skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i may be being to literal with the definition of “objective” that i’m using and if i am, apologies up front.

i’m not sure there will ever be such a thing as an “objective” based news source. so often there is incredibly important information that needs to be part of the public knowledge base yet that piece of news is quite literally impossible to report on and be entirely “objective.”

i think a better standard would be for these organizations to actually follow already well established journalistic codes of ethics. so many of our organizations intentionally muddy the waters between opinion pieces and journalist pieces and frankly it’s gross. particularly because our schools put almost no emphasis on media literacy. this leaves most people vulnerable to crazy amounts of manipulation.

another piece of this which has bothered me lately is when folks use “objective” to imply that emotions aren’t an incredibly important piece of our decision making.

when we’re discussing wider society, EQ is absolutely just as important as IQ and this trend where certain people are trying to delude themselves and others into thinking they can somehow magically escape this basic fact is just wild to see.

i can’t help but question what i think is a naive obsession with “objective” and how much of a fools errand it is ultimately.

the final thing i’ll comment on is this idea that we seem to be stuck on, this idea of one or two major information sources. we do this with everything from social media sites to news sites. when i go to parties at friends houses, or out to bars with my friends, we don’t go to places where we won’t like the people. and that’s absolutely the norm throughout society in the real world. but for some reason We, the larger tech community delude ourselves into thinking it would be any different online.

from what i’ve read of the recent past, there used to be tens of thousands of places people got their news from. every town had multiple news papers. there were countless magazines. countless journals. etc… yet hilariously We, the tech community, keep convincing ourselves that shoving everyone into the same domain name is a good idea. and then we act so shocked when the obvious inevitable happens.

this kind of thinking causes problems in so many directions. if i’m in a group of classic Corvette fans, and i’m constantly over and over and over confronted by Camaro fans. “Explain yourself to me. if you don’t explain yourself to me, obviously that means camaro is objectively better than corvette!” this would be obnoxious and the organizers would ban the person for being toxic. we need to allow ourselves space to enjoy ourselves or discuss our passions without random dipshits constantly demanding we explain ourselves. and ironically, if there is one place where we should be able to spread out into countless directions, it’s the internet. and news should be no exception to this.

we need to uphold news orgs to already well established journalistic ethics codes and from there quit with this absurd idea that there should be only one.
While it seems appealing, Google's track record of killing products makes me not want to use it.
Yes, that's exactly it. The search is greedy and even partial hits (or hits with the word order not matching your search, etc.) will show up.
Trying to engage more constructively... Do you think that this is essentially a scare-piece (and is no way supported by the relatively limited data that is available [which is a concern in of itself])?

Second question, what if the word 'skyrocket' were replaced with 'increased', would that change your perspective?
> And again, most of the metrics here (bed availability, for example) should not be geographically bound at all.

Is that true though? A less densely populated area would have a lower baseline number of hospital beds, which I'd expect would make it more sensitive to unexpected volatility in demand. Major hospitals often have empty wards which are kept available as contingencies for unexpected events such as terrorist attacks or natural disasters – I've seen one in person before, all these beds and medical equipment with the lights turned off gives me goosebumps for some reason – less major hospitals are less likely to have such facilities – but obviously they give hospital management greater leeway (at least in theory) to manage unexpected bursts in demand. And of course, less densely populated areas are likely to have fewer major hospitals and a greater number of minor ones. Similarly, larger hospitals have larger staffs, so greater likelihood they can ask extra staff to come in to meet unexpected demand bursts.

So, in the abstract, I would not be surprised if less densely populated areas of England had worse bed availability than more densely populated areas. And indeed, the least dense area of England, the South West, scored the worst in hospital bed availability in their analysis–as I would have expected.

I think that is a flaw in the methodology of this article, they display no evidence of having considered factors like that, or having attempted to control for them.
The future of Amazon's Honeycode cloud service is not looking so sweet
“Ok here’s the deal: we didn’t work with any data protection experts, consult a lawyer, or even think through any possible negative outcomes of tricking you into giving us your personal financial info and email. We’re sure that’s great for our brand, definitely not a form of wire fraud or a deceptive trade practice, and there’s no way we’d get into some seriously deep shit for this cute website.”
https://archive.md/OoIWT
That's a real stretch and a weak argument.
Red is based on the Rebol language and is said to be 95% compatible with Rebol 2.7. The Red website includes links to the tutorials and code examples for Rebol alongside Red specific links.
I've been using a text editor and a repl forever now and don't see myself adding to the workflow. I don't optimize things that are so far off the critical path of my productivity.
Nah, this is some terrible whataboutism. Stick to the topic.
This is not a direct response to your experience but a little off topic but lazyvim uses lazy.vim which is a modern plugin manager that lazy loads plugins/extensions, it also loads plugins on demand instead of loading them all together at startup from your config. It also can lazy-load plugins based on events, keymaps, filetypes etc
Having read the Matt Levine piece linked below (https://archive.is/KcL2P) I think that J&J did the right thing by attempting to use bankruptcy to organize payments.

It was not avoiding liability at all.

The court that dismissed the claim in general agreed with J&J's process, but said it was too early.

Some key quote from Levine:

> Juries in the US don’t like it when companies make products that kill people, and they tend to award enormous damages in cases like that. You multiply enormous damages by lots of cases, and you can easily end up with damages that exceed the value of the company. This can lead to unfair results, not for you — who cares about you — but for your victims: If a $1 billion company has killed 100 people, the first 10 who sue might get $100 million each of damages, leaving nothing for the remaining 90.

> one pretty practical approach [to how to solve this problem] is bankruptcy. This, after all, is what bankruptcy is for: It is a system to make sure that creditors are all paid fairly out of the assets of a company, rather than paying some creditors a lot because they are early and others nothing because they are too late.

> Bankruptcy courts are run by judges, who are bankruptcy professionals and who are used to dealing with companies that are, you know, bankrupt. They are used to not having enough money to go around; they are not temperamentally lavish with claims.

> That is, LTL — the box where J&J put its talc claims — could draw at least $61.5 billion from J&J to pay off those claims. The point here, the bankruptcy court concluded, was not to keep J&J from having to pay talc claims; the entire value of J&J’s consumer business was still on the line for those claims.

> But the Third Circuit disagreed, not because it thinks that the bankruptcy court is a bad place to resolve claims, and not because it thinks that J&J is avoiding liability with the Texas two-step, but because LTL isn’t bankrupt enough

> In some ways this is a sensible reading of the bankruptcy code, but it is a little bit of a weird result. The point of doing any of this is to do it early, before you are out of money, so that you have plenty of money to pay all the claimants fairly. The court realizes this awkwardness

> You don’t have to be insolvent to file for bankruptcy, and it is good to file early, but not prematurely. You want to file for bankruptcy while you still have plenty of money to pay claims, but not too much money.

Read the whole article. It's good!
not new, and red is actually quite interesting compared to other languages, worth having a good look.

Also, worth reading Paul Grahams "Blub Paradox" article from decades ago... http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html (hopefully you know who he is given you are here on HN)
This language is more than 10 years old
Doesn't rent control compound the problem? In areas with housing shortage, if no one can move, then the supply is further constrained. New people moving into the city (or young people moving out of their parent's homes) have to pay current market prices.
Somehow I prefer that over Windows' infamous installer always flying trough to 99% in 1% of the time, only to waste the next 99% of total install time to finish up that last 1%
>> faint whenever "government" is mentioned

I don't believe the concern is necessarily the case that people fear current governments. The concern is that monotonic consolidation of power will eventually lead to a totalitarian state. Having a single, government funded, news channel is a tenet of any authoritarian state so likely best to avoid. Naturally the only way to have a single source is to have strong censorship laws which only allow government approved information. This is far riskier to democracy than random crack-pot journalists. Though we may have always lived in free countries, it is important to remember that even today the majority of the world's citizens live in non-free countries. Backsliding is possible - it has happened before and could happen again. I'd rather not think about this either but I think it is important to be mindful of the possibility.

>> BBC, NHK, CBC, PBS, France 24

I don't know anything about the others, but the CBC is considered controversial in Canada.

>> Stanford, Harvard, Yale, MIT, Caltech - all private

I don't really understand the analogy here. Elite universities are large institutions, but do not exclude smaller ones (good). Wouldn't this essentially be what we have now (New York Times, Washington Post, etc).
Is a class action somehow impossible if they don't declare bankruptcy? Or they can't distribute money as easily as in a class action? The mechanics of this don't sound so absolutely necessary.

Further, if your company produces products that kill or injure people, then why should we show any interest in maintaining that companies existence with odd legal hacks like this? Shouldn't they be disbanded, their assets sold, and new businesses allowed to exist in that space?

What are we, in total, as a society, gaining by allowing this?
I also haven't experienced this much. I use the lazy loading functionality for vim-plug, along with async where I can. My neovim starts up in only a few milliseconds and avoids loading most plugins until I open specific file types or use a specific command.
You can add a user certificate, but in pretty sure it's up to the app if it wants to trust that certificate.
> I am not aware of any comparable headline figure for how pedestrians fare against them but I would put money on their pedestrian safety performance

USA is world no1 at killing pedestrians. Most pedestrian deaths per mile driven of any country. 7000 pedestrians die in traffic collisions annually.

Freakonomics just started a 3-part series on this.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-the-u-s-so-good-at-k...
Previously: "Javice and the data science professor create fake customers" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34362157 (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23570243-frank_suit#...)
Corporations = no personal liabilities.

Scientists = personal liabilities.

Even the threat of losing one's credibility and career for daring to publish science which might possibly harm corporate profits is a horrible thing.
Sadly the unpaywalled version is also paywalled
If the seller didn’t have to pay the agents, the seller would be able to accept a lower offer. The buyer pays, in the end.
> road rage is non-existent between cyclists and pedestrians

You must be living in a different city from where I live.
Interesting. When you say pay money do you mean as in paying for Azure resources, or paying EXTRA for somebody to pick up the phone?
They are tube-fired, so maybe it's so they don't have to be oriented for firing. I'd like to hear an explanation of the aerodynamics of the wing arrangement, such as how it affects flight stability. I've never seen anything like it.
Exactly what profit did the scientists make?
> So with the Theban tablets, if the decipherment were false it should have yielded nonsense when applied to unknown texts.

How is this claim compatible with the observation that, when applied to a text written in Latin, the decipherment fails to yield nonsense?
I know there are similar findings about e.g. smoking - you die younger and more quickly and so spare socialized healthcare lots of spending. Probably true for obesity, drinking, drug use, etc. From a purely economic standpoint, living to be 100 with various chronic conditions of the kind that come with age (plus drawing social security) is probably the most draining way to live. I don't mean to say it's bad, just that it shows how dumb the thinly veiled telling people how to live in the name of their burden on the healthcare system argument is. If that was really what we cared about the government should be encouraging us all to live fast and die young. But it's about control, not anything else.
That was published in 1996. Textured breast implants are associated with increased rates of Breast Implant-Associated Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (BIA-ALCL) [0]. Squamous cell carcinoma can also form in the scar tissue of many types of implants [1].

0: https://www.plasticsurgery.org/patient-safety/breast-implant...

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/health/breast-implants-ca...
I agree. When I hire a professional I expect them to tell me when what I want is wrong or tell me how it can be done in a better way.

IME some organizations are just not open to alternative suggestions. Some genuinely just want people to do exactly as they’re told and work within the limitations of their system without question. This is IMO the worst type of organization to work for. Even in these environments, I would hope that people speak up.
Thanks for the reply, forms are such a pain in the ass. Of course you need hard input sanitizing on the backend but just helping people fill out a form correctly can require some JS.
I don't think that's actually true, people knew about the population increase, and eventually the obvious problem with food was worked on (machines to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere, pesticides, large farming machinery, weather prediction, record keeping and communication, futures). A population level of at least 7 billion is probably required if you want people to have the specialization and research capacity of 2018, even with education and medical improvements (that have actually gotten worse since 2018).
Most of them are unemployed.

There is no demand of fresh grads and junior developers.
I disagree, I think these are helping people see neovim as a an alternative, drop-in replacement for VSCode or other editors with the added benefit of being vim.

I also think once people start using these regularly, they tend to learn more about neovim and vim universe how it can be customised to their needs, this acts as a starting point for many without the need to spend days/weeks setting it up to what they are used to.

And for most it becomes easy to just rely on the maintainers to add new additions via plugins and/or update as and when required without the need to update/break/debug on their own.
In case you haven’t figured this out:

Go to https://www.microsoft.com/design

Scroll to the bottom.

Look for the set of social media links; the first one is an “M”.
Another thing I dislike about Discord is how it deals with notifications. The default notification settings are absolutely bonkers. Everything is unread, all the time, everything is important, everything has red badges every-damn-where. Then whenever you join a new "server", first thing you have to do is right-click and select "suppress @everyone and @here" and "suppress role mentions". But even if you do that, the messages with @everyone @here @role STILL get the yellow highlight like they mention you personally. Broadcast mentions are the stupidest thing ever. They should've never been invented because people can't be trusted to not abuse them.

Then the message input field tries to be way too smart and is way too dumb at the same time. They've somehow broken macOS's native text replacements, iirc the thing eats some characters if your message starts with them, BUT — if you just type someone's @username and don't select the completion that pops up, the mention wouldn't work.

The UI to add reactions to messages is comically bad. It shows your recent emojis, then 5 kilometers of the custom emojis from all the servers you're on (that you can't use anyway because you don't have the subscription), and only then the rest of the unicode emojis.

Then there are all the incredibly obnoxious popups, banners and tooltips that promote the paid subscription. And the "what's new" popup. That's also obnoxious. Like, maybe, just maybe, if I'm not paying you, and have been using your service on the free tier for several years now, you should consider me a lost cause and stop raping my eyeballs with your stupid upsells in the hopes of converting me into a paying customer?

Also, my files are way too often "too powerful" with no option to have the server compress them to its liking — it's rare that I need to send a bit-perfect copy of an image or a video.

I'll be building a modern multi-protocol desktop IM client as my next project sometime in the future. Discord will definitely be at the top of the list of services to support.
Terrifyingly eye-opening. I’m a Xennial without children. Recently, I spent a week with a sibling and their teen kids to spend a little quality time together. I was mortified to find my nieces and nephews stumbling around like zombies, irritable if not entirely unresponsive and incapable of having any semblance of a conversation, seemingly unable to take interest or pleasure in anything until they were curled around their device and scrolling TikTok. It was infuriating and alarming.

I’ve been trying to wrap my head around this. Perhaps I’ve just gotten old enough to take up the mantle of my parents, this is just the same thing I did to them and I should check myself before I make a hypocrite and a fool of myself. Except I don’t feel like this quite neatly explained the rift.

> Understanding TikTok through the lens of ubiquitous reality TV allows us to see that oddly named phenomena like “Main Character Syndrome”—in which the overly online dramatize their lives—aren’t aberrations. If TikTokkers act like the stars of their own entertainment channels, that isn’t a psychological issue—it’s an accurate assessment of the media landscape that reality TV established. On TikTok, we really are encouraged to treat our online presence as the proscenium arch, a curated pass to our “real” lives, even when we’re producing content explicitly for entertainment.

There we go. See, in _my day_ I was just a passive observer to other worlds. There were countless channels, films, games, etc. that created a reality that was often more vivid and compelling than meatspace. But for the most part, I was just the audience. I unplugged regularly to assert myself to the rest of the world, because that’s what I had learned I needed to do. Now, this alternate reality is bidirectional and real time. They aren’t merely observing, but interacting with the world through the lens of social media. And they’ve been doing it that way for the bulk of their lives, so it feels normal. Everything else doesn’t.

This helps me empathize with them more, but not the other way around. It doesn’t really help me rejigger my interactions with them to make them more meaningful. And I can’t help but feel this way of interfacing with the world is disastrous.
That was just really poor strategy by somebody who should not be in charge of the FTC. Major fuck up.
The regulations are particularly annoying since people who cycle regularly (e.g. commuters) easily exceed 15mph on a regular non-racing bike.
As the population goes up, the variability is likely to go down. Single people are less of a blip in the numbers.

This means you can run with fewer free beds than in a low population area.

For example, if you have 3.8 beds/1000 people, that's 4 beds in a town of 1000 people.

A single additional person is 25% of the beds in the small town. A car crash? You won't be able to fit them in.

In a city of 50,000 people, that's 190 beds, and random events fit in the slack much more easily.

Also, since the baseline is larger, it's easier to scale. The minimum addition in the small town is a whole bed, or a 25% increase in costs.

In the city, it's also 1 bed, but that's ~0.5%.
Moodle has been around for a long while, is there something new about it that makes it relevant to post?
Exploring println-easy time series visualization tools
Postgre automatically upgrade–This is interesting but do we need this?
He doesn’t say it’s good. He says that’s not what’s happening.

If you think he’s wrong, please explain why. I genuinely would love to hear a well-reasoned critique of his analysis.
Someone else already mentioned, "Hackers" by Steven Levy, which was great. Levy's "Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything" was also a vey good read (and only $4.99 for Kindle edition!).

https://www.amazon.com/Insanely-Great-Macintosh-Computer-Eve...

And not sure how well it's aged, but I remember "Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date" was a fun, breezy read.

https://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Empires-Silicon-Millions-C...
The master plan is to have everybody writing Microsoft Typescript in Microsoft Visual Studio Code using Github (Microsoft) Copilot
Canada's on fire too
No, but I get the sentiment. I wanted to learn Spanish to read Borges and Cortazar. I gave it a try anyway and read Casa tomada by Cortazar. Understood most of it, because I know Italian, but it’s not tha same thing as knowing the language.
I’m glad I know Italian, so I can read Calvino and Buzzati in their original language.
The one thing that opened my eyes about this view of safety is living in a developing country.

Riding a motorcycle without helmets, kids on their laps, cars without seatbelts, makeshift trucks with cargo randomly stacked and not strapped down.

They are completely oblivious to the safety risks. But you know what? 99% of the time it doesn't matter. They live long and healthy lives.

I get the sense the West has progressively improved safety to the point that even small incremental improvements are viewed as "you'll be dead without them".