skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right; but it's one thing to say "they no longer have industry-leading editorial standards" and quite another to dismiss the entire publication for being less-than-perfect. I don't read the NYT front page – just articles linked here and elsewhere – so my view of it is far from complete and biased; I don't see "ZOMG ALIES!"-type articles for example, but there certainly still seems plenty of content of value on the NYT, in spite of also having content that detracts from that.

You also have to appreciate the NYT's position I think; at the end of the day, a newspaper is in the business selling newspapers. It's not quite that simple as many journalists and publications – quite rightfully – believe they have a greater task than "just running a business", but at the end of the day bills need to be paid, and the NYT is a business.

A business that now has to compete against a plethora of free content, not infrequently written by incompetent hacks (possibly with a less-than-savoury agenda) with almost no editorial standards. Competing against "free" is hard, and is not an easy position for a business to be in and quite likely a big reason for the decline in editorial standards. This is pretty much what this article is about.

"ZOMG ALIENS!" is complete nonsense, but ... it probably also drives traffic, and thus revenue. One way to see this is that this revenue-based clickbait content sponsors the more in-depth quality content and, like advertisement, is kind of a necessary evil. But yeah, it's not great.

As an aside, I have plenty of gripes with the state of the press by the way; especially since the Trump presidency things have ... not evolved in the right direction. But we must also be careful not to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Pawel Szulc – Formal verification applied (with TLA+)
You can't expect end users with little-to-no technical know-how to have the same common knowledge that you do.
Ask HN: How did you become an efficent architect?
I'm currently a software developer with around 5 years of experience, but have never had a major hand in architecting new systems. All my prior experience has been just working within existing systems. My current position is giving me the opportunity to have a larger hand in architecture, but I feel a bit overwhelmed trying to understand how to create systems just from general product design documents.

How did you learn to build this skill. Do you have an concrete resources to ready/study for building this skill faster than just the normal try/fail/repeat loop?
Whataboutism. Mass-surveillance (including bulk collection of metadata) is an authoritarian move, which more and more western countries are guilty of.

I'm not making a comparison – I'm simply arguing against something.
The book being burned doesn't look like a bible to me - the breitbart article tries to spin that one book being burned into a NSDAP-like mass book burning event, with bibles being burned - we don't know which faction burned that single book, but breitbart wants the reader very hard to believe that it was BLM people/leftwing people.
> then the average iPod owner either only had only around 7 songs on their iPod

I think its actually not that unrealistic that the median iPod only had 7 songs on it. I briefly worked on Kindle software and IIRC the median active Kindle was only used to read maybe 3 books or something (but the mean was much higher because there's a very long tail).
Those who pay, get to set the agenda. And its hard to convince a CEO who thinks money can move heaven and earth, that his influence should be limited by biology and physics.
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I think this is probably the most important reason you list: interacting with existing C++ code, including templates.

I wonder if we could ever get direct Rust to C++ FFI. There are ways around it of course, by dropping down to C FFI in both languages.
A couple other articles I've read in the last few days also cover this topic:

Yes, the Coronavirus Is in the Air

> Transmission through aerosols matters — and probably a lot more than we’ve been able to prove yet.

...

> I am a civil and environmental engineer who studies how viruses and bacteria spread through the air — as well as one of the 239 scientists who signed an open letter in late June pressing the W.H.O. to consider the risk of airborne transmission more seriously.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/opinion/coronavirus-aeros...

Aboard the Diamond Princess, a Case Study in Aerosol Transmission

> A computer model of the cruise-ship outbreak found that the virus spread most readily in microscopic droplets light enough to linger in the air.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/health/diamond-princess-c...

And here's an article from two weeks ago that goes into some depth on superspreading events:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/07/18/coronavirus...

> He believes ventilation may also be to blame for a case involving a young man from China’s Hunan province, who sat in the back of a bus but ended up infecting seven others in various areas of the vehicle and then two more on a second minibus he hopped onto next. Li interviewed the patient, driver, passengers and reviewed video footage and found it odd that few of those who became infected were nearby. In fact, at least one passenger who fell ill was as far away as possible at the front of the bus — 31 feet away — from the coronavirus-positive man. […] In the case of the Hunan man who transmitted the virus while riding two buses, Li said that “amazingly” after that four-hour window of infectivity, he is not known to have infected anyone else at all.
I was honestly unaware of the difference. Upon looking up the term on Wikipedia, the first line is "Institutional racism (also known as systemic racism)." Every subsequent article I looked at under the google search "systemic racism vs institutional racism" seemed to make roughly the same equality.
This, to me, is the biggest reason it's presented as a lie. You can present factual events in such a way to convince people to draw incorrect conclusions, and that seems to be what the Breitbart article is doing. I actually like this example of a lie, because it's not an unintentional lapse of editorial oversight but an intentional distortion of fact. The unstated conclusion of the article, that Portland is an anarchist playground in need of correcting, is just as important to the context of the article as the "factual" events it describes. I swear, the HN commentariat can be so literal.
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Ask HN: Office politics while working from home
Now that a lot of people are working from home: how did office politics change? Is there less of it or do you see a continuation of office politics with other means? Another option is that one is not supposed to talk about this topic...
> they assume that the public is aware that they are a Wirecard AG Brand

Or perhaps masking that situation under the COVID situation for those who don't know about Wirecard's involvement?
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Forget tax prep, Credit Karma was our only hope of a competing product to the 3 credit bureaus. A sort of augmented credit report, if you will.
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Puritans left England to escape the English Cancel Culture. Upon arriving, most of them then implemented their own cancel culture. After Massachusetts cancelled him, Roger Williams founded Rhode Island on the belief that religious persecution by the majority was wrong (note: moral, religious, ideological -- whatever you call it, it's the same idea).

This idea of personal tolerance is itself a moral position. Republic government reflects the will of the governed with emphasis on the will of the minority as a FUNDAMENTAL moral belief of the majority. "Free speech only applies to the government" is untrue because that is simply an outgrowth of the governed. When the governed majority actually start believing that "freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from results", you have opened Pandora's Box by shifting that fundamental moral belief.

Once you have decided Cancel Culture is moral, you are simply negotiating the terms.

The majority of the US believes homosexuality is morally wrong, but it's a personal decision/action. What if freedom to come out as gay doesn't mean freedom from consequences? What if the majority of people who believe abortion is immoral decide to lay on the consequences? There's a huge list of moral disagreements where the majority could decide to cancel the minority.

Finally, Cancel Culture ALWAYS leads to violence. If tolerance isn't part of the mix (and Cancel Culture literally means you aren't being tolerant), then either someone must change their fundamental morals or must start a conflict. Saying "I'm tolerant" and then persecuting everyone who doesn't say and do exactly as you think they should might be cognitive dissonance, but it isn't tolerance.
To the other folks replying: I looked up the protests on ddg images, and about half of the protesters in those photos were wearing masks.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=blm+protest+2020&iar=images&iax=im...
How are GMW Architects linked to Charles River software, the original authors of Revit referred to in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodesk_Revit ?
Force Sensor Applications
Publishing real-time Tweets to Solace PubSub+ broker
Google Reader was just an RSS reader, and there are plenty of those available, both free and paid. RSS doesn't get you past pay walls, though.
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Extremism on one side causes extremism on the other, and vice versa. Weakly held moderate views that are open to change when presented with new information are more productive to functioning democracy than both extremists who condemn anyone that doesn’t subscribe.
I am a little confused. It seems that most people knew it was a risk; that's why stores, gyms, churches, etc were closed in the first place, wasn't it? Together with the warnings to avoid inner spaces.
Neither the domain fraudio.com nor fraudio.io returns your homepage??
Apparently, if you separate the 5 biggest tech companies (Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon) the rest of S&P 495 is down about 11 percent Year-to-Date [1].

[1]: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4363542-big-5-twilight-zone
> Unencumbered by a mask.

That hasn’t been my experience. Every action I’ve attended has had clear messaging leading up to it about masks and social distancing, and attendees have adhered to guidelines.
It's perfectly usable. (I also have an XPS13 with a 3200x1800 screen) Setting up the infinality font renderer basically negates the downsides of a low resolution screen.

TBH, in the future I'll preferentially opt for ~96 DPI when available. The 3200x1800 on my other system is completely overkill, and doesn't play particularly nice with a lot of websites or Steam.
One important point that comes out of this is that few people are stressing shoe sole hygiene. Not necessarily meaning that one has to scrub them often, but to be mindful of what it touches (car interior mats, mats at home and possibly if people don’t take off their shoes, all over the house, hands taking off shoes, shoe racks, etc.) Given that droplets mean the virus will accumulate on floors and such surfaces.
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There are a lot of people in this space, and Google itself bought one:

https://solutions.appsheet.com/google-sheets-to-app
The website doesn't work here, which is pretty unusual. win 10 with latest version of firefox. first time it wouldn't completely load (kept loading...), CTRL+R and it loads completely, but video won't play. I'm curious and will be back in a few days to check it out.
I watched a doco last night where researchers put a sounding beacon inside a shark.

Inside it! They said something like "these sharks are used to cuts and scrapes and heal quickly."

It's no wonder people don't immediately associate their phone with a locating beacon.
The pre-corona aviation growth rate was a real problem.

The data centre industry emits as much CO2 as aviation, see how far you get on here proposing that we need to do less computing, to save the planet!
You are being pedantic and a know-it-all. You know very well what was meant by that. Just consider the comment to apply to all the the monopolistic cartel technology world dominating corporate companies. They are all part of the same world dominating corporation system that colludes in Davos and through the various other secret groups, as much as they even collude in public to conspire against us all, regardless of whether one thinks one is in their good graces by doing their will.
> The lengths wealthy people go to outdo one another are just absurd.

Have you heard of "luxury beliefs"? [1]

[1]: https://nypost.com/2019/08/17/luxury-beliefs-are-the-latest-...
Absolutely, I just used Deadline for writing and light diagramming. As a bonus I actually liked Win2k, it was stable and didn't get in my way. The only thing it was missing was font smoothing.
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Yes, most of your $10 goes to popular artists. But people that only listen to popular artists, some of their money goes to the artists you listen to as well. Meanwhile, the fact that it's free to the user to play unknown artists on Spotify lowers the bar to discovery. The net effect is that independent share of total revenue is rising.
I know right? Wittgenstein solved the whole thing in 1922 and yet here we are 100 years later, still acting like "knowing the truth" is a hard problem.

(Here's hoping I can avoid the wrath of Poe's law)
True, but not really relevant. (Unless you're implying that you think Autodesk is likely to go bankrupt and might be open to a similar arrangement?)

The Blender we have today is much improved compared to the last version developed by NaN. Most of its major features today did not exist when it first become open source. It was certainly helpful to have a working core at the start—I'm not saying that the 100k € was a poor investment, by any means—but I would be surprised to find that there is much left of the original code by this point.
Joking is against the HN guidelines. I was completely serious.
GPT-3 – will it replace Software Developers?
>barely one year of OS support.

Measuring support spans this way is... odd. It's like saying "ubuntu only comes with 1 year of support" because you installed 16.04 today. If we're going by this metric a lot of electronics have 0 years of support. Regardless, apple is still has the longest support, at least when it comes to phones/tablets.
More emphasis on better masks that actually might prevent aerosol transmission and less emphasis on 6 foot distancing because such things matter little under aerosol conditions where air flow patterns dominate transmission. Also much more emphasis on outdoor vs indoor activities. So no it is not really the same guidance.
No, you are getting paid for the lies and advertisements you see. You get paid with free apps.
Ah right, thanks for clearing that up.
A Conflict of Visions is not a book about Marxism, it is a description of a model to help us understand our ideological preferences. Like all models, it is wrong but sometimes it is useful.
I think that's what the parent was saying. The widespread wearing of just about any face covering seems to help on net even if it's probably >50% about protecting other people. Even if higher-level protective gear were readily available, most people wouldn't wear for any length of time and it wouldn't be fitted properly. So just wear something seems to be the most reasonable advice for the general population.
UV-C light in your air conditioning unit or some higher end filters might solve the recirculation issues, no? When people must be inside, we could probably make it much safer for them to do so even without the equipment you mention.
Everything google does on the home side just seems like pet projects that they abandon 2 years later as they consolidate and change names once again. Meanwhile, Amazon/Ring is killing it coming out with more models, sizes, colors, features, etc.
Or setup your own system and monitor through alarm.com. That's who ADT uses for their Blue system. Yes, ADT uses alarm.com for their newest system.