skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally think I owe it to other people to object when they promote ideas that seem clearly false to me.

I could be mistaken about their idea's falsity, or they could be mistaken about its truth, but we'll never get closer to knowing if I don't engage.

Obviously I also owe them kindness and respect.

If they choose to interpret a kind, respectful disagreement as oppression or violence against them, they're hurting themselves.

In a mildly-related vein, it took me a long time to be able to recognize personal criticisms as a gift from the critic, and I'm still working on it, but the basics of that mindset shift seem to be settling in at this point. When someone tells me what they really think of me and my actions, they're engaging with me and giving me a chance to understand them a little better. I strive to be grateful for that even when the delivery is rude or hurts my feelings.

Genuine rejection and harm to others looks like physically injuring them, verbally abusing them, or barring them from societal spaces and services.

Telling someone what you think they're wrong about or how they're flawed is not usually doing violence or harm. Done in good faith, it's giving feedback and giving them the chance to show you how your own perceptions might be wrong.
Replace "profit" with "worthwhile" and it may become more clear. Literally getting to fare-box neutral is one way of determining if something worthwhile but it's not the only one. But people are bad at comparing the value of projects that are in the billons, and the value may take decades to appear. It can take 10+ years for people to decide to start using commuter rail that was just added, even if it would have worked fine the whole time.
https://hnrss.org/
Is there an alt-right? People use that term, but they might as well be talking about unicorns. All these years, I’ve not met a single alt-right person despite being told this is a large and growing segment of our population, a pernicious and growing “threat to democracy!”Well, if they exist they look a lot like the old-right that voted in exactly the same fashion. If anything the right has gotten much more progressive. My statements here can all be quantified lest you disagree.
Okay so autocorrect is a bad idea. But what I'm tearing my hair out trying to figure out is why can't compilers even detect an "obvious" error? Why does GCC often output cryptic general-purpose errors about the WRONG line of code, when I have a simple typo? Why can't it have a simple rules engine that detects common typos in syntax and suggests a fix to me, right in the error message?
Interesting, are the Linux drivers upstreamed or is this another proprietary GPU driver?
Tell HN: If I see an “accept cookies” on a website, I close it immediately
Maybe it’s just me, but I’m fed up with the state of the web today. Unfortunately, the law passed by the EU makes most websites show a banner about their cookie policy, sometimes taking up half the real estate on mobile screen. Sometimes they let you change your “cookie preferences” but often times the “essential” cookies radio button is grayed out.

So now I have decided to close any non-essential website that does this crap. For example, there was an article on HN today that linked to fleksy.com which showed a huge cookie banner on my phone. Between learning about how swipe key works (the content on their website) and saving myself from having to tap on small buttons to close the banner, I chose the latter.

I think if more people did that, websites would be forced to avoid using cookies in such a way that necessitates a cookie prompt.
Hi this is pretty right but I’d point out that a provider like gmail never silently drops a message. Viruses that are detected after smtp are stripped from the message and replaced with a warning. By the way viruses are also checked again when you open a message.

Low reputation traffic gets temporary failure codes at smtp time, not silent acceptance nor permanent failure.
You should be a kind person.
On the side, what I love about this page is that there is no styling, no share this, no comments, no cookie banners or similar "paywalls", no other distractions. Just content.

It's so refreshing.
An excellent point - see my reply to the parent about "13/52" for my personal opinion.

Edit: Note that my post implies that racial hatred/propaganda is a subset of racism, which you may or may not agree with semantically.
Of course we can learn from history. But deep and thoughtful analysis is important. The time to freak out would be when there’s a serious threat to our constitutions or laws that would enable criminal punishment for holding controversial opinions. And we just don’t see that on the horizon yet.
Maybe they should add “without evidence” to the title simply because temp8964 did not see it happen, and anything less is heresay.
There is no theory of mind, it's a redundant concept. Apes can predict the actions of others as agents of the environment without needing an abstract understanding of what a mind is. Cats are probably able to achieve similar feats. Understanding that other beings and yourself have 'minds' only becomes relevant when the entity in question achieves a certain complexity of language.
I've seen more than a few posts where people have said "I really don't get this whole issue, but live and let live" and haven't been descended upon, that's just anecdata though.
w3m does indeed rock, but most modern websites don't work without javascript.

One thing it's really useful for is searching duck duck go (or similar) from the command line.

I have this in my .zsh_aliases:

ddg() {
q="${@}";
w3m "https://duckduckgo.com/lite/?q=$q&kd=-1"
}
It is more complex than being obsolete. The Eurodollar market came into being because of Reg Q, which capped the interest that banks could pay. As interest rates rose through the 1960s, this cap became effective (and banks starting losing deposits) and US banks opened branches in Europe so they could acquire USD deposits at higher rates, often from institutions in the US (the historical account given in the pdf is wrong, it was nothing to do with the Marshall Plan, clearly the author just read Wikipedia, US started lending internationally in the 20s and was a huge creditor to Germany). Also, lending offshore was a way to get around the limits on lending introduced by the Fed (again, this is complex but the policy instrument in the late 60s was free reserves, not interest rates so there were volume limits, although these were circumvented and free reserves was a totally useless in isolation as a policy instrument).

Changes in regulation/monetary policy meant the function of the market has changed significantly since then. So Eurodollars tends to just refer offshore dollars, and this is still a huge market.

The rest of the article is basically accurate in identifying the huge role that the offshore dollar market plays in the economic cycle, particularly of EMs (the article identifies CBs, the demand for USD there since the mid-90s has grown exponentially...it is huge). The Fed opening swap lines en masse in 2008 (really a continuation of what occurred in the mid-90s) was a turning point.
Ah I understand - you’re commenting more on strategy around being able to get through to someone when a core value is in conflict with what may be true.

Yeah, on that I agree - requires more deft communication skills. I think you can still “blame them” for holding false beliefs though (or phrased differently not give them a free pass on dogma) while still understanding it’s going to be an emotional thing for them, but this sounds like it might be us just disputing definitions over “blame” and we mostly agree.
I've been diagnosed with anxiety and ADHD. I wanted an alternative to medication and subscribed to Headspace. I allotted 60 days and 5 to 15 minutes a morning for meditation. For the last two weeks of the experiment, I increased the time to 30 minutes, and occasionally sat down twice a day. During this time, I was also reading "The Power Of Now" by Eckart Tolle. After the 60 days I reduced my practice back to a couple days a week.

The first few days felt silly. I didn't feel an improvement, understand what the point of meditation was, and didn't believe I was doing it correctly. Gradually over time, I began to feel more relaxed throughout the day. Situations that would normally cause my anxiety to rise did not affect me. My focus improved drastically and I was able to concentrate for longer. I felt exponentially more comfortable in social situations. In one specific instance at the height of my practice, I had two different friends comment positively on a noticeable difference in my “energy”.

Towards the end of my 60 days, I increased the time I was sitting down since I experienced a marginal improvement. The unexpected consequence was that I no longer cared about most things. I won’t say I was enlightened by any means, but I no longer needed external stimulus or material things to be happy. I felt indifferent towards most critical components of my life. Why did I need a job? Why do I need money? To buy material objects I don’t need? This pattern of though cascaded across all other aspects of my life. At this point in time, I legitimately believe I could be homeless and happy.

This transcendence scared me, and I cut down to a couple days a week. As it turns out, even balance needs balance.
Corporations have access to the data either way because the dataset is public. Think of this as levels.fyi selling Google docs sorting/filtering features to companies that would've just scraped the website anyways.

By not sharing your data point, all you're really doing is saying you don't want to participate in pay transparency. (Nothing wrong with that, of course)
It's a "truth vs. order" debate. PG is in highly stable environments where order isnt an issue, so he is more concerned about truth. Generally, when "x-isms" are accused, the issue is the break down of social order in the environment in which the accusations are made.

It really doesnt matter if your x-ist point is true, if saying it, is an action which destabilizes (eg.,) the workplace.

Most spaces aren't for discussing what's true, they're for getting-things-done. Stating truths in those spaces may, seemingly quite rightly, be prohibited.
Kind of sleepy but maybe heresies are sort of like a self-published but hard to verify/reproduce social zero day. Imagine NSO describing their iphone exploit in vague terms on their very own homepage.. that would get a rise out of concernable folks for sure
Al, yeah, but does Alpha handle addresses boundaries on 1,2,3,4 byte boundaries.
If its, more than one, it might compile, but will not run.
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.2/gcc/Variable-Attribut...
I really like having totp functionality. I use a yubikey for TOTP and boot into an air gapped machine with keypass to store the TOTP codes in case I lose or break the yubikey. I don’t store TOTP codes in my main password manager, but it’s not completely insane. You’re screwed if someone gets your decrypted password database, but you’re still protected from most other attack vectors.
Crosshatch is the pixel 3xl which is EOL. Any sources for your devices in stock?
I was a paying customer for years until I realized that I probably spent about 5 hours a month carefully curating notes, but spent almost no time reading them.

Since then I have switched around using Google Keep, Apple Notes, and FastMail Notes for quick and dirty notes on things to do or things to maybe look at in the future.

I consider myself to be a gentleman scientist, I am deeply interested in a small number of technologies. What I most enjoy doing now is organizing things I learn or little code experiments in online books that are easy to update, and eventually retire when I don’t want to maintain them or they no longer seem relevant. Sort of like blogging with more structure.

Sorry for being so off topic here, but it seems too easy to get into long term habits and not occasionally decide what is really worth spending time on. My carefully curated Evernote notes were a waste of time.
Yep. 30 minutes is super-fast compared to play-by-mail!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play-by-mail_game
greyhound doesn't provide any service that your own two legs don't provide. it is quite a bit faster though.
Scientists are listening to Indigenous peoples about myths of natural disasters
If you want to write portable scripts and use a reasonable interactive shell, you need to know two shells anyway. Scripts should ideally be written to only use shell features defined in POSIX, since bash isn't available on every system. It's available pretty widely, but not on e.g. Alpine Linux by default, and the version on macOS is so ancient it doesn't have features like wait -n.

Unless you're going to use rlwrap /bin/dash as your default interactive shell (please don't) you need to know both your interactive shell and standard shell if you're going to write portable scripts.
> "teaching about sexuality is akin to grooming" is clearly a lie.

Out of curiosity is there an age limit on this statement for you?

Because while we're talking about heresies I'd like to say teaching sexuality to young children without parental consent is grooming.

What happened to asking for a permit slip signed by the parents if you want to give a sex talk.

It's a parent's rights issue, not a LGBTQ issue.
And one of the huge values of a train is that it CAN stop at those intermediate stops. A high speed few stop rail from the big city near me to the next one is meh as by the time I've driven into the city I might as well just keep driving to my destination.

But if a train, even a slower one, stopped in my smaller town or the next one over it becomes much more interesting.
> [Javascript and to some degree ruby] will try with all their might to divine something runnable from what you wrote. How kind of them, right?

Maybe this is semantics, but a loose syntax is different than the language trying to automatically correct mistakes.

JavaScript has optional semi-colons and braces. The semicolons seem to fall into the into the autocorrecting category because you are supposed to use them. Optional braces are a language feature shared with C.

Ruby has optional parentheses on method calls, which is usually fine until you attempt to do `a(b(4))` as `a b 4`. It’s easy to get into a syntax error omitting writing code like that. But the fact it will give you a syntax error when it hits an unclear structure means this is a (mis-)feature, rather than an attempt as guessing what you meant.
How the oil industry cast climate policy as an economic burden
For example, almost everything I’ve ever heard about white privilege is also true for Jewish people but it would be a career ending mistake to talk about the over representation of Jewish people in positions of power.
You must be pretty asleep to not be aware of the hot button topics now.

How about statements like:

- people should have body autonomy when it comes to vaccines
- the US does not owe entry to illegal immigrants
- there are two biological genders
- the US is not structurally racist
- cops don't kill blacks at higher rates than whites
- young children shouldn't be taught controversial topics (sex, etc.)
- math is not racist
>Its subs are a different question though.

My assumption would be that any Russian missile boat is being trailed with an opposition attack sub just waiting for it to become a sitting duck while prepping for launch operations.
By saying any of them, commenters must subject themselves to the witch hunt panel right here in front of our very eyes. Is that what you’re hoping for? “Anyone who is sick of being called a witch, come forward” (demanded while erecting the stake)
This is the difference between building a parser for a compiler and for an IDE.

For a compiler, you want to stop at the first error. The parser can also emit an intermediate representation as it goes, so that what it is processing is not necessarily serializable to the original code. This makes it difficult to use as a data model for tools like IDEs.

For an IDE, you want to process the entire file, recovering from errors as you go. This is so that the IDE can keep things like function resolution working without turning the entire file red as the user is typing code, while ideally only updating the references that haven't changed. It also allows the IDE to offer different fixes and auto-complete functionality.

This makes it difficult to share parser logic between the two.
Coal transport by rail is already way down: https://www.aar.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/AAR-Coal-Fact...

I suspect intermodal rail transport will probably do well as long as we keep buying cargo from Asia on post-Panamax ships.
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I didn't, and after I read it, I was left with the impression that the hyperbole isn't justified.

VCs pull this stuff all the time.
Nintendo leaflet in 1975 toys trade magazine
Xgplayer – A HTML5 video player with a parser that saves traffic
My family's African Grey mimics telephone sounds, sirens, and human voices and phrases. But he does it mainly to fuck with everyone and will literally laugh after fooling someone. If an animal enjoys messing with another animal, is that a sign of intelligence?
React also already ran components twice when devtools is open, even without strict mode. This happens in my React 16 codebase with silenced console.log and no StrictMode in sight.
Can you elaborate? Are you talking about national territorial disputes (i.e., war), or a dispute over where two domestic neighbors’ land boundaries lie? In any event, this feels like an attempt to win an argument by stretching it to cover something out of scope.
That's a less interesting question on the whole. But, it quite likely does.
But that’s a true assessment despite all that’s on paper there’s a lot left to chance in actual use. Will the trackpad use Windows Precision or won’t it?

Will the screen be decent or won’t it? Will the battery life suck or won’t it? There’s numerous quality of life question any Windows will have to ask before even getting to the actual specs of CPU, RAM & GPU.
Craft: “to make or produce with care, skill, or ingenuity.” It means to make something carefully, the same thing done when crafting a search query. That’s the way I meant it anyway. There is nothing particularly difficult about searching in Shortcut. You combine a set of available filters to make a composed filter the same way you search anything. The difference is that in JIRA, there are about 5 different ways to search and the operators are not always obvious.
> Between 8 a.m. and 12:49 Central Time, Amtrak says it counted three trains on CSX’s tracks.

> After publication, in response to a Motherboard request for comment, CSX dismissed the Amtrak stunt. “It takes a freight train about 8-10 hours to travel between New Orleans and Mobile,” a CSX spokesperson said in a statement. “Focusing on one point of a line that traverses approximately 138 single track miles, major ports and Interchange points and then purporting that it is indicative of the operational realities of the entire line is grossly misleading. Anyone that understands railroad operations, including Amtrak, would know that.”

So CSX argues the entire 138 mile track would be blocked if there is a single train travelling anywhere on it?

Efficiency!
How I wish it was just hot air.
Provable identity. Yes, you can do Oauth via the google or the facebook but sooner or later we need something that isn't tied to getting all your user interaction data ...

Digital notary. So a third person (digitally) signing a transaction or other document exchange.
It can be a lot easier to fill a train if scheduled right between a 20k city and a 1 million one - as the people in the 20k have real reasons to not live in the 1m and still commute there. But if you're looking at 5m vs 20m the "city" experience will be similar so ... why not move to the city you work in?
Feel free to provide counterexamples of where you feel this not to be true. The link below details that not only are they wanting open access, but they want insurance coverage as well.

I’m running off of https://aleteia.org/2022/04/06/biden-administration-promotes...
Every single categorization of people other than white heterosexual men who are in the country legally?
I have an automated feeder for my 2 cats. One has a better time sense than the other and would camp out and devour both bowls when it dispensed.

We got a timer and set it to chime when the feeder went off, which helped.

The feeder has an app that triggers an alert on my phone and now if my phone makes that alert sound, they perk up and bolt to the basement.

So they’ve also learned to associate the alert sound to food….
Prior to recent events , he stated that no first nuke strike...
All of the points this article makes are good and true, but something I've never, ever seen and am wondering why is a compiler feedback loop that corrects the code with human input.

The compiler is smart enough to guess what variable I meant when I misspell a variable. How come nobody's ever given me a tool to close the loop and when the error is reported, confirm that I want my source code edited to correct and correct it in place?
When did they claim that?
So, hypothetically, if Taiwan's chip manufacturing facilities were lost due to a 'Special Operation', how bad would the world be?

Are there enough chip fab facilities to cover basic requirements by businesses that don't directly build computers or smartphones?

And how badly would computers / smartphones be hit?

It feels like all our eggs are in one basket with Taiwan, or is that an incorrect assumption?
I just use Google Keep.

Tried Evernote back in the day and MS OneNote. Google does cloud sync so much better than anyone else though, even if it has less features.
To summarize my post, _urban_ residents would likely prefer not to have cars. Someone in an earlier thread also made a good point that I should have written “high density urban”.

Some people want cars. Some people like cars. But everyone is forced to have them in most places in the US due to the feedback loop caused by investing in car infrastructure and sprawl.

Beyond that, though, even if something is a necessity, it’s rarely a race to the bottom. Your insurance example is actually an excellent instance of how markets tend to divide up: there’s the economical market (eg save 15% or more!) and the premium market (eg you’re in good hands). Same with cars.
I started programming as teenager, but mostly used it to write stuff I wanted to use - or just for the curiosity of it.

Then after college, I started coding as a traditional software engineer. It was tedious, it was procedural, etc. but the products were robust and efficient.

Then I left that field, and got into analysis / data science, and I'm back to a much more ad-hoc way of coding. I write scripts and small pieces of software which solve specific problems, sometimes never to be used again - but it's fun. I use programming as a tool to solve specific problems. And while the code I write is less robust, breaks easier, it's really not a big problem...I'm essentially the only person that sees or uses that code.

So, at least for me, the more "applied" side of coding turned out to be the best match for me.
I don't see how someone's year of birth is related, or important?

If anything, I find it valuable to see perspectives that fall outside of my own experience. I was born in 1985. I don't remember what the world was like in 1985, or 1975, but I'm eager to learn about it to see what we've gained since then, or maybe lost, to better guide the path we should take in the future.
Why I built sorunme. Linux w/ all of the look & feel of a more usable desktop.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/sorunme/files/