skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this comment missing a /s? The Daily Wire is actual fake news, with a long track record of misinformation and poor quality content[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]... While not perfect, NYT has a long track record of quality journalism that goes back hundreds of years, winning 130 Pulitzer Prizes.

[1] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-daily-wire/

[2] https://popular.info/p/facebook-allows-prominent-right-wing

[3] https://www.thedailybeast.com/shadowy-right-wing-network-beh...

[4] https://www.factcheck.org/2017/04/carson-didnt-find-hud-erro...

[5] https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/scientists-we-know-wh...

[6] https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/global-quackery-earth...

[7] https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/daily-wire-article-mi...

[8] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/is-mohammed-popular-name-n...
Explain prodigies who excel musically then? This article ignores a lot of factual evidence for talent.
I've seen articles on NPR and Reuters that have brief summaries of edits at the bottom. Stuff like "Edited to correct affiliation of Dr X. The article originally and incorrectly said she worked at Y University." They'll also put an "edited at" time at the top.
people don’t know where to go for neutral, authoritative explanations anymore. And this in turn has profound socioeconomic consequences that are incandescent in their clarity at this point.

Maybe it was an error to think that “neutral, authoritative explanations” exist anywhere, that the goal was delusional in the first place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey,_Slavs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrian_movement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Republic
yeah it's a questionable claim for sure. This was a widely cited poll that asserted for the first time ever, the majority of Americans mistrust the mainstream media: https://www.axios.com/media-trust-crisis-2bf0ec1c-00c0-4901-...

You'll note that trust varies widely by political party, with 18% of Republicans trusting the media vs 57% of Democrats. So the post in the op seems to equate "educated" with "democrat" perhaps. Even if that's valid (don't really have the facts to dispute it personally) 57% is nothing to brag about.

Another interesting poll on this subject here: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/01/americans-m..., which asked people what their political affiliation was and what their main source of news was. Of those that said Fox, 93% leaned Republican...no surprise there. But what's striking is that of those that said MSNBC, 95% leaned Democrat. The NYT, 91%. NPR, 87%! Kind of makes me wonder what the trust numbers would be if the media outlets weren't increasingly becoming echo chambers.
That is the same deal for any custodial wallet. Deposit coins, withdraw different coins, everything is opaque unless they share records.

> That said there are probably less regulated exchanges out there for that kind of stuff.

That is believed to be a big part of the illiquid altcoin market.

Premine some altcoin, sell it at high prices to your dirty money account. Even where the exchange has "kyc" the launderer just needs a disposable identity for the dirty account that is good enough to pass it for a few days.
What happens when the NYT makes mistakes is they don’t admit fault, defend their work like zealots, market it broadly to the point that schools adopt it, and then they quietly edit their work so that it is less visibly flawed but still fundamentally flawed. Behold the saga of the 1619 Project:
https://quillette.com/2020/09/19/down-the-1619-projects-memo...
We are talking about asking though. Like "why don't you just use a for loop? Wouldn't that be faster?" or "I think that a for loop would be faster, why are you not using it?", both seem absolutely fine to me.
Presumably the guy with the roller door paid for it.
"Journalism" - quotes intended.
I noticed that I started getting woodworking videos featuring hot women that clearly didn't actually know what they were doing. They were just following someone else's instructions.

Some of the followed those instructions fairly convincingly, but at least 1 was so bad and I instantly saw through the ruse.

To be fair, I've also seen some with pretty women that did know what they were doing.

Then, those videos stopped appearing in my feed. I doubt they aren't being made, but I was surprised the algorithm stopped offering them.
The oddest conversation I've had, had to go anti-clockwise around a circle of three people, because although we were all speaking English, everyone had a very different idea of English. Everyone in the conversation could understand someone, and everyone could be understood by someone, but no two of us were mutually intelligible.

We were in Singapore, in the jungle, a long time ago when there was still jungle in Singapore.

I was speaking speaking somewhat Californian-ed Australian English.

An extremely well dressed Indian man in a white blazer with an elegant hat over movie star hair - was speaking Indian English with deep baritone vowels that were perfectly clear to me, but he understood nothing I said.

An elderly Chinese in working clothes carrying a machete and plastic bags full of produce from her garden. Her speaking rhythm and stress were completely opaque to me - but she understood me perfectly. She couldn't understand the Indian man at all, but understood her clearly.

I'd asked her for directions, and she'd waved the Indian man over, and we ended chatting for about 20 mins going round the circle.
Imagine that Alice's net worth is an even billion dollars. Alice buys a tiny stake, $1000 or so, in ACME Industries. This is financially immaterial to Alice. It's 0.0001% of her net worth. But the purchase gives her access to all of the information which must be legally shared with investors, and is a common way investors keep tabs on publicly-traded companies.

Now, imagine that Bob's net worth is $10,000. Alice's investment is equivalent to Bob investing a single penny in ACME Industries.

The headline "Alice and Bob establish a small financial interest in ACME Industries" might be technically true in the most stringent sense, but it doesn't really align with how the phrase "financial interest" is used in common speech.

It's not even relevant information about either Alice or Bob.

This is one of those things that barely skates along the line of honesty. It's like a company that says "We Don't Sell Your Data!" in large type with a tiny asterisk on the end. When you read the fine print attached to said asterisk, there are all kinds of exceptions for "trusted partners" and "quality assurance". To all intents and purposes, that company does, in fact, sell your data.

This just isn't how you establish or maintain trust.
It’s other newspapers and online entities such as this. In this case I am sure the company suffered financially, they should be able to pressure the NYT to retract the story, they have some muscle with the google ties.
> Semi-related, environment variables are pure evil. Operating systems shouldn’t allow environment variables and programming languages shouldn’t allow global variables.

Defending absolutist opinions is usually difficult and I this one is no different. What do you have against environment variables, which provide a unified interface to expose user-facing tunables? Where do you store shared program state?
I would build a homelab if I knew exactly what I should be self hosting? Photos? A blog?
Most people (gun owners or not) are unlikely to encounter gang-related violence, that’s true. Another side of that stat is that most criminal violence using guns is confined to a chronically small percentage of zip codes, many (most?) of which already fall under some of the strictest gun regulation in the country.

The fact is, 95-8% of this country is a really, really safe place to live statistically. You’re as likely to be in a mass shooting as you are to get struck by lightening. You are far, far more likely to die from a drunk driver. With that said, I can point to more than a few mass shooting incidents where a law abiding gun owner put a stop to it. You are unlikely to be in such an event, and you are even less likely to be the guy that stands up to it, but it happens and it has saved the day for many people.

So people are unlikely to defend themselves with a gun like people are unlikely to put out a fire with a fire extinguisher. Doesn’t negate their value. Given a choice, I’d rather have a means to protect myself against stronger and/or more numerous assailants, especially if at risk. Guns are a force leveler. Without them, it’s simply bigger person (often a man) wins. You might be surprised how frequent defensive gun use actually is. There is a bit of data emerging on this, but it’s damn difficult to tally the way dead bodies are counted (often there are no bodies, often nothing gets reported. DGU does not necessitate somebody getting shot).

Agree that we need to stop glorifying violence (not just guns). I’d be rich if I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard some actor spout off about “gun violence” and then go make money on a film in which he heroically breaks all kinds of laws running around with guns blazing. We also need to stop sensationalizing it when it does happen. I saw some stat that over half of people surveyed in US were worried they’d be in a mass shooting. I chalk that up to a news industry focused on keeping us all afraid of something, all the time.

What constitutes gun safety in my book is education. It’s no different than the logic behind sex ed, and what I see the gun control groups advocating is abstinence. In a country whose origin story revolves around guns, whose resistance in the Jim Crow South frequently depended upon guns, it’s understandable that guns are part of our culture. If people are as likely to encounter guns as they are in this country, knowing how to use them safely seems a better approach than political groups preaching fear and movies being the only source of (bad) information.
nice! this is awesome! you mention in the README

> the goal is to be able to expose more powerful planning optimizations, and simpler code.

an aspect of the sqlite virtual table feature (which askgit uses) is the ability to define "indexes" to avoid full "table scans" when the query is executed - depending on WHERE clause constraints.

I've seen calcite and would love to try it out! I just haven't written much java lately
Doesn't matter because most of substack isn't really journalism - it's punditry and navel-gazing. It's basically disrupting the op-ed page.

And op-eds, even in NYT, have been full of factual errors across the entire political spectrum of personalities who write for it.
Historically, there have been such things. For example, while one says "The British" colonized India, it was (until towards the end of the colonial era) not actually the British government but rather a British company called the East India Company that had their own military forces.
Adults who name Fox News or MSNBC as their main news source are equally partisan
Sometimes when reading documents from the infancy of the internet it's difficult to get a sense for the online environment at the time it was written.

For this one that difficulty disappeared very quickly once I got to the section where the existence of a computer in Tahiti was indeterminate.
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I enlisted right out of high school. Did my 4 years and got out.

I think it made me more mature, or at least less naive about certain things...eventually. The experiences were valuable but it took a long time for me to fully reflect on them and extract that value. I was 22 when I got out, barely past being a teenager.

Money wasn't a factor for me. I had 96% of my tuition to a good engineering school paid for by scholarships, which I gave up to enlist. My reasons were a combination of things. I had a lot of friends who enlisted and I felt bad that they were risking their lives and I wasn't. I was also sick of school and saw war as an adventurous alternative, and a way to prove myself as a man. And I genuinely believed in the mission at the time.

I think the influence of money on soldiers going into actual combat is overstated. It's true that there are a lot of people who enlist for a paycheck, vocational training, or as a way to pay for college. But you get to choose your job. I was in the infantry, and pretty much everyone I knew legitimately wanted to fight, which is the only reason to join the infantry. If you're after job security or education benefits, you can be a clerk or a mechanic or a thousand other things that will generally keep you away from enemy fire. There's an idea floating around that the government keeps people poor so it'll have an endless supply of desperate peasants to feed into the meat grinder, but that doesn't hold up in my experience.
This would be great. I never bought AudioMulch back in the day because I installed the free trial, forgot about it, then when I was ready to evaluate it it started blaring incredibly loud voice messages saying "It's time to pay." I immediately closed and uninstalled it.
To be fair, we used to have search engines that were good for exploring all kinds of history, but not so much anymore.
You read a lot into that.

Neil Tyson said something similar a while back.

Twitter isn’t generally the place for academic discourse. Saying something you don’t like doesn’t have to be followed up with research every single time.

Contributing to society and winning Nobel prizes aren’t even close. That would imply only a few dozen people in all history have contributed to society.
>In my job, in foreign-language education, I think a lot about what motivates some adults to keep studying long and hard enough to become proficient in a foreign language, as relatively few actually succeed.

I'm not sure I would compare something like bodybuilding with foreign languages. At some point you become proficient enough in a language that you can simply consume movies, TV shows, books, news etc that the language learning becomes mostly effortless. Becoming really proficient at a language requires someone to immerse themselves in it (to use it for a purpose without easy fallbacks). The internet has been amazing for learning English.

I don't know anyone that became proficient at a language by studying it. It's always been through use. The studying just creates a base that allows a person to start using the language.

Exercise requires persistence. You can't really have gaps in it, because you lose your progress. Language learning is much more flexible in this. You might forget what you learned, but the next time you try to learn the same thing it's much easier.
For some things it could work. For something like Asana, Notion or Raindrop.io, I wouldn't invest time on it them...
Yes, I believe that to be sarcasm.
Editorialized title is complete bullshit disinformation.
No it doesn't, it gets thrown out because it is absurd.
Where's MySQL 8 for Aurora? :-/
> Nothing in the post indicated hubris to me.

Claiming that you are personally responsible for Jira and Trello's marketing cut-through is sheer hubris.

And furthermore:

> The alternative is to spend time and money to discover that yourself

That's not an "alternative", that is simply professional consulting behaviour. Making the recommendation whilst declining to invest in the quality of that recommendation is hubris. And I'll double down by adding that "influencers" demanding freebies is downright obnoxious hubris. In the last few years, some segment of the tech community has normalized this behaviour as somehow acceptable and rational, but in practice it's as toxic as the article suggests.
Didn't berlin treat berghain as 'cultural place' when they moved it to another spot?
What was the plan if they needed another subnet?
I was serious.
I’ve tried it, and it works surprisingly well. They even have pagekite integration if you’re stuck behind a crappy residential internet provider, like any of the main US providers.
Welcome to postmodernism! Nothing anyone says can be taken at face value! Deconstruct everything!

:-)
We Eat Ourselves, and It Is a Good Thing – News Break
Companies like buying 'talent' on the spot market. This gets expensive for some specialist tech areas.
Media has been fully untrustworthy since Operation Mockingbird.
One aspect of this that lends itself to the type of "easy" reconciliation that makes us think avoiding war shouldn't be so hard, is that neither party here actually had a sustained interest in the other. Serbia didn't have years, let alone decades or centuries, of grievance against the USA, and vis versa. The same with the US and Vietnam, or Japan, or Germany, or just about every other war the US has gotten involved in. As far as Americans are concerned, not long before whichever war, most Americans didn't even know where they "enemy" country was, or if it was a real place at all.

There are conflicts for which a resolution would require one or both sides to compromise on a position they hold, sometimes that they've held for a significant time. Those conflicts are much more thorny and the stories of reconciliation are usually much more personal even though it's clear that the underlying cultural conflict remains. Probably the most obvious is the Palestinian-Israeli conflict but for America, those unresolved internal conflicts that are unlikely to rise to war but just as fraught linger, regardless of the innumerable personal bonds between parties.
It's just a landing page you are looking at for which I wanted to put down some numbers. The product [1] is very much pay-per-use (per e-mail sent), so the number shown here is more of a minimum monthly charge.

That said, I will probably double that number (and the included usage) prior to launching.

I expect there is a large difference in the quality of your users whether it's actually free or it's $4 per month.

[1]: https://magiclogin.net
That might cause some problems if you run out of candidates and the sysadmin is trying to come up with an easy solution...
I find it interesting that you can do this for any website at all…
It's a fun rabbit hole, and Gabriel's articles are some of the best.
I don't know. I know people who truly think that way.
Ironically the Media Bias / Fact Check site you have linked also has a long track record of being arbitrary and reflecting the author’s opinions, basically. See what CJR wrote about them in the section titled “armchair academics” here: https://www.cjr.org/innovations/measure-media-bias-partisan....

> [Media Bias / Fact Check’s] efforts suffer from the very problem they’re trying to address: Their subjective assessments leave room for human biases, or even simple inconsistencies, to creep in. Compared to Gentzkow and Shapiro, the five to 20 stories typically judged on these sites represent but a drop of mainstream news outlets’ production.

I’m not a frequent reader of the Daily Wire but have read articles from time to time and haven’t found factuality issues any more so than other news sites. Glancing at their front page right now, nothing seemed obviously off. They have their own selection bias of stories they cover but that’s because they’re meant to be the answer to a lack of coverage of the same topics or same perspectives from traditional news media.

EDIT: looks like you added more links. I don’t have time to go through them all but The Daily Beast and Popular Info (run by Judd Legum, formerly of Think Progress) have a strong left bias. As for the Snopes fact check you linked, it is authored by Bethania Palma who authored an embarrassingly bad fact check about AOC’s account of the Capitol riot recently (https://www.allsides.com/blog/media-bias-alert-snopes-fact-c...). It seems you’re listing out a mix of anecdotal examples and opinions from people who themselves have political bias reasons to discredit The Daily Wire.
What caused the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370?
HN really isn't the spot for this stuff.
They found it interesting, which is all they need. Maybe they thought others may not have seen it and should.
I always thought Apple's slogan was hilarious because I basically interpreted it with emphasis on the "just". It just works. Like, only barely passes the bar for what could be considered working, only just.
Not only that, but when you export to YouTube Music from Play Music they give you the same experience as you would have had you not bought the music on Play Music. They make you watch ads to see the content you purchased and transferred. I'm sure this bug looks great in terms of revenue.
I’m not uncomfortable at all. Largely due to education and professional experience.

The people who are the most agitated by this argument are poor and white. The only people who take your argument seriously are too stupid to recognize that dumb people can believe dumb things and it doesn’t affect them.

Yelling “white privilege” at 19 year old dumbasses in manual labor who barely get by is not a productive strategy.

Trolling IRL is the privilege of assholes and narcissists.

So feel free to discuss. Start by defining the words “empathy” and “sympathy”.
I've had issues with Rust and OpenSSL, but that's because its effectively just FFI bindings. Rust, by default, links all dependencies statically except for libc, libm and other assumed-to-exist libraries.
> I'm sure that software was released in a permissive gray long before that, but I'd have to do more research, and that's enough for my point.

For a few bonus swings at the horse, MVS source was freely available until 3.8j in 1981 and AT&T UNIX V6 source was well distributed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MVS#Modern_MVS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions%27_Commentary_on_UNIX_6t...
Article says all the vaccines report reduced efficacy.

AZ because it's cheaper, was being used more. If they stop relying on it, they're accepting a huge consequence in terms of treatment.
In Quebec company can't contribute at all and citizens can contribute only up to 100$/yr/party. Pretty much everybody is happy with that.

In this frame of reference, the US political system does look extremely corrupted.
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Open Source = Newspeak created to sow confusion around the idea of free software so that developers release the products of their labour under licences that allow maximum rent to be extracted from them by corporations.

According to Wikipedia: "[ESR and others] concluded that FSF's social activism was not appealing to companies like Netscape, and looked for a way to rebrand the Free software movement to emphasize the business potential of sharing and collaborating on software source code. The new name they chose was "Open-source", and quickly Bruce Perens, publisher Tim O'Reilly, Linus Torvalds, and others signed on to the rebranding. The Open Source Initiative was founded in February 1998 to encourage the use of the new term and evangelize open-source principles."
iPhone vs. Camera: No Contest
I'm pretty sad this project never lifted off.

The talk at its origin is now a classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOEMv0S8AcA
You can't even sue them for libel. It's the kind of article that's perfectly legal, and yet does tremendous damage.

Yes, HN and Reddit comments can point out the flaws, but that's not going to make a dent on the public opinion.

So what options do we have to counter-balance "journalism" like that?
In the weirdest twist of the 21st century, it turns out that the postmodernists were right and that deconstruction is an important tool in every citizen's kit.
More often they stealth edit to remove evidence of their inaccuracies or lies, though.