skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zero Hedge is the only site I've ever run into that gets zero checks on NewsGuard [1].

For comparison, InfoWars gets 4 out of 9 [2], and Breitbart gets 5 of 9 [3].

National Review, Wall Street Journal, and The Daily Signal all get full check marks [4][5][6], for examples of conservative sites with top ratings.

[1] https://api.newsguardtech.com/1B10A8FE3FE38166041EF99B6BDE6C...

[2] https://api.newsguardtech.com/86BCB950AC90212617C8328B3BDC7B...

[3] https://api.newsguardtech.com/A7F7BCBA597324801963CA38B46F4E...

[4] https://api.newsguardtech.com/5D044567246813D305EF4CFAC2D797...

[5] https://api.newsguardtech.com/BBB6E27D9A686CF806D035DCEC50B4...

[6] https://api.newsguardtech.com/DCFD64CB17AE2BBCC342F9FFD70DB8...
I wonder why this was marked dead.

tiedustelulaki 14 minutes ago [dead] [-]

I'm currently launching https://tiedustelulaki.com/

On this website I intend to collect as much information
as possible about the politicians who supported this
legislation, I hope to expose every last part of their
private lives. Nothing will be off limits.

I'm starting out with a total of 20000 euro budget in
cryptocurrency that I intend to use to fund some sort
of a bounty program in order to collect personal
information on politicians who voted for this legislation.

While the response might be considered over-the-top, it also reflects a level of concern and anger which HN readers may find helpful in understanding.
> Infowars doesn't believe in a lizard people conspiracy...

No, it believes that the Sandy Hook parents are all malicious liars and that none of them lost children.

It also believes in classic antisemitic conspiracy theories, cloaked in the thin disguise of being about Soros, the most convenient Jew in the world from the perspective of people who want to slide antisemitism back into the mainstream and give people and entrypoint to David Duke-style outright White supremacy.
I just tried asking them, but got a ArgumentNullException...
> You can't have effective advertising on the web without tracking.

I see no reason at all to think this is true.
They are very commonly used by tourists to the UK who've exchanged cash.

A very small number of cashpoints in London dispense them.
In the past, I used https://volafile.org/ for sharing files that will be deleted within a week. Volafile doesn’t do end-to-end encryption like Firefox Send, but it allows you to upload files over 2.5 GB.

Volafile’s multi-file “room” functionality, with chat, makes it more suited for sharing files among multiple people, while Firefox Send is optimized for sending a single file to a single person or a targeted group.
I would suspect that if you reconfigure your SDCard to be internal storage then it will work again. This is a limit of Android permissions that happened a couple of major versions ago (I use a different tool for file transfer and I remember when it stopped being able to transfer files to external storage).
If they don't exist, they don't get a vote.
I wonder what that means for ETOPS: do you have to exclude airspace that you cannot overfly?

Though it looks like more and more countries are closing their airspace. I’m guessing some countries are waiting for some flights to takeoff so they can ground them without stranding too many of their nationals.
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So since you don't need to sign up for anything in order to use Send, I am assuming you mean creating a Firefox Account which increases the send limit from 1 GB to 2.5 GB as well as enables some nifty Firefox features like tab sync.

Since it had been awhile, I tried to create a new Firefox account with an alternate e-mail of mine...and found that there is an opt-in check mark for newsletters and IT'S UNCHECKED BY DEFAULT. Since I can't embed images here, have a Send link to a screenshot:

https://send.firefox.com/download/bd0ea1c123/#99POcyrXU3Y0jv...

So it is starting to seem like you are intentionally smearing Mozilla for a fake problem.

Not to mention you are conflating marketing spam with privacy issues.

Edit: I made the send link valid for 100 downloads or 7 days which is the max...but if you click the link and it doesn't work just know that it's because it has hit the limit, not that Send is unreliable.
>> "Hey, we know you tried to ask your Echo to report its volume level before and it didn't work

This makes me shudder. Such a functionality would mean that they stored your failed request in some sort of database, a database that they later used to send you a personalized marketing email. A machine cataloging our voice for later inspection is a very dark future. Alexa should delete and scrub any iota of voice that it doesn't instantly understand.

"Oh, remember last week when I though you were asking me to buy you a pot plant? I now realize you were asking me to buy you some pot from Canada. It will be arriving in two days."

"I didn't understand it at the time, but I now realize that you were yelling at your husband Alex, not Alexa. Your social credit score has been adjusted to reflect this negative interaction."
That's illegal.
When Facebook sets up relationship with the Atlantic Council to monitor information, then it might as well be the government.
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These are all descendants of the original popular mechanics article, which I don't think is a reliable source. The actual accident report is available to look at now (https://www.bea.aero/docspa/2009/f-cp090601.en/pdf/f-cp09060...). The transcript is in an appendix: https://www.bea.aero/docspa/2009/f-cp090601.en/pdf/annexe.01...

Note that at the point of the transcript you're referencing, the captain was in the cockpit but not seated at the controls. It therefore would make no difference to his awareness of the situation whether or not the control sticks were linked, as he wasn't holding either of the sticks.

Unlike the captain, the PNF and PF (who were seated at the controls) both seem to have thought that they needed to climb. See 2 h 13 min 39,7 and 2 h 13 min 40,6.
You're just being argumentative.

There's nothing you can predict that isn't built upon some assumptions. "When I flip this light switch, the lights will go on like they have the last 10,000 times I did so." Is a prediction built upon assumptions that power is still running, that the light bulb hasn't burnt out, and that physics will continue working the way it has up to this point.

You need to consider the strength of the assumptions in order to evaluate the predictions. If you consider those assumptions to not be fairly solid... whatever. But just handwaving that because "we are talking about opinions and assumptions" somehow gives your disbelief credibility worth exploring is a non-starter.
I find it really surprising that it took someone a month (I think the author stated this on Reddit) and yet redis has been so hesitant to do it. What are the downsides at this point?
It doesn't sound like he's shed his identity, but instead he wants to make it so his identity can't be tracked to his physical location anymore.
Please don’t use code formatting except for code. Long lines require significant horizontal scrolling.
I like to use comments as a sort of punctuation for my code. It's kinda a subtitle for lines that are a bit more involved. Also gives me a chance to reference JIRA tickets which have even more information about why the code is doing what it's doing.

Still drives me nuts though to see 10-20 getters/setters in a Java Bean, each annotated with the Javadoc "Gets variableA"
New account with no post history posting a link gets automatically marked as dead. When this happens you can select the post and click on [vouch] if you think it's not spammy.

Is it really over-the-top? This seems like it could be a rather effective way for individuals to make a difference.
Oh interesting. Their two hypotheses (which they will test) are that Send "can drive Firefox Accounts beyond the Firefox Browser" and that it will "will provide a valuable platform to research, communicate with, and market to conscious choosers..."

It sounds like they're investigating a premium service offering targeted at privacy conscious users. (The secondary hypothesis covers "revenue" and will be tested by conducting "research tasks ... in support of premium services KPIs.")
Won in terms of user base, maybe. But in terms of money made and commercial adoption? Mysql beats Mariadb, though I can'
t say for openoffice/libreoffice.
I think both machines must use a Motorola 6845 CRT controller, which is intended for character-based screens. It does not scan the video RAM sequentially, but in the way described by the GP, (all first char rows, then all second char rows, etc, with each chars rows stored sequentially in RAM)
You're arguing against a strawman here. No one is using "jackbooted thugs will shut me down" as the definition of a monopoly.
Whether self-consciously or subconsciously willpower is our only tool for getting out of bed and getting things started. This writer is a buffoon and a sadist. So many necessary value judgements are entirely dependent on the will. Like whether or not to embrace abolitionism.
The sample size isn't actually 2... It's 2 crashes in tens of thousands of flights of the 737 across the multiple airlines that use the model.

However, that having been said, the crash rate is now very poor (by modern standards) for this plane model, and 2 is enough to raise some serious questions about mere coincidence.

Boeing's taking a real risk because a third crash of a 737 regardless of cause will be a long-remembered black eye.
Oddly sexist example but OK.
DPRK only recognises foreign copyrights, and have no concept of IP for its own works (because everything is done to superior order, there is no creativity allowed). Micronesia does not have copyright, but has even stricter regime of creative works, amounting to a patent-like protection.
No, because that allows for an asymmetrical attack on a conversation, where a person can demand evidence, despite there being readily accessible information at the demander's fingertips, forcing the other person in the conversation to spend much more time than the time it took to request the information.

You're asking someone else to do your legwork, and it's a form of trolling.

Prove you care about this topic to the person you're talking to by doing some cursory research.
Nope, that's not what I said at all.
Downvoted, becuase you don't have a source, and because there is evidence of having children being correlated with great unhappiness.
https://qz.com/708438/the-parenting-happiness-gap-is-real-ne...
Alexa needs a PageRank and an 'I'm feeling lucky' that is successful the majority of the time.

I would like it to work as a room of human experts works with a moderator.

Alexa, how long will it take me to cycle to Netto?

Alexa sends this parsed query out to all apps it thinks can answer.

They respond with a confidence level and answer / follow up question.

Alexa decides which app to choose (the 'PageRank') based on a number of factors like has the query been seen before and how did each app perform for it, the app's answer success rate, has the user been given a response from this app before etc. etc.

The user should not have to install apps. Alexa should know all of the apps in the room and what they're good/bad at and select one to respond.

Surely discovery is the wrong way to think about this problem and Alexa needs to be elevated from a good speech parser.
You need to get into specifics vs. trying to just provide your general view. The author you are claiming is nitpicking is Ben Thompson - the most prolific tech strategist of our times. And look at your response which offers nothing interesting at all. Do you have any suggestions on how to make these breakups happen given all the nuances and challenges? And please get into details vs. pretending they are not important.
> Lots of ethical questions about this that are just never answered. Is it okay to funnel capital into another country that is vastly different from the US in terms of politics, market, etc.?

Why would it not be? What are the ethical questions here?

The US is certainly not on some ethical highground such that considering funding companies in different countries is questionable.
>Infowars is tabloid material at best; but even they say that this is a lie. They never asserted this.

Yes they did. Alex Jones initially called Sandy Hook a hoax and the families crisis actors. He is being (so far successfully) sued for such acts[0]. He did walk back some of those claims, but here's his words:

>"Yeah, so, Sandy Hook is a synthetic completely fake with actors, in my view, manufactured. I couldn’t believe it at first. I knew they had actors there, clearly, but I thought they killed some real kids. And it just shows how bold they are, that they clearly used actors. I mean they even ended up using photos of kids killed in mass shootings here in a fake mass shooting in Turkey -- so yeah, or Pakistan. The sky is now the limit. I appreciate your call."[1]

They're tricky to find because they are not written but made live on a radio show, but yeah Infowars absolutely claimed that sandy hook parents and children were actors.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/us/politics/alex-jones-de...

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20170303201414/http://www.politi...
I were calling the shots at a university
I'd make that trade every time.

Me too.

But would you be proud enough of the policy to publicise it and your price list?

Because I'd do it, but I'd also be embarrassed I was doing it.
The typical antitrust concerns around monopolies don't really apply to google (currently). Google hasn't used its position to create barriers to entry for competitors, it is only that google has a reputation for producing a superior product in this domain. I've also heard some argue that google has a monopoly on advertising eyeballs, but this is clearly false (i.e. there are lots of platforms that make a lot of money by selling eyeballs)
I am surprised there isn't a demo available on the site, at least there wasn't an obvious one I saw. I imagine your conversion rate would improve from that landing page if customers could hear a sample!
They definitely pick up a lot of Russian talking points (see their virulent skepticism over the Skripal attack), but they serve as a very useful counterbalance to CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, et al.

I shudder at whatever Orwellian hellscape we've landed in when people celebrate the censorship of a differently minded news source instead of utilizing it: read both it and your mainstream sources with a filter, apply your own independent thought and judgment and arrive at your own conclusion.
After reading through all of the comments, I don’t see how many of the same people who worry about the power of private companies are okay with giving the government more power - the only entity with the legal right to take your property, life, and liberty.

I’m much more afraid of government power than private corporations.
> gives us some kind of masochistic pleasure

I could see this being the case, sort of like how some people (me) enjoy torturing themselves with extremely spicy peppers and foods.
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We need gadfly news sources like ZH. We need people who take a contrarian view.

The only people who shouldn’t be reading ZH are people who believe everything they read. Those people also shouldn’t be reading MSM.
> It is no secret

It sounds like you agree, then? It should be public.
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I'm on Android, and Syncthing is pretty seamless once configured. I just configure my cellphone, my laptop and my desktop to sync a specific directory in both directions.

It's decentralized, end-to-end encrypted and does local discovery of devices on a LAN so it will also works offline.

As long as one device lives and is synced, I have a copy of the files.
> My theory on why they switched was to keep people from easily side-loading APKs, and backing them up easily, etc. I think it was all part of the battle to keep people from really owning their phones, keep them from rooting them, etc.

Or, more realistically, by having file access mediated by the phone, you can:

* have the filesystem available to multiple systems at once. If it's mounted as USB mass storage then it must stop being visible to the phone itself. That's not great, especially if there are apps etc. there. To not have apps there, you'd need to partition. That sucks. So, also...

* you can use any filesystem you want. You're not restricted to things like VFAT. By not being USB mass storage, you can run BtrFS if you're so inclined and not have Windows get upset when you plug it in.

* the phone is able to restrict what is seen by the computer. This is a security benefit. I don't want someone slurping my TOTP key database because I foolishly leave my phone unlocked somewhere.

Also, you can still root phones just fine if you buy one that isn't user-hostile.

So, there are solid technical reasons for the change that make things better for a large number of users (who, amongst your average user these days, really wants to plug their phone in to the computer to move files around? I'd estimate vanishingly few.)

> My current phone is an S7 (TMobile version) - and they've made it hard as heck to actually root; it seems like every time they come out with a way to do it, Samsung/T-Mobile updates to prevent it.

Well of course they do. a) they are use hostile, so they don't give you a path. b) because there's no official path, any method that does exist must be a security vulnerability. Do you want to have a vulnerable device?

Don't buy user hostile stuff and then complain that it doesn't let you do what you want.
Questions for HN archivists of the future:

How long before Tim Berners-Lee gets on a British banknote or coin?

Will this happen before or after Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, or Turing?

And will Donald Davies ever get his recognition?

And will physical money even still exist by this point?
The difference is that today colleges lie about having "need-blind" admissions. Among the Ivies only Brown openly admits that you can buy your way in.
Multithreaded code is a lot more difficult to reason about once the codebase gets large.

Redis's codebase is a little too readable compared to the complexity of the things it does. This isn't.
A monopoly is when there is no competition. There can be seller and buyer monopolies.

While having a huge market share is a given in such a situation, it's nonetheless not the definition
Keeping statistics on something and keeping an actual list of names isn't the same. E.g., I have statistics on credit card purchases in the US, versus I have a list of every purchase rsch made with their credit card.
Maybe he was the only one that applied and made it through HR.

Seriously though, from the 5founders post mentioned above force of will and ambition seem to be why.
"There's no such thing as objective reality".

We did an experiment to prove it, so it must be objectively true!

In other news:

"This sentence is false".
I especially love how the benchmark totally addresses the "events are always good and threads are always bad" FUD... Performance is a balance, not a simple, knee-jerk pronouncement.
> And there it is. The ubiquitous defense, that as long as it's done by the left, it's not censorship because it's not done by a country. That never made any sense

What makes no sense is thinking Facebook is on the left.

Facebook will be standing right in with the tighty-righty GOPpers when it comes to regulating or taxing it.
It's not using less land than a small homestead, it's using less labor. A small homestead farming with smaller tools can get far more yield per acre than a huge mono-crop farm does.
"How America’s food giants swallowed the family farms"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/09/american...
It's more like those who control the military and police threaten(or "encourage") Facebook to clamp down.
censorship is about taking something away. That is not the same as not adding things
Marketing mail is garbage and a bad user experience but it is not a privacy concern!

A privacy violation would be having your information revealed to someone without your knowledge / permission. Mozilla has not violated your privacy by sending the email you gave them marking emails! It's bad, but it's not bad for privacy-related reasons.
How is a platform different than a retail space?
Also, complaining about paywalls assumes that everyone on HN doesn't subscribe to the publication in question. Some of us actually support journalism by paying for news.

The NYT, for example, is running a special right now at $2/week. Considering the number of Times articles that land on the HN front page, it seems like a worthwhile investment.
antirez recently provided a full response http://antirez.com/news/126
There is a ton of 'news' on Zero Hedge and many times I hear about things there first before the mainstream news sites which sometimes never cover the story (Yellow Vest protests in Europe, US taking gold from ISIS in Syria, reasons for what is going on in Venezuela, etc). You need to critically think about what you are reading and understand what biases the writer might have. I'll read 1 out of 20-30 headings and there is some absolutely solid content there.
Not mentioned is the problem with prions and eye examinations as a possible infection route:

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/eyes-cjd-patie...
I always tell those businesses that if they're only on Facebook, then they have no internet presence that I can use.
We were able to deal with time and space being relative, we can deal with superposition being relative. It was kind of obvious anyway, since superposition can affect non-elementary particles as well.
Of course. Lisp syntax is best syntax :)
The census maintains a micro level data-base, which you need clearance to use or do research on, but is used to inform government policy.

Source: I was tangentially involved in a research project once where we wanted, but weren't granted, access to this data.
Oh I like this twist on things. The difficulty is how do you prevent your data/query going to a place you wouldn't want it to go to?