skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also want news organizations to be more transparent and honest. The incentives are complicated. Perhaps some sort of ratings system could help.

I think I’d be willing to go further. Purely from an economic perspective, there are negative externalities that result from poor quality news organizations. Current market mechanisms seem to reward polarization.

So what do we do?

A common response is: let’s educate people to pay more attention to their critical thinking and media diet. This can work if people change habits to align with higher level thinking. With more high-quality aggregation options, the easier this gets for individuals.

An uncommon response (that would attract the ire of many) would be to impose economic penalties on the organizations that correspond to their negative externalities. Perhaps tax them like cigarettes. It is hard to think of targeted policy interventions that don’t have all sorts of loopholes.

In broad strokes, perhaps the best solutions I know about at present are carrots. Spend generously on high-quality news organizations.

(This is just a first draft and could stand a lot of improvement.)
The money spent on making astronauts safer could save more lives if spent elsewhere. That's how the statistical value of a life is set: it's the marginal cost of saving a (age adjusted) life used to justify government actions, say in worker safety, pollution control, road improvements, medical spending, etc.

Why do you think astronauts are so much more important than the common persons saved by these other efforts? Why do you advocate spending patterns that increase the body count for a given expenditure?
It's not a new observation. More than a century ago, Mark Twain observed: "If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed."
My take is the opposite: considering how good AI is at coding right now I'm eager to see what comes next. I don't know what kind of tasks you've tried using it for but I'm surprised to hear someone think that it's not even "barely usable". Personally, I can't imagine going back to programming without a coding assistant.
Olympics may be transport hub for global disease spread
Bogan CORBA.
France, Japan and Korea are all countries with a big vested interest in ICE vehicles so why doesn't your reasoning apply to them?
Hmm, this project doesn't seem to be stemming from Microsoft Zenimax Bethesda Game Studios... there may be trademark and/or copyright issues here... I dunno, something about this gives me bad vibes. Maybe it's just 'cause it ain't OSS.
I don't know for sure how it's better, but AlON can be 3d printed:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266653952...
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Median Household Income in the US is 75K. In Germany its 42K (lets round up to 50)

Tax Rates on 75K income in the US: 19% (take home 60K). In Germany on 50K: 35% (take home 32K)

What are you waiting for, exactly? America is profoundly, almost absurdly prosperous. Truck drivers here make more than software developers in many "modern" countries, even in spite of the fruits of remote work.

edit: aredox in replies has even better proof of mass American prosperity vs the rest of the world over the last 20 years. It shows 10th, 50th, and 90th percentile incomes all shooting up for the US and the major European nations mostly stagnating, especially for the 10th and 50th pct populations.
I have struggled with the negative aspects of news as well and personally think there is a middle route over cutting it out.

I built attabit.com to summarize the news for friends, family, and myself to remove as much sensationalism, bias, and 'junk food' as possible.

The site has been having all kinds of problems today with the claude 3.5 sonnet outage but outside of that, its become the main news source of high level news for me and a lot of my friends and family.

It lets you know what's happening without getting sucked into it. If you check it out, let me know what you think?
I stopped reading the news, having been someone who thought it was morally "right" to be "informed".

I feel much better since I quit. I still end up hearing about things, through talking to people etc, and I will still read articles on stuff that was important enough to still be written about weeks after the event.

But daily news is just 99% not worth reading.
While this may seem technically promising, it's also likely that the growing volume of cases will include enough false convictions to cast doubt on the enterprise. Especially if more shady businesses get into the game.
> You could use OpenZiti together with Cilium/Calico, there are some distros, eg., https://kubezt.com/ which do that (though in truth, KubeZT has moved to Istio for E-W, uses OpenZiti for N-S. OpenZiti does a lot of things that service mesh technologies do not, for example, extending outside of the cluster (incl. to non-K8S workloads), allowing closing of inbound FW ports, providing a private DNS outside of cluster, removing the need for VPNs, L4 loadbalancers, MPLS, SDWAN, public DNS etc.

Yeah Istio is a hard no for me... And yeah I definitely appreciate that OpenZiti does a lot more than service meshes do! I personally try to avoid service meshes (if I were to use one, I'd go with linkerd).

I'm just not convinced that many people need a service mesh -- I haven't really needed one yet, but maybe I'm just not at the right scale/etc.

> Oh, I should note too, while we have a bunch of ways to deploy OpenZiti on K8S today, we are in the process of building/releasing an admission controller and an ingress controller for OpenZiti.

This is awesome -- I really like my current admission controller though (Traefik), it's FANTASTIC. I think moving ingress controllers might be a large lift for people (it would be for me).

> Whats the project you work on?

I don't really work on it actively these days (haven't in a while) but https://nimbusws.com

Looking forward to picking it back up more actively in the future though, for now I use it for some small background services.
As far as I understand it both ways are based on the drug binding to the capsid, so if the capsid protein changed resistance could evolve.
I read GP as relocating people who were paralyzed by safety.

E.g. the developers who never ship code because they always want to write the better version of the thing, that they thought up while building the current version

At some point you have to look at a less than perfect design and answer the question of whether it's good enough for the requirements at hand.
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Testicles? What testicles?

There's. NO. actual. evidence.

None. Nada.
ZCZC appears to be a signaling codeword for this protocol:

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

- "NAVTEX messages are transmitted using binary frequency-shift keying (BFSK) at 100 bit/s and a 170 Hz frequency shift"

It's a low-bandwidth way to send weather tweets to seafaring boats.
It makes me angry to read news that are aimed at ignorant people, especially when you can see that the writer is smart and is using strategies to fit his narrative into the news.
The "council" members have chased away all reasonable people. One of the problems is that 90 core developers can vote for the council, but virtually all of them are inactive.

So they never set foot on GitHub or even the discussion platforms. They have no clue what is going on and still think everything is like in the good old times.

Couple this with the fact that only ragingly power hungry people apply for the council. There is a severe shortage of candidates.

So, in the elections the nasty people get something like 30 out of 90 votes. Since hardly anyone of the electorate has the faintest idea of what is actually going on (see above) and relies on official spin stories of the council members, who block opposing opinions, they can do what they like.

All people who oppose the inner circle are removed, defamed and silenced.

This is like (hypothetically) Trump first banning a Democrat from voting and then removing him from the U.S. entirely.
Hair transplants are your own hairs...
I am sure they often do. And ultimately you always end up doing your own research. But cooking yourself is the cost of reducing junk food consumption.
:( It doesn't run on the actual mouse's firmware, it has an extra RP2040 inserted between the mouse board and the computer.

Still nifty though.
So you literally went to another dictionary to prove yourself right?

Must be fun.
For voting, you can probably be reasonably informed with several hours of research right before each election.

If you trade individual stocks or other asset classes directly, finance news is pretty important.

Maybe staying on top of the field you personally work in. But that's probably best served by papers and long form articles in specialty blogs and web sites.

Other than that, how does "the news" help you make good decisions?
I had a high school English/Literature teacher who used to dismiss the class by saying "Go play in the street, children!" They also said "Don't watch anything that tells you how to feel."

Anyway, I feel like the human species has arrived at a time when we have the internet, without having a great way to deal with everyone's feelings.

Some news media orgs make junk food, some news media orgs make information poison - they make it harder to understand what is going on in the world.

"It's always in the last place you look" - if you already know how you FEEL about something, you don't have to think about it in information or factual terms at all. You don't have to keep looking.
Affects mitochondrial function https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1867647/
This is that water cooler innovation thing you just can't without RTO. There's a pesky paper trail when you ask employees to do illegal things online!
I'm not even British (I'm Canadian), but am a geopolitical nerd. Spitting Image is one of the best examples of satire that's ever existed in the TV era.

There was a great documentary where a lot of the politicians who were satirized on it explained how much they loved and loathed their portrayals which often affected their prospects: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xiafmh
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Sounds like we need a WSL in the other direction - have a Windows subsystem for Linux, so that your $distro integrates with Windows and you can run apps on Windows while having the window show up on your Linux system :)
I love your phrase 'weather tweets'
> Ya’ll are clumsy.

So are you, in the future… if you’re lucky enough to stick around. ;)
> First, it's easier to do test on undocumented, homeless and rights deprived people than regular citizens.

Not if you want to do long term analysis, and rule out confounding variables like the impact of sleeping rough.

Though even if you did, that would still be a demonstration that it won't just be for the rich. Weird demo, suboptimal science, but nevertheless you've now got homeless people stuffed with anti-aging drugs.

> Second. If you're that far in the future, the labor will be automatized, who's going to rebel? The automatons?

It might be automated, but then there's no longer a meaningful distinction between rich and poor. A genuinely fully automated economy, all it takes is one person with a von Neumann replicator to decide everyone should have one, followed by log_2(population)*replication_period, before everyone has them. The former is 33, so even if they take a year starting from bashing rocks with pickaxes, this would still be less than half the current human life expectancy.

A better question is who would want to rebel?
Just works better than the privately owned system.
As I said, even if playwright started out a fork, classifying it as just that these days is a pretty big oversimplification.

It isn't just a "wrapper around puppeteer" either but a complete test automation framework bringing you the whole set of runner, assertion library and a bunch of supporting tools in the surrounding ecosystem.

Where puppeteer still mainly is a library and just that. With which there in principle is nothing wrong, but at this stage of development does make them distinctly different products.
I haven't watched the news for my entire adult life (almost 20 years). Why would I? I have countless other things I could do with my time and I have no idea why I'd allocate some of that to daily news. I skim over headlines and read articles that look interesting but only in heavily curated places like this very website.

People I know who do consume news interestingly only bother telling me about super shocking stuff that I don't need to know, e.g. "someone got murdered", "a celebrity said so and so" etc. They rarely tell me stuff I might need to know like "income tax is changing next year".
ifixit might be able to do a better job, yes. It's their core business rather than an afterthought, after all.

But part of the problem can only be solved by Samsung. They're the ones releasing 30 phone models in a single year - and the ones making design decisions like having six different screens available for the same phone because the coloured bezel is glued to the screen.

And of course if Samsung buys screens for $50 and sells them to ifixit for $100, holding 1000 in stock requires half the capital outlay if Samsung does it.
Just another post saying well done.
You found a niche and filled it with an excellent product in your free time.

I hope you get offered lots of money for this project.
Definitely considered that. I'm a tad nomadic, but I guess I can just change the addresses.
The correlation vs causation question is interesting, but not the original topic. Whether smart people avoid corporate news, or corporate news makes people dumber, either way the problem is corporate news.

And TDS is not a great example of that, because from the start it was an explicitly self-aware reaction to the awfulness of corporate news.
Sadly I've barely been writing shell scripts for multiple decades, so needed to look this up.

> If an attacker pre-creates the file with relaxed access permissions, then data stored in the temporary file by the application may be accessed, modified or corrupted by an attacker.

https://owasp.org/www-community/vulnerabilities/Insecure_Tem...
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There is a strong chance that bias will affect rankings, to some degree, but:

1. Bias is not all or nothing.

2. There is a large degree of commonality about baseline ethics and quality of life. Polarization accentuates wedge issues disproportionately.

3. There are classes of statements which can be factually assessed.

4. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. A step in the right direction combined with other forces can make a positive difference.
Not really moved the goalposts according to a comment posted 20+ minutes before yours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41190333
A lot of what we call "The X community" is just a portion of a said larger group that is incredibly vocal and politically organized.
I was recently in Japan when an earthquake alarm went off.

Turns out they have a ton of earthquakes - most days look to have 3-4, and as of this posting there have been seven today.

https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/index.html?lang=en
C# tuple field names are an interesting case, spiritually similar to this proposal's ad hoc unions: persisted in compiled output via attributes, respected by the compiler even across assembly boundaries, but not actually part of the resulting CLR type. So, e.g., if

var p = (x: 1, y: 2);
var q = (u: 1, y: 2);
var f = ((int x, int y) a) => a.x + a.y;

then

p == q
f(p) == 3
f(q) == 3
p.GetType() == q.GetType()

are all true, but

var r = q.x;

yields the compile-time error

CS1061: '(int u, int v)' does not contain a definition for 'x' and no accessible extension method 'x' accepting a first argument of type '(int u, int v)' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

and if

dynamic d = q;

then

var s = d.u;

compiles, but throws

RuntimeBinderException: 'System.ValueTuple<int,int>' does not contain a definition for 'u'

at runtime, revealing the underlying CLR type.
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Great suggestions - thanks.
> Ass-uming that's even the case.
It depends on what you are trying to do. Are you trying to look at the code and/or modify it to fit your needs? Are you simply looking for a free IDE?

Here is what I used 10 years ago when I was still doing Java.

Open Source IDE
---------------
Netbeans IDE -> Loved the UI
Eclipse -> My team at Amazon used this and it was great

Free to Use (Closed-Source)
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IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition

Open Source Editor
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Visual Studio Code - If you don't care about IDE related features and just want an Editor

I don't have any background in C/C++ so I don't have any recommendations.

Hope this helps!
Completely missing the mark here, sorry to be so blunt. But modern medicine has taken away almost all evolutionary pressures except for regions where healthcare is not available or for some very rare and serious conditions.
You are of course right, "Reisendenpünktlichkeit Fernverkehr" hasn't even been published by DB before January 2024 - my bad.
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> EU: creates regulation that makes doing that thing illegal

That’s a huge fallacy. For the most part complaints about the EU regulatory fetish are about the way regulations don’t make it clear what is legal to do.

So yeah, the EU outlaws some bad behavior, but also lots of innocuous behavior, with a “spirit of the law” enforcement regime. So nobody actually knows what’s legal.

I’m surprised that’s not well understood. The complaints aren’t about regulation, they’re about intentional uncertainty that allows for selective enforcement (coincidentally always against non-EU companies) with outcomes that can’t be predicted in advance and penalties that far outweigh potential profits from a medium sized market.
Biased recommendation: Try racket https://racket-lang.org/ It's not pure functional, but the preferred style is to use mostly functional constructs. (But you can cheat when it get's too difficult or you need some extra speed.) (And you can download packages like Qi that enable a new language inside Racket that has more support for functional style.)

(Most Schemes have a similar mostly-functional style, so you can also try one of them.)
They put in $150k at 7% then top that up to $500k later on if the company raises more. The first batch was low, like $10k or something, couldn't find the exact numbers anymore.

There's a page of their bigger successes: https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/public

But those are the bigger ones. There's small ones that bring value to the world like OMGPOP, that made that Draw Something game that was sadly acquired by Zynga for $200m.

Apparently they've invested in over 5000 companies. That's $750m-$2.5b. Their top 10 exits probably covers that.
But that's punditry, not news.

News would be accurately reporting on where the Russian troops were and what they were doing at that moment. News isn't supposed to include prediction. That's why Opinion sections were traditionally kept separate from the rest of the paper.
The comparison with junk food is an apt one.

It seems like for every human desire or appetite or source of value, there exists a quick hit, instantly gratifying satisfaction that is bad for long-term health. And there also exists a slowly-acquired, initially difficult or unpleasant, eventually-rewarding satisfaction that is good for long-term health.

Wouldn't a healthy society encourage its members to pursue the more stable, initially uncomfortable, initially difficult, but long-term good option on as many axes as possible?

We should seek out and eat nutritious, wholesome food rather than eat junk food non-stop every day. We should read books and articles rather than consume infotainment and social media. We should go to the gym rather than sitting on the couch and doing nothing. We should commit to real relationships instead of participating in infinite hookup culture. We should find real social circles to belong to and become loyal to them instead of embracing abstract political tribalism that tickles the "belonging" nerve but leaves us with no one who personally knows or cares about us when we're in actual need. We should buy things when we need them and when they're a good value rather than spending impulsively as a therapeutic exercise. The list goes on and on.

I'm concerned that the currently-most-common set of societal norms across pretty much every Western culture I'm aware of seems to encourage the opposite of all that. And I think it's gotten that way, not least at any rate, because sad, scared, addicted, unhappy, immature, overstimulated, overmedicated, physically and spiritually unhealthy humans are simply easier for corporations to make money off of than the alternative. Which suggests that this situation didn't just happen by accident—there's pressure coming from influential people and groups to make it this way. And that means there's systemic resistance to be expected when trying to swim against that current, whether for oneself or, for e.g., for one's kids.
If you just want a medium-intensity tip, whenever a newsman reports on what someone said, look up what that person actually said (in context and with a charitable "best possible interpretation" lens). If the two match up then the reporting is about as good as you'll find anywhere. If you can't find a primary source then there is a very real question of how the newsman figured it out that deserves some reflection.

There are basically 3 grades of reporting - trashy lies, very biased and informative. Misreporting what people actually said is a strong tell of the first two - which can still be fun to read but ultimately they're trying to sell you on something that is probably against your interests.
The desire for immortality goes back at least as far as the epic of Gilgamesh. Medieval alchemists tried to achieve it. In China, Daoists attempted to dramatically lengthen their lives by various esoteric means. Tibetan Buddhism also has practices along these lines.

Conversely, in today's world plenty of people would like to lengthen their lives, without that being their primary goal. Just because someone wants to live longer does not mean that it's the only thing they care about; it's even possible that some larger purpose is a major reason they want to live longer.

From a Buddhist perspective, "if you are a practitioner of the Dharma, someone who is putting the teachings into practice, there is great significance to doing long-life practice."

https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Long_life_practice