skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
150 ft burning vertical metal cylinder seems indefendable.
More like you should participate in community building. If you ain’t building your community, someone else will build it for you and come banging at your door.

Democracy doesn’t work in uninformed passive society.
Just wait till the illiterate, misogynistic rap, tik tok, 6ix9ine, WAP, Onlyfans, and other generation starts coming into office and demanding UBI and nuking of Russia while you work your ass off. We'll all be labelled Nazis and clutching our collective pearls at that point trying to make sure our families survive.
> Did you really read the article?

Please don't do this. It's against the rules, doesn't contribute any new insight, and the answer is plain from the conversation: they did. (Divorce stats being included into new metrics of economic health was specifically mentioned in the article and AFAICT not previously in the comments.)
In any major city in even the wealthiest of nations it isn't hard to find people who don't have a roof to sleep under and a reliable source of calories. For large portions of the population, things are definitely better than they were 200 years ago. But we are still a long ways away from decent living standards being assured to everyone.
National news and politics have very little to do with the community - communities simply don't operate at that scale. If anything, judging by my experience on Nextdoor, national issues always being in focus ruins local communities.
> Private likes.

> Private responses.

> Private subscriber counts.

> No status games. No trolls. No pressure.

This is the real differentiator. Do you still use algorithms around likes and follows to recommend users to each other and such?

Those data points actually are useful to get people more connected to the network and help them find their community
Ouch. This hits close to home as I feel exactly in that "rat race" you mentioned. And I was thinking about this very topic few weeks back after rewatching "into the wild".

Before stopping thinking about this I "converged" on an overall happiness score combined with a sustainability index. In this context sustainability is in a wider sense like: are the policies of a government sustainable long term? This is to avoid a government game the system by borrowing a bunch to improve citizens happiness short term to stay in power longer.
it doesn't make much sense to compare a tool that only works with nextjs with webpack and vite
i thought this was short and well-written. no tangents about the founder's feelings, and no mincing of words.
I spent 2-3 years a whole back not reading any sort of world, national or political news. It had absolutely no impact on my life other than that I was less stressed out.
Yes I do the same. Paying for news (NZZ in Switzerland) and avoiding sources that are incentivized to clickbait has made following the world something with a net positive for me again. It also had the strange effect of getting from being mildly offended by a clickbaity headline to feeling pity for those who had to go through the trouble of studying journalism and then being forced to write clickbaity garbage. What a waste. Still better than starving I guess.
The only reporting I'm actively searching daily right now is what is going on, on the ground, in Ukraine. I've subscribed to a couple of relatively competent telegram channels (first time using telegram), and cross comparing that to what I see from similarly competent YouTube channels. Radio Free Europe is a great source for more in-depth reporting.

Anything pro-Russia is fairly suspect, but when you get the right cross channels it's fairly easy to identify real video vs Russian Ministry of Defense propo.

CNN reporting is generally ok, but for the most part they will show a few short clips of some actual footage before switching to the standard talking heads schema. That's the point in each video where I switch away.

Reuters and the AP are generally solid, if lacking in details and being many hours to a few days late.

Other than that I generally ignore most news about things because it's mostly fluff or skips over important things that are actually going on.

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Also I generally trust the BBC's international reporting. Their YouTube clips are generally in line with what I see from the more "on the ground" source channels, plus I always appreciate the more thorough interviews of public persons they do, mainly because they give their respondents time to actually reply thoughtfully rather than interrupting them continually like we see in US news agencies.

Also to add on to getting Ukrainian news: You have to be mindful of videos being released by the official Ukraine government sources. They are definitely promoting their country's successes and downplaying the losses. They are in no way as flagrant as Russian sources are, but you have to eat some salt with anything they release.

For example, I am continually seeing mixes of video clips from various drones about dropping grenades by drone onto RU troops, or different "angles" of artillery strikes on Russian assets. It's upsetting because in a few cases the official Ukraine sources are splicing together different clips from entirely different engagements. When you watch enough of them daily you start to see the overlaps. For example, the next time you see a video about Russian troops surrendering and it features a couple guys driving up their tank with a white flag on it, that happened months ago. But it keeps getting clipped into many new videos.

There are others that are similar. Like a new video a couple days ago from a soldier in heavy brush dealing with surrendering RU troops. Some a-hole in the back decided to throw a grenade and all it did was explode next to him. The trooper recording then approached carefully and shot the dumb fuck many, many times. The when the soldier got close, he shot a few more times into the body to make sure he was dead.

The problem is that video is really only viewable on Telegram and YouTube and major news outlets won't show it. And since they refuse to show the full context of the actual encounter I'm starting to see clips of that encounter being included in other videos which either don't entirely tell the story or are making stuff up completely.
Sadly I cannot share the code.
But some COBOL code used for validation of financial transactions. It was crazy!
My domain expertise is in data science. We're not talking about specifically school admissions but something bigger: handling race in data. That's decently general. Were I to actually create a model for predicting admissions I'd definitely be working with admissions to see those specific nuances. But you're attempting to pigeonhole the conversation.

> I understand how this works, but that's specifically what I don't want, for race to be part of the training data.

Tough. The problem, is that it is really difficult to move. That's what you aren't understanding. Making a model that doesn't explicitly incorporate race doesn't mean you've removed the race variable. It is just hidden now. There's plenty of examples of this happening in real life and they're fairly easy to Google. The historical data you train your model on doesn't suddenly lose it's correlation to race (there's major confounding variables) just because you didn't explicitly incorporate it. Dealing with hidden variables is hard and that's all you're doing.
You could probably use Twillo to make this work. It would require some coding to forward the SMS to email or post it to a website someplace where you could read it. I have done this in the past (outside of Antarctica) for 2fa that requires a certain DTMF tone be pressed and I only had an old Western Electric Model 500 phone at the time. Twillo worked great for that, but it's been years since I last did it.

https://www.twilio.com/docs/glossary/what-is-dtmf

https://www.twilio.com/code-exchange/forward-sms-email

The downside to doing what I did is it basically removes 2fa. You are back to a single factor as the 2fa is now automated and that may not be appropriate for many use cases.
No Nut November
There's a meme that two ways to make a business are either bundle or unbundle.
I am a queer person, unfortunately it's no longer safe for me to not read the news. With States and countries actively going after the rights of LGBTQ folks, I need to understand where it's safe.

Additionally, I read a lot of news because it helps me articulate the need for more labor power and collective action. Understanding how Musk is overworking folks helps because it's a clear example of where unions would help, for instance.

Local news keeps me up to date on what my city is doing.

Every news outlet has a bias, no exceptions, and I mostly read things that loosely align with my own opinions, which helps with the frustrations of seeing so much garbage out there. (It's just not worth my time or anger to watch something like fox news or CNN.)
There's also option c they say your number is in range, go tough the interview carousel and lowball you at the end
> I don’t think you should live without news. Being informed and discussing things happening around us is a natural expectation of community. I suggest find a balanced way to consume some so you can be reasonably well informed.

Except everything is an emergency. Did you hear the latest X said about Y thing? Did you hear what is happening in X-istan? What about the climate?

I don't care about any of it. At the end of the day being more informed about the comings and goings of every atomized point of the world only causes me more existential stress. If I'm being honest I really only care about what happens in my locality, and by extension my state. If it's big enough, maybe I'll care what happens at the country level. But very, very few things rise to meet this and cause me to have a need to burden myself. What Trump, or Biden, or Zelensky, or whoever is in the media circuits today says has literally zero bearing on my life in my community. Sometimes it's best to turn off the brain melting box in the corner of the room.
> Economies of scale in production and distribution exist.

How is that a consumer benefit in the absence of competition?
On it. I hope it's faster now.
RSS has been an enormous help, by showing just the headlines in a consistent format, and just looking in the morning with coffee, maybe in the bathroom sometimes. 99% of the time, it's not remotely interesting enough.

If you want to be better-informed, buy books. Actually being informed requires understanding the nuance of the situation, and only books have the space to convey it all.
It's unusual, but there are occasionally times when it's nice to run multiple processes in one container, and a proper service manager would be useful. Usually I see supervisord used for that kind of thing in practice.
The point is that humans are not AGI and we don't know what would an AGI "feel" just as much as an ant has no way of knowing what a human "feels" when listening to an EDM remix of Chopin (excitement or sheer hatred?). But, yes, I do find funny the idea of the depressed AGI, thinking of Marvin the Paranoid Android [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_the_Paranoid_Android
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Those topics aren't on the minds of conservatives lately, and if you think they are, you're either out of touch or making your point in bad faith. Since those ideas don't carry weight at the moment, they aren't a liability and therefore there's no reason to censor at this time.

You mentioned in another comment that the "censorship myth" is "easily disproved". You might want to re-think your logic, or stop spreading such BS, even if it sounded clever to you.
Of course they are equivalent, in aggregate across all purchasers.

You aren’t the only buyer, but if they are selling cars someone thinks it’s worth the price.

That’s the beauty of free markets - multiple products for different tastes and different perceptions of value.

I can go out and choose from a small or large, basic or luxury, fuel efficient or not, large capacity or small.

If I don’t think the price is worth the offering, I don’t buy and that impacts the price in some small infinitesimal way. In aggregate across all car buyers manufacturers price for certain segments.

Each product has a subset of buyers who buy the car based on their own interpretation of value.
Very cool!

I really like the date range selector. I can see this being very useful for getting a clear picture about what the world thought about certain topics before they blew up in certain directions in more recent times.
> let’s build the slowest damn Syncthing backup endpoint imaginable

I used to run syncthing on B+ for a few years, it was quite ok.
I stopped reading/listening to most news around the time of the George Floyd riots. There was just too much rage bait. I now only pay attention to tech news (as in, technical things, not normal news that happens to be about tech companies) and local stations. Local news tends to be a little fluffy, but it’s intentionally inoffensive, which I like.

Also slowly whittled my social media presence down to LinkedIn, and that’ll be gone once I’ve firmed up my retirement plans in a few years
Past US workers had the benefits of unions and collective bargaining. 40 hour work weeks. Overtime pay. Paid time off. 5 day work weeks. Decent benefits and pay. You could be the sole source of income for a family of 4 and pay for a suburban lifestyle.

Keep your worker bees happy and they will be productive.

Today, workers have shit pay compared to the CEOs and other C-level executives with multimillion dollar salaries, bonuses, and golden parachutes. Many people work multiple jobs just to pay rent. Unions mostly busted. Erosion of safety nets, and other public services. Those same CEOs even work with other companies in the same industry to artificially keep worker pay as low as possible by having an informal agreement to not recruit and hire from companies that have this agreement.
> On the other hand, I'm aware that certain influential figures explicitly manipulate their speech in order to primarily amass personal power regardless of any second-order effects. E.g. cults are horrible, even though people are freely congregating, they just feel like they can't leave because of the emotional abuse these influential figures are heaping via their speech.

> On a third hand, the loved one of a politician was severely injured because of someone who believes the incorrect speech of influential figures and I desperately do not want further injury or violence to occur spurned by incorrect speech on the facts of reality.

Terrible things, but I wonder how someone can come to the conclusion that it is a better solution to police the information than actually strengthen people's ability to detect arbitrary BS by themselves. Policing disinformation does not scale (Brandolini's law), while teaching people to think does. Why aren't logical fallacies a part of every school's curriculum? Is it because the "official" disinformation would suffer from that too?

Before we start to police disinformation, don't we need a court-proof definition of the term disinformation? I tried to look up the definition of truth, only to learn that there is no commonly accepted philosohical definition of that. So most likely, any definition of disinformation that is used to depress certain information will be BS too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth
Thank you so much for sharing it here. You made my day, and possibly my week/month. Grateful.
Drug overdoses are probably a pretty minor impact to safety though, right? And vaccination rates are a pretty standard way to indicate the safety of a community against a virus...
John Oliver did a segment on this recently. The British Museum is amazing, but you don't have to dig very deep or think very hard to find some very uncomfortable truths.

It's a very depressing topic.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/oct/03/john-ol...
Oryx (blog and Twitter) provides good raw open source intelligence data.

I've found The Guardian's reporting and FT's analysis to be quite good. They report based on verifiable facts and also claims by both sides, with explicit mentions if there's corroborating sources or not. The Guardian also have a daily "what's new" so that's useful to keep up.
I just got mine. It shipped out on the Aug 29 2022. I set it up two days ago. for those asking if we can load linux on it, as of right now it is a hard no. Custom firmware. Helm says in the email that they will try to push out an Armbian release for the current hardware in the next 4 to 6 weeks. In the mean time, I will be moving my stuff back to (mail in a box).
> In fact, building it and tearing down even if the building is never used are both GDP positive operations.

Sure, but in most countries buildings are built, used, and then torn down to replace them with something more valuable.

I assume you're referring to China here, and yes, they're certainly gaming GDP to a certain extent. But it'll unravel at some point.
Mobile graphics is still too primitive for this to be the end.
i avoid some ifs for perf.. but only when i can write something equivalent with like 1 line and certainly not a switch
I like the idea of markdown but there is just too much missing with most implementations and I think the primary use case is to move away from XML due to verbosity and readability.

I'd really like to see a new API to allow creators to create their own markup languages directly in the browser with native support to map the markup to the underlying renderer.
I know even for the small patch antennas we were looking at, the design of the waveguides was insanely complicated. I can't imagine blowing it up to something larger with many more elements.

If you wanted separated components to group together many antennas I suspect the difficulty would be accurate clock synchronization what with automotive standards for wiring. I'm still not sure I understand how they can get away without having rigid structures for the antennas, but this would be a critical requirement because automotive frames flex during normal operation.

Cars are also quite noisy RF environments due to spark plugs.

I guess what you're speaking of will be the next 10-20 years of progress for RADAR systems as the engineering problems get chipped away at one at a time.
Bromite – An Android Chromium fork with ad blocking and enhanced privacy
Well said, good sir!
I am a news junkie as I'm really into politics. I even studied sociology with focus on propaganda. From some time I started to implement "less is more" in the news aspect. I buy weekly newspaper (printed, helps me focus on reading), listing to one politics podcast a week. It really cleared my mind and I am still well informed. Maybe even better informed as I filtered out low quality information.
Facebook active users have increased so their influence is only increasing.

But I disagree that Facebook is a monopoly -- their market is advertising and there is still plenty of active competition in the online advertising marketplace.
IMHO they should rule it out changing the wall construction in some way that it no longer gives an advantage. E.g. attaching TecPro barriers to it.
They should add wheels on sides as well to reduce lateral wall frictions!
Oh, I wonder if in his head he thought something along these lines: https://theawesomedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/im-go...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oryx_(website)
This seems to be a core problem of a lot of people. The inability to discern that not everything has an agenda and is propaganda.

Most western media (Murdock/Berlusconi type oligarch media aside) is fairly factual. It doesn't have 'spin' or 'agenda' in the sense that the journalists conspire to mislead (they don't have time for this).
It all seems very plausible, they destroyed the flash memory on the earlier cars which was a 101 engineering mistake.
I'm so sorry to make you feel passive or aggressive, I don't mean it sincerely. Seems like my English still has a lot to learn, I admit that I'm not a talented developer, if WLB work is only provided for the talented developer in China, then I think I have met no one in my life. Thanks for your reply and advice anyway.
I've limited my content consumption to hacker news, selected followers on twitter and I've blocked all unnecessary twitter appendages (trending, who to follow etc) with stylus. Quite long-term-ish work, lots of family time, art and poetry has been my antidote.

I occasionally fire up google news to make sure nothing horrible is going on locally. This has helped me recover somewhat from post-pandemic negativity.

Just like what is said about gmail (Even if you don't use gmail, google has all your email because everyone else does), most people are consuming news and they are bringing their triggered-selves to the other parts of the existence. I'm finding it very hard to spot spaces that are purely creative, informative and joyous hubs.
Iirc using systemd in Podman is much easier.
Is Turbopack 10x faster than Vite?
There's a wonderful service that picks the few most important news stories daily and texts links and brief summaries. On most days, I only read the summaries.

https://thenewpaper.co/
I wonder if you can somehow discourage just replacing some words with synonyms but rather actually explaining stuff. May use some kind of similarity score?
I have gone dark earlier, 5+ years ago, but not recently. It was very healthy.

My experience was that surprisingly I often understood more about current issues than people that were constantly reading the news.

Much of news is just noise. If you read all the news, all the time, you are acting as a noise filter. If you let other people work as your noise filter, and start listening what they say about the current events, the important things will bubble up, and you will know about them practically as soon as everybody else.
Have they banned this yet?

I would have been concerned about the integrity of the wall.

But then he woudld have exposed that the wall was pretty weak.
I don’t use any traditional sources of news at all. I don’t get newspapers, or watch any tv news. Some time back I made a decision to cut back from toxic twitter and I haven’t used any other forms of social media as well.

What I get in return is peace of mind. I’m able to stay neutral when friends, in person or online, tell me stuff. I don’t feel a need to counter with my own strong preconceived opinions. And I’ve seen that this has a tempering effect on other people too. People are less likely to be vitriolic if they don’t feel they have to make me see the error of my ways.

But what if I am letting “them” brainwash me? By not being fully “pre-informed”, am I opening myself up to misinformation that will eventually convert me into a hateful bigot? I don’t believe that is likely. First, the “them” here is friends and family. I know they come from a good place even if some of their opinions (for some of them, all of their current opinions) may be wrong at times. Being brainwashed by a horde of anonymous trolls on the internet is more likely and much worse. Second, I trust my inner compass enough to know that I’m unlikely to ever become that kind of a hateful person who actively wills harm upon a section of humanity. But I am, like most others, susceptible to being overwhelmed or confused. Opting out of the rapid bombardment of information online helps me avoid that.