skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your answer exemplifies the chicken-and-egg nature of the problem....

I mean the true information is easily available - in this particular case for example it has been known for 2000 years how anybody can themselves measure the curvature of Earth.

...for example, if I'm a flat earther I can just go 'Who decides 'what is known' or the correct way to measure? You're just a tool of big geodesy' etc.

So why should i come upon them and militantly refute their freely chosen beliefs?

Well, if we were talking about going to the flat earth conference and mocking people, I'd agree. But we're actually talking about people who inject themselves into discussions and spread lies. That's equivalent to you and me having a normal conversation about satellites orbiting the (round) earth or whatever, and a flat-earther butting in saying 'satellites are a lie, the earth is flat you simpletons.'

When we're talking about misinformation/disinformation, we are not discussing person(s) who just happen to hold mistaken ro easily disprovable beliefs. I am OK with people believing in superstitions, religious ideas, or counterfactuals, in a general way. they may be at an earlier stage of knowledge, or the belief may serve some valuable psychological purpose for them, or maybe my belief is incomplete/incorrect and theirs is a better metaphor for the underlying reality, even if it is not fully worked out. When I run into people like and they solicit my agreement I might politely demur or express a different point of view, but I am not concerned to convert them to my own.

What I am talking about is the situation where people with such ideas join an ongoing discussion specifically to attack the beliefs of others, then claim they're being victimized by having their attacks refuted. Let's take a more current example:

Alice and bob are discussing vaccines. Alice says she just got hers and bob expresses the hope that everyone gets vaccinated. Carol joins the conversation and expresses doubt about vaccines.

Now, if that doubt is framed like 'I'm not so sure, have they really tested them long enough, or is [disease] really that big of a problem?' that is (probably) a good-faith doubt that can be amicably discussed and ideally agreed upon. But if Carol comes in with 'you idiots are pawns of the media's 5g conspiracy, wake up sheeple' that's not a good faith engagement. In such a case, Carol is probably not even attempting to persuade Bob and Alice, but to use them as props to create doubt in the larger number of people who read the conversation but don't participate.

Some conspiracy theorists are genuinely ignorant, or paranoid int he clinical sense. Where they are very insistent on promoting their wrong views, we can call that misinformation, as in mistake. But quite a few people deliberately spread untruths to stymie discussion of a particular issue or to damage the cohesion of a social community by lowering the signal:noise ratio of community discussions, and that's disinformation, as in distrust.
Putting something relatively cold and with high thermal mass (like anything solid) to a flame drastically increases how much incomplete combustion happens near it. Basically you take the heat away before it can finish burning the fuel.

That's why a clean flame will still soot anything you put over it.
No I'm talking about honey or plain white sugar depending on the tribe.

I forgot their names but there are 3 main tribes that I remember being studied. Two of them ate significant amounts of honey and a third traded for refined white sugar.
This was awesome video. Bob the blob. How to make sure crypto is correct. A mathematician who could not take calls after 5pm.
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Owning 'infrastructure' is a different than being service provider.

I actually would strongly support municipalities owning the last mile as part of their services, but I'm less interested in them actually providing service.

The problem is the monopoly still exists. My father lives in a small town ironically with a tiny little ISP not owned by one of the majors. But the water - they pay $200 a month for water (!), because they are making major expansions to the water stations to support new building. The town council was pushed to do this by the builders with a lot of wining and dining. So the local, fairly poor townspeople are paying ridiculous rates. Since amalgamation, the town does not have it's own mayor, they do 'regional' groupings, so the individual town can't punt the program.

Due to monopoly situation in the town, the townspoeple are stuck paying massive rates to subsidize a rich builders exploits.

These things are common and guaranteed to happen.

The idea is to have some degree of socialization where absolutely necessary, and then to try to provide real competition on that infrastructure. If the construction and maintenance of the infrastructure can be competitive (like roads) then great. For electricity transport, it can become a problem, as the semi-private agencies that manage the electrical grid are often very inefficient.

Every town should take control of the 'last mile gear' but I suggest your ISP actually should be one of many private players. Definitely more than the physically limited Choice of Comcast + 1 other.
That 15% does not include VAT, it is taken out after.
Muni wireless is generally a bad idea. It has been tried many times and failed.

What you want is a municipally owner fiber network.

What you really need to start a muni network is grassroots support. If the constituents want it it will be built.
My reading of the study is that both BMI itself and sugary drink consumption after adjusting for BMI among other factors are risk factors for low T.
Why would I trust politicized Russian company about such thing? Few years ago it had a scandall where it was discovered that their own tools were injected with spi malware.
https://careers.kaspersky.com/
Microsoft is retiring its default font and it wants your help choosing a new one
that's not why.. this place is turning into a conspiracy theorist's haven or something, I dunno. I don't like it.

the font change is happening because the entire ui of office is continually evolving, and at some point the default document font no longer agrees with the application font or whatever other choices the UX people have made, so they pick a more suitable font. that's literally all it is.

people are choosing office subscriptions increasingly often. Microsoft doesn't need to dangle generic-looking fonts in front of people in order to get them to switch to a subscription...
I wonder what is going on with RCMP...

The mass shooter in Canada that happened recently, there are suspicions it was RCMP related too. (and RCMP itself did some weird shit during the shooting, like the cops shooting at firefighters O.o)
> It would have been cheaper for them too....

Can some enlighten me, why did they not do it? For those of us outside US, we never quite grasp why US mobile network and ISP are so bad. All while refusing to do any improvement.

Not only are they bad, they are ridiculously expensive. ( and healthcare... but we wont go into that. )
Again, unless you provide some _other_ piece of data (full real name, email, etc) connecting that data back to you, I fail to see the harm. Regardless, no one is forcing you to use the site, or even provide real numbers. If anonymously providing your salary and savings data worries you then don't use it.
Half of the journalism that is still out and about will know and will shove it in your face. Even the local TV news talks about twitter and shows tweets during the broadcasts. Even if you avoided the internet entirely...if there is enough outrage...you will find out about it.
I really like to optimize for efficiency, but from an economical standpoint this inly makes sense for really big orgs due to engineering costs being higher. In the long run i think this defeats all potential ecological benefits of cloud computing.
Tenorite's giving me some Futura vibes. I dig it.
Most people I know have the same thought process. "It is probably nothing, but I'm going to put a tiny amount of money into it just in case to avoid losing out." When enough people do this, they themselves are giving Bitcoin the value it has.
Well, there's number of users and ARPU, or equivalently how much money flowed through ...

I understand telecoms and others get warm fuzzies from that.
"I didn't want them, though."

"Tough shit, pay up."

Is there an IRS mechanism for rejecting an un-rejectable transfer?
I'm now wondering if it's possible to make a within-state-only messaging service. What would something look like that manages to avoid Federal jurisdiction as much as possible?
Is "Gimlet Media" a quirky name?
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An extreme example: 1 mile of subway in San Francisco cost just over 1 billion dollars to build. The central subway was a 1.7 mile long subway extension that recently finished construction:

"Total cost overrun, largely driven by the claims settlement, three change order omnibus packages, contingency reserves and additional project management and other services, puts the final cost at $1.89 billion and sticks SFMTA with a $184 million deficit for this single project alone."

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/major-construction-on-centra...
I would go ahead and throw all carbs in there with the level of inactivity among most of the population.
Huh, you're right I went and double checked the law.

What I said above is completely legal you just need to disclose you own X penny stock.

So random person with a bunch of followers can legit buy a million dollars of a stock, go on twitter spouting about it (even though just the increase of mentions are likely to make it become more noticed and thus gain value) and make a bunch of money.

That's fantastic...
Yes, there is endless case law and legislation around this type of trick. It's usually considered securities fraud. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump

Obviously it's not strictly illegal to purchase stock and then say you did, but it doesn't make sense that you would need that clarified.
For people already on webpack, there's esbuild-loader (https://github.com/privatenumber/esbuild-loader)
But these articles are largely toothless when it comes to big corporations. I am aware of only one case running against Facebook in the EU.

Then it is unrealistic to expect that an average individual will have money to sue the data processor, as the cost is out of reach for most of people.
There is no measurable performance loss from that one time check - it's not something happening constantly.
I was a little surprised that Vite, which depends on esbuild and thus should know better, is written in Javascript.

I presume this is a considered choice, and that what Vite does is unlikely to be on the critical path for edit/build/view cycle time…
Musk has a cult of personality. He's practically a real-life walking talking meme at this point, which seems to be the real driver behind crypto. Could Jeff Bezos or Zuckerberg move bitcoin like that? From a tweet? Doesn't seem likely. Is anyone hyped up about Libra/Diem/whatever the hell it's called now?

Musk tweeted about Signal and they went from 50k downloads a day to 1.3M [1]. An unrelated company, Signal Advance, saw their stock soar. Which... I mean... wow.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/how-to/what-is-signal-everything-you-ne...
Yes, dear?

Jokes aside, there are a few natural sugar sources without fiber, like sugar cane (it has fiber, but we just spit it). I think we can all agree that eating too much honey or sugar cane juice would be bad for our health.

There's also sugars like inulin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inulin), which are actually classified as soluble fiber because we can't digest them, so the bacteria in our digestive system does it for us. Inulin is a prebiotic, so it's actually healthy to eat in moderation.
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Connecticut passes bill eliminating religious exemption for school vaccinations
80% of people who report they don’t drink sugar do other shit to look after their health too - and are probably richer amongst other cofactors.
That's the thing, the key isn't controlled by me. The key is derived from your account password. If you want some more technical details, feel free to check out https://ufincs.com/policies/security. tl;dr Yes, that browser API is called WebCrypto.

As for storage, all data is kept in-browser in local storage (specifically, IndexedDB), until it gets saved to our database. And before it leaves the browser to be saved in our database, it gets encrypted using the user's key.

Finally, if you only ever use the 'no account' option (https://ufincs.com/noaccount), then all your data is only ever stored in-browser; it never gets saved to our database because you don't even have an account to save it to! Feel free to monitor the network requests to prove it for yourself (or even turn off your network connection).

Hopefully that makes things more clear.
Both of these cases were high school situations, a typically traumatizing environment, with immature teenaged people.

I'm sorry, I do not see the same likelihood of collusion in this case of intelligent women who had no relation to each other. I am not saying it is impossible, but I have a hard time seeing it.
It's more profitable to collect $70 a month and not do upgrades than to do $500 per household Capex expenditures and then collect $70 a month.
I think regulatory capture is one of the most profitable loopholes in capitalism and I don't think there are adequate checks and balances.

I wish there was a better way to regulate internet service that wasn't subject to these kinds of shenanigans.

I suspect long-term it is competition that ends up fixing this, but think of the drag on the economy when good communication is fouled up like this.
An awful lot of users also still use lo-res displays, and that won’t be changing much because it will remain the cheaper option.
Great progress comes from Elon's hubris.

> people continue to believe him for some reason.

I believe in him, and the reason is obvious. He gets things done nobody else seems able to.
> Tesla sold 10% of its holdings essentially to prove liquidity of Bitcoin as an alternative to holding cash on balance sheet.

Can someone who understands finance explain what this means in layman’s terms? How is it just saying they sold Bitcoin so they could have cash on hand?
I don’t remember stirring the currency vs. store of value debate...

Is it necessary to agree with a market just to participate in it?
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There is a massive grey area where trading, advising, hyping and fraud all intersect. The SEC exists for the purpose of making these distinctions, but they don't cover Bitcoin (as far as I know).
Bob was also a part of the long debates around skeumorphism. Bob was extremely (cartoonishly) skeumorphic: to get to word processing you clicked a typewriter, to get to contacts you clicked an antique rolodex, and so forth. It used a talking dog (by default) to explain things to the user rather than "faceless" dialog boxes asking questions "out of nowhere".

We're probably always going to fight skeumorphism debates on where the right balance is for user ease of learning/discovery ("I know what a typewriter is, if I click can I type a document?") versus the density compaction (both in physical space and arguably in mental space) of reducing "skeumorphic clutter". (The typewriter in Bob was thousands of pixels to display even its simplified cartoonish form; the [W] logo of Word fits as small as dozens of pixels. Similarly too, once you know Word exists does "I need Word, and its a word processing app, so I should think of a typewriter and click the typewriter" get in the way of "use Word"?)
He certainly does mention that and it doesn't seem clear why, but either way how does something as basic as a restroom cost that much to build? You think there isn't a lot of waste involved and at the tax payers expense?
sorry you are right, i knew it was in the late 1700s but i always mix up centuries, my dyslexia kicks in
Small correction: the study is saying that consuming a large amount of sugary beverages *is associated" with lower-testosterone concentration —

they didn't say anything about causation.

It's also possible that lower-testosterone causes you having a "sweet tooth".
There is a conditional CopyObject though (x-amz-copy-source-if...)

Can cover some of the use cases
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German spy agency watches Querdenker anti-lockdown movement
Cloudflare browser isolation does this by forwarding Skia commands: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-and-remote-browser-is...
> these days they are equals

This is laughable and just reinforces what I'm saying: you need to listen to more of the women in your life about their actual experiences, not what you imagine them to be. I am not invoking my experience as a man. I am invoking the experiences of the vast majority of women I know. Their experiences are not even close to equal to mine, when it comes to their ease of moving about the world, not to mention their physical safety.

Any person, placed in a situation where they are in danger, can react in a way that isn't necessarily a matter of deciding in the first place. I was pointing out that even where there is a decision to made, it doesn't obviously favor fighting. But your confidence that a victim can fight back ignores what we know about rapes and the fight/flight/freeze stress response. Not reacting is entirely natural and very common, particularly when the situation isn't one that you've trained a habitual response to.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/06/2...
Note: Ad5 is used in the "second" dose, not in the "first" dose.
Some stats not mentioned in the post. Create React App (webpack) vs Vite (esbuild) on Replit containers:

- 1 second start up time on Vite vs 15 seconds for CRA

- React.js hello world project is 234mb on CRA and only 34mb on Vite

- 1GB RAM for Vite dev server vs 3GB+ for CRA

This is a perfect example of how fast and efficient tools can be, and I think we can do even better! Super excited about the future of JavaScript tooling ecosystem with more focus on efficiency and speed.

In addition to the UX win, and I wish we measured this, but I bet this saved us thousands of dollars in monthly cloud spend.
The biggest problem from what I've experienced is Protobuf, not really gRPC.

Even though gRPC works fine overall, of course a simpler, faster implementation is always welcome.

But having used Capn Proto, I would reach for that rather than Proto if starting clean slate. It's much more flexible and expressive. If your language has good support, that is.
I did not "confront" them. I mentioned that some of their artifacts (art) looked very similar to those I'd seen at Mayan sites and they recited a scripted response. When I rephrased my question they recited the script again.

I am not saying those Park Rangers are conspiring to hide the truth. I am saying they are not allowed to acknowledge or even discuss the possibility of a connection to any living descendants anywhere.
See the book "V2" by Dornberger on all the failures of the V2 rockets. Quite a good read.
I probably wouldn't be complaining if I was born in the 1930's, WW1 and 2 were fairly well justified. However what are the current wars even still about? WMD? No, that was a fabrication. Bin Laden? He's long dead. Oil? With fracking, the US has the largest oil reserves on the planet. ISIS? Essentially gone, not much of a threat to US citizens in any case. There was no reason for these wars, there is certainly no reason to let them continue.
DigitalOcean says customer billing data accessed in data breach
>can perform easily like 80%

This feels like... a trap.

I think there's a complexity in doing that which could be summarized as follows: it's possible, but the more complex your codebase, the more difficult it is to reason about how to get to or maintain that 80%.

Even if we assume that 80% is the maximum, if most products (or the notable ones that we all complain about, I suppose) are hitting 50%, then... well, that's a problem.

For full disclosure: I've defended Electron on the merits of "there is sadly no better way to ship cross-platform UI-based software". I criticize it with this in mind.
No, because there are plenty of healthy carbs, especially in moderation.

There is no healthy sugar by comparison.
> Actually the executive's courts are pretty clearly not constitutional but they have survived enough challenges that they are simply the way they are.

They are Constitutional, they just perform Article II executive functions and are established under Article I powers of Congress; despite being called “courts”, they do not exercise any part of the Constitutional judicial power. (Hence, why they are described as “Article I courts” as opposed to the “Article III courts”.)
My city does that too - for $120/month. At that rate well and septic would be paid off in 10 years, and they typically last much longer with minimal maintenance. (the bill is itemized, so trash is about $12/month - same as what is was at my old rural house even though the trash pickup has a lot more density)
If you don't hold it for the year you still don't realize the capital gains, but you only get to deduct the cost basis. After a year you get to deduct the current value.
Circular argument is circular. Repetition doesn't strengthen it any.
According to Elon they sold 10% of their Bitcoin just to show investors that they could sell Bitcoin if/when they needed cash in the future (so proving that it's not just a dead asset on their balance sheet).
Sugar is not fundamentally toxic. This is a very poor conclusion to draw, and even more so when, as someone else suggested, expanding this to all carbs.

Glucose is used in IV drips, and in emergency conditions, providing someone with glucose and electrolytes can prevent them from passing out.
Eh, we are at a apoint where every self respecting political party has thousands of fake twitter accounts.
>At least your monopoly responds to threats by providing the service they monopolize.

True but the grass isn't really greener, Germany lags behind the US in average broadband speeds, mean and median for both directions.
I’m not sure what you’re referring to.
Yes and this is a good thing. It will become impossible to say how much money someone has; everything will become decentralized and competitive as it should be.
WhoIsHiring is a Hacker News bot. Y Combinator created it, so advertising there would plausibly count as explicit authorization.
"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."
https://mobile.twitter.com/johnfocook/status/115730910924450...
> That's illegal, so why is crypto not?

Crypto-fans want a libertarian free-for-all without government regulation or interference. That's what they're getting.

Good luck, guys!
> I'm not sure why, but we have consultants explaining us how an if/else business workflow is in fact an "AI robot employee" that we even need to give a human name to, before we switch to normal/cheaper if/else-enabled languages, once it fails to do if/else properly.

I will explain.

MONEY.
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If your statements about your holdings are true, it's not a pump and dump. To be fraud there needs to be deception: either you need to lie about what you bought or the price you paid, hide the fact that you sold it or the existence of other instruments you hold related to the security, etc...

Financial transparency isn't illegal by itself.
Which sugar is bad? Is fructose as bad as glucose?
More dietary cholesterol. Raw egg yolks (easier to consume raw) in as large a quantity as you can handle.
Oh he has many brilliantly told historical stories and on top, still gets his hands dirty and recently did benchmark of compilers. One of the few channels upon YT I'd recommend a sub.