skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That "PolitiFact Rates Republican Statements as False at 3 Times the Rate of Democrats" could also be explained by Republicans making false statements 3 times as often. I don't want to start a huge partisan pissing match here, but that possibility wasn't considered and is merely hand-waved away. It also doesn't even attempt to look at the ratings themselves to see if they're about accurate. That second article is more or less the same with more words.

Neither are convincing for claims of "overt bias", and even IF there was a huge bias in the selection of statements to rate, then this only means ... a bias in the selection of statement to rate, and doesn't actually say anything about the truthfulness (or lack thereof) of the actual fact-checks. A partisan "we-rate-republicans.com" and "we-rate-democrats.com" could be 100% accurate in their ratings. "Biased" does not equal "false".

I do think that "politicians from one side are rated much more frequently" is a good reason to take a close and skeptical look by the way, but that needs to start with "are politicians from that side actually untruthful significantly more often" as a baseline.

So I would rate your post as "false" for 1) making a claim that's completely unsupported by your evidence because your evidence actually makes a different claim, and 2) being weak evidence in the first place.
'The Path To Power', Caro, first volume of his LBJ biography. Elsewhere ('Working'), Caro has explained that his career in writing is to make clear how power is acquired and used. I think he achieves this goal here and am looking forward to the remaining volumes.

'Spiritual Formation', Henri Nouwen. A deep, Catholic, thinker with much to offer those who are looking in this direction.

'In A Sunburned Country', Bryson. Bryson is an ideal travel companion.

'The Information', Gleick. A tour of the ideas and technologies underneath how we became so dependent on bits.

'Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons'... the most worthwhile part was how my son and I bonded over working through the lessons.
Absolutely lovely read!! Honestly feels incredible to see other people feel the things I do when most people don't, don't care and don't want to care.

Might be a nitpick, but the point is ruined by the god awful aesthetics of the page
Your comment brought this article to mind.

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/seeing-like-a-bank/
Principles for a Diverging Desktop Future (2020)
“They say home is where the heart is / but what a shame / that everybody’s heart / doesn’t beat the same.”
U.S. law around the early 19th century would be a pretty decent compromise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright_law_of_th... or the 1790 version. Either way, there's a moderate term renewable once if you go to the trouble.
I don't think there is an easy technical way (even if there were a will) to make an exception for Invidious users who have Youtube subscriptions. Invidious doesn't even use the Youtube subscription model in the first place. I'm guessing it's the instances that are blocked, not individual users using those instances.

The hypothesis that Youtube Premium subscribers might be using any given Invidious instance, so it's a bad idea to block it, is rather weak.
Depends on the definition, but only the very oldest have hit 40, many in their 30s and some still in their 20s. It's too broad to be of use here, those entering the workforce in 2006 were in a different world from those doing so in 2020.
In my region there are two kinds of newspapers: Corporate owned, and locally owned.

The locally owned newspaper has none of this garbage whereas the "corporate owned" newspaper has ALL of it.
It's median, but I think there's a similar effect actually. A lot of people "watch TV" as a side activity to something else (like browsing their phone). Alas, I've never been able to multitask as well as my digitally-poisoned peers.
For reference, these rockets were far from perfect. They had a very different approach to design and safety. Construction/fabrication errors that today would never be allowed anywhere near a human-rated rocket were accepted and dealt with. It was a different time.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/f-1-moon-rocket

"That's one thing we were trying to get knowledge on: what imperfections were OK to live with versus what imperfections are going to give us problems?" "Like with the injector," said Case, speaking of the 44-inch (1.1 metre) metal plate that spewed the propellant into the engine's nozzle. "There are hundreds of holes drilled into the main injector - all drilled by hand, too. And one of the holes you can actually see where the drill bit came down at the wrong spot, and the guy just stopped - you can see where he moved over to where the hole was supposed to be and finished drilling the hole. They kept that and would have flown with that engine. Those kinds of things were pretty neat.""

https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/injector-plate...
Even in the impossible scenario that 100% of users paid, they would start introducing ads elsewhere like for higher bitrate/resolution. Those ad spots are valuable.

Ads are Google's main businesses, they should be responsible for vetting. Saying it's a scaling issue is a poor excuse, and if that is their legitimate stance then it should be used as evidence that the government needs to step in.
From a quick search, China have some integrated Mills. This one is operated in Taiwan: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Steel
Car Buyer Hilariously Tricks Chevy AI Bot into Selling a Tahoe for $1
And efforts to fight it will create crushing burdens of verification and false positives for the remaining humans, driving out much of the remaining signal.
I mentioned China because there Apple's e2e encryption does not apply.
Shooters are focusing more on the multiplayer right? So the story modes are de-emphasized and also many players don't bother with it.
Because literally 90% of developers today are wholly incapable of producing the cutting edge performance Figma requires. It's an engineering marvel. It's like wondering why more people can't just compete in F1. Money and talent at the rarest levels. Most companies engineer at the performance level of Atlassian. Which is not remotely sufficient.
It's pretty easy to move between gcc/clang/icc for most codebases. Though there are some useful features still that are gcc only. (And probably some that are clang only, though I pretty much only use gcc...)
So will Adobe put more resources to help their pre-maturely abandoned XD catchup?
The OP mentioned that SQLServer does lock (but then, it doesn't use SSI - just SI).

The recommendation in PG docs to use a combination of SERIALIZABLE and READ ONLY transactions seems like a good one for read-heavy systems.
> To keep things simple, we used Nomad, and instead of K8s CNIs, we built our own Rust-based TLS-terminating Anycast proxy (and designed a WireGuard/IPv6-based private network system based on eBPF).

That is quite the opposite of “simple”. That is in fact, overly complex and engineered.
The FirefoxOS scenario would be Gecko embedding in FirefoxOS, so Mozilla is their own customer, and makes $ by being the controller of FirefoxOS - OS search, and configuration of browser search

It's less likely the handset manufacturer would be able to change search bar defaults in those scenarios, at least without a stronger profit sharing negotiation, as they'd probably be already negotiating a more careful licensing & teaming agreement
Why would experts at programming software necessarily be experts at designing it?

(By “designing” I mean like, designing it in the large, what does it do, not UI design or something. Though of course the same goes for pixel pushing.)
How about 'The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet', Kahn. It isn't directly technical but it is the classic history of the field.
> >We have no affinity for biological humans or even the human mind structure. We are posthumanists in the sense that we recognize the supremacy of higher forms of free energy accumulation over lesser forms of free energy accumulation.

When you write a manifesto while tripping balls . . . .
I'm more worried about the lower tail end of the bell curve that doesn't get the memo, and they become increasingly deranged. When 1/4 of the public is essentially brainwashed, your society is in deep trouble.
Finally, X hasn’t allowed researchers access to the platform for auditing purposes, violating a principle of transparency which is enshrined by the Digital Services Act. Following changes to the platform, access to data for research purposes has been severely curtailed:

Social media researchers have canceled, suspended or changed more than 100 studies about X, formerly Twitter, as a result of actions taken by Elon Musk that limit access to the social media platform, nearly a dozen interviews and a survey of planned projects show. […] A majority of survey respondents fear being sued by X over their findings or use of data. The worry follows X's July lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) after it published critical reports about the platform's content moderation.

https://werd.io/2023/x-and-the-digital-services-act
It does, but Youtube still collects your data and sells it to advertisers. So watching a video on Youtube could mean seeing targeted ads on other platforms. So the solution is to always use adblocking everywhere.
They might not be perfect employees, but at least you know they are smart, are disciplined, and have the capacity to work hard for a long period.
Page 71 has this paragraph on the Apollo Data Management network. I wish the paper provided more detail on what they did besides "assigning personnel".

Early in the Apollo Program, considerable difficulty was experienced in the exchange, standardization, and dissemination of critical data required both by and from the mission planners. In view of the interdependency of most mission-planning milestone documents, the need for coordination and tight control in disseminating these data became acute. As a result, the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office in conjunction with the hardware contractors and operational elements exercised strict controls and procedures in governing mission-planning data. As a part of this program, most organizations appointed key personnel on a full-time basis to support the data-management network. In retrospect, this action must be regarded as vital in consolidating and strengthening the Apollo mission-planning process.
That's naive. There are open LLMs already. The problem is not the LLMs but that data they are being trained on is going to be increasingly spammy, scammy garbage.

The LLMs don't have any sort of magical way of filtering that out. So if you train an LLM on spam, hoaxes and similar garbage you will get recommendations to drink bleach as a cure for covid. And that applies regardless of whether the bot is trained by a megacorp or someone in their garage using open source network and tools.
I'm not damaging anyone's brand, they do that themselves. I'm just using my freedom of speech and not lying about stuff. They can sue me and damage their brand even more. I had to learn how to flip that stuff, default behavior is always defensive it seems, but that doesn't work and a lot of organizations play exactly on that.

By the way, I'm not from the US.

edit: Default behavior is always playing it safe and accepting mistreatment. Of course I was still defensive.
Yeah I'm sure Adobe is just using a single-branch bank
"The norm" is doing a lot of lifting there.

Trailing historical average doesn't opine on correctness/utility.
What other beloved product has MS acquired and made a lot better?
> So paying the 1B breakup fee is probably the cheapest and best option for Adobe at this time.

Do they still have to pay the fee if the reason was regulatory in nature?
Threatening a lawsuit is better than nothing but it definitely didn't lead to a quick resolution. At a certain point the answer to whether they can make a deal needs to be "no", not "we'll wait".
Have they done a double-blind test on the peer review system?
I think you're on the right track. Unfortunately, the toxic "free" model with ads has trained everybody to expect all content for free. This is completely unsustainable; there will be a correction of some sort, and it's my opinion that we've already entered that stage. It's going to be painful, but I'm hopeful that the end state is that people consider ad-laden "free" content to be not worth their time. I'm already there.

I signed up for Kagi search recently (I'm not affiliated with them in any way, just a satisfied customer), and aside from searching reddit, I consider their results to be superior to Google's. One of their main signals for downranking is how heavily ad/tracker-laden a page is.
even so we should do it ! :-)
That's false, OP talks about that, many people wish the web to be static only and many people wants to be able to read pages "without js" and complain about the fact that they cannot read a page without js.
> we had to do a lot of work to get our Node utilization ... over 50%

Same, a while back you had to install cluster-autoscaler and set it to aggressive mode. GKE has this option now on setup, though I think anyone who's had to do this stuff knows that just using a cluster-autoscaler is never enough. I don't see this being different for any cluster and is more a consequence of your workloads and how they are partitioned (if not partitioning, you'll have real trouble getting high utilization)
So we'll finally see Rust support for all the architectures that gcc supports that LLVM doesn't, like Alpha, SuperH and VAX, for starters. That'll be nice!
When the normal Internet becomes unusable because it is filled with AI spam, people will still find untainted information among the 20 million books and 100 million scientific papers in the shadow libraries. If we have a software that can make browsing books a little bit more like browsing the web, then usability will be better.
This sounds totally backwards, but I say this as someone who has no personal experience raising money, so maybe you're a VC or a founder?

If someone can get in front of VCs, presumably it doesn't matter if they know a bunch of other rich people from school. I really don't get the sense that VCs are impressed by someone's ability to convince some nepo hedge fund manager to invest a few million.

I think they're impressed by business accumen combined with technical chops. If you want to bootstrap, then yeah, maybe a school with the most amount of money matters so you can get a huge seed round.

But you think people with strong ideas and impressive technical backgrounds who get in front of VCs are going to be less impressive by less technical people who rub shoulders with finance bros?

Certainly Harvard/Yale is a good choice if you're going into medicine, law, or I dunno, maybe banking? But tech? I wouldn't think it's a top choice at all.
investors probably figured this out on Dec 13, not today
What part of it is overly complex and engineered? Maybe you're right, but it's hard to respond without a better idea of what you think our problem domain was.
Japan supplied sub-par metal for decades and lied about it.

Aluminum, copper and steel. Something to think about next time you get anywhere near a car, train, airplane, skyscraper, or bridge.

https://money.cnn.com/2017/10/16/news/companies/kobe-steel-s...
Create wall art from any image
Doesn't matter, there are so many buttons people still have to look at what they're pressing. It's not like playing an album on the screen and putting a CD in your deck is much different distraction wise.
> It would be nice if something in Zig could auto-magically generate the zig to c interop call and type declarations.

Do you mean building a .h file from zig code?

The other direction is just @cImport.
the rust cargo cult is real, pun not intended
No, it's just a meme about how Americans are supposedly nerds who overengineer things while Russians are supposedly commonsensical manly alcoholics.
Non employees had moderation power? I don't remember reading about that and cannot find any sources on google. Care to link?
> Micropayments on the internet don't work. Payment processors charge 30¢ per transaction, plus a percentage.

Well yes, micropayments don't work if you don't use a micropayment platform. There are solutions that cater specifically to micropayments that have different fee structures so that it makes sense.

A platform with enough resources and interest could also accept deposits from traditional payment processors in bulk, and payout at some threshold to content creators.

> If you look at the Twitch leaks, the payment curve has a long tail; the vast majority of creators do not make very much at all, while the top creators tend to make out with multigenerational wealth in a year.

This isn't because of the payment system. This is because content quality and discovery both have a long tail. The average content is poor quality and has almost no views.
Storage is irrelevant until they decommission the natgas plants. You're being disingenuous bringing steel mills since they don't use electricity.

But any industrial plant that does run on electricity runs fine using solar power during the day and natgas generated electricity at night.
Badly run startup valuations fell.

The good SaaS cos that are publicly traded are almost all closer to highs than lows.

The company is still likely worth at least $10B if not much more.
Separation of Church and state
The C++ spec regularly has all sorts of errata and misdesigns. Not sure I buy this argument.
I think people would pay. Ads offer more money then people are willing to pay. Alot of content is expensive for what it offers.
>I'd be really surprised if, without diligently committing to maintaining compatibility with the two compilers, it was easy to up sticks and move between them

Many places deliberately compile with multiple compilers as part of the build/test pipeline, to benefit from more compiler warnings, diagnostics etc.
And won't discuss salaries with each other :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_official_headwear
The largest television networks in the world haven't reached that scale yet...
Because the Nordic labor market is dominated by unions and is considered highly competitive on the global stage?

Or because to believe that propaganda as a "universal truth" it would mean unions are not self-interested entities (unlike businesses and people).
Ask HN: How much does open source play a role when choosing a software?
In recent years, I've seen a surge of open source alternatives to traditionally closed source solutions.
From Posthog (replacing Mixpanel), Infisical (Doppler / Vault), and others.

This might be a question that was asked here before but - how much does it play a role when choosing a product to use? Will you prefer product A over identical product B just because A is OSS? If A is slightly worse, do you still prefer to work with A? Or is it completely the other way around?
I'm very disturbed by some things, specific to the most recent vehicles especially. Lots of design done by competing teams that have tons of incentive to say things like "not my problem!", and point fingers.

Somewhat related to the proliferation of AutoSAR, but AutoSAR is just the solution, whether you like it or not. It could be replaced with some hypothetical "PerfectSAR", and this remains true.

None of this is exactly brand new. That said, the extent of the situation is worrying. Combine with this that we're trying to deliver so much more on tighter schedules... seems like a recipe for disaster.
> This makes it even worse... Since those armed people can also shoot you.

In theory, but reality fewer than 10% of all homicides are committed by someone who is a stranger to the victim. Of those, about half are the result of an argument that escalates to violence. You're exceedingly unlikely to be the victim of any violence as a tourist in almost any part of the US that a European might visit.
You can play Mad Libs with any paragraph, but it doesn't mean the argument has been applied correctly.

My point is that any project needs to properly balance the goals of the project with the freedom and autonomy of other people. This is not saying that the goals always triumph, or that autonomy always triumphs, but that there is a balance.

You asked what this has to do with e/acc -- if e/acc is claiming progress at all costs, build at all costs, but then imposes carve outs for the freedom/autonomy of only certain people (particularly it's adherents), it's a contradiction in the project.
> "Late stage capitalism at its worst."

You're literally posting on a site paid for by a venture capital fund who's audience is startup hackers and other venture capital people. Why are you here on HN if you dislike capitalism?
It's been a few decades but I worked for USS as a developer, after attaining a computer science degree.

I know it's a tired old adage that labor / labor unions was the reason for American steel manufacturing decline and rise of Japanese dominance. But from the inside, that simply wasn't so -- it was more a case that Japanese mills not only more modern but the entire manufacturing process, from casting to finished product, was more efficient. Even when new US mills gained new technology, it wasn't thought through and decisions seemed to be made the basis of old boy network than solid business acumen.
There's been active work on a Rust specification for a while now. It'll happen.

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/11/15/spec-visio...
k8s has become a standard api and platform for running apps, having a * on it makes the implementation an outlier from the standard, not normally considered a good thing because you have to be aware of the nuanced differences.