skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've had a few guest speakers in to do talks at my workplace (~50 people) – it's usually something fairly informal and off-the-record/private, so they have been extremely high value as you get the sort of detail that doesn't tend to make it into generic talks on YouTube. Often these have taken the format of a "fireside chat" with one of our senior people, plus audience questions, for a total time of about an hour. Now that Zoom/et al are so commonplace I could see us doing this over video conferencing as well even though they've historically been in person.

To my knowledge we've never paid for these sessions – they're mostly "friends of the company", investors, CEOs from other companies in our investors' portfolios, etc, but assuming the price wasn't extortionate or the topic area was an important one, I could see us paying for this sort of thing. Again, to my knowledge, the speakers haven't prepped for these explicitly in the past so the time commitment would have likely been small, apart from travel.
The constant downside to that is that you can no longer type these characters without considering what the next character is going to be, and pressing space if you want to opt out of the combination. If you type the accented characters much more often than the quotes it can be fine, but it gets annoying very quickly while programming.

The compose key is basically an opt-in alternative to combining those characters that also allows a lot of other combinations.
>That's to say, I hardly take any of this to heart or dedicate my time to thinking critically about things that will never affect me.

It must be nice to be that privileged. Most people are not lucky enough to be this insulated from society.
Are years the appropriate units for such comparisons, though?

Anyway I give them their record, my main gripe is really the talk about averages. It's just plain misleading or at least not as informative as it could be.
> Elon Musk took over Tesla and SpaceX. He was not the innovator there.

I remember before Tesla: electric cars were a joke, nothing more. Even if the only thing Musk did was convince rich people they were not-terrible, this was worth it. (Same RE: the iPod, which was infamously dismissed on slashdot, yet did in fact revolutionise the MP3 player market).

When it comes to SpaceX, however, Musk is an actual rocket scientist.

And of course, the iPods being popular created a lot of jobs that would otherwise not have existed, both for rich people like us and for the industrialisation in the same area as the Foxconn factories in China)
Thanks for this, I had no idea why the site went downhill, and that dates it in my memory. Barbara Mikkelson was the only byline I actually remembered from Snopes, and was probably what I liked about it. I didn't know the other co-founder was an ex-usenet troll who started aggressively raising money right after she left, but it explains a lot.
That would be believable if I'd argued that platforms should never delete any video under any circumstance, but I didn't, so it isn't. You did make an interesting accidental admission though: you either somehow believe that context doesn't matter, or you know that it does but decided to make an out of context bad faith argument anyway.
Lean muscle at rest only burns about 8 kcal/day/kg more than fat. So the metabolic effect is pretty small.
We can ban the use of plastics for disposable packaging, or really any disposable application, too.
Conceptually, infrastructure is just "application" code that's grown into a highly cohesive, lowly coupled standalone application.

If you need a distributed hashmap or distributed lock, (or really any distributed dedicated purpose code), something premade is a good option, especially if that's not your company's specialty.

These articles are always a bit interesting that they seem to ignore the debate is "3rd party/outsource" vs "insource". EC2, S3, etc are all just internal "Amazon applications" to support horizontal scaling that Amazon realized there was a huge market for. Somewhere there is code for these someone is writing, maintaining, and operating just like any other "business app". It's especially apparent at large companies for shared services like email, authentication, storage, compute.

To the end user, anything across the internet is "infrastructure" for whatever app they're using
But that doesn't matter, does it? Anyone familiar with the topic will already know what's up, and anyone interested enough to research the topic will be able to do so as well.

The point of declaring true/false is to have the final word for most readers. "No need to look further, Snopes said it's true". Sure, anyone can provide evidence to say you're wrong, but they're just some random blogger and nobody reads them. And on the off-chance that someone big picks them up, you apologize, adjust the verdict, and move on.

You don't need total control over the information of 100% of the population. Having a lot of control over the information diet of 70% of the population is great already.
The idea that their opposition to bacha bazi played a significant role in the Taliban's appeal is exactly the kind of myopic American cultural reasoning that has led to this disaster in Afghanistan.
This may be common to other introverts: I tend to make my greetings, rather than verbally, with some kind of facial expression. Fortunately for me during the pandemic, I was pretty decent at the mime stuff and other physically emotive arts, so I have not been too impacted. I have noticed that I have been using my body and my (I am told "expressive") hands quite a bit to compensate.

I wonder how much of that will stick around out of habit when we are eventually done with masks.
Global averages don't tell you much about any specific place. Weather varies considerably.
Another topic where people seem to ignore Thomas Sowell's research: https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/09/12/the-fallac...
Reddit is quietly rolling out a TikTok-like video feed button on iOS
The awkwardness is because use of `self.whatever` in closures borrows `self` as a whole instead of just the `whatever` part. The good news is that Rust is going to fix this soon:

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/05/11/edition-2021.html#disj...
Edit: link has changed to ap news (didn't know that was even a thing you could do after posting to HN?)

This story seems like more idle speculation with the backing of a semi-official source (but not in his official capacity).

Absolutely no new evidence is presented in the story, it's just one person's opinion. Also, this source is a right-wing media org, and in comments to the Washington Post later he walked the story back[1]:

> Asked for comment, Ben Embarek initially said the interview had been mistranslated in English-language media coverage. “It is a wrong translation from a Danish article,” he wrote, declining to comment further and referring The Washington Post to the WHO. He did not immediately respond to follow-up questions.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/12/who-origins-...
I'd ask for a fact check on that, but I don't need one because buzzfeed is a reputable, trustworthy publication.

Kidding aside, this was widely known as far back as 2016 and discussed heavily online, but called a conspiracy theory and criticized by all the reputable rags that rely on fact checking to lie to you and convince you that you can't trust your own judgment. The fact that this is being reported now probably means someone became no longer useful, every last one of these fact checkers and reputable news publications are doing things like this daily and gaslighting their readers.
I remember being freaked out as a kid in the 1970's at the "you eat spiders while you sleep" urban legend, so it predates that 1992 humor column by at least 15 years or so.
Here's an example of what you're talking about:

The original r/AskReddit thread ("What feels illegal, but isn't?"): https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/aszfh3/what_feel...

The Buzzfeed repurposing of that thread ("19 Things That FEEL Illegal Even Though They Definitely Aren't"): https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephenlaconte/if-you-have-a-guilty...

And a r/mildlyinfuriating thread about Buzzfeed's repurposing ("Buzzfeed blatantly copying their articles from AskReddit threads"):
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/axb6cw/b...

As the r/mildlyinfuriating discussion points out, the Buzzfeed article is both prefaced with the origin — i.e. "This week, a Reddit thread asked users that very question..." — and a link to that source. And each item (i.e. Reddit comment) is attributed to the Reddit user (e.g. "Walking out of the store without buying anything."
—lassissal), and a link back to the user comment. Plagiarism is the act of claiming authorship for someone else's content. Buzzfeed's profit-by-curation may be distasteful, but it's not plagiarism.

In any case, I think the average person understands that Buzzfeed is an aggregator, with a mission to get clicks and to entertain. Stealing content is wrong no matter what, but it isn't a direct contradiction of Buzzfeed's purported core purpose. Snopes' purported core purpose is to "have the real facts", and that purpose is directly undermined by lying about others' work being your own.
Remember when the previous administration suggested looking into the Lab Leak theory and was laughed at?

Remember how you would get banned from Facebook for suggesting that the lab leak theory was a possibility?

Then major social networks and the medias reversed their positions. What changed in the meantime, other than the president?
Just putting this out there: I could be in a far away place and hear my dad's cough hundreds of feet away and recognize his presence. There is something unique and extremely recognizable about coughs.
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28169681
This isn't fixable. The only solution is to make cars more expensive, because it is impossible to improve alternative transport without massively raising prices. Alternative transport will always be massively inferior in cost or quality (usually both). Some may advocate subsidizing alternatives by taxing car traffic more. But as soon as the desired effect of vanishing car traffic appears, subsidies will vanish, alternative transport will be expensive and bad again. And everybody will be poorer, less happy and nobody will have gained anything (except alternative transport profiteurs).
Modern rich guys would rather go to space than give back to the public in any way.
What I find most disheartening about fusion is that breaking even is just the FIRST step. They still need to address reliability, safety, economics, and maintenance before commercializing. If it takes a billion dollars to produce a 100 megawatt plant, it's lunch is going to get eaten by wind, solar and battery storage. Especially if it produces as much secondary nuclear waste as a fission plant. (Irradiated concrete, etc...)
Are you aware there is a significant cultural divide between African Americans (many generations) and one or two-generation immigrants from the Carribean of Black African origin? When I lived in New York City, I was surprised to learn about this significant cultural divide. Most Black Carribean people who immigrated to the United States are much high class and education than African Americans.

There is also a significant divide between Brazillians that immigrate to the United States. If you are five generations removed from Germany, but born in Brazil (essentially 100% Caucasian / white), there is a huge social gap with mixed and Black African origin Brazillians. I was also surprised by that in New York City.
What does it mean “to spin” in this case?
It was a little thing called the Industrial Revolution and the rise of automation that it enabled. That was all sparked by the use of coal as an energy source, and later oil. Without coal and oil, we would all be toiling away on primitive farms still, having ten children and losing four of them before the age ofe 3.
What about the other months, they should also all be hitting records?

In any case, I give them their record. My main issue was with the comparison to averages.

Often they even call it "anomaly" which may technically be correct, but sounds much more scary than necessary.
> What’s something objectively indefensible that would require a course on misinformation to identify?

Off the top of my head?

- Susie says the sky is blue. The sky is blue, because Susie says so.

- Frank says climate change is real. Frank is a convicted pedophile. Therefore, climate change is not real.

- Among all animals, only man is rational. Women are not men. Therefore, women are not rational.

- All humans are alive, therefore life begins at conception.

- Hacker News is the best source of informed commentary, because informed commenters comment on Hacker News.

And I've seen real world analogs of all of those on cable news shows.

> massive selection bias

This is something that experimental psychology has been solving for about 100 years. They're not bad at it.
I’d rather focus on the broader claim that the right set of answers for fact checking is {True, False, Opinion} the get bogged down in the specifics of the exactly correct boundaries between these categories, which has some subjectivity and is likely to become the main topic of discussion if any example is provided.
Really, one hundred percent? Not just ninety-five? :)

> [Bacha Bazi] is not a determinant factor in "winning the hearts and minds" of the Afghan people.

This rather famous report written by the US military disagrees:

By some accounts, the first incident that brought Mullah Omar and the Taliban to prominence in the eyes of the Pashtun people actually involved a dispute between two warlords over a particularly attractive halekon. This dispute took the pedophilia of the warlords to such an extreme that the locals themselves were repulsed and happy to embrace a force of reform.

and:

Even where the halekon tradition is not "celebrated "per se, it appears to underlie a number of Pashtun social structures, most notably the recruitment of very young "soldiers" by commanders of paramilitary groups. (This is so much true even today, that current law prohibits "beardless boys" living in Afghan military and police stations.) This in turn fits under the traditional warrior ethos which defines the role of men within Pashtun culture. This dynamic played a major role in the functioning of the warlord culture that preceded the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

From https://info.publicintelligence.net/HTT-PashtunSexuality.pdf - "Pashtun Sexuality"
> The actual fallacy

... according to linguistics researcher with a website. He sounds like as much a false authority on philosophy as anyone else.
Specifically, a mask obstructing a face limits the ability of people of all ages to infer emotions expressed by facial features, but the difficulties associated with the mask’s use are significantly pronounced in children aged between 3 and 5 years old.

IMO masks are severely harming social and interpersonal development of young children, but any suggestion of removing the masks creates shit storm of controversy. The solution seems to be online learning, but it’s worth noting that a major group pushing for masks in school (teachers) are the same pushing online teaching. IMO That’s a disingenuous conflict of interest, but since pediatricians are also pushing masks for children in school, what’s the solution here? Maybe the solution is to create little plastic enclosed boxes so no child gets within 3 feet or 4 feet of another child. Everyone is surrounded by plastic like they are Hannibal Lecter, but at least they can see the smile on each other’s face…
AccessKit: Cross-platform UI accessibility infrastructure
On Linux/xorg I use the qwerty international layout and a dead compose key for the rarely used symbols.

Example: é is "altgr+e", ç is "altgr+", while Ω is "right-ctrl, shift+w" and ⁶ is "right-ctrl,^,6" etc.

You can do it all with the compose key. But for typing in french I find altgr+e to be faster than "rightctrl,',e".
Optical connectivity for short reach (distance) is pretty well standardized and has been for years at least at 1G and above. The biggest barrier for a home user would be familiarizing oneself with the fact you can’t bend fibers like you can copper and you have to keep connectors clean. Other than that you should be able to connect and go.
FTA:
" A freedom of information request carried out in April by FFOS revealed there have been 498 reported oil spills on land and at sea since the beginning of 2018.

There have been no resulting prosecutions or fines by Trinidad and Tobago authorities. "

This is disgusting. I'll set aside the arguments against the petrochem industry, which are many, obvious, and unfortunately prone to extremist controversy.

What I'm truly saddened by here is the obvious level of corruption here. While oil extraction and transport will never be 100% clean, it's demonstrably possible for it to be 1000x better than this, but without a government willing to stand up and force these jackholes to pay for their externalities, it's not gonna happen in places like this.

Maybe an international coalition is needed to fine, punish, and regulate oil extraction and transport? In practice that would probably be US money funding 2nd and 3rd world people to do the work (see UN Peacekeeping forces), but it seems better than no regulation.
Buzzfeed News != Buzzfeed. One has a pulitzer and the other tells you what Hogwarts house you're in.
There is so much disinformation about this with people not being informed. Apple have put out clear documentation, it would be a good idea to read it before fear-mongering.

1) The list of CSAM hashes is that provided by the relevant US government agency, that is it.

2) The project is not targeted to roll out anywhere other than the USA.

3) The hashes are baked into the OS, there is no capability to update them other than on signed and delivered Apple OS updates.

4) Apple has exactly the same leverage with EvilGov as at any other time. They can refuse to do as asked, and risk being ejected from the country. Their stated claim is that this is what will happen. We will see.
Not really. I don't know in advance which symbols I want to type, and even then I'd have to learn where I put the symbols on the custom layout, while the compose sequences I can usually guess. Considering the amount of background processes the typical Windows system runs, having one additional program really doesn't make a difference.
National carbon taxes for the US are politically infeasible. Best we can do right now is big climate-tied infrastructure spending packages, sector-specific targets, R&D investments--whole mess of things. That is the stuff that can pass for the foreseeable future. Carbon taxes as the exclusive solution is a naive dream of economists.
It has been discussed here and elsewhere to death, so I won't rehash it.

Suffice to say that I like privacy and I am angered that Apple would accuse me of being a pedophile. To that end:

* I have been an iphone users for years, just listed it for sale.
* Bought a Google Pixel 4 XL off eBay
* Flashing it to https://calyxos.org/
* Goodbye Apple.

I researched other phone options, like:

PinePhone: Long ago I used a Nokia N900, and while pure Linux awesomeness, man it required much tweaking to get basic functions working. While researching the PinePhone, I went to the Reddit support forum. One of the top posts was "HOWTO - Get MMS Working" and decided that, no, I do not have time in my life for another phone that requires that much work.

Librem 5: Holy expensive Batman! for really low specs.
> It would seem unsurprising that the end result of this, upon pulling the "center" of each party towards its own extreme, is essentially what we've seen -- ~50% of conservatives now believe in vaccine/pandemic conspiracy theories, vs liberals support some extremists at the local level

They wouldn't be pulled to extremes, they'd already be there. However, most research shows it's the right that's moved far. Look at Trumpism and compare that to prior conservative leaders, such as GW Bush, GHW Bush, Reagan, Ford .... Biden fits right in with Clinton and Obama.

> liberals support some extremists at the local level

What extremists? There are people farther left than Biden, but nobody trying to seize power from the people, letting a deadly pandemic spread for political reasons, backing arrest and brutality toward their political enemies, etc.

It's not balanced; if Amy punches Bob, it's not even-handed to blame both of them. If Amy burns down the house, it's not even-handed to say 'we're all crazy'.
But to the degree that the reason for doing this is "the rich shouldn't have that much money", to that degree there's no pressure on the government to use the money wisely.

And I don't like your question. Sure, billionaires can use their wealth badly. Why should they face consequences (other than no longer having what they have wasted)? That someone could misuse something is not a reason to take it from them and give it to someone else who could also misuse it. That is, I don't like your question because it implies that they should only be allowed to keep it if they are using it "properly". I think that the rule of law calls for a higher bar than that before taking peoples' stuff.
It seems like one of the easiest to explain to non technical end users. "Yeah, you see we've measured the amount of time it takes a piece of information to move over the longest wire. Then we've calculated the length of your wire and determined the difference. We added that to this piece of code written in (proceed to lose most non technical users)..."

Vs "yeah everyone's wire is the same length"

Which is fairly easily provable
Show HN: Encode/Decode Message Length Indicators for ISO8583 Based Messages
A Survey of Equity Refresh Programs
See also, Sam Vimes ’Boots’ theory of socioeconomic injustice: https://samvimesbootstheory.com/
> Plagiarism is the act of claiming authorship for someone else's content. Buzzfeed's profit-by-curation may be distasteful, but it's not plagiarism.

If I were to publish an article that is a word for word copy of another article, with proper attribution, would I not be accused of plagiarism?
Infrastructure is global state, and global state is the enemy
Convention. Like the core of language itself. If you refuse to respect convention we can't communicate.

You ask about a.add(b) but notice that's also using two operators.

First it needs a . operator for member access. Languages rarely allow you to overload this operator because doing so makes your head hurt, but there's no reason in theory it couldn't exist.

[In Python we can use __getattribute__ to meddle with this, but to avoid infinite recursion we can't use __getattribute__ to meddle with the operator overloading, such as __getattribute__ itself... ]

Second you need a () operator to call the member. This you can sometimes overload, for example in C++. So what this does might be defined by that operator overload.

The only way to avoid this being too confusing to use is to obey conventions, and even once you do that many of the operator overloads will be rarely needed and one wonders whether to just abolish overloading them.

Worse, unlike a function call, operators sometimes come with other semantic expectations that may be impossible to enforce.

For example the operators && and || are short-cutting logic booleans, in almost any programming language with such an operator, in_cache(foo) || slow_check(foo) only performs slow_check(foo) when in_cache(foo) was false. But an overload can't ensure this! Instead both will be evaluated and the results provided to the operator overload function, too late to optimise.

Overloading should be used very sparingly. If any significant fraction of your users find your overload confusing, it was a bad idea. Better than ten people wonder why they must write a.add(b) than that one person writes a + b and then is completely astonished by what you decided that does.