skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Truth decay" is the common term for this. Usually it's considered as an attack on expertise and authority, but associating a belief with a government conspiracy is no different than associating it with any other conspiracy. "Rational dissidents" is not redundant. Being a dissident doesn't make someone rational, and being conventional doesn't make someone irrational. All such assumptions or insinuations are forms of truth decay.
I find it extremely interesting to read about these and other "culture bound disorders".

Apparently, when enough people believe a stupid and obviously false thing, people feel free to express their opinion that it is true nonetheless.

This is of course how the West is being destabilised: By internet troll factories (sponsored by China? Russia? who knows?) that are payed to spout such huge amounts of nonsense into our field of vision that we feel more free to express our obviously wrong ideas as well...

Having a highly educated populace is not insulation a society against these kinds of attacks.
just today I was thinking about how more and more organisations show signs of systemtaic overload and cluelessness. even if you pay specifically for a service supposed to handle situations and shield you from further complications of specific incidences there is no guarantee they know what they are doing or - and that's one of the core reasons for this class of problems - know what their subcontractors are doing. often those don't even care because they themselves are shielded by other insurances and the responsibilites are passed on endlessly like a hot potato. a similar very recent problem would be the various supply chain issues we are experiencing. nobody seems to have close grip on things anymore. like playing the telephone game we can just hope the message is passed on uncurropted and the answer doesn't get stuck somewhere or also corrupted which might trigger just the next misunderstanding. it's totally nuts.
I used to give all new managers at Cloudflare Daniel Pink’s book “Drive.” Summary of a bunch of interesting research on what really motivates people.
They didn't pick Ron Paul to test this on, and it's not a bold move. YouTube has been in the censorship game for a long, long time.

A lot of content creators -- of documentaries -- created Nebula because they were sick and tired of getting censored.

https://nebula.app/videos?category=history

These aren't wackos. These are mostly serious scholars, tired of a serious problem with Google. I'm giving this as an example; this has been a problem for a lot of people for a long time.
You're either still misreading and believing that you're arguing against a position that is at odds with yours, or you know it's not at odds but have weird ideas about how argument works.

My position is: either articulate an argument for why it's bad for /usr/bin/yes to be implemented the way GNU yes is implemented or drop the argument entirely.

Your comments manage to be in disagreement with those on the other side of this, and yet still adopt an argumentative/defensive tone with respect to what I've written. I consider this to be an even bigger waste of time than the people (like OP) who are upset about GNU yes's implementation.
What kind of device might have internal data that cannot be trusted?
Cars designed at least three years before they are shipped - so May 2022 might as well be tomorrow in car time.
The aspect of the problem not talked about is that a lot of automotive chips are really, really old.

And they are old, because of many certification requirements set partially by the industry, and a few odd governments.

In reality, most of them are both less reliable, and harder to work with in comparison to open market parts.

The only two things I seen chips with micron scale nodes used in my life were: air conditioner boards, and car parts.
Yeah, I don't want to have to write a CSV library each time, that's what I'm trying to get at.

I just end up using Python/Perl but I do have a soft spot for awk so it would be cool if good support was built-in.
I like this analogy, let's run with it even further! Can the aversion be caused by watching butchers that kill animals in an inhumane way, in a dirty shed?

(i.e. if you observe telemetry data being abused at the company you work for and that is tolerated, you'll be wary of any telemetry?)
Apple Watch flags multiple types of irregular heartbeats, study shows
Buy an old Dodge W250 with a 12-valve Cummins 6BT, and enjoy mechanical fuel injection and 160 hp. No emissions control, no timing chain or belt, no overhead cams, no aluminum block or heads, ABS is optional, no airbags.
Another day another ban from YouTube, it is typical that they give no reason. Mark my words:

They will NEVER change. It will ONLY get worse.
It is quite true that Aluminum could (and hopefully one day will) be more environmentally friendly that plastic. If more than 1/3 of the aluminum we produce in the US came from recycling and/or the majority of energy used in primary aluminum production came from renewable sources, then aluminum would be a big win.

Unfortunately, I don't think we are there yet.
My must-have now is the backup camera with steering integration. I can hook up a trailer like a god now.
I use a dns level blocker on iOS. Blocks ads in apps too.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dnscloak-secure-dns-client/id1...
You mean T4 and U5!

Oh wait, pretty sure those are EC2 instance types. :p
> So why is there so much resistance?

Because,

1) a PE license is useless for software/computer engineering.

2) the FE exam covers a bunch of irrelevant material.

3) once you pass the FE exam, there's no real mechanism to advance because there are no apprenticeships available in computer engineering. And you can't take the PE exam without the apprenticeship.

My college spent a lot of money getting an ABET accreditation for their CS/CE programs. As such, they pushed students really, really, really hard to take the FE exam. I went down the path to getting it and realized those aforementioned points. The study guide covered electronics theory that I had no idea about. It also covered silicon chemistry, which was only briefly covered at very high levels.

So I'd be learning pretty complex topics on my own, which have no professional value. Then, if I wanted to take the PE exam, I'd have to find a job where I could apprentice for four years. And, as we know, sticking with a job that long is terrible for your lifetime earnings.

So yeah, PEs are never going to be a thing in software unless they fundamentally change how engineers are licensed. Maybe if it was like nursing or law school where there's a big exam afterwards that you can take, and if you pass, you're licensed. But as it stands now, four years of apprenticeship after 4-5 years of schooling is ridiculous.
so ironic a poster here referred to this move as "communist". They're right; enough communism, youtube should be privatized!
TPMS works by calculating the RPM of the wheel and knowing the tire size and vehicle speed. Most TPMS setups don't know the actual pressure, they infer it.
That's why I always promote using not only separate, clean address for every new transaction, but also new wallet completely.

Unfortunately many wallets, including hardware wallets making this non-default, difficult or outright not possible.

Only very few support this concept well.
They are? I've seen more cases I think where it drives folks all-in on the cloud. A few units tired of dealing with on-prem infra group spin stuff up in the cloud. Before you know it big workloads are lifting and shifting because its easier to bring the data to the new stuff in the cloud than it is to bring the cloud stuff on-prem.

That said, if CIO and CFO's are (truly) pissed off, then that is going to be a huge revenue swing for AWS shortly.

I personally doubt it. Azure and GCP are not that much cheaper here.

And AWS is offering some great pricing actually on things like ECS Anywhere, so now if you want it is (a bit) easier to bring a workload local to your data lake. I think that is not a great short term move by AWS, but long term helps with goodwill.
"Allowing somebody else to harvest it is money straight out of Facebook's pocket."

In that metaphor, Facebook owns the soil and they sell the harvest by charging for promoted posts and other forms of engagement purchasing. If this engagement truly drives election outcomes the way the post hypothesizes, the demand side will come back every time there's an election anywhere. Let's hope Zuck and co understand how closely this piece of their revenue is tied to democratic engagement ;)
In any conversation that begins with framing Ron Paul as a principled libertarian who we can trust to have positions unbesmirched by the normal far-right talking points, we would do well to remember that he ran a deeply racist and homophobic newsletter for over two decades[1].

I'm not saying that he deserved to be banned from YouTube, since I have no idea what he (or others using his brand) put on their website. But I feel it's important to note that Ron Paul (and his son) have spent the better part of the last 30 years attempting to launder their reputations away from their reactionary roots.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul_newsletters
If you've experienced significant free speech suppression, then shouldn't you be better able to tell the difference instead of playing Slippery Slope?
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Sure, lots of internet people who don't want to be tracked (license plate readers notwithstanding).

But also plenty of IRL people complaining about how, for example, they miss their $10k pickup with no power anything that worked great for anytime they needed to haul material X from location M to N, but now you need to drop a minimum of $50k for a vehicle you might use once per weekend to haul gravel, insulation, cement, lumber, furniture, etc.

Trucks are a particularly big market for this idea. It's a vehicle you use when you're already dirty and sweaty from work/projects and don't care about comfort, and serves a primary purpose: moving heavy and/or large items.

But the big carmakers have opted to cater to the market that doesn't actually use trucks for their actual purpose, but rather the market that buys trucks as commuter vehicles.
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First of all this "simple" car may end up being more expensive. Doing a lot of the things the old mechanical way requires a lot of labor and labor is expensive nowadays. Having to use turning wires and vacuum tubes for instrument clusters, and a bunch of pull wires for controls... Not only would that be expensive it would require skills and equipment long lost today. Oh and the wind shield wipers -- it is possible to power wind shield wipers mechanically but those were some very complex rube goldberg type mechanisms.

Furthermore, this "simple" car will not last very long. People have forgotten that nowadays, but in the old times of "simple" mechanical cars, cars used to break down much more often and require much more skilled maintenance.

Most people would not know how to use it. Do you think people will be able to handle an unassisted wheel? You know, actually use their muscles to turn the wheel when parking? How about unassisted brakes? You get into a dangerous situation, you slam on the brakes and then it turns out that you have to use your muscles to actually apply sufficient force. How about even getting into the car without a radio key fob. I very much doubt the majority of people will even know how to lock or unlock their rear doors without a central lock/unlock key. They will probably just leave their car unlocked.

But most importantly, it wouldn't sell. Cars nowadays sell based on electronic features. You can see that from the commercials. Even fairly advanced features like navigation and parking sensors are considered a must have now.
I'm a big fan of just renting real hardware and running stuff there for a fraction of the price of the Cloud, if it fits your use case.

But doing durable storage yourself, especially once the amounts get a bit unwieldy is scary. For low amounts of data you can get away with just making plenty of copies in different places, but that gets much more difficult once it's a serious amount of data. Object storage is the most appealing service even if you want to do most of the stuff yourself. And this is an area where an established track record is important, you don't want to store your data if you're not sure the service is reliable.
What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD
Obligatory xkcd
https://xkcd.com/927/

The inconsistent desktop environment problem is admittedly annoying, but creating another standard seems like a step backwards.
Identifying a best practice is actually not as hard as people realize imo (although it may take some time), and only becomes hard when you let emotion and sources of emotion come into what should be a rational decision making process (such as preference for a certain tooling for reasons like familiarity or popularity in the field today rather than outright advantages vs other tooling).

To identify the best practice for anything, you start by doing a review of all the available practices in the field for a given problem you are working on. Then once you've reviewed the literature you can work out the pros, cons, caveats of each of these tools, and how these considerations affect your particular use case and your expected results. Then after doing that, the best practice out of available options will be readily apparent, or at the very least strongly justified, not by an appeal to authority or popularity or familiarity, but by looking at what the underlying technology actually does and how its relevant or not to your particular task at hand. In the end you will find the very best hammer available out of all the hammers people have made in this field for your particular unique nail.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Windows_10#Privac...
No, you see: it's only free association when we do it. When they do it, it's communism.
>The banning of politicians from any public platform raises questions about the level of influence these platforms hold and their impact on democracy.

While the debate about the influence of social media platforms may or may not be relevant (I personally think their influence is all too often overblown to push a political agenda,) these are not and have never been public platforms.
Very few people would want this, certainly not enough to warrant a production line. The cars you want already exist, just buy a classic car from the 60's. None of the stuff you dislike and if done right a nice looking car. Gas is a bit more though.
Well there you go, for the sake of my pride at least it's an extension.

It's funny searches for awk CSV seem to yield a bunch of SO questions where the answers are increasingly cumbersome regexes instead of this extension.

Of course, you can't count of this extension being widely installed, but it's great for my own desktop.
No, it gives the reason right there. Commercially deceptive content. Scams.
Twitter is abuzz and not in a good way: https://twitter.com/search?q=letsencrypt&src=typed_query&f=l...

Slack and Shopify seem to be affected.
Also read as, I did a bunch of unpaid work because I'm salaried and in the end I have nothing to mention about life outside of work.
Yup. A previous company I worked at used assert calls in the code. In a debug build of the firmware, if an assert failed, it would crash the device and on the display it would show the file and line number of the assert call. In production firmware, it would silently ignore it, and if you had opted in to sending usage data, it would phone home and report the failed assert, though I don't know what extra data was included.
Back in the mid 2000s I part-owned a start up company and we made a reasonable living going around telling people pretty much the contents of this list (except for the backlinks stuff which is spammy). Good to see some of it is still relevant. I would add a couple more (from back then - don't really know if they're relevant now):

* Lightweight, accessible website mostly implemented in as close as you can get it semantic HTML. (We used to say, possibly inaccurately, that search engines are like blind web users - make your site accessible, and you're helping blind users and search engines).

* Read your log files. For every customer I used to ask for their log files, and then I'd read them. Very interesting insights can be had about how people find the site and where they go which is more difficult to see from tools. If possible I would spend a few hours tailing the logs live.
Well these hundreds of workers wouldn't have had the job if they hadn't operated efficiently for the preceding 20 years.

It's a bet that has probably paid off, even including the current situation.
Slack is experiencing a service disruption
If you want to engage in debate about things, I would suggest you first work on learning how to do so in good faith. If this is how you act, you make it very clear there is no point talking to you.
It's paid, but I like SQL Pro for Postgres. Simple, lightweight, etc.
I love keyless entry. I can approach the car with two hands full of bags and still manage to open a door or trunk without having to free up a hand just so I can rummage through pockets to find the keys.
To me, that's like saying that web browsers should be able to run existing native applications, so we can lift and shift more existing code. But just as JavaScript-based web applications enabled frictionless code distribution on the client side, JavaScript-based Cloudflare Workers is doing the same on the server side. Sometimes progress requires breaking backward compatibility, and I think this is one of those cases. And I'm confident that there will be other runtime environments that emulate Cloudflare Workers, mitigating the risk of vendor lock-in.
Here's an interesting article about how much the total US is worth.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/much-entire-united-states-ame....

It's interesting about how much is owned by foreign corporations and other entities.

basically we slowing turned our entire workforce into indentured servants to foreign "investors"
I won't buy a car if it has bluetooth or cellular connectivity, but that is getting harder to find. I want that shit air-gapped. Someday I might have to just rip out the media head and telematics unit after buying it if I can't find one anymore.
> Most public transit systems are already bankrupt and have to be propped up by taxes collected from other services.

Hold on, this is a pretty odd way to frame a public service. By this logic, you could equally say:

- Most road systems are already bankrupt and have to be propped up by taxes collected from other services.

- Most schools are already bankrupt and have to be propped up by taxes collected from other services.

- Most fire departments are already bankrupt and have to be propped up by taxes collected from other services.
>It would have been better to lay off people; many have money saved to survive a few months; others could have lend some money (and pay it back when employed again). This would have been "mean" in the short-term, but good for the entire society in the mid- and long-term.

This is completely wrong and trivial to research: https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/research/average-savings-acc...

Most Americans couldn't handle a $400 emergency. 56% have $5000 or less in savings.

These people have no one to borrow money from. This is one of the most insidious forms of privilege: It's much easier to "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" when you have a rich parent or uncle to loan you O(10000) to start a business or to give you food and shelter when you're down, but the VAST majority of people have no such resources.
idea: can you pre-fetch just the top comment for each post?

Currently ..clicking on right arrow always shows the "loading" animation for 0.5-1 sec.

Instead, if we readily show the top comment instantly and then lazy-load the rest, it will drastically improve the UX. User will perceive near zero wait time that way. My 2 cents
This was one of the best awk tutorials I've read its very concise and digestible. I sometimes use awk but the more complex things get the more i feel like i cannot use it. This tutorial made me feel otherwise
That sounds like the Dacia and Tata approaches, although they sell addon packs as well.
increasing my donation to FSF. we need more education on why free software and the GPL matters. Everyday is an attack on the computing freedoms that people take for granted.
Seems like they just want to change the timing of their inevitable-yet-temporary government shutdown, maybe at the request of their corporate donors?
Replying to your edit.

I didn’t downvote you for your original response but holy hell the entitlement at

> If opinions are downvoted then I do not need to participate.

If you are incapable of accepting that people may disagree with your opinion, then yes you do not need to participate, but I don’t know how you’re gonna get through life if you pull out of any situation where there is disagreement
And that car is worth $2000 on the market. No matter how many features they cut manufacturers aren’t going to be able to sell a new car at that price.
Because people don't value free things.

It's why public restrooms are always disgusting.
I don't have kids, but I always thought 911 or a law firm were good substitutes for 24/7 on call for a caretaker.
Electricity for high power directed energy weapons. (This is my guess as to why Lockheed’s skunkworks has been working on compact fusion reactors.)
Pretty sure GDPR and CCPA would prevent almost all of that from being stored.
> Let's trust the billionaire execs at Google, Facebook, Amazon and Twitter to listen to the correct academics rather than responding to the incentives of capital

That's what we're doing now: it's a neoliberal "free market" and the acolytes of the Chicago School tell us that the incentives of capital will eventually lead to the best possible outcome because rational actors will make perfect choices with complete information.
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Putting the key in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ gives it too much power over all the repositories. A malicious (maybe compromised) third party repository could publish a package that replace an official Debian package.

So trusted.gpg.d/ is not the recommended method. For more information, see the official Debian wiki which states "The key MUST NOT be placed in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d" https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/UseThirdParty
That statement makes no sense. The folks complaining can still buy those old pickups if they want. All that has happened is they are now older. No one is forcing them to buy a new truck that they use sporadically.
I still don't understand your stance. Surely the public isn't barred from engaging in the scientific conversation if they have anything meaningful to say. It's just that that conversation is not very accessible because it is so technical. That was also the case in the Enlightenment: Science was practiced by those who had the time and resources to contribute substantiative knowledge. Speaking in broad strokes, the anti-vax movement strikes me as a counter-cultural movement, an "outsider art" to the mainstream scientific conversation. It's not that they can't engage with the science, it's that they reject that conversation altogether.
Wow no DNS A Record for slack.com. Somebody fucked up