skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep I went through a phase in my early/mid 20s where I was still in information sponge mode and started applying this to world news, as if somehow by absorbing 100% of world news all the time, I'd be a "more informed citizen" and all the benefits of that.

Now I will casually glance at google news once or twice a day, and my extended friends group has a chat thread where interesting/enraging/amusing headlines get posted with no expectation that it will spur conversation. I probably spend 30-45 min a day reading various articles between the two sources. That feels like the right amount of time to spend on current events. I will however fall down a "wikipedia hole" for an hour or more pretty regularly trying to understand the historical context of a situation.

Me and my close buddies periodically (roughly once a year?) go through a phase where we individually swear off reading the news for a couple of weeks. It is refreshing.

For the mid-terms cycle I don't think I followed any of the races at all, beyond checking fivethirtyeight to see who the projected winners would be, and then a follow up after.

Strong agree that most news is clickbait.
Right. So it was accurately described by the author of the linked article as 'a poorly researched fluff piece'.
Would you like to highlight some? Why was it regulated this way? I can't find a great explanation, and "because it makes a lot of money for locally powerful business owners" seems to be the most common explanation floated.
Currently building a back-end API with Kemal, highly recommend. Also has easy to use websocket events built-in.
Related question: does anybody exclusively use any Linux distro on MacBooks in a VM? What is the tradeoff and how is your experience?

I want the MacBooks for the battery backup, but I cannot live without NixOS, and seems like Asahi is still a few months away.
> expecting that he will be joining. Nope, he just handed me the keys and asked to take a picture of my driving license

To be fair, this was my experience buying a Subaru in Wyoming. The paperwork was then signed, I pushed back on one or two fee line items, they were removed with apologies and I was offered a beer.
Not just PhD. World famous economists with Nobel prizes.
I don't read them (except my industry news) because something like 99 out of 100 those news has no direct impact on my life and because of that are basically irrelevant

And majority of them are sad / annoying / drama-driven and only affect my mood

Reading news for me has no value.

If there's something really important then I will know about it anyway - e.g war, covid, etc.
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-1: this is often how regulatory bodies work. In particular, their non-response gives them better CYA in case there's malfeasance vs an explicit approval.
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Nice framework!
AMD was founded in 1969 while Arm in 1991. Advanced Micro Devices vs Advanced RISC Machines... some inspiration perhaps?
No, actions have consequences but he has not prevented her from saying what she wanted to say.
Economist, Al Jazeera, New Scientist
And they kept hiring from there during the years right after the dotcom boom, already 3000 in 2004: https://www.globaldata.com/data-insights/technology--media-a...
Too much protection leads to dismal performance, because people know whatever they do, there are no consequences. I am not a fan of such an approach.
Feel you. I think it is useful to have some broader context but in the past 10 years, the products have evolved to a place where for me they are no longer helpful.

I donate to local and public media because the work is nevertheless important to support but I consume almost none of the product. Sucks.

That said, as a US-centered person, I recently found this factual email distillation, and do find it useful. Think there should be more of these, locally and regionally tailored.

https://join1440.com/
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responsibilities? The smaller the team the more time spent on call per person.
There are a lot of unchallenged aspects amongst these 500+ different semi-sovereign nations

They pretty much universally have extremely low physical infrastructure though, which limits anyone’s interest or ability to set up anything to do business. They also almost universally have extremely low administrative and legal infrastructure, with completely foreign and distinctive customs in each tribe, which really means arbitrary decisions after long negotiations. They are all too small to bother with, for most.

And finally, they almost all universally distrust the entrepreneurs that would show up, because a history of exploitation that got them in this quagmire to begin with.

But if you can imagine it, its likely possible.

There have been or currently are data centers on tribal lands, operating with some theoretical legal edge. Heard it was cumbersome and bad service though.

There are drug running corridors on unique tribes that straddle the US - Canada border with a river running between them.

There are infinite permutations.

Even with things being under Federal law, federal enforcement and federal prosecution has evidence gathering issues as well as obscurity in how to proceed, as well as having to weigh the perpetual political fallout of stirring the nest and symbiosis with the indigenous community. They don’t want some treaty challenged. They don't know how to bother or bring the case or win the case or deal with pursuing the case.
It could work, but the moment FTX started allowing FTT to be put down as collateral on multi-hundred million dollar liabilities, the entire house of cards fell apart.
Read? No. Daily? No.

I do listen to a twice weekly podcast that mostly sums up the stuff worth hearing about. In a world that is instant, and where content must be new to be of value, I think it is best to delay our news consumption by at least days if not weeks, and in some cases probably even months. News (I won't say "modern", I suspect it has always been this way) agencies make money off eyeballs, they do not make money by reporting accurately or with calm and reason. They make money with splashy headlines and inaccurate (if only because it is too new and breaking) ledes. You can fix the inaccuracies next week when the dust clears, but right now it is important to shout about the thing.

All this is create over informed and wrong readers who are anxious about everything. I am married with children, I have enough to be anxious about. I do not need to add to my list of worries, especially with things happening on the other side of the world in a country I have no intentions of ever visiting. I can still empathize with the problems of the world, but my empathy is just as useful to those people today as it is in three weeks when the sensationalist headlines have moved onto the new thing.
I also scan the UK newspaper front pages

https://www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk/

to see the trashy side without any temptation to actually read!
> Murder has always been bad. Slavery has always been immoral. Genocide has always been bad, but guess what happened when the Spanish invaded the Americas?

The mass murder, slavery, and imperialism of the Aztecs was replaced by the mass murder, slavery, and imperialism of the Spaniards. But who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Otzoma?

The issue isn't whether we apply ethics from a relativist or objective standpoint, but that we pick and choose when we do. Right now, Europeans must always be judged by contemporary standards (ironically rooted in the Enlightenment), while other cultures must never be judged.
No GPU means it gets pretty hot sometimes (don't even try watching videos, I've literally burned myself :'). Otherwise I'd say I could use it as a daily driver: a bit clunky, needs some tinkering, but everything I personally need (VSCodium, Firefox, Docker, wifi, audio in the headphones) already works and works well.

If you already have a MacBook you could use, just give it a try – you can dual-boot, so if it doesn't work you can go back to macOS and try it out again in a couple months.

UPD: and of course, don't forget to sponsor the developers! Every little bit counts.
Yes. In the same way that "FTX is a ponzi scheme" was a conspiracy theory until a few days ago.
Yes, of course. For US news, a mixture of Washington Post, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal - that gets you a variety of views without extremism. I'm not knocking some of the other major newspapers - if I was living in Chicago, Seattle, or another major city I would certainly include a local paper.

For international news and other takes, BBC, The Guardian, and Financial Times work for me.

For Norwegian news (since that's where I'm living), I stick with NRK since that's free - I'd like to subscribe to a local paper, but their prices are insane.
For some numbers: https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/top_donors

Bankman-Fried, the CEO of FTX, gave $35M to democrats. Ryan Salame, the "Co-CEO" of FTX, gave $18M to republicans, making him the 10th-largest republican donor (though this is slightly misleading as a comparison; republicans have more large donors than democrats, and Salame's donation would have been the 5th-largest if it had been for the latter).

FTX was playing both sides.
Generally agree, but it was fun to be some weeks ahead of my friends when calling covid :P Sometimes you'll catch something important ahead of time, I guess, if you're going to put in effort to take advantage of that and the news generally doesn't freak you out, it seems like a good idea.

I like uniqueuid's recommendation more generally though
That's their summary of what was changed. It's likely not the full list. The car would typically get a full detailing, inspections, cosmetic repairs, etc. as part of that process.
Dealerships are businesses, and are free to sever their relationship with the manufacturer. The fact that very few actually do, is evidence that your argument has little merit. Many dealerships seek to increase their allotment of cars to sell.
There is a mirror of the NYT article linked from TFA.
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I only use Lima on the Mac I use at work. But by any limitation by my employer, it's just the easiest thing I've found for running a few containers for my semi-daily workflow.
> 20 km per day

I'm not sure my body could handle that (my hips would need a day to recover from a 20 km walk).

I'm in my mid 50s, so I'd like to believe my age is part of that.

I do about 7 km / day, which still takes time.

I've probably done everything mentioned here (thinking, audiobooks, music, walking with my kids, etc.).

Lately, I've been simply listening for birds. I've gotten pretty good at identifying several species by vocalization and it has the added benefit of putting me "in tune" with my environment.
Coinbase has a Altman Z-score of 0.16. This implies bankruptcy possibility in the next two years.
I stopped reading/watching the news at all several years ago (more than 5 probably).

The seed idea was reading this essay: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

It is not that I agree 100%, but it made clear to me that news is entertainment. Not more, not less. Watching a show on Netflix or watching fulfill the same role. And I prefer fiction.

The “understand better the world” part comes from other sources that are not, at all, about reporting the “news”. Books, articles, podcasts on topics that I am curious about.

Occasionally, I do go to the news. But that’s when I want to know something very specific. Like when I wanted to know the results of the elections in my country. I don’t go to the news to “check what’s going on”. I go only when I already know what I want to check. I’ll watch more news now during the World Cup, for example.

Stopping following the news didn’t make any negative difference in my understanding of the world, I believe.
It's in their interest to be vague but at the same time claim lots of source.

Some United States ISP sell anonymous browsing data. The data is still grouped by home connection. With SSL these days that only contains domain names but in the past it contained full URL. One was able to correlate if somebody searched for a product on shop A but then finished checkout on shop B. 15 years ago I dealt with such data, kind of scary. So you can correlate that people who visit one domain regularly also visit certain others.

DPS sounds like data processing, so intermediary that resells data or summaries. For example they might have data from browser toolbars, widgets on multiple websites or anybody else who sells user data.

Google Analytics: when you crawl pages you can extract the GA id and some companies use the same id on multiple domain. Thus you correlate they have the same owner. Similar with any other type of id or apikey one might use on the website, e.g. Google Maps API key.

Add some data on domain-to-IP address to see if a two websites are hosted on the same server.

> How can ISP's provide the data?

In the US it's part of the terms of service

https://www.netzero.net/start/landing.do?page=www/legal/your...

"we have collected the following categories of personal information from its consumers within the last twelve (12) months: "

- "Age (40 years or older), marital status (title), sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions)."

- "Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement."

- "Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes."

"We share your personal information with the following categories of third parties:

Service providers.
Advertisers.
Affiliates.
Partners."

I'd argue all information an ISP has no business with.
> But academic institutions do retain aspects of colonialism in their teaching.

So my ex-wife is Chinese and not to play into the stereotype but math is important to the Chinese.

When she was growing up in China, learning Math, what aspect of this was "colonialism"?

Now when our kids went to math class in Canada and the instructor was also Chinese, were they teaching "colonialism" as well as math?
Tech stocks have been crushed. What’s next for the FAANGs?
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>You think the squeeze and now the glut didn’t come at a significant cost to consumers and the economy as a whole?

Ah, yes, this tired old "we should incur broad and hard to quantify bad things to avoid some small but easy to quantify bad thing" that is ever popular among people who should be smart enough to know better.

I agree that the system does seem somewhat under dampened but without a serious attempt at forecasting what the actual cost of damping it is I see no reason to change the status quo.
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Oh I agree here, my eyes also have seen terrible things.
I think one of the major points im trying to make is the same basis as old school distributed communication.

Generate a Data Access Layer( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_access_layer ). That does not mean that you should be DB-centric, but DATA-Centric. If your stack is written in one language, create a lib, that will be the key in going forward.

Application logic as a whole can be distributed throughout thousands of services but your DAL should be a common base. - at least for things that are in one database -

Here you can use procs, views or queries depending on what you like, but once i hit a couple of million guid entries in a db, i can in fact sometimes strip seconds of queries by saving on the round trip. Especiall in ERP Apps that "need to have all the data allways".
Dont convert everything to stored procs of course because then you are just as unflexible as having a microservice per entity.

All in all, I don't believe databases are ever gonna go away and that dbas are still underrated, even though data is gold. As we have seen with machine learning, well defined data sets are the key to better models, meaning faster and quicker results.
>> the laptop doesn't sleep when closed

Linux is amazing but doing the right thing when you close the lid is a seemingly intractable problem for it. Maybe we need a hardware spec and a paid distro to finally solve these kinds of problems.
Common sense tells me that infinite growth inside a finite system is wishful-thinking at least and more likely bullshit to distract from reality.
Not by mixing goat piss with hair of a virgin in moonless night.
eg: Wetherspoons has begun serving sausages in its breakfast menu in place of eggs

Is an actual front page story.
> In many countries, Once your employer fires you, then you have 7 days to leave the country. Period.

Just curious because I know nothing about this, but what are 10 countries where this is true?
There's a war going on very close to my country, so yes, I try to stay on top of it. Probably too much, honestly.
The EU bureaucracy decided to cripple its economy because they feel like the interests of of a non-EU country are more important than the interests of the european citizens they claim to represent.

The EU politicians and especially the EC members are beyond insane at this point.
This just popped up today: https://theradavist.com/cycling-africa/ Connecting Two Distant Corners: Cycling the Length of Africa. The two bikes -- a Knoa Sutra and a Surly Long Haul Trucker.
Serves me right typing on a phone without my glasses.
>but this is kind of hard to do when government work is not seen as something of particularly high status,

Super easy to solve for - pay them more.

With the amount of money the government has (the DoD has a nearly 2 trillion dollar yearly budget), it should be relatively trivial to be able to outspend the private sector.

I hate paying taxes, but if those taxes go towards paying an extremely competent professional who will prevent this sort of shit from happening (which would cost us more in taxes to fix), I'm more than happy to pay as much as the government would want me to.
I read the original article here [1] but really adaptation is not the main point of it. Therefore the "conversation" materials are misleading in title, still they triggered this discussion, which is more interesting than both, thanks!

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2207609119
Isn't this essentially what a PAC is?
This works well for those who live in an authoritarian state where you're not called upon to make any decisions (vote). When you live in a democracy, it breaks down because now you have no information upon which to make your decisions. The direction your life takes will be decided by your neighbors.
I do read news regularly. But there are so many "news" and so many ways to go about it. I tend to oscillate - I'll spend a few months reading "slow" news, then a few months reading "fast" news, then a few months break. Not planned, just as my brain/body saturates and craves.

For slow news, there are a few options. There's a quarterly Delayed Gratification magazine that's pretty good. I also personally enjoy Stratfor as a subscription service - understanding their marketing as "civilian intelligence agency" is way overstated, they do present essay-like articles that I find give me background, history, facts, and a bit of forecast that helps me contextualize news.

There's also a weekly Guardian magazine you can subscribe to in physical form which will have a combination of various sources. I've enjoyed it for a while.

For fast news, I like to use combination to give me various perspectives, so my favourites tend to be Axios, Guardian, Al Jazeera, and then a sprinkling of Washington Post, BBC, and my local national newspapers (Financial Post / Globe & Mail / Toronto Star in Canada). Axios in particular is good if you're just starting because you can basically Drill down/through on articles and get context which you'd struggle as you say with plain news agencies.

Note, I've heard good news about The Economist; I've subscribed and tried reading it but it was poor timing due to a new baby; their unsubscribe process was then so incredibly, atrociously, unbelievably, unspeakably user-hostile, that I have made it my mission in life not only to never ever ever subscribe to The Economist again, but to dissuade anybody else I possibly can, on the principle that humanity must prevail and evil overlords should fail. My 100 Croatian Lipa :)
I get a newspaper delivered every day (weekend edition on Saturday). I have found it far healthier than consuming news online (although I do come here for tech tidbits). I also subscribe to a few magazines on different subjects, which I probably find more impactful. Moving back to physical objects for these things has been a real joy. It makes reading news a deliberate act, not a temptation, and also removes the ability to fall too far down rabbit holes. There's also no need to engage too much decision making about content, jumping around, queuing up tabs, deciding what's most important. Just read front to back and skip if you're bored. I also find solving a cryptic crossword on paper with a pencil to be one of the highlights of my day - something for me, by me, where I don't feel I'm in competition with the whole world (which I do if I'm solving chess puzzles online or during the period Wordle was a thing etc).

The most important change for me, however I choose to consume news, is quitting social media. Not being exposed to the Twitter issue of the day, the hysterical overreaction and the hysterical counter-reaction, means that I no longer feel the need to be angry about something all the time. I'll still grumble about particular developments, but I don't feel the need to have a take. I'll contextualise things and move on, unless I think it'd be interesting to my wife or kids.
I've seen that happen a few times on various forums I've visited; one part was because they copied sections off of established, larger forums. Another was just adding sections when someone asked about it. And another was trying to encourage certain forum topics.

Since then I've just said, if there's enough topics about a subject to warrant a new section, then we'll add it. Until then, just post it in #general or whatever. You don't need a dedicated section if you want to talk about things.
I think "biological truth" is loaded here. In terms of a census there is an ambiguity about what it is that you're counting, are you counting people biologically born a given gender, people who are going to pair with the opposite sex, people who prefer a particular prefix or people that can give birth to children?

It appears in this case the census is content in counting people who prefer a particular prefix and only counting that (which can be self-identified) achieves its aims.

Tbh I don't massively see how this changes how one might treat census data (especially since the numbers remain small enough). I would suggest that if your research requires data points for people born as women then maybe you should be looking for other datasets such as births.