skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Media consumption was at record highs in 2020, but trust plummeted.

1. News media viewership and trust in the content are two very distinct things.

2. Referring to news as a "consumption" good already kind of answers the question of why it is not to be trusted.

> But as people consumed more news, they also began to trust the media less

No. Their low trust decreased even more. It was low before the 2020 elections as well.

> A Pew survey suggests 95 per cent of MSNBC's audience are now Democrats while 93 per cent of the Fox News audience are Republicans.

Well, those two sources are highly partisan: MSNBC is known as "MS-DNC" (for the Democratic National Committee) and Fox was created by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, with GOP man Roger Ailes at the helm from early on, to serve the Republican Party and a right-wing/"conservative" agenda from the get-go.

These are not trustworthy bodies _structurally_, even before you examine their specific contents.

What could be said to distinguish the recent few years - other than Covid-19 - is the fact that the established Republican and Democratic party have a sort of a modus operandi with the various large corporate news outlets, so that neither side points out inconsistencies and misconduct of the other beyond a certain point. Trump and many of his followers, however, were not in on this cultural norm, and lashed out against news media (mostly the Democratic-party-supporting outlets). Some of the complaints were justified, many/most weren't, but the point is that people were now hearing a prominent voice suggesting that they question mainstream news.

This may not be the only factor - the prevalence of online news sources in recent years may have also had an effect, and probably some other factors - but this struck me as quite influential.
A little bit more background would be useful.
It will be bipartisan do wont make a dent to either side.
Visa moves to allow payment settlements using cryptocurrency
LOL'd hard at the Sarah Mei "toxicity" post... she's easily the most toxic person I can think about (at least, her online persona, I'm sure in person she cannot be that bad, and maybe she is even kind).
Also overwhelmingly white, oblivious to their bias and entitlement resulting in very narrow, US/Eurocentric perspective.
> it is a privelege for villains to censor their victims and the general public.

This is repeated every time that the RTBF is mentioned yet none has ever given an example of RTBF being abused. Can you give an example?
Is the Crypto-Verse Self-Sabotaging Its Own Mass Adoption?
Substack is essentially blogging, isn't it? So I don't understand your saying "usually" here. It's 100% dependent on the person writing it.
1200 calories per day is very reasonable for a woman on days with no exercise. You generally want to be on a 500 calorie deficit when losing weight.
The govt can go with the flow or against it. If they go with the flow they will get a mostly transparent leading coin (bitcoin) that people use and whereby people abide by the reasonable rules they set out. If they go against the flow, they will be dealing with bitcoin mixers, monero, decentralized exchanges, foreign stable coins instead of usd, and an entire separate digital economy that develops without their involvement.
This goes beyond founders. We're seeing this problem at the level of developers, technical writers, and design folks. In some teams, critical feedback given to our female colleagues would almost always be twisted and escalated as sexism. One time the situation worsened until no one would say much, other developers had to take on extra workload and fix low quality work from other developers. Good engineers started quitting and the team crashed and burned.

In other teams, the folks are super cautious about hiring women because of an increasing number of such incidents. I'm also seeing this other trend where we are willing to hire women from within the company because they're a known quantity, while hiring few or zero women from outside, while accepting men from within and outside the business just based on their capabilities.

The article is right on many levels. I myself rarely share controversial or difficult feedback with female colleagues or acquaintances unless I know them very well, and know they will take it the right way. It's just not worth the professional risk to me.

I don't know if this is the exception, and I work with several female colleagues at various levels of seniority where we are professional and open. Whatever - it's a sad state of affairs.
"...stay way from..."

It's called uBlock Origin. In this day and age is a must, regardless of your browser.
On the contrary, it shows a clear imbalance of power towards repetitional destruction, something that was always in a women's arsenal but much less so in a man's (which would favour, let's say, settling things in a fight).

So, considering you are the potential carrier of a nuclear power it makes sense to thread carefully.

The problem isn't sexism. The problem is that being wrongly labeled as a sexist is a socio-economical death blow while the accusers gets scot free. This imbalance in power has to be settled somehow and I think this is a pretty good solution.

Posting this anonymously since I'm not insane.
I'm pretty sure that Higgs had 2 independent experiments at >3 sigma which at the time added to more than 5 globally.
Let me reply to both questions.

1) why?

I always loved low level programming. I started as a kid on a c64 and then on an Amiga and really loved tinkering with those. Then when I got old enough to get a job in the computer industry there were layers of software everywhere and no more tinkering. I felt cheated.

I love old school games more than modern ones. This is only a matter of personal preference. People still play chess after thousands of years and nobody complains that the chessboard is obsolete, so there must be something about games that does not age with time and technological progress.

With modern video games there is a perceivable delay between when I press a button and when something happens. That is called "latency", and for many reasons it is one thing that has become worse and worse with advancements in technology. It appears to me that most people are used to having high latency in games and they do not bother too much. To me it breaks the immersion. Again, purely personal preference. One strategy to reduce latency is to remove software layers between the game code and the hardware.

2) isn't the pi hardware already fairly well documented?

Yes and no. Yes if you want to play with electronics via GPIO. No if you want to make old school games or if you want to write your own toy but fully functional operating system.
Ships usually have inertial measurement units for heading and attitude. Even smaller boats have IMUs for better autopilot performance, but vessels of this size have sensors precise enough for strap-down navigation with little enough drift to bridge potential GPS outages.
The interesting part here is that the consumer's layer 1 is actually a virtualized layer 4-5 on the ISP's side (and maybe even 6 if you include FBI watching your packets).

It blew my mind when I realized that the difference between malware and "military grade" malware is just that they target exactly those token ring'ed devices, where they try to craft network packets where they know that the implementation is gonna fail in the parsing process.

Once you realize that and the underlying containers that come with it, you can efficiently redteam anything. Cisco deep packet inspecting switches? VLANs? VPNs? No problemo, they got an outdated linux on there, too. And they usually don't have the RAM to compensate for buggy implementations either.
If you're really concerned about any of that, we should start by banning video games. Then Netflix and YouTube.

All those GPUs wasted on rendering Cyberpunk 2077!

All this energy wasted playing Minecraft!

Come to think of it, you should stop reading and commenting on HN. Every minute you unnecessarily keep you laptop powered uses energy and destroys the environment. Do your part to prevent the tragedy, I beg of you!
Cloudspeakers is a bespoke Developer Relations agency
It absolutely can (and often does) lead to a cycle of reinforcing one's own biases. But I'm not convinced it would be either possible or desirable to completely avoid it. You simply can't thoroughly evaluate every claim you hear, or independently fill every gap in every apparently cogent but not absolutely watertight argument, or determine exactly how cherry-picked the evidence being presented to you is. You can't even pay full attention to more than a fraction of the ideas you encounter. At some point you've got to make judgments about the credibility of the speaker, the biases and incentives that might cause them to make mistakes or mislead you, the fundamental moral disagreements that might render your opinions on certain issues mutually irrelevant. If you're not doing it consciously I strongly suspect you are doing it unconsciously.
Oh, wow, I'd heard of the unix haters handbook, but I never realized it was an actual published book.
I think this is a temporary phenomenon. We're still in some ways reeling from 2000 and 2008, where free tools came to dominate (because no one could afford the paid ones).
> a white person not being able to use the N-word being

If that is what comes to mind when people talk about white discrimination, then there is a large disconnect in the discussion when talking about the semantic meaning of sexism and racism.

If two people apply to a university and the critical distinction why one got excluded is race, then that is a negative discrimination. If two people are accused of identifical crime and the the critical distinction why one got a harsher sentence is race, then that is negative discrimination. If two people are illegally demonstrating on the street and one get violently assaulted for doing so, and the critical distinction is race, then that is negative discrimination.

Some of that negative discrimination harms white people, some black people, some both in different circumstances, and there is many more situation where such discrimination occurs. Same in regard to gender.
No, it's not. The scientific method is you adjust the theory to match the facts. How else would progress happen?
Like, this blows my mind. I can't even imagine a world where one would model without data cleaning.

In the olden times, your model would normally error out if you hadn't done any data cleaning (length 1 factors, constant columns etc) but i suppose with NN's they just ignore stuff like that because of the regularisation, I assume.

Every good DS I know regards the data as much more important than the models, normally from bitter, bitter experience. Models are "sexy" though, so people love them. Additionally you can do the XKCD compiling thing x 10 with models, as they take forever to fit on any non-trivial datasets.

I actually think that the cause of this is poor management. ML/DS//statistics are tools, they do not supply any business value by themselves. If people focus too much on the tools, then their manager should refocus them on the actual problem.

Mind you, if you don't have the background in this area as a manager, you're less likely to be able to spot these pathologies.

Personally, as an experienced DS, I know that my time is best spent understanding the data and the business problem, as that will drive better results. It's sad that people don't realise this (including some of my current management chain, unfortunately).
One thing that I am wondering: Why do git repos with totools build chain often include the generated files, like ./configure ?

Wouldn't it just be better to provide the source files (autoconf.ac and Makefile.am) and instruct developers to run "autoreconf" to generate the rest? That would it also make much clearer which files need to be changed if e.g. source files are added.
Not sure what you mean, this separation does exist in routers we have today. A router that forwards packets based on only the destination IP address wouldn't care about your fancy new L4 protocol at all. Most ISP routers would be capable of this.

It would not be possible with most SOHO routers because they use NAT which mostly only compatible with TCP and UDP (though a more advanced SOHO router is capable of doing 1:1 for other L4 protocols).
+++ATHokay.
Are you saying that it is in the news constantly that those banks "see past the end of the dollar ponzi scheme" ? I somewhat doubt that, but I'm open to evidence.

All I've seen is that banks want a cut of people's transaction fees, and don't really care what the transaction is about. Banks make money on transaction fees, so yeah. That's not even the same as the first part, "banks want Bitcoin".
> Globally raise standards of living, promote education, and empower women so that they don't feel the need to have zillions of kids. This would likely have to be done via wealth transfer from developed nations to less developed nations.

That all sounds good to me and I think the vast majority would be on board with that. However, it's kind of odd to frame those ideas under the guise of "reducing population".

Very few people talk about the need to actively reduce the global population because it's not something that needs to be talked about - plummeting fertility and replacement rates are going to accomplish the same thing much quicker and the actions you are proposing are already something people care about. By talking about lowering the global population you just risk getting lumped in with a mostly pro-eugenics or antinatalism crowd (which I'm not saying is fair, it's just how it is).

There's a ton of more optically favorable angles from which you can advocate for those changes.
Further to the point, this isn't about discriminating against those Russians. This is about fearing them, because all Russians have a "super power", and can destroy you with a single word.

No court. No sensible attempts to truly examine the truth. Just a firing squad.

In this context, even "Good" Russians, fear the "Bad" Russians, for they may be labelled 'collaborators', and face the firing squad too.
Can she? Why would she? One could just as easily say "The problem is that a man can be dismissive and condescending towards you and retroactively claim that he was just following your advice to be candid".

If the issue being debated here is an actual problem in (American?) tech business culture, the attitudes and principles that GP commenter is describing are a great step towards solving it. Deep-seated mistrust in the motivations and intentions of others are at the root of the problem, and the road to exacerbating it is paved with bad-faith-assuming hypotheticals.
Don't go for a research job. Your actual data skills will be super valuable to a company that's trying to increase revenue/decrease costs. Bonus if you did an individual PhD, as you'll likely be able to organise your workload better.
This focuses heavily on the "new-radio" part of 5G. The layer 0-1 protocol for data transfer.

5G also comes with a lot of changes higher in the stack. Many of them essentially fully internal to the telco's themselves. Part of this we might notice are new protocols for registering a device with a cell tower, new protocols when roaming or getting higher speeds (and more packet drops) for specific applications when requested.

Other parts are having lower latency because the packets get routed closer to the cell-tower. Having your own private 5G network at your job-site with guaranteed uptime. Having more reliable service in busy moments because the operator back end is more virtualized and can thus spin up more capacity when needed.
> It would be nice to get some perspective of how large that is compared to a man or a car

https://i.imgur.com/lJdd5hx.png

You're welcome
> It's a natural human impulse

I don't know about that. It certainly seems common amongst the programmer crowd. But I've found that there's plenty of people capable of doing the "5 hours of routine work" without ever thinking "If I spend like 4 hours engineering this weird hack, then I might get this done really fast" (and then of course ending up wasting days trying to get it to work)
Run your own infrastructure. It will be fun, they said.
I'm convinced that the biggest thing the Free Software movement could do, is build a convenient voluntary payment model (and software implementing it very conveniently).

Right now, by far the most convenient model is ads/tracking - it's literally on every platform that respectively can display images/text and doesn't have extensive privacy features, which is basically every platform on the planet. And it's so convenient it requires zero clicks to pay with it!

Ads/tracking cause the "you're not the user, you're the product" problem, which IMO is the reason why everything needs to be online - if you're offline, they can't send you ads or receive your data.

And a proper user-based funding mechanism would also make corporate funding less necessary, which will enable Free Software devs to prioritize consumer users instead of having e.g. Canonical's "but most of our money comes from servers" problem that ends up de-emphasizing the desktop despite their best intentions.
I was honestly more surprised at how much data I could fit in that field. Git itself doesn't appear to have any limit at all, though GitHub doesn't allow more than a few dozen megabytes.
Thanks. I was looking for a simple mimemap like this. make it easier for my image server to detect image
NetBSD/Pdp10 (2004)
>Supposedly (haven't dug into it yet) videogames consume more energy than bitcoin. [1] Yet we don't see a similar organized effort to ban gaming. Why?*

Because intellectual and entertainment pursuits generally benefit society.

Selfish fucks continuously buying up an already scarce supply of specialized microchips for the sole purpose of greed isn't really comparable.

Proof-of-Work crypto has completely screwed some scientists, artists, and just everyday people who might like to just unwind after a long day. During a global pandemic.

Crypto in its current form tends to brings out the worst in us. It's kind of like social media in that regard.
I'd suggest using a lasso, tbh. It's pretty fast, relatively performant and one can interpret the coefficients.

That being said, I'd do your simple SQL aggregations first, to ensure that one can actually learn something (if we have 0.0001% positives, a simple approach probably isn't going to work well).
Actually text is now a problem... The old way of ASCII only stream of bytes was much superior.
Computer systems have gotten much more complicated. The closest you can get to the "full stack" ideal is probably Microsoft, and even they've given up on maintaining a web browser. Full-stack worked for a while, but nowadays you'd need to be a goliath. You can't even pay for all the components you use, since many parts of today's critical infrastructure are community projects with no corporate backing.
More likely related over the outrage of Stallman going back to the FSF
Should You Speak Truth to Power?
Sorry, I am in 30+ range. Just was wondering what everyone is else doing to stay excited about Software engineering because I was struggling with it.

Probably I could have better worded my question.
> But the horror stories about being unable to unsubscribe or a need to call someone by phone to do it (yeah, half across the globe, with several dollars per minute roaming rate) is always putting me off it.

The answer to that is government regulation - it must be mandated that terminating a service must be at least as accessible and fast as the most accessible/fast way of signing up.

Not just for newspapers, but also for other services - a particularly common target of complaints are fitness studios.
The FSF has been under a lot of (undue, in my opinion) pressure lately, regarding the composition of its board. It is understandable that the ED, who is part of the hired staff and not a member of the board, has a limited patience. I hope all is well with him, his work as executive director has been great.
Fixed line internet has the massive advantage of not contending for the physical medium against all your neighbors.
The industrialized world is turning against circumcision
You can use natural olive oil soap and unscented deodorants and continue smelling like you.

People tend to think that all soap are same, but I only use olive oil soap made by people I know personally and use no shampoo.

Add some deodorant and presto. Healthy, natural and clean.
Ask HN: Will Neumorphism catch on as a design choice?
UI design is a critical component of software, and 'good design' (at least, in the aesthetic sense) is something that's constantly shifting with time.

In the last ten or so years, there's been a distinct shift away from skeumorphism — design that retains elements from physical analogues — towards a flat, colorful, more 'minimal' look.

Lately I've heard more and more about Neumorphism [0], a visual aesthetic that combines ideas from both flat and skeumorphic designs.

The new icons on Apple's Big Sur seem to be moving in this direction, keeping a simple and colorful look, but with additional lighting and texture to add some depth and warmth.

I've seen a lot of wonderful looking Neumorphic designs [1] coming from designers, but I'm curious to hear thoughts from others here. While I personally enjoy the way it looks, I haven't actually seen it used outside of mockups or small demos [2].

If you've seen (or made) any real-world use of Neumorphism, do share it. I'd love to take a look.

[0] https://uxdesign.cc/neumorphism-in-user-interfaces-b47cef3bf3a6

[1] https://dribbble.com/search/neumorphic

[2] https://neumorphism.io
My go-to for this is jisho, although it completely fails to be usable on phones.

I've more recently started just using the google IME handwriting input, which is using some ML magic that lets it be extremely fuzzy about stroke order/count, relative placement, etc and I think must incorporate some sort of image/bitmap based recognition that many ones do not. E.g. you can I imagine it wouldn't be as useful for chinese, but for Japanese is works quite well.

You can use it on android and on the google translate website.
It's absolutely hilarious to see these arguments made on HN, I don't actually hold much faith in online discourse and clearly the propaganda (by the BBC et al) has _really_ worked.

Yet what about the websites that load over 10MB of JS/other tracking scripts? Globally it probably uses more energy than entire continents! Or at the very least uses 5-10% of battery life that could otherwise be saved.

Let's start by banning > 1MB of tracking related JS/adverts which do far, far, far more damage than Bitcoin.

Sauce: Use a simple web browser on mobile, one with adblock/tracking block and one without, see how fast the device with no adblock reaches 0%, I bet it doesn't take much time at all on the really heavy JS pages.

Lol.
sorry about that, I will edit it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferiority_complex
Could you survive on just one food? [2017]
The Connection Between the Wright Brothers and Mars Rover
Ditto in Finland. Just like in Denmark, the social security number is being used for authentication by some actors, even though it's inherently insecure to do so. The Swedish way of handling those numbers seems more reasonable; they're just used as unique identifiers and you still need to show some other kind of ID.

When I lived in Denmark, airlines occasionally did identity spot checks on domestic flights. I was always horrified to notice that everyone just pulled up (picture-less) social security cards and used them as identification.
+1 agreed. Unicode (UTF-8) kills the old stream of bytes paradigm.