skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great stuff. Refactoring in my codebase is quite painful because earlier owners went in almost the opposite direction. The unit tests pretty much are never the ones that catch our bugs -- it's all caught by random or end to end tests. I'm slowly trying to crawl toward the light with respect to reorganizing tests I come across to use the external API.
I think what they meant is that at the pace they were committing coffee to production, the e2e suite would never stop running.

This is the most charitable interpretation.
It can't be much worse than relatives claiming you as dead so they can have your house, and then every government system denies you any service because you're "dead"
No, still probably not. People call each other liars all of the time both online and in real life. You still need to connect this to some kind of intent, you still need to show that the instance of "you're lying" demonstrates a reckless disregard for truth.

In American courts that is a very, very hard bar to clear -- particularly if the target is a public figure.
> Wilhelm Reich, second gen Freudian, who weaponized this stuff as "sexual revolution".

you are very funny LMAO
> is there anything at all that they conceptually couldn't fathom?

Well you set the bar artificially high with that phrasing. Is there ever anything people of the last couple thousand years would be literally unable to conceptually fathom? No. We know that from ancient texts, they would be able to grasp anything we have today (even if it might take more elaborate explanation). 1950s Americans, or any citizens around the world at the time, would be more than astounded by 3-4 billion people being essentially always connected on a gigantic, seemingly instantaneous global communications and commerce network. The modern smartphone would similarly astound, what they can do all-in-one and the quality of it (the audio, the video, the music, movies, news, communication, click-button services & purchasing, digitization of money, the quality of digital photographs and how many you can take with no regard for space, it would all astound). Someone from the 1980s would be just as astounded by a recent iPhone, they'd feel like a time traveler.

People in 2007 were truly astounded by the iPhone. It almost felt like a product delivered from the future. It put all industry jaws on the floor and reset the grid for everyone in the tech industry, without exception. Maybe people have now widely forgotten the shock effect it had, I haven't forgotten.

That said, the parent's claim was an exaggeration. We're not inventing/harnessing such extraordinary stuff every year. Maybe a few things of note per decade globally.

CRISPR, cracking the human genome, modern antibiotics, Internet, Web, transistor and microprocessor, software, computers including personal, space flight, powered flight, various engines, electricity and electric light, fossil fuels, nuclear power and weapons, various green revolution outcomes (food production), solar and a few key renewable energy technologies, the commercial/industrial laser, and so on.

There are several dozen things that can be added to that list from the last 100-150 years. A few per decade globally might be a reasonable peg.
Thanks for the raw numbers.
Robert Redfield former CDC director said trump had access to intelligence implicating the lab. Biden presumay does as well.

Also, nowhere here is any claim it was intentional.
Remote education was proven to work, it is time to close public schools.

If people want to spend their own money to send kids to class that can be their choice, and they can pick schools that match their health care strategy.

Taxpayers should not be required to shell out for babysitting.
>If you sent the content to a newspaper and they posted it in the relevant section the newspaper would be liable. Those things aren't as distinct as they were made to be.

You ignored the point. Which is I am responsible for what I say, regardless of where it's published online, not the platform that hosts my words.

>What i had in mind is the fact that on facebook you have a mix of posted newspaper articles (which are first-party elsewhere and thus someone may be legally liable for them) along with official/governmental first parties, politicians, heads of state, scientists , and random users most of which cannot be legally challenged, at all. And this is done intentionally because facebook has made great effort to get its users to read / post news articles. If it was just user posts people would have left.

Who says that "official/governmental first parties, politicians, heads of state, scientists , and random users" can't be legally challenged?

All section 230 does is keep you from suing the third party. You can sue any or all of the folks you mention every day of the week and twice on Sundays (okay, probably not at all on Sundays, as most civil courts in the US are closed on Sunday, but I trust you take my point).

>These assymetries no longer make sense imho. This is a new era where everyone, personally is a publisher.

And you can sue anyone and everyone for defamation if you wish. I'm sure your lawyer will absolutely adore you if you do. Just make sure that retainer check doesn't bounce!

>I think 230 makes a very basic ontological distinction between "people whose opinion matters/has impact and therefore must be regulated (press)" and "people whose opinion doesnt matter (random users)".

Actually, Section 230 makes no such distinction. If you are the party making the statement, Section 230 does not apply. Please see here[0] for more details.

[0] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
Dollars are created by granting credit and promising debt.

Basically to people who need dollars to do productive work.

Oversimplification: The promise of work creates dollars and therefore dollars are created through work.
On the other hand, from the evidence presented in the filing I would guess Facebook didn't act with deliberate malice; some automated or sound-bite-level manual system caught a bit of the video that did make a false statement and hit the label button. (I haven't seen the original video, but from what I have read I don't think it could be done without a "some people believe X but they're wrong" style statement, X being the false statement.)

So the question is, does Facebook's gross incompetence at fact-checking satisfy the negligence part of the malice definition?
It could also be the brine pumped into the non-organic chicken. I don't know if pumping brine into chicken affects its organic status or not, but the organic chickens I see at the store do not have brine or chicken broth listed as ingredients, while the non-organic ones do.
they're unaffiliated which makes them independent but why are you concerned about them being an advocacy organization? do you think that means they're going to lie or have a vested interest in misrepresenting the truth?
New Site Tracking Reported Tesla Fires
Thanks for pointing out that mistake.
I think people also breath out quite a bit of water.
So total weight loss from breathing will be bigger than the 273g
I've been extremely wary of how some of the evidence of Covid-19 origins have come about, particular because so much of it has been presented as "Well, we've never seen this before, so it must have lab origins."

That said, I think the context around this is extremely damning for Daszak. I didn't realize this until reading the Wikipedia article on Daszak, but he was the one that organized the Feb 2020 letter in the Lancet condemning suggestions of a lab origin for Covid-19 as conspiracy theories. But how could he do this while conveniently leaving out that his own organization was involved in highly risky coronavirus research?

Again, I don't think this news puts us much closer to uncovering the origins of Covid-19, but it does show how some of these folks leading the charge of "it had to be natural" were at the very least being duplicitous in their communications.
Perhaps I misunderstood the grandparent post. But police funding seems like a straightforward, highly politicized issue. It’s not like there’s some sketchy backroom deals over an innocuous sounding contract.
Conveniently beholden to Microsoft.
These are all very compelling claims. I am wondering if you can provide at least one reference for each. E.g. "There are now many known related sarbecoviruses which have been found with furin cleavage sites" is a claim that can be referenced pretty easily with a link to papers reporting said sarbecoviruses.
On desktop, somehow the space key has been hijacked so you can't scroll through the page by pressing space -- instead it takes you back to the top!
You are really misguided. Microsoft is more aligned with military/government with contacts and projects going back 20+ years. Facebook hacks around your privacy to keep you coming back to sell higher priced ads. Microsoft doesn't really sell ads but they make great products for law enforcement and desire to work with the cia, nsa, fbi,etc.
Formula calculates how to create space for pedestrians in post-pandemic cities
Explaining Probability to a Jury
Nah, just a dual-core i7 @ 2.1 GHz. I got that laptop 2nd hand, so that was it.

I don't get into the bios very often so I might be wrong, but I don't recall seeing any indication of an nvidia gpu in mine. I'll look better!
I think you will see that in the next 10 years will be the big return of rural as people want to get away from... other people.
A 3D printed vaccine patch offers vaccination without a shot
Is the claim that 1600 dollars made the difference between poverty and subsistence?

I have nothing against the child tax credit. I think it's great. But I am hard pressed to believe 1600 dollars has eliminated poverty. If it did... Great that's a really cheap way to do it!
Yep ... that's about two chocolate bars every kilometer ... and that has not really changed too much with newer motor generations as it is mostly a function of how much gas is used.
Yesterday:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/we-need-software-updates-forever

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28625453
Perhaps it was Amphetamine with the relevant setting to prevent sleep with built-in display closed.
Fortnite actually uses both Battleye and EAC interestingly enough, both having announced Proton support this week. The Steam Deck is really helping push the envelope here, game companies treating it like another supported console.
Comparing early philosophers to current influencers as the same. Just no.
This is a horse crap take. People in rural areas get an insane amount of subsidization for infrastructure. And for what reason? Why does their incredibly energy intensive, land intensive lifestyle deserve to get subsidized?

This is yet another take that money deserves to get sucked out of cities and pushed to car dependent, unsustainable areas.

The city where I live had a good, commercially successful fiber roll out going. The ISP literally stopped the progress of the roll out in the city for a couple of years, where it was actually affordable and paying for itself, because they got a massive government "grant" to put up fiber in a rural area just to the south.

If people want to live in rural areas and then shit on people living in dense areas, where quality infrastructure is actually possible for a reasonable price, let them pay for it!
Unfortunately most of us have no friends (who use it)
Except there was no bat coverup. The american media bought into that theory without any evidence while simultaneously castigating and ridiculing the lab leak one. The coverup of the lab leak theory in the press was thus in plain sight.
This is just weird. I use Contexts and it's awesome.
There are such options on Firefox. Auto close and close on quit, although annoyingly the latter now requires choosing quit from the app menu instead of just closing the app like a few years ago. There is also "close all tabs" if you just hold the tab button, as well as in the ... menu on the tab screen
Armory3D seems to be doing just that. Looks like custom licenses are best for this scenario.
Example https://armorpaint.org/download.html

Their license
https://github.com/armory3d/armorpaint/blob/master/LICENSE.m...

ArmoryPaint is a sort of alternative to substance painter, and you can download it for 16€, but they also give you the choice of compiling it from source for free. It has a nice balance between people who pay for the convenience and frugal developers who understand and can compile it themselves (or don't but are now incentivized to learn, usually kids getting into game development) and can use the program; otherwise, wouldn't have been accessible.
In the face of accelerating change, every moment feels like an inflection point, and the past always looks stagnant in comparison. Measured from the baseline of where things are now, the past was so different. Measured from the baseline of how quickly things change now, the past was so slow.

The catch is that it’s true no matter when you say it from, so long as change is accelerating. Exponential growth is my favorite example. Plot y=k^t for any k from t=long time ago to t=T. It will look like y is at an ‘insane inflection point,’ regardless of the T you choose.
Derek Chauvin to Appeal Conviction in Death of George Floyd
What a pretentious way to say acceptable. If I ever hear anyone using cromulent unironically I'll automatically think they're a douchbag and avoid them. Language is suppose to be simple so you can... IDK, communicate. Stuff like this is cringe and not at all based or red pilled. Downboated.
> simply parrot whatever other mass media outlets say regardless of facts.

bias aside, are you asserting that generally mass media news is more lies than truths?
> Why can’t you just tell me how much it’ll be, and then we can move on?

On the other hand, why don't you just tell them the lowest number you'll accept?

> Well, the reason we have to play this game is because, like it or not, everyone else is playing it.

The real reason is it is completely unworkable to require a best offer from one side and not the other side.

Negotiation is central and inevitable to life with more than one person. Negotiating also means giving up things you don't value for things that you do value - making for much better allocation of resources.
“In fact, go back 15 years and no one had any tests whatsoever. The world didn't end.”

That’s just silly. Of course there were tests 15 years ago. Unit testing has been around since the 1950s

Very little would cause the world to end. But lives have been lost and billions of dollars along the way wasted due to improper testing
Actually what you get are rich people who don't need the low salary.
Fetching them in a way that information (like titles) can be meaningfully extracted from is a lot harder than it sounds - we've worked on it in the past and got bogged down in lots of details and corner cases etc. An easier way might be to rely on one of the archiving services, e.g. archive.org. If a snapshot could be taken at submission time than it would be there to refer to later.

On the other hand, titles changing on the fly isn't that big a headache as far as sanity-affecting headaches go. NYT does it all the time, or used to. The main thing I don't like to do is scold someone for breaking the title guideline and then finding out later that it was the site, not the submitter, that changed it.
> This doesn't remotely support the claim of genocide.

You didn't ask about genocide in the comment I replied to.

> The guy was actually accused, tried and convicted of a crime, probably involving the distribution of jihadi material.

The police seized 125250 copies. I doubt jihad is nearly that popular. (His city of Hetian only has 400,000 inhabitants.) But importing any kind of religious publication beyond a small amount for personal use requires express permission http://www.gov.cn/ziliao/flfg/2007-04/20/content_589295.htm paragraph 10. Most likely it was just an edition of the Qur'an that hadn't been officially approved by the Islamic Association of China.
Goldilocks Fallacy
It works very well and has been sustainable for many decades in a handful of other countries around the world.

It's simply a question of priorities, and evidently that is not high on the list.
> sheikdoms in the Gulf are already providing a good income to all their citizens

which is looking to failing as soon as the price of oil drops. The saudis are now having to pay VAT to the state, for the first time recently.

UBI doesn't work if the productivity of the country would drop as a result of implementing a UBI. And i can't think of any reason why productivity would not drop, since there would definitely be some people who are currently productive, but would drop that productivity if there would be a UBI that's livable for them.

The argument that there would be a percentage who would increase their productivity (such as starting their own small business, etc) is merely speculative, since if they could start a small business, why don't they do it now, without waiting on UBI? If the UBI is what enables them to invest their time and capital, what makes UBI the only way to obtain capital, rather than seed capital? If it is _only_ UBI that can give them this seed capital, then they are effectively being subsidized by tax payers to entrepreneurship - if that was the goal, why not make that explicit, and give grants for such?
Social Wealth Fund for America
I agree with this but it also misses the very material threats of surveillance. That is, citizen is actively monitored for behavior and besides the philosophical self policing aspect, they can face actual consequences. Surveillance is scary for both philosophical chilling effect as well as material consequences. Those who surveil can make up arbitrary laws to violate persons’ right to liberty and pursuit of happiness.
> I'm surprised two people are debating this.

With Marxists, everything is a debate until their side wins.

As we're seeing with the murder rate, Afghanistan and the southern border, that means we all lose as a country.
If we hold the M-W editors to the standard of only using "real" words, then a contradiction is present.

If "cromulent" has not yet reached their threshold for inclusion, then they themselves should not be using it in casual language. Contrapositively, if they are using it casual language, then presumably it has reached their threshold for inclusion as a word.

For them to casually use the word as though it were real after arguing that it is not harms their credibility as arbiters of what words are or are not real, despite the comedic value of them doing so here.
Canada drops extradition after Meng Wanzhou strikes deal with US
Colchicine is a very old drug used to treat gout and other diseases which went into orphan disease patent because some company figured out proper dosage. Now the drug became expensive in the US but everywhere else benefited by knowing the proper dosage and no increase in price. I'd rather American consumers not end up solely paying for all these costs.
I can't read the Swedish words in the left column they just appear as tiny blocks unless I zoom right in. Pixel 4, latest Chrome.
The truly irritating thing is that even that wouldn't necessarily be enough, because so many sites actually do live A/B/C/[n] title tests simultaneously to randomized sets of users then choose whichever one gets the most clicks or whatever metric first. Even without any manual shenanigans. So there's a window where merely refreshing or browsing from a different IP will yield a different title. Sometimes evidence is left in the URL or interactions with older systems on the a site but that's all baroque. So so so many edge cases in grabbing titles.

Probably not worth the effort on HN to try to automate vs just treating it case by case. It doesn't usually seem to be a problem. "Pre-optimization is the root of all evil" and all that.

Edit: or archive.org as dang says, but I don't know if even they see all versions of a page if there is a simultest situation. Regrettably seems pretty SOP on even reputable places.
I'm seeking it right now. So let's try again.

The mining curve is reasonably described as monetary policy, seeing as it has a major impact on the distribution of coins and on inflation, which many crypto advocates worry about very deeply.

The mining curve was defined by Satoshi based on their original implementation. If there was to be a change in the mining curve we would need (1) a new version of the btc codebase that does mining rewards differently and (2) for the miners to swap to this fork. There is no mechanism for me, as a single person, to have a voice in this process except through contributing hash power to my preference. This is an amount of voting power associated with my wealth. That is antidemocratic.

Or do you want to just keep telling my that I am mysteriously ignorant over and over? That'll certainly endear people to the community.
I was ready to be angry.

However using gas that would have been burned or vented anyway doesn't seem so bad.

Of course this makes it so there is no incentive to close these vents completely.
I want to make it really clear though; it doesn't matter whether or not Stossel is a climate denier, it's still probably not defamation. The fact checkers don't need to prove that Stossel is a climate denier.
And you’re complaining about what? That the productive 10% are doing useful stuff for each other, making their lives better?
i stopped bothering about that.

i used to not like updated, and just postponed them. then noticed that after a while android would just update everything silently (without my consent).

so i guess... whatever, it's a lost cause. I hate modern smartphones.
I guess it's unfortunate for btrfs that it has so much "raid" functionality. Otherwise it could be known for its useful other functionality - snapshots, subvolumes, checksums, compression!
My wife and I have been donating to Cures Within Reach https://www.cureswithinreach.org, which funds repurposing research.

This is especially important for rare conditions that are unlikely to ever see robust R&D purely on the basis of the size of the market.
There’s a lot of potential in realizing that if you were happy with a transaction it doesn’t matter what other transactions are going on around you. You can replace “transaction” with many things in that statement. We’d probably be much further along as a species if we all let go of our egos a little more often (though not completely! I’m not arguing for that.)
I believe this is just if it's sleeping with the lid open. If you go to Apple > Shut down... and let it complete, it will not turn back on unless you press the power button.
I would argue raising minimum wage doesn't have the same effect, because the value produced by the job on this minimum wage, in totality, is still higher than the minimum wage (because if it weren't, those jobs would then be gone, and the person would end up with no job, rather than a raised minimum wage).
For me it's a stark reminder that while we think of ourselves as smart, well off individuals that have a grip on the world we actually own everything to our scientific knowledge and infrastructure and stripped of that we'd be just as royally screwed as our very remote ancestors were because we aren't even an ounce more intelligent than them.
Julia is not a "dude".

Julia also did not claim having created CodePen.