skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On #2,

I dont engage with others really to change the mind of the person I am engaging with. That is much to hard and a high bar.

No, I engage to ensure there is a dissenting view point read by observers to the debate, those people I can sway with my arguments, the people that simply read HN never commenting themselves. That is my target.

I want to ensure HN is not just an echo chamber of one political ideological take on a political topic

>>I bet comparably inflammatory articles from the woke side of the debate are flagged equally much.

That has not been my observation. HN is less Echo chambery than say Reddits political subs but there is still a clear political bent here
Yup, Brit here. It beggars belief. And the leaders will continue to be so stupid, because the other party will also make this mistake too.
At some point there has to be trust in people to be reasonable in their interpretation. If that trust isn't possible, the only available strategy is to try and purge the entire administrative apparatus and replace it rather than attempting to play word games. Word games are there to be lost.

This statement is pretty clear that the intent is to allow speech that some people find offensive.
Yeah, a fun fact is that the Polish word for Germany (Niemcy) is derived from this. Basically Slavic people couldn't communicate with them, so they were called "mute people" because they didn't speak (our languages).
I use Gumtree mostly. Its popular in Australia and UK only I believe.

I look at FB market place and Ebay occasionally.
I think it is mostly a reasonable constraint. But I think it needs to be said that it is prudent to err on the side of freedom. Not prosecution of twitter comments and youtube videos. Everyone that was part of that should be deeply ashamed.

In my (backward) country a disturbance of the public order is illegal. Some old vices are hard to get rid off.
Are you able to be in a community of other farmers or just going it alone?

It reminds me of the Amish / Pennsylvania Dutch for example. So much of their relationships are built around community, asking for help, and relying on your neighbor.

It provides purpose, support, and makes otherwise impossible things easy (e.g. barn-raising.)
Quite a bit more than $20, but the option to pay more for Apple products and get a better experience has always been there. I don't want to come across as a shill or anything, of course Apple has made blunders and many people have always been locked into Windows. But it does seem relevant, that despite network effects and lock-in, they've been able to provide an alternative ecosystem all these years primarily by having slightly-less-worse products that people are willing to pay a premium for.
Right, a C interface without obj-c would be enough to make it much easier
I thought "REST" was primarily successful at first because it was a reaction to the overblown XML mess in the early 2000s (that's the "X" in XHR, even though nobody uses it for that any more).

I never understood why it became dogmatic though. Arguing for practicality over dogma seems like a losing battle, even in this industry where people are supposed to be relatively practical. I guess that's human nature :-/
Ask HN: HN What are some good alternatives to Gmail?
I've had my gmail account for as long as I can remember but I'm looking to switch. What does HN use for personal email with regards to privacy, spam protection and features?
Promotion and making venues available are unaddressed issues here. The power of the institution is not just that of 'hard' censorship but of the 'soft' censorship we experience so often in the online tech world. Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one.
It's not PyQt but QtWidgets in C++ directly - https://ossia.io/score-web uses QGraphicsView for the central view. It's not been updated to Qt 6 which fixes a lot of drag'n'drop-related bugs yet so the experience is icky.
There is an assumption here that 'people hosting their own instances' is the ultimate goal and I don't think that's true. The important thing is that someone can always set up a new instance if they don't like the existing ones - competition isn't a perfect system but it tends towards providing the services users want. Without it though, you're locked in and stuck with what you've got.

Also note that someone else providing you a service is not the same as someone else owning your data - a properly designed E2E encryption scheme can mean only you have your data.
Some speech issues that come to mind which, I sometimes wonder, how they would have gone down today:

* The 6.001 porn

* The ghetto party

* The Reg Day porn (particularly Deep Throat, but many)

* The Visualizing Cultures display (with CSSA opposition)

* Some 10% of the day to day traffic on senior-house@, bexley-minus-fascists@, and ec-discuss@

Norms around speech have evolved a lot even as the fundamentals of ethics and laws on the electronic frontier have stayed the same. I often think that folks in the 80s and 90s enjoyed, for better or worse, considerable latitude in their speech which wouldn't fly today.
I've been on the private beta waitlist mentioned on that page since this was announced, but not heard back yet, unfortunately.
Vista Equity Partners to Buy Citrix Systems for $16.5B
However note that ESM in Node comes with drawbacks that prevent end-users from relying them in various situations. Those will be mostly solved once loaders become stable, but until then it's still advised to ship packages as both CJS and ESM.
To me, it's economic and political nationalism, and a lot of resentment.

Citizens use google and facebook and whatsapp because they trust these companies.

Politicians are trying to intervene because politicians like posturing, being the center of attention, pretending problems exist and they have the solution.

In Europe, politicians dominate too much the debate. We are gullible not for trusting google, but for trusting politcians
The film is about Apples- poor filmmaker has to spend money on litigation

This is crazy especially some since Jobs stole the Apple name from the Beatles

Pure legal bullying
I remember reading something that the acidity in sodas was way worse than plain club soda. Something about the sugar reacting with the CO2 acids.
The question: are you still using OneDrive? Have you switched to something competing?

Would you be willing to pay more - or pay at all - for a better solution? Or write own software?

People overall are accepting tragically user-hostile sofware. How many stayed on Windows after it got ads in the start menu?

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In case of OneDrive following things can happen:

- people escape to superior competing solutions
- someone spots that noone provides high quality solution and makes own and earns money on that
- people accept low quality
- OneDrive gets improved

(multiple can happen for multiple groups of people)

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How much you are willing to pay for cloud storage?

How much you are willing to pay for high quality search engine without ads? (I would say that 20-50 euro per month may be viable for me if search quality is noticeably better than Google - I am aware about Kagi but not sure is it actually giving better results)

How much you are willing to pay for open data navigation not tracking you? (in my case I put significant effort into OpenStreetMap)

Note that for many people answer to all above is "nothing at all" so services provided to this people care about stuffing as many ads as possible rather than about quality.

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Also, software in many aspects is strictly superior that what was available in past.
A properly installed Ubuntu on a fairly modern laptop, with i3, firefox, xterm, webstorm/sublime text and VLC for the occasional video works like a breeze. Rarely use more than a few gigs of RAM even when multitasking on multiple projects. Runs for weeks. Never crashes.

Compared to the Windows Millenium of yore with its blue screen every now and then, Visual which would take forever to load, firefox would crash miserably every few hours.

I don't deny your experience but this is just anecdata. The whole tendency of software is to get more reliable over time. Even if the complexity can set reliability back sometimes.
The problem is that for much of the current generation of politicians in power, particularly in Germany, all thought about nuclear power has been frozen in time since 1985.

Furthermore you have bought-and-paid-for members of the establishment like Gerhard Schröder who have a vested interest in shutting down nuclear power plants.
> You can easily install all your games on another user on your linux box and run as that user. Super easy and it won't have access to any of your main home directory files. In fact with this configuration it's a lot easier to ensure that the games are sandboxed away from anything important.

I have been told enough times that existence of RCE should be assumed as root access, because someone who can do RCE could probably do a PE too..
Crypto uses less than 1% or something. What are you talking about?
We have reached a point where it has been a mainstream position to view the idea of defending free speech as disagreeable, or even deeply offensive.
This statement is so weak that it is necessary to consider this climate to even understand how this can be published as a statement.

After explicitly saying that illegal speech is not free speech, it lists 6 exceptions for things that are not free speech either, including speech "that is otherwise directly incompatible with the functioning of the Institute". Which is even written twice, while being clearly a catch-all. And it mentions "In addition, MIT may reasonably regulate the time, place, and manner of expression to ensure that it does not disrupt the ordinary activities of the Institute." Why not have "free speech safe spaces", which would be small individual-sized sound-proof rooms where you are allowed to say what you think? If you also pad the walls, you could find many uses for these rooms.

With principles so weakly held, why have principles at all?
> she still calls my parents “Mr. __ and Mrs. __” because there’s literally no English equivalent to the polite title you’d use in Bangla to address your in laws.

Use a transliterated version of the Bangla term, it's what my children do when they refer to my parents. In Swedish they'd be "farfar" and "farmor" but they call them "opa" and "oma", these being the Swedish and Dutch words for "grandfather" and "grandmother". The Swedish is more precise since it indicates from which side those grandparents come - handy for genealogists since it can be built up ("farmormor's farfarsmor" is "father's mother's mother's father's father's mother").

Anyway, I was going to remark on the the difference between a Bosnian muslim, A Turkish Sufi (who I consider to be a muslim), a Saudi Hanbiliyya, Iranian Shia and Syrian Ahmadiyya (still a muslim) but never mind. We all refer to people in groups when expedient, usually with benign intent.
Prebaked VMs, sure. That never seemed like something that was used that much to deliver software.
I was halfway into the article and then the fonts started loading.
What happened to the nuclear reactor built with the help of China, with George Osborne's approval?
There's people like me that already get a bad feeling about their entire landing page including all assets breaking the 1MB barrier: "Having an image in the >150kB range? Ewww, let's put that quality slider further to the left!"

But this guy? Wow! Having 4MB as a logo that makes up only 38x38 pixels on a 1080p screen is an absolute chad move when it comes to bandwidth. And yes, the website is still loading here, too. I wonder why ... :^)
What’s NATO, and why does Ukraine want to join?
In the US, your speech is largely protected by law from the state. But while there's a strong tradition of free speech in a university environment--arguably eroded in recent years, hence this letter--that is certainly not the case in most companies, especially if it's public speech.
There's some concern in some circles in the United States that universities have gotten into the habit of stifling speech on controversial topics.

The reality is a bit more complicated, but MIT is choosing to go out of its way to confirm that such stifling is not part of its principles.

The proof will be in the pudding... At the end of the day, a declaration of this sort only has value in so much as it shapes what the school practically chooses to do when one group on campus hosts a speaker and another group sets up a picket line to shut them down.
> my speech is protected by the law - both from the state and my employer (a university).

Can you elaborate what it means that your speech is protected by your employer? Because that seems like something that doesn't happen here in the US - you can lose work over disagreeing with political ideologies, especially at universities.
Pretty sure Google and Facebook have more trust than politicians.

Maybe politicians should ban themselves?
Those all sound like pretty reasonable caveats that clearly don't, in their spirit, stifle discussion. Could they be twisted by someone who doesn't actually believe in the spirit of this declaration? Sure, but it's not like the declaration itself is a legal document, so it doesn't make sense to overly lawyer the precise language.

The "violates the law" thing is a different story, but the South African law you linked to has no parallel in the United States, so I think we can give them the benefit of the doubt until such law exists.
Its the HN pet peeve.
Love it, thanks. Turns out it isn't actually very realistic to approximate the Hercules Great Wall. Astonishing
If you ever find out, let the rest of us know. It's been an open question for a long time. Manufacturers have been making more and more each year, but still no where enough to meet demand.
It’s sad to see teachable moments go to waste and it’s even worse to see an authoritarian government clamping down harder.
Is this not a little hyperbole? Bitcoin is estimated to use the power of a “small country”. Much of mining happens in China. Surely that is not a primary factor in energy usage right now. It’s still not a sustainable tech IMO, but is that really “the problem”?
The natural state of man is poverty. It is trade and specialization, division of labor, that allows people to have enough to eat, be comfortable, and have some time in which to do things other than trying to survive.

The prosperous homesteaders on YouTube make their money off of YouTube.

I would view a comfortable life in the country as a luxury. You finance the luxury with a lucrative, specialized job/business that only takes a small portion of your time.

George W. Bush famously liked to spend time on his ranch with a chainsaw clearing brush. Clearing brush, like blacksmithing, woodworking, fly fishing or homesteading, can be a fun way to spend time. But generally these are luxuries that have to be financed with work. Bush could not have survived by trading in his job or business for clearing brush.
I don't understand how such a big explosion caused such a minor Tsunami. My understanding is that the waves that hit the coasts weren't causing much major damage? I really held my breath the hours after the explosion.
Am not legally savvy on this to be educated on merits of what cited FISA/EO mean.

I am curious as to what argument can find it acceptable to block US company, also when they place data within EU and can’t be compelled to handover to US law enforcement.
DEI - the post is talking about the diversity, equity, and inclusion statement. Most departments (including at MIT) seem to be asking for one along with research and teaching statements these days, it’s not just the UC system.

Calling it a “litmus test” seems like a biased take though.

Here’s some context from UT on that search Connie’ committees are looking for https://facultyinnovate.utexas.edu/drafting-diversity-equity...
Sounds like the law is working as intended. I'm glad to hear it.
I've noticed that some EV users talk about charging rates in "kWh/h". Which is interesting, to say the least.
The problem is you, not Russia, as should be evident to anyone who reads both western and russian sources.. but you would not let yourselves be confused by facts, as long as there is a chance to swallow something which is not yours. Well, I cannot but hope that you choke if you try.
Does the Mafia Hire Good Accountants?
Interesting. I now wonder if I heard it wrong my whole life, or if I'm just misremembering. Probably the latter.

Thanks!
"Protected opinion" is not equivalent to "opinion".
Such invitations are often extended by organizations in the university, not the university itself. Those organizations can definitely be politically far afield from the university median.

The test of a declaration like this will be how the school responds when another organization on campus reacts to such an invitation by protesting it.
CutiePi Tablet review: The open-hardware Linux tablet
> they actually grade each applicant against “DEI” rubrics and eliminate applicants based on that

Doesn't this explicitly incent applicants to lie by misrepresenting their views and past "contributions to DEI" as more pro-DEI than they actually are? I'm not sure how this requirement is compatible with rather basic norms of academic ethics.
RMS brought it on himself. Although, yes, MIT turned a blind eye to his behavior until his comments about Epstein.
> And the people who made the brittle architectural decisions aren't the ones suffering the fallout increasingly often;

Ugh. Ain’t this the truth. I’m stuck working with Laravel because of this. The two people that pushed for Laravel the most are now gone.
Basically because fetch isn't a great API for servers it took a while to get consensus on actually landing it for the interoprability/simple API value.

Then it took a while to get consensus it's fine to do even if we can't implement the standard fully and diverge from it on stuff like CORS (like Deno does).

Then there were a bunch of work adding APIs like `EventTarget` and `AbortSignal` to Node.js which are quirky'ish web APIs.

As a side note just to show positive collaboration: that work made me make maybe 10 PRs fixing things in EventTarget in Deno - and Deno helped Node a bunch now when landing fetch.

Then web streams and blobs and a few other things as well as the undici work in the background.

Then undici-fetch by Ethan, merge into Undici and then the PR by Michael - and it's still not done :)

Finally
What I didn't mention was that I double-checked in case I was going crazy, so I crosschecked on ChemSpider: https://www.chemspider.com/Chemical-Structure.118630.html - see 3D model (presumably it's also incorrect).

I've yet to check Wiki as of today, so I don't know if the site has changed since last August or not. I will check momentarily.

I acknowledge what you say and I'm not necessarily disputing your points. If this is the result of another of the many nomenclature problems that plague and beset chemistry then I'm damn-well sick of it (and I'm certainly not alone).

It's about time that someone—some authoritative body, most specifically IUPAC et al, sorted this mess out.

PS: you haven't really answered why both the skeletal and ball-and-stick would be different. Moreover, the skeletal outline in the story is also the usual default (i.e.: the same as in both versions of Wiki and in ChemSpider).
>Larry and Sergey have absolutely zero involvement in Google's daily activities

Unless you work directly with one of these three people I don't know how you could make such a claim. Press releases don't count as reliable sources
Past spending are actually not relevant, as renewable got significantly cheaper, while nuclear got more expensive.

Solar is today 5x less expensive than it was in 2010[1].

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[1] https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Publication...
And it won't use tritium until 2035 or later. And it will never be able to breed tritium, or operate on DT for more than a few weeks total. And it's on a technological dead end to anything that could be competitive, even with fission.
As an alternative viewpoint, I also have a Tesla and a "normal" car, and I don't find the Tesla requires any "special training" or is objectively worse.

Things are in different places in different cars. Switching keyboard layouts would be significantly more complex.
Yesterday I had exactly the same thoughts: I had to RESTART a windows PC in order to print a word document because the driver refused to recognise that there was actually paper in the printer afterall. I'd be ashamed to ship stuff with such obvious failings.

My other gripe is how, with increasing screen resolutions, UIs are eating more space totally unneccessarily. That Word print dialogue box is a good example - it must use 1/3 of a 4k res screen's estate only to display a dialogue with a button that is confusing, as it isn't consistent with Windows overall UI.
Quick question, judging from the commit alone this seems like a rather small change. I assume there's more to it though. I just wonder how come features like this that kind of seems obvious to include in the ecosystem takes quite some time to land? I understand the reality is more complex perhaps, so I am genuinely curious.

I hope you realize no disrespect, this will greatly improve the daily work for me since I use node at work every day.
Unlikely they would know provided you use realistic names/canaries and dont have dozens or hundreds of friends also using your domain with the same websites.

If the day comes that people can't use their own domains then companies will effectively cut off the very communication with their customers and prospects they desired to have in the first place.
Faster heustistic is to check not whether the facts are true, but if the implied conflict that connects them is real.

The old adage about how "dog bites man," may be true but it's not news, whereas "dog bites capitalist oppressor" is essentially all news these days, and it may even be construed as not entirely untrue, even though it seems obvious the dog has not developed class consciousness and thrown off the leash of exploitation and seized the means of food production in its righteous jaws of justice on behalf of the global oppressed, but by manufacturing the conflict that links the facts, an entirely contrived fabrication qualifies as not entirely un-true.

Simply, just ask whether the facts are used as decoration and plumage for what reduces to an extravagent lie.
Fetch evolved after promises had been standarized as the way of doing async, whereas node is older than that. Node originally used callback style for its core API and had another method for making http requests. Since fetch, developed in the browser, OS contributors have filled the void of a promise supporting http requesr library, with packages like axios, and isomorphic-fetch. Only now that the standards have finalized and we have reached consistent browser support has core team has made it a priority to include it in core.
even today where knowledge of farming and land maintenance is basically free and available to anyone with a phone, farms fail ALL THE TIME. And not just startup farms, multi-generational farms. I live around a bunch of farmers & ranchers, I don't know a single one without a side gig or 8(more towards the 8).

My personal ranch is just a money pit. It's my hobby, it makes a little bit of money but it would never be sustainable. People with much less debt than me and a whole lot more land & equipment are in the same boat.
As someone doing web development in 2001-2003 and still testing stuff on OS 9... No. It crashed all the time in the office. Several different machines and all I did was open a few web pages and sometimes write down some notes.