skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't bother you at all that we only get slightly warmed over variations of the party line? I'm not that old, but I grew up in the 1980s and I very distinctly remember the media NOT being like this! Today, no matter what "news" source you visit, it pretty much all has the same narrative. It is as though they all receive the talking points and are told what to do from a central committee.

To me, it's very bad. You don't even realize it because if you grew up without any other perspective on the matter, you would have no way of knowing about it. What is going on in the West today is extremely alarming, and I'm not the alarmist type. It is like all our safeguards are down now and what is going on politically is extremely bad for the average citizen, and yet we do nothing because everyone is being confused, sent in all different directions, and thus not enough people are unified behind any particular ideas and the media is making very sure that cognitive dissonance is all we get.

Worse yet, millions of people are being conditioned to hate. It makes utterly no sense unless you wish to start a war--you can't go on demonizing and pissing off the people who actually do the work. Hard-working people don't complain, they just keep working as hard as they can. They think this will pass. I'm sure the average Austrian Jew thought so, too. It's not going to.

Honestly, I have no idea if there is a conspiracy or not. I can only point to the poor quality of today's "news" sources and wonder how this can possibly play out in any good way. What I am weary of is the constant demonizing of anyone holding traditional values, anyone who speaks out against the idiocy, the waste, and the total lack of accountability in government.

Being a journalist used to mean you were duty bound to stand up for ideas no matter what direction the story took you, it was your job to follow the story and not deviate from objectivity. Today's journalists are part of a machine that controls the narrative. They don't get to think or they are banished. Why does anyone bother going to Journalism School anymore? What a waste of time to just be some dumb cog in a totalitarian machine.
The endings probably aren't as perfect in most cases, but those cases make for less inspiring articles than the few that do. The only ones we read about are about the rare cases where the almost unbelievable happens.
I still need to pay for food and rent/mortgage between now and then though. No point in comparing BTC acceptability in 10 years time if I can’t support myself until that point in time.

Edit: For me converting BTC in funds I can use to buy food (not just for myself but also my kitty), pay my bills (rent, electricity, gas, water, internet, mobile, AWS) is a pain in the ass.

Sure there are online stores they will accept bitcoin, but not my local supermarket, sure some isp’s will accept butcoin but then I’m limiting my options of who I can use.

With PayPal (yes I hate them just as much as everyone else) I can get an invoice paid and have the funds in my bank account seconds later.

I like the idea of a decentralised Payment process. But atm it’s not for me for a number of reasons not just acceptability.
Frozen, as long as they don't take the money either.
Yes. A thermal breeder. Correct.

There are ways to reduce the poisons depending on your reactor design.
>They're cheaper

Not substantially.

>they're more efficient

Not any more.

>they make the most of small engines with limited torque.

Ding. Ding. Ding. We have a winner!

People like manuals because they can choose when to up-shift whereas the guys programming the automatic transmission will program it to up-shift as soon as they think they can get away with (for fuel economy and emissions). With a manual you can let your 1L hornets nest scream along at 4k all the time giving you close to peak power on tap whenever you want it. Basically manuals are a hack around regulations that force manufactures to build cars with performance characteristics nobody wants (under-powered engines and transmissions that up-shift at the drop of a hat). Those regulations are much stronger in Europe so the value proposition of a manual transmission is better there.
So the comparison to an Amiga 500 maybe wasn't so crazy after all. :)
Or Cuba
Yeah, you don't call Uber in this case. You immediately call the card issuer and report fraud. In the case of debit charges, reacting quickly is absolutely key.

Always pay with a credit card, it's much easier to reverse this kind of stuff versus a debit card. There is literally no good reason to ever use a debit card.
I guess I could say insufferable self-important activist busybody, but at the time, Social Justice was a hot buzzword that people would claim to be embracing unironically. This was before GamerGate and the general escalation of nastiness on the internet.
> but if you remove the traffic lots of people want to use their car - profiting from the other people who use PTA and free their streets

This is true, but there's still a layer beyond that. There are cities where the layout is built to address the last mile problem. There are hub locations that can allow you to get from point A to B and to C within 5 minutes of each other on foot. This isn't true for many Americans.

Take my example from earlier. If you didn't bring your lunch, your 5 minute walking options from the office are very limited. Expanding to 10 minutes gives more options, but the selection is still very limited. 10 minutes via car gives a much better selection, but 10 minutes via bus (due to waiting and intermediate stops) doesn't get you much further than 10 minutes on foot. Other examples include running and errand after work. If I need to grab something from a store, how much additional time is needed to add an extra stop to go 5 minutes off of my normal commute path?

Again, I'm not against public transportation. Cities need to be designed to accommodate public transportation. Otherwise we are exchanging time idling bumper-to-bumper for time waiting and time hitting intermediate stops.
You can actually get emergent conflicts from this in somewhat unexpected ways. When users are enabled to export a bunch of private data in the name of choice and control, they can be encouraged to do so unwisely. Users rarely stop and read warning messages, no matter how simple and clear and straightforward they are.
> The whole pitch towards legacy apps was also short termist distraction when investment dollars are all going to cloud native solutions. Legacy apps are a big business case but getting companies to invest in their legacy estate is still a tough ask.

Don't even get me started. Leadership wanted Docker to sell "MTA" (Migrate Traditional Apps) and Docker probably spent a few million to the middleware folks sitting in a room developing "archetypes" instead of TCO to position with the customer as output of the time and money containerizing those apps would save. Instead the push from sales leadership was "sell them on the value". What value? We couldn't prove we were providing any unless we did the containerization. And in the case where we could get services to handle a few freebies they were always the easy ones that didn't truly show anything. It was and is a horrible miss. I'm not sure if that's what they're still focused on but it didn't resonate with customers or prospects.

Right before I left Docker was moving into positioning Docker Enterprise for Desktop. They had ridiculously high limits on seat sales and we're going to charge ridiculous premiums per seat. Clearly nobody in leadership realized that the UI provided to bootstrap some simple framework wasn't worth that. But nope... So many wasted resources on products that add no value.
Is there a warning when someone overrides that isolation? In C# you can also access private members through reflection and I have seen people use that a lot instead of bothering to understand why the original developer decided to make the variable private.
JavaScript classes are pure syntactic sugar for object constructor functions. If the syntactic sugar does not make your code cleaner then don’t use it.

Methods with arrow syntax offer implicit function binding and TypeScript adds abstract classes as well as abstract, private, protected and readonly fields. New language features aren’t supposed to replace simple logic that has always worked. They are there to provide new options for programming patterns.
Bank wire transfers? That is how contractors are typically paid. I have never heard of anyone paid any other way here in Europe, and as a contractor myself wire transfers is the only form of payment I can accept. I guess in North America checks would work too.
I wonder if IE 6 could lean more on existing libraries (renderers etc) in the OS itself; maybe the IE 6 version for older systems than Windows XP were comparable in size to IE 5?
I suspect the Humanities seem to be at an advantage here. In the Arts, students learn about the basic physiology of the human eye, the Physics behind color and also some Geometry. In Sociology, surely there must be some Statistics course. In Archeology, Nuclear Physics, Plate Tectonics and Astronomy are unavoidable.

In Physics, it is almost impossible not to make use of History timelines for the sake of understanding the evolution of ideas. But that's that.

I think some course in the History of Science would be highly valuable in STEM. Philosophy of Science would also be very beneficial.

There are many writings by Bertrand Russell that would fit in Math courses and that have a lot to do with Philosophy and that are very pertinent to any math student.[1][2]

In my opinion, one of the books that better makes the bridge between the Humanities and Science is Florian Cajori's History of Mathematical Notation. No only it is a very interesting book, shedding light at the intimate relationship of our symbol lexicon, our skills at abstraction and the progress in Mathematics, but it also teaches about cuneiform writing, rhetorical Math teaching in ancient Egypt, and how fundamental the invention of typography was for the stability of Mathematical notation.

A Professor I once knew lend me his only copy just because I mentioned the topic, and after skimming through I knew I had to buy my own. (For all of those of have lent books, you must know how much of a gamble it is, specially when the person you're lending the book is some random student!)

[1] Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (http://people.umass.edu/klement/russell-imp.html)

[2] On Denoting (http://bactra.org/Russell/denoting/)
None of the Unix versions either. I have IE5 on a PA-RISC PrecisionBook here and it's not bad, but it took a little digging to find.
Ooof, PBNs are literal spam. They're designed to game Google by producing a deluge of low quality content with backlinks on whatever search terms you're hoping to squat on.

I'm utterly sick of this kind of junk.
Text-to-speech browser extension Intelligent Speaker: added Azure voices
Whatsapp and Instagram as independent companies could compete head to head with Facebook in similar domains, so breaking it up would increase competition.

It's not as clear that stripping away YouTube or Android etc from Google would have the same sort of effect. It's hard to see how Bing or DuckDuckGo would benefit against Google Search, although it might allow some other businesses to more effectively compete against YouTube or Android.
> I agree to breaking up Facebook. But the message falls flat when the suggestion is to spin off WhatsApp and Instagram into separate companies. This doesn't really do anything.

It does, because Facebook protects its monopoly by making sure it owns its competition. Instagram, WhatsApp, and Snapchat are its competition, and the first to are far larger than the last.

Bell telephone was broken up geographically for technical and infrastructural reasons (too expensive to build duplicative) telephone exchanges, I'd imagine), and I'd argue it was a poor example since it left regional monopolies.
Is breaking the law by selling and breaching the data of millions of users what you are referring to when you say that "Zuckerberg is navigating the company carefully through very difficult decision points" ?
Conversely, for me as a customer, if a vendor offers no option but PayPal then I refuse to do business there. Ethical considerations aside, I choose not to tie myself to yet another online service just to provide a layer of abstraction over the credit cards and bank accounts I already have.
But you do enable spam.
Yeah they should be; both Microsoft and Intel have a big reputation when it comes to backwards compatibility in their operating systems and instruction sets. It's only been fairly recently that they're starting to break with that, notably with Edge. Not sure about Windows yet, but, wouldn't be surprised if eventually they just put an older windows VM in there - if they haven't already.
Hard to expect anything different. The amount of salt that they get exposed to is horrifying, at least in places that experience cold temperatures and go nuts with the calcium chloride to melt off every speck of snow and ice.
Except a 51% attack. Or getting locked up in prison.
> Advertisers don't want to be displayed alongside gruesome content.

There are ways to mitigate this. For instance, ad spots in non-controversial content is a premium marketing tier. No one wants ad spots in very controversial material, so that would be a cheap tier. Advertisers only get associated with safe/pablum content if they're willing to pay for that assurance, or they get more widespread coverage in more controversial content if they're unwilling to pay.

Controversy is inferred from like/dislike ratios and/or content reports, all of which is user-driven. Some threshold of user ratings would be needed before content is monetized, a threshold that crosses echo chambers, which is a classification amenable to machine learning.

So this results in user-driven content classification and pricing tier driven ad placements, all without requiring any moderation or censorship on Google's part.
When did Scania (and Saab presumably) ownership changed?
I tend to take the position that arguments about the merits of GCs are proxies for a different issue at a higher level of abstraction that is rarely tackled directly. One of the correctly argued advantages of GC is that it automatically handles some difficult edge cases like ambiguous lifetimes and cyclical references. In my opinion, there is an interesting discussion to be had around why these edge cases need to be solved in real software systems.

At least in my experience, the cases that GCs solve uniquely well are a code/architecture smell. Every time I've written some complex code that creates the edge cases GCs solve well, it has been a red flag for poor design. I've never run into one of these cases where there was not a different, better design that made these edge cases go away in a sensible manner. In a sense, GCs primarily help developers by allowing them to ignore issues of poor design (which may not be their fault) in order to get things done. While there are obvious merits to the "just get things done" view, the reality is that the sloppy design that leads to these kinds of situations tend to be strongly correlated with other software problems that a GC won't paper over.

Programming languages strive to enable and encourage good design with their feature set. There is an interesting philosophical debate about language features that exist almost solely to mitigate the effects of poor design, which IMHO is where GCs fit. Does availability lead to enablement in practice?
Mainly I’m saying that the propaganda produced by the USA says “Propaganda? Us? Please put away your tinfoil hat, only bad guys do that.”

I don’t know what Russia’s self-image is, but the impression I have from the outside is that it might as well be “<green frog emoji> Работа для нас в государственной пропагандистской компании <Russian flag emoji>”.
Money in politics
could you explain "messages are first class" a bit more? what does that look like in Ruby?
Disappointed there's no built executable. I'm not into web development, so I don't have npm or yarn handy. Seems like a missed opportunity; a binary would open this project to a larger community.
The sentiment is based on the transformative and displacing effects of the mainstream and "old internet" refers to culture as opposed to the network.

I am well aware that niche chasing is the way to achieve it for now. What the sentiment longs for as ideal is for influence to have worked more in the opposite direction. Instead we get advertisers trying to be the tail wagging the dog again when people left their last venture over the blandness they imposed.
It makes sense; you want to make your app so that even the tiny spinning circles aren't even visible. I added a feature to a webapp in a previous project that would only start showing a spinner if loading a page or section took >1 second. If it's any slower you'd see a flashing spinner, which is not very nice.
Spectrum lost two days of threads, messages, users, and communities
There are solutions for that, but it requires a more powerful type system / logic than Rusts: http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/p.ohearn/papers/permissions_p...
I used to sell some automotive accessories on eBay. Approx 20-30 items a month. Every time I had to call or email Paypal's customer service, I had a good experience. Much, MUCH better than dealing with eBay's. Even though the complaint review process didn't always go my way, it seemed thorough and fair.
Prostitution is illegal in China and a significant proportion of the female profiles on any dating app are probably created by pimps fishing for customers. That said, enforcement against platforms for facilitation is somewhat random. E.g. the article mentions Tantan being taken down while Momo stays up.
According to this article, a video showing prostitutes receiving training on how to most effectively use Momo went viral a few years ago:

https://shanghaiist.com/2013/02/28/chinese_prostitutes_learn...

Momo is now Tantan's parent company.
Just bought a home this year and I am so glad I went with Ecobee and Ubiquiti Unifi cameras.

If your model is a subscription service I don’t want your product. Especially if they are acquired by Google. Google has acquired and killed (or killed their own products) more products than almost any company I use.

I don’t even want Alexa so I just turn it off.
I wonder if urban trees will adapt to city life - but I guess it depends on where the cities get their new trees. If it's not from the city's tree gene pool we will put forest trees into cities and they won't far any better 200 years from now.
> Doing this in a free software solution (if you consider the training to be part of the software) would be less practical, as it would require training journeys to be publicly available.

I think most free software folks would agree that the training data doesn't have to be public.

I do agree that there's some problem to be solve here, though. Part of the point of free software is to be able to trust that the code you are running is serving your interests. Right now I don't know of any proofs of concept of manipulating what an AI does by manipulating the training data, but it's a very plausible attack vector.
Yeah, I meant it as a learning suggestion, not a “switch your main language” suggestion. Fully agree with you.
That's not merit based at all. All it does is enforce the concept that passing X test gets you in when there's much more than passing X test. Test anxiety is a very real thing. Not to mention, you can train yourself to pass a test, which is a reason why peoples scores improve after re-takes. Its much harder to train creative expression through portfolio demonstration.

There should be no elite school, because the education is the same anywhere.

Case in point, if you watched the Bernie Sanders CNN debate, they had someone (white) from Harvard University ask Bernie if he wanted to turn the US into Soviet Russia which is probably the stupidest question I've ever heard posed against Bernie or any candidate.

I can only assume that the person chose to ask such a question because they are:
a) surprisingly ignorant
b) offered something generous by CNN to say it
c) didn't believe what they were asking but did it anyway
d) didn't go to Harvard, but lied

all but one put Harvard in a bad light.
I entirely agree that putting money into a PayPal account is a really bad idea, but I'll generally use one of my credit cards through PayPal if needed.

The last time I had to deal with card fraud, my bank was extremely reasonable to work with and didn't hesitate at all when disputing the charges. But the process can still be fairly annoying. Having to wait for the card to be replaced, having to move any auto billpay using that card to another, etc.

With very few exceptions, if the merchant isn't using a decent external payment platform, you might as well be posting your credit card information on Hacker News. I'd much rather run my card information through PayPal if that is the only option other than entering card information on the merchants dodgy website.

Most banks can be decent to deal with, and one can certainly take steps to mitigate the impact of it when it does happen (Like not using your debt card for purchases, ever. Using a different credit card for bill payments vs online purchases vs offline purchases, etc.) But I can understand why people would prefer to avoid card fraud when they have the option to do so.
But that doesn't address the business model.
You'll want to watch the original series The Good Wife first. The Good Fight is a sequel series after the main character finishes her arc.

It was a really great show. It's a typical law firm drama but it was very well written and surprisingly tech-savvy. Some of the topics and cases in the show dealt with things like the NSA, Anonymous, fugitives from justice (like Snowden), the haziness of the Constitution at the border, social media, FBI investigations, Bitcoin and lots more.

https://www.wired.com/2013/09/screen-smarts/

I wouldn't get all upset over a bit of 'censorship', real or imagined. CBS is not the government. It's an entertainment corporation.
There are plenty of reasons. Infrastructure is much cheaper per citizen in denser cities. Schools, doctors, supermarkets are all more efficient in denser neighborhoods. Public transportation makes much more sense in denser urban areas.
I use artificial sweeteners when I try to cut back on sugar. A few grams of aspartame is probably much less damaging than 40+ grams of sugar. I’m willing to take that gamble.
Can you point me towards examples of a bank (not the government - a bank) confiscating a company’s account balance?
You linked to an article that links to an article that does not link to the source study (which supposedly claims that electric cars including battery manufacture create more CO2 than a comparable diesel car.) I'll list why this is irrelevant and misleading:

- This comment thread is about overhead electric powered trucks. Battery manufacture emissions are irrelevant.

- The article claims a lifetime of 10 years and an annual mileage of 15000km. Those are drastically low for a truck in Germany, and that means it's an inaccurate calculation to spread the manufacturing emissions over the driven distance.

There were a couple more, but without seeing the source study I can't comment on them.
Scammers Clone Phone Number, Pose as Business in Elaborate Yelp Scheme