skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> *Especially the New York times.

>> I believe their mistakes are equally likely to be intentional as they are to be simple mistakes. Especially when it comes to topics where there is an agenda at play.

> To use the case in the example, what is the agenda for under-reporting, by an excruciatingly obvious 3 orders of magnitude, the number of Covid infections?

It's the NYT's agenda to downplay COVID, obviously. /s

IMHO, misinterpreting mistakes as intentional lying is a common tactic to justify ignoring evidence and sources that contradict preconceived beliefs.

It's true that pretty much every kind of media is biased in some way, but I think a lot of people let the perfect be the enemy of the good and overreact to that fact by disengaging with certain reliable sources or with the media entirely. The ironic thing is that often results in relying on even more on biased and unreliable stuff, not less.
Although they are minor celebrities, it's not quite celebrity endorsement either. More like a book advance. They expect to make the money back from the author's own subscriptions.
To the broader topic of health information going wrong, at the top of the Lancet page I see an ad for Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate. Anyone else? I'm in western US.
He means Venom
As a farmer in Canada, I haven't seen a farm auction like that since I was a kid. Most farms these days are sold either by someone knocking on a door and making offer that can't be refused or by tender, conducted by law firms. Real estate agents/auctioneers, and the cut they want to take, have largely been taken out of the equation given how easy the farm properties are to sell.
I think the reason Substack is so popular is they value Freedom of Speech and it shows in their actions.
The same thing can be said for the travel agency industry.

The bar for publishing has significantly reduced so really it’s a question of the marketing piece you mentioned. Does an artist really need to sell to a label just to get marketing?
Painful? Sure. Excruciatingly difficult? No. That's not hyperbole. It's an entirely different scale of difficult. Quickly scaling 8 flights of stairs is painful for most healthy non-athletes. For people who have severe asthma, it's excruciatingly difficult. They didn't throw these executive functioning problems in the DSM-V criteria for ADHD based on a hunch.
I'm maybe kinda lucky in that my dad worked in the business for ~40 years, from lowly warehouseman all the way up to distillery manager. I also worked as a warehouseman and in the filling store filling casks in my early twenties for a brief stint. I've seen how the sausage is made and have gotten to hear the skinny on "internal matters" that others maybe wouldn't, and get the jist of the points he makes about the industry.

But he's an acquired taste for sure :)
You mean reactive armor? The Leopard doesn't have active armor (or reactive like Kontakt-5 etc). It's been tested with Trophy APS, but the Turks didn't have that.
>Does it have some kind of a hidden feature that makes it very appealing?
My number one assumption would be that it uses a global userbase, so people who write on Substack can collect subscribers/readers much faster.

Substack has a different financial incentive structure that attracts writers away from alternatives such as Medium.com or hosted WordPress:

- monetization is easy to go from "free" to "paid newsletters". The pricing is set by the author and the revenue isn't shared with other writers

- for paid subscriptions, the writer has the subscribers' email addresses for a more direct relationship

In contrast, Medium does not reveal email addresses and does a revenue share of a flat $50 subscription price.

Looked at a certain way, Substack replaces MailChimp (an email audience relationship tool) more so than Medium.

The founder of Substack gave an interview and he said that Substack is a SaaS backoffice of Ben Thompson's "Stratechery" paid newsletter. Ben was one of the early pioneers of the paid email newsletters resurgence but since Substack didn't exist, he had to string together the payments and emails logistics himself. The later writers wanting to get paid for newsletters can just use Substack instead of reinventing Ben's tech stack.
What happens when a group of Fox News viewers watch CNN for a month?
There's the story of using color-confusion soldiers to spot camo from the air. That was in WWII? I think they've solved the issue by now. But with camo plastic eggs- maybe not so much science. I only know they didn't find the eggs@!
There were many car companies in the early 20th century. Most didn’t make it. Yet cars are an integral piece of our lives globally, so the market size only grew larger. Software is no different, except it’s infinitely flexible.
I was thinking of their employees and technology vendors, as well as any open source projects they contribute to.

The point is that there must be some awfully huge payoff to make burning billions of dollars as an upfront investment worth it.
I mean there were some blow ups. WeWork, Theranos, etc... But the era of cheap/free money is just starting to end, so I think the bubble is still ahead of us.
But if they are outpatients is there any guarantee that they were even sticking to a low sodium diet in the first place?
Bidders out-bid themselves?!

That is messed up…
Or sign with the label and add a change of control clause to the contract? Not saying it's not easier said than done, but there are contractual ways to get out of the situation you describe
> the very clear link between sodium intake above a certain level and heart disease in a previously healthy individual

Is this actually well established? I’ve seen so many “war on salt” articles that I’d assumed it was still debated.
You can improve things you can't measure, we do this all the time

I would still consider an indirect measure or proxy measure of a thing to be "a measure of the thing".
Is it reasonable for an university to become familiar for the general public across the world?
What does marketing manager have anything to do with anything? The GP's profile shows they certainly aren't a marketing manager and probably make quite a bit more than $140k/yr.
I just tried that feature. I added a requirement. I could only add a title and description, which wasn't great. The requirement appeared in the Issues list, which was a bit odd, and when I closed the issue the requirement disappeared from the requirements list.

Whatever that feature is meant to be, it definitely isn't requirements management. Requirements don't stop being requirements after you've written the code.
Is there really any radically isolated peoples stil on earth genetically? Any sources on this from non politcal authors? I know there was some interesting science being done by evolutionary geneticist Eske Willerslev about the aboriginals but as far as i remember the differences were still negligible - also he became good friends with the elders of these tribes and had great respect for them.

Actual supremacist racists really are the scum of the earth, too bad if science is still hindered by people who want to use it as a political tool to further themselves or their in-group.
>The employer – the buyer – is indeed blind.

I'd be very surprised if the average employer doesn't have far more information available to them than the average candidate. Especially given that's at least part of HR's role, knowing market salaries and deciding hiring budgets. They might not know about the hiring candidate directly, but more often than not, there are entire B2Bs dedicated to distributing this information. That's on top of skilled hiring managers and employers having vastly more experience with the whole procedure than the average candidate would.
We used to use MKS and switched to Siemens Polarion a few years ago. I like Polarion. It has a very slick document editor with a decent process for working on links between risks, specifications, and tests. Bonus points for its ability to refresh your login and not loose data if you forget to save and leave a tab for a long time.

For a small team you can probably build a workable process in Microsoft Access. I use access to track my own requirements during the drafting stage.
I think that's a good oversimplification of Bernard. To oversimplify Chieftan:

A tank performs a critical role. You can't replace it until you have something else performing that role.
2,3,4 are the technical answers, and I agree with them. If you're a writer, you can try to build some kind of a mix of Facebook/Twitter clout for your self-hosted blog (with all of the technical pains that entails), or you can try to get hired at lower-class wages by a print publication.

Substack is a better solution for this, and it includes the mailing list building features that make it a superior solution to the social media treadmill.

1 is a marketing ploy, and while "astroturfing" sounds bad, it's fairly accurate and also a really good idea for what is a pretty niche market.

All that said, I wish it wasn't this way. Siloing Internet content, even if the operation was an open, squeaky-clean, First Amendment-loving angel, is antithetical to the Internet ethos. And based on extensive experience, even the angelic operations eventually become not-so-angelic.
It was testimony aka credibility that I'm talking about.
> This is actually really helpful. A lot of people who run Linux work remotely and are not able to solve this challenge.

Seriously? How do people survive for so long using Linux and not knowing how to use screen or tmux?
There's also actual nixos for mobile, although then you're really limited in hardware options.
It's the job of foreign media organisations to manage a university's PR/marketing?
It's OK, I've been a "serious" Vim user for ~7 years and I just learned about it this year. It's such an enormous program with so much functionality that is hard to fault somebody for missing any individual piece of it.

What I find weird is that there's no analogous normal mode operator command for dropping into a command line without the ! prefix. It's easy enough to write your own (good excuse to learn about "operator pending mode"), but I often find myself scratching my head at what made it into the builtin commands and what did not.
I saw an article yesterday saying the US was giving $800B in aid to Ukraine, and I had to think several times about whether that was conceivable.
No, democracy is NOT one person one vote. That is a specific kind of democracy, which may or may not be acceptable for whatever reasons. Democracy means
“the people” as a group decide the outcome. But how it is done may defer a lot.
Obviously poverty is a major issue, and as a society we can and should be doing a lot more to address structural inequality. However, is there a time or place in history when/where would be better to be poor than today in a modern day first-world capitalist country? To be clear, I'm not arguing that we're anywhere near an ideal or perfect state for this, but what are the alternatives that you see?
You aren't paying attention - critical thinking?

The point is that employers can and will "adjust" in the same way on this.
I work at Substack. We are building https://reader.substack.com/ for people who prefer pull. Supports both Substack and RSS. Still early days for that product but we are investing in it.
Your theory can be anecdotally refuted by simply observing that people will eat more when food is well salted. French fries are an easy example. If you have two piles of fries - one salted, one not salted. Which do you think you'd eat more of?
While all technically true, functionally how would you ever get caught?

All of the major beer microbreweries that got started in the 90s were started by people who were illegally homebrewing before homebrew laws were reformed in the late 70s. With something like marijuana, you have to first acquire supply from someone who has a very small chance of being a cop or police informant, yet I still know tons of people who smoke weed and have been doing so for years with essentially 0 fear of getting caught because they aren't running around, doing it in public. If people got caught for even 1% of the speeding we all do on the highway, we all would have lost our licenses years ago, and that's a violation that is being commited in public!

But with a still, you can get everything you need on Amazon and nobody is checking up on it.
Could you provide a link or two of content that might be censored elsewhere? I am curious to read “banned literature”.
Pretending that everyone is really the same creates unnecessary social pressure for those who are naturally disadvantaged. Spreading falsehoods in order to avoid atrocities such as racism and eugenics is probably not the only way to move humanity forward.
I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you there. If you're having to research the history of the phrase, you're overthinking it. It means exactly what it states, no tricks. "Free speech" is a well known phrase that means the unencumbered ability to say what you like. "Free beer" means something that everyone (ostensibly) likes being handed out without the need for payment. I'm not sure how one could more simply explain the "free" dichotomy. If you've got a suggestion, I'm open to hearing it.
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> Language is an imperfect model for representing ideas.

That may be so. But, the New York Times can't use that as a excuse for making simple mistakes, nor do I think it wants to. Language is primarily what it relies on to represent ideas. Accurate description of the world through language is the core of its value proposition to subscribers.
You kinda triggered me here.

> That is true, but not enough to change the numbers

By definition, if the counting methodology is wrong (in the misleading sense), then they necessarily DO “change the numbers”

> and certainly not enough to make up for the uncounted cases

The uncounted cases aren’t deaths. Therefore it’s not a question of “making up for” those cases.

In fact, if anything, that makes it worse.

Using a singular value “total number of deaths” is generally misleading when trying to justify public health policy on large populations. A global population of 7-8 billion means that even huge numbers can be insignificant, eg 1 million over 8 billion is only 0.0125%. (Disclaimer: Numbers chose at random; this example does not represent any actual statistic around COVID).

If the cases are being overestimated then it drives the overall impact down.

Numbers and methodology both matter intensely when we’re talking about using the numbers to justify public policy changes.
Yes yes xenophobia - but is it true? Did Canada's past immigration policy contribute to current home prices? And more importantly - will the current immigration policy contribute to future high prices?

If the goal is affordable housing, why is immigration the one policy that must not be adjusted to meet that goal?
I have read this study and it is much less meaningful than the title would suggest.

They have compared a diet with a sodium intake close to the lower limit of the recommended intake, with a diet including an even lower sodium intake, slightly less than normally recommended.

A daily sodium intake in a relatively wide range around the recommended daily intake (which is of about 4 to 6 grams of salt per day) is not expected to cause any differences, so the results of the study are not surprising.

The recommendation to eat less salt is only for the people who eat mostly industrially-processed food, which always includes excessive quantities of salt and sugar, because they are among the cheapest ingredients, while enhancing the taste of the food.

Such people typically eat 2 to 3 times more salt than recommended, and only for them it may be expected that lowering the sodium intake can reduce the risk of diseases. However, lowering the sodium intake is not easy for them, because they must begin to eat something different, since the excessive salt is not added by them to the food.

Otherwise, lowering the salt intake much under 4 grams per day is a serious risk, especially for older women, and especially when they also take medication against high blood pressure.

Hyponatremia, i.e. having a too low sodium content in the body, manifests initially with symptoms like muscular weakness, constipation, lack of appetite and problems with the equilibrium, which may result in falls.

Such symptoms may be difficult to distinguish from just consequences of old age. If hyponatremia is not diagnosed in time, the consequences can be extremely severe, including the loss of life.
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I like "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." -Keynes
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My list as a reader -

- No ads, popups, random paywalls.
- Authors looking for paid subs offer quite a bit of free content.
- Substack feels like it loads faster than Medium. Very snappy.
- Simple email sub/unsub.
- Substack doesn't treat me like a child & decide some ideas are too dangerous for me to read about.
- I don't worry that an article/newsletter I like (or dislike!) will suddenly disappear off the internet.
I think it's important to keep requirements in Git along with the source code. That way when you implement a new feature you can update the requirements and commit it along with the code changes. When the PR is merged, code and requirements both get merged (no chance to forget to update e.g. a Confluence document). Each branch you check out is going to have the requirements that the code in that branch is supposed to implement.

For simple microservice-type projects I've found a .md file, or even mentioning the requirements in the main README.md to be sufficient.

I think it's important to track requirements over the lifetime of the project. Otherwise you'll find devs flip-flopping between different solutions. E.g. in a recent project we were using an open-source messaging system but it wasn't working for us so we moved to a cloud solution. I noted in the requirements that we wanted a reliable system, and cost and cloud-independence wasn't an important requirement. Otherwise, in two years if I'm gone and a new dev comes on board, they might ask "why are we using proprietary tools for this, why don't we use open source" and spend time refactoring it. Then two years later when they're gone a new dev comes along "this isn't working well, why aren't we using cloud native tools here"....

Also important to add things that aren't requirements, so that you can understand the tradeoffs made in the software. (In the above case, for example, cost wasn't a big factor, which will help future devs understand "why didn't they go for a cheaper solution?")

Also, if there's a bug, is it even a bug? How do you know if you don't know what the system is supposed to do in the first place?

Jira tickets describe individual changes to the system. That's fine for a brand new system. But after the system is 10 years old, you don't want to have to go through all the tickets to work out what the current desired state is.
> It's a critique of pretending that only some dependencies are dependencies.

Where exactly does this project pretend that some dependencies are not dependencies? I don't see anything like that in the blog post or the readme. In the readme I see some dependencies metioned, but it's not introduced as "here are all the dependencies", it's introduced under Requirements as "here are the commands you must run to set up your system".

If you open your distro package manager and look at the dependencies for an end-user app, it will not list header-only libraries. That's the same principle at work.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31063731
They signed a contract of their own free choice because it was a good deal for them. This isn't hidden. There's no reason to hide it any more than a musician would hide getting signed by a record label.
Is that 12 rules for life? Great book.
Paris court finds Deliveroo guilty of abusing freelance status of its riders
I’d argue that gerrymandering is a far bigger issue than ballot stuffing. Its sole purpose is to ensure that elections go in favor of the party who draws the map. If that ain’t rigging an election, I don’t know what is.
Technically, yes, but practically obviously not because people who run shops aren't completely stupid.
It is not his success that I find problematic, its his current assessment of the Gov, the politics and the imbalance that exists in today's "Socialize risk, Privatize profits" environment. He's suffering from hubris.

The fact that he comes from money makes this whole thing even more ridiculous. He did not build anything from scratch, he literally started on 3rd base and was handed his field position before he even started...

This also seems to ignore the fact that UPS existed decades before his company, a company that he intentionally named Federal Express to fool people into thinking it was a government entity...
The problem isn't your phone. The problem is you are a monkey that has been given a window into a world with an endless supply of the things that primates like. I would advise meditating for 20 minutes every day. It won't solve your problem but it will help you control it.
yeah, unlike others, they can’t just leave Russia for good

essentially they’re being held hostage, either they comply or the government will “nationalize” them and appoint managers who will
Wasn’t aware it was ending, just thought it came with more criteria (web3).
Because it goes against the facts: the government is chosen by vote of the people.

It may not have the rule of law or separation of powers, but that is totally different.
Show HN: An open-source r/place canvas for realtime painting
was interested in how its handling the PDFs - looks like it uses magica (a wasm compiled imagemagick) to do the processing:
https://github.com/cancerberoSgx/magica
TL;DR https://almost-reddit-place.vercel.app/

I cloned the Reddit minigame that was available this year's April Fools' Day on the r/place subreddit. Anyone all around the globe can join the journey of painting a canvas with millions of pixels. The main difference, I made it open sourced! Host your own canvas and share it privately only with your community or just share it with everyone!

I built all of this in around 4 hours and the best part, I spent more time on the front end than on the backend. The biggest challenge I expected was how to synchronize 4 million pixels between hundreds of users. Appwrite Realtime server managed everything for me and results show up to 1 million users could use the app at the same time!

Feel free to play around! And no phalluses please

Tech Stack
- Alpine.js
- Tailwind
- Appwrite ( Realtime Database + Authentication + Cloud Functions )

If you'd like to check out the code, its here
https://github.com/Meldiron/almost-reddit-place
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> The fact is that everyone "stands on the shoulders of giants".

This phrase always bothered me because the giant isn't a single person but a stack of people. Knowledge is cumulative.
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A TROPHY system wouldn't screw up the APFSDS round's bearing and structural stability? I know it's moving really fast, but how effective is it should the tip be broken off, or the round begin to tumble in flight before hitting the tank at a broadside angle?
To get a comprehensive list of devices that are compatible with LineageOS and other alternatives, you can have a look here: https://olaki-android.github.io/olaki/

I am the author.
Nice to see that again. I always used to show this to my colleagues as an example of the unconventional (and some clever marketing) converting adversities or deficiencies into strengths.
In Hungary we use it all the time keeping track who stole how much.
The fraudulent part is this: “ imperceptible to human hearing”.

Lossy compression algorithms specifically compress out everything imperceptible to human hearing.
Thats a different site, where the pdf is uploaded to the server. This one does it client-side.