skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's definitely a great question. Even if the articles separately would be considered mere reporting, is the creation of the tool part of the journalistic process?

Another good one might be whether there's an inherent gain in machine-generated news to play by the same rules and constraints as regular human generated news? Is a traditional news article the correct format for a machine generated news, or if some of the constraints of traditional articles are due to human limitations. Basically, which of the rules of traditional articles are due to the creator and which are there to make it easier to consume the information for the reader.

Is there a gain in creating 1 000 articles of company earnings versus condensing or distributing the same (roughly) information in another manner. Mainly, would the reader be able to gain more from news created in another format or medium.

What happens here, is it similar to when newspapers moved from print to web? Initially staying in almost the same format as they had been for hundred years?

When we talk about tools and intermediate forms in relation to journalism and journalistic process, there's also the question of transparency. Is only the end product journalism, or is the end product only a medium for the message? For example, The Correspondent has been a vanguard in this front in traditional journalism, opening up the intermediate forms of the process to the public.

Should we consider for example the aforementioned "thousands of articles on company earnings reports from each quarter" as a intermediate form, rather than the journalistic end product - just a transparent intermediate form? If so, through that lens, is article as a format still the best means for sharing this information?
Instagram Needs to Do Much More to Protect Users from Harmful Content
General Mattis was able to change Trump's opinion on "enhanced interrogation" by saying you can get more information by giving a guy a beer and cigarette rather than waterboarding them

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/11/23/mattis-trump-...

Once you start torturing people they'll tell you whatever you want to hear just to make it stop
Wow, almost every sentence in your post is at least partially wrong.
That was literally my first guess, and he flatly said it was wrong and not reliable, and to try again. I'm not joking here.
A philosophical conversation on the meaning of life is good.

People attempting suicide due to suffering caused by (treatable) mental illness is an entirely different thing.
This reminds me of Magritte's The Treachery of Images [1] and Calvin and Hobbe's Photo Lies [2]. All images are inherently lies - colors aren't completely accurately reproduced, perspectives are changed - so what is the threshold for manipulating the subject until the photographed subject should be deemed "fake?"

I think that it lies on a spectrum, that a dolled up cheeseburger could be more fake in the sense that a telephoto black-and-white picture could be less authentic than a color photo taken at a focal length of ~40mm, but it depends on the viewer whether to accept or reject a photo as true.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
[2] http://stevestenzel.blogspot.com/2013/12/photography-lies-fr...
very interesting medical case history. i assume that the guy had a metabolic disorder of some kind, although a unique gut microbiome might have been at play too.
I've already done the rough math. It'd use a Northern Tool 5x8 trailer that costs $550 or less on sale. The $1000 price point is for a basic box to sleep in and store possessions. There would be additional plans for larger builds and more amenities for people with a larger budget. No welding necessary, only basic wood construction.
I had success with the following technique:

Printed a spreadsheet with how much I was earning annually, bonuses, performance, estimated salary adjustment in 6 months, 12 months etc.

Put this physical paper on the table and said: "I want to earn 30% more than this".

Two hours later, got an offer with such number.
Fortnite creator Tim Sweeney is done talking about blockchain
The wage gap is real, although I feel like I see an anti ${insert_tech_company_here} article on NYT just about everyday attacking Facebook, Amazon, Apple, etc.

None of these tech companies are on a moral pedestal but also, none of these media outlets are on any moral pedestal. These are the same folks who championed the Iraq war. Look, I’m not saying there isn’t a significant wealth disparity, but I do think people should consider the NYT motives.

It couldn’t be that thry hate tech because these large tech companies are direct competitors in the advertising space?
I was using an analogy to express a point that because one organization chooses to fund opensource, the fact that another doesn't isn't expressly taking away anything.

That aside, I do feel most of what is publicly funded via tax dollars taken by threat of force should be open. This includes data and software (other than expressly licensed, commercial off the shelf software). I'm not as hardline as some on this, but I do feel that way.

The Communist POV would be that all software, data and access be restricted and expressly owned by the government and not really the people.

Open-Source is socialism if the government is forcing people to pay for it... so long as its' a collective voluntary thing not enforced by the government it is in fact not communism/socialism but a part of marginalizing that software which is not a core business component.

The point I was making is the government shouldn't be choosing for me... however, given that the government does fund software development for its' own needs, that development should probably be open.

For the CnC example, I've stated in other threads that I don't feel commercial software should be required to be opened if it exists and is licensed via govt contract vs. developed for.
The cows one at least, is likely true. Cows are very curious and will tear into anything new. Especially any new box they find. Not a good idea to let them get up near your house, but not that uncommon either.

I once saw a cow take a big cow sized bite out of the brand new, exposed vinyl seats of a speed boat that was parked in the driveway. She didn't seem to like it, but she took a few more bites just in case.
If the culture is early merge and you choose to late merge you will be skipping the line and people will resent you for it.

If I see an opertunity to late merge I will often choose to stay in the late merge lane, but match speed with the traffic in the early merge lane, then zipper when I have to. People notice that I haven't cut anyone off or skipped the line, and people usually fill in behind me and I'm able to transform an early merge queue into a late merge queue.

You shouldn't late merge if it blocks a thruway. If a single lane highway has a backed up exit ramp then exiters should join the queue as soon as possible instead of late merging and blocking the highway.
The way to avoid queue jumping is to match speeds, then zipper-merge when the lane ends.
> This article is just "hey Whole Foods is expensive and trendy, has anyone noticed this?"

The "controversy" was just Red Tribe scoring points on Blue Tribe, nothing more.

(Never mind that putting Whole Foods in the Blue Tribe is pure stereotype, it's a well-known stereotype, and a potent one. Remember the hate Obama got for ordering arugula?)
This isn't true. Poorer people have fewer assets. You can live in a smaller space and still be wealthy in terms of assets.
From a human factors perspective, whether you can know what it will do isn’t sufficient. What matters is whether you will know when it matters, even if you’re tired or distracted and panicking because you’re rapidly approaching a kid that stepped onto the road.

I would expect the likes of Volvo to make the traditional brakes pull in when regenerative braking lacks power. They tend to have a huge human factors department.
Thank you so much for sharing your research.
US white, non-Hispanic population: 61.3%....
Swedish white, non-Hispanic population: easily 90%+
What I think the biggest part of it might be, really, is the size of furniture and other "things" people think they need.

If you tried to fit two couches and three chairs into our living room like my parents have, it wouldn't work.

We also don't have a "kitchen table" and a "dining room table" like my parents do.

Yes, we'd probably have a hard time hosting 30 people for a holiday, but that seems like an odd standard to base your home purchase around.
Have you considered using DuckDuckGo or do you just prefer the results Google provides?
Several Photo Editing Apps Found Stealing Users Photos
I've been planing a major move myself and one of things that is important to me is downsizing the heated living area, so that I can maximize my workshop space. (e.g. something sized like a 3 bedroom 2 bath home with a 2 car garage, only with the area devoted to living space and garage space flipped).

As far as I can tell these tiny homes are more expensive per square foot than small single-wide mobile homes and offer few advantages: you can pull them with a truck the size that most people can drive and as most have lofts there's more usable space per square foot.

In any event finding places put either a tiny or mobile home that winds up costing less than renting an apartment in a major corporate owned complex is not easy.
In addition to the obvious disadvantage of the Google login requirement, Google Contribute doesn't remove all ads –– just Google ads.
I actually came here to say the same thing (only I was going to be much more verbose).

The fact of the matter is that people buy even sillier things for much more than $6. If you're happy with your $6 asparagus water, then I don't see what the problem is. In fact, the only time I would suggest that something bad is going on is, I think, when you try to convince me I'm the one in the wrong for not enjoying your weird and expensive food.

Their statement indicating it was a mistake is actually much worse:

"It was made incorrectly and has since been removed."

So, you sold people a product that was made incorrectly. So incorrectly that you have permanently discontinued the product. Selling something stupid that doesn't take off isn't a crime, but selling something that was made "incorrectly" to such an extent that it has to be banished forever actually does sound like it should be a crime. Like, if I sold uranium water and realized it was actually horrible and not as I previously thought good so I removed it forever, then there should probably be some sort of a fine involved at the very least.

Culturally this whole thing stinks. People enjoy silly things that cost too much money. Ideally, this wouldn't happen, but technically I don't see the harm. We all have to do something and if your something seems silly and expensive to me that shouldn't be a reason for me to try to stop you from having your fun.

But when people try to join in and start a new silly and expensive trend, the cost of failure shouldn't be absolute ostracization. We need people to try new things or else no progress is made. If we're going to accept some silly things, then we should accept people trying to start any silly thing. And at any rate, asparagus water isn't where I would draw the line. Is expensive water really where we want our moral outrage to be focused on?

And the worst of it is that the excuse they have is horrifying. If they just said, "sorry we messed up," then we could all move on with our lives. But instead they said that they, a high end food distribution service, provided their high end customers with a defective product. So defective in fact that they had to treat it like radioactive waste and banish it to Yucca mountain until the end of time. And it worked.

Try something stupid that's basically the same as all the other stupid things that have already been normalized. Your company deserves to be destroyed. Excuse yourself by saying you were only trying to commit war crimes. Oh never mind, that's fine then.
Resolving overlap might be the fun part, depending on your psychology. For these types of people there's really no use for predictive anticipation as it can spoil the opportunity to solve unique problems :-)

BTW I "automatically" created a planet while sitting in a boring church meeting last Sunday. I used a kind of "dice gradient" method with the dice app on my phone. "How hospitable is this planet?" OK, so a 2. Not very. What's the temperature? 2 again. Geez, it's freezing.

Anyway after about 15 rolls the planet turned out to be used as some sort of ancient computing device, channeling surface air as a cooling method. The ~20 person exploration team was struggling to get past even the most rudimentary underground security, with indications that the past custodians of this world had significant leverage over physical objects, perhaps through technological means.

A lot of fun, working this up :-)
I say that most sushi restaurants in N America go by using sushi grade fish that was probably processed by a fish monger, not the chef.

Aging fish really comes into play for high end sushi, where the chef is after some chemical reactions can only happen over time, it's not rot, it's more like it had time to rest and develop flavors that it would not have had if it was just straight from the fish right after it was caught.
Even in 'Tech' companies, there are the very highly paid and the others who are not paid enough.

Execs, senior programmers, project managers make a lot.

And than there are the office support staff, customer service staff, etc that are not really in the 'Tech' company pay scale.
Firstly, it won't work because designing a profanity filter can only ever be an eternal game of cat and mouse - there are always going to be new words or ways of r3wr1t1ng the same words. This doesn't take into account the problem of multiple languages.

Secondly, age-appropriate is a far more complex challenge than simply filtering out "bad" words. Anything can be reworded. Families differ in which words they consider acceptable at each age. If you really want to make an online service safe for young children, you probably shouldn't be matching them with unapproved strangers to talk to in any form.
Quirky products don't bother me. What bothers me more is fraudulent labeling of weights of store-packaged foods sold by weight (meats, etc). https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2015/06/whole-foods...

Unfortunately this isn't uncommon in the grocery industry. Stores most often get tripped up when they sell something by the pound, package up nominal pounds of the stuff, then label each of those packages as precisely one pound when such precision is unlikely. Next time you're in the store take a look at the packages of ground beef; they'll say "$x per pound" and they should then also list a precise weight of that particular package with a price calculated for that particular package. Sometimes, not too infrequently, stores will cut corners and simply label each package as precisely one pound, with the error systematically in their favor.

If you believe you've discovered a store doing this, you may be able to report that store for investigation by your local weights and measures: https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/dms/index.html
The problem is, as important as issues like this are, whichever party you vote for you are likely to disagree with 20+% of their platform, so its just a game of 'best fit'. Minority interests like this lose out in that process because many more people are happy for it to be part of their own personal '20% I disagree with' (or more likely '50% I don't understand') than other big picture issues.

What's worse, theres no guarantee that theres sufficient overlap in everyone's 'parts of the platform I agree with' that ANY of their policies actually have the support of even 50% of the party's own voters. (This is the public choice theory of politics).

Party list systems then make this a bit worse because they make it easier for parties to discourage independent voices since few politicians will have sufficient personal following to be able to buck the machine over the long term.

The only realistic way in my view to get things like this changed is to buy into the system therefore - engage in lobbying of the existing parties, and have sufficient people join those parties, become involved in the party policy development mechanisms and stand for office for those parties to change them from within.

I think that's sadly something that activists for digital rights (for want of a better term) have not fully bought in to, and its why we keep seeing this pattern play out as a 'best case'.
Only the largest publications can afford or have the clout to have experts writing their stories. I don't trust WiRED to write a biology article, but with a big story NYT will reach out to a professor in the field and publish their input on the topic, for instance.
Since it's sort of related and likely of interest (although this is not a tiny house), I'll share again my HN comment about an earthship I saw:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18487704

See downthread from that comment for links to the place, the guy who built it, photos, etc.
"Kind of silly that he got a lengthy sentence after arguing that he was "testing" the software, didn't spend any of the money, and returned it all when asked."

Everything about the story indicates that he was lying, and only returned it when he was caught.
Can you be specific about what you find problematic about that?
Free trade would lift hundreds of millions out of poverty.

https://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/sites/default/files/post...
You shouldn’t name your variables after their types
We aren’t talking about raw networking; generally a QUIC implementation uses the kernel UDP stack, which buffers packets until read.
We moved to sendgrid around the same time. Our deliverability took a hit, and I'm not the keenest on their very narrow window of email data they keep... but no real shenanigans, very straight forward, and the one significant outage of theirs I can remember they handled it well.
Is this sarcasm? He had no intention of returning anything until he was caught. The only thing he was testing was whether he could get away with it.
There are TCP proxies designed to make it work better over lossy links. These are frequently found in satcom modems.

An example of this is SCPS-TP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Communications_Protocol_...
Saying that something is not trustworthy is literally saying it is not something that is able to be relied upon to be truthful. This means one should not assume the source is correct. It certainly doesn't mean to assume it is wrong.
This reminds me of the day I noticed that some records in our database had UUIDs with uppercase letters while others had lowercase letters. It didn't require much digging to find out that it was dependent on their origin. One kind was generated by the database the others by Java code.

In our case it wasn't a problem, but I couldn't help thinking that this was a nice information leak where you could find out some property of a dataset that was never intended to be retained. Just imagine that you mobile sign-ups had one kind of UUID and your web sign-ups the other kind. Though you might not explicitly store the information how someone signed up you inadvertently really do.

And now if you are tempted to ask why we stored our UUIDs as strings - just don't...
Regarding the whole "automation is making people lose jobs", this survey may be of interest (particularly Question B):

http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/robots
I've lived in a ~250sqft 1940's era wood train car for the past 9 years, with my wife and now a newborn. It is doable if you enjoy the constraints and how it affects your decision making. I live about 5 miles from Seattle in a very rich neighborhood (a few blocks from the Paul Allen estate) on a large piece of land that is set aside as a reserve, while most of my neighbors have 5000sqft houses. As long as you have amenities (washer, dryer, full kitchen, shower, dishwasher) like I do then it's not some sort of struggle, it's more a set of limits to optimize against.

My neighbors can't tell if I'm eclectic and rich or weird and poor. It's a good thing.
And twilio seems to be very serious about uptime. Not sure if it translated to all the facets of their business, but phone services being down will lose you customers quickly.
De-Health: All Your Online Health Information Are Belong to Us
Less stigma but absolutely nothing changed. Also, Zuck is going to merge FB, IG & WA so your circles have effectively done nothing.
Just another data point: I have an Anova Immersion circulator and have made some good steaks with it, but in my experience, reverse searing works even better [1]. Reverse sear entails pre-cooking the steak in your oven at a lower temperature and then searing.

The steak from the oven is less wet compared to sous vides so it sears better. The crust tastes better than a sous vides steak.

[1] https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2018/10/reverse-seared-s...
I have a generic question which I ask in all interviews, whether hiring for a dev, manager, project leader. It works wonders for me.

For each position in the candidate's resume (or the last 3 if the resume is too long) I ask "what did you like about the job? what did you dislike? What made you happy to go to work and what made you drag your feet? It can be anything: boss, coworkers, how work was organized, office politics or lack thereof, visibility/interest of the job, commute time, offices... There are no wrong answers". Then I let them talk.

When it's done right, I find this is a great way to understand what motivates them and to make sure their intrinsic motivation is aligned with the position they're applying for and the company context. For instance, for a developer I'll be interested in someone who likes fixing problems; for a project manager, being result-oriented is usually a good thing. Someone who likes having a clear set of steps to follow is probably not a good match for my management style. Another thing that I can check is how they coped with a situation they disliked. Did they try to address it, work around it, or did they give up/avoid it?

I was first exposed to this approach as a candidate. I remember spending 90 minutes talking about all my previous positions, reflecting about what I'd liked and disliked for each of them, and coming out of there knowing more about myself than I did going in.
People in the desert learn to worship thirst
Move to mailgun https://www.mailgun.com/

I was already angry enough when mailchimp merged mandrill with its main service
Those are bizarre, I bought one as a gag gift once. Maybe I'm part of the problem and those products survive off their novelty factor?
If an employee can only provide $10 of value to a business per hour, let's say, then employers have no incentive to hire them if the have to pay > $10/h. $8-10/h is better than no pay.
Ok, we've put in some punctuation above.
The French are known for their...unique appetites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito
GitHub Release Radar · January 2019
very low-effort article with generic claims lacking any new information. i'm wondering if articles generated by AI/bots will look like these.
Git does store deltas between files to reduce space. Every so often it stores a full copy of the file to improve performance.

Perhapps patch was the wrong word, but a delta and a patch are the same in my mind.

I am sure everything, including pijul, does diff generation on the fly of the full files at different points. It would be faster than figuring out the difference of patches alone.
Seems to possibly be the same issue as that discussed on another frontpage article: https://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/archives/970-How-long-will... / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19082944