skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on how you define "the media" and "professional journalist." It's more complicated than most people think.

Some of the world's best actual journalists, like Peter Jennings, were high school dropouts. At the same time, some of the world's most prominent people who often present themselves as journalists are absolutely not.
Could you be more specific?

I have a suspicion that, like myself, they came to this conclusion after reading this extensive post from Slate Star Codex https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...
For the past two years I've been telling anyone who'll listen that the WHO screwed up by telling people not to wear masks, by claiming transmission wasn't via aerosol particles, and by opposing border closures. I spent a long time getting into arguments about the lab leak theory being almost impossible to disprove. In my comments on HN there's one calling out an article about mask-wearing for drawing the exact wrong conclusion from a study of cloth masks.

I reserve the same right to call out Joe Rogan when he's wrong. He is not special.
What you would typically be looking at, is compliance witt the PDF/X standards [1] in various levels, which are basically ISO norms for PDFs.

Files for printing production need to have their fonts embedded, color profiles attached/at least tagged to images, transparency dealt with, lots of stuff that ensures that the PDF itself contains all the necessary information for a successful reproducting/printing on a printing machine of any kind.

As printing production systems have evolved, the rules became "less strict" as all (most) the systems can now handle transparency natively, for example. That for example was a big change with PDF/X4, before you had to convert (keyword is "transparency reduction") all transparencies and factor them into the underlying elements.

Most PDF generators out there are not able to follow the rules of ISO/the PDF/X specifications, so print shops might have a hard time handling that data, due to various missing pieces of information.

That's normally no deal for your office printer, but when you are looking at large(r) printing operations, it surely is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/X
excellent points.

I'm still upset about the 3.5mm headphone jack to be honest.
> People might be shocked to hear this, but not many little girls dream about becoming computer engineers.

In my experience the majority of new high school grads do not choose their uni program based on a deep passion. Usually, they don't even have one or don't know what it is.

I studied CS in Germany at 2 different faculties, and there was a large discrepancy between the first (~15% non-male), and the second (~35% non-male). The second faculty had a lot more female professors, I also suspect that having a more equal gender ratio benefits an even more equal gender ratio: The idea of being a small minority in your degree is just not very appealing, and the negative stereotypes on male CS students are pretty off-putting to women. These do also seem to hold true for a sad subset of the student body.
Because people who are over leveraged need to sell their stock to live, so they sell at “any price”.

For a stock price to fall someone has to sell, and someone has to buy, so someone is taking the long position in said company.

Additionally, the stock price is the belief on future profits so if the horizon looks worse then the past, then people may want to shift investments.
It certainly drove the sale of airpods according to some analysts. The number is probably higher
> Because the particular aggregate mix of storage helps drive down overall costs. Changing that mix affects the entire stack, as well as capacity planning. Ok, make cold storage very cheap to retrieve. What happens now?

It doesn't have to be very cheap. Let's start with just trying to match the price of writes. That shouldn't really affect the total amount of I/O, and there's no reason reads should be harder on the system than writes.

> Furthermore, to implement what you want, you can keep a request open for hours, which causes issues all over the stack (where do you keep that state? How does that interact with load balancers?) or you mark the cold object and return temporary failures until it's finally retrievable. That's extra state and extra complexity that doesn't exist right now. Those extra costs would have to be recouped somewhere.

I suppose. But the cost of keeping a request open should be much much less than the current cost of having everything fully accessible in milliseconds.

> Anyway, cold storage that warms up most likely requires extra rebalancing that wouldn't have happened otherwise. How would you price that? Who would you charge?

Reads that cost a significant amount of dollars each don't require rebalancing. I'm not suggesting they go so cheap that rebalancing is required. You'd still do only one read to a completely separate hot storage system, like it currently works.
Isn't there a ton of stuff you need to buy for someone at work? Phone, charger, cable, laptop, ethernet cable, cubicle walls, ergonomic chair, desk, lanyard, ID badge, company branded water bottle... even at small companies the charger seems like such a small thing.
Covid-19: Is the world ready for a great reopening?
https://reddit.com/r/bogleheads
> The misunderstandings around this drug stem from misunderstandings of basic statistics and the scientific method

So I agree with your post both in letter of what is written and in spirit, but...

The misunderstandings around this drug also stem from the fact that its detractors were unhinged and anti-scientific. They were dismissing a large, obvious statistical effect without any argument. The publicised pushback around Joe Rogan was spearheaded by people who thought the problem was that Ivermectin is effective in horses.

I'm perfectly happy to pick this hill to argue on - the people who had hope that Ivermectin helped were the sort of people who are persuaded by evidence. It was never strong evidence, but the balance was in favour of Ivermectin for a while there for people who only looked at studies and hadn't had their attention drawn to the endemic parasite thing.
> It would be like classical guitarists arguing over which brand of footstool improves performance the most.

The keyboard is actually a very intimate aspect of your interaction with your computer. For many folks this is important. Minutia about the "effect on performance" is not really a concern (IMHO if people are being honest). The real thing is how the keyboard FEELS, the sensory feedback-- sounds, tactile and appearance. It's also a way to customize something to your liking even if you're "doing a job" on the computer, much like wearing a tie of one's choice gave corporate workers an outlet for some individual expression back in the day.

I doubt anyone "argues" about keyboards unless they're being forced to use one they don't like. And most folks can do just fine on a wide variety of keyboards-- although the really alien-ones like the Atreus and those hipster ortho's necessitate a learning curve and motor skills development.
AI decides that ctrl is still there? Look at many Japanese made (ANSI) keyboards: they simply put ctrl where caps lock locates. This is a life changer to me, and inspires me to change all my keyboards: no new layout required.

Even though they can claim movement is decreased, having little finger hitting ctrl at the original location for hundreds to thousands of times is never a fun. It’s ergonomically bad.
You've found Casey's next app right there...
I believe you can opt out by having your browser send the Do No Track (DNT) header when you download Firefox. This applies to all analytics on Mozilla.org.

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/blob/a8ed6ae9c48c93474fbe...
What countries? If you've got fast internet, I've used skype international calling quite successfully before. Supported in quite a few places. Used it when I had to 'locally' call NZ from Japan once.

https://www.skype.com/en/international-calls/
To hoard liquid cash for buying opportunities. If the prices of commodities goes way up, individuals and companies need cash in hand more than the long term assets. Cash is king.
What's your implication here? That non-owners are lesser and therefor should bend to the wants of the owner? That only owners have a right to the lifestyle they want?
Thank you! Its a great example with Abu Dhabi being less likely to be formed by the economic pressure prevalent in countries like India.
They also assume that everyone who bought an iPhone bought a charger at full price directly from Apple.

I'd be surprised if even half bought a new charger, most people who needed one probably just got a cheap one from Amazon.
That's definitely not true about antibiotics.
The Art of Relocating Tech Talent Post-Pandemic
> Peter Lynch once said, “Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections or trying to anticipate corrections than has been lost in corrections themselves.”

> The same is true of recessions.

> How do you prepare for one? The same way you prepare your finances for anything else.

> Instead of changing your portfolio because you think a recession is coming, create an investment plan that is durable enough to withstand a wide range of environments (one of which includes economic contractions).

> Give yourself a margin of safety with a high savings rate and an emergency fund not because it will help you survive a recession but because it will help you survive any number of curveballs life will inevitably throw at you.

> Pay your bills on time and create a good credit score not because it will help you during a recession but because it will help you anytime you need to borrow money.
“markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent.”
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-accounts-managi...
I thought the same until I tried a couple, and then tried going back to a membrane keyboard at the office. In addition to better wrist comfort, I also find that I have fewer typos on the mechanical keyboard - my intuitive guess is that it's due to greater travel and resistance required to actuate a key. Everyone has their own preferences but, for something I use 8 hours a day as part of my profession, $100 for a decent keyboard seems entirely reasonable. Plenty of contractors have fancy trucks/tool boxes/tools that cost way more.

Also, it's not comparable to a stool for a guitarist - that would be my desk chair, which cost more than the keyboard.
Not just that, but a keyboard is a huge section of desk real estate particularly the critical part of the desk (the part right in front of you), and that is really poorly utilized for a single function.

At a minimum, your keyboard should function as a port expander / dock for video, usb (all of them), flash, headphone ports. Most techies have multiple machines, so it should probably be a kvm switch as well. It should support both wired and wireless modes. It could also be a wifi network switch or range extender. Why not double as a power strip?
Are these actual holograms or yet another non hologram technology stealing the name?
The folks at Ritholtz Wealth Management really produce quality content on the economy and personal finance:

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Using the Internet to put out their brand and philosophy out there so like-minded customers come to them instead of trying to chase down leads. And everyone who doesn't need a wealth manager / family office gets interesting content.
Why so much negativity? Are you aware that there's this whole side called "contracting"? Agile made it very dynamic - sometimes assignment is completed sooner that agreed because company's priorities change. Sometimes you stay longer because they need your help.

I've been to many gigs where burned out or incompetent permanent (!) employees made a complete mess almost running company to a ground. Incompetent leads, even CTOs desperate for a fix.

Yet, as a contractor you come and help the companies *

* there are incompetent or selfish contractors as well.
I guess because the differences between the neoclassical homo economics and the biomachine homo sapiens become relevant when scared? The approximation of people as rational actors falls apart.
> This sort of unfounded conspiratorial thinking is absurd.

GP's baseless accusations indeed are distasteful.

> cryptographers ignore it and go for something they can prove is correct. BLAKE2 and ChaCha20 are algorithms designed by cryptographers

BLAKE2 is based on ARX, so proofs regarding some of its properties are very difficult or infeasible, as far as I understand. It is my understanding that other designs are much more popular among cryptographers because they are mathematically and financially easier to analyze, implying better security (because nation-state-level resources aren't necessary for finding vulnerabilities). See, e.g.: https://keccak.team/2017/not_arx.html
Keep fighting and take care
I don’t know much about the internals of a JIT compiler, but wouldn’t it just (recursively) deoptimize the methods which include the inlined method and do a normal method call instead which will now go to the updated implementation?
Facts. This isn’t the first time I learned my hatred was irrational.
Hamburgers are unhealthy anyway. We could just replace the burger icon with a piece of fruit. Perhaps an apple?
Court says non-open 'open source' code is false advertising
Because stocks are just the right to a stream of earnings. In a recession companies earn less and the future becomes more uncertain.

Because of the way the math works relatively small changes in future earnings and risk can have a large impact on asset sizes.
In a public health crisis, people who are in charge of communicating with the public should be held to a higher standard than random people on YouTube. Yes, CNN saying that people are dying because of Ivermectin usage is a bigger problem than people suggesting we look at Ivermectin for COVID prevention/treatment.

I've heard that sometimes in public health you have to lie to avoid the strange incentives that people acting as a massive group have. But your lies have to at least make sense. When you go around frantically pushing a narrative that is a blatant lie, you lose the public's trust. It doesn't help when half of news programs are brought to you by Pfizer - a company with a vested interest in Ivermectin not working for this purpose.

The randos on YouTube will always be there, but it's the failing of the mainstream media that anyone takes them seriously.
I think this idea is incredible. I really hope Anonymous (or some other hacking group with western values) uses their power to embed this video in sites that everyday Russians use often (banking portals, entertainment pages, etc).
As someone probably of similar age to you, my views on GWB have definitely changed as I've aged.

When I was younger, I actively protested, saw his presidency as the antithesis of my values, etc.

At my current age, I believe more that there is no pure "good" in the world. What is good in one way, is by definition tinged with evil in others. And that pursuing one good requires doing (or at least allowing) some evil.

And that what's probably most important is being honest about the evils you do, in pursuits of your goods, and constantly re-weighing the balance on your moral scales.

Biden abhors war and the employment of US offensive military power. That is a good. But it creates evil by providing space for unresponded-to aggression. Shipping weapons to Ukraine to defend its sovereign territory is also a good. But it creates evil by escalating battlefield lethality and depending on the service (and often sacrifice) of brave Ukrainians.

The real world sucks, and there should be no easy answers that let us sleep soundly at night.
The "money" in the economy is actually mostly credit, and during a recession it contracts (usually from defaults) so the amount of "money" in the system is now less

Since the value of a stock is it's future cash flows discounted to the present and it's had it's current cash flows impacted, usually that makes forecasts revise those future earnings downward lowering the valuation of the company.

Other reasons are assets are sold to make up for lost income needed to pay for expenses, and stocks being liquid often get sold first.
White House: Developing a Bold Decadal Vision for Commercial Fusion Energy
Like every other day, I was shopping this morning at my local bakery in Warsaw, Poland. As I was packing my purchases, a woman next in line after me ordered coffee in Ukrainian.

(We have it lucky. Polish and Ukrainian are mutually intelligible to some extent, which enables basic communication even without knowing each other's languages.)

I said, to no one in particular, "Do widzenia, слава Україні" as I was leaving. She reciprocated the customary "Героям слава" in an obviously moved voice.

Small things matter. We need to support each other in every possible way. Donating helps, so does showing solidarity, and so does spreading the word.

Будь в безпеці, zverok. Our thoughts are with you all.
Interesting that you see yourself as being more employable. And if you say so, probably it's true! So, I'm wondering what you bring to the teams you're hired into. When I hire, staying at previous jobs for only 1—2 years is a red flag. And you've done it 10 times!

We're looking for people who would like to stay with us for, say 3–5 years, at least. While our tech stack, culture, etc. isn't that special, it still takes time to acclimate.

Perhaps you are a very talented specialist in very narrow niche? People like that are always useful, and can skip between jobs as they please. Although, I'd probably do stuff like that on a consulting basis, instead of a salaried employee.
I’d argue we should go finer-grained than that even and use languages where following the principle of least privilege is natural. (JavaScript is close-ish and could become this language with some tweaks.) There’s often no reason the part of your program that e.g. handles untrusted network communication needs to be able to read and write arbitrary files on disk, but right now they can.

But yes, library level authorization at the very least.
Whenever stocks go down, the real reason is that there is fewer people buying stocks than selling. The justification is obvious: if we know a recession is coming, the gains in stocks will take a hit, and people don't want to buy something that will lose value. So investors will stop buying stocks and some people who are more sensitive to price drops will sell their stocks.
Congrats! I'm just enjoying Theneo. Now I can use my API doc screenshot as wallpaper to my phone ;d Keep going! <3.14159
Ask HN: Which is the best online course/certificate program currently?
Hey HN,

I am planning to pursue some online course(preferably in the field of analytics or management) and looking forward to devoting some time on week-ends or week-days.

I am looking to level my self up in analytics and/or management skills.

Which online course you found to be truly helpful and why?

Thanks.
> Apple invented the modern slab-of-glass smartphone industry

They did, huh? All by themselves?
To me they don't sound like audiophiles. The keyboard in this article is $365. Audiophiles can put $10 000 in a cable. A cheap keyboard is like $20, my current keyboard is around $100. If you map it to something like car prices, cheap keyboards are like old used cars, something like mine a new car, and the keyboard in this article something like an Audi. We're still not on the Ferrari order of magnitude, or even the audiophile.
Then they can’t link your nonexistent account together with your IP?
The keyboard is the main input device for a computer. It's like a classical guitarist arguing over the best guitar.

That said, after years of trying different boards, with different switches, I only see three ranks of keyboards: mediocre (most cheap rubber dome), good (most mechanical switches), and better (the most subjective, Model F buckling spring for me). The improvement from mediocre to good is larger than the improvement from good to better.

As long as keyboard is not tiring or hurting your hands and wrists, it's probably good enough for you.
How can he write:

> Therefore, a recession is now inevitable.

And two paragraphs below:

> Nothing is 100% certain in the markets or the economy.
Thanks for that response. I did take it as confrontational. I apologize.
and to optimize for serendipity: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1214274038933020672?s=21
I remember a story a few years ago where the woman missing from the photo was missing because... they were in a women-only meetup during the conference, followed by several interviews because they were the only woman there.
The Billionaire’s Bard: On the Rationalist Fictions of Neal Stephenson
that's interesting data, but I wonder whether this applies also to top positions, I'd like to see these stats filtered just for top positions

is there also some stat showing diversity of top positions over years or team/driver points required to win championship? though because of changing points system it's difficult to compare unless converted to percentage

According this championship decided by one point was last time in 2008, 2007 and 1994 with 2007 extremely balanced between top 3
https://www.autoweek.com/racing/formula-1/g36279865/formula-...

Judging by this, last year was from start to finish just race between Verstappen and Hamilton
https://www.formula1points.com/season/season-progression/202...
I've bought a lot of Android devices and all which were of a well known brands like Samsung, Lenovo, HTC, Motorola had good chargers as well as good headphones in the box. Only cheap non-brand devices did not include headphones but the chargers were average amazon-type cheap but ok chargers.

Also there's often the case where you buy stuff like led flashlights which don't come with a charger they do have an USB charging cable in the box.
That wasn't quite my point. The point is not to immediately devalue experts critical of the consensus, but keep informed and considered. To dismiss either side whole-handedly is ignorant.

What is happening especially now is precisely that, this whole 'misinformation' drive is to encourage the dismissal of critical opinion (on more and more topics it seems). This is a bad road to go down.

And you make a good example of the overall point: there should not be this 'mainstream' vs 'not-mainstream' and we just pick a side. We should all be mature enough not to fall for that silly manipulation and instead try to fully inform ourselves from a range of sources and challenge ourselves.
Because it's emblematic of laymen without understanding of medicine both demanding treatment with no evidence behind it and claiming the establishment NOT providing it is evidence of some vast, many-tentacled conspiracy.

However, one of your comments shows the true problem. It's not FOR the media to decide. Murdoch may disagree but the media is just reflecting the establishment. You can argue about the effectiveness of said establishments because they're all dysfunctional, like any organization of any size, but to claim that we should just throw away scientific process in anathema to modern society.

There were multiple reports of people refusing treatment (and, of course, vaccines before that) because they wanted ivermectin.

Prior to that, people poisoning themselves with household products due to Trump's careless speculation on treatment.

It's ironic as those who don't trust vaccines seem to flock to the medical advice of those without any training.

The backlash has never been primarily about the dangers of ivermectin specifically, but the rejection of established protocol, scientific procedure and basically everything that humanity has moved forward with in the past century or so.
ElReg's interview: https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/17/ruby_ukraine_zverok/