skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If by "the left" and "the right", you're thinking of US political definitions, please name a couple of politicized scientific disputes where the right-wing side of a scientific argument has merit.

I can think of one family of scientific subjects where the "progressive" side is almost as unscientific as the "conservative" side, and a particular case[0] where the "progressive" agenda was loudly denying the scientific state of the art.

But I cannot think of any cases where the "conservative" side had actively better scientific grounding. But that, of course, is probably due to my bias, my thought bubble, etc. So please, if you can rise to the standard you're setting, I'd like to learn about it. (If nothing else, almost all of my friends and family are left of me, and it's nice to be able to reality-check them, when social mores permit.)

[0] I'd provide my example, but I'm sufficiently afraid of progressive culture to not want to discuss the particular case under my own name. But I checked WP on the subject, and while it's not incredibly detailed either way, I don't think it supports the progressive side of the case w.r.t. the science. (In my assessment, the alleged progressives were wrong about the science in this particular case, although they may have been right about everything else, I dunno.)
Honest question - if you characterize this as baseless fearmongering, how would you characterize Jade Helm, the Bowling Green Massacre, Reconquista or whatever name applies to the terrorist immigrant onslaught that Trump ranted about incessantly during the 2018 election?
Anyone who believes dense housing will lower rent or home prices has never been to a city with dense housing
Google Fi has been blocking iCloud Private Relay for longer than T-Mobile. I’m a subscriber and it stopped working after the new iOS went to GA, but worked during the Developer Beta period.
^ Something that can only be said because the only competition is the latest set of horrific Star Wars movies.
It’s really not that deep. I’ve been on good amount of class discords these past few years, and the culture of each discord is set by the class.

Students may sometimes talk more freely on discord, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. People are more willing to ask “stupid” questions, which is usually a good thing.
I have not! And yeah, I can't recall the last time I heard about an organization actually purging large amounts of data in response to a government order.
I don't know, as I do not have the information on hand. I do not sit in the halls of Twitter and know how or why they choose to censor content. Or, alternatively, make content available.

However, if Twitter were under the same publishing guidelines as the NYT, they'd be open to discovery and society could find out. The NYT is in currently in hot water for publishing third party material covered under legal privacy. The proof of that came via discovery.

What is silly, and what I hear repeated to a frustrating degree, is that questions of discovery are inherently off limits due to EULAs or Twitter "not being bound by the 1st Amendment". There is no legal basis for this whatsoever, but there is a regulatory carve out which has effectively prevented scrutiny.
Thank you for your substantive suggestion re: how to change these rules without risking re-introducing the pathology they were designed to address. Truly insightful stuff.
Yeah, except we are not talking about two people. We are talking about killing a pig to save a human, potentially thousands of humans.
One reason it might deteriorated is that goog is constantly battling ppl 'optimizing' their content for Google while competitors likely see less than 1/1000 of this.
Oh sure, you can find it on a dolphin....
Google Fi has had alternative plans to the $10/GB one for a while now. Works out to be similar (slightly less) cost than going to T-Mobile, Verizon or another carrier direct. Still very happy with the service personally but they do also block iCloud Private Relay.
> And not just in a “I blare music out loud on the subway” level but a “I leave piles of brush near my neighbors house during wildfire season” level

A better analogy would probably be “eating a peanut butter sandwich in the lunchroom”
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Ownership rights must factor in somewhere right? If I pay an artist for a painting, and they deliver it to me and take my payment I can then sell that painting to someone else, display it on the walls of my home, show it to my friends, or even give it away. If I pay someone to send me a digital photograph or even a video shouldn't I have those same options? The whole thing seems like a weird grey mine field of legal and personal rights.
Yes, Python is all OO under the hood just like Ruby but ugly as sin.
Obviously it depends on the use case but for most things it is. Not only is it random but 1.5 dollars is a lot! I think PayPal is like .3 + 2.3 percent? Basically anything under $5 would be almost impossible to sell. Not only that but having a chance for the fees to go incredibly high ($15) it’s just not worth it.
I have a small poem I wrote which I think is worth adding to the list.

In haiku parse tree
The oroborous told me
"In haiku parse tree..."
Forget the movie. It's the Unreal Engine 5 game demo that's interesting.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU0gvPcc3jQ
One of the worst things I've noticed recently about Google Search is how it is very anti-startup because of the concept of the Google Sandbox, an essentially arbitrary length of time they put a huge negative penalty on your site to try to entice you to buy paid ads instead before your funding runs out waiting for organic traffic.

Perhaps that's my biased opinion on their motivations as I've recently launched https://grizzlybulls.com and yet even though Bing has tiny market share, I'm getting 10x more organic traffic from Bing rather than Google...
> ...and that's not even mentioning all the privacy concerns attached to Google.

Fi does not feed usage information or otherwise into the ad machine. See the privacy notice on https://fi.google.com/about/tos/
Why are you replying to a statement I didn't make? Where am I saying people should not be compensated for FOSS work?

First you wrote a rant that promptly got flagged before I even had to read it... now you're putting words I didn't say into my mouth.

Are you just incapable of having a mature conversation about this subject?

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It's becoming a little clearer what kind of mentality it takes to defend how the creator of colors handled this situation. Some of us are able to both:

- understand the frustration of feeling your work is unappreciated.

- realize there are better ways to show frustration than proverbially flipping over the table.

I mean I've literally defended this guy, Marak, before on this website, when people tried to jump to conclusions about his alleged 'bomb making'

But this is ridiculous. It's gone past compensation even, he's ranting about GamerGate and stuff and using broken packages to make political statements.

That's not a mature or effective way to do anything except yes... get yourself banned from multiple platforms for breaking the ToS you signed up for in the first place and leveraged to even get the kind of reach you have.
I'm not sure what this prank showed beyond what all the previous malicious NPM packages already showed, other than that developers of free software are unstable and can sometimes ruin your day for lolz.

Even if you accept the idea of vandalism being used for a positive purpose, a better form of protest would have been to make the package just print a message saying "This software has been abandoned by its author. Please pin your dependencies to known good versions." and then exit.

That would still have been annoying to the people having to do that unnecessary version pinning work, but would at least have preserved some shred of sympathy for the maintainer.
For me it's crippled lambda and __dunders__.
Agree 100%. I feel like the usability of the web peaked somewhere between 2000-2007. Ever since then it's been surveillance capitalism, manipulative social media, media consolidation, poorer quality news that's more beholden to large money interests, and disinformation.
I recently learned that Baudrillard (author of "Simulacra and Simulation", referenced in the first Matrix) criticized the first film as being something that The Matrix would have produced itself, to feed its prisoners an illusory red pill. I can't help but wonder if Lana took that criticism to heart.
Legally much more risk since you are now assuming motives rather than stating plain facts. Even if those motives seem certainly correct.
I was thirsty at a popup in a park recently and they handed me boxed water. Since I really hate the taste of water passing through cardboard I asked for a single use plastic cup, preferably with a single use plastic straw. In those words.

Nature quickly healed.

I pretended that using the recycling bin would change something, but I know that nobody takes our garbage anymore.
Now come on, how many times can we do "The Brady Bunch meet The Matrix"??
You can live indefinitely with animal valves though they may need to be replaced every 15 years or so. It’a a fairly straightforward minimally invasive procedure though.
There is a quota on oil extraction. Ever heard of OPEC?
youtube now seems to provide me only ~10 relevant results and then random other videos i might like with no way to delve further into results based on my search term. this results in it being almost impossible for me to find certain things, especially videos without a lot of views, unless i know the exact title of the video ahead of time.

what are some of the decisions that go into this ? is it just cost savings ?
I've got a 3 and 4 year old...

I'm vaxxed and done (until booster time)... 4 yr old is ASD spectrum, can't really keep him out of school he needs to learn socialization skills, etc... 3yr old is way advanced verbally and starts preschool as soon as we can get him in.

I've kinda given up on worry, because there's really no way it hasn't already come around us. Maybe during allergy season in the fall when we all were sick'ish. Or maybe some fluke it hasn't - but my county has 42% vax rate, so doubt it (Utah).

I just can't mentally focus on it anymore (anxiety kills too), and statistically we're better off than before the boosters.... so in my brain it's over...for us.

We probably should go back to masking up, and have thought about it. Really can't get myself motivated to even decide if it's worth it... I have ADHD and my exec/function motivation is suffering bad lately from the stress.

I think people are literally idiots who aren't vaxxed, and I wouldn't be so cavalier if we weren't...my biggest fears were not so much my kids getting sick but my kids growing up orphaned by Covid. They already lost a grandma (Cancer+lack of decent availability to treatment during covid). If my wife and I passed in our sleep, I can't imagine what would happen to the boys all by themselves until someone checks in on them...

I'm glad that fear is mostly off the table (I mean -- death is always lurking....but not like before).
> (and maybe that thousandth of a solution is only valuable in a path-dependent context with all the other solutions that leading company followed).

Yeah, that's a real obstacle, not much of a "maybe" about it.

I have a feeling that this, more than any other factor, is what is driving large-scale international tech IP theft. You have to grab stuff wholesale in hopes of either (a) teasing out isolated nuggets that happen to be applicable to your own efforts, or (b) recreating the surrounding path-dependent context (which doesn't have a well-defined boundary) in order to have a working solution.
This isn’t completely true, Google search is very complicated and definitely had the ability to rewrite queries in some cases.
Speaking of chimeras, there is a Greg Egan short story from his book "Axiomatic" about a human leopard chimera which is bred by an eccentric billionaire specifically to pose for a painting. The actual story is even crazier.
It's really quite fascinating -- they aren't particularly close to us genetically, but because they're a similar sized mammal with an omnivore diet, you can teach their macro-biology from the same textbook.
>I could tell a long story about how most investors weren't interested in us even after we got into YC

Please tell that story.
>how we define "abomination" comes down to what we're used to.

If a person believes scripture is only a cultural document and not divine revelation then that would be the definition of abomination. I have to personally disagree with that assessment.

>Is taking a cheap statin that will improve your length of life subverting God's will?

It could be, depending on what it means in the bigger picture. I believe we know very little of God's will in any given moment because of how fallen we are. We benefit from being humble and willing to submit to it, using our provided minds well but never allowing them to be the final authority.

>that's an economic / purely utilitarian argument

I place economics and utilitarianism as a subordinate agent to the higher principles. A utilitarian framework is one of many that can help me see a stronger meaning in letting someone else have the resources, and accepting death if it appears to be the due time for it anyways.
Code review discussions are precious context. Unfortunately, git does not keep them. This is a major shortcoming of git. We need a new source code management tool that stores code review comments. It can lower the cost of software maintenance.
62,000 Los Angeles students and staff test positive for Covid
I once was challenged on who authored a game (Empire) that another was claiming to have written. The person who was judging this turned to a particularly messy section, and asked the other guy to explain it. He mumbled and stumbled. I could, and why it was so weird. The other guy caved and apologized.
Ah yes, let's tax airlines for following rules imposed by overregulation.

If there's something Europe needs, it's more taxes and more regulation.
Yeah I saw that after I posted (I misread it as revenue because that is what makes sense), I assume that's (revenue is) what the GP meant, and am realizing now that maybe the 1-2 orders magnitude comment was about the disparity between revenue and profit.

The airline business is notoriously unprofitable, so yeah, the amount of revenue required to make a billion dollars profit would be something absurd, possibly more than the entire industry on many years
The corporate sponsors list sure looks a lot longer than the individual donor list... Too bad they don't list dollar amounts or ranges.

https://media.npr.org/documents/about/annualreports/2019_Ann...
That’s true, I remember watching his “New Math” video way back in the day.
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>The fact that so many people disagree with your position seems to suggest that you might not be as correct in your thinking as you believe.

The fact that so many of those dying right now are precisely such people, and by using up so much hospital resources, they are causing others who where responsible to suffer.

Correctness in thinking is not popularity. It's demonstrable statistical evidence.

>perhaps they think that none of what we are doing kept those 800,000 out of the grave

This is complete nonsense. There is no question whatsoever that vaccinated people are not dying at the rate unvaccinated are. I work with a decent number of medical personnel, and more importantly, can read the science.

>Perhaps they, rightly in their mind, think there are far worse threats out there than Covid and being asked to make such a significant sacrifice doesn’t make sense.

Are you claiming that the outcomes from taking the vaccine are worse than the outcomes from not taking it? Care to provide a single peer reviewed, published article that supports this?
The advantage of 'the' standard library is that I can walk in day one anywhere and get the same behavior, whether I like that behavior or not. Curation doesn't guarantee that I'll ever work two places that use the same one, so there are limits to how helpful that is.

Problem is that package-lock.json files in node don't compose. I can't pull in a library that locks other libraries to a specific versions for me. It is possible there's another solution presented by DVCS, but it's not clear to me if it actually avoids the set of problems illustrated here or just dresses them up in different outfits.
10 year Davis resident here, with generally quite Yimby tendencies. I would support something like this, as we do absolutely need more (and if possible) cheaper housing in town for students. The university is the whole reason the town exists and it's just not healthy to make it prohibitive for students to live here, while at the same time force university staff to live in cheaper surrounding towns and then commute in and out, in my opinion.

But I do have to be realistic, the Nimby feelings in this town are VERY strong. Everybody who buys a house here seems to feel the town should stay exactly the way it was on the day after they arrived, without any recognition of how blinkered that is. The legal fight against something like this would be intense, to say the least. It would require a developer with great lawyers, very deep pockets and the thickest of skins.
Sort of, things can reverse on the administrative side especially when relying on private letter rulings!

I would say make enough money for appeals court!
are there any screenshots of this anywhere? I mean piqued interest but I kinda wanna see what we're getting into/at
I loved "Alien." Just an awesome film. Over the years there have been several sequels and spinoffs. Probably more bad than good. But there's definitely been some good ones. I just spend less time thinking about the bad ones.
What a waste of fuel and useless emissions. They could just change the rule that if there is 0 passenger or a no show, that the airline can cancel the flight before closing the door. But the staff must show up and be ready.

That would ensure that (1) people will book confidently and not create a death spiral, while 2) avoiding wasteful emissions
This has only happened to me twice so far, but it has given me the "Did you mean:" even when using quotes for searches that definitely have results (as I found them with duckduckgo).
I can't remember what they were now
ME TOO
That used to be a much bigger deal in the US back in 1975. Our house had a coal bin and a coal fired boiler at that point. Insulation was non-existent in many places.

With almost 50 years of construction differences, moving that thermostat saves much less energy nowadays.
Does it taste like bacon?
Having almost finished, it's not just possible it's relatively straightforward and not that uncommon. I didn't even have a good undergrad GPA.

You do need an advisor with some imagination to leverage your skills and fill in gaps that most 22 year olds don't have.
> I don't think it requires magic to say that a sub sandwich is not a true sandwich.

It requires the most absurd magic to say that a sub is not a sandwich. It's literally everything that you call a sandwich without any differences whatsoever. It's only nicknamed a "sub" because the shape of the bread resembles a submarine. That's it. Your completely arbitrary limitation of a sandwich being two square-shaped pieces of bread simply doesn't reflect reality.

> Dictionaries are over-inclusive and include very casual language.

The irony is rich, given that you're trying to redefine words to have completely different meanings than the original.
Lots of people note IBS diseases getting better or going away after life stress is dealt with and goes away, or is brought on because of psychological stress. Here's one example by an ex-psychotherapist (one of my favorites on YouTube) that, after fixing his stress, went from needing to go to the restroom 15 time a day with blood in his stool to going completely in remission after changing his life and lowering his stress levels - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9brVhmWr2M

Different people with different biology react differently but my bodily reaction to stress happened to be a lot like the one in the video.
True. I saw your other post about control and that makes more sense.
Well I'm vegan and I find it disheartening how they can talk about a Pig like they can talk about a cement brick.
I made that leap, and I’m sorry to hear that but I’m glad it wasn’t an inappropriate leap.
Solving Wordle with Z3
Personally, no. The era of "exascale-science" is upon us, and it can be terribly exciting.

It's easier to create content (and data). Easier to monetize (sometimes outrageously so). And in many ways the content being created is more authentic in character than at any time in human history.

And yet every interaction feels transactional, like a consumer oriented branded lifestyle experience.

Probably the most "real" thing to watch in 2022: twitter feeds of Afghanistan. A rare window into historic tragedy. Guaranteed to leave the casual observer feeling helpless and bit as if hope has departed from the world ;)
“This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.” - Churchill.

That was November 1942, with victory almost three years away. By that point, the Allies had stopped Axis advances, but were not yet taking back ground.
So it’s a real thing then! And I just thought “what would people say if they know the guy has a pig heart?” “A pig heart guy” rings truly bad
> To whom is the malice directed towards, who was harmed the most? What does this act tell us about the industry?

It certainly wasn't directed at the large corporations, they have many systems in place to mitigate this type of attack. It was directed at everyone else, like fellow open source devs, contractors, hobby developers, students, and small to medium businesses.

The goal simply appears to be chaos and attention.
I was in court when a defendant was brought up. He'd broken up with his girlfriend, but had her nudes. He knew another guy who had a serious crush on his ex-gf so he sent him a message and offered to sell him the nudes. Crushman called the police, bless him.
i know, right. reactionaries will misread anything. literally bootstraps and bad apples.
Most of this blog (rant) is complaining about default behaviour which is trivially changeable, or comparison to other operating system shortcuts. For example, the author states as objective fact that Finder’s “enter” to rename and “command + down” to move into a folder is awkward, but I find Windows’ ALT + F2 to rename awkward and I don’t run around making subjective opinion appear as objective fact.

I think this blog speaks more to the authors inability to read a manual, or explore the settings pane with attention given how many of these problems are solveable with a Preferences change either via the GUI or command line.
Is intelligence really a good reason to discriminate though? Isn't that what *ists used to say about other groups of people? Do we experiment on people with learning disorders? (Well I think they used to but they stopped)
> We are setting the precedent that users can modify the code you've published under your own name, if they don't like what you've done with it.

Who has done this? Can you point to it?
So that you may be identifiable? But you're right, so many of the arguments for masks don't hold up to the context they're used in, whether that's for high Rº or untrained non-medical professionals, type of mask, public use, (probably) aerosolised virus… the list goes on.
Basically all of society is about conveniently ignoring ethics in illogical ways because it provides immense inconvenience and reward. I'm sure they could convince themselves that giving a pig a heart attack is just as evil as giving one to a dog, but then they wouldn't be able to perform studies which will save millions of lives in the future.