skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I neither believe nor disbelieve this person, how am I to use their testimony to construct a theory without taking it as some English words with particular meanings that are presumed to be presented in good faith as an accurate representation of their perspective?

By constructing all possible explanations you can think of for the totality of what you observe and choosing the one that seems most likely to be correct. Possible explanations include:

1. The world is more or less as it appears to be. Most words mean more or less what you think they mean most of the time. Most people usually give truthful answers to mundane questions. And so on.

2. The world is not as it appears to be, and the fact that it appears different from its true nature is all part of a grand conspiracy to conceal the truth from you.

3. The world is not as it appears to be, but the fact that it appears different from its true nature is not a conspiracy, it's just that you happen to inhabit a particularly weird branch of the multiverse where things happen to appear as they do against astronomical odds.

4. You are actually a butterfly dreaming he is a Chinese philosopher dreaming he has hanging out on Hacker News.

5. Shrimp noodles every second purple kilogram.

6. Bzork snoz biff boff.

Constructing additional possibilities is left as an exercise.

> Ok how do you answer the “why not?” question?

Because I don't believe that you actually give any credence to the theory that people around you are shape-shifting space aliens disguising themselves as people as part of a grand conspiracy to prevent you from discovering the fact that you are a 13-dimensional being with super-powers who would take over the universe if you became aware of your true nature. In fact, I would give long odds that that possibility never entered your mind before I suggested it, and that you consider the idea to be completely absurd.

> you’re saying that I can infer a consistency between phenomena by observing that they appear to be similar.

Not quite, it is the appearance of similarity itself that I am asking you to account for.

In general I am asking you to account for the patterns and regularities in your perceptions. I am asking you to account for the fact that you appear to be able to navigate your existence, to obtain enough food and shelter to survive, to avoid falling off cliffs and being hit by buses. I am asking you to account for the fact that you are engaged in this exchange, that you are interacting with some kind of device (or at least perceiving yourself to be doing so), the fact that the text you are reading right now make more sense to you than #6 above, and that I was able to predict that this would be the case.
Somewhat related and worth pointing out is that the whole world does not use family names, or the family name as a last name.

My wife was annoyed when she came to the US and every form has a “first” and “last” field, but she doesn’t have a last name. Her passport for example, only has a “name” field.
Yes, see the "CCC and the Fermi Paradox" paper [1] by Gurzadyan and Penrose himself talking about exactly that.
You can also look into "Information Panspermia" [2].

Relevant bits:

> "From our own limited and relatively extremely
primitive perspective, much more promising would undoubtedly be electromagnetic signals (although neutrinos just
conceivably present us with another possibility). The conformal invariance of Maxwell’s equations allow us the possibility of such signals surviving the crossover from one aeon to the next-provided that the wavelength is long enough
to avoid excessive scattering by charged particles in the early stages of the subsequent aeon."

> "Alternatively, there is the idea of information panspermia, introduced in [12],
and attributed as ”Solution 23 to Fermi paradox” in [2], i.e. the propagation of the ”life codes” by the use of such
signals, like the bit strings of human genome and of other species of terrestrial life"

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.00554.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_panspermia
Backfire to whom? This ruling is a result of a civil defamation suit.
As someone who self identifies as a nerd, and works exclusively with ‘nerds’ but is actually ‘popular’ irl I think this is an easy one.

Nerds are unpopular because they are mostly introverts. Mostly not that fun to be around unless you like having super deep conversations about a specific topic.

Most people don’t like doing that.

The key to being popular is to meet ‘normal’ people where they are and intentionally engage in non intellectual activities that everyone enjoys. Sports, music, beer, etc.
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I followed the one author's blog link: https://nerdy.dev/

It says he enjoys 'minimalism'.

I keep seeing this from UX people with these baroque monster websites, is that just a meaningless buzzword now?
Let’s do it. I am going on 5 yrs of autopilot ownership. It still phantom brakes on freeways today as it did 5 years back. Forget about the major edge cases
> Elixir is past it's peak

It's funny because not only is popularity not a good indicator of the quality/utility of a tool, if it is overpopular it can actually hurt things
The first one is the iPod I think. HN is a bubble that is far from representative of the general public that these products/emails are aimed at. I assume that point of the parent comment is to remind people that top-voted advice from HN about how non-engineers will react to something should be taken with a gigantic grain of salt.
There is a simulation in the sibling to your comment, ready to be pasted in your browser console.
Virgin is bankrupt.
Agreed. The next reddit needs to state explicitly that only illegal content will be removed by site owners.
A related question: is it faster because it sends less data, or is it faster because it grabs more of the bandwidth by not using TCP-type congestion control?
There are plenty of reasons one would switch from a car that they love driving to a car that is less enjoyable to drive, but still acceptable.

For example, switching from an expensive Audi car with fantastic handling to a mid-range Mazda diesel because it's much cheaper to run. Or because you live in a city and decide that you want a smaller car for easier parking.

Or because you want to switch to an EV, and can't afford a Tesla. I'm sure a Nissan Leaf is a lot less enjoyable to drive than many similarly priced ICE cars.
Has anyone gone through old episodes of Let's Make A Deal, and looked at the success rate of those who change their guess, vs those who don't?
Now PS5 supports 802.11ax that supports OFDMA. It would be significant difference for multiple device heavy usage if it works correctly.
Yeah, loved this story. For a text version: https://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
This wouldn't be so bad if popular UIs like gmail weren't so opposed to displaying email addresses in an email client. In many places they display exclusively the name. It's very confusing, especially if the people you email have strange names for their contacts, which then get displayed in your client.
Let's say Monty doesn't open any door, but after you've chosen one, he offers the chance to switch to both of the other doors. Pretty clear then that switching gives you a 2/3 chance of getting the car, and that is essentially the choice Monty is offering.
The Rich family. This kind of move might win them some money, but it will just fire up the conspiracy theorists who have been harassing them.
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Almost every modern car has an adjustable steering wheel which you can move around to ensure you have a line to the instrument panel. Cars in the Model 3 price range will often project speed and other driving information into the windshield.
Here in Europe some of these like the straws are already banned. But the replacements aren't always great. The new paper straws get soggy before the drink is finished :( And I can't drink from the cup in most places because the ice hurts my teeth.

The paper Q tips are also too bendy. But other stuff like wooden cutlery work great.
This is a totally dishonest way to frame this. The conversion rate between the two currencies is not the meaningful metric, it's the purchasing parity.

Junk, click bait, economics.
The Washington Times [0] (this is not the Post) and Fox News are both propaganda outfits, not legitimate news sources.

The Washington Times is run by the Unification Church (popularly known as "moonies") which some consider a cult.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Times
It's true that going down the macro rabbit hole is hardly ever a win, no matter how you handle it. But I don't buy that textual macros are really any better. For starters, they are impossible to reason about, because they can always involve action at a distance. Also you are completely giving up whatever type safety you have (which is admittedly not much in pure C, but better than nothing), and because cpp has no notion of what valid C looks like, your program could even compile without even printing a warning if you write a macro that's wrong just in the right way.

There are cases where a simple textual macro is fine, and that's what the designers probably envisioned. But it's a slippery slope: because the macro system is there, it will be used, and because it will be used, it will shape how the language looks around itself.
I think what’s meant is that playing Bach on an “authentic” period instrument (harpsichord, organ, etc.) is more the fashion. Bach didn’t write for the modern piano, although his music sounds pretty good on it.
Looks like it doesn’t yet incorporate the Census surname data, which has more than 160K U.S. last names: https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data.html
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We have two possible games, with most of the setup the same.

In one, Monty reliably reveals a goat.
In the other, Monty picks randomly between the other two doors.

We are, in parallel universes, playing both of those games. We know which. The host has just revealed a goat.

I read fouronnes3 as saying that these two situations are the same. They are not.
Yeah, just a small quality of life improvement to make it easier to match styling. Anything that makes it easier to do that without needing to fiddle around with removing the list style (then using ::before or whatever to reapply custom style) is kinda nice, and makes the intent of the CSS author a bit clearer. Not a huge thing tho
In court filings, attorneys for the social media giant claimed such a disclosure would violate the First Amendment rights of a user to be anonymous.

That ship has sailed, it seems convenient to argue for their users first amendment rights when out the other side of their mouth they argue that they are a private platform and should not be subject to free speech regulations when they choose to censure speech.

As a note before any projection I am a advocate of free speech and also a advocate of corporations being able to choose their direction. I am just not an advocate of hypocrisy and only pointing out the obvious.
> Lots of differences with the x-59, no wing canards, one engine on the x-59 vs 3 on the XB-1, the XB-1 seems much shorter.

Um yeah of course?

My point was the the long nose + wing shape (which defines much of the aerodynamics) is much more similar than the X-3 where the wing shape is completely different. See pics here: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-07...

(Also hopefully the XB-1 is much better than the X-3 which was not a great plane!)
War on Sensemaking V
It's immaterial whether it backfires against "the government," whatever that is. This is a civil suit: Arron Rich v Edward Butowsky and friends. The government really doesn't have a say in this matter beyond enforcing law.
Not sure why they didn't enable storage tiering for regular external HDDs.

It would be far faster to move a game from external HDD back to the Velocity SSD before playing than to download the entire game again from the internet.

Feels like a money grab tbh.
I think the point the author is not that "It's unfashionable these days to play Bach". They are saying that "It's unfashionable these days to play Bach on the piano."

The modern fashion is to play Bach on a period-appropriate instrument like a harpsichord or clavichord. The piano wasn't invented until much later so it is anachronistic to play Bach on a piano. But the disadvantage of Bach on period-appropriate instruments is that the modern piano is really quite an incredible instrument with a much better ability to produce subtle changes in dynamics. So what you gain in historical authenticity you may lose in emotional expression.
I think there's a difference between untestable in practice, right now, and unfalsifiable even in theory. The latter case can never hold any practical value.
Was that dell monitor calibrated and rated for professional usage? I don't use this stuff but apparently most of the cost is making sure the screen perfectly replicates colors and not just being high resolution.
I read that Japanese sentence structure is different and always wanted to learn more about that. German is also interesting in how it makes large constructions that resolve at the end. I finally discovered that Japanese and Korean have similar sentence structures and having learned Korean as a child can understand and speak it at a basic level without any comprehension of its structure.
So why is it relevant for us to know now to determine whether or not Fox was at fault?

"Learning the identity of @whysprtech is necessary in order to confirm that @whysprtech was not in fact a FBI 'insider' or otherwise someone who had access to non-public FBI material," Benedict Hu wrote in a filing."
The Comet thing was a design flaw, not a process/quality control flaw. And the Comet was essentially unique at the time; _no-one_ was making things like that. Lots of people today are making cars; Tesla could just hire experts. For that matter, they could buy/merge with a small car company.

I suspect there’s some sort of NIH thing going on.
Oh, my other comment was on the wrong track. This idea smacks of "don't tattle on your abuser for fear of further abuse."

If this riles up conspiracy theorists, Butowsky and friends should simply be made to pay for further shielding for Rich's family. It's not the Rich's fault this conspiracy theory spread like wildfire.
Because naming is important. I don't call myself Prime Minister, because I'm not the Prime Minister. I don't call my index iterators `golf_ball` either for the same reason.
Beautiful presentation!
Or he likes getting that mass-market money.
I'd rather have none of the above.

-Proud Toyota Corolla 2006 owner with 0 maintenance issues.
Sorry about this. It is really shitty. Like you, I got a case of tinnitus via ear infection. In my case it was caused by a three-week-long infection.

However, I count myself massively lucky that it did slowly resolve over about 5 years, to the point where I’d now consider it nearly gone.

I know it’s easy to lose hope, and get really frustrated by it, but I hope you have good days coming to you. Good luck.
> If we accept the first part as fact and apply the standard implied by the second, then Fox is in a hazy gray area of equally legitimate and not-legitimate, rather than clearly legitimate.

This is almost exactly mirrored on the other side of politics. See https://www.journalism.org/2020/01/24/u-s-media-polarization...
Along those lines, I've heard that a quick way to learn a language L is to take a job in the kitchen of a restaurant where the staff only speaks L and is willing to put up with you but never speak your language.
I think it was Corning who put out a 200m thunderbolt 2 fiber cable
Yeah, this is pretty close to how I see it.

The key is making it clear that switching doors will always switch you from Lose to Win and vice versa. Switching doors is equivalent to switching outcomes. That's the critical fact, IMHO.

Once that's accepted, the rest falls into place: there's a 2/3 chance that you picked a Losing door, so there's a 2/3 chance that you'll benefit from switching outcomes, and since you're guaranteed to switch outcomes if you switch doors, there's a 2/3 chance that you'll benefit from switching doors.
While I do believe the person behind the twitter handle should be found out and investigated (forging fake government documents seems wrong, even though this is the internet after all), pressing criminal charges for any wrongdoing is off. The blame for the whole thing is definitely on news sources not fact checking the credibility of their sources (come on seriously a random twitter account?).

Under a reasonable system, this person should be interviewed to see what their connection to Seth Rich was and possibly what their initial motive was for forging and publishing what they had.

Having said this, I do see some issues down the line around how this unmasking could be abused. Someone might post something they think is trivial and a parody but could have dire consequences based on a chain reaction of events that happen.
As a further note on this, I am of the opinion that loosing ones security and safety net pushes them further to the fringe. I think this is a problem with modern society no one is listening, everyone is pushing when they should be pulling as pushing moves them in a direction contrary to the results one is seeking.
It seemed to me that shill mods started to back off around August when some of the rioting and arson started getting old and having the opposite of the intended political results. And, now that we are a month from the elections they are no longer interested in censoring as it probably won't have an effect especially since people have already started voting.
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We went through a brutal battle with Postgres bloat recently. Indexes were composed of 80% bloat, 20% useful data after years of heavy write activity. Vacuuming indexes was getting slower and slower, bringing us precariously close to transaction ID wraparound outages.

Glad that pg_repack exists, which is an extension that can be used to elegantly rebuild your indexes from scratch.

Looking forward to zheap! (Which should obviate the need for index rebuilding)
Not if you're a decent language that can fulfil their use cases without needing a preprocessor.
Yes, wife and one daughter have long hair. We've not had a clogged drain in 10ish years in this house.

I don't think the sprays required to keep tiles clean would be enough water to flood an inch-deep recessed floor.
At least in terms of my above comment, the things that Republicans believe, and the things that Democrats believe, are both true.

But I wouldn't say that they are both the same. That was true before 2016, but 2020 is a Very Different World.

Prior to 2016, Americans had two parties that largely colluded with each other to maintain power. This is why they wrestled control of the debates away from the League of Women Voters in the late 80s[1], why third parties disappeared out of the debates shortly thereafter, and why Obama, whom I voted for, governed almost identically to Bush, whom I didn't.

Let's call this duopoly the Establishment.

2016 was a brick through both Establishment windows. Bernie from the Left, and Trump from the Right. Bernie got shut down and bought off, but the Republicans, being the official party of milquetoast whining, had no tools to stop Trump.

Bernie would have stomped Trump in 2016, by the way.

Now, the Democrats are playing the same tune they were in 2016, just cranked up to 11. They had some solid candidates -- I still really like Tulsi -- but either character-assassinated (Tulsi) or ignored (Yang) the hell out of them in favor of Biden.

This hasn't done the Democrats any favors. They've been aggressively attacking anybody identified as a heretic, meaning anybody that isn't a hard-line loyalist. I'm not sure that translates to Trump votes, but I don't think it translates to Biden ones, either.

Hence, the hostility.

The Republicans are in a weird space. The Establishment faction is in total disarray, and the Trump faction is struggling with a civil service that is in large part actively hostile. Washington long-haulers are playing it safe, as if Trump is out come January, they go up against the wall, quite possibly in the literal sense.

No idea how things will play out, but the real worry is what happens afterwards.

Democrats will not accept a Trump victory. Republicans will not accept a Biden victory.

This is a bad place to be, folks. Never thought I would see things like this in my lifetime, but that's where we are.

[1] https://www.lwv.org/league-women-voters-and-candidate-debate...
I was in Atlanta during snowpocalypse of 2011. Georgia had TONS of Nissan Leafs because of a tax incentive that made it close to $0 to lease it. The highway had lots of stranded leafs because the battery died due to heating the car.
Does Figure 15 have a unit error? A 4G and 5G link can’t support 2500Km legs, right?
... the story says they forged FBI documents. Surely that's a crime?
Tesla's level of service drops like a cliff after the first year, at least in Europe. While it's still better than the traditional dealership model of service, it's nowhere close to the kind of service that a German car gets. Not to mention the fact that Tesla wants to play the Apple game and become exclusively set on retaining its exclusive OS. I can see more customer unfriendly behavior in the future.
I have found that the best method is to just add "reddit" to my search of the product name. While it is most certainly gamed, you still see mostly real content as well as descriptions and pictures of issues.

Seeing 4 posts with pictures of the same failure on reddit is a pretty good sign the product has a problem.
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I think a pressurised spray done frequently enough (every few days) wouldn't need much water and certainly less than I use in a daily shower.
Why not cosmetics/shampoo/soap bottles? These are usually quite substantial, especially if they have a push-down dispenser.

Plastic bags are a miracle of efficiency, often find second uses bin liners, etc, and if collected properly and buried (again, properly) can act as a carbon sink.

I do agree with banning plastic cutlery - it's nearly always bundled with take-out whether you want it or not.
No one can't "beat" the dilemma. We can do is designing well and deciding a good compromise point.

> but not so much for a console sitting at the other end of the room, as long as you leave enough room for air flow.

Manufacturer won't expect all gamers put the console on large living room. Possibly the console is put on asian small one room.

To extend your thought, cloud gaming would be the answer. Heat, noise, and size is on datacenter.
It seems like the only people who would need FBI documents would also know a fake wasn't theirs?
Right, because the impersonator set off the conspiracy theory, not the facts of the events.
If you tattle on your abuser to someone who supports your abuser, youre just going to get abused more...

If you're going to tattle, you have to be smart about how you go about it.

For example, their lawyer could avoid unneeded attention by not pushing for motions that generate national news headlines and fire up the conspiracy theorists.
Wow, the pilot's seat didn't eject because it didn't work as it was supposed to, allowing him to safely land the plane.
If they're specifically just UX designers and it's clearly minimalist design, then maybe not. If they're actually listing engineering skills, then hard yes.
prejudice--against what? Genuinely curious.
I'm not sure why you think that the two arguments are contradictory. Rights are always rights of private entities against the state. It's perfectly normal not to be bound by some right that you are at the same time claiming against the state.

Fundamental rights are very different from (for example) contract law where duties are often somewhat connected to each other.