skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You think I'm arguing in bad faith? That I'm deliberately advancing an argument I know to be untrue? OK, interesting...

Anyway, moving on, I think you make some good points. Absoultely, so-called MSM has gaslighted people on various occasions. But that doesn't disprove the "duped by information campaigns" premise, it supports it. People are distrustful of MSM because they have been successfully deceived in the past. Millions were duped into thinking that the Iraq War was honestly precipitated by weapons of mass distruction not only because they were lied to by the government but because it was aided by passionate support in MSM, notoriously the New York Times.

And I'm not sold on the idea that communities are diligent in spotting their own misinformation. Look how homeopathy and astrology persist, generations after they have been shown to be bunk. In the case of homeopathy, people often seek it out because they feel duped and misled by Big Pharama. And that's a mistake that people make. They are rightfully skeptical of a mainstream idea but then latch on to an even more dubious idea because it seems like arcane truth, the fruit of their own research against the Brzezinski-esque medical establishment telling them what's for their own good. And then, because of the sunk cost fallacy, they hold onto the bad idea far longer than they should, even propagating it like a religion.

"One only need look at all the conspiracy theories that have turned out to be 100% true these past 2 years." What did you have in mind? I can only think of maybe one (non mainstream I presume) conspiracy theory that turned out to be 100% true. Most of the time, and this is key, just because the mainstream theory had flaws doesn't mean any of its concomitant conspiracy theories were 100% correct. In general they aren't, because like cancer cells they lack a control mechanism to keep them from continuously mutating. Plausible election irregularities turn into pallets of ballots, which turn into the ghost of Hugo Chavez owning voting machines, etc.

One of the problems with deciding to eschew mainstream sources of information, is that you often have no way of determining truth value through your own personal experience or expertise. I'm not a physician, epidemiologist or virologist. In order to conclude anything, I have to have faith that data provided by other people is accurate. In the past, unreliable sources of information were naturally lost over time because they got no support. But with SEO, spam, and/or astroturfing, any bit of misinformation can be propagated as broadly as the truth. And people are expected to wade through that and stumble upon the facts? Maybe, but have you heard of Borges' Library of Babel[0]? It's a story describing an infinite library where volumes are printed with random text, so every possible permutation of letters is there. Everything that is true is there, but so is every lie, and every near truth. But because all information is equally available without regard for truth, the library is effectively useless. That's what an entirely uncurated internet becomes.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel
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Israel has lost my support. It has become an apartheid regime. Its treatment of Palestinians is morally and legally reprehensible.
You don't have to be an expert on a topic to see that something is either extremely unlikely or plausible. (Anyone can still be wrong in there conclusion mind you.)

"There's a group of human's that can breath fire like a dragon"

Just using some basic knowledge of evolution and genetics, that seems pretty unlikely. What would the evolutionary pressure be ? Would there be enough time for that development? No parallel's in other mammals etc.

You can do the same to see if something is plausible. For this discussion specifically. We know there are physical difference's between populations (Height, drug tolerance, skin colour)

These observable differences are caused by different genes. What are the chances that none of these differences in genes are in the brain ? Basically zero.

So it's very plausible you'd find some differences. Just using some simple reasoning.
(Reading a little bit about it, Sam Harris basically makes this exact point.
It really is basic logic)
> It's not help if you are violating consent of a person that has the ability to give consent. Minors and intoxicated people are some examples of people that can't gove consent in which case their legal guardian must give consent.

Nothing about anyone seeking to help a loved one not kill themselves inherently requires consent.

I said nothing about invasive processes, outside of the DARPA situation where they almost certainly have the consent they need already.

> The shitty thing about the tech scene is the utter disregard for consent because you know better.

This is projection.

> Have you actually tried to help a person in this situation?

Yes. And they're still around and living their life decades later. Because they were suicidal about something that could be substantially unburdened if they would just talk. And they weren't going to talk without an intervention (which was staged initially online, as it happens).

> Nothing more humiliating or pushing over the edge than your private mental struggles being exposed and well meaning assholes now made your contemplations into an issue you must act on (as in kill yourself or chicken out). Ffs! It's slavery not help what you have in mind. Your intentions don't change that fact.

Suicide is not a good alternative to humiliation.

If this is where you are right now, talk to someone. I'm not going to continue this discussion because of what you say in the last paragraph I quoted. But if you need help, consider asking for it.
If wiping is the main problem you could just wipe them with a cloth or some other device. They are exposed and highly visible after all.
No, they are awful. Does this exempt Israeli’s own actions?
They have nuclear weapons.
I think this law will only hurt the Israeli image abroad a little bit. The 3 recent human rights reports (calling Israel out for practicing apartheid) are much more damaging.

This is really about the (internationally recognized) right of return of the Palestinians. To paraphrase Bill Clinton's advisor James Carville in 1992:
"It's demographics, stupid".

The 2003 law explicitly did not apply to residents of Jewish settlements in the West Bank wanting to marry and live with their spouse inside Israel, making it, and the ongoing policy underpinning it, blatantly discriminatory.

The thing to realize about this new law is that while it makes no mention of religion, it doesn't need to in order to add to the fragmentation of the indigenous people of the area. Non-Jews in the West Bank cannot now gain citizenship in Israel, if that was an avenue they had before, nor can they return to their villages (granted, almost all these villages within Israel have been destroyed so there's nothing to return to) or gain compensation for their loss.

(For a film adaptation of the 1949 novel by S. Yizhar called Khirbet Khizeh, search for the youtube version produced by Israeli Television in 1970 (and immediately banned in 1978 when it was released.))

I'm not sure why this outrages people in the US. Since 2002, Israel has adopted a policy of prohibiting Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza from gaining status in Israel or East Jerusalem through marriage, thus preventing family unification.

The Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law enshrined the policy in law between 2003 and its expiry in July 2021. The law barred thousands of Palestinians in Israel and East Jerusalem from living there with their Palestinian spouses from the West Bank and Gaza. Israel’s then interior minister stated the law was needed because “it was felt that [family unification] would be exploited to achieve a creeping right of return...”

This recent law just formalized and made permanent what was always there: the demographics is what's important here. When you look at Zionism as a colonial settler project, it's just part of "purity" laws and an essential part of apartheid.
>intervention in Ukraine with conventional weapons only would send a clear message that there is no will to reach that level.

This is not true. No nuclear powers should engage in direct wars, I'm not a fan of proxy wars either but they are safer than direct conflicts which can easily escalate.

We have never had a world war between nuclear armed states and we should avoid the potential at all costs.
I don’t mean this hostilely; social conventions are typically based on etiquettes, so in trying to follow the conventions of an existing medium of communication you are failing at basic etiquette of a new one. it’s all about being considerate of the other person, which is why they feel “passion of a thousand suns” — at a fundamental level they feel disrespected
I've learned piano using my dear Roland FP-30, but now looking for an upgrade. Probably a kawai or Yamaha with warmer, more natural sound and more high end action.

Anyone have recommendations? P515? CA59? Other? Clp 745?
What are you proposing? Just let their enemies bomb all of them out of existence?
[Disclaimer: I only read the first part.]
Let's say we include in the C standard library a routine, `const char *scan_str(int fd)`, one only need to remember to free the returned string once finished with it. Or we can even get away by using static buffers. All the safety and practical requirement are merely implementation details that "user" needn't care (unless they are the implementor). It appears to me that most of the complexity argument in the article is on the availability of library routines, plus, there is a shift of roles from implementor to user -- we all wear different hats from time to time. The article was from 1999, but similar arguments are still popular today or even more so, that using convenience of library availability as strength in language. A rich standard library plus some implicit notations to using the standard library may have its appeal to some users. For some other, who understands the possibility of million ways of implementing a function and the importance of understanding subtleties, C++ is really too complex to use.
I feel like this is a rose-colored memory. I had VCRs eat and destroy multiple VHS tapes to a point where they became unwatchable.

DVDs could get scratched, but usually you didn't have to worry about the player killing the movie, and generally even when the movie got scratched it would still work for me.
Were people of that opinion back in the day?

I started* with Pascal, but I then moved to C++ the next semester. I only learned C as essentially a subset of C++. This was like 1996/97.

*Although I guess my first programming experience was with DOS/Windows Batch file scripting and some BASIC. Introduction to Programming with Pascal was the first programming language I took in as a class.
Even with very good automation, it seems an incredibly high bar that you can automate literally everything. I guess you can maybe imagine voice control as a replacement but...

But to the parent comment, it seems insane to me that a consumer would accept full liability for some company's software as they would for their own driving. It seems obvious to me that the manufacturer is liable. If my taxi driver gets in an accident I'm certainly not at fault.
Pretty tough to read the Israeli constitution when no such document exists.

https://knesset.gov.il/constitution/ConstIntro_eng.htm

Perhaps you mean the Declaration of Independence?

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence_(...
Seems like it could be gamed with fake up voters.
If I listen to a software engineering podcast, isn’t “targeting” by the fact that I might be a software engineer good enough? The same is true for websites I visit. If I go to Mens Health, that’s a huge signal to what I’m interested in.
I am fine with that. Actually most of my life I have lived by these restrictions. I am not saying this is ok, but we should stop pretending this is not everywhere. For example US immigration system. Based on your nationality there are restrictions. As non-US immigrant my wife could not work in the US based on our nationality.
They can choose to label themselves however they see fit, however under the guise of israeli law they are no different and are treated the same way as "Arab muslims" which speaks to the enormity of the racist jewish laws.
"Hi, got some questions regarding ComplexProject, ping me when you have a few minutes to spare."
thanks, you saved me an urbandictionary visit. :P
You could have chosen any of the cross platform frameworks of the day? PHP or Python would have been an easy choice at the time.
Compared to what though? Reading some of the responses here, virtually no one has mentioned the fact that Israel's middle eastern neighbors, and more broadly, most of the Muslim world, are also oppressive ethnostates that treat Jews significantly worse. They don't need laws on the books to mistreat Jews, and we all know why.

e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jews_in_Syria#21st_...
Really, really well done!!! Was up and running with some cool music in just a few minutes. And being in the browser meant that I could do some unconventional things, such as playback a song in multiple tabs for some neat syncopation/polyphony effects. Fun.

Looks like they partnered with the Counterpoint team on this (https://ctpt.co/)
>This law has existed in different variations since 2002. This law is often challenged at Israel's Supreme Court, but the racist parties usually can get a majority vote in the Parliament to "tweak it" every time to get a few more months/years out of it before getting challenged again.

This is the same exact tactic used by the Anti-BDS proponents in the US. On the face of it the anti-BDS laws enacted in 35 states are blatantly unconstitutional.

There are two issues that have allowed them to stick around. First is the fact that it is much easier to pass a new law (however unconstitutional) than to repeal it and secondly as you alluded to, the tricks that are employed after the law is struck down is to tweak and alter the law to keep it on the books for a bit longer until the second version gets challenged.

For example in Abby Martin v. the State of Georgia the original law stated that for any contract up to 1,000$ there is an exemption to the law. While she won the ruling, the end result became that the law was amended to raise the certification exemption from $1,000 to $100,000. I am not sure if they are appealing the original ruling.
It isn’t just 2 minutes. I’ll have people ping me “Hi” and I could be busy on calls for a few hours and they won’t have added any context in the interval.

I reply “Hey, what’s up?” and by the time I respond they are busy and take a few hours to respond with their ask.

If they had the ask in the initial message I could’ve had the answer in my first response.

There is nothing wrong with pleasantries. Nobody is saying that is the problem. The problem is requiring a response before making your ask.

If you’re just chatting to chat that is another matter.
Your justification works for both sides.

You shouldn't have to change this setting multiple times when you're in a country that speaks (well, writes, really) a different language than your computer is configured for. You would like the web to respect your configuration.

On the otherhand, the general public shouldn't have to change this setting multiple times when they're in a country that writes a different language than their computers are configured for. They would like the web to respect their location. Even though they imported a computer configured for English and don't know how to (or don't want to) configure the language options for the whole computer or the browser.

If language settings were easily and often set, they'd be respected more; but if there's a good chance people are more likely to want a local language than what the computer thinks they want, then ignoring the preferences is the right thing for most users. Even if it's infuriating for those it missed. When I had the fortune of working on multi-language sites, I would try to have each site have their own urls, but some places insisted on one url, multiple languages. Trying to make a reasonable initial language decision and then a language picker with a cookie was the best I could do.
The market size is likely comparable to the amount of money still needing to be laundered.
Support requests though chat were a massive problem at my first job and it caused my boss to blow up on a few people making requests as they were constantly told that specific devs were on support and chat was not a way to go around to get faster help.
Lukashenko has been flirting with Russia all his life. He has no popular support, and the only thing keeping him in office all these years was his eastern neighbour.

For a long time now, sanctions or no sanctions, his raison d’être has been being Putin’s puppet, and now he is called to the blackboard.

Indeed he seems to have no enthusiasm for it, and has been trying to pull on his leash for years, but whenever push comes to shove, Russia pulls on the lead and Lukashenko obediently follows.
I recall some touchscreens use USB internally for the touch interface. A touchscreen has absolute coordinates, which does the trick, compared with the usual mouse/trackpad interfaces.

I remember remote controlling an OS that needed me to install absolute touchscreen drivers to work best (probably a VM, but maybe Synergy drivers??)
Had the same issue for a while, then moved the "server" to the Windows machine and it now works as expected (with the latest build at least).
I have a problem with it being taboo. It's not a talk about the birds and the bees and can absolutely be addressed in an age-appropriate manner.
I'd counter with a physical switch, which can not be toggled by the car, and which locks during a crash.

That way, the state of the switch lets you know who caused the crash.
I would like to nominate a Scott Hanselman keynote (or conference talk) as an example of one such talk. I think he blends humor well with information dense presentations.
Default is one thing, but why is there not an obvious and easy way for users to override the language chosen by Google and make that selection permanent? Not giving users control is a terrible user experience.
The closer analogue would be leaving a voicemail or a note that says "hey, I want to talk to you ASAP" without any context.
>>Proponents say the law helps ensure Israel's security and maintains its "Jewish character".

>What the fuck?

Why all the outrage? Should France not maintain it's French character?
> The militia that Stepan Bandera was a leader of exterminated an estimated ~200,000 Jews

That would constitute a crime against humanity. Can you point to any trial against members of this organisation?
Agreed. I climbed it 5 years ago, and immediately recognized the name.
> Just because the chat app shows that you are logged in, it does not mean that you are immediately available to chat.

That is what “busy” statuses are for, most good IM solutions support this. If I message someone while they are set that way I accept they will ignore me until a later time. Even if not set to busy, I and accept a non-immediate response. For me in a professional context IM has become short-form email, with the advantage very-low priority cruft¹, and external comms², are not mixed in with local conversations.

[1] HR updates & other periodicals, mailing lists, unsolicited junk, alerts that I'm 2nd-or-plus-line contact for, ...

[2] which for me are not usually a priority as I'm not supposed to be client facing, if I'm contacted directly instead of the client using a proper support channel they'll get a slower response than via the proper channel³⁴, anything else encourages the incorrect behaviour!

[3] officially, direct comms like that are not covered by any SLA even if the same request via proper channels would get the “grade A, class 1, priority 0, emergency, all hands to their stations” treatment

[4] unless, of course, I'm expecting their contact as part of an ongoing issue I've been drafted in to deal with
Yes! They can rightfully "go back" to where they came from, hows that sound?
I disagree with you almost completely, but you don't deserve downvoting, not least because you're not the throwaway account in this discussion.
Biden warns Russia will pay severe price if it uses chemical weapons in Ukraine
> karma

No! Goodhart's Law. Karma in itself is pointless.

The reason that adding reddit to the end of a search query has better results is because you are querying a community for your results.

There are already bots on reddit that take submissions that hit the frontpage 366 days ago and re-submit, and then other bots that take the top comment and resubmit the comments to that submission. They get loads of karma doing this. Sometimes it's useful, sometimes not. But it does nothing to improve actual credibility.

The larger the subreddit, the SMALLER the community. r/AskReddit is not reliable. r/MechanicalKeyboards is. You want to find a small, tight-knit community of peers that know each-other. There are small communities of SEO experts just submitting Amazon affiliate links, so just 'small' isn't sufficient either.

You want to vet that the posters are acting in good faith. Find the top posters, find things you know(and it's better if you disagree with mainstream opinion here), and check their other posts and see if you agree with them there. If you do, it's more likely that you will agree on this subject you are referencing and don't know much about.

This process sucks - especially when you start - but over time you will accumulate a network of trusted people and communities that you can rely on. Anything else will be corrupted by greed.
The way of getting the land area of the viewshed from this presentation is not immediately obvious.
Hakkasan entered the chat. And The Mayfair Hotel. And Annabel's.
Obviously I don't believe that the costs to create this situation are worthwhile, that being said I think an explicit break like this could be a move that will help weaken western IP-law hegemony in the long run so that's kinda dope.

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Strings attached would be a good start.
Has anyone used Wails? Would this be a good choice? It looks great: https://github.com/wailsapp/wails
What I’m seeing is that some big tech companies these days (including my own) have standardized rubrics [1] for leetcode-style questions that focus on a few areas (like DS&A, communication and coding style) so I can’t really give any marks for these other positive behaviours.

There’s some benefits to rubrics (reduces differences between interviewers and is more fair to minority candidates from what I’ve seen) but I’m it definitely impacts or senior hiring.

Unfortunately there are also so many experienced developers in the hiring pipeline who actually can’t code, so doing at least one coding interview seems inevitable. I’d give less “tricky” questions but, like rubrics, the questions are standardized too :/

[1] https://blog.tryexponent.com/google-coding-interview-rubric/...
Why does the bill refer to school boards being forced to give access to all education records of "minor children" (which in Florida is anyone under the age of 18). Either the bill is really poorly drafted, or you have no idea what it says.

I only know this is what the bill says because you linked to it, so not sure if that was an elaborate double bluff or you just hadn't read it.
Yes, just like the obviously better equipped South Korean armed forces will eventually defeat North Korea. They’re backed by the most powerful military in the world, as you say.

But artillery still exists. And if the enemy has the high ground and the cities are in the plains, the death toll will be in the tens of thousands before victory is achieved.

This is the reason every citizen in Seoul knows where the nearest bomb shelter is. I can understand (but not condone) someone wanting to avoid that fate.