skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing you never worked with support of any kind. When you're working with something important, having to stop what you're doing to "say hi" to 10 people is such a colossal waste of your time that at one point you decide it's easier to just ignore people who don't know how to communicate asynchronously.
You aren't going to have a whole lot of company. All of the major style guides have given it the nod because they are practical.

It's a weakness in English, lacking a unique indefinite pronoun - so we're probably stuck with "they" unless a neologism sticks.
> If all Palestinians received right of return to Israel, Jews would immediately become a political minority.

Ok? If Russia wins their disgusting war in Ukraine, and then tries to prevent Ukrainian refugees from returning to the homes that they left, would you say that Russia is in the right, since otherwise Russians would become a minority in Ukraine?

The right is called "right of return" because these people lived there before Israel waged war on them and threw them out. Most (but certainly not all) of those waging the war were recent immigrants to Palestine, and they performed an ethnic cleansing to create their own space - extremely similar to the "living space" concept of Germany, though more necessary.

The parallels are in fact striking, not absurd.
> Merriam Webster: "Nations and states are also sometimes described as "sovereign." This means that they have power over themselves; their government is under their own control, rather than under the control of an outside authority".

You just acknowledged I'm right in quoting that. You're admitting that Libya didn't meet the definition of a sovereign state. The people of Libya did not have power over themselves (the people of Libya were not sovereign over themselves, their own being, as such they could not be nationally sovereign as a people); their government was not under their control - they were hostages or slaves of a regime, stripped of most human rights.

A sovereign nation of slaves is a contradiction in terms.

The moral basis for stepping in, is identical to if you witness a weak person being pummelled on the street by a stronger person. You have a moral right to step in and end the attack if you so chose (and again, if you can and if it makes sense in terms of self-interest). Nations are a collection of people, in the case of Libya (or Iraq) it was a collection of weaker people temporarily being tortured by a stronger bully.

One of your bizarre, rambling non-counters is that Libya didn't end up as a bastion of freedom as a consequence of Gaddafi being removed. That doesn't alter anything about the fact that free nations had a moral right to step in and attempt to dislodge Gaddafi's regime from enslaving the population. The success or failure of the attempt doesn't change the moral basis for the action. If the allies had lost in WW2 to the axis powers, that wouldn't have made their effort immoral; the free allies still had every moral right to invade France, invade numerous other European nations, invade Germany, and end Nazi Germany and free as many nations as they could from occupation.

The moral basis to invade Libya is identical to the moral basis for invading Nazi Germany (even if invading Nazi Germany obviously had a far greater national self-interest for the allies). Any free nation had a moral right to do so. Russia, being a non-free nation, did not have a moral right to invade Germany (and of course the resulting outcome of that non-free nation invading, is that Soviet Russia did nothing more than enslave part of Europe that it invaded, taking over the role of Nazi Germany as conquerer of part of Europe).

> Bullshit.

> Bullshit again.

> More bullshit.

Judging from your reply comment and your other responses in the thread, it's pretty clear why you had to set up a throw-away account.
>Substitute "Palestinian" for ANY other nationality, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, or other adjective describing a group to which YOU belong.

I'm not so narcissistic as to believe that I have some inalienable right to citizenship in a foreign country. Particularly if my culture is incompatible with the host nation. I would much prefer that people reserve the right to choose their foreign neighbors. Consider it an extension of the paradox of tolerance.
We do this for forums. We read and make comments here just fine.
The difference is that if you want to have the conversation in real time you want to see if they're there first. It's the the same difference between leaving a voice mail and repeatedly calling.
You should be strict in what you send and generous in what you accept. If someone says hello then of course say hello back. But when saying hello to someone else, include your content in the same message.
"If someone wants to have a synchronous conversation, I want them to state that."

The people that I would send a "you there?" message understand that my message is shorthand for that. They might respond with "in a meeting" or "gimme a few minutes" or if they are available for a synchronous conversation, "hey" or "what's up?"

I have a couple contacts that are "on the spectrum" and I deal with them a little differently. They seem to need things spelled out a bit more explicitly. But those people tend to get left out of many discussions, and don't seem to do as well careerwise in the long term, because they don't really connect on a human level with people.
... and if makers of kitchen implements were jailed for knife accidents/crime then we'd be eating soup with plastic spoons for every meal.

It doesn't make sense to have universal product liability in that way: there are too many creative idiots.
> I said that they work.

But they don't.

Companies massage their financials. This, by definition, throws off your screeners (false positives / false negatives).

Other times companies don't screen well, they might be technically "weak" if your definition is based upon screening, but they are actually perfectly viable and actionable investments.

I see both, a lot.
it's often cheaper to buy a cd and rip to flac than to buy a hi-res download. Plus you also then have the cd to play on cd player!
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Seems reasonable to me. I don't manage my chat status. I look at it sort of like email except for an individual or small group the implication is that it's more immediate than email. For a larger group, it's more FYI/background.
I grew up with Napster, Morpheus, KazaA, eDonkey/eMule. never ever bought music.

recently i bought a music CD for the first time. I really liked the artist. Was surprised to find:

- a complete booklet of all track lyrics

- some additional behind the scenes content

- hidden tracks

- no DRM, I can simply lend it to ppl.

- if need be Windows Media Player will rip to mp3

- a good feeling from sunk cost and my willingness to repeat this

There is a reason that CD/DVD sales in Japan are still going strong.
Yes, we should skip basic human pleasantries when using a keyboard. There's plenty of time for those on voice and video chat.
> self-driving vehicles will allow people to commute while asleep or doing their hobbies

This doesn't eliminate the traffic issues and energy consumption associated with long commutes. Self-driving cars are a substitute for the efficiency benefits of density.

If anything, the expansion of remote work has just pushed the housing crisis into more housing markets.
I would 100% miss messages that way, so it's not an option. But honestly, the anxiety isn't about the notifications (although those are annoying). It's about how if someone says "hi" without any info, then I say "hi" back and now I have to wait for a response before I even know if I can help or not. The anxiety is about time management, not notification toasts.
That a 0.37% (or more) slice of some population that feels it's been oppressed and impoverished might engage in /(freedom fighter|terrorist)/ activities doesn't seem surprising to me.
Does anybody else remember McDonalds selling inexpensive VHS copies of popular movies like "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" with an additional food purchase, back when movies still cost a fortune?

>McDonald's Corp. will... sell Dances With Wolves for a bargain price.

As part of a special holiday promotion, McDonald's will sell the Oscar-winning movie for $7.99 with the purchase of a sandwich - at a time when video stores are selling it for its original list price, $99.98.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1992-11-29-92112...

They sold several movies before "priced to own" movies became mainstream.

https://letterboxd.com/travissmcclain/list/mcdonalds-vhs-pro...
I worked briefly at a video store part time around 2000. There wasn't that brisk of a business from the little private room, at least not during the times when I worked (which included week days). But by this time home internet was broadly available, perhaps only dial up for many people in my area but it was still available. I wonder if the new competition for this subsidy business wasn't a bigger part of the fall of video stores than it seemed to be.

Although, most of the other staff were quite "judgey" so its possible that I just worked at a store that wasn't popular with those customers.
As a Java hobbyist, I'm dying seeing the difference between the Java boilerplate and the Python two-liner
We already have mountains of shilled astroturf on the internet. I'm fine with it since shill content tends to be low quality and not too difficult to distinguish (except in google SERPS, which is another problem).

Legitimate content creators won't just blindly hop on the shill bandwagon because building a following is hard and takes time, and getting caught shilling can destroy your credibility and cause you to bleed followers VERY quickly. Adding a sponsor call-outs will probably be the ultimate go-to for legitimate content creators, but even that must be done carefully as pushing low quality sponsors will also hurt subscriber numbers.
There is still no reason to not state your questions upfront, even if the answers are best delivered synchronously. Withholding that kind of information makes you appear dishonest in a professional setting.
I'm a socially awkward person and always feel bad diving right into requests like that.
> You personally might not mind, but I suspect the people who license you the ticker feeds might. ;-)

You're right... We will double check this with them. Appreciate the nice push here and thank you. It's definitely worth our due diligence to make sure this doesn't breach any "grey areas" for the restrictions we have to not re-sell their api directly.
You could just run a recursive resolver yourself by using the root hints. You don't need to delegate your DNS queries onto a third-party resolver like Quad9.

https://www.iana.org/domains/root/files
I hope they add value instead of just saying hello when they see people irl. Because turning don't say hi into a crusade is sure wasting more of my time than just accepting an awkward hi from time to time. I passionately hate the syntactical police! I thought tolerance of peoples' differences was supposed to be all the rage these days.
I've got to say, as someone who lives nowhere near a city as big as NY, the view of the shadows that are cast upon Central Park throughout the day is simply mind blowing.
The law also affects Israeli Jews, Christians, atheists, etc that want to marry Palestinians.
I fear you've misunderstood me. I said going from LOSSY to Lossless, not lossless to lossless. Meaning even if your first rip was LAME-encoded VBR MP3 or OGG, you might decide you want to re-rip later as FLAC or APE.
It's not whataboutism when it's the literal cause.
People like you are awesome, again, thank you! This did result in us wanting to double check we aren't entering a grey area with our data provider.
> The U.S. military provides the security of dozens of countries around the world.

The U.S. military provides the security of american companies. It is a pity that those countries feel safe with the US military.
That's where the argument over whether Israel should be a Jewish state or a state of the Jews comes from. Should Israel be a Jewish theocracy, or should it be a secular homeland for the Jewish people as an ethnic group? If you find theocracies disgusting, there are plenty of theocratic states you should also be pointing your disgust at.

The right wing element in Israel has definitely held power for a long time and their policies have led to the subjugation of minority groups (I am not defending this), though those are not the religious extremists, they are just nationalists.
I find this particularly frustrating when the person saying “Hello” is in a different time zone. I regularly work with people who are offset by several hours and we have little to no work time overlap. That may mean that it takes 24 hours to get to the next step in the conversation.
I wonder why people think it's polite, because I consider is the exact opposite of polite to distract someone with something that may not lead anywhere.

It might be just my ADHD talking, but getting interrupted by a "Hi" can be seriously disruptive because my brain wants to respond to it, but I then have to wait for the other person, and they might not respond immediately, and by then I've already lost focus on whatever I was doing which is immensely frustrating.

If instead I'm prompted with a "Hi, can you chat about X?" I can immediately respond in a way that satisfies my brain without losing focus on my ongoing activity.
Not conflating anything.

The bill specifically only relates to primary grades, which includes kindergarten, and doesn't include older students, such as anyone of truck driving age, as you conflated.

I'm not confused. It seems totally practical. If parents disagree on the appropriateness of a topic for young children the most amenable response is to not discuss that topic in the classroom. It's a can of worms best left unopened for young kids.

Parents saying let's focus on Art, Reading, STEM skills in school is reasonable.
I don't find the extra resolution helps at all at playback time, although I have older ears now. What it significant is a quality master in the first place. With that I downsample to 16/48, I personally can't tell the difference at that point from higher-res.

For example, I've made mp3/opus from a quality remaster, that sound better than the 80s CD, simply because the new master was scanned on better equipment.
What are you talking about? The fact that an uprising involves terroristic tactics does not make it less of an uprising. Trying to prevent people from calling the Intifada an uprising (which is the literal translation of the word) is playing word-games for rhetorical points, not discussing reality.
I'm guilty of the occasional "ping" -- but often its after what I think are their normal hours (whatever that is anymore!) and its someone I've interacted with before. I don't necessarily ask the question immediately because I don't want to make them feel like they have to answer it if they're not actually working. Often it's a question that will only save me ~15 mins of time. Or there is someone else I can ask if they're not immediately available.

I personally find the anonymous "Hi $name" really annoying and it often comes on slack from a random IT person from a support ticket I've filed. Why they can't start with, "Hi $name, I'm following up on ticket XYZ. ..."

But I don't find 'ping' annoying. Weird.
Ad Nauseum is a wrapper over Ublock Origin. It says so in the second sentence explaining what it is.
My slack status has been the following for 2 years with great results:

(Please ask your question :slightly_smiling_face: - I won't respond to "Hi")
Before the holocaust Jews were slowly but surely integrating into European society. The Nazis basically altered the timeline.
“There was a general sense that there was saturation in certain parts of the market, particularly in primate-themed profile pictures”
I've just learned to ignore those messages. It might not be nice, but if a stranger (although colleague) just says hi, what am I supposed to answer? Just say what you want. Saves time of both of us.
nepotism for the win.
Did I wrote that the problem is JUST cost?

Seriously, my comment consists of two sentences. Can't be that hard.
What if I told you to quit your job and I'll get you training for another role. If you trusted me you might go with it, but it you knew from previous experience that I was an incompetent buffoon you would likely say no.

It's like a guy in a clown outfit saying the nobody wants open heart surgery beacuse everyone turns him down when he asks.
A chatbot could act as an API to handle most of the small talk people use before asking the actual question.
Are you suggesting all Palestinians would somehow marry an Israeli citizen?
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That also isn't a good opener. Discuss what specifically about it? It's still waiting for a contentless "yes"/"sure".

Just begin the discussion.

I think a lot of people do this because they are bad/slow at typing and don't want to bother leveling up.
California’s ISO has a similar dashboard: https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/default.aspx
I get what you're saying, but the Russian roulette analogy is a kind of straw man. Do you agree? Or is it that you think that we shouldn't allow potentially dangerous technologies to perform without human supervision?
That's a flaw with the notification logic.
This is a cultural thing and it's annoying.

We have french and indian companies here in Sweden with their own culture of saying hi to everyone "good morning sir" "good morning madam", every damn morning.

They are the same ones who say "Hello how are you?" in chats now that people are working remotely more.
I use Paw[1] for this, which is obviously a lot more powerful by allowing me to easily toggle and/or modify query params, headers, edit body as structured JSON / XML / application/x-www-form-urlencoded / multipart/form-data, etc. Probably doable in other API clients like Insomnia[2], too.

[1] https://paw.cloud/

[2] https://insomnia.rest/
It's a dark pattern designed to drive fake engagement.
> You just have to do this: https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/

The same thing could just be achieved by using Tweetbot or another third party client, you can just follow the people as usual and it'll be a regular sorted timeline with no ads and suggestions or promoted tweets.
I wonder if they don't have some VPN anyway so that the exit IP is something completely different to the region. Or if the Google searches even see the Internet, or if they stay within the "intranet".
"If you're getting bombarded with "you there?" from 20 people because some service they use has gone and right now you're trying to fix it for them all, well that can be stressful too."

Well it depend one what your job is and what your relationship to that person is. I wouldn't send a "you there?" to someone in IT when I need something fixed. But I would to someone I've had an ongoing working relationship with and when we communicate, there is typically more that one single issue to discuss.
It would be trivial to modify the design to allow some form of locking blocks in place, whether through a sliding tile system, a lever lock, or a pin design. You could even do it yourself with 3d printing. Really depends if there's a professional environment that could use something like this. Maybe a lab or machine shop?
Maybe they are not implying anything?
Gorhill's track record is the critical bit. He transferred maintenance responsibilities for ublock to someone who immediately exploited it to make money, which is why we now have ublock origin. In a world of 7.9 billion people, it is amazing that a decent internet experience depends so much on a single person being competent and honorable. He (and the block list folks) are the heroes that run into the virtual dumpster fire and pull us out.
You could encode encrypted data in cat pictures and post them on Instagram.

It's likely completely impossible to actually ban encryption in a world overwhelmed with information flow.

Therefore, an encryption ban will only effect law abiding citizens and will give criminals a massively asymmetric weapon of power and influence.
Big fan of your app (I even mention it in the thread, didn't see your comment): but what happened to the 3D view?
It is not a good A/B test unless you are blind to which test is CD and which is not. Have you done that? (You need the help of another person)
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Ad blocking is analogous to paying someone to cut advertisements out of a magazine you ordered before you read it.

You request something which is when sent to your house. Sure it is via http, but that is irrelevant. It could have just as well been via snail mail.
On the topic of good communication, I have a huge pet peeve with something that I find super common with phone calls, at least over here in South Africa (I don't know what it might be like elsewhere).

Almost any time I get a call from any business, almost always from numbers don't recognize, 99% of the time the first thing the other person says to me is "Hello, how are you?".

When this happens, my first internal thought is "Excuse me, but do I know you?".

I don't think it's some deliberate sales strategy of cold callers, I suspect it's that they think of it like an in person conversation where this is perfectly acceptable with a stranger, except they fail to consider that I as the caller recipient have absolutely zero context of who I'm talking to and it's likely to piss off someone who is in a meeting or otherwise has a lot of work to do.

The professional way for someone from a business to phone you is to announce where they are calling from and what the call is in regards to, something like "Hello, I'm calling from Acme in regards to...", or "Hi, I'm Bob from Acme and I'm calling in regards to ..., how are you today?".

This way, I can instantly know whether or not it is someone from a business I have a pre-existing relationship with that I actually do probably want to talk to, as opposed to the more common caller who is cold calling me in an attempt to get me to buy something from them.

So when I get a call with "Hello, how are you?", I've now taken to responding with "Sorry, would you please first tell me where you're calling from?".

Then I'm either very friendly if it's a company I know, or for other companies I don't know I just state plainly "I don't have a pre-existing relationship with your company so I suspect this is a sales call and I don't have time calls such as these. Goodbye." and I hang up before the person even has a chance to respond.
And how to drive in exotic places or after a disaster?