skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The medium is still the message, and, to pick on Facebook, its design militates against true discourse. Engaging in a debate is an exercise in fighting the tool. For example, FB is intent on making you accidentally miss part of what your opponent has said.

Describing this Facebook's intent requires references. Facebook's algorithm aims for engagement and certain TL;DR; quality. But there are no tools that don't require a person to fight medium. No medium is perfect for discussion and any discourse requires an awareness of medium where it is taking place.

Regarding your rejection of FB as an absolute filter, it remains true that FB decides which posts in your FB group it will show to people, and which ones it won't.

Only if members stay on their regular Facebook feed. If you have a tight group, people go directly to the group page.
Willie Wong wrote a nice blog post about this a while ago:

https://williewong.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/compactness-part...
This doesn't make much sense. You can clearly demarcate it by replacing the "http" in the URL with "httpsubset" or something, and by running it on a separate port.
Tunnel visioning on slavery is a pretty bad mindset. There are many facets to American society beyond slavery. It's almost impossible to imagine a person today who supports slavery. We've come a long way, and nobody is celebrating slavery.
They just asked for people to volunteer. The filtering was done based upon a small recorded video of you answering 2 small coding challenges and teaching the solution.
This sort of retroactive vindictiveness is bad for everyone. In 1987, almost no one supported gay marriage, and many people wrote articles saying so. (DOMA was enacted in 1996 under Bill Clinton.) A lot of people, perhaps a majority of Americans, have changed their minds in the light of new arguments and evidence. How willing will anyone be to change their minds, if the response is "that doesn't matter, you're fired and exiled from polite society for the rest of your life"?

"An army officer in the Qin dynasty was supposed to lead his troops somewhere but got delayed.

He asked a friend of his "What is the penalty for being late?"

"Death." Says his friend.

He then asks "What is the penalty for rebellion?"

"Death." Says his friend.

He replies "Well then..." And thus began the Dazexiang Uprising."
Looks like lightning... I wonder if there is any similarity between this and lightning...
They're extraordinarily rare in recipes for sure, basically only in old ones.

But if you buy a 'cups' measure it ~never says which of the four it is, and it may well be there old Imperial size. (I have one. Was a popular one on Amazon, nothing obscure.)
This would make the difference between neat and useful for my team.
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Maybe the best way is to have a user-agent which can OCR the content and convert it to text-only. And perhaps some AI to include some relevant images.
Foamcrete is pretty neat, this is the classic video that introduced me to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llsQL2bPWqY

Though there are a lot of great videos now on how to make it and work with it
That works if everything is measured in them. (At which point obviously you can call it whatever you want, it's nothing more than a ratio as you say.)
He wasn't re-assigned, transferred, or demoted, even though Boeing is a big company with plenty of positions - he was fired. And many people are willing to fire even blue-collar workers and random small business managers:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firin...
Here's the worry that I'm hearing from people:

1. I write an article or a comment that's acceptable, or even encouraged by the powerful people running the show today.

2. The powerful people get changed out for other powerful people, and they start encouraging different articles, articles very different from the ones I've been writing.

3. The new powerful people attack me for following the old powerful people, even though I'm willing to follow the new powerful people now that they're in charge.

4. I serve my time, and now that I'm out of the doghouse, the new powerful people want me to write things that agree with them. How can I feel safe doing that, when I will probably get thrown in the doghouse again once the next revolution happens?
The majority of people learning languages are not doing it because they naturally want to. The vast majority of language learning is by humans orally teaching children, who have no say in the matter. If we left it up to desire alone, Latin study would die off very quickly as the majority of those who learn latin are required to, I would've taken more STEM instead of latin if I had the option.

The root reason Latin didn't die is because it's a very historically influential language, whereas Scottish Gaelic is a small, regional dialect of a small, regional language that didnt have an influential empire associated with it. Gaelic is a nice cultural relic but it is not functionally useful to most young Scots.
I'm always confused by people complaining about knowing 'advanced' mathematical notation. The thing that requires effort to understand is the actual mathematics, not the notation.
If Scotland was attractive for immigrants, it would do a lot. Such a requirement would reduce immigration, but it would also rapidly increase the population of Gaelic speakers.

That being said, I find it highly unlikely that there is a country that both has a country with a dying language with enough demand for immigration that immigrants would be willing to revitalize the local language. That combination seems possible, but highly improbable.
> There may be many perspectives to a truth, but there is always a singular absolute truth. Something that can be objectively stated, without judgement.

I can't imagine how one could find these truths without using judgment. That's like trying to figure out how long something is without a ruler.

edit: And there's no way of being sure which of the things you found were true, or which which were just artifacts of the measuring device one used to find them. One would have to pay a visit to the ruler factory and start the process all over again.

The things one can say about reality don't actually describe reality, they are a subjective human narrative created as a tool to meet human needs that any singular absolute truth ignores without comment.
To that, genuinely curious - what is the alternative you see to social media to build influence and visibility? One of the key benefits of Twitter is that you can make your work, be it in the arts, software or literally anything else, visible to a large audience. What’s the alternative if one is not to use Twitter? How do you publicize your findings or insights to a broad population?
You sound like a jackass.
>"In the 1960s, Pekka Pyykkö, now at University of Helsinki, Finland, discovered that gold’s colour was the result of relativistic effects. He showed that the lower energy levels of the 6s orbital of gold means that the energy required to excite an electron from the 5d band lies in the visible rather than UV range of light.

This means that gold absorbs blue light, while reflecting yellow and red light, and it is this that gives the metal its characteristic hue."
On the island of Ireland, there are only three places where people regularly speak Gaelic in conversation, all of which are way at the west coast away from Dublin - in Munster, in Connacht and in Ulster. My mother's parents happen to be from the Ulster Gaeltacht, which is centered in Gweedore.

I was speaking to an older relative who still lives there. She told me after the 2008 Irish banking crisis, all the local Allied Irish Bank branches there closed down, with the closest branch then 20 km away - which is still the case. The closest branch after that was and is 50 km away. Not a great harbinger for the vitality of the Gaeltacht.
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Then you'll just get increasingly large walls of text as each person refutes every single sentence + adds a few more zingers of their own
Audacious. It's compatible with the skins, even.
£5.27 (~7.86 USD)per Scottish resident, or £488 (607.78 USD) per resident speaker of Gaelic, if you go by Wikipedia’s population statistics.

[Edit: or, if you go by the article’s 11000 active speakers number, £2545, 3170 USD]
I do not believe the ends justify the means. Full stop. I do not like being told to idly stand aside while we watch outrage mobs use oppressive rhetoric and illogical tactics to effect change, even if we all agree the cause is just. That's the actual problem people have and what fundamentally irks me about the entire thing. I'm not interested in calmly standing down so as not to inflame their sensitive temper. (And I have tried ignoring it, nothing changed.) Why should I condone behavior that is literally harming other people's livelihood and destroying a society where people are truly safe and free to express themselves? I've waited long enough for the pendulum to swing back. I'm not convinced the end is just around the corner and it will all be over soon. Do you know what the end looks like? I can never seem to get an answer.
Youre not saying anything of value as usual. I recognize your username

The truth is that Twitter is doing it because society at large demand this change, not because they want to impress other Silicon Valley elites or whatever. Where’s their track record of activism?
Interesting story about the one day test, with an incubation time of two weeks how big are the chances that if contracted on the plane that would show up in a test done the same day?
R.I.P. laptop speakers.

Make sure you guys turn the volume down before clicking on anything.
1) They could be using café wireless from different cafés that are backhauled to the same data center (or LinkNYC as another commenter mentions.)

2) They could be using residential IPs, which are frequently reassigned. When my router restarts, I usually get a new IP address from the ISP's pool. This is more common for some ISPs and locations than for others; at my last place, we had the same IP address for 5 years.

3) Carrier-grade NAT, also mentioned here.
You're forgetting decades of lithium ion buildout for personal devices. Hydrogen needs time to scale, batteries have been doing so for decades. Tesla was able to build dozens of chargers because others had invented and scaled great cylindrical batteries and they had straubel who knew how to make great packs.
No it doesn't. It talks a lot about how they're addressing anonymizing the data, which we know generally doesn't work anyway:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/09/your-secrets-liv...

Plus they essentially admit that anonymizing the data makes it less useful and their claimed solution is to use a larger sample size. Which is like offering "buy more fuel" as a solution to poor fuel economy. It's no solution to the efficiency loss (at any given sample size it's still worse) and you may not always be able to get a larger sample size.

None of which addresses the problem I identified anyway, which is related to identifying the cause of the disparity once one is discovered, which is already almost intractably hard even without anonymized data.

The much better solution is to identify specific instances of discrimination and address them (and the mechanism of discrimination they represent) regardless of what the statistics say because, again, aggregate statistics can both say that something is wrong when it's not and that nothing is wrong when it is, and the only way to tell is by looking at the individual cases.
If locals don't speak it what's the point? They'll reverse to English as soon as they are here. It's not like they're going to speak in within their families.

They'll learn just enough to pass the entry test and that'll be the end of it. It's very hard to learn a language, it's even harder to force people to learn it if they don't want to.

Integrating yourself into your country of adoption is very hard, forcing immigrants to learn a minority language would make it even harder. Can you imagine if, say, France asked Syrians refugees to learn Breton instead of French? That would be insane.
If all the staff is sick, then 2 weeks later all the staff will be immune. So just... Don't get sick during the window when all staff is simultaneously sick.
The Scottish budget is £34B. So Scotland is spending 0.08% of their budget on Gaelic education, which seems pretty inconsequential.
A badly-executed apology divorced from change makes things worse.
Hydrogen, to put it simply is a battery, not a fuel, and a relatively poor battery at that. For all the money dumped into it and the amount of research that has been done BEV is now generally considered the way forward. It also doesn't suffer from the problem that Hydrogen tends to go FOOF when you least expect it, and there isn't the pesky problem of Hydrogen embrittlement to deal with.
They don't get it because they aren't buying it. But yes, 30Mbps is what you'd expect to get at those 96% of households if you bought whichever of the mainstream services offers >30Mbps

That might be a VDSL product from any of the popular ISPs (if you live with a few hundred metres of a "green box"), a cable product if you live in one of the cities or larger towns that have cable, or dedicated fibre link.

Some people see significantly worse performance because of their own suboptimal choices (e.g. maybe the blinking lights on the supplied VDSL modem annoy you so you run a telephone extension to a different room and lose 4Mbps of bandwidth because crappy telephone extensions don't do high bandwidth networking very well) and over a population of millions some will see physical network problems, that may need repair before they see the intended performance. But on the whole this 30Mbps coverage figure is based on extrapolating measurements from real users over data about available service.

I'm not aware of any 16MB/s products (16MB/s = 128Mbps or maybe you just meant 16Mbps) but Lewisham, which you gave as an example, has VDSL available at all the consumer nodes, so unless you lived in the £5M penthouse of some mixed use building in Docklands you could have bought faster networking you just didn't.

It can seem like surely if they could offer 30Mbps VDSL, why is my ADSL only 1Mbps? But that's misunderstanding the technology. ADSL was deployed in the UK to exchanges, so the signal needs to get from your home to an actual telephone exchange, there's probably one in your borough but it might be well over a mile away. However VDSL is in street cabinets, so your signal only travels to the cabinet which might be only a few hundred metres away. This makes it somewhat more expensive but also a lot faster. Unless (in both cases) you don't buy it.
I found it interesting that their studio has stacks of plastic model kits. It looks like they were using various vehicle parts to embellish the model exteriors with detail or to get nice round circles like on the landspeeder.
If you like SSC you will probably also like https://lesswrong.com. The audience overlap was quite substantial even before SSC was shut down.
I have apologized before on HN and people vote it up, so no I do not see it. It feels much more like people just dig in their heels due to selfish reasons.
It always emboldens the mob. They aren't after an apology, they're pursuing harm against the target and typically won't stop until they get it - unless you can show strength to the bully behavior and can stand-off against them (which not everyone can do). If you can, they'll give up and pursue another easier target. The mobs have weaponized job firings, which puts most people in a position of immediate weakness where they're afraid to stand their ground.
If a United States Naval Officer goes to the trouble to get his passionate views into the annals of the USNI, you better go to the trouble to retract them if you’ve evolved.

This wasn’t some tweet. And context matters in retrospect given what happened in the Tailhook era.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_transition_mechanism#Dual...

Probably 2/3 of the people I know in Berlin who use residential connections have it.
I'm sad to think "No." only because it seems to me to come down to a combination of education (make people trust your information and get it in front of people), money (to pay the lawyers and pay for education), and charisma (that kind that cult leaders have, but in this case used for good).
> I dont see this feasible at all, at the very very least you need 5X times that.

I agree with you that $333USD/mo is not a ton but 5X that is more than lots of people live on in north america.
Who were they looking for to speak? The C-Suite? If so, why even send emails to everyone in the first place?
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The tradeoff is performance vs features. WireGuard runs at the kernel level, is focused on performance but very minimalistic in terms of features.
Consider family oral histories. How much do you know about the lives of your great-grandparents? Me, I know pretty much nothing. I do know something about my ancestors from 200+ years ago, because one was famous and has been written about. The people in between then and my grandparents - nada. Other branches of my family - zip.
I agree - it was on borrowed time since the 1600's when it was forbidden, and we were apathetic in modern times. A few futile efforts were made, which never seemed serious even in their conception. Scots Gaelic is all but dead.

Realistically, it would be a very tough sell to try to cling on any longer - as you mentioned, globalisation has taken a toll on languages. Personally, my father spoke basic Gaelic, and his parents spoke it as a second language to English, so I don't feel particularly sentimental about it.
The article says he apologized:

"Golightly stepped down Thursday as Boeing’s senior vice president of communications following an employee complaint about the 1987 article, which he called “embarrassingly wrong and offensive.”"
One option is to separate the verification process from the insurance companies. In other words you have some list of pre defined standards that are covered at some rate and then an independent agency applies those standards and looks for fraud.

Aka a hospital might negotiate a separate rate for stitches with each company, but they don’t get to decide if it was needed on a case by case basis. Alternatively, apply the Japanese system where all procedures have a single agreed upon rate negotiated regularly.
Maybe there's just the same amount of birds dropping down from the blades as 1 cat kills, but that's a pretty crude way of looking at it. They have been around in their current capacity for a relative short time. We will not know exactly how much bad effect it has until things seriously brake and when that happens we already invested heavily in a lot of metal building that we need to maintain to extract value out of.

Having less kids would be a more easy fast way if you want to combat climate change for one.
I'm not sure I did. ipsum2 seemed to be asking for a comfort level.
Maybe I have good reasons for doing neither. And maybe those reasons have nothing to do with the numbers not suiting/supporting my "rhetoric".

Either way, it doesn't take rocket science to figure out which country I'm speaking of.

I "only" suggested to be careful about assuming what will happen to the systems, when the current measures are (temporarily) gone. That on itself should not be a revolutionary act in the first place. Remember, assumptions are the mother of all fuck-ups.

If I did not have a seriously surprising experience myself, regarding the story I told, then I certainly would not have responded as I did. But decide for yourself what you do with the info. If you (want to) dismiss it all outright, only because it does not come in a package you demand, then go ahead. I honestly couldn't care.
Pragmatically, the trust we should give to a former criminal should scale with where we think their crime lies on the "innate" to "acute" spectrum. For example, teenage joyriding is something we can expect people to get over, so you would probably feel okay letting a 50-year-old with that (and nothing else) on their record valet your car. I would suggest that ideas are some of the easiest things to change.
That’d be a good 500 page!
Indeed. Only a sith deals in absolutes.
The visualizers in this are really slick, I wonder if they're built from scratch or borrowed from somewhere.
This is actually a nice feature that goes along with one of the common use cases. Since there are alternate git options I don't mind having things like this.
Exceptions, rules and so on.
> Latin is dead

Latin isn't dead. School children all around the world still learn it. It's still taught at universities. It's still used as the living language of the Catholic Church. I wouldn't be surprised if Latin is fairly high up the list of second-languages people learn.
How do you manage your wireguard setup? Mine breaks pretty much every time I upgrade because it depends on a kernel module. Maybe this goes away when I can upgrade to the latest kernel with native support?
True, though I'd say the main reason there are practically no women in CS is because women tend to be more social, and software engineering is one of the least social professions in existence. I would never recommend this profession to anyone who doesn't have the personality to be in front of a computer alone all day working on tedious puzzles.
Well, I must've completely misunderstood several conversations, then. Which would be characteristic.
I think this work is great and interesting, and I respect it. One of the things I feel like it lacks is a discussion of the broader context: we all sort of suspect that one of the reasons Twitter does not generally allow for de-escalation (like FB not censoring misleading news articles) is that such escalation is in fact part of their revenue stream (escalation=more engagement), so while I think ideas like this would be great if Twitter decided to incorporate it, the issue of course is that Twitter wouldn't want to as they actually love the cancel culture mill, it generates engagement.

I genuinely however like the ability to admit guilt such that replies are disabled because as the author notes, it explicitly ends all engagement. Any following engagement would require more work (subtweeting, screenshotting) but actively put a damp on the first derivative. But that said, reducing engagement is in fact not in Twitter's interest, as I said, so I don't see them doing it without some outside pressure.
Mob works with keywords, not with meanings.
Then the whole mils thing...
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