skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. It seems like the path to getting a lot of people to trust you is to tell lies so big that many can't believe someone would come up with a lie like that.
Will?

New Orleans already has.
Well he already has plenty of GCC extensions to chose from.
Trust can't really be gained as easily as it is lost, at this point I am skeptical there is a real (nice) solution available and the only path is for these institutions to continue to further dig themselves into their hole until there is no trust left to erode.

We have to remember that the media is like this because this is apparently what people want to consume. The old, traditional way is not one that will keep the bills paid. The incentives are all out of alignment with no obvious way to fix them.

I think the worst part of this is the authoritarian tendencies that are creeping in as people try to maintain a guise of being trustworthy as others begin to look for "trust" elsewhere.
>Fox, to take an extreme examples, isn't really partisan. They have just found a juicy business model where they've learnt to titillate the sensitivities of a certain segment of the population to maximize revenue.

That just describes their motivations as not being partisan. Their product is still highly partisan.
He's not making a mistake, he's making an argument.
Thanks for posting this, I had forgotten this video, it's great (he has others that are really worth watching, go watch if you want "my racist bake sale" [1])

Yeah, agree, Stossel is great, and even if heavily biased, he's what journalism should be about: exposing malfeasance.

He used to be part of the media establishment, but I guess got cast out when he decided to be an actual journalist.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDVnzQD_FVU
Already have, there are many more like that on a branch I haven't committed yet. I'm very happy with it:

https://github.com/ityonemo/Primes/blob/f157b63d91375c62f110...

I've also verified that binary representations of unusual datatypes are correct and have the expected properties (~>5 yr ago, paid gig, actually my first paid gig):

https://github.com/interplanetary-robot/SigmoidNumbers/blob/...

https://github.com/interplanetary-robot/SigmoidNumbers/blob/...

Extremely happy with it in all cases. You can't convince me otherwise. Zig and Julia would be poorer languages if not for binary literals. My life would have been more annoying without it. It's a tool I have reached for in the past and will continue reaching for when appropriate and tasteful, I have not "abandoned it". At least, I'm one datapoint that refutes your assertion.
> Are we on the road to civilisation collapse?
Only for those without money
Thanks.

That certainly makes sense.
The existence of organized crime does represent some failing of the state towards collapse.
> got charged an overdraft and then a convenience fee for an account below minimum balance and then and then and then and it all turned out to be way worse than just paying for a single financial service.

That's a fun anecdote but it falls right into the illiteracy problem. There are tons of normal banks now that allow you to opt out of overdraft (all of them might now might even be legally required to offer that as an option).

You've inadvertently just shown why financially illiterate people end up way worse off (someone using a payday lender because of a story they heard from their uncle from a bank 20 years ago).
And yet flu is still here.

Different viruses respond differently to vaccines.

It's like asking where's the dodo gone when trying to eradicate the rat.
Yeah, and as a matter of fact, I believe it's the only way to form a proper opinion.
I think strong principles are by their definition simplistic. As soon as you start having multiple clauses and subclauses, they become weak - and sometimes transparent.
Well, they're supposed to exist in the public interest, but it seems like it could be true that they're vehemently opposed by at least half of the populations they're supposed to be serving.
Ahhh, sweet sweet reuse [1]. If code is poetry, most code is noetry, software reuse should be renamed to software refuse. Refuse it straight to the /bin

No code.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-...
Podman, the open source alternative to the open source parts of Docker. To be clear.
"The natural bodies of administration which are traditionally either elected by people at large or appointed by elected leaders of society are being actively substituted by artificial bodies. Groups of people that nobody elected. As a matter of fact most of the people do not like them at all, yet they exist.

One such group is media - who elected them? How come they have so much monopolistic power over your mind? How come they have the nerve to decide what is good or bad for the elected president and his administration? Who are they?...

... Power structure slowly is eroded by groups of people who do not have neither qualifications nor will of people to keep them in power. Yet they do have power."

-Yuri Bezmenov, describing how to slowly infiltrate the culture of a targeted society [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/Y9TviIuXPSE?t=1003
This is the biggest problem of all, and it needs to be tackled before we can build trust in anything else.

People need to first take responsibility for the governments they elect. Then they need feel like "We the people" are in charge. Not some nefarious organization that we have no power over.

We need smaller, more local, more connected, more transparent governments.
This looks super fun!

Lately I've been dreaming of building a credit-card sized computer (thickness included) using a e-ink display and ultrathin battery. I haven't found a good purpose for it though.

Speaking of E-Ink, if you remember the "Thinkpad X230 with “e-Ink” display at 30fps": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26860609, I'm selling two of them: https://www.ebay.com/itm/255123140172
The correct answer to every news headline that ends with a question-mark is: no.
I have been trying to imagine a kind of template for news commentary that could attempt to award productive discourse. I don't think there's an easy way around it being gamed but it's fun to think about. Something like:

* Here are several basic facts

* Here is our best interpretation of the facts given the context.

* here are interpretations that the other side(s) are putting forth, stated in their strongest form such that they would agree with it as stated

* here is our analysis of why those other interpretations are not as strong as our own.

You could maybe rank or sort these based on how many 'other siders' agree with (upvote) their presentation of the other side mixed with how much you agree with the basis of their analysis to choose your favorite sources of commentary.
You're welcome, but that's hardly the only mistake you made, and your apology to Devon was another passive aggressive attack in which you misquoted and mischaracterized what I said, and reinforced your baseless insults, so you're a huge hypocrite for trying to play the victim of what you're dishing out yourself, and still owe him an apology. Not just that, but all of your other arguments are invalid and accusations are hypocritical because you made up so many imaginary falsehoods without having any idea what you were talking about, that you don't have a leg to stand on, corrected or not.

You're an RMS groupie and apologist for his bad behavior that you emulate without any of his positive attributes, skills, humor, or intelligence, and my friend's analysis of RMS groupies that she wrote 35 years ago describes you perfectly to a tee:

>Most of them know that they are lacking something important, but don't know what it is, or how to get it, or who to ask for it. Many can see themselves alienating people or spurning offers of friendship and affection, but don't know how or why they're doing so. They just look impassive and bored and in control, and damn themselves silently in their minds, self-inflicting the rejection and pain that they feared from the outside.
So this is from a very right-wing perspective, but it's a pretty compelling explainer as to why many people have no trust in media...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1422181544161128450.html
I would be OK if the algorithm would rank submissions according to value/time spent to read vs just total value.
Financial literacy means not losing your paycheck to payday lenders, pawn shops, etc. Knowing how to invest when you have spare money is only a tiny portion of it.

Dollar stores survive entirely on financial illiteracy. Everything at them costs more per unit than at regular stores but people think they are getting a good deal because it's only $1.
> is this a "things are getting better, stay the course" type video

Yes.

And sadly it isn't happening from what I can tell ; see for instance the latest IPCC report [0].

[0] https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/
If they can be compelled to collect IP addresses - why can't they be compelled to collect your password and revel the contents of any mails the police wants to see? I mean, it's their site and AFAIK there's no way for you to prevent them from accessing the content of your emails, unless they are fully encrypted on the client side - in which case any random mail provider would work the same.

From where I stand, the only difference here is that ProtonMail has to receive the warrant before they give up all the info they have on you, and others may do it voluntarily even without that, just to keep on the good side of the police, but since it's not exactly hard to achieve such warrants (and in the US, as we learned, it's ok for the police to lie on such warrants and they know no punishment will come to them even if the lie is discovered later) the difference is minimal. If you have something the police really wants to see, and they can reveal it, they will.
> Their product is still highly partisan.

Fair enough, but they're not really a news source.
Right. But I'm talking about opening your letters, scanning them into a computer, and selling that information.

I personally don't fill out the change of address forms.
If they were using ZFS, they probably wouldn't have golfed their memory allocations and had spare (don't the Go folks call this 'ballast') memory, so they wouldn't have trigger the routine?

The bug was that they weren't using ZFS. Not that ZFS had a bug.
> For example with NoSQL you need to know how the data will be used so you correctly plan how it will be stored. If application changes you might need to restructure the entire data.

This point is very important, and well explained in Stonebraker's paper "What Goes Around Comes Around". What is most interesting is that he is actually talking about half a century old pre-relational IMS IBM databases, but they had exactly the same issue, hence the paper's title. Codd invented the relational model after watching how developers struggled with the very problem you mentioned.

Stonebraker famously quipped that "NoSQL really stands for not-yet-SQL".

He also addresses the impedance matching issue in the "OO databases" section; there is actually a lot more to it, and he gives it all an insider's historical perspective.
Yes I am a software engineer in America (although from Europe originally). And to answer your other question, the downfall of America might favor me personally if it would be replaced with international solidarity of workers (as I am a worker my self). However my personal wealth is not my aspiration. Or as Mr. Spock once said: “The needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few”. If I am one of the few, who’s benefits will marginally decrease in order for the needs of the many to be met. Then so be it.
So are the COVID vaccines[1]. Lack of universal popularity doesn't make something bad, wrong or unworthy of enthusiastic support.

[1] I exaggerate the proportion, but maybe you did too.
I would have thought, provided that the aforementioned statements were factual, you had to have some mechanism in place to force a connection to default to this algorithm for this to be useful in a more general way. (Apparently, you want to tap into third party conversations, but are not relying on them actually using this algorithm, rather, just having it implemented.)
Also what many usually forget, C++ was also born on the same building as UNIX.

Hence why C++ got so fast adopted across UNIXes and C compiler vendors on other platforms.
A lot of small business/self employed folks don't have any kind of web presence other than FB/Instagram.

It's not as cut and dry as you're making it out to be.
> as technology advanced

The current shortage give us a glimpse of how fragile it is though. I don't see how we could handle a more serious disruption.
> the pattern they used to name pandemics.

What pattern is that, exactly? Looking at the Wikipedia list of worldwide pandemics with more than 1 million deaths[0], only two were named after places, and one of those ("Spanish flu") was the result of wartime misinformation and/or racism.

Admittedly the other example on that list is "Hong Kong flu" from 1968–1969, but there are other recent outbreaks which are not included, like SARS, Swine flu, and Bird flu.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics#Major_epidem...
I absolutely cannot fathom what would lead somebody into paying to listen to what Steven Crowder and Glenn Greenwald want to spew at them. The rest, I've never heard of so I can't comment.

I hope you manage to find whatever peace it is you're looking for in life.
You are right about that, a public key info would be something like: "4kpA P5S 1LUAxPThou GdIO/J3A a G ea 3k GR Ir12gTJ Py8 .Q29u Z3JhdHMgZm 9yIHVzaW 5nIGVua W dtYQ. e0e a57cdd4c0 f509193 d6ad180e ab2 27". Even though it looks like text, it can MITMed, I'll change the readme, thanks!
What seems to have happened is the delta strain has won out against the ones with immune escape. The vaccines work well enough it's just unvaccinated people the are keeping the epidemic going and causing disease and death in vaccinated people. At this point the ethical thing to do if hospital rationing is needed is boot unvaccined covid patients.
> look at all the other western democracies that don't have this problem

Which one is that exactly?

The couple of western democracies I am familiar with all have similar problems with their mainstream medias.
Where you live probably matters a lot. Coastal cities and all that.

When I was living in the Southern US, manners and how you address people goes an extremely long way.
At the same time, YouTube has been detrimental to trust, like facebook. It takes paying customers away and at the same time pushes “counter narratives.” I don't see how a bunch of small teams with very limited investigation resources can buck that trend. Even if they’d cooperate, trust in them would depend on the weakest link.

Edit: mobile typos
Or if the AI thing doesn’t work out. Or some retarded President ends up in a nuclear war with China/Russia. Either of those are way above 1% chance of entirely hosing civilisation. AI is binary. We get on with it or we don’t. Nukes are a continuous threat until they are 100% solved. People don’t usually get worse at technology so once your neighbour Larry can build a nuke or whip up an AI with his own special flavour, we need something not-invented to protect us.
In other words, your information is safe from the police if the police doesn't want it, but the second they want it, they're getting it and Proton can't do anything about it. The "default" is only useful for hiding your past actions before the police took interest in you, but not for any action since it happened.
You can do it if you compile in a kernel patch on the regular Pi 4, I believe: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/setting-9000-mtu-jumb...
IMO it's a good idea to add a Github Issues label for each conventional commit type and scope:

<type>[optional scope]: <description>

fix:
feat:
build:
chore:
ci:
docs:
style:
refactor:
perf:
test:
etc.

Let's say we have following scopes: core, infra, api, runtime. The add label in Github issues for each of them.
Whenever people complain about the state of their society, I can’t help but think they still really desire the current situation.
What balance are you talking about? I've never been able to figure it out.

Are we talking just providing an equal number of sentences from the perspective of each major party? How do we decide which parties get included, here? Do we instead break it up by major ideologies? Again, which ones?

Even if we attempt to go no ideology and just raw facts, the facts you choose to report are a result of interpretation. You could easily construct an entirely factual article that contains no subjective opinions and still be majorly and intentionally deceptive. So not mentioning any perspectives is also not balanced.

What balance is everybody talking about? How is it defined? How we determine what is and is not balanced?
Hasura's approach is great and there are just tradeoffs between approaches.

Sure, slots (can be) expensive; GCP doesn't offer slots but all the others do as far as I know (and I see that as a GCP issue, not a Supabase issue); a lot of writes can definitely fill the WAL.

Stepping back, the main comment I can give is that we each approach problems with a slightly different philosophy. Hasura tackles problems using middleware and Supabase tackles problems using the database. Both are fine.

Our approach is important (to us) as we evolve the product. For example, we are adding Row Level Security to our Realtime instance. Because it all sits in the database it's essentially just a Postgres extension, minimizing chatter between a middleware server and the database. Also because it's at the "bottom of the stack", other vendors/integrations can make use of the functionality we provide.

(supabase cofounder)
> Blurring (safely!) the line between database and the app using it

What do you mean by this?

> Comprehensive auto tuning...automatic schema tuning

You should be able to maintain a logical database schema, and then flip a toggle for things you want to have denormalized (and eventually have the db just do it automatically). Or maybe even take a blob of unstructured data and automatically normalize it.
There are also these data points [0], that show that the newer generations have fewer and fewer wealth.

[0] https://twitter.com/CharlotteAlter/status/143127950480736666...
And a good example of OSes written in high level languages during the 1970's, in safer system programming languages.
Of course, out of question.

Put it simple, anyone active helping out someone else via computer, programming, electronic discussion and/or forum web site would quickly get mailed remote jobs offer, mostly from that U.S. area

even if just do Quora answering

as what I did have & experience
I vouched for this comment as I believe it has a point: I think decentralised systems in general have a tendency to yield centralised hotspots for convenience and scalability reasons as networks grow, but in the case of blockchains and Ethereum in particular, running a full node (that can provide the functionality of Infura for instance) is becoming extremely infeasible.

I acknowledge that this is still much more decentralised in comparison to status quo but it is important to acknowledge also that it is still not as decentralised as it is marketed to be.
Do you work for a PR company that works for the industry? Are you an industry flak?

Peddle your wares elsewhere. Go tell it to the Marines.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/google-says-it-doesnt-...
Ban advertising, which is paid lying, and then the trust problems that result from everyone being paid to lie and exclusively being paid to lie will go away.
Operating Systems Principles can be downloaded for free as a PDF file from the ACM: https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/540365

Brinch Hansen also invented the Remote Procedure Call: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Brinch_Hansen#Distributed_...
So you're saying we don't trust the for-profit news companies that spew out 24/7 bullshit onto the working class?
Agreed. The Meaningful Charts Youtube channel presented it well in a recent video "Should Monarchies exist?"

https://youtu.be/dgABWs0SHcE
> If she then saves it or invests it, she'll start making some return on it.

I think people react to claim that this will make Alica invest or save meaningful amount of money. That is what original conflict was about. Whether Alica will invest and rise out of poverty.

Alica now can afford one more thing in sea of things she needs is moving goalpost.
I just want to say that I love the phrase "maximally not-ignorable," thank you for that.
As far as I'm aware, macOS' sandbox isn't like the kernel namespaces and cgroups available on Linux.
I did some coding on a project idea with Metamask / web3.js (https://web3js.readthedocs.io/) about a year ago - tooling was pretty rough around the edges. Distinctly remember thinking if Metamask and web3 worked brilliantly and had great documentation, they'd be on track to win eventually. How good the web3 documentation is imo is the #1 indicator of what ETH market-cap should be, same as Stripe.
I'm chuckling to myself now because I'm thinking that you could do maximum power point tracking automatically if you used one of the electronic derailleur systems like Shimano Di2.
Daily Notes / #9
It's cool that they're being open about this, but I'd be curious to know if the situation was their own doing or not? For example, how many non-hashicorp employees are maintainers? Do they allow this? (I'm actually asking-- I don't know the answer.)

Open source is great, but a single SPOF in one company is becoming too much of an healthy norm. If you love your software, set it free. And if you're worried about people^W companies taking it proprietary and not giving back, then use copyleft.
> the open source Docker alternative

I was under the impression that docker was open source.

I am mistaken?
You can specify a custom RPC.
>There's a really interesting suggestion in The Mythical Man Month. He suggests that instead of hiring more programmers to work in parallel, maybe we should scale teams by keeping one person writing all the code but have a whole team supporting them.

Sounds like mob programming!
What's weird is why they'd need all these hoops to jump through if it's squatting? It's pretty easy to find the squatter - they usually are at the same place they're squatting, and the real owners of the place would be eager for the police to come and find them there. Once you found them, you could seize their devices and get all the IP information (at least) from them and from the carriers. it's weird why would you need to look for a squatter in such a convoluted way?
It's also that the internet broke the local monopolies of the newspapers. It used to be that the newspapers could say to the politicians "if you want to reach the voters in our city, you have to answer questions from our journalists." But now it's more like the politicians can say "unless you put out the coverage we want, you have to provide the coverage we want. Otherwise we will not talk to your organization and people will get their news elsewhere."
It's quite cynical and unfair to say neither Fox nor (for example) Jacobin really believe in what they produce, but instead just serve whichever market segments profit them. In all probability, the employees of both believe deeply in their respective missions and in their reporting.