skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO everything is propaganda.

> Propaganda - The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.

It pays to collect a breadth of news / information from all sides and dive deep into any subject you want to know well (can't do everything).

In terms of identifying it, typically you'll see general discussion without diving into facts and / or name calling. Alternatively, you'll see downplaying of particular events, specifically of ones own "side" so to speak.

Here's a few articles that are clearly propaganda:

- "Fiery but mostly peaceful protests ..." - https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/conte...

- "Larry Elder is the Black face of white supremacy. You’ve been warned " - https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-20/recall-c...

There's two tactics I've seen:

1. Omission - A group of similarly aligned pundits, reports, etc will not report on a topic. This is when the topic is likely partially true, but they have no response. Think "Hunter Biden Laptop" - which was reported pre-2020 election; but only reported on by the left wing news in 2022 (https://nypost.com/2022/03/17/hunter-bidens-infamous-laptop-...)

2. Propaganda - The more common thing you'll see is spin or dismissive name calling. Things like...

- "Why inflation can actually be good for everyday Americans and bad for rich people" - https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/01/economy/inflation-good-bad-wi...

I personally think the above is damage control and effectively paid propaganda. Clearly inflation is bad for everyone, no one likes paying more.

- "Climate change: How to talk to a denier" - https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-61844299

You'll see the name calling "denier" or "anti" a lot in the spins (think: "climate change denier", "election denier", "anti-vaxx", "anti-science", etc). Most of the time, if you actually read articles about said "denier", they really take a more nuanced view. The article itself is titled to attract a particular kind of reader. Often you have to read between the lines or go to a transcript to get a clear understanding of the persons views.

If you can't tell, I take particular beef with CNN. But most news on all sides of the spectrum are effectively doing the same. My particular beef with CNN started when they said (paraphrased): "It's illegal to read documents from wikileaks, you must get your news / interpretations from us" - https://streamable.com/6g5v
I had to look up what you meant and found Google's blog post:

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2022/08/helpful-co...

Good to hear. But whether Google can achieve it is another thing.

Quotes I like:

"content created primarily for search engine traffic is strongly correlated with content that searchers find unsatisfying."

No shit! I hope some of the websites I've worked on get signaled up the rear end! I've warned site owners not to use too much SEO content, but the forces of copy-cat SEO tactics are stronger than individual developer advice.

"Are you writing to a particular word count because you've heard or read that Google has a preferred word count? (No, we don't)."

I wish Google had been more plain speaking in the past about this. Better late than never I suppose.
This is exactly what’ll happen. It’ll start as bring your own library with the odd exclusive, but eventually it’ll evolve into the only way to play AAA games.

The pricing isn’t great either. I tried the 3080 tier for $25 CAD per month. It was really cool, but not realistic for my gaming budget. To me the pricing looks bad even with the hyper inflated, unrealistic prices of GPUs right now. I can buy a 3080 for about 3 years worth of GeForce Now (3080) and after 3 years I still have a half decent card to hand down to someone else.

Personally I’ve always been a mid-range gamer at best, so the priority tier is closer to reality for me. That’s $13 CAD per month. I’m sure they used to advertise it as a 3060. If they hadn’t managed to hyper inflate GPU prices that would be a joke. Even now I paid $290 CAD for an RX6600XT (refurb, but seems brand new) which is less than 2 years of the priority subscription.

My GPU before that was an RX480 for $200 CAD (new). That was a decent entry-mid range card 5 years ago, so the $150-$300 per year as pricing while buying market share makes me think the goal is a massive increase in the cost of gaming. Nvidia is out of touch IMO.

Also factor in that Nvidia probably only needs 1 card per X subscribers and it’s obvious there’s already huge margin. With AMD as the only GPU competitor we’re destined for some serious price gouging. I’m rooting for Intel ARC.
Most interesting paragraph:

> The biggest question? Who is behind the ad, and what is their intent. The billboards show no party affiliation or sponsor. One theory states that the ad may have come from right-leaning Texans eager to keep liberal Californians away from their voting booths.
I know personally 20+ families with twins. Of my close personal friends, ie. those that I see regularly and chat with regularly, 7 of them have twins. My neighbors on both sides of my house have twins. There are so many families with twins these days, it's nuts!
>They believe that these institutions can not be trusted to communicate scientific knowledge free of political bias.

>And when you look at it that way, of course America is the exporter of that.

Yes, we Americans are a distrustful bunch. But there's more to this outcome than just being a stubborn, cranky and untrusting people.

As Peter Medawar[0] described[1]:

The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools,
colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special
religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty,
that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous
harvest of gobbledygook than the rest of the world put
together.

That's one of the other (related, but distinct) circumstances at play in this sort of "gobbledygook."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Medawar

[1] https://www.azquotes.com/author/21678-Peter_Medawar
The Python typing system is limited compared to what exactly? It already has union types, generics, bounded generics, union types, literal types and structural subtyping.
The Japanese video game industry does this in an ad-hoc way.

Smaller game studios ask bigger companies, like Nintendo, to register some patents in their stead so the bigger companies can keep them safe with their elite team of lawyers. The bigger companies like Nintendo in turn gatekeep the patents from trolls and abusers, letting the industry at-large use the patents for a greater good while suing anyone who doesn't play nice into oblivion.

It's not perfect, and it certainly only works because businesses in Japanese society generally view each other as friendly rivals rather than outright enemies, but it's an ingenius solution to a legitimate social problem.
Fantastic. I’ve finally found a tolerable sports site.
To the people saying 1G+ is overkill:

Latency improves too! For me that was the biggest change I noticed. I’m sitting at 3ms! My friend send me a screenshot of 0.9ms.
The Butlerian Jihad will set us free:

https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad
Exactly. This one looks even more alarming:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/South_Ko...

Also it matches up with the article, which says 261k babies were born last year. wikimedia show about that, with ~130k male and ~130k female. population.io says 454k which is way off.
Ah I see your confusion. You’ve missed that renting is more expensive than buying a home and gets more expensive each year, possibly forcing you to move away from your local area and hence your child’s school. There are some places where rent controls and renters rights can mean renting can work for families. But few places are like Berlin.
Because I'm mostly winning the battle. These people are reduced to performing facial recognition and plate recognition in-person. No active cell modem in the car, no smartphone, and a free-software-only machine emitting just the bytes required to make this post over onion routing.
I heard the most bizarre & unexpected opinion first-hand from an obgyn. Prior to this I was firmly in the nurture camp of nature/nurture, but this obgyn's opinion on adoptions shocked me out of my complacency.

I am hoping Sapolsky's latest book may shed some light on the subject without the Wade/Murray "bell curve" implications.
We don't actually know that this phenomenon is due to resonance.
10x habits?
lmao the extent to which the tech crowd will defend all of his stupidity and let him get away with a slap on his wrist. He had a megalomaniac ego moment and called some of the greatest heroes to have ever existed pedophiles for being the only people capable of pulling of a rescue like that. One of them died in the rescue efforts. Musk is all the way up his own ass, and this needs to be acknowledged regardless of his supposed "genius".
What you wish Twitter should implement in Messages?
Back when I was working for minimum wage, we just called this working...

How is this news? This is very likely apropos of any time period in human existence. Some percent of the population is going to feel under appreciated and some percent just plain DGAFOS
>This kind of dangerous logic...

Different or opposing opinions are neither dangerous or violent.
Solve the hardest problems of digital age, like removing spam completely from emails, search engines and social networks.
Advice? Don’t push yourself as far as possible. You’re young, talented, and capable of kicking ass. Spread that ass kicking out over your lifetime and make sure you don’t burn out early.

Assuming you’re on the west coast, it’s 10 PM. Take a break and relax.
We might have lower demand for consumption but have higher demand on "global works" - fight global warming, upgrading with AI the economy, space development. You can think of them as technical debt we have to pay.
Yeah but Idk why a factoid about his SoundCloud profile is on there. Not relevant and reads like he wrote it himself.
> That's only doable with a text-centric website

Yeah if you're trying to fit the WHOLE web page into 14kb.

But you can get ALL the text there and have the images load in after. The first time I used a the static site generator Gatsby I was super weirded out by the blurry image that showed up upon first load of an Img. It will quickly resolve into a full quality image, ofc, but the point is a relevant metric is also time to first contentful paint.

Also the JS will load the rest of your pages while you're idling on the first page, so that's nice. It's not just good enough to have lazy-loading content, your strategy will have to change depending on how users use your site. Let's say 99% of people scroll to the right in a circular gallery of pictures. You should only really load pictures to the right.
Ask HN: What is a good note app, unlike Evernote?
What is a good note app for Android?
unlike Evernote which is spammy and buggy and painful to use.
You can't... if you need to then you can't be their customer so they simply don't care.
That's a nice reduction. Which provider gives 600mbps for $30 (usd?) in Br?
The comments here showering Starlink with praise, acting like they're doing this to be a Bro, are bizarre.

Starlink didn't drop prices out of the goodness of their hearts.

They dropped prices because they had to. Why is debatable, but signs point to the network crumbling apart, causing them to lose customers.

It hasn't been able to scale to handle the customer load, even in rural areas: https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlinks-massive-growth-results-...

"Hundreds of miles south near Leonard, Texas, John Lawyer has encountered download rates on his Starlink dish that can dive as low as 1Mbps, especially during the evenings."

That's a town of 2,000, in a county of 35,000.

New customers are probably also put off by the signup costs and problems with "Dishy" - thermal shutdowns, a permanently attached cable for power/data, and being fairly fragile.
> you have to think of the underlying labeled text-to-image sets as paint colors to mix, and prepare a palette accordingly.

Very insightful tip on how to harness the "creativity" of Dall-E and the like.

I see how the phrase "king of belgium" was too vague for Dall-E, so it didn't produce anything recognizable - but changing the words into known details, like "banker" and "salt and pepper hair", worked effectively to generate concrete imagery.

Hilarious results. :)
This is because you think too much. Most people just have kids and figure it out, same as it has been since the beginning of time.
My 1987-ish Subaru RX Turbo had a hill-holder manual, and I think the company had been making them for a number of years even before that. Major confidence boost for a high school kid living in the hills, and learning to drive in that fragile, overly complicated used car he could barely afford to insure let alone wreck.
Very nice! If you like to explore prompts there is this one too https://dalle2.gallery
Sure, I am familiar with these talking points and I agree completely with your perspective.

What I was wondering aloud is, do some people have ideas about a way to discern what's more or less propagandized? IE, even being propagandized, it is relatively less so and safer for mental health (since being scooped up into a culture war can be pretty taxing). I was asking hoping someone might chime in with different perspectives/strategies. Something I might glean insight from.
According to [1], there were about 20 million cars registered in Australia in 2021. If we turn them all electric, with an average battery size of 50KW/h, we'll get about 1TW/h of storage that can be charged during periods of overproduction and feed part of their capacity back to the grid when needed.

Electric car sales are currently low in Australia, with ~2% of new cars sold in 2021. But they are growing exponentially: ~2000 electric vehicles were sold in 2018, ~7000 in 2019/2020 and ~20'000 in 2021. [2][3]

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/632547/australia-registe...
[2] https://electricvehiclecouncil.com.au/wp-content/uploads/202...
[3] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/31/new-elec...
Without laws, companies are more concerned about their bottom line before user security. And you can't blame them for that - people would rather put food on their table after all, vs something that's going to slow you down or at most cause something that causes less damage then you think.
There are non-chemical ways to achieve a psychedelic experience.
Holotropic breathwork could be one way.
So perhaps you could do holotropic breathwork + placebo versus holotropic breathwork + psilocybin.

Possibly not practical, would need a lead in phase where people practice breathwork, then selection of people able to have an experience, then actually running the trial.
Unscalable hype?
Python is the easiest language I've tried and I'm fairly productive with it. It can do tkinker which is a bit sucky but it can also do GTK which is something I'm going to get started with soon. I like python because string and array handling is awesome and there are no curly braces and semicolons. Some are taken aback by spacing or tabs but it really makes it easy to quickly move things from levels, conditions, and loops. I don't take any principled approach to software development so I'm not afraid of doing dumb things like os.system() instead of a process call because my inputs and outputs are always predictable.

But the biggest reason I like python is that vast libraries of advanced data processing available all for free. I've been programming a big personal project and its like being in your own kitchen.
It doesn't matter in what currency their costs are, there is a curve of num_subscribers v.s. payment_per_subscriber and they need to be at the curve's maxima and that maxima would be different for each market depending on the purchasing power of the customers.

I.e. you are better off if you to have 150 customers who pay 75GBP instead of having 100 who pay 89GBP. You already sent the satellites and you already employ the people who upkeep the infrastructure, so it doesn't matter what currency you use, you always want to have the greatest revenue.
As an American (immigrant) I'm honestly really alarmed by seeing the high birth rates in countries that are well, to put it bluntly, kinda backwards (I'm from one of them btw).

One of the reasons we moved to a country like the US is to be away from a backwards minded, theocratic af, corrupt society. To see that these types of countries are actually booming while highly progressed ones are depressing is super depressing.
While it is true that a MT modern Porsche tends to hold more value its not really true anymore that its less complex nor cheaper.

(1) PDK is a free option on the S models, you can't even get MT on the base Carrera anymore
(2) the 7MT in the 991/992 is derived from the PDK unit: https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15120538/a-tale-of-tw...

That being said I own a 991.1 C2S w/ 7MT and I'm never upgrading bc I don't want a turbo and I'm not into the GT3 anymore as I stopped going to the track
At least he gave you something you could work to improve. Try not to have so much banking experience in your past in the future.

Seriously though, I participated in many an interview loop as interviewer at FAANG and elsewhere. This is unprofessional, tactless, ignorant, and elitist to the point of delusion. This interviewer needs a talking to at the least. So do some of the people in this thread. I don't give a shit if you worked at a bank yourself and it was bad. Way to pull that ladder up behind you. I think you should meditate on personal bias and the sample size you're working from. You think "it's a signal we need every signal we can get cuz hiring is so hard" - no sympathy here, I've long, long been of the mind that companies actually fuck the hiring process over by obsessing so insanely over the dreaded false positive.

If you like the other candidate's background better, then go ahead and hire the other candidate because you think they're a better fit! Hire whoever you think best! But don't fucking tell the first person that it's because they worked at a bank! You can't ask the bank person the same filtering questions you ask everyone else? You didn't ask them to describe what they did there? YOU DIDN'T SKIM THEIR RESUME BEFORE YOU WASTED THEIR TIME AND INSULTED THEM FOR THEIR TROUBLE? Jesus at least if you're a bigoted snob don't fucking announce that fact to the candidates so they can go tell Hacker News.
It has a pleasing teletext aesthetic. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext
I don’t think Fabrice Bellard or Donald Knuth aimed to be the best programmers in the world.
Is this "patent trolls" issue something that happens only in US?
I believe every US market Nissan sedan, including the stanza at the lowest end, come standard with a continuously variable transmission programmed to fake the sensation of shifting at fixed gear intervals. so in that case, you get an infinity of 'gears'
I have only done whiteboard once, it was horrible, like peeing in front of a crowd. Did they try to find the worst way to asess talent and settle on this? Lol. What is wrong with pen and paper or typing on a large monitor everyone can see? I can hardly read my own handwriting.

I did see a lot of merit in practical+Quiz-format questions to filter out like 80% of applicants. The rest, just lock them in a room with the problem and see how long it takes them and the quality of their work. Infosec is broad so some roles you really just need to know the word cyber and say it a lot with powrpoints and other variations but on the other end you reverse new malware so you can develop day-1s but only for secret attacksim to test and develop defenses. I wouldn't use whiteboard or take home for either end but maybe for college grads and appsec type focused people that are still academically minded it takehome might make sense.
> If people are intentionally trying to limit births, why would that lead to a large amount of fertility procedures?

Those fertility procedures are not the desired way to go about having a baby. The vast majority of the time it's a procedure of last resort (i.e. can't get pregnant another way). These procedures are expensive and often don't work.

It could be intentional that a government, organization or pharmaceutical / chemical company is knowingly sterilizing / making it more difficult to conceive. This could either be through a willingness to look the other way (i.e. a side effect) or intentional (North Korea for instance may do some sabotage or government is intentionally pushing population reduction)

For instance, the US government gives funding to Planned Parenthood which provides birth control, abortions, and other drugs to support people looking to not have children. This organization advertises and gives a lot of birth control out for free or low fees. That's an overt intentional act of reducing population growth.

Similarly, a concern I have is purposefully downplaying the risks of long-term birth control via "the pill". Then having policies that make that pill easy to acquire (without being knowledgeable of said side effects) AND with the ability for minors to obtain them without parental awareness. Those are intentional policies intended to reduces fertility.
> The hacks, revealed at the May Contain Hackers 2022 event (a.k.a. MCH2022), were made possible thanks to poorly configured cloud technology, which is playing an increasingly important role in 5G networks

Seems like they just picked “5G” as the most relevant keyword in this sentence to maximize attention. This is clearly a config issue.
There's at least one i know of: https://www.unifiedpatents.com/
you need to drink more gasoline, it makes all my angry opinions disappear
All of the "smart driving" stuff like adaptive cruise control is why I finally bought my first non-MT car. I guess the manual was more fun (although I had it living in a condo complex with a ludicrously steep driveway -> goodbye clutch :( ), but the amount of ease adaptive cruise control gives me for those long highway drives is well worth it.
Dual clutch in more expensive (fast) Porsche's are a lot more fun bc you have less to worry/freak out about going at speed (I'm not that good of a driver...).

In cheap Porsches like the Boxster the manual is a ton more fun, since those cars don't really go very fast, so you feel more engaged. But Porsche manuals are kind of janky and notchy in those.

Maybe I'm just reminiscing "good ole times" but the manual in my S2000 was and is still the best manual I've ever driven.
They let you bring your own games for now, once they're entrenched, games will be locked in exclusives.

$1500 per subscription service, think, netflix apple disney yadda yadda, it might cost $5000 or more to play the half-dozen major games you like.

Don't be fooled by the temporal marketing, the long term strategy is in place, and it ends with them screwing you out of something you once loved.
> open-source the entire search index db and accompanying webserver software, making it easy for users to setup their own local instance of DDG which is actually auditable

Easy to self-host? How large do you suppose the Bing index is, for example? Simply storing the index would be an immense undertaking beyond the reach of probably everyone who has ever self-hosted anything, ever. This ignores the compute required to actually search it, as well as how it would get updated.

I'm not sure your request is remotely reasonable.
Was it worth it to get Osama? I guess Obama thought so.
Heh. Start by defining best.
Ælfric the Teacher
Monogamy has been around for a long time. I don't see how it could cause a drastic change in the last 60 years.