skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely the right answer then is to trust neither? Why would you trust anyone except a known-good actor?

Of course, this assumes a model where one completely trusts or doesn't trust. In reality, you can read CNN (or Fox, or MSNBC, or whatever) and learn a lot of things that are true - you just have to figure out how to wash the layers of spin off them to surface the bits that really matter.

For example, I might trust that the news (not opinion) sides of CNN or Fox won't knowingly run stories that are actually false/made up, but I wouldn't trust any speculation or conclusions they draw, or that the set of facts they have given me are the most important or salient ones. This Youtube channel, on the other hand, is a completely unknown factor - I can't know what to trust about them, if anything, and it would be a big investment to figure that out.

Put another way: If CNN, Fox, the NYT, the WSJ, and AP/Reuters are all reporting something, how likely is it to be true? If only one of those entities gives me certain information about that story, how likely is that info to be true? And so on.
And it definitely is biased. It sadly very much "informs" you towards having the opinion it wants to promote which is what I think we are discussing getting away from.
One of the big issues with instituting an income tax is it changed the relationship of every citizen with the government. Other than the postal service, the average citizen almost never dealt with the federal government directly. Now, everyone knows and despises/fears the IRS.
Media these days is just about exposure to sell ad space. The only credential required to be an influencer is the ability to influence via any means.
Good point (though I've heard HN is hosted on a single box at M5 hosting, so it's probably in the US) Maybe if you mention you're from California then he might accept the request right away.
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Wait, GE has staff they haven't laid off?
As other have said, you won't fall skiing, and also, 32 is not old at all. There is no physical reason to be in worse shape when you're 32 than when you're 18. If you are, it's because you don't spend enough time doing sports, it's not because your body is too old.

I picked up kitesurfing in my 30s, and skateboarding in ramps in my 40s and it was no different from learning snowboarding in high school. Except that I'm in better shape now, and I also benefit from knowing other sports. It just gets easier. I think the turning point, physically speaking, is around 50.

Neal Unger is 65 and recently picked up skateboarding. Obviously he's past his prime, but there's absolutely no reason to avoid having fun just because you're not a teenager. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM4FQ_FqEhQ

Here's a kitesurfer that I think started in his 70s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouheMnmjx9U

And there was a kitesurfer here in Denmark that surfed into his 90s or something.
I'm anxious to try Maui but also want to see it come out of preview first, which is supposed to happen some time in Q2 from my looking earlier today (with RCs hitting this quarter).
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It depends on what level the detonation was triggered at. An accidental detonation that actually triggers the primary device detonation mechanism could result in the bomb actually going off.

If an accidental detonation means just triggering some of the explosives, then yes, you'd get a dirty bomb. However, it's actually more likely that the bomb would actually detonate than the explosives being partially set off... they're designed specifically to be hard to detonate unless the actual detonator mechanism is used.
And it's likely thar at least some of those grievances where born out of misconduct by the company. Bringing us back to my position that all companies lie and screw over workers, that the ones that look good just mean you aren't witnessing it.
> For starters, being informed makes for more interesting conversations with others.

Depends on the crowd. In my experience, that's true with only 10% of the people I know. Most of them are more interested in having an opinion than understanding what is going.

When I expand the circle to the population in general, it probably drops to about 2% of the population.

> If you stick to just the news, that's one thing, but if you then go deeper into the topic (what is the relationship between Ukraine and Russia?) then you get invaluable context.

As a former news junkie, I agree - with the caveat that to get to what I call the minimum threshold of deep understanding will take many, many hours.[1] You have to seek out many different interpretations, sources, etc. It's a very active thing. If you spend merely an hour a day on the news, you won't get there (or perhaps you'll only get "there" for a topic or two).

At that point, you start doing a cost-benefit analysis, as I had to. And then you realize that in the universe of things you could be doing, there are plenty of things that give you a better cost/benefit ratio.

> In the traditional sense, it's reporting on facts, checking sources, and providing two sides to every story

Strong disagree. For many (most?) issues, if you can itemize only two sides to the story, you have a very narrow picture of what is going on.

[1] No, definitely just reading the Economist will not do. The quest for reducing news sources to just 1-2 quality sources is a flawed one, and you'll always have a skewed view of the world that way.
Indeed. Happily using Void Linux on mine. Took some doing (kernel downgrade being the most annoying), but it works great now.
I hate when apps implement the swipe-back gesture for anywhere on the screen, rather than just the left edge.

It’s far too easy to be scrolling, accidentally go slightly too horizontal and end up popping the view and losing your place.
> A common symptom of quitting the news is an improvement in mood.

Anecdotal data point here, but I experienced more than just an improvement in mood. I had a completely unexpected blossoming of immense amounts of creativity.

About three weeks into my total news cut off, I started to feel sober in a way that is similar to discovering sobriety during December holiday weeks with family after non stop drinking for months in College.

Unlike the author in the linked article, I did a complete cut off from all "news-like" sources: TV news, Youtube channels, social media, reddit, podcasts that talk about current events, blogs and newsletters that discuss news - all of it.

When conversations started to become awkward (about 6 months after being completely cut off and I could no longer infer/derive the common assumptions underlying a conversation in a group), I subscribed to The Economist, directed their Espresso newsletter to Feedbin and started reading that about every other day. I found that a handful of bullet points about what's going on in the world per week is sufficient for me to keep up with any conversation I find myself in.

If there are any other news abstainers here, I'd love to hear your life hacks and tricks that you use to navigate the world.
A relatively small number of multi-unit investors can impact the market when combined with fewer sellers (low supply). It drives the real buyers like a panicked herd into the limited supply.
We dropped cable when our first daughter was born. No regrets at all.

It was only when in the hotel lobby having breakfast did we see the CNN/FOX alarmist news coverage blaring about a world spiraling out of control.

I thought, why is it always when we're on vacation that the world begins to teeter on the brink of destruction?

And then I remembered what cable news was like before we cut the cord.
> I agree that the US would panic, but Ukraine didn't strike any deals. They weren't in the process of joining NATO (and likely wouldn't be admitted due to "external territorial disputes") and they weren't in the process of joining the EU. In addition, the EU doesn't put military bases anywhere.

This is actually untrue. Ukraine has repeatedly stated their intention to become a NATO member state. It's even written into their Constitution. The Vilnius Summit joint declaration (which Ukraine's pro-Russia President at the time did not sign and ended up with his government being removed...) included language from the EU affirming Ukraine's intention to become a member state. Ukraine is currently preparing to put in its application to join the EU and has been formally working on this since Jan 2021.

Ever since the Eastern Partnership (2009) and Ukraine-EU Association Agreement (2012), Russia has been publicly condemning this chosen course of action.

Both NATO and the EU have been courting Ukraine since the early 2000s.

You should check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4 it's worth a watch.
That discussion about the truth is already older and is just arriving in mainstream media. I first stumbled upon it at the chaos communication congress in 2007: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/events...

It’s easy to see how such an idea can become mainstream when our society is losing a common agreed upon basic understanding.
Or the ATF maintaining an illegal registry of 900 million firearms.
It's disingenuous as hell to clump "cities" together, as if going to Anacostia in DC is the same as going to Georgetown.

If you live in a city and carry a gun, you're not protecting yourself, you're escalating the violence.

Getting robbed is exceedingly rare anywhere in the US, and trying to stop a robbery with a gun is among the stupidest things a person can do.

Further, robbing someone doesn't mean you should die, and killing someone over property is evil beyond comprehension. No society should support it, and very few do (nearly nowhere in the US, for example).
Same, I searched from time to time as well and never really found much, until one day I was looking for a new acupuncturist and coincidentally this former monk's practice is a few blocks from my house. Wasn't even looking for a tummo teacher during that search! Hopefully some day I'll get to go through the training. Happy to send you his information as well, my email is in my profile.
"Virtually unlimited energy" is where the argument completely falls apart. It's a myth we need to stop spreading. As I said elsewhere, we have only a bit over 200 years at our current 2.3% annual growth in energy usage before we start raising the temperature of the Earth purely from a thermodynamic perspective.

Completely blanketing the Earth in solar panels gets us a few hundred years more (thanks to the fact that that solar energy is already hitting the planet whether or not we use it for electricity), but that's assuming we've developed panels with magical levels of efficiency and we're okay with 0% of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface.

Four hundred years of sustained energy growth at current levels is the most that could happen on this planet under comically-implausible circumstances, and when we reduce the absurdity even just a bit (greenhouse gases still exist, we won't blanket the planet in perfectly-efficient solar cells), we optimistically might get two hundred years more before we hit an energy wall that cannot be overcome without a complete overthrow of thermodynamics as we understand it.

Is that still a lot of growth? Sure. But it's about the same window of time as the industrial revolution until now.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/
> the VR in that book is generally a pretty nice part of that world

Yes, that's the point: the metaverse in Snow Crash may be pretty nice, but the world outside the metaverse fucking sucks. That's the dystopia.
Oh, that's interesting. That's not as bad as I thought, although I am surprised that's the approach that was taken (unbundled).

In that case, if you're relying on REMB from WebRTC with multiple PeerConnections, then, yes, each will be handled separately and you'll likely not end up with loss-base congestion control but will be using the latency-based congestion control WebRTC is going.

Some potential problems I can think of with this approach:

- It won't scale to a large number of streams. I'm not sure at what point it would cause problems, but I'm guessing it would work OK for... 20? 40? Most of the time, the extra ICE traffic and per-connection RTCP is probably small. A long time ago, there were issues with per-PeerConnection memory usage, but I think we (back when I worked on the WebRTC team) fixed them to a reasonable degree, so it should work for 20-40. You have to do a bunch of DTLS handshakes, but you could get around that by using SDES. You'll opening a lot of NAT bindings, potentially at the same time. Again, with a smaller number of streams, this might be fine. But at some point, you may cause issues with consumer-grade NATs.

- The WebRTC receive-side congestion controllers (sending back REMB) will effectively be competing with one another. I'm not sure how well they work with a large number doing so (or even a small number.) I'd be interested to hear how many you can have running at the same time before you notice problems.

- You can't easily prioritize one stream over the others if you want an "active speaker" view. I suppose you could something where you "steal" bits from one PeerConnection and give it to another, but that will probably contradict what you're trying to do with playing nicely with traffic shapers and AQM.

I'd be very interested to hear your findings with how traffic shapers and AQM respond to non-bundled traffic vs bundled traffic. What characteristics do you seek work better or worse? Higher rates? Lower latencies? Lower jitter? Less loss? And how do you test (given that network behavior can vary so widely one network and the next)?

If you'd like to talk more directly I'm "peter at signal.org".
Scanning news aggregators like Apple and Google News also shines a light on the bias in multiple news sources, just from the headlines.
Watchdogs already did all those ideas brilliantly. Cyberpunk took most of those ideas and gave them a half-assed clunky implementation that should have been embarrassing for them in comparison. Every time Cyberpunk introduced a new concept I got so excited, thinking about all the potential for fun and how they might develop the ideas as the game progressed. And then there was no follow through.

It's a wonderful world/backdrop/setting. I like the story. There's 50x as much cutscenes and consequence-free dialog choices as there needs to be. I occasionally had fun with the missions. But overall it was a big basket of good ideas that they dropped on the floor.
> Watching/reading/consuming modern news is too stress-inducing

Let's not project. I was a news junkie for years, and the news itself was not stress inducing.
>How many creative and truly innovative thinking people do you know that will spend hours studying for and partaking in such a ridiculous interview process‽

I may be posting this defensively, since I practice leetcode to prepare for tech interviews. But I disagree with the assertion that creative and innovative people don't have to put up with process and procedure. Pretty much everyone has to do grunt work sometimes, and it's especially important to "prove your worth" when first meeting a new person or company. The leetcode problems are far from useless, speaking as someone who has given more than my fair share of different types of interview problems. And furthermore the fact that you're willing to put in hours on a skill you don't particularly care about carries valuable signal to employers.
The article omits any discussion of this point, that is why I asked the person familiar with the field whether they have insights to share.
Yeah you'll fall, but just learn how to fall, especially don't break the fall with your hands! I broke by wrist first time I tried, at age 12. Since then I've never hurt myself badly while snowboarding.
> I find it quite funny how they promote having tracking alerts for a tracking system that they have brought to life in the first place. They introduced the first-ever system for easy, cheap, worldwide tracking into a world where “unwanted tracking has long been a societal problem”, applaud themselves for implementing broken anti-stalking features, and now coerce others into also implementing protection against the tracking network they have rolled out.

It's almost like it's on purpose.

Imagine building a tracking system where your only way to avoid being a victim is to have everyone agree to not participate.
When did I say they don't count?

> But because Biden something something something

That something involved acknowledging that the pipeline was mere months from being completed, and that the US could do nothing to stop it, so why continue to waste diplomatic capital in a fight that we've already lost. Especially since that diplomatic capital may soon be critical in persuading Germany to withhold certification of the pipeline.

And if you have any specific criticisms related to the accuracy of Bolton's claims, which align nicely with what we know of Trump from his public statements, feel free to explain.
This seems at best a funny tweet. They're both just tools and frankly terrible in terms of "getting work done". This seems like a great time to go heads down on a deep task and if you really need to contact someone send an email or even phone them.
A fizzle is just a nuclear weapon that doesn't reach its design potential yield, which isn't the same thing as no nuclear criticality.

A 5 MT hydrogen bomb that "only" yields 750 kt of explosive power is a fizzle, but you don't want to be anywhere near when it happens.
The Economist is clearly not a Libertarian newspaper. They represent the classical liberal position, which is not Libertarian, and never has been.
Devonthink does PDF annotation quite good. The annotation can be markdown or RTF.

It’s a whole database system so it might be a little heavy weight for just annotation.
Mac only I think.
>This sort of convenience is what gives people confidence in buying Apple products.

Fwiw I had the exact same experience replacing my Galaxy screen at a general repair store. Same day.
> Putin is currently playing out the same game as he did in 2008 in Georgia. Abkhazia and South Ossetia aren't formerly part of Russia; their existence merely guarantee that Georgia cannot be part of NATO.

They don't actually guarantee that, there is no formal bar to admitting a country with active disputes to NATO; and even if there were it would take agreement of exactly the same parties as are required to admit a new member to either eliminate or modify the formal requirement.

Also, the new regions aren't necessary for that if it was a bar because of the occupation of Crimea since 2014.
Some folks here may be too young to remember this, but we used to colloquially call the Internet the "The Information Superhighway".
I actually switched from google news to bing news, just because their user preference algorithms are so underdeveloped. So it's essentially like not being in a filter bubble.
> The only legitimate exception I will accept is when you access invalid memory.

If all memory accesses were done with a function call, e.g. read(void *addr), then by your logic there would be no legitimate need for exceptions.

If you extrapolate into the other direction, exceptions are convenient from a syntactic POV because it avoids littering every operation with an explicit error return mechanism.
Believe it or not, there are a lot of us who enjoy C++ and think the language is getting better all the time. IMHO, it's a pretty good time to learn C++.

As for what do you get? Well, compared to C you can get higher programmer productivity and compared to any language other than C, you get great performance.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30038129
One might easily imagine an energetic disabling event that doesn't result in nuclear yield. Just fire one detonator.

That said, Command Disable mechanisms on modern weapons don't result in a loud bang. However, there's no guarantee those mechanisms are all that are used in mechanisms which may deter physical penetration of vital areas of the weapon.
So, where I work. I actually manage our Google Tag Manager infrastructure. Our marketing department make change requests that we review and implement. They do not get to do whatever they want. We actually consider it to be a backdoor.

It's a useful tool but it should be managed by the people building the product and we have to clean up and remove tracking code when it has served it's purpose.
Doesn’t some of the reliance on constructors for everything come from how constness is fetishized in C++? Not that it's all bad to have those checks in place, but Python doesn't have this issue with out of control constructors in part because (almost) everything in Python is just unapologetically mutable.
Voting Out Incumbents Boosts Economic Growth, Decreases Corruption
If I may ask, what other publications do you recommend that you deem more objective? Do they also cover large swathes of the whole world, like The Economist does?
I absolutely care about my manager, for what it's worth. I've generally (luckily) had very good relationships with basically all my managers, and it's tended to pay off well, even though I'd still care if it didn't pay off.
For non-native English speakers, you can tell if they're a programmer by asking them what "string" means (outside of any context).
This is a very well known agreement. Search for writing on HW Bush's Secretary of State James Baker agreeing to Gorbachev that NATO would expand "not another inch" eastward. Much has been written about this, and it is considered ~first principles~ level knowledge on the topic of Russia/Ukraine. Putin came of political age when that agreement was reneged, and it is speculated that this is weighs heavily on his list of grievances with the US.
That is an overwhelmingly good problem to have. We would have truly mastered the planet for that to be a concern. As it stands, keeping society above water for the next hundred years seems like the grand challenge to accomplish. Do not assume victory is given. Nothing is a given. We are always on the edge.
The thing that Stack Overflow changed is that it really encouraged to ask 1) clear questions, and 2) provide comprehensive answers. Stack Overflow didn't really "invent" this (at least Experts Exchange preceded – and influenced – it), but they did popularize it.

Compared to email threads and forums it really improved things: the no-nonsense format and the ability to edit questions and answers to clarify or expand things really made a big improvement. It's just so much better than reading through a 3-page forum thread with bits and pieces of information scattered all over the place.
Can users other than whoever wrote the to-be-updated answer do that?

I think it requires action by either the poser of the question (if they can change the ‘winning’ answer months or years after picking it) or the user writing the winning answer.

I think it’s unlikely they’ll do that.
This is correct - parking the heads moved the head to the side so it wasn't above the platter; but just pulling power meant the head was still above the platter, but no damage.

Parking would mean you could move the drive and the head wouldn't bounce off the platter.
> A large-scale study found that well-being predicts outstanding job performance.

I would expect such a well-respected publication to not make such a fundamental mistake, at least before I finish reading the headline.
> interested people are interesting

If what they're interested in interests you too.

Or as happened in this map genius story, if they're charismatic enough to convince you (and the gathering crowd) that it's interesting. Professor sounds like an ideal place for that skillset to end up.

I know people who are profoundly interested in certain things but you learn not to touch the topic because they'll deep dive on something you don't care about, and they aren't socially skilled enough to keep you engaged despite that.