skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fucking hate conspiracy theories. I spend (or waste) way too much time online arguing with conspiracy theorists and debunking conspiracy theories. Trump is definitely the conspiracy theorist in chief. It's beyond insanity.

But just like conspiracy theories are irrational, kneejerk dismissing all negative stories as conspiracy theories is also irrational. There's a much more reasonable way of handling this. Things always have to be taken on a case-by-case basis.

You mention boy-who-cried-wolf, and NY Post is definitely a shitty and extremely biased outlet, but probably about as biased as modern day CNN. Both have peddled a lot of hyperbole and unjustified shit, and both have also reported on real things. As far as I know, the NY Post never supported absurd conspiracy theories like Pizzagate or QAnon.

NY Post certainly hyped up Hillary's private email server well beyond the point of reason and fairness, but this scenario would exactly be like if every non-right-biased news outlet all decided to never publish any story even mentioning that she had a private email server that she may have used for non-personal affairs. Of course it'd be extremely irresponsible to have headlines about her email server every day, but it's just as irresponsible to consider the mere existence of the topic an unspeakable matter, as it would be if Twitter were to have censored every link to an article mentioning that she had a private email server she's alleged to have used for non-personal things. This is the Streisand effect in action, here.

It's simply not rational to assume that any story Trump supports is probably untrue. He lies an unbelievable amount, but if you assume 60% of everything that ever comes out of his mouth is a lie, that 40% could still have some real things worth trying to look at objectively. And in this case, this isn't some thing he just peddled entirely himself out of the blue; a newspaper reported on it, even if they're a very biased newspaper. He's going to support anything that he thinks helps his campaign, and not everything that helps his campaign is necessarily bullshit, even if a lot is.

This absolutist stance is part of the thing that only bolsters his constant accusations of fake news - "fake news" has in some sense become a self-fulfilling prophecy in some cases, like here. The left never followed Hillary's proclamation of "when they go low, we go high". Every year, the opposition sinks lower and lower, gradually trending towards the level of the other side. And that's probably exactly what Trump wants and has been trying to trigger.
> If you want people to take climate change seriously, you need to publish conservative numbers and ring the bell when things end up worse than you predicted. Include a word of caution that things could be worse when you publish the conservative numbers, but don't start out with the worst-case scenario if you want to be taken seriously in the future.

Isn't that basically saying "just pray that it's not that bad, and that you can react fast enough if it is bad"?

This seems to give up on any rational attempt at handling risk solely because you're giving in to the least rational instincts of the herd...

Yes, people are bad at dealing with probability. No, that doesn't mean that we (and especially leaders) don't have a responsibility to do better.
I just downloaded it. Looks nice.

Using it has revealed something frustrating that dates back to when I worked on Spotlight (then called Matador) in 2003. Someone (not named to protect the guilty) decided that file extensions should override file magic type detection. Now all my Typescript files are identified as MPEG-2 Transport Stream files. Wrong!

Finder won't show the text preview, which means Raycast won't show a preview. Is there anyway to get Raycast to do the right thing?
Lofting things seems like a super great place to deploy some electric powered flight systems. It's a bit nebulous where power comes from- nuclear? solar? thermal convector engines? how? a boat? solar pilons?

But the vision seems cool. The battery doesn't have to be big. As long as it can charge fast, and is long lived, it can keep delivering power & energy, coming back down, charging, & doing it again. Persistence.
You know what, you're right. I've been getting a bit annoyed by Drift anyways. So until we launch our own automated chat and search widget, I might as well just remove the current one. Done
That is exactly the point of the spectacle.

Exactly. Look over there at that, OMG it is soo interesting....
The response on HN to this is a disgrace.
So many Americans have $125 laying around, so nice of you. Truly, you guys are heroes .
If it's againat Biden it's misinformation and if you don't agree you are alt right. Conpiracy theorist. Also Russia collusion has been proven.
> No, it doesn’t take that much skill. I think this is the source of the problem.

It does take skill to make a proper SPA not to make an SPA.
Many more than two social groups.
Well, there is the obvious problem of obtaining a copy of the archive. There is also a usability problem. I despise email archives.

>Theoretical responding author:

>Yes, but there is a good reason for that.

There is an example linked [0] in the first blog post and I honestly don't understand how to read it. A lot of information is being drowned out by the patch file. The diff is in a separate tab on Github. The response hierarchy is inverted.

>Theoretical responding author:

>You'll get used to it in no time.

The idea of responses being a quote inside the text they are responding to is absurd. I honestly can't comprehend it.
Usually people quote the text they are responding to, not the opposite. Why do things have to be so complicated? Github doesn't even have a hierarchy. It's just an ordered list of messages.

[0] https://lists.sr.ht/~philmd/qemu/patches/5556
"By walking into this mall, you agree to relinquish your identity"
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I did, when it came out. Labeling them as rioters did not make the piece any less concerning.

Read up on the Reichstag fire and how it was used to justify suspension of civil rights. The parallels are striking.
I agree with you that climate scientists are being too conservative, but I fail to see why that's good.

Imagine an aviation engineer being "too conservative" with potential dangers (i.e., accept too much risk) because if you raise an alarm and it turns out to be not as bad as predicted, you will have cost the company $$$ and hurt your career. Would you call that a good thing?
It sounds like they wouldn't let him publish an article about the Hunter Biden situation.

Why not share details of what he wanted to publish and what they barred and let people make up their own minds?

He says in this letter that he will publish it soon on Substack, but that sort of takes the wind out of the sails of his "liberals are censoring me" argument.
>Why is the next half a degree of warming so much worse?

A 3 degree F fever is okay with some bedrest and ibuprofen, but a 6 degree F fever can kill you. There are breaking points in every system. Half the stress of a breaking point is usually fine.
I misread it and was looking at one of the other languages.
I suppose the sunlight will constantly keep blowing the dust off the Lagrange point, after which it will orbit Earth, and maybe eventually fall down onto Earth, or back to the Moon.

I wonder what kind of orbits it's going to have, because we speak of many megatons here, even if finely dusted.
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I don't see how his arguments are highly specious or any less accurate.

> On paper, but like all things in China enforcement is a completely different thing. There are many ways around it and it's much easier when Canada's AML and KYC requirements would make a 1980s' Caribbean Banker blush.

Yes, if you have the right connections, which almost all these investors have, it's no biggie to move money out of China. I don't know about Canadian laws to make a comparison about Canadian laws to a Caribbean banker in the 80s. But I do know that the Chinese are plowing money everywhere - Malaysia, Thailand, parts of Europe, Singapore, almost all of them are being massively bought by Chinese investors. Does not take a genius to figure out that the CCP plan has either failed, or more likely was just political grandstanding for their Weibo and QQ fans.

> Even a municipal vacancy tax is just a new cost of doing business.

When you're a monied investor, taxes just become operating costs. I remember back in the day, my family in a Gulf country had to pay an exorbitant part of our income to get a "license fee" to set up a tiny restaurant no bigger than a Subway. Now, I just opened a satellite office for investors in one of the fanciest districts in the country and those license fees are just a cost of doing business. Not to mention, I'm getting a fuck ton of local subsidies to do that, driving my costs further. This is the case with almost all major cities in emerging markets I know of struggling to build an ecosystem (Singapore, KL, Dubai, Riyadh, etc).

> Further, the Canadian Liberals and BoC have both signalled that they intend to devalue the CAD and prop up real-estate. You'd be a fool as a Chinese foreign investor to not dump money into Canadian real estate. It's de-facto government-backed at this point, comes with a Canadian passport, and the Canadian Liberals will never move a finger against you or China.

I don't know if it's tied to the Liberals, but the CAD has seen significant devaluation against the dollar the past 5 years or 10 years (excluding the effects of USD appreciation too). I also do not know about Canadian govt incentives to boost real estate, but that's not far fetched to assume from #2. Current requirements for citiznship by investment (in Quebec, the federal programme was shut down) show a requirement of only CAD 2 million as net worth, not even direct investment, and an intention to settle in Quebec. Alternatively, one could set up a BS company and get a federal pass through. Both of which aren't hard for the typical Chinese investor to prove. So yes, the government programme does come with an easy passport at the end of it.

Lastly, let's be honest - Canada only took on Meng Wanzhou because the US told them to. If they were really serious about Huawei breaching the Iran sanctions, they would have to arrest a number of other Chinese businessmen who own property in Canada, as well as a number of Arab and Iranian businessmen, who don't have qualms skirting the sanctions. Canada is only standing up to China at the moment, because they have US backing, and because it's Meng Wanzhou.
Not yet but it's on the roadmap! Several pen source repositories are requesting this feature as well, to monitor development with their contributors and we need to ship this. We've discovered there are very few options for open source communities to monitor and track/report on progress - and the cost for hundreds of contributors can become prohibitive with other PM tools.
No, they (Google employees in public online spaces) clearly said that Google Analytics metrics are not used for ranking. I am not sure if this is the official answer, but I personally didn't see any rank issues after I removed Google Analytics from my site.
> I think most people underestimate their networks. Not saying you're wrong, but you've worked with people, right? Hopefully not been a complete ass :) ? Done work on a team with or adjacent to them?

Wait, I wasn't supposed to be a complete ass? Uh oh. :(
Literally google it, come on. "Mars artificial magnetic field." We'll wait.
That's not how basic fact checking works. You don't just single source a story on the basis of that sources "trust me."
I see hints of this rationale all the time on wallstreetbets. It comes with a heavy dose of nihilism and maybe a bit of hedonism. Why invest and wait 30-40 yrs for retirement if there's not going to be a world to retire into? Hence, they go all in on risky option plays.
Sometimes they manually down-rank stories to take them out of sight, and sometimes the storry gets flagged so much. But it is #6 on the front page right now.
I had misread it.

As for the custom type in typescript. I am not too keen on that approach but I suppose it is valid.
Really should just be "Hey, We're giving you the 3rd off to vote and also the 4th if you show your I voted sticker on twitter!" Creates a lot of good buzz, good time off and a easy moral boost.
You would think that if that were the case, he would publish it alongside this letter.

Edit; he did: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-b...
Unfortunately, the geometry of a sphere is such that half of the total area of Earth is between +/- 30 degrees latitude. The areas that will be improved are much smaller than the areas that will get worse.
You really hope it is dont you?
I would suggest you to go and read some "news pages" from the dark side, the ones you dont agree with. The evidences are overwhelming. You can literally find Biden Hunter porn by now on the web because some stuff has leaked. Ofc its all fabricated by the people who fabricated the laptop and phones and 3000 emails and instant messages and what not. Must be Russia or China behind it except none of them have any interest in harming the Biden campaign.
My point was that its not a "left" or "right" phenomenon. The political extremes tend to resemble one another as they are willing to forego principles such as free speech in order to suppress political opponents. Everyone should be very weary of this. We can survive Trump, what we can't survive is a press that feels the need to censor content. If they get away with it, they will use it again and again.
there is a huge opportunity for a trusted institution to do journalism

There are new media organizations that do very good work, independently. But you have to look for them, and most people are too lazy to bother seeking out quality journalism when the garbage is forced in front of them every waking second by social media.

The other problem is that most of the good work is regional. WTTW in Chicago, The Texas Tribune in Texas, various public radio stations around the country. There's plenty of good journalism. But it's an effort to piece it all together.
Are you saying we shouldn't protect consumers?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_sea_ice_decline#Ice-fre...

> Many scientists have attempted to estimate when the Arctic will be "ice-free". Professor Peter Wadhams of the University of Cambridge is among these scientists; Wadhams in 2014 predicted that by 2020 "summer sea ice to disappear," Wadhams and several others have noted that climate model predictions have been overly conservative regarding sea ice decline. A 2013 paper suggested that models commonly underestimate the solar radiation absorption characteristics of wildfire soot. In 2007, Professor Wieslaw Maslowski from the Naval Postgraduate School, California, predicted removal of summer ice by 2013; subsequently, in 2013, Maslowski predicted 2016 ±3 years.
> the inability of society to support an excess of people who expect to be in the elite.

For what it's worth, I have known a large number of people taking or having advanced degrees, only a small fraction of who would expect to be in "the elite" because of it.

Perhaps this is somewhat an issue of self identification though.
It's also the kind of story that can break someone's journalistic career.

Even Fox News wouldn't run the story because it wasn't supported by facts.

And last I heard, there still has been no concrete evidence of wrongdoing. Tucker Carlson claims that his evidence "got lost in the mail". In the age of the internet, they didn't snap any photos of this so-called proof?

There is no "there" there. Just a bunch of internet sleuths with MS paint red circles and theories about deep states. And your comment falls into this category.
1 million in a few centuries seems feasible given the likely advances in technology. Hundreds of millions would require terraforming, which will likely take millennia. But those timescales are relatively short if human civilization persists. Even if Mars does not end up being ideal enough, Venus could be on a longer time scale. The article is short sighted.
So perhaps they'll go after ad blockers next?
HN is largely a disgraceful place these days, except for content explicitly related to technology.
I would argue that the former is easier than the latter.
> Source?

There is no source that disputes the authenticity of the Hunter Biden documents. On the contrary, there are many pieces of evidence (such as Secret Service travel logs) that support them.

The liberal media spreads disinformation as often as it condemns it, this is just one example. They will happily bend over backwards and contort themselves into the most bizarre logical positions in order to do so: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1320358217382268934

> "We must treat the Hunter Biden leaks as if they were a foreign intelligence operation — even if they probably aren't."
One example would be it is not possible to even make a PR request on Github as half the GUI no longer works in non-WebComponents browers. If it were open source we could perhaps see what WebComponent feature they think is missing and implement it in the browser engine, as it is they do not have any desire to collaborate and the black box makes it all the more difficult to debug.

Github's response:
"... further degradation is a likelihood. I appreciate that this is disappointing and frustrating for you..." - https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?p=202146#p202146
One thing I've wondered is at what point this becomes a campaign finance issue.

Publications (and social networks) are free to only host speech they agree with. However, advertising in the same forum supposedly has value. If a company is promoting stories for a certain candidate or issue, and banning all stories/posts/accounts against, why does that not count as an in-kind donation, worth as much as the equivalent ads would cost?

(Not arguing that this practice is illegal per se, but it seems like it should be acknowledged/reported.)
The paper is gone. Maybe someone has a link.

Looks like inline caching of some specific ops with certain types. Some arith and call ops are optimized this way.

It also looks like dynasm was later replaced by the much slower llvm, so it needs heavy warmup.
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its very similar to what a company called Locarise do in Japan. It's not identifying anyone, merely seeing buyer hotspots, queues, recording visitor numbers, etc. All very valuable to a mall and imo quite harmless to the user if they are not identified
Fox News argued before Mary Kay Vyskocil, United States District Judge, well, to use the court's words: "Fox persuasively argues, that given Mr. Carlson's reputation, any reasonable viewer 'arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism' about the statement he makes."

My question to you is: are you arriving with an appropriate amount of skepticism?

Tucker Carlson is not a credible source, and nothing aired on that program "showed" anything definitive except accusations that were made. The Wall Street Journal ran their own story on these allegations and found no link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/hunter-bidens-ex-business-partn...
This app made my trip to Bali you have to use it on your next trip
Anyone else had any cool travel stories because of an app?
> he doesn’t do is let his political disagreements pervert his legal opinions on constitutional matters

I think the idea of the "apolitical" constitution is more myth than reality. Dershowitz is perhaps a liberal in the classic political philosophy sense, but I would not call him a "prominent liberal" in the American sense.

He also might have been 'blacklisted' because he was at least somewhat credibly accused of pedophilia.
He said he'll be publishing it on his blog very soon. He may have submitted an incomplete draft to The Intercept for review, and is still finishing it up.
Some of those people who are likely to have a really bad time have nukes. India and Pakistan, for example. They both depend on water from Himalayan glaciers.

If they get in a war over dwindling water and it goes nuclear, the effects could be felt globally. Ironically, a big effect could be global cooling, which would set crop yields around the world plummeting. That would only last for a few years, maybe 10 tops, and then we'd be back to warming, but a hell of a lot of people would have died due to widespread famine during that time.

China also makes heavy use of Himalayan glacier water, but I don't think they'd nuke anyone over it. A few other countries also depend on the glaciers, but India, Pakistan, and China are the only ones with nukes.
Oops, yeah, thanks for catching.
Don't contribute anything relevant in web forums
How much of an impact would a Biden administration have on helping with climate change? Beside policy changes would they support moonshot research?
What about the Ocarina of Time rom hack, "Missing Link" [1,2]? That added entirely new worlds and dungeons, but was a rom hack. You could supposedly play it on real Nintendo 64 Disk Drive hardware.

Nintendo shut that down.

(I've been trying to find a copy...)

[1] https://youtu.be/dNmlYJ5bpl8

[2] https://youtu.be/n6hdlxgDixE
What kind of question is this? Are you intending to imply that some people are less deserving of privacy purely based on if they shop at malls?
There have always been socialite-class journalists, and under-class journalists. The problem is that the people coming out of journalism schools these days want fame and to become YouTube stars, rather than change the world for the better. And the schools optimize for this desire in order to keep the tuition money flowing in.
The decals might be installed on the inside doors that lead from shoppers drug Mart to the the mall.
Got it. Can you show an example of modifiying the button label outside of the button click? I am curious how you would modify values outside of the scope of the event handler.
Thank you (both of you!). Agreed - I mean the design pattern, but I was being a bit vague.
I believe that you are talking about Assange and the GPG key, right? I believe that that was a former Guardian journalist, not Greenwald.
> Not good for editing, not good for copying or moving code, not good for navigating, not good for working with brackets or parenthesis

Hmm. OK, I wonder why. For me M-h selects a a paragraph. Repeated M-h selects further. M-w copies it. S-M-{ or S-M-} to jump by paras.

M-s . for symbol lookup. In that family you can do highlight regexp or line.

M-s o - get an overview of every line that matches what you want ('occurs')

etc. etc.

Macros, registers (using these to store large chunks of text, basically class templates). etc.
It's scary I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.
Life is boring. Internet is death. One might build something cool and just tell no one, cause people not just don't congratulate but share as theirs. No respect land.
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Another Wall Street Journal article, this time from the news desk, found no link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/hunter-bidens-ex-business-partn...
Ugh. I hate this political framing. Forget about the president. Ultimately, why I find the substance of this argument compelling is because the masses, even on this website, very greatly underestimate the engineering challenges involved in colonizing another planet. This is a problem so far beyond our current capabilities that we can't even project a timeline on when such a thing might be possible. It's also very possible it may never be practical to achieve. For these reasons, it's foolish to propagate the idea that colonizing another planet is a realistic solution for any problems we're facing on this planet.

With all that stated, I still think it's worthwhile to try for a variety of reasons; we are natural explorers, we are curious, there are huge boons to research and technology as a side effect of this work and as far as Trump goes this is one of the least worthwhile aspects of his presidency to complain about.