skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if people do trust CEOs, there is no actionable request here.

There is no explanation given for why trust is diminishing or what CEOs are supposed to do to fix it.

As far as I can see the problem is that media really has always been ideologically biased, but the advent of social media and the ease of getting news online has made this obvious.

We can’t ‘fix’ the problem because it’s not broken. The only solution is a kind of upgrade that current media organizations simply aren’t built to deliver.
You don't understand that lowering the barrier to entry has the side effect of lowering general quality? I'm not sure how to explain it more simply.
> this too shall pass

As long as the world remains human habitable, I agree with you.

If even 10% of the landmass where humans currently live becomes uninhabitable due to the impacts of climate change like flood, heat, drought, stable society as we've know for ~50 years has little chance.

Hundreds of millions of people will have no place to live, no food, and no water. The only possible outcome would be immense upheaval, violence and another world war.
Why should MASS media be trusted? They exist to make money and they are free to use. How in the world they can be anything but a manipulation (which includes but not limited to, just simply a distraction)?

If you need real news, use Bloomberg, AP, Reuters... Yeah that's $1500 per month, and even more importantly, they are too boring to read for an average person, so they wouldn't be popular even if they were free. People who make actual decisions based on news, read them, for rest, there is this "newstainment" industry and it's no problem at all if it's not trustworthy.
> cumbersome writing commands

In NGS, there are two syntaxes: "commands" and "expressions".

Commands is bash-like. It's for running external programs.

Need some fancy stuff? Switch to expressions and pay the price.

I didn't see (and still don't see) any way to make a "real" programming language based on bash-like syntax.
Using it as a sedative is different from the 0.3mg purpose the writer alludes to.
> to stop the Googles and Yahoos and hotmails from scanning all of my emails, using them to advertise to me, selling the information to advertisers.

They don't sell your information to advertisers. So your threat model here is factually false.
And it's work that gets replicated again and again
It seems Orwellian to me to have CEOs in general in some arrangement to lend trust to the media. The incentives for any kind of accountability would seem to be even worse than they are today.

What do you mean by a ‘net of trust’?
Well that was a wild ride - I personally lost it at "We aren't using ZFS." :) I'm surprised that the kernel module was even loaded, though; if they weren't using it, and the only team using ZFS was a minor experimental group, why was it even installed, let alone loaded, let alone burning CPU on a cryptographically randomized noop?
This reads a bit like someone who wants to write hard sci-fi and has been asked to write space opera. I feel like the point of space opera is the setting. The hand waving is almost a component of the genre. Your audience doesn’t need you to explain why the blerf doesn’t affect the blorf. They excuse it.
The iPhone 5s came out in September 2013 (8 years ago) and receives security patches; latest being iOS 12.5.4 in June.

The iPhone 6s (Sept 2015) will be getting iOS 15, not just security patches.
I can buy the same Clevo laptops from other retailers for much cheaper.

Someone from System76 told me in the past that they don't necessarily have exactly the same firmwares compared to another Clevo, as System76 develops its firmware. I guess it has a lot of value but it's difficult for me to buy a cheap hardware for that amount of money.
> good tools happen to advertise themselves.

Nothing advertises itself. People advertise things, by posting about them.
You appear to have missed a significant portion of my post:

> at least not openly. In other words, they could have concealed the location of their services.

> Instead, ProtonMail is attempting to have their cake and eat it too: on the one hand, they repeatedly publicize the fact that they have 'Swiss privacy laws' as a selling point, but yet on the other hand when a privacy violation such as this occurs, they claim that their hands are tied because of....Swiss laws.
Terraform is a massive improvement over Ansible if you do anything non-trivial; even if it sucks, it sucks significantly less than Ansible at managing infrastructure resources.

I sometimes fool myself into thinking I can use Ansible in simple cases and that Terraform would be overkill but so far I've regretted those decisions every time.
Keep in mind that in the last two centuries we’ve grown and expanded more or less exponentially. The destruction to the environment was proportional to it. Not saying we are going to self destruct, I don’t have a crystal ball to predict that, but it seems to me that right now we’re right on track towards it and the trainwreck is becoming harder and harder to avoid. Global warming and climate change is becoming more acute as years pass by and yet there are still people who think it is a hoax. If half the people around the took it seriously the other half would easily thwart their efforts by noncomplying.
i've considered writing tooling like this. maybe not tying to ticketing systems, but instead like some sort of scorekeeping system for tech debt. maybe add some fun incentives like "if your patch removes more tech debt than it creates in terms of specially formatted TODOs, then you get to jump the CI line" or somesuch.
Replaced is an interesting word. Certainly the Holy Roman Empire claimed to be a successor state to Rome in the west, but in some sense Latin language and Roman culture pervades Europe. That’s why we have Kaisers and Czars who claim the power of Caesar. The United States’ civic architecture and symbols are explicit references to the Roman Republic, as it’s own bald eagle replaces the legion’s Aquila. Might as well say America replaced the Roman Empire.
This is my general feeling as well. People enjoy catastrophizing, and also fail to appreciate that we as a species are actually fairly good at solving problems.
I've been impressed with what News Literacy Project is doing, particularly in terms of helping high school students recognize the hallmarks of carefully researched material vs. the opposite. https://newslit.org/
> I think one was more about the fact that entire planets are "just" colonies: farming, mining, or resort. It's far more likely that it's a planet with lots of different things going on.

Seems realistic to me. Mining towns rarely have a thriving tourist business. Extrapolating from human history of colonies and new settlements, usually they are focused on some core business + bare neccesities to survive. I dont see why planets would be different.

> It's easier to treat an entire planet like a single town, as our protaginist's journey becomes easily relatable to other story forms we are familiar with

Why wouldn't a frontier planet be a single town? In a scenario where there are lots of planets that we can travel to with at most moderate difficultly, i would assume the ones in outlying areas might well be empty except for a single settlment based around resource extraction.
Fair enough. Still though, I've personally never seen something like that even offered on an open market.
Even good software has bugs; ZFS is amazing most of the time, but that's hardly a guarantee of zero issues ever - but having bugs occasionally also doesn't make it not an amazing tool most of the time.
I assume it's pretty slow, not on storage but on compute. x86 docker/podman on M1 must use QEMU software emulation, rosetta doesn't support x86 virtualization.
While your point is a valid one, even from as detached a view as I can manage, the state of America doesn't seem very stable, or likely to improve. Arguably it has been on an ever-more-rapid decline since the 70s.
The media’s handling of the Covid crisis has been dismal, no wonder, the public is turning away
You aren't wrong, but I'm not sure civilization collapse or decline is the same thing as doomsday. The article does conflate the two ideas through climate change.
The topic is the end of a civilization, not the world. Plenty of civilizations have collapsed in the last 20 centuries, but it depends on how you define a collapse.

The fall of the Roman and Aztec empires would be the benchmarks. Would we also consider the more recent Nazi Germany or Ottoman Empire falls as collapses?
Unfortunately what comes after a fall is almost always worse. Human societies seem to fix themselves best through slow improvement, revolutions create power vacuums and people that fill those vacuums are usually bad news.
Um, no. You gain people's trust by being consistently worthy of trust.

This article seems to think that trust is it's own fungible but inconvertible substance (the media has lost theirs, so someone else needs to give them some), rather than something that derives from an objective reality.
Sort of.

It was common to cut them in 2-4-8 pieces, but the coins weren't really designed to provide an affordance for it. There are also some areas where the coins were cut into thirds, or the centre punched out, to provide a value that mapped to a useful local unit.

The most common varieties had the Spanish coat of arms on one side, and either the portrait of the monarch, or two globes on the other, depending on date or mint. There were some variations of the coin design where the coat of arms was sized and positioned as a good reference to cut it in four, but the actual lines were raised, so it would actually be one of the harder places to make a cut.
Roosevelt and Churchill certainly saw it coming.
Having access to facts, and acting on them are just two different things. In fact even having the motivation to act on knowledge isn't exactly covered in education.

These are really issues related to larger character building of a person.

They come from a different kind of education which is basically life experiences themselves. You really need some kind of journey for self discovery.
You're not wrong. Maybe I'm not saying it right. The Black Mirror quip in my original post is along the lines of what I'm trying to say. It's not like there's only one angle to an "uploaded consciousness" ("White Christmas") story, or a "panopticon" ("The Entire History of You") story. It's possible to take any given idea in any number of directions.

For example, take (the excellent) "The Expanse". Does the existence of that story mean that all near-future, in-solar-system, politically complex SF is done now? No, of course not! It's like saying that the Beatles "Hear Comes the Sun" was written in D, so now no-one can write in that key anymore.

My point is, even if all you see SF as is a vector for new ideas, there's still infinite (well, combinatorial explostion) variation in how that idea plays out. To take one last example: is "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact" the last word in the SF meteor-gonna-kill-Earth sub-genre? Heck no! What if there's a robot civilization rooting around in the asteroid belt for resources, and it becomes aware of the threat first, and has to figure out a way to avert the threat (and a sub-faction doesn't want to avert it)? What if you focused on "preppers" on Earth who want to make a sustainable human colony underground?

I'm just sayin', even if you're idea driven and not character driven, literally every idea could stand to be treated again.
We are already in a low-level Civil War and have been for quite some time. The important thing to understand is that digital / media / information warfare will be the future of warfare, both in the US and abroad.

Why? For better or worse, the average person in America is lazy. Arguing online is easy, but actually engaging in kinetic warfare over a sustained period of time is extremely difficult. Even the minor conflicts that erupt at protests are tiny and irrelevant compared to an actual civil war.

There's also not much money to be made in actually destroying things, as compared to drumming up outrage (which is how the media, large and small, Alex Jones to CNN, makes its money.)

My favorite conspiracy theory is that the CCP is sowing the division within us to drive us to civil war, whereby they win WWIII without ever firing a shot.

This isn't a conspiracy theory, it's basic geopolitics. Every large state does this to each other. The US to China, China to the US, US to Russia, Russia to US.
Google been all over Kremlin as early as 2005.

Apple famously went to all extremes to "gift" iPad to Dimitry Medvedev
Your comment makes no sense.

On the one hand you blame "MASS media" (whatever that is to you) and on the other you advocate to use AP and Reuters, where most media outlets get large chunks of their news from. AP and Reuters exist so others, often smaller, media companies don't have to do intensive research into everyday news. If something is a target for manipulation, it's AP, Reuters, and similar.
Yea that's not a conspiracy theory at all. CCP/Russia most definitely have heavily targeted campaigns to sow disunity via the whole "USA is a dumpster fire" and "we're so divided" nonsense all over social media sites like FB/Twitter and Reddit. Of course Reddit being Reddit and so forth you get regular Americans gobbling it up and amplifying. Even worse when late-night hosts with big audiences do it. The strength of the United States is literally its motto - "e pluribus unum" - of course foreign countries want to oppose that.

What's annoying to me is having to lead coworkers though a rational thought exercise about "do you really think we're divided? as compared to what? how exactly do you measure division?" and so forth just to get them to admit it's mostly some generalized feeling and not some rationally considered measure.

I sometimes wonder why the US gov't doesn't put CCP/Russia on blast and make Americans more aware of this. Americans love a common enemy, and if they caught wind of how much they are truly being manipulated it might shift the narrative. Maybe that would embarrass too many citizens to realize the stuff they mindlessly parrot is largely a planted narrative.
There is for example this archive of google terms of service changes: https://policies.google.com/terms/archive?hl=en

but i didn't find similar archives for other big players.
> moving old records to separate cold storage

FWIW this is available in ClickHouse (which is an analytics database, though)

https://clickhouse.tech/docs/en/engines/table-engines/merget...
Worst case scenario we have a few hundred years of coal remaining. But fortunately in most developed nations, population is decreasing when you exclude immigration. As we improve standards of living, population will fall to more manageable levels. We are smart enough to escape the Malthusian trap.
Thanks I'll give it a try.
Big companies want to hire remote workers–as long as they're not from Colorado
The 51% ownership clause is a subsidy. Chinese government still subsidies construction industry and the manufacturing sector, as well as tech[0]

At least 3% of the entire state budget is dedicated just to subsidies, this does not include tax breaks or other special incentives and this has been growing steadily[1][2]

[0]: https://www.uscc.gov/files/000566

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/initial-us-c...

[2]: https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Trade-war/China-corporate-su...
The quote you inlined strikes me as total nonsense.

First, there is no local mechanism by which having too small of a fraction of the total wealth that exists everywhere will cause a group to “crash”. Groups “crash” (assuming a sane interpretation of that word) usually due to local effects, like not having enough money to buy food, and not because they’re poor compared to someone else somewhere else. Obviously relative poverty could inspire a political movement or something, but I’m not seeing the “crash” here.

Second, power law distributions for wealth are natural, seem to have existed for all of civilizational history, and are arguably the only kind of stable equilibrium state that is possible with current technology.

Third, the appeal to greenhouse gas emissions seems less like part of a coherent economic argument and more of an irrelevant appeal to the idea that wealthy people (90% of Americans, in this case) are bad because they do wealthy people stuff like enjoy abundant food and energy.
I liked seeing this concept

"as government loses control of its monopoly on violence."

but I can't articulate why...

Maybe something to do with a comparison to organized crime as a competition to a (possibly separately corrupt) government?
> If one has to have either a civil war or a world war (bizarre choice), a world war would actually serve to unite us,

This is not only a terrible American exceptionalism thing to say, but also probably wrong if you look at history of failing states. The Russian emipre was it the brink of collapse before WW1, participation in that war lead to its collapse sooner then it probably would have.

From an outside view much of the world is long since tired of American exceptionalism, and American influence on the rest of the world. For many people the collapse of America would be a preferable option over the status quo. Me personally would prefer no war at all (neither civil nor world). However I would love to see American influence dwindle in favor of a more global solidarity of the workers of the world (including American workers).
EY under scrutiny after second-largest bankruptcy in Swiss history
I think it would be better to be 10 years from launch and 5 years from "unlaunch".

Also, if the company goes bankrupt the source code and necessary tools should become open source or even public domain as to allow third parties to keep providing updates.
Pew research breaks it down sharply from 2016 to 2021 by social media, local news, and national news: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/08/30/partisan-di...
I stopped following corporate news 2 years ago and started paying for independent creators and journalists instead on Substack and Locals. I follow substack, locals and other communities of of Glenn Greenwald, Viva Frei and Robert Barnes, Kim Iverson, Steven Crowder mug club, Jimmy Dore, Matt Taibbi, Aaron Mate, Michael Tracey, Alison Morrow, Sharyl Attkinson.
Looks pretty close :)

What happens in ABS if curl fails in this example? Or JSON parsing fails? In NGS, it's an exception with a stack trace.

> fun part

NGS is mostly use-cases oriented - https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs/wiki/Use-Cases

Decorators are not implemented yet because there are other things higher up the list. Currently working on deeply nested data structures because it's needed for our use case for FHIR - https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs/wiki/Deep-Data-Structures-Ma...
Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not after me.
> importantly, the USA is not a democracy, it’s actually a democratic republic

People say this all the time to try to sound wise, but in reality it's sort of a meaningless distinction.

There's a wide range of functioning models for democracy, and a democratic republic is just one form of representative democracy:

Nearly all modern Western-style democracies function as some type of representative democracy; for example, the United Kingdom (a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy), India (a federal parliamentary republic), France (a unitary semi-presidential republic), and the United States (a federal presidential republic).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy
Sure there is - being distant from the present allows you to examine people more fully by changing assumptions and situations.

I would say most of the better scifi is about people or society, and not the framing used. Interstellar isn't actually about space travel, the left hand of darkness isn't actually about intergalactic diplomacy, etc.
Bear in mind this article's primary source (data, interpretation, calls to action, etc.) is Edelman, a global PR firm. Quoting from the tagline on Edelman's own website, its mission is to "partner with businesses and organizations to evolve, promote and protect their brands and reputations.
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The survey data itself sounds plausible, and I've got no immediate reason to question the numbers. But when it comes to interpretation and next steps, Edelman very much has a point of view that predates whatever the data has found.
>Not buying that.

So, you are not changing your opinion. But you could if you wanted to.

You could change your mind about something that you believe to be false, without any outside influence, through pure will.

>If you choose to believe you have no responsibility for your situation, odds are pretty good you'll have a life of mediocrity and failure.

The link is to a well known essay by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, mediocrity and failure. It goes into the consequences of such beliefs at great length.
Odoacer also recognized Julius Nepos as de jure Western Emperor (although Nepos only ruled over a small rump state in Dalmatia) until Nepos was assassinated in 480.

The Kingdom of Italy also maintained Roman institutions like the consuls and Roman senate, which continued to exist as an organization until the 7th century.

With Odoacer acknowledging Nepos as the nominal ruler, referring to himself with Roman honorifics (usually as a patrician), and Roman institutions being preserved, I bet the average Roman civilian wouldn’t have experienced too big of a difference between 474 and 478 even if the Western Roman Empire had already been ‘replaced’ by the Kingdom of Italy.
I'm not very good at building landing pages I guess I just suck at this even I put a huge amount of effort into this one.

I should probably just pay someone to do a a landing page for me or use the template or something.
My first thought was, "why does everything have to be so politicized."

I then thought about the picture from the birds perspective and realized it tells a story about much more than politics.
Hmmph... I'm taking 20mg most nights. One 10mg at bedtime, then another 5 hours later if I wake up again.

Even that isn't enough to really put me to sleep if I'm stressed out.

For me, "more is more" seems to be true...
I agree but we’re also very good at making new problems and destroying the nature around us. I wonder how many species dissapeared due to modern humans’ way of life and needs. We’re so good at it that we won’t stop till there’s nothing else left to destroy.
Yeah, so let me be clear: I can see why, especially when the std lib was in its formative stages, the project might have decided to keep it, uh, lithe. You have Python as a very good counterexample to "kitchen sink stdlib can be good". Python's stdlib is a kitchen sink that badly needs to be cleaned out, and never will.

You're right that Go has some degrees of freedom that Rust doesn't have, especially on performance. But people do have perf problems with the Go stdlib, and they replace components (amusingly, one of the first things I built in Go did its own sockets and its own polling because Go's timers were too expensive for what I needed).

I just think it's better to have a good-enough stdlib --- with well-thought out interfaces where you're not going to have net/http and then net/http2 and then net/http3, and 16 different ways to run a subprocess and read the output --- that people can optionally outdo with 3rd party dependencies, than the situation I think Rust is in right now, where you basically can't do anything without a bunch of dependencies.

I'm definitely not dunking on Rust. We do a bunch of Rust here and I mostly enjoy working in it.
The Habsburg Empire also fell in 1918. British Empire collapsed over the 20th century, and what happened to the Holy Roman Empire?

Oh and don’t forget the French Empire fell in the 1700’s.

But does that count or did thet just evolve into a new form?
I know how to fix this. Whenever you get a survey on this, tell them you completely trust them to tell you the truth no matter what.

Then the graphs will look great. Problem solved!
Nope. Figure out a way to make it anonymous or I'm out.