skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the end of the day people do need to be informed. Saying "stop watching the news" is like telling someone who's overweight to "stop eating".

As I see it the problem is the junk-news. It presents as news but there's little substance, it doesn't make you more informed, it makes you angry, upset, and most-importantly (to the new station), engaged.

Matt Taibbi's new book, Hate Inc does a great job of illustrating how the "junk news" (and he doesn't just go after the Right) industry is rotting our brains:

https://www.amazon.com/Hate-Inc-Todays-Despise-Another/dp/19...
Hmm I believe you're correct. The answer to my problem above seems to be that even though information is encoded in 8 bits in both cases, one of them is a lot of more dense.
Your friends provide you with the content, not Facebook. You only need Facebook now because you don’t have a 24/7 agent swapping content on your behalf and presenting it how you like it.
> The first part is true to I do not know how many languages, the second part is subjective

And it's fine that way. There are lots of languages out there, and very few of them have any objective problem-solving features to justify their existence. Tackling some problem in a new way like Rust does (arguable, see prior art like Cyclone) is the exception, not the norm. Lots of languages are about improving subjective ergonomy while combining and tweaking features already found in other languages.

Would it be fine to state that the language solves nothing for you and you can stop reading? But I don't think that needs to be stated any more than the post already did.

Then the rest of the readers, who have an ounce of curiosity left in them, can scroll on and take the time to appreciate the design and see if they like where it's headed.
if you are running brave browser, it just allows you to launch a video call, gives you a link to share
Reminds me of this great piece by the late Aaron Schwartz - http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

News (particularly in the US) is so caught up in Politics that no one ever knows what anyone's policies are any more.

My favourite part of this article is:

There is voting, of course, but to become an informed voter all one needs to do is read a short guide about the candidates and issues before the election. There’s no need to have to suffer through the daily back-and-forth of allegations and counter-allegations, of scurrilous lies and their refutations. Indeed, reading a voter’s guide is much better: there’s no recency bias (where you only remember the crimes reported in the past couple months), you get to hear both sides of the story after the investigation has died down, you can actually think about the issues instead of worrying about the politics.
cheers!

happy hacking :)
> This changes nothing

The change is that it empowers the users.

> one blocklist will get a lot of users, end up as a "recommended" setting

This is fine as long as the users select said list out of their own will.

> then all those hurt that their bigoted views aren't more popular will moaning about "free speech" again.

Have you considered the possibility that a lot of non-bigoted views are currently blocked due to trigger-happy admins?
> Nobody gets up in the morning and says

They don't, yet they "drink casually" or "do drugs casually". There's a reason certain religions ban intoxicating substances. Alas, people like to play with fire, then things go wrong, yet society still thinks that it's ok to keep marketing those dangerous substances. If society actually wants to fix the issue, there is a solution, but it doesn't sit well with the greedy and foolish.
I believe Politico got it right in this article dating back to May of 2017, exactly three years ago.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/25/media-bub...

Among other things, it helped me understand why I was seeing and reading what media outlets were producing at the time, before and since then. Until I read this article I didn't understand how we got to the level of disconnect that is so clearly evidenced by US media. Well worth reading for anyone who cares enough to try and understand where this is coming from.
oh yeah that makes sense! I just drop people into the space -- it's supposed to be a 2D space for video chat, including a sense of distance, i.e. there are people who are in earshot and others who aren't!

I'll figure out a way to explain things when people enter.
Is that true? I mean, you can also argue it's only ever an issue in the first place if you have enough clout to be targeted. And I haven't seen any proof that people "without clout" aren't able to get it resolved, have you? Even this person isn't exactly a YouTube heavy-hitter, it's a relatively niche channel.
True, but we have ad blockers and they're effective. They're effective against the largest, richest companies in the world. There are various reasons for that, but at the end of the day it remains true that I can use YouTube without ads if I choose to. There's clearly a place in the world for pro-user curation, even if that's not in FAANG's best interests. I think it's antithetical to the Hacker ethos to not pursue an idea just because it's bad for mega-corps.
Indeed, you can make that argument for everything, and it still holds. You want more competition, not less.

From a speed-test service, difference is indeed in who you test against: Location is a feature. No different than programming languages providing different features.

Without this service, you would not be able to speedtest towards cloudflare infrastructure at all. You'd need this at the very least to try to create the "monster" test-suite you suggest.

However, it is entirely impossible to provide "a full picture", simply because there is no such thing. In a given moment, there is a given possible throughput and latency for any given point A to point B, which holds no value for any other point, or any other time.
DevFactor (https://youtube.com/devfactor) was shut down several years ago due to a similar issue with automated copyright trolling that took YouTube about 3 months to fix per time it happened.
Unfortunately social media sock puppets were so hot last decade: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-op...
Yes 3DS has a few fixed / discrete viewing positions from which the stereoscopic effect will "work".

The later "New 3DS" introduced a face tracker that made the effect work continuously across most of the LCD's viewing angle for a single viewer.

Curious why they didnt go for a similar setup here? Though the looking glass display allows for multiple viewers.
Reviewing Deepnote – The New IDE for Data Scientists
I actively ignore news because it can just lead to me getting upset at something I can't control, just like the author says. I don't advocate this for everyone, but I like it for myself. I've been told that it's my duty as an American citizen to pay attention to the news, but I disagree. My mindset is that, if something really matters, it will make its way into my view. For example, I didn't actively follow COVID-19 before the week prior to the beginning of America's national emergency, but it made enough of a splash on the platforms I use (Reddit and HN) and the people I talk to (friends, family, and coworkers) that I became aware, realized it was something I needed to pay attention to.

I don't want to focus on the constant back and forth of political rivalries, because it usually doesn't affect me directly, and why would I cause myself discomfort by indulging in stories I have no control over.
Writing is not publishing. If you conflate the two you might not write at all. Having a place to write is as free and easy as:

mkdir ~/thoughts

Now, after you've replied your quick counterpoints to someone on HN, whip out the text editor and

vim ~/thoughts/why-writing-is-not-free-nor-easy

Go and expand on your thoughts on the subject there. It doesn't have to be prosaic, some simple bullet points that encapsulate the main ideas are enough. You can revisit later for an in-depth or progressive analysis. Do that even if you didn't actually reply to anyone, but felt merely like jotting down notes about your take on the matter. Write your own thoughts on stuff that people share in real life, on HN, youtube, facebook, etc. Observe a curious phenomenon and write a single line about it in a file. It's easier than Twitter. With the latter you worry about presentation, whereas the former lets you capture the main thoughts quickly, without worrying about form.

You don't have to publish. It's just writing, it's for you first and foremost. Over the years revisit, refine, and expand on your thoughts. Write articles over the course of 10 years. See how clever or ignorant you were 5 years ago. Allow yourself to laugh at your own jokes or to delete some posts in embarrassment. Let your mind be changed as it's meant to, safe from judgment. Some day you may feel wise enough and ready to share some selected pieces that have remained constant all throughout.
does brave route calls through their own server or is this also p2p?
IMHO removing them is helping Trump cover up what an unstable ass he is. Leave them up there. Better yet, put them on billboards.
If they implement some continuous streaming (a hunch of mine), it would be just another box in your Netflix home grid.

Click on it for autoplay to start and watch a bundled playlist of current (random) content or, if they decide to dig into it: news, weather, sports etc.
"Eligible" but will you receive it?
Cool. Then don't. Stay uninformed for as long as possible then rush to play catch up in ten years.
It is very strange that they don't even try to give non-brave users any details.
to be clear, you don't _need_ to do anything locally. It's possible to use static blogs without touching your site and there are lots of competing tools out there that will give you a web front end to your static blog.

For example. I use Hugo, with Forestry.io and don't have to touch my filesystem (or even my personal computer) to blog. I just go to a web page like all the CMS blogs.

I'm self-hosting rather than using something like netifly so the setup was a bit more geeky BUT it's totally doable and doesn't have to be tooo geeky.
I think the overwhelming majority of users don’t want to deal with this kind of detail. IMO most people would end up using some kind of preset that matched their preferred bubble.
Dynamic DNS and a redundant Pi-Hole setup
The only books I would really consider saving are those that have survived long enough to be well out of print. It's like software in that sense - the longer it's lasted, the longer it is going to last.
- To have a language you like, even if nobody else in the world cares for it
Most definitely. To further the analogy...picking the heading is a democratic election. The remaining 3/4 years of an election cycle are spent undermining the choice of heading.
So what's the earliest known AI solver for calculus textbook problems? I bet it goes all the way to the 1950s.

This quote seems to be massively misleading:

But it’s clear that the team has answered the decades-old question — can AI do symbolic math? — in the affirmative. “Their models are well established. The algorithms are well established. They postulate the problem in a clever way,” said Wojciech Zaremba, co-founder of the AI research group OpenAI.

“They did succeed in coming up with neural networks that could solve problems that were beyond the scope of the rule-following machine system,” McClelland said. “Which is very exciting.”
Sounds like a good idea. We need more competition-- and if it increases privacy, all the better.
agreed, was just explaining.
I am going to screenshot this for future reference
VPNs are generally pretty easy to setup these days. If redundancy is needed, can always run it on a cheap VPS provider.
Try targeting Windows Script Host (i.e. cscript.exe) for your next project - it's still there and mostly unchanged since Windows 98. :)

The language supported is ECMAScript 3 with some minor COM-related quirks, but with a few utility functions it's not too bad for simple scripts.
Indeed, their tests are currently wonky. I get 10% of my regular upload capacity, and 30-50% of my download through their test, despite testing to a Cloudflare location within the same city as myself.

I just wanted to ensure that we correctly discredited useless numbers and focused on the interesting ones instead.
This is cool.

NextDNS appears to implement DNS over HTTPs (DoH) and Firefox ships with it as an option, next to Cloudflare.

UPDATE — Took it for a test drive:

* Logs are concerning, but look good for optimizing the traffic and notice odd communications; I already noticed telemetry sent by my browser that I switched off

* Ad blocking seems to work, not as good as desktop uBlock Origin, but I'll take anything for my iPhone

* Latency is around 30 - 100 msec, which seems a bit high? (server I connect to seems to be 400 km away)
> This might not be a popular opinion, but I feel like YouTube is doing their best with a really hard problem.

Of their own making. It's solvable. You throw humans at it.

If Google can't deal with this then they shouldn't be allowed to collect money by running ads. Problem solved.

And other sites will spring up that might actually be willing to deal with the problem correctly because now YouTube isn't a monopoly anymore.

Google (and others) are going to continue to be shit until we hit them with anti-trust actions and big fines. Until then, this is all just a cost of doing business and they will laugh all the way to the bank.
MasterClass in the past has benefited from famous/accomplished people feeling they want to "give back" to the world some lessons they've learned.

The standard model is something like $100k up front + 30% of sales. If someone's net worth is in the dozens of millions or more, this really isn't moving the needle, so the major incentive has to be the altruism.

However, will people continue to choose to be altruistic on this platform, when it is turning the creators into the ultra wealthy? One might be less inclined to altruism if you're actually giving a +1 to the world but a +50 to a random company who hosts a website. Many of the people that have done Masterclasses could make an arbitrary individual wealthy and famous (e.g. Spielberg could just say "<random no-name filmmaker> is my protege and all films I work on will be co-directed by them"). The question is how many people are going to make that choice for Masterclass when they could just as well host it on their own website, or put it on their own channel on youtube, etc.
I see it, I'll respond further there.
>It’s the Year 2120. MasterClass Is the Only School Left.

It's a joke prediction about the year 2120, not 2020.
Uber cuts 600 jobs in India or 25% of its workforce in the country
Thanks for the measured response here.

I address the fact that the site, as it currently exists, doesn't need any of this currently. I tried to be clear in my "criteria list" that I'm designing for power and flexibility; I don't want to limit myself down the road.

I definitely could have verbalized my stance on headless CMSs better. I'm very aware that there are ways to use them without requiring two round trips. But in the very next paragraph I say "I want every page of my site to be pre-rendered to a set of fully static assets". The solution you allude to (a headless CMS with server-side rendering) requires a server and doesn't meet that criteria.

I also know you can do generate a static site with Next/Gatsby + a headless CMS that's integrated into your build step. I didn't do that way because it seemed overkill - I'm happy using my file system as my CMS.

You mention that I reject using "MD along with React". Which bit of the post are you alluding to? I do reject the idea of putting React components inside of `<script>` tags inside of a Markdown file. Based on my criteria, the "React + a sprinkling of Markdown" makes more sense than "Markdown + a sprinkling of React". Otherwise it's an uphill battle (with a fair bit of boilerplate) to use React Hooks, import styling libraries, etc.

I'm not sure I follow your logic w.r.t this being a damning condemnation of React. There a build step (either Babel or TypeScript) required to use cutting-edge React. That additional layer of separation is what makes it so hard to do React+TS inside of these Markdown-centric CMSs. I don't think that impedance mismatch reflects poorly on either React or the SSGs - they each have their uses.

Could you elaborate on the "other, simpler options even within the TS ecosystem"?
Yeah, saying that Microsoft was on wrong side of history is a bit ingenuine from Brad Smith... Open Source (making code accessible and inspectable) is the better approach. Microsoft did that also starting early 2000s via their shared source stuff.

Microsoft was not on the wrong side per se - they were the once who made history.

Bill Gates' idea that software is something you can sell is what Microsoft was all about back then. The cloud is changing that, now they sell services and subscriptions.
The author isn't proposing checking out entirely - documentaries are one of his suggested replacements. Disengaging with the news is just about not being flooded daily.
> The primary content no user wants to see any every user agent would filter out is ads.

Not that you're wrong, but: that's the fucking point!

Advertising delenda est.
Open sourcing the algorithms (however we define it) does absolutely nothing. What use is a neural network architecture? Or a trained NN with some weights? Or an explanation that says - we measure similar posts by this metric and after you click on something we start serving you similar posts? None of those things are secret. More transparency wouldn't change anything because even if completely different algorithms were used, the fundamental problems with the platform would be exactly the same.
I had the same realization recently, and deleted my Twitter account in favor of a new one where I only follow people I know in real life.

That worked great for a couple of weeks, but now I log on Twitter and half of my feed is tweets of people I don't know or follow, with the worst, most infuriatingly stupid hot takes. No wonder they have literally hundreds of thousands of likes. The platform is built around this "content".
"It’s the Year 2120. MasterClass Is the Only School Left."
Sure, its a puff piece. Like I said.

Got any ideas about really improving your life to share? Addressing anything I brought up? Something to move the conversation forward?

Anything that could help a person like me, who could really use help on this.
Simple webserver protection with OSSEC and Suricata intrusion detection systems
You don't sell 80 million copies by mistake.
"> When was the last time you watched the news and thought, “thank God I saw that. Let me go take action.”?

I’ll answer for you: probably never."

This is what happens to a depoliticized population. When Trump announced the strike on the Iranian General, we were out on the streets within a few days to protest the possibility of a new war. Not taking action is a symptom of helplessness, apathy, or simply being overwhelmed by life. Alternatively, it can be because you passively support what is happening. You can combat the former ills by being part of a political organization that cares about these issues.

That said, I would recommend against TV. There's something about TV that just switches off the mind. The worst journalism is on TV, though it can be useful for monitoring live ongoing events.
I recommend https://www.scootersoftware.com/
Great file comparison and text comparison tool
https://brave.com/privacy/#brave-together-learn
Exactly. An argument about better vs worse news sources I could totally understand. Checking out when it's anything that's not explicitly a local issue? That's...not great.

Not to mention, some of his reasoning conflicts with itself. Behold:

> When was the last time you watched the news and thought, “thank God I saw that. Let me go take action.”?

> I’ll answer for you: probably never.

> ...

> But it's different from hearing about the tsunami destroying a village thousands of miles away.

Surely the author is aware that people commonly do, in fact, take action and donate money when tragedies -- such as tsunamis -- take place very far away. In some cases, the foreign donations add up to quite a lot! So I'm not sure how he reconciles this in his head, both in the sense of the way he's describing things is factually incorrect, and also that the implication here is that you'd get less people helping with tragedies simply because they occurred somewhere foreign.
Really great anecdote! That first plus sign that Addison wrote is actually more of an "And" instead of an arithmetic "plus"
I think the main problem I (Along with many others I know) have with zoom is that it basically requires you to download and install something before you can join a call. Obviously you can call in but if you want good quality video you have to download their app. Being forced to download the Brave browser in order to join a call just seems like blatantly unreasonable bar of entry. If blocking website ads wasn’t enough for me to download the browser, video calls with only other people who have download the browser certainly won’t be either.
On a large scale, perhaps so. But in terms of what I individually can accomplish, the answer is "nothing". The chances that my vote, my petition, my call to a politician, my letter to a newspaper, my post on social media, will affect the world in any way are infinitesimally small. Weighed against near certain negative mental health effects, it makes a lot of sense to just check out. Or at least to stop spending more than a few minutes per month on it.

If you really want to make a difference, spend five more minutes each day with your kid. Or checking in with someone in your life that's going through hard times.
There are other ways to shape discourse, too, though. For example, cover some stories to the point of obsession and simply completely ignore others, even if they should qualify as big news. The best way to counter that is to read a lot of widely varied news stories and insist that all of them present solid, factual and scientific grounding.
This makes as much sense as saying slavery exists because the Earth formed from space dust.
Hmm will check out the Chris Voss course
I remember content from friends, then no related content when Facebook was testing feed changes and now, it's mostly based on meme pictures and group posts. I forgot that there are any "friends".
I think she could have continued by adding more tables until they got to 4/3. That is obviously wrong - so it is easier to convince the kids that something is wrong. Then back track and explain what went wrong and explain the rules for adding fractions.
Unfortunately that option is not available for all ebooks.
The concept is nothing new, PR firms have been providing packed content for news consumption for years, and news organisations with ever decreasing budgets and time simply use them verbatim.

I’m sure there are criticisms about specific points, there always are, but I was aghast reading Flat Earth News a decade ago. I encourage everyone to pick up a copy for £3 on kindle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Davies#Critical_reaction_...
How many people who don't know what a shallot is are going to drop $80 or whatever on a Gordon Ramsay masterclass?
Actual press releases are clearly labeled for the end consumer as press releases.
> This guy must be loads of fun at dinner parties ;)

There's nothing wrong with saying "I have no interest in participating in the outrage circus with you". The whole point is that that cycle is not fun, dinner party or not.