skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, let me spell it out then:

Writing - especially in an Internet forum context - about Christians bullying Atheists

is about as fitting as

- in a historic context - writing an example about Jews killing Nazis. Yes, it has happened, more than once. And no, for some reason that doesn't make it a good example except when we are discussing that particular topic.

Besides, as was mentioned above you are both pulling an unrelated group of people into this and you are pulling religion into an argument about something else.

Snide remarks like that is equally annoying regardless of if they come from you or from the old relative who always wants to frame everything good that happens as a miracle from $DEITY

Both you and the old relative might mean it well and get som points from people who agree with you but on the larger scale it only increases tension.
> and when they do fail they admit it and apologise

We have those laws in Poland too. They lie on front page and apologise with small font on the last page.
The softer conspiracy theory is also possible but it lacks a plausible motive given anybody with two brain cells to rub together would know that killing Epstein would be protecting pedophiles.

Why doesn't the hard conspiracy theory hold water for you? The motive is much more reasonable and prison assassinations are hardly some unheard of impossibility especially given the sheer amount of extremely powerful people with a reason to kill him.

When competing theories nessecarily have the prison guards who have been overwhelmingly successful in preventing suicide attempts and somewhat successful in stopping suicides after they get to attempts to hold the idiot ball it stretches credulity. Why haven't more prisoners been suicided if these guard were on such a hair trigger they would murder somebody at the expense of children's safety?

On the other hand compromising a prison guard and blackmailing him into murdering Epstein or else would be trivial for an Epstein associate. I just don't get how enraged prison guard is a remotely more plausible motive than prison guard being given a compelling reason to kill Epstein by an associate. It seems like setting out to prove the conclusion Epstein wasn't killed by the rich.
My bad I failed miserably - and scanned the article and apparently missed this entirely.
wrote a poem for the first time in years in response to news of abu baghdadid isis killing: here goes. please repost anywhere if you like it. take it as your own by adding (Dr Zues and professor[your name goes here])!

Killing an arab isis guy

We killed him.
"Huzzah!"
Boogah boogah is dead.
We are safe.
God bless.

This again. B4 it was qaddafi.
B4 bin laden. B4 that saddam.
How much braggadocio ?
we go in cnn circles.
Again and again
Decades of gotchas.

We didnt 'get him'
We got ourselves.
We still gonna get got.
By ourselves
By us.
Us is us.
Usisus.
Usis.

Maybe milking the boogah was necessary
but it aint nothin to sell ads about.
Did i say milking?
Killing i guess.
Im certain tho.
That We are killing usis.

A polipoem by
Dr. Zues.
I'm perplexed by writers who prioritize the social equality of a minority over economic equality among the majority.

Don't get me wrong - I think both are important, but if we're honest, doesn't the general peace and well-being of society (from which better conditions for the minority tend to spring) depend more on the latter? You can't solve these problems easily in reverse order; the disgruntled majority will get tired of hearing about minority issues while they struggle to put food on the table.

This is a bit of a false dichotomy, but as a continuous balance of focus between the two issues, I think the point stands.
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Yes and all his books if you live in a high stress environment like politics
That's not the issue here. The video asks which planet is the closest, and presents its measurements as common sense.

Then it gets controversial results. Imo the base setup is wrong and Sun and Mercury always being the closest is a demonstration of that.

It should either measure the minimum or maximum distance between planets/stars, not the average. Or measure distance between two orbits.
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Destroying a home because you want to demonstrate how hardcore you are is none.

Surround it and wait for them to give themselves up. That's what other countries do.
think you mixed some billion phones and billion dollars a bit here but got the point.
I have a Yubikey but I can't use it fully yet:

- There is no Yubikey OTP app for the iPhone

- Safari iOS does not respond to WebAuthn APIs (the apis are available but don't have any effect). I rather use plain Safari or Firefox, so Brave browser is not an option for me.
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In the future perhaps, but now Access has a big advantage for multi-user environment: fine-grained locking. In SQLite writes are basically serialized.
I have been using flyway for over half a dozen projects and more than a few years. Works very well.
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The semantic of these things is what the code does with them. It's the only semantic there is. E.g. the <i> tag has perfect semantic, while <article> not that much.
Are there times when "panic" is an appropriate response to something? I mean it is often an understandable response, but I have to agree that my understanding of the term is that is a response to being overwhelmed and responding haphazardly as a result. Is that an accurate description of what's happening? The actual article is a bit light to really understand. I wonder if it's the "chain reaction" across individual trees that is what they are describing as "panic".
Classic, yes. Forums like XDA-Developers, EEVBlog, Head-Fi, or DIYAudio.com. You can pretty much just search for "<topic> forum" and find them. Many of the best forums in the modern Internet are Russian and Chinese by the way.
I don't mean to be a dick but that's exactly the kind of discrimination that drives the centralization of email. Please reevaluate this policy.
We have plenty of redwoods growing in my country (NZ) that aren't watered by fogs but by just plain ol' rain.

While I'm sure that fogs are essential for redwoods in the California climate, it doesn't mean they are inherently coupled - they grow quite happily in the inland Canterbury Plains, bugger all fog, but enough rain to get them watered.

Hell, we even named a suburb after one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwood,_Christchurch
information that is great information right now because its topical, and no longer great information tomorrow, was probably never great to begin with.

I absolutely agree, but if it's true then maybe Wikipedia is to blame.
A thread from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16716275

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7202728

2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2725100
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What a horrendous way to show this data. The whole point of data visualization is to visualize the data, but in this case it's just showing colorful bubbles and you have to hover over every single one to know the actual occupation.

It also shows data below 0% and above 100%.
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Sorry for the late reply. Yes, I do promote occasionally via Social Media but 78% of my traffic is organic that is, people find me via Google.
I don't think any part of our brain is "responsible for optimizing contentment" or "deleting traumatic memories."

In evolutionary terms, individual organisms are optimized for reproducing and living long enough to give their offspring (more accurately, their genes) a good shot at survival. Richard Dawkins explains that in The Selfish Gene and other books. "Contentment," a human social construct, and classifying a memory as "traumatic" probably have little to do with what evolution has optimized us (or any organism) for. If we reproduce and pass on our genes, then slowly die a miserable and traumatic death, that makes no difference in terms of evolution.
Not OP, but personally I definitely view HN as a comment board that points to links as a way to drive discussion as opposed to a news site that allows comments. Probably not how it is normally described, but it's definitely how I use it.
They're called awesome lists and this is the problem they attempt to solve. Here's a starting point https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
In theory, it's an easy question: when nobody's natural rights are being violated, police should not intervene. In practice, of course, no police force ever limits themselves to that, so the question becomes - how much the citizens would agree to tolerate and under which sauce? Experience shows, that the first is "a lot" and the second is "depending on how much you scare them, if you are good at scaring, you can pull off practically anything".
That's a great and important question. (doubly so for me, as constrained resources may see me leave the field, to which I have devoted my entire professional life, in the coming months) We are perennially grateful for the support we receive to do the work that we do.

To a high degree of approximation, Einstein's predictions are very, very correct. We are trying to look very carefully at Nature because we don't think we have the whole story.

It is possible that Einstein is exactly right. If so, we would never be able to describe the four forces of Nature with one unified theory. Today, we need two theories to describe everything we see -- the quantum-mechanical/particle-physics description of the Standard Model and gravity. There is no quantum-mechanical fuzziness in the mathematics of gravity, and there is no hint of the differential geometry of gravity in the mathematics of the Standard Model. The aspiration of almost every fundamental-physics physicist is to find a way to either simplify the Standard Model or connect it with gravity.

If the return on investment seems insufficent, know, too, that the technology we develop to push the boundaries of knowledge has important spin-offs. GPS is impossible without corrections from both special relativity and general relativity. The instrumentation we develop to make gravitational experiments possible on earth requires the development of new classes of seismometer [1] that may open new understanding of Earth's dynamics and allow better chip-fabrication instrumentation. The instrumentation developed to test gravity in space is also being used to measure the movement of mass (i.e. ice and water) on Earth's surface [2].

Even more important is the training we provide to students. Just as athletes train in the gym to get stronger, confrontation with the hardest known technical problems provides an efficient path for students and young faculty to become proficient at the entire range of modern measurement science. Alumni from our group have not only gone on to fancy academic positions, but also helped to redefine the kilogram, designed upgraded digital calipers used by tens of thousands of people worldwide, built key components of a major quantum-computing company's infrastructure, and more.

The people who work on these kinds of experiments are making a fraction of what they could make in industry. We are doing it for love, not money, and the returns to society are myriad.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.03084
[2] https://gracefo.jpl.nasa.gov/
I feel like they are just annoying. Some of them have made the UI so weird that it's impossible to know if I have turned them off or not. Also there are some cookies which are called "Functional" and then they give 7000 word essays on what they are. If I had enough time I could customize this but I don't have the time to review it for all the websites.

It would be so nice if there was a single plugin which everyone used and I can plan in central ui.
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Is there a mirror of Medium articles? I am stuck at the paywall for this one.
Years ago I ran across a quote that went something like "Freedom of Speech gives you the right to own a printing press, not the right to use mine." I wish I could track down who said it.

That's basically what Jack is saying too. I don't see how "Freedom of the Press" could be construed to mean that publishers are obligated to run any ad that somebody is willing to pay for. That's never been the case.
This is a terrible article that is little more than conspiracy theorist baiting. For example, the author takes this quote from Ben Rich:

>“We have some new things. We are not stagnating. What we are doing is updating ourselves, without advertising. There are some new programs, and there are certain things, some of them 20 or 30 years old, that are still breakthroughs and appropriate to keep quiet about [because] other people don’t have them yet.”

and by throwing the quote at the end of a long series of anti-gravity/EM papers tries to give the impression that the military is hiding something wild like a secret anti-gravity device. It's very National Enquirer.

There are other examples of this. The discussion of the WEAV pulls the quote "no moving parts and assures near-instantaneous response time", which presumably is to hint that this explains those instantly-accelerating discs seen in various videos. That "near-instantaneous response time" refers to the ability to change thrust quickly and not velocity is, of course, obscured.
Can you elaborate more on what that industry is doing? How would you snoop on people's browsing behavior?

I'd be curious if you know of any industry blogs or forums that you'd read to stay current on techniques.

I haven't followed SEO since the early days of link trading and keyword stuffing.
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> While India probably still supports BLA, there is no credible source that points towards India's support of TTP.

Latif Mehsud, the chief spokesman of the group, admitted that they had received support from both Afghanistan and India.
It is very easy to print things that are true but still have a bias. For example, printing things that are true but good about one political party, while printing things that are true but bad about another, is a bias. Almost every news medium has some kind of bias this way, and I think it affects their impact more than if they simply tell lies or not.

(Counter to the current worry, it seems to me that outright lies in mainstream publications are actually somewhat rare. When they happen they are generally corrected. Though there is a recent trend of rushing to publication to appease an overly emotive audience, getting things wrong, and then having to correct days later, after everyone's already been influenced. NYT especially.)

This used to be somewhat addressed in the US television segment by taking it even a step further, and requiring news shows to not only be truthful, but represent both sides of controversial issues. It was called the Fairness Doctrine [1], but it was revoked in 1985.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
Yes! This is a self-perception thing. In reality its all about value that you bring. So many good points are written here on this post. But I would say:

1. Do not compare yourself to peers. Everyone has self-doubts and no one is fantastic at everything. But some will talk a great talk and try to convince others of their prowess. You just need to be you. Only you can sing your song.

2. Add value wherever you can. This is what the business pays you for. This is why they hired you. Think about it, if you were not providing value you would not be there.

3. Own your world. Take responsibility for everything you do. Work hard to do the best you can.

4. Above all, be there for the team. Just like the A-team, its made up of very different people. You are a key part of that team.

5. Finally, for your own peace of mind, learn more and study new things. This will give you the feel-good factor and increase your overall knowledge which will improve your contribution to the work and diminish the self-doubt you are experiencing now.

Keep your chin up. I'm positive you are doing great.
How do you implement it though? I live in Taiwan and constantly see ads from People’s Daily, which usually contains text sneakily promoting CCP propaganda. Do those ads count as political? I hope so, otherwise China would most definitely exploit this. But then do you also ban, say, FOX? The NYT?

I really like Twitter’s decision and the idea behind it. But I also worry this would end up toothless toward bad actors, and restrictive for those who want to act morally.
You do realize that saudi arabia, china, russia, etc all have laws in place to hold newspaper editors responsible for printing "truth" right?

> This is what has kept our society well informed and critical thinking for a hundred years.

What makes you think you are a well-informed and critical thinking society? Don't most danes think alike just like most saudis, chinese, russians, etc. Don't most danes think and believe whatever news/propaganda tell them to believe just like saudis, chinese, russians, etc?

> This died with Facebook, YouTube and the non-editorial entertainment “news” and as a result we have anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers and what not.

And? Did the world end?

Do you realize that there was a time when it was "truth" that the earth was flat? Do you realize that there was a time when "pro-vaxxers" were ridiculed as much as anti-vaxxers are ridiculed now? If people like you were in power, we'd never have any progress.

I'm not an anti-vaxxer or a flat-earther. The easiest way to discredit them is with speech. More speech, not less. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. And free speech is the best antidote to falsehoods.
> dependent on fog

dependent on fog in certain locales.
What about Android? The one I can actually compile myself and install myself.
Another possible solution is to use an air-breathing rocket until it gets out of the atmosphere. This saves the weight of the oxidizer.

There have been some experiments in this direction, notably Richard Branson's.
Imagine you're Amazon and you receive data from vendors. It's not enough to authenticate the sender, you still need to check that the payload is at least syntactically valid before starting to process it. You can write custom code, of course, but after writing lots of it you're likely to start naturally splitting it into a declarative part and a universal processor that checks incoming data against the declaration. It's harder to come up with a declarative way from the start, but it's a natural tendency, because declarative form is much simpler than procedural: declarations are data, and data are easier to understand than a process.

This is what schema, transforms, and paths are: they're a declarative way to address these tasks in XML. It's natural there will be attempts to reinvent them for JSON.
To find any useful content, first thing you do on the modern Internet is search for relevant forum for the topic you are interested in.
The lowest level of truth telling is stating facts, but even stating facts can be extremely manipulative.

If I were to say:

"2x as many white Americans were killed by police as black Americans in 2018."

This a true fact.

If I take note of the fact that black Americans only constitute 13% of the population, then I can say

"A black American is 2.3x as likely as a white American to be killed by police."

This is also a true fact.

So not only are facts capable of telling a narrative, but it gets much more complicated once you start introducing conclusions.

If you say "A black person is 2.3x as likely as a white person to be killed by police in America. American police are being racially discriminatory when killing civilians."

This is a fact and a conclusion, and most news consists of facts and conclusions. Both the fact and the conclusion serve a particular narrative, and that's an issue. The problem is that a news organization with a different set of objectives, or simply operating under a different framework, would be entirely capable of coming to an entirely different conclusion, or introduce entirely different facts alongside it.

"A black person is 2.3x as likely as a white person to be killed by police in America. However, despite making up only 13% of the population, black Americans committed 36% of homicides, with an overall much higher representation in violent crime across the board. Only 5% of police shootings are with an unarmed victim, with the rest resulting from an armed altercation."

Different narrative.

In America, we understand that there is absolutely nothing more dangerous than an entity that feels entitled to control what is true. It might make things easier, and it might actually produce better results so long as the entity doing so is competent and benevolent, but nearly every structure in America is meant to serve as a bulwark for the cases in which the entity in power is precisely the sort that you do not want to be making those decisions. And to be frank, Europe should probably be more wary of that.
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I find Reddit more healthy than HN, to be honest. At least it seems human compared to HN sterility. But of course, it all depends which subreddits you read.
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Gwern notes an observed 10-15% decrease in traffic while A/B-testing banner ads, at https://www.gwern.net/Ads; and those ads were quite discreet. That article contains a summary of some other ad-related results, all showing a similar decline in traffic in other places (including in an audio context), which weakly suggests that however fast your ads load, you're still going to drop >5% of your users simply by the fact of having ads at all.
Related (and fabulous) from not long ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21200721

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20909404
> but its nothing new

It's nothing new but we're getting more and more of it, and if before it was Russian where one doesn't expect much and China where one doesn't expect anything, now it's a EU member country. Pretty soon there would be no country where software freedom still exists. Maybe there isn't already (US banned CAD files that describe weapons, for example). That's sad development.
It's funny that YAML spec is three times as long as XML 1.0.
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Look at the IIHS ratings though. The Tesla failed to detect a crossing child in both the 12 and 25mph tests. In both, it still hit the child with only a 5mph speed reduction.

Seems unlike Tesla to be out-classed like this. Six other models had significantly better speed reduction or didn't hit the pedestrian at all.

https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/performance-of-pedestrian-c...
I wonder what happened if the apology had to be as prominent as the false fact. Imagine a newspaper saying "WE LIED YESTERDAY" on the front-page :D
printing truth?

So they print blank pages?
> Advertising exists. You can't make it go away.

You could make them illegal.

I guess there’s some principle of free speech that’s in conflict with that approach. But it’s an interesting thought to play around with, how would the world change if ads were illegal...
Thank you for checking out Pixle! I had it lowercase, but have now removed that as it was purely for asetics. But it makes sense to have it as its regular size! Thank you!
You're absolutely right. There's a fine and subtle distinction to be made here - Freedom of the Press preserve the right of someone to seek to pay for reach for their expression and the right of those with reach to sell it.

As you say, this does not oblige anyone with a press to use it for any given person's benefit.

It just means that the basic concept of paying for expression and to expose other people to it is something baked into the First Amendment. Just not the Speech Clause.