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I respectfully disagree with your disagreement. The point isn't that journalists need a more rigorous passage into a professional association or credentialling. Its more that journalism is a team effort, where writers, line editors, fact checkers, designers, data folks and others work together to produce an accurate and complete work.

You wouldn't take on a big case of national impact entirely solo and expect, and journalists can't produce a trustworthy product in isolation, not in the long run at least.
Acxiom has been doing this for 50 years. Their database is extensive. How do you think targeted direct mail works?
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I think the elephant in the room here is things like Flatpack and Snap, which are basically ugly bastardized versions of static linking.
There's an interesting talk about that by Jonathan Blow, using the common phrase 'The Medium is the Message'. The eventual topic is mobile game design but he starts off with TV and how commercial and other constraints influence show (and game) design.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxFzf6yIfcc
Is that significantly different from what I said?
Before blindly jumping on Firefox bandwagon, think about the fact that Firefox exists only in shape and form Google lets it, as it contributes almost all (as in >90%) of Mozilla’s revenue through the search affiliation deal. Believing that an entity sponsored by Google will save us from Google dominance is paradoxical. Instead how about finding a different businesses model for browsers like a premium browser that would truly allow it to be independent.
> CNN wasn't always the hyper-partisan POS it is today. The NYT used be a real newspaper. Same for the Post. There has not been a Walter Cronkite for decades.

If you can come up with a way/study that has a good way of measuring the quality of an outlet, and showing the changes across time, I'll be willing to accept it. At the moment, I do not recall any of these to have been credible. I cannot speak for the Post, but NYT was definitely worthy of distrust in the 90's, as was CNN.

I think you and I are measuring things via a different metric/scale. Mine is simply "Do they lie/mislead often enough for me not to trust them?", which is different from "How often do they mislead?" You would be correct in pointing out that my stance is more binary, but it's because past a certain point, it doesn't matter how much more distrustful an outlet is! If the lies/manipulation were rare, it makes sense to look at the frequency. But I do not see a point in differentiating "lies once a day" and "lies twice a day". While the latter seems 2x worse, the former is bad enough to disregard it.

In that sense, the NYT was untrustworthy in the 90's, as was CNN. Whether they are worse now is kind of irrelevant.

> There has not been a Walter Cronkite for decades.

There are, and always have been, fantastic journalists. They definitely exist today. The question to ask is: If Walter Cronkite started out today, and was as good as he used to be, would people trust him?

> I think its self-evident that journalism has changed, dramatically and for the worst as the Internet became widespread, and we have nothing to replace it with. This is happening at a time when information has been weaponized to an exquisite level with most of us not even aware we are under attack.

The loss in revenue has definitely impacted news outlets because of the Internet. However, information being weaponized really is not that different today. The only thing that has changed is that there are more actors involved. Much of the thrash today is simply because more people have the power to counter the misinformation of the past.

Things are bad now, but I really do not want to return to the days where people trusted Time and Newsweek. I am happy people do not trust them. Those were not good days, and the misinformation then was probably as costly (globally) as it is now.

> There is a great hunger out there for honest reporting and there are plenty of people with both the resources and the integrity to help bootstrap a credible effort.

The people have spoken with their dollars, and it is clear they are not willing to pay for it. Gifts from rich people does well for the "narrow" journalism I spoke of, but is simply not enough for the wider scale that is needed.
This is exactly the premise of Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise. Basically the internet has created an explosion of information, but it's become increasingly harder to actually find the right information. So the general premise that "we should be smarter because we have the world's info at our fingertips" is counterbalanced by "there's equally, if not more, disinformation we need to wade through to get to that info"
I’m rooting for you, but what will you do after Adobe stops distributing the Flash plugin installer?

Plus, the Flash plugin will have a time bomb that will refuse to load Flash content after the EOL date.

Adobe says at https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html:

> Adobe will be removing Flash Player download pages from its site and Flash-based content will be blocked from running in Adobe Flash Player after the EOL Date.
Exactly. These looks are made all the timer because lenders make money on them. LBOs happen all the time because most parties make money.
Sometimes at work over lunch we have debates or arguments that could easily be solved with a quick google but it's just more fun to let it run its course.
Nah, the crazies definitely existed in the “old” internet (I’m looking at you, time cube guy!) You had to seek them out though. The Excite or Yahoo! homepage definitely didn’t “suggest” them.
Yes, I remember joining KKK chatrooms on AOL as a kid and spamming them with "White Chowder! White Chowder!". Good times.
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People from high-occurrence areas are a risk to people from low-occurrence areas.

That said, it's possible that both approaches were poor.

We'll only understand the cost of lockdown in hindsight: increased poverty, increase joblessness, increased mental health issues, etc.

Some problems don't have any good-looking solutions.
No, it doesn't.

"Someone should go beat those people up" is an incitement to violence because the intended message is to encourage the listener to go beat those people up.

"If those people don't stop misbehaving, I will send the police to stop them" doesn't incite violence; it merely warns or threatens the use of one's legal power to directly order violence.

Government officials make these kinds of statements all the time. For example, consider this tweet from NYC mayor Bill de Blasio (https://twitter.com/nycmayor/status/1255309615883063297):

> My message to the Jewish community, and all communities, is this simple: the time for warnings has passed. I have instructed the NYPD to proceed immediately to summons or even arrest those who gather in large groups. This is about stopping this disease and saving lives. Period.

Or, for another example, consider President George H.W. Bush's statement during the 1992 LA riots (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD_3NOIEk-0). In the statement, he discusses the thousands of federal law enforcement and military personnel that have already been deployed to the LA area before saying:

> And let me assure you: I will use whatever force is necessary to restore order. What is going on in L.A. must and will stop. As your President, I guarantee you this violence will end.

An incitement to public violence can be censored in the interest of preventing violence, but censoring statements from government officials does nothing to stop them from issuing orders to government personnel. Furthermore, if a government official states that they intend to exercise their official powers in some specific way, there is always a legitimate public interest in receiving that statement.

It's not the proper role of social media to provide commentary on whether an announced or threatened use of official government power is legal, moral, or practical. Facebook and Twitter are not in the business of deciding questions of constitutional law.
It already is, though. I had to install Chrome in the family computers because some pages just break in Firefox.

This time, though, it was mostly self-inflicted by developers themselves. We just didn't care enough.
Pandas I'd definitely categorize as being niche :) A moderately-sized one, but still a niche. And there you use whatever performs the way you need it, yeah - there are special constraints on the system, and pandas is built around dealing with them.
I wasn’t really all that surprised how it went. But then again, when The Facebook first expanded to my campus, I used it to run targeted attack ads on student government candidates, as an independent expenditure unaffiliated with any candidate or campaign committee. Maybe I was the cancer that is killing Facebook.

But I pretty much left Facebook when they introduced the News Feed — that’s when I realized they were after all of our privacy.
Yes, because the public has a right to know that their mayor is threatening to murder them.
If airplanes were completely zero emissions, it wouldn’t be a problem. Here’s hoping...
Hi Chris, I just saw your show today and had a good time. Keep it up!
So there’s actually two types of touch and drag you can do. One is holding until the slider appears and then dragging, the other is flicking the icons left and right which causes single step increments.

Discoverability certainly sucks for that second one.
> but the basic takeaway is that dynamic linking in system toolchains and system runtimes is far more mature than static linking.

But that's a chicken-or-egg problem, right? The only way static linking tools will reach parity with dynamic ones in terms of maturity is if static linking replaces dynamic linking as the de facto method of choice.
There are people today not returning to work because unemployment plus the $600 extra/week from the COVID-19 program means that it makes more sense to just be unemployed.

I'm not saying this is directly analogous to what might happen with a UBI program but it certainly demonstrates that there is a price point where some people will choose not to work.

I feel like this is one of the major weaknesses of the UBI concept. When people believe the safety net is designed to help people who find themselves in unfortunate circumstances beyond their control, then they can support the idea of taxes to fund the safety net. If on the other hand there are significant number of people who choose not to work, then it is very difficult for those who are working to accept that they should be funding that choice.
I agree with all that, but in the recent conversations about homelessness in SF, the very idea of leaving for a cheaper city is pretty much a no go politically.

That probably wont change.
Nice! This is my favorite theory since it's so conceptually simple (I can actually understand it) but that of course has no bearing about it being reality.
I used to think that, but I don't think it's going to happen unless we criminalize some level of human impulse hacking.

At their base, social media platforms specifically engineer their desired behavior, powered by obscene amounts of money and technical effort, but largely independent of their users' own preexisting wants and needs.

Facebook et al. are the 21st century equivalent of a <blink> tag.
Turning off a modern phone should make it virtually impregnable to non-state actors. Do you have specific evidence that points otherwise?
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Had to disable my adblocker for it to connect to the Reddit API.
I use Ubuntu, and I've never had that problem. It usually checks for updates at boot, but doesn't actually download them until you manually approve it.
My kids have done the Kiwi crates and the Atlas crates and they've really liked all of them. I would bet they'd like the Eureka ones when they're older.
There is value in the indirection, though: Mozilla acts mostly independently.
Since it looks like so many sensors detected this something, shouldn't we be able to localize it? For example, figure out where the Earth's magnetic field was first disturbed?
Seems to be the general trend. A virtualized kernel per service.
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Also, you could easily sign up under a new name if need be to start over (e.g., when you lost an argument or overreacted or something). Snowden mentions his in "Permanent Record".
You can put local music into a Spotify playlist.

https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/features/listen...
That's the reason I don't buy consoles anymore, the consoles had a simple pitch going for them, sit down and play, no waiting, no fiddling. That used to be true, except nowadays, you have to wait for endless updates every time you switch on the console.
It comes from the ideal -- the freedom to work on big ideas/problems, with an approach of your choosing. There are a lot of parallels between running a lab as a professor and launching a start-up. The whole grant & publishing review process has really gotten ridiculous -- but incoming grad students aren't informed about this, generally.
I probably just don't use it enough to understand this perspective, but why is it a toxic wasteland? My facebook feed has my friends from college, family far away, etc., and yeah there's an occasional political argument from time to time, but if anyone gets annoying you can just block or unfriend them, so...?
It's market segmentation. You can get symmetric cable, but you have to pay for the business service
Yep, fully justified text in a browser still looks like dog shit.

edit: clarity
Show HN: I built a Blackjack basic strategy training app
I don't like plastic in the air any more than anyone else does, but

1) stop wearing those stupid fucking polyester hoodies (and other artificial fibers; aka your socks, gym shirts and underpants) -that's where most of it comes from. I'm looking at you, SF hacker nerds.

2) Even assuming the entire population of the Western US breathed all that plastic waste in and it was permanently deposited in the lungs:

1000e3 kg/ 100e6 people = 0.01kg or 10g plastic each person accumulated in their lungs. In a year. Pretty sure I have more shit in my lungs from being around diesel engines for a few days, or, like being around potheads.
Hey all, I recently got into blackjack and built an app to teach myself basic strategy charts. I thought I’d release it to the public.

It lets you practice specific scenarios like soft hands or hands with unintuitive correct moves (e.g. 9/9 vs 7, stand). I’m working on adding analytics for things like which hands the user gets wrong most often.

If you're curious, the charts are all based on ones from Wizard of Odds. Also, it simulates a shoe behind the scenes so you can practice card counting (not randomized each hand).

There's no mobile support yet but I plan to add it if people find it useful.
You not knowing that the Mac equivalent of the start button has a shutdown option is the “UI discouraging?”

How does the Windows UI encourage shutdowns?

I only shut down my windows and mac machines. Windows is at least weekly, mac is about 2-3 times per month.
I know the network folks at Ziply, and they are investing a lot of time, effort, and money into improving things as quickly as possible. It’s some of the same folks from CondoInternet / WaveG.
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I’ve been using google play music for about 6 years. It’s a convenient way for me to access all my music (mostly ripped CDs).

Google is shutting down this product at the end of the year. Any suggestions for an alternative? I like being able to access my own collection and not crazy about paying a second time to access music I already bought. But if I am going to pay for a service, which one?
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Friend, if you are up on Hackernews making comments like this, I can guarantee with near 100% certainty that you are not capable of sustained outperformance in the markets. Whether you realise it now, later or never is no skin off my nose, but sooner would be cheaper.

Comments like this are why these "beat-the-market" threads are evergreen on HN. They do a disservice to the community.
Text always says lorem ipsum. It could be composed of comments in the thread.
I was reminiscing the other day about the Encyclopedia Britannica set we bought when I was a child. Probably within the last 10 years dictionaries were sold.

A few years later, Microsoft Encarta [0] was available on CD.

And a decade later, that was gone itself because of the internet.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarta
In some just universe, oil == pure evil. It's underground for a reason and poking a million painful needles into Mother Earth to suck it out and spew it into every biome is bound to have implications on our own health.

As above, so below.
This is my main issue with Ansible: as soon as you run a single raw shell command, haven't the main benefits of Ansible just disappeared? And wouldn't it be likely that you'll probably need to do this pretty regularly?

Some of the modules seem pretty pointless as well, like the synchronize files one; why not just use rsync directly? And while you're at it, just SSH to servers from shell! Sure, you would need something similar to the inventory, but that wouldn't be too difficult to come up with...

I think investing time in building a library of idempotent shell scripts instead is the way to go personally.
10mg per year is potentially a much bigger problem due to biological magnification - i.e. everything below us in the food chain is exposed to the same 10mg per year, so we accumulate the sum of whatever our food sources have consumed.
Depends on the type of the post. I suppose I could have fetched comments, but for now, it uses lorem ipsum if the post isn't a text post. If it's a self/text post, it uses that text as the article body.
It was funny when I read it but not sure if it is completely appropriate for attracting Enterprise customers.
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Honestly, for all the money that they spend on cops and these high tech programs, there is a much simpler solution.

Give the poor people money!

Give them a safe place to live. Pay for their rent, or offset it with some rental assistance. Give them jobs. Give their children education, so that they can grow up to get better jobs. Give them medical care, so that they can stay healthy. Give them access to healthy foods so that they can eat healthy.

Stop arresting people for stupid things. And dismantle the Prison Industrial Governing System.

Have a heart already.

It’s really not a difficult problem to solve.

This is not a problem that requires advanced technology. It is a societal problem, that requires all of society to solve it.

America needs to spread the wealth. America needs to be more inclusive. Not exclusive!
In the same way politicians act mostly independently.
How can one access a flash site after this? I pretty much only use Safari now when I have to use flash and chrome won’t let me. The French patent INPI website uses it for zoomifying their old Scanned in patents.
I know nothing about the actual underlying architecture but from the (credible) sources I've heard from apparently it's a really nice API hiding an absolutely unholy mess and that's why emulation has been so poor for so long.
By "voices" you mean diversity on the subject being studied?
If so, I completely agree.
I really wish this would get cleared up in the media. Surely this has to be based on recent travel history and not the passport, but that's not how it's being reported.

A few weeks ago there was news that Greece would open to tourists from China on July 1, but now they're (justifiably) saying there ought to be reciprocal opening as a prerequisite. Meanwhile no airlines are flying direct flights so it's not clear how tourists would get between the countries anyway. It's leaving travelers in really awkward situations because we can't really plan for anything.

I think the truth is most countries haven't finalized their policies yet, and that's why the reporting is so fuzzy. I suspect a lot of countries don't want to be the first to take the plunge.

In my opinion we should just reopen all the borders and enforce quarantine as the default case. For countries who want a fast track lane, they can keep waffling about how to do that, but just reopening everywhere with quarantines would at least get the travel industry moving again and give the world a framework to get things back to normal.
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Gifted this to my young nephews... parents report they love it and look forward each month as a family project. COVID made this unexpectedly awesome...

p.s. no connection to the co, found them from a Google search...
I'm mostly a macOS user, so by this I'm referring to the litany of prompts I have to dismiss in the menu bar drop-down.

I just opened it up on this machine and behold, there's a new one, bizarrely hoping I might connect my calendar (no thanks).

Fun fact: I mostly option-click the Dropbox icon to force it back to system style. The UX inconsistency and unwelcome intrusions otherwise just interfere with whatever I'm actually trying to do (usually, pause syncing).
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HN also has views on privacy that are not shared by most of the non-techie population. Most people like privacy, to be clear, but would not be willing to sacrifice as much for it as many here.

I have always found it odd that an interest in privacy would coincide with an interest in tech.
It's not clear why I have to provide evidence that my phone has any vulnerabilities to justify being my being uncomfortable handing it to a stranger with a known criminal past. Security comes in layers and one of those layers is physical security.
I stayed away from twitter until about a month ago when boredom set in. I found it utterly fascinating during the BLM protests. It's amazing to be able to follow political leaders and journalists and see the evolving discussion. But yes, gosh, so so much blatant racism, trolling, etc., it is just miles apart from the general level of thoughtfulness on, say, HN.
> Any economic system has at least some people who generally do not produce things -- babies and the elderly. In capitalism, you also have the unemployed.

There is a big difference between people who are incapable of producing things (perhaps because of circumstances beyond their control) and people who choose to not produce things. This is one weakness of the UBI concept that I haven't seen addressed in a forthright way.
One of the reasons is: They can't trust the police to come out and take the people who cause trouble out.

Neighbourhood gangs, esp in chicago are territorial and they try to "protect the neighbourhoods." (I think they do cause more problems) This came up during the riots earlier this month. The police were stretched way too thin. Gangs did stop the looters and rioters from extending into their neighbourhoods. (Deeper within Logan Square and Little Village were an example)
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I'm really glad these sort of comments were made around 2013 on this community and I started trading cryptocurrency. His comments make sense to me, and I can guarantee you with near 100% certainty there is another millionaire trader reading this thread.
And this is why I have not enabled Handoff (https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/mac-help/mchl732d3c0a/...) through Continuity. They are designed to leech of more of our personal data from macos, through ios. (It's harder for Apple and others to leech our personal data from macOS if you use an application firewall.)