skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that actually true? Historically? If you go back to the first newspapers, they were basically rags. Throughout history, newspapers have been censored, they've been biased, partisan, used as propaganda. At the turn of the American Revolution they became political weapons. Later the robber barons used them to shape public opinion and punish rivals.

Lately we seem to make a lot of proclamations about how terrible things are, and then we feel bad because we think things are "worse than ever". But usually they aren't as bad as they used to be.
Fun fact: even Gmail OCRs image files. If you search for emails using keywords, it'll use the OCR results. I just wish there was a way to get access to the OCRed text.
I'm a huge fan of his work, and was greatly influenced by Cosmos, watching it as a child. I don't really care if he had a big ego or wasn't the best at math. What he did better than anyone else was to convey the sense of wonder. He maintained curiosity and skepticism in equal measure. That is hard to do, but understanding and communicating the sense of wonder to the masses is even harder - and I'm very grateful that he did.

"If their culture has not given them all the tools they need to pursue this great quest, let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped." - Carl Sagan. The Demon-Haunted World.
And if the SEC steps in regarding his selloff of Tesla stock puts him in jail and he gets sued by their shareholders and Twitter's too.
Rotterdam Won’t Dismantle Bridge to Allow Jeff Bezos’ Superyacht Through
Python:

(a, b) = (b + 1, a + 1)

The two expressions that add 1 are evaluated first, a tuple containing the anonymous results is created, which is unpacked and assigned to the names on the left side. This sidesteps the problem of old/new values.
> "Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven."

Ironically, that quote from Paradise Lost is spoken by the character Satan and is intended to deceive his fellow fallen angels into believing being condemned to Tartarus after losing their revolt isn't so bad, even though it is, quite literally, the depths of Hell.

On the other hand, considering the topic, maybe it's rather apropos instead.
https://archive.ph/GwGHi
David Noël-Romas shares 7 practical ways for you to better manage your time and energy. "Paying themselves first" is golden: "engineers who understand the extralinear benefit of continued un-interruption can schedule their focus time first, far in advance of other demands which might come up. (It is never too late to start this practice! If your calendar is full right now, it is probably empty next month or the month after.)"
I agree with everything except that last part:

"So might as well listen to the liar who I trust is on our side"
I posted a bunch of test things and then deleted them.
This was inevitable.

News used to serve a very necessary purpose. People simply didn't get much information and the news was a very necessary way to learn what was happening in the world around you. But times change. Now we live in the information age. People are constantly bombarded by information, so much that they can't even process it, myself included. The news media simply had no hope.

So they executed a strategy that absolutely succeeded in the short term: reporting to induce mass hysteria. Covid is the worst pandemic ever, Trump destroyed the entire country, the US is a fundamentally racist and awful country that must die, etc. As I said, they succeeded in the short term to boost revenues, but the truth is that it was all mostly bullshit. And this strategy could only work once. Most things the news reports are just idiotic bullshit or opinions of people who don't matter, and people en masse are recognizing this.

So yeah, I think this was inevitable. In the words of CBS president Les Moonves, the whole shift was "bad for the country, good for [CBS's] business". I definitely agree that the modern clickbait news is bad for the country, and I am not a shareholder of CBS, so I personally celebrate the collapse of trust in news and can't wait for it to completely die and for the new grassroots era of information to take hold (but I do dread the impact of deepfakes and the like).
> Wide spread law breaking (covid lockdown laws)

Under a Labour government there would have been much more covid laws to break. The conservatives have been terrible, but socialist governments around the world have been much more tyrannical.
Spotify Backstage – How we measure Backstage success at Spotify
Measuring the adoption and usefulness of internal tools to optimize the organization's productivity and efficiency is extremely hard. Share it in your organization and discuss which metrics you'd like to optimize for. How do you know which metrics to focus on? When will you change them?
I read about Hobbes years ago. The embeddability certainly caught my attention.

I wrote Empirical specifically for the use case of wanting to read a CSV file while inferring the type at compile time. Basically, a ton of compile-time function evaluation mixed with type providers.
I think technical debt is accurate. Too much or the wrong kind is bad, too little and you probably aren't making the best choices and moving as quickly as you otherwise could. Technical Debt doesn't have anything to do with aesthetics, it is more about what short cuts you took to get where you are, short cuts that could hamper future improvements or reduce the quality of the work.
I have a good night sleep.
I disagree. There may not be a keyword required to refer to `struct`s specifically, but the namespace that is searched when resolving a symbol is determined by the syntax used to refer to it. For example, in C++, you cannot determine whether `a` is a type or a value in the statement `a * b;` without knowing how it is declared, and C also has this ambiguity once `typedef`s are involved. In Rust, there are no such ambiguities (unless there's something I've missed).
He calls everyone that unless you do nothing but slavishly agree with him. Speaking about the quality of social media compared to traditional media...
> was it the people controlling the National Weather Service that made it a political instrument by covering climate change?

This USA Today comic explains it well: https://www.gocomics.com/joelpett/2009/12/13. For better or worse, climate change is used as tool for advancing political agendas with a certain vision for the future.
My pet peeves are icons. I am sick and tired of button actions being communicated with a meaningless set of pictograms I have never seen before. Give. Me. Text.
It seems more productive to take this at face value vs conjecture and rumors…

Suppose the filing is true - all of it. Let’s start the conversation with that and see what people think and what happens next to Twitter.
Adding to this over 40% of South African women are raped over the course of their lives. This also results in tearing.
I don't know if APL supports graphics, but ngn/k, an implementation of K, a language in the APL family, has JS support in its official online playground [0], which can be used for displaying graphics.

[0]: https://ngn.codeberg.page/k/#
Well I don’t think it’s good to get drunk but I do it on occasion.

Doesn’t mean I don’t believe it.
Well, what is it that you can point at around you and go "this would never have been possible without Chinese innovation"? Or French innovation for that matter, talking about recent stuff not centuries old cuisine? France has been making wine way longer than Napa, but California (while by no means a libertarian paradise) has lighter regulation on both wines themselves and labor to produce them. These days Californian wines routinely beat French ones in blind tasting tests.

Germany, Japan and South Korea come to mind for important technological advances and Bollywood in India for prodigious high quality artistic output. So US is not everything, but it's part of a pretty small club of hyper innovative countries. What has come out of Russia (country where I was born and raised) recently except bad news? You could get a good education and study science, but visionaries like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk would have been smacked down before they could make an impact. They actually had a project that bred foxes into friendly pets to rival cats and dogs. But, good luck getting one in your house.
I'm surprised HN was on bare-metal to begin with. Is there a writeup about their infrastructure somewhere?
Look back at the bill the democrats put forth after the initial leak. It was never intended to pass. Just another stunt as most things from Congress are.
> Everyone that uses Twitter knows it has a bot problem.

Which is precisely the problem with signing a "I'm buying you for $44B" and then claiming you had no idea they had so many bots to back out of it.
Nah, the "everything is securities fraud" trope is qbout some (usually immoral) behavior that a shareholder argues would materially affect the stock price, and which was not disclosed to shareholders.

Elon Musk announcing some M&A news with the intent of effecting price changes in TWTR,TSLA securies would be pretty boring, vanilla securities fraud.
“Lambda Calculus” by Carl Burch, Hendrix College, September 2012
Democrats are curiously uninterested in media bias. I suppose that, as soon as you admit such a thing, your political world starts collapsing. "We're in charge? And have been for decades? And everything is colored to both fool and please me?"

And consider Hunter Biden, who is actually small potatoes. Consider just his comment "10 percent to the big guy"--that statement alone and nothing else about him--from the desk of Donald Trump Jr., would be 24/7 news month after month from 95 percent of the media. They'd be cutting back on their kangaroo court coverage and everything! And Hunter was talking about Ukraine! That's pretty curious (you'd think).

But I think your average dope isn't even aware of what a goddamned crook Biden is. So why would an informed person have "trust" in the media? Educated Soviets didn't trust the Pravda either.
It's fair to clarify. To someone engrossed with AWS infra the phrase "moved from M5 to AWS" could be puzzling.
Someone made a 3D boating simulation using Finnish island geodata; called StormWinds and using Dyalog APL connecting to DirectX - https://www.dyalog.com/case-studies/simulation.htm

The author also has this video: https://dyalog.tv/APLSeeds21/?v=iC9floP7POU "Tomas takes you through the API of a 3D-engine and shows you how to connect to it from APL, enabling you to create a simple scene with graphics objects moving in real-time. He also explores some of the more advanced rendering techniques." (I haven't watched it)
And they know Musk is a fool.
I don't consider any single source or group of agreeing sources as credible in isolation. I've witnessed bad reporting from all major news sources. In cases where I wish to be well-informed, I'll seek out multiple sources, see if there's any disagreement, and try to figure out where and why the disagreement happens. When there is disagreement, I'll also examine the primary sources of the articles I've read. Do this enough, and you'll start to smell BS in most places.
Between one party practically running on the media being evil, the news covering every little thing no matter how stupid as a big event to keep up ratings, and barely doing any journalism (just showing press conference soundbites as fact) I’m not too surprised.
Having driven Twitter's value down by $15B, I can't imagine Musk won't be sued by shareholders for it, since his claims of fake accounts are as yet unproven. The same goes for the damages this little venture has inflicted on Tesla stock. The SEC and FTC are likely to cost Musk Enterptises a pretty penny in legal fees before all of this ends.

The $1B penalty for backing out of the Twitter deal is the least of Musk's concerns.
I spent some time watching some stuff on YouTube, including Part 1 of a documentary about Oracle and how they changed the database world. I can't wait for the SQL...
> If Musk’s team does a deeper dive than Twitter is willing to invest in and determines that the number of bots is material, it calls into question the entire financial model of Twitter. Customers will demand refunds and earnings will have to be restated going back years. It’s going to be a nuclear financial bomb.

This doesn't make sense. "Material" is a term of art defined with regard to the current deal, there's no such thing as determining "the number of bots is material" in a general sense such that customers (I presume you mean advertisers) would automatically be allowed to sue.

Sure, if Musk finds Twitter has historically lied that would be significant. But Twitter doesn't have a single "bot number". In specific circumstances they make specific calculations using defined procedures. For example, the number Musk is whining about uses active - not all - users as the denominator, so of course it's going to be lower than the "real" number of bots.

Surprisingly to me, so far Musk hasn't provided an argument beyond this same sort of word salad. Maybe he's playing n-dimensional chess, but if Twitter sues him he'll presumably have to make his real secret arguments in open court. We'll see then.
There’s a difference between saying “wow that guy is an irresponsible asshole for intentionally or unintentionally fucking up my job” and expecting the market or your job to take care of you.

I know some drivers will run red lights and stop signs, so I walk and bike accordingly. I’m still in the right to get mad when a driver narrowly misses me because he’s a self involved clown.
> the "single most important factor" in media distrust was "the horrible coverage" in the run-up to the Iraq war and "the disastrous media coverage in the years after 9/11,"

This is certainly true of my own experience. I am surprised to see it being pointed out so plainly in what appears to be a relatively mainstream sort of news outlet.
It's quite surprising. I wonder if the technical side and the PR side of the company just aren't sufficiently connected.

It would be beneficial to have unvarnished tweets from someone in a technical role, written for technical peers rather than the general public. The press and tech journalists can filter the jargon into something useful for customers. "Dashboards are showing ABC, we're trying XYZ, so far it's looking like LMN", even if the public don't understand what is being said, is more reassuring than a generic statement. It suggests competence and hints that yes, it really is a difficult problem.
Here's a related video I watched last night (not mine). Kinda goes over the historical events that changed what journalism is. Money and McCarthy era backlash are a couple big ones.

Why News Used To Have Less Bias
Exploring the claim that American news in the 50's and 60's was unbiased.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgZPJpdmw3A
Have they disclosure how much traffic HN receives daily?
I don't think housing prices in popular cities will crash but they might at least flatline
Would be even funnier if it had to do with impressing a woman.
The documentation for Mailgun specifically asks you to send transactional and marketing e-mails from separate subdomains for precisely this reason.

It still doesn't justify companymarketing.com and companyhelpdesk.com though.
If you say so…
Proper generics would be parametric polymorphism with full program type inference, i.e. an ML derivative.
Great project, I'm building something similar but for EWI, I'll probably use your approach to some aspects.

Question: wouldn't using the Web MIDI api work cross-platform as well?
If you can encapsulate the pellets to the point that they can survive getting blown out of orbit, catching fire and raining down over the human population without causing any harm - you can encapsulate them and throw them into Yucca Mountain and save the whole exiting earth step.
He's got that affluenza disorder.
I use 1Gbps symmetric Bell fiber small business package which includes static IP. Pay $129/month and generally happy. Static IP is important as I host some stuff right in my basement. You got me curious with this Beanfield. It is indeed $50 for 1Gbps symmetric (no static IP of course) but when I looked at their business package it is $300 for the same speed. Static IP is extra. I wonder what does such a big difference include.
Well, it's our country's Supreme Court that has (incorrectly) decided to allow this kind of crap.

(Ofc they haven't yet okayed this one specifically, but everyone knows that they'll either allow this law or take a very long time to strike it down and refrain from punishing anyone allowed)
In fact they have a fiduciary responsibility to pursue this.
Or just rent it out, which is honestly the easier option if you do proper vetting of renters
Thats quite a straw man. There's a pretty big difference between using a benefit as intended and taking advantages of loopholes in tax law by creating multiple shell entities around the globe. You can argue they have a duty to shareholders to optimize profits, but let's not pretend it's the same thing as paying your taxes as the law intended.
Domain names are just fundamentally displayed wrong - the left to right reading order doesn't prioritise the right information.

"com.google" is what you need to see since it tells you who's really in charge of the content.

Particularly on mobile where I'm writing this I currently can see at most "news.ycombinator.co..." in the address bar. Could be a lot after that, how would I know at a glance?

Google and Mozilla could make substantial progress on this today by just showing an extra bit with the start of a domain name in right-to-left reading order.
This is such a strange take. There's any number of more effective ways for Musk to justify selling some Tesla stock that aren't especially likely to tank it. On top of that, announcing his intent to buy Twitter did in fact get factored into the stock quite rapidly, in the negative direction as you'd assume, because Twitter is not seen as an especially good investment while Tesla has been.
Journalism as both an industry and an institution is going through a global "subculture" phase: from the arrogance of "you can't sit with us" attitude of ideologically driven media to those who follow neutrality for the sake of neutrality to please every audience possible.
Didn't know it was down :D
The amazing thing about the Constitution and the men who wrote it was they predicted what we're seeing now and provided built-in safeguards against the rule of men. Rights are derived from God and not from a temporary agreement amongst men who one day will be on your side, and the next day not. Our entire legal system originated from and reinforces these principles. That some people don't wish this were so does not make it so, no matter how many down-votes are issued or tantrums thrown.
Compared to the most populous countries, China and India, would you put the US and California to the left or the right? How about compared to other major world powers like Japan?

It seems to me that California does both more economic redistribution via higher taxes and is more open in terms of accepting a wide variety of foreign immigrants, cultures and religions.
Would someone be willing to explain why this is important/significant? Asking genuinely.
Eh, I think he’s a believer. I like Jack. He dreams big and is pretty inspirational to wild ideas. You are high if you are reading this and think he’s not upset with where Twitter landed.
He’s not the only one to float this possibility. It’s one of the more plausible explanations if you take the assumption that Musk was acting rationally with forethought.
This is why it's usually a good idea to minimize mutable state, especially global mutable state. Pure functional languages like Haskell go even further and prohibit mutable state entirely.

One way to rewrite your example to do what you want would be with the following changes:

int g_a = 0;

int g_b = 0;

void update_state( int a, int b ) {

g_a = b + 1;

g_b = a + 1;

}

Then call update_state like this:

update_state( g_a, g_b );

This works because in C function parameters are passed by value by default.

As for languages that distinguish "old" from "new" values, I don't know of any and I'm not sure there's a well-defined way to do it apart from function calls.
This is one reason I avoid Amazon like the plague. It's absolutely filled with fake products of all tiers and there's often no reliable way to verify this as a consumer. Retailers are supposed to have a secure and verified supply chain but apparently Amazon doesn't see the point in this, they co-mingle inventory and will deliver you a fake product with the same SKU.
The article we're discussing specifically talks about the run-up to the second iraq war. I didn't watch the link, but I assume they highlight when the New York Times helping trick the country into war.
Why not use something like Authy that's backed up and has a recovery password? I just download it on my next phone and am good to go.
Finally pulled the trigger on the op-1 and am loving it hence this is actually perfect for me
It was popularized by fox news. They declare themselves as the only source of "fair and balanced news" and lot of less sophisticated people buy into it because they feed them stories, regardless of the truth behind it, they want to see and rub their opinion all over it instead of just reporting the facts of the story.
The guy in the YouTube video is terrible. It's like he's trying to be a politician and not answer the question, but he's incredibly bad at it
The Americas were divided among people (original inhabitants, and later colonies), and many countries & people weren’t recipients. But I’d still say that humanity has reached America.
That may be true of some people, but what we’re seeing right now is people’s trust swinging to media vehicles and political leaders that have done nothing to earn trust aside from charismatically asserting that they are more trustworthy.
My impression of modern news is that there is virtually no journalism and it is mostly low quality propaganda.
We see similar approaches with social media. Fear and anger drive engagement, and engagement creates more ad revenue. I point this out whenever anybody expresses outrage to me over something they read off social media.
> You can only reach the top-1% by working hard AND smart.

Or by choosing your parents/grandparents carefully, aka inherit it. Paris Hilton was not working hard when she dropped out of high school yet she was easily in the top 1% of wealth in the country/world.
That argument really got to you, did it?
An order of magnitude! That would be imagining that Australia has >200 million people. Given that the US has a little more than 300 million, well... No, they aren't comparable.

Australia by an large is an inhospitable island with only a few pockets of population.
Me too. The suggestion that logic itself could be a contingent part of the universe (best mechanism for making something like this true) just seems wrong, and is anti-scientific, in any case. Not sure how to dispose of the idea, though, hence the unease.
Scales are useless. I’ve been playing 20+ years and just figured out the scales I needed for the parts they were required on when they came up.

You might as well practice implementing data structures as a beginner. You’ll burn out long before you’ve built anything interesting or useful.
It seems like some sort of hardware/software rollout going wrong. We had similar outage last weekend in Japan with #3 service provider KDDI/AU, a 86 hour outage of both cell and data service. Lot of services like weather stations went offline, people were unable to reach/use emergency, banking, barcode/app based payment services. Some ATMs and Vending Machines went offline.

Mobile and data service has become quite embedded in daily life.
Do you evidence of this?
Nobody else is making a serious try.