skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that "news organisations" still have any journalistic integrity is an absolute joke. Most now amount to nothing more than opinion blogs and biased propaganda against political party X or Y.

The decline of integrity in mainstream media is actually what has gotten us into this mess. If the quality of mainstream news reporting did not decline so widely there would not be a vacuum for sites like JoeBlowKnowsTheTruth.com to draw an audience.

News organisations and their journalists are completely responsible for the scenario and trying to blame anyone else is just a scapegoat for their own bad work, the consequences (decline in readers/revenue, journalist layoffs) are theirs to face.
> MSM won't get my dime while they push political agendas instead and target the opposition

I think you mean, mostly (with a few exceptions), tell the truth? I feel like you're likely searching specifically with news agendas you agree with, rather than reading a broad range of mainstream sources and pulling the threads together yourself.

I mean, if you really want very dry, just fact news, follow a news agency [1], but I suspect you don't really want facts...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_agency
I apologize. Misworded for sure, but a patent with no enforcement is hardly a patent in the business sense. They get the credit of invention, but not the financial reward.
I subscribe to:

* https://www.bendbulletin.com/ - the local paper. They're the only ones with a reporter sitting through sometimes excruciatingly long city council meetings full of stuff like 'modifications to the sign code' - but also things like zoning reform that may make housing not so horribly expensive.

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/ online - seems to be a decent national level newspaper. You can also get a deal on it via Amazon Prime.

* https://www.economist.com/ - good coverage of events around the world, and some more in depth analysis.

It's probably too much, but... I feel like these are critical times in terms of being informed and involved.
And it doesn't even have to be users in the signed-up sense if you simply have access logging turned on for your web server; 50k unique IPs would be enough.
But Google already broke Apple's TOS, so it seems like Apple still has grounds to revoke their license.
Unrelated, I read some of your posts about your PhD research. Sounds fascinating! Best of luck.
Are the articles false? I don't really understand the reasoning here. Facebook is one of the richest and most powerful companies in the world now, why should NYT not report on them? One straightforward way for FB to stop this reporting would be to stop doing shady things.
Leaving aside whether that's something to reasonably get upset about (how are people supposed to know exactly which facts are known to every single reader of their comment?), the way you're describing it seems pretty identical to the now-mostly-anachronistic expression of being "jewed" out of some money. The fact that the target of the slur doesn't have to be Jewish doesn't make it better; in fact, it kind of makes it worse. Hell, at least my example has its roots in a time when casual racism/sexism were accepted _pro forma_, and the term is slowly dying out. It seems to me your example is even less excusable.
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/20/opinion/saddam-s-bombs-we...
> If your code is huge and in one repo, you're going to end up with 100k+ tests, because a one-line change might affect anything in the codebase, so you better test everything every time. If you design your apps well, you can segment your application into discrete components that do not depend on each other.

If you have suitable infrastructure (this is not easy, but think tracing system calls, filesystem accesses, and function calls), you can automatically track the dependencies of tests as they run, in a similar way to automatic tracking of dependencies when building things.

If you do that, your discrete components will emerge naturally and don't need artifical separation to reduce the amount of testing.

Even better, if it is properly robust, you can safely cache test results and automatically skip tests that don't interact in any way with things that have changed since the last time.

That completely changes the scaling of test times for large codebases.

In principle, this can be more reliable than separating components into separate repos and pretending that testing them separately is enough, because changes in one repo can affect functional test results in another, and automatic tracking may pick up on that.

All that said, it's difficult to set up the infrastructure to trace things at the right granularity to limit false dependencies (for example, referenced functions that aren't called in a particular test, linked libraries that aren't used, etc.)
Yep, also disappointed to see it in GA missing queries and back ups. Makes it a non-starter for most folks.
>In other words you are looking for journalists who are good at winning prizes from their peers. But this risks becoming a self-contained system where journalists are "reputable" because, they parrot what other "reputable" journalists think.

I think you're missing the difference between journalism and editorialism. The latter has become our standard of "news" nowadays. A quick glance at the top alt-media sites shows literally nothing but unsourced, opinion driven fear mongering and click bait. It's not about winning awards or thinking "correctly", it's about operating within the bounds of good faith arguments, and adherence to ethical standards agreed upon by society at large. You can enjoy all the political opinions you wish, but don't confuse them with fact based news reporting.
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Ironically I couldn't read this article about why I should pay for news because their paywall blocked it.

The result is I didn't pay and didn't read the article.

Seems to be an effective measure if your goal is to reduce clicks and deter readers
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I would think that adverts for talking therapies should go to any friends of the suicidal person.

The suicidal person would be much more interested in purchasing stuff like rope, pills, life insurance, inert gas, and firearms.
He did look for domains with MX records in his study

> Mail (2.6% or ~3.5 million)

> Any domain not in any other category, but with MX DNS records (for email), I categorized as Mail. I did not attempt to see if the mail server was working or if delivery was possible. It's possible that many of these domains are not actually used for email, but I've given them the benefit of the doubt.
I find it somewhat sad that law is basically a guild where arcane language is used to gatekeep what should be a much more straightforward exercise.
60,000+ employees makes this unrealistic.
Total victory, no. Total victory would be strong encryption free to use by everybody without fear of persecution. That looks increasingly unlikely.

However, I do not believe they can effectively enforce any encryption bans. Thus, people who need encryption will still have access to it. And as far as I am concerned, my duty (as a software engineer) is to ensure that it remains the case, even if using it becomes illegal.
True, but to be fair, phones are a way bigger market and 1 of the practically only 2 operating systems is doing it which is why it is such a huge complaint.

I don't complain about my Xbox because I can buy a computer that can run most the same games where I can do anything I want (not to say I don't want to be able to do anything but phones are a much bigger market with only 1 real competitor which does allow you to side load apps)
No mention of Audible?
“Conscious Autonomous Farm Robot” Hidden Colony, Otfrid von Hanstein(1935)
When you say they can be run just about anywhere, I assime you mean in web browsers. I doubt most image viewers that "support" SVG implement the more powerful features necessary to achieve Flash-like software.
> Despite being the country the most people want to come to

What numbers do you have to back that statement up? Compared with Europe for example?
>If anything, his short-lived leadership was one of the most rapid and catastrophic failures of leadership of any world nation in recent history.

Purely because he resisted Western control over the oil fields. The government was secular and progressive, but the west only cares if you're pro-western interests.
Okay, that kind of makes sense: formal sick days are the amount of times you can call in sick no questions asked, above which you need to communicate with your employer.

Thanks for the explanation, though I have to say I could've done without the whole "being a dick" facet of your comments.
When dealing with cloud identity providers like AWS Cognito or Firebase and the likes, the option A is actually the most quick to implement. It's centralized for sure and not that fast, you are basically left with a JWT that acts as a session but you don't have to think about that much, it brings an ok level of security.
> we should all be paranoid over things like the Mobile Authentication Taskforce and "Project Verify" where the US cell carriers are colluding to form a new authentication/identification to replace passwords with single-factor phone identification.

There's lots of infosec paranoia is ill-based in reality but I've got to concur here. It's gotten so easy and uncomplicated to social-engineer a fraudulent port / SIM swap that there's an entire cottage industry of bored teenagers that do exactly that, in part to commandeer Instagram accounts with coveted usernames.

Basing authentication/identification on an industry that's simultaneously pathologically incompetent (fraudulent ports/SIM-swaps) and also grossly evil (selling real-time locations of all their subscribers without their consent to a phantasmagorically layered and non-auditable set of resellers and intermediaries) when it comes to security is pure folly.
Right, I'm not saying this isn't warranted necessarily, just that it's punitive not preventative.
> To say at this point that the economic and social situation of Venezuela is just the fault of Venezuelan leaders (whatever their problems might be) is baffling and a plain lie.

Its mainly the fault of ppl who failed to develop any other kind of industry and becoming too used oil wealth. The book "Crude Nation"is a pretty good writing on how things got to how it got to be. Did america tell them to give free oil venezueleans. Did america ask them cripple their own oil industres by nationalising and corrupting them. Did america stop venezuela from creating sovereign wealth funds like Norway and the United Arab Emirates.

Blaming everything on America is just boring and cliched.
Yes it is, but if you're worried about that then this is a valuable lesson on why you should steer clear of apple products. Google knew this was the case and took the risk anyway, so they only have themselves to blame.

It's not just apple either. Using facebook, gmail, anything in the cloud and/or anything hosted, basically anything not under your control exposes you to the same risk. Most people don't care until it becomes a problem for them and by then it's too late.
I pay for news via tax and get usually high quality content from https://www.abc.net.au/
If you want a scalable relational database, that's Cloud Spanner.
IPv4 addresses are only 32 bits, which makes building rainbow tables almost trivial.
I believe that is how the country code TLDs do work, but most nations (who are given ownership of them) they just hire a corporation to sell domains and make rent seeking gross revenue off a few characters of a URL.

But those are eclipsed by the generic TLDs where its just a happy accident registrars and rent seekers are making fortunes off of words with com or net at the end of them.
There's a really cool analysis/chart about the reliability of news sources here: http://www.adfontesmedia.com/the-chart-version-3-0-what-exac...
Thanks.

Bugger, those prices!
https://www.powertec.com.au/mobile-products/signal-repeaters...
> A version of this op-ed appears in print on June 20, 2003, on Page A00023 of the National edition

You know what an op-ed piece is, right? If you don't, here's a definition:

> An op-ed, short for "opposite the editorial page" or "opinion editorial", is a written prose piece typically published by a newspaper or magazine which expresses the opinion of an author usually not affiliated with the publication's editorial board.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op-ed
Anyone who says mainstream media disdainfully enough to abreiviate it msm is usually a conservative nut job.

He's a Trumper who refers to virtually all real media as the msm and the alt left and continually whines about the alt left, entitled millennials, and women.
From http://www.controlled-demolition.com/biltmore-hotel:

> precisely placed explosive charges dropped a 28-story building almost in its tracks.

> "It's the heaviest steel we’ve ever worked on," says Mark Loizeaux, of Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI), Towson, Md., which dropped the brick-clad structure for contractor Wells Excavating Co., Inc., Oklahoma City.

> CDI’s detonation sequence aimed to drop the building in a southerly direction in what is called a controlled progressive collapse in order to lay out the demolished structure to ease removal of debris.

> In 1975 CDI demolished a 32-story reinforced concrete building in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the only building taller than the Biltmore to be dropped with explosives

From http://www.controlled-demolition.com/travelers-building:

> Controlled Demolition Incorporated’s team was able to complete asbestos abatement/environmental remediation, prepare the structure for implosion and drop the massive structural steel building just 2 weeks

> Controlled Demolition Incorporated's DREXS (Directional Remote Explosive Severance) System sequentially severed the 4 inch thick flanges of the buildings' support columns to drop the structure without damage to a Boston Fire Department facility just 30 feet away.
i got a horse 404 too
Good point. I meant that they are not independent from their owners’ profit motive. They are publicly traded [0] so their motive is not truth, it is maximizing shareholder equity under US law.

So arguments like this article, even cloaked under “opinion” don’t carry weight because it’s just propaganda to sell more papers.

[0] https://www.nyse.com/quote/XNYS:NYT
I'm surprised that such a large percentage of domains are registered with GoDaddy. What leads people to pick them? They're such a shitty registrar, every time I have to deal with them it's awful.
Thank you for these!!
Why BuzzFeed chose to use the same brand to cover such different sites is beyond me. Every time a quality article is linked here, almost without fail there is someone who will comment along the lines of "BuzzFeed is trash, I'm not clicking that"

I don't blame them. It's not their fault that the news site decided to share their name with a trash clickbait site.
It's not. It's the equivalent of saying "I can do this better" and producing unreliably, buggy code. Sure you can, but a more experienced professional can point out all the corner cases you missed.
> I signed no contract.

Facebook and Google did sign it and distributed their software based on it.

> It's not like Facebook and Google were hacking their way in here.

They literally did (in the legal sense).

But of course, it's a battle of two evils here. Both sides can just nuke each other if you ask me, I won't miss them ;)
Applied Machine Learning Is a Meritocracy
I'm not claiming this is more secure by any means but I started using a Google Phone number for 2FA associated with a Google account which uses a hardware token for authentication. My reasoning being that a Google phone number cannot be transferred without logging into the account and releasing the number. So I figured if I used the most secure 2FA method for that account it would be safer than relying on my telco which doesn't employ any serious security measures and is likely more susceptible to social engineering than Google.
I'm confused here - they used US cyber Intel trade techniques and services a foreign soverignty, where is the line between treason and gun for hire? And they we're employed by a US staffing agency.
I built an Nginx plugin to do something like this https://github.com/masonicboom/ipscrub
mercenaries
Afrofuturist?
Desperate use of buzzwords in the article, as the title would suggest. Race is throw in there but adds nothing to it (it rarely ever does).
Nothing really new in the technological sense.

Non-news to me.
ok but what is the mission and purpose of building this app, like what pain are you guys trying to resolve here.
The app is neat and minimal.
But i dont see the reason for its existence.
Please explain that to me.
Paying makes theml publisher less beholden to advertisers mean they need fewer fluff/shock pieces, which leaves more money and time for more serious journalism.
Usually you should use separate projects for this. Dev, staging, production projects - separated permissions, rate limits and costs
So incoming ban for you too?
I was at the mall one day buying something. The cashier said “what’s your cell number?” My reply was “no”. They looked at me shocked and bewildered but the shock was all mine. Who in their right mind asks for a cell number from a shopper? Any time anyone asks me for phone number I just say “no”, seems to work.
> Firestore is literally built on top of spanner.

Do you have a source for this? Thanks in advance.
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Ask HN: How to estimate a candidate for the position of sales manager?
I’m a founder of a startup that makes AI solution for B2B. I’ve been searching for a sales rep. I have some candidates but I really don't know how to estimate them in the right way. All of them have similar experience and a good self-presentation. Maybe there are some assessment test tasks for sales rep’s?
You didn't, but the users of apps discussed here did. There's no App Store involved.
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Google blocking this kind of thing in android would be quite hard to near impossible...
None of your assessment of loraa's posting in any way answers my question.
The aesthetics of rock climbing
I'm not sure I can summarize such a global theory in a comment, but basically, he started from a simple truth : the mimetic nature of humans. You want what you want, not because of the intrinsic qualities of objects, but because you're imitating others. Inevitably, this leads to rivalry and conflict. Animals deal with this violence with what we call dominance patterns : the loser will very often yield to the now dominant animal, and the entire society will be ruled with complex hierarchies based on this. However, humans are too mimetic to be able to end violence like that. In our species, unrestricted violence ends in death. It can then rapidly spread across the community and bring chaos. The way primitive humans have dealt with this conflict is to turn the blame on someone else, the scapegoat, which suddenly turns into a primitive sacred being. At first, he is seen as an evil being responsible for all the chaos. Then, after being sacrificed, he is seen as the ultimate savior of the community. You now have the mechanism creating primitive religions.

English isn't my native language, I hope I've been clear enough so that you can imagine the enormous consequences of such a ground-breaking theory on every aspect of human life. I suggest reading the books.
They're usually the only registrar people are aware of.
On my Pixel 3: Settings / Apps & Notifications / Advanced / Special app access. From there you can whitelist, e.g., Chrome to allow the installation of 3rd party apps.

IIRC Chrome even asks you if you want to enable that setting once you download an APK file.
If any US citizen that has worked at the NSA, CIA or a contractor for them goes and spies on US citizens for a foreign government must be driven into prison.

> Stroud said her background as an intelligence operative made her comfortable with human rights targets as long as they weren’t Americans.

> She found the work exhilarating. “It was incredible because there weren’t these limitations like there was at the NSA. There wasn’t that bullshit red tape,” she said. “I feel like we did a lot of good work on counterterrorism.”

These are violations of ethics. They can quickly become a betrayal of US citizens.

I think these former INTL workers don't understand that a wave of wrath is coming from US citizens that the shit pulled by INTL services isn't okay.
I tried building a version of this in 2015 called Uncoverage. Beacon did too. Not enough people cared enough to support individual journalists. real stories take too long to write, all journalists need editors, and the value prop feels unfamiliar and seems thin for subscribers. Some are trying now on Patreon.
Yes, I get banned every day, creating new accounts is part of my routine. :P
Similar story here in Australia. I'm currently reading "Dark Emu" [0], which shows how Indigenous Australians, always claimed to be hunter-gatherers with only primitive societies, actually were agriculturists... using the early explorer's own journals.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21401526-dark-emu
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That's exactly the sort of personality they want working for their own military / intelligence.

Pets. Guard dogs. Familiar == good, !Familiar == bad. Grey doesn't exist.

Makes me worry about how military AI's will be "trained". That revolution can be delayed indefinitely.
I mostly agree - except people want Apple products for other reasons too.

There are quite a few Apple users who like the hardware, the operating system, apps which are iOS-only, and the integration with other Apple devices - some of whom also want to run their own choice of software as well.

There's no alternative which has equivalent benefits, if that's what you're looking for.

(NB, I don't use an Apple phone personally).
Why would this be a red flag? Agile development is important for iterative updates.
Use reader view. I’ve had mine set to open all links and my life has been much less stressful now that I don’t have to deal with website styles and nonsense the likes of which you describe above. Try it.
The only downside I've come across was test coverage tools like jacoco can have problems with the auto-generated code (complaining about your tests not covering enough branches of an auto-generated hashCode() implementation, for example). However it seems new-ish versions of jacoco seem to have built support for it.
> a for profit company, that has been cutting costs amidst really serious editorial failures.

Extra care and attention to detail isn't going to just happen unless there's enough money flowing in solid journalism to allow for it.

It's quite possible that the cost cutting is connected to the editorial failures, and is a consequence of falling revenues. And the NYT as a whole is in a position to see how those things relate.

This isn't to place the NYT above criticism. They could stand to up their game. The profession at large could when it comes to painting accurate pictures of the world and the NYT is better than lots of sources. But it isn't going to happen unless people can get paid to do it.

And unless we pay for it, it's another place we'll be the product. Because the other models for journalism are (a) selling our attention to advertisers or (b) propagandists selling our pre-decided opinion.