skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For news, get a news paper. You get your news once per day. Ignore the internet.

> completely unplug for many weeks without some way to catch up.

Things move very slowly. You'll fill in the missing bits when you start reading the news again after a hiatus. Have you never gone on holidays? Just try it. Ignore the news for two weeks, then start reading it again. Sure, you'll miss some things, but there's nothing that needs your attention that fast. Should WWIII break out, you'll find out through other means, but the odds are very, very small that that'll happen while you take a news break.
There is no such thing as a neutral news source. The act of editing a publication necessarily requires you to choose which stories you publish and whose viewpoints you leave out.

Furthermore, most folks don't really want a neutral news outlet - do I want to see equal time given to white supremacists and Black civil rights leaders? No, I'm just not interested in any "neutral" discussion of human rights. I don't want to read or listen to nationalists, incels, or whoever offering up opinions on the "great replacement theory" or whatever.
I'm amazed it took until the video game era for this to happen.
Do you see a value in a product (an app preferably) that just shows you work news, i.e. 100% professional / tech / business news content, rather than clickbaity ones?
I was a CTO, we definitely had a budget in mind for every level of seniority. Idk what CTO you're working with, maybe the region you work within is biased for generating self appointed ctbros.
Michelin stars are about the experience and novelty not necessarily about amazing food.
There are two types of software: those that everybody complains about, and those that nobody uses.
Pets vs. Cattle and How to Use the Analogy Properly
You can have a blog anywhere, but to promote it to people who aren’t subscribers, you’ll likely still want to post links to Twitter, and maybe other places too. It may make sense to treat Twitter solely as a way of advertising content hosted elsewhere.

Thinking about where you might post a link, Hacker News and Facebook and Reddit can sometimes work, when appropriate. It seems unlikely that Twitter will stop being a good place to do this?
> I'm sure speeds and capabilities will continue to increase

Why? Seems like a strange quasi-religious belief. For example, jet airplanes are getting slower, not faster with time, and that's not a bad thing.
IMHO

The idea that the the current economic order is the most efficient is... idealistic

> "over there" who look and/or talk different that it separately doesn't matter if they starve.

The global economy is about expanding the wealth and consumption of the.01% while maintaining a standard of living well enough that the next 20% won't murder them and guard then from the bottom 80%

> is growing enough food for 7b people

We're well well beyond this capability. Westerners need to eat less meat, waste less electricity (more fuel for fertilizer etc).

Most westerner economies are rentier economies. They need more wealth taxes and more antitrust.

Rishi Sunak, the billionaire banker, conservative leader of the UK himself said that cutting corporate tax doesn't result in more productive investment
I like Wikipedia's current events portal [1]. Does not (generally) include frivolous news, and provides a much wider perspective than most news outlets

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/November...
Why not? Should Drew be forced to provide ongoing labor for anyone who asks?
Why is this a thing when there is digital publishing? Surely ebooks would be dwarfing physical books now?
I use understandingwar.org. to me it does not seem like western propaganda, but rather an attempt to convey accurate information. But then again, to me mainstream news (which I stay away from) seems sensationalistic, not propagandistic.
Christian Schafmeister – Atomically Precise Catalysts
https://archive.ph/JS62V
kind of surprised nobody tried this before?
> Yes and no. No, the entire west is not kinetically at war with Russia. But yes, the west is supplying Ukraine with hardware, training, intel, cyber, and financial (at least). It's not just Russia vs Ukraine, it's Russia against Ukraine plus as much as the west can do without going kinetic.

Its mostly second rate western gear though, there's no to minimal western EW, theres no wester MBT's, theres no western aviation. Whilst the west has provided a lot this is no where near the actual military force of any modern western country.
https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell/blob/master/dialog...

> a transducer is recognizing that the signature of foldl splits

> type Transducer a b = forall r. (r -> b -> r) -> (r -> a -> r)

> they compose like lenses
Isn't it astonishing? I've been using Linux pre-Slackware with downloading boot.tgz and root.tgz on two floppy drives, wrestled with M4 and sendmail, have been writing internet applications for 35+ years but never used a Linux daemon to manage my applications. You're never too old to learn I guess.
From Evan You:

> There were number rounding issues in the original numbers for the 1k component case - Turbopack's 15ms was rounded down to 0.01s while Vite's 87ms was rounded up to 0.09s. This further got marketed as a 10x advantage when the original numbers were close to 6x.

I guess they 'typo-ed' Vite's numbers as well.

https://github.com/yyx990803/vite-vs-next-turbo-hmr/discussi...
Yes. I now mostly read https://legiblenews.com, which I built because I needed a way to tune out the "news" and get a summary of events worthy of making it into Wikipedia.
Ask HN: Which proxy software folks use?
Looking for a good proxy software to be able to browse without being geo-tagged by sites, especially when you are traveling places and working remotely.
Curious what are other folks using and how do they like it.
That’s interesting about a pool compared to a lawn, though I was thinking about a municipal pool in a UK context (barely anyone has a swimming pool and lawns don’t need watering). Maybe we’ll reach a point where the idea of using that much water for recreation seems overly indulgent?
As if Twitter was in its early years...
Yes.

I use https://www.passwordstore.org/. It's hosted in a git repo. My significant other has access to the repo, a private key copy on encrypted USB drive (plus backup) and its password in owns password manager. It helps that we both know how to use these tools (otherwise, I'd try to keep my important passwords in sync with my significant others password manager).

Detailed instructions are stored in the unencrypted part of USB drive which holds the private key. Plus backup. We revisit it on yearly basis.

I partially rely on the well established procedures offered by banks etc., but don't believe they'll do it in a timely manner and without much friction. There are many cases where I'm the main account holder for the whole family (often enforced by the institution or good deals). Having access to my email & phone removes a lot of friction from the whole process.
> the parenthesis end up with ugly syntax that becomes difficult when using multiple levels

This is really something you will get used to very quickly, and dare I say, learn to appreciate.
> I'm not interested in wasting time over the trite debate of who started first. It's irrelevant. Put it how you want, the entire west is at war with Russia, and they are holding much better than we'd like to admit.

Im interested in how not being able to even equip your own soldiers with modern body armour, weapons and even socks is 'holding better than we'd like to admit'.
I wonder if they modified the car for this at all? I've gotta imagine that he at least discussed the possibility of doing this with his crew before he went and did it.
I don't use any social media for news and it boils down to a few RSS feeds in Feedly now for me. I just skim over the basics, and find I get 90% of the news that way without the hyper-sensationalization (it's a word now) that's going on these days.
Is the project a new site sponsor or something? :-) I get it that systemd has some benefits - faster startup, more reliable production administration. And at the same time it's not everyone's cup of tea - for example, many believe that the strength of UNIX is many simple and interchangable commands rather than big monolithic code base controlled by a single team. Anyway, there have been 251 previous versions of systemd, so it's not clear to me why this one is special and deserving of our attention after another systemd related story yesterday?
Will Elon Musk keep funding Bluesky, Twitter’s most interesting side project?
Force them both to allow webassembly PWAs as first class apps! And full access to phone features.
My TKD teacher once told us that he always looks for "cheaters" within the rules or out-of-the-box thinkers, because that's the right mindset to be succesful at competitions.

When you play by the rules, you are limited to your abilities. But if you can squeeze advantages here and there, you can climb some extra spots, maybe to the top.
Yes. I’ve wanted to do it since the Covid era, but recently cut the cord fully by blocking all news sites on all devices and at routers etc. I already barely used social media but curtailed that even further.

Within about 48 hours of doing it I felt much more relaxed and at ease. My screen time is at all time low and I’m more present and interested in more productive things.

Most of the news today is nonsense - negative, biased, agenda driven, vacuous speculation or designed to provoke a click and a response. I’ll happily trade off being slightly less informed to ignore all of that garbage.

I also agree with the current top poster that I cannot influence the situations on the news, and am unlikely to do anything different after reading it. The mental cost and time invested in it has zero personal benefit.
There is a lot of room for development before the exponential curve can be carried by the next paradigm: at least for desktop computers we are still decades away from case filling 3D "compute cubes".
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33403780
It'd be nice if there was a platform that was specifically designed for People, not bots / propagandist. Corporations should need to pay to be identified as such, and we should know when a person vs a corporation says something. Does this exist... not that I've seen. Vanity metrics like number of users have become real metrics for valuation... until that's broken we can't have these discussions. But my biggest problem with Twitter is it's easily manipulated. Small groups of people can pretend to be large groups by making a small topic tend.

We act like likes are votes, but anyone can create multiple accounts .... Imagine if we did democracy this way ....
You don't even need to move to Antarctica, just moving to a different country is enough to experience a lot of SMS pain. Many companies are hardcoded to only allow SMS to numbers in the same country code. Even if you work around this by bringing a SIM card along (meaning paying for a plan, keeping it topped up, etc), you can still run into issues if they're sending SMSes from an country-specific short code and you ever need to reply for any reason ("Is this transaction fraud? Reply Y/N in the next 10 minutes or we'll helpfully cancel your card!").
A new instance of Twitter.
I don't think the guys from the Polish law and order party, with their blue checks, were promoting much in the way of a leftist or progressive agenda.
No free trial? Not interesting enough to pay for, if I have no idea how useful it is.

If you are doing something new, you need to let people see what it will do, before they will give you money.
But I'd also argue that if the owner of a pizza shop has an Instagram feed full of disturbing imagery of children and child-related "art" ( https://archive.ph/9FN8n https://archive.ph/5UecO ) and their social network graph is full of convicted pedophiles, sex traffickers, and powerful people supporting media and the political class ( https://archive.ph/o0Hf0 )......maybe, just maybe, we should put some effort into proper criminal investigation of them all instead of dismissing the whole thing because an overzealous citizen honed in on one majorly-wrong detail and skipped straight to vigilantism?
> It's telling that the British Museum doesn't address the elephant in the room: will they be returning the cloak to the Maori people?

Because they're not in possession of it, another museum is. They're just helping.
Unfortunately also probably the reason it won’t gain traction
I grew up watching the national and local evening news programs. We were poor, it was the 90's, we had all 4 channels NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX (not news). Doing this gave me good insight into geopolitics, and informed me of who was running the show nationally.

As an adult, I used to follow the news much more closely. But I realized that most of what is shown to Americans as news was really just opinions and "news" as entertainment.

It was the run up to the 2016 election that sealed the deal for me. I started noticing the narratives ever channel had. How much they were hoping for a Trump win because Trump was driving ratings and ad revenue, and regardless of what spectrum they fell, Trump would be good for them.

Nowadays, I watch very little. I'll briefly listen to NPR usually when driving on occasion on the web.

For me, its nice to have a general idea of what is going on. The big picture news develops over weeks and months, not hours or days. Following it so closely isn't good for your mental health and doesn't get you anywhere. Listening to peoples opinions just keeps you from being able to form your own. Ideally I just want to briefly be updated on the important facts of the world once or twice a week.

Since doing this. Even though I dread the state of the US I not being constantly reminded of it frees up my mind to worry about other things. Which is nice.
You do understand how Hacker News voting works?
In general case it is impossible to report news objectively. I personally do not mind propaganda per se anymore. I mean it is ok with me, if the source has a political agenda. I praise media who state their agenda clearly. But what I do not tolerate is the outright lying. I do not like hidden agenda, though it can be revealed by watching a source for some time.

Moreover propaganda-phobia is bad by itself. It can be a tool of a propaganda.
GPU Oversupply Spills onto the Streets in Vietnam
That makes no sense. Posting on a site only makes sense if people who are interested in your content are reading it. If no one is reading Twitter (eg everyone has left) then posting links there won't drive any traffic to your blog.
Is 'btrfs' used only for 'btrbk'?
Does it prevent data loss due to SSD failure, or just user errors?

What are the recommended data storage file systems nowadays?
In the early days Facebook was invite only as select colleges were onboarded so it had an allure to it. Kind of like Clubhouse did.

I remember kids had two profiles, MySpace and Facebook and you’d qualify wether you saw a post or messaged someone on which platform. Eventually, the center of gravity switched to Facebook and people stopped maintaining their MySpace accounts.
In Sweden we have a site called https://bubb.la (https://cor.ax/ in english) that summarize the big news only and do it objectively with zero ads.

I'm sure there are similar sites in other countries.
Just for fun, it's also worth noting that "Texas, Oklahoma ranked among least safest states in the country" doesn't actually mean anything - at least not anything of importance. It feels like it should mean those states are "unsafe" but that's not necessarily true.

There must always be a "most safe" and "least safe" state (by a given measure) - but if the spread between them is insignificant then that's not particularly important information. Even less so when the headline qualifies with "ranks among" so they're not even the actual least safe.
What a great source of clear information
I’m a programmer and honestly really hope that this job gets automated away. Obviously I also hope we figure out how to support people who lose their jobs to automation, but sitting at a computer for 8 hours a day is not how humans were meant to spend their lives.
I've cut out most news that is potentially controversial (although working on cutting out more and disciplining myslef since I find myself spending a lot of potentially productive time (for work or hobbies) on scrolling reddit, HN, ArsTechnica etc.

It's been good for my health so far since it helps me get more of the things I want to do outside of work done (thus reducing late night existential panic attacks over what I'm making of my life).

I do still use Twitter etc but I've filtered out most things so all I see is stuff directly related to my hobbies.

If something especially interesting happens I tend to just hear about it in jokes from friends and family and maybe I'll look it up then. But I don't generally go after most news actively.
Hey! Glad this resonates with you. At the moment there are no algorithms by design. I want to make Nicheless a more closed network. A place to discover and discuss ideas from people you already know in real life or from other spaces on the internet. Not a space to discover new people.

I've expanded a bit on that thought here: https://nicheless.blog/post/mission

Here's an excerpt from that post:

"I want Nicheless to grow into a place where you come to read the thoughts of people you know. To take a dip into the depths of your friends' minds. And to turn those excursions into conversations – both online and IRL.

In the ideal scenario, I imagine a bunch of friends following each other, each publishing without fear of public judgment, and then occasionally discussing what they read and wrote about when they meet in real life."
Uber's users are merely the means to extract as much cash as possible from investors and drivers alike.

The idea of Uber is for the Management drones to skim as much money as possible off the sucker investors and drivers. Uber is never intended to make a profit as a real business would have to, to remain in business.

Seems that the investors are finally starting to wake up that they're just suckers after all.
The final image looks quite similar to the first image (what they were trying to avoid). The graphic makes it hard to see by representing connections with circular arrows but it's still mostly hierarchical with just a few extra sideways connections.
> Yeah. Better than the evidence that the Ukrainian government, who had to fire one of their ministers for lying about 'Russians raping children', has. Its amazing how proven, persistent liars can be trusted again and again in Anglosphere.

You don't have to believe the Ukrainians on this, the UN had an independent report done on Ukraine that concluded the same thing.

The Russian army rapes children.

Here's my source

https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements/2022/09/update-chair-ind...

>> The Commission has documented cases in which children have been raped, tortured, and unlawfully confined. Children have also been killed and injured in indiscriminate attacks with explosive weapons. The exposure to repeated explosions, crimes, forced displacement and separation from family members deeply affected their well-being and mental health.

I don't see a source in your 3 paragraph response, so when you respond with one ill have a look.
Learning Linear Algebra has helped me a lot in scientific computing.
You can easily have it not produce binary logs.

Other software depending on Systemd isn't really Systemd responsibility. Its not systemd fault that almost nobody uses OpenRC.
Yes, it's so hated that it's impossble to find a Linux system that doesn't use it.
See https://ludwig.guru/s/has+precedent for a plenty of examples of using "has precedent" in non-legal contexts.
I will pay the social cost of being less informed for my mental health and well-being.
Excuse me, what is TUI?
> the idea that conservatives are being silenced when I (a left wing Brit) am constantly seeing their content is frankly ridiculous

It doesn't matter if you're "left wing" or not - The algorithm decided that certain people should be steered toward that content and others away from it. So the content is not reaching people organically or through merit. Rather, you're selected based on a hidden formula that nobody gets to see, and certainly doesn't serve the interests of the viewers or the uploaders. If you don't understand how that is censorship, you're missing the point of the whole show.
Right? Netflix is churning out a profit with a ratio on the interval [20, 25] depending on the day. I really don’t see how it belongs in the same category as the other two who don’t have a finite P/E ratio.
You're probably right. I'm going to try and be an idealist for as long as I can though :)
Very nice, Louis. How do you plan to make money from this?
This comment is of public service. The depiction of the herd effect is perfect. Thanks for your contribution!
Terrorists cause far more physical harm than all of crypto will ever do. Do we ban Signal and Telegram repos so that we can "protect the people"?

Drew has the absolute right to ban crypto from his platform, but it is a piss take to try and justify it as being a societal harm.
I wish he had broke capitalism. Capitalism sure seems pretty powerful to me these days.
You're probably being downvoted because of the mere suggestion that Western propaganda is shaping the narrative but this is something that also irks me. I do not defend at all any of Russia's actions but the fact that it's just become commonly accepted that the war happened because "PuTiN iS cRaZyyy" is kinda scary. Absolutely no mention of the US' role in this or the fact that NATO specifically sent Boris to stop the peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia that would've prevented this or that Biden has been very explicit about a foreign policy to "weaken Russia" since taking office.

The complete lack of geopolitical and historical context in the media around this event has really shaken my trust. In the future I'll probably just be heading directly to the history books rather than trying to parse out the missing context from the media
Graphics is very parallel, and so not that affected by a single-core performance plateau. We can keep increasing number of gpu cores.