jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Should we police flat-Earthers?

They seem to so desperately want the world to be flat that they will come up with any argument that whatever conclusively disproving new evidence they just looked at to prove their idea was somehow manipulated or in some other way confounded.

Surely when others hear their sincerely delivered explanations some will also conclude that the world is flat.

Is there a cost-benefit analysis we should perform here?

What are the costs and benefits of policing misinformation about other subjects?
Back when I studied this stuff there was a distinction between reproducible (rerun analysis on the data from the original experiment and see if you get the same results - if not then there is an error in the analysis) and replicable (redo the entire experiment by taking new data and running the analisys).
Glad I'm not the only one that feels that way about twitter. When I first used it and saw all the hate speech and negative comments I was like "who on earth would even use this platform?" It really reminded me of 4chan.
At least they made it unmistakably clear to those who'd prefer to forget it that their tentacles up your every orifice is the price you have to pay for using their "free" products.
"To lie" is an overloaded term - it can mean "to rest in place" or "to tell an untruth".

I think the author intended the "rest in place" version; as such it should have been "has lain hidden".

EDIT: Yep reply post is right "lain hidden", I was making that correction here at the same time.
When I search for something, then just as I am about to click a link in the results, some panel animation scroll half the results down and I click on a completely unrelated link.
Most people around here (Pacific Northwest) do propane. No one wants to store large quantities of gasoline on their property.
The insulation thing is weird because better insulation saves you in the summer too. I guess it's just the construction fixed cost. Electric heat seems like a weird compromise though considering the gulf of Mexico..
He tried, might be helpful for some covid/mask skeptics or for thwarting meticulous attempts like this
As of the last several months, it has been excluding terms from my search by default because my specific query returned fewer results than a broader query. Also, Google Maps does not let me exclude any terms from my searches which is a problem because large chains will smother out smaller stores unless I zoom in to the street level.
I think you got partially there. We need more of both local and Federal government.

Having more people working on providing basic services is a good thing. We are an incredibly productive species: we need to use that increased wealth to improve the quality of life for people. Government is one way to do that.

Volunteering is nice but it’s not the answer to systemic problems. I’m glad that you found a concrete way to contribute and find joy in doing so for your community... that’s great! But it’s not something that can replace Government or public funding.
I'm not sure what your point here is.

Facebook chat doesn't use CPU. Why would it need 16 cores? It's more than likely IO bound. It's just moving boring data around.

If you're using serious CPU power to write a chat backend, you're doing something really badly or using a crappy tool.

Your "But I need more CPU cores!!!" argument is moot.
re: quora...

I've thought about that quite extensively. The problem with Quora is that it's not terribly easy to link to other pages. I think people need a centralized reference point.

re: longevity of content...

I've been running the http://www.hackersandfounders.com meetup in Silicon Valley for almost 3 years. I'm going to be in this town for quite some time, and if and when I do leave, I'll be sure to hand the projects off to someone that can keep the content up and running.

The reason that we're doing this, is Silicon Valley needs more engineers, and more startups. Everyone talks about there being a "bubble", but what I'm seeing is an amazing amount of really cool, hacker founded companies get money to build companies with. And they are all working really hard to hire talent. This situation is only going to get worse over the next couple of years, so we're trying to make the leap to moving to Silicon Valley easier.
I'm not sure it's clear that carrying a gun makes crime safer for the average criminal, though I think it is clear that armed homeowners make crime more dangerous for criminals. My impression is that when guns are hard to get, crime goes up, but the number of criminals carrying goes down.
Most full sized buses get 7-8mpg. It's like driving a Hummer.
like Airbnb getting sued in New York?

or Uber/Lyft/etc having to go through extortionary-like procedures in California?

...
I have no regrets buying a Boox Note 2. It runs Android so I have the Kindle app installed and the Adobe Digital Editions reader for my uni books and well anything else I want. The only thing I wish it had was MicroSD support.
I'm not convinced it would.

Just like PoW it makes sense to spend enough until a breakeven point. In thise case there is a direct incentive to buy as much storage as possible.
> their creditworthiness believable

this not backing ?

> look at how little gold China stores

by metric tones china is on 6th place in world, what do you mean ?
Because money is a collective fiction we can easily "make" using only ideas, while electricity is a real and finite resource, the safe and sustainable generation of which is a primary concern for our future. It feels like a bad trade.
I do believe that (see my other response to you). I don't believe that people buy houses because of children. I do believe they want to buy them because of children. I believe they actually buy them because/when
they can afford them and prefer to live in a house they own over a rental. (Plenty of people have kids in rental housing, of course.)
But will they want those houses, though...

The crisis described here is that more people want them than can get them. So if the trend is that more people will want standalone houses specifically, versus just any sort of housing unit, proposed solutions that reduce the supply of them are bound to backfire for areas that implement them.

Basically: is this the start of a different era in terms of demand profiles, driven by remote work, or is this just a short-term bubble?
Where I live used to be bumf*ck, nowhere. Hardly anyone could point it on the map, usually thinking it was in an entirely different part of the country. Even if someone did know of the town, the normal respone was "why would anyone want to live there". Now it is the city featured in this article, and has doubled in size since I've lived here. Even the big town where I grew up, Twin Falls, ID, whose only actual claim to fame is a failed jump by Evil Knievel, has more than doubled in size over the last 20 years.
Stuxnet infected close to 200,000 machines, over half in Iran, before being detected. It was so extremely stealthy and well designed that it could spread widely and avoid detection while making its way to the intended targets.
If self-driving companies really believed in their product, they would bundle car insurance that only works when self-driving is on with the product, and it would be cheaper than normal car insurance.
Sell directly to manufacturers? Nearly no one (except Tesla) has anything coming in the near future. Why anyone they pay billions to develop the technology in-house if they can just pay Comma.ai to integrate a sub $1000 thingy in their cars.
I could not read this article because first I had to agree to this:
"I am entering this website only to obtain general information regarding Bridgewater Associates, LP and not for any other purpose."
but that was not at all why I was trying to enter the website. So I will probably never know what Ray Dalio thinks of Bitcoin.
>Finally, if you run Docker on a server, it is recommended to run exclusively Docker in the server, and move all other services within containers controlled by Docker.

This looks like what CoreOS is providing, a stripped down barebones host, with all other services not strictly necessary in the host moved to the containers.

>Capabilities turn the binary “root/non-root” dichotomy into a fine-grained access control system. Processes (like web servers) that just need to bind on a port below 1024 do not have to run as root: they can just be granted the net_bind_service capability instead. And there are many other capabilities, for almost all the specific areas where root privileges are usually needed.

This is awesome, has been a personal pain point in the past, trying to get JVM running as non-root in ubuntu server. Theoretically it's easy with IPTABLEs, but in practice it can be tricky to get working exactly right.
Is the cost of living, apart from real estate, really that high? I just checked http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living/ and compared SF to Cleveland (which seems like a decent not-super-expensive city).

Results:

Groceries 5%less
Housing 68%less
Utilities 9%more
Transportation 9%less
Health Care 1%less

The ONLY thing significantly more expensive is housing (which has lots of causes, and isn't really related to the new tech immigrants and more to do with people who aren't willing to let bigger buildings be built). Utilities are MORE expensive in Cleveland!
I thought about how you would attack BitCoin and how to achieve that 51% of the work. My solution is basically to create network partitions (using some DDoS or something to prevent communication) and force a small number of good nodes to start working on your solution. Over time you can rejoin partitions where you will control 51% of the compute eventually converting all of the nodes.
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The counter argument would be that maybe git is so basic and easy to learn that everyone feels comfortable enough with it to write a tutorial?

I think a large amount of content is more a factor of Git's ubiquity than its difficulty.
Yes, whether results for rodents on a seven week exercise program actually transfer to humans remains to be seen.

But I would like to point out that besides subjective preference and enjoyment, it is quite clear to me that humans are pretty crap compared to everything physical, except for long-distance running.

We are not the fastest. Not the strongest. Not the best swimmers or climbers.

But as an animal, and on a population level, we are really good at jogging.

So besides being useful for endurance hunting, perhaps it is also the kind of upkeep we need to stay healthy physically as well as mentally?
True, but you could also argue the opposite view that it's a sign of git's usability that beginners can get by with just those commands. The problem doesn't crop up until those lazy users start doing things that make the repo messy.
At a very, very high level, you're exactly correct. The state of RAM is written out to disk, and on restore, it's loaded back into memory, and stuff resumes.

But the devil is very much in the details, and you may not have access to any of the details because the datasheets are NDA'd or just flat out not available to anyone outside the OEMs.

The problem is mostly around hardware state. I've written some sleep patches for Linux on a PineBook Pro (I should finish those and try to upstream them...), and the problem is that on restore, you have to put the hardware exactly as it was when you put it to sleep, or things just don't work. The details of both querying the hardware state, and putting it back, range from "fairly straightforward if inefficient" (copying out device register state on sleep, restoring state on resume - but which of them actually matter?) to "really, really nasty, involving going through the init sequences again, then updating state in the proper order."

Resuming from hibernate is almost the same as a cold boot, except that it's a different shutdown state, so the boot firmware may or may not do things the same as on a cold boot. If you've moved PCI devices around to where you want them instead of where the boot firmware put them, you have to shuffle them back to where you want them - and do this in the correct order, which may or may not be the same as the ordering you did it when the kernel first came up.

If any of this isn't done properly, the system will be in a weird state and things might not work on resume. The patches I wrote for my PBP work fine, unless there's audio playing when the system goes to sleep. Then it still doesn't restore audio state properly and I've not taken the time to dive into the Linux sound system enough to understand why... and this is sleep (suspend to RAM), not hibernate (suspend to disk). Coming up from hibernate, the device state might be entirely different.

Like just about anything with modern computers, a simple idea turns into an absolute minefield of implementation details, and the Linux side of things is hindered because you often simply don't have the datasheets. So now you have to reverse engineer Windows drivers if you want support, or guess that, well, this device is in the same family as that similar device we have a leaked datasheet for from some OEM's FTP site, so maaaaybe it uses the same weird register layout, and... etc.
> This is because Git is too hard to use.

> How do I know that Git is too hard to use? Because there are literally thousands of blog post tutorials explaining how easy Git is to learn. Things that are easy do not need thousands of different guides telling you how easy it is.

I'm not sure that's convincing. I think that a lot of guides about how easy it is indicate that it's slightly difficult to learn. That results in a lot of people struggling for a little bit, overcoming the struggle, and feeling a sense of accomplishment and enlightenment, which they then want to share.

(There's also a difference between how hard something is to use and how hard it is to learn. I'd argue that there's often a trade-off to be made, where some sacrifice on difficulty learning results in a reward in ease of use—in the sense that, for example, vim is far easier to use than any other editor for a seasoned vimmer.)
Here, the trackpad is broken after fastboot 1/2 times (basically registers button presses all the time, making it unusable). Without fastboot no such issues, plus modern machines boot fast even without fastboot ;).
> they negotiate directly using the power of being able to shut down production

This is true, but they would slowly lose their leverage if they didn't constrict the labor supply.

In order to join SAG you have meet certain requirements (e.g. speak a certain number of lines). The vast majority of actors in a union production have to SAG members, so this effectively acts as a rate limit to the number of new members.

The same goes for other powerful unions. Ford would love to build a new factory that employs non-union workers, but they aren't allowed to.
> Apart from not being true

Data please. I'm posing a question and looking for data, not speculative conclusions.

I'm a cyclist myself and I can definitely say that after biking 10km I end up wanting to eat more protein (and chocolate) than I usually do. Maybe not an extra full meal unless I do a century, but definitely a different meal than if I hadn't biked at all. Also, after exercise I often end up tired and buying food instead of making it myself. All I can say is that my eating habits do differ on days that I bike. I eat plant-based protein but there are lots of people who don't. That's why I posed the question.
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I mistakingly signed up to Facebook with a work email in the past. And noticed many work acquaintances appearing in Facebook's: do you know lists. Which I can only attribute to other people sharing their email address contacts with Facebook, and Facebook holding onto that data.
> People moving to Florida doesn't contradict anything.

I wouldn't mind moving to FL, weather is great and I like the location for boating. But FL is very low and rising sea level is going to cause lots of problems, so I can't bring myself to invest any kind of money in real estate in FL if it's going to be flooding in a few decades.
Signing up to an ad exchange is not the only way to run ads.

I think Penny Arcade was a good example, though they're currently not ad
supported. They used to have a small number of banner ads on rotation that were
curated by the authors to be unintrusive and for products they happily
endorsed. I often clicked on these ads as they represented good-reviews by
implication.

It may be simple enough to reserve a rectangle on your site with some text
along the lines of "advertise here, x views a month on average, specialised
crowd, $y per month", then you could sort it out directly with a product vendor
of your choice.

If life's not that simple then someone on here should set up a middleman
business that would be a specialised ad exchange for linking products (small,
and specialised, lowe marketing spend) with blogs (small and specialised,
expert readers, blog owner must approve of the product and ad).
I'm sure there's a neutral, disinterested fact checker somewhere in the world. But my experience with political fact checkers is mostly composed of people posting Snopes articles with similar keywords to what I said. I'm not sure I trust Facebook to hire the right kind.
Amazing, thank you! I use it myself alongside Tutanota, great combination!
Maybe I misunderstood its architecture, but I thought that with the language services and the different kinds of workloads, it also had such clean separation.
LibreOffice has come a long way, but retraining thousands of employees is impractical.
What're the rate limits on Google Spreadsheet on update and read?
Currently on its first public beta release: v0.1-beta-01. Contributions in any form (ideas, code, testing, bugfixes ...) are very welcome.
With newer Windows servers you can use HyperV to run *nix apps
Try asking some of your friends who are interested in clothes about this. You may be surprised at what you learn.
This website seems to have version 2 which includes that text on page 11. You can scroll down and read it without downloading it.

https://www.academia.edu/36044237/WhatsApp_Encryption_Overvi...
That's in a different place (p. 11), but the gist is still the same. Even my quote includes "The WhatsApp server has no access to the client’s private keys".

I guess it wasn't clear, but I was trying to refute the claim implied by the Twitter post (by showing that the document still claims that WhatsApp servers don't have access to the private keys).
> While it may technically be possible under certain circumstances, I find it very hard to image how a piece of legislation could be crafted that would successfully override the arguments made here.

Something along the lines of "The issuance of general warrants is expressly permitted," perhaps? The principles of constitutionality may be similar, but the amendment process isn't, it simply requires an Act of Parliament.
If my number is in your phonebook, you cannot give consent to Clubhouse to get that info on my behalf.
It's likely unrestricted technological innovation will inevitably cause the end of the human species, and your own example demonstrates why: In our rush to create the nuclear bomb, several times we came close to obliterating all life on earth due to simple mistakes. Several times, the hesitation of one man was the only thing that prevented our planet's complete annihilation.

The nuclear bomb is exactly why we need to block "innovation" that causes more harm than good.
Seems to me like you're tacitly agreeing with GP here - you're just making a claim about which currency system you trust more! (And attempting to convince others of the same position.)
I can get behind the sentiment of your post, but could you detail how the Sci-Hub twitter account has breached Twitter TOS?

Contrast that with Trump who has been very clearly violating twitter TOS on a daily basis.
No, the press has always been narrative-driven, and much more so in the last five years or so.

It's entirely possible to paint different variations of reality withing the bounds of the same facts and the press does it all day long.

Yes, the press is generally factual (I didn't imply otherwise), but bent quite strongly in one direction or another.

Editorial choices abound, and most coverage is editorialized, it's not remotely straight news, there's a lot of opinion.

Words have power, and the kinds of words, images news outlets decide to show, which is an editorial choice, have quite a lot of impact.

It is very unhealthy to use any 'one source' for news in the US right now for this reason, unfortunately, there are no sources (outside of straight news from the wire) wherein one could not risk being in a bubble.

The President and some enablers, using 'direct media' (i.e. Twitter) have chosen to outright lie, which as I mentioned has 'taken it to another level' - and some in the press have chosen not to call him out on it, tip-toeing up to the line of outright falsehoods themselves, while being careful to not necessarily engage in straight up lies.

And of course, some outlets have more credibility than others.
It's right there in your quote, if the parliament spells it out in a law they can have it.
What the poorly phrased sentence is trying to say is that, of the energy generated in Germany, for every 100TWh of energy produced from from natural gas, 80Twh of nuclear was produced.

While this may seem like a lot of nuclear power, it really isn't. If we look at their energy consumption [0], nuclear produced power accounts for maybe 10%. the overwhelming majority is from coal, oil, and gas.

Compare that to France where something like 40-50% is from nuclear [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany#/media/File:...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_France#/media/File:E...