skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When ripping CDs myself with iTunes, I never found either to be a problem... Yeah, iTunes had other issues, but it's original functionality was 'Rip, Mix, Burn'.
I don't know anyone who actually believes that. However, recognizing that objectivity in journalism is an ideal impossible to reach doesn't mean all variations are equal, or that attempting to hew closer to the idea is pointless.

I think there is a reasonable argument the the general state of journalism and and availability of news to the general public is worse now than it was, say, 30 years ago. Or that 200 years ago was worse than now. I'm not sure I'm convinced, but the arguments aren't prima facie wrong.
A CD is a physical medium for digital music. I think the distinction between a CD and a zip file is pretty clear.
World-class collaboration meets world-class control
BCI drone tech talks set the bar.
Automated clicks on ads don't change anything. Even if everybody did this, over time the prices for ads would adjust and find a new equilibrium. Everything else would stay the same. If an advertiser pays $100 for 100 clicks today then he will pay $100 for 1000000 clicks in an ad click inflated world. Maybe slightly more for the additional energy burned to power all this madness.
Ok this is about security... so what's the alternative?

...and the answer is easy: marry anyone you want, but there'll be enhanced background checks for some people.
I think most of us are so used to the principles of pluralism and minority rights, accepting it as an axiom, that it doesn't occur to argue that an ethnostate is desirable, necessary, and worth the cost to the displaced ethnicities.

Doesn't occur is maybe the wrong word, it occurs as an alien and dangerous idea, like gazing into the maw of a tiger. Does it not feel dangerous to you, to even start weighing the needs of one ethnicity against the needs of another?
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/isaac-herzogs-remarks-...

The President considers race mixing a "tragedy".

It's a law to try and maintain racial purity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash
Go and ask some countries that were invaded by Russia in the 20th century. They came to help us in the same special operation to Slovakia since 1968 and they finally left in 1989.
Consider using Mastodon instead. It's the new Twitter which will never get bloated (because it's p2p and FLOSS).
I still use a hosts file instead of pihole. The tool is called hblock. I'd use pihole if I can find a deal on a rapsberry pi.
I think there's a dichotomy of people here.

I'm one of the ones that minds because it can disrupt my work. I realize that sometimes interruptions are necessary but I want it to be efficient. So get to the point already

Then there are the people that don't mind the interruption and sense of suspense.

A "hi" feels to me like someone has just come up and poked me, but is just staring at me waiting to respond. Over chat it feels even weirder because then it is as if I have said "yes, what do you want" and I get to stare at them for a minute or two while they compose a request they should have already had ready.

Also keep in mind that while saying 'hi' is perfectly fine irl, there is a crucial bit of context missing. If I see a colleague deeply concentrating on his work with headphones on, I'll wait. If their body language indicates that they aren't focusing hard, then its probably fine to interrupt.
you got some sources to back that up?
It's not because its American but foreign(except for Americans, of course) and as we know from history, different countries can have different interests and they can clash and as we can see from the current events this can happen even today.

Communications are vital to the society and it is a national security risk when your communications are run by non-impartial entities. Meta choosing to enable some communities engage in an activity and deny it to others makes them a grave risk. This time around you may be happy with their choices, the next time you might be targeted.

I hope this is clearer now.
The moment I read the headline, the first words to come to my mind were - "How to Grow a Language" by Guy Steele. Hadn’t the author heard that?

Then, when I read the piece, most were already known to me.

One should watch the marvelous guide by Patrick Henty Winston- "How to Speak".

He also has a book called- "Make it Clear". I highly recommend this.
Yup my parents used this quite a bit, I didn't realize it was such a good deal though. I also ended up having a lot of Ronald McDonald cartoons lol
Just to be clear: the law bans citizenship for Palestinians on the basis of marriage to an Israeli citizen, but does not ban marriages or naturalization in other ways that aren’t marriage, right? Or am I missing something here?
Russia’s GDP can barely keep up with that of Texas, so there’s that, they just don’t have that much purchasing power and not really a huge market compared to China
Biased and manipulated news is a spectrum like security. You can find instances of anything in the past of you look hard enough. We are currently in a time of more bias and manipulation than the 60s/70s.

Additionally, pointing out that Facebook lacks any fundamental principles and is just a reed in the wind is a great observation.
Yes, this is it. For me what matters is ownership—physical media, objects, artwork. I like owning things that bring me joy day after day. It's about being able to experience them whenever I want, on my terms. We rent, and lease, and license almost everything—books, software, cars, apartments, music, movies, furniture. Everything is offered "as a service". I get that a lot of people are drawn to the "flexibility" and ease of use that comes with rentals, with subscriptions, but not me. I'm not giving up on ownership.
An oppressed people - the Jews, have become oppressors? This comment doesn't even attempt to draw the distinction between the government of Israel and the Jewish people. How would it feel if we said “The formerly oppressed Hispanic people have become the oppressors”, because one country in Central or South America has an oppressive government at some point?

There isn’t even recognition that the Israeli legislature might not be representative of most Jewish Israelis and instead be a consequence of political incumbents that are hard to unseat from power, like political dynasties in many countries.

Nor does it accept that even if this is the majority will of Jewish Israelis, there are plenty of Jews in Israel who disagree with the law (which is obviously true), and shouldn’t be lumped in as “oppressors”. The same way Trump and his followers actions shouldn’t impugn the moral character of all Americans.

No, this is a wholesale indiscriminate attack on Jewish people, global or Israeli. Purposefully vague and universal in it’s attack of an entire ethnic minority group There is no chance this comment isn’t xenophobic to it’s core.
Why does anyone actually care about Russia investigating Facebook? Is it surprising? They've done this with every technology that they can't control.

Russia is trying to slander anyone who is accusing them of being the bad guy. Vladimir Putin is very clearly the bad guy in this story. Russia is waging an immoral war. A free sovereign nation making attempts to improve the lives of the citizens within its own borders should not be attacked.
Religious parties (that is, parties who seek to further the goals of a religion) are by definition right-wing.
Or in a broader context someone does know about. Or maybe someone's just better at getting things out of google.

For example, I once helped a co-worker who was having trouble with a toy webserver written in Go as a learning exercise. It wasn't recognizing url paths that it should have. I don't know Go, but did recognize the problem from our apache/wsgi django setup - path prefixes being stripped. Knowing the right keywords to search for, I was able to find the fix for a config file and we got it working.
I've done this for 20 years now and part delivery times are identical to dealer network here. They also tend to offer you more choices when it comes to parts (cheap, standard, upgraded etc).
> There is no unified Palestinian government. I’m going to assume you are referring to hamas, who hasn’t faced election since the mid 2000s in Gaza (though to be fair they would probably win again today).

I'm referring to whoever de facto is the ultimate authority in the region, there may be several individuals/groups that have the authority.

> I’m not asserting there is any clean path forward, but at the same time the hypothetical you are offering wouldn’t happen overnight either.

Agreed.

> The question is whether we are able to justify actions as they are now

Agreed.
>The Middle East has been a melting pot for centuries

No it hasn't. It's been an explicitly Islamist supremacist (sometimes under Arab dynasties, sometimes Persian or Turkish ones, but certainly never Jewish ones) imperial dominion for centuries, and was until 1924. Do you not know what dhimmi status was?
Whether or not Israel's actions need excused ("exempt") is a matter of opinion. And an unbiased opinion can't be developed when we're only willing to criticize, or even look at, one facet of the issue.

Or to put it another way, similar and "worse" things are happening elsewhere, but it's not PC to bring them up.
I had an Apple PowerBook 520c in 1994. The "c" was for "color", they still had a greyscale version! One of the best laptops I've ever owned actually. It was the first laptop (from any manufacturer I think) with a trackpad.
This is a remarkably useful tool. Well done if you are the author!
"health labs" doing a lot of work in this headline. The WHO says they want to prevent "accidental or deliberate release of pathogens." If the pathogens can be intentionally released and cause harm, in what sense are they not bioweapons?
And more importantly, it's on-topic. Adding flavor to a presentation can be tricky, you can't just toss unrelated information in there and keep the audience focused, you have to integrate it into the data you're presenting.

We're engineers, social intelligence isn't our specialty, but this is pretty easy to codify.
If you’re willing to add a new binfmt to your system, here’s another method for using golang to write “scripts” (executed with gorun). It’s not the same as a shebang/hashbang, but it works.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/using-go-as-a-scripting-language...
> but it doesn't exactly strike me as obviously 100% untrue.

This is the wedge used to hoist their more radical ideas into the mainstream.

The HBD crowd uses a common writing trick: They start with a low-risk scientific fact (genes influence traits) and then inflate it into misleading conclusions (race equals IQ). Depending on their audience and how much pushback they're receiving, they'll retreat further and further toward the kernel of truth they started with.

That's how they end up hooking people with thoughts such as "not obviously 100% untrue". The problem with HBD isn't the idea that genes can influence traits such as intelligence. The problem is their weird obsession with race. If they want to talk about genes and genetics, that's fine. However, for some reason much of their writing is about race with the implication that all people of the race share the same intelligence-related genes, which is patently false. Yet that's all they want to talk about.

They also greatly exaggerate, or more likely completely misunderstand, the significance of the genetics-intelligence correlations. Outside of genetic disorders, individual genes are only loosely correlated with intelligence. The correlations are vanishingly small, yet the HBD people talk about it as if it's some sort of 1:1 switch that determines who has high IQ and who has low IQ.

There are even more unsavory parts of the movement, but I'll caution you against getting hooked by their bait-and-switch arguments.
I was so hyped when Spotify added my country. But I then found that most of the artists I listen to (Reggae artists, CHVRCHES) was missing from the catalog. I keep it for a little time as it was cheap, but did not bother to renew when my card expired.
Twitter censors the search bar, even hiding tweets that don't violate the TOS from logged in searchers searching for certain bad-PR hashtags, making it impossible to identify the scope or reach or growth rates of certain memes (eg qanon, antivax, war propaganda, etc).

It is supremely disrespectful to tell other adults what they are and are not allowed to read.

"Just" stop donating content and attention to abusive and disrespectful censorship platforms.

You don't counter abuse with workarounds, you leave and stop being abused.
Sorry. I was just saying that a CD is a digital representation of sound. If you had a CD with a document on it you wouldn't call it a physical copy.

However on a vinyl record the sound is physically represented in the grooves. It is as near to a physical representation of sound as you could get. Like a physical document is on paper.

I have no bias. I listen happily to streaming.
A better example would be adding a non-Jew requirement to the US constitution. I find it interesting that a people who faced such deadly consequences from discrimination based on Jewishness choose to discriminate based on Jewishness as their response.
I very much agree with nohello, but using it as your status message on slack/teams/etc. is taking it too far and doesn't make me want to talk to you unless I absolutely have to. Maybe it's just me though.
Similarly related, I've been collecting UHD blu-rays for the past year and have been enjoying it greatly.

Lawrence of Arabia is being released as a 4k scan later this year and I'm pumped!

I think there are a few parts to physical media collection

* No fear of the media getting "Cancelled" and you losing access to it

* Quality is always consistent. 4k and high quality audio bit rates generally do ok when streaming but start artifacting when there are any hiccups in your connection. I have GB service and I Still have low quality moments on my streaming.

* Collecting items scratches an itch I didn't know I had

* With vynyl and CDs, listening to a whole album shows you songs that you wouldn't normally consider or search for. Spotify makes it easy to skip a song you may not like but I tend to try out new songs on my record player and sometimes I like new things

* The artwork for blu-rays, vynyls, and CDs can be beautiful and make a nice addition to a shelf or library in your living room.
I haven’t done a ton of ripping, but a fair amount, and I’ve found Music on macOS to be pretty decent.
Well, P(ukraine blames russia | russia did it) = P(ukraine blames russia | ukraine did it) = 1. But P(ukraine blames russia | nobody did anything) < 1. So Ukraine saying Russia did something still provides information that something happened.

This particular piece of information might not inform whether Ukraine or Russia did it, but that doesn't mean the likelihood of the two events are equal. There are other pieces of information out there.
> Serious question coming from a place of relative ignorance- are Jewish people today more persecuted in western democracies like the US than in Israel? There are certainly attacks, but I don't know how that compares to the sustained state of quasi-war that Israel exists in.

Just by the numbers, Jews are better off in Israel, because baseline violent crime rates are actually lower in Israel. This is made starker by the next largest Jewish population being in the United States, which has an unusually high rate of baseline violent crime. It's actually a question of "do you want fewer but more horrifying terrorist attacks, or more and more normalized mass shootings?"
Ask HN: How do you find time for side projects working full time?
I see some developers are doing really fabulous projects, and I also want to do it – I do have many terrific, how I think, ideas.

But 40 hour work week eats all my time! I barely have time to cook food, spend time with partner, walk the pet - the basic stuff, which I can't lose.

Should I just make the leap of faith, and if yes then how to come back to work after a fail, when my saved money ends? Is it necessary to quit the job? Should I pursue my partner to earn more (non-IT), that I could quit my job?

I am very lost, any tips.
I use beets

https://beets.io/

It's a bit nerdy but for large collections it's a godsend
> and are overtly hostile to Judaism, as prescribed by their religion

As a biracial Jew from Pakistan I can assure you this is false. The modern enmity between Jews and Muslims began around the time of Israel's creation [1].

As far as 'preserving culture', this sounds a little to close to the Fourteen Words for my comfort. You can celebrate and keep alive one's own culture without the exclusion and denial of rights to others. I think the idea of ethnostates run counter to the core values of most modern, liberal democracies.

[1] https://dailytimes.com.pk/97778/the-jews-of-pakistan/
>> Let's say Muslim Arabs become the majority in Israel, wouldn't it then become the kind of place that the ancestors of the Jewish Israelis fled from (for good reason)?

> The Jews didn't exactly jump from Judea as opposed to getting pushed:

That's not what I had in mind. I was thinking of more recent history, like this: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/03/opinion/last-jew-afghanis...

> Dozens of countries around the world have had their Last Jews. The Libyan city of Tripoli was, astonishingly, one-quarter Jewish in 1941; today the entire country is Jew-free. After the fall of Muammar el-Qaddafi, who banished the country’s lingering Jews during his reign, a lone Libyan Jew came back to Tripoli and took down a concrete wall sealing the city’s one remaining synagogue. But he was soon forced to flee, having been warned that an antisemitic mob was coming for his head.

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> Certainly there were always Jews (and Christians, and later Muslims) in that geographic area, but to say that Jews particularly 'deserve' exclusive governing of that area may be stretching it given the two thousand years of history since they last had 'exclusivity' to it.

I don't think it's a stretch. There's more to it than just historical tenancy.

> Palestinians also want a state of their own, but Israel is (according to some) squatting on their land:

Sure, but it would be yet another Middle Eastern Arab Muslim state. Why erase something unique for that?

> Palestinians also want a state of their own, but Israel is (according to some) squatting on their land:

> Don't both have a right (?) to exist? Why does Israel deny to others what it wants for itself?

Unfortunately, the world doesn't divide into nice neat categories that don't conflict.
The Eth2 Book
1. Are Israeli figures to be trusted? There are countless - literally countless - of examples of abuses and arbitrary detention from the state. Including detention for “terrorism”.

2. What qualifies as “terrorism” in their book? Does throwing a rock at the IDF qualify as terrorism?

3. Why is Israel providing citizenship in the first place? What brought them to such an authoritative position? Who are the people they are giving citizenship to, where are they coming from, what were they subjugated to, why are they seeking citizenship in this place? The answers to these questions lie somewhere between Israeli far-right governance, oppression, human rights abuse and land imprisonment of a population who were kicked out of their homes and left stateless, passportless, and immobile, unable to cross their borders and travel, left to take long treks through abusive barriers and routes just to make it 5 miles from one place to another. Whose water is shut off, food supplies are limited, and have no economic prosperity. So why are these people the way they are, and seeking citizenship in such a place?
That can be implemented by the vehicle initiating a connection and asking "where should I go now?".

But any connection poses vulnerability - for example, security certificates to be sure you're talking to the right person become obsolete over time as processing power gets cheaper, and an update can fail and brick the car.
Even if an article is written that only contains hard facts there are many ways it can be biased. It could exclude inconvenient facts (this is the most common), it can have inconvenient information at the end of the article where most people don't read. Some news can also just be ignored. Some parts of a story are never surfaced simply because no one cares about it or knows about it.

Journalists are flawed humans like everyone else and expecting them to produce complete and objective reporting is not only unfair it is literally impossible.

So no, I do not believe there is such a thing as objective reporting generated by a single human or a single organization. The only true, unbiased journalism would be some sort of technology that could let everyone view the full entirety of any event from any perspective without a human brain and sensory system in between. That's not practical.

Practically speaking, it is up to the reader to consume as many varying sources as possible and then come to their own conclusion. But who has time for that?
And that is incredibly effective. You're using your dog pics to anchor ideas in people's heads!

When people remember your preso, they'll remember the dog images, but those will all represent some meaningful take-away from the talk.
Mh, for me it's a bit of a process of getting to know people, and to educate people how to get what they want from me quickly. Somehow that sounds arrogant.

The thing is, if people ask me a direct, simple question via chat, I can answer many things without even losing my train of thought. Something like "Hey where do I configure DNS records for XYZ" or "where in ansible is X" and such often get answered while thinking about other stuff. Some new employees are kind of hesitant because it seems rude to them to just poke me with questions like that straight up, but that's the getting-to-know part. I don't need cuddling, and tea, and house shoes, and comments about the weather if you just need some simple information.

Or, if they are unsure about the entire situation, be straight about it. Let me dig myself out of my hole, tell me the context you're in and then let's have a call and screenshare about the entire thing. I still prefer to know what this is about, because it allows me to prepare for a call, to make our call more effective for both of us.

But the thing is, those kind of ticks and preferences I have are a relationship thing with other employees. People just start polite and careful and might just be like "Hello" and such - developers write less, marketing writes more. Usually they just aren't sure how to approach me. So I can't really be to mad at them. Just answer with a funny smiley or a waving one when your heads context is switched to chat, their first message won't be business critical.

And the latter is another important point. We have escalation and communication channels and communication and escalation plans for different severities of problems. Someone saying "Hi" to me cannot be a critical incident by internal definition, so it has a few hours of SLA at minimum and might be forgotten at worst. If it was critical, our head of support would call me directly. If it was more than critical, our head of operation would call my physical phone.
Was it in the shape of a race car?
What do you expect from an apartheid regime, created on the ashes of another country, Palestine?
Palestinians have a Palestinian Authority passport that is used for international travel. Per the Oslo accords in the 90s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Authority_passport...

Though many hold Jordanian passports.
Two years later, coronavirus evolution still surprises scientists and physicians
Anil Reddy is an absolute genius.
Surprisingly the adtech is by far the profitable industry including costs to operate comparing to any other industry. Ads are the biggest pillar on which most of the faang stands. Sadly most people don't even want to make a few clicks to download a browser extension.