skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did something else to structure how I could interact with Facebook. I unfollowed all my friends. Joined only Facebook groups that had some value to me on a weekly basis (primarily organizing meeting new people in my local area). I'd say it's transformed my relationship with FB in a positive way.
I think the important distinction is that Go holds simplicity as a virtue, while Java’s position was “please give us time to add all of the features you are requesting!”. How long was it before Java shipped exceptions and inheritance? If that isn’t a commitment to incidental complexity, what is?

By the way, it’s fine that Java takes a different philosophy on simplicity; Go’s trade offs won’t suit every use case. But I think Go’s tradeoffs are better for more use cases by a pretty wide margin.
And yet, they're still paying well below average energy costs, and emitting a fraction of the carbon as other countries.
I think with social media's goal of "connecting everyone" and "bringing everyone together" has brought us too close.

So close that we're like a village -- blasting out clickbait and accusations with rare repercussions and making sure we say "hi" to all our neighbors in the village while also maintaining our "social status" within this village: i.e. reputation.

I'm glad I took off from there a while back.
All (9) but one of my Sonos speakers get used regularly without issue. I do with Airplay worked with them, but I've recently drank the Kool Aid of streaming music after much resistance.

I do wish our Play One could proxy Airplay to the others.
The question should not be whether this is too costly as compared to jet fuel, but at what carbon price is it cheaper than jet fuel? Once the cost of carbon is at the long term limit, which is equal to the cost of extracting carbon from the atmosphere, then these technologies could be much more cost effective. (But if they aren't, there would be no reason to ban flying, as the carbon price would pay for the extraction of carbon that flying produces.)

By not account for how much jet fuel costs with increasing carbon pricing, and by framing the alternative to allowing climate change as banning flying, it seems like the author has completely missed the story..
Russian alcohol consumption down 43%, WHO report says
I assume quite a bit of the military would _join_ the citizenry, so yes, they probably would have a fairly good chance combined together. After all, the military in the US comes _from_ the citizenry and have family & friends among the "civilians" and don't feel all that detached.
"who cares if others read or agree"

Too many people.
I had no idea Ben Carson was a vaccine skeptic.

To be fair, he's only a neurosurgeon, so I'm sure we all know better than him about this.

To clarify, he's only a pediatric neurosurgeon who pioneered procedures previously pondered as preposterous. This is actually something he's a recognized expert on, but because he holds a different opinion than you, he must be wrong.

He's not even antivax, he just thinks that newborns shouldn't receive a full round of shots immediately after birth, but that they should be spaced out. What an idiotic, uninformed individual.
>* Check with customers to determine their usefulness.

Nice, I always say that customers and testers are source of all bugs!
A dissenting comment that is wrong is a bad comment and deserves downvoting for being wrong.

I'm not saying it is wrong, but expecting that democracy means all opinions are valid is a very basic misunderstanding. Very basic.
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I've been using KiTTY for a while now which was forked from a slightly older version of PuTTY and seems to have far more features (and bugfixes)

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Yes. Somehow you have to play along, otherwise someone will point out that "non-substantial comments are not welcome here".

Point is: Sarcasm works best when writing somewhat snarky. But probably most HN readers don't understand sarcasm and that's the problem. (See what I did there?)
I've found a happy medium in checking it once every few weeks without deleting it.
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One was created to prevent a second Nixon and birthed and covers for the Trump presidency, now under impeachment on many many counts of clearly illegal and unethical behavior. The other has a series of awarded reporters and does not run baseless opinion shows half the day.

There may be some overlap, but the comparison is mountain vs molehill level unfair.
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I have found it is pretty common for people to use simplified justifications, such as cause and effect, to support their conclusions on a subject. If the relationship between the cause and the effect is not clearly stated it is very common that they may not be properly reversed during backwards analysis from an end point to a start point. In that case the qualifying behavior is a form of cognitive conservatism demonstrated through a selective bias.

While that form of thinking may sound incredibly stupid, example: how could a person confuse a cause for its effect, it is exceedingly common. I have seen incredibly smart people make this mistake. The mistake is the non-cognitive behavior at play that unduly influences what is otherwise a very logical and straight forward conclusion. Objectivity is a practicable personality trait not aligned to logic or math skills.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cart_before_the_horse
Yes I absolutely do. It’s especially frustrating that politicians speak endlessly about Russia when China is clearly the larger threat to US dominance. Even stories like “senator’s driver of 20 years is Chinese spy”[1] are basically ignored.

1. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/the-spy-w...
The evidence is the pattern of behavior. No, it's not conclusive of the fact, the accusation is based on circumstantial evidence, but it is still evidence.
People with vaccine allergies aren't dismissed out of hand. Vaccines are administered by medical professionals who will jump into action if there is an allergic reaction. Then they tell the patient you can't receive the vaccine because of allergy and here are your options. And they will provide a note to school if the vaccine is necessary for admission.
I'm afraid that's not even close to an accurate comparison. Indeed I find it entirely disingenuous. There are plenty of armed officers in the UK for a start, I see them most days. Riot police in the UK are supported by authorized firearms officers in most cases.

Secondly most world police forces have weapons, and the citizenry in those countries are aware of that. At the end of the day, a small group of officers were being attacked by a larger group of people. An officer is on the ground being kicked as violently and as brutally as possible. Another officer is being attacked despite warning use of his weapon and I'm afraid seems well within his rights to protect himself here, with unfortunate outcomes.

You cannot excuse the role of the protesters in provoking this action.
Fun part is the Daily Show still runs segments that get next to zero airtime on Fox or are put out with enough lies and disinformation to question my own sanity.
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Everything you say is true, but unfortunately a viable economic model for social networks that doesn't make use if the dopamine hook hasn't been discovered.
I think satire is different from just being ineffective, in that it actively opens yourself up to malicious mis-interpretation. Its failure mode isn't just your audience being confused or missing the point.

Like the comedian in the UK who said she wanted to throw battery acid at politicians. It was (probably 90%) satire. But when challenged if she said she thought you should throw battery acid all she can say is yes with a weak-sounding defence of 'but it was just a prank.'
I've noticed a link in my work between accountability, comfort, distraction, and productivity. If I'm too comfortable, I let myself get distracted. If I'm in an office, I can get distracted by others. If I'm not next to someone working, I may not hold myself accountable and slack off.

But if I'm not too comfortable, and not too distracted, I can be more productive. To do this, I have to turn off slack and e-mail, and go to a room which isn't very comfortable and has no distractions. Ideally there would also be other people in there for the same purpose, for accountability.

At work we have these "focus zones" where a conference room is booked for 2-5 hours a day. You can go there and just work in silence with others. If I turn off slack and e-mail, it works well. The only problem is the chairs are almost too comfortable, and conference tables aren't ideal for working on laptops.
I know this is a bit like saying "just stop having a problem!", but if you stop caring about the number of likes/upvotes/whatever, it's a much more relaxed experience, where you just read what informed, insightful people (and me) have to say. I imagine having to look at upvotes can make it a much more stressful experience.
I quit completely for several months and came back to it because of your exact line of reasoning - keeping in touch with those at the outskirts of my social circles is valuable to me.

However, I'm on the edge of leaving again because moderation is very difficult.

The problem with social media is that using it in moderation is an uphill battle against our own nature. It is designed to be addictive. Much like an alcoholic that keeps a bottle of vodka in the freezer and the dieter who keeps chips in the cupboard, you will constantly have to exercise restraint to keep yourself in check.

If you've woken up to the downsides of social media, and are trying to moderate, is that struggle worth the upside? I'm not so sure any more.
What's the best replacement for serial port connectivity on Windows? That PuTTY has it's own terminal settings always bothered me but I'm not sure what all is popular.
> The 2nd amendment made a lot of sense when weaponry consisted of horses and rifles

Around the time of the founding, there was privately-owned field artillery (and rifles were still in limited deployment).

The second amendment made sense when calling up the militia/posse comitatus was an essential feature of how the government at all levels dealt with internal and external security threats, such that it was not planning to meet such needs with fully professional forces is most cases.

Note that this was true, in both internal and external cases, for much of the life of the Republic though less so over time; for external security the idea was essentially written off after Vietnam with the adoption of the all-volunteer force. For internal security it's just about as dead, though there's not an equivalent milestone.
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Thanks for this. It helps to hear it.
Well, but then what would be the consequence of the customer doing work? I mean, either there is some legal consequence to it, then it's a bad idea, or there isn't, then it's useless?! Especially considering that the mere indication that the appliance was opened does not tell you anything about what was done to it and thus whether there is any likely connection to a given defect.

And while you might not need to repair appliances under warranty, mind you that there are other reasons for opening appliances, from curiosity to quality control to wanting to modify things for your needs.

Whether these companies want me to do repairs really seems like a completely irrelevant interest. It's my property, and if property means anything, then their interest to protect their trademark certainly does not trump my interest in having control over my property, or else you could use the same reasoning to justify pretty much any right for them to control and limit what you can do with your property.
Any time there's an article about China and Hong Kong, people who know nothing about either, besides that China is ruled by the communist party, come out of the woodwork to take a dump on China.

People look down on Trump and ridicule him endlessly when he spews bullshit about things he knows nothing about. But if you spew bullshit about China, you get lots of upvotes.

And if you dare to speak the truth and the nuances about the situation in Hong Kong, you get downvoted to oblivion.

EDIT: Case in point, downvoters! Go ahead, show me you know something about China and Hong Kong.
In LinkedIn, I get the opposite feeling. It seems that a lot of people spend a considerable amount of energy pumping their profiles with lots of achievements, professional photos and blog posts, but it feels like everybody is talking to themselves. Nobody cares.
>20,000

there aren't even 20k ideas...
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Saving settings/connections into files which can be sync'd is the killer feature of this fork.
I'd be really interested in the ability to put in probability ranges for cell values and run monte-carlo simulations to get the final values (Excel+montecarlo has been a pet idea of mine for years but I haven't got the time to do it)
We chatted last week and I was sorry to hear you went with another contractor for frontend dev. The bait and switch wasn't my intention, UpWork doesn't really let you present yourself as a team. Best of luck.
How did you get 17,000 HN points?

Did look something like this:
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To me, this is the problem with seeking validation through these systems. You are rewarded for saying pleasing things and for conforming to group think.

Why don't you spend down your points by playing devil's advocate? Then, when you run low on points, you can fill-up-the-tank by saying nice things that everyone wants to hear again.
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(About 90% through the article there's an animation.) We'll post the code on how we did this soon.
Makerspaces struggle to stay in business even as interest in the industry grows
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> Then the second part is an advert for Oracle!?

Maybe Oracle gave them the services for free in exchange for attaching their name to any resulting discoveries? If that's the case, I think that's a tradeoff i'm ok with. But ya, it is a little odd.
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This always strikes me as missing the point. The end result is fuel to burn. It doesn't matter where it comes from, only what the net carbon budget is. Continuing to burn petroleum in jet engines is fine, as long as it's appropriately offset. There's absolutely no technical reason to need to bend over to implement this kind of setup. Spend those dollars on renewables and sequestering solutions instead, clean up the last 10% of fossil fuel extraction at the end of the process.
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I believe you can do it. Keep up the work. We need to relearn, and reteach people how to communicate without the big platforms distracting and moderating the focus.
On the other hand low cost science may improve.
that's why you need lots of sub-systems...so everyone can find a few they enjoy. The effort to implement a sub-system is a one-time cost, as opposed to the on-going cost of content creation. Also, a lot of players in full MMORPGs (as opposed to looter/shooters with gear grind..) dislike random dungeons, raids, etc. Seems like developers can't win!
GitLab hires all "employees" in non-mainstream locations as contractors anyways. So, legally, it is consulting. But they treat you like an employee anyway. Legal grey area?
Firearms are faster a killing; it's why we use them. However a military entering a hostile area doesn't just stroll through casually even if they could know for a fact no guns are in the area. They still have to contend with fertilizer bombs, molotov cocktails, suicide trucks, bows and arrows, those 3 watt laser pointers, plus any other improvised weapon. If lasers weren't being banned from war for cruelty would maybe even be more effective at taking combatants off the battlefield than an AR-15.
Super cool! I like that it estimates how much all my meetings cost over the last 12 months. That gives real motivation for cancelling the ones that aren't really useful!
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