skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well perhaps that is the problem. "The news" used to be about events that had happened, often several days in the past due to the propagation speed of information.

Nowadays "the news" also includes:

1. What someone says might be happening right now.

2. What someone says about something that happened, or which might be happening right now.

3. What someone thinks might happen next.

None of which are necessarily true or grounded in fact but all of which are valued by the media in the race to be first with the headlines.

So perhaps "real news" could be defined as "events which have occurred and for which we have objective proof" and everything else is just "editorial".
It's things like this I wish there was an open source, self hosted gmail clone that's approximately as good as the real thing.
> "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission"

In Swedish this even rhymes. (förlåtelse == forgiveness, tillåtelse == permission). It's a wonderful phrase.
It still makes no sense to me. I apparently have to turn on all the Javascript and allow cookies to see anything more than a blank white page. Then it still adds bugs to all forms of scrolling (space bar, arrows, two-finger swipe), and does weird font stuff that makes parts of the text overlap. Putting that aside, I still have to deal with random shit scrolling at different speeds and background colors changing from time to time.

Ugh. Why?!
"He simply said that some of the illegal immigrants are rapists"

Listen man - you don't go saying 'Americans are rapists' or 'Black people are racists' and then hide behind this rubbish that 'I meant only some of them'.

If Trump meant only 'some' of them - then why did he make the statement at all?

He called 'Mexicans who come to America' rapists?

Why are you people defending him?

The statement is point-blank bigotry.

Trump is not stupid, in fact, he's a populist genius. He knows exactly what he's doing, and he's enciting populist bigotry - which is really, really a bad thing to do.

Again - I like Trump in some ways, and the press definitely treats him unfairly - and I actually don't think that he himself is a racist - but - this was point-blank racist/bigoted/repugnant - there is no way around it. He did it on purpose to rile up the bigot vote.

Trump played some seriously 'black magic' 'dark arts' cards to win that election - despite the fact that most Americans are not racist - it's pretty easy to get people angry over this stuff, and it takes responsible leadership. Words matter.
All the people on the other team. My side only supports decent people, though.
Government vs. private. A media outlet has a full choice in terms of what they send out. They can self-censor and always have. But the government has no business in telling _all_ media what they can or cannot publish. Fake news at its core is not subjective at all. Is Obama on record anywhere saying "I want to institute sharia law"? No. you can write an opinion piece if you think this is the case or have facts but its not _news_ and should be labeled so.
Before spending all that time and money on new equipment and treatments why didn't op consider using something other than emacs?
about that detecting generic text that conveys little information

Can I have that for my email? (Seriously) And as browser plugin? Oh and on telephone, TV, radio and in real-life would be also nice.

It's probably also a nice predictor of startup success, developer quality and sales guy effectiveness.

I just wonder if I would ever read or hear a Politician again.

Very inspiring...
Actually, that was a Bush aide in 2002 talking to a New York Times reporter[1]:

"That's not the way the world really works anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/faith-certainty-a...
I didn’t suggest that the OP was brushing off RSI. I was talking about the somewhat dismissive tone of the poster I was directly responding to. It would be a shame for someone to read such a post and think, “Oh, RSI is an umbrella label for many things. Nobody knows just what my problem is. I’d better just tough through it.” Or similar. Umbrella label or no, RSI is serious business, and can severely impact people’s lives/careers.

I agree with you that features discussed in the OP like being too cold or having emotional stress in your life could contribute to the problem.
> While at Google, his framework for career development led to more than a 10-point bump on engagement scores across hundreds of employees.

This caught my attention too. It is not clear if these improvements were sustained over an extended period of time. Also, what about other metrics? For e.g. did attrition rate change? Did people write better quality software? What was the effect on innovation?

Indeed, career discussions are important. Even more important are the following, which are more about here and now, than the future:

1. Is the work challenging enough?

2. Am I learning on the job?

3. Do my contributions matter?

4. Do I have healthy relationships in the team and with management?

5. Am I concerned about my pay?

6. Do I have a work life balance?

If the above are sorted out, then sure, go ahead and ensure that my future also looks bright.
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Boxing is not a particularly wise choice for an engineer or any other particularly cerebral occupation.
I find it interesting that you did not answer the question, but doubled down on speaking authoritatively about things you seem to not experience yourself.

Childcare for pre-kindergarten aged children is incredibly expensive. If you have more than one child, it is even more so. Even with one, a parent is likely to spend several hundred dollars per month on childcare during work hours.

Public education in a vast many school districts is not covered by taxes. There are school fees parents must pay at public schools. Then there are supply lists, where parents have to go out and buy supplies for their students and their classmates, all of which go to the teacher because the funding doesn't cover having adequate classroom supplies for instruction and activities. Then there are the actual supplies you fill a kid's backpack with. And even that doesn't cover all the needs, so every public school pushes fundraising activities onto the students (and their parents) throughout the year. Add on to that that work hours do not match up with school hours, so most parents add on additional daily childcare costs to have their children at school before school starts, and after it ends until they can leave work to pick up their child.

As far as college is concerned, you're sounding definitively like a non-parent. Most kids aren't ready, no matter how much you try to prepare them, to wake up after high school graduation and tackle college funding on their own. And if you're looking out for your child's financial future, you're likely to encourage them to avoid student loans—because you're still paying on yours and are wanting to help them avoid being in their 30s with kids, paying for that college degree that maybe helped them find a job that pays enough to cover all the expenses of having a family. I know few parents who say, "Well, high school is over, and you're 18 now. Abracadabra, there's the door, good luck!"

If you're lucky to have an employer providing health insurance, sure, you may luck out with a decent plan. But far too many working parents don't have this. Then there are fees to pay for each doctor visit, well-child checkups, and OTC or prescription medications for when the kids get sick—and, being weaponized factories of horrible nastiness who spend their entire days around other such buckets of grossness, they will get sick.

If you actually have children, and don't experience what the vast majority of American parents experience, you're incredibly lucky. Many parents would love to have childcare, education, and healthcare fully covered by their taxes. If they woke up tomorrow and had all these things available to them, I'd be willing to place a large bet they'd never want to go back to anything less—even if it meant mildly lower wages that were at least able to go toward everything else in life. Parents still need to have enough money for food, clothes, birthdays, holidays, vacations, extracurricular activities, sports, and so on—whatever they determine to be part of the life they want to provide their children.
Ask HN: How to scale my interactive installations freelance business?
I run an interactive installations business where I build interactive experiences for museums, public spaces, events etc. think interactive floors, tables, and other custom immersive experiences. How can I scale this beyond my work-for-hire model? thoughts?
-1 be born in USA or get a green card.

Still to be fair are we expecting a single article knocked up in an hour to apply everyone's situation? Not even a book could be that.
Chrome extension warns users about questionable news sources
I cured chronic back pain that I have been suffering for a decade with Calcium and Magnesium supplements. They are cheap - 1 dollar for 20 effervescent pills - and make me feel 10-15 years younger. Another benefit is better sleep (no more chronic tiredness) and less anxiety.

If you have chronic pain check out Ca and Mg - they are essential for muscles. My discovery was by chance, I have been going to doctors, gym, yoga and massage for years with no results. Even run blood tests and they still didn't catch it. Now, I can tell by the feeling in my body when I need a Calcium.

TL;DR - Calcium is for muscle pain. Magnesium is for better sleep, chronic tiredness and anxiety.
Thanks for creating this. I was introduced to Hacker News through your newsletter. When I think I browse too much the site and I want to stop it for some days I know that I won't miss anything because I'll get updates on Friday. Thanks again!
I'm a parent who now knows about her app. If I lived in the states hell I'd probably use it
Google Play roll out 4K UHD Movies starting at $24.99
Breastmilk from obese mothers has decreased neuroprotective factors
Though what he actually said was:

It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.

which isn't quite as catchy.
I liked the first video, it's well made. I think it misses the mark really badly - close to the end, the author realizes that the bots will create a lot of things very cheaply, and yet he doesn't realize that having lots of things very cheaply is NOT a problem :)

We don't want jobs; we want lots of things (and services), very cheaply. Jobs are the traditional way we were getting them. If there's another way of getting them, that will be fine.

One thing I learned from Julian Simon: things always get better. One thing I learned from Christianity: people love to predict the end of the world.

I didn't watch the entire second video; when he started explaining how the taxes are lower in a democracy compared to a dictatorship I just got annoyed.
I wonder, to transition from a democracy with widely distributed production, to a non-democratic regime with concentrated production, without initiating revolution, is it necessary to prepare by destruction of community at the local level and reduction of population's level of education, given educated, connected citizens are more likely to revolt than disconnected, starving, illiterate peasants. That is not something that can be done overnight.

However, I am not sure it is likely that western democracies with diverse economies can regress to sufficiently concentrated ownership of production to facilitate a dictatorial regime. In the case of the US, 0.1% of 350 million is still 350,000, so there are a lot of highly motivated rich people who would like to avoid losing in a winner takes all dictatorship. A government that supports the rule of law, property rights etc. is a necessary 'evil' if you are one of the 0.1% who might lose out in the dictator scenario, as that rule of law is all that prevents the 0.1% from turning into <0.0001%. I think it is easy to facilitate dictatorship in an undeveloped, poor economy, but less so in a diverse, developed economy, even one with significant wealth inequality. The more diverse the economy, the more keys to power.

There is some interesting (and somewhat relevant) commentary on historical thought about paying for government in Mark Blyth's talk at google[1], which contains the following conclusions:

-Democracy is Asset Insurance for the Rich

-Redistribution and Debt is Reinsurance for Democracy

-Austerity is Anorexia for the Economy

His comments on Brazil in the Q&A after the talk are also relevant.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQuHSQXxsjM
Honestly, as weird as cygwin can be, I question the judgement of relying on Linux's chief competitor to keep a mock linux kernel interface as well supported as the OS they really care about. Are you really sure that environment will be working in Windows 11... windows 12? etc?

This just seems like a really bad idea compared to simply running a VM and sharing a filesystem using networking or other means... It's not like a modern machine, even a shitty netbook nowadays, can't handle a virtualbox instance, or localhost networking.
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"Trump is not a lawyer. Linguistic semantics are not his forte,"

Your arguments are not going to fly given the position that he is running for.

The man was running for the President of the United States of America - to speak for all Americans, wherein his words carry incredible meaning.

"And some, I assume, are good people."

No. This 'qualification' does not make the statement any less racist.

"Black people are stupid mongrels and criminals - but I assume that some of them are good people" <--- That's extremely bigoted. This is basically hate speech.

I'm astonished that people could possibly try to defend this particular statement.

He called Mexicans coming to America rapists.

Full Stop.

You guys are using a lot of gymnastics to try to defend what is a point-blank, obvious-as-the-sky-is-blue racist, bigoted and terrible statement.

Words matter.

If you can't stop yourself from calling an entire nation of people 'racists' - if it requires explaining or context - then you should not be running for PUSA.

I don't Trump is actually racist, likely he was just spinning up the bigot vote - but there is no defence of his statements.

Whatever Trump does - even if he does well as PUSA - his legacy will be pretty stained by some comments he made during the campaign.
Now superceded by dnf on Fedora, sadly.
people may say they like your idea, but will they buy it? What people say they will do and what they actually do are two different things.

Testing to see whether people will actually click on an article is way more informative than asking them if they'll click on it. It's not a trick, it's testing customer behaviour rather than customer opinion.
I created a (semi) popular application using C++ & Lua. I used to get automated recruitment mails as a result of that every few weeks.

But then I created a github organization and moved the repositories beneath that instead of under my own login - and at that point the mails ceased, immediately.

I wonder if the crawlers just assumed "Organisation == Company". It was an unexpected benefit anyway.

The only downside is those online sites where they rank your popularity/skills in different languages now only consider my personal repositories and I'm not longer in the top 5% of C++ coders. I can live with that!
Nice to see more Perl here.

I too use Perl for most applications. These days I mostly use CGI::Application, which is great, although I've started to experiment with using Dancer (which is kinda like Ruby's sinatra framework) with success.
I want to know how many hours went into this.

I've played around with Blender, and this seems like it would take months of effort. But for a professional with a decent workflow and total knowledge of the tool, how long did it actually take?
An Intro to CSS in JavaScript
My BF is doing CrossFit,and his back pain rarely comes back now.
Drupal Fixes 'Moderately Critical' Vulnerabilities in Core Engine
Analogies can be more harmful than helpful for understanding issues like this but...

...this seems a lot like if a POTS/VOIP provider announced that instead of charging you the same rate per minute no matter who you called, they were going to start charging you less for some calls, and perhaps even make some phone numbers free to call.

Which now that I write it down like that actually does sound a bit dodgy! (And would sound even more so if you were viewing it from circa-1980, when phone calls were vastly more important, and AT&T has vastly more power and reach than any comparable ISP today.)

Except, of course, we've accepted that sort of price discrimination on phone calls forever, and with 1-800 and 1-900 numbers (or equivalents) we've long been of accepting of very explicit skewing of the costs of phone calls based on business deals worked out between the phone company and the content provider.

So I dunno. I see some arguments in favor of having the providers of networks be strictly neutral when it comes to content. But it also feels to me like this is not a principle we've adopted in other cases, and (for me at least) it's actually quite hard to discern the harm that "harmful zero-rating offerings" are causing.

In fact, I'm not even entirely sure who's meant to be harmed; are we trying to protect consumers or content creators? The article seems to suggest it's other content creators. Which brings up an interesting thought experiment: If zero-rating is fine, would it be okay for AT&T to charge some data at higher rates, and then split the profit with the content creators? :) Eg, "AT&T now offers Netflix as a premium service; all AT&T customers now have a full access to the Netflix service! (Note, higher premium data usage rates apply when viewing premium Netflix content)" Would that be okay? Would it be harmful? To whom would it be harmful? :)

(Note, incidentally, that I live in a country where for many years international data was charged at a higher rate than national data, for fairly obvious reasons involving undersea cables. There's no historical precedent that says all data must be charged the same, even if your personal experience has been that it has been for you.)
That's how I learned English. Hung around on IRC a lot.
One of the biggest issues is they are not held accountable by any agency or law. For name, address, and social security number, there is no official regulation as to how they must be stored. For credit card data, there is the pci security standards. Which often subject institutions who choose to store payment information, to audits, as well as fines for violation. There still is no such standard for other personal information, SSN included.
I half agree. The road transport portion can easily be automated when self-driving trucks are automated. It's just the loading and unloading (from, as you suggest, a private home) that will be much harder to automate.

So, you call a service that auto-drives a big container over to you, puts it in your driveway, and leaves. You load your furniture into the big container or hire "loaders" to come do it for you. You call the service, and an automated truck comes, picks up the box, drives it to its destination, puts it in the new driveway, and leaves. You unload it yourself or hire someone, and when it's empty, another automated truck comes by and gets the container.

For urban destinations (no driveways), you call the truck and have loaders/unloaders waiting. For driveways that are blocked by cars or whatever, the truck calls home and a remote operator makes some choices, but he won't have to stay with the truck on the road, so he can manage a whole fleet and doesn't do any loading or unloading.

The loading and unloading? Yes, some humans will have to do it for a long time. The road transport? You can automate that part separately.
There are four major categories of jobs that can resist automation:

1) Entrepreneurs and organizers who initiate new products, services, movements, or new styles of arts and interactions.

2) People experts--designers, entertainers, artists, experience enhancers, high-level service personnels, value-enhancing salespeople--who understand deep human needs and use their creativity, empathy, interpersonal skills, and technology to realize them. Routine "people jobs" that customers wouldn't pay more to interact with humans could be replaced by AI agents, in some cases in humaniod robotic bodies.

3) Well-rounded analysts who can communicate with clients and stakeholders and translate their needs into fairly high-level specifications for automation technology to perform. Low-level programming jobs will increasingly become more of a niche as software & platforms can adapt better through machine learning and upcoming AI advances. More and more software will be programmable, implicitly and explicitly, by end users.

4) Locomotion specialists--physical therapists, specialist nurses, dentists--who integrate theoretical knowledge and experience with their flexibility and dexterity. Robotics technology will take a good many decades before it can cost effectively compete with these experts. I think we may achieve human-level ability to think and solve problems flexibly before these people are challenged.

(Let me know if there are categories I miss.)

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It seems to me categories 1) and 2) above may have the most openings for workers in the future. Education systems in most of the world are badly inadequate for preparing people for those jobs, however. The worst-fit systems are in developing countries where they are still heavily rooted in models for training 20th century industrial workers. Open-ended educational models like Montessori need to spread much more widely to prevent inequitable jobless future for the masses.

Note: Basic income is orthogonal to having respectable occupations and providing value to community. It is likely that human psychology has been shaped, culturally and even evolutionarily, in a way that people need a purpose and a valued occupation to live and feel well. (Perhaps the average number of working hours will be reduced to 3-4 hours per day and people will be free to pursue their hobbies and social activities.)
3) 2), except they don't succeed. Reference: Guillotine, France, 1792.
I would be interested.
So no Ctrl+C to bail out of apps? Is there an equivalent?
>The only thing changing is who is paying for the delivery, and the consumer can still make a conscious choice about whether to avail themselves of that offering.

The customer is still paying for the delivery, even when it is zero-rated. It comes down to the fact that the ISP is incentivizing users to use the zero-rated service over its competitors.
Nope. I think that all the time as well. He rushes way too much and he tries to do too many things. It's infiltrating to me because I want him to suceed. He needs to slow down, IMO.
I meant two things: normalizing and expanding the security state to hand it over to Trump, and many of the more positive developments immediately repealed. No, these haven't happened yet, but they're the obvious default course of events now.