skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm honestly terrified how easily people are throwing judgmental or plain rude comments calling names on other people who exercise their right to make a choice - whatever the choice is.

Aren't they just exercising their right to free speech?
@Normille, I agree with your sentiment and have no idea why your comment has caused such offence to be downvoted to death.

Who could hate Viz so much?

:)
I missed this earlier, sorry and thank you for the well-researched post.

Among other things, I will happily agree with you that the Snopes page is simply not correct. I will not hold the NY times responsible for that, however.

As you have surely seen, in his twitter thread the senator does list "the engineered-bioweapon hypothesis" as a possible option, and also says that "the so-called experts" do not really know any better.

So I can see the viewpoint of the NY times: it is newsworthy if a senator lends credence to a possibility that scientists widely dismissed. As an analogy, a senator who believes that the earth is flat might be equally interesting for a news publication - even if it is masked by phrases like 'we need to keep an open mind', 'the experts might be wrong', etc -- 'the earth might be flat' is simply not a reasonable position for a senator to hold.

But I can also see your point. It was early days of the pandemic and there were lots of unknowns. The general gist of the argument was one of caution and keeping an open mind towards all possibilities, which was healthy. And for a senator it would have been hard at those times to distinguish between something that scientists almost universally dismissed and something that they were still debating about.

Perhaps we can agree that the newsworthiness of the content of the NY times article was not entirely obvious, and the reasons it was published anyway could have been political (even if this was not consciously done). Based on your research it seems that the resulting storm of negative publicity by other outlets was not justified.
>I am not against the vaccine. I am however against governments determining what freedoms their citizens are allowed to have based on what medicines they chose to take.

This is a private company deciding that they don't want to employ you. There are no governments involved here.
So by natively I mean that if you look at the packets there is only ipv6. 6rd, hurricane electric and so on, you can use these tunnels to get the functional equivalent of having IPv6 at home, but between you and the point-of-presence (the other end of the line your router is connected to where Swisscom decide to do something with your packet) is IPv4.

Customers actively have to opt in to 6rd on Swisscom and actively have to set up hurricane electric and other IPv6 tunnels. Which means connectivity is limited to people who are going to do that, so service providers on the internet must offer IPv4.
How effective can these messages of torment and suffering be? To those who believe it, it causes anxiety. For those who don’t, it pushes them farther away. The smallest group are those who understand but are not swayed by emotion. Ideally, everyone is in this group.

I now believe the division over climate change is caused by the messaging. I think a gentler approach would be more effective.
> 1.8% case fatality rate

That looks like a scary number until you look at it by age, then it looks very different. If you were at risk of dying from flu before COVID then your odds got worse, everybody else's risk level is largely unchanged. Should employers mandate that healthy employees get experimental vaccines in order to improve the mortality rate among non-employees who were already at risk of being taken out by a cold? Seems pretty obvious to me, but this thing went well beyond reason a long time ago. Unless Google and Facebook have a bunch of 65+ stalking their halls, it is really hard pretending that this isn't either a political move or some weird power trip.

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/dataviz8737/viz/COVID...
I think it was fixed and then subsequently removed:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/man-db.git/commit/?id=84bd...

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/man-db.git/commit/?id=b225...
I had similar experiences with: https://www.xspdf.com/resolution/51859292.html

The content seems taken from other websites and mixed in a nonsensical way. It comes up frequently in my search results.
www.xspdf.com has completely unrelated content and seems a separate business.
I have zero tolerance for people refusing to accept a little bit of personal inconvenience, one to two injections and maybe three days of not feeling to good, in order to end this pandemic sooner. And to protect those that cannot be vaccinated. It was the same crowd that refused to follow guidelines, indirectly prolonging everything. It was members of this crowd that attacked people for wearing masks. It was this crowd that pushed for early opening.

Now we could approach the point of being to open up again, and it is about time. Because, with some luck and pressure, we can get enough people vaccinated. Only that we can't yet, because of the se crowd. And once we are at that point, this crowd basically wants a free ride. Talking about egoism, that's kind of the text book example.
How much do you pay a year?
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Both Google and Facebook are very powerful in delivering any information. Why they cannot convince people with simply pure data that vaccines are:

1) necessary, because here is the data: ...

2) safe, because here is the data: ...

They create all kinds of funny web sites on any topic but not on this very important thing today. Just make a good web site and convince all the remaining skeptics with scientific arguments and data! Put it in one place, make it clear and fair.
Tracking far-right extremism and its modern forms is "bullshit"?
I disagree with people being attributed as credible, because I think content can suffer much more from heavy handed moderation compared to being "brigated" by motivated individuals.

Because the latter is easily identifiable. You basically complain that people upvote the wrong opinions, which I would not disagree with.

Credible sources have also spread misinformation. I think the current system is fine and heavy handed approaches and information hierarchies are counter productive. There are great communities without a leadership and hands off approaches. You idea would lead to "Influencers" getting more control on content because those would be the "leaders". Can be good, can be bad. I think the latter would be the more common occurrence.

But people too invested in online communities also tend to do a large amount of damage. An example would be the people at the top of Reddit karma.

If we had "credible" leaders, there would be less room for objections, which I would like to see more often.
"This document has been prepared for the European Commission however it reflects the views only of the authors, and the European Commission is not liable for any consequence stemming from the reuse of this publication"

Then they shouldn't pretend to represent the European Comission or any of its logos. It's not fun anymore how the far left lobbies pretends to manipulate the public calling names everyone who happens to be at their right: everyone else.
As a US immigrant, I found this line funny

> m4 is great for macros and includes. Not super fun for general programming. But, like immigrants, it gets the job done.
how's that bullshit?

memes have strong power, especially if you can vote them to the front page

there has been shitton of them before 2016 election and during Pandemic they were used for both - good and bad.

From looking cost efficency perspective memes are insanely good.

edit Trump -> 2016
As a demonstration, here is a sample note: https://notes.cx/TWuAaH9p
Very good point ... get where you are coming from.

I've created some cool automations for them. Feel free to ping me at santosh AT mypad.in

Notion is awesome because of its usability. It allows you to centralize most content types. Extremely good collaboration functionality. Accessibility is fantastic.

For custom requirements (80% of the time), I have my automations to figure out a very good solution.
All such bad examples. It's not nearly as intrusive to say you can't bring your firearm or wear a tie. It's literally a momentary thing, now I a wear a tie now I don't. To compare that to forcing somebody into taking a novel vaccine with questionable long- or even short-term health effects is absolutely disingenious and quite cynical to be frank.
Just going to leave this Month Python sketch here…

https://youtu.be/ue7wM0QC5LE
In my limited experience, these are two of the best non fiction books I’ve read. The author makes these subjects utterly fascinating. If he released a book about watching paint dry, I’d buy it in a heart beat and read it.
> Speaking and listening are related skills yet speaking is much harder than listening

Listening is much harder for me. I find it easy to mimic/parrot sounds, but not distinguish them when listening.
Yeah, I also try DDG first then and only if not okay I go !g. Now I wonder, why did GOO break such a useful thing? They could have shown advertisements also in their "classic" search (let's call it like that) so I'm really at loss - what was in it for them to change??? Germans have a word for that "verschlimmbessern" (or even two words - kaputtreparieren) which means breaking something by trying to make it better.
> There's nothing selfish about not wanting to undergo a medical procedure to help strangers.

Not wanting to do something to help others is the definition of selfish, even if it's your right.
The claim was easy: no money on bullshit, we got actual problems that do need resources. Our tax systems are open. Go and check it yourself.
Technically yes, but the fact that SPAs require explicit and extra code/configuration to make them work when this functionality (url nav) is a works-by-default inherent part of the web's core design makes them arguably broken by design.
Yeah future proofing makes sense. I'd hope they'd do that anyway if only because once they get out of my building it isn't just a fibre cable for me but for business connectivity too. There's a couple of data centres in my town that host for local businesses so the interconnect need is there.

It just feels a bit dishonest to sell a 10G connection and tell the user to speed test on the router's web portal when their PC won't get remotely near that.
The parent did claim that reading is easiest (you've even quoted that), so I don't think you're disagreeing there.

I do agree with the parent that listening is easier than speaking. When you're speaking, you have to know the right words, and know what order to put them in. Sure, there's some leeway: if you put words in the wrong order, or incorrectly conjugate a verb, or forget some types of words, your meaning will probably still go through. But if you forget other types of words, you just can't be understood. And sometimes conjugating a verb incorrectly does completely change the meaning of your sentence, which can confuse the listener.

I agree that the things you mention -- accents, pace, content -- are somewhat out of your control. But you can always ask the speaker to speak slower, and that will often lessen the impact of the accent on your ability to understand. The content problem is still there, just as it is with speaking, but I've found that I can usually understand more words than I can think of to speak on my own. And often you can get the meaning based on context even if you don't understand a word here or there.

I'm just a single data point, but... I took Spanish way back in primary school, for 5 years. I'm terrible at speaking it nowadays (over 20 years later). When I hear others speak Spanish, however, I can usually understand things that I'd never be able to speak on my own, even if I had all the time in the world to think about it.
I wonder if this will help the fully remote working cause, with such a polarizing policy some (a lot?) people might as well advocate more strongly to not coming back to the office
Yes, this right here! Not being able to reply to something you understand because you can't express yourself quite yet (but almost)...
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If you believe that manipulation and misinformation on the internet is not an actual problem then I don't know what to say

It affected shitton of people about covid/vacciness related stuff

It's one of the biggest challenges nowadays
What's the connection between M4 and a window manager?
According to the test specifications.

You will not speak what you don't know. There is no such limit when others just say things in accents, speeds or using words you have no knowledge of.

Starting to speak and be correctly understood felt much easier than accurately understanding others in my two secondary languages, and the same for my fiancée who is a native English speaker with one secondary language.
I get why people ask questions like that. Many questions on SO are often weird because of the XY problem [0]. Someone asks for X, people answering think doing X is really weird and difficult, and thus dig a bit more. They then find that the asker really wants to achieve Y which is simple to do.

[0]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-x...
Bollocks. In Europe you learn languages to be able to go abroad and to at least try to meet strangers halfway. Knowing just your own tongue is rude.
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How large is interpersonal variation in programmer productivity really? (1999) [pdf]
It isn't everywhere in Switzerland. I just lucked in to moving to a town that happens to have a lot of fibre underneath.

Plenty of places here are stuck on some form of broadband.
"but coming in to save everyone from an explosion gets you more points than oiling the valve every day so pressure doesn't build up in the first place. It's a cultural issue that is very hard to combat."

The "hero" part of the firefighter comes from the fact, that they actually go towards real danger as part of their job, they often do unpaid and voluntarily. (A big fire out of control, is a very scary thing)

While the maintainance worker is usually not in danger, if he does his job right.

" It's a cultural issue that is very hard to combat."

So I do not really see a issue here to combat (when using this metaphor). The actual firefighters deserve their praise.

And if some companies are too shortsighted and praise the people heroically fixing their own mess, then I would use a different metaphor there, to adress this.
Ouch. No amount of aloe vera can cure this burn.
Many thanks. I hadn't realised how good the Algolia search on HN is. I'm still not confident that I've found the one but maybe I've narrowed it down a bit!
It's not just time span. VSCode is a Microsoft project, and there's probably quite a bit of US corporate culture around it.
> Then they shouldn't pretend to represent the European Comission

But they don't? Since, as you even cited, the first thing in the document after the title is a disclaimer that this does not represent the European Commission's view.

> [...] or any of its logos.

The Radicalisation Awareness Network is part of the European Commission, so any document produced by anyone there will have the European Commission logo on it.
Yes just go to Jotunheimen and you will find them. But don't go if you are Christian. Call Troll Security Service if you need help.
It hasn't been mentioned yet, but give Lingvist a try, they take a (much) more serious attitude towards the same material.
even though english is a germanic language?
Yes you can try to lobby although the chance is virtually non existent in this case. I still think very few countries cherish individual rights and privacy as the US
The usage of sarcastic humor on the political field has a clear purpose: to disarm oppositors propaganda. And it is by far the most effective weapon against propaganda with no solid philosophical foundations.

And that's why the far left is so pissed off, after so many years of monopoly in the internet and having been infiltrated in all levels of culture, universities, media, actors, political lobbies, corporations, etc now they try to play the same cards conservatives from the 60s used in order to defend their acquired status.

But the world has changed and new young people now on what side is nowadays counterculture.
Previously discussed when episode 0 was posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27209093 (138 comments)

(They now have 6 episodes)
I think some politicians have become so detached from reality in their weird political bubbles that they do not appreciate that if these experimental injections have serious long term effects, they may face a firing squad.

It's that simple -- you most likely will not live through the aftermath if you dangled freedom as bait to get kids to undergo unjustifiable medical procedures, and a bunch of them die as a result. This is real life, not a political psycho game.
> Maybe you are right, and George Washington and James Madison were wrong, but you need to make better argument considering all aspects, not just state your opinion as a fact.

The US constitution reads [The Congress shall have power] “To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.”

Sounds very similar to the “opinion” of the parent comment.
It's a line from the musical Hamilton. “Immigrants, we get the job done”.
Good luck betting on that.

But show me the tech because:

> From their website: Storage is 30% lighter, 7% smaller, and 17% less expensive than Lithium-ion battery per kWh.

This is nonsense that wont happen.
Another person that worked at scaleway here.

The whole ISO27001 thing is false advertisement, the scope is very restricted and scaleway, online.net, dedibox or whatever are NOT ISO27001 certified.

The certification only applies to a very restricted range of products which are not even pubicly available.

> What about their access control policy and network access control policy?

A joke, many critical services were only firewalled to the outgoing ip address of their corporate wifi network which practically anyone entering the building was given the password.

The private network on online.net dedibox offering was just ACLs that were applied with a loop on every switch without much error handling it happened that what was displayed on the console was not the real configuration applied to a switch. What a joke.

And this is just a starter, this kind of things goes on and on. Scaleway is a terrible company.
Recently i’ve taken to using nnn for anything like this: https://github.com/jarun/nnn - i never used cli file managers but now, it’s up there with my shell, vim & tmux as a core productivity tool.

Show me files in this dir:

$ n

Show/hide details for each:

.

Filter / search file list:

/

Navigate subdirs (or parents) with vim or arrow keys.

Cd into sub dirs by typing unique chars from dir names:

ctrl-n

Drop back to shell i started n from but cd into this new dir:

ctrl-g

Exit n without cd’ing to the new dir i navigated to:

q

https://github.com/craigjperry2/dotfiles/blob/main/dotfiles/...

Although for deeply nested targets where i already know what im after, i’ll just:

vim<ctrl+t>

To launch an fzf fuzzy finder on the (.gitignore aware) results of an “fd” (cross platform alternative to gnu and bsd find)
> the commission always says that with every report it payed for

Because when you pay for a report, you are asking a group of people for their opinion on the subject, so you can then read the report and get inform and maybe act.
So by very definition it is indeed not their opinion, and not that ironic.
Nothing in here is "far left". That is entirely your own prejudices that you brought to this discussion, and your own attempts to polarise a discussion that is about fairly objective facts.
If an employer mandates it, then the employer is liable for anything bad that happens, the employers don't have immunity like the vaccine manufacturers. This of course assumes that there is rule of law.
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None of that was the topic here. It is about propaganda and how far left tries to not lose the control of the counterculture, and, it is already gone. Counterculture nowadays does not belong to the far left anymore.
Brings to mind this guy’s project:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/upperstory/spintronics-...
Disclaimer: only have dabbled in Koka slightly.

Not very sure if this is what you were asking about but yes, you can write functions that are polymorphic in their effect. E.g. the map function takes a function that has some effect e and the map function itself has the same effect e
The definitive list of the many kinds of interviewer you will meet in Hell
If you're using a recent Ubuntu, docker/zfs can lead to a large amount of snapshots. 'docker system prune' may help but has had zfs issues for me.
It isn't an Easter Egg, it is a defect with intent. Using a program at 0:30 isn't an unusual precondition and as seen here it will break stuff. Nondeterministic behaviour in a relatively common use case is bad. As seen here, predictably, it is breaking someone's test pipeline.

If they want a cute reference every invocation, fine. If they want a cute reference in a bizarre edge case, well maybe. Still poor taste. I don't like to think what it will take, but sooner or later the people demanding that programs do what they are documented to do are going win the battle. They have technical correctness on their side.

Good on the maintainer for being responsible.
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that's just your opinion, check it and judge yourself.
I have been accused of bad faith arguments when that wasn't my intend.

> There are potential benefits to considering any given idea (you learn something useful or get smarter), and there are also costs (time to evaluate, possible bad outcomes).

You don't have to evaluate every comment. You just let it stand and let others that want to invest the time come to their own conclusions. Perhaps you misunderstood the comment, have a different perspective or fail to get the context. This can be true for any comment you read.
Stop motion animation is still animation and as far as I can remember (born in 1994) it also had smaller cartoon animation clips.
Even if vaccinated people just as easily infect other people as unvaccinated they'd still spread the virus less because they themselves are less likely to get infected with the virus.
Ex-health secretary said 'vast majority' were 'onside' with GP data grab
The CEI article cherry picks sensational headlines with failed predictions, but that does not prove that climate change is not having disastrous effects on the environment.
I did, and what I said stands. You are the one desperately trying to spin this.
Cloudflare dropped the Daily Stormer. The ship of pretense of no judgement has sailed.
Iran regime just passed a law "to protect internet users", which pretty much censors everythings, makes VPN use even more difficult, etc. They are pretty much using your own arguments: "misinformation on the internet is an actual problem, let's PROTECT our citizens from it". :)
Asking for a member card is not so bad, but memorizing a script praising your boss is another step entirely.
Maybe this is part of the point? Clearly you have poor decision making skills, if you quit your job you get to make a statement about freedom and the average level of intelligence on your team surely goes up!
Totally, counterculture nowadays does not belong to the far left anymore and after oppress popular culture with its ideas (else you are cancelled) now they are making a major effort trying to cancell oppositors from the institutions.

Same as extreme conservatives did on the 60s.