skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Communication is a complex business

That is an understatement.

> JR is deceptive not because everything he says taken in isolation is false

I understand at what you are getting at, words at face value don't mean much, context is everything. However, listening to JR I never get a feeling that I'm being intentionally deceived.

The falsehoods he believes seem to me to be a genuine lack of awareness on his parts, the fact that he changes opinions when confronted with the fact what he said was bullshit gives me trust that he is not out to deceive me.

If he's framing X doctor as best in the field because of Y achievements is because the average Joe would also believe that as well. And the fact that he has corrected some statements made by the past two controversial guests, regarding Covid, is the reason why I trust he's not deceiving with some agenda. Unlike with most mainstream media where I am always trying to figure out the underlying agenda of every statement made from the hosts.
The U.S. nuclear option on apps and data
Very appealing. Heavy price tag though for small and medium projects that are not focused solely on charting. Can someone recommend a product or service somewhere in between Datawrapper and D3 convenience wise?

Edit: I realize there’s a very generous free plan, but for real client projects white label is unfortunately often a must.
> Worse comes to worse you can seed your content on bittorrent.

At the expense of huge barriers of entry for people to discover that content, or even care bothering with the hoops you would have to jump through to find something you're interested in, to the less tech savvy.

This is partly why the removal of content after its publication due to political pressure and threats of coercion is fundamentally the problem that needs to be addressed.

Whether it's semantically "censorship" or not is debatable, but the ill effects it has on society are irrefutable, by communicating:

1. these views need to be taken down.

2. these views need to be silenced.

3. the consumers of this information are "domestic terrorists" or "completely stupid", as readily communicated by major pundits on the Left, and at times, by our own leaders (Biden, Trudeau).

4. the 100,000+ global outspoken doctors who agree with these controversial views are fringe, misguided, deserving of losing their licenses, etc.

... All 4 reek of condescension and political bias in a way that damages and divides society to the extent that massive psychological harm is inflicted on millions of people seeking good information who want to be left alone, and risks enforcing a single stream of thought where panels of experts or public dialogue are discouraged.

That should alarm anyone who trusts the scientific method as a means to find answers and provide honest insight into something as imperative as a pandemic.
> So (1) I don’t think the average car is as expensive as a brand new Tesla and (2) even for my Tesla, the monthly TCO will be far, far lower because the payments for the car would need to be amortized over its lifetime.

These are somewhat contradictory: someone spending less upfront on an internal combustion engine will be paying considerably more for maintenance and fuel. It's also a bit of a challenge to talk about this since it's a distribution — the _average_ new car bought in the United States was $47,000 which is more than the Tesla Model 3's base price of $40k:

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a38748092/new-car-average-...

The other big thing to remember is that taxes, insurance, parking, and tolls add up quickly. If you bought a Model 3 at $40k you're probably not getting the cheapest tier of insurance.

Now, if we look at used cars it's cheaper but that's still $28k and since a used car is going to need more maintenance you're definitely looking at a substantial amount of money:

https://www.kbb.com/car-news/average-used-car-price-now-over...

In all cases, a lot of this is going to come down to where you live. In a city or area with high car theft rates, insurance is going to be steep even if you're a low-mileage driver and the cost of parking can easily hundreds of dollars a month. If you live and work in less dense suburb or rural area, you probably don't have to worry about paying much for parking but you're also almost certainly racking up the mileage.
Those are really good tips. I didn't know Taipei was pedestrian friendly either. Even LA is better than most other US cities where you struggle to find a place to socialize that doesn't involve eating.

Thank you!
Yep. Back when we had the gold standard we had an economic crisis every few years.

https://www.ncpedia.org/panics-economic

Inflation is a problem but so is economic instability.
Unfortunately, no. Sidewalks are for pedestrians. Mixing in bikes makes them unsafe for foot traffic. It's also dangerous for a cyclist to ride across an intersection in a crosswalk because drivers turning through it may not be able to see them before they're able to stop. Furthermore, sidewalks are irregular and not conducive to biking.
> the 15% fee

Huh. It's almost like pressuring apple with legal action forced them to lower their fees. That's pretty nice. Sounds like we need to more of that.

> pretend they are relevant.

It is relevant because it supports my general point that every loss for apple, is one less thing that they can do, and that there are a bunch of ways that they are being attacked, on many fronts.

Apple has to win on everything, or it is a loss, compared to nothing happening.

> It’s unlikely to pass judicial review

People are not making any significant arguments that the law is illegal or unconstitutional. Laws aren't unconstitutional just because you don't like them.

These types of laws are attempting to be passed in lots of countries. So no, all of these laws everywhere, that lots of countries are trying to pass, are not all illegal.

> that make life harder for smaller developers

Nobody is making the Apple App store illegal. Those developers can continue to use that, if they prefer it. It is just other companies can choose something else if they want.
“Speaker affiliation: Percona (Business Model: "Uber for Outer Joins")”
Why are you against people freely negotiating deals even if those deals result in reducing availability of content? Does the govt really need to be involved in this?
Being in someones sphere of influence is not independence. And no one is going to give away something they need for free.
That's incorrect. No matter where Rogan hosts his content, these people will go after him. They've pressured AWS, CloudFlare and others before too, with some success.
> > Character/byte pointers often start at unaligned offsets

> How's that possible? Isn't that an UB?

"Unaligned" was not the best word to use. What I really meant was byte-aligned:

char* s = strdup("Hello world!");
char* p = &s[1];

Here, `p` is byte-aligned and will have a 1 in the least significant position. So a scheme that uses low bits to encode allocation failure would have to work hard to avoid confusing byte-aligned pointers with allocation-failure-signalling pointers.
Having the government decide or manage penalties for non-crimes, or that don't have "no-fly" as a statutory penalty, seems like an incredible abuse of due process. Penalties without even a trial. Penalties that can impact economic opportunities and family cohesion.

There's no reason that airlines couldn't do this themselves, and if they really think it can't be done as private businesses and want the government to get involved then it should be on the books as a criminal penalty with all the constitutional rights that go along with trials, appeals, constitutional rulings on the law itself, etc.
Can this be legal, if we have GDPR? A regulator can argue that IP addresses and phone numbers are hackers' personal data, and it's illegal to share them.
And I'm talking about people that were taking about recent history at the points in time when those earlier GTA were being announced/released/reviewed.
Although it is a first step, most bike lanes in Brazil are put where they won't take space from cars and tend to be just some paint (not very good paint at that) on a few disconnected paths or in places of leisure because, you know, bikes aren't serious transportation.
Anecdotally, as an Austin, TX, resident and cyclist — this city is so far away from adequate cycling infrastructure that it’s inclusion in this piece taints the rest of it for me.

Clearly this piece is light on meaningful details. One example is how the increase includes areas that are completely unsafe to ride — for example adding lanes that are essentially storm drain run offs which are generally unfinished - so you have to bike in the road.

Our local news has a great example of a lane with an electricity pole right in the middle of it… :facepalm:

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-cyclists-flag-...
yeah, some of the removals are perplexing haha
This applies to almost any media outlet in the world, even your comment here. For example here you framed JR as the only person doing framing to push his agenda.
Platforms are starting to form practical monopolies.
Google controls searching for content. If they don’t like the topic you will never be found. They routinely suppress anything on the right.

Hosting that can handle load and hackers for normal people is extremely difficult.
Neither rust or go have a formally verified compiler, they cannot be used for security critical programming.
A couple more good ones:

https://twitter.com/CRTpixels/status/1461432490636234756

https://twitter.com/CRTpixels/status/1484553881329745925

Sharp pixels are fine for modern pixel art, but some of the old stuff looks much better using a CRT or CRT-shader (and sometimes even NTSC color effects matter).
Can anyone paste a list of all the commands available from Git Bash? (not the bash builtins, but all the added programs)
They should have gone whole groundhog and made it Feb 2nd. It's not too late to move it tho.
I completely agree, and I really hope it happens.
" Compare that with the Netherlands, where 27% of the country commutes by bike.
The difference is infrastructure."

Well, infrastructure is certainly one big difference, but it's not _the_ difference. The Netherlands is quite flat. Some parts of the US (for example Austin, Texas where I live) is rather hilly in spots. Biking is getting more widely used anyway, but it's not irrelevant that it is much easier to bike on flat terrain.

I'm also surprised to see absolutely no mention of electric scooters (Bird, Lime, etc.). Those unwilling to bike could still add to the critical mass needed for support of infrastructure, if bikes and scooters share that infrastructure. If they're arguing that the other should not be allowed in their lanes, however, I think neither is numerous enough to get support.
Having a good way to let legitimate users appeal the blocklist seems to be the hard part and why Spamhaus for example has been successful.
On FF on quite-old Android 7.0 I chose share (within the web page), then "copy to clipboard" and the text is:

https://www.nineletterwordgame.com/

Not quite what I was expecting! If I send to notepad then the first line is "null" and the second is the address as above.

I did 23s but I think the grid form makes it much slower, I prefer it Countdown (a UK television quiz) style, just in a row.
> The difference is infrastructure

Ah yes, the USA has the same density of population than the Netherlands
Canada broken up into West and East would be helpful.
> Ya know, I'm not going to attack you like you seem so set on doing to me. But for reference, I'm a lead SWE working on mobile devices.

Then I assume you understand the difference between text and an executable and they they pose very different security risks.

If so, then we have to assume you are simply arguing in bad faith by pretending they are analogous.

> I'll say it again, but louder for those in the back. The security is built in to the platform, not app review.

This statement is completely false. Security is in both. You surely know that.

> If the security was only through the appstore you would see hundreds of viruses in the store a day, controlled by a server side flag.

No, because they could still be removed after detection.

In any case, this is a dishonest argument. Nobody is claiming that it’s only in the App Store. The claim is that the App Store is a way to catch issues that the platform security alone cannot.

Again, you clearly are aware of this.
Both Clinton and Trump have discussed UFOs in recent memory, so not that remarkable. But, anyway, I guess I prefer listening to people with a greater than 0.1% accuracy rate.
Yeah, I'll take a proper (i.e. well-maintained surface, free of debris, etc.) separated bike road if there is one. If it's badly maintained, or just painted some part of the road that could be spared, I prefer riding in a proper "car" Lane.
I really wonder what make git bash so much more popular than msys2 or cygwin. Ever since switching from Linux/FreeBSD cygwin has lessened the pain of windows a lot.
My little town did this, and it’s wonderful. Downtown is now constantly packed with people. All I can say is, I hope this is the beginning of a long term turn towards human-scale cities in the US.
Still sinpler than credit default swaps, and CDOs, and options on commodities, and we have so many people investing in them without understanding
They do not decide on NATO or EU membership. They can only decide if the country should apply, but NATO is not obliged to serve them Article 5. Exactly because of that there can be actually a multilateral security agreement between NATO, Ukraine and Russia that could include non-expansion of NATO in exchange for some other, rock solid security guarantees. Same with EU membership: it can be a multilateral trade deal instead between EU, EAEU and Ukraine.
Because we all know how well Neil Young's boycott turned out!
A friendly-worded email to the owners of the businesses you frequent might be worth the effort. :)
> but they are not born in the United State. Just like people born in the Panama Canal Zone or someone like Ted Cruz who was born in Canada to an American citizen

I wouldn't say it's like being born in Canada, considering Puerto Rico is on the edges of what it means to be "the United States." As you noted, those born in PR are US citizens on that basis alone, and certain other elements of the US Constitution apply to Puerto Rico as well. Perhaps ironically, this seems to not allow PR the same sovereignty that the 50 states enjoy over the federal government. In an edge case like this, some disagreement is expected and there might be a more nuanced characterization of this situation.
No such thing for small countries if you dont plan to turn into North Korea
I've worked on a large federated IP reputation system. It sounds like a great idea, but does not work in practice.

The main problem is that it's just too hard to map different kinds of abusive/non-abusive actions to a shared scale. The model here seems to be basically a boolean OR: if anyone flagged an IP as bad, it's marked as bad in the data set. Let's say that you're running a shop and detect a bunch of fraudulent transactions for expensive items, and add the IPs to the list. What can somebody else using this list for say spam-filtering comments to a web forum do with your data points in isolation? Not much, because the action you're protecting is rare, high impact, and unlikely to have FPs so the threshold where you'd mark the IP as abusive would be very different than for the spam-filter use case.

At a minimum you'd need all the client of the IP reputation signal to also share the positive reputation signals, not just the negative, and to export some forms of volumes or ratios of good and bad traffic. But it'll still be really hard to combine those reports to a single verdict that's generally useful.

A secondary problem is that different kinds of abuse don't even correlate particularly well. Let's say that you've got an IP address sending SMTP spam; the odds are that this IP will not be doing ssh credential stuffing, credit card fraud, mass-scraping, traffic pumping, warez distribution, or DDOS attacks.

The classic SMTP IP blocklists work only because everyone using them is using them for the same purpose, and is as such on a shared scale, and there is a high likelihood of the same abusive actor attacking multiple different organizations. Your example would fit that as well, and doing reputation for that one domain would actually tractable unlike federated cross-domain IP reputation.
lol thanks!
And maybe, ya know, Spotify's reasoning before we assume that all of these removals are Young's fault.

Edit: Oh look, it's not just because Young made a stink about COVID shit, imagine that...

>Rogan went on Instagram Saturday to discuss the content of the old episodes, addressing two videos on social media of him saying a racial slur and another where he described a Black neighborhood as being similar to the Planet of the Apes movie.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/more-than-70...
Could you please give us some specific examples of Joe Rogan being deceptive with direct quotes in context? I've only ever listened to a few episodes but I'm always suspicious of vague allegations with no evidence.
Well, this is why we have low bandwidth Matrix... https://matrix.org/blog/2021/06/10/low-bandwidth-matrix-an-i....
Pandemic started in roughly Feb 2020, so that’s about 11 months of previous administration with about 396k deaths. And the pandemic is running about 13 months through the course of current administration with 504k death.

Yes the math is pretty simple.
Indeed, back when I was required to own a car I paid as little as I could get away with; I bought used, I got the cheapest insurance, I deferred maintenance as long as possible (though that may arguably be more expensive in the long run), I minimized start/stop driving to save gas, I ignored parking meters and hoped for the best (a single $400 tow ultimately made that a losing strategy)... and as a result I my annual TCO was on the lower end. But rent wasn't that much lower (roughly half), and I'm still paying less in combined rent and transport costs overall. And the psychological cost of driving a beater is nonzero, too. Stereo broken? Guess I'll just drive in silence now. Some jagoff sideswipes me while I'm parked? Guess that door panel is just ruined now. The seat breaks so that it's permanently reclined? Guess I'll wedge a pillow behind my back and deal with it.

> Note also that rideshare, car rental, delivery services, etc also cut into your savings.

I actually get away without almost any of these. I only get rideshare to go to the airport, but that's only if my flight's outside of public transit hours. And public transit is only necessary if I can't walk or don't feel like riding my bike somewhere, which is rare. I don't need anything delivered, I've got a low-cost grocer a five-minute walk away, and a full supermarket a ten-minute walk away, and any speciality shops I may need are well within biking distance. YMMV, of course.
This was meant as a reductuo ad absurdum, not in defence of beating kids.
Not always. The Rails ‘stack’ has a preference for StimulusJs which has a nicely ordered way of sprinkling the JS. No inconsistency there
In my opinion the google search experience has improved over recent years, especially over say 10 years ago.

I'm having trouble figuring out why HN insists it's unusable these days.
It is also arrogant to assume you can find a solution in a few minutes after reading a HN comment when an entire team couldn’t think of one in years.
> I'm seeing kindacensorship everywhere and it. is. bad.

Everyone isn't always going to agree with you, and they have their own rights.

You're having a hard time articulating what you mean because it doesn't really make sense. If you can force someone to publish and promote something they don't want to, they can force you to publish and promote something you don't want to. The cause of liberty has not been served if this happens.
"The water in those tubes is under pressure, so when it is released the water flows quickly and is directed through turbines, also on the sea bed, generating electricity when needed."

Given that water is essentially incompressible[1], how does this work exactly?

[1]: https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/sci...
I'm glad it is failing - I don't like the idea of the whole computing stack being outside the control of end users.
You just need a 4th row with a back button to delete, a refresh button to reset, and an OK or check button to submit.
Some people think putting actual money on blockchain is a good idea.

Dunno Mongo, but perhaps even that is better than having it shredded.
Same thing, but for JavaScript: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator

Going forward, the pipe operator is going to be showing up in many new languages. I've used elixir a lot, and the pipe operator is a genius piece of syntactic sugar.
i often wonder if we could have actually built robust and reliable systems with the time it took to curate all those block-lists
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1229799/india-smartphone...

Smartphone penetration was at 54% in 2020, the projections have them at 66% in 2022.

This is hardly everyone.
IP addresses can only be personal data if associated with a person. No sane court would rule against you for having random IPs in a blocklist.txt file.
Contra to this, putting together design docs/PRDs/RFCs at an early stage is useless busywork, and engineers should go grab a coffee together and have an open-ended informal discussion about their work before they do anything else. Attempting to stop your team from working in isolation by throwing paperwork at them is less effective than just getting them to talk to each other.
I get around a lot by bike. Riding bikes on sidewalks is dangerous. You're not visible to cars when you're crossing driveways or going through intersections. Likewise, mixing with pedestrians is pretty unpleasant for everybody. You won't make a lot of friends that way. Sidewalks are safe when you're moving at the speed of walking.

When I'm on a sidewalk with my bike and there are pedestrians around, I hop off and walk.

My city has some master plan for bike infra, but really it's a matter of waiting until a road or intersection has to be rebuilt (frequently due to hard winters) and thinking about bike traffic at that point. There's also a network of sleepy neighborhood streets that are used by cyclists including myself.
This issue needs thorough investigative work, to reconstruct an objective timeline.

But as far as I remember it, mask wearing was seen first as being something for paranoid conspiracy theorists, then selfish people, then the narrative was reversed.

Experts were invited on primetime TV to say masks are not recommended to the general public.

I distinctly remember arguing with educated people at work, online, with relatives, that masks should be worn in enclosed public places, months deep into the pandemic.

We would see old people, barely managing to walk, not wear masks while going grocery shopping, because government experts told them they didn't need to. All the while China was in total lockdown and victim counts exploding.

I fear most people would prefer to forget because they played a part in it and it makes them feel dumb. We might get collective amnesia, ensuring this part of the story never reaches the history books. We shouldn't be ashamed though, we've all been victims of misinformation and cultish behavior at one point, the important thing is to draw lessons from it.
I’m sure if you searched hard you could find a few people in the Go community who say silly things like that, but (1) you could find these kinds of people in any community and (2) in the Go community these people are quickly corrected and (3) no one in this thread is making these sorts of arguments (as far as I can tell) so your comment seems wildly off-topic.

Note the difference between “Go is better for certain cloud applications than Python, NodeJS, etc” and “Go is better than all other languages, full stop”.