skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it a good thing that filters of all sorts are eradicated? Never before has a thought been able to travel as freely as it can now, 5 of the 8 billion people in the world have the internet, in a few seconds a thought you utter is potentially accessible to half of humanity. But this thought forgoes the chance to be interpreted, re-interpreted by mentors and participants in your community, your parents, peer-reviewed in some manner, honed, reconsidered before meeting the wider public.

Tech, reddit/fb/etc enables this in its propensity to reduce friction in the path of information's travel, to make sharing possible with the least amount of clicks and obstructions, this gives way to instinctive and emotional thinking over deliberate and logical thought, and indeed the proliferation of those thoughts. One would be remiss to look over the role that these new-fangled tools play in a discussion of these topics, particularly, the formalization of what constitutes as heresy and resulting actions of galvanized crowds or institutions when being met with heresy.
Adding features like a sitemap and RSS to https://mmm.page/ seems like a much better way to get something zine-like.
Was that sarcasm? Or were you serious?

Either way, that was legit the funniest thing I've read on here today.

As in "you cannot be serious" funny, not haha funny.
Please use #!/usr/bin/env bash if you're using bash. It seems more common to have env in /usr/bin than it is to have bash in /bin. On BSD systems, bash is often in /usr/local/bin, and on macOS the user often has a more modern bash in /opt/homebrew/bin or other package manager directory.
I think the big difference between such a dataset and the web is, that the web is polluted with useless stuff like spam. How do you decide what is relevant, and what not, if not with some statistical/ML methods? It seems like only a whitelisting approach would work then, severely limiting the scope of such a system.
I’m always amused when I see people who say that “abortion is not a legitimate right because it’s a court-created right that’s not enumerated in the Constitution” are the same people who have no trouble finding a “parent’s right” where no such enumerated right exists, either.

Also, this word “grooming” gets dispensed a lot lately when discussing this issue, and I’m not sure that the people who say it know what it means. Or, alternatively, they are afraid to say what they really think the consequences of talking to children about all the different relationships people have because they know it is wrong and would subject them to fierce ridicule.
I don't read too much of PG's recent work. Does he attack classism with the same vigor as he does the left?
I don’t feel guilt for things I didn’t do. I also don’t have much in the way of criticism for /any/ category of people. But the group I mentioned above is the only group which is allowed to be criticized. Also the only group which is categorically allowed to be punished in the name of supporting every other category of people.

That’s wrong (evil), full stop. No amount of gaslighting will ever change that fact.
This parasite makes mice (not humans!) a slightly less averse to light and feline scent, noting more. I don't think we can attribute love for cats to toxoplasma, it is too far-fetched.
It's crazy, there's currenlty only 1,000 seats an hour between Lonodn (10m) and Manchester (3m), having dropped from 3tph for covid. My experience recently is those trains are taking at least 600 people per hour now.

In my experience over the last few weeks there's barely been an empty seat.

I took the London-Paris train last week, absolutely rammed, there's 13x 900 seat trains a day at the moment, and that has all the nonsense of eurostar (airport style security, passport checks etc).
It might also come from PGP-signed commits, since emails associated with keys are public knowledge. Fairly easy way to filter for good programmers, if you ask me.
I've seen those instagram/tiktok(?) videos where a cat owner will put some kind of weird face filter, and the cat will slowly look up at its owner in shock/disgust/curiosity.

It convinced me that cats are aware of themselves as reflections on a camera or mirror and are much smarter than I thought. To realise something was wrong with their owners face.
Real patriots isolate their windows!
No need for so much complexity. Set an alarm or use something like Automate on Fdroid that can trigger notifications and sms. I think termux can run tasks as well.
In Russia, cat "own" you.
The “security” of wayland is a bit of an illusion imo. I’ve already seen a user pick it apart awhile ago.

Regardless I don’t what they’re trying to do, but they do need to add in a proper method for granting higher privileges to apps to have more access to Wayland in the same way macOS grants access to Remote Desktop apps.
Since when are those things not allowed to be said? I see tons of people saying things like that without any consequences. Often, it even results in them being elected to high office.

If the worst punishment is people yelling at you on Twitter, then I think the heresy metaphor has been stretched too far.
Ask HN: Is Coinbase a privacy nightmare?
During Coinbase signup, it prompted me to provide ACH details. This makes sense -- an easy way to convert fiat currency to/from cryptocurrency.

However, then they wanted me to sign in to my bank account using Plaid. When I clicked the button to only provide regular ACH details (routing/ABA and acct number), the website forcibly re-enabled Plaid login as soon as I entered the Bank of America routing number and wouldn't let me switch away. This seems like a particularly evil dark pattern just so they could scrape my bank account.

As I understand it, Plaid uses your bank login to grab your checking account history (all transactions) as well as sharing this information with Coinbase. Why does Coinbase force this requirement, but only for banks that it knows it can gain access to this data for? What if I switch to a local community bank?

It doesn't seem that this level of checking detail is required by law in any country, even for KYC, so why does Coinbase want access to this information that isn't required for KYC compliance?

Is this the privacy nightmare that it appears to be, and are there other exchanges that are more customer friendly?
What I see as different here is that people on both sides of the gender debate seem to see differential treatment of "men" and "women" as just. The primary argument is over which people belong in which group. This is different to at least a modern take on slavery where we're usually less concerned with people being mislabelled as black and more concerned with the mistreatment of those who were labelled as black.

Incidentally, my view on a lot of gender issues is that's it's not so different, and that the reason trans women experience so much pushback as it least partially due to stigma which is also directed at cisgender men.
Many of those core GPU patients must be expiring right now.

The GeForce 4 is 20 years old at this point, and many newer technologies are going to have significantly older patents.
It’s flamebait, and will never incite civil discussions. Why would we want it on the front page?
> nobody cares about w3m or Lynx

I'd say, this is a security feature - even if the code is not the most secure.

Out of interest, did you report your findings from fuzzing? Did things got fixed?
>> No one is forcing you to believe in something.

But they are forcing you to pretend to believe in something by dictating what you are allowed to say about it.
People travel for reasons other than commuting.
You don't have to even look that far afield. I did a ride between NY Penn and Rochester NY that took longer than the 6 hour drive because of delays.
If you had the high-speed train stop only at Gulfport (xor Biloxi) and maybe at Slidell, with regional service to pick up the small towns in between and take pax to the larger stations where they’d change to the faster train, you may be able to preserve a competitive Mobile to New Orleans time and still catch the intermediate city travelers. (This is a limited version of the airline hub-and-spoke to allow the trains to be faster door-to-door than driving, because if you can’t be better than driving in some obvious and personal way, many people will quite reasonably just drive the 140 miles on their own schedule and terms.)
> Its no joke to delay a cargo shipment, there are tons of penalties built into those contracts.

It’s hard to imagine many examples of rail freight that is justifiably more time-sensitive than passenger rail. Surely very time-sensitive freight shipments already go on trucks or planes, for obvious reasons.
I think the problem with this argument is the free speech "is at an all time high if you zoom out a bit". This is much like the argument, "gun violence is at an all time low if you zoom out a bit" argument.

Both of these statements are true in the macro, but if you look at the trends, they point to a very disturbing line.

The call for the restriction of free speech on the right(1) and the left (2) have increased in very different ways and seem to be increasing, both legislatively and socially. The same can be said of gun violence. We reached an all time low in 2018 (I believe - it might have been 2017) but have been trending upwards ever since.

Most (reasonable) people agree that an effort should be made to curb gun violence, even if they can't agree on the best route to get there. The attack on free speech, however seems to have cheering sections from all sides. As far as the government is concerned, sanctions on the first amendment would be a boon, but the groundswell from the populace in the form of right and left "cancelation" (or whatever BS term you wish to call it) hasn't been seen since McCarthy. Given the rise in the public square with social media, and you have national feeding frenzies with public "witch trials" to take our minds off of inflation, oil prices, pollution and multiple global conflicts of questionable national interest.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-free-speech-is-under-attack...

https://thehill.com/opinion/education/566119-for-the-left-a-...
Religion isn't out of favour. We are currently in one of the most religious periods of human history but the gods and authorities have just changed.
None so far, they're all steaming piles of garbage.

We're still typing single characters in text files as if we're on a terminal in 1960s.
>5G is not a good solution

Interesting viewpoint. Care to expand on your thoughts? To me, 5G seems like a stepping stone to UWB communication
Russia has plenty of solutions to target Europe, from Iskander intermediate range missiles to submarine launched ones, to gravity bombs or even the new hypersonic Kinzhal cruise missiles.

Also, the whole premise of warheads burning up on reentry is a bit ridiculous. Notice how the most recent North Korea test had an extremely steep trajectory and it worked just fine.
I'm agreeing with you. I think people complaining vaguely about cultural issues is unhelpful at best. Equating civil rights issues with religious persecution is quite a dodgy implication too.

Edit: As for who he's defending: I don't think he's defending any of those groups. Honestly I don't understand why so many people get upset about the US getting more accepting given they don't seem to be socially reactionary themselves.
Neither of those things are clear at all.

I don't think anybody in Russia is surprised by Putin. They are, far and away, primarily responsible for him being in power.

NATO stopped some pretty horrific atrocities from spiraling even further out of control during those interventions. The not going well part mainly happened before they intervened. And yes, nothing is ever perfect.
There may be indie projects upcoming on Steam that will fill this quota. I'd be surprised if it doesn't happen eventually.
> Can you explain what it means to "deny the existence" of someone?

Here's an example:

"There's no such thing as a trans person. Trans is not a real thing, it's a mental illness and a delusion that needs to be cured. "

If you hear that and you are trans, then you are bound to feel like someone is denying you actually exist. Its a strange feeling that someone whose existence has always been validated by society cannot really relate to. I imagine that's why you are puzzled by its meaning.
The freight trains are regularly delayed by issues along that line. It runs through pedestrian plazas, marshland, hairpin turns in hills, etc. A straight shot east for a few miles would land it in flat, unpopulated areas. They'd lose freight access to the salt evaporation plant north of milpitas, which seems to be the remaining freight stop on that corridor (it is being decommissioned for environmental reasons, so by the time the rail rework was done, it wouldn't matter)

Surface Amtrak trains have a much higher top speed than BART, and are nicer. If the freight lines were owned by Amtrak, and maintained to commuter rail standards (instead of freight standards), the existing trains could roughly double their cruising speed for most of the miles of that line, and be much faster than BART. Also, the Amtrak trains have bars and restrooms. They are quiet and don't stink.

Edit: Also, building out a multilane freight rail from the port to east of Oakland would allow the port operator the option to increase port capacity.

They could move containers by rail to a rail yard outside of the bay area commuting zone. They could load trucks there, cutting hours of stop and go truck drive time during commute hours.
Eww & emacs-w3m are different though. Both are great in different ways.
I used Waking Up pretty regularly for a year or two. In the first week or two I found profound benefits. I started to appreciate the sensations and imagery of things around me (something that Sam Harris focuses on). I was able to pay attention through an entire boring weekly all-hands meeting with no trouble for the first time ever. My focus performing work improved similarly.

After that my experience regressed back to beneficial but not profound. By the end of it, I couldn't even meditate anymore.

Lots of things in life seem to follow this pattern for me. At least this one was somewhat beneficial for a longer time.
Thanks for this balanced take. I have quite a dislike for Elon (and alia), but I can sorta agree with your writing.

One small thing though, even though funding startups was risky, I don’t believe it is entirely fair to reward this risk-seeking behavior as it is pure luck in a very significant percentage. Otherwise we should also congratulate lottery winners for their grand risk-taking behavior.
there's plenty of civil discussion in this thread.

imo banning an article about cancel culture would only bolster its point.

but I'm curious, why do you think it's flamebait and not a topic warranting discussion?
The central error in this question which is ill-formed: what do you mean by "Humans".

Can humans as a species survive? Absolutely no question: yes.

Can humans as any individuals survive? Absolutely no question: no. Not statistically.

Can humans as some cultural or nation-state survive? Can humans in some particular geography/demography survive?

Honestly that's where the gray area starts.
Why not just use Evil, the VIM emulation layer.
It would continue to fall through the water but a lower speed. The water would be filled with tectonic debris which the fish breathed in.
Food protests in China spill into Rioting
It's... not very good? The bar for language takedowns is apparently much higher today than in 2000.
The good old "a state's right to what exactly?" comeback. :D
I think you know that the alt-right is mostly a fantasy created by the current neo-marxist religion. Religion always requires a devil, and if it doesn't exist you make it up.
Vaguely gesticulating at your stated enemy instead of identifying them is a time-honored rhetorical technique: it allows the reader to insert their individual grievances into the shape of the argument rather than reflecting on whether their grievances are actually well-founded.

Edit: And to be absolutely clear: it's a lame technique. It works because it's emotive, not because it reveals any particular amount of truth.
It's kind to say the truth. It is unkind to go along with an obvious lie.

The best outcome is when people overcome the dysphoria, not when we all pretend it's ok.
>There are aggressively conventional-minded people on both the right and the left. The reason the current wave of intolerance comes from the left is simply because the new unifying ideology happened to come from the left. The next one might come from the right. Imagine what that would be like.

The implication here is there is currently no significant wave of intolerance coming from the right, which is baffling to say the least.

I see this a lot in modern free speech advocates. They seem to almost exclusively focus on censored speech that goes against liberal dogma and completely ignore similar behavior from the right. Is it just because liberals have more cultural power than conservatives?
Until we see otherwise, yes.
Ditto with Vim/Emacs/VSCode/etc. All of them can be slowed to a crawl or be unpredictable with plugins.
Yeah. My perception's been that the UK is boldly spearheading Western Orwellianism.[0][1]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encryption_ban_proposal_in_the...

1: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10668157/Teenager-j...
How are white people being categorically criticised and punished? I only see this argument made but not substantiated.
Right, but when we discuss racism we're not discussing who is black or not black with the proviso that "of course it's fine to treat them badly if they're actually black", whereas it is commonly accepted by people on all sides of the gender debate that people should be treated differently on the basis of their gender.
Toronto public library offers access
That doesn't really do anything to address the incentives.
I'm not sure whether liking it is a sign of intelligence, but I'd say that you certainly have to be intelligent to be able to intentionally fool someone this way.
What job? Owning something is not a job and I assure you it’s not he who comes up with any sort of design.
I base my work on Ubuntu Budgie, but I make efforts to support a few popular others for kinto.sh.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/sorunme/files/
> That's inexcusable. I don't care how needy a junior engineer is, or how many times you've shown them something.

Hmm, by the 60th time I’ve taught them how to make a commit in git I’d probably be pretty done.

I agree with the general sentiment though.
Anything can be said, but I would like to see some citation for "This situation is the basis for why creating a fundamentally different kind of banking system was so important to the first few generations of Americans" -- I have never seen any history suggesting that the American colonists were focused on intentionally creating a novel kind of banking system different from Europes because of thinking Europe's led to inequality; if that's actually a non-imaginary thing colonial leaders were doing I'm interested in reading good history on it.

The internet sometimes seems to think that making up plausible stories is a valid way of understanding what happened historically.
uMatrix on Firefox gets one pretty close to that ideal, and makes it easy enough to enable JavaScript (and similar stuff) selectively until webapps and broken-by-design websites work.

I strongly recommend it to the technically-inclined.
Yes, but Garry Kasparov's conclusion is NOT that - he says that AI is best used as a collaborative tool, lead by humans.

This is pretty much exactly what I see here. The human must still come up with the idea that an astronaut riding a horse is a good idea, and must selectively adjust the output until his/her vision is realized, the AI takes care of the majority of the individual brushstrokes/digital operations, and there's still likely some significant human-level work at the end. But yes, artists with skills but little vision, or stuck in jobs where the vision is not theirs, such as making advertisement illustrations, will likely be largely replaced.
Could those have been intermodal containers, each of which will eventually be hauled on a tractor trailer?
Can you quote any he mentioned? I can't find any specific. Or, do you mean just general existence of "anti-vaxx" is a specific example?
I can't disagree more. The first page alone defines what a eurodollar is(n't) in clear terms.
The big issues with tech aren’t finding enough people who can iterate a linked list efficiently. The big issues are cultural and political. You can call it a need for political equality if you want it to fit into a liberal framework.
That's right, but then you're building a GPU with 20 year old tech
> Jewish people are white though

No, this isn't true. Jewish is an ethnicity that crosses multiple "race" backgrounds.
> there is no control group as well

VIM users?
Coal accounts for ~11.5% of rail volume[0], so they won't be screwed. (obviously not great to lose that much business) You might see prices drop due to a lack of demand, but other products will still be shipped via rail. Intermodal containers have been increasing in volume recently and I could see that taking up some excess supply.

[0] https://www.aar.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/AAR-Coal-Fact...
zplug is similar but more up to date and has a broader feature set: https://github.com/zplug/zplug
Although I agree with you on the form, that does not disprove the fact most will look into argumentum ad populum reasons, and social pressures to conform to where the sheep are going. Religious beliefs being the prime example, after all they even say: "The Lord is my Shepherd" ;-)
I have a pretty similar workflow for publishing my personal notes which is exported using GitHub actions.
https://notes.alexkehayias.com

Relevant emacs init code here (a lot of hacks to get exporting to ox-hugo to work and improve performance):
https://github.com/alexkehayias/emacs.d/blob/master/init.el#...

I find navigating notes with an interactive graph as not that useful for others. I mostly use org-roam-ui myself to spot notes with no links but otherwise there's way too many nodes to do anything other than randomly click around.
- people should have body autonomy when it comes to vaccines

Not heresy.

- the US does not owe entry to illegal immigrants

Not heresy.

- there are two biological genders

Bad - this sentence is telling part of population should just kill themself since they don’t exist.

- the US is not structurally racist

No heresy. This sentence needs to be context.

- cops don't kill blacks at higher rates than whites

Not sure. The sentence needs be in context.

- young children shouldn't be taught controversial topics (sex, etc.)

Bad. This sentence is implicitly claiming than being gay is not ok (being gay makes you “ controversial
“ human - better not exist).

- math is not racist

Bad. This sentence implicitly claims that girls are stupid.
(Mistake I read this is as “math is not sexist”)

As you can see in you cannot say that certan type of people are less of a human. But I that think WW2 kinda solved this.
There's a FAR LARGER backdoor that allows oil, minerals, etc. to flow in far larger quantities to the USA.
I don’t believe this comment. I literally don’t believe you can be unaware of the myriad ways white heterosexual males who are in the country legally are portrayed in culture and treated in hiring practices. That’s not good faith debate.
I have always wondered why a startup never tried to build single car electric trains on the miles of idle already paid for track.
Same reason I have a $25 pair of "Tesla" brand sneakers from Amazon. The Chinese are as obsessed with American brands as we are.
"Access to drugs and procedures" doesn't mean free unrestricted access to "all kids". This is not candy being sold in the supermarket to kids. This all goes trough parents, psychiatrists and other physicians and the healthcare system.