skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the catch! I will add a fix for that soon.

As you've noticed, this tool still has quite a few kinks to work out. I can't tell you how much this sort of feedback helps!
I'm curious which parts of the past strike you as being from "another planet", because I tend to get the opposite impression.

Past people didn't have our tech level, but otherwise strike me as being very obviously fellow humans.

(confer Marcus Aurelius' complaint that even when you're the emperor of Rome, you still have to deal with idiots and jerks all day long)
Yet everyone here jumps of joy using stacks developed with Facebook money like React.
Did it fail on its own or was it helped that way? I can’t imagine any of the big players that drive a lot of the standardisation would be too keen on this ...
> catholics believe in salvation by works.

Faith and works.

Protestants tend to be about sola scriptura, but nowhere in the Bible does it say faith alone is all that you need. Rather, going to James 2:

> 14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

> 18 But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.”

> Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. 19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.

> 20 You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless[d]? 21 Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,”[e] and he was called God’s friend. 24 You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone.

* https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James%202
Maybe. Not very good PR when matrix.org is having massive performance issues all the time.

What fascinates me the most about matrix is that an org could setup their own federation bubble. Like a big game company would setup a new synapse instance for each studio they purchase and just federate them all together for a sort of DIY MS Teams alternative.
time spent doesn't work because it's only loosely correlated to the actual behavior they're trying to track, which is to read the tos. reading is not even perfectly correlated with understanding the tos, which is what we're really after.

this type of mistaken logic (loose correlations taken as tight ones) is everywhere. it's so common to look for secondary characteristics that can stand in for the desired one. and that's often how we get unintended consequences.
>> As a Model 3 owner, my personal favorite Tesla tidbit is that its market cap, now over $600 billion, amounts to over $1.25 million per car sold each year versus $9,000 per car for GM. What has 1929 got to equal that?

This example shows how shallow this analysis is. They totally ignoring shift to green energy and that Tesla is a participant in this market. They are also considering Tesla as just another carmaker in the market, not paying enough attention to the many core differences. GM in my view is as far anti-Tesla as you can get.
If you click on your profile name (top right), one of the links is for all your comments (also for submissions, favorite posts/comments, etc)..
its nice of you to assume the tech staff on the hill are any younger than 80yo reps themselves

i worked for a long while in various near-it jobs before transitioning to my current position in cyber /devops

i am quite sure that non-technical office security is crap under the best of circumstances

and that before a bunch of yahoos start rampaging around it

at least the employees know they are being tracked and easy to find ,pass security clearance and probably are not the dumbest of people

whereas Trump lot were obviously idiots,and under an impression they would not be persecuted

i dont see why some foreign actor couldnt pay one or more of them to install something or other
You need to connect with others. I think Manyverse is best used with SSB rooms where you can find others (to connect/follow), see https://github.com/staltz/ssb-room/blob/master/FAQ.md

Alternative is a Pub, but joining a Pub is not so great with Manyverse as it will download a lot of content to your mobile phone.
https://squoosh.app/ will let you encode avif and jpegxl if you want to test out your images.
No, in the context of societal development, progress is usually just forwards.

There's always someone who preferred the good old days, positive is subjective, or at least, subject to certain criteria, and even then, it's often multiple generations that pass before we know one way or another.
Show HN: To learn Clojure I made a “Spotify Wrapped”-like website for Goodreads
Death by Government (1994)
The Daily Express newspaper in the UK is quite famous for regularly having extreme weather on its front pages, and has been for as long as I can remember.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=daily+express+weather&atb=v81-1&ia...

I've just noticed they use Celsius to make it seem cold and still use Fahrenheit to make is seem hot. (Temperature in Fahrenheit has not been printed by the national weather forecaster since 1970).

So, it's not really a new trend.
Might the simpler explanation be that liberals tend to be measured in their criticisms of conservatives and perhaps that leads to sometimes underplaying things?
Sorry but this is a moot point. The real question to ask is do you think it's a good idea or fair to give equal access to Americans and those in nations with free speech, when we're not allowed or able to say what we want to the people of China?
Before the internet, if you had a dangerous, fringe idea, your community would ostracize you and your idea would die.
Now, you can find the fringe from all the other communities. I think it is good that our community has found a way to ostracize fringe, dangerous ideas.
> The point was how quickly Big Tech swooped-in

Seems like an odd definition of "quickly" to me.
Some updates:

Oasis is a new frontend (alternative to the Patchwork desktop app): https://github.com/fraction/oasis/

Manyverse continues development, including working on low-level database improvements, and gossip "rooms":
https://www.manyver.se/blog/2021-01-update

Planetary (iOS app) approaches public launch:
https://planetary.social/
https://viewer.scuttlebot.io/%25kXEXGmyNyo%2BuKkcySMwghVKpvR...
Do you have a problem with Twitter banning foreign enemies?
> I'm not sure why anyone uses any other website at all.

I'm in the US, and use both http://weather.gov and http://windy.com. I think they complement each other.

weather.gov is best for the "forecast discussion" page, which often gives backstory on which parts of the forecast are certain and which are speculative.

windy.com gives multiple forecasts from different agencies, which also helps calibrate confidence. They also have some great visuals, and a very good interface.
The Chinese government has its own foreign-language websites and even multiple foreign-language newspapers.
Fitness - I go to the gym 3-4 times a week. I spent 1-2 hours there. I am doing weight lifting. I also run some days. It's a discipline I am trying to maintain.

Diet - I do a fast on Mondays and don't eat anything heavy after 6 pm every day.

Sleep - I try my best to sleep at least 6-7 hours every day, usually go to bed around 9 pm.

I hope that helps.
I often don't even read what's written on the button? Am I lefally accepting something even if I'm just cliking buttons randomly to make anything useful happen in your app?
I would say both, and a bit more besides. I would say that the big players are actively disincentivized from supporting something like this.
Is this a thing in the US, that people believe they're faking weather forecasts? It sounds utterly bizarre to me?
But then you get an entirely new and surprising goop of problems like bursty lag problems (one out of 500 requests finishes in 5s instead of 0.1s), lack of consistency because one of the datacenters is offline, and so many others.

It's more like "you now have to deal with different problems" much more than it is "you have to deal with less problems". Maybe the problem quantity got reduced from 1000+ to 50+ but the latter might swallow much more time to solve so it's really questionable which of both is better.
> Half of this thread in a nutshell is loyalists who have a mediocre grasp on history.

Yes, I particularly love when people are trying to appeal to history and justify hate speech laws and Antifa to say that without them, a second Hitler could raise to power. I consider myself to be lacking in education, but damn.
Sounds good. Will check that out. Thanks.
Ask HN: What do you think of my strategy to change my field of work?
I am a software engineer(had been desk junkie for too long), introvert and English is not my first language. But I have given few presentations in may career to somewhere around 5 to 50 people. And I am not that good at general communication and presentation.

I have lot of ideas that pop-up in my mind. I want to do a startup with one of these ideas. I try to implement them and then realise that I lack three other very important skill-sets that a startup founder requires: marketing, sales and finance(at least in the initial stages of the startup). It is not important to just build things. One should be able to market it, sell it and manage the finances. Finance I will be able to manage, but marketing and sales requires going out(or even online) and talking to people, negotiating etc. These are the skills that I lack to some extent.

So here is what I was thinking. I should take an entry-level job at an organisation that requires talking to people on a regular basis. And recently I stumbled across an entry-level job that requires talking to people(from various companies, labs and R&D divisions) across the world and collecting information from them and then presenting it to internal and external stakeholders for business viability.

If I take this job, my whole career trajectory will change. Also, as this job is entry level the salary is very low(more than 50% pay cut).

I am thinking of going for it(I have not yet applied). But what do you think, does this strategy make sense?
Garage Gym and compound barbell movements. I usually work out at lunch
I've heard it frequently growing up in tromsø.

We have our share of bizarre weather this winter - while it's customary for snow to melt right before Christmas - I can't recall there being this little snow not only in December - but through Christmas and well into January.

I just went for a walk and watched people skating on the nearest pond - which is usually frozen this time of year, but also covered in a meter or more of snow.

Meanwhile they're having a white Christmas in Bergen.
Should be ShowHN:
I see people asking this question, let me flip it around: where is the guarantee (implicit or explicit) that in a free society we are owed a channel to broadcast a message?
This seems to be an overreaction, particularly when you have the option not to use it. Just like the majority (of Americans) choose not to use other "free speech" platforms in part because of the disinformation, propaganda, and bots roam free.
For all the "making the world a better place," it seems so many in tech would rather it be the downfall of society, just to make a stand on the absolute extremes of some hypothetical principles.
In Germany the government used census data tabulated on IBM punchcard equipment to find who to round up. Later, during the liquidation phase of the effort each camp had punch card equipment to help with maintaining the inventory of slave labor skills. That's what the number on the arm was for - the primary key. Copies of punched cards were sent to the central administrative HQ of the camp organization for additional processing and were used to identify specific skilled people who needed to be moved to other camps. Authoritarians rely on the stupid for the grunt work but they're not stupid themselves and can exploit technology to achieve their goals.
In this case I'm glad for the de-platforming of Parler, Trump etc. But as a knock-on effect, for anyone thinking of doing anything potentially controversial (and not just on the political right - this applies for things like WikiLeaks, and even Wikipedia itself - hosting "illegal numbers" etc) this will make companies think twice before relying on apps and the likes of AWS. For the moment, at least, webapps (vs app store apps) and self-hosted servers (potentially in a different country) are much safer from this kind of existential risk...
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I don’t see a slippery slope here.

All the precedents here are well established.

Explicit, credible calls for violence have never been protected speech. Parler’s own TOS forbid it. No moderation effort can be perfect, but we don’t need to argue in this case whether their moderation is sufficient. A violent insurrection was openly discussed and organized by thousands on Parler and then they went and did it. Lin wood called for the execution of the Vice President and many of his followers attempted to do just that.

In terms of the limits on a person or business to control with whom they will do business, utilities — ISPs in this case — should be regulated so they can only deny service for specific, limited reasons. They generally are, though I know this needs improvement.

Beyond that, businesses and individuals should have wide latitude to decide who to do business with.

What concerns me is the strange inversion freedom of speech has undergone in the Trump era. Instead of protecting the people from the government, it’s now invoked to protect the government — and supporters of the current administration — from the people. Now it means suppressing ordinary liberties like the right to not support people, content or speech you don’t want to.
Have you tried explaining it in a different way to them?

Imagine you brought your car for an oil change and the mechanic says "uhh yeah maybe you can get new oil next year but for the next few months we need to... Uh... Address technical debt in your car... So umm... It's gonna cost you thousands of dollars and you aren't going to get anything you perceive as a change"

You'd think they are ripping you off.
Principled response: Twitter should ban completely ban foreign governments who don't allow free speech for their citizens.
So you’re saying that senior management is selected based on meritocracy ... right ...
Temperatures rising and falling over hundreds and thousands of years is indeed natural. The system is in constant flux, with or without us. Our acceleration of this process by releasing vast quantities of greenhouse gasses in a relatively short period of time, however, is not.

Limiting our interference in this natural process will necessitate vast methods and quantities of 'control'. Nevertheless, it should be done. And fortunately, this process will herald a new economic expansion providing jobs and creativity outlets for countless people worldwide.
Interesting Applications of Program Synthesis
Program synthesis is an emerging field, but I feel like there is not enough awareness of how many various applications are there
Oh brilliant! Please do get in touch, I would love to tell you more of how it works and hear more about your case. Thanks.
And if a new newspaper appeared, it couldn't be shut down entirely in <24hrs by the competition.

It could if it had used printing presses owned by the competition. I'm assuming these old newspapers used either their own printing presses, or presses owned by independent printing shops. They used a little common sense and concluded that using printing presses owned by the NY Times was probably not a good long term strategy for a newspaper that wanted to compete against the NY Times.

All I'm saying is, use your own printing presses, and you can't be shutdown. Run your own website, on your own server and no one will kick you off their servers. Nothing's really changed here, so I don't see a free speech issue.
Looks like the current temperature is close to 5k BC. The 45 degree trend line towards the end is also comparing a 50 year period to 500 year periods in history. So, these 'spikes' could be totally normal, but you won't see them because the graph is not honest.

Here's what we do know: The earth has historically been much hotter with more CO2 in the atmosphere (much more) than it is today. There's also some evidence that historic rises in CO2 lagged temperature rather than the reverse.
I think that was precisely their point?
In Canada I highly recommend weather.gc.ca which is way less sensational than other sources and has a nice speedy interface.
Counterfactual:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_between_democraci...
I'm not a lawyer and not asking for legal advice, rather I was hoping you would back up your claim with a citation of the relevant law.

I think you might have an overly broad conception of the duties of a teacher towards students. They should protect them from harm, so laying an actual trap (or just not warning about a potential danger) so that a student gets hurt would be in violation of the teacher's duty. But giving your students a test to make sure they're actually studying is such a common (and common-sense) expression of distrust that I'd be surprised if it were illegal to not expect good faith from their students.

Relevant: §2 LehrErzVDBest https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/lehrerzvdbest_1/DDNR00019... (Former GDR law that was kept in force after reunification. Not sure whether the part about not doing damage to the socialist society is still part of current law.)
yes, but the question remains, what's more dissimilar TSLA / GM or $1.25M / $9K?
>If the BIG TECH majority even find you a threat, not only will they cut off your ability to communicate, or deploy to a server across the world, but even prevent you from writing software in the First place.

This seems like an exaggeration. There are alternatives to hosting your platform on AWS.

Of course, you're not supposed to allow users on your platform to issue death threats and act like you're not supposed to do anything about it.

I can't agree with holding Parler as an example of "freedom and the openess of the internet".
And now if Big Tech has a dangerous idea they have all the power to advertise it and also to silence the counter-arguments.
I think we're in "violent" agreement :)
Fringe speech is okay as long as it is in a human-scale community. The community can ostracize the dangerous fringe and prevent it from growing. The internet makes it possible for the fringe from lots of communities to grow into something big enough to be dangerous. I am okay with “Big Tech” ostracizes fringe speech.
The Socialist Calculation Debate: Reckoning with Mises
When I searching for restaurants, websites doesn't show. How can I do?
Absent everything else, I have to admit I find it hilarious that in four years the White House never figured out a way for the President to address the public via electronic means beyond the consumer app in his pocket.

I mean, it's a banal and boring law, but his use of Twitter was always a clear violation of the Presidential Records Act. They couldn't have set up a dumb finger server or something and written him a junky app, then mirrored it to FB/Twitter/Parler whatever?
> I didn't see any report that any of these people had a single gun.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/08/politics/us-capitol-riots... mentions, among other things, multiple charges for carrying guns on capitol grounds. + a bunch of illegal gun stuff in the surrounding area.

> Wearing a pair of camouflage pants and a bicyle helmet does not qualify as armor

Above article mentions at least one case where the police charge explicitly mentions a bulletproof vest, and on various photos you can see "tactical helmets" (which could be unarmored, true) and plate carriers
Why would I use this over numpy?
A thought experiment to test the du jour premise in extreme:

Scenario: US is at war abroad. Government officials, military, and pro-war political wing is using social networks to rally the nation, urge continued fighting, etc.

Tech companies' leadership, being pacifist and against war, decide to deplatform the war party all together. Attempts to establish alternative means of mass communication by pro-war party (and the government!) are blocked as even Cloud Providers ban them.

My conclusion (ymmv) running above in my head: national security trumps private property considerations, and those suggesting private capital operating mass communication networks and system, can behave as they please are wrong.

[p.s. What happens to Pentagon and JEDI and MS cloud, if Microsoft leadership turns pacifists in middle of a war? "Private company" can do as it pleases? The premise is ludicrous when state interests are concerned.]

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Deplatforming a sitting POTUS before constitutional means (impeachment|25th) have legally removed him from office is technically an element of a coup. Two basic things happen in coups: control of mass media, and military brass ignoring chain of command.

For the record, IMHO, there is no way FANGs would dare this if they did not have a greenlight from Pentagon and the Alphabet soup agencies.
It was a pretty small entrance.
The irony of that statement is the CCP couldn’t use Twitter in China as they had already blocked it. So, they must already use other channels by choice.
To elevate that mob of miscreants and their raid to an insurrection or invasion will only give them more legitimacy and notoriety. They are criminals, period, who never had a chance to cause fundamental damage to the function of government (by their own actions, anyway). Don’t give them more power.
Competition forces everything into obsolesence, except maybe water mains and sewer pipes. And entropy will eventually get those too.
My thinking right now is that the status quo is the symptom and not the cause. Were we as the human race simply not ready for this?

Could we have been more diligent in educating people on ways of debating and understanding, could we have built a society that is not obsessed with perfection and winning?

If it wasn't Twitter, Facebook, Google etc. it would simply be something else in their place who had to perform the job of the gatekeeper. We were on course to enabling global communication at an unprecedented scale regardless of these companies establishing themselves, it wasn't news that we'd get here. Did we just discount the discourse on this that it's 'suddenly' a concern?
> We know for sure that the average temperatures have risen higher in the last 40 years than they have ever before

This is untrue.
This was several years ago. They never really launched their ARM line. I believe they no longer have an ARM license. They certainly dont have a product ARM line
The problem is - who decides what should be fringe and ostracized? At different times in history, women's rights, abolition, etc were all heretical ideas that the majority would want to squish if they could.
Maybe not, it's just that even more developers are going to use AWS without even considering other alternatives for hosting, just like using Github for their "open source" projects ?