jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I appreciate your honesty and I will attempt to explain, briefly, so you might understand better.

1. Most people on the right are against abortion for the reason that it is against their particular religion, which declares it as murder and murder is wrong.
But, the others don't care at all about a woman's right to choose, they just don't want their tax dollars paying for that choice instead of other things they want. It really is that simple.
As far as the court goes, that is completely different. The saying goes "you can indict a ham sandwich ", and that is largely true. Courts all over the nation entertain frivolous actions on a daily basis, people love this (Judge Judy), but when cases are preliminary dismissed without the "day in court" faith in the court will be quickly lost by those who believed win or lose, it should have been heard.
Each person reading this was raised in a time when they were taught every vote counts, your opinion matters, and to stand up for what you believe in while respecting the opinions of others. The opinion of one side is no longer even listened to, let alone respected. How many of you have ever genuinely tried to explain to someone with a different opinion why you disagree with them? I don't see that much anymore. Not everyone with a different opinion is set in their beliefs. Some may welcome your perspective and shift their viewpoint to yours. It's worth a try, right? Apparently not for most. Instead, the right is vilified, insulted, and they believe they are treated differently and unfairly from the left. Their voices are being systematically taken away through deplatforming. They are being stereotyped and lumped into a single category along with extremists. So, the logical conclusion is that if you isolate, disparage, and discourage someone enough, they will become you've now convinced them they are. Multiply that by 70 million. Instead, try talking to people with the goal of explaining your point of view and why you feel that way. It certainly can't hurt more than what's happening now.
Trying to maintain a distinction between Twitter and the Trump administration is comical?
You might be interested in the "fediverse" then. One instance can ban you but you can make an account in others and still interact with people from your old instance.
The pipe bombs were at the RNC and DNC headquarters, not the Capitol building. There is no evidence that they were placed there in connection with the rather disorganized mob that broke into the Capitol building.
Rejection of federal assistance, Capitol contractors told to stay home days in advance, numerous security barriers left wide open in the buildings, Pelosi is in charge of Capitol Police but left a laptop lying around so that could become a big HN headline ....
I'm not sure if a fractured internet is more likely to lead to a fractured Union as compared to an internet were a substantial segment of the population feels suppressed. I highly doubt that these bans are going to be effective in terms of curbing undesirable communication. On the other hand, I am confident that they will reinforce perceptions of biased and uneven enforcement.

I am also particularly worried that politicians will use the threat of regulation to coerce companies into suppressing political opponents' messages. The government can't directly ban speech, but if they can intimidate platforms into censuring political opponents they will have achieved the same effect. Better, in fact, because the politicians' agency in this censorship is not visible.
Until the past few days, I had no idea this site was legion with the basest /r/conspiracy buffoons. Now I'm definitely gone, you can have it.
One gotta love a reply like that these days. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for being an awesome human being.
A brief history of the Trump movement:

1. Trump is a popular public figure that has been tweeting against Democrats for the past decade.

2. Trump runs for office, and immediately starts calling into question mainstream media and election integrity.

3. Trump wins the election, and his voters accept his premise that the media cannot be trusted. They turn to him as their sole voice of reason.

4. Given that they believe everything spoon fed to them by Trump, they cannot accept alternatives.

5. The voice of Trump is amplified by his followers across the internet (and this is aided by complicit Republican in and out of government.)

6. When Trump wins, they believe that he won the election. When he loses, they cannot accept it and instead choose to believe the word of Trump.

Should this voice of Trump be forced by the U.S. government to be supported by every public and private corporation to continue the Trump movement?

Would drowning out all other media and sources of information be the ideal way forward for the United States?
It would have been interesting if SG:U would have been more isolated from home (without the transporter stones and the Lucian Alliance story).
The original purpose of the XBox was to kill the profit margins on Sony's cash cow, the playstation. It succeeded in that, and Sony is no longer threatening Microsoft across a range of areas. This was a wise strategic move, and profit was not the main motive.

If you think that btilly is not describing and then praising wealth destruction in that quote about Microsoft's Xbox business, please downvote this comment. Thanks.

HOW TO DESTROY WEALTH:

When I spend $100 on materials and labor, and I can -- at best -- sell the result to you for $80, $20 of wealth is destroyed. Why? Because the original $100 came from the creation of wealth equal to that, and I transformed that $100 into something that is now only worth $80. Literally, wealth was destroyed.

If you'd like a more concrete analogy, what Microsoft did is a lot like taking a a 1 carat diamond and smashing it into diamond dust. Only the arrangement of matter has changed, but in terms of wealth, the diamond dust is worth far less than the sparkling 1 carat diamond.

It's the same with the $100. As a $100 bill, it is worth exactly $100. Microsoft took that $100 and spend it on labor and materials. The matter in the world stayed the same. But the new arrangement of matter (an Xbox) was only worth $80 to the world. Microsoft destroyed $20 in wealth to the world.

This, in a nutshell, is what Microsoft did with the Xbox. Sony was doing something the world wanted with the Playstation. They were literally spending $100 and getting $120 in value out of it. That's what wealth creation looks like.

Microsoft did the opposite. Even worse, they did so in order to make it impossible for Sony to create wealth, too. In my book, reducing the wealth of the world for something so stupid, so small, as to "eliminate competition" is about the worst sin a business can do.

The literally billions of dollars of wealth destroyed at both Sony and Microsoft by the behavior of Microsoft has hurt the world in enumerable ways. For all we know, had the money been returned to shareholders, we may have made more progress on green energy. Or food production. Or water purification. Or cancer research. Or any of the other things we could have done instead of destroying wealth.

That is why the OP is so off base. And why the rest of you should upvote my comment like crazy. Wealth destruction is bad, full stop.
Doll cannot stand alone. I can't tell if I should laugh or cry...
> Its verbosity forces certain programming features to be known

This is why IMO Java is possibly the worst choice of them all (okay, maybe Perl is worse, but nobody is that insane).

Beginners don't start with enough "culture", as it were, to understand why features are there in the first place. The very first program you write in Java is something like this:

public class Hello() {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hello, world");
}
}

That's an insane amount of cerimony and boilerplate. Professional developers know what every piece is for: of course you need the class declared public! Of course the main method needs to be static! Of course it needs to take an array of strings as arguments! But everything a n00b sees is a bunch of garbage on the screen. What's a class? What's a public? What's a static? What's a System?

And it's not like it gets better: what is an interface and why we need one? What is an abstract class? Why is there inheritance but we're not supposed to use it?

All Java does is encouraging people to treat programming as a black box, where the end goal is to learn the correct "wingardum leviosa" to make the magic happen. A good intro to CS does the exact opposite: the first concept we need to get inside people's skulls is how programming is flexible, malleable, composable. How it's "just" a composition of super simple stuff. How you should look under the hood.

It's the CS equivalent of how math is taught in high school: inscrutable, opaque recipes. It's the perfect way to make somebody hate the subject instantly.
"I think Obama's against those policies, that's just a really tough political battle for him without a lot of payoff."

The fact is that he went out of his way to block scientific research by appointing Leonhart as DEA administrator. He goes out and claims he supports scientific integrity, but his actions show this is completely false. Nominating someone who supported science wouldn't be controversial or cost him any political capital, but he nominated her anyway just to stall progress and create a climate of fear.

No one is claiming it would be politically feasible for Obama to pass laws allowing heroin in the checkout lines of Wal-Mart, but the fact is that he's rejected every opportunity for change, even the ones with zero political cost.
Decent article, but isn't billing yourself as "SQL Rockstar" just a tad pretentious?
I just heard Tim Ferris suggest this on his Mixergy interview about his new book.
Argh, this article is so true and should not be ignored.

I have recently been building projects, when in the middle, I suddenly get an idea for another project, I would down all tools to kick start something new with the belief I could multitask and do both.

The truth is, you can't! Give your initial project 110% and get it out of the door before you try anything new. That way all of your products will have the quality they deserve.

Great article.
Cuorizini version 2 is out!
Now with more cuorizini!
It's puzzling to this American as well. I too see these things as deeply un-American.

What's worse is that, as other commenters are mentioning, this makes it more difficult to track human traffickers.
I hate wordpress, mostly from my days doing tech support for blue host (the worst hosting companies belong to their parent group eig Google for a list btw)....

Also because so many plugins have huge security flaws and laravel is much better if building from scratch... And is my bread and butter....

Wordpress just isn't that elegant and it's old and outdated....

That said I'd never ever use wix and I'll never buy from someone who does. It's just not professional. I probably would think twice about Weebly to having had to support it at eig, but I guess they're not as bad as wix which is like the lowest of low.

I mean wordpress or shopify at least have a feel of professionalism, but knowing wix isn't exportable I'd immediately recommend everyone get off and never go anywhere near them.

I respect automatic and Matt, can't say the same for wix. Wp is a lot better community and better for business than wix ever could be.

I think a good business might be creating some sort of wix exporter that uses browser apis to login, copy out data and format it in presentable ways for other platforms.
I'm curious since you call it the most western of the eastern countries - about what percentage of the population speaks at least some English? How hard would it be to just show up as a foreigner with no knowledge of the language and do stuff like get directions, book a hotel/apartment, etc?
If there is one thing to take away it is this: VPS are cheap, something like 5$/month. Really consider having one, you will quickly use it more than you think.

When I was a student I wanted to test things on a distant server so I started renting a cheap OVH instance with SSH to test some silly ideas and host some static pages. It has been 20 years now and it hosts (one of) my backups, a professional website, several docker images, a gitolite and has saved me and colleagues numerous hassles when one of us has to share a few dozen GB of data.
> I remember years ago there was a contest for the most error messages from the fewest lines of code from a compiler.

When I started being exposed to and interested in computers around 1982, I inherited a stack of Creative Computing magazines dating back to maybe 1978-ish.

I remember reading about these error message contests in Creative Computing.

Today, I understand why that was. In the olden days, it was important to get as much information from a single compiler run, because interactive computing wasn't universal. Programmers had to share a machine and submit programs in the forms of decks of punched cards to a job submission window. You would not want to fix one error per round trip.

This means compilers had to be smart about error recovery: to try to repair the program after an error, and then keep going to get more information out of it. Whenever error recovery inserts a token into the program (like a suspected missing closing parenthesis), it is making the program longer, and risks confusing itself and creating a runaway loop that has to be curbed somehow.

I suspect the best solutions to these contests must have been exploiting features of error recovery; tricking the compiler into creating a cascade of errors out of something small.
Totally possible to DIY- they're not super high tech.

https://whatforme.com/how-to-make-a-carbon-filter-for-a-grow...
I wonder if all the traffic from HN every few years justifies the continued existence of these sites to the owners (unknowingly, not sure how granular they might be in their traffic analysis). Kind of like patronage at a museum.
That's a 72MB download, and yet another way to fragment the ecosystem. Not something I'd get just to make a package when a default Python setup has recommended tools and everything I need to make and/or install packages.
Parler was funded by a billionaire. They did not need to depend on someone else's computers (AWS and Twilio). They could have hosted things themselves and reached their audience.

The highway is people typing parler.com in their browser, which was never interrupted. Parler could have made their own exit on the highway instead of telling people to take the exit for Amazon or Twilio.

And in the history of the world, this ability to reach everyone in the world was not possible until a couple decades ago.
Nobody wants bitcoin denominated mortgages.
Your definition makes routers sound pretty smart, not dumb?

Cheap, yes.
As a freelancer who works with a variety of teams, it is very hard getting a moment to 'get my own work done'. I also have a young daughter, and while she didn't say the following, I keep thinking about it to give me a slap in the face of perspective.

Child: Daddy, will you play wit me?

Dad: Sorry, I can't I have things to finish off from work.

Child: Why don't you do it when you're at work?
The answer to that is more free speech. Not less of it. Restricting speech only leads to a narrowing set of viewpoints. there are always risks free speech, but the alternative is worse.
Because, if we need to make the case for opposing treason/insurrection by using black lives matter protests for social justice as a crutch - completely orthogonal reasons for protests, boy... we look weak.
Paid still needs to answer to shareholders
Whether ad targeting works or not, Cambridge Analytica did show that Facebook was willing to abuse the data people are trusting them with.
Apple M1 is fully optimized for efficiency because it's delivered from mobile SoC and still aimed for portable laptop, meanwhile Zen3 (or Willow Cove) arch is aimed for all laptop/desktop/server category so they optimized for both efficiency and max performance.

Even though M1 is designed for efficiency, it sometimes outperforms AMD/Intel for performance. That confuses the story.
There were two deaths, one of which was a black man being murdered by Proud Boys, and the other does not have evidence suggesting it was related to the Seattle AZ (other than they were near the perimeter).
Modern conspiracy has nothing to do with facts, but entirely to do with the shape, rate and self forming nature of modern human communication networks.

I'll argue, strongly, that right now - everything regarding Social Media misinformation is an epiphenomena of those factors.

To illustrate -

Misinformation based communication travels differently than "Fact" based information https://www.pnas.org/content/113/3/554.full.

People assign truth value based on heuristics, one of which is how many times information is repeated. If you self select a network of people who believe the same things and repeat it, with slight modifications - you can ensure people will believe conspriacies.

With the ability to self select nodes/people who tend to be conspiracy inclined you will easily cross the number of people needed to make an idea seem socially valid.

The pace and size of our information networks naturally supports the evolution of highly viral content - not truthful content.
They have a public policy written down somewhere, but I'd wager the reasoning is more "we're not going to antagonize individuals who have a direct impact on our bottom line through legislation/prosecution." He lost that card.
That's the thing. There almost definitely were much more important things happening around the world, yet they talked about that. Most news organizations do the same thing, which is part of why people call them biased.
Nice! Reading that code brings back memories... 1990 (around) I did a lot of work in dBase & Clipper & fox pro; it was easy to work with and, because in the Netherlands it was not that popular, I could get excellent job as 16-17 year old for the summer, working on admin systems for factories that used dbase & clipper.

I remember porting some of those systems to Java half a decade later and asking myself if this was a good direction; Java looked so... crude at the time compared to these technologies.
Are you guys me? Exact same story. Network programming on embedded systems. Beej to the rescue.
Yep, the separation from the rest of your stuff is probably the main draw of a Switch if I were to get one right now. Similarly to how I rarely use the Oculus Link functionality on my Quest 2, it's just nice to have a device that feels independent of my work station.

Was just messing about with CEMU yday and found I could play BOTW in 4K at 60fps on my computer, it looked absolutely beautiful compaired to playing on my Wii U but I can't see myself being able to settle down and play on that machine.

I also think having access to so much stuff has made the hassle of tinkering not worth it for most people. Can remember back as a kid with dial up how I would relentlessly fine tune configurations to get some emulated games to a playable state, the slightly bit of lag on an emulation now and I'm like "crap, is this gonna keep happening? can I be bothered enduring this??"
This depends greatly on the company and its stage. Is it a team of 2, is it a branch of a corporation, is it a funded startup, is it a small company...?
I liked this quote in particular:

"
Building a start-up is like moving from one setback to the next with enthusiasm. You get sued by various people. Employees quit. You’re almost out of money. There are cybersecurity risks. And people will have all these kinds of people issues and fighting. There are just nonstop issues.
"
You can buy packs of kn95 masks on Amazon with same day delivery so I assume the shortage is gone.
I’m not personally advocating for population control, just couldn’t understand why it would be completely off the table in poor countries.
Then they might as well use the real logo as the CE mark for medical equipments also has to include the standard tested for, and the lab which did the certification (for Chinese masks that’s 99% a lab in Turkey)
The potential for terrorism is a problem that is easily solvable, especially when compared with the challenge of building a sub-orbital aircraft (which basically accelerates to almost orbital velocity before reentering as if from orbit).

But the author's points about competition from subsonic high-end flights, as well as the potential for high fidelity video conference systems of the future to compete, are more compelling.
Very very comprehensive article.
A great part of even greater Org Mode.

I'm experimenting with literate programming using Org Babel right now. While this style of programming seems interesting, so far it proved only to be a great time sink for me. Maybe some benefits will show themselves later :).
Not to sound like a fanboy (I believe I posted something about my Air a while back on HN), but I'm a big fan of my 13" MacBook Air after a few months of using it. I agree with the original poster that it is more than sufficient for an everyday work machine.

As an aside, it's a pretty decent gaming machine as well... We recently started playing Borderlands GOTY edition LAN games at the office and my MBA ran the game much smoother than another a ~1.5 year old 17" Macbook Pro in the office. He had to downgrade the video to get it working nicely, while my MBA hummed along without much of a sweat.
My boss recently went trough something similar. His profile was locked and he just received a generic email offering no explanation as to why that has happened. He sent them an email asking why he was locked out and received no response. After about 14 days he finally got an email from FB that his account was locked because of an error or something like that.

The saddest part is that now he can't use FB's advertising tools anymore, there is just some text there saying that he is locked out. No explanation. No form he could fill to resolve the issue. No nothing. And he has spent several thousands euros on FB adverts for our products (and was planning on spending even more). I really can't say anything else but what the fuck Facebook?!
It may be an unfair comparison, but it's still very relevant (although on the other hand you do have a point- there are preinstalled systems you can buy the same way you would with OS X or Windows).
We had almost completely opposite reactions to the same landing page.

* I enjoyed all three videos. I thought they were informative and even funny at times. I didn't think the narrator was a hobo.

* I'm at the office, and I didn't mind watching the videos.

* Sign up for an invite? Honestly, I didn't either, but not because they had videos instead of text.

The service does look neat though.
This is what happens when people and businesses choose to lock themselves in a walled garden they do not control.

All the businesses out there actively marketing their Facebook page should take heed. Set up and market a proper website; utilize a mailing list for client communication.
So, I'm always getting asked for referrals to good people (engineers, designers, etc.) Here's what I'm thinking of building: http://auctionme.me (I'll find a better name, promise!) as a side project

But if you find yourself in that boat, please take the survey and let me know!
As unpopular as the views in the grandparent post may be, I believe it to be an abuse of flagging-powers to flag-censor it into invisibility.

The WMF fundraising efforts should be defensible without resorting to viewpoint-based censorship. Note also that a number of involved Wikipedians have reservations about fundraising appeals optimized for revenue rather than truthfulness, as collected by another active Wikipedia critic here:

https://www.quora.com/How-well-is-Wikipedias-fundraising-pro...
I just grabbed it off google, didn't notice really.