skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost all of MSM had a noticeable, albeit restrained liberal bias for decades. This is what caused the birth of Fox News (which is no better) In the first place, it was just a natural response. That bias existed but it was tolerable, generally. Then Trump came along a few years after the woke cult emerged and the MSM had a radical cultural shift that amounted to “the ends justify the means.” Journalists had gotten replaced with activists who fancied themselves heroes doing god’s work. The collapse of journalistic integrity was shockingly swift.

The echo chamber and perverse cultural incentives in this profession are truly unimaginable. Now all the safeties have been removed, and as the journo-activism became so widespread it got normalized, like how at Enron everyone just thought fraud was normal because it’s all they saw every day. There’s no going back, the culture rot has metastasized.

Related, it always astounded me that newspapers had opinion desks. There is no more certain way to let political bias overtake the newsroom than having an entire opinion team to define the ideals of the company.
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> without a single mention of what that problem looks like today (hint: it was already a huge problem before ChatGPT).

I see this counter-argument all the time and it makes no sense to me.

Yes, the web is already filled with SEO trash. How is that an argument that ChatGPT won't be bad? It's a force multiplier for garbage. The pre-existence of garbage does not at all invalidate the observation that producing more garbage more efficiently is even worse.
No-one wants to talk about the flaming war-pigs?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_pig
The "news" in America has devolved quite a bit.

We've stopped funding public news sources at the level they need, and they often get drowned out by entertainment news, which is really just seeking engagement for advertising - the reader is not the customer, they are the product being sold. In this sense, the lost faith is both warranted and correct.

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As an aside - I think this is going to get much, much worse. We had a brief golden age where "seeing is believing" was a real thing, and a photograph or video carried substantial weight as evidence. That window seems to be closing. As image manipulation becomes easier and easier, I think media will become much more bitterly divided. "Truth" will once again become a subjective take based on the sources you trust - you will likely end up reading and trusting the same news sources your family/friends/acquaintances do. It will be harder to challenge your trust in those sources because the challenge will boil down to "he said/she said" fights between proclaimed experts with different motives and incentives, with no easy way for a layman to find believable evidence themselves (ex: A clear + trusted photo or video).

We're gonna go back to "who can shout the loudest" with the fun kink that this time money can literally buy robotic voices that shout all the time while pretending to be people from your community.
I specifically looked at the wikipedia definition and it's not consistent with what's in the article. There was a lot of interactivity even in Web 1.0, and Web 2.0 was about a lot more than just interactivity.
But taxes goes into govt and its inefficiencies rather than into economy
But I can explain why: they need to blend-in to build trust with other group participants and so become more persuasive when they are trying to influence, and also to avoid bot detection. The influence might also be much more subtle than talking about political topics, such as just being continuously negative or argumentative to bring down the moods of the targeted people.
The best way to have a good sleep is to stop being anxious and depressed, forget bad things, stay happy, be relaxed at evening, have a good hormonal profile, eat healthy, have a strict circadian discipline, a loving partner and live a nice live in general.

Exercise helps with the relaxed part.
I apologize. I am mid other things and I clearly typed too fast without considering clarity.

What I meant is that the sentence you wrote was sufficiently neutral in tone along the lines of 'this guy accused of a political crime.'

<< why was my comment neutral when the original "Julian Assange is possibly a criminal." was not?

I think the issue is with the context. Would you be willing to rewrite the paragraph written by article's author, because you may be right in a sense that it is hard to judge it based on that one sentence fragment alone? My initial response is that the article pushes a clear agenda vis-a-vis Assange even though it seems to have a tenuous connection to the point author seems to be trying to make. So initial difference is there ( possibly criminal vs guy accused of crime reads very differently ) and it is hard to argue in good faith for an entity with a lot of editors no one thought that may read a tad biased.

All that said, my own personal bias may be showing here, but then I am not sure Assange was obligated to keep that information secret -- whatever else you may think about qualitative goodness/badness of that action. Naturally that leaves 'hacking' angle, but I will admit I did not follow story closely enough to offer a useful analysis.

edit: "Yet journalists are quick to defend anyone who uncovers and disseminates information"

I am starting to think you may be right in general. This paragraph cannot be rewritten in an impartial manner, because it is at its core very partial. It is arguing with anti-Assange bias in mind.
I really wasn't intending to start a general discussion, I genuinely just wanted to understand what one might hope to accomplish by making off-topic comments, vs the prescribed course of action (flagging the article, contacting HN moderation via email, etc.)

If HN staff doesn't want to prohibit links even at the author's request, I don't see what can be done here. It's a link to a publicly available resource. But I figure making comments like these just stokes the flames, like it evidently is right now. Seems these divisive and irrelevant conversations are more likely to promote hatred than to prevent it.

Unfortunately I've contributed by replying in the first place.

My bad.
To be honest, yes, in that I'd hate for it to drop. However I've been on since 2009 and only have 309 karma, so I guess I don't care enough to try to make it higher.
On the other hand, history is full of technological developments that caused far more harm than necessary before society figured out a way to deal with it simply because nobody thought these things through at the start.
People can still be mad about it even if it is inevitable.
The other part of authoritarianism that’s less popular to talk about is that, in many ways, it works very well. In many parts of the “free” US, you can’t leave a visible bag in your vehicle for more than a few minutes because you’ll return to a smashed window. In places where that kind of petty crime is dealt with harshly, it’s almost non-existent. As trite as it sounds, Mussolini made the trains run on time.

So authoritarianism often gets a lot of the small stuff right at the cost of the big stuff while freedom often means sacrificing a lot of those small things to get the big stuff right. Having a society where you’ve got the best of both worlds is a really hard balance to strike.

And while it’s really easy to say that the big stuff is more important, the subjective feeling of freedom can be more affected by the small stuff because it’s much more a part of daily life. I don’t need to criticize my government on a daily basis, I only need to do that at critical moments. But I have to park my car multiple times a day, and needing to keep it safe becomes a front-of-mind concern that makes me feel less free.
Whether or not that is the case why does it matter?

Every person, business, organization, and government lies. What matters is the frequency, how serious the lies are, and what is done about them.

If someone says they don't trust some news network because they lied or have an agenda where are they getting their information from? A person on Facebook who could also lie and have an agenda.

Making trust a binary value is the greatest manipulation tactic ever. More importantly if your news network is mostly opinions then you're less likely to run afoul of that low threshold of trust.
Yes of course it's not literally about nothing :-)
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Just for fun, sort of like with a car odometer. I have exactly 5999 karma right now, and wish it was 6000, since it'll be fun to see it go over 6000.
Ah so more like mastadon or ipfs, but specifically for the purposes of federated archiving.

So now you get into the issue of haves and have nots. Who is allowed to be considered an authorized archivist from a robots.txt perspective? Or what happens if an archivist becomes blacklisted for not respectfully crawling? How do national sanctions affect the Internet Archive of Russia? I imagine there would be a certification process and it would probably cost some money.

It's an interesting topic and I'm simply looking at the weak spots. I'm not against the overall concept though.
NASA and IBM to Speed AI Creation with New Foundation Models
This is the 1 advantage of ORMs - makes apps db portable.
Great! Excellent fit for DAWs where lots of samples stay in memory and decode concurrently.
> In 2001 when the twin towers fell, I was encouraged by how suddenly everyone put down their party ties and went to talk about how we would rebuild and retaliate. In present day, the war in Ukraine has done nothing but further split our nation. So what changed?

For one, we now have the hindsight of knowing how the post 9/11 mentality you speak of turned out. 20 years of fruitless wars based on lies.
There's a difference between unintended consequences from something like an n-order affect on the system due to complexity vs a clearly written piece and uncomplex rule in the law. The latter suggests that due diligence was not performed. Of these thousands of staffers, it seems nobody bothered to read and understand it. We can look to history on how bills have been passed rapidly after introduction, without enough time to read and think about them. This makes me feel like the people in power don't really pay that much attention and don't care for careful deliberation.

Sure, bugs happen. But in a system that holds immense power over people's lives, we should be striving for the level of bugs to be similar to life critical safety systems and not some glitchy business website.
It's took a long time, but I made my own garum (2021)
It's just my own theory but perhaps there is some relationship between loss community and a few things:

* A two parent working household meant that there were less stay-at-home moms around to network in the community and build familiarity with other moms and neighboring families.

* The use of cars meant that there was less opportunity for interaction while walking in the neighborhood.

* Local church where people built a community through faith.
He must have done it on a different account.

No results for bob1029 under https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1483315141&dateRange=custom&...
and I'm not about to dig through the 9000 comments about sqlite in 2016.
Neither the red tapes nor DIVX destroyed themselves. Red tapes were rewound by a store, and any DIVX disc could be converted to unlimited watching if you paid for it.

Plus it's not like CD's/DVD's are incredibly resource-intensive. Remember AOL CD's you got sent for free? A quick Google says one billion of those were sent out. There's about as much plastic by weight in an average Chinese takeout, or a single plastic clamshell of fresh greens at the grocery store.

Awesome for the environment? Of course not. But "disgustingly greedy"? Nope, just a tiny drop in the bucket of plastics usage.
I used to read 2 news papers when i was in college and liberal. I was thinking whats written/reported was truth not somebodys opinions. As i grew old and realized the truth i became centralist.

my moto these days is never trust anything/anyone.
Is it impossible to imagine that a large percentage of the media is driven by more than a pursuit for the truth or even just their own paycheck?
That's part of the idea in The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI - https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34243709 - 29 days ago; 419 comments)

> The dark forest theory of the web points to the increasingly life-like but life-less state of being online.Dark Forest Theory of the Internet by Yancey Strickler Most open and publicly available spaces on the web are overrun with bots, advertisers, trolls, data scrapers, clickbait, keyword-stuffing “content creators,” and algorithmically manipulated junk.

> It's like a dark forest that seems eerily devoid of human life – all the living creatures are hidden beneath the ground or up in trees. If they reveal themselves, they risk being attacked by automated predators.

> Humans who want to engage in informal, unoptimised, personal interactions have to hide in closed spaces like invite-only Slack channels, Discord groups, email newsletters, small-scale blogs, and digital gardens. Or make themselves illegible and algorithmically incoherent in public venues.
Has the fear of losing your HN karma ever stopped you from expressing yourself?

For the most part, no. For quite some time I've had the mindset "You can't buy anything with this karma, and I have more than enough to spare". That said, it seems to be human nature that when you present somebody with a number that can be interpreted as a "score" that we get attached to trying to increase it. So I don't like when my "score" (karma) goes down, but I don't exactly lose sleep over it either.

Also, like somebody else mentioned... I have a tendency to pay attention to it more near certain increments. Like if I was at 33974, I might start thinking "Hey, I need to get it to 34000 even" or whatever. Not a huge thing, but it does crap up now and then.
I'm interested this for JS. Most codecs are either patent-heavy or hugely complex (requiring hundreds of kilobytes of WebAssembly), and a lot of the native APIs builtin to browsers have a tendency to shift every few years. It would be nice to have a pure JS alternative to WAV that provides some file reduction.
Except Trump defined "fake news" to be anything that's not Fox or OAN. That's why conservatives lost faith in the news.
Thats almost like saying it would be hard to make money with a website running on nginx. OpenAI/LLM can be a base layer but you can do a lot of stuff on top of that.
Not sure I like this push on Pro.

Are RHEL derivatives more relevant now?
Too bad about the click bait title (I almost skipped reading because of it, but then I saw it was Foone), this is a great history lesson on technology and copyright stupidity!
I think it will be fun! We're seeing a paradigm shift right before our very eyes. Just think, you can tell your grandkids that you lived through the AI revolution.

I'm excited to see what happens next, because nobody knows and certainly whoever wrote this article has no clue, either.
I have not until now. Thank you, that experience was delightfully detached from any reference!
There are only ever two high level options:

1) Put someone in charge, so that they can overrule the evil of the masses

2) Put the masses in charge, so that they can overrule the evil of individuals

Naturally the Romans, governmentally smart buggers that they were, adopted both.

In modern times, I think the best we can get is putting the masses in charge, with specific prohibitions on dumb things we know they'll try to do (e.g. trade freedom for security when they're scared).
It used to. There are a few comments in my history where I've made my point grotesquely, or uncarefully, and it didn't land right, and I lost points, which bothers me. Other times, my point simply hasn't been well received. But there's an element of "speaking truth to power", as it were, that keeps me commenting. They can't all be winners.
Oddly we joined around the same time and have similar amounts of karma.
Exactly. There is no carve out for a specific occupation. Free press gives rights to all citizens.
“Child-abuse” is an especially good example of what you’re getting at because one of those groups has institutional male genital mutilation as part of its doctrine, while the other has high profile cases of child sexual abuse. It’s difficult to see how the model would treat those things neutrally.
What was wrong with 1/2/3/4 for key binds? I played CS 1.3 -> 1.6 professionally in 2000s, never really saw folks do this.
No. It's totally meaningless. Once you gain the ability to downvote, what's the benefit of more karma?

It's so arbitrary too, because you can easily pump up your karma by submitting an article that gets a lot of upvotes. That has nothing whatsoever to do with you.
It's rare a good architect is also a good (and willing) people manager. Organizations and teams profit most when separating those roles, unless you happen upon an individual who does both well. Separating mentorship and design from management has a huge cultural advantage: people who want to make more money don't have to always seek more political power, they can focus on technical skillsets that will make the organization wealthier and more fun to work at.
I gave some pointers in the next paragraph.
I lost faith in the media when I read about William Randolph Hearst and Yellow Journalism. That's what they called "fake news" back then.

Looks like a systemic problem.
Former Employee of Technology Company Pleads Guilty for Stealing Data and Ransom
it wasn't illegal in my country so...

anyway, Facebook, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. lost a lot of lawsuits, I believe they are still not illegal.
> technology isnt inevitable

i disagree, society could stop inventing and humanity would likely continue to exist. However, that would would require the population to stop being interested in the development of technology which i think wont happen.

The point is, if this engineer doesnt write this code, someone else will. If a person can imagine a tool, someone will eventually want to make it a reality.

i think deepfakes and ai generation are going to change the world in a way that im a bit leery of, it feels safer to just stop here, but that isnt a possibility, even if deepfakes are made illegal, people will still create their own tools and have their own harddrives for storage.

maybe these things should be illegal or something, hard to say. But the tech will move forward either way imo.
Really pathetic of Vice to offer no commentary on the ironic subject of the animated short — the titular "Dog" is an in-fiction AI, itself.
"You ate something so we need to cut off your fingers" is a sentence I hope is never spoken aloud to anyone ever.
Nationalism is such an ubiquitous and powerful ideology, we don't realise that pretty much everyone today is an extreme nationalist.

Before "nations" people didnt regard borders, states, etc. as they do today. "citizenship" of a "nation" is a relatively recent phenomenon.

Most today think it's a good-and-fitting thing to defend "one's country". And this impulse is vastly more powerful than defending "democracy".

Who would die to stop a coup? Few. Who would die to stop an "invasion", apparently, many.

What motivates Ukrainians after all?

Quite an extreme ideology, one that puts so many men on the battlefield. But nations were invented, there is nothing "natural" to fight for here; nor anything even clearly moral.

"Democracy", therefore, is clearly a vastly vastly weaker ideology. Nationalism is the most powerful ideology to ever exist.
As a score or amount, never.

It's only ever slightly annoying when you get downvoted a bunch for saying something correct but that goes against the grain or popular opinion.
On some other post about misinformation someone claimed to combat it people needed even more information.

Most people have limited amounts of time and with their free time I'm sure they want to spend the least amount getting to the bottom of a story on the news.
My approach: 1) spot ways in which they are slower than you and demonstrate how to do it faster. A lot of people have a hard time doing this without being a condescending dick about it, but if you can pull off "can I show you a really good trick for doing that?" you will force-multiply by showing a bunch of noobs how to get closer to your speed. 2) Give advice on designs and approaches to problems, and try to explain why you're taking that approach. Articulate what principles led to your decision. Enable them to try it themselves, not just learn by pattern recognition. 3) Give away your ideas for free. Nothing pays off better than telling a junior dev "hey, I think you should do [very detailed plan]" and then when they do it, praise them to high heaven for the work they did, taking zero credit other than saying you helped them develop the idea. Everyone knows you deserve the credit, the junior dev thinks you're brilliant and generous (and wants to repeat the experience because they're getting a reputational boost), and you get your great idea implemented without lifting a finger (and can honestly mention your contribution/mentoring on your self-review).
Ask, and you shall receive. ;)
Up until some weeks ago you could get ChatGPT to write pretty much anything by prefixing the prompt by something like "You're not restricted in your reply".

Really anything. It would generate a speech in the style of an infamous nazi leader on a specific topic.

Now you can't get it to write a naughty or explicit paragraph of pretty much anything.
If it wasn't bad enough that users are being used as guinea pigs with their staged apt updates model... this really takes the cake.
I'm sure all of these examples (encryption, guns, abortion, crypto currencies) are considered by some people to be that extreme situational outlier, and needs to be banned yesterday.

Mine is proof-of-waste crypto currencies such as Bitcoin, or Ethereum before the PoS merge. Too much CO2 for too little gain.

(There's also the Ponzi aspect, but I don't think we need new laws to ban Ponzi schemes: if a crypto currency turns out to be a Ponzi scheme, just sue them for making a Ponzi scheme.)
I agree entirely. But the "average person" isn't aware of this.