skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rebuttal here isn’t that declining to read news is hiding in a hole, it’s that getting your world-view updates (“news”) by following individuals on Twitter is worse.

For instance, it’s been argued that the “low-information” Twitter bubble is partly culpable for Hillary’s loss.

Having read your assertions here and your link, it seems your premise is based on a misunderstanding of historical and modern sociology of both conversation and information propagation.

You’re focusing on mass media as though it replaced conversation. It’s not at all clear that it did.

People still converse verbally as much as they used to, but with today’s mobility patterns the interlocutors they encounter in person both among acquaintances and at random today are more diverse than those they rubbed shoulders with 500 years ago. And each of those can converse with a more diverse group in turn.

By sifting through and following a subset of Twitter, you’re (however unintentionally) narrowing your aperture, and you tend to end up consuming bon mots like bonbons rather than engaging in deeper dialog opportunistically or spontaneously.

Before Twitter, its mode of communication was called micro-casting:

https://study.com/academy/lesson/microcasting-definition-exa...

You’ve drawn a line between TV or radio and Twitter as though it’s conversational, but once you account for the ratio of pub to sub, from followed to followers, you see it’s not the same mode as conversation. On the contrary, you’ve just self-selected your own personalized micro-channel, and are recommending others do the same to the exclusion of thoughtfully curated information from a long evolving school of journalistic practice.

At the same time, despite Netflix, Twitter, or Facebook, the art of serious and coherent conversation endures, ideally informed by both individual interests and shared news of significance:

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2006/12/19/chatteri...

From the town crier to the newsprint to today’s subscriptions to Reuters, ProPublica, economist, guardian, wapo, nyt, etc. (see link for independent sources), curated and contextualized news has informed local conversation, national debate, and societal outcomes.

https://soapboxie.com/social-issues/A-Real-Need-for-the-Real...

That value is being challenged by advertising driven content mills, which degrades the quality of news, but selecting vetted journalistic sources is not particularly different from selecting which Twitter quipsters to follow.

Some sources are tilting at the ad supported windmill, trying to find alternative economic models for journalism:

https://blog.joincivil.com/the-value-of-journalism-1c0e6905f...

To quote from that link, “... at the end of the day, we live in the real world. It’s what makes journalism so essential and durable: a free society’s demand to know what’s happening will never cease.“
California, being a paragon of long-term planning, decided to import the pyrotechnic eucalyptus to the state, thinking it would be a good source of fast-growing lumber of railroad ties.

Welp, turns out eucalyptus makes terrible lumber, is unsuitable for railroad ties, lowers the water table, poisons the native flora, and can spontaneously ignite when sunlight shines on drops of the resin.

Oops!
I don't, but the court documents are all available on PACER. The hospital did shut down the networks for its formulary, deliberately; Gottesfeld was, at the time, bragging that there were active network intrusions (SQLI, spear phishing, &c) underway, and my understanding is that between that and the DDOS attacks, the systems were taken down as a precaution.

It's undisputed, including by Gottesfeld, that these systems were taken down as a direct result of his attacks. The only point of contention I've found (this is in the sentencing memorandum back-and-forth) is that Gottesfeld believes damage from systems shut down (or kept down) after his intrusion shouldn't be imputed to him. He concedes some measure of culpability for the systems BCH shut down.
See my link to the RFC in a sibling comment. You should not strtolower an email address unless you are the one running the mailbox itself.
I see them in the US as well, although there's no way I'd ever use a card to give to a panhandler or busker. I'm barely OK with using a card with established retailers.
American Airlines' training division had taught its pilots to react vigorously to wake turbulence, and among pilots generally, there was a widespread mistaken belief that, below the maximum maneuvering speed, it was impossible to do structural damage through the primary flight controls. Now that these misunderstandings have been corrected, we can hope this particular problem will not occur again.

On the other hand, I would guess that there is still a risk of people-thrown-around-the-cabin type incidents from abnormally close encounters with wake turbulence, and I do not know if the possibility of structural damage can be ruled out, especially if this were to happen at cruising speeds. I think it is probably safe to say that any structural-risk incident would have been within a whisker of being a collision anyway, in which case the measures to avoid the latter cover the former as well.
The internet is what you make it. Until the incumbents legislate an impenetrable switching cost for themselves, if don’t like the way the internet serves people, you have the power to give them another option.
IRC has mechanisms that make dealing with spam easy.

Usenet on the other hand required cooperation from all providers. Actually I blame Google for killing Usenet. They used Microsoft's EEE (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish). They acquired DejaNews, renamed it to Google Groups, provided a gateway that allowed everyone to use Usenet. This introduced a lot of spam to the network, but whenever someone reported it, they did nothing. Eventually they introduced their internal groups, and shifted search in a way that it got hard to use Google Groups for searching Usenet posts.

They did similar thing with XMPP (Jabber). When they introduced Google Talk, their service was interconnected with the other XMPP servers. Once it got popular they discontinued it and introduced Hangouts (then later iterations) Hangouts was still connected people could see each other being present people on Hangouts could message anyone, but people on other XMPP couldn't message people on Hangouts. It didn't even show an error. This made many users switch to Hangouts to continue taking with their friends.

They attempted to do the same thing with email, but were less successful (since many big companies are also providing the service), this was done through introducing various anti spam measures. You now have to jump through various hoops (SPF, DKIM, RBAC) to have your service still reach Google uses. It didn't matter that I used the same IP and domain for 15 years never had spam sent from it, but suddenly my emails started being silently classified as spam without any warning.
Writing System 6 software with C++17? Now that's an interesting version of retrocomputing. Are we getting more Slack clients for old systems/operating systems?
IMO the criticisms here make more sense if you also read the author's article series "Public key authenticated encryption and why you want it".

https://neilmadden.blog/2018/11/14/public-key-authenticated-...
It does seem like a ruthless ecology. Eucalyptus will kill everything around them via toxic droppings too.
Arguably this a case of Tragedy of the Commons - with the Irish government doing what's good for its citizens, and the other governments not being strong enough at the time to police legislation of stricter tax laws for the greater good.
> IRC survived because it was too niche for spammers to target much but spam is the primary thing that killed Usenet and email as a truly open system.

A year or so freenode was hit by spam, and now everyone needs to verify, so spam still exists, as does IRC.

Even as late as 2000, usenet survived spam, conversations continued, and spam in email was far worse. Spam in email went the way of the dodo around mid-to-late 00s, with the centralisation of the providers (gmail, yahoo, hotmail)
2d lookup table for (month,day) -> weekday
I like Reuters because it seems to be one of the more neutral news sources in the US.
Vscode is my preferred editor as well.
I recently switched to Dlang from code-d. To me Dlang has felt more stable. I frequently switch back and forth across multiple OSs and computers so the most reliable is what I will go with. I also like that DLang uses D language server rather that relying on dfmt dcd and scanner separately.

I still like code-d and would recommend anyone to try both before deciding for yourself. I used code-d for about 3 years.
Mh, that seems like a weak excuse because at most 99 cents would get "saved"
> /e/ has modified the source code of various parts of AOSP and Chromium web browser to stop informing Google (and the NSA as a consequence of CLOUD Act) of user activity.

The article is incorrect also about the browser: it is simply packing a re-branded Bromite browser.
Ask HN: Resources on creating a simple game engine in C/C++
I want to learn how a game engine works by getting my hands dirty by designing one. I would like to find some resources that I can start with
Sounds like a good beginning to a collaboration novel by Neal Stephenson and Alastair Reynolds.
I'm sick of hearing about the death of blogs.

I read more blogs now than ever. More than in the 90s. What are you even talking about? As a percentage of online content? Who cares? there are more blogs to read on any topic than you can read in a lifetime.

> A look through its “Deathwatch” page — a list of websites and services shut down over the last 10 years — is harrowing.

It's really not.
> The closed systems were better able to fight spam because they could easily ban people and IPs.

Unless the server allowed one to send email or post to usenet without having to log in first, then there's no reason why the provider couldn't simply disable the account or block the originating IP from connecting to the server. From what I can tell, the providers weren't interested in blocking spam by blocking IPs or disabling accounts. This is very similar to the robocall problem and phone companies not really trying to fix it.
Not sure how accurate this is - is the spread of CO gonna be the same as the general smoke?

I’m looking out my window in the South Island of NZ and the morning light is an unusual, deep yellow.

News said there’s high-altitude smoke from the Aussie fires overhead today and this light suggests it’s already off to the east, but that’s not borne out on that neat visual.
2020 is going to be the year of satellite constellations
What Happened in the 2010s
You are still arguing good or bad! I say, it's completely amoral.

Google (and the scores of others doing this) are smart, clever, and correct for taking advantage of loopholes like this. If it is in fact legal but unethical, it's easily addressed by Congress. Expecting companies to self-regulate their tax burden is foolish. Google, Apple and the rest are not "public benefit companies" with the declared benefit of maximizing their tax burden.

'Leech' as well is quite a strong word, most unjustified IMHO.

ps. It's not Google/Apple/etc themselves that find these loopholes; it's outsourced specialists.
A lot of entrenched industries that make billions of dollars are being challenged, and will almost certainly have to drastically change or outright end if we have any hope of slowing climate change.

I suspect those earning billions are going to fight tooth and nail to do everything in their power to stop that happening.
Rocket stoves can help.
You might want to look at Scott Young's MIT Challenge page. He set himself the task of working through "the entire 4-year MIT curriculum for computer science" in 12 months using only online resources. He completed the challenge in 2012 and then wrote a book titled "Ultralearning", which describes methods of learning valuable skills without spending a fortune at an expensive University.

His MIT Challenge page: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/myprojects/mit-challenge-2/

His Ultralearning page: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/ultralearning/
> Being able to exchange cash for services or goods was super important to preserve life and health.

I think it's super important even in the absence of an emergency. There a number of ways that cash is critical, and for that reason, I don't think it's going to vanish.
Did you look at it? The growth starts around 1940. 2 tons per hectare. Today, over 10 tons per hectare.

A 5x growth in yield over 80 years is due to ethanol political mandates starting around 20 years ago?
pro tip : you can also do the same with git : "git checkout -" will bring you to the previous commit you were on
Thanks. I'm admittedly out of touch. Now that I have your attention: What kind of startup times are we looking at with unikernels, say, to serve HTTP traffic with Nginx / Apache / Caddy or some such server in the front. I ask that because Workers start in 5ms or less: I see end-to-end response times as low as 25ms to complete the work my toy app's doing.

I'm genuinely interested in any low latency isolation tech that lets me build a multi-tenant solution. The point with Cloudflare Workers is, they've made it simple to deploy the code across all their PoPs. Are there Serverless / Unikernels at Edge providers that do something similar?
It sounds a lot like you're asking for the "junior haskell" (no higher kinded types, few language extensions, etc) that this article proposes and stack's toolchain. Am I missing something?
I run my own email server, and use a separate address per correspondent. This avoids spam entirely. I have sometimes got some spam from some addresses but simply disable that address and then the problem is gone.
VSCodium – Open-Source Binaries of VSCode
> For us, setting up an IRC client, or even a server, is hardly a big deal at all.

I administrated huge systems at massive scale, I deliver, what I believe is very high quality software which solves complex problems.

And you know what? I would never want to setup a freaking IRC client that has such poor UX that you wonder if it was intentional.

Oh, wait, you have to deploy a server to host your bouncer too! Oh, and then you have to interact with the nicserver!

What a joy! Really.

We have to forget about “state of the art protocols”, “unix philosophy” and very dumb UX if we want to see adoption of decentralized services.

You know why HTTP is fucking great and so ubiquitous? Because it fucking works. IRC and what not protocols are so broken that it’s not even funny.

I read too many RFCs of protocols that are so dumb that you understand they were never really written to be implemented and even less to be used but are more there to serve an intellectual challenge.
Mobile Makes Me Sad
> A man was recently in the news for killing a man who peeped on his daughter in a public restroom in the US.

Surely we can see that there's a bit of a difference between killing someone in the heat of the moment vs. using investigators to find them, lying in wait, and then stabbing them to death in front of their children.

And you can find asshats celebrating anyone. The person in question is facing a murder 2 charge and will go away for a long time; they will not leave prison to acclaim and a cushy public job; he will not win governmental medals for "upholding law and order"; etc.
Using that service has gotten many posts killed, many accounts banned, and many sites blacklisted. Just because people are selling upvotes doesn't mean the buyers are actually getting onto the front page with them.

The votes on the OP look legit to me. Perhaps people were reacting just to the title and perhaps skimming the readme. That's a different kind of problem.
Since Buffett generates much of the cashflow he uses for investments from his insurance businesses (and re-re-re~...~insurance), I'm assuming he is acutely aware of the financial risk he faces from climate change. This is definitely good business for him.
This one discusses IBD and Crohn's: https://www.nature.com/articles/nmicrobiol20174
Greyhound offers free bus tickets home to runaway kids
Yes, paying the maximum that you can to the highest interest rate debt and paying the minimum to all of the lower interest rate debt is the optimal greedy algorithm.
I'm actually OK with that.

Mass preservation of literally everything isn't custodianship, it's viparinama-dukkha. It's coming from the same place that resulted in my great-grandmother's house being fit for an episode of Hoarders. She thought that each of those items might be useful to someone some day, but actually it just created that much bigger and nastier a haystack to sift through when the time came to try and sort out a few family heirlooms and keepsakes.

And, once you take that instinct and apply it to massive, corporate-owned, centralized sites where people casually socialize, it becomes even more problematic. I agree, pre-sanitization Tumblr was a great place for young people - especially queer youth - to work out their sexual identities. But nobody wants to have that phase of their life preserved in perfect detail, for all perpetuity, and nobody wants it sitting around in a big public archive just waiting for someone else to figure out how to de-anonymize people's old Internet accounts. It's OK, even preferable for some things to be forgotten.

This isn't to say that we shouldn't preserve a record of our digital heritage. But it should be a curated preservation of a reasonable subset of the content on these sites, not an enormous trash heap of everything that's ever happened on the Internet being kept around for people to fripple through when they're in a voyeuristic mood.
All DMCA notices filed against TorrentFreak in 2019 were bogus
No one is ready for California’s new consumer privacy law
I'm retired so that's not an option.

I'm at an age where my wife and many of my friends are 50+, so I will probably go ahead and pay for one of the courses.
Of Public Trust and Transparency
I don't think it is. I think meditation is about stopping the rumination by being present, doing something like focusing on your breath. If your mind starts to wander/ruminate then you catch your self and return your thought to being present. It is hard
To find the current day of the week, look at the row corresponding to the day of the month and the column corresponding to the month. There's a typo for the days 18-21 where there's two 18s.
There’s a reason it seems online sources are the same. Step outside the conglomerates, and choose independent news.

See the following list for a “growing number of independent news sources available to anyone with internet access. The following are only a sampling of those alternatives. Most state that they are “non-partisan, independent and non-profit.” Some are more transparent than others; a couple even outline a code of journalistic ethics their company follows.”

https://soapboxie.com/social-issues/A-Real-Need-for-the-Real...
My team at work is extremely guilty of this, and half the time they aren't even correct.

I have coined the term "voodoo optimization" in response to a point Martin Fowler made in his book "Refactoring 2nd Edition": When running Javascript, for example, you are working with a compiler and engine that has had thousands of man-hours and millions of dollars invested into it.

The compiler is throwing away variable declarations. It's merging for-loops. What you put in is not what comes out. You need concrete numbers and FACTS to optimize your code. Deciding "this looks slow" is not an effective optimization method.
Yes, I wasn't complaining about Apple airbuds specifically, but Bluetooth in general.
I genuinely cannot imagine a world where global shipping were to end. At absolute worst, we could return to sailing to accomplish it.
You mean since the 8th of March?
At the very least, we know it's order of magnitude less harm than, say, lead poisoning. Look at how bad and obvious the issues in Flint, Michigan were. There just isn't that from humans and microplastics.

Hopefully scientists are feeding mice diets with 1% plastic content to see if anything interesting pops up.
> The old internet is dead (for now) and it looks more like the BBS era today. But we innovated past that then, and we will innovate past that now.

I hope so.

While I don't think the old internet is dead at all (it can look that way because the new internet has grown much larger), it is true that the web (for me) is getting less useful and more dangerous as time goes on. I 100% expect that the day will come in my lifetime that I'll stop using it entirely. I hope that something magical happens to change that trajectory, but I honestly don't see anything like that on the horizon.

But the old internet does still exist, and so the internet will remain very useful to me even if I stop using the web.
It is insanely easy to do. I even made clones, and gave them to anyone that expressed interest in growing their own.
One party/all party consent laws only apply to confidential communications, or put another way private conversations, not anytime a phone is used. If you can only hear one person speaking, it is not a conversation. And even if you can hear both people, like if they were on speakerphone, someone talking on speakerphone in a public place is not having a "private" conversation.
2019 in Review: 10 AI Papers That Made an Impact
I'm certainly not ridiculing you! I'm trying to let you know what the site standards are so you can follow them and use HN as intended.
What I like about MacOS is that it's got this covered in literally all contexts - GUI, terminal, Slack, logon, everything.

I wish there was a way of getting X11 to also do it consistently.
Hard Work and Success
People love to trash talk WordPress, but by being consistently correct and committed to its principles, it got this single line in this article:

"WordPress has managed to keep chugging and even bought Tumblr off Verizon."

It's because Matt Mullenweg and co have held the line on open source and the open internet for more than a decade now, and we should all be grateful.

Everything cool I've gotten to do in my life I owe to learning to code via building WordPress websites. I hope in the next decade WordPress and companies like Automattic become the example to aspire to instead of people throwing more fuel on the never-ending VC trash fire.
You can already do that with protonmail. There are three buttons available when writing an email, doing exactly that.
Has there ever been any case studies on people who have deliberately consumed large quantities of plastic?
Won’t be any economy left if the planet is made uninhabitable. It’s like the most sacred thing is profit, not anything about the people that create it. Very odd train of thought.
Collision avoidance is bad. Pilots want to shout "mayday!" even if other people were talking.
Flutter is declarative. UI is rendered each time completely. Will it not consume more power? In an increasingly warming world, is it a wise choice to use Flutter?
A friend started roasting a few years ago and now I only drink their coffee. https://miblendcoffee.com/
Burnout isn’t defined by a certain number of hours. It’s defined by how you feel. The difficult thing to disentangle it from (especially because they feed off one another) is depression.
Interesting that stumbleupon was also a reboot of a failed 90's website before that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
Awesome. Congrats on your success, and thank you for your response!
-Oh, breathing hard when exercising is a thing, noone claimed otherwise. Your body requires more oxygen. You breathe harder. Heart rate increases to bring that oxygen to your muscles. That still does not oversaturate your blood with oxygen, though - only maintains saturation as consumption increases.
Five of the Chicago seven were sentenced to five years each.