skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We know that news organizations sometimes stealth edit their articles, even years after the fact. Is there a way to verify that those archive sites do not do the same?
I'm curious how real estate development is pushing out clubs. Here in San Francisco I feel like it's the opposite. Rents are too high and there are not enough spaces to open new clubs anyway. And lack of new development means young adults have to leave the city. You have to be lucky enough (and old enough) to have bought a house 20+ years ago to afford to stay.
Oh hell no.

In the military you are accountable for every round you fire, and you better not shoot something you don't see.
Jassy Talking Points
Yep, and then when the insurer declines to cover an incident because the company neglected proper security, you do NOT want to be the person with "security" in their title.
Amazing story and I believe it's happening. The world is connecting on a global scale and people are beginning to realize there's other ways than simply "us vs them". A way to see it is how diverse food has gotten around the world.

One thing that really slows this progress is the nationalization of the news and specifically internet. It's much easier to keep the "us vs them" narrative going when the news outlets are controlled by the state.
I agree with the author to some extent.

If you're a B2B startup then it definitely makes sense. For B2C it can be a bit tricky to determine because you want to know if your users find your product useful and the quickest way to get your product in the hands of many users/potential customers is to offer the product for free(with some restrictions).

Especially for indie developers like me, we need to get validation and feedback on the product as quickly as possible, and free plan allows us to get that quickly.

Once you gain some traction then it makes sense to not have a free plan to filter out free users, but in initial stage I wouldn't shy away from free plan personally.
From the NYT article this blogger is upset about: “Mr. Trump himself has a small personal financial interest in Sanofi”

“Mistake” he’s highlighting: “ The Sanofi portion of those holdings totalled a max of $1,485”.

Sounds like accurate reporting. It wasn’t a huge sum of money, but it’s something, and it has the appearance of a conflict of interest.

Edit: before you downvote me, please consider that politicians have historically been held to account for the _appearance_ of conflict of interest, and that this is a good thing for a democracy. They have historically avoided this in high office by divesting or placing assets in a blind trust, something Trump did not do. NYT has a journalistic duty to report this conflict of interest and did so while saying it is small.
There is also the Star Commander [1] which supports Commodore 64 disk images and physical drives using the X1541 interface [2]:

[1] https://sta.c64.org/sc.html

[2] https://sta.c64.org/xcables.html
Deepfake Voice Technology: The Good. The Bad. The Future
They claim that AES is (edit: "may be... in a few years") decipherable, and AES is used pretty much everywhere, so if they actually make a practical attack, then everything would be disrupted.
Don't use the sites that battle with ad blocker.
The premise of Tor is exactly that you need not trust any of the nodes. The only exception being, all of the nodes in your path being controlled by the same entity. But an exit node knowing that an anonymous user has an encrypted connection to a specific site is usually not a privacy concern.
So the article is just the title? Cool.
A lot of people hate it.
25 days ago, not 2 months, and the article also pointed out that lockdown fatigue and holidays were estimated by Ireland health authorities to contribute +1.0 to the Re rate, with the virulence of the new variant adding ~+0.5-0.7. But yeah, it's bad news and I hope state governments resist easing restrictions.
Ask HN: Does anyone have examples of how they've worked with a VA effectively?
I'm looking for assistance with some basic items for my personal and professional life: scheduling, email outreach.

Does anyone have examples of training materials or SOPs they've used with virtual assistants? I see a lot of listicle articles for VAs, but not many templates or detailed tactics / best practices out there.
"Just sort of works" is a great phrase that I intend to apply to a wide variety of software.
The article further explains:

"HCQ is a cheap generic drug that was widely being given away for free

Pharma firms don’t benefit much from picking one generic over another

Sanofi was never going to make meaningful money on Plaquenil

The disclosures in question were already over a year out of date

The disclosures actually show net sales of the Sanofi-related fund

(More sourcing for all that here.)

It wasn’t just Twitter that pointed out how misleading this framing was. So did Politifact. So did Vox. And The Washington Post did so rather scaldingly.
> The argument against auto-updates is "it's running code without my permission or ability to audit first"; putting a recency requirement for client-server communication doesn't impact that concern

It makes it impractical to actually audit the code you're running, because you're forced to re-audit on Signal's schedule. And it makes those audits mostly meaningless: what are you going to do if you decide a given code change is suspicious? You can't keep using the version of the code you were happy with, so you'd better have a plan in place for moving off Signal quickly - but in that case how much can you gain from using it at all?
Agreed. Sometimes adoption is just as important as making money.
My comments on social networks, insurance companies, and casinos sharing a similar business model strike a tone similar to a neural-network generated text? Is it the cavalier use of colloquial language? I often see "this looks like it was written by GPT-3" on HN, it seems like a trendy thing to place as a comment for writing styles one disapproves of.
As a counter, I think free plans are the way forward. ProfitWell, Canva, Mailchimp, etc are all leaders. Freemium is how you win. I broke down my thought process here: https://www.chrisfrantz.com/how-to-kill-a-unicorn/
Just wondering, how can a network block have a "2" in "192.0.2.0/24"? Shouldn't it be "192.0.0.0/24"?
Most educated people believe that premier news outlets are inherently trustworthy. And this is healthy, in a way.

No it's not. The NYTimes engages in journalism, which is a particular way of gathering and presenting facts. Which to say, among other things, they rely on publicly available information, gathering facts on the ground and sources. Sources are people with information, often but not always powerful people. They check facts/claims but according to their viewpoint. Often they're a conduit for the powerful people they like to present their story, sometimes a true story, sometimes not. Which is to say they'll take claims that look like obvious bs and are actually bs stand IF these come from the sources they like and if they can't be clearly and directly be refuted. And smart, powerful people can craft such claims, indeed enhance their power by crafting such things.

I mean, I can see the comments are filled with places the NYtimes got it wrong. I think my link is good for showing the dynamics of how they got it wrong.

"Russian Bounties!!!" and all that jazz[1].

Edit: also should note, the over-the-top claims for "objectivity" of the OP is transparently full-of-shit. Just so you know I know. "Retraction bounties" - NYTimes may have it's problems but that's never how journalism worked.

[1] https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/07/10/bounty-tales/
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Someone starts a competing Substack and steals their subscribers. It's much harder to do that with the NYT and New Yorker, which are big institutions with all kinds of privileges and insider access.
The third book is good, almost as good as the second imo. Manages to become completely insane while still feeling believable at each step.
Something happened between the time of Hitler and not beating them over it now, that led to Germany becoming an ally. But I guess this is also one of those things we're not supposed to dwell on? It was not an ally and became an ally, just like that. Same with Japan, btw. I guess that would happen magically with China too?
Seconded, zathura is awesomesauce.

Another reason to use it is seccomp mode. Zathura puts itself in a seccomp jail before reading the input document. Inside the jail all it can do is read from the input file and read/write to the display (in my case, Wayland socket -- on X11 this isn't quite as effective).

Just wish it had nonrectangular (i.e. paragraph-flow) select-and-copy, but I know PDF makes that as difficult as possible. Works great on touchscreens except that the pinch gesture is misinterpreted as select instead of zoom.

Tip: press tab while viewing a document to see the outline (which you can navigate with vi keystrokes!). Took me a while to discover that.
I was thinking about how it probably hasn't aged well and went off looking for forks or other projects like it. I found this and am considering building it play around: https://git.teknik.io/scuti/paperback-cli
Glad someone else brought this example up. Honestly, what a staggeringly low quality piece of journalism.
> You playing at a gambling game with negative expected value

The GP used to be a professional options trader. I know several professional traders who are very good at counting cards. I wouldn't be so quick to assume they have negative expectation in blackjack.
What is misleading about saying Trump “small personal financial interest”? That seems pretty clear cut and truthful.
This is not good advice for most hiring managers. There's no good way to look for achievement by experienced developers because the best achievements are kept secret by corporations.
"The next era will improve on the same decentralized development principles by incorporating decentralized monetization and governance too. This will take us the full cycle of Decentralized and Sustainable Open Software nirvana."

I'm not sure what this actually means but, nirvana.
I think this advice works well for established markets where users know what to expect with a product ("Netflix but X", "JIRA for Y", etc)

For people building Thiel-esque "zero to one" SaaS products, I've found free plans absolutely invaluable in educating users on what your product can do and why they might want it. In my experience, offering a free plan lowered an otherwise-high barrier of entry and helps those users then build a habit (incorporating your product into their workflow/dailies) that converts comparably to hiring salespeople.

There are indeed a lot of unintended/hidden costs to having a free plan, but there are a lot of costs to selling a paid-only product, too. Seems like every product should gauge what's best for their use/market. :)
I don't think Google assistant on the iPhone will be anywhere close to as good as it on Android for the type of usage your looking for.

Having said that, I wouldn't give up on Siri - she has improved quite a bit from just last year in terms of answering questions. I'd be surprised if they aren't exploring ways to control your phone as well.
I don't see any assertions of "how they got it wrong" in the article, at least about the class sizes. The article states that the number was wrong, that it was obviously wrong, and investigates how the mistake was "corrected". The article is not concerned with "how they got it wrong" at all, only "how they corrected it".

The obviousness of the error is brought up because it's relevant to these bullet points: "Both correction notices are notably vague as to how bad the errors were" and "They don’t seem to have reviewed the teacher strike piece for other mistakes".
The examples of Trello and Jira are specifically problematic, because their history says otherwise: Jira built its considerable market share and brand awareness without a free plan of any kind, offering instead just a short-term trial license; I remember just a few years ago that the price of admission was thousands of dollars per server, and yet here it is. And Trello comes from the other direction, having been entirely free of charge at launch and only latterly monetizing.

The broader problem with this example is that the companies in question evidently don't value information, and have instead relied on personal hubris, which speaking as a longtime service provider is itself a red flag for "problem customer", and if not quite the horrors depicted in the article then certainly on that spectrum.

All of which illustrates that talking to anyone who self-describes as an "influencer" is generally a net negative, unless you're in the FMCG category. Influencers demanding freebies is something to be abhorred, and there is no equivalence here to seeking high quality professional advice.
Right. Who would count their karma points here on Hacker News and make a big deal about how many strangers anonymously clicked on the up arrow next to their post?
You can assign a reference to a function and pass that to a function that expects a callback, and then change that assignment based on incoming data. And if that’s not enough you can create and modify functions at runtime. And you’d have to content with JavaScript’s spread syntax and rest parameters.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
“ Most educated people believe that premier news outlets are inherently trustworthy.”

Let’s stop right there. I think the last 8 years have shown the media to have lost significant amounts of public trust. I would say that most educated people inherently believe that the media should not automatically receive benefit of the doubt any longer.
And not only that, those news organizations often stealth edit their articles months or years after the fact.
It’s expected that comments on this thread would be divided into two camps, from both sides of the table - customers and service providers.
Well, I looked into her courses (and I, though not a beginner, already tried more than 20 apps out there so I know what a $300 or $9 content should look like), and plenty of people on her social media commented that it is way too expensive...

Going by your logic, why doesn't she increase the price to $30000?
Do you have any additional lists you'd recommend? I added some custom ones for Reddit sponsored div's which was easy enough (although manual), and some local news sites custom DNS (which they're changing quarterly now.. I assume to game some KPI)
Yes, but published data, other physician usage and guidelines are defenses for liability.

As I said, in oncology the vast majority of treatments are off-label.
Quantifying Memory Unsafety and Reactions to It [pdf]
What do you think a “small personal financial interest” is to a billionaire?! A few million? A few hundred thousand?! Not less than $2k. C’mon man.
or maybe they work at a university for dirt outside the USA
Interesting, I would really not expect sizes and time to be in ASCII. I wonder their reasoning was.
I get where you’re coming from, but the things you are hand waving away don’t just disappear. Two permitting processes really do cost twice as much to administer as one.

And I’m not even dealing with the fact that you need twice as much road, twice as much water and sewer pipe, your city becomes slightly lower density meaning walking and driving distances are longer, etc. etc.

At the end of the day, higher density is significantly more efficient, which is why cities get dense.
That metric alone.. If you work with any large organisation, this is enough to justify install-as-standard.

Just need someone to verify/"Enterprisify" the uBlock Origin addon (throw some money at them, charge $X per enterprise for email support, hire a rep).
I think it's more typical for apartments.. I've only rented a concrete condo once (in Vancouver), and I distinctly remember getting out of the elevator and feeling like I just walked into a heavy metal concert, then getting into my unit next door to the source and hearing... nothing. It was pretty amazing. But the apartments at the same price point had no noise isolation.
Ship your dependencies. Let me repeat that. Ship your damn dependencies!

Semi-related, environment variables are pure evil. Operating systems shouldn’t allow environment variables and programming languages shouldn’t allow global variables.

C++ headers are insane and miserable. Makes me sad. And causing me endless grief.

One distinction the author doesn’t quite make (unless I missed it) is the difference in shipping a pre-compiled static lib and shipping code intended to be compiled in a static lib. The first is almost the same thing as shipping a shared lib. You need a pure C API to ensure compatibility. The second you can do whatever because users will compile with their own settings and types will be consistent.
Apart from those (I could name some medium and large financial services companies the following supplies to, but won't for obvious reasons) who officially have their own first-line support (and even try demand a per seat discount on that basis) but that support is useless: their idea of providing support is simply forwarding emails to us, no triage, no collation, no digging for extra information. Heck, sometimes they are worse than useless and make things worse, like not passing on some of the information the end user _did_ think to provide.

Not all are like this if course. But the proportion who are terrible is higher than you'd like.
/24 is a 256 host subnet, so you can have 1-254 (0 and 255 are special) in the last "octet" (each section of an IP address is denoted as an octet).

You can play with the numbers here [0] to see valid combos, like this: 192.1.254.19/24 (or use a 255.255.255.0 subnet mask)

0 - https://www.calculator.net/ip-subnet-calculator.html?cclass=...
> And then there’s the whole corporate raiding thing from hedge funds.

Only a small percentage of hedge funds participate in leveraged buyouts.
Sometimes clubs get evicted so the building can be turned into condos. This happens in San Francisco too. In a city where building is limited, clubs are often located in “blighted” areas that are ripe for redevelopment with few NIBMYs.
Those are corticosteroids not anabolic steroids. If you search anabolic steroids osteoprosis you will see that there is some evidence they should be prescribed to help reverse osteoperosis.
Interestingly I just had an unrelated discussion on goodreads about that. The first mentioned author of the NYT article is supposedly a cybersecurity expert. The article lacked any evidence and called the company russian and obscure, they edited that but it’s still on archive.org

https://web.archive.org/web/20210106195835/https://www.nytim...

I left a goodreads comment on the NYT authors latest cybersecurity book calling her knowledge and practice in question. How can article like this stand, if it cannot be backed up, bad journalism and a lack understanding of the matter?
"Even so, never once has that led to a public correction."

It's not just you, the US government has this same problem with the NYT where the Times publishes false and damaging (damaging to the public, not to the government) information. In one case I heard of the NYT wouldn't so much as add a link to the government website where people could get the help that the article denied existed.
$1,485 sounds extraordinarily small! Sanofi is the 70th largest company in the world [0]. If you have even a few hundred thousand dollars invested in a diversified way, you probably have more Sanofi exposure than that.

So yeah, if Sanofi makes money, Trump's thousand dollar investment pays dividends, but he was actually underweight in it. It would be more meaningful and equally truthful to say "Mr. Trump has a financial interest in Sanofi's competitors".

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/263264/top-companies-in-...
Just an anecdote, but I've had multiple dexa scans in the 8-12% range spanning across years of bulking and cutting and I've never had better than what I consider mediocre abs - probably much better than the average adult male in the U.S. but never magazine photo worthy or anything like that. Other people did comment on them at ~8%, though, so my own perspective may be negatively biased.
No, this is correct. You cannot sell it, because you do not own it. What you can do is distribute it, which is another matter. The author is right.
Yeah, but not through nearly as many orders of magnitude as "seeds".
I was with you until the end. It's hard for me to say hiring is broken because of the outcomes I see:

Companies which strive to attract and hire excellent developers, by and large, do. Excellent developers end up (or have the option to, certainly) at these companies by and large.

So it seems that the process sorts things out fine. Sure there are always guys on HN who say "oh I'd do super well at a FAANG if only my interview was a take home test" but I don't think that's actually an indication of a break.
Where in the UK are you? In London the type 2 clubs (Fabric, Village Underground, Oval Space, Pickle Factory, Corsica Studios, The Cause, Egg, E1, etc.) only open their doors around 23:00, and it'd be weird to show up before midnight - the place would be deserted. Peak time is 1:30-3:30am. At some of these places, almost everyone is on drugs.
Yes, and these are some of the most reputable and accurate in the business.

Imagine the tripe with places like OAN, the gateway pundit, epoch times, etc...
Terrible title on their post then.

I, personally, rarely use a trial period for anything I’m testing for the long term. It’s not worth integrating it into my day to day if I may have to pay more then I want.

BUT, I do think it’s important to offer a free level for a lot of simple services to get people hooked. Costco does it, and it works for a lot of software.
Nothing. They’re mouthpieces of the establishment and they have to retract nothing.
The last part isn't accurate. There is no law that requires this from non-licensees.

As a practical matter, I won't sell to someone I can't verify is a legal resident of my state and has a CCW permit, that way I know they're not a prohibited person -- but there's no law that requires me to do so.
This is only an exception for libraries.
It... doesn't matter? The criticism that the statement is wrong isn't right if the statement isn't wrong.
For women reading this - beware, it's not that easy. I've followed Starting Strength a couple of times and I plateau at 1.3x my weight in deadlift and .75x my weight in squats. Sticking to the program doesn't get me past it. I have to shake it up a lot with more reps, smaller weight intervals, and nearly doubling my food intake.

It was a great way to get started though, and I'm really happy about the changes my body went through in six months or so. After that, you have to find a different program or a trainer.
Git-cheat – The only Git command you need to remember
If you have a way of cracking meaningful encryption, you don't have to publish anything about how you did it, you just demonstrate that you can decrypt something.
Seems like it would be easy to have a change log at the bottom of every article that tracks edits. There’s probably three free widgets like this on GitHub that would work just fine.
I guess that is possible, I am only working with anecdotal evidence here. I have only ever seen the case where internal support handles most issues and less than a handful needs to be escalated to the vendor each year.
Bring Back Free-Flow Valves
While I agree I'm not sure about building trust in my home IP. Won't you be flagged as spam?