skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What do you mean by this?

Presumably the sentence that followed your quoted one:

> The editorial decisions about what to report, what to not report, what to report as important or credible, and what to report as irrelevant or non-credible, can all be used to mislead the audience and misrepresent events.

An amusing example of that phenomenon is the so-called "Summer of the Shark"[0], where a particularly shocking attack followed by a slow news season led to disproportionate reporting on shark attacks. There wasn't actually any more shark attacks than any other year, but try surveying people around then and they might think otherwise, even if all the reporting was only non-opinion, true statements.

It's related to the Chinese Robber fallacy. Here's a great blog post[1] which demonstrates the fallacy using news stories about cardiologists.

These are fun examples, but I'm sure you can think of it with a partisan bent about your favorite topic and news source.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_the_Shark

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/16/cardiologists-and-chin...
I've never heard of someone getting kicked out for offering a controversial but considered opinion on something

"Kicked out" is stronger than what usually happens. More like "disinvited".

Yarvin/Strangeloop is the canonical example. More recently it was Hurd/BHUSA.

It usually takes the form of speakers being dis-invited because they hold opinions, unrelated to the topic of their talk, that are unacceptable to a vocal minority of the attendees.
>people who own semi-auto

Wait what. Did you mean, literally any rifle that isn’t some antiquated bolt-action one or something like a sniper rifle? Because iirc pretty much any even remotely non-vintage rifle/handgun is semi-auto, aside from a few novelty/specialty guns.
I think that it's going to turn out that social media is like coffee: It's fine, even healthy, for some people, and harmful to others.

And I would think that's fine, except that I fall into the latter group, and social media has come to consume so much of the online world that it means that I can't avoid it without excluding myself from large swathes of public life.

I don't volunteer at my kids' school because coordination is done through Facebook. I don't stay in touch with people I meet at events because Facebook has thoroughly supplanted other modes of casual communication. I don't hear about events at some of my local community spaces because they only advertise them on Facebook. Etc.

So it's not entirely like coffee. It's like what it would be like if coffee were healthy for some, unhealthy for others, and quasi-mandatory for all.
Your web site is resolving as 502 Bad Gateway at the moment.
Correct, the refuge for cesspools banned from Reddit.
"Demonstrate proper operation of laboratory equipment by inspecting, calibrating, cleaning, oiling, and greasing equipment, and analyze data to evaluate the effects of regulatory limitations on land use projects, such as explaining regulations, answering visitor requests, needs and interests of individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits and illness prevention and treatment of cardiac or peripheral vascular treatments, such as meteorological, atmospheric, oceanic, paleoclimate, climate, or related structures such as docks, bridges, tunnels, and other specialized material handling equipment such as endoscopes, closed circuit television, still photography, and testing devices, and repair assistive devices or make adaptive changes to equipment or environments."

Seems like this one is destined to fail due to lack of focus.

I generated these with https://github.com/pteichman/cobe - anyone got other markov chain generators to play with? This one seems pretty basic.
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I can't speak for the EU in general, but in the UK, we get the minimum EU 2 years, plus up to six years from purchase to make a claim if the product is faulty according to market expectations of the lifetime of the product. If your fridge breaks after five years, and it's regular market expectation that your fridge, given what you paid for it[1], is expected to last longer, then the seller is in breach of contract.

See for example: https://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/advice/what-do-i-do-...

Retailers try very hard to pretend that the law doesn't exist and that their obligation to you ends after a two year warranty period. This is false.

[1] Market expectation is adjusted according to the advertised price. For example if you buy a pair of shoes for £5, then you cannot expect it to last six years, of course. If a sale advertises an original and a discounted price, then it is the advertised original price that matters.
Is Rust a good choice for web services?
I've written a few web microservices in Rust that I otherwise would have written in Go, and really enjoyed the experience. After getting over the initial hump of learning how lifetimes and the borrow checker work, I would say I'm just as productive in Rust as I am in Go. If anything I end up writing fewer lines of code in Rust. The tooling is excellent, and even compilation times have gotten better.

My main concern is how many dependencies I end up with doing simple stuff like web requests and database queries. I just finished a script that uses reqwest, rust-postgres, and serde which compiles 221 crates! Am I doing something wrong? I used all of the generally "accepted" dependencies recommended for those tasks and it didn't seem like the Rust stdlib had much support for them. Contrast that with a similar app written in Go and the only dependency outside of the standard library that I needed was pq for Postgres.

I realize that Rust guarantees backwards compatibility for compilation, but what if I need to go back a year from now and make a bunch of changes to that script? Am I going to be in dependency hell like I would be in JavaScript? Are there any other compelling reasons to choose Rust over Go specifically for web services?
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I love this concept and really value the idea of knowing how much time is wasted on meetings. I think as your system evolves and if you allow for some AI/human interaction (I tell your system how to categorize certain things) then it'll get even more accurate. Really nice work building this!
What setup are you considering using with the pi and speakers? I'm also interested in doing this, but haven't found a good OSS solution (yet).
I think the whole idea is a place to discuss ideas that are “heretical” by modern left wing “cancel culture” standards.
> Nothing justifies "resorting to violence" in HK today

If they're basically going to be steamrolled by a rather unsubtle up-and-coming superpower, perhaps they have no choice. In fact IF violence is all you're left with (and that does seem to be the case as legal recourse is blocked) then violence is necessary.

The CCP is not backing down until it has borged HK.
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I don't know if there will be a 'next search engine'. From the days before Google, search engine in general haven't changed much.

In the beginning there was just string matching, word stemming followed, then we had synonyms and are getting more towards NLP for getting the user intend. Also, if the communication with the engine is via a text box or via a voice command or a live smartphone picture (for augmented reality) does not really matter.

So, what can change is just the "smartness" of information retrieval at the backend and the ranking factors (from freshness to PageRank to whatever).

Given the fact that the market power of Google actually shapes the internet by introducing their best practices (like AMP or schema.org) on webmasters on a large scale, I doubt that there will be one company with the big breakthrough in information retrieval like Google was. Maybe this field is now more or less saturated for the majority of use cases that it will only evolve slowly and not revolutionary.
Why does that matter? It's a mature piece of software that has ongoing fixes.
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Is anyone else worried about this trend where people seem to believe the more angry someone gets at the things they say the more correct they must be?
China is the world's #1 carbon emitter, the top emitter per GDP, and has over 200gw of new coal still planned. (For scale, California consumes about 50gw on a hot day.) So they are not even unrelated problems.

China is also the top source of plastic in the ocean.

Tangent but: the way China turned out has IMHO been the major factor in the collapse of the post cold war neoliberal narrative in the West. The idea was that freedom and prosperity are a reinforcing cycle has been disproven. China shows that at least the business parts of capitalism work just fine without human rights and that therefore prosperity and totalitarianism are compatible.

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Maybe concede that the need for validation never quite goes away?

You can remove all externalities but then it becomes an internal barometer. “Did I do enough? Was what I said funny/insightful/smart? Do they like me?”

The voice is always there. It just doesn’t have a number assigned to it.
I do not think chans are very discussion friendly (in terms of layout and functionality, not culture) though and AFAIK there is optional registration that can make people focus on the messenger instead of the message.
The Confederate generals surrendered because they realized that, with Lee himself surrendering, they had zero chance of prevailing, and any continuation of hostilities would result in the North invading the Confederate states and shooting/hanging not just the generals themselves, but all the civilian leaders who supported them. It wasn't to "keep the country from endless guerilla warfare", but rather an act of simple self-preservation.

While there was a fair amount of war wariness among the public, continued resistance by the Confederacy was not something the North would have tolerated, especially since they clearly had the upper hand at that point.
ReviewMeta founder here - this is called "Review Hijacking" and we have a warning in place for when it's detected: https://reviewmeta.com/blog/amazon-review-hijacking/
I love Puppet and this looks really promising. I wonder how this ultimately compares to CircleCI or Travis though.
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Aren't you proving his point?

Scott Adams became world famous writing a cartoon full of snark and satire. These are perfectly valid ways of communicating and in fact they make up a significant chunk of human communication.

Reading comments like yours is somewhat bewildering to me. It seems like you're pushing philistinism as a virtue.
I am saying that employers of climate scientists have expectations, because they are in one of the two camps. Do you know any major organization that the other camp would consider neutral?
Have you heard of a climate alarmist organization of employing a sceptic to validate their claim, or a climate sceptic organization employing an alarmist? That would be interesting.
> You don't really need militias. If a majority of the people oppose the dictator and the military man are from these families then your coup is going to fail.

That's the real (failed) purpose of the second amendment, to prevent the use of a professional armed force for internal and/or external security, with it's invariable separate subculture, so that the views of the masses of the people and those of the armed forces would not be distinct.
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> Nobody said he was trying to antagonize nonbinary people.

The first sentence of this thread: "Dude has gone out of his way to make other people uncomfortable."

I'm simply saying that, on the basis of your [1] alone, I would not come to that interpretation.
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> But the ruling still appeared to offer a lifeline to net neutrality supporters: It overruled an effort by the FCC to block states from adopting open-internet protections of their own, a move that could spur states such as California to act.

It'll be interesting to see how strong- and light-touch regulations in different states will play out over the next 5 - 10 years.

> "At bottom, the commission lacked the legal authority to categorically abolish all fifty States’ statutorily conferred authority to regulate intrastate communications," the court wrote.

> Judges Patricia Millett and Robert Wilkins, both Obama appointees, were in the majority for the 2-to-1 ruling on that issue.

> The D.C. Circuit also said the FCC needed to spend additional time considering how its rules would affect public safety.

> In dissent, Judge Stephen Williams said the ruling would leave broadband "subject to state regulation in which the most intrusive will prevail."

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uh HN is not the 'business' of YC. get back to work
The big problem with that idea, at least in the United States, is the States’ employees don’t actually work for the Federal government, and requiring them to pass fines collected upwards would violate the 10th Amendment. Nor is it within Congress’ enumerated powers to seize the assets of the States or compel services from each State. The States are also specifically prohibited from having their own monetary policies, and thus have no incentive to cooperate with a money destruction regime.
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> What is wrong with me psychologically that I crave that more than my own privacy?

The alternative view is that you are perfectly normal and that craving validation from strangers is what built human society.
I think the opposite is True - none of these topics trigger cancel culture, and I can't see anything that protects speakers anyway.
You're talking about maybe a million combat soldiers, before the massive attrition due to fighting against the Constitution, against 10's of millions of insurgents, all with a surplus of light weapons. It's not like those computer-guided missiles will have a target, as like most insurgencies there won't be many set piece battles.
AFAIK Voat requires registration so it is more pseudonymous than anonymous. Also the up/down voting interfere with the messages themselves as people use them as quick "agree/disagree" without engaging in actual discussions (this is an issue anywhere such voting is implemented, not just Voat).
I've had one or two horrible work experiences like the author's. The last time it happened was bad enough that I sat down and wrote a long article very similar to this one, explaining all the things the employer had done wrong, and all the ways in which they'd made my life difficult. It made me feel much better to write it, and I read it through several times, nodding to myself at all the important points. Then I deleted it and got another job.
There's a big difference between superficial mostly-visual social status sharing and having discussions on a tightly moderated text-only forum which de-emphasizes personal identity and has no notifications.

FB tends to be a net negative while HN is the opposite (at least for me) because of the content and engagement.
People have forgotten how to gossip, which is historically how you learned about babies, and other life events.

When people do gossip now a days, it's about politics, or celebrities.
You end up with actual thought crime (racism) instead of "drag culture"(rupaul's drag race is mainstream tv now)

Well-behaved users leave the site for a nicer place, which becomes a vicious cycle. In the end you have noone left but jerks and racists (see voat, 8chan)
Keep in mind that both sites are estimates - there's absolutely no way to determine which reviews are "fake" with 100% accuracy. The difference with ReviewMeta is that you can actually see the numbers behind our calculation and even open the hood and turn the knobs yourself.
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I'm lucky enough personally to have a custom-constructed dedicated office at home. Though, truth be told, I do a lot of my day to day work just on my laptop. The desktop is mostly for both work and personal AV/photo editing.

However, for a lot of people, their workspace at home is a table in a corner someplace and they don't really have room to setup a keyboard tray, multiple big monitors, etc.
Agreed - thanks for supplying this
Lets say a publication only reports violent crime and rape committed by black people with vivid descriptions of the acts. All reports are 100% factual. Would you say that it is legitimate news?