skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's not pretend it did. Media in US, UK and Western Europe aren't controlled by single entity. What is happening in Hungaria right now is basically getting back to socialist one-party regime, even if this time it's right-wing one (like it matters).
> And then there's a swath of conservatives that don't think they're racist.

You are aware that the way you phrase it makes it sound like we all are?

I've recognized a few times that I say things in a way that makes people mad even though my original point was fine.
Why are reserve currencies needed?
Agreed. If we were actually engineers we'd all be writing TLA+ and Coq to verify the correctness of what we do and there'd be a formal cert program codified by the state
“Amazon Warehouse“, for those not familiar with it, is an option you can select specifically to buy an item that was previously returned.

Amazon has done a cosmetic inspection of the item and gives it a ranking on how it appears which you see when you are buying it.

There are certain types of items where you can save a huge amount of money and get great deals using Amazon Warehouse. Hard drives are obviously not one of them due to the assumption that everything is returned for a reason. An example of a type of item that I’ve always had good luck with is pots and pans.

The interesting thing about this is assume that the tracking is in place to identify who returned the original item. What would you do?

Maybe the actual scam (I don’t mean in this specific case) is buying perfectly good Amazon Warehouse items but, knowing that they had been previously returned, claiming the item was swapped out after swapping it out yourself.

So Amazon can’t really know who to blame from a single incident. But certainly I would expect accounts would accumulate warning flags and at some point be banned.
Which blog out of curiosity and 3b requests in which period of time? Is your blog static? Thanks!
One of my managers gave me some guidelines here. If it's more than 100 words, cap it at 100 and schedule a meeting. It clearly is information-dense to the degree where a quick question/answer session will be helpful.

From my own experience, I make sure to never ask more than one question in an email. If you ask more, people will answer the first and ignore the rest.
If they're using a company email, maybe read their company website for 1 minute?

"Netlify has proven exceptionally useful for innovative energy companies like yourself and {other energy industry client}"
GOP considers extending unemployment benefit at reduced level of $400 a m (cont)
> the more your job benefits your community and the planet the less you will get paid, and vice versa. It's even worse for social services.

In a free market economy, this is an entirely false statement. People pay for the things they value. They more they value it, the more they pay.

Compare the amount of hours spent playing video games to the amount of hours spent touring museums. It's not close. People value video games much more greatly than museums.

Just because you value certain things more than others doesn't give them any intrinsic value.
I empathize with your frustration, but you're letting your personal experience override logic.

You've made a simple logical error: a study claiming that people who have goals can fend off depression does not imply that those with depression have it because they do not have goals. It means that some people who don't have goals, but do have depression, may remedy it by getting goals. But not everyone.

If the research above is resulting in psychiatrists becoming lazy, it's because they're making the same logical error you are making. So in that sense, you should avoid doing so, since the kind of error you are making is the very thing which leads to the behavior you've experienced.

The proper response (by you, and psychiatrists) is to conclude that trying to encourage goal formation in those with depression seems wise, and will help some, but many (like yourself) will not benefit. Nor should we invert causation and assume the reason people have depression is due to lack of goals, much like if we determined that eating a specific kind of food helped prevent cancer meant that those who for whatever reason didn't have that food in their diet were somehow causing their own cancer by neglecting to eat it.
They got support, but the editors didn't own the site, so the main editor could be dismissed by some representative of the owner.

It's a different situation if the editors are owners of the site and the donations go directly to them, instead of to some rich guy who bought the site from some other rich guy.
They're measuring it to ensure corrosion hasn't thrown it out of spec, right? Not that it wasn't manufactured to spec?
Long emails should still have short opening paragraphs. No more than three sentences, one or two preferred. Basic context ("We still need to figure out waffles"), people's names if it's a referral or a request for someone else ("Jane said you know waffle batter the best"), and most importantly, if you're asking a question, end with a question mark ("What waffle batter recipe should we use?").

The rest of the email can then be long, but at the end, always restate the question.
Lawful arrests are followed by swift access to the courts. The arrests under discussion aren't like that. Taking one's freedom without due process of law is precisely kidnapping.
At least within the US, I think sufficiently large platforms should not be allowed to censor on the basis of viewpoint. But that is exactly the kind of political question that nation states, not international forces, should be answering.
There is a stylistic set which allows you to get an unambiguous 1 vs l (ss05). See:

https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive#opentype-features

Also, there are fonts made specifically for code which have code ligatures & the simple l, f, 6, & 9 frozen in, if you like these features but don’t want to mess with OpenType features (or if your code editor doesn’t support that).

https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive/tree/main/fonts/rec_m...
> It needs an informed population which has learned to think critically.

How does the population get informed about the government without the press?
Seems like a good time to revisit this blog post by the late-Aaron Schwartz about removing news from your information diet: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
I found myself walking on one of these roads as the sun began to set last summer and it was actually quite terrifying.

We’d made a long loop walking through the hills in the Cotswolds, and the guidebook would have had us crossing a large pasture to get back to the start. At the gate we were confronted by a couple of rowdy young bulls who seemed to have little interest in letting us cross their field, so we took the road instead. Thankfully we could hear cars coming from far away and could position ourselves for maximum visibility in the curves, but it certainly felt like one of the more dangerous miles I’ve ever walked.

On the main topic of this thread, one thing I did note during our two weeks of touring the British countryside was that the network of walking paths and tiny villages made even rural places much more walkable than in the US. One fairly isolated farm we stayed at had a hand drawn guide to getting to multiple nearby-ish pubs via footpaths through the fields. A comparable place in the US would have been 100% car dependent.
AWS and Docker collaborate to simplify the developer experience
There is this development company that’s doing good work (the “improve people’s live in developing country kind of development”):

https://catalpa.io/work-with-us/

They are based in East Timor and were founded by an Aussie and an American (U.S.) and they allow remote work.
At least as far as colonization goes, I feel like we're getting really close to not needing to colonize a place to learn a great deal.
Oh, TIL! Well that is good to know- so it is only that windows backslashes fail on linux.
Not sure I can add anything more to this discussion than any more that has already been said, but the real problem about validating ones idea is,” you start out with an extreme bias” towards your idea. Conversely, if you are validating an idea, you the only true and tried and tested way is to Mom test it. It’s not enough you run a statistical poll and use that to run a product development program. You have to actually talk to people. In this case, OP needs to actually talk to the people in his demographics and validate the idea that they would like to get a personalized email from his trainer with a custom plan. If not it’s all shadow dancing with no real validation. Mom test is an excellent book to drive this point home.
So you're suggesting they should charge them instead?
I feel like many times it's not that the message doesn't get read but that it doesn't persuade the recipient to make the time to write a response.

Shortening the text not only transmits the message more efficiently, it also allows the recipient to feel comfortable with writing a one-liner reply. You are actually lowering the threshold over which the person gains the will to start writing a response.
I figured this out a few years ago and completely stopped all news watching/reading entirely. I have nothing but positive things to say about that decision, and surprisingly I seem to be better-informed and feel like I have a worldview that more accurately reflects reality than most of the people who follow news daily.

Daily news watchers now seem like such ineffective people to me, and I’m reminded of the know-nothings from my teenage years rambling about conspiracy theories. The entire time they’re talking about whatever is happening in the news, I’m just thinking: “Who decided that this was important to you, and why did you let them decide that?”

I have family members that can’t pay their rent on time or remember to feed their kids breakfast, but they’ve got the geopolitical dynamics of the US and Russia all figured out. They solved it.

Others talk endlessly about their opinions about all subjects deemed important by the news. They speak with passion as if the opinions and convictions are their own, yet every single stance they take conveniently mirrors whatever was favored in whatever media they consumed.

None of them ever express an original thought. Every single one of them just chooses a selection of things they heard and repeats it.

I’ve been doing this long enough that I think I can see how this is going to turn out for me long-term. Name anything that happened 5 years ago. If it’s significant, I remember it. If it isn’t, I never heard about it at all, and nobody else remembers it either.

I’m by farrrrrrrr the happiest person I know, to the point that I literally feel guilty about it sometimes. I just have so much time for my career that I’ve zipped past everybody, so much time for family.

It might be the single best decision I’ve ever made in my life. I’m really thankful that I figured it out this young.
The thing you're linking to is a phenomenon specific to the Sinclair Broadcast Group[0], a partisan media organization that is actively attempting to undermine local journalism in the US and replace it with neo-conservative propaganda.

To compare any of the major US news conglomerates to this would be a false equivalence.

Also, any comment on the centralization of media in the US that doesn't mention Facebook is outdated at this point.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group
> but your argument would suggest that anyone using antidepressants or other medications in order to function "normally" aren't experiencing real emotion.

But are they really feeling their “own real emotions”? Or are the drugs sedating / uplifting their emotions unnaturally to make them more “normal”. Maybe I’m focusing on the word “real” too much, but I think one could legitimately state that while under the influence of medication, your emotions might not be natural/real to who you are.
You mean like the US government?

Do you think the national governments are more connected to the local population? I'm sure the Polish and Hungarian population think that

"Boo EU bad" has become a meme already. Yawn
I still find it useful to write those emails, even if I'm asking to talk to someone. The email serves as an agenda, it forces me to reason through the issue, and it serves as a long-term record of the issue. But the request for the meeting should come first.
Show HN: Update to Quotebacks – Bookmarklet and Firefox
Hey HN,

We launched Quotebacks just over a month ago and it had a good reception on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=234681750) so I'm posting here with a little update.

1) The #1 feature request is here: the Firefox extension!

2) We added a web-generator and bookmarklet for folks who want to use them without installing an extension.

Thanks for the support!

More here: https://quotebacks.net/
Can I ask what software you ran into that issue with? Probably, it was a strict-monospace environment, like vim in a terminal. I have created code-specific fonts to deal with this issue:

there are fonts made specifically for code which have code ligatures & the simple l, f, 6, & 9 frozen in, if you like these features but don’t want to mess with OpenType features (or if your code editor doesn’t support that).

https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive/tree/main/fonts/rec_m....

The issue doesn’t occur in web browsers, as far as I know, as they support proportional type (include mostly-mono families with a few proportional glyphs).
> I don't get why people are so quick to replace private authoritarianism with government authoritarianism. At least with the first version you have the theoretical option of escaping.

I’d like to run the numbers on how long fugitives escape justice when they’re targeted by bounty hunters, placed on most wanted lists or other red notices, or both. It’s not always good innocent guys getting caught by good innocent law enforcement, either. Entrapment and parallel construction exist. Ideally the crimes or criminal intent to justify all this apparatus actually exist too, right? Some people may not care about justifications; feels over reals, basically.

The people involved may believe they are correct to work for private authoritarian companies, or public ones; I guess that’s hypercapitalism for you.
I think there's situations where Lambdas make sense in spite of their pricing. I applied for a job on the Warren campaign and their tech stack relied on AWS lambdas. I think that makes sense for them. It's a short-lived endeavor that isn't going to be around next year. Spending a bit more to not have to deal with the headache of maintaining your own infra makes sense in scenarios like that.
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Well, elaborate please.
There are a lot of leaps of logic here - somehow he jumps from the fact that wristbands that count our heartbeats and footsteps are trying to improve health to the idea that our humanity is reducible to a bunch of data points.

Then somehow we've jumped to digital implants that don't exist yet and some extremely theoretical ideas of how they might be terrible for society.

Just a whole lot of doom and gloom with no real substance behind it.
Yep. To check tolerances, you'd need a go/no-go pair -- one that should fit, and a slightly bigger one which shouldn't.
I would argue a mob is just a sort of tumor clinging onto the back of a very legitimate protest movement. My point, which I maintain, is that people like Paul are using this as an excuse to dismiss the movement in its entirety by selecting the (real) problems created by the mob. You would not be allowing the mob to rule by satisfying the entire group's demands. This is a function of very ordinary protests that have gone on over the last forever.

And I don't think it's fair to compare racists, which are real, to witches, which are not.
I have a need for this too, and considering making a basic service for it.
Its a $70M effort "anchored" by $25M cash donation and $25M in hardware. I've heard anchored used to indicate an initial "getting us started" donation at the beginning of a fund raising drive. Its easier to raise the final portion once you've got momentum and people think the project is likely to be successfully funded.
Thank you! I'll take a better look at the whole thing now. It seems like that journal works with a focus on empirical data but empirical doesn't necessarily mean robust statistical methods, however the paper seems to be actually serious about this.
Punished by the state specifically. I don't see how you could enforce speech _not_ having social consequences, nor what the purpose of such speech would be if that were possible.
3b+ is a Raspberry Pi model.
A lot of diesel engines have a certain amount of blow-by, which is exhaust pressurizing the crankcase by bypassing e.g. the piston rings. This can leak out from valve rocker covers, etc.
Foreign media has very limited legal rights compared to local media.

Employees of a website operating from abroad would not be able to access the Parliament building, buildings of state or local government bodies. Moreover, heads of national institutions, government officials, executives of state-owned and government-owned companies, and persons performing official and public duties are allowed to ignore requests for information, data or comments from the foreign press, but not from the Hungarian press.

If the government could interfere with the operation of press based in Hungary, they'll have a much easier time messing with the operation of nominally-foreign press.
As the case of Cambridge Analytica shows most people overestimate their ability to think critically. We do need reputable sources of information, otherwise we're just a manipulable flock.
> However, I've been wondering if there is a demand for software in these projects?

No, there's not a demand for software in this arena. All this stuff is dominated by grants and politically charged funds.
Goldman Sachs and Malaysia Agree to $3.9B Settlement over 1MDB Scandal
A 15-page introduction to HoTT [pdf]
I honestly don't understand this perspective which seems central to a lot of pgs writing lately: "the customs protecting free inquiry have been weakened"

Can anyone explain it?

We are, right now, posting on the most expansive and weakly moderated communications platform humanity has ever had. You can find almost anyone opinion imaginable out there with a brief Google search and forums on which to argue every side of it with.

In what way is free inquiry meaningfully weakened? By any absolute measure it seems like it can only be the strongest it has ever been.
I can only speculate. I would say an overall weakened immune system.

Is your point that there are technologies with only benefits?
I'm afraid EU is a necessary evil. Local population delegated some powers to nation states, otherwise the would cease to exist. How are you gonna stand up to China, India or US in the future?
As a UF CS grad, I bet less than 100 students will get hands on this computer each year. Maybe way less than 100.

Although I wasn't a graduate student so maybe way more of them have access than I realize.
What is a radiator in this context? A bit of searching didn't turn up anything except metal objects that exchange heat!
Why supermarkets are struggling to profit from the online grocery boom
JS -> TS is usually just a matter of adding types, so I think by "ported" the previous commenter just meant adding types and tweaking as needed to make the type system happy.
> The loss of national identity as previously shared histories and values are challenged and how this leads to some trying to ground national identity in ethnicity while others try to abandon patriotism instead.

This point is kind of patently ridiculous as a supposed change since the 1991, since the “orthodox” side of the American culture wars had a large faction seeking to ground national identity in ethnicity against the (relatively, but equally clearly only relatively) secularist/technocratic progressives since time immemorial.

> A new split emerging between those committed to economic growth and consumption above all and those that believe that economics should be tempered by some kind of morality.

This is even more patently ridiculous as a new development since 1991, which was near the height of the neoliberal consensus when both major political factions in the US were dominated by technocratic neoliberal capitalist factions, and both had—quite different—large-but-less dominant factions differentiated by the belief that a vision of justice (very different on each side) should temper or even trump economic concerns.
Thank you for your insights. The firefighters analogy is definitely very refreshing take on a role which I didn’t consider much before. I’ll definitely explore opportunities on this front.
I've heard stuff like this a lot, but just dont believe it. The people who are more likely to be armed arent being targeted. Plus shooting at federal officers is likely to be a death sentence, both literally and in regards to sympathy / support for yourself and beliefs.
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Employers are offshoring jobs to get around US visa restrictions
Cold war CIA wouldn't have dreamt with the power that social networks, streaming sites and tech companies have over electoral processes in other countries.

I live in a small city in the ass end of the world, but my local politicians, who live a few miles from my home, fork money (a lot of money) over to FB and Google so I can see their ads. They have a huge impact on who gets elected.
It's quite a deep rabbit hole, frankly, since LEGO is metaphorical by nature: it's a blocky model of something. In this case, the chain of metaphor is shorter than that of Star Wars, but I'm sure there are many with PTSD who cannot handle certain scenes in Star Wars given the analogs it may have to their past experiences in actual war.

In other words, one needs a more objective standard I think if such a policy is going to be seen as a moral value. It is not hard to imagine someone whose parents were killed in gun violence from having a visceral reaction, no different than the ones you mention, from watching a gunfighting scene in Star Wars, or seeing blaster battles played out on commercials for LEGO products.
This article is about debug logging.

Debugging is also the primary use case for logging program internals.

Analytics should be done on non-internal logs (such as traffic logs), unless you're just logging everything to the same destination without any structure, which is probably a bad idea.
Dang, did you mess with the ranking of this post?
Exactly. At the other end of the scale, consider how much practical freedom people with no money really have.

Being able to say 'no' is nice, but some people would love the opportunity to say 'yes' for a change.
Fair point, why not drop all and become an internet hermit relying solely on RSS feeds? But then again, aren't these feeds addictive? Don't they leave you asking for more? At what point in the discussion of internet content can we truly(as a userbase) call it non-addictive then? I'm the furthest thing from an expert on the matter so for me, a website that opens once a week at 17:00 EST for a duration of 2 hours might even do the job. Can't say it hasn't crossed my mind. This is a very tricky and subjective issue. What do you think?
This guy seems to be using logic, which is an illegal thoughtform.
One disadvantage of that - though it only matters in some contexts - is that you pay the cost of formatting all those log messages (or at least copying enough data to be able to format them later) even if they're never read.