skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That is the claim that people make when they make an argument from authority. That doesn't make it not a logical fallacy.

This is the point where branding things as fallacies breaks down, and is very much the point of the article.

Calling “argument from authority” on somebody’s point is one of the weakest rebuttals you can provide, because you’re not really tackling the substance of the argument.

In this case, “98% of scientists agree that AGW is happening” implicitly says “and I have all the arguments provided by those 98% on my side”. Presumably, if AGW isn’t happening, their arguments are wrong somehow, and you should be able to point out how. It’s not just appeal to authority, it’s saying “here’s a big body of research, tell me where it went wrong”.

Ultimately, nobody is an expert on everything, and heuristic thinking has to take over at some point. Overwhelming expert consensus is a damn good heuristic to go by.
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My only criticisms of Toyotas/Lexii (thanks Alan Partridge) are that they're 5 years late on Carplay, and have stuck with the efficient but unpleasant geartrains for too long on their hybrids.
You just don't have the right to tell a private company what content they must allow.

That would be true for some other private company, but I'm not sure this libertarian attitude is applicable to Google/Alphabet - it holds immense power over the 'net nowadays, I bet it can kill any emerging competitor.
Here is a hint

https://docs.fullcontact.com/#enrich-api
I'd wager that most successful products and services are made and sold by people who are (roughly) in their own target market.

Pebble was made by a guy who wanted a Pebble. Twitter was made by a guy who wanted everybody to know when he ate a sandwich. Dropbox was made by a guy who wanted to be able to share files with his sister without a hassle.

This is also why I believe that the fediverse will never take off unless the general population starts taking privacy seriously (which someday they might, who knows!)

In fact, we didn't start doing TalkJS. We started out with a totally different kind of chat app, pivoted 4 times (!), and, suprise, only when we started shipping a product that we were in the target market for, things took off.
What do you mean by a "large part" of the readership. Is it precise?

Natural languages: where ambiguous meanings abound, and yet we manage to form complex social structures nonetheless.
Finally a better module experience inside of gopath. That was a major hang up for me
I don't understand why that's not okay, though. I get people get attached to communities they're a part of, but just like people, they change and/or die.

If you think about it, it's absurd to expect them not to: Even if the community keeps its member list exactly intact forever, and the members remain at their exact same activity level forever, those very members will change over time. Hell, you will change over time and get to appreciate different qualities of that community.

Same reason my guild's forum feels completely different today than it did 5, 10 years ago.
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Yes, that's sort of true, but imagine that some company openly claims that they are not going to hire women or black people or Muslims. You also shouldn't tell private company who they should hire, yet my guess that if any company started doing this it would stir some controversy and probably wouldn't stay unnoticed.
> In 2019, Cellular Tracking Technologies of Rio Grande, NJ demonstrated VultureNet, a component of the Internet of Wildlife. VultureNet is a system that uses very small tags ... on small birds and animals, and these are detected by receivers in devices on larger animals and birds ... data was transmitted from the device on the vulture to the Internet using the cellular network.

A store and forward network could be implemented on that.
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Given the fact that the status page was reporting for more than 30 minutes an erroneous infrastructure state and this is google, is it okay for Amazon to put the SRE books into the "Science Fiction" category or should we keep them under tech?

</trolling>

I still feel for the on-call engineers.
You can use it for free, as I have, and it's quite good. The payment is only for syncing, which is not worth it for me, so I don't pay.
Wtf is this crap?
To be clear, the Rust teams decided (mostly) to move to Discord and Zulip; Mozilla decided to disband its IRC. These decisions were made by disjoint sets of people.
Oh, I've got no hope for the majority of people. They're a lost cause - they still believe in religions! They don't need videos to convince them because even rumors will do. I'm thinking of at least casually critical people or courts, those who have some interest in what's true.
Thank you, although I'm glad this was reposted because the former Microsoft host of this pdf references in that posting is now a dead link
Very cool! I just recently wrote a filter feature about two weeks ago. This could be very helpful
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Mission Shakti – India's Anti-Satellite Weapon (ASAT)
How I visualised my Instagram network and what I learned from it
Video is way worse, because it's connected to audio. Which means "did you hear that? He just said he wants to go to war...".
good fairytales in a very unattractive package.

on my display this website looks like this:
https://paste.pics/6ac21e4b7357bd608ac7903a24eb3d79

huge white areas devoid of content. css, where art thou?
Yes - Ahrefs only measures Google search traffic.

If you were to use something like Similarweb, it will give you a estimate of overall traffic from all platforms: https://www.similarweb.com/website/dailymail.co.uk
Mechano-elastic regenerative braking utilizing 100% recyclable aluminium!
Not sure if @vanderZwan meant the same, but what about scenarios in which your goal is to pick the best member of an already existing population where each member has a set of variables like agility, strength, speed. Would it be possible to find a pareto-optimal solution with genetic algorithms, maybe even with priority-parameters?
I think creating a spark free state is going to be a hard thing. This needs another kind of solution. Just like a single pin sized hole shouldn't sink a cruise ship a single spark shouldn't be able to burn down half a state.
Ah, of course you're right. Good point thank you.
If I leave it running long enough I always end up with mind-draining pop music. It is a pure nightmare.

But seriously, people promoting rule changes so that advertisers can exclude anything sinful are certainly also against anything that makes Youtube interesting.
> Advertisers do not want to be associated with violent content

True. They do not want that.

> And for good reason.

I disagree. That's not a good enough reason to censor such information from the public.
It looks like there's some artefacts introduced by how the various states report these incidents: some states entirely empty and some inexplicably much denser than their neighbours. I'd expect lightning strikes to not pay much heed to state borders...
That hashtag (plottertwitter) is one of the few exciting, non-hateful things left on Twitter. Great stuff.
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users provide the content necessary for the platform to exist. Shouldn't we ask them then?

As a user, I am certainly interested in which advertisers are promoting more content controls. That would be quite a service. Nothing is expected to be provided here.
I have never in my life dealt with engineers so competent, professional and kind as the Sun Microsystems folks were. If they were technologically arrogant, they earned it: their inventions outlasted the company and live on in many products.

I cannot name a single GNU/Linux "hacker" inventing anything. Everything they implemented is a shoddy copy of what the engineers at hp, SGI and Sun Microsystems did. They might have shoddily implemented it by writing the code from scratch, but they blatantly stole everything. For instance, the manual page for chkconfig(8) will even tell one that the command comes from SGI's IRIX.
Can someone explain to me how hydrogen import would work if hydrogen literally leaks through any container it's in? A lead bottle with hydrogen will evaporate naturally within month or two - how is any substantial amount going to survive few weeks at the sea?
And you set up a website how, without involving private companies with content rules?

Web hosting comapnies have rules too. Even VPS and public cloud companies have content rules for what you can do with VPS.

So you have to do some kind of server hosting, and make sure your ISP will not take you down for content.

So this turns out to be a bit more involved than "set up your own website".

Also, your statement is not completely true. Phone companies are not allowed to police content of your communications, for example, even if they are private.
You can ban people, from instances that you disagree with, from replying/following people on your instance if you like. You can also completely isolate your instance or only federate with a whitelisted cluster of instances.
Also East/West. Seems to be worse the closer you get to London.
Drew DeWalt is there and a number of others, especially the creators of the fediverse like Eugene and others ;-)

FWIW you can also use an account on i.e. Mastodon to follow twitter users. I suddenly realized because I was following a twitter users through a gateway, probably because someone had boosted a tweet from that account sometime and I had followed based on that.

That should take care of following at least.
People know about photo manipulations and get suspicious because we've had Photoshop for thirty years (and analog photomanipulation even longer) and see them all the time. This wasn't always true. When photography was new, manipulations that wouldn't fool anyone today were taken as proof by many people. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies
Was I only one who thought of Jim Carrey in God almighty?
It honestly depends on the compiler.
Yup. It doesn't have to make sense as a policy, y'know; it's all about appearances, public image and not wanting to be associated with "sensitive" stuff of any sort. Documentaries about Nazism, with historical imagery? Exposes of violent extremism? No way, that stuff is way too icky!
Ah, old stories. From a different time. Dreaming of the basic assumption of a common, shared experience, of everything relating back to the group, the individual justifying himself to others. Everyone that exists in this place counts. You give and get in return. That's the world I believed in before the internet, before smartphones. The people sitting with you on the train, those could be protagonists of my very own Norwegian Folktale.

All of it in stark contrast to today's individualism, where, surprisingly, people are not selfish or cold, but still have boundaries; primarily it's not about the group, it's about yourself. Maybe we can relate. Maybe I can give, but I don't have to. Maybe I get something in return but it would be foolish to rely on it. Instead, why don't I try and go alone, use the modern tools and reach heights impossible in an earlier age. No one in the collective is holding me back.

Took me a while to adapt....
That was over 15 years ago!

It's now faster than GNU/Linux on the same hardware and has been for the past ten years.
> solar powered laptop

What do you mean ?

You can already do that with a solar charger. I don't think we'll have solar panels integrated to laptops if that's what you meant, it doesn't make any sense (super bulky and fragile, only used a couple hours a day, needs perfect angle for optimal efficiency). It's much easier/more efficient/cheaper to get your house or office to use renewable energies than to add a solar panel on top of every devices you own.

It may work with very low spec laptops, but forget about macbooks. You need something like 6 hours of direct sunlight + 4 times the area of the laptop to get decent results.

https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac/how-solar-charge-macbo...
>Please just join the fediverse.

What would you recommend to start with? Joining the fediverse is like picking a javascript framework; There are a myriad of instances connected to a multitude of networks which are implementing a bunch of protocols. See https://fediverse.party/
O/T but anyone else have problems with mobile.twitter on iOS? It never seems to work for me - just times out. Both WiFi and cellular.

Edit: this is really strange. Tried opening in a new tab and as it was stuck loading (progress bar halted at about 1/4), I opened “view source” app I have installed. It showed empty html/head/body tags and upon closing, twitter loaded up immediately.
With blogs using Wordpress there was this thing called trackbacks and blogrolls. And you know... hyperlinks (I know, sick, right?) in the content itself pointing to related content. Sometimes, someone makes a blog post recommending things they read. And sometimes you find a link on a forum. The better, old web.
Australian National University hacked, data from 200k students compromised
Just Another Deprecated Google API?
> It's extremely hard to coach non-technical users into making the right call when presented with a security warning box.

And not presenting them with any call at all is guaranteed to keep them non-technical. We have to take the training wheels off at some point.
just use ZNC. why should us pay for something free?

https://wiki.znc.in/ZNC
1) There is zero elemental hydrogen on Earth. We currently get it mostly as a byproduct of....fossil fuel production. The other option is to split water into oxygen and hydrogen, but obviously this takes more energy than the resulting hydrogen could ever produce. Makes you think why don't we just use this energy to recharge batteries instead of making hydrogen with huge inefficiencies. It only makes sense if you have nearly free energy that you can dump into the process and don't care about loses.

2) Hydrogen is the smallest molecule in existence - meaning that it escapes through any container you put it in. A 70kg pure lead bottle only holds about 1L of hydrogen, and all of it will evaporate within couple months naturally. And as it does so, it makes the metal brittle. So "producing loads of hydrogen for storage" is not a great idea either.
I quit because my former supervisor does not even know what git or ssh are. We are a very technical/IT company. There's no excuse to be ignorant of such things.
I made the decisions that fellow team members went with on several occasions. The supervisor sat on their laptop playing chess on Facebook. I am not even joking.
When you have people at the same horizontal hierarchical level as you coming to you straight instead of our supervisor, it says a lot.
I figured the company doesn't want to bump my pay for doing my supervisor's job so I will leave first chance I get. I did and I feel lighter. Maybe I lost weight.

So I agree, a manager needs some "been there done that" experience.
> standard of living exponentially where luxuries reserved for the rich like private chauffeur (Uber/Lyft), matchmaking (Tinder/OkCupid), and private island vacations (Airbnb) are accessible to normal people.

Uber is, from client's perpective, just a taxi service with ability to hails cabs through an app. Matchmaking services were available and cheap way before the Internet. As for private island vacations available for normal people via Airbnb - can you point me to one airbnb offer like that?
Genetic algorithms aren't useless, evolutionary algorithms are, the crossover method is terrible at searching the space in any kind of dynamic way, but things like pep-g and covariance matrix adaptation are also genetic algorithms and they work significantly better because they have essentially dynamic learning rates, they are to genetic algorithms what Adam is to backpropagation.
> I do not think having called anyone Musk fanboy, but you seem to have been hurt or felt concerned wierdly :)

You offered that the only reason they opposed fuel cells was due to "Elon Musk propaganda." The message was crystal clear even if the word "fanboy" itself was not used. :p

> I did say that Musk hates the idea of Hydrogen car, and that might not be only for technical reasons.

Maybe so, but the technical reasons alone suffice.

The biggest problem is that hydrogen is a zero-carbon bait and switch. Hydrogen from water costs 2-3x as much as hydrogen from cracking natural gas, for fundamental thermodynamic reasons.

Also fuel cells are no more than 50% efficient, because physics. This means the theoretically best possible hydrogen fuel cell car has worse well-to-wheel or panel-to-wheel efficiency than today's existing electric cars. Ouch.

> False claim, supercapacitor on the long term can very likely do the job as a "buffer" after the fuel cell. And they are cheap to produce. Supercapacitor that "battery-eletric" car also need for their "fast 30min charge" btw.

Where to begin?

- The size and mass of supercapacitors makes this a non-starter. Seriously do the math, it's quite bad.

- Supercaps are not cheaper than batteries per kWh. Quite the opposite.

- Supercaps are not needed for 30 minute charging. Tesla cars achieve this already without supercaps.

- Adding supercaps to EVs wouldn't make the battery charge faster anyway (other than quickly charging the small buffer). To get a lot of benefit you'd need to replace the entire battery with supercaps, and again that's not realistic.

Hydrogen cars were dead long before Elon Musk weighed in.
What a weak-ass response.

If you can't deal with adult conversation, fuck off and cry elsewhere.
weechat > all

best client ever. and use ZNC.

https://wiki.znc.in/ZNC
Alabama lawmakers voted to force ‘chemical castration’ on sex offenders
Yes of course. Both for technical and for social activities.

Side note, there's a very nice IRC log service ran by Whitequark [1] - yes, the one of Glasgow fame. The source is available[2], so you can set up your own too.

[1] https://freenode.irclog.whitequark.org/

[2] https://github.com/whitequark/irclogger
Vimeo and PeerTube are your best bets.
I write Haskell web apps, and I used to write Ruby web apps. You don't need to assure me; I'm well aware.

If you're in the realm of "import Spree, make a few modifications and you are done", then sure, use Ruby.

The products I work on just aren't that generic/trivial.

> I very much doubt you will find a haskell developer willing to build your web store in haskell for $15/hour.

The market is larger than you think. I have hired people before at $15 per hour. I have people working for me now at $23 per hour. Not everything needs to be stupid SV money.
> …SSH keys in ~/.ssh are also plain text.

What? Mine aren't, nor have they ever been…

If you are storing ssh private keys on disk without a password you are doing something wrong.
Even government departments trying their very best to anonymise data tend to mess it up, what makes you think an advertising company has any interest in doing the same?
Their entire existence is built upon deanonymising and monetising that data.
For those that can spare some cash. Get yourself a vacation for a couple weeks to Greece or Turkey, meet some locals there. Even better, try living abroad there or other nations that are known for their social culture. Believe me you will change. You get to experience a new culture and learn a thing or two about yourself.
Yes they are: Microsoft, Cloudflare, etc.
>You also shouldn't tell private company who they should hire, yet my guess that if any company started doing this it would stir some controversy and probably wouldn't stay unnoticed.

It would be illegal for companies to do this, and governments certainly can tell private companies not to discriminate against certain classes when hiring. Google, meanwhile, is not breaking the law by choosing what content is hosted on their platform and under what circumstances.

You're presenting a false dichotomy here because Google is not a state, it is a private company, and because content creators are not a government whose laws Google must follow, but rather are themselves bound by Google's terms of service, which grant Google absolute, irrevocable and arbitrary power over their accounts, content, visibility and monetization.
> Unless the site is only available to German users, you should be able to file a complain with any of EU member state regulators, and not all are so timid as that.

You can, but they will forward that to the applicable authority, which will be the local German one for German sites.
Another observation made by a few clinical physiologists I watch was that men are more likely to have a higher propensity for violence, so when they attempt suicide they are more effective at it. A man is more likely to take the more violent "way-out" and by extension the more lethal approach (rope, gunshot etc.), as opposed to a woman who takes the perceived less violent approach (overdose, suffocation etc.)

Whether that is the truth, my verdict is still out, but the literature seems to point that way.
I wonder if any of decentralized internet projects are building something equivalent to Youtube or not!
maybe i'm misunderstanding something, but the following stand [0] appears to be identical to the apple one:

- Tilt and lift

- Switch from portrait to landscape with bi-directional pivoting

- 45-degree swivel

(Bi-directional pivoting, tilt adjustment +30° to -5°, swivel adjustment ±45°, 100 mm vertical lift range)

[0] https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/dell-optiplex-7760-all-in-on...
I think comparing modern day civilization to the rise and fall of the Roman empire is a mistake, particularly European civilization. We learned our lesson. We’re not building empires, not waging expensive wars, not succumbing to armed revolution. People are for the time being mostly happy and prosperous.

That isn’t to say we don’t face challenges, but they’re fundamentally different from those of the empires of old. Something changed with true global markets, and mutually assured destruction.