skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it’s more likely they will get more basic facts wrong, and mix up opinion with reporting.

There’s a different type of error distribution.

The baseline issue is that media firms doing boring news are not marginally competitive, against a new cycle driven sensational news channel.

The noisy channel will get more viewers, more ad space and eventually buy out the other channel.

Part of the problem is unbridled efforts to apply psych and marketing research to win market share (a corporate necessity).

And the other part is also an Intellectual malaise in many viewers.

I think we just give it all up and start working for the men with the power. The situation seems unsolvable, and people are pretty much only investing in systems
That propagate this phenomenon.

All news needs to become more boring and fact based - yesterday.

This arms race for attention will not stop. Market competition is a crap system when a common resource is allowed to be exploited - in this case, collective attention.
It must not be a rounding error then. Here in Korea, I see the Starbucks employees sticking around well before opening and closing times doing all sorts of preparations and cleaning. I always wondered whether it was considered part of their shift.
It is strange. I take the Trader Joe’s brand as well and even half of a 500mcg pill is enough for me, and sometimes feels as effective as a a 3mg of 5mg pill from a different brand. Not sure what to make of it, other than maybe all I need is a placebo.
This sounds interesting, but feels like magic. How do the tuples get to where they're going? In my experience, computing bits that feel like magic have hidden costs, that are usually rather high.

Contrast this approach with Erlang, there's still a lot of tuples, but you have to (somehow) know where to send them at a (sometimes high) human cost to developers, but usually low runtime cost.
Melatonin doses of the standard distribution seem great for crazy fucking dreams, but little else.

Drinking two Rolling Rocks or PBR distilleries is more effective;
I think lots of people reading hn have picked it up in recent weeks, I just finished the first two chapters myself :)
There's nothing stopping people from being served different content with packages. Hell, n users could receive n different packages which all pass the GPG check. And since you're getting your checksum from the same site it would look like it had the right checksum too. You would have to find other people you trust to compare it to but since everything appears to be above board why would you even think to do that?

Either you trust the entity you're downloading software from or you don't.
It’s not about that; Congress-people making an inquiry can often cause someone’s visa application to jump to the top of the work pile.

Mozilla could also reach out to the State Department, though under the current administration I wouldn’t expect much help.
It might be like the air marshal version of a security guard route patrol system, where the guard has to swipe a fob or access card at predefined locations in a campus or building periodically. Intended to enforce actually patrolling an area. Not saying it's a good thing, just that's the closest analogy I can think of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_tour_patrol_system

https://www.guard1.com/Products/Equipment/Checkpoints.aspx
Which advice? His advice on this thread began as "don't meet privately with women without a witness". That is not just terrible advice, it's actually unlawful in the US. He's walked that back since then, I think? At least: he says his actions are other than that which he originally recommended. Fair enough --- but now it's incumbent on you to be clear about what you're advising other people to do.

(Advising people not to meet with anyone without a witness is not good management advice, for obvious reasons, but at least it's not unlawful).
thanks - that was a typo.
Roger Sterling married his secretary on Mad Men. The point of that show, and that story arc, was not that things were excellent in the workplace in 1963.
So you only take your car to the dealer for repair? You wouldn’t take it to a competent independant mechanic? What if a certified Tesla mechanic got fed up with Elon Musk’s bullshit and opened his own shop? Would that be reckless? BTW brakes are dead simple. Fixing them is a task any self respecting person should be able to do.
2 other low hanging fruit that make me pause re credibility:

The article butchers the role of intracellular adenosine increases. It would be fairly easy to describe the full mechanism but instead says that Adenosine is made whilst awake and cleared while asleep which is a gross oversimplification and actually pretty scientifically inaccurate.

It further describes UpToDate as 'the gold standard research database' - UpToDate is nothing of the sort - it is a authoritative clinical reference. Think Economist for medicine, except each article is about a condition, diagnosis or treatment and it is updated. But like all clinical references that are produced by humans, it has biases specific to the authors, their clinical practices etc
Ask HN: Planning for living in SV/SF
Does anyone know of blogs or guides (or is willing to share personal experience) about what living in SV/SF is like in terms of expenses for a new software engineer at one of the larger tech companies?

Assuming I land a job like that, I'm really concerned that I won't be able to live here in the long term. It seems like the cost of living is so high that no one can really afford anything, so I'm hoping to understand if there's a path to a sustainable lifestyle.
Just an anecdotal warning. Unisom is not recommended for long term use. I didn't know this and used it for a year straight to combat stress induced insomnia during my first startup. It took me a few years before I returned to feeling "normal". YMMV.
I don’t believe that’s the only logical conclusion. Perhaps there should be some base requirement for people who want to repair something- be it a certification or insurance requirement.

There could definitely be degrees of freedom for repair on specific items, much like there’s a degree of freedom of usage for particular items.

The right to own should not necessarily imply a right to repair for all types of items.
Would you like me to craft you a .deb/.rpm which totally trashes your system? Packages can and very often do leverage the ability to run arbitrary scripts but nothing says I can't do serious damage even without that.
No. There are many ways to understand.

They could witness a close friend or sibling struggling to raise children.

They could simply reason about the commitment of time and money required and take note of all the other things in life that parenthood would require them to give up.
Yes, I ended up reading the article after commenting (shame on me) and edited my answer to contain their answer. Sorry!
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Yes, we're in a different situation than people who preserve old console or PC games because those have a platform that is pretty much known and extensively documented. Even if you can't run the hardware anymore there are emulators that work great. It's harder on closed platforms like Nintendo.

With Flash, I don't know that we'll ever have an open source desktop player to allow preserving these games and allowing them to play on all future platforms. You might as well ask someone to write a complete implementation of Java, with no access to the source code, for free. Eventually we'll probably be stuck with old virtualized editions of windows running old versions of Flash. Let alone the possibility of leaving x86 behind completely.
The article says the desired pumping station would be located 20 miles downstream from the dam. Why would it need to be so far?
Most candidates for programming jobs can't even write Fizzbuzz in whatever language they identify as their strongest language. If you can write FizzBuzz without help, in even one language, you should be fine. Keep doubling down on Go if you like it, and pick up a modest level of knowledge of a couple of other languages.

If you're applying to a company that expects you to know 6 languages, I posit that you're applying to the wrong companies. Find somewhere sane to work. If you're focused on the SV startup scene, maybe broaden your horizons a bit.
I presume they write it down.
Can you share any more details about your life?
> I do want the applications to communicate?

QubeOS adopted the "manual authentication" method (of having to confirm everything, such as clipboard copy/paste).

This is probably not quite scalable (not to mention annoying). May be there's some way to have a short session token, so during a work session of a few hours, it works without any intervention.
Yeah and I have to wonder if company's are reaching out to purchasers who leave negative reviews and offering them incentives to "update" their negative product reviews. I came across a review from a person who bought a Jackery Bolt phone charger who claimed the company did this after she wrote a negative review on Amazon of their product.

>"There was an interesting podcast about this."

Do you happen to remember what podcast this was?
> upside is actually pretty limited.

You're selling the upside short. Having a pool of software devs to draw from who are familiar with the language and typical deployments is a big deal.

The next y2k crisis for this industry will be in a decade or three when there's few left who have experience here.
There are a number of areas on vehicles where failure can lead to injury or death. The reality, though, is that these systems are designed to fail gracefully, and most people that work on cars know how to respect them. Take brakes for example. If you fuck it up on one wheel, the remaining wheels have more than enough stopping power to get you home. If you have a leak, there's two separate circuits, so you should have at least two wheels that will stop you. In addition, the brake pedal being squishy should alert you to a problem. And the parking brake is normally a steel cable that should always work. And most repair manuals, tutorials, and YouTube videos will tell you about common pitfalls and what to watch out for.

And if you think a certified mechanic never makes a mistake, you are sorely mistaken.
If a series of tweets can easily be put into a defined order for consumption then why not just lift the max character limitation and let people make tweets as long as they want? Seems like it’d be an easy slide down that slope once you’re on it.
I have occasionally gotten sad when my wife was like "let's just order a pizza" and I wanted to cook something. Admittedly the cleanup sucks, but putting effort into something, completing it and then almost immediately getting positive(usually) feedback is sometimes rare, and can be incredibly rewarding. And that's just from an analytic perspective!
> But I don’t think it is impossible to build an 808 that would not fool even the most seasoned experts.

This sentence hurt my head...
The IPFS [1] is close to this. Websites (and all other resources) are P2P hosted with a distributed hash table. For example, there's an reasonably uncensorable Wikipedia mirror [2].

I don't know what the state of web apps on IPFS is, but believe some people are working toward a pubsub-based system.

[1] https://ipfs.io/
[2] https://ipfs.io/blog/24-uncensorable-wikipedia/
Brakes was an example.

Imagine the completely hypothetical situation where your self driving car was malfunctioning due to an OTA update. As the owner of the car, would you say you have a right to go into the software and now modify it?

All I’m saying is that there should absolutely be some limit to what you have a right to repair, independent of your ownership.
If you're installing software off some random website then you're already hosed no matter what the install process looks like.

Say you already trust the website you're downloading from, is there an increased security risk doing curl | bash as compared to rpm --import https://example.com/RPM-GPG-EXAMPLE && yum install https://example.com/example.rpm

No matter what you're putting 100% faith in the the server and the TLS connection. There are a lot of reasons to prefer packages, but I don't think security is one of them.
One reasonable solution is to pass laws that any given car can only be repaired [1] by someone certified by the manufacturer AND the manufacturer must provide reasonable-costing open-to-anyone training and certification repair courses.

Do you see a dystopia emerging from such laws?

[1] cosmetics aside obviously
And it's a bit weird to announce it as cross-platform (windows support) and not promote a cross-platform setup/install process.

And through a third party url shortener of all things?! There's no guarantee what'll come out the other side of a bit.ly link... At least leverage github directly, rather than add another level of indirection ...

Looking at the pointer:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nicolargo/glancesautoinsta...

It doesn't even appear to support os x, installs via pip anyway (as root, unconditionally if you happen to have sudo credentials cached, or allow the script to elevate privileges).

This is probably never what you want, with the possible exception of a docker image, chroot/jail or similar.

And it really makes little sense to hard-depend on bash/sh for a cross-platform python utility - if pip install is too complicated, it shouldn't be too arduous to provide a sane python script for installation, that does most of this song and dance [and default to a virtual env] on all supported platforms. It's not like it can run without python, anyway...
> when it's coming from a very prominent trusted source like for Get Pip or Amazon AWS

Not a random website, and they do have an infrastructure.
That's an antipattern, should use keyservers.
I've never bought a fraudulent item, either -- nor have I paid an exorbitant price -- but that's because I'm rigorous when I shop. What I said in my original post is that it takes more effort to shop now.

I don't know what to think about you and other "Amazon is all hunky dory" posters not seeing ripoff garbage all over -- because I see it literally everywhere. Do you not actually shop that much there? (Unlikely, otherwise you wouldn't have posted.) Are you easily duped? (Uncharitable and unlikely for HN demographic.) Do you buy only books?
You're right. The guitar sound in Dire Straits' Money for nothing is an experiment that couldn't be reproduced in another studio in NYC, even when placing microphones and speakers in the same random locations:

https://www.soundonsound.com/people/classic-tracks-dire-stra...

And Phil Collins' gated reverb drums, one of THE sounds of the 80's, were discovered through another random placement of microphones, although (un)luckily this time it was easy to reproduce:

https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/8/18/16162440/recording-stud...
I've recently started rocking a mustache and beard because razors are expensive and I can't be arsed. I think it has to do with how easy it is for people to "read" us. With facial hair it's harder to tell if I'm smiling or generally in a good mood. People fear the unknown? It's hard to empathize with a poker face, and trust in that face.
You must not listen to him recently. I've listened to maybe 15 episodes and haven't heard either of those yet. He's been a pretty level headed host. It could be that he's better than he used to be because I've only listened to recent episodes, but it's been great so far.
Hi atomical, that's an interesting claim. Can you explain more why you believe that? I have listened through a couple of episodes and those made for interesting discussions.
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I watch this guy on YouTube, Louis Rossman, who fixes MacBooks. This reminds me exactly of his experiences. Macs are increasingly more difficult to repair and Apple generally wants to own the repair experience so they can funnel you towards a new purchase.

Cars these days can run half a million miles in their lifetime if you treat them right and replace the pieces that break. Could you imagine a future where cars followed the Apple model?
You could just have the script detect that its stdin is a pipe. E.g., Linux specific:

$ echo 'ls -l /proc/$$/fd/0' | bash
lr-x------ 1 kaz kaz 64 Jul 28 21:03 /proc/23814/fd/0 -> pipe:[4307360]

Here, our script consists of the ls command; it shows that when we pipe it to bash, it finds fd0 to be a pipe.

We can make some code conditional on this to produce a "don't run this script from a pipe" diagnostic.

This is superior to the dodgy, delay-based server side detection because it is reliable.

Also, it still works when someone does this:

$ curl <url> > file
$ cat file | bash

Of course, no protection for

$ bash file
People have written Makefiles for arduino-projects, for example this project:

https://github.com/sudar/Arduino-Makefile

To be honest the simpler way is to do it "by hand", if you enable the appropriate options in your arduino IDE you can see the actual compilation-commands which are executed. Copy and paste them to a Makefile..

I'm very familiar with make, etc, but still use the IDE for my Arduino projects (simple as they might be). I just use Emacs as an external editor.
Kevin Rose also did a podcast with Matthew Walker shortly after the book came out https://www.kevinrose.com/single-post/matthew-walker
anyone here tried breathing exercises to help with better sleep? i am noticing that at times when i am taking deep and slow breaths before sleeping, i have a dramatically higher quality sleep.
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It's hard to tell if you're being snarky/sarcastic or sincere
I'm reading HN because I have insomnia after upping my Melatonin dose from 2.5mg to 5mg at the recommendation of my psychiatrist. I've never had the early morning jolt of energy until the last couple of days. Maybe I'll drop my dosage down to 1.75mg tomorrow. That's about the lowest I can get with these 10mg pills.
Breathing definitely helps me with sleeping and also in many other areas.
Sounds a lot like you’re describing the work being done with Dat and Beaker Browser. Here’s a recent talk by Tara of the Beaker team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ_WvfF3FN8
I did this for a decade. If you drink or smoke pot to sleep you will slowly go mad. They suppress deep sleep.
I've been a fan and have passed it around to everyone with the same (hundreds of open tabs) problem that I have. I mean, I'm still seeing 450 megs of memory use from The Great Suspender, but it's better than the 10+ gigs from those pages otherwise :P
More importantly than replay, I'd say is snapshotting. At a high level, if extension writers et al are given an API to snapshot a page at this level there are many neat things that can be done. One of the biggest is pausing. While some websites will detect long pauses as out of sync most might not see it as any different than a network hiccup, but in general I would like to "pause" any tab not in active focus (maybe except a whitelist like my email). All of the suspension tools in browsers that I'm aware of just store the URL and kill the page, just to reload from that URL in "restore".

I can think of about a dozen other use cases for browser-tab serialization (i.e. snapshotting), esp wrt distribution, remote use, caching, render-and-stop read-only pages, etc.
As someone with at least 30 if not 40 languages behind me, this rings true. Except maybe that language specialists struggle if their language isn't designed for the problem in front of them and are slower in such cases. So called "polyglots" tend to be better when the problems are ill defined or exploratory, where actual invention and creativity are necessary.
Absolutely. I am always worried someone will think .co was me being silly and replace it with .com when giving it to people in person. I normally add "no M" to make sure they realise it's intentional.
Being slightly deaf in one ear, I’ll tend to speak louder and louder to overcome the noise level in a restaurant to the point where I lose my voice.
Correction: The most relaxing vacation you can take is telling everyone you're heading to Mexico and then going nowhere.
IBM is another monster delivering jack squat for big dollars. Canada spent over $1B CAD on a deployment with them for a new payroll system and ended up with diddly squat for that much taxpayer dough.

https://www.pymnts.com/news/b2b-payments/2018/ibm-canada-pay...
I think this is a really worthwile response. By some people's standards, I'm a polyglot. I do C++, C# and Python currently. Ive also done C, VB, VB Script, JS and worked with a multitude of assembly languages (Motorola 68k, Atmel AVR, Zilog Z80, MIPS, x86(64) and a few self designed ISAs in college). I don't prominently advertise these on my CV, theyre in the bottom with the "previously used". I mean being able to read x86 is useful at times debugging, but I've only ever written a few lines, and that was to fix some bad inline assembly in an OSS library.

Point is, having a few tools in the toolbox is great. Knowing when to use each tool is priceless. Having a lot of tools in the toolbox, but not knowing how to use them effectively is the sign of a poor crastman.

Have a few tools, and know them well. That's not to say dont explore and learn, of course do that, but maintain your primary focus on your core skills and dont ignore improving those, either.
Is this Rich Rebuilds? I discovered his videos recently. I found them really interesting and hilarious. I get the impression he does take appropriate safety precautions.
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Yes. The manufacturer sets the certification bar too high (costs) and sells expensive chip coded spares. "Reasonable costs" is open to interpretation.
>in a way that they don't stand a chance of detecting by inspection (or of having proof of after the fact)

What do you mean? They could `tee` curl output to a file (or elsewhere, for archives). They could also suspend passing the output to bash until they've verified the output (perhaps they would run a hash function and compare the result).
Yes so they cant interfere with how it protects them, as another commenter noted.

That parts of a system must be prevented from knowing/interfering with the inner workings of each other to protect the integrity of the whole is a general pronciple in many things Itl think.
I think when it comes down to a conflict between an individual's property rights, and the entirety of future human culture having access to a work to learn from and build upon; I say fuck your individual property rights.

Especially in situations where a work is entirely digital, and preserving the work does absolutely no harm to the owner of said work.
Well, it depends on how the TA's job is defined. If it's to also help students, then code that doesn't pass is very much worth grading. Indeed, the failures may be useful in determining where the student needs help.
Third party sellers can also sell directly to Amazon via something called Amazon Vendor Central. Their products will be "Sold by Amazon". I know someone who was accused of selling counterfeit products to Amazon. He has 3 different accounts all hooked up to its own network.

Another Amazon horror story would be I was listening to an Amazon seller podcast. The person being interviewed sold supplements. He said he imported some herbs from South America, picked them up at the airport, dropped them off at the plant with some bottles, got them, and sent them off to Amazon. Nowhere did he mention fda or anything. I'm hoping things are a lot harder now to sell your own private label supplements on Amazon, like requiring GMP certificates or invoices from a credible manufacturer... Or even worse electronics from China that do not have any of the required testing that retail brick and mortar stores require. Or ah maybe the worst story of all. The Amazon seller who sells used bras as new on Amazon. I stopped buying bras on Amazon after I heard that one at an Amazon seller event.