skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but that article claims that lactobacilli are critical to make the bread actually taste like sourdough at the end, whereas presumably dust isn't.

I did realise your main point is that it does include yeast, and I agree with that.
Sure, and they do. But some people interpret that as bias, because it isn't occupying a largely imaginary position equidistantly between remain and leave. When the average person talks about media bias, they do _not_ actually mean 'factual reporting', or 'independent editorial policy', or anything like that; they mean either 'agrees with me' or 'occupies a weird artificial center position'.

Some (usually public) broadcasters actually have 'equal-time' rules, which can produce fairly bizarre results.
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How is the NYT the most influential newspaper in the world? Even if it was at some point, even if the zeitgeist was that it was at some point, even if there was some metric that showed it was that at some point ... this seems like something that is almost impossible to rationally claim and verify (without let's say a lifetime's work).
It died in a wave of post-modernist thought crashing on the west. Post-modernists genuinely believe that objectivity is impossible. You'll see it in this very comment section, I'm sure.

And, interestingly, at the core of it they're right. It's impossible for a human being to be truly objective. The value is in the pursuit of that ideal though, like many others, not in expecting to perfectly attain it. People seem to have lost that idea.
Ask HN: Which book helped you understand the world?
I just finished Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari and was mind-blown. What else do you recommend?
"But there is now a void for the objective journalism of old."

I don't know man? Many have tried, all have failed. Even newsletters, in the end, write what readers want to hear. Some of the most radical and extremist information out there, is disseminated by newsletters.

I think OP hit on the crux of the issue, technology, or "the smartphone" if you want to pin it on that, has changed not only methods of consumption, but consumption behavior and expectations on a fundamental level. And I think that applies to all media, not only news. The seeming efficiency of information and media delivery on a smartphone just makes us think differently about the value of information and media. We start wanting the information we want, and we start blocking the information we don't want. After a while, information and media we don't want won't even show up for us. It's massively efficient customer service on a global scale. I'm not sure what can reasonably be done about it?
I wonder if the opposite is really the cause.

With the meat packaging plant closures and the "shortage" of beef, the cattle herds are probably growing in numbers, which could cause the spike of methane.
Hey cool! Thanks for sharing :)
An application that generates ideas for Python applications.

Seriously, you could have it scrape a website for people complaining about problems they have and then build an application to fill that space or be better than existing ones.
Not just to share code, but developers and other parts of the language ecosystem as well.

From my perspective Swift is in a trailing group with Go and Rust, chasing C# and Java for new server/service development. Swift is behind, IMO, in supporting server-side development, but ahead in language adoption. That's why the SSWG makes sense.

(Probably C/C++ is used for a lot of new server development too, but I feel that's mostly unassailable, at least directly -- I think that's mostly on-going development in systems with heavy ties to existing C/C++ projects where they've already very seriously considered alternatives and rejected them.)
Elaborate? This is as trivial as it gets. Convincing a Twitter employee to change a few email addresses is not elaborate. It's not hard to find employees disgruntled enough to take a bribe, or with a political axe to grind.
Detachment and objectivity are much different things. Detachment can create an illusion of objectivity under some conditions, but it is not the same at all.
It's not new that news outlets aren't very objective. It is new that so many no longer aspire to be so. That aspiration has a lot of value, particularly where we fail to attain it.

Two other areas where the same is true: color blindness and meritocracy. These things are worth striving for, especially where we fail at them. The recent trend of dismissing these things even as worthy goals is damaging to our collective pursuit of virtue.
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That and many users wouldn't do that for online accounts. Blue checkmarks are the exception while ignoring conventional internet wisdom... which came at a steep price.

Edit to the topic: As I said, the transport layer of SMS isn't safe, but I don't think it has practical merit. How often were SMS redirected or spied upon? In high profile cases? Even that would be difficult to determine, but the occurrence is probably very low.

And for a twitter account? Seriously? Depends on the account but assessment of threats is the first step of an honest security review. My reddit pwd has been 'reddit' for years. That wouldn't fly if I were Madonna and if I had any attachment to it.
> what would happen to the global socio-economic stability if those middle east countries were to lose that source of GDP

Tumultuous transition period followed by quiet.

The same wealth that currently placates them also enables them to project power. And when the wealth disappears, infighting is more likely than outward violence.

After the initial period of reorganisation, it will settle into a state similar to other formerly-wealth now-impoverished nations.
mmh, it could be much much easier: why not using an air vacuum to have the hair perpendicular to the skull? :)
YouTube not liable for user copyright breaches, EU court adviser says
As a US citizen, I'm personally glad to see other nations push back against data privacy exploitation by US businesses on the general public. It's evident our own (US) government will do very little to curb those business's overreach.

I hope to see more disincentives put forth against these practices in markets our businesses haven't completely supplanted government oversight. Hopefully, that will result in shifts of practices in the US markets as well, though it's certainly not guaranteed.
I like his way of thinking: don't create new parts for your prototype all the time when they don't work but just fix them quickly so they will work (with tape, nails, glue and what not). And only when the prototype works create new parts that look good.

First iterate, then make it look good.
Facts without the corresponding counter are incredibly powerful at being "accurate" but still swaying opinion towards a bad take. Modern media abuses this.

There are facts to support most viewpoints, but most can also be readily attributed to other factors. However, when presented in certain lenses it's near impossible to tell who is correct (without going off and doing independent research).
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For those fellow readers who do not know the Flowbee, here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK7_VSpTyVY

Quote: "This ingenious device lets you give yourself and family perfect haircuts everytime!"
Ask HN: Great programming language features, other languages should steal?
You cannot be fluent in all programming languages. But this also makes you blind for language features a particular language really got right, or killer libraries that are just amazing. Which are these widely unknown features, that you only get to know, when working with a language and its ecosystem?
Example: I'm coming from Scala. Starting to develop a Flutter app with Dart, made me realize how great and safe the serialization ecosystem in Scala is. You can serialize types (and type hierarchies) with a convenient syntax that is completely decoupled from the type itself, while high-performance serialization code is generated at compile-time via macros. Libraries include: https://circe.github.io/circe/ https://github.com/suzaku-io/boopickle
This reminds of a joke about drawing an owl: you first draw 2 vertical ovals, slightly superimposed, one bigger, one smaller. Then you draw a triangle on the smaller oval. Then you draw the rest of the owl.

Sure, you can't succeed if you don't try. But you also can't succeed if you don't have anything to eat, and for the vast, vast majority of people, trying is likely to make that a real problem.
> I'm in the UK where TV news still has objectivity regulation

That's only for the BBC, as far as I know. And one could, er, definitely question how well it worked in the last election.
> News publications developing content aren’t all that different from SEM campaigns.

Exactly - the have to please the same platforms and systems.
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This is very cool actually. How often have we asked the barber to style our hair a particular way and then been disappointed.
It's not black and white and this is a common attack on the press - without which this nation would fall.

The media can be more, or less objective. It can be more, or less impartial. Each source can have bias, more, or less. The problem becomes when sources centralize around political ideas and competition decreases. What was once nationwide respected newspapers and 1 hour evening news, became 3 major 24/7 news-channels, decimated newspaper industry controlled by conglomerates, and social media being gamed by everyone squeezing dollars out of an uneducated populace.

I genuinely challenge people on here to read old newspapers and look at the difference in reporting. There were far more newspapers - every major city had one. The nightly news didn't have time to have a "panel" of "experts" discuss how "issue x will destroy america."

And instead of addressing the real issue - the money behind politics (i.e. citizens united, coinciding with social media), you say it's "inherent to media." No it is not. media needs to be free and it needs to be decentralized. And no, it does not need to be perfect.
> We can grow all our own food (and even carbon-neutral alcohol fuel) in gardens in ecologically harmonious ways.

[citation needed]

Not sure what kind of garden you are talking about, I like gardens to plant vegetables and such, but their caloric output is very low.
Also: https://outline.com/btGuzC
at the end of the day, Twitter is a website, and web developers are clowns
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The most important piece of the puzzle already happened: people know bidets are now.

If you ever did a bathroom renovation and went to a decently large plumbing supply store, they had a full bidet section for a while now. This time, more people are actually going to look at it.

A large chunk of my peer group got cheap bidets at the beginning of the pandemic when toilet paper ran out, so it's at least semi normalized even though its not pervasive. I no longer have to explain what it is or why it's great. That's a massive step forward.
I agree that there is no perfect objectivity journalism, even the choice of reporting something or not is a subjective choice. However, I find it misleading if not dangerous to claim that there is not even a continuum of objectivity or impartiality in journalism.

If we just say that there is no impartiality, we put the news outlets that do a lot of research and strive to give news reports painting a balanced view of reality at the same level as propaganda machines that completely disregard facts.
> Electron runs like shit and inhales RAM is because it was programmed by people who don't have solid understanding of fundamentals.

I feel like this is a huge oversimplification. I’d argue that for sufficiently large projects (say, Chromium) every single programmer who works on it could have a strong understanding of performance fundamentals but the product itself could still have performance problems because there are necessary levels of abstraction involved and no one person has the entire codebase in their head. Performance problems could come from emergent behavior that could not have been predicted by the original engineers.

But, as for implementing an app on top of Electron. Say I need to write a cross-platform app with a consistent style and fluid animations. I know how to write a NEON implementation for ChaCha20 for fun, or write a zero-copy binary property list parser that’s faster than anything I’ve found. I have a decent understanding of performance. That doesn’t help me write this cross-platform app. I don’t have to time to write a novel native UI toolkit that allows me to share code while maintaining platform consistency and native performance. I don’t have time to fix the memory consumption of Chromium. I’m going to write my Electron app in JavaScript, carefully, and hope the performance will be acceptable (but not great). I don’t see how that can reflect on any individual programmer poorly.
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> Reminds me of that video where the caption goes “they used coding and algorithms”.

nothing beats NCIS:

https://youtu.be/u8qgehH3kEQ?t=15
I get why everyday users don’t use it but why doesn’t an org like coinbase? Yes the quick and dirty poc I built in 5 minutes is a bit jarring but it could easily be adjusted so the beginning of the tweet reads like it normally would and the end is the cryptographic signature nearly separated from the main message.
I only used clever algorithms maybe, MAYBE a dozen times in 12 years as a java developer.

I know I can, in university I implemented huffman compression(I know there is nothing special about it algorithm-wise) in java and I got the best run-time in 2 series of ~100 students, and by that I mean orders of magnitude better; my runtime was on par with the best C++ programs I could find, and my program could work on arbitrary file size, the fastest C++ program I could find at that time (20 years ago?) loaded everything in-memory.
I wrote all the data structures from scratch, using java structures consumed a lot of memory and was way slower.

But the jobs I got in my country as a J2EE developer were much better paying, at that time at least, than any C++/algorithms stuff.

If I was younger, with the same singlemindedness I used to have, I'd absolutely spend 1-2 years tuning my algorithms skills so I could get those sweet FANG job.

Or if I had the ego of my ex submediocre-redneck boss who thought Spring Framework was bullshit, without actually knowing it, and got into programming competitions(only to be butthurt by his results because he did not put in the effort to actually practice algorithms and data structures), again, I'd study hard on algorithms and datastructures.

Or if that was my hobbie -- algorithms and datastructures is 100% a valid hobbie -- but it is simply not my hobbie.

Sure, if I encounter a hard problem, I can look up the best algorithms, copy&paste, modify, optimize and optimize untill I'm satisfied with the result, but there simply is no payoff for me to be an algorithms grand master.
what if you try to spin it the other way around ?
A driver is in ports while the author works on getting it ready to import. Just pkg install iichid.
I think washlets is just Toto's name for it, and they happen to be the "big high end brand" for them. It's a bidet seat for everyone else you ask :)
I loved Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner!
I read this hoping there was going to be some educational "trick" it taught. Was disappointed, just sounds like somebody who wants to be purely technical is stuck working with difficult people.

Geon should either change or jobs (to something less client-facing), or accept the job as it lies, which would involve recognizing psychology/therapy/emotions is a huge part of client interactions. In this case "alpha" clearly has a lot of emotions influencing his decisions, understanding those and getting him to like you is probably part of being a good contractor.

If he perceived his work was dealing with a complete wildcard, and managed to, that's something Geon can take pride in.

[Not to say any of this is common-sense, when I was young I probably would have felt like such projects were a waste of my time]
> Since users indeed never learn, stop expecting them to !

I don't expect them to. That doesn't mean I can't be irritated that they don't!

We have various logs and audits too, that can usually be used to work out what has happened. Sometimes alerts based on those logs mean we are already fixing the issue before any user reports it. Even with full audits and other logs, it is usually still quicker to locate and diagnose a problem if given what useful information we know the user has access to (the standard set: approximate time (at least the date if not today), what were you asking it to do, what did it do instead, any error messages they were displayed).

If the user is give a message with a code that explicitly says "report this number when you report the issue" and they don't bother (they just say "I got an error") and that information would save me time, you bet your arse I'm pushing the issue back onto the queue and getting on with some interesting dev/infrastructure work until a better report arrives, or looking at another issue where there is decent information.

Want to be at the head of my TODO list? Then make at least a minute amount of effort to help me help you.

It particularly bothers me when clients who negotiate a discount because they won't need first-line support as they are "big enough to have a department that triages that sort of thing", still send through terrible reports because their idea of triage is just hitting the forward button whenever an email comes in. I've got better things to be getting on with than providing free outsourced work for a bad IT department!

I'm not very customer facing these days, since we have grown to the point where I have a bit of a shield provided by our support/PS/BA teams, which is good for both my irritation levels and the clients!
The BBC is impartial by charter but I think it's for all of them to some degree. Ofcom regulates it. Sky actually stopped carrying Fox News over here because of it.
That would be an extremely short-term effect if demand actually fell.
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We should not let trolls or racist steal whatever symbol they want. What if troll or racist want to steal <whatever>?

Where <whatever> can be the "thumb up/down", "chocolate eggs", "sandals with socks", "the red cross", "black shirts"? They look like stupid racist symbols, but if you had a travel machine and go to 2018, you will not convince anyone that some trolls or racist can steal the "ok symbol" and make it a racist symbol.
As a European with a digital subscription to the NYT - how are they supposed to treat both parties equally?

The GOP, from my European point of view, seems to have completely abandoned any belief in science and civilized discussion and just spouts whatever appeals most to their base.

In my opinion in the age of Trump (arguably even before that), it has simply become impossible to treat both sides equally. And every time they try - see e.g. the article by Tom Cotton that they printed - it becomes glaringly obvious that it does not work.
Lots of little transactions, too. Easy to hide in the noise, at least at first, but when you start throwing out tons and tons of small transactions they can start with the pattern recognition.
It should apply to all news covered by OFCOM.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadcast-co...
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Which is overruled by the United States Constitution.
Deaths have flatlined.
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Virtual cards might a useful feature (or not) but is it worth £5 a month?
It’s implied the OP isn’t considered part of the “public” for this issue.
In a query-oriented compiler, you can give it a source location and ask for type infomation, or where is the definition of the symbol at that location, and the compiler will do just enough work to give you the answer, using laziness and memoization to make it reasonably efficient. As far as I know, LISP systems don't work that way: they parse and evaluate (and maybe compile) as soon as an expression is entered, without the kind of laziness you see in a query-oriented compiler.

This recent link was pretty good, I think https://ollef.github.io/blog/posts/query-based-compilers.htm... and this discussion with Anders Hejlsberg https://youtu.be/wSdV1M7n4gQ
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Defence attorneys may not know if someone is guilty. Some clients may say "Yes, I did it, get me out of here" but some won't - possibly because they didn't.

Clients may be implicated by false confessions extracted under pressure. They may even believe those confessions, because hours of stressful interrogation can confuse people with limited ego strength.

There may be some other narratives, other circumstances, complex family or business relationships which are a relevant back story to the crime, and/or may incriminate someone else - and so on.

There are exceptions - including lawyers who specialise in defending organised crime, and are really just covert employees of criminal organisations.

But generally, it's just plain incorrect to assume that defence attorneys invariably know their client is guilty and are really just trying to cover that up.
There might never have been some noble objective, but there were at least the business incentives to appeal to a broader audience because of the centralized distribution methods, no? I think Matt Taibbi wrote about this. Market forces then and now.
I just threw up a little in my mouth. I've used many a bidet, and they never get anything completely clean like TP does. I can't imagine building up residue on a towel like that.
If this is the sort of thing you like, you'll like it here. Choose your bubble.
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In that case, you might enjoy https://powerlinesinanime.tumblr.com/
Even that would be unfeasible. To report on most significant events, even for a simple factual description of what happened, you have to decide which of a variety of contradictory sources is correct, which is one kind of bias, or list all of the incompatible accounts, according equal credence to each, which is another kind of bias, even when the number of competing versions is manageable.

In practice, journalists have to make judgments about what is likely to be true or relevant, and historically have been egregiously wrong about that in highly predictable ways.
Brings back memories of my favourite poem: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/fcc/humor/twas.html
Early journalism was highly opinionated and inflammatory.

There was period where objectivity was defined as asking both sides and then being seemingly neutral. But it is debatable how objective it was and how much it was just shared consensus.

But tabloids always existed even during that period. And they were not objective at all.
And if they want to keep data completely out of US Gov hands, as some clients do, it's almost impossible due to the Patriot and Cloud acts.
And I'm sure the American army guards the American border too occasionally. The royal marechaussee are a military unit. not border patrol.