skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then you can throw fallacy 38 back at them (Deliberate Ignorance).

My reaction upon starting reading, was that most of the "fallacies" covered are thought patterns that are sometimes useful and sometimes bad.

In other words, for most of them, saying that the pattern is always wrong or always right are both fallacious. This is covered by fallacy 42 (Either/Or).

Also, while each "fallacy" is not universally true, they can still be useful for two reasons:
1) They can be used in bad faith (to manipulate people who are likely to fall for them). For this, knowing this list can provide "Defence Against the Dark Arts"
2) To break out of indecision, or to avoid a decision when indecision is better. May of the "falacies" have a set of situation where their claim is valid

For instance:
A: Let's say your brother owns a business that is, and alwyas has been losing money, and comes to you to ask you to invest in his business. If you don't see any reason why the business should become profitable, you could say "I don't throw good money after bad", as a way of explaining the situation. This does not mean that you would never invest in a busness that has lost money for some period, as long as it is reasonable to think that profit will come in the future, but it places the burdeon of proof on the one that wants your investment.

B: "Trust your gut" may sometimes be a bad idea, but in some situations, intuition may be the most reliable guide. If one listens to one's inner voice (and knows how to do it), one may sometimes "hear" things that are probably true, but perhaps uncomfortable. Maybe you are about to marry a young, beautiful person, but your gut tells you it is for the money? In that case, your gut may be right, even if he/she insists its your humor.

C: "Two-sides fallacy": Even though there are some cases that clearly does not have two symmetrical sides, there are also a lot of situations where there ARE two comparable sides. Sometimes, one may weigh evidence differently, and sometimes one may prioritize different values. When people are too quick to label others (or Others) as either delusional, dishonst or plain evil, they may need to be reminded that perhaps they should try to see the alternative perspective. Then of course, sometimes there are conflicts where compromize or an agreement to disagree is not acceptable. It is possible that your spouse/boss/parent really is a psychopath that really wants to hurt you as much as possible, your country may be facing a military enemy that cannot be alowed to exist (ie Hitler), or you may not want to waste time considering if the earth is flat. To resolve those cases, though, you have to use some kind of force, like total war, a court order for your ex to keep his/her distance or a law banning teachers from teaching about the flat earth.
I am not denying they can be useful, I am questioning how this should be achieved. You are connected, you receive the messages, you aren't, you don't. You don't want to miss anything, how about making sure you stay connected?

Is this really something that has to be built into the chat protocol, massively increasing its complexity and just giving headaches, security issues, debug problems, wasting developers' time?

I don't consider IRC a replacement for online boards / stackexchange. Even stopped logging completely, don't use a bouncer. If I am online, I'm there. Actually think it's an improvement.
Neutral party? KiwiIRC is "sponsored" by LTM - the company that acquired freenode.

I'm not sure how you can call someone "neutral" that is being paid by one of the parties in question...

https://kiwiirc.com/blog/Kiwi_IRC_gets_sponsored_by_PrivateI...
Slashing Loctote’s “Slash Resistant” Bag
> I really like how they transition between different screens so seemlessly with guestures (and also voice commands).

The greatest part of this is that they make it look seamless and unselfconscious. In most shows (even sci-fi ones) this is always exaggerated as in "look at how we move our hands on this futuristic surface". In Expanse? It's just an integrated part of what they do. They flick, and swipe, and hold stuff sideways, they drop phones, phones are cracked, and it's never "oh, look carefully at what I'm doing".
1.) It would help if cops arrested rioters and not like journalists or random activists that done no violence at those riots.

2.) It also absurd to try to apply current American two party system dichotomy and right-left split on to WWI Russia. Nevertheless, claim that contemporary right wing in united states does X is not proven false by claiming that Bolsheviks doing that too in 1918 in Russia.

It is quite normal for multiple anti-democratic movements using the same strategies, really, despite them otherwise having different ideologies.
Currently playing with Matrix a bit and I have to say that most of the TUI clients are pretty terrible still. The desktop clients are not much better, they either have mobile UI but on desktop or are quite buggy still. And what they all have in common is that they are quite slow as well, despite local homeserver running off an nvme ssd.

None of the ones I have tried come even close to UX of pretty much any desktop IRC client.
Explainer: How vaccine passports for global travel will work
This is incorrect. iMessage is E2EE, which IRC is not.
What about RMS's recent scandal? He was certainly the face everyone associates with the FSF, and even though he can be removed, it still hurts the foundation's reputation
I love Inkscape, but since 1.0 there's this problem, where everything is too big on Windows 10 (at least on my laptop). Icons, menus, button etc. have unnecessary padding and UI takes up like 60% of my screen. I still couldn't find a way to scale down UI.

This bug needs to be fixed, otherwise it may not be usable on some PCs. Otherwise, Inkscape is really great.
Why do Ostriches bury their heads in the sand?
The Arch Wiki still has 48 pages that mention freenode, though most of them are about other software's servers or non-English articles.
I tried to read through this hit-piece "article" but it was too painful. Are there any facts in there that you would like to highlight, or is it just a 1000-word list-of-names that Rebekah should be called by?
Why interruptions are frustrating to developers
It's not the network, though - it's the experience. When some community decides to up and move to libera, I connect and register with the new server and it's literally the same thing.

Clients create the UX and the community creates the content.

Now I imagine trying to get a community off discord to a different platform with slightly different interactions, slightly different "channel" styles, different reactions or role-setting, would be a much harder sell.

That being said, I have nothing against discord - I think they've made a really compelling product and have certainly set a bar for what a future open protocol should cover if it wants to be relevant
Well he hasn’t even finished yet, so let’s wait until he is done before we blame him for stuff he hasn’t said.
agreed, and even more sensible would be to just think in regions. Bosporus, Black Sea and the Mediterranean are natural boundaries for the European region, the Himalayas are the natural boundaries between East/Central and South Asia, the Saharan / Arabian / Afghan and Kazakh deserts and steppes are natural boundaries of the Middle East / North African region. Whenever a civilization has tried to cross over from one of those regions into the other, big world events ensued.
Building real-time games using Workers, Durable Objects, and Unity
Yes, it would be more helpful, if they would not talk about these Youtuber's as they'd be our next door buddies but be a more explicit: The Guy's channel is named "Bald and Bankrupt", he is from the UK and travels a lot, which he documents on Youtube. The link to the video is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR_eA_c_Yts
Yeah this is where valve's investment into Linux would potentially pay off. Any platform they make could run Linux and work really well while basically all of steam's competitors either haven't done anything for Linux or have actively avoided/worked against it.
It is a pipe dream. We already have cars, that already change the "game" as a few small pods in a giant open network.

The slight advantage of reducing wind resitance has to take on so many disadvantages, why would anyone believe that the Hyperloop would ever be viable?
Maybe you misunderstood my post, but I was not arguing that this is a good thing.

But indeed, when you negotiate a higher salary, your employer pays more taxes. And this cost is passed on to the end-users of your employer’s business.
Yep. Last I heard, the country in Europe with the worst death toll wasn't the UK - it's pretty middle of the pack right now, though a lot of people here seem to believe otherwise. It was the Czech Republic, the big European success story the BBC and everyone else in the press pointed to a year ago as proof we should be able to do better if only we had a competent government. And as you say countries like Taiwan and Singapore are starting to struggle now with the first stages of outbreaks that are proving hard to control.
> you just need to point into the direction

Ah, indeed that's better if I understand it right—depending on the actual target areas.
The response on the freenode website is wild.

https://freenode.net/news/for-foss
In April 2020 Sweden had 40% excess deaths. This is compared to the 2015–2019 average.

> None of these places ran out of hospital capacity.

My wife is a hospital consultant in East London, she was working volunteer overnight shifts on Sunday nights as a nurse, back in January - working to turn over ventilated patients and run paperwork about. The hospital had 4 floor filled with Covid patients needing intensive treatment or ventilation.

Patients were being sent over 100 miles to find empty beds.

We didn't run out of hospital capacity. We came this || close to doing so.
> loans are not feudalism

Loans in themselves are not 100% "feudal", though I don't think it's a binary "is feudal" -vs- "is not feudal"; more of a "how feudal". The implication above was that loan repayment via mandatory labour is feudal (or at least "more feudal").

> if you want to insist they are, only Islamic Law jurisdictions (which bans interest rather than loans but eh) are non-feudal

That's a pretty big "eh" tbh; I don't many people think interest is the problematic part of loans. Don't think Islamic Law can be excluded here.
I made myself the work and created a very basic ClosedFeedbackLoop Example for java, for anyone that might want to try it out. It's old and has terrible documentation, but I also haven't touched it in quite some time. Either way, here it is:

https://github.com/RicardoMonteiroSimoes/ClosedLoopControlBl...

It contains several blocks,P,I,D,PID,PT1 and PT2, basically the ones that were teached to me
> At least in magit, you get the error "new file ... depends on old contents" if you try to stage a hunk of a newly created file.

I see what you mean.
Gio development isn't stalled.
No entity based on Earth has juristiction on Mars. Over there, SpaceX will be the law. I don't see them forgiving loans and shuttling "contract-breakers" back to Earth for free.
This makes it very likely that the beloved Stargate franchise will return as an Amazon Prime exclusive franchise, which will be great news for those of us like myself with appetite for 60+ more seasons of that show (after the 17 seasons that have already been made).

I watched the sci-fi show "The Expanse" on Amazon Prime Video. Season 4 (the one made by Amazon Prime Video) felt like it had a tenth of the budget compared to season 1 and 2. A completely different show that I found very boring and unwatchable.

Hopefully any future Stargate revival will have the budget and writing it deserves. I would spend $20/month for the rest of my life to get a season of high budget Stargate with decent writing each year. I'm sure there is a million other fans are willing and able to pay a similar amount.
How Different Are REST and GraphQL After All?
Your argument does not make sense.

A lot of things are banned because its negative externalities outweigh its benefits, regardless of how the public uses it (ex. drugs, money laundering, human trafficking, pedophilia, etc). As a call to your conscience, even if you don't directly participate in those activities (in for the money), would you be ok knowing that you are complicit?

The evidence is pretty clear on the direct link of cryptocurrencies to organized crime, no matter how the tech industry (which controls the media) slices it.

Don't underestimate the Fed, they usually move slow to gather evidence against any case.

As for the invested, once corpses pile up, they will flee:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27275189
Blender OSS and Licenses
Let's not even get started on the private-public partnerships in Australia. Anyone want to read on a real horror-story have a look at the Sydney airport link.

TLDR: (from memory so some details might be slightly off) they build a train link to the airport in a public private partnership, but estimated passenger numbers wrong. The private owner of the train stations (essentially the airport and one other one) upped the fares, so nobody would use the train and took taxi's to the airport. So what they did was add fees for taxis at the airport, so they become more expensive. That still wasn't enough, so at the end the government at to bail the private partner out with several hundred million IIRC (and the fares are still ridiculously high for going to the airport).
Seems like they could've avoided this entirely just by having a daily check for updates to the app itself and accepting the fuzz factor.
I work with Ukrainians. They reported more than superficial lockdowns (e.g. public transport shut down), multiple times, in Kiev. Also, death count numbers from an event like this are not likely to be stable for several years.
That being said, I recall there were some pretty different mortality rates, by country, early in the pandemic (France, for instance)
Not sure why this is downvoted - this is the reality in most tax laws worldwide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_foreign_corporation
That is exactly the point! Most people talking about "REST" are just talking about web service APIs or HTTP APIs, because they are not aware of the actual meaning. REST became a shallow term.
That’s both a hilarious way to sabotage the IRC server you just paid money for, and a good way to help others sabotage other channels.
Since the author doesn't even know what a logical fallacy is, he has no reason not to continue to add whatever itches him as a "fallacy".
> Working with large codebases was one of Go's design goals.

Which they failed to meet. There is nothing special in golang that is designed for large codebases. The opposite in fact, things like how they designed interfaces is counter to large code bases. There are much better languages that do well in large code bases.
No kidding. The shocking thing is for him to admit it.

Albeit for reasons of settling a personal score with Mr Johnson.

> testimony from a self-interested narcissist who has weaponised falsehood challenging the record of a self-interested narcissist who has weaponised falsehood.

https://twitter.com/IanDunt/status/1397460989277261826
Hubris? It works in the other direction too.
Have you considered variation because of years of experience > 10 years? I won't be surprised they pulling $500k+ for big giants
Predictive test selection: A more efficient way to ensure reliability of code
>I think the most valuable thing we can glean from this is the failure of systems.

Is there a failure of systems? Government bureaucracies are huge with a lot of institutional inertia. They will never be able to move on a dime. And this was a situation where in a matter of weeks or even days, we had to realign not only the entire government bureaucracy but also the rest of the economy. Come on ... we have to give ourselves a little break.

You cited a screw up with PPE logistics. OK. Sure. But there was a shortage of PPE equipment in _every_ country in the world. And we got through it in a matter of weeks. Is that really that bad? I understand you can pick apart individual choices but in the big picture, it's not clear that things would have been different if PPE shortage was curtailed a tiny bit quicker. And yes, it would have been nice to be prepared for something like this, but then again, there are lots of things that can go wrong. Are we really prepared, for example, for a major solar event? And we know it's only a matter of time before that hits.
The government falls short on a lot of things. The problem is systematically annoying.
Don’t underestimate how old and unhealthy the UK population is. They are at significantly higher risk.
People of color more exposed to heat islands, study finds
C++ is not really the benchmark to try to beat. There are superior languages for large code bases, but they're not "hip".
Out of curiosity, which public IRC channel was this being discussed in, before it was understood to be a bug? That sounds like a fun channel.
If I remember, telegram.me links would not be identified as URLs requiring manual copy-paste. They didn't have link previews back then.

The messages are E2EE only in transit. They can always tweak clients for things like this.
It's all speculation of course, but "with loans available" sounds like it's SpaceX that will offer the loans. And how can you repay them after arrival, apart from working on a colony designed and controlled by SpaceX? This basically smells of "we'll offer you cheap food and tools at the company store".
In the Jewish culture when someone has a birthday you say "ad meyah esrim". Which basically translates as "until 120". 120 is considered to be the max lifespan if not literally then certainly figuratively.
Taiwan had pandemic plans. Many suggest that countries cannot be compared. While this is true in some instances, it is not a useful observation in this case.

Taiwan had a detailed plan in the event of a pandemic, the UK did not. This allowed them to get started with contact tracing earlier and more effectively. The UK had to start from scratch. The UK would be best served to have detailed plans in the event of distasters (not just pandemics).
They have to state under penalty of perjury that they're authorized to act on behalf of the owner of some relevant right. While that might not necessarily involve the right to the Ubuntu ISO itself (e.g. they might have pattern-matched something else that they're acting on behalf of) they do need some good cover story to avoid perjuring themselves.
The same thing occurs each season for influenza.

We don't build hospitals to have excess capacity sitting around unused.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-42572116

"Hospital bosses said they had run out of beds as they battle with "very high" rates of flu."

Article from 2018. You can find the same articles from cities all around the world during regular yearly flu seasons.
Freenode: To the few projects leaving based on falsehoods
Would be interesting to see whether the latest James bond movie gets a direct Prime release.. may be for few $$?
That's almost pocket change for the trillies
Your actions seem reasonable (though, I question the motives), and Freenode's actions seem reasonable.

The only issue is people are upset that Freenode responded to their actions. If you're leaving Freenode, then leave, don't expect them to keep your empty channel with a pointer elsewhere intact.
Would be interesting if you can buy the bond gadgets from Amazon :-)
How does it not violate legal ethics requirements?
> The non-profit isn't really live yet

Sweden seems to have really lightweight legislation for non-profits: Write by-laws, convene a meeting of at least 3 people, accept the by-laws, and bang: you're a legal entity. So it may be live, who knows.

You only need to register with the Swedish Tax Office and get an organization number, if you want to conduct business transactions, such as opening bank account, pay taxes etc.

https://skatteverket.se/foretagochorganisationer/foreningar/...
No, I mean America. The big landmass that spans the 2 hemispheres, and depending on how you subdivide it you can get 2, 3 or 4 continents.

Having been born and raised in America but quite far from the USA, it grinds my gears when people try to shove that distinction down my throat.
The servers aren't owned by volunteers but provided free of charge by a number of companies (mostly not related to Lee) All they get in return is a small acknowledgement on the MOTD and the acknowledgement page.

They are managed by the volunteers though, and the sponsoring authorities don't get operator rights on the network.
We Hate Our Projects for Being So Unpleasant
Tesla will store Chinese user data locally, following Apple’s suit
Can you describe it in words before the proof?
The protomolecule is pretty much super advanced tech from a civilisation that had a billion year or so headstart. For me, a big part of the show is about how technology changes us and the protomolecule is an extreme example of that.

Its not backed up by science and thats not the point. The point is how humans react to it and how the story progresses after that is really great, one of the best series overall i've ever watched.
A decent Python implementation of a PID loop controller is available here: https://github.com/pjkundert/ownercredit
> Which government didn't? I mean, I look around, and nobody really has it figured out.

Plenty of articles on that - e.g. google "which countries handled covid best"

It's just not accurate to say that every country handled it equally badly. Even though the ones that handled it well were not what one would initially expect.

https://twitter.com/_artesean/status/1396463706897272832
My GF got one, and spent a few days worried sick about it. She researched the correct response (iirc it was "don't admit liability and ask for proof that it was her that actually pirated the content" - basically exploiting the flaw that you are not your IP address and they don't know how many other people could have used that IP address). Haven't heard back from them.

This law is way too easy to abuse.
Ah, looking more into it, I'm going to guess it was #asahi or #asahi-dev.
Sony’s AI group is developing smarter opponents and teammates for Playstation
contentiousness sinks, so comments being downvoted will bring the headline down
I really miss Byte [0]. It covered a wide range of computing, from Steve Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar [1], to my introduction to hypertext. It was great to read the in-depth reviews of both products [2] and technologies, and get an understanding of what was going on in the tech world.

[0] - https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine?tab=collection

[1] - https://circuitcellar.com/

[2] - https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/013-end-of...