skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a pretty bad take.

For example, multiple studies have shown that in communities that aren't addressed by a robust local news outlet, local corruption goes up. Having a good newsroom _does_ improve an understanding of what your representatives are up to, and a lack of information _does_ allow them to get up to more behind our backs.

I think the biggest failure of this piece is to make all news equivalent. Yes, cable news is junk; yes, many of the corporate newsrooms that churn out hundreds of articles a day are junk. They use engagement as a metric for success rather than finding ways to align themselves with impact and creating an informed, empowered electorate. That last thing - an informed, empowered electorate - is what it's all about.

Real journalism that is diligently undertaken in the public interest does make a real difference. (Should we know whether Clarence Thomas was taking corrupt bribes? Yes. Should we know how climate change is progressing? Yes. Should we know if the police are killing innocent people? Yes. Should we know that the police at the Uvalde school shooting hung around for over an hour doing nothing? Yes.) Telling people not to pay attention to the world around them results in an electorate who cannot meaningfully vote on real issues.

For those of us who build software, we need to know the factors that impact the lives of the people we're serving. We need to know the trends in the marketplaces and communities where we show up. The news is good for that, too.

Turn off cable news; pay more attention to non-profit news; go for long-form written journalism. Stay informed.

It's absolutely true that we take a psychic hit for doing so. I'd say that's more to do with the world than it is the media overall. Perhaps we should spend more time trying to make it better?
What is replacing it is Communism / Socialism / Marxism.
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Google Pixel is one of the easiest. Usually carries a lot of dev support even after Google themselves EOLs it.
The input data is still human produced. Who decides what is code that follows the specification and what is code that doesn't? And who produces that code? Are you sure that the code that another model produces will look like that? If not then nothing will prevent you from running into adversarial inputs.

And sure, coverage and lints are objective metrics, but they don't directly imply the correctness of a test. Some tests can reach a high coverage and pass all the lint checks but still be incorrect or test the wrong thing!

Whether the test passes or not is what's mostly correlated to whether it's correct or not. But similarly for an image recognizer the prompt of whether an image is a flower or not is also objective and correlated, and yet researchers continue to find adversarial inputs for image recognizer due to the bias in their training data. What makes you think this won't happen here too?
There are couple "near-end of this country" hypothetical geological disasters suggested for Japanese mainland, and Nankai Trough Earthquake is one of them.

I suppose the risk is technically elevated, but it's not a newly discovered risk or theorization at all - this concept predates modern plate tectonics theory.
> In case anyone replies with "well all companies are bad in some way"... scale is also a factor here.

Even disregarding scale, plenty of large companies providing critical service struggle to find good people to do their job.

Sure, they don't pay as well. But if the rebuttal is that you can't find a honest company that pays equivalent salaries, maybe we should call that wage-gap corruption money.
it's a matter of threshold. There's a point up to which targeted advertising doesn't cause harm, after that, it does. Ads on smartphones cross that threshold. Doesn't matter if TV also does: if it does, it should be limited too, otherwise, it doesn't matter.

Why smartphones and related software cross that threshold? They're specifically designed to increase use time, i.e. to be addictive. It's a drug.
There _were_ tons of tech jobs.

Much harder to jump ship nowadays since layoffs have flood the market with high skilled job seekers and borrowing money is no longer free for tech firms.

Life is complicated, employees can be just as much locked in to their jobs at Google as most people are to their products.
This is just JIT'ing. It's used in python and lua commonly
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He is funny, but only while promoting one side. He will never tell a joke that embarrasses one of his own, he will never point out the idiocy of his own party, just the other.
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I honestly don't think our current "implementation" of government has the required momentum to do anything to stop this or enable the will of the people to be enacted on such large corporations. Our government is a highly-reactive machine that's no longer driven by humans, but rather the internal algorithms and processes (bureaucracy).

Just look at the sheer number of "congressional" and "senate" hearings we've seen into everything from AI, to border crossings, to privacy breaches, to antisemitism in universities, to data breaches, etc. Pretty much 0 effect happens anywhere in response, despite us all (including the media) seeing the internals and the problems. You would think some of these problems are pretty easy to solve or at least get consensus on, but you'd be wrong. We've co-evolved our public discourse and media with government such that nothing can happen. If I wasn't so anti-left, I'd say the amount of partisanship in existence is precisely because it disarms us against this government automaton.
Well, this phone was released late 2022 so I'd be surprised to find it in a legacy list already. And indeed there was nothing in the legacy list more recent than 2020.

I bought it the instant it was released so I've gotten 2 years out of it so far with just a few scratches from constantly forgetting and putting it with my keys in my pocket. I have a 2nd battery for quick swapping, but that also helps with battery longevity. I protected the USB port with one of those magnetic connectors so hopefully that will last a while too.
"in" denotes the opposite, so "inflammable" has been used to mean not flammable due to expectations of grammatical consistency, and as a result the word is generally preferred to be avoided entirely nowadays in favor of either "flammable" (or "highly flammable"), or "nonflammable".
The only specialized equipment I'm seeing in Olympic pistol shooting is a very fancy pistol, and shooting glasses which may optionally have a blinder and an aperture. Since people are winning Olympic medals with and without specialty glasses, I think it's fair to conclude they're optional.
Cycling, particularly road cycling, also comes to mind.
Whenever I think about living forever, my first question is… who is going to pay for it?

To me, it feels like the idea of living forever, at least in modern capitalism (and post 1776), is just a way to keep on feeding the capitalism machine.

So is the end game here to be enslaved forever to a job? Unless we somehow become enlightened enough to have UBI or simply move away from a capitalist system, living forever seems like an endless hell for the majority, and yet more opportunity for the wealthy to compound their wealth and maintain their reign on society.

The real question here is who are true beneficiaries of living forever, and how do the rest of us pay for the repercussions.
I want my advocates to have skin in the game, I assume "neutral" just means "undisclosed private agenda". Put your money on the table!
> I also think iFixit’s business selling repair tools and parts is inappropriate.

Good grief, I hope you phrased that poorly and don't actually mean what you seem to mean.
As an LLM can output source code, that's all answerable with "exactly what they already do when talking to developers".
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This is about as "true" as fully replacing a Honda Civic's engine with something that has 10x the horsepower, and then advertising that you managed to get 10x the horsepower out of the Civic using the Civic's engine.

Your argument is more one of philosophy / law / BS than something anyone would take as true.
But people private data is soooooo easy to make money from
> I've solved problems by using eBPF. Problems that are basically unsolvable by non-kernel-gurus without eBPF. I rarely need it.

Would you mind giving some examples? I recently started learning about ebpf's from Liz Rice's book and is curious about what makes ebpf the correct choice in a particular scenario.
That's why we need regulations. Against people actually to blame, but also against ourselves. Basically, just so that being unethical isn't profitable for anyone.
I wonder if I can use this to learn a large c++ codebase like Chromium. One of the issues I had trying to learn chromium was that in order to play and experiment with their classes/functions I needed to spend several minutes to link my little test code with their static libraries just to be able to see if my understanding of them was correct. Which is just too long of time for such experiments so I gave up.
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Introducing the new PSF 1.0 license!

The software herein can be used, without restriction, by all parties who believe only whites can be racist.
Doesn't make click for me. Snapshot is a VCS term that seems to have a different meaning in photography.

From Wikipedia "A snapshot is a photograph that is "shot" spontaneously and quickly, most often without artistic or journalistic intent and usually made with a relatively cheap and compact camera."
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The key is to focus on local news: these are updates that a person can take action upon.

Seeing the latest tragedies on the other side of the world catches headlines, but rarely actionable by regular people.
If you’re from a wealthy country with strong labor laws, definitely not.

One could cynically view globalization as a workaround for labor regulations
To be fair, you do have the option of buying a replacement lettuce+sauce kit for $800 coupled with pickles for $300.
That's SpaceX's philosophy, but Boeing operates on a measure-twice build-once philosophy where everything is supposed to be close to perfect in the first place.
I've been playing with it recently, and I find unless there are very clear patterns in surrounding code or on the Internet, it does quite terribly. Even for well-seasoned libraries like V8 and libuv, it can't reliably not make up APIs that don't exist and it very regularly spits out nonsense code. Sometimes it writes code that works and does the wrong thing, it can't reliably make good decisions around undefined behavior. The worst is when I've asked for it to refactor code, and it actually subtly changes the behavior in the process.

I imagine it's great for CRUD apps and generating unit tests, but for anything reliable where I work, it's not even close to being useful at all, let alone a game changer. It's a shame, because it's not like I really enjoy fiddling with memory buffers and painstakingly avoiding UB, but I still have to do it (I love Rust, but it's not an option for me because I have to support AIX. V8 in Rust also sounds like a nightmare, to be honest. It's a very C++ API).
> Sure but the explanation conveniently sidesteps the issue with the senate lack of actual representativity

That complaint isn't addressed by empowering political appointees from the executive to write laws the courts aren't allowed to challenge. Least of all, laws which violate he Bill of Rights!
I must confess that I don't have any experience in graphic design. I actually used existing examples that I thought were well-designed and tried to recreate them using Orbit to see if it was possible.
Different types of tests. The SpaceX ones were mostly supposed to do that.
It's all connected. The oligopoly of leader selection is highly influenced by the owners of media, which usually are aiming to influence national policy to their preference.

The destruction of the newspaper and the "liberty of information" of the internet is now compressed through information warfare, or as Steve Bannon puts it "flooding the zone with shit".

You flood the main channels (social media now) with disinformation and misinformation, or even information calculated to create as much anger as possible (Cambridge Analytica knew that making people angry was the easiest way to make them change their minds). You use bot networks and sockpuppets to spread it.

Through that you get the same overall effects as when newspapers were a thing - even with "unlimited" channels, they're all showing what you want them to show. You flooded the zone with what you want people to see, and you made it so that it follows the response that the algorithm will propagate it even more (sharing, liking).

Overall the effect is the same. And for the same reason. Those controlling the information want to control leadership, leadership choices, and leadership selection. That's the target.

This isn't a conspiracy theory. This is why Bob Mercer bought Cambridge Analytica (an information warfare firm that was doing counter terrorism work for NATO) and put Steve Bannon in charge. Influencing elections.
Treating accound IDs and hashes as a secret is a tall order. Nearly an antipattern.
Things we discussed:

- a commit is somewhat a 'save' but unlike a 'final_v1.docx'

- a commit prevents changes from being overwritten
wtf, for-profit business absolutely has the potential for proper incentive alignment to achieve a goal.
Wouldn't it be better to remove exploitation and manipulation than to subject children to it in the hopes that it somehow makes them resistant to more of it later?
Quick heads-up: I think you've written "debtor" instead of "creditor" a couple times in there.
Can anyone speak to their experiences leaving the US and working for and within an EU country?
Agreed. Making super viruses to show what could possibly happen, however unlikely, is the epitome of hubris. But boy is it a great to get funding.

I do wonder what the calculus is when comparing the chance nature could mutate and successfully introduce itself to the human population vs the chance of it escaping a lab after being created by humans to study gain of function, etc.
Google would maintain a kernel patch or upstream a patch if that was the right choice for a given problem.
I'm real sure super dense green powder does. Take it every day!

I'm cheating 11 years of age and counting (perceived and available energy levels.)

May note the first two weeks for you might be a headache. You will feel the crap you shouldn't be taking in expel from your tissues. Balance with those wheatgrass shots and try E3Live if your flush.

Good luck extended mortality freaks, you can't live for ever so live your finest until the end.
Like my friend said, we need anonymous on/off ramps: https://x.com/LBRYcom/status/1628105970122358801
I thought because it’s a nod to something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mu_SP-1200
Exactly. I was about to respond with something similar, but you did it for me!

Not only are folks getting laid off left and right, salaries have gone down significantly and it’s very difficult to secure a new job in this market (no matter your skills, experience, etc.).
The issue is that you don't normally let humans on them until you've proven they don't explode. If Boeing had followed each of those incidents with a re-do where everything went perfectly, it wouldn't be a problem.
Fallout 2 is Interplay.

Anyway Bethesda is really good about this type of thing, they give away some of their of old stuff (Arena and Daggerfall) for free-as-in-beer and considering their cooperation with modders for nearly every title they release I don't think I've ever seen them get ornery over a remake.

Sfall has been around a long time too. I wouldn't worry.
I hate ads, but this is not a winning argument. Instead of winning people over to the sympathetic cause (nobody really LIKES ads besides google and meta employees) you alienate people
I am noob in video streaming, so this is quite good insight into how much work goes into it
"Fluff" refers to the role. Ideally those people could be moved around to non-"fluffy" roles, but that's not always possible. Losing one's job is always a blow to one's dignity, and ultimately it may be better for those companies not to create those roles to begin with (of course, sometimes roles aren't fluffy when they are created, but become that way over time, eg, pandemic hiring). The truth is we have to have both eyes open when it comes to the value our roles provide to the company that hired us, and plan accordingly.
I use virtual cards for this
There's a difference between placing a sports shoes ad in front of a gym, and getting to know the history and habits of every person that ever entered that gym, and showing each a different ad.

I mean, 30 years ago, we were horrified by the extent to which Stasi spied on their own people. Now, we'd call them amateurs.
They know other STDs exist but thanks for the insinuation that all homosexuals - sorry - "people" are stupid
> I'm getting that impression as well after discussing the topic of internationalization on Mastodon: using languages other than English is undervalued by open source devs. I mean, how often do you find variables named in Spanish or Russian in open source software? It's a very anglocentric bubble.

And that's a good thing.
We still live in the echoes of neoliberalism though. It was popular, it took over social democracy, The Third Way was a revamp of social democracy to appease to neoliberal ideas, and social democracy never recovered to its less capital-leaning changes since then.

Globalism was not an affront to neoliberalism, it was an extension of it.

We do need something else, neoliberalism has failed as an experiment and we all live in a world with the pains caused by its side-effects.
If the news is a cost center, who pays for it? I'm assuming your implied solution is to roll-up news production/curation to be under the federal government? (Assuming U.S. here, since you mentioned EPA.) Aren't the strings of government ultimately pulled by forces leading back to businesses? Isn't lobbying more influential than individual tax payers in how their taxes are spent? Do you really think the end result would be materially better (in the U.S.) if news were only provided by the government?

New has always been a business. The 1st amendment to the U.S. Constitution was put in place precisely to prevent government from controlling the press.

I think, like the junk food analogy implies, it's up to the end consumer to decide what to purchase. Yes, there are psychological and neurological factors at play... sugar is addicting, and there is a dopamine hit in anticipating what's behind the click-bait... but if enough individuals realize there are better things to eat and better information to consume, these business peddling junk would go out of business.

Or, another possible solution, while I'm spitballing... ban paid advertising in some ways. Let local community advertising by local business through, by all means, but ban ads to consumers by conglomerates who operate outside of some radius?

(Corrected typo.)
Except that Firefox was there first with a free unbundled browser.
Yes, there will always be a risk when you ride a 737 into orbit too.
People have been trying to move away from COBOL since I was a kid and I’m not even young.
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Such news and articles within the framework of medical research warm my soul
The good news is that they should be able to replicate real world events to validate of this is true or not.

Tesla FSD is a good example of this in real life. You can measure how closely the car acts like a human based off of interventions and crashes that were due to unhuman behavior, as well in the first round of the robot taxi fleet which will have a safety driver, you can measure how many people complain that the driver was bad
I would describe it as a stopping point, or a chunk of work that represents a finished step (however you define a step).
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"Deep in the browser’s privacy settings, Firefox introduced an experimental “privacy-preserving ad measurement” toggle, enabling it by default without explanation or disclosure."

This isn't even the first time Firefox has collaborated with an ad or marketing company, rolled out a feature behind a checkbox that users didn't know about, turned it on by default. See the case of the 'Alternate Reality Game' ad campaign for Mr Robot a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15940144

I stopped hearing when Mozilla talks about privacy or caring about users. Most companies that treat their users like Mozilla just do it, but it actually adds insult to injury that Mozilla tells you they care, tells you you're important while they do the same things. It's gaslighting or manipulation or lying or something but I'm not going to listen to them any more.
What are the thresholds for tv and the web? Does FCC have any specific guidelines? How about other countries?
I posted the article, but did not know about that event until I saw your comment.
Maybe- there are just so many variables, and the trust has been so eroded already. It'd have to be super strict for me to be on board, to the point where it's less journalism and more technical writing. "Just the facts ma'am" to the extreme, every sentence is a statement of verifiable fact- no conjecture or interpretation, all that is left to the reader. You won't get many clicks that way, though.
> while lawyers only think about how something goes very wrong and the company ends up in court.

To be fair to the lawyers -- that's primarily what companies hire them to do.
After private equity takes over hospitals, they are less adept of providing care
Ask HN: What mistake do you regret the most as a startup founder?
I'm still a year into this and want to avoid any potential pitfalls.

Any foresight from more seasoned founders would be highly appreciated.
>Germans are, rather, rule followers.

Which is very good when the rules are sane and up to date, and very bad when otherwise.
That’s a very positive view of HR and this is NOT my experience working with large companies. It’s very hit or miss, some recruiters ghost and it blows my mind. I’m talking corporate and non-contract recruiters. Ghosted after doing 5+ hours of multi day interviews.
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Yes I am well aware of the basic optics, but the author is not. These headsets come with adjustable lens as well as adjustable irises; if your eye curvature was drifting a bit you’d correct with that. (And if it’s drifting a ton, increasing the depth of field is a poor fix indoors.) The dominant reason to have the iris while shooting is to help you keep three points at different distances in simultaneous focus: the target, far sight, and near sight.
Regardless, your experience has nothing to do with this topic or DB. And you could have gotten a partial refund quite easily, even after taking alternative transport. Refunds for delays is something DB has worked out pretty reliably. Filling out the online form is trivial, and if you use the DB app most fields are prefilled.
This is not fair use
> they put those under 18 in that group to protect their privacy and age

That's not how it works!