jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I give Sunstein more credit than that. He’s politically quite centrist, supporting Robert’s nomination.

> But that is hardly the only reason to protect falsehoods, intentional or otherwise; there are several others. Even so, these arguments suffer from abstraction and high-mindedness; they do not amount to decisive reasons to protect falsehoods. These propositions are applied to old questions involving defamation and to new questions involving fake news, deepfakes, and doctored videos. It emerges that New York Times v. Sullivan is an anachronism, and that it should be rethought in light of current technologies and new findings in behavioral science.
You need to read the entire paragraph. The shooting occurred while the protest was going on elsewhere in the city.

You are not acting in good faith by deliberating leaving out the most important part of the paragraph, or the article, which repeatedly points out that none of the actual shootings were related to the protests.
Isn't this basically true for all the cases listed above?

It's semantics at some point. But I don't know where.

Ie, even if USPS operated the routes, they're relying on trucks built by private companies.
How is that damning? The alternative was to create the union without the south. Then slavery would have continued much longer in the south. How would it have been better for the north to refuse to compromise? The constitution brought the end of slavery. It didn’t prop it up.
HIV is hard as it attacks the very immune cells that come to get it.
Location: U.S.

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: No.

Technologies: half a decade of experience with C++; Arm32, Arm64, C, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Rust, TypeScript, WebAssembly, XML, x64, x86

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B25d0q0UqLvIzZQgfbsL4yDt...

Email: phosra@tutanota.com

I am a quite cerebral person, focusing on laying out a theoretical foundation prior to an implementation. I have a fairly solid background in abstract thinking and planning with respect to algorithmic design, mathematics, (manual) control flow analysis and verification, performance improvement, among other accompanying skills.

I am comfortable working on and reviewing codebases involving C, C++, Rust, assembly, and other related technology. While aiming for efficiency and performance, I strive to ensure correctness through careful constructive criticism during reviews, alongside thorough testing and software fuzzing. I am familiar with platform-agnostic software development, and a part of my ability to use the programming languages that I understand well is that I know how to interoperate between them well, such as C/C++/Rust. Additionally, I can usually tell when something is incorrect, platform-dependent, or has a related issue. I can oftentimes analyze new code that I am unfamiliar with, and proceed to swiftly enough spot errors in proposed code additions - this currently remains a primary part of my contributions on my GitHub account at https://github.com/Phosra. Besides what I already know well, I am always keenly interested in learning more and further honing my skill set.

I personally prefer frequent, close collaboration with others, especially for brainstorming ideas about how to progress and proceed with developing new work, yet am open to other dynamics too.
That's true. A friend went on a cyling trip through the Netherlands thinking it was going to be easy, and his enduring memory of it was the rain...
I do. As do all people I know of who speak french as their native language.
I sensed the same one-sidedness in the writing. Fortunately, they link to the recording, which I highly recommend listening to if you're curious about all the nuances that can come through at the time that get missed in summaries.

https://soundcloud.com/user-381804527/microagressions-presen...

The relevant bit starts around 28:40 or so.
Curious to hear from others more knowledgeable than I: did Oracle's case have _any_ merits here? Are there implications about this decision that could be worrisome?

HN threads tend to portray this a bit as "beating an evil cash grab," which may be the case...but I don't know enough about both sides to make that judgement myself.
Did you even read the bill? That is exactly what it does

> INDEMNIFICATION BY PUBLIC BODY.--A judgment awarded pursuant to the New Mexico Civil Rights Act against a person acting on behalf of, under color of or within the course and scope of the authority of the public body shall be paid by the public body.
Yeah and corporate espionage is still a thing.
>Mr. not depending on marital status

Not anymore, that is. It used to be an abbreviation for two appellations, one of which was associated with an unmarried gentleman. It's rarely used outside of the British Commonwealth, anymore. Except on Fresh Prince, of course.
There's a cultural studies paper for anyone who wants it in software programmers versus throngs of Africans with 5 cent plastic noisemakers. "Subjugation By Software: How Tech-Savvy Westerners Wrote Africans Out Of The World Cup In Real Time" would pick up plenty of citations.
I've always felt that there is no "God-given talent" or even talent, but simply understanding. I came to this conclusion when people would ask me to draw something for them in art class and I'd explain how to do it and they'd be able to draw it themselves.
Bit abrasive, but hard to disagree with the details of your comment.

irahul, I also didn't find much in your blog post that made me think you were onto something or that it would be interesting to follow your progress. FWIW.

Good luck though!
The implementation isn't going to take much time.

Famous last words. :-)
FWIW this is actually the old course website, the new one is https://courseware.stanford.edu/pg/courses/3524, though I'm not sure if you can see it without being logged in and being off-campus. When I took the course last fall we didn't have any of these readings, we just used the professor's textbook (with the exception of 2 of the haskell readings)
If anyone is interested, I wrapped OpenCV face detection into a gstreamer plugin.

http://github.com/sandaru1/smartcut/tree/master/gst-opencv/
Google Checkout is terrible for pre-orders and things that do not ship within 5-7 days of authorization of card. I would definitely recommend NOT using Google Checkout for this type of business model, some research might have saved you the frustration.

I believe there might also be an issue with the legality of charging actually charging for the purchase prior to shipment. Most merchants will typically authorize the card, and then issue the capture transaction once a tracking number is availability.

This then will lead you to to the next issue that will be especially painful to deal with using Google Checkout: bad authorizations.

We have had scenarios where we authorized a card on a Tuesday, found out the item was backordered for a week and thus did not ship the item and attemp to issue the capture transaction until 8 days later.

With Google Checkout, a re-auth is needed after 7 days. Unfortunately you do not find out the re-auth failed until AFTER you have shipped the items (and then attempted to capture funds on the order). You are then out of luck on capturing any funds if you cannot contact the customer and get another form of payment.

Happy to discuss this further if you would like some advice.
Questioning the purpose of things never seems to go well when the topic is sports -- the purpose of the whole thing is fun.
you are implying that this minimal understanding of the software life cycle is better for engineers at his company than integrity and a desire to see engineers justly rewarded for their efforts.

I implied no such thing. I'm making a generalization. Your statements so far consist of "Yes, but what if he's an irredeemable sociopath? It's better to have a non-sociopath who doesn't understand software than a sociopath who does." I agree with that, but those aren't the only two options on the table and I refuse to believe the worst in somebody I've never met and only know through an anecdote in a hacker news comment.
Out of curiosity, would Cloudflare be able to sustain the amount of inbound requests they're handling?
Depends on the game. See people role-playing nethack as vegans or pacifists for a counterexample.

Or look at few chapters of some The Witcher 2 let's play.

If your game is abstract puzzle (like simcity) then sure - few people would roleplay chess after all.
Genius computer programmers are often far out on the aspergers continuum. It's not reasonable to expect them to be polished in their social interactions.

Once I stopped taking life so seriously, I began to find this charming.
In http://martyjs.org/guides/flux/index.html it says

> thanks to action types being strings you have a loosely coupled Law of Demeter architecture which is easy to grow without increasing the complexity of the code base.

I don't see the connection between cause and effect, unless this is saying "since everything is in the global state there is no coupling". Seems odd.
Just like you didn’t give Facebook permission to track you on the web?
No option for RCS? It's a true successor to SMS and you can switch providers without losing anyone in your contacts. Although I am not really sure how easy it will be to switch clients and use something 3rd party
95% of my chatting takes place on iMessage. Being available on WhatsApp as well makes very little difference for me and my privacy I think.
No. You're sick of seeing the one side you support being in the wrong and doing exactly what you despise in the opposite side. It makes one sick and fucking tired indeed.
> If you care about such things, I think Signal wins hands down. And the UX is fine, just not quite as good as Telegram in my view.

Signal (by design, probably) has no chat sync or backup. That's a dealbreaker in my book.

Edit: looks like chat history transfer has been a feature since June 2020: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/9/21280664/signal-chat-trans...
Is there any texting app that doesn't require access to your address book on iOS?

I simply don't trust a single one of the messaging apps that they won't immediately upload my entire address book to their servers so they can have a more complete social graph.

I've tried Telegram at one point but it was a huge pain to use if you didn't let it access your contacts (or maybe it didn't work at all... my memory's fuzzy on which messaging apps were which.) Whatsapp was similarly awful as well.
- Matrix is for now (like Discord) more of "slack like" service alternative (but has potential to become more than that).

- Telegram might be the easiest to use where you likely find the most people but I disagree with a lot of things done by/around telegram.

- Threema (now open source) is as far as I know the most privacy focused one and by far my favorite. I like the way they are doing many thinks and they have many small goodies (like you can give a small "thump up/down" to messages in 1-to-1 chats from the message received notification to indicate agreement/acceptance). Or the way they handle accounts (separate from phone number and license, you can give people your Threema id without giving them your phone, the "trust levels", etc.). Or that they have a clear&clean business model. There are also a bunch of aspects which are useful if used in a e.g. business context like account revoke-ability, in person QR code based key exchange, fixed chat history etc.
The NSA is officially not supposed to be spying on the citizens of the USA. That’s the FBI’s job technically... as the USA has no dedicated domestic intelligence agency. There are a number of agencies with limited domestic intelligence roles tasks with specific kinds of intelligence work such as the intelligence branches of the US Treasury, the Department of Energy, and the Coast Guard... but there’s no USA agency equivalent of the United Kingdom’s MI5.

To extend the comparison, the CIA is roughly the USA’a MI6 and the NSA is very roughly equivalent to the GCHQ but not exactly as the NSA are not meant to spy domestically while the GCHQ don’t have that explicit limitation.
If you enabled it previously, they have all your contacts. If you turned it off I assume they wont be able to see updates or new contacts you add.
When I was about 15 I had a work experience placement at a local hospital that had a paternoster for staff use.

I remember the first time I rode the thing all the way - a complete revolution, and the trepidation I felt, not really knowing what would happen when the lift got to the top.

Not to mention the exhilaration of jumping on and off the thing and wondering what would happen if I tripped and my legs got caught.
Either users will pay with their money or pay with their data (getting ads), else the model is not sustainable. Since, messaging using Internet is being considered here as basic necessity, one could argue that Messaging apps turns to be non-profit organizations or government supported organizations (but anonymous).
Just on your last point, I think that when we have the next economic crash some of these people, and also talented engineers as well, won't stick around in software engineering. Careers in technology have stages and not everyone stays a developer their whole career. It will be impossible to measure what exactly percentage what people without "a good CS background" leave.
My roommate has a phone. I didn't think much of it until he said "Ok Google" while cooking.

What am I supposed to say here? I don't like microphones being always on either, but it's his phone and his home too. I can't escape the millions of cameras around the city or the constant internet trackers. We should have had regulated this stuff decades ago.
cryptographic hash browns... mmm....
Nice RoR project but how are you going to get traction? How is this better then say submitting the repository to HN and discussing it here (with more people to view it).

Infact GitHuss could instead be an engine to discover github projects that have been discussed on HN and link to the HN discussion!
You can also compete for the top of the scrimmage rankings, and we are considering adding an Open tournament again to allow all teams compete for fame and glory.
Yeah, to bad Mapper was acquired by ASML. Would be interesting to see what maskless fabbing with Electron beam lithographically could do for small production runs. If you get the price for that down designing and testing of integrated circuits would be attainable for many more organisations. Maybe Multibeam can get it to work.
I work at a nuclear reactor, and for the type of dosimeters we wear on the job (thermoluminescent dosimeters), there's no chance of a false-positive, as far as I'm aware. The only thing that can cause the crystal to lose electrons is ionizing radiation in a certain energy range. As long as there were procedures to ensure that the badges are only worn on the job, false positives shouldn't be an issue.
The purpose of the post very clearly is to make the point that veganism is not for everybody. Not to suggest veganism is not viable for all people.

edit: s/some/all/. english/logic fail.
I'll tell you one thing iron supplements do and that is stop up your pipes >.<
GEB is a great experience. It's not a deeply technical book, though it is both deep and technical. It's more specifically an adventure of thought.

I hear there are hidden messages in the book itself. I'm not motivated to track them down and solve them, but this is certainly an indication of the kind of tone Hofstadter was after: playful.
And the fact that this script is made by Apple itself only adds to the irony
Euro Truck Simulator 2 is the most realistic street driving simulator I know of, and it includes roads in the U.K. I found it good driving practice when I hadn't driven for a while (as I don't own a car).

ETS2 only comes with trucks as driveable vehicles. A lot of the skills are the same as driving normal cars, but trucks have more gears, are larger, and accelerate more slowly. Truck cabs also don't have rear-view mirrors; to look backward you have to either use side mirrors or stick your head out the window.

I have seen mods that add normal cars to drive. I downloaded one of those mods but haven't tried installing it. I'm not sure if those mods unlock the cars from the start or if you have to first save up for and buy five trucks to unlock the in-game online vehicle ordering catalog (which takes many hours of gameplay).
One big thing this article overlooks is that colleges are free to ban anti-social people from their campus. Cities are not.

There are fairly string rules for college and if you step over the line, you can be expelled and trespassed from campus with much lower burden of proof than a criminal trial.

I have noticed as density of a people living together goes up, there is more need for conformity. Singapore and Japan have some of the nicest high density cities in the world, but they also have one of the highest rates of people being conformant.

One final issue is pandemics. College campuses have had a horrible rate of transmission when students have been there, so much in fact that a lot of schools kept students from returning to campus for schooling making them take online classes.
I think you miss the point of the four hour work week. The spirit of the book is delegation of things you don't want to do. Tim writes in the book that before an 80/20 analysis you will have to try a lot of things and see what sticks. Considering the fact that Tim writes about proactively researching the market and creating new categories if possible and to test various marketing tools and product ideas it's not the four hour work week mindset that's the problem. It's the people who just read the title and not the book that are hurting its big ideas.
That link is a collection of anonymous quotes speculating on circumstantial evidence. Let's confine ourselves to statements supported by facts.

The injuries sustained by dozens of Capitol Police officers, including one who remains on life support, suggest that if a pro-Trump conspiracy existed then it didn't extend past the Chief. There is zero evidence (so far) for such a conspiracy. On the other hand, the footage of officers fighting huge crowds, dispersing rioters with teargas and pepperballs, and even shooting one Capitol invader dead at close range all suggest they did not "side with the President." [0][1][2][3]

Officers were overmatched and overwhelmed as the result of poor planning by leadership. The AP suggests complacency was to blame, not collusion or conspiracy [4]:

>Both Acevedo and Ed Davis, a former Boston police commissioner who led the department during the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, said they did not fault the responses of clearly overmatched front-line officers, but the planning and leadership before the riot.

>“Was there a structural feeling that well, these are a bunch of conservatives, they’re not going to do anything like this? Quite possibly,” Davis said. “That’s where the racial component to this comes into play in my mind. Was there a lack of urgency or a sense that this could never happen with this crowd? Is that possible? Absolutely.”

And this is just to focus on the US Capitol Police. If we look at the DC Metro Police, "local" cops in the truest sense of the word, they're not at all aligned with President Trump. Mayor Bowser and Acting Chief Contee are not Republicans. See my comment above for a recap of MPD's conduct yesterday.

I am sick of the ACAB mentality which leads to assumptions like "capitol police sided with the President." It is generally untrue, predicated on lies, and counter-productive. I hope my analysis demonstrates that in this case.

EDIT: the US Capitol Police officer who was on life support has just passed away. He died from injuries sustained while fighting off violent Trump supporters [5]. Do you still think that he and other officers “sided with the President?”

[0] https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/13470181996535603...

[1] https://twitter.com/KySportsRadio/status/1347031398176223233

[2] https://twitter.com/zhalaschak/status/1346940634557521929

[3] https://twitter.com/mattrodierphot1/status/13469432496808837...

[4] https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-riots-police-coronav...

[5] https://twitter.com/LindsayAWatts/status/1347404723767402499
Boston Dynamics doesn't seem off-brand for Apple. I think that IP suits Apple.
According to whom? NIH says 600 IU for a normal adult (https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-HealthProfessiona...) and recommends a maximum daily intake of 4000 IU (https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-Consumer/).
I loved Simple, but had to move back to a traditional bank when I got married. Lack of joint accounts was the major problem, but it also turns out being able to write your own checks instantly has some real advantages (over waiting for 1+ weeks for delivery). I did love the good things about it though, and def sad to see it wind down.
> Your isp (or any middle man) knows the IP address you’re connected to.

The proliferation of CDNs made this mostly moot (big exception are huge companies or individuals who want to control everything using their own IP addresses) to the point governments tend to try to actively intercept requests due to the stubborn opaqueness.
was the IG campaign pre or post acceptance into YC?
If init scripts are mostly boilerplate that people keep copy-pasting, maybe the init process is the problem, rather than the poor chumps who have to write the scripts?
This is what DirectTV uses for their node.js?
Thanks for speaking on behalf of a huge population of people who buy trucks. Guess will have to see what kind of numbers this thing sells. (it will sell at least one, to me, though)
Can someone that has actually worked closely with Musk confirm: is his thought process and speech as utterly disjointed as happens in most of his presentations?

Or, is this a nutty professor kinda of shtick that Elon thinks makes him seem more personable?

His presentations are painful to watch.
The tall, angled side fins above the bed are a dealbreaker for me. Makes it too hard to reach in, also more awkward to climb into from the side by standing on a tire. It sucks that you wouldn't be able to rest anything horizontally on them without having it slide off. I'm curious as to how well it'll hold a rack: https://www.autoaccessoriesgarage.com/Truck-Racks-Van-Racks/.... I wonder if this will be another form > function, like with the Tesla Model X whose gull wing doors make it impossible to hold a roof rack.
6 people stepped out
Regardless of its power, that is the ugliest car design I’ve ever seen. Seeing it in the stage in video after the renders on the website made it even worse. Nerds may think it’s cool, but I doubt you’ll catch many people riding around in it.
It's not a work truck.
From what I've read, that wouldn't be relevant for an electric vehicle, since there is no transmission. Or that might only be for the Tesla.
>> the forceful takeover of an independent kingdom

Today the western democracy is existing by forceful takeover of independent kings and kingdoms, where minority rules through the tyranny of power and weapons.

If you read the history you will know that over 75% of population in Sikkim wanted self governance, India just helped through that transition and prevented minority to be ruled by force.