skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the NYT has an agenda, would you not agree? The Enquirer is easy to spot. The NYT is more subtle about what they do (mostly). I ask "If you have to 'unfilter' everything why am I reading this"? Look at the stories they choose to cover and ignore. Then look at the particular phraseology they use to talk about particular groups. Which groups are always in glowing terms. Which groups are constantly downed on. No group is that 'good/evil'. Selective editing of stories to make one side look better/worse is their typical weapon of choice.

Everyone has an agenda, including you and I, but it's like saying 'everyone lies' or 'everyone can write' - the significance is in how much they lie and how well they write.

For the NYT, I see some bias toward their readers in the lighter features - e.g., right now there's a headline, '6 Ways to Tame Airline Nightmares'. That's obviously biased toward people wealthy enough to fly frequently. My impression is of some bias in those articles toward serving a more liberal readership, but I can't cite anything ATM, but that is different than an agenda.

In hard news, I don't see an agenda, i.e., a program to promote something, or much bias. They do talk about things that conservatives object to, such as discrimination against minorities and women, but a large part of journalism is reporting things others want covered up. They do the same to liberals - they break stories about major liberal figures, such as Hilary Clinton's email. They are hated by all sides, a great sign.

They don't report stories in the reactionary conservative sphere that lack facts, or if they do, they investigate and report the facts as they are, such as the election fraud and anti-vaccination claims. They label claims 'false' if they are well-established to be disproven or 'baseless' if appropriate. Journalism isn't affirmative action for political ideas and bad information; it's about what's actually happening in the world.

Their opinion pages have an entire spectrum of columnists; there is (almost) every kind of agenda there, absent the more extreme claims of neo-reactionaries. Their NY Times Editorials, from the newspaper, are definitely liberal in general, but that is labeled opinion.

> You are going to have a very hard time untangling that mess. Many times you roll backwards in time and have to become a news detective to find out the original source.

I don't find it hard. There are many sources, I know their natures, and I can put it together pretty easily. I rarely find I am surprised by changes in information: For example, the lab leak theory went from not 'false' as critics say, but 'unfounded' to 'potential' (and still not nearly established): I wasn't surprised; knowledge changes with new information. In part that's practice, I'm sure, but I think the agenda of many is to discredit the institution of journalism. I don't buy it.
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"iMessages are already E2E encrypted,"

Unless you use iCloud Backup for iMessage, in which case Apple holds the keys to decrypt them.
you disagree with the thesis of someone's argument. Mapping that to 'straight liar' is unlikely to lead to meaningful understanding of their point or sincere engagement with their work...its an unhelpful epistemic and ontological perspective.
Not necessarily. But it is a hard problem to solve. If you can't trust complex hardware your options are limited to using simpler systems where a part that behaves in an undefined way could still be detected.
We're planning to try and release learning material around Rust!
You should take a look at the Low-tech Magazine[1]: there are several articles where the possibility of brinding back some outdated but still intersting technology is explored. For example DC transmission lines, wooden wind turbines, sailing ships for transporting goods, compressed air energy storage, etc. There's also an analysis on basing a society on human power[2].

[1]: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com

[2]: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2017/05/could-we-run-modern-...
I think this makes sense if specifically meant "only" but it doesn't. It means "exact":

Specifically: in a way that is exact and clear; precisely.

The story can specifically refer to multiple people. There is no definite error here as I see it.
Contracting isn't inherently bad, but contracting jobs on short term temporary contracts with 2 year cliffs, regardless of performance, seems inherently cruel. Presumably they're doing it to avoid having long term employees, who might actually have rights.

Giving people job security - and with it the ability to plan your life and make long term decisions - is a nice thing to do. Google can afford to do it. They should.
Now hook it up to a bike and get the kids to do the work.
Almost all employment in the USA is "at will." So an offer letter is not an employment contract. So if conditions change and employer could require you to come in to work even if the offer was remote only and let you go if you refuse.
> Not a single word about natural immunity.

There’s major, major hesitance to giving natural immunity any credibility. The reason for that is an exercise left up to the reader.
They then use those items and borrow cash against them as needed. Think about some the large property companies. Renting property is a pain to do. Yet some of these companies are huge and have millions of dollars they are floating. Why? Because the owners borrow against them to fund their other ventures. Then use the profits of that to pay off anything they borrowed.

Ownership of things that have actual value is the number one way to becoming wealthy. Owning flashy toys and extravagant dinners all the time is a quick way to spend it all for 'the rich'. One dude I follow put it best the wealthy exploit the rich by renting them flashy toys, the rich try to get money from the middle class by selling them things.
Still being integrated - the next release will have a flag you can turn on.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1420130581426364416.html
I would love to use it more but:

1) Has there ever been a full security audit?

2) if not and I run it inside a VPN (wireguard) doesn't that remove most of the benefits?
I had the same experience interviewing this last month. A lot of companies that are remote during COVID that will pretend to be fully remote until an interview or two into the process.
Why this is the perfect time to become a creator
Apple’s Software Chief Explains iPhone Child-Protection Features
Naturally-acquired cell-mediated immunity is probably broad (works against variants) and durable (lasts a long time): https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-37...
I think being moderately poor really helps with staying thin. A major shift for me going towards my 30s was replacing parties with dinner dates.

Last year during the short lockdown break I went to a birthday party followed by a rave followed by sleeping on a friend's couch followed by a walk of shame home... Like in the good old days. My Garmin said I did 30k steps that night, probably double my previous record. I also couldn't really eat much for two days after that, so there's that too...
It's semantics but you always can. ;-)
A complete platform for quantum computing is claimed
Just from HN I've learned that so far this year we've had a:

Pasta shortage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25566652

Shipping container shortage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26574077

Chip shortage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27095558

And now a tennis ball shortage...
Are you using `next build`? It should work as expected when `create-next-app`. If not, then would you mind opening up a reproducible issue?
> [Volla Phone] is fine, but it does not run a mainline kernel, so it's a different kind of Linux phone and does not really compare 1:1 to Librem 5 and PinePhone.

This hardware runs a MediaTek Helio P23, and I don't know of anyone trying to bring mainline support to this or indeed to most MediaTek SoC's. Even the pmOS folks have very limited information on those.
I wasn't around back then, but I kinda doubt that it worked that way for most people (other than outliers like the flamin hot cheetos guy) or that it could work that way today.

my grandfather started out as a more or less unskilled factory worker. he worked his way up to factory superintendent over the years, and was overseeing several factories in a region by the end of his career. this is what I think of as a "started from the bottom" story, but it makes sense as a trajectory. he ended up near the top, but the problems he was solving were never that far from the factory floor.

now suppose you're a cafeteria worker at google. whether or not you're an official google employee doesn't seem to have much bearing on whether you eventually become an engineering manager; it's a totally disjoint skillset.

to me, it seems like contracting and credentialism are just side effects of a larger shift. true entry-level jobs (ie, a job without any prerequisite skills/knowledge) are simply rare. almost all the "entry-level" positions that do have a clear upward trajectory actually require the person to have some relevant skills that can't really be learned on the job in a reasonable amount of time.
Ha, I also wrote a post on value once. https://azatris.github.io/true-value

A bit weird and philosophical, rather than useful.
Rewilder: NFTs + non-profit to allow global purchase of land for conservation
Rewilder is a crypto-native non-profit that coordinates the global purchase of land for wildlife conservation.
"Supported by Chan-Zuckerberg initiative"

this will be great for conspiracy theorists
> I think that textbooks, math textbooks in particular, are an example where print publishing does a disservice. (I'm counting PDFs here too.) By having to lay everything out in print form, you have to clutter up your explanations with examples and footnotes that take up physical room. Here, the examples are toggle-able. If I _want_ to explore an example, I can. But I don't need to. This kind of thing is especially helpful when reviewing content for, say, a test rather than learning it for the first time.

This sounds so much like a meeting of Lamport's idea of how to structure a proof (https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/proof.pdf) and the Stacks project (https://stacks.math.columbia.edu).
Calyxos is one i'm debating going. Seems a more realistic option (compared to Purism). Does CalyxOS recommend phones to buy for their OS?
Interesting take. For a 'one off' I would not worry about it. But if they are doing it to you a few times, speak up. They are just taking advantage of you. It is not the 5 bucks. It is the fact that you are doing it to you...
>Maybe in the US, but even there you have things like NPR and publicly funded libraries which are not seen as "bad things" as far as I can tell.

NPR is universally denounced by the American right as leftist/Democratic Party propaganda. Also PBS. Fox News once went so far as to call Mister Rogers an "evil, evil man."

As far as public libraries go, I've seen many claims that their only utility is as public toilets for the homeless.
I absolutely hate these sorts of "take a broad generalization, blindly run with it to extremes then pontificate about edge cases in where it breaks" articles. They accomplish little but to indulge online commenters desire to engage in behavior that runs the spectrum from bike shedding to virtue signaling. Of course everyone has a bone to pic with some specific part of the article. Of course everyone wants to elaborate their anecdotal examples. This article was written to facilitate just those things. This is a trash tabloid article for people who think they are too good to read trash tabloid articles.
What regulations are you referring to?
>> You can work out for an hour, and one soda wipes it out entirely, or a couple slices of pizza.

Not exactly, just because you've replaced those calories doesn't mean that your body didn't gain muscle mass which itself requires calories just for your body to maintain. This leads to a higher basal metabolic rate, which ends up burning calories even while you rest.
Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles under a fake name
I use mullvad, which is also behind Mozilla VPN.

NordVPN spends a ton of money on marketing, but their security and customer support are garbage.

For one thing, you can't cancel your subscription easily, which is a dark pattern, which is a big no for a company you want to trust. First link in DDG for "nordvpn reddit cancel": https://www.reddit.com/r/nordvpn/comments/kryt69/can_someone...
Why would climate change impact dishwashers broadly? They're particularly highly effecient in terms of water usage and energy usage.
FYI. Higher immune resistance in this paper is relative the D614G (the original parent of all variants, so not the original Wuhan strain). As far as I understand Lambda is less immune/vaccine resistant than Delta and has been mostly outcompeted by Delta.
Your study and the parent's are looking at slightly different things. Essentially, the parent's study is saying that variant virulence has gone up over time, potentially related to leaky vaccine use. Your study is saying that leaky vaccine use can still be useful at reducing viral load and producing better outcomes than not vaccinating. These two different things can be true simultaneously.
In today's "Will it run DOOM?", fun.

Bit weird to call it a Linux-based 'landline' though. It's a telephone. I know kids aren't familiar with these much anymore but it's weird to use landline as the sole noun.
The research is interesting in its data. The conclusions are very speculative and don't sound very well informed. The problem with nudity or clickbait in general is simply that it appeals to most people, statistically, and thus tends to emerge on its own as an apparent ranking factor even when there might be nothing in the algorithm itself to boost it specifically. The simpler models end up being the more clickbaity ones. If anything, when algorithms do take into account nudity explicitly, my guess is that it's primarily to prevent too much of it (eg porn).

Another problem in general with this sort of research is that it seems to take for granted a moral ground in which it is irresponsible to give people what they want to see most (statistically) if some people don't want to see it, or if it doesn't match what the people involved in production want to project. I'm not sure what grounds it. It seems to broadly describe media. I received a promotional copy of Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition and it's pretty transparent that it's being done with a mindset of "sex sells". I dislike it but I dislike media censorship more, so I just don't use Instagram or subscribe to lewd magazines. This group would be more convincing if they explored more of the moral underpinnings of their outrage and whether what they recommend is more morally motivated self-censorship by the platform (even though we know that users want to see skin, we think they shouldn't, so we're not going to), plain-old "white box" ranking algorithms like reverse chron (which is completely non biased from the point of view of the metric they were looking at in the nudity article, but just as susceptible to abuse in other ways), or something else...

EDIT: I don't mean this to defend the status quo. I'm just as outraged as the next person about exploitative social media. I just think it's not clear what the moral framing is and I think it's interesting to discuss it.
As I understand it, the fact that black holes are rotating precludes them from actually being a point singularity -- "rotation" having no meaning for a non-dimensional point. So they need to have some kind of disk or ring structure (still infinitely thin, however). (Note: I'm not a physicist, could be completely wrong).
Not necessarily recommended, but something that was done by a real team at a real company.

We all had our own GitHub Enterprise accounts. But only one was logged on to each computer. Rather than switch out the accounts when someone else used a computer, we just included the initials of whoever was making the commit in the message. E.g. DU: Fix some bug, if Double Unplussed was making the commit.

This only really worked because no one was using a GitHub login that they also used for personal projects - only the corporate ones were connected. And it made the GitHub statistics on who was contributing what completely useless. But it did mean that we could rotate among the shared computers and push easily, and if you did need to ask someone for help when investigating a bug, you could still see who made the changes via git blame - just by looking at the message instead of who Git thought had pushed it.

Might not work for your use case, and I'm sure some readers will be horrified, but it worked well enough for us, in an XKCD 1172 (https://xkcd.com/1172/) style manner.
I've noticed a bathtub curve in cost of ownership on many things. Typically, I do save a good bit of money up front by buying used, and then try hard to repair rather than replace. Eventually, though, a failure mode of all gadgets seems to be an increasing-at-an-increasing-rate amount of spend needed on upkeep.

Admittedly, I've been notoriously bad at realizing that I've entered that phase. On three high-profile occasions (two computers and a car) I've exceeded the saleable value of the thing in upkeep costs, in the span of just a few months - it would've been cheaper to divest and replace.

Determining that you've crossed that inflection point is, I assume, a skill.
Cool, you counter a news article backed by a study with a tweet backed by screenshots of headlines. Seems totally reasonable.
It's like calling a gasoline station attendant a petrochemical company worker.
That's the Jevons Paradox, generally:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
> In "The Coddling of the American Mind" they cite studies showing that universities are more left-leaning than they've ever been.

What do they mean by 'left-leaning'?: My professors might have been left-leaning, but I rarely knew their politics. The question is what the students are learning.

Also, conservatives have moved far rightward, which might make others relatively more leftish.

Also, reactionaries politicize lots of things, such as climate change. Education and research isn't affirmative action for conservatives - they need to prove their ideas. Climate change denial lacks the science behind it; it shouldn't be taught. That doesn't make climate change education biased toward liberals.

How does the book address those issues? Also, why do you trust that book (an honest question - I haven't heard of it)?
>The first batch of 30 hand-cranked washing machines

>Mass production

Okay
>What I want to talk about here is how the type of behavior that makes us look smart in the moment (i.e. penny pinching) ends up not being smart in the long run.

Well said. I disagree with the article title, due to my experience with delivering pizza.

We all certainly knew the non-tippers. And they almost always were in the wealthiest neighborhoods. So once you go to a house 3 or 4 times, and get stiffed (or hear about it from the other drivers), they become your lowest priority.

Working class and poor neighborhoods almost always got better service and faster food delivery from us because we knew they tipped more often. The non tippers typically ended up with cold pizza and dropped 2 liters cause we didn't give a crap.
I have really fond memories of working on Stratus VOS and PL/1. Those machines were FUN :-D
damn, shouldn't be touched bare handed either, right?
Who is the one linking sketchy sources and implying people do their own research, now?
I never said sub-species where mythical, I said that pretending that skin pigmentation defines race is ridiculous. We are human, a sub-species in this context would be a Neanderthal or similar.
So then it is possible to determine which vouchers are real and which are fake, and a court can still order a query for everyone with N-1 hits.
In such a situation, you would engage a labor law attorney to discuss promissory estoppel and have them prepare and send a settlement offer to not take the employer to court. That is why the offer letter paper trail is important.
It's not surprising that universities are more left-leaning when the right has taken a stance against higher education and pushes anti-intellectualism for political gain.

The right likes to push this idea of universities as brainwashing factories, but there's very little of that going on given that its usually a struggle to get everyone to do the assigned reading, let alone try to brainwash people.
WinCompose – A Compose Key for Windows
I always liked Steve Jobs's description of the Mac as "a bicycle for the mind." It's not like he was unaware of the Ferrari or whatever, he chose to use a human-powered vehicle for his analogy.
GCM Core does support multiple users with GitHub remotes. You have to put the username in the remote URL, for example:

https://alice@github.com/owner/repo

GCM will store credentials for "alice" only. Repositories that have remote URLs with a different "user@" will use different credentials.

Remote URLs without a "user@" part at all (like "https://github.com/owner/repo") are treated like the "default" user for GitHub.com, rather than a specific one.
_Some_ millionaires call for...
Good point goodpoint! Great feedback!
> FIG. 1. Exact scale (1:1) illustration of a 5M⊕ PBH. Note that a 10M⊕ PBH is roughly the size of a ten pin bowling ball.
Fast Hello World
Not my own work but a friend's.
Thanks for your feedback and really glad you liked the onboarding! Indeed it is very high on our priority list to improve the look of the app (and the general UI fit and finish). Up until we got onto YC we had taken no funding for this project and therefore have never had any input from a design professional (beyond the odd favour here and there). We're definitely aiming to create long term value, and the ultimate mission statement of the company is to put evidence-based affordable mental healthcare in the hands of as many people as possible.
I struggle to understand how that could happen. Why would you choose to murder or not murder someone based on Twitter’s moderation policies?
Except governments applaud it, so, no.
Oh, you are set for a big surprise mate [1] :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_numerals
Could you just index Google Scholar or ResearchGate profile? Also, why isn't ResearchGate doing something like this? They already have a job board.
Is Excel a systems programming language :)
What applies to this conversation, however, is the correct use of terms and to not use the opposite, incorrect term.
Indeed, lambda doesn't seem to be growing vs. delta anywhere. It's so frustrating to watch the media fall into this trap, just google "lambda covid" and you'll find a flood of breathless headlines about this "new dangerous variant" and like no warnings from any experts at all.
Except evidence has shown the the left has moved further left than the right has moved right. Both have moved but the left has moved further left in the US.
Right now that's true. Look at food production this year across the globe, we're seeing dramatic output drops due to climate change (fire, floods, etc). Imagine 20 years of this.