skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Writing with an American perspective:

The graph of decline in trust in the media over time is interesting. I'm not sure it's necessarily because the media is less trustworthy, although that's probably the case given increased partisanship about every subject nowadays. But like "yellow journalism" is a term from the 19th century; this isn't a new phenomenon. I think a better explanation for the decrease in trust in the media is an increase in information enabled by the internet. Sometimes this information is false and the media is reporting the truth, but people are more willing to believe what lines up with their narrative so seeing the media disagree with their belief decreases their trust in the media. Sometimes information from outside the media is true and the media is reporting falsehoods; this also damages people's trust in the media's credibility. This is a feedback loop then where instances of false reporting cause doubts on instances of thurthful reporting, and instances of truthful reporting that don't align with a group's biases are attacked as possibly false.

Back when there was only one real source of truth, the media, any alternative sources of information were so few in number that their combined efforts couldn't induce any doubt in the media's veracity. At that point the feedback loop couldn't get started, so it didn't matter if what the media reported turned out to be true or not. We romanticize that time period by assuming that journalists of the time were more trustworthy; that may or may not be true, but I have a hard time believing that human proclivities -like twisting the story to fit the journalist's biases or to hide stories that go against the narrative- have changed significantly for the worse since then. Journalists of the time probably did many of the same things as modern media is accused of doing, but without anyone else to point it out there was no decrease in trust.

The media has mostly responded by trying to insist that they're always trustworthy. This probably isn't the best move. It definitely increases partisanship as it moved people into one of two camps: believers of everything the media says or disbelievers of anything the media says. I don't know what a new agency that somehow emphasizes that it's not totally trustworthy or that its articles may be flawed looks like, but it'd probably get too much flak from both camps to survive currently. So I think that "fixing" the media involves a decrease in partisanship first.

(In my opinion the biggest thing we could do to decrease partisanship would be to revamp the political system to favor smaller parties that have to compromise and form a coalition to govern. The current US voting system, first past the post, mathematically favors two parties only (https://ncase.me/ballot/), so the first step would be to reform the voting system to something that allows third and fourth and fifth parties.)
A real life and relatable example to illustrate what infinity (if it exists) really means. The repercussions are huge.
How did they know you used those platforms?
I wouldn't call either of those funding in the sense I described.
This reminds me of an investigation by the Times from September 2022 into Providence health system’s training of employees, with the aid of McKinsey, to “[wring] money out of patients — even those who were supposed to receive free care because of their low income.” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/business/nonprofit-hospit...
> try explaining why you spent years at Apple or Amazon doing everything you could to improve profits at the cost of the future even while ice melted and the ocean currents were clearly slowing to your great grandkids.

"well I lived a good life. Good luck, kiddos"

and that's the generous assumption if they feel they are even responsible for anything.

>Bringing our companies back into alignment with the life support systems of the earth is necessary and a priority, and we need to find a way to penalize this kind of behavior harshly and quickly.

They were never in line to begin with. They simply kowtow to the local regulations while trying to make as much money as possible. So of course the answer is to lobby and weaken regulations.

Solving it on the business end is one solution, but not the only. We also need to ensure the right supporters are in office and vouching on the politcal side as well.
good point. had me looking for a transparency log for dnssec, arriving at https://www.huque.com/2014/07/30/dnssec-key-trans.html. it seems there hasn't been activity on that topic in years.

an attack would involve a tld operator being compelled to cooperate, or their signing keys being compromised (and then probably adding a DS record for your domain). if that were found out, it would be bad news for trust in dnssec. have there been any known case of this happening? it would be hard (impossible?) to fully detect without transparency log (like for ca certificates).
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Another effect will be to make the 'buy house/condo in resort town and airbnb the mortgage' less attractive. That game was played when yields were paltry and mortgages cheap.
My first wikipedia edit was correcting the elevation of the tallest point in one of Seattle's neighborhoods. It was immediately removed. In fact, the entire section about the neighborhood's elevation was removed. So, the whole reason I was at Wikipedia in the first place was removed. I thought briefly about adding it back in, because I thought it was super valuable, but upon looking at the profile of who made the edit and finding a "U mad I deleting your work? lmao" style comment at the top, I noped outta there. Petty edit wars on the internet over trivial nonsense sounded like a dumb way to spend time.
Palantir?
Cloudflare is a MITM you voluntarily setup yourself, innit?
The sole point of a business existing is to make a profit. If it doesn't make a profit it dies. A business essentially acts in its own self interest through its employees. Proof of that is that if an employee hurts profits, the business will likely dispose of them.

You can try to enact change via a bottom-up approach, where all of the employees decide to introduce a new primary metric, e.g. climate impact, alongside profits, but it's pretty clear that humans are not terribly good at agreeing and acting for the good of humanity (see all the wars happening right now).

I think a top-down approach where the government includes 'climate impact' as an existential metric for all businesses would have more success because it wouldn't require all the people in all the businesses to agree, only the elected officials would have to agree. Unfortunately, elected officials are people too, and by definition they're not terribly good at agreeing either. That said, it's a more tractable problem.

This is why I think enacting laws to change the purpose of businesses is more realistic, than to appeal to employees. The latter is useful too, but as part of spreading the message to all the people that "it's up to us" to influence the results of elections, so that we elect people who could enact this change from the top down.
I’m not sure I understand you, I believe we’re making the same point? I mean that there’s a strong incentive to offer competitive pay (as in pay more e.g. to poach from a competing company).
"Allah" is simply the Arabic word for "God" with capital G. Arab Christians use "Allah" to refer to God as well, and you can find the same word in Arabic translations of the Bible.

Here is a page from the Arabic website for the Holy See (Vatican). Just go to this page and search for الله :

https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/ar/encyclicals/docu...
If it were up to me, I'd implement something sort of like an online[0] Fisher-Yates shuffle:

Add a column to the article database for "random_index". This gives each article a unique integer index within a consecutive range of 1 to N. To pick a random article, just pick a random number in that range using your favorite random number generator and then look up the row with that random_index value.

The tricky part, obviously, is maintaining the invariant that random index values are (1) randomly assigned and (2) contiguous. To maintain those, I believe it's enough to:

1. Whenever a new article is created, give it random_index N+1. Then choose a random number in the range (1, N+1). Swap the random_index of the new article and the article whose random_index is the number you just rolled. This is the Fisher-Yates step that gives you property (1).

2. Whenever an article is deleted or otherwise removed from the set of articles that can be randomly selected, look up the article with random_index N. Set that article's random_index to the random_index of the article about to be deleted. This gives you property (2).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_algorithm
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1 and 5 are semi-true, 2 is false (both parts), 3 and 4 are fair enough.

The overall statement is false (he remains the most recognized opposition figure in the country).
I don't think it translated Alhamdulillah wrong. It can be seen there translated as "Praise be God". The "Palestenian :flag:" seems to be translated to Palestanian terrorists. Could be the job of LLM, which just saw "Palestenian :flag:" and found "Palestenian terrorism" to be most probable continuation.
I went to bestbuy recently for my kid's laptop with issues but still under warranty.

The employee asked for a password but my kid is connected with his Microsoft account.

I created a 'bestbuy' account on the spot with some classic luggage pin because the employee had no idea what to do.

I guess that if my kid went alone, he would have given the ms account password and the employee would have been able to access everything on that account.
my only hope is that eventually everyone will become as tired of performative anger as a means of influencing others as I have been for years now. however, as of now, the trend still seems to be going in the opposite direction, on the surface at least.
So... what I've learned from anime and video games is that main-characters basically fall into two buckets

"Light" characters are those that do no go gently into that good night. They are often passionate and naive.

"Dark" characters are those who understand the inevitability of entropy and also how it is a necessary power in the world (as it creates the arrow of time and thus all Stories)

Dark characters want to reduce the pain in the world by euthanizing it in some way, bringing about the inevitable instead of the vain struggle.

Light characters "win" by converting everyone they see into an ally and friend from going down the dark path by showing that the struggle itself is meaningful. This is the "anime friends unite and defeat God" trope.

Light: Naruto, Goku, Luffy, etc...
Dark: Madara, Amelie (Death Stranding),etc..
Light struggling w Dark: Aang (last airbender)
Dark struggling to be light: Kratos

Techno-optimists are a sort of interesting hybrid. They are often intellectually sophisticated enough to understand and bias towards a dark character but also occupy positions in society where you are obligated to be a light character that supports society.

This can feel cloying and fake and self duplicitous or it can feel manipulative and sociopathic. "Accelerate the production of entropy, for we will find a way to reverse it!"

So they are a dark character struggling to be light but not willing to give up the god-powers that come from tapping into the dark dimension.

So... basically the Ancient One from the marvel movies...

This explains the popularity of tech-spirituality. Because pure rationalism inevitably leads to the entropy-worship so there needs to be something more woo to counteract that inevitable conclusion.
How can we explain that WaPo used the term "detained" to describe Hamas kidnapping children? I thought a published article would go through reviews by editors and fellow reporters? I'm not sure how that can be explained as "screw up on breaking news".
Someone at factorio has been playing Galaxy Trucker.
When NYT put a source attribution in the headline, that is them saying that this information is unverified, but the fact that the claim was made by that party is newsworthy.
Isn't the Medicare payment less than the hospital gets giving the same treatment to somebody with private health insurance?
It's civil court: can you please give me some Lexis cites on any case you are aware of for someone being prosecuted for perjury incident to evidence forged in a PPO hearing?

I've witnessed 100+ of these hearings: they are a disgrace to our justice system. Evidentiary standards are a joke, and thankfully, get absolutely smoked upon appeal 9/10 times - instant suppression.

It's wonderful that they may have helped you at one point.

You keep citing this "intimate spousal murder" schtick with zero non-anecdotal citations (try proving a negative.) Can we please see some formal, peer-reviewed evidence to suggest that someone willing to commit murder is going to be deterred by a DUI-equivalent?
Here's a plot twist, though. Old Testament is canon to Jews, Christians and Muslims alike. The God in there is the same one. It's the treatment of New Testament that differs - Judaism ignores it, Christianity considers it canon and Jesus is God, while Islam considers it a kind of "beta canon", acknowledging Jesus, but only as a prophet.
RIP to my 8-port Unifi switch after years and years of Texas outdoor temps
That's great and all for packages I control, but I publish wheels already.
Very shameless plug on your last "Edit:", but I think it fits perfectly one feature that a web extension I made does: https://webcursors.click/.

There's a feature to write a note and leave it on the page for others (with the extension installed) to see and maybe have luck someone contacting you.
Teach you kids to avoid the cops at any cost. Their resources are limitless and they will use them to destroy your life. Follow their orders and accept any traffic violation with a smile. I am white and my family is law abiding and we have taught our kids from a young age to just make sure they stay away from them and avoid them as much as they can. This advice was given to me by an incredibly successful lawyer (Family friend) a very long time ago.
You read Andreessen's drivel and thought this reply to it was a "rebuttal" with "counter argument"s?
You have that ratio backwards, and it's still an exaggeration.
Not taxing money =/= giving money.

Some of the impacts are identical, but they have other fundamental differences.

I pay less than 100% tax, but I wouldn't say that the government is funding my lifestyle
If you want, you can lump in agricultural industries with "tech" given that there's probably more actual tech in that sector on average than there is with your typical "tech" company. :)
They asked and I answered. They had already taken my phone and laptop to search, so I didn't see any need to lie.
I feel like that took too many words to point out that we can probably ignore the rich guy saying that everything will be great if we all just let rich guys tell us what to do.

I also feel like we as a society have a lot of hard work that needs doing, but everyone is too busy yelling at each other. There's a lot of water in the bilge, and I'd really love it if I saw someone holding a bucket.
I mean.. I saw the border agent searching my name on Google years ago (let's say ~2005-2008-ish) when I was entering the US from Canada (one of the Vancouver-area border crossings). They looked at my website or myspace page IIRC, I forget what. I could see their screen which was tilted slightly at an angle such that it was visible from my position outside the booth/window. BTW, this wasn't for any reason or anything, it was a totally normal crossing and they just started looking up my name on the web as if it were standard procedure.

I'm sure that's all automated now, they probably get a nice listing of data they have on you the moment your passport is scanned at the border. Who knows? Maybe now they'll get a 3d avatar of your face because it's been scanned at the airport of any allied country, because you had the audacity to travel out-of-country and are now subjected to unprecedented data collection.
Ragnar Locker ransomware gang taken down by international police swoop
> You claim that linux, disk backup and routing tables will never be obsolete. Really?

If data exists, backing it up will never go away, and we still use magnetic tape drives for enterprise backup so no, disk backup isn’t going away, not within our lifetimes, and since your concern is the person wasting their time, I’ll assume our lifetimes is a fine timeline to look at.

Linux, and the open source world that exists because of it and GNU, aren’t becoming obsolete. With the steam deck and EVs, and android auto, Linux is deploying more places than ever, and only increasing. Every container you run is Linux, etc. Even windows supports running Linux.

Packet switching, which routing tables are a part of, is literally how the modern day internet is able to exist, IP protocol and all.

Everything you suggested are core to all modern day tech and won’t soon be obsolete, and you’re probably well aware. Perfect troll response with the selected tech you mentioned. Someone else will have to feed you.
has anyone used this information to make something with hex grids?

I first saw this page years ago, when considering a hex grid-based game design, and, despite the page's excellent information, my takeaway was: eh, too complicated, not worth it.
How I introduced them was by showing them how to edit the CNN homepage with the browser developer tools.

Being able to edit headlines to be funny (and perhaps somewhat offensive) and share screenshots with their friends really piqued their interest. They then taught their friends how to do it.

Then, they moved onto learning HTML and CSS, which they found kind of fun. After that, they started some basic JavaScript -- at which point they quickly lost interest in webdev.

But they still play with the browser dev tools.
Sadly being produced by D&D. After their massive Game of Thrones season 8 fuck up, I'm not holding my breath.

Then again, maybe it'll be fine because all the source material is finished and they don't have to fail at writing the end of the story on their own.
> Normally "gambling company money" implies embezzlement, which is not what happened here.

Huh, what?

"In one instance, after a crucial business loan was denied, he took the company's last $5,000 to Las Vegas and won $27,000 gambling on blackjack to cover the company's $24,000 fuel bill."

"Embezzlement is the fraudulent taking of property by someone to whom it was entrusted, usually involving theft from a business or employer."

I mean I suppose you could try to make some argument that it was an officially sanctioned company act, but that's definitely some post facto rationalization.

"’The meeting with the General Dynamics board was a bust and I knew we needed money for Monday, so I took a plane to Las Vegas and won $27,000.’ I said, ‘You mean you took our last $5,000-- how could you do that?’ He shrugged his shoulders"

Sounds both unsanctioned and sociopathic to me.

And not Fred's first or last brush with financial malfeasance, indicted for forgery over a $2 million loan from his family's trust fund.

I'm inclined to think 'selfish' much more than 'plucky startup founder'.
not a bad deal, perhaps :D
This is my question. Does this mean that the solution orbits are stable equilibria, i.e. small errors or perturbations return to a stable orbit?
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The military will do something about it.

Camp Jejune, where many Marines wound up spending a lot of time, got terribly contaminated with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichloroethylene

My uncle Norman served in the marines, spent a lot of time there, and when he got Parkinson's he got top notch care from the VA. (It was terrible though to see what bad shape he was in a year before he passed.)
> Could you please go learn something about this subject before you talk out your ass about it.

I didn't intend to upset you. How many of these cases have you tried?
Where do you practice, exactly?

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
In trying to understand the spin here. Are they saying Facebook is being evil for hiring people who wanted to work or that people should have the right to work without getting approval from an organization

(reason #54323 that I would never want to be in an organization that restricts my right to exchange my labor for money)
I think behind most big failures (at least the ones where meaningful revenue was generated) is a healthy, sustainable business idea.

Oftentimes, the founders just grew too fast or flew too close to the sun.

So, there’s an opportunity to pick up the pieces and rebuild, or start from scratch with the learnings.

In most cases, the firm handling liquidation auctions off the firm’s assets, so if you have the motivation to pick up the pieces and grind out a sustainable business, you can usually purchase the tech and customer lists for six or low seven figures (varies based on size of business of course). If you actually pursue this, my advice is to make your offer as simple as possible (don’t ask for a bunch of diligence) and set an expiration on your offer so they don’t shop around. The liquidators are often not incentivized to maximize value - they just want to finish the project as painlessly as possible.
Today's "tech" industry seems to be all about kicking out the ladder from underneath them. They can't seem to substantially improve anything anymore, so they maintain growth by becoming legal firms that happen to sell/rent doodads. I wager few of these companies would get off the ground if they were founded today; not with all the protectionism and regulations they claim serve consumers but primarily protect their businesses in actuality.
The second book was by far the best.

The first has a bit too much lead-up. The third is a bit too philosophical.
Elon Musk blames remote workers for Tesla's struggling car sales
There's an interesting approach to it that works with Rails and PostgreSQL using triggers.

https://github.com/palkan/logidze
>but "he's a smartass" was a pretty fair assessment.

>cops are humans and if you stoop to personal insults it's not going to make them want to be nice to you.

Ugh, I actually cringed a bit while reading this victim blaming. No one deserves to be arrested because they were a smartass, or because they called someone a rookie. Holy moly.
Neon CEO here. Did you deploy Neon on prem?
Are you saying medicare/medicaide are net-negative? Is so, what prevents hospitals from refusing to accept them?

I suspect they don't because it's not financially solvent to do so, given the number of patients who use those services. That on it's face seems to bring into question the claim that they are net-negative (whether that's due to legislation or other means).
I wonder if anyone have used it for accounting using the Swedish BAS-system?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAS_(accounting)
Ah my bad. But doesn't Heaps also use OpenFL under the hood?
I agree with most of the mitigation suggestions.

For high risk targets, consider layering an additional auth mechanism that doesn't rely on trusted CAs: Tor onion services, SSH, or Wireguard.

> All issued SSL/TLS certificates are subject to certificate transparency.

+1. crt.sh has RSS feeds for this.

> Limit validation methods and set exact account identifiers

Using CAA is a good idea in general, but would it help in this case? The attacker would just request the exact cert configuration that is permitted by CAA. Maybe this helps if you can strengthen one validation method?

> Monitor SSL/TLS certificate changes on all your services using external service

+1. High-risk targets should be aware of what certs are valid at any time, and be checking for those.

> Monitor MAC address of default gateway for changes

A more sophisticated attack could preserve the MAC address.

> "Channel binding" is a feature in XMPP which can detect a MiTM even if the interceptor present a valid certificate.

TIL.