skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's hard to tell if the media has gotten worse at their jobs

It's not that "the media" has gotten worse at their jobs. Rather, there simply a lot less funding for reporters. The hit in funding has become much worse in local reporting -- especially local newspapers. However, if this is viewed as a training ground for the few large national/international news organizations, it's easy to see how this has a profound impact for even the large and well funded publications.

There's simply much less reporting happening than their used to be, and it's a real problem.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/07/13/u-s-newsroo...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/626459/number-employees-....
You could solve the resource starvation issue by running multiple instances of your app and binding to a port using the SO_REUSEPORT option. This will allow multiple instances of your app to use the same port.

This option is also quite good for deployments as you can have instances stop reading from the port while client traffic is still being served from other instances on the port. This works well for HTTP requests, but less so for something like gRPC.
>want
>intentionally
>chose

None of these words make sense. I can't want what I want (author's thesis here). This higher level of abstraction that you talk about is an illusion caused by not paying attention. I can ruminate for years about how I am going to do this and that; but at the end of the day, the impetus to actually do it is still mysterious. I can't want to change. I just change. I just do the little things that shifts my life for the better and then one day just simply stop. I can forge some reasons as to why I change but I could have easily muster my way through it. Can I choose how much will power I have?

Now people will say because free will doesn't exist means that choices don't matter. It absolutely does. The fact that you "chose" to do good things matter. Because experiences matter. Because experience pain/suffering however you wish to define it is not a "good" thing.

I can perfectly understand some issues people have with this concept because it causes them trouble with their addiction/depression. But just because we tell lies like we always do in programming to facilitate discussion/teaching/abstraction does not mean that those things are not real. You don't want to make decisions on a national/scale on lies that you tell yourself to get to sleep.
Literally a non-argument lol
100% right for 10 minutes on an iPhone (zooming in as needed).

Other giveaways I haven’t seen mentioned in the discussion: vague earrings (fake). Coherent details in glasses reflections (real). If second person in picture has good details, probably real. Second person has bad details, too easy, fake. Gratuitous wisps of disconnected hair, fake. Actual clearly coherent finely detailed design on glasses frames or clothing, real.
Canada, so IANAB
Placebos and Objective Reality
This is the president of El Salvador.

He's using misleading 2021 growth percentages to pump up his argument, because 2021 came after 2020 was heavily hit by the pandemic. Better comparisons would be to 2019(even though temporary pent up demand still makes it look better) but you won't see him make that.

Also not sure GDP is a good metric, maybe the yearly govt budget? Still a relatively small number I suppose, but pegging your country's currency to the volatile btc price subject to even easier manipulation by the so called elite seems to be a bit much.
I'm very skeptical about their numbers.

Some time in 2021 there was a story about COVID vaccines and heart issues here on HN. The comments filled up with people saying that ever since they'd got their shots they were experiencing new heart-related symptoms they'd never had previously like permanently racing heartbeats, palpitations/fluttering, inability to do exercise and more. Unfortunately I'm not sure how to re-find that discussion. I also have a good friend who works in IT who had a heart attack in the weeks after his shots, but he refused to believe that's what happened and never went in to get diagnosed (the symptoms were an exact match however).

Some rough calculations indicate the numbers affected by this kind of (hopefully) low level heart damage seem much higher than claimed. They say of the "hundreds of millions" of shots there are only 1000 cases of diagnosed heart damage from the vaccines. Call it 1000/100,000,000 or one in a million. There are approx 5M readers of Hacker News per month, so far less per day. Of those only a tiny handful have accounts and post comments. If their numbers are right then there should be ~no HN commenters with post-vaccine heart problems but this thread filled up with people posting their own experiences of such a thing.

Then there's also the other health problems. My gfs friends who took it have been complaining that they seem to get sick with colds/fluey things way more frequently since the shots, I heard similar complaints from a couple of old coworkers. One of those girls complaining of frequent sickness also reported disrupted menstruation but the doctors have ignored it all because as far as they are concerned, the vaccines are 'perfectly safe'.
During their life, yeah, sure do whatever they want.

Once they pass on? There should be massive impediments to passing on that level of wealth.
I run my mom’s portfolio site through porkbun.com. $10/yr domain + $3/mo hosting = $46.

I used to use nearlyfreespeech.net for my own site and it was even cheaper, but a little more complicated to get up and running.
The thing about long-distance train and airplane conversations is that you have to be OK letting the conversation drop. If the other person wants to go back to their book, or wants to ponder something, you need to be perceptive to that and allow them to exit the conversation. Otherwise it will go from being friendly to making the other person feel trapped and annoyed.
Somehow I feel like if you need to install Node to run Deno, you may as well just run Node from the beginning.
this is more like an obsession than Science, right?
You don't get it. It's not about journalists vs. non-journalists.

It's about skeptics vs. easily indoctrinated.

Thankfully the proportions are about the same, there are about the same quantity of skeptics as well as easily indoctrinated people among every profession. including journalists. Skeptics however are a reationary bunch they show up with some delay compared to those who are easily indoctrinated.

Also skeptics tend to criticize from 30,000ft whereas easily indoctrinated people have a deep need to elevate a guy and blindly follow him. Journalists who are skeptics were criticizing the whole crypto movement, whereas journalists who are easily indoctrinated were busy elevating SBF, CZ, Musk and every other cult figures in the space.

That's the reason why you can't find skeptical articles on FTX and SBF, the skeptics did not write pieces on that, they were writing pieces critical of the whole movement, whereas easily indoctrinated journalists were low-key intersted in the movement but what they really wanted was to blow SBF, Musk and CZ.
Unfortunately, absent the crypto exchanges, which let you easily convert crypto to fiat, there is no reason why crypto has any value. Given that bitcoin transaction times are nowhere near VISA or cash times, bitcoin is fairly useless to purchase things in person and few online vendors take bitcoin alone (most use an exchange to convert bitcoin to cash instantly).

So without exchanges, there is literally no purpose or use of bitcoin. Currently it mainly serves as a way to record a store of fiat value.

There is no conspiracy here. The reason exchanges came into being and were successful was that there was no other purpose to bitcoin. Few users successfully use bitcoin as it was intended.
$TSLAQ will control the conversation here but I'll put the official response, according to Chinese media, anyway -

In response to the incident, Tesla officially responded

It can be seen from the existing accident video that the brake lights have not been lit for a long time during the high-speed
driving of the vehicle. This is consistent with the situation reflected in the background data:

1) The vehicle switch has been deeply pressed for a long time, and once maintained 100%;
2) There is no action to step on the brake throughout the process;
3) During driving, the driver briefly presses the P gear button four times, and then quickly releases it, and the brake light also quickly turns on and off.

The 13 cameras with video of the incident was the actual scary thing here, you can at least buy floor mats that don't get stuck to control the accident part of the story.
> a lot of small farms which have better welfare on the farm still send their animals places where they’re exposed to completely abysmal suffering

This is still my biggest issue.

In smaller and more 'primitive' human populations of ages past, swiftly killing animals that could eat plants people couldn't in order to get meat necessary to not starve seems like an obvious choice. That is a very, very far cry from what we're doing now. Maybe in the future we'll go back to something similar again for whatever reasons, but it's just not where we're at today.
Maybe... depending on where you say the fence is.
Alternatives:

- Crypto is being used and abused by people and purposes that don't need it.

- Fundamental practices haven't matured yet.
Many people are managing our own coins, you just don't hear from us because we don't get burned every year.
There isn't much that is admirable, heroic, or likable about keeping wealth to yourself. Should they be forced to give? No. But I think it is fine for your wife and friends to look down on it. Private beaches, ridiculous mansions, crazy car collections, our culture should criticize that.
I miss the days when you had bonkers phones like this. I agree with most people that life is a little dull with our iPhone clones. It's nice for watching videos (which I don't do too much), and less nice for typing (which I do rather more). The E90 form factor is still my dream phone.

If you think the Nokia phones were nuts, you should dig up stuff coming out of Japan 2000-2010, like the Hitachi WOO Ketai H001 (yes, that's a real name). All kinds of flip/fold/swivel/etc. with TV tuners and DVR functionality, digital cameras, music players, etc. Sharp Aquos 912SH is another one which comes to mind.
Samsung squits out like 50+ phone models a year. That's like one every week.

How can any of them be any good? How can any of them ever get any useful time in the spotlight?
I could be interested in such a product to integrate into our app. I've already built a subset of the function. However it'd be nice to offload the work. The only concern is security of user data. Our user data tends to be highly sensitive . I guess I could encrypt before uploading, but if it's built-in that would be nice.
Yes, because you didn't mention any camera model.
Unless the exchange is only crypto-crypto they need cash as well.

> can only come from trading crypto

"trading" is a really broad term. They will get fees from trading, but they will probably also be doing things like providing liquidly to other exchanges and arbitrage (crypto is of course very volatile so arb opportunities are all over the place).
Buying an old refubished computer and running whatever web server on a small & efficient linux distro is not really cheap in the beginning (since you've got to spend a few $ to buy the computer that will be a small home server), but in the long term it's really cheap (I spent 50€ in 2017 for an old dell optiplex fx160 on ebay, and it's still running my websites today).
> But hey, that’s pragmatism for you, sometimes you just have to let go of ideals even if it hurts a bit.

But on the other hand, that's how we end up with a programming language landscape where every language is mostly the same, except for community conventions and very slightly different syntax.

I'd love it if more languages where strongly controlled like Clojure and alike, where there is a unified vision that is well kept across time. Not that Clojure is perfect, but probably the best example of a language where the community is welcome to suggest things but unless the person in control approves it, it won't make it into the core language and instead will/could be implemented as a library. In contrast to Rust which seems to base language additions/changes based on popularity in the community.
Blade Runner isn't about the technology per se. It's about our reactions to the technology. If we create a completely autonomous artificial life, is it "a person"? Does it deserve personhood?

The source book is a little better about the question. The major difference between Replicants and people is that people have empathy and Replicants don't. In the book there's a device that allows people to essentially get into this weird empathy group mind thing. It's been a hot minute since I read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" so forgive the details.

And that's what the Voight-Kampf device measures. That's what the questions are designed to test. It's why the first Replicant flips out on the turtle question. He can't process the need to flip over the turtle. He can't empathise with the turtle.

But he's kind of still a child. Which is a little understandable, because Replicants have a 3-year lifespan. They are babies. Toddlers. He flips out because he's throwing a tantrum. Roy Batty and Pris are closer to the end of their life, they've developed empathy, as any person would. That's what gets Deckard. He realizes Replicants are fully people and what we do to them is wrong. Batty was never the bad guy.

But that's all tangential. Blade Runner is set 37 years in the future. Which is now 3 years in the past. It was trying to guess when the relevant technology will be available. I think that's a better way of thinking about it. Science Fiction isn't trying to predict what will be available in X years, it's trying to predict in how many years X will be available.
Canada is not the US
As much as I like e-ink and DIY projects, those "weather displays" or "smart mirrors" always feel like a wasteful solution to a non-problem.
Fun hacks in 2022 should be bottom drawer first? Sustainably powered?
It could just be my brain compensating for my own e-waste guilt.
Also the model is trained on faces, not backgrounds. Pretty soon we’re going to see entire 3D scenes generated and rendered photorealistically through a camera model.
> I'm not sure it's safe to extrapolate broad cultural trends from that.

Then it's a good thing that I'm not doing that. I'm not extrapolating, I'm referencing an example (however fictional, I don't think anyone has accused the Bard of a lack of verisimilitude?) that should be familiar to most people here.

Are you arguing that all those knives and swords were merely decorative? That men solved their problems with, I dunno, words rather than weapons?

Isn't that kinda the whole point of human history: learning to use words instead of sharp bits of rock or metal?
Not GP, but I have a similar experience. The Tao Te Ching presents a kind of supreme entity which is the unity underpinning all things. It questions dichotomy and difference and scarcity and control, as these things are only possible in a world of differentiated objects. We can’t always be present to this Unity because sometimes we need to eat a sandwich. But the book is a nice reminder—“hey, we all come from the same place and we’re all going to the same place.”

If you Are extremely analytical, maybe when someone says “God”, do a text replace with “the laws of physics and the initial conditions of the universe”. If what the other person is saying still makes sense, then they aren’t a sky daddy believer.

The universe doesn’t want or command, but it certainly does require and allow.

You share an incredibly tight light cone with all things on earth, living and non-living, so you can assume that your causal relationships with everything and everyone around you are highly intertwined.
"You can now import over 1.3 million npm modules in Deno".

Pragmatism prevails.
Don't play this game! All you're doing to creating free training data for the next generation of adversarial face generation.
One of two things will happen. Either someone will build a huge business on top of a really great RSS reader, gradually adding features to feeds that customise to compete with substack / twitter etc; until the point where regular old feeds don't work as well, or at all in free readers. This is the IRC to Slack pipeline.

Or, RSS will continue as an important technology, but one that's sidestepped in favour of social networks.

I miss the old web, blogging, deep knowledge and intellectually diverse voices spread and hosted widely. But it stands in contrast to the centralising, oligopolistic tendencies of capitalism, and arguably high technology itself.
This is a major indictment of blockchain technology. Supposedly, all these accounts are recorded on an immutable, verifiable chain. Manual proofreading means something is wrong with your blockchain code, or you're lying to users about where the recording happens.
I've read a bit of his book. He definitely combines the good parts from various other frameworks and leadership books. Overall a solid foundation of everything you might want to know as a person in a influential position.

You'd probably have to read a few different books to get what's already combined here in my opinion.
Somewhat related - I feel like we're in the middle of a general trend of boring, monochrome design.

Car colors come to mind:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/37001/this-graph-shows-how-car...

Winter is coming - that means a sea of black, dark blue, or dark brown winter coats everywhere.

Or the trends towards same-looking logos that have been discussed here before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32040506

I guess all trends are cyclical, so looking forward to an explosion in colour in another 5-10 years!
A fake tweet sparked panic at Eli Lilly and may have cost Twitter millions
Jack from Twitter pumped crypto and NFTs heavily as well. It was likely a coordinate plot that will never result in punishment, but regardless, the money is gone. Many were warned that it was fraudulent early though... A whole lot of people lost their money based on pure willful ignorance, and that can't be given a pass either.
Precisely the failure of crypto is thinking that people will follow "fundamental crypto values" and underestimating the power of convenience and ignorance. "Traditional financial institutions" are inevitable in crypto.
This is off the mark. I used to research credit reports for mortgage loans. The "perfect" report has a mortgage, auto loan, edu loan, bank credit card, and a retail store credit card.

While the balances vs limits are a factor in scoring, it's just one factor among many. Retail credit cards won't trash your report unless you hit on specific bad patterns, like opening a bunch at once.

I see this pattern all the time, where someone will take a true statement, like that the balance to limit ratio and absolute high water mark are a factor in the scoring, and then mistakenly turn it around into normative advice about how you should shape your report. You're not going to fix a bad score by dropping a retail card or two.

Here's the secret to having a good credit report: use credit often, pay it on time, don't run large balances relative to your regular spending. That's what lenders want to see and what the score aims for.
This is really awesome! A couple questions.

1. Does the customer have to auth the bot at all?

2. What permissions does it need?

3. How's your infosec policy? Have you gone through a SOC2 yet?

4. What about Teams?

5. What about single channel guests (our workspace and theirs)?
I worked at a large engineering firm. It went all Windows when everyone got fed up of paying Sun for CAD machines.
Wouldn't we expect to see BTC hold or even gain when everyone is trying to exit their "crypto" positions?

After all, BTC is the reserve currency of all these crypto scams, as you call them.
How can one use a bazillion modules in production and not get hacked because of a dependency vulnerability?
How are packages vetted?
Words often have one (or a few) largely agreed-upon definitions. Acronyms are often overloaded based on context, and are less likely to be known by a casual reader.

NASA probably doesn't need to be expanded, because even if you don't know that it's the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, you do know that they make the up-goers.

CD could mean a bunch of things, all context dependent. When it's paired with CI, it becomes easier to guess, but "Bob CD" doesn't tell me anything useful by itself.
A company can give them 3 months "paid time off" while also revoking their access to tools/systems,.
The duty not to harm is far stronger than the duty to help.
It's already deployed to some extent medically.

As for the dystopian applications, I would not be suprised if there are some dr Mengele wannabies in some dark corners of the world experimenting with how to control prison inmates or similar "disposable" people using such tech.
Let's say the onus is on reporters to not take money in exchange for glowing coverage. Having a mortgage to pay is no excuse. If you can't be an honest reporter, don't report at all. I think that's a reasonable standard to hold them to. If you can't hack it as an honest reporter, then go get a job in retail or something.

Anybody who took money from these people is not a victim.
Would you want to use a Prolog/Datalog for things like authorizing users in a RBAC system? I give the engine a bunch of rules and properties of things, and the engine figures out whether or not the user is authorized to perform some specific action.
Dear Nym, check your layout on narrow screens. It's about 50% whitespace, thanks to the two un-dismissable blank columns on the left.

https://imgur.com/a/0ilhUAw
An IOU on a napkin has legal weight.
Yep. Everyone is focused on the background, but you don’t need that—all the fake faces look too perfect.
This makes the term 'violence' useless. He didn't use physical force or any other form of power to force anyone to do anything; instead, he lied to people, convincing them to transfer their money to his platform voluntarily.
At the moment, there are not many requests on contact management yet. Cheers,
Yeah isn’t that the sinister point of CBDC’s… transforming our world to what you get is doled by daddy govt
True, others would have made a three hour podcast out of it. Potentially involving lobsters or something...
A static website could easily be hosted on GitHub, Cloudflare, or Netlify for free. Only cost is the domain name and maybe an email provider.
They're lithium! I forgot about that type of pledge too.
...NYT...Why were they giving such a glowing (no pun intended!) endorsement of crypto

I don't think they did.

To check my memory, I clicked on to the "Cryptocurrency" keyword to see the crypto-related stories going back. It's mostly reporting news (which is mainly bad) and skepticism.

Is the next crypto narrative is going to be "why didn't the media save us?" I guess it makes about as much sense as all the previous crypto narratives.
Ah! Not quite, but similar to "check kiting".
Yes, you can use sections for task statuses.
Disaster…?

It’s a cool old dude sharing his shower thoughts on the internet. What exactly are the negative consequences of these writeups?

It feels like such an overstatement that it makes me wonder if there’s something else at play here…
Just needs one more panel where the guy answers the phone only to hear a recording in Chinese telling them that their student loans or car insurance need vital attention.
Of course, States don't want their citizens to pay the least possible amount of taxes, so they make it a nightmare to do so. This way, the state legally steals money from its citizens. Why do you think they called it "Elster"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_magpie#cite_ref-Opie1.... As we say: "Die diebische Elster".