skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time these conversations come up on HN - there’s a number of comments saying that fact checkers have to decide things in a rush - contrasted against authors who spend time on an article.

Am I missing something about American fact checkers ?

The sites I know have limited resources so they spend their time on quality work in the few places they can.

How does fact checking work in the states ? Is there something non obvious about fact checking groups?
>> do you need it maxed and do you need it for days?

> the simple answer to your question is no

The answer is no and no. IMO, if they did only one of those things, it wouldn't be a big deal. When you set a fixed price at 100-200x normal price and hold it like that for days, you'd better have a very, very good reason and think through the consequences.

What you're saying does make sense, but I wouldn't give them a free pass, unless they can explain their reasoning. I don't know - maybe they did. If you're doing things with such implications, you'd better be able to explain your choices and reasoning. Not just to cover you ass, but to really consider the implications and possible alternatives. And we're not talking about a few critical minutes or hours, they kept the price for days.
Any DSL modem recommendations?
Link to actual paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12816
Assisted suicide. My grandpa lost his last kidney at 95 and was then picked up and dropped off for dialysis 3 times a week in the early 2000s. For a few years this went on, must have been tens of thousands of dollars or even $100k+ of labor and medical services, in those days. Paid for by future taxpayers.

He should have been given an option to go peacefully.
I was still reading it as parents until you said something
I agree, Pine64 is essentially waiting on other entities to carry this work, like Purism for example. They should at least have someone supporting software even if it only increases the rate to a drip.
So following this rationale, wouldn't steps naturally be different with different exertion with different heights? Doesn't seem like it really controls for height from my perspective
Stevia was banned in the States (as in the EU) for a long time after it was allowed for consumption in other domains across the globe. I know I looked into importing some from Japan many (many) moons ago (purely out of idle interest) before getting bored and not bothering. Glad I didn't, because it's just as piss-poor as all the other artificial sweeteners..!
Participating agencies have their google analytics data collected by GSA, which is hosting this webpage.

Mostly off-topic, but the GSA is one of those federal agencies that is really under-appreciated.

When I was a reporter in the days before the commercial internet (yes, my tools were pencil, typewriter, and teletype), the GSA would publish lists of what government reports were coming out each month, helping you find all kinds of incredibly useful data. If you needed help, you just picked up a phone and they would point you in the right direction. I always looked forward to getting their big blue envelopes in the mail at work because I knew I could find something meaningful in there that I could localize for my audience. And the information was always presented in a manner that was both professional, and easy to understand.

The GSA is one of those agencies that is best left alone to do its work in obscurity. Every once in a long while, a politician will stick his nose in there, but usually only to get a name put on a building.

See also: The Congressional Budget Office.
This may not be enough. They may have to click open the window a few times and blow on it
I think I've seen you post something similar on r/aws about how Rick was "top DynamoDb person at AWS" (apologies if that wasn't you). I think you are overestimating Rick's "rank".

I just looked him up (I had not heard of him before seeing his name mentioned on r/aws a few days ago) and he was an L7 TPM/Practice Manager in AWS's sales organization. That's not really a notably high position, and in the grand scheme of Amazon pay scales, isn't that high up. An L7 TPM gets paid about the same as, or sometimes less than, an L6 software dev (L6 is "senior", which is ~5-10 years of experience).

Also, him being in the sales org means he had practically nothing to do with the engineering of the service. AWS Sales is a revolving door of people. I mean no offense towards Rick (again, I didn't know him or even know of him before I read his name in a comment a few days ago), but I would not read anything at all into the fact that an L7 Sales TPM left for another company.
Mechanical engineer in Canada here, I took a research assistant job in academia (after a few years in industry) to get similar benefits. 35h hours weeks, 5 weeks vacation, lots of flexibility for kid sickness (has been a godsend for the past two years, getting called all the time to pick up kids with sniffles for mandatory COVID testing), relatively low stress yet fun and interesting projects.

Low pay, but enough for a good lifestyle in a LCOL small university town.
Show HN: My hardware and software setup for a new home
Yes and no at the same time
"Elon Musk says he will pay over $11 billion in taxes this year" (2021). Does that change things?

Ref: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/20/elon-musk-says-he-will-pay-o...
Not a fan of uselessly sensational titles, but will give it a try.
Currently using urql and codegen that already handle that pretty well. What is your edge?
Just one data-point, but my Japanese friend who lives in Japan just finished up her ONE YEAR maternity leave, so there are definitely a few things that they do much better than the US. The 6 weeks before the due date is also required by law to be protected leave as well, but most places do more.

The US simply doesn't have any protected leave at all, which is incredibly hostile to women trying to contribute to the labor force.
> There are so many ways to cheat on this, I bet it's rampant.

You're not wrong on this. There are, and it is. One of my previous jobs I worked at a dark pool exchange. A dark pool is an entirely legitimate and regulated quasi off the books market. It's "dark" in that prices at the exchange are not listed; no best bid/offer or any other order information is advertised. It's also members (customers) only. It's not available to the general public. It's primarily a ways of moving high volumes of trades with the intention of not moving the market. Executed trades are reported as required, and NMS (National Market System) Regulations have to be abided by. i.e. A dark pool cannot trade outside of the NBBO (National Best Bid/Offer) without first having taken (bought /sold) top of the book at the NMS exchanges that have the NBBO. We're still subject to SEC, FINRA reporting and regulation and are regulated by the same.

It was a small firm, less than 10 engineers working on the technology stack, so we all wore many hats. Besides working on the trading system, I was also responsible for working with our chief compliance officer to gather trade data for inquiries from SEC, FINRA, even the FBI. Most of what they were looking for was not insider trading, but other prohibited activities such as spoofing and front running.

I've also worked at hedge funds, private equity funds, mutual funds & investment advisors. Every firm I've worked for (especially the hedge funds & PE funds) have used technology to their best (legal) advantage they can. Need lower latency? Co-location at the exchange is a perfectly legal option. Racks closer to the exchanges offer a premium rent over those farther away. Microwave transmission for line of sight? Most certainly. Lower latency, but also significantly lower bandwidth. Bonus points for being able to bounce a signal off the ionosphere from Chicago to London faster than satellite or sea cable.

That said, when it comes to Congress, they're in the unique position of not just being privy to an absurd amount of material nonpublic information that unscrupulous actors can make a killing off of, they're also in the unique position of enacting (or retracting) laws that affect the companies they're trading on. It's this power that is unique to Congress, and why they deserve extra attention and rules on reporting, holding periods, trading windows, etc.

Insider trading is a problem among the general public, but it's not nearly as big of a problem as the media makes it out to be. Yes, there are unscrupulous firms out there, but the vast majority take the rules and regulations seriously, because you have to, or you will no longer be in business and real jail time for potential violations. I believe Congress should be held to a higher standard than the general public because of their unique power over the industry.
I got mine from amazon. It's perfect for asian/stir-fry dishes
Mind to share if there's a video or something of the presentation? Would love to see it, thanks.
Was in the same predicament - aging Wifi APs with no desire for a Cloud Managed "Prosumer" solution.

Ended up going with a handful of Ruckus r610 used off of Ebay. When re-flashed with the "unleashed" firmware, configures one to act as a local controller for the rest. I've been very happy with it so far.
Then the HN title is inaccurate.
I mean, does E-mail need new features? I’d argue that it is successful and ubiquitous because it doesn’t change and have a half dozen companies breaking compatibility by trying to out-feature each other. Th Internet could use more applications like E-mail and fewer like the chat mess we have.

Chat should be the deadest-simplest protocol/app on the planet. It’s sending text… That’s pretty much the first thing a developer learns how to do when they learn network programming. We should be able to send text from one computer to another in a way that is compatible no matter what company’s client you use. Yet nothing has managed to gain traction.
One of the best leads for discovering songs is made in TikTok. The magic happens when your music starts getting more traction by being viral.
> It’s a full fledged language that compiles to readable JS

Compiling to readable JS is not one of TS's goals. For example:

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?noImplicitAny=false&targ...
So, developer.
The article, with pictures, has a better description. This isn't about replacing diesel train engines with battery engines. Instead, it gives each individual car a battery and motors to propel that one car.
>Wear & Tear is a good point, along with the inconvenience of selling physical goods, and the burden of having too many physical goods.

These aren't inconveniences and burdens, it's part of our reality and we're wired to handle these things. We don't consider objects we value as burdens, for as long as their perceived value is considered "high", they're not burden/trash.

You can't forget that we use physical goods to help us define and signal who we are.

And some of that stuff works because of the properties of physical goods: wear & tear have stories attached to them. A scratched leather backpack has tales of backpacking traveling, just like a collection of MTG cards.

This isn't a property of digital assets. They are barren.

Trying to enforce artificial scarcity in a medium that tends to propagate and proliferate whatever it touches is going backwards once again, like enforcing something like copyrighted digital material in the world of torrents.

Second hand digital goods makes no sense, it would be an artificial construct for the sake of itself.

We're at the point of making up problems to shove NFT as a solution for it - just like what we're seeing with art and collectibles, they're tending to be automated and mediocre.

When it comes to content, Scarcity and Internet shouldn't be in the same sentence.

Now, can weapons in games start to acquire long term wear & tear, to be more personalized to each player. Sure! Does it need to be an NFT? No.
You seem to be making a normative statement, that journalism should be making editorial decisions in order to nudge toward the outcome they believe is correct (or that some societal watchdog believes is correct?) rather than what's normally considered the goal of detached and dispassionate reporting.
Reminds me of John Mulaney

> If we're comparing the badness of two words and you won't even say one of them... That's the worst word.
This isn't entirely true. You can collect royalties every time the NFT is sold if you want. You can even have NFT's that degrade over time.
The journey to bootstrapping a $1M ARR SaaS
In the last example, if you're riding with a driver and not paying attention and they are texting or reading a newspaper and get into a crash, then the liability would be on the driver. Not the cell phone company or newpaper company. I think the same for autopilot. If a warning displays to the driver that they are still liable for controlling the vehicle, and they ignore it then the driver would be liable to the passenger, not the car.
Couldn’t agree more with this. I recently got a PineNote as well and was disappointed with the lack of community organization. The wiki is bare, and the people hanging on Discord and IRC just seem to be hacking on their own things.

I am motivated to start writing software for this device with a “do one thing well” philosophy, as a device like this should have. But it’s hard to get started on that when the advice for getting started on it is “you should try getting your favourite distro to run on it and go from there.”

Yeah sorry, no. I want to contribute where I can to the project as a whole, not get Doom running on an e-ink tablet.
Why Is Canadian Architecture So Bad?
I believe you lose gmail/docs/sheets.

Based on the below comment, I think you can keep some services like youtube and photos. That said, I strongly recommend every do regular google takeouts https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout?pli=1

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/s7v4my/google_...
They also had a Blackberry client, Blackberrys were very huge in latin america and I think Asia a while back.
I'm hopeful that the HN I enjoyed 10 years ago can be brought back when the reddit refugees who destroyed their own site lose interest.
The problem with your reasoning--and it is exhausting that society seems to need to relearn this every generation--is that this is not about what standard you think is reasonable. It is about the granting and exercise of power. Once the power has been granted to determine what is true or false, and to suppress the latter, then absent a carefully constructed system of checks and balances, that power will be abused, as all unchecked power is.

It doesn't even take long. When they took out Infowars a few years back, people kept saying it was ok because they are so terrible, etc. A couple years later and they are brazenly censoring the New York Post, the oldest newspaper in the US, and one with a very large readership, because it posted a completely and obviously true, newsworthy, and timely story about Hunter Biden during a presidential election.

That anybody defends this paradigm of social media censorship shows how deeply rooted tribalism is in human nature, and how it degrades the capacity in otherwise smart people for critical thinking.

If an article has false assertions, is missing context, or is being used by third parties to promote related falsehoods, then the remedy is for critics to write other pieces that correct the record and let the public sort out truth from falsehood. If the critics can't make their case, then that is on them, not an excuse to set up an unaccountable power structure to quash unfavored ideas.
I have tried to find the roots of this "pizza effect" myth, but all I could find is somebody making a point about mindfulness meditation and yoga, and I am not even sure how it holds up WRT yoga, because Indian yogis who do not-Western yoga are still a thing.

WRT pizza, it's clearly false. Pizza was a thing in Italy before World War II and it spread through Europe from Italy, not from the USA. You can trace the history of many pizzerias in Italy back far further than the "pizza effect" would have you believe, so you can easily de-bunk it by going to the web site of a pizza place in Napoli.
I'm the OP. That's a nice tutorial, and I agree with your sentiment that you should build on Emacs's ability to query it to figure out what to do. That's the main focus of my book, too, for the exact same reason.
>> All of which to say I have no idea how I ought to organize life around computers differently.

I'll give you an example of something I've done recently which has made a big difference. Although, I don't have ideas on how to apply this to other aspects of my computer use (but open to ideas).

I listen to a lot of music. My teenage years/20's revolved completely around music. But I've gotten to a point where Apple Music/Spotify have become like Netflix to me - I have so much choice I don't know what to choose. I like to buy vinyl but it's expensive and not practical for most of my daily listening. I thought about it and realised that, for me, the time when music and technology merged for the best overall experience was the iPod (pre-Touch). I would mostly listen to albums I bought via iTunes (i.e. I cared enough about them to spend money and would listen to them a lot) and I checked out new music via Spotify (which was available in the UK in maybe 06/07) and then bought the stuff I liked on iTunes so I could take it with me on my iPod.

So I bought an iPod Classic on eBay. I deleted all the music I'd 'added' to Apple Music over the years leaving only my pre-streaming purchases (I also signed up for iTunes Match to backup and sync all my Bandcamp purchases + vinyl download card tracks). I've went back to my system of Spotify for new stuff, purchasing new stuff on iTunes, and syncing it to my iPod. It weirdly feels like a burden has been lifted having so much unnecessary choice removed. It's giving me a chance to get obsessed with the stuff I like again instead of quickly moving on to the next thing the algorithm throws at me. I highly recommend it. Currently thinking of ways I can apply this elsewhere in my life (e.g. purchasing TV/movies on iTunes instead of using streaming services but this could get very expensive very quickly).
My experience was that their sales and marketing were amongst the sleaziest in the industry. Perhaps their commercial reputation precedes them?
I have tinnitus and still really enjoyed the experience. No out of body stuff like TFA, but deeply relaxing.
gotcha, it's been awhile since I was looking at that
Same here. I’ve tried Apollo but switched to react query and graphql codegen. Probably not going to switch again without reason— would be interesting to see the differences. Title is a little off putting because it sounds like there’s a little precooked bias
Zoho has a 1 dolar per month plan, up to 5 or 6 users I think.
Me too what s going on
Ask HN: Are you ready to sell grannies silver tea set and flatware?
Last year the redit group WallStreetSilver attempted to put the squeeze on the silver shorters by buying paper silver. This failed and it became very apparent that the paper silver markets are heavily manipulated through spoofed short sells and derivative quantities of paper silver being traded between the banks to drive spot markets down.

Fast forward to this year and it seems there is a new approach to squeezing the market but this time it is being attempted through the hoarding of physical silver rather than paper warrants.

Apparently Bank of America has a 300 million ounce short position on silver that is coming due on Jan 30th and there is a belief that the COMEX does not have the physical silver to cover this.

So the question is: If the price of silver begins to rise, at what price point do you think it would be worth selling off the heirlooms?

PS: It seems the values of antique silver things are already quite high!

https://www.ifranks.com/silver-tea-sets
I'm no where near an expert and I'm not a big fan of software patents,

on the subject of prior work, and just thinking out loud, but I wonder if USPTO could set up some rules whereby the person asking for a patent has to do some sort of search for prior art, in order to get the patent

and if they don't or do it badly/ not to the rules, then a penalty is applied, financial or immediate ban on patients?
I did that hoping that the information I provide (even though somewhat personal) could help others and form an interesting discussion. At least to me, discussions on HN where people share personal experiences provide a lot more value than reading articles on the topic.
Same thing happens to me, I do blame myself for not exercising more and being more flexible.

Once this happens, just move your hands above your head and lock fingers, you can continue float, your neck will not hurt you.

When I am doing longer 90 mins sessions and after some time, your neck starts hurting and this prevents neck hurting and I can have my full session. If I did yoga, I wouldn't have this problem, but I am wimpy and lazy.
I'm fine with disdain. If pizza were French, there'd be legislation about it.
Feels like these problems mostly relate to the tech-wizard elitism theme. By all means use the help features and GUI menus if that's what you need. I believe when you run these commands via GUI you also get feedback explaining the equivalent keystroke sequence.

Reminds me of the old days of IRC posturing, newbie bashing and RTFMing. Today most info can be obtained by a well crafted search query.
That seems very readable, especially in comparison to something like Dart or Elm’s output, both of which can output thousands of lines from something as simple as your example.

From the language goals

> 4. Emit clean, idiomatic, recognizable JavaScript code.

https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/TypeScript-Desi...