skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fantastic comment. People who cannot wrap their head around this can look at developing countries where generational change over the last few decades has been even more drastic. When you cannot figure out why certain practices came to be, it behooves you to look at the environment more closely.

I remind myself that even the broad use of Acetaminophen and NSAIDs as OTC pain relievers only came about sometime in the last 100 years. While the raw ingredients that go into pain control have been known for hundreds of years if not longer, their formulation and dose was not standardized until very recently, and you certainly couldn't get 100 pills for $10 from the grocery store. As someone who uses these drugs semi-regularly, I cannot imagine having to do without them. OTC analgesics improved QoL and productivity by orders of magnitude. This is something even Churchill's generation did not have.
It’s interesting that such a “scientific” group was readily persecuted. Power fears knowledge it seems.

However very interesting group! Wish they were still around :)
Science does make mistakes but the process in general is thorough enough that they are rarer than idiots dishing out medical advice & spreading fear on Facebook.
For all flaws of current democracy, it is not nearly totalitarian. Just because two things vaguely reassemble when you abstract enough does not make them the same.
Thanks, but no thanks.

If I've learned anything in the past 2 years it's that sometimes even random information (Twitter shitposters) is better than deliberately misleading fake information (e.g. early-pandemic WHO announcements).

I've much more confidence in myself (and my own ability to evaluate information) than in any member of any government (or any "expert" credentialed by said government).
You're trying to frame your position as the default, but it isn't. I've never heard anybody describe meditation as "basically a nap" before.

You're also jumping around in your position - first it's "meditation is sleep" now it's "meditation is time you're not stressing". Sleep does more than just allow you to escape stress. The latter is more like comparing meditation to escapist entertainment.

The simple explanation for mindfulness' effect is it allows you to better observe and understand your own mental processes. If you try to spend 10 minutes focussing on your breath, you train yourself to notice when your attention slips away. This is useful in regular life, but it also allows you to see what your attention is slipping towards - whether that's a stressor, or an unprocessed emotion, or some nonsense that you keep thinking about but can let go of once you recognise it. There's a strong benefit to living more actively in the present, as opposed to being trapped in your worries and imagination.
fprime is what you're after; it's the embedded flight hardware that runs on the Mars 2020 drone.

https://nasa.github.io/fprime/Architecture/FPrimeArchitectur...
I didn't mean to say that that was the status quo. Just that it would be OK.
The whole concept of corporate censorship is such a BS.
How can you possibly build a system that could dissect truth from lies on such a scale?

And yet for some reason people demand more and more censorship and blame Facebook for "not doing enough".
How come?
If they don't care about money, why not license the code from the author?
Is there even enough lithium on earth for global grid storage, nevermind electric vehicles?
Really, did you have chance to compare? When I read user comment section in CBC for example I loose all hope for humanity.
For example, this whole article just should not exist:

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/feb/15/facebook-p...

There is a whole genre of "fact-check" articles of the form:

"X says that Y will cause Z to happen. Here's why experts say that's wrong."

i.e. "fact-checking" a prediction about something that will happen in the future. Unless you're clairvoyant, that isn't a fact-check because the facts literally haven't happened yet! So any rating at all is misleading.

I mean yeah, maybe you could fact-check something that can be predicted with high accuracy, like whether a solar eclipse will happen. But they do it for economic and social and political issues. They just shouldn't, at all.

"Fact-checking" is just clever marketing label for meta-journalism, i.e. journalism-about-journalism. It isn't some category that has magically different standards or incentives than ordinary journalism. It perplexes me that smart, skeptical people think that Snopes or Politifact are somehow free from the exact same bias-producing incentives and motivations of every other news outlet.
> But they are still pretending that a force-field surrounds you the moment you start eating food or drinking which makes masks not required at that moment, which is obviously absurd.

Here in SF the force field comes into effect the instant you sit down at your table and only dissipates when you stand up to leave... but God help you if, after a 90 minute maskless meal, you don't put your mask back on for the 15 second walk to the door.
> I didn't want to transfer our domains to GoDaddy and that's the only way Microsoft supports custom domains for email.

I use MS and I didn't have to transfer my domain to GoDaddy. You might be misunderstanding how it works?
I think it's designed that way, i.e. figuring out how to find solutions generally is one of the skills its trying to build. The man pages from the "possible commands" and the linked articles generally have enough information to get me through, and if not, they have enough to put my research in the right direction. The fringe benefit is time spent running down the wrong path actually results in me learning other useful, related things.

I put it down and come back to it, too. Each time I start from the beginning, and more bits are just in memory, and looking up specific commands is more about remembering the options than trying to figure out how to do it. When I first started playing, google was my main source but I've started turning to the man pages first, because it ends up being less effort digesting that than reading through a bunch of fluff to get to my specific use case.
Except for the time that Snopes fact checked this article as "disputed": "CNN Purchases Industrial-Sized Washing Machine To Spin News Before Publication". (The article was very clearly labeled as satire.)

https://twitter.com/Adam4d/status/969405110324523008
There is a very good and detailed answer to your question here: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/38389/is-it-possib...
"Despite some debate, most experts agreed that 100 percent renewable energy was feasible. Is it economically or politically feasible - that's a very different question." https://www.sciencealert.com/these-climate-experts-say-100-r... Also see the links posted by bryanlarsen.
Waiting for a book "Surrounded by Idiots -- how to use Swedish Legal System to Jail Unwanted Journalists, while the World is Watching, and Get Away With It. A Practical Guide".
> So some things could go wrong, but hopefully many more things go right.

I think way, way more things go wrong than right with "fact checking".
Oh lord… so you group by a Number, but the map-key becomes a String. Sounds like idiomatic JavaScript
Are you able to provide a barebones specific code example (either in C/C++ or Rust) of the issue(s) you're describing (e.g. nesting/chaining) where Rust conditional compilation is limiting?

A specific example is likely to lead to a more educational discussion in terms of learning about a solution to issues that you've observed or highlighting currently unsolved issues with Rust's implementation.

Either of which would be valuable.
Since I first heard about this, this is what I pictured in my head:

Alex: I’m headed to Bob’s for some lunch. Want anything?

Tory: Sure. Hey, let me put in a DD order for it.

Alex: Sweet, that’s this month down…
It's not fancy but there are some genuinely really cool things in the latest releases. Hide my email (Single use email addresses), privacy protection (remote content proxy) come to mind.
Eve had a huge grind situation at least when I played it 10 odd years ago. You need to skill up, make isks, buy fancy ships and blow em up. I guess you could putter around in a tiny beginner ship - but considering there wasn’t much dog fighting skills involved, it was lame. You could build a corp - again need isks.
You are absolutely right it's the least draining part of the streaming experience. First you have to look if it's on a streaming service or where you can buy it in the quality you look for, is it like many sport events even available in my country, does the device or browser use the right drm or do I just get the 720p version, is it just the dub and not OV. Why are there no forced subtitles? What my Mac and Windows PCs can't play Blurays? What no Dolby passthrough? Your comment is just ignorant to the problem itself.
They are planning one!
Pick something? Whatever you pick is wrong for some users.
Convert Radio Waves to Opsgenie Alerts
This is the sad truth. The green party in Flanders/Belgium is pushing hard to close our last nuclear plants. How they can rationalize replacing them with Gas is beyond me. They are running solely on ideology at this point.
What's important is fact checkers will never be right all the time, and we should have an inherent UI design to account for that and/or convey it to the user rather than the current "witch hunt style" where anyone who posts content is vilified and attacked until a later correction is made (which of course is done under the shadows without the erring entity making any kind of update to your audience that they were wrong).

Maybe we shouldn't have ran this experiment instead?
It's a false explanation, like explaining how a sleeping pill works by saying that it contains a sleep-causing agent.
You feel like you understand them, but you don't. You are making up motivations and dismissing their real values, reasons and motivations.
They don't even own up to it after the fact. Fixes are implemented in the "shadows". These things reek and smell like politics.

I wish I had an alternative to social media.
It looks like they are also creating a "groupByToMap" for that reason. See: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-array-grouping

Property keys can also be symbol objects and it seems like that's supported by the groupBy function in addition to strings, see: https://tc39.es/proposal-array-grouping/
I don't get why that's contradictory or bad. It's FB's website, FB's property. They're quite free to say "In our opinion, this is factual and that is false". They're under no obligation to allow others to say whatever they want.

We wouldn't say anything about a restaurant or bar owner kicking out patrons because they offend other patrons or staff. Why is FB any different?
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That is fine when the scale for OSM is intentionally small. But if larger companies want to use OSM as a base for their mapping solution while contributing changes upstream, it will be helpful to have that infrastructure setup for merging in changes without issue.

Edit: I am not suggesting the existing OSM community build this, if companies want to do this they will put in the effort.
My guiding principles reading news stories:

1. Fact checking is usually biased.
2. The more sensational the headline, the higher the chance of garbage journalism and bias.
3. The more boring nuance the better the chance of accuracy.

If I was building a news ranking engine I would use these principles. It would probably be at least somewhat useful in filtering out the garbage, except no one would use it because the articles near the top wouldn’t get people to click, and the only possible revenue stream would need to be paid since it can’t be optimized for engagement and still function.
> And no, responding to an article's facts and questioning those facts is NOT censorship.

Until the "fact check" gets used by platforms to declare a possibly-true statement "misinformation" and censor it, which has happened repeatedly.
And it's not hard to spin things 180 degrees with framing. Basically this media bias cartoon:

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-c9d2cf6e6e840c133b9376...

Russell Conjugation is also a powerful tool they often use.

I am firm. [Positive empathy]

You are obstinate. [Neutral to mildly negative empathy]

He/She/It is pigheaded. [Very negative empathy]

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27181
There are users claiming their master password was not reused for anything else, so I’m not sure how stuffing could explain the attack. Unless LastPass had a previous breach.
Many see just the headline, draw conclusion and may then repost / share, many more read only the headline. Click-bate headlines will fall foul. Robby (article author) - just write more accurate titles and the fact-checkers can't argue.
I've only used it a few times but IIRC it was contiguous value ranges of grouped values (I think it was error codes coming from C code) anchored to the middle of a range. e.g. an enum which goes from 0 .. N, but values 10-30 were some specific set of logical values and I didn't care about the rest. It was nice that Ada automatically did all range checks for me and I didn't have to remember to subtract to check the correct array index.

The most common thing I've seen it for is that most arrays (and containers) in Ada are written as 1 .. N, but if you're share index information with C code, you want 0 .. N-1 indexing.
I don't use Discord's web client and it was ages before I used the mobile one, not that it makes sense to sneer at a native application on mobile but not a native application on desktop. What I have a habit for is using software that works well and has few sharp edges with minimal screwing around. If it comes with a centralized service or total control, that's still miles better than not being able to scroll up to see what people were talking about when you joined. Users do not care about protocols, they care about results. Mastodon proved that you can actually build a usable app on a federated service, so if IRC is the future, I'll consider going back to it once someone goes and actually makes it the future.
I've always thought on-the-fly terrain generation for persistent worlds was a tricky approach, because once you ship the game and have player-created structures (bases, etc.), it's difficult to improve the algorithm. You're locked in, so to speak. As a game designer, you have three choices: call it done for the lifespan of the game; change it and disrupt the player base, maybe retconning with some kind of "apocalypse" event; or introduce algorithm versioning for new regions, meaning original areas will look more dated and simplistic as time goes on.

With instanced games like Minecraft, it's less of a problem, because players can choose when to move to a new world and get the advantages of new terrain algorithms.

Maybe not the end of the world (ha ha) but it's an interesting design issue and I'm curious how various teams will handle it.
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Well let's say you have a certain agenda as a government, to prioritize a risk/reward ratio over pure freedom, and decides that you can afford to make everyone unhappy but alive by maintaining very strict information control. Say like China does but not just for the party, for the country itself.

You can then prioritize opinions by their reward if correct vs risk of being incorrect. Even if you're incorrect, it's better to be incorrect saying mask are useful, than being incorrect saying mask are useless. The probability of masks worsening the situation is lower (but not null) than the probability of masks improving it.

I don't see the problem with that, it's like saying "veterans fought for our freedom and deserve our respect" instead of "veterans used tax money to oppress foreigners and enforce national policies abroad at the detriment of most people involved, and they did that for money not for the country". There are opinions better not shared by official message to lead the country towards some sort of coherent path no ?
If this answer from a search engine was actually persuasive enough to their impressionable child that it posed a real risk to them, then it is absolutely the parent's fault for exposing said child to the literal internet before they are ready and able to determine what is good and what is not.

"That cup shouldn't have let my kid drink the bleach" is not a convincing argument that the cupmaker is at fault for leaving your cleaning equipment in an accessible location. It's the internet, it's dangerous, teach your kids about it before it teaches them.

I am 0% concerned about hypothetical effects of search results and 100% concerned about things that are actually harming our children, like the LAPD[0].

[0]: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/28/us/lapd-teen-killed-valen...
"though many factors could ultimately affect Webb’s duration of operation." JWST also needs helium coolant with no possibility to recharge therefore limiting its lifespan to ~10 years, I believe. Interesting about Herschel and L2.
Not discounting the risk of hijacking; but owning a domain means you own your identity -- it is not tied to the whims of an application service provider.
> The most obvious French subsidy for nuclear is who pays for possible 500+ billion Euro nuclear accident. The Paris Convention and the Brussels Convention both require insurance for nuclear accidents, but cap liability to operators with the difference being made up by taxpayers.

That's stretching the meaning of the word “subsidy” quite a lot…

> That’s an easy to verify subsidy, as was the recent bailout for Areva S.A.

Oh please tell us more it's gonna be funny because you obviously don't know what you're talking about.

> Pressure from the French government for people to use electric heating, well it’s in support of the nuclear industry but not really a “subsidy” or is it?

Oh you mean the type of heating that's been FORBIDDEN in new building for a decade? Please be serious…

> What about low interest government loans? Sure that’s an obvious subsidy.

Yes, too bad it doesn't exist. (In France, UK has some kind of state-guaranteed loan for Hinkley point, but that's not the right country and not “low interest loan” either).
Are you saying that people who don't believe in medicine and can put patients at risk should remain employed?
Perhaps you should consider the main idea in the article: pseudo-psychology operates stating the obvious with different words, to make it sound important. The tests that you took are tautologically true, because they ask questions about you and then give one or more names to that set of responses (blue, sanguineous, etc). Moreover, you rarely get a clear answer, and the creators of these test know that is very difficult, so they disclose that as a known "feature". It gets even worse when they start to pontificate about the meaning of these tests, because there is no scientific or social basis for what they propose.
There’s plenty of misinformation coming from MDs too. Just because they have an MD doesn’t mean they know anything about topics outside of their specialty.
The UK is doing pretty well today - 39%/13GW Wind energy at the moment which is great; but we have whole months when we'll have near to nothing when there is very little wind (e.g. less than 2GW for a long time), when that happens in the winter when we've not got much Solar, I'm not seeing how Renewables keep us going - maybe if some of the tidal systems get working. Energy storage works great for daily peak/troughs - but not for weeks.
So, at the moment I'm assuming we're going to need more nukes to get rid of gas. Roll on Fusion.
fprime is more of a set of libraries and daemon architectures, not really hardware time synchronization.
A person should be able to study their flashcards/notes in an offline environment. E.g. on a plane, on a train in a tunnel, where-ever. Also, flash cards are quite personal, and many people have hesitations about trusting them to some cloud-only server. Imagine if Obsidian/VSCode/your-note-app only worked while online. (Heck, look at how much pain Notion is going through trying to support offline behavior.) At the very least there needs to be a way to export their data to some CSV. IndexedDB is a nightmare, but it has a library that lets it easily sync with the cloud (PouchDb/CouchDb). I'd consider Sqlite, but its syncing features/community are significantly smaller than *ouchDb.

Unfortunately MartenDB is on PostGres (which makes it unviable for electron-style clients) and Microsoft Sync Framework looks dead.
Interesting. After some initial trepidation (because hey I don't know what a sophisticated malefactor could do to me through my terminal program!) I connected and started playing. I have to admit it's a little thrilling to connect to a strange ssh server. It is clearly a strange environment - it looks like users are differentiated by password rather than username, which is quite odd. A clever if confusing convention for a game that presumably wants to teach you sk1llz0rs. Based on the instructions, it looks like it's just a normal VPS running somewhere.

I would personally love to know more about how you secure a host for this kind of use! Of course this seems very low stakes so maybe if your ISP notices a problem you just nuke the instance and provision another one? This would explain why they only allow you to write into /tmp which probably isn't even near persistent.
In all of my experience, it has never been engineers misunderstanding the users. It has always, ALWAYS, been C-suites, Executives, and VPs pushing product features to

1. Entice investors
2. Planning for some external company event like a merger
3. Pandering to analysts
4. Pandering to the sales department, who again, sell into VPs and not to users

I think it's incredibly out of touch to suggest engineers are the ones that lack empathy for their own product, and not the myriad of individuals who haven't touched a line of code or a design file for the past decade. As an engineer I field support tickets every day, I know what problems the system has, no amount of me using the application is going to change what gets consistently submited through help desk.

You'll have to forgive me for being bitter after a decade of trying to innovate in the products I worked on only to be shut down every single step of the way by upper management; then to have to swallow this self-righteous PR stunt where the world seems to blame "out of touch" workers for not knowing what their job is and not having empathy for their users.

Beyond that, don't get me wrong, I don't think doing deliveries is beneath anyone. I would probably accept half a million dollars to do deliveries. However, I do think it's incredibly immoral to suggest that you can pay some people $200/hr to do deliveries, but others only $7/hr. Instead of focusing ire on those that are upset that their job duties are not what was described to them when hired; perhaps we can be upset that doordash has the capacity to pay their laborers much much more, and chooses not to in order to ensure they can pay half a million dollars for what everyone here considers "mediocre engineers".

Also, again, I personally would not work at doordash because of this requirement. However, I wouldn't have any issue with the company if they CLEARLY outlined this job requirement during their hiring process; which it looks like they did not do.
No, just checking facts.
Was there ever a lawsuit against GPS providers telling people to turn right into something like a lake? I couldn't immediately find one except a women who walked in the middle of a highway because that's what Google's route showed.

It seems like the same ruling would apply to both, which could effect consumer GPS somewhat.