skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You gonna cite some of these outlandish claims? Particularly interested in:

> The media ran every possible baseless story they could about Trump the past four years, often with zero supporting evidence to the story in question. Every time they turned out to be fake stories, the media conveniently ignored it, refused to run retractions and moved on to the next fraudulent story.

>You've got people inside of these companies directly working for the DNC and using company resources to violate federal campaign finance laws.
No.

https://twitter.com/miguelytob/status/1316569887175778304?s=...
Antivaxxers, people who deny the efficacy of mask wearing and social distancing in preventing the spread of airborne diseases, climate change deniers, people who think emacs is better than vim. There's a lot of cases where the evidence is plentiful and unrestricted speech is at odds with keeping the world going.
Pillars of Eternity is fantastic - I'd also recommend Divinity Original Sin in a similar "spiritual successor to Baldurs Gate" tone (the same developers are actually working on Baldurs Gate 3, although I would say Pillars felt more like a pseudo sequel than Divinity does). I haven't played Wasteland 2/3 but according to others they are worthy successors to Fallout 1/2 (and the same guy wrote the soundtrack!)

You should check out Dirt Rally 1 and 2 (not Dirt 1 and 2, they're different) if you liked the older Colin McCrae Rally games but hated the transformation into Monster Energy sponsored arcade racers when they dropped the Colin McCrae branding - they're a return back to the semi realistic simcade style and are actually really good.

I also highly recommend everything made by Zachtronics games (the dev of Opus Magnum) - also try Shenzhen IO if you want to go further into the "it's just programming with more concrete goals" style of puzzle game, or Infinifactory if you want something that still has the same design optimization feel but feels a bit less like your day job.

I don't know if you ever played the Age of Wonders series back in the day, but I recommend those as something along the lines of HOMM, for the more recent titles Age of Wonders 3 seems to be well received, but the sci fi spinoff Planetfall has less positive reception.

I also don't know if you were ever in to business sim games, but Cities Skylines, Planet Zoo and Planet Coaster are all worthy successors to Sim City, Zoo Tycoon and Rollercoaster Tycoon respectively. Transport Fever is also a good Railroad Tycoon esque game, although if you were heavily into the latter I don't know if it will quite feel the same.

I find this third party steam search tool very useful for finding games: https://www.lorenzostanco.com/lab/steam/store/ - type in a mix of genre tags you're interested in, specify > about 50 user reviews, sort by user rating. If the results look a bit too low budget to you bump the minimum user rating.

EDIT: Oh and I forgot Factorio. Although maybe stay away from that one if you value your free time... it might suck you in hard.
At least you get a helpful warning if you try to declare a variable without a block.
I thought that initially, but the transcript is wrong or at least questionable, the pilot says something like:

> We just saw a flying object like a flight suit jet pack pass by at 6000

He may also have said “Too shiny and too fast” at the end as well
Made me think of DBaseII
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Yup, the arbitrage (of utility & free exploration vs. corporate monetization) that the internet provided is receeding. Another example is Youtube. It used to to be free to watch videos; now there are multiple ads being shown. It's only a matter of time before it becomes exactly like cable tv, where you have ~3-5 minute ad breaks per 15 minutes AND a monthly payment. We're in the middle step, where you can pay Youtube Red OR watch multiple short/skippable ads. I'll give it 10 years before the internet becomes exactly like cable in the early 2000s.
Don't be confused. Regardless of political leaning, the police are not your friends. If the US were to degrade to a dictatorship it would be the police rounding up the "undesirables".
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When companies say they're allowing permanent WFH, we have to consider this in the context of a non-covid world. After lockdowns are over, people who work from home will not be isolated to the same extent. They can go to a restaurant or park and eat lunch. They can see neighbors in-person. It will not be nearly as isolating as covid-induced WFH is.
Human information sharing has changed so much in such a short time. In the history of the US, the transitions from newspapers to radio took roughly the first ~150 years of the country. In just 30 years we've gone from TV->Social Media. Social media and the internet are just so different from anything we've had before.

1. Local newspapers (controlled by few)

2. Mail (1->1)

3. Radio (controlled by few)

4. Phone (1->1)

5. TV (controlled by few)

6. Internet (1->Millions)

7. WhatsApp/Texts (1->Few)

8. Social Media (1->Millions)

My first reaction to the social media companies is one of fear that a private type of "ministry of truth" is being setup. However, it would seem that in the vast majority of our history that is the same setup we've had. Of course newspapers, radio and broadcast TV all had small groups of people determining truth and what was worthy news. That gives me some comfort that maybe these problems aren't that dire or new.

My big fears are:

-Internet infrastructure companies blocking access to content they disagree with[1]. While yet that blocking has started with the most egregious content, will they continue to block less egregious content?

-The lack of trust in institutions and the differing priorities and truths pushed by different institutions. Why should the people trust any facts coming out of any of these major institutions when they appear so biased? Yesterday (when I looked) on the homepage of FoxNews.com Hunter Biden was referenced >20 times. Completely missing on CNN.com or MSNBC.com.

-How can these companies maintain a semblance of neutrality when their employee bases are so skewed and seem to have such a huge level of groupthink?

[1]https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/08/05/0323200/cloudflare-...
Lawsuit halts deceptive imitation of the Washington Health Benefit Exchange site
Misinformation is such an Orwellian term, considering most "facts" and "fact checking" are subjective unless it's hard numbers, but even using numbers and stats isn't enough anymore because even they must be interpreted within the context of contradictory concepts like a persons lived experience.
They failed because they lost the war.
You probably did great engineering, but wow, you could still fit multiple websites in that.
I've thought a bit about the "It’s real, and it’s probably all that extra CO2 in the atmosphere" option a bit, myself. It seems to be a worldwide phenomenon, with IQ's dropping [1] for the past few decades, and seemingly a bit of a resurgence in fascistic world leaders. I know increased CO2 does have a negative impact on cognitive ability—but I'm not sure what levels yield a meaningful effect.

Regardless, no harm in having a small arsenal of houseplants!

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/13/health/falling-iq-scores-stud...
we are using this thing — http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu/dists/focal/main/ins... , it is loaded with PXE.

It doesn't put a "customized image of some sort" on servers, it literally iterates through installer steps with the autoanswers provided by preseed file.

You might say that it is customized since we wrote a preseed file. Well maybe, but it's not a "customized image". Also we didn't write any specific code to remove unwanted packages. It just doesn't install them. No weird packages like byobu :)
Depends. They have incentives to not allow costly precedents. However they also have incentive to ensure that when this goes mainstream there are precedents in their favor.

If they believe the "accident" is either a one-off (meaning they will fix the bug and a whole class never happens again) they will probably pay off quick just because their image is better for that.

If they decide the accident was their fault, not avoidable with better software, AND despite that they are still significantly safer than humans they probably pay out, adjust their price models to insurance against their faults. In this case they may fight, but it will be for "reasonable" settlements (whatever they decide that is, but probably based on similar human caused accidents)

My guess is they think one of the two are the case for everything by now, so the other possibilities don't need to be listed.

Of course the above is my guess. You can be sure those who know are not talking.
Identity theft itself is an example of regulatory failure. How is it my problem that you gave someone a loan based on practically public information?

They should have to prove, beyond simply an SSN, that an individual is responsible for the debt before being able to send it to collections or report it to credit agencies.
Agreed. My complaint isn't even so much about the abuse itself, it's the accompanying song and dance about the superiority of democracy, the trustworthiness of the press, the claims to the systemic & cultural superiority of the US over "authoritarian", "speech-restricting" countries like China, etc etc etc. It stops being funny after a while. At least China's leaders are honest about what they are: communist authoritarians. They also seem to be doing a much, much better job at governing on almost all points (obvious issues like the Uyghurs situation excepted of course).
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My non-apple desktops and laptops have been running linux exclusively since 2004 or so (though I also have a Mac running MacOS in the last few years).

I installed Win10 for a relative who needed Win10 a couple of years ago, and ran Tr0nscript at the time. Somehow, that machine is usable and doesn't feel like a commercial. All other Win10 machines I've encountered do.
What hacker communities did you grow up in where the only free speech worth protecting was the US President's?
One of the few indiehacker/solo founder app that I use daily and wouldnt mind shelling out for PRO features. Excellent execution. Came from chrome native bookmarking and never going back.
Yes. And the flip side is you have people who hate WFH (especially in the current situation) who liked the everyone in the office model really fear that, even absent 100% remote, the in-office experience will be much reduced with many of their co-workers coming in seldom. And meetings will all still be on Zoom.

There are a lot of incentives to stake out positions. People don't really want to be fully remote at a company where most of their co-workers go back into the office most of the time and people mostly don't want to go back into an office where it's mostly just teams having all-day meetings now and then.
Maybe stupidity is just entertaining and gets promoted because of that?

As I watch another flat earth debunking video suggested by youtube to have a laugh I'm wondering ... Am I the part of the problem?

How popular stupidity would be without people pointing fingers at stupidity and laughing?
You can check out Drone.io. It's based around plugins, which are basically Docker containers which accept env variables for configuration and a volume with the code (which Drone clones from git). You can easily write custom plugins in any language you want, test them, and run them locally outside of Drone with little configuration.
I use it fairly often to mail myself links to websites that I want to explore in more detail or text that I want to save.

I could use an online service for it but most of the time I find these sites while at work and online storage sites are usually blocked for us. But email is open and allows me to send data to my personal account to be explored later when I have time.
Free speech moved from everyone having a voice on _their_ servers to people being entitled to say what they want on _your_ servers. There have been moderators ever since people gathered on someone’s server to discuss things.

Moderators still exist even though we are not just on IRC anymore.

Your idea of free speech doesn’t exist in communal internet spaces as abundantly as you might believe. Perhaps it never did.
Not so muddy as that - the exact truth may be hard to pinpoint. But outright falsehoods are still pretty plain.
Thanks for the submission ... it's always a great feeling when something you write is submitted to HN.

It was also submitted earlier, and is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24786731

That's from me, the author, and I use HN notify to check if anyone replies. If anyone has any questions then comment on the post, reply to this comment, or comment on the other submission, and I'll definitely see it.
Specialization and division of labor is literally a defining aspect of civilization. Did you forget a couple zeros? The industrial revolution alone was starting around 1760, which is 260 years ago, and evidence for the existence of civilization extends quite a bit further back than that...
Speech is considered violence by some people. It has been this way since the late 80's but it was confined to certain subcultures that weren't taken too seriously. But they have taken over certain institutions, like the university (and increasingly big-tech), and own that platform and teach this as esteemed fact rather than an opinion.

And it's dangerous because when you equate speech with violence then how far are we from responding with a so called violent act with actual violence?

One thing they've gotten right is that discourses (how we talk about things) does in fact have a lot of power. So controlling discourses means you consolidate power. When you control how we talk about things then you can control what we talk about. When you control that, then you control how people think about things and you've now successfully won the culture and therefore seized actual, real power. Like being able to use a small minority of corporate activists to pressure a company into viewing certain content as violent or "problematic" and other content as orthodox and therefore appropriate to "platform".

This is how the church worked in the West for years, how it still does in certain places (Saudi Arabia) - by using dogma to determine what is right and wrong. To become the sole arbiter on what is knowledge and what is blasphemy and therefore the authority to discipline and punish.

This is where we are.
So what?

> This program was simply another extension of the US's march towards authoritarianism.

That was the original claim. You're the only one who's talking about the current administration.
To be blunt, this seems completely trivial and not worthy adding an external dependency for. Leave alone a recurrent fee, which I suspect you might be planning.
Usenet newsgroups were social networks, if one recalls the digressive flame wars that could result there, I'd say.
Curious about why people downvote this. Really just curious about specifics, as I fully understand that people have different opinions on gun ownership. I used to be really against gun ownership too.

Is it because
1. I didn't state facts? I double checked videos
2. I took what politicians' words out of context? Again, I double checked the context.
3. I should not use a gun whatsoever? But then how do I protect myself, assuming escaping is not an option (of course I'll try to run first).
4. This is advocating violence? Then what's a better alternative?
What kind of bookmarks do you keep so you need encryption? Have you tried xbrowsersync.org?
Well we are destroying the global economy over an illness not much worse than the common cold...so yes it is.
I think it's because both of those things (battery EVs and driverless cars) are assumed to be "the future of cars", so they've been conflated together as future trends for automotive technology. You probably have Tesla to blame for that, as the company is pursuing both, and everyone is looking at Tesla.

The technologies are orthogonal, but I do think it does make sense to pursue both of these things together. EVs are much more energy efficient. They will cost less energy to run. The choice to go to EVs also makes sense if you think about robotaxis, as EVs will require much less maintenance, they have much fewer moving parts.

You also have the environmental argument to consider. Gasoline-powered Uber rides are not environmentally friendly. The general assumption is that robotaxis will decrease the price-per-ride to the point where there will be a big shift towards less people owning cars, and probably also less people using mass transit. That will mean less people taking buses and more people in cars. If all of your robotaxis are EVs, this is less of a concern.
I've been here over 10 years and I don't really recall seeing anything other than blatant spam or crap removed in that time. Maybe I've just not seen it happen. But, the way things seem to have worked here (very well I might add) is that when enough of the community disagrees, things get downvoted to death and if you don't have "Show dead" enabled, you don't see them. Your choice. I've had show dead enabled as long as I can remember because I like to see everything posted.

Sometimes I agree with things a lot of people here clearly disagree with and I'm fine with that. I can decide to either argue my/their case or move on and accept we have different views. Maybe sometimes seeing things heavily downvoted here changes my mind on subject as well and question if my views are right or not.

We can't all agree about everything all the time. Sometimes I'm right, sometimes I'm wrong. We all are, nobody is ever 100% right, 100% of the time. I sure as hell don't want somebody else controlling everything I see and read because they think it might give me the "wrong" ideas. I'm an adult and I should be allowed to make my own mind up and most importantly question things, as should everybody else, regardless of education level or where they "fit" into society.

When I think about all of the forums and comment sections I regularly interact with, the ones with the most open, democratic, free speech, with little to no direct moderation seem to be the most engaging, tolerant and frankly, nicer places. I've given up on engaging with anything that's heavily moderated or frankly, blatantly biased - Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, etc. and I feel a lot happier.

‘I would rather have questions that cannot be answered, than answers that cannot be questioned’ - Richard Feynman.
Downvotes because I'm wrong, or because of butthurt neolibertarians don't know the history of the word they've co-opted?
Ummm, IMAP? Reading the article, this was my first thought: email applications like IMAP clients that work offline are the perfect example of this philosophy.

If you can't access your mail provider, you still have all the data from the last time you did, you can search old emails because they're stored locally (you can set how much you want to keep for these situations), and you can write an email and it will be stored in the outbox to be sent when connectivity is restored. In other words, your email experience is exactly the same as with connectivity, except for a banner that reminds you that it hasn't been able to download new mail since HH:mm.
Exactly. Amplification is like a printing press.

The infinite scrolling, sound-biteized, dopamine hit farming, engagement (and outrage) maximized social media is more like this: https://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/mp/7aRQwqq77srl.jpg

Key to this is that the objective isn't interest, it's "engagement", addictive behaviour and advertising consumption. It may be content that you hate, or-- better-- content that depresses you: Sapped of initiative you just keep scrolling and clicking, and some studies have show that depressed people are easier to influence and more vulnerable to advertising.
I suspect that, after the large-scale Trump-era rollback of Obama-era executive orders (mirroring, of course, a similar transition in 2008), the electorate and political classes are starting to figure out that executive orders don't have a lot of sway once your party loses control of the executive.
Like CantorDust by Christopher Domas@Batelle?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bM3Gut1hIk really blew my mind when I saw it.

Btw. about 8 years later they finally delivered, by releasing it as plug-in for Ghidra! Yay!

https://github.com/Battelle/cantordust
Is it more or less mind-blowing to look around and note that virtually everything in our houses and offices--electronics, pots and pans, tables and chairs, autos, etc.--came out of the ground?

Think about all the ore-bearing rock and soil that had to be mined, sifted, transported, refined, formed, milled, transported again, and so on, just to produce the machine that puts a label on a box.

Even putting truly complex tech aside, the amount of resources we collectively tear through, day after day, to get to this (not particularly admirable) place is staggering.
This is my favorite version of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bM3Gut1hIk&list=PLUyyOw61zx...

Some people have taken this concept very far. Batelle's CantorDust (was?) a pretty fully developed 3D visualization software for binary packages utilizing many different views and filters with convenient UX for selecting blocks of code graphically and zooming in on the corresponding hex, or vice-versa.

Edit: I looked very hard for this software about 6-12 months ago and couldn't find anything...it appeared to be vaporware. However, 'LargoLasskhyfv posted in this thread tree at the exact same time I did and noted that it was just released about 3 months ago as a plugin for Ghidra. I'm very excited to play around with it.
I chose navigation as my example because there have been real-world instances of "mathwashing" in this field.
Owning and running an email server is a great undertaking. However a lot of email providers will give you the option to use your own domain with their service. Gmail (Workspace) and Fastmail have it and it's pretty straightforward to setup. Even setting up DKIM and SPF is pretty easy.

Also having a backup of the email messages is very handy.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva is the traditional guardian of international humanitarian law, and has led the development of additions to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, such as the Additional Protocols 1 and 2 (https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/resources/documents/misc/additio...). You can reach them at +41-22-734-60-01