skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Initial gut reaction is "but would they?". But you might be right, it could be a place for positions outside the two-party polarization to thrive.

My personal experience however (very limited, it's based on a single referendum) suggests that the opposite might happen: back when the public smoking bans happened my local legislation was iterating through some moderately extreme approaches until eventually closing in on some rather reasonable compromise. But because the smoking fronts ran pretty much orthogonal to the usual party alignments they feared backlash from their followers and ducked out, handing over responsibility to a referendum. In this referendum, two groups were providing options, and it should come to no one's surprise that those groups where from the very far ends of the spectrum. It was basically a vote between two evils of you happened to be even the tiniest bit moderate. The vote was incredibly close, which means that both sides were quite successful at pushing their agenda: if your goal is on an extreme end, you'd want to compromise exactly as much as you need to reach 50%+1, and not the tiniest bit more.
Yes and we're exacerbated by the pandemic. The article said mills lowered production assuming there would be reduced demand during the pandemic but there was increased because people were stuck at home doing projects.

Now that the pandemic waining and people are heading back out, is it not safe to assume some of that demand will be subsiding?
Can someone explain what reasons would lead you to choose this over simply writing in HTML or another markup language directly?
Cape Cod lobsterman’s whale of a tale sounds fishy, experts say
Some past threads:

Git for Computer Scientists - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3146466 - Oct 2011 (15 comments)

Git for Computer Scientists - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1485612 - July 2010 (17 comments)
My focus was payments (newegg was the original example), and I was comparing credit cards to crypto.

But let me ask: why use zelle to move money between accounts? Why not crypto? Or let's say you're sending money to a friend to split a check or something; would you use crypto vs any of the other "cash" transfer mechanisms?

I don't think that existing financial systems can't and shouldn't be replaced with something better, but so far cryptocurrency ain't it. I should also say that I'm not particularly susceptible to the ideological arguments on its behalf, which seem to be a big bonus for many. Maybe it's just not for me.
The only known manuscript of Beowulf was damaged in a library fire in 1731 [0]. Lost in that fire was the only known manuscript of the Saxon poem The Battle of Maldon [1]. The poem itself was preserved via a translation done c. 1724, but the original text was lost. An original transcription was subsequently discovered in the 1930s, so we still have access to the words, just not the original artifact. [2]

This very same library is home to the only known manuscript of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight [3].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_library#Ashburnham_Hous...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Maldon

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Maldon#History_o...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knigh...
The Determined Employee Team That Convinced Lexus to Finally Drop the Touchpad
I think of it much as you might when debugging a systems problem: it seems to me that the nature of consciousness is likely the least distant and most impactful entity that we are able to exert influence upon.

I do indeed assume there is an objective reality, as it seems you do (or did) as well. Something I find very interesting about this theory is that it regularly invokes a solipsism response when someone is exposed to it, even though it is a very simple idea that is fairly consistent with mainstream psychology and neuroscience.
Right.

Well, in that case I disagree with your assertion that scientists who put out publications of average-in-that-field’s quality are “worse than useless”.

Not how science works!
> This was the end of my relationship with Sony.

SONY got the bad reputation but you can thank the western record companies for this with their reaction to Sony's earlier DAT format. Check out "An Open Letter To Japan" in this 1986 issue of "Billboard" (page 9): https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/80...
Is it not the point of Israel to be a Jewish state?

Judaism imposes duties on each Jew. Religious duties in the form of commandments.

How about following those commandments? If you say the commandments do not matter then you are saying that as a Jew, Judaism doesn't matter. In that case, you don't need a state don't you?

If you want to be free to practice your religion, do it. But do it properly, not only the parts you like.
> git log -p origin/master..HEAD

See THIS is the problem. Ugly, inconsistent, clumsy use of the english language, and confusing.

This will go on my git sheet, with a comment as to what it actually does because I don't have the time to actually unpack that from first principles. I've got better things to do than become an expert on needlessly complicated software.
That's only relevant if the noise gets filtered out. I think there's a lot of evidence that our most prevalent platforms filter content for how much attention it can hold: which is to say, for revenue or less pure motivations. This is probably considered "quality" content, by some incredibly cynical metric of quality, and maybe the adoption of that cynical approach is the underlying change that has occurred on the internet in the last twenty years.
Last year of college we could submit our own experiment. I did a physics one so it didn't apply but my peers at the time mostly did biology related experiments.

As a rule of thumb, as our biology professor put it, just make sure the animal you're experimenting on do not look like a baby (big head, big eyes, small mouth, makes squeaking sounds). This is why experiments on fish were ok but "fish embryo" would get much more scrutiny.
That’s a good point. Honestly, if I had a popular open source project right now, I would have matrix bridged to discord and maybe irc if people asked for it.
What far left or progressives are pretty moderate.
By partners, do you mean they're brothers that occasionally appear on each other's podcast?

Does that make Eric's credibility relevant to the video in question though some sort of credibility transitivity?
Yeah, there are likely statistical methods you could use to estimate the number of stale rules, but "try the top 5000 and ~0.5% of the rest" isn't that
> history

This was addressed in my previous comment. I've known folks who took the stuff and had a horrible reaction, without family history as such.

Also, consuming street drugs of unknown quality in uncontrolled settings with uncontrolled dosages is quite different than controlled medical experiments.

> overblown

I never wanted to try the stuff after personally observing people change after having a "bad trip". If it permanently alters perceptions in unpredictable ways, then ingesting it likely catalyzes alternate life trajectories, also in unpredictable ways.

Seems like a double edged sword. Many report the positive benefits but the supporters seem to downplay risks or point to other factors without supporting evidence.

It's unclear how to determine safety with prospective victims/winners whose family history doesn't include mental illness. Again, I suspect dosage is a critical factor to trip outcome; this being common pharmacological wisdom.
Maybe not at specific points in time but, over the long term, they make exceedingly similar choices.

The GOP backed No Child Left Behind which was an abject failure. Back then, it was easy for the left to claim that they would do better when given the opportunity. However, now the left is pushing Critical Race Theory in schools which is equally stupid and damaging.

You can point to the left as doing a much worse job at this particular point in time but the reality is that both sides have made roughly equally stupid choices over the long run.
It's been 14 years and if the whole space disappeared overnight what would change? The news cycle would be less entertaining I guess. So much so China was able to nuke the whole space from orbit and what? Crickets.
I think a lot of expert content is now mostly video content. A lot of the time I'm finding I'm just typing things into youtube rather than google if I'm after some kind of expertise.
I was that new guy early in my career. I was shocked to discover the senior who taught me git as making around 30 percent less than me.
There is an awareness of power consumption of data centres.
Why not start marketing code to power consumption metrics?
What about fastest-to-market and above average code base = marketing argument? Or even scientific paper?

I think here is is also important to look at smaller companies and not only FAAG.
Apple documentation has been awful for decades. There’s so much history and insider knowledge you need to write good desktop MacOS applications.

And Microsoft documentation has been excellent for decades. Even pre-Internet with MSJ and Microsoft press.
A thirty-page law was rejected by the people because it apparently contained highly contentious parts. That is all that can be concluded from it. The Federal Council and parliament will now draft a new law that is less contentious. Journalists should first take a closer look at how the political system in Switzerland works before jumping to conclusions. The Swiss didn't reject climage change measures, just a contentious law. There are already a lot of measures in force besides this law.
> Obviously, physical infrastructure is a bit harder to switch, but I have three major wireline ISPs here, four major wireless ones, and I believe two satellite services are an option too.

Okay, but tens of millions of other Americans have only one broadband choice (if they have one at all). There is clearly a monopoly issue there.
The 'complex' part usually relates to how to manage the graph in terms of what you want to do, and all the odd states that might exist otherwise, especially when syncing with 'other graphs'.
Pull defaulting to rebase could be a dangerous and chaotic default. If you want to argue that pulling should be fast-forward-only, then I'd say maybe you have a case.
It's not FOSS (neither client nor server), you can't control any of the infrastructure (and therefore guarantee any level of privacy), sovereignty of the data, the data itself, and policies for use which may not align with your own.

All before you get into the technical differences in applications and protocols - good and bad.
I have never stated that things run by tech savvy people make things inherently secure; they make things *more likely* to be secure/privacy oriented, especially if you consider the fact that somebody would be more likely to speak up about potential foul play if they're a volunteering enthusiast rather than if they're working for a for-profit company that would just tell them to shut up or get fired and deal with the legal consequences.
I was once working with an engineer so hell bent on splitting everything up into microservices that at one point logging became incompatible with his solution.

He then argued that our banking solution didn't need logging, because it was so well tested that failure rates would be extremely low.

I'm not making this up.
What kinks do you think are unhealthy? I’d wager that truly unhealthy kinks are uncommon.
Awww. Fellow IRC users feeling attacked... What?? We're not the smartest users of all chat protocols because we're using the oldest & most open??? Some people use others because its easier & has the most users regardless of its safety & privacy & our digital choices don't 100% correspond to intelligence?? OMG.
That’s not really what I was trying to say, but perhaps I’ve still not mastered the medium after all these years, eh? I founded a company with people I met on Twitter who were all doing the same hobby, scraping data from the web and trying to make meaning out of it. The company started as a blog (remember those!) So yes, still excited by the Internet. But I’m not going to beat myself up (nor the youth of today) trying to recapture the feeling of the 90s web through the eyes of a teenage me, because I think that’s impossible.
One relevant past thread:

How to Be a Systems Thinker - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16835741 - April 2018 (82 comments)
The pulmonary hypertension they worry about is hard to detect and takes a few years to kill you. A few months may not be enough for it to have become noticeable.
Using `git checkout` with a filename really really really should have a yes/no prompt by default, or at least an `-i` option like `rm`.
OK Boomer.

You might remember this one:
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/gratefuldead/shakedownstreet...

"Maybe you had too much too fast. Maybe you had too much too fast.
Or just over played your part.

Nothin' shakin' on Shakedown Street. Used to be the heart of town.
Don't tell me this town ain't got no heart. You just gotta poke around."
> This kind of snotty reply is always interesting

It’s a typical HN Apple Zealot tactic. They simply lie to boost their cult.
Discussed a bit at the time:

Asynchronous Everything - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10600573 - Nov 2015 (8 comments)
> However the reason this came into existence was by microsoft's design to commoditize the hardware to drive software sales of its (closed) operating system.

Couldn't get past your rewriting of history just to paint MS in bad light because you don't like them.
I believe this mostly as well - I'm sure there could be a few exceptions - but generally I don't see major impact on real world sales from twitter mobs of the week being a thing -

I do wonder if anyone has put together stats on this to show that once [any-twitter-outrage]-reaches X number of tweets/retweets - then some companies act, with y number os tweets/retweets Y number of companies react..

To discern, how many people you need to become a twitter mob for thing Z - to get a public statement/apology.. firing.. whatever cancelling.

I started to research this a bit some time ago and have not found a memorable chart or anything - surely someone has done this (?)

I've been seeing some trends of vocal minority cause change - even when majority don't even know there is a discussion of said changes - and it's often more powerful than it should be imho.
"Stretch it to the limit and you'll see what I mean - perhaps by the year 1999 all the software ever written will run in less than a minute."

Ouch. Right in the feels.
An NFT is simply a signed URL to an image. That the assets are NFTs are meaningless, because (a) they're only relevant in the context of that game and (b) there's no guarantee the hosting will remain (c) they don't come with a license to use or display the asset. No other game developer could create a game leveraging these NFT assets without being on the receiving end of a DMCA claim.

[edit] Just try and leverage some NBA Top Shots on your own website and let me know how that goes.

> But the point being I do believe theoretically there are "legitimate" applications where the decentralization of assets is useful.

It's been 14 years, it's not still early, there's just no "there" there.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Chip Wars board is now set. Though ARM+NVIDIA seem to hold the high ground due to the RISC+SIMD coupling, who knows how far RISC-V's vector instructions and VLIW could go when combined with Intel's domain knowledge...
He can do what everyone can do.
Live a more conscious life, consume less, buy high quality consumer products that last longer, re-use reduce recycle, talk about it, advocate better choices.
Consume greenery/renewable energy, take public transportation, engaged in politics.
Here's one of many examples https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3322

>Around 30% of the world’s population is currently exposed to climatic conditions exceeding this deadly threshold for at least 20 days a year. By 2100, this percentage is projected to increase to ∼48% under a scenario with drastic reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and ∼74% under a scenario of growing emissions.
I agree with you (in principle) and I've thought about this before. It's a challenge of democracy that those with a conflict of interest get just as much say as those that have to directly bear the long term consequences of something. With the particular example of older people, demographic changes mean that the balance of power is becoming more concentrated amongst the aged.

Realistically, I see no fair way to start disenfranchising people. The best we can hope for is to think about what constitutional controls we have to protect people generally from a tyranny of the majority, and consider if there are additional ones needed to account for demographic majorities. Getting anything passed is another story...
I just visited https://joinpeertube.org/.

This doesn’t look like it’s a solid competitor to YouTube at all.
What's funny is I think that Ripple is the only one of the bunch who had legal action taken against them.

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-338

Ripple likening themselves to other cryptocurrencies when they are centralized is scammy in my book. There is a reason that video game currencies or Magic Cards aren't listed on exchanges.
> so El Salvador will be able to have a basic currency when they are not corrupt.

Ok, so I’m going to straight-up ask you to either retract this racist statement or justify your position with evidence.

I want to see your proof that the government of El Salvador is corrupt. This link seems to indicate the opposite [1].

To help you see the light, let me highlight the fact that El Salvador lost their own currency after a bloody 12 year long civil war that was funded by an interventionist US government that raised an army of child soldiers in the 1980s.

Per Wikipedia [2], the Carter and Reagan administrations spent $1-2 million per day in 1980 dollars to raise and train this army of child soldiers.

Tell me again why El Salvador is corrupt and that is why they lost their currency?

[1] https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2020/index/slv

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvadoran_Civil_War
Their Nobel prizes are for physics.
Why are you (and others in this thread) grouping porn with drugs and gambling? To me, this does not make any sense.

Watching porn is not a bad thing. Obviously, if you're talking about addiction then perhaps, but do you think people are addicted to porn (on average) to the extent others are to those other vices?

Likewise, gambling and drugs impact you both physically and mentally, whereas the evidence for porn's impact on either is questionable at best.
Right, the video in question is literally the reporting I trust.

The video itself appears (to me) to be between qualified people talking about medical information is a careful way like adults.

Maybe you should watch it? Just the first 15 mins?
Of course there are such people. I submit though that the number of women who consent to anal and like it is much less than the number who consent and don't like it. The same for various other sex acts. I believe the research supports my position.
It seems more like "TeX-but-btw-it's-Scheme" than HTML. Interesting idea, hard to go wrong with S-expressions.
Is Carnegie Hall censoring me by not letting me perform on stage just because I have no talent?
When you see [flagged] on a submission, it means that users flagged it (this is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). We can only guess why users flag things, but in this case it's pretty easy to guess - just read the first part of the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

There are plenty of current events sites out there. If such stories weren't mostly treated as off topic here, HN would be entirely a current-events site. Yes, there are exceptions—you can find detailed descriptions of how we approach that in these past explanations: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... But I don't think this submission would make a good exception. It's a political horse race story. I realize that in this case the horse race turned out to be historic, but that's not going to make for a thoughtful, substantive thread (perhaps 20 years from now). As evidence for that, I give you: this actual thread.
Opening the LLC and doing a little bit of business is not the fraudulent part.

Claiming expenses not linked to the business activity is.
And who hosts those assets? How does this not apply to them?
SpaceX to send first Ethereum node to ISS in collaboration with SpaceChain
Agree, sorry I didn't read the last part.
Adding a compilation step let’s you change the way things look easier in addition to having clearer semantics for the intent
I believe it is possible to have a bad trip in this sense because it typically takes time to integrate the experience. The time spent trying to integrate can be scary, because you don't understand it yet.

I had a vision of a blonde child, perhaps six years old, burst out of a tunnel of light during a DMT trip. I still don't know what it means, and because my son is blonde, i can't help but feel that maybe there is a message im not seeing (this is coming from an ex-atheist of twenty years). It was a weird event, but it has made me make positive changes in my life regardless. For example, I try a lot harder to have the time for him. I've decided to stop trying to date because of it (so that I don't have to divide my time more), and that's given me a self esteem boost.

It is a complex thing, one that we don't understand. Its a beautiful experience, but one I don't take lightly. It needs respect.
Black physicist rethinks the 'dark' in dark matter
This is how the scam begins, the downfall of Solana. It is yet another pump and dump just like all of these coins.

Cryptocurrencies must be stopped, there is absolutely NO benefit to having them.

We seen them all before, ransomware becoming rampant, massive waste of electricity and resources and now the pandora's box can't be closed quicker enough.
This thread is literally people complaining about the free software used to host free documentation for a free library.

The onus is absolutely not on anyone to improve things for you just because you find them difficult.

Consider how lucky you are that d3 is even documented so well to begin with.

Insane level of entitlement in this thread.