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fundingshovelon Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining

I use it for this a lot.

fundingshovelon 'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised

Even if you do they might? Good service in app can lead to shorter wait times for people that need to talk to humans

Anybody else have to triple check it wasn't just The Onion trolling?

fundingshovelon How the dream of cheap streaming television became a pricey, complicated mess

How is it anglocentric? To me it seems the opposite.

This is be being unable to buy the show in Russian, in the united states. Region locking doesn't just prohibit US content from being played elsewhere, it prevents Americans from seeing a lot of amazing things produced around the world just as readily.

fundingshovelon Show HN: I made a platform for journalists to “open source” their fact checking

Neither your, nor my politics have absolutely nothing to do with the accuracy of your information, though if anything, we should hold our own side to a higher standard. There are so so many easily verifiable things to write about, that its beyond pointless to trash our credibility over things that are proven inaccurate with a little bit of fact checking. I mean, Phillips being the wrong age to have been in Vietnam, as he claimed to Vox, would have been trivial to detect with any fact checking at all, and should have raised flags about the rest of his narrative.

No one here is even trying to advance narrative high school boys are angels, with a bit a of digging it's pretty easy to find things that Covington Catholic does may well deserve the level of public shaming that this story got.

However in this case, the entire narrative has been pretty widely disputed, Caitlin Flanagan does it much more elegantly than I could.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/media-must...

As for the source, why not go to the original, like any responsible journalist should have, copy of the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwNyOD8FIQk

Feel free to tell me when you hear them chanting "Build a wall", I haven't heard it.

The first widely reported, and easily proven incorrect fact is that Nathan Phillips is a Vietnam Veteran, see fairly through coverage of that here:

https://www.businessinsider.com/native-elder-nathan-phillips...

So really you're asking me to believe the narrative of someone who is proven to be lying about his military service, with no corroborating video of his claims, which just seems a bit ludicrous.

edited: spelling

fundingshovelon Show HN: I made a platform for journalists to “open source” their fact checking

The article was modified, and the sections in your quote added. I should have used the internet archive originally.

See: https://web.archive.org/web/20190120030012/https://www.vox.c...

fundingshovelon Show HN: I made a platform for journalists to “open source” their fact checking

https://www.vox.com/2019/1/19/18189668/white-students-maga-g...

https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/maga-hat-wearing-teens-tau...

fundingshovelon Why Bother with What Three Words?

Why not just build an SMS gateway for emergency services with GPS coordinates and call it a day? It seems like the important bit is the gateway, not the 3 word response

fundingshovelon What Happens When You Try to Sue Your Boss

20% is far better than 1%

https://www.fastcompany.com/40440310/employees-win-very-few-...

fundingshovelon Data Mining Reveals Factors That Lead People To Make Blunders in Chess (2016)

It's poorly written press coverage of https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04956

tl;dr We find strong evidence that in our domain, features describing the inherent difficulty of an instance are significantly more powerful than features based on skill or time.

fundingshovelon Facing net neutrality critics, Verizon lifts data caps on public safety workers

This a fire dept wanting people outside of taxable area to pay for it's data usage and calling it "Net Neutrality" for news coverage.

Sighs. So much fail.

fundingshovelon Fakernews: Builds a Markov chain using HN post titles and generates fake posts

I wish someone would write even half of these.

fundingshovelon Insurance copays are higher than the cost of the drug about 25% of the time

It's easier and more affordable to leave than you'd think.

fundingshovelon Insurance copays are higher than the cost of the drug about 25% of the time

Aren't most people advocating for the removal of the DEA not the entire FDA?

fundingshovelon Study Finds Increased Incarceration Has Marginal-To-Zero Impact on Crime

Only if you can afford to pay them. Otherwise they linger for quite some time.

fundingshovelon Apple’s $1T Milestone Reflects Rise of Powerful Megacompanies

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204055

It's pretty well supported?

fundingshovelon Hackers Breached Virginia Bank Twice in Eight Months, Stole $2.4M

That's not what this is staying at all though. It's saying "In order to get paid you must show you took reasonable precautions not get hacked AND get hacked." It's pretty hard to argue ignoring a known issue for 9 months is taking reasonable precaution. I don't see how that's any different then not paying when someone falls on because of broken steps you knew about and didn't fix, which would be pretty common.

fundingshovelon MSU Scholars Find $21T in Unauthorized Government Spending

No, but the report is about journal voucher adjustments which isn't spending exactly spending.

The report says not that they're "spending" $21T, but that they made a cumulative amount of errors and corrections in their vouchers equalling $21T and have really poor audit controls.

While bad audit controls is a legitimate and serious problem, it very much is not the same as what people normally think of as "Spending".

fundingshovelon MSU Scholars Find $21T in Unauthorized Government Spending

Read more carefully, that's the total of all improperly accounted for transactions, not lost money.

While it's still a complete shit show. There's a huge, almost click bate difference.

fundingshovelon MSU Scholars Find $21T in Unauthorized Government Spending

Yes... Using that link a source... the US lost more than 4 times what every country in the world INCLUDING the US legitimately spent.

Or approximately 1/3 of the of the entire us GDP, compared to the 3% listed.

fundingshovelon MSU Scholars Find $21T in Unauthorized Government Spending

Same, the article states that the Army alone is missing $6.5 Trillion from 2015...

Roughly speaking that's like 8.8% of the GDP of the planet. That... just doesn't make sense.

fundingshovelon E Pur Si Muove

In general people from certain regions do have lower IQs... What makes this bad thing to study? Is the cause culture? Genetics? Education? I think the entire point of article is that asking the question somehow makes you a bad person, instead of a person with a controversial idea.

fundingshovelon Stanford University data glitch exposes truth about scholarships

You mean overestimate?

fundingshovelon A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to Learn Foreign Languages

This. Almost everywhere you go, there will be a lot of people trying to speak English with you.

fundingshovelon Competitive Self-Play

Just like mines... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_the_Ottawa_...

Seeing how the US has yet to sign the Ottawa treaty I wouldn't call it easily agreed on by any means.

fundingshovelon Ask HN: What are good tech jobs that don't require being good at interviewing?

You most likely work on your field specific skills orders of magnitude more often/intensely. What have you done to develop your foundational skills in general? Where are you weak? Where are you strong? What have you studied recently to make them better?

fundingshovelon Ask HN: I’ve been applying to a million jobs

The title made me hope he had written a bot to literally to a million jobs.

fundingshovelon Overlearning hyperstabilizes a skill by making processing inhibitory-dominant

Is there an free copy of the article not just the abstract?