skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By modern standards, we view their actions as morally wrong. Owning slaves is morally wrong. Only permitting white males to vote is morally wrong.

Yet, we also forget that the world then was not like the world today. Who received comprehensive education back then, the kind needed to run states and countries? Typically, the rich, and within that, men. The inequalities of the world in those times were immense and could not be mended in even one generation. Liberal countries such as USA fought against the powerful forces of British imperialism, with the promise of a better tomorrow for all citizens, however long that takes.

>The constitution itself was a compromise over slavery

If you've ever tried to make significant change in an organization of any type and size (including government), you MUST take inertia into account. What you claim was willful choice, I claim was inertia. Slavery was not banned in the Constitution because a few Southern states would have refused to sign it, their claim being such action would render economic devastation. The very day it became possible, the importation of slaves was federally prohibited by Jefferson. As slavery became increasingly restricted by the federal, the southern states dug in their heels and refused to change their labor practices. The eventual Civil War was one of economics, with the general population heavily propagandized by those wealthy slaveowners wanting to preserve their livelihood.

>diffuse lower class energy via grants of land in westward expansion

Your analysis is overly simplistic. Those grants of land to lower-class citizens ensured the new Western lands would be worked by citizens. It was great opportunity many lower-class citizens jumped on, especially those who didn't own land before. By relocating to a smaller community, a lower-class citizen became immediately more influential in their local community by numbers alone. Yes, it diffuses that energy, but that's not inherently bad. In different terms, I see that decentralization as an intentional, value-adding feature, not an unintentional bug.
Heck, it's worse than that.

We're talking about GIFs. You know, short messages, memes, practically short text messages. They can literally extract context from those conversations, if a decent enough amount of them are used in the same place.

That would actually be quite a cool machine learning exercise.
Don't keep two similar solution working at the same time. Keep the one that has the better foundation, implement the most important feature of the second platform and migrate over all customers, kill the other one. If you don't do that, you will have to do it in a few years and you will have lost all those years.

Start with the vision of the company, which one is better suited to go to that vision ? Ignore all the details. I know it is hard, but that's a complex situation and it needs strong decision and leadership
While general best practice is that you version your changes in git and deploy migrations with something like FlyWay I've also run into the problem of needing some form of 'audit log' to make sure no DDL changes are being made in prod (and if they are, moving them over into version control).

I have a migration which is something like this one: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/169290.html which uses a trigger on `ddl_command_end` in PG to copy over the query which made the DDL change from `pg_stat_activity` to a new audit schema to stash. Can definitely help with maintenance and finding out what happened when.
> nobody except the sender, the receiver and the service provider can read the messages

E2EE means the service provider cannot read the messages.

Only the sender and receiver can.
Good point on this too. I think there's value in allowing and exploring one-off / alternative views into Wikipedia especially where the data isn't accessible already - but long term any serious effort should be merged back into (or at least offered) to the official source.
The article likely is wrong on the math, but does have logic to it. I'd imagine the amount he owes will likely be taxed as "capital gains" rather than "income". So, it would be correct in saying he avoids paying income tax even though he still pays capital gains taxes.

I think the issue people like the author have (albeit poorly made by the article imo), is that this is arguably a loophole the rich use to avoid paying their fair share of taxes - not necessarily that the rich pay no taxes at all. Capital gains is taxed at lower rates than income, so the rich (e.g. CEOs) opt to get paid in equity to avoid having to pay higher tax rates that they would have if they were instead paid an income.
My main point is that "Free" is a strong force to reckon with, in the face of a monthly subscription fee. Of course, Mastodon isn't actually free, but it's the sort of situation like IRC, where only one ops guy willing to spend a little bit can host the space for everyone.

At least, this is the logic I and the rest of my Twitter circle (which is fairly large! I've met probably 50-100 people irl through Twitter, got my job through Twitter, have two accounts with follower counts in the thousands, etc) would likely use if planning to jump ship. People who treat Twitter as a pure feed rather than as a social space might be willing to pay, but part of what makes Twitter such a great news source is that _anyone_ can post current happenings, and how many of those _anyones_ with small accounts will be willing to pay just to use the platform once every week or two?

Of course, Twitter could get around all this by having paid accounts for power users only, but then many of the most important and largest accounts would jump ship and devalue the platform for everyone else, leaving only paid marketing accounts that cater to fans and brands. Not a great situation.

Point being, it's a hard problem, for Twitter to monetize without losing the thing that makes it a great platform, and my guess is charging all users a flat subscription fee ain't gonna cut it, and would produce an exodus to the next-most-similar platform, i.e. Mastodon.
>Reagan’s response to HIV/AIDS should be a shameful memory for all republicans.

Shame is not a characteristic that republicans are renowned for.
Thanks for the feedback!

For now it's a toy project, so I would not be confident over its performance. I might try to come up with a good scenario for a benchmark and post the results in the future. Contributions are welcome!
(how) does the telegram server prevent unencrypted content?

also curious - how does telegram support encryption for chatrooms without the parties being known in advance? or are those chats not encrypted?
I was reading here yesterday how all the big players do A/B testing on their web sites. Several current Amazon employees chimed in to say you can't get the simplest of changes through without running an A/B test to ensure it works as least as well with the general population as what came before. Which means of course that Amaozon's web site is highly tuned for the "average" user.

I am unabashedly one of the more techie users Amazon likely to have using their shopping site. I find the search and browse functions so appallingly bad at returning what you asked for (as opposed to things Amazon thinks they might be able to sell you - if I wanted those products I would have search for them for Pete's sake) I've given up using the Amazon home page entirely.

And yet clearly most of the world loves it. One explanation is: how weird am I? The other explanation is this obsession with A/B testing is dragging them towards some local minima that excludes me and a lot of others as well. I'm going with that one.
I am sorry, I was wrong. I actually meant Oracle. I don't see any ARM options in IBM cloud.
oh nice. I just gave nconnect a try and things do appear to be faster for a remote mount I use.
The world must be so simple and straightforward to you when you can just throw millions of people in a slur-labeled category and then treat them as non-humans deserving of unlimited suffering.
great to hear about the integration with integromat. I already knew there was integration with Zapier, but in our case we use integromat more, so now a new world of possibilities opens up.

I am going to explore the functionality of capturing information with forms to make a couple of MVPs.

Thank you!
> Universities in the early 90s had networked X services everywhere.

I was definitely born a little bit too late. I started university in the very-late 90s, and nearly all the "public" (as in, open to all students) computer labs ran Windows NT (and later Win2k). (At least they were set up with networked home directories, so students could easily access saved coursework wherever they were.)

But there was one lab in particular that I enjoyed, though: one of my professors had a computer lab that he had de-facto control over, and all the machines ran FreeBSD (his one true OS love). I would ssh back into my dorm-room computer (running Red Hat, I think?), so I could run my personal X11 apps on the X server on the FreeBSD box I was using. Unfortunately I only had access to that lab for a few semesters, as access was granted only while taking some particular classes. Those machines had a bunch of hardware design simulators and Verilog & VHDL compilers on them; it was mainly an ECE hardware design lab.
This is a semi-advertisement for someone's self-published book and PCB kit. The main ingredient is a 26kg toroid transformer whose coils you have to wind yourself. The book explains how to do that. I guess it's cool that people do this stuff, and it would be nice to see on an off gridder forum. On HN, I feel a little bit spammed.
Responding to all your points would require repeating things I have already said above, and I feel like you are deliberately trying to pick an argument at this point, which is clouding your judgement.

I guess that's not a super nice thing, so I'll share my reasoning, but I'm not really interested in taking this further unless you have something new to add:

1. your quote on fair use literally stops a few lines before citing the opposite of your point. any basic search on fair use will tell you that the length of the sample is one of the fundamental factors.

2. it's trivially easy to find music industry sites that call Posford and others "composer", such as discogs

3. Your distinction of exactly which types of music we are talking about appeared out of nowhere and doesn't seem to have any rules, feels like changing the goalposts to me.

4. I literally said that the original music synthesis person makes the bass line fatter. This is the work that goes into producing electronic music. It's original and not an issue of sampling.

5. You're ignoring the most fundamental fact: if we take the sum total of modern music, the amount of it which is composed of definitely copyrightable samples is extremely small relative to the amount of synthesis and traditional composition. I don't want to guess an exact number, but I would be shocked if it came anywhere even close to as high as 1%. You seem to think it's somewhere like 50% or more. My takeaway is you are only accounting for very specific sub-genres (e.g. if you think Goa trance is mostly composed of vocal samples, waaaayyy off, but vocal trance, certain kinds of hip hop.. yeah, of course).

Whatever, man, to be honest I am just not enjoying this convo anymore. Forgive me but I'm gonna bow out.
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lol - you left out emotion. If traders were only motivated by pure supply/demand. Ha!
Starship engine 'crisis' poses possible bankruptcy risk for SpaceX, Elon says
not quite a "GUI", but lets not forget about vim-fugitive which does all this and a lot more besides.
Here's the reason that the FAA is currently attempting to block this. I'd love to see more real-world testing, and a commitment from the telcos that _if_ interference arises, they'll vacate the spectrum. Flight safety trumps greater mobile bandwidth IMO.

https://www.rtca.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SC-239-5G-In...
100000% seconding the recommendation for Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. You sound overwhelmed–just focus on what you need to do today. My litmus test: If you spent everyday like today, what would your life be like in a year? That way I make sure to not skimp on two big things:

•Health: exercise, eating well, sleep
•Something that will expand my life over time: learning and satisfying a non work-related curiosity; doing something social 1-2x a week

Set limits on:
•Things that annoy you and steal your time; say no to energy vampires, social media, etc
•Occasionally I'll try to address an inefficiency (for me, it's meal prep), but make sure that it's not my main focus.

No one does it all. It only looks that way because people only post their highlight reels on the internet, and no character on TV spends time realistically. Most of life is commuting and chores and errands, the unsexy stuff of maintenance. Since this can't be avoided, don't act like it's a waste of your life. It IS a lot of life.
I co-founded a company in this space, although not focusing on summarization, and not targeted at normal citizens.

> I want to watch what congresses law/executive orders do. I don't want to read the laws, or how they work, or any of the details.

The real answer is "No you don't." Most congresses [1] pass a few hundred bills per year, and up to a thousand resolutions, and most of them are completely uninteresting to most people. On top of that, single bills can be omnibus monsters that touch 1000 subjects. That's not even touching executive orders (which are pretty minor), and regulations, which are not. There are usually a few hundred federal regulatory updates per week, which can be thousands of pages.

Jokes about government gridlock aside, the US is very big and the government does a _lot_, it's just that we're to the point where most of it is tweaking very specialized things. It's so much noise that the best way to be an informed citizen is, unfortunately, to find a few news sites you like, because it takes a large team to surface the stuff of interest to the general public.

At the risk of turning this into a news bashing political discussion, I think politico and thehill tend to have good content on congress, and are generally up front about political biases. A quick scan of those every other day will put you far ahead of most people.

All that said, both congress.gov and openstates.org (for state level stuff) offer searching and alerting, and every federal bill that's going anywhere does get a nice summary, although they are fairly verbose. But realistically you need a gatekeeper to sift through the chaff, because there's just too much happening.

[1] https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/statistics
Some languages might have prototype or deprecated fallback AST interpreters. I know that R has a fallback AST interpreter although unless you run with a special flag you’ll run the byte code compiler.

Simple DSLs might have AST interpreters, or any sort of language where speed really doesn’t matter.
A racist anti free speech scum bag.
Revenue != compute resources. That revenue includes Office Online subscriptions AFAIK as a way to game the marketing.
Oh, I totally agree on all counts. I have no reason to use Mastodon while Twitter still exists and is free. OTOH I'm currently working at a company building a social platform specifically targeted at crypto communities, and it's fun to think about what sorts of different features we can offer to that space of users and their specialized needs.
District courts don't make law. Magistrates working for those district courts even less so. The case this news article cites has no precedential value anywhere - not even within N.D.Cal. - and should not be relied upon.

IAAL but IANYL
The Jeffersonian idea was to create a nation of self-sufficient yeoman farmers (they thought slavery would go away over time due to its heavy tobacco emphasis that was depleting the soil). The industrial revolution, the cotton gin, and other world historical factors made this vision (which was a vision of a faction, not the entire elite) implausible.

They wanted to do this to relieve popular pressure from below by creating "responsible" landowners that had a stake in the system. The landowners would continue to be white and male, but with an expansion of who gets to participate. The American system repeatedly does this under stress. A system that was actually liberatoratory would work in the interest of the people, not simply respond to threats.
Debt issued with stock options as collateral should be taxed as much as income though, as this is basically income. And if you fall in the 37% tax bracket, tough luck.

Most people don't understand how top management earn money, and focus on "income" from stock growth, but the reality is that Musk is not the only one gaming the system, and the system should be fair for everyone.
I'm suggesting that if our goal is to hire people based on their merits we should limit the extent that well understood bias influences the process.
Within the execution environment the sender is known (it’s the current object) and the verb “send” is generic and thus not informative so typing sender.send over and over is unnecessary
Make your next one a coffee?
The "S" in MSRP is "Suggested"... maybe you'd like "MRRP" or Manufacture Required Retail Price, which some places do have contractual obligations for.
GIF is just a concept here, but if you upload an animated .gif to just about any large image sharing platform, they will convert it to a video format and serve in a <video> element to save on bandwidth. I'm not sure who was the first to do this, perhaps imgur with their invention of ".gifv" url suffix? [1] However right-click -> save image as... on "gifs" ceased to be an option long ago.

[1] https://blog.imgur.com/2014/10/09/introducing-gifv/
As others have said, you can't. And that's all right. You don't need to have it all.

You need to decide what you need to have, not what everyone else says you need to have. You need to go after that. (And then you need to learn to live without the things you "have" to have, because you may not be able to get even that much.)
> The mental image this headline creates is pollution by burning fossil fuels outdoor due to which air quality worsens.

Yes, that's the mental image. That's what they're going for. It's not terribly controversial, I don't think: fuels burn, bad stuff goes into air.

> true to an extent, but there is indoor polluton, then natural causes like dust, fires, pollen, volcanic eruption, agriculture too.

What's your point? The article's about air pollution, and the author wants to do something about that. That's what he cares about right now. Those other things? Very bad. But: this article's about this specific thing. There are always lots of things in the world, but we can train our attention on only so many at once.

> Problem is articles like these serve to create panic more than educate people.

Create panic in who, exactly? I'm trying to figure out how you can speak for other people on this. Personally, I'm not panicked by the headline or the article. More sad, maybe, and curious about how I might be able to affect the problem positively.

I'm not even sure what exactly it is about the article that's so manipulative to you. I read a lot of systematic reviews in my research, and the tone of this article is pretty similar to many of those. Just because the article's scary for you doesn't mean someone's out to manipulate you. Emotional responses between people "take two to tango": there's as much work being done by the reader as the writer, in this instance.
This needs citation, but what does the "that" even refer to? I'm genuinely curious because there's little on it; did you use it? Did it survive? And what particular aspect of Hubris and Humility reminds you of this system?
I agree. Hope he gets aids.
For your sanity, I suggest you get the free open source app called Rectangle. Makes managing window splits and the like much nicer.
Crypto Giant Coinbase Acquiring Israel’s Unbound Security
Check the difference between Telegram and WhatsApp.

Add to this the fact that WhatsApp

- uploads messages unencrypted to Google if you or someone you chat with enable backups

- and send all your metadata to Facebook.

Then remember how many people here have tried to tell us that Telegram is unusable abd WhatsApp is the bees knees.

Then think twice before taking security advice from such people again.

PS: as usual, if your life depends on it I recommend using Signal, and also being generally careful. For post card messaging use whatever makes you happy (except WhatsApp ;-)
How do you delete data in Web3? Game over. And no, encrypting data is not deleting it.

If you even remotely value your privacy you won’t support blockchain backed web3
Telegram was launched 8 years ago. By a Russian billionaire.

Facebook/WhatsApp/Instagram have ~3 billion users and Telegram only has 500 million, after FB has been under constant attack for about 3 years and Telegram has received a ton of free advertising as a result.

If you call that easy (after all, that what the comment you were replying to was asking), then everything in this life is easy. Heck, getting resurrected is probably "easy".
More basic than summaries, in my city there is no way to easily view how an individual city council member voted any any particular motion before them. Or even to see a list of the things the council has voted on.

In order to see this information you need to wade through big PDFs versions of the council meeting minutes to find the motions. They are also backlogged by over a year in creating and publishing the minutes.
It should be an accordion that opens a detail view.
I asked you in good faith what else you think the article had to say, and you have nothing. Perhaps it is you that needs to reread the article if you can't articulate a single point it makes.

All you have done is spout off condescending statements and life advice, completely refusing to address the topic of the article or what beliefs you hold.
I understand why a lot of creators need to use Youtube (revenue, discoverability) but I suggest that anyone who doesn't strictly depend on them to upload their content to random other video websites. Video streaming is a solved problem and there's no reason Youtube should have a near-monopoly on it. The more you limit their market share, the more likely they are to listen to their "customers".
"More dynamic relationships between countries" sounds a lot like a situation of increased hostility and instability. Like pre World Wars Europe. A bit ironic given the first World War is the counterexample for interdependency preventing wars while also making it abundantly clear that they really should have listened.
It's easier to share and collaborate on wysiwyg documents (I mean across a wide range of skillsets and interests, not in a technical sense), and Word has / had a critical mass. Google docs is definitely mainstream now as well.
It stays true for digits 1,3,7,9 i.e. 13+31+79+97 = 17+71+39+93

also for 1,2,4,5 with 12+21+45+54 = 14+41+25+52

Maybe there is some pattern.

Something similar we used to do in school to find answers for multiplication table of 9. We used to write all tables from 1 to 20, recite & them read them back from memory.

We would go by writing 9, ten times in ten total rows, like

9
9
....
9

Then from tenth row come up by writing x (sign of multiplication)

9x

Now go down again writing 1,2,3 in each row like

9x1
9x2
....
9x10

Now come up writing = in every row.

Now go down writing digits 0 to 9 like

9x1=0
9x2=1
....
9x10=9

Now write 0 to 9 again going up, ending up with table.

9x1=09
9x2=18
9x3=27
.....
9x10=90
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Thanks! I edited a whole lot and that came out ridiculously wrong! :-)
Yes, I am rather stuck on the use of that link as a link-button. I argued furiously against them back in the day and, obviously, lost.