skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Journalists have never been "neutral arbiters of truth". That's just never been their role in society. The role of journalists is to collect and analyze information, and to disseminate it to the public. The "truth" of this information is determined at an individual level, no one is an "arbiter" in this process.

Journalism as a field maybe can help us arrive at some truths eventually, but it's an iterative process of correction and evolving understanding that never ends. However, individual journalists being arbiters of the truth is just not what part of their job description. How could it be? They cannot collect all the facts, and even if they could, they couldn't report them all to the public because there are too many. So by definition journalists have to decide which stories to pursue and which facts to report, and also how to report them. You can say they should do so in as unbiased a way as possible, and I agree, but the very nature of their job involves making biased decisions.

Also, not all journalists are reporters, just as not all programmers are webdevs. There are all kinds of journalists including editors, curatorial journalists, investigative journalists, opinion columnists, photojournalists etc. Yes straight facts are nice, but I also need some analysis to help me form a nuanced opinion. A fact can tell you something, but it won't lead you to all the implications of that thing.

I think photojournalism is a great example of what I'm talking about. On its face, a photograph is a straight fact. It's a picture of a thing that happened. But the framing, composition, and editing of a photograph essentially encodes a bias, and can equally obscure or reveal the truth. And that's a good thing IMO, I want to see through the photojournalist's perspective when I look at their work. But it's still just one perspective, so I realize it may not be the truth. Recognizing that bias exists, all people have it, and to some degree it always comes through in their work, is part of finding the truth.
Taxes can be redirected to the poor or even used to subsidize other food choices. The point is people and companies would make different choices if empty calories where relatively more expensive.

The same is true of carbon taxes, they don’t extract money from the economy they move it around within the same economy.
>yeah if you’re on the non-pedophile side

You're assuming there's a non-pedophile side?
Another thing I've learned is that when they resort to insults, they have nothing substantive.
Then why does the withdrawal of US troops result in collapse?

You have to be willing to fight for what you believe in.
> plain old return error codes and the related modern status codes are the way to go

Why yes I just love to get a "Error one of the billion files this application tried to load wasn't available ErrorCode: ERR_MISSING_FILE_FUCK_WHO_KNOWS_WHICH". What I like about exceptions is that they make information that can't be encoded in a 32 bit integer value available to top level error handlers.
Why not try reading about it?

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/maajid-...
Ah, my wording was off. Some said it was a possiblity, not that it should.
> The best journalist of modern world is rotting in a prison cell in the UK being extradited to the US

I won't dispute that someone like Assange is good to have around, but I'm not sure I would ever consider him the best journalist in the world. Part of being a good journalist is looking at the motivations of your sources and looking for and examining the information you're not getting as much as the information you are. To accept and release everything uncritically while also hiding sources reduces some of the useful information that people would use to slot that information into where they think it should go.

For example, if CNN were to start regurgitating information directly provided by Google's or Apple's PR departments without criticism and people found out, they would be justifiably upset with those organizations for failing to do their job. That's why it's important that information from those entities is attributed to them.

That's not to say I think confidential sources should be outed, just that Wikileaks ended up inadvertently scrubbing a lot of this information from the data presented. Presenting everything you have is a noble goal, but only really works as intended when it's what you've uncovered yourself, and not what someone else gives to you.
Or, gasp, never invading in the first place. Iraq had their own oil so the pillaging was justified with kindergarten level of blatant lies. Everyone knew what was going on. But why did the US gain by invading Afghanistan? Was it plain old lust for blood?
No, you can cut other taxes or give a UBI to offset it.
> if you are ever confused about how the Taliban won the hearts and minds of various groups within their country so quickly

How is it America's fault that Afghan police officers are child molesters? I'm sure if Americans had punished them, the Taliban could have PR spun that too to win the hearts and minds of the Afghans. Sounds to me that Afghanistan has big problems with its own citizens they need to figure out for themselves, and no amount of hand-holding by a powerful nation will help them out of the quagmire they are in.

Afghanistan wasn't like South Korea. The Afghans were not super eager for our help, didn't ask for it, and didn't seem super eager to fight along side us to purge an oppressive regime (unlike the South Koreans).
Definately 'statebuilding' has succeded before and totally failed in afganistan

But its not just about guns - the key difference is that south korea has recieved more financial aid than all of africa combined. Thats is probably thr key difference
I would be happy to.

The CDC changed their guidance with PCR testing so a "breakthrough case" (i.e. a vaccinated person testing positive for COVID) is defined as 28 cycles or fewer, but gave no guidance about changing the PCR cycle count for unvaccinated (which remains in the 35-40 range most places).

This means it takes thousands of times less material to make an unvaccinated person a COVID "case" than a vaccinated person.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/bre...

They constantly stealth-edit the page, so it's helpful to look at archived versions here: https://archive.is/https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/hea...

Here's an article about it: https://washingtonwatch.org/caught-red-handed-cdc-changes-te...
Snopes didn't, they reference a medical journal article from 1.5 years ago as evidence. Which presumably you agree with...oops! [1]

Back on topic: why didn't they omit those references and reasoning regarding the Capitol?!

https://www.snopes.com/news/2021/06/02/covid-19-why-the-lab-...
Also raping young boys, they seem to do that a lot too with impunity.
lol. No.
There's actually a separate ListBox control. And I never thought of it at the time, but why does an option turn a ComboBox into a DropDownComboBox, but an option doesn't turn a ListBox into a DropDownListBox? Oh no, it's all coming back to me, because ComboBoxes were added later and rather than change ListBox they added DropDownList functionality to ComboBox.

I also don't see an option in ListBox to make it multi-select, was it all horribly done in the notification handling code?
The Carter administration and CIA created and armed the rebel (or terrorist groups according to the Soviets) before the Soviet invasion in 1979 according to recently declassified documents:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/01/07/history-tr...

Wonder how Afghanistan would have been had Carter not armed those groups.
Built is not the same as fat, though. I’m guessing Mark is arguing for building strength not for being overweight.
why do you think it didn’t work? It certainly hurt China economically and they aren’t exactly the friend of US.
30 Years of ArXiv
definitely taking a look at this book - spent a short part of my career as a blackberry OS developer - worst dev experience of my life, so I'm glad they're dying a slow and excruciating death for it.
> just because someone uses a fallacy doesn’t mean their conclusion is wrong, but it does mean that you can prove their argument wrong.

One way this can go wrong is if the two people are thinking at different levels of abstraction or dimensionality (variables), especially when one or both participants don't understand what that means (which seems to be "most" people in the general public).
Does this site even make money?

Ok, assuming that we're treating HN like a business and that business is large enough to have significant government voting share under this scheme:

The government voting with its shares to silence those stories would potentially be actual censorship under the US constitution, and therefore illegal. The same cannot be said about private owners.

Of course, the government could opt to transition the site away from those topics entirely, but again that's something the private owners could do too.

And none of this prevents small competitors from coming in to run those stories.

Let me turn it around: Would Facebook have more or less freedom of speech with government control?
3D Mendeleyev's Periodic Table
You realize that those examples are the extreme exceptions that the press has made hay out of, and aren’t representative, right? Most company value boosting actions are much more boring.

I wonder how much of this backlash is just a result of people being propagandized to by the media’s steady drumbeat about corporate abuses since the GFC.
There is some evidence that certain artificial sweeteners can alter glucose metabolism and increase obesity risk.

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/12/1/29/htm
Your overall point might be correct, but your old people one is just wrong.

Old people aren't super muscular because you need high levels of testosterone to support musculature, and it naturally declines with age and particularly tanks when you are elderly.
Hardware wise, the iPhone or a similar device was pretty much inevitable. The same components were available to everyone.

I think Apple's stroke of genius was in the software and UI/UX.
My understanding is that subcontractors are far more common now than they were ~20 years ago. Perhaps the subcontractors that did exist 20+ years ago were treated equally poorly, but it is relevant that there are many more people in this position now.

For example, it used to be common for janitorial staff to be actual employees of the companies whose campuses they cleaned and maintained. That is no longer the case. A legendary example is an early Google chef who earned equity and was made quite wealthy in the process — while Google chefs today are not (to the best of my understanding) still employees.
It should be noted that all of that money was for military use, and the article says that the Pentagon is the only agency which still does not comply with a 1996 law that would prevent this.

The obvious answer to that is to force compliance from the Pentagon. I’d personally add cutting military budget by “the amount that goes missing per year,” but that will never fly.

In any case, it’s important to specifically call out the Pentagon rather than blame the entire government.
Isn’t that the problem with many things sold to broad audiences? Say feature bloat in Word or Excel, or how nearly every appliance has a clock as if everything else wasn’t flashing 12:00 already?

Oh, maybe the parent comment is that of an idealist who thinks things don’t have to be that way…
Title doesn't mean what many responses here seem to think it means. Most of the infrastructure recommended in the article is not "infra" in the sense of cloud-hosted serverless Lambdas, etc, but rather best-in-breed software services or frameworks like envoy and Consul (which themselves require dedicated physical or cloud infra upon which to run). So, it's still arguing "buy vs build", but it isn't about cloud or serverless architecture.
I have never been more miserable than when I was doing fasting. It was truly one of the most horrible times of my life.

I tried for months. My sleep as disrupted, I felt awful, and I had no energy. But more to the point, _nothing happened at all_ in terms of weight loss. Just thinking about it makes me angry!

I have no idea what the hell is going on with my metabolism and why I am the pure opposite case. I'm genuinely curious.

Right now, I lift heavy 3x a week and do moderate cardio 3x a week (run, bike, swim, etc). I feel great! And I get to eat like an insane teenager. My blood chemistry is perfect and my resting heart rate is in the high 40s.

It's more than a little frustrating at times that I have to do all that _work_ when I personally know people who dropped a bunch of weight with almost no effort via fasting. I feel great, though, and at this point I'm used to the program.
A bit off topic, but I'm amazed about the huge media attention this is getting, while a far more serious precedent is being set in the EU, completely banning all private communications between individuals:

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/message-screening/?la...

The short version is: all communication providers may include back doors and analyse messages of users with the same excuse. The follow-up is to make this mandatory. In practice, this will be a ban on any end-to-end encrypted communications.
I meant in the context of U.S. governments. What Democrat administration wants to ban Apple? What Republican administration wants to ban Apple?

Sounds like political suicide on either side: government interference with the country's largest company, an iconic brand, for no reason other than to hopefully spy more on your citizens.
The Soviet Union attempted to set prices for all goods in the economy. The trouble was that a raise in the price of say wood, would have downstream effects on things like the price of toothpicks. It was a big mess.

I'd say it's harder to create a measure of carbon output for a given finished product that is remotely accurate. It really depends where each part of the pencil was manufactured, what specific materials are used, what manufacturing processes were applied, how each raw material was shipped, etc. Take that multiply it by a billion products and you have a huge mess.
What is your solution? Every single source of news, every last one, will have perhaps 1/3 or more of the population calling it fake news.
PayPal is pretty embedded in the institutional power matrix, so it’s not really that surprising. They want to be a bank, if they aren’t already one.
Basically the same here, now I settled on QWERTY with a few tricks to do french diacritic signs. Compose key can be a bit slow at times, so I only use it for the less common characters, like e-circumflex. For the really common ones like e-acute and e-grave I simply assign additional shortcuts: for example hyper+e = e-acute (my keyboard has got additional modifier keys: it's not just ctrl/alt/shift as I've got additional physical keys, which I configured to act as Hyper and Super).
It's a problem of long-term support. At some point, the old Linux version is not supported anymore and any newly discovered bugs become a problem.
k0s is a lightweight ready made runtime

k3s is similar, but older

k8s is kubernetes

k9s is a canine joke and terminal client for k8s

Just so I'm not just nitpicking, k0s and k3s are both good solutions to hosting kubernetes on bare metal or cheap VPSs. Hetzner in particular is starting to get most of the features you typically lack on VPS providers in that price range (software-defined networks, load balancers, storage) packaged in a kubernetes cloud-controller.
NASA’s Perseverance Team Assessing First Mars Sampling Attempt
This HFCS story is a bit of a strange thing.

At some point it was marketed as a more "natural" alternative to plain sugar. Then it became the villain and people said you should use normal sugar.

The truth is: HFCS is not much different from normal sugar. They're both calorie dense and not very healthy.
They describe not being able to talk openly about political topics anymore as "staying in the shadows." This is so extraordinarily tone deaf to all the people that have to bite their tongues off while their coworkers rant openly about politics.
A US company wanted to build a pipeline through Afghanistan in the 90s. Since the Taliban was in control of the area, the US tried to work with them to build the pipeline, but the Taliban didn't didn't agree with having a pipeline through their territory.

So, the US went to war for the pipeline, and now, in the past couple of years, the pipeline is being built under the Taliban.
I genuinely think this is status quo opinion in 2021. At least amongst the HN/reddit demo.
Interesting that the article linked talks about “Pakistani-funded mujahideen rebels” who became the Taliban. Turns out there were some other countries involved in that funding… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
I wonder what percentage of people with T2D are normal weight, because my impression is it's not very many people at all.
We are looking at it from different perspectives. You from the central planner's one. I'm from the position of an acting person, someone who doesn't believe anyone owes them anything, but at the same time preferring to keep what's earned. Someone who's not bought into redistribution programs that spend $4 to redistribute each $1 (actual research for the US), or any involuntary redistribution schemes for that matter.

> The argument is that cutting taxes will spur economic growth

So what do I care for some abstract growth? If my well-being isn't rising, and it isn't if you take away through taxes, excises, indirect taxes half of what I earn with hard toil, not interested.

> cover for their real goal of simply cutting social programs under the guise of “we can’t afford it”

And that's a good thing.
For those who, like me, didn’t know what planet 9 was:

> Planet Nine is a hypothetical planet in the outer region of the Solar System. Its gravitational effects could explain the unlikely clustering of orbits for a group of extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs), bodies beyond Neptune that orbit the Sun
(Wikipedia)
It won't be just the rich. It will be people like me who are upper middle class and see the writing on the wall - who strongly suspect that, when taking wealth from the billionaires didn't give you enough money, you're going to start on the millionaires and then the hundred-thousandaires.
What caused the initial issue, the Suez fiasco?
It could be, but not in the way the parent thinks. Washing machines and dish washers are what allowed women to enter the work force, but they didn't cause them to spend more time washing. It probably increased demand for freshly washed clothes and clothing in general.
Perhaps the phobia suffix in this case is being used as a political tool?

Do you really think that ex-Muslims are irrationally fearful of Muslims? Or, perhaps is handwaving away as "phobia" a cop out to any criticism at all?

EDIT: Seems like it still works, just call someone a phobe or an ist and instantly shut down any criticism. There are no ex-Muslims with valid issues against Islam because they're just bigoted, obviously. Use whatever word games you need in order to shut down conversation. Pretty interesting coming from the same people that say they care about women, gay, and minority rights.
Excise taxation is not the same thing as price setting, though.

If you want a good explanation for what excise taxation's about, albeit one that uses stodgy, old-fashioned language, you need look no further than Adam Smith's writings on the subject in The Wealth of Nations.
- Elon Musk took over Tesla and SpaceX. He was not the innovator there.

- Did Bezos think of AWS? I think not. It was literally selling excess processing capacity.

- Gmail was not innovative; it was just a better client. Web-based mail had been around for a while.

- I'm not sure how innovative Square is but I don't think any of it would have to do with Dorsey.

- The NeXT was based on innovation coming from Alan Kay. The iPod wasn't innovative; it was just a hit. The iPhone was already underway when Jobs came back. The iPad is a bigger iPhone.

Big companies don't mean innovation; they often mean acquiring innovation and monetizing it.

All the big innovations of the 20th century were accomplished by individuals who did not do so based purely on financial incentive. That's a myth.

"Let's not feed kids crying themselves to sleep at night from hunger because that might mean we won't get iPads with blue casing." Shame on you.
Sure but its politically ok to attack Christianity and not Islam for some reason. We live in a very strange time. Culture warriors have decided who can be slandered and who cant and there cudgel is wielded very effectively via social media. I say this as someone who has no religion at all.
That number varies, it's a weekly rate. I've been with Celsius for a while now and I know USDC interest rates used to be 10+% not too long ago (a couple months maybe?). Also, that's just their US rate for USDC and a few other assets. BTC interest rate is 6.2% right now. Internationally, the USDC interest rate is 11.21% with rewards in CEL.

Celsius is a British company and is also HQ'd in the US now.
> Indeed, up until reading these comments I had no idea that iCloud wasn’t encrypted.

iCloud data is encrypted at rest (edit: except for Mail apparently). The type of encryption (service or end-to-end [E2E]) is specified here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

It can be argued that from a user's viewpoint not having E2E encryption is tantamount to not having encryption at all, but from a technical standpoint the data is encrypted.
This is a radical oversimplification of what has happened and is happening in China, conflating several things into one.

China is still very much a communist country, and the raising of many people out of poverty is in large part a result of the government distributing the gains that have come from "special economic zones" into rural areas on a scale that would make a "tax on billionaires" seem like a quaint half-step.

Allowing people to own and control private enterprises is a big step for China, but the gains from those private enterprises are still very much under the control of the Chinese government.
Most people, at least on this site, seem to have a severe Dunning-Kruger effect going on when it comes to economics. It's like they took Econ 101 and didn't realize it's an intro course with simplified models.
And combining that with the JIT, minimize inventory thing makes it just that much more fun doesn't it.
I agree, and luckily, we can all profit from this disease - https://diabeticinvestor.com/

Note: I got tired of others profiting from my pain so I try to share this link with everyone to show just how f&$^@#d up healthcare is in the USA. I'm not the creator, but they are also diabetic.
You can find the map showing the path of the mammoth from the paper here:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/373/6556/806/F2.l...
UBI. The verbiage comes from the climate plan[0] using the same mechanism.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_fee_and_dividend
I think it's because people don't know how to cook. Seriously, adding those spices in has essentially no caloric effect on the meal (especially because many spices are strong enough you don't need to add a lot to have a massive effect on the flavor). The result, though, is that you can cook "the same thing" every day, but vary the spices and never get bored with chicken and vegetables or whatever it is you settle on.
Benchling's double-writes approach to incrementally adopting GraphQL
The US couldn't do much about it from what I understand. But yeah, Pakistan's support for the Taliban was as much a factor as anything in how badly the US failed here, or at least that seems to be the opinion of many of the ranking related military personel.
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I would meet, but following the recommendations from _hyn3