skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grandstanding in the extreme. For example, one problem is that the internal documents people have pointed to as proof that Exxon knew their products were causing global warming displayed considerable doubt as to whether they were in fact doing so. So the prosecutors basically have to spin the documents as saying the exact opposite of what they actually say.

Or here's a good one. They claim that Exxon has been misleading people by claiming to be clean whilst massively expanding their fossil fuel production. There's a nice relevant quote in the 1982 internal report: "Mitigation of the "greenhouse effect" would require major reductions in fossil fuel combustion. Shifting between fossil fuels is not a feasible alternative" Sounds pretty damning, right? Not quite. It continues: "Shifting between fossil fuels is not a feasible alternative because of limited long-term supply availability for certain fuels although oil does produee about 18% less carbon dioxide per Btu of heat released than coal, and gas about 32% less than oil". Which implies increasing available gas reserves via fracking would be highly useful, and sure enough Exxon have invested lots of money in this and touted the environmental benefits of doing so.
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I don't know what you mean by that, sorry. Could you elaborate? I could read that as you either being charitable, or the opposite, towards /pol/.
It does. My brother started playing recently and the matches I’s play with him were abysmal. Toxic players, bad communication, no organization, and cheaters relatively often. I bought him the game and it is indeed night and day. I personally just saw my first hacker in a prime lobby in the 300 hours I’ve played since prime became a thing.
> Because of a single experience in 2015?

No, because it is basically a tabloid/yellow press version of Fox News and Fox News is already very low quality in terms of actual informativity - too much editorializing, combined with garbage interviews. I thought the latter was somehow implied, but should have been much clearer about it.

> This is the reason that the comments section of almost every news website was removed.

Breitbart hasn't removed theirs, though. I just checked and the first comment on the first randomly chosen story was that "Hussein Obama created ISIS" with the reply "This. We need to exterminate the enemy within" - talking about assassinating a former president.

The comments are atrocial, check them out for yourself. And these are Breitbart's readers.

> I think everybody should be aware of the potential for bias and/or incorrect news produced by mainstream media.

Your position is not very coherent, because you are (i) agreeing that there is no viable alternative to "mainstream media" (most of the time, you can only correct them on the basis other mainstream media), and (ii) everybody is biased, has always been, and will always be. It matters how you deal with your biases, not that you don't have biases. I can get my news from the most biased news site on earth - Breitbart or Fox News or CNN, if you will, and be fully informed, as long as I'm able to distinguish news from editorials. It's no problem nowadays, with access to multiple news sources on the Internet. That doesn't make the source high quality, though.

In the end, all the news comes from journalists who film, photograph, write news at the place where something happens or as close as possible to it. New agencies and a few larger papers/TV channels can afford a large network of correspondents and freelancers - the remaining news provider just copy&paste/paraphrase, including Breitbart, of course.
I'm not so sure aout those statistics ... Are they published ? The trouble is the whole industry is copying those practices.

In other industries/sectors, when you have 15/20 years of experienced, are you grilled, tested and probed like a junior ? I wonder.
That reminds me of "eBayISAPI.dll" still being in eBay URLs, but in that case I think it's fake and no longer actually hooked into some crusty old Microsoft stack.
Also if he doesn't challenge this small boutique business then he can't challenge Hallmark if)when they do the same thing. These guys out themselves in the firing line by trying to make money off his work, he doesn't want them to. His public graffiti work is for public consumption. This is a private company selling copies of his work for private consumption. Yes he is using copyright/trademark law which he has protested against but until the law changes he is forced to do it. Trust me if the card company wins then hallmark or someone similar will decimate their (boutique card) business by pumping out tons of similar stuff at low cost.
Strange: it says right there "concatenate files and print on the standard output".

Also, everybody is using it to print files to the terminal.

You're simply mistaken and should not trust those who rant about "useless use of cat" and such things.
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Was surprised to find out from that page that CDW is a VAR. I used to buy network equipment from them. https://www.cdw.com/
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I'm all for sueing companies like Exxon for misleading people and spreading lies, but I also find it weird that we're trying to blame the big oil companies like it's all their fault. After all, it is the consumers themselves who create a massive demand for (cheap) oil.
Check out structural typing. I would say it’s the type system JavaScript uses for non-primitive values. The “dynamic” appearance is just that JavaScript doesn’t center the type system in its UX.
As always: Victor dictates history.

Who discovered America?

"Columbus of course!" - No, wrong! It was some Asian Indians and some vikings who did it hundreds of years before him.

Nevertheless "columbus" ist still the response many people would answer that question with because in the view of the western part of the world the colonization columbus started was the most important event.

You can go on with the invention of the paper press (most will say "Gutenberg") which also happened hundreds of years earlier in China.

I think it's really strange to emphasize this kind of "knowledge" so much in our schools as it just frames the thoughts of people so they think better about their "very important" ancestors. Actually this kind of "knowledge" doesn't get you anywhere besides bragging to be very educated to get some more attention.

And then of course it helps to identify who is "better". Did men invent more than women? Did white people invent more than colored people?

This is irrelevant and I think we should care less about why our ancestors were supposed to be geniuses and take more effort into fixing our education to be a more enlightened civilization that probably can exist without so many wars and destruction.
This is a dysfunction in Google’s culture, not Microsoft’s. Being a “member” of a company shouldn’t be akin to being a member of, say, a church.
Given how it started I think this is BS. He was a graffiti artist who got a lot of recognition, it wasn't an art/marketing scam because if it was the recognition would have come a lot faster.

I'm happy he is selling his work to people for lots of money, they are idiots for buying it, doesnt mean the works aren't good, but they are still idiots.
Most Americans don't have a lot of disposable income thanks to the systemic changes over the last 40 years greatly concentrating wealth. So it's understandable that they'll choose to spend that on food now instead of against fighting a risk which whose worst effects will be felt a long time in the future.
Me bonding with you over game does not mean your criticism of my commits is or is not personal. That is something I realize by comparing how you treat my commits vs somebody elses. By comparing what you say to feedback of other people and by comparing it to my own knowledge.

I realize that by seeing that the reviews are consistent, everybody is hold to the same stable standard and by seeing that differences of opinions are accepted with respect and open discussion.

Code review can be personal, can be about packing order, can be about someones autism, can be wrong and can be none of those things. Boardgame does not changes anything if you do the above, people will figure it out.

> maybe you'll even work up the courage to ask me for advice instead of sulking and giving up, or starting an argument

Why do I need courage to ask you? Why am I expected to be afraid of you? Why would a game cancel my reasons to be afraid and wouldn't it better to not scare me in the first place?

What if I am right, do I have to pretend ask for advice too? Why am I assumed to be the problem and left very little options how to act when we two disagree?
If this is true then how come books are being printed with this falsehoods?
In 1996, pre-NeXT aquisition, I attended a 3 day WO seminar where they did a good job selling us on the product.

But then the cost was revealed and my employer had no interest.
Notions of legality are rarely that black and white. It often depends on timing, context and intent.

For instance, it is legal to sell a drug that is FDA-approved. But suppose:

- It transpires years later that the FDA approval was based in part on the pharma company suppressing unfavourable clinical trial results.

- The pharma company claims the FDA was aware (in some sense) of those suppressed studies, and still approved the drug.

- A patient dies from adverse reactions observed in one of the suppressed studies. The patient's family is advised to litigate.

Who is liable for what here?
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It’s not just consumers, it’s the entire fabric of modern society.

The machinery that makes everything in modern life work runs on fossil fuels, and up until recently there wasn’t another viable option. Even so, with limitations on batteries it’s debatable how viable our options are now. Moving massive payloads takes exponentially more energy than a moving a single driver. Society is built on moving things.

Every part of the building you are in now, every piece of food you eat got there via fossil fuels.

Like it or not we’re stuck with fossil fuels for the foreseeable future unless the entire fabric of society changes, and I’m not putting my money on that.
Can you mail me a full version of what you are trying to say here please? As a European, HN seems pretty right wing to me. You see a lot of people complaining about identity politics, complaining about too much (social security and empowering minorities) state while defending (property rights enforcing, military and security spending) state and about being persecuted by a "liberal media". Yes, you also have lots of what we would call centre left or "socially leftwing, fiscally conservative", but it is by no means leftist. So I'd be curious for some specific examples in a space where you won't have to fear being censored (email which can be found in my profile)
No, it isn't.

The closest that UK copyright law gets is that there's an exemption for photographs of "sculptures, models for buildings and works of artistic craftsmanship, if permanently situated in a public place or in premises open to the public". (See section 62 at https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... .)

But Banksy's pictures are just straight "artistic works". There's no need to class them as "works of artistic craftsmanship" and I don't believe any court would do so.

The infringers are either deliberately misreading copyright law or simply ignorant of it. I suspect the latter.
Sense of urgency lets one leverage the best current technologies and take the best compromises within the time and monetary budget. But this is incremental innovation. It fails at tackling novel concepts where the paths forward are not so clear. You can't incrementally tunnel through a wall.

At one point maybe SABRE is ready and the next SpaceX comes along and will build a spaceship with it. The spoils of innovation seldom accrue with the inventors.
Also there is no way to include a file... Let's say you have a menu at the top of your website. You can't use frames because frames are bad mkay, and you can't include it. So you have to copy-paste it into every page manually, using some build system or even using some DHTML technology.

Chrome and only Chrome has an include extension, but for security reasons (something about cross-site foo), you can't use it when testing an HTML file on your disk, because you need a hostname to check the same origin policy. You need to put it into a local webserver, which, fortunately, is fairly easy with Python.
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You’re probably listening to mainstream music. You won’t find Rihanna or Beyonce on Bandcamp. If you prefer listening to such artists then Spotify is perfect for you.

Bandcamp is for more nuanced, underground content. E.g. ¾ of reviews on Pitchfork link to the Bandcamp page of the artists.
For the same reason that Satoshi Nakamoto is likely one person and not a group, so is Banksy. too hard to keep a secret like that for as long as it has been. I'm surprised we haven't seen more people claim to be Banksy, as we have with Satoshi but perhaps it's easier to profit from pretending to be SN than it is by pretending to be Banksy.

Three may keep a Secret, if two of them are dead
I'll chip in.

Who is the monster of world war 2? We say Hitler, just Hitler. We ignore the killings don't by Stalin and the fact that concentration camps were Churchill's idea in Boar war in Africa and that ethnic superiority was first claimed by American scientists in some European conference, Hitler just implemented what they said and then those scientists denounced Hitler as if they never said anything about ethnic superiority/cleansing.
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> My brain gets tired around 10pm like a normal person, but then it gets a "second wind" and is up happily until 3-4am, with intensely increased clarity of focus.

Not saying this isn't your natural predisposition, but FWIW this is pretty much exactly what happens to everyone with a disrupted sleep schedule. Or any disrupted normal cycle, really[1]. Probably the large majority of people have experienced this.

[1]: Fasting is one example- you will be starving by lunch or dinner, but if you wait a few hours longer the hunger will go away pretty much entirely. You may feel sluggish and slow when you're hungry, but once your brain realizes you aren't going to eat you will feel lighter and more energetic. If your body needs to go past its normal cycles, your brain will give you the resources to do so. The hunger and tiredness you feel normally are more like periodic maintenance reminders.
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Can you mail me a full version of what you are trying to say here please? As a European, HN seems pretty right wing to me, so if you have examples of statements which you feel get flagged/banned while not deserving so in a noncensored setting (my mail which can be found in my profile) I'd be grateful
If you're interested in learning more about ROP, I highly recommend this fantastic writeup CTURT produced about hacking the PS4 (which, of course, used ROP). https://cturt.github.io/ps4.html I
Mach 5 at 28km and mach 6 at 70km are not all that different. Mach slows down with altitude. And specific altitude numbers dont matter much if you are aiming for orbit. All that really matters is horizontal velocity. The first stages of both schemes are relatively slow. Both get the bulk of thier orbital velocity from thier second stages.

SpaceX takes a very non-aggressive approach with its first stages. When they detach they arent moving nealy as fast as other rocket first stages. That is done so they dont slam back into the lower atmosphere but it means relying upon second/third stages to do the horizontal work. By the raw physics, it isnt the most energy efficient approach. It is a compromise to facilitate recovery.
Good artists borrow, great artists steal -- Pablo Picasso
> It turns out that if you want to have pages work the same in every browser you need to have every browser doing the same thing when it interprets the pages

Yes, but the change was that first browsers adapted to the standard, now the standard adapts to the browsers. That's the big change.
I'm not talking about that, actually. Edison had 100s of scientists working for him. He was a project manager, if we were to speak in these terms
This piece has an intersting look at how he makes money: https://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/close_look/how-doe...
Well, apparently through Facebook ads they did...

And apparently you only needed to flip 4000 votes in swing states to secure the electoral college numbers... 4000 targeted ads on Facebook, how much did that cost? Cambridge Analytica knows.
Mostly in Edinburgh - I wasn't meaning to imply that all properties in the UK are like that, just that I've never lived in many.
I thought "charge more" is a good thing? /s
Chrome didn’t drop MathML, they dropped their horrible implementation. Currently Igalia are building a new Chromium MathML implentation: https://mathml.igalia.com/
I don't agree. I got banned once and it was justified.

Asked for an unban and it was ok within the minute.

HN just tries to reduce politics here, which is in their right.
"Virgin Galactic has been around since 2004"

I'm 54 - Sabre/Skylon were in the news when I was in high school!
This is an invalid argument, verging on non sequitor. High demand for a product does not legitimize fraud about the product, especially when that fraud increases demand. It is irrational to expect individuals to make the best ethical decisions for the larger group - this is why we have regulation on food, drugs, energy, etc.
Left America is more like right EU. It's not the same.
This argument often gets trotted out, but it's misleading.
Imagine your grandparents were introduced to heroin and became addicted to it, and you built a society around celebrating and finding new ways to use heroin. Then your parents were hooked on heroin, and people may have found out that heroin actually isn't that good for you, but by this time, the heroin produces had amassed such wealth and power that they worked hard for 40 years to suppress and sow confusion around the science around.

Now you're born into a society of heroin consumers, and to some degree you're also addicted to it.

Is it the fault of the consumers that the world now runs on heroin? Especially considering that the heroin producers have known for 40 years, and have spent BILLIONS lying to the public and government?
For anyone engaged or in a serious relationship I highly recommend playing board games with their partner's immediate family (and partner as well.) You will likely gain a valuable insight into the family dynamic and sibling personalities that you may not otherwise.

Whether this also applies to job interviews is highly variable so I can see why it should be presented as an option, but I would never pass up the opportunity to be able to see my potential future coworkers' interaction styles.
The models used today have all predicted more warming than actually happened, so I'm very skeptical models got progressively worse over the decades instead of better.

Also note it's impossible for models in the 80's to have been accurate because the temperature data for the past itself has been continuously adjusted by climatologists since then, so any models calculated back then would be using temperatures now considered wrong (and not by a small amount!). Either the old models are wrong or the old temperature records are wrong, but they can't both be true simultaneously.
Drawing your plan on the floor sounds a good idea, but isn't there an effect where outdoor surfaces look much smaller than the same surface indoor? How do you account for that?
> it definitely is unreasonably burdensome to create XML

Disagree. You open the tag, you close it. Nested. I worked with a non-developer who had some KML (https://developers.google.com/kml/) dumped on her without any training whatsoever and when I explained a few basic thing, including the above rule, she got the principle of it in a few minutes. Because it's not hard (although dumping a KML task on a non-dev is a bastard thing to do).

> but people weren't using XML editors

I personally think that lowering the bar to let as many people in as possible isn't necessarily a good idea. Just IMO
When you could buy a car under $10,000.
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Counter point: I've been doing integration for system monitoring things, this can be fully integrated in a few days.

The new trendy (and really great tool) is datadog, a HN company. They went out the window when the trial expired after 1 week and their asshole sales were at war against any extension. How am I supposed to demo the tool and sell it internally when it can't even be accessed?

As if it were not enough, they kept calling day after day to try force the sale. Then they got banned soon afterwards, after some mid level folks got a hold of both of these practices. Nobody wants to deal with that.
Why would they spend even $10 when there's thousands of people every day, that are not them, that fly to distant destinations to have a good time?
I find this to be true at many levels. I'd even say that getting it wrong is rather the exception at that level, although there are of course the famous quotes where basically details were misjudged.

I notice it in our industry (Accounting Software) a lot. All players, when talking to them on a C-Level basically know where the puck is going, but the capability to move the company there is for various reasons extremely different.

This doesn't just mean that small agile startups have the advantage, there are also lots of moats and synergy requirements that can restrict new entrants of reaching the level necessary to perform at the expected level in the future.
"The proposal of any new law or regulation which comes from [businessmen], ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it."

—Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Cause of the Wealth of Nations, vol. 1,
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This is paywalled for me. Anyone have a workaround link?
You are right, it's always more complex than it seems on first glance.
Software business is service business pretending to be manufacturing business.
No, it used to be that the spec ignored the browsers and the browsers ignored the spec.
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