skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The narrative a lot of people seem to adopt is that the fake news debate is about limiting the types of messaging and propaganda available to two sides of a political system. And so attacking fake news is only about attacking the tools available to the other side.

I think what’s wrong about this narrative is the idea that fake news is good for the people spreading it. Like I don’t think that obsessing about the Russia investigation was great for liberals and I think there’s a ton of examples of Republican infighting that is the result of people believing things that aren’t true, and just like factually so. There’s a difference between spreading all sorts of malicious opinions about LGBT; and I’m not happy about that but whatever and the recent story of a woman who got elected to the school board to get the LGBT curricula out of schools, read the whole curricula, realized that there was no LGBT curricula in schools, told her supporters how happy she was to realize that and then was viciously attacked for it. Or the guy who actually attacked a pizza restaurant, or the Romney campaign being surprised they lost in 2012, because they believed a conservative propaganda site performing intentionally biased polling to show a not favorable result.

Like looking at the current American political situation, I think you could make a strong argument that fake news is worse for Republicans than it is for Democrats.
The only nutrient that candy has is added sugar, which is of decidedly low value ( one of the few commonly-consumed ‘nutrients’ of which the ideal amount is probably zero)
Eh, it's a bit over hyped imo although I do like the config format and built-in acme. My production clusters all run nginx though and give me minimal fuss with a lot of flexibility.
How Street Photographers Are invisible [video]
Can Python be this dominant in the UK?
I'd much prefer if Framework just spent the extra $2 while anodizing to add black dye on what is essentially an ultra-premium laptop in terms of price.

There was a guy on Reddit a few years ago who intended to take advantage of this 'business opportunity', but it didn't go anywhere.
Phoenix Is Facing a Hurricane Katrina of Heat
Perhaps, but without the proper tools/primitives it is certainly not my favorite part of programming.
Why do new homes have to be built in competition with existing homes? With remote work and the digital elite moving wherever, why not just pop up new developments wholesale, complete with shopping and services somewhere out of the way and cheap?
It's wrong to frame this topic as being about wanting "the censorship weapon" or not, when we're mostly talking about centralized tech companies boosting this tripe to "drive engagement" - the role of the censor is already being actively played by these companies! When Aunt Mildred had to click 'forward', choose the list of people she was going to bombard with her spam, left the subject line containing FwReFwFwFw, and then the sheer majority didn't even reply, those were all natural limiting factors. Now Faceboot takes mere reading as a positive act of "engagement", shows it to people it predicts will be receptive, and then concentrates activity between them creating an illusion of social proof.

This ties right into your desire for tools, because tech companies don't actually want people using independent tools to access their systems. They're already giving us the tools they want us to use - poor ones designed around slowing us down, confusing our unadorned human brains, and creating a slow drip of partial accomplishment rather than letting us complete a task and move on. Attempts to even augment their tools with things like Adblock are met with a lot of grumbling and sometimes even outright blocking. Full blown third party clients (eg yt-dlp) are continually seen as a fringe thing, and churn between names/maintainers/hosts due to legal shakedowns. The nonsense of prior-restrained-based "API keys" runs roughshod over developers' thought processes. A sustainable ecosystem of independent third party clients in the mainstream app stores is essentially impossible - a wink, nod, and specious reference to trademark, DMCA, or CFAA is all it takes to get the other tech gatekeepers to collude.

Unfortunately, this all points to the only way we're fixing any of this is some kind of regulation. The centralized tech companies have set up their positions at a Schelling point of individual agency, and have heartily grown into the power vacuum. Like atoms in a gas, it's impossible for us to all just individually move in the same direction at the same time, and so the only way to get a lever big enough to move them is collective action via the government, as imperfect as that is.

Personally I'm in favor of antitrust enforcement that breaks up this bundling between hosting and client software (and hardware devices as well). They should be considered separate products, when developed at the same company be completely independent business units, with backroom communication (eg unpublished APIs) prohibited. I'd say this would get us 80% of the way there to having the choice of tools that don't themselves encourage the spreading of disinformation. Then additional functionality of automated filtering etc could grow organically on top of that, in a user-representing way. But for any of that to happen, the client ecosystems have to be freed first.
Tbh, the word blockchain turned me off as well. I was very interested otherwise. I love seeing people try new things, so kudos in that regard.
Their data was exposed by breaching a third party service. I'm not sure how investing more in security could have helped prevent this.

You could argue that they shouldn't be housing this data with Snowflake but then you could say the same about a service like Amazon S3.

At what point is a company able to rely on a third-party vs being expected to run it in-house?
Voice analysis shows striking similarity between Scarlett Johansson and ChatGPT
Calling it a hack is pretty unfair. The log storage engine is a huge innovation, in my experience makes large MySQL/pg clusters much more reliable and performant at scale in a variety of different ways.

It has a couple of quirks, but on balance it feels like the future - the next evolution of what traditional rdbms are capable of.

But if you don’t have scale or resiliency needs it probably doesn’t matter to you.
Rather that dismiss this Proof-of-Concept as a “toy”, I think it’s useful to step back and ask whether all of those things (validation, authorization, authentication, auditing) require lots and lots of code to express, or if they could also fit into a single YAML file approach.
> This is a really weird assertion

But not surprising, it is vox, and hit pieces are kind-of their schtick.
The more damning part is this though 'Ticketmaster refused to confirm it to reporters or customers and instead notified shareholders late on Friday.'

They cared more about there shareholders than users.
Never forget their bug when they only transferred 99% of the MP3 you wanted. Good times.
You shouldn't base your opinions on trust.
Properties should be an object instead of an array. It makes key collisions more obvious, makes it easier to find keys, and IMO ends up looking cleaner.
Cool. But how would this be advantageous over a traditional ORM like Prisma?

I use Prisma and I like that I can define my tables in a simple file, and also use it with Express to add some middleware or auth or various backend things if I want. This API seems pretty similar to Prisma as well.
You’re not allowed to bring a gun into a school. If you do your breaking the law, if your point is that you’re free to break the law and face the consequences, then yes, you’re right. You can bring the gun and be arrested and you can let the grass grow and be fined. What’s your point?
Relevant xkcd (and personal favorite of mine) since no one else posted it yet: https://xkcd.com/91/ :)
Unit has its own SAPI for PHP and executes it directly, no php-fpm needed. I’m using it to serve Wordpress right now, works pretty well.
> If you are at threat of being targeted by NSO Group or Zerodium enabled attacks, you are already on the radar of a country's Law Enforcement/Interior Ministry/Dept of Homeland Security/Intelligence Community and any attacks on your phone are the least of your worries.

Ah, you mean social engineering attacks and more powerful attacks relying completely outside of the cyberspace (to say more bluntly, which perfectly fits the case here, "in the meatspace"), right?

In terms of broadly-understood virtualization, there's always FPGA with its possibility to spawn multiple number of completely independent softcores. These days some FPGAs with enough computing power for well-optimized security-critical part of general-purpose computing (messaging, web browsing, maybe DSP - not computation like neural models) have fully open-source bitstream synthesis tools.

BTW, thanks a ton for letting me know about the unpatched vulnerability in Alpine. I'll talk to the pmOS guys about patching it.
No idea on wording, i also don't have much experience in this space so don't take my comment as critique. Rather just an observation from a uninformed user hah. It does seem the wording was my only issue.

> Also, would you prefer having less jobs shown, but with a minimum $100k salary if it's a range?

I don't think the range matters to be honest, but i do think "breaking" the range erodes confidence and/or increases confusion on the user side. Ie the page explicitly told me no posts less than 100k (iirc), but then showed some less than 100k - so confusion/etc.

> Regarding the vetted aspect, it's related to the fact some companies aren't actively recruiting (you can read more in the article linked in the About page of the website).

Sounds good! If i'm indicative of the "average user" you may want to make that aspect more prominent? But i could also be well under your target user, in which case ignore my ignorance :D

Cool site! I hope to use it one day when i'm looking!
> What I find most strange about the modern day piracy is quality.

For a lot of pirates, it's a niche hobby to preserve the best quality version of some media / art. I see it as an underground librarian archivist movement.

In 100 years iTunes may be dead, but there will be some person with every album available in high quality lossless FLAC. Same with Netflix and it's bit starved encodes.
A great alternative to numba for accelerated Python is Taichi. Trivial to convert a regular python program into a taichi kernel, and then it can target CUDA (and a variety of other options) as the backend. No need to worry about block/grid/thread allocation etc. at the same time, it’s super deep with great support for data classes, custom memory layouts for complexly nested classes, etc etc, comes with autograd, etc. I’m a huge fan - makes writing code that runs on the GPU and integrates with your python libraries an absolute breeze. Super powerful. By far the best tool in the accelerated python toolbox IMO.
You've just invented suburbs.
I love the power of the word "just." It pairs well with armchair pundits who can simply wave a wand and solve major problems that lots of heavily motivated people who have resources and would profit nicely from solving these problems... still struggle to solve.

Can you answer your own questions in reverse? Why aren't new developments built wholesale, complete with shopping and services somewhere out of the way (and cheap)?
I know you're being funny, but I don't understand the joke: why does brown culture avoid Korean cars?
What blockchain attributes are you looking for? ... your local requirement has removed decentralization, distributed-ledger, and transparency.

What's left? immutability?
I think that'd be cool. The physical connection might be easy enough, if the serial speed is set low-ish you can get by with just some wires: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/powerbook-100-180-se...
What tools or primitives are missing that you wouldn't also need in the "happy path"? It is not like error handling is any different than any other type of handling from a programming point of view. It's the "business" challenges that makes it interesting. Most everyone has already figured out how to deal with success, but few want to think about failure, leaving all kinds of interesting problems to solve.
> Are you really going to argue that this diet is perfectly safe?

I'm not sure that I ever claimed it was? All I'm saying is there's no point in vilifying those food types as they can be part of a perfectly healthy diet.
The real question is whether the intersection of everyone's reasonable requests is not the null set.

California Forever is trying your thing and facing massive headwinds.
I'm fairly certain it's being extensively used simply because the opposite seems basically impossible to imagine. You have these bots capable of endlessly writing semi-believable comments that can dynamically adjust to context, to spin whatever you want to your desired narrative.

It's unimaginable that the military and government aren't already extensively using these systems. There's no laws against it (not that that seems to even matter that much anymore), there's no real cost if caught (as e.g. has happened with "influencers" being asked to make political points by politicians while also not disclosing that), and so on. It's basically near zero risk, low cost, high perceived reward, and completely doable. It's happening.

This could easily explain why social media, sites such as YouTube, and others increasingly often seem to follow cues from the political establishment more than general public sentiment as reflected in polls, "real life" actions, etc.. Of course there could also be biases driving such things, but those biases did not seem to exist, certainly not to the same degree, in the times before LLMs.
People do not want to live out of the way. In fact there are quite possibly lots of homes already available out of the way and cheap; I've heard some countries like Italy and Japan give them away for nearly free.
Places like that already exist. They are called towns. Problem is most people want to live in large urban centers.
There’s a theory that for a period of time in the 00s, all the “smart” people were getting their music for free online, while only “dumb” people were buying CDs, and so popular music charts began to reflect the tastes only of the “dumb” people.

I don’t believe it because (a) crap music has always existed, and (b) Napster nerds were numerous but still weren’t a critical mass capable of moving the market like this.
The CDC did put out some info on masks that they pretty quickly retracted and admitted was a mistake. They did that because they were trying to make sure enough masks were available for health care workers, which did in fact run out. You have to acknowledge that they admitted the mistake and take that into account when comparing it to something like the Trump campaign to claim the election was stolen, which everyone knows is entirely and intentionally false but they will never admit.

The idea that you can’t trust anyone is part of the ongoing disinformation campaign. Acting like the truth of information is only binary and ignoring the intent, degree of truth, and degree of damage, is a way for politicians who are spreading misinformation intentionally to rationalize doing so by blaming and attacking everyone else just because they try to do the right thing and get it slightly wrong.

We don’t need to trust politicians, we just need to trust each other a little bit. The campaign to sow distrust and polarize voters is working. Don’t let it work on you. Yes, some people are sometimes bad. Don’t forget that people are sometimes good, and most of the country aren’t politicians. Most of the country is decent people trying to get by, and we all pretty much want the same things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation_attack#Undermin...
You absolutely can do that.

And yes, it does release you from licensing obligations (unless the license included specific clauses).
That's a good place to start but it's primarily about programming itself. In "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics" and "Functional Differential Geometry" he applies his approach of using computer programs as a way of communicating concepts to humans to some fascinating maths and physics topics.
Possibly monty python related searches affecting the stats?
It’s going to be very difficult to make housing more affordable with high interest rates and high inflation. I highly doubt just increasing supply is going to be enough.
That is borderline incompetence
Whoops, meant to say Tonga, the same event

Here's the study

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/202...
You know what is neat when housing prices go down? You pay less to upgrade your house size than when the prices go up. Despite the fact your own house value dropped.

Housing price dropping is good for basically everyone I say.
When you see really goofy progressive taxes, if you look behind them, you'll usually see a strong legal or political barrier behind more sensible ones. This is why you are always hearing about ridiculous Amazon taxes coming out of the state of Washington; the place has no income tax, and progressive income taxes have been held to be unconstitutional there. So they have to get creative if they want a progressive tax.

Of course, the barrier in California is the infamous Proposition 13. You're right that charging people different rates for energy based on their income is silly; if they want to let the poor off the hook they should just tax them less, or even give them money. But the state's lawmakers are operating in a constrained environment.

(It's also the case that subsidies and means-tested benefits are trendy in Democratic policy-making circles, despite being dumb and inefficient compared to simpler and less directed benefits.)
> Calories are pretty much meaningless.

I think you'll have to expand on what you're trying to say here as taking it at face value is clearly untrue.
The most successful social democracies actually have significantly flatter taxes than the US. IMO, overly progressive taxes are the reason why nobody gives a shit that the government is so inefficient at spending money. Those who benefit the most from government services aren't paying for the waste, and the rich either are privileged enough not to care or become overly antagonist towards the government altogether.
Every generation thinks that the next generations music is crap.

Studies show that people stop discovering new music when they are 30.

https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2023/03/study-shows-why-we-s...!
Obligatory meme:

https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/

I'm personally in the top left corner and bottom right corner at the same time, which is sort of funny.

I have used WordPress since 2004-2005, and I've also written a Python static site generator before using Flask, Frozen-Flask[1], and webpack. I've also made stops through tools like Sphinx, Hugo, Gatsby, and VitePress[2]. But my personal site continues to run WordPress[3].

I think I'd prefer something like VitePress these days for a technical documentation site. It has a lot going for it for that use case.

Also, I recently learned that MediaWiki with a reasonable theme like Citizen[4] is a nice choice for an open source powered private wiki, although I do find the Mediawiki markup language a little cumbersome versus simpler markup languages like reST or Markdown/MyST in the Python community (or GitHub-Flavored Markdown or Asciidoc supported elsewhere). But Mediawiki has a lot of nice features (after all, Mediawiki powers Wikipedia). The theme makes it work properly on mobile and makes content editing a bit simpler. It still isn't nearly as polished as commercial wiki-like software (e.g. Notion) but it's better than open source wikis used to be.

I do find it kind of amusing how many tools and frameworks developers have created for making it easier to edit HTML pages. Truly a foundational 21st century problem, I guess!

[1]: https://frozen-flask.readthedocs.io/

[2]: https://vitepress.dev/

[3]: https://amontalenti.com

[4]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Citizen
Isn't that why we have the .safetensors format, which can't execute code on the host?
I agree hiding from FOIA looks bad, degrades trust in general, and the responsible parties should be punished, but it is definitely not dispositive of lying.

I didn't see any emails where they were showing agreement with a different set of facts than what they were communicating to the public? Open to seeing sources behind that claim though.
Well, not if you have to sell at a loss and still have the full loan
Recall isn't an undo button. It's just screenshots lol.
> My definition of culture talks about the working values and processes in a company.

Yeah, that does change it. And while that's certainly a reasonable definition of "cultural fit", I don't think it's been the predominant meaning historically.

As far as I'm aware, "cultural fit" has often been a tool of exclusion to e.g. justify not hiring a woman because they wouldn't be a good cultural fit in a place where all the guys talk about women as sex objects, or not hiring someone who's gay as they wouldn't be a good cultural fit where everyone makes fun of the homos, etc...

But it's more subtle than that. If all the devs in a team grew up watching a bunch of white middle-class sitcoms as kids (e.g. Friends, or whatever the early-'00s equivalent would be for junior devs these days) and those are their cultural touchstones, then someone who grew up not watching those show because they didn't speak to their life, is not going to get the same cultural references as them. And so "lack of cultural fit" can be used to enforce homogeneity, not only without needing an actual policy of not hiring people from working-class minority backgrounds, but without the people in charge of hiring even needing to consciously realise that's what they're doing! It enables the kind of systemic marginalisation that can be perpetuated by well-meaning people completely by accident.

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Looking back up-thread now, I think your definition might actually have been what the GP commenter was getting at. But it wasn't obviously so (at least, not obviously enough for me!) and without another explicit qualifier, "cultural fit" threw up a sizable red flag that I couldn't resist taking a swipe at.

Thanks for taking the time to write a thoughtful response that made me look at the previous comment in less reflexive light.
I don't think elite cycling teams would be taking these supps if it caused that, do you?
Because people also care a lot about their families and the communities they live in. Being close to family and friends is a very tough point to argue against.
Yeah but it doesn’t have to be, which I think is a huge part of the appeal of these tools. Inkscape, figma, hell even PowerPoint for mocking a simple form or something
Well, I'm against affordable housing then. Let Blackrock, who bought over 40% of the single family homes on the market, take it on the chin. Perhaps we can do a fire sale of corporate-owned homes.

This has made me determined to fight affordable housing even more so. I'd also like to ask, why is British journalism so shit tier? It's a fucking joke.
I'm fairly certain he's referring to war propaganda, not bot driven war systems. A bot that drops a bomb on its own people 1% of the time is pretty useless. A propaganda bot that says viable nonsense 1% of the time is awesome because it just adds even more plausible deniability.