skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not under the current paradigms for media and news. Other countries do somewhat better (Germany) but they too face rising nationalist movements.

The issue, amazingly, is Fox News and it’s ilk. Yet, the conversation here is the NYT.

This is a problem on two grounds

1) people talk about what they know. So like many discussions people nerd out on what they have information on.

2) The issue of Correlation vs causation in Fox’s impact on its viewers is pushed away for another day, when things are worse.

Is conservative pandering media causing a break from reality, or are they simply doing what they need to when dealing with their audience. Or perhaps both?

Is having someone like Rupert Murdoch and his children running the show a good thing ?

How could this be prevented ?
This is very interesting, is there a textbook for this?
> Rust can even run on the browser, by compiling to WebAssembly .

Forgive my ignorance (I haven't done front end web dev in almost a decade), but what is the use case for WebAssembly? What does it enable websites to do that (1) needs to be done within browsers and (2) can't be done with JS?

Also, are there any prominent websites that use WebAssembly? It's shipped with all browsers, but what percentage of users ever make use of it?
Again, it's not religion, it's intellectual honesty. I am not interested in demonstrating that consciousness is or is not woo. It's clearly something we don't understand, and at the same time I am perfectly comfortable in accepting the "placeholder" descriptions we have of the current mysteries of reality (like the above mentioned) since we can't do better right now.

What I am interested into is exposing the double standards of materialists/physicalists whose world view is based on even more woo, it's way less parsimonious, leaves out the most in-your-face phenomenon we observe, and when it makes the huge mistake to venture into philosophy/metaphysics like many militant materialists like to do, it's even internally inconsistent.

It's a shame, because science is not supposed to be a religion. We should be looking past our own nose tip.
You’re getting played by NBC. Their story is totally separate from the Hunter Biden laptop / Bobulinski testimony. They deliberately mention the other story in an attempt to discredit it by association.

To date, the only on the public record (in an interview, not testimony) statements are in favor of the allegations and evidence being true. The Biden’s have not public denied any of it. They, with the assistance of the media, simple delay and deflect.
Naming is hard, but in this case lock-free is just misleading. Why oh why didn't they go with bounded-lock data structures? :)
A very important difference is that you can't drink water during a Ramadan fast. Regardless of what you're doing with your food, deliberately dehydrating yourself is pretty much never justified.
An interesting idea. But in reality people use IDE's features to write templated chunks of code. Like if you write "for", you will have a completion that prompts you to "for i := 0; i < ...".
OK - and the NYT has won six Pulitzers this year. Every news organization that choose not to run the story has a dozen.

Your seemingly single criterion for trust still doesn't give the weight to Greenwald.

Mediocre people win prizes, and smart people do dumb things. Greenwald is not a reliable person to carry the entire institution of journalism on his shoulders as you keep insisting he does.

(Newsweek, by the way, has been owned and operated by Olivet / David Jang's Community cult for several years now. It has no connection to the previous magazine of the same name.)
> But why exactly is that an issue...?

It's not an issue as such, it's just that you are doing extra work to avoid Javascript by having a fully declarative system (there's no Javascript in the Vega specs - it even has a custom language for expressions).

That's great if you intend to rewrite the renderer in Clojure. But if you don't do that - if you just call into Javascript anyway then what's the point?

It's very future-looking, but feels quite YAGNI at the moment.
I feel seen :-)

In my first job I updated someones (doing a PHD in fluid mixing) Fortran code.

The original software to run an experimental rig just put up a ? prompt and you typed numbers in to drive the experiment.

You had to memorise which number was used for what and at which point you had reached.

I updated it to prompt the user and at every step display what options where available and also allowed you to go back a step.

I even went as far as to use Mixed Case Hollerith segments!
Twitter isn't a publisher that is the difference to "media". They are held to a different standard because they claim to not publish just host stuff. You cant exercise editorial control as a hostler. Thats like if a library would change the content or their books according to their own definitions of what should and should not be read by the people.
If you are in a card game and you don't know who the patsy is, it's you.
As someone who isn't a GIS person but is trying to make a map-centric app (hiking/backpacking, with activity tracking and route planning), any suggestions for resources?

I just finished implementing enough of the WMTS spec interact with the one provider I'm using so far (UK ordinance survey). The only library I could find to help that works on Android was proj4j, which I'm using to handle converting points to different CRSs.

I'm making incredibly rookie mistakes like just realizing I need to project vector data into the same crs as the raster base map.

I want to be able to transparently support changing the base map to one with a different crs and lines and points recorded in the previous crs show up in the "right places", but I can't figure out how that's possible. I think I've seen other apps do it.
There are many many hosting providers. You are unlikely to get banned from all of them.
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ROFL. I would now give multiple points if I could, still laughing ...
The guidelines says the following are off-topic:

"Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

So I'd say HN explicitly allows some political content as long as it is "interesting".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Isn't one of the charactarising features of a ledger that it is a string of relative values instead of absolute values?
I recall a youtuber Surveillance Camera Man, when he filmed people in public they seemed to get angry about his actions. To me this says people de facto expect privacy in public spaces.

https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Surveillance_Camera_Man
Figma does, and they cut their load time down by 3x. As a frequent user, I can attest to how snappy it feels despite the heavy computations it needs to do in the background. Evan Wallace, their CTO did a great write up on it [1].

[1] https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-...
I’m also curious about how valuable writing rust that compiled to webasm is. Wouldn’t I still have to write a lot of un-rust-like code to manipulate the DOM? I could definitely see writing a core library in rust and wrapping it in a thin interface to use it in JS, though. Is that the idea?
Interestingly the suggestion among the refuseniks is:

Just use your own device, nobody will be the wiser
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Nice! Hope this helps people who are seriously overweigh.
Hallelujah. Well, i see social media corporations are censoring in favor of their view of things. Because those in our society are divided, we can not be be a 'neutral
arbiter' of truth in this world. For example, @LiveAction and other pro life accounts are not permitted to advertise on twitter, etc...

If anything we can have the ability to turn off specific advertisements. I thought it would be nice to have a list of curators, who could digitally sign page content. Then have like a GPG trust chain where people can say the people they value curating. We can choose anyone who we align with their values, and we can view and search the web with information that is weighed according to our local web of trust. It could also be used to help young children as well to have some kind of firewall against bad information. And for adults I would rather be exposed to all ideas of the spectrum, which gives me the ability to fact check things for myself. I have had this idea for some time now. The idea is we get to choose our own analyzers and work together to establish the truthfulness of the web. And if i can help someone with it thanks be to God in Jesus name
I believe the links was added a little while after the initial post. Here it is:

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/emails-with-intercept-edito...

I'm surprised Greenwald is using these as evidence of censorship, given the opening line of the memo directly contradicts his claim: "there is some I agree with and some I disagree with but am comfortable publishing." [emph added]
https://tech.ebayinc.com/engineering/webassembly-at-ebay-a-r...
https://webassembly.org/docs/use-cases/

TL;DR:
- "almost fast as native code for web browsers” - in case you wanna do some expensive computing without a server
- "Compiling Existing Applications for the Browser" - port existing code into the browser (eg cpp apps)
> Because only some of us can do this. If too many of us do it Google will work around it.

How do you expect Google to keep YouTube running if you don't want to watch ads AND also don't want to pay for premium? I understand using adblocker on shitty websites (and you could argue that YouTube is one of those with frequent ads) but then you should pay for premium. Just my 2 cents.
With this "2 party system" (which it is not but ok) you get this kind of behaviour, even people that love freedom of expression, hate Trump even more and being pro/con 1 party is essentially the same as being con/pro the other. It's not a nice system, you need more parties my US friends.
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A couple more - look at C-x 3 (split screen vertically) the issue command follow-mode. You can have several vertical views next to each other, all shiowiing a contiguous view of your code - very nice! a bit flaky sometimes but incredibly useful.

C-x 2 - split window horizontally - bloody useful.

Get used to macros if you haven't already.

Issue part of a command then ? for help eg. M-s ? gives you a family of stuff inc the aforementioned occurs command.

Look up registers. Dead handy. Also look at (IIRC) Bookmark+ (?) which allows you to save your desktop config then reloads it next time you start up.
Where's the Rust Django? Is this false advertising?
It's a way to do things in the browser that you normally can only do with JavaScript but with better performance and written in a different language
> But much of his journalism since then has had, well, a pretty conspiratorial no one else is writing this because THEY don't want you to know the TRUTH! slant to it,

Not only since then, but also before then. Unclaimed Territory was sensational first, news second. I mean I read and liked it, post-9/11 everyone was desperate for any views not drip-fed by the Bush administration. But if you had told me this guy's resignation from his own news startup would be pitched as the presidential-crisis-cum-journalistic-scandal in the 2020 elections I wouldn't've believed a word.
https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/jizq1b/i_programm...
I love this veiled (but true) insult. That is the core of my love-hate relationship with this site.
You can use existing e.g C# libraries on the client side (browser)

e.g you can develop parser in console application and then ship it to the browser and use it there to parse e.g code
without changing a single line of code or having to do some bullshit or traspiling it to js.

Once it matures it will allow you to get rid of writing javascript and use java, c#, rust, c++ and many other to write frontend.
Maybe for bank accounts that is true, but online casinos work pretty close to that example (except the floating point part) since we do not ever want to allow an account balance to be negative. Allowing balances to be negative would be a regulatory violation so what most online casinos do is to first lock and update the balance (or balances since there is also bonus money) while making sure it does not go into the negatives and then log transaction amount plus after balances.

So for online casinos I would not say that the balance is cached. And I imagine traditional banking also has accounts which are never allowed to go into the negatives where a similar solution is required.
They made $22 billion in revenue this past quarter helping destroy the country. Every Facebook employee is laughing their asses off at you personally right now. "LOL! Look, HN is complaining about Facebook again! Hysterical!" They're emailing the link above with laughing emojis and dollar signs, while they customize their new Tesla order in another window.

The fact is, they will all lose money if Trump isn't reelected. Every single FB employee knows this, and does their part to keep the rage machine working. No conspiracy theory needed here, it's all part of the job.

If this wasn't the case, we would have a simple setting on the home feed to exclude shared links and news. One click and no more Fox News hatred from your crazy uncle. But we don't have that option. Why? All I want from Facebook is to see updates of distant relatives on vacation, or graduation photos, etc. But they don't make money if there's no anger, so oh well.
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Basically, multithreaded adverts.
The main thing it can do that can’t be done with JS is not having to use JS.

More seriously, one of the main draws is being able to us the same language on both the front and back end, which might be beneficial to reduce the need to duplicate model or just to be able to develop on the front end in ones preferred language.
Using webasm as a general purpose platform for the execution of untrusted code is also pretty interesting - this might be within server side code or non-browser desktop apps.
I had a similar experience, I loved it, I had a great 20 odd hours several years ago, but experienced the realisation that the greater ‘game’ out there was a better use time and have not gone back (compared to civ or stellaris, or prison architect, which I give 10 hours to a couple times a year)

The game is great, I just can’t spend that much time... psychologically... repeating the same motion ad infinitum
As I said, things can change, company aims can change - and as you said, it's not clear cut anymore whether Apple is to be trusted.
That site appears to be making some obviously false claims in its analysis. For instance, tt makes this claim:
"100% of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) for early, PrEP, or PEP treatment report positive effects, the probability of this happening for an ineffective treatment is 0.002."

Note that the only RCT with positive results is
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.22.20040758v...

Which was late, not early. Meanwhile, quickly searching through all the RCT's listed, there's 5 that are negative and 10 that were inconclusive (i.e. showed no benefit).

So there's 15 to 1 against the effectiveness of HCQ using the highest standard of study (RCT's), yet somehow that site attempts to represent that as 100% of 'early' RCT's showing positive results.
They used Alegro until a couple years ago, when they did a complete graphical rework of their interfaces & at the same time wrote their own GUI code to replace what Alegro was being used for.
Among other things, wasm has access to float32, int64 and vector types that JS does not. It also has operations like reinterpret_cast that you can't do in JS without a store/load pair using a scratch buffer.
Ask HN: Most annoying thing about doing ML?
I've been getting deeper into ML, and I'm surprised how bad the developer ergonomics are of typical projects compared to something like web or mobile app development.

What annoys you most about the process of doing machine learning development? Dataset management, data cleaning, tracking improvement, something else? Are you using any tools or services to help you manage your workload?
I'm unsure of his politics, but if I'm understanding them correctly, he's failing quite miserably if that's what he's trying.
My use case is having written a compiler/interpreter in rust wasm lets you easily set up a playground for the language.
There's a statement both sides can agree on!

(They are, of course, agreeing to opposite understandings of the statement. But half a horse is better than no horse, so we will consider it a show of political unity.)
I would suspect that your kids would have at least a chance of contributing to solving this crisis.

Many people will have kids because that's all they can do with their lives and the kids won't get the (easy) chance to become a great scientist, leader or similar. It's sad, many children will be subject to completely idiotic parents and so much potential will be lost.
I don't think he sees himself as a victim but he is certainly disappointed.

I think he is also correct. I think it is a bit of a smear against Biden, but editorial complaints about that sound a bit opportunistic to stay diplomatic.
Rocket still requires nightly. Rust folks should stop normalizing the use of nightly. Rust was "stabilized" almost 9 (edit 5,5 actually) years ago!
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This is "beauty is subjective therefore nothing is more beautiful than anything else" nonsense.

We can talk about expected beauty - that is, how beautiful you would expect a random person to say something is. And on that metric bare concrete scores very low.

> The Barbican Centre in London makes extensive use of bare concrete

It does not. Its concrete has been worked to expose the granite aggregate.

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/255227503860482433/

Bare concrete looks like this:

https://www.friendlyshade.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/bar...

> and is widely appreciated.

It was voted London's ugliest building in 2003. And I would say it is appreciated more for its cool layout than its materials.
Wow, this is still being worked on? Amazing, keep up the good work!
Thank you for the comment!
Personally, I try to use pure VIM with no autocomplete:). However, point taken!
They don't the next day. That seems to be more the point.
> But I've found Coro highly reliable and effective, including under stressed and complex loads, for about 6 years.

Had that been a more universal experience things might've been different.

I did once try and see if I could get a stripped down version to try and push into core but at the point where I'd deleted 90% of the code and the entire test suite still passed I realised that getting a reliable stripped down version was going to be a problem.

> Also I make extensive use of coroutine-local variables

I've been using Syntax::Keyword::Dynamically where I need that.

> For that dual-use functionality, as far as I can tell with Future::AsyncAwait I'd need to write two separate versions of most things.

I tend to write async by default and then for blocking code I call a blocking version of the API.

> I think "reliable" is misleading. Coro is highly reliable (for me anyway), while Future::AsyncAwait has documented gotchas.

I'll take documented gotchas over undocumented weird shit and an author who refuses to use a bugtracker and has a track record of deleting features if he doesn't like how people are using them.

> With Coro all the modules just work without anything Coro-specific in them.

Or at least they used to. The author no longer supports the past five years or so of perl releases so there's no combination of supported perl and supported Coro that exists anymore :(
Good luck. This is on a different scale. Likely, some folks will survive in safe zones but technology won't save us this time.

Ocean acidification is really scary (and fast) on its own but it's just one out of many apocalyptic problems we face.
Do you have any idea why that is? I am pretty sure procedural macros in an expression context landed in stable 1 or 2 releases ago.
Politics is not the root value of all things and so this cannot be true.
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It's purpose is not to replace JS, but to extend it. For example for the performamce critical parts of applications. It is already used in big JS libraries (such as Hyphenopoly, Google's Draco or Long.js) and in lots of custom applications like the Twitch.tv media player and many 3D visualizations.
The conversation here is missing this point and the actual market dynamics - news pays crap.

Advertising goes to the place with most eyeballs.

If you had to choose between the super bowl and Tucker Carlson, it’s not hard to guess where the ad will go.

The internet killed off the classifieds so that leaves even less money for news firms.

Add in consolidation and king making functions under Murdoch - and media firms like Fox have a very different purpose now.

The business of News is losing to the business of entertainment.

No one wants to pay to be bored.

The only people who will pay for boring news are people who get more value out of it than boredom.

This is a society level issue, not industry level issue.
Wasn't Rust "stabilized" with its 1.0 release in 2015?
Trailblazer Cells and Stimulus Reflex are great tools, but one big advantage of matestack (https://matestack.io) is to write UI components in pure Ruby, giving you the possibility to use Ruby's language features creating a really dry and clean UI implementation while having a lot of fun doing so! Adding the reactive core components on top saving you a lot of time and effort creating reactive UIs in pure Ruby. Compared to Stimulus Reflex, you have to write less code and manage less added complexity. That's at least my experience. But as said: Cells and Stimulus Reflex are great projects, don't get me wrong. I just love the pure Ruby thing ;)
Until their city sinks to the ocean or is consumed by wildfire but even then there will be deniers.

In general, catastrophe has to happen and impact many people first before they acknowledge the danger (and then move to Facebook to complain about politics not warning them).
As someone who has written quite a few lines in rust (rocket, specifically, while working on https://digester.app) I will agree that rust "is web", and yes, you can replace your Django.

But the development is experience and ecosystem is nowhere near (again, only speaking for rocket and I know a lot of work is being done to improve things) what you are used to from Django. For example, rocket's configuration system is quite limited (currently being reworked), poor cors support, limited test support, etc..

Again, not saying you can't do it, but it's not the same.
> Can somebody explain to me what the point of this is?

> What do I gain by paying for this?

Some people who use "pay for VPN" do this to protect their browsing privacy against "the first mile" (read: your ISP or sloppy free WiFi).

Security is a very, very broad brush.
pygame team member here

There's an important caveat: We provide an API for the SDL2 render system, and some functionality for up-scaling pixel art games on the GPU, but existing pygame 1.x games won't magically become faster by running on PyGame 2.0. They will be a little faster, because we have new, optimised blitting and drawing routines. To make use of GPU-based rendering, you will need to use the new APIs.