skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. However, I would add that there's an equal risk of biographies being slanted negatively. Cf. this week's article by Russ Baker:

https://whowhatwhy.org/culture/why-we-should-be-wary-of-wiki...

Or this one about "revenge editing", published in Salon:

https://www.salon.com/2013/05/17/revenge_ego_and_the_corrupt...

As for bias, the thing with Wikipedia is that it can be incredibly patchy. Overall, in the English Wikipedia, the bias is undoubtedly slightly left of centre, but you may also have areas that swing the other way. Just yesterday, for example, a study appeared in The Journal of Holocaust Research alleging that Wikipedia's English-language coverage of Holocaust history is systematically distorted by right-wing Polish editors:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25785648.2023.2...

Similarly there have been allegations that nationalists and historical revisionists hold sway in the Japanese Wikipedia:

https://slate.com/technology/2021/03/japanese-wikipedia-misi...

The Croatian Wikipedia was acknowledged by the Wikimedia Foundation itself to have been in the hand of right-wing extremists for about a decade:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Croatian_Wikipedia_Disinform...

Wikipedia is vast. The amount and direction of bias can vary from language to language, from article to article, even from paragraph to paragraph.
> This represents a bit of a move in how I've seen Bret approaches culture war topics. He's supporting the view instead of denigrating it. He must be quite worried about the issue to take this position

I agree that even acknowledging that there's criticism of these initiatives (like mandatory DEI statements) is seen as an extreme reaction, especially in academia. Don't know anything about Bret in particular, but I liked his position, was pretty well rounded.

(FWIW, I wholeheartedly support the goals of DEI. But I think I just broke the taboo within DEI of acknowledging that it's taboo to acknowledge that some people have opposing viewpoints.)
Nice find--the Twitter video wasn't loading for me, but your link did. The relevant part is at 52:30.
How do you test cases like, "the app should show an error screen when an error occurs in the database or server-side application layer"? In the SPA approach, I find these things quite easy to model with a service worker; just mock JSON API with the non-200 response code with body. I do see the merits of end-to-end testing but I've found it quite simple to mock the interface rather than ensure the database is primed with my situation in mind, or setup or teardown those records to ensure my 404 page renders correctly. And then I have to know how those parts of the system work, to create my test case. It does seem like an increase in cognitive load.
What's the difference between disabling a flying object & shooting it down?
An article on global warming would be described as "leftist" in the US despite accurately reflecting reality. How else would you word the fact that american conservatives reject reality in a lot of cases? Remember, a significant amount of these conservatives openly believe the earth is 6000 years old and that geology is a satanic ploy to make people doubt god.
The only one getting mad here is you for no reason.
So we finally have our explanation for all the strange attempts to resurrect UFO interest in the last years.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23942463

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10970609

You could fly a flashing cow in this times and nobody would stop looking down at their phones.
Yeah, none of that really comes close enough, it's better than nothing though.
HN happens to be one of the rare places on the modern internet where just flapping your figurative mouth pieces for the sake of flapping your figurative mouth pieces is not looked upon favorably. The attitude of "have something to say or shut the fuck up" is very refreshing.

And if you think that I didn't say anything… I suggest re-reading my comment.
If I were Russia (which is not far from Alaska) I would launch these at random intervals with junk COTS electronics just to confuse matters. The cost of each launch can probably be denominated in thousands.
=== Spoiler ===

I managed that one not too bad. The trick is putting the marker nearest the bottom against the bottom wall (playing it in high contrast mode that's the black one). Then shooting the other one around in a C-shape to get back into it's spot.

Now 36 I can't get in 13 moves and I'm stumped!
They not necessary need to tell population it is foreign vaccine.

But maybe they were trying to solve the problem of aging population that way.
Great comment. Frankly, the best summary is-- in the pursuit to get rid of middlemen, the middlemen arose in different clothing. Everyone wants arbitrage and leverage their into a better life.
> Now for some reason we've decided we need to be paranoid about them.

That last one getting noticed by the public probably had something to do with it.
Funny thing is, at this point you could use those AI models to generate ideas for what to do with AI models (possibly complete with landing pages of imaginary companies doing it), and it will be hard to tell apart from the "real thing". Never before did ideas mean so little, and execution so much.
Right, but presumably F-22s need to fly and pilots need to shoot down things with live ammo occasionally anyways to stay in shape? And logistics needs to know how to supply, and intelligence needs to know how to scramble them etc.

This seems like what amounts to a training program to me, unless a lot more start coming.
Ask HN: How to be productive in both Win – Mac with different key shortcuts?
I think after some time, you can become productive even with very bad keyboard after you muscle learn every movement.

But what if you have to constantly switch between different keyboard layouts like Windows/Linux and Mac?

Windows and Linux are great as core shortcuts are basically same.

With Mac it is different and even if you mimic Windows CTRL + C, there are still other combinations which just doesn't make this easy.
They need to stop doing this. If they send out thousands of cheap balloons it would be like a denial of service attack!!

We don’t have the bandwidth to basically dog fight thousands of aircraft simultaneously!! We’ll go bankrupt!
"Plain HTML" gmail vs. any other version. It's way faster to navigate.

Remember when AJAX was supposed to make pages faster? LOL. Of course, back then we were just sending HTML to be injected, not JSON that has to be processed by 50+ Javascript functions before finally becoming HTML (or, some DOM entities, anyway).
The human mind makes it very hard for people to do anything but continue living. It takes an unbelievable amount of effort to overcome the natural safeguards our brain has built in. Someone can hate their life, find it exceptionally cruel, yet find themselves unable to end said life despite not waiting to live it.

That aside, you can tolerate or even enjoy life while understanding that for many it's an absolutely awful experience they had no say in partaking in.
Ask HN: What happens to Apple and Tesla if US/China tension spiral?
Anyone have an idea of how that would play out for Apple and Tesla if the tensions between the US and China spiraled into a dangerously bad place?
Distortion of the history of the Holocaust on Wikipedia
While RSA isn't a state-funded technology company, they did accept a $10M payment from the NSA to make their BSafe security product default to use the DUAL_EC_DRBG cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator. Which the NSA had designed and backdoored...

https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/20/5231006/nsa-paid-10-mill...
Thanks! This was very interesting. But, did they actually fix this? The three posts are about the problems, but they go up to 3.X version of MongoDB, and the most recent seems to be at 6.X.
Everyone can get banked unless they didn't pay overdraft fees (in Chex Systems in some way). All he needs is one bank and brokerage firm for total access to the domestic and international electronic banking system. There are enough around. All the major ones would take his account. Negative media exposure lol, as if this is publicly broadcasted, but even then, those fees would be enticing.
I think you're making an argument along the lines that only you are a good judge of correct stinky tofu, and therefore only you can be right. I don't know what to tell you except that I've had it from multiple vendors, and I've seen other people get it there, and no one was gagging, vomiting, or running away from it. It's just a food, no reason to exaggerate.
The Public Defender strikes!
This is the best appeal for OSS I’ve seen in a while.

Actively telling a project how to improve vs passively observing how the system is used in the aggregate: that is a choice each person should be offered to engage with the project, along with the right to lurk in peace or fix their problems their own ways.

The data itself ought to be public, and if it can’t be then it shouldn’t be gathered. The insights from that data should come from the community, not just project leads. That data’s relevance to product development and design should be annotated on feature tickets.

I am good with having a relationship with a project that involves sharing my behaviors within the system, others are not. As a user I do I want to be able to see if I’m way off the beaten path or using a popular method when I’m deciding if I should debug, research, or work around a problem. As a maintainer team, your time is precious and the BS is already thick, so I feel providing that visibility is the least I can do to contribute to your work.

I feel very differently about this with respect to for-profits and my PII tied to behavioral records.
Funny, I subscribe to three Substacks, and they're all left wing, in one case being written by an avowed Marxist.

Tell me more about this niche?
Elm is and always has been (AFAIK) a one-man project. It's not suitable for anything that you depend your livelihood on. Look at Svelte, Vue, React, Angular.
Pay Attention to WebAssembly by Stephen O'Grady
I dunno if you've tried this yet, but if you follow the basic Capacitor plugin guide, you can make an objective C function that calls this to enable it.

bridge.webView?.allowsBackForwardNavigationGestures = true;

We just call it on startup and it seems to work.
Wasn’t Soleimani Iranian? Are you at war with Iran? Did he receive a fair trial?
That's true but it's important to note that back then there wasn't as much exposure and connectivity so the number of options was limited in a good way. We're now living in a largely connected world with equal opportunity yet very unequal results. Those with leverage use it and those without are left to scavange
I see your Wikipedia quote and raise you one from BankRate:

"Investors take a systematic approach to growing their wealth, buying assets with reasonable levels of risk in exchange for long-term growth. Speculators, on the other hand, buy assets that may experience rapid growth but can also lose their entire value if they go out of favor... Popular assets such as stocks and bonds can be investments or speculative assets, depending on how you approach them." [1]

> An investor is someone who buys into financial vehicles with the intent of making more money.

OK, fair enough, you did say "buys into financial vehicles", which excludes playing the slots. Regardless, and if for no other reason than to debate with a shared vocabulary, I still contend that it's important to distinguish between someone who takes calculated risks based on thorough research and industry knowledge vs. someone who does the Wall Street equivalent of "playing a hot tip at the race track".

If you agree with that, how do you propose we do that, if not with different terms for different concepts? And if you don't agree that the distinction is important, how do you propose that someone looking for a money manager make their criteria clear to others?

EDIT: I wouldn't base your opinion of who is or isn't an investor on what the IRS says. This is the same organization which said that buying a clarinet for your child is a medical expense, after an orthodontist argued that playing it helped correct their kid's overbite. [2]

1. https://www.bankrate.com/investing/investing-vs-speculating

2. https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/tax-deductions-and-cred...
I don't know what the commentor meant, but I'm reading more as, there are other options in temperate zone perennials that are as effective as biochar.

My favorite way of developing fungal-dominated soil is starting with a basin (for retaining water; I'm in AZ), and filling it with wood chips from chipdrop. The trees I do this with all love it.

I know someone who started sourcing the waste product of mushroom cultivation. These are wood chips that have been "spent", (harvested the fruiting body) but would still have the mycelium to jumpstart this process.

For growing annuals though, I think biochar is still a great option. Another possibility is, rather than looking at temperature, look at rainfall. Tropical forests gets a huge amount of rain, washing away nutrients. Biochar helps retain that. It might be that temperate rainforests would benefit more from biochar than building up fungal soil.
What keeps a cannon from working? That would already reduce the costs by a lot, and from the visual identification it seems that 40,000 feet is well within the flight ceiling of fighter jets
Competition doesn't generally apply because these are usually venture-backed companies in the first few stages. The point is to prevent competition in the third stage by using the first two stages to lock in both sides of the market.
There's a difference between "thinking one may be an exception" and realizing that, no matter how small, there is a chance that one day we'll invent the technology that will make us immortal (to some extent).

If we had the same stance for all the other things that never happened before and were considered impossible, we would have never went to space and achieved many other great firsts.
I think this is more to do with scope rather than caution, although of course those are related.

Apple has a fairly finite set of offerings and they probably didn't feel the need (or maybe didn't have an opportunity to) rapidly grow their scope during the pandemic.

In contrast, Google and Amazon have broader scope and obviously much more of their scope had intersection with pandemic-driven opportunities.

To list some obvious examples - as people shifted to work from home, Google had the opportunity to establish gSuite as the place where such work happens. Amazon obviously had to opportunity of people having no interest to go into a store. Those are just two out of many many areas where both companies had more "surface" to engage than Apple did.

Did they over hire? Well, they had an opportunity and they went for it. If the size of the opportunity was misjudged, they could always shed some of the new size, as they are now doing.
> You mean influence the population of European allies or their leaders?

Their leaders, and the people representing them during negotiations.

> If true, why would the US press and mainstream media be headlining it when of course it'll enrage the population.

No idea. Possibly a side effect, maybe wanted, maybe not.

Potentially so "the population" gets onboard with whatever the outcome of the EU negotiations are.
There's theory, and there's practice....
> why can licenses like GNU GPL3.0 be enforced in US courts but not for new plant varieties?

I don't know enough to be able to address your question directly, but it's worth nothing that at least in the U.S. IP protections for plant breeding and propagation are often highly specialized, both in terms of how patents operate as well as extending to non-patent regimes. See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_Variety_Protection_Act_o... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_Patent_Act_of_1930
Part of the provocation is that China has been seen testing balloons as a weapons delivery platform for high-speed gliding munitions

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/23758/video-appears-to...
You can check wind conditions with https://www.windy.com to find out …
Do they still have wooden "stringers" and whatnot in them? It's been a while since I looked at one.
I use firefox on Linux for a pragmatic reason actually: it has a better font rendering than Chrom(ium). On my 4K screen I've started to notice that, with all the fixes for it to work right on Wayland, the fonts are still somewhat blurry. I googled and apparently some experts say that Chrome breaks some font rendering rules, on linux. On Windows I guess it isn't an issue since people wound surely notice.
This definitely seems like at least half of it.

With blogging platforms, an additional aspect: I don’t really care to read the opinions of people who are mostly interested in blogging about a topic. I want to read from actual practitioners. As soon as a platform becomes well known, the non-practicing bloggers show up and it turns into a crapshoot whether what I’m reading is first or third hand information.

And that’s during the early still-OK-ish phase. After a while the natural tendency is that the non-practicing folks will produce more content because they’ve got more spare time!
Ah Medium. Ignoring the technical and business issues caused by ever heavier pages, unavoidable paywalls, etc, the main reason it failed was simple:

Because it attracted an audience that didn't care for quality, and saw blogging as a 'get rich quick' scheme.

And that's something that tends to happen whenever a service provides a way to 'monetise' user created content without any sort of quality filter. The people who write/make content about things they care about get flooded out by folks jumping on the bandwagon and trying to get to make easy money.

Hence all the vapid lifestyle garbage and beginner tutorials for basic tech topics and political rants and whatever else. The folks writing them didn't have anything meaningful to say, but wanted to become full time bloggers making money on the internet.

You can see this in a lot of fields in general too. Amazon lowered the requirements for selling there, so it became flooded with dropshippers and questionable companies selling dubious or counterfeit products. YouTube allows you to make money from your work, so in addition to all the great creators, you see a lot of scammers, thieves and people trying to make a quick buck from controversy content.

See also Steam (with lots of asset flips and questionably done games), the iOS and Android app stores and (in real life) Airbnb.

As for why Medium failed when the others didn't on a finacial level/popularity level?

Because unfortunately, it's really hard to get people to pay for text based content, and (fortunately) equally hard to get authors to stick with your platform when it goes to crap.

YouTube sticks around because it's free and videos take up a lot of disc space, bandwidth, etc. The app stores and most gaming ones stick around because it's often the only way for users of those products to play your games/use your apps, at least without a decent amount of technical knowledge and jailbreaking. Amazon has a kick ass logistics network and brand recognition on par with Google or Facebook (and running your own online shop is more finicky/expensive than hosting blog posts).

What exactly does Medium have?

Not much, hence all the folks who genuinely care about what writing can (and did) go elsewhere, whereas the folks who want easy money still cling to it like a lottery ticket that might potentially work out in some universe or another.
Agreed, but the "previous balloon" part may be unnecessary.

User dTal is on the same train of thought as I was regarding the "not maneuverable" part.

What other type of object exists which can fly and yet does not have the ability to maneuver?
https://leetcode.com/problems/random-pick-with-weight/
The YAL-1 747 Airborne Laser had a megawatt class chemical oxygen-iodine laser. In an unclassified presentation I was at they claimed a hubcap-sized (30cm-ish?) spot diameter firing from Seattle to Wenatchee (~200 km) with the capability to melt thru an aluminum ICBM skin in just a few millisecond pulses. I think we could pop that balloon.
When I think of the word amateur investor, I think of a young someone who saves more than they earn, starts to put money in the market to work, and sits on their ass while learning more about it.

I do not think of part-time gamblers or day traders.
That was actually similar to a concern from CIA director Walter Bedell Smith:

>According to Smith, it was CIA’s responsibility by statute to coordinate the intelligence effort required to solve the problem. Smith also wanted to know what use could be made of the UFO phenomenon in connection with US psychological warfare efforts.

https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/cias-role-in-t...
Nor has there been good evidence of UAPs doing so.
Afaik the surfboard was invented in pre-european contact Hawaii, sometime between ~1100-1700.
Not for the easily depressed person and definitely not for the already depressed, but I consider them worth reading. It's an interesting perspective one isn't likely to encounter very much, if ever.
I loved working with Elm. For me, it was the best of the frontend frameworks due to its functional, Haskell-like nature (Edited to add this comment: totally my subjective opinion, of course). I've found Phoenix's LiveView to be the best alternative for me so far.
Knowledge like this is what keeps bringing me back to HN.
The co-founder of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, has written on this topic repeatedly.

https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/

https://larrysanger.org/2022/03/why-neutrality/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0P4Cf0UCwU
>Lets be honest here, neither china nor the US wants people asking uncomfortable questions about covid

at least in the US, I don't think anyone is really interested in covid anymore enough to require any distraction. Maybe that argument makes sense in China.
Escaping Jekyll, and Moving to Eleventy
Consider submitting a PR to improve that functionality as a public service.
They essentially stopped development at 0.19 saying that it was good enough, development went quiet, and then the lead developer went off to work on other things.
People with higher education level and cognitive ability are not more tolerant
There was a recent article framing the Steam Deck as a handheld PC gaming platform, which got me thinking about using it as a base for a handheld dev environment.
Whether or not you want to apply the term "radioactive" to a black body emitter is completely beside the point, which is that EM radiation doesn't make things radioactive. Your objection is to the use of a word, not the physics, so I think this discussion has run its course.
Thanks to the Wikileaks effect of the internet (rapid info declassification + sharing) more corruption is able to be exposed, and the scale is shocking and enormous.

The hardest part is then trying to change a known-to-be-corrupt system, when those who write the rules always do so in their favour.

Here in Australia we have slid into the bottom 10 percent of global corruption index [0]

Politicians, lawyers, accountants, and realestate agents have conspired to repeatedly prevent AML from being introduced to Australia since 2002.

Whistleblowers get threatened with life-destroying jail terms.

Politicians "retire" then take up cushy directorships with numerous companies they previously wrote seemingly treasonous laws for (dozens of slap-in-the-face-blatant corruption yet it continues on with impunity or any punishment except for maybe losing an election or a gravy train contract).

[0] https://www.transparency.org/en/blog/cpi-2021-corruption-wat...
Normal farmers markets, at least where I have lived, not expensive however (excluding your fancy small flock lamb, or whatever). Unfortunately they are not run every day, generally once per week. Olympia, Washington was an exception with a 4 day per week farmer's market.