skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a book circa 1970 called "The Information Machines" by Ben Bagdikian (who was famous for his later book "The Media Monopoly") which contains the most damning indictment of "The news" I have ever seen.

Bagdikian and many futurists around 1970 expected online communications to develop more quickly than it did and in this report for the RAND corporation he expected most people to be getting their news from something like CNN.com in the early 1980s and expecting personalization, filter bubbles and all of that.

There is a part in that book where he talks about the process by which the editor of a small town newspaper selects articles from the AP newswire and how that person has 6 seconds to decide if something is "fit to print". Thus the very process of selecting "news" from a wide range of events does damage to the fabric of reality: what appears in a newspaper is by no means a legitimate sample of "what is going on".

Worse yet, real events get crowded out by psuedo-events as pointed out in this classic book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Image:_A_Guide_to_Pseudo-e...

the author of which expected television stars to outcompete traditional politicians in 1962 and (like Bagdikian) might have been surprised about how it long it took.

Real events get crowded out by pseudo-events because in many ways pseudo-events are more "real" (see Baurdillard's concept of the "hyper-real") and meaningful than real events. One category is the press release about the report that describes some situation for the purpose of advocacy. People might find it really satisfying to read about some theory about, say, black people being beat up by the police, either from a left or right perspective. As a particular article fits into a particular ideology people find these meaningful. In the real world there are numerous events and releases of factual information which are only partially consistent with people's world views and people tend to reject these in favor of processed opinions.

The most embarrassing thing about The New York Times is that articles on the opinion page are the most popular. Mostly these are ignorant people mouthing off, not better than the best discussions on HN. Other reporters for the Times work really hard to do original reporting and get the facts right but readers are indifferent. It is the (really worthless) opinion page that drives subscriptions and revenue.

This is just as true about CNBC (Jim Cramer doesn't know what he is talking about but he makes up acronyms like FAANG that stick) or Fox News (which is only comfortable when people are sitting around the studio talking about the way things are spozed to be... whenever the camera goes to the outside world it scrolls ALERT ALERT ALERT)

Some of what bothers me about people who spam anti-vax and Twitter Files stuff to HN is that if they were successful they would be displacing other content from the site. Maybe I am misrepresenting them but I can't help but perceive their goal is displace other kinds of conversations with their BS.
Conflating a chaotic system (which is, by definition, unpredictable) with the regularity of a calendar seems a bit disingenuous.
Police officers in cities like Boston and New York can make well into 6 figures after overtime pay. They also can retire relatively young, with generous pensions. Their departments are also well-stocked with capable vehicles and equipment. Funding is not the issue in those cases.
I know a couple that got married after meeting in CS1.6
Wild!
FTC Rejects Meta Request to Bar Khan from Merger Case
I pay attention to how old certain words are in some languages. The ones I've seen have very old words for "lion." https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D5%A1%D5%BC%D5%AB%D6%82%D5%A... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Ira...
He said it several times, sometimes with "fake" and sometimes without.

The first few times he explicitly listed news organizations he said were fake, including NYT, WP, ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN.

By mid 2018 it had grown to mainstream media is fake [1].

In the last year or so he'd also been slamming Fox. It's pretty clear that his definition of "fake news" is functionally equivalent to "anything that isn't positive about me, no matter how true".

[1] https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/10414416769491845...
Nothing could be more political than an accusation of aiding a soldier in avoiding detection while exfiltrating video evidence of a war atrocity.
What's the point of having so much karma if not to burn it in front of people?
15% of my day job (for going on a decade now) is helping people untangle Excel hairballs. It's opened my eyes to how creatively badly people can solve problems, given no alternatives.
I browse with showdead on permanantly, and I normally find that things that have been downvoted to oblivion were truely for spam or inflammatory/bad faith. That's not always the case, but it is definitly the majority I see. Unpopular opinions I normally find stay near 0.

It's not perfect, but I do think HN tends to actually behave decently with respect to downvotes (and I think needing 500 karma to do so is a big part of it - you have to spend the time and get familiar with the culture first)
Now we just need a model that will learn how to do one shot model distillation.
As a counter to your story I grew up in the US, in a largish city, my friends and I also had basically total freedom to wander around, we mostly spent time in the nearby parks/playgrounds (of which there were 3), but we had quiet a bit of autonomy.

I’m sure there were children in Moscow, Kyiv or Cracow who had very different experiences from you. Whose parents did something that caught the KGB’s attention and then they were in for a world of pain.

I think it’s very accurate to say that for most people living in a relatively rural area anywhere in the world, they’ll be pretty safe from this sorta attention. The big difference is the degree to which your life is ruined. In China (or USSR) any sort of individual disagreement with the police would virtually guarantee a trip to an undisclosed location, bribes and probably torture. Here in the US you still have to deal with people and their egos but many of the laws will protect you from the worst of other peoples’ power trips.
So the central argument is that whales manipulate the price by buying bitcoins once the price is low.

Isn’t that the definition of a market?

Could you imagine an alternative where this does not happen?
Back in the day I made a few GameBoy Advance demos and we generally stored ADPCM encoded audio streams for the music, at like 4x the space of an equivalent MP3. Thing is, cartridge space was effectively uncapped but CPU speed (4MHz iirc) was very limited. If we had gone for MP3 (or even a reasonably complex tracker module), we’d hardly have had any CPU left for the visuals.

QOA would have likely been the perfect alternative! We’d have better sound quality with no downsides, I think.
Microsoft Will Use OpenAI Tech to Write Emails for Busy Salespeople
Better grammar and spelling.
Yes, I think a lot of work needs to be done around content labeling. Getting away from simple up/down, and labeling content that you think is funny, spammy, insightful, trusted, etc. I don't think any centralized platform has gotten the mechanics quite right on this, but I think we're getting closer. Furthermore, in a world where everyone owns their own social graph, and carries it with them on every site they visit, we don't need to rebuild our networks every time new platforms emerge.

This is another key advantage of web3 social networks vs web2. You own your identity, you own your social graph, and you can use it to automatically curate content on your own without relying on some third party to do it. A third party that might otherwise inject your feed with ads, or "high engagement" content to keep you clicking and swiping.
The author uses the Clinton email scandal as an example of how the media over-covered certain stories.

"That Clinton was somehow a criminal for doing what her predecessor Colin Powell had also done—conduct government business using a private server—was a staple of the Trump campaign"

How does an educated person, journalist or not, not know the difference between using a private email account, which is what Colin Powell confessed to, and having a private email server set up in your home? (rumored to be quite insecure in the first few months)

There are several such "mistakes" in this article. It indeed read like a parody.
Wow. This just seems like the legal equivalent of pinning a target to
your forehead and jumping into a live shooting range.
Okta to Cut 300 Jobs Citing Overhiring, ‘Execution Challenges’
HAHAH! This is amazing!

I was an avid CS 1.5/1.6 player in the early 2000s. This is def a bookmark!
> He soon developed a burn on his hand in the same size and shape as the aperture – he eventually underwent partial amputation of several fingers.

> On September 15, Pereira visited a local clinic, where his symptoms were diagnosed as the result of something he had eaten; he was told to return home and rest.

Hopefully the partial amputation occurred after the visit, otherwise I would really love to know what the clinic thought he ate that could cause partial amputation!
I remember the P90 having (almost?) no recoil or spread in the beta days as well. Was like a firehose of bullets.
Yeah, for sure.

There are other considerations as well - if game sound is coming over loud speakers, you run the risk of it also being picked up by your microphone when you try to communicate with your teammates.
Matches my experience on both counts
Yes, it is way more profitable. Just look at the mobile gaming market for an example of ads and scammy in-app purchases taken to the extreme.

People expect mobile games to be “free”, even though console and PC games typically cost $20-$60. Good luck finding consumers to pay even $20 for a mobile game, much less $60.

Similarly, good luck finding consumers to pay $500 an OS upgrade now that they think it should be “free”.
That means anonymously posting on stackoverflow will be gone...
Pedantically, Zoom (San Jose) and Google (Mountain View), and most other Silicon Valley companies (Facebook, Apple, HP, Cisco, eBay, Intel, LinkedIn, Nvidia, Paypal, pre-move Oracle, pre-move Tesla) aren't headquartered in San Francisco. The city used to be this adjunct thing, close to the Valley. It's only until recently that it's become the focus.
plus ça change ... film is "24 lies per second" as Michael Haneke says.
> a business choosing profits over people

They will choose profits over their own suvival - they sanctionbusted to sell to nazis, choose shirt term profit over long-term growth, etc.
Why do you think they don't value him? Sounds like they're sending conflicting messages to him. Which is the case? Are you saying to just assume the worst? Instead of trying to get clarity first?
I suspect this will lead to a new wave of more advanced moderation techniques.
its a bit of a smell, but good elixir code doesn't have to worry about rebinding for bindings in the same scope.

Jose Valim goes on as to why he made that design decision
from the following:
https://groups.google.com/g/elixir-lang-talk/c/w83lKZs4YS8/m...

I will post the same answer from before: I like the explicitness of pattern
matching. In Elixir, as soon as I see ^foo, I know I am matching. If there is
no ^, I know the previous value regardless if it there is one or not, will be
discarded. If pattern matching is not explicit, I always need to know if a
variable was previously defined or not to know what is going to happen. To me
this behaviour is non negotiable. In my experience, it is more likely to run
into accidental matches than into accidental rebindings.

Another possible limitation to the suggestion above can be related to macros.
Let's suppose you have a macro that stores a value in a hygienic variable:

defmacro do_something(a, b) do
quote do
var!(hello, Hygienic) = calculate_something(unquote(a), unquote(b))
end
end

Someone may call this macro multiple times but we always care about the last
value
of hello. If we make a distinction in between being assigned once and then
multiple times, the macro simply won't work. Or the macro developer would need to
work around this behaviour by inspecting the environment or we would need to
provide some sort of functionality that does it for you. Maybe this behaviour
could be built-in in var! or maybe we'd need to introduce something like:

defmacro do_something(a, b) do
quote do
set!(hello, Hygienic) = calculate_something(unquote(a), unquote(b))
end
end

We can see how this is getting complex:

1. Use = to define variables
2. Use ^ for pattern matching
3. Use := for rebinding
4. Use set! in macros when you don't care if a variable was previously defined or not

It is also interesting to point out that the := operator won't work for rebinding
inside clauses. For example, how would you make the rebinding below explicit?

x = true
case false do
x -> :ok
end

Of course, there are interesting consequences for making a distinction in between
defining and rebinding a variable by introducing something like the := operator.
We could have better control of the scope to provide better warnings or even make
it easier to implement imperative for loops:

x = 0

for i <- 1..5 do
x := x + i
end

x #=> 15

But the fact Elixir have different ways for variables to be introduced in the
scope, adding more rules can make the overall system very complex.
And so every executioner, and not the malfeasant lawyer, is responsible for the death of the wrongly executed?

A better heuristic, and almost as simple, is to rate responsibility in proportion to power, ie those with the most leverage to steer events take the most blame. Blame is information. It has no mass, and can be divided effortlessly.
hahaha, well played sir, well played.
Who is united against what political party? Claiming you're the underdog and fighting against the "mainstream media" is a manipulation tactic.

Top 10 Cable News Shows in 2022

RANK NETWORK PROGRAM NAME P2+AA (000) #Tlc

1 FOXN THE FIVE 3419 246

2 FOXN TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT 3031 228

3 FOXN JESSE WATTERS PRIMETIME 2857 200

4 FOXN HANNITY 2811 214

5 FOXN SPECIAL REPORT BRET BAIER 2511 244

6 FOXN THE INGRAHAM ANGLE 2269 215

7 FOXN GUTFELD! 2040 222

8 FOXN OUTNUMBERED 1858 245

9 FOXN AMERICA’S NEWSROOM 1761 496

10 MSNBC ALEX WAGNER/ MADDOW

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> The best I can hope for is that some hacker collective manages to make an open source version of it, that can be more trustworthy than the current one.

It's always interesting to me when someone makes an assert like this for a Big Data technology.

If this were tractable, we'd have an open-source Google alternative right now that someone would have built for the sheer joy of being the folks that took on Google. But open source doesn't work that way because code is download-once, use-forever, but data is continuously changing and costs perpetual money to update and maintain. "Open source data" looks like Wikipedia, and the world won't sustain more than a few of those; Wikipedia has about 100,000 active editors.

So instead of some hacker-alternative-to-Google techno-utopia idea, we've got plenty of open-source crawlers and a handful of services paying the bills via rent-seeking their database and, often, advertising. No reason to think a ChatGPT-heavy future will be different.
Criminals are using encrypted communications right now, though. The harm is already real.

Now, I have a cryptography library to polish.
There's a cool talk from a hackerone event on using jsfuzz to find bugs in dom sanitizers.
HN is full of a wide variety of people who have a wide variety of different beliefs and worldviews, and that's what you're seeing.

In my view, it's one of the things that makes HN great.
I'm reading this book, "Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker, and it says the half-life of caffeine is like up to 8 hours ... so having a 3pm coffee means going to bed at midnight with half of it still active.

I've cut coffee out of my diet after noon lunchtime, and I think it's helping ... tough to be sure but as long as I believe it, it's pretty good
Yes, and I think it is because it is about being evaluated (inevitably). Standups should be about teammates discussing tasks among each other, this is less pressure and creates more of a helpful atmosphere. However in most teams/companies I've been in, it just feels like devs have to spoon feed managers on the status. Just saying it would be nice to focus on work and have leaders be more proactive in understanding what is going on instead of having these expectations that you will explain everything perfectly while they evaluate your performance.
for one it's not a cs 1.6 without crt monitor artifacts :D
There have been quite a few instances of "fake news" stories about famous people making donations, such as to hurricane victims, that the famous people have said were not true and they don't know where they came from. No one seems to benefit from these stories, and they don't seem click-baity enough to have been made-up for the ad impressions, so the goal seems to be to erode public trust in the news. When it thus appears that there are active efforts to achieve this (perhaps by countries seeking to boost receptiveness to their influence operations), I don't think the news media deserves all of the blame for the decline in trust.
> I'm a senior dev at one of the FAANGs with more than 15 years of experience, but the rest of my team consists of devs with an average of 2 years of experience.

I'm going to guess that it varies widely. I managed a team of 13 at a FAANG, with 1 new grad, 3 in the 1-5 YOE range, and the rest in the 5-10 YOE range. I was the only one with > 10 (over 20 range, actually).

Of that group, that company was the only company they've worked at. Success in getting stuff done was mostly about personality than background or experience. Those who had a need to push on things to get them done succeeded, and those that didn't had a harder time.

The main differentiator, IMHO, was that the FAANG-only folks had little to no concept of System Design or operational elements (i.e. what happens after software has been shipped). There was essentially no opportunity for the former, and no reason to dig into the latter. All the systems they needed to do work were in place, including high level architectures, data pipelines, metric capture, etc.
A high refresh rate monitor does help in measurable ways.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2dPIHPNOeY

You don't need to spend lots of money to get 120+hz screens. They can be had for $150 if you're willing to make compromises.
Can someone explain in more basic terms what is happening? I'm not the most experienced in this area.
I have also been surprised since I found out at the lack of discussion. Based on this post, it seems like many people didn't know. I assume a lot more are going to find out as we get closer to actually filing taxes.

What I've heard is that there's already strong support for changing this but it's just a matter of Congress actually being functional, which political affiliation aside, it's not right now.
I had a flashback to the day I figured out that the scroll wheel cancels the reload animation on the guns. I immediately became 10 times better at the game. Also, the zombie servers were mindless but fun.
To summarize:

* You're running a version of Ubuntu that's still supported.

* One of the packages installed on your system has a known security vulnerability.

* There's an updated version of the package available that fixes the vulnerability.

* Since you're not subscribed to Ubuntu Pro, you're not allowed to update to the fixed version.
In light of the little bitty thing lost/found in Australia, this is a good example of why they spent such an effort to find it. Forget making dirty bombs, just have a "committed to the cause" person just carry something like this around as they tour the city. At least a dirty bomb would be obvious something happened, and people could know how/why they were getting sick in the aftermath.

This kind of thing would be the worst example of Silent But Deadly. Once the committed to the cause person was too affected from doing the work themselves, just have the next member pick up and carry on the mission. Ammo that never needs reloading. You just have to reload the delivery mechanisms.
Of course, I'm saving it for retirement!
Ask HN: Does anyone browse the “new comments” feed?
I never had faith to lose. It's always been full of clickbait, lies, propaganda, and ideologies. And now paywalls so I can't even read the article.

If journalists want people to have faith in the news then they need to start being credible and reputable. Very few are, and none of them write for the New Yorker.
Indeed. Presumably that's why it made the very first amendment. If only they'd thought to explicitly state that included privacy. :(
"People can certainly use it that way, but I think it's useful for de-emphasizing irrelevant or inflammatory comments as well."

This is my problem with it, that is mainly used to hide other opinions. Even flagging gets abused for that.

I want to read other opinions, but what I don't want to read are lowe effort crap comments. They can and should be downvoted into nothingness, but downvoting well written out opinions is something I strongly disagree with.
> To pick just one incident: He's alleged to have selectively released information specifically to damage the Clinton campaign, and at a time where a Trump scandal was at the top of the news.

Maybe pick an incident that he's charged with?

> You have an easier time arguing that it's not a crime.

Especially since nobody has claimed that this is a crime, and he's never been charged with it. You're spreading misinformation in order to justify the prosecution of a journalist.
Relevant: https://twitter.com/jowyang/status/1620128829661675520?s=46&...
Except they also cherry-pick the Tweets.

E.g: "X heavily criticized for Y action"

Supporting Tweet screenshots : 1 like, 4 likes ....
Almost everyone takes too much of it when they do. The actual recommended dose is very low. Efficacy rapidly declines with habitual usage, and effective utilization requires that you go to bed very soon after taking it (lights out, no screens, etc). This said, it can be a good short term solution for sleep issues.
It can't (correctly) remove checks that would have prevented the undefined behavior, because that is changing the semantics of a program that (as written) does not trigger undefined behavior.
just make one of those stupid Saylor, Ark, or Musk scam videos. no one being arrested, unlike ransomware, BEC, hacking, or credit card theft. these videos not uncommonly make 6 figures, too.
Someone's dream to make a Snowcrash themed hotel just got one step closer.
I only care about it because I've heard it unlocks features like downvoting, but I don't participate enough for it to matter anyway
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I want to agree but iphone users are the novice users in the smart phone domain. Opening the system to side loading leaves them open to being taken advantage of. Not everyone wants to be a phone expert and they should have to be. Android is open so there's a choice for those that want more flexibility.
Web 4.0 will be deduplicating every possible opinion. We just choose from a path of opinions and we’re back to web directories.