skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's hear from James Risen, reporter at the Times at the time. :)

> What angered me most was that while they were burying my skeptical stories, the editors were not only giving banner headlines to stories asserting that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, they were also demanding that I help match stories from other publications about Iraq’s purported WMD programs. I grew so sick of this that when the Washington Post reported that Iraq had turned over nerve gas to terrorists, I refused to try to match the story. One mid-level editor in the Washington bureau yelled at me for my refusal. He came to my desk carrying a golf club while berating me after I told him that the story was bullshit and I wasn’t going to make any calls on it.
As a small protest, I put a sign on my desk that said, “You furnish the pictures, I’ll furnish the war.” It was New York Journal publisher William Randolph Hearst’s supposed line to artist Frederic Remington, whom he had sent to Cuba to illustrate the “crisis” there before the Spanish-American War. I don’t think my editors even noticed the sign.

So no, this wasn't just poor old Judy, who provided a convenient scapegoat. You ask for what protections a blog has? Its protection is that it's a darn blog on the internet just like any random person can make. It has no authority, asks for no special recognition. Whereas the flagship paper sends goons with golfclubs to threaten writers into following the narrative.

The original comment I'm responding to asks for examples of corporate media being more wrong for longer. If starting a literal war 15 years ago doesn't count I'm not sure what you're looking for.
Where ever they are. Customers are school teachers? Go to FB groups where they gather.

Targeting Marketing execs? Send them an email.
Any specific criticism about any points made in the article, or just general shade and a nonspecific recommendation?
Stable Diffusion release within 24-hours (Open version of DALL·E)
I actually have a production use-case that GPT3 solves: a nsfw filter for chat messages. Although there are open-source filters out there for Nodejs, all the ones I tested fail in various ways. For example, famous emoji combos that indicate sexual activity and semantically sexual text that seem inoffensive enough based on the words. For example, “I bet you have the tastiest hot pocket”. Unless the chat is about cheap grocery food, it is probably a sexual reference.

I’m assuming there are existing solutions: paid services or Python libraries undoubtably. But it is a lot easier for me to take 10 minutes of my time to put together a prompt and add the API endpoint to my Nodejs app. As far as cost goes, our needs are low-volume so it doesn’t really matter.

I see GPT3s great utility here as a replacement for Mechanic Turk type tasks. MT is a real headache to setup and manage programmatically. GPT3 is pretty simple once you integrate it into your system. And the fascinating thing is that whole new realms of functionality are opened up to product ideation.

I haven’t tried to do anything beyond low-volume tasks that are Mechanical Turkable, but with GPT4 I think we’ll see cost and performance drop to the point where these things can be done at scale. At that point, software engineers would be foolish not take make GPT4 just another standard library they have at their disposal — kind of like how jQuery opened up web development by providing a generic interface to DOM manipulation across all browsers.

It is just as hard for us to imagine what kind of development GPT4 will enable as it was for people to imagine an internet of web-apps before jQuery. But it certainly will.
> Americans think it’s great that some dude like Joe Rogan or Elon Musk can make a fortune off being an asshole.

Could've done without this pathetic personal attack on two of the most successful people in their domains. Joe Rogan bringing an outstanding format, guests, and great conversation that people are willing to pay for, and Musk bringing intelligence and obsessive drive and courage to bear on multiple industries, resulting in world changing improvements. But sure, just call them assholes and somehow attribute their financial success to that. If that's all it took, there would be a lot more people with a net worth of nine or ten figures.
There's some evidence of an asteroid breakup in the Ordovician period, look for "L-chondritic parent body".

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aax4184
It’s like giving the finger to the man who wants to screw your over and take resources from you.
Even IntelliJ handles makefile whitespace correctly. Folks using Notepad?
Medieval medicine under the spotlight in major new project
> This old chestnut. Go read the Rome treaty or the Schuman declaration. The “it’s only economic” is a lie you’ve been sold by your own governments. The aim has always been political Union, from the beginning.

That's not true.

The Schuman declaration refers to the European Coal and Steel Community, which was about making war between countries materially impossible ie. through economic, not political, integration. It doesn't refer to stopping war by creating a common European Parliament with the idea that French and Germans should be subsumed into a European citzenry, with freedom of movement.

Similarly, the Rome treaty established the European Economic Community. The idea of European citzenship being only established with Maastricht as late as 1992.

The history of the European Union has been that of economic integration, with political union coming afterwards. There are many who would have preferred it not come afterwards. To characterise the project soley in terms of those who wanted a pan-European political project is misleading.

Political union has not really worked. The European Parliament is a weak institution, and the sovereign debt crisis showed how unpleasant the democratic deficit is, in this case for everyday Greek citizens, as the European Commission forced through austerity measures, triggering a humanitarian crisis.

> Including on imports and exports, which is the essence of a trading bloc and would not be improved one bit of the EU were only one of those.

The red line for the UK government is freedom of movement. If the EU remained someething akin to ASEAN, ie. prior to Maastricht, the UK would rejoin, and everyone would enjoy sensible trading amongst similarly economically developed countries again.

The EU's dream of German and Greek citizens voting together as "EU citizens" in powerful European Parliament on fiscal issues such as a shared pension age and sharing taxes, will never happen, so we have to wait until that folly is over and peoples using the Euro will continue to find out that they have ceded their democracies to undemocratic institutions.
Maybe https://www.vagrantup.com would be a better solution then vanilla docker
Only if you're using a US keyboard layout.
Whatever studio created it probably has a copy of every episode on old tapes. Also I wonder if this is viable business model to request people who have a copy of a “lost media” to turn it up for a reward.
Maybe different types of users need different user experiences, and Mac is the least flexible of the three major OSes.
Based on this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32541906
For a database? At expensify scale?

It's still feels like a lot.
Corruption would be if they used company money for something that doesn’t create value for the owners, or bribed government officials. Certainly there is more than zero corruption, but it doesn’t seem like a characteristic feature.

Arrogance would be if they rested on their laurels and stopped innovating.

Empathy is a human quality, and not something organizations can have.

Hypocrisy may or may not apply, but at least they aren’t selling my data to the highest bidder. I trust them with my data and they keep it to themselves. I’m OK with that.
It can be illuminating to look at the size of ePub documents. This is in general an HTML container (and compressed), such that file sizes tend to be quite small. A book-length text (~250 pp or more) might be from 0.3 -- 5 MB, and often at the lower end of the scale.

Books with a large number of images or graphics, however, can still bloat to 40-50 MB or even more.

Otherwise, generally, text-based PDFs (as opposed to scans) are often in the 2--5 MB range, whilst scans can run 40--400 MB. The largest I'm aware of in my own collection is a copy of Lyell's Geography, sourced from Archive.org. It is of course scans of the original 19th century typography. Beautiful to read, but a bit on the weighty side.
You are not paying twice over. Your private insurance is dramatically cheaper than it would be if it covered everything covered by the NHS.

You do have overlapping cover, but the most expensive cover (GP, long term chronic conditions, emergency care) are provided by the NHS. It’s far from clear that you would pay less if you had to cover the whole through a private policy.
This begs the question: why is the startup now making $4k a month?

Is it because of the idea, or is it because of other factors? Or the idea combined with other factors? Addressable Market? Marketing savvy? Sales leads? Product execution? Luck/Viral Posts/First Mover Status?

I like that this common criticism was brought up in the article:

> "Doesn't this exist? So many big platforms do it. Very competitive."

This is a validator in itself. A small business can see an existing, competitive market, and that's usually an indicator that there are a lot of potential customers. If you look at products like FastMail or Hey they aren't so concerned that 95%+ of people are fine with the big free email providers, because literally everyone uses email at some point.

I think my overall point is this: The "idea" part of a startup is perhaps one of the less important aspects of it, in my opinion. Maybe it's even the least important part of the equation.
It’s well known and not small but I subscribe to O’reillys web platform. It has all the books I’ve always wanted to read and good video courses from variety of subjects.
Most of the NeXT folks I worked with left many years ago. Perhaps generous stock options contributed to the exodus. Or perhaps once OS X was clicking along with a new Window Server and graphic sub-system, replete with an Objective-C-based Cocoa API, they felt like the work was complete.

There are nonetheless many of the old guard still there — presumably navigating the Swift-UI transition.

And Craig Federighi is, in my opinion, a very capable captain to be steering the OS ship for Apple.
Unfortunately that's in line with the Bank of Canada's recommendation:

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"Mr. Macklem: [... T]he high inflation that we have today is not normal. It's not here to stay. We are resolute in our commitment to bring inflation down. We are taking action and we will continue to take action to bring inflation back down. So as a business, don't plan on the current rate of inflation staying. Don't build that into longer term contracts. Don't build that into wage contracts. It is going to take some time, but you can be confident that inflation will come down.

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- Tiff Macklem, Governor and CEO of the Bank of Canada in a webinar hosted by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. Transcript here: https://20336445.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/203364...

The reason he speaks to that is that he's worried about inflation increase due to a wage-price spiral. Depressing wages is a way to prevent that. And I'll mention now; I have no idea how true this is.
The thing is Valve is the sort of company that has built that elusive relationship - trust - so much so that I would expect them to arrange for some way to keep people most of their games if the service was shutdown, and if they didn’t, it would be a surprise.
How do you automate the process of figuring out which version is better? It's not safe to assume the smaller versions are always better, nor the inverse. Particularly for books with images, one version of the book may have passable image quality while the other compressed the images to jpeg mush. And there are considerations that are difficult to judge quantitatively, like the quality of formatting. Even something seemingly simple like testing whether a book's TOC is linked correctly entails a huge rats nest of heuristics and guesswork.
The tabs and spaces thing is targeted at teams. At any point, there will be someone editing the makefile with a misconfigured editor. Depending on the team's growth rate, and their desire to use different tools, this happens a lot.

Avoiding tab vs spaces or tab width arguments is a good thing for any team to do. :)
It wasn't intended to be so, but overall I do think that taxes could be reduced significantly. I do think that taxes are used inefficiently and that individuals are better at making decisions in their own and local interests in place of poorly-accountable bureaucracies. But I certainly am not advocating for not paying taxes at all!
The problem is usually that in a very disrupted classroom, teaching is going to be impossible, so you do need to have the ability to keep things manageable.

If kids start climbing on things and throwing stuff no one is going to pay attention to math.
It's not going to get better as Apple transforms into an advertising company, rather than a technology company.
> But then you can't copy a target and it's steps in one go.

The parent said they wanted to paste it into the shell to run it. In that case, you aren't going to want to copy the target, only the steps. It will have a single space indentation if you start there, or no indentation if you start one character over; either could be what you want, depending on your shell settings and whether you want the commands in your history.

If you want to copy and paste the target and all of its steps in one go, you need to ask yourself where you want to paste it, but probably including the > and copying normally is the right thing, to be reformatted on the other side as desired. In fact, I expect that to break a little less often than pasting things with leading tabs.

> Plus without word wrap you can't copy more than a screen width at a time on most terms.

Yeah, I was imprecise; "doesn't work if your lines wrap" should probably have been "doesn't work if your lines are long enough that they would need to wrap".
It does depend on when the work was published. Pre-digital works scanned in without OCR can be larger in size. That's typically works from the 1980s and before.

Given the explosion of scientific publishing, that's likely a small fraction of the archive by work though it may be significant in terms of storage.
The style he advocates are still technically makefiles, in the same way that this is still technically Python:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/uosex4/no_...
Based on the videos I've seen I'm not even sure I'd call their software beta. It looks like it's in early development, like where you'd be running it exclusively on closed tracks. Definitely nowhere near folks outside the company.
What I've often seen with startups on MicroFounder – cold outreach.

"We started with cold outreach to creators, Indie Hackers, and startup founders, who might be interested in our product." – Marie from Tally ($24k/mo)

Depending on the product, some communities can be also helpful, but this probably doesn't work for everything. It did for Julien who is building NotionForms though (now $11k MRR):
https://microfounder.com/startups/notionforms
I agree I find thunderfoot's attitude off-putting but in general I trust his take on these things
Sesame Street feels like a important piece of American culture. "Mr Rogers", too. Like, if there was a National Film Archive for TV... What preserves these shows, what guarantees access to these shows? The shows are of course also someone's private property. This action by HBO Max reduces them to nothing more than a means to extract marginal value from a market.

Sesame Workshop and HBO Max/WarnerMedia/Discovery+ could better serve the public and their markets by committing to metered access to the full library. Two episodes a day should be enough for anyone...
What we look back in disapproval upon is empowering a group to do the silencing. I think because those who do the silencing usually end up silencing their own critics.
It looks to me like NHS funding has gone up and up and up over time.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/166A5/production...

At what point does throwing ever more money into an industrial furnace become a bad idea?
> The key message here, of course, is to choose a specific shell. If you’d rather use ZSH, or Python or Node for that matter, set it to that. Pick a specific language so you can stop targeting a lowest common denominator

Seems like dash would be fine for the author.
If this is happening, please let me opt out via, gosh, even a subscription.

Bundle it into iCloud+ or whatever. I prefer to pay in cash over attention!
No company I have worked for in the past 10 years has used Make at all, other than when I'm using it, and that's because I'm just old and used to it. Developers use build tools designed for their language, Syseng use ci/cd and shell scripts, very large teams standardize on some "modern" overcomplicated monstrosity.
Can’t answer the rest of it, but copy and paste works anywhere there’s a standard text field unless the developer has gone to the trouble of disabling it. There are ways to make it work in non-standard text fields as well. You should send bug reports to the developers of the apps where it’s not working, same as you would if it didn’t work in macOS apps.
I found the official API quite a pain to work with while building myself an alternative "hn ui"[0]. I mostly switched over to using the Algolia API[1], which is a lot more "fun" to work with. I can only recommend checking that one out as well.

[0]: https://hnhub.dev/

[1]: https://hn.algolia.com/api/
In this metaphor, are the printing presses private property?
When you come at people with the attitude the author has, you should expect it right back at you. That is why anyone who knows how to give a proper talk or write a professional paper does not do that. Leave it to popular culture sites to treat people like that, it should have no place in professional presentations.
Apart from the issue with China's control of information, I don't think we have the same memory.

That last paragraph does not match what I saw in most of the world. In particular, this perspective does not really match what happened in Canada, the US, or Europe, at least not in the way I think you are suggesting.
usenet is taking off in a big way (does 1979 tech really count as taking off?).

Alternatively, invite-only/private torrent trackers are as good/better than the old days.

Way harder for regular folks to break into the scene, but it's far more "professional"(?) now
Paul Frazee & others had some good threads last fall/winter about smart contracts/public transaction logs without central/concensus blockchains[1]. Individuals with their own willingness to declare their stuff.

Edit: Oh this got followed up on
Paul's direction is a little different than expected; Ii has come out a little less self sovereign than I expected. But, here's[2] Vitra. His follow up.ppst talks about Execution Transparency[3].

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/pfrazee/status/146248993373472359...

[2] https://paulfrazee.medium.com/smart-contracts-without-blockc...

[3] https://paulfrazee.medium.com/execution-transparency-hosted-...
What doesn’t this argument cover? What wouldn’t it allow or apply to?
Hi! Would you please spare some time and provide more details of your setup? Thanks in advance
My point wasn’t that asset management was easy. It does take time.

My point is that hiring an iPad manager as a 100% human is a bad idea. I suggested hiring an additional librarian, not adding extra work to the existing librarian.
>Top Tier Retailers: Retailers include 76, Aloha Petroleum, Arco, Beacon, Breakaway, Cenex, Chevron, Citgo, Conoco, Costco, CountryMark, Diamond Shamrock, Express Mart, Exxon, Fast Fuel, GetGo, HFN, Harmons Fuel Stop, Hele, Holiday, Kwik Star, Kwik Trip, Marathon, Meijer, Metro Petro, Mobil, Ohana Fuels, Phillips 66, QT/Quik Trip, Reeders, Road Ranger, Rutter’s, Shamrock, Shell, Simonson, Sinclair, Sunoco, Texaco, Valero, Value America, Wow, and Win Win.

Top Tier gasoline is a standard supported by an enormous number of fuel sellers, not a brand per se.
Cybersecurity in 1989: Looking back at “The Cuckoo's Egg” (2015)
Of course it's a possibility, and it has received an enormous amount of scrutiny, before and after approval, in many independent countries. The safety of the vaccines is the most obvious thing to be on the lookout for. But just because some people don't like the vaccine doesn't make it more likely to be the cause of excess deaths. Have you considered that fixating on the vaccine could be blinding people to a whole bunch of other potential problems?
WSJ / Murdoch standing up for Facebook is ... a new look.
Wife often gets kids who need to be in special Ed. Takes a few weeks or more.

Basically most of her time is spent dealing with the one kid. Or the aftermath. Not fun calling parents telling them that Susan is bleeding from a thrown chair. Of John was assaulted in the bathroom.

Lots of time spent chasing kid when he runs away.

Never mind her own wounds.
These are kindergartners.

This year She’s currently has 2 full time aids for basically 2 kids. She only got the aids because she threatened to quit on the spot.

She deals with other 22 kids.

Pay is crap.
In general, it is a good idea to personalize lesson plans based on how well people did or didn’t react to the last one, and khan academy certainly doesn’t do anything like that, nor does it work for everyone.
Unix Is Not Linux
Yet this has been settled in Makefiles for a long time: use tabs.

OP only seeks to sit on a high horse about how tabs are bad and to divide an ecosystem which is already pretty consistent. I’m so tired of people insisting tabs are evil and that using them somehow makes you “wrong.”
I would also say that if Apple didn’t actually care about macOS, the money spent on it would probably be better spent on porting Xcode to Windows.
Have you ever used a card catalogue?
I was referring to privacy, not ads.

But I agree that as Apple moves toward advertising they will lose the loyalty of their base (myself included).
> That and parents/social fabric encourages and allows anti-social behavior and viewpoints.

This is under-appreciated. I don’t know about other 1990s kids, but a lot of my teachers growing up pushed a “question authority” attitude. Like, painting the Tinker anti-Vietnam War protestors in a positive light, etc. “Follow social norms without questioning them” definitely wasn’t a thing we were taught. Is it really surprising then that you ended up with a generation who thinks Joe Rogen is a smart guy they should listen to?
Outdoor Sound Propagation in the U.S. Civil War (1999)
Because lobbyists receive a healthy sum to achieve and defend their benefactors’ ability to influence societal development by indulging in subsidised philanthropy they can focus on issues and aspects they desire (rather than going through the State and governmental assignment of funds).
There are a lot of categories of complicated circuit I think you can only master a couple in your lifetime. eg digital, analog, RF, metrology, high voltage and lots more and you can mix them to get more complicated.
Why would ray tracing not have convincing blood
The attitude reminds me of the Nick Burns character from SNL.
That’s fascinating about the M1. In retrospect it seems like kind of a no-brainer but I doubt I would have thought of it.

SPARC had different memory models at different ISA revs IIRC: it’s been like 20 years since I was dealing with SPARC so I might be misremembering the details. Alpha would have been a better example.

RISC-V is really interesting. I’ve been slowly working through this: https://github.com/standardsemiconductor/lion, highly recommend!
I just wanted to say: that's an excellent interview and I strongly recommend others listen to it.