skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not weird at all; propaganda is dangerous, and it always has been. Hitler couldn't have come to power without propaganda. And more recently, propaganda has been completely corrosive to our political situation for the past 30 years. Experts knew 40 years ago the danger that climate change posed and still poses, but propaganda from the Koch brothers and other groups that wanted society to subsidize their CO2 pollution bought them 40+ years of $0 cost pollution.

Sometimes it's hard to determine the truth, but it has been trivially easy to refute the lies that US republicans currently sling every day. They screamed about the deficit for Obama's entire Presidency, but they massively increased the deficit when they returned to power. Mitch McConnell and Republicans said you couldn't appoint a Supreme Court Justice in the run up to a Presidential election and stole a SC seat, but this year, McConnell said he would absolutely install a new Justice if a seat opened. Trump ran on lies that immigrants are dangerous, while the truth born out by statistics says just the opposite.

Facebook's entire business model is based on the fact that Facebook allows ad-buyers to target the people who will be most persuaded by the ad. Giving propagandists that kind of ability to target low information voters is incredibly dangerous and it is destroying our society.
Not yet. Will probably wait for .2 release. It's my work computer so I'm not in a big hurry.
Somehow I feel this is not only a California problem but the whole US. The country seems to be incapable of or unwilling to address fundamental problems. Instead you are getting endless political fights while infrastructure is falling apart. The contrasts in Silicon Valley and LA are extreme. You have some of the richest people in the world living in beautiful mansions with cities around them full of homeless people, roads full of potholes and power outages. Same for health care. No matter if you like socialized medicine or free markets, nobody should be able to justify the current state of things but nothing gets done.

Sometimes it feels like the whole country is just turning into a weird reality show.
More important though are the seasonal words. A lot of non-Japanese haiku misses this and for me it misses the point of the haiku entirely. You goal is not to construct a meaningful sentence with a certain number of syllables (or mora in Japanese), but to construct a sense of place and occasion in that structure. It has been said (though I don't know by whom) that to be Japanese is to be intimately aware of the weather. Historically Japanese people lived in insubstantial houses that were very open to the elements. Even now, many older people don't use heat in the winter or air condition in the summer. There are types of flowers that mark each passing season as well. If you make reference to these seasonal things, then it brings the reader into your space.

Basho's famous poem of a frog is a good example (this is my attempt at a 5-7-5 translation):

Into an old pond
a frog jumps in suddenly.
The sound of water.

I added "suddenly" to make up the the 7 in the second line, which I think is in keeping with the story that Basho never actually saw the frog. It was that the world's silence was broken by the sound of the water from the jumping of the frog.

But the key for anyone who has lived in the countryside is that frogs appear in the spring and their noise can be deafening. So to be aware of the sound of the frog's splash, one has to be at the start of spring, when the air is still cool and the world is just waking up from it's winter's rest. It creates a connection to the feeling of being lost in thought and suddenly awakening though the sudden sound of a splash of water. You get the feeling of renewal, rebirth and starting afresh. Or at least, this is what the poem says to me.

All this to say to the OP, I think if you try to think of a place or a situation that is iconic to you and then use a "seasonal" word to refer to that situation, then you will get more out of your haiku. For example, I really, really like juped's "before clicking Post" line because it evokes that feeling that we all know on HN -- a kind of shared experience.

And, yes, the syllables are not so important in my mind as long as it's close. It is said that more important than the syllables is that you have a break in the middle somewhere. So you should usually aim for 2 sentences/thoughts in your three lines with some kind of break of structure to indicate the division. In Basho's poem you get the "sound of water" that stands in contrast to the frog jumping in.
Yes. Exactly what I tried to suggest.
> lost bearing on what’s right.

Say what? Why should increasing opportunity for one person imply some sort of diminution for another? Seems pretty sadly zero-sum to me, and the very opposite of a capitalist society.
In the AF we called it PMEL. My anecdote is getting a 9 track tape of all of the test equipment part numbers and calibration intervals (TO-1-1-100 , maybe?). transfer the tape to a disk file, sort it and use binary search. a couple of years before ms access, but turbo pascal was king !
I read this book [0] many years ago, it's awesome if you want to get in to writing poetry, and it's Stephen Fry, win win!

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Ode-Less-Travelled-Unlocking-Within-e...
Spend enough time on 4chan and you'll realize reddit is a safezone kid gloves hug box.

And 4chan isn't even that bad in terms of bad or illegal content so that goes to show how relative it all is.
I wonder how much effort it would take to build a desktop application providing a similar user experience to Access, using SQLite.
To paraphrase James Carville, "It's the people, stupid". It seems like there's a lot of Californians who talk about sustainability, but then turn right around and vote in people who continue to promote suburban sprawl, single family houses, zoning that doesn't promote density, and lack of investment in public transportation.
What were the similarities?
Are we supposed to believe they didn't kill him? They took off suicide watch. The authorities are responsible for his well being. As others have said they go to insane degrees to prevent suicide. It's either death through negligence or active killing. If you take his moment of physical death out of the equation, the story around his legal protection and then lack of it was enough to kill him.

I don't think there's much of a story in the end of the Epstein case. The only people that know aren't going to say anything until it's a footnote in the history books. The conservatives peso hunt comes to a close and metoo had Weinstein. Who knows what crimes they committed against the powers that be, if any. I don't know.
Cocoa and the Foundation framework have been around longer than MacOS / OS X, i. e. more than 20 years. How many different concepts has Microsoft called ".NET" since then?
Time travel back into the past is understood to be impossible.
They still recommended that anyone on insulin monitor blood sugar, so this refers to people not on insulin...
Storrs, CT, according to Slate: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/09/where-to-hide-fr...
The idea that the measure of. A person is their job is a relatively new idea, really back to the industrial revolution. Something that recent should be relatively easy to flush out of society (“relatively” meaning only a few decades.

This kind of reductionist world view is what screws up efforts to provide UBI, universal health care etc.
Perhaps it’s my own selection bias but why does it feel like everyone thinks this will righteously hurt republicans and be beneficial to democrats?

I feel like this is a major blow to democrats more than republicans as democrats have a larger audience on Twitter. Do democrats not think they too benefit from carpet bombing ads?
Are you just bored with rural Indiana? Can’t imagine the climate apocalypse will do as much damage to the midwest.
There's plenty of ways to do most things in Python. That's one of its strengths as much as anything, despite what the Zen says.

Also, I hate how discussions like this seem to always turn towards small syntactic differences rather than actual differences in functionality.
Not to mention the current Prime Minister (he's only PM because the support of the pre-independence parties) dragged his feet for months instead of start discussing a federal Spanish state or some other solution. Radio silence until the procés.
That's a bit like saying phlogiston is an unexplained part of physical theory. Once you understand the underlying mechanics of thought, it stops being mysterious and really stops being a problem at all.
saw that and it's very glaring. the author should be contacted.
Exception Handling in C++
Sometimes i wonder... Washington doesnt have the income tax, but it feels much better there.

Am i imagining this?
Or Speaker’s Corner by Hyde Park. Pratchett was English, and likely more away of the London location.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakers%27_Corner
That's funny but no, like this:
https://www.the-odin.com/diy-crispr-kit/

not satire :)
The print function replacement can be done in a few seconds using at least 3 different tools with no risk (futurize, modernize, pyupgrade). The amount of time spent talking about why it’s hard to change greatly exceeds the time required to do so.
Here's a live reading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BsgsTehplQ

:)
That's in-line with the announcement, though:

> We've made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought.

> - https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634360472829952

If Democrats have a larger audience, they don't need to pay for the exposure, they already have it.
I’m Monica’s founder and I will reply if people have a problem ;-)
Somehow my fascination with the result here is my second favorite part of these videos. The curiosity and questioning of knowledge that is generally accepted as understood makes me wonder what else we accept at face value that is only partially correct.

In many ways i find the same joys when building websites/apps. Even using the same technologies it surprises me how my approach to similar-in-theory projects changes year over year. Knowledge that i used to accept as gospel gets overwritten by experience or curiosity, for better or worse.

I had no idea 6 minutes what i assumed were simple questions would invigorate my curiosity like this but color me pleasantly surprised.
The best cocktail parties always require superior olives
I think for things like jobs, housing, etc that have protected civil rights the only real way to ensure people's rights aren't being infringed is to make them completely open and post both the ad and the stats of where the ad was served/the settings for the targeted audience depending on the type of . Maybe even need to directly test that the bidder isn't racially targeting with random test offers if it's a google style bot bidding system. A similar system is probably needed for political ads because one insidious fact of web targeted ads is there's much less chance to respond to and potentially debunk them if they're highly targeted. With radio and television ads you couldn't do that they'd go to everyone watching so more people outside the targeted demo would see.
Oh, Bummer. I never saw that accessory before! Glad to know they were at least thinking along those lines, though. If they came out with a battery-powered, non-bulky wireless keyboard today, I'd buy it in an instant.
What’s wrong with that? If kids are your thing you’d have two to bring up without having to go through the pre-verbal, nappy changing phase ... win/win!
I managed to corrupt my database and make all of the code irretrievable just by pasting a line that was too long, if I remember correctly. Luckily I was making daily backups.

I also ran into a bug where if you read a long calculated text field from a view/query through VBA, it corrupts everything after 255 characters, even though you can get the data otherwise through the interface or save it to a table. Googling suggested this problem had existed for 10-15 years.

Also, a lot of times your query will return neither a value or null, but "#error".

And I really hate the way it destroys all your formatting whenever you save a query. Every time I need to change something, I end up copying to a text editor and formatting by hand in order to find whatever error I just introduced.
Yeah and you really want FIDO. It's such a better experience.
The principles which make up the Bill of Rights are derived from natural law, which itself derives from the nature of man and the world, just as physical law derives from space, time, and matter.

Just as Newton didn't create the law of gravity, no man or government created the right to freedom of expression. That there are certain rights which exist as prerequisites necessary for the formation of a peaceful society of civilized humans was not created, it was discovered.

Aristotle and others argued that each kind of animal has a mental nature that is appropriate to its physical nature. All animals know or can discover what they need to do in order to lead the life that they are physically fitted to live. Thus humans are naturally capable of knowing how to live together and do business with each other without killing each other.

In England the theory of natural law led to the Magna Carta, the Glorious Revolution, the declaration of right, and the English Enlightenment. It was the basis for the US revolution and the US bill of rights.

The fact that society runs smoothly when natural law is applied has been proven over and over again. Over and over and over again throughout the ages tyrants and social engineers have tested these natural laws, the end result of such disrespect has always led and always will lead to one thing and one thing only: violence.

That people no longer understand this, and that corporations and powerful pseudo-rulers do not respect this, is nothing new, but only shows how much we are regressing as a society in terms of our basic respect for our fellow man.

Deflecting from that by pretending that only the government is responsible for respecting this truth is... well... ignorant and recklessly defiant not only of the lessons of history, but of human nature itself.

What the Constitution formally acknowledges and attempts to respect, which should apply to everybody operating within the social contract, is that any ruler, or anyone who places themselves in the position of a ruler, who violates natural law is illegitimate. He has no right to be obeyed, and his commands are mere force and coercion. Rulers who act lawlessly, whose laws are unlawful, are mere criminals, and should be dealt with in accordance with natural law, as applied in a state of nature, in other words they and their servants should be killed as the opportunity presents, like the dangerous animals that they are, the common enemies of all mankind.

What I am saying has provided the moral and legal basis for many great revolutions, and many governments.
Whether joking or not, you are incorrect. The 2012 non-Retina MacBook Pros do not allow more than 16GB RAM.
I wish there was a way to extend this kind of thing to non traditional students.
Thank you for not down voting me — but I’d love you just the same if you did. I find it difficult to rebut the argument you present with the following exception: in the US we have several hundred years of rigorous iteration in our legal system with respect to what is and what isn’t protected speech. For twitter to decide now and it this juncture that the speech it most dislikes is x, something about that doesn’t sit well. That said there’s long been an odd relationship between campaign spending and the media. Many local newsroom’s entire budgets depend on election years and yet we are supposed to believe they’re impartial. So I get that there’s a principle involved in this decision that they simply aren’t going to be like the local newsroom. That’s what they say... but who is going to watchdog this policy to make sure it really works like that and who is going to even notice when they inevitably make decisions that go beyond the criteria initially laid out? Seems to me rather than being a principled stand this is simply a way for them to create an ever shifting rule set to promote the speech they like while silencing speech they disagree with.
True, and Mr Fry also agrees! I posted this elsewhere but I love this book and recommend to people, anyone can get into poetry!

https://www.amazon.com/Ode-Less-Travelled-Unlocking-Within-e...
From what I’ve seen it seems more likely that joints take constant low level wear but at young ages the repair mechanisms easily compensate for everyone but extreme athletes, while at older ages it takes much less to overwhelm the repair mechanisms and start doing long term damage.
There's a certain smell of absurdity in the air in California.

Ban on plastic straws - garbage on highway shoulders on 280 and 101 in San Francisco county

Strictest car emission laws in the Union - fires poison the air to the extent that people die, equivalent to multiple involuntary cigarettes per day

This list can go on and on. Those working for large companies like Google and Apple are protected for now: like in the fortresses. If you are trying to strike here on your own- probably too late- no affordable garages anymore.

Maybe it's a consequence of one party system?
I came here in 1999 to go to Stanford. Perhaps it's time to pack up.
So Facebook should be regulated as a publisher?
> Are you certain a MySQL SLA-level support contract would have solved their scalability issues?

This pitch may have been mentioned in passing to me but I don't remember. From the perspective of I and many others who ultimately solved the scalability issues, the MySQL boat was simultaneously sinking and on fire, while nobody knew who the captain was supposed to be. An insurance policy that promised that somebody with a badge would dedicate 8 hours a month to buffing out scratches was not useful.

It was less "it's OSS, we don't need to pay" and more "only God can help us now".
Is this reading comprehension in 2019?

The clear intent of the sentence is to state that journalists do understand the need for their publisher to function as a business, i. e. to rebut the other stereotype of journalists that they often get to hear, namely that they are unrealistic idealists.

Sad world, indeed.
Blockchain doesn't offer significant advantages over a (much more simple) ActivityPub based event planner. We do not need a signed chain of hashes to track that a person is coming to an event, but rather a simple RSVP.
I was thinking along the same lines. I live in a state with less government (and less proportional revenue), we don't have the kinds of problems California does.
When we're wandering around on Earth we naturally tend to think of the "closeness" of locations in terms of distance because of the way we travel here. But if you're thinking of traveling to another planet you shouldn't be thinking of linear distance, you should be thinking of delta-v. And by that metric the planets form the same neat line you find in a classroom chart with Venus edging out Mars.

https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/29cxi6/i_made_a_delt...

Linear distance isn't entirely irrelevant. It affects light lag for instance. But it is mostly irrelevant.
It's far trashier to dig through a person's history to find the most risque tidbit you can in order to disqualify everything he is saying.
We may not end up underwater, but ecosystem collapse leading to famine, and increased pressure on all sorts of support systems due to the need to direct aid to people from coastal areas, are both going to affect people everywhere.
The math say time travel is possible, but the energy required would consume the universe, depending on what paper your read. There is no reason math wise the arrow of time only goes in one direction.
A lot of tree trimming and removal. Lots of heavy equipment. Firebreaks a mile wide. More full-time Cal Fire people and equipment. Recycled 747s as water tankers (there's already one.) More underground power lines. Not really that hard.
So why expose it via the API?
Intel/Siemens had a joint venture developing the BiiN hardware. The operating system, applications, development tools, and so on were written exclusively in Ada. However, a lot of that software fully worked on that particular chip, so when it floundered commercially that was the end of it.
yikes, the mac OS Catalina seems like a complete trainwreck with more bugs surfacing every week
Should the kid you share some genes with be treated differently than kids you don’t? Are adopted kids not “real?” Why should he not love these children as “his own”? They are not property.
Let me die like a Mexican
No golf ball divets?
How about ... rural Indiana? Or any one of the local Midwest cities should be fine as long as you have a tornado cellar.
Most cops won't hassle you for going 45 in a 35 zone unless it's meaningfully unsafe, and the Autobahn's speed limit "don't be an idiot" at human discretion.

One problem is the fuzzy nature of "political" advertising: For example, many people think of Planned Parenthood as a political organization, and some people think of Planned Parenthood as a health care provider. Ought Planned Parenthood to be allowed to advertise abortion services on Twitter?
Certain kinds of it.

Time travel to the past in a parallel universe at least doesn't cause any logical problems ('paradoxes') to arise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel#Interacting_many-w...
HA well there you go. This shouldn't have to exist.
California's government isn't so hot either.
Plutarch was a Greek.
Open/LibreOffice Base does have backends for MySQL and PostgreSQL already
it's funny because what you describe sounds accurate of the megametrapolis of the global south. Terrible public infrastructure the rich avoid, and the poor suffer through. Sad the U.S. seems to be moving that way having lived on the investment of the 30-70s.
Which he alludes to with the phrase

"They are not important problems because we do not have an attack."

That said, closed time like curves are not excluded as possible by General Relativity.
I think part of this is national politics pushing out state politics. Every statewide California race recently has felt like a foregone conclusion. Either the Democrat beats the Republican by a huge margin, or one Democrat beats another Democrat while the two agree on all policies. California just doesn’t have the one-party-against-another politics that make democracy work.
None of those things have anything to do with sustainability and mismanagement of California's resources.
I put all of my subscriptions on single purpose card numbers I generate using www.privacy.com

The tool lets me set a total or per month spending limit on each card, which I can use to decline unexpected transactions -- basically either auto billing that kicks in after a trial, or price increases that I never noticed.

It also gives me a convenient place to see all of my active subscriptions.
You forgot to say IN MICE
Companies with the Most Profit per Employee
Not at all.

A quick Google of the subject will demonstrate it is still an (maybe, the) outstanding subject of philosophy and perhaps ultimately physics.

Check any online encyclopedia, but if you have any respectable references that disagree, I'd be genuinely interested.

Eg:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness
But is it work if no one is willing to pay for it? I would consider that to be hobby.
I guess anything that is a script that repeats is a bot? I have one that scrapes over 2,000 used car websites to tell me if a specific type of collectible car is available under a certain price.