing fake news.

As far as I understand, outrage culture is about shunning popular folks for their imperfect human morality. Could you (or someone else) elaborate on how this is related to this, well, let's call it erosion of neutrality?

It's not just skepticism, that's for sure. How do I put it? It's like assuming there are sides when there are no sides. I'm curious, is there a word for this?

> This is something so many people miss when trying test the limitations of GPT-2. It just doesn't make sense to test it on strings of text that nobody ever writes. To me, the best way to evaluate the usefulness of GPT-2 is to compare it to some actual test that validates a lot of its claims. So... let's do just that.

It might be just chance, but gee -- is this text referring to its own generation as a test to convey a point? The self-referentiality is formidable.

Yet I'm uniquely identifiable. One culprit is screen size putting me at <0.01%.

Does that make defeating fingerprinting on mobile hopeless for the casual user?

Edit: more info. All JS is blocked, and I have privacy.resistFingerprinting. The page doesn't detect my adblocker. Still, there are just too many things I can't change:

- hardware concurrency: 1.7%

- audio formats: 0.2%

- navigator properties: 0.2%

- audio data: 0.1%

I was surprised at this one:

- Media devices: Unique

What are media device identifiers for, exactly? Why does the browser supply it without JS?

> Students can all recite Newton's third law, but immediately afterward claim that when a truck hits a car, the truck exerts a bigger force. They know the law for the gravitational force, but can't explain what kept astronauts from falling off the moon, since "there's no gravity in space". Another common claim is that a table exerts no force on something sitting on it -- instead of "exerting a force" it's just "getting in the way".

Here is some food for thought for educators. If GPT-2 also makes sense of the world by regurgitating what it sees, perhaps this is simply the nature of learning by example, and we should accommodate for this. Perhaps it isn't so effective to give students mounds of problem sets offering clear premises and easy-to-grade answers. Unless you want your students to be GPT-2s.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21729619

A lot of the things we write assume the reader can make connections on their own. That's a writing skill. It's the reason why Hemingway's famous "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" is so impactful. As such I've found GPT-2 to be incredible at writing fanfiction.

As an aside, my favorite variant of this is from an old game Puzzle Pirates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRQIHyC__kc

  ┌────────┬────────────────────┐
  │myreduce│┌─────┬────────────┐│
  │        ││mymap│┌────────┬─┐││
  │        ││     ││myfilter│x│││
  │        ││     │└────────┴─┘││
  │        │└─────┴────────────┘│
  └────────┴────────────────────┘

  ┌────────┬────────────┐
  │myreduce│┌────────┬─┐│
  │        ││mymap   │x││
  │        ││        │ ││
  │        ││myfilter│ ││
  │        │└────────┴─┘│
  └────────┴────────────┘

  ┌────────┬─────┬────────┬─┐
  │myreduce│mymap│myfilter│x│
  └────────┴─────┴────────┴─┘

  (myreduce ∘ mymap ∘ myfilter)(x)

  x | myfilter | mymap | myreduce

  myreduce mymap myfilter x

https://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?\sum_{\substack{i\in[1,...

"sum of all i² where i is in [1,5] and i mod 3 = 1".

I'm probably not the first one to do this. I wrote some CSS that hides all instances of popularity (i.e. karma and comment counts) on HN, lobste.rs, and old.reddit. What motivated this? It was my tendency to ignore possibly-bespoke submissions simply because they had less than X points.

Hiding karma might not be for everyone, but I'd encourage giving it a go and seeing how your behavior changes. Here's how HN front looks for me: https://i.imgur.com/AKmc6Ak.png

I named this user style after the beauty-recognition-disabling tech from a Ted Chiang story:

    "Think of calliagnosia as a kind of assisted maturity.
     It lets you do what you should: ignore the surface,
     so you can look deeper."

    - from the short story "Liking What You See", by Ted Chiang

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22036094

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> When it comes to garbage collectors, though, it’s different. Any way you look at it, they do a job we can’t do without. And the harsh truth is that an increasing number of people do jobs that we can do just fine without. Were they to suddenly stop working the world wouldn’t get any poorer, uglier, or in any way worse. Take the slick Wall Street traders who line their pockets at the expense of another retirement fund. Take the shrewd lawyers who can draw a corporate lawsuit out until the end of days. Or take the brilliant ad writer who pens the slogan of the year and puts the competition right out of business.

> Instead of creating wealth, these jobs mostly just shift it around.

(the article itself[0] tells about how banks in Ireland went on strike for 6 months, but the strike was shrugged off as there was no impact)

[0]: https://evonomics.com/why-garbage-men-should-earn-more-than-...

> But uninstall the Settings app, and you just made yourself a pricey paper weight.

https://nerves-project.org/

https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves